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SHALL WE DANCE? Utah’s January film festivals press ahead through uncertain times. By Scott Renshaw and Erin Moore

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SOAP BOX Bar Owners in Crisis

We are Utah business owners in crisis. We are Utahns, we are voters, and we need your help. For the last several years, we have invested our time, money, and entrepreneurial spirit in the dream of opening our own businesses—businesses that provide jobs and services to our local community. And yet, we are at risk of failure before we can even open our doors due to outdated and unfair state laws that restrict us from obtaining the basic licensing we need to open. As you are well aware, Utah arbitrarily restricts the number of bar licenses available for distribution. As the state experiences unprecedented growth, there are now more aspiring bar operators than there are bar licenses available. At the current pace of license distribution, most of us will be unable to open for at least another year, even though the vast majority of our operations are on track to open within the next six months, or much sooner. Instead of focusing our attention on

the tireless work of opening a new business, we are stuck in limbo, unable to open our doors and uncertain if or when we will be able to do so. It is time for you to deeply consider what benefit the State of Utah and its residents receive from artificially restricting liquor licenses. Gatekeepers will point to “social interest” as the primary rationale for restricting bar licenses, yet there is zero evidence that the existing law disincentivizes overall alcohol consumption. More importantly, the current law is inconsistent with our state’s self-proclaimed, pro-business and small government principles. Consider the negative downstream economic effects. Not only will fewer hospitality businesses find financial backing— which reduces available jobs, consumer spending, and household income—but any company or institute considering an investment in Utah will think twice before coming here, so long as the state is proactively interfering in the free-market development

@SLCWEEKLY of culture and entertainment. Even with these important considerations in mind, none of this speaks to the human and emotional toll. We would encourage all elected officials to attend a [Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control] meeting and witness firsthand as Utah entrepreneurs are forced to plead their case and the commission is left in the unenviable position of choosing who will succeed and who will fail. The meetings are taxing and frustrating for everyone involved, including the DABC Commission, which has vocally and publicly called on the Legislature to address the issue by increasing the number of bar licenses available for distribution. We implore you to view our position with compassion, to place yourselves in our shoes as business owners who have risked everything to pursue our dream, only for arcane laws to place our careers and families in jeopardy at the finish line. As current and prospective business

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owners in Utah, we call on the Legislature to heed the call of the people of our state and of the DABC itself and immediately introduce and pass legislation that increases available bar licenses and clears the path for local businesses to open their doors today, and in the future. JESSE WILKERSON, JEFF POLYCHRONIS, PETER COLE, GREG SCHIRF, KATY WILLIS, MICHAEL ECCLESTON, TIM RYAN, GEORGE CARDON-BYSTRY, CHARLIE CARDON, JEFF CARDON, JEFF BERNARD, SCOTT EVANS, JASON LECATES, ALEXANDRA ORTIZ, JAMEEL GASKINS, JAMES SOARES, KATIE MCKEON, BRITT JURSIK, NICK MARUCCI, LESLIE CORBETT, BUZZ WILLEY, MAXWELL CHRISTEN, GARRETT CLEMENTS, MIKE ASKERLUND

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What habits are you doing that have improved your daily life? Katharine Biele

Walking my dog. How can that not improve life?

Benjamin Wood

I’m lucky to be able to work part-time and I’ve made a point to spend those extra hours doing things I never used to find time for, like reading, hiking, seeing friends/family and exploring the city.

Larry Carter

I have started riding my stationary bike again. I feel more energetic, mobile and focused.

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Drink water, go for walks and ride an exercise bike.

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Preparing the French press for the coming morning before going to sleep.

Jerre Wroble

My gym routine is on hold due to masking, but I’m much improved as a couch potato.

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hen I was a student at Bingham High School back in the ages between Dark and Bronze, it was common for young boys to share stories about whatever took place on a recent date. You know, the stuff you see in old movies, like “Did you score?” or “She did what?” Unlike today, back then, talking about sex—especially if members of the opposite sex were nearby—was very much not in the open. We didn’t have sex-education classes; instead, we watched scratchy films about “evil sex” once a year during health class. I’ll never forget the day one of my classmates (unnamed, of course, so that he may maintain his good standing in the local dominant faith) came into gym class with a sobering announcement. “The rubber broke,” he said in an angry whisper. “What should I do?” Well, how would we know? So, a couple of us took him up to one of the more experienced guys in the school. The experienced guy was pretty matter of fact about it. After asking some particularly probing questions (to this day, I think he was scouting out his next amour), he said, “Well, you’re either going to be lucky or you’re not,” and that was that—except for the sage addition of, “Next time, use better rubbers!” We all went our way. None of us said anything but for sure, his girlfriend knew we knew. Her books and jackets were held just so whenever we saw her, covering up what might have been another teenage pregnancy. Eye contact was limited and never sustained. At some point, it was clear there was no “baby in the oven,” one of the code words for “pregnant.” Eyes lit again, smiles returned,

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jackets remained in the hall locker. It became more than obvious that the nearly doomed couple were happier than ever. We just figured such happiness was the outcome of them flitting on the edge of the disaster cliff, but not falling into the abyss. The funny thing is, after that episode passed, our buddy rose in rank and became one of the “experienced guys.” One day, in one of those whispering sex talks, he said assertively, “You have to use better rubbers. That’s what I did.” Well, no wonder they were smiling! I think of that story when I’m around former classmates, or at high school reunions when they give prizes for having the most kids, most grandkids and all that. It never fails that a good number of my classmates have kids the same age or older than the number of years we are out of school. I got married 15 years out of high school—so I won the prize that year for waiting the longest. But by then, I had a classmate who was a grandparent. Such are the courses of various decisions we make in life and every day. Some people buy good rubbers, and some don’t. Some people take precautions, and some don’t. I’ve become a precautionary snob these days with omicron running all over the place, pretty much taking my mind off other worthy topics like Wordle. Since the Utah Legislature convened, it seems every GOP politician in Utah has a firm thought about the efficacy of wearing masks. They all believe—with cult-like adherence to the same talking points—that masks are useless, and mask mandates are akin to (pick one) communism, socialism, fascism or devil worship. Social media is bursting with our state leaders declaring their freedom from the tyrannical yoke of big government. Pats on the back all around. But, I’m yet to see a single one of them attribute a single of their beliefs to anyone or anything credible. Nary a one has gone up to the “experienced guy” and asked, “Now what do

I do?” They simply quote and reassure each other—the crass high school term “circle jerk” comes to mind. They aren’t credible people, but their unity makes them powerful. To make it worse, the “experienced guys” in this case are doctors Anthony Fauci and Angela Dunn. The gerrymanderedfor-life GOP leaders reject Fauci because he is an adviser to President Biden, he is a foreign agent who profits from COVID deaths and because he’s a stupid old Italian. They reject Dunn because she is female. She’s also smarter, more compassionate and bolder than the full lot of them. They’d all rather have sex without a rubber, let alone a bad one. They want you to do the same. That is, they want you to risk everything based on their belief it’s better to die than to be saved by a Democrat or by science. At the top of the heap is Gov. Spencer “Ah-shucks” Cox. Cox recently got a spanking in an editorial from The Salt Lake Tribune’s editorial board, a quaint relic from the days when the Tribune actually held sway in these parts. His feelings got an “owie.” So, his team went on the offense and soon, a bevy of defenders including Utah’s entire federal delegation (minus Mitt) began claiming Cox’s COVID management has been magnificent. Truth is, Cox hasn’t done a single proactive damned thing to mitigate COVID. Not a single hard call in a year. Now, his Utah state government is punching down on smaller governing bodies—Salt Lake County and Salt Lake City (both with female mayors) and local school boards (with many female leaders)—denying them the authority to manage their own domains. Isn’t that what these folks claim is big government overreach? Yes, it is. And such cheap rubber solutions are going to result in the same outcome per COVID—you’re either lucky or you aren’t. CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net.

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HITS&MISSES BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

MISS: Staying Positive

Funny how Republicans blame Biden as COVID surges, but resist almost every strategy to contain it. And oh, our governor! He’s optimistic, despite Utah having the fourth-highest COVID rate in the nation. He made a stunning comment in the Deseret News. Read between the lines and it’s all about herd immunity at the cost of lives. “I am more optimistic than I have been at any point in this pandemic, that with omicron spreading so rapidly, that will help us move on. That will give us the type of immunity that we’ve needed all along, to get us through this, combined with vaccines.” Sen. Todd Weiler was one of many politicians who jumped on a Salt Lake Tribune editorial urging draconian enforcement of vaccine mandates, calling it “martial law.” But editorial writer George Pyle suggested the hyperbole was all about getting someone’s attention to the problem. And so the solution is to do nothing or ask “pretty please?”

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On this, the week of Martin Luther King Jr. memorials, it’s a good time to talk about leadership. In dark and uncertain times, the spoken word often has more impact than any action. Politics should be the art of persuasion, but in Utah’s case, the man with the bully pulpit has been cowed. The Salt Lake Tribune attempted to show how Gov. Spencer Cox had pivoted from the center to the right in deference to the Legislature, especially on the subject of COVID. And with an astronomical favorability score, it’s hard to understand Cox’s reluctance to lead. In King’s sermon “A Knock at Midnight,” he talks about church, but his words should resonate for Cox. Be the conscience of the state, King said. “It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool …(or) it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.”

HIT: Ears to Hear

Everybody’s taking polls these days. Everybody, especially politicians. It was heartening to see Senate President Stuart Adams send out a survey asking “friends and neighbors” to tell him what priorities matter most. Among those questions were many about tax policy, as the Legislature considers another tax cut because, you know, they have lots of money but they’re not, as the governor says, “spending like a drunken sailor.” In Adams’ multiple choice, he asked people to rank what tax relief they want—including the food tax. He’s already announced a bigger tax cut than last session, so we get one whether we want it or not. Then came the mask and vaccine questions, which probably shouldn’t be a choice, but in Utah, they are. Adams was among his fellow unmasked lawmakers at a recent Utah Taxpayers Association meeting, and has since contracted COVID. While Adams is asking good questions, the thinking’s been done.

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No Food Tax

Utah’s legislatively compliant governor doesn’t want to eliminate the food tax, but instead prefers giving low- and middleincome people a tax credit. It’s interesting to see how politicians twist themselves in knots to justify the tax. Some say it costs the wealthy more or that low-income folks with benefits don’t pay taxes anyway. But let’s just be real—it’s all about the money. If you believe the people should be able to afford food without jumping through hoops, send a clear message. Crossroads Urban Center is organizing a virtual rally with pictures of people holding a paper plate showing their support for eliminating the sales tax on food. You can Ask Legislators to Eliminate the Sales Tax on Food! by submitting your photo online at https://bit.ly/3tAuNsP to be part of a mass photo album launching on Jan. 20, by posting your photos on social media, or by sending them to the governor and lawmakers yourself. Virtual, Thursday, Jan. 20, 11 a.m., free. https://bit.ly/3Kc6JSP

Help Women—Period!

Men don’t really like to think too hard about “female stuff,” like what being pregnant is about and what that menstruation thing means. But they should. The Period Project is a forum to discuss the economic implications of ignoring the problem. “Working to end period poverty in our lifetime, The Utah Period Project’s goal is to increase the ability of women, girls and all who menstruate to live life fully, without interruption in necessary activities like school and work—by increasing access to free and safe period products.” In fact, Utah was briefly the 13th state to abolish what’s called the “tampon tax,” but it was quickly restored after getting caught in the crossfire of the Legislature’s unpopular tax reform package in 2020. Hybrid/Hinckley Institute of Politics, 260 S. Central Campus Drive, Room 2018, Wednesday, Jan. 26, noon, free. https://bit.ly/34FraqT

Let’s Talk CRT

Remember Robin DiAngelo’s book White Fragility? In it, she explained how all white people are socialized into racism. The debate goes on as she challenges the belief that racism is a simple matter of good people versus bad. Now, take a deep dive into DiAngelo’s bestselling book at the Dean’s Book Review of Nice Racism: How progressive white people perpetuate racial harm. The bestseller explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism. You can be well-intentioned and still promote racism. “Nice Racism is an essential work for any white person who recognizes the existence of systemic racism and white supremacy and wants to take steps to align their values with their actual practice,” say organizers from the S.J. Quinney College of Law. Virtual, Thursday, Jan. 20, 8 a.m., free/register. https://bit.ly/3qrXCFK

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Popularity of Downtownadjacent neighborhood evident with new construction boom BY TAYLOR ANDERSON TAYLOR ANDERSONBUILDING SALT LAKE

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A one-acre property on the neighborhood’s east end is being marketed to developers. Located at 46 W. Fayette Ave, the parcel is subject to D-2 zoning, allowing a potential building to have no setbacks and to stretch in height. “Desirable D-2 Zoning allows for a building height of 65 [feet] as a right and up to 120 [feet] with design review—a rarity in Granary,” the listing notes, referring to the nearby Granary District. Much of Granary remains subject to auto-oriented General Commercial (CG) zoning and are capped at no more than 90 feet tall. Central 9th, on the other hand, is a mix of urban zoning with minimal setbacks and lower parking requirements. A one-acre property changing from an industrial warehouse with a front yard of surface parking into a tall, mixed-use development would begin to expand the neighborhood east. The property could also be simply adapted into a new use or stay the same. CW

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Before the close of the year, TAG SLC (another Building Salt Lake sponsor) applied for a rezone of four properties near Jefferson Park—just south of Central 9th—asking that FBUN2 zoning be extended. The developer hasn’t submitted specific plans for the duplex and singlefamily homes that would likely be demolished and replaced with any number of developments allowed under FBUN2 zoning (likely townhomes or apartments). But its application highlighted the area’s proximity between TRAX stations at both 1300 South and 900 South, as well as the 900 South bus line and growing walkability of the area. “The proposed rezones will allow the creation of a significant number of units without impacting the neighborhood more than these already existing projects,” TAG SLC wrote, pointing to the adjacent six-story C9 Lofts that were built in recent years. Much of the neighborhood south of the I-15 off-ramp is zoned RMF-35, which allows developers who hold enough property to demolish existing homes and build multi-family apart-

ments. But the area struggles with perceived problems with crime, and developers tout the increased eyes and feet on the street as potential benefits to root out criminal activity. “The additional surveillance offered by the projects possible under the rezones will impact the neighborhood positively by improving the nearby park and creating the density necessary to more adequately support the mass transit and commercial amenities in the area,” TAG SLC wrote.

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For years, an abandoned natural gas filling station sat at the east end of Central 9th’s main street. We now have insight into what might bookend the village center in 2022. The filling station property is being acquired by CW Urban. The group—a Building Salt Lake sponsor—specializes in quick-build townhome developments, but recently ventured into urban design with projects Downtown and elsewhere in Central 9th. CW also closed on the former Henrie’s Cleaners at 906 S. 200 W., the site of one of two projects that will fill out the middle of the neighborhood with mixed-use buildings—known as Sydney and Slate—that will have the largest footprint in the neighborhood after completion and will flank and activate an alleyway between 200 West and Washington Street. The women-led Maven District also expanded its portfolio at 945 S. 300 W., framing the western boundary of Central 9th. It brings space for new residents plus office and restaurant space. Builders are working on a 9-unit

apartment building at 120 W. 900 S., and construction continues on multiple new-builds on Washington south of 900 South. That gush of construction is arriving in tandem with a major street reconstruction project by the city that will bury utility lines and better connect the capital city’s east and west sides via a pedestrian-friendly transportation corridor.

Central 9th is a carve-out of Ballpark with an epicenter at 200 West 900 South and boundaries that span from 600 South to roughly 1000 South, and Main Street to 300 West. The neighborhood is distinct in part due to zoning that allows for walkable density. Washington and Jefferson Streets are residential and zoned FormBased Urban Neighborhood 1 (FBUN1) with older—often Victorian—singlefamily residences or duplexes. Developers and homeowners have already begun adding fourplexes and other housing on these streets. The streets lining the core of the neighborhood are zoned FBUN2, which allows a mix of uses in buildings that are four or five stories tall, and that require no minimum front setback from the sidewalk. Central 9th benefits from UTA’s 9 bus line, which runs east-west on 900 South every 15 minutes, as well as TRAX light rail offering similar 15-minute headways from multiple lines. The city

is also constructing a multi-use path along 900 South—The 9-Line—that will connect Central 9th and nearby 9th and 9th with the west side’s Poplar Grove neighborhood. But Central 9th is bound by an oversized interstate off-ramp that ensures acres of valuable land remain undeveloped and creates an undeniable, and imposing, physical barrier separating the neighborhood’s core from its southernmost boundary.

What, Where, Why?

Central 9th is experiencing a building boom, bringing new retail, office space and homes to the Downtown-adjacent neighborhood.

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alt Lake City’s Central 9th neighborhood started as a carve-out of a much larger district, a hamlet whose urban zoning and transit access gave it a distinct feel. The neighborhood’s center has long since found the attention of developers, who began—or are in the process of filling out—the area’s “main street” on 900 South, with a wide mix of planned uses like a youth digital media arts center, architecture firms, restaurants, bars and a new cidery, as well as a slate of proposed housing projects in the area. With so much change occuring in the built environment of Central 9th—including major transportation projects, rezone requests, real estate listings hyping the proximity to the area and a construction boom—Building Salt Lake thought it was a good time to spotlight what could change the neighborhood in the coming years.

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show at 9:30 p.m., tickets $25. On Jan. 23, Pauly takes his act to Wiseguys Gateway (194 South 400 West), with a single stand-up performance at 7 p.m., and tickets also $25. Shore’s final stop on his tour of the valley is the West Jordan Wiseguys (3763 West Center Park Drive), Jan. 25-27, with showtimes at 7 p.m. nightly and tickets $20. For tickets and additional event information, go to wiseguyscomedy.com. (Lee Zimmerman)

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Pauly Shore’s initial claim to fame came with his portrayal of the goofy guy next door. Nevertheless, he’s got showbiz in his blood. The fact that his mother, Mitzi Shore, ran the landmark Comedy Store in Los Angeles inspired him to start performing stand-up at the tender age of 17. Pauly persisted, scoring success on MTV with his long running show Totally Pauly before making his mark in the movies with films such as Encino Man and Son In Law. More recently, he’s produced his own projects, including a podcast, a documentary, an animated short and a series spanning his life as a Hollywood homeboy. On the one hand, Shore has made a career for himself that doesn’t require looking back. However, he’s done a lot of that recently, revising his life story with a one-man show titled Stick With The Dancing! Funny Stories from my Childhood. He’ll also share his standup when Wiseguys offers an opportunity to get Pauly’s perspective, both then and now. His first stop will be in Ogden (269 25th St.), Jan. 21-22, with stand-up at 7 pm and his one-man

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narrative. The live shadowcast performance of Repo! The Genetic Opera takes place at the Utah Arts Alliance Theater (602 E. 600 South), Jan. 22-23, 8 p.m. nightly, with $25 general admission tickets and limited seating capacity; inperson tickets include a goodie bag featuring an opera mask, gummy body parts, a retractable knife and more. For those who feel a little more comfortable watching from home, a free virtual viewing option is also available. Visit shadowtheater.org for tickets and additional event information. (Scott Renshaw)

A science-fiction tale about the grim, apocalyptic consequences of a global pandemic might not seem like what we’re all looking for right now in terms of escapist entertainment. But sometimes you have to laugh so you don’t cry, and dark-humored laughs are definitely in store when Out of the Shadows Theater Group takes on a “shadowcast” performance accompanying a showing of the 2008 rock musical Repo! The Genetic Opera. The film itself—based on a 2002 stage musical—takes place in the year 2056, where organ failure has become an epidemic. Capitalism, in its infinite wisdom, has brought the ailing world GeneCo, which provides geneticallyengineered organ transplants on payment plans that you better keep up with if you don’t want someone to repossess them in particularly unpleasant ways—someone like Nathan (Anthony Head), who keeps his creepy job a secret from his sickly daughter Shilo (Alexa Vega). The tale of love, violence and corporate wheeling & dealing will play out while the on-stage performers act out the

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discovery of homophobic tweets from several years earlier. Naturally, Hart’s had a change of heart. And with today’s success, he has no problem funding his credit card with the same enthusiasm he uses when hawking it. Hart performs at Kingsbury Hall (1395 E. Presidents Circle) Saturday, Jan. 22 at 7 and 9:30 p.m., and Sunday, Jan. 23 at 7 p.m., with tickets $60.75 - $140.75. Visit artstickets.utah.edu for tickets and additional event info, including upto-the-moment details on masking and other health & safety requirements. (LZ)

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Lake County Library system’s Adult Lecture Series, on Tuesday, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. Tickets for the virtual event are free, but advance reservation is required to receive the WebEx link; visit slcolibrary.org/events/featured/lecture-series to register and for additional event info. (SR)

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Those of us who grew up in the 1980s— back when print newspapers were still a thing, and the comics page offered a daily dose of amusement—will certainly recall the single-panel pleasures of The Far Side. Cartoonist Gary Larson’s bizarre world of anthropomorphic animals and women with beehive hairdos and pointy glasses brought surreal humor to readers for more than 15 years before Larson’s retirement. And fans were delighted when one of the few great things to come out of 2020 was Larson’s decision to revive Far Side cartoons online. Brigham Young University faculty member Kerry Soper (pictured) has spent his career exploring the history of comedy and satire in comic strips and other pop-culture media, and has written books on the subject like Garry Trudeau: Doonesbury and the Aesthetics of Satire and We Go Pogo: Walt Kelly, Politics and American Satire. His 2018 book Gary Larson and The Far Side dug into why The Far Side was so revolutionary and controversial when it appeared, and why it inspired such rabid devotion from its fans during its initial run. Soper discusses Larson’s work and its impact in the online discussion Gary Larson’s Weird Cartoons: The Cultural Significance of The Far Side, as part of the Salt

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“That’s what I do!” Kevin Hart shouts on the credit card commercial that pops up on TV screens these days. In truth however, it’s only a small sample of what he does. Today, he’s recognized as a true comedic superstar. Nevertheless, Hart’s career got off to an awkward start. His first gigs—as “Lil Kev”— often drew the ire of his audiences, who frequently booed him off the stage. Then, after triumphing in several comedy competitions throughout his native New England, he caught the attention of Judd Apatow, who cast him in his 2001 TV series Undeclared. Other roles soon followed, along with comedy specials, top-grossing tours, recordings and music (made under the aegis of “Chocolate Droppa”), along with the launch of a subscription streaming service, Laugh Out Loud. It was little wonder, then, that in 2015, Time magazine named him one of their 100 most influential individuals in the world. Yet prominence can sometimes be problematic. After hosting the BET and MTV Video Music Awards, he withdrew from hosting the Academy Awards in 2019 after the

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The art of Horacio Rodriguez emerges from personal experience navigating between cultural borders BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

orders are a complicated concept— often arbitrary, and generally used to define who should belong on one side or another. For Horacio Rodriguez, his journey has an artist has been one of exploring every part of that concept, often on a very personal level. The 15th installment of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts’ salt series showcases University of Utah faculty member Rodriguez, focusing on his explorations of his Mexican and Puerto Rican history through works that are in conversation with the ancient art of Mesoamerica. Rodriguez’s own sculptures—including digital photography superimposed on large-scale figures—sit alongside some of the actual pre-Columbian artifacts that inspired them. Rodriguez traces his artist “origin story” back to his childhood growing up in Houston, Texas. His mother worked in the city’s museum district, and he describes how in the summers, “I’d just spend my time walking around in museums. I took art classes, and I definitely knew by high school [that I wanted to be an artist].” Yet he also identifies another part of his childhood that would have a huge impact

on his art and his identity in a broader sense: growing up as a Latino-American, yet feeling disconnected from the heritage of his Mexican father and Puerto Rican mother. “I grew up in a very upper-middle-class neighborhood,” Rodriguez says. “You’d get in trouble if you spoke Spanish in school. I learned quickly to assimilate, at the cost of my heritage and my language. … We’d visit family in Puerto Rico, and they’d make fun of me because I spoke Spanish like someone who was white and had learned Spanish.” “I now realize there’s a lot of people in my situation: We don’t feel like we fit in completely with the dominant culture we grew up in, but also don’t feel comfortable with the cultures [our] parents are from. A lot of my art in the beginning was dealing with that.” Later, after graduating from Montana State University, he began traveling in Latin America, particularly though his father’s home country of Mexico. He started collecting pre-Columbian art, and eventually began using 3D printing and modeling processes to generate replicas of those pieces that he could manipulate. “I came up with this idea of what I call an ‘uninvited collaboration’ [between my own work and the original piece],” he says. “I didn’t have very many pieces at all, then I was in a faculty show at UMFA. I jokingly asked the director of the museum if she’d let me scan some of their pieces, and I thought she’d laugh me out of the building. But she was into it. So I scanned seven pieces from their permanent collection.” Rodriguez came to focus much of his “uninvited collaboration” work on the hotbutton issue of immigration, specifically as it applies to the U.S./Mexico border. He cites another formative childhood experience as informing him early on about the tragic stories that surrounded the immigrant experience. “When I was 10 years old,” he recalls, “I was staying with my grandmother for the

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summer, and there was a lady who took care of her who was from Nicaragua. [The caretaker’s] daughter had crossed over from Mexico into Arizona, and died in the desert, at 19 [years old]. I just happened to be there at that time, that exact moment that she got the call that her daughter died. She was wailing and crying. Even as a kid, I just felt for her.” Rodriguez also got an up - c lo s e - a n d-p er s on a l look at conditions along the border this past summer, when he worked with Battalion Search & Rescue, a humanitarian organization that searches the American deserts for lost and missing migrants. “It was important to me to be boots on the ground, even for just a tiny fraction of time, [to know] the experience of what it’s like,” he says. “This was in August, the hottest part of the summer. I felt the connection.” Much of the work in the salt 15 exhibition addresses that experience, directly or indirectly, including the matter of the ancient art pieces themselves crossing the border to become objects seen in an American art gallery. Another piece uses a child figure originally from a group of figures representing a family. “I’d scanned these, and right about the time I started making this work, there was this tension of children at the border [separated from their parents],” he says. It just made sense to me that I could use this child figure, in a cage, to talk about that. … The child figure from a thousand years ago in Mexico is standing in for the child of today.”

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have the experience of the 2021 virtual festival under its belt, and the confidence that it could still be successful, even if in a completely different way. Jackson credits the design of the schedule, which included online “premiere” occasions to allow for that collective moment of experiencing a work for the first time, rather than an exclusively “on-demand” structure. Additionally, the virtual waiting rooms and live Q&As allowed for interaction both between viewers, and between viewers and filmmakers, for the closest possible approximation of that giddy festival experience. And with that 2021 experience came the ability to debrief about it and make it even better. “Ever since last year, we’ve done huge rap sessions to understand what the pain points were for our audience and our artists [of the virtual festival experience],” Jackson says. “So we’ve been working on that for almost a year now, and we have a smoother, more inclusive experience on the festival platform.” Still, Jackson knows that something is lost in the lack of live screenings, and that the filmmakers are feeling that loss. Jackson herself recalls watching last year’s U.S. Documentary Competition winner, Summer of Soul (or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), and feeling the elation of a specific scene involving a duet between gospel legend Mahalia Jackson and young Mavis Staples. “I wanted to be with other people when that happened,” she says. For the moment, she takes comfort in the fact that those same filmmakers gave her the boost of positivity she needed during that crushing week. “In those hardest of times, having to tell filmmakers,” Jackson says, “every response I have received has expressed their disappointment, but also a grace, and acknowledgement of the bigger picture. That’s been so moving to me. Our filmmakers desperately wanted to be here, but they understood.” CW

on that morning [of Jan. 5], but we had to focus on getting to the film teams. We couldn’t really choreograph this.” From a mental energy standpoint, building the virtual platform from scratch for the 2021 festival and having to make this pivot for 2022 were both difficult, Jackson admits, but in different ways and for very different reasons. “It’s complicated,” she says of whether this year has been harder than 2021. “We had our hopes up [this year], and we needed to pivot right at the last minute. Last year, the trauma and loss of the pandemic meant that it was a different atmosphere where we were making a decision even to put a festival on,” Jackson said. “Now we have vaccines, the stakes are different and the atmosphere is different. We had this moment … of coming back out onto the streets and getting together, so it feels like something has been taken away again.” If there’s any silver lining, it’s that Sundance already did

wo days after the announcement that the 2022 Sundance Film Festival would be canceling its in-person events and moving to an online-only format, festival director Tabitha Jackson had had a little time to process. The impact on a personal level was clear. “I think that this week,” she said, “has been the hardest of my professional career.” The two years of Jackson’s tenure at the helm of Sundance have been the strangest and most unpredictable in the festival’s history. After 2021’s shift to an entirely virtual festival, the plan was in place to make Sundance 2022 a hybrid event, with virtual screenings complementing the traditional live screenings in Park City and Salt Lake City. Even as late as Dec. 23, with the omicron variant leading to a surge in COVID-19 cases, Sundance was sending out updates to the health and safety policy that still assumed the in-person festival experience—then just a month away— was good to go. Returning from the holiday break, however—with the announcement of more than 14,000 new COVID cases on Jan. 3, including nearly 1 in 24 Summit County residents testing positive—it was clear that things had changed. “Truthfully, I never thought the in-person would need to go away until the last few days,” Jackson says. “What did it was the data, it was as simple as that—the total clarity of the realization that, with the new data, it would be irresponsible to proceed. Jackson said the new information given to organizers included that the peak of omicron transmission would fall during the festival. “I completely trusted the process,” Jackson said. “Our process was one that didn’t leave room for wild speculation or … finger-in-the-air projections. But still, as humans, it was like, ‘Noooooooo.’” Because of the consequence of this decision, according to Jackson, a lot of people in the Sundance Institute organization had to be part of the process, including the board of directors and new Sundance CEO Joana Vicente. “This was a decision of some significance,” Jackson said. “It’s a big hit, in practical terms. But everybody was on the same page about what we needed to do.” Once the decision was made, however, the process of communicating it presented its own logistical challenges. According to Jackson, every effort was made to reach out to the filmmaking teams ahead of the more public announcement of the move to all-virtual, but it proved complicated to reach everyone, even as rumors of the change began circulating. “The decision was of such magnitude, that as soon as we had made it, we needed to try to get to the filmmakers before we announced it publicly, but they were pretty much simultaneous,” she says. “There was a lot of chatter going

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ou could inspire a lively debate among film enthusiasts by asking when Sundance, the film festival, turned into Sundance, the brand. It could have been as early as 1989, when sex, lies and videotape emerged to become a minor hit and an Oscar nominee. Maybe it was 1994, the year of Clerks and Hoop Dreams. Maybe it was 1996, the year of the bidding wars for Shine and The Spitfire Grill. There’s no clean delineation, no magic switch that was flipped to turn an insular mountain gathering into the place to find the Next Big Thing. It’s hard to deny, however, the impact of what became known as “The Class of ’92.” It wasn’t necessarily about launching a bunch of superstars—really, only Quentin Tarantino (who debuted Reservoir Dogs at Sundance in 1992) might reasonably earn that distinction. Instead, it was more about a collective sense that different kinds of stories, and different kinds of storytellers, were going to get a chance to be seen and heard. And it all happened 30 years ago this month. Reservoir Dogs was certainly the talk of the festival while it was going on, though it ended up winning none of the competition awards. Tarantino griped in subsequent years that it was because the jury thought that “Hollywood’s knocking on your door, you don’t need us.” Yet there was still a connection that devel-

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eter Baxter—co-founder and president of the Slamdance Film Festival—doesn’t love the idea of an all-virtual film festival. Like Sundance, Slamdance held its 2021 festival entirely in a virtual space and, like Sundance, there were initial plans for an in-person Park City festival in 2022, which was then canceled due to the omicron variant COVID spike. Yet while Baxter acknowledges the sense of community generated by a live festival, it’s also clear that he sees the developments necessitated by the pandemic as ones that low-budget independent filmmakers can benefit from. “We’re really, of course, disappointed that we can’t be in Park City this January,” Baxter says. “We were excited to be getting back together with our filmmakers. … But while we can be disappointed about not doing that, we can be positive about the opportunities in front of us right now in a new landscape, which has to do with a 100-year-old business model, and I think the pandemic has just accelerated that change.” Over the course of its now-27-year history, Slamdance has existed largely in Sundance’s shadow, with a mission born out of recognizing the kinds of films that Sundance couldn’t serve, and a tradition of holding the in-person festival at the same time as Sundance to help connect filmmakers with industry folks who would already be in town. There was, however, the reality that micro-budget films rarely get the opportunity to break into the mainstream of theatrical exhibition. And that has meant re-thinking, and embracing, alternate distribution methods. “We want to find the biggest audience possible for our filmmakers, and for their talents to be recognized,” Baxter says. “We’ve retained the pragmatic viewpoint that yes, we’ll have Slamdance films that will blow up, and that people will write about, but there are few like that. And what about the rest? How do you do more for the rest of your program to reach a wider audience?” For Baxter, that notion of reaching a wider audience was in part inspired by the experience of the virtual 2021 Slamdance. He notes that more than 20,000 individual festival passes were sold last year—for only $10 to access the entire festival program—representing

75 countries. “We found new audience members for Slamdance films in all kinds of places in the world,” he says, “and those people would not be normally traveling to Park City, so they were discovering our types of filmmakers and programming for the first time.” Creating the platform itself was, of course, a stressful experience. And the decision to move the Slamdance festival dates later and away from an overlap with Sundance was in part a unique opportunity to carve out a distinctive space, but also a practical matter of allowing the small festival team the necessary time to get the platform up and running. “It wasn’t straightforward, but it was fun, and we had a good experience with it,” Baxter says. “It allowed us to focus on something here at a time when it was very stressful, to immerse ourselves in something that occupied us. … It was like getting chucked in at the deep end, and learning how to swim quickly.” The result of learning how to swim in the streaming world—in a way that broke even and allowed Slamdance to provide all its filmmakers with a small amount of compensation—has now inspired the creation of a year-round streaming platform hosted at slamdance.com. The notion of a year-round “film festival” showcasing low-budget indie filmmaking is part of what Baxter calls the “evolution of the film festival,” one that allows greater accessibility for audiences and a wider audience for the filmmakers. “We hope it really will contribute to re-evaluating the world of independent film,” Baxter says. “To me, it’s tended to be exclusive since I’ve been around, tended to limit itself in terms of accessibility. It can be expensive to go to film festivals, few of them get wide releases, and then how do you find them?” Even in the world of mainstream Hollywood filmmaking, 2021 was a rough year, one that inspired complicated questions about the long-term future of the theatrical experience. Baxter has no interest in seeing that go away, but for decades now he has been part of a filmmaking world where the theatrical experience wasn’t likely to be in the cards anyway. From a limited-time virtual festival, Slamdance has recognized the opportunity to bring more filmmaking voices out into the world. “I want to see film on the big screen, I’m looking forward to that, and that’s not going to change,” Baxter says. “But I also want to see films that I can’t see on the big screen, the kind of films we’re passionate about. … I hope there’s a growing audience for following that kind of creativity. Art isn’t about likes and analytics. It transcends all that.” CW

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oped between QT and some of the festival’s other alums, including Alexandre Rockwell (whose In the Soup won that year’s Jury Prize) and Allison Anders (Gas Food Lodging). Those three, along with 1993 Sundance alum Robert Rodriguez, would join forces for the 1995 short-film compilation Four Rooms, cementing the sense that they were sort of a “Brat Pack” of American indie cinema. That was also the year when a Sundance panel heralded the emergence of a “New Queer Cinema,” represented in the festival lineup by Gregg Araki’s The Living End, Tom Kalin’s Swoon and Christopher Munch’s The Hours and Times (the latter of which speculated on a gay romance between John Lennon and Beatles manager Brian Epstein). It marked the first time that queer filmmakers started taking control of their own stories, in ways that were sometimes outrageous, sometimes subtle, but never closeted. Even the documentary lineup had its breakout creators. While Errol Morris had already made an impression a couple years earlier with The Thin Blue Line, his profile of Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, became one of the festival’s hottest titles. The 1992 slate also introduced Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky with Brother’s Keeper; the filmmaking team would go on to follow a controversial murder trial for nearly 20 years in the three Paradise Lost films. Every Sundance year presents a new opportunity for individual breakouts, whether in front of the camera or behind it. It takes a special year like 1992, however, for there to be a sense that entire paradigms had shifted. Perhaps more than any specific career the festival has launched, Sundance’s 1992 edition launched the idea of what the festival could be in the larger film culture—when being a “Sundance movie” started to mean something that even people who’d never been to the festival understood. CW

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he omicron COVID variant threw us all a bunch of curve balls as 2022 got underway, and the cancellation of the in-person Sundance Film Festival was certainly one of them. Now, while you don’t have to navigate the logistics of Park City— parking, getting from one festival venue to another during high-traffic times, finding a place to eat that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg—you will need to figure out the logistics of the festival’s online platform. If you participated last year, most of the particulars are fairly similar. If not, here are the basics for how to participate in Sundance ’22 from the comfort of your home. Create an account. Everything on the online platform at festival.sundance.org is predicated on creating your individual account, including the ability to interact with other festival-goers in the “spaceship” that hosts the Film Party as well as the New Frontier programming. Upload a picture, create an avatar, and get yourself ready to choose films. Choose films. At press time, both select festival packages and individual film tickets were available for purchase for most titles. The full festival program (also at festival.sundance.org) includes descriptions of the films in all of the various categories, as well as the times and dates they’ll be available for viewing. Pick your viewing time. Every festival film has at least two primary viewing op-

tions. The “Premiere Screening” takes place on a specific date, with a three-hour viewing window beginning at a specific time. While you can watch the film in its entirety if you begin any time within that three-hour window, it’s recommended that you start at the beginning of that window if you want to participate in the live Q&A session with the filmmaking team. You can enter the “lobby” for the film 15 minutes before the viewing window start time, with a chance to chat with other audience members. The “Second Screening” window for each film begins at 8 a.m. MT two days after its “Premiere Screening” date, and lasts for 24 hours until 8 a.m. the next morning. Again, you can begin any time within that window. A third screening option will be available for festival prize-winners on Jan. 29 and Jan. 30; visit the website on those dates for specific titles and screening times. Check your tech. You can, of course, watch films through your computer via festival.sundance.org, where your selected films will appear on your calendar—or an HDMI cable or wireless cast can turn your TV into a theater screen. Those with Roku or AppleTV setups can also download the Sundance festival app and follow the steps to get your account connected. And the festival app will also be available for iOS and Android on phones and tablets. Enjoy and participate. Audience members will still get a chance, as was true for live screenings, to submit a ballot as part of the festival’s Audience Awards. As previously mentioned, you can share questions with filmmakers as part of the live Q&As, and interact with other festival-goers in the screening lobby or in the spaceship’s Film Party. Watching the movies is only part of the experience, and while there’s no way to truly duplicate an in-person festival in the virtual world, you can help make a festival experience that’s truly interactive, and makes it the closest approximation until the state of the world allows for Park City to buzz with activity again. CW

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Previewing the films with a musical slant from this year’s Sundance lineup. BY ERIN MOORE music@cityweekly.net @errrands_

jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy

It would be moot to say that this Sundance premiere film is for the Kanye super fans, because it seems almost everyone has some kind of opinion or interest in the famous hip-hop artist, who rose to fame in the early 2000s with some of the biggest and most brilliant music in the genre. While we may be used to trilogies in the franchise film movement, jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy is a definitive new look into the life and career of Kanye West that takes the longform trilogy model to the documentary sphere—as it should, since the scenes depicted in jeenyuhs: A Kanye Trilogy span so much time they need the space. The documentary calls back to the earliest days of Ye, when, as it’s told, a 21-yearold West was interviewed by Clarence “Coodie” Simmons at the birthday party of Jermaine Dupri in 1998. Inspired by the interview and the film Hoop Dreams, Sim-

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ust because Sundance is back to virtual for their second year in a row doesn’t mean you can’t still have a real Sundance time with the online programming. With streaming events scheduled out for the next two weeks, the viewings are just as exclusive and you still need tickets to see them—and a schedule of must-see films handy. So, not that different from normal Sundance—all that’s missing is driving up the canyon dodging out-oftowners who’ve never driven up a hill. As for things to watch, we’ve got the music nerds covered. Read below for the mustsee films for the musically obsessed.

Meet Me in the Bathroom mons felt compelled to keep up with West, following him from West’s Chicago to New York City, filming all along the way—ranging from West’s early producer days to his landing a record deal to having his jaw wired shut after a car accident and recording “Through the Wire” with said jaw still wired shut. There’s no assurance that the documentary-like music video for that song, which was directed by Simmons and his partner Chike Ozah, will have much in common with this much larger project by the two directors, but one thing’s sure: jeen-yuhs will show us the life of Kanye West as it’s never been seen before. View online at festival.sundance.org, Sunday, Jan. 23 at 6 p.m.; Tuesday, Jan. 25, 24-hour “second screening” window beginning at 8 a.m.

32 Sounds

An immersive documentary on sound and “how it affects our conscious and unconscious lives,” this New Frontier performance-art piece blends documentary with live performance. Filmmaker Sam Green has shown this kind of work before— namely on works like 7 Sounds, another experimental sound piece, “something like

a cross between a radio documentary, a sound walk and ASMR,” which showed at Sundance in 2021. This newer version features a more robust collection of “sounds,” and in a post on his website about the making of the documentary, Green shares a board of words on white stock cards—“ice rink,” “breath,” “Phil Glass,” “Doppler Effect,” “wind chime” and “JD (interlude).” Whether these are all actual sounds in the doc remains to be seen … or heard. But the last one on that list will definitely be there—compositions from JD Samson of Le Tigre and MEN are featured, as they were in 7 Sounds. Samson will perform compositions live for audiences tuning in, and said audiences are encouraged to listen with high quality personal headphones to truly appreciate “a cinematic poem about the power of sound to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world.” In a time where many are once again hunkering down into isolation, we could definitely use some world-bending chances at connection. View online at festival.sundance.org, Thursday, Jan. 20 at 4 p.m.; Thursday, Jan. 27 at 11:30 a.m.; Friday, Jan. 28 at 6 p.m.

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Here’s a documentary to make elder millennials feel older than they’re probably already starting to feel. Meet Me in the Bathroom is a film adapted from the book of the same name, written by Lizzy Goodman and released in 2017, which Pitchfork called “the juiciest book on rock ‘n’ roll in years.” Certainly, the film adaptation brings even more life to the hugely detailed, 600-page account of our most recent romantic age of high rock ‘n’ roll—the first 10 years of the 2000s. The film, directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace (of Shut Up and Play the Hits) follows the post-9/11 musical landscape in New York City’s Lower East Side, which, while plagued by industry ills and MTV obsession, still birthed a new movement of music. Come for the never-before-seen footage of bands like The Moldy Peaches, LCD Soundsystem and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and stay for the tell-all stories. Spanning the years 2001 - 2011, Meet Me in the Bathroom is the perfect throwback to the birth of indie as we know it, whether you were there for it or not. View online at festival.sundance. org, Sunday, Jan. 23 at 11:55 p.m.; Tuesday, Jan. 25 “second screening” window beginning at 8 a.m. CW

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ately, I’ve started to wonder about the role of spectacle in the food we eat. I mean, it’s always been there— from the complicated composition of the Swedish princess torte to the debauched excess of the overstuffed turducken, there is something universally appealing about food that takes its visual cues from arena rock concerts. Culinary spectacle is catnip in the age of social media, where the experience of going out to eat often dwarfs the food itself, which is why locals have already started flocking to Mr. Fries Man (multiple locations, mrfriesman.com). My question going into this review was simple—is Mr. Fries Man just another style-over-substance import? Or do their cyclopean food piles actually cut the mustard? Mr. Fries Man began as a backyard operation for Los Angeles residents Craig and Dorothy Batiste back in 2016. Essentially, the Batistes were looking to push the boundaries of traditional cheese fries by adding toppings like steak, shrimp and fried chicken. Their monstrous concoctions soon became famous on social media, creating enough demand to support several brick-and-mortar locations in the Los Angeles area. In 2020, Mr. Fries Man started to develop out-of-state franchises, and this year they have set their sights on Utah,

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Box, the honey garlic shrimp with steak was my favorite. A bit of surf-and-turf on top of some golden fries can’t really go south, after all. I couldn’t find any fault with the toppings here. The shrimp was plump and not rubbery, and the steak was tender and well-seasoned. I know shrimp and melted cheese isn’t a widely utilized combo, but it works on pizza, and by damn, it works on fries too. I thought the same thing about the lemon garlic shrimp, and it makes me want to try the crab out as well For the chicken options, you get the choice between grilled and fried chicken. I went with fried because I was planning to double down on debauchery, but it’s the wrong move. The fried chicken comes in nugget form, which isn’t inherently bad, but it did have a very problematic texture. It’s the kind of gravelly breading that overpowers the chicken with its aggressively crenulated girth. Plus, I think ours was a tad on the burnt side. At the end of the day, both the BBQ bacon ranch chicken and buffalo chicken would have been much improved with grilled chicken instead of fried. As far as spectacle goes, Mr. Fries Man has it in spades. It’s hard to resist looking at one of their heaping plates of loaded fries and not post it on Instagram. In the substance area, this place is good, but not great, and a big part of that judgement comes from the prices. Mr. Fries Man is tasty, and I’d say most normal humans could split one plate between two people, so maybe I’m getting a bit too bent out of shape about spending 20 to 50 bucks on piles of fries. Regardless, our local ardor for loaded fries will make this place a welcome addition to the scene. CW

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Speaking of coffee shops, the Liberty Park area just welcomed Picnic (1329 S. 500 East, 801-467-2947) to the neighborhood. Already the place is shaping up to be a cozy addition to the area, serving up bagels, gelato, granola and some foamy green oat milk matcha lattes. I also spotted some tasty-looking cranberry muffins on their Instagram page (@picnicslc). On top of the housemade goodies that Picnic is cranking out, they also have a small market space that sells jam, crackers, olives and coffee you can brew at home. I’m looking forward to watching people jog around the park while I sit at the counter and eat muffins. Quote of the Week: “I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.” –Lewis Black

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If Soundwell is indeed a well for anything, it’s bringing in the best of the best in House and EDM music. Case in point, this week’s appearance by Marsh, a London-born DJ who has since adopted Cincinnati, OH as his home. His 2020 album Lailonie is a luscious album that built on his first, Life On The Shore, which was in itself an impressive dance-ready debut, employing classic club beats and loads of charisma. Released on the label Anjunadeep, the deep house imprint of Above & Beyond, it’s a strikingly emotional piece of work—club-ready but also perfect for a solo dance party, complete with maybe a cathartic meltdown. That may be because it was completed in the throes of 2020, when life for everyone and especially live nightlife entertainers became much different. It especially became different for Marsh, who was supposed to be performing at shows backed by the dream label he’d just joined—but what matters now is that he is on tour, finally. He’s also got new material under his belt, in 2021’s live album Live from Natural Bridge State Park, Kentucky, a work dotted through with samples of birds chirping and production that somehow builds on Marsh’s depth while also embodying more delicacy and minimalism than his prior release. See all the artist has to offer when he comes through to Soundwell on Saturday, Jan. 22 at 9 p.m. The all-ages show is $15 at soundwellslc.com.

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Winter is a quiet time, for all but tribute bands it seems. Just as they cover the songs of bands or artists that don’t tour so much anymore, or can’t, in the winter cover bands seem to still do what most other bands don’t—tour and play shows. Something about the lull of the first month of the new year brings ‘em out, and this week’s cover show to look out for is Strangelove: The Depeche Mode Experience. The Los Angelesbased group is dedicated to the craft of replicating an authentic-sounding Depeche Mode experience, something they’ve been doing for over 40 years. From the most popforward hits like “Just Can’t Get Enough” to their signature New Wave goth work and even their recent work, Strangelove does their best to honor all the music of Depeche Mode. They bring their own original visual production to accompany each performance, and collect vintage synthesizers and samplers to recreate that unmistakable ‘80s sound perfectly. According to the band, their tribute show “feels more like a shared communal fan-club celebration of halcyon days of new wave-slash-emerging electronica.” So whether you’re a fan who grew up with them or a younger New Wave disciple, don’t miss Strangelove at Metro Music Hall on Friday, Jan. 21 alongside another tribute act in Electric Duke, who takes Bowie classics and electronifies them. The show is 21+, doors are at 7 p.m. and tickets are $20 at metromusichall.com.

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While Dorian Electra is touring solo in belated support of their 2020 album My Agenda, the over-the-top performer should have more than enough material and energy to sate the appetite of any audience. A keystone artist in the fresh alt pop movement, Electra’s style fuses genre play with gender play, with aesthetics that reference drag king culture and music that ranges from big, bright bubblegum to early millennium industrial and club beats. Their 2019 debut album, Flamboyant, was definitely that—the album is a wild ride that explores and explodes tropes of masculinity. Though non-binary, Electra gets very intimate with masculinity, showing us a winking, queer and titilating side to what is usually considered the plainer gender—songs like single “Man to Man” flirts, “Flamboyant” seduces and “Guyliner” smirks at any preconceptions over who can wear eyeliner, or indeed, guyliner. After Flamboyant earned Electra a distinctive place in the hyperpop realm, they exploded their own boundaries on their bonkers second album My Agenda. The album leans into fat, crunchy beats that squish with early 2000s club juice (especially on the Rebecca Black-assisted “Edgelord”) and sometimes explodes into dizzying syntheses of nu-metal riffs and grimy EDM drop beats (“Ram It Down”). While early Electra found the fun in masculinity, this new album explores more of the aggression and toxicity—and as a result, it’s a more challenging listen. See both sides of Electra’s masculine coin when they stop into Soundwell on Tuesday, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. The 21+ show is $18 - $20 at soundwellslc.com.

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If you love Tool, maybe you started listening to them in their ‘90s heyday, when their brand of dark metal-meets-art rock first burst onto the scene—their 1993 album Undertow was a frenzy-creator that carried them through to their even more successful ‘96 follow-up Ænima. Their distinctive fame grew out of an angsty pool of post-grunge rock, but they stood out from the crowd by leaning into an experimental kind of prog rock that, with time, would grow into epic-length songs with ever-changing dynamacy that kept their listeners on their toes. After their first few years of fame, however, the band quieted things down, and frontman Maynard James Keenan dug into other projects like A Perfect Circle, while appearances from Tool became few and far between. They returned to acclaim, though, in the new millennium, with 2001’s Lateralus and 2006’s 10,000 Days, albums that further cemented their reputation as restless visionaries. Since then they’ve been on their longest break yet, returning in 2019 with their album Fear Inoculum and only just now touring on it. Guesting on the tour is another band that found their popularity around the same time, but which followed a meandering path of art rock, indie pop and balanced shoegaze. Blonde Redhead quickly became mainstays in the burgeoning indie rock scene of the early 2000s, releasing cult hit albums over the last two decades, including their most recent work, 2016’s Masculin Féminin. See these two millennium mainstays at the Maverik Center on Tuesday, Jan. 25 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the all-ages show are $65 - $150 at maverikcenter.com.

An Update on Shows, Tours and Omicron

After last week’s music picks included two shows that were postponed at press time, you’re probably reading this week’s music section with more than a grain of salt, and you’re right to. So much is up in the air right now, with Omicron causing record cases and infecting people at such a rate it seems like if you just look at someone too long you’ll catch it yourself. You’re probably wondering, justifiably, if you should be going to shows, or buying tickets in advance for some spring date that just got announced. And while we wish we could offer you some certainty that spring tours will all remain on their tracks and that those shows that are coming up in the more imminent next few weeks will remain scheduled, we can’t. For now, it looks like a good chunk of shows over the next month are all in danger of being canceled, whether by a venue being cautious or a particular artist—and while at this writing it seems like the big touring acts are the only ones forging ahead while locals chiefly postpone gigs, that too could change. But as we learned last year, as cases taper off in the warmer and more outdoors-friendly months, spring and summer dates become more reliable. So, this is just a reminder that for now, you should double check all shows you read about here or anywhere else—and to keep your head up, because this wave won’t last forever.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) In October 2021, the Vancouver Canucks played the Seattle Kraken in a Seattle arena. A fan named Nadia Popovici noticed that the Canucks’ equipment manager Brian Hamilton had an irregular mole on the back of his neck—possibly cancerous. She found a way to communicate her observation to him, urging him to see a doctor. In the ensuing days, Hamilton sought medical care and discovered that the mole was indeed in an early stage of melanoma. He had it removed. In the spirit of this inspiring story, Aries, I invite you to tell the people in your life things they should know but don’t know yet—not just what might be challenging, but also what’s energizing and interesting. Be their compassionate advisor, their agent for divine intervention. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Canadian-Jamaican songwriter and recording artist Kreesha Turner isn’t a mega-star like Beyoncé or Rihanna, but she has had a successful music career. What’s the secret to her constant creative output? Here’s what she has said: “I love to surround myself with people who are the best at what they do. My idea is I want to be a sponge and absorb everything they teach, experience their energy, view them in their element, and have the opportunity to ask them questions.” The coming year will be one of the best times ever for you to emulate her strategy, Taurus. And now is a perfect moment for formulating plans to make it happen.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Author Marguerite Yourcenar wrote, “All happiness is a work of art: The smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stupidity brutalizes it.” If what she says is true, it’s bad news, isn’t it? She makes it seem like cultivating joy and well-being is a superhuman skill that few of us can hope to master. Personally, I am not as stringent as Yourcenar in my ideas about what’s required to generate happiness. But like her, I believe you have to work at it. It doesn’t necessarily come easily and naturally. Most of us have never been taught how to cultivate happiness, so we must train ourselves to do it and practice diligently. The good news, Libra, is that the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to upgrade your happiness skills. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In 1891, a cultural organization commissioned Scorpio sculptor Auguste Rodin to create a statue of beloved French author Honoré de Balzac. The piece was supposed to be done in 18 months, but it wasn’t. For seven years, Rodin toiled, producing over 50 studies before finally finishing the piece. We shouldn’t be surprised, then, that one of his mottoes was “Patience is also a form of action.” I’m recommending Rodin-like patience to you in the coming weeks, Scorpio. Yours will be rewarded long before seven years go by.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Years ago, I reluctantly gave up my music career. To do so was sad and hard. But it enabled me to devote far more time and energy to improving my writing skills. I published books and developed a big audience. I’m glad I did it. Here’s another redemptive sacrifice I made earlier in my life: I renounced the chaotic pleasure of seeking endless new romantic adventures so I could commit myself to a relationship with one particular woman. In so doing, I learned a lot more about how to be a soulful human. I’m glad I did it. Is there potentially a comparable pivot in your life, my fellow Cancerian? If so, the coming weeks and months will be a favorable time to make a move.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “New truths become evident when new tools become available,” declared Nobel Prize-winning medical physicist Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921–2011). She was referring to developments in science and technology, but I think that her idea applies to our personal lives, as well. And it so happens, in my astrological opinion, that the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to acquire the new tools that will ultimately lead you to discover new truths.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Leo actor Claudia Christian has appeared in over 50 films, including many in the science fiction genre. She has played a variety of roles in movies with more conventional themes. But as for the sci-fi stuff? She says, “Apparently, I’ve been typecast: I’m a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew.” If Christian came to me for astrological advice right now, I would suggest that the coming months will be an excellent time for her and all of you Leos to slip free of any pigeonholes you’re stuck in. Escape the mold! Create niches for yourself that enable you to express your full repertoire.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 2017, Piscean film director Jordan Peele released his debut film, Get Out. It was a success with both critics and audiences. A year later, Peele became the first Black screenwriter to win the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. As he accepted the Oscar, he said, “I stopped writing this movie about 20 times because I thought it was impossible.” Personally, I’m glad Peele didn’t give up his dream. Here’s one reason why: He will serve as an excellent role model for you throughout 2022. As you reinvent yourself, Pisces, don’t give up pushing ahead with persistence, courage, and a quest for what’s most fun.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) The coming weeks will be a favorable time to meditate on your job and your calling—as well as the differences there may be between your job and your calling. In fact, I regard this as a phase when you can summon transformative epiphanies about the way you earn a living and the useful services you provide to your fellow humans. For inspiration, read this quote from photographer Margaret Bourke-White: “Even while you’re in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Self-help teachers and New Age gurus are fond of using metaphors about opening doors. They provide a lot of advice that encourages us to knock on doors, scout around for doors that are open just a crack, find keys to unlock doors, and even kick down doors. I will not be following their lead in this horoscope. In my opinion, the coming days are an excellent time for you to heed the contrary counsel of author Paulo Coelho: “Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity, or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.” Once you carry out this assignment, Aquarius, I believe you’ll start finding interesting new doors to open.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess,” wrote author Fanny Burney. Actor Jennifer Lawrence said, “I started to write an apology, but I don’t have anything to say I’m sorry for.” I nominate these souls to be your role models for the coming weeks. In my astrological opinion, you are currently as immune to karmic boomerangs as it’s possible to be. Your guilt levels are abnormally low. As far as I can determine, you are relatively free from having to answer to the past or defend your actions. How do you plan to make maximum use of this period?

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Gemini author Lisa Cron says that when we’re telling a story, we should give each successive scene “new information, rather than rehashing things we already know. Never tell us the same fact twice. Because it’s boring and stops the flow of the story. Never tell us the same fact twice. Because it’s boring and stops the flow of the story.” In accordance with astrological omens, Gemini, I suggest you apply this counsel to everything you say and do in the next three weeks. Don’t repeat yourself. Keep moving right along. Invite novelty. Cultivate surprises and unpredictability.

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id you wait too long to buy a home or condo? Have prices gone too high to even think you could buy something? Have no fear, ownership can happen … with friends and family! Eons ago, bankers wouldn’t let women get a mortgage. It wasn’t until the mid-1970s that a woman could access a line of credit independently without a man to cosign with her—for reals. Nowadays, you can buy a property with anyone, from a family member, coworker or friend. I’m always surprised when people ask me if they can buy with someone they aren’t married to, but then I must remind myself that folks don’t buy and sell homes very often. So, here’s how you can own this year with another person or persons: 1. Get pre-approved for a mortgage. It doesn’t cost anything and gives you an idea of how much house you can buy on your own. The lender will check your credit, ask about income and bills, and give you a pretty good guesstimate as to the amount of mortgage you could get. For home loans, I recommend mortgage brokers instead of banks, since brokers have been selling mortgages for virtually their whole lives. Banks, by comparison, don’t pay well and that banker might not be there in two years when you need counseling about refinancing (see: bottom of opposite page, ad for Julie Brizzee). 2. Figure out who could cosign on a mortgage with you and have them also get pre-approved for the mortgage. They too must have good credit and job history. However, if they are retired, the lender can’t discriminate against them because their income is merely social security benefits each month. If three of you are going to college and want to buy something to live in instead of a dorm, you will come out with enough money when you graduate and sell it to make a dent in those student loans! 3. If one of you has $50,000 to put down toward the mortgage and the other buyer doesn’t—but will pay half the mortgage payment each month—have the title company put a $50,000 lien on the property as soon as the mortgage is recorded. That way the property can never be sold without that $50,000 being paid back to you (with interest). 4. You may want to own as joint tenants or tenants in common. In joint tenancy, if either party dies the property goes to the surviving owner. In tenants in common, if either party dies the property goes to the deceased family or as directed in a will. Buying a property is usually the biggest decision in your life. Make sure to deep dive into the facts before signing the closing papers on a purchase. I only get 500 words to explain this here, but know that lenders can’t discriminate against you because you’re not married to the other buyer(s). They also can’t discriminate against you due to your race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age or whether you receive income from a public assistance program. n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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But, Why? The Daily Mail reported that Israeli scientists at Ben-Gurion University have constructed a “fish operated vehicle (FOV)”—a water-filled tank, camera and computer on wheels—and have trained goldfish to “drive” it. In the beginning of the trials, the fish just drove around randomly, but eventually they were able to guide the vehicle toward a food reward by changing the direction they were swimming. The researchers said the experiment proved that fish can “overcome environmental manipulation” and if they one day adapt to live out of water, they’ll be able to find food. Um, OK.

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Red Tape Valerie and William Beverley tied the knot in 1995 and then went about their lives, WAVY-TV reported, raising a family in Newport News, Virginia. But when Valerie went to the DMV to get a new driver’s license last spring, she still had her maiden name on her Social Security card. A little digging revealed a crucial oversight: The couple had never filed their marriage license with the state. They even filed taxes jointly. So on Dec. 30, 26 years to the day after their first wedding, the Beverleys said their vows again, this time with their son as the best man. Ewwwww Young people in Norway are called to military duty to guard NATO’s northern borders, and until recently, when they were discharged, they were allowed to take their military-issued underwear with them. But no more, the Guardian reported. COVID-19 has caused supplies to dwindle, so as of Jan. 7, people leaving service are being asked to hand over their unmentionables to be “washed, cleaned and checked,” defense logistics spokesman Hans Meisingset said. “What we distribute is in good condition.” Rude? Joan Hutchinson, 75, appealed to the Cardiff (Wales) Magistrate Court after her boss at Asda, a supermarket, suggested she might want to retire because of her increasing dementia, Metro News reported. The panel upheld her claims of age and disability discrimination, which may make her eligible for compensation from the store chain. Colleagues noticed that Hutchinson was forgetful and confused when trying to stock items, and her boss, Stacey Weston-Laing, reportedly brought up retirement with her several times. “It made Ms. Hutchinson feel she was being pushed out or that Asda felt she was too old to be there,” employment judge Alison Frazer said. Hutchinson had stopped driving after going the wrong way around a roundabout, and she once walked to work because she forgot where the bus stop was. Hutchinson quit her job in response to Weston-Laing’s inquiries. n Cinnamon Clarke and her husband made their regular weekly trip to Firehouse Subs in Ozark, Alabama, WDHN-TV reported on Jan. 7, but when they got home and she opened the sandwich, she saw that her half didn’t have any meat. She called the shop and they told her to come back so they could remake the order. But when she got there, the owner refused to make a new sandwich for her. “When I talk to God tonight,” the owner said as Clarke recorded him, “I’m going to see if he can come to your house and take you.” Clarke was appalled: “It was just a fancy way, a nice way of saying, ‘I’m going to pray that you die tonight.’” The Firehouse Subs corporate office told WDHN that the incident would be handled internally.

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Weird Science Russian biologist Vera Emelianenko stumbled across a strange phenomenon in the snow along the White Sea coast, in the Russian Arctic, in December. Bright blue glowing spots were embedded in the snow, Oddity Central reported, and her feet would leave streaks of blue as she walked. Emelianenko collected a sample and examined it under a microscope, where she found tiny aquatic crustaceans called copepods. When she poked them with a needle, they lighted up blue. The creatures normally live up to 100 meters deep in the ocean, but an expert at the Academy of Science in Moscow thinks they might have been caught in a powerful current that swept them ashore and into the snow.

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Signs of the Apocalypse In Texarkana, on the border of Texas and Arkansas, Dec. 30 brought a new phenomenon: fish falling from the sky. KXXV-TV reported that people found fish on their sidewalks and lawns, but city officials have an explanation: “Animal rain” occurs when small water animals are swept up in waterspouts or drafts. “2021 is pulling out all the tricks,” the city posted on Facebook. “While it’s uncommon, it happens ... And please, for the sake of everyone, let’s tiptoe into 2022 as quietly as possible.”

Plot Twist Since 2016, the publishing world has been baffled by a fake insider who tricks authors or editors into sending him unpublished manuscripts, then apparently just keeps them for himself. On Jan. 5, at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Filippo Bernardini, 29, was arrested on wire fraud and identity theft charges related to the mystery. ABC News reported that Bernardini, who works for Simon & Schuster in London, allegedly collected hundreds of unpublished works, including those of well-known authors and a Pulitzer Prize-winner. If found guilty, he could face up to 20 years in prison.

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Awwwwww Alfredo Antonio Trujillo was born at 11:45 p.m. on Dec. 31 at Natividad Medical Center in Salinas, California. Just 15 minutes later, at 12 a.m. on Jan. 1, his twin sister, Aylin Yolanda Trujillo, made her grand entrance, according to NBC Bay Area. Twins born in different years are a rarity, with the chances being about one in 2 million. “What an amazing way to start the new year!” said Dr. Ana Abril Arias.

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