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O-Town Alive A trio of Ogden gastropubs that are worth the trip.

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SOAP BOX “Diplomacy” Is the Problem

After weeks of unsuccessfully attempting to either bully Russia’s Vladimir Putin into submission or bait him into war, U.S. President Joe Biden may finally be looking for a face-saving exit from the Ukraine “crisis” of his own making.

Reuters and other outlets report that Biden, at the urging of French president Emmanuel Macron, is willing “in principle” to hold a summit with Putin. “We are always ready for diplomacy,” says White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.

Unfortunately, it’s U.S. “diplomacy” that brought the U.S., Russia, Ukraine and NATO to the current standoff.

As the Warsaw Pact disintegrated and the Soviet Union collapsed, U.S. encouragement for those events included pledges that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization wouldn’t take advantage of the situation

to expand eastward. Since then, NATO has inexorably pushed in that direction, nearly doubling the number of member states.

Thanks, U.S. “diplomacy.”

Things began coming to a head with the U.S.-sponsored coup in Ukraine that replaced its “Russia-friendly” regime with a “U.S./Europe-friendly” regime in 2014, courtesy of Barack Obama. Thanks, U.S. “diplomacy.”

Then in 2019, the U.S. withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which forbade the U.S. from placing missiles within surprise strike distance of Russia, and forbade Russia from placing similar missiles within surprise strike distance of NATO. The U.S. followed up by placing exactly such missiles in Poland, courtesy of Donald Trump. Some “diplomacy.”

Then the U.S. went into overdrive (courtesy of Trump and Biden) against the opening of a pipeline (Nord Stream 2) which

@SLCWEEKLY would have supplied Russian natural gas to Germany. The pipeline would have been a force for peace insofar as Russia likes to sell natural gas (at a fraction of prices the U.S. can offer), and Germans like to not freeze to death. To flip and paraphrase an old maxim, when goods are crossing borders, armies usually aren’t.

Putin finally drew a red line at NATO membership for Ukraine and against the U.S. definition of “diplomacy”—“do exactly as we demand, without question or objection, and we may consider deigning to allow you to kiss our feet for a little while before kicking you in the face again”—specifically.

Bullies really, really, really hate to be told “no” and tend to go into full bluster and posture mode at the first hint of that happening, which explains the current Ukraine “crisis.”

Unfortunately for this bully, Putin remains seemingly un-frightened. Even as

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the U.S. and its poodles met in Munich, of all places, to issue more threats, he declined to play the role of Neville Chamberlain.

So, now, Joe says he may be ready to talk.

Whether the willingness is real, or just another exercise in fake “diplomacy,” remains to be seen—as does whether Putin will give Biden a graceful/deniable way out of this mess, or insist on rubbing his nose in the thick layer of filth U.S. “diplomacy” has previously deposited on the ground.

With two nuclear powers at loggerheads, the stakes are far too high for further attempts to disguise U.S. hubris and megalomania as “diplomacy.”

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THE BOX

What’s your favorite national park?

Scott Renshaw

I have the most nostalgic connections to Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks in California, where my parents took my brother and I as kids. When I think of the majesty of the natural world, that’s the picture in my head: 2,000-year-old trees reaching up to the sky.

Carolyn Campbell

The one with the best hotel next to it.

Katharine Biele

Yellowstone. I haven’t been to all of the national parks, but I still remember a winter tour of Yellowstone when it was 50 degrees below zero. It was spectacular.

Larry Carter

Not a park but Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. I like it because it’s nearby, has short hikes and is close to fishing.

Mikey Saltas

Bryce Canyon. The Fairyland Loop Trail is easily one of the coolest hikes in Utah.

Benjamin Wood

Call me old-fashioned but I choose Yellowstone. I love the bison, I love the geysers, I love the lake and the waterfalls. I love it all (especially in the winter!).

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Utah Smug I

’ve lost all track of time these past couple of years. I’m not alone. Some folks have taken to modernizing the concepts of time measurement. No longer is our world measured as just B.C. (before Christ) and A.D. (anno Domini) or, of late, B.C.E. (before the Common Era) and CE (Common Era), there are now Pre-COVID (PC) and COVID (C) eras. Great. More Jeopardy questions—just what the world wanted.

Still, there has been a change. The seasons feel different now. For instance, I can’t recall any time in my youth when I walked outside in mid-February and did yard work in a Tshirt. I don’t remember summer and—I can’t remember— did it rain last April?

Time moves in a wave during COVID times—sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, not in a predictable tick-tock continuum. January felt like four months. February, just a couple of days. I can’t focus to save me. I don’t expect to finish this column today, let alone imagine someone reading it.

In PC years, people seemed nicer and smarter. Among those, people who took science, their health and the health of others seriously these past two years were prone to wear masks in most public places. That has proven to be a wise course. Not only did they help thwart COVID via wearing masks—while also diminishing the flu and the common cold—they gained the single thing non-maskers claimed most to own: freedom.

While the non-masked and non-vaxxed wallow at home crafting hard-to-decipher email tomes, honking horns in mini-parades and fighting with airline attendants, the masked and vaxxed have been free to travel the world, eat at any restaurant, watch the Utah Jazz and otherwise go about their PC normal lives. It’s ironic that those who claim

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to cherish freedom the most did little of value these past two years to live it.

Hoisting a flag with Uzis emblazoned on it doesn’t bring or express freedom any more than a “Let’s Go Brandon” bumper sticker does. Neither has any real impact on a day in a life, but I suppose they give some sort of identity to a person needing validation. I guess that’s OK. On the bright side, they signal to me who I shouldn’t invite over for a beer, because they are also clear piss markers of personal turf. Why would I waste a good Fisher Beer on someone like that—someone who indicates he’s more prone to shoot his neighbors than to offer them a corkscrew?

I mostly just shrug because if such flags and banners really had any impact on society, we’d all be wearing a yellow smiley face.

Such symbols are of a religious nature as well. Orthodox Christians and Roman Catholics have worn the Christian cross symbol for centuries. Muslims, Sikhs, Jews, Buddhists and all the rest have their own identifiers of religious culture. The LDS have their own as well, albeit hidden most of the time except in the dressing rooms of public swimming pools or gymnasiums. However, the LDS do boast of another symbol I rarely see anywhere else: smugness. I’ve lived in Utah most of my life, and it remains astounding that the only people who seem to recognize such smugness are the nonLDS. Being smug is not universal to all Latter-day Saints, and most are blissfully unaware that it exists.

It’s pervasive, however, among politicians and religious leaders who are LDS—also among BYU football fans. Those are the people defined by men like ol’ boy Bradley Wilcox, a BYU professor, author and high authority in the LDS Church.

Although it was only “revealed” last week, for years, Wilcox has been telling fireside homilies that Blacks should not be asking why it took until 1978 for Black LDS members to get the priesthood. Rather, he said, “we should be asking why

did the whites and other races have to wait until 1829?” I am not LDS, despite about 180 years of LDS lineage, so I don’t even know what that means.

However, I am a good monitor of smugness, and Wilcox fully defines Webster’s definition. To prove that smugness is his birthright, he’s willing to piss off the rest of the world’s billions of people (there are 16 million LDS worldwide), too.

While back-slapping his own religious creds, he reminds the rest of us we’re not in tune with his kind. He thumbs his nose at the rest of the world’s religions by saying “they’re not playing with the whole piano.” Isn’t that a paralipsis?

Anyway, in the lands where Christianity began over 2,000 years ago, there were no pianos, Bradley. That’s what smugness does to people. It makes them diminish everything around them.

Like women. Or people of color. Or people of other faiths.

Or atheists, even. Left unchecked, the smug do great damage, and it’s only too bad that the LDS leadership and Wilcox’s peers basically shrug it off as him being a victim of the culture he was raised in. Nope. He’s been rewarded for his bad behavior his whole life. Is that the LDS face-forward culture, then?

But, it’s COVID times, right? Where have we seen this before, the act of giving the reins to a smug man? Donald Trump is dangerously smug—the same as Wilcox. No one checked him off.

Being smug and in power is a dangerous cocktail. Utah is full of smugness bartenders. Look at our Legislature, which doesn’t listen to the voice of all people. Listen to Gov. Spencer Cox say we don’t miss the Outdoor Retailer shows (while ignoring, again, the financial impact on local hospitality businesses and employees) or also his strange relationship with COVID that still downplays the dead and dying. Smug? Just put that word on the Utah state flag and be done with it. CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net.

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HITS&MISSES

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MISS: Water From Where?

Be careful what you wish for. Maybe we’re jaded when it comes to climate and conservation, but the latest “good news” about the Great Salt Lake raises major questions—for instance how, from where and what are the unintended consequences? The Legislature at long last realizes that the iconic lake is shrinking—it apparently took expensive helicopter tours to convince them, but there it is. House Speaker Brad Wilson, the Deseret News reports, wants to appropriate $40 million to find solutions from some conservation organization that will apply to ultimately establish a trust as a private nonprofit.

Whew. They’re supposed to “find more water” for the lake. There’s a lot in this.

Think about conservation not only of water but also of the industries surrounding the lake. Where is this “extra” water supposed to come from, you ask? We don’t know. One thing we do know is that climate change and how to reverse it long-term are not on the table. Utah prefers to be reactive.

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Hand it to the younger generation to hit you where it hurts. You may recall the arguing and angst about canyon traffic, especially during ski season. There were lots of polls and studies before the final choice came down to a cool gondola or an enhanced (wider lanes) bus system. Either choice would cost between $500 million and $600 million.

But would they solve the problem? Or rather, what problem would they solve?

Students for the Wasatch say it’s all about taxpayer dollars subsidizing private businesses—namely ski resorts, according to KSL. Any large-scale projects have the potential to harm the already fragile canyon environment and watershed. And the proposed solutions come with their own problems—like a lack of parking at the mouth of the canyons to catch the bus or gondola. The students have been up at the Capitol, but getting lawmakers to listen is hard.

MISS: Can’t Vouch for It

You’re probably tired of hearing about school vouchers. I mean, you’ve already voted resoundingly against them and, year after year, voucher bills have failed to pass. Despite this, there is no end of the conservative ideology embracing school privatization. Rightwing Republicans simply do not like “guv-schools” because the fear of socialism overrides any belief that a public education should produce students “who would understand political and social issues, participate in civic life, vote wisely, protect their rights and freedoms and keep the nation secure from inside and outside threats,” the Center on Education Policy notes. Now, lawmakers are workshopping another bill to divert school funding to other things. They say they want to prioritize education funding. Sure, they do. They also want vouchers, but the governor is not convinced—yet. He seems to think it’s about funding. Education is really about the goals of democracy.

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Want to make a difference in Utah politics?

In case you didn’t know, it’s dominated by a small group of passionate activists. With election season right around the corner, now is the time to start thinking about candidates and how to get them on the ballot. Candidates will begin filing on Feb. 28, and you have to decide what party to affiliate with by March 31. The Republican caucuses take place on the evening of Tuesday, March 8, and the Democratic caucuses are on Tuesday, March 22. The Women’s Leadership Institute will be conducting How to Become a Delegate, “a training program that educates voters on how to run for state and county delegates.” Presenter Leslie Carpenter hopes to help people more easily influence what candidates come out of the party conventions. Salt Lake Chamber Board Room, 201 S. Main, No. 2300, Friday, Feb. 25, 10 a.m., free. https://bit.ly/3sLSk7X

The Trains Are Coming

Are you worried about the air we breathe and whether it will get better or worse?

Gov. Spencer Cox isn’t. He believes the air is cleaner than it ever has been in our lifetimes. It’s critical that you call his office about a proposal to bring a new rail line to Tooele. It “would open the door to massive expansion of an industrial warehouse farm being pushed by The Romney Group,” say the Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment. While the EPA has written a letter to the Surface Transportation Board about concerns over the rail’s impact on air quality and wetlands, it’s most important for Utah citizens to weigh in. This New Rail Line Proposal for a Satellite Port will only add to the pollution by supporting dirty energy projects. Call Gov. Cox, 801538-1000. https://bit.ly/3GRrtwd

Mental Health in Society

Why do you think it’s important to hear from Black experts about mental health?

It’s because of unequal access and cultural perceptions. Statistics show that only 25% of African Americans seek mental health care, compared to 40% of whites. The rate of suicides among Black children has also exceeded that of whites. And then there’s the social pressure. Polls consistently show that mental health issues are seen as a sign of weakness among all races. During Black History Month, Weber State University is offering An Evening With the Black Clinicians, with a focus on Black health and wellness. “A collective of master and doctoral-level mental health clinicians, the Black clinicians desire to transform mental healthcare,” they say. “Together, they seek to create a safe therapy space for people of color to address mental health and process what’s happening in our current culture and society.” Virtual, Thursday, Feb. 24, 6 p.m. Free/register at: https://bit.ly/3GFQSJ5

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As the Bard keeps churning out hit after hit, Nick and Nigel fume over their rival’s popularity, until a relative of the celebrated soothsayer Nostradamus gives them a tip about how to change their fortunes. They should, Nostradamus suggests, get on board with a new theatrical form that will eventually be all the rage. It’s called … a “musical.”

Something Rotten! runs Feb. 25 – March 12 at the Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre (300 S. 1400 East), with tickets $48 - $72.

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Given the general subject matter of Something Rotten!—a theater company struggling to figure out what makes sense for their next production—it’s more than slightly ironic that it has taken two years for it to finally make its Pioneer Theatre Company debut. The 2015 musical and multiple Tony Award nominee was first scheduled for spring 2020, but we all know what happened to things that were scheduled for spring 2020, and why. Then it was tentatively planned for 2021, but again COVID intervened.

“I have been eager to bring this crowd-pleaser to our audience for a long time,” says PTC artistic director Karen Azenberg, who also directs and choreographs this production, “but the pandemic kept getting in the way.”

But it’s finally all-systems-go for this charming tale set in Renaissance England, where a pair of brothers, Nick and Nigel Bottom, face that most particular of artistic challenges while running a theater company in Renaissance England: getting

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Over its nearly-30-year history, Odyssey Dance Theatre has turned some of the staples of American popular culture into lively movement, from the Christmas magic of It’s a Wonderful Life to the gleeful ghoulishness of the Halloween staple Thriller. The company’s spring tradition has been a repertory program collectively dubbed Shut Up and Dance—and the 2022 installment will be the company’s last, as company founder Derryl Yeager has announced his retirement and the closing of Odyssey Dance after this fall’s Thriller production.

The 2022 Shut Up and Dance roster features four unique programs, each with its own unique slant. Sledgehammer (pictured) includes a suite inspired by the songs from Peter Gabriel’s hit 1986 album

So, along with three shorter works from the Odyssey repertoire. Let It Be takes some of the most beloved works from the Beatles catalog—including “Yesterday,” “Come Together” and “Help!”—and sets them to dance. Chicago Nights evokes the spirit of Prohibition-era Chicago through a wide range of styles from tap to jazz, from ballroom to hip-hop. And Romeo & Juliet sets the classic Shakespeare story to choreography by former Odyssey principal dancer Eldon Johnson, with the Odyssey traditional twist of letting the audience vote on whether the young lovers live or die.

Take advantage of your final chance ever to catch these productions March 2-12 at the Midvalley Performing Arts Center (2525 Taylorsville Blvd., Taylorsville), with individual ticketing for each performance at $15 - $35.

Visit odysseydance.com for more event info, and arttix.org for tickets and current health and safety protocols. (SR)

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evocative studies, suggesting the invariably transitory nature of animals that are in constant motion, while the tactile quality in the images brings them fully into the real world.

Fragments of Arcadia opens at Gallery MAR (436 Main St., Park City) on Feb. 25, with an artist reception on that date from 6 – 9 p.m.; masks will be required for all attendees at the event. The exhibition runs through the month of March, with closing date as yet undetermined. Visit gallerymar.com for more details and additional event information. (SR)

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County Council member Shireen Ghorbani, and University of Utah Tanner Humanities Center director Erika George. With Soliemanpour on stage, each cast member takes the script from a sealed box for the first time, and the experiment begins anew.

Nassim plays Kingsbury Hall (1395 E. Presidents Circle) March 1-5, including a matinee performance on Saturday, March 5. Tickets are $5 - $25; face coverings are requested but not required of all audience members. Visit utahpresents.org to buy tickets and for additional event information. (SR)

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NIMA SOLIEMANPOUR

Nassim @ Kingsbury Hall Live theater is always a risk, but there’s an added level of working without a net in the works of Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour (pictured). His 2010 work White Rabbit, Red Rabbit introduced the idea of staging a play without a director, without rehearsals and without a set, as the actors discover the script along with the audience.

As Soleimanpour told Broadway World in 2019, “I think it’s mainly to live it together for the first time. … It becomes, of course, an experiment in form, but [also] a shared experience for all of us in the room.”

Soliemanpour continues that experiment with Nassim which he describes cryptically—so as not to tip off either the audience members or the upcoming cast members—as “about language, about making friends, about the concept of home.” Each of the production’s six performances will feature a different solo actor, representing a wide range of the local community, including X96 Radio from Hell co-host Gina Barberi, Fox13 reporter Ben Winslow, former Salt Lake

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The stunning landscapes and biodiversity of the American West have long been sources of inspiration for artists, who sought to capture that natural beauty through a wide range of media from painting to photography. Wyoming-based artist Matt Flint is part of that tradition, but his style is not one that favors a strictly naturalistic approach to capturing his subjects. “My paintings are of animals, plants and landscapes seen through a moment of shifting focus,” Flint notes in his website’s artist statement. “I paint the way I explore the rugged mountains where I live, always pushing to see what is over the next hill, searching for the unexpected.”

That sense of exploration is certainly on display in the collection of new work offered locally by Park City’s Gallery MAR. Fragments of Arcadia, a one-man show of Flint’s work, presents oil-based and mixed media paintings with subjects including horses (a staple of Flint’s oeuvre), owls, bears and wolves (“Entering Winter” is pictured). The colors blur and mix around the edges in these

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Utah author M Dressler flips the script on ghost story conventions in Our Eyes at Night

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OUR EYES AT NIGHT

By M Dressler Skyhorse Publishing, March 1, 2022 $26.99 hardcover mdressler.com

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“Instead of thinking about big things,” Dressler says, “we’re encouraged to worry about things like ‘others’ and ‘bordercrossers’—and that’s what ghosts are in the trajectory of most narratives. We’re taught to be afraid of the wrong things. We allow ourselves to be frightened and distracted.

“Pratt’s very invested in what’s on what side of the line.

But there are things that have no boundaries, like climate.

If you’re writing a contemporary book, how do you ignore that? How do you pretend that’s not real?” CW

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our typical ghost story has a familiar arc: It’s set in a world where people assume ghosts aren’t real, they need to be convinced by events in the story that the ghosts are real, and then they set about solving the obvious problem of getting rid of the ghosts. For Southern Utah-based author Mylène Dressler, none of that obviousness was interesting. What if everyone in the world already took it for granted that ghosts existed? And what if the ghosts were only a “problem” because of the mind-set of the living?

Dressler—who writes as M Dressler—mines rich allegorical territory in her The Last Ghost series, which concludes with Our Eyes at Night (released March 1). Continuing the story begun in The Last to See Me and I See You So Close, it follows the conflict between Emma Rose Finnis, an Irish immigrant who drowned off the California coast in the late 1800s, and Philip Pratt, a professional “ghost hunter” who pursues Emma Rose with a Javert-like obsession.

It took a little time for Dressler to find her way to ghost stories, and indeed to find her way to writing in general. “I started out life as a ballet dancer,” Dressler says, “but I always had this idea of moving on after dancing, which is a very short career. Writing and dance, it’s all storytelling— writing is a form of dance; it’s very rhythmic and lyrical. I’m interested in the music of language.”

The concept for the Last Ghost series in particular came both from the kind of literature Dressler grew up on, and a visit to the California coast. “When I was growing up, I loved gothic narratives,” Dressler says, “things like Henry James, Shirley Jackson, Jane Eyre. Then I got lucky, because I had a moment a few years ago traveling on the coast of California, zoned out in my writer’s space, and I thought, ‘Even if you died here, you wouldn’t want to leave.’ And it

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was all there, poof. … It took me a little while to find, but it combines everything I love.”

One of those things she loves is the Southern Utah landscape where she lives, and as Emma Rose moved eastward in successive books—from the California coast to the Sierra Nevadas—the often-contested lands of Southern Utah became a natural place in Our Eyes at Night to continue investigating the idea of ghosts as an allegory for marginalized people.

“Ghosts tend to represent things that really shouldn’t be erased so easily,” Dressler says. “Emma is an immigrant, and a servant—expected to be invisible in life, and now expected to be invisible in death. The minute you step out and show yourself, in the fullness of your humanity, that’s the moment you’re in danger. … [In this world], the desire to erase them is out in the open.”

The danger in The Last Ghost books comes in the form of Pratt’s hunter, a character who might typically be the protagonist of a conventional ghost story. For Dressler, it was important to recognize what makes someone so singleminded in perceiving an “other” as a threat, and in finding it hard to incorporate new information that might allow for a shift in perspective. “[Pratt] also absolutely believes in the worth and goodness of what he’s doing; it seems like a righteous task to him,” Dressler says. “It’s really this clash of worldviews. He doesn’t strike me as unintelligent, but he has very high stakes invested in this career. … It’s certainly recognizable in our culture right now, that people just will not let go of things that are patently false, because your identity will be destroyed.

“One of the things Emma recognizes Mylène early on, is that [Pratt]’s got that thing on Dressler his wrist, this [ghost-dispatching] weapon.

Emma sees that he’s manacled to his destiny.

He’s as much enchained as she is.”

The connection with contemporary societal issues gets even more complex with the way Dressler folds climate change into her story, including the hidden “bunker” where a wealthy couple is preparing for an expected apocalypse, and where Emma and a group of fellow ghosts consider settling down. “I think of this book as an ‘eco-gothic;’ it’s very deliberate on my part, combining these two different discourses,” Dressler says. “Emma pretty much says this baldly at one point: Are the living leaving the planet more fit for the dead?”

Most intriguingly, Our Eyes at Night recognizes that the fixation of people like Pratt on solving the “ghost problem” is a distraction from the much more pressing and threatening circumstances accompanying climate change.

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O-Town Alive A trio of Ogden gastropubs that are worth the trip.

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Here’s what I looked for in O-Town pubs. They must: • Have local Ogden owners who brew their own beer • Feature a bar with a full liquor license • Offer lunch and dinner menus—not just snacks • Have a family-friendly atmosphere • Have employees who hung on through COVID • Sell crowlers, growlers and merch • Offer curbside takeout with assigned times • Allow patrons to order online • Be a place to “get your beer nerd on”

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gden is one of those beautiful mountain towns that Salt Lakers scurry to for easy access to trails, ski resorts (Snowbasin, Powder Mountain and Nordic Valley) and the charm and mysteries of Historic 25th Street.

With Ogden’s Union Station, Salomon Center, Eccles Dinosaur Park as well as myriad museums, gardens and nature centers, O-Town is an active, family city—think welcoming, laid-back, fun vibes with a nod of a generous community fan base. You hardly need convincing to take the 45-minute drive north on Interstate 15 or a UTA FrontRunner train ride (free through the end of February!) to Ogden.

But, as with most cities, COVID hit the town hard. It’s a small miracle that the town’s restaurants and bars survived after being forced to close for two weeks in March 2020, when most food and beverage workers were unable to work. Then, as eateries reopened, some workers returned to handle takeout and delivery orders.

When, at last, restaurants were able to open for dining-in, they had fewer tables due to social distancing requirements.

So, if Salt Lakers haven’t been showing up lately, it’s not surprising.

We were all busy hunkering down.

But business in Ogden is picking up now, and new players have appeared on the scene. This story shines a light on three gastropubs, aka microbreweries—Ogden River Brewing, Roosters Brewing Co. and UTOG—that make up the beating heart of Ogden’s downtown.

Yes, the city boasts many noteworthy restaurants, bars and pubs! But these topped our list for their craft beer selections, delectable food, full bars, welcoming atmosphere and family-friendly offerings.

The owners and managers of these pubs harbor such passion for what they do, yet—with supply-chain and staffing shortages—they continue to adapt and find their footing. And due to the pandemic’s fluxes, many hospitality workers have moved on to seek careers elsewhere. Thankfully, not all abandoned ship.

UTOG’s Carson Foss noted his employees “stepped up and worked so hard through 2020 when many people chose not to. Without their hard work, we would not have been able to come through so strong. [Most of our] employees have been with us since Day 1, and we consider ourselves the UTOG family.”

In fact, these three pubs have come back with a stronger presence than ever, with loyal employees now able to make a living at something most customers take for granted. Few even realize how much these businesses give to the Ogden community.

Whether you drink beer or not, craft brewers naturally brings communities together.

Friends, neighbors and customers have rallied to support these pubs in Ogden, and it’s easy to see why.

Can you go for just a pint?

Sure! Local Ogden Pub Runners are weekly regulars about town completing their runs or stopping along the way at these locations. Can you take your family for a nice dinner or brunch outing— even if you don’t drink beer?

Of course! How about taking a date and not being bothered by loud children? Absolutely!

Sit in the 21+ areas.

The excellent service of knowledgeable and enthusiastic staff will help challenge you to sample new beers from the Independent Brew-

ers board or create a flight for yourself using cues like a ski map (in the case of UTOG) from green to blue to black diamond.

The one thing easily learned in creating this pub crawlwith-food story is that quality beer demands quality food.

With this trio, you’re sure to find something to make every palate happy.

All three pubs have beautiful wooden bars for sitting and dining solo with friendly faces at the taps to keep you company while not being invasive. All three have ample dining-room options for large or small parties with a wide menu variety, and all three have brewing equipment in plain sight, which is fun when you’re talking fermentation stations and IPAs. If you’re craving socialization and something new (that still feels comfortable), get your motor running and head on up to O-Town to explore this vibrant trio of gastropubs, giving Salt Lakers multiple reasons to return to this hopping city.

Ogden River Brewing founder Pat Winslow

Ogden River Brewing: A brew-aholic’s dream come true

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New Zengland IPA

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Family-friendly menu options hit the spot, such as wood-fired pizza.

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Pat Winslow, a former railroad conductor and longtime homebrewer, started a Kickstarter campaign in 2017 to make his dream of a brewery a reality. The happy result of his efforts, Ogden River Brewing., opened in 2020 and is located along the Ogden River Parkway trail, where it has quickly become a fixture in the Ogden community.

Inspired by the Becker Brewing and Malting Co., which operated about a block from ORB’s location in Ogden from 1890 to 1964, Winslow had hoped to honor the legendary family of brewers with his Becker’s Best American Pilsner and other food items on the menu. The Becker family descendants, however, have recently lodged their concerns about the brewpub’s use of the family name, so it remains to be seen if the theme will hold.

Regardless, Ogden River Brewing is an uplifting space where regulars and tourists alike come for lunch or to just explore the beer selection. With its windowed garage doors and airy upstairs outdoor seating, ORB offers majestic views of the mountains that guard the city’s east side.

Outdoor seating is a big draw when it’s warm enough to dine al fresco. “Guests will ride their bikes or walk along the parkway and stop in for lunch,” Winslow said, “which is what we wanted in a community restaurant and pub.”

And yet, winter weather is hardly a deterrent. Arrive early and you’ll hear a light buzz of activity that turns into a full roar by 7 p.m., when you’ll have to wait for a table.

My partner ordered a flight of beers, and Becker’s Best American Pilsner hit all the right notes with its light, citrus finish and low bitterness. The New Zengland is cloudy, with notes of tangerine and a hint of vanilla, overtones of grapefruit—a hazy and unfiltered IPA. The favorite was the Hop Train Pale Ale with its little bubble, medium golden, nice balance of hops and a smooth finish.

With an Extra Special Bitter English-Style Pale Ale (which reminded the author of her time in Leeds as a university student) and a Cali Invasion California Common Style—a classic amber with refined caramel notes, there really was something for every taste.

Paired with the beers was a nice mix on the menu of wood-fired pizzas, sandwiches that rotate by season, fresh salads that can be topped with grilled salmon or chicken, yummy Niman Ranch beef burgers, fish and tots and the favorite ingenious appetizer of “Mormon hush puppies,” which are funeral potatoes rolled into a ball and fried, aptly served with fry sauce. Paired with roasted Brussels sprouts, it was much like a fun Thanksgiving starter.

Family-friendly, Ogden River Brewing offers a kids’ menu and has plenty of open space. It is boisterous enough that patrons likely won’t notice any noise kids make.

Meanwhile, adults at the full bar can enjoy a seasonal cocktail called “Sue’s Apple Pie,” which is swirled around in a bowl-shaped coupe champagne glass. The cocktail (‘tini) had notes of vanilla vodka, cinnamon, apples and brown sugar. The bartenders create delicious and beautiful seasonal craft cocktails for bar clientele in the mood for something more celebratory or those wanting a nice way to finish with a dessert drink.

On the way out, there are choices of growlers or crowlers to take home, merch, as well as the fermenting equipment to view. And yes! There is a beer store offering even more.

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UTOG: What’s Buzzing in the Beehive

UTOG BREWING CO.

2331 Grant Ave., Ogden 801-689-3476 utogbrewing.com

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UTOG’s Chef’s French toast

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From pilot to brewmaster, Carson Foss launched UTOG in 2019.

A UTOG’s brunch favorite: Country Skillet

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For those looking to dine out in Ogden, walk outside afterward and think, “Wow … that didn’t feel like Ogden—it felt like vacation,” UTOG gastropub’s Carson Foss has you covered. That feeling is exactly what Foss, who created UTOG in 2019 and opened right before the COVID pandemic started, was going for.

Foss is a retired airline pilot who, as a hobby, traveled the world and visited brewpubs in every state.

The Ogden native said he wanted “to brew great beer for distribution and to have an amazing onsite familyfriendly brewery with great food in Ogden.”

The magic of UTOG’s location is that it sits on a spot that oh-so-ingeniously lies just beyond the outfield of the Ogden Raptor’s baseball diamond. During the summer, customers can sit on the UTOG patio and watch the ballgame.

Upon arriving, a large, open and well-lit space greets you. The atmosphere is pub comfort, albeit with a more modern/garage-style brick and concrete. The Sunday brunch is a must—just make sure you order a “Table Mimosa” ($25 includes a bottle each of champagne and orange juice).

But as you are in a brewery, beer lovers should try the Son of a Peach, a wheat hefeweizen with peaches that’s wonderfully fruity and smooth.

As for the food, brunch hits are the Country Skillet, with vegetables and prime rib topped with eggs; Chef’s French Toast; and anything with bacon (as always, bacon is the bomb). Biscuits and gravy, anyone?

Of course, with bacon.

UTOG’s got some great work coming out of the kitchen. The wings are divine as are the salads, daily soups and sandwiches. And yes, there are vegan options and even Brussels sprouts. “Elevated” pub food is the best description for this experience, and afterward, “satisfied” is the word tablemates shared.

Foss was on his way down the mountain from skiing when we chatted about his launching UTOG in the midst of COVID. “Being forced to close and then reopen really allows a company to know what they can shed and still survive,” he said. “It really helped, financially, to organize things and run as lean as we could while still providing great products and a great customer experience.”

Foss noted that staffing was not a big issue for them.

Employees were given options, and some left, “but most of them stayed and returned, and now our projections are better going into this year than they were before the pandemic hit,” he said.

He has succeeded in creating a place that’s an escape, a retreat—but one that feels familiar, a nice place to just “be,” where you can unwind from work and home responsibilities. It’s a place to make a memory and return. Isn’t that what makes going out so special?

UTOG accomplishes that.

Our server impressively confided that the owner gave employees gift cards to other brewpubs in town at Christmas so they could share the community spirit of giving and also to experience their food and beers.

She concurred that, yes, the pandemic was scary for a while—but they came out of it stronger than before, and the staff have formed a bond because of it.

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ROOSTERS BREWING CO.

Multiple locations: Ogden, Layton, SLC International Airport 801-627-6171 roostersbrewingco.com Rebecca Ory Hernandez is a food writer and personal chef based in Ogden.

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board. A fruity beer with lactose, Strawberry Milkshake is one that Jacquie King—head brewer at the 25th Street location since 2016—said she finds fun and challenging to create. It’s flavorful and hazy, yet delightfully surprising in how refreshing the finish is. And, by the way, King is a chapter leader of Utah’s Pink Boots Society, a professional organization for women in brewing.

If you’re feeling nostalgic, the Bee’s Knee’s Honey Wheat Ale is where many folks start. It’s a classic wheat ale with a light body, golden color and a sweet finish. And for something full, black and toasty, the Junction City Chocolate Stout pairs well with the turkey enchiladas and the salmon dinner, both perennial favorites of regulars who head to Roosters for lunch and dinner.

The pizzas, pastas (Kym’s Capellini is still there), salads and sandwiches are always well thought out. The muchloved “Veg Head” sandwich has been creatively translated into tacos. Don’t miss the “naughty fries,” served with three dipping sauces. And the brewery’s Blood Orange Hard Seltzer? One word: refreshing!

Favorite craft cocktail? A grown-up “Loaded Root Beer,” made with Five Wives Heavenly vanilla vodka, butterscotch schnapps and Roosters Homemade Root Beer. Trust us, it pairs great with a burger.

The challenges of COVID made Kym Buttschardt love and appreciate the brewery more than ever. “Now is the most fun time in my business,” she said. “There are a lot of new and exciting developments happening (The Coop in Layton is coming soon!) that we can talk about later.”

But for now, Kym takes stock and appreciates the fact that they have employees who’ve been with them for 25 years. “And my goal,” she says, “is to be the preferred employer in the Ogden food business.” n

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It all began in 1995 on Ogden’s Historic 25th Street when Kym and Pete Buttschardt—the matriarch and patriarch of Ogden’s gastro brewpubs —opened the city’s first modernday brewery (keep in mind that the modern brewpub trend was just beginning in Utah with Wasatch Beers of Park City launching the state’s first microbrewery in 1986). As their website states, Kym and Pete “are the driving force that is the lifestyle known as Roosters!”

Roosters literally anchors 25th Street with its signature neon sign and a style that’s welcoming, friendly and generous. They’ve expanded recently with a location in Layton as well as Roosters B Street Brewery and Taproom in Ogden—a 21+ establishment—and a satellite location at the Salt Lake City International Airport.

When you enter the 25th Street establishment, Roosters has a winding iron and wood staircase that adds to the restaurant’s quirky charm, as does the large-format local art.

During a recent visit, a man who had resided in Ogden in 1996 and now lives in Phoenix shared that he’d played darts upstairs while a young officer at Hill Air Force Base.

He noted that the bar now looks brand new to him. “This just wasn’t here. It’s so much bigger, and the menu has expanded,” he said. “It’s great to see how much Ogden has grown.” And if you ask an Ogdenite about the team, you’ll get a consistent answer: “Kym and Pete are really, really nice people.”

UTOG’s Foss agreed. “If I need hops, or anything, they’ll help me out. We all work together to support one another,” he said, referring to the community of brewers in Ogden.

The Buttschardts have worked hard and have given of their time, talent and treasure to create a community-minded place where “liquid love” is on tap.

COVID hit Roosters employees hard, and a manager who has worked their way up the ranks noted, “It was a really scary time, not knowing what was going to happen next.

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“But we all got really good at takeout orders, did what we could with limited supplies and worked really hard.

They let us do what we needed to do. Some people stayed at home and received benefits while some people worked extra-long hours to keep the business going. We got a lot of support from our customers, and things are almost back like before,” the manager said.

“I’d never want to do a mandatory shutdown ever again,” Kym Buttschardt said. “But it showed us how strong, resilient and creative our team is. We didn’t know what would happen this year, but [business] has turned back on.”

Kym noted that Roosters went through a dark time in 2021 when the second wave of COVID hit. “But now,” she said, “there’s a magic in the air. All the restaurants are packed and busy. I think people just crave being back together and having dinner and drinks.”

She said the business is projected to be better than ever this year, even when compared to 2019’s pre-pandemic levels. “I’m so grateful for the resiliency of our employees,” she said. “We did not do layoffs. We really relied on our team, got creative and took care of our people and the kitchen. We pooled tips, and we did whatever we could to ensure that everyone who needed help received what they needed from us.”

One silver lining from the ordeal: “It took 25 years plus two weeks to get an online ordering business system going,” Kym Buttschardt said. “And we do a lot of online ordering now. It’s complicated, but it’s incredibly successful, and it made me that much more appreciative of our hardworking people who provide a beautiful quality of life and service to our community.”

A server, Memo, shared, “I just love working here. This was my first job. I left to experience some other work for a while, and now I’m back. I hope to be a manager one day!” His enthusiasm and menu recommendations were more akin to an old friend giving advice than that of a typical server.

New menu items like a Korean spicy chicken sandwich and a Wagyu beef entrée have appeared on the menu—nice complements to the old favorite drafts as well as some new ones. Check out the Strawberry Milkshake when it’s on the

The spicy Korean chicken sandwich is topped with green and red peppers, fresh cabbage slaw and side of fries.

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ars and coffee shops have an interesting relationship with one another. Coffee shops welcome the daytime society with caffeine, sugary baked goods and plenty of space to set up your mobile office. Bars, on the other hand, exist to undo all that productivity with alcohol and deep-fried appetizers, thus creating the need for more caffeine to get through the next day.

Perhaps it was my recent visit to Brick & Mortar (228 S. Edison Street, 801-4190871, brickmortarslc.com) that really drove this realization home. It’s a bar that was once a coffee shop, which threw my whole paradigm into a tizzy. The goal of my visit then became focused around a single question: Can a bar menu join forces with a coffee shop aesthetic to create something new?

Before Brick & Mortar was the inviting neighborhood bar it’s become, it was home to a Campos Coffee shop, which had a sister location in Park City—both of which closed last year due to the pandemic. I had been to Campos Coffee a few times before it closed.

Its exposed brick, natural lighting and rooftop patio were ideal for sipping lattes during a springtime afternoon.

Brick & Mortar has kept things pretty much the same; it really is a beautiful building. When I visited for an early din-

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expecting them to employ the same process that I had seen a million times before.

With a few little flourishes like the grilled mushrooms and another sprinkle of lemon zest, I was diving into something familiar, but with just enough of a twist to help it stand out. I also think that this is a place that takes pride in its menu and ingredients. Ut’s a true-blue gastropub that isn’t content with doing the bare minimum.

I decided to test my theory when the dessert menu came around, and I saw that they were serving monkey bread ($10) with crème anglaise, vanilla ice cream and marinated cherries. Banana bread? Just who did they think the were? You never see banana bread on a dessert menu. So obviously, I had to try it.

And you know what? It’s awesome. The dish comes out warm, swimming in crème anglaise and the vanilla ice cream that’s already starting to melt. It all works well together as those sweet, creamy complements start soaking into the pleasantly thick slices of banana bread, but when you get a bite of those cherries, the whole thing rings like a bell.

Revisiting my question about whether the spirit of a bar can exist happily in the vessel of a coffee shop, I have to say that it’s happening at Brick & Mortar. It’s evident by the regulars who came in and out, by the prompt service and perhaps most by its menu of comfort food prepared with some unexpectedly effective flourishes. I’m looking forward to seeing how Brick & Mortar continues to evolve and make the Edison Street area even more inviting to those looking for a cool downtown nightspot. CW

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ner, the coffee shop vibe remained strong, which I think is exactly what Edison Street needs. It’s the kind of bar that is ideal for giant dorks like me—those whose idea of “going out” equates to an afternoon perusing Ken Sanders’ Bookstore for 1980s horror paperbacks, or expanding their collection of local LPs at Diabolical Records before popping over to the Broadway to catch a movie.

I popped in for an early dinner, along with a steady stream of locals that trickled in to grab a drink and watch the Olympics.

Based on the rapport the diners had with the staff, this is a place that has built a solid foundation of regulars. Even though it was my first visit, I was still greeted and seated with nothing but a welcoming vibe.

The menu at Brick & Mortar pulls its comfort food notes from all over the place—octopus ($19), and confit duck wings ($14) along with its own signature burgers and tacos. It was a tough call, but I eventually decided to start with the crab dip ($14) followed by some shrimp and grits ($18).

Sometimes you just crave seafood slathered in butter and cheese.

The crab dip comes with a generously sized baguette, sliced in half and toasted.

I could see this being a nice shareable if you’re dining with others, and the crab dip itself packs a lot of flavor. I picked up a bit of cayenne kick, and the lemon zest on top really helps the crab’s sweetness stand out amid all that creamy goodness. The shrimp and grits arrived looking perfect—a heap of fluffy, buttery grits thick with melted cheese supported an entourage of plump grilled shrimp topped with grilled mushrooms.

By the time I was two bites in, something about Brick & Mortar became clear: It’s a place that takes pride in subverting the diners’ expectations. I was expecting the shrimp and grits to be good, but I was also

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iitos - Hobble Creek: If Utah has a flavor, this beer may have narrowed it down to just a few local ingredients. This new pale ale from Kiitos was made with sage, juniper, elderflowers and, of course, Northwest hops. The result is an herbal ale with tons of character and a uniquely Utah flavor.

It looks like a legitimate pale ale; it was only on draft for a couple of days before I came across it. There’s a nice unfiltered but mostly-clear appearance, with a pleasant golden hue. The aroma is largely based on the herbs used. Sage was most prominent and pungent, with juniper following. Some mango and clover-like hops along with honey-based malts round things out.

As was the case with the nose, I get a ton of sage at the beginning as it hits my tongue, with citrus (specifically grapefruit rind and tangerine) and pine at the tip of the palate. The juniper shines through like sucking on a Christmas tree, and the resins bleed onto your advanced palate. The malts take backstage, but not too far back, and are honey- and cracker-based deliciousness. I get a light-bodied feel with a mild carbonation content from this 5.0 percent draft beer. The tongue is left with a strong resinous coating that is pleasant and herbdominated.

Overall: I was pleasantly surprised by this otherwise herbal-forward pale ale.

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ponent, and I’d definitely say that I will try this beer again.

Bewilder - Cosmic Pop: To deliver this beer’s insane hop/fruity profile, the Bewilder crew snagged some cryo hops for this new IPA. The hop pellets are created from concentrated lupulin of whole-leaf hops, containing resins and aromatic oils.

They’re designed to provide intense hop flavor and aroma, enabling brewers to efficiently dose large quantities of alpha acids and oils without introducing astringent flavors or vegetative material. Basically, it’s the more intense hop flavors that you want, with less of the flavors you don’t want.

Made with a special cryo-hop blend known as TRI-2304, the beer pours a hazy golden-orange color with a one-finger head of billowy white foam. The aroma of the brew is big with tropical fruits, plus lots of orange and tangerine citrus smells. Pineapple, papaya, and mango are mixed in as well. Along with these aromas come some notes of melon and bread, along with a bit of a pine smell.

The taste begins with a little bit of the tropical and citrus sweetness that was detected in the nose, all balanced out by some cracker and bready flavors. There are some citrus hop tastes upfront, which match the fruit rather well, and they increase a bit as the taste advances, before being joined by flavors of herb and grass. The bready taste almost completely fades toward the end of the taste, and the fruitiness seems to lose some potency in sugar but not fruit taste (as odd as that sounds). With the lightening of the breadiness, and the sweet dying out a bit—as well as with a little more hop of an earthy nature coming to the tongue—one is left with a somewhat crisp and moderately hopped taste to linger on the tongue.

Overall: I really enjoyed this 6.8 percent brew. It has a wonderful hop blend that is citrusy but still , with a fruity taste that isn’t overly sweet. Well done!

This was a fun week to try two beers that are basically from the same family, but utilize their bittering components in two completely different ways, with the old world meeting the cutting edge of science.

Cosmic Pop is available in 16-ounce cans, while Hobble Creek is only on draft and in growlers. As always, cheers! CW

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The Local Greek Closes

I was sad to see that The Local Greek (1764 W. 5400 South) decided to close up shop for good this month.

This location was owner Geoff Patmides’ second crack at making a neighborhood Greek restaurant stick, but according to his social media post announcing the closure, the decision to close was made to preserve the health of the Patmides family. It’s hard to lose good local restaurants, but it’s also important to remember that running a dining establishment right now is unprecedented and the mental health of ourselves and our families has to take priority. No matter what, I’ll always think of the Local Greek as a success story.

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This is not romantic, unless in the most depressing, most tragic interpretation of the word. There’s no humor, no absurdity in this take on one of literature’s great thwarted lovers, just misery and pain. (I now long to rewatch the 1987 contemporary romantic-comedy take on Cyrano de Bergerac, Roxanne, starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah, which I recall as being utterly delightful.) I don’t think we’re intended to take this as so dark. There are touches of fairy-tale fantasy; certainly Ben Mendelsohn as the absolutely vile nobleman pursuing Roxanne is close to pantomime camp. And there is glorious color and light in the Sicilian locations (the action has been moved from France); the beautiful cinematography is by Seamus McGarvey, who also shot the magical The Greatest Showman and 2012’s audaciously stylized Anna Karenina.

That Anna Karenina was also from Cyrano director Joe Wright, and I’m afraid this is but another baffling misstep from the filmmaker. He started out making daring, enrapturing films such as Atonement and a sexy and visceral Pride & Prejudice, but late-

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I’m tempted to wonder if perhaps it all works better onstage; this is based on the offBroadway play by Erica Schmidt. (She is married to Peter Dinklage, and they both say the role was not written with him in mind.) But the music, also ported over from the play and written by the band The National, is downbeat at best, and often harsh and jarring. The unpleasantness of Cyrano is as puzzling as it is inescapable. CW

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quired to make this story work, including the big one: We need to believe that that woman he longs for is worthy of his devotion. And there’s nothing here to convince us of that.

Roxanne (Haley Bennett) is very pretty, but she comes across as stupid and shallow, at best. How can she sincerely believe that she has fallen in love with a handsome soldier, Christian (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), merely by catching glimpse of him across a crowded public space? How can she maintain her self-delusion when the awkward, clumsy words that come out of his mouth when she finally does speak with him to do not match, even remotely, the smooth, charming poetry of his letters— which were, of course, written by Cyrano, expressing his own passion for Roxanne?

How does she not know her smitten correspondent is Cyrano himself, when he takes over from Christian to woo her, from a hiding place, at her balcony one night? She’s known Cyrano since she was a child! She knows his voice!

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here’s a scene early in Cyrano—a musical adaptation of the classic 1897 stage play by Edmond Rostand—in which the titular wordsmith is advising a baker and wannabe poet on how to choose his literary metaphors. The baker is struggling with making something-something about stars and constellations work, and Cyrano gently suggests that an analogy closer to home might be more apt. You know, the fleshiness of dough, the sensuality of kneading, the warmth and visceral pleasure of fresh bread.

“Aha!” the baker enthuses. The music swells and the camera swoops in to big bowls of plump dough being worked over by sexily floured hands, fingers teasing and squeezing ... and it’s all faintly squicky, and slightly laughable, yearning for earnestness but ineptly falling into parody.

It’s not emblematic of everything that’s wrong with Cyrano, but it hits many of those discordant notes. This is a movie that feels more like a suggestion of itself than it does an actual movie, like this was created to be a movie-within-a-movie and we’ve accidentally gotten the whole thing instead of just the choice snippets. Because, like, the idea of this movie is better than the movie itself.

Peter Dinklage—one of the finest actors working today—cast as soulful and eloquent Cyrano de Bergerac, minus the big nose but still lacking in confidence when it comes to admitting his feelings to the woman he adores? Love it. And he can sing!

He gets to do some swordfighting! But way too much is missing that is absolutely re-

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and origin stories can tilt either towards the unique, or the mundane. The SLC band Vinyl Koala definitely has a background as interesting as the instrumental rock they’ve been writing, performing and, increasingly, releasing to the public over the past three-plus years.

Waid Blanton had played in a high school punk band, but hadn’t been consistently drumming since. Nick Nelson, meanwhile, held a spot in a band during his freshman year of college, but hadn’t been gigging since either, keeping active on guitar around the house and through lessons. At some point, the two decided to scratch an itch and tested out some material through jam sessions in Blanton’s garage, home to a newly-purchased drum kit. Things were moving along nicely, save for the fact that they were missing a bassist—a situation that nearly fizzled out the new project.

And here’s where things get the most intriguing.

Into the picture came Mark Nelson, who had played in longgone bands like Confession Session and The Royal Regiment.

These were his own high school bands in the late ’60s and they gigged at teen centers, dances and battles of the bands. Though a lifelong guitarist, he hadn’t played bass before, but picked one up as “I had the dexterity, the background in finger-picking as a guitarist. It came pretty easily.”

What also came easily was a working rapport. Things were already lined up well in that direction, as Mark Nelson is Nick Nelson’s father and Waid Blanton’s father-in-law.

Blanton knew that the elder Nelson would fit, if only from the fact that every time he’d been over to his house, Mark would be playing “all kinds of random, crazy stuff. He’s always been into all genres of music.”

For Mark Nelson, “it all started with Pink Floyd, really. They’re still my favorite band.”

Nick Nelson and Blanton cited some more-contemporary acts like Wooden Shjips as influences, as well. And the final result of their original jams saw the group content to blend in bits of jazz, surf and, for sure, psych.

Though different musical styles were welcomed into the songwriting, two defining ideas were set in place. One was the notion of staying instrumental. As none of the trio are singers, per se, the idea of staying instrumental came early and stayed that way. For Mark Nelson, that’s because “I’ve always been partial to instrumentals. I listen to so much music and what I listen to in the sound is the instrumentation. My mind goes right to that.”

Blanton, meanwhile, hears something like vocal lines in Nick Nelson’s playing. “Nick’s always been the leader of the band,” Blanton says, “and my drumming is based on what he does on guitar. I’m hyper-focused on what he’s doing, and always thought that Nick is singing with his guitar, more or less.”

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The band also declined to add covers to the set from the start, which forced them to immediately begin working on sets that could stretch out over two-hours, the amount needed for gigs at small, local venues. In time, that approach meant that they’d found enough material to head into the studio, and they found a sympathetic home at Audio Inn, where they hooked up with veteran producer and sound engineer Rowan Stigner.

An accomplished studio hand with credits on both sides of the Atlantic, Stigner initially found a group that arrived in the studio with seven or eight cuts at the ready. The band and engineer patiently refined that material and released a four-song, self-titled EP in 2021. Over the past weeks, they’ve been offering up singles to most streaming services, releasing “Get the Hell Out of Dodge” and “Wentworth” in early February. From here-on-out, the group’s planning that type of small-scale release schedule, offering up one track at a time, while hoping to work with Stigner as often as he has availability for them.

All three Koalas praise Stigner’s ear and skills, with Blanton saying “the experience of coming into the studio and working with a sound engineer of his quality has been so great. Even if nothing else comes of this, that alone was worth the investment.”

Keeping the experiences coming is the plan for Vinyl Koala going forward. Releasing a bit more music. Gigging more. Getting together on a moment’s notice to practice and write. Being family, well, it’s only helped this operation moving.

“Sometimes we present this as a family affair,” Nick Nelson jokes. “When I meet new people, I mention that it’s my dad on bass and that he’s like 70. And that Waid is my brother-in-law. It’s not your traditional band set-up. Honestly, through all of it, we’re just having fun.” CW The band’s next booked gig is April 16 at RoHa Brewing (30 Kensington Ave., rohabrewing.com), though another date may pop up on the calendar between now and then. Vinyl Koala’s new single is available on all major streaming services.

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f you’ve walked into 9th and 9th Book and Music Gallery (872 E 900 S; 801739-1159), you’ve heard Brandon Anderson’s introductory greeting—a clever and effective way in which he’s able to “answer eight out of the 10 questions that you might have” when you’re walking into his 354-square-foot, multi-themed retail business.

And if someone else walks in a few minutes later, you’ll hear it twice. (And if another person… well, you get the idea.)

What you’ll learn from his prep talk, even on the first hearing, is that the shop contains: books, albums, guitars, record players and no small amount of regional artwork, with a current consigning roster of 27 local artists working in all media.

“A couple of them are family members, or friends of friends,” Anderson says. “I’ve been in bands forever. I’ve been in the arts, music and humanities scenes in Utah long enough that I made some connections here and there. A lot of artists have approached me when in the shop. For some of them, it’s their first time showing in a retail space or gallery.”

Inhabiting every nook and cranny of the stop, the artworks provide just part of the overall visual appeal of the tiny shop, located in the back half of a jewelry store that’s been part of the 9th and 9th streetscape since 1999. Run by Joe “The Jeweler” Maughan, the retail component of 9th and 9th Jewelers was eventually phased out. Anderson went in to get a ring fixed, then noticed the open space and got into conversation with Maughan. By the next day, he was taking measurements of the space, and eventually targeted his Halloween 2020 opening date.

“Outside of a couple of tables, we built everything into the space by-hand,” he says. “Back then, it was knowing how many bookshelves we could fit, how much product we could hold. The space dictated itself.

I made sure the aesthetic is what I wanted it to be, and let the space tell me what we were going to do. It came together piece-

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by-piece, room-by-room, wall-by-wall. It took five days to rip up the carpet, remove seven layers of linoleum, the old black tar on the floor that came with the building.

That’s just one little example. It wasn’t just slapping on a layer of paint.”

After Anderson had spent 13-plus years with a major music retailer, a COVID-era move into an entrepreneurial role was a challenge on multiple levels. He feels, though, that his first crew of regular shoppers has been established, whether they’re arriving for books, guitars, albums or others wants. Gaining the next wave of shoppers, he feels, is something that’ll come this spring.

“It’s been slow the first year, or two, but the reason that justifies the lease rate of a business at 9th and 9th is built-in foot traffic, and there’ve been small, locally-owned businesses here since the ’40s,” he says.

“When the Tower Theatre reopens, it’ll really, really impact foot traffic, especially in the evenings. I can’t wait for it to open for many reasons; our community needs it open. I love the Tower, and it’s part of our being here at 9th and 9th.”

A gigging musician himself, Anderson is the rhythm guitarist and frontman of Whiskeyfish, a group that he says is “buttshaking, whiskey-drinking, outlaw-country-blues-rock. I scream a lot. We come from rock and metal backgrounds, but we all love country.” They’ll be playing at Aces High (1588 S. State Street) Saturday, Feb. 26.

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Claud is headed up by Claud Mintz, a young performer, guitarist and songwriter who’s able to deftly blend the sounds of various decades and genres into a really intriguing whole, as captured on the 2021 album, Super Monster, released on Phoebe Bridgers’ label Saddest Factory. Unquestionably, the tracks are going to appeal first-and-foremost to a younger audience, and an NPR Morning Edition quote from Claud’s press kit hints at this: “It’s just songs about being young and figuring out your identity, figuring out what you want out of relationships. And at the same time, there’s this seemingly effortless sparkle to their music that gives it a real kick all the way through.” We’d only quibble a bit with that use of “just,” as Claud’s music avoids the worst cliches and tropes of some youthful pop, preferring to settle into a lyrical approach that’s equal parts thoughtful and playful, simple and deep, smartly-crafted and universal enough to remind someone a few times Claud’s age to think back on loves lost-and-found. During the last moments of winter, Cluad’s hummable pop song promise to bring some summery, upbeat pop to the last month containing some of that winter chill. (Though the lyrics, as suggested by NPR above, contain all the emotions.)

Considering that Claud continues to ascend to higher-profile gigs, radio appearances, showcases and the like, it’s likely that a larger venue will be in the cards for Claud’s next appearance in SLC. So this Kilby Court appearance suggests one of those “you were there when” situations. And if you’ve time before the show, poke around the claud.online site, a colorful, personal website full of fun easter eggs. Claud, along with Dad Bob and Brother, appears at Kilby Court on Wednesday, March 2. It’s a $13, all-ages show with ticket info found at kilbycourt.com.

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In tour notes for the band’s current concert run, primary Drive-By Truckers frontman Patterson Hood writes that “we’ll be playing songs from all of our albums as well as surely premiering some new ones. As usual, we won’t be using a set list so anything goes.” If it’s allowed, here’s a quick-and-rather-public request for a particular and much-loved deep cut, “The Great Car Dealer War.” Initially released as part of a long-dead magazine’s compilation CD, the track’s also represented on the group’s rarities album The Fine Print. Some bands might go a whole career looking to write a song with as many winning elements, from the slow-burning tempo to a novella’s worth of story baked into one five-and-a-half-minute song. Over their quarter-century of performing, writing and recording, coming alongside a series of fairly-significant personnel moves, tracks with the depth and beauty of “The Great Car Dealer War” are liberally dotted throughout the group’s 13-album career—including 2020’s pair of albums, The Unraveling and The New OK, the most-sonically interesting and diverse works of the group’s career. On those, as with all releases in the group’s career, fans can dig deep into the lyrical content—with the group consistently tackling relevant social and political content, especially over the past few albums—or they can simply let the Americanainflected rock wash over them. One can imagine that at least a few cuts from the band’s upcoming 14th album will appear at this exciting, mid-week concert, as suggested by Hood.

We wish fellow concert-goers luck in hearing their favorites. Shout ‘em out, see what happens. Wishing you luck with that, if you wish me the same. The Drive-By Truckers will appear with Ryley Walker at The Commonwealth Room on Thursday, Feb. 24 at 8 pm; this is a 21-up show with $45 tickets available at thestateroompresents.com.

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We’ll assume that you have: a digital device nearby; a few minutes available for some important research; and, lastly, a willingness to quickly turn yourself into a fan of a stellar band. If we’re correct in those assumptions, look up Hiss Golden Messenger’s 2019 live appearance at Seattle’s excellent KEXP studios via YouTube. The band’s four songs during the session are showcased in lovely fashion but, somehow, M.C. Taylor’s interview is just as compelling as the heartfelt handful of songs, sketching out the group’s recent history alongside takes on music-making and simply living life, all accomplished in mere minutes of interstitial conversation. It’s the kind of short performance (and conversation) that can completely hip you to an act. An evocative lyricist, delving into both personal travails and larger societal stories, Taylor’s words are beautifully matched by his band’s sympathetic and tasteful instrumentation, with influences such as “classic Southern soul and gospel, renegade country, and spiritual jazz” cited. Though the band’s current tour is supporting the 2021 album Quietly Blowing It (Merge Records), one of three Hiss Golden Messenger releases in that year, recent setlists indicate that the group is ranging throughout the band’s catalog, which now rests comfortably over a dozen full-lengths, plus EP and live releases. Re: the first sentence, a quick note: You may already be a fan, not a newbie like us, as the band has been selling out rooms all over; limited tickets for SLC’s gig remained available at press deadline. Congrats on getting to fandom first; we’ll catch up as quickly as we can. Might just have to replay that KEXP to get into the mood, see how far down the HGM rabbithole we can travel this week. The group, along with Alexa Rose, appears at the Commonwealth Room on Wednesday, March 2 at 8 pm. Tickets for this 21-up show are $27 and can be purchased at thestateroompresents.com.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Gemini-born Gena Rowlands is retired now, but she had an And that’s good and healthy and holy! At the same time, don’t award-winning six-decade career as an actor. At age 20, she abandon your powers of discernment. Keep them running in the decided what she wanted to do with her life, and her parents background as you enjoy your rejuvenating communions with offered her their blessings. She testified: “I went home, and I told the enigmatic pleasures of the Great Unknown. my mom that I wanted to quit college and be an actress, and she said, ‘Huh, that sounds fascinating. It’s wonderful!’ And I told my SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) father, and he literally said, ‘I don’t care if you want to be an ele- Author Diane Ackerman tells us, “In the absence of touching phant trainer if it makes you happy.’” Dear Gemini, in the coming and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touch months, I would love for you to receive similar encouragement for starved. Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.” This is your budding ideas and plans. What can you do to ensure you’re always important to remember, but it will be extra crucial for surrounded by influences like Rowlands’ parents? I hope you you to keep in mind during the coming weeks. I advise you to be ingenious and humble and frank as you collect as much physical embark on a long-term project to get all the support you need. contact as you can. Be polite and respectful, of course. Never force yourself on anyone. Always seek permission. With those CANCER (June 21-July 22) As you enter an astrological phase when vast, expansive rumi- as your guidelines, be greedy for hugs and cuddling and caresses. nations will be fun and healthy for you, I will offer you some vast, expansive thoughts. Hopefully, they will inspire your own spa- CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) cious musings. First, here’s artist M. C. Escher: “Wonder is the “Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage salt of the earth.” Next, author Salman Rushdie: “What’s real of the conscious in relation to the unconscious.” Author and and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.” Here’s poet Allen educator Sylvia Ashton-Warner said that, and now I’m telling Ginsberg: “When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, you—in time for one of the most lesson-rich times of a year that it then becomes sacred.” A proverb from the Omaha people: will be full of lessons. In the next nine months, dear Capricorn, “Ask questions from your heart, and you will be answered the proportion of your consciousness in relation to your unconfrom the heart.” G. K. Chesterton: “Let your religion be less sciousness should markedly increase. And the coming weeks of a theory and more of a love affair.” Finally, playwright Tony will be a favorable phase to upgrade your educational ambitions.

Kushner: “I’m not religious, but I like God, and he likes me.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You’re entering a phase of your cycle when your ability to boost LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “Out of love, you can speak with straight fury,” wrote author your finances will be stronger than usual. You’ll be more likely Eudora Welty. Here’s how I interpret that in light of the current to attract good luck with money and more apt to discover usechapter of your life story: You have an opportunity to recalibrate ful tips on how to generate greater abundance. To inspire your some misaligned energy. You have the necessary insight to fix an efforts, I offer you this observation by author Katharine Butler imbalance or dissolve an illusion or correct a flow that has gone Hathaway: “To me, money is alive. It is almost human. If you off-course. And by far the best way to do that is by wielding the treat it with real sympathy and kindness and consideration, it power of love. It will need to be expressed with vehemence and will be a good servant and work hard for you, and stay with you intense clarity, however. It will require you to be both compas- and take care of you.” sionate and firm. Your homework: Figure out how to express PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) transformative truths with kindness.

Author Deb Caletti made the following observation: “You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Virgo political science professor Tatah Mentan was born and moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental raised in the African country of Cameroon, which has never fully right there. You have past and future colliding in the present, recovered from its grueling colonization by Germany, France your own personal Big Bang, and nothing will ever be the same.” and England. The democratic tradition there is tenuous. When In my vision of your destiny in 2022, Pisces, there could be Mentan first taught at a university in the Cameroonian capital, several of these personal Big Bangs, and one of them seems to authorities found his ideas too controversial. For the next 16 be imminent. To prepare—that is, to ensure that the changes years, he attempted to be true to himself while avoiding govern- are primarily uplifting and enjoyable—I suggest you chant the mental censorship, but the strain proved too stressful. Fearing following mantra at least five times every day: “I love and expect for his safety, he fled to the U.S. I’m turning to him for advice good changes.”

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he first peoples in Utah were the Desert Archaic, followed by the Fremont people and the Anasazi. Later, the Northern Shoshone, Goshute, Bannock, Paiute and Ute peoples inhabited the land. They hunted herds of mammals, migrating throughout the state depending on weather and the season.

European explorers encountered these tribes in the 1700s and 1800s. Spanish Catholic priests and fur trappers were among the first whites to encounter Utah Lake. In the mid-1800s, LDS Saints began using its water and settling around its east and west shores.

It’s said that Brigham Young first sent a fishing party to the lake to see what species inhabited the water and then, in 1850, established a permanent settlement near its shores named Fort Utah (in honor of the Utes living there). Later, it became Fort Provo (in honor of a well-known French-Canadian trapper, Etienne Proveau, who first saw the lake in 1825).

About 30 miles long and 7-to-10 miles wide, Utah Lake is a freshwater body west of Interstate 15 in Utah County. Over the years, it’s been known as Ashley Lake, Little Uta Lake, Utaw Lake and Laguna de Nuestra Señora de la Merced de los Timpanogos.

The most important use of the lake has always been to water crops and provide irrigation. In the 1800s, water users wanted to make sure there was enough lake water for late-season irrigation. In 1884 and 1885, Mormons got together and effectively set the level of the lake to control water use.

Fast forward some 60-odd years and Utah Valley saw the creation of a $200 million steel plant financed by the federal government to ensure there would be enough steel to meet military supply needs. The plant opened in 1944, three years after the Japanese attacked Hawaii.

The plant operated for two years as a government facility and then was sold to U.S Steel for $47.5 million. After the plant closed in 2001, the blast furnaces used to melt the product were demolished in 2005.

Then, in 2017, the master-planned community of Vineyard was announced. In 2020, the new city was the fastest-growing community in America, with a growth rate of 10,687%.

Now, developers have produced a grand plan to build islands in Utah Lake for a mixed use of housing and business.

The Legislature is looking at myriad bills this session about water use and Utah Lake, including one to create an agency to oversee the management of Utah Lake.

While elected officials try to get more water to the endangered Great Salt Lake, developers (“Lake Restoration Solutions”) want to dredge Utah Lake to build 34 islands. They’d remove layers of sludge from the lake bottom, made up of decades-old sewer and industrial waste.

The project could turn the notorious white, murky waters of Utah Lake into something cleaner. Utah Lake water-quality readings throughout the summer months are often bad enough to close beaches and prompt warnings along the Jordan River.

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Catherine Graham of Marshfield, Massachusetts, recently cashed in on her 15 minutes of fame on The Price Is Right with host Drew Carey. She flew to Los Angeles to visit her daughter and attended a taping of the show, which aired on Feb. 1. As luck would have it, Graham ended up on stage with Carey and played for a great trip—to New Hampshire! When Carey gushed, “New Hampshire is beautiful!” Graham replied, “Drew, I live in Boston! I’ve been to New Hampshire a million times!” But wait, there’s more! In order to collect the prize roundtrip airfare, she’ll have to travel to Los Angeles again to fly to Manchester, New Hampshire. “I just wish it was Tahiti ... or Bora Bora. A cruise around the world maybe,” Graham told WBZ-TV. But, she said, “It was so fun.”

Least Competent Criminal As over-the-road truckers protested COVID-related mandates in Canada’s capital city, a 20-year-old Akron, Ohio, man wanted to get in on the action. So, on Feb. 7, he called in a bomb threat—to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, in Ottawa ... Ohio. The man said he was going to set off a bomb in Ottawa, then called back a second time and said he’d been shot, The Lima News reported. “When he found out he was talking to Ohio and not Canada, he said he hadn’t been shot but was simply trying to waste (Canadian authorities’) time and resources because he didn’t agree with their mask mandate,” said Sheriff’s Office Cpt. Brad Brubaker. He also admitted there was no bomb. “You’d think with him being from Ohio, the 419 area code might have rung a bell,” Brubaker added.

Bright Idea The Idaho Potato Commission has your last-minute Valentine’s Day gift covered: The group is releasing a limited-edition fragrance, Frites by Idaho, made from distilled potatoes and essential oils, that is designed to smell like a fresh plate of french fries, United Press International reported. “The smell is too good to resist,” said IPC president Jamey Higham. “This perfume is a great gift for anyone who can’t refuse a french fry.” And it’s priced right, too, at $1.89 a bottle!

Inexplicable On Feb. 6, a man in Raleigh, North Carolina, was stopped at a red light when the woman in the car next to him exited her car and approached his passenger window. She screamed at him, “Fix my car. Fix the problem,” he reported to ABC11-TV. “Once I locked the car, she got more aggressive.” The man wanted to drive away, but he was boxed in by cars. “Next thing I know, I seen the knife coming out—the big machete knife—she pulled it out from the sleeve” and started beating his passenger-side window with it.

Eventually, she broke through the window. “I was just pressed against my driver-side seat ... until I could step on the gas,” he said. When the light changed, he drove to a police station, where he filed a report. Raleigh police are investigating.

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Authorities in Benalmadena took samples and matched her dog—and she’s out $570.

The Neighbors On Feb. 6, according to Kyong Moulton, 66, she returned to her home in Palm Bay, Florida, and found leaves on her lawn, ClickOrlando.com reported. Assuming the neighbors across the street had put them there, she fetched her leaf blower and blew them back over into their lawn. The man across the street and his mother went outside to confront Moulton, and his sister joined them. The arrest report said Moulton slapped the sister and stabbed her in the leg with a steak knife; as the man tried to help his sister, he was allegedly stabbed in the arm. Moulton also pushed the mother to the ground. Moulton denies stabbing anyone; surveillance video does not show a stabbing, and no knife was recovered. Nevertheless, Moulton was charged with two counts of aggravated battery and one count of battery on a person 65 or older.

Fine Points of the Law In New York, as legislators work out the details of legalizing the sale of recreational marijuana, some businesses have been skirting the issue by making it a “gift with purchase” of other items. Since March, it’s been legal for adults to have and “transfer” small amounts of marijuana for free. But now, according to Fox40-TV, the Office of Cannabis Management is cracking down. Jim McKenzie’s Hempsol CBD shop in Rochester will comply, he said on Feb. 9, and stop offering a gift to customers who buy a T-shirt or other garment. “I’m going to do what the state wants because my goal is to have a state license and do it correctly,” McKenzie said.

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The Yeltsin Center revealed that the vandalism occurred on Dec. 7 and the painting was returned to the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, which owns it, for restoration. The guard, who worked for a private company providing security, used a ballpoint pen to make the small circles. The unnamed guard could face up to three months in prison.

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Step Right Up A “dedicated employee ... (who) enjoyed his job (and) was wellliked by the people he worked with” was charged on Feb. 9 in North Versailles, Pennsylvania, after he allegedly placed a hidden camera in a urinal at the North Versailles Police Department, WPXI-TV reported. John Logan, 49, a 911 operator, is accused of placing the camera in a single-user bathroom in a hallway that is off-limits to the public. Once the incident was reported, Logan allegedly went into the bathroom and removed the SD card from the camera; investigators searching Logan’s home found flash drives with videos of officers exposed while using the bathroom.

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