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Father and Son

In his new book, Sander’s Study, Utah journalist Chris Vanocur rediscovers his TV reporter dad.

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FATHER AND SON In his new book, Sander’s Study, Utah journalist Chris Vanocur rediscovers his TV reporter dad.

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SOAP BOX Cheers, Beer Nerd!

I just wanted to proclaim my appreciation of Mike Riedel and the Beer Nerd column.

My father, mother and various brothers all eagerly await it as a weekly delight—pulling it out, pinning it up and discussing with an eager eye toward sampling these new beverages so kindly placed on our culinary horizons.

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American Ignorance

Today, America conducts democracy by opinion polling. What do the people think about Ukraine? Let’s be guided by that.

But what if the people are not thinking straight? What if they are burdened by emotional distress, debilitating physical ailments, unhappy employment?

What if they did not pay attention in school and did not get a college education?

What if they did get a degree, but after college they have not cracked a serious book about public policy in years?

What if they blindly parrot what selfinterested political party leaders beg them to believe? What if the average citizen polled on a given day has never read an actual book of American history, or any other history?

How good is our bright, shiny, breaking-news poll then? It becomes a measure of our ignorance, not our wisdom. Democracy requires knowledge and participation, not polls.

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“‘Diplomacy’ Is the Problem,” Feb. 24 Soap Box

After reading Thomas Knapp’s op-ed in City Weekly, I see that he and Tucker Carlson both have a very skewed view of the

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Does it matter that the vast majority of Belarussians and Ukrainians want nothing to do with an autocratic Russia? Does it matter that Putin is directly responsible for undermining democracy in both those countries and others? Does it matter that Putin is so afraid of the truth that he has been willing to countenance numerous deaths of journalists reporting on his regime over the years?

Does it matter that he locks up his political competitors like dogs purely for their opposition? Does it matter that he has recklessly endangered the lives of foreign nationals in order to poison dissidents living abroad? Does it matter that he has invented a fake history of Ukrainian-Russian relations to justify plunging Europe into barbarism simply to exercise control over a neighboring sovereign country?

I think Knapp’s blind spots can largely be explained by his blind adherence to an

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Ayn Randian philosophy that has little to do with reality. Libertarianism sounds great on the surface. Dig a little deeper, though, and you see that it’s really all about justifying excess at the expense of others. This is exactly what plutocrats like Putin base their ugly behavior on. The only thing that matters to him is himself and his co-conspirators. The little people need to just stay out of the way and, if they intervene in any way, they shouldn’t expect any more than a bullet between the eyes.

It’s true that America has a lot to answer for with its many misadventures abroad over the years. But it is Putin that’s on the wrong side of history this time around.

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What are you streaming right now?

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Peaky Blinders final season comes out this weekend on Netflix. Righteous Gemstones on HBO is the best comedy on TV hands down.

Benjamin Wood

Dopesick and The Great on Hulu are both fantastic in very different ways. On Netflix, I’m rewatching Breaking Bad and anxiously awaiting new episodes of The Crown. And I’m about to start the final season of Gomorrah on HBO.

Bryan Bale

My favorite shows are on Amazon Prime: The Wheel of Time and The Legend of Vox Machina.

Mikey Saltas

Ozark and Inventing Anna (on Netflix)

Scott Renshaw

“Show”? You mean people watch series and not just features? Who has the time?

Carolyn Campbell

I watched The French Dispatch on HBO. Every writer can relate to it.

Eric Granato

Pam & Tommy (Hulu) is the “it” show for me right now.

Mike Ptaschinski

Bosch on Prime TV. Great detective drama with engaging supporting cast members.

Jerre Wroble

Just wrapped up Another Life and Space Force (Netflix) to feed my quirky sci-fi bent.

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n 2001, a group of football fans and myself—who did our drinking and hollering at Lumpy’s private club on Highland Drive—made our way to Portland, Oregon, for a game between our Utes and the Oregon Ducks. The University of Oregon is 100 miles away in Eugene, but who wants to stay in Eugene? I remember the year because we returned home just before 9/11 so that weekend is connected to both crazy fun and damning tragedy.

One night, we were invited to a party, so off we went.

We piled into a cab with me in the front. Hanging from the mirror was a giant Christian cross that I recognized as the type worn by Russian Orthodox followers.

Thus began a short conversation between two of the Earth’s 260 million members of the Eastern Orthodoxy. I was making a friend. However, my companions became anxious, so they told me to shut up and let the driver know where we were headed.

We hadn’t gone 100 yards when I finally got the name of the place right and told the driver. Bang! He hit the brakes and proclaimed in that stereotypical Russian growl, “Get out! I don’t go there. Get out!” The guys I was with got pissy, fast, and wanted to know why. The driver told me, and I told them, “Well, he says he’s a good Christian, and he’s not going to take us to that club.”

That’s when my buddy, Joe Caputo, sitting right behind the driver, said very loudly, “Listen, Boris, you stupid bastard, I killed commies like you in Vietnam, and I’ll kill your ass right now if you don’t start driving.”

Silence. We didn’t know to laugh or be scared, but the driver got the message and drove off. When we arrived at the appointed location, we went inside, but we couldn’t

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find Joe. When he finally joined us, he said simply, “Don’t worry about the driver. I took care of him,” which wasn’t comforting.

We left a couple hours later, and the driver was waiting for us in the parking lot. Joe laughed and said, “I told you I took care of him.” We rumbled back into the cab for the return to our hotel. Joe never told us exactly how he convinced the driver that it was better for him to put his religion down and do his job. All these years later, I still don’t know. And I never will.

At 4:15 a.m. on Tuesday, March 1, Joe Caputo—the wild fighter from both South and West high schools, the ballplayer, father and grandfather, the most dedicated Ute fan ever and a proud U.S. Marine who pounded the Vietnam jungles in 1965 and 1966—died in his sleep. He had been plenty ill, but still, Joe was a strong guy. Not long after our almost-9/11 trip to Oregon, Joe called the Marines to see if he could go to war with them. He was in his 50s. Once a Marine, always a Marine.

Joe had little use for politicians of any stripe, cab drivers of any religion or BYU anything. If Joe could, he’d try to hitch a ride to Kyiv to take up arms against the Russians attacking Ukraine. They may not be of the commie variety who supplied arms to the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese who once tried to kill him, but that wouldn’t matter. Joe would side with the Ukrainians, a people to which he’d certainly find commonality with. For starters, Joe was brave. He didn’t win every fight, but let’s just say he had a pretty good winning percentage. I never saw him back down to anyone.

Ukraine citizens and leaders are world heroes now.

Mythic. Their character is so different from our politicians, especially of the current GOP stripe who spent four years coddling a serial draft dodger and Putin enabler in Donald Trump. During Trump’s ride, too many Americans began equating mask wearing with freedoms lost and honking in hateful flag-waving caravans as freedom won.

Ukraine produces men like Volodymir Zelenskyy— who didn’t succumb to the Trump administration attempts at blackmail, either—while we produce pasty politicians like Mike Lee, Chris Stewart, Marco Rubio and snowstorm scarecrow, Ted Cruz. They are loudmouths who get you into fights but don’t fight them.

Ukraine has one less fighter on their side this week. It’s going to be terribly tough for them in the coming weeks and years, but Russia will never conquer Ukraine, with or without a massive arms advantage, with or without Putin. Whatever happens now will be undone.

Ukraine is free and will remain free.

The children of Ukraine witnessing this will pass stories for generations.

I grew up hearing similar stories from my immigrant grandfather who often reminded me it took 400 years to repel the Ottomans from his beloved Crete. In the minds of free people, 400 years is just a receipt. Russia will be evicted in time. Slava Ukraini! CW

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HITS&MISSES

BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

MISS: Weighed and Measured

Stuart Adams, the esteemed-if-aging Utah Senate president, kind of likes the latest transgender bill, with its “commission” to vet transgender athletes. Yeah, he says it may need some refining, but he’s good to go, Fox13 reported. It may have passed by the time this article publishes, but here’s a thought—how about not making cattle out of kids? Say what? Perhaps because Utah is loath to teach racial history, Adams may have skipped over the part where for hundreds of years, slaves were brought into the country and paraded like cattle at auction. Historian Michael Tadman was quoted in a New York Times story about the “1.2 million enslaved men, women and children sold in the United States between approximately 1760 and 1860.” What would a commission do if not assess an athlete’s physical attributes? The question is against what norm, and should we also require cis kids to undergo such scrutiny?

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Even if it goes nowhere, the fact that someone has sued to save the Utah Theatre makes a statement. If not for the deep anxiety over unfettered population growth, historic structures might stand a chance. Yes, the theater is run down and in need of renovation. It would be a costly renovation, too. And yeah, the city council “agonized” over selling the theater, cementing its fate as rubble and placing it in the hands of wealthy developers (Gerald Hines is worth $1.3 billion) who see apartments—and income—as the goal. Oh, The Salt Lake Tribune notes they want to build a 31-story luxury tower. The neoclassical theater, built by Alexander Pantages, could join others across the country that have been restored, unless the city wins and history loses.

MISS: No Strings Attached

Income tax cuts are always on lawmakers’ minds, maybe because it makes lawmakers sound like they care. In fact, the income tax is a big deal for them, as they now hope to make it more “flexible.” That means that they could do anything they want with your hardearned money, which up until now has been earmarked for education—both K-12 and higher ed. House Speaker Brad Wilson went to the Deseret News to make his wonky case that we’ve got enough money for everything, but boo-hoo, we can’t put it to the best use.

You might ask if the best use is funding the inland port, but no one likes to address that. Plans are for another constitutional amendment—if not this year, then the next—on top of two that already diverted K-12 funds to higher ed and social services. A D-News letter writer warns: “The supermajority party is asking us to sell the farm for pennies on the dollar, and the good times won’t last. They never do.”

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Save the Prison Chapel

Beyond the call for affordable housing, there is an urgency among developers to stuff their pocketbooks during this frenzied development period. The old state prison site is no exception. Now called The Point, the site is slated for lots of housing, office towers and retail outlets. We won’t talk about the potential for pollution here.

At the urging of Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, developers decided to save something, but they chose the wrong thing. As a commemorative token, they now plan to leave a single guard tower. “They decided to save the creepiest part of the prison,” says David Amott of Preservation Utah. Lost in the building mania is the planned demolition of the small chapel by the wayside. It was during the tenure of Gov. George Clyde when 511 inmates revolted, took hostages and made demands for things like better food and a kinder parole board. The revolt ended and Clyde saw that the inmates got an ecumenical chapel for dances, theater and more. Prisoners built it themselves. If you care at all about this important history, comment now before only a guard tower is left. Comment at info@thepointutah. org, before Tuesday, March 8. https://bit.ly/35a6h7V

Get Your Home Tested

If you live in the vicinity of the Department of Veterans Affairs George H. Wahlen Medical Center, you can have the air in your home tested. Why? Because the groundwater and natural springs have become contaminated with toxic chemicals that have spread in a plume southwestward for about 1.25 miles. A former dry-cleaning facility there was identified as an EPA Superfund site in 2013 and has become a priority for clean-up. You can see where the area is—surrounding East High School—on the Superfund website PCE Plume Superfund Site. The EPA is offering free testing for residents in the neighborhood. 700 S. 1600 East, the week of Monday, March 7, free. pceplume.org

Keep Up on Political News

Have you been listening to the Hinckley Institute Radio Hour? If you want to keep up with local politics, this is the place.

Most recently, there have been programs on the role of local media, U.S.-China Relations in the Biden era and, of course, coping and resilience in the face of severe drought. With all the partisan bickering over inflation, climate change and international relations, these regular programs are not to miss. Hinckley Forums are held at the U of U Hinckley Caucus Room, 260 S. Central Campus Drive, Room 2018, hinckley.utah.edu/calendar Radio programs run Wednesdays and Saturdays on KCPW 88.3 FM, Wednesdays at 10 a.m., Saturdays at 9 a.m. https://bit.ly/3hmrHkw

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Railroad honors those merchants by telling their stories, while also contemplating where we are on the continuum of “not as bad as it was then” to “how far we still need to go.”

Overground Railroad the book is also part of a multidisciplinary approach Taylor has taken to telling this story, including a companion book for younger readers, a board game and a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition.

Taylor appears in a virtual Crowdcast event via The King’s English Bookshop on Friday, March 4 at 6 p.m. Tickets are free, but registration is required; visit kingsenglish.com to register, and for additional event information.

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For many Americans who watched the Oscar-winning 2018 film Green Book, it was the first time they heard about the titular publication—a resource for Black Americans traveling in the Jim Crow-era South to know about the safe places to eat, stay the night, buy gasoline and generally attempt to avoid the direct discrimination of that time and place. But there was, of course, much more to the “green book” than an episodic friendship in which two people of different races learn Very Important Lessons from one another.

That’s the story author, photographer and multimedia artist Candacy Taylor explores in her 2020 book Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America.

Taylor tracks the period of its publication between 1936 and 1966, addressing how it was more than just a directory, but an act of courage, since those who volunteered to be included were opening themselves up to harassment or violence. Overground

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Like most of what is commonly referred to as “classical music,” the term “early music” likely evokes a sense of high culture from its era— quartets performing for the entertainment of the upper classes, or in royal courts. Yet while the Baroque and Medieval pieces performed

by Utopia Early Music do often draw from that tradition, they also acknowledge a rich musical history that is considerably more common in its roots, drawing from folk tunes and the music of the working people—like the sea chanteys and ballads that make up Utopia’s latest program.

Call of the Sea presents a rich program performed by vocalists Emily Nelson (soprano), Christopher LeCluyse (tenor), John Bergquist (baritone) and Ricky Parkinson

(bass), with accompaniment by Otter Creek instrumentalists Mary Louise Otterstrom (fiddle) and Mandy Danzig (mandolin, mountain dulcimer and banjo). The songs range from troubadour songs to Judeo-Spanish music, plus the choral work “Euroclydon” by early American composer William Billings, spanning several hundred years in exploring the ways that composers of all kinds tried to capture the spirit and majesty of the ocean through music.

Utopia Early Music offers Call of the Sea at the Cathedral Church of St. Mark (231 E. 100 South) for two performances: Saturday, March 5 at 8 p.m., and Sunday, March 6 at 5 p.m. Admission is pay as you are able, with a recommended donation between $10 - $15; face coverings will be required of all attendees, and masks will be offered at the door for those who do not have one. Visit utopiaearlymusic. org for additional event information. (SR)

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Riverdance If it feels as though Riverdance has been part of the pop-culture landscape forever, you’re not far off. The roots of the wildly successful Irish music-and-dance spectacle trace back more than 40 years, to a performance for the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin created by composers Bill Whelan and Dónal Lunny.

Thirteen years later, with Eurovision once again in Dublin, Whelan was invited to create a piece that would be performed during the interval of the song performances, and wrote the music to what would become Riverdance, performed

by Irish dance champions Michael Flatley (later of Lord of the Dance fame) and Jean Butler.

When the husband-and-wife producing team of Moya Doherty and John McColgan saw the enthusiasm with which Riverdance was received, they financed the creation of a full-length production that launched

in Dublin in 1995—and a worldwide phenomenon was born.

The current iteration of the show hasn’t rested on those decades-past laurels, however.

Riverdance’s tour includes a newly re-recorded version of Whelan’s original score, in addition to state-of-the-art lighting, costuming and production design elements. As befitting a show with roots both in traditional Celtic folk performance and contemporary music and dance, it remains an experience that fuses stage grandeur with the emotional pull of bygone times.

Riverdance visits the Eccles Theater (131 S. Main St.) for five performances, March 4-6, with tickets ranging from $35 - $80. Proof of COVID vaccination or recent negative test is required for entry to Live at the Eccles performances. Visit live-at-the-eccles.com to purchase tickets or for other event information. (SR)

Dave Attell @ Wiseguys Good heavens, how the time files: Somehow, it’s already been 20 years since comedian Dave Attell brought his Comedy Central series Insomniac to Salt Lake City, showing some of the more unusual ways that the valley got its groove on after-hours. That episode included Attell sharing a cocktail with then-SLC mayor Rocky Anderson, and dropping in on the amateur “fight night” at Sandy’s Club 90. It’s interesting to contemplate what present-day activities Attell might be prowling through as exemplary of the Beehive State’s current demimonde.

Like Salt Lake City itself, Attell has changed some over the course of two decades—but it has been a consistent theme of his career that he enjoys poking around on the social fringes. In 2008, he hosted a short-lived Comedy Central re-launch of the vintage amateur-hour-for-weirdos competition The Gong Show; in 2011, the Showtime series Dave’s Old Porn found

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him commenting Mystery Science Theater 3000style on 1970s and 1980s adult films. And as host of Comedy Central’s Comedy Underground circa 2014, he showcased mostly-uncensored performances from the likes of Nikki Glaser, Ali Wong and Ralphie May. Attell’s own standup remains a draw as well, of course, and that’s where his downand-dirty persona can connect most directly with audiences. You might not share a drink with him like Rocky did back in the day, but you can catch him at Wiseguys Gateway (194 S. 400 West) March 4-5, 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. nightly, with tickets $35. Visit wiseguyscomedy.com for tickets, health & safety protocols and other event info. (SR)

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Touches of Color

The Natural History Museum of Utah applies a personal touch to the touring exhibition The Nature of Color

BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

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ouring exhibits are a staple of the museum world—a way to share resources that draws on the expertise of national venues, while offering limitedtime experiences to draw visitors. But it’s a combination of challenges and benefits when you present such an exhibit, especially when you’re the first stop on a tour.

The Natural History Museum of Utah (NHMU) is currently presenting The Nature of Color, a touring exhibition developed by New York’s American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The interactive experience explores the concept of color

from a wide range of perspectives in the 7,500 square foot exhibit space, touching on things like the way color has an impact on emotion, the evolution of color in living things, the physics of light waves, variations in human skin color, and the way that certain colors can have specific cultural meanings that vary from place to place.

The vast majority of the exhibition consists of the exhibits developed in New York.

However, the NHMU also found ways to “personalize” The Nature of Color for the local audience—which is something that museum staff work to accomplish with every touring exhibition.

“When we host exhibits,” says NHMU director of exhibits Tim Lee, “we try to augment it with objects from our collections, or stories that originate here, so there’s that really strong tie to our museum and our local communities.”

One such addition was what Lee refers to as “the rainbow case”—a showcase of 76 objects from the NHMU’s own permanent collections developed by NHMU exhibit designer Claire Davis, presented in colored groupings that suggest a spectrum.

“Besides being an entertainment venue, we are stewards of a huge collection of 1.5 million objects,” Davis says. “So [we take] any opportunity we have to remind people that we’re not just bringing in entertainment, we’re also educating you about these

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Another personalized component takes the form of a University of Utah football jersey on a posed mannequin, which replaced the University of Alabama Crimson Tide uniform in the original exhibit presentation. NHMU received special permission to make the change in order to give that portion of the exhibit a local touch, but it proved to be a bigger logistical challenge than the exhibit team was expecting.

“Dressing a mannequin is difficult,” Davis says. “The hands are not flexible. The original uniform did not include gloves, and it was quite a feat to get them on those hands.”

Lee adds, “We had to request extra-large gloves. At first, we were going to cut the gloves to fit them on, but this uniform is going to be used next season, and we were imagining these defective gloves in the Rose Bowl: ‘… up for the winning touchdown, but his glove falls off!’”

Beyond these venue-specific touches, there are challenges and opportunities presented by NHMU being the first stop on the national tour of The Nature of Color, af-

ter the exhibit’s debut in New York was not available to the general public for most of its run due to COVID-related closure. That means that NHMU becomes part of the “debugging” process for helping make sure that the exhibit is as audience-friendly as possible—or noticing, as Lee does while walking through the exhibit space, that a knob on one of the interactive components is coming loose a bit too easily.

“That’s one of the cool things about being the first venue,” Lee says, “and one of the challenges too—there’s a lot of things that haven’t been iterated upon to make it better.” He notes how on one of the exhibit signs, a measurement of light waves is referred to as “nm,” but without a definition for the layperson of what “nm” stands for (nanometers). “We get to work with AMNH on things like, ‘Hey, maybe we need a definition of ‘nm,’” Lee says. CW

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Father and Son

In his new book, Sander’s Study, Utah journalist Chris Vanocur rediscovers his TV reporter dad.

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y father, Sander Vanocur, was one of America’s most respected political reporters. He covered every major story and politician of the 1960s. He reported on John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Richard Nixon. His reporting assignments took him from the civil rights struggles in the Mississippi Delta to the war-torn Mekong Delta of Vietnam.

Before his passing in 2019, I was tasked with cleaning and organizing his study. Fortuitously, Dad, an acclaimed TV reporter, saved many dispatches and documents from these extraordinary times.

As a reporter myself, I soon realized I had stumbled onto a fascinating story. It was the story not only of my father’s remarkable achievements, but also how closely my life and career paralleled his.

Here are some exclusive excerpts from my new book, Sander’s Study: A Son’s Story (available on Amazon).

Dad’s Favorite Story

May 8, 1967, was one of the most significant days of my father’s career. He was in the South working on an hour-long special for NBC News entitled, After Civil Rights: Black Power.

In some ways, this NBC News special was the culmination of my dad’s coverage of the civil rights movement. He had started covering the movement almost immediately after joining the network a decade before.

In Dad’s study, I found an extensive and revealing interview he did with the Freedom Forum, a nonprofit aimed at supporting the First Amendment and journalism in general. The transcript of my father’s interview runs for more than 40 pages, and a significant portion of it deals with his time covering civil rights.

Reading Dad’s comments, I was surprised to learn how fearful he was covering the story in the South. He told the Forum interviewer, “What stands out in my mind during that period is why I didn’t get a club in the back of my neck because, in those days, it was very tough.”

Above: The cover of Sander’s Study, showing Sander Vanocur in a meeting with President John F. Kennedy.

Left: Chris and Sander Vanocur are seen side-by-side in a pair of family photos. Both men won acclaim as political reporters.

Below: Chris Vanocur, a Utah-based journalist and author of Sander’s Study: A Son’s Story.

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the emotions churning up inside him. He concluded by paraphrasing John O’Hara’s quote about the passing of George Gershwin. Dad said of Martin Luther King Jr., “I didn’t want to believe that Dr. King was dead. I still don’t.”

My father said the civil rights movement was both an epic and a rare story, one that didn’t often come a reporter’s way. He made clear to me that it was his favorite story to cover, and King was his favorite interview. He said no one else even came close.

Instinctively, I understood why Dad prized this story above all others. The civil rights struggle was clearly a turning point in American history. Not to mention, all the heroic and noble protesters battling segregation made for a very compelling and visual story.

But for some reason, I needed my father to tell me in his own words why this was the greatest story of his illustrious and memorable career. I wanted to hear it not in the words of a reporter but from Sander Vanocur the person.

So, I asked him what it was specifically that made the civil rights struggle his favorite story.

My elderly father slowly turned toward me and gave me a loving look. He smiled and said simply, “It was a good cause.”

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These words startled me. I had this notion of my father being pretty stoic and unflappable. Yet here he was freely admitting to being afraid of what might happen to him in a dangerous and unfamiliar setting.

Dad also told the Freedom Forum about one particularly hair-raising experience in the South: “I was [covering] something in Mississippi, a white man trying to get elected sheriff ... and I went to see the white deputy and he ordered me out of the county by dusk. So, I said to the cameraman and the sound man, ‘Let’s find some circuitous route and get out of here because this is not an idle threat.’”

But of all the alarming civil rights comments my father made in the Freedom Forum interview, one stood out the most. It came when Dad compared covering civil rights to another dangerous assignment: “Mostly, it was just sheer survival because things could get very nasty.

I’ve told people I felt safer in Vietnam in ’65 than I felt in parts of the South, though I love the South.”

Despite the danger my father felt, he also said he was “blessed” to have covered the civil rights story. I strongly suspect this was because of what happened on May 8, 1967. This was the day he interviewed Martin Luther King Jr. An article from the NBC News website described the interview as “extraordinary” and “wide-ranging.” Having now watched most of it on YouTube, I can certainly attest to the accuracy of that description.

King appeared more somber and reflective in the interview than he did in the soaring speeches many of us remember. Early in the interview, King told my father the country still had significant racist elements, in the North as well as the South.

Dad told the Freedom Forum he was quite taken seeing a moral figure like King. Also, after dealing with politicians for nearly a decade, my father was impressed by the fact that King, “never tried to lie to me or anybody else that I know.”

King, for his part, patiently and thoughtfully explained why racism ran so deep in America’s history and psyche. One comment in particular left a deep impression on my father. It came when King told him that in Roget’s Thesaurus, one would find many synonyms for Black which were negative. But the synonyms for white, King observed, signified pureness and virtue.

Dad told the Freedom Forum this was a comment he would never forget.

But for me, the most important part of the interview came at roughly the 20-minute mark. My father asked about the “I Have a Dream” speech, which had taken place four years before. King told my dad that the speech had taken place during a period of great hope for him and for many others across the nation.

What came next, though, genuinely stunned me, and I wondered what went through Dad’s mind when he heard King say, “That dream that I had that day has, in many points, turned into a nightmare.” King went on to explain that he still had hope for America in the future, but he also saw many difficult days ahead.

Less than a year after my father interviewed him, Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. Until I saw the interview, the documentary and my father’s comments to the Freedom Forum, I never realized how much he meant to Dad. In a particularly revealing and clear-eyed answer to the Freedom Forum, he summed up his reaction to King’s assassination: “I couldn’t believe Dr. King was killed. Later, as I got older, I have this dreaded sense that society finds a way to deal with martyrs or visionaries, and it’s not very pleasant. It’s almost as if society throws up visionaries like Dr. King as martyrs to our own pettiness and meanness.”

The Freedom Forum was kind enough to send me the video of its interview with my father. As Dad spoke these particularly painful words, I could sense

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Words of Wisdom

Over the years, Dad gave me many valuable tips about work and about life. I’ve whittled them down to a dozen key lessons:

Sooner or later, everything in life is political.

I think my father borrowed this phrase from George Orwell. Dad first told me this when I was pretty young, maybe still in high school. Initially, I was skeptical. I didn’t want to believe politics seeped into all areas of life.

So, I pushed back.

I asked Dad if he really meant everything. He said, yes, everything.

I thought about it for a spell and then naively asked, “But surely that doesn’t apply to things like love and marriage?”

Dad chuckled and said, “Son, especially that.”

The key to good writing is knowing what to leave out.

This may be the best single piece of advice Dad gave me about being a reporter. It took a few years to hone my writing skills, but I eventually figured out what he meant. Simply put, the fewer words the better.

I knew I was making progress when

one semi-surly boss grudgingly told me, “Well, Vanocur, nobody ever said you couldn’t write.”

It was a bit of a backhanded compliment, but an acknowledgment of my writing chops nonetheless.

The small stories are often the best.

Since covering state government was part of my political reporting portfolio, I was once assigned to cover the cutting down of the state Christmas tree. So, too early one morning, I arrived at a Salt Lake neighborhood just as state workers were about to cut down an oversize holiday tree.

Luckily, one of my closest friends was the photographer who had been assigned to shoot the story. I asked him how in the hell we were going to cover this. Immediately, he said, “Just cover it like a crime story, like they’re murdering the tree.”

So, we did.

I took a tongue-in-cheek approach to the story and used as many overwrought pulp fiction cliches as I could think of. Neighborhood residents watching the tree cutting were described as, “Innocent neighbors powerless to stop the cold-blooded murder.” We even threw in a fake movie scream in the story just as the tree was cut down.

And when the newly murdered tree made its way to the Capitol rotunda, I described how its “pine guts” spilled out onto the cold, hard, and unforgiving marble floor.

Right: A pair of photos from Sander Vanocur’s study, which contained extensive notes, dispatches and other materials from years of national political reporting.

I think my bosses were genuinely frightened by the story. But one of the main anchors loved it. He said I could send this story out to stations in other cities and immediately get a dozen job offers.

Months later, much to my amusement, the piece was even nominated for an Emmy.

Sometimes the best stories come from the losers’ locker room.

While at first blush this appears to be about sports, it really applies to all sorts of reporting.

One of the first stories I broke in my career was about the decision to close South High School in Salt Lake City.

A source tipped me off that the Salt Lake Board of Education was going to close one of its four high schools due to dwindling enrollment. And South High was the one to be shuttered at the end of the school year.

It occurred to me that reporting on South High for its entire final year would make a great story. So, another trusted photographer and I made it a point to cover the big milestones of South High’s last year. These included things like homecoming, the prom and graduation.

We told the story through the eyes of one senior, a gifted teacher and a beloved and wise principal. Not only did we air numerous daily stories about the closing of the school, but we even had enough footage to do a documentary called Goodbye South

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High. Our documentary helped showcase South’s admirable school spirit while dealing with an emotional and difficult year.

Dad had been right. By focusing in-depth on a school that had lost its battle to stay open, we were able to capture the student’s real, raw and ultimately heartwarming emotions.

We found all this in the so-called “losers’ locker room.”

But in the eyes of viewers and many in the community, those at South High were winners.

The best time to call a source is when you don’t want anything.

There’s an old saying in journalism that a reporter is only as good as his or her sources. My father certainly supported this notion.

Dad tried to meet everyone everywhere. He also did his best to stay in touch, either calling just to say “hello” or writing letters to congratulate or offer condolences. This courtesy helped Dad in his journalism career and even after he stopped reporting.

When my father left network news for good, many of his old contacts were there with much appreciated offers of employment. He had watched out for them and—in many cases—they reciprocated.

Having learned from his example, I also held my sources close. Whether it was remembering their birthdays, buying them drinks or treating them to special thank-you lunches around

The best interviewers listen more than they talk.

When I was starting out as a reporter, I used to make highly detailed lists of what questions to ask during interviews. I would then ask these questions, checking them off one by one as if completing a to-do list.

But I was so determined to ask all my questions in the exact order I wrote them, I wasn’t really listening to the answers.

Eventually, I wised up and followed Dad’s advice. I ditched the lengthy list of questions and simply started listening to each and every response.

It was amazing how much I learned by paying closer attention to their words, their emotions and their expressions.

It’s not really necessary to spend a lot of time unpacking this wry observation. Dad simply felt reporters with messy desks were more interested in chasing stories than keeping their workplaces spotless.

Don’t be afraid to use silence in your stories.

My father had no patience for anchors and reporters who talked too much. He thought they just rambled on and on because they liked to hear the sound of their own voices or wanted to prove to everyone how smart they were.

Instead, Dad drilled into me the importance of using the video’s natural sound to tell the story.

Or, in some cases, using silence to let the story tell itself.

Luck is the residue of design.

Over and over, my father would repeat this saying to me. He attributed it to Branch Rickey, the legendary Brooklyn Dodgers honcho who signed Jackie Robinson to break baseball’s color barrier. Another way of expressing this is, as Louis Pasteur once said, “Fortune favors the prepared mind.”

Over time, this became my mantra.

When working on stories, I not only envisioned how I hoped the story would play out, I also made sure I thought about what could go wrong.

Having contingency plans helped save my reporting ass on many occasions. I even incorporated this preparedness philosophy into the non-news elements of my life.

‘Holy Shit’ stories

Now and then, Dad would refer to a news report as a “Holy Shit” story. I’m not sure, but he may have learned this phrase

from his friend Ben Bradlee, the fabled editor of The Washington Post.

As the “HSS” name implies, this term is reserved for the story that makes viewers or readers say “Holy shit!” when they see it.

Little did Dad know that someday I would break a “Holy Shit” (Olympic) story that would make headlines all around the world.

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This doesn’t really have anything to do with news or my father helping me become a better reporter. But ever since Dad told me this, I’ve been unable to erase this disturbing image from my mind.

Since I don’t want to suffer alone, I have now passed on this pearl of wisdom to you. n Chris Vanocur is a recovering TV reporter based in Utah. He has been awarded both of broadcasting’s top news honors: the Alfred I. duPontColumbia University Award and the George Foster Peabody Award. He received these after uncovering the worldwide scandal surrounding alleged bribery at Salt Lake’s 2002 Olympic Games.

Chris can be found on Twitter, Instagram and even TikTok, either under his name or @NewsVulcan.

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This is one piece of advice from my father that I wish I had followed more closely.

Now, to be clear, he wasn’t actually advocating throwing a chair at work. But he strongly believed you

Never trust a reporter with a clean desk.

On one memorable occasion—covering Robert Kennedy’s memorial service—my father purposely went several minutes without saying a word. He believed it was one of the longest periods of sustained silence in TV history.

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Every now and then, you have to throw a chair at work.

had to occasionally let your bosses know if something was pissing you off. Otherwise, Dad reasoned, the company might start taking you for granted and take advantage of you.

Judging by some of the memos and letters I found in his study, I suspect Dad successfully used this strategy to help get him raises and promotions.

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onoran hot dogs have been on my foodie bucket list for about a decade, and I blame Man vs. Food. It was the episode where Adam Richman visited Tucson, Ariz. to be exact. He visited a spot called El Guero Canelo and its owner, the enthusiastic Daniel Contreras, and I couldn’t take my eyes off the screen. Not only did it look like a food straight from my dreams, but I loved the adoration that Contreras showed toward this regional dish.

Since then, my mind has never ventured far from the realm of Sonoran hot dogs, and there have been plenty of times when I’ve thought about taking a road trip to Tucson just to try them out for myself. But good things come to those who wait, and recently a food truck called Nana’s Sonoran Hotdogs (Instagram: @nanas_hotdogs, 623-210-7320) decided to share this delicacy of Northern Mexico with the Wasatch Front.

So, what separates a Sonoran hot dog from the one you’d get at the baseball park?

I’d say first and foremost it’s the bacon. The hot dog frank gets wrapped up like a savory meat mummy a slice or two of fresh bacon.

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something more subdued.

Though I loved the Arizona for what it was—more food needs to be finished off with a Cheeto crumble, in my opinion—the Sonoran was the one that stole my heart.

There’s always a bit of apprehension when you finally get a chance to try something you’ve only imagined for the past decade, but my first experience with these fantastic Southern imports was nothing short of perfection. I absolutely cannot wait until the weather warms up and I can just hang out in front of Nana’s while I shotgun a few Sonorans.

At the moment, Nana’s Sonoran Hot Dogs is a mobile operation that is in business on weekend evenings primarily at Latino’s Furniture (7659 S. Redwood Road) in West Jordan. Starting in April, however, they will be part of the prestigious lineup at Soho Food Park (4747 S. Holladay Boulevard).

With the popularity of Nana’s, it won’t be long before Sonoran hot dogs start to become more of a fixture around the Wasatch Front, but that’s something Ledezma is actually looking forward to. “I think they will definitely start popping up more, which is great,” he says. “It brings me back to my childhood memories—it’s hard to even describe the first time having a Sonoran.

I love seeing people try them for the first time.”

As someone who recently had the opportunity to try Sonoran hot dogs for the first time, I have to say there’s not just nostalgia at work here. There’s something magical, engaging and just plain fun about kicking off the weekend with one—or five—of these hot dogs and sipping a Jarrito soda while dusk descends on the city. CW

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Nana’s is the real deal, owned and operated by Arizona local Robert Ledezma and his family. “I grew up with Sonoran hot dogs,” he says. “In Mexico we’d have them, and in Phoenix and Tucson.” After he and his wife moved to Utah, our lack of this childhood staple prompted him to start a food truck. “The recipes are from my family—my mom is a really great cook,” Ledezma says. “We use a lot of fresh ingredients and import the bread, which comes from a Mexican recipe, from Arizona.”

When I try to narrow down what really makes a Sonoran hot dog special, my calculations always bring me to the roll. It’s impossibly soft, yet it doesn’t get soggy. It maintains the elasticity to contain all of the fillings, but it never loses that dreamy texture. I have a feeling this is one of those recipes that has seen dynasties rise and fall. “It’s so hard to recreate the buns up here,” Ledezma says. “It even comes down to the type of oven you use, so that’s why I get mine from the source.”

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n January, we reported that Monster Energy Drinks had acquired the craft brewery collective CANarchy, in a deal that would affect craft breweries across six states. Utah’s Squatters and Wasatch were a part of CANarchy. In fact, the two local giants in Utah’s beer world were the first breweries to be acquired by Fireman Capital out of Boston, in 2012, before the addition of six other national breweries, including Oskar Blues and Cigar, created CANarchy.

The purchase by Monster seeks to add alcohol manufacturing to its portfolio of beverages, so it can enter the lucrative alcoholic seltzer and malt beverage market.

However, much of the alcohol manufacturing that Monster bought is attached to restaurants (brewpubs)—a sector Monster really has no interest in.

Flash back to mid-2021, and PRC Restaurant Company (IUtah)—jointly owned

by Squatters co-founders Jeff Polychronis and Peter Cole—made inquiries into purchasing the Squatters/Wasatch breweries from CANarchy before the whole Monster deal was in motion. CANarchy hadn’t really expressed much interest in the sale to PRC, until last December.

“It’s been surreal,” Polychronis chuckles. “Two days after Monster had announced their purchase of CANarchy we closed the deal, on Feb. 17. “The deal” was to acquire the six Squatters/Wasatch restaurants: Wasatch Park City, Squatters Roadhouse Grill, two at Salt Lake International

Airport, Squatters SLC, Wasatch in Sugar House and the Commissary/Kitchen/Cafe at the International Center in SLC. Acquiring the pubs was fairly simple process, but one crucial piece of the puzzle kept two historical beer-making properties intact: The founder of Wasatch, Greg Schirff, retained majority ownership of the Park City brewpub’s building, and Cole and Polychronis did the same for Squatters’ Broadway building in Salt Lake. “Even though we sold Squatters nine years ago,” Polychronis says, “they (Squatters) had become our tenant, and we not only had an interest in wanting our tenant to succeed, but also the business that we had started back in 1984 was still very much close to our hearts.”

So now as the stars align, Squatters and Wasatch are back under the Utah umbrella where they belong. “Me, Peter and our investment partners are really excited about bringing total ownership of the brands back to Utah,” Polychronis adds. “Now everybody involved lives in Park City or Salt Lake City.”

PRC’s motivations for preserving the brands are sincere; they want their historic labels to continue. Unfortunately, one of the key issues now is that, though PRC owns the property and the business, Monster continues to own the brewing equipment—which means they can’t brew outside of Monster’s new bailiwick.

“It’s a little bit complicated,” Polychronis says. “Monster continues to own the intellectual properties. They own the Wasatch and Squatters names, but we’ve entered into a licensing agreement with them that allows us to use the names as we have done in the past. But we don’t own them.”

So what changes will customers notice?

Not much. The West Side Tavern and Beer Store located at the main production brewery in SLC will stay under Monster’s management, and you’ll likely see more new products there that Monster may be producing over the coming months and years.

It is safe to say, however, that America’s strangest beer market continues on its offbeat path, with its two founding members back and safe in the locals only category. As always, cheers! CW

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Considering the length and breadth of the story here, it’s also fairly surprising that The Batman isn’t particularly actiony. Reeves finds time for one extended car chase sequence—which combines a few nifty visual moments with a disappointing lack of geographical coherence—and one great bit where a brawl in a darkened hallway is illuminated only by brief bursts of automatic weapons fire. The fact that The Batman’s primary antagonist is an elusive and not particularly physical figure—with Dano doing his best to bring shrill-voiced menace to cell phone calls and grainy video clues—leads to a relative paucity of fight scenes before the big finale set in the rafters of “Gotham Square Garden.”

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something that feels like Seven crossed with Taxi Driver by way of Saw. Accompanying images of a drizzly, decaying Gotham, we get voice-over narration by Bruce Wayne (Robert Pattinson) informing us that he’s two years into prowling the streets as the vigilante Batman, blessedly avoiding yet another scene of young Bruce witnessing the traumatic killing of his parents. He’s called in by police detective James Gordon (Jeffrey Wright) after Gotham’s mayor is murdered, because of a note for Batman left by the suspect who becomes known as the Riddler (Paul Dano). And thus begins a series of killings that seems built around exposing the deep corruption at the soul of Gotham.

There’s a hint at the beginning of this investigation that Reeves might lean into the idea of Batman being a detective, with his powers of observation and apparent familiarity with forensic science becoming as relevant to the case as his ability to punch people in the face. That ultimately proves a bit misleading, as the face-punching gets significantly more screen time and the detective-ing reduced to Batman’s ability to solve puzzles (next new Bat-villain: The Wordler). The plotting gets fairly convo-

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It’s become something of a cliché in recent years, this notion that the way to get some pop-culture product taken seriously is to give it a darker sheen, full of psychological depth and angst and so forth. This is how we end up with a Kristen Stewart doing a gritty reboot of Snow White, or Man of Steel’s gritty reboot of Superman, or gritty Archie and Veronica on Riverdale, and so on and so forth.

What might be harder to remember is that, for all practical purposes, the “gritty reboot” concept began with Batman. Coming in the wake of the campy 1960s Batman TV series becoming the most familiar version of the Caped Crusader, the character was re-imagined with a darker tone by Frank Miller’s graphic novel series The Dark Knight Returns in 1986, which became a model for Tim Burton’s brooding 1989 blockbuster film version. When Batman veered back into brightly-colored silliness again with Joel Schumacher’s 1990s sequels, comic-book die-hards went nuts, leading back to Christopher Nolan’s trilogy and the Ben Affleck version from Zack Snyder’s recent films. The idea of “gritty” now feels so baked into Batman, the question of where writer/director Matt Reeves could take The Batman felt predestined as “well, grittier, I guess.”

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In more than a few respects, this album will allow the group to document their first era of roughly three years together, a period that saw the then-seven-month-old group nearly nipped in the bud by COV ID. Jobs were put on hold. Ditto, rehearsals. Songs from the guitar and voice of primary songwriter Moriah Glazier even went on hiatus for a time. And each of the group’s members dodged illness, if not ennui. Throughout, they maintained a hope that their early momentum would come back whole.

Guitarist Emma Roberts (a former City Weekly editorial intern) says that “it was very depressing at first. At the start of the pandemic, we had all these shows lined up.

We had to cancel a bunch of gigs, couldn’t really practice. We were really trying to be safe. It put a damper on morale, and it was hard to be creative at that time, not seeing my bandmates, being stuck at home.”

The group originally gelled around an interesting notion, in that Glazier had been a singer/songwriter with the hopes of putting together a group to support the “skeletons” of songs that she’d been writing, i.e. lyrics with guitar starts. To accomplish this, she called on Roberts (also of the band Herring), whom she’d met through church bands at age 13, though they were only “adjacent friends” at that earlier point. They wanted to round out the group with an idea of kinship first, wanting the personal connection to override almost everything else, including skill on specific instruments.

Nora Price (also of Sculpture Club, Red Bennies, Jazz Jagz and Durian Durian) came in on bass, while Jared Asplund (also of Martian Cult) became the group’s drummer. Both were rounding out the band’s rhythm section while tackling new instruments, in what Glazier was sensing to be a “great starter group.”

Glazier, too, had been extending her talents within the band, recording what was essentially an album’s worth of material on a recording system that ultimately wasn’t to her liking. She wanted to publicly offer up the first go of the record, but a direct appeal by Roberts to scrap it ultimately won her over. The work was erased, the old recording gear was sold, new home recording gear was secured and, given new energy on multiple fronts, the band began writing and tracking new material.

“I think you can also hear that in the record when it comes out,” Glazier suggests. “Early in the pandemic, I was writing nothing, playing nothing. A year ago, I started writing again and there’s this sweet, ’50s-styled music that we’ve added. It sounds like a band made it.”

Give the state government a small assist in all this. As the group members were individually grappling with the financial impact of

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“When it came in, I was like ‘I should brush up on some new chords,’” she says. “That gave me the time to write songs and a new perspective of time, of going back to work. Life is so much shorter than it had already felt. Now I feel that it’s really important to face inspiration all the time, face creativity all the time, to be continuously learning. That was the positive shift that I got out of the pandemic. From two years ago to now, I’m such a better guitar player.

It’s felt empowering. And that’s all happened with one album.”

Roberts concurs, saying, “Things can happen when you’re not expecting them. My desire is to spend as much time as I can with people who are creative.”

Glazier and Roberts say that “I Was Asleep” was a perfect track to kick off this album cycle, on a cut that allowed all the members to contribute. They say it’s one that “all of us love.”

At their album-release show, they’ll be playing with a couple folks who appear on the album, guest musicians Elowyn Lapointe (shakers/tambourine) and Dave Payne (sax). As both Glazier and Roberts log time as employees of The DLC at Quarters, they’re allowing themselves to go a bit more all-out this weekend. Expect some bits of stagecraft, those added musicians, extra lighting and even a series of drinks named after the songs.

“It feels like home in a way,” says Roberts. “They’re allowing us a lot of creative freedom for this night, and it’s tempting to take advantage of that.”

Daytime Lover will appear at The DLC at Quarters (5 E. 400 South) on Friday, March 4. Doors are at 8 pm, with Msking and Slick Velveteens also on the bill. Tickets for this 21-up show are available at quartersslc.com/the-dlc. CW

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hursday, March 3 marks the arrival of Bobo II, which, as the name would indicate, is the second album from the act Bobo, helmed by Kari Jorgensen and featuring her collaborator Jared Eskridge. It’s their first release since 2015, and features Eskridge all over the new album after he provided guitar support on yesteryear’s Smoke in the Elevator.

Recorded between 2013 and 2015, Smoke in the Elevator is well-described on the group’s Bandcamp page as Jorgensen’s “first solo foray into computer software music composition. 28+ minutes of deep, layered, relaxed electronic pop.” It’s an absolute winner, well worth an investigation a few years on.

It was brought about with the encouragement of her brother, Karl, who sensed that her work as a guitarist wasn’t sparking joy. “I didn’t like playing guitar,” she says with candor, “and I sucked. The guitar was just the vehicle to write a song.”

With his SLC music label, Hel Audio, Karl was able to induce a move into a new approach from Kari with a sweet caveat: record an album of music and it’ll have a release home.

“I’d been in multiple bands with my brother,” she says of her stylistic shift. “He and I have different tastes but also overlapping interests and tastes. We’ve introduced each other to stuff we may not have heard before. My only reluctance was buying an actual computer. So there were some barriers to entry. But it was definitely something I wanted to do.”

Working in tandem with Eskridge over the past few years, Jorgensen says, “I’ve tried to learn more about engineering and producing. We’ve been playing newer songs live and tweaking them. We’re both obsessive, crazy people and the record’s been in process for a really long time.”

Bobo II’s certainly more pop-oriented than the debut. And that fits Jorgensen’s simple, effective take on what Bobo plays. “I guess I just like ‘pop,’” she says. “It’s snyth-ey and electronic, but it’s not like any sort of specific sub-genre of electronic music. So I would just say indie pop.”

As an artist releasing new music today, Jor-

gensen’s both realistic and amusing in her take on how anyone’s work slots in. “You’re at the mercy of the algorithm,” she says.

“It’s a situation where you’re not just competing to be heard against other peoples’ CD collections. It’s like there’s the entire history of the world’s music for you to listen to.”

At that point, a bit of self-assurance goes a long way, and Jorgensen says, “You can’t really stay worried about people’s reactions; it’s so easy to get something like writer’s block. I feel right now that it’s ‘Yeah, it’s out! Let’s finish this next batch of songs.’ We have so many projects that we’re working on. I’m going to stay positive, get excited about this and use the energy to keep the ball rolling.”

This bit of forward motion comes two years after the pandemic scuttled a real opportunity to break beyond Utah, as “we were asked to open for a nationally touring band out of state. And those shows happened to be in the days that everything shut down.”

Right now, one or two shows a month around Salt Lake will satisfy, with new songs played to an audience that’s been waiting for this material. Add in some fun new merchandise—created with her graphic artist friend Jeff Griffin—and 2022’s off a fine start for Jorgensen.

“I’m really proud of the album,” Jorgensen says. “And I’m really, really excited for it to be out.”

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DeVotchKa is the kind of band that you might feel some cool friends hipped you to not that long ago, possessing a sound that incorporated global elements and cabaretfriendly material alongside a stage show that hinted at the latter, especially when presented in larger venues. That “not that long ago” feeling, though, dissipates as you start looking at some dates. A basic example: DeVotchKa’s been around since 1997. And they scored a commercial breakthrough way back in 2006, with the release of Little Miss Sunshine. While the soundtrack to that film, with the group’s imprints all over it, may have provided a popular catalyst, it’s the band’s deep, long history of live dates that have kept them a vital, if more-intermittentof-late touring act, picking up new fans to couple with those who’ve been with the band for two-decades. Through the initial part of the century, DeVotchKa was recording and releasing music at a prolific clip. The band’s release pace has slowed in recent years; 2011’s 100 Lovers came a full seven years before 2018’s This Night Falls Forever, while band members have moved on to solo pursuits and non-band work, including film scoring. Luckily, they still crank up the touring machine from time-to-time, and a series of regional shows find the Denver-based band close to us soon. DeVotchKa appear at Park City’s Egyptian Theatre for a trio of sets, with 8 p.m. shows scheduled Thursday, March 3 - Saturday, March 5. Tickets range in prices based on the night of show and the seating arrangement of choice, with tickets $23-$49 via egyptiantheatrecompany.org.

The Birthday Massacre at Soundwell

The Birthday Massacre co-produced their brand-new album, Fascination, with Skinny Puppy founding member Dave Ogilvie—a feather in the cap, indeed, what with calling on a senior member of a musical movement that they’ve run alongside for a couple of decades now. A new single, “Cold Lights,” has also been offered to the public in recent days. The track and album are nice extensions of the band’s career, which has incorporated a whole bunch of genres and reference points.

In the group’s press kit, publicists point to a note in Artforum, of all places, where Patric Dicaprio, a New York–based fashion designer, summed them up quite succinctly and effectively, so let’s give him the mic. In discussing their 17-year-old album Violet, an all-time-fave of his, he thinks of the album like so: “Rage, longing, romance, self-loathing, hope, innocence, ambivalence—I bought the Birthday Massacre’s 2005 album, Violet, on CD from Hot Topic when I was fourteen. I would listen to ‘Blue’ on my gold iPod Mini between class-

es in high school and grit my teeth. I love the way this song oscillates between nostalgic 1980s pop and sinister metal. ‘Blue’ is a mallgoth classic that stands the test of time.” He gets it! The Birthday Massacre play the type of music that’ll delight, among others: your uncle who saw Bauhaus live in their heyday; your dental hygienist with the AFI wrist tattoo; your assistant manager at who hung a She Wants Revenge poster in their work locker; the checker at the grocery who visibly brightens up when Evanescence’s “Bring Me to Life” arrives on the PA system; your cousin with the encyclopedic knowledge of Marilyn Manson. They can all find kinship in a band that’s shimmied through life on the outer edges of what’s cool at a given time. Which is a plenty cool way to do it. The Birthday Massacre play Soundwell (149 W. 200 South) with Julien-K on Sunday, March 6 at 7 pm.

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Maita at Kilby Court

Residing in the fertile musical soils of Portland, songwriter and vocalist Maria Maita-Keppeler helms the band Maita, an indie-rock fan’s dream group. With a new album called I Just Want to Be Wild For You on the Kill Rock Stars label, Maita offers up 11 cuts that vary in tone and pace. A highlight is the upbeat, hummable-all-day rocker “Honey, Have I Lost it All?,” a video of which you may wish to call up on YouTube at your earliest convenience. In a super-recent interview with highclouds.org, Maita-Keppeler says that the album is somewhat rooted in disconnect, saying “I always take inspiration from the things around me. From books, from art that I’m seeing. I get inspired by strange places a lot. I get inspired by strange hotels, or strange cities, or cities where I don’t feel at home. That feeling of not being connected to a place brings up a lot of fascinating emotions that I find are really good for songwriting. A lot of the songs on this record are tied to a place where I felt kind of strange.” With a thick pack of western states shows leading up to an appearance later this month at South by Southwest, Maita should be in mid-tour form when appearing in Salt Lake this weekend. If the highclouds piece still holds, saying “hi” after the gig’s a requisite. “I’m excited about playing shows with real people, with other bands, with real audience members, and having those fun conversations with people that you never would have met,” Maita-Keppeler says. “One thing that I really missed about being on tour is that we don’t meet strangers in the pandemic. I’m excited to meet some strangers.” Maita appears at Kilby Court (748 S. Kilby Court) on Sunday, March 6 with Drusky and Josaleigh Pollett.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) “I not only bow to the inevitable,” wrote Aries author Thornton Wilder. “I am fortified by it.” Wow. That was a brazen declaration. Did he sincerely mean it? He declared that he grew stronger through surrender, that he derived energy by willingly giving in to the epic trends of his destiny. I don’t think that’s always true for everyone. But I suspect it will be a useful perspective for you in the coming weeks, Aries.

on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.”

That’s an unromantic thing to say, isn’t it? Or maybe it isn’t.

Maybe it’s very romantic, even enchanting, to exult in how our allies help us make our dreams come true—and how we help them make their dreams come true. In my astrological opinion, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to focus on the synergies and symbioses that empower you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Vive la différence! Hooray for how we are not alike! I am all in favor of cultural diversity, neurodiversity, spiritual diversity and physical diversity. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to celebrate the bounties and blessings that come your way because of the holy gift of endless variety. The immediate future will also be a perfect phase to be extra appreciative that your companions and allies are not the same as you. I encourage you to tell them why you love how different they are. Now here’s poet Anna Akhmatova to weave it together: “I breathe the moonlight, and you breathe the sunlight, but we live together in the same love.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “It’s never too late to have a happy childhood!” declare many self-help gurus. “It’s never too early to start channeling the wise elder who is already forming within you,” declare I. Oddly enough, both of these guiding principles will be useful for you to meditate on during the coming weeks. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re in an unusually good position to resurrect childlike wonder and curiosity. You’re also poised to draw stellar advice from the Future You who has learned many secrets that the Current You doesn’t know yet. Bonus: Your Inner Child and your Inner Elder could collaborate to create a marvelous breakthrough or two.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Gemini singer-songwriter Bob Dylan said, “I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.” I think that will be a key theme for you in the coming weeks. Dylan described the type of hero I hope you aspire to be. You are on the cusp of an invigorating liberation. To ensure you proceed with maximum grace, take on the increased responsibility that justifies and fortifies your additional freedom.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “A myriad of modest delights constitute happiness,” wrote poet Charles Baudelaire. That will be a reliable formula for you in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. You may not harvest any glorious outbreaks of bliss, but you will be regularly visited by small enchantments, generous details and useful tweaks. I hope you won’t miss or ignore these nurturing blessings because you’re fixated on making big leaps. Be grateful for modest delights.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) I found out some facts about renowned Capricorn poet Robert Duncan (1919–1988), a bohemian socialist and trailblazing gay activist. He was adopted by theosophical parents who chose him because of his astrological make-up. They interpreted Robert’s dreams when he was a child. Later in life, he had an affair with actor Robert De Niro’s father, also named Robert, who was a famous abstract expressionist painter. Anyway, Capricorn, this is the kind of quirky and fascinating information I hope you’ll be on the lookout for. It’s time to seek high entertainment as you expedite your learning; to change your fate for the better as you LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) A woman from Cornwall, UK, named Karen Harris was adopted gather interesting clues; to be voraciously curious as you attract as a little girl. At age 18, she began trying to track down her stimulating influences that inspire you to be innovative. biological parents. Thirty-four years later, she was finally reunited with her father. The turning point: He appeared on the AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “Suggested Friends” feature on her Facebook page. I propose “I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light,” said we make Karen Harris your inspirational role model. Now is a P. G. Wodehouse. “There have been several complaints about favorable time to find what you lost a while ago; to re-link with it.” I know what he means. During my own crusade to express a good resource that disappeared from your life; to reclaim a crafty, discerning forms of optimism, I have enraged many people. They don’t like to be reminded that thousands of things connection that could be meaningful to you again. go right every day. They would rather stew in disgruntlement and cynicism, delusionally imagining that a dire perspective is VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa told us, “Meditation is not the most intelligent and realistic stance. If you’re one of those a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss or tranquil- types, Aquarius, I have bad news for you: The coming weeks ity.” Instead, he said that meditation is how we “expose and will bring you invitations and opportunities to cultivate a more undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears positive outlook. I don’t mean that you should ignore problems and hopes.” Excuse me, Mr. Trungpa, but I don’t allow anyone, or stop trying to fix what needs correction. Simply notice everyto dictate what meditation is and isn’t. Many other spiritual thing that’s working well and providing you with what you need. mentors I’ve enjoyed learning from say that meditation can also For inspiration, read my essay: tinyurl.com/HighestGlory be a discipline to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss and tranquility.

And I suspect that’s what Virgo meditators should emphasize in PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) the coming weeks. You people are in a phase when you can cul- Pastor and activist Charles Henry Parkhurst (1842–1933) said, tivate extraordinary encounters with that all fun stuff. If you’re “All great discoveries are made by people whose feelings run not a meditator, now would be a good time to try it out. I recom- ahead of their thinking.” The approach worked well for him. In mend the books Meditation for Beginners by Jack Kornfield and 1892, he discovered and exposed monumental corruption in the New York City government. His actions led to significant How to Meditate by Pema Chödrön. reforms of the local police and political organizations. In my astrological opinion, you should incorporate his view as you craft LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Comedian Fred Allen observed, “It is probably not love that the next chapter of your life story. You may not yet have been makes the world go around, but rather those mutually support- able to fully conceive of your future prospects and labors of love, ive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence but your feelings can lead you to them.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) “I’d rather be seduced than comforted,” wrote author Judith Rossner. What about you, Cancerian? Do you prefer being enticed, invited, drawn out of your shell and led into interesting temptation? Or are you more inclined to thrive when you’re nurtured, soothed, supported and encouraged to relax and cultivate peace? I’m not saying one is better than the other, but I urge you to favor the first in the coming weeks: being enticed, invited, drawn out of your shell and led into interesting temptation.

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46. “The Grapes of Wrath” family 47. “Heeere we go ... “

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ver the past 10 years, the U.S. Census showed that St. George’s population had grown by 30.8%, from 72,897 people in 2010 to 95,342 in 2020. According to biggestuscities.com, St. George has grown 78.5% since 2000, growing faster than 88% of similarly sized cities since 2000.

One reason why St. George is growing so fast is that it’s family-friendly. There are now a ton of housing options for singles, couples, families and retirees, making the area the perfect place for growing families or couples thinking about taking the next step in home ownership. Plus, the crime rate is low.

Jordan Hess with the St. George Chamber of Commerce believes people were lured to the area after the coronavirus pandemic made remote work common “because although our cost of living and our house prices are rising, they’re still much lower than in California,” he said. It’s estimated that 50% or more of incoming residents hail from California and other states.

I just got back to SLC from Washington County, where I attended the Parade of Homes with my fellow agent, Amy. Trying to keep up with growth at the south end of the state is no different than keeping tabs on the population changes along the Wasatch Front—you have to see it to believe it.

There used to be just red dirt and off-road trails between St. George and Hurricane.

Now, there are miles of asphalt and new home subdivisions. The airport that sat atop a mesa has been moved on to flat land close to the Utah/Arizona border. There is now enough spiritual demand to warrant two LDS temples, with a coral-colored stone edifice being built on 15 acres in the Washington Fields area known as Red Cliffs.

Local developers are competing with those from out of state who want a piece of the senior- and vacation-housing action.

The recent census showed about a quarter of the city’s residents are full-time seniors, but the part-time “snowbirds” who come for the warm winters could be double that.

Short-term rentals (less than 28 days) are not allowed in single-family zones. Washington County voted in 2021 for a six-month moratorium on short-term rentals over concerns that the county’s current policies regarding the regulation of vacation rentals were overly broad and lacking clarity.

The recent Parade of Homes featured several new housing options that allowed for primary residences with attached rentals.

One featured home, already sold at Stucki Farms, was nine bedrooms with unique rental possibilities attached to it.

Also common in St. George and Hurricane are “casitas,” accessory dwelling units on one level that are usually located behind a primary residence and used as short-term rentals or for family members to live separately from the main house.

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n On Feb. 10, as a 38-year-old man walked with a friend and his two children in Frauenfeld, Switzerland, he felt an unexplained sharp pain in his lower body. Later, at the emergency room, doctors discovered he had been shot, Oddity Central reported. But the man and his companions heard no gunshot and saw no one with a firearm: “An accident, a crime, a shot fired from afar— we’re not ruling anything out at the moment,” said Matthias Graf, a police spokesman. Investigators are hoping the public can help; for now, they believe an air gun or a small-caliber weapon was used from a great distance, as a larger bullet would have caused more damage. The man is recovering.

Rude In January 2021, Winchester Hagans of Auburn, Alabama, lost his fiancee, Hannah Ford, in a car crash. “She was the love of my life,” Hagans told WTVM-TV on Feb. 7. After her death, Hagans built a flower box for her grave, where he planted her favorite flowers (she was not a fan of cut flowers) and placed

photos of the two of them. He checked with the city that it was OK to place the planter by her grave; they told him as long as the family didn’t object, it was fine. In January, while visiting Ford’s grave, Hagans was approached by a police officer, who asked him to get out of his car and said there was a warrant for his arrest.

The charge was littering. “I said, ‘No, that’s impossible, there’s no way,’” Hagans said. Ford’s father, Tom Ford, had signed the arrest warrant, but had never contacted Hagans personally about the planter box.

Unruly Passenger Perhaps Michael Brandon Demarre, 32, has never heard of social media. On Feb. 12, Demarre was charged in federal court in Oregon for interfering with a flight crew in an incident that happened the day before on a Delta flight between Salt Lake City and Portland, Oregon. During that trip, KSL-TV reported, Demarre allegedly “removed the plastic covering of the emergency exit handle and pulled on the handle with his full body weight,” witnesses said. Demarre was moved to the back of the plane and restrained until the flight landed and police took him into custody. As he explained his actions, Demarre said he grabbed the handle “so other passengers would video him, thereby giving him the opportunity to share his thoughts on COVID-19 vaccines.” He will remain in custody until his next court hearing.

Sign of the Times Soho House, parent company of spas, hotels, lounges and bars around the world, is offering new members another perk: the opportunity to choose from 41 options for pronouns when they sign up on the club’s app, the New York Post reported. Choices go way beyond they/them, leaving one new member baffled: “It was hard for me to navigate 31 flavors of ice cream at Baskin-Robbins when I was a kid. The idea I have to pick from 41 pronouns to be a Soho House member seems a bit excessive.” But no worries; a new member can skip the process if it’s too overwhelming.

First, Do No Harm Dr. Onyekachi Nwabuko, an ER doctor at UF Health Leesburg in Florida, was charged on Feb. 16 with three counts of battery after he allegedly struck a patient repeatedly, the Naples Daily News reported. Nwabuko reportedly was trying to confirm his suspicions that the patient was faking a medical condition. As such, he grabbed her hand and struck her in the face with it multiple times, leading to her IV line being ripped out and blood covering her face and arm. She was also bruised around her eye. One witness said Nwabuko was laughing and mocking the patient; finally, nurses intervened and stopped the doctor. In a curious statement, UF Health identified Nwabuko as “not employed by UF Health,” but said they could not provide any more information.

Oops A French dad in the town of Messanges was desperate to limit his kids’ internet time, so he employed the use of a scrambler, which blocks connection to the web, the New York Post reported on Feb. 17. Unfortunately, the powerful tool also blocked the connections of the rest of the town and beyond—and now he faces up to six months in prison and a fine of up to $34,000. Authorities said the unnamed man just wanted to block the internet between midnight and 3 a.m., but when neighbors started reporting their outages, the local service providers investigated.

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The Neighbors In the Bolivian city of El Alto, David Choque has alarmed his neighbors with his new decorating scheme, Reuters reported.

Choque, a miner, hired an artist to create sculptures of longhorned skeletal devils from cement and wood and mount them on the outside of his home. Choque told Reuters that the sculptures hearken to life in Bolivian mines centuries ago, when indigenous men were forced into digging for silver. Colonial masters would use devil images to scare the men into working. But some neighbors fear that his decor signals satanic worship. Maria Laurel said she has heard about naked rituals in Choque’s house: “The truth is, it frightens me.” Choque pooh-poohs this idea: “Closed-minded people will think it’s something supernatural, but people need to open their minds and see it as a tourist attraction, something that can improve the area.”

More Than They Bargained For Riders in the Bianchi Rock Cobbler, a California bike race known to be “stupidly hard,” expected the usual sore muscles after the 80-mile off-roader on Feb. 12. They did not expect, however, neck and back injuries suffered after being attacked by a bull during the race. Tony Inderbitzin told KMPH-TV that he did see the animal, but he usually bikes right by cows with no problem: “As I got 10 to 15 yards from him, he turned ... squared up, and I had maybe a second to brace myself or do anything. It’s a case of a mistaken identity from a cow to a bull.” The bull, after dislodging him from his bike, flipped Inderbitzin up in the air. Two other riders were also attacked but were able to finish the race and celebrate with beers.

Inexplicable n When police officers in Orem, Utah, pulled over Victor Chavez-Zuniga, 27, for a broken headlight on Feb. 9, they discovered that he had several outstanding warrants, The Smoking Gun reported. As a result, they searched him and found something “extra” in his wallet: a severed finger in a cloth wrap, which had “what appeared to be pus and blood on it” and “was beginning to turn green and the fingernail appeared to be decayed.”

Well, gross. Officer Bryce Mondragon also noticed a “foul smell.” Unfortunately, the mystery lives on: The court filing does not say who the finger belonged to or why Chavez-Zuniga had it, but he was held on a charge of desecration of a dead human body, among other charges.

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