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STREET FIGHT Everyone in SLC says they want more affordable housing— until the city plans to put it near them.

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SOAP BOX Bigger Government Under Dobbs

On June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Not unexpectedly (due to a leak of associate justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in early May), the ruling overturns decades of precedent established in Roe v. Wade (1973) and Casey v. Planned Parenthood (1992), largely leaving the question of if (and if so, how) abortion can be regulated to state legislatures. My usual disclaimer: This letter is not about abortion. I’m not going to try to tell you that it’s right or wrong, or that it should be legal or illegal. You’ve probably got opinions on that. They’re probably not going to change. I’m not going to try to change them. I’m less interested in abortion itself than I am in the quality of arguments about it. And I see a truly silly argument

being advanced by supporters of the Dobbs ruling. Let’s call it “the argument from decentralization.” Constitutionally, that argument often takes the form of claims for “states’ rights,” which is, itself, a misnomer. Constitutionally, states don’t have “rights,” they have powers. See, for example, the 10th Amendment: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Most “states’ rights” advocates ignore those last four words, holding that anything goes for state legislatures where a federal power isn’t enumerated elsewhere in the Constitution. A specific subset of those who favor the “states’ rights” position also attribute a general goodness to “decentralization,” rather than mere “federalism” (which re-

@SLCWEEKLY ally treats state legislatures as the “lowest” level of power). Decentralization is the notion that decisions should be made at the “lowest” possible level of government. Don’t let Congress decide if a state legislature can decide; don’t let a state legislature decide if a county commission can decide; don’t let a county commission decide if a city council can decide; don’t let a city council decide if individuals can decide. I’m pretty fond of decentralization myself. But the Dobbs ruling is exactly the opposite of decentralization. With Roe, decisions concerning abortion were largely decentralized to the lowest possible level, that of individual choice. Agree with the logic of the decision or not, that was its effect. But per Dobbs, such decisions are now largely centralized into the hands of state legislatures. It’s reasonable to argue that abortion is

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right or wrong, choice or crime, etc., and that it should be addressed at this or that level of government. It’s unreasonable to pretend that a massive centralization of power is a decentralization of power. Whatever else Dobbs may be, it’s unquestionably a “bigger government,” not “smaller government,” ruling. THOMAS K. KNAPP

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THE BOX

What do you think you’ll be like in your old age? Katharine Biele

Crotchety and hoping to have found a place to go where death with dignity is allowed.

Terri Anderson

I feel pretty certain I’ll wear what I want, say what I want without being hurtful, laugh a lot, go on short trips and still love music!

Tom Metos

I’m already old—just ask my kids. But I find that I’m morphing into my dad—I wear 10-year-old shoes for yard work and have jeans that I refer to as my “church clothes” (because they are “holy”). I realized that I was old when I started labeling everything with yellow sticky notes and can never find my freakin’ keys (just like my dad). My final “old age” wish: I want a Viking funeral on Scofield Reservoir.

Kelly Boyce

An island beach bum who thinks he can still can hang with the young ’uns. Very relaxed and best friends with all the local dogs.

Scott Renshaw

Pretty much the same as I am now, only in a more concentrated, dehydrated form, like a raisin.

Jerre Wroble

I’ll probably be cranky, nostalgic for a different/better America and wishing I’d saved more for retirement. Maybe I’ll finally get good at chess.

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here’s a decision that needs to be made, quickly, by the residents of Salt Lake City. And if we don’t get our acts together soon, the wrong decision will be made for us. Elsewhere in this week’s issue of City Weekly, contributor Jason Stevenson explores one of the battle lines in this fight. But to put the debate in simple terms: Salt Lakers need to decide, right now, whether we’re going to be a real city or not. Real cities have a lot of homes, obviously. More importantly, real cities have a lot of types of homes. Some homes might have a front yard and a white picket fence—other homes might share a kitchen with their neighbors. In some cases, a room above a garage might help a legacy family to pay their bills—and in other cases, a room above a garage might help a young couple attend classes at the University of Utah. Real cities don’t require their residents to own a car in order to thrive. They recognize the street as a shared public space, not a private ski slope requiring expensive gear and a taste for adrenaline to participate. And because people need a way to get around, real cities give them one—or better yet, several—in all places, at all times, through all weather. Real cities understand that, as a collection of people, the city itself is a living, ever-changing thing, full of cheerful hellos and painful goodbyes. The flaws of a city’s human builders trickle through its veins and seep from its pores, and the medicine is not always easy to swallow. And unfortunately, many real cities find themselves micromanaged by a state government that doesn’t understand what real cities are. So those cities do what they can, where they can, and they fight like hell for the rest. The alarm bells are ringing. While Salt Lake City is growing, Salt Lake City School District is contracting, a symptom of prohibitively expensive housing that stems in large part from the simple supply-and-demand dynamics of a hypercompetitive housing stock. Outward expansion has liter-

BY BENJAMIN WOOD ally and figuratively sucked the land dry, and our streets are deadlier than ever, not necessarily from violence (although there are troubling indicators there as well) but from a laudable need to transport human capital to and through our capital, made lamentable by systems that actively discourage everything but the private automobile. Unfortunately, even the best-laid plans—built on best practices, quantifiable evidence and a pinch of hopeful gumption—have tended to go awry against a torrent of shortsighted NIMBY (“Not in my backyard”) obstructionism. Plans to expand trails, modernize transit and incentivize affordable housing and economic opportunity have crashed against a wall of opposition, often based on half-truths, rumor, innuendo and, in some cases, naked prejudice. These debates have ignored both facts and common sense. Housing in a real city cannot be both broadly affordable and universally spacious. Transit cannot be infrequent, inaccessible and stigmatized while also being expected to flourish. Small businesses can’t be expected to—frankly—exist if land-use rules place them so far removed from their potential customers that it’s not worth the cumbersome (and quite possibly deadly) trip to patronize them. And even if we accept the premise that newcomers are bad—which I hope we can all agree is wrong—Salt Lake City would still need to account for its status in Utah, where not only our own children but our fellow Utahns’ children aspire to reside as they pursue an education, a career or simply a vibrant and colorful life in the heart of our state’s creative, political and cultural spheres. We know what happens if the NIMBYs win, because they’ve been winning for so long. Their selfish pessimism would see us cling forever to our quasi-suburban, car-centric, stripmall and big-box legacy. The housing shortage will continue, prices will soar, young families will be replaced by wealthy California lookie-loos, homelessness will proliferate and sprawl will continue to lay waste to every inch of undeveloped land, exacerbating carbon inefficiencies and furthering ecological collapse. (Sorry, journalism professors, I guess I’m exposing my pro-Earth bias here. If we had a bet,

I’ll pay my debt with a gallon of gasoline.) We built our way into this mess, and we’re going to have to build our way out of it. That necessitates removing some of the old, making room for the new and maintaining patience during the inevitably uncomfortable transition periods. It also means rethinking the way we talk about cost. Public transit and housing density, when done right, lead to lower crime rates, smaller per-person carbon footprints, better quality of life and stronger, localized economies. Complacency may sometimes appear to be the cheaper option, but in truth, we can’t afford not to change. All of this is why I maintain optimism about, for example, the Utah inland port. Our city is tragically divided by a freeway and freight rail. That was an intentional choice, it was done in bad faith and it was a mistake. And it can’t be undone, except in the pie-in-the-sky fever dreams of our most idealistic urbanists [raises hand]. But building a better-situated, technologically efficient shipping and manufacturing hub, one that replaces some of the industrial presence in Salt Lake’s neighborhoods and city center, opening space for human-scale interventions in the built environment and generating investment for historically neglected areas? It’s not a terrible idea—the question now is whether Utah can actually pull it off. Smart money says no, it can’t. After all, our state government is dominated by white, suburban men who see every street as a highway and every downtown as a parking lot. They would much prefer to terrorize transgender children than do the hard work of building a future. But even so, Salt Lakers should take a long, hard look at their Amazon Prime accounts before dismissing the port out of hand. As long as these quality-of-life issues are seen as another example of the dirty liberal hipsters in SLC going street woke, our collective interests will continue to be ignored and our city will continue to barrel toward a brick wall. Because this isn’t a partisan issue—it’s an urban issue. And it’s time for everyone in the city to get on the same page about what kind of city Salt Lake will be and to start demanding the right kind of change. CW

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HITS&MISSES BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

MISS: Pray Tell

Oh, dear me! Doesn’t the world know how very sensitive Utah politicians are? Just ask them. They can weep at the drop of a hat and pray, pray, pray for solutions to anything they are unwilling to tackle in the real world. They are “good men,” a phrase frequently used when describing otherwise disgraced “decision-makers,” and no, they can’t take a joke. Why? Because it stings, and everyone knows Utahns are a very serious sort with strong beliefs from the Q-publicans and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. So, when John Oliver ventured into the minefield that is how to handle water scarcity in the West and Gov. Spencer Cox’s request that we pray the drought away, it did not go well. “Complete disrespect—what John Oliver said about Utah’s drought,” Deseret News contributor Micah Safsten wrote. The hundreds of Twitter comments said it all, reminding the D-News that Oliver is a “smart” comedian—emphasis on comedy. And if Oliver offends you, have you heard Chelsea Handler lately?

HIT: Bodily Autonomy

While anti-abortion activists cavorted at the Capitol, The Salt Lake Tribune’s Andy Larsen laid out the hard facts. To the hard-core right, it was a miracle— just as “God” intended—even though it took him 50 years to perfect women as livestock. But Larsen thought about the implications and took a look at actual facts. Things like the number of abortions steadily decreasing in the state over decades and the stunning reasons that women choose to abort. Socio-economic factors were the big ones, and they are only going to get worse with the Supreme Court ruling. Unmarried women in their 20s just starting out their lives took a large share of abortions. If it’s a miracle that they will be forced to give birth, get married or give up their children, not pursuing college or careers, then their poverty and depression is a miraculous irony.

MISS: Sore Winners

As long as we’re on the Supreme Court, let’s talk about voting. You may remember it as something you thought of as a citizen’s right, a way to make your voice heard in a democracy once revered. But in the horror movie that is today’s United States, the court is poised to make it a lot more difficult because no one trusts you or—for that matter—election officials not to screw with the system. Enter Blanding Republican Rep. Phil Lyman, Utah’s standard-bearer of right-wing conspiracies. He is certain that voting machines have been switching out votes and undermining Sen. Mike Lee, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. You know, it’s Mike Lee who won the GOP primary with 62% of the vote. Even in bright red Utah, Lyman doesn’t trust those mailed ballots that continue to give Republicans an insurmountable edge. Lyman should just wait. The high court likely will elevate gerrymandering from partisan manipulation to an electoral certainty.

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Clean Air Challenge

With the Supreme Court trying its best to kill us, it’s up to you to save the world. Now’s the time to take the 2022 Clean the Air Challenge (and how challenging it is!) by driving smarter, to start. That means carpooling, using public transit, teleworking, trip chaining, walking and riding a bike or scooter to reduce emissions and anything else you can think of to help clear Utah’s air. The challenge used to happen in February when the inevitable inversion settles on the valley and literally chokes off anything breathable. “However, this year it was transitioned to July to focus on Utah’s summertime ozone issues, as it is just as harmful as winter inversion, and the public is less aware of its harmful effects as it is not as visible,” says the Salt Lake Chamber. Don’t let the high court be the reason oil, gas and coal survive while the rest of us don’t. Through July, free, sign up. https://bit.ly/3Af7Hv3

Meet the Candidates

You may have noticed that the Primary Election was pretty predictable—except when it wasn’t. There were a few surprises, but whoever wins in the fall should represent you, the citizen. Crossroads Urban Center has reached out to all the 2022 candidates for the Salt Lake area, asking them to participate by setting up information tables where they can meet and talk to you, their constituents. BTW, as the election gets closer, you may want to check out your candidates on Vote411.org, a nationally recognized voters guide where you can get a personalized ballot and read candidate answers to nonpartisan questions—if they participate. Join Crossroads’ Meet the Candidates Barbecue to talk about your issues and yes, to see which candidates think it’s important enough to engage with their public. Liberty Park, 600 E. 900 South, SLC, Wednesday, July 13, 6 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/3OwrIRY

Stewardship Training

Quick, before the Legislature begins to “develop” our federal lands, get out there and help preserve them. The Canyon County Stewardship Training is a useful way to transform your recreation into stewardship. “The rapid growth of Utah’s recreation economy is profoundly impacting our public lands. Across Grand County’s wilderness study areas there is a need to ensure that user activities do not result in unchecked impacts to natural and cultural resources,” the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance says. This program seeks to remediate, rehabilitate and reclaim the land from the impacts of the human footprint. Open to all Grand and San Juan residents, SUWA and the BLM will offer training to monitor and identify impacts in the area. BLM’s Canyon Country Field Office, 82 E. Dogwood, Moab, Friday, June 8, 7:30 a.m., free. https://bit.ly/3QVmb9q

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As contentious and politicized as the issue of transgender rights has become, it’s too easy to forget that it begins with people who have struggled, some from very young ages, with being told that they are a gender they know isn’t right. Playwright Daphne Silbiger jumped into that complex story with their 2019 play Six Years Old, exploring with humor and compassion the story of a child trying to articulate a growing awareness of self. Though played in productions by an adult non-binary actor—Comet Higley for Wasatch Theatre Company’s local premiere— Adelaide is six years old, born biologically female, but already aware that that’s not who they really are. Adelaide loves Star Wars and wants to be Han Solo; Adelaide loves Yentl, and recognizes something familiar in Barbra Streisand playing the role of a boy. One of Adelaide’s regular babysitters, the genderfluid Kim, offers the possibility of some kind of a mentor in helping them understand themselves, but plenty of other adults in Adelaide’s life are far more con-

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It took a bit of a visionary spirit to decide that, in 1977, you could pull together all the different threads of the Asian communities living in Utah for one festival, as well as to help the recent influx of immigrants from Southeast Asia. But that was the goal of Utah Asian Festival co-founders Jimi Mitsunaga, Lang Wong, Joe Arzacon and Chung Mun Lee, who launched the first event 45 years ago, making it the longest continuous such celebration west of the Mississippi River. “Their common vision was to strengthen collaborations among Asian communities in Utah and cultivate ties with all Utah residents,” said Dr. Shu Cheng, Executive Director of the Asian Association of Utah (AAU). “Three generations of Asian Americans have volunteered to make the annual Utah Asian Festival fun and educational.” That fun and education includes welcoming thousands of guests for live performances by musicians and dancers showcasing Asian cultures in modern and traditional ways. More than 20 food trucks and booths allow for a chance to sample cuisines of

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Thailand, China, Japan, Korea, The Philippines, the Pacific Islands and more. And of course, there are plenty of family-friendly activities, plus vendors presenting arts and crafts with cultural significance. The 2022 Utah Asian Festival takes place Saturday, July 9 from 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. in the Grand Building of the Utah State Fairpark (155 N. 1000 West). Admission is free, but you can download a ticket that will allow you free fare transportation to and from the event via Trax. Visit utahasianfestival.org for ticket download and additional event information. (SR)

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As much as the Disney brand is associated with familiar, beloved characters, it’s hard to imagine that the company would have created such an emotional bond over the course of a century if not for the power of the music from Disney movies. We’ve hummed along with amazing tunes for generations, from “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf” and “When You Wish Upon a Star” through more modern ubiquitous hits like “Let It Go” and “We Don’t Talk About Bruno.” And that’s not even taking into account rousing symphonic scores like Klaus Badelt’s iconic theme from Pirates of the Caribbean. The full scope of the Disney musical canon will be on display when the Utah Symphony, under conductor Benjamin Manis, presents Disney in Concert: Magical Music from the Movies as part of the Deer Valley Music Festival. The symphony will be joined

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by vocalists Lisa Livesay, Stephanie Burkett Gerson, Aaron Phillips and Payson Lewis for a some of the Mouse House’s most beloved tunes: “I Wan’na Be Like You” from The Jungle Book; “How Far I’ll Go” from Moana; medleys of selections from Mary Poppins and The Lion King; and, yes, “Let It Go.” All that great music will be accompanied by projected scenes from the movies that they brought to life. Disney in Concert comes to the Deer Valley Resort’s Snow Park Amphitheater (2250 Deer Valley Dr., Park City) on Friday, July 8 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are sold-out at press time, but may be available from secondary outlets. Visit deervalleymusicfestival.org for additional information. (SR)

Wasatch Wildflower Festival Every season in the Cottonwood Canyons brings its own unique glory of the natural world: the magnificent fall colors of the autumn; the pristine snows of winter; the crystalline beauty and flowing streams of spring. Summer’s own glory is the amazing spectacle of wildflowers, an event that’s celebrated annually as part of the Wasatch Wildflower Festival. Sponsored by the Cottonwood Canyons Foundation, the event begins before any guests arrive, with volunteers scouting the canyons for the best locations to bring visitors. Then, for two weekends in July, thousands of guests head to the four Cottonwood Canyons resorts to join guided tours showcasing mountain bluebells, Wasatch penstemon, Indian paintbrush (pictured) and more local flora. “In addition to finding wildflowers, guides offer information on the invaluable watershed of the Cottonwood Canyons and its ecological importance, as well as its significance as the source

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of 60 percent of the drinking water in the Salt Lake area,” states CCF Program Education Director Louise Haven. “We like to highlight the area’s geology, natural history, and the importance of native plants, as well.” Events are scheduled for Saturday, July 9 at Brighton Resort; Sunday, July 10 at Solitude Resort; Saturday, July 16 at Snowbird Resort; and Sunday, July 17 at Alta Resort. Guided walks are available for a range of ability levels, from kid-friendly to advanced, with walk start times ranging from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. All events are free, but registration is required to determine attendance needs. Visit cottonwoodcanyons.org for registration and other event information. (SR)

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SLACabaret’s Olivia Custodio keeps a focus on storytelling over cheap shots. BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

livia Custodio had never written a play like the kind Salt Lake Acting Company had typically presented during the summers. As it turns out, that wasn’t a problem, because Salt Lake Acting Company was ready for something that wasn’t like what it had typically presented in the summers. Last year, SLAC presented SLACabaret, a musical production that in many ways departed from the scathing satirical tradition Saturday’s Voyeur had offered for 40 years. But according to Custodio—a veteran local actor who was part of the 2021 SLACabaret cast, and has also been director of development for the company—when she approached SLAC artistic director Cynthia Fleming last year about writing for this year’s show, there was no expectation that the 2022 SLACabaret would have to follow any previously-established paradigms, even the ones established by last year’s inaugural SLACabaret. “Why I think Cynthia and I agreed to work together was, we have a similar vision for serving the community,” Custodio says. “What are the stories that are important right now? It doesn’t even have to be a musical. In some ways, it was a blank canvas.” Ultimately, Custodio did turn to the

structure of a musical for her story, but it was important for her that it was a story, not merely a collection of sketches and musical numbers about local items of interest. “This is a full show,” she emphasizes. “It has a beginning, a middle and an end. … I wanted to write a play, a real play.” As the setting for that play, she did choose an institution that has a particularly Utah feel to it: a convention for an essential oils multi-level marketing company. That topic certainly could be ripe for satire, but once again, Custodio wanted to begin from a place of dramatic storytelling, rather than easy cheap shots. “I wanted to think about why people join this,” she says. “Is it just because they’re bored? Do they really think they’re going to make a million dollars? I wondered about that. I’d pass by the dōTERRA conference at Vivint [Arena], thousands of people going in, and think, ‘Who are these people, paying so much to be told these oils are going to change their life?’ “I’ve been doing light research for years, because it’s something I’ve truly been trying to understand—digging into the public records, who has been their keynote speakers. It honestly makes me sad. There are plenty of moments of humor [in the show], but when you consider how many people end up bankrupt, it’s a really sad system. I don’t want something that’s easy to make fun of.” To that end, Custodio plotted a structure for Down the Rabbit Hole that emphasized exploring the stories of her individual characters. “The first act is a lot of individual scenes, people attending breakout sessions, having their private moments where we find out why they’re there,” she says. “I wanted to make sure every character has their musical moment to convey their story. Then in the second act, it’s really all group numbers. So that was challenging to shift in the writing: What would be great for a duet or a trio?”

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Custodio acCast members rehearse for Salt Lake Acting Company’s knowledges that SLACabaret: Down the Rabbit Hole she had never actually written a exploitative or mean. It’s an approach that musical before. But while she credits her allows SLACabaret to be its own thing, not collaborators Emilio Casillas and musical beholden to any particular tradition from director Michael Leavitt for their contributhis company’s history. tions to the final product, she also believes “I think there are a lot of people who have that some early creative expression was come to expect a certain thing from SLAC pointing towards this moment. in the summer,” Custodio says. “Those peo“As a child, some of my earliest weirdo ple are maybe skeptical or hesitant about childhood memories were taking pop a new format. … If people come with the songs and rewriting the lyrics,” Custodio expectation it’s just going to be 90 minutes says. “I’ve been doing that my whole life, of slamming Mormons and conservatism, and thought it’s just so fun. I felt really prethat’s not what I’m interested in. I tried to pared and confident [for this show].” make it a much more interesting thing for There have been challenges, of course, these characters.” CW including figuring out how to incorporate emotionally-charged current events like SLACABARET: DOWN THE RABBIT the recent Supreme Court decisions into HOLE the show at the last minute, while still reSalt Lake Acting Company taining the integrity of Custodio’s original 168 W. 500 North vision. “Am I rewriting things this week? Yeah, even if we’re not making it the foJuly 13 – Aug. 21 cus of the whole story,” she says. “As art$41 ists that’s what we do: We are social justice Proof of vaccination or negative COVID test warriors, not just song-and-dance makwithin 48 hours required for all attendees; masks ers.” strongly encouraged But there’s a difference, she believes, between acknowledging political and social saltlakeactingcompany.org tensions and making something that feels

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Comedy and Tragedy

Thor: Love and Thunder makes for an awkward mix of tones. BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

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fter 11 years playing Thor Odinson, I think it would be fair to say that Chris Hemsworth is currently the face of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Other long-time players like Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson have moved on; Mark Ruffalo and Jeremy Renner are still technically in the fold, but have never headlined a feature; Doctor Strange and Spider-man, blockbuster successful though they may be, are still relative newcomers. Only Hemsworth’s Thor has lasted long enough to earn a fourth solo adventure, which has allowed for a melding between the character and the sensibilities of the actor. And if you’ve seen him in things like the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot or the recent Netflix sci-fi thriller Spiderhead, you know that Chris Hemsworth is actually a born comedian in the sculpted body of a god Writer/director Taika Waititi was able to harness some of that energy for 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok, creating an MCU entry that felt more like a pure comedy than anything else in the franchise to date. It makes sense that he’d lean into that sensibility for his return to direct Thor: Love and Thunder, but he’s attached that goofy vibe to a story where it doesn’t really make much sense. For some reason, Waititi thought it was reasonable to take a narrative about despair, vulnerability and losing faith, and decide that hilarity naturally ensues. The tale begins with an alien father

named Gorr (Christian Bale) whose grief and anger at his god over the death of his daughter finds a purpose when he comes into position of a sword with the power to kill gods. That naturally puts him on a collision course with the survivors of Asgard, including the God of Thunder. Or, as it turns out, make that Gods of Thunder—plural—as Thor’s old flame Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) becomes the wielder of Mjolnir, the hammer that had seemed destroyed in Ragnarok. Waititi stirs up the pot with plenty of oddball scenarios built for punch lines as much as for punching. The seaside village dubbed “New Asgard” has become a tourist attraction, complete with cheesy dramatic re-creations and pun-ily named retail outlets, with the Asgardians’ warrior/ leader Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) stuck in ceremonial duties. There’s an amusing sideline where the semi-sentience of Thor’s axe Stormbreaker manifests itself in jealousy over the reconstituted Mjolnir; a fun montage reveals the story behind Thor and Jane’s breakup; that internet meme involving screaming goats somehow turns into a running gag. And then you’ve got Rus-

sell Crowe, hamming it up masterfully as a Zeus much more interested in flashy entrances and scheduling the next orgy than interceding in matters beneath his station. All of that has its entertainment value, but it starts to clash pretty strongly with the ostensible central plot. Bale’s Gorr the God-Butcher—pale, balding, befanged and generally a visual clone of Ralph Fiennes’ Lord Voldemort—has a compelling arc, exploring the rage that can accompany a sense of divine indifference to mortal suffering. Meanwhile, Jane faces a potentially life-threatening health crisis, and Thor confronts what it would mean to make himself once again open to love after already having his heart broken. But it never once feels like Waititi really takes that material seriously. No matter how furiously Bale tries to turn the idea of being abandoned by God into genuine pain, or how many moments we get at a hospital bedside, it always feels like something Waititi is obliged to include between jokes. At least he’s got Hemsworth at the helm, and that does mask a multitude of sins, including bland visual style and Waititi’s over-fondness for slow-motion shots of

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Street Fight Everyone in SLC says they want more affordable housing— until the city plans to put it near them. By Jason Stevenson | comments@cityweekly.net

n a hot evening in early June, roughly 100 Salt Lake City residents settled into tightly packed rows of folding chairs in the gymnasium of Bonneville Elementary, on the east side. They were there to hear from speakers chosen by the Yalecrest Neighborhood Council and the group Keep Educating and Encouraging Preservation of Yalecrest (KEEP) to highlight the shortcomings of a new city plan to incentivize affordable housing. After an hour of detailed presentations about yard setbacks, deed restrictions and historic districts, the evening veered offcourse when Atticus Edwards, a young man sitting near the back, took the microphone during a Q&A and rolled a rhetorical hand grenade down the aisle. Edwards launched into a diatribe linking single-family zoning—one housing unit per plot of land—to racist policies designed to segregate neighborhoods and keep low-income people out.

“How are you going to take moral responsibility for this historic discrimination in Salt Lake City?” Edwards eventually asked, as the panelists looked on in visible confusion and annoyance. While not as broadly understood or closely followed as other questions of the day, Salt Lake City’s affordable housing proposal is the next big civic brawl. And at stake is a simple question: Who is the future being built for? Is it for existing households, like those in Yalecrest, wanting

to maintain the status quo of their single-family neighborhoods? Or is it for new residents who don’t live here yet—or who have not yet moved out on their own—but could if more multi-family housing were available and made more affordable. Is it for renters, who send large slices of their income away to build wealth for someone else? Or is it for homeowners, whose properties represent their retirement, or a nest egg to pass along to the next generation? “Growth in Salt Lake City is happening whether we want it or not,” said Alessandro Rigolon, an assistant professor in the Department of City & Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah. “We can plan ahead for it, or we can be caught.” Passions are high because many don’t see a place for themselves if the other side succeeds. And the more

time the city spends debating new housing instead of building it, the higher the overall cost of living can be expected to climb. “If the city doesn’t do more to promote affordability, we will run out of time, land and opportunity,” said Bill Tibbitts, associate director of the Crossroads Urban Center.

Across the map

Controversy around the affordable housing proposal has surged as more people come to understand that the plan’s aim is to reach further and apply more broadly than previous housing initiatives, which focused on individual, high-density projects located near the city center or other built-up areas. Designed to lay on top of existing zoning rules, the new incentives

“If the city doesn’t do more to promote affordability, we will run out of time, land and opportunity.”

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the protective, bureaucratic walls that have long been used to keep out dense developments. “This would be the largest land use change since the [city’s] 1995 ordinance was adopted,” explained Cindy Cromer, a landlord and housing activist who opposes the new plan. “In terms of its scale, it is massive.” And while the current plan restricts the inclusion of multi-family dwellings to areas adjacent to major roads or located within a quartermile of high frequency transit, that stipulation will likely go away. “We would still allow the incentives, but not require it to be tied to transit,” said Sara Javoronok, a senior planner with the city’s planning division. If adopted, the plan would allow property owners to replace a singlefamily home in most neighborhoods with a duplex, triplex, townhouse cluster or cottage development, as long as half the units were affordable for lower-income residents. “The city is giving away single-family zoning as a trading chip to get more affordable housing built,” said Rigolon. “And for the first time, each neighborhood is being asked to do its part.”

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Every parcel of land in Salt Lake City is assigned to a zoning district that defines what can—and can’t—be built on it. These rules impose limits on roof heights and the distance from a building to the sidewalk, as well as parking and the overall usage of the lot (i.e., residential or retail). Most single-family homes are zoned R-1-5000, which limits one housing unit to a parcel at least 5,000 square feet in area. Other parcels fall in R-2 districts, which allow for duplexes or attached homes. Apartment buildings are typically

located in zones like RMF-35, designed for moderate-density dwellings up to 35 feet in height. And parcels for industry, parks and mixed residential and retail areas each have their own specific zones. But zoning isn’t absolute. Almost every month, the planning commission or city council review requests to waive the rules for a specific project, usually at the behest of a developer seeking to increase the scale of a new building. Most of these variances are granted, many over local opposition. What makes the new affordable housing incentives significant for the city’s housing stock—and scary for many residents—is how the plan would supplant that tradition of case-by-case developmental review with more streamlined, modernized and permissive rules. Put simply, the city’s proposal encourages the development of more affordable housing by exchanging greater density allowances in return for lower rents. And for the first-time in decades, multi-family housing could be built “by right”—without review—in single-family R-1 zones, overcoming

Several speakers rejected the notion that the city faces a housing shortage at all, or that it should seek to accommodate any of the newcomers who want to live in their city. The spectacle led former Salt Lake County Council member Shireen Ghorbani to describe the hearing as “liberal-on-liberal violence” on an episode of the City Cast Salt Lake podcast, before warning this was just the beginning of the turmoil this plan could create.

—Alessandro Rigolon, assistant professor at the U of U’s Department of City & Metropolitan Planning

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would apply to all residential areas, from Downtown with its multi-family apartment buildings, to the quiet streets lined with single-family homes in neighborhoods such as Sugar House, Yalecrest and Highland Park. “People in the more affluent neighborhoods didn’t realize it would affect them,” Rigolon said. “They see a proposal about ‘affordable housing’ and might automatically assume it is targeted somewhere else—except this time, it isn’t.” A month before the Yalecrest forum, dozens of speakers delivered almost two hours of irate public comment against the new policy to the city’s planning commission. Sounding off were leaders from five community councils, dozens of homeowners, renters advocates and a stream of young people aligned with the Wasatch Tenants Union, who criticized the plan as an unaffordable giveaway to developers. Almost everyone at the hearing said a version of, “I want more affordable housing, but…” with their next sentences bashing the city’s proposal as too lenient, impossible to enforce or a threat to existing neighborhoods.

—Bill Tibbitts, associate director of the Crossroads Urban Center.

“People in the more affluent neighborhoods didn’t realize it would affect them.”

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Opposition Forces

A key issue—and the reason some renters’ and low-income housing advocates like Wasatch Tenants Union and Crossroads Urban Center oppose the plan—is its definition of “affordable.” In its current form, individuals earning at or below 80% of the Area Median Income (AMI) would pay rent no greater than 30% of their take-home pay. That means a family of three with a yearly salary of $66,000 could rent a unit for $1,660 month, about $200 less than the current median rent for a 2-bedroom apartment in Salt Lake County. The affordability requirements would be attached to the properties through deed restrictions lasting for 30 years and monitored by the city, although the enforcement process is not yet defined. Tibbitts, of Crossroads Urban Center, wants to see the AMI thresholds lowered. “Our problems are not with the affordable housing, but with the proposals to get there,” he said. “We are telling the city, ‘Don’t be timid.’” Cromer agreed that the income metrics must include people earning less. “Don’t talk to me about 80% AMI. I want to see a number that is much lower,” she said, adding that developers are fine with the current proposal, but “the public” is not. The city also seems onboard with changing the requirements around the breadth and depth of affordability. “Based on the feedback from the commission and the public comment, we are going to look at the percentage AMI that we are requiring, and the percentage of units required to be affordable,” Javoronok said. Reducing the income threshold might be the only common ground. The list of complaints against the city’s plan is long and nuanced, but starts with the seismic change to allow multi-family dwellings in traditionally single-family neighborhoods. At both the Yalecrest forum and the planning commission hearing, critics of the plan decried a future where traditional homes could be torn down and replaced with duplexes and triplexes. Speakers claimed this incursion would unleash troubles ranging from water shortages to depressed property values to cheaper construction methods. Jesse Hulse, an architect specializing in urbaninfill projects who lives in Highland Park and runs an office in Central 9th, doesn’t think the city’s proposal is worth the risk to single-family zoning. “We are putting our finger on the scale without realizing how this intervention will impact existing neighborhoods,” he said. Cromer also believes the potential negatives of the incentives outweigh the predicted gains in affordable housing. “I’m not willing to compromise any neighborhood, including my own, for a proposal that doesn’t actually help a lot of people,” she added. But some critics paint a misleading and false picture of giant apartment towers looming over quaint bungalows. The latest draft plan from the city requires that new multi-family units meet ex-

“We are putting our finger on the scale without realizing how this intervention will impact existing neighborhoods.” —architect Jesse Hulse

isting zoning rules, meaning a triplex could only be as tall as the single-family home it replaces. Setbacks would also be largely unchanged in single-family zones and developers would have to adhere to the requirements of local historic districts. Under these restrictions, the most tangible change created by replacing a single-family home with a new multi-family structure would be the total number of residents on a parcel and, likely, the number of cars parking overnight. And while the plan would expand the number of multi-unit properties, in virtually no area would those developments be unprecedented, as zoning prior to 1995 allowed basement apartments and duplexes in traditionally single-family areas. “People tend to forget that townhomes and duplexes already exist in many of these neighborhoods,” explains Rigolon. “When I hear people talking about a new duplex as high-density housing, I have to laugh a little bit. This debate is not about high-density housing.” While much of the vocal opposition to the plan has originated from single-family neighborhoods on the East Bench and in Sugar House, the impacts would be far greater in more built-up areas of the city. Housing changes in RMF-35 districts would be more significant under the current plan, allowing increased density and reduced side and rear yards in return for setting aside between 20% and 40% of units for lower-income earners. Likewise, variances in existing high-density and mixed-use districts would allow 1 to 3 extra stories of construction in exchange for including designated affordable units.

“Without a way to incentivize for-sale housing, developers will continue to show up to Ballpark with rentals.” —Amy Hawkins, chairperson of the Ballpark Community Council

Traditionally, units in these large-scale developments have been rentals, and incentivizing that trend concerns Amy Hawkins, chairperson of the Ballpark Community Council. After noting that 79% of Ballpark residents are renters in her remarks to the planning commission, Hawkins was dismayed that affordable-housing incentives did nothing to promote homeownership in the city. “Renters who want to become homeowners are desperate,” she explained. “Without a way to incentivize for-sale housing, developers will continue to show up to Ballpark with rentals.” Other critics question the city’s ability to enforce the deed restrictions, citing the city’s failure to police short-term rentals (like Airbnbs). “The price tag for enforcement is not defined or discussed,” says Cromer, after running through the backlog of stalled housing investigations and reviews she witnesses as a landlord. “Everything about this ordinance depends on the deed restriction and enforcement of reduction in rent.” Cromer also predicts developers will find and exploit loopholes in the policy to negate any impact on affordable housing. “Providing incentives to people who don’t want to provide less-expensive housing—who instead want to build marketrate housing—is flawed.”

NIMBY or YIMBY

Critics of the affordable housing incentives also challenge the economics behind incentivizing denser housing to reduce rents. Giving developers more floors and more units will just drive up land

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Time Capsule

How Salt Lake City has changed, or stayed the same, over 25 years.

SLC in 1997

SLC in 2022

Mayor: Deedee Corradini

Mayor: Erin Mendenhall

Salt Lake City Council: Lee Martinez, Joanne Milner, Mary Mark, Deeda Seed, Tom Godfrey, Bryce Jolley, Keith Christensen

Salt Lake City Council: Victoria PetroEschler, Alejandro Puy, Chris Wharton, Ana Valdemoros, Darin Mano, Dan Dugan, Amy Fowler

Minimum wage: $4.75/hour Median household income (1999): $36,944

Minimum wage: $7.25/hour

Poverty rate (2000): 15.3%

Median household income (2021): $63,156

Average house sale price in Sugar House (June 1997): $152,600

Poverty rate (2021): 15.2%

Average rent for 2-bedroom apt. (SLC, 2000): $663 Median rent for any apartment (SLC, 2000) $564 Vacancy rate (SLC): 4%

Average house sale price in Sugar House: $662,375 Average rent for 2-bedroom apt. (SLCo): $1,814 Vacancy rate (SLCo): 2%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Utah Open Data Catalog, Kem Gardner Institute, Publishers Weekly, Salt Lake Tribune

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ing renters—but they aren’t as aware, engaged or organized as the its opponents—yet. “Unlike other comparable cities, we don’t have organizations that are specifically advocating for more housing. There is no active YIMBY [Yes In My Backyard] housing group in Salt Lake City,” he said. Also naturally missing from the debate are the future residents of Salt Lake City who stand to benefit from having affordable housing to one day live in. They are tomorrow’s constituency unable to make their case today. Babs De Lay, a realtor and former member of the city’s planning commission (and regular City Weekly contributor) supports the city’s zoning proposal and considers many of the arguments against it to be exaggerated. “No one can say their property values have gone down because someone built a duplex next to them,” De Lay said. “The people who are complaining are the people who bought a home five years ago when prices were half what they were now.” From the city’s perspective, the affordable housing incentives are an outgrowth of years of reports and surveys indicating that Salt Lake City is becoming a prohibitively expensive place to rent or buy housing. In response, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall asked the planning division to come up with a real plan to address the housing crisis. “When we got started, we thought of it as a zoning overlay. As it progressed, we didn’t think that mapping it was necessary,” explained Nick Norris, the city’s planning director. “We wanted to create other types of incentives in our zoning code that we haven’t developed yet.”

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prices, says Hulse. “Up-zoning increases the value of the land,” he said, “making developments more expensive, and making larger projects necessary to justify the increased land price.” Cromer sees another danger—the demolition of existing affordable housing in order to use the incentives to add density and increase rents for market-rate units. “The city’s plan will make land more valuable than the current housing that exists on it,” she said. “I’m not convinced we are going to gain more housing than we would lose.” After all the opposition, who is defending the city’s plans? Of the almost 50 speakers and written comments at the May planning commission hearing, only two people offered support for the plan. One of those lone voices, a homeowner and parent from the Foothill-Sunnyside neighborhood, connected the city’s lack of affordable housing to the decline in student enrollment at Salt Lake City public schools, citing both as troubling trends for the city’s future viability. Other public backers include the city planners who devised it and academics with expertise in urban planning, like Rigolon, who understand why some residents oppose change, but says cities like Salt Lake must continue to evolve. “Why do we stop now when the need is greatest, when we have sky-rocketing rents and a housing shortage?” Rigolon says. “It is in the public interest for everyone to chip in a little bit for collective goals that we as a city share.” Rigolon believes there are residents who support the goals and methods of the city’s plan—includ-

While the use of incentives to steer development trends isn’t new or innovative, Norris said using them to promote affordable housing is. In their staff report, city planners cited similar incentive structures in Los Angeles; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Austin, Texas; while Bozeman, Montana, recently began exploring an initiative that utilizes the same approach. “More and more cities are looking at incentives for affordable housing because of how rapidly the cost of housing has changed,” Norris said. Norris acknowledged that the enforcement side of the plan—a common touchstone for critics—remains a work in progress. “Our first step is to get the incentives right,” he said. “The second step is to work with city departments and the public about what enforcement looks like, knowing it would require new reallocation of resources.” Norris also believes that the concerns raised about the city’s single-family neighborhoods becoming overrun with multi-family dwellings aren’t realistic. In short, he thinks the incentives will most appeal to established developers who are already building affordable housing, and could now build more. “We don’t think a small-scale, private developer is going to use these incentives,” Norris said. “We believe the incentives will be used to add additional height and process modifications [particularly] around Downtown, where the majority of units will be added.” Ultimately, any change to the city’s zoning rules must be approved by the Salt Lake City Council. While the planning commission will get another chance to review the draft plan, hold more public hearings and make a recommendation to the city, the final decision rests with the council’s seven elected members. That means this debate will inevitably shift from academics and advocates to enter the general political arena, with all the complex questions that destination brings. Will city council members vote for a plan after hourslong public hearings where every speaker is opposed? Will changes to the plan’s affordability metrics encourage more support from advocates and low-income families? And how much influence can Mayor Mendenhall bring to the issue? All of these questions remain largely unanswered more than three years after the city started brainstorming the solutions that became its incentive plan. A lot depends on the changes made to the next version of the plan. Or does it? “People will continue to be afraid of it, because it is change, and will fight it tooth and nail,” predicted De Lay. “It’s all about NIMBYism and white privilege.” Plus, in case you are worried the drama over zoning in Utah’s capital city will end too soon, there’s more on the horizon. The next big project for the city’s planning division might be to design another zoning overlay—this one focused on where homeless shelters can be located.

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efore becoming City Weekly’s resident food dude, I spent a lot of time writing music reviews and providing local concert coverage for our beloved alt weekly. As I’ve shifted to the local food beat, I am always surprised at the parallels between the music and food worlds. Albums become menus, singles become signature dishes and sous chefs step into the spotlight to launch solo careers. The one area in which food differs from music, however, is the concert. Sure, when a chef opens a restaurant, the show must go on, but it’s rare to see a chef go from city-to-city and venue-to-venue to show off their talents to a legion of screaming fans. This, I feel, is where the pop-up comes in. For example, let’s take Arthur, the summer pop-up event hosted by Chef Kevin Finch and his partner, hospitality marketing expert Alexa Finch. This finely-curated setlist of European-inspired cuisine, presented with sustainability in mind, is a delectable clarion call that will attract the most discerning of diners. I had the chance to attend Arthur’s inaugural event, complete with a backstage pass to visit with Kevin and Alexa, and I think it’s safe to say we can expect some great things from this

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this dish the perfect way to kick off a summer evening. By the third course, it was clear Chef Finch wasn’t messing around. It was a grilled maitake mushroom topped with a healthy dollop of bearnaise sauce and sprinkled with marigold petals. Its appearance reminds you of everything you love about autumn, and the rich flavors were immaculately balanced. It’s a testament to the power mushrooms have to replace steak without any fuss, and this was easily one of the best things I have ever eaten. Course four was a complete shift on the flavor spectrum—in all the best ways. It was a black cod fillet drenched in a sauce of roasted bones and pureed garlic. Where the maitake went all in with rich, umami flavors that left no tastebud unloved, the acidity of the sauce and sharpness of the garlic cut its way to the opposite end of the flavor spectrum. It was an incredible blend of flavors that came together over one of the flakiest, most delicate cuts of fish I have ever experienced. The fifth course consisted of tender beef slices served with sorrel, roasted potatoes and a sauce known only as Very Good Sauce. It’s somewhere between a jus and a gravy—and it is indeed very good. This dish was Sunday pot roast turned up to 11, and each element contributed to a satisfying wrap to the savory section of the menu. Our last two courses were on the sweet side—a yogurt served with tangy rhubarb and honey, and a slice of chocolatey tarte ambrose with raspberries and vanilla cream. Both courses were stunning in their own way, and once again nailed Chef Finch’s ability to play with richness and acidity. Arthur will be in full swing during the month of July with events taking place on July 9 - 10 and July 16 - 17. If tickets are still available, you can find them by checking out Chef Kevin Finch’s website, kevingfinch.com. CW

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local power couple. Chef Finch is a Sugar House native whose international walkabout has taken him from an internship at The Grand America when he was 15 years old to Chef de Cuisine at the renowned Atelier Crenn. He met Alexa while working at Betony in New York, and the two have been traveling the world together ever since. “The original plan was to travel the world, gain a bunch of knowledge and come home and share that with everyone,” Kevin Finch says. “When I was a young chef, I was told not to open a restaurant until I turned 45, but COVID rapidly sped that up.” With a stellar pedigree of restaurants in Chef Finch’s resume, the quest to open a spot of his own begins and ends with Arthur. “Arthur is a pseudonym my dad uses to make reservations at restaurants,” Kevin Finch says. “The concept is named after this fictional character who is a well-traveled man and likes to entertain and pour wine for others. So, the concept has some refinement, but is also accessible.” Refinement with a healthy dose of accessibility was exactly what I found the menu to be at Arthur’s inaugural event. Nestled within the sleek space of Nohm (165 W. 900 South), Central Ninth’s coolest Japaneseinspired nightspot, a menu of lovingly prepared dishes that exemplify Chef Kevin Finch’s career danced across our tables. Alexa Finch was on hand to provide the wine pairings for the evening, each of which were primo complements to the seven luscious courses we received. The menu kicked off with a dish called Best of Utah, a collection of locally grown root veggies presented with a tasty, mustardy sauce gribiche. The white radishes with a little kiss of smoke from the grill were the highlights here. Next up was some Monterey Bay squid with English peas set atop a savory, buttery custard. The squid was perfect, and that silky custard made

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2 Row Brewing 6856 S. 300 West, Midvale 2RowBrewing.com On Tap: Feelin’ Hazy

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Shades Brewing 154 W. Utopia Ave, S. Salt Lake ShadesBrewing.beer On Tap: 4th of July Hoppy Pilsner

Avenues Proper 376 8th Ave, SLC avenuesproper.com On Tap: Duncan Hills Lager

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Bewilder Brewing 445 S. 400 West, SLC BewilderBrewing.com On Tap: Haze Hugs - Hazy Pale Ale

Mountain West Cider 425 N. 400 West, SLC MountainWestCider.com On Tap: Desolation Prickly Pear & Cottonwood Hopped Ciders

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Ogden River Brewing 358 Park Blvd, Ogden OgdenRiverBrewing.com On Tap: Injector Hazy IPA

Bonneville Brewery 1641 N. Main, Tooele BonnevilleBrewery.com On Tap: Peaches & Cream Ale

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Craft by Proper 1053 E. 2100 So., SLC craftbyproper.com On Tap: Blizzard Wizard Pale Ale

Proper Brewing 857 S. Main, SLC ProperBrewingCo.com On Tap: East Side Paradise - Rice Lager

Desert Edge Brewery 273 Trolley Square, SLC DesertEdgeBrewery.com On Tap: British Mild

Red Rock Brewing 254 So. 200 West RedRockBrewing.com On Tap: Red Headed Stranger - Red Ale w/ Coffee on Nitro

Epic Brewing Co. 825 S. State, SLC EpicBrewing.com On Tap: Pineapple Creamsicle IPA Fisher Brewing Co. 320 W. 800 South, SLC FisherBeer.com On Tap: Fisher Beer Grid City Beer Works 333 W. 2100 South, SLC GridCityBeerWorks.com On Tap: Extra Pale Ale Hopkins Brewing Co. 1048 E. 2100 South, SLC HopkinsBrewingCompany.com On Tap: Strawberry Sorghum Kiitos Brewing 608 W. 700 South, SLC KiitosBrewing.com Level Crossing Brewing Co. 2496 S. West Temple, S. Salt Lake

Red Rock Fashion Place 6227 So State / Redrockbrewing.com Red Rock Kimball Junction Redrockbrewing.com 1640 Redstone Center RoHa Brewing Project 30 Kensington Ave, SLC RoHaBrewing.com On Tap: Fancy Fence IPA Roosters Brewing Multiple Locations RoostersBrewingCo.com On Tap: Cosmic Autumn Rebellion SaltFire Brewing 2199 S. West Temple, S. Salt Lake SaltFireBrewing.com On Tap: Franky Mr Shankly NEIPA, Dirty Chai Stout Salt Flats Brewing 2020 Industrial Circle, SLC SaltFlatsBeer.com On Tap: Hazy Pale Ale 5%

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e here in the palatial offices of City Weekly’s Beer Nerd division pride ourselves on our cutting-edge analysis and reporting of the hottest trends and flavors. This week, we were lucky to encounter a beer/wine hybrid and an IPA that manage to pull off fruit salad quantities of flavor, relying only on hops and malt. We love our job. Proper - Mega Yacht Rock Juice Box: This big brother to Proper Brewing’s Yacht Rock Juice Box dials in at 7.6 percent ABV instead of the more sessionable 5.0 percent. It pours a murky orange, slightly amber color, with a moderate head that fades quickly. Strong aromas showcase ripe tangerine, strawberry, melon, berry and black tea, with some tropical fruit and strawberry support—a nice balance of citrus and tropical. It’s like if you mixed orange and pink Starburst, but with some herbal notes. This one really nails the west-coast flavor. I get lots of tangerine, strawberry, melon and black tea, but fewer tropical notes than the nose. There’s much more of a pine flavor, with a strong bitterness. A semi-strong syrupy sweetness emerges to battle the bitterness, but overall it finishes bitter as expected—not quite West Coast, with a strong candied-malt body. That body is medium, light and low carbonation. It’s very slightly resinous, but overall I was impressed with the relative crispness. Overall: I would describe this as one of the best-balanced IPAs that leans West Coast, featuring some great grapefruit and tangerine flavors. Nothing stands out, but

it definitely leans bitter while capturing citrus and tropical flavors well. It’s not on the bitterness level of a Sierra Nevada Torpedo or Stone IPA, but more drinkable, and allows the fruit flavors and sweetness to come through. TF - Maxine Oenobeer: This new grissette features German pilsner and wheat malt that is rested in Chardonnay barrels for conditioning. The addition of Merlot grapes and oak add a complex yet refreshing aspect to the beer. It pours a mostly clear burnt fuschia color, with a head that withers quickly; there are tons of bubbles rising as seen on the side of the glass. I initially got a healthy dose of hops, with what seemed like American varieties in there mixed with some spicy Saaz. Interesting. I guess the grapes are giving the beer the dryness that you get with some red wines, as reflected in the color. The flavor is also a mix of malt and hops, but the grapes are more noticeable here than in the aroma—of the cold beer, that is. The hops must all be in the last additions, as the grapes are adding a significant part of the bittering by themselves. The mouthfeel is medium, with high carbonation and a good bit of body to be elevated by this carbonation; it’s quite complex, and more than you get with more ordinary beers. The grapes add to the whole ensemble in a very well-blended way. The finish is toward the dry side, but there is a lot going on to challenge it. Overall: I have been pretty impressed with this beer. To me, it is obvious that they learned something from their previous grissette to get the balance just right. I like how the hops are such a subtle player in the aroma and the initial parts of the taste, then they step aside and let the rest of the beer do its thing for the finish. The grapes seem to really work with this one, and I think that they have done it really well. I like that Maxine is on drafty only; it gives you the opportunity to reflect on what you’re drinking, while enjoying the brewery’s atmosphere. Mega Yacht Rock Juice Box offers the benefits of being enjoyed at one of Proper’s many restaurants and pubs, or in the comfort of your personal space. As always, cheers! CW

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Local Eateries Supporting Reproductive Rights

The SLC Veggie (@theslcveggie) recently added an Instagram post that features a fairly comprehensive list of local businesses that are featuring ways to support reproductive rights. Some of the dining luminaries are The Big O Doughnuts (248 W. 900 South, 385-770-7024, bigodoughnuts.square.site) who will be donating a portion of every anatomy doughnut purchase to the Utah Abortion Fund (utahabortionfund.org), Doki Doki Desserts (249 E. 400 South, dokidessert.com) who will be donating proceeds from their strawberry cheesecake crepe cake to the Utah Abortion Fund and SLC Eatery (1017 S. Main Street, 801-355-7952, slceatery.com) will be donating half of the proceeds from Pink Tetela purchases to the UAF as well. For a full list, check out The SLC Veggie on Instagram.

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I recently heard about the grand opening of Park City’s Dos Olas Cantina (2417 High Mountain Road, Ste. 19) that will be a part of The Plaza at Canyons Village. From all early reports, Dos Olas Cantina seems like the kind of place fans of contemporary Mexican cuisine paired with plenty of great margaritas, tequila and mezcal to choose from. Dos Olas also looks to have some great patio seating from which diners can enjoy some small plates or family-style entrees. Based on the space, menu and cocktails, Dos Olas is going to be the perfect place to kick back on a balmy summer evening.

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Music Mailbag

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tisket, a tasket, let’s raid the inbox basket. There Are Music Fans, and There Are Dylan Fans: Just prior to Bob Dylan’s show at the Eccles Theater last week, we heard from some Dylan uber-fans/bootleg curators who’ve dedicated themselves to the cause of uncovering recorded evidence of Dylan’s show in Salt Lake on May 25, 1976. The show was, they note, the last of his Rolling Thunder Revue shows of that run; it also included Joan Baez, Kinky Friedman, Bob Neuwirth and Roger McGuinn. Photos of the poster for the gig are smile-inducing, as the Salt Palace show had a ticket price of $8.75. (Not nine bucks, $8.75.) Going all-out in their efforts to find a local source who might have squirreled away a selfrecorded tape, organizers have created a webpage called doyouhaveit.info. To them, the show has historic value, as “that concert happens to be the Holy Grail of missing Dylan recordings. Dylan fans have been searching for a tape of this historic show for decades, not least because of its most unusual song selection. The newly opened Bob Dylan Center and Archive in Tulsa, Okla. have also been searching. While they have discovered other lost Dylan recordings, they could not find this one, concluding that it was not officially captured from the soundboard.” As true believers, the sound-seekers of Do You Have It can go into considerable detail about why that particular show merits a listen in 2022, like citing the vagaries of that night’s setlist. The efforts haven’t just circulated on the narrow bandwidths of Dylan social media, either. On June 27, Rolling Stone published a lengthy article on the tape tracking efforts, called “Bob Dylan Superfans Join Forces to Find Lost ‘Holy Grail’ 1976 Bootleg.” That article contextualizes the rarities of that night’s setlist, and notes that the Salt Lake show wasn’t recorded due to equipment being slow to arrive at the Salt Palace. Thus, only a canny fan with consumer-grade, period recording equipment would’ve been able to document the gig.

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with writing their review, but we have so far been unable to track any of them down in order to test this theory.” If you’re still reading this, you’re likely to find some interest in a Substack dedicated to such matters, dylanlive.substack.com, which tracks Dylan recordings with hypervigilance. We wish these true believers well in their deeply-specific, SLCaimed curation efforts. The Unlikely Note of Post Malone’s Kids’ Clothing Line: Post Malone’s adding his voice to the ever-evolving question of whether you’re an actual “star” without having a clothing line. The performer’s releasing a line of youth-centric clothing—complete with cartoonish likenesses of Malone—called PostyCo Kids. A release from the firm handling publicity for the rollout suggests the following: “The PostyCo Kids collection items are cute clothes for little rockstars with sizes ranging from baby and toddler to youth styles. Our little ones and your little ones can rock out in a range of apparel and accessories including a onesie, tees and hoodies featuring the raddest pop-art inspired Post Malone graphics and more. The collection ranges from $25-$65 and will begin shipping this August.” A quick trip to the all-knowing Wikipedia suggests this isn’t the man’s first foray into entrepreneurship, noting that he’s bene attached to “a French rosé wine, Maison No. 9, named after his favourite tarot card, the Nine of Swords,” as well as an investment in the esports and gaming enterprise Envy Gaming. Fuller info on the clothing line can be found at postycokids.com. Scott Lippitt is Back on Our Radar: In the hyper-speed world of local singles dropping, SLC songwriter Scott Lippitt has a busy summer planned, with several singles preceding a longplayer scheduled for October release. His latest effort arrives on Friday, July 8, when “Why I Always” joins a track that we recently highlighted here, “Sandy Vaults.” The new single was recorded in Scott’s home in Salt Lake City, and mastered by Scott Wiley at Provo’s June Audio. The single, the songwriter says, “sounds a bit like a Jack Johnson song with a strumming acoustic guitar” and features “a shimmering electric guitar, lively percussion and vocal harmonies.” He’ll no doubt play the cut at a release show at Tea Zaanti (1944 S. 1100 East) on Friday, July 8. CW COURTESY PHOTO

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lżbieta Bilicka became a resident of Utah through happenstance. While visiting her sister, who teaches economics at Utah State University, she found herself at exactly the right place to secure a job in teaching, eventually becoming a Faculty Associate at the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University in Logan in May 2019. A concert pianist by training, she was offered a position at the college in relatively short order after her initial visit in 2018, and she’d find it a nice fit for several years, balancing teaching with performances around the world. Even as COVID entered the picture, her ability to roll with things proved useful, and as classes were moved from the real world into online contexts, she was able to release music, recording a CD with staffers at USU. That album, Lights and Shadows, would come out on Centaur Records, earning critical praise within the classical music press. She also performed through the Nova Chamber Music Series in Salt Lake City and with the Fry Street Quartet. A number of solo performances also managed to sneak through on either side of the pandemic’s worst stretch. The associate professor found a calling. But another opportunity has knocked. At the Hilton Head International Piano Competition, Bilicka performed in front of Olga Kern of the Manhattan School of Music. The latter was impressed by Bilicka’s talent; conversations were had. And, before too long, a chance to study under

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Kern in New York City materialized. Since Bilicka already had management there, the choice was pretty clear, and she made the decision to move to New York. Interestingly, Bilicka, a native of Poland, had already set up a series of four performances around the region, which are now serving as something of a goodbye series, as well as an opportunity to gain some funds for the move to New York. Even as those were coming into play, she found herself teaching students during a summer camp at USU for talented youth musicians from throughout the west. Some will wind up attending USU; others were simply attending for the opportunity to work directly with a performer and educator like Bilicka, who’s won competitions in Asia and Europe, as well as the U.S. The chance to study with Kern, Bilicka says, “is something that came up completely unexpected, as have many other things in my life.” Her time here, she says, “was very welcoming. The people at Utah State are great, and the department’s very much like a family. I’m talking about faculty as well as the students. Everyone’s been very warm and nice. I’ve been very happy here.” Booking “goodbye” shows wasn’t even a thought, as “I’d booked these concerts in advance, not even planning to leave at that time. Originally, they were to practice my competition repertoire in public, really. And that’s still valid; it’s just being coupled as a fundraiser for my studies. Obviously, it’s a huge financial stretch to move to New York.” Still, there’s sentiment involved, as “I’ll be saying ‘goodbye’ to Utah and all the people that will come out,” Bilicka says. “This will be a very emotional series for me.” This round of shows will include a 3 p.m. performance at Daynes Music Recital Hall (6935 S. State Street, Midvale) on Wednesday, June 29; a 4:30 p.m. performance at the Orem Piano Gallery Recital Hall (444 W. 800 North, Orem) on Saturday, July 2; and a final Utah show at the Ogden Piano Gallery Recital Hall (5270 Freeway Park Dr., Ogden) on Friday, July 8 at 6:30 p.m. For further information on her career, visit her self-titled homepage, elżbietabilicka.com. CW

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If there were an award for the “Best Use of a Classic Rock Song to Close the Pilot Episode of a Short-Lived, Much-Loved TV Show,” Styx’s “Come Sail Away” would be contender, having sonically closed out the debut episode of Freaks and Geeks to hilarious-yetprofound effect. People of a Certain Age may have different reasons for loving Styx, whether the band appeared on a long-ago mixtape, or a current Yacht Rock Spotify playlist of note. Ditto their summer tourmates in REO Speedwagon and Loverboy, all three giving the feels to a generation raised on these bands’ songs. The trio of well-seasoned arena-rock acts are hitting the summer shed circuit in 2022. And while their lineups may differ from those of the classic days, but all these groups know that playing their hits for nostalgic crowds will be a satisfying experience. Tickets for this dream team package of ’80s rockers, appearing at Usana Amphitheatre (5150 S. 6055 West, West Valley City) on Friday, July 9, will run you between $29.50-64.50, with selections available at livenation.com.

Songwriters in the Round @ The Garage on Beck

Jordan Matthew Young headlines a talented group of Americana/folk/country songwriters, who’ll be swapping stories and songs and the venerable Garage on Beck (1199 Beck St.) on Friday, July 9. Young’s described as packing a lot of elements into one act, “coming strapped with serious guitar mojo, playing slide and electric blues in a manner that’s tasty, while maintaining raw grit. The blond-locked guitarist balances that crunchy feel with classic rock impulses and big-league vocals into a smooth southern groove.” Also appearing will be Kirk Dath, Mel Soul, Misty Sanone, Neal Middleton and Sam Smith. The club’s homepage cites a 9 p.m. start time, with a $15 cover for this 21-up event.

Zoso @The Depot

Dotting the calendars of clubs great and small are tribute bands dedicated to one group, or one epoch in music. In the case of Zoso, Led Zeppelin is the band of choice, the group’s output deemed just as worthy of live attention today as during the classic band’s heyday. Not content to simply play the music, they give the crowd an experience, claiming that “it’s much more than just being a tribute. It’s about touching a golden era in music. Zoso embodies Page, Plant, Bonham and Jones in their spirit, tightly-wound talent and authenticity.

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Each band member has been carefully selected to portray both the appearance and playing styles of their Led Zeppelin counterparts. In eighteen successful years of touring, they have perfected their art.” This show ends a run of dates for the group, meaning that last-night-oftour energy’s gonna be shared from those onstage to those in attendance. And based on recent tribute shows at The Depot, SLC’s got love for yesteryear acts, with their music played to perfection. Zoso plays The Depot (13 N. 400 West) on Friday, July 9, with a 7 p.m. door. You can find info on ticket sales at zosoontour.com.

The Suffers @ Canyons Village (Park City)

The Suffers boast a sparkling résumé that shows dates shared with great bands (Thievery Corporation, Galactic, Lake Street Dive), gigs at stellar festivals and music series (Newport Folk Fest, Austin City Limits, Afropunk), appearances on music-smart radio/TV/podcast outlets (NPR’s Tiny Desk, The Late Show with David Letterman and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah). The soul group’s most-recent album is It Starts with Love, featuring the current single “Don’t Bother Me.” Vocalist and songwriter Kim Franklin told BrooklynVegan that “I can honestly say that bringing this song to the finish line has been one of the honors of my career so far. Influenced by the complexities, power, and care of Buena Vista Social Club, Miami Sound Machine, and Sly and The Family Stone, ‘Don’t Bother Me’ is a demand

to be left alone by the outside world so that the wildness, fun, mistakes, and freedom that should come with being a young adult can truly be embraced.” The Suffers play Canyons Village (4000 Canyons Resort Dr, Park City) on Friday, July 9 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. SLC’s Marqueza will also appear on the bill. For more information on this show (and several others in July) at Canyon Village, see cvma.com/events/.

The Melvins @ Metro Music Hall

A band going on 40 years, The Melvins, with their Washington state heritage, are no strangers to touring SLC. Their upcoming appearance in town will be part of a 40-odd city run, featuring founding guitarist and vocalist Buzz Osbourne, drummer Dale Crover and bassist Steven McDonald of the legendary Redd Kross. The band’s slow/”sludge” punk has been welldocumented as an influence on a host of groups, with AllMusic rightly noting that “their ability to combine punk with a strong Black Sabbath influence had a major impact on everything from grunge to alternative metal to doom metal and stoner rock.” Eventually, this band won’t be on the all-the-time touring routine, so the curious might be well-served with a visit to this gig. The Melvins appear at the Metro Music Hall on Tuesday, July 12 with Helms Alee and Harsh Mellow. Doors open at 7 p.m., and $27.50 tickets can be found at metromusichall.com. CW

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July is a month of parades, laser shows, fireworks where allowed, picnics and fun. Utah celebrates two major holidays in July: the Fourth of July and Pioneer Day—aka “Days of 47” or “Pie and Beer Day.” Frankly, it’s Pioneer Day that draws the biggest crowds. July is also the month when many of us fly the American flag. With so many protests taking place across the country and in Zion, many opt not to fly the flag. There’s a proper way to hang the U.S. flag vertically. If you’re protesting, you’d hang the flag backwards, upside down or in some other inappropriate way. To hang it properly—say, from a window or against a wall— the canton portion with the stars should go on the observers’ left. Other rules you may or may not have heard of include: 1. The flag shouldn’t touch the ground or floor or get into water. As a kid, we were told if the flag touched the ground, you had to destroy it, but nowadays you only destroy a flag if it’s past its time and too worn to fly. 2. The flag is only flown at half-staff when we, as a nation or a state, are in mourning, like when Ruth Bader Ginsberg passed in 2020. Government officials inform us when to lower our flags. Also, you can fly the flag at half-staff from sunrise to noon on Memorial Day. 3. If you have a flagpole that’s big enough to fly multiple flags, the U.S flag must be the top flag flying. It must be the first one raised and the last one lowered. 4. You are only supposed to fly a flag at night if it is properly illuminated during the hours of darkness. 5. Only fly a flag in inclement weather if it’s made of an all-weather material. 6. Only fly a flag in good condition. You can repair small tears and wash a flag, but if it’s overly torn, worn or faded, it should be properly disposed of. 7. The federal flag code simply states that flags too worn out to fly must be burned in a respectful manner. Burning a flag at a protest is obviously not respectful—which is the point of a protester. There are flag disposal ceremonies, which usually take place around the country on Flag Day, June 14. You can contact any American Legion in your area to see if they might be holding any ceremonies in the future. 8. The federal code also states that a flag should never be used as a covering for something (like a bedspread, curtains, etc.), and you should never draw or write on an American flag. If you’ve never attended the funeral of a veteran, then you’ve maybe missed the amazing and moving ritual of properly folding a flag. Each fold represents different things—like life, belief in eternal life, honor, etc. Thirteen folds are made before the flag is handed to the family. n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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Great Art If getting a sound night’s sleep is your aim, this European “zerostar hotel” is not for you. Instead, the art installation in the village of Saillon, Switzerland, is meant to provoke deep thought about the state of our world. Brothers Frank and Patrik Riklin created a platform next to a gas station, upon which sit a bed and two bedside tables and lamps. There are no walls, ceiling or doors, and cars streak by on the road just feet away, Reuters reported. “In a nutshell, now is not the time to sleep, we have to react,” Patrik said. “If we continue in the same direction we are today, there might be more anti-idyllic places than idyllic.” The price for the no-sleep night: $337. Oooohhhkkkayyyyy He’s the perfect husband: “Married life with him is wonderful. He doesn’t fight with me. He doesn’t argue and he just understands me.” “He” is Marcelo, a rag doll that was made for Meirivone Rocha Moraes, 37, by her mother after she complained about being single, the Daily Mail reported. And to pile on to the Brazilian woman’s joy, just months later, she found herself delivering Marcelo’s rag baby! (“It’s true, Marcelo got me pregnant. He didn’t use a condom,” Moraes said.) Not wanting to have a child out of wedlock, Marcelo and Meirivone were joined in holy matrimony before 250 guests and spent their honeymoon week in Rio de Janeiro, then returned to await the arrival of Marcelinho—an event that was livestreamed on May 21. She says the birth, attended by a nurse and doctor, was pain-free. “He was here in 35 minutes.” Extra Value Meal When a customer at a Carl’s Jr. location in Skiatook, Oklahoma, near Tulsa, sat down on June 20 to eat his burger, he discovered something extra in the bag: a baggie with a “crystalline substance,” Inside Edition reported. The manager replaced the man’s meal and called police, who field-tested the substance and found it was methamphetamine. Officers arrested Bryce Francis, an employee of the restaurant, who was allegedly dealing drugs from the drive-thru window and told police he had put the packet in the wrong bag. He was held at the Osage County Jail in lieu of $25,000 bail. Babies on Board There’s a baby boom coming to the NICU and Labor and Delivery department of St. Luke’s East Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, Fox News reported on June 22—and it’s an inside job. Thirteen neonatal nurses are pregnant, and one gave birth on June 3. “About every two weeks, someone else would announce, ‘I’m pregnant,’” said Caitlin Hall, the new mother. The due dates are spread out through December. “To be able to experience this all together has been such a relief but also really exciting,” said Ellie Kongs, one of the nurses. Smooth Reaction A woman who was allegedly being held hostage in the Bronx, New York, used a food ordering app to plea for help on June 19, CNN reported. The unnamed woman, 24, had met a man online and agreed to meet him, but, she said, he assaulted and raped her. He took away her phone, but she asked if she could use it to order food. On her Grubhub order, she added a note: “please call the police ... please don’t make it obvious.” The restaurant, Chipper Truck Cafe in Yonkers, alerted police, who responded about an hour later and arrested Kemoy Royal, 32. He was held on $25,000 cash bail and faces charges in another assault that took place four days earlier. Grubhub offered $5,000 to the restaurant owner to “invest in her business as our way of recognizing her and (her family) for their quick thinking.” Alice Bermejo, one of the owners, said, “We’re just grateful that the girl is OK. That is the most important thing.”

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