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SOAP BOX “Go Big or Go Extinct,” July 14 Opinion

Dr. Sam Zeveloff’s diatribe of doom and gloom about cougars has no substance and is blatantly false. Prior to 1971, cougars were classified as vermin without state regulation, protection or scientific management. In 1971, they were classified as protected with management policy established by the Utah Division of Wildlife.

Cougar numbers have increased over the past 50 years, as proven by consistent growth in the annual harvest numbers reported by the state—51 in 1972; 185 in 1981; 265 in 1991; 449 in 2001; 349 in 2011; and 549 in 2020.

Man can have—and has had—a positive impact on wildlife, through science-driven species and land management. Specifically in San Juan County, multi-use land management has led to increased wildlife numbers of mule deer, bighorn sheep, elk and pronghorn, which directly benefit cougars. Water and grazing have also been

@SLCWEEKLY improved for the benefit of these wildlife species and cattle on public range. Again cougars benefit from multi-use land management.

State wildlife management agencies apply scientific strategies to ensure viable, healthy and balanced wildlife populations for all species. Dr. Zeveloff should research facts before he spins the false narrative that cougars or other species will be endangered if Bears Ears or other areas continue to have multi-use management, including scientific management of wildlife.

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Riverton Increase Connectivity of Wild Lands In his guest editorial last week, Dr. Sam Zeveloff is right to argue that protecting large natural landscapes in the West is essential to prevent mass species extinction, especially in the face of climate change.

That’s exactly why the America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act is so important. It

would protect a huge swath of wild land— 8.5 million acres of federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

But Zeveloff is correct that this is not enough to avoid species extinction. Critically, the Red Rocks Act would increase landscape connectivity in the region, which is absolutely essential to sustaining biodiversity.

The lands in the America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act are located in a chain of largely natural landscapes that stretch from northern Mexico to the Canadian and Alaskan Arctic, known as the Western Wildway or Spine of the Continent.

The problem is that the protected areas in the Wildway exist largely as isolated fragments, surrounded by human development. What we need to do is not only protect more land, but also increase connectivity between protected landscapes.

The America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act would help fill in the gap between existing protected landscapes in the Western Wildway. And it would protect crucial

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stretches of five major wildlife migration corridors that are essential to facilitating wildlife movement between ecosystems all along the Western Wildway.

These corridors facilitate wildlife movement between places like Grand Canyon and Yellowstone, Grand StaircaseEscalante National Monument and the San Juan Mountains in Colorado, Greater Canyonlands and Grand Teton and Rock Mountain national parks. Elk, deer, pronghorn antelope, bighorn sheep, black bear, mountain lion and wolves use these corridors and would benefit.

By protecting lands in the America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act, we move toward the vision that Sam Zeveloff so rightly advocates for.

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How are you saving water this summer?

Benjamin Wood

We’ve essentially abandoned our grass.

And we have a little kiddie pool for our dogs to cool off in, so every few days when I refill it, I use the old water on our plants and blackberry bushes.

Katharine Biele

I zipped my strip a few years ago and said goodbye to lawn forever.

Kelly Boyce

Peeing outside whenever possible. No need to be wasting so much water on flushing. Not at Waterworld status quite yet , but considering the option

Scott Renshaw

Drinking more alcohol.

Thomas Crone

My answer can be found in the field of brown grass that passes for my lawn.

(Here’s hoping the owners eventually xeriscape.)

Bryan Bale

When I don’t exercise, I can drink less water, take fewer showers and do less laundry. I’m not being lazy—I’m conserving water.

Carolyn Campbell

I’m turning off the sprinklers quicker than usual.

Eric Granato

By cutting down on car washes.

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Twitter Quitter I

’ve never been much of a quitter. Lord knows, I would have been much better off if I were, however.

When I was a kid, I got into a snowball fight with about five other guys. I got pummeled to the ground in the old Copperton tennis courts. After a spell, I was firing back from my knees. Then I ran out of snow and figured it was over.

The other guys had the same problem, which is why they switched from throwing snowballs to chunks of ice. I didn’t quit, but I cried for a day and hurt like hell. Nothing quite like getting whacked by your friends, I say.

In high school, I was on track—in my mind—to be a star football player at Bingham High School. As a sophomore, I had lettered in wrestling, played varsity baseball and had a kick-ass sophomore football season. Mid-way through my junior year, Coach told me that Utah State asked if I would like to join their program. I figured, probably correctly, that colleges back then just sent out that stuff to entice anyone to play. It wasn’t a real offer, but I pretended it was.

I wanted to play for the University of Utah, though. I was a better-than-average football player in those days, meaning I probably wouldn’t make the squad at the bigger high schools today. I was a 205-pound, two-way lineman and linebacker. Puny by today’s standards.

So, with the Utah State tease in hand, I tried harder hoping to make the Deseret News Player of the Week or something. I’d hurt my shoulder somewhere mid-season, but I didn’t quit and kept playing. Those were the “rub dirt on it” days, so the coaches put a knee pad on it, of all things, with a bunch of hot balm.

Needless to say, that was no prophylactic against Granger in the last game of the season, reaching out to sack the quarterback and my right arm snagging on his gear, dislocating it. I ran off the field hurting like never before and looking like Magilla Gorilla—one arm longer than the other.

Four hours later, doctors knocked me out at what was then Holy Cross Hospital, and my arm went back into the shoulder socket. The coaches told me to quit and not play my senior season. I had surgery instead that didn’t do one bit of good—I dislocated my shoulder a few more times after surgery and at football practice the next season. My dad rigged up some wire clothes hangers to hold my arm in place so I was able to play, but what good is a center who can’t snap or a defensive lineman who can only tackle with one arm? I played anyway, which was a disaster because I soon enough blew out my knee while protecting my shoulder.

I should have quit. Now, all these years on, those injuries led from one thing to another to the point that I now have three joint replacements—knee, shoulder and hip.

I’m here to tell you, kids, that unless your name is Alex Smith, you should never play football hurt. Actually, I can make a pretty good case for not playing football at all, but I don’t want to bust the dreams of all those wannabe jocks on Twitter.

On June 22, I quit feeding my birds. You might recall me writing and wringing my hands about that. On the same day, I quit Twitter. I brought food back to the birds after a brief epiphany, which was the right thing for me to do.

Birds make me happy.

I have no plans to do the same for Twitter. Twitter does not make me happy. The most I plan to do is reignite my account every 30 days, so it isn’t permanently disabled,

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like I did this morning. I read a few tweets, got sick to my stomach and came back to earth. It reminded me of how I felt each morning of the 35 years of my off-again, on-again smoking habit.

I quit smoking, finally, in 2008, just before traveling to New Orleans to watch the Utes smack those arrogant dogs from Alabama in the 2009 Sugar Bowl. Those were such great days, a full three months before I opened my Twitter account in April of the same year, not knowing what to do with it.

By 2016, Twitter was being calved into all kinds of factions, the biggest and worst headed by super narcissist Donald Trump. Twitter became hell, the greatest timesuck of all time. What was I thinking? That I could fire off a tweet—even one that engaged 60,000 or so people as sometimes happened—railing against a Mike Lee, Burgess Owens or Chris Stewart, and it would lead to something good? Those guys don’t listen to anyone, let alone a Twitter prick like me. Twitter is just the old snowball fight—a bunch of grown-up kids tossing snow and ice at each other because they got used to it.

The only thing I’m thankful for is that Twitter wrote the addictive algorithm that led me to Rob, Ed, Amy, Tom, Virgil, Staci, Rick, Sharon, Wounded Bear, Pat, irminsil, Raul, Johnny, Clinto, Reggie, Pig Bus, Dan, ballerina, Skip, Tater, Bruce, anyone with the word “Ute” in their screen name and so many others. They liked damned near all of my tweets, and I, theirs. And that’s the problem.

But after more than a decade, that’s a small party. I could do better shouting from a bar stool at Gracie’s, Green Pig or Hog Wallow. And that’s what I’m gonna do. Opa! Twitter, I quit.

So, Twitter gang, you’re all free to join in. Drinks on me. CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net

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HITS&MISSES

BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

MISS: Study Buddies

If you had $10 million, how would you waste it? How about on a government study? That’s where “they” say all good ideas go to die. Enter Utah Sen. Mitt Romney with his really bang-up idea of what to do about the shrinking Great Salt Lake. First, let’s just acknowledge that this shrinking is a bad thing. The surface of the lake recently fell to the lowest level since records began in 1847, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. And things are just going to get worse. It’s not just bad for the birds, it’s potentially life-threatening for people. There are organizations with real plans. Ducks Unlimited is working to offset water usage by improving efficiency, the Deseret News reported.

“That project piped open ditches, delivering more water to wetlands and to the Great Salt Lake.” And there’s so much more. But then there’s Romney, who along with Reps. Chris Stewart and Burgess Owens want to spend $10 million for a study. They might want to read up on climate change first.

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Public Records Primer

Ever wonder how you get a public record— you know, the ones that are, by definition, “public?” You can’t leave it up to the media anymore to do the work for you. While governments really do want to keep every little thing to themselves, you as a citizen should know your rights and hold your elected officials to account. While the Legislature is working to make it harder, there are still many who understand the importance of transparency. It shouldn’t take a Ph.D. to put in a request, although it may take a little money. The GR AMA 101 In-Person Workshop will explain the ins and outs of the Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA). Besides going over the general provisions and requirements, the class will also provide instruction on classifying records and the document appeals process. If you can’t make it in person, there are online videos that might help. Taylorsville State Office Building, 4315 S. 2700 West, Thursday, July 28, 9 a.m., free. https://bit.ly/3zbgM7m Video: https://bit.ly/3zaJsgo

Oh, and speaking of climate change, what about the elephant in the room— burning fossil fuels? Utah is madly trying to preserve them, to breathe life back into the Darth Vader of the industrial world. In the latest intervention, a Utah judge thinks it’s a good idea to spend state money for the Uinta Basin Railway to haul oil back and forth.

“Increasing transportation options to the Uinta Basin, particularly by rail, will result in numerous benefits to the communities, public governments and private sector actors within the Basin,” The Salt Lake Tribune quoted the judge saying. You know, of course, those benefits are economic in the short term— not environmental or health-related.

Say goodbye to acres of wildlife habitat and say hello to more carbon pollution and possible oil spills along waterways.

What could possibly go wrong? And just because oil is better than water, the Trib reports that developers passed off a shady deal to give water rights to a stalled oil shale project.

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Latino Conservation Week

There’s a saying: Don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good. But the conservative political trope has long been that electric vehicles are bad, and consumers—especially liberals—are stupid for buying them. Why? Because of where the electricity for their batteries comes from. While it’s true that coal in Utah does fire up electricity, that’s not the whole story. “Bits and pieces of their power come from solar, wind, hydro and nuclear. Gas-powered cars, however, rely entirely on gas. A double whammy of turning crude oil into petroleum and then puffing emissions out the tailpipe,” writes Motor Biscuit. So, rejoice in the news that Salt Lake City has the second highest growth in hybrids/EVs since 2014 and Utah the third highest in the nation, according to the Deseret News. Let’s not make this political. Let’s make it breathable.

You may not realize that “Utah is home to approximately 59,000 American Indian/ Alaska Natives, and we have tribal members representing more than 20 nations who call Utah home.” That’s not nothing. The 2022 Governor’s Native American Summit brings together state and tribal leaders, community stakeholders and Utah’s Native American community to learn and celebrate. “Our conference theme, Elevating Ourselves: Restoring Balance by Connecting With Our Cultures, was inspired by the growing desire among Native people to learn more about their cultures and how cultural knowledge can help us overcome life’s challenges.” Breakout sessions that focus on education, health/mental health, cultural preservation, economic development, and civic engagement. University of Utah, A. Ray Olpin Student Union Building, 200 S. Central Campus Drive, Thursday, July 28, 9 a.m. Free/register at https://bit.ly/3Aj3o1U

Tracy Aviary is among many organizations celebrating Latino Conservation Week, bringing a connection to the outdoors and natural resource conservation. Among the many events, the aviary and Jordan River are sponsoring a Paddle the River canoe trip to learn about environmental conservation and visit the Jordan River Nature Center. Another event—Food in Culture—is “an interactive presentation of sustainable ancestral farming practices applicable in the modern world. Through art and food, we will talk about the milpa as a symbol of identity and share cultural memories in a group.” You may also participate in a trail cleanup and bike ride, or just gaze at the stars. Jordan River Nature Center,1125 W. 3300 South, South Salt Lake, Saturday, July 23, 9:30 a.m., free. For this and all events: https://bit.ly/3ci902p

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Quilts have always provided comfort through the years, both on a practical level and as expression of artistry. Indeed, these tapestries and tradition have been interwoven for centuries, whether the quilt is spread on a bed, serving as a statement or covering a wall as part of the decor.

That makes the first visit to Salt Lake City of the International Quilt Festival an event of special significance. The festival, which comes at Salt Palace Convention Center (100 S. West Temple), features an extraordinary array of themed quilts—more than 500 in all—of every design and description. In spotlighting this unique art form, the festival will also feature more than 150 shopping booths, 50 classes taught by exceptional artisans and an array of unique and innovative quilt creations culled from the judged art show exhibit “A Celebration of Color.” For those interested in the history and heritage of the craft, the festival also includes a pair of special exhibi-

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tions—“Art Quilts” (sponsored by the group called Global Artisans) and “Pieces of the Past,” a display of contemporary and antique quilts from the festival’s extensive collection.

Ranked as the country’s premier quilt show for the past 45 years, the festival has made it its mission to prove that quilts are cool. The event runs July 21-23, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. daily.

Tickets are $15 per day for adults and $12 for students, seniors, children and the military.

Kids ten and under can attend free. A full show pass is $35. For more information, visit quilts.com. (Lee Zimmerman)

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Anyone who names his backing band The Nasty Delicious has to be a bit askew. Likewise, when one writes a song called “Take Your Panties Off” alongside Snoop Dogg … well, that seems to say it all.

Then again, eccentricity often accompanies versatility, and anyone who taught grades K-8 in a public school system—like Craig Robinson once did—is also bound to have an irreverent attitude. Robinson has proven that he’s possessed that quality throughout every phase of his prodigious career as a comedian, actor and musician. After making his bow at the 1998 Montreal “Just For Laughs” festival, he went on to headline venues and comedy festivals across the country, both on his own and with his aforementioned awesome ensemble.

Robinson got his own comedy education in as part of Chicago’s famed Second City Theatre company. However, he gained his first real taste of fame playing the part of Daryl Philbin on The Office, followed by a recurring role on Brooklyn 99 and film

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parts including Dolemite Is My Name, Knocked Up, This Is The End, the Hot Tub Time Machine series and Morris From America. Other TV triumphs included his aptly-named NBC sitcom Mr. Robinson, and the Fox series Ghosted.

You can catch him in person at Wiseguys Gateway (194 S. 400 West), but you best hurry. He performs Thursday, July 21 Saturday, July 23, but at press time, all shows were sold out except for Thursday at 9:30 p.m., with tickets $45. Visit wiseguyscomedy. com for tickets and additional information. (LZ)

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When The Sting & Honey Company premiered its beautiful production Sleeping Beauty’s Dream in 2016, the venue was an auditorium at The Waterford School in Sandy. “We couldn’t get any space at the [Rose Wagner Center], which is where we were doing our shows at the time,” recalls Javen Tanner, the company’s artistic director and the writer/ director of Sleeping Beauty’s Dream. “The show went well, but not many people saw it.”

Now, Tanner has revived the production for its downtown debut, taking the opportunity for a bit of re-writing—the entire text is now in iambic pentameter—a “more magical” set design and the opportunity to cast familiar local actress Deena Marie Manzanares as the witch. The show also builds on the Sting & Honey Company tradition of creative interpretations of classic fairy-tale stories, including Snow White and Cinderella.

“With each of the three fairy tales that I’ve written, there’s this mythology of the ‘lost daughter,’” Tanner says. “This one deals with that most directly. Where the traditional Western European version of Sleeping Beauty is a classic and I love it, Sleeping Beauty herself isn’t a really important character—she falls asleep. I thought the important

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The Sting & Honey Company: Sleeping Beauty’s Dream

thing, is what happens to her, and going into her dream.”

Sleeping Beauty’s Dream runs through July 30 at the Regent Street Black Box (144 Regent St.) of the Eccles Theater, with performances Thursday – Saturday at 7 p.m. and 2 p.m.

Saturday matinees. Tickets are $15-$25; visit arttix.org to purchase tickets and for additional information, including current health and safety protocols. (Scott Renshaw)

Native American Celebration in the Park Powwow & Festival Recent Supreme Court decisions impacting the basic principle of Native American sovereignty have been a reminder that the legacy of colonization still carries wounds. As challenging as it may be for many people of European descent to confront this history, it’s vital for achieving healing. And it has always been important that Utah’s Pioneer Day celebrations, recognizing the arrival of a specific group of white settlers to this valley, are juxtaposed in the same time frame annually with Utah’s Native American Celebration in the Park Powwow & Festival, as a reminder that this was the place for many people thousands of years before Mormon settlers came.

On Saturday, July 23, from noon to 10 p.m.

Liberty Park (600 E. 900 South) hosts the 28th annual powwow and festival. It is primarily a cultural celebration, with music, dance and drum offerings contributing to an overall goal of cultural preservation. Groups representing tribes throughout the

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country participate in the formalized dance and drum offerings, with The Horses Singers of Ft. Defiance, Arizona serving as the 2022 host drum group. The festival grounds will also feature a wide range of vendor booths, traditional food, arts & crafts presentations and plenty of kid-friendly activities, all making for an event that is as entertaining as it is informative.

At press time, the entertainment headliner is not yet set, but the evening performances will lead into a laser light presentation from 8 p.m. - 10 p.m.; no fireworks are scheduled for 2022. Visit nacippowwow.wixsite.com/ naciappowwow for full schedule and up-to-the moment participant updates. (SR)

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Utah comedian Travis Tate on the long road to recording his first full hour of material.

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omedy, like any creative form, isn’t for anyone expecting things to be easy. Maybe you’re able to make a career out of it; most never do. More than 10 years into doing standup comedy, Travis Tate is taking a step that feels like the one comedians take when they’re aiming for the big time: recording a live set for an audio/video “special.” But it’s also just another example of him putting in the work just out of love of doing it.

It took quite a while for Tate—who lives in Grantsville, with a day job working for the U.S. Postal Service—to make his way onto a stage for the first time. He got married in 1995 when he was just 17 years old; by the age of 18, he and his wife already had their first child. It’s not exactly the ideal scenario for deciding you’re going to be an artist.

“I did put it off for a long time because, when you’re 18 and you’ve already got a kid, you need to get a job,” Tate says. “The responsibilities definitely slowed me down.”

In 2011, however, he finally took a shot for the first time at stand-up. “I used to talk about it all the time,” he recalls. “My wife said, ‘Just go to an open mic, or stop talking about it.’ And I did well enough, I didn’t get completely discouraged. … If I’d started when I was younger, I don’t think I would have been mature enough to deal with the

disappointments.”

Tate acknowledges that there was a lot he had to learn when he first started, particularly when it came to developing a stage presence. “It took me a long time to feel comfortable being on stage,” he says.

“I think I was always good at writing and doing the math of a joke in my head, but I was not a natural performer, at all. Some people you see, and they’re just natural, and I was not that way.”

So the answer, as he describes it, was work: observing other comedians; thinking about the way facial expression, body language and intonation affect delivery; developing a set through a process of trial and error. “I would try a joke one way, and it didn’t work at all. Then, the same exact words with just a different tone, would click,” Tate says.

When it comes to his voice as a comedian, on the other hand, he thinks he’s always felt most comfortable making his own life as a husband and father the focus of his material. There too, he recognizes that the specifics of when he got started—and the fact that he didn’t start out sooner, or younger—had an impact on finding that voice.

“In the early 2000s, there was that ‘morning show’ style of humor, which is a lot different from now,” Tate says. “I might have gotten caught up in that, which is not the kind of comic I am at all.”

Similarly, he thinks it had an impact that he was beginning his stand-up career at the time when social media was exploding, leading him away from one potential brand of comedy. “That was when Twitter was really starting,” he says. “Topical jokes were really hard, because 100 people might have already made a similar joke on Twitter.

“My voice was just being me. … My oldest son has Asperger’s; I have two gay kids.

I’m making fun of myself. But I end up talking to people all the time after shows [about those subjects]. When you make that connection with somebody, that’s an emo-

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tional thing.”

Being able to make those connections is what makes comedy a kind of art, a word Tate initially rejects with some self-deprecation. Mostly, he’s spent his 11 years in comedy doing local shows, traveling outof-town occasionally, barely breaking even financially. It’s never been about a wild ambition to be a star. “I think for me, the type of personality I have, I was setting small, achievable goals,” he says. “I was never like, ‘I’m gonna get a Netflix special.’ I just wanted to have three actual good minutes of material people will laugh at. Then I wanted five minutes. Then I wanted to get a weekend show. I don’t know if there’s a right way or a wrong way, but I didn’t want to make these big plans.”

For now, there’s recording those shows on July 22 and 23, a do-it-yourself operation where he hasn’t sold it to a distributor, or planned anything beyond getting it up on YouTube. “I’ve got a good hour than I’m

Comedian Travis Tate performing at Wiseguys

very proud of,” Tate says. “If I can sell it, even the audio if not the video, that would be great. But if not, I want to put it out there.”

And at last, he is willing to consider that along with the work, there’s a little bit of that “a-word.” “Standup can be so juvenile and silly and dumb. But anything you put that much time into, and sacrifice time with your family, it has to be a little bit of an art to make it worth it.” CW

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who sort through documents, attend board meetings and do leg-work to find the connections between shell companies and those who control the water in California.

There might not be much that’s sexy about investigating public utilities, but Water & Power recognizes that where the very stuff of life is concerned, it’s crucial to have people on the side of the public.

Bacurau: The Brazilian writer/director team of Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles crafted this strange, violent, unpredictable 2019 kinda-Western set in a remote Brazilian village, where a wealthy mayor has created an upstream dam that all but cuts off the local water supply, requiring the delivery of water via tanker truck. The rest of what happens is better left discovered than described, but it builds on the idea that these people are so without value that not only can their water be taken away, but they barely count as people. And unlike Chinatown, there’s at least the wishfulfillment here that someone cruel enough to manipulate water doesn’t have to get away with it. CW

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ing Dirt’s water supply in order to facilitate his real estate speculation. Chinatown’s Noah Cross would feel right at home.

Mad Max: Fury Road: The long-awaited 2015 continuation of director George Miller’s Mad Max franchise was justifiably praised for its dynamic chase sequences and old-school action choreography. But don’t forget that warlord/white slaver Immortan Joe gets his power over the people in his post-apocalyptic landscape by controlling the flow of water. As valuable as gasoline remains in that world, it’s still a memorable moment when a crowd gathers for turning on of a giant pipe, aware that there’s no other way for them to get the water they need to survive.

Water & Power: A California Heist: Marina Zenovich’s 2017 documentary got a shot of recognition recently when clips were showcased in John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight episode about water (the same episode that mocked Gov. Spencer Cox’s “pray for rain” message). Mostly, the film is a celebration of investigative journalists like Mark Arax, and the advocacy groups

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Malcolm McDowell plays the villain who maintains control over most surviving humans by monopolizing water control under a single corporation. The oddball story includes soldiers created by fusing human and kangaroo DNA, but it now seems even stranger that the creators had to imagine a comet hitting the earth as the cause of a catastrophic water-shortage scenario.

Rango: Director Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean) continued their collaboration in animated form for this 2011 Western bursting with weird animation, unusual character design and a plot focused around a drought-ridden Mojave Desert town. The pet chameleon protagonist finds himself lost in the middle of the desert, where he creates a heroic persona for himself in the drought-stricken town of Dirt. Aside from being uniquelystyled among 21st-century CGI features, it also builds its narrative around the idea of water as currency, and a villain manipulat-

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ews flash: It’s hot! And dry! The American West bakes, the Colorado River slows to a trickle and the future of our water supply seems perilously shaky. It’s not a pretty picture, H20-wise.

Movies have had a long history of understanding that the need for water—and the control of that resource—could drive a narrative, even if that idea manifested itself in a variety of different ways. As we make our way through this scalding summer, and ponder the parched future ahead, here’s a do-it-yourself film festival of movies revolving around water and power.

Chinatown: The 1974 detective thriller starring Jack Nicholson is probably best known for Robert Towne’s Oscar-winning script, which became almost a paradigm for teaching the art of screenwriting, and included the memorably creepy family history of Faye Dunaway’s Evelyn Mulwray. All of the narrative’s film-noir-esque machinations, however, surround the efforts

by Noah Cross to develop the Los Angeles suburbs by getting water rights to divert to previously worthless arid land. Sadly, the well-known final line “Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown” served as a kind of shorthand for how futile it can feel to expect that powerful people will ever face the consequences of their actions.

Tank Girl: Long before the superhero movie surge of the 2000s, director Rachel Talalay’s 1995 feature adapted the British comic-book series of the same name, so this one isn’t remembered very much. Lori Petty plays the title character, a member of a commune in the Australian outback in the year

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Tried and true vs. shiny and new

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So who is bucking tradition and reimagining what a cocktail can be?

Speaking again of the martini, perhaps because of its simplicity, it is ripe for experimentation.

At the newly opened bar and restaurant The Pearl (917 S. 200 West, SLC), Vietnamese flavor is the order of the day.

Their Matsuura martini features Suntory Haku Vodka, Roku Gin and Cocchi Americano (an aperitif wine flavored with quinine, which is the distinctive ingredient of tonic water). Not only is the cocktail a successful experiment, but it’s the kind of martini you want to order three of.

Another Pearl cocktail, the Plum Job,

Whether they admit it or not, many who imbibe in cocktails do so more for the blend of flavors rather than the effects of alcohol. Curiosity riffs on that.

While they offer some dupes, like their Livener Margarita—which goes for the warm, upper sensation that tequila provides by using the brand Three Spirit’s brain-electrifying botanicals—they shine with their original creations.

The Nick and Nori is made with cold brew, yuzu, maple syrup, nori, bitters and salt, served up in a classy little glass. Another sober-alt bev worth mentioning is the Nuova Negroni, which features alcohol-free gin from Dhos (of the Ransom gin family), Dhos’s rhubarb aperitif (rhubarb is the base of Campari), a housemade zero-proof vermouth and, in a traditional twist, orange and celery bitters.

Not only is it an excellent Negroni, it’s one that won’t make you feel like actual death the next day. Curiosity is making sober socializing freshly glam and delectable, and they’re also expanding upon the cocktail genre in ways where flavor and fun are front and center.

When it comes down to it, isn’t the flavor and the fun the point of any cocktail? We think so. CW

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Why do we love classic cocktails? One reason is that most are made with only a few ingredients. And once you find your one true drink, you can easily learn to make it at home.

One of the most celebrated cocktails is, of course, the Old Fashioned, made with 2 ounces of bourbon, a quarter ounce-ish of simple syrup, three dashes of bitters (typically angostura) and an orange-peel garnish.

Pro tip: The orange peel should include a little of the white pith. Once you’ve sliced the peel, flex it so the outer skin expresses its oils onto the surface of your drink (you’ll be able to see the oil specks), then run the expressed outer skin around the inner rim of your glass. Drop it in. This is how you get that wonderful orange scent on this drink, and the same trick can be used

finds Japanese Suntory Toki Whisky combined with lemon, honey and a float of some of Shades Brewing’s Plum Sour Ale—a whiskey sour, essentially.

For fans of Kahlúa cocktails, there’s the Ca Phe, a spiked Vietnamese coffee drink made with the caramelly Amaro Averna, Robusta coffee and chicory.

Though it opened as a waiting room with booze for Takashi next door, Post Office Place (16 W. Market St., SLC) has become a go-to for quaffable and inventive beverages. Their cocktails understandably highlight top-drawer Japanese booze brands.

The Natsu Gin Tonic includes Roku Japanese Gin, Hakutsuru Plum Wine, tonic, ginger, sansho pepper and grapefruit peel. Their menu features a Peruvian influence—on the food and booze side—notably with the Square Watermelon Pisco Sour, which includes Pisco Logia, watermelon shrub, Hakutsuru Plum Wine, lime, egg white and pickled watermelon rind.

Then there’s Curiosity (145 E. 900 South, SLC), a new, zero-roof cocktail and espresso bar that specializes in cocktails the same way all the other ingredient-crazy craft bars do, only sans the alcohol.

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for any other cocktail that wants a citrusy scent, which adds to the flavor.

Also along the Old Fashioned vein is the Manhattan, which uses rye whiskey instead of bourbon, sweet vermouth instead of simple syrup and cherry instead of orange peel. Or try a whiskey sour, which uses bourbon, simple syrup, lemon juice and, often, a frothy, shaken egg white.

Then, there is the more complex, bitter Negroni, the off-red drink that people call a “one-and-done” because of its three-part doozy of gin, sweet vermouth and the aperitif Campari. Its cousin, the Boulevardier, swaps gin for whiskey.

With gin, cocktails become even simpler. A gin and tonic instantly refreshes; use local Caribbean tonic by Van Kwartel to make it more tropical.

A gimlet and a Tom Collins both add citrus to gin—lime and lemon, respectively—the latter tops it with soda.

The varying Vesper can include either gin or vodka for a martini-like creation that includes Lillet Blanc (a crisp, botanical French aperitif wine used in cocktails the same way vermouth is) and a lemon twist.

Then there’s the Martinez, which falls between the Manhattan and the martini— it’s Old Tom gin, sweet vermouth, maraschino liqueur and angostura bitters.

Not ready to make it yourself? You can ask for any of these classic cocktails at Salt Lake cocktail bars and any finer dining establishment in the area.

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ord has it that younger drinkers have been gravitating toward oldschool drinks.

And if they are, it makes sense—a strong drink like a martini certainly offers bang for the strapped Gen Z buck—or for anyone’s buck, really.

After nearly a decade of “craft cocktail” rule, it’s refreshing to lean into simple, three-ingredient drinks.

But fear not, the craft scene remains alive and well in its own right.

Whether your taste buds are drawn to predictable old standards—shaken, stirred, over or neat—or something creative and brand-spankin’ new, read on for classic cocktail tips as well as the latest experiments in the tippling scene.

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LOOKIN’ AT YOUR LIQUOR

A guide to spirits and how to use them.

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ost everyone has a favorite drink—and probably one they hate. But everyone could use this reminder: Whatever was in the well at the bar where you last tried a cocktail that you hated is not always the best representation of what good gin, rum, tequila, whiskey or vodka can be.

Well liquor is usually cheaper than the stuff up on the shelves. It’s made of lower-quality spirits that often hit the back of your throat and your system harsher and harder. So here’s a quick primer on what’s what and what’s good.

What to know about gin

The common styles of gin are “dry” and “botanical.”

Both are known for their piney, aromatic juniper flavor, often combined with citrus. Botanical gins go on to use a variety of herbs, spices, roots and citrus to build their flavor out—they can also be a sweeter spirit because of the presence of licorice in the distillation (it doesn’t taste like licorice, though).

How to drink gin

You’ve probably had dry gins in martinis or a stomachsettling, in-flight G&T. But gin is also at home in cocktails with a lot of citrus or sweetness—such as a gimlet (you can make many variations on the basic combination of gin, lime juice and simple syrup), a bittersweet Negroni, or the martini’s father figure, the Martinez, and its sweet cherry liqueur.

Local gin to look for

Beehive Distilling’s Jack Rabbit Gin, New World Distilling’s Oomaw Gin, Ogden’s Own Madam Pattirini Gin, Holystone Distillings’ delicious varieties and— from the new kids on the block—Proverbial Spirits’ No Rest for the Wicked Gin.

What to know about rum

Rum is the backbone of some of the funnest and tastiest drinks out there.

Distilled from various forms of processed sugar cane, and then sometimes aged in oak barrels, it’s also one of the most naturally sweet and approachable liquors.

Among light and dark varieties there are sippers and mixers alike.

How to drink rum

If you like piña coladas … you’ll like everything else in the tiki drink genre.

The tropical drinks pull from a variety of island flavors that offer a certain retro gleam, thanks to their mid-century popularity. Try a simple daiquiri (rum, lime juice, simple syrup) or more complex drinks like the mai tai (for an introduction to the magic of orgeat) or the jungle bird.

Or perhaps mix a big batch of fruity punch for your next barbecue.

Local rum to look for

Outlaw Distillery crafts a Spiced Rum, Sugar House Distillery makes delectable Silver and Gold rums, and Proverbial Spirits offers Loose Lips Sink Ships Rum.

What to know about tequila

So much. Mexico has strict laws about what can and cannot be defined as “tequila,” down to the percentages of blue agave spirit in the drink. The agave plant that tequila is made from can take years to cultivate, making the agave spirit precious. The more agave spirit that is in your tequila—as in a bottle labeled “100% Blue Agave”—the less sugars and congeners, the overpresence of which can contribute to a nasty hangover. Cheaper brands of tequila are more likely to contain lower quality mixes of spirits—ergo, hangover. If you’ve sworn off tequila because of the next-day effects, look for a bottle that’s 100% blue agave, and give it another shot.

How to drink tequila

Obviously, margaritas are really, really fun—they’re salty, sweet and sour. If you’re into smoky flavors, try swapping the traditional tequila for mezcal (which comes from agave roasted with wood and charcoal) and mixing some grapefruit juice in with the traditional lime. Or just use your imagination—there are tons of margarita riffs out there to gain inspiration from. Speaking of grapefruit, try a paloma.

Local tequila to look for

Locally owned but produced in Mexico, Vida Tequila is a mainstay at local bars. And look for New World Distillery’s Blanco Agave Spirit, which they legally can’t call tequila because of restrictions on the term.

What to know about whiskey

What you need to know about whiskey is that it’s sometimes also spelled “whisky,” and it doesn’t really matter besides indicating the country of origin. Both are made from grains like corn, barley malt, rye and wheat, which are fermented, distilled and then aged in barrels of various types of wood, giving the spirit its toasty, warm flavors.

Barrel aging also produces those previously mentioned congeners, which can explain why whiskey hangovers tend to be more painful than those from other spirits. There are two popular whiskey categories to know about: the sweeter bourbon—which uses corn as a major ingredient, and the tangy rye—which uses rye as a major ingredient.

How to drink whiskey

Whiskey is one of America’s most popular liquors for a reason. Feeling sick?

Make a sweet, spicy, citrus-spiked hot toddy. Feeling all too well? Well enough for a boozy one? Try a Boulevardier, which includes bourbon, sweet vermouth, Campari and an orange twist.

Or try a whiskey sour, but sub the egg for aquafaba (juice from a can o’ beans) to make it vegan-friendly. And we already know you probably love Old Fashioneds.

Local whiskey to look for

Name dropping Sugar House Distilling again here because they make some of the best local whiskey around, truly.

There’s also High West’s popular products, but if you’ve already sampled them, try another Park City-based distillery, Alpine Distilling, or the Robbers Roost line from West Valley’s Waterpocket Distillery.

What to know about vodka

The most important thing about vodka is that it is, indeed, the catch-all, goanywhere spirit. While craft vodkas are out there and can seem all flowery and different, vodka is distilled to disappear in your mouth, to go down smooth, to be an effortless and intangible imbibe. Unless you’re drinking bottom-shelf, throat-burning stuff, vodka is designed to be a straightforward ride.

It can be made from potatoes, grains, corn, rice and sometimes sugar-beet molasses or fruit—but it will always taste like whatever ingredients you decide to mix it with.

How to drink vodka

In anything! There’s a reason it’s the ultimate spiking agent.

Local vodka to look for

Most distilleries make vodka, because it’s the easiest and cheapest to make, and because people really like vodka. But specific vodka makers include Salt City Vodka, and the most popular local vodka is likely Five Wives Vodka by Ogden’s Own. Dented Brick also makes a vodka that is the standard in wells across area bars. CW

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HAMMERED TIME How to order a stiff drink in the Beehive State.

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hile Utah liquor laws are different from other states’ rules, you can still get a stiff drink in Utah, if you know what (and how) to order.

This is true of any place—even though the influx of new folks in the Beehive State aren’t shy about expressing their dismay at Utah’s quirky laws to local bartenders. And a respectably strong drink doesn’t have to be something garish that you’d order at a party bar, like an AMF (“Adios Motherf—ker”), though that selection will more than do the job. There are far more delicious and classy options out there, and, below, we’ll list some of them, plus hot tips on other stout beverages and where to get them.

First and foremost, it’s true that a cocktail in a Utah bar can only contain 1.5 ounces of a “base” spirit—or primary liquor—which is just a little more than a typical shot (shots in Utah can also never be “doubles” and can only be 1 ounce). However, this doesn’t stop local bartenders from making strong drinks.

Cocktails are allowed an additional ounce of any other spirit or liqueur, the latter being labeled as “flavoring” on bar shelves. This means that a cocktail can get up to around the 2 ½ ounce liquor level if your bartender uses their ingredients correctly, and especially if they make use of boozy additions like beer, wine or vermouth, which fall outside the legal category of “flavoring”—meaning they don’t have to be as strictly measured.

A perfect example of a drink that can be as strong in Utah as it is anywhere else is a Negroni—equal parts gin, Campari and sweet vermouth—which comes out to 3 ounces of alcohol. And if you don’t like bitter drinks, you can ask your bartender for recommendations for sweeter bevs that make full use of liquor-law loopholes.

Speaking of using beer as an ingredient in a cocktail, if you haven’t tried a beer cocktail yet, you should. Bars like Proper Brewing (857 S. Main, SLC) and its sister bar in Sugar House, Craft (1053 E. 2100 South, SLC), make exciting use of beer, hard seltzers and wine, often using them as a float like you would champagne in other cocktail recipes.

One of Craft’s cocktails features High West Double Rye, lemon juice, Cointreau and a red wine float, which sounds like a boozy drink to me!

Cider, too, is becoming an ally in the strong drink game. Typically of a higher alcohol-by-volume (ABV) ratio than Utah beer’s 5% tap limit, hard cider is still ironically allowed to be poured on tap in Utah, up to 18.5 ounces worth.

At Scion Cider Bar in the Central 9th neighborhood (916 Jefferson St., SLC), they not only offer a wide variety of ciders, but they mix them into cocktails, too. Their Oaxacan Haze cocktail features Wahaka Mezcal, St. Germain liqueur, lime juice and Original Sin Pineapple Haze Cider, which clocks in at a healthy 6% ABV. These aren’t all the ways you can finagle your way into an extra-strong drink at a Utah bar, but it may get you thinking along the right lines. Ask your bartender—he or she definitely has more ideas. CW

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cocktail is much more than just booze in a glass. As such, your bar cart should reflect that idea and hold more drink staples and accoutrements than just booze.

Your fridge can and should be home to ingredients that are essential for many drinks, such as simple syrup. Simple syrup is just one-to-one parts sugar and water, boiled to thick cohesion. You can easily (as in, 15 minutes) make interesting syrups by steeping the mixture with items such as flowers, herbs and spices.

If you want fruity bevs, whip out your citrus squeezer and gather your lemons, limes, oranges, grapefruits—whatever! Fresh juice makes for truly great cocktails, but if you don’t want a citrusy, acidic zing, look into shrubs. Use sugar, high-quality vinegar— like a good apple cider vinegar—and any fruit, veggies, flowers or herbs of choice to make a bright, acidic syrup additive that’s as at home in a cocktail as it is mixed with soda water.

Don’t wanna make it yourself? Look for locals Drupefruit Shrubs at Central 9th Market (161 W. 900 South, SLC), Animalia (280 E. 900 South, SLC), Boozetique (315 E. 300 South, SLC) and Curiosity (145 E. 900 South, SLC).

At room temp, your bar cart can host a bevy of mixers and ingredients, namely vermouth and liqueurs. Vermouth can live unopened on your bar cart, but once opened, it needs to migrate to the fridge door. As for liqueurs, there are really too many to list here, but many cocktails employ them.

Orange-flavored liqueurs like Cointreau, Grand Marnier and Curaçao are essential to many drinks, and you’ve definitely had them in margaritas. There are also botanicals like St. Germain, which tastes like elderflower, and sweet, strong absinthe, which tastes like licorice (look for the brand Absente on State Liquor Store shelves).

There is also the amaro family, which are herbal liqueurs. Often aromatic and bitter, they can be used as stomach-calmers before or after meals, and they’re delicious in drinks like Aperol Spritz, or minty Fernet-Branca cocktails like a Hanky Panky.

Another must-have on your bar cart should be bitters. If you’re an Old Fashioned fan, you likely already know about the magic of the most basic and essential of bitters, angostura, which is also the most called-for in cocktail recipes. Bitters help to bring out the best in a drink’s other elements, plus offer a punch of flavor essence.

Imagine with your mind’s tongue what celery or spiced orange bitters would do for a drink. There are so many experimental craft bitters companies out there these days, and some of the best selections can be found locally at Caputo’s (multiple locations, SLC), Boozetique and Liberty Heights Fresh (1290 S. 1100 East, SLC). Look for Scrappy’s Bitters, Workhorse Rye and Bitters Lab (a local).

Finally, to make your cocktail into something more than just liquor in a glass, you need to dilute it with ice. That’s where shaker tins, bar spoons for stirring, strainers and even that novelty pint glass you got from Oktoberfest come in. You can get everything but the commemorative glass at Boozetique.

Happy bar-cart building! CW

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BY YOUR SIDE

A companion bar to Ogden´s Own Distillery is a ¨safe space¨ for cocktail drinkers.

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t doesn’t take but a single question to get Mark Fine talking about the Side Bar (615 W. Stockman Way, Ogden) for a good 15 minutes or more. And that’s no knock on the man or his enthusiasm for the new business that he operates in tandem with Ogden’s Own Distillery.

Opened in late October 2021, Side Bar is not quite a year old, though business has been brisk—from an in-town audience, sure, but also from farther-flung regulars assembling from Salt Lake and Park City.

And on top of those customers are the scores of once-through clientele who were keenly felt over the winter months, when folks traveling to nearby ski slopes found their way into the craft cocktail bar that looks, literally, into the distillery that provides much of its backbar stock.

In many respects, Side Bar is “a showcase”—as Fine calls it—of products created onsite. A lot of those names are going to be familiar to local drinking culture fans, lables like: Five Wives and Five Husbands Vodka; Porter’s Whiskeys; Madam Pattirini Gin; and Underground Herbal Spirit.

Currently on the menu are four silos of house cocktails broken down into categories: Spicy; Sweet and Fruity; Sour and Refreshing; and Spirit Forward.

These designations, says Fine, allow for informed experimentation, “something that people can relate to.”

Each of those four cocktail silos come with 10 drink options—thus, 40 house cocktails make up the spine of the Side Bar business, which also features a range of mocktails, some wines and a half-dozen-strong, Utah-brewed beer list.

And while the Ogden’s Own brand is the one most-represented on the backbar—for all the obvious reasons—multiple brands from around the U.S. and the world are on hand.

The idea of the entire Side Bar operation is to create “a safe space where people can get really cool cocktails,” Fine said. “They can also have a simple rum and Coke, then sit back and not be bothered. They can be on a date night, a girls night out, at a business meeting, be by themselves. Anything, really. And our staff is not pretentious.”

In fact, let’s start this round of “What’s the Deal With the Side Bar?” by touching on the role of those staffers.

A Bartender by Any Other Name

Fine says that the bartenders at the Side Bar aren’t bartenders … at least not in title. And he eschews the popular phrase “mixologist,” as well.

Instead, they’re “liquid chefs.” And they’re also the floor staff, as there aren’t servers or drink runners. If a customer has an empty glass at the table and the bar staff notice, they’ll meander out, getting a bit of feedback. Based on that, they’ll return to the bar area to work on another drink from scratch.

‘From Scratch’ Means From Scratch

At the Side Bar, juices are squeezed onsite and syrups and flavors have been created there, too.

Everyone’s been to a bar and seen last month’s bottle of orange juice come out of the cooler. It’s an unsettling feeling. At Side Bar, the hour before open is largely spent in detailed prep work, with juicing and fruit presses ever in action.

“We make our own turmeric syrup,” Fine says, “and our own horchata from rice milk. The fruit is all pressed for juice right here.”

Wednesdays Are Wonder Full

Not “wonderful,” but full of wonder. See, that’s a night in which you might get a bit of circus-like flair, be it from burlesque or drag performers, a mime or musicians of all genres.

“We give them a space to work on their act,” says Fine, “and expose people to their art, but who might not want to pay for the performance, for whatever reason.

The night’s full of great surprises and the music is low-key, so that the customers can come in and still be able to talk.”

A Vessel, a Glass, a Tiny Bathtub

Cocktails at the Side Bar come to your table or bartop seat in any number of glassware styles and some of those are even, well, glasses.

One new drink, teased to a reporter but not yet on the menu, comes in a little bathtub. It’s a gin-based beverage—harkening back to “bathtub gins”—and reportedly it comes with a sprig of blue cotton candy (which immediately melts upon impact) and a li’l rubber ducky.

Fine notes that the ducky will be a take-home item, but the bar’s glasses—

The Side Bar features Ogden’s Own products in a sleek, comfortable setting.

er, “vessels”—will remain in the bar. But even the most-honest person in the room could be tempted to abscond with the ceramic monkey (see recipe in photo caption); ditto for the old-school lunchboxes for another, PB&J-themed drink special.

And Yet …

Even as he speaks fondly of his bar’s glassware game, Fine notes that the place will ultimately be judged on how good the drinks are. Pretty simple on that count, and yet… “The whole thing here is that the drink has to taste good. A lot of bars make really good cocktails. Here, it’s also about the vessels, the garnishes” Those garnishes may include everything from a cucumber slice to a pineapple wedge to a Girl Scout cookie, though those, it must be said, are just about gone for the season.

Speaking of Seasons

Side Bar is ever on the hunt for new ingredients, and team members regularly suss out new and interesting vendors at local farmers markets.

That might mean investing in a seasonal fruit or vegetable. It might mean picking up a jar of jam and seeing what can

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be done with that. And cheese and meat boards are supplied from local farmers and cheesemakers. That said…

This Ain’t a Restaurant

Fine says Side Bar plays a supporting role in the dining culture of Ogden. With limited hours (4-10 p.m., Wednesday-Saturday nights) they want to provide a place to have a sip before dinner, or another after.

But they’re not looking to be a spot that offers multi-course meals or anything that distracts from “the many other great restaurants in the area,” including those on Historic 25th Street, Fine said. “We purposefully close at 10 p.m. so that people visit other” options.

And Lastly, Value

Emphasizing that the highest-priced menu item is a $14 cocktail “with most running between $10-12,” Fine says that the idea is to keep pricing in an approachable range, even in a period when craft cocktails in SLC are edging up to above the $20 mark at some establishments.

Fine says that visitors from around the country, in town for skiing and other recreation, frequently note that the price points are a plus. CW

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Pour a pint— or get clever with a shot at The Spot.

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NEEDS MORE SALT The Great Salt Lake Salt Drink, at Junior´s Tavern, is a New Sunday staple.

SMURFIN’ AROUND Going off menu and finding home at The Spot.

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n another lifetime—well, OK, less than 10 years ago—I co-owned and operated a bar in St. Louis called the Tick Tock Tavern. It had sat empty for 20 years between drinks being served, the dated bottles on the back bar coated in a nice, li’l sheath of dust, circa 1994-2014.

Already an old-school bar by look and feel, we rightly kept that vibe and over the next few years, people would come in with a host of descriptors. Used to the point of annoyance was a version of “it looks like my (uncle’s, aunt’s, grandfather’s, grandmother’s) basement bar.” A compliment, even if heard too, too many times.

A better response came with nods to other cities. So when someone would refer to the place as reminding them of a “Pittsburgh bar” or a “Milwaukee bar,” it meant that the authenticity of their hometown favorites were coming through. So, the highest compliment I can pay to The Spot (900 S. Main, SLC) is that it reminds me of a St. Louis bar.

That could be due to the AC/DC pouring out of the sound system, the half-shell booths, the clank of billiards, the affordable pricing or the low-key ambiance. It could be all of those things blended together. The Spot’s a big-city, relaxed, even stylish place in its own inimitable way.

In a city that has sometimes (if not often) sacrificed a sense of history for The Next and The New, The Spot seems to live and breathe in another decade, in the best way possible. That includes the scrolling specials menu above the backbar, advertising shots like the Purple Nurple in bold, bright colors.

The bartender at The Spot on every one of our half-dozen visits since January has been Jumper, whose evocative, singular name we’ve never inquired about further despite a great, great wish to do so. Jumper’s quick to recognize regulars, even those who log time only once every three weeks or so. If you’re among that number, you get a nod, a smile, some friendly words and, if hungry, a series of paper boats of chex mix, which somehow just tastes better at The Spot.

Asked one evening if The Spot offered canned seltzers, Jumper immediately noted that they didn’t, but that some soda water and any of the myriad schnapps bottles on the backbar could be combined for the seltzer of your dreams. And after finally sampling the Purple Nurple—after all those signage teases—it seemed time to order a Smurf shot.

Jumper called up some recipes for Smurf shots on her phone, noting that there are an abundance of variations: the Bloody Smurf, the Electric Smurf, the Papa Smurf and the Horny Smurf, among others.

Digging deep into my tired brain, I suggested a Smurf with vodka and the essential blue curacao, thinking that some triple sec might be good, too; this turned out to be a near-version of the Drunken Smurf. And Jumper helpfully suggested that some pineapple juice might be good, a nod to the more-popular, rum-based Smurfs. “Sure,” we said, “add pineapple!”

Maybe some magic remains inside The Spot from back in the days when it was known as The Age of Aquarius. (You can still see some hippie bar design elements if you scan hard enough.)

But our Random Smurfs tasted good, even if the first sip tasted a tad metallic, as if a quarter had sunk to the bottom of our blue-glowing shot glasses.

But as we decided to sip these, rather than shoot ‘em, the alchemy of mixing alcohols began to work. The sweetness of the pineapple and triple sec started to amplify, the vodka’s bite began to recede. This Collectively Agreed Upon Smurf was good, real good, even if served alongside a not-exactly-complementary Boddington’s Pub Ale. Hey, sometimes you just feel like going off-script. And at The Spot, Jumper’s got a phone full of internet recipes and zero ego. If it’s not on that scroller menu, she’ll look up a drink, modify it, make it the exact thing you want. In the span of a single order, she might even become your favorite bartender in town.CW

here’s a bit of a mystery happening at Junior’s Tavern (30 E. 300 South, SLC). It seems to come into clearest focus every Sunday afternoon around 5 p.m.

During the next hour or two, there are five or six gentlemen seated around the bar who find themselves there near-weekly. They provide the core of the day’s business. And then there’s a group of five-to-seven younger folks, who’ll roll into the space, cranking up the volume by at least half.

Unlike the weekly regulars, chewing on their salted, in-the-shell peanuts, this new group is never made up of the same people (therein lies the mystery).

They’ll arrive weekly: a handful in number, a touch loud, maybe a drink or three into their afternoon rounds already. And every week, these two groups peaceably meet and mingle at Junior’s.

Sometimes these new folks will strike up a conversation with those who’re weekly assembled. At that point, the Great Salt Lake Salt Drink may come up in conversation.

It’s a creation of bartender Mike Abu, a curly-haired, wise-cracking fellow who walks the mats at Junior’s every Sunday from the opening shift until about 7 p.m. In this role, he caters to his peanut-chomping regulars, but he’s also got The Bartender’s Touch—the ability to make conversation with everyone who walks in the room.

Even as he continuously changes the music and engages regulars in long, thoughtful convos, he’s serving drinks. Including the GSLSD. You may never come across a more specific, more simple, more regionally appropriate drink. Take note!

Start with a basic, state-approved pour of 1.5 ounces of rail vodka. This is topped by water, roughly in the same amount.

Added to this is a trio of salts: table salt, sea salt, kosher salt. At this point, your glass is guided across the bar in your general direction.

Note what doesn’t happen during this drink assemblage—at no point is the GSLSD shaken or stirred. It’s never placed in an icy tumbler. It’s not strained from such. Thus, the li’l mound of salt at the base of the glass is unperturbed.

Instead, that salt mound sorta sits there, staring back at you, shaped into a sort of pyramidal form. Over time, that salt will slowly begin to become one with the vodka and water, but the sheer curiosity of this room-temp cocktail tempts most drinkers into tilting it back before that salination is achieved.

Then comes a variation of the same consumer review, again and again: “It’s salty.”

What else needs to be said? It’s salty. Real salty. It’s characteristic of the lake of which it—and our fair city—are named. It’s also cheap. And it’s a conversation starter. (Or conversation killer.)

Is it a real drink? On this, we’re not sure. Abu’s got a prankster’s deft touch, and he’s the smartest guy in the room (no matter the room), so we’ll just say that this is a civically themed shooter that may yet find a tiny, brine-shrimp size following. CW

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t’s no big secret that Utah has some damn fine Thai restaurants—so many, in fact, that it becomes really hard to nail down the places that really stand out. We all have our favorites, of course, but whenever I pop into a Thai spot that rocks my world a bit, I have to pause and reflect.

The restaurant I have in mind this week is Tuk Tuk’s (2222 W. 3500 South, Ste. B7, 385-227-8347). It’s part of my favorite West Valley block—I mentioned it briefly in my block party roundup last week, but after another visit, I thought it was time to really dig into this place as part of this W VC kick I am on.

Tuk Tuk’s opened its doors in 2019, and the fact that it weathered the slings and arrows of the past few years speaks to its popularity. I found my way to this hip and cozy spot via their mouth-watering Instagram feed (@tuktuks.slc) that tempted me with Thai favorites tossed with shrimp and mussels. It’s common to choose one’s protein to accompany a heaping bowl of pad thai or pad woon sen, but this luscious medley of seafood medley dancing around on the plate was what piqued my interest.

All of the Thai staples are on the menu, and their massaman curry ($15) is a stellar blend of sweet and spicy. Speaking of

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kids hang out. For a pure spectacle, order up the khao pad sapparot or pineapple fried rice ($16) to get a fresh pineapple, sliced in half and filled with a massaman curry, raisins, cashews and your choice of protein.

It’s a lovely dish that makes everyone at the table smile when it arrives, with the sweet, creamy and fresh flavors playing around in that bright yellow pineapple.

Another standout on the special menu is the panang curry with salmon ($17), which was a new experience for me. I had no doubts that a lovely piece of salmon would be great when slathered in some homemade panang curry, but I wasn’t prepared for just how good it was. First, they give the salmon a light cornstarch fry so it’s got a crispy, delicate crust that soaks up all that curry flavor. Then they toss it all with some broccoli, red pepper, and however much dried chili powder you’ve requested. There are plenty of great dishes at Tuk Tuk’s, but the flavor combination of that fresh salmon and that creamy, spicy curry is deliciously unique.

Tuk Tuk’s is one of those places that gets a lot of love and hype on social media, and it’s all well-deserved. Each time I’ve visited this restaurant, I’ve been impressed with the service, the food and the welcoming space, which is something I’ve shared with plenty of my fellow diners. Again, it’s hard to narrow down the best of our Thai restaurant scene since we have such a strong community there, but I would definitely argue that Tuk Tuk’s can hang with the best of them. CW

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spicy, Tuk Tuk’s is one of the blessed Thai spots that isn’t afraid to turn up the heat.

They stick with a numerical value for their spice levels, and it’s wise to start out pretty low on the spectrum unless you know what you’re doing. I’m a fan of spicy food, so I wanted to go in guns blazing and order something pretty high on the spectrum, but the server chuckled and recommended crawling before running. Therefore, I went with a level two on my drunken noodles ($15) with seafood.

The plate arrives in a glistening pile of wide noodles and vegetables, complete with plump shrimp and enormous mussels.

You can see the ominous red flecks of dried chilis that cling to each bite, and though I thought I had undershot the spice level at first, the cumulative effect was right on the money. As per my past experiences of flirting with Thai chilis, they can really start to sneak up on you if you’re not careful.

For those interested in a multi-course meal at Tuk Tuk’s, the tom ka ($6 for a bowl or $13 for a shareable tureen) is an excellent way to prime the palate. It’s a traditional coconut milk soup that comes with a liberal helping of citrusy sourness that really gets the taste buds firing. The creamy broth contains sliced mushrooms, your choice of protein and healthy dashes of cilantro and scallions. This too comes with a spice level, which dictates how many fistfuls of dried chili goes into the soup, so exercise caution. If your party has more than two people, the shareable option is the way to go. It arrives in a beautiful silver tureen with its own heat source, so your soup stays hot throughout the meal.

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

Level Crossing Brewing Co. 2496 S. West Temple, S. Salt Lake LevelCrossingBrewing.com On Tap: Philly Sour Fruit Bat Blonde Ale New outdoor patio open!

Avenues Proper 376 8th Ave, SLC avenuesproper.com On Tap: Unicorn Fight Dungeon - Cranberry Lime LAger

Moab Brewing 686 S. Main, Moab TheMoabBrewery.com On Tap: Bougie Johnny’s Rose

Bewilder Brewing 445 S. 400 West, SLC BewilderBrewing.com On Tap: Gluten Reduced Kolsch Bohemian Brewery 94 E. Fort Union Blvd, Midvale BohemianBrewery.com Bonneville Brewery 1641 N. Main, Tooele BonnevilleBrewery.com On Tap: Peaches & Cream Ale Craft by Proper 1053 E. 2100 So., SLC craftbyproper.com On Tap: East Side Paradise Rice Lager

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Desert Edge Brewery 273 Trolley Square, SLC DesertEdgeBrewery.com On Tap: Orange Sienna Blood Orange Sour Epic Brewing Co. 825 S. State, SLC EpicBrewing.com On Tap: Brainless Belgian Golden Ale 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: Pray for Rain: Summer Ale Kiitos Brewing 608 W. 700 South, SLC KiitosBrewing.com

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A list of what local craft breweries and cider houses have on tap this week Shades Brewing 154 W. Utopia Ave, S. Salt Lake ShadesBrewing.beer On Tap: Raspberry Pistachio Pie Sour Ale Limited Release Pie & Beer Day 6.5% Silver Reef 4391 S. Enterprise Drive, St. George StGeorgeBev.com Squatters 147 W. Broadway, SLC Squatters.com Strap Tank Brewery Multiple Locations StrapTankBrewery.com Springville On Tap: PB Rider, Peanut Butter Stout Lehi On Tap: 2-Stroke, Vanilla Mocha Porter Stratford Proper 1588 Stratford Ave., SLC stratfordproper.com On Tap: Lake Effect Gose TF Brewing 936 S. 300 West, SLC TFBrewing.com On Tap: Edel Pils Talisman Brewing Co. 1258 Gibson Ave, Ogden TalismanBrewingCo.com On Tap: Kingslayer Uinta Brewing 1722 S. Fremont Drive, SLC UintaBrewing.com On Tap: Was Angeles Craft Beer

RoHa Brewing Project 30 Kensington Ave, SLC RoHaBrewing.com On Tap: False Prophet Hazy IPA

UTOG 2331 Grant Ave, Ogden UTOGBrewing.com On Tap: Love Punch Hefe (proceeds to Project Rainbow)

Roosters Brewing Multiple Locations RoostersBrewingCo.com On Tap: Cosmic Autumn Rebellion

Vernal Brewing 55 S. 500 East, Vernal VernalBrewing.com

SaltFire Brewing 2199 S. West Temple, S. Salt Lake SaltFireBrewing.com On Tap: Mr Shankly NEIPA Dirty Chai Stout Salt Flats Brewing 2020 Industrial Circle, SLC SaltFlatsBeer.com On Tap: Hazy Pale Ale 5%

Wasatch 2110 S. Highland Drive, SLC WasatchBeers.com Zion Brewery 95 Zion Park Blvd, Springdale ZionBrewery.com Zolupez 205 W. 29th Street #2, Ogden Zolupez.com

West Coast Vs. The Milkshake

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pic - Pineapple Creamsicle IPA: You can’t deny that there’s strong appeal when it comes to these fruity, lactose-infused IPAs. They definitely seem to blur the line between smoothie and beer.

I’ve found that those milkshake IPAs with lower levels of lactose (milk sugars) come across as more drinkable and sessionable.

This one pours a pale gold color, with about a finger of fluffy white head. Medium to full haze on this one, with minimal translucency and some darkness near the center of the glass; head retention is average, including some nice wispy lacing. You definitely get a lot of the hops on the nose.

Up front, there’s tons of bright, fruity hops, along with candied peach, pineapple and something a little more earthy (like blueberry). As it warms, the hops definitely start to contribute some dank aromatics— maybe a bit of tangerine and grapefruit flesh as well. Honestly, though, there’s not really any vanilla on the nose, and the pineapple aromas seem to be coming more from the hops than the fruit. Nonetheless, it does smell like a really good citrus-forward IPA. Okay, there are the adjuncts; he vanilla and pineapple definitely show up on the taste. Up front, I get a pop of Mosaic flavor (similar peach, blueberry, maybe something more tropical like guava). Behind that, there’s a more subtle tart pineapple note that seems more fruity than hoppy— not exactly pungent, but interesting. Midtaste, the vanilla comes through big time, layering a dessert-like sweetness and a vanilla bean ice cream flavor on top of the fruit flavors. Surprisingly, these notes dis-

appear rather quickly, and the back end is dominated by the bready malt backbone until the aftertaste, which is when the adjuncts (pineapple/sweet vanilla) combine and really linger on the tongue.

Overall: This is a very good IPA—an enjoyable yet confusing beer, which might be helpful if you’re on the fence about this style. Low lactose sweetness and 8.5 percent ABV make this a quite drinkable beverage.

Uinta - Pro Line Juicy IPA: This is release number four of six in Uinta’s Pro Line of beers, an IPA brewed exclusively with hops from Roy Farms: Cashmere, El Dorado and Strata hops along with Star Party Yeast, which is designed to create vibrant notes of pineapple, passionfruit and papaya during fermentation.

It pours a delightful copper-tinged amber color that really captures the essence of what a good IPA should look like. The head is thick and beautiful, and releases so many aromas that are paramount to enjoying this complex brew, while leaving delicate and attractive lacing on the glass.

It smells fruity and hoppy, with strong cannabinoid attributes. I can already tell it is a great beer. Citrus rind and pine are at the forefront, and I get a lot of dank earthy hops as well. The malts are, thankfully, on the lighter side, and very well-balanced.

Though it says “juicy” on the can, it tastes like the epitome of the West Coast Style IPA. I get hops galore, but in the right quantities and with the perfect balance. The 8.2 percent alcohol is subtle and well-hidden.

It warms the tongue as the sip proceeds. I get piney, earthy orange rind, and citrus hops mixed with a perfectly muted, roasted grain malt-base. After the gulp, I notice tongue-smacking resin, oils, earthy hops, an ashy aftertaste and plenty of grapefruit and zest. It is so juicy and fruity and bready.

The West Coast fruits and flavors and dank hops really come out beautifully; it is fullbodied and delicious. It finishes clean and smooth with a lingering bitterness that is cannabinoid and oil resins from the several hop varieties.

Overall: If coming through on that “juicy” description is a must for you, this may leave you wanting. If you’re into West Coast Double IPAs, on the other hand, this will hit all of the beats.

Look for these at their respective brewery stores. As always, cheers! CW

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After taking a two-year hiatus, the Downtown SLC Alliance is bringing Pie and Beer Day back to the people.

In addition to truckloads of local bakes and brews, this year’s event is pairing with the Locally Made Locally Played Festival, which will add some excellent local music to the festivities. Attendees can sample pie from Porcupine Grill, Avenues Proper, The Dodo, The Copper Onion and Bricks Corner, among plenty of others. On tap will be brews from Bewilder Brewing, Bohemian Brewery, Strap Tank, Proper and RoHa. The event takes place at The Gateway (400 W. 200 South, atthegateway.com) on July 24 from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m., and passes will be available at the door.

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going to lose my mind if I don’t get out of here’”) and “Day After Day,” a tight pop song that’s anchored by the same three notes played over and over. “It’s all about the pandemic and the strife,” Rzeznik said. “I’m singing ‘It’s all the same day after day/The more you scream, the less you say.’”

Such songs noted, the Chaos in Bloom songs are more observational than pointedly political. But they’re rooted in the two years of upheaval, beginning with the COVID-19 shutdown of March 2020. “It came out of a really crazy time,” Rzeznik said of the album. “I found myself in the middle of a pandemic and in the middle of a Black Lives Matter protest.

You’re feeling the intensity of the people…We came out on the other side, and we’ve definitely changed. I hope we can find more in common with each other.”

In fact, finding commonality happens during live shows, and it’s why Rzeznik wants to be out playing again this summer. “That’s what I love about playing live,” he said.

“It doesn’t matter what your politics are, what you think about all the things that tear us apart, everybody in that room has something in common. They’re there to hear the band, whoever it is, they’re there for the music. The music is a small thing, but at least it’s something.” CW

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That, of course, means the likes of “Iris,” “Name,” “Slide,” “Give a Little Bit” “Better Days” and “Broadway” will likely be heard on the tour that runs through the end of September. The band hasn’t toured since 2019 and has only played a few festivals and private engagements in more than two years. This meant Rzeznik, at least as of late June, wasn’t close to ready to hit the road.

“I had to do three shows in a row the other day. I was ‘oh sh**, I’ve got to get back in shape,’” he said. “It’s really hard to sing for two or three hours. Singing is more athletic than people think. It takes a lot of practice and rehearsing.

I have to warm up my voice, do core exercise and sprints to get my wind back. Some people are absolute naturals. But I need to do all that stuff, to see my vocal coach, do the exercises. I can’t smoke cigarettes anymore. It’s like ‘this is no fun.’ I can’t drink anymore. I can’t smoke any more. But I get to do something that’s really awesome.”

More songs from Chaos in Bloom will almost certainly make their way into the set as the tour continues, like the protest song “Let the Sun Come Back Again.” “It’s unfair that there’s one man who has $200 billion and flies on a giant penis into space and one in five kids are food insecure, or that a kid’s got to graduate from college with $100,000 in debt or that someone can’t love who they love and have to be in fear,” Rzeznik said. “That’s so sad. We’re better than that.”

Then there are the pandemic songs, like “Going Crazy” (“That was me lying in my bed going ‘What’s going on? I’m

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icking off with a ringing, driving guitar, the newly released single “Yeah, I Like You” revs up scrappy rock ‘n’ roll, skewering meaningless internet and social media celebrity culture with its big choruses and pop hooks.

Welcome to the Goo Goo Dolls in the second decade of the 21st century.

“That song’s a lot of fun,” said singer/songwriter/guitarist John Rzeznik in a late-June phone interview. “What I love about that song is it really is a satirical kind of commentary on fame in the year 2022. I’m sitting around going, ‘Who are these people? What are they famous for?’ You used to have to do something to be famous. … There’s a girl eating noodles. I eat noodles, why aren’t I famous? Everything is so weirdly random.”

“Yeah, I Like You” and the rest of Chaos in Bloom—set for release Aug. 12—was recorded last summer, when the band decamped to Woodstock, N.Y., living in a house with a studio on the property. The long-running alt-rock band’s 13th album, Chaos in Bloom marks the first time Rzeznik has produced one of the band’s albums. He aimed to bring together vintage and contemporary sounds—and to capture the Goo Goo Dolls at their best.

“I wanted the album to have more of a live feel to it,” Rzeznik said. “A couple songs, I used drum machines and synthesizers. That’s a different kind of process. For the rock songs, it was live. The live versions of the songs, to me, always came across better than the studio versions.”

Rzeznik did all the production, up to a point. Then he brought in Gregg Wattenberg to help finish the record. “I felt like I couldn’t take these songs any further,” he said. “I stepped up in front of the mic and I was going to produce my own vocals. Then I went ‘I don’t know how to do this.’”

By the time the tour begins, the Goo Goo Dolls’ loyal fan base will have had a couple weeks to embrace the new song that they’ll be hearing from the stage. “Once it’s out for a

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Between us, we had no furniture, one job (hers), one case I’ve always found shows on this 9th & 9th utility box. of COVID (hers), one entireI’ll allow the paper to announce next youth-and-young-adulthood spent in SLC steps in music coverage, but I’ll sign off to(also hers). My days, meanwhile, were spent day by offering a few thoughts: walking around Liberty Wells, wondering Since moving here, I’ve seen more music what type of job a stranger should pursue at RoHa Brewing (30 E. Kensington) than in this strange land, having traveled down anywhere else, and Hopkins Brewing (1048 a few different career paths through life.

E. 2100 South) is a close second. The reaMusic journalism was a big part of my son for this goes beyond my love of beer. It’s 20s and early 30s, but that time was con- that these places have music on set nights fined not only to a different decade, but a of the week. You know that there’s music different century. Cold-calling on the City at RoHa on Thursday and Saturday, with a Weekly, I learned that the music editor po- variety of booked sounds. And Hopkins is sition had recently opened up. Opportuni- a spot that features jazz regularly, making ty met availability, and I signed on within that a must for a jazz fix. Having a lively a week. It was a highlight, for sure, and I music scene means a bunch of places offer thank my immediate editors—Scott Ren- set, weekly gigs, be they accompanied by a shaw, Benjamin Wood, Jerre Wroble—for low cover or offered free. That said, the outthe confidence in assigning me stories both door music booking here is stellar, varied inside and outside the music beat. Also, and interesting. I never would’ve imagined huge thanks to many members of the Saltas how many shows I’d catch within a few feet family, who collectively provide backbone, of a dumpster. heart and purse of City Weekly.

Seems there’s room for more labels, If this reads as if written in past-tense, though there’s an impressive amount of that’s intentional. My tenure as a writer/ music being released, especially singles. editor at the CW is ending fairly early, and Seems there’s room for more fests, espethis’ll be my last week filing stories regucially those that mix genres. Seems there’s larly (though a few more pieces will hit the room for more music journalism in more website in the near future). A family memoutlets, via more voices. ber’s been diagnosed with a fast-moving As for this outlet, I’m once again of the form of terminal cancer, and my presence mind to thank the folks who worked with is needed in the city we left a half-year me over the past few months; this is a cool back, St. Louis. For the past few weeks, I’ve paper owned and operated by cool people. been juggling time and responsibilities beWhile I’m an introvert by nature, this job tween the two cities, and that situation’s forced me to meet the people of this combecome really untenable. Over the past six munity in a way I would’ve otherwise (or so) issues, I’ve gotten my work done, but missed. My time in Salt Lake City has been often at the last second, or without a lot of a fascinating learning experience, and snap, crackle and pop.

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COIN, Blackstarkids @ The Great Saltair

Nothing says summer like a big, feel-good show out at the Saltair.

The electro pop band COIN will be providing ample summer vibes, too. The group’s latest album, released this spring, takes on themes of artificial intelligence, and how our own little worlds can function like computer brains still learning, too. It’s also a refreshing album from the trio, from the disco vibes on “Chapstick” to the driving edge of the drum-driven “Watering A Dead Flower.” Despite lingering on unalive concepts, the album itself is just like any other COIN album—alive with pop electricity and fun, danceable tracks. They’ve got a fitting guest coming along for the ride at The Saltair, as well: Blackstarkids will be bringing their fusion of youthful, vibey indie pop and hip hop to the stage. They have an impressive amount of work under their belts, released in just a few years. Some standouts include their sound on 2020’s SURF, where songs like “TOO DEPRESSED 4 SEX” recall Beat Happening in their unpolished frankness. They’re also often flirting with fresh punk beats too, especially on “Sounds Like Fun” and “JUNO.” Catch the elder pop band and the new kids on the block at the same time when they play The Great Saltair on Friday, July 22 at 8 p.m. Tickets to the all-ages show are $32.50 at thesaltair.com.

Kipper Snack, Sunhills, Nicole Canaan, Pale Dream @ The Urban Lounge

A local pair of buddy-buddy bands have some singles out that they’re celebrating this weekend at The Urban Lounge. Headliners Kipper Snack will be putting out their new single “Big Guy,” which

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Their friends Sunhills are also releasing a track to follow their other 2022 single, “Sugar Coated,” which is something of a moody, dreamy trip. Whether their new single will follow suit is still to be seen. The show will be rounded out by fellow locals Nicole Canaan and Pale Dream. Like the two single-releasers, Pale Dream also deals in jangly dream pop, and their latest single, “Curse” is a great example of what they can do. Canaan is dreamy too, adding a little bit of attitude and playfulness thanks to her all-too-knowing singing style. The locals-packed show goes down this Friday, July 22 at 8 p.m. The 21+ show is $10 at theurbanlounge.com.

Jason Aldean @ USANA Amphitheatre

Country rockers, get yourselves to USANA this Saturday—and even though you have to take the freeway to get there, there’s no reason you can’t blast “Dirt Road Anthem” in preparation. That hit song came out way back in 2010, though, and since Aldean has only kept up his craft. Lately, that’s by way of a double album called Macon, Georgia, with the first part, Macon, released last year and Georgia released this spring. Across 30 songs on the new albums, Aldean brings his dependable best on new tracks, and also some live versions of famous songs of his like “Country Girl” and “Big Green Tractor.” Besides those recognizable party tracks, Aldean has made his mark over the last near-two decades, coloring what modern country pop sounds like with his dozens of hits. With those

songs, and undoubtedly a fair share of his newer offerings, Aldean’s embarking on his Rock N’ Roll Cowboy Tour, alongside country pop star Gabby Barrett, crooner John Morgan and country-remix star Dee Jay Silver. See them all on Saturday, July 23 at USANA Amphitheatre. The all-ages show opens at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $54 - $573 at saltlakeamphitheater.com.

Broadside, Young Culture @ The Beehive

Pop punk is alive and well, and it’s at The Beehive this Tuesday.

Virginia-based Broadside have been keeping it alive since 2015, when they started making a splash in the determined scene.

While for some, pop punk and emo music was what chronicled their high school years, it’s turned out to be an enduring genre kept fresh by artists like Broadside. On their 2020 album Into the Raging Sea, songs like “Foolish Believer” pummel hard on what sounds like a theme of hesitant optimism, a feeling that persists on the moody album, where lead singer Ollie Baxxter growls about drama as often as he croons, lovestruck, on tracks like “Heavenly.”

Tourmates Young Culture carry some brighter notes, but their lighter pop-punkisms still carry all the seriousness of true emo.

On their most recent album, 2020’s self-titled, “Holiday in Vegas” finds them playfully comparing a lover to “the sunshine in Reno.”

The two are joined by the fast-and-hard playing First and Forever and the experimental, melodic pop punkers Cherie Amour. The allages show is on Tuesday, July 26, doors are at 6 p.m., and tickets are $18 presale and $20 day-of-show. Visit linktr.ee/Beehiveslc for more info. CW

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) You are entering the Season of Love’s Renewal. To celebrate, I offer you a poem by eighth-century Tamil poet Andal.

Whatever gender you may be, I invite you to visualize yourself as the “Snakewaist woman” she addresses. Here’s Andal, bringing a fiery splash of exclamation points: “Arouse, Snakewaist woman! Strut your enchantment! Swoop your mirth and leap your spiral reverence! As wild peacocks shimmer and ramble and entice the lightning-nerved air! Summon thunderheads of your love! Command the sentient wind! Resurrect the flavor of eternal birth!”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) There is a distinction between being nice and being kind. Being nice is often motivated by mechanical politeness, by a habitbound drive to appear pleasant. It may be rooted more in a desire to be liked than in an authentic urge to bestow blessings. On the other hand, being kind is a sincere expression of care and concern for another. It fosters genuine intimacy. I bring these thoughts to your attention because I think that one of Libra’s life-long tasks is to master the art of being kind rather than merely nice.

And right now is an especially favorable phase for you to refine your practice.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Tips to get the most out of the next three weeks: 1. Work harder, last longer and finish with more grace than everyone else; 2.

Be in love with beauty. Crave it, surround yourself with it, and create it. Be especially enamored of beautiful things that are also useful; 3. Taste the mist, smell the clouds, kiss the music, praise the earth and listen to the moon in the daytime sky; 4.

Never stop building! Keep building and building and building: your joy, your security, your love, your beauty, your stamina, your sense of wonder.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You sometimes feel you have to tone down your smoldering intensity, avert your dark-star gazes, conceal your sultry charisma, dumb down your persuasive speech, pretend you don’t have so much stamina, disguise your awareness of supernatural connections, act less like a saint and martyr in your zealous devotions, and refrain from revealing your skill at reading between the lines. But none of that avoidance stuff usually works very well. The Real You leaks out into view. In the coming weeks, I hope you won’t engage in any of the hiding behavior I described. It’s a favorable time to freely pour forth your Scorpionic blessings.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Gemini astrologer Astrolocherry says that while Geminis “can appear naive and air-headed to onlookers, their minds usually operate at light speed. They naturally absorb every surrounding particle of intellectual stimuli. They constantly observe their interactions for opportunities to grow their knowledge.” I believe these qualities will function at peak intensity during the next four weeks, Gemini—maybe even beyond peak intensity.

Please try to enjoy the hell out of this phase without becoming manic or overwrought. If all goes well, you could learn more in the next four weeks than most people learn in four months.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) There could be interesting and important events happening while you sleep in the coming nights. If a butterfly lands on you in a dream, it may mean you’re prepping for a spiritual transformation in waking life. It could be a sign you’re receptive to a breakthrough insight you weren’t previously open to. If you dream of a baby animal, it might signify you’re ready to welcome a rebirth of a part of you that has been dormant or sluggish or unavailable. Dreams in which you’re flying suggest you may soon escape a sense of heaviness or inertia.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) How to be the best Capricorn you can be in the coming weeks and months: 1. Develop a disciplined, well-planned strategy to achieve more freedom; 2. Keep clambering upward even if you have no competitors and there’s no one else at the top; 3.

Loosen your firm grasp and steely resolve just enough so you can allow the world to enjoy you; 4. Don’t let the people you love ever think you take them for granted; 5. Be younger today than you were yesterday.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) In the next seven to eight weeks, I’d love for you to embody an attitude about intimacy articulated by author Hélène Cixous.

Here’s her aspiration: “I want to love a person freely, including all her secrets. I want to love in this person someone she doesn’t know. I want to love without judgment, without fault. Without false, without true. I want to meet her between the words, beneath language.” And yes, dear Aquarius, I know this is a monumental undertaking. If it appeals to you at all, just do the best you can to incorporate it. Perfection isn’t required.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) I periodically consult a doctor of Chinese medicine who tells me that one of the best things I can do for my health is to walk barefoot—everywhere! On the sidewalk, through buildings and especially in the woods and natural areas. He says that being in direct contact with our beloved earth can provide me with enerVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Virgo poet Claude de Burine described how one night when she getic nourishment not possible any other way. I have resisted the was 3 years old, she sneaked out of the house with her parents’ doc’s advice so far. It would take the soles of my feet a while to champagne bucket so she could fill it up with moonlight. I think get accustomed to the wear and tear of barefoot walking. I bring activities like this will be a worthy pursuit for you in the coming this up, Pisces, because the coming weeks will be an excellent days. You’re entering a favorable phase to go in quest of lyrical, time for you to try what I haven’t yet. In fact, anything you do fanciful experiences. I hope you will make yourself available for to deepen your connection with the earth will be extra healing. I invite you to lie in the sand, hug trees, converse with birds, shout marvels and curiosities and fun surprises. prayers to mountains and bathe in rivers or lakes.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) A Leo astrologer I’ve known for years told me, “Here’s a secret about us Lions. No matter what happens, despite any pitfalls and pratfalls, my ego will stay intact. It ain’t gonna crack. You can hurl five lightning bolts’ worth of insults at my skull, and I will walk away without even a hint of a concussion. I believe in myself and worship myself, but even more importantly: I trust my own self-coherence like I trust the sun to shine.” Wow! That’s quite a testimony. I’m not sure I fully buy it, though. I have known a few Leos whose confidence wavered in the wake of a minor misstep. But here’s the point of my horoscope: I encourage you to allow a slight ego deflation in the coming days.

If you do, I believe it will generate a major blossoming of your ego

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ACROSS

1. Goes through physical therapy 2. What apartment doors generally do 3. Arrive at ahead of 4. Late-night host Meyers 5. Singer nicknamed “The Velvet Fog” 6. Tool for fishing a frozen river 7. Lil Wayne’s “____ Carter V” 8. Barfly 9. Dinosaur DNA preserver in “Jurassic Park”

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36. Calendar square 38. Gator’s kin 39. Like the 1% 40. Things meant to be used and then thrown away 41. Saxophonist’s need 42. Gossip to “spill” 47. Prepares, as some mushrooms 49. “Being and Nothingness” author 51. Wine store purchase 52. Mentor to Luke 53. Ryder of “Stranger Things”

55. BookFinder.com search term 56. Jumbo the Elephant’s Massachusetts school 57. “A Black Lady Sketch Show” channel 61. Setting of the graphic novel “Persepolis” 62. Record label for Doja Cat 63. Center of activity 64. “When will u b here?”

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28. Judgy sort 30. Cherry or walnut 31. Work at a keyboard 32. Tease 35. Voldemort’s title 37. Word in some cereal names 38. “The Fly,” “The Host” or “The Thing” 43. Upholstery problem 44. Well offshore 45. Bill known as the “Science Guy” 46. Folk legend Phil 48. Gas company with toy trucks 50. “Take ____” (1994 Madonna hit that was #1 for seven weeks) 54. Lives, surprisingly 58. Kimono sash 59. David who anchors ABC’s “World News Tonight” 60. “Go ahead, gloat!”

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE

uyers, take note! The real-estate market is changing drastically, according to new data from the Salt Lake Board of Realtors. In Salt Lake County, total home sales (condos, single family, etc.) for June fell to just 1,344. That’s the lowest June sales in a decade—and 27% fewer sales than June 2021.

What does that mean for buyers? For the past three quarters, homes were selling in just six days, but now the average “days on market” is 21 days, with an average list price of $613,397 and an average sales price of $611,740. There are now three times the normal inventory of properties for sale than prepandemic numbers, and that simply means that buyers finally have a chance to shop and maybe even return the next day to a property that hasn’t sold with 20 offers on it.

I just helped some sellers go under contract on their home after a three-day negotiation. In order to seal the deal, sellers paid $12,000 in the buyers’ closing/mortgage costs and agreed to pay the buyers’ rent for 30 days after close of escrow, as they await their new home to be finished so they can move. I haven’t seen sellers pay closing costs in at least two years. Because our market heated up so quickly and with so much competition from buyers, the idea of buyers paying those costs wasn’t a possibility. Now with the slowdown, buyers might be able to pay the asking price—not $100,000 over ask!

Buyers might be able to negotiate other concessions such as sellers paying for: a home warranty on mechanical items in the home on behalf of buyers for a year (roughly $600), mortgage costs (can be up to 2% of the loan amount) and repairs. Sellers might offer to include personal items, such as washers/ dryers, pool tables or snowblowers.

The main reason the market has slowed is due to the Federal Reserve raising its rates, which equates to higher mortgage rates for buyers. Thirty-year-loan interest rates were just above 6% a few weeks ago but have now dropped below 6%.

The Fed will meet in another week, and economists expect it will raise interest rates by another 1%, which will make it more expensive for banks to borrow and, thus, interest rates on all kinds of consumer and commercial borrowing—including mortgage rates—will tend to go up. This is all necessary to try and cool inflation.

Inflation rose to 9.1% last week, the highest since February of 1991. You certainly can feel that as airline fares rose 34.1%, new car prices are up by 11.4% and food prices are rising 1% per month.

Housing prices are falling nationwide by an average of 5%, and more than half of the Salt Lake City MLS listings show price reductions in the past few weeks.

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Ewwwww Big Ben, the London Eye, Buckingham Palace ... now tourists can add Wet Wipe Island to their lists of must-see attractions in England’s capital. The Times of London reported on June 24 that an island the size of two tennis courts and composed entirely of used wet wipes has appeared in the Thames River that meanders through the city. Government ministers have asked people to stop using the wipes and are considering a ban on those that contain plastic. Fleur Anderson, a Labour Party MP, said she has visited the site: “I’ve ... stood on it—it’s near Hammersmith Bridge in the Thames and it’s a meter deep or more in places.

It’s actually changed the course of the Thames.” Environmental minister Rebecca Pow asked citizens not to flush the wipes and said a proposal for dealing with the problem would be forthcoming “very shortly.”

Least Competent Criminals n In Salt Lake City in mid-June, a couple of geniuses rolled up next to a company box truck in a parking lot in their own pickup truck. While one waited, KSL-TV reported, the other got under the company truck and drilled a hole into the gas tank, presumably hoping to steal fuel. But the perp’s shirt caught on fire while he was under the truck, causing him to roll around the parking lot while trying to remove his shirt. He then jumped into the pickup and the pair of would-be thieves drove away; the company truck still had flames and smoke billowing from underneath, as seen on a surveillance video. No arrests have yet been made.

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n Also in June, Austin Beauchamp, who was working as a summer instructor for a youth social services program in Grove City, Ohio, applied for a police communications technician job there, WKBN-TV reported. As part of the interview process, a detective ran a background check on Beauchamp and found he was wanted in North Carolina on a statutory rape charge. Grove City police arrested him on June 22 and expected him to be extradited to Guilford County, North Carolina, for trial.

It’s Good to Have a Hobby Neruno Daisuki, a Japanese illustrator and manga artist, stumbled into a new hobby as he tried to pass the time during the COVID lockdowns of the past year, Oddity Central reported. He started collecting the various little items that become stuck in the tread of one’s shoes—pebbles, glass fragments, etc.—and laying them out neatly on boards with grids. “When I was removing the pebbles caught in the groove on the back of my newly bought sneakers,” he said, “I felt that it was a waste to just throw them away, and I thought, ‘It would be interesting to collect them.’” He ended up with 179 pebbles, 32 glass fragments and one nut. Now he’s considering further categorizing his collection between his left and right shoes.

Good Sport Katie Hannaford, 36, of Essex, England, just wanted to please her daughter by taking part in a parents’ race on sports day at the girl’s school. But when she tripped over her own feet and fell to her knees, Hannaford inadvertently flashed her bare rear end to the crowd of students, parents and teachers, the Mirror reported on July 7. At first, she said, she was humiliated, but Trophies Plus Medals presented her with a Bottoms Up award trophy and medal; Elle Courtenel, social media manager for the company, said they “felt she deserved her own award despite not making it to the finish line.” And Hannaford has come around to see the humor of it: “It’s definitely the funniest thing I’ve ever done in my life!”

Latest Religious Message?

A family in Uttar Pradesh, India, believe they have been blessed by the gods after the mother, Kareena, gave birth to a baby with four arms and four legs, the New York Post reported. The otherwise healthy boy arrived on July 2 and weighed 6.5 pounds,

doctors reported. Some believe he may be the reincarnation of the four-armed Hindu goddess Lakshmi, who rules wealth, fortune, power, beauty, fertility and prosperity. The extremely rare condition is called polymelia and results in extra, unusable arms, legs, hands or feet.

Weird Weather On July 5, residents of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, “felt like being in a teaser for Stranger Things Season 5,” one Twitter user posted. Because of a phenomenon known as a derecho, the sky turned neon green as thunderstorms moved through the area, People. com reported. “The green in this thing is insane!” tweeted storm chaser Tanner Charles. The green occurs when blue light from rain clouds combines with red and yellow light from a sunset, the National Weather Service explained.

Awwwww What’s a 6-year-old to do when her tooth falls out during an airline flight and gets lost on the plane? After Lena and her family returned to the Greenville-Spartanburg (South Carolina) airport from a trip to Norway on June 17, she realized her tooth was nowhere to be found, WHNS-TV reported. The flight crew noticed that Lena was upset as her family tried to go back onto the plane to look for it; instead, United Airlines Capt. Josh Duchow went the extra mile, writing a note to the Tooth Fairy to make sure Lena got credit for her missing tooth.

Bright Idea On June 26, when traffic came to a complete standstill on I-85 in Atlanta, many people left their cars to walk around, play Frisbee or—in Hailey Ann Smith’s case—strum the harp. “I was in my concert gown, and I had the harp in the car from a wedding ... so I parked myself in the very middle of the interstate and played a few songs for everybody!” she wrote on Facebook, according to The News & Observer. “It’s not every day you get to play your baby grand harp on the middle of I-85.” “Wow, what a great way to share beautiful music!” one Facebook user responded.

Government in Action Victor Roy, Oceanside, California’s elected city treasurer, is in hot water after an email from Treasury Manager Steve Hodges to Roy surfaced, Voice of San Diego reported. The June 6 email includes several allegations against Roy, but the most titillating details, in an anonymous complaint filed in June 2021, allege that Roy looked at pornography on the Mission Branch Library computers. The complaint stated that Roy was “looking at magazines that when he clicked on the cover, the images inside the magazine were full nudity.” Roy was told by library staff that he couldn’t view nudity on public computers, and he replied that “he knew, that is why he came when it was slow and that he was being cognizant of his surroundings,” the complaint continued.

Assistant City Manager Michael Gossman, who confirmed that the leaked email was authentic, said Roy had not repeated the inappropriate behavior at the library.

Freak of Nature A wild rabbit that looks like something out of a Star Wars bar scene is alarming residents of a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, neighborhood, KELO-TV reported. The rabbit’s head and face are covered with growths that look like tentacles, which bob around as the animal moves. Dennis Schorr saw the bunny on July 7: “I walk my dogs every day, and I see lots of rabbits—but today was very unusual,” he said. Game Fish and Parks biologist Josh Delger said the growths are caused by a form of papillomavirus found only in cottontail rabbits. He said cases this severe are seen every few years, and the virus can spread from wild rabbits to pet rabbits, but it’s unlikely it would spread to dogs.

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