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SOAP BOX Hardly Human

I want to know what it means to be human—like back in 1930s, ’40s and ’50s— when they waved to their neighbors, left the windows and doors open and when people were actually humble. Now, you have to double-lock everything in your life or someone feels they can take it. No one really waves at anyone and everyone is up in smoke with their opinions and how they have to be right. No one acts human anymore. Our society is sad—just plain sad. You can’t go into a store and have the cashier smile and wish you a good day. Instead, you have a frowny-face person who hates their life and doesn’t want to be there and takes it out on you, so customer service is horrible. I try to smile and wish everyone the best, but I can’t take it.

@SLCWEEKLY Being human isn’t like it was in my grandmother’s time. They had their struggles, but they didn’t wear them on their sleeves so everyone could see and feel it. I just wish through all the struggles, sadness and pain that we as a society could come together and just be happy or at least try to be. Life doesn’t have to be sad. MELISSA STULCE

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What song was “the song of the summer”—one that defined a specific year’s summer? Scott Renshaw

1984, “Cruel Summer” by Bananarama, which is weird for two reasons: It was originally released in 1983, and only became a hit in the U.S. because it was featured in The Karate Kid in 1984. Remember when songs became hits because they were in movies? It was a different time.

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Summer of ‘66: “Summer in the City” by Lovin’ Spoonful.

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I’m sure it dates me, but “Good Vibrations” by the Beach Boys. I would have said “Song of the South” but that puts me in childhood, and it apparently isn’t PC anymore.

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It has to be DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince: “Summertime!” Summer, summer, summertime. Time to sit back and unwind.

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LFO: “Summer Girls.” (But Abercrombie & Fitch is racist. Watch the Netflix documentary.)

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I still have a soft spot in my heart for Sugar Ray, beginning in 1997 when “Fly” blew the doors off pop radio. I was 10, and Wikipedia reminds me that was also the year of “MMMBop” by Hanson, “SemiCharmed Life” by Third Eye Blind and “Tubthumping” by Chumbawumba.

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“Where Eagles Dare” by the Misfits.

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PRIVATE EY Stroke Averted

ast month, I quit Twitter. Or so I thought. This week, I need your help in actually, really, quitting Twitter. I didn’t have a big issue quitting on my desktop computer. I easily disabled it and marked my calendar to remember to reignite the damned thing every 30 days so I don’t lose all those incredibly wise 20,300 tweets I’ve sent over the past 14 years or so. I can’t lose those because, you know, posterity. Who wouldn’t want to be remembered for such Twitter gems as, “Mike Lee is a jackass”? Well, he is, but with thousands of people saying the same thing all day, every day, it became quite futile to keep saying so. Even nuanced tweets about Lee’s jackassery became passe. Lord knows, there’s simply not enough characters in every language on Twitter combined to correctly tweet the degree to which Lee is less human than a squid and have it make any difference to Utah voters of the GOP stripe. So, for those and many other reasons, I’ve decided to abandon Twitter. I did take the time, though, to pass a direct message along to several people who were kind enough not to mock me terribly for my decision. And that was that. But on my phone I had issues. In the process of disabling my current Twitter app account I somehow managed to set up an entirely new one. My old handle was @johnsaltas. My new one is @john_saltas. I don’t even know how I did that, but now I can’t delete it because it says I need to use my password. I don’t remember setting it up so I clearly can’t know what my password is. It said I must choose at least one follow on Twitter, so I chose Major League Baseball. I still

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can’t disable it. I’m at a dead end, having a new Twitter account I don’t want and can’t get rid of. Long story short, can anyone out there help me kill Twitter on my phone? I was thinking of calling Elon Musk to help, but he’s been off to Greece—looking like a Michelin Man floating device, so pale white is he and also a bit round—and I can’t bear to interrupt his Mykonos vacation. He was on the verge of completing his purchase of Twitter—or so he said. I guess he needed some Aegean Sea balm to help him through. But alas, the deal fell apart. He was so close, too. One of my last little spats on Twitter was a couple months ago when some nitwit with one follower (to be fair, maybe he had the same idiot issues as me with Twitter account setups) began chiding me. He began by defending the glorious reputation of Sen. Mike Lee, then segued into how I’m just another dumb liberal sheep before ending by saying that I should fear Elon Musk because he was going to buy Twitter and reinstate Donald Trump’s stricken account (please strike and eliminate the @john_saltas if you are listening, Mr. Twitter) and shut the likes of me down. I have never been that lucky, dude. Little did my Twitter nemesis know that me and Musk are cosmic buddies. It’s the law that opposites attract, you know. I have nothing in common with Elon Musk, starting with his marshmallow complexion and body to my notable tan and rippling physique. I also have a lifelong history of failure at courtship (not counting that I became married during the Eisenhour administration), whereas Musk apparently has out-of-wedlock children coming out of his ears. That makes him a hero in the world of conservative Christians, while I have but three kids—none of whom are bastards. That makes me a fake Christian conservative. I didn’t have to grow up with Musk, nor ever share so

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much as a thimble of Salon le Mesnil Blanc de Blancs Brut Champagne with him to declare him as my yang. We are so distinctly different that I know exactly who and what he is. No need to get in the grits here, but we also will not be sharing plastic mugs of Annie Green Springs, because he knows exactly who I am as well: A nobody to the likes of him, yet we are bound to the laws of the universe, of course. I’m grateful that, unlike other rapscallions such as Mike Lee and Donald Trump, Musk is often taken to bilking people with lots of money rather than bilking people of lower means. He’s a high-class bilker. Lee and Trump bottomfeed by appealing to fear. Musk feeds himself at the trough of greed and ego. So, even though I primarily despise him to no end, I have a slight amount of empathy for him since his enemies seem to be my enemies, too. Sometimes though, some of his victims aren’t fully bad guys. Like that guy Sergey Brin. I only know three things about Brin: Before Twitter ruined my life, Google ruined my life, and Brin is a co-founder of Google; Elon Musk is accused of boinking Brin’s wife (on point, Elon, on point!); and that Brin bears a striking resemblance to the newly discovered picture of Latter-day Saint founder and prophet, Joseph Smith. Brin apparently supports Democratic causes and is a decent philanthropist, so he can’t be all bad. If he owned Twitter instead of Google, maybe I’d stick around. But really, that’s a fool’s exercise for me at this point: It’s barely over a month and my blood pressure has decreased by seven systolic points and four diastolic. Stroke averted. The only thing raising my blood pressure these days is that I can’t delete my newest Twitter account. I don’t want it. Help me get rid of it, please! CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net

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HITS&MISSES BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

MISS: Death and Taxes

The first and the last thing everyone wants to talk about is inflation. Because it’s part of the partisan playbook, you hear it a lot. But getting to the heart of the economy—the hows and whys—is just too much to digest. Still, everyone acknowledges the pain. So when the Legislature got the news of a big surplus, you might think they’d talk about that pain. Instead, giddy at the thought of a political boost, the Utah Taxpayers Association is pushing tax cuts, according to Fox13 News. Easy-peasy, if you want the public to think you’ve done something. “Advocates of tax cuts argue that reducing taxes improves the economy by boosting spending,” writes Investopedia. “Those who oppose them say that tax cuts only help the rich because it can lead to a reduction in government services upon which lower-earning individuals rely.” What are the real options? Maybe removing the tax on food or even on gas.

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Sometimes you think living in bright red Utah means you’re stuck in the conspiracy network. Then along comes a judge, moved by our lieutenant governor’s cogent arguments, who tells the conspiracists to back off. Though Republicans wiped the electoral floor in Utah’s last election, people known as The Two Red Pills and the Lone Raccoon and—sadly—Utah County Commissioner Bill Lee persisted in a claim of election misconduct and phantom voters casting ballots, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. And let’s not forget Blanding Republican Rep. Phil Lyman, who says—without evidence—that voting machines switched ballots in June. While Jewish space lasers apparently continue to erode trust in government and elections, at least the public can count on the courts ... for now.

MISS: Missing in Action

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So many reasons to question the ethics of Attorney General Sean Reyes. We could talk about his propensity to suck up to GOP hopefuls. Most recently, that included hosting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to raise funds in Utah for his gubernatorial campaign. Oh, and DeSantis is the presumptive opponent in the 2024 presidential election to the Former Guy, whom Reyes venerates, for whatever reason. Now, KUER 90.1 FM, in reporting on Utah’s abortion trigger law, mentions that Tyler Green, an attorney and former solicitor general for Utah, is defending the law. Nope, it’s not Reyes. “Why is the Utah AG office farming out the critical work related to defense of the abortion trigger law to a former employee (now in a firm with two women out of 17 attorneys) and an associate in Virginia?” asked attorney and Salt Lake Tribune editorial board member Michelle Quist. Your guess is probably pretty good.

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Fight for Rights

As we reel from the perverse Supreme Court ruling on women’s autonomy, there is always room for protest—and food. Food Fight—for Reproductive Rights! offers a space for both. “All funds raised will go directly to organizations that support reproductive services here in Utah. Come for the food and stay for the good fight!” Twenty of Salt Lake’s favorite local restaurants are coming together, eager to work for the cause of women’s rights. They will offer both food and drinks, as well as interesting and fun raffle prizes. The fight is not over, as the high court has never in its history taken away a constitutional right. If they thought the public would just forget and move on, they have another thing coming. Publik Coffee Roasters, 975 S. West Temple, Sunday, Aug. 7, 6 p.m., $15. https://bit.ly/3ooHsv3

Roots of Culture

It’s time to learn about the experiences of Black and POC communities in Utah. Seating is limited so reserve now for Roots, Race & Culture Live!, conversations about “why it’s important to teach African/African American history in schools.” You will hear about historical findings in Utah’s African American community from special guests, including Utah congressional candidate Darlene McDonald, state Rep. Sandra Hollins, D-SLC, and Robert Burch from the Sema Hadithi Foundation. Roots, Race & Culture premiered on PBS earlier this summer. There will be performances by Salt Lake Capoeira, as well. Salt Lake City Public Library, 210 E. 400 South, Tuesday, Aug.2, 7 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/3RYmvoq

Stop Human Trafficking

In 2018, roughly 50,000 human trafficking victims were detected and reported by 148 countries. Half were trafficked for sexual exploitation, one in three victims were children. This year’s theme from the United Nations focuses on the role of technology as a tool that can both enable and impede human trafficking. “On July 30, World Day Against Trafficking, O.U.R. supporters will join forces all over the world in a collective effort to rise up for children and all affected by human trafficking and exploitation,” says Operation Underground Railroad. All proceeds from the Rise Up Get Loud Concert will go to benefit the nonprofit organization. Rio Tinto Plaza Lawn, 9256 S. State, Saturday, July 30, 7 p.m., $30 ($15 children). https://bit.ly/3aWm3Gm

Stop the Quarry

Work may already have started on a huge gravel pit/limestone mine in the heart of Parleys Canyon. Still, it’s never too late to make your concerns heard. Salt Lake Valley residents are overwhelmingly opposed to Granite Construction’s mine because of the dust emissions, noise and potential impacts to groundwater and wildlife. “Granite’s strategy now is two-pronged: to convince the courts to rule in their favor, and thanks to hefty campaign donations, they have already had Republican legislators pressure the state agency DOGM to approve their application for a permit,” says the Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment. Sign the Petition Against Granite Construction’s Proposed Mine in Parleys Canyon to send a letter directly to Granite’s management. Online, free. https://bit.ly/3cA0xI2

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times, you just get better at it. SB Dance’s Curbside Theater will play multiple events throughout the summer, beginning with a free performance Thursday, July 28 at the evo Campus (660 S. 400 West) at 8:30 p.m., and a season-opener show at the Sugar Space Arts Warehouse (132 S. 800 West) on Friday, July 29 at 8:30 p.m., with tickets $15 general admission/$12 student. For schedule of additional performances, and how to schedule your own block party show, visit curbsidetheater.sbdance.com. (SR)

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Two years ago Stephen Brown launched SB Dance’s “Curbside Theater” mobile pop-up shows as a matter of necessity, bringing dance directly to patrons’ doorsteps at a time when indoor performances weren’t really possible. Now, they feel to Brown like an exciting artistic direction that he has no plans to change. “Theaters are cool, don’t get me wrong,” Brown says. “But how far can you push this? The closest thing to it is site-specific work, but this is site-non-specific; the whole point is that we can do this at a high level of production almost anywhere. As a creator, it’s this new canvas for me. … And, I reach an entirely different group of people. You break down these barriers between artist and viewer.” The shows have evolved since 2020, with changing health and safety guidelines allowing for longer shows and more dancers in individual works. Plus, there’s the opportunity simply to do more shows without the limitations of needing to book a theater space. “You’ve got to be able to practice your craft,” Brown says. “When you do something 20

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ers, including Estonia’s Kiitsharakad, France’s Ballet de Savoie, Poland’s Bielsko, Indonesia’s Tim Muhibah Angklung, Spain’s Basque performers Kresala Dantza Taldea and Hungary’s Doina Folk Ensemble. Utah-based groups Quetzlcoatl, Morning Star and Rocky Mountain Cloggers round out the lineup. The World Folkfest runs July 27 – 30 at the Springville Arts Park (700 S. 1300 East, Springville), with tickets running $5-$14 for individual day passes, plus availability group, family and full festival passes. Visit worldfolkfest.org for tickets and additional event information. (Scott Renshaw)

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In 1986, BYU International Folk Dance Ensemble founder Mary Bee Jensen brought together a group of like-minded folks with a dream of creating a showcase for folk performers from around the world. More than 35 years later, that dream is still going strong, in a way that has inspired and enlightened thousands of visitors. “Just last week, a young woman who grew up in Springville told me that the World Folkfest has been an important part of her life since the time she was a young girl,” says the festival’s general director, Timothy Lynn Elliott. “It helped open the world to her, and she has since traveled and worked overseas. I know there are more cases like this, because I hear them frequently. It is pretty unique that a small Utah city can have the infusion of international culture each year, and that our residents have a chance to see different peoples representing their own national cultures.” The 2022 incarnation of the festival is scheduled to showcase seven international groups featuring nearly 200 danc-

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comedy and fantasy, things to take us out of all the horrible things in the world.” The Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival runs July 28 – Aug. 7 at multiple venues within The Gateway (200 E. 400 West); the productions generally have running times under one hour, allowing for the opportunity to sample multiple shows at the different locations. Masks are requested for all attendees at indoor venues. Tickets are $15 for individual shows, $30 three-pack or $85 10-pack. For full show schedule, tickets and additional event information, visit greatsaltlakefringe.org. (SR)

There’s a reason that mythology persists through time and across cultures: The stories told in ancient myths were ways to help humans understand the challenges of their own experience. That makes it fitting that the journey of Hadestown from its earliest conception to the Broadway stage for composer/ writer Anaïs Mitchell was a challenge all on its own, with the first version of the musical premiering in Vermont in 2006, a concept album released in 2010, and an evolution towards its current form once Mitchell began collaborating with director Rachel Chavkin. The result—which won eight Tony Awards in 2019—combines the well-known legends of Orpheus & Eurydice and Hades & Persephone. It fashions “Hadestown” as a kind of factory fueled by workers who can never stop their labors, and Orpheus’s love Eurydice as someone tricked into believing that there’s comfort and constancy in the life Hadestown offers. Meanwhile, Persephone’s reluctant occupancy of the underworld takes the form of running a speakeasy for Hadestown’s

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The organizers of the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival did a lot of improvising over the past two years, putting on a fully virtual festival in 2020 and a hybrid version in 2021 that included both virtual shows and live productions. This year, it’s back to an all-live-and-in-person format, with local creators at the forefront. Says festival co-director Jay Perry, “Even though the last couple of years have been challenging, it’s encouraging to see how many people keep creating. We seem to be serving our local community well, seeing how much our local artists continue to push forward.” The festival’s programming features more than 20 individual productions, with topics ranging from timely issues like sexual assault and mental health to interpretations of Shakespeare and classical Greek drama. But co-director Shianne Gray also notes that there seems to be vein of work with a lighter tone. “When things get really heavy in our society, it’s interesting to see how artists are responding,” Gray says. “We see

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workers, and a willingness to plead on behalf of Orpheus when he comes in an attempt to rescue Eurydice. But can Hades find a way not to make Eurydice a martyr that will not also result in an uprising by his angry workers? The Broadway in Utah touring production of Hadestown visits the Eccles Theater (131 S. Main St.) Aug. 2 – 7 for eight performances. Ticket availability is limited at press time, with floor seating $150 - $199. Visit arttix.org to purchase tickets and for additional information, including current health and safety protocols. (SR)

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A new essay collection explores the rarely-shared experience of queer Mormons of marginalized genders. BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

hen Kerry Spencer Pray came out as a queer, married Mormon well into her 30s, she searched for accounts from other people who had gone through what she was going through. And what she found was … nothing. “When I’d look for other stories,” Pray says, “there were no essays, no blogs, nothing. I only knew one lesbian in the entire world. It puts you in kind of a messedup place.” In a sense, that realization was the beginning of the process by which Pray—a creative writing faculty member at Stevenson University in Maryland—and filmmaker Jenn Lee Smith would ultimately collaborate on the newly-published book I Spoke to You With Silence: Essays from Queer Mormons of Marginalized Genders. The essays represent the experiences of cisgender lesbian, transgender, nonbinary and intersex people raised in the LDS church—many of them anonymous or under pen names, and all of them exploring the struggle of expressing an authentic self when that self is not recognized as acceptable within church teachings. Pray says it was important to focus on marginalized genders, rather than the experience of cisgender gay men in the church, since that experience had already been documented to a much greater extent. “Cis gay men who come out, they’re at least part of the group that still has a voice and is respected within the church,” Pray says. “Whoever is in charge sets the agenda, with rules they understand and assumptions they understand, and everyone else gets forgotten. All of the spiritual authority is very white and very male, and those two things together becomes these implicit feeders of everything else—they shape the way everything gets approached.” With few other avenues for exploring a queer Mormon experience that was not cisgender male when she herself was coming out, Pray began investigating early Facebook groups where queer Mormon women would gather. It was

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there that Pray first met up with Jenn Lee Smith, and where the idea began for gathering stories from queer Mormons outside that cisgender male paradigm. While Smith’s initial ideas were for either a documentary film or an academic book, meeting with Pray moved things toward to the creation of the Queer Mormon Women Project, a blog that would allow people to submit essays on their experiences. “Once we had a big enough collection, that’s when we approached a publisher,” Pray recalls. “But it’s been a six-year process.” Part of the reason that process took so long was intrinsic to the reason it was created in the first place: Those who exist as queer and non-cisgender-male within the LDS church have been taught to keep their voices to themselves, both through the patriarchal church structure and through the risk of ostracism, for themselves or their family members, based on their sexual or gender identity. “The challenge of this entire project has been, all of these people come from groups who don’t necessarily want to say anything,” Pray says. “Sometimes it’s better not to talk. We did have to do a broader call for papers to specifically ask for more perspectives, and some we weren’t able to get. … There’s no benefit [to the writers] in telling these stories; there’s only risk. But I think we were able to get a very balanced collection by the end.” Pray acknowledges that making such a concerted effort towards gathering a wide variety of voices was a learning experience for herself as well, helping to shake paradigms instilled in her by her Mormon experience. “The thing that surprised me the most was how I had been trained to think in binaries so fully, and I didn’t know it,” she says. “I didn’t realize there was this massive variety of experiences that didn’t easily fit into boxes. It went beyond male/female, in the church/out of the church, good/ bad, in very categorical ways. Life is not like that, and queerness is not like that.” While it might have been possible to approach the creation of I Spoke to You With Silence from a more academic perspective, it was ultimately more important to the writers whose essays they gathered to have a voice in a way they’d never had before. “Jen tried for years to put it together as that social science sort of approach, and the problem was there was just no material,” Pray says. “We had to get silent people to be not silent. The conclusion we came to was, before you could draw any conclusions, the stories had to exist. So we wanted to just make them exist. “The more you tell these kinds of stories, the easier it is to tell them. We put them out there so it’s less scary to tell your own stories.” CW

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I SPOKE TO YOU WITH SILENCE: ESSAYS FROM QUEER MORMONS OF MARGINALIZED GENDERS

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Most of the University of Utah’s traditional team sports programs have seen a decline in the percentage of games won since joining the Pac-12 Conference.

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ust a few short months ago, fans of the University of Utah Utes were exhilarated. Their beloved football team had won its first-ever Pac-12 championship, landing a coveted berth in the Rose Bowl.

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Checketts currently hosts The Drive With Spence Checketts on ESPN 700. It’s his job to take the pulse of the local fan, and he said he’s hearing “a tremendous amount of worry and anxiety” from the Utes sports community. Diehard fans could barely enjoy their recent Rose Bowl berth before the Big Ten’s poaching of USC and UCLA fired a flaming arrow into the middle of their conference. The Utes again find themselves on uncertain footing, with the looming possibility of digressing back to a lower level of athletic competition. “If [Utah] football will now be playing San Diego State instead of USC, that’s a big step in the wrong direction,” Checketts said. Fans were in no way pessimistic a decade ago when the long-held dream of joining the Pac-12 became a reality. Michael Lewis, a sportswriter at The Salt Lake Tribune for nearly 20 years, covered the Utes then. He recalls “unanimous approval” of Utah joining the West Coast’s most celebrated teams and programs. And the step up in travel destinations didn’t hurt, either. Supporters were itching to see college football games in the impressive stadiums of Los Angeles and Seattle, a marked improvement from the likes of Laramie and Fort Collins.

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Other Utes sports teams were also finding new success. By the end of the 2021-22 season, Utah’s programs had achieved one of their best overall seasons in 20 years. This was what everyone dreamed of when the mighty Pac-12, the so-called Conference of Champions, plucked the Utes from the middling Mountain West in 2011. But flash forward to the summer of 2022, and University of Utah Athletics suddenly faces baffling uncertainty, with the Pac-12 losing glamour universities USC and UCLA to the Big Ten conference. College sports—a vast money-making machine primarily dominated by football—is in the midst of a rapid consolidation. And many observers believe that when the dust ultimately settles, two mega-conferences—the Big Ten and the Southeastern Conference, known as the SEC—will emerge dominant, gobbling up eyeballs, TV contracts, industry dollars and titles. Where will that leave the Utes? The U, for now, remains in the weakened Pac-12, which may add a few new, lessprestigious members. Or perhaps Utah will reunite with its

love-to-loathe rival Brigham Young University by joining the Big 12 or in a new conference formed through mergers. Spence Checketts, a prominent voice in local sports radio for nearly two decades, says that this summer’s new sense of conference precariousness is a “depressing reality” for Utes fans. “They just won the PAC-12—and now this?” he said. The known—and potential—transitions might be a stomach punch, but this period in college sports also offers an opportunity to scrutinize the Utes’ first decade in the Pac-12, and to examine the programs beyond men’s football, the proverbial 800-pound gorilla. A City Weekly analysis shows that most of the U’s teams—despite recent successes—have generally struggled against the tougher competition of the PAC-12 when compared to the prior decade of Mountain West play. Utah Athletics officials and players point out—and rightly so—that the ratio of wins to losses is an overly narrow criteria on which to judge a sports program’s success. And several university teams are achieving victories with greater consistency in recent years. They, and the school’s fans, are hopeful that with a challenging decade behind them, the Utes have built a strong foundation for success—in whatever comes next.

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“Playing in the Pac-12, everyone was watching. It felt like every team was ranked. Every team was a tough battle. Every WNBA team is watching you. You get a chance to get your name on the board and get recognized.” —Former U of U women’s basketball player Daneesha Provo

“It’s a sweatshop built on the backs of young men and women who are not paid. All this system does is to line the pockets of the old men in charge.” —ESPN 700’s Spence Checketts

“It’s all there! The crisp fall air and the marching bands and the tailgating. And, yes, at the highest levels, a system that chews people up. The pageantry and the cynicism, both real, both present.” —Former Salt Lake Tribune sportswriter Michael Lewis

Athletes, too, were encouraged by their new conference digs, Lewis said, once they began to visit the best programs in California and beyond. “They were excited to play in places that felt big-time,” Lewis said. “You’re at this world-class softball complex or diving facility, and you think, ‘You have to be good to be here.’” Lewis wrote several prescient Tribune stories warning that the path might not be easy, even as the athletes were enjoying their surroundings. The Conference of Champions had won more national titles than any other, with schools such as Stanford, USC and UCLA dominating sports like men’s track, tennis and volleyball. “The Utes are basically the small-town tourist stepping into the big city for the first time,” Lewis wrote in May of 2011, “thrilled and awe-struck at the chaotic excitement of it all, yet also slowly realizing that—whoa—they might not be navigating their way across town as easily as they once did.” The Utes currently participate in 19 varsity sports, but many cannot be neatly compared across the Mountain West and Pac-12 eras. Women’s beach volleyball and men’s lacrosse have only recently launched their programs and, in other sports, athletes may compete individually or in tournaments, not necessarily in head-to-head team matches against other schools. This includes men’s and women’s tennis, men’s and women’s swimming and diving; women’s track and field (indoor and outdoor), women’s cross-country and men’s golf. Two other sports programs have unquestionably thrived at the University of Utah in both the Mountain West and PAC-12 eras. Those programs are women’s gymnastics and men’s and women’s skiing, which are regularly ranked among the best in the country. University of Utah skiers have won four national titles in just the past decade and Utah gymnastics— #GoRedRocks!—is consistently among the Top 5 programs in the U.S. Conference affiliation has had no clear effect on the ongoing success of these sports. This leaves seven sports that can be compared easily over time. In the first era—from the 2000-01 season through

2010-11—these Utes teams competed in the Mountain West Conference. In the second era—from 2011-12 through the present—these programs have been in the Pac-12. Those seven sports are football; men’s and women’s basketball; baseball; softball; women’s soccer; and women’s volleyball. These are the classic American team sports, played across the country. How have those Utah programs fared since joining the Pac-12? Not great. Six of the seven programs saw worse overall records after the realignment. And when looking specifically at inconference performance, all seven Utes teams are winning less since the move to the Pac-12. [See graphic on page 17 for more detail.] In the Mountain West era, these programs won an average 61% of their games. During the first decade of Pac-12 play, they won 52% of the time. When it comes to in-conference records, the differences are even starker. The Utes won 63% of games against Mountain West teams from 2000 to 2011. Since then, against the Pac-12, Utes teams are only winning 42% of matches. Those programs, as they warily eyed their new rivals, knew they would struggle in the conference at first, thenathletic director Chris Hill told the Tribune. But as the effect of more money, better facilities and stronger recruiting began to emerge, the programs hoped to be able compete with anyone. “Everything you hear—week after week after week in every sport—is it’s going to be tough,” Hill said at the time.

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Many optimistic predictions have certainly come true. From just 2010 to 2015, Utes sports more than doubled their revenue, from $30.9 million to more than $62 million, according to press reports. The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc with budgets, but income has reportedly continued to grow, projected to be well above $100 million this coming season. Those dollars have resulted in real improvements for Utes athletes and teams, officials say. They point to invest-

ments in coaching, nutrition, mental health, conditioning, facilities, sports medicine and academics. Utah Athletics officials are confident that their programs are on the rise after predictable, early struggles. And one handy, third-party metric backing up that claim is the Learfield Directors’ Cup, an effort to measure schoolwide athletics success by awarding points to colleges and universities for their postseason success in every sport—from football to fencing. Last year, the Utes achieved its highest Learfield finish in more than 20 years, ranking 44th in the nation. Eight Utah sports programs made it to NCA A postseason tournaments, the most since joining the Pac-12. One program on the rise appears to be women’s basketball. By wins and losses, the team had a difficult decade, a significant step back from the program’s earlier successes. The Utes made their postseason tourney a dozen times between 1995 and 2011, but missed it every year during their first decade in the new era. But last year, Utah’s women’s basketball team jelled late in the season before going on to compete in their first Pac-12 championship game and landing a berth in the NCA A tournament, where the Utes advanced to the second round. Freshman Gianna Kneepkens was named the best freshman in the Pac-12, and several other underclasswomen played big minutes. Daneesha Provo grew up in Nova Scotia before moving to the states as a teenager to pursue her dream of playing Division 1 college basketball. She caught the eye of scouts due to her success on Canada’s junior national teams and began her college career at Clemson, before transferring to the U, where she played from 2015 to 2020. “I heard the U loved Canadians,” Provo said, laughing. “It was true!” The U’s women’s basketball team lost more games than it won during Provo’s tenure. However, Provo said she and her family had a “great experience,” even if the team didn’t always get the result they had hoped for. “Playing in the Pac-12, everyone was watching,” Provo said. “It felt like every team was ranked. Every team was a

tough battle. Every WNBA team is watching you. You get a chance to get your name on the board and get recognized.” Lewis, the former Tribune writer, agreed that it’s important not to reduce a program’s value or an athlete’s experience to just a win-loss record. “A giant assumption on the part of the public is that athletes are there to win and nothing else in the universe matters,” he said. All athletes want to win, of course, but they are also motivated to play against better opponents so they can improve their own skills and catch the eye of scouts. And while most NCA A athletes end their competitive careers in college, that’s not true of all. Many hope to compete for a spot on a national team, competing in the Olympics or for other cups. Some hope to play professionally in sports with pro leagues. Provo says her playing days are “not done yet.” Now 26, she’s recovering from a serious Achilles injury last year and hoping to soon compete for spots on her national team or, perhaps, with a pro club in Europe.

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For years, Utah was seen as a basketball school, more so than a football one. But as Utah football has comparatively thrived under Coach Kyle Whittingham, its oncemighty men’s hoops squad has floundered. Men’s basketball often won berths in the NCA A tournament—aka March Madness or the Big Dance—and Utes players repeatedly went on to shine in the NBA. The team reached its peak in the 1990s and early2000s, when Coach Rick Majerus and stars Keith Van Horn, Andre Miller and Andrew Bogut led their teams to a dozen NCA A tourney berths in a 15-year stretch. Since the Utes joined the Pac-12, they have been invited to March Madness just twice in 11 years. Several squads in the mid-2010s (led by future NBA players Delon Wright, Jakob Poeltl and Kyle Kuzma) did well, but since then, the program has again slumped. Checketts says it’s because the Utes have not been able to find the right coach, like the program had during its salad days of the never-dull, oft-controversial Majerus. “They’ve not been able to find the next Rick,” he said. “It’s that simple.” If the Utes do ultimately join the Big 12, or some version of that conference, it would offer tough new competition in men’s hoops. Kansas is one of the country’s strongest basketball programs and many other conference members are often successful at the sport’s highest levels (Baylor, for example, won the national title in 2021). Despite the mixed track record of the last decade, Checketts says that Utes fans remain steadfast supporters of University of Utah Athletics, buoyed as ever by football and its winning streak, bowl game appearances and glamorous opponents. “The [fans’] attitude seems to be, ‘We love our football team so much that we’re not worried about our basketball team,’” Checketts said. A move to the Big 12 would also reunite the University of Utah with BYU. Some Utes fans would relish an opportunity to ensure competition with the Cougars every single year, while others prefer fewer head-to-

head contests, knowing that their beloved Utes would otherwise be competing in a superior environment. Whatever is next, college sports are sure to remain a quintessential American institution—a beloved, yet deeply flawed tradition increasingly ruled by the almighty dollar. And we’re talking about real money. The U.S. Department of Education recently estimated that college sports bring in more than $14 billion in revenue each year—more than any individual professional sports organization except the National Football League. It’s hard to find too many fans excited by the shift toward mega-conferences. Conference realignments have sliced through traditional and regional rivalries and every team not currently in the SEC or Big 10— the Utes appear unlikely to join either— worry they will be unable to compete at the sport’s highest levels, effectively exiled to the kids table of college sports. It also seems unlikely that the conference officials ultimately making decisions about the future of college sports will prioritize the so-called “nonrevenue” programs, including most women’s sports. The NCA A knows that it privileges football and men’s basketball over all other programs. The massive nonprofit organization—which governs more than a half-million athletes across the country—recently hired an independent law firm to investigate gender equity issues. Its conclusion, released this year, was surprisingly clear and damning: Women’s teams get the short end of the stick in the NCA A because the entire institution is wired from top to bottom to milk as much money as possible out of top-dollar sports, primarily football and men’s basketball. The dollars generated by those sports are so critical that the executives and administrators who make the biggest decisions feel forced to always reach for the biggest check. And by definition, that choice ignores how other activities and sports fare. The only real “winners’’ in this consolidation trend of college sports appear to be broadcasters, eager to lure the greatest number of eyeballs possible. But many fans have struggled to stay connected to college sports as it grows increasingly commodified, moving farther and farther away from its beloved traditions and local connections to students and alumni. “It’s all there!” Lewis said. “The crisp fall air and the marching bands and the tailgating. And, yes, at the highest levels, a system that chews people up. The pageantry and the cynicism, both real, both present.” Checketts may be a mainstay of local sports radio—not typically the mouthpiece of the American left—but even he sounds like a Marxist when he talks about college sports. “It’s a sweatshop built on the backs of young men and women who are not paid,” he said. “All this system does is to line the pockets of the old men in charge.” The Utes future, Checketts fears, is in the hands of individuals who have a single, depressing focus. “They care about one question—how much money can your market generate?” Lewis said. “That’s all that matters: not how well your program has been run; not whether your kids graduate; not if fans are happy.” CW

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’ve been low-key searching for a fastcasual Indian restaurant that I could pursue a long-term relationship with for a while now, but I think I may be on to something. Fans of ComCom Kitchen (comcomkitchen.com) will likely have caught MunchKart (1776 W. 10610 South, 801923-2377) during its presence at the local community commissary starting back in 2021; they were the ones whipping up spicy, curry-infused wraps and rice bowls, if you need a refresher. Recently, our friends at MunchKart have taken the plunge and opened up a nice little storefront in Central South Jordan this year and it’s definitely worth checking out. If you’ve been to South Jordan lately, you may have noticed that their Indian food scene is constantly on the move. Big names like Saffron Valley and Curry Pizza have set up shop within the city’s boundaries, but there is also plenty of new blood vying for a piece of the curry market. This competitive ecosystem is perfect for the MunchKart team, since they’re doing something familiar enough to get Indian food fans in the door and different enough to make themselves stand out. MunchKart has kept its fast-casual

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MunchKart’s inclusion of vada pav ($8.29) and pav bhaji ($8.99), two nods to Indian street food that are most welcome on the menu. It’s easy to fall in love with vada pav, a golden fried potato patty stuffed into a soft roll that is excellent with a bit of chutney. I like any dish where I get to dip some bread into a bowl of thick, flavorful sauce, which is what makes the pav bhaji one of my favorites. The simplicity of sopping up a savory mélange of flavors with a soft roll sends me right into my gastronomic happy place. If you’re the kind of person who eats spicy curry on a day when the temperature is in the triple digits, you’ll want to make sure to complement your meal with something cool. I’d suggest a creamy mango lassi ($3.99) with the meal or you can wrap things up with a cup of aamrakhanda, a soothing mango yogurt that is just right for these hellish summer days. Overall, my experience at MunchKart had me feeling very excited. With the excellent menu of Indian favorites, a fastcasual approach that maximizes customer service, a cozy storefront and plenty of potential to evolve their concept, I am looking forward to visiting more often. In addition to the robust flavors of their curries, there’s a sense of market savvy that makes me think MunchKart will be sticking to its guns while evolving its concept. In the meantime, I’m just excited to have a fastcasual Indian joint that whips up quality entrees and sides for days when I need to drown my sorrows in an intoxicating bath of saoji curry. CW

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style, which makes sense. They brew and stew around nine different curries, keeping them hot and ready to slap on a plate with some basmati rice and a few rounds of roti flatbread. Speaking of roti, all of their curries are available in taco form for more of a hands-on experience. Meals come in plates of one, two or three entrees, or family meals that come with larger portions of curries and sides. I was quite peckish during my visit, so I went with the Bigger Plate ($15.99). As tasty as tikka masala is, it was honestly refreshing to not have it on the menu—it makes room for the rich, robust chicken saoji that is a must for fans of curry with a bit of kick. I also tried the chicken makhani or butter chicken, and the saag paneer. This was my first experience with chicken saoji, and I have to say I was impressed. It’s packed with plenty of dark, smoky notes that yield to the heat of chopped chilis. Stewing the chicken in this lovely, chocolate-brown curry makes sure that it too provides a deep breadth of flavor. Fans of something on the mild side will dig the chicken makhana, with its creamy texture and buttery flavors. It’s got a bit of welcome spice happening, and eating this alongside the saoji will amplify its heat levels just a bit, but this is an excellent example of a traditional Indian staple. The same can be said of the saag paneer, the dark green curry that is one of my favorite ways of consuming spinach. The paneer is chopped into small cubes and is plentiful with each serving—I always gripe about the limited amount of paneer that usually comes in curry, but MunchKart packs it all in nicely. In addition to the curries I tried out, MunchKart also offers korma with chicken or veggies, pav bhaji, pindi chole and dal tadka, each of which can be purchased a la carte for $4.99. Those after a quick bite will appreciate

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Row - Liquid Therapy: This new IPA features a cryo version of a hop that’s currently known as HBC 586. This is cryogenic hop-processing technology that isolates the desirable lupulin in the hops, and separates the less desirable flavor elements. This 9.0 percent double IPA pours a turbid, dark peach/carrot juice hue, capped with multiple fingers of rocky, white foam. The aroma starts off sweet and grassy upfront, welcoming in apricot, sweet, musty mint, papaya and grapefruit rind steadily. A consistent grassiness persists over the middle to softly undercut the building tropical overtones before wisps of uniquely dank red berries ease through the finish. Taste features juicy, overripe peach in waves upfront, accented with hints of nectarine, grapefruit oils and mango; the tropical amalgam maintains across the palate as lemon and lime fade with the finish, and hints of bubblegum linger (in typical 2 Row fashion). Mouthfeel shows a medium body with a subtle, moderate carbonation. It presents silky with a mild hop prickle developing as it becomes creamy, juicy and pithy past the mid-palate, and remains consistent to the finish, where it maintains a plush quality and vague bitterness on the swallow. Overall: A confounding and intense experience, so heavily saturated in a flowing hop nuance and begging for perfection, and yet maybe too intense for its own good. There’s a certain lack of order that prevents individual elements from shining through, and can be counted as possibly the sole reason this is only 9.5 and not a 10—in other words, just short of world-class.

Level Crossing - Fruit Bat Philly Sour: This features Philly Sour yeast: a somewhat new soring yeast that Level Crossing has had great success with. A murky, peach-colored body shows itself on the pour, with a thin white cappuccino foam head that hangs around as a patchy lace blanket. If you put a blindfold on me and asked me what was in this glass as I took a sniff, I would say mango for sure; it smells exactly like a traditional Indian mango, full of pulp, yogurt and a hint of peach. You pretty much nailed it, Level Crossing crew. Upon tasting, however, I was not expecting what I got—this beer is insanely tart, like many of the lactic acid sours that are in the market. While refreshing, it does detract from the fruit flavors that are also present in the beer. As far as the fruits are concerned, mango pops out first. It’s somewhat sweet, but it comes across as green mango due to the tartness. Peach is present, but a bit muted. Either way, the true flavors are lost in a maelstrom of sour candy character. Background hints of mango, lemon and unripe berries are in there as well. Mid to light bodied, with a decent amount of carbonation in this 5.0 percent beer. Overall: It’s a bit of a shame this brew was a massive sour bomb. I really wanted to enjoy some of the mango and peach, which I’m a fan of, yet the sourness of this beer overpowered those flavors. That said, the aroma of this brew was right on the money; rarely do beers that are named after other drinks/food hit the mark as accurately as Fruit Bat. The real enjoyment of a beer for me is in the flavor, but if I could sit and sniff a beer all day, this would be the one. I’m curious to hear your thoughts on Fruit Bat Philly Sour. You can find this one on draft exclusively at Level Crossing. I found Liquid Therapy at the Beerhive, and have seen it at multiple beer pubs and restaurants in SLC, but I always prefer the source for these limited production IPAs. There’s no telling if the special cryo hop will come around again, so jump on this one sooner rather than later. As always, cheers! CW

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Peruvian food is party food, plain and simple. It doesn’t take long before a heaping plate of meaty lomo saltado, some creamy, starchy and cheesy papas a la Huancaina, or the ultimate summer refresher known as ceviche all send those beach vibes your way. The Peru Food Fest is our one-way ticket to all the delights that Peruvian cuisine has in store—and we only have to head downtown to get it. In association with Utah Latino Arts, the Peru Food Festival will be taking place on July 29 - 30 from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral (279 S. 300 West). If they’re still available, early bird tickets can be purchased via EventBrite for $5, or you can get them for $10 at the door. I’m sure I’ll ceviche you there.

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lead singer was killed in a car crash, they wanted to honor him and the band by keeping the music going, and that’s why they were playing [under our name]. Then Chris White told him he was The Zombies bass player, and that the lead singer wasn’t in a car crash. Reading this in print, it was almost like reading my obituary when I was 22 years old.” The latter-day Zombies roster found Blunstone and Argent rounding out the lineup with guitarist Tom Toomey, the late Jim Rodford on bass and Rodford’s son, Steve, on drums. Rodford, who was Argent’s first cousin, was previously the Kinks’ bassist from 1978 until 1996. He joined The Zombies in 2004 and played with them until his death on Jan. 20, 2018. A memorial service and musical performance was held on the year-anniversary of his death in his hometown of St. Albans. Joining Argent and Blunstone were the surviving members of The Zombies, Chris White and Hugh Grundy (Atkinson died

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the Rock Hall should have voted to induct us, because all musicians are looking for peer group acceptance,” he admitted. “It’s such a lift to get that kind of reaction from fellow professionals. It’s really beyond my wildest imagination that we should be honored in this way and I’m extremely grateful.” Also known for their other 1964 hits, “She’s Not There” and “Tell Her No,” The Zombies arrived as part of the British Invasion alongside The Animals, Rolling Stones, Herman’s Hermits, Hollies, Kinks and The Dave Clark Five. Only 18 when the band was started, Argent and Blunstone were joined by fellow St. Albans natives Hugh Grundy, future A&R exec Paul Atkinson and Paul Arnold, who was replaced by Chris White when the band went to record their first album. The combination of Blunstone’s airy vocal phrasing and Argent’s deftly-played organ runs gave the band’s material a sophisticated, chamber pop nuance that took them beyond the charts and earned them a number of latter-day famous fans, including the late Tom Petty and Paul Weller. The posthumous fame The Zombies had after their first break-up led to an odd situation where American promoters wound up putting three different fake Zombies groups on the road in 1969 to capitalize on the success of “Time of the Season.” In those pre-Internet days, when fans only knew what the band sounded like and couldn’t use Google to see what they looked like, it was an easy scam to pull off. One outfit even included Frank Beard and Dusty Hill, the future rhythm section of ZZ Top. The actual Zombies were eventually told about this, and White talked to the manager of one of these fake groups for an article that was eventually written about this scenario. Blunstone gets a kick out of this anecdote. “Someone at Rolling Stone (magazine) got Chris White to come into their office and phone the manager of one of these bands and not say who he was,” Blunstone recalled. “Chris then asked him to explain about The Zombies band. So the manager told him this story about how they were all huge fans of The Zombies and since the

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Eichlers, dynastic, Orange Soda and Fuckskin @ The Beehive

In a 2020 interview with Eichlers, the artist told City Weekly, “I’m a small artist, and if people who don’t know me personally find my record and like it, I wanna create that friendship, essentially, that’s more than just from friend to artist.” Russ Wood, the artist behind the hyper-ska project, was talking about the release of his first album, i may b cute, but I’m dumb af. Since then, you could say that Eichlers has made a lot of friends-slash-fans. On this year’s follow-up album, My Checkered Future, Eichlers sings on the opener “Hi (Album Edition)” with stoked disbelief, “I think I just wrote a fucking hit / I was really just about to quit / I get so discouraged when I’m stressed / trying to be better than the rest.” Not only does his second album build exquisitely on the first—which fused the trappings of super sad emo rap with those of classic, upbeat ska, binding them with hyperpop—but he’s built a real following, getting some well-earned writeups, recognition and even vinyl collabs from nationwide pubs like Brooklyn Vegan and The

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Despite the band name’s literal meaning— which refers to the brown spots on aging paper—Michigan trio Foxing brings modern experimentalism to Midwest-emo and math rock sounds in their latest concept album Draw Down The Moon. The album thrives on baroque-esque features like repetitive melodies over the top of an eerie basso continuo guaranteed to keep a listener on their toes. Themes of repetition are heavy on “Go Down Together,” foreshadowing the title-track which revisits the same idea. When the lyrics begin sounding redundant, the plot twists with sounds that seem to repeat the same message, but without the words. Other tracks like “At Least

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The Supersuckers and Speedealer @ The Urban Lounge

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Fiction writer John Banville tells us, “There are moments when the past has a force so strong it seems one might be annihilated by it.” I suspect that’s sometimes true for many of us. But it won’t apply to you, Aries, anytime soon. In fact, just the opposite situation will be in effect during the coming months: You will have more power to render the past irrelevant than maybe you’ve ever had. You will wield an almost indomitable capacity to launch new trends without having to answer to history. Take full advantage, please!

during the coming weeks. We need you to be our humble, understated leader. Please be a role model who demonstrates the finely crafted, well-balanced approach to being healthy.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) In my Astrological Book of Life, your life purposes as a Libra may include the following: 1. to be beautiful in the smartest ways you can imagine and smart in the most beautiful ways you can imagine; 2. to always see at least two sides of the story, and preferably more; 3. to serve as an intermediary between disparate elements; 4. to lubricate and facilitate conversations between people who might not otherwise understand each other; 5. to TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Researchers have proved that lullabies enhance the health of find common ground between apparent contradictions; 6. to premature babies being cared for in hospitals. The soft, emo- weave confusing paradoxes into invigorating amalgamations; 7. tionally rich songs also promote the well-being of the babies’ to never give up on finding the most elegant way to understand families. I bring this to your attention because I believe you a problem. PS: In the coming weeks, I hope you will make extra should call on lullaby therapy yourself in the coming weeks. efforts to call on the capacities I just named. Listening to and singing those tunes will soothe and heal your inner child. And that, in my astrological opinion, is one of your SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) top needs right now. For extra boosts, read fairy tales, eat food Author Clive James loved the Latin term gazofilacium, meanwith your hands, make mud pies and play on swings, seesaws ing “treasure chamber.” He said that the related Italian word, gazofilacio, referred to the stash of beloved poems that he and merry-go-rounds. memorized and kept in a special place in his mind. In accordance with astrological omens, Scorpio, now would be an excellent GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Dancer and singer-songwriter FKA Twigs has taken dance les- time to begin creating your own personal gazofilacium: a storesons since she was a child. In 2017, she added a new form of house of wonderful images and thoughts and memories that physical training, the Chinese martial art of wushu. Doing so will serve as a beacon of joy and vitality for the rest of your long made her realize a key truth about herself: She loves to learn and life. Here’s your homework: Identify 10 items you will store in practice new skills. Of all life’s activities, they give her the most your gazofilacium. pleasure and activate her most vibrant energy. She feels at home in the world when she does them. I suspect you may have similar SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) inclinations in the coming months. Your appetite for mastering Tips to get the most out of the next three weeks: 1. Keep your new skills will be at an all-time high. You will find it natural and interesting options open. Let your mediocre options shrivel and even exhilarating to undertake disciplined practice. Gathering expire; 2. Have no regrets and make no apologies about doing what you love; 3. Keep in mind that every action you perform knowledge will be even more exciting than it usually is. reverberates far beyond your immediate sphere; 4. Give your fears ridiculous names like “Gaffe,” “Wheezy” and “Lumpy;” CANCER (June 21-July 22) Cancerian author Laurie Sheck writes, “So much of life is 5. Be honest to the point of frankness but not to the point of invisible, inscrutable: layers of thoughts, feelings and outward rudeness; 6. Don’t just run—gallop. events entwined with secrecies, ambiguities, ambivalences, obscurities, darknesses.” While that’s an experience we all CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) have, especially you Cancerians, it will be far less pressing for you Capricorn poet Richard Hugo wrote, “It doesn’t bother me that in the coming weeks. I foresee you embarking on a phase when the word ‘stone’ appears more than 30 times in my third book, clarity will be the rule, not the exception. Hidden parts of the or that ‘wind’ and ‘gray’ appear over and over in my poems to world will reveal themselves to you. The mood will be brighter the disdain of some reviewers.” Hugo celebrated his obsessions. and lighter than usual. The chronic fuzziness of life will give way He treated them as riches because focusing on them enabled to a delightful acuity. I suspect you will see things that you have him to identify his deepest feelings and discover who he really was. In accordance with astrological omens, I recommend a simnever or rarely seen. ilar approach to you in the coming weeks. Cultivate and honor and love the specific fascinations at the core of your destiny. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) It’s advisable for you Leos to carry on a close personal relationship with mirrors. I’m speaking both literally and metaphori- AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) cally. For the sake of your mental health, you need to be knowl- Author Violet Trefusis (1894–1972) and author Vita edgeable about your image and monitor its ever-shifting nuanc- Sackville-West (1892–1962) loved each other. In one letter, es. And according to my analysis of the astrological omens, you Violet told Vita, “I want you hungrily, frenziedly, passionately. I are now authorized to deepen your intimate connection with am starving for you. Not only the physical you, but your fellowmirrors. I believe you will thrive by undertaking an intense phase ship, your sympathy, the innumerable points of view we share. of introspective explorations and creative self-inquiry. Please I can’t exist without you; you are my affinity.” In the coming keep it all tender and kind, though. You’re not allowed to bad- weeks, dear Aquarius, I invite you to use florid language like that mouth yourself. Put a special emphasis on identifying aspects of in addressing your beloved allies. I also invite you to request such your beauty that have been obscured or neglected. By the way, messages. According to my reading of the planetary omens, you Leo, I also recommend you seek compassionate feedback from are due for eruptions of articulate passion. people you trust. Now is an excellent time to get reflections about your quest to become an even more amazing human. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) I’d like to honor and pay homage to a past disappointment that VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) helped transform you into a beautiful soul. I know it didn’t feel At your best, you are a flexible purist, an adaptable stickler for good for you when it happened, but it has generated results that detail and a disciplined yet supple thinker. Maybe more than any have blessed you and the people whose lives you’ve touched. other sign of the zodiac, you can be focused and resilient, intense Would you consider performing a ritual of gratitude for all it and agile, attentive and graceful. And all of us non-Virgos will taught you? Now is an excellent time to express your appreciagreatly appreciate it if you provide these talents in abundance tion because doing so will lead to even further redemption.

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was at City Hall recently doing my volunteer job as a Historic Landmarks commissioner, protecting designated historic neighborhoods, when staff was all atwitter about a new study on gentrification, called “Thriving in Place.” The new report—available at thrivinginplaceslc.org—summarizes what researchers have heard and learned from hundreds of hours of community engagement and input, as well as offering cutting-edge data analysis by the Urban Displacement Project on displacement risks in the city and region. The 42-page Phase 1 Summary was made possible by University of Utah students— working under the direction of professors Ivis Garcia Zambrana and Alessandro Rigolon— who gleaned information from thousands of Salt Lake City residents. The report is a major call to action, as it finds that displacement in Salt Lake City is significant and getting worse; there are no “affordable” neighborhoods in Salt Lake City where lower income families can move once displaced; the city is growing and there are not enough housing units overall, and there’s a significant lack of affordable housing units for low-income families; almost half of the city’s renter households are rent burdened, spending more than 30% of their income on housing; displacement affects more than half of white households and disproportionally affects households of color; the patterns of displacement reflect historic patterns of discrimination that closely align with areas that were redlined in the past. We had to spend money as a city to learn the obvious? There will be a Phase 2 with more community engagement coming in the future when researchers will define a course of action and draft guiding principles. The intent is to be pro-housing and pro-tenant; to incentivize new residential development that benefits the most people; to discourage new development that does the most harm; to increase housing options by creating “gentle infill” and rental housing opportunities and by incentivizing lower-priced, for-sale housing opportunities; to increase spending on rental assistance while supporting living wage jobs; and to support cultural institutions and locally owned businesses and public spaces that help communities thrive in place. What I personally haven’t seen yet as part of this study—or any other study to date—is an inventory of Salt Lake City-owned properties that are sitting vacant or undeveloped, or any plan by city leaders to develop such properties and provide low income/affordable housing options. As a senior citizen myself, it’s frightening to know that there are so few housing projects that are both affordable and available for seniors over 55 to thrive in place. I hope the researchers make sure to pull out my demographic to study and to seek solutions for, because it seems Boomers are getting older faster (wait until you get older—time flies!) and with Social Security benefits not keeping up with inflation, there are a whole lot of seniors hurting and house-poor. I’m often counseling friends and clients on reverse mortgages so they might keep their homes. Sadly, I also have to sell a senior’s home because they can’t safely use the stairs anymore.n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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Goals The trail to the top of Pike’s Peak in Colorado is some 13 miles long, and the peak itself tops out at more than 14,000 feet—making it a challenging hike for anyone. But for Bob Salem, 53, the journey is nuttily complicated: He’s pushing a peanut up the mountain using his “nose” (customized headgear made of a CPAP mask with a black, plastic spoon attached to it, NPR reported). “Basically, I’m just going to ... low crawl my way up there,” he said. “I mean, there’s not really much to it but just to keep flicking.” It’s all part of the Manitou Springs 150-Year Celebration, and Salem is raising money for a local charity that works to house people experiencing homelessness. Oddly, he’s not the first to achieve the feat, but he’ll be the first in the 21st century. Salem is wearing kneepads and elbow pads, and a spotter carries his backpack with a snowsuit inside for the higher elevations. Recurring Theme Well, it’s happened again: An American tourist at Mount Vesuvius near Naples, Italy, dropped his cellphone into the volcano’s crater on July 9, the Associated Press reported, and then slid into the crater trying to retrieve it. Four volcano guides lowered a rope 50 feet into the crater, where Philip Carroll, 23, of Baltimore, was in “serious difficulty,” and pulled him out. After officials administered first aid, Carroll and two family members were cited by police for going off the authorized trail to snap a selfie. He suffered only abrasions—and the humiliation of a trip to the police station. No word how the phone fared. Awesome! On July 10, as Rich Gilson used a mini-excavator to remove part of the foundation under the porch of his 1920s-era New Jersey home, he came across an unusual windfall: Among the weeds and dirt were two bundles of paper, secured with rubber bands, United Press International reported. “I got to look at the edge and it had a green tint to it, and I said, ‘This is money,’” Gilson said. The cash, printed in 1934, amounted to $1,000 in $10 and $20 bills. Gilson said the area where he found the money was previously accessible only through a crawlspace: “Somebody had to crawl under there and dig a hole. My sense is that something fishy happened,” he added. He plans to keep the money. Picky, Picky Penguins at the Hakone-en Aquarium near Tokyo are turning their beaks up at a new variety of fish after officials switched feeds because of an increase in price, United Press International reported. The cost of their standard fare, aji, increased more than 30% over last year, so the aquarium tried a cheaper variety of mackerel. But the penguins aren’t biting: “Even if they’ll take it in their beaks, they’ll just spit it out,” head zookeeper Hiroki Shimamoto said. If the keepers mix in a bit of aji, they’ll eat it, but without enthusiasm. The zoo’s otters have the same impression of the new menu item. Shimamoto said they could raise admission prices, but “we would like to do our best to keep our facility a comfortable place for our guests to visit.” More Like ‘Stupider Things’ Thanks to the quick reaction of a semitruck operator, a teenage driver sustained only minor injuries after she allowed her car to drift into the oncoming lane of a suburban Minneapolis street and crash into the trailer, The Smoking Gun reported. During questioning after the mid-July incident, the girl denied being on her phone at the time of the crash, but Anoka County Sheriff’s deputies noticed that her car’s Bluetooth system was “still streaming the audio to Stranger Things on Netflix.” She then admitted to watching the popular series while driving. Compelling Explanation Laurie Rosser, 42, of Gorseinon, Wales, was stopped while driving on the M4 on June 26 because his van was missing two tires, the BBC reported. Police estimated he had driven more

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