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2 |SEPTEMBER22,2022 |WEEKLYCITY| |||MUSIC|CINEMA|DINING|A&E|SNEW|CITYWEEKLY.NET TREESFANTASTIC ... and where to find them in the Salt Lake area. by Sam Nelson Cover design by Jinelle Bryant 19 COVER STORY CONTENTS6 OPINION 11 A&E 25 DINE 29 CINEMA 30 MUSIC 37 COMMUNITY 37 COMMUNITY EXCLUSIVE ONLINE CONTENT Check out online-only columns Smart Bomb and Taking a Gander at facebook.com/slcweeklycityweekly.netTwitter: @cityweekly • Deals at cityweeklystore.com CITYWEEKLY.NET DINE Go to cityweekly.net for local restaurants serving you. Salt Lake City Weekly is published every Thursday by Copperfield Publishing Inc. We are an independent publication dedicated to alternative news and news sources, that also serves as a comprehensive entertainment guide. 15,000 copies of Salt Lake City Weekly are available free of charge at more than 1,800 locations along the Wasatch Front. Limit one copy per reader. Additional copies of the paper can be purchased for $1 (Best of Utah and other special issues, $5) payable to Salt Lake City Weekly in advance. No person, without expressed permission of Copperfield Publishing Inc., may take more than one copy of any Salt Lake City Weekly issue. No portion of this publication may be repro duced in whole or part by any means, including electronic retrieval systems, without the written permission of the publisher. Third-class postage paid at Midvale, UT. Delivery might take up to one full week. All rights reserved. Phone 801-716-1777 | Email comments@cityweekly.net 175 W. 200 South, Ste. 100,Salt Lake City, UT 84101 PRINTED PAPERRECYCLEDON STAFF All Contents © 2022 City Weekly is Registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Copperfield Publishing Inc. | John Saltas, City Weekly founder Publisher PETE SALTAS News Editor BENJAMIN WOOD Arts & Entertainment Editor SCOTT RENSHAW Contributing Editor JERRE WROBLE Music Editor EMILEE ATKINSON Listings Desk KARA RHODES Executive Editor and Founder JOHN SALTAS Editorial Contributors KATHARINE BIELE ROB BREZSNY JIM ALEXMIKESAMCATANONELSONRIEDELSPRINGER Art Director DEREK CARLISLE Graphic Artists SOFIA CIFUENTES, CHELSEA NEIDER Circulation Manager ERIC GRANATO Associate Business Manager PAULA SALTAS Technical Director BRYAN MANNOS Developer BRYAN BALE Senior Account Executive DOUG KRUITHOF Account Executives KELLY BOYCE, KAYLA DREHER Display Advertising 801-716-1777 National Advertising VMG Advertising | 888-278-9866 SLC FORECAST Thursday 22 24%Precipitation:Partly74°/51°cloudy Friday 2%Precipitation:Sunny76°/52°23 Saturday 24 1%Precipitation:Sunny80°/52° Sunday 0%Precipitation:Sunny82°/53°25 Monday 0%Precipitation:Sunny85°/55°26 Tuesday 0%Precipitation:Sunny88°/59°27 Wednesday 28 0%Precipitation:Mostly88°/60°sunny Source: weather.com GOTSCHSYBIL
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Lee, on the other hand, is a deluded, mouth-breathing Trump-lover who would kiss his “Captain Moroni’s” traitorous orange ass on national TV if they’d let him. (Yes, Lee actually made that comparison.)
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I had an absolute blast at Utah State Uni versity (#AggiesAllTheWay) and gradu ated debt free, which came in handy since I chose an infamously low-paying profession.
What stands out about your college experience?
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Believing himself to be the holy fulfiller of the apocryphal White Horse prophesy, Lee sucks up to Trump in the hopes of one day landing a cushy judicial appointment on the U.S. Supreme Court—or some other lofty call ing—where he could impose his weird brand of draconian conservatism on a broken Constitution with unchecked impunity.
Sycophants like Lee and other Make America Great Again Trumpers (MAGATs) are a threat to democracy and the future of America. We must not let them gain the upper hand.
“The Roaring (Twenty) Twenties,” Sept. 15 Dine
I think this “pub” could have been just a bit more authentic to Utah if they playfully embraced some of the same old Utah names that glorify all sorts of anachronistic overconsumption.
STEVE IFSHIN Salt Lake City
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After all, reptiles are beautiful and beneficial animals that make positive contributions to the environments in which they live. Therefore, comparing Lee—or any other politician—to such noble creatures is an insult to eons of adaptation and natural selection.
“Lizard Lee,” Sept. 15 Opinion
Personally, I would have renamed the review Roaring (Eighty) Eighties, since Prohibition is a direct copy of the typical Chicago Lettuce Entertain You restaurant of that decade. There you had the same cute names, gargantuan portions and ridiculous prices.
There were many surprises in Alex Springer’s latest restaurant review of Prohibition. He seemed to find this gastric bypass pub somewhat of an anomaly being situated in Murray’s Fashion Place district and something new and different. Actually from his description, it sounded like a perfectly natural place for it.
I’ve always wondered about food critics—are they in fact gourmets, or just plain old-fashioned gluttons who masterfully sugarcoat some nightmarish orgiastic food experience with reverential descriptions. However, now I can see why Mr. Springer could not pile enough praise on that Utah specialty, funeral potatoes—the same old cheesy potato stuff on nearly every out-of-control West ern (as in “civilization”) table. Its name is quite appropriate, both as a bereavement meal and for the anticipated funeral of those who dine on it.
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I played and slept through my first two years. When I got to grad school, I was housed during winter quarter in D.C. with a woman who refused to turn on the heat. Then I found a roommate who moved with me to a tenement complex, which was great until midnight when everyone came out to party there.
Beer. Pong. Champion. Used the college to recruit my victims.
Mine was fairly mundane. But it was an essential part of my development. Pell Grants covered my tuition and books for the first couple of years, but I still had to work for rent, utilities and groceries. Af ter that, I had to get student loans that took me a couple of decades to pay off. My only regret was that I never finished my bachelor’s degree, and with the rising cost of education, I fear I never will.
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Although I understand the metaphorical intent of Michael S. Robinson’s comparison of Sen. Mike Lee to a reptile, it hardly seems fair.
Originally from Wisconsin and having never been on a plane or west of the Mis sissippi, I flew out to attend the U of U on a wrestling scholarship over 50 years ago. I did the Austin/Van Cott dorm thing and loved it—even the food. I met fellow stu dents and athletes from all over the U.S., had great teammates and enjoyed those years gone by.
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Do you really want them as Ukrainian citizens? You’d con stantly have a separatist element in your eastern territories with nothing but permanent civil strife on your hands.
Two Nations, Two ‘Roberts’
Bobbie Zelensky, set aside national pride for a moment and ask yourself if reclaiming all of Ukraine’s old territory would really be in your best interest, as it would come com plete with a certain segment of the population who want to be Russian. Such folks are culturally and linguistically tied to Russia, and many support a Putin-style government.
For good measure, each nation could make it a crime for its citizens to try to foment attempts to get their nation to be taken over by its opponent, similar to the way Germans made it illegal to express Nazi sentiments ever since the end of World War II. Any attempts at insurrection would result in deportation to the other side of the border without any buy out benefits, thus giving everyone the incentive to get out while the getting is good.
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And although what we remember most about the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s and early 2000s was the genocide by Serbs against the primarily Muslims residents of some territories, the breakup into six distinct nations primarily along cultural, linguistic and religious differences was a rel atively peaceful process.
In 1993, the former nation of Czechoslovakia split into two separate, sovereign states: the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Was that the result of a civil war? No—two peoples realized that they had different languages, cultures and objectives and amicably agreed to draw a line between their principal territories and go their separate ways.
In the process, they gave all citizens a year to declare which citizenship they wanted to have. Both nations re tained membership in the European Union, so travel and commerce across the border is no big deal. Easy peasy.
Private Eye is off this week. Jim Catano is a retired marketing executive who keeps busy hiking, biking, writing, editing and hoping—probably in vain—for a better world. Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net.
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How could this be funded? Easy. Levy a tax on Russian oil and gas—let’s say 5%—that would pay for these reloca tions as well as the reparations for the war damage Russia has caused. Russia’s fossil fuels would still be sold at market rate, but the levy would be withheld from payment. Sorry, Bobby P. and your oligarch buddies, but your country’s tax revenues and your profits would be lower until you fix what you broke. However, for good behavior on this point, sanc tions against Russia could be dropped.
JIM
OPINION
kraine’s military is on a roll. They recently took back more territory in a weekend than Russia had gained during the previous several months. Some Ukrainian officials, including President Volodymyr Zelensky, are bold ly expressing confidence in ultimate victory and in eventu ally expelling Vladimir Putin’s Russian forces completely from territories they’ve held—or which Russian separatists have held—since the previous Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine and its annexation of Crimea in 2014.
However, some strategists are saying that Putin would never suffer such an embarrassment and may bring unthink able forces to bear against Ukraine and possibly its Western supporters, since his ultimate aim has always been to bring all of Ukraine under his control.
want as part of your reconstituted empire a population of people who hate you with a purple passion, and who maybe have hated all Russians since Joseph Stalin starved upward of 4 million Ukrainians in the 1930s prior to the continued exploitation of Ukraine by the Soviets right up to the col lapse of the USSR?
So, you two Roberts, rather than continue this fight with its attendant loss of life and destruction of property, why don’t you chill down your egos and try something like this?
Any residents in the eastern Ukraine areas who would rather be Ukrainian could move westward. The governments could pack up their belongings and move them, and all relo cated persons could be granted homes, businesses and land commensurate with what they left behind.
First, determine how many Ukrainians would rather be Russian citizens and how many Ukrainians who have lived in Russian-controlled territory since 2014 would rather re main Ukrainian. Use that ratio to determine—perhaps with the help of the U.N. or another neutral body—how much of eastern Ukraine would be needed to give the Russophiles a homeland and cede it to Russia.
Instead, you two Bobs should take a good, hard look at reality and seize a golden opportunity for long-lasting sta bility, both with your troublesome neighbor and within your own borders. And some helpful examples of how to achieve this are right in your own backyards.
Such international clout could even make a bellicose U.S. president think twice before pulling a move in the vein of George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq. CW
A nd to you, robber … err … Robert Putin: Do you really
Oh, and while things are getting fixed, the U.N. charter should really be amended so a nation’s seat on the Security Council is suspended, or its veto vote revoked, while it’s ac tively involved as an aggressor in a conflict like the one we’re seeing. That way, the U.N. isn’t hamstrung from taking in tervening action and could actually accomplish something toward establishing a more peaceful world.
As much as I fully support Ukraine’s efforts to defend it self, let me interject here a big, “Whoa, wait a minute, you two Roberts!” (You see, Volodymyr and Vladimir are essen tially the same name, and both share the same etymological meaning as our Anglican “Robert.”)
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For Republican ideologues, ESG (for Environmental, Social and Gover nance) scores have become the Criti cal Race Theory of the finance world. And just as you had no idea what CRT was before all the bitching, ESG is one of those esoteric acronyms whose real meaning is obscured by right-wing zealots. Enter Utah’s state Treasurer Marlo Oaks who has feasted off the fruit of partisan politics. Oaks is join ing a cadre of Republican state treasur ers who say their goal is good invest ment strategy. Implicit in that is their wanton attempts to bolster the failing and toxic fossil fuel industry. ESG poli cies are meant to answer to public de mands by working through the system. But “the treasurers say the policies are distorting capital markets and deny ing funding to fossil fuel industries,” The Salt Lake Tribune reports. Indeed, that’s like saying people of color are going to replace the white overlords. If that’s a leftist agenda, then so is “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
HIT: To Forgive Is Divine
It’s nice to hear Gov. Spencer Cox con cerned about taxpayer dollars. We wouldn’t want taxes to benefit just a few, especially when those few want to get educated. Cox and the usual sus pects are fighting the Biden adminis tration’s plan to forgive student loans, likely because those students want to become leftist elites. It’s so unfair to those who’ve already paid off their loans, although almost no one has been complaining. But imagine if the gover nor were serious about watching those taxpayer dollars. There’s a gondola in the works that will cost more than $550 million to wind its way to a private ski resort used by, yes, the elite. And ap parently, as The Salt Lake Tribune notes, we’re just fine with the AG spending $5 million to gut the Antiquities Act so that a few in the fossil fuel industry can work the land meant for the public. Yes, we’re happy to hear the governor is worried about the taxpayer.
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Threats and name-calling—from state lawmakers? If that’s the way you in tend to enforce the abortion “trigger” ban, you may as well get your guns out now. State Reps. Karianne Lisonbee, R-Syracuse, and Kera Birkeland, RMorgan, convinced 22 GOP lawmak ers and two hopefuls to sign a letter warning of criminal consequences for currently legal abortions. Despite the Legislature letterhead, they now say their “warning” to abortion providers was just their “opinion” that elective abortions would be treated as felony offenses, even during a judicial injunc tion legalizing abortion up to 18 weeks, according to the Deseret News. Planned Parenthood called it a stunt. While that is likely true, it’s a stunt that will work only until women show they’re fed up with all this vaginal introspection. That will be when the jails are full of doc tors, unlucky girls who missed sex ed, the poor and the few rich who couldn’t prove their abortion was “necessary.”
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Climate Week should be more like Climate Decade. “Crisis is brewing on the Colorado River, the result of decades of water use ex ceeding the river’s water supply,” writes the Audubon Society. Water levels are dramati cally low, and the Colorado’s two main res ervoirs—Lake Mead and Lake Powell—are at about 25% capacity. Reductions in water usage are happening but not fast enough to prevent disaster. Is it too late to do anything or is there hope that nature or the govern ment will intervene? Join The Future of Lake Powell & the Colorado River, a dis cussion with professor emeritus Dan McCool of the University of Utah, whose research on water resources, Indian voting and water rights and public lands policy may help find solutions. Virtual, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 11 a.m., free. https://bit.ly/3eRKVAI
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If you’re not registered to vote yet, get it done. “This Nov. 8, we’re voting for reproduc tive freedom,” says Planned Parenthood of Utah. To help in the effort to provide safe health-care options for women, you can get involved and join the effort to write postcards, host a house party or canvass endorsed can didates. Now, free.
Campaign season is a great time to ask the hard questions about climate change. In fact, as we experience unprecedented ca tastrophes, it’s the best time. Amid Utah Climate Week 2022 , the Citizens’ Climate Lobby is hosting a climate solutions town hall with candidates from Congressional Districts 1 and 3. The two Republican incum bents—Reps. Blake Moore and John Curtis— both belong to the Conservative Climate Caucus. Moore has said he believes work has to be done with industry as they seek solu tions to climate change, and both men call for conservation and better resources. Is it enough? Now is your chance to see what so lutions their Democratic challengers Glenn Wright and Rick Jones have to offer. The discussion will be moderated by Glen Mills from ABC4 and Montana Burack from Park City High School. Virtual or Salt Lake City Downtown Library, 210 E. 400 South, SLC, Monday, Sept. 26, 6 p.m. Free/register at https://bit.ly/3QNID2M
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Most people think the Equal Rights Amend ment has already passed—or was killed years ago. Wrong. The ERA is waiting for Congress to just pull the trigger and remove the ratification time limit. The Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) and constitutional scholars believe that the ERA has been ratified and that Congress has the right to remove its artificial deadline. Now you can add to the pressure and Sign on to a Letter to Majority Leader Schumer.
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Regular attendees of Salt Lake Acting Company should be no strangers to the work of playwright Steve Yockey (pictured). The veteran writer—also known as the creator of the Kaley Cuoco-led HBO Max series The Flight Attendant—has a taste for some of the darker sides of human experience. Blackberry Winter, which SLAC produced in 2015 for its world premiere, deals with a woman creat ing an elaborate mythology to help her cope with her mother’s descent into dementia; Mercury, from 2017, told a tale of revenge bathed in stage blood, but also with a side-order of mythology.
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Salt Lake Acting Company: Sleeping Giant
Indeed, myths seem to be a recurring theme in Yockey’s work—and that subtext appears to be part of his latest work, Sleeping Giant. Featured as part of SLAC’s New Play Sounding Series earlier this year, Sleeping Giant deals with the aftermath of an elaborate marriage proposal featur ing plenty of pyrotechnics. And while explosions might be a great way to make it clear that you’re serious about that special someone, in this case it results in something else serious: the awakening of a creature from the bottom of a nearby lake. Yockey’s trademark perversely comic sensibility gets tied up with, as SLAC’s press notes suggest, “the lengths people go when they desperately want something to believe in.”
Sleeping Giant runs at Salt Lake Acting Company (168 W. 500 North) Sept. 21 – Oct. 16, with accessibility performances including open captions (Oct. 9), ASL interpreter (Oct. 15) and sensoryfriendly (Oct. 1). Tickets are $29 - $43; visit saltlakeactingcompany.org for tickets and additional event information. (Scott Renshaw)
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Had COVID not intervened in 2020, FanX would be mark ing the 10th annual install ment of its big pop-culture celebration. It’s hard to believe that something which was launched with uncer tainty regarding its chance for success has already become an institution that it’s hard to imagine Salt Lake City without.Onceagain, the big names among the celebrity guest will draw most of the headlines. Included in the 2022 lineup is an alum of that original 2013 FanX, legendary Star Trek actor William Shatner. But that’s just the start of a roster that includes the key quartet from Kevin Smith’s Clerks films (Smith, Jason Mewes, Jeff Anderson and Brian O’Halloran); Star Trek: The Next Generation cast members John DeLancie and Brent Spiner; 1980s kid-actor stalwarts Henry Thomas and Corey Feldman and Anthony Michael Hall; Xochitl Gomez, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s new America Chavez; ubiquitous TV villain Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad, The Mandalorian, The Boys); Stranger Things cast members Gaten Matarazzo, Eduardo Franco and Grace Van Dien; The Little Mermaid herself, Jodi Benson; and many more. All that, plus you get the huge show floor of ven dors and artists, great panel discussions, cosplay contests, gaming, kids’ activities and more.
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FanX Salt Lake runs Thursday, Sept. 22 (1 p.m. – 9 p.m.), Friday, Sept. 23 (10 a.m. – 9 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 24 (9:30 a.m. – 9 p.m.) at the Salt Palace Convention Center (100 S. West Temple). Day passes run $20 - $40, with multi-day passes $50 - $295. Visit fanxsaltlake.com for tickets and additional event information, including guest and panel schedules. (SR)
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Ririe-Woodbury’s Precipice visits the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center (138 W. 300 South) Sept. 22 – 24, with performances at 7:30 p.m. nightly. General admission tickets are $35; RirieWoodbury currently requires all audience members to wear masks, regardless of vaccination status. Visit arttix.org for tickets and for additional event information, including up-to-themoment health and safety protocols. (SR)
Precipice features three works as part of its evening-length presenta tion. The centerpiece will be Everything That Changes, the first piece that Daniel Charon choreographed for RirieWoodbury upon his arrival in 2013. Kicking off the program will be a new work by LajaMartin (pictured), the duet consisting of danc ers Laja Field and Martin Durov. The company will also reconstruct the celebrated 1989 work To Have and To Hold, originally created by Joanie Smith and the late Danial Shapiro as a response to the AIDS epidemic, and last performed by Ririe-Woodbury more than 20 years ago. It’s a fas cinating, decades-spanning program that gives viewers a sense of where the company has been, where it is now, and where it has the potential to go.
It’s a tricky time for those who care about kids and reading, but that isn’t going to stop those who are passionate about making sure that youngsters get access to books. That includes The King’s English Bookshop, which recently announced the relaunch Brain Food Books, a non-profit entity originally created by pediatrician Barbara Bean with the goal of provid ing books to young readers. The newand-improved BFB plans to arrange author events throughout the state, and fund the ability for every student at these readings to get one of the author’s books.
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Utah Poets Laureate Benefit Reading
As The King’s English looks to fund BFB, it begins with a fundraiser featuring readings from work by six former poets laureate of Utah. David Lee (poet laureate 1997 – 2003), Katharine Coles (2006 – 2012), Lance Larsen (2012 – 2017), Paisley Rekdal (2017 – 2022, pic tured) and Lisa Bickmore (current) are scheduled to be on hand to read from their own work; Lee will also read poetry by the late Kenneth W. Brewer (2003 – 2006). Also part of the program, as a special guest, will be San Francisco 2017 poet laureate Kim Shuck.
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The event is “pay what you will” at the door at The King’s English Bookshop (1511 S. 1500 East) on Sunday, Sept. 25, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m., with all proceeds benefitting Brain Food Books. Finca Restaurant will be providing a cash-bar service for wine and cocktails on the patio, in addition to a limited snack menu. Visit kingsenglish.com for additional event information, including how to donate to Brain Food Books. (SR)
Speaking of a decade flying by faster than you could have imagined it (see FanX item above), it has somehow already been 10 years since Daniel Charon joined RirieWoodbury Dance Company as its artistic director. As the company begins its 59th season of remarkable modern-dance excellence, the season opener pays tribute to its decade under Charon’s leadership, in addition to the amazing work of other promising dance artists that still lies ahead.
the moment on the mission ahead of him. It’s possible, he says, that upon his return he may bring Odyssey Dance back (he’s hanging on to the Thriller costumes, just in case). Or he might attempt to re-start the performing arts charter school he launched which unfortunately had to close in 2018. But there’s one thing he’s thinking about doing before he departs that could bring the Odyssey story full circle.
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The attendance might have been thin for that first year, but word-of-mouth was strong. The following year, crowds were bigger; for the third year, Thriller had its first sold-out show.
Yeager says that he isn’t closing the door entirely on his artistic career, focusing for
A veteran choreographer and former principal dancer for Ballet West, Yeager launched Odyssey Dance in 1994 in part to fill a niche that he didn’t see represented anywhere else in the Utah dance market at that time. “When I first thought about starting the company I thought, there’s Ballet West, there’s Ririe-Woodbury, there’s RDT, but there’s no jazz compo nent,” Yeager says. “I’d met several really talented dancers that didn’t necessarily want to move to New York to have a career. … My inspiration was Hubbard Street out of Chicago, they were more of a jazz com pany. If they can do it, we can give it a try here. And lucky for me, there’s a lot of tal entYeagerhere.”recruited a lot of that talent for an initial production at University of Utah’s Marriott Center for Dance, but the initial financial prospects were daunting; “I was going to pay the dancers, but we didn’t make enough money to do so,” he recalls. He knew that the long-term viability of the company would require a big “cash-cow”
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The dance company behind Thriller prepares for a wrap on a 28-year journey.
Ultimately, the result was Thriller, a mu sical revue built around classic horror ico nography but with a family-friendly, funny twist. While the show has gone on to be come a successful tradition—exactly the kind of money-maker Yeager initially en visioned—that wasn’t necessarily evident from the show’s first production. “We had four performances scheduled at Kingsbury Hall,” Yeager says. “[Then-Kingsbury Hall director] Greg Geilmann called me into his office and says, ‘You’ve only sold like 50 tickets; maybe you should cancel.’ I knew what we had created, and that a lot of it was really special. I figured, if we’re going to go down, let’s go down in flames.”
Yeager describes that show as one of his best memories from the company’s histo ry: “It affirmed that what we’re doing was appreciated by an audience, and that we could make money doing it.”
“We wanted to serve a mission before
“I’ve thought about calling all those people [who were in the first production] and giving them some money,” he says. “I’ll say, ‘Remember 28 years ago?’ They were instrumental in that very first season in jumping on board with me to create some thing. And it’s been quite an odyssey since then.”
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his fall, sold-out venues throughout Utah will host performances of Od yssey Dance Company’s annual Hal loween production Thriller. It’s a high note for the company to go out on as founder Derryl Yeager closes up shop after nearly 30 years—and a degree of success Yeager might not have been able to imagine after the company’s first performance.
Leading up to these final performances of Thriller has included selling off many of the items from their storehouse of cos tumes in July—and that sale was when the reality of Odyssey Dance wrapping up really started to land for Yeager. “People were coming up and buying particular costumes, and that costume had its own story,” he says. “We knew who wore it, what piece it was in. … All these stories bubbled up, and it was hard to let them go.”
Over the subsequent decades, Odyssey continued to grow, adding a Christmas production and a spring repertory season, plus more than 15 years of European tours. It’s been a great ride, Yeager says, but he’s decided that it’s time to move on, as he and his wife prepare to go on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in early 2023.
Yeager’s original concept for such a show was a full-length Dracula for the Hallow een season. “At that time, nobody was do ing anything for Halloween,” he says. “But [for Dracula] I’d need really big sets and costumes, and I had no money. Somebody suggested, ‘Maybe just do a couple of vi gnettes.’ At that time, Michael Jackson had decided that zombies dance. I was thinking this could be a really great opening num ber. And then I thought about what other characters are out there.”
we’re too old and decrepit,” Yeager says. “We thought about [leaving the company in someone else’s hands] a lot, but the prob lem was, we just never really ran into any body who could do what we do. There’s no manual on how to run a dance company. … There’s lots of opportunities for people to follow in our footsteps if they’d like, but honestly, I wouldn’t wish this on anybody. Because it’s not easy.”
Concluding an Odyssey
production, like Ballet West has every year with The Nutcracker, that helps support the rest of what the company does.
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“Its needles are like stars or fireworks,” says Lynsey Nielsen, horticul turist and arborist at Red Butte Garden.
So which trees should Salt Lakers stop to look at?
Giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum)
And where to find them
“[Trees] please our eyes and enrich our spirits,” Nadkarni said.
Why they’re special: Most of the international trees that succeed in Salt Lake City hail from regions in East Asia. But the blue Atlas—or Atlantic cedar—is native to the Atlas Mountains of North Africa. It sports gor geous tufts of blue-ish needles similar to Colorado spruces, but in the distinct silhouette and shape of a true cedar like its cousin, the cedar of Lebanon (Cedrus libani).
Often, people plant weeping “pendula” cultivars in their yards, which appear like droopy sea-blue sea monsters in the landscape. “It’s kind of a freak,” says Nielsen of the shape. “But we like weirdos.”
Inside the city’s urban forest, the “ocean of leaves” is composed of a broad, worldly range of individual trees, all worthy of our attention. There are roughly 90,000 trees on public lands in the city and many more on private property, according to Tony Gliot, Salt Lake City’s Ur ban Forestry Division director. “It’s the largest urban forest between Denver and Sacramento,” Gliot said.
Salt Lake City’s unique geography, temperature range and micro climates allow for more tree diversity, depending on irrigation. But it also complicates the arborists’ principal aphorism of “right tree, right place,” which guides decisions about what types of trees will survive and thrive in a selected place.
“Diversity really is the building block of a resilient and sustainable ecosystem,” says Gliot. Biodiversity benefits ecosystems and urban ecology, but it also invites appreciation of the many different person alities and profiles mixing it up in our urban forest. Each tree provides an opportunity to think about the city, its climate challenges, its communities and its ecologies.
It’s a subjective exercise to make a list of a city’s most interest ing trees, as every specimen is a potential candidate—a container of stories and traditions, and an arboreal art piece. City Weekly recommends starting with the ones listed below—compiled with the help of local tree experts—and then, maybe, making a list of your own.
Blue Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica)
“It’s awesome that a species that grows on the coastal side of Califor nia’s mountains also do well in Salt Lake City,” says Mike Kuhns, profes sor emeritus of forestry at Utah State University. “They’re so unusual and amazingSequoiashere.”do especially well on small slopes or gulches with good drainage. Look for their trademark conical silhouette and then move in closer to see their soft, shaggy bark that makes for a very huggable texture.
Gliot said he passes it often and always thinks, “How is this tree here?” The thick trunk (51 inch es in diameter) and dense branching provide an oasis of shade for folks at the wide intersection, and its singular stature can be seen from viewpoints in the Upper Avenues and foothills. Allegedly, there was once a plant nursery at this location, which might account for its unique placement.
Where to find one: There are four “pendula” Atlas cedars planted across an arbor at the entrance to the Children’s Garden section of Red Butte Garden. Their branches in terlace to form a unique, almost creature-like bridge, which “speaks to the whimsy of our innerchild,” says Nielsen.
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On Westminster College’s campus, two tall, contrasting cultivars stand next to each other like arboreal step-siblings. Dale Bianucci, the college’s landscape manager, says the taller one used to perform Christmas tree duties in the student union building before it was planted in the main quad in 1998. It now towers high in cerulean blue color, while its smaller buddy shows off tighter columnar shape and branching. Together, they appear like sculptures in a garden.
Salt Lake City’s tree canopy stems, in large part, from urban forestry, as the arid Salt Lake Valley was once dominated by shrublands and grasses. But strolling through the foothills and rang es, residents can still see many native tree gems, Nadkarni says, including “circles of Gambel oaks along the Shoreline Trail” and “the umbrella-shaped crowns of mountain mahogany.”
Why they’re special: This massive redwood species is endemic to iso lated groves in the high-altitude slopes of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. There, old-growth sequoias account for the largest single trees by volume.
Where to find one: There are many giant sequoias across the city, especially on the University of Utah campus (which doubles as our state arboretum). But a beloved favorite stands sentinel over the corner of the Smith’s parking lot on 800 South and 900 East.
The result is a diverse mix of more than 240 distinct species of native and international trees, according to Gliot.
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In Salt Lake City, the giant sequoias are smaller, but make for surpris ing delights in residents’ yards, city cemeteries and arboreta.
hen Nalini Nadkarni, forest ecologist and professor emeri tus at the University of Utah, moved here from the Pacific Northwest, she imagined Salt Lake City would be a treeless desert. But when she first hiked Ensign Peak and looked out across the cityscape, she was surprised to see what she said was an “ocean of green leaves.”
In cities where folks planted a majority of ash trees for their beauty, they risk the loss of their urban forest, another reason that biodiversity in urban ecology is important, says Nielsen, who is also a UCFC member. Ashes’ future is murky at best—appreciate their beauty now.
“I dare you to find a better fall color,” says Nielsen.
Where to find one: Farley and the Utah Community Forest Council (UCFC)—a group of professionals who advo cate for education and care of our community forests— have created an online map of heritage trees in Salt Lake County and Utah. A heritage tree, Farley explains, “is a tree that provides historical or unique value to a place.”
Why they’re special: Jeran Farley, Utah’s Urban and Community Forestry coordinator, feels that paying at tention to trees helps us slow down. And Fremont cotton woods—with their fast-growing density and deeply fur rowed bark—are especially good for that.
Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontii)
Where to find one: Sometimes the best example isn’t the biggest tree but one that facilitates a hearty social scene. In Sugar House Park, just north of the community garden, two Goldenrain trees form a cool canopy that are dually ebullient with June flowers. Picnickers frequent their shady umbrage, and every Wednesday night in summer, the Salt Lake Scots Pipe Band practices there.
Also, Gliot says the city is planting a small selection of ashes in the Mark Smith arbo retum in the Salt Lake City Cemetery, where they’ll be protected and monitored for EAB.
In Jordan Park, there’s a provocative mix of American and Siberian elms peacefully coexisting around the pavillion. And surviving American elms—still sprinkled through out SLC neighborhoods—can be distinguished by their larger leaves and deeper furrows in the bark.
Although there’s no fossil evidence of them in Utah, their petrified remains can be found at Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park in Washington, which complicates our view of native ranges when factoring natural history, continental shifts and time. Ginkgoes are the oldest surviv ing tree species on Earth, and dinosaurs once munched on their fan-shaped leaves. Today, they make wonderful street trees, even in our arid climate, as they’ve survived millions of years of climate shifts.
Why they’re special: The ongoing story of urban ash trees is one of beauty and tragedy. Green and white ashes can be identified by their compound opposite leaf arrangements and distinct light-ash-colored bark, pat terned with neatly grooved, criss-crossing furrows. They are tall and majestic in shape, and their gold-yellow foli age glimmers, especially at sunset.
Why they’re special: Like many trees in Salt Lake City’s urban forest, the Goldenrain tree isn’t native to the area but hails from East Asia. It’s a popular choice for street trees since it’s shorter than power lines while proving to be tough, pollution-tolerant and heat-resistant, according to TheyKuhns.alsorain down long, festive panicles of bright yellow flowers in June after most other trees have cast off their blossoms, making them popular with local pol linators. In late summer and fall, the flowers convert to papery triangular seedpods, inspiring another common name—the Chinese lantern tree.
Why they’re special: Tree people love all trees, right?
Anotherturret.stunning example is a stone’s-throw from the top of Presidents’ Circle on the University of Utah’s campus. The tall ginkgo there is female, dropping fruit filled with pungent butyric acid to the regular complaint of some students. This author likes the smell and collateral mess.
“People are afraid of what they can’t control,” he said. “But there are clearly many spe cies using TreeUtahthem.”plants disease-resistant, hybrid elms instead of Siberian elms (which plant themselves just fine without any help). But Peisner doesn’t like painting all invasive plants with a broad, villainous stroke, especially when it comes to invasive species re moval management. “It’s not nearly as destructive to the natural ecosystem as Russian olive or tamarisk,” Peisner says.
But we’re at risk of losing them. Similar to the loss of American elms in the 20th century, many urban forests in the U.S. have experienced a sweeping wreckage of ash trees due to the invasive emerald ash borer (EAB) beetle. In eastern cities, there are few-to-no ashes left.
Ian Williams, managing director of the 60-year-old organization, likes the location for the outdoor air, shade and “the sweet smell and beautiful blooms in early summer.” It’s a wonderful sensory example of culture and nature blending together in the urban forest.
Siberian elm (Ulmus pumila)
Goldenrain tree (Koelreuteria paniculata)
Most cottonwood varieties don’t live to be particularly large “because they usually grow fast and break apart and die before they really get going,” says Farley. More reason to slow down and appreciate the few native giants thriving here across multiple centuries.
In Salt Lake City, we’re lucky to still have these gor geous and majestic giants. But they might not be here for long, as EAB has been monitored in Boulder, Colorado. If the beetles cross the Rockies, then Utah’s ashes are in trouble, which is why they aren’t commonly planted or recommended by most arborists anymore.
In Ginkgo: The Tree that Time Forgot, author Peter Crane writes that ginkgoes—with more than 200 million years of evolutionary history in their order—connect us to “the deep history of our planet.” Wild, native populations now exist only in mountain ranges in southern China, but ginkgoes long ago populated most continents, including Western North America 15 million years ago.
The arcade of Fremont cottonwoods that line the north entrance to Liberty Park are at least 140 years old—and likely older—based on photographic evidence from 1883. But the most stunning heritage cottonwood is in Fairmont Park, tucked between an artificial stream and the Youth City building.
Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)
Where to find one: There are several streets where ash trees line both sides and create a colorful arbor tunnel in the fall. Some of the best are in Rose Park, where mixes of ashes form towering arcades of majestic bark and compound foliage, especially near the aptly named intersection of Prosperity Avenue and American Beauty Drive.
When Dutch elm disease wiped out the beloved Ameri can elm (Ulmus americana) in the mid-20th century, city planners searched for replacements. In Salt Lake City, the disease-resistant Siberian elm, native to Central Asia and Siberia, was already established here and seemed like a goodButchoice.thetree has proven to be highly invasive. In The Tree Book , horticulturists Keith Warren and Michael Dirr, who typically praise all trees, write: “This tree deserves to be Notfirewood.”everyone agrees. “Every tree has its place,” Farley says. Even the Siberian elm.
Ian Peisner, an arborist with TreeUtah—a nonprofit that works with communities to plant and steward trees across the state—says the Siberian elm is an effective shade tree in a city that lacks them and provides nesting space for wildlife.
Why they’re special: One reason Peisner and Nielsen both love trees is that they offer a very different perspec tive in timescale than humans. Perhaps no tree does this better than the ginkgo.
Where to find one: If you’re looking for stories of ecological resilience, you can find Siberian elms sprouting along fence lines, highways, parking lots and all over. There are some more than century-old specimens lining Stillwell Field in Fort Douglas. And the national champion—or largest known specimen in the country—rests in a private yard in West Valley City, as measured and confirmed by UCFC.
Ash trees (Fraxinus americana & Fraxinus pennyslvanica)
There, a massive Cottonwood trunk splits into a hydra-like canopy of dense stems. And according to the online Utah Heritage Trees story map, this stand-out cottonwood was planted by Brigham Young in 1863.
Where to find one: In addition to the heritage tree map, UCFC created an online direc tory of the state’s champion trees. According to their records, the state’s largest ginkgo resides on a visible corner of the private front yard of a historic building at South Temple and 600 east. There, its lime-green foliage nearly envelopes the adjacent red-brick house’s corner
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Right ? Few trees breed as much debate as elms.
Moreover, the Siberian elm is one of only a few massive shade trees that can toler ate the increasing aridity and rising temperatures of the Salt Lake Valley. “The world is changing, and changing quickly,” Peisner said. “It’s a frickin’ biological miracle it can do what it does here. Why not embrace that?”
Look for younger rows of ginkgoes planted in median strips, along sidewalks and in parking lots throughout the city.
Why they’re special: Utah’s native Gambel oaks are resilient, dynamic and often overlooked. They form scrubby thickets in the foothills or taller, mature corridors—with companion Wasatch ma ples—along creeks and streambanks. They also naturally hybridize with other oak species.
Gliot reiterated that humans and their tree neighbors can thrive around one another. “It is the quintessential example that trees are important enough to people that we take them wherever we go,” Gliot said.
A healthy tree provides shade, intercepts particulate matter and supports cooler, cleaner air. To plant and maintain one is to invest in ecosystem health, wildlife shelter and environmental benefits for generations of future Utahns.
“Salt Lake has a small-tree problem,” says Nielsen. “The big trees tend to be old ones, but we need to plant many more new ones.”
Nielsen says that years ago, Walter Cottam—a renowned Utah ecologist—and a group of his students discovered a grove of nat ural hybrids of Gambel and turbinella oaks in the Oquirrh Moun tains. This inspired Cottam to begin experimenting with different oak combinations in experimental groves, one of which laid the foundation for Red Butte Garden.
While it isn’t likely to live thousands of years in an urban setting, these dwarfish pines can live over 2,000 years when the conditions are right. They can be identified by their bottle-brushy pine needles with cute sprinkles of dandruff flakes on them.
Where to see them: One of the spunkier-shaped bristlecone trees squats in the northeast corner of the Salt Lake City Cemetery, which was officially classified as an arboretum in fall of 2021 due to the number of tree species, identifi cation plaques and professional maintenance of trees on the grounds. The cemetery features one of the better collections of conifers in the city and beyond, including an allée of sequoias and this author’s favorite Austrian pine in Utah.
“It’s a cool tree not typically available in nurseries,” says Kuhns, which makes it a rare ornamental delight when it pops up on land scapes with its “bottlebrush branching.”
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Peisner suggests that Salt Lakers get to know the city’s trees as neighbors. “You can pay attention to people or to an individual person, and you’re going to learn very different things,” he said. “Same withButtrees.”also,Farley said, “pay attention to where there aren’t [trees]. And plant some.”
Sam Nelson is a writer, teacher and naturalist. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post , DCist, Two Hawks Quarterly and other outlets. Find him on Instagram @treegazing.
Cottam oaks (Quercus spp.)
Nielsen says this grove contains original source material for unique seed varieties that Red Butte sometimes ships to botanic institutions around the world. This space and collection were the foun dation and inspiration for Red Butte Garden. “These oaks were the seeds that were planted for a really beautiful botanic garden,” says Nielsen. A note on oaks: Every arborist and professional interviewed for this article advocated for more oak trees in Salt Lake City, especially given the effects of climate change. They all noted that oaks are drought-tolerant boons to ecosystems and provide gorgeous shape and cooling shade if we can patiently let them grow.
Why they’re special: Its cousin, the Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva), seems to hog all the attention in the family for holding records as the oldest nonclonal trees in the world—the old est tree of any variety is believed to be a clonal aspen colony in cen tral Utah’s Fishlake National Forest—with some great bristlecones living more than 4,000 years in the White Mountains of California. But the Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine is no young slouch.
Sowing Seeds
Need proof of their beauty sooner? Stroll the England section of the International Peace Gardens and lounge under a pair of massive oaks, including the state champion red oak and its neighboring bur oak, a tough tree with “fuzzy-capped eclectic acorns” that Peisner said he loves to plant.
The city has been planting more big-growing trees like oaks on the west side as part of the mayor’s 1,000 Trees Initiative, aimed at correcting for historic disparities in tree cover between Salt Lake’s neighborhoods, according to Gliot. Decades from now, these oaks might reward us.
Where to find one: According to the online Utah Heritage Trees story map, there is a natural Cottam oak grove inside This Is the Place Heritage Park, where a hybrid acorn launched the half-acre grove about 5,000 years ago. Cottam used pollen from this tree and other sources to create an experimental grove of oak hybrids which remain today behind the horticultural building at Red Butte Garden. There, Nielsen says, 131 oak trees make up 40 different taxa, or species and hybrids. “It’s a museum collection just out here.”
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Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine (Pinus aristata)
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he restaurants of Central Ninth con tinue to operate in a world without sidewalks and reliable parking, which really is a shame. Along with all this construction—which I’m sure we’ll all ap preciate once it’s finished but right now oh my God—there has been an explosion of ex cellent local restaurants.
I know I’ve mentioned Dough Miner (945 S. 300 West, Ste. 101, 385-334-3389, dougminer.com) when I was extolling the virtues of meat-stuffed bread a few weeks back. But now that they’ve had a bit of time to get used to their new digs I thought it was time for them to get the full treatment. Also, I will take any opportunity I can get to write about Cornish Pasties and doughnuts.
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Fast forward several years into the fu ture, and I’ve gotten reacquainted with this hand-held savory pie thanks to Dough Min er. I’ve been in a few times since this cozy eatery left its soft opening phase—it’s got the cheerful bearings of a bakery with the convenient service model of a fast-casual restaurant—and it has yet to disappoint.
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It was here, at a small kiosk in Covent Garden, that I tried my first pasty—and it was like someone threw me a life raft. So, I saved up my per diem and ate pasties at every meal with no regrets.
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Dough Miner is all about the cake dough nut, and though I love their inventive flavors and presentation, I can’t help but feel that the dough needs to be a touch lighter—it veers too close to bread territory for my taste. It’s a small gripe, however, as these doughnuts are decadent through and through.
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cheese brings to a steak—but would it work in a pasty? As fabulous as it is, blue cheese can really get away from you if you don’t have an even hand. After a few bites of steak goodness, the blue cheese started to show up in just the right measure—pres ent enough to offer its unique, cheesy fla vor, but balanced enough not to overwhelm everything else on board. It’s got me confi dent to get adventurous with whatever oth er pasties they decide to add to the roster.
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Dough Miner offers an original take on a traditional Cornish Pasty.
Cornish Pasties earned their special place in my heart back in high school when I volunteered as a chaperone for an educa tional tour of England that my mom orga nized for her English classes. Though it was a free trip to the U.K. for me, I soon realized that the organization that booked our itin erary didn’t give too much thought to what we would be eating during the trip.
rants that created that stereotype for our displeasure. One day, however, we had the opportunity to go wherever we wanted for a quick lunch.
I can’t really think of a better addition to the SLC food scene this fall—pasties and doughnuts are autumnal classics, and I can definitely see myself popping in here often for something soulful and filling to get me through the dreaded winter.
If you’ve got a bit of room left over after downing a pasty, Dough Miner’s doughnuts ($3.50 or $19.95 for a half dozen) are there for a sweet contrast to all that savory. Like the pasties, the doughnuts here are gigantic and each one is sumptuously decorated. They boast delicious flavors like the Gold Digger, with its salted brown butter glaze, or the Strawberries and Cream, decked out with mascarpone cream and topped with a wee doughnut hole in the middle. Then you have the Gimme S’more, with chocolate glaze and crushed graham cracker that gets a toasty homemade marshmallow on top instead.
These savory, overstuffed meat pies have a lovely heft to them when you pick them up—I prefer eating them with both hands like a giant sandwich, but you can use a fork if you want to—and they warm you up from the inside out with that tender steak and brown gravy that is heavy on black pepper.While the classic is always a safe bet, the crew at Dough Miner likes to get cre ative with their flavors on a regular basis. They’ve got a funeral potato pasty ($10.65) that captures our famous Utah dish with chopped potato, onions and a cheesy sauce that will make you feel like you’re at a ward potluck. And during my last visit, I noticed they had a steak and blue cheese ($11.50) pasty which was intriguing.
The classic pasty ($11.25) is the best place to start for a few different reasons. First, it’s the one that maintains the mix of steak—both ribeye and sirloin here—and hearty root veggies like potatoes, carrots, turnips and onions, which dates all the way back to the dish’s Cornish origins. It’s all stuffed into a golden-brown pastry crust that adds its own buttery flavor and flaky texture to the whole party.
Shades Brewing 154 W. Utopia Ave, South Salt Lake OnShadesBrewing.beerTap:TripleFruited Sour Slushies
Roosters Brewing Multiple OnRoostersBrewingCo.comLocationsTap:CosmicAutumnRebellion
Strap Tank Brewery Multiple MochaLehiPeanutSpringvilleStrapTankBrewery.comLocationsOnTap:PBRider,ButterStoutOnTap:2-Stroke,VanillaPorter
Proper Brewing S. Main, Lager
Scion Cider Bar 916 Jefferson St W, Metamorphosis
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SaltFire Brewing 2199 S. West Temple, South Salt Lake OnSaltFireBrewing.comTap:PunkasFuck IIIPA
Vernal Brewing 55 S. 500 East, VernalBrewing.comVernal
UTOG 2331 Grant Ave, OnUTOGBrewing.comOgdenTap:LovePunchHefe (proceeds to Project Rainbow)
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Hopkins Brewing Co. 1048 E. 2100 South, OnHopkinsBrewingCompany.comSLCTap:Märzenhead
Epic Brewing Co. 825 S. State, OnEpicBrewing.comSLCTap:FestDevious Märzen
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OnTFBrewing.comTap:EdelPils
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Bohemian Brewery 94 E. Fort Union Blvd, BohemianBrewery.comMidvale
Bewilder Brewing 445 S. 400 West, OnBewilderBrewing.comSLCTap:GlutenReduced Kolsch
2110 S. Highland Drive, SLC WasatchBeers.com
Ogden River Brewing Park Blvd,
RoHa Brewing Project 30 Kensington Ave, SLC OnRoHaBrewing.comTap:EXTREME MORMON Extra Pale Ale
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Red Rock Fashion Place 6227 So. OnRedrockbrewing.comStateTap:GingerGose
A list of what breweries houses have on tap this week
Stratford Proper 1588 Stratford Ave., SLC Onstratfordproper.comTap:LakeEffectGose
Silver Reef 4391 S. Enterprise Drive, St. George StGeorgeBev.com
SLC OnScionciderbar.comTap:Art+Science
Level Crossing Brewing Co. 2496 S. West Temple, South Salt OnLevelCrossingBrewing.comLakeTap:ZappaHopsPhillySour IPA
Grid City Beer Works 333 W. 2100 South, OnGridCityBeerWorks.comSLCTap:ExtraPaleAle
Zion Brewery 95 Zion Park Blvd, Springdale ZionBrewery.com
Wasatch
Zolupez 205 W. 29th Street #2, Ogden Zolupez.com
PolicyKingsBrewery.com
Red Rock Brewing So. 200 OnRedRockBrewing.comWestTap:RoggenRockRye
Policy Kings Brewery N. 100 West, Cedar City
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Red Rock Kimball Junction On1640Redrockbrewing.comRedstoneCenterTap:ScottishAle
TF Brewing 936 S. 300 West, SLC
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Squatters 147 W. Broadway, SLC Squatters.com
Craft by Proper 1053 E. 2100 So., SLC Oncraftbyproper.comTap:DoLess-West Coast IPA
Desert Edge Brewery 273 Trolley Square, OrangeOnDesertEdgeBrewery.comSLCTap:OrangeSiennaBloodSour
OnOgdenRiverBrewing.comOgdenTap:InjectorHazyIPA
Talisman Brewing Co. 1258 Gibson Ave, OnTalismanBrewingCo.comOgdenTap:HotGirlSummer- Lavender Honey Wheat
2 Row Brewing 6856 S. 300 West, Midvale 2RowBrewing.com
and cider
Kiitos Brewing 608 W. 700 South, SLC KiitosBrewing.com
Bonneville Brewery 1641 N. Main, OnBonnevilleBrewery.comTooeleTap:PeachesandCream Ale
Salt Flats Brewing 2020 Industrial Circle, SLC OnSaltFlatsBeer.comTap:Oktoberfest Vienna Lager
Uinta Brewing 1722 S. Fremont Drive, SLC OnUintaBrewing.comTap:WasAngeles Craft Beer
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Mountain West Cider 425 N. 400 West, OnMountainWestCider.comSLCTap:SweetAlicePeach Turmeric
Fisher Brewing Co. 320 W. 800 South, SLC OnFisherBeer.comTap:FisherBeer
Avenues Proper 376 8th Ave, Onavenuesproper.comSLCTap:Less-West Coast IPA
OnProperBrewingCo.comSLCTap:EastSideParadise - Rice
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The flavor begins with a citrus jolt. Tan gerine, grapefruit, and faint, musty or ange. More tropical notes, including mel on, mango and peach appear in the middle. Lightly spicy and bittersweet with a hint of pine and sticky honey at the finish. The carbonation is moderate, and the sensation is medium-bodied. Very plush yet not fluffy. relatively smooth to swallow. The alcohol’s 7.3% warmth is quite modest.
Verdict: The lengthy aging of the beer has allowed for more mature sherry and port flavors to combine with dry malts as hints of fortified brandy mix with a long lingering of coffee and toast. The result is a full-bodied but leathery-dry beer. It has never tasted so delicious to turn 5 years old.
It goes without saying that Kiitos’ bigass, blended ale is in limited production and this blending will never be able to hap pen again. The Mosaic version of Series of Singularities is also limited, but Sal fire should have plenty to last a couple of weeks. As always, cheers. CW
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Dark chocolate, light cream, molas ses and honey meet the tongue with a dry, leathery sweetness at the very first taste. The middle palate exhibits a change to a feathery dryness as the malts tighten into a toasty, roasty, and smokey char as the intricacies develop, consisting of candied walnuts, coffee and charred bread. As indi cations of leather and smoke quickly follow, so does a fruitier taste that swirls around fig, date, prune, raisin and plum. The flavor becomes increasingly bitter, earthy, with a rye-driven grit and bordeaux wine in the aftertaste as hints of dark grape, cherry and berries develop.
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Pours an unfiltered golden orange hue with a sizable amount of foamy white head. It leaves a small amount of patchy lacing around the glass. It has a strong fruity fra grance—tropical, with lots of fresh man go juice and melon, as well as tangerine, grapefruit flavors and citrus. Additionally, there is berry sweetness—incredibly sweet like strawberries and blueberries. The back end has only a trace of grass and is gently gritty. Although there isn’t much honey de tectable on the nose, the perfume is never theless incredibly rich.
altfire - A Series of Singularities (Mosaic): Happiness to me is a single hop IPA or pale ale. Not only are they tasty, but they’re an excellent education for your palate on what different varieties of hops can taste like. On top of that, this IPA is made with one of my favorite hops, Mo saic. I hope it can deliver the goods.
Verdict: I thought this IPA was really great and lived up to the anticipation. For the last few years, this series of beers has been one that I look forward to every quar ter. So I’m thrilled that I was able to sample
If jam is your jam—sorry, it was right there—then you’ll want to check out the Marmalade Jam Fest at Mountain West Hard Cider (425 N. 400 West, 801-935-4147, mountainwestcider.com) this weekend. It’s a neighbor hood fair that has been organized to help celebrate the Marmalade area’s history of fruit cultivation—which is where the district gets its name after all. Attendees can expect all kinds of tasty entertainment, including local treats, food trucks and artists. The event takes place on September 24 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and September 25 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Snagging some jam and peeping on local arts and craft within one of Downtown SLC’s coziest neighborhoods doesn’t sound like a bad way to spend the weekend.
Hot on the heels of opening their second location in Midvale, Laziz Kitchen (lazizkitchen.com) recently opened a location in Downtown Salt Lake (152 E. 200 South, 385-267-1161). With Laziz setting up shop near Edison Street, and with Brick & Mortar and ROC Taco nearby, we’ve got a nice little walkable spot to enjoy some monsters of the Utah food scene. Edison Street is the perfect spot for a Laziz location—great for people watching and ideal for grabbing a quick bite of some freshly made baba ghanouj or some crispy falafel wraps. We’re always happy to see one of our local gastronomic luminaries expand their empire, and we’re looking for ward to easier access to some of that famous hummus.
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I’d be lying if I told you I wasn’t keeping tabs on By the Bucket (701 E. 2100 South, bythebucket.com), an Arizona-based restaurant that serves up spaghetti— you guessed it—by the bucket. The menu consists of spaghetti and marinara sauce that can be ordered in different sized buckets depending on how many people you’re hoping to feed. Their family bucket, for example, can feed four to five people, but they also have a small bucket that can feed one to two people. The menu also has meatballs and garlic bread that can be added to spaghetti orders, so this is a place for people who really love their noodles in red sauce. of the Week:
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The only question is, what is the particu lar way that things here are askew, creepy and/or threatening? And how does one talk about that particular way—and how it doesn’t particularly work—without the dreadedDirector“spoilers?”OliviaWilde and writers Katie
Don’t Worry Darling can’t find a payoff for its mysteri ous set-up.
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It also depends hugely on Pugh’s perfor mance, and once again she proves herself to be one of the most talented young actors in movies. There’s certainly a lot of Midsom mar ’s Dani in the character she’s playing here—a woman growing increasingly terri fied of the isolated place in which she finds
Don’t Worry Darling simply can’t stick the landing, and all I can do is talk around in circles suggesting that maybe it should have tried to land somewhere else. CW Pugh
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n order to talk about Don’t Worry Dar ling at all, we must agree on the premise that something about the picturesque mid-20th-century community of Victory is off. Everything looks perfectly lovely as the men drive off to work every morning in their big American cars with big American fins, and the women stay home to clean, cook and shop. But it’s obvious that we’re only here because, to our circa-2022 eyes, it’s clear that this scenario isn’t perfectly lovely, at least for the women involved.
So, about those ultimate discoveries … this isn’t the place to say what they are, and aren’t. The problem is that the filmmak ers don’t give themselves enough time to fully explain—and, in a sense, justify—the particular choice they make regarding the nature of Victory. There are entire psycho logical back-stories—for Jack, for Frank, for Alice’s best friend/neighbor (played by Wilde)—that either don’t emerge at all, or get a hit-and-run moment that shortchanges the choices these people have made. Several late plot developments make no sense at all if you stop to think about them for even a moment, depending on the cranked-up pace to distract you. And plenty of the mystery seeds that Don’t Worry Dar ling plants along the way simply disappear
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the same mysterious entity, a project called Victory with a visionary leader named Frank (Chris Pine), and which effectively runs the isolated desert town where they all live. There are, however, early signs of weird ness, like periodic tremors that everyone in town just takes for granted. Then another Victory wife begins behaving strangely, and a mysterious encounter leaves Alice with in creasingly frightening hallucinations.
without even an attempt at an explanation. It ends up feeling like an attempt to trick viewers into assuming another explanation for what’s going on, perhaps related to an other movie with a Big Reveal.
Silberman, Carey Van Dyke and Shane Van Dyke have created a concept that, in theory, provides a perfect 21st-century spin on Ira Levin’s The Stepford Wives. There’s a lot of territory ripe for exploration in reaction ary movements built around old-fashioned gender roles. Don’t Worry Darling, however, takes on that notion in a way that’s almost all ominous set-up without a strong sense of how to pay it off, or how many Chekho vian guns it can leave unfired.
BY SCOTT scottr@cityweekly.netRENSHAW@scottrenshaw
The story centers on Alice Chambers (Florence Pugh), who’s enjoying a seem ingly blissful existence with her husband Jack (Harry Styles). Jack—apparently along with every other man in town—works for
Alfred Hitchcock’s term of “refrigerator logic” might apply to some of this, and per haps the journey will be intriguing enough that many viewers won’t be disappointed by the destination. But allegories like this actually need to have something to say, not just something they want to say.
The buildup towards the Big Reveal in a story like Don’t Worry Darling is always going to count a lot towards its effectiveness, and Wilde does a solid job of staging the scenes that capture Alice’s mounting paranoia. Popular culture has already conditioned us to understand that utopian exteriors must be hiding something, and cinematographer Matthew Libatique gives Victory the glossy sheen that contrasts perfectly with the alarming experiences Alice eventually has.
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herself—but Pugh finds a different note in her complete devotion to Jack. She’s such a powerful presence that it seems almost unfair to set her against the relatively inexperienced Styles, whose Jack never entirely comes into focus in the same way. Pugh is the commanding center of Don’t Worry Dar ling, and the conviction in her meltdown will carry most viewers along towards her ultimate discoveries.
“I think recording technology hit a peak in the ‘70s,” said Joe. “Things weren’t going digital yet, but the analog gear was really, really good, so you have a studio crispness to the recordings. Everything recorded in the early to mid-’70s sounds the best to my ears. I think it’s a natural time to have nos talgia
Couple Shelby (vocals) and Joe Maddock (guitar) started creating music together as a hobby, but it grew into something more.
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The Moon Unit went way harder than the group thought they would. “We’re re ally lucky to have them,” Joe said. Those in the Moon Unit came up with the name, and it’s essentially become the fan club for the band. If you’re a fan of The Plastic Cherries, you are a member of the Moon Unit.
For The Plastic Cherries, the best part about the Salt Lake music scene is how great the community is. “People in Salt Lake really band together and it’s not hard to find friends or support,” said Shelby Maddock. “I’m really proud of all of the musicians we’ve gotten to know because everyone is so invested in what they’re making and are wonderful people.”
wood Mac as a major influence on their mu sic, especially on their latest single, “Lov ers on the Run.”
Local pop/rock group takes over SLC with their retro vibes and loyal fanbase
“We haven’t really collaborated until the last couple years, so it’s a new endeavor for us, but it’s been a lot of fun,” said Shelby.
Shelby said there’s a healthy competition where people can inspire each other without fueding. “It feels like an extended family,” she said.
“They love any excuse to be fun weir dos,” said Joe.
The Plastic Cherries
BY EMILEE eatkinson@cityweekly.netATKINSON
Salt Lake City band The Plastic Cherries has skyrocketed in popularity in the last year, and they now have their own dedi cated fanbase. The Plastic Cherries’ “Moon Unit” comes out to shows hyping up the band, dancing and wearing otherworldly costumes.Alothas happened in the last year for The Plastic Cherries. In September 2021, they debuted their first album, Sunshine, recorded at home on retro analog gear. And like many other musicians, the new proj ect came about because of the pandemic.
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If you want to catch the Moon Unit, or become a member of it yourself, The Plastic Cherries play regularly around SLC. They post information about their shows on Instagram, @theplasticcherries. They’re having a Halloween Extravaganza show on Friday, Oct. 28 at Urban Lounge with other local groups Dad Bod, Casio Ghost and DJ Rockin’ Robin.
With the band complete, The Plastic Cherries got together to record as a group for the first time. The result is their latest single, “Lovers on the Run.” The track em phasizes their ‘70s pop-rock ethos and live energy.“Lovers on the Run” is a road trip song for modern misfits, according to Shelby and Joe. “We love the song, we wrote it on a road trip together last summer, and it’s been stuck in our heads ever since,” said Shelby. “It feels good to finally have it out in the world. It feels like a quintessential Plastic Cherries collaboration.”
The Plastic Cherries have a strong retro vibe to their music. They’ve cited Fleet
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Sunshine was recorded on a Tascam 388 that Shelby got Joe for their anniversary one year. Joe nerds out about retro record ing equipment and once the machine was in their possession, they felt a sense of ob ligation to it.
release of their debut, reverbsoaked LP, The Plastic Cherries have made an impact on the local music scene, gain ing fans while also morphing into a fivepiece group. Wayne Burdick (drums) and Stephen Cox (bass) were already friends of Shelby and Joe Maddock before joining the group. They had briefly collaborated and jammed together, but didn’t work together seriously until after Sunshine came out. Be cause they were all such good friends be forehand, it was easy to start collaborating and doing live shows together.
“You feel this weight of responsibility, and we said, ‘Well we have to make an al bum with it now,’” Joe said. “That spurred on the project—along with having more time at home.”
That’s where the Moon Unit comes from: friends and members of the community supporting local music. The Plastic Cher ries’ new material is in response to Sun shine, with much of it featuring the moon as a theme. The first time they were play ing one of those new songs live, they texted some friends to come hype up the show. The Moon Unit flash mobbed the show com plete with alien costumes and space suits.
The couple were also friends with Nata lie Hamilton (keyboard) for some time be fore she joined the group. Hamilton was initially only going to stick around for a few shows, but she’s going strong with The Plastic Cherries and they’re all working on new music together. “It’s something we’re all quite committed to, and it’s something that’s really inspiring for us and other peo ple,” said Shelby. “It was unexpected, but a welcome surprise.”
At times, the track is cheeky and surreal, at others heartfelt and earnest; it explores paradoxes of freedom and love, belonging and escape, shadow and light, all while still having fun. “You can express sad emo tions through a hopeful lens, and some times that art can be impactful in its own way,” said Shelby.
The Plastic Cherries want fans to know that they love them and they’re excited to be putting out more music and playing live shows. “We couldn’t have done any of this without the support we’ve been given by the community,” said Shelby. “We’re really grateful, and we want to keep doing it.”
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A major theme in music right now is the pandemic, and how the last couple of years have shaped and inspired new music for a lot of musicians. As much as we may want to move on from the confusion and uncertainty, it’s hard to deny that COVID gave many of us time to reflect on what’s most important in life. Right now, bands are putting out some of the most heartfelt music of their careers, and Odesza is no exception. Their latest album, entitled The Last Goodbye, is an ode to family and friends who have continued to support the musical duo through their career. Odesza was in the middle of a tour when they were pulled off the road as the pandemic took over the world. Clayton Knight and Harrison Mills of Odesza used the pandemic downtime to self-reflect and get back to their roots. “When we finally started writing this thing— COVID times and being trapped inside—we took a long time to reflect on ourselves, and we ended up deep-diving into who we are and who we’ve become, because we had basically been touring for seven years straight,” Mills told the Associated Press in July. “We started watching home videos and all this stuff from our past and recognized how much our parents were within us and how much we really missed and had grati tude towards the people we loved around us. Slowly, we started putting home footage into our music. It became this journey of self, in a way.” Odesza will be at the USANA Amphitheater on Tuesday, Sept. 21. Tickets for the show are $24-$154 and can be found at livenation.com. Doors open for the allages show at 6:30 p.m. (Emilee Atkinson)
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Our Time in Space, The Starkillers, My Friend Zero @ The DLC 9/22
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Fans of sci-fi and rock music will want to head to this show featuring three local SLC groups. The Starkillers are an up-and-com ing, four-piece rock/pop group whose music is influenced by their love of sci-fi and cyber punk. The visuals in their photo shoots and newest music video showcase the culmina tion of years of artistic allure and fascination for the unknown. Their first single, “Are You Thinking of Me,” is a strong start for the group. The sound is infectious, and the quartet have superb cohesion with a clear, crisp sound. It’s a catchy tune that’s easy to sing along to, but also relatable if you’ve ever dealt with heartbreak. Fellow cosmos lovers Our Time in Space are also taking the stage, bringing their charismatic and full-sounding vibe to the show. “Space never cease to amaze with their full-dimensional, explosive waterfall of sonics, using the same vocals, drums and guitars available to every other carbon-based rock & roll band in the known universe,” they say on their Bandcamp pro file. Their latest single is a remix from their 2020 EP Hot Head Session entitled “Lockjaw (Bramstoy Remix).” It takes the rock/pop track and turns it into a cyberpunk-dance track. Both the original and remix are sub lime. Rounding out the show is My Friend Zero, a local group that has been quiet since their 2020 debut album Greatest Hits of the American Taliban. While not as spacedriven, the group still gives a fast-paced and energetic music that focuses on political unrest and frustration with the world. Catch these SLC favorites on Thursday, Sept. 22 at The DLC for $10. This is a 21+ show and the show starts at 8 p.m. (EA)
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Built to Spill, The French Tips, Oruā @ Metro Music Hall 9/24
Built to Spill has been around the block a few times as a band. They’ve been through a lot of changes as well. There’s a focus on lead vocalist and guitarist Doug Martsch, as he’s been the only permanent member since 1992. Over the course of the last three decades, Built to Spill has released eight albums, all with Martsch as the primary songwriter. In 2022, Built to Spill has a new album, When the Wind Forgets Your Name, that continues on with the sound the group is known for—indie-rock that’s had a major influ ence in music in the Pacific Northwest. Supporting the indie titans are fellow Boise native group, The French Tips. The group formed initially as a way to release pent up rage through music, but their work has evolved into a refuge from the world. Their latest work All the Rage was delayed by the pandemic, something countless bands can relate to. They got back into the studio in January 2021 and the latest from the garage-rock group emerged. Rounding out the show is Brazilian rock group Oruā. Their music blends acid jazz, indie rock and experimental psychedelic. Oruā has been touring with Built to Spill for a while, and part of their sound has been shaped by their time with the veterans. Check out this trio of unique rock acts on Monday, Sept. 25 at Metro Music Hall. Tickets for the 21+ show are $30 and can be found at metromu sichall.com. Doors open at 7 p.m. (EA)
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Duckwrth @ Soundwell 9/23
LA-based rapper/singer Duckwrth is stopping in Salt Lake promoting his latest single. Many will know him from his track “Start a Riot” with collaborating artist Shaboozey from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. His latest, entitled “Beg,” is a taste of his latest EP Chrome Bull. His previous album, SG8* came out post-quar antine, and provided comfort for him during uncertain times. “It’s important that people just give themselves time, we’re going back into life again during the pan demic and everything’s moving at the pace that it was before COVID, maybe even a little bit faster. I would hope that people just be patient with themselves whilst all this is on and understand that we just went through and we’re still going through a traumatic event,” he told 1883 Magazine. Duckwrth’s music blends into a contem porary infusion of hip-hop and R&B, but more impor tantly, he makes music that just feels good to listen to.
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This multi-talented artist will be a treat on Friday, Sept. 23 at 8 p.m. Tickets for the all-ages show are $42-$61 and can be found at ticketmaster.com. (EA)
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TikTok has been a comfort for many over the last couple years—hours spent scrolling, looking for a laugh while the world plunged into chaos. Many have also made careers on the app, becoming content creators or new bands to look out for. Such is the case for sibling musical duo, Durry. Austin and Taryn Durry joined forces and became popular on TikTok with their track “Who’s Laughing Now.” Austin had played in another band, but it never really took off like he hoped. “All that ended up being a point of stress. Like, ‘Have I wasted my youth on this stuff?’ It’s ironic that, in feeling that way and processing that, that’s the thing that has launched the career that I always wished I had,” Austin told MPLS St. Paul Magazine in July. Austin had a huge tour with his old band set for 2020, but when that was taken away and he moved in with his parents, he had to figure out life without a band. As Austin messed around with new musical ideas, he asked for Taryn’s opinion and the relation ship morphed into a creative team. Taryn had never planned to be in a band, but as they worked together more, she enjoyed creating music with her brother. Check out Durry with their unique brand of nostalgic indie rock at Kilby Court on Monday, Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. Tickets to the all-ages show are $13 and can be found at kilbycourt.com. (EA)
“It’s also made to make you feel good,” Duckwrth told The Daily Californian in August. “(It’s) healthy escapism, so to help you through whatever you’re going through.”
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CANCER (June 21-July 22)
benefit and the welfare of those you love.” While this counsel is always relevant for you, dear Virgo, it will be especially so in the coming weeks.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
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In 1946, medical professionals in the United Kingdom estab lished the Common Cold Unit. Its goal was to discover practical treatments for the familiar viral infection known as the cold. Over the next 43 years, until it was shut down, the agency produced just one useful innovation: zinc gluconate lozenges. This treatment reduces the severity and length of a cold if taken within 24 hours of onset. So the results of all that research were modest, but they were also much better than nothing. During the coming weeks, you may experience comparable phenomena, Taurus: less spectacular outcomes than you might wish, but still very worthwhile.
“Love your mistakes and foibles,” Virgo astrologer William Sebrans advises his fellow Virgos. “They aren’t going away. And it’s your calling in life—some would say a superpower—to home in on them and finesse them. Why? Because you may be able to fix them or at least improve them with panache—for your
Capricorn poet William Stafford wrote, “Saying things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing things you do not need to hear dulls your hearing.” Those ideas are always true, of course, but I think it’s especially crucial that you heed them in the coming weeks. In my oracular opinion, you need to build your personal power right now. An important way to do that is by being discriminating about what you take in and put out. For best results, speak your truths as often and as clearly as possible. And do all you can to avoid exposing yourself to trivial and delusional “truths” that are really just opinions or misinformation.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
You are an extra authentic Aquarius if people say that you get yourself into the weirdest, most interesting trouble they’ve ever seen. You are an ultra-genuine Aquarius if people follow the twists and pivots of your life as they would a soap opera. And I suspect you will fulfill these potentials to the max in the coming weeks. The upcoming chapter of your life story might be as entertaining as any you have had in years. Luckily, imminent events are also likely to bring you soulful lessons that make you wiser and wilder. I’m excited to see what happens!
In a poem to a lover, Pablo Neruda wrote, “At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined.” I suspect you Pisceans could have similar deepening and inter weaving experiences sometime soon—not only with a lover but with any treasured person or animal you long to be even closer to than you already are. Now is a time to seek more robust and resilient intimacy.
Tips to get the most out of the next three weeks: 1. Use your imagination to make everything seem fascinating and won derful. 2. When you give advice to others, be sure to listen to it yourself. 3. Move away from having a rigid conception of yourself and move toward having a fluid fantasy about yourself. 4. Be the first to laugh at and correct your own mistakes. (It’ll give you the credibility to make even better mistakes in the future.) 5. Inspire other people to love being themselves and not want to be like you.
Even when your courage has a touch of foolhardiness, even when your quest for adventure makes you a bit reckless, you can be resourceful enough to avoid dicey consequences. Maybe more than any other sign of the zodiac, you periodically outfox karma. But in the coming weeks, I will nevertheless counsel you not to barge into situations where rash boldness might lead to wrong moves. Please do not flirt with escapades that could turn into chancy gambles. At least for the foreseeable future, I hope you will be prudent and cagey in your quest for interesting and educational fun.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
For 15 years, Leo cartoonist Gary Larson created The Far Side, a hilarious comic strip featuring intelligent talking animals. It was syndicated in more than 1,900 newspapers. But like all of us, he has had failures, too. In one of his books, Larson describes the most disappointing event in his life. He was eating a meal in the same dining area as a famous cartoonist he admired, Charles Addams, creator of The Addams Family. Larson felt a strong urge to go over and introduce himself to Addams. But he was too shy and tongue-tied to do so. Don’t be like Larson in the coming weeks, dear Leo. Reach out and connect with receptive people you’d love to communicate with. Make the first move in contacting someone who could be important to you in the future. Be bold in seeking new links and affiliations. Always be respectful, of course.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Here’s a scenario that could be both an invigorating metaphor and a literal event. Put on rollerblades. Get out onto a long flat surface. Build up a comfortable speed. Fill your lungs with the elixir of life. Praise the sun and the wind. Sing your favorite songs. Swing your arms all the way forward and all the way back. Forward: power. Backward: power. Glide and coast and flow with sheer joy. Cruise along with confidence in the instinctive skill of your beautiful body. Evaporate thoughts. Free yourself of every concern and every idea. Keep rambling until you feel spacious and vast.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
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Tips for making the most of the next three weeks: 1. Be proud as you teeter charismatically on the fence. Relish the power that comes from being in between. 2. Act as vividly congenial and staunchly beautiful as you dare. 3. Experiment with making artful arrangements of pretty much everything you are part of. 4. Flatter others sincerely. Use praise as one of your secret powers. 5. Cultivate an open-minded skepticism that blends discernment and curiosity. 6. Plot and scheme in behalf of harmony, but never kiss ass.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
I’m getting a psychic vision of you cuddled up in your warm bed, surrounded by stuffed animals and wrapped in soft, thick blankets with images of bunnies and dolphins on them. Your headphones are on, and the songs pouring into your cozy aware ness are silky smooth tonics that rouse sweet memories of all the times you felt most wanted and most at home in the world. I think I see a cup of hot chocolate on your bed stand, too, and your favorite dessert. Got all that, fellow Cancerian? In the coming days and nights, I suggest you enjoy an abundance of experi ences akin to what I’ve described here.
Poet Mary Oliver wrote, “There is within each of us a self that is neither a child, nor a servant of the hours. It is a third self, occasional in some of us, tyrant in others. This self is out of love with the ordinary; it is out of love with time. It has a hunger for eternity.” During the coming weeks, Scorpio, I will be cheering for the ascendancy of that self in you. More than usual, you need to commune with fantastic truths and transcendent joys. To be in maximum alignment with the good fortune that life has prepared for you, you must give your loving attention to the highest and noblest visions of your personal destiny that you can imagine.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
This summer, the UTA Board of Trust ees approved a program to offer free tran sit passes to any student, faculty and staff member in the Salt Lake City School Dis trict. Huzzah! This pilot program will help authorities gauge what difference free fares can make and provide a look at possibilities for the future.
Created in 1970, UTA wasn’t the first to of fer mass transit to locals. That honor goes to Salt Lake Railroad Co., which in 1872, offered public transit in the form of a cart drawn by two mules. It traveled from 300 West and South Temple to Main Street and 300 South, costing riders a whopping 5 cents. Brigham Young was elected to direct the company un til Congress outlawed church businesses.
Electric streetcars followed in 1889. Within a year, there were eight streetcars on nine miles of tracks. The service ran into the same problems Frontrunner is experienc ing now—they only had a single track, which doesn’t offer efficient service. Also, the elec tric wires overhead weren’t always reliable.
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The cost was just under $400,000 for the year. The school district and education foun dation kicked in roughly $300,000, and Salt Lake City paid the remaining balance.
The University of Utah, Westminster Col lege and Salt Lake Community College al ready partner with UTA to offer students and staff free transit on most UTA services—in cluding buses, Trax trains and streetcars, Frontrunner and UTA on Demand. Student passes do not include paratransit, ski buses or Park City routes. However, Park City resi dents who are enrolled at the U and can prove they have a Summit County ZIP code can get a Park City eConnect Pass from commuter services (commuterservices.utah.edu).
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SLC students make up a huge number of UTA riders, but it’s hoped that school/uni versity employees will also take mass transit.
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any of us would like to see mass transit offered free to riders, since so much funding for mass transit already comes from government monies beyond fares. After serving for two years as a Utah Transit Authority trustee, I learned how necessary mass transit is for so many, how economical it can be for commuters and how it’s already free in the downtown area (albeit poorly advertised).
In 1935, there were just over 15 million tickets sold for various transit options. In the 1940s, transit expanded to a massive trolley system, trolley buses and gas-powered bus es, and by 1946, there were 33 million pas sengers.When soldiers returned from World War II, they wanted to get married, purchase a home on a VA loan (no down payment) and buy a car. This trend marked a sharp decline in transit ridership. Since then, for so many, mass transit has become something on the back burner. n
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Ryan Boria and Amy Schaner were really hoping for a slow night at the Wendy’s where they both worked on Aug. 26. So as they drove to the restaurant in Tilden Township, Pennsylvania, they made a short stop, WFMZ-TV reported. Along the train crossing at Industrial Drive, Boria “placed a shunt on the track. He got back in the car with (Schaner) and they proceeded to Wendy’s,” Officer Frank Cataldi of the Tilden Township Police Department said. “They told us that their intentions were that if the gates could malfunction and they could somehow block traffic, then that would prevent people from getting to Wendy’s, and they could have a slow night at work.” Both were arrested on multiple charges, including causing or risking a catastrophe.
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watching the stream, called it “so transfixing and mellowing.”
However, it wasn’t actually the first for JiDion: The internet entreprenuer also got a trim at a Timberwolves vs. Mavericks basketball game in March, and in July, he was banned for life from Wimbledon for blowing an air horn during a tennis match between Novak Djokovic and Jannik Sinner.
In Fort Myers, Florida, Lee County deputies stopped to investi gate a Nissan Altima that was parked blocking a bicycle lane on Sept. 3, NBC2-TV reported. Officers found a man reclining in the driver’s seat; after giving them a false name, he was asked to exit the vehicle. That’s when Randy Austerman, 34, reached into the console and removed a 3-foot-long steel sword, then paused to attach a dragon-shaped handle to the blade. Police backed off as Austerman poked the sword out the car’s window at them. As he tried to escape through the passenger door, Austerman was subdued and arrested; officers found methamphetamine, marijuana and a glass pipe in the car.
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During the top-tier U.S. Open tennis tournament on Sept. 6— as a match unfolded between Nick Kyrgios of Australia and Karen Khachanov of Russia at Arthur Ashe Stadium—two spectators in the stands stole the show for a few minutes, the Associated Press reported. A YouTube prankster known as “JiDion” donned a barber’s cape while a second man proceeded to give JiDion a trim with clippers—at least until tournament security arrived. “They were escorted out of their seats and then off the grounds for disruption of play,” said Brendan McIntyre of the United States Tennis Association. “There’s a first time for anything.”
Elizabeth Leon, 18, was hired to babysit a 4-year-old in Aventura, Florida, from 1:45 p.m. until midnight on Aug. 15, Local10 report ed. When the child’s mother texted Leon at 11:14 p.m. to say she was headed home, Leon texted back that she was “heading out ... because her mother paid for an Uber to take her back home, and it arrived ahead of time,” an arrest report said. Leon told the mother she had locked the door, and requested her $168 payment. The mother checked her Ring doorbell recording and saw that Leon had actually left at 9:45 p.m., leaving the child alone for more than two hours. On Aug. 22, Leon was charged with child neglect and transferred to jail, where she’s unlikely to be able to leave early.
Kindt Clinics in Amsterdam—which treats anxiety, phobias and PTSD—posted a job opening for someone who is able to vomit at will, NL Times reported on Sept. 4. The person who fills the part-time position will help patients who have a fear of vomit ing, replacing a previous employee who retired. Psychologist Maartje Kroesse, who posted the position, said the response has been overwhelming: “There are many more applications than expected. Our new transmitter is certainly among them.” (Transmitter?) One hopeful applicant gushed: “Now I can finally share my art: vomit on command!”
Comic book creator Dale Keown has launched a YouTube channel to talk about his career and that of other cartoonists, Bleeding Cool reported. But on Sept. 8, Keown’s livestream got a little less lively when he fell asleep and the camera kept rolling—for more than five hours. The beginning of the video includes Keown expounding on Marvel, Disney, the Hulk and his own drunk enness—and then he seems to just drop off into dreamland. Journalist and Bleeding Cool founder Rich Johnston, who was
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Behold the cautionary tale of Eric Merda, who shared his har rowing story with WTSP-TV on Sept. 5. Merda was at the Lake Manatee Fish Camp in Myakka City, Florida, when he became lost in the woods on July 17. When he found the lake, he decided to swim across: “Not the smartest decision a Florida boy could make,” Merda said. As he swam, a gator got hold of his forearm and dragged him underwater three times, he said, and “when we came up the third time, she finally did her death roll and took off with my arm.” Merda, suffering indescribable pain, returned to shore and started to walk, trying to find his way out of the swamp. Three days later, following the sun and power lines, he found a fence and a man on the other side. Merda told the man what had happened, and he summoned help. Surgeons amputated what remained of Merda’s arm; now he’s speaking out about the dan ger of alligators. “You guys know who you are, throwing rocks at them. Leave them gators alone.”
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Sailboat pilot Steve Strickland was headed to Chesapeake Bay from Queens, New York, early on Labor Day when nature called, NBC Philadelphia reported. He set the boat on autopilot and stepped away, but “the autopilot shut off,” he said. The boat, which he’d bought only three weeks before, hit a rock jetty and became stuck in the sand at a beach in Ocean City, New Jersey, around 4 a.m. Strickland had to wait until afternoon to get a tow. For him, Labor Day amounted to “a lot of headache and a lot of money.”
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A Chinese man in his 40s, identified only as Hu, and his partner were picking pine nuts in a forest park in Heilongjiang province in northeastern China on Sept. 4 using an unconventional method: They were perched in the basket of a tethered hydrogen balloon. Which might have been fine, but the balloon became untethered, CBS News reported. The second person jumped to the ground, but Hu was aloft in the balloon for two days and traveled more than 200 miles before rescuers reached him by cellphone and instructed him about how to slowly deflate the balloon and land safely. By that time, he was close to the border with Russia. Hu was reportedly in good health aside from having back pain from standing so long.
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