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Police departments in Salt Lake County spent almost $20 million on civil rights complaints in the past decade.

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“Back to the Future,” Oct. 5 Opinion

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After reading Chris Warton’s words in City Weekly endorsing his “boss,” current Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall, I feel I have to correct him and point out the flaws in his argument that we should all vote for her.

Wharton is my representative on the City Council, and my wife and I have a warm space in our hearts for him. When same-sex marriage became legal in Utah, he was standing at the County Clerk’s office waiting to officiate marriages for

anyone in the building seeking a license.

As our City Hall representative in District 3, we generally agree with his voting record about our city and its future. I’m not sure he was old enough to vote when Rocky Anderson first ran for office, but I’d like to point out that if Anderson was such an awful leader—as Wharton implied— how did he get elected to serve two terms for our city from 2000-2008?

I applauded Rocky’s kick-ass style. He’s a guy who doesn’t stand for laziness or mediocrity in his own life and the people who work around him. Many of those employees could not keep up with the amount of work needed to move our city from a “sleepy town” to what has become one of the fastest-growing cities in America.

I served under Anderson as a volunteer planning and zoning commissioner. I often listened to his vision and insight that our city was rapidly becoming more diverse in population, and the separation of the “haves” and the “have-nots” was becoming more and more obvious every day.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate our current mayor. I currently serve under her

as volunteer chair of the Historic Landmarks Commission in helping to preserve our precious historic neighborhoods and buildings. I give her props for financial management and a terrific staff, some of whom were hired during Anderson’s term.

But—and this is a big one—she is a complete failure when it comes to helping to solve the unsheltered issues we’re facing.

I’m afraid Mendenhall has been caught in innumerable falsehoods—from the number of people who died on the streets here in winter 2022-2023 to the amount of affordable housing units she’s helped to create. Anderson has spent the past few years actually on the streets, befriending the men and women, the “have-nots” of our city. He’s been there in snowstorms and horrible heat—not just dropping off water bottles but guiding folks to the right social services and helping them get an ID at the Utah Fairpark, a job or housing.

Last winter here was especially brutally cold. Our mayor failed to provide an emergency shelter downtown. First United Methodist Church on 203 S. 200 East stepped up and said, in essence, “We’ve

got heat—let them come here for shelter!”

Volunteers rallied a wonderful group of folks who worked with the church to keep it open from night to morning, providing food, bathrooms, water and mats to sleep on. It was wonderful and saved lives.

Anderson was at the church night after night serving coffee and taking the time to get to know the guests. We are Team Rocky because he will get shit done.

It’s too late to register to vote but please encourage others who care about this issue to get to the polls and vote Rocky!

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Salt Lake City Correction: In the Oct. 12, 2023, issue of Salt Lake City Weekly, the “Men at Work” cover story mischaracterized the familial relationship between Jared Wade and his uncle Stephen Wade of the St. Georgebased Stephen Wade auto dealership group.

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COOLER What’s one small thing that always make your day better?

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Any dog. And sometimes any cat, but you know cats.

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My cat Crumpet, a rescue flame point Siamese, in whom can be found no guile.

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A nap. I don’t think I have ever regretted a nap, and I don’t think I’ve ever not regretted not taking a nap when I know I need it.

Eric Granato

When one of my cats does that stupid cute head butt to nuzzle move in my thigh.

Kayla Dreher

My kitties (one small thing and one kind of chunky thing).

Benjamin Wood

I know I’m a broken record about cycling, but I truly enjoy my work commute. Biking without the stress of parking and traffic gives me a period of time to reset my brain between work and home, and I feel 1,000 times more connected to the city. When the weather is bad, my transit commute is just as good.

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OPINION

BY KEITH BURNS

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ince his ordination to Latter-day Saint apostleship in 1984, Dallin Oaks (next in line as church president) has branded his image on vehement defenses of heteronormativity and consistent delegitimization of LGBTQ+ identities and relationships. And at the recent October session of the LDS church’s General Conference, Oaks reaffirmed the same fundamentalist positions on sexuality and gender that he has been articulating for decades.

“God’s plan, founded on eternal truth, requires that exaltation can be attained only through faithfulness to the covenants of an eternal marriage between a man and a woman in the holy temple, which marriage will ultimately be available to all the faithful,” Oaks said, doubling down on the teaching that “gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal and eternal identity and purpose.”

Oaks often frames heterosexual marriage as immutable doctrine and the only marriage acceptable to God, including the notion that gay and lesbian people will ultimately be “cured” and able to marry someone of the opposite sex in the next life (and, for decades, leaders encouraged them to marry someone of the opposite sex in this life). In addition, Oaks regularly declares cisgender identity to be eternally divine, an idea that marginalizes trans and/or gender nonconforming members from LDS theology and rituals.

These oppressive frameworks have caused many LGBTQ+ individuals to feel deficient, inferior and oppositional to God’s teachings, contributing to alarmingly disproportionate levels of depression, anxiety and suicidality among LGBTQ+ members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. Equally disturbing, LDS families will sometimes disown or ostracize LGBTQ+ family members in the name of defending teachings around sexuality and gender.

The church’s anti-LGBTQ+ teachings are most frequently

grounded in a meticulously worded 1995 document known as “The Family: A Proclamation to the World.” In response to progressive movements at the time advocating for the legalization of same-sex marriage in Hawaii, top LDS leaders corresponded with church legal teams to produce the proclamation, which declares the divine superiority of heterosexual marriage and cisgender identity and condemns people who violate teachings on sexuality.

Portrayed as revelatory and prophetic in LDS discourse, details regarding the social and political context of the document are often omitted. Also of note, the proclamation has never been canonized, notwithstanding several attempts to do so by the late apostle, Boyd K. Packer.

Most notably, in the 2010 October General Conference, Packer delivered a controversial address that contained deeply homophobic and transphobic sentiments. He described the Family proclamation as a document that “qualifies according to definition as a revelation.” The following week, the First Presidency—the highest governing body of the church—exercised a right that they rarely employ: they altered Packer’s speech, downgrading his description of the proclamation from “revelation” to a “guide that members of the church would do well to read and to follow.”

Although we cannot be certain as to their reasons for the revision, leaders have strayed away from labeling the proclamation as “revelation” or “scripture,” perhaps to maintain future flexibility for altering the document.

While Oaks has never gone quite as far as Packer in his portrayals of the proclamation, his most recent conference message reaffirmed that the proclamation is “founded on irrevocable doctrine,” and that “those who do not fully understand the Father’s loving plan for his children may consider this family proclamation no more than a changeable statement of policy.”

Interestingly, Oaks has recycled these lines verbatim in previous conference talks, an indication of the tremendous amount of ecclesiastical energy he has devoted to codifying heterosexual structures into LDS theology.

Aside from its blatantly harmful and oppressive effects on LGBTQ+ people, Oak’s dogmatic rhetoric has theological and historical problems. For example, LDS leaders made equally emphatic statements that sought to codify racial hierarchies into LDS theology and government.

LDS Apostle Bruce R. McConkie—one of the most outspoken defenders of the priesthood and temple ban placed on people of African descent—explained that “caste systems have their root and origin in the gospel itself” and “the resultant restrictions and segregation are right and proper and have the approval of the Lord.” His colleague, Mark E. Petersen, similarly declared that “faithful negroes” will enter the celestial kingdom as “servants.”

It is important to note that these racist ideas were held by the majority of church leadership and not simply a few “rogue” leaders, as modern church members sometimes suggest. Perhaps the most telling evidence of this is an official statement issued by the First Presidency in 1949 describing the temple and priesthood ban as “not a matter of the declaration of a policy but of direct commandment from the Lord, on which is founded the doctrine of the church from the days of its organization…”

In appeals to divinity, LDS leaders were able to weave white supremacy deep within the fabric of their theological tapestry, just as they have done today with anti-LGBTQ+ doctrines. If the modern LDS church can have such a dramatic shift on racial issues to the point where they now disavow past doctrinal positions as “theories advanced in the past,” they can absolutely modify their LGBTQ+ teachings and restructure their theology such that concepts of worthiness and righteousness become independent of one’s sexual or gender identity.

Despite obvious parallels between 20th century discourse around racial hierarchies and the current discourse around sexual and gender hierarchies, it is difficult to say whether (and how long it would take) for the church to abandon its bigoted LGBTQ+ positions, especially with fundamentalist apostles like Dallin Oaks, who are doing everything in their power to entrench heteronormativity into LDS theology. It is clear, however, that heightened public scrutiny coupled with increased membership disaffection (especially among youth) will continue to hold accountable and put pressure on LDS leaders to make the church reflect the equality that its LGBTQ+ members deserve. CW Private Eye is off this week. Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net

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HITS & MISSES

BY KATHARINE BIELE |

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MISS: Living Large

Let’s talk about what’s missing from Salt Lake City’s housing incentives plan. There’s a lot. Of course, the city will give developers pretty much everything they want—speedy permitting, tweaks to zoning rules and lower land costs. Oh, and there’s no need for parking because as everyone knows, Salt Lake is a walkable city with plenty of mass transit. The city is trying to encourage more affordable housing, even if it lasts only 30 years. Still, it targets existing neighborhoods and does nothing for water use or other clean energy options. A Salt Lake Tribune story talked about the opposition, but without quoting any of the naysayers. What’s missing is simply a sustainable plan for affordable housing, energy efficiency and respect for existing neighborhoods, east and west.

MISS: Women’s Intuition

While Utah Republicans celebrate another conservative woman in office, the reality is a bit starker. “For the first time in the state’s history, there are now more Republican women serving than Democrat women in both the House and Senate,” a press release from Republican Women Lead said. Indeed, there are now a whopping 14 GOP women on Capitol Hill— but even with that, women account for only about one-seventh of Utah’s 104 representatives on the Hill. The Utah Women in Leadership Project finds that less than 40% of seats on state boards and commissions are held by women. “Gender discrimination, poor treatment of female candidates who do run, biases in party politics and poor treatment by the media have held back women from holding office,” the Project says.

HIT: Tick-Tock, TikTok

There’s no dearth of information about how TikTok is hurting kids, and still there’s no clear vision on how to move forward. Gov. Spencer Cox and sidekick Attorney General Sean Reyes have announced a lawsuit against the social media app. Britain even fined TikTok a lot of money, although it’s unclear whether they got any of it.

TikTok is the boogeyman politicians are seeking in their very unsuccessful attempts to keep kids safe, particularly with their mental health. While Republicans generally want child welfare left to parents, that’s not the case with TikTok. And KUTV 2 viewers weighed in on a poll in which half said the state would lose its case, and the other half said there would be no effect. Still, it’s not all bad news. A star middle-school teacher at a K-12 laboratory school in Florida got more than 4 million likes on TikTok and more than 100,000 followers for her unique way of teaching. And it was all without harming kids.

BY BILL FROST

Pickleballed

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n 2011, regular City Weekly contributor John Rasmuson began a series of opinion pieces spreading the gospel of pickleball. In all, he wrote about 98 of ’em—I don’t recall the exact number, even though I was part of the editorial staff who had to proof them (office drinking was encouraged in those days).

Rasmuson may or may not be responsible, but pickleball has since blown up in Utah. There are now over 178 pickleball courts in the state, and Utah is the region most interested in the sport, according to KSL News. (It should be noted that the source KSL cited was a pickleball paddle company—there’s a whole company for that?—conducting a Google Trends search.) For the pickleball uninitiated, here’s the state of play.

Zooming in: Any random corporate cog can make a Google Trends search spit out any results they want. I know, because I’m a random corporate cog who performs Google Trends searches all the time. Need a spreadsheet that says Red Bull is great for toddlers?

Done. Numbers that prove a 35-lane freeway expansion is a boon to local air quality? Coming right up. Evidence of astrology’s legitimacy? Well …

Catch up quick: Pickleball, as Rasmuson explained early on, is a great activity for older folks because it’s less strenuous than tennis and more dignified than ping-pong. (OK, I added the second one—but am I wrong?)

Back when Rasmuson began his crusade, there were only a handful of pickleball courts in Utah retirement communities and zero dedicated courts in Salt Lake City. Now, over 178.

Why it matters: It doesn’t. Pickleball is a made-up sport akin to BASEketball, a baseball/basketball hybrid fabricated by South Park’s Trey Parker and Matt Stone in the 1998 cinematic masterpiece of the same name. “The Minneapolis Lakers moved to Los Angeles where there are no lakes. The Oilers moved to Tennessee where there is no oil. The Jazz moved to Salt Lake City where they don’t allow music,” quoth the movie’s narrator. It’s not pertinent to pickleball, but it is funny.

But wait: “So seniors enjoy pickleball—what’s the big deal, Mr. Rotating Opinion Crank?” Hey, I’m all for elders having other activities to enjoy besides writing paper checks at Maverik or spam-calling me to ask if I’m voting for [insert psychopath R-candidate here]. Unfortunately, my people—Gen Xers—have flooded the pickleball courts, and they’re bringing the younger Gens with them.

The bottom line: If you’re young enough to remember Kurt Cobain and Crystal Pepsi, get the hell off the pickleball courts! You still have the joints for it—play tennis, grunge graduates. Leave pickleball to the olds, as the Patron Saint of Paddles Rasmuson prophesied. CW Small Lake City is home to local writers and their opinions

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Ballet West finds a new hit, and looks to fold it into an ongoing artistic mission.

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n 2021, looking to put together a season of blockbusters as arts organizations were emerging from the COVID shutdown, Ballet West artistic director Adam Sklute turned to Dracula, choreographer Ben Stevenson’s staging of the Bram Stoker classic that the company had first performed 10 years earlier. And as it turned out, it performed even better than expected.

“When we did it first in 2011, it became, quickly, my most-often-requested ballet,” Sklute says. “Everybody said, ‘When are you going to bring back Dracula? … That sold so well—it literally sold out houses— that we knew we had to bring it back soon.”

“Soon” in this case meant just two years later, placing Dracula in the category of such recurring favorites as Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty. That may be something of a surprise for a work that’s not part of the classical ballet canon—it was first created in 1997—and has a horror story at its core. Yet Sklute believes that the appeal of the production—full of elaborate sets and special effects—is quite understandable.

“It is so wildly theatrical, and so danceforward as well,” Sklute says. “Often, theatrical productions become thinner on the actual classical dancing, and people come to see the dancing when they come to see a ballet performance. … That’s exactly what [Stevenson] does so brilliantly: He really does balance it. The choreography is in-

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tricate and complex—and it’s also hard, so it’s a challenge for the entire company. He knows how to marry the theater of it to the steps.”

The complexity in the choreography, while one of the draws of the show, can also mean it’s a difficult one to perfect. But with that 2021 performance only two years in the rearview mirror, it meant in this case that the company—which remains largely the same, though some dancers are now in different roles—retained the muscle memory to be able to take the performances to the next level.

“We have one of Ben [Stevenson]’s former dancers, who now works as his stager, Dominic Walsh, and Dominic staged the whole thing the last time. … I was watching, and it felt like all he could do [in 2021] was really make sure they were in the right place at the right time. I spoke to him after rehearsal yesterday, and he said, ‘What’s really great is that I can really start working on details that I couldn’t do last time.’

So we’re really getting to the heart of not only their characterization, but the quality of movement. … Because they can make it through the choreography much more proficiently now, and with less concern, they can really delve into their characters in a deeper way.”

The appeal for a ballet company of a production that pulls in crowds and offers dancers an opportunity to master the material is understandable for a company. Yet there’s also a balancing act for an organization like Ballet West between bringing back favorites, and challenging both audiences and the dance artists with new material. Sklute says that striking that balance wasn’t really possible in the same way before the company’s executive director encouraged expanding the number of productions Ballet West stages annually.

“We started last year to produce, immediately following our fall full-length production, a full-length repertory production. Prior to that, we were alternating them,” Sklute says. “The mixed repertoire is really where the company grows artisti-

cally. So we are trying to produce shows in the fall that are appropriate to the season.

I don’t know if Dracula would play as well in April; I wouldn’t think to do it there.

The Nutcracker was originally produced in the summer, and it was a flop.”

The Nutcracker is, of course, now a seasonal standard for many companies including Ballet West, providing audiences with a beloved seasonal favorite and the company with a reliable revenue stream.

While Dracula seems like it has the potential to be similarly popular on an ongoing basis, Sklute recognizes that the job of an artistic director is more complicated than just feeding fans the hits.

“I think there’s always trying to strike that balance between giving audiences something they’ve liked before and would want to see again, and exposing them to something new,” he says. “Having them say ‘I love that, I want to see that again,’

but not having them say, ‘Oh I saw that, I don’t need to see that again.’ And then ultimately, what I think is going to push the company forward in the most productive manner.

“Even our ballets like Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty, I like to rotate those every five years or so, to leave people wanting more. Creating programming is like creating a good menu—you really want to have something for everybody. Some people are going to want something that challenges their palate, and some people want comfort food. And you have to be able to offer all of that.” CW

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Over the nearly 50 years since its premiere, the 1975 film The Rocky Horror Picture Show has become virtually the definition of a “cult film,” still inspiring sold-out screenings of audiences ready to sing along, hurl things at the screen or do the Time Warp again. But before the movie, there was The Rocky Horror Show—the 1973 London theatrical production of writer/composer Richard O’Brien’s lively, campy send-up of 1950s B-movies. It was fun, of course, but also groundbreaking in centering a self-identified “sweet transvestite” as one of the main characters. And unfortunately, in 2023, that still feels like an act of creative daring.

This season, Pioneer Theatre Company takes it up a notch from its “concert version” presentations of The Rocky Horror Show in 2014 and 2015, offering a full-fledged production of the beloved musical. Longtime fans and “virgins” alike will experience the story of engaged normies Brad and Janet, who stumble upon the castle/workshop of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, and learn of his plan to bring to life a hunky man called Rocky.

Performances will feature several local celebrities rotating in the role of the Narrator, including journalist Randall Carlisle, former Utah State Senator Steve Urquhart, and City Weekly’s own Babs De Lay. Prop kits are available for pre-purchase; only those approved items will be permitted in the show, so no do-it-yourself projectiles.

The Rocky Horror Show runs at the Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre (300 S. 1400 East) Oct. 20 – 31, including a 10 p.m. Halloween night performance. Tickets are $55 - $79 advance; visit pioneertheatre.org for tickets and additional event information.

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Approaching 30 years since its premiere in 1994, the NBC sitcom Friends spent 10 years near the top of the ratings, becoming a Gen X touchstone for late-20-something/ early 30-something life and making stars of its six principal cast members. It was the kind of show that lent itself to a personal attachment to the characters, and a popularity that has lingered through cable reruns and streaming services.

That’s the kind of nostalgia that lends itself to a touring exhibition like The Friends Experience, which allows visitors to immerse themselves in the world where Monica, Rachel, Phoebe, Joey, Ross and Chander lived and loved.

Several re-created sets from the original show comprise the bulk of the exhibition, including Joey and Chandler’s bachelor apartment, Rachel and Monica’s kitchen (with the iconic purple entry door), the Central Perk coffee shop with its overstuffed orange couch and the fountain where the six friends frolicked through the opening credits to the tune of The Rembrandts’ “I’ll Be There For You,” all of which provide great photo opportunities.

You even get a chance to help “pivot” Ross’s couch on a narrow stairway, and check out a display of familiar props and costumes before exiting through a special gift shop with exclusive Friends products.

The Friends Experience comes to The Gateway (16 N. Rio Grande St.) for “The One in Salt Lake City” from Oct. 20 – Jan. 28, 2024, with operating hours Wednesday – Sunday. Timed-entry tickets begin at $26.50; visit thefriendsexperience.com/saltlakecity for tickets and additional event information. (SR)

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In 2021, when Kingsbury Hall first reopened after its pandemic closure, one of its first commissions was SALT Dance’s The Invitation, an immersive experience designed for small groups of spectators to move to different locations throughout the building, including elevators and dressing rooms. That production had a 1930s theme, which director/cochoreographer Amy Gunter and SALT Dance used as the starting point for a larger-scale proscenium production titled Radio Silence. “It felt like an interesting parallel,” Gunter said about the time setting. “Everything that was tumultuous then is tumultuous now.”

That idea of tumult carries into a thematic through-line involving weather as a metaphor for emotional state, something that Gunter identified in many of the vintage songs that are used as a soundtrack for the production. “Reading newspapers articles from the time, with storms in the Dust Bowl, it would be dark for an entire day. [The songs of the era would] often use storms to describe bad things that were about to happen,” Gunter said, “and sunshine and rainbows for hope.” Those ideas become part of a show which—while not a literal narrative—focuses on a storytelling component through the faces of the dancers and the lyrics to the songs; as Gunter notes, “Radio was such a massive part of entertainment for the time, it was a way to share the environment for the scenes.”

SALT Dance presents Radio Silence at Kingsbury Hall (1395 E. Presidents Circle) for two performances, Oct. 20 – 21 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 - $48, plus discounts for University of Utah students. Visit utahpresents.org for tickets and additional event information. (SR)

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More than 20 years since its debut, the Queer Eye franchise has cast a long cultural shadow, including Ted Allen’s long run as a Food Network personality, and Carson Kressley’s recurring role as commentator for beauty pageants.

So it was no surprise when Netflix revived the Queer Eye brand—with five gay men providing life advice for some unfortunate heterosexual Cinderella project—and brought in a new team of experts, including grooming guru/hairstylist Jonathan Van Ness, for a show that has won four consecutive Emmy Awards for Outstanding Structured Reality Program.

Not surprisingly, a charismatic fellow like Van Ness has parlayed his visibility from the series to a multimedia presence, including two best-selling books (the memoir Over the Top: My Story and the essay collection Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life), the popular podcast Getting Curious and a current tour that is taking him through the U.S. and to the U.K. and Europe. Fun & Slutty is a solo evening with Van Ness that combines personal storytelling, improvisation and stand-up comedy. “I think this is my strongest work,” Van Ness told Canada’s IN Magazine in July 2023. “I hope that [audiences] get to take away that they get to experience joy on their own terms. Like, we get to define what joy and what comedy is for us.”

Jonathan Van Ness’s Fun & Slutty tour visits the Delta Hall of the Eccles Theater (131 S. Main St.) on Saturday, Oct. 21 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $35 - $45; visit arttix. org to purchase tickets and for additional event information. (SR)

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The Co$t of Mi$conduct Police departments in Salt Lake County spent almost $20 million on civil rights complaints in the past decade.

BY ERIC S. PETERSON, KIM BOJÓRQUEZ & ERIN ALBERTY comments@cityweekly.net

The following was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project and Axios Salt Lake City, in partnership with Salt Lake City Weekly.

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drian Govan had just stepped out of his grandmother’s house on Memorial Day 2015, when he saw the Salt Lake City Police patrol car cruise past and double back toward him.

“That’s when the harassment started,” Govan recalled.

Govan and his grandmother were on their way to put flowers on a relative’s grave. He admits he was parked illegally, but he was hoping to quickly pick up his grandmother and head out.

When he told the officer he would move as soon as his grandmother was with him, he said that it was like a “switch was flipped” with the officer.

“He was like, ‘Oh you’re racist, you don’t like me because of my badge?’” Govan recalled. It was a confusing accusation from a white cop to a young Black man, soon followed by the officer arresting Govan, placing him in handcuffs and even confiscating his phone—all over a parking violation.

“The cop was very belligerent,” Govan said. “He wasn’t trying to be friendly, it felt like he just had a chip on his shoulder.”

Govan said the cuffs were cinched so tight he couldn’t feel his hands—and the officer didn’t care.

“He said ‘Nah, they’re on just right,’ and then he chuckled a bit,” Govan said.

Govan said it was almost an hour before he got to the jail and had the cuffs taken off.

Having to deal with nerve damage for the next year, Govan decided what happened to him wasn’t right and that the department ought to be held accountable. He sued the department, representing himself for the first three years of his case.

Govan was one of dozens of plaintiffs who, in the past decade, decided to take their fight against a police department in Salt Lake County to civil court. The Utah Investigative Journalism Project and Axios Salt Lake City spent months gathering civil rights settlement data from the largest police departments in the county: Salt Lake

Over the Past decade, Salt Lake County’s law enforcement agencies spent more than $18 million on court settlements and attorneys fees related to allegations of civil rights violations by police. Here’s how much each individual agency paid.

City, West Valley City, West Jordan, South Jordan, Cottonwood Heights, Draper, Herriman, Murray and Sandy.

All agencies except Herriman had paid out settlements in civil rights cases and covered attorneys fees defending their officers and departments.

From 2012 through 2022, these eight agencies paid out $13.2 million in settlements and trial verdicts for civil rights complaints (see sidebar). In the same time period, they also spent $5.3 million on attorney fees defending against civil rights cases including some that are ongoing.

Police departments, lawyers and researchers disagree on the impact of these combined $18.5 million in payments or whether they accurately reflect the level of civil rights misconduct by police. Agencies like the Salt Lake City Police department contend that the “civil judicial process is an integral component of our legal system that promotes accountability, transparency and a sense of closure.”

But critics question whether settlements increase accountability, since they don’t come directly out of police budgets but are generally paid out by municipal insurance.

Access to justice is another issue, because challenging departments is not an easy legal proposition and not many attorneys will take on these cases unless they are high profile enough.

Govan found that exact problem. Using self-help resources at the court and filing his own legal briefs, he fought his case for years until a law firm finally stepped in to help settle the case in 2019.

In the end, he received $17,000.

Total settlements and verdicts in civil rights cases, 2012-2022

“It’s a headache and a half trying to sue the police department just because they got so much protection,” Govan said.

By the numbers

Through public records requests, The Utah Investigative Journalism Project and Axios SLC requested years of settlement documents from the departments and sorted through the claims to identify civil rights cases including use-of-force cases, claims of unconstitutional searches and seizures, malicious prosecution and other complaints. These also included a small handful of cases where police department employees alleged workplace discrimination.

The overwhelming majority of cases, however, stemmed from citizen interactions with police.

The largest civil rights payouts during the decade were from Salt Lake City for $4.4 million, Cottonwood Heights for $4.1 million and West Valley City for $3 million.

For total attorneys fees spent defending civil rights complaints for the same period, West Valley City spent $1.8 million, Cottonwood Heights spent $1.2 million and West Jordan spent $910,039. But this data may not be conclusive. Most agencies used contract attorneys but Salt Lake City has an attorney on salary that represents officers, so the city only documented $48,711 in outside attorneys fees spent defending these cases.

The large payouts from Salt Lake and Cottonwood Heights are similar despite the fact that SLC recorded a population of just over 200,000 in the 2020 census, compared to just over 33,000 in Cottonwood Heights.

Both agencies had a single case that accounted for almost 90% of their settlement payments for the decade.

In Cottonwood Heights, it was a $4 million settlement with the family of Zane James, a man suspected of robbing two stores in 2018 who was fleeing on a motorbike when then-officer Casey Davies hit his bike, forcing him to crash, then shot him.

Salt Lake City, meanwhile, agreed to pay $3 million in 2022 to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of Linden Cameron, an unarmed 13-year-old boy with autism, who was shot multiple times by a police officer in 2020 after his mother called 911 to seek assistance during a crisis.

The case represented the largest civil rights settlement in the city’s history.

“Every settlement the police department is involved with comes after careful evaluation of the facts, evidence and legal considerations related to the case,” the Salt Lake City Police Department said in a statement provided to reporters for this story. The statement noted that the Cameron case was “an outlier compared to other settlements.”

“Our settlement numbers are typically quite low, given the size of our agency,” the department said.

“The fact that we had a young man, who was [13] with autism, and was running from the police, with no weapon at all—that was the primary factor in getting a settlement,” said Nathan Morris, an attorney who represented the boy’s family. “They opened fire on a young man who was unarmed.”

Govan, who had to fight his own case, said a big front-page news story has the power to bring a big settlement. He points

West Valley City $3,028,525 Population: 140,230

South Jordan $800,000 Population: 77,487

Salt Lake City $4,394,203 Population: 204,657

Murray $172,000 Population: 49,463

Sandy $17,544 Population: 93,022

West Jordan $211,434.86 Population: 116,961

Cottonwood Heights: $4,129,101 Population: 33,617

Draper $511,500 Population: 50,731

Herriman $0 Population: 59,179

COMBINED TOTAL $13,264,308.11

nied, and his case was later dismissed as he did not adequately describe the constitutional violations he alleged.

Not only did he not recover his money, but he had to pay to get his truck out of impound.

“They violated my rights by arresting me when they didn’t have probable cause, and they were so arrogant about it,” he said.

Michael Pfundstein, pictured with his wife Destiny Hughes, mounted an unsuccessful civil rights claim against the Cottonwood Heights Police Deparment.

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West Valley City $1,777,176

South Jordan $436,051

Salt Lake City $48,711

Murray $544,628

Sandy $329,723

West Jordan $910,040

Cottonwood Heights $1,215,358

Draper $58,052

Herriman $0

COMBINED TOTAL $5,319,739

Source: Public records requests, U.S. Census Bureau

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Total attorney fees in civil rights cases

Michael Pfundstein took his civil rights claim through federal court, representing himself, and lost quickly.

His clash with the police dated back to 2018, when he tried to use store credit to get cash back from a Home Depot in Cottonwood Heights.

He and his wife had returned some items and received store credit because they didn’t have the cash receipts. But they did have cash receipts for some other purchases, so they used their store credit to buy those items again and then returned them with the older receipts so they would receive the value in cash.

Pfundstein said that he believed there was no harm in the plan because Home Depot would be made whole, and he and his wife would get the cash they would have received if they’d had the receipts from all of their purchases.

Home Depot, however, reported Pfundstein to police.

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It can be difficult to judge the civil rights practices of departments based on settlements over the years, when a small number of cases can cost millions. But it’s also hard to judge policing based on the number of civil rights cases filed, because the legal bar is so high it makes it difficult for plaintiffs to even mount a serious attempt.

John Mejia, legal director of the ACLU of Utah, said “qualified immunity” is a standard that blocks many complaints against police officers from going any where.

To be successful, a complainant must essentially point to a case that was ruled in federal appellate court or the U.S. Supreme Court that had a highly similar fact pattern.

It’s a risky prospect as well for attorneys taking on the government who might have to wait years to get compensation, if at all.

“There’s certainly no guarantee you will win,” Mejia said.

Even if you can avoid having your case

‘They were so arrogant about it’

Bodycam footage obtained by the couple’s public defender showed Cottonwood Heights officers commenting that they weren’t sure they had enough evidence for a charge. But Pfundstein said they turned off their cameras and arrested the couple when he asked for an attorney.

They also impounded his vehicle and took the store card and $187 in cash as evidence.

No charges were filed for a year, so Pfundstein said he filed a claim in August 2019 to retrieve the impounded cash and store card. Three months later he learned he’d been charged with theft by deception.

Pfundstein said the charge amounts to retaliation for seeking his money back.

A public defender in the case helped show the police were confused about what they could charge him with.

In bodycam footage captured during the incident, one officer asked if they can prove Pfundstein had used a stolen card or committed fraud, and the other officer didn’t think they could.

“So that’s not enough to take them into custody right now?” one officer asked.

“I don’t think it is,” the other replied. To which the first officer agreed, “That’s what I thought.”

Shortly thereafter, the bodycam is turned off. At that point, Pfundstein said he asked for an attorney, and they then promptly arrested him.

The theft charge, originally a felony, was later reduced to an infraction—and even that was dismissed by the judge.

But Pfundstein couldn’t afford an attorney for his federal civil rights case. He filed a motion to have one appointed but was de-

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Qualified immunity

dismissed out the gate because of qualified immunity considerations, it’s still going to be a grind.

“It can be a stressful process,” Mejia said.

“If you are claiming medical damages, you need to open up your medical records. If you are talking about emotional damages, you are going to have to open yourself up to some probing into your mental health.

There’s a lot of reasons it can be very difficult to bring a lawsuit even if it has merit.”

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to cases like Alex Wubbels, the nurse arrested by a Salt Lake City Police detective for refusing to draw the blood of a crash victim.

The city settled that case for $250,000.

“It was in the public eye, so they were trying to brush it under the rug as fast as they can,” he said.

West Valley City had its own high-profile case dating back to 2012, when two undercover officers shot and killed 21-year-old Danielle Willard in a shooting later ruled unjustified by the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s office. That case was settled for $1.4 million in 2015.

While settlements that are reached can bring compensation to those affected, not everyone agrees that they bring accountability for police misconduct.

Joanna Schwartz, a UCLA law professor who researches police misconduct litigation, said officers and police departments are rarely responsible for paying settlements.

Instead, settlements are often paid for by a municipality budget or its liability insurer.

“In most jurisdictions, there’s never any danger that the police department’s budget is going to be affected at all,” she said.

Schwartz said most U.S. law enforcement agencies don’t gather and analyze information from lawsuits brought against them or assess what lessons they can learn from the settlements and judgments.

She said it’s “vanishingly rare” for police officers to face charges in cases that don’t involve people getting killed.

About 2% of cases where an officer used fatal force result in charges, she said. An even smaller number see a conviction.

It’s also hard to hold law enforcement agencies accountable when settlement information requires laborious public records requests to uncover, she said.

Data for this report took months to collect and was not consistently documented across departments. Unified Police, the largest law enforcement agency in the county, delayed providing records for months—and when it did, civil rights case payments were lumped together with other settlements, such as auto insurance claims.

Not all agencies across the country are so opaque. While Chicago has been known for numerous controversial police use-of-force cases, it also lists on a public website all settlements made by the city every six months.

For Connor Boyack, president of the libertarian leaning Libertas Institute, transparency and accountability go hand in hand.

“When this information is hard to obtain, those in power are not held as accountable for what they choose to pay,” Boyack said. “Taxpayers deserve to have roadblocks removed to easily access this data.”

Still some believe that even if bad behavior is paid for with insurance money or settlements are not easily accessible, it’s still worth making some noise over it.

For Adrian Govan, he had to work on his case like it was a second job for years because he felt it was the right thing to do.

“I wanted to make sure these people can’t go around messing with every single person they feel like,” Govan said. CW

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ear 9 was another momentous period for Private Eye. The paper not only won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and was threatened with legal action from The Salt Lake Tribune, but it was at this point that the paper became a weekly!

“The Private Eye didn’t convert to a weekly schedule just because it was there,” wrote John Saltas on June 10, 1992. “We did it because our readers, you, demonstrated there is a compelling need for this vehicle in this staid of all markets. You’ve shown there’s a need for a voice in the wilderness, a voice that calls for fairness, a voice that doubts, and a voice that brings other corners of this country into our own little ocean of desert salt and white bread.”

With the change in schedule came an eventual change in name. Starting in 1993, the paper was now called the Private Eye Weekly, featuring a new masthead design and additional features, such as Don Rubin’s “The Real Puzzle.”

As for what this newly minted weekly was covering, the list was varied and lengthy.

Local racists overloaded the switchboard of City Hall over the renaming of 600 South as Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard; disabled rights activists pushed back on state budgetary cuts to Medicaid; the 1992 election came to a head; and the Utah Wilderness Association worked to curb bear baiting in Utah.

Most prominent among this year’s stories was an extensive multi-part series by Lynn Packer covering allegations of securities and tax fraud on the part of the energy company Bonneville Pacific along with Salt Lake City Mayor Deedee Corradini’s connection to the scandal.

Remembering Vol. 9: In the stands

“Long before the time that the law became my mistress,” wrote attorney/Private Eye contributor Ron Yengich, “baseball became my first great love. Derks Field was the place that I spent much of my youth, and have spent much of my middle age, watching the game and attempting to grow up.”

Yengich had reason to wax nostalgic about baseball memories in the July 15, 1992, issue. The old ballpark was slated for demolition to make way for a larger facility:

Franklin Quest Field (1365 S. West Temple).

Named after a business and not a person, the new ballpark produced “a certain sense of loss as the ’90s collided with the ’40s,” according to Lee Benson in a Deseret News report in 1993.

Ultimately renamed Smith’s Ballpark, it remains the home base for the Salt Lake Bees until after the 2024 baseball season.

In January 2023, the team announced that it would be leaving the city for a new stadium in the Daybreak neighborhood of South Jordan. Salt Lake City’s Ballpark NEXT project is currently in the process of determining what the old space should be used for.

But for many of a certain age, the old grounds on West Temple shall always evoke memories of Derks Field.

“Derks Field isn’t a stadium, it’s a ballpark; a baseball park, a dream factory, a working museum,” wrote Yengich in 1992.

“It is sacred ground. For some who walk through the turnstiles, ticket stub in hand, it is filled with the dreams of youth and the ghosts of the past.”

In the cell

The name of William Andrews was on the minds and tongues of many in 1992. Facing a July 30 execution date at the Utah State Prison, Andrews had served 18 years on death row for his involvement in a deadly 1974 robbery at the Hi-Fi Shop in Ogden.

With the presence of people still inside the audio store at the time of their planned break-in, Dale Selby Pierre and Andrews— among others—instead took hostages while their driver waited outside. After an unsuccessful attempt at poisoning their captives, three people were ultimately shot to death

by Pierre while two others survived with lingering injuries.

“Selby fought his way through the appeals system and lost,” recounted John Harrington in the July 1, 1992, issue. “He was executed Aug. 28, 1987, at 1:13 a.m., the first man to die by lethal injection in Utah.”

Now, with Andrews’ execution date nearing, Harrington wondered whether it was right that Andrews—a black man who did indeed assist in poisoning the victims but who did not fire any trigger—should be facing death while the case of Mark Hofmann,

a white man who detonated several bombs amid rising scrutiny of his forgeries, never went to trial, and he was then only a medium-security inmate.

“Every lawyer, including prosecutor David Yocom, said it’s impossible to evenly and fairly apply the capital homicide statute,” Harrington noted. “Their universal reasoning: The system is run by people, and people are flawed; therefore, the system is flawed.”

In the wake of this story, readers commented in appreciation as well as criticism.

Earl Dorius (1947-2022), a state’s attorney on the Hi-Fi case, took issue with several details that went unreported, while Victor Fontana appreciated the coverage of Andrews’ case, having met Andrews at the Utah State Penitentiary.

“Mr. Andrews is a man who carries himself with great dignity,” Fontana wrote, “which I believe derives from his coming to terms with himself, his crime, his travels through the legal morass and any higher forces he may have to answer to.”

Forty leaders of Christian denominations in Utah issued an open letter to thenGov. Norman Bangerter (1933-2015) and the Utah Board of Pardons in a plea to halt the impending execution. Finally, Andrews himself sent an open message to “young people” that appeared in the July 29 issue, immediately prior to his execution.

Acknowledging the existence of a “dual justice system” and warning youth against the effect of drugs, Andrews nevertheless expressed regret most of all with himself.

“You know,” Andrews wrote, “no one literally forced me to participate in that crime—I participated in that crime because my friends participated in that crime, and I wanted to be accepted, you know, and if I wasn’t so stupid, I wouldn’t have. My need to be accepted, my need to have friends, the wrong friends, but it was my own stupidity that got me into it.”

He concluded his message with a prayer that “healing could begin for the victims and the community as a whole.”

Following Andrews’ execution, Private Eye contributor Amanda Dickson expressed continued disgust and discomfort with the entire ordeal, particularly in the public clamor for the execution in the first place.

“If we are defined by our actions,” she

asked on Aug. 5, “then what kind of people are we, who feel such righteous indignation in killing?”

In the comments

“If you have courage, a heart and a brain, / And you’ve learned what you can from your pain, / And you have self-esteem, / And know how to dream, / Then call me: we’ll explore new terrain.” (“Seeks Dorothy,” June 24, 1992) “I would hope that Albertsons would reconsider their decision to not carry the Private Eye. If the news content is a bit ‘racy’ or ‘objectionable,’ that is the purpose of an alternative newspaper.” (Name withheld, July 22, 1992) “You’re all a bunch of liberal geeks who are probably going to get AIDS anyway…”

(Anonymous caller, March 17, 1993) “I am a 16-year-old high school student who really enjoys your paper. … I have been excited every time that I see a new issue.”

(Ron Moody, March 24, 1993) “Please send one year’s subscription of The Private Eye Weekly to the Los Angeles Bureau of The Washington Post.” (a letter from The Washington Post, Los Angeles Bureau, April 7, 1993)

In the ads

No doubt inspired by the contemporary release of the hit Francis Ford Coppola film Bram Stoker’s Dracula, an ad appeared in the Dec. 9, 1992, issue, offering pendants “containing actual earth from the grounds of Count Dracula’s birthplace in Transylvania.”

For $40—plus shipping and handling, of course—interested parties could obtain dragon lockets with the promise that for every pendant sold, “$1 will be donated to benefit Romanian children.”

“At last!” declared a hand-drawn advertisement for the Nov. 25 issue of the Private Eye, “Cafe Rude is pleased to announce that snooty, pretentious people are now welcome!” Obnoxious idiots would soon be welcome, it promised, “but not quite yet.”

A winner in that year’s Best of Utah issue for Best Inexpensive Dining, Cafe Rude was well-known for its turkey burgers and vegetarian chili. CW

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sweet side with the mango and sweet chili sauce, but all in all this is a tasty take on the dish.

As far as sushi rolls are concerned, Keyaki has had a lot of fun with their menu. The standout for me was the Hot Cheeto ($14.99), a spicy crab and shrimp number coated in hot Cheeto dust. There’s something downright rebellious about taking sushi, a dish with no shortage of snobbery attached, and giving it the same treatment as a Doritos Locos Taco from Taco Bell; I positively swoon for that type of rebellion. The punk-rock nature of this sushi roll would fall flat if the thing wasn’t absolutely delicious—it totally is—which makes it all the more provocative.

You’ve got the thinly sliced jalapeño pepper topped with a dab of sriracha, spicy crab salad, fried shrimp and that crispy, slightly acidic coating of hot Cheetos. It’s a monolith of spicy flavor.

Other standout rolls are the fried chicken-stuffed Tanuki ($14.99) and the Idaho ($16.99), which comes topped with curly fried potatoes. In general, sushi does have a tendency to lack textural variety, but the addition of these comfort food tidbits helps solve that problem. Not only are you getting some interesting flavor combinations, but you can’t underestimate the power of a well-placed crunch in the middle of your sushi roll.

If you visit Keyaki and aren’t quite sure what to get, their combo meals are all great options. I think the Munchies Box ($30) is a great place to start, as it comes with a sushi pizza, gyoza, edamame and some chocolatey churros. If you haven’t had churros after eating sushi, you’re missing out. Let’s also not overlook their vegan menu that includes vegan sushi pizza and a wide range of creative vegan sushi rolls. The Monkey ($12.99), for example, comes topped with fried plantains, which is brilliant.

Keyaki boasts a takeout-friendly sushi menu that incorporates nods to comfort food from around the world, and it does so with a healthy dose of confidence. Sushi snobs may scoff at the mere mention of Cheeto dust, but those of us on the level know that the clever use of Cheeto dust is the sign of genius at work. CW

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t’s no secret that the restaurant landscape has irrevocably changed since the early days of the pandemic, and it’s been interesting to see how those changes have informed restaurants today. For example, reinterpreting sushi into something that is more takeout-friendly like the team at Keyaki Sushi in Murray. I don’t mean that to sound like it’s inferior in some way. Instead, they’ve taken their background in Latin cooking and used that to turn their sushi rolls into something memorable, whether you knock them back in their cozy dining space or pack them up to eat at home.

Traditional and non-traditional sushi rolls are definitely the lure that brings one to Keyaki, but once you get there, you realize there is much more than meets the eye. In addition to their wide array of sushi dishes, diners can snag fruity mocktails ($4-$5) and crispy churros drizzled with chocolate ($5); they’ll even bake custom cakes for special occasions. There are plenty of menu options to explore at Keyaki, but like I said earlier, if you’re here, you’re here for sushi.

I’ll always be a fan of restaurants that can take a culinary concept and turn it on its ear a bit, and Keyaki has a few interesting tricks up its sleeve. For starters, they’ve got sushi pizza ($15.99) on the menu, and it’s awesome. If you’re wondering how sushi pizza even works, allow me to elaborate.

The “crust” is a patty of sushi rice that gets a nice crispy exterior, a lot like the crunchy rice at the base of a good Korean bibimbap.

On top of the crust, you get a scoop of crab salad—spicy or not—and then a choice of salmon or tuna. From there, you get some sliced avocado, sesame seeds, spicy mayo and either crumbled Takis or hot Cheetos.

From a culinary fusion perspective, the sushi pizza at Keyaki is a glorious union of several delicious cultural influences. It makes you remember the importance of rice and avocado to both Latin and Japanese cuisines, while appreciating the Italian innovators who created pizza. The crumbled Takis or Cheetos on top are clever nods to traditional Latin street food like the Sonoran hot dog or elotes. Sushi pizza is a harmonious dish that represents the sheer foodie joy that materializes when international favorites come together. It’s a bit hard to eat with chopsticks, but you have my permission to use your fingers on this one.

Taking another page from the fusion cookbook, Keyaki also offers sushi nachos ($16.99) that have been a sleeper gastropub hit for the past few years. The sushi nachos at Keyaki use fried wonton wrappers as the chips and do not skimp on toppings—mango, tuna, avocado, green onion and cilantro are all here for the party. It also gets hit with some spicy mayo, signature K sauce and some sweet chili sauce for good measure. A plate of sushi nachos is definitely enough to share; serving size is never an issue here. I did think the sushi nachos were a tad on the

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evel Crossing - Rising Hope: Rising Hope is a program of the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation. Level Crossing represents Utah in making this special fundraising beer that is brewed annually. Country Malt Group and Yakima Chief Hops donate 100 percent of the ingredients needed to make Rising Hope, which means all the money you spend enjoying this pale ale will go straight to the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation. Kind of makes it a nobrainer.

Rising Hope has an unfiltered and bright orange color with good clarity and a soapy off-white head that stands one finger tall, with light retention and heavy lacing. The head gives way to a creamy ring around the glass,,and lots of creamy patching in the center. The aroma is citrusy with orange blossom, orange cream, some caramel malts and a nice dose of piney hop notes. The orange definitely takes the lead; it almost smells like an orange liqueur, only much more pleasant and with very little alcohol presence. The result is a very nice aroma to this beer.

On the palate, I get juicy citrus, with orange being most prominent. Some honey notes are sweet and drying all at once, with some nice herbal quality and pine rounding it out. On the back end, I get sweet bready/biscuit flavors with some orange cream blended in. The mouthfeel is light to medium.

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Saltfire - A Series of Singularities (Cashmere): Now in order to understand this beer, you’re obviously gonna want to know about Cashmere hops. This varietal is somewhat new, and tends to display lush notes of citrus and tropical fruit, specifically lime/lemon and pineapple/coconut.

It pours a hazy, deep orange-gold, with moderate off-white head that leaves a ring and a few spots of lacing.

The smell is of ripe peach, honeydew melon, a hint of cucumber, fresh pineapple juice, fresh-squeezed tangerine juice, maybe a little lemon and brief flashes of coconut cream.

On the taste, you get slightly unripe peach with a touch of lime and grapefruit, bitter orange and a light suggestion of fresh coconut. There’s a moderate, drying bitterness, and it’s less sweet than the aroma would suggest, which brings the dryness up and drinkability down a bit. As it warms, I get hints of white grape and honeydew melon, just prior to the finish. Mouthfeel is on the light side of medium/herbal, with light and enjoyable fine carbonation tingle that adds to a drying finish.

Verdict: This depends a lot on the hop additions, but I will say that this beer exhibits a fair bit of key lime and coconut-like overtones immediately upon pouring for the first time. The coconut is not actually reminiscent of the ingredient itself, but more like an implied element, so if you don’t like coconut, you probably won’t have an issue with this beer. Those of us who find coconut to be cool in IPAs, however, will likely appreciate this Cashmere bomb for its subtle inclusion of such an element in a normal-strength IPA. Saltfire’s Series of Singularities line is a great opportunity to get to know individual hops. The “Singularities” usually come around twice a year or so, and provide a fine education while you enjoy your beer. You can find this one at Saltfire in 16-ounce cans to enjoy there or take home. Rising Hope is a draft-only beer this year, and can be found at both Level Crossing locations. As always, cheers! CW

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Teams of Utah firefighters will be descending on the America First Field—formerly Rio Tinto Stadium (9256 S. State Street)—in Sandy this weekend. Don’t worry, the stadium isn’t on fire or anything. Our local heroes are competing in a chili cookoff to raise money for the University of Utah Health Burn Camp programs. The cookoff enters its 11th year in 2023, and this year’s event will feature more than 20 teams of first responders who will be bringing their best batch of chili to compete. Admission to this all-ages event is free, and all proceeds from chili purchases will go to the University burn camps. It’s all happening on Oct. 21 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Sol Agave Plans SLC Location

With its tequila flights and sophisticated take on traditional Mexican food, Sol Agave (749 W. 100 North, Ste. CRA8, American Fork) has always felt a bit like a downtown SLC restaurant to me.

After its successful run in Utah County, the Sol Agave team has set its sights on a Salt Lake location. Opening a second location is always a bit of a process so we don’t have exact dates ironed out, but the current plan is to open the second location at 650 S. Main Street. The space currently has a sign to herald the arrival of this haven of butter cake and burritos, and I can’t wait to see what Sol Agave does with the place.

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With Dim Sum House’s recent closure, the space has become occupied by a newcomer called Tokyo Tower (1158 S. State Street). It looks to be a sushi spot that also offers a traditional menu of Japanese entrees, and both menus are quite well-populated. I spotted some mapo tofu on the menu, which makes me happy, as I’m always looking for some of that spicy tofu goodness. Based on my early research, Tokyo Tower has plenty of tasty options on the menu, and they’ve done some cool things with the space; the whole redesign is looking clean and elegant. I’ll have to move this place up a bit on my list as scrolling the menu has gotten me all hungry.

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Killers of the Flower Moon ends with a coda that suggests how hard it is to get audiences to take in this kind of history unless it’s delivered in an entertaining enough package, and it’s here that Scorsese overplays his hand a bit, almost centering his own brave willingness to tell this largely hidden chapter of history. It’s a brief misstep, fortunately, and one that’s more than offset by a choice to show the way that racism decays into entitlement; Scorsese shows flies frequently buzzing around Ernest like he’s already rotting meat. There’s no mystery involved in understanding America’s original sins, only a need to stare them in the face, and perhaps see one that looks uncomfortably like one’s own. CW

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Still, this is fundamentally a story about the evil that men do, and the filmmakers allow every bit of the plotting to unfold in detail, from King making himself the beneficiary of one Osage man’s life insurance policy, to a pair of complicit doctors getting a warning call that they might want to remove any valuable belongings from a rented house that’s about to be blown up. Scorsese rarely draws attention to his direction through showy camera movements, aside from one long take winding through a house showing a blended White/ Osage family as a deceptive suggestion of some kind of peaceful American melting pot. He’s out to convey this story as part of a darker tradition—like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, which is referenced here more than once—of White Americans looking on any wealth accumulated by

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sion that could clearly inspire some finger-wagging. For the most part, it focuses on DiCaprio’s Ernest, watching as his simple man of appetites turns into a conspirator in multiple murders. DiCaprio’s performance at first feels almost exaggerated in its jaw-forward quality, but that choice feels perfectly in keeping with the thematic center. Ernest just isn’t particularly smart, but he’s the kind of man who often wins in America because he’s ruthless enough to do whatever he thinks he needs to do, self-deluding enough to be able to tell himself it’s all “for my family,” and White enough to expect that he’d be able to get away with it.

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Scorsese and Roth don’t shy away from the irony of the Osage being driven from ancestral lands to a desolate place where they end up unexpectedly rich, and the film gives plenty of time to their cultural rituals and even untranslated dialogue.

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erhaps it’s not entirely accurate to call David Grann’s 2017 book Killers of the Flower Moon a mystery—but maybe at least a little bit, it is. In telling the truelife story of a series of murders and suspicious deaths among the Osage Indians of Oklahoma circa early-1920s, connected to the tribe’s immense wealth from oil produced by reservation lands, Grann allows the story and its suspects to unfold slowly, leading up to the investigation by the then-brand-new Federal Bureau of Investigations In adapting the book, director Martin Scorsese and co-screenwriter Eric Roth have a different kind of story on their minds. It’s neither mystery nor spoiler that the mastermind behind the killings is local cattle baron William “King” Hale (Robert DeNiro), or that he involves his nephew Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), a World War I veteran who eventually marries Mollie (Lily Gladstone), an Osage woman. This is no whodunnit, nor is it even exactly a whydunnit. Instead, it’s a story that’s in Scorsese’s career wheelhouse of narratives about the things that corrupt men’s souls.

As a result, Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon opts to center neither the Federal agent investigating the crimes—Jesse Plemons’ Tom White doesn’t make an appearance until the two-thirds mark—nor the Osage people, the latter being a deci-

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nder the Milky Way on a Friday night in downtown Salt Lake City, you might feel a shiver down your spine—the telltale sign of a Goth Night at the International Bar in full swing. Follow your nose toward the always-damp scent of vintage leather boots crackling down the sidewalk, and further towards the sound of latex’s light popping and industrial bass thumping. Chasing your senses, you, too, may become absorbed in the throngs of bank tellers, fraternity rushers, amateur bassists, actual cowboys and your nextdoor neighbor—all of them goth for the evening, and here to prove one thing: that the Dead Can Dance.

The International Bar—home to the music stage known fondly as The International Artist Lounge—opened to the public in December 2021, still reeling from the pandemic and unsure of exactly how to proceed. Goth Night, an idea that exploded through the fragile shell of uncertainty, was provided by International general manager, bartender and DJ extraordinaire, Fish. In a brainstorming session with owners Nate Silverstein Tree and Andrea Tree, Fish simply threw out the idea: “I was like ‘I know this guy who dresses in this cool costume, and he has a lot of people that dance around him. What if we just called it Goth Night?’ I didn’t think it would work at all. It’s crazy how busy it is.

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sioned for, arriving to spin dark entries with airbrushed makeup coating his head, wrapped in a black cloak and doused in necklaces of vaguely religious symbolism. The harsh aesthetic looks (for lack of a better descriptor) badass, but has previously been seen as alienating and exclusionary to anyone who may not be quite as daring.

Yet, people of all ages and discernable demographics flock towards DJ Gabriel himself and his sets, which take place one Friday a month. Goth Night attendees shake their bodies in time to melodies of music that, in the ’90s, inspired (at minimum) parental backlash, and (at maximum) attempted lawsuits against record labels and MTV. Gabriel says of Goth Night, “I think people were waiting for it. I think people are connecting to the music. People are angry, they’re poor, the last five years have not been kind—no matter your perspective or what side of the fence you’re on.

Coming out of turmoil, people want a release, and they want it to be organic. … You watch these kids [in the crowd], and they are just exorcising themselves in front of the stage. Whatever happened that week is just coming out.”

International owner Nate adds, “There were countless night clubs in Salt Lake playing Top 40, and that’s pretty much what you had access to. There’s just a lot more than Top 40. We realized early on that people wanted to dance,” and “[G]oth Night really had a cultural calling for underground art and music that hadn’t really been satisfied.”

With specialty drinks crafted quickly by Fish, a dance floor and a variety of DJs— always including Gabriel—Goth Night has taken flight like a bat out of hell, turning University of Utah students in finance classes on to the likes of Trent Reznor’s bleakly beautiful masterpiece The Downward Spiral. Yet, the International doesn’t stop there, also bringing in live acts such as Spike Hellis, Molly Nisson, and the justannounced upcoming Male Tears, confidently cementing the bar as “the center of underground culture in Salt Lake City,” as Nate proudly says.

Ophelia, a frequent guest DJ and local musician of the project Mercy Seat, provides the artist’s perspective an performing music to a live audience at such an event. “When you’re really tuned into what you’re doing, it feels transcendent.

It’s almost meditative; you can escape your thoughts and go to a different realm,” she says. “It takes all the thoughts that would otherwise be kept in my head, and makes them into something new.”

At the beating, bloody heart of the International is the familiar thrum of darkwave deities behind the DJ deck, but also, an ethos of care and inclusion refreshingly unique to the nightlife scene. “My passion is to create an environment where people feel safe and comfortable and want to have a good time,” Nate says. “And that’s what I’m about. I provide the space, and foster an environment that is conducive to making art, or being artistic, in the ways that everyone should choose to do so.”

“It’s important to everyone that our nights are safe, and everyone can be themselves. There’s nothing to worry about,” adds Fish. “[Goth Night] fills a lot of joy in me, it makes me feel accomplished. It makes me feel like I’m not just making money for ‘The Man,’ or promoting something that’s not healthy or safe. It’s balanced and right, and I feel happy about it.”

The International Bar entreats you to step outside of your comfort zone, drink a little (if you so choose), tip your bartenders well and hearty, dance (a lot!) and explore an entire realm of music with you and yours through movement and community.

As Gabriel says, “If you’ve ever been curious about the alternative scene, whether it be Goth Night or anything else, just go and do it. Even if you have to go by yourself, just show up.”

And really, what’s there to lose? As the Bauhaus once said, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, anyway. CW

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It’s almost been one year since SZA released her most recent and critically acclaimed album, SOS, and in that time, it’s become one of the most successful bodies of work for the R&B superstar. SOS and its tracks have spent plenty of time on the Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot 100 lists, with “Kill Bill” becoming her first No. 1 on the chart.

With the massive success of the album, SZA will hopefully earn honors at this year’s Grammy awards. “There’s nobody close,” says artist development specialist and academy member Chris Anokute when gauging SZA’s 2024 Grammy credentials. “The girl has paid her dues. She has been releasing music for seven years. And she has made a multi-genre, multi-formatted album—the best multi-genre, multi-formatted record I’ve heard in years. And it deserves to be the album of the year.” SOS is truly a masterpiece; listening through the album is a satisfying journey, even for those less-versed in the genre. Seeing SZA perform these hits will be incredible on such a huge stage— the Delta Center is a worthy venue for the R&B queen and her fans. SZA comes to SLC on Thursday, Oct. 19 at 8 p.m. Tickets for the all-ages show start at $108 and can be found at ticketmaster.com. (Emilee Atkinson)

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The Buzzards and Bees Music Festival is one of the biggest local spooky events you can find around town. The weekend will be chock full of performances from all of your favorite bands, plus you can hit up the Goth Prom event and dance your heart out. “When we all collectively had a nightmare about creating Buzzards & Bees, our vision was to make something that could bring Provo together into one spooky weekend of events,” said the creators of the event on their website. There’s a lot of moving parts to the weekend of festivities so here’s what you need to know: On Friday, Oct. 20, the weekend starts with the Goth Prom kick-off party at Velour in Provo. Here

you’ll be able to party with DJ KiD MACHiNE, so come dressed to depress and see who is crowned the Goth King and Queen. Then, on Saturday, Oct 21, from 4 p.m. until midnight, you can travel to the 11+ venues to see various bands perform. All of the locations are close to each other in downtown Provo. For a full schedule, head to buzzardsandbees.com/schedule. Some of the bands you’ll see on the roster are Cardinal Bloom, Book on Tapeworm, Lantern By Sea, Seaslak, Poolhouse, 19 Miles Per Hour, and many more. Most of the venues hosting shows are all-ages, except for ABG’s Bar, which is 21+. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 day of show. Head to 24tix.com to purchase, and buzzardsandbees.com for all other details. (EA)

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There are artists whose live shows turn up the energy, enthusiasm and participation of the audience. It’s the sort of thing where, over the few days after seeing the show, you find yourself thinking about it and realizing how lucky you were to have been there.

Over 30 years in the industry and around 250 shows every 365 days (minus COVID), Tech N9ne (a.k.a. Aaron Yates) isn’t slowing down any time soon. “My quest has always been to get my story to the rest o’ the people,” N9ne told The Guardian. “The first show we did in San Diego, seven people came. We performed like it was 7,000 people, so when we came back, word of mouth meant we played to 100 people. The next time, it was 500—now

Bag Raiders @ Soundwell 10/24

Thanks to meme culture, many have been exposed to Bag Raiders who might otherwise never have heard of the Australian duo.

Maybe you’ve heard their song “Shooting Stars’’ several years after its 2008 release, when it appeared in remix videos employing a synthwave aesthetic—mostly of people falling, funnily enough. The first known use of the song in a meme was in 2015, and continued into 2017, attracting over 13 million views on YouTube. Their remix of “B.T.T.T.T.R.Y.” by K.I.M. was included in the Grand Theft Auto IV soundtrack, which also gained them notoriety in popular culture.

Internet popularity aside, Bag Raiders is made up of serious talent.

Both Jack Glass and Chris Stacey are classically trained musicians who met in an orchestra practice room in Sydney, Australia. While they are under the electronic dance music (EDM) umbrella, they

could also be described as an alternative dance band—they play keyboards, drums, violin, guitar and piano in their live sets, while also acting as vocalists, producers and remixers. Their most recent work, such as 2023’s “Love Me Back,” are club-ready singles driven by sampled vocals that mix their earlier electro-house sound with progressive house popular of today’s EDM. Enjoy the dance floor with hook-heavy house and synth pop from Bag Raiders on Oct. 25 at Soundwell. Doors open at 9 p.m. General admission costs $16 at soundwellslc.com. (Arica Roberts)

Halloween Pizza Party 3 @ The DLC 10/27

What better way is there to celebrate Halloween than with good friends, drinks and some incredible music? You can do all three at The DLC’s Halloween Pizza Party. The DLC doesn’t have a kitchen, so it’s unclear if there will actually be pizza, but the draw to the event though is the epic local lineup. You can get pizza anytime, but you can’t always get this combo of badasses all in one place.

If you’ve been to an LGBTQIA+ music event, there’s a good chance you’ve seen Shecock With A Vengeance. If you haven’t seen or heard them, it’s time you did. The group is able to professionally merge femininity with the in-your-face attitude of punk. In fact, they perfectly describe themselves in their Instagram bio as “trashy glam punk rock shoved down your throat.” Joining Shecock With A Vengeance are fellow rockers Somebody/Anybody who lovingly describe themselves as “just a gaggle of wizards making ear candy for aliens.” Their most recent single “Good w/It” is an epic anthem about accepting yourself and not feeling bad about it. It’s so catchy and will be easy to sing along with live. Rounding out the bill is Space Gun, another rock group whose sound will put a pep in your step and have you headbanging all night long. Come out and jam with this trio of epic local talent on Friday, Oct. 27 at 8 p.m. Tickets for the 21+ show are $12, and can be found at 24tix.com. (EA)

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Illustrator and designer JooHee Yoon says, “So much of artmaking is getting to know yourself through the creative process, of making mistakes and going down rabbit holes of research and experimentation that sometimes work out—and sometimes don’t.” She adds, “The failures are just as important as the successes.” I would extend this, applying it to how we create our personalities and lives. I hope you will keep it in mind as you improvise and transform yourself in the coming weeks.

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Sometimes, we shrivel in the face of a challenge that dares us to grow stronger and smarter. We try our best to handle a pivotal riddle with aplomb but fall short.

Neither of these scenarios will be in play for you during the coming months. I believe you will tap into reserves of power you didn’t realize you had access to. You will summon bold, innovative responses to tantalizing mysteries. I predict you will accomplish creative triumphs that may have once seemed beyond your capacities.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

Gemini novelist Meg Wolitzer suggests “one of the goals of life is to be comfortable in your own skin and in your own bed and on your own land.” I suspect you won’t achieve that goal in the coming weeks, but you will lay the foundation for achieving that goal. You will figure out precisely what you need in order to feel at home in the world, and you will formulate plans to make that happen.

Be patient with yourself, dear Gemini. Be extra tender, kind and accommodating. Your golden hour will come.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

As a Sun-conjunct-Uranus person, I am fond of hyperbole and outrageousness. “Outlandish” is one of my middle names. My Burning Man moniker is “Friendly Shocker,” and in my pagan community, I’m known as Irreverend Robbie. So take that into consideration when I suggest you meditate on Oscar Wilde’s assertions that “all great ideas are dangerous” and “an idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea.” Oscar and I don’t mean that interesting possibilities must be a risk to one’s health or safety. Rather, we’re suggesting they are probably inconvenient for one’s dogmas, habits and comfort zones. I hope you will favor such disruptors in the coming days.

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Some people might feel they have achieved the peak of luxury if they find themselves sipping Moët & Chandon Imperial Vintage Champagne while lounging on a leather and diamond-encrusted PlumeBlanche sofa on a hand-knotted Agra wool rug aboard a 130-foot-long Sunseeker yacht. But I suspect you will be thoroughly pleased with the subtler forms of luxury that are possible for you these days. Like what? Like surges of appreciation and acknowledgment for your good work. Like growing connections with influences that will interest you and help you in the future. Like the emotional riches that come from acting with integrity and excellence.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

There are more than 20 solutions to the riddle your mind is now contemplating. Several of them are smart intellectually but not emotionally intelligent. Others make sense from a selfish perspective but would be less than a blessing for some people in your life. Then there are a few solutions that might technically be effective but wouldn’t be much fun. I estimate there may only be two or three answers that would be intellectually and emotionally intelligent, would be of service not only to you but also to others and would generate productive fun.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

Naturalist John Muir didn’t like the word “hiking.” He believed people ought to “saunter” through the wilderness. “Hiking” implies straight-ahead, no-nonsense, movement, whereas “sauntering” is about wandering around, being reverent to one’s surroundings and getting willingly distracted by where curiosity leads. I suggest you favor sauntering in the coming weeks—not just in nature but in every area of your life. You’re best suited for exploring, gallivanting and meandering.

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“Never do anything that others can do for you,” said Virgo novelist Agatha Christie. That’s not very Virgo-like, is it? Many astrologers would say that of all the zodiac’s signs, your tribe is the most eager to serve others but not aggressively seek the service of others on your behalf. But I suspect this dynamic could change in the coming weeks. Amazingly, cosmic rhythms will conspire to bring you more help and support than you’re accustomed to. My advice: Welcome it. Gather it in with gusto.

As much as I love logic and rational thinking, I’m granting you an exemption from their supremacy in the coming weeks. To understand what’s transpiring and to respond with intelligence, you must transcend logic and reason. They will not be sufficient guides as you wrestle with the Great Riddles that will be visiting. In a few weeks, you will be justified in quoting ancient Roman author Tertullian, who said the following about his religion, Christianity: “It is true because it is impossible.”

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Author Iain S. Thomas writes, “The universe is desperately trying to move you into the only spot that truly belongs to you—a space that only you can stand in. It is up to you to decide every day whether you are moving toward or away from that spot.” His ideas overlap with principles I expound in my book Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia. There, I propose that life often works to help dissolve your ignorance and liberate you from your suffering. I hypothesize that you are continually being given opportunities to grow smarter and wilder and kinder.

In the coming weeks, everything I’ve described here will be especially apropos to you. All of creation will be maneuvering you in the direction of feeling intensely at home with your best self. Cooperate, please!

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Some astrologers say Crabs are averse to adventure, preferring your comfort zones and dreamy fantasies.

As evidence that this is not always true, I direct your attention to a great Cancerian adventurer, the traveling chef Anthony Bourdain. In the coming weeks, I hope you will be inspired by these Bourdain quotes: 1. “If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.” 2.

“What a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with people who interest you.” 3. “The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that’s enlightenment enough—to know there is no final resting place of the mind.” 4. “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.”

I’m not enamored of Shakespeare’s work. Though I enjoy his creative use of language, his worldview isn’t appealing or interesting. The people in his stories don’t resonate with me, and their problems don’t feel realistic.

If I want to commune with multi-faceted characters dealing with fascinating dilemmas, I turn to French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850). I feel a kinship with his complex, nuanced understanding of human nature. Please note I am not asserting that Shakespeare is bad, and Balzac is good. I’m merely stating the nature of my subjective personal tastes. Now I invite you to do what I have done here: In the coming weeks, stand up unflinchingly for your subjective personal tastes.

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Complete the grid so that each row, column, diagonal and 3x3 square contain all of the numbers 1 to 9. No math is involved. The grid has numbers, but nothing has to add up to anything else. Solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. Solving time is typically 10 to 30 minutes, depending on your skill and experience.

1. “When it comes to ...”

6. Conclude by 11. Where Wizards play with Magic, in brief 14. John ____, husband of Pocahontas 15. Affect emotionally 16. Test by a neurologist, for short 17. “Deep!”

19. Zoomer’s parent, maybe 20. Still 21. Geological span 22. ____ Dame 24. Exams for future attys.

26. “Check out this trick I can do!”

29. Predicament 30. Spotify or TikTok 31. Follower of open or pigeon 32. It goes from about 540 to 1700 35. One of eight vegetables in V8 37. Tofu, e.g. (or what can be found at the ends of 17-, 26-, 51- and 60-Across) 43. Laugh hard 44. Honey brand since 1921 45. Jul. 4 cookouts 8. Expected 49. The “S” of RSVP 9. Play a role 50. Social position 10. “____ you!”

51. Perfectly suited partner 11. Neighboring 53. Lena featured on the U.S. Postal 12. “Brewski! Now!” Service’s Black Heritage postage stamp 13. Shook on it series 18. “Help!”

55. “Schitt’s Creek” matriarch 23. Cheerios grain 56. Sloth, for one 25. Bickering 57. “Sound of da Police” rapper ____-One 26. Patti in the Grammy Hall of Fame 59. Engine starter: Abbr.

27. Abbr. on old phones 60. Some members of a presidential candi28. Warms up the crowd date’s campaign staff 29. Singer Cooke 65. ____ for tat 33. Foot rub reaction 66. City home to the 1,000-year-old Al-Azhar 34. Literature Nobelist Mario University Vargas ____ 67. “Under the Redwoods” author Bret 36. Delta ____ Chi, house in 68. “Isn’t ____ bit like you and me?”

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70. Mend, as a torn seam 40. Certain financial advisers, informally DOWN 41. More than look up to 1. Like many student films 42. “A mouse!!”

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ho doesn’t love fall! Well, maybe your house doesn’t.

You may have had so much fun this summer that you’ve neglected those “honey dos.” Before long, there will be snow and cold weather that your house will not appreciate.

Here are some last minute things to do around the house to get your property protected and tucked in for the cold winter.

—Have your chimney inspected and cleaned to prevent fires and potential carbon monoxide poisoning.

Both wood-burning and gas fireplaces leave residue inside your chimney that can catch fire if it’s built up too thick. Gas fireplaces may not be properly vented and could cause you to fall asleep, permanently, unless you have a professional check out the gas lines and venting.

—It’s really not too late to add more insulation into your attic space and under your floor from your basement.

Not only does additional insulation bring lower heating and cooling bills, but it also helps our environment by using less gas or electricity from your HVAC systems. You can add environmentally correct (green) insulation inside your attic, walls, ceiling and roof as there are many eco-friendly options that have come to market in the past several years. Also, you can wrap your hot water pipes inside your home and wrap your water heater to save money this winter. Ask your local expert at the hardware store for advice on the best materials to use and really, it will be cheap and well worth the effort.

—Check around your doors and windows to look for gaps and holes where the cold wind comes in. There are simple kits out there for windows such as visqueen. You attach it with tape and then use your hair dryer to tighten it. I used this method in the apartments and homes I rented in college and was really happy with the savings on my heat bill.

Also, check the caulk around doors and windows and exterior vents as you may need to scrape out some of the old sealant and replace it with a new compound.

—Get your rain gutters cleaned! It may be dangerous for you to climb up on a ladder to get the gunk out of your gutters, so find a local expert to come over with proper equipment to flush out and even dig out the detritus.

Last winter was brutal and there were seams in our gutters that leaked, and the weight of the snow and ice in some places caused small parts of our gutters to detach from the roof.

I found a great vendor who spent a morning getting us back in shape.

I’m really grateful that I had this done because the gutters might have collapsed and torn away from the house given the predictions for another snowy season this winter!

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“I guess we got a pilot in our house,” a perplexed homeowner told a 911 dispatcher after a U.S. Marine Corps F-35 pilot landed in his backyard on Sept. 17 in North Charleston, South Carolina. The pilot, who got on the phone with the dispatcher, told her, “I’m a pilot in a military aircraft, and I ejected, so I just rode a parachute down to the ground. Can you please send an ambulance?” According to Yahoo! News, the plane eventually crashed 60 miles away.

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The Township of Bonnechere Valley in Ontario, Canada, is on a mission to change the name of its most famous street: Harry Dick Road, United Press International reported. John Henry “Harry” Dick was born on the property in 1957, and his family has occupied three homes there for five generations. “Well, people think that’s very, very funny, and the signs started to disappear,” explained Lois Dick, Harry’s wife. Township officials said the sign is stolen about four times per year; the family installed a security camera, but it got stolen too. Lois noted that a name change will be a hassle for the family: “Any legal document with our address on it is going to have to be changed,” she lamented. Harry just wants the thefts to stop: “All I want is some peace and quietness,” he said.

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n The Metropolitan Transit Authority in New York City has had enough of bad behavior on the subway, The Messenger reported. On Oct. 3, the MTA launched its Courtesy Counts campaign, hoping to encourage riders to practice common decency. You know, things like: Don’t leave your trash on the train. Don’t block the doors. Use headphones. And of course, that Emily Post mainstay: Wait until you get home to clip your nails.

“In our busy lives, it’s easy to forget that your own individual behavior can have an impact on your fellow riders’ commute. The goal isn’t to lecture anyone,” said MTA senior adviser Shanifah Rieara.

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