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Letters Just Give

The first time I encountered a homeless person was in a parking lot north of the Mormon church headquarters in Salt Lake City. I was 17. Three of my friends and I were going to spend a beautiful sunny afternoon visiting Temple Square. As we walked from our car, a man approached and asked if we had any change. The immediate answer was no, we don’t. He thanked us and walked away. As we continued on our way, one of my friends said, “It’s not good to give them money, they just use it to buy alcohol.” Now, I was just a dumb kid from a small, very conservative town who knew nothing about life, but that comment stopped me in my tracks. I took out my blue velcro wallet, pulled out what cash I had, and gave it to the man. I made him promise that whatever else he did with the money, he would buy booze, too. He agreed, thanked me again and walked away. By this time, my friends had stopped and turned around. I looked my friend in the eye and said the only thing I could come up with: “If you’re homeless, you might as well be drunk.” That experience was a small stone thrown into a big pond; it made waves that I didn’t understand. My friend’s comment didn’t make sense, and it left a bad taste in my mouth, but what I did felt right or good ... or something. More than half a lifetime later, I still buy booze for homeless people if they want it. Most people would seriously disagree and be perturbed by my behavior. It doesn’t

WRITE US: Salt Lake City Weekly, 248 S. Main, Salt Lake City, UT 84101. E-mail: comments@cityweekly.net. Fax: 801-575-6106. We reserve the right to edit for length and clarity. Preference will be given to letters that are 300 words or less and sent uniquely to City Weekly. Full name, address and phone number must be included, even on e-mailed submissions, for verification purposes. solve any problems—it often just exacerbates them. I know that now. But I also now understand the look in the eyes of someone who just wants a few more hours of not feeling, not thinking, not caring. Every year about this time, I’m subjected to so many comments and conversations—both overheard and brought up with me personally—about The Homeless. A tirade ultimately ensues, and I walk away shaking my head, looking for someone to slap. You have zero information about the life and backstory and what led the homeless and the beggars to their current situation. Whatever their life is and has been, begging and being homeless and in need is what their life is now. Being homeless is miserable and full of pain, desperation, hopelessness and deep despair; it is a difficult daily struggle to even survive—both physically and mentally. I’m sure that little piece recently in the Deseret News (a perennial “investigative” report on the fake beggars) gave many of you the confirmation and confidence of your selfrighteousness. But take a moment. There are always people who cheat. There are always exceptions to every rule, but the rule is not judged upon, nor determined by, the exceptions. Fine, don’t give them money, but take off your jacket or your gloves, or your belt, or your socks, or your shirt—or, hell, give ’em your shoes. They can’t buy liquor with that. Hey! Here’s an idea: Make it a two-fer. Give that ugly thing your husband/wife/partner bought you or that grandma gifted you. You’re helping someone out in a less than

benign way and ridding yourself of that ugly thing. Or buy them a sandwich. Either way, get over yourself and your bad attitude toward them. I was speaking recently to a friend who works with the homeless year-round, and he said the need this year is worse than ever. “I know, I know, you hear us say that every year,” he said to me, “but it really does keep getting worse every year.” While they continue to deal with the common issues among the destitute and homeless, he said, they’re also seeing an influx of people and families who, even just five or six years ago, could have managed to scrape by on their own. Now they’re homeless because the inequality in the economy seems to only keep growing. What little benefits there are keep getting cut. So, to you assholes, stop being assholes, and to you non-giving (not assholes): Give, in whatever way you can and what suits your situation best, but do impart of your substance. Here’s a good one: TheRoadHome.org.

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When I first read about the National Toy Hall of Fame (NTHF), I dismissed it as just another ho-hum gambit by some struggling municipality whose parking meters weren’t bringing in enough money. I may have misjudged it, however—at least, that’s how I feel after nosing around the NTHF website for a while. Fifty-three toys have been inducted into the NTHF in Rochester, N.Y., since it opened in 1998. The list surprised me. I expected it to be long on electronics—it isn’t—and I assumed the cap gun, which was a mainstay of my boyhood cowboy games, would have a place of honor—it didn’t. But the list did include a stick, a blanket and a cardboard box. I may be wrong, but I’d bet that if you were called upon to make a greatest-hits toy list, it would not include a stick, blanket and box. Not the first draft, anyway. Perhaps that is because Toys-R-Us doesn’t stock them. Or because they are not given as gifts. Or that “toy” has come to mean a gizmo with a silicon chip, a compartment for A A batteries and a marketing campaign. Or, perhaps, memory betrays us. I had forgotten the rainy days when there was nothing to do except build a hideout with blankets. Anchored with couch cushions, draped over kitchen chairs or a card table, blankets transformed the living room into a fort, a ship or a cavern. Of course, a blanket was capable of more. According to the NTHF, it could be “a king’s robe, a bride’s veil, a superhero’s cape, a Roman soldier’s cloak, a princess’ flowing gown and a wizard’s flying carpet.” Also faded is the memory of a puppet theater made from a refrigerator-size cardboard box. Ditto for the shoebox diorama with a clay dinosaur in the foreground, a smoking volcano painted on the back panel. I don’t remember the fate of either box, but I appreciate the wisdom of the NTHF’s observation that “inside a big

cardboard box, a child is transported to a world of his or her own, one where anything is possible.” Another possibility raised by the NTHF is that sticks are “not only possibly the oldest toys, they’re possibly the best!” I don’t recall playing with sticks. I did make a slingshot out a Y-shaped tree branch and strips of rubber cut from an inner tube, but it wasn’t really a toy. That my childhood games included a stick used as a wand, bat, lance or sword seems probable. Sticks are “the original building blocks for creative play,” the NHTF claims. “Sticks also promote free play—the freedom to invent and discover. They encourage playing outside instead of inside.” As a kid, I spent as much time outdoors as possible. Early on, the boys in my neighborhood were pistolpacking cowboys in the mold of Hopalong Cassidy and the Lone Ranger. Our game scenario never changed: The sheriff and deputies pursued a gang of desperadoes, engaging them in a succession of gunfights. Our pistols fired percussion caps on dime-size rolls of red paper. Misfires were common because the firing mechanisms were so faulty. It was easy to disarm when I became a Cub Scout. In place of cap guns, Scout rituals called for a pocketknife, a pup tent, a campfire and a subscription to Boy’s Life magazine. The advertising in the magazine soon convinced me that I needed a BB gun or a bolt-action .22 to plug varmints. My parents disagreed, but guns topped my Christmas wish list for many years. Cub Scouts didn’t affect my outdoor routine, but the changing seasons did. Winter was spent building snow forts and pelting passing cars with snowballs. Then, as the daffodils bloomed, we chalked hopscotch courts on the sidewalk and shot

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marbles on the sodden lawn. Spring was also a time for kites, bikes and tetherball. When school ended at the end of May, we took to the street with Wiffle bats and balls. At day’s end, we played hide & seek in the twilight until our parents called us in to bed. Labor Day found us shooting Horse on a garage-mounted basketball hoop or playing touch football in the street. Nowadays, you rarely brake for kids riding bikes or playing football in the street. Nor do you see them climbing trees, mowing lawns or playing with sticks. I assume they are indoors, safe from bad air, varmints, wind chill, skinned knees and perverts. As young adults, they will be less inclined than previous generations to ski, hunt, fish, camp or visit a national park. W hy? Videophilia. They suffer from “the tendency to focus on sedentary activities involving electronic media”—a syndrome first described in 2006 by scientists Oliver Pergams and Parry Zaradic. When I was a kid, I was happy to sit by a campfire charring marshmallows on the end of a stick. Not so with many of today’s kids—no bars, no texts, no way. I doubt many kids would trade their electronics for a blanket, a stick or a cardboard box. Is that cause for worry? Maybe yes, maybe no, depending on your own case of videophilia. I worry about a kid who is hooked on video games or reality TV. A kid who can’t transform a blanket into a flying carpet or make s’mores is also cause for concern. Nevertheless, this year’s popular Christmas toys include a Leapfrog tablet with a “child-friendly browser,” a Furby with its own app, and Wi-Fi voicemail for toddlers called Toymail. Not much call for a Lone Ranger pistol-and-holster set, and that is no cause for worry. CW

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Derek Carlisle: A Sears Robuck electric guitar with built-in amp. Snuck in the closet to see what the ma bought and was told on by the sis. Had to wait till the next year to get it on account of me ma teachin’ me a lesson. Kolbie Stonehocker: My Polly Pocket fairyland playset I got when I was about 7. It came with two fairy dolls, and inside the pink star shape was a moving Ferris wheel, hot-air balloon and dance floor. Best of all, it lit up when it was opened. When I found it under the Christmas tree, I was complete. Susan Kruithof: A stuffed Winnie the Pooh bear. He was my life-long friend. He protected me from monsters under the bed, worked as a convenient extra 2 inches to step on to reach the light switch, and understood me when no one else did. He’s 42 years old. A most loved possession that I still have. Elly Green: My American Girl doll, Molly. I loved her so much. I still have her to this day, and now let my daughter play with her. Ah, the circle of life! Alissa Dimick: Last year my husband got me a sewing machine and everything I will ever need to sew anything. Crappy tablecloths, blankets and burp cloths have been making their way out to my friends and family; one day you will all have matching dresses. Scott Renshaw: Let’s see, my wife and kids both regularly read this space, so here’s the part where I say “every gift is wonderful because of the love behind it” and you don’t get me in trouble.

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Magic Millions Big news. Really big news, and it’s not that gay marriage can happen in Utah. No, it’s that the Utah Legislature can find you $2 million if it wants to. Oh, and that the Legislature thinks the Attorney General’s Office has a bunch of really bad lawyers. Indeed, Senate President Wayne Niederhauser, R-Sandy, says he’s inclined to ask for the funds, and House Speaker Becky Lockhart, R-Provo, says she wants the best that money can buy. Hey, wasn’t that John Swallow? Now that bribery’s off the table, the Legislature has to look elsewhere for someone competent to fight against happily wedded people of the same sex. You might ask where the new AG, Sean Reyes, was when they were dissing his office, but then, he’s in humble mode, having just been appointed. Still, the news is good. Money can be had. You just have to play the politics.

Ignore the Issues Meanwhile, an informal and unscientific Facebook poll addressed the issue of how to spend that $2 million the Legislature needs to fight Judge Robert Shelby’s decision. Oddly, the poll never got close to mentioning the fight against same-sex marriage. Snarky comments aside, the list included: transitional housing, ongoing special-ed funding, free public transportation and an analysis of mass-transit needs, setting up a charitable foundation like the Greater Good, cleaning up the air, amending the political-nominating process, changing campaign-finance laws, and expanding Medicaid. Those are issues that apparently are not on the Legislature’s list of legal priorities.

Parenting Parents Punishment. This seems to be the by word of the Republican Pa r t y in Utah. Sen. Aaron Osmond, R-South Jordan, wants public-school parents to sign contracts about their rights and responsibilities. Of course, homeschoolers and private-school parents would be exempt because they presumably know their rights and responsibilities. Everyone else is confused or disengaged from their children’s education. The presumption, of course, is that parents who choose to homeschool or privately educate their kids are choosing the righteous path and need not be overseen. Public-ed parents would face prosecution if, for instance, they couldn’t pay for tutoring or they missed too many parentteacher conferences. Sure, parental involvement is a hard nut to crack, but this is just a broken solution.

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Michael Smith is the founder of United Americans, an organization that asks voters directly—through once-a-week text messages—what they think about issues from health care to the Syria conflict, allowing them to weigh in from their armchair as opposed to a voting booth. Members of United Americans can also submit their demographic information, such as income, age, gender, and party affiliation, to provide context to the results; the member-owned, copyrighted information will, United Americans hopes, help inform representatives how their constituents feel. Results are also displayed immediately on UnitedAmericans.com.

How is United Americans different from traditional polling?

Statistically, it’s not necessary to ask everybody—if you randomly ask 226 people in the U.S., you pretty much have the results of the whole country. The power of this is that if we ask everybody, we can tell the press what we think, instead of them telling us what we think. More importantly, elected officials, if they hear that 80 percent of Americans feel this way, it’s easy to discount that—“Maybe two of those people were in my congressional district—it doesn’t reflect my district, so I can do what I want.” But if we say that 80 percent of registered voters in your congressional district feel this way—well, now there’s a different story to the data.

Are decision-makers obligated to review or consider this information?

With what we’re doing currently, no. Until we get a million people—that’s our first baby tooth. Right now, we’re texting around 1,000 people. But our results are mirroring ABC, CNN results. And the results start coming in right away. In the work I’ve done before, we get the buy-in beforehand from people in power. We don’t have that with this grass-roots movement at this point in time. But what’s unique about what we’re doing is that we’re linking your cell phone number to your voter I.D. number. We have a tool on our site where you can look up your voter I.D. number from any state. Then, we have a small transaction fee for membership—it validates your address, where your credit-card statement goes. Based on that, we know which congressional district you’re in. So it’s a triple verification of who you are and where you are. Ideally, we’d have millions of people participating on any issue the country faces. Right now, we need to get the word out, and get people engaged. Everyone who hears about it is like, “Why haven’t we done this before?”

What are your goals beyond getting 1 million people signed up?

We have another platform where we can put 100,000 on a conference call. We need to get to know each other as Americans—we want to re-Americanize Americans. Imagine a 100,000person conference call with about 2,000 people per state attending. We have a geographical homogenizer, where people don’t run into anyone who thinks differently, so they think their construct of reality is what it is, because it’s never challenged. But if we can put people on a conference call, and they can share ideas respectfully? Humans behave in the context in which they are found. In the blogosphere, we’re horrible. Things will come out of our fingers that would never come out of our mouth at a table. If we can facilitate a meeting space— whether that’s on a phone call or a Webinar, the end goal is to bring people to the table. We can participate and have it be the original concept of America that it was meant to be.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Not Gonna Fly

BY CECIL ADAMS

As someone who’s terrified to f ly, I’ve always wondered why commercial airliners don’t come with emergency parachutes under the seats. In the event of fire or engine failure, I’d much rather take my chances on the jump than the crash landing. Few people survive water landings, and yet the seat doubles as a f lotation device, so I don’t buy the excuse that it’s because people wouldn’t survive with parachutes. —Terra Reneau I realize this seems like a clever idea, Terra. And I admit, the thought of sitting in a doomed aircraft hurtling toward destruction brings out the Walter Mitty in all of us. After all, a 1 percent chance of survival is better than no chance, right? Unfortunately, 1 percent is way too optimistic. To see why, ask yourself a few questions: What are the odds of an accident happening when a parachute would do you any good? Analyzing 49 years of fatal aviation accidents, Boeing found that 12 percent happened on the ground, 20 percent while the aircraft was taking off or on its initial climb, and 36 percent while the aircraft was in final descent or landing. So, less than a third of the fatal accidents occurred at a point in the flight when parachute use might have been feasible, and that’s ignoring instant-death scenarios such as TWA 800’s midair explosion or crashing into the side of a mountain. How do you expect the average passenger to put on a parachute properly? If you’ve done any parachute jumping, you know getting the rig on right is no simple matter, and we all know there are plenty of air travelers who have enough trouble with the seat belt. And what about kids and babies, the elderly, the disabled, the just plain freaked-out? Now add in the chaos of everyone trying to manage this simultaneously in a cramped cabin with little or no instruction under emergency conditions. Ain’t happening, babe. If by some miracle everybody got properly suited up, how would they get out of the plane? Due to the difference between inside and outside air pressure, a commercial jet’s doors can’t be opened at altitude. If they could, due to the aforesaid pressure differences, everyone would be sucked out and quite likely smashed against the aircraft, pulled into the turbines, or incinerated by the exhaust. True, D.B. Cooper may have eluded these perils in 1971 when he parachuted out of the Boeing 727 he’d hijacked, but he was the only remaining passenger on a depressurized, slow-moving aircraft with a rear-facing exit door, and he had plenty of time to prepare. That’s a far cry from the emergency scenario we’re contemplating. You object: I still want my .001 percent! Very well, let’s do a little cost-benefit analysis: What’s that minuscule chance of success going to cost? A typical Boeing 737-800

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holds 150 passengers and a crew of maybe six. An Army-grade T-11 model parachute could probably be had for about $600, but remember, we’re dealing with untrained users here—we’re going to need chutes equipped with an automatic activation device and possibly a reserve chute, which cost 2 grand and up. Factor in the cost of new seats or lockers to stow the parachutes in, maintenance and inspections, and periodic replacement, and it’s safe to say the cost per plane would be upward of $500,000. Where would you put the chutes? As air travelers are painfully aware, commercial aircraft can barely accommodate a full load of passengers and their belongings as it is. Each parachute would, at minimum, take up as much space as a roller bag. Where would they all be kept? Under the seat means no legroom or stowage; overhead means no room for carry-ons. What about the weight? A T-11 parachute weighs 37 pounds if we skip the reserve chute, but even so, we’d be adding 5,800 pounds to the aircraft. We could make this up by eliminating about 26 passengers and their luggage. The good news is this would free up space for everyone else’s chutes. The bad news is ticket prices would likely increase at least 20 percent to cover lost revenue from the missing passengers. In short, we’re talking exorbitant cost with virtually no payback. By comparison, flotation cushions and life vests for a water landing are the height of practicality. Granted, water landings aren’t common, but they happen—witness the legendary 2009 ditching of US Airways flight 1549 in the Hudson River without fatalities by captain Chesley Sullenberger. Cushions and vests are cheap and easy to use, and the expectation, borne out by experience, is that the plane will be stationary and floating in the water when you exit. To put things in perspective, your odds of being killed on a given airline flight are something like 1 in 20 million, whereas your odds of dying in a car accident per year are about 1 in 9,200. Not to be heartless, but suck it up. Send questions to Cecil via StraightDope. com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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ENVIRONMENT

“It’s not just some optical illusion ... it’s nasty air that is unhealthy.”

Clearing the Air

—C. Arden Pope, an environmental economist at BYU

Cleaning the state’s air will take a helping hand from every breathing Utahn. Averaged out over a year, Utahns are exposed to a daily dose of 11 micrograms per cubic meter of PM 2.5—a level of pollution that will chop a year off our lives, according to C. Arden Pope, an environmental economist at Brigham Young University who has for decades studied the impacts of air pollution on health. Pope says that although this level of exposure isn’t as high as in other parts of the world, it is serious and can now be quantified in the number of years pollution steals from us. And barring a lottery-like miracle, the bad-air equation in Utah isn’t likely to improve now, or perhaps even ever, unless cars stop driving, people stop heating their homes and the market forces that fuel Kennecott and other major polluters seize. But Utah regulators hope to see air on the Wasatch Front fit to breathe, at least by federal Clean Air Act standards, by 2019—a six-year time frame that many clean-air advocates say is overly optimistic. On Jan. 8, the state’s Division of Air Quality Board is expected to approve the second piece of its state implementation plan (SIP), a blueprint of sorts that outlines how Utah intends to bring its fouled air into compliance with federal health standards. The plan will unleash scores of regulations for the state’s industrial polluters, but it still allows a 12 percent increase over the next six years in the level of tiny particulate pollution, or PM 2.5, that these businesses will spew. Meanwhile, as the state’s population continues its boom, more cars will hit the road, and more homes will be built, contributing greatly to what regulators say are the two largest sources of pollution in the Salt Lake Valley: homes and cars. By the time these words see ink, most of the state’s population will be living beneath a toxic soup of pollution that politicians and environmental activists agree is caused by every single person, car, home and business here. Yet, fingers will continue to be pointed and accusations made about those who are responsible—a winless contest since this pollution, and this air, belongs to everyone. “People focus on the industrial

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Pollution obscures the view of the Wasatch Mountains in Woods Cross on Saturday, Dec. 28. sources because that’s the one that’s easiest to point the finger at,” says Dave McNeill, manager of the planning branch for the state’s Division of Air Quality. “[We’re] trying to teach people that they’re causing the problem and what to do to teach them to take personal responsibility for it.” Matt Pacenza, the policy director at HEAL Utah, says that although individuals clearly need to do more, his organization, and many others, believe that the DAQ is not doing all it can to chop pollution from large industrial sources. “The path forward is clear, but it’s going to cost significant resources, and those resources can only come if our political leaders make tough choices about revenue,” he says. To that end, a number of efforts are afoot, in the legislature and elsewhere, to rein in Utah’s air-pollution quandary. The public seems to be united, across political and religious lines, in its desire to have clean air to breathe. According to a survey by Envision Utah, a group that studies sustainable growth for the state, 99 percent of Utahns are willing to take personal action to improve air quality. The largest contributor to the area’s pollution, McNeill says, is vehicles. And in Salt Lake County, cutting 2014’s anticipated 31.7 million vehicle miles per day—which pumps 1.8 tons of PM 2.5 into the air—could go a long way toward cleaning the air. But getting folks out of their cars isn’t easy, especially when the Utah Transit Authority, at $2.50 for base fare, ranks among the priciest public transit systems in the country. Add to this cutbacks to bus service to help finance UTA’s $2.3 billion rail expansions and

recession-related decreases in salestax revenues—which, according to a Utah legislative audit, accounts for the vast majority of its budget—and the state ends up with a transit system that is costly and oftentimes inconvenient. Salt Lake City will attempt to have tackled the price issue by February. Its new resident transit passes will cost $30 per month, $54 cheaper than the current monthly adult pass. Remi Barron, a UTA spokesman, says the success of the program will hinge on its numbers. In order for UTA to break even, Salt Lake City must sell 6,500 of these passes—a number city officials believe they’ll easily reach. State Rep. Joel Briscoe, D-Salt Lake City, intends to introduce legislation this year that would raise the cap on sales taxes that can be funneled to public transportation. Briscoe says increasing this sum to 1 cent—up from about seven-tenths of a cent in Salt Lake County, and much lower in other areas—is critical to bolstering bus service and helping to drop fare prices. “It’s great that we make cars cleaner, but we just need to have a better support system by getting them out of cars,” Briscoe says. “That’s the great need I see right now.” On another front, Erin Mendenhall, Salt Lake City’s 5th District city council member-elect—who is also the executive director of Breathe Utah, a nonprofit that advocates for clean air—has zeroed in on some of the more than 200 homes registered with the Division of Air Quality that rely solely on woodburning stoves for heat. The consequences of wood burning have recently come into focus. According to a study by Kerry Kelly, a

University of Utah chemical engineer who also sits on the Utah Air Quality Board, using a wood stove for one hour produces the same amount of PM 2.5 as driving 1,150 miles. The study also shows that heating with a wood stove puts out the same amount of pollution as 90,000 homes using natural gas. With a $25,000 grant, Breathe Utah aims to replace wood-burning stoves in five of these homes with naturalgas stoves—a small, but doable task to improve air quality. “The public doesn’t yet understand the gravity and disproportionate nature of our fireplaces affecting our airshed,” Mendenhall says. “It’s an extremely disproportionate source of pollution.” As residents wait for these changes, it’s clear that regulators and scientists have only recently come to fully understand PM 2.5 and its health impacts. McNeill points out that the state’s SIP has as its backbone standards that the EPA set forward in the 1990s to deal with a larger type of pollution known as PM 10. “When [the Clean Air Act] was written, there was no such thing as PM 2.5,” he says. And only a decade has passed since academics like BYU’s Pope discovered that PM 2.5 is not only harmful to respiratory function, but that it also imbeds deeply in the lungs and causes damage to the cardiovascular system, which can lead to heart disease. “It’s not just some optical illusion,” Pope says of Utah’s pollution. “Our understanding of its impacts on our health has improved. It’s become more prominent in the way we evaluate its impact on our lives. I think that’s important, that when we have our nasty air, it’s just that: It’s nasty air that is unhealthy.” CW

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Curses, Foiled Again

NEWS

Police charged Nace Eugene Houchin Jr., 33, with murdering a woman in Williamsburg, Va., after they found a handwritten note in his wallet “confessing to the homicide,” according to the arrest report. Besides detecting multiple fingerprints on the note that matched Houchin’s, a handwriting analysis concluded that he “more than likely” wrote the letter. (Williamsburg’s The Virginia Gazette)

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n After reporting that his vehicle had been stolen from his garage in Prescott, Ariz., Wade Dickinson, 28, filed an insurance claim and received a check for $53,000. A suspicious Yavapai County sheriff’s deputy investigated and learned that Dickinson had sold the vehicle on Craigslist for $35,000 before he said it was stolen. (Phoenix’s KTVK-TV)

Problem Solved (Chinese Style)

Eight reasons you didn’t go out on New Year’s Eve:

Had to finish Hard Target, Street Fighter and Capote before they expired on Netflix.

7. The gays. They’re every-

where, doing their gay stuff.

6. New Year’s Eve is amateur

night—the real partiers go hardcore on Thesaurus Day.

5. Was preoccupied reflecting on a year wasted not twerking more.

4. Too busy live-tweeting a

particularly uproarious game of Settlers of Zarahemla.

Chinese people are coping with rampant air pollution by sticking cigarette butts up their noses, believing that the filters will lessen the ill effects of smog. “Take two cigarette filters, strip away the wrapping papers and insert them in the nostrils,” one user posted on the social media website Sina Weibo. State media reported that some doctors agree that the technique effectively restricts polluted air from entering the nasal cavity, although it also obstructs normal breathing. (India’s Business Standard) n Guangming Road Primary School in China’s Hebei province began teaching children kung fu to defend against air pollution. The school has developed 23 moves, two of which involve pressing an acupoint to help promote lungs’ detoxification and breathing deeply into the belly to dispel residue gas left in human organs, according to the school’s deputy dean, Wei Huangiang, who designed the program. The school requires its 470 students to do the exercises, which take two minutes to complete, four times a day on smoggy days. (Britain’s International Business Times)

‘Tis the Season More than $1 billion on gift cards goes unredeemed each year, according to CEB TowerGroup, even though a law enacted in 2009 requires cards to remain valid for five years. That timeline turns out to be the problem. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only half of small businesses last five years. What’s more, Elliot Bohm, CEO of CardCash.com, which buys

BY R O L A N D S W E E T gift cards at a discount from consumers and re-sells them, the five-year time to expiration encourages people to delay using the cards, thus increasing their chance of getting lost. (The Wall Street Journal)

n Bolivia’s President Evo Morales ordered 300,000 government workers to be given an extra month’s pay as a Christmas bonus, on top of the extra month’s pay already required by law. “The country’s growth should return to the workers,” Morales declared. (Britain’s International Business Times) n McDonald’s worker-resource website offered employees advice on tipping au pairs, personal-fitness trainers, pool cleaners, dog walkers and massage therapists. The fast-food giant, which pays its workers an average wage of $9 an hour, previously suggested they get out of holiday-season debt by returning unopened gifts. (CNBC)

Worth Waiting in Line Hoping to raise $9,000 to lease a new squad car, Knightstown, Ind., Police Chief Danny Baker volunteered to be shot with his Taser. He received three times his goal and said he might be able to get a second car. Baker said that being shot with 50,000 volts of low-amp electricity felt like someone hitting him in the back of the head repeatedly. (Associated Press)

Play with Your Food Officials in Taiji, Japan, proposed building a water park where tourists can swim and play with dolphins and then eat them. The park would tie in with the town’s annual custom of rounding up and killing thousands of dolphins, whose meat is considered a delicacy. (Singapore’s The Straits Times)

Irony of the Week Jennifer Whiteley, 27, was celebrating her new job, helping drug addicts at England’s Cheadle Royal Hospital, when she died from drinking alcohol and taking drugs. A postmortem found a number of drugs in her system, including Benzo Fury, a recently outlawed amphetamine-like designer drug. “Jennifer and I have taken drugs hundreds if not thousands of times before,” said boyfriend Andrew Tunnah, who was partying with her. “It was how we would chill out together.” (Britain’s Daily Telegraph) Compiled from the press reports by Roland Sweet. Authentication on demand.

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by ERIC S. PETERSON @ericspeterson

Clean Conscience, Clean Air The new year is here, and it’s time to resolve to clean things up a bit. You can start by cleaning up your apathy by joining Peaceful Uprising’s volunteer night to learn about the machines to rage against in 2014. Later, hit the Salt Lake City Council, where a hearing will be held on horse-drawn carriages in the city. The Division of Air Quality will also meet and discuss its plan for getting air pollution cleaned up to federal standards by 2019.

Peaceful Uprising’s First All-Volunteer Night Monday, Jan. 6

Peaceful Uprising is gearing up to deliver some climate justice in 2014, and they need your help to do it. All are welcome at this meeting, where you’ll learn about how to get involved, whether that’s by raising awareness of controversial tarsands mining or helping with PeaceUp’s Climate Justice Bold School. The Mexican Federation, 344 S. Goshen St., 801-747-9871, Jan. 6, 6:30-8:30 p.m., PeacefulUprising.org

Salt Lake City Council Tuesday, Jan. 7

In August, the collapse and tragic death of carriage horse Jerry resulted in the Salt Lake City Council deciding to re-evaluate the regulation of horse-drawn carriages in the city. At this hearing, the public are invited to sound off on ordinance updates that would restrict the weather conditions horses can operate in and the amount of hours they would be required to work, among other changes. Salt Lake City & County Building, 451 S. State, 801-535-7600, Jan. 7, 7 p.m., SLCGov.com

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3. For the fifth year in a row,

Wednesday, Jan. 8

EVE SLC failed to book Night Ranger.

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1. Thanks to increased spirituality and enlightenment, blackout binge-drinking is more of a personal journey these days.

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The DAQ is expected to discuss elements of the state implementation plan, which aims to take a bite out of the nasty, dreadful and harmful PM 2.5 pollutants in the state by 2019. Even still, the plan is expected to allow a 12 percent increase in PM 2.5 during that time period, and many clean-air advocates say it doesn’t go far enough to rein in industrial polluters (see p. 12 for more). Speak up now or get choked out by inversion later. Division of Environmental Quality, 195 N. 1950 West, 801-536-4022, Jan. 8, 1:30 p.m., AirQuality.Utah.Gov

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The women called numbers on Ripley’s cell phone until they found her sister, Nicole Wilcox, who took her semiincoherent sister to LDS Hospital, where “she was crying over and over again, ‘I’ve been raped,’ ” Wilcox says. Ripley had gone to a downtown club to celebrate her sister’s birthday. She had danced and “made out,” she recalls, with an attractive young man with diamond stud earrings and a white-striped red leather jacket. “I wouldn’t have considered him even interested in me,” she says. But what happened between when she went to settle her tab at the bar and when she found herself in a hospital bed—the right side of her face badly bruised, her genitals severely injured—were little more than fragments or f lashes of memory: being dragged from the club by her dance partner; the man pulling out his penis in the shadows of the parking garage.

The hospital called the Salt Lake City Police Department, as it’s required by law to do when there are allegations or evidence of sexual assault. An SLCPD officer arrived to take an initial report. A SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner) nurse also came to provide care and counseling, and to perform, with Ripley’s consent, a rape kit, also known as a Code R, to gather evidence of the crime for possible prosecution. Code Rs, which last from two to four hours, involve not only the collection of the victim’s clothing and undergarments, but also medical and gynecological histories being taken by the nurse; a detailed account of the assault; a head-to-toe physical examination, with particular focus on the genital and anal areas; vaginal, cervical, rectal and anal swabs; and extensive photographing of the victim’s body. The SLCPD officer spoke first to Ripley, whom he described in his report as being “extremely intoxicated.” Several weeks later, Ripley wrote in a journal provided by the Rape Recovery Center, “I vaguely remember him asking if it was consensual, and not really knowing or understanding my situation, or that I had been beat and blacked out, I said yes.” As the nurse then worked on Ripley, the officer asked Ripley’s sister where they had been. When she told him, Wilcox recalls, the officer said he “would never allow his

daughter to go to that place, that rapes happen there all the time. He was very judgmental to us.” The officer told the SANE nurse that what had taken place in the parking garage had been consensual and told her to leave. An hour after he arrived at the hospital, he closed the case as unfounded, having made no effort to interview anyone at the club or the neighboring parking garage, to trace the women who had found Ripley, or collect data from Ripley’s cell phone. Ripley later wrote in her journal that as she lay in her hospital bed and “started to really think of what had happened, I realized it was not consensual—I wasn’t even in the right state of mind to give consent.” The SANE nurse, concerned that the initial officer’s take had been inaccurate, called a second officer to the hospital to interview Ripley and pick up the completed Code R. But the detective who handled Ripley’s case told her there was little he could do, that the processing of the rape kit by the Utah crime lab could take three months to three years. Her case drifted into limbo. She learned that it had been screened with the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office—and subsequently declined for prosecution because the suspect was unknown— only when she asked for a copy of the police reports relating to her case after being contacted by City Weekly for an interview. That’s the fate of many rape cases, says Holly Mullen, executive director of the Rape Recovery Center and a former City Weekly editor. “I know we have many clients who put themselves out on a limb, who go through the system, and walk away with nothing,” Mullen says. And a new survey conducted by nineyear veteran SANE nurse Julie Valentine

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early hours of Feb. 5, 2012, a group of young women found Jessica Ripley curled up on the ground in the parking garage of the Shilo Inn in downtown Salt Lake City. Ripley’s face “was very bloody, and she was naked from the waist down—with her panties around her feet and a used condom nearby,” according to a police report.

shows that Ripley is far from being the only Utah rape victim who hasn’t received justice. In the 270 rape cases Valentine looked at, just 6 percent resulted in a conviction. Despite the dismal nature of her survey’s results, Valentine says, “The good news is we know. Now we have a baseline from which to improve.” But some see these starkly low figures— and the ensuing reaction in the criminaljustice system, which ranges from handwringing without action, to finger-pointing, to skepticism of Valentine’s survey and its results—as evidence of an ongoing war against women. In Utah, according to earlier studies, 1 in 8 women reports having been raped at least once in her lifetime. And rape is the only crime, some argue, where victims are often viewed not as victims, but as being responsible for being raped, whether because of what they were wearing, where they went or the alcohol they drank. The majority of sexual assaults are never reported and, according to the Utah Commission on Criminal & Juvenile Justice, many victims are “concerned about their family or friends finding out about the attack.” And while many victim advocates and members of law enforcement urge victims to report their attack, both to bring the perpetrator to justice and for the victim to regain a sense of control, those who come forward often find themselves being victimized a second time by a system that does not understand what has happened to them. In her journal, Ripley wrote about resenting police officers and the media for their disinterest in her rape. “My case wasn’t important enough to check evidence immediately or be reported on the news, ’cause I’m some dumb, fucking drunk girl who they think consented and somehow beat herself up and bruised and cut herself and is making it all up; because I was drinking, my case doesn’t matter.” Victims submit “their bodies for collecting evidence, and law enforcement and the court system often fail to do anything with it,” says Alana Kindness, executive director of Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault (UCASA). SLCPD did submit Ripley’s rape kit for screening with the Utah crime lab. Seminal fluid was found, and a DNA profile was loaded into a nationwide FBI database. But Valentine’s survey revealed that half of rape kits involving unknown suspects languished on police-department shelves. Valentine says the survey is a chance for the state to improve how it looks at sexual assault, both by law enforcement and by the general population. Former sex-crimes prosecutor Michaela Andruzzi, who now works as a defense attorney, says the survey should be a matter of community debate. “Women are the majority of survivors of sexual violence,” she says. “When a woman is sexually violated, it affects her, her children, it has a ripple effect ... it does touch everything. It’s a community issue, not just a woman’s issue.”

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screened them with the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office. Valentine, an assistant professor in The results were “shocking,” law Brigham Young University’s College of enforcement and prosecutors say. Nursing, says that after a few years working The key information the survey sought with SANE, nurses “either get depressed was the most disturbing: 94 percent of the and get out or decide, ‘I can make a differ270 cases in the survey did not result in ence.’ ” The survey, she says, is her way of prosecutions. Of the 6 percent of cases that calling for change. were prosecuted, 1 in 6 resulted in a conThe status quo, she says, “has been viction at trial; the rest saw the defendant pretty awful. Rape is something people plead guilty or plea-bargain out. don’t want to talk about, but if we don’t talk Collateral information from the survey about it, nothing will change.” also raised red flags: initial responding In early November 2013, Valentine preofficers or detectives closed two-thirds of sented the results of her survey to memthe 270 rape cases without first screening bers of the Sexual Assault Response Team with a prosecutor to see if charges could (SART), a 10-year-old collaboration between be filed. In the 130 cases where detectives UCASA and sexual-assault responders to cited reasons for closing cases, the vicencourage dialogue between law enforcetim either didn’t want to pursue the case, ment, prosecutors, forensic-evidence gath“didn’t want to cooperate” or couldn’t be erers and rape-victim advocates. located, or the suspect was unknown. Sexual-assault responders say that prior Of the third that actually made it to to that meeting, prosthe DA, prosecutors ecutors and sex-crimes declined to file charges In a survey of SANE detectives—w ith the on 75.5 percent. cases in Salt Lake exception of Salt Lake “Not h i n g gets County from 2003 to County’s special-victims done,” Ripley says. unit chief, Blake Hills; “I don’t get it. Why 2011, West Valley’s Detective don’t they talk about Just i n Boa rd ma n; this more in puband Sandy’s Detective lic? I don’t think Andrea Hanson—were people have any idea typically absent. But at of how many people the November 2013 SART are raped.” of adult sexual meeting, detectives from But the surassaults were not several agencies new to vey results came SART were in attendance as no surprise to prosecuted to hear the findings of rape-v ictim advoValentine’s survey, which cates and volunteers studied a sample of the cases between 2003 who do rape-crisis work at domesticand 2011 where a SANE nurse took a Code violence shelters, the nonprofit Rape R kit from a rape victim who also willingly Recovery Center or UCASA, or work for law spoke to law enforcement. enforcement or the DA’s Office. Out of 1,657 SANE-involved cases, The Rape Recovery Center’s Mullen says Valentine looked at 30 randomly sampled the survey puts “actual numbers behind adult cases for each year—270 cases total. anecdotal evidence of frequent victimShe then followed the fate of those cases blaming and disregard that we see and as Salt Lake County’s 11 law-enforcement hear every day at the center.” agencies either ended the investigations or

94%

SURVEY RESULTS • In Salt Lake County, 34% of SANE-related sexual-assault cases from 2003-2011 were screened with the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office by law-enforcement agencies. 66% of cases were not screened. • Out of cases referred to the DA’s Office from 2003-2011, 24.5% resulted in sexual-assault charges filed. 75.5% were declined. The results of criminal-case outcomes during these years: 91% not charged 3% charged but later dropped 5% pled or plea bargain reached 0% trial with acquittal 1% trial with conviction In Salt Lake County from 2003 to 2011: 94% of sexual-assault cases were not prosecuted 6% of sexual-assault cases were prosecuted

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Ripley wrote in her journal that as she lay in her hospital bed and “started to really think of what had happened, I realized it was not consensual—I wasn’t even in the right state of mind to give consent.”

In a letter to sexual-assault responders, Mullen wrote about one victim who had been questioned by a Unified Police Department detective. His questions included, “How many times have you had sex in the last month? When you were with this [suspect], was the sex pleasurable?” Those at the November 2013 SART meeting heard victim advocates employed by law-enforcement agencies complain that officers all too often took the view that all rape cases were “B.S.,” that “very few of ours are real cases.” Advocates at the meeting said that while they tell clients that the Code R and going through the justice system will aid recovery, they are also careful to tell victims that they shouldn’t “hang their healing” on the outcome of their case. “It’s really difficult to encourage clients to go through such an invasive experience” as the four-hour evidence-gathering rape kit, Amanda Thorderson of the Rape Recovery Center said at the meeting, “knowing there is such a small chance anything is going to happen.” Of the 178 cases in Valentine’s survey that were closed by law enforcement, officers supplied reasons in 130. The most common reason was “victim did not want to pursue,” in 25 cases. Without a victim, officers say, you rarely have a case. “Unable to contact victim” (24 cases), “unknown suspect” (21 cases) and “uncooperative victim” (15 cases) were also key factors in cases not moving forward. Officers say that the reasons blur into one another. A witness is uncooperative because she does not want to pursue, so therefore she does not respond to phone calls or e-mail. But, some ask, why would a victim consent to an invasive exam and talk to law enforcement, and then decide not to pursue her case? Chief Chris Burbank of the Salt Lake City Police Department, the agency that investigated Ripley’s rape, says that the big question that comes out of the survey is, “How are we treating victims? When we look at reluctant victims, is the process part of what is driving these numbers?”

Top: Jessica Ripley at the 2013 SlutWalk in Salt Lake City.

Below: Ripley’s face after she was raped in 2012. The process of examinations and interviews, he says, “is hard on victims, it really is.” SLCPD has the largest number of rape cases in the county, close to 100 annually. Given the volume of cases his officers deals with, Burbank says, officers are going to focus on cases where they think they have a chance of success. “That’s a sad statement to make; that’s reality for all of us,” he says. One veteran officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he did

Number 25 24 21 15 13 5 4 4 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 130

*The Utah Bureau of Forensic Services investigated those cases with the reason of “Unknown suspect” listed and found that 50 percent of those Code-R kits were submitted for analysis. The italicized reasons listed in the above chart indicate that the sexual assault was a false report. Multiple evidence-based studies indicate that between 2% and 8% of sexual assault cases are false (Lonsway, Archambault, & Lisak, 2009; Lisak, Gardinier, Nicksa, & Cote, 2010). This rate is similar to false reports of other crimes.

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SANE nurse and survey author Julie Valentine

When Valentine presented her findings to the District Attorney’s Office, one of the shocked prosecutors turned to the DA’s victim advocate and asked her if it seemed accurate. She said yes. “What none of us anticipated was that there were so many cases that were never actually brought and screened, that never even got to the point of declination,” says Salt Lake District Attorney Sim Gill. But while he says the survey has value in the light it sheds on law enforcement, Gill rejects the picture it paints of his office’s low declination rate. “Those numbers don’t match up to the factual reality of what’s going on in the office,” he says. Gill’s special-victims unit chief, Blake Hills, says the small sample size and the narrow focus of the survey—to assess the impact of SANE on rape prosecutions— have been misunderstood “by certain groups [who] are using them to make conclusions about declination rates for all cases.” Valentine acknowledges that the annual declination rate on a year-by-year basis was debatable, but she notes that “the overall percentage of 75 percent declination is a more reliable finding, as it has a larger sample size,” namely all 90 referred cases. One former sex-crimes investigator says part of the reason behind the low number of cases brought to the DA’s Office for screening is that cops get sick of filing cases that get turned down by the DA. The ex-investigator, who spoke on condition of anonymity, recalls detectives who would work for three years before they had “their first true adult rape. So many of them, you work your butt off, and the charges never come. It comes down to how you prove coerced against consensual sex. There’s a huge number of cases where alcohol is

THE THING ABOUT THE TRUTH

following the rape, including her interview with a SANE nurse. “The investigation is focusing on the behavior of the victim, not on the behavior of the suspect before and after the incident,” Kindness says. “Perpetrators of rape and sexual assault count on that, and this is why they target victims who are intoxicated or are otherwise in a vulnerable situation that will create obstacles for investigation and prosecution.” One of those obstacles, says Valentine, is that a victim’s “memory gets so scattered by trauma, the perception by law enforcement is they’re just making it up.” Defense attorney Andruzzi says that officers start “from the premise that the victim is lying and has to prove they’re telling the truth.” That’s an expectation that former Utah County prosecutor Donna Kelly says is based on an erroneous view of how a victim should behave after a traumatic incident. Kelly has been training law enforcement, prosecutors and judges in victim-centered responses as part of a new, grant-funded position at the Attorney General’s Office. “Professionals in the criminal-justice system—not just law enforcement— are trained to detect ‘lying,’ ” she says. “The problem is with sexual assault and domestic violence, they are interviewing people who have been traumatized.

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not have permission from his supervisor to talk to the media, says, “I handled a lot of rapes as the initial responding officer years ago, and I never had one ‘legit’ rape where it would ever be prosecuted.” He contrasts those cases with a recent rape of a student in a fast-food restaurant. When officers heard about the case, he says, the reaction was universal: “Wow! A real legit rape,” and a suspect was quickly apprehended. One longtime victim advocate, who spoke on condition of anonymity, doesn’t hold back her anger or her tears. The survey results tell her, she says, that “if you’re a victim, you’re screwed, and you’re going to get fucked twice: once by the perpetrator, and a second time by the system.” If she or one of her loved ones were ever raped, she continues, she wouldn’t report it—she would take matters into her own hands, and find a good defense attorney.

New research in the field of neurobiology shows that many of the signs law enforcement traditionally considered signs of lying are actually signs of trauma, but law enforcement doesn’t know that.” Of course, there’s “the elephant in the room,” as Valentine calls it in her presentation, of false reporting. The survey, in line with FBI crime statistics, shows that only 8 percent of the 130 cases were false reports. But that doesn’t match some officers’ perspectives. Sandy Police Department’s sex-crimes detective Andrea Hanson says the ratio of false reports of rape is higher than 1 in 10 as indicated by the survey. She laughs darkly about a recent rash of “insane false reports. It’s very frustrating to put in months of work, you’ve done all this investigation, only to find the victim was lying,” she says. Cara Tangaro was a sex-crimes prosecutor who now works as a defense attorney. She says she saw and sees many “buyer’s remorse” cases. She outlines a scenario where a woman would be dating, engage in sexual activity, ultimately have sex, see her LDS bishop, and then, a week later, report she’d been raped. “I had cases where people who had sex three or four times then reported it as rape.” But sexual-assault responders argue that the perception of epidemics of false reporting stems from cultural myths. “There’s a strong cultural holding in Utah that LDS women … engage in sex, then feel guilty, then wake up the next day and cry rape,” Mullen says. “That is a myth that continues to f lourish and grow in Utah. [But] it’s an arduous, difficult, painful process to come forward to tell someone they’ve been raped. People don’t report rape just for the fun or it or just for attention.”

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Written reason for not screening a case Victim did not want to pursue Unable to contact victim Unknown suspect* Uncooperative victim Insufficient evidence Case cancelled by victim Possible False Report Inconsistent statements by victim Code R/state crime lab did not find seminal fluid Victim has no memory of the incident Victim had mental illness Victim admitted to making a false report Reason unknown Investigative leads exhausted DNA collected in Code R kit ruled out suspect Victim did not know if sexual assault happened Low-functioning victim, did not articulate force Victim claimed consensual sex, no crime committed No sexual assault occurred Victim arrested – False report Victim stated that she was not sexually assaulted TOTAL

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WEST VALLEY CITY: LEARNING FROM MISTAKES After West Valley Police Chief Lee Russo took over his agency five months ago, he authorized an audit of the department’s 260 sex-crimes cases from 2012. That audit found that in 10 cases, investigators’ claims that they had submitted them to the DA’s Office for screening were denied by the DA. Those cases have gone to Internal Affairs, which will investigate whether the officers were lying. Of the three investigators in the unit, Russo says, one was terminated for unrelated misconduct, one subsequently resigned and one was reassigned to patrol. The supervisors were also reassigned. In total, only 16 percent of West Valley’s sex-crimes cases were referred for prosecution, in contrast to the 34 percent county-wide shown by the survey. The deeper question, Russo says, is “why weren’t they being pursued?” Russo says that “officers want to get as much of the story as quickly as they can to move the investigation forward. There are times when tunnel vision makes you forget about trauma, how the victim is perceiving it—we see it as just facts, get the investigation under way.” That “impersonal professional perspective,” he continues, means that law enforcement “can become part of the problem with the victim, just one more overwhelming step in what happened to them.” The survey should not be about pointing fingers, Russo says. Rather, “there’s an obvious problem and we have to fix that problem.” Law enforcement, prosecutors and victim advocates have to come together to define “how we make the system better for victims and hold offenders accountable.” West Valley City is now taking point on trauma-awareness training in sexual-assault cases. It’s starting a one-year pilot program in January with the Attorney General’s Office’s Donna Kelly and W VC Detective Justin Boardman, training all W VC officers and detectives in the neurobiology of trauma. Valentine will measure the impact of training on both law enforcement and victims throughout the year. She says this approach is so new that there is no literature available nationally on how to train a law enforcement agency in sexual-assault trauma. on board, and the physical findings get thrown out.” Detectives, he continues, “don’t screen cases because so many get declined [that] they get sick of working their butt off to go in to hear ‘no’ in the end.” SLCPD Chief Burbank questions the accuracy of the percentage of cases that the survey shows as not being screened— 66 percent—as well as the DA’s assertion that law enforcement isn’t screening adult rape cases. “I don’t think Sim’s office should be pointing fingers back at law enforcement, necessarily,” Burbank says. Detectives send cases to prosecutors for screening, he says, but are then told “it doesn’t sound like something we’re interested in going forward with,” so “there’s no official declination.” He says one question that comes out of the survey is, “Are we doing all we can to move prosecution forward, are we applying enough pressure to the DA’s office to bring the case?”

The SANE survey shows that in two of the nine years, there were seemingly no—or very few—rape cases prosecuted. The survey also shows that for two years during former DA Lohra Miller’s administration—2009 and 2010—there was an uptick in the number of cases being filed and prosecuted. After his 2010 election win, Gill disbanded Miller’s “boutique” prosecution units in favor of generalist prosecutors. This included, much to the dismay of sexual-assault responders, the domesticviolence unit headed by Michaela Andruzzi. Andruzzi complained of being marginalized by Gill, ultimately settling after a two-year fight with Salt Lake County over her treatment by his office. Andruzzi—seen by some as deeply committed to justice for rape victims, and by others as overzealous—focused on intimate-partner-related rape cases and date-rape cases, which typically had gone to the special-victims unit. That resulted

in a unit that became specialized in sexual assault as well as domestic violence. That, in turn, some detectives say, led to more confidence among law enforcement in screening sex cases. Donna Kelly of the AG’s Office says that the “key is training; that’s the holy grail of sexual-assault prosecution.” In many other states, she notes, in contrast to Salt Lake County, prosecutors have gone to specialized units because of the intense level of training required. It also requires personal commitment to a very demanding area of prosecution, where, Andruzzi says, a lack of motivation can derail a victim’s quest for justice or healing. One victim advocate says that she gets multiple calls a week from survivors “who have no sense where their case is at, where they can get services,” having been left high and dry by the detective who put their case aside. While Andruzzi says she tried to always tell victims personally why prosecutors were declining cases, there seems to be disagreement between officers and the DA’s Office over who is responsible for informing the victim if the DA declines the case. “I call my victims, I don’t like leaving it to someone else to make the call,” says Sandy detective Hanson. But, she says, “the prosecutor is supposed to notify them. ... That wasn’t happening; we brought it up, and it was changed.” But Blake Hills, chief of Salt Lake County’s special-victims unit, says, “It’s typically the detective who touches base with the victim to let the victim know what the decision was.” Advocates say such a hit & miss system leaves many rape victims dangling in limbo. “Victims aren’t the easiest people to deal with,” says one advocate, “but to leave them with no recourse, direction or justice. … Just to hear the agony and loneliness in their voices, what do you do with that?” What also dangles in limbo are many of the rape kits SANE nurses collect from victims. The survey revealed that half of the Code R kits in the 21 cases where no known suspect had been identified had not been sent to the Utah state crime lab for processing, meaning that DNA evidence of a rapist—potentially a serial rapist— gathered dust on department shelves.

FEAR OF THE DARK As Valentine presented the survey to different audiences in law enforcement, the court system and sexual-assault responders, concerns quickly emerged about how rape victims, both past and future, would view the figures. Valentine hopes the survey will not discourage victims to report rape and sexual assault. Rape, Valentine says, is about taking away control. “We want every victim who is raped to report. We want to provide care to them. This is their examination, and they’re in control.” Unified Police Department Chief Jim Winder says he also hopes victims will always report. “When you’re victimized, the best approach is to begin to take back control, which means reporting,” he says. “Even in the eventuality that it isn’t prosecuted, hopefully, you’ve saved some other victim. I say dime every one of them out, report it, let us do our job.” In order for a victim to heal, they first have to realize, Valentine says, that “they are the victim of a violent crime, and that they bear no responsibility for what happened.” In spring 2013, Jessica Ripley took part in the SlutWalk, an annual march to the Capitol where women wear whatever they want—from bikinis to burkas—in an effort to dispel the myth that dressing modestly can prevent rape. She held a sign on the walk that read, “I guess the drinks I had and an outfit like this was asking to be drugged, beaten and raped and left in the parking lot at Shilo Inn. Only rapists cause rape.” But though Ripley immediately reported her Feb. 5, 2012, rape, she still struggles to move ahead. “I guess I’m expected to move on, to forget it ever happened,” she says. “I think about it honestly almost every day. You just don’t get over it.” Memories of that night haunt her. She loathes the sight of the Shilo Inn, but can’t escape, she says, “that huge red building that glows at night.” Every night, she walks her dog, and every night, her fear of the dark reminds her of what an unnamed man brutally did to her. “People always ask, ‘Why aren’t you dating, why aren’t you going out?’ ” Her answer is two words, which she says with a slight smile: “I’m broken.” CW

WHAT’S NEXT

At the end of the survey, Julie Valentine asks the question, “What next?” These are some of Salt Lake County’s answers: n Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill told county police chiefs in October 2013 that he wants all adult sex crimes screened face-to-face with prosecutors. n In summer 2014, the DA will start screening all adult sex-abuse cases with a multi-disciplinary team, including law enforcement, prosecutors, victim advocates and related experts. n The Sexual Assault Response Team is developing a protocol how the initial officers responding to sexual assault approach victims. n The Attorney General’s Office’s Donna Kelly continues conducting trainings on neurobiology of trauma with key audiences, including Utah judges.

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Sometimes, art or a text may stand alone without its author or artists’ persona to qualify it, speaking universally to an audience. Sometimes, however—as in the case of artist Marcee Blackerby—knowing something about her makes a lot of difference. “Marcee has always been a searcher and a finder,” says lifelong friend and veteran Salt Lake City journalist Ann Poore. “She seeks out interesting material in the found objects she uses for her art, and in the people she chooses to sit around her table. She’s a published writer on numerology and Chinese astrology. She once ran away to join the circus, rode with a biker group, was a hippie before that was fashionable—and has done all of this in a wheelchair. “ Ken Sanders of Ken Sanders Rare Books, where Blackerby’s works are being exhibited, calls them “art boxes.” With great fondness for Blackerby, he shows me one she made for him with all of his childhood favorites: a Howdy Doody doll, a vintage Dr. Pepper bottle cap, cutout photos of Sanders when he was no more than 5 years old. One might gauge this artist’s personality with the tongue-in-cheek-ily titled “Avenging Angels” (pictured), which uses black feathered wings and gold-leaf dolls on dug-up World War II-era specimens. “[H]er resilience is extraordinary,” Poore says. “Marcee’s art is dreamlike and intricate but immediate and arresting. It’s easy to get lost in and very satisfying in a primal sense.” (Ehren Clark) Marcee Blackerby: Stand & Deliver @ Ken Sanders Rare Books, 268 S. 200 East, 801-521-3819, through Jan. 4, free. KenSandersBooks.com

The 13 feature films made by Pixar Animation Studios have given kids of all ages plenty of memorable characters and stories, but also lots of wonderful music. The characters and stories, as great as they are, become only more powerful when set to a musical score that captures the essence of what is happening on the screen. This weekend, fans of the movies will get the chance to hear that music played by a full symphony orchestra, with high-definition clips from the movies shown in the background to help set the stage. The program will feature 13 different numbers. The list includes music from Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, A Bug’s Life, Wall-E, Cars, Up, The Incredibles, Monsters, Inc., and the most recent original Pixar story, Brave. The compositions, by Randy Newman, Thomas Newman, Michael Giacchino and Patrick Doyle, range in style from jazz to pop to classical, and have won three Oscars and 10 Grammys since Toy Story— Pixar’s first feature—premiered in 1995. If you’re going to have talking toys, robots falling in love, cars with personalities and friendly monsters, you’re going to need some imaginative music to keep up with the groundbreaking developments on the screen. Whether your favorite characters are Woody, Lightning McQueen, Nemo or another computer-animated creation that comes to life on screen, the evening will present a chance to focus on the music that has helped to create great memories for many movie-goers. (Geoff Griffin) Utah Symphony: Pixar in Concert @ Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, Jan. 3-4, 7 p.m., $18-$50. UtahSymphony.org

Iranian-born, Los-Angeles based painter Tala Madani is the second recipient of the Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting. Her animations, now on display at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, utilize broad strokes, both in the painterly sense and in their subject matter. They present cartoonish portrayals of masculinity—paunchy, middle-age men, often clad in swimming trunks. Her color palette partakes of the bright hues of American abstraction, and there is something very in tune with the West Coast at work here. The blank, white backgrounds on these panels, serial as in the mode of cartoons, reinforce the cartoon sensibility, but the lack of captions denotes a tacit understanding between her subjects, a secret world we can observe but never really penetrate or decipher. There is also a tension between the humorous aspects of her works and the competitiveness and violence exhibited by the characters that disfigures them to the point that they’re at times rendered into abstract figures, instituting the painterly gesture as one of violence and disruption to the subject. Her work is a striking demonstration of the power that painting can possess. The first recipient of the Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting, Kim Schoenstadt, exhibited works using the visual language of architecture. The prize was established in 2011 by the The Jarvis & Constance Doctorow Family Foundation at UMOCA, and has become a major part of the museum’s commitment to showing innovative and challenging works of art. (Brian Staker) Tala Madani @ Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Jan. 4., free. UtahMOCA.org

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Stand-up comedy can explore some fairly common general topics: relationships, everyday frustrations, etc. Owen Benjamin visits all of these areas, but he’s also got a secret weapon: music. The son of an opera singer, Benjamin trained as a classical pianist for years before making the move to comedy. He’s landed recurring bits on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, a couple of regular Web series and small parts in movies including The House Bunny and Adam Sandler’s Jack & Jill, and recorded a comedy CD, High Five Til It Hurts. It’s the classic career arc of a comedian on the rise. And Benjamin’s got great material—much of it for adults only—about sex, alarm clocks and the joys of being a dog-owner. “Dogs exist to remind us how great life is,” Benjamin says. “You’re like, ‘Today’s gonna suck.’ Not if you have a dog. … He’s like, ‘Dude, just say the word “outside,” I’m gonna lose my shit.’ … And if you don’t go outside after saying ‘outside,’ you’re the biggest dickhead on the planet. That’s the only time you’ll see the dog look like a Sarah McLachlan commercial.” But he can really kill it when he gets behind the piano, using atmospheric music to underscore his descriptions of the way men’s and women’s minds work, or building to a manufactured crescendo of a power ballad. Then again, by the time the show is over, you won’t need to be told to go nuts for this guy. (Scott Renshaw) Owen Benjamin @ Wiseguys West Valley, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801463-2909, Jan. 2, 7:30, Jan. 3-4, 7:30 & 9:30, $12. WiseguysComedy.com

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The idea of a “New Year’s Resolutions for the Arts” feature came about as one of those seasonal exercises that are sincerely intended, but often fairly fluffy. Then, I realized it was hitting me where I live. My academic background and experience in film, literature, theater and comedy make me feel fairly confident when I’m covering those areas. But when it comes to others—dance, visual arts, classical music—I’m an autodidact often scrambling to really know what’s what, depending on my talented, knowledgeable freelance contributors to carry me. So, for 2014, I’ve committed myself to reinforcing my shaky foundation in some of these areas. I’ll be heading out to more Utah Opera (UtahOpera.org) productions—which should be in my sweet spot, given my general love of musical theater, yet has too often been the last thing I’ll find room to fit into my schedule. Ditto for Ballet West (BalletWest.org) and Utah’s other extraordinary dance companies. And there’s plenty of room for beefing up my visual-arts knowledge, so perhaps the next installment of the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art’s Art Fitness course (UtahMOCA.org/art-fitness) would be the ideal way to expand those horizons. With so many amazing local artists, I can’t help but want to know more. Meanwhile, here are the 2014 arts resolutions from three of City Weekly’s regular contributors.

Jacob Stringer Utah is known around the world for its natural beauty, from the southern red rock deserts to the alpine environs of the High Uintas. It’s also one of the main reasons why many Utahns choose to live here in an often-stif ling political and religious atmosphere. But even though I do spend a good portion of my free time climbing rocks, biking mountains and running rivers, I have yet to see the equinox sun rise or set at the astrologically aligned art piece called “The Sun Tunnels,” created out in the west desert in 1976 by artist Nancy Holt. This year, I plan to fix that. A nd in a similar environmentalart vein, I also resolve to visit Robert Smithson’s iconic 1970 earthwork, The Spiral Jetty, at least once during each season, paying personal witness to how the natural elements play off the largescale sculpture, which is set into the idiosyncratic landscape on the shores of the Great Salt Lake.

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The boutique seems moderately priced, although highly fashionable. A nother wonderful draw is that Mod a-go-go will be participating in Salt Lake Gallery Stroll beginning Jan. 17 at 6 p.m., with a show of abstract works.

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In 2014, I resolve to go listen to more art talks accompanying openings at local galleries. There are wonderful stories behind the artworks, and it’s enormously instructive to listen to artists discuss their methods, and the aesthetics and theoretical underpinnings of their work. This past year, I heard Nancy Holt discuss her breakthroughs in environmental “earth art”—an artistic genre she helped create— at her retrospective at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (410 Campus Center Drive, 810-581-7332, UMFA.Utah.edu). A lso at UMFA, Martha Wilson discussed her controversial, often gender-bending work and the history of the Franklin Furnace art center in New York, which she founded. I hope to make it to more events like those this year. Finally, I want to support more local artists by actually buying their work. You can support local galleries and artists by attending their shows, but if artworks don’t sell, eventually, the exhibits won’t happen. Many local artists have reasonably priced works, and I have a small collection of favorite pieces—not just artwork, but books on local artists. A favorite of mine is University of Utah art professor Tony Smith’s Fuck You: Finally A Book About Me, a coffee-table-book collection of his whimsical works. But there’s nothing like the feeling of owning an piece of art, taking it home and putting it up on your wall. CW

Being a die-hard for all things midcentur y ( give or take 10 years), I find that my ears perk up like a Howdy Doody doll when they catch the ring of something along the likes of Mod a-go-go (242 E. South Temple, 801-355-3334, Mod AGoGo.com), and I have to investigate further in true Hardy Boys fashion. So, I scrambled for the website, because I have a resolution for this new year: no more sitting at home ever y evening with my none-too-conversational kitt ycat, working on endless writing projects. Mod a-go-go may be just the thing to get this crust y art critic out of his selfimposed exile. What my sleuthing discovered might be the coolest of cool; we are talking Miles Davis’ Birth of the Cool cool. The spaces are all used for showcasing a mid-century, Great experiences (left to right): Utah Opera’s 2013 high-modern, eclectic range production Fatal Song, Nancy Holt’s “Sun Tunnels,” of fine home décor.

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with a dire need to protect your identity, or you’re a troll who uses anonymity as a shield for your overbearing—and usually ignorant and ugly—opinion. Geeks are passionate. I get that. It’s one thing we’re really good at. We’re passionate about what we love, we’re passionate about what we hate—and, ironically, we’re even passionate about what we’re ambivalent about. We’re always ready to offer an opinion, and too often no one actually asked us for it. So that’s what we, as a community of geeks, should resolve for 2014. The passion we have for things is what’s important. We need to encourage that passion in others, whether we like what they’re passionate about or not. We will not—cannot—channel that passion into negativity. If we don’t foster positive passion for geeky things we don’t understand, at the end of the day, we are all just trolls. And no one likes a troll. Trolls feed on that negative energy, and their hunger knows no bounds. We can feed them all we want, but we’ll never sate their evil lust—so why even try? CW Bryan Young is the editor-in-chief of BigShinyRobot.com

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t’s once again the time of year for New Year’s resolutions that we’ll keep for a few months and then forget about by spring. Last year, in the realm of geek, I suggested you start a hold at your local comicbook store, play more board games and read classic geek books that you’d never read before. Those are all still important things you should think about, but this year, I think there’s something you can do to make your geek life and the geek lives of others a lot better. It will be no simple challenge, because we’re all strong-willed geeks with fierce opinions, and we feel the need to debate every point and take steaming craps on things we don’t like. But here’s a suggestion for a New Year’s resolution: Don’t do that. Don’t be a troll, and don’t feed the trolls. Everything out there, no matter how bizarre it might seem to us, brings someone a bit of joy. We might not understand it, but why tell those people they’re wrong? Reserve your ire for something truly damaging to the world. The fact that someone likes some bit of geekdom that you don’t—or vice-versa— is not reason enough to work yourself up into a froth. You’re only ruining your day and the day of someone else by arguing ceaselessly about something. As an ardent defender of the Star Wars prequels, I’m often on the receiving end of these missions. I’ve learned to tune them out, but seeing me happy about the prequels brings out a rage in some people. And it doesn’t make any sense. I don’t get mad when people like The Matrix, which I find preposterously bad. When someone says they like The Matrix, I don’t get on a high horse and tell them they’re an idiot for doing so. This resolution is about keeping your opinion to yourself when it’s not wanted and it doesn’t matter. It’s bad enough to do this in person, but doing it online is even worse. Facebook is never the proper venue for an argument with strangers about the superiority of someone’s opinion. And never, ever engage in a serious debate or conversation online with someone who is anonymous. If you’re protecting your anonymity on the Internet, either you’re a legitimate whistleblower

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Natalie Whipple: Blindsided In 2013’s Transparent, Utah author Natalie Whipple introduced readers to Fiona McClean, a teenager in a world of mutants whose ability to become invisible had made her a valuable asset to her crime-boss father, until an assignment to commit murder inspired Fiona’s mother to have them both flee for an attempt at a normal life. Of course, dad wasn’t inclined to let her go easily. In Whipple’s follow-up, Blindsided, Fiona is still trying to find normalcy, and perhaps even the chance at a happily-ever-romance with Seth, the one boy who can see through her invisibility. But when you’ve lived the kind of life Fiona has, no change is ever that easy. And just a few months after Fiona thinks that her family and friends might be safe, a crime syndicate and the military start prowling around her small Arizona town. Join the author for a reading and signing bookrelease event. (Scott Renshaw) Natalie Whipple: Blindsided @ The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801484-9100, Jan. 2, 7 p.m., free. KingsEnglish.com

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For a production with a 15-year history, Stephen Sondheim’s Road Show isn’t exactly the household name that many of the composer’s other shows are. That’s because it has evolved through multiple names and incarnations—from Wise Guys to Bounce to Road Show—since it debuted in New York in 1999. But they’ve all followed the story of the Mizner brothers—Addison and Wilson—told in flashback after Addison’s death. In the late 1890s, the two brothers head north from California for the Yukon gold rush, but approach their opportunity for wealth from very different perspectives—Addison working relentlessly, Wilson diving into gambling and shady deals—as their respective quests for success take them across North America over the course of several years. Wasatch Theatre Company’s production gives the sibling dynamic even more energy by casting real-life brothers Cameron and Quinn Kapetanov as Addison and Wilson. (Scott Renshaw) Wasatch Theatre Company: Road Show @ The Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Jan. 3-18, 8 p.m., 2 p.m. matinees Jan. 4, 11 & 18, $15. ArtTix.org

From the dispiriting depths of a 1-14 start full of injured players, the Utah Jazz have become an almost respectable team, as young franchise cornerstones Trey Burke, Alec Burks, Derrick Favors and Gordon Hayward have, at various times, showed flashes of super-stardom potential. The last loss before that upturn, coinciding with Burke’s addition to the starting lineup: a 95-73 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder, one of the top teams in the Western Conference. This week, the Jazz get a chance for some home payback, and to discover just how far they’re progressing as the season moves toward the halfway mark. Kevin Durant, Serge Ibaka and company come to town with a series of impressive victories under their belts. Are the Jazz becoming the kind of team that can give the top dogs in the NBA a real fight? This early in 2014, we might get a glimpse at the future. (Scott Renshaw) Utah Jazz vs. Oklahoma City Thunder @ EnergySolutions Arena, 301 W. South Temple, 801-325-7327, Jan. 7, 7 p.m., $7.75-$256. UtahJazz.com

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Satisfaction: A Rolling Stones Experience It’s not an easy life being part of a tribute band. No matter how talented you may be, there’s always that “but” attached: Sure, you’re good, but you’re just riding on another band’s coattails. Sometimes, though, everything comes together and an act catches the attention of the band to which they pay tribute, and gets a nod of approval. That happened for Satisfaction: A Rolling Stones Experience after nearly a decade of performing, when Mick, Keith and the gang approved them for long-term engagements with the Walt Disney Corporation, making them a de facto “official” tribute band. They even helped with promotional work for the Martin Scorsese-directed Rolling Stones concert film Shine a Light. After more than a thousand performances in Las Vegas and around the world, Satisfaction—with Chris LeGrand (pictured) as Mick Jagger—continue to be the next best thing to spending a night together with the World’s Greatest Rock & Roll Band. (Scott Renshaw) Satisfaction: A Rolling Stones Experience @ Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, Park City, 435-649-9371, Jan. 2, 8 p.m., $29-$50. ParkCityShows.com

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my lovely wife was incredibly decadent: Homemade butternut squash ravioli is served with tongue-tingling garlic brown butter, balsamic reduction and Asiago cheese. It’s that wonderful contrast of sweet and salty that Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup addicts like myself love so much. Back in the day, Caffé Molise featured lasagna that came from then-owner DeProto’s grandmother’s recipe. It’s still on the menu: a traditional, hearty, meat lasagna made with a blend of seasoned beef, Italian sausage, ricotta, Asiago and marinara sauce ($15.95). Another terrific choice is involtini di pollo ($19.95)—thin slices of boneless chicken breast rolled and stuffed with sun-dried tomatoes, prosciutto, herbs and Asiago, served with a silky white wine and butter sauce. It’s not easy to make chicken involtini that doesn’t dry out from cooking, but Caffé Molise’s was tender and moist. And the kitchen was quite accommodating when my friend asked if they could make this dinnertime menu item during lunch. They did, and it was delicious. I’m not a vegetarian, and I’m also not crazy about eggplant. However, in the service of restaurant criticism I thought I should try the polpette di melanzane ($15.95). Well, it turns out I loved the vegetarian eggplant “meatballs,” served in a shallot and tomato-cream sauce with grilled asparagus and polenta wedges. Caffé Molise isn’t the newest kid on the block—BTG is—but this little jewel of an Italian restaurant is aging like fine Barolo. CW

The appetizers are whoppers—big enough for a quartet to share. We started off with what I consider the best bruschetta around: toasted, garlic-rubbed bag uette slices drizzled with olive oil and topped with a scrumptious herb-infused bean puree, marinated Roma tomatoes and flash-sauteed spinach ($8.95). An equally awesome appetizer is the homemade polenta ($9.95). This is what, to my mind, Molise does best: straightforward, no-nonsense dishes without smoke and mirrors. The large polenta cakes are roasted and then served with a fresh, simple tomato-basil sauce that tastes like it came straight from the garden. Just as simple and rewarding is aglio e pomodori ($6.95), which is nothing more than roasted garlic drizzled with olive oil and served with fresh herbs and sundried tomatoes. Killer cooking doesn’t have to be complicated. With wineries like Soter, Bucklin, Latour, Rosenblum, Caymus, Judd’s Hill, Altamura, Orin Swift, Atrea and others represented at Caffé Molise—not to mention a smart selection of beers, dessert wines, liqueurs, spirits and digestifs—there is plenty to sip alongside a Molise meal. I suggest di Majo Norante Sangiovese ($6/glass) from the Molise region of Italy, or maybe La Valentina Montepulciano d’Abruzzo ($7/glass) to pair with pappardelle al sugo ($15.95). This is a hearty, heavenly dish that begins with perfect pappardelle, made in-house. The pasta is tossed with a rich, deep-flavored sauce of slow-cooked beef, pork and tomatoes, then topped with grated Asiago. It’s one of my top 10 favorite Utah restaurant dishes. I must say, though, the gnocchi di patate ($15.95) is damned hard to top. Fresh, plump potato & semolina gnocchi (small dumpling-like pasta) are bathed in a light tomato-cream sauce and garnished with fresh basil and pine nuts. A plate of ravioli con zucca ($12.95) that I shared with

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ven as we waltz into 2014, ringing in the new year, I’m inclined to take a look at the not-so-new. It’s hard for me to believe, but I first wrote about Caffé Molise back in 1994, when Shelly DeProto owned and ran the then-tiny restaurant. Salt-n-Pepa’s “Whatta Man” and Beck’s “Loser” were on the radio. In those days, the tables and chairs were plastic patio furniture. And, if memory serves, there couldn’t have been more than 10 tables in the place. The menu was minimal. There wasn’t much in the way of authentic Italian cuisine in downtown Salt Lake City in 1994—Olive Garden doesn’t count— and I remember being introduced at Caffé Molise to what is now one of my very favorite go-to dishes: aio e oio, garlic and oil. It’s a simple, yet sensational, dish of nothing more than al dente spaghetti with garlic, olive oil and red chili flakes. Aio e oio is long gone from the Caffé Molise menu, but I’m sort of hoping that as the restaurant celebrates 20-plus years in business (it opened in late 1993), they’ll bring it back, for old time’s sake. Current owner Fred Moesinger has worked at Caffé Molise off and on pretty much from the beginning, including having a hand in its construction. He officially took the reins of the restaurant in 2003, and both the menu and the restaurant itself have grown substantially since. First, there was the addition of a patio in the pocket park adjacent to the Caffé Molise. Most recently, the eatery merged into the former retail shop next door, creating a third dining room at the restaurant. The menu, too, has expanded, Sunday brunch was added, and the wine list has become formidable. And, speaking of wine, Moesinger doesn’t sit on his hands for long. In addition to growing Caffé Molise, this fall, he opened BTG next door. BTG (By the Glass) is downtown SLC’s first wine bar, and features wine flights and more than 50 premium wines by the glass, as well as cocktails, beer and food from Caffé Molise. There is little I enjoy more than a relaxing lunch at Molise, especially sipping wine in the courtyard in warm weather. A recent indoor lunch with the missus and a friend was a reminder of how solid the cooking is at Caffé Molise.

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2012s in 2014 Get ready for the best wine vintage of the new millennium. by Ted Scheffler comments@cityweekly.net @critic1

’m of the opinion that wine vintages don’t matter much—except when they do. Generally speaking, I’m not a vintage watcher. I’ve found great wines in lousy vintages—the 2011 Chateau Montelena Napa Valley Chardonnay comes to mind—and I’ve had crappy wines from supposedly great vintages. The truth is, most of us don’t put our wines away or cellar them long enough for vintages to matter much. The majority of wineries worldwide produce wines that are meant to be consumed upon release, not stored away in a cool, dark cellar for decades. With that cautionary preface, I’ll also say this: The 2012 vintage for California,

Washington and Oregon wines is sensational. It’s looking to be the best vintage since 2007, which was considered by many to be the “perfect” vintage, especially for Napa Cabernet. What makes for a great wine-vintage year? Well, the planets have to line up just so. And then there’s the weather— weather and climate are key. The 2012 grape har vest in California was so abundant that some wineries ran out of room to store their grapes. It was an embarrassment of riches. According to Nick Frey, president of the Sonoma County Winegrape Commission, 2012 was “a great har vest for Sonoma County growers and winemakers. Yields and fruit quality [were] exceptional.” A nd in a Sonoma Count y Har vest 2012 report, winemaker Steve Rued of Rutherford Wine Company called summer 2012—which was “warm, but did not have any real heat waves”—a “perfect summer for grapes. The whites tasted great, with good acidity. The reds all had good color and structure and ver y good f lavors. Not only did ever ything taste ver y nice in 2012, but the crop was about 20 percent above normal. Ever yone welcomed these extra grapes, after the ver y small 2011 har vest. 2012 should turn out to be a ver y good vintage. ”

DRINK Still, what makes for a great wine vintage? Yes, the weather in 2012 was perfect for wine grape growers, but what does that have to do with what’s in the bottles? James Cahill, the talented w inemaker for Oregon’s Soter Vineyards, sheds some light: “A s w ine professionals, we would expect cer ta in at tr ibutes from a ‘great’ vintage. One condition is that you’ll see qualit y from top to bot tom. That is, good wines in a ll pr ice ranges from a w ide variet y of producers. Oregon w ill give you that in 2012. Will you see wines that will broaden your expectations for what is possible here? I think yes.” That’s good news, because Cahill is say-

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ing that we should expect really great wines not just from fancy, expensive bottles, but from “top to bottom,” across varietals, producers and price points. That’s great news for the wine consumer. W hat will these wines taste like? Again, I’ll let the pro weigh in: “For me, one of the distinctions will be a kind of ripe-fruit qualit y that we don’t see ever y year,” Cahill says. “Even from sites that are prized for produci n g ‘fem i n i ne’ st yles w ith high-tone red fruit and aroma, fine acidity and balance, we will see a fruit spectrum that expresses ver y ripe red berr y (almost confection but still fresh) juiciness. 2012 is a ver y special vintage.” Some of the 201 2 whites are already here and reds are star ting to show up, as well. My advice: Stock up. CW

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Top 10 + 5 Expanded praise for a great 2013 at the movies. By Scott Renshaw scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

ast year, I offered a list of only eight best movies of the year, with a few honorable mentions. That’s the kind of year 2012 was. As for 2013: Everyone got time for a Top 29 list? There are plenty of different ways to evaluate the top-to-bottom quality of any given cinematic year, but for me, it’s clear when I’m trying to compile an arbitrary number of titles for a list of the year’s best. Some years, I feel like I’m stretching for those ninth and 10th titles, which may be really good but by no means ready to go in some canonical list. And then there are years like 2013, when I know with certainty I won’t have time or space for at least half a dozen terrific titles. What follows, then, is a list of 15 2013 films that have stuck with me—some of which never played in local theaters commercially at all, some of which are still to come. If it gives you something to add to your Netf lix queue, or your next trip to the theater, I’ll consider the agonizing over what to leave out time well-spent.

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Museum Hours Jem Cohen uses the friendship between a guard at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches museum and a visiting Canadian woman for a mesmerizing exploration of the connection between art and the real lives of real people.

14. Upstream Color Writer/director/editor/ composer/star Shane Carruth (Primer) makes puzzle-box movies—like this tale of two people finding one another after being victims of the same psychotropic manipulation—that are deceptively simple and affecting once you stop worrying about whether you’ve figured out every little plot detail. 13. The Past A family in France is shaken into upheaval by deceptions and misunderstandings, in the latest magnificently constructed work of cinematic theater by Asghar Farhadi (A Separation). Opens in Salt Lake City on Feb. 14.

12. Frances Ha This joyous collaboration between director/co-writer Noah Baumbach and co-writer/star Greta Gerwig takes the familiar material of fumbling through youthful uncertainty and weaves it into something that’s funny and genuinely compassionate about knowing when to keep dreaming and when to settle down and/or just plain settle. 11. Laurence Anyways It’s a risky move by Xavier Dolan to make a movie about the life transition of a transgender person, and make it just as much about the partner whose life is rocked by this revelation. Melvil Poupaud and Suzanne Clément are both magnificent in this look at having to re-learn what love means to you.

10. The Great Beauty Paolo Sorrentino follows an aging one-hit-wonder novelist through a decadent Rome full of all the lovely, superficial distractions that can keep you from extracting anything real from your life. Opens in Salt Lake City on Jan. 10. 9. From Up on Poppy Hill It’s been a pretty amazing year for the Miyazaki family as Hayao’s son Gobo tops The Wind Rises with this lovely, not-at-all-fantastical period piece about a complicated teen romance in 1963 Yokohama that’s astonishingly rich with gentle character moments and animation detail.

More of the Best

The World’s End Remarkably, Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg managed to make a single movie the year’s funniest comedy, its most effectively allegorical science-fiction tale, and its balls-out most entertaining action spectacle, all wrapped in a surprisingly wistful study of trying to move beyond nostalgia to live in the now.

5. The Act of Killing Joshua Oppenheimer’s audacious documentary conceit—allowing perpetrators of genocide in Indonesia free rein to celebrate their crimes cinematically—provides a consistently jaw-dropping tale of what it looks like when history’s brutal winners never have to wrestle with what it cost their souls to win.

ity Weekly’s other film contributors offer alternate perspectives on 2013 at the movies with their own Top 10 lists.

MaryAnn Johanson

10. Frozen 9. The Act of Killing 8. Rush 7. NO 6. Byzantium 5. American Hustle 4. Nebraska 3. Inside Llewyn Davis 2. 12 Years a Slave 1. Gravity

Eric D. Snider

3. All Is Lost Robert Redford uses his iconic

2. Before Midnight After three films and 18 years, the ongoing story of Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) has grown even more magnificent, this time finding more humor and heartbreak in looking at what happens when two people who have been wrapped up in infatuation have finally had to deal with the messy matters of real love. 1. Inside Llewyn Davis Ho-hum, another masterpiece from Joel and Ethan Coen. This one, however, took them to an emotional place that hasn’t really been characteristic of their work, as the often-absurd travails of one struggling would-be folk singer in 1961 Greenwich Village (the sublime Oscar Isaac) turns into a remarkable meditation on grief and letting go. CW

4. Her Tune in next week for a more detailed review of Spike Jonze’s melancholy sciencefiction charmer about a lonely man (Joaquin Phoenix) who falls in love with his computer’s artificial-intelligence operating system. Opens in Salt Lake City on Jan. 10. presence to full effect in J.C. Chandor’s captivating study of a lone man stranded in the middle of the ocean, bringing more resonant, resilient humanity to everything Gravity tried to do.

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8. The Wolf of Wall Street Martin Scorsese re-makes GoodFellas with the American finance industry as gangsters, painting a brutally funny portrait of a world so seductive that it always seems worth the possibility that it could come crashing down at any moment. 7. Like Someone in Love Give Abbas Kiarostami’s mesmerizing trip through contemporary Tokyo more than one viewing to fully appreciate how it encapsulates why the director is so fond of people having conversations in cars: He’s fascinated by discreet units of humanity in motion, perpetually isolated from one another.

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10. Enough Said 9. Stoker 8. NO 7. All Is Lost 6. Short Term 12 5. Philomena 4. Gravity 3. Frances Ha 2. Inside Llewyn Davis 1. 12 Years a Slave 10. We Are What We Are 9. Her 8. Mud 7. You Will Be My Son 6. Gravity 5. Frances Ha 4. The Act of Killing 3. All is Lost 2. Inside Llewyn Davis 1. Upstream Color

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Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones [not yet reviewed] More found-footage horror as a group of partygoers explores the scene of a mysterious death. Opens Jan. 3 at theaters valleywide. (R)

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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug HH.5 Peter Jackson continues to seem so determined to duplicate The Lord of the Rings that he can’t allow this story to be its own distinct thing. This second installment picks up with Bilbo (Martin Freeman) and the dwarf party continuing their journey toward the Lonely Mountain, and an eventual showdown with the dragon Smaug (Benedict Cumberbatch). It’s easy to embrace the movie’s

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom HH.5 The fundamental story arc here is so much more interesting than a stolid “great man” biography, yet director Justin Chadwick never truly allows it to catch fire. He follows the South African antiapartheid leader (Idris Elba) from his career as an attorney through his 27-year prison term for anti-government activity. But William Nicholson’s screenplay also follows Winnie Mandela (a terrific Naomie Harris), and the respective paths Nelson and Winnie take—he towards patient diplomacy, she towards radicalism. It’s a fascinating potential dichotomy, but Winnie gets only a fraction of the screen time, leaving too much time for an earnest march through Nelson’s life. There’s great, thorny material in watching a husband and wife essentially become the Martin Luther King and Malcolm X of a single struggle, but the film bends toward the stately at the expense of the impassioned. (PG-13)—SR Saving Mr. Banks HH.5 Irascible Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) frets that Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) will rob her beloved story of its edge, while John Lee Hancock’s film force-feeds gritty real-

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Grudge Match H.5 Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro played boxers in famous movies a long time ago, so wouldn’t it be funny if they played boxers again now that they are old? It’s not an unworkable premise, but the finished product is sloppy Hollywood dreck filled with obvious old-age gags, surprisingly raunchy jokes and sitcom characters including (but not limited to) Precocious Child, Old Man with No Filter (Alan Arkin) and Fast-Talking Black Guy (Kevin Hart). The boxers, Henry “Razor” Sharp (Stallone) and Billy “The Kid” McDonnen (De Niro), are bitter enemies convinced by a promoter to get back in the ring to settle a 30-yearold score. Their formulaic “grumpy old men” verbal sparring is lowest-common-denominator gristle, weighed down further by sentimental subplots. Thin characters and tired scenarios make the movie a grueling bout to watch. (PG-13)—EDS

Inside Llewyn Davis HHHH Joel and Ethan Coen’s titular hero (Oscar Isaac)—a struggling would-be folk singer in 1961 Greenwich Village—is kind of a dick. But as the Coens gradually parcel out information in their most poignant and human story yet, the character gets increasingly complicated. He’s the kind of self-righteous artist who snorts at “careerist” aspirations, yet he’s also struggling with collapsing or vanishing relationships all around him, allowing the Coens to explore grief, and how easy it is not to confront it. There are still plenty of masterful Coen moments, from tense set pieces to wonderful music, and it might still be one of the year’s best films strictly for its superficial pleasures. But it’s also a heartbreaking look at finally getting those things that are inside Llewyn Davis out, so that he can, at last, say “au revoir.” (R)—SR

47 Ronin H Based on a real Japanese legend stemming from actual events, this version is about a white samurai who helps his cohorts get revenge against a shape-shifting witch; one suspects the story has been embellished. I don’t know enough about the tale to say whether it’s offensive to insert Keanu Reeves as the star (probably yes?), but I know enough about movies to say that this banal, generic samurai epic is flatly uninteresting, tedious and overlong. Reeves’ character—an outcast “half-breed” of unknown origin—has an extraneous, unconvincing love interest in Kou Shibasaki, who pines for him and the others as they seek justice for a rival province’s witch-based treachery. As the sorceress, Rinko Kikuchi almost hams it up enough to be entertaining. But with no engaging characters, plot surprises or stand-out battle scenes, you have to wonder who this was even made for. (PG-13)—Eric D. Snider

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues HHH The original Anchorman had nothing to say beyond “Aren’t ’70s fashions in clothes and misogyny hilarious?” This sequel has some meat to it, as Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) and his team of localnews idiots (Paul Rudd, David Koechner, Steve Carell) invent the nonstop parade of gossip, sensationalism, disaster and shouting that passes for modern journalism at the brand-new 24-hour all-news channel they’ve been hired to help launch. Ferrell and director Adam McKay also co-wrote the script, and they’re not concerned only with satire; they’ve also brought a Monty Pythonesque level of insane nonsense to Burgundy & Co. This is far from a perfect film—wildly uneven, with its big laughs interrupted by long, unfunny, dragged-out bits—but when it works, it’s so deliciously bizarre that it almost makes you not hate Ron Burgundy for ruining the news forever. (PG-13)—MaryAnn Johanson

action side, since Jackson masterfully exploits the geography of big action sequences. But between the return of Legolas (Orlando Bloom) and the introduction of a new elf character (Evangeline Lilly) to allow a romantic angle, everything feels forced into a “remember what LOTR was like” package. If The Hobbit begins to feel exhausting, it’s not just because the movies are long; it’s from the strain of watching a movie devote so much energy to being something it’s not. (PG-13)—SR

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Leave aside Louis C.K.’s low-key FBI middle-manager, and there’s not a subtle thing to be found in all 135 minutes; it’s also hard to completely dismiss its fun brand of un-subtle. (R)—SR

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The Punk Singer HHH The story of a musical pioneer doubles as a unique sort of “coming-out” moment, as filmmaker Sini Anderson profiles Kathleen Hanna, frontwoman for the ’90s feminist punk band Bikini Kill and driving force in the riot grrrl movement. Anderson showcases plenty of terrific archival footage in exploring Hanna’s early artistic explorations in the Pacific Northwest, the charismatic concert performances that focused on empowering the female attendees, and the evolution of her music—plus the key connection between Hanna’s crowd and the rise of a band called Nirvana. But it’s also an attempt to explain why Hanna abruptly stopped performing in 2005, diving into the mysterious ailments that plagued her for years. The behind-the-scenes material with Hanna and husband/ Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz puts a different face on a woman who dedicated her life to giving a voice to women. While there’s some fairly conventional documentary storytelling here for such an unconventional subject, it’s compelling watching Hanna finally be able to give voice to the circumstances that, at least for a while, robbed her of hers. Opens Jan. 3 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—Scott Renshaw

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ism into a story that’s best when it’s whimsical. The fact-based narrative alternates between Travers’ 1961 trip to California to work with Disney on the proposed film, and 1906 Australia, showing Travers as a child with her beloved alcoholic father (Colin Farrell). The focus at the outset seems to be on pleasant light comedy, while the flashback sequences emphasize Travers’ unresolved daddy issues. Yet far too much time is spent underlining family dynamics that were clear after a couple of scenes. Hancock takes a snippet of movie-history trivia and tries to build it into something profound, as though it required a spoonful of medicine to make the saccharine go down. (PG)—SR The Secret Life of Walter Mitty HH What better way to honor a man’s quest for finding what is real and substantial in life than turning it into a two-hour commercial for eHarmony, Papa John’s Pizza, Time/Life Inc. and Cinnabon? Whatever other life lessons might be percolating through this latest adaptation of James Thurber’s story—with Ben Stiller directing and starring as the schlubby Everyman who creates elaborate fantasy worlds for himself—are virtually impossible to find beneath the product placement. As Walter heads off on a globe-hopping trek attempting to save his job, there’s nothing remotely genuine about the way the story unfolds, starting with Stiller miscasting himself as Walter. Once Walter is supposed to get real, Walter Mitty gets real hard to take, with every feel-good moment of playing soccer in the Himalayas crashing into the reality that this movie is always trying to sell you something. (PG)—SR Walking With Dinosaurs H Very loosely based on the groundbreaking BBC program, this

is like a prehistoric nature documentary in which noble narration has been replaced by cutesy Disney-esque characters. Meet Patchi (Justin Long), the runt of the pachyrhinosauruses litter! Meet Juniper (Tiya Sircar), the cute girl Patchi likes! Meet Scowler (Skylar Stone), Patchi’s dumb brother, with whom Patchi fights for leadership of the herd, and for sexual access to Juniper! The educational cards that pop up to share the scientific names of the dinosaurs do not include one that uses the term “sexual access,” but when Juniper goes off with Scowler, we know what’s going on. The sub-vaudeville sitcom humor would not be complete without a “hilarious” “ethnic” character; John Leguizamo must be exhausted from doing this tired spicy-Latino thing, and humiliated every time he’s asked to do it again. (PG)—MAJ

The Wolf of Wall Street HHH.5 Martin Scorsese turns Jordan Belfort’s memoir about excesses in the 1990s world of high finance into a brutally effective variation on GoodFellas’ rags-to-riches-to-chaos arc, following Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) from his humble beginnings through building his own brokerage firm, getting rich selling volatile penny stocks and financing a life of luxury, drugs and hookers. Scorsese takes three hours to tell the story of that empire’s rise and fall, yet it feels nimble and effortless, including plenty of raucous physical comedy. It’s also fundamentally a morality play, with Belfort becoming an analog of GoodFellas’ Henry Hill, dazzled by the extravagant lifestyle his criminality allows. This collection of great set pieces and dynamic performances begins with a familiar setup, then puts the dangerous characters threatening America not on the other end of a gun, but on the other end of a phone. (R)—SR

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Big Ass Spider! An exterminator (Greg Grunberg) and a security guard (Lombardo Boyar) fight to save Los Angeles from, as you may have gathered from the title, a larger-than-usual arachnid from space. If you loved Sharknado, you’ll tolerate this. (Millennium)

Justified returns, Killer Women debuts, Intelligence … why? Community Thursday, Jan. 2 (NBC)

Killer Women Tuesday, Jan. 7 (ABC)

Intelligence Tuesday, Jan. 7 (CBS) Series Debut: Ever met anyone who watches Person of Interest? Of course you haven’t. It’s a crime-procedural involving vague terrorist threats, high-tech intrigue and a whole lotta gun-waving in dark alleys. Since CBS can afford to just toss out generic cop/spy shows with generic-er titles at will, here’s Intelligence … zzz … starring Lost’s Josh Holloway as a “high-tech intelligence operative enhanced with a super-computer microchip in his brain.” Would you believe he’s also a wildcard with little regard for protocol? Because of course that’s the guy you hand the launch codes to. Intelligence … zzz … sorry, keeps happening … is just Chuck with downgraded humor and upgraded Wi-Fi, so it’ll probably last undetected for several seasons.

Justified Tuesday, Jan. 7 (FX) Season Premiere: The ongoing story of Kentucky Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), his criminal frenemy Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) and an everexpanding cast of hilarious/dangerous Southern characters (Season 5’s new blood being played by Michael Rapaport, David Koechner and Alicia Witt, among other surprises) gets smarter and deeper every year;

Justified (FX) if you’re not immersed in the hillbilly-noir world of Justified, fix that. Now. For the rest of us: This season finds Raylan heading south to Florida to deal with the far-scarier kinfolk of Dewey Crowe, while Boyd travels north to Detroit with drug business and springing Ava (Joelle Carter) from prison weighing heavily on his spiky-haired mind. Justified’s first four seasons are on DVD, iTunes and various other platforms—so get on it. [True TV and City Weekly will be presenting Justified on the big screen every Tuesday at Brewvies, 677 S. 200 West, for free at 8 p.m.; 21+]

American Horror Story: Coven Wednesday, Jan. 8 (FX) Return: The Only TV Column That Matters™ is not going to call it a “Winter Premiere.” When did this whole “Winter Finale/ Winter Premiere” idiocy become a thing? The majority of these shows have simply taken two weeks off because, according to the network geniuses, nobody watches TV during Christmas. Anyway … American Horror Story: Coven is back tonight, featuring the long-awaited, sure-to-be-bizarre meeting of Stevie-Nicks-obsessed swamp witch Misty (Lily Rabe) and Stevie Nicks, herself. Now this is an event. CW

A woman (Emmanuelle Vaugier) fakes her own death and assumes a new identity to escape her abusive husband (Ivan Sergei), who easily tracks her down—so she’s not really all that Hidden Away, now is she? Consistency, people. (Vivendi)

House of Lies: Season 2 Marty (Don Cheadle), Jeannie (Kristen Bell) and the rest of the management consultants deal with a new CEO, a douchebag Matt Damon, a dildo mogul (Adam Brody) and a whole lotta sex and drugs. Way more fun than House of Cards. (Paramount)

Thanks For Sharing The feel-bad-then-slightly-less-bad tale of several addicts (including Mark Ruffalo, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim Robbins, Josh Gad, Pink and Patrick Fugit) struggling to figure whether this is supposed to be a comedy or a drama. (Roadside Attractions)

More New DVD Releases (Jan. 7) Archer: Season 4, Badges of Fury, Being Human: Season 3, China Beach: Season 2, Closed Circuit, Copper: Season 2, Duck Dynasty: Season 4, The Following: Season 1, Gone Dark, The Hunters, I’m So Excited!, Inequality For All, Runner Runner, Tiger Eyes, Top of the Lake, We Are What We Are Listen to Bill on Mondays at 8 a.m. on X96 Radio From Hell. Daily-ish TV picks and news at CityWeekly.net/TV.

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Series Debut: Tricia Helfer isn’t one of the better actors to come out of Battlestar Galactica, which probably explains why she’s only played the occasional bitchy villainess in guest roles and Lifetime-movie mom since. Killer Women uses Helfer’s formidable presence well as Texas Ranger Molly Parker, a female cop in a dude-centric world with a profiler advantage: she knows why women kill (not to spoil pretty much every episode, but it’s usually more about “love” than “hate”). Ranger Parker also has an estranged husband (Battlestar alum Michael Trucco) and a DEA agent lover on the side (Marc Blucas), so, you know, parallels and relatables. Could work—ABC has nothing to lose on Tuesdays, anyway (looking at you, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.).

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ith its biting cold, crystalline ice, blowing snow and early gathering darkness, winter has a strange, magical power. When local musician Evan Blades Jolley experienced a Scandinavian winter while working on a farm in rural Norway, it inspired him to begin a music project, called Gothen, which released its orchestral self-titled debut album in September. On the western coast of Norway, north of the city of Stavanger, Jolley lived on a farm that raised sheep and pigs. From October to December 2010, he worked long hours, tending the animals and vegetable patches. Without a cell phone, and cut off from any social media, the isolation and loneliness was sharply felt. To counter those feelings, he turned to writing music. First, he says, “I wrote a lot of poetry,” and then, using only an acoustic guitar and a tape recorder, began putting those words to music. Before his time in Scandinavia, Jolley had dabbled in writing and playing music with his friends. “We used to do songs as the Lord of the Rings characters … we just always were joking,” he says. But it wasn’t until he traveled to Norway that he began taking writing music seriously, inspired by the mythology, history and physical landscape of the location. On the farm, the sun would rise around 9 a.m. and set around 3 p.m. “The midwinter darkness,” Jolley says, “was a major inspiration in the themes I was working on at the time.” The extremely short days and long nights, combined with his almost total removal from digital distractions, made a highly focused creative atmosphere. “When you’re just totally isolated … [writing is] really just all you have,” he says. Jolley was also enamored with the area’s folklore— “darker stuff … magic stuff, witches,” he says—and rich history. Among the sites he visited were several Viking graves, as well as “one of the first inhabited caves in all of northern Europe,” with “little etchings and stuff,” he says. Jolley also spent time in Gothenburg in southern Sweden, an area also known as Götaland, home of the ancient tribe of people called the Goths, who became the namesake of the band he created when he returned to the United States. The word “Gothen,” Jolley says, “sort of embodied the whole trip for me.” Gothen’s sound has “changed a lot since then, because I haven’t been in Scandinavia in a long time,” Jolley says, but that area’s aesthetic was the impetus for the project. It began as a conventional “band,” with Jolley playing with a few friends, but when that didn’t work out, he struck out on his own. Jolley—who sings and plays guitar and piano— discovered more artistic freedom by working as a solo musician: “I found it to be way easier to just do things completely on my own and have people help me,” he says. Almost exactly a year ago, Jolley began the “long

Evan Blades Jolley (Gothen) always dresses for the elements. process” of recording his debut album, a sprawling, often ethereal nine-track beauty that waxes and wanes between periods of throbbing stillness and sparkling bursts of rich instrumentation, with mellow but powerful vocals. Tracks “Mong York” and “Western Captive, Forest Born” stand out especially; they’re stunningly layered, yet cohesive, and show Jolley’s love for ’60s folk music. He chose to keep the album significantly acoustic—with the exception of very slight touches of electric guitar and keyboard—because he “wanted it to be more timeless.” Recorded at Provo’s Black Pyramid Recording and Snow College in Ephraim, the gorgeous baroque/indie-rock album features a wide variety of horns, stringed instruments, percussion and woodwinds played by a large group of collaborating musicians, notably Logan Hone (Bright Whistles), who did all the string arrangements. Between Jolley—who doesn’t read musical notation— and Hone, the two artists had a stimulating give and take throughout the writing process. “I would give him an idea, and then we’d get together and extrapolate how we’d want it to be in strings,” Jolley says. “But he’s got this incredible sense of timing—he’s a jazz musician—so it was a lot of really cool timing things being weaved in and out of the songs. Whereas I love making melodies and different parts.” Jolley emphasizes that the lengthy recording process was arduous. “We did things the longest way you could’ve done it, roundabout way, because I just didn’t have any experience,” he says. “But we still got it done.” It’s fitting that a musical project born out of solitude and isolation remains the realm of only one musician. For Jolley, being a solo musician tends to be a double-edged sword, but he finds that the freedom to write as he pleases outweighs the pressure of making creative choices on his own. “If there’s anything that sucks on the album, it’s all my fault,” he says. “If there’s anything that’s great, it’s probably my fault as well. CW

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ans of folk-rock trio The Lumineers and their rootsy brand of porch-stompin’ Americana are probably already familiar with multiinstrumentalist Stelth Ulvang. He’s a fixture in the band’s live shows, during which he usually plays piano, but can also bust out some accordion, mandolin, guitar or whatever else the moment calls for. But beyond his Lumineers fame, Ulvang— originally from Fort Collins, Colo.—is an accomplished musician and singer-songwriter in his own right and a prominent figure in the Denver music scene, where he played in the bands Dovekins and Paper Bird and performed on the streets as a busker. Ulvang met founding Lumineers members Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites in 2010, a year after they decided to relocate from New York City to Colorado to restart their musical career. He helped them book some shows in town and also influenced the new direction their music was taking. “We started playing on the street a lot, myself and The Lumineers,” Ulvang says. “One of the only ways I knew how to make money playing music was on the street; generally, my music was pretty focused around that, just shouts and attention-getting.” Ulvang’s bluesy style “worked really well with what The Lumineers were doing,” he says, since he typically worked with portable, street-friendly acoustic instruments, and at the time, the band was trying to move away from electric instruments and find a new, acoustic-based sound. After a stretch of time spent busking, “I just started playing random instruments with them and it stuck,” Ulvang says. Since joining The Lumineers’ touring lineup full time in 2012, after Dovekins split up, Ulvang’s been busy, to say the least. In addition to near-constant touring, he’s released two EPs, And As Always the Infinite Cosmos and Demos, Buttons, Loose Strings, online in December, and has plans to release a full-length album in the summer. Ulvang’s solo material is very piano-centric, with his considerable skill on several other instruments creating a lush, multilayered sound. With his fascinating voice, which can both croon and raggedly shout, he sings poetic lyrics like, “You’ve written stories that end without me,” on the song “Carl Sagan.” Whether he’s playing an intimate solo show or a huge Lumineers tour date, Ulvang brings the energy. “When I play solo, I make a point to go as crazy as the crowd will allow.” CW

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Mom’s the Word Maria Taylor’s new album is and isn’t about motherhood. By Brian Palmer comments@cityweekly.net

otherhood has changed how Alabama singer-songwriter Maria Taylor looks at the world, but she knew she had to rein in her doting enthusiasm if she was going to make her new record, Something About Knowing, fly. “I started worrying that the album [would get] pigeonholed as just a new mom/baby record,” Taylor says. “When I started writing these songs, the first two were “Up All Night” and “Lullaby,” and they were about motherhood, my son and this new life experience. And then I said, ‘I need to search within myself and find some other things to write about that other people can relate to.’ ” On Something About Knowing, Taylor— who’s collaborated with Conor Oberst, Moby and other notables—pries herself away from odes to her son long enough to tackle more universal subject matter. The easygoing mid-tempo title track extols the virtues of a simple life, while “Broken Objects” explores the fragility of human nature and the struggles we endure. But “Up All Night” exemplifies the balance she sought to create, both thematically and musically; just as she did not want the album to have one common theme, she did not want this song to be stereotypically languid and soothing, so she tossed in a meaty electric-guitar riff. “I definitely wanted some balance on that one,” Taylor says with a laugh. “What I told [producer] Mike [Magis] with that song was, ‘I don’t want it to be too precious.’ … So, I wanted to give it an edge.” And if that riff sounds familiar—let’s call it a kissing cousin of The Beatles’ “Revolution”—it ought to. “It’s definitely a nod to The Beatles,” Taylor says. “Mike used a mixing board which was George Martin’s—The Beatles’ longtime producer—and then we did the exact same thing with that guitar. We just

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plugged the guitar straight into the board and used the distortion from that. That’s how The Beatles got the same sound for that song, so we actually used the same board that The Beatles used.” Maybe Taylor isn’t starting a revolution from her bed, as Oasis once sang, but given the inherent responsibilities associated with motherhood, making time to record this album was definitely a challenge. “Every minute I had to myself, I would run down to my little studio room and try to record ideas and demo them,” Taylor says. “It took about a year, which is longer than it normally takes me.” At first, even after writing “Up All Night,” Taylor wasn’t sure she still had it in her to keep writing songs, so at that point, she was just thrilled to know she could still write one. “I really wasn’t thinking much beyond the fact that I was just happy I had written a song, because in the middle of [everything], I was thinking I might never have the time or energy to write ever again,” Taylor says with a laugh. Taylor’s subsequent decision to avoid making an album filled with nothing but ooey-gooey love songs to her son may prove to be one of the best choices she has ever made, but that is not to say she does not value her family or her life experiences. In fact, Taylor largely thrives on the personal, intimate feelings that pervade virtually every aspect of her songs. “Most of my songs are just like journal entries,” Taylor says. “I couldn’t have more of a personal connection to them. I usually have all my family and friends play on them, so it feels like this time capsule. I’m sure I’ll listen to some of the songs from this record years from now and still feel the butterflies I was feeling when I was writing this because everything was so new and beautiful in my life at that moment.” CW

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The Reverend Horton Heat Some Reverend Horton Heat fans can be perfectly happy simply playing their copies of The Full Custom Gospel Sounds of The Reverend Horton Heat and Liquor in the Front over and over. But if the new single from Rev— the first new release from the psychobilly legends in four years and the band’s 11th album, out Jan. 21—is any indicator, this new record could be your next favorite. The music video for “Let Me Teach You How to Eat” is full of frontman Jim Heath’s trademark sexual innuendo and twisted humor, featuring a number of curvy pinup gals eating various foods in sexy ways—including, ahem, hot dogs. What else would you expect from a guy who wrote a song called “Wiggle Stick”? With punk-bluegrass band Old Man Markley and Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys) also on the bill, this is a lineup you won’t want to miss. The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 9 p.m., $20 in advance, $25 day of show, DepotSLC.com Slumber Party 5: book on tape worm, jay william henderson, bat manors This fifth-annual “slumber party” won’t involve any midnight refrigerator raids, Spin the Bottle, Light As a Feather or any sleeping, but there will be lots of great music, and everyone is encouraged to get extra comfy by wearing pajamas and bringing pillows. The night is always hosted by local indie-

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Red Telephone, Coyote Vision Group, The Wasatch Fault, The Pentagraham Crackers With all of the holiday nonsense over, it’s time to focus on more important things, like solid local music. This four-band lineup features some of the Salt Lake City scene’s best musicians, and while all the groups are rock-based at their core, each has their own unique elements going on. Red Telephone plays reverbheavy, spooky psych-rock, while Coyote Vision Group brews an interesting concoction of folk and trippy psychedelia. Four-piece The Wasatch Fault—named for, according to their Facebook page, the “time bomb” underneath many Utahns’ houses—plays music that’s rooted in math-rock, but the mostly shouted vocals bring in a scruffy punk feel. Check out their self-titled full-length album, released in October. The Pentagraham Crackers’ unique sound is a sometimes dark-sounding combination of country and punk. The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., free, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

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After listening to the debut album from indie-rock quartet Ahoy, Captain, my first impression is that it’s a shame the band members have decided to go their separate ways. The collection of seven tracks is simultaneously structured and dreamlike, with brisk percussion and snappy guitar lines playing off of atmospheric electronic effects. “Kaleidoscope Dream” starts things off with a two-minute instrumental introduction that effectively foreshadows the album’s overall feel, a point where light-hearted exploration, hope and just a touch of melancholy nostalgia meet. Highlights include “Conquest of the West,” with smooth harmonies between Erin Jones and Josh Price and smile-inducing whistling, and the oceanic-themed “Ahoy!”, with the cute lyric “you’ll be my mermaid, I’ll be your merman.” The album takes an ear-pleasing, ’80s-pop turn with “John Hughes” and “Putt Putt,” which both feature lush, dance-friendly synths and guitar that would fit perfectly into a Cure song. “Out of the Blue” has some absolutely beautiful watery elements happening—even if the hawk sounds are a little silly—that are the sonic equivalent of looking up at the sun from under the sea. Dec. 18, self-released, AhoyCaptain.bandcamp.com

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Just in case it’s not screamingly obvious, these dudes like to drink. They also like to tell as many people as possible that they like to drink. And they like to say so REALLY LOUDLY. There’s nothing subtle or nuanced happening here, just loud, fast hardcore street punk, with straightforward, chugging guitar chords and ear-pummeling drums. Drunk as Shit’s 12-track debut full-length album kicks off with “GABB” and its opening line of “Beer bong! Beer bong!”, and the thrash-y battering ram doesn’t let up until the ending track of “Wasted Life.” The vocals are pretty much unintelligible—except for short, shouted choruses, like “Drink, drink, drunk!” on “Triple D”—with the lyrics shouted/ snarled at breakneck speed, but the booklet reveals that the words aren’t always nonsense. On “No Control,” Ferro yells to “Live your own life” and “Have your own mind.” The catchy, intricate drums (with what sounds like a double bass pedal) are usually the standout factor, especially on “FAWB.” There’s one particularly unoriginal moment on “We Are D.A.S.,” when a slightly jazzed-up version of the guitar line from Green Day’s “Brain Stew” rolls out—hopefully it’s just a homage. Dec. 20, Ballz Out Records, ReverbNation.com/DrunkAsShit

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In the coming months, you are primed to launch a quest that Having such regular contact with a like-minded ally might even will keep you busy and excited for years; I’d love to see you get be an important factor in ripening your intelligence. At the very excellent help in framing that quest. least, I predict that soulful friendship will be a crucial theme in 2014. You will attract blessings and generate luck for yourself SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) In 2014, it’s possible you will be given a cabbage farm or a petting by deepening your ability to cultivate synergistic bonds. zoo or some bequest that’s not exactly in close alignment with your life’s purpose. But it’s more likely that the legacies and GEMINI (May 21-June 20) St. Peter’s Basilica is a very old church in Vatican City. It contains dispensations you receive will be quite useful. The general trend is a life-size bronze statue of St. Peter that is at least 700 years that allies will make available to you a steady flow of useful things. old. Over the centuries, countless visitors have paid their Your ability to attract what you need will be high. In the coming respects by kissing and touching the feet of the idol. The metal months, I may even have good reason to name you an honorary composing the right foot has been so thoroughly worn down by Scorpio. You might match those Great Manipulators’ proficiency these gestures that the individual toes have disappeared, leaving at extracting the essence of what you want from every situation. a smooth surface. You will have a similar kind of power in 2014, Gemini. Little by little, with your steady affection and relentless CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Would you be interested in a motto that will help set the tone devotion, you can transform what’s rigid and hard. for you in 2014? I’ve got a suggestion that’s in alignment with the astrological omens. It’s from a poem by Margaret Atwood. CANCER (June 21-July 22) Big rivers don’t travel in straight lines. Their paths are curvy and Try saying this and see if it works for you: “Last year I abstained complicated, with periodic turns and bends. In some places they / this year I devour / without guilt / which is also an art.” If flow faster and in others they’re slower. Their depth and width you choose to make this affirmation your own, be sure you may vary along the way, too. Your own destiny is like one of don’t forget about the fact that devouring without guilt is an those big rivers, Cancerian. In some years, it meanders for long art—a skill that requires craft and sensitivity. You can’t afford stretches, slowing down as it wanders along a crooked course. to get blindly instinctual and greedy in 2014; you shouldn’t It may even get shallower and narrower for a while. But I expect compulsively overcompensate for 2013’s deprivations. Be cagey that in 2014, you will be moving more rapidly than usual. You and discerning as you satisfy your voracious hunger. will be traveling a more direct route, and you will be both wide AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) and deep. The coming months will be a good time to meditate on the concepts of happy accidents and benevolent trouble. Go ahead and throw LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “In games there are rules,” writes science fiction author Kim constructive mischief into the mix, too, and maybe even a dose Stanley Robinson, “but in life the rules keep changing.” This is of graceful chaos. Are you game for playing around with so much always true, of course, but I think it will be an especially poignant paradox? Are you willing to entertain the possibility that fate has truth for you between now and your next birthday. During the generous plans for you that are too unexpected to anticipate? coming months, you may sometimes feel as if every last law There’s only one requirement that you have to meet in order to and formula and corollary is mutating. In some cases, the new receive your odd gifts in the spirit in which they’ll be offered: rules coming into play will be so different from the old rules You’ve got to be open-minded, eager to learn, and flexible. you’ve been used to, they may at first be hard to figure out. But now here’s the happy ending: It may take a while, but you will PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) eventually see that these new rules have an unexpected logic and I think we humans need some new emotions. It’s true that old standards like sadness, anger, jealousy and fear are as popular beauty that will serve your future well. as ever. But I would personally love to be able to choose from a greater variety, especially if at least 51 percent of the new VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) I predict that you will commit no major acts of self-sabotage crop of emotions were positive or inspiring. Now it so happens in 2014. Congrats! I also foresee that you will be exceptionally that in 2014 you Pisceans will be primed to be pioneers. Your careful not to hurt or damage yourself. Hooray! More good emotional intelligence should be operating at peak levels. Your news: You won’t be as critical of yourself as you have sometimes imagination will be even more fertile than usual. So how about been in the past. The judgmental little voice in the back of it? Are you ready to generate revolutionary innovations in the your head won’t be nearly as active. Yay! Even your negative art of feeling unique and interesting feelings? To get started, emotions will diminish in frequency and intensity. 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