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Though the battle over same-sex marriage continues, the motivation for Utah couples hasn’t changed.

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Letters Holiday Homelessness

I recently experienced homelessness for the first time in my life with my daughter, Abby, 5, and son, Isiah, 4. We are presently residing at The Road Home downtown, where Christmas and Santa arrived with an enormous sleigh full of memories.

I really want to thank the community for being there for us and giving us a very merry Christmas. Especially the two ladies with the trunk full of pizza, who promised next year to bring breadsticks, too! There will be three empty plates next year, I promise.

All in all, I think Salt Lake City has the most caring and giving people on earth. My kids looked like they were dressed by Mitt Romney’s wife, Ann. Abby and Isiah have learned and witnessed something special.

To all those who gave and took the time to care for us and others, thank you very much for giving my kids a Christmas to remember. My pictures I took will always remind me of the generosity we experienced.

Steve Cordova Salt Lake City

This Is What Love Looks Like

As I walked into the Salt Lake County Government Building on the night of Dec. 20 to offer my officiating services, I was gobsmacked. The line of same-sex

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“This is what love looks like,” I thought to myself.

Couples of all ages, from all walks of life. They had their children, parents and lifelong friends with them to stand as witnesses to this momentous day—a day many thought would never come. Not here. Not in Utah.

I heard the question asked over and over: “Is this really happening?!?!” We all felt as if we were in a dreamland.

No one wanted to burst the bubble for fear of waking us all up.

“Look! Those are our names!” one gentleman said, showing his marriage license to his sweetheart of 14 years.

“We’ve been ready for this day for 26 years,” another couple said before saying “I do.”

I believe in marriage equality. I believe in equal rights.

There are many in this state, in my own family, who do not. I couldn’t help but wish that those on the other side of this issue were there that night to witness the love and commitment. The commitment was already there—it has been for years. That night, our gay friends were treated as equals, for the very first time.

What a beautiful thing.

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Congratulations on the excellent article by David Fetzer’s mother, Betsy Ross [“David Fetzer’s Last Act,” Dec. 12, City Weekly].

Ms. Ross writes a beautiful, though painful, memoir of her son. I cannot imagine wanting to live after losing a child, no matter at what age that child may have died.

Her pain is still very raw.

Ross also makes an important indictment of the medical professionals who prescribe addictive painkillers such as Percocet and Oxycontin. I agree that there should be more stringent controls of who prescribes, as well as who receives, these opioids.

Unfortunately, Ross missed the opportunity to intervene on David’s behalf, to speak up forcefully and loudly admit to herself, to her son and to their family physician that her beloved son was addicted to Percocet.

To recognize this missed opportunity is to help other families recognize ways they could intervene, I would hope.

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OPINION

In the Balance

A few days ago, someone sent me a photo series of Licia Ronzulli, an Italian member of the European Parliament. The series begins with Ronzulli raising her hand to vote, with her infant daughter wrapped in a sling on her chest. As the photos progress, the baby grows. In the final photo, the toddler raises her hand to vote with her mother.

The photos are remarkable in an age where the “mommy wars” dictate that you can’t really have it all: You can be a loving mother or a career woman. I love the photos because they remind me of how beneficial it is to have a parent-friendly work environment, and how lucky I am to enjoy a similar childcare situation.

Like Ronzulli, I bring my daughter to work. She attends the on-site daycare where I teach, and I’ve been bringing her to work with me since she was 5 months old. When she was still breastfeeding, I’d eat lunch in the daycare nursery while she nursed. Now, when my students are taking a test, I walk by my window and try to spot toddler Clara playing outside on the playground. (Once I saw her take a scooter away from a much bigger kid and was simultaneously proud and horrified. I made a mental note to start talking about sharing.)

Most of my friends are working parents, and when I tell them about our daycare situation, they are surprised and sometimes envious. Many of them are mothers looking to enter the workforce for the first time since leaving to have children, and finding affordable and quality childcare is hard. And while I love looking at photos of Ronzulli, I wish her photos were not so remarkable. It depresses me that while many men and women would like to be parents and professionals, our society still relies on the mommy wars “you can’t have it all” narrative.

BY STEPHANIE LAURITZEN

In the interest of honest y, I don’t have “it all.” My house is a disaster. Sometimes I am so tired after work that instead of playing with wooden toys I car ved using my own hands, or teaching Clara baby calculus (or whatever it is perfect mommies do), we watch Sesame Street on the couch. Or we play a super-fun game called “let Clara destroy things” while I unwrap a Papa Murphy’s pizza.

A nd sometimes, my students have to wait a few extra days for papers because instead of grading at night, I hung out at the playground or in the kid’s section at the librar y. But we sur v ive, and most of the time, all of us—even my teenage students—are prett y happy. But I also know that I am extremely luck y.

A few of my acquaintances like to blame feminism for the difficult y in achieving sustainable work / life ba lance, but that ’s stupid.

Instead, I’ll reveal my socialist pinko agenda and suggest that both employees and employers still think that providing things like extended maternity leave and affordable childcare is unprofitable. As long as the well-being of corporations outweighs the well-being of citizens, Ronzulli and I will remain luck y exceptions in the working-parent struggle.

But what many fail to realize is that I am a significantly better (and if I weren’t working in public education with a fixed salary, I’d say more profitable) employee because of my work/life balance, not in spite of it. I work harder because I know my employer takes care of not only me, but also my child. I am incredibly loyal to my school. As a result, I work harder to

collaborate with my co-workers, instead of giving up and considering working at another school. I’m more invested in finding solutions to long-term problems in education because I know I can sustain both my work and family life.

An article in Harvard Business Review claims that 90 percent of working mothers who leave the workforce do so because of “workplace” problems like long hours, and the discovery that part-time work often means 40-hour weeks for 20 hours of pay (a problem I definitely ran into when I taught part time). A similar article from BBC.com claims that countries like Sweden, which taxes no more than 3 percent of an employee’s salary for public preschool, see higher rates of retentions among working mothers.

The choice to work outside the home is personal and complicated. There are many great mothers and fathers who make the choice to stay home with their children. However, when I look at the photos of Ronzulli, and when I see Clara outside my classroom window, I remember how important it is to truly have a choice. To choose to stay home because it’s the best choice for your family, not because you can’t afford childcare or the long hours that, so often, are not conducive to family life. Likewise, the choice to work shouldn’t mandate an end to afternoons of Sesame Street and playgrounds. I’m luck y to have any semblance of work/life balance, but I shouldn’t be luck y. Ronzulli and I should be the norm. CW

while many men and women would like to be parents and professionals, our society still relies on the Mommy Wars “you can’t have it all” narrative.

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Paydn Augustine: I drink coffee instead of Wild Turkey in the morning if I have to work.

Jackie Briggs: I just meld them into one.

My friends hate me because I’m always inviting them to “hang out” but I’m the only one getting paid.

Ana Bentz: Work, school and life balance?

Seems like an oxymoron in my books lately. But I try to find that one free day where I can just go bananas with whatever relaxation time or activity I’ve been putting off for days/weeks.

Pete Saltas: I live with the boss.

Paula Saltas: I sleep with the boss.

Bryan Bale: My brain is quite adept at forgetting about things not currently visible. That makes it easy for me to avoid focusing on work while at home (except those times when I dream about working, then wake up and realize that I’m late for work).

Rachel Piper: I try not to check my work e-mail on my phone at the same time that I’m walking and chewing gum; only while I’m doing one of those things.

Kolbie Stonehocker: I’m pretty much working constantly. Luckily, though, I love my job and get to meet all kinds of cool, talented people. And being so busy really makes me appreciate my rare down time.

Scott Renshaw: It helps to have work you love doing so that when the balance shifts that way, it feels like it’s worth it. Also, being drunk as much as possible makes it so you hardly notice the difference.

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by Katharine Biele

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A Broken System This whole same-sex marriage thing has got us thinking differently.

Watching “former sheriff ” Richard Mack ( yes, he was referred to that way three times) on Fox News excoriate the “homosexual agenda” (no, he didn’t like to use the word “gay”) was both funny and embarrassing. Failed congressional candidate Cherilyn Eagar helped sponsor Mack’s appearance in—where else—Utah County to whip up some “outrage” over the issuance of marriage licenses to “homosexuals.” Did Mack realize the hypocrisy when twice he called for “homosexuals” to stop “shoving their agendas down our throats” or “down our kids’ throats”? And then there was reporter Todd Tanner, talking about how Mack thinks the system is broken from the “top-down” and it’s up to the people to fix it from the “bottom up.” And when the Deseret News wrote about the rally, it caused a Twitter tiff when someone said they were editorializing by putting quotation marks around “constitutional.”

Priorities Meanwhile, Rep. Jacob Anderegg, R-Lehi, wants a constitutional amendment to make sure churches can refuse to conduct gay marriages. This is so everyone can just “relax,” he says. There must be something we’re missing. Individual churches have a number of rules and restrictions on marriage and have little trouble saying no. Slate magazine explains in detail why this so-called threat to liberty is really a scare tactic, and how American jurisprudence works to balance civil rights. But Anderegg must be convinced that there are people out there who would force an unwilling cleric to marry them.

Corporate Kindness During the season of hope and charity, it’s nice to see that some people have kindness as their guide. Not that it always starts out that way. Take the case of the 86-year-old Tremonton woman who returned home after the holidays to find her heat cut off. Calls to Questar’s emergency number on Friday resulted in her being told to wait until Monday. Questar, which is seeking a rate hike, eventually apologized and admitted their error.

Then, there was the case of neighbors worried about a cat stranded on a power pole. The Salt Lake Fire Department and animal control refused the call for help, but did refer it to Rocky Mountain Power, which created a work order. Finally, a Rocky Mountain Power worker coaxed the cat down. Kudos to those who look beyond policy and operate on humanity.

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But on the side, Dasher is a self-taught tinkerer, and has been taking things apart and inventing gadgets for most of his life. To view a short documentary on Dasher, visit HalfCutTea.com/videos/jj-dasher, and to see some of Dasher’s projects— including a giant Tesla coil—visit YouTube.com/RedRum0381.

What was your first project?

When I was really little, I used to tear apart all of my toys. And when I got a little older, I figured out how to put them back together. And then as I got older, I started building go-karts and things like that, fixing motorcycles. My dad had a motorcycle-repair shop, so I learned a lot from him.

What’s a time when something has gone horribly wrong?

I have definitely electrocuted myself several times. I built a Jacob’s Ladder—there’s two metal poles, and the light goes “nyer, nyer” between them. You see them in Frankenstein movies and stuff like that. I built one for a science fair in junior high, and I managed to electrocute myself with that, in front of a huge crowd, and screamed at the top of my lungs. I had burns on my hands—it’s like 9,000 volts. I learned my lesson.

Do you think technology is too easy these days?

Back in the day, people used to repair things. People don’t anymore—if a TV breaks, they throw it out and get another one. And they also build stuff now so it’s harder to repair— they put locking screws to make it more difficult to work on—especially phones and things like that. But I really think that today, technology is too easy, too accessible.

Is it just a hobby, or does it improve your life?

Well, what I do now, with freight-recovery goods, a lot of it is damaged or broken, and I’ll repair it and resell it. So, I can make money repairing things.

Any big projects in the works?

Right this moment, it’s not really a big project—it’s a small one—I’m working on an automated dog door that only works for my dog, because my son keeps trying to go out the dog door. The dog will wear an electronic tag so that when she gets close to the door, it’ll open and close for her.

Do you want to have the next big invention?

I’m not really looking to invent stuff to make money. I like to tinker; that’s just what I do.

Do you think we’ll see any more life-changing inventions, or has everything been tapped out?

I think we’ll see it occasionally but not as much as during, like, the industrial revolution, when people were coming up with all sorts of neat stuff. I think, and I hope, that we’ll continue to advance, and discover new and amazing things.

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I was in the Costco liquor section when I happened upon a locked display case with three bottles inside (one whiskey, one cognac, one I can’t remember), each priced upward of $2,500. I imagine anyone who bought and drank one of these would be heavily inf luenced by “buyer’s bias” regarding the actual taste of the product; still, I’d think the difference would be great enough that an average, uneducated drinker could pick out the ultraexpensive bottle from a $30 one in a blind test. What can science tell us about why an extremely high-quality and typically older alcohol would be so much more pleasant to drink, and thus much more valuable?

—Morton Christopher

Science can tell us plenty about booze, Mort. However, the relevant discipline shifts as we rise in the price scale. At the low end, where we’re talking about beverages commonly drunk from bottles in paper bags, chemistry can easily demonstrate what separates rotgut from the decent stuff. Above a certain point, however, we find more useful insight in psychology, if you take my meaning. The question is where that shift occurs. In bitter moments I tend to say it’s around $10 a bottle, although having had a tasty if somewhat pricey Chateauneuf-du-Pape the other night, I can see where you might objectively demonstrate that $100 was money well spent. But $2,500? Sorry, this is prima facie evidence of the madness of crowds.

With the exception of pure ethanol, alcoholic beverages are complex mixtures of chemicals derived from the raw materials plus the containers they’re aged and stored in. Variations in taste generally arise from differences in volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which readily vaporize at room temperature when the container is opened and give the brew, vintage or what have you its characteristic smell—not the common term, particularly among wine enthusiasts, but let’s call a spade a spade.

The VOCs potentially found in alcoholic beverages make for a long list. Most of the terms mean nothing to the nonspecialist, but since you asked, here are some things you might detect if your man cave is equipped with a mass spectrometer: n Proanthocyanidins, tannin colloids, and flavan-3-ols all contribute bitterness and astringency to wine. n “Nuttiness,” considered a desirable quality in Scotch whiskey, can often be traced to the presence of pyrazine compounds, whereas 2-furanmethanol imparts an aroma variously reminiscent of popcorn, earth and feet. n Phenols contribute peatiness to Scotch, and Scotches made from malt smoked over peat fires acquire phenolic traits so distinctive chemists can sometimes identify the original peat bog. When researchers analyzed 1890s Scotch recovered a few years ago from Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic camp, its phenol profile was correctly traced to a bog in the Orkney Islands.

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Still, while we know in a general way which VOCs are associated with what taste, that’s a long way from saying we can detail with any confidence the chemical differences separating an award-winning beverage from an OK one.

In many cases, these differences are minute. For example, the subtle taste of “greenness” in a Sauvignon Blanc, an undesirable quality in other varieties of wine, arises from methoxypyrazine compounds, detectable by humans in the parts per trillion. It’s surely also true that taste is a result of the interplay between multiple VOCs, some of which chemists have yet to identify.

The best means of judging quality, therefore, remains the human nose and palate.

These make for an imperfect instrument. Nowhere is this more evident than in the world of wine tasting: n In 2005, judges at the California State Fair Wine Competition were unknowingly served certain wines three different times on different days. Individual tasters’ scores for the same wine varied widely, in some cases from 87 points (nothing special) to 95 (primo). n In a blind tasting, 54 students in the wine program at the University of Bordeaux were tricked into perceiving a white wine as a red simply by adding food coloring to it. n Con man Rudy Kurniawan fooled wine experts from around the world with his counterfeits of rare wines made with cheap Napa Valley product and photocopied labels. He was finally tripped up when he tried to auction faux vintages dated decades before the wine in question was ever actually produced.

Does that mean alleged differences in alcoholic beverages are BS? Depends on what you consider differences. When nonprofessional tasters were trained to use a standardized whiskey-tasting vocabulary and then given samples of 40 blended Scotch whiskies, their assessments generally corresponded with the four categories of whiskey being tested (deluxe, standard, cheap and West Highland). In a separate study, the four categories were themselves found to have distinctive chemical signatures. In other words, it was possible to sense broad variations in quality, and those variations had a chemical basis.

On the other hand, consistently distinguishing a presumably exquisite $2,500 bottle from a merely excellent $100 one ... eh, maybe somebody with an unusually sensitive palate could do it. You or me? That I doubt.

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The state retained an outside law firm to aid in its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, a pricey endeavor that is expected to top $2 million.

Same-sex couples in Utah might owe their matrimony to the attorneys fighting against them.

With a few keyboard strokes on Jan. 6, the U.S. Supreme Court set Utah’s clock back 17 days by resuscitating the state’s ban on gay marriage.

The high court’s ruling marked the fifth attempt by Utah officials to pause a Dec. 20 ruling by U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby, who found that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.

By halting the marriages—more than 1,000 of which took place—the Supreme Court did what Shelby might well have done had the Attorney General’s Off ice f iled a routine motion for a so-called “prophylactic stay.” This type of request, legal officials say, is common when jarring changes of law result from a judge’s ruling, and have traditionally been granted in same-sex marriage cases in other states.

Now, same-sex couples must wait for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, in Denver, to consider an appeal—a process that will take months.

In Denver, Utah will have a steep slope to climb, having to show, in part, that during the 17 days of equal marriage rights for gay couples, the Beehive State suffered irreparable harm.

“With every marriage license that is issued, we get more evidence that no one is harmed,” says Paul C. Burke, a local attorney who has filed briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court in other states’ same-sex marriage cases. “In fact, our community is strengthened when all committed couples have access to marriage.”

Burke adds that if higher courts end up ruling that Utah has the right to restrict marriage to heterosexual couples, he doubts that the same-sex marriages that occurred in Utah would be invalidated.

“The state of Utah is threatening that, but I think those marriages will remain valid,” he says. “They were valid at the time they were entered. I know of no precedent that would allow the state of Utah to void marriages that were valid at the time that they were married.”

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By Colby Frazier cfrazier@cityweekly.net @colbyfrazierlp

The Rev. Curtis L. Price from the First Baptist Church of Salt Lake City marries a couple at the Salt Lake County Government Building on Monday, Dec. 23. More than 1,000 same-sex couples were married before the U.S. Supreme Court granted the state’s request to halt issuing licenses to same-sex couples while the state appeals a federal judge’s December ruling that declared Utah’s ban on samesex marriage to be unconstitutional.

When Shelby overturned Utah’s ban Dec. 20, it was as if the judge had flipped a light switch. Same-sex couples flocked to county-clerk offices and obtained marriage licenses that, hours before, had been forbidden.

The AG’s failure to seek a pre-emptive stay, which would have allowed Shelby to put his own ruling on hold while the case percolated to higher courts, has been characterized as intriguing by some lawyers, and a downright blunder by those opposed to gay marriage.

“I don’t think [the Attorney General’s Office] made a decision not to do it, I just don’t think they made a decision,” says Gayle Ruzicka, president of the Utah Eagle Forum, a conservative lobbying group that championed 2004’s Amendment 3, the gay-marriage ban that was approved by 66 percent of Utah voters. “It was a huge blunder and it cost us dearly and never should have happened. I consider it incompetent.”

The AG’s Office acknowledged being surprised by the ruling, coming as it did a few days before Christmas. State attorneys asked Shelby for an official stay several hours after the ruling was handed down. But by that time, the climate in Utah had changed.

On Dec. 23, Shelby listened to the state plead its first case for a stay. A key part of the state’s argument fell flat: that Utah’s traditional-marriage status quo needed to be preserved. By that time, the status quo in the Beehive State was that hundreds of same-sex couples were lined up waiting for mar-

riage licenses. Saying the state failed to demonstrate that “irreparable harm” was befalling Utah by allowing same-sex couples to marry, Shelby denied the motion.

In his ruling, the judge explained that unlike in California’s Proposition 8 case, where a stay was sought prior to a ruling on the law, he “had no such request from any party, either prior to the court’s substantive ruling Friday [Dec. 20], or immediately thereafter. So this court did what it has done in every case … and that was to issue an order resolving the issues presented by the parties and nothing else.”

Short of an explanation from the AG’s Office on why no motion was filed, it’s difficult to speculate. Calls and e-mails from City Weekly seeking comment from AG officials were not returned.

But according to Clifford J. Rosky, a University of Utah law professor who is also the chair of Equality Utah, there is a good likelihood Shelby would have granted the state’s stay had it been sought in a timelier manner.

“In every other case—Prop. 8, whatever—the stay was requested in advance and granted,” he says. “It seems like the most important factor in the district court’s opinion was that the state failed to ask for the stay in advance.”

Prior to Monday’s ruling by the Supreme Court, Utah’s quest to halt gay marriages had been denied four times, once by Shelby and three times

by the 10th Circuit. In its latest denial, the 10th Circuit noted in its ruling that the state didn’t stand a strong chance of winning its appeal and had failed to show that Utah was being harmed by the marriages.

This flurry of rulings sent the AG’s Office scrambling for help. The state retained an outside law firm to aid in its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, a pricey endeavor that is expected to top $2 million.

Brian Tarbet, who was named the state’s acting attorney general after former AG John Swallow resigned in November, said the year of persistent corruption allegations that dogged Swallow and the office didn’t impact the quality of the state’s case.

Nevertheless, Ruzicka says that she believes the gap between Swallow, whom she called a “good attorney,” and the appointment of Sean Reyes as the state’s new top law yer Dec. 30, was a narrow window when the ball was simply dropped.

“It had to do with that gap and people who were filling in and obviously didn’t know what they were doing,” she says.

But that doesn’t ease Ruzicka’s lingering question of why the state failed to explore an option that may well have put gay marriage on hold much sooner.

“The question is, why didn’t they do it?” Ruzicka says. “Was it because they were just unprepared?” CW

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and intervened. “He had the gun to his head,” the customer said. “He had him on his knees. I drew my gun on him and I said, ‘Hey, don’t move.’ At that point he swung around and before he had a chance to aim the gun at me, I fired. I didn’t want to shoot him.” After the wounded suspect, Adric White, 18, was taken to the hospital, his family said the Good Samaritan should have butted out. “What gives him the right to think that it’s OK to just shoot someone?” asked a relative who didn’t give his name. “You should have just left the store and went wherever you had to go in your car or whatever.”

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The New Christmas Story For this year’s “Living Nativity” scene, Baptist Temple Church in Fall River, Mass., replaced one of the three Wise Men from the biblical narrative with Santa Claus bowing before Jesus in the manger. “The true message of Christmas is about Jesus’ birth,” explained Shirley Johnson, whose husband is the church’s pastor.

“And you know what Christmas has become for many: It’s about Santa and the gifts. That’s why we’re showing Santa bowing the knee to baby Jesus.” (Fall River’s The Herald News)

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Rahinah Ibrahim, 48, a Malaysian citizen who was placed on the U.S. government’s no-fly list in 2005 while studying at Stanford University, was eventually cleared to return to Malaysia. She subsequently sued to have her name removed from the no-fly list, but when her case came to trial in San Francisco in December, she wasn’t permitted to travel to the United States to testify because her name is on the no-fly list. (Wired)

Revenge of the Jilted Now that Boeing has moved its headquarters from Washington state, opened an assembly plant in South Carolina and is considering bids from 22 states to move thousands of jobs out of Washington, the state is courting Boeing’s European rival, Airbus SAS. “Just because we have had a near 100-year history with the Boeing Company doesn’t mean we can’t work with others,” said Alex Pietsch, top aerospace adviser to Gov. Jay Inslee. (Associated Press)

Job Interview Follies When the manager of a McDonald’s in Norfolk, Va., told job applicant Tevin Kievelle Monroe, 31, that he had to apply online, Monroe lifted his shirt to show her a gun tucked into his waistband. The manager told him to have a seat while she fetched a paper application from the office. She also called police, who arrived as Monroe was filling out the application and arrested him. (Norfolk’s The Virginian-Pilot) Compiled from the press reports by Roland Sweet. Authentication on demand.

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Unnecessary government spending in 2013 amounted to nearly $30 billion, according to Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma. His 177-page annual report of wasted taxpayers’ money found, among other expenditures: n $325,000 to fund a National Institutes of Health study that revealed, “Wives would find marriage more satisfying if they could calm down faster during arguments with their husbands.” n $3.5 million to install solar panels on the parking garage of a New Hampshire airport that had to be covered with tarps to prevent them from reflecting glare that blinded pilots during landings. n $15,000 to collect thousands of gallons of human urine to test as hay-field fertilizer. n $360,000 to pay 20 people whom NASA recruited to “spend 70 days lying in bed” with their bodies slightly tilted to study how long-term space flights can decondition the human body, even though NASA has no plans for such travel. n $566,000 to pay “futurist” Faith Popcorn to envision a viable future for the U.S. Postal Service. (The Washington Times)

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n After two masked gunmen rushed into a grocery store in Reading, Pa., a man who police described as a “concerned citizen” witnessed the robbery in progress and called 911. As the two robbers left the store, the witness demanded that they stop and wait for police. The robbers refused and pulled their guns.

The witness then shot them in self-defense. Surveillance video confirmed the witness’s account. Relatives of the dead robbers demanded the witness be prosecuted, however. “He took the law into his own hands and walked away scot-free,” Virginia Medina, the mother of one of the robbers, said. A cousin, Peter Ratel, complained, “How about if people just start running around here, policing the city on their own?” (Allentown’s WFMZ-TV)

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By Eric S. Peterson epeterson@cityweekly.net

Photos by Niki Chan

In the moments

after federal Judge Robert Shelby struck down Utah’s law barring same-sex marriage Dec. 20, the reaction was explosive.

For supporters, it was an outpouring of joy.

“If they were to take another [marriage equality] poll like they did back in 2004, it would be completely different,” said a jubilant Daniel Musto moments after wedding his longtime partner. “Just seeing all the love people have for one another here, how could you deny it?”

Conservatives, however, responded with head-exploding outrage.

Eagle Forum leader Gayle Ruzicka registered her “disgust” with the marriages, and conservative activist and author Candace Salima opined on Twitter that “Surely the heavens must be weeping.”

At the Salt Lake County Government Center on Monday, Dec. 23, the line of excited couples seeking marriage licenses wrapped around two floors. Equality advocates had warned couples that they might have only a few hours to get their licenses; if a judge granted the state its request for a stay, it would put a freeze on further same-sex marriages.

But as historic as the occasion was, the couples themselves were not so different from straight couples in their motivations for being wed.

In fact, had the haters met some of those who were lined up that Monday, they would have found people who fundamentally fit the mold of Utah couples: People raised to believe in commitment, looking to start families—or looking to keep whole the families they already had.

Sure, the county building was not exactly the reception hall, wardhouse gymnasium or temple of a typical Utah marriage ceremony. Hundreds of couples waited in line, many with their children in strollers. Volunteer clergy filled the lobby of the building, next to tables stocked with coffee and donuts. Walking between the impromptu ceremonies, you’d catch snippets from officiants’ addresses, like “May each day be as precious as the first day you fell in love.” A hallway down from the cheers and commotion, a Zen priestess quietly married a lesbian couple. In the lobby, one priest pumped her arm in the air after reciting, “by the power of the state of Utah, I pronounce you spouses for life!”

The scene was chaotic, joyful, anxious, loud and, well, very gay, but it also hammered home the fact that for these couples, the day wasn’t really about politics or making a statement. For them, it was a day they’d only dreamed of, a moment to finally solidify years-long commitments and to seal their rights as a couple—rights that would allow them to protect their families, to visit loved ones in the hospital, to share benefits, and, above all else, to finally be a married couple.

But since Utah successfully convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to pass Jan. 6 a halt on same-sex marriages while the high court deliberates on the issues, these hundreds of couples now exist in legal limbo. Some fear that if the Supreme Court or the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals invalidates Shelby’s ruling, all the rights and privileges of these marriages could be dissolved.

Here are just a few stories of those couples’ stories, of what they gained that day—and what they now stand to lose, depending on the Supreme Court’s ruling.

Duane Jennings & Brian Benington

They know that some people who see them Many people don’t think we do, but together “don’t marriage is one way of holding that up,” Benington said. “I had to tell like it,” JAX my parents I may not be a proper COLLINS said.

Latter-day Saint anymore, but all values I was raised with are “So that won’t the still what I live my life by.” change for us.

The thing that Bryan Turner & will change Kayla Salvatori is we can say Perhaps one of the most unique ‘we’re just like couples to take advantage of the historic day was actually a pairing you.’ ”

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Wearing a lily-white wedding dress and holding a bouquet of roses and a bag packed with snacks and Powerade, Heather Collins had been camped outside the county building since 3 a.m on that chilly Monday morning. Needless to say, she and Jax were pretty excited for the doors to open at 6 a.m.—two hours earlier than usual—for the rush of newlyweds-to-be.

When asked how long the couple has been togeth-

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Heather & Jax Collins

“How can you deny love and deny all the happy looks on everyone’s faces and all the families that are now complete?”

The lady whose hair Megan Gowers was cutting Dec. 20 will likely always remember exactly when she heard that same-sex marriage had been deemed legal in Utah.

After hearing the news, Kayla Porter started trying to track down her girlfriend to tell her the news.

She eventually left her work early and interrupted Gowers cutting a customer’s hair.

Porter introduced herself to the lady whose hair Gowers was cutting and broke the news to them both.

“It was awesome,” Gowers said.

The two have been together since meeting on a camping trip in Southern Utah a year ago, and got engaged two months ago. Before the

ruling changed things, they had plans to travel to Seattle to be married.

Surrounded by family, including plenty of stoked LDS kin, the couple said their vows and were wed near the entrance of the county building. The goofy grins on the couple only buoyed the applause, hugs and tears of witnessing family. As the reverend who officiated their marriage walked away, she turned to a friend to say, “How much fun am I having!”

And for Gowers and Porter, the fun is just beginning.

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Heather & Jax Collins

of a man and a woman.

Kayla Salvatori identifies her authentic gender as that of a woman. She’s been transitioning from male to female, so, ironically, it took a court decision legalizing gay marriage for the couple to be wed as man and wife.

“He’s straight, so it’s different and not everyone gets it,” Salvatori said. “But you fall in love with the person and not the body, so we’re lucky.”

Bryan Turner and Salvatori have been together for more than eight years, since meeting on MySpace, of all places. For their first date, Turner, who lived in Richfield, met Salvatori, who hails from Salt Lake County, at a gas station in Panguitch before they drove back to Richfield to do some stargazing.

“I wasn’t used to the stars being so bright, being from the Salt Lake area, and he was all, like, ‘Look at the stars, they are as beautiful as your eyes,’” Salvatori said with a laugh.

While the social-media site hasn’t quite stood the test of time, the couple’s love has. They say they’ve felt nothing but support, even from Turner’s family, whom Salvatori describes affectionately as “super LDS.” She said she hopes more people will see the good that’s come of the day and try to accept the LGBT couples and families around them.

“How can you deny love and deny all the happy looks on everyone’s faces and all the families that are now complete?”

Salvatori said. “That’s got to wake some people up.”

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Dapper and dashing in matching purple shirts, Duane Jennings and Brian Benington were easy to pick out in the line where, they proudly noted, they were the 104th couple.

The friendship and love between the two men charted an unusual path, rooted in the LDS faith they both grew up in.

Benington first met Jennings when he was quite young; Jennings’ LDS missionary companion helped convert Benington’s family to the faith while proselytizing in South Africa.

In the decades that followed, Benington married and had several children before separating from his wife and later reconnecting with Jennings.

The couple has been together for nine years, and marriage has often been a topic of discussion. For both men, though they are no longer church-going, being able to wed means the realization of values they were raised with that they’ve never given up on.

“I was raised in a very traditional LDS family, and as I came out, it was, like, ‘Well, I still want to be with someone and commit my whole life to them,’ ” Jennings said.

These values were not lost on their families; Benington’s grown son cried on the phone when he heard his father was getting married, and as the two men were being interviewed by City Weekly, Benington’s daughter was rushing to the county building to act as their witness.

“People need to understand that we have values.

Bryan Turner & Kayla Salvatori

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er, the simultaneous answers of “five years” from Heather and “six” from Jax was cause for some mock indignation from Heather.

“How come you don’t know how long we’ve been together?” she asks.

Heather recounted their first storybook encounter at local bar the Paper Moon this way: “Yeah, we totally met at a bar, and I was really cool, and was, like, ‘Hey, good looking, we should dance,’ and we did—and that’s how it happened.”

“Yeah, sorta like that,” Jax said with a laugh.

Jax says she knows there will always be hostility from some; she says she’s been punched in the face simply for being gay. But there’s something to be said about having equality in spite of the rancor that still lingers in the community.

“We walk around every day, and we know that we’re different,” Jax said. They know that some people who see them together “don’t like it,” she said. “So that won’t change for us. The thing that will change is we can say ‘we’re just like you.’ ” “Yup, and we’ll have the license to prove it,” Heather said, beaming.

Melissa & Dawnn Chatwin

After their marriage was completed at 9:15 a.m., as other couples were expecting a court decision that might have stopped the marriages at any moment, the Chatwins were finally able to relax, with license in hand.

“After all the excitement from being here the whole night, now I can finally breathe,” Dawnn said.

The couple had friends save a spot in line the night prior while they arranged for someone to watch their 5-month-old son.

“If something happens to him, I don’t have to worry,” Rusty James said. “I can take care of him and know that he’ll be taken care of.”

As part of the first wave of married couples that morning, the Chatwins were still rocking between the joy and bliss of marriage and the shock and awe of same-sex marriage being legal in Utah. Asked their thoughts on Utah being the 18th state to allow same-sex marriage, their simultaneous response was simply, “weird.”

For them, it was a weird relief, as it finally gave them equal privileges when it comes to raising their child.

Prior to getting married, only Melissa, the biological mother, had rights.

“Since we have a baby together, it is so scary thinking she can’t take him to the hospital if I’m not there because she’s not legally his mother,” Melissa said.

While the couple did find Utah’s (temporary) spot as the 18th state to allow gay marriage somewhat surprising given the local culture, they said that their personal experience has been mostly positive, receiving lots of support from family and friends.

“There’s more support here than not,” Dawnn said.

They say that people all over are just becoming more accepting, including Melissa’s Baptist grandmother.

“Even though she knows we’ll go to hell, she’s still OK with us as people,” Melissa said with a laugh.

Barbara Christensen & Melanie Hansen

While many courtships started at clubs, bars or in the workplace, Barbara Christensen and Melanie Hansen met on a court—the racquetball courts at the Marv Jenson Recreation Center in South Jordan.

“We were pretty competitive, but it was also just for fun and exercise,” Hansen said. “Then we just became friends and figured out life together.”

The couple staked out their spot in line with their 21-month-old son, Kaden, in tow. Kaden, having spent hours in line in the hallway of a county government

center, was struggling to keep still.

Kaden, whom Hansen gave birth to, is not the first child she’s considered immediate family. In a previous relationship, her partner was the biological mother. The two eventually separated, and without having been officially married, Hansen had no right to the child she had helped raise as an equal parent.

It’s a part of her story she doesn’t like to dwell on.

“History is history, but I learned a lot from it,” Hansen said. “It’s motivated me to move forward, and helped me learn how much rights really mean to protect people.”

Same-sex marriage not being legal, Hansen said, is “not going to stop people from having families.”

Shane Atkinson & Darrell Whatcott

At 7:30 a.m. Dec. 23, Shane Atkinson and Darrell Whatcott found themselves near the end of the line.

They had been caught off guard and hadn’t staked out a spot at the county building the night before, as other couples had; like most Utahns, they hadn’t expected same-sex marriage to happen in Utah.

“Not without the help of federal troops!” Atkinson joked.

Atkinson and Whatcott had long considered themselves married, having been together for the past 28 years. The couple met when Atkinson was a lab teaching assistant for a college engineering class that Whatcott taught.

“Our first date was at Hire’s, we had root-beer floats,” Whatcott said. “You know, traditional Utah thing.”

The couple had planned to be married out of state in the spring to reap federal health-care benefits now available under the Affordable Care Act, but with marriages suddenly legal in Utah, the couple decided to tie the knot in their home state.

“Now we have the legal and the health benefits we are entitled to,” Whatcott said. “I don’t know how many thousands we’ve spent on lawyers, just trying to set up trusts and trying to get some of the basics that you get with a marriage license.”

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Daniel Musto and Christopher Johns were wed in the lobby of the building, with their ceremony officiated by Johns’ brother, surrounded by smiling, teary-eyed family members, including a young girl armed with an iPad, busily Skyping the union to family from out of state.

Interviewed after being married for all of five minutes, Musto and Johns had no complaints about the married life.

“It’s amazing,” Johns said. “It feels like something I didn’t even know I could dream to have come true.”

The couple first met after being set up on a blind dinner date by friends. It wasn’t love at first sight.

“I hated him at first,” Musto said with a grin.

But their love grew; the couple had been together eight years before their wedding day.

For Musto, the fact that the bang of a judge’s gavel could bring marriage equality to the state was surprising, but was something he had long wished for.

“I have been praying and praying, and I just couldn’t be happier about it,” Musto said. “We’re finally being validated for the love we have for one another in the eyes of the state. Our love for one another hasn’t changed, but now it’s official: I can say this man is my husband.” CW

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In their matching baby-blue sweaters, Rusty James and Melvin Nimer drew reporters to them like moths to a flame.

Like others, the couple were caught up in the excitement of the moment, ecstatic about the recognition of their right to marry.

And for James, 35, being able to have a say in the health-care decisions of his soonto-be husband, the 65-year-old Nimer, is hugely important.

“If something happens to him, I don’t have to worry,” James said. “I can take care of him and know that he’ll be taken care of.”

Nimer fondly recalled the couple’s first rendezvous at Club Try-Angles where, he said with a grin, James “kept stalking me until I fell in love with him.” The couple has been inseparable for the 6 1/2 years since.

For Nimer—a board member of the gay caucus group Utah Log Cabin Republicans and the treasurer of the Salt Lake County GOP—the day was momentous politically as well as personally.

He said he hopes same-sex marriage will provide a lesson to fellow conservatives about being consistent when it comes to advocating against big government.

“True conservatives want government out of their lives as much as possible,” Nimer says. “A conservative wants everyone treated equally, but most of them are lost when their definition of ‘everyone treated equally’ means everyone like them, instead of all people. We’re trying to teach conservatives how to be true conservatives.”

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THURSDAY 1.9 Utah Iconography

As idiosyncratic and singular as Utah’s history, geography and culture is, the state is bound to have its share of icons indigenous to the state. The exhibit Utah Iconography is taken from works in the State of Utah Fine Art Collection, originally established by Rep. Alice Merrill Horne in 1899.

Twenty works by 22 Utah artists take on everything from Frank Zimbeaux’ impressionistic “Temple Spires,” the most directly religious image, to more prosaic but no less “iconic” sites like Roy Butcher’s “The Brickyard” and Boyd Reese’s “Portland Cement Plant.” More elusive as straightforward representations are Trevor Southey’s “Confluence” and V. Douglas Snow’s abstract expressionist “Desert Storm.”

Francis Riggs’ “Star Collector” is pictured.

History is embodied in Gordon Cope’s “Uinta Ute Chief,” a painting depicting Native American John Duncan. The work was completed in 1935, and the subject reportedly could remember the arrival of handcarts to the region in the mid-1800s.

What could his weathered visage tell us about where we’ve come from?

A few of these pieces aren’t of people or places, but evocative of a quintessential experience or expression among native Utahns, like Betty Roberts’ “Love at Home” quilt sample. They all combine to provide a patchwork of what it means to be “Utahn.”

And there couldn’t be a more appropriate site for the show than the Capitol, itself an iconic location. (Brian Staker) Utah Iconography @ Utah Capitol, 350 N. State, 801-236-7555, through March 13, free. VisualArtsUtah.org

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“The show must go on” isn’t merely a plucky theatrical cliché; it can be the reality of having to face the audience even when you’re clearly fighting off a nasty cold that’s made a wreck of your voice, as Derek Gregerson did during a performance of Stephen Sondheim’s Road Show.

The acoustics of the Rose Wagner Black Box Theatre are a challenge for a musical production where musicians have to occupy the same level as the actors, let alone taking into account a performer struggling to reach full voice. But Gregerson gave it his all—and in a show about characters figuring out how to deal with setbacks, his can-do spirit set a fitting tone.

The story follows brothers Addison and Wilson Mizner—played by real-life brothers Cameron (left) and Quinn Kapetanov (right)—over the early years of the 20th century, trying to fulfill their father’s deathbed entreaty that they take advantage of the American opportunity by pursuing various get-rich avenues, from the Yukon gold rush to real-estate deals in Florida. It’s an uneven narrative, dependent on a lot of montage musical numbers to convey the brothers’ fortune-hunting endeavors, but there’s still the unique Sondheim kick to the rapid-fire, often darkly funny songs.

Better still, there’s terrific emotional connection in the performances, with impressive work by both Kapetanov brothers following their tangled love-hate relationship. And Gregerson, as Addison’s business partner and lover, delivers a performance you can feel, even if the vagaries of a virus made him harder to hear. (Scott Renshaw) Wasatch Theatre Company: Road Show @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, through Jan. 18, 8 p.m., 2 p.m. matinees Jan. 11 & 18, $15. ArtTix.org

Janeane Garofalo and Greg Behrendt are odd comedy bedfellows who were, in fact, at one time, actual bedfellows. Yep, the comedy duo were once paired up in the couple sense. They have both since moved on, yet still somehow keep their shared comedy flame burning.

One way of doing so is to regularly combine forces for comedy tours, something they’ve been doing for more than a decade, although they are both more popularly known for other endeavors.

For her part, Garofalo (pictured) is perhaps best known for her short stint on The Larry Sanders Show or for her many roles in ’90s romantic comedies like The Truth About Cats & Dogs and Reality Bites.

Behrendt, though, is best known for something different altogether. It was as the co-author of a romantic advice book called He’s Not That Into You, penned with Sex and the City writer Liz Tuccillo, that the comedian became more of a household name, especially when a film based on the book was released in 2009.

But if you think that the pairing of Garofalo & Behrendt is simply another comedian/self-help guru alliance, à la Adam Carolla & Dr. Drew, think again. Both comics got their start in stand-up, and work hard at trying to ply that trade into new territories. Their styles may indeed be different—as different as their personalities and backgrounds—but comedy is where their hearts are at. Garofalo tends to use her wit to simply and insightfully point out the humorous side of the human condition, whereas Behrendt will help you to laugh through all that pain while perhaps offering a rather tender, and surprisingly helpful, piece of unexpected relationship advice.

(Jacob Stringer) Janeane Garofalo & Greg Behrendt @ Wiseguys Comedy Club West Valley, 2194 W. 3500 South, 801-463-2909, Jan. 13-14, 7:30 p.m., $20. WiseguysComedy.com

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There’s a lot of noise about health care in America. We’ve heard spiels from politicians and speeches from activists. We’ve been given the facts from journalists, and been dished opinionated rants from talk radio, but we rarely hear the voices of the afflicted.

Actress, director and professor Anna Deavere Smith wanted answers about health care— answers from the people—to cut through the BS. Playing the part of anthropologist-cum-journalist, Smith interviewed more than 300 people on three continents for her 2008 one-woman play about the resilience and vulnerability of the human body, Let Me Down Easy. Smith turned countless hours of interviews with patients, doctors and administrators into 20 thoughtprovoking vignettes. The subjects ranged from a rodeo bull rider to Lance Armstrong and from late Texas Gov. Ann Richards to a Buddhist monk. Their words—sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, sometimes gut-wrenchingly sad—became Smith’s script.

For the 2014 David P. Gardner Lecture in the Humanities & Fine Arts, Smith—whose list of honors includes the MacArthur Fellowship and The Dorothy & Lillian Gish Prize (two of the most prestigious awards in the arts)—brings her expertise with her speech “Health Care and the Human Story,” which weaves in pieces of Let Me Down Easy. Health care in America is complicated, and now seemingly more relevant than ever, with the ongoing debate over the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. Information comes at us from all directions, but there’s something that the arts, and that Smith in particular, can connect to that others cannot: the human element.

(Austen Diamond) Anna Deveare Smith @ Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, University of Utah, 801-581-7100, Jan. 15, 7 p.m., free, tickets required. KingTix.com

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ance is an art that can metaphorically represent all kinds of different things. And in the world of hip-hop, it has symbolized a whole mode of cultural expression—taking the sounds that revolutionized the very ways music is made and incorporating them into the physical body, through which they are interpreted in highly personal aesthetic statements.

The local nonprofit dance group Bboy Federation took its name from one of the first dance styles that emerged during the early days of hip-hop in the late ’70s: Bboys, or “Break boys,” would dance to the instrumental “break” of a record. The Bboy Federation arose in 2009 from the “X-series,” a number of dance exhibitions begun by James “Pyro” Karren and Joshua “Text” Perkins. That fall, the two men organized league-style events, and since then, the federation has produced a number of different events, targeted at both experienced and younger dancers, including competitive “battle” events . The group has also produced smaller performances for the Utah Arts Festival, EVE 2011 & 2012, Adobe and Salt Lake Comic Con. In 2013, the Bboy Federation became a nonprofit, and that status has allowed it to raise funds for more intensive programs.

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“The goal is to have no pauses between pieces,” Marine says. “Scratchmo will mix music between the pieces so the audience feels as though the dancing is one seamless event that takes place on stage.”

They Reminisce is designed to work on several levels: as an entertaining, dramatic performance, as well as an educational experience that conjures up some of the flavor of hip-hop during those pivotal periods of its history. The practice of “remix culture” has infected many different genres of music since the first DJ s were mixing and “scratching” those decades ago, and the vocabulary of sampling and appropriation has reverberated into literary, video and cinematic works. By the time they get to the modern era, we can see how hip-hop has transformed into a part of the mainstream cultural landscape.

The Bboy Federation, similarly, became part of the culture of Salt Lake City. Marine says the organization looks to grow even more during 2014 and expand its staff and resources.

“We will continue to produce events and shows, but will also look to develop new scholarship programs and more dance opportunities for our community,” Marine says. “The end goal is to have our own facility, a goal we are always working toward.” CW

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They Reminisce. It’s a real departure for the group, as it’s not a competition, but rather a fully choreographed theatrical production. The performance takes the form of a retrospective of the history of hip-hop music, divided into three eras: its origins in the late ’70s, the “golden era” of the ’90s, and today’s modern era.

“Working together with so many dancers at once provides its own set of challenges that are new to us,” says Josie Marine, Bboy Federation Development Director.

“We are also working more with elements such as stage lighting, something we don’t normally worry about with competitions.

Another new challenge was the different stylistic approaches required by the eras represented in the production.”

“In the Origin and Golden Eras, we want to use a minimal amount of production lighting. We want it to feel more like a house party rather than a stage production,” Marine says. “This changes as we get into the Modern Era, of dance movies and TV shows. We also want the choreography of the first two eras to feel very personal— dancers dancing for other dancers, and not worrying about performing for an audience. And in the modern era, the choreography will be more “aware that it’s on a stage for an audience.”

The choreographers—Max Crebs, Micah Clark, Marc Alexanda, Chris Valdez, Kaleena Chung and Tyson Smalls—are experienced in a multiplicity of genres, and their expertise adds a depth to the show.

“From the start, we wanted our choreographers to put their own stamp on the show,” Marine says. “The choreographers and dancers are the ones that provide the content that will really make the show unique.”

Of course, the music is the backbone of everything, going back to the beginning of hip-hop. DJ Scratchmo, the musical director of the production, intended the music to seem like a mixtape, with songs blending together.

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longside the parallel ribbons set by our cross-country skis, animal tracks pocked the knee-deep snow—deep, round holes similar in shape and stride to the pattern left by our dogs.

We had been following the tracks for some time. Occasionally, they left our path and wandered over the ice shell that capped the canyon’s stream; sometimes they looped back on themselves so that we wondered if there weren’t two sets.

We had started that morning from a cabin in Fishlake National Forest in central Utah, with no specific destination in mind. The idea was simply to go. For an hour, we skied out along an old logging road, coasting over hills covered with dense fir and an occasional Ponderosa. It was a track we had taken the previous winter, but upon reaching the last familiar fork in the trail, we went straight, in a new direction.

As the trail narrowed, pushing us up against a creek that we guessed to be either the South Fork or the Beaver, coyote tracks appeared from the woods alongside us.

When the prints lengthened in stride we knew a chase was on. The leaping tracks led us to a water seep, and a new set of marks—a fan of lines drawn lightly across the powdery surface of the snow. A turkey, we surmised, had been sipping water when the coyote came upon it—but with not a feather in sight, it appeared the bird had escaped.

When you’re taking time to move slowly through wild spaces, life unravels in ways we rarely get to enjoy. Though I never saw the coyote or the turkey, meeting their tracks and moving through the same space they had moved in felt like a gift. So, too, did feeling the chill on my cheeks when we moved from sun into lines of shade, or watching the springs along the trail send their water sifting down the red-brown, rock-crusted mountainside over patches of moss, reeds and wild-iris leaves.

No matter where we are in nature—a nameless wintery canyon or a mountain meadow in summer—giving oneself over to that space is an experience to savor.

Kevin Fedarko writes about escaping into the wilderness deep in the Grand Canyon in his new book The Emerald Mile. For those who love the water, the rock and the secrets of a canyon, speeding on a raft through the Colorado River is antithetical to how it should be experienced. The point of being in canyon, he writes, is to break away from the hustle of daily life. Out where we don’t

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have to clock in at work, make sure dinner is on the table or rush the kids off to school, we can sink into another realm altogether.

Fedarko writes that “if there is a point to being in the canyon, it is not to rush, but to linger, suspended in a blue-and-amber haze of in-between-ness.”

Escaping the habit of rushing through life is something that must be relearned continuously in small moments. And it’s difficult. Fedarko points to the story of Bernard Moitessier, a French yachtsman who, in the 1960s, took part in a race to become the first person to circumnavigate the globe continuously and unassisted. It took him six months of sailing halfway around the world to realize that he didn’t want to race at all. As Fedarko writes, Moitessier reached “a point in space and consciousness that would enable him to bear witness to the beauty and the complexity of the natural world.” At Cape Horn, Moitessier changed course but continued his solo journey for another four months before touching land.

To some, sliding up a side canyon at a snail’s pace, pushing through heavy snow, could seem like a lot of work with no measurable gain. After all, we didn’t even know where we were going, if there was an end, or what we’d find. And without a destination, how would we know when to turn around and retrace our steps back out?

But, as clichéd as it may sound, making our goal the journey instead of the destination was exactly what we were after. And there was only one way to do that—slowly, silently and on skis. CW

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Monika Bravo: Landscape(s) Of Belief Literature can inform and inspire works of visual art, and Monika Bravo’s sculptural time-based electronic installation Landscape(s) Of Belief draws inspiration from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, which describes imaginary cities conjured up in a fictional dialogue between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo. In the Electronic Gallery at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Bravo’s works are composed of projected text floating in glass panels These images are dazzling, but in them is also a distinct design.

“My intention is to create a parallel between literature and architecture, as they both define, translate and shape physical and mind structures,” the Columbian-born Bravo said in her artist’s statement. The end result is a little more awareness of the ways in which our experiences of public space are conditioned, the ways in which we are all responsible for their construction, and—most intriguingly—the possibilities of envisioning new and different alternatives. (Brian Staker) Monika Bravo: Landscape(s) Of Belief @ Brigham Young University Museum of Art, North Campus Drive, Provo, 801-422-8287, through March 15, free. MOA.BYU.edu

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Ring Around the Rose: Ballet West Repertory Dance Theatre’s Ring Around the Rose is what they call a “wiggle-friendly” series, held on Saturday mornings throughout the year.

The programs are designed to introduce kids to the wide world of the performing arts, and what’s it’s like to be a professional opera singer, painter, violinist, etc.

To start out the new year en pointe, RDT has invited Ballet West into the ring to share what life is like as a professional ballerina. Part demonstration and part interactive performance, it will feature members of Ballet West II using the story of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker to show how different elements of classical dance, music and theater are intricately pieced together to create the magical production thousands enjoy each year. Besides just getting to watch a part of the ballet, the audience will also be able to ask questions about the dancers’ roles and probe them as to the way they get to live out their dreams of dancing on stage. (Jacob Stringer) Ring Around the Rose: Ballet West @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801355-2787, Jan. 11, 11 a.m., $5.

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Sara Zarr & Tara Altebrando: Roomies The Internet age has changed the nature of the “epistolary” novel—not just that a story built on communication is more likely to revolve around e-mails or texts, but that the work itself could be a long-distance collaboration. That’s how authors Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando—who met online—came to work together on the young-adult novel Roomies.

The story follows two recent high-school graduates during the summer before both will begin college at Berkeley, when they receive the information that they will be roommates. Elizabeth “EB” Owens is an East Coast girl, eager to begin a life on the other side of the country; Lauren Cole is the San Francisco-raised oldest child in a large family who really wanted to live alone. As they begin their correspondence—the chapters alternating the story of their respective eventful pre-collegiate summers—EB and Lauren move from casual correspondents to a relationship that could become really complicated before they ever get a chance to meet face-to-face. (Scott Renshaw) Sara Zarr & Tara Altebrando: Roomies @ The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Jan. 15, 7 p.m., free. KingsEnglish.com

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Ali Samadi Ahadi’s fascinating 2011 documentary The Green Wave captures the voices behind the protest in a way that anticipated the new look of protest movements that emerged throughout the Arab world. Text messages, Facebook posts, blog entries and YouTube videos became the voice of the people and a way to rally together even without being together. Ahadi translates many of these stories into “motion-comic”-style animation, bringing an even more unique perspective to the lives—focusing on two young students whose experiences become the central narrative— of those who were trying to change their country.

(Scott Renshaw) The Green Wave @ The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, 801-538-9100, Jan. 14, 7 p.m., free. TheLeonardo.org, UtahFilmCenter.org

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uring the recent holidays, I was fortunate to get in a lot of skiing. Parts of my body might never stop aching, but I was able to enjoy many meals at some of our premier Utah ski areas, including Solitude Mountain Resort.

For many years, I have emceed the summertime Taste of the Nation/Taste of the Wasatch gourmet fundraiser at Solitude, which, since the beginning, has generously donated both facilities and person-power for that charitable event. However, it had been far too long since I’d ventured up Big Cottonwood Canyon to Solitude in winter.

That had to change. For starters, the skiing and shredding—even during the peak holiday season—justifies the name “Solitude.” Where long lift lines and tempers soar elsewhere, Solitude is serene and spectacular. Every employee seems to genuinely enjoy their work, which helps make the resort so family-friendly. Of course, there is serious skiing to be had, as well. I get giddy just thinking about powder days in Solitude’s Honeycomb Canyon.

And, ah … the food. I’ve had very good meals in the past at Solitude, but overall my experiences have been a bit hit-ormiss. During my recent visit with my family to Solitude’s eateries, however, I was bowled over. The food has gotten serious.

Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised, since the DeSeelhorst family—Solitude’s owners—have assembled a food and beverage dream team, of sorts.

At the core is longtime food and beverage pro Staffan Eklund, who oversees the on-mountain fare at eateries like Moonbeam Lodge, Sunshine Grill and so on. Down in the Village at Solitude, the much-honored Greg Neville—formerly of Lugano, Gastronomy and, at one time in the mid-’90s, Solitude itself—has assumed the role of food & beverage director. Neville was recently joined

by Franck Peissel, who was executive chef at Franck’s and L’Avenue, and now dazzles diners at The Yurt. And, newcomer Josh Cornell worked for a time in Thomas Keller’s kitchen at New York’s Per Se restaurant, more recently cooking at Trio and Tsunami.

Excellent managers like Jeff Foehr and Greg Olson complement the kitchen talent.

I think one thing that makes Solitude special—beyond being family-owned—is that the DeSeelhorst’s are almost always on the premises. How often do you see owners of big resorts actually at the resorts? Not very often, because most are stockholders.

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DINE and his sons Dave and Scott roaming around, often with a hammer, hose or some other implement in hand, making sure everything is up to snuff.

But enough background. Taking a break from Solitude’s slopes, we enjoyed an outstanding lunch at Honeycomb Grill (formerly Kimi’s Mountainside Bistro). The place was packed to the rafters, yet the service and kitchen staff never blinked—perhaps evidence of Neville’s über-professional Scrumptious Solitude: The Honeycomb Grill’s demeanor and focus in the kitchen.

If you eat nothing else at Solitude, be D pizza (top) and St. Bernard’s Deconstructed sure to order the D pizza ($15). I’m not chicken noodle soup. sure what the “D” is for—most likely “delicious.” The pizzas at Honeycomb Grill restaurant is. Soothing browns and tans are hearth-baked in a wood-fired oven. complement a big wood-stoked fireplace to The crust, made with 00 flour from Italy, provide a cozy and comfortable, yet classy, is crunchy, with charred bubbles here and dining destination. This is Solitude’s highthere, and beautifully browned on the edges. end restaurant, although the prices don’t The D is simple, yet sensational, thanks to seem very high for a ski resort.

Neville—who bounces around from top-flight ingredients: San Marzano tomatoes, fresh burrata, thin-sliced prosciutto, restaurant to restaurant in the village— oregano, shaved Parmesan and arugula. It’s recommended we try the ravioli in brodo, so we did. Oh, my! This is one of the tastiest a thing of beauty.

At one point during the holidays, my things I’ve ever eaten. It begins with braised family skied at three different resorts on beef shanks. The shanks are stripped of meat, three consecutive days, during which my which is stuffed into rich ravioli made from foodie stepson, Jeremy, ate three consecu- egg yolk and 00 flour, while the bones simtive cheeseburgers. Without hesitation, he mer to create a clear beef consommé in which proclaimed Honeycomb Grill’s half-pound the ravioli floats. It’s simply stupendous.

Deconstructed chicken “soup” ($22) Angus beef burger ($16) with grilled onions, tomato aioli, white cheddar cheese, bacon is a juicy, bone-in, tender airline chickand skin-on fries the best of the bunch, and en breast, bathed in a rich broth with roasted root vegetables, potatoes, perfect that included a pricier Kobe beef burger.

Meanwhile, I was gaga over the spaghet- housemade noodles and snipped chives—a ti carbonara ($17), easily the best I’ve eaten truly beautiful thing, on the plate and palin the United States. At Solitude, under ate. Other highlights included rich, yet Neville’s watchful eye (he spent years living sweet-tasting, homemade potato gnocand working in Italy), high-quality al dente chi with sage butter, an incredible Kobe spaghetti is tossed with fresh egg yolks, steak with garlic mashers and Brussels house-cured guanciale, fresh-cracked black sprouts, and broccoli risotto, where the pepper and Parmesan cheese. Nothing broth from blanched broccoli infuses the more, nothing less. No cream. No peas. Just risotto through and through with wholesome broccoli flavor. carbonara the way it was intended.

Look out, Utah resorts! Solitude’s culinary A butter-leaf lettuce salad ($10) was generous in both size and flavor, served with team is firing on all cylinders, and its cuisine shaved Manchego cheese, apple chunks, is a delectable force to be reckoned with. CW spiced walnuts, Champagne vinaigrette and avocado. Likewise, crispy “griddled” shrimp cakes with baby greens, basil and roasted red pepper aioli ($12) was a big crowd-pleaser at our table.

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The potatoes are rustic, crisp and cooked with onions for some aromatics; the two slices of thick-cut applewoodsmoked bacon are delicious. But best of all was the pancakes, with my companion and I between us ordering one buttermilk and an apple cinnamon. The buttermilk somehow managed the impossible trick of being both fluffy and heavy; it was mouthwatering creation. The apple cinnamon pancake was so sweet and fresh that it could have also been dessert.

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The world’s best Chardonnays come from California and France’s Burgundy region. They can be costly, but don’t have to be. For an inexpensive, well-made Frenchstyle Chardonnay, I’d look no further than the renowned Burgundy wine house of Louis Latour. In the well-balanced Latour Bourgogne Blanc ($16.99), French oak lends subtle vanilla flavors that complement cantaloupe and nutty notes. Also try JJ Vincent Bourgogne Blanc ($16.99), Selby Russian River ($19.99), Deloach ($9.95) and Franciscan ($15.99).

Although the grape varietal can be traced back to Europe, no wine shouts “America!” like Zinfandel. For my money, America’s best Zinfandel comes from Will Bucklin’s gnarled old vines, some of which date back to the Civil War era. From Sonoma’s oldest vineyard, Bucklin Old Hill Ranch Zinfandel ($27.99) is complex, spicy and brimming with red and black fruit flavors, ripe tannins and a smooth, beautiful finish. For a little less dough, sip some Rosenblum Cellars Vintner’s Cuvée ($14.79), Rancho Zabaco Heritage Vines ($15.99), Cline ($11.95), Ravenswood

DRINK Vintners Blend ($12.99) or Carol Shelton Wild Thing ($13.99).

As with Chardonnay, the Pinot Noir grape produces some of the world’s best and most expensive wines. That’s especially true of Pinot Noir from Burgundy. But in recent years, California and Oregon wineries have been producing Pinot that rivals some of France’s most lauded Burgundy. As I recently wrote, A to Z Wineworks Pinot Noir is a steal at $18.99.

It’s brimming with ripe bing cherry, raspberry and strawberry aromas.

The tannins are ripe and refined, and on the palate, there are succulent dark-fruit flavors combined with hints of spice and cola. From France, Latour Domaine de Valmoissine ($15.99), Doma ine Fa iveley Bour gog ne Rouge ($22.49), and especially Bouchard Aîné & Fils Bourgogne ($10.95) are fairly easy on the wallet. For cheap but tasty American Pinot Noir,

try Mark West ($12.95), Robert Mondavi Private Selection ($9.99), DeLoach ($10.95), Seaglass ($12.99) and Hahn Estates ($11.99).

Some of the world’s most sought-after and budget-busting red wines come from France’s Bordeaux region, where most of the wines produced are Cabernet Sauvignon-based. Thankfully, you don’t have to spend $1,200 for a bottle of 1988 Château Latour. Inexpensive, delicious Cabernet can be had from France, California and even Chile.

For a full-bodied Cabernet with abundant blackberry and cherry flavors, I often look to Chile’s Montes Alpha ($22.99). This is a terrific ready-to-drink Cab aged in French oak, offering classic Bordeaux-style red fruit and blackberry notes with hints of coffee and vanilla. It’s great with grilled meats and pasta Bolognese. I think you’d also like McManis ($9.82), Liberty School ($16.95), Mouton Cadet ($9.99), Château Recougne Bordeaux Superieur ($16.49) and Columbia Crest Grand Reserve Estate ($13.99). CW

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Most of the wine I enjoy sells for well under $20 a bottle, and many are under $10. Whether you’re a wine novice looking to explore and learn about the fermented grape, or a wine pro just looking for value, here are some economical wines that are prototypical of their grape variety—and some of my favorites.

For American-made Sauvignon Blanc (sometimes called Fume Blanc), I think Joel Gott ($10.99) is pretty hard to beat.

Sauvignon Blanc typically has herbal, grassy, vegetal flavors; I often think of grapefruit or gooseberries when I’m drinking it. Gott’s Sauvignon Blanc is more American in style than classic New

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There is little I enjoy more than a relaxing lunch at Caffé Molise, a 20-year-old restaurant dishing out straightforward, no-nonsense Italian dishes without smoke and mirrors. The appetizers are whoppers—big enough for a quartet to share, and Molise has the best bruschetta around: toasted, garlic-rubbed baguette slices drizzled with olive oil and topped with a scrumptious herb-infused bean puree, marinated Roma tomatoes and flash-sauteed spinach. And this fall, owner Fred Moesinger 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. 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. Reviewed Jan. 2, 2014. 55 W. 100 South, 801-364-8833, CaffeMolise.com

Hell’s Backbone Grill

This Boulder eatery, located about four hours from Salt Lake City, is a seasonal affair, open from mid-March to early December. The meals I’ve had here were nothing less than exceptional. I’ve never had a better breakfast than the chile-migas, one of the many nods to New Mexico. It’s a plate piled high with scrambled fresh farm eggs tossed with blue-corn tortilla chips, jack cheese and hot-as-hell red-chile sauce, with yummy pinto beans and freshly made flour tortillas on the side. It’s my favorite restaurant of 2013—and one that’s well worth an excursion to Boulder.

Reviewed Dec. 26, 2013. 20 N. Highway 12, Boulder, 435-335-7464, HellsBackboneGrill.com

Boudreaux’s Bistro

The menu of Boudreaux’s Bistro is composed entirely of Cajun-Creole cuisine—a rarity in Utah. A good way to sample a range of Boudreaux’s many dishes is with the Pick 3 plate. For a mere $8.25, you get a serving of three items—along with French bread—from a selection that includes shrimp or chicken Creole; crawfish, shrimp or chicken étouffeé; jambalaya; or red beans with smoked sausage. At Boudreaux’s, I felt like I often do when I’m in New Orleans: too much food and too little time. To help narrow down the choices, definitely don’t miss out on the great gumbo: a rich, hearty, medium-brown gumbo of chicken and sausage atop traditional white rice. It may be served in a Styrofoam cup or bowl, but it’s a thing of beauty.

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Reviewed Nov. 28, 2013. 1048 E. 2100 South, 801742-5490, TheAnnexByEpicBrewing.com

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Elements

Perched beside the Logan River in the Riverwoods area, Elements offers a warm and relaxing atmosphere combined with the cuisine of a top-notch metropolitan restaurant. Chef Dustin McKay and sous chef Oscar Silva combine with pastry chef Rocio Silva to produce tempting dishes, such as red-chile onion rings, lobster ravioli, filet mignon quesadillas, barbecued tiger shrimp, blackened ahi with soy-mustard glaze, molten chocolate souffle and mascarpone semifreddo. Elements also serves breakfast and lunch. 640 S. 35 East, Logan, 435-750-5171, TheElementsRestaurant.com

Taqueria 27

Siegfriedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s authentic European-deli dining experience has made it a Salt Lake City favorite for more than 40 years. The menu offers traditional German fare like bratwurst, spaetzle and wiener schnitzel, and nearly every type of sausage imaginable. The deli offers both cold and hot sandwiches, but the most popular is the Reubenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;classic corned beef, pastrami, Swiss cheese and sauerkraut served on rye bread. Its convenient downtown location can accommodate a quick bite for

The Cabin Restaurant

Enjoy eclectic cuisine of the American West in an elegant mountain setting. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and located in Canyonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Grand Summit Hotel lobby, The Cabin Restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fine dining includes Western dishes of venison, elk and bison, all served in cabin coziness; try a spicy bowl of bison chili after a day of skiing or hiking in the mountains. The restaurant also provides an eye-popping wine list, as well as fine whiskeys and scotch. The wild-game chili and creamy tomato bisque are terrific. 4000 Canyon Resort Drive, Park City, 435-615-8060, CanyonsResort.com

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At Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s La Frontera restaurantsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;created by the Tovar familyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;rib-sticking Mexican fare and low prices are the main attraction. For many, the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chile verde recipe is a national treasure. But equally appealing are the enchiladas, tacos, smothered burritos, chimichangas, tamales, tostadas or a dozen other items from the extensive menu.

And, you can always put the fire out with a cold cerveza.

Kids especially like the easy-to-eat flautas. For breakfast, try the housemade menudo. Multiple locations, LaFronteraCafe.com

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Kim Long specializes in nine different varieties of pho.

Rice platters, like charbroiled lemongrass beef, are very popular, as are the rice-noodle soups. The rice-noodlesoup special contains barbecued pork, shrimp and crab.

Fondue dishes include beef with vinegar broth, shrimp, squid or a combination of all three. Unique to Kim Long is nuong vi, where you grill your own food right at your table. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also chow mein and lo mein on the menu.

And be sure to try a boba drink; there are a ton of flavors, including red bean and banana. 1664 N. Woodland Park Drive, Layton, 801-779-9586

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Taqueria 27 is a contemporary, upscale taqueria in Lamplighter Square, owned by Todd and Kristin Gardiner. The interior is stylish yet warm and inviting, with chrome chairs, metal-and-glass tables, woodwork and comfy couches. All the delicious Mexican food served at Taqueria 27 is made from scratch, including the sumptuous moles. For an addicting appetizer, dig into the gooey queso fundido made with melted cheeses from Oaxaca and Chihuahua, spiked with mole verde and served with corn or flour tortillas. But be sure to leave room for the main event: fresh tacos. Choose from fillings including duck confit, deep-fried grouper, slowcooked carnitas, wild mushrooms and more. To wash it all down, select some tequila from Taqueria 27â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s extensive list. 1615 S. Foothill Drive, Salt Lake City, 385259-0712, Taqueria27.com

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ambience. The sushi bar in the lounge is the perfect place to indulge in extraordinary seafood creations, while the dining-room menu features an eclectic mix of dishes, such as maple-cured salmon fillet, panfried chicken with cornflake-pistachio crust and tarragon creamed corn, and butternut-squash fettuccine.

Service is excellent, and the 850-plus-selection wine listâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence winnerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;holds many hidden treasures. 9600 E. Little Cottonwood Canyon Road, Snowbird, 801-933-2160, Snowbird.com

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One of the most unusual dining experiences in Utah, The Yurt at Solitude Mountain Resort offers an enchanting adventure along with a delicious dinner.

Guests cross-country ski, snowmobile or snowshoe (approximately three-quarters of a mile) through the moon- or lantern-lit forest to an authentic Mongolian yurt, where the chef prepares a different five-course dinner each night, with dishes like squash soup and broiled salmon with mango sauce. The Yurt is open seasonally, and the overwhelming popularity of this unique dining adventure makes reservations a must. 12000 E. Big Cottonwood Canyon Road, Solitude, 801-536-5709, SkiSolitude.com

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Cafe On Main

At Cafe on Main, the emphasis is on Balkan cuisine, such as pljeskavica (beef patty stuffed in a fresh pita) and ground-lamb sausages called cevapi. This small gem of a European-style cafe has Adriatic roots, so be sure to try the incredible chicken goulash when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the menu. People also rave about the Caesar salad, the grilled kebabs, baklava, fresh espresso, tiramisu and more. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to pass by this terrific little family-owned eatery. 2701 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-487-9434, CafeOnMainSLC.com

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A longtime classic dive in Salt Lake City, Virgâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fish & Chips specializes in, not surprisingly, English-style fish and chips.

In addition to fried cod and shrimp, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also halibut and salmon on the menu, along with a variety of sandwiches, including a ginormous 2-pound burger, gyros and even a shredded-beef burrito. 5770 S. Redwood Road, West Valley City, 801-968-7180

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Ghidotti’s, from Park City restaurateur Bill White, is in some ways his most impressive restaurant. It’s certainly the largest, with soaring ceilings, gigantic chandeliers and a lively ambience. Originally conceived as a simple, checkeredtablecloth kind of place, it’s now gorgeous, and so is the food.

Kick things off with clams casino or Tuscan bistecca rosemary skewers, then launch into White’s signature shrimp scampi Florentine or the melt-in-the-mouth braised beef braciola in thick, rich, tomato sauce and served in the copper pan it was cooked in. The pork osso buco with winter squash is a favorite cold-weather entree, and for down-home comfort food, try Mamma Ghidotti’s traditional spaghetti with meatballs.

Wine manager Mike Brown’s well-selected list simply adds to the superb dining experience. 6030 N. Market St., Park City, 435-658-0669, Ghidottis.com

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Vosen’s features fine German-style breads, pretzels and more, as well as assorted Danish pastries, that are baked fresh daily. The bakery was founded in April 1997 by Markus Vosen and his wife, Silvia, and has established itself as the German bakery in Salt Lake City. Vosen’s offers seating for customers to enjoy the bakery’s authentic offerings, plus treats like the croi-liner: a mashup of a croissant and the Berliner donut, filled with raspberry jelly and topped with vanilla cream. Bread options include bauernbrot (light rye), eifelbrot, focaccia, marble rye, krustenbrot, white bread, bread bowls, sunflower bread and much more. 328 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-322-2424, Vosen.com

High Point Coffee

At High Point Coffee, you’ll find an extensive selection of freshly brewed coffee, espresso beverages, tea, spiced cider, blended beverages, smoothies, freshly baked pastries, sandwiches and more. Be sure to try the raspberry mocha. Other attractions include tarot-card readings every other Thursday and open-mic nights on Saturdays.

7800 S. Redwood Road, West Jordan, 801-8784344, HighPointCoffeeHouse.com

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Greek flavors rule the roost here, from cinnamon-spiked spaghetti topped with feta cheese to pork & eggs marinated in lemon. The Olympian is an especially popular stop—and has been for more than a couple of decades—for breakfast, which is served all day. The Greek omelet with feta, tomatoes, bacon or gyro meat and onions is always a hit with customers, but the Olympian also does respectable Belgian waffles, a blueberry pancake stack and Greek breakfast beefsteak called beefteki.

The homemade dolmathes are addictive—betcha can’t eat just one. Also try the Athenian chicken and spanakopita. 2181 S. 700 East, Salt Lake City, 801-487-1407

Indochine Vietnamese Bistro

Nothing could be better on a cold winter day than Chef Tuan Vu’s incendiary hot & spicy noodle soup. For more delicate palates, try his pho. Also considerably mellower is an Indochine specialty of curried beef stew, which is served with a French baguette on the side. The calamari appetizer is served with an outrageously yummy homestyle Sriracha, and you’ll also enjoy Indochine’s barbecued short ribs, served with smoky “broken” rice and a garlic-lime dipping sauce. In warm weather, enjoy the inviting sidewalk patio. 230 S. 1300 East, Salt Lake City, 801-582-0896, IndochineUtah.com

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At Bambara, Chef Nathan Powers dazzles guests nightly with his superb, but unpretentious fare. (His own favorite dish on the menu is steak frites.) With its full-exhibition kitchen, you’ll be able to enjoy dinner and a show. Bambara’s warm house-cut potato chips slathered with blue cheese are irresistable, as are the delectable crab-stuffed piquillo peppers with corn tartar sauce and crisp chorizo. And the lavender-grilled ahi tuna with heirloom-tomato bread salad, salsa verde and

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At Paleteria La Bonita, a friendly little ice cream shop located in the Latino Mall, Jose and Lilia Chavez serve traditional, Mexican-style ice cream and popsicles. In addition to sweet flavors such as coconut, strawberry, banana and pineapple, Paleteria La Bonita also offers savory ice cream flavors, such as guacamole and cactus. 2470 S. Redwood Road, West Valley City, 801-973-6263

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Located in historic Sugar House, this casual eatery features specialty salads, pizzas and fresh pasta specials daily.

Private cushioned booths and televisions tuned to sports channels make this a great place for lunch or a casual dinner. Salt Lake Pizza & Pasta also carries a huge variety of local microbrews along with imported beers, wine and liquor. 1063 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City, 801484-1804, SaltLakePizzaAndPasta.com

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The Red Butte Café, on Salt Lake City’s east side, features an eclectic Southwest-contemporary menu. House specialties include pepita-crusted salmon, grilled sirloin with shallot marmalade, falafel with saffron aioli, and braised pork in tomato-saffron broth. If you have room after dinner, don’t forget the tempting dessert menu, with offerings like the orange-chocolate mousse cake, three-layer chocolate cake and white-chocolate raspberry cheesecake. The restaurant also provides microbrews from Desert Edge Brewery, and don’t forget about brunch on Sundays. 1414 Foothill Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-581-9498, TheRedButteCafe.com

black olive aioli is marvelous. Manager Guy Wheelwright runs a very tight ship, and Bambara’s service is top-notch in every way, leaving you to concern yourself only with licking your plate clean, which will come quite naturally. 202 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-363-5454, Bambara-SLC.com

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Finca is an authentic Spanish tapas restaurant, and, like its sister restaurant, Pago, almost all of the produce, meats, cheeses, eggs and more used to create the simple but quality dishes is locally sourced. Chef Phelix Gardner begins your meal with the refreshing beet salad with pickled strawberries and ricotta cheese, or the ridiculously delicious croquetas filled with decadent béchamel and Spanish ham. For an entree, sink your teeth into the carne de asador, which is a medium-rare bavette steak topped with romesco sauce and served with roasted potatoes. There is also a meticulously selected list of Spanish wines to make your meal sing.

1291 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-487-0699, FincaSLC.com

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Her uses high-concept sciencefiction to find the complexity in dealing with real people.

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heodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix)— the protagonist of Spike Jonze’s gorgeous science-fiction romance Her—is a sensitive guy. You can see it in the way he does his job as a 21st-century Cyrano, surrogate-writing romantic letters rich with detail that his employer— Beaut i f u l Ha ndw r it ten L et ters.com— provides for clients. It’s there in the way he observes and reads the expressions of the people he sees, and hears subtle emotional inflection in voices. And it’s there in the way he’s still mourning the end of his marriage a year after the split, instructing his mobile device to “play melancholy song” at the end of a workday.

In any other variation on this basic arc of “man changed by a romantic relationship,” you’d probably find Theodore to be much more of a typical, emotionally shallow “guy.”

In no other variation would you likely find that the relationship is with an artificially intelligent computer operating system.

The high-concept premise for Her is its key marketing hook, and certainly it taps into something zeitgeist-y about The Way We Are Now. When Theodore begins his relationship with Samantha (voiced by Scarlett Johansson)—his state-of-the-art new operating system with an evolving personality— it certainly feels like a reductio ad absurdam exploration of how so many human connections have become exclusively digital, and how real they seem even without another living human sitting in the same room.

When Jonze shows us the near-future Los Angeles in which Theodore lives—full of people walking in isolation, plugged in and interacting exclusively with their electronic hand-held universe—it feels pretty similar to the world in which we already live.

But Her isn’t simply a fable about living virtually, virtually all the time. Certainly

Jonze nails some brutally funny moments about lives spent with digital connections, from Theodore’s awkwardly failed late-night sex-chat to the foul-mouthed video-game character with whom he interacts. And Theodore’s job offers a sharp swipe at people who have lost the ability—or willingness—to communicate in their own voice even with those who are supposed to be closest to them.

Her is even more potent, however, at exploring a complexity in relationships that often seems hard to manage. Because, as sweet and sensitive as Theodore might seem to be, he’s also got a shallow side, as his ex-wife (Rooney Mara) suggests when they meet to finalize their divorce. While it’s a great joke when we hear him deleting serious news alerts only to stop for provocative photos of a pregnant celebrity, it’s also a chance to recognize that he’s not a guy who spends his time dealing with unpleasant realities; he may be a romantic, but that’s not the same as knowing how to be in love.

That’s the soul of the relationship dynamic between Theodore and Samantha, magnificently captured in both performances.

Johansson’s voice manages to evoke the perky, quirky personality that initially makes Samantha so appealing, as well as the anxiety and uncertainty of an entity only beginning to understand its own capacity to feel and think. And Phoenix makes Theodore endearing while never hiding his genuine insecurity—he gets a terrific moment reacting to a co-worker who accepts the rela-

Joaquin Phoenix in Her tionship with Samantha that Theodore had begun to consider embarrassing—and his struggle dealing with the thorny, messy side of being with a real woman.

The genius of Her, then, is that its gimmick isn’t merely a gimmick. It’s a perfect set-up for exploring, in the condensed time frame of a movie narrative, the evolution that complicates love. Samantha’s growing self-awareness is like watching Moore’s Law about the exponential growth of computing capacity play out as the life cycle of a romantic relationship, faced by a man for whom beautiful words and sensitive feelings are only abstract concepts. It may not be a jawdropping, revelatory central idea that some guys have growing up to do when it comes to dealing with women, but Jonze manages to concoct the perfect cocktail of grace notes and edgy, challenging character study. Her finds its brilliance not simply in suggesting we need to get offline and deal with real people, but in recognizing that even when we’re with real people, we may still need to get a hell of a lot better at dealing with them. CW

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HHHH Joaquin Phoenix Scarlett Johansson Amy Adams Rated R

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Where the Wild Things Are (2009) Max Records James Gandolfini Rated PG

n all fairness, you should probably just ignore me when it comes to August: Osage County, since Tracy Letts’ adaptation of his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play falls squarely in a category of drama that almost never works for me: theater of familial recriminations.

The family in question here is the Weston clan of titular Osage County, Okla., facing the sudden disappearance of patriarch Bev (Sam Shepherd). Reunited to help their pill-addicted/cancer-stricken mom Violet (Meryl Streep) deal with the situation are her three daughters: Barbara (Julia Roberts), coping with estrangement from her own husband (Ewan McGregor); Ivy (Julianne Nicholson), who’s hiding her new romantic relationship; and Karen (Juliette Lewis), the free-spirited black sheep who brings her fiance (Dermot Mulroney) to the gathering.

There’s plenty of solid dark humor strewn throughout Letts’ text—directed

by TV veteran John Wells—that gets at the needling interaction between family members, like the mockery of Barbara’s teenage daughter, Jean (Abigail Breslin), for being a vegetarian. Many of the supporting performances—Nicholson; Margo Martindale as Violet’s sister, Mattie Fae; Chris Cooper as Mattie Fae’s long-suffering husband—are effectively restrained, capturing the deep sadness of people who have lived in the shadow of bitter, unhappy loved ones.

But then, eventually, it’s going to be time for everyone to start screaming and explaining in detail all the horrible things that were done to them over the years, or rationalizing the horrible things they did to others. And that gives Streep and Roberts in particular an excuse to capital-A Act to the balcony seats, hurling tableware and insults with equal ferocity and a virtual guarantee that their “Most Acting” will somehow be misinterpreted as “Best Acting.” If there’s a way for such furiously over-thetop histrionics to be entertaining, rather than aggravating, I’m not sure I’ve yet to discover it. CW

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47 Ronin H Based on a 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 donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know enough about the tale to say whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. Reevesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; characterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;an outcast â&#x20AC;&#x153;half-breedâ&#x20AC;? of unknown originâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;has an extraneous, unconvincing love interest in Kou Shibasaki, who pines for him and the others as they seek justice for a rival provinceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Eric D. Snider

August: Osage County HH.5 See review p. 36. Opens Jan. 9 at theaters valleywide. (R)

Her HHHH See review p. 36. Opens Jan. 9 at theaters valleywide. (R)

The Armstrong Lie At Park City Film Series, Jan. 10-11, 8 p.m. & Jan. 12, 6 p.m. (PG-13)

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Frozen HHH Disney keeps showing that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re scared to death of boldly proclaiming that one of their animated movies is about girls, and that institutional anxiety damages this story of two sistersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Elsa (Idina Menzel) and Anna (Kristen Bell)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;divided by Elsaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inability to control her magical power to generate ice and snow.

The opening minutes suggest the potential for a flat-out masterpiece, with lovely songs and a heartbreaking central relationship. But eventually, Elsa flees after sending her kingdom into a perpetual winter, Anna heads off in pursuit, and it becomes all about a funny talking snowman (Josh Gad) rather than estranged sisters. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing inherently wrong with a little comic relief, but Frozen is practically over before it returns to the emotionally resonant central character arcs, because that would mean focusing on (ick!) girls. (PG)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;SR

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Lone Survivor HHH.5 The spoiler is in the title: Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell (Mark Wahlberg) was the only one to survive a doomed 2005 mission in the mountains of Afghanistan to capture or kill a Taliban leader. Writer-director Peter Berg has adapted Luttrellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true story into one of the more realistic military movies ever, one that acknowledges the powerful fraternity of soldiersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the cast also includes Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch and Ben Fosterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;without being jingoistic about their work, and one that depicts the intensity and adrenaline of a battlefield without being pornographic about it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s even got something to say about the ironies of modern asymmetrical warfare, and the senselessness of Western military presence in the region. From the perspective of mere movie entertainment, the non-CGIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ed stuntwork and you-are-there action of the centerpiece firefight is riveting, and not like anything youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen on film before. From the perspective of real-world military work, dammit, we need to be finding better ways of resolving conflicts than this. We must be insane to let anyone, on either side of this deplorable state of affairs, endure what we witness here.

Opens Jan. 9 at theaters valleywide. (R)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;MaryAnn Johanson

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues HHH The original Anchorman had nothing to say beyond â&#x20AC;&#x153;Arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s fashions in clothes and misogyny hilarious?â&#x20AC;? This sequel has some meat to it, as Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) and his team of local-news idiots (Paul Rudd, David Koechner, Steve Carell) invent the nonstop parade of gossip, sensationalism, disaster and shouting that passes for modern journalism at the brandnew 24-hour all-news channel theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been hired to help launch.

Ferrell and director Adam McKay also co-wrote the script, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not concerned only with satire; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also brought a Monty Python-esque level of insane nonsense to Burgundy & Co. This is far from a perfect filmâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;wildly uneven, with its big laughs interrupted by long, unfunny, dragged-out bitsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but when it works, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so deliciously bizarre that it almost makes you not hate Ron Burgundy for ruining the news forever. (PG-13)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;MAJ

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The Legend of Hercules [not yet reviewed] Origin story of the half-human/half-god hero (Kellan Lutz).

Opens Jan. 9 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)

American Hustle HHH David O. Russell loosely adapts the story of the late 1970s FBI â&#x20AC;&#x153;Abscamâ&#x20AC;? operation, with con artists Irving (Christian Bale) and Sydney (Amy Adams) caught by FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper) and forced to assist in a sting operation targeting corrupt government officials. Pretty much everyone hereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner, etc.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;acts to the rafters with their various accents and over-the-top personalities, while Russell swings and zips his camera like heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing a secondgeneration photocopy of GoodFellas by way of Boogie Nights.

Yet itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also kind of a hoot on a moment-to-moment basis, as the undercover operation gets more convolutedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and more dangerousâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with each passing day. Leave aside Louis C.K.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s low-key FBI middle-manager, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a subtle thing to be found in all 135 minutes; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also hard to completely dismiss its fun brand of un-subtle. (R)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;SR

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The Great Beauty HHH.5 Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;the 65-year-old protagonist of Paolo Sorrentinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gloriously acidic panorama of contemporary Roman decadenceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;has spent virtually his entire life living off the fame of his one and only novel, The Human Apparatus. But as Sorrentino watches Jepâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s episodic wanderings through Italyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high-art subculture, we get the sense that Jep longs for something more substantial, and has no idea how to find it. Working in a surreal register that often makes the film feel like something out of Terry Gilliamâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;most specifically in a scene where patients line up for Botox injections in a fast-food version of cosmetic surgeryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sorrentino understands what makes beautiful surfaces appealing, and what makes the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s various artist characters reach for ever-more-extreme forms of expression to grab viewersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; attention. At its heart and soul, though, this is a simple story of a man wondering where the hell so many years of his life disappeared to, with Servilloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance capturing a moment when you realize you want your art to enhance your experience of life, not merely distract you from it. Opens Jan. 9 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Scott Renshaw

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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 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 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

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 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 anti-apartheid leader (Idris Elba) from his career as an attorney through his 27-year prison term for antigovernment 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

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Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones HHH Those invisible camera-hogging demons are back in this intermittently jumpy spin-off of the successful “found footage” horror franchise. Loosely connected to the previous installments, this Latino-themed entry follows three teenagers who stumble across a black-magic ritual in their apartment complex. Many bumps in the night follow—including, in what may be a cinematic first, a possessed Simon game. Debuting director Christopher Landon, a veteran writer of the series, here ditches the trademark stationary camera setups and takes a more mobile approach, a decision that unfortunately loses much of the patented creeping slowburn dread. Save for an appealing lead performance by newcomer Andrew Jacobs and a rather nifty ending twist, there’s not much here besides basic Pavlovian shocks. Something loudly leaps into frame. We jump in our seats. Repeat. (R)—Andrew Wright

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

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 realism 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 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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Army of the Damned Followed by reality-TV cameras, a police chief (Sully Erma—yes, the singer of Godsmack) and his men battle a small-town zombie outbreak. Also starring rassler Tommy Dreamer, porn star Jasmin St. Claire and … Joey Fatone?! (Screen Media)

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Banshee and Shameless are back, but True Detective is the must-see of the season.

Carrie An outcast high-schooler (Chloë Grace Moretz) with telekinetic powers gets revenge-y at her prom, and the Liberal Media just blames it on her religious mother (Julianne Moore). Based on a book, movie and first-person shooter. (Screen Gems)

Banshee Friday, Jan. 10 (Cinemax) Season Premiere: If you haven’t yet seen the first season of Banshee, do so—it’s a 10-episode rush of gonzo-pulp mayhem that defies reason and yet somehow still works, like a visceral mashup of Justified, Twin Peaks, Fight Club and some sexy number you’d see much later in the night on Cinemax. You’d just sprain something if you jumped in on Season 2 tonight. Go ahead; The Only TV Column That Matters™ will be here, waiting.

Shameless Sunday, Jan. 12 (Showtime)

Series Debut: Show creator/writer Nic Pizzolatto has set up True Detective as an anthology series that would introduce a new setting and cast every season—so he’s prob-

Bitten Monday, Jan. 13 (Syfy) Series Debut: Welcome back to Gorgeous Supernatural Creatures Just Trying to Fit In Mondays, with returning series Lost Girl and Being Human, and new Syfy entry Bitten— for those keeping score, that’s a succubus, a vampire, a ghost and now three werewolves.

Bitten stars Laura Vandervoort (Smallville) as a werewolf who’s split acrimoniously from her beardy-man pack to live the “nor-

True Detective (HBO) mal” life of an urbanite who has to strip down and wolf-out in the woods on occasion. Like Lost Girl and Being Human, Bitten looks like it was shot for $1,000 over the weekend in Vancouver, but doesn’t achieve the deft humor/drama mix of either—so it piles on the sex scenes. Prediction: Hit.

Archer, Chozen Monday, Jan. 13 (FX)

StreetDance 2 After being dissed by a rival crew, Ash (Falk Hentschel) only has six weeks to assemble the best dancers from around the world for a rematch. Who set this unreasonable deadline? And what kind of budget is StreetDancers working with? (Phase 4)

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Season Premiere, Series Debut: As we—and they—learn in the first episode of Season 5, Sterling Archer (H. Jon Benjamin) and the International Secret Intelligence Service have been causing global havoc for years without the sanction of the U.S. government, thus setting up a season-long arc with the on-the-lam spy gang attempting to unload a ton of cocaine before Pam (Amber Nash) ingests it all, because, you know, Archer.

Moving the show to Mondays seems like an equally suicidal mission, but at least FX finally has a semi-worthy animated companion in Chozen, the story of a gay, white, ex-con rapper on a mission, from the minds behind Archer and Eastbound & Down. It’s half-baked, but Chozen is at least good enough to beat off the competition … phrasing. CW

A gang of ax-wielding killers take a rich family hostage in their home, and it’s up to a 98-pound houseguest (Sharni Vinson) to save everyone from the animal-masked assailants. Surprise! They all die. So, who’s next? StreetDancers? (Lionsgate)

More New DVD Releases (Jan. 14) A.C.O.D., Big Sur, Enough Said, Fresh Meat, Fruitvale Station, GasLand Part II, Getting That Girl, How to Make Money Selling Drugs, Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Short Term 12, A Single Shot, The Spectacular Now, A Strange Brand of Happy, Twenty Feet From Stardom, Voodoo Possession Listen to Bill on Mondays at 8 a.m. on X96 Radio From Hell.

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ably screwed himself by producing such an incredible first run, with stars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson turning in their most intense performances to date. The pair play disparate detectives (Harrelson’s Martin Hart is a linear-thinking traditionalist; McConaughey’s Rust Cohle is hyper-smart profiler with a penchant for unsettling spiels about the futility of existence) investigating an occult-style murder in 1995 Louisiana. The twist is, the two are telling the story from their own viewpoints in 2012, being interviewed by police about a similar recent killing. Even with the timeshifts, True Detective is seamless and riveting, more of an extended indie film than a crime series. If you see only one TV show this year, 1. Why are you on this page, snobby?

And, 2. Make it True Detective.

In the third and final(?) installment of the series, Riddick (Vin Diesel) finally decides to get the hell off of the stupid desert planet (good call) and sends a signal to the mercenaries out to capture/kill him (bad call). Oh, and now he has a pet! (Universal)

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Season Premiere: Fiona’s (Emmy Rossum) job may finally have the family “creeping up on the poverty line,” but all is not yet well in Gallagher world: Lip (Jeremy Allen White) is finding college tougher than he thought; Carl (Ethan Cutkowsky) and Debbie (Emma Kenney) have become hormonal-teen assholes; Ian (Cameron Monaghan) is still missing; and, even worse, Frank (William H. Macy) has been found and returned—and he’s learned a few … new ways … to get alcohol into his body now that he can’t drink. Four seasons in, Shameless has yet to run out of ways to simultaneously delight and disgust.

Once more: Forget Modern Family—this is America’s family.

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A close listen to the final track on the first album, “Aftermath,” reveals a reverb-heavy psych-rock introduction, foreshadowing the direction the band was heading. On the song, Snow’s vocals are a lot less Waylon and a lot more ’90s rock, which is a large part of his personal musical taste: “Alice in Chains and Blind Melon and Nirvana and Pearl Jam,” he says.

Going forward, the band has a new acoustic album in the works that will capture the feel of Snow and Davis’ shows as a duo, as well as new songs “Dig You a Hole” and “The Stranger,” which will be released as singles in the next month and feature the full band—minus drummer Wil Grimshaw, who is being deployed to Kosovo for the next year.

With new song “Blue Smoke”—complete with touches of fuzzed-out, spacey guitar and Davis singing lead vocals—as proof, Triggers & Slips don’t bother with neatly fitting into a genre; they’re more concerned with growing as a band and keeping the experimentation flowing.

“It’s just about good songs to me,” says keyboardist Greg Midgley (The Rubes, The Moths). “Like when you all can agree on, ‘Wow, that’s an amazing song,’ or, ‘We should learn that one,’ that’s kind of where the influence comes from is recognizing what feels like a shared enjoyment or recognition of good songs. And it can go across different genres.” CW

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By Kolbie Stonehocker kstonehocker@cityweekly.net @vonstonehocker f your only taste of Triggers & Slips were their self-titled debut full-length album, released in May 2012, you’d probably neatly peg them as a honky-tonk band. And with the record’s dusty feel—complete with lap steel, twangy guitar licks and smooth three-part harmonies— that description would hit the mark on the nose. “But that’s not really where we end with our sound,” says lead guitarist/vocalist Morgan Snow.

Since the album came out, Triggers & Slips—which formed in 2008—have kept a rigorous performance schedule. The full band, as well as a scaled-down lineup of just Snow—a talented solo artist—and John Davis (vocals, electric guitar, lap steel), can be heard regularly at local venues and bars.

While those sets do include some tracks from the Salt Lake City-based group’s self-titled record, they’re more a reflection of the band’s recent musical growth and experimentation.

“There’s a lot of breadth in the live show,” says bassist Zach Griffen (who also plays in Sturgeon General), “from intimate, slow stuff to rock to the honky-tonk stuff to stuff that’s really far out there.”

Compared to Triggers & Slips’ diverse live sound, that debut album, the band members agree, now feels “outdated,” with its sound heavily influenced by country outlaw Waylon Jennings. “My brothers and my dad got me into Waylon Jennings,” Snow says. “I remember moving back from college and going on a camping trip with them, and all we listened to was Waylon goddamn Jennings for three days straight.”

Most of the tunes on the album, like “4 Letters” and “Old Friends,” are satisfyingly sad country songs, about imperfect humans making do in an imperfect world and looking for solace at the bottom of a bottle. That theme is what makes Triggers & Slips’ music so compelling: These are songs that hit you right in the gut.

Fittingly, Snow came up with the band’s name while working as a drug & alcohol therapist. “ ‘Triggers and slips’ is a term used in drug & alcohol therapy relating to changing using behaviors,” he says. “I looked at a notebook of one of the co-members at the time, who was also in the field, and across the top read ‘Triggers and Slips.’ They were notes from the group session, and I thought it was the perfect name for a band such as this.”

Those early songs were also “some of the first songs I’d ever wrote,” Snow says. “I didn’t really plan on writing country music; when I started writing, that’s what came

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hile Sundance is an unparalleled opportunity to see the work of independent filmmakers from around the world, the silver screen isn’t the only place to find examples of creativity during the festival. From Jan. 16 to 26, enough local and touring bands and solo musicians will be hitting the stages at the Salt Lake City Festival Café and the Sundance ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) Music Café in Park City to turn Sundance into a miniature music festival. For the complete lineup, visit Sundance.org, and follow the festival on Twitter @sundancefestnow.

At the Salt Lake City Festival Café (Sicilia Pizza Kitchen, 35 W. 300 South, 801-961-7077, SiciliaPizzaKitchen.com), music begins Friday, Jan. 17, with performances every night at 8:30 p.m. through Jan. 25. Focused mostly on local music, the lineup consists of Americana/folk band Devil’s Club on Jan. 17 & 20, singer-songwriter David Williams on Jan. 18, country/rock band Triggers & Slips on Jan. 19, Andean ensemble Ayllupura on Jan. 21, French/ Eastern European-influenced St. Boheme on Jan. 22, gypsy-jazz band Hot Club of Zion (6 p.m.) and indierock outfit Color Animal (8:30 p.m.) on Jan. 23, blues/ country band Clarksdale Ghosts (6 p.m.) and hip-hop group Rotten Musicians (8:30 p.m.) on Jan. 24, and gypsy-rock band Juana Ghani on Jan. 25.

At the 16th-annual Sundance ASCAP Music Café (751 Main) in Park City, you’ll find performances by international musical acts from Jan. 17 to 24. Since there will be five short & sweet sets every day from 2 to 6 p.m., the cafe will be a veritable buffet for music lovers. There are just too many bands on the schedule to list here, but standout acts of the first four days include Australian folk duo The Falls (Jan. 17, 2 p.m.), Brooklyn “fantasy-pop” duo Savoir Adore (Jan. 18, 2:40 p.m.), California alt-rock eightpiece The Mowgli’s (Jan. 18, 4:40 p.m.), bewitching singer-songwriter Carina Round (Jan. 19, 4 p.m.), folk-pop musician Jeremy Messersmith (Jan. 20, 2:40 p.m.) and U.K.-based electro-pop trio Years & Years (Jan. 20, 3:20 p.m.).

The second half of the ASCAP Music Café boasts Americana folk-punk trio The Devil Makes Three (Jan. 21, 3:20 p.m.), desert-influenced Americana trio Escondido (Jan. 22, 3:20 p.m.), singer-songwriter KT Tunstall (Jan. 22, 5:45 p.m.), folk duo Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion (Jan. 23, 2:40 p.m.) and South African rock band The Parlotones (Jan. 24, 5 p.m.).

A credential ($200, or included with ticket packages) is required to attend any ASCAP shows, but shows at the Salt Lake City Festival Café are free and open to all. CW

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n Machine Gun Kelly’s video for “Wild Boy,” the Cleveland rapper asks Juaquin Malphurs, aka Waka Flocka, if he thinks he’s a good rapper. Flocka shakes his head and responds, “Fuck, no!” This admission is then followed by a subsequent, “Brick Squuaaaaaad, uh oooh here come that bullshit.” The line perfectly sums up the self-aware party antics that define Waka Flocka Flame.

First off, his actual rapping isn’t that great. Arguably, his best lyric ever comes from the same track, when he says, “Suck my Dragon Balls, bitch, call me Goku.” But to understand Waka Flocka, you need to realize that there will always be a place for frivolous rap music. For every Kendrick, there’s a Riff Raff, and for every Luda, there’s a Waka. This is how the symbiotic rap world works—every rapper exists in a delicate balance. (Go back and read that in a Mufasa voice. ) Yet, for gray-haired, hard-nosed hiphop heads, Flockaveli is a somewhat polarizing enigma. He’s hated for his lack of lyricism, and yet adored for his ability to drop lyrics like “Everybody packin’, like Nicki Minaj ass.”

I’m sorry, but if you can’t laugh at that, I feel sorry for you. Not every rap song needs to be, or should be, a studied think-piece. So, when it comes to the subgenre of inane rap laced over trap beats, Waka Flocka is a prophet, a man yelling “Squuuaaad!” while positioned at the center of “The Last Supper.”

Flocka is, without a doubt, the dreadlocked embodiment of ass-claps, crushed Xanax and smashed beer bottles. As music writer Jimmy Ness of Noisey once said, “Flocka shout-raps to the roosters, the chickenheads who sit in his Ferrari and try to count the Flockaveli fortune.” In other words, if you’re looking for an intelligent conversation about important world issues,

“Squaaaaaaaad!” —Fozzie Bear

don’t listen to Flocka—or any of his cohorts, for that matter. No one wants to hear Flocka rapping about Benghazi—unless, of course, Benghazi is the name of his new line of designer stripper Spandex, which I suppose we could tolerate.

It’s easy to shake your head, but the thing you have to admire about Flocka is that he’s fully aware of his ridiculousness and he definitely knows his place in rap music.

Unlike that little turd Tyga or that huge turd Rick Ross, Waka Flocka acknowledges that he’ll never have fans combing over his lyrics like those of fellow Queens-born rappers of a higher pedigree (i.e., Nas or Prodigy).

“God made me so I can turn up,” he said in October via his Twitter account. You have to respect honesty like that. After all, Fozzie Bear never dropped a Martin Luther King Jr. sample on a track and then followed it up on the same album with “Make it Nasty.” That was Tyga.

Waka Flocka is a simple man. He almost never wears a shirt, he’s constantly yelling “Bow, bow, bow, bow!” and when you boil it down, there are only two types of Flocka songs: those about ass-kicking and those about asses; the most popular are about the latter. His biggest commercial hit, “No Hands,” a song with the opening line “All that aasssss, in your jeeeeans,” peaked at No. 13 on the 2010 Billboard Top 100, and his second biggest hit, “Round of Applause,” which is literally a song about the sound of butt cheeks slapping together, reached No. 86 on the Billboard Top 100 in 2012.

Over the past couple of years, Waka Flocka has been busy. He’s promised to produce a rap album for Amanda Bynes, released a video game called Wakaville and parted ways with his protégé, Gucci Mane, even dissing him on the track “Ice Cream” (which has resulted in an ongoing lawsuit). But at this point, it’s safe to say Waka Flocka isn’t going anywhere. We’ll be hearing “Squaaaaaaad” for quite some time. CW

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Planet Asia In his 15-year career, this groundbreaking emcee has compiled a lengthy and stellar résumé. Since being one of the leaders of the West Coast underground hip-hop scene in the early ’90s, Jason Green—aka Planet Asia and King Medallions—collaborated and released albums with numerous influential rappers, but he’s probably best-known as being one half of the hip-hop duo Cali Agents, along with Rasco. After releasing Fire & Ice in 2006, the two seemingly went their separate ways, but according to Asia’s Twitter in July, Cali Agents are back in the studio together and working on an LP, which will be released sometime this year. But Asia will be working solo at tonight’s show, drawing from his vast amount of material with intricate, hard-hitting delivery. Bayliens, ZMan, Black Lion, Burnell Washburn, Melvin Junko, DJ Battleship and True Justice are also in the lineup. The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $12, TheUrbanLoungeSLC. com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com

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The North Valley CD Release Since coming together in 2011, The North Valley have reinvented their sound, replacing subdued alt-country with good old-fashioned rock & roll, and that new style is showcased on the band’s debut full-length album, Patterns in Retrospect. The Southern-rock/ Americana-influenced album includes a mix of revamped older songs (“Drink Alone”) and brand-new tunes such as “Never Had the Money” and “Barbed Wire Tongue.”

The dark track “There’s Something About Murder” stands out with its down & dirty beat, gritty vocals and wailing guitar. With a live show that’s a gloriously loud and highenergy good time, this quintet is rapidly becoming a must-see local act. Breakers and

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Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), 8 p.m., $6, KilbyCourt.com; The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 8 p.m., $5, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com Baby Gurl, Yaktooth, Die Off During the bleak winter months, it’s easy to get lulled into the mindset that the only things that matter are fried foods and sleeping. So if you’re in need of a jolt to your system, this night of heavy rock is just what the doctor ordered. Baby Gurl is a noiserock duo whose mostly instrumental debut album, A Name & a Blessing, is simultaneously mind-bendingly intricate and fun to listen to—check out the headbang-friendly “Tweaker Time.” An entertaining introduction to Yaktooth’s weird experimental-rock style is the music video for their song “Meat South”; the combination of screamy vocals, riff-driven guitar, baby dolls, spinning carousel horses and a platter piled high with hot dogs is dissonant and slightly repulsive, yet somehow awesome.

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The Dusty 45s Images of long-forgotten records in lonely boxes might come to mind when hearing the phrase “dusty 45s,” but this Seattle-based rockabilly quartet is anything but some sad relic of the past. Instead, trumpet-blasting frontman Billy Joe Huels and company bring back those classic styles pioneered by the likes of Elvis and Buddy Holly, blending rock, honky-tonk, blues and surf into a highenergy sound that’s utterly American. As heard on the Dusty 45s albums Fortunate Man (2010) and Shackin’ Up (2011), the band knows how to nod to the past while experimenting with their own style. And

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5 MONKEYS 7 E. 4800 South, Murray, 801266-1885, Karaoke, Free pool, Live music A BAR NAMED SUE 3928 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-274-5578, Trivia Tues., DJ Wed., Karaoke Thurs.

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ABG’S LIBATION EMPORIUM 190 W. Center St., Provo, 801-373-1200, Live music ALLEGED 205 25th St., Ogden, 801-990-0692 AREA 51 451 S. 400 West, SLC, 801-5340819, Karaoke Wed., ‘80s Thur., DJs Fri. & Sat. BAR DELUXE 666 S. State, SLC, 801-5322914, Live music & DJs THE BAR IN SUGARHOUSE 2168 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-485-1232 BAR-X 155 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-355-2287 BARBARY COAST 4242 S. State, Murray, 801-265-9889 THE BASEMENT 3109 Wall Ave., Ogden, Live music, all ages BATTERS UP 1717 S. Main, SLC, 801-4634996, Karaoke Tues., Live music Sat. THE BAYOU 645 S. State, SLC, 801-9618400, Live music Fri. & Sat. BOURBON HOUSE 19 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-746-1005, Local jazz jam Tues., Karaoke Thur., Live music Sat., Funk & soul night Sun. BREWSKIS 244 25th St., Ogden, 801-3941713, Live music BURT’S TIKI LOUNGE 726 S. State, SLC, 801-521-0572, Live music CANYON INN 3700 E. Fort Union, SLC, 801943-6969, DJs CAROL’S COVE II 3424 S. State, SLC, 801-466-2683, Karaoke Thur., DJs & Live music Fri. & Sat. CHEERS TO YOU 315 S. Main, SLC, 801575-6400 CHEERS TO YOU Midvale 7642 S. State, 801-566-0871 CHUCKLE’S LOUNGE 221 W. 900 South, SLC, 801-532-1721 CIRCLE LOUNGE 328 S. State, SLC, 801531-5400, DJs CISERO’S 306 Main, Park City, 435-6495044, Karaoke Thur., Live music & DJs CLUB 48 16 E. 4800 South, Murray, 801262-7555 CLUB 90 9065 S. 150 West, Sandy, 801-5663254, Trivia Mon., Poker Thur., Live music Fri. & Sat., Live bluegrass Sun. CLUB DJ’S 3849 W. 5400 South, Murray, 801-964-8575, Karaoke Tues., Thur. & Sun., Free pool Wed. & Sun., DJ Fri. & Sat. CLUB TRY-ANGLES 251 W. 900 South, SLC, 801-364-3203, Mid-week movie Wed., Karaoke Thur., DJs Fri. & Sat. THE COMPLEX 536 W. 100 South, SLC, 801997-0490, Live music COPPER CLUB 315 24th St., Ogden, 801-3927243, Beer pong Mon., Poker Tues., DJs Fri. & Sat. CRUZRS SALOON 3943 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-272-1903, Free pool Wed. & Thurs., Karaoke Fri. & Sat. DAWG POUND 3350 S. State, SLC, 801-2612337, Live music THE DEERHUNTER PUB 2000 N. 300 West, Spanish Fork, 801-798-8582, Live music Fri. & Sat. THE DEPOT 400 W. South Temple, SLC, 801355-5522, Live music

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FLANAGAN’S ON MAIN 438 Main, Park City, 435-649-8600, Trivia Tues., Live music Fri. & Sat. FOX HOLE PUB & GRILL 7078 S. Redwood Road, West Jordan, 801-566-4653, Karaoke & Live music THE GARAGE 1199 Beck St., SLC, 801-5213904, Live music GINO’S 3556 S. State, SLC, 801-268-1811, Live music GRACIE’S 326 S. West Temple, SLC, 801-8197565, Live music, DJs THE GREAT SALTAIR 12408 W. Saltair Drive, Magna, 801-250-6205, Live music THE GREEN PIG PUB 31 E. 400 South, SLC, 801-532-7441, Live music Thur.-Sat. HABITS 832 E. 3900 South, SLC, 801-2682228, Poker Mon., Ladies night Tues., ’80s night Wed., Karaoke Thur., DJs Fri. & Sat. HIGHLANDER 6194 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-277-8251, Karaoke 7 nights a week THE HOG WALLOW PUB 3200 E. Big Cottonwood Canyon Road, SLC, 801-733-5567, Live music HOTEL/ELEVATE 155 W. 200 South, SLC, 801-478-4310, DJs HUKA BAR & GRILL 151 E. 6100 South, Murray, 801-281-9665, Reggae Tues., DJs Fri. & Sat. IN THE VENUE/CLUB SOUND 219 S. 600 West, SLC, 801-359-3219, Live music & DJs INFERNO CANTINA 122 W. Pierpont Ave., SLC, 801-883-8838, DJs Tues.-Sat. JACKALOPE LOUNGE 372 S. State, SLC, 801-359-8054, DJs JAM 751 N. 300 West, SLC, 801-891-1162, Karaoke Tues., Wed. & Sun., DJs Thur.-Sat. JOHNNY’S ON SECOND 165 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-746-3334, DJs Tues. & Fri., Karaoke Weds., Live music Sat. KARAMBA 1051 E. 2100 South, SLC, 801696-0639, DJs KEYS ON MAIN 242 S. Main, SLC, 801-3633638, Karaoke Tues. & Wed., Dueling pianos Thur.-Sat. KILBY COURT 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), SLC, 801-364-3538, Live music, all ages KRISTAUF’S 16 W. Market St., SLC, 801-9431696, DJ Fri. & Sat. THE LEPRECHAUN INN 4700 S. 900 East, Murray, 801-268-3294 LIQUID JOE’S 1249 E. 3300 South, SLC, 801467-5637, Live music Tues.-Sat. Lo-Fi Cafe 445 S. 400 West, SLC, 801-3644325, Live music LUCKY 13 135 W. 1300 South, SLC, 801-4874418, Trivia Wed. LUMPY’S DOWNTOWN 145 Pierpont Ave., SLC, 801-938-3070

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In 1609, Dutch sea explorer Henry Hudson sailed to America TAURUS (April 20-May 20) and came upon what we now call Coney Island. Back then it was a When was the last time you did an experiment? I’m not talking barren spit of sand whose main inhabitants were rabbits. But it about scientific tests and trials that take place in a laboratory. was eventually turned into a dazzling resort—an “extravagant I’m referring to real-life experiments, like when you try out playground,” according to the documentary film Coney Island. By the an unfamiliar experience to see if it appeals to you ... or when early 20th century, there were three sprawling amusement parks you instigate a change in your routine to attract unpredictable packed into its two square miles of land, plus “a forest of glittering blessings into your sphere. Now would be an excellent time to electric towers, historical displays, freak shows, a simulated trip to expose yourself to a few what-ifs like that. You’re overdue to the moon, the largest herd of elephants in the world, and panoramas have your eyes opened, your limits stretched, and your mind showing the Creation, the End of the World, and Hell.” I mention blown. this, Scorpio, because 2014 could feature your very own Henry Hudson moment: a time when you will discover virgin territory that GEMINI (May 21-June 20) will ultimately become an extravagant playground.

To help take the edge off the darkness you have been wrestling with, I offer you these lines from a poem by Kay Ryan: “The SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) day misspent, / the love misplaced, / has inside it / the seed of “If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be redemption. / Nothing is exempt / from resurrection.” In other clever enough to be crows,” said 19th-century social reformer words, Gemini, whatever has disappeared from your life will Henry Ward Beecher. That might be an accurate assessment for probably return later in a new form. The wrong turns you made most people, but I don’t think it will be true for you Sagittarians may lead you to a fresh possibility. Is that what you want? Or in the foreseeable future. Your animal intelligence will be would you prefer that the lost things stay lost, the dead things working even better than usual. Your instinctual inclinations are stay dead? Make a decision soon. likely to serve as reliable guides to wise action. Trust what your body tells you! You will definitely be clever enough to be a crow.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) “Human beings are often unable to receive because we do not CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) know what to ask for,” says the writer Malidoma Somé in his Can you guess what combination of colors makes the most book Water and Spirit. “We are sometimes unable to get what we vivid visual impact? Psychologists say it’s black on yellow. need because we do not know what we want.” With that in mind, Together they arrest the eye. They command attention. They Cancerian, hear my two pleas: first, that in the next six weeks, you activate a readiness to respond. According to my reading of the will work diligently to identify the goodies you want most; and astrological omens, this is the effect you can and should have second, that you will cultivate your capacity to receive the goodies in the coming weeks. It’s time for you to draw the best kind of you want most by refining your skill at asking for them. attention to yourself. You have a right and a duty to galvanize people with the power of your presence. Whether you actually LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) wear yellow clothes with black highlights is optional as long as Julia Morgan (1872-1957) was the first woman licensed as an you cultivate a similar potency. architect in California. She designed more than 700 buildings in the course of her brilliant career, and thrived both financially and AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) artistically. One key to her success was her humility. “Don’t ever I’m guessing that, in a metaphorical sense, you’ve been swallowed turn down a job because it’s beneath you,” she advised. That’s a by a whale. Now you’re biding your time in the beast’s belly. Here’s helpful message for you to hear, Leo. It applies to the work-related my prediction: You will be like the Biblical Jonah, who underwent opportunities you may be invited to take on, as well as the tasks that a more literal version of your experience. The whale eventually your friends, associates, and loved ones ask you to consider. You can’t expelled him, allowing him to return to his life safe and sound— possibly know ahead of time how important it might ultimately be to and your story will have the same outcome. What should you do in apply yourself conscientiously to a seemingly small assignment. the meantime? Here’s the advice that Dan Albergotti gives in his poem “Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale.” “Count the ribs,” VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) he says. “Look up for blue sky through the spout. Make small fires One of Beethoven’s music teachers said, “As a composer, he is with the broken hulls of fishing boats. Practice smoke signals. Call hopeless.” When Thomas Edison was a kid, a teacher told him old friends. Organize your calendar. Dream of the beach. Review he was “too stupid to learn anything.” Walt Disney worked at a each of your life’s ten million choices. Find the evidence of those newspaper when he was young, but his editor fired him because before you. Listen for the sound of your heart. Be thankful that you “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas.” I’m sure there are here, swallowed with all hope, where you can rest and wait.” was a person like that in your past—someone who disparaged and discouraged you. But I’m happy to report that 2014 will be PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) the best year ever for neutralizing and overcoming that naysayer’s How do you like your tests? Short, intense, and dramatic? curse. If you have not yet launched your holy crusade, begin now. Or leisurely, drawn-out, and low-pressure? Here’s another question: Do you prefer to pick out the tests you take, making LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) sure they’re good fits for the precise lessons you want to As a child, French philosopher and writer Blaise Pascal (1623- master? Or do you find it more exciting and adventurous to let 1662) loved math. But his father, who homeschooled him, fate determine what unpredictable tests get sent your way? forced him to forego math and concentrate on studying the Ruminate about these matters, Pisces. You’re due for a nice big humanities. Blaise rebelled. When he was 12 years old, he test sometime soon, and it’s in your interest to help shape and locked himself in his room for days and immersed himself in define how everything unfolds.

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It was common for the married staff to openly discuss their relationships, and for the single staff members to openly discuss their dates with the opposite sex. If I had an issue with my boyfriend, I felt I had to immediately find ways to hide what I was feeling. I never felt safe sharing those kinds of private moments because I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how my coworkers would respond.

One day the Mayor asked my opinion about an issue in the city that dealt with gay people. I knew that this was the right time to tell him. So on the phone, I told him I was gay. For a moment, he was silent. And then he shocked me. He told me that he hoped I knew I could be myself in our office and that nothing was going to be different now that he knew I was gay.

I was more afraid to come out to the Mayor than I was to my own parents. He responded with kindness and my experience ended well. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m grateful of the moments when I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t suffer because I was authentic. I wish everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience could end well and that no one suffered for being who they are. For so many people, being authentic means being fired or harassed. That seems un-American. In a county and state that values personal freedom, the fear to be authentic should be a thing of the past. n

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The bigger the bed, the longer it took to fill. You were totally screwed if you got a new bed in the dead of winter, your outside water spigot wouldn’t work and your hose was frozen.

Everyone always wanted to get screwed in a water bed. It was the mandatory piece of furniture for the sexual revolution that took place at the end of the last century. If you got the ‘waves’ moving in sync together in the bed, you’d have a swell time. If you didn’t figure out the water movement you would be bounced out of the bed with the backlash wave. Anybody that was cool in the 70’s and 80’s had a waterbed. The place in Utah to buy water beds was at the Stone Balloon waterbed store in the 9th and 9th neighborhood in Salt Lake City.

The owner had the grooviest headboards and Naugahyde-lined bed boxes in town.

Waterbeds went out of style when foam, cloud, pillow top and dial-your-own-number beds started appearing. By then renters and homeowners were fed up with having to drain them and patch them when they sprung leaks. Landlords began banning them because of the water disasters they could cause to floors and ceilings. You can still buy them for special needs though, but Stone Balloon and waterbed stores a thing of the past.

Flip ahead 30 years. The 9th and 9th neighborhood is no longer a bastion of hippie shops and small stores where you could by tickets to a night in heaven. Gone are far out concerts at the Terrace Ballroom on Main Street with groups coming into town like Frank Zappa, the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. You’d spark a few from your dime bag, dance in your platform shoes all night and crash at someone’s pad on their waterbed in the wee hours of the morning. You’d hope the heating coils under the bladder had been left on during a cold January night and that you wouldn’t get too nauseous riding the waves.

I love the 9th and 9th hood and all its quirky local shops today just as I did back then. Standing outside of the Tower Theater and reading the weathered ‘bark’ of music posters for local bands and venues takes me back to memory lane. n

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