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Letters Cat Calls

I just read Kathy Biele’s Hit under the heading “Corporate Kindness” [Jan. 9, City Weekly] that dealt with the cat that was on top of a power pole and would not come down. She said that the Salt Lake City Fire Department “refused the call for help.” That is not accurate. We got the call and sent a crew to the scene. However, due to the location of the power pole, we were unable to use our ladder truck to extend the ladder to the top of the pole. The only option was to climb the pole. Since the pole is property of Rocky Mountain Power, it was appropriate to contact them. There have been several cases during the past year when we have retrieved pets (such as cats, iguanas and birds) out of trees and returned the animals to their owners. We love to serve the residents of Salt Lake City any way we can. In this case, however, we were unable to do so. That is far different than refusing the call for help.

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I wanted to comment on the recent article by Stephen Dark [“Rape in Utah,” Jan 2, City Weekly]. It is a very tragic and disgusting thing that happened to Jessica Ripley. I can’t imagine what a person goes through in a situation

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In an ironic and disturbing case of life imitating art, consider the following: The fantasy: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug The reality: The Herbert: The Desperation of Smog Reality isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. It never was. I think I’ll go to the movies now.

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Time for a Clean Sweep

Dear Gov. Herbert: I must express my concern with your treatment of the voters/citizens of Utah. First, you deny us the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid, which I get because that’s a Republican/Obama thing. However, your plan to spend more than $2 million (and it will be more than you guess) and funnel the money to a law firm in Idaho crosses the line! Not only do you admit by doing so that your Attorney General’s Office is incapable of defending Amendment 3, but you also insult every lawyer in Utah and rob the people of $2 million, without any of it flowing back to the economy of Utah. Your blatant disregard for the taxpayers of Utah is disgusting. It’s time the voters in Utah realize that the Republicans do not have any idea of how to govern. They must all be replaced—from you, governor, to every elected and appointed official that is a Republican in the image of you, Swallow or Shurtleff.

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This sure is an interesting time to be breathing our severely polluted air, isn’t it? First, Utah gays may marry, then they may not. For a minute, Utah gays share the same communal and civil rights as other Americans, then they do not. First, it’s bad enough that Mark Shurtleff, our former attorney general—Utah’s top cop—was not so much a good guy after all. Then, along comes the revelation (the use of that word is pure coincidence) that his successor, John Swallow (no coincidence), is not the holy man he made himself out to be, and faster than you can say, “Gee, that Swallow guy sure looks stupid in a cowboy hat,” Swallow is run out of town. For a brief moment, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert appeared to be shaping into a man aligned with history, a statesman. Then, just as quickly, he revealed his true nature by immediately insisting gay marriages not proceed, a paean to his original bona fides—the far-right rhetoric that got him placed on the ballot for lieutenant governor in the first place those many years ago. I guess I can’t complain too much, though—dating back to the controversy of building the Bangerter pumps in the west desert and Attorney General David Wilkinson’s insistence that cable television be regulated for the safety of our children, the top elected offices in Utah have been a reliable source of good stories for this newspaper. But all that was just fun and games. Today I wonder. Suppose you’re the next person who opens a travel guide and decides Utah might be the place to settle. Suppose you want to relocate your tech company here, or select a college for your kid. Maybe you’re choosing between a Montana brown trout and a Boulder Mountain brookie. Where do you spend those vacation dollars? What factors influence your decision? Being protected by the likes of Mark Shurtleff and John Swallow? Sure, if you like pickpockets. Gary Herbert’s welcome

mat? Well, perhaps—but only if you like your caffeine cold, like his heart and his principles. Or would you believe the best representation of modern Utah might be the kissing couple who appeared on our cover last week? For some, that cover triggered a gut reaction to steal or destroy—in contrast to the story, titled “Love.” I bet on love, but then again, I grew up in the 1960s and Paul McCartney was my favorite Beatle. I love Utah. I no longer despise, but tolerate, the base ignorance that feeds the fears of some of my neighbors. I figure they’re still growing, and I think there’s going to be a time when they all do grow up. Or mostly do. For, plain as the paper in your hands right now, or as blue as the glow of the computer screen in front of you, gay marriage will become a recognized institution in Utah. It just will. This is a hard concept for some, that gay couples love in the same measure as hetero couples. It’s equally hard (again, no pun) for some to realize that gay love is not defined by sex—despite what Phil Robertson might think (and remember, it was Phil, in a Duck Dynasty episode, who taught his grandchildren about sex by poking at crawfish peckers and vaginas, so, uhh, on that bestiality matter …. ahh, nevermind, but damn, I wish he’d not said what he did, as I really like that show). Blame the Internet, perhaps, or even David Wilkinson’s cable TV, but Utah cannot hide behind the Wasatch Mountain veil any longer. We are part of a larger and stronger culture. In my youth, the most prominent black faces included athletes and entertainers such as Rochester, Jack Benny’s comic foil. There were no significant black roles on TV, then, wham! Bill Cosby gets a starring nod in I Spy, and Nichelle Nichols is cast as Lt. Uhura on Star Trek. To some, it was the

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surest of all biblical signs that the world was about to end—and that was before Captain Kirk and Uhura performed TVs first interracial kiss. The world didn’t end. The world is a better place. So much better, in fact, that I ate Cheerios this morning in honor of a current Cheerios commercial that involves an interracial couple and their adorable child. In another decade, it will be common course to see similar commercials involving gay parents and their children. Meanwhile, though, it’s a slog. And it might be a better time to not just act, but to laugh, for laughter is, after all, the best medicine. Such as in the movie Blazing Saddles when Bart (Cleavon Little), the new black sheriff, rides into town, only to come face to face with a near lynching, race-baiting and an old woman who lets loose on him with the N-word on her way to making him feel even less welcome. He finds solace in these words of wisdom by the Waco Kid, played by Gene Wilder: “What did you expect? ‘Welcome, sonny’? ‘Make yourself at home’? ‘Marry my daughter’? You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know ... morons.” Ah, maybe it’s too harsh to compare some Utahns to morons. So, if laughter doesn’t work, refer to Utah’s favorite “I’m in unison with the Lord” musical, Les Misérables. As Jean Valjean is dying, these words are sung, and apply to all love—no exclusions, no judgment: Take my hand and lead me to salvation Take my love for love is everlasting And remember the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God. CW Send feedback to john@cityweekly.net.

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Some called it porn. What did you think of last week’s City Weekly cover depicting two men kissing? Alissa Dimick: If you thought our cover last week was porn, then you obviously haven’t seen porn. That cover made my heart soar!

Scott Renshaw: I showed it to my 14-yearold son, and he responded, “Aw w w w!” So congratulations to all those who had a less mature response than a teenage boy.

Paula Saltas: I’m straight. I liked it. I want my husband to kiss me that way, so I’m jealous. Paydn Augustine: I felt it was one of the most impacting and progressive steps in years for the media here in the Salt Lake Valley. It was really incredible to see how crazy and riled it got people over something as simple as a kissing couple. I’ve seen far worse “pornography” on Faux News. Derek Carlisle: I think he’s way too old for that guy and if he keeps wearing those oversize sweatshirts, their marriage doesn’t stand a chance. Stephen Dark: How an unabashed liplock between adults can make the world disappear and give breath and life to the glories of love.

Colin Wolf: By far the gayest thing City Weekly has ever done. It was pretty gay.

Susan Kruithof: I call the cover moving. Having taken for granted the fact that I can get married, no questions asked, I’ve never really thought about how hurtful and damaging it must be to be denied such a basic right. It’s a social freedom that should be granted to any person, plain and simple.

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Shake, Rattle & Roll There’s something about digging in old terra firma. Turns out it’s not all that firm. Kennecott—the largest open-pit copper mine in the world—played host in 2013 to a huge landslide that could have buried Central Park 60 times. Besides the two big booms from the slide, there were several smaller, real earthquakes that followed. Makes you wonder. In Oklahoma, residents are complaining about thousands of quakes over the past three years. Scientists attribute the quakes to the oil & gas industry digging and pumping water beneath the surface. These aren’t isolated instances. It’s happening amid fracking in north Texas, and of course, in other countries like China and Switzerland. Now, Kennecott wants to expand, starting with a rock-crushing plant. Besides what that would do to air quality, someone should consider what more digging means to the earth, to the groundwater and the wetlands.

Prison Prospects Prisons are for bad people— or they used to be. These days, prisons house a lot of nonviolent criminals—people who’ve been jailed for drug crimes or, like Tim DeChristopher, for spurious bidding. The Salt Lake Tribune overstated the problem by quoting statistics from 2010 that have more than half of all federal prisoners in for drug offenses. But in 2012, violent crimes slightly beat out drug offenses, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Still, some 330,000 druggies are crowding an already crowded system, and now even Sen. Mike Lee has joined the call for sentencing reform—with Democrats, no less. The dialogue suggests a need to look at sentencing and punishment long before states start building more prisons.

Civility and Equality Can’t we all just get along? Apparently not. The battle over same-sex marriage has brought a whole new call for being nice—this time, on the front page of the Deseret News. “Civility enhances public discourse,” the paper intones, with great assumption. It’s hard to know what sparked this renewed interest in civility. It could have been the LDS Church’s statement on kindness and respect, or it could have been a letter to the editor telling people to “move to a state that embraces your values” if you don’t like the marriage law. Civility is a good goal, but this issue has gone beyond that. It’s up to the courts now to rule on the issue of equality, and niceness has nothing to do with it.

Andy Boehme is a strategic-intervention relationship, marriage and life coach. Boehme, who has been married for more than 20 years to his wife and has experienced firsthand the importance of working on a relationship, recently noticed that the amount of relationship support and counseling that’s available to those in same-sex relationships is almost nonexistent when compared with that for heterosexual couples. And, he says, building relationship permanence is essential to strong communities. E-mail him at aboe3371@gmail.com for more information.

Why is there a need for relationship counseling in the LGBT community?

What made me start thinking about this was when Jason Collins, the NFL player, came out. Colin Cowherd was in a discussion about that on his show—he’s a sports guy. And he made the most eloquent statement about what these people dealt with: For most of their lives, they have not only not been able to practice the things they want to, as far as being in love with someone—but they can’t even talk about it. The thing that makes most of us alive is the love we have in our life. What if we couldn’t even talk about it? It would be cataclysmic in how it would affect the soul. So I started thinking. It’s a fait accomplis that this is going to be part of our culture. We can’t isolate it. Our culture needs to start putting as much emphasis on that teaching that they do the hetero teaching. It can’t be a freak show when two men or two women walk down the street holding hands. They must just be another loving family to us. It’ll take a lot of hard work to get there, but it’ll be worth it.

What are some unique issues experienced by same-sex couples?

The biggest problem with relationships is polarity—losing the feminine or the masculine energy; that’s what creates the heat. With same-sex relationships, that’s something that’s got to be worked on in-depth. With two men or two women, there’s going to more of one than the other. When I do work with a couple, it isn’t about the relationship. I want the individuals in the relationship to be healthy. Because once we find health for them, we can transcend whatever goes on in the relationship. Not all relationships are meant to work, and they may not. The key is making sure, if they do stay together, that it’s a strong, passionate event. If they do come apart, it’s never a scorched-earth issue.

How can a couple retain polarity?

It’s finding that balance point. Femininity has, by its nature, openness. Masculinity has, by its nature, strength and protection. In a masculine-feminine relationship, that polarity is what creates heat. It isn’t exactly sane-thinking people that create heat. When I see couples that have a feminine male and a feminine female, they’re business partners; they’re not hot and passionate for each other. But the minute you get that femininity and masculinity in balance, that’s where the heat comes in. That’s where that passion for each other comes in. It’s going to be work; it’s not going to be easy. But there are some things that are fun to try. People who have finally opened up—what’s coming out of them is what they’ve spent so many years repressing. It’s amazing to watch. You see life in people who weren’t alive.

How long do you think it’ll be before same-sex relationships aren’t a big deal?

The [LDS] Church actually said the right thing: You must accept these people—it’s not about anger or hatred, whether you agree or not; they’re human beings. Martina Navratilova said something utterly brilliant on an interview with Dan Patrick: that the problem with the hetero community in seeing gay people is that they’re seen as a sex act, not as a human being. They must be treated as human beings. As soon as people open their hearts to that …

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That sounds pretty scrambled, bud—I think you’ve got a couple separate stories mixed up. One involves Citicorp Center in midtown Manhattan, which was placed in peril of collapse when bolted joints were substituted for stronger welded ones to save a couple bucks during construction. The other is the equally frightening phenomenon of counterfeit nuts and bolts, which when surreptitiously used instead of the genuine article can (and do) result in catastrophic failure and death. Citicorp Center first. This 59-story building, completed in 1977 and now known as 601 Lexington Avenue, has two notable features: first, a distinctive slant-topped profile, and second, four main supporting piers, nine stories tall, each located in the center of one of the sides of the building’s square footprint rather than in the corners. The latter evidently flummoxed some participants in the construction process. Although the building, as originally designed, could withstand the expected wind loads, the contractor came up with the aforementioned idea of substituting bolts for welds in the building’s wind-bracing system. This wasn’t inherently crazy, but (among other regrettable decisions) engineers evaluating the change’s impact failed to calculate the effect of winds striking the building at a 45-degree angle rather than straight on. Not long after completion, the lead structural engineer realized the building could be toppled by a storm of a severity that on average was seen in New York once every 16 years. The owners spent a frantic summer strengthening 200 bolted joints with welded-on steel plates, working on weekends when the building was unoccupied. The danger thus averted didn’t become public knowledge till a 1995 article in the New Yorker. To be clear: while bolted joints are cheaper and inherently weaker, nothing I’ve seen suggests their use in Citicorp Center was sneaky or that the bolts themselves were substandard. We found no cases of shady dealing by a vendor endangering major buildings in New York or elsewhere. The fact remains that in this age of global supply chains, shoddy counterfeit fasteners pose a real danger. Bolts, nuts and other fasteners are commonly rated for strength, corrosion resistance and so on. For example, a Society

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of Automotive Engineers grade 1 bolt can hold 60,000 pounds per square inch (PSI) before breaking, while a more expensive grade 8 bolt can hold 150,000 PSI. High-performance fasteners are typically stamped with special markings, but it’s not hard to create fakes from inferior materials at lower cost. These have been blamed for numerous deaths: n In 1989, counterfeit bolts holding together the tail of Partnair Flight 394 came loose, causing the aircraft to disintegrate at 22,000 feet, killing all 55 aboard. n Counterfeit bolts were blamed for a 1985 accident involving a U.S. Army selfpropelled howitzer, in which the mechanism that elevates the gun snapped its bolts and crushed a soldier. n Counterfeit bolts were suspected in two fatal crane accidents in the 1980s— more about this directly. Bad bolts have also been cited as the cause of two military helicopter accidents, toxic industrial leaks and a broadcasting tower collapse, all resulting in fatalities. The Astro I space lab, launched in 1990, had to be reassembled at a cost of more than $1 million when it was discovered defective bolts had been supplied by a shady outfit operating out of a condominium garage. Most of these cases happened prior to 1990. In that year, following reports that nearly 400 people had been killed over a 15-year period in accidents caused by counterfeit nuts and bolts, Congress passed the Fastener Quality Act, which levies stiff fines against suppliers of substandard product. Perhaps as a result, bolt horror stories have subsided although not disappeared. In 2012, a company called Kustom Products was indicted for selling fake main rotor locknuts for Kiowa helicopters to the U.S. military. Back to those crane accidents. One of them happened when a construction crane fell off a building in New York, giving us the following confusing situation: A. a Manhattan building was endangered due to a weakness involving bolts, but not due to fake bolts; B. Many people have nonetheless been killed due to bad bolts; C. A few of said fatalities were in New York, but D. none lately as far as I know—recent NYC crane collapses have involved things like faulty ropes or Hurricane Sandy. Slim comfort, but at least you’ve got the facts. Send questions to Cecil via straightdope. com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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—Bryan Halladay, father of teen whose licensed was suspended for two years following a DUI

Upcoming legislation aims to help minors trapped in license-suspension limbo. By Stephen Dark sdark@cityweekly.net In early 2012, 17-year-old Timothy Halladay was sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked car with an apple, a pen and some marijuana when a Lone Peak police officer tapped on the window. Halladay was arrested and charged with a DUI and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. By the time he went to court, Halladay had done three weeks of volunteer service in Honduras at a Catholic orphanage and sought counseling. Provo-based 4th District Court Juvenile Commissioner Joshua Faulkner dismissed the DUI as part of a plea deal—Halladay pleaded guilty to the possession charges—and because of Halladay’s efforts to improve himself, Faulkner gave him time served for community-service penalties and suspended his driver’s license privileges for one year. But Timothy’s parents had not seen what father Bryan Halladay calls “the fine print” at the bottom of the citation that stated that Timothy had 10 days to appeal the citation or the Driver’s License Division would suspend his license for two years. Faulkner’s ruling held no real sway over the young man’s life. The Republican legislature’s trade for more liberal drinking laws in 2009 was increasing the penalties for underage drinking and driving. Those stiffer suspension periods particularly affected minors under 19, who faced a twoyear (or until they’re 21) suspension for first offenses. What the 2009 liquor-law overhaul also did, Faulkner said in a 2013 hearing, according to a recording of the hearing the Halladays provided City Weekly, was “something that I don’t think many people understand”—give the DLD the power to revoke driver’s licenses “irrespective of what the court does.” The “hastily adopted law,” Faulkner said, effectively took away discretion from juvenile judges or commissioners who can “listen to the facts and can see what’s happening in the life of a family and a child.” 2013 legislation curbed suspension periods for minors with first offenses to six months—still 60 days more than adults—but did not apply to Halladay and the nearly 900 other minors, according to a record request, who’d

Timothy and Bryan Halladay say the process for appealing a suspended driver’s license is flawed. been given two-year suspensions prior to the new law. Now, new legislation proposed for the 2014 session seeks to include some of those minors, even as questions linger about the power the DLD wields over juveniles’ lives. A DLD suspension, in effect, has the authority of law. The only venue for judicial review of a minor’s suspension is in district court, not juvenile courts, which has limited authority bestowed by the legislature. Utah’s system of parallel criminal and administrative hearings on DUIrelated issues dates back to 1983, says DLD records bureau chief Kim Gibb, when the DLD was given the power to “remove potentially hazardous drivers from the highway in a more efficient manner” than the slower-moving criminal courts. DUI attorney Jason Shatz advocates for separate DUI arrest citations: one for the criminal and one for the administrative proceeding, so that drivers understand there are two distinct processes involved. “If you miss [the 10 day window] out of ignorance, the DLD is really harsh with you,” he says. Police officers, however, he notes, are allowed to file paperwork later than the 10-day window. The DLD refused Timothy Halladay’s application for a late hearing, so the police officer’s citation and DUI arrest report were, according to statute, sufficient “evidence” to suspend his license, and Halladay found himself having to serve a two-year license suspension for a DUI that was not on his record. In a September 2013 e-mail to local government officials, Timothy Halladay wrote that his license suspension had put him “basically on house arrest. I

can’t go on dates. I can’t drive to work. I can’t see my friends.” He and his father say that he had an opportunity to earn good money installing satellite dishes in another state, but lost it because of the license suspension. He was in “so much debt paying for attorneys that led to a dead end. It’s been almost two years now of me going to court and just trying to be heard,” Halladay wrote. “I grew up with a drug addict brother,” father Bryan Halladay says. “Nobody takes this lightly. Nobody condones drugs. However, you watch your son make amends, keep progressing, you see him struggle. But then you have a bureaucracy not only fail to relinquish power but actually brandish it.” The Halladays appealed to district court but were denied because of lack of jurisdiction and lack of a timely appeal. “I started hearing about numerous cases where this has happened, complaints from all over the state, folks who can’t go on a LDS mission, who can’t get a license, or have a hard time getting a job,” Rep. Doug Sagers, R-Tooele, said in an autumn 2013 interview with City Weekly. In the 2013 legislative session, Sagers passed a bill that cut the DLD suspension period for first-time DUI offenders under 19 from two years to six months. The bill also gave juvenile courts the power to end the two-year court suspensions after six months if certain conditions were met. “This legislative change should help to alleviate the perceived unfairness issue, but still impose a slightly more stringent sanction period for minor offenders, as is supported both by M A DD and the Utah Substance Abuse DUI subcommittee,” wrote

the DLD’s Gibb in an e-mail to the Halladay family. The bill, despite Sager’s stated intent, wasn’t retroactive, however. This left the 870 minors with suspensions handed down in the two years prior to May 2013 out in the cold. Legislation that Sagers worked on in conjunction with the DLD for the 2014 session will, if passed, make the statute retroactive. But some say there is a need for a more fundamental change. While Timothy chose not to drive during the t wo years, others feel they have no choice—driving is “so intermeshed with day-to-day life; the temptation to drive is sk y high,” says DUI defense attorney Mark Moffat. “It tempts them to violate the law further, and prevents them if they adhere to the law from moving ahead with life as you would want them to. It’s a big problem.” Imagine, he says, if you are a minor in a nontraditional family, the sole breadwinner, live in a rural area, and “have no practical way to get to work other than to drive. It’s either you don’t work, or you roll the dice to support your family,” Moffat says. He argues that there needs to be, as in other states, a restricted license scheme that allows suspended drivers who support their families to drive to work. Timothy Halladay’s suspension will have concluded by the time Sagers’ new bill takes effect, and the Halladays still view the system as stacked against minors. “I think we should give the power back to the judges instead of giving it to the DLD,” Bryan Halladay says. “Here you have the executive branch making adjudications in criminal matters. It offends my sense of fairness.” CW

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The Utah Fund of Funds was established in 2006, and was eventually authorized to invest up to $300 million in venture capital-firms with any losses to be paid off with taxpayer dollars. The program was born in a time when the economy was hot, but since its crash, lawmakers have been reconsidering the program, which may have to begin receiving taxpayer bailouts within the next five years to pay off bad investments. City Weekly looked at the troubles of the program and the lack of transparency in its operations in the Aug. 1, 2013, cover story “Going for Broke,” and now Rep. Jim Bird, R-West Jordan, has released a bill for the 2014 Legislature that would seek to dramatically rein in the FOF by halting taxpayer credits from backing future investments, placing legislators on the FOF board and opening up the organization to Utah’s open-records laws so that information about investments and the salaries of the fund’s managers can be accessible to the public. “I’ve been in the insurance securities business for a long time, but I can’t imagine asking anyone for an investment without disclosing to them where the money’s going to go and what the fees are,” Bird says of the way the FOF currently operates. FOF managers have argued that it’s not so much about secrecy as it is about making sure the FOF can operate in a way that’s conducive to investments. The FOF uses bank loans to invest in venture-capital firms, which then invest in companies in a process that ideally—but not necessarily— brings capital to Utah as well as create jobs and support local startup companies. Lawmakers on the Legislature’s Business & Labor Interim Committee were generally supportive of Bird’s bill at their November 2013 meeting, but Rep. Eric Hutchings,

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R-Kearns, worried about making fund information public, since it discloses performance rates of early-stage companies still trying to get on their feet. “Companies are extremely vulnerable during these periods of time,” Hutchings said. But “turning the lights on” is only one prong of Bird’s reform. He also hopes that having a legislator from both the House and the Senate on the Utah Capital Investment Board—the FOF’s oversight arm—will better represent Utahns in the FOF’s decisionmaking process. As City Weekly previously reported, the UCIB meetings are on the state’s public-meeting-notices website, but beyond that are hard to find out about, and are not mentioned on the FOF’s own website. But the biggest impact Bird’s legislation would have on the fund would be in cinching the purse strings on future investing. While the FOF was approved to invest up to $300 million in venture-capital firms, with taxpayers covering the losses, so far it has only invested approximately $125 million. Up till now, no taxpayer dollars have been cashed in to pay for losses. The deadline to begin paying back the original loans won’t hit until 2019. When that time comes, losses will be paid by taxpayers in the form of money drawn from Utah’s education fund. Bird’s bill would cut out the FOF’s “safety net” for new investments, requiring that those losses be paid by the fund itself, instead of being hedged with public education dollars. But FOF’s newest director, Bret Jepsen, argues that taking away the taxpayer safety net will effectively eliminate a program that has helped bring jobs and capital into the state without yet spending taxpayer dollars. “Unlike other government programs, the state of Utah does not provide any upfront funding for this program,” Jepsen writes via e-mail. “Restricting the contingent taxpayer credits would not allow [the FOF] to continue investing and attracting the best [venture-capital and private-equity] managers to the state of Utah.” Bird, however, believes that the time has come for the fund to pay for its own investments instead of being hedged with taxpayer dollars. “If they invest another $175 million and lose $100 million, they can’t come back to the citizens of Utah and say, ‘Make us whole,’ ” Bird says. “We’re not going to play that game anymore.” CW

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Police responding to a home invasion in Des Moines, Iowa, spotted suspect Lopez Christian Webster, 32, fleeing the scene on foot and gave chase. When he tried to dodge between the rail cars of a moving train, the train sliced his body in two. (Des Moines Register)

n Eager to divorce his wife but not to pay her alimony, Edward Nelson, 65, hatched a scheme that began with his driving from their home in Bridge, Ore., and booking a hotel room in Idaho for a week. After staying only one night, however, Nelson snuck back into Bridge, taking back roads and paying cash so his movements couldn’t be traced. He shot his wife in the head, killing her, and then killed his next-door neighbors and set both houses on fire, trying to make the murders look like the work of a psycho killer who attacked randomly while he was out of town. The fires attracted the attention of a neighbor, who recognized Nelson’s truck driving away and alerted police. Nelson pleaded guilty, vowing to “die in prison and spend eternity in hell.” (Eugene’s KCBY-TV)

Star Quality Eight moderately anticipated discussion panels at this year’s Sundance Film Festival:

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An Indian merchant named Chandrashekhar posted a billboard in Tamil Nadu intending to honor the late Nelson Mandela. The sign showed a photo of actor Morgan Freeman instead of one of the South African leader. Freeman portrayed Mandela in the 2009 film Invictus. The merchant blamed the mistake on the billboard’s designer. (Agence France-Presse)

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Cage Rattlers of the Week The Nonhuman Right Project filed four lawsuits asking a New York state court to establish the “legal personhood” of chimpanzees and affirm their basic right not to be held captive for entertainment or research. Chimpanzees “possess complex cognitive abilities that are so strictly protected when they’re found in human beings,” declared Steven Wise, president of the nonprofit. “There’s no reason why they should not be protected when they’re found in chimpanzees.” (Reuters)

Anals of Medicine Medical researchers have developed a robot butt. The device is designed to train student doctors to give prostate exams, according to its inventors, Drs. Benjamin Lok and Carla Pugh. The plastic posterior is hooked up to a video screen featuring a virtual male named Patrick who is bent over a desk. “The mannequin is instrumented with force sensors that can measure where the student is examining and with how much pressure,” Lok said, adding that Patrick even measures eye contact between the student and the

BY R O L A N D S W E E T virtual patient to help improve bedside manner. (The Huffington Post)

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Nadja Svenson, 22, stabbed her father in the chest at their home in Londonderry, N.H., while “the two were out looking at the stars on a clear night, and began arguing over where the Big Dipper and other constellations are in the sky,” Detective Chris Olson said. “It escalated from there.” (Manchester’s New Hampshire Union Leader)

n Sheriff’s deputies who arrested Edward Aronson, 76, after they said he broke his wife’s hip during a scuffle at their home in Lake Worth, Fla., explained that the two argued because she objected to his using a dating website. “She accused me of cheating and was yelling at me, so I pushed her,” Aronson admitted. (South Florida Sun Sentinel) n Tristan P. Olson, 18, beat his father and then tried to shoot him with a crossbow at their Seattle home because the victim wouldn’t give him the keys to the family car. Olson’s father told authorities that he refused to hand over the keys because the son had slept most of the day instead of doing his homework. (SeattlePI.com) n Contisha Q. Hayes, 21, stabbed her sister in the chest, according to police in Akron, Ohio, after the two got into a fight over apple fritters that a third sister was making. Investigators said that the two other sisters “started to play fight” over the treat, but the playing turned serious when Tamara D. Delaney, 21, pulled Hayes’ hair. (Akron Beacon Journal)

Litigation Nation A citizens group is suing the city of La Jolla, Calif., demanding that it eradicate the “foul, noxious and sickening odors” left by birds and sea lions defecating on the rocks below restaurants overlooking scenic La Jolla Cove. Citizens for Odor-Nuisance Abatement blames the foul smell on city officials, who two years ago approved a fence to keep people away from the rocks. Since then, birds and marine mammals have flocked to the site. The lawsuit complains that sea lions particularly have made the problem “much worse” because they’re eating strong-smelling anchovies on the rocks. Removing the fence, the lawsuit contends, would let people clamber on the rocks and, by doing so, chase away the birds and mammals to defecate elsewhere. (Los Angeles Times)

Waste of Taste The chief cause of food waste in the United Kingdom is fussy shoppers, according to the supermarket chain Tesco. Officials reported that in the first six months of 2013, its U.K. stores threw away 30,000 tons of edible food that customers rejected because they “always pick the cream of the crop” and turn down old or misshapen produce, regardless of whether taste is affected. “Customers will always make the choice of the one that cosmetically looks better,” Matt Simister, Tesco’s food sourcing director, told a House of Lords panel. “That’s a very difficult reality for us.” By contrast, Simister noted, Eastern European customers more willingly accept less than perfect-looking food. (Britain’s Daily Mail) Compiled from the press reports by Roland Sweet. Authentication on demand.

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Activist and former City Weekly reporter Jesse Fruhwirth was recently detained by an off-duty police officer simply for filming the Tesoro refinery’s contribution to the Salt Lake Valley’s choking inversion. In defiance of the corporate intimidation, activists will gather on public land to film Tesoro and raise awareness of the refinery’s contributions to our regularly occuring red-air days. Meet at the Children’s Museum, 840 N. 300 West, Jan. 18, 6 p.m., PeacefulUprising.org

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The 2012 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Libya killed four Americans and ignited a firestorm of controversy over diplomatic security. Rep. Jason Chaffetz has been all over the investigation, and will be talking to the public about its relevance at the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics. If you want to learn more, thank the congressman for his work or challenge him for playing politics, he’ll welcome any input you’ve got for him at this free public forum. Orson Spencer Hall, Hinckley Institute of Politics, 260 S. Central Campus Drive, University of Utah, 801581-8501, Jan. 17, 12-1 p.m. Hinckley. Utah.edu

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Utah’s ratio of women to men in politics is as bad as you would expect in such a patriarchal state—we’re ranked seventh from the bottom for female representation in the legislature, for example. That’s why former Salt Lake City Mayor Deedee Corradini will be on hand at the U to talk about why more women need to join the Real Women Run movement and get trained to run for office in Utah and beat the odds. Orson Spencer Hall, Hinckley Institute of Politics, University of Utah, 260 S. Central Campus Drive, 801-581-8501, Jan. 22, 12-1 p.m., Hinckley.Utah.edu

ith 2014 marking the 30th anniversary of the Sundance Institute taking over operations of what began as the U.S. Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival coordinators chose a somewhat counterintuitive theme for an anniversary celebration: failure. According to Sundance Film Festival director John Cooper, the willingness to try new things—even risking failure—is at the heart of real creativity. So at various times throughout the festival’s 11 days—but with a particular focus Monday, Jan. 20—panels and other events will be all about failing. At the Cinema Café in the Park City Elks Lodge Building, filmmakers will share tales of failure in their creative lives. Film-industry professionals will participate in a panel titled How Many Wrongs Make a Right? to address all the things that were never supposed to work but did, or things that seemed like screw-ups and turned into magic. Sundance will screen Wes Anderson’s debut feature Bottle Rocket—a movie it notably rejected when it was submitted in 1995—just as a nod to the times programmers have made a bad call. And festival attendees can even experience a little failure of their own with to-beannounced micro-workshops where you can try something ridiculous and not care if you fall flat on your face. What have been some other notable risk/fail scenarios in Sundance history? Here’s a look at a few notable gambles and goofs from previous years—some of which paid off, and some of which most assuredly did not.

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FAIL: There was a period in Sundance history when distributors’ checkbooks were wide open, hoping to find the Next Big Thing. Mark Illsey’s comic farce Happy, Texas—about a pair of escaped convicts who pose as a gay couple coordinating a small-town beauty pageant—delighted the festival crowds in 1999, inspiring Miramax to buy the film for a reported (but never confirmed by the distributor) $10 million. It crept into—and out of—theaters in October 1999 with a total gross of less than $2 million.

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SCORE: That same year, relative newcomer Artisan Entertainment grabbed a little movie called The Blair Witch Project for around $1 million, then went full-blast at one of the first viral online marketing campaigns, building up both the mythology behind the story and the “scariest movie you’ll ever see” hype. A backlash emerged, but meanwhile, Artisan was rolling in $140 million in U.S. box office.

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FAIL: At a 2001 Salt Lake City public screening of Richard Kelly’s surreal Donnie Darko at the now-defunct Trolley Corners theaters, the print was put together with one of the reels upside down and backward. It took a few minutes for confused audience members to realize this wasn’t the way the movie was supposed to look. “My movie is weird,” Kelly said when he addressed the audience during the delay to fix the print, “but it’s not that weird.” SCORE: Technical difficulties were also a problem at a 1998 screening of Buffalo ’66 at Park City’s Egyptian Theatre, and similarly, the filmmaker took the stage during the delay. But eccentric director/star Vincent Gallo provided a show that was nearly as entertaining as any movie, launching into a wonderful rant about the streets of Park City being overrun with agents and other “creepy crawlers.” FAIL: Sometimes a venue just isn’t right for a movie, and Salt Lake City viewers at the Tower Theatre in 2003 may have been the wrong crowd for Gaspar Noë’s Irreversible, which opened with a man brutally beating another man to death with a fire extinguisher, and featured as its centerpiece a single extended-take rape sequence. Patrons didn’t simply walk out; they shouted angrily while doing do. CW

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If it’s your first Sundance or your 30th, make sure you’ve got these basics down. Sundance Film Festival 2014 Various locations, Park City & Salt Lake City Jan. 17-27 Sundance.org, CityWeekly.net/Sundance

ver the years at the Sundance Film Festival, many things have stayed the same—the tricky logistics of moving between venues, sold-out screenings and temperatures that challenge the resolve (and wardrobe) of many out-of-state visitors. But regular attendees will notice a few differences in 2014. On the downside: ticket costs. While individual screening tickets had been $15 since 2007, this year they’ve been bumped up to $20 apiece. Waitlist tickets, however, will remain $15 (cash only). That’s one incentive to take advantage of waitlists, and the festival has added an even bigger one this year: electronic waitlist registration. In years past, festival-goers would have to spend long stretches of time queued up out in the cold, waiting for a waitlist number, only to have to return later and wait again, all without any guarantee of getting in. The new system allows individuals to check in for individual screenings’ waitlists up to two hours before the scheduled screening time—with only one waitlist check-in every two hours permitted—via mobile device or self-serve kiosks to obtain a line position “e-waitlist” number; you’ll then need only to arrive at the line physically a minimum of 30 minutes before screening time. The system also allows for checking in

on your likelihood of admittance and linking with other festival-goers so you can “wait” together. Register at EWaitlist.Sundance.org to make use of the system. For early birds, the day-of-show ticket release remains in effect at the festival box offices in Park City (136 Heber Ave.) and Salt Lake City (Trolley Square, 600 S. 700 East). A limited number of tickets are released for general purchase at 8 a.m. for all screenings that day; be willing to line up early. As for making the most of your Park City festival scheduling, most of the same classic rules remain in effect. The most common mistake is underestimating the time required to get to your next screening after the previous one is scheduled to end. Keep in mind that screenings regularly start late to accommodate filling in seats with waitlisters, and even later—especially at Eccles Center premiere screenings—to accommodate the celebrities arriving on the red carpet. And transportation between venues can take much longer than you plan for, based on weather conditions, how long you’ll be waiting until the next shuttle, and the bumperto-bumper traffic that develops on Park Avenue and Main Street after 4 p.m. While shorter turnaround times can work earlier in the morning, experienced festival-goers know that if you’re planning on making it

from one screening’s late-afternoon or evening scheduled end time to another screening’s scheduled start time across town in less than an hour, you’re pushing your luck. And of course, this above all in Park City: Park your car and take the shuttle. There is little to no public parking at most festival venues, and you’re unlikely to save any time trying to drive between venues and find a new parking spot. Limited free street parking can be found in the Prospector Square area (in the vicinity of the festival headquarters at the Park City Marriott), and pay-per-entry lots are available in Prospector Square, The Yard lot off of Kearns Boulevard, and in the China Bridge structure behind the Egyptian Theatre. Even if you’re just going to Salt Lake City venues (other than the Tower Theatre), consider taking Trax, or parking once and walking between the Broadway Centre, Rose Wagner Center and Salt Lake City Main Library venues. Then, remember to have fun. Be patient, be flexible, be kind to the festival volunteers. And if you stay for the post-screening Q&As: “That was such an amazing movie, thank you” isn’t a question. CW

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ow many movies do you think you watched in 2013? Dozens? More than 100? No matter how much you love films, it likely won’t compare to watching more than 600 movies in just 3 1/2 months. That’s how many movies 17 people each saw this year. To be fair, those 17 people weren’t just any old movie-lovers. This elite group is the Sundance programming team. The programmers began watching movies in August as submissions rolled in, and after September’s filmentry deadline, they became consumed by the process of choosing the feature and short films for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. It might sound like a fun way to earn an income, but it’s also a daunting task. “It starts to take over your life,” says Charlie Reff, who’s in his second year of selecting feature films for the festival. “By the middle of September through the middle of November,

By Tonya Papanikolas comments@cityweekly.net it’s basically the only thing that we do.” “We all wake up and start watching films until we go to sleep,” adds former film critic Kim Yutani, who’s in her ninth year as a programmer. This year, Sundance received the most film submissions ever—12,218 films. That number included 4,057 feature-length films and 8,161 short films. Programmers divide up the movies so that each of them gets watched. Each person focuses on one main category of films while sometimes helping with other categories. Reff and Yutani help out in several categories, but primarily choose films for the U.S. Dramatic Competition, which each year showcases 16 American feature films. While the programmers do have occasional group screenings, they watch most films on their own. If a programmer really likes a movie, he or she passes it on to another team member.

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“We’ll write a little note on the DVD that’s specifically our thoughts about it, just so the person has to read and remind themselves what they are going to watch in the film,” Reff says. But if a first reaction to a film is lukewarm, its chances aren’t dead. Programmers still pass it on if they think another staffer would like it. “We’re trying to give each film the best shot that it has to get into the festival,” Yutani says. “So if we’re watching something and we’re not the target audience, we’re trying to hand it to the person who will champion that film.” All the while, the programmers are constantly talking with each other. As the process narrows the pool of films, they make final decisions together—though they’re almost never unanimous. That would be nearly impossible—and boring. “We do have a diverse program, and all of us as

programmers have different tastes. And I think that’s what really makes our program pretty special,” Yutani says. So what are screeners looking for in Sundance films? The festival regularly debuts and promotes films that innovate, experiment and break new ground, so, Yutani says, screeners are “looking for filmmakers who are new and doing things that we are excited about in terms of style, in terms of storytelling.” And they don’t go into the process with specific ideas of what they want. “As programmers, I think our job is to approach each film individually,” she says. “We don’t have sets of requirements. We are coming into the process as open-minded as we possibly can. And I think that’s part of the fun of our jobs, too ... sort of discovering and being surprised by films.” While they don’t look for specific themes during the screening process, programmers do feel it’s important to offer a wide variety of film topics within the festival. “We want there to be challenging films, and then we want there to be emotional, uplifting films, however we find that,” Reff says. And they believe that diversity should extend across all Sundance categories. For example, this year’s Park City at Midnight section features four bloody horror films and four nonviolent movies. The idea is to offer films for everyone—which can be a challenge, since the Sundance audience ranges from local Utahns to film critics to movie-industry executives to Hollywood stars. While they are conscious of their audience, in the end, Sundance programmers just want to find the most thrilling and unique types of independent film. “We are such movie nerds, that when you see that movie that you love, you just get so excited about it; you just want the other programmers to see it,” Reff says. “And then, in turn, you want the world to see it.” CW

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By Scott Renshaw scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

ore than most film festivals, Sundance is built on discoveries of the brand-new: rookie filmmakers, never-beforeseen actors, untold stories. But occasionally, there’s a way to get at least a flavor of the movie you’re going to see: taking a look at the books they’re based on. Here’s a glimpse at a few of the source materials that inspired some of Sundance 2014’s literary adaptations.

Source Material: White Bird in a Blizzard, by Laura Kasischke Book Overview: In a kind of coming-of-age mystery set in the late 1980s, suburban Ohio teenager Kat Connor deals with the fallout when her enigmatic mother disappears one January day without a trace, seemingly having abandoned the family. Kasischke’s background as a poet is evident throughout the novel, as Kat’s attempts to understand what might have led her mother to leave emerge through stunningly lyrical turns of phrase. And while the author mines some rich material about the tension between a dissatisfied housewife and the daughter who represents everything that used to be possible, the story eventually drifts in a direction that’s unnecessarily darker. The last scene may not come out of nowhere, but that doesn’t mean it provides the most satisfying resolution. Book Grade: B Reason for Adaptation Optimism: The wonderful Shailene Woodley as Kat. Reason for Adaptation Concern: Of all the possible filmmakers to take on the story of a teenage girl’s suburban sexual awakening, it’s hard to imagine gay-cinema pioneer/expert provocateur Gregg Araki being at the top of anyone’s list.

Festival Category: Premieres The Movie Pitch: “The Lovely Bones meets Douglas Sirk.”

Festival Category: U.S. Dramatic Competition The Movie Pitch: “The Catcher in the Rye meets The Sixth Sense.”

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Festival Category: Premieres The Movie Pitch: “Burn After Reading meets Zero Dark Thirty.”

Source Material: One for Sorrow, by Christopher Barzak (for the film Jamie Marks Is Dead) Book Overview: More teen angst in suburban Ohio, this time involving a high-school sophomore named Adam McCormick who begins seeing ghosts after one of his classmates is found murdered. Barzak creates some effective genre moments in his wistful portrayal of restless spirits, but they clash awkwardly with some rote coming-of-age material and Adam’s first love. Most frustrating, though, is the attempt to turn Adam into Holden Caulfield, raging against the world and his terrible life—which, while hardly ideal, is in many ways pretty run-of-the-mill in its dysfunction. Instead of painting a convincing picture of someone for whom the idea of hanging out with the dead might be appealing, we simply end up with a teenager’s overwrought drama. Book Grade: C Reason for Adaptation Optimism: A more visual sensibility— and eliminating the majority of Adam’s pretentious narration— could be just what the material needs. Reason for Adaptation Concern: Director Carter Smith’s previous work—including the feature The Ruins and the Sundance 2006 short Bugcrush—suggest that he might be more inclined to focus on the horror elements over character.

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Source Material: A Most Wanted Man, by John le Carré Book Overview: In post-9/11 Germany, a refugee illegal immigrant becomes the pivot point for a nonprofit attorney, an aging banker and multiple government intelligence agencies all convinced that the man has links to terrorist groups. The narrative is a complex tangle of characters and motivations, and fumbles a bit by trying to force romantic subplots into the story. But it’s mostly a terrific fog-of-war thriller about the politics of ass-covering vs. the policies that might really get things accomplished. Le Carré wisely refuses to make it clear who’s really a bad guy here, instead crafting some brilliantly satirical scenes of people trying desperately to convince themselves that it’s safer to assume everyone is a bad guy. Book Grade: AReason for Adaptation Optimism: Solid cast, led by Philip Seymour Hoffman playing the key role of a cynical German intelligence operative. Reason for Adaptation Concern: May not be nearly enough space in a feature film to effectively capture all of Le Carré’s intricate plotting

Festival Category: U.S. Dramatic Competition The Movie Pitch: “Bird meets King of the Hill.”

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Source Material: Low Down, by Amy Jo Albany Book Overview: This memoir tracks the author’s life with— and often without—her father, gifted jazz pianist Joe Albany, through a childhood marked by Joe’s various addictions and early abandonment by her mother. Perhaps appropriately, there’s a profoundly disjointed quality to the episodic events Amy recounts, many of which are jaw-droppingly crazy and most of which involve the young girl being in some kind of emotional or physical danger. And while they all clearly add up to a life it’s hard to imagine anyone getting out of alive, let alone unscarred, it also makes for a read that consists almost entirely of moments, with very little arc to the relationship between damaged child and even-more-damaged father. Book Grade: BReason for Adaptation Optimism: You couldn’t hope for a more talented pairing as Amy and Joe than Elle Fanning and John Hawkes, offering the promise of, at minimum, a great acting showcase. Reason for Adaptation Concern: Where the majority of the book deals with Amy’s experiences as a pre-teen, Fanning’s casting suggests they’ve shifted the emphasis to her adolescence, making many of the experiences potentially far less impactful and unsettling.

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After two decades, Slamdance is experienced in turning failure into fortune. By Jacob Stringer comments@cityweekly.net

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hen the story gets told about how four filmmakers got rejected from Sundance and out of spite started their own film festival, people automatically think that the decision to create a little “anarchy in Utah” was the key point in the history of Slamdance. But what really shook up the mountaintop festival scene happened just after that inaugural protest came to a close. “I’ve been thinking about that a lot recently,” says Peter Baxter, one of the four original contrarian filmmakers and current president of the annual festival. “I think there was one big change at Slamdance that happened actually at the end of that first year. That was working out that we, as the co-founders, all had the desire to continue Slamdance for other filmmakers like us. The first year was all about our films—getting our films exposure, trying to find reviews and in some cases distribution— and we didn’t know at that time that Slamdance would even continue. Now, it’s 20 years later.” Back then, there weren’t very many opportunities to succeed if you didn’t get your film into the Big Show as an independent filmmaker. Sundance was really the one way to do that in the United States at the time. Baxter and company wanted to provide an alternative for other filmmakers, instead of just walking off into the sunset having been turned down by Sundance. But failure can be a friend. What originally started as a kind of antifestival in the snow has become a strong grassroots film community in its own right, with the telling motto, “By Filmmakers, For Filmmakers.” In short, that was the radical shift. It was the moment they decided to continue Slamdance, so they could help other up-and-coming filmmakers. And that’s what they’ve been doing ever since. The program this year at Slamdance 20 is essentially organized in the same way as that second festival, focusing on emerging talent who have created innovative films on tiny budgets and don’t have distribution—essentially a do-it-yourself ethic. It’s the same type of ethos that provided a foundation for

those first four filmmakers to not only create their films, but also then carry on and create their own festival. That history is the impetus behind one of the featured films of this year’s program, a short called DIY. “We were inspired to make this short documentary, which is going to be a feature, because our 20-year life has coincided with a real growth in DIY filmmaking,” Baxter says. DIY features mostly Slamdance alumni who first showed their work at this festival, filmmakers like Marc Forster (World War Z), Christopher Nolan (the Dark Knight trilogy), Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild), Oren Peli (Paranormal Activity), Lena Dunham (HBO’s Girls) and Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) describing their indie-filmmaking struggles and how they ultimately succeeded. “But it’s not just about finding success,” Baxter adds; “it’s really about the art of independent filmmaking, storytelling, the whole do-it-yourself approach.” The DIY ethic in filmmaking has certainly been around for far longer than the 20 years of Slamdance, but the significant changes in costs and technologies in those two decades has surely accelerated change; as just one example, this year’s Slamdance film I Play With the Phrase Each Other was shot entirely on an iPhone. But as Baxter sees it, an even more important aspect to the proliferation of DIY filmmaking is the fact that filmmakers are sharing their experiences with one another, sharing lessons learned in order to help others avoid common pitfalls. According to Baxter, the actual physical experience of filmmaking—and then listening to those filmmakers that have survived it—is a very different process than one would glean from simply studying film. Getting your hands dirty is paramount. And then there’s the ability now to take total control of everything, from beginning to end; filmmakers no longer have to rely on institutions, labs or equipment houses, spawning a fertile time for independent cinema that represents the spirit of DIY filmmaking. Oh, and of course the passion—not only the passion to create innovative films, but the passion and energy to pursue grand ideas, like taking to Park City’s Main Street and setting down strong enough roots to exist 20 years later. “The passion remains,” Baxter says. “I’m just glad that we figured out very early on that the way you program quality film with new and exciting voices is to let the filmmakers take charge. The programming comes from filmmakers themselves. We believe that those who have been at Slamdance are able to launch emerging careers. That is what our showcase it about and that is why we’ve been able to accomplish what we have these past 20 years.” CW Slamdance @ Treasure Mountain Inn, 255 Main, Park City, Jan. 17-23. Slamdance.com

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Salt 9: Jillian Mayer Many understand the phrase “identity crisis” as describing a phenomenon that usually befalls younger people struggling to understand who they are. But artist and Salt 9 exhibitor Jillian Mayer is asking what happens to modern generations when you throw in the complicating factor of online identity. An exciting artist in her early 30s, Mayer brings a post-technological-revolution vantage point to an exhibition that might leave some viewers shaken, if not stirred. The gallery space floor will be covered in neon green carpet and sand, with a green screen used as a backdrop for projecting a subject into any possible situation or form. With this “canvas” of the exhibition, Mayer is suggesting that in a technological society, the subject can and will be anything they wish to be in the virtual world, creating identities as desired for public persona and exchange. The “reality” of the past has become something anomalous, and the produced “variable of identity” is the new “reality.” The exhibition also includes a video of Mayer’s own birth, given a background of green glow, the same as her exhibition’s “canvas.” The face of her mother is exchanged with her own—Mayer using her own face to give birth to herself. A sculpture of her own head has also been replicated from pixels taken from the Internet, an eerie new variation on carving images into materials by hand. (Ehren Clark) Salt 9: Jillian Mayer @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, 801-581-7332, Jan. 17-Aug. 17, exhibition preview Jan. 16, 4 p.m., free. UMFA. Utah.edu

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Martin Luther King Day is Monday, Jan. 20, and the Rio Gallery will celebrate the occasion with the group exhibition Only Light. The title comes from a quote from Dr. King: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” Inspired by those words, 20 local artists of note will present pieces illuminating that theme in their own personal genres and styles. The group includes some of the most progressive artists in the area, like Czech-born Lenka Konopasek, whose work is marked by the conflict-ridden history of Central Europe; Trent Alvey, whose work is influenced by Eastern philosophy; Trevor Southey, who explores the dialogue between Mormonism and homosexuality in sweeping postmodern canvases; and Margaret Tarampi, who’s been influenced by her study of psychology. The work in the show goes as far back as Carlos Anderson’s 1939 painting “Genius Draws No Color Line” (pictured), depicting Marian Anderson singing in front of the Lincoln Memorial after not being allowed to perform for an integrated audience, and is an example of the Depression-era Social Realist school. The artists participate in a kind of visual dialogue on civil and human rights through their works on this show, and it’s illuminating to experience that conversation. The documentary film Utah’s Freedom Riders will also be shown, courtesy of KUED. The exhibition is a joint effort of the Utah Arts & Museums Visual Arts program and the Utah Office of Multicultural Affairs. (Brian Staker) Only Light @ Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., 801-236-7555, Jan. 17-Feb. 14, opening reception Jan. 17, 6-9 p.m., free. ArtsAndMuseums.Utah.gov

Like a lot of Saturday Night Live alumni, Tim Meadows is probably best known for a character he created during his 10 years on the show—in his case, Leon Phelps, aka The Ladies Man. Even though it’s been 14 years since he left SNL and the Ladies Man movie quickly came and went in theaters, Meadows is still enjoying the recognition he gets from its resurgence through cable reruns. That doesn’t mean he’s sitting around just waiting for royalty checks, though. Since 2012, Meadows has been on the road perfecting his stand-up routine—something he started doing only relatively recently. Meadows is no stranger to live comedy—between SNL and several years with Chicago’s famed Second City improv group before that—but stand-up was never something he gave much thought to. For a large part of the 2000s, Meadows toured the country with a few other improv performers, and the show would be built around the group. He’d do the occasional five minutes of stand-up during the show, and as he got more comfortable on his own, the sets would get longer. After spending time in 2011 honing his craft at various Chicago open-mic nights, Meadows finally hit the road for a solo stand-up tour, and hasn’t looked back. Stand-up has become his new passion, and he’s spent the past two years playing clubs all over the country. This weekend, he brings his laid-back style to Utah for two nights at Wiseguys in West Valley City—but don’t expect the Courvoisier to flow along with the laughs. (Trevor Hale) Tim Meadows @ Wiseguys West Valley, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801463-2909, Jan. 17-18, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $20. WiseguysComedy.com

Ribaldry, love, romance, betrayal and death by consumption are all good reasons Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata is one of the most popular operas of all time. And although the fat lady may not sing at the end, a lady does indeed die. In fact, by the climactic point, our heroine, Violetta, is so weak from consumption that she can barely utter her lines; the powerful score is left to portray her final agonies. Things start on a lighter note—like Parisian parties where noblemen and courtesans drink, gamble and cavort to excess. It’s only when the young bourgeois Alfredo confesses his love to the courtesan Violetta that things truly get complicated. By Act 2, he’s willing to forgo his noble life and live in contentment with her in the French countryside. Of course, his father will have none of it, and convinces her to break it off with him, concealing her true reasons why, so that both may return to their “proper” stations in life. The story may sound a bit familiar to anyone who has seen the film Pretty Woman, in which the filmmakers paid homage to Verdi by including a scene in which Richard Gere and Julia Roberts enjoy a performance of the classic work. But unlike the fantasy of the film, in true operatic fashion, La Traviata sacrifices love conquering all to more powerfully demonstrate the inequalities and injustices that a pompous and “proper” society inflicts upon us—especially those less unfortunate and outcast. (Jacob Stringer) Utah Opera: La Traviata @ Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, Jan. 18, 20, 22, 24 & 26, 7:30 p.m., 2 p.m. matinee Jan. 26, $18-$95. UtahOpera.org, ArtTix.org

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Great Scottsdale Escape winter for a quick Arizona getaway. By Kathleen Curry & Geoff Griffin comments@cityweekly.net @travelbrigade

he Wasatch Front is beautiful in the winter, but it sure can get cold. When the weather in our valley brings you to your knees, you have two choices: A. hope that global warming speeds up; or B. hop on a 70-minute flight south and find yourself in 70-degree-plus weather in Scottsdale, Ariz. With 360 sunny days each year, this Southwestern town is full of golf courses, fine dining, resorts that are destinations unto themselves, and an Old Town area filled with bars, art galleries, shops and restaurants.

For a little fun out of the water, try some shooting at the Scottsdale Gun Club (14860 N. Northsight Blvd., 480-348-1111, ScottsdaleGunClub.com), or take a tour at

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As expected, Southwestern and Mexican cooking are the specialties here, with many local chefs putting new twists on traditional dishes. Roaring Fork (4800 N. Scottsdale Road, 480-947-0795, RoaringFork.com), features award-winning fare, all cooked over a wood fire; try the green pork chili, glazed duck or a braised short rib that falls off the bone. The steaks have that smoky taste you associate with a backyard grill; pair it with a side of green chile mac & cheese, which, like the Hulk, is both green and powerful.

If there’s one reason to stop relaxing in the sun, it’s to go indoors to one of the many highly rated spas, where you can relax even more. One of the area standouts is the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess’ Willow Stream Spa, featuring excellent treatments to go along with spa amenities like a rooftop pool, waterfall therapy pool, Swiss showers and the eucalyptus relaxation room. Another fun spa in Scottsdale is Bliss Spa at the W Hotel (7277 E. Camelback Road, 480-970-2100, WScottsdaleHotel.com), where guys can get the Manly Cure on for their hands or the Sole Man on their feet.

Taliesin West (12621 N. Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd., 480-627-5340, FrankLloydWright. org), Frank Lloyd Wright’s winter home, studio and architectural campus constructed out of rocks and sand from the area. But any conversation about activities should start with golf, since there are nearly 200 courses in the area. Adjacent to the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess is the TPC Scottsdale (17020 N. Hayden Road, 480585-4334, TPC.com/tpc-scottsdale), two par-71 courses, including the Stadium Course, the site for an annual PGA event. The Fairmont features a golf concierge to set you up on one of the TPC courses or help plan your ultimate golf vacation at a variety of courses in the area. If you can’t head south in the next few weeks, no worries. The high season—and cold days in Salt Lake City—runs all the way through the spring, including Major League Baseball spring training for 15 teams in March. CW

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Out of the Sun, Into the Spa

Warmer pastures: the Willow Stream Spa at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess (top) and the entrance to Scottsdale’s Old Town.

Once you’ve checked into the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess (7575 E. Princess Drive, 480-585-4848, ScottsdalePrincess.com), there’s no reason to leave. The 65-acre property, sitting in a beautiful desert landscape is like its own village, with four restaurants, a 44,000-square-foot spa, multiple pools and two Tournament Players Club golf courses. You can explore the trails and cactus garden and even go fishing in the on-property lagoon. Those looking for more of a boutique experience will want to try Hotel Indigo (4415 N. Civic Center Plaza, 480-941-9400, HotelIndigo.com), which sits in the heart of Old Town and features a rooftop pool. It’s an easy walk to the surrounding downtown area, with one street featuring bars, another focusing on art galleries, and one loaded with restaurants. If you’d like to live on the “suite” side, accommodations with kitchens are also available where you can choose to simplify the amenities in favor of space at Residence Inn (17011 N. Scottsdale Road, 480-563-4120, Marriott.com).

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Start your night at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess’ La Hacienda (480-585-4848, ext. 7320) with a prickly pear margarita and petite lobster tacos before enjoying unique main courses, such as a pistachio mole chicken topped with pomegranates. Saving room for the flaming coffees—or bebidas de fuego—for dessert is a must. They’re a work of performance art, presented table-side as a waiter tosses a mixture of cinnamon and sugar into a cup full of burning tequila, sending flames several feet high. After dinner, stop by the Rusty Spur Saloon (7245 E. Main, 480-425-7787, RustySpurSaloon.com), an old throwback to Scottsdale’s cowboy era that has been serving up cold ones for more than 60 years. John Wayne and Clint Eastwood have hung out there; what more do you need to know? Follow the tradition of writing a note on a dollar bill and pinning it to the wall alongside thousands of others.

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A&E Indie Comics at the Movies Beyond big-budget spectacles are stories you may not know were inspired by comics. By Bryan Young comments@cityweekly.net @swankmotron

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he annual arrival of the Sundance Film Festival is a constant reminder of the “indie spirit.” At its best, the festival functions as a showcase for talented young filmmakers who have sacrificed blood, sweat and tears for their art. And it can also be—when you’re looking at it more cynically—a place for big Holly wood distributors to drop their medium-budget art-house and Oscar fare on an audience willing to pay a premium to stand in the cold and see the films first. But movies and comics at this level have a lot in common. The indie spirit is alive and well in books like Doug TenNapel’s Ghostopolis, or Tom Taylor’s The Deep. But what about instances where those worlds—indie comics and more serious filmmaking—collide? No, I’m not talking about big-budget stuff like The Avengers or Man of Steel. Those are the “Big Two” comics publishers using massive studios to print money. But there are comic adaptations that you might not have even realized were comic adaptations. Take, for instance, Road to Perdition. Directed by Sam Mendes and starring Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law and Daniel Craig, this 2002 film has a compelling story and some of the best acting the silver screen has ever seen. Few people knew that it was based on a graphic novel released in 1998. The story came from the mind of Max Allan Collins and was illustrated by Richard Piers Rayner. The book is gritty and entirely black & white, making you feel like you’re in the middle of a Depressionera newspaper. If you liked the movie, the comic spawned both novelized and comic-based sequels by Collins, and includes so much more to explore than Mendes was able to put on the screen. The indie-comics work of Daniel Clowes

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has also inspired quirky comedic films, including Art School Confidential. An even better Clowes-based film was the 2001 adaptation of Ghost World, which starred Scarlett Johansson, Thora Birch and Steve Buscemi. Terry Zwigoff directed it, and he also directed the best documentary about an indie-comics icon ever produced, 1994’s Crumb. There’s no spandex involved, and the film deals with very real human emotions and situations— albeit in very odd ways, with very odd characters. Zwigoff wasn’t the only filmmaker ever inspired by the indie comic work of Clowes. It was so inspiring to Shia LeBeouf that he plagiarized a mountain of material into his short film about film critics—and no one was the wiser for a whole year. Perhaps the best and most recent adaptation of a small-press indie comic into a fantastic film was Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, based on the series of graphic novels written and drawn by Bryan Lee O’Malley. Wright turned a funny book into a flashy, videogame-like dream of a film that is eventually going to hit cult status. But what happens when an indie comic creator decides to produce a movie based on his own indie comic? Then you get a schlock masterpiece like Mike Allred’s G-Men From Hell. This is a film that needs to be seen to be believed, and it happens to be currently streaming on Netflix. It’s about a pair of G-men (William Forsythe and Tate Donovan) who find themselves facing the devil (Robert Goulet) in hell. They escape and find themselves trapped on Earth, trying to do good deeds to earn their way into heaven. It’s absolutely insane and hilarious, and perfectly embodies the bold spirit of independence in a way that is hard to rival. While you’re waiting in the cold for that next bit of Sundance brilliance, feel free to imagine yourself warm at home watching any of these indie gems. Or, while you’re queuing up, pull one of these books from your pocket and get reading. It’ll certainly keep your mind off the weather. CW Bryan Young is the editor-in-chief of BigShinyRobot.com

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CLOCHE Artists Collective There is a kind of clarity in beginning a new year, and Art Access Gallery opens the year with glass sculptures by the CLOCHE Artists Collective. They’re works with a certain weight, heft and presence, yet also a kind of lightness implied by the medium. The group consists of Jack Bowman, Dan Cummings, Stephen Teuscher, Kerry Transtrum and Brian Usher. They use a variety of glassworking techniques, and often add other materials such as stone, wood and paint to the works in an effort to create pieces that engage the viewer in new ways. It may not even be initially apparent that glass is the primary material. These meditative works provide a space to clear your mind and prepare for what the new year may bring. Showing concurrently with the glassworks

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are documentary photographs and writings by Kristina Lenzi and Sue Henich. (Brian Staker) CLOCHE Artists Collective @ Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, No. 230, 801328-0703, Jan. 17-Feb. 14, opening reception Jan. 17, 6-9 p.m., free. AccessArt.org

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Nitro Circus Live Travis Pastrana has made a name for himself over the years with a little bit of everything—including BMX, motocross, rally racing, NASCAR driving and X Games Championships. He may be most recognized as the ringleader of Nitro Circus—a collective of extreme sports athletes who specialize in death-defying stunts. Starting out with a series of DVDs made in Pastrana’s Maryland backyard, Nitro Circus caught the attention of Jackass producers Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine, who helped turn it into a series for MTV.

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Utah Repertory Theatre: Bonnie & Clyde Beloved, celebrated Broadway musicals have been built around Nazis in Germany (Cabaret), Nazis in Austria (The Sound of Music) and a giant carnivorous plant that eats people (Little Shop of Horrors). So no, it shouldn’t seem completely preposterous to find that the lives of notorious criminal lovers-on-the-lam Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow have been given the singin’and-dancin’ treatment. Utah Repertory Theatre presents the Utah premiere of the 2011 Broadway stage musical version of Bonnie & Clyde, with music by Frank Wildhorn (The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Civil War) and lyrics by Don Black (Sunset Boulevard). Utah Rep production team members had a chance to meet with Wildhorn when he performed at BYU in October, and picked the composer’s brain to help guide the production. Catch the show with its unique blend of blues, gospel and rockabilly following Bonnie and Clyde through love, robbery and blazes of gunfire. (Scott Renshaw) Utah Repertory Theatre: Bonnie & Clyde @ Lehi Arts Center, 685 N. Center St., Lehi, 801-766-0912, Jan. 17-Feb. 1, $15-$18, Jan. 23 “Pay What You May” performance. UtahRep.org

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When Nikki Beckett disappeared for six months, of course everyone was worried … but not nearly as worried as they should have been, given the circumstances. A dashing immortal named Cole had enticed Nikki to Everneath, the underworld domain where his kind survive by feeding on the lives of mortals. Now, à la the Persephone myth, Cole wants to take over Everneath by making Nikki his queen. The only hitch in Cole’s plan is that Nikki’s heart belongs to another: Jack, the boyfriend for whom she risked everything to rescue from Everneath and isn’t willing to lose again. Evertrue brings the Everneath triology’s tale of unlikely love, lessons, and alliances to an end. So if you like high-school drama, love triangles and Greek mythology, hearing Brodi Ashton read from her upcoming novel is an event you don’t want to miss. Places in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase Evertrue from The King’s English Bookshop. (Julia Shumway) Brodi Ashton: Evertrue @ The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-4849100, Jan. 21, 7 p.m., free. KingsEnglish.com Nitro Circus Live boasts a crew of more than 40 professional athletes who have been on the road with their high-flying show throughout Europe, Australia and New Zealand. With only 15 U.S. cities scheduled in North America, the show will be stopping by Salt Lake City this week. Leaning away from the slapstick comedy stunts that defined Jackass, Pastrana and his crew of modern-day daredevils use everything they can—from BMX bikes, to motorcycles, even golf carts—to entertain and impress. (Trevor Hale) Nitro Circus Live @ EnergySolutions Arena, 301 W. South Temple, 801-325-7328, Jan. 17, 7:30 p.m. $37-$137. SmithsTix.com

Prepare to be enveloped by a combination of beautiful music and acting: musical theater at its best. (Aimee Cook O’Brien) Salt Lake Symphony Annual Family Concert @ Libby Gardner Concert Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, University of Utah, 801-581-7100, Jan. 18, 2 p.m. $3-$10. SaltLakeSymphony.org

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you can even BYOB (with a corkage fee) if you’d care to. Place your order and it’ll be delivered right to your theater seat! One piece of advice, though: You might want to bring a small flashlight, since it’s difficult to read menus, drink lists and your bill in the dark theater. During Lee Daniels’ The Butler, I was happily surprised by MovieGrille’s food, which is as good, and in some cases better, than some of the stand-alone restaurants I review. A fresh hummus platter ($8) with two types of hummus—fire-roasted garlictomato and pesto—grilled flatbread, chipotle aioli and Feta cheese dip was outstanding. Ditto an excellent thin-crust Meaty Goodness pizza ($10) topped with smoked mozzarella and provolone cheeses, Italian sausage, pepperoni and Philly cheesesteakstyle beef. Other tempting dishes range from goat cheese and pear salad ($9) and the Portobello Blue burger ($9) to a grilled three-cheese panini ($8) and beer-battered chipotle pepper poppers ($8). With all that MovieGrille has to offer, I may never watch a flick in any other theater again ... especially not until I figure out how to get out of those leather recliners. CW

to appear on a lighted board in the theater, then just go pick up your grub and grog. I really liked the beer-battered cod ($14) at Brewvies, but the accompanying wedge fries were tepid, mealy and ... meh. The Harvest salad ($12) is a heaping plate of fresh greens, tomato and cucumber, tossed with diced grilled chicken, grapes and apples in a honey-Dijon dressing, sprinkled with sunflower seeds. Since the salad was already dressed, I did think it a bit odd that it also came with a container of raspberry vinaigrette. Sandwiches include a choice of side salad, chips & salsa or fries, and you should definitely try the slow-roasted pulled pork with housemade honey-chipotle barbecue sauce ($10). Other interesting menu items include falafel ($10), a black-bean burger ($10), Baja fish tacos ($9), garlic burger ($11) and beef or vegetarian jumbo hot dog ($7). A very good beer selection rounds out the Brewvies experience. Kudos to Brewvies for being so forward-thinking. Like Brewvies, Ogden’s MovieGrille is a bar, cafe and movie theater combined. Unlike Brewvies, it’s modern, nearly new and features plush leather reclining seats that are more comfy than anything in my house. That’s in addition to cheap ticket prices ($4.50 to $6) and inexpensive, but excellent, food, drinks and service. MovieGrille is the creation of Utah native Adam Jackman and his business partner, Jeff Robinson. Jackman told me he traveled far and wide throughout the United States researching movie theaters with the idea to create one that served “not just pub food,” but restaurant-quality fare, mostly from scratch. With MovieGrille, he’s succeeded. The Ogden theater is set up a little differently from Brewvies. At MovieGrille, you take your seat in the theater and a server brings a menu and takes drink orders. There’s a nice beer and wine selection available, in addition to soda and tea, and

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s you probably know, movie theaters have been suffering from declining ticket sales for the past several years. I’d like to think this is payback for the onslaught of crappy films about comicbook superheroes that take up so much cinematic space. But it’s more likely that escalating ticket prices, combined with sky-high food and drink costs, have resulted in more and more people choosing to stay home and watch movies via Netflix, cable TV, the Internet and such. Increasingly, theater owners are attempting to combat sagging tickets sales by installing plush seating or even leather recliners in theaters and implementing ticket-reservation systems. In a recent NPR piece about movie theater upgrades, a spokesman for multiplex chain AMC was quoted saying, “The company plans to spend $600 million installing new seats over the next five years.” It’s probably only a matter of time before we’ll have first class, business class and steerage seating at our cinemas. Well, I’m proud to say that Utah has been ahead of the curve in value-added cinema experiences. Brew vies Cinema Pub—which serves quality food and drink, including alcohol, to patrons 21 and over— has been operating here since 1997. It’s been a long time since my college days when my buddy and I smuggled a six-pack of Rolling Rock into a midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. And it seemed nearly as long since I’d visited Brewvies. It hasn’t really changed much since opening, although the menu has grown and the film selection has improved. I watched American Hustle there recently, and Monday’s Film Buff Nights—featuring movies such as Snatch and American Psycho (my personal favorite)—are always enticing. Brewvies is a bar, cafe and movie theater rolled into one. You could just hang out, shoot pool, watch sports on TV and drink if you’d like. You could also grab a burger, pizza, salad or sandwich. You don’t have to see a film. However, if you do want to catch a flick, this is a great place to do it. The theaters—two of them—are set up with sofas in the back, and theater seats with long counters/tables on which to place your food and drink. Yes, ordering food and drink right before a screening at Brewvies can be chaotic. But, place your order, sit back—there’s lots of legroom—and wait for your order number

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With the 2013 closure of the Beehive Tea Room, which played host to the Salt Lake City Festival Café during previous Sundance Film Festivals, Sicilia Pizza Kitchen (35 W. 300 South, 801961-7077, SiciliaPizzaKitchen.com) will serve as this year’s Festival Café, which is free and open to the public (though seating is limited) and hosts live music every evening. Sicilia stays open till 3 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and will be a great place to enjoy pizza, calzones, cocktails, wine, beer and more while debriefing the day’s films. Visit Sundance.org for more information.

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I am generally of the opinion that the last thing the universe needs is another food blog. However, here is one I can recommend without hesitation. For most of the 20 or so years that I have known her, Letty Flatt worked at Deer Valley Resort, for many of those years as the resort’s executive pastry chef. She’s an incredible cook, a great person and author of the cookbook Chocolate Snowball: and Other Fabulous Pastries from Deer Valley Bakery. She retired from Deer Valley in 2013, but she’s not resting on her laurels. She recently launched a healthy-minded, veggie-centric blog called Letty’s Kitchen: One Bite at a Time. It’s a friendly, fun, and informative blog chock-full of interesting recipes, tips, fables and more. Find it at LettysKitchen.com.

Recently, Cafe 540 ( 540 W. 200 South, 801-652-6543, Facebook.com/ Cafe540SLC) launched Saturday brunch service, running from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Chefs Terry Bluth and Jeffrey Miller’s brunch menu includes dishes like eggs Benedict, chicken & waff les Cordon “Bluth,” jalapeño-cheddar biscuits & gravy, a breakfast pita, eggs Florentine, chicken in a biscuit and more, not to mention $2 mimosas and $3 bloody marys. Quote of the week: To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomat—the problem is entirely the same in both cases: to know exactly how much oil one must put with one’s vinegar. —Oscar Wilde Food Matters 411: teds@xmission.com

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his winter is shaping up to be a bonanza for Utah wine and beer lovers, with a smorgasbord of enticing dinners featuring winemakers and craft brewmasters slated for Salt Lake City, Snowbasin, Snowbird and Alta. Kicking things off with the first of its Food & Wine Culture Series, Martine Cafe (22 E. 100 South, MartineCafe.com) will host a Small Plates, Big Glass wine dinner on Thursday, Jan. 16. The dinner will feature the wines of Obsidian Ridge Vineyard, with winemaker Arpad Molnar as the guest of honor. Three wines will be poured and paired with Chef Tom Grant’s small-plates menu of cuisine inspired by California’s Lake County, where Obsidian Ridge is located. The three featured wines

are Poseidon Vineyard Chardonnay, Carneros 2012, Obsidian Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon 2010 and Obsidian Ridge Syrah 2011. The cost per person is $50: $25 for three plates, and $25 for three glasses of wine. Phone Martine at 801363-9328 for reservations. Snowbasin Resort (3925 E. Snowbasin Road, Huntsville, Snowbasin.com) is hosting its second annual Brewmaster’s Dinner at Earl’s Lodge on Friday, Jan. 17, featuring beer selections from Uinta Brewing Company. The dinner menu consists of four “from-scratch” courses, each paired with craft-brewed Uinta beers. A representative from Uinta will be on hand to discuss the brews, and each attendee will take home a complimentary beer-tasting pint glass. The cost is $60 per person for food and drink, excluding tax and gratuity. Reservations are a must and may be made at 801-620-1021. On Saturday, Jan. 18, Snowbird Resort (9600 Little Cottonwood Canyon Road, Snowbird.com) will host a beer dinner at The Lodge Bistro featuring Red Rock Brewing’s brewmaster/owner Kevin Templin. A four-course dinner follows a reception and appetizers with pairings that include halibut with clams, chorizo

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mushrooms with 2008 Soffocone di Vincigliata IGT; and red wine- and bone-marrow-braised pork shank with 2005 and 2007 Testamatta IGT. The price is $100 per person, plus tax and gratuity. Call 801-274-6264 for reservations. Alta’s Shallow Shaft Restaurant (10199 E. Highway 210, ShallowShaft. com) has a robust lineup of wine and beer dinners this winter, under the direction of talented wine coordinator Peri Ermidis and featuring the cuisine of equally talented chef Kurtis Krause. Among the season’s guests at the Shallow Shaft dinners are winemaker Arpad Molnar of Obsidian/Tricycle Wine Company on Jan. 15, brewmaster Kevin Crompton from Epic Brewery on Jan. 22, and Neil Michaelis with Delayed in Glass, Feb. 12. March 5 will feature Fisher/Zacherle Vineyards. Call 801742-2177 for pricing and reservations. On Tuesday, Jan. 28, Boulevard Bistro (1414 S. Foothill Drive, BoulevardBistroFoothill. com) will be the locale for an eclectic, fivecourse wine-pairing dinner featuring wines from Italy, California, Oregon and Portugal. Among the pairings are smoked duck breast with Adelsheim Pinot Noir 2011; and wild mushroom pappardelle with Vitiano Rosso, San Pietro 2011. The cost is $50 for food and pairing, plus tax and gratuity. Call 801-953-1270 to reserve a spot. CW

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Located in West Jordan’s Copper Creek shopping center, New Dragon Diner offers Chinese food in the south valley at affordable prices. The crab & cream cheese wonton is a popular starter, as is the paperwrapped chicken. There’s also Cantonese-style chow mein, as well as specialties like black bean chicken, moo shu pork, cashew shrimp, beef-mushroom chow yuke, chicken with garlic sauce, ginger beef with oyster sauce and chop suey. 3078 W. 7800 South, West Jordan, 801-565-1238, NewDragonDiner.com

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At the Wasatch Broiler & Grill, only the freshest lowcalorie ingredients are used. The meats, poultry and fish are prepared in the leanest methods, with lowfat ingredients. The rice, potatoes and vegetables are either steamed or grilled and are seasoned sparingly with spices. The flame-broiled, skinless poultry, meats and seafood are marinated for 24 hours in a special blend of vegetable juices and seasonings. Try the kebabs, fish entrees, steaks and chicken dishes. 7663 S. Union Park Ave., Midvale, 801-255-9800, WasatchBroilerAndGrill.com

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At Yoshi’s Japanese Grill, you’ll find a wide array of (surprise!) Japanese-inspired cuisine. Sushi lovers will enjoy the maki rolls, which range from a basic cucumber roll to Mario’s Madness, which features smoked salmon, cream cheese and fajita vegetables. The house salads are great, especially the cranberry-walnut. But Yoshi’s is known mostly for its rice bowls, which run the gamut from Hawaiian chicken and chicken teriyaki to Kobe beef, yakiniku, sukiyaki, shrimp and vegetable bowls. 5692 S. 900 East, Murray, 801-713-9423, JapaneseGrill.com

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With the many locations of Cafe Rio, it would be easy to think that this is just another Mexican fast-food chain. Fortunately, that’s not the case. At the Utah-bornand-bred Cafe Rio, food is prepared fresh daily from scratch, inspired by recipes from the Rio Grande Valley regions of Northern Mexico. The fresh green chiles come from Hatch, N.M. Specialties at Cafe Rio include firegrilled steak burritos, chile-roasted beef tacos, shredded chicken tostadas, cheese enchiladas and pork barbacoa quesadillas. For dessert, try the coconut-caramel flan or the fresh lime pie. Multiple locations, CafeRio.com

Dee’s Family Restaurant

You won’t encounter any new-wave, challenging cuisine at Dee’s, which is one reason so many people love it. This family restaurant offers affordable burgers, salads and sandwiches, primarily. But there’s also chicken-fried steak and biscuits & gravy. Big portions rule the roost here, whether you’re digging into a chef’s salad or a big breakfast. Dee’s is also one of the best places to get a late-night cup of coffee. And, don’t even think of leaving without trying the awesome cheese fries. Multiple locations

Talisker On Main

Talisker on Main features award-winning Executive Chef Briar Handly’s distinctly regional flavors with a menu that promotes sustainable living and incorporates local and seasonal produce, some of which is even grown in the restaurant’s rooftop gardens. Although the menu is consistently evolving with the availability of ingredients, the fare remains a combination of classic flavors that create a unique, stylized interpretation of America’s favorite foods, emphasizing purity and simplicity. In addition to Handly’s creative cuisine, Talisker on Main offers a large wine selection. 515 Main, Park City, 435-6585479, TaliskerOnMain.com

The Annex

The Annex might as well be heaven on earth for a beer buff. The modern gastropub is brought to you by Epic Brewery, and all 36 of Epic’s brews are available for your drinking pleasure. The menu offers a variety of simple classics with a quirky twist, so you can start off your meal with the Korean double-fried chicken wings or creamy mac & cheese with pancetta. No matter what you choose, the dish will pair well with the bevy of brews available. Vegetarians need not fret, as there are plenty of meat-free dishes, too, like the quinoa burger or beet & goat cheese salad. 1048 E. 2100 South, Suite 110, Salt Lake City, 801-742-5490, TheAnnexByEpicbrewing.com

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On the edge of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Hell’s Backbone Grill is equally humble and refined, grounded and ethereal. Championing (and then growing) organic food and serving perfectly matched wines in a remote county was an act of faith. But through a combination of goodwill and working with local ranchers and farmers, the grill not only made it, but is thriving and beloved in the community. A salad of organic greens with jicama and roasted corn in a chili-honey dressing hits all the right notes of freshness, texture and honest flavors. Skillet-fried trout encrusted with blue corn and molasses is sensational. Ditto for the chocolate-chile cream pot—it’s a case of heavenly hell. 20 N. Highway 12, Boulder, 435-3357464, HellsBackboneGrill.com

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American Hustle HHH David O. Russell loosely adapts the story of the late 1970s FBI “Abscam” 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 here—Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner, etc.—acts to the rafters with their various accents and over-the-top personalities, while Russell swings and zips his camera like he’s doing a second-generation photocopy of GoodFellas by way of Boogie Nights. Yet it’s also kind of a hoot on a moment-to-moment basis, as the undercover operation gets more convoluted—and more dangerous—with each passing day. Leave aside Louis C.K.’s low-key FBI middle-manager, and there’s not a subtle thing to be found in all 135 minutes; it’s also hard to completely dismiss its fun brand of un-subtle. (R)—SR August: Osage County HH.5 Tracy Letts’ adaptation of his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play occupies a particularly troublesome category of drama: theater of familial recriminations. The Weston clan of Osage County, Okla., faces the disappearance of patriarch Bev (Sam Shepherd), bringing all three daughters (Julia Roberts, Julianne Nicholson and Juliette Lewis) home to help their pill-addicted/cancer-stricken mom (Meryl Streep). There’s plenty of solid dark humor in Letts’ text that explores needling interactions between family members, and some effectively restrained supporting performances. But, eventually, it’s gonna be time for everyone to start screaming about the horrible things that were done to them, or rationalizing horrible things they did to others, giving Streep and Roberts in particular an excuse to capital-A Act to the balcony seats. If there’s a way for such over-the-top histrionics to be entertaining rather than aggravating, I’ve yet to discover it. (R)—SR

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Frozen HHH Disney keeps showing that they’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 sisters— Elsa (Idina Menzel) and Anna (Kristen Bell)—divided by Elsa’s inability to control her magical power to generate ice and snow. The opening minutes suggest the potential for a flatout 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

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than estranged sisters. There’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)—SR

The Great Beauty HHH.5 Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo)—the 65-year-old protagonist of Paolo Sorrentino’s gloriously acidic panorama of contemporary Roman decadence—has spent virtually his entire life living off the fame of his one and only novel. But as Sorrentino watches Jep’s episodic wanderings through Italy’s high-art subculture, we see that Jep longs for something more substantial, and has no idea how to find it. Working in a surreal register that often evokes Terry Gilliam, Sorrentino understands what makes beautiful surfaces appealing, and what makes the film’s various artist characters reach for ever-more-extreme forms of expression. At its heart and soul, though, it’s a simple story of a man wondering where so many years of his life disappeared to, with Servillo’s performance capturing a moment when you realize you want your art to enhance your life, not merely distract you from it. (NR)—SR

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 The Legend of Hercules H With its inept performances, terrible dialogue and chintzy CGI, Renny Harlin’s swords-and-sandals fantasy is somehow more cartoonish than Disney’s version, which was actually a cartoon. It’s more like a daytime soap opera, too. In this telling, Greek mythology’s greatest strongman (played by model-turned-not-actor Kellan Lutz, wearing too much bronzer) battles his sniveling half-brother (Liam Garrigan), his jealous stepfather (Scott Adkins), a fake-looking lion and various armies, all while pursuing a forbidden romance with a Cretan princess (Gaia Weiss) and coming to terms with being the son of Zeus. Every action scene looks so much like a video game that you wonder if any real humans or objects were photographed, while every non-action scene is hampered by the cast’s inability (or refusal) to inject life into the pitiful screenplay. Ye gods, what cheese. (PG-13)—Eric D. Snider Lone Survivor HHH.5 Title spoiler: Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell (Mark Wahlberg) was the only survivor of a doomed 2005 mission in the mountains of Afghanistan to capture or kill a Taliban leader. Writer-director Peter Berg adapts Luttrell’s true story into one of the more realistic military movies ever, one that acknowledges the powerful fraternity of soldiers without being jingoistic, and one that depicts the intensity of a battlefield without being pornographic. It’s even got something to say about the ironies of modern asymmetrical warfare, and the senselessness of Western military presence in the region. The non-CGI’ed stuntwork and you-are-there action of the centerpiece firefight are riveting, unlike anything you’ve seen on film before. From the perspective of real-world military work, we must be insane to let anyone, on either side of this deplorable state of affairs, endure what we witness here. (R)—MaryAnn Johanson

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somewhat shallow at the outset. Jonze, however, finds magic 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. (R)—SR

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Bullet In the Face A criminal sociopath (Max E. Williams) awakens from being “killed” by his girlfriend with the transplanted face of a cop, then goes on a violent revenge rampage against everybody (including Eddie Izzard and Eric Roberts). Genius! (Shout Factory)

The Spoils of Babylon Thursdays (IFC) New Miniseries: It features even more ridiculous revolving hairstyles than American Hustle, and it makes slightly more sense— maybe miscast Jeremy Renner should have signed on for The Spoils of Babylon, instead. Spoils parodies the sprawling ’70s/’80s T V epic few remember (Wiki The Winds of War and Rich Man, Poor Man, kids), narrated by “author” Eric Jonrosh (Will Ferrell), unspooling the timespanning tale of a young drifter (Tobey Maguire), an oil tycoon (Tim Robbins) and his dim daughter (Kristen Wiig), as excessively and faux-melodramatically as six 30-minute episodes will allow. It’s not all gold (like those old miniseries, this could have been half as long), but The Spoils of Babylon showcases Stars Gone Silly (including Jessica Alba, Val Kilmer, Michael Sheen and more) magnificently.

Helix Fridays (Syfy) New Series: Speaking of ’70s throwbacks, Battlestar Galactica’s Ronald D. Moore mines The Andromeda Strain for his new Syfy series Helix, then throws in some Walking Dead gotchas because, really, was a disease outbreak alone going to lure you in? A mysterious virus originating at a remote Arctic base—aren’t they all remote?—is turning victims into hyper-strengthened rage machines, and it’s up to Dr. Alan Farragut (Billy Campbell) to either find a cure or set up a UFC farm league. The atmosphere is appropriately bleak and chilling, but Helix is going to have to figure out if it’s a sci-fi thriller, conspiracy potboiler or soap opera sooner than later. Then again, BSG never did (oh yes, I did go there, Moore-heads).

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Looking Sunday, Jan. 19 (HBO) Series Debut: Showtime’s Queer as Folk did all of the groundbreaking, taboo-shattering and whatever other -ings need be attributed more than 10 years ago, but there hasn’t been a high-profile American drama centered strictly around gay men since (FX’s Chozen probably doesn’t count … yeah, The Only TV Column That Matters™ is going say it definitely doesn’t count). Looking isn’t the new QAF, and it’s certainly not the subtly-hyped Gay Answer to Girls; it’s something new, different and—here comes that overused adjective—honest. The series follows the San Francisco lives of Patrick (Jonathan Groff) and his circle of friends, none of whom ring false or overthe-top “TV gay,” just real people with real stories and problems (and waaay too many social-media accounts). If it clicks or fails, Looking will be the show talked about in a decade—but hopefully sooner.

House of Lies, Episodes Sundays (Showtime) New Seasons: Now three seasons in, there’s still no one to root for on House of Lies; these brand-spin consultants (Don Cheadle, Kristen Bell, Jean-Ralphio from Parks &

Broad City (Comedy Central) Recreation and … that other guy) were a smart, formidable team—I mean, “pod”— but they’re nothing now spilt apart, professionally or dramatically. The only element keeping me interested is Monica (Dawn Olivieri), ex-wife of Cheadle’s Marty Kaan and his chief competition—and possibly the most corrosive hell-bitch television has ever produced (in a good, if scary, way). As for Matt LeBlanc’s Episodes … I could have sworn this was over last season. Is there a Joey situation happening here?

Broad City Wednesday, Jan. 22 (Comedy Central) Series Debut: Based on the web series—wait, come back!—of the same name, Broad City is about the disconnected dealings of Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, two 20-something post-college urbanites whose daily lives are far funnier than those of Lena Dunham’s Girls (last mention, promise). It’s a refreshing contrast to dude-centric leadin Workaholics, as well as the rest of Comedy Central’s schedule; Inside Amy Schumer shouldn’t be the only female voice on the network, even if it is the filthiest. CW

Three party girls (Carly Pope, Samaire Armstrong and Diora Baird) steal $3 million from the scene of a drug-deal shootout; crime-boss (John Rhys-Davies) ranting, more shootouts, wigs and random girl-ongirl action ensue. Sub-genius! (Inception)

In a World … Writer/director Lake Bell stars as a vocal coach who catches a break in the movietrailer voiceover biz, pitting her against the King of Voiceovers, her own egotistical father. Also starring several funny people, and Demetri Martin. (Roadside Attractions)

Machete Kills In the meh follow-up, Machete (Danny Trejo) is dispatched by the president (Charlie Sheen—sorry, Carlos Estevez) to take out a revolutionary (Demian Bichir) and an arms dealer (Mel Gibson); dozens of decapitations and Lady Gaga ensue. (Open Road)

More New DVD Releases (Jan. 21) After Death, Best Man Down, Black Water Vampire, Blue Jasmine, Captain Phillips, Charlie Countryman, Comedy Bang! Bang! Season 1, Freezer, House Rules for Bad Girls, Insomniac, Life’s an Itch, Marc Maron: Thinky Pain, Paris Countdown, The Starving Games, Sunlight Jr. Listen to Bill on Mondays at 8 a.m. on X96 Radio From Hell. Daily-ish TV picks and news at CityWeekly.net/TV.

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hazy spin on traditiona l A mericana music, folk-rock duo Smoke Season’s sound is a product of the polar-opposite personalities of the band’s two members. “I’m a dreamer and Jason [Rosen] is an adventurer,” says vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Gabrielle Wortman. “And so there’s this very dreampop element to a lot of the things that we write, but then there’s also a very grounded Americana element. I think that Jason is bringing this Americana vibe, and I’m bringing the dreamy, more textural vibe.” Wortman and vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Rosen both came to Smoke Season—which formed at the end of 2012—from other musical projects: Wortman is the lead singer, songwriter and producer for electro alt-rock band Tempest, and Rosen is the former keyboard player of pop-rock group Honor Society. They met when their respective bands were both rehearsing in the same space. One night, the two of them “happened to write an entire song in one sitting and that song ended up being our first single,” Wortman says. “It was a very organic convergence,” Rosen adds. Wortman says their experimental sound ended up “being smack-dab in the middle” of their own musical styles, “because on our own we pull in different directions … but together we end up meeting in the middle.” A duo in the truest sense of the word, Rosen and Wortman share lead vocal duty equally, and their atmospheric songs are woven around the beautiful harmonies they create together. New to being in a band with two lead singers, Wortman says the focus on the intertwining vocals “ended up really defining our sound.” Smoke Season has released one album so far, an EP titled Signals, which came out in March 2013. Simultaneously delicate and ethereal but warm and woodsy, that first record was an “introduction to our own band,” Wortman says. Conversely, the duo’s upcoming EP—which will be released in February— will “really show the definition in the direction that we’re going,” she says. “It’s definitely more precise; our sound is definitely defined now.” What hasn’t changed is Smoke Season’s exploratory nature. Both originally from New York City, Wortman and Rosen eventually moved to the West Coast, where “both of our characters and our artistic senses really expanded,” she says. Inspired by the “powerful allure” and the “sense of adventure and wonderment” of the old West, Wortman says, it “really holds a lot of our dreams because it’s the location where we’ve been able to live our dreams.” CW

The Devil Makes Three’s unholy blend of blues, mountain music, punk and country (“We always jump genres,” Bernhard says) gets touches of jazz and even surf on I’m a Stranger Here, courtesy of the renowned New Orleansbased Preservation Hall Jazz band and album producer and guest baritone guitarist Buddy Miller. Fiddle and piano lend melodic richness, and there’s even some percussion, a first for the notoriously drum-less band. Bernhard attributes the album’s full, diverse sound to the fact that the band chose to work with a producer for the first time, as well as record in an actual studio instead of at home, at Dan Auerbach’s (The Black Keys) studio in Nashville, Tenn. “We tried a lot of stuff on this album that we haven’t tried before,” Bernhard says. I’m a Stranger Here, arguably the band’s best release yet, also shows the progress the trio has made since coming together in 2002. “We’ve just improved as musicians over the years,” Bernhard says. After all, only time can produce a line as brilliant as the following (from “Hallelu”): “They say Jesus is comin’ he must be walkin’ he sure ain’t runnin’/ Who could blame him? Look how we done him. Hallelu!” Amen. CW

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Jazz Man 311 frontman Nick Hexum explores jazz and funk in new side project. By Brian Palmer comments@cityweekly.net

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ick Hexum wants you to know that he can do more than just sing and play the guitar for the rock band 311. He’s got a jazzy, funky, swinging side to his creative spectrum as well, which is on full display in My Shadow Pages, the debut album from The Nick Hexum Quintet, released in October. The album is aptly titled because it effectively describes the unassuming manner in which the record was created. The album was recorded “mostly in the shadows,” Hexum says. “Nobody really knew I was doing it, and there were absolutely no [commercial] expectations, so it was a very freeing thing.” Hexum treated this project as a way to keep the creative juices flowing between new 311 releases. Knowing that he wanted to experiment with different sounds that did not necessarily work for the band, he needed an outlet for exploration, as well as an avenue to help him evolve as a musician, so he started jamming with his brother, Zack, and waited to see what resulted. “It was a project for personal fulfillment and edification of my own self and my playing,” Hexum says. “It wasn’t for any business goals. It was just for fun. The best music always is.” While tracks like the first single, “Super Natural,” have a groov y mid-tempo rock vibe that would not be out of place on a 311 record, there are a lot of new wrinkles on this album. “Just Give it to Me” is a funky dance track, “The Dreamer” wanders languidly into the realm of piano pop, and if you’ve ever wondered what it might sound like to hear Hexum play the blues, then check out “You’ll Do it Again.” “Sideways” is driven by jazzy drums and piano. On the whole, the record feels like a time capsule, and that did not happen accidentally. “Everything that is on

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that record is instruments that existed in, say, 1970,” Hexum says. “There’s nothing modern on there. It’s all Hammond B-3s, vintage hollow-body guitars, piano, sax and drums. So it sounds timeless and very warm.” Using this solo project as a way to satisfy alternative creative urges was one thing, but deciding to release an album was another. Hexum was not going to have the backing of a big label to help him out, which meant having to finance this labor of love by himself. But there were certain advantages to the situation that Hexum relished. “It is a different thing for me, going from a pure democracy like 311, to where I’m kind of a benevolent despot in The Nick Hexum Quintet,” Hexum says with a laugh. “I definitely take input from all my collaborators, but then it’s kind of up to me after that.” The experience working on this endeavor has opened up a whole new series of doors for Hexum. He is already thinking about his next solo project, which will most likely be worked on after 311’s next release comes out March 11. And the things he learned throughout this process have helped breathe some fresh air into a music career that already spans almost 25 years. “Opening up this new avenue, completely unfettered, to go in new directions, was really exciting for me,” Hexum says. “I felt a kind of renaissance to my creativity. There’s been nothing but support from the other guys in 311 for it. 311 is our life’s work. It’s the mothership. We definitely don’t want to do anything to mess with that, but it’s healthy for people to have other outlets.” CW

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T Bird & the Breaks Wherever they go, Austin, Texas-based funkrock band T Bird & the Breaks leave their audiences sweaty, smiling and partied out. With their infectious, in-your-face, big-brass sound, T Bird & the Breaks turn every floor into a dance floor, and light up the stage with their hip-shakin’ blend of funk, rock, hip-hop and blues. The get-down is led by frontman T Bird, with his warm and gritty voice, and lots of saxophone and backing female vocals give albums like Never Get Out of This Funk Alive—released in 2011—a humid mood that sounds like a slice of New Orleans. T Bird & the Breaks have been releasing only singles (like “The Big E.Z.,” which includes a cool nod to the old Southern folk ditty “Iko Iko”) for the past while, but their third full-length studio album, Harmonizm, will be coming out sometime this year. The Sly All Stars will open. The State Room, 638 S. State, 8 p.m., $10, TheStateRoom.com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com Spindrift It’s safe to say that there are few bands as skilled as Los Angeles psych/Western-rock quartet Spindrift in hooking the listener and transporting them to an entirely different time and place. Their reverb-heavy, Spaghetti Western-influenced guitar chords and band founder Kirpatrick Thomas’ booming voice sound like the soundtrack to the West itself, in the wild days of roving banditos, boomtowns and shoot-first sheriffs. For their new album, Ghost of the West—released in 2013—Spindrift visited and performed at several ghost towns in the western states, then included recordings of the shows in the final versions of the songs to capture the mood of those desolate locations. The result is space-y, dusty, haunting and expansive, just like the West. Check out “Ghost Riders in the Sky” and “The Matador & the

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Pickwick Sometimes it’s easy to forget that music is made by people, in a very physical way. That’s not just a nice note or beat appearing out of nowhere; a human is using their fingers to strum a few strings that are attached to a piece of wood, and another human is hitting a drumhead stretched over a round frame. In Seattle garage-rock/R&B band Pickwick’s music video for their song “Halls of Columbia”—from their latest album, Can’t Talk Medicine, released in March 2013—the band does what appears to be an impromptu performance on a crowded sidewalk, and it’s fascinating to watch what it takes for each of the six musicians to create ear-pleasing sounds with their guitars, horns

Spindrift and percussion. It’s also cool to see the nearconvulsions frontman Galen Disston goes through to spit out lyrics with his unique voice, which jumps between screechy yelps and smooth R&B. Wildcat Strike and Modern Kin are also on the bill. 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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Joshua James The world of TV has been loving local singer-songwriter Joshua James’ music lately. His protest song “Crash This Train” was heard in the final montage on the “Sweet & Vaded” episode of Sons of Anarchy in October—he’s had so many songs on the show’s soundtracks that it’s often how people are first exposed to his music— and his piano-centric beauty “Surrender,” from his 2012 album From the Top of Willamette Mountain (Northplatte Records), was featured on an episode of Pretty Little Liars earlier this month. It’s no surprise, really: His incredible Americana/folk songs have the ability to convey the thorny emotions of characters in only a few lyrics, and his powerful voice makes you hang onto his every word. James also had a new album come out in November, titled Well, Then, I’ll Go to Hell, which is all covers of Modest Mouse (one of his favorite bands) songs—check out his minimal, jawdroppingly lovely take on “Gravity Rides

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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. A BAR NAMED SUE ON STATE 8136 S. State, SLC, 801-566-3222, Karaoke Tues. ABGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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., â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;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 BURTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TIKI LOUNGE 726 S. State, SLC, 801-521-0572, Live music CANYON INN 3700 E. Fort Union, SLC, 801943-6969, DJs CAROLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COVE II 3424 S. State, SLC, 801466-2683, 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 CHUCKLEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LOUNGE 221 W. 900 South, SLC, 801-532-1721 CIRCLE LOUNGE 328 S. State, SLC, 801531-5400, DJs CISEROâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 DJâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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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f you’re looking to transform your mind and body for the New Year, then look no further than the Foothills. Being Utah’s premiere boutique gym since 2010, BodyWise Fitness offers everything from a garage gym, sculpting and toning classes, intense cardio, yoga, indoor cycling, Zumba and much more. The instructors and trainers are all highly trained and accomplished professionals that range from elite athletes to dancers that are carefully selected by owner Lisa Moran. “What I really look for—and what most distinguishes our team—is the ability to understand the needs of their clients,” she says. “That means giving options in a fitness classes, customizing training so it’s both challenging and reasonable, and motivating and being generous to everyone so that we can maintain our high level of customer satisfaction.” While the institution offers a plethora of top-notch classes, it’s still small in the sense that it feels like an extended family where everyone knows your name. “The truest thing about fitness is that we all do

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Whose enemy are you? Are you anyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adversary or obstructionist or least favorite person? Answer honestly, please. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be in denial. Next question: Do you derive anything useful from playing this oppositional role? If your answer is yes, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fine. I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try to talk you out of it. Continue to reap the benefits of being someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obstacle. But if, on the other hand, you get little value out of this negative relationship, now would be a good time to change it. You have more power than usual to free yourself from being an antagonist. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You Tauruses are customarily more grounded than the rest of us. But this week, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m wondering if you will be tempted to escape the laws of gravity and rebel against the call of duty. I suspect that your dreams, at least, will feature uninhibited forays into the wild blue yonder. While youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sleeping you may float weightlessly in an interplanetary spaceship, become an eagle and soar over forests, wear a futuristic jet pack on your back and zip through the sky, sail across the Serengeti Plains in a hot-air balloon, or have a picnic on a cloud with a feast of cotton candy and sponge cake and mint tea. Would you consider bringing this kind of fun into your waking life?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world?â&#x20AC;? asks novelist Terry Pratchett. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all the people who never find out what it is they really want to do or what it is theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really good at. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all the people who never get to know what it is that they can really be.â&#x20AC;? If that description applies to you even a little, Libraâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still not completely sure what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re good at it and what you want to doâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the coming months will be prime time to fix that problem. Start now! How? Open your mind to the possibility that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know yourself as well as you someday will. Take vocational tests. Ask smart people you trust to tell you what they think about your special aptitudes and unique qualities. And one more thing: Be wildly honest with yourself about what excites you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an excellent time to rise up and revolt against conventional wisdom. I urge you to immunize yourself against trendy groupthink as you outwit and outmaneuver the status quo. Have fun and activate your playful spirit to the max as you create workarounds to the way things have always been done. At the same time, Pisces, stay acutely attuned to your compassion and common sense. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a quarrelsome intransigent. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be rebellious just to please your ego. If you follow these guidelines, you will be able to pull off a graceful insurrection that both soothes and stimulates your soul.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) The Flemish artist Jan van Eyck (1395-1441) was renowned for his innovative mastery of oil painting. He signed many of his works not just with his name but also with his motto: Als ick kan. Its idiomatic translation is â&#x20AC;&#x153;The best I can do.â&#x20AC;? What he meant was that he had pushed his talent and craft to the limit, and then stopped and relaxed, content that he had given all he could. I invite you to have a similar attitude as you wrap up the projects youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re currently involved in, Aquarius. Summon all your passion and intelligence as you create the most excellent outcome possible, but also know when to quit. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try too hard; just try hard.

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READ TODAY Read Today Reading Mentor Contact: Pansa Lerslerphant, 801.736.7768 Date/Time: Volunteers needed weekly Through a partnership with the AmeriCorps Read Today program, volunteers provide one-on-one tutoring to students struggling with reading. Community volunteers are needed to read with students 1-2 days a week for 1 hour. This opportunity is on-going throughout the school year. There are a number of school locations and positions available in a variety of areas. Please call for further details and listings of where you can help. UNITED WAY 2-1-1 RSVP VITA Volunteers Contact: Amy Worthington, 801.746.2566 Date/Time: Jan. 28-April 13, flexible times Mon.-Fri. Volunteers with good communication and excellent phone skills are needed for the purpose of calling VITA clients to confirm their schedule appointments. Volunteers must commit to a minimum of 3-4 hours per week from January 28 – April 13, 2014. A one-hour training is required. GRANITE PARK JUNIOR HIGH Reward Day Activity Chaperones Contact: Craig Foster, 801.554.2005 Date/Time: January 15, 8:30-2:30 10 volunteers are needed to chaperone students as they attend a reward day field trip at a dollar movie, have lunch and go to a recreation center for games. Volunteers must be 18 and available to stay during the entirety of the event. All costs are covered and lunch will be provided. GRANGER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Mobile Food Pantry Assistance Contact: Amy Worthington, 801.746.2566 Date/Time: January 22, 2:45-5:00 p.m. Granger Elementary provides it’s children and families access to the Mobile Food Pantry from the Utah Food Bank. 10-13 volunteers are needed to help set up for the event, distribute food to families and then clean up. Volunteers must be comfortable

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