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Lots for Tots

How one agency is selling off Utah in the name of the children. By Colby Frazier

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SITLA: Selling off Utah in the name of the children. Cover illustration by Bryan Beach

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Letters What Utah Negatives?

In John Saltas’ column [“Common Clay,” Jan. 14, City Weekly], he opined on why someone would want to move to Utah. He lists several negatives, such as the attorney general fiasco, Governor Herbert’s “warm heart” and gay marriage. These aren’t negatives, but extremely huge positives. Suppose your company operates in a legal gray area. No problem: All you have to do is donate to the attorney general’s campaign fund, and your legal problems go away. Need a law changed or a want a tax break? With the extremely lax ethics laws, a governor or legislator is only a donation away from doing your bidding. With no gay marriage, your benefits costs have been reduced. And a large dropout rate from schools, high birthrate, right-to-work laws and a state minimum wage no higher than the federal rate equals an unlimited supply of cheap, dumb workers.

Bryan White South Jordan

D.P. Rules

I hope it’s not true that D.P. Sorenson has retired from his Deep End column, but if it is, I want to express my thanks for the years of entertainment he provided. His target audience—those who would pick up on every subtle reference to the church and temple ceremony—was

WRITE US: Salt Lake City Weekly, 248 S. Main, Salt Lake City, UT 84101. E-mail: comments@cityweekly.net. Fax: 801-575-6106. We reserve the right to edit for length and clarity. Preference will be given to letters that are 300 words or less and sent uniquely to City Weekly. Full name, address and phone number must be included, even on e-mailed submissions, for verification purposes. extremely narrow, and I was in that target audience. I was amazed and grateful that it lasted so long and conveyed the ridiculousness of local culture and politics. I can’t believe the mileage he got out of Mit(t)! Holy sh!t! It was all so good. I just want to say thank you, thank you, thank you.

Jon Bischoff Salt Lake City Editor’s Note: After 20 years writing for City Weekly, D.P. Sorenson’s Dec. 19 column was his last with the paper. We’ve added a second news space (see p. 13) as a replacement to keep our readers up to date with what’s happening locally.

The Clean Air Final Solution

So it appears that Utah “leadership” may be getting serious about air pollution. Here’s a plan that could start here and be a model for the rest of the country. Edwin Black’s 2008 book The Plan briefly discusses ammonia as an alternate fuel. Ammonia has been used in internal combustion engines since the late 1800s; standard auto engines can be retrofitted for ammonia combustion. Liquid ammonia contains 50 percent more hydrogen than an equal volume of cryogenic liquid hydrogen, making it ideal for vehicle fuel cells and home electricity use. It can be made anywhere where there is air, water and electricity. Wind and solar could make it a backyard fuel

source and a viable local industry, with all money generated staying within the local economy. Since Utah is already a leader in the conversion of cars to natural gas, this should be easy. Iowa has more than 800 ammonia stations for farm equipment, while China has more ammonia stations than gasoline stations. Both should be studied and could serve as a model to build upon. Will it happen? The entrenched interests would do everything to squelch it. If we had a rational, responsible and—above all—responsive political system, a Manhattan Project-style program could create thousands of new jobs in every state, while ending air pollution and the need for military domination of oil-rich areas abroad. Think about this the next time you’re coughing up black flecks on another red-air day.

Clee P. Ames Eureka

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Well, I’ll be!! If there’s a surer sign that one should never judge a cover by its books it is this: Myself and Utah Speaker of the House Becky Lockhart see eye to eye on a legislative issue. On the night of Jan. 27, the speaker—who has been roundly mocked on these pages many times—delivered an openingsession speech that has everyone a-talkin’. Not only did she lay down the traditional proposed course and priorities—including ridding Utah restaurants of the Zion Curtain barriers—for this year’s session, she busted protocol and let current Gov. Gary Herbert know in no uncertain terms that she plans on making him known as “former” Gov. Gary Herbert come next election. Bully for her. But I can’t see myself voting for her under any circumstance shy of a large bribe (two Utah Jazz tickets and the chance to meet a beer-drinking Jazz dancer) or of having the threatening heel of a Macy’s peep-toe pump set to crush my little toe. She also hails from Utah County, which I’ve grown to regard as the place where idealism goes to die, and where the cocktail of fear and religious bias go to thrive. I say that last part with a bit of pining regret, as I really would like to like Utah County, but simply do not. After all, my great-great-grandfather, Mormon Battalion member, friend of Brigham Young (probably drinking buddies) and future polygamist, Matthew Caldwell, built the first log cabin in American Fork and was the first mayor of Spanish Fork. That reminds me. I’m having a nostalgia moment—remember the good old days when Gary Herbert was pretty much forced onto the ticket with Jon Huntsman Jr. because Herbert (also a Utah County laddie) lent that ballot the far-right credentials that would allow Utah Republicans to go ahead and vote for the moderate and sensible Huntsman? Now Herbert is seen as an Obama lover. God Bless the Utah County Republican Caucus! There is already a rumor floating that if Becky

softens too, they will recruit Ted Nugent to move to Springdale under the guise of opening a road-kill diner in order to earn his Utah County citizenship. She may never toss down some Mountain Dew in the governor’s mansion, but I like Becky today because she’s standing up to the Republican boy brats who run things. And this paper has always liked underdogs. It’s good to see that fight, and it’s good to see a Republican woman step up as opposed to being stepped on. She won’t be Utah’s first female governor—Olene Walker holds that distinction, ascending to Utah governor when Mike Leavitt left that post for Washington, D.C., pastures even slimier than the ones he was comfortable in here at home. But Olene couldn’t crack the old-boy code and was not on the ballot come next election—Jon Huntsman Jr. and Gary Herbert were. It’s just as well—she was too nice and too smart. Becky is more willing to show her claws—did you witness her facial expressions when she was delivering her zingers to Herbert? And, fair or not, the rap on Lockhart hasn’t been ambition, but smarts. She may be a member of Mensa, but she doesn’t come across as such. That’s small potatoes, though—the litmus test for today’s politicians is not their IQ but their MQ: their meanness quotient. She looks too nice to be mean, but I think she can do mean (see Sarah Palin). Mean or not, she sure has my support on the issue of Utah’s stupid Zion Curtains— those useless barriers that block the view of a cocktail being mixed, but do not block the view of said cocktail being served or consumed. Utah deserves a liquor policy that focuses on several key items: no bootlegging, no serving minors, no overconsumption, no serving after hours, stricter penalties for drunk driving—each aimed at getting drunken drivers off the streets.

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The Zion Curtain does none of that. Last week, a drunk driver rammed into the rear of another vehicle on 5400 South, killing a 3-year-old child. Instead of writing laws that would keep that driver out of society forever, Utah has been measuring ounces, scanning I.D.s, adjudicating on what constitutes a table or bar, and wringing hands over where a restaurant can operate or how many club licenses should be available. The guy driving that car while drunk needs some serious prison time—but he shouldn’t have been on the streets, either. Therefore, the guilt is not just on him, but on the gutless legislators (like Sen. John Valentine of Orem, who made the Zion Curtain even more dumb after his family was tortured into viewing a working bartender at a Chili’s Restaurant) and even on the LDS Church, which focuses on preachy PR speeches (like the one delivered just prior to this session by D. Todd Christofferson, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve) that nonsensically and without data imply the Zion Curtain curtails drinking and influences kids not to drink. Bull. However, Valentine and Christofferson can prove they really are sincere by legislating Utah’s largest beer garden: the Delta Center. A rhetorical question, but have you been to a Jazz game lately, Mr. Valentine? Did your free ticket make you blind? See all that beer? See all those kids? Moral men like Valentine and Christofferson don’t really mean it, do they? If Chili’s had bought Valentine’s meal, we wouldn’t have this mess called the Zion Curtain. If Christofferson ate anywhere but the Lion’s House, he’d also know that the Zion Curtain is worthless. Therefore—Becky Lockhart for governor! Her bold honesty is refreshing and she’s spot-on with this issue. CW Send Private Eye feedback to john@cityweekly.net.

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Have you eaten at a restaurant with a Zion Curtain in place? Scott Renshaw: Though I most certainly have, I’ve never actually noticed. So it was either very unobtrusive or didn’t stop me from getting drunk enough to have no idea what was around me. Colin Wolf: Whenever I enjoy an adult beverage in a restaurant that has beer swag on the walls and little centerpiece table ads for fun and fruity cocktails, it’s comforting to know that a divider wall in the back of the room is shielding booze from impressionable kids.

Rachel Piper: Tons of them, but as a kid, I didn’t really pay attention. I would beg my dad to get me a Shirley Temple every time we went to Happy Hour at the Officer’s Club on Hill Air Force Base, though, so I guess seeing bartenders mix drinks also increases underage soda consumption.

Sarah Arnoff:

Zion Curtains don’t actually impede me from receiving my alcohol. But using the wittle children as an excuse to push religious motives and force businesses to comply with unnecessary and illogical rules? Not cool, legislature. Not cool.

Kolbie Stonehocker: If I have, I ususally don’t pay it any mind, or even notice. My only concern is getting my evil booze.

Susan Kruithof: I have. I won’t mention the establishment, but I went once and will never go back. Mostly because I had to order food to get a drink. I feel bad for these restaurants who are trying to eke out a living in this state. It’s wack.

Reader Response Marques Shaw: It meant nothing to me. Too bad the business was forced by the government to spend money on something so meaningless.

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Power Struggle Rock y Mountain Power must not be making enough money. And those annoying solar panels and wind turbines, well, they’re just leeching profits from the power company. That’s the message Utahns are getting this week, as the power company asks for a 4 percent rate hike so it can make an extra $76.3 million. Part of the rate hike is needed for expansion, upgrades and to counter the lost revenue from people generating their own power. Now, don’t be too hard on RMP. The agency just doesn’t know how to transition to the changing paradigm of efficiency and innovation. It’s not unlike the rest of the world, which reaches for layoffs and service cuts in the face of Internet business success. Meanwhile, forward-thinking companies like Burton Lumber and Ikea have installed solar-panel systems. Will that continue if they are penalized?

Faith & Folly Not to belabor the same-sex marriage issue, but you have to wonder at the motivations of Gov. Gary Herbert & Co. Is it the will of the people, one’s religious conscience or just plain bias? As a good, statesrights politician, he says he’s going to follow “the will of the people,” lest it move us toward dictatorship. Next, turns out Gene Schaerr, the special counsel to defend Amendment 3, took the job out of “religious and family duty.” Schaerr is a Mormon, working for a state where that matters. Herbert might note that Utah’s also a state where the dictatorship of the majority rules. While it’s necessary to follow the rule of law, it’s also typically American to question authority and morally imperative to fight for the oppressed. That’s not dictatorship. It’s called love.

Making Progress There’s rarely good news on Utah’s education front, but maybe the Legislature’s getting close to something. They seem to agree on the worth and need for early childhood education. The problem is that they can’t agree on a strategy. Three bills are set to be presented in the 2014 session: one adding money for home software education; one for more classroom preschool for at-risk children; and one to experiment with private funding, allowing companies to choose where they invest. Meanwhile, Becky Lockhart—the house speaker and likely gubernatorial candidate—is calling for less legislation and a tactic that moves education priorities around rather than funding programs. All this comes during a week dedicated nationally as School Choice Week. Public ed is in the mix, but the homeschoolers and privatizers are working hard in the background.

In addition to experiencing the joy of owning (at present) three dogs, three cats and a chinchilla, and fostering everything from dogs and cats to emus, Christina Owens has also volunteered with animal shelters and rescue groups and worked as an animal-control officer, where she’s seen firsthand the sad scenarios of missing pets whose owners can’t be found, and vice versa. So, in March 2012, Owens started the Utah Lost & Found Pets Facebook page (Facebook.com/UtahLostAndFound). It’s since netted more than 4,000 likes, with around 10 posts per day from individuals who’ve found or lost pets. Owens also collects listing information from KSL, Craigslist and from the shelters themselves to facilitate daily reunions—the farthest-flung so far being an Oregon dog that made its way to Utah. For more information, visit the Facebook page or UtahLostAndFoundPets.com.

Why did you start the lost & found pet page?

I wanted to do something to help animals, but I didn’t want to go back to doing animal control. Part of being animal control was seeing that most of the dogs are brought in as strays; they’re not owner-surrendered. They belong to someone; it’s just connecting all the dots. I learned a lot of different places where [lost ads] were posted, and thought it’d be nice to have somewhere where as many as possible could be in one spot. I post from PetHarbor every day—that’s where a lot of the animal shelters post. But a lot of people have never even heard of it, so why would they look there? Everybody’s on Facebook every day—it’s one-stop shopping. I look at Craigslist, KSL, PetHarbor, throw them all together and match them up.

How often are there success stories? Oh, it’s every day. We’ve had two already today.

Do you match up the lost & found posts or do owners figure it out? A little bit of both. I see them all, so it’s easy for me to go, “OK, they match.” Then I can call them and say, “I’m getting ready to post this, but I think it’s yours.”

What are some of the challenges of finding a missing pet?

People don’t usually take the animal to the jurisdiction that it’s from—they take it to wherever is closest to where they’re going. Or they’ll hold it at their house. We had one who was driving home from Idaho, picked up a dog in Idaho and posted an ad in Spanish Fork.

How can owners ensure their lost pets will be found safe?

There’s a company that has GPS collars, which are really nice—as long as you keep their collars on, which doesn’t happen very often. There are locking collars so that your kids won’t take them off. There are tags, microchips—but a lot of people will get the microchip but not register it. The Humane Society will register the chip for you, but most vet offices won’t. All it takes is a phone call—it doesn’t cost any money. But it’s one of those steps that just kind of gets skipped. There’s not like a general database that they can go, “OK, this chip matches up with this lost dog.” So until something like that can come together, it’s up to the person to get it registered.

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What’s with all the celebrity charities? A quick search on the Web found a list as long as your arm—everyone from Michael Bloomberg, Tom Brokaw, Sharon Stone and Andre Agassi to Elton John. It’s certainly nice for those with big dough to give some to a worthy cause, but being skeptical by nature, I wonder if something else is going on besides pure philanthropy. —Keith Runfola

Listen, Keith, if you anonymously slip a twenty into the Salvation Army kettle, that’s pure philanthropy. If you get a tax break for doing it—and I fill out the charitable donations worksheet for my Schedule A as diligently as the next citizen—it’s not. So let’s have no illusions about the general level of virtue in our society. The allegedly charitable antics of celebrities occasionally provoke outrage, but that’s partly because they strut on a larger stage. That’s not meant as an excuse for dubious behavior; on the contrary, take it as a caution. The main difference between donating to a celebrity’s charity and the one fronted by the kid at your door claiming he’s earning points for college is that you’re dealing with a better-paid class of mope. As illustration, consider the following tales gleaned from the net: Case 1. In 2013, an ESPN Outside the Lines investigation examined 115 charities founded by high-profile athletes and found 74 percent didn’t meet acceptable operating standards for nonprofit organizations. On inquiring more closely, we find the problem often isn’t evil intent so much as paying no attention. Take the charities set up by Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez. What seems to have happened is this: 1. A-Rod gets flak for participating in illegal poker games, decides it’s time for PR makeover. 2. Two kids charities set up, fundraiser held, PR problem solved. 3. Everybody forgets about the charities. Neither filed a tax return from 2007 to 2011, leading the IRS to revoke their tax-exempt status. Today, all we know is that in 2006, $368,000 in contributions went in and a mere $5,090 worth of good works came out, along with $60,000 spent on expenses, presumably leaving $300,000. Where is it now? Who knows? Rodriguez has other things on his mind at the moment, and 300 grand is pocket change for him anyway. All you can hope is that the people he got it from feel the same way. Case 2. NBA forward and (for now) Kardashian spouse Lamar Odom set up his charity Cathy’s Kids to help underprivileged children and fight cancer. A $150-per-ticket Holly wood gala in 2009 emphasized the latter aim, but eight years of tax returns showed nothing was ever spent on cancer research. Instead, of $2.2 million raised, $1.3 million went to two elite youth basketball teams. Asked for an explanation, Odom said, “It’s my money.” I won’t argue the point, and I’m willing to stipulate that at least some of the young basketball players may have been underprivileged. This still looks a lot like bait & switch.

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Case 3. Bristol Palin took some heat a few years ago when it was revealed that in 2009, as celebrity spokeswoman for the teen pregnancy prevention charity Candie’s Foundation, she’d been paid $262,500 while a mere $35,000 went to charitable causes. An affronted Neil Cole, the apparelindustry exec running the foundation, protested that Bristol had been an excellent investment: “Bristol’s work—which has included two television PSAs, one viral video, multiple print PSAs, two town hall meetings, and six television interviews— has resulted in more than one billion media impressions ... an unprecedented reach for a teen-pregnancy prevention campaign.” I have no idea how Cole came up with a billion impressions, but let’s assume he’s right. Let’s also acknowledge that Palin is hardly alone among celebrities in getting paid hefty sums for a laughable workload (six interviews, one video, two town halls!). The fact remains that, under the most favorable interpretation, the outcome of Palin’s labors was increased public awareness that becoming a pregnant unmarried teenager is a bad idea, unless you’re the daughter of a famous mom and can get well-paid for it. No shit. Point is, even if there’s nothing illegal going on, celebrity charities often are still a waste of other people’s money. That’s not to say they all are. The Elton John AIDS Foundation has raised more than $200 million for HIV/AIDS-related causes, and according to its most recent IRS statement, more than 95 percent of its outlay went to programs and services aimed at people who needed them. And the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, which has raised about $150 million, gives 91 percent of its funds to the cause. How do you tell worthwhile charities from useless ones? These days, it’s easy. Two good online resources are CharityWatch. org and CharityNavigator.org—the latter has a box where you can type in an organization’s name and get an evaluation in about ten nanoseconds. The conspicuously bad actors aren’t identified with klaxons and flashing red lights, no doubt due to cautious lawyers. No matter. The facts are plain as day.

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Enrolling Utah’s LGBT population into Obamacare presents opportunities for equality but challenges, too. By Eric S. Peterson epeterson@cityweekly.net @ericspeterson The Affordable Care Act stands to bring something to Utah’s LGBT residents that they’ve been denied for years by lawmakers—protection against discrimination. While lawmakers have shot down statewide housing and workplace discrimination protections for LGBT citizens since 2008, the Affordable Care Act at least forbids insurers from using sexual orientation or gender identity as a reason for denying coverage. It’s a cause for celebration for Utah’s LGBT population—but first they have to actually get enrolled. And for health-care “navigators”— those working in the trenches of the highly politicized fight to get people signed up under the ACA—there have been plenty of challenges to deal with. Deann Armes, the health-care navigator who works with the Utah Pride Center to help enroll Utahns, says that the clients she’s worked with—young and old—have one thing in common after they explore their options in Utah: shock and discouragement. “The young people that want insurance, they’re the most excited, more than I thought they would be,” Armes says. “They’re excited when they come in because it’s something they can afford, but they leave really frazzled and shocked.” When Jeff Beecroft, a 29-year-old single gay Salt Laker first tried to enroll, HealthCare.gov told him he was not who he said was, which led to a verification process that included having to talk with verification counselors, the website administrator, and one hairpulling five-hour session calling different representatives and being hung up on three times. But with the help of Armes, he was able to finally see the light at the end of the enrollment tunnel. “She called on my behalf and I think it set a different tone,” Beecroft says. “Then they suddenly have all these different options and they’re able to pull up my info.” Beecroft, who hadn’t had insurance since he was 18, was eventually able to get a $30-per-month plan and some dental coverage.

h e a lt h c a r e But many others who look into enrolling are shocked when they realize that they fall into the “gap” of not being eligible for coverage under the ACA and also not qualifying for Medicaid—especially with the state not having expanded the coverage to the 130,000 currently uninsured Utahns who might qualify. Many LGBT residents are students who might not be making $11,400 a year to be eligible for ACA subsidies, but are also unlikely to be disabled or be the main income earners (making less than $8,000 per year) for dependent children, and therefore cannot qualify for Medicaid. The question of expanding Medicaid has been a hot issue in Utah, with the governor only recently hinting at some form of expansion, likely to be hammered out in the 2014 legislative session. Armes says the LGBT population could benefit in other ways from an expansion, since, like other marginalized groups, those who are gay, lesbian, transexual or bisexual suffer disproportionately when it comes to mentalhealth issues and substance abuse. It comes part in parcel, she says, of LGBT folks sometimes being rejected or isolated from the conservative religious families and communities they grew up in. “Being a trans person a lot of times is hard, but especially in Utah,” Armes says. “A lot of times, there isn’t family support.” And while the ACA allows children to stay on their parents’ insurance until they’re 26, LGBT youth who come out of the closet sometimes risk being kicked out of their homes—and off insurance plans. Another segment of the LGBT population grappling with enrollment are individuals being treated for HIV/ AIDS. Brianne Glenn, a navigator who has worked for the Utah AIDS Foundation, says she and her colleagues have been working overtime lately, because, as of 2014, roughly 500 Utahns are no longer able to take advantage of HIP Utah, the state’s high-risk insurance pool that covered HIV-related services. The new insurance required by the ACA has made it too expensive for HIP Utah to continue to operate as before, so the Utah AIDS Foundation has been working to link clients with services that will continue assisting the low-income patients. But the Utah Pride Center says there are still lots of advantages to the ACA. Glenn says the advantages the LGBT community will receive from ACA are the same advantages all citizens will gain—the opportunity to focus on preventative care for all health needs, as opposed to waiting for something bad to happen before seeing a doctor.

—Deann Armes, who works with the Utah Pride Center to enroll Utahns in the Affordable Care Act

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“They’re excited when they come in because it’s something they can afford, but they leave really frazzled and shocked.”

Jeff Beecroft is a 29-year-old who struggled with signing up with HealthCare.gov before a navigator with the Utah Pride Center helped speed up the process. “Sometimes we’re too narrowly focused on just the sexual-health or mental needs,” Glenn says. “I feel this community now has the opportunity to look at their health care in a very holistic fashion, and will have the ability to take care of themselves as a whole person.” Danielle Watters, director of community programs at the Utah Pride Center, says they’re working hard with outreach, having already held a healthcare happy hour at Jam, a gay-friendly bar in Salt Lake City, and have plans to do more to help clients sign up before the March 31 open-enrollment deadline. Watters says it’s helpful to have people who can guide folks through the health-care maze. “That’s why I think it’s a great thing for the outreach events to help reduce barriers and make it a convenient thing to ask about,” as well as, Watters says, “help folks who are maybe a little more apathetic and are just crossing their fingers and taking vitamin C.”

That’s a point echoed by the recently enrolled Beecroft. He says that since he works for a small law firm, if it weren’t for the ACA, he likely wouldn’t have signed up for insurance. Now he’s proud to be contributing to a common pool and doesn’t have to live in fear of a hospital visit ruining his finances and credit. “If you’re in your 20s, you shouldn’t have to be getting in and out of the tub like a senior citizen, you shouldn’t be covering all the corners in your house like you’re a baby,” Beecroft says. “You should be on the slopes or on trails enjoying Utah’s recreation— and [if you’re uninsured] you can’t, because you’re scared to death of going bankrupt because of falling off your bike.” CW

Editor’s Note: This is the first part in a series looking at how enrollment in the Affordable Care Act will affect different members of Utah’s communities.

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Utah companies set the mold for the 3-D printing revolution. By Eric S. Peterson epeterson@cityweekly.net @ericspeterson

Nicco Macintyre of Zeni Kinetic displays a few creations from his company’s 3-D printer

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Darrell Andelin, technology & engineering specialist for the Utah State Office of Education, says that free or discount filament could be a great benefit to Utah’s educational programs, where, he says, approximately 30 schools currently have 3-D printers in their engineering and design classes. Andelin says that with the recent developments cutting the costs of printers, he expects that number could double in the next year, as 3-D printers could serve a crucial role helping students in high school engineering programs see an output from their designs. “Students can actually produce what it is they design,” Andelin says. “It’s not just a picture on a computer screen; they can hold it.” Ropelato’s WhiteClouds has the wider goal of “bringing 3-D printing to the masses,” offering videos and tutorials to help users understand the technology as well upload their own design and have the company print it out in 3-D, or choose from a catalog of 7,300 designs. The company started less than a year ago, in April 2013, and Ropelato says the first six months were devoted to research and development, which the company then turned into free educational materials for other people interested in 3-D printing. The company also offers the services of its design team to help print customer ideas from scratch. “3-D printing is really an entrepreneur’s dream; you can go from a napkin-sketch idea to a physical object within about 24 hours,” Ropelato says. For all those looking to print the future in 3-D, the key to the technology is helping others to understand it. Zeni Kinetic’s Macintyre believes that if children embrace this technology today, they can use it to solve the problems of tomorrow. He cites as an example Philo Farnsworth, the famed inventor and Utahn who came up with the key idea behind the invention of the television when he was only 13. “3-D printing is Legos and Erector sets and all of the mechanical construction toys we’ve ever had in history, all combined in one idea,” Macintyre says. “They can literally create anything they want.” CW

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Like any good secret laboratory, Zeni Kinetic is located in a nondescript building in downtown Salt Lake City that conceals the futuristic technology hidden within. Inside, company principal Nicco Macintyre sounds like a parent boasting about an honor student as he describes the technology his company uses to design supplies for 3-D printers. Nearby, a 3-D printer constructs a vase while making a noise that sounds like a more frantic, electronic version of Wonka’s Everlasting Gobstopper machine from the 1971 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory film. “It’s very hypnotizing,” Macintyre says. While the process itself is mesmerizing, it’s the potential of this new technology that’s really fired up Macintyre and other 3-D printing believers like Jerry Ropelato, CEO of WhiteClouds, a 3-D printing company located in Ogden. And these local startups aren’t just cashing in on the ground floor of this technology, but are actually seeking to propel the technology into the hands of average users. WhiteClouds currently focuses on educating consumers on how to use 3-D printers, while Zeni Kinetic has hopes to donate or offer 3-D printing supplies at a discount to Utah schools. The 3-D printing technology itself isn’t new, having been known for several decades as “rapid-prototyping.” In recent years, though, the technology has advanced to the point that people with a certain amount of technical skill can order kits to create their own 3-D printers at home. A 3-D printer kit can be purchased online for as cheap as $500, while professional commercial-grade printers could set you back $25,000 to $50,000. Macintyre says 3-D printers will be considered as revolutionary as the personal computer once they become accessible and user-friendly enough for the general public. The demand is there, he says, because of the nearly limitless possibilities for what can be printed—from plastic and precious metals to chocolate and ceramic. Macintyre has printed equipment for his business for roughly $10 that otherwise would have cost hundreds of dollars to have custom-built in a machine shop. The Zeni Kinetic office is well-stocked with 3-D printed vases, jewelry boxes, Yoda heads and a foot-tall replica of the Eiffel Tower, all test prints based on the company’s special filament, a plastic that serves as the “ink” for the 3-D printer. The company is working on marketing a $600 printer in the fall, but the filament—applied in layers thin as a human hair—is the company’s premier product. It’s also something they want to give for free or at discount to local schools that are looking to use 3-D printers as teaching tools.

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Pollution, Spaghetti & Budgets This weekend, stop by The Leonardo to hear a discussion about the lungblackening inversion and learn more about the solutions that might make an actual difference. You can also show your support for spaghetti and your opposition to tar-sands mining in the state at the Spaghetti, Not Tar Sands fundraiser dinner. Start next week right by stopping by the Legislature’s Executive Appropriations Committee and watch the early number-crunching that goes into developing the state’s budget for everything from education to social services.

All Choked Up

Friday, Jan. 31

Eight Super Bowl ads the nation will be buzzing about the day after:

8. Scarlett Johansson for the

SodaStream Home Diabetes Kit

7. Suicidal M&Ms vs. insatiable

humans

“Kia: When a real car is just out of reach”

5. The Legalize Marijuana Movement and Doritos—no explanation required

4. Super Bowl XLVIII: “Hey,

there’s still a game going on here!”

3. A 30-second Budweiser

spot seamlessly integrating Clydesdales, patriotism, girls in wet T-shirts and the new Bud Light Mango Bacon®

The Democratic National Committee’s farewell address and fire sale

“Pepsi: America’s begrudging second choice”

As part of The Leonardo’s After Hours series, you can attend a panel discussion of scientists and journalists and hear more about the gritty realities of our state’s abysmal air quality. The discussion will talk about the solutions that can make a difference not only in cleaning up our extra-chunky air, but proposals that will also actually get passed by state and local officials. The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, 801-531-9800, Jan. 31, 6 p.m., TheLeonardo.org

Spaghetti Not Tar Sands Saturday, Feb. 1

For $10, you can get a plate of ’sghetti and join the Utah Tar Sands Resistance in its goal to keep the controversial tar-sands industry from stomping a heavy-carbon footprint along the Colorado Plateau and in Utah, where companies have already been given the green light to develop. Funds will be used to help support travel to front-line communities and other peaceful, direct-action protests. Free music will accompany this food for thought, and there will also be vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options available. Free Speech Zone, 511 S. 800 East, Feb. 1, 6-8:30 p.m., http://citywk. ly/1fkR X Wp, for advance tickets e-mail craphaelc@gmail.com

Executive Appropriations Committee Monday, Feb. 3

The 2014 Legislature will wrap up in a month and half after having formulated a state-wide budget affecting everything from funding schools and health services to prison and corrections facilities. If you want to see where your tax dollars are going, this is the committee to follow. Utah Capitol, 350 N. State, Room 210 Senate Building, 801-538-1029, Feb. 3, 5:15 p.m., visit Le.Utah.gov to listen to the committee online

Curses, Foiled Again

Property Rites

Responding to a complaint that an armed neighbor tried to kick in the door and burglarize a home in Spokane, Wash., police found that suspect Brent Nouwels, 32, had returned to his home and turned off the lights. Officers repeatedly urged Nouwels to surrender peacefully, but he responded by climbing onto the roof and taunting them. Then he suddenly lost his balance on the icy roof and fell to the ground. Nouwels was treated for various injuries before being taken into custody. (Spokane’s KREM-TV)

The Broward (Fla.) Property Appraiser’s Office denied agricultural tax exemptions to 127 properties that it said used a common practice called “rent-a-cow” to qualify. In one case, Corrections Corporation of America, the private company that runs state prisons, paid a land seller $10 a year to keep a few cows on the property so it got the tax break. Broward Property Appraiser Lori Parrish said declassifying the property will save the county $50,000. (Miami’s WPLG-TV)

n After four armed men broke into a Los Angeles home, the homeowner saw the suspects on a home surveillance system and called 911. When police and SWAT units arrived, two suspects fled. Two remained in the home and ordered the homeowner to tell police they were victims and, to make their story credible, convinced him to tie them up. The homeowner then ran outside and told police what happened. After the trussed suspects “got tired of waiting,” Officer Norma Eisenman said, “they came out, still tied up, thinking that we were going to believe they were victims also. That’s what you call felony stupid.” (Los Angeles Times)

n An ambulance responding to a medical call at a home in South Windsor, Conn., couldn’t leave because neighbor Richard Cote was blocking a driveway that the two properties shared. Police asked Cote to move his car, but he ignored them and began reading the newspaper, according to police Lt. Scott Custer, who explained that Cote also yelled and swore at police and EMTs and threatened to have police cars and the ambulance towed. Police finally had enough and arrested Cote. (The Hartford Courant)

Performance Anxiety The more students use their cell phones, the more anxious

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they become overall and the lower their grades drop, according to researchers at Ohio’s Kent State University, who suggested students who feel constantly obligated to keep in touch with friends experience stress when they’re disconnected. Contrary to previous research that cell phones improve social interaction and reduce feelings of isolation, this study, reported in the journal Computers in Human Behavior, found that students who used their cell phones more were less satisfied and happy than other students, and their grade point averages were lower. (Time)

QUIRKS

Securing the Homeland After Nerf guns caused a lockdown at Missouri State University, school officials announced they were considering a ban on the toys. The incident occurred during a semi-annual campus-wide game of Humans vs. Zombies. A professor mistook one of the neon toys for a real gun and called police, resulting in the lockdown. Saying a ban was “an option that we’ll

B Y R O LAN D S W EET discuss,” Don Clark, head of MSU’s Department of Safety and Transportation, noted that several colleges already have banned Nerf guns. (The Washington Times)

Privy Peril

London firefighters have been called to rescue 3,012 people locked in toilets in the past four years. The London Fire Brigade reported that these and other “lockedin” emergency calls cost taxpayers nearly $16,000 but that they’re seldom real emergencies. “Ringing just because you don’t want to pay a locksmith is not good enough,” LFB Third Officer Dave Brown said. (Britain’s London24)

Digital Crime When Bloomberg TV anchor Matt Miller showed a certificate for $20 in digital currency, known as bitcoins, he inadvertently displayed the digital QR code. A viewer used his smartphone to scan the code and steal the money. (Business Insider) Compiled from mainstream news sources by Roland Sweet. Authentication on demand.

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How one agency is selling off Utah in the name of the children. By Colby Frazier Bryan Beach

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rom Interstate 70 near Green River, the Book Cliffs are not showy: gray, dusty and forbidding, the rocky mass seems noteworthy only for its harshness juxtaposed against a naked blue sky. Proceed past this façade, however, and the lush, pine and aspen-filled wilderness known as Bogart Canyon, largely untouched by man’s rough hand, reveals itself. Beloved by hunters and environmentalists, Bogart Canyon has beneath it what some believe are vast pools of oil that soon could be tapped and drained. When it comes to the 3.4 million acres of land that was handed over by the federal government to Utah’s schoolchildren at statehood, almost anything can happen—so long as dollar signs are attached. By 2015, a Canadian corporation behind the first-tar sands project in the United States hopes to strip oil from the bedrock of schoolkid land in Uintah County. And Tabby Mountain, a 25,000-acre chunk of timber bordering Wasatch and Duchesne Counties, might someday be dotted with log cabins and, at least one person hopes, an “Old Faithful Lodge.” Some of the proceeds from all of these projects will trickle down—in the form of books, computers and even teachers—to Utah’s schoolchildren, for it is they who own the land. Few Utahns, let alone schoolchildren, know about the School & Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA), an agency that has just one goal: to make money for the state’s K-12 constituency. In 2013, the work of SITLA manifested itself in around $40,000 for every school in the state. Utah’s cash-starved public education system needs the money, so criticizing how it’s won can be politically sensitive. But as the impacts of Utah’s ever-growing population take their toll on the environment, SITLA’s quest for money has taken it to the feet of the energy industry’s most controversial and resource-intensive extraction methods, like oil shale and tar sands. And as the state’s air grows dirtier and water supplies dwindle, some question whether the good SITLA does for the schoolchildren of today is damning the schoolchildren of tomorrow. “It’s unfortunate,” says David Garbett, staff attorney for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, “the idea that you’re saying we have to do these terrible things because of kids, that’s ridiculous. But they love to hide behind them.” SITLA, he says, is “using kids as shields.”

The 1 Percent: Money You Can Feel

As effective as SITLA is at making money, its annual contribution to education accounts for only about 1 percent of the state’s $3 billion-plus education budget. The permanent school-trust fund, into which SITLA’s revenues are folded, holds $1.6 billion. The interest and dividends earned from this fund are funneled to the schools. In 2013, this came to $37 million, which was divided between all of the state’s public schools through a formula based largely on enrollment. Then it reaches elected school community councils, which decide how to spend it. Because of this delivery method, SITLA is often ascribed nothing less than savior status. Even though its contribution to education is small, it’s a resource that parents and teachers get to allocate the way they see fit.

SITLA Land: Utah’s “Blue Rash”

t its simplest, Utah is a bunch of six-mile-by-six-mile squares. Each of these is known as a township. Within a township are more squares—36 of them. In the 1894 Enabling Act, which made it possible for Utah to join the union, the federal government granted four parcels in each township “for the support of common schools.” These parcels were numbers 2, 16, 32 and 36. On the checkerboardlike overlay showing townships on a map of Utah, those parcels are colored baby blue—some people call it the “blue rash.” Because Mormons had been busy settling the state since their arrival in 1847, much of this designated school land had already been spoken for. For instance, the maps show that the corner of South Temple and State Street, plot No. 36, would have belonged to the schools. In exchange for the land that had already been taken, the state was allowed to block up bunches of squares inside other townships for schools. As a result, some townships are all blue. (See p. 19 for a map showing the current distribution of SITLA land.) For the first 98 years of its existence, this land—7 million acres in total—was managed by the Division of State Lands & Forestry. But by the early 1990s, the permanent school fund held a mere $15 million and half of the land granted at statehood had been sold. Following a spate of bad publicity surrounding a below market value sell-off of 2,500 acres of valuable land in Washington County in the 1980s, the state legislature created SITLA, prodded in part by Margaret Bird, who had been studying the plight of trust lands and become a local authority.

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Much of the activity occurring on SITLA lands happens in the Uintah Basin. This is by design. Since 1998, SITLA has traded out 499,481 acres of its land near sensitive wilderness areas for plots that can more easily be developed. The biggest single exchange involved 377,000 acres SITLA managed in the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. In exchange it received a large chunk of land near Price known as Drunkard’s Wash, plus $50 million cash. Since that trade, Drunkard’s Wash has netted $140 million for the school trust fund. Garbett says trades like these are largely beneficial for everyone involved. SITLA gets land in plac-

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“I’d call that greed,” Margaret Bird says when asked about SUWA and other organizations’ efforts to conserve more SITLA land. “Who can steal from a schoolchild, particularly the lowest-funded schools in the nation? To me that speaks to character—and lack of character.”

Tar Sands for Schoolchildren

In Utah, many county commissioners, private companies, state employees and SITLA don’t try to hide, nor are they ashamed of, the fact that business goes off with fewer hitches when it happens on state or school-trust lands. Fewer hitches means less regulation—and less regulation means they don’t have to comply with the federal government’s environmentalreview policies. Kim Christy, SITLA’s deputy director, said if his agency had to think about multiple uses, like conservation and recreation on trust lands, it’d be no better than the much-maligned federal Bureau of Land Management. “It is true that the sea of federal domain that we largely exist in has a very restrictive dimension to it,” he says. “I think that there is a stronger level of efficiency with how we do business as opposed to how the federal government does.”

One example of SITLA’s efficient business model is illustrated in the installation of cellular-telephone towers, 122 of which exist on school-trust lands. Although a telecommunications firm must obtain relevant county permits to install a tower on SITLA land, no federal environmental review must be obtained, as would be the case on BLM land. As a result, Garbett says, it makes sense that private companies of all makes and models would prefer doing business on school trust land. “It’s basically, like, ‘Well, how much do you want to pay? Sure, go ahead and put it up,’ ” Garbett says. “It’s very quick, no environmental review necessary.” In the Uintah Basin, Utah’s nest of oil activity, SITLA’s sphere of influence looms large. According to Uintah County Commissioner Mike McKee, 8.2 percent, or 138,000 acres, of the county is managed by SITLA. For McKee, who notes his county has “generally had a favorable position toward the extraction industry,” the more land he can wrest from the federal government, which manages the vast majority of the county’s land, the better. “From my point of view, it’s nice when we can have more of our land that’s private and is controlled by the state,” he says. “It’s a lot easier doing business on state and private land.”

“It’s almost like a drop in the bucket,” Markham says. “And look at what we’re giving away for that.” To Bird and SITL A advocates, talk like this translates to nothing less than stealing books from schoolchildren. “I’d call that greed,” Bird says when asked about SUWA and other organizations’ efforts to conserve more SITLA land. “Who can steal from a schoolchild, particularly the lowest-funded schools in the nation? To me that speaks to character—and lack of character.”

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On this point, the eyes of Margaret Bird, who retired in 2013 as the director of the Schoolchildren’s Trust Section in the Utah Office of Education, light up. “We don’t even have Kleenexes,” she says of many schools in the state. “The teachers have to ask kids to bring Kleenexes from home, and if you’re in a poor area they can’t, because they can’t have Kleenexes at home either. And so then here comes trust lands, and it’s a puny amount of money, but people really care what it’s doing in their schools. They see it.” But it is here where the debate rages about whether or not the money SITL A provides to schools outweighs the damage its develop-first mentality causes to the land. “They may get money right now, but the environmental impact that will show up down the road is going to cost this state in dollars and a lot of times in health repercussions,” says former Castle Valley Mayor Bruce Keeler, who became a SITLA critic when the agency attempted to develop a potash mine near town, then tried to sell off the land to developers. “There needs to be something more than just the dollar involved or it just doesn’t really work.” Garbett, of SUWA, and many others interviewed for this story, expressed concerns that because SITLA has a single mandate—to monetize lands—it can’t benefit the schoolchildren of Utah in other ways. Garbett cited Bogart Canyon in the Book Cliffs, a premier spot for wildlife, as a location where something besides building up a bank account is possible. “We have this remarkable roadless area whose real value is in wildlife habitat; it’s not in making a few dollars for education that will only tangentially make it to schools,” Garbett says. “If we wanted something for education, we’d say, ‘Well, let’s preserve that as a place of learning where kids can go see this remarkable wildlife in its natural habitat.’ ” Ty Markham, a former teacher and co-chair of the Mormon Environmental Stewardship Alliance, also says SITLA’s monetary contribution to education is not worth the harm it brings to the state’s lands.

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Even so, fears remain that tarsands developments in Utah will sap valuable water resources from the second-driest state. According to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, a group that lobbies on behalf of the tar-sands industry in Canada, where most of the world’s tar sands exist, it takes 3.1 barrels of water to produce a barrel of oil. “It takes more energy to produce petroleum products from tar sands,” says Jerry Mansfield, SITLA’s tar-sands resource specialist. “When you expend energy, you have a bigger carbon footprint, and that’s a big deal right now.” U.S. Oil Sands has leased 32,000 acres from SITLA in Uintah County with the intent to develop tar sands. SITLA officials say the projects could produce billions of barrels of oil. One project, at an area known as PR Springs, has already received permits from the state’s Division of Oil, Gas & Mining and the Division of Water Quality. Mansfield says 8 percent of the royalties from direct sales of these tar sands would go to Utah’s schoolchildren. About the only thing standing between U.S. Oil Sands and a green light for development at PR Springs is John Weisheit, conservation director at Living Rivers, which advocates for the protection and restoration of rivers and wetlands. In a lawsuit pending before the state supreme court, he’s challenged the rationale of the state permits. Weisheit doesn’t pull punches when speaking about SITLA. “What the schoolchildren don’t know is that [SITLA and oil comes like the Uintah panies] are turning the Tavaputs —David Garbett, staff attorney for the Basin that’s rich in Plateau into a wasteland,” he says. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance resources, while “It’s destroying our children’s future, more sensitive land it’s destroying our air, our water. It’s in wilderness study areas, for example, are pronot mutually beneficial. It’s not a win-win situation.” tected. A current land-exchange effort, known as the SITLA deputy director Christy doesn’t agree. Utah Recreational Land Exchange Act, will trade out Caving to this kind of criticism, he says, would cripple 36,000 acres of SITLA land around Moab near the his agency’s ability to build up the school trust fund. Colorado River for 46,000 acres of federal land in SITLA not only wants to develop these resources, he Grand, San Juan and Uintah counties. says, but also will vigorously look for more opportuni“I would make that argument for the rest of the ties like those at PR Springs. state,” Garbett says. “Protecting public land that can “We’re not shy of those kinds of opportunities; in lead to these land exchanges is the best thing that can fact, we’re very proactive to explore what kinds of happen to SITLA.” opportunities might be presented in that area,” he It’s this horse trading that’s given SITLA vast says, adding: “If we cater to all the criticism that’s stretches of land in the Uintah Basin, the home of out there, I think the ultimate outcome of our ability Utah’s latest boom. Bird’s speech quickens when she to deliver any dollars to the education fund would be notes, “It is believed by those petroleum engineers damaged drastically. Collapsing to [criticism] would that there is more oil and gas out in the basin, in this ultimately paralyze our ability to do anything.” area, than in Texas, in terms of known reserves.” Christy, too, has great expectations for SITLA’s holdings in and around Uintah County. “This may well be the Bakken clay,” he says, a reference to the SITLA is supposed to abide by the state’s openformation in North Dakota that’s responsible for meetings laws, and at least most of the time, provide much of that state’s oil and gas boom. an avenue for competitive bidding. One avenue SITLA is taking to make money in But when it doesn’t feel open bidding can yield the Uintah Basin is through tar-sands development. the best profit, it can shut the door and negotiate Wildly unpopular with environmental groups, tarexclusively with a chosen party under a provision it sands developments often use steam, which relies on calls “other business arrangements.” This is what water or a solvent process, to separate the oil from happened with Bogart Canyon, which was leased to the rock. The website of U.S. Oil Sands, the Canadian Anadarko Petroleum Corporation. The terms of the corporation that leased the SITLA land, says the comdeal were negotiated in secret, and Anadarko was the pany will separate the oil using a citrus-based solvent only company courted. technique that is less water-intensive. Christy defends this process. “There are times you

“We have this remarkable roadless area whose real value is in wildlife habitat; it’s not in making a few dollars for education that will only tangentially make it to schools.”

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simply have to close the door and talk confidentially,” he says. Even though Bird was instrumental in reforming the old machinery of trust lands—which, she says, involved board members “getting together the night before and deciding how they would all vote”—she defends SITLA’s recent closed-door policies. “It should happen behind closed doors because no business can negotiate in public,” she said. But if a negotiation took place in secret, how would the kids, or anyone else, know if a deal is in the children’s best interest? “First of all, the schoolchildren don’t track any of this, because they’re too little to even understand about a lease and royalty or anything like that,” Bird says, finishing with a key point: “And the lands don’t belong to the public.” While SITLA land is not technically public, much of it remains open to the public through a $700,000 annual payment from the state’s Department of Natural Resources. This payment, says Mike Styler, executive director of the DNR, keeps swathes of SITLA land open for hunting, fishing, camping and other outdoor activities. If for some reason these payments stop, Styler has no doubt what SITLA will do. “They’re saying, absent that agreement, they can close it off and charge access,” he says. Bird stirs when the DNR is mentioned. She says its payment is nothing short of a ripoff. She believes that private landowners generate millions of dollars through a partnership with the DNR that allows limited hunting on large patches of private land across the state. DNR officials say the amount of money landowners make through the program is impossible to calculate, since they do not disclose how much they charge for permits on their private land, of which 2.1 million acres is enrolled. The DNR brings in $400,000 from the public permits it sells on this land. “Does that seem fair to the schoolchildren to you?” Bird asks, noting that SITLA manages and allows public access on more acreage than the private landowners. “Does that seem like market value to you? That is not justice, it’s not right, it needs to go to court, it needs to get solved.”

Momma Bird

Whenever the SITLA acronym flies from a politician’s lips, it is quite likely that Bird’s face is what they see. Her interest in Utah’s trust lands dates back to 1985, when she ended up as the first woman on the state’s land board. From there, she helped form a legislative task force, which in 1995, after three years of study, formed SITLA. In order to avoid the type of political corruption that had dominated trust lands up to that point, SITLA was fashioned as a quasi-governmental agency, meaning that it could operate with a level of independence other government bodies lacked. This was important, Bird explains, because in order for SITLA to manage land across the state, it needed to be exempt from outside influence. Bird says a key part of this structure was instituting incentive-based pay for SITLA employees and managers, a practice that continues to this day for regular employees. SITLA officials say management bonuses ceased in 2006, after a legislative audit criticized the agency for its lucrative pay schemes. The audit found that SITLA doled out $2 million in bonuses between 1997 and 2005, $1 million of which went to senior management. In 2005 alone, it paid out

“What the schoolchildren don’t know is that [SITLA and oil companies] are turning the Tavaputs Plateau into a wasteland. It’s destroying our children’s future, it’s destroying our air, our water. It’s not mutually beneficial. It’s not a win-win situation.” —John Weisheit, conservation director at Living Rivers

Tabby Mountain Auction Block SITLA land: The state of Utah divided up into six-mile-by-sixmile townships (1). Blue areas on the map denote parcels of land managed by SITLA, which range in size from scattered 1-milesquare portions to Bogart Canyon (2) and Tabby Mountain (3)

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There’s no shortage of folks who feel SITLA’s actions aren’t in the longterm best interests of schoolchildren. But tell that to the schoolchildren who get new books, microscopes and teacher’s aides every year with the money SITLA provides. Few can illustrate this conflict better than Heather Bennett, vice president of the Salt Lake City School Board of Education and an organizer of the group For Kids & Lands. She says the issues surrounding SITLA will never be cut and dried because the money it provides is “very important to schools.” Bennett says SITLA might need to have its mandate altered so it can consider other things besides dollars, but something also needs to prop up education funding—and soon. “I think the lesson about SITLA is that I don’t know that you can give land-use policy to a group, no matter how independent, with only a single mission, and expect that the results are going to be the best results that can be produced,” she says. Despite the flap over the Bogart Canyon lease, SITLA appears to have quelled the concerns of Herbert. In a prepared statement to City Weekly, Herbert said he supports SITLA’s mission and doesn’t believe any legislation is necessary to shake it up. On Jan. 27, SITLA kicked off 2014 with a land-lease auction. Among the tens of thousands of acres up for grabs were 718 acres for tar sands, 944 acres for oil-shale mining and 9,274 acres for frac sand mining, which strips silica from underground sand that is later used in other hydraulic fracturing operations. The minimum bid for the oil-shale lease, which was in Uintah County, was $500,000. The long-term health and environmental impacts of this auction and those to come might not be felt for years, or even decades. One thing, though, is certain: a portion of the proceeds will end up in the hands of Utah’s schoolchildren. But the “ravaging of our land, air and water is truly a diminishment to our children’s future,” the Mormon Environmental Stewardship Alliance’s Markham says. “If you don’t have a healthy child, what good is education?” CW

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Not more than a two-hour drive from Salt Lake City is Tabby Mountain, 25,000 acres of rugged mountains blocked out in solid SITLA blue on state land maps. Hunters and outdoor enthusiasts treasure this area as they do Bogart Canyon. They treasure it so much, in fact, that in 2006, the DNR offered to pay SITLA $40 million for the land. Styler, the executive director of the department, remembers that no actual negotiations between his department and the SITLA board ever took place. He says that while SITLA staff seemed interested in working out a deal, one person in particular didn’t: Margaret Bird. “The beneficiaries, represented by Ms. Bird, had some inflated idea of the value and they said, ‘We’re better off just keeping it for the future, and let it appreciate,’ ” Styler says. Bird remembers Tabby Mountain. She says SITLA will always entertain land purchases, so long as they’re at fair market value. And in this case, she says, SITLA decided $40 million was too low. She says that SITLA did studies to determine if such a large chunk of land existed anywhere else near a large urban area. It did not, she says, making Tabby Mountain a prime spot for lodges and cabins. “Twenty-five-thousand acres within an hour and 15 minutes of a metro area bigger than a million people?” she says. “I think it’d be valuable for all sorts of things. I’ve always thought something like an Old Faithful Lodge.” Bird is looking forward to when the state widens Highway 40, which has been the main artery connecting thousands of oil trucks to the Salt Lake Valley since the oil boom began in the Uintah Basin. Highway 40 is how you access Tabby Mountain. “I think we haven’t begun to see the real value that that property’s going to have,” she says. “When they improve the road out to the basin. … All of those things will make it increase in value.”

When SITLA officials announced in August 2013 the deal to lease Bogart Canyon, they crossed a new line. Where opposition to SITLA’s land-use policies had traditionally come from environmental groups like SUWA, they now had hunters and fisherman on their backs. And not long afterward, Gov. Gary Herbert jumped on the heap, forcing SITLA to put on the brakes. SITLA did so reluctantly, placing a two-year pause on the deal, time that allowed them to form a committee with two seats reserved for representatives of wildlife groups. This committee will study mitigation measures for the project in the hopes that all sides can leave happy. In the meantime, a so-called “grand bargain,” proposed by 1st District Congressman Rob Bishop, aims to sooth land disputes across the state between conservation groups, developers and other interests. Some want this deal to include Bogart Canyon. But for SITLA, which has spent decades building up blue squares around Bogart Canyon, inclusion of this area in a land swap could cost schoolchildren hundreds of millions of dollars. “This block was ultimately created over multiple land exchanges over time with an eye toward mineral development,” Christy says. “[For] us to walk away from this opportunity is going to be a challenge to our beneficiaries, our board, etc.” That SITLA would bow to the governor and the interests of hunters was rare. Christy called it the “test of our time”; for him, it represents

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$395,000 in bonuses. The audit also found that while SITLA was turning profits during this time, and using these figures to justify the bonuses, its benchmarks for issuing extra pay were set woefully low, making it all but impossible not to reach full-bonus status. Bird says she had no problem whatsoever with the bonuses, citing SITLA’s ever-growing contributions to the school trust fund. “What’s the big deal about $300,000 in bonuses if that keeps people motivated and coming up with new ideas and new ways to make money?” Bird asks. During the last fiscal year, SITLA racked up $9.5 million in expenditures, while generating $106.4 million in income, according to its balance sheets. Offering bonuses was one way in which the guts and gears of SITLA were built to make it a money-making machine. “SITLA’s success far exceeded what we had ever envisioned,” Bird says. “I knew those lands could make more money. I think we’ve only just begun to see how much it can make.”

the type of meddling in SITL A’s dealings that the agency has always attempted to avoid, what Christy called “trying to be everything to everyone.” Putting projects on hold, asking permission, conducting sensitive meetings like the one with Anadarko in public—all of that would stunt SITLA’s progress and, Christy says, threaten to send the agency back into its old corrupt ways. “We are not in a position of ‘Mother may I’ to the general public, and if that were the case, we would quickly fall back into the ’94 model,” he says, referring to management of trust lands prior to the formation of SITLA. Bird seems confident that Anadarko will eventually develop Bogart Canyon, and when it does, she senses that SITLA’s contribution to the state’s education budget could become far more substantial than 1 percent. “[If] they hit the kind of oil we hope they’ll hit out in the Book Cliffs, I do see a day that it’s an ever-increasing funding source, doing really significant things for schools,” she says.

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Two popular artists showing in one gallery space—what could be better for the gallery-goer? Bonnie Sucec and Susan Beck, showing in the newly renovated Finch Lane Gallery spaces, offer a collaborative effort, and both artists respond to the same subjects—mutual drawing projects—in a way that is wonderfully complementary. According to these seasoned Salt Lake City artists in their dual statement, “Strong partnerships initiate and excite experimental approaches to materials, imagery and compositional devices as part of a larger practice. The goal is not to duplicate but to achieve a greater personal fluidity within a very complex visual arena.” Sucec and Beck have worked together since 1978, and both are adept at depicting visual narratives in the most complete, yet most abstract and perplexing, telling of that narrative. For example, the artists present distinct visions of “It was neither alive … Nor the other thing” (pictured). Sucec paints “It was neither alive,” and in her representation of the same original subject, Beck answers with “Nor the other thing,” completed independently. “You’ll walk away with a new perspective … Ready to spill the beans” has a darker subject, and one can see how the artists have responded in disparate ways. At first, these images seem crude, rudimentary and raw. But the artists are aiming for the sensibilities not of visual beauty, but pure, abstracted meaning. The compositions have their differences, while their similarities find them married through beautiful, meaningful connections. How they work independently, while the art resonates between them in a discourse of symbolic meaning, is something remarkable. (Ehren Clark) Bonnie Sucec & Susan Beck: Short Stories @ Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane (1320 East), 801-596-5000, through March 7, free. SLCGov.com/Arts

Urban Arts Gallery is leading off the 2014 Gallery Stroll year with New Beginnings, a group show with new works by 15 of its house artists, in addition to the work of more than 30 artists in the boutique setting around the gallery space, which displays jewelry, gifts and smaller works. Featured artists include Derek Dyer, whose photographs utilize different media, in the sense of materials like glitter, paint and even mud adorning his models; his newer works use mixed media in highly idiosyncratic ways. Also featured are Cat Palmer’s photographs, which are always empowering depictions of femininity. Todd and Renee Keith have branched out from artistic photography to painting in the same stylized technique, with titles like “Victorian Octupus” adding some whimsy as well as romance. The photographs and encaustics of Chris Madsen create a dreamlike atmosphere through the use of filters and digital effects, which includes a sensual quality and some nudity. The common thread between the artists at the Urban Arts Gallery, especially in this exhibit, is that there’s a fantastical element to the works— as in Christopher Wallace’s pictured piece—either in subject matter, style or even artistic medium, using found materials like scrap metal. There is a strong pop-art pull in the works often shown there—and in the space itself, given its location in a shopping center—but for the most part, it works. There is a way art can sell without selling out, be fun and taken seriously at the same time, and be experimental as well as highly accessible. (Brian Staker) New Beginnings @ Urban Arts Gallery, 137 S. Rio Grande St., 801-651-3937, through Feb. 8, free. UtahArts.org

The Utah Jazz will recognize former coach Jerry Sloan during their game against the Golden State Warriors on Jan. 31, raising a banner in his honor to reside in the arena rafters with some of the immortals he coached, such as Karl Malone and John Stockton. What numbers could the organization have considered to go on Sloan’s banner? As a player, he wore No. 4 during his all-star career with the Chicago Bulls. But Adrian Dantley’s banner already has No. 4 on it, although there’s certainly no rule against double-using numbers on banners. The laws of how to do recognition banners seem pretty flexible, so jersey numbers aren’t mandatory. When the Jazz honored broadcaster Hot Rod Hundley, instead of using his No. 33 from his playing days, they went with 3,051, the total number of games he called for Utah. Ultimately, the Jazz opted to go with 1,233— the total number of regular-season and playoff victories he racked up on the Jazz bench. But it might have been even better to go with 22—the total number of years he coached the franchise. It’s an NBA record, and perhaps the most amazing number that could be linked to this legend. Twenty-two seasons is about 308 years in NBA coaching years, where the average number of coaches fired in a season is seven, and 13 of the league’s 30 franchises switched bench managers in 2013 alone. But maybe the best way to remember Sloan isn’t a number at all. When Jazz fans think of him, the first thing that comes to mind is him walking the sidelines in a suit, shouting out directions to players and glaring at refs. Maybe the banner should include a jacket and tie? (Geoff Griffin) Utah Jazz vs. Golden State Warriors: Jerry Sloan Banner Night @ EnergySolutions Arena, 301 W. Temple, 801-355-7328, $20$256, Jan. 31, 8:30 p.m., UtahJazz.com

Choreographer Tandy Beal found her inspiration for Flabbergast, Ririe-Woodbury’s latest performance, while working with children. In a single Salt Lake City public school, Beal counted more than 23 different spoken languages. Some of the children she taught had never met their grandparents; many had never seen their family’s homeland. All this left her wondering how a distant grandmother might break the boundaries of time and space to reach out to her grandchildren to show them love and affection. With these ideas of love, connection and wonder, guest choreographer Beal launched into creating a truly original dance performance for Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company’s 50th anniversary season. The result is an evening of work that draws modern dance into the spectacular realm of the circus ring. Beal is well known nationally and internationally as a performer, choreographer, writer, teacher, producer, dreamer and circus director. Her impressive portfolio includes full-length dance and circus performances as well as numerous shorter works that have toured 48 states and four continents. For Flabbergast, Beal drew inspiration from her past work with the Moscow Circus and the Pickle Family Circus. In re-envisioning her movement for Flabbergast, Beal has created something unique and specific for the strengths and skills of RirieWoodbury’s dancers and guest artists—a multigenerational cast that includes children, adults and Ririe-Woodbury company alumni. The circusstyle stunts are unlike anything the company has done before, enhanced by vibrant costumes and a compelling score by longtime collaborator Jon Scoville. It’s a performance designed to astonish. (Katherine Pioli) Ririe-Woodbury Dance: Flabbergast @ Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-3552787, Jan. 31-Feb. 1, 7 p.m., 2 p.m. matinee Feb. 1, $35. RirieWoodbury.com, ArtTix.org

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he says. “Now I am much more interested in art museums than I am in movie theaters. Independent film as I once knew it is long gone. Everybody and their horse is making a film now, so there is way too much out there and nobody pays attention.” The UMOCA exhibit is an echo chamber of ideas that resonate all through his work. “The show does not include specific bodies of works, but rather combines excerpts, photographs, posters and props from his films in a sort of phantasmagoric portrait of Trent as both filmmaker and visual artist,” says Sarina Ehrgott, UMOCA’s marketing director. “Harris’ work as a visual artist is virtually unknown and the exhibition collapses the many faces of Trent’s cultural output as one interconnected and constantly evolving project, a naked mind map,” Moulton says, Indeed, Harris’ favorite piece in the show is an 18-foot-long photograph of, as he describes it, what goes on in his brain. “I call it, ‘My Brain!’” he exclaims. “I could have made it a lot bigger, but there is just not enough wall space in the world.” Harris has a lot of new work in the show, including his first video installation—shown on three screens—featuring his friend and “muse,” dancer and actress Liberty Valentine, who was one of the stars in his

2008 film Delightful Water Universe. Viewers can also see projected selections from his notebook—another view of his brain, as he spilled it out on the page working out ideas for projects. During the past year, Harris has been on the road doing retrospectives in cities like Los Angeles, New York, London and San Francisco. However, none of these other exhibits featured work other than films. Those filmic projections of his imagination have been celebrated in the indie, “outsider” film sphere, but this other, more personal work in the UMOCA exhibition examines the echoes of imagination within. Harris says, “My friend Christina said, ‘Trent, you have been ignored for so long that [the visual retrospective] is interesting.’ She also went on to say, ‘This too will break your heart.’ I wonder why she said that?” But for the meantime, “I hope to have more art shows around the world,” he says. “It’s just damn fun.” CW

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rent Harris’ book Mondo Utah provided the title for—and was one of the focal points of—2013’s monumental Mondo Utah art exhibit at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, which served as a retrospective of the work by a diverse group of local artists. Established by UMOCA’s then-senior curator, Aaron Moulton, as the inauguration of a massive biennial exhibition of Utah artists, the show featured eccentric visual works that were somewhat out of the ordinary for the local art scene, and also demonstrated the sheer imaginative talent of Utah artists. Current UMOCA exhibition Trent Harris: Echo Cave takes a deeper look into the filmmaker/artist’s work. He is known for full-length independent films like Rubin & Ed and The Beaver Trilogy, where his off-kilter imagination takes full flight. His films are also composed of singularly strange moments and episodes of odd visions, and this show—the name of which comes from his website, EchoCave. net—is a collection of drawings, photographs, artists’ books and short films that offers a glimpse at Harris’ inner workings. Since he was 18, Harris has been working on some kind of film project every day, and he says his total number of projects is more than 100. “People ask me why I do it, and I say, ‘To keep from going mad.’ And I am not sure it is working,” Harris says. “Also, making films is a way to bully people into seeing the world the way I do. My brother said I make films about heroic misfits. My mother said I have a benevolent respect for the bizarre. Whatever I do, it certainly makes no money, but I am happy.” Those misfits have included Crispin Glover as Rubin Farr—a role that helped cement the actor as an eccentric personality in the public eye—in Rubin & Ed and Stefene Russell as Lucinda Hall who found herself in the center of a “through the looking glass” alternative universe parody of Mormon culture in Plan 10 From Outer Space. This assemblage of fragments and snippets from Harris’ work reveals Harris as someone who has a formidable imagination for visual storytelling, in all its forms. “My interests have changed over the years,”

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recently watched the 1981 fantasy classic Dragonslayer for the first time. It was certainly a product of its time: charming, barely sophisticated, and the special effects were the cutting edge from a bygone era. Disney released it, and Phil Tippett—the genius behind the go-motion special effects in the Star Wars films—brought a dragon to life onscreen in a way no one had ever seen. The dragon, Vermithrax Perjorative, terrorized a kingdom that sacrificed virgins to it—via a Hunger Games-like lottery—and the villagers sought the help of a sorcerer and his apprentice to end the dragon’s reign. The concept of the film was simple, its execution clean and easy to understand. Though it didn’t do that well at the box office, it found a cult status on the new (at the time) homevideo platform. Audiences and film studios alike saw something there, and they knew they could do something with the genre. Along with other 1981 releases like Clash of the Titans, Excalibur and Time Bandits, Dragonslayer seemed to help kick off a brief golden age of fantasy films. The next year brought us Conan the Barbarian, The Beastmaster, The Dark Crystal and The Sword and the Sorcerer. Dozens of fantasy movies came out over the next few years, reaching a fever pitch by 1985—movies like Ladyhawke, Legend, Red Sonja, Krull and more Conan. Even Disney’s animation department got into the game, giving us the uneven yet still underappreciated The Black Cauldron. Then, the films of that genre burned out—and they

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s Super Bowl Sunday approaches, I’m thinking about beer. I don’t drink beer all that often, but during the Super Bowl, who wants to be sipping wine or cocktails? Sudsy brews are de rigueur. And so I’ve given some thought to which beers and beer styles might be best suited for classic Super Bowl fare such as nachos, Buffalo wings, chili con carne, bratwurst and such. Let’s begin with that all-time classic Super Bowl nosh, Buffalo chicken wings. When you’re thinking about what to drink with wings, I’d start by forgetting that you’re eating chicken. After all, it’s the sauce that dominates, right? So, here are a couple pointers. If you’re serving wings with scorching hot sauce, I recommend an India Pale Ale such as fullstrength Squatters Hop Rising Double IPA, Red Rock’s Elephino Double IPA or Uinta

Brewing’s Hop Notch IPA. The hops and citrusy bitterness of an IPA help cleanse the palate and tone down the heat of foods like Buffalo chicken wings and jalapeño poppers. For wings with a milder sauce, try a good Bohemian-style Pilsner such as Bohemian Brewery’s Czech Pilsner, which is crisp, light and comes in cans. My go-to food for most Super Bowl games is chili con carne; I like to make a big batch to feed a big bunch. I find that an Irish stout like Guinness is light enough to not weigh you down while you’re eating meaty chili, but strong enough to stand up to its bold, spicy flavors. As a bonus, the stout helps draw out the smoky flavors in chili con carne. Another good option would be picking up a growler of Desert Edge Brewery’s Latter Day Stout or Madame X Stout from Hoppers Grill & Brewing Co. Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka once said that the perfect seven-course meal is a hot dog and a six-pack. Well, for mildtasting grilled sausages such as bratwurst, kielbasa and weisswurst, I recommend a beer that won’t overwhelm the weenies. The Germans get it right, I think, by serving oceans of Märzen beer during Oktoberfest. Ayinger Oktoberfest Märzen does the trick, as does Gordon Biersch Märzen and Spaten Oktoberfest Ur-Märzen. You could also turn your sausages toward Vienna-style lagers like Bohemian’s Viennese Lager,

DRINK Squatters’ Vienna Lager or Rocket Bike Lager from Moab Brewery. Even Negra Modelo from Mexico—a south-ofthe-border Vienna lager— would taste terrific with brats from the grill. Next up: nachos. A typical plate of nachos is a circus of colors and flavors, from mild cheddar cheese and crispy tortilla chips to spicy jalapeños, cooked ground beef, onion, salsa and/or pico de gallo, not to mention sour cream. The idea here is not to complicate an already complicated spectrum of flavors with an overly complex brew. I’d suggest a clean-tasting blonde ale or kölsch. A good choice would be Red Rock’s Golden Halo Blonde Ale or my favorite locally brewed blonde ale, Uinta Brewing’s Monkshine Belgian Style Blonde Ale. At Squatters, the Nitro Cream Ale is also excellent. Desert Edge has a seasonal Stupid Blonde Ale,

and from Wasatch Brewing, try the Kolob Kölsch. Finally, for classic Super Bowl and tailgating fare like burgers and grilled steaks, you’ll want a rich-tasting dark beer like porter, German dunkel or brown ale—something to sip that isn’t overwhelmed by the grilled meat f lavors. Here, I’d opt for Epic Brewing’s Galloway Porter, where coffee and malt f lavors really shine. Wasatch’s classic Polygamy Porter is another good choice, as are Epic’s Santa Cruz Brown Ale, Squatters’ big, rich Outer Darkness or Ayinger Altbairisch Dunkel. Go Broncos! CW

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Aristo’s sidewalk patio might not be perched on the Mediterranean Sea, but once you dig into the extensive mezedakia (Greek tapas) selection and other delicious dishes crafted by Chef Aristides Boutsikakis, you’ll definitely feel like you’re in Greece. There are sauteed baby octopus and thick cuts of battered and flash-fried calamari; baked eggplant whipped with olive oil; Greek meatballs; sauteed shrimp in marinara and much more. For entrees, you won’t find better pastitsio in town. Don’t feel like eating out? Try Aristo’s frozen, readyto-heat entrees and appetizers, available at your local grocer. 224 S. 1300 East, Salt Lake City, 801581-0888, AristosGreekRestaurant.com

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and wraps for the health conscious, as well as items like mac & “cheeze” and nachos for those who are hankering for comfort foods. There are options for a variety of other dietary needs as well, including gluten-free. 779 S. 500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-532-2216, FrischEats.com

Gloria’s Little Italy

Gloria’s Little Italy is a family-run business, featuring a warm, cozy trattoria atmosphere and rustic, authentic Italian fare. Begin a meal with antipasti of bruschetta, fried calamari or a Caprese salad before moving on to minestrone or pasta e fagioli soup. Pasta offerings include arrabbiata, carbonara, ragu, quattro formaggi and matriciana. Specialties of the house range from ravioli and lasagna to pesto dishes and vegetarian capellini campagnola. The veal scallopine is divine. 1 E. Center St., Provo, 801-805-4913 GloriasLittleItaly.com

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If you’re longing for a taste of Britain, this is the place to visit. Here you’ll find an array of English baked goods worthy of the queen, and everything is made in-house. Savory selections include quiche, shepherd’s pie, meat pie, bacon & cheese puffs, sausage rolls, pasties and Welsh rarebit. For your sweet tooth, there are scones with Elizabeth’s decadent double cream, jam tarts, “shiny” cookies, shortbread, trifle and chocolate-dipped coconut macaroons. 439 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801531-7074, ElizabethsEnglishBakery.com

Hires is a Salt Lake City staple. It’s been around for more than 50 years, and with good reason: The burgers are absolutely delicious, garnering even national acclaim. The atmosphere is casual, with an old-fashioned feel; servers will bring your meal to your car. You just have to try the classic combo: the Big H burger, fries and a mug of cold housemade root beer; add some fry sauce for a true Hires experience. If burgers aren’t your thing, Hires offers plenty of other tasty sandwiches, so try the grilled Reuben or grilled ham & cheese. Make sure you save room for dessert and treat yourself to an old-fashioned banana split. Multiple locations, HiresBigH.com

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The owners of Frisch, Salt Lake City locals Leigh and Rachel Kade, didn’t let their compassionate lifestyle hamper their passion for delicious food. Veteran vegetarians—and vegans, as of 2009—the Kades opened Frisch in spring 2012, and have since provided delicious food that’s free of animal products and sourced locally whenever possible. Frisch offers unique salads

At Johanna’s Restaurant, there’s always a showdown, whether it’s breakfast versus lunch, New York steak versus ham steak, pancakes versus scones, or sandwiches versus burgers. And the hardest part about eating here is deciding which side of the showdown you’re on. Once you declare your allegiance, the battle is not won—now, it’s you versus your food. You can take on Momma’s Big Fat

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The Bayou

With a massive menu that boasts 300 or so beers from across the globe, The Bayou (a 21-and-over establishment) is one of Utah’s greatest haunts for beer fanatics. And its reputation goes beyond beer: The full lunch and dinner menu of creative Cajun dishes is a hit, seven days a week, with such treats as sweet-potato fries, housemade gumbo, muffulettas and po’boys. On weekend nights, the tables and stools fill to capacity even faster when the club hosts local and regional jazz acts for intimate performances. The pool tables are free during lunch, and there’s free Wi-Fi. 645 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-961-8400, UtahBayou.com

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Forget about Dunkin’. Located in a small cottage, Banbury Cross has been making kickass doughnuts seemingly since the dawn of time. They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, glazed, jelly-filled, frosted, etc. Also try the blueberry cake, buttermilk bar, apple fritter, the muffins and ... well, just try one of everything. You won’t regret it. There’s even a drive-thru window to help you get your doughnut fix in a hurry. 705 S. 700 East, Salt Lake City, 801-537-1433

Red Corner China Diner

Red Corner China Diner’s combination of authentic Sichuan cuisine, welcoming diner-style atmosphere and eye-catching interior is definitely getting noticed. The menu features familiar Chinese dishes like chow mein, Mongolian beef and moo goo gai pan, along with house specialties such as sizzling beef tender with mushrooms and peppers, eggplant tofu in garlic sauce and pork ribs in black-bean sauce. Heat seekers: Try the firecracker shrimp if you are feeling daring. Red Corner has an affordable lunch menu from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. with express service, and also provides free Wi-Fi. 46 W. 7200 South, Midvale, 801-601-8331, RedCornerChinaDiner.com

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The best of this year’s Sundance Film Festival didn’t take their subjects too seriously. By Scott Renshaw scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

or 11 days in Utah’s mountains in January, not a flake of precipitation fell on the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. And the cheery blue skies could not possibly have been a better match for the mood of the festival’s best films. Despite the success of quirky Sundance comedies like Little Miss Sunshine, Napoleon Dynamite and (500) Days of Summer over the years, the festival’s breakout hits of late have been gritty dramas: Precious in 2009; Winter’s Bone in 2010; Beasts of the Southern Wild in 2012; Fruitvale Station in 2013—and that’s saying nothing of the very earnest, very serious documentaries. But the U.S. Competition slate—though it included dour-faced material like Kristen Stewart as a conscience-stricken Guantanamo Bay guard in Camp X-Ray—found its only real consensus favorite in Whiplash, the story of a first-year student named Andrew (Miles Teller) bringing his drumming skills to New York’s prestigious Shaffer Conservatory music school, colliding with demanding-bordering-on-sociopathic teacher Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons). It plays out as a sort of Full Metal Jazzband with Fletcher as drill sergeant, and Simmons is ferociously funny tearing into Fletcher’s epic, profane tirades. Though there’s a sports-movie undercurrent and a dynamic drum solo for the finale, it’s the caustic humor that’s likely to linger in memory. Laughs with an edge characterized two of the festival’s other great comedies. On the slightly more conventional side, there’s They Came Together, a magnificent genre parody of Hollywood rom-coms from David Wain and Michael Showalter (Stella, The State). Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler play a couple recounting the story of how they found true love, and while it may seem a decade or two late to be making gags at the expense of When Harry Met Sally… and You’ve Got Mail, the ruthlessly funny takedown of various clichés—the girl’s “trying on outfits” montage; the boy’s advice from friends who say things like “I’m married … and that’s the point of view I represent”—will be a joy to anyone who has endured countless variations of the theme. On the less conventional side, Alex Ross Perry’s Listen Up Philip follows a narcissistic novelist (Jason Schwartzman) in a terrific study of the bad behavior that a certain kind of artiste justifies as ruthless integrity, and how easy it can be for others to cut them near-infinite slack because genius has its own rules, etc. It also may be the best Woody Allen movie in at least 15 years. There was plenty of other funny stuff, too—all sounding to various degrees like exactly the kind of comedy you expect to play at Sundance, but nailing real belly laughs and insight beyond their oddball premises. Comedian Jenny Slate showed surprisingly strong acting chops in Obvious Child, a dark comedy about a young woman dealing with an unplanned pregnancy; ditto for newcomer Desiree Akhavan in the semi-autobiographical Appropriate Behavior, exploring with wit and smarts her identity issues as a self-identifying bisexual who happens to be the daughter of firstgeneration Iranian immigrants. Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig played the titular dysfunctional siblings—and rocked a killer karaoke of Starship’s “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now”—in The Skeleton Twins, while a less conventional comedic pairing of elderly ex-brothers-in-law took a trip to Iceland in the charming Land Ho! It was, quite simply, one of the best top-to-bottom Sundances for comedy in recent memory. That’s not to say there weren’t also highlights in completely different areas, as well. From the New Frontier section came The Better Angels, a dreamy meditation on Abraham Lincoln’s formative years in Indiana from A.J. Andrews, a protégé of Terrence Malick who mimics his mentor’s lyrical style but adds a clearer narrative anchor and black & white photography that heightens the sense of real-world struggle. Director Steve James brought the lovely biographical documentary about film critic Roger Ebert, Life Itself. And action fans could even get an electrifying charge from The Raid 2: Berandal, as Gareth Evans followed up his brutally effective martial-arts adventure with a story that broadened the scope and provided even more did-I-really-just-see-that? thrills. Yet the surprising pick as this festival’s most universally-loved film turned out to be a horror picture: The Babadook, Australian director Jennifer Kent’s portrait of a single mother (Essie Davis) whose struggles with her troubled 7-year-old son (Noah Wiseman) manifest themselves in a creepy children’s pop-up book about a boogeyman called Mister Babadook. Like all the best horror, it digs at something primal in our psychology—here, unprocessed grief—while effectively jangling the bejeesus out of viewers. At the end of a very funny festival, the most potent laughter was of the nervous variety. CW

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2014 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts HHH Yes, you’ve likely already seen one of them—the Mickey Mousestarring Get a Horse! that plays with Frozen—but it’s actually the least interesting of the nominated shorts (in addition to losing whatever charms it has when not being shown in 3-D). The full program—which features three non-nominated shorts, including Pixar’s The Blue Umbrella, in addition to the five nominees— plays with a range of styles. And the real standout is the one with the most old-school approach: Daniel Sousa’s Feral, a gorgeous story of a wild child unsuccessfully placed in the middle of civilized society. There’s tremendous imagination in the French entry Mr. Hublot, about an obsessive-compulsive man in a futuristic world who adopts a stray robot dog, as well as in Shuhei Morita’s Possessions, about a traveling handyman who encounters an abandoned shed full of household objects come to life. The bland, Simon Pegg-narrated children’s-book adaptation Room on the Broom—the adventures of a witch and her cat that plays like a low-rent Wallace & Gromit knock-off—drags things down a bit, but there’s more than enough creative spark here to make educating yourself for your Oscar pool a pleasure. Opens Jan. 31 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—Scott Renshaw

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CURRENT RELEASES 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 secondgeneration 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 Devil’s Due H.5 There are many lessons to be learned from this she’s-havingSatan’s-baby yawner: Don’t let taxi drivers in Caribbean cities infamous for creepy religious cults take you anyplace “special.” When you wake up the next morning with no memory of what happened, check your camcorder, in case it was still running during the satanic ritual. But mostly, if you’re going to make a foundfootage movie, make sure it makes even the slightest bit of sense. I can buy that newlywed Samantha McCall (Allison Miller) might get knocked up by Old Scratch. But who assembled this footage, drawn from disparate sources? It can’t be Sam’s husband (Zach Gilford); he’s busy in police-interview video, covered in blood. Did the minions of Satan do some editing? If so, it kinda negates the sneaking around they’ve done to keep their diabolical babymaking a secret. (R)—MAJ Her HHHH The high-concept premise—lonely Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) falling in love with his computer’s artificial-intelligence operating system (Scarlett Johansson)—certainly taps into something zeitgeist-y about The Way We Are Now. But Her isn’t simply a fable about living virtually; it’s even more potent at exploring a complexity in relationships that often seems hard to manage, beautifully realized through the two central performances. It may not be a jaw-dropping central idea that some guys have growing up to do when it comes to dealing with women; as sensitive as Theodore is, he’s still somewhat shallow at the outset. Jonze, however, finds magic not simply in suggesting we need to get

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Labor Day H Ladies! Single? Lonely? Why not get yourself kidnapped and held hostage by an escaped convict? Guaranteed relationship starter! It’s Labor Day weekend in 1987, and single mom Adele (Kate Winslet) is shopping with her young teen son Henry (Gattlin Griffith) when Frank (Josh Brolin)—a large, shifty man, suspiciously bleeding from a wound in the gut—forces them to take him to their home. He proceeds to tie them up, as you do when you’re a violent felon who needs a place to hide out. Later, Frank makes breakfast, does some handyman jobs around the house, and generally engages in enacting a parody of husbandness. Later still, Adele starts gazing at Frank in horrifyingly besotted ways. Jason Reitman, adapting Joyce Maynard’s novel, expects that we will find this all terribly romantic, despite his reputation for snark (Young Adult, Thank You for Smoking), and the retrospective voiceover narration by adult Henry (Tobey Maguire) relates these events while slathering them all in a gooey nostalgia for that time when he and his mom got kidnapped by an escaped convict and his mother fell in love with the guy. Stockholm syndrome as romance? You betcha. Opens Jan. 31 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)—MAJ

That Awkward Moment [not yet reviewed] Three single friends (Zac Efron, Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan) struggle with their relationships. Opens Jan. 31 at theaters valleywide. (R)

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2014 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Shorts HHHH Death, religion, domestic abuse, war … and mornings: This year’s Oscar nominees for Live Action Short cram in much horror, and lots of humor, poignance and hope, too. That Wasn’t Me, from Spain, sees two aid workers in a brutal encounter with child soldiers in Africa, and a promise that terrible abuse can be overcome. From France comes Just Before Losing Everything, in which a woman runs away from her abusive husband; it’s a bit slow at first but eventually becomes a tense little thriller. The Danish Helium is somewhat, er, lighter, for all that it’s about a dying child and his heartbreaking friendship with a hospital porter. My favorite of the five is the British The Voorman Problem, a hilarious, provocative story about a psychiatrist treating a prison inmate who believes he is a god. The Finnish Do I Have to Take Care of Everything? is by far the airiest of the bunch, a little farce about one family’s crazy morning rush. The winner? I’d love it to be Voorman, but I suspect it will be Helium—which wouldn’t displease me at all. Opens Jan. 31 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—MaryAnn Johanson

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performed, whereas the obligatory side-trip into “can we get a baptism” sincerity stops everything in a way that’s painful even in drama, but deadly for comedy. (PG)—SR

I, Frankenstein HH Everyone knows Frankenstein’s monster died 200 years ago. What I, Frankenstein pre-supposes is: Maybe he didn’t. This expensive-looking and deeply absurd genre turkey stars Aaron Eckhart as the handsome, 5’-11”, jeans-and-hoodie-wearing creature, who’s enlisted by the queen of the angelic gargoyles (Miranda Otto) to help fight a battle against demons, who want to duplicate Victor Frankenstein’s experiments and produce an army of reanimated corpses. Working from Kevin Grevioux’s comic book, director Stuart Beattie pretends the material has a chance of being taken seriously, even though it’s mostly just Eckhart stomping around talking in a growly Batman voice while CGI things impale one another with stakes. The film isn’t campy enough to be fun or smart enough to be good, but it passes by quickly and without doing any serious harm to the viewer. (PG-13)—Eric D. Snider

The Invisible Woman HH.5 Ralph Fiennes directs and stars as Charles Dickens, adapting Claire Tomalin’s book about the novelist’s much-speculatedupon relationship with Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones), a wouldbe actress who’s only 18 years old when the famous—and married—author begins paying her attention in 1850s England. A framing sequence follows Nelly decades after their relationship, in moments meant to capture how the experience still shadows her life. But while the main narrative effectively captures Victorian morals that made it impossible for Dickens and Nelly to be together openly—and the celebrity that was as much the love of Dickens’ life as any woman—the film generally just lays there as years tick by. Fiennes directs one magnificent scene, an almost-embrace between Dickens and Nelly that gets no more physical than a grasped hand. That kind of passion is hard to find elsewhere. (R)—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 Inspired Guns H.5 I’m not sure Adam White’s attempt at culture-clash farce would’ve worked even without clumsy diversion into faith-affirming melodrama—but I sure would’ve preferred to see the attempt. In an unnamed East Coast city, earnest Elder Fisher (David Lassetter) takes on a goofy new companion, Elder Johnson (Dashiell Wolf), for the last week of his mission—just in time for them to get caught up in an FBI operation observing the inept mobsters to whom the missionaries are giving lessons. Much farcical misunderstanding ensues, of the kind that depends on absolutely every character being a complete idiot and interpreting the exact wrong thing at the exact wrong time. But the humor is at least energetically

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit HH.5 As we reach the fourth actor to play Tom Clancy’s CIA analystturned-occasional-field-agent, what exactly defines a “Jack Ryan” movie? Not all that much, it would seem, beyond what you’d find in any other espionage thriller. This prequel/reboot/ whatever finds Ryan (Chris Pine) pulled from his undercover work on Wall Street tracking terrorist funding when there’s evidence that a Russian businessman (Kenneth Branagh, who also directed) is trying to tank the U.S. economy. It’s all fairly solid genre stuff, what with the racing to download secret data (now obligatory in tech-age thrillers), the car chasing, the trying to stop a major terrorist attack and one effectively brutal indoctrination of Ryan into the messy business of field work. But who is this Jack Ryan guy, really, and what makes him worth bringing out of mothballs? I still couldn’t tell you. (PG-13)—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 halfbrother (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

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Ride Along HH 2014 will definitely see movies that are worse than this— that prophecy will probably be fulfilled before the end of the month, actually—but it’s unlikely to produce any that are more formulaic and uninspired than this flat action comedy. Written by a committee and directed by Tim Story (Think Like a Man), it stars Ice Cube as gruff Atlanta cop James Payton, and motormouth-du-jour Kevin Hart as Ben Barber, his squirrelly cop-wannabe brother-in-law who goes on a ride along with him and screws up everything they touch. Mr. Cube isn’t bad as a straight man (he’s certainly no comedian), but the film relies entirely on Hart’s shtick for its laughs, and that shtick wears mighty thin. And it doesn’t help that every detail of the plot is a retread of other buddy-cop movies. (PG-13)—EDS The Wolf of Wall Street HHH.5 Martin Scorsese turns Jordan Belfort’s memoir about excesses in the 1990s world of high finance into a brutally effective variation on GoodFellas’ rags-to-riches-to-chaos arc, following Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) from his humble beginnings through building his own brokerage firm, getting rich selling volatile penny stocks and financing a life of luxury, drugs and hookers. Scorsese takes three hours to tell the story of that empire’s rise and fall, yet it feels nimble and effortless, including plenty of raucous physical comedy. It’s also fundamentally a morality play, with Belfort becoming an analog of GoodFellas’ Henry Hill, dazzled by the extravagant lifestyle his criminality allows. This collection of great set pieces and dynamic performances begins with a familiar setup, then puts the dangerous characters threatening America not on the other end of a gun, but on the other end of a phone. (R)—SR

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The Nut Job HH.5 Peter Lepeniotis expands his own 2005 short about a squirrel named Surly (Will Arnett), exiled from his community of park critters, who tries to steal a gold mine of nuts from a store that’s serving as a front for bank robbers. There’s nothing wildly creative or particularly funny going on from a character standpoint, though it’s somewhat bizarre when you realize that the plot combines Woody Allen’s Small Time Crooks and The Dark Knight, plus a barely-veiled critique of socialism. But mostly it’s just a fast-paced collection of chases and mishaps as Surly and his suspicious cohorts (including Katherine Heigl as the girl squirrel) warily work together. Avoiding eye-rolling pop-culture gags until the closing credits and subsuming the obligatory fart jokes to Looney Tunes-style mayhem is a recipe, at least, for tolerability. (PG)—SR

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After a father (Bill Nighy) informs his son (Domhnall Gleeson) that he can time travel, the son, of course, uses the power to trick a woman (Rachel McAdams) into falling in love with him. And, yeah, enslave the planet, because why not? (Universal)

Android Cop A future cop (Michael Jai White) and his android partner attempt to stop a mysterious disease from spreading in The Zone, a rundown city that’s nothing like the rundown cities in Robocop, Judge Dredd, Robocop 2, Robocop 3, etc. (Asylum)

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on’t care to watch millionaire meatbags throw a Stewie-shaped sportball around between 500 pricey commercials for several overanalyzed hours on end this weekend? Or is that just The Only TV Column That Matters™? If you’re looking for an alternative to Super Bowl 48 (it’s the 21st century—ditch the damned Roman numerals already), options are limited; even HBO blinked, opting to pull the premium shows you pay extra to see instead of going up against America’s Favorite Timesuck on Sunday, Feb. 2. While you’re waiting for the much-hyped post-game new episodes of New Girl (with Prince!) and Brooklyn Nine-Nine (with Fred Armisen … really?) on Fox, here are 16 other TV choices for Super Bowl Sunday: Shameless, House of Lies, Episodes (Showtime) Unlike HBO, Showtime isn’t afraid of The Bowl—fresh episodes (and Episodes) all around! Downton Abbey, Sherlock (PBS) The Brits don’t care about what ’Mericans refer to as “football,” as PBS is steadfastly presenting a new episode of Downton Abbey and the Season 3 finale of Sherlock. Or maybe they just assume that you already downloaded them months ago. Puppy Bowl X (Animal Planet) Since the Lingerie Bowl is dead (or gone legit— same diff), the Puppy Bowl is TV’s most infamous counter-programming to the Super Bowl. It’s still just a pile of mutts playing in a toy stadium for hours, which has spawned knockoffs like … The Kitten Bowl (Hallmark) Obviously. What the hell took so long? If you weren’t so preoccupied with wasting airtime on Bigfoots and treehouses, Animal Planet, you wouldn’t have gotten pwned by—of all channels—Hallmark.

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The Fish Bowl (Nat Geo Wild) Literally, four hours of a fish bowl. This is the kind of programming that layoff-ridden daily newspapers actually pay to send reporters to cover at the Television Critics Association’s bi-annual press tour. Just sayin.’ The Walking Dead marathon (AMC) Not so much a straight-up marathon as a “Zombie Bowl” (hey, that’s what AMC is calling it) featuring cherry-picked episodes from Seasons 1 and 2 that specifically include “every Humans vs. Walkers moment.” So, pretty much the same way I fast-forward through the dull parts of entire TWD seasons. Crazy Hearts: Nashville marathon (A&E) Eight hours of A&E’s unofficial answer to “Think we can’t come up with an even more idiotic, contrived ‘reality’ show than Duck Dynasty? With worse music? Game on!” Top of the Lake marathon (Sundance) In this acclaimed seven-part mystery miniseries from 2013, Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men) plays a troubled detective investigating the disappearance of a pregnant 12-yearold girl. Yes, another feel-good romp from the Sundance Channel! Swamp People marathon (History) In a word: swamptastic. Wives With Knives marathon (ID) In a word: stabtastic. Snapped marathon (Oxygen) Wait for it … snaptastic!

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An engineer (Sylvester Stallone) and a con (Arnold Schwarzenegger) must escape a secret, high-tech prison called The Tomb in time for Stallone to box Robert DeNiro in Grudge Match and both to hobble through Expendables 3. (Summit)

The Wedding Pact BFFs Mitch (Chris Soldevilla) and Elizabeth (Haylie Duff) promise to marry each other if they’re both still single 10 years after college. A decade later, he tracks her down and disappointedly learns that she is, in fact, not Hilary Duff. (Phase 4)

The White Queen The BBC/Starz series that proved women lust for power as much as men, Belgium passes for England, and you can’t ripoff Game of Thrones or The Tudors without a budget. One historical accuracy: the Queen is very white. (Anchor Bay)

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hellfire religion, backwoods weirdness and, on the title track, a local tragedy. The inspiration for the blues-soaked “Wild Moon,” which Wilkes describes as a “modern-day death ballad,” was one of “those local stories that I tend to write about, about an Amish buggy that got swept into a creek and the babies died and then there was a big controversy.” But nowhere is Wilkes’ love of the unique identity of Kentucky more evident than in his book Barn Dances & Jamborees Across Kentucky, released in October 2013. A beautiful tribute to the people—most born during the Depression/World War II era—who helped create the state’s musical culture, the book includes interviews with several influential musicians who were integral to the genres of bluegrass and country music. It’s also a roadmap to informal oprys, square dances, jamborees and other music-centered community events throughout Kentucky, where many of these “old-timers” still showcase their chops. Wilkes says the book is a “valentine to Kentucky, Kentucky music and, really, a generation that’s fading away that really lived through those hard times that the music was born out of originally.” It’s important to seek out indigenous music everywhere, Wilkes says, which will always thrive as a “natural reaction to pop culture and its dehumanizing effects. “Stuff that exists in the underground has the tendency to be more pure—and I don’t mean stylistically, just pure in intention and motivation,” Wilkes says. “And it’s music as a necessity to live.” CW

uther Dickinson, the guitarist and vocalist for the North Mississippi Allstars, has a sense of humor about the band’s longevity. “A friend of mine says we’ve got a good scam going,” Dickinson says with a laugh. “So we’re going to keep it running.” All joking aside, Dickinson and the group take their music seriously. They have put out more than a dozen studio and live recordings since their 2000 debut, Shake Hands With Shorty, and released their latest project, World Boogie Is Coming, in September 2013. Their music runs the gamut from rock to roots music, but has a solid foundation in hill country blues, and their love of this style of music is largely a product of growing up in northern Mississippi. The Allstars’ music is “hill country blues that we learned from guys like R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough and Otha Turner,” Dickinson says. “But also, this is the repertoire that we learned from our father and his friends in Memphis. So it’s just something we grew into, playing roots music of the area.” World Boogie Is Coming has an undeniably raw energy. From the bone-rattling bass and dirty electric guitar riffs of “Rollin’ ’n’ Tumblin’ ” to the blues-heavy rock of “Goat Meat,” the album is gritty and anything but overproduced. Dickinson’s scratchy vocals make for a fine accompaniment, especially when he starts howling like Mike Farris on “Snake Drive.” Dickinson says the band is more focused now on staying true to their roots rather than exploring a variety of sounds, as they did on their second and third records, 2001’s 51 Phantom and 2003’s Polaris. “In our youth, we were stylistically reckless,” Dickinson says. “Now, at 41, I can play a song I wrote when I was 25 with a fresh mindset. I don’t regret anything because we were living the dream, and we believed in those songs. People used to tell us that we would fuck things up, and we told them to fuck off. I don’t regret [any of] it, but I have learned.” World Boogie Is Coming is the Allstars’ musical version of the story of the prodigal son. They have come full-circle as a band and have returned to the rootsy, bluesy, unpolished work of their youth that started it all, proof that Dickinson & Co. have indeed learned from their musical past. “We may experiment with other things, but we owe it to the tradition that nurtured us to keep it going,” Dickinson says. “It’s the type of thing that once you start, you can’t stop.” CW

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ction Bronson takes a massive dab hit and proceeds to hack a lung into the phone. “Pie Hole is one of the best pizzas I’ve ever had in America,” wheezes the New Yorker from his friend and producer Party Supplies’ Brooklynbased studio. His accent is a thick blend of outer-borough slang and Marlon Brando’s Godfather. “I would know, too,” he says before coughing for a good 20 seconds. “The one that has the little bacon sprinkles on it, the goat cheese, the tomato and the caramelized onions. It’s tremendous.” Bronson doesn’t mind discussing food. The chef-turned-rapper has a cooking series with Vice, and just about every song he creates has at least a half-dozen hints at something you could find at a delicatessen. Rappers have always written about what they know best. But chatting about food is only one of many Bronson specialties. Over the past few years, the Albanian Prince has emerged as a prolific master of popculture innuendo, the type of name-drops that result in late-night Wikipedia searches for forgotten athletes like Placido Polanco or Marty Jannetty. To scratch the surface, his cast of characters include everything from thinly sliced prosciutto and dead wrestlers to sandbagging ballers from White Men Can’t Jump. “These are all things from my mind, conversations I’ve had with people,” Bronson says. “Sometimes I recollect with the homies about old baseball players, football players, shit like that.” It’s a style of storytelling that producer Alchemist has appropriately dubbed “slideshow rap”—in other words, a series of rap vignettes that somehow all piece together in the end. On the track “Don’s Cheek,” from Bronson’s latest mixtape, Blue Chips 2, he paints a picture of his fictional extravagant lifestyle. “Catch me on Venice Beach working on my base, no blond streak/ Swimming trunk, 30k in arm’s reach/ I’m on the boat, in the water

Bronson “steers the whip with one arm like Jim Abbott.”

like a swan’s feet/ To show respect you kiss both sides of the Don’s cheek.” “It’s for people who are thinkers,” Bronson says. “It’s for thinkers and for people who like laughing and have the same sense of humor as us. If you’re in the club, you’re in the club. If you’re not, you’re not.” When asked if slideshow rap was merely the result of marijuana brain farts, Bronson responded in the most Bronson way possible: “It’s like your aunt Blanche, right? It’s her 90th birthday and you gotta go to the hall, where they rented it out for the party. Everyone’s dancing or whatever, and the grandchild put together this whole slideshow of her life up on the wall. You know what I’m saying? There’s a lot of different pictures, but they’re all about her and it all connects.” The most literal example of Bronsolino’s slideshow can be found in the promotional trailer for Blue Chips 2. In the video, Bronson, aka Mr. Baklava, drops a duffle bag of cash at Patrick Ewing’s feet in an effort to sway the Knicks center to throw a game winning layup. It’s an absurd alternate reality, but the scene is a real-life interpretation of the line from Bronson’s track “9.24.13.” Bronson raps, “I told the driver, Lenny, swing me by the Garden, I gotta talk to Pat/ Showed him some stacks/ Then showed him the gat, like you’re gonna miss the finger roll, right? Yes, Mr. Baklava/ Then I cartwheeled in an aqua car.” Creating these miniature rap tableaus is what Bronsolino does best. If he’s not fixing an NBA game, he’s selling coke to mobsters in a Brooklyn sauna, or training a dolphin to pull back the hammer like Dolph Lundgren— every piff-induced line is a clue to the character that is Bronson. “I always thought [rap] was easy, but now I’m more creative, more precise,” he says. “I’m able to convey what I mean, what I say and how I want to say it.” CW

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Toad the Wet Sprocket The name of this California alt-rock band sounds like a bunch of nonsense, probably because it was a fictional band name made up by Monty Python’s Eric Idle in the ’70s. Well, in 1986, four teenage band members— who are all still part of the current lineup— decided to give the silly name an actual identity and claimed it. In the ’90s, Toad the Wet Sprocket created five studio albums and became a radio sensation with its signature brand of feel-good, easily digestible, folksy rock—hits like “All I Want”—before breaking devoted fans’ hearts when it disbanded in 1998. But fast-forward to the present, and Toad the Wet Sprocket has released its first album of new material in more than 10 years, New Constellation, and it’s proof that frontman Glen Phillips and company still got it. Jonathan Kingham will start things off. The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 8 p.m., $25 in advance, $30 day of show, DepotSLC.com Mideau, Polytype The pairing of stellar local bands Mideau and Polytype at this show will be a lush treat for the ears. Polytype’s sleek, sophisticated electronic sound is simultaneously mellow and mind-bending, with delicate vocals floating eerily over fractured, expanding and ever-morphing beat arrangements. The trio’s excellent debut album, Basic// Complex, washes over the listener like a cool, deep wave; check out the moody song “Gunmetal” and the impossibly snappy and

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Silver Antlers With the current polluted and freezing fishbowl-like conditions outside, it’s easy to feel like winter is never-ending. If you’re like me and can’t afford to jet off to Hawaii, take a trip to this show featuring local ambient/ electro musician Skyler Hitchcox, aka Silver Antlers. His three-song EP Turquoise Dream—released in summer 2013—captures the enveloping warmth of a golden afternoon through obscured vocal loops, peaceful droning synths, quiet taps of a hand drum and touches of electro. Escape into “Under the Leaves,” which, complete with sounds of birds chirping, captures the calm of lying on the grass under a huge tree. High Council, Conquer Monster and Stag Hare Band will open. The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., free, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

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Creature Double Feature, Home Library Bible Tapes Vol. 1 HHH.5 If someone were abducted by aliens and then wrote a sprawling musical memoir about it, the latest full-length album by prolific neo-psychedelia band Creature Double Feature would tell the strange cosmic story. An ambitious 19-track sonic journey, the album is divided into five chapters that each begin with a short (the longest is 29 seconds) introduction, sometimes of a distorted voice speaking or simply a tone growing and then diminishing. The numerous lyrical references to the esoteric— religious figures, an “ancient creature of the dark” and tree spirits—combined with the glowing, multifaceted soundscapes by Davis and Mason Johnson create a viscerally spiritual experience. “Visitation,” which starts with transmission-like beeps and blips before melting into sparkling, harp-like strings, describes a terrifying and beautiful encounter with a visitor from space: “As I lay in my bed, his voice was in my head/ whispered strange things to me/ I forgot how to breathe.” But the listener’s feet are brought back to earth by the saxophone and prominent percussion on “Break Through!” and the heavy rock attack of the climactic, ironically titled “Hallelujah” fits with the song’s biting lyrics. Released Nov. 10, self-released, CreatureDoubleFeature.bandcamp.com

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

DEVIL’S DAUGHTER 533 S. 500 West, SLC, 801-532-1610, Karaoke Wed., Live music Fri. & Sat. DONKEY TAILS CANTINA 136 E. 12300 South, Draper, 801-571-8134. Karaoke Wed.; Live music Tues., Thurs. & Fri. Live DJ Sat. DOWNSTAIRS 625 Main, Park City, 435226-5340, Live music & DJs ELIXIR LOUNGE 6405 S. 3000 East, Holladay, 801-943-1696 FAT’S GRILL 2182 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-484-9467, Live music THE FILLING STATION 8987 W. 2700 South, Magna, 801-250-1970, Karaoke Thur. FLANAGAN’S ON MAIN 438 Main, Park City, 435-649-8600, Trivia Tues., Live music Fri. & Sat. FOX HOLE PUB & GRILL 7078 S. Redwood Road, West Jordan, 801-566-4653, Karaoke & Live music THE GARAGE 1199 Beck St., SLC, 801-5213904, Live music GINO’S 3556 S. State, SLC, 801-268-1811, Live music GRACIE’S 326 S. West Temple, SLC, 801-8197565, Live music, DJs THE GREAT SALTAIR 12408 W. Saltair Drive, Magna, 801-250-6205, Live music THE GREEN PIG PUB 31 E. 400 South, SLC, 801-532-7441, Live music Thur.-Sat. HABITS 832 E. 3900 South, SLC, 801-2682228, Poker Mon., Ladies night Tues., ’80s night Wed., Karaoke Thur., DJs Fri. & Sat. HIGHLANDER 6194 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-277-8251, Karaoke 7 nights a week THE HOG WALLOW PUB 3200 E. Big Cottonwood Canyon Road, SLC, 801-733-5567, Live music HOTEL/ELEVATE 155 W. 200 South, SLC, 801-478-4310, DJs HUKA BAR & GRILL 151 E. 6100 South, Murray, 801-281-9665, Reggae Tues., DJs Fri. & Sat. IN THE VENUE/CLUB SOUND 219 S. 600 West, SLC, 801-359-3219, Live music & DJs INFERNO CANTINA 122 W. Pierpont Ave., SLC, 801-883-8838, DJs Tues.-Sat. JACKALOPE LOUNGE 372 S. State, SLC, 801-359-8054, DJs JAM 751 N. 300 West, SLC, 801-891-1162, Karaoke Tues., Wed. & Sun., DJs Thur.-Sat. JOHNNY’S ON SECOND 165 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-746-3334, DJs Tues. & Fri., Karaoke Weds., Live music Sat. KARAMBA 1051 E. 2100 South, SLC, 801696-0639, DJs KEYS ON MAIN 242 S. Main, SLC, 801-3633638, Karaoke Tues. & Wed., Dueling pianos Thur.-Sat. KILBY COURT 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), SLC, 801-364-3538, Live music, all ages KRISTAUF’S 16 W. Market St., SLC, 801-9431696, DJ Fri. & Sat. THE LEPRECHAUN INN 4700 S. 900 East, Murray, 801-268-3294 LIQUID JOE’S 1249 E. 3300 South, SLC, 801467-5637, Live music Tues.-Sat. Lo-Fi Cafe 445 S. 400 West, SLC, 801-3644325, Live music LUCKY 13 135 W. 1300 South, SLC, 801-4874418, Trivia Wed. LUMPY’S DOWNTOWN 145 Pierpont Ave., SLC, 801-938-3070

LUMPY’S SOUTH 8925 Harrison St., Sandy, 801-255-2078 LUMPY’S HIGHLAND 3000 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-484-5597 THE MADISON/THE COWBOY 295 W. Center St., Provo, 801-375-9000, Live music, DJs MAGGIE MCGEE’S 6253 Highland Drive, SLC, 801-273-9899, Poker Sun., Wed. & Fri., Karaoke daily MAXWELL’S EAST COAST EATERY 9 Exchange Place, SLC, 801-328-0304, Poker Tues., DJ Fri. & Sat. METRO BAR 540 W. 200 South, SLC, 801652-6543, DJs MUSE MUSIC CAFÉ 151 N. University Ave., Provo, Open mic, live music, all ages NO NAME SALOON 447 Main, Park City, 435-649-6667 ONE 180 W. 400 South, SLC, 801-355-0364, DJs PARK CITY LIVE 427 Main, Park City, 435649-9123, Live music PAT’S BBQ 155 W. Commonwealth Ave., SLC, 801-484-5963, Live music Thurs.-Sat., All ages PIPER DOWN 1492 S. State, SLC, 801-4681492, Poker Mon., Acoustic Tues., Trivia Wed., Bingo Thurs. POPLAR STREET PUB 242 S. 200 West, SLC, 801-532-2715, Live music Thur.-Sat. THE RED DOOR 57 W. 200 South, SLC, 801363-6030, DJ Fri., Live jazz Sat. THE ROYAL 4760 S. 900 East, SLC, 801590-9940, Live music SCALLYWAGS 3040 S. State, SLC, 801604-0869 THE SHRED SHED 60 E. Exchange Place, SLC, Live music THE SPUR BAR & GRILL 352 Main, Park City, 435-615-1618, Live music THE STAR BAR 268 Main, Park City, 435615-7000, Live music, DJs THE STATE ROOM 638 S. State, SLC, 800501-2885, Live music SUGARHOUSE PUB 1992 S. 1100 East, SLC, 801-413-2857 SUN & MOON CAFÉ 6281 Emigration Canyon, SLC, 801-583-8331, Live music THE TAVERNACLE 201 E. 300 South, SLC, 801-519-8900, Dueling pianos Wed.-Sat., Karaoke Sun.-Tues. TIN ANGEL CAFE 365 W. 400 South, SLC, 801-328-4155, Live music THE TRAPP 102 S. 600 West, SLC, 801-5318727, Karaoke Mon., DJs Fri. & Sat. THE URBAN LOUNGE 241 S. 500 East, SLC, 801-746-0557, Live music VELOUR 135 N. University Ave., Provo, 801818-2263, Live music, All ages WASTED SPACE 342 S. State, SLC, 801-5312107, DJs Thur.-Sat. THE WESTERNER CLUB 3360 S. Redwood Road, West Valley City, 801-972-5447, Live music WILLIE’S LOUNGE 1716 S. Main, SLC, 760-828-7351, Trivia Wed., Karaoke Fri.-Sun., Live music THE WINE CELLAR 2550 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 801-399-3600, Live jazz & blues Thur.-Sat. THE WOODSHED 60 E. 800 South, SLC, 801-364-0805, Karaoke Sun. & Tues., Open jam Wed., Reggae Thur., Live music Fri. & Sat. ZEST KITCHEN & BAR 275 S. 200 West, SLC, 801-433-0589, DJs

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UNITED WAY 2-1-1 RSVP VITA Volunteers Contact: Kay Bailey, 801.746.2579 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.

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COTTONWOOD HIGH COMMUNITY SCHOOL Phone Bank for Parent Teacher Conferences Contact: Craig Foster, 801.554.2005 Date/Time: Feb. 7, 10, 11, 5:00-7:00 p.m. Volunteers with good communication and excellent phone skills are needed to help call families of academically at-risk students to personally invite them to attend Parent Teacher Conferences. Volunteers that speak a second language are a plus. GRANITE PARK JUNIOR HIGH COMMUNITY SCHOOL Chaperones for Youth Wildlife Conservation Experience Contact: Craig Foster, 801.554.2005 Date/Time: Feb. 13, 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. (2 hour shifts available if unable to volunteer for entire shift) 10 willing volunteers are needed to help chaperone a field trip for 150 students attending the Youth Wildlife Conservation Experience at the Salt Palace Convention Center.

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