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Letters Not the Final Solution

Regarding Clee Paul Ames’ letter [“The Clean Air Final Solution,” Jan. 30, City Weekly], I wanted to set the record straight on pure ammonia gas.

I have met Mr. Ames and agree with him on many issues.

I agree that air quality is a huge problem that will require creativity to solve; however, the data on the toxicity of ammonia gas is so overwhelming that, as a chemist, I felt I must share it with your readers.

According to the Material Safety Data Sheet (easily found on the web), “ammonia is an irritating flammable gas that causes severe eye, skin, and respiratory tract burns. Wear self-contained breathing apparatus when entering release area. Fully protective suits are required in large releases.

Symptoms of exposure may include burning sensations, coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, headache and nausea, and can also cause central nervous system effects including unconsciousness and convulsions. Upper airway damage is more likely and can result in bronchospasm. Vocal cords are particularly vulnerable to corrosive effects of high concentrations. Death has occurred following a five-minute exposure to an air concentration of 5 parts per thousand.”

If you have ever been overcome with ammonia fumes while cleaning your bathroom, you know what a low concentration of ammonia gas feels like. The first automobile accident involving a ruptured ammonia fuel tank could be catastrophic.

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If there’s anything we’ve learned from the Chinese government (whose lax oversight brought you melamine in baby formula), it’s that safety does not always come first.

Let’s put our heads together and come up with the thousand little ways necessary to clean our air, like outlawing refineries and incinerators in our urban valleys.

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City Weekly’s critique of Rocky Mountain Power [Hits & Misses, Jan. 30] is based on a misunderstanding about our proposed fee for residential customers in Utah who generate their own power and use net metering. That’s not a significant part of the overall price increase we’ve requested and wouldn’t affect most customers. And while it may be tempting to believe the proposed net metering fee is about RMP trying to increase profits, it doesn’t actually affect the total dollars recovered by the company. What it does is promote pricing that treats all customers fairly.

Currently, residential customers who generate a portion of their own electricity but stay connected to the grid via net metering aren’t paying their full share of the fixed costs to serve them. Those costs include the neighborhood poles, wires and electrical equipment they continue to depend on and services they receive regardless of the amount of electricity they use each month. Some of their

costs are being subsidized by other residential customers, including lower-income households.

Rocky Mountain Power has done much to support renewable energy in Utah. City Weekly praised Burton Lumber for installing solar panels but didn’t mention that funding from our Utah Solar Incentive Program helped make them possible. That’s part of $50 million in solar incentives being provided to Utah residents and businesses through the program over five years.

Also, our Blue Sky program recently awarded $1.8 million to 22 Utah organizations for community-based renewable energy projects. Since 2006, Blue Sky customers have supported more than 100 such projects across the state. We’re also one of the largest utility owners of wind resources in the country and our parent company is building the two largest solar projects in the world.

Rocky Mountain Power will continue to work to expand the renewable energy options available for our customers, but we think it’s important that customers’ individual energy choices not be allowed to negatively impact other customers’ electricity prices.

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OPINION

In 1987, when Tom Goldsmith came to Salt Lake City to be the minister of the First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City, he brought with him the memory of a jazz program he had attended in a New York City church a few years earlier. And in the 25 years since he started it in 1989, his version of Jazz Vespers—a “jazz alternative” to his Sunday-morning service—has developed a loyal following, most of whom are not Unitarians. “We opened the door to the jazz world and a whole new community came pouring in,” he recalls.

From the outset, Goldsmith had a clear idea of what he wanted Jazz Vespers to be.

“Jazz Vespers is not a jazz club,” he says. “It is the means of awakening a spirit within a deeply appreciative audience.”

Over the years, that audience has responded by asking Goldsmith to officiate at jazz weddings and to conduct jazz memorials. “It is a ministry,” Goldsmith says warmly. “The musicians and I serve the jazz community, and we’re filling a real need for that demographic.”

Goldsmith has steered Jazz Vespers away from a musical style he describes as “toe-tapping” or “easy-listening.” A level of sophistication is required of the listener, he says, even when an entire program is a tribute to the likes of Bob Marley, the Rolling Stones, James Brown or Carole King, as was the case in 2013.

“It is an educated audience that listens attentively,” says Steve Keen, a prominent jazz pianist who led Jazz Vespers from 2003 to 2009.

It is also a generous audience, judging from the fact that Jazz Vespers pays its own way, through donations. “I call it the Unitarian Jazz Miracle,” Goldsmith says with a smile. “It has never cost the church a penny.”

Despite its stately colonial exterior, the First Unitarian Church is conducive to jazz, Goldsmith says, because it is an intimate space—not a big hall. On the Sunday nights devoted to Jazz Vespers, the

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Scott Renshaw: Do my kids’ social events count? No? Then never mind.

Chad Allen: I’m in a curling league every Thursday at the Olympic Oval.

Shuffleboard on ice.

Jackie Briggs: I started an “I Hate Wells Fargo” group on MySpace. I thought it would be just for the LOLs for me and my friends, but within 24 hours, it had more than 3,000 members. The weirdest commenters were the tellers who would get on and defend Wells Fargo like it was their grandma.

David Halliday pews fill early for the 90-minute program, made up of performances by some of the city’s best jazz musicians and Goldsmith’s often-wry commentary, which he calls “View from the Other Side of the Wasatch.”

The early arrivals wait expectantly under the dimmed lights on the chandeliers, fiddling on their smartphones and reading their Kindles. The overflow crowd settles into an adjacent room to watch the performance simulcast on a big screen.

I confess to having a tin ear for jazz. I have a history with Dave Brubeck’s iconic Time Out album, and I like a few tracks on an album by Keith Jarrett gifted to me many years ago. That is the extent of my engagement with jazz.

Nevertheless, my Jazz Vespers experiences have been satisfying. Even one as untutored as I can appreciate the art of improvisation and the seamless interplay of piano, bass, sax and drums. Plus, the variety of music has its own appeal.

Keen says that he varied the sound and musical concept from week to week by rotating musicians. “If you didn’t care for the music one week, you could be sure that the following week would be nothing like it.”

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“Magical” is a term Goldsmith uses often when recalling 25 years of Jazz Vespers.

Magical performances have been commonplace over the years, thanks to the imprimatur of the three pianists—Vince Frates, Keen and Courtney Smith—who have successively anchored Jazz Vespers. Goldsmith estimates that since its earliest days, when the only other jazz venue in Salt Lake City was D.B. Cooper’s, 50 musicians have performed at one time or another at Jazz Vespers.

One of them, David Halliday, has been playing his sax for 13 years. Others, like vocalist Kelly Eisenhour, who now lives out of state, are returning for a special 25th-anniversary concert at the Rose Wagner Center on Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. KUER radio’s jazz director, Steve “Daddy-O” Williams, will emcee a program described

by Goldsmith as a not-to-be-missed “mixture of history, sentiment and joy.” Songs

by Glenn Miller, Junior Wells and Bono are among those on the celebratory program.

The concert is free and open to the public. “It would be an insult to charge for tickets,” Goldsmith says. CW

DJ Moody: You’ll normally find me at a show at The Urban Lounge or The State Room. When summer comes around, I’m at festivals like Bonaroo and Sasquatch and Dave Matthews Band shows.

Paydn Augustine: I generally keep to myself unless it’s a Magic the Gathering pre-release. That’s not much of a club, but not many people are into it. Magic is awesome.

Colin Wolf: This is kind of off-topic, but back in the day, I was a huge fan of the Subway Sub Club. Now I’m just a member of the JCC, which doesn’t reward my loyalty with sandwiches for some reason.

Kolbie Stonehocker: I have been a proud member of the Stay at Home With Cat club for years now.

Rachel Piper: I play Geeks Who Drink trivia (almost) every Tuesday. It feeds my bloodthirsty competitive side and finally puts my random knowledge about books, ABBA and horse movies to good use.

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No Lunch For You Agreed, don’t blame the hapless lunch ladies. You know, the weeping women who wrenched trays of food from unsuspecting children at Uintah Elementary.

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Commercials. Apparently they are more effective than you realize. Two in particular have created quite a buzz this past week. The first resulted in a public apology from Paul Mero of the Sutherland Institute conservative think tank that said, oops, he just misread a nondiscrimination bill, but still blamed sponsor Sen. Steve Urquhart for his “appeasement” (meaning: political concessions to an enemy power). “Tell him to quit appeasing,” Mero tweeted. So Brigham Young University will still be able to ban gays and lesbians from student housing. The second commercial, which aired during the Super Bowl, was a UDOT ad that featured an apparently sleeping child who was actually dead in the backseat of a car. Buckle up, mom driver, or you’re going to fly into the back seat and kill your kid. Hundreds of viewers complained or applauded the ad. Got your attention, didn’t they?

Zoned Out Talk about overreacting.

The University of Utah has decided to close its Red Zone apparel stores because they got criticized in a legislative audit. While the audit didn’t suggest that the U should shut down the stores, it did conjure up the conservative admonition about unfair competition with the private sector. Yes, we all have to be perfectly laissez faire in all we do these days.

Actually, the audit only advised that the U not advertise its stores, because that $1.9 million in sales represents lost revenue to tax-paying companies. Never mind that this is a strictly niche market and that the stores do pay property and sales taxes. Oh, and the employees are mostly students.

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Every Wednesday, Paula Colman drops off her kids at school and then drives up Little Cottonwood Canyon, where she hits the slopes for a few hours with other outdoorsy mothers. Colman (pictured far right) is part of SkiMums, a free meetup group for intermediate/advanced women skiers. They meet weekly on Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m. at the Gadzoom Lift at Snowbird Resort (9600 E. Little Cottonwood Canyon Road, Snowbird, 801-933-2222, Snowbird.com) to carve a little time out for themselves. Visit SkiMums.com for more info, and read the full interview at CityWeekly.net.

When did you decide to start SkiMums?

A few years ago, several local women figured out that if they set aside a certain day of the week to ski, they were actually able to pull it off. Last year, we called Snowbird telling them that they had a group of local women skiing there every week, and—pretty cheekily, looking back—asked if we could have some free hot chocolate. Snowbird figured out pretty quickly that this sounded like a lot of fun—which it is—and that other local women would love to do it, too.

What about women who don’t think they have the time for this?

We all need to carve out time for ourselves. Women and mothers, in particular, sometimes have a tougher time doing that. Whether they work inside or outside the home, women— sorry to generalize here—tend to fill every last moment with giving to their family, job, church, community and, then, perhaps themselves. However, all the research says that if they don’t recharge their batteries, they’ll do a poor job at the rest of it. Getting outdoors, breathing fresh air, getting exercise, socializing—that’s what makes people function better at home, at work and in the community. With a ski resort as close as the mall, Salt Lake women can get away for even an hour to accomplish these things. SkiMums is just a nudge to allow you to make it happen.

Do you think that SkiMums makes you a better mom?

Any time we give a little to ourselves, we’re able to give more to others. SkiMums gives women “permission” to play hooky for a few hours. Beyond that, being outside, standing at 11,000 feet above sea level on Hidden Peak, looking into the morning sun, and zooming into Mineral Basin with others cheering you on can only make you feel better and be a better parent, spouse and human being. Trying a new run, fresh powder or something a little steeper than you’ve tried before gives you a rush and a confidence that most women don’t experience on a regular basis—although carpooling is a close second.

What do you guys chat about on the lifts—is it all about motherhood?

What happens on the mountain, stays on the mountain! We’re women—we talk about everything. The SkiMums blog (SkiMums.com) is developing into a forum to address ski-related issues from gear to fear to what to eat at MidGad. We’re locals and tend to share info that we find interesting or amusing. One thing we’ve discovered is that compared to the vacationing skier, we actually know quite a bit about skiing and where to find the best resources or bargains in the area. It’s fun to share that with others, although we might be doing too good a job and have a few out-of-towners that now want to move here.

What we’ve also discovered is how little we know or take advantage of what’s available at Snowbird, especially if you have a season pass. The blog has been a good opportunity to discover the place anew and check out some of the food, lessons and deals available. Also, we’re planning to post a bunch of SkiMums’ favorite slow-cooker meals after confessing on the lifts one day that it was our “cheat” to staying on the slopes longer (dinner is already done!).

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Of course it’s an approximation, because the freezing point of saltwater varies based on salinity, but zero degrees is a rule of thumb. I’m not playing gotcha here—just battling misinformation wherever it rears its ugly head.

—Richard Forte Then let me assist you in your battle, Richard: you’re wrong.

I admit you’ve got a lot of company.

Wikipedia takes your side, as does at least one college physics textbook. But close examination makes it reasonably clear the seawater explanation derives from a misreading of the evidence.

In my 1989 column, I explained that Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, the father of the Fahrenheit scale, based his system of temperature measurement on an earlier scale devised by Danish astronomer Ole Roemer.

Roemer, I said, had set zero arbitrarily—his main consideration was that it was colder than the temperature ever got in Denmark, because he didn’t like using negative numbers in his weather logbook.

Roemer’s scale had 7 1/2 as the freezing point of water and 22 1/2 as body temperature, in those days called “blood heat.” To get rid of the awkward fractions, Fahrenheit did some multiplication, eventually winding up with 32 as the freezing point and 96 as body temperature. (Boiling point initially didn’t figure in his scheme.)

I said that when Fahrenheit was set to demonstrate his system to London’s Royal Society in 1724, he worried it would look odd if zero on his scale was untethered to reality, and thus had to concoct a rationale. Here’s what he wrote in the paper he presented: “The division of the scale depends on three fixed points, which can be determined in the following manner. The first is found in the uncalibrated part or the beginning of the scale, and is determined by a mixture of ice, water and sal ammoniac [ammonium chloride], or even sea salt.”

The “or even” part (the original Latin phrase is vel etiam [salis] maritimi) is a giveaway—the freezing point of seawater was an afterthought. Fahrenheit underscores this as he continues: “If the thermometer is placed in [the water-ice-ammonium chloride] mixture, its liquid descends as far as the degree that is marked with a zero. This experiment succeeds better in winter than in summer.”

Think what this means: The method supposedly used to determine zero on Fahrenheit’s scale doesn’t always work.

Who would be foolish enough to invent a temperature scale that wouldn’t permit thermometers to be reliably calibrated? In contrast, the freezing point of fresh water, as manifested in an ice/water mixture, is constant for practical purposes, making it a dependable benchmark. It seems obvious

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the ammonium chloride/seawater procedure had been invented after the fact to provide a physical correlative for a point originally chosen for other reasons.

But you needn’t take my word for it. In a letter Fahrenheit wrote to a patron on April 17, 1729, he says that when he visited Roemer in 1708, he found several thermometers being calibrated by standing in water and ice. These thermometers were then heated to body heat, and “after [Roemer] had marked these two points on them all, half the distance found between them was added below the point of water and ice, and this whole distance was divided into 22 1/2 parts, beginning at the bottom with 0, arriving thus at 7 1/2 for the point of water mixed with ice, and 22 1/2 for the point of “blood heat.”

There you have it. Fahrenheit, following Roemer, simply determined the distance between the marks for the freezing point of water and body heat on his glass thermometers (64 degrees, in the scale he would ultimately develop), measured off half this distance (32 degrees) below the freezing point, and called that zero.

Recounting this story in a 1991 article, R.J. Soulen of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory writes: “The zero on this scale had no fundamental meaning, following the tradition of others who preceded him. Fahrenheit chose to define a zero below the coldest temperature likely to be encountered by everyday use of his thermometers.”

As I said.

To be fair, Fahrenheit wasn’t the only early scientist to come up with quirky calibration procedures: n Robert Boyle proposed that thermometers should be calibrated to the temperature of congealing aniseed oil. n Joachim Dalencé suggested pegging thermometers to the freezing point of water and the melting point of butter. n The Encyclopaedia Britannica thought a useful temperature reference point was “water just hot enough to let wax, that swims upon it, begin to coagulate.”

At least these benchmarks were practical. Try calibrating your thermometer using the standard proposed by 19th-century Scottish astronomer Charles Piazzi Smith, who nominated a scale set to “the mean temperature of the King’s Chamber at the center of the Great Pyramid of Giza.”

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“We’re the No. 1 permit in the nation. I worked very hard to get us there.” —Rep. Curtis Oda, R-Clearfield

Year of the Gun

Lawmakers disagree over whether Utah’s popular concealed-carry permit should be a point of pride or of profit.

By Colby Frazier cfrazier@cityweekly.net @colbyfrazierlp Whip out a Utah driver’s license in any liquor store in the country and listen as the clerk chuckles, “Utah, huh?” While this piece of plastic might be scorned in certain circles, there is one form of Utah identification that is beloved by tens of thousands of non-Utahns: a Beehive State-issued concealed-weapons permit.

When it comes to concealing weapons, Utah is king. Its license, obtainable for $46 for residents and $51 for nonresidents, was issued to 141,257 people in 2013—72 percent of whom do not live in Utah. It can be purchased at LAX Firing Range in Los Angeles; at Genesis Firearms in Waldorf, Md., where they “specialize in the Utah concealed-firearm permit course”; and from 1,518 other registered non-Utah instructors across the country. In all, Utah has 535,857 active permits, 342,245 of which are out of state.

Utah’s license, known as a CCW (carrying a concealed weapon), is beloved by weapons enthusiasts for its ease to obtain and its broad recognition by other states. If an applicant passes a background check and has enough money, Utah’s CCW permit can be won by taking a four-hour weapons safety course—no shooting necessary. And Utah’s permit is recognized by 35 other states—more than any other—making it a premier license for anyone with a pistol on their belt.

The state’s stature in the CCW market has been carved out over time by state legislators like Rep. Curtis Oda, R-Clearfield, who is a certified CCW instructor and is proud of Utah’s firearm-friendly reputation.

“We’re the No. 1 permit in the nation,” Oda says. “I worked very hard to get us there.”

Utah’s burgeoning place in the CCW market came into focus Jan. 29 during a legislative appropriation subcommittee meeting for the Utah Department of Public Safety, where it was revealed that the state received 165,000 permit requests in 2013 (not all were granted, and some hadn’t been processed by year’s end).

Utah’s concealed-carry permit is recognized in 36 states. More than 141,000 permits were issued in 2013—almost double 2012’s number.

On hearing this figure, Sen. Jim Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City, suggested that Utah should substantially raise the fees to as much as $500 for out-of-state CCW permits. The comment sparked a fierce rebuke from Oda, who said raising the fee would be akin to a tax hike. The debate was cut short, but could likely return when the committee convenes in the coming weeks to discuss policy issues.

Dabakis says he would relish cranking up the fees on CCW permits, but that political will for such a measure is thin.

“He can try,” Oda says of any attempt

by Dabakis to hike the fee, vowing: “It’s not going to go anyplace.”

Although Utahns aren’t seeing big bucks from the state’s liberal issuance of CCW permits, weapons instructors across the country are. And in 2013, spurred by the threat of gun-control legislation in the aftermath of the Newtown, Conn., shooting, where 20 children and six adults were massacred, business was good.

The flow of permit requests tracks closely with tragedy. In November 2012, just a month before the Newtown shooting, Utah fielded requests for 6,500 CCW permits, says Jason Chapman, a firearms supervisor for Utah’s Bureau of Criminal Identification, which reviews the permits. A month after the shootings, in January 2013, the number rose to nearly 13,000 requests, just 59 shy of the previous single-month record.

The record books were reset in March, when the state processed 19,000, and again in April, when it sifted through 19,000 more.

The total number of permits issued in 2013 broke 2012’s record of 81,122 by more than 60,000.

This translates to big money for instate and out-of-state weapons instructors, who charge up to $200 for the Utah CCW course.

Some instructors interviewed for this story say Utah’s permit is sought

out simply because it is recognized by so many other states. Florida and Arizona’s CCW permits are recognized by 34 states apiece. And it’s common, instructors say, for those seeking a permit to obtain them from all three of these states, plus the state where the course is being taught, in order to be recognized across a wider swath of the country.

Robert Dick, owner of Save Your Six, a weapons training outfit in Roseville, Calif., says the broad recognition of Utah’s license comes in handy to his clientele of bounty hunters, who often cross state lines to retrieve assets.

“Those three nonresident permits get you the most state coverage to be able to carry concealed,” says Dick, who says he has contemplated moving to Utah because of its loose gun laws.

“I think another reason is that Utah is a very gun-friendly state. Utah’s always been a lower cost [permit] as well.”

Utah’s permit is cheaper than Arizona’s, which costs $60, while Florida’s is $112. Utah’s $15 renewal fee lags far behind Arizona’s $43 and Florida’s $102.

Even so, Utah’s fees cover the costs associated with the program. Nicole Borgeson, assistant director of Utah’s Bureau of Criminal Identification, says no general-fund money is used to supplement the state’s concealed-carry program, which in the last fiscal year brought in $5 million, while expenditures were only $2.3 million.

But the crush of applications strained personnel, Borgeson says, prompting the department to hire six new employees.

Praised by Oda and disparaged by Dabakis, Utah’s law has one hole that has come under scrutiny in states like Nevada: It does not require applicants to demonstrate proficiency in firing a weapon.

Nevada recently dropped Utah from the list of states it recognizes through a reciprocity agreement—a “you support us if we support you” kind of deal—that many states arrange.

“The reason we don’t recognize Utah is because they changed their training standard where they no longer require live fire,” says Bob Roshak, executive director of the Nevada Sheriffs & Chiefs Association, which is charged in the Silver State with approving or disapproving of other states’ laws. “If you’re going to be carrying a gun, you should know how to shoot it, and you should be able to hit what you’re aiming at.”

Oda says Utah’s training course, which he teaches, is modeled after one recommended by the National Rifle Association and is stringent enough. And he is steadfast in his belief that Utah’s fee should not cost anyone a dime more than it costs the state to process the application.

“The role of government is to provide services, not to make a profit,” he says.

“As far as I’m concerned, they’re still citizens of the United States. We shouldn’t be punishing them just because they’re from another part of the country.”

Oda also says Nevada’s refusal to recognize Utah’s permit was about jealousy, not safety. He says Nevada residents were obtaining Utah permits because they were cheaper. An effort by Texas and Arizona to sever reciprocity agreements with Utah was thwarted, Oda says, when he and his colleagues tweaked the law to require all nonresidents to obtain their own state’s permit while receiving Utah’s.

“That takes away the money argument,” Oda says.

For Dabakis, Utah’s permitting process is shameful. He says he wishes Utah could transfer some of the pride it has in being the nation’s premier issuer of CCW permits to education funding, in which the state ranks near the nation’s bottom.

“We turn those out like some kind of child-labor factory of concealedweapons permits,” Dabakis says. “I would regulate the consumption of concealed weapons permits in Utah with the same severity with which we regulate alcohol.” CW

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Members would provide a public forum on women’s issues in the economy and would conduct studies of policies and programs in government and the private sector that support women’s rights and contributions to the economy.

If HB90 is passed, the commission would also host company representatives lauded for workplace flexibility.

One such company is Salt Lake City’s Christopherson Business Travel, which won an Alfred Sloan award in 2013 for flexibility. Kathleen Roberts, a business development manager at Christopherson, says the company embraces a philosophy of treating employees as “assets” instead of punishing them if they need to take time off to visit family in the hospital, take children to parent-teacher conferences or deal with whatever else life throws at them. The company even has a female manager who works remotely from out of state after her husband had to relocate from Utah for a new job.

“Employees are loyal to this company, because when something comes up, they know they’ll get the support they need,” Roberts says.

Such flexibility is a way of accomodating employees that Seelig’s commission would like to help support, especially in recognizing the sometimes-undervalued role of women and mothers in the workplace.

Holly Richardson—a conservative blogger, former lawmaker, candidate for legislative office and mother of a “ton” of kids— says she’s read Seelig’s bill and believes it’s a great idea. She says that while there may be some cultural resistance to get past, there’s also a need to recognize women who work, and to begin a much-needed discussion about helping them out.

“We have this cultural norm that says we stay home with our kids,” Richardson says.

“A lot of us do, and I did with my babies when they were little. But a lot of moms don’t live in this ideal world—some marriages don’t last, the income’s not enough, the economy’s rough or they have lowpaying jobs. So I always applaud any effort to help moms and to help women.” CW

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While many Utah women might want wife and mother to be their sole career, a bad economy has forced many to juggle new jobs along with their family lives. Meanwhile, according to recent census data, Utah ranks fourth from the bottom in disparity between men’s and women’s pay. And at least one Utah lawmaker says this is a problem that doesn’t affect just women, but everyone.

“This is about the whole family,” says Rep. Jennifer Seelig, D-Salt Lake City. The need for Utah to take a hard look at the gulf between what women make in wages compared to men goes beyond women and mothers, she says, and extends to how families as a whole are affected by how companies treat the family breadwinner— whether that’s the mom or the dad, or whether the family includes a houseful of rugrats or elderly parents or relatives.

Seelig says that in researching how women become politically engaged, she’s come to realize how artificial the lines are that divide up a person’s life.

“When you start talking to people about political participation and you start to peel back the layers of why people participate or why they can’t, [it comes back] to these spheres of ‘public’ and ‘private’ life we’ve created,” Seelig says. “There’s family life, then work life, then political life—but it’s not the reality. The reality is that all of these things are merged into who we are as individuals and with our families and communities.”

And she believes that what holds true for politics also applies to business, which is why she’s running a bill that would create a commission to study women in business and support flexible company practices that help female employees balance their home and work lives.

A major element of the proposed commission would be including representatives from local small, mid-size and large companies that have been recognized for progressive policies that allow employees—especially female ones—flexibility in their work and care-giving roles. Besides providing flexibility with maternity and paternity leave, such companies may also offer onsite daycare and other means of supporting parents.

The commission proposed in Seelig’s House Bill 90 would include 11 members, with seats filled by representatives from the governor’s office and local companies, plus lawmakers and a domestic-violence service provider—a crucial position, Seelig says, given the link between a woman’s economic stability and her ability to leave an abusive home.

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Police investigating a burglary in Iowa City, Iowa, identified Carloss D. Sanders, 20, as their suspect after they found a debit card issued to him at the scene and then followed a set of distinctive footprints from the back door through the snow to Sanders’ residence. (Cedar Rapids’ KCRG-TV)

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Brain Freeze After two men got lost driving on rural roads east of Pincher Creek, Alberta, they ran off the road and into a ditch. Fearing they might freeze to death in the sub-zero weather, they removed the crashed vehicle’s seats and set them on fire, along with all of their personal belongings. As that fire died out, the men decided to burn the car. “They actually had two fires going,” RCMP Cpl. Jeffrey Feist said. “Their car was completely consumed by fire.” In the morning, the men, both of whom had cell phones, discovered they were within walking distance of a nearby house and headed there to find help.

Authorities who responded took the men to the hospital for treatment for minor burns and frostbite and arrested one for outstanding warrants. (Canada’s QMI Agency)

8. 2007: The Ocho launches,

years before Buzzfeed ruins lists for everyone.

7. 2008: City Weekly’s editor

asks, “How long has this ‘Ocho’ thing been here?”

6.

2009: The Ocho is optioned for an action-film franchise, Eight Ways to Die Hard, Fast & Furiously.

5. 2010: The franchise is shelved, then resurfaces as an unauthorized adult DVD, Eight Dudes & Asa Akira.

4.

n Police reported that a man who built a fire to keep warm outside a house in Sisters, Ore., decided to stoke the fire by pouring gasoline on it. The resulting explosion severely burned four people. (Portland’s KPTV-TV)

Blame Hipsters and the Red Sox Trendy facial hair is hurting the bottom line at Gillette, whose owner, Procter & Gamble, reported “seeing a slight decline in wet shaving incidence in the U.S. right now driven by fashion.”

P&G Chief Financial Officer Jon R. Moeller also blamed sagging razor sales on Movember, an annual charity event whose participants raise awareness of prostate cancer by growing mustaches. Meanwhile, noting “increased shaving below the neck, particularly among younger men,” ages 18 to 24, P&G has begun marketing its new Gillette Body razor to meet “guys’ holistic shaving needs.” (Los Angeles Times)

Vehicular Cabaret After two women having car trouble pulled into a gas station near Albany, Ore., police said that a barefoot woman approached and dropped her pants. She ran off but returned

2011: The first (and last) Ocho-Con is held at the Salt Palace; dozens accidentally wander in from an adjacent gun show.

n David Counceller, 60, police chief of Connersville, Ind., accidentally shot himself in the leg at a gun shop while examining a handgun similar to the one he carries. He had compared the two Glocks and was putting his back into its holster when “it got tangled in my clothing” and fired, he explained, adding, “I need to pay more attention.” (Indianapolis Star) n Chicago police said Joeann Smith, 52, accidentally shot and killed a 65-year-old relative during an argument about whether the weapon would fire when she pointed it at his face and pulled the trigger. (Chicago Sun-Times) n Dean Buckley, 59, was shooting at a water tower from his backyard target range in Paso Robles, Calif., but two shots missed and went into his neighbor’s house. When the neighbor complained, Buckley reportedly declared, “I can do anything I want on my own property” and fired three more rounds from his .45-caliber revolver. Police charged Buckley with felony discharge of a firearm with gross negligence. (San Luis Obispo’s The Tribune)

Perils of Progress

Kaveh Kamooneh spent more than 15 hours in jail after authorities arrested him for plugging his Nissan Leaf into an electrical outlet at a middle school in Chamblee, Ga., and drawing about a nickel’s worth of power. “He stole something that wasn’t his,” said police Sgt. Ernesto Ford, who ticketed Kamooneh 20 minutes after he admitted plugging in without the school’s permission. “A theft is a theft.” (Atlanta’s WXIA-TV) n Electric cars are sparking “charge rage” in California’s Silicon Valley, where the number of electric vehicles being driven to work far exceeds the number of charging stations.

As a result, some employees are unplugging other cars so they can charge theirs, creating animosity. “Having two chargers and 20 electric cars is worse than having no chargers and 20 electric cars,” said Pat Romano, CEO of ChargePoint, which operates an EV-charging network. (Associated Press) Compiled from mainstream news sources by Roland Sweet.

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2013: Gov. Gary Herbert buys a second refrigerator to accommodate his Ocho clippings.

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n A man told police in North Charleston, S.C., that an unknown man had shot him in the foot. When witnesses said they had seen the victim playing with a gun when it fired, the man admitted accidentally shooting himself. (Charleston’s WCIV-TV)

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shortly, climbed onto the car’s hood and began jumping up and down until she caved in the windshield. She then jumped down and ran across Interstate 5. The occupants called 911, and a state trooper arrested Victoria Dawn Lohmann, 24.

(Portland’s KPTV-TV)

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n Surveillance video of an attempted break-in at a Chicago bar showed the would-be burglar removing the lock on the front door. He got no further, police Officer Jose Estrada said, because instead of obeying the sign on the door that read “PUSH,” he kept aggressively pulling. He finally left in frustration. (Chicago’s DNAInfo.com)

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Weapons of Mass Solutions If you happen to think that politicians’ contributions to the pollution debate are more about hot air than clean air, then swing on by a special Idea Silo, where average citizens will brainstorm solutions to Utah’s red-air days. This week, the State Board of Education will be talking about a host of program updates and will also be discussing education bills on the Hill. For another perspective on Utah’s air, check out an artists’ roundtable discussion comparing the gritty air common in both Salt Lake City and Beijing.

Idea Silo: Developing Weapons of Mass Solutions Thursday, Feb. 6

The nonprofit Revolution United is hosting a brainstorming session and organizing rally for average citizens who want to do something now about Utah’s air instead of waiting with fingers crossed for state leaders to act. This free event will present facts on air pollution and develop grassroots project teams to tackle the problem, stat.

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Utah State Board of Education Friday, Feb. 7

The state board will be hosting an all-day meeting covering issues related to Utah’s most precious (non-fossil-fuel) resource: children. Discussions will consider the statewide online education program and a graduation & grading task-force report, among other items. The board will also receive an update on the Legislature’s education bills and funding plans. The event runs all day, but public comment will start around 10:40 a.m.

Utah State Office of Education, 250 E. 500 South, 801-538-7517, all day, Schools.Utah.gov/Board

Beijing-SLC Connect Monday, Feb. 10

If there’s one thing common to a conservative “red” state like Utah and a socialist “red” country like China, it might be the red-air days. That’s why a unique art project is comparing the abysmal air in Beijing and Salt Lake City as a way of raising awareness of the problem and how different cultures respond to the crisis (see more p. 23). Come check out the art and hear from the artists themselves about their unique project and the not-so-unique public-health problem.

Gittins Gallery, University of Utah, 375 S. 1300 East, 801-581-6888, 4:30 p.m., Beijing-SLC.Web.Utah.edu

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Utah volunteers work closely with local Haitians to mend a broken country.

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mages of an earthquake-ravaged Haiti have faded from the collective world conscience these days, replaced by occasional photos of horrific poverty and desperate living conditions, seen firsthand by the non-governmental organizations and missionaries who still travel to the country to give aid.

On the two-hour plane ride from Miami to Port-au-Prince, you’ll see clusters of volunteers, some wearing matching T-shirts that advertise their cause or group.

You’ll see it again inside the main terminal of the airport in Haiti’s capital, Portau-Prince, as you walk past volunteers queuing for a return flight to the United States.

These volunteers keep coming back to Haiti, long after it fails to produce shocking headlines for newspapers.

Utah is one of the top-ranking states in the country for donations to charities— largely fueled by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ emphasis on overseas missionary work—but what happens to those donations on the ground rarely gets discussed.

For years, The Hope Alliance (THA), a Park City-based nondenominational non-governmental organization (NGO), has been sending teams to Haiti, Peru and Guatemala, as well as occasionally to other nations, including India,

Mexico and China. On average, THA sends volunteers to Haiti four or five times a year, often to Camatin, a rural mountainous village about three hours from Port-au-Prince, to help out at an orphanage, repair homes, deliver portable water filtration systems, start micro-enterprises for locals, fulfill medical needs, feed children and donate food and supplies.

In Haiti, or anywhere else in the world where those who don’t speak the local language try to help out, translators and passionate locals are the ties that bind. Without them, NGOs like THA would, in effect, become little more than bandages on problems that are long-festering and deeply endemic.

One of those powerful ties is Remedor Fritzner Robinson, a 29-year-old Haiti native who works with THA as a translator and more.

Robinson’s “involvement and wisdom,” says THA’s Haiti project director, Kym Meehan, “is essential to any impact we want to make.”

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Robinson, who speaks Creole, English, French and a little bit of Spanish, grew up in the area of Port-au-Prince known as Cité Soleil, which has been dubbed by A Camatin resident the United Nations as one of the world’s most desperate, dangerous slums. His outside one of the first mother, Darline Joseph Remedor, sold charcoal to help feed her family. Early homes that volunteers and often, she impressed upon Robinson the value of education and faith in God. helped reroof, working Before he worked with THA, Robinson translated for missionaries and helped alongside paid locals manage a medical clinic in Cité Soleil. who eventually took Meehan met Robinson about a year after the January 2010 magnitude-7 earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people and left hundreds of thousands of over the job others without homes. Meehan had been awarded a grant to build a schoolhouse that could double as a church, and the same grantor asked her to check out how grant funds were being used at a clinic in Cité Soleil that at the time was being managed by Robinson.

They struck a bond and decided to meet for lunch at a hotel in Port-au-Prince to talk more. Lunch grew into a partnership that has become a lasting friendship.

Now married with a young daughter, Robinson is one of THA’s most valuable staffmembers.

“From my point of view, he is my adviser, my translator, and he is one of my few buffers in Haitian culture,” Meehan says. “Because he is one of my best friends, he will not let me make cultural, financial, emotional or dangerous mistakes. … When I start to plan a trip, he is part of the conversation from the very start—what shall we do, where should we go, how best to spend my funding.”

Robinson knows how to command and keep an audience, and his skills and passion have made him Meehan’s go-to guy for translating, preplanning and in-country logistics every time she comes to Camatin with THA. She also keeps in touch with him throughout the year about ongoing projects or ideas he might have for new programs.

And to follow Robinson through his work with THA is to witness how aid can transform not only those it seeks to help, but those it employs, too.

“He is uplifting to be around, and I believe that is because he is genuine in his desire to lift up all those around him,” says Melissa Caffey, THA’s executive director.

THA’s working philosophy is to transform critical needs into sustainable change by building lasting relationships within the host countries where they serve.

But that’s not always easy because, as Caffey puts it, the Robinsons of the world are pretty rare individuals.

“A big challenge NGOs can face is developing trustworthy in-country program staff,” Caffey says. “Due to many reasons, such as cultural differences, entitlement, desperate circumstances or the misrepresentation that NGOs have a lot of money just waiting to be spent, we sometimes find that local staff people become involved under the pretense of helping their fellow countrymen when, in fact, they become involved for economic and Two girls from Camatin in perceived ‘status’ reasons ... [and] often begin to their school, which has a increase or pad their budgets or tell us what they blue tarp for a ceiling and think we want to hear instead of accurate expendipalm fronds for walls tures or honest situation assessments.”

And on the flip side, Robinson has seen plenty of do-gooders and missionaries come to Haiti long on messianic ideals but short on tact and understanding.

“Some NGOs just send money to Haiti [and] don’t care where it goes,” he says. “Some NGOs, they think for Haitian people: ‘You should have this, you should have that.’ ”

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Below and far right: children attend school in Camatin

But not , he says, THA or Meehan, who “participates—she gets her hands dirty. She don’t just say, ‘I’m going to do this for you.’ She comes in together with you and asks you what’s best for you. ... She feels the Camatin people’s pain. When you suffer, it’s like she suffers with you. She wants to make sure your suffering stop.”

But, Robinson says, it’ll take much more than wellmeaning volunteers to truly effect change in his beloved country.

“We’ve been suffering for so long,” he says.

“THIS IS MY COUNTRY”

Robinson traces his country’s anguish all the way back to the 1490s when Christopher Columbus landed on the island of Hispaniola, which eventually was split into Haiti on one side and the Dominican Republic on the other.

Spanish settlers needed to replenish their supplies of slaves because the indigenous Taino and Arawak Indians were dying off from diseases. So throughout the 1500s, the settlers brought over African slaves to work in mines and on sugar plantations. Soon, Spain shared Hispaniola with France, which is where Haiti got its Creole version of French.

Slaves revolted in the 1790s, and in 1804, Haitians declared their independence. But the country’s economy, already suffering, was made even worse by widespread deforestation throughout Haiti.

Civil unrest, unimaginable poverty and corrupt governments have defined life in Haiti since it won its freedom. The United States and its military have stepped in a few times, and today, the United Nations still has a peacekeeping presence in Haiti, as seen in the occasional truck thundering by with armed soldiers aboard.

Robinson has very little good to say about past presidents of Haiti, and his hope for President Michel Joseph “Sweet Mickey” Martelly, a musician elected in 2011, is tempered by perennial aftershocks of past corrupt governments.

“I have hope, because I think Martelly thinks a different way,” Robinson says. “He has vision, but we have powerful politicians who are bad businessmen who will try to

st op between Western doctors and the Haitian midwives Martelly. and “voodoo medicine men,” who normally care for The corruppregnant women. tion in Haiti is like a A pregnant young woman named Ephèse Surin had system. Maybe Martelly is walked to the yellow concrete building to attend the clinic, involved already in that system.” but just yards away from the entrance, she started The corruption, Robinson says, is fueled labor and instead sought shade from the intense by unchecked donations from NGOs that throw midday heat under a nearby tree. money and resources at a problem without Mari Kaye Monday, a Medic Samaritan holding anyone accountable. volunteer from Tennessee, tried to tell On top of that, he adds, many Haitians the expectant mother in Creole, Ephèse’s who have the money, influence or leadnative language, how important it was ership to help change things in Haiti that she go to a hospital right away, don’t live there most of the time or at all, but Monday’s Creole vocabulary was instead choosing places like Miami to insufficient to the task. call home and educate their children.

A machete hanging from his waist, “America cannot help us to change Ephèse’s father, a farmer who lived that system,” he says. “The system can be near the school, helplessly paced in changed when Haitians realize that this circles alongside the road after being is my country—it’s my house, it’s my place, told his daughter was in labor.

—Haiti native Remedor I have to make it become better and I have Finally alerted about the woman Fritzner Robinson to not think about having a house in another about to give birth just steps away from country.” the school, Robinson cut short his talk and Talking about Haiti’s system of government boarded the back of an open-air flatbed truck puts him in some danger, he notes, but it’s a risk he with Monday and Ephèse and her father. It was says is worth taking. decided they’d drive into the costal town of Jacmel, visible “How can you say ‘I love my country, I’m going to do from Camatin high in the mountains. something for my country,’ when you’re not even have Ephèse’s water broke in the back of the truck just as that country in your blood?” Robinson asks. “To change they arrived at the hospital in Jacmel. Robinson’s cool but a system, first, every Haitian should realize that we not firm leadership during tense, loud negotiations with hoswait for the blanc [white people], for America or France to pital staff allowed her to be admitted in time to give birth bring change. I have to bring the change, no matter what. to a healthy baby girl—a noisy, beautiful reminder of the If I have to die for the change, it’s my country—I’m going life that Robinson is helping to breathe into this area. to do it.”

Kym Meehan “don’t just say, ‘I’m going to do this for you.’ She comes in together with you and asks you what’s best for you. ... She feels the Camatin people’s pain.”

BRIDGING THE GAPS

On Oct. 15, 2013, inside Camatin’s small, sweltering yellow concrete schoolhouse, Robinson was translating a free clinic for new and expectant mothers given by Englishspeaking volunteers from Park City.

He spoke to his audience with his eyes as well as his hands; occasionally a sudden smile broke out over his face or his voice went up an octave during a moment of emphasis as he explained to the women with swollen bellies that prenatal vitamins would not make their babies “huge.”

The schoolhouse clinic was the second of three such clinics run by 12 THA volunteers. Robinson and Meehan view these new clinics as a way to bridge social gaps

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Meehan’s base of operations in Camatin is an orphanage with about 30 children, mostly girls, where THA connects sponsors with children to help fund operations in Haiti.

One day during Meehan’s recent visit, she and another volunteer sat with a woman who could not afford to feed all of her children. The mother chose one, a scared, skinny little girl, to give up to the orphanage, where she’d be fed and, just up the hill, educated at the sturdy yellow schoolhouse.

Families being forced to make these kinds of decisions is not uncommon in Haiti, where work—and thus food and

A group of children gather at Claire’s home, which volunteers visited to assess for repairs

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Stephen Speckman is a Salt Lake City writer and photographer. This was his second self-funded trip to Haiti.

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Every night during THA’s final 2013 visit, Meehan called all the volunteers up on the roof of the orphanage for a starlit chat about the day’s events, the highs and lows.

A recurring high is just how grateful Haitians, who have so little, were for simple things.

At one point, a little boy was given a new backpack with school supplies and a pair of used shoes. But what he seemed to care about most was whether the pack contained a pencil. It did—and he was happy.

A common low point is the cultural differences that interfere even when skilled translators are involved.

Meehan had talked to Ephèse’s father the day THA volunteers arrived in Camatin in October 2013. She knew the

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man, whom she calls Pape, from previous visits. He’d told Meehan about his pregnant daughter and how he had kicked her out of his house. Pape was too poor to care for his entire family and had previously given one of his own seven children to the nearby orphanage that THA maintains in Camatin.

“I asked him about love and how mistakes could turn this love off, about judgments and, if he judged the kids for premarital sex, how might others look at him about having a daughter in an orphanage run by a bunch of ‘whities’ from Utah,” Meehan says. “He said that because of this, I could never understand the depth of his shame.”

Yet even this low changed after Robinson and Monday took Ephèse to the hospital to give birth.

At dusk on the last night THA was in Haiti, Pape led a group that included Monday and Robinson over a narrow trail and down into a valley to a simple wood home with a tin roof. Inside the dark house, lit by a single candle, were the new parents.

With Robinson translating, he and Monday learned that the parents wished to name the girl after them and to have them be her godparents.

Both agreed, taking turns holding Marisonya as Meehan looked on.

Meehan later recounted how the birth of a child brought one family back together and formed new bonds with a second family.

“I hear Pape and his son-in-law work together on his farm. I hear the young Marisonya is well and will be baptized when I am next in country, and that they will wait until I return,” Meehan said. “So, I am blessed one more time to witness life getting in life’s way, social justice working out, love dominating even shame and poverty, and the beauty of the Haitian people.” CW

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One of THA’s goals is jump-starting the local economy in Haiti by creating jobs and helping people start micro enterprises. On this trip, Meehan and other women in the group taught about 25 women from the Camatin area how to make bracelets. Meehan plans to sell them back in the United States, with all of the revenue going back to the artisans and to supplies. Meehan also leaned on Robinson to help a group of men from Cité Soleil start a business making and selling decorations made out of tin.

On this trip, Meehan and Robinson, with help from other locals, assessed needs at several homes in the Camatin area that badly needed repairs.

Prior to arriving in Haiti, volunteers had purchased supplies with donated funds, and now volunteers helped haul those supplies into the first of several homes slated for work, then took part in the demolition.

The paid locals, a few working in bare feet and using machetes as their main tools, quickly took over construction operations, which is the kind of self-governance THA hopes for on every expedition.

On another day, a group of volunteers delivered food, water filtration systems and school supplies to a crowded structure made from palm fronds for walls and a threadbare blue tarp for a ceiling, held up by trunks of small trees harvested by men with machetes.

It was also the setting for the third of Robinson’s clinics—and by that point they really were his clinics, as he did all of the talking while Meehan and others simply watched.

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Jeff Ross has a well-earned nickname in the entertainment industry—and it’s a rather fitting one, too. Following in the footsteps of old masters such as Rodney Dangerfield and Buddy Hackett, Ross has perfected the artful sling of the insult, making him the Roast Master General.

It is an art; taking someone down with a witty barb is harder than it looks. It has to be personal enough to sting, yet not personal to the point where you come off as jealous or simply mean. Ross has sharpened his wit to the point that it can cut straight to the bone of his target without severing any arteries. In fact, Ross has become so good at delivering biting barbs that he literally wrote the book on the matter: I Only Roast the Ones I Love: Busting Balls Without Burning Bridges.

Of course, the simplest way to be able to deliver a great zinger is to use self-deprecating humor to your advantage, as Ross does. It’s hard to blame the snarker when they themselves admit to being a complete idiot at the same time they’re taking down Shaq or David Hasselhoff.

As part of his “Roast You” tour, Ross also invites audience members onto the stage to take part in an impromptu neighborhood roast. If anybody has proven that he can pull off taking down the local librarian with a few bawdy jokes, or poking fun at your neighbor and his insane yard decorations, it’s everybody’s favorite Roast Master General. (Jacob Stringer) Jeff Ross @ Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, Park City, 435-649-9371, Feb. 6-8, 8 p.m., $39-$70. EgyptianTheatreCompany.org

Water assumes a meditative serenity and gentle motion in “A Surface Story” by Connie Borup (pictured). Perched on the bank of this tranquility is a small aspen with leaves arching over the water. The leaves have an airy randomness, casting a capricious reflection on the water.

Only with this essential reflection are the distinctive qualities of this surface made manifest.

Landscape painting is the primary art subject of Utah’s past and present, making it difficult for any of the numberless landscape artists to make a significant mark; few truly stand out from the rest. Without using inventive processes, Borup is nevertheless a standout landscapist, currently with a solo show at Phillips Gallery.

How she manages to accomplish the exceptional requires a unique vision of her subject. Though landscape painters most often alter their subject, in accordance with the methodology of the form, Borup instead works with it to create lush, clear compositions, bringing out the natural essential substance.

Along with “A Surface Story,” other canvases demonstrate equally rich and lucid surface views of water energized by their immediate environments—flora, boulders, reflections, grasses— acting as a proscenium for the water. As the focus, water is brought to life by reflection, light, shadow, ripple, current or variation in hue and tonality. The environmental features appear purposeful; what could have been only a mass of color instead reveals the beauty of each unique surface. (Ehren Clark) Connie Borup: Waterscapes @ Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, 801-364-8284, through Feb. 14, free. Phillips-Gallery.com

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Ballet West: The Sleeping Beauty Hardly a child today is not familiar with the beloved tale of Sleeping Beauty, first published by Charles Perrault in 1697. The story has everything a fairy tale should: a lost princess, handsome princes, magical fairies and strange spells. And through the centuries the story has been told in many forms, including an 1890 ballet originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and scored by Tchaikovsky.

This week, Ballet West presents The Sleeping Beauty, which easily makes it onto the list of the 10 most famous, must-see ballets along with The Nutcracker and Swan Lake—also with original choreography and music by Petipa and Tchaikovsky. It begins at the christening of the newborn Princess Aurora, when an uninvited guest—Carabosse, the Fairy of Jealousy—casts an evil spell cursing the princess to die by the prick of a spindle. The remaining acts follow Aurora as she pricks her finger on her 16th birthday, sending the entire kingdom into a deep magical sleep to be broken only by the kiss of a prince.

The colorful performance includes a large and enchanted cast that includes, along with Aurora and the royal court, six fairies, princes from the four corners of the earth, and a contingent of fairy-tale characters including Puss in Boots and Little Red Riding Hood.

And in order to reinvigorate a ballet that might seem slow to modern-day audiences, Artistic Director Adam Sklute has produced a newly conceived ballet with the help of choreographers Pam Robinson-Harris and the late Mark Goldweber.

(Katherine Pioli) Ballet West: The Sleeping Beauty @ Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-3552787, Feb. 7-9 & 12-16, 7:30 p.m.; 2 p.m. matinee on Saturdays & Sundays, $29-$79.

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Midway Ice Castles In the mountains of the Heber Valley, a small group of farmers figured out how to grow a locally produced, natural product that can be harvested daily throughout the coldest months of the year: icicles.

At the Ice Castles in Midway, the ice makers use the cold temperatures to grow icicles every day. They use those icicles to build the skeleton for various formations and then spray them with water at night until it freezes into a sturdy, solid object. After doing that day after day through an entire mountain winter, they’ve built walls of ice well over 10 feet tall that run for dozens of yards in multiple directions.

The result is a genuine winter wonderland.

You’ll feel like you ended up in the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer cartoon as you wander through slot canyons with ice walls running up on either side of you. There’s also a maze, continuously running fountains, an ice slide and countless nooks and crannies to crawl into and take photos.

The property is open in the afternoons, when you can watch the sun play off the ice in a hundred different shades of blue, but the experience is most impressive at night—the formations are lit from the inside, giving the setting a magical feel.

The Ice Castles are scheduled to stay open through Feb. 20 (weather permitting). If Midway stays cold, they could stay open beyond that.

(Kathleen Curry & Geoff Griffin) Ice Castles @ 150 W. 100 North, Midway, through Feb. 20, closed Sundays, $5-$10.

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Imagining the effects of air pollution

vided air masks to make a wearable statement about the issue, and other stations provide opportunities to make expressions about the pollution through drawing and painting.

“The Gittins Gallery will be a conversation in which the Beijing artists and people of Salt Lake and surrounding areas collaborate to generate new ideas, raise awareness and encourage more sustainable practices,” DeLuca says.

A roundtable discussion will be held Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. The artists will discuss their work, and how they use it to address environmental and sustainability issues, with a Q& A afterward.

The organizers see all this as necessary to help generate ideas: “As the variety of activist groups concerned with air quality issues in Utah make clear, there are many ways to look at the issue, and we need many solutions, not a single one, to solve it.” CW

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political process,” DeLuca says. “This project gives people a different way to express themselves, a means to participate and the creative environment necessary to generate creative solutions. The Sustainable Campus Initiative Fund grant at the U of U made it possible for us to bring the community together in this conversation.”

On Feb. 3, the Gittins Gallery will have blank walls, and the artists will bring canvases, cameras and color to transform the space into a visual discussion about air pollution. The artists from Beijing and Taiwan—Huang Xu, Li Gang, Dai Dandan and Mei Mei Chang—and American photographer Matthew Niederhauser all move fluidly across media, including photography, installation, painting, sculpture and video, and will incorporate each of these elements into the space as it evolves.

The artists’ work all addresses environmental issues from multiple perspectives.

“They all see humans and the environment inextricably intertwined, and if one message unites them, it is that if we want to preserve our resources, we need to change our behaviors,” DeLuca says.

Classes from university departments including art, Block U (an interdisciplinary program), communication and the Global Change & Sustainability Center will also be participating in the exhibit. Several activist groups, including the Mormon Environmental Stewardship Alliance and the Northern Utah Nature Center Alliance, are coming in to work with the artists as well, and even the general public can get involved.

The Living Gallery will have stations available for people to take photographs of the smog, of themselves combating the smog, and of the mountains that are sometimes obscured by it. These images will be hosted on screens in the gallery alongside the artists’ work. Visitors can also use pro-

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hen a political or social issue comes to the forefront of public discourse, sometimes it takes art to bring things into sharper focus or just provide new perspectives. The issue of air quality in the Salt Lake Valley is something that residents confront every time they venture outside, particularly during the winter inversions. But artists from the other side of the world might look at the problem anew.

This month, the Gittins Gallery in the University of Utah’s art department will be hosting artworks from five artists—one from the States, three from Beijing and one from Taiwan—that explore and expand the current conversation about air pollution.

The show will be in The Living Gallery, which lives up to its name—viewers can interact with some pieces and produce their own work on the theme.

U communication professor Kevin DeLuca—who works with the U’s Global Change & Sustainability Center and has appointments in environmental humanities and Asian studies—and his assistant Betsy Brunner were awarded a Sustainable Campus Initiative Fund grant from the university to bring in the five artists.

“The idea for this exhibit came about for three reasons,” DeLuca says. “First, SLC suffers from terrible air pollution, and as Bill McKibben and others have argued, art is and has for a long time been an important component in environmental advocacy efforts.

We think that Utah’s air quality issue could benefit from artistic intervention.”

DeLuca notes that while Beijing suffers from many of the same air-quality issues that Utah does, the attention Beijing received—most notably during preparations for the 2008 Olympics—forced the government to act in dramatic ways. Those efforts included pulling cars off the road, making public transit affordable and expansive, requiring factories to shut down and construction to cease on poor air-quality days, and limiting the number of driver’s licenses given out.

DeLuca and Brunner both feel that Utah needs to take similar dramatic efforts to save the air. “[Betsy and I] both feel that it is easy to get apathetic about the air pollution issue in SLC if you don’t feel like part of the

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A chilly hike doesn’t keep visitors from Diamond Fork Hot Springs.

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oing to Diamond Fork Hot Springs in Spanish Fork Canyon is a rite of passage for all those who live in Utah.

At the time I was inducted, I was certainly younger than most people you find hiking into the springs these days. I wasn’t young enough to be carried in on my parent’s back, but I recall the backs of people’s knees, the sound of adult voices mixing with the rush of water and the sight of a fast-flowing river that looked dangerously close to the trail.

A few years ago—but long after my first trip, after graduating high school, moving away for college, then returning to work for the National Forest Service—these memories of Diamond Fork called to me. Nearly hidden in the cloud of childhood memory, the place seemed distant and hushed, like a well-kept secret. I needed to find that magical place again.

And so I went, in the dead of winter, with a single companion. We followed the scent of sulfur up the narrow canyon, over a bridge. We found that the steaming pools— each contained by carefully placed stones and concrete—were clear and empty and hot, just as we had imagined.

These days, I’d hardly call Diamond Fork a well-kept secret. When I pulled up to the winter-closure gate with a small group of friends early on a recent Sunday morning—we hoped church might keep some people away—dozens of cars lined either side of the road. Along with Utah plates were a few from Washington and Idaho. And as we stood around collecting our backpacks and skis, a small SUV with

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Winter makes access to the springs a little complicated. The Three Forks Trailhead—10 miles down Diamond Fork Canyon, a turnoff from Highway 6 out of Spanish Fork—is where cars normally park in the summer months. From there, the pools are only a 2.3-mile walk. But when the Forest Service closes its winter gate, that distance doubles. There was a time when that seemed to deter the crowds that flock to the pools in the summer—but judging by the line of cars, it no longer does.

A thin sheet of trodden snow, nearly as slippery as a hockey rink, covered the road behind the closure fence. We set off at a fast pace. After quickly passing a handful of groups that had set out just before us, the trail seemed remarkably empty.

Two hours later, climbing up the last incline, we found the pools already inhabited, except for one. It was a large pool, more than enough for our group. Through the clear water, tinted green like old glass, the pebbles on the bottom looked smooth and inviting. Bubbles boiled up from between the stones. We undressed, and someone broke the surface with a toe.

A half-minute later, we had invited ourselves into the smaller neighboring pool, disturbing a man who had been enjoying the quiet and solitude. He didn’t complain.

He too had tested the waters of the larger pool and found them nearly hot enough to melt skin—a consequence of winter, when the cold river isn’t high enough to flow into the hot pools.

By the time the groups we passed on our way in had finally caught up with us, we’d finished our cheese, pears, whiskey and conversation and were ready to dry off and head home.

There are times that I have hiked to Diamond Fork Hot Springs alone at the break of morning. There are nights when I started the trek well after dark. I have left the pools under the light of the moon. I have slept out in the canyon overnight. There is not a single trip that I don’t remember fondly—and this one, I knew as we slid back down the icy trail, was no different. CW

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Perspective Realia: Real World Art Since 2003, the unique University of Utah program Perspective Realia has brought student artists out of the studio space to participate in the planning, facilitating and creation of street art alongside student art historians who’ve been given a respite from studying to take part in the project.

Finch Lane is currently hosting Perspective Realia: Ten Years of Urban Art, celebrating the success of what amounts to five miles of painted murals presented in 21 prints with video on the subject of urban art planning (“Collective Momentum” is pictured).

“Street art” is a term applied to the synthesis between graffiti, street installation, spray paint, tagging and murals, within their contemporary urban landscape. Mural creation requires exacting collaborations in planning, officiating and production. For those choosing to pursue art as an occupation, this experience will be invaluably insightful. (Ehren Clark) Perspective Realia: Real World Art @ Art Barn, 54 Finch Lane, 801-596-5000, through March 7, free. SLCGov.com/arts/vizarts

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In 2010, several local theater companies banded together to honor Edward Lewis, the pioneering founder of African-American-themed theater company People Productions, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2009. Then these companies presented portions of upcoming works on African-American themes—but the concept has evolved for 2014.

People Productions has been re-imagined as Radical Hospitality Theatre, exploring dramatic works focusing on a variety of ethnic experiences. But the Edward Lewis Festival continues, presenting a two-day showcase of free readings from Utah theater companies. Highlights include portions of Salt Lake Acting Company’s April production 4000 Miles, about a young man coming to New York and staying with his 91-year-old grandmother; Good Company Theatre presenting August Wilson’s Fences and Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop, about Martin Luther King Jr. on the night before his assassination; and Radical Hospitality offering Ted Shine’s Contribution.

Musical selections from local artists will bridge the performances. (Scott Renshaw) Edward Lewis Theatre Festival @ Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8400, Feb. 8, 2-4 p.m., Feb. 9, 1-3 p.m., free. SLCPL.org

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Playwrights and authors have long been drawn to the interactions between famous artists, statesmen and celebrities—sometimes real, sometimes speculative. New York playwright Elizabeth Diggs, in her Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award winner Grant & Twain, was able to explore the real-life friendship between two American icons: Ulysses S. Grant and Mark Twain.

Set in 1883-84, the story deals with the years in which Twain is approaching completion of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, while Grant is bankrupt after having been defrauded in a Ponzi scheme. The celebrated author, looking to help the Civil War hero restore his reputation after personal setbacks and scandals during his presidential administration, encourages Grant to write his memoirs—an enterprise Twain is willing to put much of his own money into financing, even as Grant battles cancer.

In the sesquicentennial year of Grant taking command of the Union armies, this worldpremiere production provides a uniquely intimate look at a friendship of mutual respect and inspiration. (Scott Renshaw) Grant & Twain @ Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North, 801363-7522, Feb. 7-March 2, $24-$39.

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It’s not all that surprising when singer-songwriters try their creative hand at penning a novel or two.

Perhaps after working on storytelling through lyrics, the leap to longform writing just feels natural.

Unfortunately, being good at one thing doesn’t guarantee your abilities in the other.

But Willy Vlautin—of the alt-country band Richmond Fontaine—has managed that transition well. Having penned three previous literary novels (The Motel Life, Northline and Lean on Pete), Vlautin’s newest book, The Free, has him exploring the same realist voice that resonated so honestly in his earlier work.

Set in the West that he knows so well, The Free follows three people down and out in modern America.

Struggling with depression, financial ruin and the monotony of daily routines, the three characters are faced with the task of finding meaning and connection while surrounded by hopeless banality.

Although it sounds like a bit of a downer, Vlautin’s focus is more on the reality of life—and yes, sometimes that can be sunny as well. Vlautin will read from and sign The Free at the event (Jacob Stringer) Willy Vlautin: The Free @ The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-4849100, Feb. 11, 7 p.m., free. KingsEnglish.com gered from deep within our psyches. Something seemingly personal and private becomes publicly exhibited.

This is the framework for the award-winning modern-dance piece Blush, choreographed by Utah native Andrea Miller. First developed at Jacob’s Pillow in 2009, the evening-length work premiered at the Joyce SoHo in New York City to rave reviews. Set to music by Manyfingers, Andrzej Przybytkowski, Chopin, Kap Bambino, Arvo Part and Wolf Parade, Miller’s movement is filled with athleticism and strong imagery over the course of a riveting 60 minutes.

The key ingredient that Miller seems to excel at is tension. Whether it’s tension created between dancers, or between performers and the audience itself, there’s a palpable pressure created onstage that propels the piece forward—much like the catalyst for an actual blush. (Jacob Stringer) Gallim Dance: Blush @ Marriott Center for Dance, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, University of Utah, 801-581-7100, Feb. 11-12, 7:30 p.m., $29.50. KingTix.com

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Millcreek Canyon Road, 801272-8255, Log-Haven.com) is hosting Five Days of Romance crudo; herb-roasted tomato tart; beet from Feb. 12 to 16, with special menu offeror butter leaf salad; grilled Prime filet ings such as grilled filet mignon with mignon; pan-seared snapper; braised lamb roasted garlic béarnaise; Southwest-spiced shank; housemade four-cheese ravioli; and shrimp cocktail; roasted tomato soup; wild red velvet butter rum cake or chocolate game meatballs; plus specialty cocktails Kahlua cheesecake, to name a few of the and mocktails like the Raspberry Kiss, Love options. The price is $65 per person.

Potion No. 9 and Vida Amore. Customers Finally, wouldn’t flying down to Rio dining during the Five Days of Romance for Valentine’s Day be romantic? Well, how receive a $10 credit toward their next visit. about the next best thing: Three Salt Lake The Paris Bistro & Zinc Bar (1500 S. City Brazilian restaurants are throwing 1500 East, 801-486-5585, TheParis.net) is Valentine’s Day festas for anyone who’d care hosting a St. Valentine Day’s La Vie en Rose to add a little tropicalia to their evening. At dinner that will feature live music from Rodizio Grill in Trolley Square (600 S. 700 the French cafe quartet St. Bohème. Menu East, 801-220-0500, RodizioGrill.com), the items include dishes such as Angus Prime Together Forever dining package ($90 per rib roast Oscar; pan-seared and pancettacouple) includes an extended Full Rodizio wrapped Loch Duart Scottish salmon; Thaidinner for two, nonalcoholic drinks, a keepspiced lump blue crab cakes; molten chocosake red rose, and live music in Rodizio’s late cake; and more. The cost is $74.95 per intimate Club Room. At Texas de Brazil person, plus a 20 percent service charge. in City Creek Center (50 S. Main, 385-232For a fun and inexpensive evening, 8070, TexasdeBrazil.com), guests can enjoy perhaps you’ll find yourself at Spitz (35 E. specially created wine, cocktail and dessert 300 South, 801-364-0286, SpitzSLC.com), pairings along with the restaurant’s 50-pluswhich is hosting a St. ValenWine’s Night item gourmet salad buffet and all-you-can event. A mere $30 per person will get you eat cuts of flame-grilled beef, lamb, pork, hummus with fried pita; a Greek salad; chicken and sausage. Specialty cocktails street-cart fries; a Spitz sandwich wrap; include the Brazilian Rose and Brazilian and cinnamon pita with whipped cream.

Kiss. The cost is $42.99 per person for a Utah’s own TwoDog Winery will be in regular dinner or $24.99 for a light dinner. the house pouring DoggyStyle White, Desserts and cocktails are $5 to $10 each.

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s I say every year at this time: You and your honey don’t have to splurge and dine out on Valentine’s Day. There are plenty of other options.

Maybe there’s no honey in the picture at all, and you’d prefer to stay at home with a big bowl of caviar all to yourself, watching 9 1/2 Weeks for the 18th time. There’s nothing wrong with that. Or an excellent Valentine’s Day celebration might entail nothing more than, in the words of the Persian poet Omar Khayyám, “A jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou.”

But, if you do decide to let someone else do the cooking, or if you’re looking for a romantic night on the town, here are some good V-Day choices. In fact, these are all of the local Valentine’s Day restaurant dinner options I’d received as of press time.

From Feb. 13 to 15, Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar (20 S. 400 West, 801-355-3704, FlemingsSteakhouse.com) features a prix fixe menu beginning with a pan-seared scallop over goat-cheese polenta, a salad choice and filet mignon, paired with either pecan-crusted salmon for $59.95 or lobster tail for $69.95.

Franck’s (6263 Holladay Blvd., 801274-6264, FrancksFood.com) is featuring a five-course Valentine’s Day dinner from Chef Robert Perkins with selections like goat-cheese creme brulee; sous vide organic duck breast; charred Snake River Farms culotte steak; sashimi white shrimp; maple-espresso tapioca and much more.

The cost is $75 per person.

At Hearth on 25th in Ogden (195 25th St., 801-399-0088, Hearth25.com), Chef Kyle Lore will prepare a five-course dinner featuring items such as a shrimp and crab shumai amuse bouche; fresh pea soup; lobster and scallop risotto; Snake River sturgeon; Circle Ranch Tunis lamb chop; and Valrhona chocolate-chili ice-cream sandwiches. The price is $75, plus $25 for optional wine pairings.

There are few places more romantic than La Caille (9565 S. Wasatch Blvd., Sandy, 801-942-1751, LaCaille.com), and on Valentine’s Day, they’re pulling out all the stops with a multi-course menu for $95 per person, plus $75 for optional paired wines.

Featured menu items include tuna tartare, prawn and lobster crepe, blood-orange salad, seafood bouillabaisse, beef tenderloin, crispy sea bass, desserts and many more choices.

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Luybochka has a small menu with items such as pelmeni (meat dumplings), vereniki (potato dumplings), Russian potato salad, pirogi (bread filled with cabbage or meat), stuffed cabbage rolls, borscht and sandwiches. I ordered two pirogis, stuffed cabbage rolls, borscht and a sandwich. With the items priced as low as $1.20, it was easy to indulge.

The sandwich had Russian salami, but you can get one with bologna, pork, mortadella or veal. The cheeses all had names I didn’t understand, so I ultimately had Shkrab choose for me. It was a creamy variety like havarti, which combined deliciously with the spicy salami and rye bread.

This was also my first foray into borscht. Luybochka’s was loaded with cabbage, carrots, beets and potatoes in a clear broth. Overall, I found it hearty and pretty mild.

But the pirogi was amazing. Shkrab makes all the food himself, and the flaky, buttery bread was wonderful. I could eat these pirogi by the pound.

And, lucky for me, Luybochka doubles as a small grocery where you can buy fish, meats, cheeses, Russian cakes, candy, dumplings and more—because once you go Russian, you never go back. CW

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Special Chinese New Year menu items include Peking barbecue baby back ribs, Nanking pork, shrimp with asparagus, five-taste chicken and craft cocktails such as the Gingerita and Tropicaltini, in addition to wine, Asian beer, ginger brew and China Cola. Don’t forget: wearing red brings good fortune. Gung hay fat choy!

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There are plenty of value libations to enjoy on Valentine’s Day—or any other time—as well as stratospherically priced ones. Here are some of my favorites.

I think the sparkling Cavas from Spain’s Codorniu winery are always good bargains, and I especially like these two offerings for Valentine’s Day. First, packaged in its nifty new all-white bottle, Anna de Codorniu Brut ($13.99) is an interesting bubbly made with 70 percent Chardonnay and 30 percent Parellada grapes. The name

Anna is an homage to the last Codorniu heiress to bear the family name.

The Codorniu winery, by the way, dates back to 1551; Anna de Codorniu lived in the 1600s. The aromas and flavors of this crisp, dry sparkler include apples, pineapple and pears, along with yeasty hints of baked brioche.

An even better fit for Valentine’s Day is Anna de Codorniu Brut Rosé ($13.99), made from 70 percent Pinot Noir and 30 percent Chardonnay. The pink bottle is a preview of what’s inside: strawberry-toned bubbly with cherry and strawberry flavors. It’s a light and fizzy party on the palate.

Made from the little-known Brachetto grapes of Italy, the pink sparkling wine called Banfi Rosa Regale ($22.48) has graced my Valentine’s table more than a few times through the years. It’s a luscious aperitif wine, and even more spectacular when served with chocolate. Imagine a fizzy, low-alcohol (7 percent) pink drink that tastes like raspberry coulis over chocolate truffles—like sex in a bottle.

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If you’re looking for a wine to accompany a special Valentine’s Day meal, nothing is likely to make your honey swoon like a high quality white Burgundy from France. If money is no object, a wine like the 2011 Domaine Leflaive Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru ($503) or 2006 Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru from Louis Jadot ($384) would knock your sweetheart’s socks off. Ditto a delicious bottle of Domaine Louis Latour CortonCharlemagne 2006 ($125).

However, I’d probably splurge on fresh truffles for V-Day and opt for a more economical white Burgundy like the 2011 Domaine Louis Latour Montagny 1er Cru La Grande Roche ($23), or the splendid—but affordable—2010 Vincent Girardin 1er Cru Rully Les Cloux ($26).

For a less-than-obvious red wine choice, think out of the box with Concannon Vineyard Conservancy 2010 Petite Sirah, Livermore Valley ($15). It’s from the makers of America’s first Petit Sirah, and its cherry, plum and mocha flavors might just start your

love affair with Petite Sirah, if you haven’t already fallen for it.

For a wine that’s lighter and pairs with a wide variety of Valentine’s dishes, track down a bottle or two of 2012 Bucklin Rosé of Old Hill Ranch ($17).

With beautiful orangepink hues, it’s a blend of Grenache, Zinfandel, Mourvedre, Carignane and Syrah that will change the way you think about Rosé.

Or, you could go old-school for Cupid’s big day with a classic and elegant Champag ne cocktail: Drop 3 drops of bitters onto 1 sugar cube and let the bitters soak in.

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In 2012, I reviewed the then-new Zy restaurant, which has been resurrected as an upscale Mexican-themed restaurant called Alamexo Mexican Kitchen. Much has changed, but not renowned chef/owner Matthew Lake, who remains the heart of the restaurant. A great way begin an Alamexo meal is to order the queso fundido: Mexican cheese from Chihuahua baked with housemade chorizo, strips of green and red peppers, white onion and cilantro, served with hot corn tortillas. Another outstanding starter is the tamale de elote, a fresh-made tamale with seared shrimp and heavenly chipotle-cream salsa. The tamale is “deconstructed” and served on a bed of dried cornhusk strips—a very attractive plate presentation that’s even more beautiful on the palate.

Yes, the progression from Zy to Alamexo is off to a satisfying start. Reviewed Jan. 30. 268 S. State, 801-779-4747, Alamexo.com

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Diamond Lil’s

Diamond Lil’s originally opened in November 1969, with a seating capacity for 32 people. Today, the restaurant can serve about 500 customers and has become a Utah landmark. The specialty of the Western-style steakhouse is succulent Prime rib.

Other signature steaks include the Jesse James, Calamity Jane, Butch Cassidy, Bonnie & Clyde and the Wild Bill. And Diamond Lil’s also features a full bar, serving beer, wine and cocktails. 1528 W. North Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-533-0547, DiamondLilsRestaurant.com

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The LEGO Movie provides a manifesto for how any raw material can be turned into art.

By Scott Renshaw scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

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he cynicism, however knee-jerk, is understandable: “The LEGO Movie?

Seriously?”

It’s understandable because we live in an era of cinema as product, a seemingly endless barrage of comic-book characters and sequels, reboots and TV series adaptations, stories based on toys and video games and board games. They are the stuff of which the risk-averse modern multiplex is made. And if you love the idea of movies as a creative medium, as something other than a cross-platform marketing opportunity, it’s easy to stare at the mere name “The LEGO Movie” with a burning gaze that could melt plastic.

But Phil Lord and Christopher Miller feel your pain. They’ve already shown a willingness to skewer an established brand with their movie version of 21 Jump Street, and a prodigious visual imagination with the original Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. In The LEGO Movie, they’re not just determined to make the most entertaining movie possible based on a toy; they’re out to create a manifesto on the whole idea of what it means to create real art.

The setup is like a kiddie version of the universal hero myth, with perhaps an extra dose of The Matrix. In a LEGO world, a simple construction worker named Emmet (Chris Pratt) begins another simple day full of his simple pleasures, always organized around “following the directions.” But there’s a dark plot brewing—one masterminded by the sinister President Business (Will Ferrell)—and a prophecy has declared that this plot can only be defeated by the one who finds the Piece of Resistance. And son of a gun, if that isn’t what Emmet finds when he takes a tumble into a hole on his construction site.

Emmet soon finds himself fighting alongside a number of “Master Builders”—including ninja girl Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks), a pirate made of spare parts (Nick Offerman) and even Batman (Will Arnett)—and Lord and Miller certainly have plenty of fun with the characters and their weird universe of overlapping playsets. Yes, there are in-joke references from The Dark Knight and other pop-culture touchstones. There’s also a needy Green Lantern who always wants to hang out wherever Superman is, an exposition passage that takes the form of “blah blah proper name backstory,” and Liam Neeson as a Bad Cop who’s never lacking a chair to kick when he’s angry. There’s never a moment when The LEGO Movie gets lazy and falls back on nothing more than the most obvious nudge-nudge gag.

And that’s crucial to the entire arc of the story, which plants our hero in the middle of a society built on mindless diversions like an earworm song called “Everything is Awesome” and the inescapable hit TV show Where Are My Pants? The Master Builders are a group of radical creators who throw together motorcycles and submarines and fantastical weapons from whatever they find lying around, and that’s the world President Business is out to eliminate. The villain’s master plan, in simple terms, is about keeping every part in its proper place—making sure that nothing deviates from the construction blueprint that comes in each individual box.

The fantastically liberating concept of The LEGO Movie, then, is one that’s both funda-

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mental to the toy on which it’s based, and a lesson for every filmmaker handed a brandname and told to go build something with it.

Because the magic of these little blocks for youngsters has always been what happens when you take a few pieces from the Harry Potter set and some from the pirate ship and see what happens when you stick them onto those Star Wars vehicles. Lord and Miller have taken that childlike sense of possibility and applied it to the whole concept of a blockbuster. They’ve dared to announce that soulless, joyless based-on-[thing whose name you already recognize] filmmaking isn’t a foregone conclusion, but a choice.

If The LEGO Movie offered nothing more than its unique visual sensibility and its rollicking action set-pieces, it might still be the kind of franchise movie that all live-action filmmakers should aspire to.

But it strives to be something even more than that. It’s an instruction manual for how to make the best, most delightful creation from any brand: You’ve got to have the nerve to throw away the instruction manual, put the dragon head on the space ship, and let it fly. CW

THE LEGO MOVIE

HHHH Chris Pratt Elizabeth Banks Will Ferrell Rated PG

TRY THESE Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) George Clooney Meryl Streep Rated PG

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) Bill Hader Anna Faris Rated PG

LEGO: Adventures of Clutch Powers (2010) Ryan McPartlin Paul Michael Glaser Not Rated

21 Jump Street (2012) Channing Tatum Jonah Hill Rated R

CINEMA CLIPS NEW THIS WEEK Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change.

The Monuments Men HH See adjacent review. Opens Feb. 7 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)

Dallas Buyers Club At Park City Film Series, Jan. 31-Feb. 1 @ 8 p.m. & Feb. 2 @ 6 p.m. (PG-13) The Farmer’s Wife At Organ Loft Silent Films, Feb. 6-7, 7:30 p.m. (NR)

Nothing Like Chocolate At Main Library, Feb. 11, 7 p.m. (NR) Promises At The Leonardo, Feb. 12, 7 p.m. (NR)

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ot every war movie needs to be Saving Private Ryan—a searing, dark journey into man’s inhumanity to man at its most inhuman. Yet there’s also something odd about a war movie as, well, jolly as The Monuments Men. Adapting a true story, George Clooney directed, co-scripted and stars as Lt. Frank Stokes, an art historian who convinces President Roosevelt that there’s a moral imperative to try to save great works of art and architecture from either Nazi hoarding or Allied bombing. And so Stokes puts together an all-star team of “Monuments Men”—including architect Richard Campbell (Bill Murray), art historian James Granger (Matt Damon) and sculptor Walter Garfield (John Goodman)—to help track down stolen masterpieces and save others from the threat of destruction.

The narrative pivots around the compelling question of whether saving art is worth risking lives, a question that various army brass answer with a resounding “no” in their lack of cooperation with the team’s mission. Even as various members of the team try to find redemption—including an alcoholic British officer (Hugh Bonneville) and a French would-be fighter pilot grounded by bad vision (Jean Dujardin)—the central idea remains one about the value of individual lives set against the value of great creative works.

But Clooney mostly ditches that idea for a series of episodic anecdotes, many of them played for comedic effect. When Goodman and Dujardin are threatened by a sniper, the entire confrontation is played for laughs, right down to the revelation of the gunman in a jokey spin on the climax of Full Metal Jacket; ditto the moment when Damon’s character inadvertently steps on a landmine. And when the film does try to get serious, it simply feels forced. Clooney wants an Indiana Jones vibe of rollicking adventure as his crew recovers artifacts from the Nazis, but can’t get beyond turning pages in a whimsical art-history textbook. CW

THE MONUMENTS MEN

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The Invisible Woman HH.5 Ralph Fiennes directs and stars as Charles Dickens, adapting Claire Tomalin’s book about the novelist’s much-speculated-upon

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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

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Vampire Academy [not yet reviewed] Adaptation of Richelle Mead’s book series about the half-human/ half-vampire protectors of a peaceful, mortal clan of vampires.

Opens Feb. 7 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)

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 jawdropping 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 offline and deal with real people, but in recognizing that even when we’re with real people, we may still need to get a hell of a lot better at dealing with them. (R)—SR

I, Frankenstein HH Everyone knows Frankenstein’s monster died 200 years ago. What I, Frankenstein pre-supposes is: Maybe he didn’t. This expensivelooking 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

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The LEGO Movie HHHH See review p. 34. Opens Feb. 7 at theaters valleywide. (PG)

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American Hustle HHH David O. Russell loosely adapts the story of the late 1970s FBI “Abscam” operation, with con artists Irving (Christian Bale) and Sydney (Amy Adams) caught by FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper) and forced to assist in a sting operation targeting corrupt government officials. Pretty much everyone here—Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner, etc.—acts to the rafters with their various accents and over-the-top personalities, while Russell swings and zips his camera like he’s doing a second-generation photocopy of GoodFellas by way of Boogie Nights. Yet it’s also kind of a hoot on a moment-to-moment basis, as the undercover operation gets more convoluted—and more dangerous—with each passing day.

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

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2014 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts Program A HHH Program B HHH.5 It’s hard to nail down what a documentary short should be, given so little time to build a story of any substance. So perhaps it’s enough when they provide a couple of indelible impressions, or make you want to explore more. In the first of two programs presenting this year’s Oscar-nominated documentary shorts, serious subjects get intriguing approaches. Malcolm Clarke’s The Lady in Number 6 profiles Alice Herz-Sommer—the oldest living Holocaust survivor, at 109 years old, when she was interviewed in 2012—yet focuses less on the hardships of her life than her enduring optimism and love of music. Jason Cohen’s Facing Fear explores forgiveness and redemption through the relationship between two men—Matthew Boger, a gay former street hustler who now manages Los Angeles’s Museum of Tolerance, and Tim Zaal, who once was part of a group of skinheads who beat Boger nearly to death decades earlier— as they begin speaking publicly together. And there’s a terrifying urgency to Sara Ishaq’s Kamara Has No Walls, capturing you-arethere footage of a 2011 peaceful protest against Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh that’s attacked by snipers and government troops. Yet both of the best entries are in the second program.

Edgar Barens’ Prison Terminal is a powerful portrait of an Iowa hospice program for dying prison inmates—focusing on Jack Hall, a World War II veteran serving a life sentence for murder—that humanizes both the terminally ill hall and the volunteer caregivers whose participation becomes a kind of redemption. My pick for the best of the lot, though, goes to Jeffrey Karoff’s Cave Digger, profiling 65-year-old Ra Paulette and the magnificent underground cathedrals he creates in northern New Mexico. It’s not only a magnificent monument to his work, but a concise study of every major issue facing any kind of artist: the inevitable compromises accompanying patronage; the loved ones who struggle with financial instability; and the collision between human mortality and the creations one hopes can live beyond. Opens Feb. 7 at Tower Theatre.

(NR)—Scott Renshaw

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relationship with Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones), a would-be 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

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit HH.5 As we reach the fourth actor to play Tom Clancy’s CIA analyst-turnedoccasional-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

That Awkward Moment HH There’s something deeply conflicted about a movie that employs this many penis references, yet won’t show bare body parts; it’s a sex comedy made with Barbie and Ken dolls. The premise finds three New York buddies—Jason (Zac Efron), Mikey (Michael B. Jordan) and Daniel (Miles Teller)—making a pact to avoid serious relationships after Mikey gets dumped by his wife. Naturally they all promptly fall for someone, while trying to keep up the pretense that they’re still bros-before-hos. But the occasional snippets of amusement—and the admittedly clever reference to a relationship conversation as “The ‘So …’ ”—are torpedoed by the push-pull between insight about commitment-averse guys and rom-com convention that any dog can be converted to boyfriend material. It’s all dick jokes, but the girls can convince the guys to keep it in their pants, so it’s all good. (R)—SR

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Labor Day H Ladies! Single? Lonely? Get yourself kidnapped and held hostage!

On Labor Day weekend 1987, single mom Adele (Kate Winslet) is shopping with her young teen son Henry (Gattlin Griffith) when escaped convict Frank (Josh Brolin) forces them to take him to their home. He proceeds to tie them up, as you do when you’re a violent felon on the run. But later, Frank makes breakfast, does handyman jobs and generally enacts 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’ll find this all terribly romantic, and the retrospective voiceover narration by adult Henry (Tobey Maguire) slathers these events in gooey nostalgia for that time when he and his mom got kidnapped and his mother fell for the guy. Stockholm Syndrome as romance? You betcha. (PG-13)—MaryAnn Johanson

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The Americans: Season 1 Two deep-cover Russian spies (Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys) pose as a suburban married couple in 1980s Washington, D.C. But, in their mission to destroy America, did they count on … falling in love? No, no they did not. Also: wigs. (Fox)

How True TV called ’em— correct and not.

Anna Nicole The true-ish story of Anna Nicole Smith (as played by Agnes Bruckner), the stripperturned-supermodel who fell into a life of sex, booze, drugs, rich geezers and fame addiction before overdosing in 2007. Not sensationalized in the least. (Sony)

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aaay back in September 2013, The Only T V Column That Matters™ passed judgment on all of the new series premiering on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and The CW for the 2013-14 television season. Though the majority of my pilot reviews were, of course, dead-on, a handful of the shows drifted into disappointing territory—or, in some cases, a whiplash-inducing tailspin of suck—as the weeks wore on. Now that we’re past the midpoint of the season, here’s where I was …

Wrong!

Sleepy Hollow (Fox): I was iffy on Sleepy Hollow

Super Fun Night (ABC): Good god. The rapid

decline of Super Fun Night is either the result of micromanaging network notes (“Can you make them … less pathetic?”) or our too-high expectations of Rebel Wilson as a show lead after only proving herself a reliable second banana. Or both.

Dracula (NBC): Much sound and fury (and blood and boobs) signifying nothing.

Dracula was never going beyond one season, anyway, as NBC reportedly had to tell star Jonathan Rhys Meyers, “When you finish all 10 episodes, you can have your drugs back, mm-kay?”

The Blacklist (NBC) up to match his game. Surprisingly, NBC hasn’t screwed this up. Yet.

Mom (CBS): Then: “Another disposable, canned-laughs yuck machine.” Now: “Another disposable, canned-laughs yuck machine that’s somehow still on.”

Dads (Fox): Then: “I have a suspicion that Seth MacFarlane produced this on a dare.”

Now: “I know Seth MacFarlane produced this on a dare.”

Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Fox): Awarding Brooklyn

Enlisted (Fox): I wrote it off as just a Stripes rip-off, but Enlisted got damned good damned quick, balancing sharp humor, subtle sentimentality and real military issues like a boss. Too bad Fox has nowhere else to slot it but Fridays with the equally funny/equally doomed Raising Hope.

Nine-Nine a couple of instant Golden Globes may have been premature, but it’s still the best new comedy that Fox—or really, any network—has produced in years. As of February, it also gets a sweet new timeslot after New Girl (sorry, Mindy Project).

But, in most cases I was … Right!

Robin Williams’ crapfest holds onto Two & a Half Men’s lead-in audience; it’s that Two & a Half Men still has any audience. But seriously: The Crazy Ones suuucks.

The Blacklist (NBC): Best new show of the season—and it keeps getting better every week. No surprise that James Spader is killing it, but co-star Megan Boone (and yes, her wig) has consistently stepped

The Crazy Ones (CBS): The surprise isn’t that

Sean Saves the World (NBC): [Sound of a toilet handle jiggling.] CW

Ender’s Game In the future, the fate of the planet lies in the toggle mitts of Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield), the Chosen One who can defeat the alien invasion. Any resemblance to The Hunger Games is wishful thinking on Orson Scott Card’s part. (Summit)

The Returned: Season 1 The creepy hit French series about people trying to come back home to a small village, only to learn that they’ve been dead for years—and, if that weren’t enough, there’s a serial killer, too, as well as a Mogwai(!) soundtrack. (Music Box Films)

More New DVD Releases (Feb. 11) All is Lost, Austenland, The Best Man Holiday, Chastity Bites, Dallas: Season 2, Diana, GBF, Grace Unplugged, Haunter, I Heart U, Jewtopia, Killing Kennedy, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, The Reverend, Sherlock: Season 3, Sorority Party Massacre Listen to Bill on Mondays at 8 a.m. on X96 Radio From Hell; also on the TV Tan podcast on iTunes and Spreaker.com.

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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (ABC): Since ABC didn’t allow critics to see it before the premiere, the general speculation on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was, “It’s Marvel, it’s Joss Whedon, it’ll be awesome!” So far the only “awesome” aspect of the series is the divide between fans and haters of character Skye (True TV is on Team Skye, FYI—back off), but it’s still Marvel, and it’s still Joss Whedon, so …

The Michael J. Fox Show (NBC): The Peacock wanted a bridge between the smart comedy of Parks & Recreation and the lesssmart/more-watched comedy of Must-See Yesteryear; they got The Michael J. Fox Show, which leans too hard into “family” comedy with a dulled edge. Playing it safe gets you nowhere—or on CBS.

Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Javier Bardem, Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz star in Cormac McCarthy and Ridley Scott’s tale of Tex-Mex drug trade gone bad, with more weird hair and clothes than American Hustle. Story, not so much. (Fox)

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Charles Ellsworth and Vincent Draper co-create new album dedicated to Salt Lake City.

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s much as I have a sort of a disdain for this town—you know, everyone talks about wanting to get out—I love it here and it will always be my home,” says local singer-songwriter Vincent Draper about Salt Lake City. It’s a love/hate sentiment a lot of Salt Lakers wrestle with, especially during Utah’s get-me-the-hell-outta-here winters, and when “Small Lake City” syndrome causes an uncomfortable random run-in with someone you’d rather not talk to.

But, like Draper and fellow singer-songwriter Charles Ellsworth, who recently collaborated on a split full-length album that’s dedicated to the City of Salt, many of us who live in SLC can admit that there’s something indefinably special about this place, something worth staying for.

“All the problems that come with living here—inversion and heartbreak, all this stuff, physical and not—we kind of ask for it by coming back to this town,” Draper says. “I like that; I think it’s kind of romantic.”

It’s no coincidence that the title of Draper and Ellsworth’s co-created folk/Americana album, Salt Lake City: A Love Story, sounds like the name of an indie film.

Originally, Ellsworth—who attended the University of Utah for film and media arts—had the idea with a friend to create a film about SLC in the same vein as New York, I Love You and Paris, Je t’Aime. While the film Salt Lake City: A Love Story hasn’t made it off the ground yet, the song Ellsworth eventually wrote under the same title inspired him and Draper to make an entire album about their respective experiences in the city.

That title, Draper says, is what “really pulls our two perspectives together.”

The two seasoned musicians—Draper is well known as the frontman of local indie-pop band Vincent Draper & the Dirty Thirty; Ellsworth has toured extensively as a solo artist—find common songwriting ground in themes like heartbreak and loneliness. But the two musicians are from disparate backgrounds—Draper was born in Seattle but grew up in SLC, and Ellsworth is a relatively recent transplant from a small mountain town in Arizona—and it’s where the two artists’ perspectives diverge that Salt Lake City: A Love Story has the most power. Draper pens mostly emotional songs about remaining in close proximity with family and past lovers, while Ellsworth writes about being on the road and longing for home.

Before recording Salt Lake City: A Love Story with Draper, Ellsworth had been on the road for six months. While he had the company of a friend for the first four months of the nationwide tour, the final two were spent alone, after that friend decided the on-the-road lifestyle wasn’t for him. Having to quickly become accustomed to traveling

Charles Ellsworth (left) and Vincent Draper (right) alone, Ellsworth says, was a “really good experience for me. It’s definitely made me a lot more comfortable in my own shoes.”

Most of the songs Ellsworth contributed to the album, especially “Stuck Out in Texas,” “California” and “Train to Vienna” are wistful, about a musician spending long, lonely nights in cold hotel rooms, missing someone, as well as wishing he was back in SLC. The song “Salt Lake City: A Love Story,” Ellsworth says, “is the only one where there’s hope at the end. All the other ones are really kind of depressing or about just low points in my life.” He adds that the tune looks back on past heartache “very fondly … like that was a great experience and I’m so glad I met this person or I did this thing.”

As for Draper, his songs on the album typically deal with relationships with people at home, including an exgirlfriend (“Back in Town”) and his two younger brothers. His song “If I Saw Blood,” Draper says, was inspired, sadly, by attending the funeral of a childhood friend. “I was like, ‘Christ, man, what would I do if I lost one of my brothers?’ ” He realized that “we love each other a lot, like a scary amount. Like bad things could happen if they were in trouble or if I lost them.”

Alternating between Draper’s deep, meandering voice and Ellsworth’s warm, woodsy one, Salt Lake City: A Love Story—which will get a limited local release on vinyl—is gorgeously minimal, with only the necessary acoustic guitar, vocal harmonies and touches of strings added in. It’s a crossroads between the two musicians’ personal stories, and the different ties that each has to Salt Lake City, Utah.

“This is an amazing city,” Ellsworth says. “This is a really great place and really good people and they’re nice and people are genuine, and that’s something that’s hard to find [in] other places.” CW

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ith a sound that’s a melding of the noisefolk of Neutral Milk Hotel and the rhythm section of Fugazi, plus the subtlety of Interpol and occasional confrontational spokenword poetry, MewithoutYou seems tailor-made to garner buzz from indie tastemakers like Spin and Pitchfork. The band’s association with Christian label Tooth & Nail Records has likely kept some mainstream ears away, however.

But MewithoutYou has still gained a cult fanbase, released four successful albums on Tooth & Nail, and currently tours with Manchester Orchestra, Brand New and Minus the Bear, showcasing their blistering, unique brand of indie rock.

While hipster tastemakers may be gun-shy to hop on the MewithoutYou wagon, drummer Rickie Mazzotta isn’t really bothered—he’s proud that MewithoutYou has always done things their way.

“We’re a stubborn band. We’re like old dogs,” he deadpans.

Through the years, the band has changed musical styles between albums, hit the road with unlikely tourmates (e.g., pop punks Alkaline Trio) in MewithoutYou’s bio-diesel-converted tour bus, and hosted potlucks for their fans before shows.

MewithoutYou also released their newest record, Ten Stories, independently. It debuted at No. 47 on Billboard’s Top 200, and that success landed them a co-headlining tour with emocore-revival upstarts Touché Amore.

While Touché Amore may have a more aggressive sound than MewithoutYou, Mazzotta isn’t worried about a tour mismatch or possibly having to stray from who they are musically.

“We have a deep enough catalog that if we’re required to do 45 minutes of heavier music, we can do that without compromising who we are,” Mazzotta says.

But while the members of MewithoutYou have always stayed true to themselves, they’re not above having a little fun, such as on an upcoming stint on Parahoy, the Paramore-curated cruise, alongside Paramore and indie-pop darlings Tegan & Sara.

No stranger to odd situations, Mazzotta realizes that MewithoutYou’s strained, post-hardcore musings about spiritual metaphors using circus animals may not go well in an island setting.

“People want to be entertained and not want to be challenged or find some deeper meaning [while on a cruise],” Mazzotta says. “Maybe we’ll spice it up and maybe do some island-y dub/reggae covers.” CW

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But when James Dewees launched a Kickstarter to fund No Country For Old Musicians, the sixth full-length album by his solo-project-cum-band Reggie & the Full Effect (RATFE), he took a different tack. His pitch video began with teaser text—“hello everybody!!!! i hope you like chicken!!!”—before launching into a song that was lovable but so, so stupid. It had a super-catchy melody and lyrics consisting of the word “chicken” repeated over and over again, all while a slideshow of thematically appropriate images—live chickens, fried chickens, Obama eating chicken, Dewees eating chicken, etc.—ran in tandem. Dewees ended up using the standard friendly, upbeat sales pitch in his video, too, but not until after regaling watchers with something totally ridiculous.

In R ATFE, the man’s always had a goofy, sarcastic streak. In 1998, the post-hardcore-tinted synth-pop project debuted with a record called Greatest Hits 1984-1987.

The follow-up, 2000’s Promotional Copy, was a disc with a cover that looked like an actual promotional copy of an album that shouldn’t be making it to retailers.

R ATFE’s third album was 2003’s Under the Tray..., which contained an empty tray and an actual CD hiding underneath. (This created some confusion and frustration for people too dumb to take the album title as advice.)

Then, in 2008, Dewees announced that an upcoming RATFE tour would be the project’s last—which, since you’re reading this concert preview, clearly wasn’t true.

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Though these stunts sound Andy Kaufman-esque, the Liberty, Mo.-bred, Long Island-based multi-instrumentalist’s sense of humor was shaped by Bill Cosby records and early Saturday Night Live cast members like John Belushi and Chevy Chase. He identifies with “stop-and-makes-you-think humor,” where “no one’s getting hurt out of the joke, which seems to be a big trend these days,” the 37-year-old Dewees says.

While he’s technically correct, this doesn’t mean that RATFE has never been about pain—specifically, Dewees’.

He’s often bounced between serious and silly, but 2005’s Songs Not to Get Married To, the project’s fourth record, was inspired by his real-life divorce, and the extraheavy and morose Last Stop: Crappy Town— released in 2008—was written after getting out of rehab for drug addiction.

“The humor element would stop when I really wanted to tell somebody how I felt about them,” Dewees says. “Most of the time when there are those songs that aren’t funny and have a little more of a serious note, they’re usually a message from me to someone. I’m a horrible communicator, so I usually use music to tell people when I’m upset with them or how much I like ’em.”

All that said, Dewees wasn’t pleased with how Last Stop left him in fans’ perception.

It was put together in 2006 and shelved for a couple of years until Vagrant Records released it—at which point Dewees had moved on. The more lighthearted No Country, for which the funding goal was more than met and which was released in November 2013, takes a stab at improving the mood. It not only features cover art with a confused kid in a Mr. T costume, but also “Fowlin’ Around,” a track about a certain barnyard bird.

“The music that I write pretty much all the time for myself is the Reggie music,” Dewees says. “That’s the stuff [that’s] just perky pop songs with a little bit of humor, kind of the lighter side of shit, where it’s like, ‘You don’t need to take this seriously.’ It’s more about having a good time and enjoying yourself and celebrating your life.” CW

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The Menzingers Soaring guitar chords, check. Vocals/yells from a guy who sounds like he smokes a pack a day, check. Driving one-two-threefour drumming, check. Yes, Scranton, Pa., foursome The Menzingers have all the crucial ingredients for a punk sound that would appeal to fans of the Bouncing Souls and Against Me! But their emotional lyrics and thoughtful songwriting reveal a poetically human perspective on some of the crappiest parts of life: These are songs you could listen to after any bad day, and know there’s someone else out there who gets

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Educated at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and Juilliard, Batiste comes from a well-known musical family, whose ties to NOLA’s musical identity are so prominent that they were the inspiration for HBO’s Treme. The 27-year-old is now based in New York City, where he works as the artistic director at large for Harlem’s National Jazz Museum. Batiste performs solo worldwide but can usually be found alongside his band, Stay Human, which is made up of Juilliard contemporaries with masterful skills on trumpet, saxophone and percussion. The band’s latest album, Social Music—released in fall 2013—oozes soul, and features original material as well as a couple covers, including the well-known folk song “St. James Infirmary Blues.” Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 7:30 p.m., $20-$69, EcclesCenter.org

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Maybe this is because the Portland, Ore., pair, consisting of Timothy Heller (the girl, FYI) and Jared Ryan Maldonado, have a romance in real life.

Their debut album, Sun Shy, came out in September 2013 and is replete with bright-eyed indie-style tracks. Dresses’ songs are full of lyrics that are often as fresh-faced as they are raw, such as on “Painting Roses,” when Maldonado sings about love troubles: “I told myself I’m not a person who would need someone, then why do I feel alone?” Dresses’ lyrics are like a stream-of-consciousness narrative from the head of a teenager in emotional crisis—in a good way. Her Luminaria and Cade Walker will open. (Hilary Packham) Sunday, Feb. 9 @ Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), 8 p.m., $8 in advance, $10 day of show, KilbyCourt.com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com

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live music & karaoke

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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49. Poison 50. Call forth 52. Part of A/V 55. Classico competitor 56. Apple computer 57. No-goodnik 61. Backward flow 62. Myrna of film 63. Tree in many street names 64. RMN served under him

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7. Tracksuit fabric 8. "Gimme those!"

9. Arrive 10. Barely managed, with "out" 11. Singer known as "The Velvet Fog" 12. "Oh, give me ____ ..."

13. Host of the Weather Channel's "Wake Up With Al" 21. Cheerios are made with them 23. Peace ____ 24. Forster's "____ With a View" 25. Flat condition?

26. Gerber rival 28. Genre for the Spice Girls and Oasis 30. Nobelist Bohr 32. Hernando's hand 33. Boy band with the hit "Liquid Dreams" 35. "A special laurel ____ go": Whitman 37. Supermodel Campbell 38. Hollywood's Sommer et al.

39. Kagan whose high school yearbook page quotes Justice Felix Frankfurter 43. Payments for releases 44. Takes for a ride 46. Talked excitedly about the lastest iPhone, say, with "out" 48. Soulful Baker

Complete the grid so that each row, column, diagonal and 3x3 square contain all of the numbers 1 to 9.

1. They might be inflated 7. Nasty habit 11. Steamrolled stuff 14. Amusement park vehicle 15. "Star Wars" creature whose name can be made using letters from "Wookiee" 16. "So that's it!"

17. Title girl in a 2001 French comedy 18. Limping, say 19. Seoul soldier 20. Sang like Sinatra 22. Mrs., abroad 23. Hotel entrance lineup 27. Ship-related: Abbr.

28. "The Chosen ____" (slogan of the beverage brand He'Brew) 29. Senator Hatch 31. Shake 34. Bert and Ernie, e.g.

36. Afternoon movie 40. More sluggish 41. Less than every 42. Schnoz 44. Cattle drive participant 45. Hard Italian cheese 47. All-female group's policy 48. Opposite of sans 51. "99 Luftballons" singer 53. Leaning Tower site 54. Ariz. neighbor 55. Revolts 58. Sea goddess who saved Odysseus 59. In a frenzy 60. Engaged in swordplay 65. 2009 Kesha hit "Tik ____" 66. Tag, e.g.

67. Highlighted, as text 68. ____ Zion Church 69. Golden State campus inits.

70. "I'm fine with that" (or an instance that occurs seven times in this puzzle's grid)

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If all that sounds a little intense for waffles, that’s because the owners have been working on their idea for three years. “Our original idea was actually a flash restaurant,” explains Larsen. “We wanted to try and set up somewhere for a period of time and disappear until we announced the next location—kind of like the traditional food truck but with no truck.”

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“We recently partnered with Meiers Meats and Fine Foods in Highland to serve our waffles,” says Saturday Waffle Co-owner Richard Larsen. “We are currently working on a second trailer, but we don’t have an opening date yet. There will be several more menu options added in the second trailer.”

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) One of the chapter titles in my most recent book is this: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ever since I learned to see three sides to every story, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m finding much better stories.â&#x20AC;? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m recommending that you find a way to use this perspective as your own in the coming weeks, Leo. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crucial that you not get stuck in an oppositional mode. It would be both wrong and debilitating to believe that you must choose between one of two conflicting options. With that in mind, I will introduce you to a word you may not know: â&#x20AC;&#x153;trilemma.â&#x20AC;? It transcends a mere dilemma because it contains a third alternative.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Back in 2002, three young men launched YouTube, in part motivated by a banal desire. They were frustrated because they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find online videos of the notorious incident that occurred during the Super Bowl halftime show, when Janet Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wardrobe malfunction exposed her breast. In response, they created the now-famous website that allows people to share videos. I foresee the possibility of a comparable sequence for you, Aquarius. A seemingly superficial wish or trivial interest could inspire you to come up with a fine new addition to your world. Pay attention to your whimsical notions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) In 1984, Don Henleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s song â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Boys of Summerâ&#x20AC;? reached the top of the Billboard charts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Out on the road today/ I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac,â&#x20AC;? Henley sings wistfully near the end of the tune.

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Almost 20 years later, the band The Ataris covered â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Boys of Summer,â&#x20AC;? but changed the lyric to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Out on the road today/ I saw a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac.â&#x20AC;? It conveyed the same mournful contempt, but this time invoking the iconic punk band Black Flag.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Almost,â&#x20AC;? writes novelist Joan Bauer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe.â&#x20AC;? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure you know about that feeing yourself, Cancerian. Sometimes it has seemed like your entire life is composed of thousands of small almosts that add up to one gigantic almost. But I have good news: There is an excellent chance that in the next 14 to 16 weeks you will graduate from the endless and omnipresent almost; you will rise up and snatch a bold measure of completeness from out of the ever-shifting flow. And it all kicks into high gear now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Food aficionado Michael Pollan says that Americans â&#x20AC;&#x153;worry more about food and derive less pleasure from eatingâ&#x20AC;? than people in other countries. If you ask them what their association is with â&#x20AC;&#x153;chocolate cake,â&#x20AC;? they typically say â&#x20AC;&#x153;guilt.â&#x20AC;? By contrast, the French are likely to respond to the same question with â&#x20AC;&#x153;celebration.â&#x20AC;? From an astrological perspective, I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appropriate for you to be more like the French than the TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Americans in the coming weeksâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not just in your attitude What is the single best thing you could do to fulfill your No. 1 toward delicious desserts, but in regards to every opportunity desire? Is there a skill you should attain? A subject you should for pleasure. This is one of those times when you have a license study? A special kind of experience you should seek or a shift to guiltlessly explore the heights and depths of bliss. in perspective you should initiate? This is a big opportunity, Taurus. You have an excellent chance to identify the specific SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) action you could take that will lead you to the next stage of your In the Inuktitut language spoken among the Eastern Canadian evolution. And if you do manage to figure out exactly what needs Inuit, the word for â&#x20AC;&#x153;simplicityâ&#x20AC;? is katujjiqatigiittiarnirlu. This to be done, start doing it! amusing fact reminds me of a certain situation in your life. Your quest to get back to basics and reconnect with your core sources GEMINI (May 21-June 20) is turning out to be rather complicated. If you hope to invoke all When songwriters make a â&#x20AC;&#x153;slant rhyme,â&#x20AC;? the words they use of the pure, humble clarity you need, you will have to call on some donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really rhyme, but they sound close enough alike to mimic sophisticated and ingenious magic. a rhyme. An example occurs in â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bad Touch,â&#x20AC;? a tune by the Bloodhound Gang: â&#x20AC;&#x153;You and me baby ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t nothing but SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) mammals / So letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree?â&#x20AC;? asked Technically, â&#x20AC;&#x153;mammalsâ&#x20AC;? doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rhyme with â&#x20AC;&#x153;channel.â&#x20AC;? I environmentalist Edward Abbey. His answer: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The purpose of suspect that in the coming week you will have experiences with the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.â&#x20AC;? I metaphorical resemblances to slant rhymes. But as long as you suggest you meditate on all the ways you can apply that wisdom as a donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fuss and fret about the inexactness you encounter, as long metaphor to your own issues. For example: What monumental part as you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t demand that everything be precise and cleaned-up, of your own life might be of service to a small, fragile part? What you will be entertained and educated. Vow to see the so-called major accomplishment of yours can provide strength and protection imperfections as soulful. to a ripening potential thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s underappreciated by others?

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It’s important to point out again that most of you who work downtown don’t live here.

I’m one of the 500 of 5000 or so downtown residents who both live and work downtown. City planners understand that to have a more valuable, vibrant and active downtown you must look towards bringing in adults who want to raise children amidst our vast concrete sidewalks.

What’s stopping young families from living in the immediate downtown area? First, there’s the current inventory of homes, condos and apartments. Luann Lakis raised her herd of kids at The Warehouse condos at 360 W. 200 South, only after combining two condos together at great cost. She was the first person I had met that raised a large family in a downtown building, and I can tell you I haven’t met many others willing to take the plunge. Second, the quality of life and services for kids in downtown is poor.

There’s the Children’s Museum and the Planetarium for paid family fun, but where would you learn to ride a bike or play on their Big Wheel? There are very few pocket parks or day care facilities, and certainly no indoor playrooms for kids in any condo or apartment building that I know of.

Salt Lake City Planners and officials are aware of these problems and are looking for better solutions for diversity downtown.

They have traveled around the country, had input from other big cities, and are working on the first draft of the new Downtown Master Plan expected next month. What could work here? How about actual zoning laws that match mortgage lending laws defining live/work space so that people can get loans on such spaces, or passing more practical laws allowing people to live in commercial areas and in warehouses downtown.

For almost a decade I sat in Planning and Zoning meetings listening to city officials drool over how fantastic Portland and Denver’s downtown areas are. As a resident and business owner downtown, I can tell you the number one request I get from potential buyers or renters is “show me live/work spaces” followed by “do you have any cool warehouse space where I can live and work” and even “raise my family”?

My answer is most often, “Sorry, there’s less than a handful of live/work spaces and no warehouses to live in.” Diverse housing and larger creative inventory for different types of families creates options.

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