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Letters Life Is Too Short for This

All those 2014 initiatives for early education, economic development, immigration reform and a better welfare system are wasted if we cannot breathe clean air. What good would it be to fix everything if we die from poor air quality?

These days, I have to take an airplane to escape the pollution and practice my basic right to breathe. Unless we ban certain vehicles that emit toxins, old and dysfunctional furnaces and other appliances that pollute the air, I see very little hope.

I object to my tax money being put into funding for early education because I am a psychologist and I know that there is a natural growth and maturation curve. A child needs to be developmentally ready to acquire certain skills. It is a mistake to push children into accelerated academics. A child should be allowed to be a child.

Children today need fresh air, nature and outdoor activities rather than more class time. We have to emphasize connectedness, belonging and service at an early age.

Some of the young terrorists who are bomb makers are geniuses. They certainly do not need more school; they need positive role models at home.

I am also against immigration reform. I watched the Spanish news channel and was disturbed by the fact that illegal immigrants plan to give birth to their children in

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I came to the United States as an immigrant on a student visa and climbed through the system to become a legal citizen. It took me about 17 years with no shortcuts.

I am proud of the law and order in the United States.

Last but not least, when I want a good chocolate, I want to enjoy it, and I am not looking for sugar-free, chocolate-less treats. It is deceptive to think that if it is a diet product, then I can eat much more of it. Why are we putting our tax money into an initiative that mandates placing calorie information on vending machines? Has the government become a health fanatic, telling me what food I should put on my plate?

It is really not about what we eat but about how much we eat. Life is too short; I eat to live rather than live to eat, and I do not want anyone to take this joy away from me.

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I wish to respond to Jeff Hymas of Rock y Mountain Power [“Energy Error,” Letters, Feb. 6, City Weekly] concerning charging those of us who have placed solar panels on our homes.

Our household has been a customer of RMP for nearly 32 years. We recently installed solar panels as part of the effort to clean up our terrible winter air. Our solar panels provide RMP with clean energy when it needs it the most, during peak summertime hours. With enough of us connected to the grid, we save RMP the expense of building another power plant. We do pay a monthly service fee even when we generate more power than we use. To say that we do not contribute our fair share for maintenance is laughable.

This attempt to gouge more money from us is a page right out of the Enron playbook. Explain to me how Germany manages to pay homeowners more than the going rate for their surplus solar power while RMP cannot?

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OPINION

Dear Mormonism

How are you? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a while. The Internet tells me you are doing well, building new temples, writing fancy amicus briefs and trying to figure out what to do with your women. (Hint: Try priesthood.) Anyway, I know you are very busy, but I wanted to tell you thank you.

Thank you for raising me into this inactive misfit Mormon woman. Thank you for making me a feminist and an LGBT ally.

Thank you for giving me the tools to raise an independent and kind daughter, thank you for giving me the eyes through which I see the world. I would be ungrateful not to recognize your role in who I am as a woman, a parent and a spouse. Thank you.

When you taught me to believe that I am a child of God, filled with divine nature and individual worth, I believed you. I believed in my divinity enough that when I grew up, the confines of man-made patriarchy and traditional gender roles paled in comparison with what I knew. A child of God doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to hearken unto her husband or simply nurture while her husband provides. A child of God sees her worth not just in her uterus, but in her mind. A child of God uses that mind to read The Feminine Mystique, a child of God understands internalized misogyny, and a child of God knows that short skirts donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rape people, and that the women wearing them arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;&#x153;walking pornography.â&#x20AC;?

More importantly, you taught me to love one another, another song so familiar that I could never forget this new commandment, even when my days of singing in Sacrament Meeting were over. So I loved. I loved my way through 2008 and Prop. 8, and your stubborn devotion to â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Proclamation to the Family.â&#x20AC;? I loved even when my fellow church members told me that â&#x20AC;&#x153;when the prophet speaks, the thinking has been done.â&#x20AC;? Even when I lost friends, even when I lost my

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faith in this churchâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in you, Mormonismâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I never stopped loving. Because you taught me that â&#x20AC;&#x153;whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it,â&#x20AC;? and when I lost my life as an active Mormon, I found myself as an ally, activist and a friend. And when more people find themselves, we save not just ourselves, but the â&#x20AC;&#x153;least of these,â&#x20AC;? the young LGBT people who may have otherwise been lost to suicide and hate crimes and dehumanizing legislation rooted in fear.

Thank you, Mormonism, for teaching me about my pioneer ancestors, who faced an undue amount of persecution for believing differently from their neighbors and friends. Those guilt-inducing lessons on genealogy taught me that I have defiance and strength written into my DNA, because if my ancestors could leave their homes to chase a promised land, I can leave my homeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;your home, Mormonismâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; in search of a more egalitarian and loving Zion.

Mormonism, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve spent my life listening to that still, small voice, hoping that I will be brave enough to listen to the promptings of the spirit, and to follow what it teaches me. I continue to listen, because you taught me that listening to that voice inside me will protect me from evil, especially that tricky sort of meanness that â&#x20AC;&#x153;calls evil good and good evil.â&#x20AC;? I listen and I know that benevolent sexism, the type that would put me on a pedestal and tell me Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m too pure to get my hands dirty with power, is wrong. I listen, and I know the cruelest evil is that which calls bigotry â&#x20AC;&#x153;religious libertyâ&#x20AC;? and hurts others in the name of God. And when I begin to doubt my new faith, when the siren call of the community I lost and the comfort of fitting in seem inviting, and when I long for the approval of my peers, I do what Second Counselor Dieter Uchtdorf tells me, and I â&#x20AC;&#x153;doubt my doubts,â&#x20AC;? and then

I â&#x20AC;&#x153;stop it.â&#x20AC;? I am a child of God, who loves one another, and listens to the spirit.

Remember when you taught me about the Anti-Nephi-Lehies, the heroes of The Book of Mormon who made a promise with God never to go to war again and then buried their weapons? They preferred death over a broken promise, and they taught me about the value of sacrifice. I remember them because I too have buried my weapons; I buried my homophobia, my own self-taught brand of sexism and my fear. I buried them and I will not raise them again, even if it means I stand outside the doors of the temple the day my sister gets married.

I expect you see me as a monster, a Frankenmormon, an unholy amalgamation of beliefs that contradict the perfect Mormon woman you envisioned. But I see a Daniel, who spent her upbringing in the lionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s den of orthodox Mormonism and came out stronger.

You raised me to see miracles everywhere, Mormonism, and I do.

I see miracles when a white Texan sports announcer decries the homophobia of the NFL. I see miracles when a teenager fights against the Taliban for her right to an education. I see miracles when Mormons march in pride parades and women ask for a seat in the priesthood session. I see miracles, and I believe in a world that will be saved once more by a Messiah of equality and fairness and love. This is the world I raise my daughter in, and I see it with wonder and faith.

So thank you, Mormonism, from the bottom of my bleeding left-wing heart.

Thank you. CW

when I lost my life as an active Mormon, I found myself as an ally, activist and a friend.

Stephanie Lauritzen is a high school teacher who blogs at MormonChildBride. blogspot.com. Send feedback to comments@ cityweekly.net.

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Who or what would you thank for influencing who you are today?

Scott Renshaw: My grandmother, who bought my first piece of writing for a quarter when I was 5. The parents who loved and supported me even when I drifted from the path they might have seen for me. The people who taught me to be a critical thinker, both in person and through their writing.

Carly Fetzer: My brother Dav id, who stirred up the creativit y and motivation in me by doing everything from improvising a night-time tale at my bedside when I was a kid to starting his own theater company.

Paula Saltas: Without being corny, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll say John Saltas. He always stresses to our kids to communicate and say what is on their minds and to never give up, which are good life lessons for people to live by daily. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll start tomorrow.

Colin Wolf: I was lucky to have quite a few influential things in my life, most importantly: television. As Homer Simpson once said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how I was raised and I turned out TV.â&#x20AC;?

Paydn Augustine: When I was younger, I skateboarded a lot and always wanted to make designs for skate decks. After that, I wanted to start making shirts and then go into abstract art and fine arts. If I had to give gratitude to a few people, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be Jamie Hewlett, Josh Homme and Charlie Chaplin. A strange brew to be sure.

Kolbie Stonehocker: Watching Star Wars, playing with Legos and reading Harry Potter as a kid helped me realize I was a geek. I get my wheat/dairy allergies, dorky sense of humor and goofiness from my mom.

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Writing is so vulnerable. There’s just such a personal issue with it—people love it or hate it, or they define themselves as not being good at it. But there’s no such thing as a good or bad writer. There’s lots of good and bad writing—Hemingway had both, I’ve had both. So I feel like when it comes to writing, there are a lot of misperceptions that happen, where someone’s been damaged by a teacher or someone who didn’t realize that what they were saying was so personal. So when we work with writers here, instead of saying, “You made this sound ...” or “You were confusing here,” we do a lot of anthropomorphizing: “This sentence is suggesting ...” It’s a way for the writer to disengage from it personally.

On the first day of class with my students, I break apart some myths about writing. It’s not a natural-born skill, you’re not a bad person if you feel you’re not good at it. People just have these fears that are unwarranted.

Yes, we thought it was a joke. Good one, Rep. Jerry A nderson, R-Price. You want to limit state regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. It’s all about saving the plants. God knows they’re not getting enough carbon dioxide. And yes, Anderson was a “science” teacher, and so he knows all about gases like nitrogen and radon and xenon. They’re natural. Well, a lot of things are natural that are not necessarily beneficial to human life. People have been naturally burning fossil fuels for a long time, and it’s been causing bad air, bad lungs and bad economies. According to a Salt Lake Tribune study, the bad air also seems to cause more school absences.

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It’s interesting, because sometimes when people come to the door, they stop and seem to think, “Can I really come in here? I’m not a writer.” That’s the first thing people say: “I’m not a writer.” Well, everyone’s a writer. You don’t have to be a “Writer.” We find that after working with inmates at the jail or those at the homeless-youth resource center, a lot of them will then come here. As long as people are writing, they can hang out here all day.

We do have people fill out a small registration, but anyone can be a part of it. And most of our programs are free.

A House committee thinks it’s a good idea to get kids involved in a jury trial over termination of parental rights. Don’t trust a judge, and really don’t trust the guardians ad litem who are charged with protecting children from abuse and neglect—that’s the message from Rep. LaVar Christensen, R-Draper.

While there may be instances of children wrongly taken from parents, there are many more of children’s lives being saved. Christensen thinks this is about preserving families and somehow upholding parents’ liberties.

Interestingly, Missouri is vetting the polar opposite of Christensen’s proposal—to speed up the process. If this is a constitutional issue, then kids have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, too.

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We’re open to everyone and all educational abilities, but we really focus on populations that don’t have the same educational or economic privileges as others. We focus not just on creative writing, but on helping people write letters to legislators and work on their résumés or college-application essays and that kind of thing. We do in-house workshops here, as well as free one-on-one writing coaching. We have people who come in every day to work on novels, we’ve helped a gentleman with a letter to his parole officer ... we recently helped someone who brought in their cardboard sign and wanted a more strategic way of writing a help sign.

We did not want to be a literary salon. And our goal is not to just have people come here, but that our program be out in the community. We have different writing groups across the community, and work with probably 40 ongoing partners every year. We have workshops twice a week in the jail, one for women and one for men; we have workshops with some refugee groups. Every day, we have people all throughout the community actually facilitating something with writing.

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The Community Writing Center is a cozy little building in Library Square (210 E. 400 South, 801-957-2192, SLCC.edu/CWC) filled with books and couches.

It’s not the home of an exclusive literary conclave, however—technically, the award-winning CWC is an outreach arm of Salt Lake Community College.

Andrea Malouf, the center’s director, is a former journalist and a current SLCC professor who knows that everyone can write—but that some people might need help finding their voice. The CWC encourages expressions of all kinds from Salt Lake City’s citizens—from teens to inmates to aspiring novelists—by hosting continual writing programs, events and workshops.

It might as well be kiss-upto-Mitt month for the media, what with all the attention he’s getting. First, we have the love-fest that is Mitt, the 94-minute Netflix movie about Romney family prayer and the candidate’s overarching self-doubt. We have lots of people pondering whether he will run again for president, despite The Salt Lake Tribune’s pronouncement that he won’t because he’s sized up the negatives. Still, Romney stays out there, taking on a New York Times reporter for misquoting him on Russia and dissing the Sochi Olympics for wasting billions of dollars. Romney said that Putin was using the Olympics as a personal P.R. vehicle. Of course, the fact that Romney headed the Salt Lake Games didn’t hurt his bid for Massachusetts governor. And then there were the Olympic pins with his likeness. Never underestimate the power of hubris.

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In a Tom Clancy novel, I came across the repeated assertion that Chairman Mao was a pedophile. Clancy seems to care about historical detail, but I wonder about the accuracy of this. Did the founder of Communist China prey on little girls?

—Michael I understand your suspicion. After all, if a Chinese leader once revered as a demigod had a penchant for preying on underage girls, surely it would have been well covered by now in the Chinese press. Oh, wait.

The Clancy book you’re talking about is The Bear and the Dragon (2000), in which the United States and Russia team up in war against China. At several points, characters comment disapprovingly about Mao’s sexual proclivities. However, let’s get the story straight: 1. Nowhere does the book suggest Mao was a pedophile; pedophilia being understood as the desire for sex with prepubescent children. “We had the data over at Langley,” one character says. “Mao liked virgins, the younger the better. Maybe he liked to see the fear in their cute little virginal eyes.”

Elsewhere, Mao’s partners are described as “barely nubile,” i.e., young but pubescent.

2. Possibly Clancy really did get the dirt on Mao from CIA HQ. But a lot of it likely came from The Private Life of Chairman Mao (1994) by Li Zhisui, for 22 years one of Mao’s personal physicians. Li says Mao did in fact have a weakness for young women.

How young? The Chinese leader liked to reminisce about an encounter he’d had with a pretty 12-year-old when he was a teenage villager. Elsewhere Li says Mao “followed the tradition of Chinese emperors,” one of whom supposedly bedded a thousand young virgins. This may be the basis for Clancy’s claim that Mao had a thing for virgins.

3. But Li himself doesn’t say that. He apparently means Mao followed Chinese emperors in thinking sex with young women would keep him young and potent.

Evidently it worked: “Mao had no problems with the young women he brought to his bed—their numbers increasing and their average ages declining as Mao attempted to add years to his life.”

4. According to Li, Mao’s women were neither exceptionally young nor unwilling. Typically they came from impoverished backgrounds, owed their lives to the Party, and were proud to have been chosen. Li writes: “They loved him ... as their great leader. ... They were all very young when they began serving Mao—in their late teens and early 20s—and usually unmarried. When Mao tired of them and the honor was over, they married young, uneducated men with peasant pasts.”

5. Some of the women, though, were underage by Western standards. In 1997 journalist Jonathan Mirsky interviewed a middle-aged woman he called Ms. Chen, who said she’d caught the chairman’s eye as a dancer and began having sex with him

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in 1962, when she was 14. (One presumes she was a virgin at the start.) Mirsky calls Mao a pedophile, which isn’t strictly true, but no matter: In many U.S. jurisdictions the chairman would have been guilty of statutory rape.

6. The Great Helmsman wasn’t a onenight-stand kind of guy. According to Ms. Chen, her relationship with Mao lasted five years, after which she was exiled to the provinces, supposedly at the insistence of Mao’s wife, Jiang Qing. “Mao, she claimed, took her on his knee and wept, but said he could do nothing,” Mirsky writes.

7. Mao’s playmates could get feisty, Li says. Once the chairman and a young lover got into a shouting match when he wouldn’t let her marry and she accused him of being a corrupt bourgeois womanizer. She threatened to go public but was talked into apologizing.

In short, the impression Clancy gives of little girls tearfully awaiting deflowering seems exaggerated. Nonetheless, was Mao a dirty old man? You bet. More from Li: n Mao “was happiest and most satisfied with several young women simultaneously sharing his bed,” Li writes. “He encouraged his sexual partners to introduce him to others for shared orgies, allegedly in the interest of his longevity and strength.” n Mao chose handsome young men as personal attendants, who among other duties were expected to massage his groin nightly to help him fall asleep. “For a while, I took such behavior as evidence of a homosexual strain,” Li says, “but later I concluded that it was simply an insatiable appetite for any form of sex.” n Mao was a carrier of a parasitic STD but refused treatment, spreading the disease among his partners. He further refused to bathe or clean his genitals, receiving only nightly rubdowns with hot towels. “I wash myself inside the bodies of my women,” he told Li. For what it’s worth, he apparently also never brushed his teeth.

This may not sound like a kink to you, but you didn’t have to kiss him.

So, was the great leader a sexual predator? Yeah. Pedophile? No. Virgin deflowerer? Probably on occasion, but there’s little evidence it was a regular thing. These may be fine points, but that’s what we do.

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NEWS Tech Heaven A proposal to provide a digital device for every schoolchild would be the largest education expense in Utah history.

By Colby Frazier cfrazier@cityweekly.net @colbyfrazierlp In Utah, discussions about public education funding usually focus on the statistic perennially ranking the state at or near the bottom of the nation for per pupil spending. But now, talk of a huge investment is brewing as Rep. Becky Lockhart, R-Provo, has unveiled a plan to direct $200 million toward placing a digital device in the hands of every Utah schoolchild.

If approved, the sum—which would need to be committed years into the future to maintain the tens of thousands of electronic devices and upgrade wireless infrastructures at schools— would be the largest single-year publiceducation expenditure in the state’s history, according to the Office of the Legislative Fiscal Analysis.

Lockhart says the initiative, known as the Public Education Modernization Act, would go a long way toward improving the state’s cash-strapped education system.

But her proposal, which is being sponsored by Rep. Francis Gibson, R-Mapleton, has been greeted with consternation from some legislators, who question how and where $200 million will appear. And, although the Utah Education Association has not taken a stand on the bill, a spokesman says the organization would much rather see the millions that were cut during the great recession restored before a multi-year technology spending spree begins.

The timing of the initiative, in Lockhart’s final push of a 16-year legislative career, has also drawn fire.

As speaker of the house, Lockhart is among the most powerful politicians in the state, and she is widely believed to be hatching a campaign to challenge her GOP colleague and Utah County neighbor Gov. Gary Herbert for the governor’s seat in 2016.

Lockhart has an answer for all of these critiques. Her initiative, she says, is “really bold.” The money, she says, will flow when it needs to flow. And as for Herbert, she says, this has nothing to do with him.

“As I leave the legislature, this is an area that I’d like to see move forward,” she told City Weekly. “But I truly believe,

“They’re not useful when they’re sort of a replacement for teachers.”

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—Kirsten Butcher, director of the University of Utah’s Center for Advancement of Technology in Education, talking about devices in classrooms

as I’ve looked at education over the last couple of years, this is the direction we need to go.”

The bill hasn’t yet gone before a legislative committee, though as of press time, it was scheduled to go before t he House Education Committee on Feb. 26.

As a result, many of the nuts & bolts haven’t come together. As written, the bill would form an advisory committee, which would select a technology expert to assist the state as it sorts through proposals from technology firms to provide devices and software. Then, individual school districts would apply for grants to implement the programs.

Other initiatives to plop shiny digital devices in the hands of every student have had mixed results across the country. In Indiana, students skirted around the educational security fences on their school-bought iPads, doing social-media work instead of real homework. And in Los Angeles, an ambitious $1 billion iPad rollout to students has been fraught with complications, including unexpected software costs that could reach into the hundreds of millions.

Those kinds of follies, Lockhart says, have been the result of focusing too much too early on getting the digital device in the hands of students. A far more important piece of the puzzle, she says, is training teachers to fold the devices into the curriculum so they can be an asset rather than a distraction.

“When you have that, you will have success and children will learn deeper and they will learn faster,” Lockhart says. “The goal here is to do it in the right way.”

Some schools in Utah, using grant funding, have already implemented one-to-one technology (one device for every child) initiatives.

Northwest Middle School in Salt Lake City has been at a nearly one-toone ratio for the past four years. Upping the school’s use of technology occurred in step with a host of other efforts to improve the once-struggling school, including grants to train teachers with new instructional strategies and implementing incentive-based pay.

The school, once deemed “pervasively low-performing,” Northwest Principal Brian Conley says, is now in the top 30 percent in the state for achieving student proficiency standards.

“We’ve had some great increases and it wasn’t because parents all the sudden started sending us their smart students; it’s because we as educators became more effective at what we do,” Conley says. “And a part of that was

technology.”

Kirsten Butcher, director of the Center for Advancement of Technology in Education at the University of Utah, says Lockhart’s initiative could be successful if it’s buoyed by “significant professional development.”

The devices could “allow teachers to do something more and deeper in the classroom,” Butcher says, adding that she feels investing heavily in technology is “wise,” but only if extensive resources are available to train teachers. “They’re not useful when they’re sort of a replacement for teachers,” she says.

Herbert says he doesn’t necessarily think a one-to-one technology program is a bad idea; he just doesn’t know where the money will come from. A draft report from an education taskforce he helped form pegged the initial start-up costs at $750 million and ongoing costs as at least $290 million. These costs would cover a one-to-one program just for grades five through 12.

“I don’t think the math works out,” he says. “It’s going to have to be a much more limited approach when it comes to technology than the 200 or 300 million dollars that’s proposed.”

Herbert also shrugged off any suggestion that Lockhart’s efforts were a political affront to his own education budget, which he says not only addresses technology, but also increas-

es teacher pay and fully funds Utah’s growing crop of students.

“I think [Lockhart’s] trying to find an issue,” he says.

“Other people say it’s her legacy, something she wants to do. So who knows? I don’t feel like it’s an affront. I take her word that she believes that this is something we ought to do.”

Mike Kelly, a spokesman for the UEA, says his organization would prefer to see the legislature restore education funding that was lost in recent years. He says public education funding is currently 9.6 percent lower than in 2008, and that the hundreds of millions of dollars that Lockhart hopes to put toward technology could be better spent reducing Utah’s ballooning class sizes and providing professional development for teachers.

“That’s where the first investments need to be made right now,” he says.

“That’s where the critical needs are in the schools.”

As the bill inches through the process, Herbert says, its fate will hinge on money and, to date, he hasn’t heard where it will materialize. “As I’ve asked her and others have asked her, ‘Great, where’s the money coming from?’ ” But Lockhart says finding the money now isn’t as important as directing policy. The money, she believes, will take care of itself.

“What’s most important at this point is the policy,” she says. “If we can embrace the policy, which I believe is the right one, then we can decide about the money.” CW

H E A LT H C A R E NEWS Nuestro Care Tech access and fears of deportation are barriers to enrolling Latinos in ACA.

By Eric S. Peterson epeterson@cityweekly.net @ericspeterson

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Andrea Garcia, a health-care navigator with Comunidades Unidas, helps Latinos enroll in the Affordable Care Act.

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“The information put on the marketplace will not be used against them,” Garcia says. “So we remind them that [ACA staff] are not going to be calling ICE on them.”

There are other fear-based obstacles to ACA enrollment in the Latino community.

Angela Castano, a navigator with Alliance Community Services, says many undocumented Latinos are used to receiving health care at community centers or waiting until there’s a health emergency to seek care. Others—even those who are eligible for insurance—are simply unaccustomed to having it.

“They are not used to having insurance,” Castro says. “They don’t know how it works so they are afraid of buying something when they don’t know what it is.”

And she says there are some private insurance agents out there who prey on this uncertainty. She’s heard of agents telling Latinos who make too much for Medicaid but not enough for ACA to simply report a higher income on their taxes so that they can get ACA subsidies—a deception that will, in the end, mean that they’ll pay more in taxes because of their inflated reporting.

“They confuse and try to enroll people through lies,” Castano says.

But both women stress the importance of becoming familiar with health care despite the daunting aspects. Garcia does basic health screenings at the Mexican Consulate and says that she’s sometimes the first one to tell community members who’ve neglected to get simple checkups that they have serious conditions like diabetes or hypertension.

“To me, it’s just astounding that people are unaware that they have a chronic condition,” Garcia says. The ACA, she says, will help a person’s introduction to health care be with a family doc and not an emergencyroom team.

“It’s really going to put a focus on preventative health and give people the benefit of getting to know the health system in the first place,” she says. CW

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Though the passage of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act divided conservatives and liberals across the country about the role of government, the ACA’s HealthCare.gov also united millions of Americans of both parties in the hairpulling frustration of trying to enroll using the glitch-prone website.

As intimidating as the website was for Americans who are used to clicking their way through online forms and applications, for many Latinos in Utah, enrolling through the government portal meant getting an e-mail for the first time.

“We have to start all the way from the bottom,” says Andrea Garcia, a health-care navigator with the Salt Lake City nonprofit Comunidades Unidas. She works to help enroll Latinos in the ACA, which often means holding clients’ hands through the basics of the Internet before attempting to tackle HealthCare.gov.

“We work creating an e-mail account, creating an account on the marketplace and then having to go through the whole process,” Garcia says. “And because there are so many glitches on the website, we’ve had to call the agents on the phone to try to sign them up.”

Navigators like Garcia are tasked with making sure community members are enrolled under ACA before the March 31 open-enrollment deadline. Under the ACA, funds have been earmarked to help various nonprofit groups get the word out, perform community outreach and guide individuals through the process of enrollment.

The ACA is expected to help Utah’s Latino population, which is disproportionately affected by preventable diseases like hypertension and diabetes.

According to a Feb. 11 report by the United States Department of Health & Human Services, there are 86,000 Latinos in Utah who are currently uninsured but could qualify for ACA subsidies. That number represents roughly a third of all Latinos in the state, and nationwide is .8 percent of Latinos eligible for ACA coverage.

But as health-care navigators who work directly with their communities know, the official number of eligible Latinos doesn’t provide the whole picture of many households with documented and undocumented family members.

While Garcia has to turn away undocumented Latinos for not being eligible for ACA coverage, she is happy to tell clients that undocumented parents who enroll their U.S. citizen children don’t have to worry that bringing them into the system will expose them to deportation.

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Curses, Foiled Again

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A man walked into a bank in Antioch, Calif., and handed the teller a note. She couldn’t make it out because of the bad handwriting and showed it to the manager to help her decipher the message. By the time they figured out it was a hold-up note, the man had left through a back door. Police arrested suspect Jamal Garrett, 29, after they found him across the street from the bank and witnesses at the bank identified him. (San Jose Mercury News)

Slightest Provocation

8. American Hustle: Batman,

Lois Lane and Katniss screw over Hawkeye.

7. Captain Phillips: Woody’s

ship gets hijacked by pirates not of the Caribbean.

6. Dallas Buyers Club: The

Lincoln Lawyer battles AIDS with help from the 30 Seconds to Mars guy.

5.

Gravity: Miss Congeniality is lost in space with Fantastic Mr. Fox.

4. Her: Johnny Cash falls in

love with a computer, voiced by the Black Widow.

3. Nebraska: MacGruber and Saul Goodman try to put Frank from Big Love in a retirement home.

2. Philomena: M reconnects with her long-lost son, Alan Partridge.

1. The Wolf of Wall Street:

The Great Gatsby makes piles of money and cocaine with “Jonah Hill” from This Is the End.

nights a week anyway, so I decided to embrace the challenge,” Poole said. After spending $1,670 and gaining 14 pounds from visiting just the 85 outlets in the U.K., Poole discovered that the competition ended two years ago. “There are now so many Nando’s worldwide that we don’t run the challenge anymore,” a Nando’s official said. He added that if Poole completes his attempt, “we will happily honor our original promise and give him free Nando’s for life.” Poole promptly announced he was heading for Australia, where Nando’s has nearly 300 outlets. (Britain’s Daily Mail)

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n A man entered the garage at a home in northwest Chicago and demanded that the resident hand over the keys to her 2012 Honda MDX. She complied, but then fled the garage and closed the door behind her, trapping the man inside. She called the police, who arrived to find Andre Bacon, 21, sitting in the driver’s seat of the vehicle with the keys in the ignition. (Chicago Tribune)

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Authorities charged Ahmed Nur Adan, 27, with felony assault at a Cass County, N.D., jail after he punched fellow inmate Timothy Lowseth, 26. Adan explained that for the past three days, Lowseth had been coming into Adan’s cell, farting and then leaving. Lowseth admitted farting but denied doing so in Adan’s cell. (Forum News Service) n Ashley Marie Prenovost, 24, went on a naked rampage after she and her live-in boyfriend returned to their home in Glendale, Ariz., and he refused to have sex with her. Police said Prenovost punched two holes in a bedroom wall and “punched a picture hanging on the wall in the hallway, causing glass to break and causing injuries to both of suspect’s hands.” Holding their fourmonth-old daughter, she then ran around inside the home and “bled all over the floor in the master bedroom, hallway, common area by the front door and kitchen.” (The Smoking Gun)

Sour Note When Canadian flute virtuoso Boujemaa Razgui arrived in Boston via New York, he found that U.S. Customs officials at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport had searched his luggage, mistaken his 13 instruments for pieces of bamboo and destroyed them. “They told me they were agricultural products,” said Razgui, who made them all by hand from hard-to-find reeds.

“And now they’re gone.” (The Boston Globe)

Handicapable Police reported that Shamal Battice showed up at a car dealership in Ocala, Fla., wanting to buy a car. Salesman Anselmo “Chico” Barreto helped Battice, a paraplegic in a wheelchair, get into a 2009 Pontiac G6, whereupon Battice locked the door and started the engine. He then used a folding cane to press down the gas pedal and drive off the lot. Barreto notified the authorities, and Bradford County sheriff’s deputies arrested Battice at a gas station trying to refuel the car. (Ocala Star-Banner)

n Retired police officer Curtis Reeves, 71, asked Chad Oulson, 43, to stop texting during the previews at a movie theater in Wesley Chapel, Fla. When Oulson objected, an argument ensued, and at some point Reeves said Oulson threw popcorn at him. Claiming self-defense, Reeves fatally shot him.

(Associated Press)

n Japanese composer Mamoru Samuragochi, whose deafness won him fame as a modern-day Beethoven, acknowledged that he paid a ghostwriter to compose some of his internationally acclaimed symphonies. The ghostwriter, Takashi Niigaki, revealed at a news conference not only that he had written more than 20 pieces for Samuragochi, but also that his employer only pretends to be deaf. “Samuragochi is deeply sorry as he has betrayed fans and disappointed others,” Kazushi Orimoto, Samuragochi’s lawyer, said while stating that his client wasn’t available to meet the press. Asked if Samuragochi had listened to Niigaki’s news conference, Orimoto insisted, “There’s no way. He can’t hear.”

(The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal)

Always Read the Fine Print

Too Big to Care

When Christopher Poole, 26, learned that Nando’s fried chicken chain was offering a card guaranteeing chicken for life to anyone who ate at all its worldwide outlets, he embarked on an attempt to visit all 1,031 of them. “I love chicken and eat there a couple of

HSBC bank has imposed restrictions on large cash withdrawals by some of its British customers who cannot prove why they want their money. Customer Stephen Cotton said that when he tried to withdraw £7,000 pounds ($11,695) from his local HSBC branch, the bank declined his request without “a satisfactory explanation for what the money was for” and refused to tell him how much he could have. “So I wrote out a few slips,” he explained. “I said, ‘Can I have £5,000?’ They said no. I said, ‘Can I have £4,000?’

They said no. And then I wrote out one for £3,000, and they said, ‘OK, we’ll give you that.’” When he complained, the bank said the new policy took effect in November but declared it “had no need to pre-notify customers of the change.” (BBC News)

Secret Identities After The New York Times published a story about rising demand for pigs raised in open pastures, the newspaper’s international edition reprinted the story. The Malaysian version included two pictures of the pigs but blacked out their faces. “This is a Muslim country,” a representative from the printing company based in Shah Alam said, explaining that pictures of pigs are not allowed.

He acknowledged that the authorities had not ordered the coverup. “What they have done is self-censorship,” Hashimah Nik Jaafar, secretary of the Home Ministry’s Publication and Quranic Texts Control Division, said, noting that Malaysia has no law prohibiting publication of pictures of pigs. (The Malay Mail) Compiled from mainstream news sources by Roland Sweet.

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CITIZEN REVOLT

by ERIC S. PETERSON @ericspeterson

Budgets and Bikes South Jordan residents will want to check out a hearing to go over the city’s budget proposal and make sure they know where their tax dollars are going and where they’re not. Later, a forum at the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics will talk about the budgeting consumers will have to make to move toward a de-carbonized economy. Also, don’t miss a meeting of the Salt Lake County Bicycle Advisory Committee.

South Jordan Budget Hearing Thursday, Feb. 27

Have you ever given someone money and asked them to pick up food for you, and they ended up grabbing something you hate? Now imagine your elected officials directed your tax dollars to services and purchases that you totally disagree with—it’s much more annoying, when you think about it. If you’re a South Jordan resident, go to this public budget hearing so that you don’t find out after the fact how your money got spent.

South Jordan City Hall, 1600 W. Towne Center Drive, Police Training Room, 801-254-3742, Feb. 27, 5:30 p.m., SJC.Utah.gov/Council.asp

New Pathways for a De-Carbonizing Economy Friday, Feb. 28

Putting the economy on a low-carbon, high-renewable-energy diet isn’t an impossible feat and begins with the everyday consumer. Juliet Schor, an economist, author, former Harvard instructor and current professor of sociology at Boston College, will be talking about simple solutions for filtering the fossil fuels out of our economy at this free and open public forum.

Orson Spencer Hall, Hinckley Institute of Politics, 260 S. Central Campus Drive, University of Utah, 801-581-8501, Feb. 28, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Hinckley.Utah.edu

Salt Lake County Bicycle Advisory Committee Wednesday, March 5

Good bicycling weather is just around the corner, and nothing makes a trip on two wheels more enjoyable than knowing that your county government’s got your back.

If you want to make sure Salt Lake County supports bikers and is interested in making your community a place of harmony for pedestrians and motorists as well as cyclists, then check out the monthly advisory committee meeting.

Salt Lake County Government Building, 2001 S. State, Room 1010, 801-468-3000, March 5, 5:30-7:30 p.m., SLCO.org/Bicycle

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or being so vital to the Beehive State, the Utah Department of Transportation is an agency that’s largely invisible to Utahns. UDOT is, after all, everywhere and nowhere at once, as anonymous as the 6,000 miles of roads it’s tasked to keep safe and pothole-free for every Utahn who’s behind a wheel or about to cross a road. Usually, the name only spills from the lips of Utahns (accompanied by an expletive) at the sight of a flashing sign warning of construction or a traffic jam around the bend.

But the agency is also a major conduit for state and federal cash, and City Weekly has learned through a number of publicrecords requests that millions of dollars in contracts have been paid to third-party firms that had the good sense to hire former UDOT employees and top-level managers.

City Weekly found that in multiple instances, former UDOT employees took the express lane from public service to the private sector, where they assisted their new employers in winning contracts with UDOT to help do their former

government jobs.

The cost of these taxpayer-funded contracts are considerably more than what it would cost for UDOT to hire new fulltime employees. In two contracts that City Weekly found, UDOT paid $639,601 combined to help replace the work of four employees, whose salaries—including benefits—had totaled $307,670.

UDOT argues that it’s smarter to pay more for tech-savvy and innovative contractors to come in on specific projects than to hire and train full-time staffers who might cost the state more in the long run. In a written statement to City Weekly, UDOT spokesman John Gleason says the agency’s hand-in-glove work with the private sector delivers results.

“A great example of this is the I-15 CORE project, the fastest billion-dollar public highway project completed in U.S. history—and $260 million under budget,” he says.

But though third-party contractors may in some cases be quicker, smarter and more creative than civil servants, firms that invest in hiring retired civil servants also seem to gain the upper hand against their competitors when bidding on lucrative contracts.

And speaking of that billion-dollar I-15 CORE Project, City Weekly also found through records requests that some of UDOT’s top staff overseeing the CORE project left UDOT to join firms that then turned around and snatched up some particularly juicy contracts worth more than $5.4 million combined.

While the major dollars passing from UDOT to contracts involving their former employees can raise eyebrows for taxpayers, the practice is not illegal, and UDOT says the contracts have all followed state and federal guidelines. UDOT,

like any state agency, operates in a political climate that emphasizes smaller, leaner government working with the free market and not against it.

But for David Irvine of Alliance for a Better Utah, a politicalethics advocacy organization, taxpayers should be concerned about civil servants forming close ties with private companies.

“I don’t know specifically what UDOT represented to you, but I can imagine that it would be some kind of explanation that ‘in the long run this saves money and blah blah blah,’ ” Irvine says. “But basically what this is about is a way for people who leave government to continue to earn [in the private sector] by playing off the expertise and the information they were privy to as government employees. That ought to raise a question as to whether there is some influence-peddling going on.”

Retirement Roundabout

As City Weekly reported in September 2013, UDOT has an informal policy of deciding that contract work ought to, in some cases, replace the work of employees whose positions with the agency could be upended by a sudden fluctuation in federal cash.

Before her retirement, Leone Gibson was the head of UDOT’s Public Transit Team, which administers federal funds to state public-transit projects. After retiring in September 2012, she was hired by H.W. Lochner—a firm to which she’d awarded a $149,769 contract in 2012, according to public records.

Gibson helped H.W. Lochner with its pitch for a UDOT contract to do the work of Gibson’s former assistant, who had also left the agency and had been making a salary of $39,707 (not counting benefits). Lochner won the $518,841 contract, and Gibson not only came back to UDOT full-time as part of the contract to replace her former assistant, but also got an office there, where she resumed work assisting the Public Transit Team in awarding federal grants.

Gibson had not responded to requests for comment by press time.

Though UDOT told City Weekly in September 2013 that the contract was to replace the work of Gibson’s assistant, UDOT said in response to questions for this story that the contract was to replace Gibson’s assistant and two other employees who had left the Public Transit Team, including one who left in 2011 and was never replaced.

“Through contracting, UDOT significantly reduces risk and has the ability to modify or cancel a contract if federal funding

The UDOT Roundabout

UDOT says it’s better to pay more up front for outside contractors than to hire new employees and pay for their benefits and other costs, even when it comes to expensive temporary contracts for ongoing work.

Leone Gibson’s contract is to help with the Public Transit Team’s annual work awarding federal grants, while Lee Theobald’s is for an important highway mapping project that has to be reported every two years to Congress.

Total Annual UDOT Salaries, Plus Benefits, of Theobald and 3 former members of the Public Transit Team: $307,670 Total Cost of 2 Contracts to Replace Those Employees: $639,601

Lee Theobald n Retired from UDOT in December 2012 n Joined the firm WCEC, which won a 22-month contract in September 2013 with UDOT to pick up his former workload on a half-time basis

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fluctuates significantly or if the contractor is not performing,” UDOT spokesman Gleason wrote in an e-mailed response. “For example, in the public-transit department, there has been significant turnover, which creates challenges that make it more difficult to manage a project of this nature and complexity, and ultimately impacts the quality and service provided to the public.”

Paying half a million dollars for one year of contract work to replace lost staff was, Gleason says, the best fit for the circumstances. The contract was flexible enough to respond to possible dips in federal funding while also efficiently delivering services. The high price tag, UDOT says, also accounts for the contractor’s overhead.

In the long term, Gleason says, not having to micromanage contractors and not having to pay costs like holiday pay, sick leave, overtime and other benefits just makes outside help a better alternative to hiring new staff.

Two others who left UDOT in 2012 were also hired by private firms that went on to nab contracts aiding the departments that the individuals had called home when they were state employees.

Steve Nielsen, who was active in construction engineering for UDOT, retired on June 15, 2012. Less than two weeks later, he was included on a $103,033 contract for the firm Stanley Consultants and was approved June 21, 2012, to do the same work he’d done when he was a state employee.

Lee Theobald, a planning engineer, also said adieu to UDOT in 2012, only to come back later that year, working half time as part of a 22-month, $120,760 contract with WCEC Engineers.

These two firms were selected out of large pools of potential bidders from two different areas of expertise—construction engineering and planning. Qualifying firms are placed in the pool with the top three all-around most qualified candidates ranked by the agency.

In both of the above cases, Stanley and WCEC were not listed in the top three overall contenders.

Gleason says that the top three firms don’t necessarily win every contract; other qualified bidders might be best suited to certain contracts. The selection for a specific project is an “entirely different process and the rankings in the pool were not relevant,” he says.

Angela Richey, spokeswoman for Stanley Consultants, says that Nielsen was an excellent addition to their team. “Yeah, we have a few former UDOT employees,” she says. “They are great to have on your team.”

A representative for WCEC did not return comment for this story.

Richey says that not every former UDOT employee is fit for contract work, but that skilled candidates who know UDOT’s standards make good employees. She adds that all “the leaders in the industry” have former UDOT employees on staff.

“From a business-development perspective, it certainly brings value to your team,” she says.

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Rep. Johnny Anderson, R-Taylorsville, the chairman of both the Legislature’s House Transportation Committee as well as the appropriations committee that’s responsible for funding transportation in the state, says there is nothing wrong with former state employees working in the private sector. When it comes to laws covering government procurement, he says, the only concern is making sure that a state employee doesn’t work to secure a contract for a future private-sector employer while punching the clock for the state.

Gleason says that in all the cases of the retired employees detouring into private firms and then coming to work at UDOT, there were no attempts by any outgoing employees to set up their own contracts while still working for the state.

That includes some former UDOT bosses who have left public service and taken the express lane straight to top positions in the private-transportation game.

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$200,000 David Nazare, UDOT Region 3 Director UDOT Retirement: 2010 UDOT Contracts: n Project Manager for a 2012 contract between HDR and UDOT worth $907,168 Dal Hawks, UDOT I-15 CORE Director UDOT Retirement: 2011 UDOT Contracts: n Project Manager for 2012 contract between HNTB and UDOT worth

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Jim Horrocks, president of Horrocks Engineers, says that former top UDOT manager Conti has been a great asset to his company, but that UDOT is very careful about contracting and requires disclosures of selection-team members about any conflicts of interest.

Though Conti may have been involved in procurement while he was a UDOT employee, Horrocks says he didn’t plan anything with Horrocks ahead of time; if Conti did do contracting, it would have been for construction materials, something that Horrocks’ company isn’t involved in.

Horrocks also says that the transportation business is fluid, and he’s probably had more employees leave to work for UDOT than vice versa.

“It’s not just a one-way street,” Horrocks says.

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While money in the hundreds of millions passes through UDOT, it is still a simple state agency; its office is filled with gray cubicles decorated with photos of Southern Utah, family portraits and pictures of employees’ cats and dogs. Besides the profitable retirement trajectories of a few outgoing bosses, it’s an agency that’s filled mostly with working-class Utahns, not some debauched Wall Street trading floor with people throwing money in the air and trading on lies and deception.

But for David Irvine of Alliance for a Better Utah, the dealings of even a few should worry taxpayers when it involves millions of dollars of public money.

If a public-private partnership means too cozy of a relationship between a civil servant and a private company, the public should worry, Irvine says, about whether a state employee’s interest is in making the most of taxpayer dollars or simply making the most of his or her connections for a very happy retirement.

“The concern,” he says, “always ought to be if companies are receiving unusually favorable treatment because someone has the expectation that at the end of the road there will be a golden parachute for when I bail from my state position.” CW

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Rep. Johnny Anderson, R-Taylorsville, the chairman of the Legislature’s House Transportation Committee and the appropriations committee responsible for funding transportation in the state, says UDOT’s contracting strategy has worked well so far. “The operating model that UDOT uses is that they do like to contract as much of their operation as they can while still maintaining a large enough—but still a small, nimble—workforce,” Anderson says.

Anderson says that while he’s not aware of the specific contracts referenced in this story, in general, contracts that plug temporary holes make more financial and administrative sense than hiring new career employees for work that might be only temporary.

Besides that, Anderson says, the private sector is often better equipped, possessing the latest technology and the know-how to use it.

But in two of the examples City Weekly looked at (see “The UDOT Roundabout,” p. 17), the work was not always that temporary, nor did it require technology not already in use by UDOT. The $500,000 contract to pick up the slack in the Public Transit Team was for roughly a year, but was to help a very permanent function of UDOT, which is to help administer federal grant money.

It seems WCEC scored a major win when it hired Theobald. A March 29, 2012, a post on UDOT’s website credits Theobald’s leadership, saying that “by inspiring employees and leading with vision,” he was able to unite disparate groups “into a cohesive, collaborative team.” In the post, Theobald was named the UDOT Leader of the Year for building an efficient team that was tasked with many responsibilities, chief among them being “the uber-important Highway Performance Monitoring System which is tied to more than half of UDOT’s federal funding.”

The Highway Performance Monitoring System catalogs the conditions of roads throughout the states, and its results are reported every two years to Congress. The $120,000 contract with UDOT that WCEC won after Theobald joined the company was to help UDOT with conducting its Highway Performance Monitoring System reporting.

It’s a major and ongoing task, and is one that doesn’t require technology that UDOT doesn’t already have.

According to the 2013 contract, the firm would be using “Google Earth, Street View,” “UDOT’s 2012 Roadview” and updating data using Oracle—which UDOT already uses.

Payday Express A trio of UDOT’s highest-level employees who were involved in the I-15 CORE Project retired and came back as part of some major-money contracts with the state.

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The Interstate 15 CORE project was hailed in 2009 as exactly the kind of “shovel-ready” project that federal stimulus dollars were meant to invest in to get people back to work in the wake of the recession.

But in 2010, it was revealed that the agency had changed its mind on the $1.1 billion construction contract it had awarded to a company, and had taken it back and given it instead to a company that had generously donated to Gov. Gary Herbert’s re-election campaign. UDOT quietly settled with the losing bidder for $13 million and later fired the employee who’d allegedly leaked the story to the press.

Still, Herbert cruised to victory and UDOT really put its shovels to work on the project, completing it in a record 35 months.

Herbert donned an orange UDOT hardhat and vest at a January 2013 press conference commemorating the end of the CORE construction. The record-breaking speed at which the project was completed was a cause for celebration and seemed proof that the right firms had been hired for the job and that the scandal was anything but.

The project was also a cause for celebration for some of the highest-ranking UDOT bosses who had been directly involved in it.

Tracy Conti retired in 2010 as UDOT’s engineer of operations, a role that put him over the agency’s construction projects and just below UDOT’s then-deputy chief, Carlos Braceras.

When Conti left, he joined the Pleasant Grove company Horrocks Engineers and became the project manager for an Aug. 30, 2012, contract between his new company and UDOT worth $1,030,984 to study traffic patterns for various north/south corridors.

Conti also was part of another contract, dated Jan. 11, 2012, acting as “specialprojects support” on a $200,000 contract to help UDOT with its statewide fiberoptics effort.

In 2010, David Nazare left his role as director of UDOT’s Region 3—which covers six counties in central Utah, including Utah County, where the majority of the I-15 CORE project was focused—and joined the private firm HDR, which landed a significant contract for the state in late 2012 to study the Uintah Basin Energy Corridor.

The $907,168 study not only examined the possibility of rail, road and other infrastructure construction in the oil & gasrich Uintah Basin, but also actively sought to survey all the potential energy resources and estimated profits by coordinating with existing energy companies in the area.

Through this survey of economic potential of the basin, HDR would determine for UDOT how valuable the basin’s resources are, and how much fossil-fuel profits might be able to offset the costs of building a transportation network in the area.

Dal Hawks, who left UDOT in 2011 after being tasked as the I-15 CORE project director, joined the HNTB Corporation and was listed as the company’s senior project director on a 2013 contract it won to widen the lanes between State Road 76 in Tooele and 123000 South in Draper. The two-year contract is worth $3,407,454.

Neither Nazare, HDR, Hawks nor HNTB would comment for

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Municipal Ballet Company: Son et Lumière An unassuming, red-brick building near downtown that served, for more than 100 years, as the headquarters of Salt Lake City’s Ladies Literary Club has now become a source of inspiration for and the site of the Municipal Ballet Company’s latest performance, Son et Lumière.

The building was once the social center for the city’s intellectually minded women. Women weren’t often encouraged to seek higher education and so met here to pursue knowledge and culture, studying drama, literature, music and dance.

The architecture of the historic club, constructed in 1913, has a restrained elegance, an aesthetic marked by simple horizontal lines, thought to evoke the prairie landscape, and hidden details like wood inlay on the porch ceiling.

Such classic architecture provides a rich though highly unusual inspiration for dance, especially ballet. It’s the perfect challenge for this new company. After all, the mission of the Municipal Ballet Company—a collective of ballettrained dancers and choreographers founded a year ago by University of Utah graduate student Sarah Longoria—is to create ballet that speaks to a wider audience and sheds the reputation of a boring, elitist art form. Presented in two acts, with six dancers, the abstract concept will allow the group to take a contemporary approach to this classic art form.

And, in the spirit of artistic collaboration, the performance will include live music by local group St. Boheme, whose ethereal, French-jazz infused sound—a mix of mandolin, banjo, trumpet, acoustic guitar and accordion—will undoubtedly help guide the audience into a world of son et lumière: light and sound. (Katherine Pioli) Municipal Ballet Company: Son et Lumière @ The Ladies’ Literary Club Building, 850 E. South Temple, Feb. 27 & 28, 7:30 p.m., $10 suggested donation.

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Addiction is as much a corporeal, ingrained condition as an emotional and psychological one, and the February Gallery Stroll at Art Access uses very visceral works to explore the experience.

Shad Roghaar, who earned a BFA in art from Utah State University, works in a variety of media; this show displays his mixed-media work.

His pieces are an uncompromising confrontation with the effects of this disease, isolating various organs as the subject matter and using metaphors of isolation and constriction—almost as though the organs were struggling to be free of the body under the duress of addiction.

It’s a clinical, almost medical look at addiction— as though dissecting (one work is titled “Dissection”) the body could locate the roots of the problem—as well as a deeply moving one.

These works use the visual vocabulary of science to explore the connection between the physical and psychological. They are reminiscent of images of dissection from the Renaissance period, when artists as well as scientists believed that by simply looking at the realities of the human body’s physical existence, they could arrive at truths about what it means to be human that run deeper than the surface.

Sober is showing at Art Access concurrently with Strong Women, a mixed-media group show in the main gallery space. (Brian Staker) Sober: Mixed-media works by Shad Roghaar @ Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, No. 125, 801-328-0703, through March 14, free. AccessArt.org

There just aren’t that many comedians who can deliver a captivating standup routine while comfortably sitting down—Bill Cosby is even perhaps the only one.

He hasn’t always taken a seat on the stage, and it’s clearly not just because he’s getting on in years that he does it now. But the comic elder statesman is so used to being in the spotlight that he settles into a chair and comes across as relaxed as if he’s chatting in his own living room.

His audiences feel the same way. Cosby has been coming through the television and into households across America for more than half a century, beginning with I Spy in the 1960s, through his cartoon series Fat Albert, television staples like the guffawing host of Kids Say the Darndest Things and, of course, his turn as Dr. Cliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show.

So many comedians grew up either listening to his award-winning records, watching him on the tube or actually getting the opportunity to witness his stage magic live that you could imagine there would be any number of imitators. But as ubiquitous as terrible impersonations might be, no budding comic dares even try to touch Cosby.

In fact, even in the digital age, younger entertainers can’t keep up with him. If you have any doubt, just follow him on Twitter or visit his website for more Cosby links than you can possible handle— including a plethora of YouTube clips of him sitting comfortably in a chair humorously responding to fan mail. (Jacob Stringer) Bill Cosby @ Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, University of Utah, 801581-7100, Feb. 28, 8 p.m., $42.50-$68.50.

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In 2010, comedian Brian Regan self-released an album called All By Myself. Featuring more than an hour of new material, the album was recorded during Regan’s then-record-setting run of five sold-out shows at Salt Lake City’s Abravanel Hall.

The crazy thing is that when he returned to Utah in 2012, his increased popularity required him to book an incredible 10 shows, blowing his own record out of the water.

This time around, the celebrated clean comic brings his self-deprecating broad comedy to town for a shorter run at the much larger EnergySolutions Arena. It takes a special kind of comic to be able to command a basketball arena filled with nearly 20,000 adoring fans. Regan is clearly that type of entertainer, especially by using one of his distinguishing traits: physicality. It’s not quite slapstick, but more along the lines of odd faces and planking on the ubiquitous stand-up stool.

Still, his local popularity is hard to pin down.

Sure, he likes to ham it up about everyday situations—like getting the phone company to set up a new line, visiting the doctor for a check-up, or reading the dumbfounding labels on food packaging (like peanut warnings on bags of peanuts). But his appeal here in Utah has something to do with his clean routines, and perhaps because every incoming class of college freshmen down in Utah County surely gets introduced to Regan’s comic stylings by the more worldly upperclassmen. (Jacob Stringer) Brian Regan @ EnergySolutions Arena, 301 W. South Temple, 801-467-8499, Feb. 28 & March 1, 8 p.m., $32.50-$56.50.

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look at a group of artists who are only the tip of the iceberg, representing all the other amazing, prolific, gifted and extraordinary makers who are working in this state,” she says.

A book that accompanies the list and showcase is available for purchase at the exhibit and around town. Shawn Rossiter, the founder and editor of 15 Bytes, says he was both excited and daunted by the project of publishing his first book. “When I saw how much it would cost, I said, ‘Why did I let you talk me into this?’ ” he says.

“But after reading the proofs and sending it off to the printers, I said a big ‘thank you’ because I could see how good this was going to turn out.”

The 15 Bytes staff contributed essays about the artists for the book, which is also a celebration of the publication’s 12 years in existence, and how the local arts perspective has grown thanks to 15 Bytes—itself an influential part of Utah’s artistic landscape. CW

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The exhibition is also a look at the way local artists influence one another. Brad Slaugh, known for his humorous paintings and the Poor Yorick Studios’ semi-annual open house, includes a painting of his friend Doug Braithwaite’s sixth-grade class from a photo on Facebook. “He’s one of the artists who almost certainly should’ve been on there before me if there was any justice in this sad, wicked world,” Slaugh says.

Trent Alvey’s installation “Sofa Art” is a statement of affection for the arts community. Visitors are encouraged to sit on the mid-century “Man Ray Lips Sofa” at the opening and be documented on a timelapse video that will be shown for the remainder of the exhibit—it’s a way for viewers to become part of the artwork.

The showcase of Utah artists is a microcosm of the local arts landscape, and of course includes some cultural artifacts.

Frank McEntire’s “Tellers of Cosmic Tales” includes an interior architectural front from the old Park City Post Office. He repurposes objects that have a sense of local history to create dialogue about the sacred and profane.

The other notable artists whose work is on display are Anna Campbell Bliss, Paul Davis, Anne Cullimore Decker, Brian Kershisnik, Sam Wilson and Joan Woodbury.

Woodbury, who’s the co-founder of Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, adds that the exhibit is simply a microcosm of the local arts scene, and by no means complete. “This is a ‘through the lens’

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That was the gauntlet thrown down by local online arts magazine 15 Bytes (15Bytes. org) in spring 2013. Laura Durham, manager of marketing and public value at the Utah Division of Arts & Museums, had the idea when reading Time magazine’s annual list of 100 Most Influential People. “I believe the arts have a tremendous impact on our communities,” she says. “I couldn’t help but think what this list would look like if it were made up of artists and musicians and dancers.”

Readers were asked to submit nominations of artists who’ve shaped the state of art and culture in Utah. Nominators were required to write at least 200 words about their choices; 70 people nominated a total of 97 artists. “I think the nomination process is an important and distinctive part of this project that gives it a soul,” Durham says.

A pool of more than 200 community members—artists, writers, arts fans and others—then whittled those 97 names down to the top 15, who were announced as Utah’s most influential artists in early 2013.

Now, 15 Bytes and the Utah Division of Arts & Museums are honoring those artists—most of whom work in the visual arts—with an exhibition at the Rio Gallery.

Many of the chosen artists have been influential in the community in ways that reach beyond their own art—as is the case with Bonnie Phillips. With her husband, she operates Phillips Gallery, which has supported countless local artists and is one of the longest-running and most successful galleries in town.

Stephen Goldsmith is a noted urban planner; Sandy Brunvand operates Saltgrass Printmakers; Ruby Chacon cofounded Mestizo, a coffee shop, gallery and cultural center. Several others, like John Erickson and Sam Wilson, are noted art professors who have influenced countless emerging artists.

Nationally renowned environmentalist and writer Terry Tempest Williams helped put Utah on the artistic map, and says that the arts are an essential part of who we are here. “Utah is known for its wild beauty, and part of that wilderness includes, and must be extended to, the arts and its landscape of creativity,” she says.

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yperbole’s a trick y business, but: If there’s a more fascinating way to explain the clash bet ween Keynesian and laissez-faire economic theories than play wright Eric Samuelsen employs for Clearing Bombs, please point me in its direction and I will be reading the hell out of it for the foreseeable future.

Samuelsen’s historical setup speculates on a real-life event: In the summer of 1942, economists John Maynard Keynes (Mark Fossen) and Friedrich Hayek (Jay Perry) spent a night on the roof of King’s College, serving duty to watch for German incendiary bombs. In this interpretation, they’re joined by a working-class fire marshal, Bowles (Kirt Bateman), who serves as the Everyman audience for his two erudite roof-mates’ competing philosophies: Hayek’s belief that governments should avoid interference in markets, and Keynes’ conviction that government stimulus and intervention are crucial to ease suffering.

Samuelsen—who also directed— grounds this esoteric debate firmly in his characters, terrifically performed by all three cast members. Fossen’s Keynes rails from his celebrated-elder-statesman status, while Perry brings a bit more timidity to Hayek’s, and Bateman convincingly captures a simple man recognizing the parts of both men’s ideas that make sense. More intriguingly, Samuelsen expertly conveys the way that Keynes’ and Hayek’s philosophies about the world and human nature were forged by their experience.

Clearing Bombs allows the framework of its setting—the center of a genuine world crisis, one largely emerging from the economic crisis of pre-Nazi Germany—to shape an understanding of these t wo opposing conceptions of economic policy that still drive our national debate.

Without stacking the deck, Samuelsen strips down and humanizes these oftenabstract notions. It’s the most enthralling live-action economics textbook you’ll ever find.

Rose Wagner Center 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787 Through March 2, Thursday & Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 4 & 8 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m. $20, PlanBTheatre.org, ArtTix.org

Pioneer Theatre Company: Much Ado About Nothing

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ost people think about Shakespeare in terms of the Bard’s language; it becomes easy to consider productions as collections of famous quotes and quips. Matt August’s direction of Much Ado About Nothing offers a reminder that they can provide just as rich a playground for slapstick.

The premise involves material that would easily find a home in one of Shakespeare’s tragedies, as the noble lord Claudio (Terrell Donnell Sledge) is deceived by Don John (Christopher DuVal)—the bastard brother of his patron, Don Pedro (David Manis)— into believing that his betrothed, Hero (Ashley Wickett), has been unfaithful. But the jealousy and accusations of harlotry are framed by the war of words between Claudio’s friend Benedick (T. Ryder Smith) and Hero’s cousin Beatrice (Rebecca Watson), both of whom insist that they will never find happiness in a marriage.

The juicy comedy emerges when Don Pedro, Claudio and Hero’s father, Leonato (John Ahlin) fool Benedick into believing that Beatrice loves him, while Hero and Ursula (Colleen Baum) attempt a similar deception with Beatrice about Benedick’s affections. The scenes are hilariously staged, with Smith skittering around the stage as Benedick attempts to remain hidden, and Ahlin magnificently exaggerating his report of Beatrice’s feelings. And Smith and Watson may be even better when tying their bodies into knots as Beatrice and Benedick try to convince themselves they’re not falling in love. Throw in the inept constable Dogberry (Max Robinson) and his “watch” composed of children, and this Much Ado feels as much like giddily choreographed silent-screen humor as it does highbrow thee-ay-tuh.

The comedy is so delightful, in fact, that Claudio’s bitter wedding-day accusations feel even more jarring. Much Ado gets much more serious than some of Shakespeare’s other comedies, which can put a damper on the spirited fun. The harsh words in this version are much more engaging when delivered with a wink and a touché.

Pioneer Memorial Theatre 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6961 Through March 8 7:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 8 p.m. Fridays, 2 & 8 p.m. Saturdays $12.50-$43, PioneerTheatre.org

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Great Salt Lake Landscan Everyday objects of practical utility can, without transformation or alteration, become examples of sublime beauty in art. The Utah Museum of Fine Arts’ contemporary-art curator Whitney Tassie recognized that potential in what is called the Great Salt Lake Landscan, from the Wendover/Los Angeles-based Center for Land Use Interpretation.

Walking into the large, dark, silent gallery space that houses the massive projection of the landscan onto an enormous screen, one is immediately transported into an otherworldly environment. All references to context are removed beyond the sense of flying in an unseen helicopter over the Great Salt Lake. The viewer is at one with a feeling that’s like being in a fast-moving aircraft and looking at a ground creeping slowly by, transfixed by endless natural formations passing slowly through the screen, through the silence and through themselves. The existential possibilities are limitless. (Ehren Clark) Great Salt Lake Landscan @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, 801581-7332, through May 4, $7-$9. UMFA.Utah.edu

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Joan Trumpauer Mulholland was raised in the segregated American South, a young middleclass white woman who described her mother as a “typical Georgia redneck.” It would have been the most natural thing in the world for her to stand against the Civil Rights movement when it erupted around her in the early 1960s. Instead, she participated in sit-ins, dropped out of Duke University after being pressured by the administration to end her activism, and became one of the legendary Freedom Riders.

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You want to bring that young adult novel that you have inside you out into the world—not because it’s some fast-track to success, but because it speaks to you. But maybe it’s all too intimidating. Finding the time, developing the habits of a writer, dealing with the realities of the business: Where do you begin?

This spring, The King’s English Bookshop hosts a series of events as part of a YA Boot Camp designed to help give aspiring writers the tools to make their creative dreams come to life.

This first session features book editor Martha Mihalik—a veteran of 12 years at Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins—to explore what publishers look for and how they work with writers. Subsequent sessions will cover diversity writing with Matt de la Peña (March 6), contemporary fiction with Sara Zarr (March 27) and fantasy fiction with Brodi Ashton (April 3). Your literary life may be just a few sessions away—and scholarships are available. (Scott Renshaw) YA Boot Camp @ The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-4849100, Feb. 27, 7-9 p.m., $300 registration.

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An Ordinary Hero—directed by Mulholland’s son, Loki—tracks Mulholland from her childhood toward a worldview-changing experience when African-American youths spoke at her church about the injustice they faced, through actions that landed her in jail and risked her life.

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Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet For the past decade or so, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet has earned a name for itself as a worldclass performing-arts company by regularly challenging the foundation the dance world is built upon, ultimately pushing the field forward by gracefully razing the stage.

It’s hard to pin down one thing that Cedar Lake does best. Yes, it hires some of the most captivating dancers working in the industry. It also regularly commissions brave new work by some of the best choreographers in the world— including, in this show, the cutting-edge pieces Violet Kid by Hofesh Shechter, Tuplet by Alexander Ekman and Rain Dogs by Johan Inger.

That combination accounts for a lot. But perhaps the point upon which their success turns is the fact that they are genre inclusive. It’s not enough to be a great dancer; you must be a master of multiple techniques, from ballet to modern to contemporary. Cedar Lake’s original works innovatively blend genres and generate breathtaking movement. (Jacob Stringer) Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet @ Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-655-3114, March 1, 7:30 p.m., $20-$69. EcclesCenter.org

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Joan and Loki Mulholland will both attend this week’s free screening at the Salt Lake City Main Library for a panel discussion, which is also scheduled to include activist/filmmaker Darius A. Gray; Davis School District’s education equity coordinator, Jackie Thompson; and professor Forrest Crawford from Weber State University.

(Scott Renshaw) An Ordinary Hero: The True Story of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland @ Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, Feb. 28, 7 p.m., free. SLCPL.org

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Belly Dance Spring Fest It feels like it’s been winter for about 14 months now, and white sands and hot sun are probably starting to sound really appealing. Well, lucky for us, the Belly Dance Spring Fest is bring-

ing that exotic desert feeling to Salt Lake City.

The day-long celebration brings together the sights, sounds, tastes and scents of the Middle East in a cultural fusion of jewelry, music, costume, Mehdi tattoos, tarot readings and, of course, dancing. In addition to belly dancing, audiences will see folk dances from around the Arab world as well as modern dances that meld eastern and western styles. Organized by Thia Kapos (who also offers lessons, in case you’re interested in performing at next year’s festival), over the past 13 years, the Belly Dance Spring Fest has moved belly dancing from the artistic fringes to a lively cultural pastime enjoyed by people of all ages and cultural backgrounds.

(Julia Shumway) Belly Dance Spring Fest @ Utah State Fairpark Promontory Building, 155 N. 1000 West, 801-466-4337, March 1, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., $7. BellyDancingByThia.com

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On my third visit, I ordered the risotto cake again, and this time it was perfect.

The kitchen either listened and heard my complaint, or the over-salting was just a fluke on a very busy night.

A couple of other great From Scratch dishes: the pumpkin-stuffed homemade ravioli in brown butter ($16) was outrageous; unfortunately itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s since been taken off the menu, with pumpkins now out of season. The biggest From Scratch surprise, however, was the Scratch burger ($13). As with the Margherita pizza, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever had a better burger. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a huge, juicy beef patty topped with Gold Creek Farms smoked cheddar, shoestring onions, lettuce and housemade ketchup, with a glistening, sesame-seed bun thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made, of course, in-house. Be sure to also ask for the housemade mustard!

Summation: This is one restaurant that, when it says the food is from scratch, means it. CW

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beer and wine selection isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t vast, but the small, well-chosen list offers some interesting options and good values.

Seeing that the restaurant was busy, and assuming it might take a while to get our food, we ordered a bottle of Vitiano Bianco ($6/glass or $30/bottle) and a scrumptious-sounding risotto cake appetizer ($6) to split. To our surprise, the risotto cake arrived quickly. Sadly, it was nearly inedible. I could tell that the generously portioned risotto cake had a lot going for it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a disc of Arborio rice the size of a 45-RPM record, breaded and fried until crisp and golden (think saucer-shaped arancini) on a puddle of roasted bell-pepper sauce, topped with fresh wild arugula and shaved Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

Sounds yummy, right? Unfortunately, someone had sprinkled so much coarse sea salt on the rice cake that we couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t eat it and had to send it backâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;something I rarely do in a restaurant. Our serverâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who was very goodâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;apologized and removed the offending risotto cake from both our table and our bill. No harm, no foul.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m nearly always disappointed in Margherita pizzas at American restaurants.

But, ever the optimist, I ordered the From Scratch version. Well, it turns out that the pizza really is made from scratch. And that includes even the flour, which is ground from organic hard spring wheat berries on the premises in a wooden Austrian flour mill. The sourdough used for From Scratchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pasta and the cornmeal used for pizzas is made in-house. So is the hand-pulled mozzarella, and even the butter and jam.

Well, about that Margherita ($13): It was magnificentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;easily the best woodfired pizza Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve eaten in Salt Lake City. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s simple, nothing more than that fresh-made flour, housemade mozzarella, Bianco de Napoli tomatoes and fresh basil. The crust was glorious: nicely puffed, with lightly

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or the past few years, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve noticed that more and more restaurant menus are littered with terms like â&#x20AC;&#x153;homemade,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;housemadeâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;from scratch.â&#x20AC;? Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve probably seen the same. More often than not, these wholesome-sounding descriptions are accompanied by the adjectives â&#x20AC;&#x153;artisan,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;localâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;craft.â&#x20AC;?

OK: We get it. You want us to know that your coconut shrimp didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come from a refrigerated Sysco truck, stopping only at the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s microwave or deep-fryer on the way to my plate.

Generally speaking, I support the slow food/artisan/local/craft food movementâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; but not always. We are indeed lucky to have world-class artisan food producers here in Utah such as Creminelli Meats, Beehive Cheese, Amour Spreads, Happy Monkey Hummus and the like. But youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to find fresh lobster in the Great Salt Lake, and please donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell me that the water you used to make my expensive cup of tea came from your own spring out back.

The point is, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d venture to say that there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a restaurant on the planet that makes everything â&#x20AC;&#x153;from scratch.â&#x20AC;? What about the salt and pepper? Did you make those, too?

Well, although Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m both leery and weary of â&#x20AC;&#x153;from scratchâ&#x20AC;? restaurants, I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really resist one thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually called From Scratch, could I? My first visit to From Scratchâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which is located on a lightly traveled avenue just behind Gallivan Plazaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;was a surprise.

The place was mobbed; I hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allowed for the Outdoor Retailer effect. So, my wife and I were seatedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with apologiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at the counter, with good views of the wood-fired pizza oven and prep stations. Not a problem: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not above eating at the bar.

And a very attractive bar it is. The wood used for the counter and some of the walls was reclaimed from a barn in Idaho. The chairs are antique metal cafe chairs in a kaleidoscope of colors. The owner, David Brodsky, says he found some of them on eBay. The restuarant is sleek and modern, with clean lines, but very comfortable, too.

I think of it as cozy contemporary. And I really like the big communal table in the center of the eatery.

I also like the menu, which is limited to a couple of appetizers, a handful of soups and salads, pizzas and pasta, and a couple of entrees. I visit way too many restaurants where the chef has bitten off more than he/she can chewâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or cook. Similarly, the

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Inside Panaderia Flores, I was hit with the most delicious aroma. The cases were packed with pastries, but nothing was labeled and there were no prices listed.

Still, everything looked beautiful—and my next quandary was just how many I could eat, as the variety of pastries I purchased came to just $3.71.

The pastry selection included a pineapple turnover, a tostada (not what you are thinking) and something called an elephant ear. My favorite was the tostada; it was the size of a plate, and had a caramelized, burnt-sugar flavor. It was flaky yet crisp, and every few bites revealed a beautiful patch where the caramel and sugar had pooled and dried.

The elephant ear and pineapple turnover were both silver-medal contenders.

Panaderia Flores doesn’t promote itself much, despite having two locations.

It does, however, give you the opportunity to enjoy many authentic pastries for a great price in a relaxing, eclectic atmosphere—just like its counterpart coordinates to the east. CW

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You’re probably familiar with Ty Burrell, the actor and part-time Salt Lake City resident who plays the all-thumbs dad Phil Dunphy on ABC’s delightful Modern Family. And you probably also know rising Food Network star Chef Viet Pham, co-owner of Forage restaurant. Well, Burrell—who already is co-owner of Bar-X—is teaming up with Pham to open a new bar adjacent to Bar-X, called Beer Bar. Burrell is co-owner, and Pham will serve as consulting chef. Beer Bar will specialize in craft beer, artisanal sausages (think gourmet brats and brews) and “inventive beer cocktails” created by Bar-X’s Richard Noel and Duncan Burrell (yes, Ty’s brother). Burrell met Pham when dining at Forage, and was quoted in Food and Wine saying “it was one of the best meals I’ve ever had.” Stay tuned here for Beer Bar’s opening date.

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The winery’s Stuart Bryan will be on hand to discuss the wines, and chefs Adam Vickers and Robert Perkins have designed a tantalizing four-course menu to pair with the wines. Among the pairings are lobster panna cotta and butter-poached lobster claw with 2011 Pride Chardonnay; and braised pork belly, potato confit and trumpet mushrooms partnered with 2010 Pride Syrah.

The cost per person for the dinner and wine pairings is $135 (à la carte: $90 wine and $45 food). Call 801-274-6264 for reservations, or reserve your spot online at FrancksFood.com.

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hen Art Finkelstein passed away all too young in 2010, the wine world lost one of its most beloved and innovative characters. Art was a man of many talents: architect, maker of ceramics, musician, chef and, yes, winemaker. His winemaking career began at home. Most people have cars in their garages; Art’s son Judd, for whom Judd’s Hill winery is named, says that he grew up with winemaking equipment in his. By 1979, Art was f luent enough in winemaking to purchase a vineyard near St. Helena, in Napa, where he created Whitehall Lane Winery.

However, with the success of Whitehall Lane, Art Finkelstein found that business management was taking up more of his time than winemaking. And so, never one to go the road most traveled, he sold the winery and, with his wife, Bunnie, bought

a 14-acre hillside vineyard and created Judd’s Hill. The “smaller is better” plan— sacrificing financial gain for happiness— was to produce no more than 3,000 cases of wine per year, as opposed to the 30,000 annually at Whitehall Lane.

There has never been anything very trendy about Judd’s Hill. “What I loved about Art was his resistance to trends,” says Francis Fecteau, whose Libation Inc. represents Judd’s Hill wines in Utah.

“While much of Napa was churning out ‘black’ Cabernet Sauvignon at 15 percent alcohol, he was top-fermenting, keeping the alcohol in check, and telling me things like ‘complexity isn’t an accident.’ ” The Finkelsteins were the first winemakers Fecteau reached out to when he began his own career in wine, and the lasting affection between Bunnie, Judd and Fecteau was obvious during a recent Judd’s Hill wine tasting and tapas event at Martine (22 E. 100 South, 801-363-9328, MartineCafe.com).

Not all of the wines we tasted are available in Utah, but keep in mind that individuals can place special by-the-case orders at your favorite wine store. With Utah’s small winery exemption, wines such as Judd’s Hill are actually less expensive here than at the winery.

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Fi r st up was smoked rock cod with salmon roe, creme fraiche and red-beet puree, prepared by Mar tine’s talented executive chef, Tom Grant (who’s another nice guy). The salty smok iness of the cod and roe were balanced beautifully by Judd’s Hill Sauv ig non Bla nc 2012 ($24). It’s a lovely Sauv ig non Blanc: silk y and soft, with a light touch of French oak and fruit y apricot and tangerine f lavors.

Next at Martine was another great match: Judd’s Hill Merlot ($27) with scrumptious gnocchi in

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a lamb Bolognese sauce. The wine is fruit-forward, brimming with raspberry and cherry flavors, a very versatile wine that would partner well with a wide range of foods.

Somewher e before the splendid beef and Creminelli sausage paupiette paired with Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon ($35), Judd treated us to an oldtimey ukulele tune, which was followed by an even better treat: the stunning Judd’s Hill Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 ($75), which is at its absolute peak. It’s a beautifully integrated Cab, with soft tannins and classic, rich, black-fruit flavors.

This gorgeous wine was one of Art Finkelstein’s last efforts, and I’m pretty certain he’d have loved it. You’ll love Judd’s Hill wines, too. CW

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Steve Nielsen started mixing, freezing and scooping his frozen custard in Salt Lake City in 1981. Since then, Nielsenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s has been given rave reviews by a variety of publications, including this one. Promoting a specially made custard that has less fat that normal ice cream, Nielsenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is often packed on summer nights with an equal mix of teens and teens-at-heart. The signature treat is the Concrete, a shake-like dessert that can be spiced up with a number of different mix-ins. If you find yourself hooked, take a pint home for a late-night snack. 3918 Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-277-7479, HolladayCustard.com

For 25 years, CafĂŠ Terigo has been providing both Park City locals and visitors with hearty cuisine inspired by northern Italy and the south of France. Among the specialties from owner/chef Ed Axtellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen are entrees such as pan-seared scallops with sweet-corn risotto, almond-crusted salmon with lime butter, pan-roasted pork tenderloin over creamy Gorgonzola polenta and grilled flat-iron steak. The wine list features some great selections from Italy, as well as a lot of domestic offerings. 424 Main, Park City, 435-645-9555, CafeTerigo.com

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At Asian Star, diners are invited to sample the diverse cuisines of China with flavors hailing from the Sichuan, Cantonese, Hunan and Mandarin provinces. Specials include honey-nectar pork, Mandarin-style sirloin beef and sizzling garlic royal shrimp. Another tasty option is the steamed whole fish of the day or sea bass. Good luck deciding between the many delicious entrees. 7588 S. Union Park Ave., Midvale, 801-566-8838, AsianStarRestaurant.com

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Oscars 2014

Inside the Envelope Predicting the Academy Awards winners is easier when you don’t care.

By Scott Renshaw scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

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ver the years, I’ve written long and often about my evolving relationship with the Academy Awards, but that relationship can safely be summarized as follows: The Oscars and I agree to disagree about what they mean.

It’s easy for hard-core film buffs to fuss and fume over that little gold statuette and point to all the ridiculous historical shortsightedness represented by past winners.

But it’s easier to make peace with the reality that the Oscars are a show; they’re an industry’s big national stage for telling the world how it wants to be seen. And once you accept that—in the immortal words of Unforgiven—“deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it,” it’s easier to enjoy the ceremony as part of a lively conversation about contemporary movies.

It also becomes easier to make predictions. And so, in the spirit of not caring a whit about whether I’d vote for them myself, here are my predictions for this year’s winners.

The Slam Dunks: The engraver is already at work on putting these names on Oscars. Several of the technical awards have been conceded to Gravity for months, particularly Visual Effects, but also likely Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. The juggernaut that is Frozen, meanwhile, can safely assume that Original Song (“Let It Go”) and Animated Feature are in the bag.

And in the one major category where nearly every other major indicator is pointing in one direction, Jared Leto can probably prepare yet another acceptance speech for Supporting Actor in Dallas Buyers Club.

Safe Bets: Dark horses have at least a bit more of a shot in these categories, but the smart money is on the favorites. Gravity

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could add to its haul in technical categories including Editing, Cinematography and Original Score. The Matthew McConaughey Career Resurgence Tour that got off to a rip-roaring start in 2012 continued with three noteworthy performances in 2013, and he’ll probably top it off with a Best Actor win for Dallas Buyers Club. 12 Years a Slave, meanwhile, looks to have the inside track for Adapted Screenplay, as well as Supporting Actress for Lupita Nyong’o, as the tormented slave Patsey (though I suppose we should never underestimate Hollywood’s ongoing infatuation with all things Jennifer Lawrence).

Leaning Toward: Now things start to get interesting. Cate Blanchett’s performance in Blue Jasmine has been a favorite for months, in addition to w i n n i n g plenty of pre-Oscar tuneup awards. But is there any chance the Woody Allen ugliness shifts the voting? I’m still guessing she winds up at the podium, but Amy Adams—the only nominee in the category who hasn’t prev iously won— could be the choice for an upset. The Act of Killing was one of the year’s most remarkable films

of any kind, and a strong contender for Documentary Feature, but I’m playing a hunch that the crowd-pleasing 20 Feet from Stardom sneaks in here. Costume Design features plenty of period garb in other contenders, but American Hustle edges them out for Amy Adams’ conspicuously plunging necklines. In the Directing category, Alfonso Cuarón’s dazzle in Gravity should nose out 12 Years a Slave’s Steve McQueen.

Dallas Buyers Club feels like the respectable choice in Makeup/Hair, since it’s hard to imagine anyone wanting to deal with the phrase “Academy Award winner Jackass Presents: Bad Grampa.” There can always be wild cards in the Foreign Language category, but Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty has taken many of the key precursor awards, and would seem to be the favorite. Meanwhile, tradition holds that the Original Screenplay category is a place to recognize unique, daring work that’s unlikely to get recognized in other categories—which would seem to give the edge to Spike Jonze’s screenplay for Her. Anybody’s Guess: Most folks are winging it when it comes to the short films, but the fantastical tale told to a terminally ill boy in Helium looks like a Live Action Short winner, and the you-are-there intensity of cameramen capturing an attack on peaceful protesters in Yemen in the Documentary Short Karama Has No Walls will be hard to pass up. I’m taking a shot that the unique watercolor look of the Animated Short Feral will make it stand out from the CGI competition.

And oh yeah: I’m going with American Hustle in two toss-up categories: Production Design, and a little thing called Best Picture. Gravity and 12 Years a Slave may be topping other prediction lists, but you never know when it’s smarter to assume that the Academy is going to do one of those crazy things that makes you remember what it is, and what it’s not. CW

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Dub Steps

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o dub or not to dub? It wasn’t really a question for Disney in its plans for releasing Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-nominated animated feature The Wind Rises. As it’s done with all the Studio Ghibli features it’s released in America, Disney has opted to bypass English subtitles and re-record the voices with English-speaking actors. But it’s worth asking—especially in this particular case—why?

For one thing, this is far more obviously an adult-skewing story than Miyazaki’s previous, more fanciful features like Howl’s Moving Castle and My Neighbor Totoro. It’s a historical drama based on the life of Jiro Horikoshi (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the aeronautical engineer who designed many of Japan’s World War II-era aircraft. It follows Jiro from his childhood fascination with flying through an experience rescuing a young girl and her nanny from the massive 1923 Kanto earthquake, and includes some disturbing war images and even a suggestion of marital bed activity when Jiro later marries that girl he rescued, Nahoko (Emily Blunt). This PG-13 story isn’t really one where you should worry about whether kids can keep up with the subtitles.

Yet the English voices can help an English-speaking audience more easily appreciate the magnificence of Miyazaki’s artistry—the ripple of a gust of wind across the water, or the shift in light as a storm approaches. There were details I didn’t catch while watching the subtitled version, like a street lamp attracting a swarm of moths. It’s a breathtaking, quietly observed work, with a story that addresses the challenging question of great creations being used for acts of destruction.

So perhaps it’s a bit distracting hearing the German dissident who warns Jiro of rising militarism turn into the voice of Werner Herzog, or Martin Short as Jiro’s high-strung boss. But the English voices do nothing to diminish the beauty of Miyazaki’s visual work. If anything, maybe they make it just a little bit easier to take it all in. CW

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The Broken Circle Breakdown HHH.5 It seems … not coincidental that the time frame for Felix Van Groeningen’s Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee essentially falls from 2000-2008. The setup makes it seem like a domestic drama, opening with Belgian bluegrass musician Didier (Johan Heldenbergh) and his wife/bandmate Elise (Veerle Baetens) helping their 6-year-old daughter, Maybelle (Nell Cattrysse), through treatment for leukemia, then flashing back seven years to the beginning of their relationship. There’s plenty of potent fodder for exploring a couple bending to the strain of family tragedy, given context by their carefree pre-parenthood days and the guilty weight of wishing they could have back the girl who once bounced on their bed while they muttered “you’re too lively for me.” But it’s also a remarkable tale of conflicting feelings about America itself—the nation whose God-fearing, down-to-earth people gave Didier the music he loves, but also a Bush-era conservatism that ends up hitting close to home. As wrenching as the emotional content is— including one rant that may feel a bit too extreme—it may be even more engrossing at wrestling with an agnostic’s understanding of America’s faith in all its complexity. Opens Feb. 28 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—Scott Renshaw

Son of God [not yet reviewed] Diogo Morgado plays Jesus in this epic tale of his life and death (spoiler). Opens Feb. 28 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) The Wind Rises HHH.5 See review p. 34. Opens Feb. 28 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS Informant At Rose Wagner Center, March 4, 7 p.m. (NR) An Ordinary Hero: The True Story of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland See More Essentials p. 25. At Main Library, Feb. 28, 7 p.m. (NR) Oscar-Nominated Short Films At Park City Film Series, Feb. 28-March 1 @ 8 p.m. & March 2 @ 6 p.m. (NR)

CURRENT RELEASES 3 Days to Kill HH.5 It’s not “good” in any conventional sense; it’s simply too bizarre to dismiss. Writer/producer Luc Besson and director McG team up for the tale of terminally ill veteran CIA agent Ethan Renner (Kevin Costner), who wants to patch up relations with his estranged wife (Connie Nielsen) and daughter (Hailee Steinfeld) before he bites it. But wait! An upper-level agency type (Amber Heard, in full-on dragon lady mode) promises Ethan an experimental remedy if he’ll do One Last Job. Thus commences a wild

ricochet between shoot-’em-ups and family bonding, with Ethan torturing people to get parenting advice whenever he’s not hallucinating as a side effect of his new meds, or dealing with a family of squatters from Mali occupying his apartment. The story’s a hot mess, and “entertaining” isn’t exactly the right word for it. But it is most decidedly a thing. (PG-13)—SR

relationship with Laurent convincingly disintegrates from shared dark secrets. But Stratton’s decision to play the story as psychological thriller inevitably turns it into an attempt at 19th-century noir, but without enough style or tension. Once it’s plot-driven, rather than character-driven, In Secret feels too familiar in ways that don’t do it any favors. (R)—SR

Endless Love HH This new version of Scott Spencer’s novel is ridiculous and melodramatic, but for a teen romance of the moment, it’s rather sweetly demure. When David (Alex Pettyfer) says, “I watched her through all of high school,” it doesn’t even sound stalker-ish.

“Her” is Jade Butterfield (Gabriella Wilde), and now that they’ve finally just graduated high school, he makes his move. Yet this isn’t even really about a romance, but about a young woman taking control of her own destiny. Jade’s dad (Bruce Greenwood) objects to the relationship because that’s what dads do, but she learns to stand up to him, and Dad learns that Jade’s life is her own. If I had a teen daughter, I wouldn’t be worried about her picking up terrible ideas about a woman’s place in the world from it. I might make her father watch, too. (PG-13)—MaryAnn Johanson

The LEGO Movie HHHH The cynicism is understandable: “The LEGO Movie? Seriously?”

But Phil Lord and Christopher Miller set out to make the most entertaining movie possible based on a toy, plus a manifesto on how to create real art. The setup is like a kiddie version of The Matrix, with mini-figure construction worker Emmet (Chris Pratt) finding himself identified as the fulfillment of a prophecy to save the world from evil President Business (Will Ferrell). He joins other character figures including Batman, and yes, there are in-joke references from The Dark Knight and other pop-culture touchstones. Yet Lord and Miller remain focused on the toy’s imaginative possibilities, both visually and from a storytelling standpoint. Their movie becomes a delightful instruction manual for how to make the best creation from any brand: You’ve got to have the nerve to throw away the instruction manual. (PG)—SR

In Secret HH Émile Zola’s 1867 novel Thérèse Raquin may have been ahead of its time in portraying crimes of passion turned toxic, but many other more contemporary movies have explored the same territory better. Writer/director Charlie Stratton adapts the tale of orphaned Thérèse (Elizabeth Olsen), forced into an arranged marriage with her sickly cousin (Tom Felton) by her aunt (Jessica Lange)—but an affair with her husband’s friend Laurent (Oscar Isaac) leads to tragic consequences. Olsen conveys the explosive power of repressed sexuality finally given an outlet, and Thérèse’s

Like Father, Like Son HH.5 In Hirokazu Koreeda’s drama, Japanese couple Ryota and Midori learn that their 6-year-old son, Keita, was switched at birth with another boy, Ryusei. Will they swap Keita with Ryusei, reuniting with their blood offspring? And is this a serious question? Koreeda works hard at making Ryota’s psychology feel plausible, yet the emphasis on his perspective—a character arc perilously close to “workaholic learns what really matters in life”—still takes it too much for granted that all the other parents will be fine with surrendering children

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Non-Stop [not yet reviewed] An air marshal (Liam Neeson) tries to figure out who’s threatening to kill jet passengers if not paid a huge ransom. Opens Feb. 28 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)

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they’ve raised for six years. It’s easier to imagine this scenario from the kids’ perspective, but Koreeda clings to the story of one stolid man treating the exchange of his son as a logical business transaction.

If this matter-of-fact behavior makes sense in Japan, something has most decidedly been lost in translation. (PG)—SR Pompeii H.5 It’s like a low-rent Titanic, with a rich girl and a poor boy falling in love in the shadow of Mt. Vesuvius days before its famous eruption. To pad out the story, the middle part is an uninspired Gladiator retread. Directed by technically proficient but artistically remedial Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil), the turgid melodrama stars Kit Harington as a super-strong (but sensitive!)

Celtic slave who catches the eye of Pompeii’s fairest daughter (Emily Browning) when he tenderly euthanizes her wounded horse by snapping its neck with his bare hands. Soon he must save her not just from molten lava but from the conniving Roman senator (Kiefer Sutherland, made entirely of ham) who wants to marry her. The tissue-thin characters and overly familiar story make the CGI destruction a welcome sight when it finally arrives, 70 minutes in. (PG-13)—Eric D. Snider Robocop HH.5 José Padilha’s update of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 film may aim for a similar vein of satire, but proves so somber that it fails to provide any

of Verhoeven’s distinctive energy. Like the original, it begins with Detroit police officer Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) suffering critical injuries that make him the guinea pig for becoming a cybernetic law enforcer. Padilha and screenwriter Joshua Zetumer use the premise to explore post-9/11 debates over liberty vs. security, plus jabs at corporate exploitation of a perpetual state of war. Yet those abstract ideas aren’t accompanied by the B-movie creature-feature sense of fun Verhoeven brought. That doesn’t necessarily require Verhoeven’s R-rated grossout-till-you-chuckle action in place of Padilha’s PG-13 bloodless battles. It simply requires embracing the fundamental craziness of your concept so that the allegory doesn’t bury all the genre delights. (PG-13)—SR

Winter’s Tale H Reading what happens in Winter’s Tale will make you want to see it—but actually seeing it would be a mistake, as it’s a listless, dull, nonsensical disaster. So proceed with caution.

In 1916 New York, a thief (Colin Farrell) evades his angry Irish boss (Russell Crowe)—who is also a demon—by way of a magical flying horse, then falls in love with a rich girl (Jessica Brown Findlay) who’s dying of consumption. Then it’s 2014, the thief hasn’t aged, the demon still wants him dead, and Eva Marie Saint is a 110-year-old newspaper editor. Akiva Goldsman, a mediocre screenwriter (Batman & Robin; I, Robot) making his bad directorial debut, reduces Mark Helprin’s massive novel to a puddle of incoherent magical realism, employing fantasy elements but refusing to fully embrace them. It’s weirdly, bafflingly bad. (PG-13)—EDS

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Bates Motel heats up, Portlandia gets cooler and Vikings dims the Dark Ages.

Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor The Doctor (Matt Smith) and Clara (Jenna Coleman) rush to save the universe, avert a new Time War and get all timey-wimeyweepy in the holiday-ish 800th(!) episode that introduces the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi). (Warner Bros.)

Portlandia Thursday, Feb. 27 (IFC)

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Hollywood Game Night Thursday, Feb. 27 (NBC) Spring Premiere: Since NBC only has two comedies left (the new About a Boy and Growing Up Fisher don’t count, as you’ve just now asked yourself, “What the hell are About a Boy and Growing Up Fisher?”), this is what you get after Community and Parks & Recreation: Hollywood Game Night, because selling the slot before Parenthood to Shark Rocket vacuum infomercials would just look like giving up. On HGN, honest-togod, possibly blackmailed celebrities play party games. For an hour. On primetime American television. Why are we rooting for NBC again?

Hannibal Friday, Feb. 28 (NBC) Season Premiere: Oh yeah—for a handful of ballsy calls like Hannibal. Along with The Blacklist, Hannibal (a prequel to Silence of the Lambs) is one of the few recent NBC series that lives up to the network’s oftreferenced plan to make “cable-quality” dramas. If creator/producer Bryan Fuller’s gorgeously—and gorily—filmed twist on the Quirky Outsider Assists Cops procedural were on cable, the performances of Mads Mikkelsen (as Dr. Hannibal Lecter) and Hugh Dancy (as FBI profiler Will

Bates Motel (A&E) Graham) would get more notice, but moving Hannibal to Fridays might also do the trick: What else is on? [NBC “affiliate” KSL 5 won’t be airing Hannibal; CW30 will run the new season Saturdays at 10 p.m.]

Bates Motel, Those Who Kill Monday, March 3 (A&E) Season Premiere, Series Debut: Norma Bates (Vera Farmiga) has a sassy new hairdo, a successful (for now) motel, and a son who’s at the midpoint between petulant teenager and blackout serial killer—welcome to Season 2! Norman (Freddie Highmore) has taken the murder of his sexy teacher hard, whether he did it or not, and there’s plenty more going down in White Pines Bay: His crush Bradley (Nicola Peltz) has gone off the deep end over her father’s death; his brother, Dylan (Max Thieriot), is up to his neck in the local weed trade; and Norma just wants to stop the damned highway overpass project from putting her out of business (murder, drugs, love triangles, commercial zoning disputes, Bates Motel has it all). Stick around for Chloë Sevigny’s Those Who Kill afterwards—it’s not great, but it’s important to support the handful of original dramas in A&E’s ocean of crap reality shows. CW

A south-of-the-border bachelor party goes bad when a local drug kingpin (Armand Assante!) takes the bros hostage in order to collect a debt—imagine Very Bad Things with more strippers and tequila. Based on a true story, as far as you know. (Maverick)

Oldboy A wrongly imprisoned man (Josh Brolin) spends 20 years plotting his revenge against The Stranger; ultraviolence (yay!), incest (ew!) and a wholly unsatisfying remake of the 2003 Korean cult classic ensue. A Spike Lee Film, not Joint. (FilmDistrict)

The Venture Bros.: Season 5 The fifth season of The Greatest Animated Series of All Time consists of only eight episodes, but also “A Very Venture Halloween” and “The Shallow Gravy Story” as bonus features—kind of evens out. All this, and “Spanakopita!” (Warner Bros.)

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Season Premiere: Speaking of the writings of 7-year-olds—I kid; lighten up. Vikings was one of 2013’s more left-field hits, a period drama that somehow combined the sensibilities of Game of Thrones and Sons of Anarchy without being anywhere near as smart as either, and a cast (including Travis Fimmel, Gabriel Byrne and Donal Logue) working their asses off to sell it.

Oh, and it’s probably the least-disputable “history” series on the History Channel because, as a showrunner has said, “Hey, no one knows what happened in the Dark Ages” (argue with that, college brainiacs).

Game of Thrones returns April 6; Vikings will do for now.

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t’s fitting that a guy as down-to-earth as bluesman Scott H. Biram would answer the phone while doing yard work at his home in Texas.

“It’s been cold and wet around here lately, but today it’s sunny and like 65,” he says. “So, I’m just walking around the yard while I’m talking to you, moving the little things out of my garden.” He also describes his three chickens, saying that with their black bodies and “blueishwhite faces, they look like mimes.”

Biram is a country dweller at heart (though he lives in the suburbs now) and a proud lifelong Texan, rarely seen without a trucker hat and handlebar mustache. That identity (albeit a more bloodthirsty, maniacal version) frequently comes through in his music, which he plays as the Dirty Old One Man Band with only a guitar, a stomp board, a wall of amps and plenty of piss and vinegar. Much of the subject matter in his songs is as straightforward as biscuits & gravy, about human topics like loving good barbecue, dealing with loose mental screws, being lonely, sinnin’ it up, drinking more than is healthy and feeling conflicted about religion.

With a vivid visual element that sweats tactile details, Biram’s music—a kicker cocktail of delta blues, country, punk and even metal—has as many storytelling threads as there are rivers in Texas. “My songwriting kind of revolves around a lot of imagery,” he says. “I feel like it’s good to put pictures in people’s heads when you’re writing songs.” The result is a grounded musical sensibility instead of one that reaches for lofty topics. In his songs, Biram says, “I don’t get too deep with the philosophical stuff.”

But that’s not to say Biram doesn’t have a thoughtful, contemplative side—he just saves his two cents for interviews to keep folks guessing.

He played a similar trick with the title of his new album, Nothin’ But Blood—released earlier this month—which sounds like it would be about a depraved gore fest. Well, it’s still pretty depraved, but the record actually doesn’t bring in the darkness until the latter half of the track list, on songs including “Church Point Girls” and the concluding “Around the Bend.” Biram came up with the title when he began recording the album a year and a half ago, “but the record ended up not being as heavy as all that, which is good,” he says. “I like to confuse people a little bit sometimes.”

Growing up in a state that’s highly religious and, later, being influenced heavily by gospel music, Biram scatters

Scott H. Biram doesn’t need shiny guitars. multiple references to religion throughout his music, such as on Nothin’ But Blood’s second track, “Gotta Get to Heaven.”

He laughs when he explains that he got kicked out of Sunday school as a kid for “misbehaving,” but turns around and says, “Every day of my life, I pray, but it’s to my own private god.” And although Biram is “not a fan of organized religion,” he says, “I just try to do good and try to understand, be one with the universe.

“It’s a struggle, though, and that’s why I’m a musician probably, and that’s a lot of my songwriting,” he continues.

“Like my more personal kind of songs … they’re me struggling with depression and alcoholism and being a good person and doing the right thing.”

Perhaps acknowledging his own imperfections is what draws Biram to another significant influence: chain-gang songs. “People that are singing chain-gang songs on a chain gang don’t have anything else to do but try to get through, so I feel like that really shows the bare soul.”

But where Biram really waxes poetic is when he’s talking about his home state. Anytime he hears an ignorant sumbitch talking shit on Texas, “it makes me wanna kick their ass,” he says. “A lot of people talk about Texas in a bad way, and they don’t know anything about it. … They don’t know all of my friends, my family and all the good people in the small towns that, if your car broke down on the road, that they’d ask you if you needed help and let you come in their house and stuff.

“When people talk bad about Texas, they need to remember Willie Nelson and Lightnin’ Hopkins and Lead Belly and Waylon Jennings and all the great people that came from here—that’s gotta say somethin’.” CW

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ith a band member who can “shred the recorder” as well as the bansuri (a traditional Indian flute), Gardens & Villa is down to create unique sounds in a unique way.

Adam Rasmussen, in charge of “all things synthesizer,” calls their style “a balance between natural and synthetic,” which fits the feel of their songs.

With ’80s riffs intertwined with earthy flute melodies, Gardens & Villa’s music is a mix between the faux and the au naturel.

The Santa Barbara, Calif., indie-pop quintet released their brand-new album, Dunes, on Feb. 4, and are experiencing a surge in popularity, Rasmussen says, playing in “bigger rooms than before”—a few of which have sold out. Currently on tour, they’re opening for Broken Bells and then heading to Europe with their catchy, creative music.

Rasmussen says that Gardens & Villa fashion their sound by experimenting and having fun. “We get randy for vintage synth gear,” he says. “It’s a lot of fun: You plug it in, and you can make pretty much any sound that you can imagine.”

Similar to the randomness of the synthesizer side of things, the band’s creative process as a whole is not set in stone and is often dictated by a sense of “what the [music] wants to do,” Rasmussen says. In the past, they’ve gathered inspiration from a wide range of sources—everything from the work of Japanese musicians to lucid dreams to meditation. Song ideas “definitely come from places like dreams,” Rasmussen says.

“If you try to sit down and write a song, you usually end up with something you’re not happy with, so you try to follow your intuition.” The music Gardens & Villa create reflects that “unbridled creativity,” he says.

That open attitude to finding inspiration causes the band’s music to morph regularly. Dunes is a bit more dance-y than past releases, and reflects where the band is at in its progression. “Each record you make reflects a season of your life, and Dunes just reflects this season. ... [It] just kind of blossomed out of the reflection of that time it was written in,” Rasmussen says.

And he hints that there are many more seasons of life and styles of music ahead for the band.

“Maybe the next [album] will be kind of like an ambient meditation soundtrack, something super nature-y,” he says with a laugh. “Or maybe it will be heavy metal … we’re pretty open.” CW

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or L’anarchiste, winning the Cit y Week ly Music Awards Band of the Year title in April 2013 came as a surprise. “We just felt really good about it because we didn’t expect to win, and so we didn’t have this pressure,” says Rob LeCheminant, chief songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and lead vocalist.

But the experience was the key they’d needed to unlock their own potential. It “helped us really get things moving and gave us a lot of momentum,” LeCheminant says. According to Alex Gilvarry (bass, keys, ukulele, vocals), it also helped the local indie-folk quintet challenge themselves to rise to the occasion: Then and now, he says, “it makes us want to try harder.”

L’anarchiste has more than made good on that goal in the past year, cutting several impressive notches into their band belt. A successful Kickstarter launched about a month after the CWMAs funded their forthcoming debut full-length album, Giant, which was recorded in September with Nate Pyfer at June Audio in Provo and will be released sometime this year.

In August in San Francisco, during a West Coast tour, L’anarchiste recorded a Daytrotter session, which Daytrotter listed as one of its top sessions of 2013. One of the songs from the session, “Juneau,” was included on Daytrotter’s Best Songs of 2013 list.

While L’anarchiste’s music could often be heard in Utah on KRCL after they won the 2013 CWMAs, it was also popular in the U.K. Through British indie label Choose My Music Records, “Juneau” was featured on BBC6 and Amazing Radio.

After the CWMAs, L’anarchiste began playing their first shows in Provo, and credit the showcases for helping bands that are limited by geography to discover new fanbases.

“A lot of times, it’s harder for bands to cross over into the other valley for whatever reason, because your friends and stuff are in one,” Gilvarry says.

That’s why the cross-pollination effect of the CWMAs is so important. “I think [the CWMAs] give a chance for bands to make a following elsewhere,” LeCheminant says.

“But we were lucky that it helped us break into Provo in a lot of ways. … I feel like we helped kind of connect the cities a little bit, in a way.”

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A f ter their tour w rapped up, L’anarchiste released a second EP, titled The Traveler. LeCheminant says the album is “more or less B-sides from [Giant] … but it ended up being really strong on its own, too, so it worked out really nice.”

As for future projects, in the coming year, L’anarchiste—celebrating their second anniversary as a band this month— hope to get official management, be signed to a record label and tour heavily outside of Utah. They will also perform at the Treefort Music Fest in Boise in March, and are continuing to work with Pyfer to polish the new album.

While L’anarchiste have already proven they’re ambitious—The Traveler had only seven tracks, but clocked in at more than 30 minutes long—Giant sounds like it will be their most monumental undertaking yet. “It’s really diverse,” LeCheminant says. “It kind of melds the two EPs and then it expands upon that, too. It’s a wide spectrum of things. It’s really where we start living up to the name L’anarchiste, which is meant to be a musical statement—like musical anarchy.”

Illustrating the wide range Giant will encapsulate, Gilvarry says there will be “lots of lush orchestration,” but “some of the songs are a lot more punchy and sparse.”

To weave everything together, Gilvarry and LeCheminant explain that Giant will feature recurring melodic themes originating in the titular track, giving it a feel, “on a small level,” LeCheminant says, of a concept record. The “overarching melody,” he says, “gives [Giant] this cohesiveness so it really sounds like an album.”

As L’anarchiste pass the Band of the Year torch to the 2014 winner, they give the following advice: “They have every reason in the world to utilize that fame and that momentum that they gain from this,” LeCheminant says.

“Or, if anything, just notoriety.” CW

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Reminiscent of groups like Cold Crush and Furious 5, this Los Angeles-based collective wasn’t necessarily the best, but they were one of the first to truly mainstream the movement of “conscious” rap. Their unofficial leader, Chali 2na, was probably the most entertaining of the bunch. Since 2007, the “Verbal Herman Munster” has been busy collaborating with legendary acts like Galactic and Ozomatli, and 2na’s latest project finds him linked up with the live funk band The House of Vibe. Scenic Byway and Flash & Flare will warm things up. (Colin Wolf) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $15 in advance, $18 day of show; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com

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Hopeless Jack & the Handsome Devil Who knew the Mississippi River had an outlet in Portland, Ore.? They might be from the Pacific Northwest, but duo Hopeless Jack & the Handsome Devil sure know how to conjure that soulful Southern sound influenced by blues greats such as Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters, as well as modern trailblazers like Scott H. Biram (see p. 38). Made up of Hopeless Jack (vocals, slide guitar) and Smilin’ Pete (“bangers and crashers”), the two musicians blend the classic delta style with a garage-rock flavor, creating a vibe that’s modern but still plenty swampy— just picture an Oregon swamp instead of one in Mississippi. Their latest album, Don’t Waste Your Time, No Money Here—released in summer 2013—is a rowdy, gritty ruckus, with whiskey-fueled energy and a whole lotta swagger.

Check out the rockin’ “Firefly” and “Pack My Bags,” featuring backing female vocals that are a sultry foil to Jack’s spooky howl. Tony Holiday will open. The Garage, 1199 N. Beck St., 9 p.m., $5, GarageOnBeck.com

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) “Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony,” said Lou Reed. That might be an accurate assessment for most people much of the time, but I don’t think it will be true for you in the coming days. On the contrary: You will have a special capacity to make contact and establish connection. You’ve heard of dog whisperers and ghost whisperers? You will be like an all-purpose, jack-of-all-trades whisperer—able to commune and communicate with nervous creatures and alien life forms and pretty much everything else. If anyone can get a pony to understand Sanskrit, it will be you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Does Kim Kardashian tweak and groom her baby daughter’s eyebrows? They look pretty amazing, after all—elegant, neat, perfectly shaped. What do you think, Gemini? HA! I was just messing with you. I was checking to see if you’re susceptible to getting distracted by meaningless fluff like celebrity kids’ grooming habits. The cosmic truth of the matter is that you should be laser-focused on the epic possibilities that your destiny is bringing to your attention. It’s time to reframe your life story.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “Some people say home is where you come from,” says a character in Katie Kacvinsky’s novel Awaken. “But I think it’s a place you need to find, like it’s scattered and you pick pieces of it up along the way.” That’s an idea I invite you to act on in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. It will be an excellent time to discover more about where you belong and who you belong with.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In his song “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy),” Bruce Springsteen mentions a disappointing development. “That waitress I was seeing lost her desire for me,” he sings. “She said she won’t set herself on fire for me anymore.” I’m assuming nothing like that has happened to you recently, Scorpio. Just the opposite: I bet there are attractive creatures out there who would set themselves on fire for you. If for some reason this isn’t true, fix the problem! You have a cosmic mandate to be incomparably irresistible.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) If you are the type of person who wears gloves when you throw snowballs, Germans would call you Handschuhschneeballwerfer.

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When I first heard of this bill and similar bills in other parts of our country, I thought of a segregated America where people of color had inferior rights to white Americans, and signs plastered in public spaces saying ‘Whites Only’ and ‘Coloreds Not Allowed’ ruled the day. That might seem dramatic to some- we’re living in a time when blatant homophobia and racism should be a thing of the past, right? No. This bill is case in point. This bill makes it legal for business owners to refuse service on the basis of the business owner’s religious beliefs. This bill impacts all Americans because states follow each other’s leads.

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This bill was passed to preserve religious freedoms and give individuals a religious exemption to act on their bias.

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Rachel David threw her children and ordered the older ones off the balcony of her hotel room, following them to her death. One child survived. Ms. David was the widow of an excommunication Mormon known as Immanuel David. He had committed suicide a few days earlier by carbon monoxide, because the Feds were after him. His given name was Bruce Longo and he believed he was God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost. He was about to be indicted on tax evasion, although press at the time never said what he did for a living, only that he was head of a religious cult and lived from hotel to hotel with his wife and brood. His cult was his family and he didn’t have any known followers outside of them.

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