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Letters Life After Death

In The Air We Breathe, broadcast on KUED in February, the effects of smog in the valleys of northern Utah were made clear. The smog is sickening and, in some cases (which is fated to increase in number as the population increases), killing us.

It’s not sudden death, but death in slow-motion, over a period of time. One point made by a scientist—one not emphasized enough—was what might be called death by genetic transmission to future generations. Toxic particles, breathed in today, damage cells that surface later as damaged cells in persons yet to be born.

I suggest we do what philosophers call a counterfactual thought experiment, or a “What if …?” scenario.

What if all the unborn later die from the effects of smog? What would change? With no one around, what would happen to the values we have today? What would happen to our traditions?

Obviously, they would vanish. In this scenario we assume that we value the unborn more than we do ourselves. They, not us, are what count.

For more on this kind of thought experiment, see Samuel Scheffler’s book Death & the Afterlife. “Afterlife” does not refer to our own personal afterlife, but to the unborn.

Gene Washington Logan

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Blowing Smoke

On Feb. 28, during a debate on the House floor on House Bill 112, sponsor Rep. Paul Ray insinuated that members of the electronic-cigarette industry had misled him on their support of his bill. As the only industry representative that Ray has met with this session, this could not be further from the truth.

The Utah Vapers has attempted to meet with Ray for three out of the past four years in which he has been sponsoring bills to control the electronic-cigarette industry in Utah. During this period, we have had one formal meeting, lasting just shy of one hour, and one 15-minute meeting in the foyer of the House building prior to a 2014 interim session.

His claims that he has worked with the industry simply are not accurate, and his statements during the Feb. 28 session were insulting.

His final summation and post-session statement that he is going to continue to try to further modify the bill before it is presented to the Senate are reminiscent of a toddler throwing a temper tantrum who goes to the other parent to get his way. We find these actions conduct unbecoming of an elected leader, and those of one who acts based on a personal vendetta rather than for the public.

Gov. Herbert vs. Medicaid

Gov. Gary Herbert has proposed an alternate plan for Utah than the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare. He wants to take all the allocated federal money for Medicaid expansion under Obamacare and insure all of the same poor, but buy them private health insurance instead. Those people will be required to pay $420 per year for that insurance.

Of course, those same poor people already don’t have enough income to pay for even their basic necessities, by definition. He also knows that this request for a block grant to Utah is just so he and his fellow corrupt Utah Republicans can hand it out to their insurance-company benefactors and donors in the role of completely unneeded for-profit middlemen, thereby reducing the amount available for actual medical services to the poor.

Herbert’s very public fight with Utah House Speaker Becky Lockhart, who says she opposes taking any federal money to expand insurance coverage to the poor, is just a good cop, bad cop routine, since both are agents of the Mormon church, in partnership with its accomplices like those in the health-insurance industry.

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OPINION

Let Her Go

On Feb. 17, a Mormon grandmother went viral—and became something of a laughingstock—when she said something a lot of other people had already said. The problem, it seemed, is that she had the audacity to say that thing from a certain point of view.

This particular tempest swirled around Kathryn Skaggs, who maintains a blog called A Well-Behaved Mormon Woman.

The offending post focused on the nowOscar-winning Disney film Frozen, and Skaggs wasted no time throwing her thesis down on the table in the very first sentence: “The gay agenda to normalize homosexuality is woven into Disney’s Frozen not just as an underlying message—it is the movie.”

Skaggs wrote out of a deep concern that the children—now we’re all imagining it in Helen Lovejoy’s voice from The Simpsons—were being indoctrinated into accepting homosexuality as OK, and that parents weren’t even aware of it. She lays out a detailed list of plot points that suggest Frozen’s Elsa—the princess whose magical powers bring perpetual winter to the kingdom—is a metaphorical representation of gay youth having to hide who they are. And it all comes to a boil in a wordby-word analysis of the movie’s Oscarwinning song “Let It Go” as a coming-out anthem, complete with italics to emphasize the gayest of the gay lyrics.

Now, the Internet being the Internet, people say a trillion provocative things a day—sometimes to goose a reaction, sometimes out of sheer stupidity, very occasionally as a smart counter-punch to the conventional wisdom. The vast majority of those provocative comments disappear instantly. But those that end up linked from the Huffington Post and a wide variety of cinema-oriented websites? Well, they accumulate response.

Not surprisingly, the general tenor of that response to Skaggs’ thesis consisted of multiple dismissive variations on

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“lol whut.” My colleague at The Salt Lake Tribune, Sean P. Means, wrote of Skaggs’ post, “trying to stretch the storyline of Frozen to cover a so-called ‘gay agenda’ is patently ridiculous.” The comments on Skaggs’ post ranged from the expected profane outbursts—a comments section without profane outbursts is hardly a comments section at this point—to disappointed self-proclaimed Mormons arguing that Skaggs was doing the film and her faith a disservice. Then, once news broke that Skaggs had an out lesbian daughter, the mockery seemed to write itself. Maybe she was seeing every where what she didn’t want to admit seeing in her own family, huh, right?

Except here’s the thing: Skaggs was far from the only person who noted that Frozen might be more than slightly sympathetic to the Lavender Nation. Multiple writers—from mainstream entertainment websites like Badass Digest and Slant, to individual blogs—similarly spotted a possible reading of Frozen as a gay allegory, most of them doing so long before Skaggs ever published her opinion. Skaggs linked to many of those pieces in a response to the outrage over her original post. And for what it’s worth, I happen to agree with all of them: It’s absolutely possible to see the estranged relationships and Elsa’s rebellion against hiding her true nature as a coming-out story. It’s certainly far less of an interpretive stretch than the “Andy’s mom in Toy Story is Jessie’s grown-up owner” theory that a Pixar enthusiast put forth recently, yet nobody burst blood vessels shamelinking to that interpretation.

So what happened to make Skaggs such a target? Obviously the subject matter was going to push buttons, but certainly she made things worse with the absolutist terms in which she framed her argument: “It is the movie.” Skaggs looked at the possible interpretation of Elsa’s character

not as an intriguing bit of subtext, but as a dangerous and deliberate piece of liberal-media propaganda. She didn’t merely describe what she saw; she described the thing she saw as a threat.

That would have been a fair enough reaction: “Yeah, maybe Elsa’s gay, but so what?

And good for her!” But liberals ridiculed Skaggs’ interpretation itself, dismissing it as delusional and paranoid when in fact it was—leaving aside the alarmism—a perfectly reasonable close textual reading.

There was a flat refusal to acknowledge that a conservative Mormon grandmother could be right about the same thing plenty of other writers were also seeing—because that’s what confirmation bias does. She was a conservative Mormon grandmother, so clearly whatever she had to say that included the word “gay” could be ignored. And good Mormons who loved Frozen perhaps couldn’t feel comfortable thinking that they enjoyed a movie with a message potentially sympathetic to gay rights, so they were similarly invested in thinking Skaggs was way off base.

We live in an age of discourse with blinders on. Once we’ve established “our team,” it becomes virtually impossible to admit that the other team could be right about anything, because who knows what kind of anarchy that could lead to. Instead, we lock ourselves into a world in which we’ve decided that only those who agree with us about everything have anything to teach us. Maybe Skaggs is a reactionary who’s scared to death of seeing gay relationships normalized; she also happens to be completely right about a way to interpret Frozen that offers an empowering message to kids who feel unheard and unloved, including gay kids.

Those two things can both be true, and the more we recognize it, the more likely it is we can all be a little more well behaved. CW

We live in an age of discourse with blinders on.

Send feedback to scottr@cityweekly.net.

What’s your favorite crazy interpretation of a movie or book?

Pete Saltas: The Princess Bride is not about a princess, a farmboy, giants, swordfights, Inigo Montoya or the six-fingered man. It’s actually about a grandpa who adores his grandson.

Which is cool because I’m named after one grandpa, and my other grandpa, until I was about 8 (or 18), convinced all us grandkids that he was the real Batman.

Rachel Piper: Someone told me that Animal Farm is about communism, but I’m evolved enough that I don’t need to invent political hooey to justify enjoying a lovely children’s tale about pigs finally getting their day in the sun.

Derek Carlisle: Any time a super anglo is cast for an ethnic role is pretty crazy (e.g., Laurence Olivier, David Carradine, Chuck Connors, Ben Affleck).

Colin Wolf: Prepare to have your mind blown. I have a theory I’ve been developing for awhile about how Sisqo’s “Thong Song” isn’t actually about how he loves thongs, or seeing other people in thongs; it’s about himself. Without getting too into it, I believe the song is in fact about Sisqo wearing a thong in front of a mirror. So, in a way, it’s like an even more disturbing version of Fight Club.

Kecianne Shick:

Charlie Kaufman’s Adaptation, based on Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief, defied every recognized rule of successful screenplay writing and ended up being a far more real and intuitive interpretation of its source material.

Kolbie Stonehocker: I’ve read all the Harry Potter books about a thousand times, and (so far) haven’t engaged in any devil worship.

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Woo-hoo! Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have clean air and it will cost you only $1 a month.

This is what Sen. Stuart Adams, R-Lay ton, is hawking, and, if you believe that, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a bridge to sell you. So far, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about dumping money into a new bureaucracy. By the way, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to pay attention, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an opt-out deal where the charge will be added to your utility bill, like magic. Adams says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;like a donation.â&#x20AC;? In selling the idea, he must have used the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;significantâ&#x20AC;? a dozen times to convince legislators of the wisdom of raising maybe $18 million to dump into the hands of an inter-local group comprised of representatives from government groups, industry groups, utilities and transitâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; but absolutely no clean-air advocates.

The inter-local would decide what to do with the funds, and Adams suggested that it could be used to convert school buses or vehicles to electric.

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Meanwhile, Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new attorney general stopped the use of secret subpoenas, and legislators are looking at limiting the use of drones, while encouraging their development in Utah. But donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worry about drones; worry about license-plate readers. That industry is suing over a state ban, saying, hey, money is free speech and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be losing if the ban stays in place.

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Well, children in Utah might not know how babies are made, but they at least might know how to recognize a sexual predator if they meet one. Rep. Angela Romero, D-Salt Lake, and Adams of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;clean airâ&#x20AC;? fame, are sponsoring a bill to bring to the classroom awareness of the dangers. Of course, they had to take out the part about letting â&#x20AC;&#x153;nonprofitsâ&#x20AC;? help out. Read: Planned Parenthood. Still, it could go a long way toward preventing abuse. Other bills broaden the definition of a person in a position of â&#x20AC;&#x153;special trust.â&#x20AC;?

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FIVE SPOT

Longtime nature-lover Ty Markham converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints while in high school and fell in love with Utah while attending BYU. Now, she runs a bed & breakfast in Torrey, near Capitol Reef National Park, and is the co-chair of the Mormon Environmental Stewardship Alliance. MESA is a year-old movement that encourages its members to participate in activism, taking a proactive stanceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;through protests, events and moreâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in defense of the Earth and clean air. Visit MESAStewardship.org to learn about the organization and upcoming events, and go to CityWeekly.net to read more of this interview.

Does the existence of an LDS pro-environment group strike people as odd?

Our faith has a very strong foundation in being loving and careful stewards of this planet in terms of protecting its pristine, radiant life force. LDS people are already primed to be concerned. We want to raise the banner for activism at another level, because what we see happening is that the worst aspects of ultra-capitalism are now coming back to roost, and we have to watch out and not allow greed and pride to overtake our better judgment in the way we conduct our lives and in the way we protect our cities and our communities. When we lose perspective and we start saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, anything for jobs,â&#x20AC;? then we are allowing the wolf into the sheep pen.

So weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re now speaking out politically, and encouraging LDS people to speak out and to vote their conscience on these matters, and to get out there with bannersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not just leave it to the same groups of activists that get dismissed by the powers that be. This is not just a fringe issue, and we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave it to those few hearty souls that do this every time while we sit back in the comfort of our homes and just let them do the hard work. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for us LDS people to put our shoulders to the wheel in the sense of turning this situation around.

Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the Earth here for us to use?

The Earth is not something that we own in order to exploit everything out of it as quickly as we can for the big money. That would be an egregious offense. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not for personal greed; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for the benefit of all. We really have to look at our values and our lives and evaluate what kind of world we want for our children and grandchildren. I look at my grandchildren now, and I worry about their futureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;what kind of a world are we leaving for them? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not worried that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to get a job driving a truck for a polluting industry. I want them to be educated. And what kind of world do we want them to live in?

Do we want them to live in a filthy, polluted world? Are we just trying to burn through everything as fast as we can? We have to think differently going forward.

Do Mormon scriptures talk about the environment?

Our website has a page that talks about Mormon stewardship that traces the history of Mormon stewardship of the air, the water and the land all the way back to the Bible.

There are a lot of the quotes that our leaders and our scriptures have given us through the centuries, through Christianity and Mormonism. General Authorities and LDS scholarsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;specifically Brigham Young and those in the Salt Lake Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;have spoken out very forcefully about keeping this valley pure; not just pure in the sense that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sin, but physically pure: clean air and clean water. Young and others could sense that there was going to a strong push for big outside money to come in and try to despoil our valley and our refuge of Deseret. You could put together a volume of Youngâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quotes about protecting the air and the land and the water.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Nuke It I work at the deli counter at a natural-foods store, and recently one of my customers chided me for suggesting she warm up her food by microwaving it. She said microwaving changes the molecular structure of food and makes it dangerous. Being skeptical, I researched this online, mainly by searching through your old answers. Your May 2005 column said the jury was still out on this question. Any new information?

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The jury was still out, although if my eyes don’t deceive me, they just filed back into the courtroom. More on that in a moment but first, a word: Next time you get some fragile eggshell mind telling you that “microwaving changes the molecular structure of food” (these exact words are always used), look them in the eye and reply as follows: “You’re 100 percent correct—it’s been scientifically proven that microwaving changes the molecular structure of food.

THIS IS CALLED COOKING, YOU NITWIT.” Sorry, needed to vent. Back to the jury.

Their verdict comes in the form of an article titled “Microwave Effects in Organic Synthesis: Myth or Reality?”

The answer, not to kill the suspense, is myth.

To recap, people freak out about microwaves because they use (horror!) radiation, failing to grasp that there are two kinds of radiation: 1. ionizing, the high-energy kind produced by nuclear bombs, radioactive elements and such, and 2. non-ionizing, the relatively low-energy type we encounter every day in the form of light, heat and radio waves. Microwaves are located between radio and heat (infrared) on the non-ionizing end of things. When we speak of “nuking” something in the microwave, that’s not what we’re actually doing.

Microwave heating is different from conventional heating because, whereas infrared energy warms up pretty much any molecule it plows into, microwaves affect only molecules having polarity—that is, positive and negative ends, which rotate rapidly back and forth as the microwaves go by. A common type of polar molecule is water, which, happily for us, is distributed fairly evenly throughout many foods.

So while ordinary heat gets absorbed by the outer layer of a food and only slowly penetrates to the interior, microwave energy passes through most of the food as though it were transparent and heats up mainly the water, and the food thus cooks uniformly (more or less) and in much less time.

But let’s be clear: heating is heating.

The mainstream view is that microwaves basically do what conventional heating does, only faster. A few scientists, however, think there may be what are known as nonthermal microwave effects of possibly ominous significance. Since precision microwave ovens have become widely available in labs, an opportunity to settle this longstanding controversy is now at hand—or so it seemed in 2005.

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Which brings us to the article cited above, published in 2013 by three Austrian chemists, C. Oliver Kappe, Bartholomäus Pieber and Doris Dallinger, in the journal Angewandte Chemie (Applied Chemistry).

Having reviewed the literature and done some experiments, they report as follows: n Everyone agrees microwaves are far too low-energy to break molecular bonds and cause chemical reactions. n That said, laboratory microwave ovens do things that are difficult or impossible to replicate with conventional heating. A reaction that might take five hours to complete if the starting mixture were simply boiled can be accomplished in one second using a microwave to superheat the stuff in a sealed vessel. The fact remains: these are still thermal effects. n Claims of nonthermal microwave effects continue to show up in the scientific journals, but in the opinion of Oliver, Bart and Doris, these are mostly due to A. chemists not really getting how microwaves work and B. experimental error. A common problem is inaccurate temperature monitoring. n For instance, a scientific team led by one Dudley reported it had heated a chemical mixture to 100 degrees Celsius using both conventional and microwave heating.

However, after 30 minutes, the reaction in the conventionally heated mixture was only 25 percent complete, whereas in the microwaved mixture it was 90 percent.

Since the temperature of the two mixtures was the same, Dudley and friends contended, this was evidence of a nonthermal microwave effect. n Kuhscheisse, riposted our three skeptics. Team Dudley had used sensors that measured the surface temperature, not the internal temperature of the mix. The Austrians reran the experiment using an internal probe and found the reactions in the microwaved and conventionally heated mixtures occurred at exactly the same rate.

One article won’t end the argument. But I’m inclined to agree with Oliver, Bart and Doris: Mysterious microwave effects (and presumably their attendant dangers) are a myth.

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RAPE

“I don’t want to let this go unfunded if there’s the possibility one of these kits could close a case if it’s processed, and we don’t have the resources to process it.” —Sen. Daniel Thatcher, R-West Valley City

State officials strategize how to clear thousands of unprocessed rape kits from evidence shelves.

By Eric S. Peterson epeterson@cityweekly.net @ericspeterson City Weekly reported in January on a survey conducted by a veteran Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner showing that 94 percent of reported adult sexual assaults in Salt Lake County were not prosecuted. The shocking statistic prompted lawmakers to dig into the logistics of how rape kits are often left on law-enforcement shelves, and they soon learned that the problem is not limited to Salt Lake County.

After the story broke in the media, Jay Henry, the director of the Utah Department of Public Safety crime lab, wrote in a Jan. 28 e-mail that though the lab supplies roughly 1,000 new kits to hospitals and law enforcement every year, “on average, we receive about 30 percent of those kits back as a submission from a local law enforcement agency” for processing.

Henry wrote that agencies had begun submitting a higher volume of kits, which created the new problem of overwhelming the state lab’s staff. The lab can process up to 300 kits per year, Henry wrote, and would need $750,000 to help process the estimated 1,000 to 2,000 kits that have not been tested.

And going forward, he wrote, the lab would likely need $600,000 in ongoing yearly funding to hire staff and have the resources to process an increased volume of kits.

But if lawmakers were taken aback by the new statistics, they were equally surprised when the Department of Public Safety backtracked and told lawmakers at a Feb. 13 criminal-justice appropriations meeting that it didn’t want the ongoing $600,000. Instead, a representative said, they felt they needed to figure out the actual number of untested kits before asking for ongoing support to take care of them.

Sen. Daniel Thatcher, R-West Valley City, said he would respect their decision, but like others, was uneasy about not investing in future need.

“I don’t want to let this go unfunded if there’s the possibility one of these kits could close a case if it’s processed, and we don’t have the resources to

Following a reported sexual assault, evidence is collected using rape kits like this one, provided by the Salt Lake Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners. Lawmakers are debating how to handle the state’s scores of untested kits. process it,” Thatcher said.

Alana Kindness of the Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault says that the issue isn’t as simple as an agency saying “thanks, but no thanks” to money for processing rape kits.

She points out that the untested kits aren’t piled up at the state labs, but at police agencies, and no one knows for sure exactly how many there are.

To determine that figure, Kindness is joining a working group—made up of law enforcement, prosecutors and Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners—that will study the issue during the next six months to learn how to better process kits and encourage their submission.

“I don’t anticipate that there’s going to be a huge influx of cases because it’s going to be an agency-by-agency shift,” Kindness says.

The fact that, on average, 70 percent of kits statewide aren’t being submitted aggravates those who advocate for victims of sexual assault. Some have accused law enforcement of not taking the cases seriously, but, crime lab director Henry says, some kits are involved in cases that are later determined to be non-probative or to have involved consensual sex.

And if it takes months for kits to be processed, detectives may end up prioritizing the kits they submit. During the February funding committee, even the Department of Public Safety’s commissioner, Jeff Carr, said law enforcement recognizes the crime lab is a “scarce resource.”

The crime lab has found itself in a difficult spot: ask for money now that

could be misspent or underutilized, or come up with a game plan to not only work through the current demand, but also potentially test all samples submitted by all law-enforcement agencies in the state.

Henry says keeping up with demand can be a struggle sometimes, especially when it takes about $120,000 and two years to adequately train one worker, and his best staffers often leave for more lucrative private-sector work.

Given those limitations, Henry says, he decided he couldn’t just ask for new money but instead would need a new approach.

“I am going to propose that we test all kits,” Henry says. “But ... we’re going to test them in a different way.”

Henry wants to push for a system that could process more evidence by being selective in what analysts look at. Rape kits can include numerous pieces of evidence, including biological fluids, clothing and other physical evidence. Henry believes his lab could process more samples by testing only the most relevant DNA materials. Other evidence could be tested upon request, he says, but by focusing their analysis, labs could process the most important subsets of the kits.

Salt Lake District Attorney Sim Gill says the collaborative approach to this issue is a smart move, but he also has concerns about selectively testing kits.

Gill says if part of a kit were tested and led to an arrest, the lab would then have to test the rest of the kit and do it quickly before the case goes to trial, taking pressure off the front end of the system but putting it on the back end.

Gill says he’d recommend that different stakeholders come up with best

practices and that law enforcement be taught a uniform process for gathering rape kits.

For Gill, efficiencies should be pursued, but it may come down to whether lawmakers decide to pay in lip service or in funding that “delivers on the implicit promise to victims of sexual crimes that we’re going to take these issues seriously.”

To help with that, a bill being presented by Rep. Jennifer Seelig, D-Salt Lake City, would require law enforcement to notify victims of the status of their submitted rape kits and inform them if they chose not to analyze the sample.

The bill, which as of press time had passed favorably out of a House committee, also requires that victims be notified if a sample wasn’t submitted to the lab, and that law enforcement tell the victim if there is a match between the DNA profile of the assailant and a profile on the Utah Combined DNA Index System.

Seelig says she was frustrated when she first heard that the crime labs did not want to pursue the ongoing funding, but she’s also realistic about how the legislative process works, especially if the state may want to require submissions from law enforcement in the future.

“If we end up mandating the impossible without providing the resources, that doesn’t help anyone,” Seelig says.

While DNA analysis is the mission of Henry’s staff, he laments that as an administrator so much of his work happens to be analyzing budgets.

“They never show this part on CSI, do they?” he says. CW

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With a wall of independence, judges have been free to rule on these adoption cases as they see fit. Some judges, Marx says, have opted to wait until the appeals process works its way out. Others have sought the AG’s guidance, while another camp has viewed the same-sex marriages that occurred in Utah between Dec. 20, 2013, and Jan. 6, 2014, as legal, and processed adoptions for the couples as any other—the only requirements being that the parent seeking to adopt pass the background checks and pays the fee.

Inconsistency of this magnitude in the judiciary, attorneys say, is rare, especially when dealing with adoption cases.

“Adoptions are the most serious case you can ever handle,” Gray says. “More than a billion-dollar case, because we’re talking about kids.”

Missy Larsen, an AG’s Office spokeswoman, says her office was notified by a judge about a same-sex parent adoption that had been assigned; the judge sought the AG’s position.

And that position, Larsen says, is no different with adoptions than it is with changing a name: Until the litigation concludes, Utah’s position under its gay-marriage ban, Amendment 3, is that no legal alterations should be processed while the legality of the marriages themselves is up in the air.

“We don’t know if they’re valid,” Larsen says of the marriages.

After the AG’s Office was asked Jan. 10 to provide direction on the matter, the timeline to respond was 45 days, and they took every minute of it. Marx says the AG filed the request on the 45th day at 7 p.m., and “basically inserted themselves into these adoptions.”

The couples who are now both legal parents to their children are hesitant to speak to the press for fear of retribution from the state that they live in. The judges who have deemed the marriages to be just as legal as any other marriage granted in the state of Utah are also fearful, Marx says.

But judges—those supposedly independent surveyors and executors of justice— should not be afraid of political whims, Marx says.

“It shouldn’t be an issue of politics,” Marx says. “This is somebody’s family and then you have a state come and attacking somebody’s family. That is unprecedented.” CW

In January, when the U.S. Supreme Court halted gay marriage in Utah, state leaders quickly announced they would not recognize any of the roughly 1,200 samesex marriages that took place during the state’s fleeting legal window.

This meant that the Department of Motor Vehicles needed to cease performing name changes, spouses attempting to jump on a husband or wife’s insurance plan would have to wait, and scores of other legal rights available to any married heterosexual couple would be withheld from gay couples.

The state has also balked at allowing same-sex parents to both be legal parents of their children. This sensitive matter has sparked confusion among judges, prompting the Utah Attorney General’s Office to intervene. In the final week of February, the Utah Attorney General filed memorandums with courts indicating that any adoptions by same-sex parents should be paused until the larger case on gay marriage, pending before a federal district court, can be decided.

Attorneys for same-sex parents, the parents themselves and the children of same-sex couples say this inequity speaks directly to the animus the state of Utah has shown, and continues to show, to same-sex couples and their families.

Laura Milliken Gray, an attorney who represents a number of same-sex families in adoption cases, says many of her clients “have kids who are old enough to understand that they are being slapped in the face. The state claims that they don’t have animus against these kids of same-sex families. If that is true, why are they interfering in their adoptions?”

Shane Marx, an attorney who attended a news conference Feb. 28 in protest of the AG’s memo, says it’s not unheard of for an AG to refrain from interfering with legal proceedings when a “constitutionally suspect” law is being challenged.

Moreover, Marx says, the state’s position on same-sex marriage adoptions— that one parent has parental rights, while another, who may have even raised the child since birth, does not—has also created a sense of fear among parents and, in some cases, judges.

The judiciary is the one arm of government that a decree from Gov. Gary Herbert’s office does not touch.

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A Legacy of Monkey Wrenching This week, learn at a free documentary screening how the larger-than-life escapades of the characters from Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang helped inspire real-life activists of the environmental movement. Activism isn’t about just defiance but self-reliance, too, and this weekend, you can learn the secrets of growing tomatoes in your garden. Later, the Salt Lake City Planning Commission will be discussing everything from updating the West Salt Lake Master Plan to a request to operate an emergency shelter for homeless youth.

Eight little-known facts about Daylight Saving Time, which begins Sunday, March 9:

8. The extra “S” in Daylight

Savings Time is silent. Also, nonexistent (except in Utah).

7. DST isn’t a good time just

for checking batteries in smoke alarms, but also those in adult “massage” devices (especially in Utah).

6. Germany was the first

country to implement Daylight Saving Time. Ponder that.

5. DST wasn’t created by a

malevolent Time Lord. Related: Doctor Who is fiction.

4.

Opting out of Daylight Saving Time is the only redeemable quality of Arizona.

3. The Utah Legislature will do

nothing about DST until someone proves it allows more time for alcohol consumption and/or free thinking.

2. Something about 4:20 …

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1.

Anti-DSTers have an answer to “Spring Forward, Fall Back”: “Summer Over It.”

Wrenched: The Legacy of the Monkey Wrench Gang Thursday, March 6

Edward Abbey helped give life to a growing resistance to progress in the West being measured in paved roads and oil rigs. His seminal book featured characters hell-bent on undoing such progress even if it meant activism-by-dynamite.

The documentary Wrenched looks at how art inspired life, with Abbey’s fiction inspiring the direct-action tactics of a new generation of eco-activists. This free screening is followed by a Q & A with director M.L. Lincoln.

Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, March 6, 7 p.m., Facebook. com/WrenchedTheMovie

Tomato Propagation Saturday, March 8

Come learn how to extend the life of your garden this summer and keep your kitchen stocked with home-grown tomatoes. Participants of this Red Butte workshop will get to take home a flat of tomato and pepper seeds. Registration is required; the price is $42 for members and $50 for the general public.

Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, 801-581-8454, March 8, 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., RedButteGarden.org

Salt Lake City Planning Commission Wednesday, March 12

Help plan your city at this meeting, which will cover a number of topics, including a call for a comprehensive update of the West Salt Lake Master Plan covering the area between Interstate 80 and State Road 201, and between I-15 and I-215, which includes the Glendale and Poplar Grove neighborhoods. Commissioners will also hear a request for special permission to operate an emergency shelter for homeless youth at roughly 888 S. 400 West.

Salt Lake City & County Building, 451 S. State, Room 326, 801-535-7700, March 12, 5:30 p.m., SLCGov.com/ Planning

Curses, Foiled Again Denver police arrested four burglary suspects who tried to sell stolen goods back to their victim. Lacinda Robinson, 24, said that after discovering the crime, she went to a nearby McDonald’s parking lot, where two young men offered her a PlayStation 3 video game similar to the one she’d lost. She declined, but when another youth approached her wearing a distinctive Washington Redskins jacket “that I believe belonged to me” she realized the men were selling her stuff. She reported the incident to two offduty police. (Denver’s KMGH-TV) n A man aroused suspicion by repeatedly calling a post office in Nashville, Tenn., asking if a package had arrived. When it did show up, postal workers inspected it and found it reeked of marijuana. They alerted police, who arrested Terrell Mills, 24, when he came to claim the package, which contained 10 pounds of pot. (Nashville’s WSMV-TV)

When Guns Are Outlawed

Ken Birdsill, 56, reported that he was beaten and robbed by a man armed with an icicle. The victim said two men came to his house in Windsor, N.Y., demanding drugs and money. One man

punched Birdsill in the face when he opened the door; the other hit him on the head with the icicle. (Binghamton’s WBNG-TV)

The Next Winter Olympics Event Quebec inventor Yvon Martel unveiled an electric-powered sled.

Dubbed the MTT-136, it weighs about 280 pounds and can haul a person or cargo for 130 miles on an eight-hour charge.

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Hard News The federal government overpaid by $86.4 million to provide penis pumps to Medicare patients at twice the price that private providers charge, according to the Health & Human Services Department’s inspector general. The IG report noted that the vacuum erection systems cost taxpayers nearly $175 million from 2006 to 2011 and that reducing the Medicare payment for the devices to the level of non-Medicare payers could save the federal government about $18 million a year. (The Washington Times)

Extreme Makeover Hoping to distance aspiring middle-class Kazakhstan from its

NEWS

BY R O L A N D S W E E T were hospitalized, one of the fathers said the boys had tried to start a fire in the fireplace and may have used some of the rocket fuel to get it going. (CNN)

low-class neighbors, President Nursultan Nazarbayev suggested eliminating “stan” from its name. The word means “place” in Persian, but Nazarbayev said that it causes foreigners to lump the country with its economically less developed or more politically volatile neighbors. He suggested the name “Kazakh Yeli,” or “Land of the Kazakhs,” and invited public discussion of his proposal.

(The Economist)

n After students at Reed College in Portland, Ore., rolled a 900-pound snowball, a pair of math majors seized it and started shoving it toward a city street. They miscalculated its trajectory, however, and it ended up plowing into a dorm and ripping apart a room’s wall.

Maintenance workers spent 45 minutes cutting through the 40-inch thick icy globe. (Portland’s The Oregonian)

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Authorities in Mount Vernon, Ill., charged Sammy Kehrer, 47, with stabbing a 37-year-old man to death at a gun club.

(Associated Press)

Alaric Hunt, 44, won a $10,000 literary prize from Minotaur Books and the Private Eye Writers of America for his crime novel Cuts Through Bone. The award includes a publishing contract for the author, a convicted murderer who has been in a South Carolina prison since 1988. Hunt said he assembled his view of the outside world for the novel from books he read and from episodes of television’s Law & Order. (The New York Times)

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or this year’s City Weekly Music Awards, we decided it was time to go big or go home—and no one should want to go home when there’s this much awesome music happening. So, in addition to crowning a Band of the Year, we also named a DJ of the Year and a Rap Group of the Year.

The winners were decided by a complex tallying of in-person votes at each showcase and scores given by our 15 talented judges.

Besides three-word names, Westward the Tide, Better Taste Bureau and DJ Matty Mo shared a few things that lifted them to the next level for the crowds and judges: the ability to command a stage, creativity, professionalism and—oh yeah—raw musical talent.

But it’s safe to say that no one walked out of any of the showcases feeling certain about who’d won. And that’s a good thing—the CWMAs aren’t so much about declaring a winner as they are about supporting and celebrating our local musicians. Even if your band or your friend’s band didn’t score a nomination, or if you’ve never heard of any of the acts (no judgment), we want you to come out to the CWMAs. They’re a genrespanning introduction to our amazing music scene, a heady mix of blistering guitar riffs, jangly tambourines, thought-provoking rhymes and earth-shaking beats.

That ever-growing diversity is why we’ve expanded the CWMAs beyond bands in recent years, and why we’re especially thrilled with this year’s addition to the winning artists’ prizes: an opening gig at the Twilight Concert Series, where thousands of music lovers will get a taste of the talent that calls Utah home.

Read about the winners (and City Weekly-picked honorable mentions) in the following pages, then head to CityWeekly.net/CWMA for a complete rundown of the two-week musical extravaganza. And mark your calendars for February 2015—our music awards are still growing and getting better, and you need to be there for it.

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CWMA Judges: Briskoner, Jesse Cassar, Chaseone2, Flash & Flare, Corey Fox, Ebay Jamil Hamilton, Street Jesus, DJ Juggy, Steve Loso, Planit Ra Hotep, Gavin Sheehan, Kolbie Stonehocker, Nate Syncronice, Jesse Walker, Colin Wolf

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westward the tide’s energy makes them an Unstoppable force.

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Westward the Tide worked for the first time with a producer, well-known local singer-songwriter and producer Joshua James. Sorry Soul was recorded over two weeks at James’ homestead in American Fork, nicknamed Willamette Mountain.

Forbes, Megan and Jackson all speak fondly about working with James, praising his ability to inventively add to their music instead of trying to change it. “We love the music that we made with Joshua, it’s been a blast,” Jackson says. “And we learned so much from him. We’re just excited to release this new stuff.”

Compared to their recording of Everything Is—which was put together relatively quickly, in response to fans clamoring for recorded music—Westward the Tide was able to take their time on Sorry Soul. “It was really cool to just be with Joshua and just tinker and really play with the sounds,” Jackson says.

The finished album displays the band’s maturing sense of songwriting and exploration of deeper subject matter. Everything Is “was very lighthearted and very happy and very surface,” Megan says. “And we like it, but this album definitely goes to show the musical abilities and it really delves into that more.”

Forbes adds, “It’s a lot more personal.”

That progression can be heard on the two singles from the album, “Stardust” and “Young Bodies,” that Westward the Tide have released. The band isn’t afraid to get into thorny territory about addiction in the minimally wrought “Stardust,” and “Young Bodies” has an absolute jewel of a chorus that swells the heart: “You and I, we’ve got young bodies, old souls.”

Now, Westward the Tide are ready to strike out into their unknown future as a band with the same amount of energy that ignited the stage of the CWMA showcase. Sorry Soul is more than Westward the Tide’s debut album: It’s a declaration.

The new album is “more in your face and just going to show, ‘Yeah this is us, and we’re going to do this,’” Megan says. “And we’re serious about it.” CW

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It’s surprising there was any stage left to speak of after rock & rollers The North Valley performed at the Feb. 22 band showcase at The Complex. Possibly the most energetic band of the CWMAs, The North Valley channeled the raw power of hell’s most bloodthirsty rock gods as they blasted their way through a set that plenty gritty howls, muscular guitar riffs and epically longhaired head-banging.

All five band members were in constant motion throughout, but trying to take a blurry-free photo of co-lead vocalists Spenny Relyea (guitar) and Dane Sandberg (bass)—who couldn’t be contained by his shirt—was damned impossible, like attempting to photograph dual tornadoes. (Kolbie Stonehocker)

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musicians have been creating music together for barely more than a year. But just as Westward the Tide suddenly announced their arrival on the stage that night, they appeared in the local music scene and immediately struck out in one direction: up.

Westward the Tide was founded by Larsen and Kaitie Forbes—who played music together in high school—as well as Larsen’s husband, Jackson (colead vocalist/guitarist and main songwriter). The rest of the lineup— Towner, Brannelly and bassist Cole Herrmann—came together almost effortlessly.

“It was meant to happen,” Forbes says. “I think we were all in places in our lives where we just needed something more.” In November 2012, Westward the Tide—their namesake is a novel by influential Western author Louis L’Amour—officially became a band.

They quickly began attracting a dedicated fanbase as early as their first show—a showcase for new bands at Velour in Provo—which, to Westward the Tide’s disbelief, ending up selling out. “Velour was like, ‘What the heck?’ and we were like, ‘What the heck?’ ” Jackson says. “We didn’t even play that good of a set, but we just rallied a bunch of people to get there.”

Building off that initial momentum, Westward the Tide released a five-track EP, titled Everything Is—recorded at June Audio in Provo—in April 2013. Just a few months after that, the band began working on their first fulllength record, Sorry Soul, which will be released locally at a show at Velour on March 15.

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nstead of bothering with any preamble when they took the stage at the first of two City Weekly Music Awards band showcases at The Complex, opening band Westward the Tide began their performance with a bang—literally.

Cam Brannelly strode onstage and started hitting his drums so hard that everyone’s eyes and ears were hooked as effectively as if a cannon had been fired. Then, violist Jordan Towner joined in by banging on a large floor tom as the rest of the band came out, picked up their instruments and launched into a set that was full of sincere enthusiasm, kinetic energy and sparklingly beautiful moments of flawless vocal harmonies.

The Provo band’s spectacular stage presence, undeniable chemistry and the infectious joy with which they play their music made a stunningly strong impression in the showcase, and the judges and the large crowd that came out for the show agreed that they were more than worthy of the Band of the Year title.

“We work really hard on our performance and our show and drilling in our sound, and it was just cool that people noticed it and liked it and they chose us over all of the other amazing bands,” says Megan Larsen (who contributes backing vocals, keyboards and one wild tambourine). “We’ve really been working hard to get where we’re at, so it’s really awesome to see that that was recognized by people and we stood out from the crowd. It meant a lot to us.”

Winning the band portion of the CWMAs is an especially huge milestone for Westward the Tide, considering the fact that the six

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fter DJ Matty Mo threw down a trapped-out set—complete with fog machine—at the open-format CWMA DJ Spin-Off at Zest Kitchen & Bar, local rapper Concise Kilgore summed up what nearly everyone was thinking: “Matty Mo killed it.”

With charismatic energy and the attention-grabbing ability to rock the mic between songs as masterfully as he spun the decks, Matt Moriarty, aka Matty Mo, stood out among the many deserving DJs in the 2014 CWMAs. Matty Mo’s rapheavy spins had everyone chanting his name not only after his own set, but also after the other DJs’ sets.

Over the past year, Moriarty has been building a name for himself locally, but he treated his performance at Zest like a platform to officially introduce himself to everyone else in Salt Lake City—and he made his case in a huge way.

Originally from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Moriarty first became interested in music through his dad, who’s a piano technician, guitar player and audiophile. He “has an unbelievable record collection,” Moriarty says, “and growing up there was always thousands of records up there at the house in the record player ... there was always music around.”

Moriarty was bitten by the DJing bug at around age 15, and it was with his dad’s turntables that he first began experimenting. He says his first DJ setup “was hilarious. It was a couple of different belt-drive turntables and the shittiest mixer that money could buy that I found on Craigslist.”

Influenced by the music he grew

up with, Moriarty emulates what it means to be an open-format DJ. At the center of his current style is rap, “what I like to play the most,” he says: “hip-hop—old-school, new stuff, gangsta rap, backpack rap.” But he also dabbles in music by bands his dad listened to—Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and the Beatles—as well as “all sorts of indie shit. I can literally rock any genre,” he says. “Some DJs claim open format, but they might only have one or two genres up their sleeve. I feel like I really have it all, except for polka and country—I don’t really fuck with those genres.”

A passionate snowboarder, Moriarty eventually headed west to chase the snow, spending time DJing and hitting the slopes in ski towns Mammoth Lakes, Calif., and Mount Hood, Ore. In 2010, he landed in Salt Lake City, where he found an overflow of DJ talent unlike the small-town scenes he was used to in California and Oregon.

“It was extremely inspirational for me to come out here and see all these different DJs just killing their game,” Moriarty says. “There’s a lot of them out here that I’m really, really impressed by, a lot of talent out here. That’s what trips me out about even getting nominated into the spin-off, let alone winning this thing.”

Salt Lakers have become familiar with Moriarty through his residencies at Willie’s Lounge on Wednesdays and at The Urban Lounge as a closer on Saturday nights. At his residency at Willie’s Lounge, which he started shortly after he moved to Utah, Moriarty turns what he calls a “no-frills,

dive-y spot” into a dance party. He says the gig is “what put me on the map, so to speak, in the Salt Lake scene.”

Popular with local skiers and snowboarders, Moriarty’s set at Willie’s usually features a mixture of hip-hop, Top 40 and dance music. The club vibe that ensues may seem like a weird match for Willie’s, but it somehow works. Before around 11:30 p.m., “you never know what kind of older, more weathered folk are going to be there,” Moriarty says. “And then watching the transition go from people that just want to have a quiet beer to kids that wanna just fuckin’ rage—it gets insane there, it’s really funny.”

Moriarty’s residency at The Urban Lounge—which started at the beginning of this year— showcases his ability to adapt to diverse crowds. It’s “a really rad gig because you never know what the band’s gonna be,” he says. “The folks at Urban are so awesome and I’m really hyped to be a part of that.”

Moriarty has several schemes in mind for his future as City Weekly’s DJ of the Year. Though in past years he’s headed back to Mount Hood to snowboard the non-winter months away, he plans to stick around in Salt Lake City for 2014. That means his night at Willie’s may continue throughout the summer; in the past, it’s typically gone on from fall to spring.

Also this summer, you will probably see Moriarty in an entirely different venue: his own food truck. In Mount Hood, Moriarty worked for a food truck called Cobra Dogs, which sells hot dogs, brats and other handheld foods to hungry snowboarders and skiers. The popular business expanded to Park City Mountain Resort in 2010 but closed in 2012.

Now, Moriarty hopes to have his own Cobra Dogs truck—with a built-in DJ booth—open sometime within the next few months. “I am putting a lot of my effort into developing that whole plan and getting the ball rolling on that,” he says. “So excited to make this happen.”

Looking back on the CWMA experience, Moriarty says, “I’m happy with the way it went. There were a couple fuck-ups in there, but for the most part, I think it went pretty flawlessly, and I’m just so hyped and so honored to be where I’m at right now.” CW

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When I talked to Justin Godina before the Feb. 26 open-format DJ Spin-Off at Zest Kitchen & Bar, he said that he almost didn’t compete this year. “I get sick to my stomach every time,” he said as he was setting up. Well, we’re glad he fought through it, and so was everyone else in attendance. Godina’s performance was essentially a full-on clinic on how to spin nothing but 45s. Covering the full spectrum of deep funk cuts, original hip-hop samples and even some classic rock, Godina blew some wigs back and was definitely one of the main highlights of the CWMAs. (Colin Wolf)

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hen Better Taste Bureau first stepped onstage at The Complex on March 1, the entire vibe of the room changed. And toward the end of their set, when they dropped their massive single “Out West”—from their December 2013 release, The Better Taste EP—the audience got instantly rowdy and slammed harder than an early-’90s ONYX show. It was then that showcase judge and Mic Masters CEO Nate Syncronice turned to me with a look of shock perhaps best described as “Macaulay Culkin face.”

There are a lot of factors that play into a quality live hiphop performance, but, without a doubt, the ability to get the crowd hyped is one of the most important variables of any show.

And Better Taste Bureau’s Shaun Bussard, Ben Harris and Mason Brewer have found a way to perfect it.

Like a football coach prepping for a game, BTB film the majority of their gigs, combing over the footage and picking out what works and what doesn’t.

“We look at the film and make some critiques,” Bussard says.

“We try to keep it genuine and natural so when we go onstage, everything seems like clockwork.”

Their sets are diesel-injected— no fillers, no love ballads, just bangers and mash. “High-energy sets are what we do best,” Harris says. “For [the CWMAs], we knew we had to be the group with the most energy.”

And the approach paid off.

BTB was one of the few groups that really went out of their way to engage the crowd with a healthy dose of call & response tracks: “When I say ‘too many,’ you say ‘hipsters,’” for example.

On a related note, “Too Many” is a track I hope they play when they perform at this summer’s Twilight Concert Series.

“Honestly, hipsters love making fun of other hipsters, so I think it’ll go over pretty well,” Brewer says with a laugh.

It’s this sort of honesty and humor that makes BTB so ridiculously accessible and fun to listen to. Their sound is squeaky clean, well-produced and extremely calculated—every lyric is deliberate and precise, and just about every beat seems to have been washed and rinsed by Brewer’s mad-scientist fingers.

“I think people get into our tracks because they’re catchy and our call & response stuff is pretty simple,” Brewer says. “People just naturally get excited when they see other people putting their hands up and getting live, so crowd interaction is really important.”

However, just existing as a quality high-energy act only goes so far; you still have to get people out to your shows. In their relatively short existence, BTB have nonchalantly thrown some of the best and biggest local hip-hop shows. In April 2013, the release party for their album As Good As It Was packed more than 200 people into The Shred Shed and sold out a week in advance.

“We don’t have a street team

or anything like that,” Harris says. “We actually do a lot of promotion ourselves, and we have a very loyal group of friends and fans that love helping us out.”

But even though they have a substantial and dedicated fanbase, BTB are motivated by the selfdiagnosed status as Salt Lake City hip-hop underdogs.

“We’ve been underestimated for so long that it’s actually helped us and motivated us to be better,” Harris says.

Being driven to surpass their contemporaries is something BTB has thrived on, but remarkably, they’ve done it with little to no trash talk—a rarity in hip-hop.

“We’re our best critics,” Brewer says. “Every day, we’re constantly reminding each other that a certain bar is sort of whack, or that a beat isn’t necessarily that great. We’re definitely tough on each other, and I think that pushes us to improve.”

In other words, they put in work­—a lot of it. And over the past 12 months, they’ve had a meteoric ascent.

They were crowned as U92’s Home Grown Champions in summer 2013 and performed in front of roughly 5,000 people at Summer Jam. In November, they dropped an insanely creative Groundhog Dayinspired rap video for the song “Looking Back,” featuring Luna Lune. And now, Better Taste Bureau is City Weekly’s Rapper (er, rap group?) of the Year.

As a thank-you, the new kings of Salt Lake City leaked “Outliers,” a single off their new album of the same name, due out in April. The track can be heard at BetterTasteBureau.com, and they’ll be making a triumphant return to The Complex on May 3 for the Outliers release party. CW

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One of the biggest surprises of the rap showcase at The Complex was Atheist. Backed by the House of Lewis crew, Atheist’s set was a perfect blend of insane theatrics and quality hip-hop. Though every rapper held it down that evening, Atheist was the only emcee with the balls to not only rock red & black plaid pajamas with a white lab coat, but also sport a giant cut-out mask of his own face. Toward the end of his set, Atheist and Donnie Bonelli ripped off their shirts and chanted, “When I say ‘Utah,’ you say ‘Legalize gay marriage,’ ” to which the crowd reacted with cheers and one of the most genuine slow claps I’ve ever witnessed. (Colin Wolf)

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Art at the Main Group Show: Light, Shadow, Space Art at the Main is a cooperative gallery on the ground floor of the Salt Lake City Main Library, a cozy nook where pieces from more than a dozen local artists mingle on the walls. Now, this cadre of artists is taking their work to Charley Hafen Jewelers Gallery.

Most of these artists are representational and have a command of the techniques needed to create works in landscape and still life that are faithful depictions, yet also exhibit the artist’s personal style and include some impressionistic touches. Joy Nunn’s works (detail pictured) are reminiscent of French Impressionism, and one of Marsha Ercegovic’s paintings includes flowers that might have been transplanted from a Renoir.

On the other hand, Cary Griffiths uses these elements to shape completely abstract works, using colors in the manner of Mondrian.

Light, shadow and space—in addition to the visible spectrum of colors—make up the visual vocabulary of a painter. The illusions of perspective and the mass of objects are created with these tools.

And the space at the Charley Hafen Jewelers Gallery is an excellent place to give these works a bit more breathing room than their cozy library home can provide. The jewelry store seems to have a luminous quality: light pours in its windows, which enhances the quality of light, as well as the shadow and space in these works. (Brian Staker) Art at the Main Group Show: Light, Shadow, Space @ Charley Hafen Jewelers Gallery, 1409 S. 900 East, 801-521-7711, through March 15, free. CharleyHafen.com

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Gini Pringle: An Honest Aperture Photography, just like painting, has the capacity to tell a story, although the possibility to manipulate and embellish is practically unlimited.

But it’s stark realism that Gini Pringle travels extensively to find, seeking honesty and photographic truth. Her most iconic images seem straightforward, yet allow viewers caught in this narrative to speculate on the moments caught by an aperture set on authenticity.

Pringle has spent most of her artistic career shooting on the streets of Cuba, Mexico and urban centers of the United States. Her Cuban scenes are a candid and frank portrayal of an entirely different culture, capturing life and vitality through momentary narratives as they unfold.

Her oeuvre in its entirety is enormous, capturing street life at its most genuine.

One riveting portrait portrays three young men shadow-boxing. Their unflinching focus— disregarding the photographic presence as they punch the air, one in metallic gold knee shorts and another in a turquoise blue tank against a sun-bleached background—illuminates the image.

In another untitled photo (detail pictured), a young man with lean muscles and a weathered face is wearing a white tank top and holding a package of cigarettes; a woman wearing a fuchsia tube top reaches toward him. The composition is set to the left, and this unbalance enhances the sense of unease with two figures in the shadows beyond.

Nothing is hidden. The streets do not lie.

(Ehren Clark) Gini Pringle: An Honest Aperture @ Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, 801364-8284, through March 14, free. PhillipsGallery.com

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Jake Johannsen Nearly 30 years into his professional career as a stand-up comedian, Jake Johannsen—unlike many of his contemporaries from the 1980s stand-up boom—hasn’t starred in a sitcom. He hasn’t lent his voice to animated TV or featurefilm characters. He doesn’t sell out arenas or have a million Twitter followers. He simply continues, week after week, knocking audiences silly with a brand of smart, brilliantly timed storytelling comedy that he has mastered.

It would be easy to look back on all the things that didn’t happen—especially if, as Jerry Seinfeld has said, Johannsen turned down the role of George Costanza when it was offered to him.

But there’s no reason to shrug dismissively at a win in the San Francisco International Comedy Competition, or dozens of appearances with David Letterman over the years.

And while the observational topics he covers may have changed since the ’80s as he moved into middle age and parenthood, he still tells stories about the world’s weirdness in that same incredulous, slightly quavering voice that suggests sympathy with our deepest confusion.

On his 2011 CD/DVD I Love You, for example, Johannsen wrestles with that annual task that most of us are facing right now: paying our taxes.

“The government acts like, ‘You have to pay your fair share,’” Johannsen says. “All I want to know is, what do I owe? They won’t tell us. They’re like, ‘No, you figure it out.’ Really? I’ve got to do my job, plus a big-ass math problem for you every year?” (Scott Renshaw) Jake Johannsen @ Wiseguys West Valley, 2194 W. 3500 South, 801-4632909, March 7 & 8, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $12.

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Jim Henson Company: Puppet Up! (Uncensored) There are many jokes that a puppet can pull off that a human just can’t—especially when bawdy and blue humor is left on the table. In fact, because they are puppets, the bawdy and blue tends to get a bigger punch, like when children’s toys are talking about having a hand up their ass.

Jim Henson made his mark with material like Sesame Street aimed at the kids, but he also liked to push the boundaries with his beloved cast of puppets. Brian Henson (pictured), son of the pioneering puppeteer, decided to go all in with Henson Alternative—an improv-heavy theater company specifically geared toward adult-skewed performances designed to entertain while also shedding light on the behind-the-scenes artistry of puppeteering.

Spearheaded by the younger Henson and Patrick Bristow (of Ellen, Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm fame), the “Miskreant Puppets” gleefully wade into everything highbrow and low— think a crass re-enactment of a Shakespeare classic.

Performed by a cast of six expert puppeteers with improv backgrounds, the touring production is never the same twice. The puppeteers are actually present on the stage, filmed “from the puppet up” for large screens, so the show is kind of a two-for-one in which you can either focus on the performers working their craft or the magic of the puppets playing to the camera.

Or it will likely be a combination of the two— such as watching the uncomfortable face of a puppeteer as the felt dog they control enthusiastically dry-humps another. (Jacob Stringer) Jim Henson Company: Puppet Up! (Uncensored) @ Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-655-3114, March 9, 7:30 p.m., $20-$69. EcclesCenter.org

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periods, we dance our being.” With music

by Philip Glass, Pickett’s gentle but expansive movement beautifully illustrates the passionate conversation.

Far But Close, by choreographer John Alleyne, is set to spoken-word poetry by Daniel Beaty and explores how language can help guide the storytelling of ballet.

The two pairs of dancers move together and apart, allowing the audience to see the vulnerable experience of creating human connections. Finally, Return offers perhaps the group’s most original piece, set to the music of Aretha Franklin and James Brown and created by Robert Garland, the company’s first official resident choreographer and former principal dancer. Full of the requisite grands battements and pirouettes, the piece is also a celebration of AfricanAmerican pop culture.

Armed with strong technique, set apart by their neo-classical approach and featuring iconic pieces like Agon’s pas de deux, Dance Theatre of Harlem looks beyond race to seek out raw talent and brings something fresh and extraordinary to its performances. CW

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But as Mitchell continued his career, he noticed little improvement in opportunities for people of color in the dance world. In response, he started a school he called the Dance Theatre of Harlem in his childhood neighborhood.

In order to attract students unfamiliar or uncomfortable with the art form, he allowed an unconventional dress code of cut-offs and jeans. Often his students danced to live drumming instead of piano, and they took lessons in costume design, lighting and music.

By 1971, the school had cultivated enough talent to form a professional company, which performed for 30 years, earning numerous awards and recognitions, until financial hardships forced the performing company to disband in 2004, though the dance school remained open.

But some—like Johnson, who was also a founding member and former principal dancer—still had hope of reviving the company. In October 2012, that dream came true. The performing arm of the Dance Theatre of Harlem returned with a core of 18 dancers under Johnson’s guidance.

“It’s wonderful to be back again, starting with a new generation of dancers and continuing Mitchell’s vision,” Johnson says. “We have felt very welcomed back by our audiences.”

When the Dance Theatre of Harlem performs in Salt Lake City on March 6, they will bring with them an exciting sample of ballet from the 21st century. When Love— choreographed by Helen Pickett, one of the dance world’s most well-received choreographers, who has also created original work for Ballet West—is a snapshot of two lovers declaring their adoration. “When we are in love,” writes Pickett, “we surrender to unbridled time and, in these brief wondrous

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s the curtain rises on the Kingsbury Hall stage March 6, two company members from the Dance Theatre of Harlem will stand ready to perform one of the most famous duets in modern ballet: the pas de deux from Agon.

Intimate and passionate—erotic, even— the dance was created in 1957 by choreographer George Balanchine as a statement about the new age of ballet. Based in pure movement, it’s athletic, modern, elegant and without story, reflecting instead the power and energy of America. The music, by Igor Stravinsky, is jarring and without meter. The Agon pas de deux is a true expression of the style of the Dance Theatre of Harlem.

“Our company is as strong technically as any professional ballet company,” says Virginia Johnson, artistic director for New York City’s Dance Theatre of Harlem. The pas de deux from Act 3 of the ballet classic Swan Lake is, after all, part of the company’s repertoire. But, as Johnson explains, the Dance Theatre of Harlem strives for something different. “We are a neo-classical company. Our work is based on the idea of moving ballet forward and giving audiences today something that maybe helps them understand their own lives in a different way.”

There’s another element of Agon’s pas de deux that shook the ballet world when it was first introduced. Balanchine choreographed his duet for two of his company members: a white woman named Diana Adams and a young black man named Arthur Mitchell— the first black principal dancer of any major ballet company, who would go on to found the Dance Theatre of Harlem.

Born in New York City in 1934 and raised by a single mother, Mitchell spent most of his free time earning money for his family, but he occasionally relaxed with friends at the Police Athletic League. There he learned to tap dance, and—encouraged by his teachers and mentors—pursued dance, winning a coveted scholarship to the New York High School of Performing Arts, where he followed his passion for ballet, despite modern dance being a more “acceptable” form for black dancers. Though he was dogged by prejudice and racism, Mitchell’s hard work and talent continued to pay off, and he joined the prestigious New York City Ballet in 1955.

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A&E To Be Continued Live-action superheroes work best taking a page from comics’ cliffhangers.

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f you’ve been awake at all in the past decade, it should come as no surprise that comic books are being adapted left and right, into every Adventures of Superman Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. sort of medium you can imagine. They’ve had carserial storytelling game is Marvel Studios. toons locked down for decades, the big- One of my favorite things about comic-book gest recent summer movies are all comic universes is the shared history and space properties, and a growing crop of televi- they occupy. There are hundreds of supportsion shows are showing a lot of spandex ing characters who can pop in at a moment’s and capes. notice, crossing over into other books to Television is no stranger to com- tell the best stories possible with characters ics. Going back to the days of the old we’re already invested in.

Adventures of Superman starring George For the longest time, that’s been imposReeves, we’ve had an almost constant sible on the silver screen. Movies featurstring of comic-book adaptations on TV, ing any superhero character were limitincluding the famed campy 1960s Batman. ed to just that character. But Marvel has (Pro tip: Seek out the story of Reeve’s mur- turned all of that on its ear, making the der, Hollywoodland. Ben Affleck plays the entire Marvel Studios universe a shared Superman actor with aplomb.) one. Captain America can have a cameo in In one sense, television seems to be the Thor sequel, which would have been a much more natural medium for com- unthinkable a decade ago. The Avengers ic-book adaptations than feature films. isn’t just a team-up that we hope for; it By their nature, comic books are serials, actually happened. And the post-credit each ending in a cliff hanger until the sequences link to the next story in a way next monthly installment. And the weekly you would only find with comics. Since the format of television matches that style end of the first Avengers picture, they’ve of storytelling the best. It’s plain to see been building a huge story: Thanos and that there are characters where TV just the Infinity Gauntlet, one of the most epic works better. Take The Incredible Hulk, showdowns in comics history, featuring for instance. With Ang Lee’s theatrical consequences for every single person in adaptation and Louis Letterier’s sequel, the Marvel universe. Just thinking about it there was no matching the charm, tension raises the hair on my arms. building and long-term character work And Marvel’s upping the ante even furof the 1978 television series starring Bill ther by tying the cinematic universe into Bixby and Lou Ferrigno. the television universe. At the moment, DC Comics and The CW have been build- all we have is Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., but ing up Oliver Queen’s quest as the Emerald Marvel has teamed with Netflix for a plan Archer in much the same way on the show to bring us four other characters in a Arrow, taking the time to juggle long-term serialized format, including Daredevil storylines in tantalizing snippets, just as and Luke Cage. These are characters who, the best comic-book storytelling does. once included, can step into the big crossThere’s no denying that the serial format, over events at their leisure—and that’s mid-season breaks and cliffhangers of The good for everybody.

Walking Dead, ripped straight from the Superheroes are taking over every pages of the comics, are suiting that prop- screen you watch. And the way the stories erty much better than a film—or even a are unfolding will keep us coming back series of films—ever could. for more. CW Yet television, it has now become clear, isn’t the only place to tell ongoing superBryan Young is the editor-in-chief of hero stories. At the moment, the leader in the BigShinyRobot.com

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Jennifer Adams: BabyLit Huckleberry Finn and The Jungle Book For a 30-year run from the 1940s through the early 1970s, the Classics Illustrated comics provided an entry point into the great works of Western literature by turning stories like MobyDick, Robinson Crusoe and The Three Musketeers into comic books for young readers. But what if there were a way to introduce these classics even earlier—say, perhaps, to young not-yet readers?

Utah’s own Jennifer Adams—working with illustrator Alison Oliver—launched the brilliant BabyLit series a few years ago, using colorful board books to familiarize toddlers with the works of Jane Austen, Bram Stoker, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and others. This week, Adams launches the latest installments in the series, showcasing Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. Why not get those little darlings ready for high school English class by the time they’re in kindergarten? (Scott Renshaw) Jennifer Adams: BabyLit Huckleberry Finn and The Jungle Book @ The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, March 6, 7 p.m., places in signing line reserved for those who purchase books at King’s English. KingsEnglish.com

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Pygmalion Theatre Company: Women of Lockerbie At 19 hours, 2 minutes, 44 seconds, on a December day in 1988, London’s Air Traffic Control lost contact with the Boeing 747 Clipper Maid of the Seas. Shortly afterward, Scottish authorities responded to a fire reported by a British Airways pilot. The authorities found the remains of the Clipper—Pan Am Flight 103—in what would become known as the Lockerbie bombing.

Women of Lockerbie, by Deborah Brevoort, approaches this story of tragedy and loss with dignity and without hate. Loosely based on true events, the play follows a New Jersey couple visiting the site of the bombing in an attempt find closure by recovering any remaining effects of their deceased son. There they meet a group of Lockerbie women on a crusade to obtain the clothing of the bombing’s victims and—in

a symbolic act of cleansing and healing—wash them and return them to the victim’s families.

But the United States government won’t release the clothes. (Katherine Pioli) Pygmalion Theater Company: Women of Lockerbie @ Rose Wager Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, March 6-22, Thursdays 7:30 p.m., Fridays & Saturdays 8 p.m., Sundays 2 p.m., $20, $25 day of show. ArtTix.org

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Digital Landscapes The digital world is getting more and more ubiquitous, seemingly encroaching more and more on our everyday reality until it can start to seem like it is real.

The works of Vort Man utilize the techniques and technology of digital art on, and in conjunction with, traditional art forms and techniques. His work is

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Salt Lake Film Society: This Is Digital As movie theaters made the conversion from conventional film projectors to digital projection over the past few years, film buffs lamented the loss of film as a medium for showing classic movies. But it’s the reality of the brave new digital world, one that the Salt Lake Film Society had to face in 2013 with a Kickstarter campaign to upgrade its equipment. Now, SLFS is going to let audiences see the new digital projection for themselves with four features that demand big-screen appreciation.

Beginning Saturday, the Broadway Centre will showcase a daily repertory menu. On the bill of fare is Stanley Kubrick’s space epic 2001: A Space Odyssey, the 1953 romantic classic From Here to Eternity, the globe-spanning, impressionistic 2011 documentary Samsara and the magnificent Lawrence of Arabia (pictured). Check theater listings for individual showtimes, and get a taste of what the 21st century at the movies is all about. (Scott Renshaw) Salt Lake Film Society: This Is Digital @ Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111 E. 300 South, 801-321-0310, March 8-14, see website for times and prices. SaltLakeFilmSociety.org really about what kind of landscape we live in—and that includes the media landscape.

The images in this series begin as photographs, which are then reduced to their barest black & white outlines before the landscapes are re-colored digitally. The native of Pittsburgh, who moved to Utah in 2012, produces screen prints of some of the landscapes, while others become digital images printed on canvas. He recently showed in Chicago, London and Salt Lake City’s Charley Hafen Jewelers Gallery.

Presenting him as living a somewhat mythical existence as an artist, Man’s website, TheVortMan.com, traces his life as a timeline through business and art across numerous decades and continents. (Brian Staker) Vort Man: Digital Landscapes @ Salt Lake City Main Library Canteena, Level 2, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through March 9, free. SLCPL.org

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Utah Symphony: Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9, From the New World As a child in Sussex, England, long before studying music at Manchester University and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Utah Symphony guest conductor Mark Wigglesworth fell in love with Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9.

Dvorák wrote the work, most commonly referred to as From the New World, in 1893 as a celebration of America shortly after arriving on these shores.

His final symphonic composition, the work demonstrates the skill of a the Czech composer—well

known for innovatively incorporating the folk traditions of his own country—in capturing the excitement and opportunity of America at the time.

According to Wigglesworth, who will also conduct two other symphonies—No. 35 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lutosławski’s Symphony No. 4, a premier for Utah Symphony—the piece was the first he ever purchased himself, the first he ever fell in love with and the first composition that really turned him on to the power of music. (Jacob Stringer) Utah Symphony: Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9, From the New World @ Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, March 7 & 8, 8 p.m., $18-$69. UtahSymphony.org, ArtTix.org

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lthough it seems to fly a little under the foodie radar, I’ve always enjoyed eating at Faustina. The patio in warm weather is a terrific spot for weekend brunch, and when it’s cold or cool out, the restaurant’s modernist interior, with its curvy lines and soothing color palette, is always warm and inviting. But when the restaurant lost its talented executive chef, Billy Sotelo, to La Caille a few months ago, I feared it might be curtains for Faustina.

Sotelo’s departure hasn’t seemed to affect business, however. When I dropped in for dinner on a recent Friday night, Faustina was packed with a diverse mix of customers. And I was keen to explore the menu—especially the new small-plate options—of Chef de Cuisine Joe Kemp.

Too often, small plates are accompanied by big prices. That’s not the case at Faustina, where the small plates range from $4 for mixed olives to $12 for filet au poivre. All of the small plates are generous and sharable.

One of my favorites among the smallplate offerings was Kemp’s chicken pillow pastry—a dome-shaped puff pastry about the size of a muffin, stuffed with chicken, cranberry, sage and pine nuts, served on soft polenta with a balsamic drizzle.

The delicious, elaborate dish seemed a steal at a mere $8. Fried calamari ($8) is lightly battered squid rings and tentacles, deep-fried and served with crisp, fresh lettuce (you can make Asian-style wraps out of them) and a “cocktail” aioli—cocktail sauce meets Provençal aioli.

Kemp knows a thing or two about seafood. He’s originally from Iceland, studied at the Florida Culinary Institute and cooked at Maryland’s Blue Heron Inn on Solomons Island. So, it shouldn’t have come as a surprise that a trial tasting of a simple, seared sea scallop—atop lump blue crab meat, garnished with microgreens and bathed in buerre blanc—was a spectacular way to open the evening meal. I love scallops, but they are delicate in flavor and structure. Too often they’re cooked to hockey-puck toughness, wrapped in flavor-masking bacon and/ or smothered in sauce so rich that the bivalves don’t stand a fighting chance.

Not these, which should be making an appearance on the menu soon.

Taking a gander around the restaurant— from the bar near the front door to the romantic booth in the back of the dining room—wine and cocktails were flowing, and the patrons all seemed to be enjoying themselves. We sure were. Chalk that up, in

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part, to excellent care from our server, Kelly. The top-notch Faustina staff is headed up by manager Hilary Merrill, a real pro. She’s constantly in motion: greeting guests here, helping to bus a table there, while running an all-around tight ship. I’d also suggest enlisting Merrill’s help with wine pairings. Faustina has a really nice wine list, with all but a couple offered both by-the-glass and bottle, and Merrill is very knowledgeable and helpful with pairing food with wine.

It probably goes without saying that a guy who cooked in Maryland should excel in the crab-cake department. And Kemp does. His lump crab cakes ($10) were precisely that: a pair of crab cakes where lump blue crab meat stole the show. These cakes aren’t about filler; they’re an homage to the world’s best-tasting crab meat, served with roasted corn, tomato, an avocado fan and homemade dill aioli.

And it just kept getting better. I love a good steak—for three or four bites. Then, my palate gets fatigued and I find myself bored and challenged to eat the rest of my rib eye or T-bone. That’s one reason I like small plates and tapas—I prefer to enjoy a little of a lot of things, rather than a lot of one or two things. And so, I found the Oscar filet ($12) to be quite satisfying.

It’s a petite filet mignon—maybe half the size of a normal filet—seared to mediumrare and served Oscar-style, with lump blue crab and grilled asparagus, topped with a heavenly béarnaise sauce. True, I could eat a pair of Doc Martens bathed in béarnaise, but this mini-mignon was marvelous.

One of the wines Merrill suggested— spot-on with the Oscar filet—was from the Luberon, in France: M. Chapoutier

Big impact: The Oscar filet and other Faustina small plates don’t skimp on size or flavor.

La Ciboise ($10/glass or $42/bottle). It’s a fruity blend of Grenache and Syrah, a fairly light, easy-drinking red wine that enhanced the delicate Oscar filet rather than overpowering it. Another dish that paired quite well with the La Ciboise was beef short ribs—shredded and formed into a cylindrical shape—served on a polenta disc with Asiago cheese sauce and paprika oil ($8): dee-lish.

You know Mr. Creosote, the gourmand who explodes after eating one last mint in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life? Well, that was me. Those “small plates” add up to a lot of food, but I still had a hankering to share an entree portion of Faustina’s popular seafood scampi ($18). I wound up taking most of the scampi home in a box, though it was a divine plate of al dente angel-hair pasta in a tangy white wine and lemon sauce, a smattering of tomato and red onion, with a seafood assortment of crab, scallops and shrimp.

Forging on with Mr. Creosote in mind, we wound up the evening with a sensational blueberry soufflé. Kelly sliced into the airy soufflé with a sharp knife and drizzled it with a sweet and fragrant honey-lavender cream sauce.

With a new chef de cuisine and new small-plates menu, Faustina’s food has been re-energized. CW

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What kind of food is that—polar bear steaks and reindeer sausage covered in maple syrup? Canada is not a country we generally think of when contemplating ethnic cuisine.

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There is one dish, however, that is uniquely Canadian: poutine ( pooteen), a dish of french fries topped with cheese curds and grav y. And just a few weeks ago in Salt Lake City, Prescott Strasters began selling poutine from Grav y Train, his formerly Los Angelesbased food truck.

The Grav y Train Poutinerie serves traditional poutine with grav y and cheese curds, as well as adapted items like Philly poutine and poutine sliders, plus the All-American: tater tots coated in sausage grav y and topped with a fried egg.

In honor of my many Canadian relatives, I went with the traditional. Warning: This is a heav y dish, to the third power. It’s a large plate of thick hand-cut fries, smothered with delicious brow n grav y and then covered with thick, smooth cheese.

W hen the cheese and grav y melt together, it gives the dish a subtle sweetness that makes it difficult to know when to stop. It was very filling, and I immediately found space in my schedule for a nap.

Now that this cuisine from our neighbor to the north has arrived, it’s just a matter of finding it. Follow @Grav yTrainSLC on Twitter for updates on the truck’s location. CW

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This is a well-balanced wine from one of Argentina’s biggest and oldest producers, founded in 1895. It has pretty peach aromas, but is drier, with a crisp acidity, than you might expect from its s weet-smel l i n g nose. I like this particular wine paired with linguine and white clam sauce.

Alamos Catena Torrontes ($9.99): Warm days and cool nights cha racterize the high elevation of the Salta winegrowing region of Argentina, where grapes have the chance to slowly reach maximum ripeness. The result is a wine that’s a fruit salad on the tongue: peach and tangerine flavors to accompany orange-blossom and jasmine aromas. Lest you think that sounds like a cloying, sweet wine, rest assured that it’s actually quite crisp and acidic, aged in steel and racked off of heav y fermentation lees prior to bottling.

A lthough A lamos Catena Torrontes is one of the cheapest around, it’s also one of my favorites—an exceptional value. It might sound like an odd pairing, but for a kick, you should try this Torrontes with a terrine of foie gras de canard. The crisp acidity and f loral flavors and aromas help balance the richness and fattiness of foie gras.

C r ios de Susana Balbo Torrontes ($14.99): Like the aforementioned Alamos Catena, this Torrontes is surprisingly dry given its Viognier-like floral notes of pears and peaches. It’s a crisp, delicate wine that pairs well with smoked salmon or even smoked meats. Torrontes with barbecue? Why not?

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It’s 90 percent Torrontes and 10 percent Sauvignon Blanc, plus it is frizzante— slightly fizzy, a wine you can pour over ice.

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ith the recent break in winter weather and accompany ing unseasonably warm temperatures, my wine palate is drifting—probably prematurely—toward spring and summer. While Argentina is justifiably renowned for its Malbec, the country produces another wine, this one white, that I like as much if not more than Malbec. It’s called Torrontes. And, while I enjoy drinking Torrontes all year round, it’s especially well-equipped for summer sipping.

One of the lesser-known wine varietals, Torrontes is typically a good value. Soon, I suspect, it will be “discovered” and prices will rise. But for now, you can buy excellent iterations of Torrontes for well under $15.

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throughout Argentina, and there are three varieties: Sanjuanino, Mendocino and Riojano. Since most of the Torrontes sold here is made from the Riojano variety, we’ll focus on that. It’s a grape that produces very aromatic wines—quite floral, with Gewürztraminer and Muscat-like aromas. If you like the floral qualities of Viognier, you’ll probably also enjoy Torrontes.

Torrontes wines are capable of being bone-dry, but many I’ve tasted are off-dry, even slightly sweet, which make them a good choice for an aperitif, or for sipping in a hammock. So, Torrontes can range from light and crisp, like Pinot Grigio, to rich and rounded, like big California Chardonnays.

In finding versions of Torrontes that are keepers, the main thing I look for— regardless of the wine style—is acidity.

This is what ties the best Torrontes together, whether they’re light and crisp or big and bold. And while most Torrontes producers age their wine in steel tanks, others are experimenting with oak barrels, which give the wines more of a Chardonnay-like body and roundness. I suggest lining up an assortment of different Torrontes from various wineries and discovering which you like the best. Here are a few of my current favorites.

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This Italian-style deli serves a mean Caruso club and, true to Italian roots, a club sandwich known as The Godfather. All specialty sandwiches and melts are served on fresh, local bread from Stoneground Bakery.

Daily soup and potato- and pasta-salad specials are also a favorite. With friendly service and a variety of delicious clubs, this hidden gem is worth finding. 1305 W. 2100 South, 801-972-3391 The folks at Lunaberry are dedicated to the art of “groovy yogurt and crepes,” which probably tells you all you need to know. Everything served at Lunaberry is all natural—no canned fruits or veggies. The nonfat, all-natural yogurt is made from scratch, just the way you like it. Even the smoothies are made with fresh, wholesome fruit with no artificial colors, corn syrup, additives or preservatives. 358 S. 700 East, Salt Lake City, Lunaberry.com

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Arbat is a grocery store and bakery specializing in Russian and European foodstuffs that doubles as a spacious center with reception, banquet and catering facilities. Arbat offers a wide selection of items including pirogki, caviar, sturgeon, kebabs, kufta, hachapuri and much more. The bakery features items such as wedding cakes, European sweets and a variety of breads, including lavash. 375 E. 3300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-467-5511, ArbatLLC.com

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This family-owned Mexican eatery was founded in Murray in 1989, so its customers must be happy.

Named for the lovely Mexican colonial city in Michoacan, Morelia specializes in dishes like chalupas, chilaquiles, chimichangas, fish tacos, fajitas and the popular super burrito. There’s Mexican and domestic beer available, as well as a small wine list and thirstquenching pina coladas, margaritas and daquiries.

And if you’re abandoning your diet, try the Kahlua and cream. 6098 S. State, Murray, 801-265-8790

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Between the delicious pastries and beautiful mountain view, Silver Bean Coffee has more to boast about than just coffee. Founded by 2002 Olympic Silver Medalist Shannon Bahrke, this professional, upbeat coffee shop is popular among many business professionals, skiers and cyclists. The bright, open layout allows guests to enjoy that beautiful mountain view all year round, whether they’re inside snacking on cinnamon buns or outside in the summer weather enjoying a caramel macchiato.

In addition to coffee and pastries, Silver Bean offers gelato and breakfast sandwiches. 6556 S. 3000 East, Salt Lake City, 801-947-0848, SilverBeanCoffee.com

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Founded in Ketchum, Idaho, the popular Smoky Mountain Pizza & Pasta has expanded to Utah’s Little Cottonwood Center. Hand-tossed, thin & crisp or deepdish pizzas are the specialty here, featuring premium toppings like artichoke hearts, andouille sausage, Greek olives, pine nuts, sun-dried tomatoes, shrimp, pesto and more.

Spicy pastas like the Ragin’ Cajun dish and chicken linguine are a nice change. 1850 E. 9400 South, Sandy, 801-523-7070, SmokyMountainPizza.com

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At this all-American family restaurant in Park City, everything is made in-house with local ingredients, which makes for fresh, high-quality meals. And it’s not just for mountain men and meat lovers; there’s also a large selection of salads, soups, and sandwiches. Try the baby

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A New York-style deli, Pop on Over Cafe features a menu full of East Coast specialties, namely the light, hollow pastries known as popovers, baked fresh daily.

For breakfast, enjoy a popover stuffed with fixings such as bacon, eggs and sausage or, for lunch, tuck into a “pop-wich” filled with tasty house-baked deli meats and veggies. Other delicious options include pizza, mac & cheese, lasagna, clams casino, calzones and salads. For a true taste of New York City, try a 100 percent Kobe beef hot dog direct from Brooklyn, topped with sauerkraut, onions and pickles. 1098 W. South Jordan Parkway, South Jordan, 801253-0272, PopOnOverCafe.com

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From Scratch

More and more restaurant menus these days are littered with terms like “housemade,” “homemade” and “artisan.” Well, although I’m both leery and weary of “from scratch” restaurants, I couldn’t resist one that’s actually called From Scratch. The menu is limited to a couple of appetizers, a handful of soups and salads, pizzas and pasta, and a couple of entrees. The sourdough used for the pasta and the cornmeal used for pizzas is made in-house; so is the hand-pulled mozzarella, and even the butter and jam. The restaurant’s Margherita pizza is made from scratch—including the flour, which is ground on the premises in a wooden Austrian flourmill from organic hard spring wheat berries—and it was easily the best wood-fired pizza I’ve eaten in Salt Lake City. The biggest surprise, however, was the magnificent Scratch burger: a huge, juicy beef patty topped with Gold Creek Farms smoked cheddar, shoestring onions, lettuce and housemade ketchup, with a glistening, sesame-seed bun that’s made, of course, in-house.

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Eva Green in 300: Rise of an Empire tion, and half inspirational rallying cries (“We choose to die on our feet rather than live on our knees!”) that may have been discarded first drafts of King Henry V’s Saint Crispin’s Day speech.

The most indelible moment in 300: Rise of an Empire occurs during a lull between battles, as Themistokles visits Artemisia’s barge for a negotiating session—and by “negotiating session,” we mean they soon begin throwing each other around the room in some of the angriest sex you’ll ever see. Stapleton may be terminally bland throughout the rest of the movie, but he certainly comes to life when bouncing off of Green’s mad villainy.

Naturally, there’s an audience that’ll be interested in the movie’s Greeced-up abs and pecs and the snippets of campy craziness. Yet it’s also telling that in a story that’s supposed to be all about brutal feats of spear, sword and shield, the only scenes that really register involve policy-making turned physical. CW

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bare-chested warriors, but he’s going to do his best to hold out until he can convince the other city-states to face the threat as a united Greece.

That means plenty of ferocious hand-to-hand combat, rendered by director Noam Murro (Smart People) in Snyder’s familiar style of slowing down the action at arbitrary moments and letting loose with torrents of digitally rendered blood. But the blood doesn’t actually resemble anything inside a human body—it looks more like strawberry jam as it sweeps across the screen—and the fountains of it that issue forth from even the most superficial wound make it seem as though the combatants are less men at war than fragile jelly donuts. The silliness of these 300 movies is in large part attributable to the fact that the anonymous hunks of brawling beefcake are engaged in a version of warfare that pretends at being gritty but feels like a game. It’s both absurdly bloody and genuinely bloodless.

The notable exception comes whenever Eva Green is the center of attention. Playing a native Greek with a traumatized past and plenty of axes to grind, Green commits thoroughly to being the baddest mofo in the room, ready to kiss the head she just severed. Glaring with heavily lined eyes over cheekbones sharper than her swords, her wardrobe a majestic display of bondage gear with kicky skirts, she provides a burst of energy that’s found almost nowhere else in a story that sometimes feels like it’s half flashback stories full of expository narra-

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arly in 300: Rise of an Empire, a spirited “debate” breaks out in the middle of the Athenian Senate. The powerful Persian army is headed to Greece, led by the “god-king” Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), and Athens has little naval power to confront the Persian fleet. Should they surrender rather than face destruction?

Should they take the advice of the war hero Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton) and try to unite the Greek city-states to preserve their freedom? The representatives of various factions grab one another by the togas and hurl people around the senate floor in the passion of their respective positions.

There’s something at stake here, and these flesh-and-blood men care enough about it to wrestle one another to the ground to make their point.

All things considered, I’d much rather watch 100 minutes of that furious exercise in democracy than what passes for martial adventure in 300: Rise of an Empire. Like its predecessor—director Zack Snyder’s 2006 adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel 300—it attempts to turn ancient history into a swords-and-sandals epic, only with virtually every part of its world created in digital post-production. This one takes itself less seriously than the original—mostly thanks to one gleefully crazy performance—but it’s still profoundly uninteresting to anyone who isn’t there exclusively to see a parade of impossibly chiseled male torsos.

The events take place largely at the exact same time that Gerard Butler’s Leonidas was leading his stalwart 300 Spartans against the Persians in the first movie, except on a different front of the same war.

Themistokles leads his own men against impossible odds, with the fierce general Artemisia (Eva Green) leading the massive Persian navy. Themistokles has got a few tricks up his … well, “sleeve” isn’t the appropriate word for these resolutely

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Mr. Peabody & Sherman HHH.5 He’s the other bowtie wearing time traveler, but he predates even 1960s Doctor Who. Mr. Peabody and his boy, Sherman, debuted on The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show in the 1950s, and now, their own feature-length cartoon is wonderfully, sweetly geeky, full of charm and authentic humor. Mr. Peabody (voice of Ty Burrell) is a genius inventor, scientist, musician, athlete, gourmand and mixologist. Oh, and he’s a dog. We are offered a great deal of explanation for how a dog was allowed to adopt a human boy.

What’s so perfectly plausible that it requires no explanation?

Time travel. When 7-year-old Sherman (Max Charles) and his schoolmate Penny (Ariel Winter) take Peabody’s WABAC— pronounced “way back”—machine out for an unauthorized jaunt to the distant past, it’s up to Peabody to repair the time-stream damage they do. Ancient Egypt and Renaissance Italy are but two of the places we are whisked away to, with much good-natured silliness and tons of gloriously bad puns along the way. These are the sorts of goofy yet intriguing adventures that could well inspire kiddie curiosity in history, art and science. Opens March 7 at theaters valleywide. (PG)—MaryAnn Johanson

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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)—Scott Renshaw

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 stalkerish. “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)—MAJ

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

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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

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 creaturefeature 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

Non-Stop HH.5 Liam Neeson’s late-career shift to action-hero badass has, not shockingly, landed him in the kind of competent-but-inspired vehicles where every action-hero badass occasionally finds himself.

Here, reunited with Unknown director Jaume Collet-Serra, Neeson plays air marshal Bill Marks, a troubled alcoholic on a flight from New York to London who starts getting text messages threatening to kill passengers if he/she isn’t paid a $150 million ransom.

Confined-space thrillers demand a minimum level of creativity to sustain the premise, and Neeson effectively sells the mounting anxiety as it becomes ever clearer that he’s going to be framed for the crimes. But eventually the story starts to get a little too thematically big for its britches, trying to punch up its existence in a post-9/11 world. The more it tries to stretch beyond simple claustrophobic paranoia, the clunkier it gets. (PG-13)—SR

The Wind Rises HHH.5 Disney opted to release Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-nominated animated feature with dubbed English-language voices—and it’s worth asking why. Unlike Miyazaki’s other fanciful tales, this is a historical drama based on the life of World War II-era aeronautical engineer Jiro Horikoshi (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), including disturbing war images and even a suggestion of marital bed activity; this PG-13 story isn’t one where you should bring kids who can’t keep up with subtitles. Yet the dubbed voices can allow viewers to more easily appreciate the magnificence of Miyazaki’s artistry in a quietly observed work that addresses great creations being used for acts of destruction. So perhaps it’s a bit distracting hearing one character with Werner Herzog’s voice, but the English voices don’t diminish the beauty of Miyazaki’s visual work. If anything, maybe they make it a little bit easier to take it all in. (PG-13)—SR

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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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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 Mount 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

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Victors Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) spark rebellion in the Districts, so President Snow (Donald Sutherland) devises a surprise, brutal Hunger Games All Stars to shut ‘em up. So, kids watch this? (Lionsgate; March 7)

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USA is back in the comedy game with Sirens; ABC goes sci-fi weepy with Resurrection.

Lloyd the Conqueror A community-college slacker (Evan Williams) enlists the help of a self-defense instructor (Tegan Moss) and a retired gaming wizard (Brian Posehn) to defeat his Medieval Lit professor in a LARPing showdown. So, adults watch this? (Freestyle)

Sirens Thursday, March 6 (USA) Series Debut: The network is touting Sirens—based on a British series of the same name—as an “edgy” and “unrestrained” comedy produced by Denis Leary, now moving from New York firefighters (Rescue Me) to Chicago EMTs. “Edgy” and “unrestrained” on USA is nowhere near what Leary got away with at FX, but Sirens still has its funny/raunchy moments, just closer to Brooklyn Nine-Nine than to the dark, effd-up recesses of Rescue Me. As USA’s first half-hour original comedy since, oh, forever, Sirens is a strong play to get back in the game—and, at the very least, one less Modern Family rerun on the schedule (seriously, it’s on 25/7, USA—dial it back).

Saint George Thursday, March 6 (FX) Series Debut: Why any network outside of CBS is making sitcoms with laugh tracks in 2014 is beyond The Only TV Column That Matters™. But … FX? Sure, they accommodated Charlie Sheen for his Anger Management (which tonight hits the halfway point in its 100-episode contractual death march), but the network that brought you Louie should not be stooping to using any more canned yuks. Especially not for George Lopez, who, like Sheen, is a veteran of the old sitcom model who won’t/can’t adapt to modern comedy. Saint George is just another tired family ’com, albeit one with the odd co-casting choices of David Zayas (Dexter, Oz) and Danny Trejo (everything), two actors not exactly known for bringing the funny (although I’d watch the hell out of a Machete sitcom—get on that, FX).

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Resurrection Sunday, March 9 (ABC) Series Debut: Tried to take in The Returned on Sundance, but found it too French and creepy?

ABC’s far-more-’Merican Resurrection is (maybe) for you. The residents of small Missouri town Arcadia are shocked when dead loved ones from decades ago suddenly reappear, unaged and unaware of what’s happened; an unsure mashup of warmfuzzy weepiness, X-Files sci-fi and subtle religious undertones ensue. Resurrection may be attempting too many directions at once, but the cast (which includes Omar Epps, Kurtwood Smith and Frances Fisher) is strong enough to see it through the limited series’ planned eight episodes—if ABC doesn’t pull the plug or, worse, try to extend the show if it’s a hit. Learn a lesson from Under the Dome, already.

Believe Monday, March 10 (NBC) Series Debut: In other high-concept You Will Feel All the Feels news, here’s Believe, from J.J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity). The story centers on Bo (Johnny Sequoyah—yes, Johnny Sequoyah), a 10-year-old girl with X-Men-level super-

Sirens (USA) powers being pursued by evil forces (mainly, Kyle MacLachlan), and her entourage, the True Believers. But wait, there’s more: The TBs think they’ve found the one man capable of being Bo’s protector/mentor, a longhair (Jake McLaughlin) wrongfully imprisoned on death row; once they break him out, the gang travels from town to town helping folks while staying one step ahead of the bad guys. Believe is even more directionally confused than Resurrection but, thanks to the influence of Abrams and Cuarón, it looks fantastic.

Chrisley Knows Best Tuesday, March 11 (USA) Series Debut: I was predisposed to hate Chrisley Knows Best from the promos alone.

After seeing the pilot, I asked the True TV design team to come up with a stronger ratings bug then the red “stop” button: something that signified taking one’s television to the backyard, spraying it with gunfire, setting it ablaze, burying it, salting the earth and rounding up every dog in the zip code to urinate on the shallow grave. They were stumped; red button it is. CW

A troubled Oakland undercover cop (Thandie Newton) reluctantly works with a crime boss (Marton Csokas) to find her son’s killer, even though she believes it was her own fault—hence, troubled, but really, really good-looking. (E1)

Siberia: Season 1 When 16 Survivor-style TV contestants on are dumped in Siberia, bizarre events and bloody deaths begin to happen—finally, a reality show with a body count! Sadly, it’s not real, but Siberia is surprisingly engaging.

And canceled. (Lionsgate)

Sorority Horror House During pledge week, a Kappa (Alessandra Torresani) suspects that her headmistress (Morgan Fairchild) is behind a series of gruesome murders around campus. The perfect Halloween movie for spring break … or something? (MTI)

More New DVD Releases (March 11) Armistice, Beyond Outrage, The Book Thief, The Broken Circle Breakdown, Contract Killers, Crave, Dark House, Easy Money: Hard to Kill, End of the World, Enemies Closer, Homefront, The Hungover Games, Inside Llewyn Davis, Out of the Furnace, Puncture Wounds, Silent But Deadly, Time Warrior Listen to Bill on Mondays at 8 a.m. on X96 Radio From Hell; also on the TV Tan Podcast on iTunes and Spreaker.com.

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The debut full-length album from Brooklyn-based electro duo Color War—made up of Billy J and Lindsay Mound—reaches for sparkling, starlit heights but is rooted somewhere deep, dark and hidden. Mound’s hazy vocals melt into Billy J’s beats and synthscapes beautifully, creating a sound that’s both ethereal and sleek, and the mystical song titles (“Shapeshifting,” “Obelisk”) and references lend the album an air of mystery and magic.

It Could Only Be This Way begins with “Plate Tectonics,” a twilight-washed but snappy pop dream that’s stitched together with a mellow guitar line. The beats on “Hallways” create a rhythmic structure for Mound’s vocals to float around like ghosts. A lyrical theme that’s prevalent throughout the album is desire, especially in the breathless anticipation of “Hallways,” the pulsing “SOS” and the love-song sweetness of “U Saved My Life.” The slowly building “Infinity Broadcast” is utterly haunting, as a strange Morse code message is transmitted over a wall of fuzz and lasers that zip and zap—the space-y effects at the end seem to be the sought-after alien answer. March 4, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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body and that, to some people, it might even be a bit weird, but that’s part of the band’s M.O. “I think that’s the beauty of this project,” he says. “We feel we can do anything and it doesn’t seem out of the ordinary.”

For Zott, the album’s title also applies to himself and his appetite for music, so he is always trying to be aware of how much time he spends working on songs. He doesn’t want to go so full-bore into the music world that he loses himself in the process.

“If I’m doing music, I forget to eat, to talk to people, and it can become scarily obsessive,” Zott says. “But at the same time, it’s something I don’t know how not to do. It’s my way of communicating things to the world, and so if I don’t do it, I’ll probably go mad. So in a lot of ways, it’s probably a way to keep my sanity, too.” CW

The latest album from alt-country/ rock five-piece Drive-By Truckers, English Oceans—their 12th fulllength—displays the Southern gentlemen’s keen knack for portraying the points of view of diverse characters, as well as the instrumental chemistry of their updated lineup. Cohesive and lovingly crafted, English Oceans is full of sharp-eyed narration, political commentary, unabashed emotion and gritty, human soul.

The 13 tracks are fascinatingly varied, with minimal folk sitting comfortably next to riff-filled rock. English Oceans begins with a bang on “Shit Shots Count,” and that high energy continues on the following track, “When He’s Gone,” even though its subject matter is clouded with anxiety. The album is rife with rich imagery, but the best is from “When Walter Went Crazy,” with the chilling lyrics “He walked out of the bedroom with a cigarette in his mouth/ and he poured gasoline in a circle all around the house.” The album concludes with the melancholy but lovely “Grand Canyon”—dedicated to a friend of the band who passed away—which is lifted into the celestial unknown through swelling, faraway effects.

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n The Shawshank Redemption, one of the characters famously states: “The world went and got itself in a big damn hurr y.” Daniel Zott, one half of the Detroitbased indie-pop duo Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., would certainly agree with this sentiment. The focus of their sophomore full-length album, The Speed of Things—released in 2013—is a meditation on the breakneck pace of 21stcentur y life.

“There’s a song [on the album] called ‘A Haunting,’ and the opening line is, ‘Light a candle/ I’m so unromantic/ I’m inundated by the speed of things,’ ” says Zott, who plays keys and bass, in addition to providing background vocals. “It’s this image of not simply turning on a light, but taking the time to light a candle and watch it move and f licker—it’s a totally different pace—and then feel overwhelmed a bit.”

For Zott and guitarist/lead singer Joshua Epstein, these lines underscore the entire reason for creating the album.

More than just a series of intriguing lyrics, the lines hit Zott like a ton of bricks as he listened to the songs some months before the album was released.

“I was on a plane, and I remember listening to those opening lines and just crying because it was so perfect,” Zott says. “I was like, ‘Look at me. This is how it is now, where you can be in two cities in one day and talk to several people in the same day from all over the world. It’s beautiful and it’s great. But at the same time, it makes it harder to slow down and burn a candle.’ ” The Speed of Things itself is not a slow album, so Zott’s musings on the subject are more lyric-related than musicrelated. If you look beneath the glossy electro and ’80s-era pop that pervades the album, it’s not a light record. Despite the upbeat pop signatures on “Run,” for example, the track is juxtaposed against heavy material about the prevalence of sexual abuse and deviance in America. Similarly, the groovy dance single “If You Didn’t See Me (Then You Weren’t on the Dance Floor),” is not just about having a good time at a club.

“That song, which to a lot of people might be sort of surface-level, is very deep and personal,” Zott says. “It’s about leaving and being gone on tour and losing yourself in all that, and sort of becoming numb to everything else.

It’s an interesting mix of social commentary and our own personal lives.”

After becoming critical darlings with the success of their 2011 debut record, It’s a Corporate World, the duo intentionally took a left turn by changing up their lyrical undertones and musical sensibilities for The Speed of Things. Zott acknowledges that the record is not for every-

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Guantanamo Baywatch Sure, Portland, Ore., trio Guantanamo Baywatch (kudos for finding the best band name ever, guys) play surf-rock, but it’s the kind of surf-rock that would be playing extra late at the beach party after the decent people have gone home and the weirdos that just won’t leave break out the homemade jungle juice. Heavily influenced by The Cramps, Guantanamo Baywatch—made up of Jason Powell (guitar, lead vocals), Chevelle Wiseman (bass) and Chris Scott (drums)—are a total blast live, combining campy sleaze and sexy swagger with eyebrow-raising musical talent; I swear Powell is whipping out those incredible surf guitar lines with 30 fingers. Their latest album, Chest Crawl—released in 2012—is an infectiously catchy blend of vintage Dick Daleesque surf, garage rock and awesomely spooky punk. Boom! will start the night.

Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), 8 p.m., $7, KilbyCourt.com

Saturday 3.8

Electric Six As long as there’s a band taking itself way too seriously, there will be a band like Electric Six following behind, making fart noises and drawing penises on everything. The members of the Detroit six-piece all have nonsensical nicknames like Smorgasboard and Dick Valentine, and play a genre mishmash of mostly disco and rock peppered with jazz, metal, pop, country—basically everything imaginable. There’s no subject too think-y to be found here, as Electric Six are happy to write silly guilty-pleasure songs about

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hyper-masculinity, sexy time, fire, junk food and Adam Levine. In 2013, Electric Six released their first new album in seven years, Mustang, but they’ll never top the unabashed ridiculousness of disco wet dream “Danger! High Voltage” from 2003’s Fire—the music video features two people (with flashing lights positioned over their naughty bits) making out on a taxidermied moose. Wildcat Strike and Yip Deceiver are also on the bill. Bar Deluxe, 666 S. State, 9 p.m., $13 in advance, $15 day of show, BarDeluxeSLC.com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com Gavlyn Los Angeles emcee Gavlyn has come a long way since she did her first show in North Hollywood at age 16 with a cheap microphone. Three albums, an extremely popular single (“What I Do,” from her debut album, From the Art) and a European tour later, the

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Electric Six underground rapper—who also belongs to the Organized Threat movement—is making an international name for herself. In an interview with music/culture website Your Friend’s House, Gavlyn says her latest record, Modest Confidence—released in January—hits a lot closer to home than her two previous releases, and is “a lot more personal, it’s more of an open book about my life and things that I’ve gone through— my old breakup, my family …” Gavlyn’s rap style is simultaneously hard-hitting and introspective, featuring a smooth flow and her uniquely smoky voice. Cannibal Jay, Jare & Joey, KDZ and Fukwitme Committee will also perform. Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), 8 p.m., $10 in advance, $15 day of show, KilbyCourt. com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com

Sunday 3.9

Dead Meadow Since 1998, whether they’re writing meandering 10-minute songs, mumbling strange lyrics about ravens pecking a dead guy’s eyes out, or having only one volume (blaringly loud), stoner band Dead Meadow have always marched to the tune of their own zonked drummer. With their heavier-thanheavy miasma of ’70s classic rock, ’60s psychedelia and swampy blues, Dead Meadow are not everyone’s cup of tea, and that was especially true after the Los Angeles band released their latest album, Warble Womb, in 2013. Polarizing among fans and critics alike, Warble Womb—the first record to see the return of drummer Mark Laughlin, who left the band in 2002—is ridiculously long (70-plus minutes) and features an

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experimental sound that plays with genres as diverse as metal, folk and dub. It’s definitely a departure from meatier older releases like 2001’s Howls in the Hills, but it shows that Dead Meadow still isn’t afraid to ruffle feathers, even if they belong to psych-rock snobs.

Dark Seas and Red Telephone will also perform. The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $10, TheUrbanLoungeSLC. com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com

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Leslie & the Lys With her garish eyeshadow, bouffant hair and—most importantly—gold spandex pants, Leslie Hall is the patron diva of tackiness and gem sweaters. In fact, the Iowa native is so devoted to the collection of Bedazzled sweaters—she owns more than 300 sparkly specimens—that she turned her tour bus into the first Mobile Museum of Gem Sweaters to house her favorite finds.

Her collection of gem sweaters is what first propelled her to fame: After her original sweater website became mega popular, she started rapping to pay for the bandwidth, creating satirical, cheese-tastic hip-hop/ dance music using only GarageBand. Her latest album, Songs in the Key of Gold, is a mix of her greatest hits and some new material, and the first released by her own record label, Yarn House Records. Dean & the Delilahs and Boone County Comedy Troupe are also on the bill. The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $12 in advance, $14 day of show, TheUrbanLoungeSLC. com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com

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Dr. Dog With influences like the Beatles and The Band, Dr. Dog sweeps you back to the ’60s music scene, with twisting storytelling that’s rich with metaphor. The Philadelphia-based rockers draw from their eight albums for this tour, including their latest, 2013’s B-Room (Anti).

Their songs—such as “Rock & Roll” and “Broken Heart”—frequently build to instrumental and vocal bliss in the choruses. Dr. Dog prides itself on raucous live performances, so get ready to get dancing. Saint Rich will open. (Carly Fetzer) Friday, March 7 @ The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 9 p.m., $20, TheComplexSLC.com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com

Thursday 3.6 EDM Night: DJ Table (5 Monkeys) ’80s Night (Area 51) Tony Holiday & the Ends (Bar Deluxe) Bluesjam (Boothe Bros. Performing Arts Center, Spanish Fork) Karaoke (Bourbon House) Jelly Bread (Burt’s Tiki Lounge) Rewind Thursday (The Century Club, Ogden) Cowboy Karaoke (Cisero’s, Park City) The Congress (Earl’s Lodge, Snowbasin) Joe McQueen Quartet (The Garage) Karaoke (Habits) Matthew & the Hope (The Hog Wallow Pub, Park City) We Are the In Crowd, William Beckett, Set It Off, State Champs, Candy Hearts

(In the Venue) DJ Erockalypse (Inferno Cantina) Tavaputs, The Wild War, Stag Hare Band (Kilby Court) Karaoke (Maggie McGee’s) Open Mic (Paper Moon) Break Science (Park City Live) Triggers & Slips (The Spur Bar & Grill) Jazz Jam Session (Sugar House Coffee) Lord Dying, Eagle Twin, SubRosa (The Urban Lounge) The Kings Solar, Lexington Heights (Velour, Provo) Sigarhouse (The Woodshed)

Friday 3.7 SL,UT Anthems (Area 51) Breaux CD Release (Bar Deluxe)

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Real Estate This Jersey-based quintet’s new album, Atlas—released March 4—builds their reputation as minimalist indie-rock artists who keep the vocals and acoustics in the forefront.

Since the band’s inception in 2009 and the release of their self-titled debut album that same year, Real Estate has consistently produced bare-boned lyrics and breezy notes in the vein of Grizzly Bear. Though the band has had lineup changes since its start, the continuity in the music has remained, as evident in their light-sounding recent single, “Talking Backwards,” which already has new, and old, fans hooked. The Shilohs are also on the bill. (Joe’l Glover) Saturday, March 8 @ Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $12 in advance, $14 day of show, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com Grits Green (Brewskis, Ogden) Northcote, David Hause (Burt’s Tiki Lounge) One Way Johnny (Club 90) Open Mic Night (The Coffee Shop, Riverton) Dr. Dog, Saint Rich (The Complex) Made Monster (Downstairs, Park City) Head for the Hills (Earl’s Lodge, Snowbasin) Rick Gerber (The Garage) Opal Hill Drive, Brian Ward (Gino’s)

Che Zuro (Harley & Buck’s, Eden) R.A.T.S. (The Hog Wallow Pub) DJ Bentley (Inferno Cantina) Guantanamo Baywatch, Boom! (Kilby Court) Karaoke (Maggie McGee’s) June Cat, Matt Orr, Ice Hotel (Muse Music Café, Provo) Klea (Rose Wagner Center) American Hitmen, The Spencer Nielsen Band (The Royal) Foxtails Brigade, Jesus or Genome

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(The Shred Shed) Mudpuddle (The Spur Bar & Grill, Park City) Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., Chad Valley (The State Room, see p. 41) Valerie Larsen (Sugar House Coffee) Piano Pre-show: Renee Zhao (The Tavernacle) Dubwise, Antiserum, Pookie, Spacey (The Urban Lounge) Flannel Graph, Book on Tape Worm (Velour, Provo) Pablo Blaqk (Vertical Diner) MacKenzie & Harris, The Hideout, There She Goes (The Wall, Provo) Ledd Foot (The Westerner) Dan Weldon (Wildflower Lounge, Snowbird Ski Resort) Karaoke (Willie’s Lounge) Ladies That Rock: Magda-Vega, Minx, ESX (The Woodshed)

Saturday 3.8 Gutter Glitter (Area 51) Yip Deceiver, Wildcat Strike, Electric Six (Bar Deluxe) The Utah Country Swillers, The Glorious Bastards, Duane Mark & the Get Down Bandits, Reverend Red (Burt’s Tiki Lounge) Spring Concert Series: This Must Be the Band (Canyons Resort) Selfie Saturday (The Century Club, Ogden) One Way Johnny (Club 90) Miss DJ Lux (Downstairs, Park City) Head for the Hills (Earl’s Lodge, Snowbasin) Ladysmith Black Mambazo (Egyptian Theater, Ogden)

Star Anna (The Garage) Gordon Greenwood Trio (Harley & Buck’s, Eden) Open Mic (High Point Coffee) Coolabibus (The Hog Wallow Pub) DJ Erockalypse (Inferno Cantina) Gavlyn, Cannibal Jay, Jare & Joey, KDZ, Fukwitme Committee (Kilby Court) Karaoke (Maggie McGee’s) Lydia, Saint Motel, Golden Sun, Heartless Breakers (Murray Theater) GirafficJam, Fallen Gypsies, Hollow Bodies (Muse Music Café, Provo) The Scotty Haze Band (The Notch Pub, Samak) The Party Rockers (The Royal) Inland Empire Strikes Back (The Shred Shed) Pistol Rock (The Spur Bar & Grill, Park City) Joy Spring Band (Sugar House Coffee) Piano Pre-show: Drew Olsen (The Tavernacle) Real Estate, The Shilohs (The Urban Lounge) Saturday Night Dance Party: DJ Matty Mo (after show) (The Urban Lounge) Richie Kissinger EP Release, The Brocks, I/O (Velour, Provo) Karaoke (Willie’s Lounge) Dance Evolution Party Hard (The Woodshed)

Sunday 3.9 Funk & Soul Night With DJ Street Jesus (Bourbon House) Oxcross, Serial Hawk (Burt’s Tiki Lounge)

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Tuesday 3.11 Open Mic Night (Alchemy Coffee) Local Jazz Jam (Bourbon House) BeSerius: Raffi (Cisero’s, Park City) Karaoke (Club 90) Hell Jam (Devil’s Daughter) Rockabilly Tuesday (The Garage) G-Easy, Rockie Fresh (In the Venue) Karaoke (Keys on Main)

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thank you to all our 2014 cWma participating musicians

Drew Danburry Justin Godina Mideau DJ Bentley The Hollering Pines DJ Matty Mo Polytype DJ Battleship The Circulars Handsome Hands Bello Lowpass JUDGES: DJ Dizz Gavin Sheehan Mr. Vandal Ebay Hamiton Loki Jesse Cassar Malevolent MC Carey Fox Playboi Short Chase Loter Dumb Luck Street Jesus Dine Krew Jesse Walker Burnell Brisk KIS.B DJ Juggy DopeThought Flash & Flare Better Taste Bureau Steve Loso Pat Maine Nate Syncronice Atheist Planit Ra Hotep Westward the Tide Wildcat Strike The North Valley Baby Gurl Cornered by Zombies a special thank you to our sponsors for supporting our local music scene. thank you to our host venues: the complex, the hotel, Zest

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Though relatively new to Salt Lake, the idea for Spitz has been in the works for years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tanner and I grew up with [founder] Bryce Rademan in Park City,â&#x20AC;? explains Hill. Both he and Slizeski had done study abroadâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one in Spain, the other in the Netherlandsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and food like dĂśner kebab was all over. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We kept talking about how the food was awesome and you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really get it in the United States. Bryce came up with the concept.â&#x20AC;?

Rademan and his business partner, Robert Wicklund, opened the first Spitz in Los Angeles about eight years ago. After seeing its success, Hill and Slizeski began considering a Salt Lake location. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With our local community, we have a lot of people who have traveled to Europe, so it seemed like a good fit,â&#x20AC;? says Hill. Now, Spitz has four other locations in California, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re considering opening a second Utah location. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking quite a bit in Sugarhouse,â&#x20AC;?

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You Librans havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t received enough gifts, goodies and compliments lately. For reasons I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t discern, you have been deprived of your rightful share. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not fair! What can you do to rectify this imbalance in the cosmic ledger? How can you enhance your ability to attract the treats you deserve? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important that we solve this riddle, since you are entering a phase when your wants and needs will expand and deepen. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what I can offer: I hereby authorize you to do whatever it takes to entice everyone into showering you with bounties, boons and bonuses. To jumpstart this process, shower yourself with bounties, boons and bonuses.

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Meet Sara Jade Woodhouse, a transsexual woman who is an active and faithful Mormon. She’s a responsible parent to a 14-year-old daughter. She defends the rights of the LGBT community as a profession. And her goal is to help bridge the gap between faithful Latter Day Saints and LGBT people. The basic tenets of her faith firmly guided her to seek her truth. She lives her life as an example to others by unapologetically sharing her journey.

Sarah knew she was different when she was four years old. She didn’t know there was a word for what she felt until she was 26. Before Sara realized she could live an authentic life, she married a woman, had a daughter, and lived life as the person she thought she needed to be. After years spent searching for happiness, Sara decided to transition. That journey to authenticity gave her the strength to pursue something bigger than herself, and helped her see her value beyond a gender marker.

Being a parent is the greatest joy of Sara’s life. And just like other parents, she worries about the world we’re leaving our children. She wants her daughter to have every opportunity to succeed. Sara’s authentic and courageous example to her daughter is the greatest gift a parent can give to a child. Her daughter is a living witness to a life well-lived.

I asked Sara how I could be a better ally for trans people. She told me to ask questions in the genuine spirit of curiosity and to listen with an open heart and mind, and to stand up for trans people in all places and at all times. As a community, we excel at celebrating our diversity. But we can be better at including our trans brothers and sisters in our journey to full equality.

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lot of changes are happening in the Kingdom of Sugar House, that magical land on the East side of the Salt Lake Valley. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t blame me for the monikerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been used by city staffers to describe the tenacious citizenry, who are notorious for attending community council meetings and often disagreeing with our Salt Lake City leadersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; plans for the area.

When these citizens want something, they will not stop until they get it.

This winter, during our smoggiest days, many may have noticed a strange â&#x20AC;&#x153;ghost trainâ&#x20AC;? spreading east to west along the old rail lines in Sugar House. Cargo trains full of furniture used to bring inventory to the stores around 2100 South and 1100 East when Sugar House was known as the retailfurniture area of the city. This all-white commuter train seems mostly rider-less.

UTA informed the press that 1,000 people per day ride the train, but every time Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m stopped to wait for the trainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passing, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve only counted two riders and a conductor.

Maybe more will use it when Squatters graces the Sugar Hole with its new Wasatch pub/brewery this fall, although the complex developer allegedly wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let the beer makers hang a sign featuring the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;brewâ&#x20AC;? anywhere on the building faceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; even the Kingdom of Sugar House has to abide by Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rules. Great news for the serfs and young nobles of the sugary landâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; there will be three pub/breweries within staggering distance of one another by the end of 2014.

In addition, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a mother of a tunnel going in under 1300 East and 2200 South.

The traffic is hell and will remain so until itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finished. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a walking/biking tunnel for those wanting to travel east to west or from Sugar House Park without risking their lives on the non-friendly roadway of the 1300 East section, and will end up costing mucho dinero: $10.5 million from the Feds and plenty of local monies.

The tunnel (a.k.a. the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Drawâ&#x20AC;?) opens later this year. That, with the addition of the ghost TRAX line, is evidence that a bazillion dollars has been bequeathed to the Kingdom of Sugar House and thus, all the humble citizens will live happily ever after. But bewareâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;other fiefdoms in the magical Valley of Salt are wondering when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll receive ghost trains and tunnels, too. n

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