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Letters Spend on Teachers, Not Tech

I could not disagree more with Speaker of the House Becky Lockhart’s proposal to provide a personal electronic device to every Utah student [“Tech Heaven,” Feb. 27, City Weekly].

I have been a teacher for 31 years, in three states. I have eight years of experience in public schools from K-12, as well as one year as a substitute, nine years teaching at a community college, and 13 years in Granite’s YESS Program. In every school where I have taught, teachers agree that class size makes the biggest difference in student learning. All the research backs up this one simple fact. It’s what always puts Utah at or near the bottom in education polls of the 50 states.

More access to expensive electronics is not a complaint that originates with teachers. Access to iPads further frustrates a profession beset by mandates for standardized testing, a lack of time, energy and resources to train teachers to use the technology, and the fact that most school buildings we work in are not wired for high-tech devices.

Adding to the problem is that school-age kids—even (or maybe especially) junior high and high school kids—are notorious for losing and loaning their things. Expensive devices get stolen. These devices also break, or develop glitches that hamper everyone’s participation. Money is often not allocated for upkeep and repair of technology.

More time is spent on the technology than on the lesson.

All of this is beside the fact that social media beckons

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None of this recommends Lockhart’s proposal to me—and that doesn’t even take into consideration the astronomical cost to taxpayers ($750 million in start-up costs and $290 million to sustain the program).

This would be money poorly allocated and poorly spent. Lockhart says, “I truly believe as I’ve looked at education over the last couple of years, this is the direction we need to go.”

Teachers, on the other hand, hope to reinstate funds that eliminated reading specialists and programs, address escalating employee health-care costs, reduce growing class sizes and restore teacher development/preparation days.

If legislators genuinely want to improve student learning, they should start by polling teachers as to what is needed in education. To quote BYU professor Richard Davis, “It isn’t enough that a teacher in a large classroom knows how to use an iPad and can teach students to do the same. Rather, it is essential for the teacher to provide personal attention to the student first, not using an iPad as a substitute. That requires more teachers, not more iPads.”

Waste Not

Food waste in Salt Lake City and all cities within the United States makes up 21 percent of waste entering landfills [“Wasteland,” Nov. 28, 2013, City Weekly]. Social media is a prominent factor in our everyday lives, so why not use this ability to connect with each other to redistribute food waste?

In Colorado, local restaurants, grocers and farmers are able to post their extra produce and food to a website.

Volunteers identify certain nonprofits that provide to a network of people in need, and then distribute the food that comes from producers.

In Southern California, farmers post surplus crops on a social-media site to distribute produce that is about to go bad instead of throwing it into the compost bin.

Social media is incredibly prominent in our day-to-day lives. We should use it to reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions and our landfill contributions, while simultaneously benefiting communities with affordable food.

Meg Wolf Sophomore Studying Environmental Science, Westminster College Salt Lake City

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PRIVATE EY

Carlos Saragosa

It used to be that my favorite time of year for this newspaper—not for me personally— was the wondrous six- or seven-week period that comprised Utah’s annual legislative session. It was always a heyday of wackiness. Nearly by the minute, one could come up with reams of columns about some gaffe, inconsistency, hypocrisy, idiocy, or any other multitude of sundry attacks on regular Utahns. What the Legislature does— with minor, but notable exceptions—during those 45 days is simply to pad, protect and preserve their own asses.

So, for the past few years, I’ve pretty much taken a sabbatical from Utah politics during the session. Count me among the tired and weary—but I’ve also learned that for all the blow-harding that goes on, the real bills all get funneled through at the last hour when nobody can do anything about them. Will there be an end to the Zion Curtain? Tune in at midnight on the final night of the session. Will there be funding for charter schools that takes funding from public schools? Tune in at midnight on the final night of the session.

Will Stericycle be rewarded or spanked for polluting our valley? Tune in at midnight on the final night of session.

If I’m going to go prematurely gray, it’s not going to be due to worrying about things I cannot control. And I cannot control the waddling ducks who masquerade as the Utah State Legislature. Nor can Gov. Herbert. Nor can Becky Lockhart control the teals and mallards of her own dominant Republican Party. And there are so few Democratic ducks that half the time they peel off and flock up with the Republican ducks for the simple hope that they can at least be seen as accomplishing something—anything.

And, man, how those hopes can be dashed. Take cockfighting—the sport

wherein you take two asshole but otherwise harmless roosters, put them in a confined area and watch as their inbred aggressiveness causes one to beat the living crap out of the other. Or—when metal gaffs are tied to the roosters’ feet and their flailing legs slash each other’s throats—kill each other.

Bleeding to death is fun to watch, you know, especially if the one bleeding to death is “just a chicken,” as one scholar told the local media. The recent debate on whether cockfighting participants should be charged with a felony instead of a misdemeanor on their second offense has been championed

by Sen. Gene Davis—a Democrat. Davis needs Republican help to pass his bill. Wanna bet that cockfighting in Utah remains a misdemeanor, and that you won’t find out until midnight of the final night of the session?

One might think that after the bad publicity and brouhaha surrounding NFL player Michael Vick when he was punished for breeding and fighting pit bulls, society would have developed less of a tolerance for breeding and killing roosters, too. But society doesn’t always stretch into Utah. In Utah, the “good-ole-boy” claim is that such cockfights are held in “humane” circumstances, with big pads tied to the roosters’ feet. So, those angry roosters just knock themselves silly, but aren’t killed. There is still a winner and there is still money exchanged in the form of betting, and no one is worse for the wear, right? Well, sort of—because despite that flimsy canard, those roosters are indeed still fought to the death in very secretive mini arenas.

How do I know? Because I once considered fly-tying to be a hobby. The beautiful rooster feathers that adorn those dry flies floating on the Weber or Provo rivers didn’t just fall off onto the ground where some flytyer found them. Anyone who’s ever tied an Adams or a Royal Wulff knows that the best feathers come from the capes of roosters,

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and the very best of those come from the capes of fighting roosters. Or did—it’s been many years since I’ve tied, to be honest. True confession: I’ve never been to a lethal cockfight, but did once see a couple of roosters fight with their “gloves” on in training. In my life, I’ve known guys who raised fighting roosters. And those guys gave me rooster capes. Those rooster capes provided the feathers that caught the fish I have eaten.

Yet, I’m dead-set against cockfighting.

It’s cruel. It’s inhumane. Gambling on death of any kind simply shows that we’re not that far removed from Ancient Rome. Utah is Caligula.

I don’t buy the argument that cockfighting roosters are treated more humanely than a Tyson chicken (tell that to the roosters that are shipped off to the Philippines, where fights to the death are legal), and that if I were really morally outraged, I’d take up my protest in front of the grocery’s poultry section. More true confessions: My grandfather raised chickens. They were lifeblood, not bloodsport. Also, I worked at an egg farm in Riverton many years ago. Crappy life for the chickens, sure, but the eggs were free.

And what does the Utah Legislature do?

Not much, except proclaim, with some moral superiority as always (Hi, LDS Church— what’s worse? Watching a cocktail being poured or a chicken bleeding to death?), but run from it in the end. Here’s how bad it is: Even Russians are mocking the moral standards of Utah. Look what was forwarded to me floating on the Internet the other day:

I’ve pretty much taken a sabbatical from Utah politics during the session.

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Ouch, comrade! But, oh, for the definitive rooster-fighting song, listen to “Gallo de Ciello” by Joe Ely. Thanks, Tom Russell, for the lyrics. CW Send Private Eye feedback to john@cityweekly.net.

If you could substitute politicians for roosters, who would you like to see in a legislative “cockfight”?

Alissa Dimick: Sarah Palin and Rob Ford.

Because, duh.

Scott Renshaw: That sounds too much like what already happens: f lapping and screeching and accepting no outcome except the death of your opponent. I’m just goofy enough to imagine people sitting down, having a conversation and not behaving like animals engaged in primitive ritualistic assault.

Colin Wolf: Wow, great question, but I think we need to clarify some things first. Will each politician be kept in a cage and starved for an equal amount of time? Do they get customized metal talons, or do they only get to use their fists? Will each politician be shorn and feathered? Are the politicians regular-sized or roostersized? Come on, let’s keep this legit.

Rachel Piper: I saw Utah politicians unleash a can of whoop-ass on the pathetic Salt Lake Tribune team during a recent “friendly” basketball game.

I think the score after 10 minutes was something like 67-3, so I know the kind of raw bloodlust that’s at work under those suits. I think if we closed the cafeteria, removed the taffy and locked the Capitol doors for a few hours during the legislative session, Utah would become a lawless state.

Eric Peterson: If we’re talking about a sheer cagematch-type situation, I would say former lawmaker Carl Wimmer vs.

Sen. Mark Madsen. Wimmer because he has law-enforcement training and can bench press a crap-ton of weight, and Madsen because he’s built like a Bond villain and has martial-arts experience. I think it would be a hell of a fight, and I couldn’t say for certain who I’d put my money on.

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by Katharine Biele

You have to hand it to Rocky Anderson. He doesn’t give up, even when the odds are against him. Endless energy and a penchant for controversy characterize the former Salt Lake City mayor, who ran a failed campaign for Congress, founded High Road for Human Rights, formed the fledgling Justice Party and ran as one of the darkest horses in the previous presidential race (though he did gain ballot access in a number of states). Now he’s trying to grow another grassroots movement, promoting a progressive agenda around the country, starting with a handful of devotees in Utah. For now, it’s about the corrupting influence of money in politics and the media. Anderson is a believer. What starts as an unpopular idea can evolve into acceptance, he says. There are those who still blame him for the acceptance of the gay and lesbian community in Utah. Watch to see if he can evolve this latest group.

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It’s always interesting to note the hypocrisy of Utah’s Legislature. Take the animosity toward the federal government meddling in state affairs, and then take a look at how legislators meddle in local issues. Seems like every time local governments get into a fight, lawmakers think they need to step in and referee. This time, it’s Mayor Ben McAdams’ plan to create a patchwork city with the county at the helm. Millcreek residents are divided on whether to incorporate or go with the county, although incorporation has been voted down before. Never mind that; now there could be a yearlong moratorium, or cool-off period. It’s really a time for lobbying, and little will change. Salt Lake City’s Yalecrest area dealt with a legislative moratorium on historic districts, allowing tear-downs in the meantime. It didn’t stop the momentum or the deep divisions.

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FIVE SPOT

When you think of nonprofits, you might think of gentle, soft-spoken folks working together to save crippled kittens. But on March 20, Utah’s nonprofits will engage in a knock-down drag-out fight for donors—sort of. It’s the second year of Love UT, Give UT, a 24-hour funding drive for the Utah-based nonprofits that specifically benefit Utah. Groups are vying to receive the most donations (by number, not by amount) in their category on LoveUTGiveUT.org within those 24 hours to win additional funding. Such events have been happening in other states for years, but this is just the second year for Love UT, Give UT, which is spearheaded by the Community Foundation of Utah (UtahCF.org), itself just five years old. Fraser Nelson, the foundation’s executive director, talked to City Weekly about why this day is such a big deal for so many. Read more at CityWeekly.net.

Why put a deadline in place for charitable giving?

Part of the whole theory behind this is to appeal to younger people who are used to going online and doing impulse buys. There’s some “gamification” built in—competitions between nonprofits of different sizes. But it’s not the amount of money they raise; it’s the number of donations they receive. The top prize is $5,000, and for a small nonprofit, that’s a significant amount of money. Last year, the competition got very fierce between about 10 p.m. and midnight. The Pride Center and the Girl Scouts were neck-and-neck until about a quarter to 12. And then—our theory is—the Girl Scouts woke up every Brownie in the state whose mom had a credit card and forced them to give; all of a sudden there was a real spike and the Girl Scouts went way over the edge.

Is Love UT, Give UT different from other fund drives?

There are a few of important goals about the day. One is, certainly, to raise as much money as we can for as many nonprofits and schools that we can. Last year, we had about 357 organizations participate, and we raised about $800,000. But the idea is also to help nonprofits get new donors. A lot of our work is reaching out to people who haven’t been philanthropic before; people who, by giving a small amount, can help create a huge thing; and to reach younger people who are used to giving on their smartphones, on their tablets, online—not writing checks, not going to galas. And we’re helping the nonprofit sector generally get with the Internet age, and getting with social media. This event really gives them a reason to do it, and a platform to do it through, and a way to become more familiar with those technologies. And then, when the day is done, they have a whole bunch of donors who’d never heard of their cause before.

How can there be causes people haven’t heard of?

People can type in a zip code, they can type in a cause, and all of the affiliated things will come up. But just like going on any other website, you think you’re going there to support one thing, and the next thing you know, it’s like, “Oh, I like them too!”

There are some organizations that take part in Love UT, Give UT that serve niche populations—like abandoned horses. I didn’t even know there was such a thing. Turns out, they get driven to the west desert and dropped off. They were one of the winners last year—Noble Horse Sanctuary raised more money in one day than it does in an entire year because the thought of homeless ponies being dropped off by rich people in the west desert is such an outrage. There are people solving those problems, and maybe they only need $20,000 or $30,000 a year to do it.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Time Lies I read an article recently about a man who says our current chronology is about a thousand years off and that the years between 500 to 1500 (to round it off) didn’t really happen. It’s a mistake made by historians. I kind of like this hypothesis because I never understood why there are no records for that period of time.

—Julie Excellent and, dare I say, timely question.

There are actually two cryptochronology theories in circulation at the moment—I’m guessing you got them mixed up, and under the circumstances, who can blame you?

The Eurocentric version, commonly called the Phantom Time hypothesis, is the work of two German historians of sorts, Heribert Illig and the late Hans-Ulrich Niemitz, plus several followers. They claim mysterious forces inserted 297 years into the calendar between A.D. 614 and 911—in other words, what we’re calling 2011 is really 1714.

The Russocentric hypothesis, known as the New Chronology, is even bolder. Devised by the mathematician Anatoly Fomenko, a professor at the University of Moscow, and based on the ideas of the eccentric Bolshevik Nikolai Morozov, the N e w Chronology holds that everything we think we know about historical dating is wrong. Virtually all events associated with the ancients—the Greeks, the Romans, and everybody else—actually happened after the year we think of as A.D. 1000.

Are these ideas crazy?

Of course they’re crazy, although some of the details can seem eerie at first glance. For example, the IlligNiemitz group makes much of the fact that, in 1582, Pope Gregory XIII removed 10 days from the newly reformed calendar to correct for the chronological drift caused by the old Julian calendar’s imprecise rules for inserting leap days. The Julian calendar had been introduced during the time of Julius Caesar, in 45 B.C. However, a 10-day shift corrects for just 1,257 years’ worth of accumulated error. Subtracting 1,257 from 1582 gets us back not to 45 B.C. but to A.D. 325. In other words, more than three centuries are unaccounted for!

No, they’re not, nitpickers have pointed out. Gregory’s 10-day correction wasn’t meant to get the calendar realigned with Julius Caesar’s day, but rather with the Easter dating guidelines established at the First Council of Nicaea. When did the First Council of Nicaea take place? In A.D. 325.

The Phantom Time hypothesis doesn’t rest entirely on apparent oddities in calendar correction. Ultimately, it arises from the same observation you make, Julie. During what we inheritors of the western European tradition

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think of as the Dark Ages, pretty much nothing seems to have happened. Think about what they taught you in high school history (assuming, which I suppose one can’t safely do nowadays, that you even had high school history): Rome collapses, passing mention is made of the rise of Islam, and the next thing you know it’s the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest. It’s easy—well, maybe not easy, but possible—to imagine that historians inadvertently inserted three blank centuries in our collective datebook.

Except for Charlemagne. Charlemagne is something of a problem for the Phantom Time hypothesis. The leader of the Franks consolidated much of western Europe under his rule in the late 700s, and in A.D. 800 was crowned emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III, all of it square in the middle of the intercalated 297 years. Illig explains this away by saying Charlemagne is an “invented figure,” that a famous domed chapel that was part of the Carolingian palace complex in Aachen couldn’t possibly have been built when everybody thinks it was built, and so on.

The larger issue is that the Dark Ages are strictly a Western hang-up. Sure, Europeans may have spent the medieval period engaged in nothing more ambitious than slopping the pigs. However, there was plenty going on elsewhere in the world. If we turn our attention a mere thousand miles to the east, we find the Byzantine Empire jousting noisily with the forces of Islam for control of the eastern Mediterranean during the supposedly mythical three centuries; meanwhile, in east Asia, the Tang dynasts were presiding over a golden era of Chinese culture.

In short, the Phantom Time hypothesis makes no sense—not necessarily a deal breaker where popular beliefs are concerned, but this particular notion has gotten little traction. Compare that to the reception given Fomenko’s New Chronology.

The theory is far too bizarre to explain, much less refute, here; nonetheless, in Russia, Fomenko’s views have been widely disseminated—even chess luminary Garry Kasparov has seemingly embraced the idea that world history essentially started in A.D. 1000. No doubt this stems from the fact that Russian history is held to have commenced in 862.

You see what’s going on here. Western Europeans have several centuries of underachievement to rationalize, but Russians face a still greater challenge. Fans of the New Chronology apparently reason as follows: Our forebears accomplished nothing of note prior to 862; ergo, neither did anyone else.

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Heavy Metal Recycling company’s chemical emissions run afoul of zoning laws but not air-quality regulations.

By Colby Frazier cfrazier@cityweekly.net @colbyfrazierlp

An orange plume of smoke rose from the gray metal building that houses Accurate Recycling, lacing the freezing January air with the smell of rotten eggs.

Paul Manwaring, a concrete mantel builder, says the stench made the air “absolutely, completely, unbreathable.” He stepped outside of his shop to jot down his neighbor’s address so he could file a complaint.

But the fumes, he says, “knocked me back into my shop.”

Manwaring doesn’t recollect who he called, or how long it took for the authorities to arrive. But arrive they did. Murray City Police, the fire marshal, and health-department officers and inspectors from the state’s divisions of Air Quality and Solid & Hazardous Waste all came to take a look at what was happening inside Accurate Recycling.

What they found was a potentially hazardous situation combined with outsize business ambitions. Accurate’s owner, Christopher Leo, had been granted a conditional-use permit to operate a shredding and recycling facility, but he eventually expanded his business to include the environmentally sensitive process of bathing scrap metal in nitric acid.

“We did everything right,” said Joe Leo, the owner’s son, on March 6, when a City Weekly reporter visited the warehouse, which, aside from a few pieces of equipment in various stages of dismantle, was largely vacant. “We just didn’t pretty much ask permission.”

The chemical process was a violation of city zoning laws, and Murray forced Accurate to cease the chemical side of the business. But none of the things Accurate wanted to do violated state environmental regulations.

Neither the Division of Air Quality nor the Division of Solid & Hazardous waste cited Accurate. From an airquality standpoint, state inspectors say, Leo was in the clear.

“Without knowing what he needed to do, it appeared he did what he needed to do,” says Heather Mickelson, an environmental engineer with DAQ. So long as Accurate Recycling didn’t emit large amounts of toxins

“We did everything right. We just didn’t pretty much ask permission.”

(more than 500 pounds of individual hazardous pollutants, 2,000 pounds of combined hazardous pollutants or 5 tons of less-serious pollutants), Leo didn’t need a permit from the DAQ. Still, Leo’s neighbors say that what Accurate was pumping into the air gave them headaches and made them sick.

“It was pretty nasty sulfur-type smell that made you feel pretty shitty, basically,” said Larry Mick, who makes cabinets near Accurate. “My son got sick.”

Manwaring says he’s most disconcerted by the fact that a company could set up shop, buy a bunch of toxic chemicals and initiate a process that could be potentially harmful to the community and not get a single citation.

“I’m stunned that there’s been no citations,” he says. “I’m absolutely stunned.”

Christopher Leo, a New Jersey native, moved Accurate Recycling from his garage on the East Coast to Murray in 2012. Utah’s businessfriendly environment and the proximity to his largest scrap-metal provider made it a no-brainer, he says, to settle in the Beehive State.

But after he was unable to pin down a partnership with a business to do the chemical work, says Leo, who spoke to City Weekly by phone from New Jersey, he decided to implement his own chemical process.

This process dissolves silver from less precious metals, and usually happens in China or Belgium, someplace where, Leo says, “you can put whatever you want in the air, you can put whatever you want in the water and nobody cares.”

Leo says he figured that as long as he cleaned what was being puffed into the air, didn’t dump anything down the drain and captured all of his waste products to be shipped away for proper disposal, he’d be fine to proceed. So he bought nitric acid, hired a consultant to help him build and operate an emissions scrubber, and obtained steel vats to bathe the metal in acid.

But toward the end of this process, with around $2 million sunk into his business, Leo says, his scientist took another job, leaving him to operate the complex chemical process.

“So what I did was just start running it,” Leo says. “On the fourth day that I ran it, the police department and fire marshal walked in because it smelled like chemicals.”

Tom Parry, an inspector with the division of Solid & Hazardous Waste, noted a number of problems with Accurate’s process. He issued Accurate Recycling a warning letter, saying that the hazardous waste must be labeled, stored and disposed of appropriately, and that contingency and safety plans,

—Joe Leo, whose father owns Accurate Recycling

COURTESY PAUL MANWARING

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Neighbors of Accurate Recycling in Murray say the plume of smoke emitted by the business (in background of photo) made them sick. as well as employee training, needed to be put in place.

“From a ha za rdous-wastemanagement perspective, he got the cart a little bit in front of the horse,” Parry says, noting, “I think he could have operated his business in compliance with our rules.”

The city of Murray, though, was less impressed. Tim Tingey, director of administrative and development services, says nowhere in the city are chemical operations of this type allowed, and it is clearly not covered under Accurate’s conditional-use permit.

Murray Fire Marshal Phil Roberts says the last of the chemicals were moved off the site on March 5 to be disposed of.

Tingey says that Leo could have sought a zoning-ordinance change, which would have altered what was allowed in the city. Such a change would have required votes from the planning commission and city council and, without any guarantees, could take months.

Leo, though, believes that his conditional-use permit covered recycling that uses chemicals, and says the city’s reasons for disallowing a chemical recycling process are rooted in stereotypes. Chief ly, he believes that police officers and city officials

suspect him and his sons of being involved in organized crime.

“The police department thinks that we’re some kind of mafia because it’s a family business,” Leo says.

Officer Kenny Bass, a spokesman for the Murray Police Department, says he hasn’t heard that anyone at the police department or city hall believes Leo is part of the mob, but notes that the city’s ordinance officer is reviewing the zoning violation with the city attorney. As of press time, no charges have been filed.

The whole situation has left a bad taste in Leo’s mouth. He says he thought about fighting the city, but that it would be too costly. So he’s pulling out of Murray with hopes of finding a more welcoming community in New Jersey.

Leo says he operated Accurate Recycling “after hours” out of courtesy to his neighbors, though Manwaring says he felt the timing of the orange smoke’s appearance—only after 6 p.m. and on weekends—was to cover it up.

But Leo says it’s simpler than that: He didn’t like the smell, either. “It’s not that I was concerned I was doing any thing wrong. It’s not the most pleasant smelling thing in the world, but it’s not illegal. It’s part of the process.” CW

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NEWS Rock the Caucus Salt Lake County parties look to bring out the numbers for Utah’s last pure caucus night.

By Eric S. Peterson epeterson@cityweekly.net @ericspeterson The pitched political civil war over Utah’s election system that’s been waging between lawmakers who support caucus conventions and the organizers of a citizen petition to do away with them ended in a truce this week.

The reforms to Utah’s election system won’t take effect until 2015, but Democrat and Republican party bosses are hopeful that all the commotion that was raised in the caucus fracas between Count My Vote and the Legislature may help bring new participants to the process.

Matt Mietchen, the secretary for the Salt Lake County Democrats, says that caucus organizers have made it easier for citizens to get involved, as one of Count My Vote’s main critiques of the current process is that the caucus system is difficult to navigate.

For the first time, the Democratic Party is supplementing paper registrations done during caucus night with online pre-registration that will allow people to log on to the county party’s website, SLCountyDems. com, before caucus night to register and sign up for notifications about upcoming party meetings.

“This is a great way that they can get involved, right up front,” Mietchen says.

Getting tapped in sooner can also help county Democrats learn more about the various “issue caucuses” that might speak to them, such as the Hispanic, labor or LDS caucuses.

It’s not a presidential election year, which means caucus attendance likely won’t be huge, but Mietchen says he’s still hopeful that Democrats will come out in force, given some of the important races. House Democratic Minority leader Jennifer Seelig, D-Salt Lake City, has announced she will not run for re-election, and Salt Lake District Attorney Sim Gill, a Democrat, is expected to face a tough challenge in the fall against Salt Lake County GOP Chairman Chad Bennion.

This fall’s races will be the last with candidates chosen exclusively through caucuses and delegates. On March 10, Gov. Gary Herbert signed Senate Bill 54, the Count My Vote compromise pushed by Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo. As part of the deal, Count

p o l iti c s

My Vote will halt its citizen petition drive to do away with Utah’s current caucus convention system, and candidates who gather enough signatures will be allowed to skip the process of courting caucusnominated delegates and go directly to the primaries.

The compromise bill was widely blasted by current lawmakers—all products of the caucus-convention system— but they nevertheless passed the bill by wide margins. Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, held his nose in protest as he voted the bill out of a House committee, and on the floor, lawmakers lined up to complain about the bill before begrudgingly voting in favor of it.

How candidates will use the new system remains to be seen. Count My Vote head Rich McKeown says he imagines that some candidates will likely both use the caucuses and gather signatures for direct primaries.

Critics worry that it will set up a two-tiered system, with the non-caucus option favored by candidates with deep-enough pockets to solicit signatures and votes in the primary election.

In the meantime, both parties are taking the upcoming caucus nights seriously.

Salt Lake County GOP Chair Bennion says that on the state level, the Republican Party already made reforms in response to Count My Vote’s efforts, such as allowing absentee voting on caucus and convention nights. And for the first time, he says, the party will be stepping up its advertising from signs and fliers and forking out the cash for television commercials to let people know about caucus night.

At the county level, he says, the GOP has also increased the number of delegates that can be elected by 1,000, bringing the total number to 2,602, and has added new how-to videos on getting involved to the county party’s website, SLCoGOP.com.

Engagement efforts aside, Mietchen says, he can’t predict whether the Count My Vote attention will help caucus attendance or if Bramble’s bill will lead people to say “We don’t need to participate because it’s not going to matter,” he says.

As for the Count My Vote effect, Bennion is of the mind that any publicity is good publicity.

“The more discussion you have, the more opportunities to be informed, and go for yourself and engage in the process,” Bennion says. CW

Salt Lake County Neighborhood Caucus Nights

Democrat: Tuesday, March 18, 6:30 p.m., see SLCountyDems.com for locations Republican: Thursday, March 20, 6 p.m., see SLCoGOP.com for locations For all locations, visit Vote.Utah.gov

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Problems Solved

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Giant walls could protect the Midwest from tornadoes, according to Rongjia Tao, a physicist at Temple University. “If we build three east-west great walls in the American Midwest—one in North Dakota, one along the border between Kansas and Oklahoma to the east, and the third one in south Texas and Louisiana—we will diminish the threat in the Tornado Alley forever,” Tao said, explaining that the walls would need to be about 1,000 feet high and 150 feet wide. He estimated that they would cost $60 billion per 100 miles. (USA Today)

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n Mammoth offshore wind farms would protect coastal regions from hurricanes, according to Mark Jacobson, an engineering professor at Stanford University. He calculates that grouping 78,000 wind turbines, each 50 feet tall, in a strategic location, such as the Louisiana coast, could lower a hurricane’s maximum wind speed 50 to 80 percent (up to 92 mph) and reduce its storm surge up to 80 percent, all while generating pollution-free electricity. Jacobson explained that the plan would work because the turbines produce power by taking energy from the wind, thus slowing it down. (USA Today)

Below Zero Tolerance

Eight signs that your St. Patrick’s Day destination bar may not be authentically Irish:

8. The “Celtic” band is just last

weekend’s 311 tribute band with a bagpipe.

7.

The green beer comes out the same color. Or not at all.

6. The kilt-check at the door

isn’t thorough, invasive and legally actionable.

5. Two weeks ago, it was a RadioShack.

4. Next week, it’ll be “Your

Administrators at a high school in suburban Chicago objected to a state law requiring 4-by-6-inch stickers warning that guns are not allowed to be posted in schools, as well as in churches, government agencies and liquor stores. But officials at Tinley Park High School oppose the notices banning guns because an image of a gun appears on them. “You can’t look at this and not think of Sandy Hook,” principal Theresa Nolan said, adding that she would prefer “something more subtle.” (Southtown Star)

Toy Hero An Oregon firm introduced an action figure of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

ThatsMyFace.com, whose catalog also includes Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, said that the 12-inch Snowden figure comes dressed in a blue shirt, casual trousers and black high-top shoes, but wardrobe options include a gray-striped business suit, Indiana Jones outfit and a combat uniform. It sells for $99. ThatsMyFace.com promises that proceeds will go to the Freedom of the Press Foundation, although the foundation’s executive director, Trevor Timm, denied any association with the doll or ThatsMyFace.com. (Agence France-Presse)

Flammability Issues Authorities accused Kara Koriath, 44, of setting fire to her SUV while driving with her two teenage children in St. Louis County, Mo. Fire investigators found numerous packages of fireworks placed throughout the vehicle and tied together with fuses and pipe cleaners, and mortar shells attached to the head rests. Lighter fluid and more fireworks were found in the glove

BY R O L A N D S W E E T compartment, and the floorboard of the driver’s side appeared to be soaked in gasoline. Investigators said Koriath might have been trying to kill herself because her married boyfriend wouldn’t leave his wife. (Springfield’s KSDK-TV)

n German police blamed a fire at a dairy farm in Rasdorf on methane gas from 90 flatulent cows. High levels of the gas had built up in a farm shed, then a “static electric charge caused the gas to explode with flashes of flames,” the report stated, noting that one cow was treated for burns. (Reuters)

When Weight Watchers Isn’t Enough Venezuelan beauty queen Wi May Nava, 18, revealed that she had a mesh patch stitched to her tongue to help her stay thin. “It makes me lose weight quicker,” the 2013 first runner-up Miss Venezuela said, explaining that the plastic patch made eating solid food too painful. “You eat the same, but liquefied.” (New York Daily News) n An alternative to liposuction lets people lose fat through urination. The treatment, called Aqualyx, involves injecting a water solution into specific areas of the body. It liquefies fat cells, which are then eliminated over a three-week period. “Aqualyx isn’t an injection for weight loss,” its British supplier, Mills Medical Services, said. “It is used for contouring the body and slimming down those stubborn fat areas.” One session, which is sufficient for chin areas, costs $417, Mills Medical said; larger areas require several treatments. (Britain’s Daily Mail)

Second-Amendment Follies A woman was critically injured at her home in Dayton, Nev., while her son was showing his new gun to his father. Lyon County sheriff’s deputies said that when the young man pulled the gun out of its holster, it accidentally fired, wounding the woman in the leg. (Reno’s KOLO-TV) nA 36-year-old man shot himself in the head while demonstrating gun safety at his home in Independence Township, Mich.

The man’s girlfriend told Oakland County sheriff’s deputies that the man, who had been drinking most of the day, was using his three handguns to prove how safe guns are when they’re empty.

The first two he pointed at his head didn’t fire, but the third one did. Calling the situation “pretty unique,” Undersheriff Michael McCabe remarked, “I have never heard of anyone testing out the safety of a gun by pointing at their head and pulling the trigger.”

(United Press International) n Clint Galentine, 37, was practicing turkey calls while walking with a friend in a wildlife management area in Tampa, Fla., when a hunter shot him twice with a high-powered rifle. Michael Trott, 43, told Fish and Wildlife Conservation officials that he mistook Galentine for a deer. (The New York Times) Compiled from mainstream news sources by Roland Sweet.

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by ERIC S. PETERSON @ericspeterson

Run, Organize and Vote With the Legislature wrapping up, most Utahns might be burned-out on politics, but now—more than ever—is the time to plan for your political future.

This weekend, women are encouraged to attend a free half-day Real Women Run training session on organizing and running campaigns for office. Later, don’t miss a Legislative post-mortem at a free forum that will include lawmakers’ recaps of the highs and lows of the 2014 session. Also attend caucus night, where you can get elected as a delegate to nominate candidates for office.

Real Women Run

Saturday, March 15 Women looking to shake up the maledominated world of Utah politics are encouraged to attend this training session. Attendees will learn how to get elected as delegates for upcoming conventions or manage efficient campaigns for their own runs for office.

Hinckley Caucus Room, Orson Spencer Hall, 260 S. Central Campus Drive, University of Utah, 801-5818501, March 15, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., Hinckley.Utah.edu

Legislative Wrap-Up Monday, March 17

Come to this free University of Utah forum to hear from legislative leaders as they recap the bills passed and notpassed, covering everything from air quality and autism to education funding and ethics. If you want to get a feel for the sausage-grinding process of the Legislature, take the butcher’s word for it at this event.

Hinckley Caucus Room, Orson Spencer Hall, 260 S. Central Campus Drive, University of Utah, 801-5818501, March 17, noon-1 p.m., Hinckley.

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Though the Count My Vote compromise bill passed, this year’s caucuses won’t be any different. So, now is the time to take part in the process. If you’re a newbie, getting yourself elected as a delegate to attend a county or state convention is as simple as finding your neighborhood caucus, showing up and preparing a little speech. And by becoming a delegate, you can have the opportunity to meet faceto-face with the candidates for office and ask them the hard questions about how they’ll represent you and your neighborhood.

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two senior investigators from the Salt Lake County District Attorney knocked on the door of a house in Draper. They had been assigned by District Attorney Sim Gill to

Babka had no idea he was facing arrest until minutes before the investigators arrived at his door. Babka paced the living room in tears, “full of emotional energy,” recalls then-senior D.A. investigator Craig Watson, who had worked a case and taught classes with Babka.

Watson drove Babka to the Salt Lake County lockup—the jail Babka had been in charge of as county under-sheriff just a few years before—where he was booked on two counts of misusing public money. Babka, left all but bankrupt by a failed campaign for Salt Lake County sheriff, had been caught on videotape buying gas for family cars with a credit card belonging to the Cottonwood Heights Police Department.

Less than an hour after his prints and his photograph were taken, Babka walked down the ramp from the jail to be met by reporters who’d been tipped off about his arrest. In his years as a police public-information officer, a congressional candidate, and a candidate for county sheriff, Babka had cultivated relationships with dozens of reporters. But when one reporter asked how he felt about betraying the public trust he’d held for so long, he was silent.

“That was the lowest point, ever,” Babka says now. “Ever.”

On May 12, 2011, Richard Aldrich Babka—Beau is a nickname—took a plea in abeyance on two counts of misuse of public money, which were amended to class A misdemeanors.

“Beau was an Adonis, a beautiful officer,” says attorney Greg Skordas, who represented Babka on the charges of misusing public funds. Skordas saw Babka’s fall from grace as a tragedy. “He was a cop’s cop, and very revered, which was why it broke so many hearts.”

Babka’s high-profile image, Skordas says, in effect sealed his fate.

“The bigger they are, the harder they fall.”

It’s been three years now since the gas-theft scandal immolated Babka’s career, and in that time, his jobs have become only more menial. In fall 2013, he started work driving delivery trucks for Nabisco during the day and working the graveyard shift at Walmart filling dairy shelves.

One late night, Babka was stacking milk cartons when he heard giggling behind him. Two well dressed couples were staring at him. “Look,” one of the young men said, “it’s the great Beau Babka, shoveling frozen food.”

After he joined South Salt Lake Police Department in 1992, Babka’s role in the law-enforcement ranks swiftly grew, including a brief reign as the department’s chief of police.

While it was “a small kingdom,” says investigator Watson, “nevertheless, he was the king.” In 2006, Babka’s power was such that Winder and Gill­—then a Salt Lake City prosecutor—sought his political endorsement, for county sheriff and district attorney, respectively.

But Babka’s career also saw three failed election races, a disappointing 18 months as the under-sheriff to Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder, and an eventual public crash & burn in the aftermath of his run for sheriff against Winder.

For someone so focused on advancement, former colleagues and friends say, Babka’s ambition outstripped his resources and experience, both as a leader and as a political player in the

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He’s struggled to find traction in the wake of his disgrace. Now employed by a door manufacturer and residing in a borrowed trailer by an irrigation ditch in Draper, Babka says he lives very much day to day.

“I wanted to make a difference in people’s lives,” Babka says. But while he feels the forces aligned against him were too powerful, he says he does spot a recurring factor in his downfall. “The reason why I got the rug pulled out from under me—and this is what needed to happen—was I had to realize who the real Beau was,” he says. “I lost myself, I lost Beau, through all those years of politics, law enforcement, teaching and family—and it was my own fault.”

Babka says no one asked for his side of the story.

“Russo already had his mind made up.”

precarious, power-heavy world of policing.

Babka finds such criticisms irksome. He says that when people asked him why he wanted to run against then-longtime incumbent county sheriff Aaron Kennard in 2002, his response, basically, was, why not?

“What am I going to wait for?” he asks. “Should I wait until I’m 50 to change things?”

But Babka soon discovered that the complicated power structure of the Salt Lake Valley’s law enforcement was made of stronger stuff than even the force of his personality and never-say-die outlook.

Babka says he was simply a pawn in a much-larger struggle between Winder and Cottonwood Heights Chief of Police Robby Russo that was rooted in what Winder now calls “the still-fresh wounds” of Cottonwood Heights forming its own police department in 2008.

Babka says he’s a risk taker, “that’s the competitor in me. I knew the consequences of going with Winder and Russo. I believed in both men. I just didn’t have the power base to survive.”

Former South Salt Lake Police Chief Bob Gray, who also served as mayor of the city, says that the battle between Salt Lake County and its cities over who gets to run law enforcement in the valley has been raging for 50 years. The turf war resurfaced in the public’s view in early February, when a Sandy resident having a heart attack died after his 911 call went adrift in the valley’s multiple emergency-call systems.

There have been several unsuccessful pushes for voters to support turning the valley into a metro department “where the sheriff would be king,” Gray says.

But most cities preferred having local control over law enforcement.

“It all depends on the window you look out of,” says Russo, who worked for 25 years at the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office before landing the top spot in the newly minted Cottonwood Heights Police Department in 2008.

Russo hired Babka in August 2008 after the latter was fired by Winder from the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office after it came out that Babka had secretly put his name forward for a sheriff’s position in California.

Russo, according to Babka, held a longstanding grudge against Babka; Babka says Russo hired him in the spirit of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” so that Babka could run against Winder for county sheriff in 2010.

Russo denies knowledge of any animosity between him and Babka and says his job offer was a gesture of goodwill to a fellow officer who was qualified to teach Drug Abuse Resistance Education, something his department needed.

Several former Cottonwood Heights officers City Weekly interviewed see it differently. According to one officer, Babka was “appointed to a position that didn’t exist so he could run against Winder. When he lost the election, he was put under the microscope” in order to get rid of him.

And in the days after Winder was re-elected, Babka dutifully provided the opportunity. In a fit of spite over what Babka saw as Cottonwood Heights’ failure to keep its word to support his campaign, he stole gas through his work credit card.

Faced with the possibility of prison if he lost at trial, Babka took a plea deal, leaving questions surrounding his professional demise unanswered.

Babka grew up in Manhattan Beach, Calif. His athlete father, Rink Babka, was a silver medalist in the 1960 Rome Olympics, his mother “a cute little blonde lady” and airline stewardess who grew up in a Mormon family in Salt Lake City before moving to California.

When his parents entered a lengthy, painful divorce, teenage Beau Babka lived through periods of homelessness, sleeping on sofas in coaches’ houses or on the street. The now 51-year-old father of six says the scars from that time still linger.

Babka’s physical prowess—at one point, he says, he could bench-press double his body weight—led him at age 21 to a year with the Seattle Seahawks pro football team. He met his future wife, Kimberley, in Southern California and converted to her Mormon faith shortly after they moved to Orem, Utah, to be close to her family. Babka entered the police academy when he was 25, and after his graduation, joined South Salt Lake Police Department as a rookie officer in February 1992.

As he drives around one night in a truck, revisiting his South Salt Lake stomping grounds, Babka recalls the meth labs they would routinely bust, the gangdominated trailer parks, the constant influx of parolees seeking cheap accommodation, and the escort and john stings he and others would conduct on State Street.

Many of those stings, he says, would end up with an LDS Church member pulling out his temple recommend rather than his driver’s license.

South Salt Lake, he says, was like the Wild West. He didn’t relish his 18 months on patrol because, he says, it involved “significant life and death experiences,” the details of which he declines to reveal. He preferred administration, public-information duties and the relatively new discipline of community policing to the adrenaline-fueled street work.

“Beau was so good at working with the public and the community,” says former South Salt Lake Chief Gray, who was Babka’s lieutenant and mentored the young officer.

Babka ran a highly successful community-policing initiative at South Salt Lake under Gray while also teaching criminal justice at Salt Lake Community College.

It normally takes an officer six or seven years to make sergeant, Gray says. Babka did it in two. Such was his burgeoning reputation, Babka says, that he was approached by four senior Salt Lake County Sheriff officials and a county politician with an offer of a senior desk job and a high salary—sweetened by the promise of a bribe—if he could get South Salt Lake to move its police work to the county. Babka preferred to stay with the city and turned them down.

His rapid rise through the ranks earned him the pejorative label of “golden boy” among his peers, and his political strivings often led him to step on the toes of senior officers.

“As Beau went up the ranks, he had a tendency to burn a lot of bridges behind him,” Gray recalls. “He created enemies, I’d say, because of his ambitions.”

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two senior investigators from the Salt Lake County District Attorney knocked on the door of a house in Draper. They had been assigned by District Attorney Sim Gill to

Babka had no idea he was facing arrest until minutes before the investigators arrived at his door. Babka paced the living room in tears, “full of emotional energy,” recalls then-senior D.A. investigator Craig Watson, who had worked a case and taught classes with Babka.

Watson drove Babka to the Salt Lake County lockup—the jail Babka had been in charge of as county under-sheriff just a few years before—where he was booked on two counts of misusing public money. Babka, left all but bankrupt by a failed campaign for Salt Lake County sheriff, had been caught on videotape buying gas for family cars with a credit card belonging to the Cottonwood Heights Police Department.

Less than an hour after his prints and his photograph were taken, Babka walked down the ramp from the jail to be met by reporters who’d been tipped off about his arrest. In his years as a police public-information officer, a congressional candidate, and a candidate for county sheriff, Babka had cultivated relationships with dozens of reporters. But when one reporter asked how he felt about betraying the public trust he’d held for so long, he was silent.

“That was the lowest point, ever,” Babka says now. “Ever.”

On May 12, 2011, Richard Aldrich Babka—Beau is a nickname—took a plea in abeyance on two counts of misuse of public money, which were amended to class A misdemeanors.

“Beau was an Adonis, a beautiful officer,” says attorney Greg Skordas, who represented Babka on the charges of misusing public funds. Skordas saw Babka’s fall from grace as a tragedy. “He was a cop’s cop, and very revered, which was why it broke so many hearts.”

Babka’s high-profile image, Skordas says, in effect sealed his fate.

“The bigger they are, the harder they fall.”

It’s been three years now since the gas-theft scandal immolated Babka’s career, and in that time, his jobs have become only more menial. In fall 2013, he started work driving delivery trucks for Nabisco during the day and working the graveyard shift at Walmart filling dairy shelves.

One late night, Babka was stacking milk cartons when he heard giggling behind him. Two well dressed couples were staring at him. “Look,” one of the young men said, “it’s the great Beau Babka, shoveling frozen food.”

After he joined South Salt Lake Police Department in 1992, Babka’s role in the law-enforcement ranks swiftly grew, including a brief reign as the department’s chief of police.

While it was “a small kingdom,” says investigator Watson, “nevertheless, he was the king.” In 2006, Babka’s power was such that Winder and Gill­—then a Salt Lake City prosecutor—sought his political endorsement, for county sheriff and district attorney, respectively.

But Babka’s career also saw three failed election races, a disappointing 18 months as the under-sheriff to Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder, and an eventual public crash & burn in the aftermath of his run for sheriff against Winder.

For someone so focused on advancement, former colleagues and friends say, Babka’s ambition outstripped his resources and experience, both as a leader and as a political player in the

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He’s struggled to find traction in the wake of his disgrace. Now employed by a door manufacturer and residing in a borrowed trailer by an irrigation ditch in Draper, Babka says he lives very much day to day.

“I wanted to make a difference in people’s lives,” Babka says. But while he feels the forces aligned against him were too powerful, he says he does spot a recurring factor in his downfall. “The reason why I got the rug pulled out from under me—and this is what needed to happen—was I had to realize who the real Beau was,” he says. “I lost myself, I lost Beau, through all those years of politics, law enforcement, teaching and family—and it was my own fault.”

Babka says no one asked for his side of the story.

“Russo already had his mind made up.”

precarious, power-heavy world of policing.

Babka finds such criticisms irksome. He says that when people asked him why he wanted to run against then-longtime incumbent county sheriff Aaron Kennard in 2002, his response, basically, was, why not?

“What am I going to wait for?” he asks. “Should I wait until I’m 50 to change things?”

But Babka soon discovered that the complicated power structure of the Salt Lake Valley’s law enforcement was made of stronger stuff than even the force of his personality and never-say-die outlook.

Babka says he was simply a pawn in a much-larger struggle between Winder and Cottonwood Heights Chief of Police Robby Russo that was rooted in what Winder now calls “the still-fresh wounds” of Cottonwood Heights forming its own police department in 2008.

Babka says he’s a risk taker, “that’s the competitor in me. I knew the consequences of going with Winder and Russo. I believed in both men. I just didn’t have the power base to survive.”

Former South Salt Lake Police Chief Bob Gray, who also served as mayor of the city, says that the battle between Salt Lake County and its cities over who gets to run law enforcement in the valley has been raging for 50 years. The turf war resurfaced in the public’s view in early February, when a Sandy resident having a heart attack died after his 911 call went adrift in the valley’s multiple emergency-call systems.

There have been several unsuccessful pushes for voters to support turning the valley into a metro department “where the sheriff would be king,” Gray says.

But most cities preferred having local control over law enforcement.

“It all depends on the window you look out of,” says Russo, who worked for 25 years at the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office before landing the top spot in the newly minted Cottonwood Heights Police Department in 2008.

Russo hired Babka in August 2008 after the latter was fired by Winder from the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office after it came out that Babka had secretly put his name forward for a sheriff’s position in California.

Russo, according to Babka, held a longstanding grudge against Babka; Babka says Russo hired him in the spirit of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” so that Babka could run against Winder for county sheriff in 2010.

Russo denies knowledge of any animosity between him and Babka and says his job offer was a gesture of goodwill to a fellow officer who was qualified to teach Drug Abuse Resistance Education, something his department needed.

Several former Cottonwood Heights officers City Weekly interviewed see it differently. According to one officer, Babka was “appointed to a position that didn’t exist so he could run against Winder. When he lost the election, he was put under the microscope” in order to get rid of him.

And in the days after Winder was re-elected, Babka dutifully provided the opportunity. In a fit of spite over what Babka saw as Cottonwood Heights’ failure to keep its word to support his campaign, he stole gas through his work credit card.

Faced with the possibility of prison if he lost at trial, Babka took a plea deal, leaving questions surrounding his professional demise unanswered.

Babka grew up in Manhattan Beach, Calif. His athlete father, Rink Babka, was a silver medalist in the 1960 Rome Olympics, his mother “a cute little blonde lady” and airline stewardess who grew up in a Mormon family in Salt Lake City before moving to California.

When his parents entered a lengthy, painful divorce, teenage Beau Babka lived through periods of homelessness, sleeping on sofas in coaches’ houses or on the street. The now 51-year-old father of six says the scars from that time still linger.

Babka’s physical prowess—at one point, he says, he could bench-press double his body weight—led him at age 21 to a year with the Seattle Seahawks pro football team. He met his future wife, Kimberley, in Southern California and converted to her Mormon faith shortly after they moved to Orem, Utah, to be close to her family. Babka entered the police academy when he was 25, and after his graduation, joined South Salt Lake Police Department as a rookie officer in February 1992.

As he drives around one night in a truck, revisiting his South Salt Lake stomping grounds, Babka recalls the meth labs they would routinely bust, the gangdominated trailer parks, the constant influx of parolees seeking cheap accommodation, and the escort and john stings he and others would conduct on State Street.

Many of those stings, he says, would end up with an LDS Church member pulling out his temple recommend rather than his driver’s license.

South Salt Lake, he says, was like the Wild West. He didn’t relish his 18 months on patrol because, he says, it involved “significant life and death experiences,” the details of which he declines to reveal. He preferred administration, public-information duties and the relatively new discipline of community policing to the adrenaline-fueled street work.

“Beau was so good at working with the public and the community,” says former South Salt Lake Chief Gray, who was Babka’s lieutenant and mentored the young officer.

Babka ran a highly successful community-policing initiative at South Salt Lake under Gray while also teaching criminal justice at Salt Lake Community College.

It normally takes an officer six or seven years to make sergeant, Gray says. Babka did it in two. Such was his burgeoning reputation, Babka says, that he was approached by four senior Salt Lake County Sheriff officials and a county politician with an offer of a senior desk job and a high salary—sweetened by the promise of a bribe—if he could get South Salt Lake to move its police work to the county. Babka preferred to stay with the city and turned them down.

His rapid rise through the ranks earned him the pejorative label of “golden boy” among his peers, and his political strivings often led him to step on the toes of senior officers.

“As Beau went up the ranks, he had a tendency to burn a lot of bridges behind him,” Gray recalls. “He created enemies, I’d say, because of his ambitions.”

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In the mid-1990s, when Babka was a patrol sergeant running South Salt Lake’s graveyard shift, he found himself butting up against Robby Russo, a similarly upand-coming young officer who worked in the county’s narcotics units.

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As under-sheriff, Babka was over administrative services, the police fleet, communications and human resources, and took responsibility when Winder was gone.

But, Babka says, he felt isolated from the first months; Winder, he says, favored then-legislator Jackie Biskupski, whom the sheriff had appointed in an administrative position, as his titular secondin-command. Babka says his media profile, including a weekly radio show called Ask Beau, was viewed as competition to Winder’s image-building.

Winder, however, says he quickly learned that Babka preferred to delegate and viewed his position as largely ceremonial. Winder says that, for example, when he asked Babka to oversee a presentation involving a new 911 system, Winder ended up having to take it over one week before it was due.

“I recognized Beau Babka did not know how to administer an organization of our size and had essentially risen through the ranks thanks to his significant personal charms,” he says.

After a year and a half as under-sheriff, Babka was approached by a friend about running for sheriff in Orange County, Calif.

He decided to keep his application a secret, but when he made it to the final eight, a press release announced him as one of the finalists in the running for the job.

Babka says he thought Winder would be proud of him, but he’d more than misjudged the sheriff’s reaction to the news.

“I’ll never forget his face,” Babka says. “It was a ‘I want to physically kill you’ face.”

Winder told him, Babka says, “You’re done.”

Babka’s televised interview for the Orange County sheriff position did not go well. Babka’s statement that “this department needs a father, a leader that’s going to give it integrity,” earned him derision from an Orange County Register reporter who wrote that Babka “came off as a lawenforcement version of Forrest Gump.”

In the face of imminent unemployment, with six children to feed, Babka says, he panicked. Where would he find work as a police chief?

Babka’s salvation came from an unexpected quarter, a man he had once regarded as a nemesis: Robby Russo.

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As fast as Babka went up the ranks, his political ambition restlessly sought new challenges. In 2002, he ran against Salt Lake County Sheriff Aaron Kennard.

Gray wasn’t convinced it was a good move. “I didn’t feel he was ready for that kind of position,” he says. “I know ambition is good, I like it in people, but you have to control it.”

Babka says his strong showing of 47 percent of the vote, led several Salt Lake County Democratic council members to ask him to run against incumbent Chris Cannon for the 3rd Congressional District seat in 2004. Second time out, despite facing Cannon’s deep pocket, Babka gained a still-credible 33 percent of the vote.

In 2005, Bob Gray successfully ran for mayor of South Salt Lake, inheriting a bitterly divided police department. Gray told Babka that if he made him chief, he had to stay the course and pull the department together. Babka agreed.

At first, Gray says, “it was working really well.” Babka says he inherited a department that was “running amok,” with two officers under investigation for raping arrestees. He was also investigating an officer at another agency for stealing gift cards.

Babka’s political clout as chief drew attention from then-Salt Lake City prosecutor Sim Gill and Sgt. Jim Winder of the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office. Babka says Winder visited his office multiple times during Winder’s 2006 run for sheriff seeking help with his campaign.

Gill says he warned Winder that Babka had gone back on his promise to endorse Gill in the 2006 district-attorney race and told Winder not to trust Babka. (Babka says he never promised to endorse Gill.)

But around Thanksgiving in 2006, the newly elected Winder asked Babka to be his under-sheriff. Winder sought a commitment from Babka of sticking with him for two terms. “He gave me his promise.”

Babka was excited, he says, to “help my

friend Jim” with his new responsibilities.

While Babka says Gray encouraged him to live his dream, the former mayor expresses disappointment. “I felt like he had kind of not supported me. He wasn’t being fair to me. I put him in that position. I expected things from him.”

them with their new department,” Babka says. He “bought in,” he says, to the idea that “we can do this better than the county.”

Babka says that though he was warned that Russo had a long memory when it came to perceived slights, he was treated well, almost like chief-of-police-in-waiting, the assumption being he would apply for a chief’s position when one became vacant.

“I was under the impression we’d buried the hatchet,” he says.

“The reason why I got the rug pulled out from under me—and this is what needed to happen—was I had to realize who the real Beau was.

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Babka with former South Salt Lake Mayor Bob Gray when Babka was the city’s police chief

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Family man: Babka with his now-ex-wife and the beginning of their eventual six-children family for getting low-level dealers to rat out larger players, resulting, Russo says, in seizures of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in drug money, the bulk of which went into the county’s coffers due to the forfeiture laws in place at that time.

Tempers flared with Russo, Babka says, when South Salt Lake annexed the area between 3300 South and 3900 South from the county in the mid-’90s. The annexed neighborhood boasted an unusually high rate of violent felony crimes that kept the county sheriff’s department occupied; it was Russo’s “fun zone,” Babka says.

Russo says the Sheriff’s Association and the Fraternal Order of Police were concerned “about how petitions [for annexation] were gathered/signed; we did ask the Salt Lake County Clerk’s office to review the petitions.

I don’t recall ever having any personal contact with Mr. Babka on this issue.”

Further city vs. county (and Babka vs. Russo) controversy emerged in 1998, when in a letter, former South Salt Lake Chief Drew Long complained that Russo and several of his men had pointed red-light scopes at South Salt Lake officers eating at an Arby’s on State Street.

Babka says that after he caught wind of it, he went directly to Russo’s boss to complain.

“I have never pointed a laser device at any police officer,” Russo wrote in an e-mail to City Weekly. “I was the sergeant supervising the detective responsible for using the laser pointer, and he was disciplined.”

But, Babka says, “tensions between the county sheriff’s office and local law enforcement were never far away. There’s always this philosophy the county could do it better, that we were doing things the wrong way.”

And years later, after the highly contested formation of the Cottonwood Heights Police Department in 2008, Russo’s role in the city vs. county struggle had reversed, with little love lost between Russo and Winder. And when Russo offered Babka a job and Babka accepted, Winder says, he was not surprised by what he understood to be a fairly straightforward revenge plot on the part of both men.

“He was being paid by the citizens of Cottonwood Heights to run for sheriff,” Winder says. “Why wouldn’t he go over there? He was pissed off at me, he wanted to be sheriff.”

For Russo, the job offer to Babka was essentially altruistic. “Did we hire him to run against Winder? No,” he says. “It was a nice thing to do. It was an opportunity for me to show there are good guys out here. If there was a longstanding animosity as he proffers, why would I offer him a safe place to land?”

Rather than planning a run against Winder, Babka says, he’d simply bought into Russo’s pitch of helping the new department grow. Along with teaching DARE to middle schools, he would handle the department’s public relations, on a $60,000 salary, half of what he’d earned at the county.

“I thought—unfortunately I’m the eternal optimist— that they were sincere about using my talents to help

While Russo’s police history lay in narcotics, once his police department was open for business in the sleepy bedroom community of Cottonwood Heights, DUIs became a primary focus, largely because, Babka says, that was one of the Salt Lake County Sheriff ’s Office’s worst statistics when it had served Cottonwood Heights.

So, Babka says, CHPD used tactics “that were like shooting fish in a barrel” to make “no crime into crime.”

And the DUI-related productivit y justified the CHPD’s existence through the revenue generated by the steady f low of citations into the justice courts.

“Local government at its best, or its worst?” Babka says. “I don’t know.”

Russo says his commitment to DUI enforcement stems from having had to notify a family that their daughter had been killed in a DUI when he was a young officer. He makes no apologies for being “absolute death on DUIs,” and while it does generate more revenue than citations, he notes that the state “takes the lion’s share.”

A year into Babka’s employment with CHPD, Babka, Russo, Cottonwood Heights Mayor Kelvyn Cullimore and former city manager Leanne Stillman met for lunch at the Market Street Grill in Cottonwood Heights. Babka says they encouraged him to run against Winder and told him that they would help any way they could.

Russo recalls the lunch differently. “Mr. Babka was offered our endorsement for his candidacy. The purpose of that meeting was to draw a bright line cautioning Babka about not using any city resources, including the police vehicle to attend political functions. He was warned not to campaign on duty and told he would be accountable for his work hours unless he took a leave of absence.”

Babka says he wasn’t warned of any such issues, but that he “knew that and did it appropriately.” He announced his candidacy on Jan. 30, 2010, in his CHPD uniform, telling a small crowd that he viewed the sheriff’s office as “a higher calling” and one that had to be treated with “reverence.”

During the Days of ’47 Parade, he walked in front of the Cottonwood Heights float, “waving, campaigning at its best. Winder was up in his car, way ahead of me.”

But tensions grew between Babka and Russo, Babka says, over what Russo saw as Babka’s failure to campaign aggressively. Babka says that Russo complained that “I wasn’t negative enough, going for Winder’s jugular.”

That wasn’t his approach, he says. “I was going to win on merit. And I didn’t.”

Russo recalls asking Babka why he wasn’t putting out mailers and running TV ads. Babka told him, Russo says, that he didn’t need to; he felt that his name recognition was enough and told Russo, simply, “I’m Beau Babka.”

But come election day, Babka lost for the third time.

“I had delegates, I had the party, I had 3,000 Facebook friends, I had popularity, but that’s not what gets you elected. I didn’t have voters.”

A few days after the election, Babka says, his wife called

head.

Several months after his plea deal, the 12-person board at Peace Officers Training and Standards removed his police certification for four years.

Those weeks were tough on the Babka family, eldest son Duke says. “I’d be driving home at night curious if I’d come back to my father dead or alive. He was at such a low, so broken.”

agency strife and politicking between the county and the cities has continued unabated. During an attempt to incorporate Millcreek as a city a couple of years ago, there was much behind-the-scenes discussion of whether CHPD intended to provide the township with police services.

In early 2014, rumors swirled that Russo planned to run against Winder—March 15 is the deadline for candidates to file for the 2014 county sheriff election.

Cottonwood Heights Mayor Cullimore says that’s not going to happen. An internal candidate has emerged for the sheriff’s position in the form of Lt. Jake Petersen of Unified Police Department.

Such developments are little more than white noise for Babka. His sights are set elsewhere. He’s training to compete in the summer Huntsman World Senior Games in St. George, focusing on field events such as the discus. Whereas once he ran for office as a way to compete, now his ambitions are more athletic. “I compete with myself now.”

While his political campaigns, he says, were the best experiences of his life, after three unsuccessful races, “Dude, somebody’s telling me something.” He’s silent for a moment. “I wanted to change the world,” he says.

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The first 18 months after his plea deal, Babka sold scooters. After that job ended, he spent six months waiting for a six-figure security consultant position that never materialized.

Through connections at his local wardhouse, Babka got the jobs at Nabisco and Walmart. He also made pizzas and washed dishes at The Canyon Inn, whose owner, Jim Stojack, has said many times that CHPD has a vendetta against his establishment and targets his customers for DUIs. Russo has repeatedly rejected Stojack’s assertion.

In November 2013, Babka’s divorce became final. He found work at a friend’s manufacturing business, the owner also lending him a truck to drive. Another friend provided Babka with a small trailer to sleep in.

“This is home,” he says, as he opens the door to the trailer, parked across from an irrigation canal where he runs in the early morning. The trailer has two small seats, a gas stove and a raised platform for a bed, but has no running water. “I try not to stay here a lot,” preferring to sleep in the truck, he says.

In the years since Babka lost his career, the inter-

Proud Papa: Babka with three of his six children

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Jan. 3, 2011, the day that Sim Gill was sworn in as the new District Attorney, Babka says, Russo called him into his office and told him he’d known about Babka’s gas thefts for a while.

“As smart as you are, you really make stupid decisions,” Babka says Russo told him before placing him on administrative leave. Babka says he pleaded with Russo for an opportunity to pay the money back.

Russo, he says, was smiling. “I hadn’t seen him smile like that for a long time,” Babka says. Russo asked Babka to hand over his gun, and he was driven home.

Babka was convinced it would be handled internally, that he could explain himself to the CHPD staff investigating the issue—or to an independent police agency brought in to handle the matter—and suffer, at worst, dismissal.

But the days rolled by and he heard nothing.

“These [events] were both professionally and emotionally, very difficult for me,” says Russo. “The internal investigation was conducted by our staff, but never concluded, as Mr. Babka immediately resigned.”

But Babka says he didn’t resign until several days after he was arrested, and that no one asked for his side of the story. Russo, he says, referred the case to the DA’s Office, “but they just screened it. Russo already had his mind made up.

“I don’t want to diminish what happened, but I really believe they found, they created an opportunity to get rid of someone who had so much value prior,” Babka says. “I guess the totality of the circumstances was not bought into play.”

While Babka awaited his fate, he walked, ran, hiked— anything to take his mind off of the sword above his

Babka at the beginning of his tenure as chief of South Salt Lake Police Department

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him, distraught. They were late on three house payments.

Campaign expenses had drained their bank accounts.

Babka says he’d spent thousands on gas on the campaign, so spending $20 here, $20 there, using his police credit card, would work out. “I was pissed, that was the mindset.”

According to the information filed by the District Attorney’s Office, Russo’s assistant chief had audited the fleet fuel bill and found two days in mid-December that Babka had purchased gas totaling $48.17 for two family vehicles “using his city-issued Chevron card and unique PIN.”

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Dramatically speaking, grief is hard. A play can strand actors between catatonia and crazed wailing, leaving little room to struggle with the wide emotional ground in the middle.

Deborah Brevoort’s The Women of Lockerbie gets off to a rough start with a pile of on-thenose exposition, setting the scene of an American couple Maddie and Bill Livingston (Dee-Dee Darby-Duffin and Kent Hadfield) visiting Lockerbie, Scotland, on the seventh anniversary of the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 terrorist bombing that killed their son. At the same time, a group of local residents are trying to get the warehoused clothing of the victims—thousands of pieces preserved as evidence—released so they can wash and return it to the families, though the plans are to incinerate the “contaminated” clothing.

But after that clunky opening, Lockerbie settles into an effective, emotional story about different ways to approach the concept of “closure.”

Left with no remains of her son, Maddie is still adrift, and Darby-Duffin (pictured) does great work conveying her rage and unshakeable sense of responsibility. But Stacey Rae Allen is just as impressive as part of the chorus of local women who were just as irreversibly changed by the events of that December day. As the characters wrestle with finding a way to turn hate into love, director Fran Pruyn makes lovely use of the play’s setting during the winter solstice to turn the mission of these people into an almost holy act of welcoming light back into their lives. (Scott Renshaw) Pygmalion Theater Company: Women of Lockerbie @ Rose Wager Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, through March 22, Thursdays 7:30 p.m., Fridays & Saturdays 8 p.m., Sundays 2 p.m., $20, $25 day-of, $15 students. PygmalionProductions.org, ArtTix.org

We tend to have a limited sense of “family movies” in America, defined primarily by whatever gets mass-marketed into multiplexes. But just as the cinematic menu for adults includes more than fast food if you’re willing to look for it, so is it true that kids can learn to expect something different from their entertainment than fart jokes and whiz-bang CGI. The fourth-annual Tumbleweeds Film Festival from the Utah Film Center programs with a genuine respect for the ability of young viewers to handle a wide variety of movie experiences— animation and live action, fiction and documentary, even films from other countries. It’s a lineup that broadens horizons simply by letting kids know that a whole world exists beyond Disney and DreamWorks.

Following the Friday opening night, the full program on Saturday and Sunday is highlighted

by Ernest & Celestine (pictured), the Oscarnominated French animated feature about the friendship between a mouse and a bear in a world where they’re expected to be enemies. Other features come from Germany (The Little Ghost), Spain (Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang) and South Africa (Felix), plus short film programs, the documentary I Learn America about students at an international school in New York, and a special closing-night 75th-anniversary 35mm screening of The Wizard of Oz. For young non-readers or slower readers, films with subtitles will include the option of headphones with an audio reader. There’s no reason you can’t find something for every age outside of the usual kid-flick comfort zone. (Scott Renshaw) Tumbleweeds Film Festival @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, and Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, March 14-18, $6 per screening or $40 for 10-film pass, see website for full schedule.

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Perhaps best known as the host of the Comedy Central show Insomniac With Dave Attell—in which he experienced all that the underground of a city had to offer long after the comedy clubs shut down—comedian Dave Attell always downplayed his day job as just trying to sell a few drinks while making a few people laugh.

The genuinely weird people Attell would encounter during the wee hours of the night always felt like kindred spirits, primarily because no one could out-crazy or out-drink him. Salt Lake City even got its turn in the spotlight, with Burt’s Tiki Lounge and Club 90 among the local haunts highlighted on the show. Then-Mayor Rocky Anderson even sat down for a beer with Attell at the now-defunct Port O’Call.

Now, Attell—when not incessantly touring the country, staying in cheap motels and making the best of the stand-up comedy circuit— hosts another innovative show that only he has the specific skill set to pull off. It’s called Dave’s Old Porn, a show in which he gathers fellow comedians and porn starlets alike to comb through the old VHS tapes that have kept Attell warm during cold nights on the road. But this shouldn’t paint too pathetic a picture, even if it does seem to fit his caustic wit. He has legions of adoring fans (other comics heavily represented among them) who love his uniquely dark and dirty sense of humor.

(Jacob Stringer) Dave Attell @ Wiseguys West Valley, 2194 W. 3500 South, 801-463-2909, March 14 & 15, 7:30 & 10 p.m., $25.

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The legend of Turandot turns on three riddles.

The first: What is born each night and dies each dawn? The second: What flickers red and warm like a flame but is not fire? And the third: What is ice which gives you fire, and which your fire freezes still more?

Asked by the vain Chinese Princess Turandot to her latest suitor, the three questions must be answered correctly to win her hand in marriage— or, at dawn, yet another beheading will take place.

Giacomo Puccini could not resist turning this intriguing, tension-filled premise into his final operatic masterpiece. Although he died before he could complete the work, composer Franco Alfano stepped in to finish what would become the grandest of Puccinni’s operas—ultimately requiring 60 musicians, a chorus of 58 plus the nine principals, 30 children choristers, 12 non-singing men and six dancers.

Still, the challenged prince answers the three questions: hope, blood and Turandot. Only when she begs to be let off the hook of marriage does the prince turn the tables by offering his own riddle. If she can figure out his name by dawn, he will acquiesce to the original death sentence.

With Turandot being so resistant to even the idea of marriage, she quickly orders all of Peking to get to the bottom of the mysterious prince’s name. With the night ticking away and dawn quickly approaching, all of China is in an uproar, and a princely head is on the line, all because cold Princess Turandot refuses to believe in love.

(Jacob Stringer) Utah Opera: Turandot @ Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, March 15, 17, 19 & 21, 7:30 p.m.; 2 p.m. matinee March 23, $29-$93. UtahOpera.org, ArtTix.org

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For Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ “Candy Pile,” the museum contacted the Salt Lake Citybased Taffy Town.

“We wanted to tie the show back to Utah as much as possible, or collaborate with other organizations as a way to connect the show to the community,” Maksym says.

It was difficult to find a deciduous tree with leaves still on during Utah’s cold season, so for the “wish tree” in Ono’s “Wish Piece,” UMOCA borrowed a ficus from local shop Cactus and Tropicals.

That lingerie on the wall is part of Nancy Spero’s “Sheela (na gig),” which instructs women to hang clean lingerie on a clothesline along with images of a fertility goddess in order to invigorate the home or expel male presences. “We decided rather than to try to rid the gallery of male presence, we would instead complicate notions of feminine and mas-

culine power or labor, especially in terms of domesticity,” Maksym says. “The ‘sheela na gig’ are figurative architectural features found on ancient Irish churches and castles as a way to ward off death or evil, similar to gargoyles. In keeping with the theme of architecture, we chose to reference the predominant stones of Utah ‘structures,’ such as red rock and granite, and hung the rocks, along with lingerie across the gallery.”

Other pieces explore the paradox of being commanded to resist conformity.

Michael Smith’s “How to Curate Your Own Group Exhibition”—with its “fake exhibition lineup press release”—suggests a cynicism about the art world.

Maksym says the show has been successful so far, which she believes is due to the combination of finished projects and more interactive works. “I think the public enjoys the DIY aesthetic of the show, as it sort of demystifies the presence and importance of original artwork,” she says.

“Some of the works, such as the wish tree or candy pile, require the interaction of the audience to be ‘created.’ The art functions only when there’s active participation between the artist’s idea and the audiences’ experience of, and response to, that idea.” CW

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ou might be taken aback when one of the first things you see in an art exhibition is lingerie hanging on the wall. But, perhaps more than anything UMOCA has ever produced, do it— the newest exhibit in the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art’s main gallery—calls into question everything about art: not just what art is, but the process by which it is made, who and what an artist is, and the roles of the curator and the viewer.

The idea for the traveling exhibition was generated from a conversation two decades ago between French artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier and Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist. They were tossing around the idea of an exhibition format that was open-ended and could travel and transform itself, being realized differently in each location. Obrist— co-director of exhibitions & programs and director of international projects at London’s Serpentine Gallery—hit on the idea of soliciting instructions from a number of artists that would be carried out at each individual gallery space.

The exhibition eventually grew from a dozen original artists to more than 75, and has traveled to more than 50 stops. UMOCA selected 51 of the participating artists for its re-enactment of the project.

“No artists were directly involved in the creation or installation of the exhibition,” explains Rebecca Maksym, UMOCA’s associate curator. “Rather than loan original works from artists, Obrist instead had them submit ‘original’ instructions to create their work. ... No two versions of do it instructions are ever identical when completed, and thus the exhibition resides in the space between interpretation and negotiation.”

Many of the artists who contributed instructions are figures who have had a significant hand in shaping contemporary thought and culture: pop-culture novelist Douglas Coupland; British pop-art icons Gilbert & George; the late noted minimalist Sol Lewitt; art critic Lucy Lippard; even Yoko Ono. Some of the instructions are as deceptively simple as “Start a rumor” or “Doodle.”

Others contain detailed directions for projects such as making a painting, setting up a surveillance camera or squeezing as many bodies as possible through a doorway simultaneously. Martha Rosler shared

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he world feels like it’s vibrating. At the risk of sounding New Age-y, I can’t think of any better way to describe the movement I have felt in the air and the earth these past few weeks. In my garden, I find stout points of garlic pushing through softening soil. The other day, I watched a robin hop around between the bare canes of my rosebush, sending his voice to the sky.

His warbles blended with the twitter and buzz of the other sounds of awakening.

And, at this very moment, no place is more alive with the energy of spring than the shores of the Great Salt Lake, where the annual migration of the tundra swan (Cygnus columbianus) is reaching its peak.

This great influx of birds can start at any time between February and early March. It’s as if from hundreds of miles away, the swans feel the thawing of ice in this little valley and begin to fly north. As the melt starts, they appear. At first, they come in the hundreds, then the thousands.

At the migration’s peak, tens of thousands of white tundra swans descend, covering the water, the land, the air.

Even now, out in the bays and marshes of the Great Salt Lake, the tundra swans are announcing their presence. In these numbers, their calls become a dense mass of sound. Like the bubbling croak of frogs or the drone of crickets, the noise is ceaseless. But unlike the sharp honk of their geese cousin, the tundra swan’s woody call, similar to that of a crane, has a pleasant sweetness.

The swans’ bodies temporarily paint the landscape white. They are, after all, some of the largest waterfowl seen on the Great Salt Lake at any time of the year. Males weight up to 20 pounds; their wingspan can reach six feet. Where these birds float, the water is never calm. Where they stand and feed, their movement eclipses the sway of the reeds and grasses. They are a mighty presence, and watching them makes one feel like a visitor to a world that belongs wholly to birds.

In all, about 60,000 tundra swans move each year through Utah on their 4,000mile journey from wintering grounds in southern California and northern Mexico to breeding grounds in the Arctic tundra.

While they pass through, Utahns can catch a glimpse of the birds resting and feeding in protected wildlife management areas around the lake—places like the Ogden Bay Waterfowl Management Area near Hooper, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge near Brigham City, and Cutler Reservoir in Cache County.

On Saturday, March 15, the Salt Creek

Waterfowl Management Area, west of Corrine, will hold a free public viewing event. Representatives from Wasatch Audubon and the Department of Natural Resources will be present, ready with their knowledge of the birds and spotting scopes to help people get a closer look.

Unfortunately, those who go to see this mass migration of swans might be some of the last to witness the natural phenomenon. Around the world and all across the animal species, mass migrations are vanishing as suburbs eat up nesting grounds, and fences, dams and roads splice migration paths. Climate change affects seasonal cycles, alters insect hatches and shifts thawing times, throwing animals’ migration patterns into chaos.

While tundra swans have few natural predators, changing weather patterns and human obstacles are impacting their populations. Early freezes and late springs are difficult for young birds in nesting areas. And even though the United States and Canada signed a waterfowl-management plan in 1986, protecting millions of acres of habitat for migrating waterfowl, human development continues to reduce the tundra swans’ range and habitat.

There are ways to help. Revenues from the purchase of federal duck stamps are used to acquire and maintain habitat for swans. Utah state income tax forms have a voluntary contribution item for wildlife conservation. And numerous local and national groups are working to preserve and protect wetlands and riparian areas around the Great Salt Lake.

But perhaps the most important thing to do is meet the birds. Watch as they swim and squonk. Marvel at the mating pairs performing their courtship dance, wings lifted and heads bowed low. Such a meeting can only convince us of the need to save these birds. CW

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Reactions to art are primarily “felt,” but that doesn’t mean that the work can’t also include a complex intellectual component. The art of David Maestas, currently showing at Utah Artist Hands, is one such body of work. His creations are brightly articulated abstractions that function on an emotional level, but successfully striking that chord requires a sharp mind and careful compositional structuring.

In Maestas’ “Winter Diptych,” the structure is a polarity of midnight blue and frost white. Caught between the two, the viewer can feel the drama of winter as the colors gradate from darker blue to the chill of ice blue to white. The colors are not static but forceful in their gradations, as energies collide and cause a response similar to the emotions elicited by winter.

“Dreamscape” (pictured) is almost a manifestation of its subject—completely abstract and fantastically colored. The eye travels horizontally throughout the painting, evoking the almost cinematic quality of a dream. (Ehren Clark) David Maestas @ Utah Artist Hands, 163 E. 300 South, 801-355-0206, through March 21. UtaHands.com

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Big Sky Conference Tournament With Selection Sunday for the NCAA Tournament set for March 16, Weber State has a home-court track into the Big Dance. As host and No. 1 seed in the Big Sky Tournament, all the Wildcats need to do is win two games at home in the Dee Events Center on Friday and Saturday to claim the conference title and an automatic entry into the field of 68.

Seeds 2 through 7 in the Big Sky roll into Ogden on Thursday night to play three games.

The two highest-seeded winners from Thursday will play Friday at 4:30, while the lowest-seeded winner will take on Weber at 7 p.m. The winners of those two games play for the title on Saturday at 6 p.m. in a game that will be broad-

cast on ESPNU. If the ’Cats can win out this weekend, they’ll get a chance to continue a WSU legacy in the tourney that includes upset wins over perennial powers such as Michigan State in 1995 and North Carolina in 1999. (Geoff Griffin) Big Sky Basketball Tournament @ Dee Events Center, 4400 Harrison Blvd., Weber State University, Ogden, 801-626-8500, March 13-15, all-tournament pass $30-$45.

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Just remember that the color green is for the leprechauns and faeries—and tales are told that if you wear too much, you could fall under their mischievous ways. (Jacob Stringer) St. Patrick’s Day @ The Gateway, 400 W. South Temple, March 15, parade at 10 a.m., Siamsa in the Grand Hall until 4 p.m., free.

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Financial struggles changed the business plan for the theater, which became a venue for touring productions, as well as an occasional home to productions by Dark Horse Company Theatre.

But after last season’s production of Evita, homegrown Egyptian Theatre productions are on the rise again.

This week, Lerner & Loewe’s magical My Fair Lady attempts to continue the tradition, telling the beloved George Bernard Shaw story of a Cockney flower girl and the tart-tongued scholar who bets that he can turn her into society lady.

Ashley Carlson takes the role of Eliza Doolittle, with Joseph Paur as Henry Higgins, sharing great songs like “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly” and “The Rain in Spain.”

With charming productions again gracing this landmark stage, you’ll want to grow accustomed to this place. (Scott Renshaw) My Fair Lady @ Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, Park City, 435-649-9371, March 14-30, Wednesdays-Saturdays 7:30 p.m., Sundays 6 p.m., $25-$65.

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Jeff Hale finds subjects that are interesting to him and uses them as models. He is inspired by individual components in those subjects and, like Picasso, pieces them together with his own vision.

The portraits are nothing less than exhilarating; each one offers an abstracted glance at femininity that is fresh and real (“Ali I” is pictured). Hale connects with each of his portrait subjects, conveying their essence through posture, gesture, tilt of the head, facial expression and eyes—always the eyes. These portraits transcend physicality to the conscious level and are felt, not merely seen.

Visitors to the gallery won’t be able to help feeling multiple presences beyond those of their fellow visitors. (Ehren Clark) Jeffrey Hale: Beyond Likeness: Essential Truths in Modern Portraiture @ Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane (1320 E. 100 South), 801-596-5000, March 14-May 2, free.

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But it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t something I usually relished, given that the options at most ski areas and resorts boiled down to warmed-up chili con carne from cans; frozen burger patties that tasted like the box they came in; sad, dried-out hot dogs; wilted iceberg lettuce salads; and microwave pizzas.

Thankfully, that has all changed.

Canyons, Snowbird, Solitude and Deer Valley resorts, in particular, keep raising the culinary bar; even the most discriminating food enthusiast can find interesting, wholesome and delicious dining at higher altitudes. The following are some of my tastiest food discoveries at the slopes this season.

After my arrival in Utah, it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take me long to fall in love with Alta Ski Area (210 Little Cottonwood Canyon Road, 801-359-1078, Alta.com). Back then, Altaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Albion Grill was my default lunch spot, and to this day, I still love the chili con carneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; this one made from scratch and brimming with perfectly spiced ripe red tomatoes, beans and beef. For 21 years, owner/ operator Tim Evenden has been at the Albion Grill helm and, along with the chili, Evendenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unique granola recipe has garnered a bevy of fanatic followers.

At Altaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s higher endâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both literally and figurativelyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is Collins Grill, which is located mid-mountain at 9,300 feet. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a full-service, white-tablecloth restaurant run by Executive Chef Jude Rubadue and Chef Dana Gray. Rubadue and her team support Slow Food Utah, and many local artisan food producers are represented at Collins Grill, including Utah free-range elk, Clifford Farm eggs, Heritage Valley Farm organic chicken, Morgan Valley allnatural lamb and many others. The grill also sports an excellent wine list, which carries a cautionary note: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Drinking alcohol at 9,300 feet can be hazardous to your healthâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;thank you so much for being careful!â&#x20AC;?

With that in mind, we sipped our La Vieille Ferme Blanc a little slower than usual, while enjoying an excellent organic arugula salad with crispy bacon, red onion slices, grape tomatoes and extra-virgin olive oil, plus two perfectly poached eggs on top. Even better was a fillet of Duarte lock salmon, kissed with a snappy Jamaican jerk-style blend of spices, sauteed and served with rice pilaf and a

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melange of fresh veggies. The grand Salad on the slopes: the organic arugula salad at finale at Collins Grill was a gorAltaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Collins Grill is tasty, healthful fuel for geous blueberry panna cotta served the ride back down the hill with whipped cream and a sprinkle of sugar. written about the dining scene at Deer If thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an old-school-style pub and eatery left at Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ski and snow- Valley in the past. There was nothing board areas, it has to be Molly Greenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high-end, however, about my most recent Restaurant & Bar, located at Brighton Deer Valley dining discovery. I was skiResort (8302 S. Brighton Loop Road, 801- ing at the resort and stopped into Empire 532-4731, BrightonResort.com). The slope- Canyon Lodge for lunch. As I often do, I side A-frame chalet, with its roaring fire- enjoyed the excellent grilled-cheese sandplace and friendly vibe, is a throwback to a wich made with Swiss and cheddar on day when â&#x20AC;&#x153;ski bumâ&#x20AC;? was still a respectable toasted sourdough bread. While awaitlife choice. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the perfect après ski spot, ing my sammich, I eyeballed some very and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never a shortage of reggae tasty-looking potato chips. They turned out to be the best potato chips Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever tunes to groove to.

What surprised me most about Molly eaten, bar none. They are housemade, Greenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s was the food and service. The serv- thin-sliced, freshly fried in canola oil and ers could not be nicer or more efficientâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; sprinkled with just a hint of salt; beauespecially during busy lunches when the tifully crispy and crunchy and tasting restaurant and bar sometimes fills to like actual potatoes. Who knew that Deer standing-room only. Mollyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s has come a Valley served such spectacular spuds?

My final stop was at Needles Lodge at long way since the days when it was a priSnowbasin Resort (3925 Snowbasin Road, vate, adults-only club.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pretty picky about pizza, and so I Huntsville, 801-620-1000, Snowbasin. sure was pleasantly surprised by the top- com). The lodge is located at 8,710 feet notch, hand-tossed fresh pizzas made at with the stunning, panoramic views youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d Molly Greenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, which are available with expect at such an altitude. Needles offers herb, traditional or thin crust. These bad daily specials like meatloaf on Mondays, boysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;about the circumference of a snow street tacos on Tuesdays, potpies on tireâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for wusses; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll feed a fam- Thursdays and weekend enchiladas. But ished crowd. The missus and I ordered the there are two menu items that meat lovDoyleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Diveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;pepperoni, Italian sausage, ers really need sink their teeth into. First, ground beef and hamâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and wound up eat- thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Niman Ranch Kobe beef hot dog, ing leftovers for days after. Other high- served on a fresh pretzel roll. I love pretty lights included Millyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chili, a rich bowl much any hot dog, but Kobe beef puts this of superior housemade chili con carne; the terrific tubesteak into a class of its own. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hotter Than Hotâ&#x20AC;? spicy baked chicken And then, for the skier or boarder with a wings; a very respectable Philly cheese- gargantuan appetite, may I suggest the Needles Bomber burger? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a half-pound steak; and the killer garlic burger.

Deer Valley Resort (2250 Deer Valley of grilled, all-natural, grass-fed Idaho Drive, 435-649-1000, DeerValley.com) has beef, 6 ounces of grilled corned beef, long been known for its high-end dining, Swiss cheese, pickles, Thousand Island and has garnered many, many awards dressing and sauerkraut on a toasted brifor its food, service and amenities. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve oche. Help! Ski patrol! CW

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There is absolutely nothing ordinary or common about the The Copper Onion’s newest venture, Copper Common (111 E. 300 South). Located next door to The Copper Onion in the space that was previously Plum Alley, Copper Common is a terrific new bar with an intimate, speakeasy-like vibe. It’s the bar that Copper Onion owner Ryan Lowder wanted to open in that space originally, but due to a lack of liquor license, he created Plum Alley instead. Now that he’s got his license, there isn’t a shred of Plum Alley to be found in the beautifully redesigned (by Rachel Hodson) space. (But don’t worry, Plum Alley fans, that restaurant will resurface in a new location.)

As for Copper Common, it’s an inviting, upscale bar with craft cocktails, imported beers, a good wine list and food worthy of the Copper Onion name.

The menu ranges from bar snacks like gran biscotto ham, smoked pork rillettes, deviled eggs, tuna tartare, oyster shooters and chicken croquettes, to mid-size and larger plates with offerings such as duck-neck ragu, lobster spaghetti and steamed cod with dashi. There’s also a list of innovative cheese and chocolate tastings with suggested drink pairings.

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Lunch at the kitschy and comfortable Frisch is a way to brighten your day. The salads here are satisfying and filling; my favorites are the the Technicolor tempeh kale salad, a mix of veggies, almonds and a tangy dressing; the Barton, which is an â&#x20AC;&#x153;eggâ&#x20AC;? salad made with tofu; and the Broccoli Burst, which is studded with crunchy â&#x20AC;&#x153;baconâ&#x20AC;? bits and sunflower seeds, topped with a creamy dressing. And if you opt for the three-salad sampler, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to choose between them.

With such a healthy lunch, you can explore dessert. If you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet tried a Dillo from Cakewalk Baking Company, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in for a treat. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Twinkie-shaped spongy yellow cake filled with vanilla cream, and is especially delightful when paired with a latte or mocha made with your favorite nondairy milk. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lovingly restored espresso machine at Frisch, ready to go.

To further satisfy your sweet tooth, a large pastry case is filled with other Cakewalk Baking Company vegan desserts, like cupcakes and cookies.

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fĂŠe verte in French. Get yourself a highquality bottle of absinthe, such as Lucid Absinthe SupĂŠrieure, and pour 1 ounce into a French absinthe glass or even just a cocktail or pilsner glass. Lay a flat slotted absinthe spoon or sieve across the rim of the glass and place a single sugar cube on top (optional; some absinthe is naturally sweeter than others). Slowly drip 4 to 5 ounces of ice-cold spring water onto the sugar cube. The sugar will dissolve and melt into the glass, and the water will cause the absinthe to loucheâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that is, turn cloudy. Sip slowly.

Finally, I guess we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really talk about St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day in America without mentioning green beer. Ninet ynine percent of the green beer youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll encounter on St. Paddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day is nothing more than light golden beer, such as Budweiser, turned green with the addition of food coloring. To make a better pint of green beer, simply pour a light lager like Harp, from Ireland, into a pint glass. Allow the head to settle, or the food coloring will get stuck in the foam. Add about 6 dropsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a couple at a time, since brands differ in strengthâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;of green food coloring and stir gently until your beer is a beautiful emerald color. For a more natural approachâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one with the

added benef it of vitamins and mineralsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;mix a tablespoon of powdered wheatgrass juice into a pint of beer and stir.

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very time St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day rolls around, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m torn between fighting the crowds at my favorite Irish barsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;MacCoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, The Republican, Piper Down, Murphyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, the Leprechaun Inn, Fiddlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Elbow and suchâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and just cooking up a batch of corned beef & cabbage and celebrating in the relative safety of home. Should you choose the latter, here are some fun Irish-themed libations to concoct for yourself.

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking to quick-start your St. Paddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day fest, a tasty way to do so is with a Shamrock Shooter. In a cocktail shaker with ice, combine 2 ounces Midori Melon liqueur, 1/2 ounce Irish whiskeyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;such as

Tullamore Dew or Jamesonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and 1/2 ounce Baileyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Irish Cream liqueur. Shake and strain into a shot glass. Garnish with a four-leaf clover if you have any around.

Guinness Stout, of course, is a mainstay of St. Paddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day. For an interesting variation, try an Irish Black & Tan. Pour 6 ounces of Irish ale such as Smithwickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s into a pint glass. Then, carefully pour 6 ounces of Guinness into the glass over the back of a spoon. The idea is to create a twotoned drink, with the lighter-colored ale in the bottom half of the glass and the darker stout on top.

Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an eye-popping, delicious green drink: the Emerald Crush. Put half a peeled kiwi fruit and half a limeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both cut into quartersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and 1 teaspoon sugar into a shaker and muddle the mixture well. Add some ice and 2 ounces of organic wheat vodka, such as Tru. Shake and strain into a rocks glass garnished with a kiwi slice.

A nother easy green-hued drink for St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day is the Everybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Irish cocktail. Combine 2 ounces of Irish whiskey with 1 ounce each of green Crème de Menthe and green Chartreuse in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a martini glass, and garnish with a mint leaf.

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Deep-dish and regular brick-oven pizzas and housemade root beer are a perfect match in this familyfriendly environment. For years, Brick Oven has offered tasty pizza and Italian options like calzones and heaping portions of pasta. Friendly servers whisk out the food, while the occasional balloon artist entertains, setting up for the final round of fresh, warm brownies slathered in ice cream, whipped cream and caramel. There is also a gluten-free crust option, so everyone can enjoy. Multiple locations, BrickOvenRestaurants.com

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Particular standouts are the curries—notably the gang panang and the pineapple—and the salads, including a papaya salad drizzled with mint and a sweet Thai chili and lime-juice sauce. 1435 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-474-3322; 12147 Factory Outlet Drive, Draper, 801-981-8389, ThaiSiam.net

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Located on Level B of Snowbird’s Cliff Lodge, The Atrium offers gourmet coffee, pastries, breakfast and lunch every day, year-round. Patio dining in a spectacular mountain setting is the perfect way to spend an afternoon during warm weather. The Atrium menu consists of a variety of salads, soups, specialty platters and hot entrees, as well as a delectable assortment of desserts handmade in the Snowbird bakery. 9600 E. Little Cottonwood Canyon Road, Snowbird, 801-9332140, Snowbird.com

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Located in Park City’s Marriott Plaza just steps from the Old Town ski lift, Butcher’s features great steaks and chops, an expansive wine list, and a great atmosphere to enjoy it all in. From the filet mignon and slow-roasted rib-eye to baseball-cut sirloin and a 24-ounce porterhouse, this is a meat lover’s dream restaurant. Not up for steak? There’s also a wide selection of soups, salads and seafood dishes, including the heavenly seared ahi tuna. Stop by the bar downstairs for a classic martini. 751 Main, Park City, 435647-0040, ButchersChopHouse.com

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The Avenues Bistro focuses on organic, free-range, locally sourced ingredients and products whenever possible. Local purveyors of fine foods are represented on the menu, which focuses on new and traditional American cuisine as well as tapas. In the morning, fresh coffee, pastries and other breakfast foods are available for a quick pick-me-up or a leisurely meal. Menu items are selected according to what meats, vegetables, fruits and herbs are freshest and in season. 564 E. Third Ave., Salt Lake City, 801-831-5409, Facebook.com/AvenuesBistroonThird

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sandwiches and pizzas are the way to go. Especially tasty is the terrific Mediterranean pizza and the vegetarian lasagna. And there are also luscious chicken kebabs, Balkan sausages called cevapi and much, much more, including wine and beer, and sidewalk seating in warm weather. It’s a true downtown gem.

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When Faustina lost its talented executive chef, Billy Sotelo, to La Caille a few months ago, I feared it might be curtains for Faustina. But with new Chef de Cuisine Joe Kemp and a new small-plates menu, Faustina’s food has been re-energized. Too often, small plates are accompanied by big prices. That’s not the case here, where the small-plates menu ranges from $4 for a plate of mixed olives to $12 for filet au poivre. I love a good steak—for three or four bites.

So, I found the Oscar fillet to be quite satisfying. It’s a petite filet mignon seared to medium-rare 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. Reviewed March 6. 454 E. 300 South, 801746-4441, FaustinaSLC.com

From Scratch

From Scratch’s menu is small, and everything is truly made in-house: the sourdough used for the pasta and the cornmeal used for pizzas; the hand-pulled mozzarella; and even the butter and jam. The Margherita pizza is made from scratch—including the flour, which is ground on the premises in a wooden Austrian flourmill—and 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. Reviewed Feb. 27. 62 E. Gallivan Ave., 801538-5090, FromScratchSLC.com

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Aaron Paul in Need for Speed with Michael Keaton providing giddy playby-play as the race’s mysterious maestro— but there’s a nuts-and-bolts simplicity to the metal-crunching and wheel-burning, edited together in such a way that, amazingly, you can actually tell what’s going on.

And then there’s the stuff that happens when cars aren’t blasting along at a couple hundred miles an hour, and that’s where Paul has to be the anchor. He just doesn’t feel like one, though. The gravelly voice and three-day growth of beard try to deliver the requisite badassitude, and he shows a solid chemistry with Poots. Yet Poots also demonstrates a charismatic quality that Paul just doesn’t match; he feels like a character uncomfortably wearing “action hero” like it’s a suit that’s the wrong size.

Paul’s a terrific acting talent, but there’s a different set of muscles required to carry a movie like Need for Speed. If you want to know what those muscles look like, the drive-in sequence at the beginning has a rental suggestion for you. CW

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seat occupied by Julia (Imogen Poots), a representative of the car’s owner.

Yes, that’s a crap-load of plot for a fast-driving action narrative, and screenwriter George Gatins takes plenty of time building to the centerpiece coastto-coast journey with Marshall’s willing wing-men (Scott Mescudi, Rami Malek and Ramon Rodriguez) providing cover and support. It’s thick with setting up supporting characters—like Marshall’s exgirlfriend/now Brewster’s girlfriend, Anita (Dakota Johnson)—who ultimately don’t matter all that much, and trying to mimic that “we’re all tough guys, but we’re also family” vibe from the Fast & Furious series.

Movies about crazy-fast cars driven crazily sure have gotten sensitive.

When veteran stunt coordinator Waugh gets down to the fully analog road action, though, Need for Speed proves surprisingly muscular. The plot throws in pieces of other cranked-up road trip movies, from Vanishing Point to Smokey & the Bandit to Thelma & Louise, and generally shows that it belongs with the big boys and girls as Marshall and Julia try to dodge both the police and the guys trying to earn the bounty that Brewster has placed on their heads.

Our heroes blast through both urban streets and rural backroads—including Monument Valley—with a satisfying down-to-earth physicality to the chases and escapes. It gets both loonier and more conventional by the time the climactic race rolls around—

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t takes a sizeable sack of balls for a carchase movie like Need for Speed to feature an early scene in which characters are gathered at a drive-in watching Bullitt.

The 1968 Steve McQueen cop drama featured one of the most legendary car chases in cinema history through the streets of San Francisco, and while showing a piece of that scene might be considered a hat-tip of respect, it’s a metaphorical demonstration of swagger as loud as cars revving at the starting line. “Here’s the grand tradition of men and their motors,” Need for Speed announces, “and we belong here.”

But there’s another sense in which that comparison is a risky one: Placing Aaron Paul in the same tradition as Steve McQueen. Because as gifted as Aaron Paul has shown himself to be—whether in his run on Breaking Bad or his subsequent showcase roles in indie films like Smashed—there’s a difference between being an actor and being a leading man.

A movie like Need for Speed—giving Paul his first above-the-title multiplex starring role—certainly depends on energetic showpieces for the vehicles, but it also depends on a certain alpha-male “it” factor in the driver’s seat. Does Paul have “it”?

Director Scott Waugh (Act of Valor) certainly gives us every indication that we’re supposed to think so, introducing Paul’s character, Tobey Marshall, with a sweeping hero-pose shot up Paul’s body. Marshall’s a gear-head in upstate New York trying to keep the family body shop afloat while scratching out extra money in late-night street races. But his need for cash to save the business leads to an encounter with onetime rival-turned-pro-racer Dino Brewster (Dominic Cooper) that ends tragically with Marshall headed to jail. Two years later, his shot at redemption is facing Brewster in a secret high-stakes race, one that requires driving a legendary, valuable, souped-up Mustang cross-country, with the passenger

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The Art of the Steal HHH.5 Oh, I do love a heist movie. And writer director Jonathan Sobol pulls one off beautifully and wittily, clearly looking to Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven for inspiration in its snappy humor and twisty cleverness. Kurt Russell is out of the art-thieving business since a job in Warsaw went wrong. But when his brother and former partner in crime (Matt Dillon) turns up in town and news of an irresistible job falls into their laps, they’re back in business. See, there’s this old book, The Gospel of James, the second thing Gutenberg printed after his Bible, and it’s sitting in Canadian customs at the border crossing to Detroit, just asking to be snatched. It’s not going to be easy, because they’re being watched by an Interpol agent (Jason Jones) who’s being aided by a former compatriot of theirs (Terence Stamp) in return for time off his sentence. (The cast also features a snarky Jay Baruchel as Russell’s “apprentice.”) This is a hugely entertaining flick that knows that you know you’re as much a mark as the one onscreen—and that’s where the fun is. Opens March 14 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—MaryAnn Johanson Need for Speed HH.5 See review p. 39. Opens March 14 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) Omar HHH.5 This Palestinian Oscar nominee is less overtly political than you might expect. Omar could be much the same terse, tense suspense drama if it were taking place in, say, Northern Ireland in the 1970s. The harassment Omar (Adam Bakri) is subjected to by Israeli patrols is petty compared to the literal torture he endures later, when he’s arrested after the small but successful attack he and his pal Tarek (Iyad Hoorani) led on local Israeli military forces. But Omar’s seemingly too-quick release from prison sows discontent among his insurgent friends, because they suspect that he has turned traitor—and, indeed, Omar has agreed to spy on his friends for Shin Bet agent Rami (Waleed Zuaiter). Or, at least, he has pretended to agree, and now is trying to set up a double-cross. But Rami is far more sympathetic than Omar could ever have expected. Writer-director Hany Abu-Assad juggles his characters, their motivations and their complicated emotions deftly, creating a compelling portrait of a situation in which

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there are no winners, only varying degrees of losing, and in which suspicion can be a lifesaver. Opens March 14 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—MAJ Tim’s Vermeer HH.5 Producer/narrator Penn Jillette and director Teller have quite a bit of experience as debunkers, which might make them the perfect fit to see if Johannes Vermeer might have been—for want of a better word—cheating when he created his 17th-century masterpieces. They also may be too close to their subject—inventor Tim Jenison—to realize this might’ve been a better documentary short than a feature. Penn & Teller follow the process as Jenison spends years attempting to prove the oft-suggested theory that Vermeer may have used primitive optical equipment to facilitate his work, a proof that will take the form of Jenison himself recreating Vermeer’s painting “The Music Lesson,” despite having no training as an artist himself. As a portrait of an obsessive, Tim’s Vermeer is often fairly fascinating, capturing Jenison’s sometimes-frustrated tinkering to achieve a perfect setup for his experiment. But once it becomes clear that Jenison has pretty much got the tools to prove his point, it’s an awfully long stretch spent watching him work on his painting—and there’s a certain metaphor that’s hard to resist. Opens March 14 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (PG-13)—Scott Renshaw Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club [not yet reviewed] A group of single moms form a support group to help them deal with struggles of parenthood, dating and keeping sane. Opens March 14 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) Veronica Mars HH.5 Attending your high school reunion is rarely a good idea, and neither is reuniting the cast of a defunct TV series.

But the Veronica Mars movie makes the best of both situations, giving fans what they crave while being accessible to newcomers who want a glossy, mid-grade whodunit with a sense of humor. Writer-director Rob Thomas and the entire cast are back (thanks to Kickstarter), with the erstwhile teen detective (Kristen Bell) coming home to investigate after bad boy Logan Echolls (Jason Dohring) is accused of murder.

For the uninitiated, Veronica’s ever-useful voice-over provides the necessary backstory. The film hits the same notes as the TV show—the snarky but affectionate banter, the

self-aware, post-Buffy attitude, the sweet relationship between Veronica and her P.I. dad (Enrico Colantoni)—but nothing about this distinguishes it from a TV movie. It feels like a pilot episode—perfectly good entertainment, but do you really want to spend money on it? Then again, more than 90,000 people already did spend money on it, and I suspect they’ll be pleased with the outcome. Opens March 14 at AMC Layton Hills. (PG-13)—Eric D. Snider

SPECIAL SCREENINGS Philomena At Park City Film Series, March 14-15 @ 8 p.m. & March 16 @ 6 p.m. (R) The Road Warrior At Brewvies, March 17, 10 p.m. (R) The Squaw Man At Organ Loft Silent Films, March 13-14, 7:30 p.m. (NR) Tumbleweeds Film Festival See Essentials p. 24. At Rose Wagner Center & Main Library, March 14-16. (NR)

CURRENT RELEASES 3 Days to Kill HH.5 It’s not “good” in any conventional sense; it’s simply too bizarre to dismiss. Writer/producer Luc Besson and director McG team up for the tale of terminally ill veteran CIA agent Ethan Renner (Kevin Costner), who wants to patch up relations with his estranged wife (Connie Nielsen) and daughter (Hailee Steinfeld) before he bites it. But wait! An upper-level agency type (Amber Heard, in full-on dragon lady mode) promises Ethan an experimental remedy if he’ll do One Last Job. Thus commences a wild ricochet between shoot-’em-ups and family bonding, with Ethan torturing people to get parenting advice whenever he’s not hallucinating as a side effect of his new meds, or dealing with a family of squatters from Mali occupying his apartment. The story’s a hot mess, and “entertaining” isn’t exactly the right word for it. But it is most decidedly a thing. (PG-13)—SR 300: Rise of an Empire HH The events take place largely at the same time when Leonidas was leading his 300 Spartans against the Persians in the

first movie, with war hero Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton) battles Persia’s fierce general Artemesia (Eva Green) against impossible odds. That means plenty of ferocious hand-to-hand combat, rendered by director Noam Murro in the familiar style of slowing down the action at arbitrary moments and letting loose with torrents of digitally rendered blood resembling strawberry jam. Green commits thoroughly to being the baddest mofo in the room, ready to kiss the head she just severed, but that energy is found almost nowhere else. The anonymous hunks of brawling beefcake are engaged in a version of warfare that pretends at being gritty but feels like a game—both absurdly bloody and genuinely bloodless. (R)—SR

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

Frozen HHH Disney keeps showing that they’re scared to death of boldly proclaiming that one of their animated movies is about girls, and that institutional anxiety damages this story of two sisters—Elsa (Idina Menzel) and Anna (Kristen Bell)—divided

by Elsa’s inability to control her magical power to generate ice and snow. The opening minutes suggest the potential for a flatout masterpiece, with lovely songs and a heartbreaking central relationship. But eventually, Elsa flees after sending her kingdom into a perpetual winter, Anna heads off in pursuit, and it becomes all about a funny talking snowman (Josh Gad) rather than estranged sisters. There’s nothing inherently wrong with a little comic relief, but Frozen is practically over before it returns to the emotionally resonant central character arcs, because that would mean focusing on (ick!) girls. (PG)—SR

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The LEGO Movie HHHH The cynicism is understandable: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The LEGO Movie? Seriously?â&#x20AC;?

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 toyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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: Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to have the nerve to throw away the instruction manual. (PG)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;SR

Robocop HH.5 JosĂŠ Padilhaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s update of Paul Verhoevenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1987 film may aim for a similar vein of satire, but proves so somber that it fails to provide any of Verhoevenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t accompanied by the B-movie creaturefeature sense of fun Verhoeven brought. That doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily require Verhoevenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s R-rated grossout-till-you-chuckle action in place of Padilhaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PG-13 bloodless battles. It simply requires embracing the fundamental craziness of your concept so that the allegory doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bury all the genre delights. (PG-13)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;SR

Mr. Peabody & Sherman HHH.5 Mr. Peabody and his boy, Sherman, debuted in the 1950s The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, and now, their own feature-length cartoon is sweetly geeky, full of charm and authentic humor. Mr. Peabody (Ty Burrell) is a genius inventor, scientist, musician, athlete, gourmand and mixologist. Oh, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a dog. When 7-year-old Sherman (Max Charles) and his schoolmate Penny (Ariel Winter) take Peabodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s WABACâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;pronounced â&#x20AC;&#x153;way backâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;machine out for an unauthorized jaunt to the distant past, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 glorious 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. (PG)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;MAJ

The Wind Rises HHH.5 Disney opted to release Hayao Miyazakiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Oscar-nominated animated feature with dubbed English-language voicesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth asking why. Unlike Miyazakiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t one where you should bring kids who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep up with subtitles. Yet the dubbed voices can allow viewers to more easily appreciate the magnificence of Miyazakiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artistry in a quietly observed work that addresses great creations being used for acts of destruction. So perhaps itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bit distracting hearing one character with Werner Herzogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voice, but the English voices donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t diminish the beauty of Miyazakiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visual work. If anything, maybe they make it a little bit easier to take it all in. (PG-13)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;SR

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A con man (Christian Bale) and his fauxBritish partner (Amy Adams) work with an FBI agent (Bradley Cooper) to bring down a corrupt politician (Jeremy Renner) while Jennifer Lawrence chews scenery. Winner of 10 Wiggy Awards. (Sony)

Screw It

NBC gets tense with Crisis; HBO goes meh with Doll & Em.

Cybergeddon A Fed (Missy Peregrym) and a hacker (Kick Gurry) race to stop a cyberterrorist (Olivier Martinez) from wreaking havoc IRL. No, not a movie from 1999, but a recent Yahoo! web seriesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and with the tagline â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is no ESC.â&#x20AC;? Ha! (ANConnect)

The Grim Sleeper Saturday, March 15 (Lifetime)

Crisis Sunday, March 16 (NBC)

Crisis sustain this intensity over 12 more episodes? And what happens if thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Season 2? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dear Washington, I have your pets â&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;?

Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe Tuesday, March 18 (ABC) Special: So what if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an infomercial for Marvel/Disneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upcoming Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy and The Avengers: Age of Ultron, as well as ABCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an hour of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy and The Avengers: Age of Ultron! And, yeah, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe goes behind the scenes of films going back to 2008â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Iron Man (no Ghost Rider? Damn it), and tries to explain the myriad connections of the Avengers, like the geeks donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know and casual fans of bright colors and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;splodey stuff care. Excelsior!

Doll & Em Wednesday, March 19 (HBO) Series Debut: If your Emily Mortimer tolerance is maxed-out by the end of any given episode of The Newsroom â&#x20AC;Ś not saying thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s me, just putting it out there â&#x20AC;Ś Doll & Em, a semi-improvised docu-style comedy starring Mortimer and Dolly Wells

Crisis (NBC) (Bridget Jonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Diary) maybe isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for me â&#x20AC;Ś I mean, you. Mortimer plays Em, a British actress working in Holly wood who hires her just-dumped, heartbroken best friend Doll (Wells) as her personal assistant, resulting in far less of a par-tay situation than Entourage. Emâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;oldâ&#x20AC;?! Dollâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a â&#x20AC;&#x153;paid friendâ&#x20AC;?! Cry, hug, scene. Doll & Em has its moments, but the female-buds comedy bar has already been set by Broad Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sorry, ladies.

The 100 Wednesday, March 19 (The CW) Series Debut: In the future, 100 pretty space kids are exiled to long-abandoned Earth to survive, maintain perfect hair and have pensive, dew y-eyed moments.

Sure, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell any CW series that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Arrow or Supernatural apart from the others, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m also not in the target demographicâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;these shows are for, whaddya call â&#x20AC;&#x2122;em? Tweens? Millennials? Spores?

Any way, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably enjoy The 100 just as much as they do The Vampire Diaries of the Star-Crossed Tomorrow People or Reign of the Beauty & the Beast Originals in the Hart of Dixie. CW

Anna (Kristen Bell) sets off to stop her sister, Elsa (Idina Menzel), whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trapped the kingdom in eternal winter and, even worse, wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop singing that damned song.

Contrary to reports, Frozen will not turn your kids gay (wink, wink). (Disney)

Return to Nuke â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Em High Vol. 1 Two bloggers(!) must fight a mutated glee club and the Tromorganic Foodstuffs Conglomerate to save Tromaville High School (not Nuke â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Em High? WTF?) and the world from Lloyd Kaufman. Most troubling, this is just Vol. 1! (Anchor Bay)

Surf Party A chill bro (Khan Chittenden) is looking forward to a summer partying at the beach in 1980s SoCalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;until his surfboard is stolen!

Bummer! Can he and his stoner buds get it back and save summer? And what the hell is Joan Jett doing here? (Green Apple)

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Series Debut: The kids of Washington D.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elite politicos, CEOs, diplomats and even the president have been kidnapped by a mysterious mastermind bent on causing chaos on â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Merican soil, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up to a Secret Service newbie (Lance Gross, House of Payne) and an FBI agent (Rachael Taylor, 666 Park Avenue) to get them backâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;well, not just those two, but you get the idea.

Crisis is faster-paced, more tense and about 70 percent less ridiculous than CBSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; similarly themed Hostages, with better dramatic support in the form of Gillian Anderson (who exhibits only slightly more facial movement here than she does on Hannibal) and the anti-Dylan McDermott, Dermot Mulroney (playing a character named Thomas Gibson, which is the real name of the star of Criminal Mindsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;What!

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Look North

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After losing his musical footing, Cory Mon returns with solo album.

By Kolbie Stonehocker kstonehocker@cityweekly.net @vonstonehocker

The Gift & the Curse

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hen dealing with disappointment, everyone’s probably heard the saying that goes something like, “Whenever a door closes, a window opens.”

But local singer-songwriter Cory Mon got that window open only after metaphorically jimmying the lock with a screwdriver and kicking his way out. For Mon, it was a long process of getting back to center and pressing forward with creating music after a major career plan went south.

His new solo album, North, is about the aftermath of that upheaval, and Mon’s connections to the essential people in his life.

Mon began playing music in college, “trying to cure depression,” he says. While he eventually quit school, the drive to keep writing music stuck with him. He became involved in the Provo music scene, won the 2010 Telluride Acoustic Blues Competition at the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival and started the now-defunct Western-rock band Cory Mon & the Starlight Gospel, which was one of three finalists in the 2011 City Weekly Music Awards.

At the time, everything seemed to be on the upswing for Cory Mon & the Starlight Gospel; they’d just released a new album, Turncoats, in March of that year and had a potentially career-making tour with Southern-rock giants the North Mississippi Allstars in the works.

But after there had been “all this momentum building,” Mon says, everything fell apart.

The Starlight Gospel had been waiting on tenterhooks to hear if they’d been chosen to tour with the North Mississippi Allstars, but then learned that the tour had suddenly been canceled. His hopes dashed, Mon “got depressed for about a month,” he says. “I had focused everything on this, and I lost it, and I was like, ‘What do I do?’ ” Then, a friend invited Mon to come stay with her temporarily in the small, isolated town of Hana, Hawaii, for a much-needed change of scenery.

In that new setting, determined to get back to center, Mon “refocused everything,” he says. “Trying to figure out my balance again. If missing out on one tour was going to crush me that much, something’s wrong with me.”

Mon picked up writing music again, and several of those songs were included on North. But Hana did more for Mon than serve as a pleasant writing location.

The close-knit town, made up of “people who really loved each other,” Mon says, made a man who’d been resistant to taking risks on creating love connections want to take the leap. “I saw families work together and love each other and I realized … I want to love and receive love.”

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Cory Mon is looking up, figuratively and literally. in Hawaii, Mon realized he needed to reconnect with several important people in his life, including his dying father, his nephew and his addict brother, and the girl that got away— all stories that are told on North.

Even though it took a few months for Mon to win over that girl, Mandy, they were eventually married in July 2013. That love is reflected in songs such as “Baby Maybe” and “Bring You Home.” A few months after they were married, Mon and Mandy took in his brother, who was—and, sadly, still is—struggling with a severe drug addiction and is now in jail. And since Mon returned from Hawaii, his father has passed away.

But despite the seemingly large amount of dark subject matter, the strikingly honest North isn’t a dark album— quite the opposite, so much so that Mon describes the sunny songs as “a bit of a departure” from his past, more brooding work. For example, the hopeful “Brother,” Mon says, is a message to his brother that says, “Hey dude, I love you, let’s move forward, let’s fix this.”

Featuring breezy acoustic guitar, a barefoot-on-thebeach vibe and Mon’s clear, powerful voice, North lives up to its focus, which is the need for “more happiness, more goodness,” Mon says. “I’m tried of being a wretch, I’m tired of being sad. Let’s just be happy and move on.” CW

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TRY THESE Cory Mon & the Starlight Gospel Six Days in the Devil’s Workshop 2008

The Builders & the Butchers Where the Roots All Grow 2010

Langhorne Slim The Way We Move 2012

at Maine is tied to a chair. Smoke fills the room as a flapper-style temptress whispers in his ear, mouthing the chorus, “You will never be.”

In Pat Maine’s recently released video for the track “You Will Never Be,” from his 2012 album, Doomsday Charades, the Ogden-based rapper expresses the self-doubt and torment that typically comes with being an indie rapper. “I’ve put thought into pressing the button/ bring rest to the stress and the suffering/ every CD pressed is a press of my luck and I’m unconvinced it’ll manifest into something.”

It is, in a way, a PSA to up-and-coming emcees— the type of artists who max out credit cards and tour the Intermountain West in packed vans to the point of exhaustion. Maybe they’ll make it; maybe they won’t.

The single is a tidy summarization of the highs and lows of the past year of Maine’s career. “It was a very relevant song to make a video to at this point in my life,” Maine says. “I think anyone who is an artist ... has that little voice of doubt.”

That Maine is talking to me today about that voice of doubt is a good sign, though. When I interviewed him about a year ago, the emcee of local rap collective Alive & Well told me that he was considering giving up a career in music.

“I was going through a lot of personal things on the home front because of the stress of touring,” he says now. “And on top of that, I had put a lot of money and time into Doomsday Charades. The album was received well, but it just didn’t do as well as I had hoped.”

Though Doomsday Charades did reach No. 4 on the CMJ charts (an impressive feat, especially considering it was right below ASAP Rocky and Kendrick Lamar), ultimately, it never equaled real dollars.

Produced by local beatsmith Vividend, Doomsday Charades is one of those rare local hip-hop albums that feels ahead of its time—and perhaps that was its problem. It’s a diverse, almost anti-rap project laced with heav y instrumentation, off beat rhymes and melodic backdrops; it’s what would happen if the Anticon crew and The Molemen shared a late-night Swisher. “I thought Doomsday was a masterpiece,” Maine says. “But existing outside the box of traditional hip-hop has always been my gift and my downfall.”

Now, with the recent drop of “You’ll Never Be,” Maine is hoping to give Doomsday Charades the breath of fresh air it deserves with a string of new videos produced in collaboration with the local Wild Wasatch Media.

“I’m just trying to have fun and not get to a point again where I hate it,” Maine says. “At this point for me, it’s all about power moves.” CW

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MUSIC Guitar Heroes Disco Doom’s rock continues to chase its own calling.

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t can’t be easy to launch—and, more importantly, maintain—a band in a city that has zero interest in your type of music, but Gabriele De Mario and Anita Rufer somehow pulled it off.

Around 1997, the guitarists/vocalists (plus a drummer who is no longer part of the project) created Disco Doom in Zurich, Switzerland. At the time, “there was a huge techno scene going on, and everybody didn’t want to hear guitars at all, so we felt kind of alone in this city playing guitars,” De Mario says.

Originating as one of a small handful of Zurich rock acts at the time, Disco Doom’s forte has been indie rock, a style with aesthetic values—a focus on guitars, a willingness to show emotional vulnerability, an overarching sense of earnestness—that are miles removed from electronic dance music.

Yet, De Mario isn’t even close to being bitter about the way things shook out back then.

“When there is something like a new scene, and you’re not playing that music, you’re just on the side on your own,” he says. “I love that. I love to not be with the mainstream, even with the indie-rock mainstream.”

The band’s moniker stems from the group’s original drummer wanting to include “Disco” in their name, De Mario disagreeing and countering that “Doom” is a better word, and Rufer suggesting they combine both terms.

In the beginning, the group experienced some growing pains, having trouble making contacts to aid with touring and not releasing any records until 2003. Still, they plugged away, doing local shows and eventually finding touring companions in high places by getting friendly with indierock stalwarts Built To Spill. (The bands hit the Murray Theater together in 2009.)

On a fundamental level, the sum of Disco Doom’s traits reflect an attachment to indie rock, but they’re more than willing to dive into murkier waters, too. Trux Reverb, their 2010 EP, is all creepy, creaking, vocal-free noise-rock meditations, throwing out one upbeat, overtly melodic tune toward the EP’s end before returning to the squall.

“Somebody said that [Trux Reverb] killed our career. Whatever,” De Mario says with a chuckle. “With that record, it changed everything for us because we were freeing our heads to try and do whatever we want to do. For us, that record was really important.” He emphasizes that he and Rufer have always wanted a band that could play both heavy and soft sounds and “not just

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stay with the same five chords.”

Numerals, the third full-length from the currently four-piece Disco Doom, landed in early February and takes a pointedly different path, focusing on lithe, brighter, psych-rock-tinged tunes. Numerals also has a small number of tracks that are almost entirely tranquil, minimally embellished piano pieces.

As De Mario explains, the two contrasting sounds came from recording quiet songs with a piano in a New York apartment, and then later making it to Seattle to record conventional rock songs. “In the first place, we wanted to just have [rock] songs on the record, but we loved the other stuff, too, so we tried to put them together and make a good story out of it,” he says.

While Disco Doom is willing to experiment with tools and tinker with sounds, there is one fundamental aspect of the band that De Mario emphasizes above all: an affection for the guitar, no matter what anyone else is doing. That instrument is exactly why Disco Doom didn’t end up with the techno pack.

“I just always loved guitars and we always wanted to make guitar music,” he says. “We didn’t care about what the scene was. We don’t care about what music is hyped now or how to dress yourself or what kind of effects you use to be the real cool shit now. We just try to do our own stuff.” CW

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Coin in the Sea Album Release The music produced by this local folk outfit is carefully crafted, note by note, chord by chord, and the deliberate process comes from more than just an innate attention to detail: Each of the five members has studied or is currently studying in BYU’s music program. At this album-release show, Coin in the Sea will release their new EP, Flint & Steel, which will be followed by a full-length concept album coming later this year. The band’s music—created with acoustic guitar, mandolin, keyboard, violin and slight touches of percussion—is deceptively minimal; it just feels simple because the instruments are used so economically. But don’t be fooled; the harmonies that lead vocalists John Goodman and Eliza Smith sing fit together as snugly and perfectly as two musical puzzle pieces. Nate Noble will start things off. Velour, 135 N. University Ave., 8:30 p.m., cover TBA, VelourLive.com Boyz II Men When I was in seventh grade, a girl who had a crush on me called me late on my parents’ landline and sang Boyz II Men’s “End of the Road” into the phone. It was terrifying, and because of that experience, I disliked the group for years. But that’s what’s sort of great about Boyz II Men; just about everyone I know who grew up in the ’90s has some sort of horribly awkward story about the Grammy-winning, Philadelphia-based R&B group. Now, whenever I hear an emotional ballad from the classic trio, I think about

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Angela and her oversize “urban” Looney Tunes T-shirt making 13-year-old me blush and uncomfortably attempt to hang up the phone. Thanks, guys. Ryan Innes and Mimi Knowles—who scored the opening slot by winning a recent Gigg.com contest—are also performing. (Colin Wolf) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 7 p.m., $50, TheComplexSLC.com

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The Ataris Ah, 2003. If you’re my age, you were in high school then, probably wearing terrycloth wristbands and Hot Topic T-shirts while playing The Ataris’ seminal album So Long, Astoria as you carpooled to the mall with your friends. The album propelled the Indiana pop-rock band to mainstream success, especially with their earworm mega-hit cover of Don Henley’s “Boys of Summer,” which is still played all over the radio. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of So Long, Astoria, the original lineup that created the album is reuniting for the first time in a decade to play the entire anthemic, harmony-filled record from start to finish.

Authority Zero, Drag the River and Versus the World are also on the bill. In the Venue, 219 S. 600 West, 6 p.m., $18 in advance, $20 day of show, InTheVenueSLC.com

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Coin in the Sea Gravecode Nebula Album Release With a member lineup that reads like a Game of Thrones casting call (give it up for Dyingnysus on lead Transplutonic Void Manipulation) and epic-length songs titled “Bloodcraft of Andromeda” and “The Frozen Sun (Does Not Support Life),” local black/ doom band Gravecode Nebula are doing their damndest to keep The Metal where it belongs: underground—at least six feet underground. Gravecode Nebula’s long-inproduction debut album, Sempiternal Void, is not for the faint of heart, eardrum or faith; it’s a six-movement assault in crashing waves of atmospherics and violence with all of the hopeful aftertaste of an absinthe & cyanide martini. Tonight is the CD-release show, though Sempiternal Void will be available later in the year on vinyl—as if hell needed to sound “warmer.” Demon Lung and Burn Your World will open. (Bill Frost) Bar Deluxe, 666 S. State, 9 p.m., $5 in advance, $7 day of show, BarDeluxeSLC.com

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Saintseneca It seems like tons of bands are toying with interesting acoustic instruments these days, but somehow, when Saintseneca does it, they create a sound that distinctly stands out from the cacophony. Blending instruments like dulcimer, mandolin and balalaika with electric guitar and slight touches of synths, the Columbus, Ohio-based quartet seem to have their feet in two different worlds: one rooted in the musical history of the Appalachian Mountains, the other in an innovative future. Multi-instrumentalist and main songwriter Zac Little is heavily influenced by the rural landscape in which he

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Carrie Rodriguez & Luke Jacobs grew up, and that isolation comes through in the haunting “Uppercutter” and “Visions”— singles from Saintseneca’s upcoming new album, Dark Arc, out April 1. Saintseneca will hugely appeal to fans of Missouri folk-rock band Ha Ha Tonka; both have the ability to produce an evocative musical mood where melancholy and hope exist together. Vikesh Kapoor and Bat Manors will also perform.

Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), 8 p.m., $7, KilbyCourt.com Carrie Rodriguez & Luke Jacobs Austin, Texas-born singer-songwriter and fiddler Carrie Rodriguez has been performing with guitarist/vocalist Luke Jacobs for more than three years. But it wasn’t until January that the duo decided to capture their undeniable chemistry by creating an album, titled Live at the Cactus for the Austin cafe where it was recorded live.

Delightfully casual, intimate and breezy, the album plants the listener directly onstage with two accomplished musicians, as they smoothly harmonize and weave the sounds of their instruments together on Americanarich songs such as “Devil in Mind” and “Get Back in Love.” Ben Taylor is also on the bill.

The State Room, 638 S. State, 8 p.m., $12, TheStateRoom.com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com

Coming Soon Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real (March 21-22, The State Room), Taking Back Sunday, The Used (March 21-22, In the Venue), Con Bro Chill (March 22, Kilby Court), Against Me! (March 22, Murray Theater), The Appleseed Cast (March 24, The Urban Lounge), Yellow Ostrich (March 25, The Urban Lounge), +++ (Crosses) (March 26, In the Venue), Ski Lodge (March 26, Kilby Court)

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Go Suburban, Go Suburban HHH.5 If Go Suburban is what the Sandy quartet of the same name created on the first try—well before their first-year mark—this band is definitely one to watch.

Combining elements of indie rock and alt country, Go Suburban’s sound is refreshingly difficult to label. On the polished five-track EP—recorded at Provo’s venerable June Audio—snappy pop drum lines share space with twangy, bread & butter guitar, both of which lay the foundation for Brian Swanson’s stunner of a voice that dips and soars as freely as the lap steel in a country song. The vocal harmonies are flawless throughout the album, but they’re especially lovely on opening track “Mountain of Hope.” The driving percussion on album highlight “Let Me Go (The Kids Don’t Know)” showcases Go Suburban’s knack for building anticipation and propelling a song toward a goose-bumps-inducing climax. The infectious hope and carefree energy of “Going Home” is encapsulated in the lyrics: “Let it ring in every ear/ send the message loud and clear/ we’re going home.” Self-released, Jan. 7

The Lazy Waves, Wavetable HHH What’s cool about The Lazy Waves is that they are literally impossible to categorize, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the jump from the versatile trio’s Western-themed Spring Break EP (2013) to their latest, Wavetable. Daniel Fischer (Rotten Musicians, Fisch Loops) and Michael Gross and Matt Glass (Michael Gross & the Statuettes) traded Ennio Morricone-style twang for ’80s-pop synths, but kept the orchestral elements and twinkling piano and let it all loose in a disco club. The four tracks kick off with “Tonight (Get on the Streets),” an infectiously catchy dance-party anthem built on a foundation of piano and strings and overlaid with a killer beat and an array of glowing laser sounds. The lushly layered “T.L.I.H.T.F.” (“True Love Is Hard to Find”) takes on an island feel, with lap steel meandering among smooth pop vocals and more beat-driven electro. If there were a genre for The Lazy Waves, it would have to be some kind of super-genre that’s a somehow still-beautiful melding of all other genres. Self-released, Feb. 18

Echodog, Mine HH.5

The latest release from Americana/folk-rock quartet Echodog shines with deliberately penned lyrics, detailed imagery and warm, woodsy instrumentation. And the emotional subject matter found in the seemingly sunny-sounding tunes gives the five-track EP a weight that’s surprising, considering its often breezy, porch-stomping feel. Once lead singer/songwriter Dan Jackson puts more guts behind his vocals, Echodog will have all the necessary elements in place.

Meanwhile, Jackson’s clever turns of phrase—as well as the reverb-heavy Western-style guitar and solid backing harmonies—prove that the band has major potential. Mine begins with “Mine,” a country number about leaving the dead-end coal life, then moves into the haunting, harmonica-rich “Ghost,” which features my favorite line on the album: “I’m cut to the bone/ I’ve been drained to the dregs.” The guitar takes on a spooky desert-noir quality on “Lucy,” with a darkness that’s reminiscent of early Murder by Death. Mine concludes with the powerful narrative of “The Runaway,” about an unnamed man abandoning his family and heading out to sea—and subsequently meeting his doom. Self-released, Feb. 22

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Los Angeles Celtic-rock band Young Dubliners—better known as the Young Dubs—are swinging their way through town for a pre-game St. Paddy’s Day show in support of their recently released album, 9. The band, fronted by Irishman Keith Roberts, formed back when cassette tapes overflowed out of glove compartments. With a sound comparable to London’s The Pogues, the five-man band mixes traditional Irish instruments and tunes with mounting guitar riffs. Their blues and rock songs honor American-made music, but Robert’s lilting Irish brogue, mixed with a mandolin in songs like “The Rocky Road to Dublin,” will take you away to greener pastures. Swagger and Brother will get things started. (Carly Fetzer) Saturday, March 15 @ The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 8 p.m., $23 in advance, $26 day of show, TheDepotSLC.com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com

Thursday 3.13 DJ Table (5 Monkeys) ’80s Night (Area 51) Disco Doom, AAN (The Barrel Room, The Hotel/Club Elevate, see p. 48) Classic Country & Rockabilly Night (Boothe Bros. Performing Arts Center, Spanish Fork) Shady Elders, Red Bennies (Burt’s Tiki Lounge) Boyz II Men, Ryan Innes, Mimi Knowles (The Complex) DJ Danny Boy (Downstairs, Park City) Totally Twonked Out Thursday (Epic Nightclub) Irony Man (The Hog Wallow Pub) DJ Erockalypse (Inferno Cantina) Brewfish, From the Sun, The Codi Jordan Band (Kamikazes, Ogden) Batty Blue, Tess Comrie, Bravo, Mia Grace, Danny Herrera (Muse Music Café, Provo) Roby Kap or Scotty Haze (afternoon) Citizen Hypocrisy, Fat Candace (The Royal) Downright Citizens (The Spur Bar & Grill, Park City) Jazz Jam Session (Sugar House Coffee) The Sword, Big Business, O’Brother (The Urban Lounge) Coin in the Sea Album Release, Nate Noble, John Lane, The Sash (Velour, Provo) Partners in Crime (The Woodshed)

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8. City south of West Palm 9. Like some traffic 10. Mythical monsters 11. Dancer enslaved by Jabba the Hutt 12. Baseball analyst Hershiser 13. Whittle 18. Prefix with plasm 22. Body part that disappears when you stand up 24. Barn sackful 25. Passed (out) 26. Title housewife in an Oscar-winning 1942 film 29. Sch. in Troy, NY 30. Make a new home, in a way 31. Svelte 32. "Way to go!"

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4. Ripken Sr. and Jr. 49. Half-human “Star Trek: TNG” 5. Omar Sharif's role in "Lawrence of Arabia" character 6. Office computer linkup, for short 53. Per ____ 7. Brit. record label 54. Piles

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

1. Craigslist offering 4. Biblical spy 9. Journalist's get 14. "Is it a boy ____ girl?"

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At this juncture in your life story, Aries, it might be healing for you to make a similar declaration. Now is an excellent moment to say a final goodbye to plot twists that you wished would have happened but never did. To do so will free up stuck energy that will then become available for future projects. You may even awaken to exciting possibilities you haven’t imagined yet.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) In May 2011, two Nepali men reached the top of Mt. Everest after a six-week climb. Lakpa Tsheri Sherpa and Sano Babu Sunuwar had prepared an unprecedented way to get back down off the mountain. Strapping themselves to a single parachute, they leaped off and paraglided for 45 minutes, landing near a Sherpa village thousands of feet below the summit. I suggest you look around for a metaphorical version of a shortcut like that, Taurus. Don’t do the next part of the journey the same way you did the previous phase. Take a more direct route. Enjoy an alternate adventure. Give yourself a fresh challenge.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) A British researcher poured 300 million facts into a computer program designed to determine the most boring day in history.

The winner was April 11, 1954. It was selected because almost nothing important happened except an election in Belgium. I’m wondering if you Libras might reach that level of blah sometime soon. The astrological omens suggest it’s a possibility. And frankly, I hope that’s exactly what happens. You need a break from high adventure and agitated activity. You would benefit from indulging in some downtime that allowed you to luxuriate in silence and stasis. The time has come to recharge your psychic batteries.

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Nor will you experience bad luck or dumb luck or weird luck.

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hen I started dating in high school, my parents encouraged me to be picky. My mom would tell me, “You marry who you date, so be careful and selective.” At sixteen, those words seemed old-fashioned and even misguided. Although I knew I was gay, I still tried desperately to date girls and convince everyone I knew that I was the straight guy I thought they wanted me to be. Most of my adolescence and dating choices were really an effort to convince myself that I wasn’t gay. That caused me to miss out on valuable lessons about myself that would have saved me a lot of heartache down the road.

As I got older, my mother’s words began to make sense, and so did the concept of dating at my level. That might seem arrogant and possibly selfish, but isn’t it appropriate to be selective with whom we date? Our partners are supposed to be more than just lovers. They should be our best friends and our most trusted companions. But so many of us never get to the best friend part of our relationships, because to tell the truth about our community means to admit that more often than not, we do things backwards—sex first, intimacy later. Perhaps that’s why so many of us return to old flings in the hopes of magically finding someone wonderful, only to find more issues than before.

Being selective doesn’t mean mistreating people you aren’t interested in dating.

No one likes to be rejected. But ending things before breaking hearts is a much better idea than staying just because we want to be nice or because we are alone. I know it’s easy to settle when you’re lonely.

Many times, I’ve been interested in someone simply because he came along when I needed to hear something kind or feel something physical. Only after it’s over do most of us realize the relationship wasn’t right for us after all. Suddenly, all of the things we pretended didn’t bother us make all the difference in the world.

I’m writing this for the 20-year-old who just had his heart broken for the first time, and the 60-year-old who hasn’t figured out how to have a relationship last longer than three months. Dating to have fun is normal and healthy. But when it’s time for something serious, being selective isn’t a bad thing. n

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In 1985, Salt Lake City’s Transportation Department established a parking program for certain areas within city limits that had certain parking generators like hospitals, university complexes and other buildings where non-residents (commuters) were trying to park in residential neighborhoods.

Parking was so bad it became impossible to find a freakin’ parking place.

Our recent mayors and city council have only added to this mess. Rocky decided if citizens backed into parking spaces, there would be less bike accidents. Sadly, just a few blocks were singled out, which has directly impacted the willingness of shoppers to park and support small businesses—and it has not cut down on serious bike accidents. Move ahead a few years and Wreck-It Ralph’s solar-powered, blue parking meter stations LOST $1.5 million in revenue this past year and our city council is scratching their heads a-wonderin’ why the parking coffers are so empty!

Blame the shortfall on the week-long parking station meltdown this past summer, when parking was a free-for-all because the new pay boxes didn’t work.

Or point your fingers at the people who write the parking tickets for showing some heart by tearing up tickets for folks who didn’t understand how the pay stations worked. Paid parking in our fair city is badly planned, unfair and random.

Officials told me metered/pay spaces are put where there is the most parking traffic. So where are the pay stalls surrounding Westminster College, the Kingdom of Sugar House, Liberty or Pioneer Parks, or Salt Lake Community College?

Parking meter rates went up massively when the new system was implemented downtown. Rather than spread the meters throughout the city, Wreck-It Ralph and the city council opted instead to just squeeze more out of downtown visitors.

It’s about time the city spread out the parking meters to other places within our city limits rather than just downtown. If you’ve got to make money as a government, how about equal taxation? Parking can be a bitch in some close-in neighborhoods, but residents can get passes for themselves and temporary passes for guests. Yes, people are using TRAX and Green Bikes more, but seriously, the random parking meter placement is unfair to small businesses and visitors. Spread the love and lessen the burden, Salt Lake City! n

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