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COVER STORY

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The bills that made it in the 2014 Legislature—or not. Cover illustration by Chris Bodily

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Letters I Witnessed the Wild West of SLC

I am a retired local television photojournalist who worked closely with Beau Babka on many occasions, especially in his “wild west” South Salt Lake days in the ’90s, photographing many stings and busts [“Behind the Badge,” March 13, City Weekly]. Often, police agencies were reluctant to trust having the “news media” along. Beau and the SSL PD were early adopters of the practice of showing their community what they were doing to protect citizens and showing that criminals, like rats, should scurry elsewhere. That was perhaps part of Beau’s growing political problem. SSL PD was certainly not the only early-adopting agency, but was probably the smallest. I was very privileged to see what community policing could do to stop the insanity of prostitution and drug abuse in that small part of State Street.

Jamie Cowen Salt Lake City

Don’t Go Down That Road

The United States is already implementing a plan to ramp up fracking in the United States and wherever else it can to increase the production and export of natural gas to countries that are reliant on Russian natural gas, in order to counter Putin’s blackmail of these countries by threatening

WRITE US: Salt Lake City Weekly, 248 S. Main, Salt Lake City, UT 84101. E-mail: comments@cityweekly.net. Fax: 801-575-6106. We reserve the right to edit for length and clarity. Preference will be given to letters that are 300 words or less and sent uniquely to City Weekly. Full name, address and phone number must be included, even on e-mailed submissions, for verification purposes. to withhold that natural gas unless they meet his demands. Almost nothing is said about the massive environmental damage that widespread fracking is already having on this country, including its water supplies and increases in greenhouse-gas emissions, especially through methane release. The rationale for increasing fracking for natural gas also applies to oil-shale mining, production, delivery and export of that incredibly dirty oil that is also so environmentally destructive. Why isn’t the U.S. government also considering in its analysis the obvious alternative: a greenhouse-gas tax on the big, filthy-rich fossil fuel companies, and using those tax revenues to massively ramp up renewable energy investment, production and export? We don’t have to destroy the planet and probably all life on it to counter Putin’s Russia. So let’s not, OK?

Stuart McDonald Salt Lake City

Everyone’s Out for Themselves

Besides North Korea, Iran and Cuba, the Rothschilds own the world’s money. They print it and loan it to us via their private bank, which they sneakily named the “Federal” Reserve, set up the same year they also set up the illegal organization known as the IRS. Long ago, Ivy League scientists told them nobody was

going to be doing a damn thing about the planet becoming uninhabitably hot. In an attempt to do nothing but save themselves, they ordered countries to start Solar Radiation Management. They are worth $750 trillion and own the largest vault of gold in existence. So, really no problem making it happen. Heck, even Alta and Snowbird have been modifying the climate since the ’70s for their own financial gain. It doesn’t matter if you deny that this has been happening right in front of your face, because millions of activists in all countries simply are not going to allow it to continue. These deviants will not be blocking the sun, and the Earth will heat up to its actual temperature. You should probably get down on your knees now and beg forgiveness for gluttonizing water, polluting and denying the real temperature just so you can have a stupid lawn in the middle of a desert. Maybe Mother Earth will spare you enough water to at least keep you alive. It is so amusing to see these hypocritical self-proclaimed “clean air activists” heading up to ski on artificially nucleated snow. Clean air, water and land are the same thing.

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OPINION

Pickle-Ball Progress

A couple of years ago, I called the Sports Mall in Murray. “Do you have Pickle-Ball courts?” I asked. “What the hell is Pickle-Ball?” they said as they gave me the bum’s rush. Recently, I called them to ask the same question. They now have two courts and are willing to add a third to accommodate new players. A couple of years ago, I lobbied Salt Lake City’s Parks & Public Lands Division (PPLD) to reclaim the abandoned tennis courts in the Avenues on Fifth Avenue and C Street for Pickle-Ball. “No way,” they said as they gave me the bum’s rush. Last month, Rick Graham, the director of public services, told me that a pair of spiffy Pickle-Ball courts will be built on the site this summer. So it goes. I wouldn’t be surprised to find similar turnabouts in Colorado Springs, Toledo and Ann Arbor, as passion for PickleBall has coursed northward from Sun Belt retirement enclaves in an onrushing wave. According to the Arizona-based USA PickleBall Association, more than 100,000 people are now playing Pickle-Ball in 2,236 locations around the country. In Utah, Salt Lake City has lagged St. George, Draper, Ogden and Brigham City in building outdoor courts, but there are now 27 indoor courts, counting Park City and Kaysville— an increase of 24 in two years’ time. Pickle-Ball is a tennis-like game played with a solid paddle and a perforated plastic ball. The net is two inches lower than a tennis net. Pickle-Ball may not yet be as popular as lacrosse with Millennials, but it is all the rage with Baby Boomers. There are several reasons for the sport’s popularity. It’s more forgiving than tennis—especially on aging knees and slowing reflexes—and is “a sport where shot placement, steadiness, patience and tactics have a far greater importance than brute power,” according to Pickle-Ball, Inc. Learning the basics

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takes minutes, not hours, and the game has an infectious appeal. The sport was invented in 1966 by the late Joel Pritchard, a congressman from Washington. He cobbled together handmade plywood paddles, a borrowed Wiffle ball and a badminton court to create a game for his kids. I first hit Pickle-Balls in Sheridan, Wyo., in 2011. Three courts were outlined in plastic tape on a YMCA gym floor, and I helped to assemble portable nets in order to play mixed doubles. Two hours later I had found a racquet sport more fun than tennis. I returned to Salt Lake City and persuaded Holladay Lions Recreation Center to put a single court in its gym. Then I called every tennis and racquetball player I knew, trying to find players. Today, people sit on the sidelines, chatting sociably, waiting for a turn on one of six courts there. Getting outdoor courts built in Salt Lake Cit y was much harder. Even as Draper, Brigham City and St. George were building Pickle-Ball courts, the PPLD was resistant to the if-you-build-it-theywill-come approach to what they regarded as an upstart sport. Eventually, a vote of support from the Greater Avenues Communit y Council caused Pick leBall lines to be painted on three tennis courts—one each in Pioneer, Reservoir and Sunnyside parks. In 2012, I made a pest of myself by asking repeatedly when Salt Lake City would build its first outdoor Pickle-Ball court. Finally, Art Raymond, a spokesman for the mayor, told me it would be a long, long time. It turns out Raymond was wrong. Within the next two or three months, Pickle-Ball courts will be built in Riverside Park, Jordan Park, Victory Park and on the corner of Fifth Avenue and C Street. Eight courts in all: the same number as Ogden;

the same number to be built in Bluffdale’s Southwest Regional Park next year; 16 fewer than at the St. George complex. I credit Graham for the turnaround. But he demurs. He talks about the results of a departmental re-evaluation and a weather eye for evolving communit y interests. “I am pleased all the right things came together,” including funding from the city council, he says. The four pairs of courts are distributed in the city’s north and west quadrants. “We’ll be curious to see how the public responds to the geographic layout,” he says. “If there is support, we’ll look at adding additional courts in 2016 and beyond.” Graham says that no courts are programmed for 2015, but if the eight new courts get a lot of use, “the next frontier is indoor sites like Liberty Park and Oak Hill.” Meanwhile, a f ledgling Utah Pickle-Ball Association is gearing up to provide lessons for beginners, according to its president, Gil Podolsky. I will use the outdoor courts often, and I will keep trying to find new players. I don’t want the Pickle-Ball groundswell to collapse as inline skating’s did in the 1990s. On the other hand, I understand that when the city invests in Pickle-Ball, there is less money for resurfacing tennis courts and other recreational uses. It is a zero-sum game in which competing niche sports—the likes of rollerblading, bocce, skateboarding, handball and Frisbee golf—lose out. As a Baby Boomer, I suppose I have come to expect that my interests would be privileged, but if I didn’t believe that Pickle-Ball had unique transgenerational appeal—grandparents teaming up with grandchildren—I would feel a little guilty. But not too guilty. CW

I don’t want the Pickle-Ball groundswell to collapse as inline skating’s did in the 1990s.

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Shar Sweeney, the director of support services at Inspiration Hospice, has been working in health care for 15 years. She helped form the nationally recognized 11th Hour Program (InspirationHospice.com/11th-hour-program), which trains volunteers to be on hand to assist and comfort individuals who are undergoing the dying process.

What do 11th Hour volunteers do?

The training to be in the 11th Hour Program is extensive for the benefit of the patient and the volunteer. Utah requires 12 hours of training but we provide 16 hours; we want to make sure there is ample support for any questions and concerns the volunteer may have throughout the process. Volunteers in the 11th Hour Program do not provide medicine or move the patients; they do not prolong life or hasten death. They create comfort for the loved ones and the patient; it’s more focused on the service of just being there.

Is being present for a death a scary thing for volunteers?

Before the official implementation of the 11th Hour Program, I used to ask hospice volunteers during training what worried them the most. One woman stated, “The thing that scares me the most is that a patient might die while I am with them.” Then it actually happened to her. Her patient was 94 and was actively dying. I called her and let her know that her goodbyes should be sooner rather than later. She was scheduled to see him close to a week later, but decided, after our phone conversation, to see him right then. She sat with him while his son ran errands. She massaged his hands as she normally did, and laid her other hand on his chest. He looked at her and said, “That feels so good.” Three minutes later, he passed away. No one expected that to happen, especially her. But what was such a terrifying idea to her before turned out to be a beautiful experience.

How do you determine that a patient may be coming close to death?

It’s not as hard to do as one might think; it’s actually very predictable, very much like the birthing process. Though every birth might be different, the physiological preparations for that birth to occur are the same. The body just knows how to swing into action in producing life and allowing death. Typically two to three weeks out, a patient will lose interest in some of the things that were meaningful for them. Additionally, lack of food intake or lack of hunger is a big sign. That’s part of the digestive system shutting down. Seeing this can be difficult for the loved ones of a patient to understand; they say, “Mom, if you would just eat, or drink something you’d feel better.” We strive to instill the education that the body knows what it is doing and help them through the process of seeing their loved one’s body begin orchestrating its own death.

How are volunteers affected by their experiences with patients? I remember a volunteer going to see her patient during springtime and there was a lilac bush in bloom in her neighbor’s yard. She asked if she could cut some, then took it into her patient. The patient grabbed the bouquet and inhaled, knowing it was the last time she would ever smell lilac, or see another spring. She just couldn’t stop inhaling the fragrance. A volunteer who took time on her way to pick those blossoms created that moment and it made all the difference to that patient. It was also so profound for the volunteer that she purchased a lilac bush and planted it in that woman’s memory. Every time it blooms she thinks of her. This is not a unique occurrence; all of the volunteers have stories like that one.

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How much power does a typical orgasm produce? Could a man or woman possibly power their Christmas lights for several seconds if they harnessed this energy somehow? —Larry Christmas at your place must be a hoot, Larry. Nonetheless, I knew immediately that this was the type of investigation we at the Straight Dope were put on this earth to do. Making a preliminary reconnaissance of the journals, I came upon an article titled “The Male Orgasm: Pelvic Contractions Measured by Anal Probe.” This lit a light bulb, so to speak. “Una,” I said to my assistant, “I’ve got a little project for you.” Una wasn’t about to experiment on her own person. However, always ready to hit the books and run a spreadsheet or two, she established the following: n Recent testing of straight couples suggests men burn about four calories per minute during sex and women about three. If we charitably assume the average sex act lasts 25 minutes, this equates to about 105 calories for men and 78 calories for women. When that energy is averaged over 25 minutes, the participants consume roughly a quarter of a watt each while having sex. n A string of 100 incandescent Christmas lights draws about 40 watts, so on average a person engaged in sex uses enough juice to power a disappointing five-eighths of one light. n Technology to the rescue. A string of 70 high-efficiency LED lights draws about five watts, meaning the average person having sex could power about 3.6 such lights, and a busy couple about seven. This still isn’t all that dazzling, but at least they’ll have enough illumination to find the remote and turn the TV back on. n The above numbers refer to the sex act in toto—the energy that goes into an orgasm is much less. The contractions during climax can last from as little as five seconds for a man to well over a minute for a woman. Typical caloric expenditure during orgasm thus ranges from about one to two for men, and at most about four to seven for women. In other words, the total body energy used during orgasm is about 0.002 to 0.013 percent of a 550-calorie Big Mac. “Una,” I said, “surely this understates matters. From observation, we know the male orgasm exerts considerable propulsive force. Looking at that anal-probe article, I find a chart depicting the contractions of one subject’s orgasm. The pressure spike from baseline to peak is measured at about 225 centimeters of H2O. That’s more than seven feet. This guy is feeling his Cheerios.” Una rolled her eyes, explaining that this figure had nothing to do with the subject’s actual projectile range; it simply told us that the maximum anal tension measured during his orgasm was equivalent to the downward pressure exerted by a 225centimeter column of water. Another letdown. She went on:

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n Anal probes, while not without their drawbacks, were an improvement over the previous method of measuring orgasmic strength, namely coaxial needle electrodes, the mere thought of which makes one squirm. n In the article in question (Bohlen et al., Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1980), 11 male subjects were fitted with probes and instructed to masturbate to orgasm. Interestingly, for most participants, one of two types of orgasm was seen. In the first, the subjects had a regular series of contractions lasting 10 to 15 seconds, then they were done. In the second, the subjects had 10 to 15 regular contractions followed by additional contractions of diminishing strength at irregular intervals, the whole process taking up to 60 seconds. Subjects always had the same type of orgasm; they never switched around. n In a 1982 study of female orgasms using similar techniques, Bohlen and company again found multiple types of orgasm, which for the most part corresponded to the male varieties. In the first type, the subjects had a dozen or so contractions over a like number of seconds, at which point game over. In the second, the subjects had a series of regular contractions followed by a longer series of irregular ones, for an average of 22 and in the extreme case 34. The pressure spike during each contraction was considerably less than for the men, possibly due to the fact that the women were physically smaller. But the second type of female orgasms lasted, on average, 50 seconds, and in one case 107 seconds—and no man alive can match that. n Back to the question, Una continued. Using some seriously wild-ass assumptions about the pressure field produced in muscles, I calculate that a typical male orgasm puts out about 0.013 watts, while the female equivalent generates roughly 0.03 watts. So, Larry, next time you fantasize about plugging yourself into the grid, remember: the Hoover Dam you ain’t. Send questions to Cecil via StraightDope. com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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After three years of fighting deportation, Ana Canenguez and four of her sons watch their American dream slip from view. By Stephen Dark sdark@cityweekly.net @stephenpdark In January 2013, a City Weekly cover story called “Homeland Insecurity” featured Ana Canenguez and her battle to stop the U.S. government from deporting her and four of her sons to the violence-plagued streets of El Salvador, where gangs forcibly recruit teenagers to their ranks. After the story came out, Canenguez teamed up with the Salt Lake DreamTeam—a group of young Latino activists who advocate for immigrant rights—and organized vigils, an online petition and a trip to Washington, D.C. to seek support from sympathetic politicians, several of whom agreed to write to Immigration & Customs Enforcement on her behalf. Sixteen months later, with 2 million people estimated to have been deported during President Barack Obama’s administration, Canenguez sits with her four boys, ages 13 to 19, eating hamburgers in a McDonald’s in Millcreek. Her Mexican-national partner, Eusebio Granda, sits across the room, watching their two children— Luis, age 8, and Katarina, 6, both U.S. citizens—climb through the plastic tunnels of the restaurant’s play area. On the surface, it’s an average scene, but it may be one of the Canenguez family’s final chances to enjoy such deceptively simple pleasures. “In my country, only rich people eat at McDonald’s,” Canenguez says. “You can eat for a week on what that costs.” It’s not only fast food that will be out of her reach after March 21, 2014, the deadline set down by Utah’s immigration court for Canenguez and her four boys to voluntarily deport from the United States. “If she fails to do so, the voluntary departure will automatically become a final order of removal, and a warrant of deportation will be issued,” ICE regional spokesman Andrew S. Munoz stated in an e-mail in response to an inquiry from City Weekly about Canenguez’s case. But Canenguez doesn’t know how she can self-deport, since the plane tickets cost $4,000 for the five of them.

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Ana Canenguez is flanked by her oldest children—Mario, Geovanny, Job and Erick—in this December 2012 photo. All face deportation. “Where am I going to get that money?” she asks in Spanish. “I clean rooms in a motel and have six children to feed.” But whether self-deported or forcibly removed, the likelihood of Canenguez seeing her partner or her U.S. citizen children again, is decidedly remote, since, attorneys say, there is no type of visa she can apply for. Nor are her prospects good in El Salvador. She’s about to lose a small property she has there to a bank, and her oldest son, Job, says their impoverished relatives are already struggling to pay their own utilities. “If we go back, we’ll live on the streets,” he says. Job works as a carpenter and Geovanny, her second-oldest son facing deportation, works at a diner to help the family. Job graduated with a 3.6 grade-point average from Bear River High School in 2013 and, thanks to a scholarship, is in his second semester at Weber State. After Canenguez learned in summer 2013 that the courts had denied the final appeal of two of her boys, she was told by an attorney that ICE agents “could come at any moment to arrest them.” Later, she collapsed and was eventually diagnosed with thrombocytopenia, a condition where her “chronically low [blood] platelet count,” according to a physician’s letter and her medical records, can lead to excessive bleeding, bruising and swelling. Canenguez worries about who will look after her children if, without easy access in El Salvador to the medication she needs to maintain her blood count, she were to sicken. “We are living each day, but always with this dark part, this shadow we feel on our backs,” Canenguez says. They have talked about going into hiding, rather than face deportation, but Canenguez ruled it out. “She doesn’t want to do it,” Geovanny says. “If we’re hiding, we’ll feel like criminals, which we’re not.”

Critics of illegal immigration include Utah political activist and retired foreign-services officer Ron Mortensen. While Canenguez has “a compelling story,” he says his experiences working in humanitarian relief for the U.S. government helped him form “a broader picture.” In El Salvador, “millions of people stay there, keeping their kids out of gangs; they’re not all coming to the United States.” He also expresses concern about those who’ve come to the United States without visas using stolen Social Security numbers to secure employment. But for Canenguez, the key issue is the two faces of immigration politics in the United States. “They say its focus is deporting criminals, but they are deporting people who aren’t criminals and separating families.” And Canenguez’s compelling story isn’t the exception to the rule. “It’s not just Ana. Plenty of people still meet that criteria [of not being criminals] but are being deported,” says Itza Hernandez of the Salt Lake Dream Team. “We try to share their stories with as many people as possible. When people hear about something so ridiculous, usually it stops.” Canenguez does have one blemish on her record. She was convicted in 2009 of assault and disorderly conduct in Tremonton Justice Court, where she had a translator but no attorney. According to a police report, a couple had followed her home from a school bus stop and argued with her on her porch. Canenguez later appealed the justice-court conviction in 1st District Court, where it was reduced to disorderly conduct, an infraction. Gonzalo Palza, executive director of the federally funded Centro de la Familia, which focuses on developing educational resources for the Latino community, has known Canenguez for years. She was the parent representative of the 200 children enrolled at the center’s Box Elder outpost. Given all of

Canenguez’s involvement in the Head Start program, including being elected as Parent of the Year by her peers and the Utah Head Start Association in 2012, he says, “it is very, very troubling to me that a neighbor squabble would determine her future.” Beyond Palza and the DreamTeam, Canenguez has veteran immigration attorney Sharon Preston—whom she calls “an angel, a miracle”—on her side, representing her pro-bono. In a March 2014 letter requesting prosecutorial discretion and a stay of deportation for Canenguez and the four boys, Preston wrote that Canenguez’s story was “a very unusual case, involving an extraordinary family.” She highlighted how “the family strongly meets many of the criteria for prosecutorial discretion addressed in the John Morton memorandum,” namely that the children were young when they came to the States, were excellent students and had no criminal history, and that three of the four were still minors. While Canenguez does not symbolize the immigration debate, Preston writes in an e-mail, “she exemplifies it in some ways,” citing how she has been in the United States for more than 10 years. “Her family is really a model of American ideals. Hard work, integrity, gratitude.” Hernandez says the Dreamers “are still planning to fight for Ana,” but declined to comment on what form that fight might take. Canenguez “has done nothing but try to provide for her children,” Hernandez says. “All her hard work will be in vain if she gets sent back to El Salvador.” Canenguez is unrepentant. While she broke the law entering the United States without papers, “and has been treated like a criminal, I don’t regret it. And for all that this journey has taken, the struggle, the tears, the nights without sleep, if I had to do it again to save my children, I would.” CW

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Break the Toxic Chokehold Saturday, March 22

This week, you can take part in a national movement of folks making some noise outside the refineries spitting fumes and gunk in the air we breathe. The folks of Peaceful Uprising and the Utah Tar Sands Resistance are looking for some folks to rally outside the Chevron refinery to let the company know that Utahns are watching the polluters and will be holding them and their political allies accountable for the gunk in the air. Chevron Refinery, 2300 N. 1100 West, noon, http://citywk.ly/NoR7gN

Salt Lake City Council Meeting Tuesday, March 25

The city council has got a full agenda at this meeting and will be looking for your two cents. The council will be hearing comments on how to award federal grant money to various city housing services, including those that help residents with AIDS secure housing. The council will also be looking for input on adopting a special Sugarhouse Streetcar Corridor Master Plan. Salt Lake City & County Building, 451 S. State, 801-535-7600, 7 p.m., SLCGov.com

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Litterbuggery Hoping to reduce the estimated 50 tons of litter left by people climbing Mount Everest, Nepal ordered everyone descending to carry out 18 pounds of trash. The debris ranges from empty oxygen bottles, torn tents, discarded food containers and the bodies of climbers who died on the mountain. (The New York Times)

Problem Solved Chinese officials are considering using giant vacuum cleaners to improve air quality in polluted cities. The device, which resembles a giant hula-hoop, uses an electrified wire to attract smog particles. “It’s not going to cure smog on a large scale,” Dutch inventor Daan Roosegaarde explained, “but at least we can remind people what clean air looks like.” A separate report noted that in 1970, oil-rich Beverly Hillbilly Jed Clampett considered investing in a scheme to drill a tunnel through the San Bernadino Mountains, stick in a huge fan and suck all the smog out of Los Angeles. (The Washington Post)

How Inconvenient Dr. Daniel Ubani admitted killing an English patient by overprescribing drugs but moved to Germany, made a plea deal to pay a fine for “gross negligence” and continued practicing. While Ubani was delivering a presentation at a conference in Lindau, Germany, the victim’s two sons interrupted him and called him a “charlatan and killer.” Ubani sued the sons, demanding they pay him 2,800 pounds because their disruption caused him to miss a post-conference dinner for which he had already paid. (Britain’s Express)

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Nadja Svenson, 22, was charged with stabbing her father in the chest outside their home in Londonderry, N.H., while the two were stargazing “and began arguing over where the Big Dipper and other constellations are in the sky,” police Detective Chris Olson said. “It escalated from there.” (New Hampshire Union Leader)

n Patrick Snay received $80,000 to settle his agediscrimination suit against Miami’s Gulliver Preparatory School, but the agreement included a stipulation forbidding disclosure of settlement details. The Snays’ daughter promptly notified her 1,200 Facebook friends: “Mama and Papa Snay won the case against Gulliver. Gulliver is now officially paying for my vacation to Europe this summer. SUCK IT.” A judge voided the settlement. (CNN)

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Australian authorities thwarted an escape by two female inmates from a minimum-security prison in New South Wales when they searched a cell and discovered a 60-foot rope made from tied-together sheets. Officials at Emu Plains Corrections Center wondered why the rope was so long because the complex has just one level, and the fences and walls aren’t particularly high. (Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph)

When Guns Are Outlawed Scottish authorities said Gary Rough, 28, tried to rob a Glasgow betting shop with a cucumber. He showed the clerk a “long cylindrical object covered in a black sock” and demanded money, but she refused. An off-duty detective heard the commotion and pinned Rough to the ground. Rough insisted the matter was “a joke,” adding, “It was a fucking cucumber. Am I getting the jail for this?” (Scotland’s STV) n Ottawa police reported that a masked man entered a downtown store brandishing a hockey stick and demanded cash. The suspect fled empty-handed after the store’s owner grabbed the hockey stick out of his hands. (CBC News)

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A look at the bills that finally made it and those that went off the rails. b y eric s . peterson & Colb y frazier co mme n ts @ city we e kly . n e t rides a train up the Hill toward passage into law. It’s a tough Every bill track to ride, as they chug through committees, the House

and the Senate, picking up amendments, public ridicule and substitute drafts along the way. Not every bill arrives at the final station, where Gov. Gary Herbert, like a friendly conductor, will see the bill out of the Hill and sign it into law. Every year, plenty of bills fly off the rails—voted down or killed by a committee just as they’ve begun their journey. The 2014 session was no different, except that a number of bills that have derailed year after year finally made it through. For some of those bills—like the one that allows electionday voter registration and one that’s an initiative to fund preschool for disadvantaged youth—it took a sponsor who was determined enough to shovel the coal needed to get them through. Others were pushed up the Hill by overwhelming public demand. This year, the bad taste of grime in the air finally helped the public get lawmakers to pass a number of air-quality reforms. Likewise, the grimy taste of former Attorney General John Swallow’s pay-for-play politicking helped usher in ethics reforms that otherwise wouldn’t have stood a chance of passage on the Hill. But not every bill can make it up that Hill, especially when powerful forces dynamite the tracks. It seemed as though this year might see the passage of a statewide nondiscrimination bill to protect LGBT Utahns from housing and workplace discrimination. But legislative leaders refused even to hear it. An effort to remove the “Zion Walls” that shield restaurant patrons from watching alcoholic drinks being prepared originally had the backing of House Speaker Becky Lockhart, R-Provo. But right before the Legislature began, the LDS Church released two videos saying the laws are just hunky-dory, and the bill crashed and burned. Take a ride with us now as we look at the critical bills that made it over the hump, from cannabis-oil treatments for epileptic kids to the controversial Count My Vote compromise bill and more.

LIQUOR LAWS DERAILED: Zion Wall Teardown Rep. Kraig Powell, R-Heber City, pushed House Bill 285, which would have allowed restaurants to take down their walls if they instead posted notices that alcohol is publicly seen and poured, giving patrons fair warning so they could make the choice to dine elsewhere if desired. In an effort to take down the walls, Powell tightened regulations in other parts of Utah’s booze laws, restricting minors from sitting near a bar in a restaurant. The debate offered one of the session’s greatest questions, from one Republican lawmaker to another. After Rep. Jake Anderegg, R-Lehi, opined that Powell’s bill would

blur the line between bars and restaurants, Powell asked, “Have you ever been into an actual bar? It’s not a restaurant, it’s quite clear.” Powell’s bill to batter down the Zion Walls cleared the committee by a single vote, but was not even heard in the House. Powell himself pulled the bill when he realized that the Senate had no plans to consider it this session.

DERAILED: Mandatory Bar Breathalyzers Breathalyzer machines are starting to pop up in bars, giving patrons the chance to spend their quarters on something other than the erotic-photo-hunt game. Rep. Greg Hughes, R-Draper, was so impressed by the devices (breathalyzers, not the erotic-photo-hunt machines) that he toyed with the idea of making them mandatory in all bars to help patrons know if they’ve had too much before getting behind the wheel. He backed off that idea and instead passed legislation that requires that breathalyzers in bars undergo regular service to ensure they’re working well. The bill also protects bar owners from being sued if someone uses one of the machines but still drives drunk.

CHUG CHUG: Second Chances for Minors Under current liquor laws, minors have just two strikes if they’re caught with alcohol. The first strike means a minor’s license is suspended unless the youth takes a substanceabuse class. And if the kid screws up again, it’s a mandatory two-year suspension of their license. Rep. John Knotwell, R-Herriman, passed House Bill 137, which gives youth one more shot to straighten up and fly right, allowing them to submit an affidavit to a judge showing that they’ve been alcohol free for a year and possibly have their two-year suspension commuted.

CRIME & PUNISHMENT DERAILED: Rape Kit Money When officials with the state crime lab said in January that only about 30 percent of rape kits are submitted by law enforcement to get tested, it set off alarm bells with lawmakers who are in charge of funding criminal-justice programs. The Utah Department of Public Safety scrounged up $750,000 in its budget to address the roughly 2,000 untested kits, which could possibly help law enforcement apprehend rapists and sexual offenders. At one time there was even talk of the lab needing $600,000 a year in ongoing funding to keep up with all the tests. Playing it safe, though, the lab decided to just focus on using the $750,000 of one-time money to do what they can this year while they strategize how to process more kits in the future. But apparently, you can put a price on justice for sexual-

assault victims, as lawmakers’ final budget gave the labs $400,000 to process kits. Rep. Jennifer Seelig, D-Salt Lake City, did however pass House Bill 157, which requires law enforcement to at least give sex-assault victims the courtesy of letting them know if they decide not to submit their rape kit for DNA analysis.

' CHUG CHUG: Don t Drone Me, Bro A coup for those wary of the Beehive State sliding down the slippery slope toward a dystopian world of sentient government machines was Senate Bill 167, which regulates the use of drones in the state. The bill, from Sen. Howard Stephenson, R-Draper, would require law enforcement to obtain a warrant, backed by probable cause, before they can dispatch the machines to your backyard barbecue.

CHUG CHUG: No-Knock Warrants Get Scaled Back

Another bill focused on government killing machines passed the Legislature this session, putting the brakes on law enforcement using force to enter homes. The bill would especially impact “no-knock” warrants that have in the past resulted in deadly clashes between police and homeowners who may not be aware that it’s law-enforcement officers and not a criminal who has burst into their home in the middle of the night. House Bill 70, passed by Rep. Marc Roberts, R-Santaquin, would limit law enforcement from undertaking such raids without a judge’s approval unless there is evidence that a person’s life is in danger or that police announcing themselves would result in evidence being flushed. Another bill, passed by Sen. Deirdre Henderson, R-Spanish Fork, would for the first time require the state's more than 100 lawenforcement agencies to submit to the state their data on all the forcible entry raids they conduct. Her Senate Bill 185 would also require the agencies to report back to the Legislature with the number of doors knocked down, bullets fired, drugs seized, etc., to determine whether it was worth the force.

would also create a $100 civil penalty and make it a class B misdemeanor for a candidate to knowingly file inaccurate financial disclosure forms. House Bill 390, passed by Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck, D-Salt Lake City, would also make obstructing a legislative investigation a class A misdemeanor, thanks again to Swallow. And House Bill 246, passed by Rep. Craig Hall, R-West Valley City, also adds penalties for candidates who fail to file disclosure documents on time and would require lobbyists on the Hill to wear name tags identifying them as such. The stench of Swallow was so bad that it almost caused lawmakers to support setting limits on how much individuals can donate to candidates in an election. Salt Lake City Rep. Brian King’s House Bill 297 would’ve created $10,000 caps for statewide races and $5,000 caps for legislative ones. The Democrat’s bill failed in the House by only three votes.

CHUG CHUG: Same-Day Voter Registration

Rep. Jerry Anderson: “"If the whole arctic ice cap melted the sea level would stay exactly the same. So there’s no concern about drowning our cities around the world."

Another successful comeback this session was a bill that funds preschool for at-risk youth from impoverished families. The bill was first brought forward in 2013, but was killed by critics who said it was trying to close the “achievement gap,” which is apparently a bad thing. This year, Rep. Greg Hughes, R-Draper, successfully pushed through House Bill 96 after a debate on the floor that lasted more than an hour. The bill would set aside $3 million to repay private entities for

DERAILED: State School Board Reform Dueling efforts to reform the much-maligned process of picking the Utah State Board of Education both failed. This means that the board, comprised of 15 members, will continue to be anointed through a peculiar process that starts and ends with Herbert. As it stands, Herbert appoints a nominating and recruiting committee, which selects three candidates from each of the state’s 15 education districts and forwards the names to the governor. Herbert then picks his two favorites from each district, whose names are then placed on the ballot for voters to decide between. Rep. Brian Green, R-Pleasant Grove, proposed a bill that would have eliminated this process and placed the selection of board members in the hands of the state’s partisan caucus system. Opposed by the Utah Education Association, his bill failed to make it out of committee. Much hope for reform rested on House Bill 223, sponsored by Rep. Jim Nielson, R-Bountiful, who felt a nonpartisan open primary was the most prudent way forward. But the bill, despite earning wide support in the House, passing 57-15, never got a vote from the Senate.

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While allegations of corruption at the Attorney General’s Office have festered for years, the scandals of former Attorney General John Swallow seem to have finally helped lawmakers wake up and smell the gangrene. PostSwallow ethics bills included House Bill 394, pushed by Rep. Jim Dunnigan, R-Taylorsville, which—inspired by all of the secretive fundraising that Swallow conducted—would force candidates to disclose how money paid to political consultants is used. HB394 would also require that candidates disclose all business partnerships going back a year before their run for office—again because of sneaky shenanigans that Swallow pulled when trying to hide business interests right before running for office. It

CHUG CHUG: Preschool Funding

With Lockhart’s technology bill off the table, legislators did not drastically alter Herbert’s proposed $3.6 billion in public-education spending. The governor’s budget calls for fully funding the state’s anticipated 10,300 new students to the tune of $64 million. Meanwhile, per-pupil spending, a category in which Utah perennially ranks at or near the bottom, increased by $61.6 million—2.5 percent.

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Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo, proposed Senate Bill 54 to head the Count My Vote grassroots initiative off at the pass. The legislation turned out to be the right kind of political chess move to bring Count My Vote into negotiations with lawmakers, resulting in a new SB54—a compromise that would allow Utah’s would-be politicians to be elected in the current caucus system or gather enough signatures to bypass it and go directly to the primary elections. The fact that Count My Vote wouldn’t stop its efforts until the bill was signed into law meant lawmakers did a lot of grunting, posturing and complaining about the bill before voting in its favor by a wide margin.

With a touch of boldness, a hint of political backstabbing and a whole lot of faith in lawmakers’ love of shiny technology, House Speaker Becky Lockhart, R-Provo, unveiled a proposal for the state’s largest single-year allocation of education funding in history. It would not have done any of the following: reduce the state’s ballooning class sizes, increase teacher pay, restore the roughly 9 percent in education funding that was slashed during the great recession, or revive the couple of days of abandoned teacher-development time that teachers want back. What it would have done is drop around $300 million per year over the next several years—and perhaps far into the future—to buy, replace, repair and fortify wireless infrastructure so that every one of the state’s K-12 students could have a digital device. In the end, Lockhart’s insistence that the money would materialize if only her colleagues voted with faith didn’t get a chance to be tested. Senate leaders said no way on earth would they gut other budgets (transportation was a possibility) to give birth to Lockhart’s iPad dream. Herbert, meanwhile, said if any more than $30 million was aimed at the program, he’d veto it. Till next year, at least, kids will just have to keep learning the old fashioned way.

The when and where haven’t been decided, but someday— sooner rather than later—the Utah State Prison in Draper will be moved. The legislature expressed widespread support for moving the colossal facility, which currently sits on 700 acres of prime real estate off of Interstate 15 near the point of the mountain. Beyond merely sounding approving horns, the legislature formed a Prison Relocation Commission to study potential spots for the new prison. The commission, made up of three members of the Senate, four members of the House and the executive directors of the Justice Commission and Department of Corrections, is expected to study the possibilities and report back to the legislature next year. This commission is not permitted to solicit contracts for construction of the new prison or decide what to do with the mountain of cash that’s expected to change hands when the prison does move. Draper City officials unveiled their vision for the land currently occupied by the prison. The plan includes office buildings, shopping centers and highdensity residential units. The construction cost of new prison facilities has been estimated at $600 million. And in addition to tens of thousands of dollars in salaries that will be paid to legislators appointed to the commission, the legislature allocated $3.4 million to the new commission’s efforts.

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DERAILED: iPads for Kids

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In other comeback news, Chavez-Houck passed a bill that had been killed in the 2013 session that allows voters to register and vote on election day. This year, her House Bill 156 made the program a pilot for counties to voluntarily participate in to see if it works and is something that should later be mandatory for all counties. Chavez-Houck’s other secret weapon this year was bringing the son of popular former legislator Holly Richardson to testify about how he couldn’t vote in his first election because clerks lost his forms. Well-played, Chavez-Houck; well-played.

funding preschool programming to help prevent kids from having to go into special education—a default route that currently costs taxpayers a lot more.

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They didn’t fit into our main categories, but these two issues have been raised in the Legislature a few times in recent years, and what happened to them in this session was worth noting.

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CHUG CHUG: Cannabis Oil for the Kids Yes, this happened, and no, this isn’t the Twilight Zone. Rep. Gage Froerer, R-Huntsville, gets props for having one of the most reworked bills of the session. His House Bill 105 went through nine substitute drafts before being passed favorably. The bill would allow parents with children who have epilepsy—sometimes experiencing hundreds of seizures a day—to be able to possess low-THC content cannabis-oil treatments for their children. While the parents will have many hoops to jump through, they now may have a treatment that can add years onto the lives of their children—happy, healthy years that are free from the drastic side effects of existing pharmaceutical treatments.

DERAILED: Medicaid Expansion In the spirit of the 2013 legislative session, which saw state lawmakers digging in against anything related to the federal government, legislators in 2014 railed against Washington and Obamacare by refusing, for now, to expand Medicaid. The legislature’s inaction left more than 100,000 uninsured Utahns in health-care limbo. To their credit, lawmakers talked about Medicaid. But the Republican-dominated House and Senate both refused to accept a full Medicaid expansion offer from Washington that would have redirected around a half a billion dollars in taxes—that Utahns already pay—back to Utah to fund the expansion. Instead, lawmakers in the House proposed spending $35 million in state funding to cover a portion of the state’s uninsured who live below the poverty line. The Senate put forth a plan that would have drawn on federal money to insure 54,000 Utahns who make less than $11,600 a year while not interfering with Herbert’s efforts to lobby the Obama Administration for a better deal on Medicaid. Meanwhile, Herbert has put forth his own version for expanding insurance coverage for Utah’s neediest. His Health Utah Plan, which would require approval from the federal government, would accept $258 million in federal funds in the form of a block grant to buy private insurance plans for 111,000 uninsured Utahns. By feeding the money to the private sector, Herbert would achieve the double whammy of providing insurance to those in need, while simultaneously keeping residents off of Medicaid roles—anathema to Republicans.

ENVIRONMENT DERAILED: Learning to Love Carbon With 50 years of science teaching experience under his belt, Rep. Jerry Anderson, R-Price, put forth a bill that wouldn’t have allowed the state of Utah to take

This session was looking so promising for a bill to be passed that would offer protection from workplace and housing discrimination to LGBT Utahns that a whole coalition was formed that started making false statements about the bill. The coalition, led by the conservative think tank The Sutherland Institute, even ran TV ads saying the bill would target BYU housing, even though the Sutherland Institute has been following this bill ever since it was first pitched in 2008 and knew full well the bill has always offered exemptions to religious institutions. As it turns out, the bill was not even heard since legislative leadership decided that if lawmakers said something mean about LGBT Utahns, those words could be used against the state in its ongoing court case to bar same-sex marriages. That also means legislators will likely not hear the bill for however many years it takes for the marriage question to be settled in the courts.

CHUG CHUG: Downtown Convention Center Rep. Brad Wilson, R-Kaysville, passed a bill that had failed in 2013 to offer tax rebates to developers to expand the Salt Palace Convention Center and build an adjacent 1,000-room hotel. Wilson took a page from the Lagoon playbook by adding a “bounce back” component to this year’s convention-center bill that would divert some of the tax-rebate money into a fund that promotes festivals and attractions around the state to convention visitors, hopefully encouraging them to return to Utah in the future. That little deal helped sweeten the proposition for lawmakers outside of Salt Lake County, who helped pass the bill. any meaningful action on carbon emissions until CO2 levels in the atmosphere exceeded 500 parts per million. With CO2 levels currently hovering just under 400ppm, many scientists feel the tipping point for global climate change has come and gone. But most agree that reaching 500ppm would make life on Earth … well, let’s just say, interesting. Anderson argued for his bill by noting that, eons ago, the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere were higher than they are today. He arrived at 500ppm because this number is detected on some volcanoes. Higher levels of CO2 would promote plant growth in our arid deserts, Anderson said, testifying that the CO2 levels are cranked up in the greenhouses where Walmart petunias are grown. Anderson’s House Bill 229 ultimately failed to clear its committee, but it will be studied in the interim session and could make a comeback next year. Here is some of what Anderson had to say while arguing for his bill: n “The carbon dioxide level back in the days of the dinosaurs was considered to be about 600 parts per million and they seemed to thrive quite well; very large bodies. And the vegetation back in those times was lush. There were a lot of huge trees that made coal for us in these days. So I’m thinking that we could double the carbon dioxide rate and not have any adverse effects that I can tell.” n “If the whole arctic ice cap melted the sea level would stay exactly the same,” Anderson said, noting that the ice cap is floating. “So there’s no concern about drowning our cities around the world or any of that sort of thing.” A few members of the public spoke against Anderson’s bill. One, Joe Andrade, a retired University of Utah biochemistry professor, called the bill “bad government,” and made reference to the widespread knowledge that as the Earth’s

climate warms, paralleled by rising carbon levels in the atmosphere, life on Earth will become “largely intolerable.” This statement struck a chord with Rep. Ken Ivory, R-West Jordan, who noted that the winters have been cold lately, and so he’s not sure what to think about global warming. “I find myself really confused on this,” he told Andrade. “I remember years ago when former Vice President Al Gore did a chart and tracked CO2 with temperatures and said the Earth has a fever and the oceans are going to rise dozens of feet or whatever, and the ice caps are going to be gone and that’s all because of CO2. And yet, now we’re seeing the Antarctic ice cap as big as it’s been on record, or close to it. We’ve got the coldest winters—some of the coldest winters—on record. … I’m having a hard time with this.”

CHUG CHUG: Clean Air

Utah’s chunky air stayed away for much of the legislative session, making it necessary for legislators pitching clean-air bills to ask their colleagues to peer out from their Capitol Hill windows and imagine the inversion. Even with clean air to breathe, bills aimed at cleaning the state’s air sailed through committee hearings usually with widespread support from both political parties. Clean-air advocates praised these early indications that clean air had at last arrived as a priority for lawmakers. But by the time many of these bills made it through the process, they’d been carved down to shells of their former selves. In some cases—like a pair of bills that would have allowed the state’s Division of Air Quality to enact rules more stringent than Environmental Protection Agency regulations— clean-air efforts were suffocated altogether. Much progress, though, was made. Rep. Patrice Arent, D-Salt Lake City, marshaled several clean-air bills. Her House Bill 154 allocates

Republican: Sen. Curt Bramble,

Democrat: Sen. Karen Mayne,

Passed 19 out of 26 pieces of legislation for 73% completion

Passed 9 out of 12 pieces of legislation for a 75% completion

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Though it’s hard to know if it’s the bills themselves, the efficacy of the lawmakers or some combination of both, these two legislators got the most done during the 2014 session.

Total Republican Bills Passed:

433 (89%)

Total Bills Passed: 486

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53 (11%)

$750,000 to help Wasatch Front residents who rely solely on wood-burning stoves for heat change them out for natural gas stoves. This bill initially would have given $250,000 to the Division of Air Quality to hire investigators to follow up on complaints of people burning wood on red-air days. Arent’s colleagues, though, balked at the idea of funding the “smoke police” and dropped this money. Arent also passed House Bill 61, which allocates $200,000 to a grant program that will allow small businesses, like landscapers, to replace their polluting machines with more efficient tools. The legislature approved the wholesale move of the North Salt Lake medical-waste incinerator Stericycle, giving the business the green light to relocate near Tooele on School & Institutional Trust Land property. Despite outcry from legislators who insisted the burning of medical waste wasn’t harmful to health, House Bill 196, which prohibits medical waste incinerators from operating within two miles of a residential zone, was passed. But a potentially costly setback to air quality in Utah came with the failure of one of Arent’s

efforts. House Joint Resolution 23 would have sent a clear message to the federal government that Utah wished to get on board with the federal government’s standards for cleaner gasoline. But after passing the House with a 5520 vote, the resolution stalled in the Senate, failing to get heard. Another bill that would have merely allowed cities and counties to place measures on the ballot to increase sales tax by a quarter of a cent failed in the Senate before getting a vote. Revenue generated through the sales tax increases would have been required to be spent on expansion of bus service and bike lanes. Matt Pacenza, policy director at HEAL Utah, which advocated on behalf of a number of clean air bills, lamented the fact that many bills that had widespread support in the House simply failed to make it to a vote in the Senate. But Pacenza says that nine of the roughly 15 clean air bills he tracked were passed. “I do think that if you take a step back and take a deep breath, you have to acknowledge that the legislature and the governor have provided more resources for the fight against pollution, and that’s just a fact,” he says.CW

Sneaky Ninja Legislator of the Year: Rep. Mel Brown, R-Coalville

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Brown confidently told lawmakers that 40 percent of bills with the notes get passed anyway, so what the heck, why not just get rid of them? You know, to make the process smoother. “We really talk about ’em a lot and never pay any attention to them,” Brown said. If you’re thinking, “Well, why not take the notes more seriously, then?” your opinion is not shared by the majority of House members, who voted favorably for the bill that night, including House Speaker Becky Lockhart, R-Provo. Rep. Kevin Stratton, R-Orem, supported the bill, saying it would be better if the constitutionality of bills didn’t have to be aired “in the public sector.” Rep. Patrice Arent, D-Salt Lake City, who actually once worked the thankless job of a legislative researcher in the ’80s was the only member to point out that “the public deserves to know” about the notes, but her fellow colleagues simply tossed out some lawyer jokes and promptly voted the bill out. Luckily, the bill died when it was not even heard in the Senate.

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Rep. Mel Brown, R-Coalville, gets the award this year for passing legislation introduced late at night, near the end of the session, and in a way that cuts out having the bill introduced at a committee where the public could share its opinion. Transparency, schmanzparency. House Joint Resolution 7—originally pushed by Rep. Ken Ivory, R-West Jordan— would have required the legislature’s staff attorneys do more work in preparing constitutional notes on bills, until Brown changed the bill on the House Floor at about 8 p.m on March 5 to do away with the notes altogether. Constitutional notes are prepared to warn if a bill is likely unconstitutional and could result in a lawsuit for the state. The notes help the public and legislators know the risks of passing their bills. In 2013, for example, Rep. Brian Greene, R-Pleasant Grove, had a bill that originally allowed for the arrest of federal law-enforcement officers trying to enforce federal gun laws in the state. That bill had a constitutional note larger than the bill itself.

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Every painting is abstract. If you look closely enough, you can get lost in the shapes of the brushstrokes and the forces of pigment and color as they move across the canvas. Jimmi Toro—the Best of Show winner in painting at the 2013 Park City Kimball Arts Festival—uses the application of oil paints to explore the nature of faces in his new solo show, opening today at Urban Arts Gallery. Toro, who says he believes that the faces in his paintings capture “the spirit of the individual,” has a style that is idiosyncratic and masterful, yet seemingly effortless. Often, the techniques he employs—such as “drawing” lines with dripping paint—display the physicality of the medium without the brute force of pushing paint around the surface. As a result, there is a lithe, playful quality to his figures, even amid their electric energy. His lines recall those of an ink drawing, and his style owes something to illustration. For this exhibit, Toro collaborated with six local photographers and interpreted their work with paint. He will also show examples of art and music from a collaborative music project he’s working on, and a video presentation will demonstrate his working methods. The exhibit will also include experiments, sketches, early childhood works and a look at the influences on his art, which is an essay on the sheer joy of painting. (Brian Staker) Jimmi Toro: Faces @ Urban Arts Gallery, 137 S. Rio Grande St., 801-651-3937, March 21-April 7; reception March 21, 6-9 p.m., free. UtahArts.org/Locations/UrbanArts-Gallery

Before he ever made himself the fool in movies like Encino Man and Bio-Dome, Pauly Shore was already living the life of an entertainment insider: His father, Sammy, was an opening act for Elvis Presley, and his mother, Mitzi, is the grand madam of the legendary Comedy Store in Los Angeles. Almost as if he had no choice in the matter, having learned the ropes by hanging around the likes of Sam Kinison and Richard Pryor, Shore started doing stand-up at the ripe age of 17. He soon developed the loveably annoying surferdude personality commonly known as “The Weasel,” on which he rode to stardom with the slurred catchphrase “Hey, buddy.” Even though those mainstream movies and MTV hosting duties were limited to a short period during the ’90s, Shore has continued to entertain the masses by playing comedy clubs, as well as writing, directing and producing his own small-budget independent films. Shore’s newest project was the 2011 Showtime comedy special Vegas Is My Oyster, shot during the AVN (Adult Video News) Awards, in which he plays the emcee and doofus straight guy on a variety-type show opposite guests like Andy Dick and Tom Green. It may be the perfect vehicle for Shore, since he’s the kind of celebrity who’s more comfortable around people like Ron Jeremy than Julia Roberts. But funny-guy Shore is fine with that, and he’s the first to self-deprecate—trying to beat everyone else to the punch because he knows full well what’s coming, and that he probably deserves it. (Jacob Stringer) Pauly Shore @ Wiseguys West Valley, 2194 W. 3500 South, 801-463-2909, March 21 & 22, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $22. WiseguysComedy.com

If it seems like it was just yesterday that Real Salt Lake was playing for the MLS Cup, you’re not all that far off. It was Dec. 7, 2013, that RSL lost on penalty kicks at Kansas City in their quest for their first title since 2009. Just 105 days later, Real is back home at Rio Tinto Stadium for their home opener against the L.A. Galaxy. And you thought the NBA season was long. Saturday is actually RSL’s third match of the season. The season-opener was against this same Galaxy team in Los Angeles, and the result from that first match could have hardly been closer, with Salt Lake keeper Nick Rimando stopping a penalty kick during stoppage time to preserve a 1-0 road win. The rivalry between the two franchises goes back to RSL’s 2009 MLS Cup run, when they knocked off the Galaxy in the championship game. Since then, L.A. has claimed back-to-back titles in 2011 and 2012, followed by Real making it to the championship match in 2013. The home opener marks the first of 17 regular-season home MLS matches running through Oct. 22. The 2014 season is the 10th for the franchise, which started play in 2005, and is the first for new coach Jeff Cassar, taking over from Jason Kreis, who departed to lead an expansion team in New York. (Geoff Griffin) Real Salt Lake vs. L.A. Galaxy @ Rio Tinto Stadium, 9256 S. State, 801-7272700, March 22, 2 p.m., $20-$125. RealSaltLake.com

Neil deGrasse Tyson is quickly becoming the most popular science ambassador in the galaxy— the Carl Sagan of our time. It takes a unique mind to not only be able to contemplate and comprehend complex subjects like cosmology, astrophysics and stellar evolution, but also be able to break it down into concepts simple enough that laypeople can revel in all that mystery and wonder, too. Tyson—like Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman and Sagan before him—has just such a gift. He also has a genuine excitement and passion for sharing such knowledge. That’s clearly why he was picked to host the new Fox television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, an update of Sagan’s 1980s PBS series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Tyson’s cultural reach—through his books, television appearances and standing-room-only lectures (like this one)—is pretty astronomical, as well. For instance, he coined the term “Manhattanhenge,” referring to the two days a year on which the evening sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid, providing a perfect view of the setting sun between the steel giants of the city’s skyline. He’s also an award-winning dancer. But, most importantly, Tyson simply wants to inspire humanity by encouraging people to look at the stars and ponder our unique place in the universe. He knows that by searching the farthest expanses of the cosmos, trying to grasp what we can by questioning everything, we end up better understanding ourselves. (Jacob Stringer) Neil deGrasse Tyson @ Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, University of Utah, 801-581-7100, March 26, 7 p.m., sold out; free simulcast in three campus auditoriums. KingTix.com

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ock Springs, Wyo.—less than a three-hour drive on Interstate 80 from Salt Lake City—is a landscape very different from the Wasatch Front, featuring sand dunes that seem to run on forever, and places to watch herds of wild horses running free. Yet it’s also intimately tied to the Salt Lake Valley through its history. Visitors can reach right down and touch the exposed ruts where the wagon wheels of the first Mormon pioneers rolled through on their way to the Salt Lake Valley in the summer of 1847. Whether tracing history or making it, there are many ways to experience the wilderness around Rock Springs.

Wide open spaces: Catch a glimpse of majestic wild horses or play on the dunes near Rock Springs (404 N St., 307-382-4100, CoyoteCreekRS. com) is a Rock Springs original with a menu focusing on steaks and seafood. The specialty entree is the Coyote Creek club steak, which comes topped with caramelized onions and blue cheese. Getting to many of the outdoor activities in the area requires passing by Farson Mercantile (4048 Highway 191, 307-2739511, FarsonMerc.com) at the intersection of highways 28 and 191, 40 miles north of town. Stop in at the “Home of the Big Cone” for ice cream served in scoops the size of your fist before or after you head out for an adventure. In 1847, it took the pioneers 26 days to get from Rock Springs to the Salt Lake Valley; there was precious little food, and absolutely no time for recreation along the way. In 2014, you can easily turn the trip into a getaway, while enjoying food, recreation and diversions—all while appreciating that you’re not a pioneer. CW Kathleen Curry and Geoff Griffin host the weekly Travel Brigade Radio Show podcast.

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Between activities and trails, head into town for unique dining options. Credit Bitter Creek Brewing (604 Broadway, 307362-4782, BitterCreekBrewing.com) with doing something that, in hindsight, seems completely obvious: putting artichoke dip on a burger. The result is the All Choked Up burger, which can be paired with one of the handcrafted microbrews such as Sweetwater Wheat or A Beer Named Bob. Coyote Creek Steakhouse & Saloon

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Sweet water Count y is home to more miles of stillvisible pioneer trails than anywhere else in America. The Oregon, California, Pony Express and Mormon pioneer trails are easy to follow as you head along Highway 28, a two-lane road north of Rock Springs. There are markers along the way—typically just about 50 to 100 yards from the road—that give information about when groups came by, or important events that took place at that location. You simply pull over, walk out to the markers and follow the tracks. There are also interpretive stops giving information about different groups and their journeys. It’s one thing to know the history of a place or people. It’s another to actually be there and touch the tracks while taking in the landscape and imagining what it must have been like to camp there in the 19th century. Information about the trails and activities can be found at TourWyoming.com. The website also has itinerary suggestions for the area, which has more than 2,000 hotel and motel rooms.

One of the highlights of the area is the Pilot Butte Wild Horse Scenic Loop. The 24-mile drive on a gravel road offers a good chance to happen across one of the herds of some 2,500 wild horses found in the area. The Killpecker Sand Dunes are 70 miles long, with some of the swells rising over 100 feet. This naturally makes them a big attraction for motorcycle and ATV riders, but the dunes are also a great place to get (figuratively) lost in the enormity of it all or feel like a kid again as you roll down a sand hill. While the pioneer trails go back a couple of centuries, there are portions of the White Mountain Petroglyphs, 26 miles east of Rock Springs, that date back more than 1,000 years. Located along a brown sandstone cliff, some of the dozen panels rise to 40 feet in height. Those looking for more of an aquatic adventure can stop off I-80 in Green River, just 18 miles before reaching Rock Springs. A popular activity is to find something to f loat on—raft, kayak, etc.—and jump in the river west of town. The ride takes you to Expedition Island, right in the heart of the town, where you can jump out and enjoy a splash park, open Memorial Day through Labor Day. The Green River eventually runs to Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area. The 91-mile reservoir straddling the Wyoming/Utah border south of Rock Springs is known for its beautiful scenery and outdoor recreation. Taking in the beauty of the gorge by car on the way to or from Rock Springs is an option if you plan some extra time for the drive.

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ow that the first trailer has come out for Marvel’s summer film version of Guardians of the Galaxy, I’m getting asked quite often what it’s all about, and how in the world it ties into the broader Marvel Cinematic Universe. I also keep getting asked what comics people should be reading to get themselves pumped up and knowledgeable for the summer movie season. The first thing you ought to know is that the Guardians of the Galaxy are a team of misfits and murderers who take it upon themselves to protect the galaxy from Thanos. Who’s Thanos? He’s the big purple bad guy revealed in the mid-credits sequence of Marvel’s 2012 smash hit The Avengers. Thanos is the sort of bad guy who doesn’t just go after a city, or a country, or even just a planet. Thanos wouldn’t stop at wiping out half of the life in the known universe and taking over the other half if it meant that he’d win the heart of Death. That’s what makes the casual mention at the end of The Avengers that to challenge Earth “is to court Death” twice as chilling. Thanos gains his powers through the Infinity stones, which were the sources of power for evil energy in 2013’s Thor: The Dark World and 2011’s Captain America. With Marvel playing a long game toward Thanos, it makes perfect sense that they’d introduce the team tailor-made to take him down, even if we won’t be seeing that play out in this year’s film. The showdown with Thanos, if my guess is correct, will happen much later down the line—either in a third Avengers picture, or a film dedicated to the villain known as The Mad Titan.

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The Guardians of the Galaxy aren’t your normal super-hero group. It’s made up of a giant tree, a talking raccoon, the assassin daughter of Thanos, a bruiser seeking revenge, and a “legendary” outlaw. It’s a group of screw-ups, vengeanceseeking murderers and laboratory experiments, doing the best they can with what they have. The trailer gave a great taste of what you can expect from them. Now that we’re up to speed, the question is what to read. The f irst thing you’re going to want to read is Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 1: Cosmic Avengers and Volume 2: Angela, written by Brian Michael Bendis and drawn by Steve McNiven. It’s the brand-new relaunch of Guardians of the Galaxy designed to catch people up on the essence of the team. A nd since you can snag that first hardcover for less than $20, it makes it the right place to start. After you’ve read those— and added the forthcoming issues to your hold—you’ll want to check out The Thanos Imperative from Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. It tells the story of a tear in the fabric of the Marvel Universe, and only the Guardians of the Galaxy can fix things up. It’s thrilling and funny—just how this team is supposed to be. And if you really want to go deep, you’ll have to read the first appearances of Groot and Rocket Raccoon, all collected in the Rocket Racoon & Groot Complete Collection. They’re about the most absurd and adorable pair of characters you’ll ever read about. And yes, that raccoon will murder you. In the face. Don’t believe me? Marvel’s so confident in Rocket Raccoon that he’s getting his own stand-alone ongoing comic in July. It seems as though Marvel has really pulled the stops out on building up these characters, all for the film that comes out in August. See it. Read it. Love it. CW Bryan Young is the editor-in-chief of BigShinyRobot.com

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THURSDAY 3.20 Joi Aoki: Tenacity

Common to many philosophies—especially Buddhism and Hinduism—is reverence for nature. The art in Joi Aoki’s show Tenacity addresses those ideas, such as how something like a seed can prove to be powerful beyond the specifics of any context. “The pieces that will be exhibited are my interpretation of how something that struggles under the most adverse of conditions can be incredibly beautiful by means of the result of their struggle,” Aoki says in her gallery statement. “Coastal Windswept Pine with Needles” (pictured) features a web of pine branches and needles pulled by a tremendous force of wind as they cling to the rock that is their security. This representation of struggle in a truly most adverse condition should be viewed not merely as it relates to the physical form, but with an understanding of its significance to the artist’s philosophy. Viewers may be able to connect those external struggles to the internal, and the capacity to transcend limitations in the face of adversity. (Ehren Clark) Joi Aoki: Tenacity @ The Gallery at Library Square, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through April 25, free. SLCPL.org/Events

Unless you’ve lived under a rock for the past 20 years, you’ve heard that Men Are from Mars, Woman Are from Venus. The best-selling book by John Gray has been brought to life in a quickwitted and relatable show that combines theatrical performances and stand-up comedy. Couples and singletons across the globe have been laughing and nodding along with this book-to-stage interpretation since 2007, as they learn that the human condition of being male and female is similar no matter where you are from, or with whom you’re in a relationship. Topics ranging from dating, marriage and issues in the bedroom may have you blushing a bit as you chuckle—but you’ll likely leave feeling both enlightened and wildly entertained. (Aimee Cook O’Brien) Mars/Venus Live @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, March 20, 7:30 pm., $50. ArtTix.org

Our perception of the surrounding world often depends on our understanding of depth. But just what does this word really signify? In a new show of abstract painting at Finch Lane Gallery, artist Annie Boyer attempts an extreme in abstract painting by choosing depth as her subject. Although her technique explores the quality of depth literally—layering paint to create actual, physical depth—the true depth of this show is found in what she evokes as she works with her subject on a conceptual level. Boyer uses a process of paint-layering, usually with water added to allow for visual texture and difference. She can never predict how each layer will appear as it dries, but when each is multiplied

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Lance Olsen is one of the foremost proponents and practitioners of experimental writing. He’s taught experimental narrative theory and practice in the creativewriting program at the University of Utah since 2007 and also serves as chairman of the board of directors of Fiction Collective Two, a progressive art community that has published some of the most progressive experimental writing in the world. Olsen’s publications are too numerous to list here, but he’s been a Fulbright scholar and has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. On March 20, he will be joined by author Melanie Rae Thon (Sweet Hearts) for a reading of his new books, Theories of Forgetting and There. The former is inspired by Robert Smithson, the earth artist who created the Spiral Jetty. There was written during Olsen’s five-month residency at the American Academy in Berlin as the Mary Ellen von van der Heyden Fellow. They are two very different books that show just a few of the many facets of one of the most fascinating American writers. (Brian Staker) Lance Olsen & Melanie Rae Thon @ The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, March 20, 7 p.m., free. KingsEnglish.com

with layer upon layer of paint—responding to air and water in differing ways—Boyer manages to convey the physicality of depth. (Ehren Clark) Annie Boyer: Depth @ Art Barn, 54 Finch Lane, 801-587-5433, through May 2, free. SLCGov.com/Arts

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Utah Dance Film Festival The performing arts are about collaboration. While painters and writers toil in solitude, practitioners of theater, music, dance and film rely on the talents of those around them as much as their own. That’s why it’s natural for these art forms to occasionally join forces. And as the Utah Dance Film Festival shows, film and dance are a particularly good match. The festival’s goal is to highlight work that augments the sublime emotive power of dance with the intimate gaze of the cinematic lens. This combined art form brings together the best characteristics of dance and film. The Utah Dance Film Festival has been holding educational workshops to foster this collaboration. Screenings are free to the public, but seating is limited, so obtaining a ticket in advance is recommended. (Rob Tennant) Utah Dance Film Festival @ Provo City Library, 550 N. University Ave., Provo, 801852-6650, March 24, 4:30-8 p.m., free. UtahDanceFilmFestival.org

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upgrade has a cost. I should say, first, that the pho broth at Pho Thin is as good as any I’ve tasted. It’s very clear and pure-tasting—pretty much the definition of good pho. To gauge the pho, I ordered the most straightforward version I could: pho with rare Angus beef slices ($8). The noodles were perfectly cooked and, as I said, the broth was excellent, glistening with chopped scallions floating on top. However, the beef was sliced much thicker than in most of the pho I’ve had, and thus was somewhat tough—not the “tender” and “rare” thin-sliced beef I’d hoped for. And upgrades do get costly: $2 for a single egg yolk, $2.50 for extra beef or vegetables, $3 for a “super bowl,” etc. Other commendable Pho Thin dishes included a five-spice seasoned chicken breast, grilled and served with rice ($12), and especially a delicious plate of tender beef slices in a yellow curry-style sauce with onions, coconut, chopped peanuts and turmeric ($12). The only real miss was an all-too-bland stir-fry of tender chickenbreast slices with broccoli, carrots, onion and mushrooms. If the crowd of folks awaiting seating on a busy recent Saturday evening is any indication, I’d say Thin is definitely in. CW

roll beginning with, in this case, grilled chicken morsels with a hint of lemongrass and peanuts, along with soft rice noodles. You place a few chunks of chicken and some noodles on the rice paper and then add your favorite condiments from a plate that includes shredded carrot, cucumber and radish, along with fresh mint, basil, cilantro and bean sprouts. The end result is a wonderful explosion of flavors and textures. And, by the way, each order comes with enough rice paper and ingredients to assemble about eight rolls, so we took our leftovers home and had a nice rice-roll lunch the following day. If you’re not up to making your own rice rolls, I suggest ordering the Hanoi pork spring roll ($8). A talented chef friend of mine says he dreams of these spring rolls at night. I didn’t find them dream-worthy, but they were damned tasty. Don’t confuse these babies with the greasy spring rolls you often find in Chinese restaurants. I’m not certain of every ingredient, but I could identify ground pork, mushroom, garlic, scallion, vermicelli, mint and bean sprouts. The rice paper rolls are deep-fried to a satisfying crunch, sliced into eight bite-size portions, and served with a sweet and spicy dipping sauce. Naturally, most people come for the pho. For the uninitiated, pho is a beef-based Vietnamese soup with rice noodles. The broth is everything, and is usually made by simmering charred onions and beef bones for a lengthy period. The broth typically has subtle hints of star anise, clove, ginger and cinnamon. To that broth is added the customer’s choice of meats and/or other accessories—and this is where the pho at Pho Thin can get pricey, since every

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owntown Sugar House is bustling these days, in part due to the opening of a gaggle of new eateries all within a few steps of each other, including The Annex By Epic Brewing, Flatbread Neapolitan Pizzeria, Beyond Glaze Gourmet Doughnuts, Melty Way and Habit Burger. It’s true that with the recent revitalization of Sugar House comes traffic woes. But it’s worth driving around to find a parking spot in order to visit one of the newest kids on the culinary block: Pho Thin Famous Vietnamese Noodle House. I know what you’re thinking: “Do we really need another pho restaurant in Salt Lake City?” It seems to me that in the past few years, the Vietnamese soup known as pho has been surpassed in popularity in this country only by the resurgence of bacon. But Pho Thin is a little different than most of Salt Lake’s Vietnamese restaurants. It’s a bit more upscale than you might normally expect, with a vibrant color palette, subdued lighting, a large communal table in the front of the restaurant, counter seats that are perfect for solo diners, and a couple of booths in the back. The owners are the same family behind Indochine on 1300 East. As for the restaurant’s name, I’m guessing it’s taken from the very popular, always packed Pho Thin in Hanoi’s Hai Ba Trung district. And like that Vietnamese restaurant, Pho Thin has been packed when I’ve visited. Getting your head around the Pho Thin menu is a challenge. It’s hard to know quite where to start. There are a half-dozen appetizers, a myriad of pho combinations, rice plates, specialty sandwiches, a variety of spring rolls, curries, wok specialties and desserts—plus, a decent little wine and beer selection. I recommend enlisting one of the excellent Pho Thin servers, like Tuan or Sophia, and asking them to help navigate the extensive menu. On my first visit, we did exactly that, and Tuan suggested we might like to try the rice rolls— specifically, the skewered chicken lemongrass rolls ($13). So we did. Making the rice rolls is a DIY operation. Thankfully, Tuan gave us a quick lesson in rice rolling. The rice paper used to make the rolls feels like flexible plastic and is about the size of a 33 RPM vinyl record. The rice paper comes to the table with a plastic water reservoir into which you dip the rice paper to soften it. Once you’ve softened up the rice paper, it’s time to add the fillings. Essentially, you’re making a burrito-style wrap or

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On Tuesdays, Franck’s (6363 S. Holladay Blvd., 801-274-6264, FrancksFood.com) offers a unique tasting menu in addition to the restaurant’s regular menu. Tasting Tuesdays is a prix fixe threecourse meal for $30 per person. The menu changes weekly, but recent dishes have included a goat-cheese creme brulee with chile mayo as a first course; diver scallop and Duroc pork belly as a second course; and miso pot de crème with peanut brittle, passion fruit tapioca and green-tea cake for dessert.

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Lucky Seven At less than $10 each, these seven wines won’t break the booze budget. By Ted Scheffler comments@cityweekly.net @critic1

t must be nice to be able to walk into a wine store and think, “Money is no object!” I do know folks who can afford to buy the most expensive bottles—the ones they keep locked in glass cases—and, sometimes, they share those bottles with me. However, I’m not one who can afford them. And, odds are, neither are you. But that’s OK, because the biggest kick I get out of drinking and writing about wine is to find and share bargains. As I’ve said before, any old billionaire can walk into a wine store and walk out with a bottle of Henri Jayer Richebourg Grand Cru Burgundy for $16,000. But finding an interesting, tasty, well-made wine for under $10? Now there’s a challenge. Well, here are seven such wines that will set you back less than a single Hamilton.

Monkey Bay Sauvignon Blanc ($9.99): Named for a small bay tucked away on New Zealand’s Marlborough Coast, this wine is crisp and lively—a prototypical New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, with passion fruit and grapefruit notes, along with hints of pineapple. Think shellfish. Woodbridge Sauvignon Blanc by Robert Mondavi ($6.99): Robert Mondavi Winery produces some 8 million—yes, million—cases of wine each year, so they certainly don’t need my help. However, I’m a big fan of this prototypical example of California Sauvignon Blanc, which frequently goes on sale here for $3.99 a bottle. It’s fermented in stainless-steel tanks and aged sur lie (on the yeast) which helps give the wine a surprisingly rich texture for the price. There’s a slightly smoky note that I really like, too. It’s great with pasta and white clam sauce. Vinne Sklepy Lechovice MüllerThurgau ($9.59): I don’t run across too many Czech wines, but this one’s a great bang for your koruna. It’s made from the white grape variety called Müller-Thurgau and has crisp green-apple flavors, peachy aromas and a nutty, mineral finish. It’s a good partner for white fish dishes. Mirador Iberico ($7.99): Following his visit to the States in 2008, Spanish winemaker Carlos Rodriguez was driven to make a low-cost, high-quality wine for this

DRINK market. With his 100 percent Tempranillo Mirador Iber ico, he’s succeeded. This is a nicely balanced, medium-bodied wine with wellintegrated hints of vanilla and oak—a terrific choice for a tapas tasting. 35 Deg rees South Cabernet Sauv ig non-Merlot ($9.99): This tast y Chilean red is an 85/15 blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot from the Maipo and Rapel valleys. It’s organically made from hand-har vested grapes, w ith fermentation done in small tanks, and is a spicy, slightly smok y wine that will light up your back yard barbecue. Line 39 Petite Syrah ($9.99): Line 39 is California’s Cecchetti Wine Company’s line of value wines, made by talented winemaker Bob Broman. And this Petite Syrah is a great example of the word “value.” It’s a rich, full-bodied wine with dark fruit flavors, hints of oak and a lengthy finish—a wine to bring to (or order at) your favorite steakhouse.

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Château du Donjon Rosé Minervois ($7.99): Located in the LanguedocRoussillon wine region of France, Minervois is an AOC that is the source of many good wine values. I first discovered Minervois at Tony Bourdain’s Les Halles restaurant, back when I was in grad school and couldn’t afford wines over $10. This lively Rosé is a salmon-colored blend of Grenache, Syrah and Cinsault. It’s brimming with ripe strawberry aromas, but don’t think for a minute that this is a sweet wine. It’s bone dry and goes great with baked ham and roasted chicken. CW

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The Flying Sumo in Old Town Park City offers artistically prepared, high-end sushi and Japanese cuisine. Enjoy traditional nigiri, sashimi and maki rolls, or try some of the Sumoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hot plates. Start off with agedashi tofu or coconut shrimp before dining on the exceptional teriyaki chicken, grilled short ribs, Korean barbecue, yakisoba, tempura or other tempting dishes. For dessert, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss the tempura-fried banana, called the Half-pipe. 838 Park Ave., Park City, FlyingSumoSushi.com

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Siegfriedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s authentic European-deli dining experience has made it a Salt Lake City favorite for more than 40 years. The menu offers traditional German fare like bratwurst, spaetzle, wiener schnitzel and nearly every type of sausage imaginable. The deli sells both cold and hot sandwiches, but the most popular is the Reubenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; classic corned beef, pastrami, Swiss cheese and sauerkraut served on rye bread. Its convenient downtown location can accommodate a quick bite for lunch or a seated meal. If you have room, sample a dessertâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the apple strudel is truly lecker! 20 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-3891, SiegfriedsDelicatessen.biz

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enjoying classic Italian fare and the restaurant’s friendly service and inexpensive prices. Step up to the counter to place your order, and a server will bring your meal to your indoor or sidewalk table. The soups and salads are terrific, but you’ll really want to savor dishes like the spaghetti & meatballs, cheese manicotti, Grandma’s lasagna, three-cheese ravioli, chicken Alfredo, scampi with housemade gnocchi or good old chicken Parmesan. The small list of beer, spirits and wine rounds out a meal at Cannella’s nicely. 204 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-8515, Cannellas.com

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Since its inception in 1969, The Five Alls has been guided by this motto: “Fine dining in a romantic, Old-English atmosphere overlooking the valley.” And a large following of faithful patrons have appreciated the Five Alls’ unique combination of excellent and plentiful food, charming and unpretentious service, all in a rustic, medieval setting. Although many details have changed over time and some innovative additions have been made to the menu, the heart and soul of this restaurant remain the same. By making all the meals five complete courses and never seeking to gouge customers on the price, The Five Alls has enjoyed a reputation for value, as well as fine dining. Principal dishes include halibut Oscar, filet mignon, poached salmon, Prime rib and stuffed pork chops. 1458 S. Foothill Drive, Salt Lake City, 801582-1400, FiveAlls.com

Firehouse Pizzeria

The pizzas here are stone-fired, which brings a completely different flavor to the table. Along with all your standard favorite pizzas, there are also some interesting selections like artichoke-chicken, the Cowboy, Buffalo chicken, Honolulu delight, ratatouille and the Texas barbecue chicken. Non-pizza options include sandwiches, pastas and salads. 33 E. 600 South, Smithfield, 435-5633322; 682 S. Main, Logan, 435-787-4222, FirehousePizzeria.com

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Pizza may be in the name, but pizza is not all Stoneground has to offer. Although the cozy downtown restaurant offers delicious specialty pies like the Moon Dog and the Greek God, Stoneground is also the home of incredible pasta concoctions like the Artichoke Heart Throb, chipotle shrimp pasta, and lemon-caper linguine. Customers can start off with crab cakes (paired with chipotle aioli and roasted red-pepper coulis, nestled on baby greens tossed with house-made agro dolce peppers, lemon juice and extra virgin olive oil), mouthwatering soup and salads, and end on a favorite tirimasu. 249 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801-364-1368, StonegroundSLC.com

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Park City’s Edge Steakhouse is where fine dining meets a steakhouse. Here you’ll find a near-uncountable selection of entrees along with creative appetizers and desserts. Did we mention the full bar? Edge offers domestic, international and local beers along with one of the largest wine selections in Park City. 300 Canyons Resort Drive, Park City, 435-655-2260, EdgeParkCity.com

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Located at the top of Park City’s Historic Main Street, Java Cow is a favorite of all ages and palates. Split down the middle, Java Cow serves as both an ice-cream shop and a coffee shop/bakery. Choose from 20 flavors of ice cream and frozen yogurt on the left and a variety of espresso, teas, non-coffee drinks, baked goods and even crepes on the right. A plethora of knick-knacks and apparel are available for purchase, too. 402 Main, Park City, 435-647-7711

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Don’t worry; there are no gusts of cold air in this gastropub, but there are more than 50 beers from around the world available on draft. The atmosphere and quality food make Drafts that rare paradox: a classy sports bar. The menu of gourmet pub fare—think stone-hearth pizzas and handcrafted burgers—bridges the gap between high-class and backyard barbecue. If you need something to appease your sweet tooth, fried cheesecake, Oreos and spongecake are there to end the meal right. Also try the breakfast buffet, served every day from 7:30 to 11 a.m. 3000 Canyons Resort Drive, Park City, 435-655-2270, Facebook.com/DraftsParkCity

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The Grand Budapest Hotel

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The Grand Budapest Hotel may not be Wes Anderson at his deepest.

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s fascinating—and maddening—as it can be watching the arguments that emerge between the fans and detractors of a given filmmaker, it can be almost more fascinating watching fans argue among themselves. For every Quentin Tarantino devotee who enjoys his films simply for the mashed-up genre enthusiasm and crackling dialogue, there’s one who insists he’s doing a lot more— exploring redemption in Pulp Fiction, or notions of masculinity in Death Proof. It can be hard to sell the idea that something brimming with superficial pleasures isn’t just about its superficial pleasures. Wes Anderson has had me fighting that battle for years, as I’ve tried to argue for the melancholy learning of life lessons beneath his whimsical, meticulously constructed surfaces. But while it feels like there’s something going on in The Grand Budapest Hotel besides its elaborate caper framework—and that Anderson really wants to convey that something—I’ll be damned if I’m ready to figure out exactly what that something is. He begins with a narrative structure in which the central story isn’t merely a flashback, but a flashback nesting in a flashback nesting inside another flashback, like a matryoshka doll of chronology. A woman visits a memorial for a writer; that writer (Tom Wilkinson), circa 1985, describes his encounter as a young man (Jude Law) in 1968 with Mr. Zero Moustafa (F. Murray Abraham), owner of the onceglorious Grand Budapest Hotel in the “former republic of Zubowka.” And Mr. Moustafa in turn relates his experiences as young protégé (Tony Revolori) of the Grand Budapest’s veteran concierge, Monsieur Gustave (Ralph Fiennes), in 1932. The plot gets even thicker from there, as Gustave—a people-pleaser whose pleasing

includes plenty of rich older women— learns that he has inherited a valuable painting from the late Mme D. (Tilda Swinton), much to the consternation of her son (Adrien Brody) and other heirs. So if they can frame Gustave for the murder of Mme. D., and in so doing strip him of his inheritance … well, that’s just how the game is played. And it does start to feel like a wonderful game—albeit an uncharacteristically violent one for a Wes Anderson film. The cutaway dollhouse compositions that have become such an Anderson trademark are still here in plentiful supply, adding a certain geography to the elaborate set pieces like Gustave’s attempted escape from prison with a group of hardened criminals (led by Harvey Keitel) and Gustave’s subsequent multi-step secret rendezvous with a man who might be able to clear his name. Those who have found the almost dioramalike quality of Anderson’s mise-en-scene frustratingly constricted aren’t likely to change their minds this time; those who delight in immersing themselves in his oddball universe are going to find plenty of terrific visual gags and wonderfully offbeat character exchanges. Yet for all its charms—like Fiennes’ exuberant performance and the sheer momentum of Anderson’s storytelling—there’s still that sense that Grand Budapest Hotel is reaching for … well, something, without quite reaching it. The film’s third act involves the coming of war to Europe, but it’s a peculiarly Wes Anderson-esque version of 1930s European war, with a mythical country occupied by a mythical army

Ralph Fiennes and Tony Revolori in The Grand Budapest Hotel represented by a double-Z insignia that’s clearly meant to evoke Nazi Germany without every explicitly identifying it. Anderson at times seems to be lamenting the death of a certain kind of Old World European chivalry, but there’s a fuzziness to the subtext that feels awfully risky—because if you’re gonna invoke Nazis in your story, you probably should make it clear that you have a really good reason for doing so. Perhaps that merely makes The Grand Budapest Hotel exactly what some Anderson fans have considered his other movies: charming feats of filmmaking architecture with several laugh-out-loud moments sprinkled throughout their sometimes farcical action. Or perhaps it’s going to require a second viewing to peel back the layers of its narrative and figure out what Anderson’s trying to say about nostalgia, or the value of art, or the significance of basic decency. That’s perhaps what makes Anderson a particularly easy filmmaker for his fans to love: Even if there’s nothing deeper than what’s right there in front of you, there’s still a reason to believe the anti-Anderson contingent is missing something. CW

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

HHH Ralph Fiennes Tony Revolori Adrien Brody Rated R

TRY THESE The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) Gene Hackman Anjelica Huston Rated R

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) Bill Murray Owen Wilson Rated R

The Darjeeling Limited (2007) Adrien Brody Owen Wilson Rated R

Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Jared Gilman Kara Hayward Rated PG-13

e’re doing a sequel,” sing the Muppets in the opening number of Muppets Most Wanted, “And everybody knows that the sequel’s never quite as good.” It’s part of the wonderfully self-aware, fourth-wallbreaking humor that has always been a Muppets trademark—and, as it happens, it also turns out to be true. Then again, it would almost have to be. The 2011 revival of The Muppets was a magnificently exuberant road-trip return to the roots of The Muppet Movie; this one is merely a perfectly enjoyable return to The Great Muppet Caper. Picking up where the first film ended—literally at the exact moment where it ended—it finds the Muppets considering a world tour suggested by the suspiciously named Dominic Badguy (Ricky Gervais). And it turns out to be cover for an escaped criminal mastermind named Constantine, who uses his striking resemblance to Kermit the Frog to orchestrate a switcheroo that lands Kermit (Steve Whitmire) in a Siberian prison. The return of most of the key Muppets creative team—director James Bobin, co-writer Nicholas Stoller, songwriter Bret McKenzie—ensures a certain comedic continuity, and the key new liveaction actors (Gervais; Tina Fey as the Siberian prison commandant; Ty Burrell as a Clouseau-esque Interpol agent) are all game performers. The silly stuff—a sign identifies a significant location as “Plotpointburg”—is appropriately silly, the cameos enjoyably goofy, and there’s even a great gag about the focus on new Muppet Walter (Peter Linz). Yet it’s also just slightly … less. Maybe it’s the lack of an immediately earworm-y tune among McKenzie’s new compositions to match “Life’s a Happy Song”; maybe it’s a slightly more rambling plot. Or maybe it’s simply a diminished nostalgia factor with the most recent movie only two years removed. Muppets Most Wanted is merely an enjoyable charmer— and I suppose all not-quite-as-good sequels should be so lucky. CW

MUPPETS MOST WANTED

HHH Ricky Gervais Ty Burrell Tina Fey Rated PG

CINEMA CLIPS NEW THIS WEEK Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change. Child’s Pose HHH It’s an absorbing combination of legal procedural and a morethan-a-little-Oedipal character study, sparked by Luminita Gheorghiu’s towering central performance as a woman bent on imposing her absolute will over reality. She’s a monster, but she’s never just that. Razvan Radulescu (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu)’s script follows a wealthy Romanian architect casually accustomed to seeing the crowds part before her. When her estranged adult son gets involved in a horrific auto accident, she begins calling in her considerable markers to set him free, whether he wants it or not. With such rich material in his corner, it’s a shame that director Calin Peter Netzer often seems to be actively battling against his assets, utilizing a shaky handheld style that threatens to diminish the operatic potential of the story. Even at its bumpiest, however, the film remains fascinating, thanks to Gheorghiu, who continually brings new facets of her character to light—some horrible, some awfully recognizable; a sequence where she meets the parents of the teenaged victim is a masterpiece of ping-ponging sympathies. Every time the camera lands on her, there’s something new to see. Opens March 21 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—Andrew Wright

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Everybody Street At Utah Museum of Fine Arts, March 26, 7 p.m. (NR)

The Fifth Element At Brewvies, March 24, 10 p.m. (PG-13)

Girl on a Bicycle At Park City Film Series, March 21-22 @ 8 p.m. & March 23 @ 6 p.m. (R)

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Farewell My Concubine At Main Library, March 25, 7 p.m. (R)

Need for Speed HH.5 It’s risky showing a scene from Bullitt early in this car-chase drama—not just because of that film’s signature chase scene, but because that means comparing Aaron Paul to Steve McQueen as alpha male behind the wheel. Paul plays Tobey Marshall, who

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Muppets Most Wanted HHH See review p. 36. Opens March 21 at theaters valleywide. (PG)

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

The Grand Budapest Hotel HHH See review p. 36. Opens March 21 at theaters valleywide. (R)

CURRENT RELEASES

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 he’s a dog. When 7-year-old Sherman (Max Charles) and his schoolmate Penny (Ariel Winter) take Peabody’s WABAC—pronounced “way back”—machine out for an unauthorized jaunt to the distant past, it’s up to Peabody to repair the timestream 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)—MaryAnn Johanson

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me HHH A character study is halfway home just in finding a terrific character to study, and Chiemi Karasawa starts off with a great one in Elaine Stritch, the veteran actress who is 86 years old as this documentary follows her through preparations for a series of one-woman shows performing Sondheim tunes. And Karasawa finds her fascinatingly unguarded in addressing the complications of her advanced years: the shadow of recovering alcoholism, complications from diabetes and occasionally forgetting the lyrics of Sondheim’s challenging songs. There’s a level on which this most closely resembles Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, getting inside the insecurities of a show-biz veteran who keeps working because she doesn’t know who she is if she’s not a performer. Yet as irascible a lady and as fine a raconteur as Stritch may be, this also feels like a documentary that makes its points well before its modest 80 minute running time expires. Or maybe it’s just fine to concede that Stritch has earned the right to go out on her own terms, whatever those terms may be. Opens March 21 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—Scott Renshaw

Hedwig & the Angry Inch At Brewvies, March 20, 7 p.m. (R)

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Divergent [not yet reviewed] Adaptation of the young-adult bestseller about a girl (Shailene Woodley) whose unique mix of attributes makes her a threat to her futuristic society. Opens March 21 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)

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has to drive a valuable souped-up Mustang cross-country with a representative of the car’s owner (Imogen Poots) for a chance to avenge his wrongful imprisonment. It takes way too long to set up the plot before that point, but the film proves surprisingly muscular once the engines are revving. Then there’s the stuff that happens between chases, and Paul—as talented an actor as he may be—feels like he’s uncomfortably wearing “action hero” like it’s a suit that’s the wrong size. If you want to see what it looks like when it’s the right size, rent Bullitt. (PG-13)—SR

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Tim’s Vermeer HH.5 Producer/narrator Penn Jillette and director Teller’s experience as debunkers might make them a perfect fit for this

premise, yet they may also be too close to their subject to realize this might’ve been a better documentary short than a feature. Penn & Teller follow inventor Tim Jenison as he spends years attempting to prove the oft-suggested theory that 17th-century painter Johannes Vermeer may have used primitive optical equipment to facilitate his work, with Jenison himself attempting a perfect re-creation of a Vermeer painting. As a portrait of an obsessive, it’s often fairly fascinating, capturing Jenison’s sometimes frustrated tinkering to achieve a perfect set-up for his experiment. But once it becomes clear that Jenison has the tools to prove his point, it’s an awfully long stretch spent watching him work on his painting. A certain metaphor becomes hard to resist. (PG-13)—SR

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Frio

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Free Ride A single mom (Anna Paquin) in 1970s Florida joins the drug-smuggling trade to support her daughters, and everything goes just fine. Kidding—it all goes to hell, which is what you should expect when you get into business with Drea de Matteo. (Phase 4)

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Da Vinci’s Demons Saturday, March 22 (Starz)

Bikini Kill singer/riot grrrl pioneer Kathleen Hanna gets the full documentary treatment, with classic BK and Le Tigre concert footage, interviews and the real reason she retired in 2005. No, Drea de Matteo had nothing to do with it. (IFC Films) Matters™ would usually say “Catch up on Season 1” before recommending jumping into the second, but Da Vinci’s Demons isn’t going to make any more or less sense with the background info.

My Five Wives Sundays (TLC) New Series: Maybe this is where I used “unendurable hellscape of excruciating sadness.” My Five Wives premiered weeks ago, and you’ve seen the ads with Utah polygamist Brady Williams, his five “spouses” and their combined 24 kids over and over—and yet you still didn’t reject it as vehemently as you did Chrisley Knows Best (thanks for that, ’Merica, I owe you one). It helps that Williams is more likable than that assclown Kody Brown of TLC’s other polygamy show—yes, we now have to differentiate between polygamy shows— Sister Wives, but, as with 95 percent of all reality-TV series, there’s no reason for My Five Wives to exist. It’s just another contrived, scripted suckfest attempting to make a “real” family seem entertaining. Even multiplied by five, they ain’t.

From Dusk Till Dawn (El Rey) From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series Tuesdays (El Rey) New Series: Prior to the premiere of From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series last week, Robert Rodriguez’s El Rey Network (“Spanish TV for Gringos”—not the official tagline, but I’m willing to sell) mostly showed X-Files and Dark Angel reruns and obscure kungfu and horror flicks. In other words, the perfect cable channel—and then came From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, which was instantly darker and weirder than Rodriguez’s 1996 cult movie. Psycho Gecko brothers Seth (D.J. Cotrona, a passable George Clooney sub) and Richie (Zane Holtz, leagues more intense than Quentin Tarantino) are fresh out of jail and on a body-stacking crime spree to the Mexican border; vampires and twisted Aztec mythologies are about to get in their way. Anyone remotely “good” or “not insane” gets real dead real quick in FDTD, but the real mystery is how Rodriguez can stretch this story over 10 (or more) episodes. So far, I’m in—way in. CW

Veep: Season 2 Vice President Selina Meyer (Julia-Louis Dreyfus) deals with midterm elections, an asshole political strategist (Gary Cole), rural ’Merica, the military, the government shutdown and the worst staff in D.C. Probably all (shudder) true. (HBO)

The Wolf of Wall Street A stockbroker (Leonardo DiCaprio) rises to power on 1990s Wall Street in Martin Scorsese’s epic tale of drugs, debauchery and Jonah Hill’s prosthetic penis. Also starring Matthew McConaughey, because everything does now. (Paramount)

More New DVD Releases (March 25) Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher, Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa: Live in Amsterdam, California Scheming, Continuum: Season 2, Countdown, Crazy Landlord, Delivery Man, Here’s Lucy: The Complete Series, Key & Peele: Seasons 1 & 2, Machine Head, Welcome to the Jungle Listen to Bill on Mondays at 8 a.m. on X96 Radio From Hell; weekly on the TV Tan podcast via iTunes and Stitcher.

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Season Premiere: Starz has yet to recapture that Spartacus buzz of a few years ago; the just-completed first season of Black Sails came close, even though the network made the mistake of positioning it as a “serious” period drama when it was really just a CW soap with more blood, nudity, grownups and the bad touch of Michael Bay. Between the hype of those two series, Starz in 2013 quietly launched Da Vinci’s Demons, about the historical-ish Renaissance adventures of a young, sexy Leonardo da Vinci (Tom Riley) as he navigates conspiracies, cults and Catholics, as well as his own genius and bi-curious tendencies. Sure, it sounds ridiculous—ridiculously fun! (See? Anyone can be a critic.) The Only TV Column That

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New Series: Anyone can be a critic (seriously, anyone), but few have the conviction of Forrest MacNeil, the tenacious “life critic” of Comedy Central’s left-field new hit Review. As MacNeil, Andy Daly takes requests from viewers as to which random life experience he should try out; in Episode 1, MacNeil gave addiction a spin and wound up awarding cocaine “a million stars!” out of five (post-rehab, a half star, because no real journalist would hand out zero stars). In the March 20 episode, he takes on the equally dangerous task of consuming 15 pancakes in one sitting—if that sounds easy to you, MacNeil suggests that your life must be “an unendurable hellscape of excruciating sadness” (didn’t I use that line in a review of George Lopez’s new sitcom?). Review review: 1 green button.

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SOUTH BY Southwest

Sing Me a Song How I learned to let loose and connect to the music at SXSW.

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s I do in most crowds, I felt uncomfortably out of place waiting for Desert Noises’ outdoor show to start at Austin’s Easy Tiger Bake Shop & Beer Garden during the 2014 South by Southwest music festival. Standing there alone but surrounded by strangers, weighed down with a heavy messenger bag full of the accoutrements of a reporter, all I could think about was my aching feet, my empty stomach and the ever-present buzz of inane chatter. But then a more-than-slightly-intoxicated girl standing in front of me reminded me of why I was at SXSW in the first place. After the four members of the Provo rock & roll band Desert Noises threw themselves into their joyously energetic set, she took it upon herself to get as many people dancing in front of the stage as she could. But since most of the people in the audience were content to talk to their neighbors or stand aloof with a beer in hand, she finally loudly addressed the entire crowd during a pause between songs, ending with the statement “Not dancing to music is like not praying to God!” It would be easy to chalk up her actions to the consumption of one or two beers more than she could gracefully handle that afternoon. But she was on to something profound. It was then that I realized that all the people (myself included) who were self-consciously worrying about looking a little sillywhile they let loose and danced to a great song—not just at the Desert Noises show but at SXSW in general—were missing the point of the festival. With its scores of impossibly trendy attendees all snapping flattering photos of one another and the insanely long lines to get in to watch such & such megastar music act, SXSW can seem like a giant ego-stroke. But at its core, SXSW is about watching bands that you’d previously only known through Spotify and seeing them as actual sweaty humans who are making music happen with their own hands. Or witnessing a local band like Desert Noises bring their music to an entirely fresh audience with confidence and flair. Or even discovering your new favorite band. SXSW is about connecting to music, not just consuming it. And in the wide range of music I experienced at SXSW, I saw plenty of people, in audiences and bands alike, being affected by the uniting power of music. As I watched local electro-pop band Mideau perform on a noisy patio, I saw passersby drawn to the sound stop in their tracks and peep over the railing to catch a glimpse of Libbie Linton and Spencer Harrison at work. I saw the look of genuine amazement on the face of lead vocalist/guitarist Brian Sella of New Jersey punk band The Front Bottoms when the fan-filled crowd sang along to almost every lyric of their set. I saw the excitement on the faces of the audience at a show by Missouri’s Ha Ha Tonka when a rowdy rendition of “St. Nick on the Fourth in a Fervor” made the stage shake. And that connection to music didn’t happen only in

People of SXSW (top to bottom): Ha Ha Tonka, Desert Noises and an innovative busker “official” SXSW showcases, either. On nearly every street corner and in nearly every doorway on 6th Street, numerous buskers played accordions, cellos, beat-up guitars and saxophones, or even just created foot-tapping beats with an improvised drum set made out of some plastic buckets and upended pots and pans. As they started playing, they’d quickly become surrounded by a ring of interested people, because it didn’t matter if a musician was standing on a stage or sitting in the gutter: They all had music inside of them, waiting to be released. So when that buzzed girl started dancing at the Desert Noises show without a care in the world, I realized none of my worries really mattered. I closed my eyes, tipped my face up to the sunset-illuminated sky and swayed to the beat. CW

n an age where people love bite-size pop songs that have simple, catchy choruses, it’s rare that music without words can attract a large audience. But even those who aren’t mad instrumental-rock enthusiasts have probably heard This Will Destroy You, as their swelling, melodic pieces make the perfect backdrop for movies and T V shows. The song “The Mighty Rio Grande,” from their 2008 self-titled debut full-length album, was featured in ads for the 2011 film Moneyball , and the 11-minute guitar opus also acted as the film’s primary theme music. It’s probably their most recognizable song, and thanks to placements like that in Moneyball, the Texas-based quartet’s fanbase continues to expand. “It’s really interesting seeing how far our music has spread out through film and TV and touring,” says guitarist Jeremy Galindo. “The growth of the band has been mind-blowing to watch. It’s incredibly surreal. It’s just not something we thought we could ever get away with doing for a living.” But still, as 2011’s Tunnel Blanket revealed, the band is not interested in doing the same thing over and over again. Though tracks like “Little Blood” and “Black Dunes” from Tunnel Blanket are, like the band’s earlier work, heavy on layers and pedal work, they have a moody, distant feeling, as opposed to the generally upbeat, hopeful sensibility found on their debut. “Communal Blood” feels especially ominous, gradually building in a sinister cacophony of guitars. Many fans of This Will Destroy You are divided over their preferences of the prettier aesthetic of the band’s debut or the darker shift in tone on Tunnel Blanket, but the band’s upcoming project, slated for a fall release, might let them meet in the middle. “It’s more of a mix of everything we’ve done up to this point,” Galindo says. “It has more up-front melodies than Tunnel Blanket did, and overall it’s a happier record, but it still has a very creepy but organic vibe to it.” Whether they are making melodic, peaceful music, or abrasive, haunting tracks, the guys in This Will Destroy You are always digging deep to express themselves—and it’s the kind of powerful, creative desire that doesn’t even require words. CW

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The Bump Lake Street Dive’s brand of soul is ready for the big stage. By Austen Diamond comments@cityweekly.net

he four members of Lake Street Dive sit with backs as straight as the spine of a brand-new book of sheet music—it almost seems like a defensive stance, especially when compared to the calm, cool doo-wop swagger they air out onstage. They’re ready for whatever oddball or smart-ass questions Stephen Colbert will huck at them during their first televised interview and performance, which aired Feb. 5. Guitar and trumpet player Mike “McDuck” Olson fields the first question and tells Colbert that the band met at the New England Conservatory of Music. “Is that the place where Colonel Mustard kills you with the candlestick?” Colbert asks. A conservatory is a place where you, generally, only study music, frontwoman Rachael Price says, to which Colbert asks if they received classical musical training. “We study jazz,” Price says. “Jazz! Oh, then why do I like your music?” Colbert says. And with that quip, the band finally, visibly, loosens up. All four musicians are certainly accomplished players and songwriters—upright bassist Bridget Kearney even won the 2006 John Lennon Songwriting Contest— yet Lake Street Dive’s brand of neo-soul requires an effort of self-restraint, says drummer Mike Calabrese. That’s not to say that the 11 songs on the band’s second fulllength album, Bad Self Portraits (released Feb. 18, Signature Sound Recordings), are pedantic; rather, the tunes are artfully crafted with the listener in mind. Several years after the band formed (nearly 10 years ago), there was a group realization that if they wanted to make their compositions speak to and connect with their listeners, then they’d “have to restrain our impulse to play everything all of the time, which is sort of a generalized impression that a lot of people have of jazz—that it’s too busy, too many notes,” Calabrese says via phone. Sure, Colbert—and many fans of modern pop and rock music—might not like or understand jazz music, but Lake Street Dive’s jazz influence is now so subtle as to be barely noticeable on Bad Self Portraits. The album is heavy with potential pop charttoppers, such as the magnetically poppy first single “Bad Self Portraits” and what’s

Mid-century modern: Lake Street Dive fuse jazz and pop sensibilities

possibly the best tune on the album, the R&Bdriven “You Go Down Smooth,” displaying the band’s progression over the years. “When we first started as a band, we considered ourselves more of an improv group,” Calabrese says. “We were more interested in improvisation and interaction. What changed for us, however, was the idea that we began focusing our attention more toward songs and those songs’ influences,” such as British Invasion pop (“Bobby Tanqueray”) and Motown hits (“Use Me Up”). While on The Colbert Report, before Lake Street Dive played any songs, Colbert asked if they were ready for “The Colbert Bump.” “I don’t think anybody can really be ready for it, as a sort of recognition of reality,” Calabrese says now. “It’s felt like a dream the past couple of days since it happened.” The band’s Twitter following and Facebook likes, plus the number of ticket sales and interview requests, have all skyrocketed, he says. But this isn’t the first celebrity endorsement the band has received. Prior to Bad Self Portraits, Lake Street Dive released an EP of cover songs, Fun Machine. To help promote the release, they recorded a video of themselves performing the Jackson 5’s “I Want You Back” on a Boston street corner. The YouTube views were rising slowly and then Kevin Bacon tweeted about the video; proof that the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon phenomenon is real—very real. “Him of all people. It was funny—it was just so, it was special, because everyone knows about the six degrees,” Calabrese says. Bacon aside, Fun Machine was pivotal for Lake Street Dive’s growth—beyond giving their listeners a clear sign of what inspires them. The EP allowed them to delve into these old songs, deconstruct them, find out what was important to them and then reassemble them for their unique instrumentation. Calabrese says that recording Fun Machine helped the band have a deeper understanding of how to make the songs on Bad Self Portraits come alive, in that they could dissect how each song was functioning and give it a heart. Dissection, functioning, reassembly— Lake Street Dive certainly studied jazz. CW

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Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real Lukas Nelson’s reedy, powerful voice might sound uncannily like his legendary old man’s, but the music produced by the California vocal/guitarist and his three-man backing band is like nothing Willie has ever made. A groovy but hard-hitting combination of Southern-fried rock and jam-band elements—bongos, chimes—Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real play with high amounts of energy and pizzazz. To write their upcoming, as-yet-untitled full-length album, the band stayed at an isolated summer camp in the famous Topanga Canyon in California for six weeks. Maybe all the surfing and fresh air had an effect; in a press release, Nelson says the new material will be a lot more positive and hopeful than the songs on their 2012 album, Wasted. The Weekenders open on Friday night; Tony Holiday & the Velvetones open on Saturday. The State Room, 638 S. State, 9 p.m., $27; also March 22, TheStateRoom.com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com Taking Back Sunday, The Used It’s no surprise these two hugely popular rock/post-hardcore bands were booked for two nights in Salt Lake City. They both have new music coming out, and The Used originated in Utah. Taking Back Sunday has come a long way since the Long Island, N.Y., band’s debut album, 2002’s Tell All Your Friends. Several lineup changes—including the departure of guitarist/co-vocalist Fred Mascherino

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Against Me! The latest album by Gainesville, Fla., punk rockers Against Me! begins a new chapter for the band, but it also marks the turning of a particularly significant page in the life of their lead vocalist, Laura Jane Grace. Formerly known as Tom Gabel, Grace came out as transgender in 2012, and Transgender Dysphoria Blues—released in January—is the first album Against Me! has released since Grace began living as a woman. Featuring the band’s new rhythm section and contributions from punk notables like Joan Jett and Fat Mike of NOFX, the album is awe-inspiring, with Grace bravely confronting the obstacles, pain and

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The Appleseed Cast In the past work by Lawrence, Kan., indierock quartet The Appleseed Cast, the lyrics often melted into the nuanced, mind-bendingly intricate instrumentation. On the band’s most recent album, 2013’s Illumination Ritual, they almost disappear altogether. But there’s so much going on in these evocatively titled songs—“North Star Ordination” and “Adriatic to Black Sea,” for example—that the ear still has plenty to absorb, such as math-rock guitar lines that weave around each other, time-signature changes, layers of synths and detail-driven percussion. Sticking the lyrics in the backseat and letting the richly textured soundscapes take the wheel makes for an album that sucks the listener into the varied moods and feelings of the music. Great Interstate and Strong Words are also on the bill. The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $10 in advance, $12 day of show, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com

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Umphrey’s McGee With innovative fan experiences like UMBowl (the fifth happening in New York in May), in which fans dictate the show’s proceedings, Illinois prog-rock sextet Umphrey’s McGee champions crowd relations with monthly podcast highlights, covers ranging from the Charlie Brown theme song to Pink Floyd’s “Breathe” and impeccably timed light shows. If you’re that die-hard fan in the crowd yelling out “Alex’s House,” they want to and will play it, with improvisational flair. The solidly skilled musicians can seamlessly transition from rock to pop to jazz and back again, often allowing a bandmate to slide off into a soulful solo during their live performances. Expect their eighth album out this spring. The California Honey Drops will open. (Carly Fetzer) Thursday, March 20 @ The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 8 p.m., $20 in advance, $25 day of show, DepotSLC.com

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Cleveland, Ohio, indie-rock duo Mr. Gnome— Nicole Barille (vocals, guitar) and Sam Meister (drums, keyboard)—deliver post-punk beats and hints of goth reminiscent of Siouxsie & the Banshees. Their latest album, Madness In Miniature—released in 2011—is like listening to an apocalyptic sci-fi fairytale. The track “House of Circles” is accompanied by a must-see video featuring freedom fighters saving the world from the evil sun-eating queen. Beautiful, gory ballads such as “Run For Cover” suck you in with layered harmonies and surprise take-offs mid-song. Fans of Cat Power and Arcade Fire are likely to fall for Mr. Gnome’s experimental dark rock. Heaps & Heaps and Big Wild Wings will start the night. (Deann Armes) Friday, March 21 @ The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $8 in advance, $10 day of show, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com Red Tide Rising, Perish Lane, Downfall A Lily Gray, (Liquid Joe’s) Karaoke (Maggie McGee’s) Gerade, The Paper Guns, Creature Vs., Lexington Heights, Gerade, Creature Vs., The Paper Guns (Muse Music Café, Provo) Rattlesnake Wine (The Outlaw Saloon) Martin Sexton (Park City Live) Roby Kap or Scotty Haze (afternoon), Harry Lee & the Back Alley Blues Band (evening) (Pat’s Barbecue) Ghostowne, Antique Cadillac, Grey Doggs (The Royal) R.A.T.S. (The Spur Bar & Grill, Park City) Lukas Nelson & P.O.T.R., The Weekenders (The State Room) Mr. Gnome, Heaps & Heaps, Big Wild Wings (The Urban Lounge) Jay William Henderson, Isaac Russell, Timmy the Teeth, Brinton Jones (Velour, Provo) Wild Country (The Westerner) Zombie Cock (The Woodshed)

Saturday 3.22 Gaytheist, Baby Gurl, Yaktooth, Die Off (Bar Deluxe) Alien Landslide (Black Jacks, Spanish Fork) The Breakfast Klub (Brewskis, Ogden) Brut Force, Merlin’s Beard, Death Blow (Burt’s Tiki Lounge) Steel Pulse (Canyons Resort) Hard Rockin’ Johnsons (Club 90) The Dirty Heads, Codi Jordan Band, Funk & Gonzo (The Depot) Cherry Royale (The Garage) Big Mic-E, Circul8, Big CC the Clawcasian, Gedword and Solo Tragedy (Gino’s) Mokie (The Hog Wallow Pub) Taking Back Sunday, The Used, Tonight Alive, Sleepwave (In the Venue) Con Bro Chill, Typefunk of Nightfreq (Kilby Court)

The Spazmatics (Liquid Joe’s) Karaoke (Maggie McGee’s) Laura Stevenson, Cheap Girls, Against Me! (Murray Theater) My Fair Fiend, Avalon Landing, The Soles, Sense Divide (Muse Music Café, Provo) Rattlesnake Wine (The Outlaw Saloon) Will Sparks (Park City Live) RU Traffic Jam (Pat’s Barbecue) Lake Effect (The Spur Bar & Grill, Park City) Lukas Nelson & P.O.T.R., Tony Holiday Band (The State Room) Odesza DJ Matty Mo, High Counsel (The Urban Lounge) We Are the Strike EP Release, Scott & Brendo (Velour, Provo) Wild Country (The Westerner) Party Hard (The Woodshed)

Sunday 3.23 Pontiac, Eagle Twin (Bar Deluxe) The Magic Beans (Canyons Resort) Live Bluegrass (Club 90) Karaoke (Maggie McGee’s) Reproacher, Commoner, Clark (The Shred Shed) Open Mic (The Spur Bar & Grill, Park City) Robert Ellis, Wild Child (The State Room) That 1 Guy (The Urban Lounge) Hilst and Coffee (Vertical Diner) Karaoke That Doesn’t Suck (The Woodshed)

Monday 3.24 Inner Oceans (Burt’s Tiki Lounge) Emmure, Volumes, Thy Art Is Murder, Gideon, Sworn (In the Venue) Genders, Secret Abilities, Tele Novella (Kilby Court) Anchorage, Esther, Grass (The Shred Shed) Karaoke (Maggie McGee’s) Jordan Young (The Spur Bar & Grill, Park City) The Appleseed Cast, Great Interstate, Strong Words (The Urban Lounge)

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