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Letters Karma for Cops

I just read your article about Beau Babka, and I don’t feel a bit sorry for him or anyone like him [“Behind the Badge,” March 13, City Weekly].

I believe in karma; what goes around comes around.

Doesn’t he realize just how many people he has practically put in the same position that he is in?

The legislators make up victimless so-called crimes so they can rip off people’s money and put it in their general fund that benefits them and whoever works for them. The police cause these people to lose their money and jobs as their families go without because of fines and legal feels.

And less income coming in sometimes causes families to break up.

These lawmakers, police, courts and anyone that upholds them better think before they act, or it just might come back and bite them in the ass—just like it did to me.

Shirley Higley West Valley

Time for a New Revelation

With Ordain Women again attempting to attend the priesthood session of LDS Conference, it seems a weak argument when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says, “Women in the church, by a very large majority, do not share … advocacy for priesthood ordination for women

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Was not polygamy or priesthood for males of black African descent extreme? Did church members not obey these “extreme” new revelations?

LDS members have an extraordinary history of accepting new doctrine. I doubt anything could be more agonizing and extreme for women (and men) than Joseph Smith’s proclamation in 1831 about polygamy.

Also difficult was when Spencer W. Kimball in 1978 announced that, “He has heard our prayers, and by revelation has confirmed that the long-promised day has come when every faithful, worthy man in the church may receive the holy priesthood…”

If, one day, church authorities state that “every faithful, worthy [woman] in the church may receive the holy priesthood,” I believe members would obey this new revelation, just as they have in the past obeyed other new revelations.

In an interview about his new book, Call to Action, former President Jimmy Carter asserts that many religions practice sexism. And as men are usually the ones in authority, why would they wish to give up and share with women their power?

Still, kudos to Ordain Women and many others who keep striving for equality.

Sarah Smith Salt Lake City

Know Thy God

With the release of the movie Noah, fundamentalists are forced to ponder whether their god is loving, as depicted in the New Testament, or a god who takes psychotic pleasure in genocides.

If one supports the god of Noah and Sodom & Gomorrah, and one assumes these ancient communities were much like today’s communities, the victims of God’s wrath would likely have been made up of the following: people of all ages from the newborn to the quite elderly, people with physical and mental challenges, pregnant women, people who were attracted to the opposite gender and to the same gender, and people with a range of religious beliefs.

Down through the ages, various tribes, cults, religions and dictators have felt perfectly justified to kill all those who were not a part of the “chosen” people.

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OPINION

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Am I having sex as often as I should be?

No one escapes the bedevilment of that question. In the pre-Internet age, only a determined reference librarian might have found an answer. Nowadays, you can Google your way through a thicket of polls, surveys and studies to figure out whether or not you are getting all the sex you deserve. It’s amazing how much personal data is accessible with a mouse click, largely because Americans are as willing to confide in pollsters, researchers and demographers as they are people sitting next to them on airplanes. A book by Les Krantz and Chris Smith, The Unofficial U.S. Census, Things the Official U.S. Census Doesn’t Tell You About America, mines the resultant trove of data for such nuggets as “17 percent of people with a tattoo regret having it” and “6 percent of all car crashes involve cell phones.”

The official census, the government’s population count that takes place every 10 years, doesn’t ask questions about tattoos or sex. Even though 25 percent of Americans aren’t sure what the census is meant to accomplish, it does provide straightforward demographics from which you can learn that Utah’s population is overwhelmingly white (80 percent), young (31 percent under 18), well-educated (96 percent high school graduates) and comfortable ($57,783 median household income). What you can’t glean from official census data are the drugs Utahns prefer, how many hours we sleep or how much ice cream we eat. Smith and Krantz provide the answers.

Because they use “a wide variety of sources to answer the questions the government neglected to ask,” their book covers a lot of ground in a by-the-numbers approach.

A number is precise, authoritative and neutral. Adjectives and adverbs are less so.

They don’t have the octane of data points, percentages and rankings. You could, for example, lament the state of the federal government using such modifiers as hopeless, gridlocked, dysfunctional and polarized, but

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none of them would have quite the impact of 70—the percentage of Americans who have lost faith in Washington’s ability to deal with the country’s problems. In this example, the number 70 validates what you know intuitively. In other cases, the number takes you by surprise, like $7,128, the average creditcard debt of American households.

Culled from surveys and polls, the numbers cited by Smith and Krantz are mostly metrics, indicators of what is going on around us. Some are obvious (82 percent of American households have barbecue grills) while others (the average work week is 34 hours) are not. Some are comforting (the average life expectancy is approaching 79) and some (173 kids under the age of 12 were killed by guns last year) are not. Some are sobering (40 percent of American adults don’t believe in evolution) and some (the f-word is uttered 506 times in The Wolf of Wall Street) are as insubstantial as cotton candy.

It is my nature to prefer words to numbers—my math skills are anemic—but I do like binaries, a construct that works as well with words as with numbers. Here is a pair of best/worst binaries: In 2012, Utah schools’ per-pupil expenditure was $6,849; New York spent $18,616 on each student. Utah’s rate of volunteerism was 43.8, while New York’s was 20.6. What insight lies within? Perhaps none. But when there is insight to be found, it’s usually midway between the poles.

Without math ability to call upon, I have trouble understanding algorithms.

Nevertheless, I appreciate Nate Silver’s remarkable success using algorithms to predict the outcome of recent elections in his FiveThirtyEight blog. And I am in awe of the physicists whose equations predicted the existence of the subatomic Higgs boson, the so-called God particle. The predictive capability of numbers is part of their appeal.

Silver’s statistical models predict that by

2020, 54.2 percent of all Utahns will favor same-sex marriage. While I don’t understand his methodology, I believe he is right.

There also seems little doubt that in 2020, another predictive number will prove to be true. By then, the carbon-dioxide level in the atmosphere will approach 410 parts per million, 60 parts above what many scientists believe is a level the climate will tolerate.

You can also trace predictive trend lines from a succession of data points. If you plot the average number of hours Americans sleep on weeknights, the downward slope begins in 1910 with 10 hours, drops to 7.9 in 1955, 7.5 in 1978 and 6.7 in 2010. If the trend continues, researchers worry that a resultant lack of productivity will have a measurable impact on the economy.

Anyone getting into the business of forecasting, economic or otherwise, is going to have to factor in the Internet. More than 95 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 now use it. Still, for all its benefits, the Internet is a pirate’s and pornographer’s playground.

“W hy you think the ’net was born?” asks the catchy Avenue Q song. “Porn, porn, porn!” Indeed, 12 percent of the worldwide web is pornographic. Sunday is the preferred day for surfing the 25 million porn websites, and on most days, 2.5 billion pornographic e-mails are sent.

Small wonder we are preoccupied with how much sex we are having. Thanks to the Unofficial U.S. Census, we have a benchmark of 118, the number of times the average American has intercourse in a year. If you are averaging two times a week, with goodbehavior bonuses, you are probably on par.

If not, you would be well advised to get more sleep (1 in 5 people reports being too tired for sex) and to vet your bedmates. Sleeping with a smartphone—as 80 percent of young adults do—is not smart. CW

What you can’t glean from official census data are the drugs utahns prefer

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What statistic are you a part of?

Scott Renshaw: I am part of the 74 percent of Americans (only 74 percent), according to a Scientific American poll, who know that the Earth orbits around the sun. The other 26 percent believe it orbits around Glenn Beck.

Paula Saltas: I’m part of the 100 percent that believes I’m awesome. The group consists of me and whoever would still care to work here.

Jackie Briggs: 89 percent of adults worldwide believe Cher is God. I am among them.

Rachel Piper: I’m one of 2 percent of women who love Jay-Z and Agatha Christie in equal measure.

Kolbie Stonehocker: I belong to the 98 percent of left-handed people who are scientifically proven to be cooler than right-handed people, the 13 percent of cat lovers who only own one cat, the 3 percent of music fans who think Phantogram is overrated, the 46 percent of people who think hard-boiled eggs taste like gritty eyeballs and the 18 percent of people who get grossed out by grasshoppers.

Sarah Arnoff: I recently read that 23 percent of Americans did not read a single book in 2013. I’m not part of that statistic, so I guess I’ve got that going for me.

Colin Wolf: I’m one of the 98 percent who can’t stand people who ride their bikes on the sidewalk downtown, when all of Main Street is a damned bike lane.

Come on.

Eric S. Peterson: According to my calculations, I comprise 100 percent of the demographic that thinks eating octopus at a value buffet is a good idea.

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HITS&MISSES

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Is Salt Lake City running out of money? You have to wonder as the government struggles with fees and more fees, for everything from landlords to dog parks. Well, we know the city lost a bundle on its nifty parking kiosks—the ones that have been keeping people from parking downtown. Now they must be in the red for the doggie poop bags they leave around public parks.

OK, dog owners aren’t picking up after their pups, but what ever happened to fines for non-compliance? The city is even having trouble making ends meet for its public golf courses, which were supposed to be self-sustaining.

Apparently, the disc golf contingent has come out in force, suggesting that troubled courses be converted for the Frisbee-like game. It doesn’t sound like there’s money in that proposition, and what self-respecting banker plays nine holes of disc golf ?

All Oiled Up Hoo-boy. Two oil spills down south, one in Dixie National Forest and a larger, older one on the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. And it’s not like any oil company actually reported the spills—they were discovered by patrols and hikers in those areas. A recent report by the nonprofit Pipeline Safety Trust suggests that the state could do more than the minimum pipeline safety standards outlined by the federal government. But this is Utah, and we’re having trouble just deciding whether to adopt stricter air quality standards than the feds require. Given the reluctance to regulate, Utahns will have to rely on chance or good corporate citizenship.

Education “Excellence” Go figure how some parents can be so concerned about getting rid of “bad” teachers and yet are determined to undermine any systematic method of evaluation. That’s what’s happening as hundreds of parents opt their kids out of the Student Assessment of Growth and Excellence standardized tests.

The SAGE tests are harder than others because they actually measure what a student knows, and ostensibly show teachers how they should be adapting to their students’ knowledge. But because some of it’s based on the Utah Common Core, conspiracy theorists think it’s a plot to socially engineer the young. Educators should continue to fight against ignorance and the unfounded fear of the consequences of critical thinking.

ADAM DRESSLER

Money Trouble

Ryan Nicodemus, along with childhood friend Joshua Millburn, are known by followers as The Minimalists (TheMinimalists.com). In their new book, Everything That Remains, the two writer/bloggers write about their journey from suit & tie corporate guys with big houses and shiny new cars to a life adhering to minimalism. Nicodemus and Millburn will be passing through Salt Lake City on their 100city worldwide book tour to discuss how to de-clutter your life and make room for what really matters. The free presentation, Q&A and book signing will be at Weller Book Works (607 Trolley Square) on Tuesday, April 15, at 7 p.m. Nicodemus (left) shared with City Weekly how he found greater happiness after a radical breakaway from the material world. Read the full interview at CityWeekly.net.

How did having possessions make you unhappy?

Well, it’s not the possessions themselves that made me unhappy. It’s really about where my energy was, my focus in life. That is what I found brought me unhappiness. If you were to tell my 18-year-old self what my 28-year-old self was going to have, I would have been the most excited 18-year-old. I would have thought, “Wow, I’m going to be the happiest guy ever.” Once I got everything I wanted, instead of happiness it brought me stress, it brought me discontent, it brought me anxiety, it brought me debt, heaps of debt. I was miserable.

I got to this point where I didn’t know what was important anymore. Here I was with a nice 2,000-square-foot condo—three bedrooms, two bathrooms, two living rooms ... I have no idea why a single guy needs two living rooms, but I had it. And I bought a shiny new car every couple years. I was living this thing called the American dream. And I wasn’t happy and it was really confusing for me. I didn’t know what was wrong with me.

I felt ungrateful, I thought maybe I just didn’t appreciate what I had. But really, what I found was I just didn’t know what was important anymore.

How did you get started in minimalism?

When I found out about minimalism, I thought, “OK, great, I’m in. I’ll be a minimalist! Now what?” I didn’t really know how to approach it. So Josh and I came up with this idea called a packing party where I packed all my belongings as if I were moving and unpacked things as I needed over the next few weeks. We literally pretended I was moving. After nine hours and a couple of pizza deliveries, everything was packed. And that was kind of my first revelation moment. What are all these boxes stacked on top of boxes, stacked on top of boxes?

Just looking at all this stuff and thinking, “Wow, this is what I’ve spent the last decade of my life accumulating—these are the things that are supposed to make me happy.”

I unpacked for 21 days, just the things that brought me joy or added value to my life.

And after three weeks, I had 80 percent of my stuff still packed in boxes. That was kind of my second light-bulb moment. Here are all these things, all these possessions I have acquired to make me happy, and 80 percent of them weren’t doing their job. So I donated or sold everything and I really started to change my focus on how I was living my life.

Will I be happier if I get rid of my possessions?

Josh and I have two very different stories, two very different recipes, and we’re not out proselytizing or trying to convert anyone to minimalism. I don’t think you can convert anyone to minimalism. It’s just us saying here’s what we did, here’s how we were able to reprioritize our lives, here’s how we were able to really find meaning. People come out to hear our story, and they come out to just kind of take different ingredients from our recipe.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Patently False

BY CECIL ADAMS

I was just watching Animal Planet and they said in one of their Fun Facts that Isaac Newton invented the cat door. Can this possibly be true? Reminds me of another story I came across: that old-school pinup Hedy Lamarr invented a torpedo guidance system.

Hedy Lamarr?

—A Fascinated Fan, Atlanta Isaac Newton inventing the cat door is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Well, that’s not true. At the Straight Dope, where we’ve got people asking us if they can get high sniffing Sharpies, the competition for stupidest thing is pretty fierce. However, this one is definitely up there.

The Newton cat-flap idea has been kicking around for (seriously) more than 200 years. Here’s the whole story, as best I can disentangle it: 1. Isaac Newton (1642-1727) did much of his pioneering work in mathematics and optics at Trinity College, Cambridge.

There’s no evidence he had a dog or cat.

2. After Newton’s death, his story became encrusted with the usual legends.

According to a 2011 history of Trinity, “Newton mythology has it that he invented the cat flap in order to allow his cat to leave his rooms without disturbing the light while he conducted experiments into optics. The earliest known version of this is ... an essay of 1802 which [in defense of the Irish cites] examples of English incompetence ... asserting that Newton cut two holes in his door for the cat and its kitten, not realizing that the kitten would follow the cat.”

3. In an 1827 memoir of his years as a Trinity scholar a century after Newton, mathematician John M.F. Wright relates the above yarn, adding this embellishment: “Whether this account be true or false, indisputably true is it that there are in the door to this day two plugged holes of the proper dimensions for the respective egresses of cat and kitten.” I haven’t been able to confirm the existence of the former holes, as the little researcher now stationed in Britain elected to attend Oxford instead. However, assuming Wright wasn’t lying, we may conjecture as follows: someone spots holes of unknown provenance in a door to Newton’s old rooms, assumes Newton put them there, notes they’re the right size to fit cats, and contrives a story to fit the holes.

4. Told initially to illustrate the foolishness of the wise, this much-recounted tale was seized upon by someone, presumably a cat fancier, for the different purpose of establishing that one of the great scientific minds had devoted a few clock cycles to inventing a convenience for cats. This is the form in which the tale is mostly seen today.

5. However, even if the holes were Newton’s doing, the early accounts don’t say Newton invented the cat door or flap, which is the crux of the claim. Merely cutting a hole in a larger door as an animal

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entrance long predates Newton. Online we find a photo of a cat hole in a door from 15th-century France, and a cat hole figures in “The Miller’s Tale” from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, written in the late 1300s.

I got the latter from Wikipedia, which some will find unseemly, but A. just because it’s in Wikipedia doesn’t prove it’s wrong, and B. I checked in Chaucer and it’s there.

In short, Newton the cat-flap inventor = crock.

As for actress-slash-weapons-inventors: in most of the celebrity-inventor stories you hear about, the celebrity is more or less in the business of inventing things, or had others do the inventing for them. For example, filmmaker George Lucas has his name on many inventions, but most came out of his movie special-effects shop, Industrial Light and Magic.

Nonetheless, a few Hollywood types did invent things that had little or nothing to do with their careers. Examples: n To cite the best-known example, yes, actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil were awarded a 1942 patent for a “frequency-hopping” device—to prevent radio-guided torpedoes from being jammed by the other side, their invention changed transmission frequencies at short intervals. Transmitter and receiver were kept synchronized on the same wavelength by matching player piano rolls in both. Navy brass balked at putting tiny player pianos in weapons, and the technology wasn’t employed by the military until the 1960s.

But it’s proven durable since then—today, you can find frequency-hopping spreadspectrum technology in some cell phones. n In 1998, magician Penn Jillette patented a “hydro-therapeutic stimulator— basically, a bathtub orgasmatron for women featuring a user-controlled water jet plus a vibrating seat. One admires this classic case of filling a niche. Nonetheless ... n My favorite celebrity inventor remains Neil Young, whose name is listed on 22 patents for model-railroad technology. I suspect Neil was more the facilitator than the prime mover on these inventions (at one time he held a minority interest in Lionel).

But to see a rock legend in an engineer’s cap at the controls of a roomful of model choo-choos—all I can say is: 1. been there, and 2. who knew?

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“Anything that happens in the watershed has a pretty much immediate impact on what we see at the treatment plant.”

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—Laura Briefer, Salt Lake City’s water-resources manager

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Salt Lakers drink some of the cleanest water in the country—but protecting it from people and climate change is hard work.

By Colby Frazier cfrazier@cityweekly.net @colbyfrazierlp A drop of water that makes its way into a creek at the crest of the Wasatch Mountains comes out of a person’s tap 24 hours later—a whiplash-quick turnover that makes Salt Lake City’s watershed among the most unique, clean and delicate in the country.

Few watersheds have such brisk turnaround time. And so the need to keep the water that churns down the area’s creeks clean is of utmost importance to water-quality officials.

The water that flows through Utah’s creeks, like Little and Big Cottonwood, which reliably comes each winter in the form of snow, has historically been abundant. But Salt Lake officials charged with protecting this sprawling watershed, which 340,000 people rely upon, say two key threats face the Wasatch watershed: Population growth and climate change.

There is only so much water in these mountains, but their popularity for recreational users is unprecedented.

City officials say the Wasatch-Cache National Forest, which encompasses the watershed, is among the five most heavily used in the nation.

And with ever more people settling in the Salt Lake Valley, the demand placed on this stretch of jagged granite peaks will grow. With every footprint and new hiking trail formed—and with every ski lift, condominium and road built, there is an impact on the watershed.

“Anything that happens in the watershed has a pretty much immediate impact on what we see at the treatment plant,” says Laura Briefer, the city’s water resources manager. For example, Briefer says, the Big Cottonwood watertreatment plant was once unable to accept water for a time because a bulldozer was illegally operating in the creek, kicking up dirt and sullying the water.

In order to protect the watershed, Salt Lake City, through an agreement with the National Forest Service, has during the past 50 years instituted vigorous education efforts and implemented stringent rules on what can and cannot occur in the watershed.

Buffered by feet of snow, Big Cottonwood Creek makes its way toward the treatment plant. It takes just 24 hours for water at the top of the watershed to make it into valley faucets.

A well-known rule is the prohibition of domestic pets in Big and Little Cottonwood canyons, and portions of City Creek and Parley’s canyons.

Humans also aren’t allowed to bathe or wade in the creeks and high-mountain lakes that feed the watershed.

The acceptance of these rules by those who recreate in the Wasatch have ensured that the forest remains open to the public. Some watersheds, like the Bull Run watershed near Portland, are closed off entirely to human traffic.

A testament to the Wasatch watershed’s fragility occurred in summer 2013. According to the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, July 2013 was far soggier than normal. And July 4, a monsoonal storm dumped 1.3 inches of rain in Salt Lake City. The Wasatch Mountains took the brunt of this, and the downpour flooded parts of Little Cottonwood Canyon, washing out road cuts and sending high concentrations of debris into the creek.

Briefer says the water was so dirty that it couldn’t be processed by the city’s water treatment plant at the mouth of the canyon. It took three days for the sediment to clear before the treatment plant began accepting water from the creek.

There was some concern during this event that the sewer line beneath the road had been damaged. If it had, Briefer says, the amount of time the plant would have had to go without water would have been greatly extended.

A storm of this magnitude is unusual for the Wasatch Mountains, and while Briefer says it’s impossible to link it directly to climate change, she and other city officials believe that this type of incident must be taken note of. Intense weather events like the July storms might become more common, Briefer says. And the Wasatch’s snowpack is extremely sensitive to temperature.

To that end, Briefer and the City of Salt Lake have taken a forward-think-

ing approach to climate change so that they have a good idea of what to expect for the watershed’s future.

Rising temperatures, Briefer says, will result in earlier peak run-off.

Currently, peak run-off in the Wasatch is June. During peak water-use months, July and August, when temperatures are hottest, Salt Lake’s municipal water system must draw upon reserves, stored in various reservoirs. Right now, Briefer says, the current system is well thought out and covers needs. But if the snow pack melts earlier, and more of the area’s precipitation falls in the form of rain instead of snow, less of it will stay locked in the mountains and stored in reservoirs to cover water needs during the driest months.

An important part of stretching the viability of the Wasatch’s watershed long into the future is conservation. And over the past decade, Salt Lake’s efforts to encourage businesses and homeowners alike to save water have yielded results.

Stephanie Duer, the city’s waterconservation coordinator, says that much emphasis has been placed on reducing peak demand during the hottest, driest parts of the year. In 2000, the city’s peak demand for a single day reached 217 million gallons. But in the wake of water-conservation efforts, Duer says, this figure has hovered around 175 million gallons, though it reached 190 million on a day in June 2013.

By decreasing peak demand, Duer says, the city can stretch the lifespan of its current water infrastructure, which prevents construction of new projects and, ultimately, saves taxpayers money.

While there are myriad ways to save water, Duer is careful about what advice she gives. And she emphasizes that a one-size-fits-all approach to saving water doesn’t exist. For instance, if restrictions forbid homeowners from watering on certain days, some may water on the days they’re allowed to,

simply because it’s allowed—even if their lawns don’t need to be watered.

Nevertheless, Duer says, it’s clear many people could be saving more water. She says clay soils, like those in the Salt Lake Valley, stop absorbing water after eight or 10 minutes.

Anything above and beyond this rate is running into the gutter.

“I know we can do more and we can be more creative,” she says.

Duer suggests that homeowners take advantage of free sprinkler inspections, offered through water providers. The inspections, which take into account soil type, turf depth and sprinkler coverage, take about an hour and conclude with the inspector tailoring a watering plan for the landscape.

But residents really need to know that by making good decisions, Duer says, they can make a difference.

“I think what they don’t realize is the level with which their choices can have an impact,” Duer says. “You can’t have a dollar without a penny and I apply that to water. I think what we do matters.”

As Briefer looks to the future, she says she’s optimistic. And, like Duer, she says residents need to understand that whether it’s climate change, or tens of thousands of more skiers and hikers hitting the hills for recreation, everyone should know that their actions have an impact.

Briefer says she hopes people “recognize that every individual action has a consequence. And with the amount of people that recreate within these watersheds, there’s a much larger cumulative effect that we all have a part in.” CW Read more about water issues that affect Utahns in City Weekly’s annual Green Guide, publishing April 17.

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By Eric S. Peterson epeterson@cityweekly.net @ericspeterson Investigators looking into pay-for-play allegations against former Attorneys General John Swallow and Mark Shurtleff are seeking a cell phone belonging to Assistant Attorney General Kirk Torgensen.

According to court documents, a confidential source told investigators that Torgensen had text messages on his phone from former Shurtleff that Torgensen considered “insurance.”

The warrant requests a search of Torgensen’s person to find the phone, which the warrant lists as related to nine different criminal violations, including witness tampering, obstruction of justice, misuse of public money and bribery of an elected official. The warrant does not state who may have committed these crimes, only that the phone was key evidence in investigating them.

Torgensen served as a chief deputy attorney general under Shurtleff and Swallow, but since Sean Reyes was named as attorney general in December 2013, Torgensen is no longer a chief deputy, and his place in the office has not yet been settled.

His name has previously appeared in court documents relating to the sweeping AG’s Office investigation being conducted

by Davis County District Attorney Troy Rawlings and Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill.

Court documents reference, for example, a 2010 e-mail that Torgensen sent to Swallow warning that political fixer Tim Lawson “is the guy who’s going to bring the house of cards down.” In late 2013, Lawson became the first individual arrested in the investigation; he was charged with multiple felonies, including threatening a witness and obstruction of justice.

Torgensen, along with the AG’s criminal division chief, Scott Reed, had asked the Utah Department of Public Safety to investigate Lawson, and Torgensen had provided them with a recording of a conversation he had had with Lawson. But according to the search warrant—dated Jan. 10, 2014—that was unsealed Tuesday, investigators appear to have had trouble obtaining documents and text messages from Torgensen.

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According to the warrant, Utah Department of Public Safety investigator Scott Nesbitt had made a public-records request in October 2013 that, when fulfilled Jan. 7, 2014, seemed to contain incomplete text messages between Torgensen and a campaign staffer who’d worked for Swallow’s election campaign.

When Torgensen was asked about missing records, he replied in an e-mail, “That is all I had sorry.”

In further communication, Torgensen told Nesbitt, who is also working with the FBI, that he had communications on his state phone that were relevant to their investigation, including text messages from former AG Shurtleff.

This revelation seemed to perplex investigators, since they had asked Torgensen about messages from Shurtleff in March 2013, when Torgensen provided them with the recording of the conversation he’d had with Lawson. At that time, according to the warrant, Torgensen said that the messages didn’t go back that far, suggesting that the conversations with Shurtleff he referenced in January happened after March 2013.

The warrant also shows that Torgensen was resistant to the idea of handing over his phone to be analyzed at the Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory in Salt Lake City, calling the idea a “far stretch.” Instead, Torgensen offered to show “relevant” texts to investigators.

After more back and forth, investigators from DPS and the FBI came to the Attorney General’s Office on Jan. 7, 2014, to get the messages between Torgensen and Shurtleff.

When FBI agent Jon Isakson suggested that the texts on Torgensen’s phone also be reviewed by staff at the Attorney General’s Office, Torgensen balked.

“Torgensen refused to do that saying that he did not want someone inside the Utah Attorney General’s Office looking at the contents of his iPhone,” the warrant reads, adding that he didn’t want staff to know what he communicates to his “wife and mother.”

Torgensen suggested they subpoena the phone at that point, leading up to the search warrant, filed by investigators on Jan. 10.

The warrant also referenced an unnamed confidential source who’d told investigators that Torgensen’s phone had text messages on it between him and Shurtleff—messages that Torgensen had described as his “insurance,” according to the source. According to the warrant, the source had even heard Torgensen read some of these messages out loud, though the content of the messages is not described in the warrant.

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Curses, Foiled Again Michigan authorities identified Jules Bahler, 21, as the suspect in three bank robberies after he posted his picture on Facebook holding a submachine gun like the one used in the holdups. When questioned, Bahler confessed to the robberies.

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Praymate of the Month Italian publisher Mondadori launched a fan magazine devoted entirely to Pope Francis. The first issue of Il Mio Papa (My Pope) featured the pope’s life story and photos, including a pull-out centerfold. The magazine also included ads for a weight-loss cure, a laxative, a beauty cream and a hair-care product. Editor Aldo Vitali, who’s also the editor of a magazine for television listings and celebrity news, declared that the magazine’s purpose was to help the pope make the world a better place. (Reuters)

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“I am a Utah person of indeterminate gender, and my residence is none of your concern.”

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“Our gang is not a ‘gang,’ per se—not that we look down on the plight of urban youths.”

6. “Our co-eds have self-esteem

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5. “Our yell, you won’t hear it ringing after 10 p.m. due to local noise ordinances.”

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Splitsville, Kuwaiti Style Abuse, infidelity and lack of communication aren’t the only reasons Kuwaiti couples cite for seeking a divorce, according to recent filings in that land.

n A woman complained that she was “disgusted” by her husband of one week because he insisted on eating his peas with bread instead of a fork.

n Paul James, 35, rented two mobility scooters while vacationing in Blackpool, England, and tried to take them home to sell, according to police who nabbed him when he tried loading them into a van outside police headquarters. Officers noticed the scooters had signs on them indicating they belonged to Blackpool Wheelchair Hire and questioned James, who admitted the theft. (Blackpool’s The Gazette)

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n Another woman objected that her husband “is so obstinate” because he “stubbornly refuses” to squeeze toothpaste from the end of the tube and “keeps squeezing it in the middle.” n A man decided his marriage was over after he asked his wife to bring him a glass of water, but she refused and told him there was a servant who could do it. (Dubai’s Gulf News)

Missing the Point During an argument with his girlfriend, Tyler Ford, 23, hit her with a textbook used in his anger-management class, according to sheriff’s deputies in Spartanburg County, S.C. (Greenville’s WYFF-TV) n Honey Dew Donuts announced it was opening a branch at the Quincy, Mass., YMCA but that it won’t sell doughnuts. “It’s definitely tailored to the healthy lifestyle the Y supports,” YMCA official Sara Trubiano explained. (Quincy’s The Patriot Ledger)

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A Vancouver drug center began teaching homeless alcoholics to brew their own beer and wine to stop them from drinking hand sanitizer and mouthwash. The nonprofit Drug Users Resource Center, which gained media attention for providing Canada’s first crack-pipe vending machine, charges boozers $10 a month to join its Drinker’s Lounge and qualify for 5 liters of home brew. “It’s more economically viable than buying it at a liquor store,” noted Rob, who joined the program when it began in summer 2013.

Center director Kailin See said, “As the drinking community becomes aware of what we’re doing, we’re obviously having to expand the program.” (Canada’s National Post)

After border officials in Ontario arrested Louis DiNatale, 46, accusing him of trying to smuggle a loaded handgun into Canada, the Kentucky resident insisted that he and his wife didn’t want to enter Canada in the first place. He explained they were on a road trip to upstate New York when they were “misdirected by an unreliable GPS.” They arrived at the border crossing, where DiNatale admitted owning a gun, explaining “it was my right as an American citizen to do so,” but denied having it with him.

Agents searched the car and found a Bersa .380 handgun stowed in the center console that DiNatale said he had forgotten was there. The retired Army sergeant major faces three years in a Canadian prison. (Los Angeles Times)

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After Chicago Transit Authority train operator Brittney Haywood crashed into an escalator at O’Hare International Airport, sending 32 passengers to local hospitals, the head of CTA’s rail union vowed to fight any attempt to terminate her, even though she admitted dozing off at the controls for the second time in two months. Acknowledging that two dozing incidents “sounds bad,” Robert Kelley, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 308, said, “Come on. We’ve all dozed off driving a train [or a car]. There’s a difference between dozing off and falling asleep.” (Chicago Sun-Times)

Facebook added a customizable option that lets its 159 million U.S. users choose from 50 different gender descriptions. “For the first time, I get to go to the site and specify to all the people I know what my gender is,” said Facebook software engineer Brielle Harrison, who worked on the project and is undergoing gender transformation and changed her Facebook identity from “Female” to “TransWoman.” Users can also select “neither” or “other” and indicate whether they want to be referred to by the pronoun he, she or they. (Associated Press) Compiled from mainstream news sources by Roland Sweet.

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Get the Message This week, Draper citizens can weigh in on allowing electronic signs on commercial properties in their neighborhood. If dead electronics worry you more than blinking billboards, why not drop off your old iPods and laptops at an e-waste recycling event at the University of Utah this week? Later, check out a “pizza and politics” forum discussing women in Utah politics at the University of Utah.

Draper City Planning Commission Thursday, April 10

Electronic signs and marquees on businesses can make for a real eyecatching advertisement for restaurants and shops, but for some, they can be major eyesores. The Draper City Planning Commission is looking for the public’s input on allowing electronic signs on commercially zoned properties in certain parts of the city.

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Electronic Waste Recycling Collection Friday, April 11

The faster people upgrade their phones, laptops and other electronic gadgets, the faster those old electronics wind up in landfills with their toxic heavy-metal components piling up and threatening the environment. This week, find ecoredemption in your latest upgrade by recycling your old e-waste at this community collection event.

University Services Building, 1795 E. South Campus Drive, University of Utah, 801-585-9352, 8 a.m.-noon, Sustainability.Utah.edu

The Status of Women in Utah Politics Monday, April 14

With some key women on the Hill retiring from politics and a lack of women filing to replace them, the gender imbalance on the Hill doesn’t look like it’s improving. But there are still other opportunities for women to get engaged politically. Find out more at this free forum hosting speaker Susan Madsen, who is the Orin R. Woodbury professor of leadership and ethics at Utah Valley University’s Woodbury School of Business.

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What began as a romance between the children of two Afghan families soon spiraled into violence and tragedy.

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Haji Rahimi says as soon as he became aware that Nazir was dating Nargis, he told him to _ stop not because he necessarily objected to the relationship, but because he knew it would cause trouble with the other family.

“If somebody is dating an Afghan, they have to be engaged, they have a party to announce the engagement.”

n March 11, 1999, as Haji Rahimi and five members of his Afghan family listened to BBC News on the radio in the living room of their house in Peshawar, Pakistan, five armed masked men burst in. They ordered the Rahimis to turn to the wall and be silent. Mumtaz Rahimi, then 11, closed the eyes of her little nephew, only to witness one of the men beat Haji, her father, with the butt of a gun.

A second gunman shot Haji’s oldest son, a 37-yearold universit y lecturer, three times in the neck.

The men left, declaring that they had taught Haji a lesson for writing anti-Islamist tracts. Haji was an executive member of the Council for Understanding and National Unity of Afghanistan, a group of intellectuals advocating for a peaceful solution to the civil war raging in their homeland.

Haji’s enraged secondoldest son ran after his brother’s killers, only to be shot through the heart by one of the gunmen.

“Our house was filled with the smoke of gunfire, which looked like dark clouds hanging in the air,” Haji later wrote in an affidavit.

The youngest Rahimi sons, Nazir and Nisar, were playing video games in a nearby market when they heard the shots. They came running home, where 17-year-old Nazir found one brother lying in the hallway and his oldest brother shot in the living room.

Nazir ran from house to house, begging neighbors for help to get his brothers to the hospital. Someone brought a pickup and Nazir and others got the two men into the truck. They were both pronounced dead at the hospital.

In the aftermath of the attack, the family was plagued by phone calls threatening Nazir, the oldest surviving Rahimi boy.

Haji sent Nazir to Germany to be with relatives.

After a year of waiting, Haji Rahimi, his wife, three daughters, son Nisar, the two widows of their eldest sons and their children were granted political asylum in the United States in 2000.

They flew into Chicago, and from there to Utah, where they settled. Haji, now 79, says the mountains and the climate reminded him of Kabul.

In comparison to the lack of freedom in Pakistan, Nisar says, “This place was heaven, I couldn’t be more happy.

There were times I used to sit and thank God for taking us out of that dirty country.”

But while the Rahimis thought they’d left violence behind them, the very cultural values that Haji had advocated against in Pakistan were waiting for them in Utah. Nazir’s relationship with Nargis Mullahkhel—an Afghan single mother in the middle of a divorce, at odds with her family’s strict cultural values—led to friction, then violence between the two families, and ultimately to the death of Nargis’

19-year-old brother and Nazir spending five years in prison for his killing.

Although the police who investigated the killing never got to the bottom of exactly how and why it happened, the Rahimi family’s story and court documents suggest that at the heart of the tragedy lies not only a clash between modern and traditional Islam, but also the struggle of immigrant families to both assimilate within American society and retain their cultural identities, even if those identities may sometimes chafe with American cultural values and laws.

The Mullahkhel family cast Nazir Rahimi as a “ruthless murdering thug” in court, but the Rahimis say that the Mullahkhels had subjected the Rahimis to a campaign of harassment and violence fueled, in part, by rage at Nazir for violating their cultural mores. The Mullahkhels, Nazir told an immigration-court judge, are “traditional Muslim people” who viewed a man dating their daughter outside of marriage as violating the family’s honor.

Nazir, 32, faces deportation to Afghanistan and fears that the Mullahkhels will come after him if his appeal to the U.S. government fails.

“They want to get revenge and kill me because my sentence wasn’t enough for them,” he told the immigration judge. “They want to get their revenge in Afghanistan blood, like a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye.”

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Rahimis Imam Muhammed S. Mehtar at the Khadeeja mosque in West Valley City says that both families “are important to us. We want to see good for their future.” But, he says, “it saddens us that people come to America and take the law into their own hands as if living in a place other than America. As if we are back home.”

It’s important, he says, that those who come to America create a blend of their cultures and assimilate where they can. He acknowledges that the pain of bereavement for members of the Mullahkhel family is “severe,” but, he says, “If we don’t examine the cause of that killing”—or any incident of violence—“then we will be getting continual vengeance on both sides.”

The Rahimi family has never spoken publicly about the relationship between Nazir and Nargis or the killing of Nargis’ brother Farhad.

But with Nazir facing, if he is deported, what they say is certain death in Afghanistan—either at the hands of the Taliban or people connected to the Mullahkhels—Nazir and several members of his family shared their stories with City Weekly.

The Mullahkhels declined to comment. On behalf of the family, a man who declined to give his name said the Mullahkhels preferred to “leave it to God.” Farhad’s sister Bilquis Mullahkhel spoke at Nazir’s April 5, 2011, parole-board hearing. She told Nazir that the gates of heaven “will not be open to you in this life or the hereafter. This life is not eternal; you may not pay the penalty in this life, but I promise you, you will in the hereafter.”

Nazir quietly replied at the hearing that in one sense he agreed.

“The United States was a heaven to me. And the United States door is already closed to me. She’s right about that. The door of heaven is closed for me.”

THIS IS AMERICA

It’s a tradition for members of the Afghan community to welcome new refugees when they arrive. Muhammed Mullahkhel, who has lived in Utah since the early 1970s and owns a convenience store in downtown Salt Lake City, visited the Rahimis shortly after they arrived, bringing them the Afghan treat of sugared walnuts.

Haji Rahimi recalls that when he first got to know Muhammed Mullahkhel­—known as Omar—Mullahkhel’s wife was in Afghanistan,

having taken their two teenage daughters—14-year-old Bilquis and 16-year-old Nargis—to marry older men.

Court documents also note that Bilquis was “required to marry an older man at age 14 for cultural reasons.”

The two girls, Nazir says, had been “hanging out with guys at high school, dishonoring their family.” The Mullahkhels believed, he says, that by bringing them home pregnant, their husbands to follow later, they would get “their honor back, and at the same time the Afghan community [in Utah would] become bigger.”

While Omar and Haji Rahimi were friends, Haji didn’t agree with the decision to marry the children off. “To me, it’s not correct; we cannot force our children to marry someone,” he says. “We want them to have their freedom, choose the way they want to live their life. We can guide them, not force them.”

Still, the parents of the two families became close, especially the mothers. The Rahimis desperately wanted to bring Nazir over from Germany, and Omar, Haji says, was one of two members of the Utah Afghan community who provided witnessing signatures for the paperwork.

“My mom fasted for 40 days praying to Allah to bring her son back,” Nazir says.

Nazir quickly adjusted to life in the States after his arrival in 2001. All the 19-year-old liked to do “was work, spend money on girls and mind his own business,” his brother Nisar says. Both young men spent hours every day working out at the gym. “We want to impress the girls,” Nisar says.

Nazir says he met Nargis at Green Street Social Club on New Year’s Eve in 2006 and that both Nargis and Bilquis called him the next day to say that Nargis liked him and wanted to date. It was only later, he says, that he realized they were the children of his parents’ friends the Mullahkhels.

He knew that her family was traditional Muslim, but his family, he believed, would have no problem with them seeing each other. “This is America,” he says. “I do what I want to do.”

FIGHTING WORDS

The men who had married Bilquis and Nargis in Afghanistan petitioned them for divorce in 2004 and 2006, respectively.

Divorce put the sisters at the center of sometimes-violent family disputes and led to the sisters being “shunned” as outcasts from their family and even assaulted by relatives “due to cultural and reli-

gious beliefs,” according to a West Valley City Police report.

Nazir’s sister Breshna Rahimi had met Nargis and Bilquis at a baby shower. Bilquis “was beat up really bad,” Breshna later told a Utah immigration-court judge.

Breshna recalled that Bilquis told her, “I got beat up by my brothers because I was dating another guy.”

City Weekly accessed 33 police reports through a record request to West Valley City Police Department that reveal family members at war with one another, particularly in the aftermath of the sisters’ divorces. The reports include complaints of assaults and violent threats mixed with allegations of made-up reports and fake texts.

“This is a Muslim household,” middle son Ajmal Mullahkhel told a West Valley City Police officer in reference to Bilquis’ relationships with several men, “and if she did these things in Afghanistan where we’re from, she’d be killed.”

Bilquis responded, “We’re not in Afghanistan.”

But for all the fraught emotions within the Mullahkhel clan, it was the on-again, off-again relationship between Nargis and Nazir that sparked a feud between the two families that “escalated to a point that resulted in an absolute tragedy,” as Utah Board of Pardons and Parole member Jesse Gallegos would later tell the two families.

The couple went on trips to San Francisco and Las Vegas, and Nazir, Nargis and her two children eventually moved in together.

They loved each other at first, but then, Nazir says, it devolved into

In comparison to the lack of freedom in Pakistan, Nisar Rahimi says, “this place was heaven, I couldn’t be more happy.

There were times I used to sit and thank god for taking us out of that dirty country.”

simply “a sexual thing.” He says he paid $4,000 for Nargis to get breast implants. “If you look good, I look good,” he says he told her.

Neither Omar nor his oldest son, Abdul, was happy with Nargis dating Nazir, Nazir’s sister Mumtaz Rahimi says. “In the Afghan community, a lot of people talk bad about a family if the daughter is dating and not married,” she says. “ ‘Why is your daughter with Nazir? They’re not even married.’ ” Haji Rahimi says that as soon as he became aware that Nazir was dating Nargis, he told him to stop— not because he necessarily objected to the relationship, but because he knew it would cause trouble with the other family. “If somebody is dating an Afghan, they have to be engaged, they have a party to announce the engagement.”

The couple repeatedly broke up, then got back together as the intense family politics of the Mullahkhels spilled over into Nazir and Nargis’ personal dramas. Several Rahimi children filed police reports of threats and violence from the Mullahkhel children. Nargis would later say she was a victim of domestic violence by Nazir.

Nazir’s brother Nisar recalls a phone call from middle Mullahkhel brother Ajmal, who said, “You don’t know who you are messing with. I got a 9mm in my car.” Nisar says he didn’t understand what Ajmal was referring to at the time, so he laughed and said he had a 10mm. Several months later at a downtown club, Nisar

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Mullahkhels he’s turning blue,” she screamed.

The one fact Bass was confident about “was Nazir stabbed and took the life of Farhad.” Nisar Rahimi had been hit in the head and bled profusely, but “we never ever determined who hit him in the head,” Bass says.

Nazir later told an immigration-court judge that Farhad had a knife and that he was only defending himself. “I had a knife in my hand,” he said. “My intention was to stop him. My intention wasn’t to harm him or kill him.”

But, Bass says, “There was no evidence Farhad was armed.” The only statement he got from Nazir about Farhad’s stabbing was that Nazir had “hit him with something in his hand,” then as they talked further, Nazir said that he had used a knife.

The Rahimis say that Nazir killed Farhad in self-defense, but Bass doesn’t agree. While a resident has every right to protect his or her home, even outside the property, Bass’ investigation led him to conclude that Nazir chased and confronted Farhad and so “was on the offensive when the stabbing took place.”

Nisar never imagined Nazir would end up in jail. “I’m sitting here because of him. He defended me, his family. To others, he might be a murderer; to me, he’s a life’s savior.”

THE UNFORGIVABLE

In November 2009, Nazir was sentenced by Judge Randall Skanchy to zero to five years in prison for criminal homicide by assault. At his sentencing, a line of bailiffs separating the two families in the courtroom, Nisar’s girlfriend, Natasha Skiby, speaking on behalf of the Rahimi family, apologized for Farhad’s death. “We are very sorry for the loss of Farhad,” she told the court.

Farhad’s father, Omar, asked the court, “How can time heal when I’m reminded of Farhad’s loss every day?” He requested that Nazir receive no mercy.

Farhad’s oldest brother, Abdul, called Nazir “a wolf in sheep’s clothing.” His family would never forget nor forgive. “It hurts me to say this, but I ask God to lay upon your family as much pain and sorrow as you have caused my family.”

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Nazir says he came out of the house to see his brother bleeding badly from a head wound and his pregnant sister on the ground, screaming, “Leave my brother alone.”

“I couldn’t hold myself back,” he says. He went back inside and emerged with a knife in each hand.

The street battle was as confused and contentious as the events leading up to it. “It was muddied up from the beginning as to who was involved,” Bass says. Though there was an independent witness of the street fight, the person “couldn’t say who was with whom.”

In a series of calls to 911 by members of the Rahimi and Mullahkhel families, along with witnesses who describe people hitting each other with boards, a male can be heard bellowing, “You come into my house, you fucking gangsters?!”

Bilquis called 911 begging for an ambulance, but she did not know the complete address where her brother lay dying in the street, stabbed, she told the dispatcher, by her sister’s boyfriend. “Ma’am,

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One night in late March 2008, Nisar Rahimi says, he answered the door to find Bilquis’ ex-boyfriend Ali Munder Al-Rekabi, an Iraqi refugee of the Gulf War. Nisar says that Al-Rekabi told him that he had received a call while he was in jail from several of the Mullahkhel children, offering him $15,000 to kill Nisar and $10,000 to break Nazir’s teeth— the intention being to make Nazir suffer. Nisar says Al-Rekabi told him, “I’d never do that, but that doesn’t mean somebody else wouldn’t do it.”

Officer Bass says that when he interviewed Al-Rekabi in prison, where he’s currently serving 60 months on an unrelated charge of gun possession by an illegal alien, “he said none of that was true at all.”

A few weeks later, in the 24 hours leading up to Nazir killing Farhad, Nazir and Nargis broke up one final time—though, in the aftermath of the street battle, they gave very different accounts to Bass as to why.

Nargis told Bass that she’d informed Nazir they were over “and that she could not take his beatings and crude comments.”

Nazir, she said, then threatened her family, saying, “Are we done?

If we are done, I will fuck up your family and fuck up your brothers.”

Nazir said that he thought that she was cheating on him, and that he went to the Midvale nail salon where she worked on April 20, 2008, to end the relationship and retrieve a ring he had given her and some pictures of the two of them together.

During that visit, Bass says, the couple may have argued, but because they spoke in Dari, witnesses had only vocal tones and body language to go on.

After the meeting at the salon, Nazir, the Mullahkhels said in

statements to Murray City Police Department, then began sending threatening texts to Nargis’ brothers from Nargis’ phone, which Nazir had taken—accidentally, he says—when he’d retrieved the items from the salon.

Nazir told Bass her brothers kept calling and sending texts, saying, “We’re coming to your house with Mexicans to mess you up.”

Bass looked at Nargis’ phone and noted in his report that while “there were several text messages sent to and received from Ajmal … the messages are confrontational in nature but there were no threats made.”

Nisar called Murray Police Department and requested to speak to an officer who had been handling a prior complaint that the brothers had made against the Mullahkhel children. However, because Nisar did not respond when the officer called him, the officer “advised dispatch to clear the call out,” according to Murray Police interview notes.

Shortly afterward, Nargis’ brothers Farhad and Ajmal, along with Bilquis and, depending on whom you talk to, a widely differing number of other individuals went to the Rahimis’ house in Murray.

Abdul Mullahkhel later said his brothers “went in peace, as is our culture,” to get the phone back and talk through their differences.

The Rahimis say the Mullahkhels attacked their home.

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The Rahimis say that they complained to Murray and Salt Lake City Police Departments about harassment, damage to their cars, and violence from members of the Mullahkhel family. But, says Murray Police Department Officer Kenny Bass, the detective in charge of the investigation into Farhad’s death, “there was nothing in their history that led us to believe an incident like [the street fight and stabbing] would have occurred.” That history includes what he terms as “a slightly physical confrontation” at a Muslim festival in Sandy.

On Oct. 13, 2007, members of the Rahimi and Mullahkhel families separately attended the culmination of the three-day Eid-al-fitr, an annual Muslim celebration to mark the ending of Ramadan, held at Sandy’s South Towne Exposition Center. As Breshna and Mumtaz were edging their way out of the crowded parking lot, they passed Abdul Mullahkhel’s wife, Marzia, who, the Rahimis say, insulted them.

Mumtaz says she snapped back an insult, then saw Abdul running toward them. She says she rolled up the window, only for Abdul to punch the passenger window several times until it broke, showering her with glass.

“At that moment, I thought I was back in Pakistan, where guys can hit women and women can’t do anything about it,” says Mumtaz, who subsequently went to the hospital.

After the incident, Haji Rahimi says, Omar Mullahkhel and his wife came to the Rahimis’ house to apologize, bringing gifts of walnuts and shortbread.

“That is why I really respected him, because they came to our house,” Haji says. “To me, he is not the person who did that; the son did it. He told us ‘sorry.’ To us, if somebody says ‘sorry,’ it wasn’t his fault.”

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Parole-board member Jesse Gallegos said that according to Nazir’s pre-sentence investigation report [PSI], there was little risk of him repeating his violent behavior.

“You rarely see that type of statement in a PSI,” Gallegos said.

Bilquis’ voice shook with emotion and rage as she told Gallegos that while she understood his urging her family to forgive Nazir and move on, if he had seen what he did to her younger brother, then “no one would tell you to forgive.”

WHERE LIFE IS CHEAP

A few weeks after Nazir Rahimi finished his five-year sentence on April 20, 2013, Immigration & Customs Enforcement agents transferred him to Utah County Jail, which has a contract with ICE to hold those undergoing deportation proceedings.

On Jan. 21, 2014, Nazir appeared before immigration Judge David C. Anderson for his application for Convention Against Torture protection to stay his removal proceedings. Nazir had to establish, Anderson wrote in his ruling, “that it is more likely than not that he would be tortured if removed to the proposed country of removal,” namely Afghanistan. Nazir also had to show that “he would be tortured in Afghanistan at the instigation of a public official or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official.”

Nazir and two of his sisters testified to Anderson about the killing of their brothers by Islamist radicals and their subsequent problems with the Mullahkhels.

Breshna pleaded for her brother’s life.

If the court sent him back to Afghanistan, “he would die. He will get killed,” she said.

Her family had been unable to prevent the deaths of her two brothers in 1999, but this time, she said, “you guys can prevent my brother from dying, so please, judge, don’t send my brother to Afghanistan. My parents will die. They can’t see that anymore.”

Anderson ruled that while Nazir “does face grave danger in Afghanistan” from both the Taliban and the Mullahkhels, “regrettably” he would have to deny his application, as Nazir had failed to show that public officials in Afghanistan would be complicit.

Nazir says the ruling is a “death sentence.” If his appeal fails and he is deported to Afghanistan, he will be viewed as “a spy, an undercover agent, as American, not Afghani,” he says. With Haji Rahimi’s background in peace activism and the fate of his two oldest brothers, Nazir fears that “the Taliban will not let me walk away easily.”

And if they don’t get him, then, Nisar says, the Mullahkhels will. “If they can afford to pay $10,000 here, in Afghanistan, you can pay almost nothing for a life.”

RUNNING FROM THE PAST

Shortly after that hearing, Haji Rahimi traveled to Afghanistan to meet with a friend and senior adviser to the Afghan ministry of education. Haji asked the man to write a letter stating that it will not be safe for his son if he is deported to Afghanistan.

“I need him, my wife needs him,” Haji

says. “We want him to take care of us. We do not want to lose another son.”

The Mullahkhels have also continued to struggle, both with the courts and one another. In 2011, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced a 20-count federal indictment by a grand jury against five members of the family—father Omar, sons Abdul and Ajmal, and daughters Bilquis and Nargis— saying they had defrauded the U.S. government of $1.3 million through a benefits scheme in their downtown market.

Domestic problems have continued to plague the family. Omar invited the sisters and their partners to “talk out their problems” at his home, according to a police report in June 2012. The meeting devolved into the couples exchanging threats of violence and the police being called.

By the end of 2013, the five Mullahkhels had reached plea agreements, with three of the five receiving sentences of probation, ranging from 36 months to, in Bilquis’ case, five years, from federal Judge David Sam. On Feb. 24, 2014, Sam sentenced Bilquis to two years in a federal-corrections facility, with a further three years on probation, for violating curfew and other plea-deal stipulations. Sam also recommended she receive treatment for medical and mentalhealth issues.

Omar’s sentencing for the benefits fraud is set for May 10, 2014. It will only be after that, says U.S. Attorney spokeswoman Melodie Rydalch, that the federal government will attempt to collect on the $617,000 forfeiture order that Sam signed off on in August 2013.

Nazir Rahimi’s prison sentence ended in April 2013, but he remains behind bars while the fight over his deportation drags on. He struggles to maintain hope. “I’m a man with no country,” he says. “I’m ashamed of my own country. I only have hope in God now, nothing else.” One day, perhaps, the Mullahkhels will forgive him and move on. “I know loss of life, I lost two brothers.”

Nazir’s family, meanwhile, consider their own future. Nisar says he doesn’t want to live in the same state as the Mullahkhels.

Six months after Farhad’s 2008 death, he was charged with tampering with a witness following an altercation with Nargis Mullahkhel in a nightclub. Three years later, he took a plea in abeyance to a class A misdemeanor, receiving probation and community service.

Nisar is now considering following his sisters Breshna, who relocated with her husband’s work to California, and Mumtaz, who left the state out of fear of Abdul Mullahkhel. “I can’t live with this anymore,” Nisar says. “I’m pretty sick of it.”

Violent death, he says, has played far too prominent a role in his life so far. “I’ve noticed that the more you run away from something, it chases you most.” CW

On April 19, the Salt Lake Islamic Centers will host Sawtul Quran, an Islamic lecture series aimed at youth empowerment and spiritual reform at the University Guest House (110 Fort Douglas Blvd., 5:30 to 9:30 p.m.).

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Ballet West: The Rite of Spring

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In 2009, comedian Anthony Jeselnik was hired as a writer for Jimmy Fallon’s debut season as the host of Late Night. Besides helping to craft many of the off-beat skits that Fallon became known for, the stand-up comedian was responsible for churning out dozens of jokes each night as part of the opening monologue—a job basically involving consuming the day’s news and regurgitating it into as many creative punch lines as possible.

The fast-paced, high-volume joke training suited Jeselnik’s sardonic wit perfectly; the quick way in which he runs through his own jokes when he’s onstage doing stand-up is very similar to a monologue, without the practiced smoothness of late-night TV. But he’s got the personality for TV—good looks and a sickly charming smile that help set up the crowd to take his nice-guy bait before he turns on them with dark jokes about molestation. He used this devilish balancing act on his 2013 Comedy Central series The Jeselnik Offensive, almost daring you not to laugh at the way he points out the sickness in humanity. It’s a unique gift.

He’s the first to admit that the stint as talkshow joke-spinner paid off by helping him hone his writing, but ultimately, that world is probably a bit too straight-laced for his liking. It’s really onstage in the clubs that the true Jeselnik emerges, where he feels free to poke fun at sensitive topics in a manner that shows the idea of “too soon” has never even crossed his mind.

(Jacob Stringer) Anthony Jeselnik @ The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 801-467-8499, April 12, 8 p.m., $30.50 in advance, $35.50 day of show. DepotSLC.com

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The premiere of The Rite of Spring, one of the most notorious performances of the 20th century, seemed so modern and so strange that the audience at Paris’s Theatre des Champs-Elysees, shaken by the experience, rioted. Since then, both Rite’s music (composed by Igor Stravinsky) and ballet (choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for the Ballet Russes) have become part of the ballet canon.

Now, in celebration of 2013’s centennial of that famous riotous performance, Ballet West presents a world-premiere rendition of The Rite of Spring choreographed by the company’s resident choreographer, Nicolo Fonte. While Nijinsky’s original ballet set a sinister mood with movement completely unfamiliar to ballet—full of stomping, jumping, shaking and contorting bodies—Fonte’s Rite of Spring will offer a newly poetic interpretation of the ballet. Stretching the limits of the dancers’ physical vocabulary, it is at times even more angular than the original, yet also embraces a seamless fluidity that moves with the current of Stravinsky’s music without being beholden to its exact rhythm.

And while Nijinsky’s two-act ballet culminated with The Chosen One, a young pagan maiden, sacrificing herself by dancing to death, in Nicolo’s ballet, many dancers become The Chosen One, leaving the audience to contemplate moments of isolation and fear in their own lives.

In addition to Rite of Spring, Ballet West will perform George Balanchine’s elegant, unassuming Divertimento No. 15 in B flat—set to Mozart’s score of the same name—and Forgotten Land by Jirí Kylián, one of the world’s greatest living choreographers, set to Benjamin Britten’s “Sinfonia da Requiem.” (Katherine Pioli) Ballet West: The Rite of Spring @ Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, April 11, 12, 16-18, 7:30 p.m., April 19, 2 & 7 p.m., $24-$74. ArtTix.org, BalletWest.org

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Robert Coover has been at the forefront of American experimental fiction for six decades.

From the beginning, with his first novel, The Origin of the Brunists—about the founder of a religious cult—Coover’s work has been marked by provocative content and an intellectually challenging approach to the material, taking into account changes in technology, and the implications of those changes on the art of writing.

His forays into cutting-edge writing methods have included classes he teaches on electronic writing, mixed media and “CaveWriting”—a workshop that immerses the writers in “hypertext,” a kind of virtual reality in which selections of the text are online links that can be followed to different sites—and he has advanced the genres of metafiction and magical realism. His most recent novel, The Brunist Day of Wrath (Dzanc Books, 2014), picks up the story of his first novel and its protagonist, cult leader Giovanni Bruno, and his group’s preparation for the end-times. Coover is timely, as apocalypse has become a key theme of contemporary American fiction.

The Guest Writer Series at the Art Barn, sponsored by the University of Utah’s English department and creative-writing program and the Salt Lake City Arts Council, is in its 19th season of bringing some of the most exemplary practitioners of the literary arts to read from their works. The season is rounded out April 24 with a reading by University of Utah faculty.

(Brian Staker) Robert Coover @ The Art Barn, 1340 E. 100 South, 801-596-5000, April 10, 7 p.m., free. SLCGov.com/arts/literary

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Repertory Dance Theatre’s spring performance Land pulls from a vast repertoire for an evening of works designed to celebrate the land we live on. The pieces use the diversity of Utah—from vast high deserts and dense forested mountains, to lush wetlands surrounding various bodies of water, to the erosion that shapes it all—as inspiration for creatively exploring Utah’s landscape.

Land consists of four works, beginning with Ze’eva Cohen’s Rainwood. Set to the natural sounds of birds, frogs and insects, Cohen’s choreography is almost ritualistic, with its repetition and the way it integrates the dancers into the environment they move through.

Molissa Fenley’s Desert Sea, inspired by the people who called the Colorado Plateau home centuries ago, was commissioned by RDT in 2005 as part of its Sense of Place choreography competition. The other two pieces—Turf, choreographed by Joanie Shapiro and Danial Smith, and Erosion, by longtime RDT collaborator Zvi Gotheiner—are both scored with original compositions by Scott Killian.

The overt theme uniting all the pieces is how the landscape that surrounds us inspires creation, but there are other important underlying themes. They explore how the geological marking of time gives us perspective on the briefness of human life, and how living in a specific landscape influences our connection with, and perspective on, the complexity of humans trying to fit within the larger natural world. (Jacob Stringer) Repertory Dance Theatre: Land @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801355-2787, April 10-12, 7:30 p.m., $30 in advance, $35 day of show. RDTUtah.org, ArtTix.org

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The More Things Change Andrea Jensen looks at alterations beyond our control in Entropostasis.

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he environment provides rich material for artists these days, especially in the many ways humans have tried to structure it, and the relationship of human structures to the natural world. In the latest exhibit at the Projects Gallery (formerly Locals Only) at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Andrea Jensen’s mixed-media paintings look at building forms in flux amid forces of decay and degradation.

“So many of our environmental issues stem from cultural and economic issues, and they are increasingly interconnected,” Jensen says. “This interconnectedness leads to all sorts of suffering. Internally, it leads to desires, control, anxiety, and externally [to] climate change and violence.”

She even coined a word for the state that became the title of the exhibition: “Entropostasis,” combining entropy (a state of decay) and stasis (a static state).

“I believe that the tension ‘entropy,’ the decline or destruction of something, and ‘stasis,’ static or unchanging, is at the root of human suffering,” Jensen says.

“Ultimately, neither of these concepts are in our control.”

Jensen, a native of Illinois, showed at Finch Lane Gallery in 2013, but she notes a difference between these new works and those earlier pieces. “These paintings are much more architectural than my previous work, and for me, reflect a more centered focus,” she says. Jensen lost a child in infancy in August and says the effect it had on her, “and how it corresponded to the overall idea of my work, resulted in a very driven focus.”

Her work tackles environmental issues, but, she says, “this is the larger picture. At its core are my own personal and recent life events. My own loss has showed me how vulnerable we are in this life, despite the structures, physical and mental, we try to employ for some attempt at control.”

Her choice of materials is intriguing, as it also comments on the theme.

“I like to use pieces of found materials to reference our surroundings,” Jensen says. “Our relationship to others manifests itself in our interaction with the environment. This relationship with our

Exploring the clash between the natural and man-made: Andrea Jensen’s “What Doesn’t Bend, Breaks” (top), “.0001” (middle) and “On The Rise” (bottom). environment is what I would like to confront through my work.” In the painting “Something Destroyed, Something New,” for example, the implication is that destruction is the first step in the process of renewal, or rebirth.

The color palette in her paintings—full of bright, sometimes primary shades— is emotionally vibrant and evocative of the world of nature, yet its contrasts also evoke conf lict, the broad sweeps of nature’s brush, especially in tandem with her sometimes jagged lines.

“Compositionally, I want to bring a tension with structure and chaos, horizon lines that get lost, fragments strewn about,” she says. “Often, I f lip the painting upside down or to the side at some point and leave it that way. Visually, this throws off any grounding ... making the viewer question what is really stable.”

This disorientation mirrors the violence that sometimes occurs in nature and the wreckage the human structures themselves sometimes incur.

“The paintings reference buildings that have suffered through one of the ‘super storms’ that have hit across the world in the past couple of years,” she says. “I like the idea that these man-made structures signify a loss of control, of impermanence, but also our attempt to control the environment, resulting in excessive carbon emissions, resulting in these storms that destroy these structures—a circle.”

The Projects Gallery exhibition space, on the upper level of UMOCA, was, from its inception in 2011, designed specifically to showcase work by artists working in Utah. It has not only provided a number of local artists with exposure to a wider audience, but also helped the museum address themes that strike a chord locally.

Rebecca Maksym, UMOCA’s associate curator, says Jensen’s work reveals “how the impermanence of both natural and

built environments leads to the formation of future landscapes, and I think her neologism of ‘Entropostasis’ is a brilliant way of linguistically conveying the circular nature of these concepts, such as life and death, progress and decline.” CW

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THURSDAY 4.10 Kamelia Pezeshki

It’s difficult for a photographer to stand out, and a common response is to turn toward bigger and more imposing subjects. Not so for photographer Kamelia Pezeshki, whose work focuses on individual details of what might have been a larger subject. These microcosms reflect an invisible macrocosm, creating charm, mystery and intrigue in each piece.

A tempting cup of Turkish coffee rests on a saucer; why has it been left there and who might have left it? A cocoa truffle is carelessly left on a crisp white background (pictured); who could possibly delay indulging in such a delight? A glass goblet is filled with shells; what oceanic creature made these their home?

As works of pure formalism, these photographs are rich with sensually nuanced black & white tones. But they also inspire compelling thoughts about the context of which these small, detailed elements are a part. (Ehren Clark) Kamelia Pezeshki @ Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, 801-364-8282, through April 11, free. Phillips-Gallery.com

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Salt Lake Acting Company: 4000 Miles Complicated familial relationships have formed the basis of many classic dramatic works over the years. But Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles—an Obie Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist—takes a unique approach by sidestepping grand confrontations and focusing instead on the connection between two characters who seem like they should have plenty in common, but still struggle to connect.

Leo is a young, environmentally conscious progressive who arrives unexpectedly on the doorstep of his grandmother Vera in Manhattan at the end of a long cross-country bike trip. But Vera’s no ideological opposite; she’s an old-school leftist herself, though there may be differences in how they approach that concept. As Leo settles into living with Vera, 4000 Miles explores the way

Leo has responded to the damaging events of his life, and how we sometimes need that connection to family, even when we don’t think that we do.

(Scott Renshaw) 4000 Miles @ Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North, 801-363-7522, through May 4, $15-$42. SaltLakeActingCompany.org

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The Sting & Honey Company: Hedda Gabler Manipulative. Idealistic. Villainous. Heroic.

These are just a few of the adjectives commonly applied to the protagonist of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. Hedda is a beautiful young bride fresh off her honeymoon when unexpected visitors awaken both Hedda and the audience to her lack of enthusiasm for domesticity. In the midst of precipitating events and characters’ muddled motivations, things quickly get real, so to speak.

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The past decade of professional artistic productivity for Justin Wheatley has been anything but dull and predictable. And Wheatley’s current showing of break-through new works demonstrates a great leap forward in the artist’s development.

Wheatley’s distinctive multimedia techniques showcase the skills of a craftsman combined with the sensibilities of an artist. His earliest works bore great visual appeal; his strong focus on subject and a flourishing of compelling iconography made for powerful compositions. His current cityscapes are muted, with a hazy layering creating a detachment.

Wheatley’s oeuvre has been an inquiry into reality beyond artificial exteriors; what possible investigation can a hazy, heavy “Main Street” scene (pictured) facilitate? Beams of lucid layered color traverse both broad and narrower horizontal expanses, with a glorious effect and contrast. Structure alone is monotonous and lifeless, while humanity has the color of dreams, creation and inspiration.

(Ehren Clark) Justin Wheatley: The Color of Truth @ 15th Street Gallery, 1519 S. 1500 East, 855-9880487, through April 15, free. 15thStreetGallery.com and Hedda Gabler is his most popular play. Its characters are among his most complex, most intricately developed and, of course, most real.

Ibsen’s characters are walking contradictions that some of us like, some of us hate, and few of us understand.

The Sting & Honey Company is known for its aesthetic creativity and talented casts, and its

production of Hedda Gabler promises a memorable combination of artistic innovation and classic realism. (Julia Shumway) The Sting & Honey Company: Hedda Gabler @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, April 11, 12, 16-18, 7:30 p.m., April 19, 2 & 7:30 p.m. $18.

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which are top-notch too. And it probably goes without saying that the wildly popular Gabor Brothers breadsticks are an absolute must-have.

Ironically, the newest of my favorite pizzas comes from place that’s been around for 50 years: Tony’s Pizza. This familyowned Ogden gem just off of Harrison Boulevard (403 39th St., 801-393-1985) is easy to miss; I’ve whizzed right past it a hundred times. But, last month I stopped into Tony’s, and it was love at first sight.

Well, sort of. The restaurant itself is bare-bones and without much ambiance to speak of. The term “hole in the wall” might have been coined to describe Tony’s, which doesn’t look like it’s been updated since it opened in the 1960s. But that’s OK, because once the pizza arrives, any décor foibles are forgiven.

The founder, Tony, is still around, and his grandkids mostly run the restaurant, providing the kind of family-style friendly service that is all too rare nowadays. Like the décor, the menu is sparse: There are a few pasta dishes, garlic bread, sandwiches, salads (skip them) and pizza. Pizza toppings are traditional; don’t come looking for artichoke hearts, shiitakes or truffles.

But a classic ground beef or pepperoni pizza at Tony’s is a blast from the past— the honest, delicious pizza I remember from childhood.

Got any pizza favorites? Let us know! CW

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Galleria location, this one in Murray (6055 S. 900 East, 801-266-2225, CafeGalleriaPizza.com). The pies here are Neapolitan-style, cooked in a wood-fired oven. They’re larger in diameter than most of the pizzas you’ll find in Italy, but have the thin crust and wholesome flavors of the best of that country’s pizzas. The dough is made using 00 Caputo flour, and the sauce is simple, made from San Marzano tomatoes.

But one of the things that sets Galleria pizza apart is the high quality and flavor of the cheeses. The owner, Cecil Duvall, is an artisan cheesemaker, and his Duvall Farms cheeses top his fabulous pies; he makes it all, from goat cheese and ricotta to mozzarella and Parmesan. The mozzarella-Parmesan mix used on most of the Galleria pizzas is perfect.

To the north, in Lay ton, Gabor Brothers Main Street Grill & Pizzeria (197 N. Main, 801-544-4344) is a long-lasting independent in a sea of franchise eateries. It’s usually packed, a testament to the wholesome, fresh Italian fare served here. Thankfully, there’s a small bar in front where you can cool your jets whilst awaiting a table.

There are two pizza options at Gabor Brothers: thick, Chicago-style crust or standard thin, although not that thin. I prefer the thin-crust pizzas and the abundant toppings that come on them. The crust is slightly charred around the edges, and the cheese lightly browned. It’s good ol’ American-style pizza at its best; they’ll even sell you a Hawaiian pie if you’re interested. Don’t overlook the calzones,

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or pizza lovers—and who doesn’t love pizza?—the pursuit of the perfect pie is an ongoing quest, one without end.

There is always another pizza pie to try, another nice slice.

Recently, I wrote about one of my bestever Utah pizza finds: the wood-fired pizza at From Scratch (62 E. Gallivan Ave., Salt Lake Cit y, 801-538-5090, FromScratchSLC.com). Since I reviewed that fine eatery a couple of months ago, I won’t belabor that pizza point here. What I will do is present you with a quartet of pizza places that, if they’re not already on your pizza radar, ought to be. I’m adding these to the other can’t-miss pizza joints that I’ve written about in the past; you can find those in the City Weekly archives.

I should note that I’m always a bit hesitant to write about pizza, since opinions and loyalties run so strong on the subject.

Not all pizza is created equal, and in some cases, comparing pizzas side-by-side is akin to choosing favorite children. Each is unique. Neapolitan, New Haven, New York City, Chicago, wood-fired, coal oven, deck oven: each pizza is like a snowf lake, and I love a good blizzard.

First up: Pie Hole (344 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-359-4653, PieHoleUtah.com) has the stuff to make folks who moved here from New York City, like me, giddy.

Beginning with hand-thrown pizza dough, this is the type of pizza you purchase in the Big Apple by the slice, fold and eat. It’s cooked in a standard deck pizza oven, and the crust might be just a smidgeon thinner and crispier than most of the street slices in NYC. But Pie Hole pizza has just the right amount of sauce (the pizza isn’t swimming in it) and cheese (not overloaded) to compete with Este Pizzeria for the best NYC-style pizza in town.

The Pie Hole ambiance is Animal House, with one-buck PBRs, pizza by the slice or whole pie, a friendly crew and great music. This is the place for late-night noshing: Pie Hole delivers and stays open until 2 a.m. nightly and until 3 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. I think the plain cheese pizza is the bomb, but the missus really enjoys the vegan pizza: cheese-free and brimming with veggies. You can’t go wrong with the daily special of two slices and a soda for $5.

A couple of years ago, I wrote about Cafe Galleria in Midway (101 W. Main, 435-657-2002). The pizza there is among the best I’ve ever had. Well, I’m happy to report that now there is a second Cafe

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But real ramen can be found at Japanese- or Korean-st yle noodle houses, like My ung Ga Ramen. It opened in February and is operated by the family behind the space’s former restaurant, Myung Ga Korean BBQ & Tofu House, which moved around the corner in late 2013.

Traditionally, ramen refers to both a dish and a process. It all starts with the delicious housemade broth. Then, a large batch of noodles is cooked and added to the broth. Veggies, meats and spices top it all off, and the final product is served to you in a steaming cauldron.

Myung Ga serves 10 Japanese-style ramen dishes ranging in cost from $8 to $10. Both the shoyu and tonkotsu are original to Japanese culture; the others have been updated with a chef’s touch over the years. The tonkotsu even has its own unique, creamy pork-flavored broth. Add in the noodles, kikurage mushroom, bamboo shoots, bean sprouts, sliced onion and scallions, and you have a meal of complex flavors and tantalizing aromas.

There are also six Korean-style noodle dishes to choose from. Topping that list is the jjamppong: spicy soup with mussels, clams, shrimp, onion, cabbage, carrots and zucchini in a bowl filled with some of the most delicious thick noodles that I have ever tasted. It’s more like a cioppino with noodles and Cajun spice— flavorful and incredibly filling.

Along with the delicious dishes at Myung Ga Ramen, you will find a relaxed, calming atmosphere, where your faith in ramen will be renewed. CW

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It’s a way to have your cake or cookie and help feed someone else, too.

Brews & Tutus

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A Wee Dram of Glenfiddich Getting to know the world’s most awarded single-malt Scotch.

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o be honest, I’m not much of a Scotch whisky drinker. But that may change. I’m beginning to appreciate the craftsmanship and care that goes into making single-malt Scotch, in part due to what amounted to a master’s seminar on the stuff during a recent lunch.

I had the opportunity to sit down with Mitch Bechard, a Scotsman who is also brand ambassador for William Grant & Sons, owners of Glenfiddich Single Malt Scotch Whisky. I don’t normally drink Scotch with lunch, but this was research.

Turns out that Glennfiddich is a pretty good foil for The Copper Onion’s killer pasta carbonara; both taste a tad smoky.

The Glenfiddich saga begins with a fellow named William Grant. In 1886, aided by cheap labor in the form of seven sons and two daughters, Grant began building a distillery by hand. A year and 750,000 stones later, it was finished and named Glenfiddich, which Bechard told me is Gaelic for “valley of the deer.” The first Glenfiddich Scotch was poured Christmas Day 1887.

It wouldn’t be until 1963 that Sandy Grant Gordon, a great grandson of William Grant, would introduce the world beyond Scotland to the joys of single-malt Scotch versus blended whiskey. Today, Glenfiddich—which is one of the few remaining family-owned singlemalt Scotch producers—thrives and is sold in more than 180 countries. In fact, the worldwide demand—up 87 percent since 2002—for single malt is so great that Glenfiddich has had to raise its prices in order to keep up with demand and keep its whisky on the shelves. Recently, at an auction for charity in New York City, a bottle of Glenfiddich 55-year-old Janet Sheed Roberts Reserve Scotch—named for Scotland’s oldest living woman and her achievements in education—sold for $94,000. It was the last of only 11 bottles made and auctioned.

Well, you and I will never taste that 55-year-old Scotch, the appeal of which

DRINK would probably be wasted on a charlatan wine drinker like myself, any way. The good news is that Glenfiddich’s “entry level” 12-year single malt Scotch can be had for around $40, leaving you with some $93,960 to spend on other things.

You might be relieved to know that, when it comes to single-malt Scotch, age isn’t every thing.

We all know a 40-yearold asshole, after all.

The Glenfiddich bottles you’re most likely to encounter here are the 12-year-old ($45), 15-year-old ($56) and 18-year-old ($100) single malts. The age is indicative of how long the Scotch matures in casks, which makes a huge difference in the various styles and ages of Glenf iddich.

The 1 2-year Scotch, for example, ages in American bourbon and Spanish sherr y oak casks for a minimum of 12 years, lending it pear

f lavors tinged with oak. By the way, Glenfiddich is the No. 1 buyer of used bourbon oak from America.

The Glenf iddich 15-year-old Single Malt Scotch that I tasted at The Copper Onion (you can, too) is very smooth, not hot or overly alcoholic tasting, with beautiful honey flavors that develop as the Scotch is matured in oak casks, followed by a mellowing turn in Glenf iddich’s unique Solera vat and then in Portuguese oak. There are subtle vanilla notes along with exotic spicy hints of ginger and cinnamon. Delicious.

During lu nch , Bechard also cleared up the question of what a “dram” is. “It’s not a measurement of volume,” he said. “A dram pour is really a matter of how much the barman likes you.”

Remember to tip your bartender. CW

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Greek Souvlaki

As the name implies, souvlaki (pork or chicken) is a mainstay at Greek Souvlaki, founded in 1972 by Lee and Mary Paulos. But, the extensive menu of Greek and American offerings also includes favorites such as classic gyros—Greek Souvlaki was the first Utah restaurant to offer them—beefteki, a veggie gyro, dolmathes, pastisio, spanakopita, Greek spaghetti, soups, salads and more. The original restaurant did so well that it’s evolved into a robust local chain. Multiple locations, GreekSouvlaki.com

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Liberty Heights Fresh

Formerly a 1920s-era gas station, this corner spot is now a 21st-century specialty food market serving local and organic produce, fresh-baked bread, imported cheeses and more. Stop in for a gourmet deli sandwich or some fresh flowers. Owner Steven Rosenberg and his crew travel the world to bring shoppers the best olive oils, vinegars, produce, chocolates, coffees, specialty meats and cheeses, spices, condiments and just about everything else you can imagine to stock your gourmet kitchen pantry. 1290 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-583-7374, LibertyHeightsFresh.com

Café Trio

In a perfect world, there would be a Café Trio on every corner. With a second location open in Cottonwood Heights, they’re slowly getting there. Affordable, high-quality flatbreads, pizzas, soups, salads and pasta dishes are matched by a no-nonsense economical wine list. The rosemary flatbread is a must, as is the baked penne. For more discerning palates, Café Trio’s roasted natural chicken is ultra-satisfying. More good news: Café Trio is open for brunch on weekends. 680 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, 801-533-8746; 6405 S. 3000 East, Salt Lake City, 801-9448746, TrioDining.com

Chanon Thai Café

If you think spice is nice and heat is neat, this is definitely the place for you. The Thai cuisine at this funky, friendly and comfy little cafe is truly authentic, particularly when it comes to the heat scale. Order a dish of gang massaman curry spicy, and it will be spicy— seriously! So order carefully. Absolutely delicious is the gang dang, a bowl of red curry with coconut milk, red and green bell pepper, zucchini, Thai basil, bamboo shoots and green beans—all spicy and sweet at the same time. The lard naa with thick rice noodles is a great choice if you’re feeling more sweet than spicy.

And what’s a Thai meal without topping it off with a Thai iced tea? 278 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-532-1177, ChanonThai.com

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Locally owned Barbacoa has been satisfying big burrito appetites since 1998, long before faux-Mex food chains came to town. It’s high-quality fast food with no fillers at low prices. Barbacoa burritos are always a sure bet, filled with cilantro rice, beans, cheese, sour cream, lettuce and a choice of salsa. Don’t feel like having a burrito? How about a burrito bowl, burrito salad or burrito soup? OK, if you must deviate from the holy burrito, there are also tacos on the Barbacoa menu.

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Bombay House

Serving loyal customers since 1993—first at the original Foothill Boulevard location (relocated to Parley’s Way) and now also in Provo and West Jordan— Bombay House combines authentic Indian flavors with equally authentic Indian warmth and hospitality.

Starters like onion bhaji and chicken pakora combine with soups like saag shorba to get things rolling. The lamb, chicken and shrimp tandoori offerings are quite popular, as are the fragrant biryani dishes. Naan, paratha and roti flatbreads are perfect for sopping up every drop of the luscious curries, and those looking for heat should give the vibrant vindaloo a go. Bombay House also features lots of vegetarian options, along with Indian tea and coffee, rose water, strawberry and mango lassis, plus beer, sodas and wine. Multiple locations, BombayHouse.com

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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 and subdued lighting. The menu is huge, with 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 wine and beer selection. We started with the skewered chicken lemongrass rice rolls, a DIY operation: place a few chunks of grilled chicken and some noodles on the rice paper, then add your favorite condiments—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 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. Reviewed March 20. 2121 McClelland St., Salt Lake City, 801-485-2323

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When Faustina lost its talented executive chef, Billy Sotelo, to La Caille a few months ago, I feared it might be curtains for Faustina. But with new Chef de Cuisine Joe Kemp and a new small-plates menu, Faustina’s food has been re-energized. Too often, small plates are accompanied by big prices. That’s not

the case here, where the small-plates menu ranges from $4 for a plate of mixed olives to $12 for filet au poivre. I love a good steak—for three or four bites.

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True, I could eat a pair of Doc Martens bathed in béarnaise, but this mini-mignon was marvelous. Reviewed March 6. 454 E. 300 South, 801-746-4441, FaustinaSLC.com

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Draft Day revels in its NFLKevin Costner and Jennifer Garner in Draft Day approved status, showcasing team logos, stadiums, ESPN draft analysts and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. the questionable decisions such a burden And it’s easy to understand why the NFL can inspire. would have granted its blessing to Scott Yet for all the unsuccessful attempts at Rothman and Rajiv Joseph’s script: It’s as workplace banter and romantic chemistry, deeply immersed in the minutiae of profesDraft Day still has Costner in his element. sional football as any face-painted, screamThere’s just a twinkle in his eye when he until-you’re-hoarse cradle-to-grave fan. gets cooking, like in scenes where Sonny The story snaps along through the various is playing psychological games with his decisions faced by Sonny—including buttfellow general managers trying to make ing heads with the new head coach (Denis trades—including poking at the insecuriLeary)—without pausing too long to make ties of the Jacksonville Jaguars’ rookie GM sure the uninitiated can keep up. There by convincing him that if he doesn’t make may be precious little on-field action, but a certain deal, he’ll look stupid. Director make no mistake, this is a football movie, Ivan Reitman’s crowd-pleasing showcase filled with catnip for the kind of folks moments here are almost entirely built who would follow the buildup to their own around the energy of Costner playing someteam’s pick with feverish fascination. one who’s locked in with a smiling confiWhen Draft Day is focused on its behinddence that he’s exactly where he belongs. the-scenes NFL world, it’s got loads of pop; For all its prime football geekery, Draft Day when it tries to give equal time to the is a character study about a guy trying to behind-the-behind-the-scenes soap opera prove that he’s got the right skills for the of Sonny’s life, it sags. The 15-year age job he’s doing. It’d be lovely if other filmdifference between Costner and Garner makers—and Costner himself—could take a is less of an issue than the fact that their look at his work here as a case in point. CW relationship is presented as a given, with virtually no time spent allowing us to see DRAFT DAY if there’s any connection between them.

And that relationship also detracts from HHH what should have been the focus of Sonny’s Kevin Costner psychology: the complexity of working in Jennifer Garner his father’s shadow, trying to make the Denis Leary Browns “his team,” and dealing with all

don’t care that The Raid 2 runs 2 1/2 hours. I don’t care that it’s spectacularly, unapologetically, borderlineinsanely violent. I don’t care that it’s overplotted to a degree that might require a few helpful diagrams. I understand how any and all of those things might be a deal-breaker for any given viewer.

But Gareth Evans—following up his 2012 action spectacle—simply choreographs action as well as any other filmmaker currently alive on the planet, and it’s impossible not to recognize when you’re in the hands of an absolute master.

This time around, he sticks The Raid’s hero, Rama (Iko Uwais), undercover in a Jakarta crime syndicate in an attempt to find out the identities of the crooked cops that are protecting their rackets. There’s a whole mess of business going on—putting Rama in prison for two years to prove his bona fides; conflict between one crime boss and his ambitious son; a staged murder designed to ignite war between rival crime families—and it’s hard not to engage in a little toe-tapping while Evans sets all his dominoes in place.

But once he starts knocking them down—with kicks, claw hammers, baseball bats, fry-top surfaces, broken bottles, etc.—it’s a dizzying experience. The one-building setting of The Raid may have offered a streamlined “get out alive” concept, but this time around we get a chance to see that Evans not only can craft remarkable punch-and-crunch hand-to-hand combat, but also can construct one humdinger of a car chase.

Those martial-arts donnybrooks, though: Let’s just say that this spiritual son of the Shaw Brothers and Quentin Tarantino scales glorious heights of over-the-top punishment. Your toomuch-ness mileage may certainly vary; there are those who respond to a guy getting his limbs snapped with queasiness, and those who respond with a burst of laughter. To the latter, I can only say: Welcome aboard. CW

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Because Costner, based on all evidence, was a delightful comedic actor just begging to be given more chances to show it off. He was charming as the loose-cannon young gunslinger in Lawrence Kasdan’s Silverado, and a terrific rogue with a heart of gold in Ron Shelton’s classic baseball comedy Bull Durham. Every once in a blue moon—like re-teaming with Shelton in Tin Cup—he’d provide a reminder of what an engaging presence he could be when he was encouraged to loosen up. But for the better part of two decades, he’s wasted his greatest talents on roles that never even let him crack a smile.

So maybe part of what makes Draft Day more satisfying than perhaps it deserves to be is the chance to see Costner back in the milieu that shows off his best side: a contemporary sports comedy. Costner plays Sonny Weaver Jr., the general manager of the Cleveland Browns, preparing for the impending NFL draft under trying circumstances. His girlfriend—co-worker and team salary cap-ologist Ali (Jennifer Garner)—has just told him that she’s pregnant. His popularity is shaky because he fired his own father, the team’s legendary coach, shortly before his father died. And the team’s owner (Frank Langella) is putting pressure on Sonny to make a splash in the draft—which leads Sonny to make the perhaps-ill-advised decision to trade up for the No. 1 pick, presumed to be “can’t-miss” quarterback Bo Callahan (Josh Pence).

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Draft Day HHH See review p. 39. Opens April 11 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) Le Week-end HHH.5 Nick (Jim Broadbent) and Meg (Lindsay Duncan) have been married a long time. As Le Week-end opens—on the train from London to Paris for a getaway—the practiced ease of their togetherness, all reflexive sniping and easy intimacy, is plain.

Apart from the simple pleasure of spending cinematic time with intriguing yet realistic people, exploring the conundrums of life in an engaging and sympathetic way, we have here the unusual pleasure of seeing a couple of fresh, funny 60-somethings enjoying the world and trying to figure out their places in it.

They’re at a new sort of crossroad for the 21st century: He, a philosophy professor, is being forced into early retirement, and she’s bored with her teaching job, but they’ve each likely got decades of good health ahead of them. Do they really want to spend those years together? Director Roger Michell smartly holds back any filmic showiness—we barely even glimpse Paris’s famous landmarks—and lets his marvelous cast steal the show as Nick and Meg attempt to unpack the meaning of happiness, and whether they have found it with each other.

Opens April 11 at Tower Theatre. (R)—MaryAnn Johanson Oculus HHH Yes, it’s about a haunted mirror—and it’s better than any film about a haunted mirror ought to be. Directed, co-written, and edited by Mike Flanagan, it’s an expansion of his 2006 short, and the extra practice he’s had is evident in the way he creates atmosphere, builds suspense and overcomes our objections to the premise. That premise: 11 years ago, a brother and sister saw their parents’ sanity undone by a malevolent antique mirror that causes hallucinations and evil thoughts. Now, with the brother (Brenton Thwaites) freshly released from a mental hospital, the sister (Karen Gillan) is determined to prove the mirror is supernatural—and then destroy it. Flanagan shows us both timelines, 11 years ago and the present, and though the tension of the flashback story is diminished by already knowing how it ends, Flanagan cuts between them expertly, letting the

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past and present bleed together. Telling a story about a mirror that plays mind games means Flanagan gets to play mind games too. He revels in keeping us off-balance, not letting us figure out what’s real any sooner than the characters do as the creepy story unfolds. Opens April 11 at theaters valleywide.

(R)—Eric D. Snider The Raid 2 HHH.5 See review p.39. Opens April 11 at theaters valleywide. (R) Rio 2 HH I remember as a young parent having one of those baby play areas; you lay an infant down on his back, and he stares up at some bright, colorful thing that spins around, makes music and distracts him long enough that you can maybe do the dishes.

That’s Rio 2, an instantly forgettable sequel to the instantly forgettable 2011 movie, which now finds rare macaw couple Blu (Jesse Eisenberg) and Jewel (Anne Hathaway) learning that maybe they’re not so rare after all, and there’s a whole flock hiding away in the Amazon rain forest. There are antagonists aplenty, from Jewel’s traditional dad (Andy Garcia) to the original movie’s sinister cockatoo Nigel (Jemaine Clement) to a businessman (Miguel Ferrer) illegally logging in the rain forest.

So, yes, there’s an environmentally conscious message, and a couple of moderately amusing jokes and a couple of diverting musical numbers. But there’s not a single engaging emotional beat or worthwhile idea or even an appealingly quirky vocal performance. It’s just there to keep moving and make amusing noise, the cinematic equivalent of jingling your keys in front of the kid for 100 minutes. Opens April 11 at theaters valleywide.

(G)—Scott Renshaw The Unknown Known HHH.5 In recent years, some of Errol Morris’ most intriguing documentary profiles (Standard Operating Procedure, Tabloid) have focused on people presumed by the public to be monsters, yet who turn out to be far more mundanely creepy. Here he turns his Interrotron on Donald Rumsfeld, the much-reviled former Secretary of Defense, who opens up about his 40-plus years in government—or perhaps “opens up” is a bit of an exaggeration. What’s most fascinating about Rumsfeld is that, despite the oceans of memos he generated leaving a paper trail of his concerns, he remains almost adamantly unreflective about crucial moments and insistent upon his version of

events despite evidence laid out by Morris that those versions simply don’t hold water. Is he simply an oily politician practiced in the art of the spin, or has he actually come to believe the story that he presents for public consumption? The fascinating suggestion of both the film’s title—coming from one of Rumsfeld’s most famous quotes—and his on-camera comments here is that maybe they’ve become the same thing, and that a willingness to self-question is an inconvenient quality in a contemporary leader. Opens April 11 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (PG-13)—SR

SPECIAL SCREENINGS 12 Years a Slave At Viridian Events Center, April 10, 7 p.m. (R) GMO OMG At Park City Film Series, April 10, 7 p.m. (NR) The Missing Picture At Main Library, April 15, 7 p.m. (PG-13) Tolerable David At Edison Street Events Silent Films, April 10-11, 7:30 p.m. (NR)

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier HHH It starts with a terrific concept: Gung-ho patriot Captain America (Chris Evans) fighting for his country when its enemies and their motives are a murkier business, and even S.H.I.E.L.D. might be infiltrated by bad guys. The story wrestles copious material into a cohesive form, including Cap’s place as an ideological man out of time, yet this is also a super-hero adventure that at times it feels like The Avengers Lite, with Black Widow, Nick Fury and Falcon (Anthony Mackie) joining the action. It’s most similar, though, to Iron Man 3, which similarly maximized the unique qualities of its central character before eventually resorting to a far less interesting blow-everything-up finale. That’s the tension in Marvel movies: Even comic books occasionally have the luxury of devoting an issue to characteradvancing narratives that don’t demand the same rigid blockbuster structure. (PG-13)—SR

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Ernest & Celestine HHH.5 It’s ridiculously cute—not in a sappy, insipid way, but in a way that transforms adorableness into something honest, wise and deeply satisfying. It’s the simple story of a mouse, Celestine, and a bear, Ernest, who overcome the “natural” animosity between their kind to become best friends. There are no humans in this world, just bears living above ground and mice below, each with their own complex cultures. The animation—hand-drawn, with a flavor of watercolors about it—is lovely, crammed with little touches that amp up the squee-able perfection. The story’s little lessons—about the trials and rewards of being a nonconformist, the evils of intolerance, the power of love— go down ever so smoothly and effortlessly amidst such cute overload. (G)—MAJ

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Nymphomaniac Vol. 1 [Incomplete] There’s a wee problem with of reviewing just part one of Lars von Trier’s epic sex drama: It’s not actually a movie. Yes, it’s a filmed narrative, as a woman named Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) relates her autobiography of ravenous sexual appetites to a bookish man named Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård). But it’s only half a movie, with the end of Vol. 1 merely the place where an intermission ought to go. Things are certainly intriguing (and graphic) leading up to that intermission, with young Joe’s (Stacy Martin) oftenharrowing tales undercut by Seligman’s matter-of-fact digressions into subjects ranging from mathematics to fly-fishing.

Where is von Trier going with this clash between the animal and the intellectual? It’s not clear yet, but if you can stomach von Trier’s over-the-top theatricality, it might be worth finding out it in a couple of weeks. (NR)—SR

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Date & Switch High-school buds Michael and Matty (Nicholas Braun and Hunter Cope) make a pact to lose their virginities by prom nightâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; then Matty announces heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gay. If you buy these two (and Dakota Johnson) as teens, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll buy this. (Lionsgate)

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Fargo Tuesday, April 15 (FX) Series Debut: Same setting and tone as the 1996 movie; different story and characters.

And what characters they are: Lorne (Billy Bob Thornton), a manipulative drifter who has his own definitions of â&#x20AC;&#x153;law,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;orderâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;funâ&#x20AC;?; a put-upon insurance-salesman schlub (Martin Freeman) whom Lorne introduces to the Dark Side; a recently widowed ex-Vegas stripper (Kate Walsh)

Season Premieres: Edie Falcoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nurse Jackie is now going to run as long as her previous series, The Sopranos, didâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;six seasons, and we still donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a comedy or a drama. Californication, on the other hand, has always been squarely about the funny with a small side of serious, and Season 7 (the lastâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they mean it this time) brings it back to Santa Monica Cop, the film Hank

Fargo (FX) (David Duchovny) wrote for hip-hop superstar Samurai Apocalypse: Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hired by a TV showrunner (another Sopranos alum, Michael Imperioli) to turn it into a seriesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; after books, music, movies and theater, how can Hank possibly blow a television gig? Obviously, he finds a way. (Other) critics be damnedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I still love Hank and Californication, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll suck to see â&#x20AC;&#x2122;em go after 11 more episodes. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hoping for some final appearances from Lew Ashby (Callum Keith Rennie) and Eddie Nero (Rob Lowe).

Rocky Mountain Bounty Hunters Sunday, April 13 (Animal Planet) Series Debut: Why is this new reality series about human rednecks on Animal Planet?

1. Because â&#x20AC;&#x153;when fugitives disappear into the immense wilderness inhabited by predators like black bears and mountain lions, it takes a special type of hunter to bring these fugitives to justice.â&#x20AC;? And, 2.

One of the bounty huntersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; nickname is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Animal.â&#x20AC;? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s it. Thus concludes todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lesson in Why All Cable Channels Will Soon Be the Same Cable Channel. CW

Ride Along A police academy newbie/Chris Tucker impersonator (Kevin Hart) goes on a ridealong with his girlfriendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s veteran cop brother (Ice Cube) to prove his worth, and all the crazy shit youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d expect happens over the next 24 hours. (Universal)

Trap For Cinderella After awakening from an accident with amnesia, a woman (Tuppence Middleton) tries to piece her life back together with a childhood friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (Alexandra Roach) help; deception and psycho-sexual lesbian obsession ensue. Of course itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s French. (IFC)

More New DVD Releases (April 15) After the Dark, Anger Management: Vol. 3, Blood Shed, Camp Dread, Confine, Copperhead, Death Do Us Part, The Formula, Great Expectations, Interior Leather Bar, Legend of the Red Reaper, Mobius, Not Safe For Work, The Nut Job, Philomena, Playdate, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 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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whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just now realizing what terrible idea it was to move to Minnesota; local cops of varying intelligence (Bob Odenkirk and Colin Hanks); hitmen Mr. Numbers and Mr. Wrench (Adam Goldberg and Russell Harvard); a dim personal trainer with crime in mind (Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Always Sunny In Philadelphiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Glenn Howerton) and moreâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; yes, more. At 10 initial episodes, FXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fargo will tell a more expansive story, but the overly accented, near-cartoon acting and clever cinematography and dialogue are pure, old-school Coen Brothers (who are onboard with this TV adaptation as executive producers). True TV and City Weekly are presenting the premiere of Fargo at Brewvies Cinema Pub (677 S. 200 West, 21+) on the big screen at 8 p.m. Be there, okey dokey?

A flighty widow (Heather Graham) leaves her children (including Kiernan Shipka) with her crazy mother (Ellen Burstyn), who abuses them and locks them in her attic for years. Based on the â&#x20AC;&#x153;gothic teen incest classicâ&#x20AC;?(!) of the same name. (A&E)

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Season Premiere: The seventh and final season of Mad Men, the series that made AMC legit years before the money-printing machine of The Walking Dead fired up, will split 14 episodes over this spring and next, because why not? You put up with it for Breaking Bad, so AMC assumes youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do the same for ad man Don Draper. The network has requested the omission of certain plot points in reviews; The Only TV Column That Mattersâ&#x201E;˘ requested review materials in a timely manner, so we all failed. Season 7 opens in January 1969, two months after last season left off, and the seriesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; long-dreaded pre-â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s fashion catastrophes are in full effect (the horror, the horrorâ&#x20AC;Ś). Don (Jon Hamm) and Megan (Jessica ParĂŠ) are now in California, as is Pete (Vincent Kartheiser), while Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) is still in New York, banging her head against the glass ceiling of SC&P (now minus the Draper â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dâ&#x20AC;?). The stacked-deep storylines of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Time Zonesâ&#x20AC;? suggest no obvious conclusion Mad Men is headed for, other than the trip being more important than the destination. God, that is sooo California.

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n Tamasheq, the language of the Tuareg people of northern Africa, the word emmaar speaks of two sides of the same coin: one nourishing, the other destroying.

“Emmaar” means “what you can feel when you are very close to a fire,” says Tinariwen multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Eyadou Ag Leche via e-mail, through a translator. “It is both pleasant and dangerous. Closer, you get burned; adding distance, you can’t feel the heat anymore.

“It’s also a metaphor of the current situation at home, between war and peace,” he adds—and it’s the title of the Tuareg rock band’s latest full-length album, released in February, as well.

Home, for Tinariwen, is their beloved Sahara Desert, where the historically nomadic Kel Tamasheq, aka Tuareg, tribes have lived since as early as the fifth century B.C. Recent decades found the Tuareg in what is now northern Mali, but after Mali declared its independence from France in 1960, political turmoil in the area forced many Tuareg people to relocate to cities. The Tuareg were displaced to countries including Algeria, Niger, Chad, Mauritania and Libya; it was in a Libyan refugee camp that Tinariwen was formed in the ’80s.

Influenced by the Western music that Tinariwen’s founding members—guitarists/vocalists Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, Abdallah Ab Alhousseyni and Alhassane Ag Touhami—were eventually exposed to (namely, Jimi Hendrix and American blues), the band’s entrancing sound was created by blending traditional Tuareg music with electric guitar.

When revolution ignited in Mali, Tinariwen joined in the fight for Tuareg independence. After the fighting died down, at least for a while, Tinariwen devoted themselves fully to their music. In the ’90s, the three original self-described “soul rebels” of Tinariwen were joined by a new generation of musicians, including Ag Leche, who had grown up listening to the band’s music.

Today, the situation in Mali remains unstable. When it came time to record Emmaar, “we couldn’t record at home as the situation was too unsafe for our crew,” Ag Leche says. So, for the first time, Tinariwen made an album outside of Africa, in an unfamiliar desert on the other side of the world.

For Tinariwen, Ag Leche says, the desert “is essential to us,” a fact that’s reflected in the band’s name itself, which is Tamasheq for “the deserts.” They couldn’t record Emmaar in the Sahara, but Tinariwen found a kinship with the desert surrounding Joshua Tree, Calif. “We need to feel the natural elements of [the desert], the sand, the silence, the air, the rocks,

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You can’t take the desert out of Tinariwen. the feeling of freedom,” Ag Leche says. “We decided to record in Joshua Tree, by a friend, where we felt good and at ease. Of course, it was not home, but being in a desert was vital to us.”

Despite being influenced by Western music, Tinariwen wanted to get back to their musical roots of a distinctly Tuareg sound on Emmaar. “We wanted to record and get the sound of our debut, the rough guitars sounding, with our low-battery amps in the desert, and thanks to the good gear in America, we were able to produce that sound,” Ag Leche says.

The songs on Emmaar are sung in Tamasheq, but the sadness, joy and a host of other emotions transcend any language divide. “We sing both about love, nature, poetry, about exile, and about the current situation for our people,” Ag Leche says. “A big part of our songs are about our people suffering, and we want to spread the message of our community through our music and our lyrics.”

That message cuts straight to the heart on “Toumast Tincha,” a song as starkly beautiful and expansive as the desert, when Ag Leche sings, “The ideals of the people have been sold cheap, my friends/ A peace imposed by force is bound to fail/ And gives way to hatred.”

The emotions that come through most strongly on Emmaar, though, are longing and homesickness. Tinariwen calls such a feeling of nostalgia assouf, which Ag Leche says “can be compared to the blues” and is also the band’s term for their sound. No matter where Tinariwen may wander, they are always connected to their home through their “assouf”—their desert blues.

“Our home is traveling with us,” Ag Leche says. “Our desert, our family, our people are with us.” CW

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TRY THESE

ife on the road for a musician can be difficult for a laundry list of reasons, but as Katie Herzig learned in 2011, it’s also an awful place to grieve the loss of a loved one. Her mother, Cheryl, lost her battle with cancer the day Herzig set out to tour in support of her then-new album, The Waking Sleep, so Herzig had no time to work through her emotions.

“Touring is not the place for you to think deeply and connect with what’s going on with yourself,” she says. “When I get off the road, that’s when I really deal with my health and emotions. So when I started digging into these songs, it was after a heavy amount of touring, and so it went hand-inhand with me having a delayed response to really processing it all.”

“These songs” refers to the Nashville-based dream-pop artist’s just-released album, Walk Through Walls, which examines love and loss and finding a way to push through the messier seasons of life. And while writing about these subjects helped begin Herzig’s healing process, performing the emotional songs when the pain was still fresh was a big obstacle for her.

“There was a point where I wondered if I ever would be able to perform a song that was related to that,” Herzig says. “That was the biggest thing I had to overcome—the emotional connection. That loss was so deeply rooted, but it was still just on the surface, really, so it was hard to imagine that I could sing a song and not immediately cry.”

As “Forgiveness” shows—with its gradual buildup from muted keys to breakneck dance pop, and with Herzig’s guttural cries anchoring much of the song—pain may make you stronger, but that does not make it easier to sing the song. The surprisingly joyful track “Human Too” uses a lot of evocative language to talk about going through trials and coming out stronger on the other side.

But the swelling synth-pop title track stands out most; it’s emblematic of Herzig’s recent struggles, but it also demonstrates that you can move on from anything.

“I was looking at life and how a lot of things were not what I anticipated they would be.

And that was neither bad nor good; it was just different,” Herzig says. “To get to where I wanted to be, I essentially had to walk through what felt like a wall.” CW

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crolling through his Instagram account, you will find that Chuck Ragan is a man’s man: pictures of dogs, caught fish, roughed-up boots from years of trekking through Northern California’s woods. Someone unfamiliar with Ragan probably wouldn’t assume he’s a punk-rock legend, a co-frontman of Hot Water Music. Aside from that, he’s a gentleman, turning the tables on the interview by asking questions about how I’m doing and how Salt Lake City’s weather is holding up (I’m only assuming so he can partake in outdoor activities while on tour) before I can even ask a question.

“It’s a way of treating people that I was taught at an early age by my folks,” Ragan says. “My mother is an entertainer, and I remember touring with her when I was a kid and seeing how she connected with people.

She was always a kind and giving woman even when she was sick as a dog. Even during the Hot Water Music days, we always wanted to include our friends and supporters that came along, to include them.”

After spending more than 20 years in the renowned punk band Hot Water Music— which went on hiatus in 2005 and got back together in 2007—Ragan has now turned his focus to his solo career, which has spawned the annual Revival Tour and four folk-punk albums, including his just-released, country-tinged Till Midnight.

Probably confusing to punk-rock purists, as part of the promotion of Till Midnight, the video for the debut single “Something May Catch Fire” was featured on CMT’s website. But Ragan is eager to share his music with a new audience and, even more so, introduce them to the punkrock community.

“For anybody new coming, I would want them to feel free to come on in and open up their ears and hearts and, not to mention,

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meet our fans and supporters,” Ragan says.

“The community of listeners we have are some of the most positive, progressive and healing group of folks I could ever ask for.”

On Till Midnight, Ragan’s songwriting is fully realized. The album focuses mostly on love songs, a topic cultivated during a short hiatus from production and performing duties with The Revival Tour—an acoustic showcase of folk, indie and Americana artists—and touring with Hot Water Music.

During the break, Ragan was able to refocus on his family and loved ones.

“It’s tough for anyone who goes on the road,” Ragan says. “We’re not just punching the clock. The tough part is finding that balance. Personal time for your agenda can virtually disappear. I hit a point in my life where it didn’t make sense to make everybody happy and take on so much.”

Although Till Midnight may sound like Ragan has lost some of his edge from his earlier solo days, new songs like “Non Typical” and “Revved” are still peppered with Ragan’s gruff and gravely yell, and the songs pulsate with new life from additional musicianship. On Till Midnight, Ragan collaborated with a full band, The Camaraderie, for the first time on a solo record. The lineup features members of Social Distortion and The Wallflowers in addition to his longtime fiddle player and bass player, John Gaunt and Joe Ginsberg, respectively.

The intensity of Ragan’s shows will no doubt stay intact while he promises more emotional “peaks and valleys,” giving equal time to his high-energy punk/folk and his more recent mid-tempo alternative country.

Nonetheless, Ragan and The Camaraderie promise a good time for their “community.”

“It’s my duty to give an experience where people can walk through that door and ... forget about their troubles for a little while,” Ragan says. “We sing for ourselves, but we always want to connect with people.” CW

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Bitten by a tick when he was 12, Morton contracted Lyme disease, which went undiagnosed for years, wreaked havoc on his organs and nearly killed him. On White Lighter— Typhoon’s second full-length, released in summer 2013—Morton sings about his lost childhood, his longing to be all of the things that his illness prevented him from becoming, and his close brush with his own mortality. Songs like “Hunger & Thirst” and “100 Years” are stunning and wistful, with layers of strings, horns and other instruments.

Wild Ones and Hollow Wood will provide support. The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $15, TheUrbanLoungeSLC. com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com

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Secret Abilities & Danger Button Split Album Release In honor of their father, who passed away recently, local brothers Davin and Parker Abegg and the bands they belong to (Secret Abilities and Danger Button, respectively) are collaborating on a split album. The Gat Doh-Git! Split— named for “a silly word he would say in place of curse words,” Davin says via e-mail—will feature six tracks, with each band contributing two songs and a cover of a previously released song from the other band. The spooky rock & roll of Secret Abilities and the synth-pop style of Danger Button should be an interesting mashup on the EP; Secret Abilities front-

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Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), 8 p.m., $6, KilbyCourt.com

Sunday 4.13

The Boston Boys Since coming together in 2012, The Boston Boys have performed in more than a dozen countries in the Middle East, northwest Africa and Eastern Europe as cultural ambassadors with the U.S. State Department—not bad. Playing what they term “future roots,” The Boston Boys start with familiar classic American music styles like bluegrass, soul and rock & roll and then stretch those paradigms to craft a sound all their own. They also collaborate with local musicians on their worldwide travels, such as in the new music video for their single “What You Say!?!” shot during their January tour in Morocco. Featuring lots of mandolin and fiddle, The Boston Boys’

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Tuesday 4.15

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Phantogram Saratoga Springs, N.Y., duo Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter, better known as Phantogram, are certainly two of the “it” musicians of indie music at the moment—whether they’re appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live or playing at this year’s SXSW, it seems like Phantogram is everywhere. And it’s no surprise: Their particular brand of hazy electro-rock is catchy and easily digestible, with Barthel’s lacy, ethereal voice hanging like a delicate veil over Carter’s hip-hop-influenced beats and synths.

Phantogram—which is named for a type of optical illusion, not the combination of Fanta and graham crackers—released their sophomore album, Voices, in February, and the sleek, darkly atmospheric songs are given a fresh spin with the use of ear-catching percussion and samples. TEEN is also on the bill. In the Venue, 219 S. 600 West, 8 p.m., $20 in advance, $22 day of show, InTheVenueSLC.com

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With guest musicians joining sporadically depending on location, each show becomes a spontaneous mix of artists and instruments—a fleeting moment to be savored. The “rowdy folk” trio’s newly released second album, Sonder On—released in March—is a joyous romp through foot-stomping, brassy anthems like “Crazy Horse” punctuated with string-heavy, soul-catching ballads such as “Kings & Queens” that quickly steal your heart. (Deann Armes) Tuesday, 4.15 @ The Woodshed, 60 E. 800 South, 10 p.m., $5, TheWoodshedSLC.com

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n Tamasheq, the language of the Tuareg people of northern Africa, the word emmaar speaks of two sides of the same coin: one nourishing, the other destroying.

“Emmaar” means “what you can feel when you are very close to a fire,” says Tinariwen multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Eyadou Ag Leche via e-mail, through a translator. “It is both pleasant and dangerous. Closer, you get burned; adding distance, you can’t feel the heat anymore.

“It’s also a metaphor of the current situation at home, between war and peace,” he adds—and it’s the title of the Tuareg rock band’s latest full-length album, released in February, as well.

Home, for Tinariwen, is their beloved Sahara Desert, where the historically nomadic Kel Tamasheq, aka Tuareg, tribes have lived since as early as the fifth century B.C. Recent decades found the Tuareg in what is now northern Mali, but after Mali declared its independence from France in 1960, political turmoil in the area forced many Tuareg people to relocate to cities. The Tuareg were displaced to countries including Algeria, Niger, Chad, Mauritania and Libya; it was in a Libyan refugee camp that Tinariwen was formed in the ’80s.

Influenced by the Western music that Tinariwen’s founding members—guitarists/vocalists Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, Abdallah Ab Alhousseyni and Alhassane Ag Touhami—were eventually exposed to (namely, Jimi Hendrix and American blues), the band’s entrancing sound was created by blending traditional Tuareg music with electric guitar.

When revolution ignited in Mali, Tinariwen joined in the fight for Tuareg independence. After the fighting died down, at least for a while, Tinariwen devoted themselves fully to their music. In the ’90s, the three original self-described “soul rebels” of Tinariwen were joined by a new generation of musicians, including Ag Leche, who had grown up listening to the band’s music.

Today, the situation in Mali remains unstable. When it came time to record Emmaar, “we couldn’t record at home as the situation was too unsafe for our crew,” Ag Leche says. So, for the first time, Tinariwen made an album outside of Africa, in an unfamiliar desert on the other side of the world.

For Tinariwen, Ag Leche says, the desert “is essential to us,” a fact that’s reflected in the band’s name itself, which is Tamasheq for “the deserts.” They couldn’t record Emmaar in the Sahara, but Tinariwen found a kinship with the desert surrounding Joshua Tree, Calif. “We need to feel the natural elements of [the desert], the sand, the silence, the air, the rocks,

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You can’t take the desert out of Tinariwen. the feeling of freedom,” Ag Leche says. “We decided to record in Joshua Tree, by a friend, where we felt good and at ease. Of course, it was not home, but being in a desert was vital to us.”

Despite being influenced by Western music, Tinariwen wanted to get back to their musical roots of a distinctly Tuareg sound on Emmaar. “We wanted to record and get the sound of our debut, the rough guitars sounding, with our low-battery amps in the desert, and thanks to the good gear in America, we were able to produce that sound,” Ag Leche says.

The songs on Emmaar are sung in Tamasheq, but the sadness, joy and a host of other emotions transcend any language divide. “We sing both about love, nature, poetry, about exile, and about the current situation for our people,” Ag Leche says. “A big part of our songs are about our people suffering, and we want to spread the message of our community through our music and our lyrics.”

That message cuts straight to the heart on “Toumast Tincha,” a song as starkly beautiful and expansive as the desert, when Ag Leche sings, “The ideals of the people have been sold cheap, my friends/ A peace imposed by force is bound to fail/ And gives way to hatred.”

The emotions that come through most strongly on Emmaar, though, are longing and homesickness. Tinariwen calls such a feeling of nostalgia assouf, which Ag Leche says “can be compared to the blues” and is also the band’s term for their sound. No matter where Tinariwen may wander, they are always connected to their home through their “assouf”—their desert blues.

“Our home is traveling with us,” Ag Leche says. “Our desert, our family, our people are with us.” CW

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ife on the road for a musician can be difficult for a laundry list of reasons, but as Katie Herzig learned in 2011, it’s also an awful place to grieve the loss of a loved one. Her mother, Cheryl, died from a terminal illness the day Herzig set out to tour in support of her then-new album, The Waking Sleep, so Herzig had no time to work through her emotions.

“Touring is not the place for you to think deeply and connect with what’s going on with yourself,” she says. “When I get off the road, that’s when I really deal with my health and emotions. So when I started digging into these songs, it was after a heavy amount of touring, and so it went hand-inhand with me having a delayed response to really processing it all.”

“These songs” refers to the Nashville-based dream-pop artist’s just-released album, Walk Through Walls, which examines love and loss and finding a way to push through the messier seasons of life. And while writing about these subjects helped begin Herzig’s healing process, performing the emotional songs when the pain was still fresh was a big obstacle for her.

“There was a point where I wondered if I ever would be able to perform a song that was related to that,” Herzig says. “That was the biggest thing I had to overcome—the emotional connection. That loss was so deeply rooted, but it was still just on the surface, really, so it was hard to imagine that I could sing a song and not immediately cry.”

As “Forgiveness” shows—with its gradual buildup from muted keys to breakneck dance pop, and with Herzig’s guttural cries anchoring much of the song—pain may make you stronger, but that does not make it easier to sing the song. The surprisingly joyful track “Human Too” uses a lot of evocative language to talk about going through trials and coming out stronger on the other side.

But the swelling synth-pop title track stands out most; it’s emblematic of Herzig’s recent struggles, but it also demonstrates that you can move on from anything.

“I was looking at life and how a lot of things were not what I anticipated they would be.

And that was neither bad nor good; it was just different,” Herzig says. “To get to where I wanted to be, I essentially had to walk through what felt like a wall.” CW

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The shop recently moved into its very own space in the heart of downtown at 221 West 400 South.

“I love downtown Salt Lake City and take great pride in the small ‘mom and pop’ shops that succeed and continue to bring a vibrancy to our city,” says owner Marci Rasmussen.

The shop is widely known for stocking a large, unique variety of fresh-cut flowers sold by the stem and hand wraps, which are a customer favorite. They deliver valleywide from Riverton to Farmington daily.

“Ninety percent of our flowers we carry are grown in the United States, and we buy from a local grower in the summer months,” says Rasmussen. Their freshness, quality and customer service is what sets them apart from other flower shops in the area. “Each order is custom-made at the time of delivery with the sender and receiver in mind,” she explains.

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For spring, the shop boasts a variety of tulips, hyacinths, irises, ranunculi and anemones, as well as many other bulb flowers.

And for those who are missing Retro Rose, Rasmussen’s vintage shop that recently closed its doors, you’ll be pleasantly surprised. “We have incorporated some of our Retro Rose vintage items into our offerings,” says Rasmussen. “We offer vintage, retro and antique containers for flowers and have fun and unique gifts and jewelry.”

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Freedom is the most important kind of joy you can seek right now. It’s also the most important subject to study and think about, as well as the most important skill to hone. I advise you to make sure that freedom is flowing through your brain and welling up in your heart and spiraling through your loins.

Write synonyms for “freedom” on your arm with a felt-tip pen: liberation, emancipation, independence, leeway, spaciousness, carte blanche, self-determination, dispensation. Here’s one more tip: Connect yourself with people who love and cultivate the same type of freedom you do.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) It’s Love Your Messes Week, Taurus. In accordance with the astrological omens, you are authorized to love the hell out of the messes in your life—from the small, awkward knots of confusion to the big, beautiful heaps of fertile chaos. This is not a time to feel embarrassed or apologize for your messes; not a time to shy away from them or ignore them. On the contrary, you should explore them, celebrate them and even take advantage of them.

Whatever else they are, your messes are untapped sources of energy. Learn to love them for the mysterious lessons they keep teaching you. Love them for the courage and willpower they compel you to summon. Love them for the novelty they bring your way and the interesting stories they add to your personal legend.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) When I took an intermediate painting class in college, our first assignment was to imitate an old master. My choice was the Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525-1569). I worked on reproducing his painting The Fight Between Carnival and Lent as precisely as I could. It was tedious and liberating. I invoked Bruegel’s spirit and prayed for his guidance. I sank my psyche deeply into his. By the end of the four-week process I’d learned a lot about painting. Given the current astrological omens, Sagittarius, I suggest you try something similar. Pick someone who excels at a way of working or a state of being that you would like to master yourself, and copy that person for a while. For best results, have fun with it. Play!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Capricorn author J. R. R. Tolkien spent 14 years working on The Lord of the Rings. In using a typewriter to produce more than 1,200 pages, he relied solely on his two index fingers. He never learned the ten-finger typing method. I suppose it didn’t matter in the end. Presumably, his impediment didn’t affect the quality of his work, but only made it harder to accomplish and required him to spend a lot more time. Is there a fixable limitation on your own ability to achieve your dream, Capricorn? Is there some handicap you could, with effort, overcome? If so, now would be an excellent time to begin.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “The truth’s superb surprise,” wrote poet Emily Dickinson, may be “too bright for our infirm delight.” Sometimes we’ve got to be careful about articulating what’s really going on. “The truth must dazzle gradually,” she said. If it hits us too fast and hard, it may be difficult to digest. So did Emily suggest that we should lie and deceive? No. “Tell all the truth,” she declared, “but tell it slant.”

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) When you see your shadow, it’s usually right next to you. It’s there on the ground or floor, a fuzzy black shape that follows you around closely. But today I saw my shadow waving back at me from afar.

I was standing on top of a hill, and the sun’s rays created a dusky version of me in the meadow way down below. I think this is a useful metaphor for an opportunity that’s available to you. In the coming days, you will be able to view the shadowy, undeveloped parts of your personality as if from a distance. That means you will have more objectivity about them, and thus greater compassion.

You can get a calm, clear sense of how they might be mucking with your happiness and how you could transform them.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Saturn has been in the sign of Scorpio since October 2012 and will be there until the end of 2014. (It will make another visit from June to September 2015.) What does that mean? I have a view of Saturn that’s different from many astrologers. They regard it as the planet of limitation, struggle and difficulty.

Here’s what I think: While Saturn may push you to be extra tough and work super hard, it also inspires you to cut away extraneous desires and home in on your deepest purpose. It motivates you to build strong structures that free you to express yourself with maximum efficiency and grace.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) In 2007, J. K. Rowling finished writing the seventh volume of her seven Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The day it was published, it sold 11 million copies. But Rowling had actually written the final chapter of this last book way back in 1990, when she first conceived the story she was to spend the next 17 years working on. She knew the climax right from the beginning. I foresee a similar theme unfolding for you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. As you plot a project you will be developing for a long time to come, you will have a vision of what it will be when it becomes fully mature.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Are you thinking of linking your fortunes to a new ally? Or deepening your collaboration with a familiar ally? Have you fantasized about bonding intensely with a source that may be able to give you more of what you want and bring out more of the best in you? These prospects are worth contemplating, Libra. But I suggest you let your connection ripen a bit more before finalizing the shift. I’m not necessarily saying there’s a potential problem. I simply suspect that you need further exploration and additional information before you can make the smartest move possible.

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Part of the excitement and mystery about grindr is the limited information we share—a picture, our likes and dislikes, and if we feel totally forthcoming: age, height, and maybe even weight. In truth, those descriptors are enough to find a sexual interaction, but probably not enough to find an emotional attraction.

The great thing about grindr is that it eliminates the guessing game of trying to figure out if someone is gay or straight.

Instead, you already know if the attractive guy you’re talking to is also attracted to men, rather than just hoping he is.

The danger of dating apps is that conversation is no longer a prerequisite for meeting up. “Into?” has replaced “What do you do for fun?” and “Looking?” has replaced “Do you have plans tonight? Maybe we can get a drink.” Why is it more preferable to have meaningless interactions with strangers than substantive conversations with potential friends? Because that’s what grindr was designed to do—easy access to other gay men in close proximity, for whatever activity you want.

But then there are those of us who would rather go on dates and spend less time getting random pictures of a stranger’s naughty place. For people with busy lives who aren’t into the club and bar scene, grindr has potential. It would be great to find a guy who just wants to have coffee on a lazy Sunday afternoon. But it’s hard to date on grindr—very few men are actually looking for dates or friends and it’s difficult to have a conversation with a torso. But I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the few times I’ve found someone interested in actually having a substantive conversation.

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They had one school newspaper and just one yearbook between them.

I remember East High on the corner of 1300 East and 800 South. It burned mightily in 1972, gutting the historic building.

That was two years after Saltair burned to the ground and unfounded rumors were rampant that a major arsonist was on the loose. Both properties were eventually rebuilt and East High became even more famous thanks to several Disney Channel films (High School Musical 1, 2 and 3) that were filmed, in part, there. Locals may have heard of the following people who East High alumni: Roseanne Barr (dropout, age 17); James Irwin (astronaut who walked on the moon); folksinger, story teller and labor organizer Utah Phillips; Ken Sansom (voice of Rabbit in Disney’s Winnie the Pooh); Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner; and a multitude of athletic-types like Sione Pouha (defensive tackle for the New York Jets), Herman Franks (major league baseball manager) and Will Tukuafu (from the San Francisco 49ers).

Sadly, East High has received bad press over the years. In 2007, three members of the football team were arrested and expelled after raping fellow football players. In 2012, a soccer team player assaulted someone during a soccer match in such poor taste that it appears as an example of bad sportsmanship on YouTube. The first gay-straight alliance club at a school in our state debuted at East High in 1995. That was a good thing for human rights but student Kelli Peterson, who created the group, was not welcomed with open arms in the conservative atmosphere.

You are welcome to tour East High school any day as a visitor or alum. At the peak of the High School Musical phenomenon, it was getting requests at least 50 times a day by folks who wanted to see where the movies were shot. n

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