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Letters This Land Is Our Land

Let’s see. These ranchers in Nevada—typical rich Republican Mormons—have been illegally grazing their herd of cows on federally owned public lands (the lands owned by all of us) for many years, thereby destroying the habitat of native and endangered species there. They claim it’s not an environmental issue, but a civil-rights issue—and their civil rights are being infringed upon.

What about the civil rights of all us other American citizens to have a say in what happens to our federally owned public lands?

These ranchers have effectively infringed upon— and thereby destroyed—our rights. Controlling Mormon church leaders and their Mormon sheep, like all Republicans, don’t want the federal government to own or control any U.S. lands. Instead, they want rich people to own and control all land, to exploit and often destroy for their own profits.

Outrageously, by doing this, they claim that they are protecting the civil rights of all Americans. The fact that they’re also racist, misogynist and anti-LGBT puts the lie to that rallying claim that’s bringing all their fellow Nazis to defend their stealing of our lands.

Enough is enough.

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Get Serious About Water

Colby Frazier’s article on water [Green Guide, April 17, City Weekly] is probably too polite when discussing Utah’s approach to its impending water crisis.

For example: 1. Paying for water through property taxes removes any incentive to conserve, and can unfairly burden low-income people because they cannot save money even if they use less. Few water economists would support this mechanism.

2. Elsewhere, higher tariffs, especially progressive tariffs, discourage waste. What makes Washington County different?

3. Tariffs should be “transparent.” But Salt Lake City bills in 100 cubic feet, whereas most of us think in gallons, and when I called to get details of the tariffs, no one could help me. Not much conservation stimulus there.

4. The loss of prime agricultural land to urban sprawl will reduce irrigation requirements and free up valuable resources for municipal use, as the article points out.

However, suppose our total resources are nominally 100, and stay constant (i.e., no Lake Powell pipeline, but also no loss due to snowpack degradation as a result of global warming).

If municipal use may increase from the present 15 to, say, 30 by 2060, that means that agriculture has to fall from 85 to 70. Is this going to happen? If not, who is going to tackle the political minefield of making farmers conserve

(change crops, give up spray irrigation) and reallocating water rights?

Politicians and elected officials are usually addicted to major capital projects. There is very little prestige to be gained or money to be made from the often cheaper and more effective alternatives: conservation and leakage reduction.

We live in a very dry state with a burgeoning population, and need to take water much more seriously. Relying on the depleted Lake Powell and the already over-allocated Colorado River seems a risky gamble.

Richard Middleton Salt Lake City Correction: In “Forward Motion” [April 24, City Weekly], choreographers Ellen Bromberg and Doug Varone were misidentified as alumni of Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company; they were not previously members of the company.

The band Fortunate Youth has six members. April 17’s concert listings said otherwise.

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OPINION

Under Control

The man on the train was angry, in that way that so many people seem angry about nearly everything. He was in his late 60s or early 70s—prime years for such omnivorous anger, based purely on anecdotal evidence—and he was already in mid-rant when I boarded, sharing his views about the horrors of our current government with a younger friend, or maybe a coworker. Taking away our guns, instituting socialism through Obamacare—you know, the usual. He’d “done a lot of reading.”

And then it wasn’t just the usual. “He’s destroying the economy on purpose,” said Angry Man, referring to President Obama.

“On purpose! So he can establish a oneworld currency!”

Ah, I snarked to myself in my head, the typical craziness of living in the Fox News echo chamber. But then the targets of his ire turned surprisingly bipartisan. He tore into Sen. Orrin Hatch for various votes he deemed contrary to the Constitution. He detoured into 9/11 “truther” notions about how “I’m not saying George Bush was responsible for it, but he definitely knew about it.” He opined about how the only two decent presidents in his lifetime were John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan—both of whom “coincidentally” had people shoot at them. “They” killed Kennedy to preserve the role of the Federal Reserve that Kennedy was undercutting; as for Reagan, “It’s interesting that the first George Bush, his vice-president, was the one who talked about the ‘New World Order.’

Maybe he didn’t have anything to do with the assassination attempt on Reagan. Maybe.”

A ngry Man’s younger-friend-ormaybe-co-worker, to his eternal credit, approached this conversation with the sensitivity of a trained counselor. Rather than either treating his friend/colleague like a certifiable lunatic or indulging him completely, the young man gently redirected Angry Man away from his journey through Crazytown. “There are a lot of problems,” he agreed, “but we’re not going to turn into a police state. This is a democracy.”

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Angry Man chuckled ruefully. “I guess we’ll see about that,” he said. “I guess we’ll see.”

I’ve long been fascinated with the psychology behind conspiracy theories.

There’s such a transparent absence of reason behind virtually all of them, yet for those who espouse them, it’s just as obvious that everyone else is ignoring the plentiful evidence right there under their noses; of course the Twin Towers were blown up from the inside, because that one weird engineer guy totally proved it had to be that way. They’re the ones who’ve uncovered the sinister details behind the Rothschilds or the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion or the Freemasons.

Or, if not “uncovered” them, then at least spent a lot of time on the websites and message boards of those who have uncovered them.

There’s also, unfortunately, plenty of cause to understand why conspiracy theories proliferate. We’ve seen too many examples in recent generations of those in power abusing that power, and trying to hide or downplay those abuses. It’s absolutely nuts, isn’t it, to think that the United States government would secretly sell arms to Iran (illegally) so that they could maybe secure the release of hostages, and definitely funnel that money to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels (also illegally)? Or that it would gather massive amounts of electronic data on its own citizens, just, you know, in case? It’s kind of a scary world, and it gets even scarier when it feels like the best you can hope for from your leaders is that they don’t turn into James Bond villains.

There is, however, a danger involved in perpetuating conspiracy theories, beyond the possibility that people won’t want to invite you to holiday dinners. First and foremost, conspiracy theories are an attempt to make sense of the world in the most sim-

plistic manner possible. That concept may seem counterintuitive, considering all the Rube Goldbergian pieces that conspiracists insist are all in the proper place to make these ideas possible. But what they’re insisting is that horrible things never just happen; somebody, somewhere, is behind it all, pulling the strings. It becomes more comforting to abandon the uncertainty inherent in one crazed person pulling the trigger on the American president, and latch onto the possibility that it was a carefully disguised plot. Orchestrated evil feels less threatening than chaos, because it allows us to maintain the illusion that everything can be controlled.

We see that idea strewn throughout A merican culture, paralyzing our ability to deal with frightening uncertainties. The ongoing embrace of creationism is a firm, resolute shake of the head to the notion that humanity could just happen; Somebody had to make it so. Courts are full of litigation demanding “accountability” for events that were horrible, random accidents made by fallible humans, because we have to believe that the horrible, random thing wasn’t actually random. The more that technology and medicine smooth out the bumps of modern life, the more we start to tell ourselves that any bump we do encounter isn’t just a bump. It’s someone placing a bump there. On purpose. And it’s easy to manufacture a reason why.

Eventually, the Angry Man’s young companion exited the train, and there was nobody to listen to the Angry Man express his feelings of powerlessness. In his head, though, a world of devious schemes continued to swirl. It was a world he no longer understood in a rational way. The madness of seeing us all as pieces moved around a chessboard had become reassuring. CW

it feels like the best you can hope for from your leaders is that they don’t turn into James Bond villains.

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What’s a conspiracy theory that you believe?

Paula Saltas: That Princess Diana wasn’t really killed in an auto accident. I believe she was murdered to shut her up about Prince Charles. Maybe I watch too much Sopranos.

Chad Allen: That there’s a large doomsday bunker under the Denver airport. I heard they have reserved a spot for John Saltas.

Ylish Merkley: All my missing socks actually get dissolved in the dryer to satiate the heating god’s sacrifice demands.

Bill Frost: That The Beatles were created by the Illuminati to destroy Christianity.

It didn’t work; their latest attempt is soccer.

Sarah Arnoff: I think all the traffic lights in Salt Lake City are rigged to make drivers idle as long as possible.

Colin Wolf: A friend of mine recently pointed out that most “indie bands” are better categorized under the genre of easy listening. That’s a conspiracy theory I can get behind, because that means if you love Foster the People, then Harry Belafonte is your god.

Eric Peterson: I have a conspiracy theory against conspiracy theories. By and large, they’re just not real. If you suffer from the actions of a government or other organization, it’s because of ineptitude or institutional indifference of that organization. The machine out there doesn’t care enough about you to try and conspire against you as an individual. Sorry, but the truth is out there, and it’s kind of sad—you’re just not interesting enough for Big Brother to give a shit.

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HITS&MISSES

by Katharine Biele

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Some Utah politicians you can’t help but admire—even if you’re not a Democrat.

Take Sen. Jim Dabakis. As a Democrat in the Legislature, he has about as much influence as a slug, but Dabakis has a way of engaging the opposition and still telling it like it is. Here’s his latest on the Cliven Bundy imbroglio, from Facebook: “The Nevada guy does not pay $1 million in back taxes, lines up a bunch of his redneck buddies and they point lots of loaded guns at lawenforcement officers. That Nevada guy walks. Tim DeChristopher bids on some oil property—and does not pay, robbing big oil of a few moments of drilling time in the magnificent West—and Tim is sent to the federal slammer for a long, long time. … What magic spell do these Tea People have on politicians?”

Let Freedom Ring Let’s talk about freedom.

When people decided to live in society, they necessarily gave up some freedom. The idea was to live in a culture of law. Every time another law is passed, a certain freedom is taken. Is that bad? Congressional candidate Mia Love would have you believe that freedom is finite. “When government grows, freedom shrinks, and once a freedom is taken away, it is never given back,” she told the state GOP Convention. But wait. Never? On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Didn’t that give back freedom to the slaves? Oh, but it was done by one of those lawless presidents, the kind who, when faced with opposition, just acted on principle. Then there was the 13th Amendment. And that put the give-back in law.

Roadless Country Sometimes it’s the little victories that count. As the state of Utah tries to take over federal lands, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals finally agreed that an unpaved road leading to Salt Creek Canyon in Canyonlands National Park is not a state highway. The court upheld a U.S. District Court ruling in the case that started in 2009, and reverberates into the future. “The State of Utah and its counties are pursuing more than 20 similar cases asserting that approximately 36,000 miles of dirt trails and cowpaths are state highways,” writes the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.

SUWA calls Salt Creek Canyon one of the park’s crown jewels. Of course, people would like to drive their ATVs and SUVs into the area, but the court realizes this is not a trip to Disneyland.

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Dem Talk

The group of artists, inventors and creatives known as the Jenkstars goes back to 2007 with Scotty “Soltronic” Whitaker and his mobile solar-powered generator, Saucey, the Solar Saucer, which generates energy for the Building Man event.

At Building Man SLAM (Sustainable Living Arts & Music Festival)—inspired by Burning Man—family, friends and community members (400 to 500 people total) gather in the desert for sustainable building workshops, yoga, art, music, healing and a sense of connectedness not often found in the day-to-day. The Jenkstars are raising funds to turn the Jenkstar ranch in Green River into a year-round community center to promote and practice sustainable living. Local artist and fellow Jenkstar Prescott McCarthy is helping the sixth-annual Building Man, May 8 to 11, come to life at the ranch. Those interested can check out the group’s Kickstarter campaign or buy Building Man tickets at Jenkstar.com. Read the full interview at CityWeekly.net.

What happens to the structures erected during the festival once it’s over?

For the most part, the buildings that we’re building down there are permanent. They’re up and now they’re gonna stay up. The saloon, which is our touring structure, comes down and goes on the road with us. But for the most part, that’s the exciting concept behind this whole event. It has more purpose than just going out and having a fun weekend. We’re actually creating something. Each year, it progresses more and more, and you see the progression. For festival-goers to come and be part of it is really special for them to know “I’m a part of creating this”—not just when it’s done, being like, “Oh, that was fun,” and then that’s it.

How else are you different from Burning Man?

I don’t go to the Burn anymore because I don’t need to. We’ve kind of taken that inspiration, which is amazing, and we’re trying to bring it year-round into the world. We’re trying to raise money to build a community-center lodge. Its location is perfect, on I-70 between Colorado and Vegas and right in the heart of Utah and Moab and Boulder. So much is right there. It’s such a thoroughfare. People could stop in and go see this amazing art garden where you can have some organic salad and some coffee, and then maybe each weekend or monthly or bimonthly—however it happens—there could be different people coming in and doing lectures and workshops and teaching primitive skills and earth-building.

We’re doing lots of permaculture to the ranch so that we can actually grow food down there. I mean, we’re in Green River—this is, like, one of the watermelon-growing capitals of the world, and so the potential to grow is there.

With all the different offerings at this event, do you run out of energy?

You would think that the way we do it—which is wake up, do yoga, go to a workshop, learn primitive skills, go to a building workshop, use your hands and labor in the sun for hours, then go to the beach, then go do the Jenkstar Olympics or be part of one of these funny, playful events, and then we have this huge meal—you think you’d be ready for bed or something. But we found that it’s the complete opposite and the energy just builds.

And when you have all that togetherness throughout the day, the evening just becomes so special. Come Sunday, I’ll usually, like, pass out.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Mating Call

BY CECIL ADAMS

Psychology Today advocates multiple partners and open marriages and offers “evidence” that monogamy isn’t possible. This bugs me. Why are they doing this? Comparing man to animals is just weird to me, because we’re supposed to be separated out by reason and morality, right?

—The Good Wife, Austin, Texas Psychology Today, ever on the cutting edge, has had monogamy in its crosshairs lately. A casual search turned up at least nine articles on the subject in the past year, from “The Curious Couple’s Guide to Occasional Non-Monogamy” to “But Honey, I Thought You Meant ‘Socially’ Monogamous!” Here’s a representative quote, from “The Truth About Polyamory” by Deborah Taj Anapol: “Our cultural obsession with monogamy is going the same way as prohibition, slavery, the gold standard and mandatory military service. In other words, while serial monogamy is more popular than ever, lifelong monogamy is pretty much obsolete, and for better or worse, polyamory is catching on.”

Let’s break this down: Monogamy is on a par with prohibition, slavery, etc. Spare me.

Polyamory is catching on. Depends how we define the term. If strictly, show me your cites, lady. If more liberally, we can talk. More below.

Serial monogamy is in, lifelong monogamy is out. True beyond dispute. However, we need to clarify what we mean. Time for the straight dope.

Let’s start with those investigations of animal mating habits you take issue with. It’s often said that 9 percent or some other low proportion of mammals are monogamous.

So? A puppy reaches maturity in a year; a human newborn needs 11 to 12 years. There’s an explanation for monogamy right there.

Except it doesn’t hold up. Among chimpanzees, the species most closely related to us, the young reach maturity in 8 to 15 years, comparable to humans. But chimps mate promiscuously and never pair off.

Although the young remain with their mothers, there’s otherwise minimal family structure. Alpha males dominate and have sex more often than males further back in the alphabet, but they don’t have harems to organize and defend.

You may find that weird, Ms. Good Wife (although no doubt some guys are thinking: the chimp’s life for me). My point is, there’s nothing in our biology that demands monogamy. Sure, it has practical advantages. For humans, rearing young is a more labor- and resource-intensive process than for chimps, who don’t have college tuition to contend with. But I’ll bet we could come up with some free-love it-takes-a-village kibbutz thing if we put our minds to it.

A lot of Psychology Today contributors think that, now that we’ve arrived at our present advanced state of civilization, we’d be happier if we abandoned the impossible dream of happy lifetime pairing and tried something else. The question is whether we’re actually doing so in significant

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numbers. Answer: of course we are. It’s just not called polyamory, or some other trendy term. It’s called divorce.

Let’s look at monogamy alternatives, from least to most common (I’ll ignore celibacy): Open marriage—that is, a married couple who expressly allow each other to have other sex partners. I don’t doubt there are secure, stable individuals who can handle this long-term without tears. But not a lot.

PT contributor Michael Castleman cites unnamed “sexologists” as saying 1 percent of married couples are “committed to occasional non-monogamy,” with “another percent or two ‘curious’ enough to visit sex or swing clubs.” Self-report of sexual activity is notoriously unreliable, but never mind. We’ll say 1 to 3 percent.

Adultery. American men currently have a 28 percent likelihood of being unfaithful to a partner by the time they reach age 60, and women a 15 percent chance. Possibly this is more than in the past, but the change isn’t dramatic.

Polyamory. In its purest form, this term is apparently used to mean having sustained, emotionally intimate sexual relationships with multiple partners who all understand they’re sharing. Nothing persuades me this is common on my planet. However, if we expand the definition to cover the behavior of unmarried individuals who juggle multiple lovers at times (if only because of overlapping monogamous relationships), the number obliged to fess up would surely be impressively large. This provides useful context for our last category.

Divorce. Here we arrive at the heart of the matter. As of now, how many Americans will experience lifetime monogamy?

Answer: less than half. As of 2011, for every 6.8 marriages there were 3.6 divorces—a 53 percent rate. This is significantly more than just 10 years earlier, when the divorce rate was 49 percent.

To this add an even more striking statistic: According to Pew Research, in 1968, the number of unmarried U.S. adults (including those widowed, divorced and never legally married) was just 28 percent. As of 2010, it was 49 percent.

In other words, half of us are single and free to play the field, and a sizable fraction of the other half will eventually shed their partners and join the fray. Conclusion: Lifetime monogamy has ceased to be the default American condition, even if the time of first marriage is when we start the clock.

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A former sex worker’s encounter with the criminaljustice system ended well, but she says all is not well with prostitution in Utah.

By Colby Frazier cfrazier@cityweekly.net @colbyfrazierlp Prostitutes, strippers and porn stars call Laurin Crosson all the time.

Sometimes they need food or a place to sleep. Other times, they’ve been beaten by their pimps and need to be spirited away to another state.

Crosson’s organization, RockStarr Ministries, has representatives from Atlanta to Los Angeles who give trafficked women an ear—and even some spaghetti—when they need it most.

But over the past weeks, it was Crosson who needed a lifeline.

Crosson herself was a prostitute for two decades. It was a path that was paved incrementally, she says, starting innocently enough but, inch by inch, growing into sex work. And her attempts to get out seemed to land her back where she’d started.

In 2008, Crosson was arrested during a police sting at a Marriott Hotel in Provo. In addition to having her collarbone snapped after police emerged from an adjoining room and tackled her, Crosson racked up sexsolicitation charges and thousands of dollars in fines.

After the arrest, Crosson, who was raised in San Diego and came to Utah in 2007 to try to escape her pimp and recover from a gunshot wound inflicted by a john, attempted to right her life. She joined the LDS Church and got honest work. But whenever she couldn’t come up with enough cash to pay her fines, a warrant was issued and she was tossed in jail.

Eventually, her pimp tracked her down. He wanted her to get back to work. When she refused, Crosson says, he beat and raped her. She went to her bishop for help and, with assistance from other church members, relocated to Texas.

Crosson has come a long way since then, and in 2013, she founded RockStarr Ministries (RockStarrMinistries.org), which, in addition to helping lend a hand to women looking to break free from sex work, organized a 13-city condom distribution event to reach out to

“We really need to look at how we punish this crime. You’re only being punished if you’re the one being trafficked.” —Laurin Crosson

sex workers.

There are many ways to deal with the problem of sex trafficking, but Crosson feels that taking meaningful steps to reduce demand would be most effective. That, though, would mean shedding light on the men who frequent prostitutes—and Crosson says, that clientele often includes “middleupper-class white men,” like “politicians, doctors and pediatricians.”

“If there isn’t the demand, there won’t be a supply,” she says.

Crosson says Sweden has had success reducing prostitution and sex trafficking by instituting swift and severe penalties on those who purchase sex.

“We really need to look at how we punish this crime,” she says. “You’re only being punished if you’re the one being trafficked.”

Dealing with that punishment is something she knows firsthand.

Crosson’s Utah warrant had hung over her head, forcing her to look over her shoulder whenever she came to Utah, leaving a black mark on her attempts at recovery.

In April, Crosson came to town to attend the LDS Church General Conference meetings. But while here, she called the court and scheduled a hearing with a judge.

“I wanted to come back and face the music,” Crosson says. “I was just tired of running.”

The penalty for the outstanding warrant was a mandatory 180-day jail sentence, and Crosson says that while she wanted to avoid this outcome, she was prepared to be thrown in jail.

But that didn’t happen.

Deputy Utah County Attorney Kelsy Young says Crosson’s attorney, Keith Hamilton, and Judge Stevan W. Ridge agreed to reduce the charges to disorderly conduct, and the more than $1,000 in outstanding fines to $500. This kept Crosson out of jail and ensured she wouldn’t have to register as a sex offender.

Hamilton called the outcome “miraculous,” and says he admires Crosson for coming back to Utah to face the charges. “This allows her to go forward and to be able to come back to Utah,” he says.

Crosson’s advocacy work could find a home in Utah sooner rather than later.

She says sex trafficking is “going on here so badly that it makes me sick to my stomach.”

Though some progress has been made in the Beehive State to loosen the punitive noose on those who are trafficked for sex, Crosson says much remains to be done.

Less than a month ago, Gov. Gary Herbert signed into law House Bill 254, which protects a minor from being funneled into the criminal-justice system

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Laurin Crosson is a former sex-worker who founded RockStarr Ministries, an organization which seeks to aid victims of sex trafficking. on the first prostitution offense.

Most states have adopted similar “safe harbor” laws, though many states have taken it a step further and also offer protections to trafficked adults.

Some states, Crosson says, expunge criminal records of sex workers that were racked up before the new laws were passed.

Chipping away at misconceptions is an uphill battle, though, and one that soon will be lacking a crucial ally in the legislature.

Rep. Jennifer Seelig, D-Salt Lake City, who sponsored HB254, won’t be returning to Capitol Hill next year. She says she’d like to see the law amended to include adults, but is also proud that Utah now offers a safe harbor law for minors.

“One of the rationales behind just focusing on children relates to incremental success,” Seelig says. She notes that misconceptions run deep even with fellow legislators, one of whom told her the bill would be akin to giving children a “first bite at the apple of

engaging in prostitution.”

Seelig says, “It’s about people understanding the nuances about what happens to people in order to go down this path.”

Prior to her court hearing, Crosson spoke to a Salt Lake Community College class about her experiences as a sex worker. LaShawn Williams, an adjunct professor at SLCC who teaches the course, says Crosson’s speech was “moving.”

“It struck a chord with lot of my students,” she says. “They left that class meeting empowered with knowledge knowing how to make changes just by hearing Laurin’s story.”

Crosson is happy that she’ll be around to lend a hand to other people lost in the world of human trafficking.

“When you are ready, and you will be ready, or something happens and you’ve been raped one too many times,” she says, “that’s when RockStarr Ministries comes in. No matter what the situation is.” CW

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Police investigating the burglary of a restaurant in San Mateo, Calif., arrested Keveen Quintanilla, 31, after he stopped to flirt with bartender Ashleigh Cullen, 22, who was taking out the recycling. “He said he’d seen me around and wanted to hang out, which was strange since it was already 1 a.m. when he approached me,” Cullen said.

After she realized the restaurant had been burglarized, she gave police Quintanilla’s name and phone number. Pretending to be Cullen, officers texted the suspect and arranged a date, then arrested him when he showed up. (San Jose’s KNTV-TV)

n Police investigating the theft of a laptop computer from a home in Dover, N.H., identified Casey Wentworth, 24, as their suspect after he called Apple customer service for help unlocking it. Detectives had already given Apple technical support the computer’s serial number. (Manchester’s WMUR-TV)

Capitalizing on Disaster Protesting Beijing’s choking air pollution, artist Liang Kegang returned from a business trip to France with a glass jar of clean, mountain air, which he auctioned off for 5,250 yuan ($860).

The month before, tourism officials in smog-free Guizhou province announced plans to sell canned air as souvenirs. Tourism authorities in Henan province distributed bags of air from a mountain resort in Zhengzhou, the provincial capital, to attract visitors. Finally, recycling tycoon Chen Guangbiao began selling fresh air in cans online for $3 each. (Associated Press)

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Swanson explained that Wilshire Gun’s staff intends to scan the driver’s license of customers who order drinks to assure that none would be allowed to enter any of the shooting facilities as a spectator or shooter for the remainder of the day. (Oklahoma City’s KOKH-TV)

Anti-Social Media When British graphic designer Edd Joseph bought a video-game console online but the seller failed to deliver it, Joseph copied the entire works of William Shakespeare and texted them to the seller. Although he sent them as one text, without paying extra because his calling plan allows unlimited texting, the seller can receive them only in 160-character chunks, meaning the 37 works arrive successively in 29,305 individual messages. Despite receiving abusive replies from the seller, who still hasn’t refunded his money, Joseph said he’d continue sending the texts. “I’m not a literary student, and I’m not an avid fan of Shakespeare,” he pointed out, “but I’ve got a new appreciation, you could say, especially for the long ones.” (Britain’s The Bristol Post) Compiled from the press reports by Roland Sweet. Authentication on demand.

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By Eric S. Peterson epeterson@cityweekly.net @ericspeterson The Utah Attorney General’s Office recently released a report showing that former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff’s behavior in handling a case against Marc Sessions Jenson for securities fraud “defies explanation.” Shurtleff and his successor John Swallow, who resigned in November 2013, have been haunted by the case and allegations by Jenson that the former AGs sought money from him in exchange for offering legal protection.

But what the report didn’t show is that Shurtleff received campaign donations during the same time that he told his prosecutors to settle with Jenson rather than moving forward with prosecution.

The Case The recent report released by former federal judge and prosecutor Paul Cassell and former U.S. Attorney for Utah Francis Wikstrom focused on the strange history of the AG’s prosecution of Jenson, who in 2005 was charged with multiple counts of securities or investment fraud for taking $4.1 million from several victims.

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develop a “relationship” with the Attorney General’s Office. Attorneys for Poelman, Lawson and Shurtleff had not returned calls for comment at the time of publication. Shurtleff has gone on KSL’s Doug Wright Show to blast the report as the onesided allegations of Jenson.

An Abbreviated Timeline

Jan. 3, 2008: State prosecutors Scott Reed and Kirk Torgensen meet with Shurtleff to explain they have a strong case against Jenson that should go to trial. Reed and Torgensen are worried that Shurtleff is being lobbied by Jenson’s “unofficial” team.

While the men feel that the meeting convinced Shurtleff, some time shortly after the meeting, Shurtleff changes his mind “out of the blue” and asks them to offer a plea-bargain deal that will settle the case.

Jan. 4, 2008: Campaign records show Shurtleff receives $10,000 from Bloosky, which Poelman works for.

Jan. 10, 2008, 9:22 a.m.: Reed “falls on his sword” and drafts a plea-bargain deal that is vague about requiring Jenson pay restitution to victims. In an e-mail, Shurtleff thanks Reed for drafting the proposal, “even though you had to hold your nose.”

Jan. 10, 2008, 8:10 p.m.: Lawson sends Shurtleff’s secretary an e-mail discussing campaign donations from various sources including a Ryan “Poleman” who will be bringing a $25,000 donation check. When asked about this e-mail in 2011, Lawson told City Weekly via e-mail, “No comment!!!”

Jan. 11, 2008: Shurtleff’s campaign documents show he received $25,000 from Bloosky.

May 1, 2008: After more “informal team” negotiations pushed largely by Lawson, a plea deal is presented to Judge Robin Reese that doesn’t require Jenson pay any restitution to victims. Reese rejects the plea deal as too lenient.

May 29, 2008: A new plea deal is reached, giving Jenson a plea-in-abeyance if he pays back his victims in three years’ time.

Summer 2009: Jenson courts Shurtleff and Swallow at a luxury resort in southern California at his expense.

Nov. 3 2011: Jenson is sentenced to up to 10 years in prison for failing to pay any restitution to his victims. Torgensen tells Shurtleff this, and Shurtleff responds positively in an e-mail that Torgensen describes in the AG’s recent report as a “CYA” (Cover Your Ass) move by Shurtleff to distance himself from Jenson and his involvement in the case.

In the e-mail, Shurtleff calls Jenson a “crook” saying: “[Jenson] lied to me and got a lot of people to lie to me for him AND tried bribing me!” CW

Lawson has said he used his connections to Shurtleff to lobby on behalf of troubled businesses and businessmen, and says Jenson paid him roughly $200,000 to advocate for him.

The report identifies that Jenson had an “official” team of lawyers arguing his case and an “unofficial” team helping his cause that included Tim Lawson, a friend and confidant of Shurtleff.

Lawson is the only person to be charged so far in a criminal investigation into Shurtleff’s and Swallow’s dealings while in office. Lawson has said he used his connections to Shurtleff to lobby on behalf of troubled businesses and businessmen, and says Jenson paid him roughly $200,000 to advocate on Jenson’s behalf.

The report also makes brief mention of a Ryan Poelman, who, Lawson says in an e-mail in the report, would bring Shurtleff campaign donations. At the time, Poelman was affiliated with Bloosky, LLC, and was a VIP guest of Shurtleff’s 2009 inauguration, listed as a major donor.

Blair Jackson, an attorney who represented Bloosky along with various other online marketing companies that have donated to Shurtleff and Swallow, says he doesn’t know anything about Jenson or Lawson but says donations were made to

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You can also donate your green thumb to help raise a farm for refugee families in Salt Lake County. Pet lovers will also want to tune in to a Salt Lake City Council meeting on an ordinance classifying and setting restrictions on “dangerous” animals.

No Kill Utah Adoption Weekend Friday, May 2 - Sunday, May 4

Be a life-saver this weekend by swinging by the Best Friends Animal Society’s no-kill adoption event, featuring hundreds of doggies and kitties looking for a home. Adoption fees start at just $25 for a spayed or neutered pet. Volunteers are also needed to help out at this adoption extravaganza.

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Salt Lake City Council Tuesday, May 6

Pitbull and tiger owners take note: The Salt Lake City Council is holding a hearing to define “dangerous” animals that owners would be required to have a special permit to own, and “vicious” animals that would be prohibited completely. The proposed ordinance, among other changes, would also set restrictions on how long owners can tie up their dog during a 24-hour period.

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Vanessa Purdy first fell in love with the quiet town of Yarnell in the 1970s while taking a break from her studies at Arizona State University. She returned again in 1999 to purchase a vacation home and found herself spending increasing amounts of time there, drawn by the wildlife and the nature-out-my-backdoor experience offered in the sandy, boulder-strewn landscape.

“I love birds and wild animals, and it was just a bird watcher’s paradise,” Purdy says.

Before the summer 2013 disaster, Yarnell Hill had not seen a wildfire in that area in more than 66 years. The result was a heavy loading of grasses, brush and chaparral, within and around Yarnell, which were then dried through persistent drought.

On June 30, 2013, Purdy climbed a ladder to the top of one of the many granite boulders that lie just beyond an outcropping of scrubby brush on her two-acre property. From there, she had a 365-degree view of her community in Yarnell.

A stone’s throw to the east, Purdy could see the familiar scene of her home—a green-roofed, ranch-style house nestled among the scattered boulders and tall brush of central Arizona.

But something else was drawing her attention: a column of dark smoke rising to the northwest. Its origin was the Yarnell Hill Fire, which had been burning on and off for nearly two days.

In the days preceding the evacuation of Glen Ilah—the small community where Purdy lived on the western perimeter of Yarnell— Purdy was instructed that, should it be necessary to flee, a notification would be sent to her one hour in advance of the approaching danger.

But it was clear there wasn’t that much time, Purdy says.

The fire, which had burned northeast of its origin since its ignition, doubled in intensity and tripled in speed of advance with the onset of the storm-driven wind to the southeast. The primary direction of the fire’s spread shifted abruptly from its northeasterly course.

Driven by a gusty tail wind, the fire formed a continuous head of flame at its forefront and tore through the dry grass and chaparral brush surrounding Yarnell, advancing at speeds estimated between 10 and 12 miles per hour.

Purdy knew that many of her friends had not

By Clayton Leuba signed up for the reverse 911 response and would comments@cityweekly.net not be aware of the escalating severity of their situation. In her final moments in her home, Purdy says, she made phone calls and sent text messages telling her neighbors they had to get out, and they had to get out now.

Aside from the occasional buzz of an airplane passing A base of dry grasses had allowed the flames to climb overhead for an aerial assault on the flames, the somber into larger vegetation above in a ladder effect, growing town of Yarnell had sat quietly for two days with a watchful the fire with the assistance of intensifying winds from a eye on the fire. But the newly directed wind brought with half-acre on Friday afternoon to more than 7,000 acres by it the first sounds of the blaze—a low roar emanating from Sunday evening. the west.

At the recommendation of the Yavapai County Sheriff’s “It sounded like a jet plane,” Purdy says. “It was just Department, Purdy had already begun to gather a number so loud.” of important documents and belongings. But noting the Still struggling to contact the last of her neighbors, northeast advance of the fire, her biggest concerns on Purdy rushed to pack her important belongings—tax forms, that morning were directed toward her neighbors to the a computer and spare hard drive. Three of her neighbors north. came over to her home to be sure she made it out safely, “It looked like the people in Peeples Valley, to the grabbed Purdy’s belongings and ran out the back door. north of us, were the most at risk. It looked like they The wall of heat that met the fleeing group as they were just going to be decimated,” Purdy says. “I was so stepped out the door was so intense that Purdy thought her concerned for my friends.” clothing was going to combust.

The two communities are separated by five miles “We absolutely ran for our lives,” she says. “I thought, of rolling hills, but “it’s really like we are just one big ‘If I go out there, I’m going to catch on fire.’ … Flames were community,” Purdy says. falling everywhere.”

As Purdy fretted for her friends, the National Weather The flames that overtook Purdy’s home moments Service issued two weather advisories to fire officials, after she drove away are thought to have exceeded 2,000 warning of a thunderstorm passing the Yarnell area, which degrees Fahrenheit—hot enough to crack large boulders in was thought to have the potential to create shifting gusts two and bake retreating snakes to the ground, never to of wind up to 40 miles per hour. slither again.

Around 4 p.m., the wind began to falter from its On the road, Purdy says, she was met by a fleet of northeasterly course and, Purdy says, it was apparent vehicles as her entire community fled south on Arizona something had changed. For the first time since a passing Highway 89, descending the 3,500 feet from Yarnell Hill. thunderstorm ignited the fire on the evening of June 28, “As we were driving down Yarnell Hill, there were Purdy could smell smoke. flames beginning to crest the hill behind us,” Purdy says.

Within minutes, Purdy’s mobile phone was signaling a Once out of harm’s way, Purdy sought refuge with a reverse 911 notification from the Sheriff’s Department. friend in Scottsdale, where she’d frequently commuted “All it said was, ‘evacuate immediately,’ ” Purdy says. to work as a voice teacher. From there, she intensely “And I knew it was time to do something right now.” monitored the television coverage of the blaze—and got her It was 4:08 p.m.

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ver the course of 2013, dozens of fires raged across the American West, burning hundreds of thousands of acres and destroying scores of homes.

At about 1,300 acres, a late-June fire in Yarnell, Ariz., about 30 miles northwest of Phoenix, was by no means the largest, but it was the deadliest—not just of that year, but in more than two decades.

And many of the factors that contributed to the tragedy are inherent across the American West—especially across the Wasatch Front, in City Creek, Emigration and the Cottonwood canyons; in Federal Heights, Herriman and the Jordan River Corridor; and in plenty of other gorges, ravines, hillsides and overlooks that make the areas between the Wasatch and Oquirrh mountains such an enticingly natural place to live.

Utahns flock by the thousands to these places—many of which had little development just a few decades ago—to make homes for themselves and their families.

“People move up into these areas thinking about seclusion or getting up into nature,” Unified Fire Authority Captain Clint Mecham says, “but not thinking about fires.”

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first glimpses of the destruction wrought on her community by the fire.

At one point, a camera honed in on her property.

“I could see part of my circular driveway,” Purdy says, “but there were no structures on it. I knew there was no way my home could have survived what was coming at me. I knew my home was gone.”

Purdy was one of 127 people whose houses were destroyed.

But that was not the worst of it.

When the fire suddenly switched directions, it redirected right toward 19 retreating members of the Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew, who had been retreating through what was thought to be a relatively safe area between the blaze and Yarnell.

None of them survived.

The Price of Development Joe Smolka’s family first took up residence in Emigration Canyon in 1935. He’s lived there since 1983. At that time, he says, “there were probably about 500 people living up here.”

Today, there are more than 1,500.

With the development of the Emigration Oaks and Emigration Place subdivisions in the 1980s and ’90s, the canyon experienced a rapid influx of new housing appealing to the “upscale” sector of the real-estate market, Smolka says.

This tripling of the canyon’s population necessitated the formation of the Emigration Improvement District to supply adequate water for private use by its residents. But even with the addition of two water holding tanks—able to hold up to 1.3 million gallons—and the installation of fire hydrants serviceable to some 270 of the homes in the canyon, there are still subdivisions in the upper reaches of the canyon that rely entirely upon their own wells and cisterns to provide their water supply, says Fred Smolka, manager of the Emigration Improvement District and Joe’s brother.

Kathy Christiansen, the chairwoman for the Emigration Community Council’s Firewise program, says one concern with the current water infrastructure of the canyon is that if a fire originates at the mouth of the canyon, it could burn the power lines that provide power to the canyon, disabling the pumps that are required to refill Emigration Canyon’s water tanks. Without the ability to replenish water drawn from the holding tanks, water needed to fight a fire would be in short supply.

Fred Smolka says the pump system was set up to be compatible with a generator to safeguard against such an event, but, due to funding issues, no generator has been purchased.

The narrow topography of the Emigration Canyon corridor also poses an issue to road infrastructure, says Mecham of the Unified Fire Authority. Many roads in the canyon are narrow and lined on one or both sides by tall growths of oak brush and juniper trees.

Mecham says roads should be at least twice as wide as the height of the tallest vegetation on either side, which is not the case in much of Emigration Canyon. The roads are too narrow and the growth too tall, he says.

“It scares the hell out of me,” Mecham says. “I mean, this is the only main road in and out of here. In the case of a massive evacuation, we’d be hard-pressed to get everyone out.”

Emigration Canyon has not seen a major fire event since 5,600 acres were burned in a Labor Day weekend fire in 1988, the same year Yellowstone National Park lost 793,880 acres in its historic fires. As the memory of the canyon’s last big burn dwindles, Mecham says, he is afraid residents are growing apathetic and are not giving the present risk the attention it deserves.

“They are operating under the assumption that, though a large fire is a highconsequence event, there is a low likelihood of it actually happening,” he says.

Emigration isn’t the only place where this occurs, Mecham says.

In Herriman, where Mecham says 50 to 75 new building permits are being issued each month in the shadow of the Oquirrh Mountains, memories of near-devastating fires are much more recent.

Much of the new development in Herriman has been directed up the mountain toward Camp Williams, Mecham says, which is an area recognized for its tendency to “burn over.”

On Sept. 19, 2010, the Machine Gun Fire, which forced the evacuation of 1,600 Herriman homes, was sparked at Camp Williams during a shooting exercise, when a hot piece of shrapnel was expelled into the dry grass surrounding a machine-gun firing range. That blaze claimed three homes before firefighters were able to bring the flames under control five days after its ignition. Just two years later, the Rose Crest Fire destroyed four homes and forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 others in the same city.

Ten years ago, a fire in those parts of Herriman would have threatened only a few homes, but expansion onto formerly undeveloped wildlands there have placed hundreds more homes in harm’s way.

Despite the recent fires, though, many Herriman homeowners have ignored recommendations from fire authorities to maintain 30 to 50 feet of defensible space—rocks and xeriscaping—around their residences.

Top: Vanessa Purdy documented the fire approaching her home June 30, 2013 Bottom: Purdy’s former home in Yarnell, Ariz.

The same is true along Traverse Ridge Road and Suncrest Drive between Draper and Alpine; creeping up Highways 190 and 210 toward Utah’s favorite ski canyons; climbing the western slope of Mount Olympus; and in other population-dense “interface” areas, where development has extended deep into wildlands. And that’s where thousands upon thousands of Utahns are on a collision course with conflagration.

Climates of Change Wildfire season in Utah—which typically lasts from May to October—is determined in duration and intensity primarily by two factors, says Robert Davies, a researcher at the Utah Climate Center.

The amount of moisture available in the ground in summer for plants affects how long vegetation will be able to maintain its water content and remain resistant to wildfire.

And evaporation rates, driven by temperature, determine how rapidly water will be lost from these plants and soils to evaporation, drying the landscape.

These two factors converge each summer as temperatures rise, resulting in the eventual loss of water in the ground to evaporation, Davies says. And these days, he says, that convergence is deepening.

A warming climate and persistent drought has created an environment in which fuels become cured

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Vanessa Purdy (top and middle) visited the site of her former home in Yarnell, Ariz., after a fire in late June destroyed most of the community.

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In 2007, the Emigration Fire Station was constructed by the Unified Fire Authority to provide more rapid response to the communities in the canyon, but, Mecham says, there is only so much that can be done for a home overgrown with vegetation.

According to Capt. Scott Winkler of the Salt Lake Fire Department, the most important factor in whether a home can be saved—or is even worth trying to save—from a fire is defensible space.

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Those seeking to build in Emigration Canyon’s scenic landscape have, for years, been faced with a fire-prevention conundrum, says David Gellner, a Salt Lake County planner.

In 1997, with hopes of preserving the “natural character” of the county’s canyons and foothills, county planners implemented the Foothills & Canyons Overlay Zone, which, among other things, set limitations on the alterations to the natural landscapes permitted during development.

Many of the original provisions for the overlay zone were in accordance with appropriate wildfire risk mitigation, Gellner says, like limiting building on steep slopes and discouraging development on ridgelines, as flames tend to advance uphill more rapidly than down. But others, such as those restricting the removal of trees and other vegetation from property to preserve aesthetic appeal, “run kind of contrary to fire prevention,” he says.

In 2006, the Wildland-Urban Interface Code was implemented on all interface areas of the county, placing more stringent standards on the use of fire-resistant building materials and road access. Additionally, the Emigration Community Council created a commission in 2012 to identify and amend overlay ordinances that are in contradiction with fire prevention.

As a result, many of the newer homes in Emigration Canyon comply with current firesafety construction standards, Mecham says. But a large number of the older homes were constructed from susceptible materials such as wood-shake shingles and wood siding, he says.

This factor, he says, in addition to the many areas of unchecked growths of vegetation, has turned much of Emigration Canyon into a hotbed of “non-defensible” homes, many of which would likely not be able to withstand an approaching wildfire.

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and devoid of moisture earlier each year, allowing them to build into a dry mass that can more easily be made to burn at an intensity sufficient to ignite larger fuels and grow the conflagration—just like what happened in Arizona.

The days each summer with hot temperatures and low humidity are deemed “red flag days.” These are the days with the most heightened risk of ignition, as fuels and the air are at their driest.

According to Davies, over the past 40 years, wildfire seasons in the American West have lengthened, on average, in duration—and fires have tended to burn hotter and burn larger areas. The leading factor of this heightened wildfire activity is a shifting climate, he says, and “this is certainly true of Utah.”

Over the same 40-year period, Utah has experienced warming at a rate twice that of the global average, he says. This warming has reduced each year the total amount of precipitation that falls as snow, reducing average annual snowpack in Utah by 10 percent over the past 30 years.

And when it comes to preventing fire, that’s not good: The snowpack acts as a “reservoir” for water to be held for use into the summer, stopping it from flowing downstream as runoff and “holding it for use in the summer months when we dry out,” Davies says.

Variations in temperature not only alter the form in which precipitation falls but also the rate at which the soil and vegetation lose water to evaporation powered by the sun’s energy, drying landscapes more rapidly with hotter temperatures, he says.

A University of Utah study, which tracked wildfire propensity and intensity in the West since 1984, comparing fire data to climate trends at the time, has predicted 30 years of worsening fire conditions driven by projected changes to the climate.

In addition to the global trend of warming, Utah is subject to cyclical droughts that Davies says can be predicted through monitoring of a portion of ocean in the Western Tropical Pacific. Current indications point toward a gradual relief from the current drought of six years for northern Utah, but, Davies says, more precipitation does not necessarily mean it will be less dry.

“There is a strong probability that because we are going to get a lower snowpack, but not necessarily less precipitation, there is going to be less water for us to use,” Davies says.

According to Davies, current climate models have projected the warming trend to continue globally as well as in Utah, determined in intensity by humanity’s ability to curb current carbon emissions. A reduction in carbon emissions would theoretically slow the rate of warming, but even in the unlikely scenario of emission stabilization in the near future, atmospheric carbon concentrations are expected to rise gradually for many decades to come, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

A 2013 report by the National Climate Assessment Development Advisory Committee noted its expectation for intensifying dryness with subsequently worsening wildfires in the southwest United States.

One conflating factor that might also be impacted by climate change: wind.

Utah’s wind patterns are already unpredictable. Indeed, that was a key factor in a blaze that destroyed several homes in Wanship, north of Park City, in fall 2013. The fire was thought to be moving away from the Lake Rockport Estates when a shift in winds—just like the Yarnell fire—pushed it back toward the subdivision.

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By keeping the area directly surrounding a structure clear of vegetation, firefighters are given a “buffer zone” with which they can better defend a structure.

When under threat of fire, Winkler says, officials must conduct “structural triage” in an area, selecting which structures are defensible and worth deploying resources to protect and which of them must be “written off.”

And, of course, not helping the homes’ chances is the surrounding wilderness itself. Many fires that threaten wilderness developments originate away from private land on publicly or federally owned lands, as in Yarnell.

These areas are often neglected in terms of fuel reduction and fire risk mitigation efforts, says Utah State University human ecologist and professor Mark Brunson, due to in part to worsening fire seasons that require more money and resources to combat. Brunson says that the majority of the fire budget for the Bureau of Land Management & Forest Service is spent fighting fires, leaving little to cover the costs of fuel reduction.

Fuel reduction on the individual and communal level would most benefit communities and homes in wilderness areas, Brunson says.

“At the scale of an individual property, there are all sorts of things people can do to make their homes fire-safe,” he says.

Firewise program chairwoman Kathy Christiansen says many people in Emigration Canyon have been responsive to her efforts to coordinate risk mitigation within the canyon.

With grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Christiansen has been able to hire an eight-person wildland firefighting crew from Salt Lake City to clear away debris and vegetation from the township’s “common areas.” In the past, goats have also been allowed to graze in these areas as a means of fuel reduction.

Brunson says a number of techniques may be effectively employed to reduce the fuels in an area, including mowing grasses and brush, “selective cutting” of trees and clearing away dead, fallen growth.

But those who actively take measures to mitigate the risk on their property are still far outnumbered by those who do not, Mecham says.

Each year, the Unified Fire Authority and the Salt Lake Fire Department launch campaigns to spread awareness and offer advice on how to improve the safety of homes in the county’s interface areas.

For those, like Purdy, who are rebuilding their homes in Yarnell, the choice to implement fire-protection strategies in the building of their new home and arrangement of their property is an easy one. With the memory of that day in June still fresh in their minds, adding cleared defensible spaces and constructing with fireresistant materials is now a matter of course.

The Salt Lake Fire Department’s Winkler says he hopes residents of the Salt Lake Valley will look to the examples of recent fires—like the one in Yarnell—and plan ahead rather than wait to be forced into action by a fire.

But while Winkler has noticed a spread of awareness—which, he says, is the first necessary step—he’s still waiting to observe significant action. CW Clayton Leuba is a student in the department of journalism and communication at Utah State University.

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The self-portrait is a familiar subject for painters, but the “portrait of the artist as a person with disabilities” is something seen relatively rarely. And that’s a shame, because the visual medium is one of the most effective means of education.

Logan Madsen is a 34-year-old Salt Lake City-based artist whose current exhibit uses the medium of painting to depict the realities of dealing with autism as well as Miller syndrome.

The rare genetic disease visably affects the development of the face and limbs.

Madsen’s works focus on the physical and psychological aspects of his symptoms: “Grab” looks closely at Madsen’s hand, contorted by the effects of the disease, and in “Stuck,” he holds the brush as if eyeing the canvas concertedly. The painting “A Window Into Autism” (pictured) shows the artist rolled up into a ball as if in a cocoon or in utero, and includes the puzzle-piece logo that is the symbol of Autism Awareness.

Madsen is also the subject of a documentary, Logan’s Syndrome, the post-production of which is currently being funded on Kickstarter. The film and his work are about the relationship of mind and body, but also what it means to exist inside a physical body, with all its frailties and difficulties. (Brian Staker) Logan Madsen: Syndrome Psychology @ Art Access, 230 S. 500 West No. 125, 801-328-0703, through May 6, free.

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One of the primary benefits that CUAC offers its many featured artists—from Utah and around the world—is a venue to showcase how they view reality from a contemporary vantage point.

Currently being hosted is Momu & No Es, an artist collective that works and resides in Madrid and Rotterdam. According to the artist statement, “They develop their art within the framework of storytelling in a way that challenges social roles, inverting the established order to propose other possible options that may transform the establishment.”

The artists use various tools—“painting, lights, objects and screens creating a rising plotline or narrative.” The narrative they create has to be pieced together by the viewer from these different variables, and once the viewer has established some sense of what is occurring, this is where the “narrative” gets interesting. It’s not a literal story, but something pieced together in fragments that, when combined, create a framework of meaning. But because this framework is abstract, viewers can explore infinite meanings that come out of the metaphors staged in the production.

One primary subject—suggested by motifs such as a repetition of onscreen cyber-erotic couplings—is the increasing dominance of one’s online presences over one’s actual physical life.

Tapping into this cultural shift, one might naturally question one’s own life and online friendships, relationships and realities, and the truth or artifice built into them. (Ehren Clark) Momu & No Es: Incoming Video Call @ CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, 385-214-6768, through June 13, free. CUArtCenter.org

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Utah Repertory Theatre & Around the Globe Theatre: Grace There are moments in a successful theatrical production when electrifying performances take the text somewhere so potent that you need to remind yourself to breathe. In one magnificent scene, Utah Repertory Theatre’s production of Craig Wright’s Grace finds the desperate, yearning core that makes us need to believe in something.

Set in Florida, Grace focuses on a young couple, Steve (Johnny Hebda) and Sara (Emilie Eileen Starr), relocated from Minnesota on a faith-inspired mission to open a chain of Gospelthemed hotels. On an opposite end of the belief spectrum are the other two characters: Sam (JayC Stoddard), still recovering emotionally and physically from a tragic accident; and Karl (Jeffrey Owen), an immigrant exterminator who saw the worst of humanity in Nazi Germany.

Wright’s play is at times uneven, especially where Steve’s abrupt shift from optimistic zeal to almost psychotic despair is concerned. Yet by framing the action at the outset with an act of violence that comes at the chronological end, and including another “rewind” moment in the middle of the play, Wright effectively explores what it takes for us to be able to keep moving forward.

The centerpiece scene for that idea is a moment of connection between Sara and Sam that provides a brilliant showcase for Starr and Stoddard. Both actors bring raw emotion to Grace’s grace notes; it’s easy to believe Sara and Sam have been touched by the spirit, and the audience might feel it, too.

(Scott Renshaw) Utah Repertory Theater & Around the Globe Theatre: Grace @ The Sugar Space Studio for the Arts, 616 Wilmington Ave., through May 10, Fridays & Saturdays 7:30 p.m.; 2 p.m. matinees May 3 & 10; May 4, 6 p.m., $12-$15 in advance, $14-$17 at the door. UtahRep.org

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Plan-B Theatre Company: And the Banned Played On It may seem a bit weird that, in an age where anything goes on the Internet, books could seem like such a threat that they warrant being banned.

But yes, books are still routinely challenged in American schools and library systems.

Plan-B Theatre Company is proud to highlight many of those banned books and recognize their literary and cultural significance. It’s been six years since the company’s last read-in performance, and this time, it’s focusing on what might initially seem like pretty benign material: the children’s publishing world.

Hosting the mayhem is X96’s popular Radio from Hell morning-show team, Kerry Jackson and Bill Allred (sans Gina Barberi, who’ll be out of town). Among the local celebrities lined up to read passages from the challenged works are Mayors Ralph Becker and Ben McAdams, Sen. Jim Dabakis and Salt Lake District Attorney Sim Gill. The scheduled selections include the likes of Green Eggs & Ham, The Giving Tree and James & the Giant Peach. Kerry and Bill will even do a dramatic reading of Winnie the Pooh.

It’s not hard to see, especially with the above works on the list, that banned literature can also be the cream of the literary crop. Perhaps that’s because the best of the written word often challenges contemporary society, and sometimes can pose one hell of a threat when it does.

(Jacob Stringer) Plan-B Theatre Company: And the Banned Played On @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, May 3, 8 p.m., $25. ArtTix.org

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laughed when I approached the first tee at Holladay’s Creekside Park five years ago. This guy stood on the tee pad stretching—stretching!—before he teed off.

It’s Frisbee golf, man. If you need to stretch first, you’re one delicate little daisy.

Then, in a demonstration of ballet-like grace, he took three steps and threw. The disc shot from his hand with a loud snap.

Unlike a gracefully floating traditional “toss” Frisbee, his flatter, more streamlined platter held a long line drive for more than 300 feet. Finally, it dove left, landing five feet from the target, a metal basket draped with 24 chains. (No, those chain targets aren’t park decorations or grills, as some uninitiated folks have surmised.)

When a disc hits the chains, it makes a sound disc golfers love: ching! It’s musical.

Hit a floating putt and it’s like wind chimes.

Hit an upshot, and it’s like a cymbal crash.

Nail a hole-in-one—or “ace”—and the ching is accompanied by a chorus of hoots and hollers from the other players.

“Watching a disc fly is fascinating,” says disc golfer and wildlife biologist Markus Mika. Discs can fly straight, take towering hyzer (left-banking) or anyhyzer (right-banking) lines, or weave in and out of trees in sublime, swooping s-curves. It’s “spellbinding,” he says.

Creekside’s course is actually called the Walter Frederick Morrison Disc Golf Course, in honor of the Utahn who invented the flying disc. But “this ain’t your daddy’s Wham-O,” says avid disc golfer Richard Saunders.

It’s true. Disc golf entails a lot of technique and even a rudimentary understanding of f light physics. Stretching helps prevent back injuries or dislocated shoulders. As with the PGA in ball golf, the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA) governs and promotes the sport. There are star players, like 12-time PDGA World Championship winner Ken Climo and currently No. 1-ranked player Paul McBeth.

Disc golf equipment and clothing companies are proliferating in the United States as well as internationally.

The popularity of disc golf is growing rapidly in Utah as well. “Five years ago, we stocked about 300 discs,” says Trone Throndsen of Play It Again Sports in Sugar House, the state’s largest disc-golf retailer.

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two-sided, 5-foot-tall, 4-foot-wide shelf. “Now we have over 3,000 discs for sale.”

The variety of discs is astounding: drivers, mids and putters from two dozen manufacturers. Drivers have tapered rims to cut the wind, and fly 70 to 80 mph.

Midrange discs are wider, with more glide.

Putters have blunt rims for shorter, more precise flights.

Disc golf clubs like Team Utah Disc Golf, SLC Tunnel Runners and Utah Disc Chics raise money to maintain courses. The discgolf social-networking site DiscGolfScene. com is the place to find a disc-golf group to join; the site also lists 47 courses in the state.

Many are free to play, including Creekside (co-designed by “Steady” Ed Headrick, the “father of disc golf,” who also designed the chain targets), Riverdale’s Riverside Park and the Art Dye Disc Golf Park in American Fork. Some, like the gorgeous, cha l leng ing course at Solitude Mountain Resort, require a $10 lift ticket (but you can hike up for free). “Soli,” as local disc golfers call it, also hosts the annual Monster Energy Challenge, a PDGA A-tier tournament that attracts many traveling pros.

“Utah has some of the most extreme landscapes, which provide some of the most extreme disc golf courses,” says Dave Roper, PDGA Utah coordinator and Monster Energy Challenge tournament director.

Solitude, Snowbasin, Canyons Resort and Brian Head ski resorts all open their disc golf courses during the summer. There are also two courses in Moab and a desert course in Torrey, with an inn/pizza parlor/ brewpub on the first tee.

What every disc golfer values as much as the game, however, is the strong sense of community. Disc golf is a universal sport played by men, women and children of all

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ages and levels of athleticism. “We are doctors, law yers, teachers, businessmen and even politicians,” says Zack Ralphs, tournament director for the Creekside Open pro weekend. “In fact, last year’s Masters champ is a pharmacist here in Salt Lake City.”

Most experienced disc golfers welcome and help new players. But the prevailing ethos is that technique will come—just have fun, enjoy the environment and the company. “The people are the least judgmental folks I’ve dealt with in a sport or hobby,” Mika says.

“We look out for each other,” Ralphs says. “I wouldn’t be the man I am today without [my mentors] and this game. I love it more than anything else.”

Ralphs also oversees the weekly Tuesday-night doubles tournament. As four dozen players gather for post-tourney payouts, Ralphs checks our priorities—namely, whether we’ll help spruce up the park for the annual Creekside Open, which runs May 3 to 4. “This is our disc golf park,” Ralphs bellows to the crowd of players who braved the wind, dust and rain.

“It’s our home.

Let’s take care of it.” CW

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And this year, there are more reasons than ever to visit local shops.

The first (and most obv ious) reason is getting free comics.

Comic-book publishers large and small put together their best stories and art, hoping to hook newcomers on the medium of comics.

There are comics about fairy tales, superheroes, history, The Smurfs, Hello Kitty, SpongeBob Squarepants and dozens of other choices, proof that there’s a comic out there for everyone. All you have to do is show up.

Finer comic-book stores won’t make you pick just one comic book, so this is your best chance to get a taste of a variety of comics that might fit your taste for four-color entertainment.

Marvel is putting out a Guardians of the Galaxy comic—as well as an issue of Rocket Raccoon—that you’re going to want to read, especially in advance of August’s Guardians of the Galaxy movie. DC Comics is putting out an adventure featuring the first “New 52” appearance of Batman Beyond, and an all-ages book featuring the Teen Titans— both familiar from long-running cartoons.

Oni Press is giving us a preview of Courtney Crumrin, a story about a young girl who discovers she can use magic; it’s a book you’ll definitely want to check out.

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The best part of this annual celebration is that there are so many places to take part. Comic-book stores across the state—like Night Flight Comics (6222 S. State Salt Lake City, 801-263-1940, NightFlightComics.com), Dragon’s Keep (multiple locations, DragonsKeep.com) and Death Ray Comics in Logan (72 W. Center St., 435-535-3259, DeathRayComics. com)—are all having individualized celebrations.

In addition to its regular 20-percentoff sale for the day, Dr. Volt’s Comic Connection (2043 E. 3300 South, 801-4856114, DrVolts.com) will have costumed superheroes and Mandalorians ( guys dress in a manner similar to Star Wars bad guys Boba and Jango Fett) on hand for pictures and other merriment.

Black Cat Comics (2261 Highland Drive, 801-461-4228, Black Cat- Com ic s . com) will have superstar artist and Utah native Ryan Ottley in the store signing his work.

Ottley is the artist behind Invincible, t he superhero book from Robert Kirkman of The Walking Dead fame. During the festivities, Black Cat will be auctioning off a one-ofa-kind copy of Harley Quinn #0 with an original sketch by Ottley on the cover.

Proceeds will be donated to The Sharing Place, a local charity that offers grief support to children.

Whichever comic book store you decide to visit— and you could decide to visit all of them—be sure you buy some regular comics, too. The retailers pay for these “free” comics, so it’s important to support them while you’re there. Buy that graphic novel you’ve been debating purchasing.

Start a hold service. Buy some toys or a T-shirt. Hell, just buy a soda. Show you support them. It will not go unnoticed, and it will ensure the continuation of Free Comic Book festivities in the Beehive State and around the country for years to come. CW Bryan Young is the editor-in-chief of BigShinyRobot.com

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Cary Griffiths: Light in Dark Places Black has always meant many things to the art of Cary Griffiths.

Without black, his color would diffuse into irregularity and chaos, without any sense of cohesiveness.

How Griffiths has used black in his new series of paintings—where the tone is featured as an element of its own, serving no other purpose— works wonderfully well. It’s much more than opaque, with luscious elements to define it as such, and when used with another color, the black highlights that hue and sets it alight in a manner not possible without such a contrast.

Griffith’s abstractions have always been bold, yet this move transcends all of his past achievements. In his artist statement, he says, “It is mysterious, radiating a sense of potential and possibility.” As it has served as a defining element for so many abstract works, as a featured element, of “potential and possibility” and with painterly lusciousness, black becomes elegant, dramatic, provocative and captivating. (Ehren Clark) Cary Griffiths: Light in Dark Places @ Art at the Main, 210 E. 400 South, 801-3634088, through May 10, free. ArtAtTheMain.com

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Wasatch Theatre Company: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot Contemporary popular culture has seen a surge in variations on familiar tales that tell the villain’s side of the story, from the revisionist Oz musical Wicked to the upcoming Disney film Maleficent. But what about offering a somewhat sympathetic view of the man whose very name has become synonymous with betrayal? Who was he before taking those infamous 30 pieces of silver?

Stephen Adly Guirgis’ 2005 play The Last Days of Judas Iscariot gives the man who turned Jesus Christ over to the Romans his theatrical day in court. The darkly comedic play finds a trial in purgatory attempting to determine Judas’ fate, with a jury hearing testimony from actual witnesses to the events of his life (including

Pontius Pilate and the apostle Thomas), as well as experts like Sigmund Freud trying to explain Judas’ childhood. And Satan himself can’t resist getting involved. (Scott Renshaw) Wasatch Theatre Company: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, May 1-17, Thursdays-Saturdays 8 p.m., 2 p.m. matinees May 10 & 17, $15. ArtTix.org

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Pygmalion Theatre Company: Motherhood Out Loud Think of Motherhood Out Loud as a companion play to The Vagina Monologues—only with fewer “down there” moments. All about women—their mothers, being mothers, becoming mothers— the play has a definite feminist slant, a simple result of the subject matter. And performed in 14 vignettes, each by a different playwright,

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RuPaul’s Drag Race Tour RuPaul, the most famous drag queen of all time, is fond of talking about the art of drag as being the perfect way to discover your inner self, and love what you find there. According to RuPaul, “When you become the image of your own imagination, it’s the most powerful thing you could ever do.”

Such is the underlining ethos behind the reality competition RuPaul’s Drag Race. After five seasons on television, RuPaul tapped popular judge Michelle Visage to literally take the show on the road.

Featuring fabulous winners and popular personalities from past seasons (like Jinkx Monsoon, Sharon Needles, Carmen Carrera, Ivy Winters, Pandora Boxx and Phi Phi O’Hara), the live competition promises to be filled with bawdy behavior and raunchy hijinks. But always at the core of the fun are RuPaul’s heartfelt sentiments like, “If you don’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?”

And remember: “We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.” (Jacob Stringer) Rupaul’s Drag Race Tour @ The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 801-467-8499, May 1, 10 p.m., $25 in advance, $30 day of show. DepotSLC.com

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ensemble of 42 singers, led by conductor Barlow Bradford, is preparing for a spring tour through Europe where they’ll perform sacred songs in churches, basilicas and cathedrals in Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic.

And even if such globe-trotting is out of reach, you can sample their two-week long June tour tonight. Program highlights include a commissioned rendition of “Gloria” by contemporary Lithuanian composer Vytautas Miškinis, as well as music by contemporary German composer Wolfram Buchenberg.

Following the performance, the audience is invited to join the choir for light refreshments at the “Abschied Reception” in the Bastian Atrium to wish them well on the prestigious European tour. (Marianna Bouttier) Utah Chamber Artists: Spring Concert and Tour Preview @ Libby Gardner Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, University of Utah, 801-581-7100, May 5, 7:30 p.m., $15-18.

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Motherhood Out Loud has a similar bare-essentials storytelling structure.

It’s funny, sad and heartwarming, just as you would expect a play about mothers to be.

Motherhood Out Loud can also be unexpected and truthful. “God I hate the park,” says one character. “If anyone had told me I’d be sentenced to five to 10 years in the park, I’d have stuck with a cat.” But for the few moments when characters express their doubts and fears about motherhood, there are dozens more that will leave you wanting to call mom and thank her, or maybe even invite her along with you to the next performance. (Katherine Pioli) Pygmalion Theatre Company: Motherhood Out Loud @ Rose Wager Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, May 1-17, Thursdays 7:30 p.m., Fridays & Saturdays 8 p.m., Sundays 2 p.m., $20. ArtTix.org

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I’d be remiss not to mention Celebrate Cinco de Mayo in style with the beautiful Red Iguana (multiple locations, tamal de elote at Alamexo Mexican Kitchen.

RedIguana.com), although Utah’s most popular independent Mexican restaurant doesn’t really need my generously portioned bowls of soups and help. I love the can’t-miss staples like stews. They are all great, including the awechile colorado, cochinita pibil, the Sonora- some chicken soup and the seafood version. style shrimp and a dozen other dishes. But But my favorite is the goat soup called birwhat I think Red Iguana does better than ria. It’s not much more than shredded goat anyone else is its moles. They are complex, meat and bones simmered endlessly in a rich sauces, usually made with ingredi- fantastic broth with some corn tortillas on ents like Mexican chocolate, fruits, nuts, the side: simple and sensational. chiles and the kitchen sink. They’re all At the other end of the Mexican spectrum good, but my favorite is the mole amarillo: from Julia’s is the beautifully appointed yellow tomatoes, golden raisins, yellow and upscale Alamexo Mexican Kitchen zucchini, zippy aji, guajillo and habenero (268 S. State, 801-779-4747, Alamexo.com). chiles tossed with poached chicken. It’s It’s there that you’ll find one of the best incendiary and irresistible. tamales in town. It’s called tamal de elote, Meanwhile, over at Blue Iguana (165 a freshly made, slightly sweet masa (cornS. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-533- meal) tamale made with seared shrimp and 8900; 255 S. Main, Park City, 435-649-3097, luscious chipotle-cream salsa. The tamale BlueIguanaRestaurant.net)—no relation is “deconstructed” and served on a bed of to Red Iguana—I recommend the admit- dried cornhusk strips—as delightful to the tedly unusual-sounding tacos filled with eye as it is to the palate. shrimp, pineapple and chorizo. It’s a unique At Midvale’s El Mana restaurant (7962 combination: an explosion of flavors on the S. State, 801-563-5196) the friendly sertongue, ranging from delicate shrimp and vice really stands out, as does the homesweet pineapple, to spicy chorizo sausage. style Mexican fare. The fish tacos, birria Somehow, it just all works. de res, menudo and lamb tacos shouldn’t be Another taco not to miss, and far from missed. But, my favorite El Mana treats are ordinary, is the duck confit taco at Taqueria the sopes: thick, scrumptious masa pat27 (1615 S. Foothill Drive, 385-259-0712, ties topped with a choice of beef, chicken Taqueria27.com). Yes, I said duck confit. or pork, along with onions, lettuce, sour Stuffing a taco with this French delight cream and cotija cheese. might be bending the Cinco de Mayo rules Finally, you need to travel for Utah’s a touch, but how can you resist Taqueria best posole, but it’ll be well worth the 27’s housemade masa tortillas stuffed with scenic drive to Hell’s Backbone Grill in delectable shredded duck confit, fire-roast- Boulder (20 N. Highway 12, 435-335-7464, ed vegetables, and adorned with smoky- HellsBackboneGrill.com). Co-owner Jen spicy chipotle-crema and crisp fried leeks. Castle hails from New Mexico, so she knows By the way, Taqueria 27 fans will be happy her posole. My favorite Hell’s Backbone to know there’s a new location opening in variety—there are lamb and squash verHolladay very soon. sions, too—is the most traditional: a stew For the most authentic Mexican cook- made with hominy, tender pork shoulder, ing in a family-style atmosphere, it’s hard onions, celery, garlic, herbs, spices and, to top the almost-off-the-grid Rose Park most importantly, a rich, zesty red-chile eatery called Julia’s ( 51 S. 1000 West, sauce. It’s posole perfection. CW 801-521-4228). Of note here are the caldos:

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ith hundreds of great Mexican eateries in our state, there is certainly no shortage of venues in which to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, which is actually a bigger “holiday” here than in Mexico. Well, I’ve whittled the choices down to 10 of my very favorite south-of-the-border restaurant dishes. Maybe we should embark on a Cinco de Mayo stroll to taste all of them.

Rather than ending with a bang, let’s begin with one. One of the most elegant and delicious Mexican dishes I ever ate was chiles en nogada, which I encountered as part of a family meal in Puebla. At the time, I couldn’t quite believe my eyes; it looked like something that belonged on the cover of Gourmet magazine, not the everyday Mexican fare I was used to. Chiles en nogada (chiles with walnut sauce) is usually made during the Christmas holidays in Mexico and features the colors of the Mexican flag: green chiles topped with cream-colored walnut sauce and bright-red pomegranate seeds. At Frida Bistro (545 W. 700 South, 801-983-6692, FridaBistro.com) it’s a roasted poblano chile pepper stuffed with picadillo—an intricate combination of shredded beef, minced sundried fruits, nuts, spices and seasonings— and finished with walnut-crema sauce and pomegranate seeds.

Though it’s much more pedestrian, but delicious nonetheless, I never tire of the smothered burritos at La Puente (multiple locations, LaPuenteSLC.com). Large flour tortillas are filled with refried beans and smothered in an orange-green chile verde “gravy” with tender chunks of roasted pork.

I’ve never quite figured out what gives the gravy its orange hue, nor have I ever been able to successfully replicate the recipe at home. There’s eternal gratitude awaiting anyone who could send me a recipe for the Chicano-Mexican chile gravy served at La Puente, La Frontera and Lorena’s.

Beans, of course, are a staple of Mexican cooking. Now, normally I don’t make a brouhaha of bean dip; it’s an afterthought at most Mexican restaurants. Not, however, at Luna Blanca Taqueria (3158 E. 6200 South, Holladay, 801-944-5862, LunaBlancaTaco. com), where the bean dip is the bomb. It’s the perfect appetizer with a cold cerveza or Margarita: creamy pinto beans blended with caramelized onions, roasted pasilla peppers, crisp cinnamon-scented carnitas pork, and broiled with slightly browned Monterey Jack cheese on top.

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Inside, it’s a hybrid between a convenience store and a deli. On the menu you’ll find two breakfast options served between 6:30 and 11 a.m., and a larger lunch menu that includes burritos, quesadillas, tortas, tacos, tamales, chalupas and chile verde served from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The food here is all made fresh and in-house daily.

If you’ve got the time in the early morning, try the breakfast: the huevos rancheros platter or the breakfast burrito. The platter has two eggs smothered in delicious chile verde sauce with fried potatoes, beans and a flour tortilla. Fair warning, that chile verde sauce has a wicked kick to it—you might need to reach for ice water after each bite.

The breakfast burrito is loaded with fried potatoes, eggs, colby-jack cheese and your choice of chorizo, ham, sausage or vegetables rolled in a flour tortilla. If the huevos rancheros platter was slightly sadistic, this is its calming, comforting younger brother. We chose chorizo for our meat. Overall, it was slightly spicy, but with a fresh taste.

Every ingredient attempted to outdo the other. Finally, we stopped wondering which part we liked best and enjoyed all of them together. Our only regret with the burrito was that we ordered just one. CW

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Viño for Cinco Discover Bueno Mexican wines for Cinco de Mayo.

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t’s common to see Cinco de Mayo (May 5) referred to as “Mexico’s Independence Day,” a celebration of the Mexican Revolution. That’s not quite accurate. It’s actually a remembrance of the Battle of Puebla in 1861; Mexican Independence Day is Sept. 16. There is, however, a revolution to celebrate on Cinco de Mayo: a revolution in Mexican wine.

Winemaking in Mexico dates back to the 1790s, when Hugo D’Acosta first planted grapevines in Baja California’s Guadalupe Valley, not far south of San Diego. In fact, Mexico is the oldest wine producing country in the Americas.

The best wine coming out of Mexico— and 90 percent of all of Mexico’s wine—is still produced in the wine growing region of northern Baja California, where six valleys surround the city of Ensenada, the most important being the Guadalupe

Valley. It’s quickly becoming Mexico’s Napa Valley. The climate and soil in this part of Northern Baja is very similar to Napa and Sonoma in California and to the Rhone Valley in France. Sandy soil and a Mediterranean climate with hot summers but cool sea breezes and fog make the region optimal for growing wine grapes.

Each of the valleys near Ensenada have slightly different microclimates, and the grape varieties that fare the best there are Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc.

But you’ll also find Tempranillo, Zinfandel, Chardonnay and more.

Mexican wines aren’t easy to find in this country, and I’m not aware of any that are readily available in Utah wine stores. In my opinion, that’s a shame and an oversight— especially since well-made Mexican wines are such a good value. Mexican wine tends to run from about $4 per bottle to $30 for really excellent wine, which makes them well worth seeking out.

One beautiful Mexican wine to watch for is Monte Xanic Viña Kristel. It’s a blend of 80 percent Sauvignon Blanc with 20 percent Semillon, aged in French Oak—a wine that pairs wonderfully with seafood tostadas or enchiladas. Oddly, a guy whose family emigrated to Mexico from Russia at the turn of the century owns the Xanic winery.

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Looking for somewhere upscale to take Mom for Mother’s Day brunch?

Brunch 10:00am - 3:00pm Sunday, May 11, 2014 Join us in the garden atrium at the DoubleTree Suites by Hilton in downtown Salt Lake City.

Surround Mom with the sights of our indoor greenery, the sounds of our waterfall and the tastes of excellent food from our special Mother’s Day brunch prepared by our Executive Chef, John Watkins. Enjoy favorites, like omelets made to order, delicious crepes, or a savory slice of prime rib from our carving station. Choose from mouth watering entrees like Chicken Fricasse, Atlantic Salmon Supreme, or Grilled pork chops with chipotle apricot glaze.

Or just go straight to the dessert station—after all it is Mom’s day off, right?

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An exceptional red wine from Mexico is Valmar Cabernet Sauv ignon.

Its soft tannins partner perfectly with c h i le - dom i n a t e d Mexican dishes.

Too much tannin clashes with chile f lavors, but the Valmar is spot on.

Another premium red wine from Mexico is Chateau Camou El Gran Vino Tinto. This is a well-balanced blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc in the French Bordeaux style. And while most people tend to think of beer as the classic accompa n iment for Mexican food, Chateau Camou El Gran Vino Tinto is outstanding with

chicken in Oaxacan red mole.

The Chateau Camou winemaker Victor Torres is particularly proud of his white wine blend called Flor de Guadalupe. And he should be, given that this low-priced wine—about $6—beat out a number of prestigious California wines in a Napa wine competition.

Other top-notch Mexican wine producers include Rincón de Guadalupe, Casa de Piedra, Viñas Pijoan, Hacienda la Lomita, Viñas de Garza and Vinisterra.

As I said, Mexican wines aren’t easy to find in this country. But if you should come across a cache, by all means do grab a few and take them out for a test drive. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised; I know your money manager will thank you. Mexico and Cinco de Mayo isn’t just about tequila, Corona and Margaritas anymore. CW

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El Chihuahua was started in 1978 by the Quinonez family. Since then, the restaurant has attracted devoted customers who appreciate the authentic Mexican cuisine offered. Among the house specialties are tacos de pescado (fish tacos), mole poblano, steak ranchero, flautas, chile colorado, chile verde and carne asada. There’s also a wine, beer and liquor menu available, and you have to try the delicious fried ice cream for dessert. 3926 S. Highland Drive, Holladay, 801-272-8091, ElChihuahuaRestaurant.com

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Strapped for time? Scientists, doctors and students from the University of Utah stop here for quick paninis, hot Reuben sandwiches, fresh salads and more. Breakfast is served starting at 7:30 a.m., and the menu features a yummy Santa Fe breakfast wrap.

For lunch, try a grilled panini like the Caprese, the Red Onion burger, a salad & soup or a deli sandwich. The Cool veggie sandwich is as delicious as it is healthy.

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Local and fresh are the key tenets of Caffe Niche. Daily dishes include sustainably sourced fish and locally grown produce from Utah, Idaho and Wyoming, offering a variety of tasty options every day. A simple power lunch can include a cup of locally roasted Caffe Ibis coffee, a small plate of heirloom tomatoes topped with a seasonal balsamic reduction, followed by an order of fresh fish tacos—a blackened fillet of the day’s fish, topped with cabbage, pico de gallo and a cilantro-lime aioli, all wrapped in local corn tortillas.

779 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-4333380, CaffeNiche.com

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Lorena’s has been around for many years, and folks in the North Salt Lake/Bountiful/Woods Cross corridor long ago sussed out its good food and cheap prices. The restaurant is roomy enough that there’s usually not a wait of more than a few minutes for a table. Free chips & salsa are a major attraction.

The chips are virtually grease-free; light, crispy and delightful. The simple, unchunky red salsa—no cilantro, onions or jalapeños—is absolutely superb, and even better when washed down with a bottle of Dos Equis Special Lager. The best way to experience Lorena’s delicious chile verde is via the chile platter, which includes a hefty serving of green (or red) chile, beans, rice and a couple of warm tortillas (corn or flour). The thick chile verde is perfectly spiced with a hint of cumin and a blast of Anaheim chilies, and small morsels of tender pork are sprinkled throughout. 2477 S. 800 West, Woods Cross, 801-295-2441

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CaffÊ Molise is a terrific downtown spot to indulge in Italian cuisine inspired by the Molise region of southcentral Italy. Chef/owner Fred Moesinger’s menu tempts diners with dishes such as polenta con funghi, bistecca, involtini di pollo, ravioli con melanzana and orecchiette al salsiccia, all supplemented by an ambitious selection of Italian and domestic wines. And the lasagna is legendary. During warm weather, the outside pocket-park patio is a popular dinner spot, and the John Flanders Trio brings in the crowds on Friday nights. 55 W. 100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-664-8833, CaffeMolise.com

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Italian Village is an oasis of authentic Italian food in the Salt Lake Valley. Here you will find spaghetti, fettuccine, manicotti and plenty of other delicious Italian foods. But the winner of the show is the renowned pizza bender.

It’s a pizza bent in half and baked into a gooey pocket of cheese filled with out-of-this-world toppings. And then dip your pizza bender into Italian Village’s homemade marinara sauce, which is obviously made by the gods.

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Cindy Lee Cafe

Cindy Lee Cafe offers healthy and authentic Chinese and Vietnamese fare at bargain prices, all cooked fresh.

Combos—such as the one that includes ham-fried rice, an eggroll and some of tastiest orange chicken a person can find this side of the Pacific—will cost you less than $8. Heaping portions of delicious pad thai and Mongolian beef will make your mouth water. Despite its central location, Cindy Lee Cafe seems to be the best kept secret in Salt Lake City. For those in the know, it’s a solid choice for quality, authentic Asian food. 264 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-359-4544

Cafe Trang

At Cafe Trang, the extensive menu of traditional Vietnamese cuisine also features Chinese fare with a focus on Cantonese, as well as sushi. Since 1987, Cafe Trang has been pleasing customers with authentic Vietnamese cooking and time-tested dishes such as its popular hot wok noodles, fire-pot soups, Vietnamese “shaking� beef cubes and mango fish fillet with Thai basil. Veggie lovers will appreciate the extensive vegetarian offerings, and heat seekers should focus on the lemongrass and red-pepper chicken, or perhaps the Red Emperor fire pot. Multiple locations, CafeTrangOnline.com

Oh Mai Vietnamese Sandwich Kitchen

Oh Mai serves up authentic Vietnamese sandwiches and other comfort food. Banh mi sandwiches come on an 8-inch baguette and stuffed with tasty fillings, including honey-glazed pork, lemongrass bean curd and spicy beef short rib. To take your sandwich over the top, add a sunny-side-up egg. To round out your meal, add a steaming bowl of fragrant pho, served vegan or with your choice of meat. There are other tasty treats like goi salad, spring rolls and rice dishes, with plenty of gluten-free options. 3425 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-467-6882; 6093 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-2779888, OhMaiSandwich.com

Best Pet store

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The Dog’s Meow

Best Vegetarian

Sage’s

2014 “Sage’s top-quality vegan and veggie offerings remain intact, pleasing both the truly healthy vegetarians and junk-food lovers with savory enchiladas, hand-cut french fries served with garlic aioli, and more.”

234 W. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-322-3790, SagesCafe.com

The King’s English

2047 E. 3300 S., SLC,

1511 S. 1500 E., Salt Lake City, 801-484-9100 KingsEnglish.com

801-468-0700;

866 E. 12300 S., Draper,

801-501-0818, DogsMeow.com

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here’s a fine line to be walked when selling books. Do you shove the front of the shop full of the same best-sellers stocked at Walmart to appeal to casual readers, or alienate those same customers by featuring only obscure authors and raising an incredulous eyebrow when some hapless creature dare ask for the latest thriller? Thankfully for Utah readers, The King’s English does neither. It’s a shop that appeals to everyone, both spine-stroking book nerds and those simply looking for a good story to pass the time on a weekend flight. The staff is friendly and knowledgeable, and the shop often hosts author events featuring local and national names. Co-owner Betsy Burton and her team simply love books, and want to help Salt Lakers do the same—no matter what form their reading comes in.

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t’s not a giant warehouse—and that’s a good thing. The Dog’s Meow carries only the most well-made and healthful products for cats and dogs, so you’ll know that no matter what you walk out with—gourmet kibble, a new toy, earth-friendly kitty litter, even an irresistible Halloween costume or glitzed-out leash—is worthy of your very best friend.

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outdoors & recreation

Best Soccer Scene

Best Trains & Planes

Best Box O’Beer

SLCo.org/Recreation/DimpleDell

RideUTA.com

BohemianBrewery.com

Best Skiing

Best Race Against the Undead

210 Little Cottonwood Canyon Road, Alta, 801-359-1078, Alta.com

Sept. 13, 2014, 888-606-8880, TheZombieChase.com

Best No-Pressure Poses

Best Urban Renewal Project

68 K St., Salt Lake City, 801-872-9642, AvenuesYoga.com

336 S. 700 West, Salt Lake City, GranaryRow. org

Best Mule Ride

Best Down-South Derby

Alta

Avenues Yoga

Dimple Dell Youth Soccer

Eureka’s Zombie Chase

Granary Row

UTA Airport Trax Line Best Camping for a Cause

Utah Tar Sands Resistance TarSandsResist.org

Best Swimming

The Salt Lake City Sports Complex

645 S. Guardsman Way, Salt Lake City, 385468-1925, SLCo.org/Recreation/SLCSports

Best Feet of Fury

Tiger Crane Martial Arts

Back Country Mules

Happy Valley Derby Darlins

1288 N. Highway 89, Farmington, 801-661-6220, TigerCraneMartialArts.com

435-259-8015, Moab, MoabHorses.com

HappyValleyDerbyDarlins.com

Best Adult Recreational Club

Best River-Running Guides

Best Snowshoeing With Wild Critters

544 E. 3900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-266-2087, BikeRaft.com

1258 Center Drive, Park City, 435-649-1767, SwanerEcoCenter.org

Best Running

Best Running Like the Wind

Beehive Sport & Social Club BeehiveSports.com

Best Way to View the Valley

Birdman Academy

801-448-2494, BirdmanAcademy.net

Best Golf Course

Bonneville

954 Connor St., Salt Lake City, 801-5839513, SLC-Golf.com/Bonneville.html

Best Desert Diving

Bonneville Seabase

1600 N. State Road 138, Grantsville, 435-884-3874, Seabase.net

Best Bowling

Bonwood Bowl

2500 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-487-7522, BonwoodBowl.com

Best Peach Party

Brigham City Peach Days

Sept. 3-6, 2014, downtown Brigham City, BrighamChamber.com

Best Snowboarding

Brighton

8302 S. Brighton Loop Road, Brighton, 801-532-4731, BrightonResort.com

Best Ski/Snowboard Instructors

Brighton

Holiday River Expeditions

Liberty Park

600 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City

Best Hiking

Millcreek Canyon

Classic Fun Center

Multiple locations, ClassicFunCenter.com

Best Biking

Deer Valley Resort

2250 Deer Valley Drive South, Park City, 435-649-1000, DeerValley.com

Best 25-Year Harvest

19 N. University Ave., Provo, 801-607-2485, Facebook.com/BlackSheepCafe

Best Contemporary American

Blue Lemon

Multiple locations, BlueLemon.com

Best Breakfast

Blue Plate Diner

2041 S. 2100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-463-1151, TheBluePlateDiner.com

Best Out-West Beer & Burgers

Bonneville Brewery

1641 N. Main, Tooele, 435-248-0646, BonnevilleBrewery.com

Best Marriage of Cheese & Beef

Bourbon House’s Juicy Lucy Burger 19 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-746-1005, BourbonHouseSLC.com

Best Chef

Best Recreation Destination/Best Summer Getaway

Best Fly-Fishing Guides

Best French Fries

DiscoverMoab.com

1071 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-5216424, WesternRiversFlyFishing.com

336 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-3634444; 2314 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-486-9999, BrugesWaffles.com

Moab

Best Winter Getaway

Park City

ParkCity.org

Best Local Sports Franchise

Real Salt Lake RealSaltLake.com

824 S. 400 West, Suite 127, Salt Lake City, 801-359-2658, WasatchGardens.org

Bruges Waffles & Frites

FOOD & DRINK

Best Wine Selection

Best Street Meat

3 Brothers Tacos

Salt Lake City, 801-688-9352

Best Deli Desserts

9th South Delicatessen

300 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, 801-585-0556, RedButteGarden.org

Best Onion Rings

Red Butte Garden

Best Hike to Bring the Kiddies On

Silver Lake

14.2 miles up Big Cottonwood Canyon

370 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-708-7834, ForageRestaurant.com

Western Rivers Flyfisher

Best Outdoor Concerts

931 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-517-3663, 9thSouthDeli.com

Apollo Burger

Multiple locations, ApolloBurgers.com

Best Greek

BTG Wine Bar

63 W. 100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-359-2814, BTGWineBar.com

Best Montreal Bagel

Cafe Galleria

6055 S. 900 East, Murray, 801-266-2225, CafeGalleriaPizza.com

Best Salads

Café Zupas

Multiple locations, CafeZupas.com

Best of Logan

Aristo’s

Caffe Ibis

224 S. 1300 East, Salt Lake City, 801-581-0888, Facebook.com/AristosSLC

52 Federal Ave., Logan, 435-753-4777, CaffeIbis.com

619 S. 600 West, Salt Lake City, 801-5978503; 3955 Wasatch Blvd., Salt Lake City, 801-251-0714, SLCCrossfit.com

Best Appetizers

Best Bruschetta

Best Outdoor Events

Best Yoga Classes

Best Skating

May 10, 2014, 801-556-1547, VigorUtah.com

Black Sheep Cafe

Bowman Brown, Forage

Best Fitness Classes

926 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-5219642, CenteredCityYoga.com

Vigor Big Cottonwood Canyon Half Marathon

Best Utah County Restaurant

Wasatch Community Gardens

3800 E. Millcreek Canyon Road (3800 South), Salt Lake City, 801-466-6411

8302 S. Brighton Loop Road, Brighton, 801532-4731, BrightonResort.com

Centered City Yoga

Swaner Preserve & EcoCenter

Bohemian Brewery

SLC Crossfit

Snowbird

9600 Little Cottonwood Canyon Road, Snowbird, 801-933-2222, Snowbird.com

Best Frolf in the Mountains

Solitude Mountain Resort Disc Golf

12000 Big Cottonwood Canyon, Solitude, 801-534-1400, SkiSolitude.com

Avenues Proper

Caffé Molise

376 Eighth Ave., Salt Lake City, 385-227-8628, AvenuesProper.com

55 W. 100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-364-8833, CaffeMolise.com

Best Pancake & a Tallboy

Best Veggie Plate

Big Ed’s

Caffe Niche

210 University St., Salt Lake City, 801-582-9045

779 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-433-3380, CaffeNiche.com

Best Mexi-Americana

Best Service with a Smile

8208 Gorgoza Pines Road, Park City, 435-575-0846, BillyBlancos.com

204 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-8518, Cannellas.com

Billy Blanco’s

Cannella’s

Best Mexican

Red Iguana

Best Downtown

2014 “Red Iguana is a perennial favorite of City Weekly readers who, again this year, recognize the Cardenas family’s eatery as the best of Utah’s many great Mexican restaurants.”

escape

Cedars of Lebanon

736 W. North Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-322-1489; 866 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-214-6050, RedIguana.com

Best Antiques/ ColleCtABles

Now & again

2014

“Since bursting onto the retro scene in 2009, this downtown shop has racked up loyal fans who count on the keen eye of owner Michael Sanders to find the choicest mid-century furniture and fun accessories.”

207 E. 300 S., Salt Lake City, 801-364-0664, NowAndAgainSLC.com

Fresh

870 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-532-3458 Facebook.com/FreshClothingStore

152 E. 200 S., SLC,

801-364-4096,

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en all too often get the short end of the clothing stick—a few button-up shirts and pairs of pants crammed into the corners of boutiques as though half-heartedly fulfilling some sort of equal-clothing-opportunity requirement. Not at Fresh, though; while women’s clothing is sold here, too, it’s often the men’s stuff that takes center stage: rows of soft sweaters, hand-selected coats and jackets, sleek wallets arranged on a table with the precision and care usually reserved for fine jewelry.

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ight in the midst of the downtown hustle & bustle, Cedars of Lebanon offers a journey to a beautiful (and delicious) Mediterranean land. The decades-old restaurant recently received a facelift in the form of a spiffy new front patio, which is an excellent place to nibble on moujadra while the world turns, but those looking for a more soothing experience can head inside to sip Arabic coffee or a glass of Lebanese Rosé on a plush couch in the mural-adorned front room. The Cedars menu is a vast melting pot of cuisine—Moroccan, Armenian, Greek and Lebanese—so you can travel to a new land every time you visit.

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Best Downtown Escape

Cedars of Lebanon

152 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-3644096, CedarsOfLebanonRestaurant.com

Best Cedar City Ambition

Centro Woodfired Pizzeria

50 W. Center St., Cedar City, 435-867-8123

Best Thai

Chanon Thai Cafe

278 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-532-1177, ChanonThai.com

Best Quality Control

Best Excuse to Polish Up On Your Yiddish

Feldman’s Deli

2005 E. 2700 South, Salt Lake City, 801-906-0369, FeldmansDeli.com

Best Best of Utah Deadline Drink

Five Wives’ J-Billy OgdensOwn.com

Best Gluten-Free Bar Grub

Fiddler’s Elbow

1063 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-463-9393, FiddlersElbowSLC.com

Charming Beard Coffee

Best Scandinavian Brunch

Best Food Truck

1624 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-467-4000, FinnsCafe.net

ChowTruck.com

Best Splurge

CharmingBeard.com

Chow Truck

Best Pork Taco

Chunga’s

180 S. 900 West, Salt Lake City, 801-953-1840, ChungasMexican.com

Best Coffee Shop

Coffee Garden

878 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-3425; 254 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-364-0768

Best Communal Entrees

Del Mar al Lago

310 Bugatti Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-467-2890, DelMarAlLago.com

Best Sweet Life

Dolcetti Gelato

902 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-485-3254, DolcettiGelato.com

Best Food Cart

Dottie’s Biscuit Barn

Downtown Farmers Market, 300 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, Saturdays, JuneOctober, Facebook.com/DottiesBiscuitBarn

Best Molcajete

El Paisa Grill

2126 S. 3200 West, West Valley City, 801-973-6660, ElPaisaGrill.com

Best Utah Brewery

Epic Brewing Co.

825 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-906-0123, EpicBrewing.com

Best Pizza

Este Pizzeria

2148 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, 801-4853699; 156 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-363-2366, EstePizzaCo.com

Best Small Plates

Eva

317 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-359-8447, EvaSLC.com

Best Enchanted Patio

Faustina

454 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-746-4441, FaustinaSLC.com

Finn’s Cafe

Forage

370 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-708-7834, ForageRestaurant.com

Best Sunday-Nap Starter

Foundry Grill Sunday Brunch

8841 N. Alpine Loop Road, Sundance, 801-223-4220, SundanceResort.com

Best Wine Dinners

Franck’s

6263 S. Holladay Blvd., Salt Lake City, 801-274-6264, FrancksFood.com

Best Italian

Fratelli Ristorante

9236 Village Shop Drive, Sandy, 801-495-4550, FratelliUtah.com

Best Vegan Dishes

Frisch Compassionate Eatery

145 E. 1300 South, Suite 201, Salt Lake City, 801-906-8277, FrischEats.com

Best Butcher

Frody Volgger

314 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-531-8669, CaputosDeli.com

Best Garlic Dreams

From Scratch’s White Out pizza 62 E. Gallivan Ave., Salt Lake City, 801-538-5090, FromScratchSLC.com

Best Weird Slice of Layton

Gabor Brothers Main St. Grill & Pizzeria 197 N. Main, Layton, 801-544-4344

Best Two-Handed Burger

Golden Spike Burger

3960 W. Highway 13, Corinne, 435-744-2400

Best Use of Fritos

Good Dog

30 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-364-4217, GoodDogSLC.com

Best Night & Day Club

Best Sandwiches

326 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-819-7565, GraciesSLC.com

232 E. 800 South, Salt Lake City, 801-5961350; 7725 S. State, Midvale, 801-562-1500, MoochiesMeatballs.com

Gracie’s

Best Divine Coffee

Magdalene Religious Goods & Coffee Grotto

Best Gourmet Cafe

2030 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, 801-953-1820

68 W. 3900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-266-4322, LeftForkGrill.com

Best Gyros

Best Vietnamese

Greek Souvlaki

Multiple locations, GreekSouvlaki.com

Left Fork Grill

Oh Mai Vietnamese Sandwich Kitchen

Best Park City Restaurant

3425 S. State, South Salt Lake, 801-4676882; 6093 S. Highland Drive, Holladay, 801-277-9888, OhMaiSandwich.com

703 Park Ave., Park City, 435-649-8300, HighWest.com

Best Romantic

Best Lunch Buffet

6451 E. Millcreek Canyon Road, Salt Lake City, 801-272-8255, Log-Haven.com

High West Distillery

Himalayan Kitchen

Log Haven

360 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-328-2077, HimalayanKitchen.com

Best Burritos

Best Cantonese

2265 E. Fort Union Blvd., 801-944-2300, LoneStarTaqueria.com

Ho Mei BBQ

Lone Star Taqueria

3370 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-486-8800, HoMeiBBQ.com

Best Burgers

Best Carbonara

135 W. 1300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-487-4418, Lucky13SLC.com

Honeycomb Grill

Lucky 13

12000 Big Cottonwood Canyon Road, Solitude, 801-536-5787, SkiSolitude.com

Best Chinese

Best Efficient Use of Beer & Burgers

348 E. 900 North, Bountiful, 801-298-2406, MandarinUtah.com

Hoppers Grill & Brewing

890 E. Fort Union Blvd., Midvale, 801-566-0424, HoppersBrewpub.com

Best Belly Bender

Italian Village

5370 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, 801-266-4182, ItalianVillageSLC.com

Best Attention to Detail

J. Wong’s Asian Bistro

163 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-350-0888, JWongUtah.com

Best Warm Brazilian Embrace

J.R. Lopes, Braza Grill

5927 S. State, Murray, 801-506-7788, BrazaGrillUtah.com

Best Breakfast Pizza

Jack’s Wood Fired Oven

256 N. Main, Logan, 435-754-7523, JacksWoodFiredOven.blogspot.com

Best Utah County Java Fix

Joe Coffee Shop & Espresso

Mandarin

Best Pizza Folding

Maxwell’s

357 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-328-0304; 1456 Newpark Blvd., Park City, 435-647-0304, MaxwellsECE.com

Best Moab Americana

Milt’s Stop & Eat

400 E. Millcreek Drive, Moab, 435-2597424, MiltsStopAndEat.com

Best of Moab

Moab Brewery

686 S. Main, Moab, 435-259-6333, TheMoabBrewery.com

Best Korean

Myung Ga

3353 Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 801-953-0478

Best Ramen

Naked Fish

145 E. Utah Ave., Payson, 801-465-1220

67 W. 100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-595-8888, NakedFishBistro.com

Best Local Cookbook

Best Salt Lake Valley Restaurant

TheUtahKid.com

878 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, 801-532-0777, PagoSLC.com

Kenvin

Best Bakery

Best Sushi Stalwart

250 S. 300 East, Salt Lake City, 801-3283330, GourmandiseTheBakery.com

1080 E. 1300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-487-3525, KyotoSLC.com

Gourmandise the Bakery

Moochie’s Meatballs & More

Kyoto

Pago

Best of St. George

Painted Pony Restaurant

2 W. St. George Blvd., No. 22, St. George, 435-634-1700, Painted-Pony.com

Best Late Night

Pie Hole

2014 “No matter the time, you’ve just gotta love this place. It’s a throwback to non-chain, mom & pop, hole-in-the-wall, hand-tossed pizza joints of the past.”

Best O-tOwn ROOftOp

Alleged

344 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-359-4653, PieHoleUtah.com

Best Food truck

Chow Truck

2014

“Chow Truck has stayed on top of the mobile-food game by introducing rotating specials from local chefs, but don’t miss favorites like the pineappleginger pork taco, the flash-fried calamari slider and the uniquely spiced root-vegetable chips.”

ChowTruck.com

Squatters Pub

147 West 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-363-2739; 1900 Park Ave., Park City, 435-649-9868, Squatters.com

201 25th St., Ogden,

801-990-0692, Alleged25th.com

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hey say that time flies when you’re having fun. But, really ... a quarter century? That’s how long Squatters has been putting smiles on customers’ faces—not to mention pleasing their palates—in its downtown brewpub location. Clearly, the folks at Squatters have hit on a can’t-miss combo of delicious pub fare like fried pickles, blackened-tilapia salad and killer burgers, along with super friendly service and, of course, award-winning craft brews too numerous to name. And with the brewpub’s popular Park City location and even an outpost in the Salt Lake International Airport, we think it’s safe to say cheers to 25 more years of Squatters supremacy.

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lleged, housed in a former brothel, is an exciting new addition to Ogden’s historic 25th Street. The focus is firmly local-first: The interior is dressed with fantastic local art, cover charges are waived if you bring in a receipt from dinner at a local restaurant, and PBR is the only nonlocal beer offered. But the crown jewel of this fine establishment is its modern, multilevel rooftop patio looking out over downtown Ogden.

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Best Ogden Restaurant

Best Middle-Eastern

Best Barbecue

Best Local Winery

253 25th St., Ogden, 801-627-6171; 748 W. Heritage Park Blvd., Layton, 801-774-9330, RoostersBrewingCo.com

1515 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-4849259; 912 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-521-4572, MazzaCafe.com

880 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-4634800, SugarHouseBBQ.com

1220 W. Jack D Drive, Suite 2, Layton, 801-546-1997, TheHiveWinery.com

Best Seafood

Best Brewpub

Multiple locations, MarketStreetGrill.com

147 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-363-2739; 1900 Park Ave., Park City, 435-649-9868, Squatters.com

Roosters Brewing Co.

Best Atmosphere

Pallet

237 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-935-4431, EatPallet.com

Best Music With Your Meat

Pat’s Barbecue

155 W. Commonwealth Ave., Salt Lake City, 801-484-5963, PatsBBQ.com

Best Heaven on a Plate

Penny Ann’s Cafe

Mazza

Best Steaks

Ruby River Steakhouse

SugarHouse Barbeque Co.

Market Street Grill

Multiple locations, RubyRiver.com

Best Canyon Comfort

Ruth’s Diner

4160 Emigration Canyon Road, Salt Lake City, 801-582-5807, RuthsDiner.com

Best Vegetarian

Sage’s

Best Cake Truffle Bites

Swirly Girls Gourmet Bakery 11248 Kestrel Rise Road, South Jordan, 801254-3751, SwirlyGirlsGourmetBakery.com

Best Taco Cart Tradition

Tacos Don Rafa

800 S. State, Salt Lake City, Facebook.com/ DonRafaTacos

The Hive Winery

Squatters Pub

Best French

The Paris Bistro & Zinc Bar 1500 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-486-5585, TheParis.net

Best Place to Pass the Jam

The Park Café

1810 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-935-4760, PennyAnnsCafe.com

234 W. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-322-3790, SagesCafe.com

Best Sweet Heat

Best Build-Your-Own Burger

29730 Old Lincoln Highway, Wanship, 435-336-2655, Pepperlane.com

Multiple locations, SaltCityBurgerCo.com

18 W. Market St. (340 South), Salt Lake City, 801-519-9595

Best Sushi Settlement

Best Broth

Sapa Sushi Bar & Asian Grill

Best Taco Takeover

Taqueria 27

Best Soups

722 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-363-7272, SapaBarAndGrill.com

1615 S. Foothill Drive, Salt Lake City, 385-259-0712, Taqueria27.com

Multiple locations, SLCSoup.com

Best Mixologist

Best Eclectic Menu

Best Sweets

1291 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-487-0699, FincaSLC.com

65 E. Fifth Ave. (4880 South), No. 4880, Murray, 801-685-6111, TeaRoseDiner.net

Multiple locations, TheSweetToothFairy. com

Best Night Fishing

Best Resort Wines

Best No-Shame Doughnut Breakfast

321 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-364-7142

9600 E. Little Cottonwood Canyon, Snowbird, 801-933-2160, Snowbird.com

481 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-746-5565, WildGrapeBistro.com

Best New Restaurant

Best Cheesy Chocolate Shop

1048 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-7425490, TheAnnexByEpicBrewing.com

Multiple locations, CaputosDeli.com

Pepperlane Products

Pho Tay Ho

1766 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-466-3650, Facebook.com/PhoTayHo

Best Fancy Pho

Pho Thin

2121 McClelland St., Salt Lake City, 801-485-2323

Best Late Night

Pie Hole

344 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-359-4653, PieHoleUtah.com

Best Cure for Salad Ennui

Pizzeria Limone’s Italiano Salad Multiple locations, PizzeriaLimone.net

Best Post-Concert/Game Spot

Salt City Burger Co.

Scott Gardner, Finca

Shogun

Best Pizza Crust

Sicilia Pizza Kitchen 35 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-9617077, SiciliaPizzaKitchen.com

Best Sourdough Pancakes

Best Japanese/Best Sushi

Takashi

Tea Rose Diner

The Aerie

The Annex

Best Park City Takeout

242 S. 200 West, Salt Lake City, 801-5322715, PoplarStreetPub.com

11332 E. Big Cottonwood Canyon Road, Brighton, 435-649-9551, SilverForkLodge. com

The Bakery at Windy Ridge 1750 Ironhorse Drive, Park City, 435-647-2906, WindyRidgeBakery.com

Best Brisket

Best Icy Innovation

Best Beer Selection

925-858-0272, Facebook.com/ SnowyAwesome

645 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-961-8400, UtahBayou.com

Best Soda Scientists

Best Indian

30 W. 300 North, Provo, 801-800-7317, SodaliciousUtah.com

3142 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-466-3504; 212 S. 700 East, Salt Lake City, 801-355-0454, TheKathmandu.net

R&R Barbeque

307 W. 600 South, Salt Lake City, 801-364-0443, RAndRBBQ.net

Best Globetrotting Cup of Joe

Salt Lake Roasting Company

320 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801-3637572; Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, Roasting.com

Snowy Awesome

Sodalicious

Best Way to Guard Your Pizza

The Pie’s ApocalyptDough Multiple locations, ThePie.com

Silver Fork Lodge

Poplar Street Pub

604 E. 1300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-487-1670, TheParkCafeSLC.com

The Bayou

The Kathmandu

The Soup Kitchen

The Sweet Tooth Fairy

The Wild Grape New West Bistro

Tony Caputo’s Market & Deli Best Wildcat Pre-game Pizza

Tony’s Pizza

409 39th St., Ogden, 801-393-1985

Best Juicy Secret

Tonyburgers

Multiple locations, TonyBurgers.com

Best City Fixture

Tres Hombres

3298 Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-466-0054, TresHombresUtah.org

Best French Pastry Connection

Tulie Bakery

863 E. 700 South, Salt Lake City, 801-883-9741, TulieBakery.com

Best Buns

Best Southern Pig-Out

165 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-532-2499, Redhot-Dog.com

Multiple locations, SonnyBoysBBQ.com

The Copper Onion

Best All-Purpose Barbecue Sauce

111 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-3282, TheCopperOnion.com

Best Way to Get to a Jazz Game

T&J’s All In One

Vosen’s Bread Paradise’s Croi-Liner

TAndJFoods.com

Best Café in Shakespeare Land

328 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-322-2424, Vosen.com

270 S. Rio Grande St., Salt Lake City, 801-364-3302, RioGrandeSLC.com

Best Downtown Debut

19 N. Main, Cedar City, 435-867-5333

Best Waffle Worship

Redhot

Rio Grande Cafe

Best Inexpensive Breakfast

Royal Eatery

379 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-532-4301

Sonny Boy’s

Spitz

35 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-364-0286, SpitzSLC.com

Best Downtown SLC Restaurant

The Grind Coffeehouse Best Sweet Touch

Martin’s Fine Desserts 801-244-0823, MartinsFineDesserts.com

Best Cronut

Waffle Love

1796 N. 950 West, Provo, 801-923-3588, Waffluv.com

Best IndIan

The Kathmandu

2014

“The must-have Nepalese momos, methi lamb and jwanu goat are made right alongside delicious Indian dishes like chicken jelfrezi, chana masala, mattar paneer, aloo govi, prawn tandoori and egg biryani.

Best New Boutique

Mod a-Go-Go

3142 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-466-3504; 212 S. 700 East, Salt Lake City, 801-355-0454, TheKathmandu.net

Best Middle-eastern

Mazza

2014 “The restaurants, menus and wine lists have grown to provide us lucky Utahns with some of the finest Middle Eastern cuisine west of the Mississippi.”

1515 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-484-9259; 912 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-521-4572, MazzaCafe.com

2014

“When ordering spicy food at Chanon Thai, don’t overlook the subtlety of dishes like yum goong— grilled prawns with lime juice, lemongrass, cabbage, kaffir lime leaf and mint.”

278 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-532-1177, ChanonThai.com

Avenues Proper

2014

376 Eighth Ave., Salt Lake City, 385-227-8628, AvenuesProper.com

242 E. S. Temple, SLC,

801-355-3334, Modagogo.com

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“The duck-fat popcorn is the first attention-grabber, but seemingly simple selections like the chicken & waffles and cheese & crackers are elevated beyond upscale.”

2014

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Best Source of Sodium

Best Gadget Gifts

RealSalt.com

110 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 385-468-1264, ClarkPlanetarium.org

Inside & Out

InsideAndOutCosmetics.com

250 W. 1300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-577-2263, MusicGarage.org

Best Eyes On You

Best Consignment/Thrift Store

Best Financial Adviser

Real Salt

Best Unrepentant LDS Nostalgia

The Garage’s Funeral Potatoes

1199 N. Beck St., Salt Lake City, 801-5213904, GarageOnBeck.com

Best Mexican

Red Iguana

736 W. North Temple, Salt Lake City, 801322-1489; 866 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-214-6050, RedIguana.com

GOODS & SERVICES Best Proxy Pal For Your Best Friend

AARF Pet Care

801-647-8249, AARFPetCare.com

Best Camera Shop

Acme Camera Company 1993 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City, 385-229-4077, AcmeCameraRental.com

Best Place to Tame Wild Animals

Animal Art Taxidermy Utah

8496 S. Harrison St., Suite 105, Midvale, 801-566-5858, AnimalArtTaxidermyUtah.com

Best Women’s Wellness

Avenues Women’s Center 455 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 801355-9951, AvenuesWomensCenter.com

Best Gifts for Nature Lovers

Backyard Birds

2698 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-467-7222

Best Local Suits

Beckett & Robb Multiple locations, BeckettRobb.com

Best South Valley Dough

Big Dawg Pawn & Jewelry 9361 S. Redwood Road, West Jordan, 801352-1010; 5805 S. State, Murray, 801-262-1010, BigDawgPawn.com

Best Bike Repairs

Bingham Cyclery

Multiple locations, BinghamCyclery.com

Best Literary Lodging

Blue Boar Inn

1235 Warm Springs Road, Midway, 435654-1400, TheBlueBoarInn.com

Best Adult Store

Blue Boutique

Multiple locations, BlueBoutique.com

Best Place to Gamble in Utah

Clark Phelps Antiques Warehouse 7610 S. 700 West, Midvale, 801-450-4000, Punchboards.com

Clark Planetarium’s Planet Fun

Classic Optical

192 E. 4500 South, Murray, 801-261-2020, ClassicOptical.net

Best Oils of the World

Mountain Town Olive Oil Co.

Best Feel-Good, Look-Good Cosmetics

Name Droppers

3355 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801486-1128; 2350 E. Parleys Way, Salt Lake City, 801-474-1644, ShopNameDroppers. com

613 Main, Park City, 435-649-1400; 21 S. Rio Grande St., Salt Lake City, 801-456-0149, MountainTownOliveOil.com

Best Nonfunctional Lingerie

Best Bike Shop

Best Pipe Dreams

Contender Bicycles

989 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-364-0344, ContenderBicycles.com

Best Man Cave Antiques

Country Village Antique Mall 730 S. Main, Logan, 435-752-1678, CountryVillageMall.net

Best New Lifestyle Brand

Damn Son!

DamnSonMusic.com

Best Locally Made Swords

DBK Custom Swords & Scabbards 5586 S. Capitol Reef Drive, Taylorsville, 801-967-5562, DBKCustomSwords.com

Best Cache Valley Comics

Death Ray Comics

72 W. Center St., Logan, 435-535-3259, DeathRayComics.com

Best Farmers Market

Downtown Farmers Market

300 S. 300 West, Salt Lake City, Saturdays 8 a.m.-2 p.m., June-October, SLCFarmersMarket.org

Best Comic-Book Store

Dr. Volt’s Comic Connection

2043 E. 3300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-485-6114, DrVolts.com

Best Specialty Kicks

Fice Gallery

160 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-3644722, FiceGallery.com

Best Cook-spiration

For Your Kitchen

772 E. 700 South, Clearfield, 801-866-1111, FYKitchen.com

Electronic Couture

Facebook.com/ElectronicCouture

Jeanie’s Smoke Shop

156 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-532-9001, JeaniesSmokeShop.com

Best Portable Wheels

Just Fold

944 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-900-3653, JustFold.com

Best Spot to Find Sol’kanar the Swamp King

Oasis Games

145 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-738-4413, OasisGamesSLC. CrystalCommerce.com

Best Postcard Treasure Trove

Ken Sanders Rare Books

268 S. 200 East, Salt Lake City, 801-521-3819, KenSandersBooks.com

Best American-Made Tent

Kirkham’s Outdoor Products

3125 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-486-4161, Kirkhams.com

Best Temple Decorations

Koi Piercing Studio

1301 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, 801-463-7070, KoiPiercings.com

Best Darts to the Heart

Lina’s Dart Shop

3149 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-487-5330, Facebook.com/LinasDartShop

Best Bootfitter

Mike Thorpe, Sports Den

1350 S. Foothill Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-582-5611, SportsDen.com

Best New Boutique

Best Mentor to Future Rock Stars

MusicGarage

Nick Bapis, The Bapis Group 2603 E. Parleys Way, Salt Lake City, 801-401-8700, HighTowerAdvisors.com/ Bapis

Best Pet Store

The Dog’s Meow 2047 E. 3300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-468-0700; 866 E. 12300 South, Draper, 801-501-0818, DogsMeow.com

Best Grocery Checkout

Harmons

Multiple locations, HarmonsGrocery.com

Best Antiques/Collectables

Now & Again

207 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-364-0664, NowAndAgainSLC.com

Best Recycled Fashion for a Cause

Olanova Global

1121 S. Redwood Road, Salt Lake City, 801-318-0356, Olanova.com

Best Macabre Accessories

Prevailing Atrocity Clothing Facebook.com/PrevailingAtrocityClothing

Best Clothing Boutique (Women)

Q Clothing

215 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-474-2000, Facebook.com/QClothing

Best Vinyl Kingdom

Randy’s Record Shop 157 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-532-4413, RandysRecords.com

Best Rock Hound Haunt

Rockpick Legend Co.

1017 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-355-7952, Rocks4U.com

Best Anti-Gravity Moment

Salt City Float Spa

7050 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-599-1327, SaltCityFloat.com

Best Place to Get Needled

Mod a-go-go

Shepherd’s Bush

Fresh

242 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-355-3334, Modagogo.com

220 24th St., Ogden, 801-399-4546, ShepherdsBush.net

Best Utah Flair

Best Record/CD Shop

Best Modest Prom Dresses On a Budget

Best Clothing Boutique (Men) 870 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-5323458, Facebook.com/FreshClothingStore

Graywhale Entertainment Multiple locations, FatFin.com

Best Decor for Your Lair

Natur

94 W. 7720 South, Salt Lake City, 801-232-4311, NaturShowroom.com

Modest Prom Rentals

Signed & Numbered

1682 N. 740 East, Mapleton, 801-489-9790, ModestPromRentals.com

2320 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-596-2093, SignedAndNumbered.

MyShopify.com

Best Salve for the Senses & Skin

Best Utah Hemp Connection

278 S. Main, Spring City, MomsStuffSalve.com

1117 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City, 385-229-4197, SLCHemp.com

Mom’s Stuff

SLC Hemp

Best Proxy Pal For your Best Friend

AARF Pet Care

2014

“What is Tabby going to do while we’re gone? Don’t cancel the cruise or spend your week in the Alps worrying that your teenage cousin has let your favorite family member escape; just call Suzie Ellison at AARF.”

Best French Fries

Bruges Waffles & Frites

“It’s the Belgian-style frites, dipped in one of Bruges’ outrageous housemade mayos, that bring fry-lovers to Bruges in droves”

336 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-363-4444; 2314 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-486-9999, BrugesWaffles.com

801-647-8249, AARFPetCare.com

Best eclectic Menu

Tea Rose Diner

2014

“It’s all really good. Be sure to try the pad see-ew while your youngster enjoys a PB&J.”

Best sandwiches

Moochie’s Meatballs & More

232 E. 800 South, Salt Lake City, 801-596-1350; 7725 S. State, Midvale, 801-562-1500, MoochiesMeatballs.com

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Best Buns

Mandarin

Redhot

“An exceptionally talented crew of Chinese chefs who prepare delectable dishes that range from Peking duck to bon bon chicken.”

348 E. 900 North, Bountiful, 801-298-2406, MandarinUtah.com

2014

55 W. 100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-364-8833, CaffeMolise.com

165 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-532-2499, Redhot-Dog.com

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“Served on a platter, it’s a pile of crusty garlic bread with herbed bean puree, Roma tomatoes and fresh sauteed spinach on the side so you can load up your slice to your personal liking.”

“The Redhot menu allows one to speak delicious words like “bacon wrapped,” “Reuben dog” and “Japanese mayo.”

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2014

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Caff'E Molise

2014

“You can call it a sandwich; we call it a fabulous feast.”

65 E. Fifth Ave. (4880 South), No. 4880, Murray, 801-685-6111, TeaRoseDiner.net

Best Chinese

2014

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Best Character Builder

The Green Ant

179 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-595-1818, TheGreenAnt.com

Best Bookstore

The King’s English

1511 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-484-9100, KingsEnglish.com

Best Taste of the Old Country

The Old Dutch Store

Best Hardest-Working Man In Sports Radio

Best Public Radio Station

Best Newspaper Phoenix

KRCL.org

SpanTimes.com

AM 700, ESPN.Kall700Sports.com, Twitter: @ESPNBillRiley

Best TV News Station

Best New Event

Best Weatherman

Bill Riley, KALL 700

Brett Benson, Fox 13

Fox 13, 5 p.m. & 9 p.m. weeknights, Fox13Now.com, Twitter: @BensonWeather

Best On-Air Recovery

2696 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-467-5052, OldDutchStore.com

Brooke Graham, KUTV 2

Best Sweet Gifts

Best Force for Change

The Queen Bee

270 25th St., Ogden, 801-791-0241, Facebook.com/TheQueenBeeGiftery

Best Finger Puppet Pals

T&C Creations

FingerPuppets.net, WeeKnit.Etsy.com

Best New Car & New Dog Smell

The Salty Dog Car & Dog Wash

KUTV.com, Twitter: @Brooke_Graham_

Greta Belanger deJong CatalystMagazine.net

Best TV News Reporter

Chris Jones, KUTV 2

KUTV 2, 10 p.m. weeknights, KUTV.com, Twitter: @JonesNews

Worst Utahn

KRCL 90.9 FM

KUTV 2

Salt Lake Comic Con

KUTV2.com

SaltLakeComicCon.com

Best Latina Challenger

Best Political Movement

Luz Robles

Same-sex Marriage in Utah

RoblesForCongress.com

145Fund.org

Best Reinventor

Best Connections

Mark Eaton

Susen Sawatzki

7Ft4.com

AdNewsOnline.com

Best Parkour Master

Best Utah Faux News

Ronnie Street Stunts

www.RonnieStreetStunts.com

Best Legal Reading

Justice Matthew Durrant’s decision on Debra Brown http://citywk.ly/1dqffqA

2912 Glen Eagle Drive, West Valley City, 801-969-9889, TheSaltyDogWash.com

Gov. Gary Herbert

Best Boutique for Local Oddities

Best Sports Reporter

KUTV 2, 5 p.m., 6 p.m. & 10 p.m. weeknights, KUTV.com

KUTV 2, 10 p.m. weekends, KUTV.com, Twitter: @DavidDJJames

Best Unsinkable Mary

Best Friendly Face on Main

KUTV 2, 6-8 a.m. & noon weekdays, KUTV. com, Twitter: @KUTVMary

SaltLakeCityMission.org

Best Veteran Newsprint

Unhinged Boutique

2165 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-467-6588; 16 W. Center St., Provo, 385-312-1268, UnhingedSLC.com

Best Local Inhaling

Urban Vapor

310 S. 200 West, Bountiful, 801-695-7957, UrbanVape.com

Best Technological Nostalgia

Worlds Game Store

2815 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-486-1442, WorldsGameStore.com

Best Book & a Slurpee

Todd Hansen’s 7-Eleven Reading Corner

300 S. Freedom Blvd., Provo, 801-373-5089

Best Locally Shot Ski Film

4Bi9’s All Damn Day 4Bi9Media.com

Best Social Scientist

Andrew Hales, LAHWF LAHWF.com

MEDIA Best Local on Twitter

Ben Winslow

Twitter: @BenWinslow

Best Nonprofit

Best Friends Animal Society

2005 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-432-2124, BestFriends.org/Utah

Best Pub-Quiz Night

Big Shiny Geek Show Pub Quiz

Wednesdays, 8 p.m. Lucky 13, 135 W. 1300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-487-4418

Utah.gov/Governor

David James, KUTV 2

Dennis Gray

Best Advocate For Those With Depression

Elder Jeffrey Holland

Facebook.com/LDS.Jeffrey.R.Holland

Best Anchorman

Mark Koelbel, KUTV 2

Mary Nickles, KUTV 2

Moab’s Times-Independent MoabTimes.com

Best Voice on Religion

Peggy Fletcher Stack

Best Local Blog

SLTrib.com/Blogs/FaithBlog, Twitter: @ ReligionGal

CityWeekly.net/Underground

Best Local NSA Agitator

Gavin’s Underground Best Local Podcast

Geek Show Podcast GeekShowPodcast.com

Best Place to Teach and Be Taught

Glendale & Mountain View Community Learning Center

Pete Ashdown, Xmission XMission.com

Best Local Rap Advocate

Planit Ra Hotep

KRCL 90.9 FM, Fridays 10:30 p.m.-1 a.m., Facebook.com/FalloutShowOnKRCL

1388 S. Navajo St., Room 155, Salt Lake City, 801-974-1902, Engagement.Utah.edu/ glendale.php

Best New LGBT Event

Best Anchorwoman

Best Radio Show

Hope Woodside, Fox 13

Fox 13, 5 p.m. & 9 p.m. weeknights, Fox13Now.com, Twitter: @HopeWoodside

Best Scandal

John Swallow

CityWeekly.net/Swallow

Best High School Dance Company

Judge Memorial Catholic High School

650 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-5172100, JudgeMemorial.com/activities/dance

Reinaldo Escobar

Provo Pride

ProvoPride.org

Radio From Hell, X96

96.3 FM, 6-10 a.m. weekdays, X96.com

Best Elected Official

Ralph Becker

SLCGov.com/Mayor

The Beehive Bugle BeehiveBugle.com

Best Utahn

Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill SLCO.org/DistrictAttorney

Best Governor of 30 Percent of Us

Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams SLCo.org/Mayor

Best Neighborhood Watch for the Have-Nots

The Legacy Initiative

Facebook.com/LegacyInitiative

Best Sports Podcast

The Taxi Squad

TaxiSquadShow.com

Best Draft Decision

Trey Burke, the Utah Jazz NBA.com/Jazz

Best Group of Cat Lovers

Utah Cat Fanciers

UtahCatFanciers.CFaNorthWest.org

Best Radio Station

X96

96.3 FM, X96.com

Best Scoop

Robert Gehrke’s & Tom Harvey’s Swallow Coverage SLTrib.com

NIGHTLIFE Best Murray Super Club

5 Monkeys

7 E. 4800 South, Murray, 801-266-1885, 5MonkeysClub.com

Best O-Town Rooftop

Alleged

Best Female Power

201 25th St., Ogden, 801-990-0692, Alleged25th.com

RealWomenRun.org

Best Place to See a Burlesque Show

Real Women Run

Best Local Film Company

ReelBoy Productions ReelboyProductions.com

Bar Deluxe

666 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-532-2914, BarDeluxeSLC.com

Best spicy Margarita

Zest Kitchen & Bar

2014

“One of the advantages of being an organic vegetarian restaurant that also doubles as a classy nightclub is that your bartenders are more than qualified to whip up creative, tongue-tickling beverages.”

Best Coffee shop

Coffee Garden

“Truly great coffee shops don’t have to reinvent themselves every month with new seasonal flavors or limited-time pastries; it’s quality and consistency that keep customers returning morning after morning.”

878 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-3425; 254 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-364-0768

275 S. 200 West, Salt Lake City, 801-433-0589, ZestSLC.com

Best Out-West Beer & Burgers

Bonneville Brewery

2014

Best Ogden RestauRant

2014

“Bonneville’s eight brews are solid, balanced and exceedingly drinkable, and the spicy S.O.B. margarita deserves its own award.”

Roosters Brewing Co.

“A comfortable gathering spot for casual diners and those looking for something a little fancier”

253 25th St., Ogden, 801-627-6171; 748 W. Heritage Park Blvd., Layton, 801-774-9330, RoostersBrewingCo.com

1641 N. Main, Tooele, 435-248-0646, BonnevilleBrewery.com

Best Biking

“Prepare your mouth for a chocolate cupcake with salted caramel frosting that’ll have you wishing this was the kitchen you grew up in.”

TheSweetToothFairy.com

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Best Cocktails

Best Gay Club

Best Loud & Local Showcase

Best Country Welcome

155 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-2287, BarXSaltLake.com

751 N. 300 West, Salt Lake City, 801-8911162, JamSLC.com

Second weekend of every month at The Urban Lounge, SLUGMag.com

3360 S. Redwood Road, Salt Lake City, 801-972-5447, WesternerSLC.com

Best Ogden Club

Best Poptails

Best Westminster College Bar

Best Ladies (That Rock) Night

Bar-X

Jam

Brewskis

Keys on Main

244 25th St., Ogden, 801-394-1713, BrewskisOnline.net

242 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-363-3638, KeysOnMain.com

Best Cheap Date

Best All-Ages Venue

Brewvies Cinema Pub

Kilby Court

677 S. 200 West, Salt Lake City, 801-3223891, Brewvies.com

741 S. Kilby Court, Salt Lake City, 801-3643538, KilbyCourt.com

Best Sports Bar

Best Surprise Cinema

Lumpy’s

Multiple locations, LumpysBar.com

Best Great Outdoors Indoors

Campfire Lounge

837 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-467-3325, CampfireLounge.com

Best Classic Club

Club 90

9065 S. Monroe St., Sandy, 801-566-3254, Club90SLC.com

Best Bar Snacks

Copper Common

111 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-0543

Best Karaoke

Cruzrs Saloon

3939 S. Highland Drive, Holladay, 801-272-1903, Facebook.com/CruzrsSaloon

Best Place to Binge on Wings

Devil’s Daughter

533 S. 500 West, Salt Lake City, 801-532-1610, DevilsDaughterSLC.com

Best New Music Venue

Diabolical Records

238 S. Edison St., Salt Lake City, 801-7929204, Facebook.com/DiabolicalRecords

Best Sports Surround Sound

Dick N’ Dixie’s

479 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-521-3556

Best Pool Joint

Fats Grill & Bar

2182 Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-484-9467, FatsGrillSLC.com

Best Theme Night

Fetish Ball, Area 51

451 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-534-0819, Area51SLC.com

Best Nightclub For Adults

Habits

832 E. 3900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-2682228, ClubHabits.com

Best Smokin’ Nights

Huka Bar & Grill

151 E. 6100 South, Murray, 801-281-4852, TheHukaBar.com

Burt’s Tiki Lounge

726 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-521-0572

Best Place to Shake Up the Routine

Kristauf’s Martini Bar

16 W. Market St. (340 South), Salt Lake City, 801-366-9490, MartiniBarSLC.com

Best Unknown Draper Drinkery

Leatherheads Sports Bar & Grill

12101 S. Outlet Drive, Draper, 801-523-1888, Facebook.com/LeatherheadsSportsBar

Best Sunset Sipping

Legends Sports Pub

677 S. 200 West, Salt Lake City, 801-355-3598, WhyLegends.com

Best Pre-Game Spot

SLUG Magazine’s Localized

Sugar House Pub

The Woodshed

1992 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-4132857, Facebook.com/SugarHousePub

60 E. 800 South, Salt Lake City, 801-364-0805, TheWoodshedSLC.com

Best Basement Jam Space

Best Musical Ambiance

The Barrel Room

Velour Live Music Gallery

155 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-4784310, Facebook.com/TheBarrelRoomSLC

135 N. University Ave., Provo, 801-8182263, VelourLive.com

Best Place to Split a Beer

Best New Nostalgia

128 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-364-4268

323 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-433-1371, WhiskeyStreet.com

The Beerhive

Best Forever Young Bar

The Canyon Inn

3700 Fort Union Blvd., Salt Lake City, 801-943-6969

Best One-Size-Fits-All Venue

The Complex

536 W. 100 South, Salt Lake City, 888-316-5387, TheComplex.com

Best Place to Meet Someone

The Green Pig Pub

31 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801-532-7441, TheGreenPigPub.com

Lucky 13

Best Hidden Charmer

Best Referees

3200 E. Big Cottonwood Canyon Road, Salt Lake City, 801-733-5567, TheHogWallow. com

135 W. 1300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-487-4418, Lucky13SLC.com

Maggie McGee’s

6253 Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-273-9899, MaggieMcGees.com

Best Dance Club

Metro Bar

540 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-652-6543, Facebook.com/MetroBarSLC

Best New Dinner & a Movie

Movie Grille

2293 Grant Ave., Ogden, 801-621-4738, MovieGrille.com

Best Place to See ‘Em Before They’re Cool

The Urban Lounge

241 S. 500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-746-0557, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

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No Name Saloon & Grill

447 Main, Park City, 435-649-6667, NoNameSaloon.net

Best Excuse to Drink Daily

X-Wife’s Place

465 S. 700 East, Salt Lake City, 801-5321954

Best Bar Bingo

Piper Down’s Breaking Bingo

1492 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-468-1492, PiperDownPub.com

The Westerner

The Hog Wallow

Best Place to Meet the Neighbors

The Leprechaun Inn

4700 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, 801-268-3294, TheLeprechaunInn.com

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Willie’s Lounge

1716 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 760-828-7351, WilliesLounge.com

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Zest Kitchen & Bar

275 S. 200 West, Salt Lake City, 801-433-0589, ZestSLC.com

Best Drink Challenge

Lonestar Saloon’s Stick Shot Challenge

3153 W. 2100 South, West Valley City, 801-972-0616

Best Game Cave

A Bar Named Sue

3943 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-274-5578; 8136 S. State, Midvale, 801-566-3222, A-Bar-Named-Sue.com

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Junior’s

Best Open-Door Policy

30 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-322-0318

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165 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-746-3334, JohnnysOnSecond.com

5445 S. 900 East, Murray, 801-266-9552, PointAfterSLC.com

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The Paper Moon

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Best Rock Reign

The Royal

4760 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, 801-590-9940, TheRoyalSLC.com

Best Live Music Club

The State Room

638 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-596-3560, TheStateRoom.com

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The Tavernacle

201 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-5198900, Tavernacle.com

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At Blue Lemon, you’ll discover a wide variety of healthy, wholesome fare in a vibrant, modern setting—“pure, clean food with a twist.� Start out in this cafeteria-style eatery with a plate of hummus, pesto-chicken flatbread or a spinach & pear salad before moving on to something more substantial, like artisan sandwiches or a full gourmet entree. The chipotle-pineapple barbecue brisket sandwich is tempting, and veggie lovers will enjoy the artichoke and tomato panini. Entrees include lemon-chicken Alfredo, citrus-seared Atlantic salmon, blackbean ravioli and fiery fajita-style fish tacos. Enjoy a smoothie like the Strawberry Sweetness or Mango Madness with your meal. Multiple locations, BlueLemon.com

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Blind Dog Grill & Sushi

The Blind Dog crab cake sliders are rightfully renowned, served on brioche buns with Louis sauce, spinach chiffonade and lemon. But equally delectable is the juicy lamb burger or the tempura battered shrimp served with spicy aioli. On the sushi side, specialty rolls like the funky Frida and lollipop really

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Pizzeria Limone

Since Pizzeria Limone opened, customers have been raving about its menu of Neapolitan pizzas with a twist, premium gelato and fresh salads. Try artisan pizzas such as the namesake Limone, with an olive-oil base, garlic, red onions, sliced lemons, five cheeses and basil; the Viola, with house marinara, prosciutto, blackberries, five cheeses and pistachios; or a classic Margherita. Salad options include the tre sorelle with pear and pistachios, Italiano with sausage and beets, Caesar and Caprese.

All of the salads come with crosta, which is crispy, chewy pizza crust served with olive oil and Parmesan. There is also a great selection of European sparkling waters and sodas available. Try the excellent gelato for dessert.

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There are plenty of reasons to love the Boston Deli, starting with the scrumptious Albacore tuna sandwich and the chicken club. And then there’s the chicken cordon bleu, homemade spaghetti & meatballs and the fresh salads. But the chili is truly unbeatable. This ain’t Texasstyle chili con carne; this version has yummy, tender beans mingling with tasty beef and a secret concoction of spices that’s oh-so-irresistible. Plus, you get crackers and cornbread on the side to sop up every last luscious drop. 9 Exchange Place B100, Salt Lake City, 801-3552146, BostonDeli.com

Sea Salt restaurant is a beautiful but casual space— open and airy, with wide swathes of white everywhere; clean is the adjective that comes to mind. The semicommunal tables are a nice touch, too. Open for lunch and dinner, the menu is extensive, with many dishes based on an Italian grandmother’s recipes. The meatballs and ravioli, for example, carry the name Nonna Maria.

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tations we have are the ones we place on ourselves. If that’s not enough reason to frequent So Cupcake, how about a “Starry Starry Night” vanilla or a maple-bacon hotcake frosted treat? 4002 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-274-8300, SoCupcake.com

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For dessert, consider the house-made gelato, or the chocolate and hazelnut tart. 1709 E. 1300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-349-1480, SeaSaltSLC.com

The Park Café

Grab a table on the porch in warm weather and treat yourself to what just may be the tastiest breakfast potatoes in the history of spuds. But that’s not the only tasty offering at The Park Café. The pancakes are exceptional: thick and nicely crispy on the edges. Try the Michigan hash breakfast special, loaded with taters, sausage, onions, mushrooms, peppers and covered in cheddar cheese. The efficient, friendly service and Liberty Park location make this cozy spot a truly tantalizing place to drop in for breakfast or lunch. For the latter, the tuna melt is pretty hard to resist, and the burgers are excellent, too. 604 E. 1300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-487-1670, TheParkCafeSLC.com

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Located near The Gateway, The Rose Establishment is an unplugged cafe that doesn’t offer Wi-Fi in order to encourage face-to-face conversations. The small food menu boasts fresh sandwiches—like the roast beef with caramelized onions—and three housemade salads, including the simple but elegant mixed green salad with pistachios, goat cheese and a jalapeño vinaigrette. For drinks, there is a wide selection of tea, but the main attraction is the coffee. Each cup is individually made from micro-roaster Four Barrel beans and Salt Lake’s own Charming Beard—available by French press or pour-over. 235 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801990-6270, TheRoseEstb.com

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Paradox Pizza

Located on the south end of Moab’s Main Street, Paradox Pizza strives to satisfy Moab’s pizza needs.

Paradox uses natural, humanely raised meats and regional and organic products whenever possible, and also recycles and composts and uses packaging made from renewable, biodegradable materials. Unique pizza offerings include the extra-vegan ’za with housemade pesto and the Fun Guy, made with whole-milk ricotta, portobello mushrooms, garlic and onions. Or, just build your own pie with a wide selection of toppings including kalamata olives, anchovies, feta, roasted red peppers, meatballs and pineapple. Wash down your pizza with Jackson Hole root beer, huckleberry soda or a cold brew.

For dessert, try a made-from-scratch baked treat, like the popular New York cheesecake. 702 S. Main, Moab, 435-259-9999, ParadoxPizza.com

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Open since 1988 when cows overran the Draper area, Guadalahonky’s serves up a huge menu of Tex-Mex and American treats with a fuego menu to satisfy spice enthusiasts. Start dinner with complimentary chips and delicious housemade salsa, then move on to chicken wings with your choice of sauce. Choose a tasty entree like a burger with beer-battered fries if the south of the border isn’t calling to you, or bite into a chimichanga smothered in enchilada sauce ,or asada tacos served with made-from-scratch Spanish rice. If you feel like kicking back with an adult beverage while ordering from the full menu and checking out your favorite team on the flat screen, stroll into the adjoining bar Donkey Tails Cantina. 136 E. 12300 South, Draper, 801-571-3838, Guadalahonkys.com

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Spider-man battles Electro in The Amazing Spider-man 2 Giamatti in a bit role as a Russian criminal who eventually puts on an armored suit, unless he’s going to be part of the Spiderman cinematic family for a while. That busy-ness is part of what makes it impossible to fully embrace this movie, because you can never completely forget that it’s less about telling an individual story than keeping a machine chugging along.

Which is too bad, because the parts of the movie that are about an individual story—the resolution of Peter’s relationship with Gwen—do provide the kick that they’re meant to provide. The irony is that the motivation for Jamie Foxx’s Electro character is built entirely around envy—wanting to be noticed the way that the flashier Spider-man is, just as this franchise seems to be shouting “look at me!” while everybody showers their love on Raimi’s films and the current Marvel Studios successes. For now, I may give up my pursuit, because insecurity isn’t exactly a crime. It’s just a damned shame. CW

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desire to be with Gwen and his promise to her dying father that he’ll stay away from her to keep her safe from his alter-ego’s dangerous enemies.

Stone is such an appealing presence that the scenes between her and Garfield make it easier to overlook the herky-jerk rhythms of their romance on the way to a crucial turning point, while also making it more frustrating to see all the time wasted on Peter’s angst-ridden attempts to understand why Daddy abandoned him.

And yes, Webb isn’t a complete lost cause when it comes to putting together an action sequence. He doesn’t have anything approaching Raimi’s gift for using the geography of a scene to anchor the CGI acrobatics, but he still gives Spider-man some satisfying spins through the concrete canyons of Manhattan, and finds a few uses for super-slo-mo scene inserts that actually help establish the stakes. It’s fortunate that the best moments come during the big showdown between Spider-man and the transformed Harry Osborn/Green Goblin, with the gears of a clock tower clicking ominously into place.

It’s no secret that Sony is attempting to create a Spider-man-centered comicbook universe in the same way that Marvel Studios and Disney have done with their characters, and Amazing Spider-man 2 features more than a few moments clearly designed to set up installments down the road for other characters; you don’t cast Paul

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Like Les Misérables’ Inspector Javert, I have committed myself with singleminded ferocity to a notion of justice, built around pursuing Sony’s Marc Webbhelmed Amazing Spider-man franchise to the ends of the earth for its crimes against the memory of Sam Raimi’s magnificent early-2000s Spider-man films. And now, as The Amazing Spider-man 2 arrives, I am rocked by a revelation that I may not be able to incorporate into my sense of self: What if this new movie doesn’t suck?

Please don’t misunderstand: It’s still not particularly good. There’s the matter of Andrew Garfield as a Peter Parker/Spiderman who’s not remotely as appealing as Tobey Maguire at portraying an ordinary guy just trying to get by, while also living a life of extraordinary adventures. The plotting is too dense by several orders of magnitude, incorporating subplots that should require “meanwhile, back at that other thing that’s also happening” subtitles: deeper digging into the activities that took the lives of Peter’s parents (Campbell Scott and Embeth Davidtz); the transformation of nebbishy engineer Max (Jamie Foxx) into the pure-energy being Electro; the return of Peter’s old school buddy Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan) to take over the family business, Oscorp, after the death of his father (Chris Cooper). Oh, and Aunt May (Sally Field) is taking night classes to become a nurse, so good for her, I guess.

But this one at least starts to get a few more things right as it distances itself from 2012’s clunky Amazing Spider-man, as well as from Raimi’s films. Cut loose from the ridiculous rebooting of the origin story, Webb and his screenwriting team are able to focus more on the relationship between Peter and Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). Theirs isn’t an easy arc to pull off, as Peter repeatedly waffles between his

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The Amazing Spider-man 2 HH.5 See review p. 51. Opens May 2 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) Blue Ruin HHH.5 Here’s a standout representative of the grim revenge genre, a tightly focused and uncluttered suspense drama about a man on a tragic mission. With no pretenses about reinventing the wheel, writer/director Jeremy Saulnier delivers a simple but gripping piece of somber entertainment. Our sad hero is Dwight Evans (Macon Blair), a shaggy drifter who’s living out of his car when he learns that Wade Cleland, the murderer who tore his family apart nearly 20 years earlier, is being released from prison.

Dwight seems to have already considered what he would do if this day ever came, and he does it without hesitating, leading to an escalation with the dirty Cleland family. Blair gives a riveting and forlorn central performance, playing Dwight as sad and ruined but not pathetic, and Saulnier tells his story with elegant spareness. Though events of the past reverberate, the film is set entirely in the present, without flashbacks or even detailed conversations about what happened. This refreshing lack of extraneous dialogue makes what is said all the more significant, and it gets right to the heart of the matter: Everyone believes that their own actions are justified. Opens May 2 at Tower Theatre. (R)—Eric D. Snider Breathe In H.5 Call me old-fashioned, but I’m not really on board with trying to turn a simple mid-life crisis into epic tragedy. Co-writer/ director Drake Doremus (Like Crazy) plunks 18-year-old foreign exchange student Sophie (Felicity Jones) into the rural home of music teacher Keith Reynolds (Guy Pearce) and his wife (Amy Ryan) and daughter (Mackenzie Davis), then observes as Keith and Sophie fall madly in infatuation with one another. Doremus builds the story on Keith’s thwarted dreams of being a professional musician living in New York, which we know about because he’s perpetually looking at photos and listening to cassettes of his old band; Jones provides some earnest appeal as the soulful dream girl, while Ryan is simply around to serve as the vaguely shrewish wife holding Keith back from his heart’s true desire. And while it’s a potentially interesting idea watching a frustrated guy turn a young woman into a symbol of his missed opportunities, the way Doremus stages things—all furtive glances, cow eyes and stridently dramatic string quartet music—seems to undercut the reality that Keith is basically kind of pathetic. Opens May 2 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—Scott Renshaw Farmland HH I suspect there’s a terrific documentary to be made from the struggle of American family farmers to survive in the modern agricultural landscape, but this disappointingly superficial effort isn’t it. Instead, director James Moll puts together a great big mash note to salt-of-the-earth, keeping-their-hands-dirty folks like the six small farmers profiled here—all of them under the age of 30, in a business where demographics are rapidly graying. He does have some intriguing subjects, most specifically Margaret Schlass, a feisty young woman who single-handedly launched her own small organic operation with no previous family-farm experience. But Moll seems less interested in the nuts & bolts lives of these people than the ideal they represent; it feels as though nearly as much of the 77-minute running time is spent on heroic shots of green fields, galloping cattle and family dinners set to sweeping orchestral music as there is spent on the farmers’ unique personalities and struggles. With only token nods at tough issues like GMOs and corporate consolidation, the result is

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the kind of sentimental, non-threatening piece you might expect to find showing at a Disney park. Opens May 2 at Megaplex Jordan Commons. (NR)—SR Stranger by the Lake HH.5 Handsome Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps) has his eye on bronzed demigod Michel (Christophe Paou) at an idyllic lakeside cruising spot. Michel had briefly paired off with someone else, but that comes to an abrupt end ... so could Franck have a shot after all? As an exercise in style, writer-director Alain Guiraudie’s minimalist noir is pretty cool. Franck’s erotic adventure with the inscrutable Michel—whom Franck knows is a very dangerous man even before they ever speak—is utterly unembellished by filmmaking frills; there’s no soundtrack, no tricksy camerawork, nothing to detract from the disaster we presume is headed Franck’s way as he lets desire get the better of him. As an emotional thriller, though, it doesn’t quite succeed. While the film is clearly sympathetic to gay men, and frank about gay sex to the point of being almost unnecessarily pornographic, it also comes across as an indictment of the more salacious aspects of the “scene,” such as the anonymity of cruising. Desperate loneliness is the primary pitch of the film, and that’s fine, but it sometimes veers into near parody of “gay lifestyle” cautionary tales. Opens May 2 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—MaryAnn Johanson

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The French film it’s a remake of, District B13, had more parkour— both heroes did it, not just the one—but writer-producer Luc

Besson’s unrestrained fondness for bombastic nonsense comes through in the translation. With cackling political villains, scenery-chewing kingpins and a surplus of punchin’ and kickin’, it ain’t high art, but it gets the job done. (PG-13)—EDS

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

Draft Day HHH How satisfying to see Kevin Costner back in a milieu that shows off his best side: a contemporary sports comedy. He plays Cleveland Browns general manager Sonny Weaver Jr., preparing for the NFL draft under trying circumstances that might push him into questionable decisions. There may be little on-field action, but this is a football movie, filled with sharp details that are catnip for hardcore fans; the energy dips considerably when the focus turns to the soap opera of Sonny’s life. Yet Draft Day still has Costner in his element, getting a twinkle in his eye when Sonny is playing psychological games with fellow general managers trying to make trades. This is, fittingly, a character study about a guy trying to show the world that he’s exactly where he belongs. (PG-13)—SR

The Grand Budapest Hotel HHH It feels like there’s something going on besides Wes Anderson’s elaborate caper framework, the nested chronology of its narrative structure eventually landing in 1932, where concierge Monsieur Gustave (Ralph Fiennes) winds up framed for a wealthy woman’s murder after it appears he may be one of her heirs.

Anderson’s cutaway dollhouse compositions add a wonderful geography to the farcical set pieces, yet for all this story’s charms—like Fiennes’ exuberant performance and the sheer momentum of Anderson’s storytelling—there’s a sense that Anderson is reaching for … well, something, by invoking the rise of 1930s European fascism. Or maybe it’s merely a charming (if surprisingly violent) trifle with several laughout-loud moments.

Even if there’s nothing deeper than what’s right there in front of you, there’s still a reason to believe the anti-Anderson contingent is missing something. (R)—SR

Heaven is For Real HH Following a near-death experience, a 4-year-old boy finds himself with an eerily specific view of the afterlife, to the initial consternation of his pastor father (Greg Kinnear). Faith-based films have often favored message over medium, but this adaptation of the 2010 best-seller feels like an actual movie for much of the time, thanks to an ace supporting cast and a nicely lived-in approach to the small-town setting. As the narrative progresses, however, the tone become less surefooted, with the more unusual elements sometimes seeming like they’d be better suited painted on the side of a van, rather than depicted in a film with a limited effects budget.

Give credit to the casting director for finding an actor who looks exactly like a young kid’s conception of Jesus, but some things work better when told, rather than shown. (PG)—AW

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Jodorowsky’s Dune HHH Deep in the annals of movie geekdom, there’s much lore about an aborted 1970s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune that was to have been made by cult-favorite Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, The Holy Mountain). Knowing how weird the eventual David Lynch version was, the mind reels to contemplate what bizarreness we’d have gotten from a director who’s 2.6 times as insane (figures are approximate). This sparkling, almost giddy documentary by Frank Pavich explores the Dune that never was. With the cheerful Jodorowsky himself as our guide, and his magnificently storyboarded script to provide illustration, Pavich talks to those who worked on the project, and shows how influential it was even though it didn’t get made. Far from being a bitter howl of frustration, it’s an upbeat celebration of movie love and the creative process. (PG-13)—EDS

The Lunchbox HHH.5 Mumbai’s dabbawallahs are real, every day ensuring that hundreds of thousands of office workers get hot lunches from home delivered right to their desks. This is the (fictional) story of one of their rare mistakes—a charming, chaste love affair forged over food and cemented by kindred spirits. Ila’s (Nimrat Kaur) husband is indifferent to her food and to her, but she finds an appreciative audience in Saajan (Irrfan Khan), who somehow keeps ending up with the lunches intended for Ila’s husband. It’s when the lunchbox comes back empty, again and again, that Ila realizes someone else has been enjoying—actually enjoying—her lovingly-prepared meals. Writer-director Ritesh Batra blends glorious food porn with the old-fashioned romance of far-flung correspondents sharing their written hopes and dreams to create a lovely film that will leave you, literally and figuratively, hungry for more. (PG)—MAJ Oculus HHH Yes, it’s about a haunted mirror—and it’s better than any film about a haunted mirror ought to be. Mike Flanagan expands his 2006 short, about a brother and sister (Brenton Thwaites and Karen Gillan) who saw their parents’ sanity undone by a malevolent antique mirror, 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 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. (R)—EDS

The Other Woman .5H Life is so awesome for Carly (Cameron Diaz), Kate (Leslie Mann) and Amber (Kate Upton)! Sure, they didn’t know till just now that they’re all sleeping with the same lying, cheating louse—Kate’s husband, Mark (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). But now, they’re all BFFs and have fab getaways to the Hamptons and the Bahamas to spy on him in order to plot revenge. Ugh. This is so desperately terrible an excuse for a comedy that I felt sorry for the louse, even though he deserves comeuppance ... and then he doesn’t get enough. So I ended up angry at the unconscionable skimping on the revenge in favor of phony female bonding masquerading as, unforgivably, Girl Power. This was, by the way, written by a woman. We need an “Uncle Tom” term for a woman who participates in Hollywood’s systematic hatred of women. (R)—MAJ The Quiet Ones HH.5 “Welcome to the experiment,” says seedy-tweedy Professor Coupland (Jared Harris) to his new documentarian, Brian (Sam Claflin), not quite adding “Bwahahahaha!” Because we’re already starting to suspect Coupland is a little bit mad and sadistic, attempting to scientifically cure a “psychotic” subject (Olivia Cooke), who definitely Ain’t Right in a demonically possessed sort of way. Since the setting is 1974, Brian documents the experiment via giant clunky film cameras, and director John Pogue’s mix of straight-up narrative and Brian’s retro fauxfound footage adds to the overall spookiness. There aren’t many outright scares here, and when they do come, they’re curiously circumspect. But once the experiment moves to a creaky old house in the remote countryside, the old-fashioned Hammer horror atmosphere cranks up—and not just because of the ’70s-era fog of cigarette smoke hanging over the proceedings.

Bwahahaha. (PG-13)—MAJ

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

for how to make the best creation from any brand: You’ve got to have the nerve to throw away the instruction manual. (PG)—SR

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Rio 2 HH There are baby play areas where you lay an infant down, and he stares up at some colorful thing that spins around, makes music and distracts him for a while. That’s this instantly forgettable sequel to the instantly forgettable 2011 first movie, which finds rare macaw couple Blu (Jesse Eisenberg) and Jewel (Anne Hathaway) learning that maybe they’re not so rare after all. There are antagonists a-plenty, including the original movie’s sinister cockatoo (Jemaine Clement) and a businessman (Miguel Ferrer) illegally logging in the Amazon rain forest. So yes, there’s an environmentally conscious message, a few moderately amusing jokes and a few diverting musical numbers. But there’s not a single engaging emotional beat, worthwhile idea or appealingly quirky vocal performance. It’s just there to keep moving and make noise, like jingling your keys in front of the kid for 100 minutes. (G)—SR Transcendence HH Like so much modern technology, it starts out full of promise before proving to be just another expensive gadget of dubious usefulness. Cinematographer Wally Pfister’s directing debut stars Johnny Depp as Will, a dying scientist who uploads his consciousness into the artificial intelligence device he’s been developing with his wife, Evelyn (Rebecca Hall), and their consciencestricken colleague (Paul Bettany). Now a super-intelligent living computer with access to all knowledge, Will develops nanotechnology that can heal injuries and cure disease—but at what cost? Despite the alluring premise of omniscient A.I., the film gets bogged down by elements it doesn’t have time to explore.

Moreover, it lacks a strong lead; Depp’s digital entity is devoid of personality, while Hall is inconsistent and purely functional. The screenplay barely scratches the surface of the fascinating moral and scientific questions it hints at. (PG-13)—EDS

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The Railway Man HH It starts out like a sweet little romance, when Eric Lomax (Colin Firth) meets Patti (Nicole Kidman) on a train near Edinburgh in 1980, and soon they’re married. But it’s actually about PTSD— based on Lomax’s memoir—and the problem with the movie is that it almost entirely ignores what makes the story worth telling. It flips back and forth between 1980 and younger Eric (Jeremy Irvine) in 1942 Singapore where, as a British POW of the Japanese, he’s tortured—and those flashback sequences pull no punches. If the movie had ended on the notion that for battered, almost-broken Eric, the war never ended, that would’ve been tragic, yet fitting.

But a postscript caption informs us that Lomax eventually forgave his torturer, and they became friends. The relief it implies Lomax found never makes its way to us. (R)—MAJ

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Under the Skin HHHH Co-writer/director Jonathan Glazer takes Michael Faber’s source-material novel and crafts a mind-blowing journey about what it’s like to be experiencing the world through eyes and ears that have never seen or heard it before. Scarlett Johansson’s never-named main character is not of this world—a hunter, prowling the streets of Glasgow and surrounding Scottish towns, luring men intoxicated with the promise of sex to their doom. Glazer refuses to spell out most of the details of this particular close encounter, demanding viewers’ full attention.

Then again, it’s hard to imagine why anyone’s attention might wane from Glazer’s startling images and the unsettling music and sound design. There’s a hint of Kubrick here, it’s true, but Glazer’s distinctive combination of precision planning and the hidden-camera unpredictability of real people provides a perfect mix: the alien, and the unexpectedly human. (R)—SR

Theater Directory SALT LAKE CITY Brewvies Cinema Pub 677 S. 200 West 801-355-5500 Brewvies.com

Megaplex 20 at The District 11400 S. Bangerter Highway 801-304-INFO MegaplexTheatres.com

Broadway Centre Cinemas 111 E. 300 South 801-321-0310 SaltLakeFilmSociety.org

PARK CITY Cinemark Holiday Village 1776 Park Ave. 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com

Century 16 South Salt Lake 125 E. 3300 South 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com

Redstone 8 Cinemas 6030 N. Market 435-575-0220 Redstone8Cinemas.com

Holladay Center 6 1945 E. Murray-Holladay Road 801-273-0199 WestatesTheatres.com

DAVIS COUNTY AMC Loews Layton Hills 9 728 W. 1425 North, Layton 801-774-8222 AMCTheatres.com

Megaplex 12 Gateway 165 S. Rio Grande St. 801-304-4636 MegaplexTheatres.com Redwood Drive-In 3688 S. Redwood Road 801-973-7088 Tower Theatre 836 E. 900 South 801-321-0310 SaltLakeFilmSociety.org WEST VALLEY 5 Star Cinemas 8325 W. 3500 South, Magna 801-250-5551 RedCarpetCinemas.com Carmike 12 1600 W. Fox Park Drive, West Jordan 801-562-5760 Carmike.com Carmike Ritz 15 Hollywood Connection 3217 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City 801-973-4386 Carmike.com Cinemark 24 Jordan Landing 7301 S. Bangerter Highway 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Cinemark Valley Fair Mall 3601 S. 2700 West, West Valley City 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Showcase Cinemas 6 5400 S. Redwood Road, Taylorsville 801-957-9032 RedCarpetCinemas.com SOUTH VALLEY Century 16 Union Heights 7800 S. 1300 East, Sandy 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com

Cinemark Station Park 900 W. Clark Lane, Farmington 801-447-8561 Cinemark.com Cinemark Tinseltown USA 720 W. 1500 North, Layton 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Gateway 8 206 S. 625 West, Bountiful 801-292-7979 RedCarpetCinemas.com Megaplex Legacy Crossing 1075 W. Legacy Crossing Blvd., Centerville 801-397-5100 MegaplexTheatres.com WEBER COUNTY Cinemark Tinseltown 14 3651 Wall Ave., Ogden 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Megaplex 13 at The Junction 2351 Kiesel Ave., Ogden 801-304-INFO MegaplexTheatres.com UTAH COUNTY Carmike Wynnsong 4925 N. Edgewood Drive, Provo 801-764-0009 Carmike.com Cinemark American Fork 715 W. 180 North, American Fork 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Cinemark Movies 8 2230 N. University Parkway, Orem 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Cinemark Provo Town Center 1200 Town Center Blvd., Provo 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com

Cinemark Draper 12129 S. State, Draper 801-619-6494 Cinemark.com

Cinemark University Mall 1010 S. 800 East, Provo 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com

Cinemark Sandy 9 9539 S. 700 East, Sandy 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com

Megaplex Thanksgiving Point 2935 N. Thanksgiving Way 801-304-INFO MegaplexTheatres.com

Megaplex 17 Jordan Commons 9400 S. State, Sandy 801-304-INFO MegaplexTheatres.com

Spanish 8 790 E. Expressway Ave., Spanish Fork 801-798-9777 RedCarpetCinemas.com

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CBS: 2 Broke Girls, The Amazing Race, The Big Bang Theory, Big Brother, Blue Bloods, Criminal Minds, CSI, Elementary, The Good Wife, Hawaii Five-0, Mike & Molly, The Millers, Mom, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Person of Interest, Survivor, Two & a Half Men, Under the Dome (summer), Undercover Boss and Unforgettable.

Fox: American Idol, Bob’s Burgers, Bones, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Family Guy, The Following, Glee, Hell’s Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, MasterChef Junior, The Mindy Project, New Girl, The Simpsons, Sleepy Hollow and So You Think You Can Dance.

NBC: About a Boy, The Biggest Loser, The Blacklist, Celebrity Apprentice, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Grimm, Growing Up Fisher, Hollywood Game Night, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Parenthood, Parks & Recreation and The Voice.

The CW: America’s Next Top Model, Arrow, The Originals, Reign, Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries.

Up In the Air Could go either way—start that Save Our Show campaign yesterday.

ABC: Black Box (premiered last week), Last Man Standing, Mixology, Suburgatory and Trophy Wife.

CBS: Bad Teacher (premiered last week), The Crazy Ones, Friends With Better Lives, Hostages, Intelligence and The Mentalist.

Fox: 24 (Season 9 premieres May 5), Almost Human, Cosmos, Dads, Enlisted, Gang Related (debuts May 22) and Surviving Jack.

NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS) NBC: Community, Hannibal, The Night Shift (debuts May 27) and Undateable (May 29).

The CW: The 100.

Dead or Circling the Drain Some are already canceled, others will be by the time you finish this sentence.

ABC: The Assets, Back In the Game, Betrayal, Killer Women, Lucky 7, Mind Games, The Neighbors, Once Upon a Time In Wonderland and Super Fun Night.

CBS: How I Met Your Mother (ended) and We Are Men. Fox: The Cleveland Show, Raising Hope, Rake, Us & Them (never aired) and The X Factor.

NBC: Believe, Crisis, Dracula, Ironside, The Michael J. Fox Show, Revolution, Sean Saves the World and Welcome to the Family.

The CW: Beauty & the Beast, The Carrie Diaries, Hart of Dixie, Nikita, Star-Crossed and The Tomorrow People. CW

Two estranged brothers (James Pumphrey and Alex Rennie) inherit their late father’s Branson vacation home, only to be confronted with Russian mobsters and Christopher Meloni in a bad wig. Need I even mention … Yakov Smirnoff? (Screen Media)

Rookie Blue: Season 4 Much like you shouldn’t be able to name a show Finding Bigfoot if you never actually find a damned Bigfoot, you shouldn’t be allowed to call a cop drama Rookie Blue after four seasons. Wait … it’s Canadian. Move along, nothing to see here. (eOne)

Veronica Mars Based on a true story from a canceled UPN TV show: Detective-turned-lawyer Veronica (Kristen Bell) returns to Neptune after nine years to help clear ex Logan (Jason Dohring) of murder and make good on a Kickstarter deal. (Warner Bros.)

More New DVD Releases (May 6) Axeman, Between Sisters, Brightest Star, Call Me Crazy, China Beach: Season 3, The Dinosaur Experiment, Doomsday Preppers: Season 3, The Evil Within, Generation War, Mr. Jones, Poe: Project of Evil, Still Mine, Survival Code 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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ABC: The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, Castle, Dancing With the Stars, The Goldbergs, Grey’s Anatomy, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Middle, Mistresses (summer), Modern Family, Motive, Nashville, Once Upon a Time, Resurrection, Revenge, Rookie Blue (summer), Scandal and Shark Tank.

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“From the director of The Sisterhood, Witches of the Caribbean and Puppetmaster 3”? No way! When a cursed charm bracelet mysteriously appears at a sorority house, sexy/Satan-y antics ensue. Sorry, it only looks like a porno flick. (Rapid Heart)

Kurt Russell stars as Crunch Calhoun(!), a motorcycle daredevil and retired art thief(!!) teaming up with his brother (Matt Dillon!!!) for One Last Job. Does the plan go awry? Are loyalties tested? Have you never seen one of these? (Radius)

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he Only TV Column That Matters™ knows the fate of your beloved network series—or, knows enough to make a wild guess as to whether or not they’ll return next season. Could an NBC exec wake up tomorrow and say “Cancel Parenthood—we’re going with Hollywood Cornhole on Thursdays”? Sure. Is it possible that Fox, and America, finally realizes the comedy genius of Surviving Jack before it’s too late? Remotely. Could CBS decide that one NCIS is enough for the nation’s shut-ins? Yeah, right. Will The CW’s showcloning machine run out of unicorns-andglitter fuel? Not likely. Might ABC embrace the concept of hate-watching weaponsgrade crap and squeeze out another 13 episodes of Black Box? I almost hope so. These be the stats as I know them right now:

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Tune-Yards HHHH Malt balls HHH Reese’s cups HH Jelly beans H Candy corn

Desert Noises’ new album was inspired by the open road.

By Kolbie Stonehocker kstonehocker@cityweekly.net @vonstonehocker

Tune-yards, Nikki Nack HHH.5

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he first sound that emerges from Desert Noises’ new album, 27 Ways, isn’t a guitar chord or a drumbeat. Instead, it’s a wave crashing onto a beach, placing the record far away from Utah, the home of the rock/Americana band’s four members. After being on the road for most of the past couple of years, Desert Noises couldn’t help but be influenced by the experience when creating these new songs.

But 27 Ways isn’t just about traveling on literal highways leading toward the horizon. The title also speaks of the many metaphorical roads that people encounter in life, and the difficult process involved with choosing the right direction to strike out in—and accepting the consequences that follow.

In the 27 Ways track “Angels,” Desert Noises frontman/ songwriter Kyle Henderson sings, “Played 27 ways to get out of town today,” a line he says is “supposed to represent the many different paths that you can go on, and the important part is to actually choose one and go for it. Because there’s so many different ways that you can go, I think people get stuck in just not choosing something, not taking the courage to actually get off the ground and go somewhere.”

In 2011, before he founded the Provo-based band, Henderson found himself at such a frustrating crossroads.

“I felt stuck there for a long time and just wasn’t being honest to my heart of what I really wanted to do, and then finally just got the courage to say, ‘Hey, I’m just going to try this,’ ” he says. Putting Utah—as well as loved ones and the familiar Mormon culture he and his three bandmates grew up in—in his rearview mirror to tour and pursue music was “a lot of work and a lot of effort, and I don’t regret a moment of that, even though it was a very hard decision,” he says.

Henderson and the rest of Desert Noises—Tyler Osmond (bass), Brennan Allen (drums) and Patrick Boyer (lead guitar)—began recording 27 Ways in June 2013, while simultaneously crisscrossing the West to keep up with a rigorous touring schedule. “It was all a blur, a lot of it,” Henderson says. The album was released in March with Los Angelesbased label SQE. 27 Ways mostly sticks to catchy rock built around energetic guitar riffs and strong vocal harmonies, but surprises with moments of psych-rock (“Elephant Bed”) and slidefilled blues (“Dime In My Pocket”) as well. The album’s diversity is a product of “four guys that listen to different music their entire lives and they come together to play music,” Henderson says. “You get a little bit of everything.”

But the most significant influence on 27 Ways was the band members’ experience of spending so much time

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The members of Desert Noises are ramblin’ men. away from home and encountering an ever-changing landscape while on tour. The album is propelled forward with wanderlust-fueled energy, which contrasts with the often homebound feel of their 2011 debut full-length, Mountain Sea, written before Desert Noises left Utah.

All the experiences they had while on the road, Henderson says, “all those stories come out in the songs, in one way or another. Whether it’s the feeling of being somewhere else or meeting somebody, meeting new friends, all that, or sitting on the beach in North Carolina … it all plays a huge part in the picture.”

In addition to nodding to Desert Noises’ travel adventures— as heard, for example, in the ocean sounds in “Grandma Looks,” reminiscent of that beach—the personal songs on 27 Ways also delve into the sacrifices Henderson made when he formed the band, as well as the ongoing efforts taken by the foursome to balance their touring lives and home lives.

Henderson’s past unhappiness and heartfelt yearning to find his passion and true self is especially apparent in the lyrics of “Run Through the Woods”: “Wanted to be understood/ Tried in this town, but I couldn’t scream anymore at the voices inside of my head.” The track “Wild Trains,” he says, is about “getting home from tour and not really knowing what to do, and having these relationships fall apart or become better. …”

If Henderson’s songwriting is any indication, the days of hiding his true emotions are far behind him. On 27 Ways, he says, “I was trying to be honest with myself and honest with the experiences that I’ve had or the feelings that I’ve had, and not hold anything back, even if it was maybe not something somebody wants to hear, or maybe not something that I want to express. But I think it came out either way.” CW

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There’s nothing like that first listen of an album by songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/wizard Merrill Garbus—the mastermind behind Oakland, Calif., globally influenced folk-rock band Tune-yards—when your ears are completely unprepared for the wild journey she’s about to send them on. On Tune-yards’ third album, Nikki Nack, Garbus continues her unfettered explorations into revolutionary musical territory, creating her engaging and utterly fresh soundscapes with seemingly reckless abandon.

The 13-track album begins with “Find a New Way,” a restless but hopeful moment of introspection in which Garbus urges herself to press onward despite doubt and anxiety. Next is the kaleidoscopic, impossibly catchy single “Water Fountain,” which features the sing-song chorus “No water in the water fountain/ No side on the sidewalk” and metallic percussion that gives the song a sense of being performed with a variety of found objects. Garbus seems to sum up her frustration with life in “Hey Life,” on which she sings/raps “I don’t know where to go/ But I can’t seem to go slowly, no.” And she doesn’t express herself only musically on Nikki Nack; she reads a poem in her comically inflected storytelling voice on “Why Do We Dine on the Tots?” Through Garbus’ command of drum loops, her powerful voice and multiple instruments, Nikki Nack’s defies categorization, but it’s her vulnerability and, ultimately, confidence that elevates the album to manifesto status. May 6, 4AD

Wye Oak, Shriek HHH.5 For Wye Oak’s new album, Shriek, the Baltimore duo have headed in the opposite direction from their haunting, Americanarich 2011 album, Civilian. Trading in gently rolling guitar lines for gauzy tapestries of keyboard effects, Wye Oak have completely reinvented their sound as electro-pop, with the only remaining familiar elements being lead singer—and, now, bass player as well—Jenn Wasner’s ethereal vocals and thoughtful songwriting. And Shriek proves that Wye Oak’s instincts led them true throughout the dramatic departure, as the album is nothing short of stunning.

“Before” starts Shriek with a layered buildup of several different synths, displaying Wye Oak’s impressive skills on the new equipment, and also seems to be ironically titled, as the band’s musical “before” couldn’t be further away from this unheard style. In fact, titles that contrast the song’s feel or subject matter are common, such as with “Paradise,” which buzzes with scattered, tension-filled percussion and evokes a sense of impeding doom. The title of “Glory,” however, is spot-on: A weighted but dance-y beat drives the song forward, but moments of dazzling light fill the chorus. Thankfully, Wye Oak kept their mysterious lyrics, such as on “Despicable Animal”: “If I lead us to water/ Will you promise to drink deep?” The album’s closing track, “Logic of Color,” ends it on a satisfyingly strong note, with Wasner’s gorgeous voice interwoven perfectly with mellow beats and glittering atmosphere. April 29, Merge Records

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Creative Crucible Challenge served The Dodos well on their latest album.

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or an album that is as beautiful and melodic as Carrier is, the process behind the fifth release from the San Francisco-based indie-rock duo The Dodos didn’t begin as an easy-going, languid experience. In fact, it was quite the opposite.

“It was a scary, interesting place to start from, sort of like starting from zero,” says Logan Kroeber, the band’s percussionist.

“For a variety of reasons, there’d been a bit of a break with band activity, so we were testing the waters of what was possible. Those memories of the fear of starting something new are the strongest for me because it was a challenge.”

But Kroeber and guitarist/singer/songwriter Meric Long were up for it, as many of the album’s intricately crafted tracks attest.

The opening track, “Transformer,” hints at what’s to come, both in terms of the patient, echoing guitar strains and Long’s otherworldly vocals, which populate the first half of the song, as well as in the sudden switch to a more driving, toe-tapping modern-rock sensibility in the second half. “Stranger” begins with an addictive hi-hat refrain and lush guitar chords, but only grows in complexity as the song progresses. The band’s first single, “Confidence,” is anchored at the start by delicate guitar tones and a slower pace, before exploding into a rip-roaring rocker at the halfway point, complete with alternately beautiful notes and gritty distortion, and chugging drums from Kroeber.

Perhaps the best example of accepting challenges is the album’s closer, “The Ocean.” What starts off as a simple electric ballad—with Long singing like an angel at the other end of a mile-long hallway—gradually morphs into something else entirely.

Kroeber comes in with a thrumming percussive beat, and the duo gets an assist—as they do on several songs on the album— from the Magik Magik Orchestra. This

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string section adds a lovely sonic element to the track, but in this instance, putting the song together was not a simple matter.

“On ‘The Ocean,’ that whole outro, [Magik Magik Orchestra director] Minna Choi ended up hearing the downbeat of that track in a different place than we did,” Kroeber says. “She wrote a whole string section for that song that sounded, to us, like it was a fifth of a note off, and it ended up being an interesting process of messing with their recording of the string section and making it sound on-beat to us.”

Complicating matters was the fact that Kroeber was not as prepared to play this song as he was the others.

“I remember before we went into the studio to put the drum tracks down, telling Meric, ‘I don’t really know this song that well. Is that OK with you?’ ” Kroeber says with a laugh. “We’d only done it a few times, but he had faith in the creative process, and it turned out great.”

That track, and indeed the whole of Carrier, is an expression of how the band has evolved creatively during their nearly 10 years together. Alternative folk-pop was the name of the game for the band on their 2006 debut album, Beware of the Maniacs, but they have progressed from that point to being a duo that is not afraid to crank the amp up to 11, thread some strings into their tracks, and even play with odd time signatures.

In fact, the band is so intent on exploring new horizons that they are already working on their next record, which they hope to release this fall or in early 2015.

“It was a struggle getting the momentum going for Carrier, and I’m very pleased with how that momentum presented itself at the end, but there’s more of a fun feeling to this record that came more easily to us,” Kroeber says. “It feels super energetic, so we’re excited for people to hear it.” CW

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And Strange Family play a mind-bending brand of electro-laced indie rock that will get everyone moving. You won’t want to miss this one, so show up nice and early. Provo Town Square Parking Terrace, 100 North & 100 West, Provo, 7:30 p.m., free, RooftopConcertSeries.com Little Hurricane With their incredible energy, chemistry and attention to visual detail—turning every stage into a mini living room, complete with vintage rugs and lamps—this boy/girl San Diego duo was a contender for one of the most entertaining acts I saw at SXSW in March. Anthony “Tone” Catalano wails on his slide guitar with a homemade winebottle slide, and Celeste “CC” Spina drums barefoot and seems to put her whole body into putting together complicated drumbeat arrangements. And their vocal harmonies are a collision of opposites, with Catalano’s voice gritty and raspy at the edges, and Spina’s sweet and unearthly. Their debut album, 2011’s Homewrecker, is a swampy

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When Marked Men co-vocalist/guitarist and songwriter Jeff Burke moved back to the States after living in Japan for a spell, he brought with him a lot of material he’d written for the band he belonged to there, called The Novice. Once home in Texas, Burke started Radioactivity—which includes Marked Men cohort Mark Ryan—to perform and record that material, and they hit the ground running. Now, only a year later, Radioactivity is already at work on their second album, but in the meantime, be sure to check out their self-titled debut, released in October 2013 on Dirtnap Records. It’s lo-fi garage-rock that often tilts into full-on

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I could imagine these four dudes getting a packed bar grooving, but take away the alcohol and visual spectacle, and alt-reggae outfit Herban Empire just sounds like another band that has 311 and Sublime posters plastered all over their practice space. Singing silly bro-style lyrics about smoking weed out of bongs, being horny and “dancing to that funky beat,” Herban Empire is all about the good times. The vocal harmonies are pleasant and the instrumentation is solid, especially the duel guitar lines on the easy-flowing “Thank You” and “What’s Supposed to Be,” and the chugging rock-influenced guitar on “Soda Pop,” which is a cool change-up of the album’s overall beach-y feel.

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Austin, Texas, folk musician Dana Falconberry explores a more synth/pop sound in her newly released two-track EP, Public Hi-Fi Sessions 02—released in April—which features the tracks “Palmless” and “Seven Hills.” In the album, she continues the nature-themed, poetic songwriting she does so well, creating music filled with vivid imagery and honest feeling. Her latest full-length album, 2012’s Leelanau, for which she pulled together her current five-piece band, offers odes to wildlife in daintily sweet tunes like “Crooked River” and “Birch Bark.” The orchestral/folk/pop-sounding music—created with cello, banjo, keys, percussion, violin and guitars—is laced with beautiful female harmonies that perfectly compliment Falconberry’s wispy, songbird-like vocals. Strong Words, Annie & the Flight and David Williams are also on the bill. (Deann Armes) Tuesday, May 6 @ Bar Deluxe, 666 S. State, 8 p.m., $5, BarDeluxeSLC.com

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5 MONKEYS 7 E. 4800 South, Murray, 801266-1885, Karaoke, Free pool, Live music A BAR NAMED SUE 3928 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-274-5578, Trivia Tues., DJ Wed., Karaoke Thurs.

A BAR NAMED SUE ON STATE 8136 S. State, SLC, 801-566-3222, Karaoke Tues.

ABG’S LIBATION EMPORIUM 190 W. Center St., Provo, 801-373-1200, Live music ALLEGED 205 25th St., Ogden, 801-990-0692 AREA 51 451 S. 400 West, SLC, 801-5340819, Karaoke Wed., ‘80s Thur., DJs Fri. & Sat. BAR DELUXE 666 S. State, SLC, 801-5322914, Live music & DJs THE BAR IN SUGARHOUSE 2168 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-485-1232 BAR-X 155 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-355-2287 BARBARY COAST 4242 S. State, Murray, 801-265-9889 THE BASEMENT 3109 Wall Ave., Ogden, Live music, all ages BATTERS UP 1717 S. Main, SLC, 801-4634996, Karaoke Tues., Live music Sat. THE BAYOU 645 S. State, SLC, 801-9618400, Live music Fri. & Sat. BOURBON HOUSE 19 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-746-1005, Local jazz jam Tues., Karaoke Thur., Live music Sat., Funk & soul night Sun. BREWSKIS 244 25th St., Ogden, 801-3941713, Live music BURT’S TIKI LOUNGE 726 S. State, SLC, 801-521-0572, Live music CANYON INN 3700 E. Fort Union, SLC, 801943-6969, DJs CAROL’S COVE II 3424 S. State, SLC, 801466-2683, Karaoke Thur., DJs & Live music Fri. & Sat. CHEERS TO YOU 315 S. Main, SLC, 801575-6400 CHEERS TO YOU Midvale 7642 S. State, 801-566-0871 CHUCKLE’S LOUNGE 221 W. 900 South, SLC, 801-532-1721 CIRCLE LOUNGE 328 S. State, SLC, 801531-5400, DJs CISERO’S 306 Main, Park City, 435-6495044, Karaoke Thur., Live music & DJs CLUB 48 16 E. 4800 South, Murray, 801262-7555 CLUB 90 9065 S. 150 West, Sandy, 801-5663254, Trivia Mon., Poker Thur., Live music Fri. & Sat., Live bluegrass Sun. CLUB DJ’S 3849 W. 5400 South, Murray, 801-964-8575, Karaoke Tues., Thur. & Sun., Free pool Wed. & Sun., DJ Fri. & Sat. CLUB TRY-ANGLES 251 W. 900 South, SLC, 801-364-3203, Mid-week movie Wed., Karaoke Thur., DJs Fri. & Sat. THE COMPLEX 536 W. 100 South, SLC, 801528-9197, Live music COPPER CLUB 315 24th St., Ogden, 801-3927243, Beer pong Mon., Poker Tues., DJs Fri. & Sat. CRUZRS SALOON 3943 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-272-1903, Free pool Wed. & Thurs., Karaoke Fri. & Sat. DAWG POUND 3350 S. State, SLC, 801-2612337, Live music THE DEERHUNTER PUB 2000 N. 300 West, Spanish Fork, 801-798-8582, Live music Fri. & Sat. THE DEPOT 400 W. South Temple, SLC, 801355-5522, Live music

DEVIL’S DAUGHTER 533 S. 500 West, SLC, 801-532-1610, Karaoke Wed., Live music Fri. & Sat. DONKEY TAILS CANTINA 136 E. 12300 South, Draper, 801-571-8134. Karaoke Wed.; Live music Tues., Thurs. & Fri. Live DJ Sat. DOWNSTAIRS 625 Main, Park City, 435226-5340, Live music & DJs ELIXIR LOUNGE 6405 S. 3000 East, Holladay, 801-943-1696 FAT’S GRILL 2182 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-484-9467, Live music THE FILLING STATION 8987 W. 2700 South, Magna, 801-250-1970, Karaoke Thur.

FLANAGAN’S ON MAIN 438 Main, Park City, 435-649-8600, Trivia Tues., Live music Fri. & Sat. FOX HOLE PUB & GRILL 7078 S. Redwood Road, West Jordan, 801-566-4653, Karaoke & Live music THE GARAGE 1199 Beck St., SLC, 801-5213904, Live music GINO’S 3556 S. State, SLC, 801-268-1811, Live music GRACIE’S 326 S. West Temple, SLC, 801-8197565, Live music, DJs THE GREAT SALTAIR 12408 W. Saltair Drive, Magna, 801-250-6205, Live music THE GREEN PIG PUB 31 E. 400 South, SLC, 801-532-7441, Live music Thur.-Sat. HABITS 832 E. 3900 South, SLC, 801-2682228, Poker Mon., Ladies night Tues., ’80s night Wed., Karaoke Thur., DJs Fri. & Sat. HIGHLANDER 6194 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-277-8251, Karaoke 7 nights a week THE HOG WALLOW PUB 3200 E. Big Cottonwood Canyon Road, SLC, 801-733-5567, Live music HOTEL/ELEVATE 155 W. 200 South, SLC, 801-478-4310, DJs HUKA BAR & GRILL 151 E. 6100 South, Murray, 801-281-9665, Reggae Tues., DJs Fri. & Sat. IN THE VENUE/CLUB SOUND 219 S. 600 West, SLC, 801-359-3219, Live music & DJs INFERNO CANTINA 122 W. Pierpont Ave., SLC, 801-883-8838, DJs Tues.-Sat. JACKALOPE LOUNGE 372 S. State, SLC, 801-359-8054, DJs JAM 751 N. 300 West, SLC, 801-891-1162, Karaoke Tues., Wed. & Sun., DJs Thur.-Sat. JOHNNY’S ON SECOND 165 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-746-3334, DJs Tues. & Fri., Karaoke Weds., Live music Sat. KARAMBA 1051 E. 2100 South, SLC, 801696-0639, DJs KEYS ON MAIN 242 S. Main, SLC, 801-3633638, Karaoke Tues. & Wed., Dueling pianos Thur.-Sat. KILBY COURT 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), SLC, 801-364-3538, Live music, all ages KRISTAUF’S 16 W. Market St., SLC, 801-9431696, DJ Fri. & Sat. THE LEPRECHAUN INN 4700 S. 900 East, Murray, 801-268-3294 LIQUID JOE’S 1249 E. 3300 South, SLC, 801467-5637, Live music Tues.-Sat. Lo-Fi Cafe 445 S. 400 West, SLC, 801-3644325, Live music LUCKY 13 135 W. 1300 South, SLC, 801-4874418, Trivia Wed. LUMPY’S DOWNTOWN 145 Pierpont Ave., SLC, 801-938-3070

LUMPY’S SOUTH 8925 Harrison St., Sandy, 801-255-2078 LUMPY’S HIGHLAND 3000 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-484-5597 THE MADISON/THE COWBOY 295 W. Center St., Provo, 801-375-9000, Live music, DJs MAGGIE MCGEE’S 6253 Highland Drive, SLC, 801-273-9899, Poker Sun., Wed. & Fri., Karaoke daily MAXWELL’S EAST COAST EATERY 9 Exchange Place, SLC, 801-328-0304, Poker Tues., DJ Fri. & Sat. METRO BAR 540 W. 200 South, SLC, 801652-6543, DJs MUSE MUSIC CAFÉ 151 N. University Ave., Provo, Open mic, live music, all ages NO NAME SALOON 447 Main, Park City, 435-649-6667 ONE 180 W. 400 South, SLC, 801-355-0364, DJs PARK CITY LIVE 427 Main, Park City, 435649-9123, Live music PAT’S BBQ 155 W. Commonwealth Ave., SLC, 801-484-5963, Live music Thurs.-Sat., All ages PIPER DOWN 1492 S. State, SLC, 801-4681492, Poker Mon., Acoustic Tues., Trivia Wed., Bingo Thurs.

POPLAR STREET PUB 242 S. 200 West, SLC, 801-532-2715, Live music Thur.-Sat. THE RED DOOR 57 W. 200 South, SLC, 801363-6030, DJ Fri., Live jazz Sat. THE ROYAL 4760 S. 900 East, SLC, 801590-9940, Live music SCALLYWAGS 3040 S. State, SLC, 801604-0869 THE SHRED SHED 60 E. Exchange Place, SLC, Live music THE SPUR BAR & GRILL 352 Main, Park City, 435-615-1618, Live music THE STAR BAR 268 Main, Park City, 435615-7000, Live music, DJs THE STATE ROOM 638 S. State, SLC, 800501-2885, Live music SUGARHOUSE PUB 1992 S. 1100 East, SLC, 801-413-2857 SUN & MOON CAFÉ 6281 Emigration Canyon, SLC, 801-583-8331, Live music THE TAVERNACLE 201 E. 300 South, SLC, 801-519-8900, Dueling pianos Wed.-Sat., Karaoke Sun.-Tues.

TIN ANGEL CAFE 365 W. 400 South, SLC, 801-328-4155, Live music THE TRAPP 102 S. 600 West, SLC, 801-5318727, Karaoke Mon., DJs Fri. & Sat. THE URBAN LOUNGE 241 S. 500 East, SLC, 801-746-0557, Live music VELOUR 135 N. University Ave., Provo, 801818-2263, Live music, All ages WASTED SPACE 342 S. State, SLC, 801-5312107, DJs Thur.-Sat. THE WESTERNER CLUB 3360 S. Redwood Road, West Valley City, 801-972-5447, Live music WILLIE’S LOUNGE 1716 S. Main, SLC, 760-828-7351, Trivia Wed., Karaoke Fri.-Sun., Live music THE WINE CELLAR 2550 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 801-399-3600, Live jazz & blues Thur.-Sat. THE WOODSHED 60 E. 800 South, SLC, 801-364-0805, Karaoke Sun. & Tues., Open jam Wed., Reggae Thur., Live music Fri. & Sat. ZEST KITCHEN & BAR 275 S. 200 West, SLC, 801-433-0589, DJs

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Melty Way opened last fall and has other locations in Midvale and American Fork.

McClelland Street also offers franchises like The Habit Burger Grill and Pho Thin. Across the street, diners can find old standbys in Pei Wei, Smashburger, Costa Vida, and Paradise Bakery.

Want just dessert? “I love Yogurtland,” says Salt Lake City resident Hailey Woodside. “It’s refreshing and has so many options—I don’t think I’ll ever get sick of it.” Yogurtland sells frozen yogurt and toppings on a per-ounce basis.

In addition to the frozen yogurt shop, diners on McClelland Street can also check out Beyond Glaze.

Beyond Glaze is a gourmet donut store, locally owned and operated with additional locations in Draper and Ogden. With donut flavors like raspberry mango, cherry limeade, s’more, and maple bacon, Beyond Glaze features something for everyone. Donuts are $1.95 for a single and $19.75 for a dozen.

McClelland Street even offers a local coffee shop—Joffee’s Coffees. Not only is Joffee’s locally owned with a roasting facility in Canada, but also donates some of the proceeds of coffee sales to various charities, including the Utah Food Bank.

Free off-street parking is available on McClelland Street, and there is a larger parking lot for diners located south of The Habit Burger Grill. n

n the mood for a new eatery? Sugarhouse has several fresh options for lunch, dinner, dessert, and coffee along McClelland Street. Look for the historic spinning blue “Sputnik” sign, at the site of the old Granite Furniture Building, just off 2100 South.

Some locally owned, some parts of larger chains, these new restaurants offer Salt Lake City diners a wide variety of delicious food at affordable prices.

Flatbread Neapolitan Pizza, located at the corner of 2100 South and McClelland, features a large outdoor dining area that will be the perfect location during upcoming summer months. Flatbread features pizza, pasta, sandwich and salad options, with entrees ranging between $10 and $15.

Flatbread opened last summer.

Just around the corner from Flatbread, you’ll find The Melty Way, a locally owned sandwich shop. The Melty Way serves up gourmet grilled cheese made with fresh, local ingredients, offering gluten-free bread, homemade dipping sauces, soup, ice cream sandwiches, panna cotta, and locally brewed root beer. “I recommend the jalapeño popper sandwich with the hot sauce,” says Salt Lake City resident Will Archer. The Sugarhouse location of The

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Dear Astrologer: We Aries people have an intense fire burning inside us. It’s an honor and a privilege. We’re lucky to be animated with such a generous share of the big energy that gives life to all of nature. But sometimes the fire gets too wild and strong for us. We can’t manage it. It gets out of our control. That’s how I’m feeling lately. These beloved flames that normally move me and excite me are now the very thing that’s making me crazy. What to do? —Aries.” Dear Aries: Learn from what firefighters do to fight forest fires. They use digging tools to create wide strips of dirt around the fire, removing all the flammable brush and wood debris. When the fire reaches this path, it’s deprived of fuel.

Close your eyes and visualize that scene.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) “My personal philosophy is not to undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.” So said Taurus-born Edwin Land, the man who invented the Polaroid camera. I have a feeling these might be useful words for you to live by between your birthday in 2014 and your birthday in 2015. In the coming 12 months, you will have the potential of homing in on a dream that will fuel your passions for years. It may seem to be nearly impossible, but that’s exactly what will excite you about it so much—and keep you going for as long as it takes to actually accomplish.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) I wish there was a way you could play around with construction equipment for a few hours. I’d love it if you could get behind the wheel of a bulldozer and flatten a small hill. It would be good for you to use an excavator to destroy a decrepit old shed or clear some land of stumps and dead trees. Metaphorically speaking, that’s the kind of work you need to do in your inner landscape: move around big, heavy stuff; demolish outworn structures; reshape the real estate to make way for new building projects.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) “Dear Oracle: I might be hallucinating, but recently, I swear my pet iguana has been getting turned on whenever I disrobe in front of it. My naked body seems to incite it to strut around and make guttural hissing sounds and basically act like it’s doing a mating dance. Is it me, or is the planets? I think my iguana is a Capricorn like me. —Captivating Capricorn.” Dear Capricorn: Only on rare occasions have I seen you Capricorns exude such high levels of animal magnetism as you are now. Be careful where you point that stuff! I won’t be shocked if a wide variety of creatures finds you extra alluring.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “Eat like you love yourself,” advises author Tara Stiles. “Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself.” Those four prescriptions should be top priorities for you, Aquarius. Right now, you can’t afford to treat your beautiful organism with even a hint of carelessness. You need to upgrade the respect and compassion and reverence you give yourself. So please breathe like you love yourself. Sleep and dream like you love yourself. Think like you love yourself. Make love like you love yourself.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “Beauty is the purgation of superfluities,” said Michelangelo.

Do you agree? Could you make your life more marvelous by giving up some of your trivial pursuits? Would you become more attractive if you got rid of one of your unimportant desires? Is it possible you’d experience more lyrical grace if you sloughed off your irrelevant worries? I suggest you meditate on questions like these, Virgo. According to my interpretation of the astrological omens, experiencing beauty is not a luxury right now, but rather a necessity. For the sake of your mental, physical, and spiritual health, you need to be in its presence as much as possible.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Actor Matthew McConaughey prides himself on his willingness to learn from his mistakes and failures. A few years ago, he collected and read all the negative reviews that critics had ever written about his work in films. It was “an interesting kind of experiment,” he told Yahoo News. “There was some really good constructive criticism.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, Sagittarius, now would be an excellent time for you to try an experiment comparable to McConaughey’s. Be brave!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Do you finally understand that you don’t have to imitate the stress-addled workaholics and self-wounding overachievers in order to be as proficient as they are? Are you coming to see that if you want to fix, heal and change the world around you, you have to fix, heal and change yourself? Is it becoming clear that if you hope to gain more power to shape the institutions you’re part of, you’ve got to strengthen your power over yourself? Are you ready to see that if you’d like to reach the next level of success, you must dissolve some of your fears of success?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) The U.S. military budget this year is $633 billion. In comparison, the United Nations’ peacekeeping budget is $7.8 billion. So my country will spend 81 times more to wage war than the U.N. will spend to make peace. I would prefer it if the ratio were reversed, but my opinion carries no weight. It’s possible, though, that I might be able to convince you Scorpios, at least in the short run, to place a greater emphasis on cultivating cooperation and harmony than on being swept up in aggression and conflict.

You might be tempted to get riled up over and over again in the coming weeks, but I think that would lead you astray from living the good life.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) In the Transformers movies, Optimus Prime is a giant extraterrestrial warrior robot. His body contains an array of weapons that he uses for righteous causes, like protecting Earth’s creatures. His character is voiced by actor Peter Cullen.

Cullen has also worked extensively for another entertainment franchise, Winnie the Pooh. He does the vocals for Eeyore, a gloomy donkey who writes poetry and has a pink ribbon tied in a bow on his tail. Let’s make Cullen your role model for now.

I’m hoping this will inspire you to get the Eeyore side of your personality to work together with the Optimus Prime part of you. What’s that you say? You don’t have an Optimus Prime part of you? Well, that’s what Eeyore might say, but I say different.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) I’m pretty sure God wants you to be rich. Or at least richer. And I know for a fact that I want you to be richer. What about you?

Do you want to be wealthier? Or at least a bit more flush? Or would you rather dodge the spiritual tests you’d have to face if you became a money magnet? Would you prefer to go about your daily affairs without having to deal with the increased responsibilities and obligations that would come with a bigger income? I suspect you will soon receive fresh evidence about these matters. How you respond will determine whether or not you’ll be able to take advantage of new financial opportunities that are becoming available.

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Perhaps it’s popular culture encouraging children to own their identities. When I was a child, all I had was “Will and Grace,” and that wasn’t something I could connect with. Recently, we’ve seen more relate-able gay characters in positive roles on television. As a community, we’re being seen as familial and not over-sexed gym bunnies with low IQs. Perhaps it’s that transformation from indulgence to importance that is shifting the depiction of gay men and women right here in Utah. Because being gay is not an issue for popular culture, and the movement is breaking the chains of oppression one legal case after another, gay is no longer a bad word and finally means more than sleeping with the same sex. Today, kids see gay families and it’s normal. So it makes sense that a 10-year-old wouldn’t have a negative self-image because she’s different from the other girls at school. It makes sense that today, kids have less of an issue owning their identities without fear of persecution from their peers.

And that’s a good thing.

Earlier affirmations of a child’s identity mean children will grow up in a better world. They’ll spend more time learning to respect themselves and others and less time self-loathing and engaging in risky behavior. Coming out sooner means having an adolescence where you don’t have to pretend to like the opposite sex just so you can fit in. It means less bullying and suicide.

Perhaps it will even mean the end of tired dogma and anti-gay, rigid ideology.

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Who was Beck to have his own street named after him? He was a miner who built a destination hot springs in 1885 up there by the train tracks and refineries. Back then people did not have indoor plumbing.

Folks went to natural hot water spots to bathe, and bathe with others. Beck’s little spa was a hit with dirty railroad men getting off shift and it lasted as a public bath for just under a hundred years until the state took the land so a little road called I-15 could run through it.

Warm Springs Hot Springs (just north of 800 North as 300 West turns into Beck Street) was once as hip as Bar X and Beer Bar (sans alcohol). The building that once housed baths and pools was closed by our city commission when pieces of the building started sloughing off from the ceiling and hitting swimmers. It reopened a few times, but now sits abandoned and unsafe, deteriorating in our harsh elements.

In this national month that pays tribute to the bike, head up to 840 N. Beck Street (300 West) and explore. There are tennis courts, a playground, trails and picnic tables. If you catch the rays for too long, head a little further north and catch some tunes and burgers on the patio of the Garage Bar as a way to enjoy our warm spring weather and discover our town. n

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4 adult volunteers are needed to help staff and run the Lincoln Loot Store. Volunteers are responsible for helping students select items to buy and help them pay with their Lincoln Loot bucks that they earn for being well behaved or improving academically. rooSEvELt ELEmEntary community SchooL Tie-Dye Reward Activity Contact: Craig Foster, 801.554.2005 Date/Time: April 23, 2014, 9:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

5 volunteers are needed to help students who reached proficiency or achieved significant growth on their 3rd quarter Acuity Math Assessment tie dye a shirt. Volunteers will help student’s rubberband shirts, man dye buckets and assist students through the entire process. 2-3 hours shifts are available.

GranGEr ELEmEntary community SchooL Field Trip Chaperones Contact: Amy Worthington, 801.746.2566 Date/Time: May 2, 2014, 1:45-4:45 p.m.

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