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Letters Average People Can Save Water

Although your article concerning water use in Utah [Green Guide, April 17, City Weekly] spoke of the huge amounts we use per capita as opposed to other states, it didn’t offer any details on what the average person can do to reduce their overall usage. Reducing lawn watering to produce “green” lawns vs. “lush” lawns is a major step, but small changes such as turning off the water while brushing your teeth adds up to hundreds of gallons per person, per year. In addition, the use of rain barrels that collect water from rain gutters (200 gallons per household is now permitted in Utah) can help a great deal, considering how much tap water we pour on our planter boxes, flower urns and gardens. And those flowers grow much bigger, and produce larger blooms, when fed rainwater versus tap.

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There Is No “Clean” Water

I was wondering why anybody thinks clean water exists at all anymore [Green Guide, April 17, City Weekly]. The water is disgusting before reaching the treatment plant and after. I dare anyone to type these words in a search engine together and see what you find: “Hitler fluoride” and “fluoride rat poison.”

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It’s wonderful that your paper is aware and following both the Tongan and the legal community’s questioning whether excessive force was used on Siale Angilau, who was shackled at the ankles and, as pointed out by Miss Uluave, “armed” with merely a pen [“Community searches for answers in courtroom shooting of Siale Angilau,” May 8, City Weekly]. The excessive use of force is an open question and has not yet been determined, since the federal marshal is still, to my understanding, on paid administrative leave while an investigation is underway, although the FBI has been mum on that issue, according to community activists. The battle to find justice for Angilau has just begun, as evidenced by continual community meetings since April 21 and traditional means of reconciliation between the two youth gangs during Angilau’s funeral. Thank you for contributing to this healthy discourse in allowing the public to decide in a more informed way whether or not Angilau was truly “armed” and/or “dangerous.” You have done a great deal for the Tongan community. I am writing a final chapter on this and other encounters I have researched with other media outlets on Angilau’s death in a monograph soon to be submitted to Duke University Press on the topic of media representations and Pacific Islanders in the United States, with a focus on the framing of gang discourse in the public sphere. I am appreciative that City Weekly has allowed me evidence of a healthier public sphere in Utah than was formerly considered. I was an avid reader of your paper while I was growing up in Salt Lake City

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I happened to pick up a copy of this week’s City Weekly for the first time in a few months. I was absolutely blown away with the honesty of Ryan Cunningham’s piece [“So Your Brain Wants You Dead,” May 8, City Weekly] and the courage that it took for him to “come out” about his mental illness. I know he said he didn’t feel courageous, but when we are compelled to tell and live our truth, it is the bravest thing we can do, whether we recognize it or not. His piece touched me at my core, and I applaud City Weekly for printing it.

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OPINION

Boom & Bust

Federal oversight in local matters is at the top of the list of what ignites the fury of the Republican base. Rants of socialism and even communism permeate the atmosphere at boisterous gatherings where right-wing extremists extol the disaster America faces unless we get Uncle Sam off our backs. Cliven Bundy became an instant hero when he told the Bureau of Land Management where to stick its grazing fees. His posse taught the feds a lesson as assault-rifle-toting commandos trained their itchy trigger fingers on anyone wearing federal insignia. Others undoubtedly kept their eyes skyward for the anticipated approach of black helicopters. Bundy hosted his victory speech in the driveway of his ranch shortly after his self-proclaimed triumph in forcing the BLM to back down from confiscating his cattle. Striking a chord with his white-supremacist admirers, he commented on the deplorable living conditions of blacks living off the dole in north Las Vegas. He wondered if they might not have been better off remaining slaves and picking cotton. Bundy probably believes the Civil War was just another example of unwarranted federal intrusion. If Abraham Lincoln had understood the devastation he caused by overriding the popular will of the Southern states, white farmers could still enjoy cheap labor, and blacks would be far more content in the security offered by bondage. Back home in Salt Lake City, after failing in an all-out assault to deny Medicaid coverage to low-income Utahns under the Affordable Care Act, Utah Speaker of the House Becky Lockhart co-hosted the Legislative Summit on the Transfer for Public Lands, where 50 leaders from nine states gathered to plot ways to return control of federal lands to Western states. Questioned about the ongoing confrontation between Bundy and the BLM, Lockhart told The Salt Lake Tribune, “What’s happened in Nevada is really just a symptom of a much larger problem.”

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I assume she was referring to what she considers the unrighteous dominion over public land better returned to state supervision. Apparently, righteous indignation by patriots like Bundy is to be expected if something isn’t done soon. I wonder if Lockhart is equally unfazed by the recent ATV ride through Recapture Canyon. The show of civil disobedience, led by San Juan County commissioner Phil Lyman, was orchestrated for the purpose of defying BLM regulations prohibiting motorized desecration of public cultural sites. Is it possible she considers violating federal law in this instance as nothing worse than an inevitable symptom of federal overreach? Does she believe that confrontations like these would disappear if Utah legislators were running the show? I worked as an administrative officer for the BLM district office in Kanab for 2 1/2 years in the early 1970s. Trying to implement a fair and credible multiple-use policy was our constant goal. We employed dedicated specialists uniquely trained in every aspect of responsible land management. We readily solicited input from competing interest groups, but felt beholden to none. I considered us independent professionals whose sole intention was to provide an all-inclusive resolution to the challenge of best utilizing a limited resource. I also recall the utter serenity of hiking pristine BLM areas only to be rudely interrupted by ATV riders incessantly revving their obnoxious engines. That pretty much ruined what up to that point had been a peaceful interaction with the best that Mother Nature has to offer. What exactly is it that encourages states like Utah to promote an increase in state

taxes to manage public lands when Uncle Sam is already footing the bill? Would state-trained professionals be superior to federal workers? I doubt that. So, what’s the motive for making the change? When in doubt, follow the money trail. Could it be that the feds are stifling expanded fossil-fuel development? Are they overly sensitive when it comes to protecting ancient cultural sites? Don’t they realize that encouraging the sale and rental of motorized vehicles would be a boon to business? And, of course, all motorized visitors would act responsibly. Yeah, you bet. Let the ATVs rip! Fossil-fuel profiteers may argue that state funds required to manage a publicland takeover would be offset by new taxes generated by the oil & gas industry. I lived in east Texas for 10 years, and the sight of abandoned oil-well locations was evident at every turn of the road. I can only imagine what it was like when the oil boom was in full operation, with countless tanker trucks clogging the highways. I imagine potential tourists opted to stay clear of the mayhem. Having toured many of the top tourist locations in the world, I can’t help but think that Utah might one day find itself at the top of the list. What a shortsighted mistake it would be to risk diminishing the unique quality of lands now fully protected under federal control. Maintaining that proven commitment to environmental concerns distinguishes Utah as a premier tourist attraction. Let’s not rock the boat. We’ve got a good deal in Utah as things stand. Lockhart and Lyman might consider moving to Nevada. CW

What exactly is it that encourages states like Utah to promote an increase in state taxes to manage public lands when Uncle Sam is already footing the bill?

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What needs either much more or much less federal oversight? Scott Renshaw: It’s not federal vs. state oversight that’s the issue. It’s longview vs. short-view. And it’s virtually impossible to get anyone at any level to take the political risk involved in pushing for the long view.

Paula Saltas: More attention on Social Security benefits for the elderly and poor. Quality of life may be better in prison than in a retirement home. You’ll get three square meals a day plus free health care, monitoring and prescriptions. Let’s put the convicts in a retirement home and the senior citizens in jail.

Kolbie Stonehocker: LGBT folks should all be allowed to get married tomorrow, no matter what their own state says. And comprehensive sex education should be taught in all necessary schools, no matter how closed-minded and ignorant educators’ own opinions are on the subject. Colin Wolf: At this point, I’d rather live under the thumb of totalitarian government, like in Aeon Flux, if it means tea-baggers will shut the hell up.

Pete Saltas: We need more federal oversight committees to regulate the effectiveness of oversight committees. Thus, we will know how efficiently and effectively we are overseeing the areas that require the oversight. That’s a bulletproof plan that will ultimately lead to a much higher GDP because bureaucracy. Paydn Augustine: Definitely less Internet monitoring and control, along with giving the population a greater say in the desicion-making. Here’s looking to the FCC on Internet “fast lanes.” How am I supposed to download skimpy anime waifus in glorious high quality with a 25 mb/h zone? I should be going 75 like everyone else on the highway.

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HITS&MISSES by Katharine Biele

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For the majority of us, fines and jail time await if we violate the law. The nowslightly infamous Capitol 13 were jailed for blocking the Utah Senate door while protesting to support a nondiscrimination bill. We all know what happened to Tim DeChristopher when he bid on public lands without the cash to buy them. Now come a huffy bunch of squatters from San Juan County, toting guns and revving up their ATVs like it’s some right of passage. They want to do what they want to do on Bureau of Land Management lands, even as Native American tribes complain of yet another “gesture of disrepect,” according to The Salt Lake Tribune. But Utah’s governor, as he did in the Cliven Bundy confrontation, just asked everyone to play nice. The lesson: if you want to break the law, carry a gun and threaten violence.

On the Rise Salt Lake City seems convinced that high-rise living is the only way to go—and grow. Yes, it’s a lot about tax revenue. But what is happening in Sugar House is nothing less than the death of a community. Mayor Ralph Becker thinks it’s more important for tall buildings to line the streetcar route in an effort to continue the urbanization of the city. Meanwhile, the community gardens sitting near the Boys & Girls Club got the boot when the city made accessing water there impossible. It then contracted with Wasatch Community Gardens, which was ill-equipped and apparently unwilling to help the gardeners. Make way now for more big buildings and less open space.

Rights & Rallies Maybe it’s an exercise in futility, but it’s a futile exercise worth doing. Two young women—Brittany Plothow and Erin Page—organized a rally at the Capitol to raise awareness about 276 Nigerian schoolgirls who were kidnapped in April. It started with Twitter and the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, but it has grown into international anguish over the treatment of girls and women in general. Sold as wives and into slavery? Denied an education? Too many cultures condone this kind of treatment of half of the world’s population. First lady Michelle Obama is tweeting her disdain, and now Utah has joined the call for action, although the Deseret News appears to be the only local newspaper to cover it. No, tweeting is not action, but it does create pressure and, as we’ve seen in foreign countries, can effect change. If someone pays attention.

COURTESY ERIN WEST

Selective Protest

Erin West, a Utahn with a background in community-health education and wellness coaching, is on a mission to change lives in Cambodia. She is the founder of KindredHouse, a community-level aid organization bringing health care and education to the impoverished country. A team of 15 volunteers is getting ready for the organization’s first trip this summer to hand-deliver much-needed medical supplies and clean up the only health center available to roughly 14,000 villagers. Visit KindredHouse.org for more information.

What led you to start a nonprofit?

I had it in mind after my first trip in 2006 to Cambodia, a war-torn, scarred country. There was a genocide from 1975 to 1979 under Pol Pot ... and they killed the best educated, or the most professional, members of society, so there are few role models, and no infrastructure and no opportunities for young people. Watching kids in the street all day, no opportunity to go to school, no health care, no garbage pick-up ... it was in my mind from that very first trip—how could I get involved?

How did health care become the focus of your efforts?

I was thinking of education for children, first. The opportunity for education just isn’t there. I have a master’s in public health and was always interested in health programs. I thought maybe I could provide health education. The clinic just kind of fell into place once we saw how little they had. As I got to know them, they told me about the things they needed, and so then it just seemed like an obvious fit. Chansor Commune, a region of about 19 villages, has only one clinic and a doctor that’s not there full time. He rotates through because most doctors don’t want to be away from the big cities. There are 14,000 people and there are maybe 20 medications on the shelf, and no bandages … they didn’t have lights at night to deliver babies. They have no mattresses, no blankets, no pillows, no layette sets to take your baby home in. Nothing. What they told me they needed was medical supplies and medications.

With so many NGOs, plus Kickstarters and other fundraisers in the world, what sets yours apart?

We’re different in that we can provide a safe opportunity for volunteers to reach out and touch the people they want to help, which I think everyone wants. It’s hard just to donate money to Unicef. But to be able to go and clean a clinic, you get to see their faces when you do the smallest thing. I think people want an experience to know they are making a real difference. My personal philosophy is that you like to see where your money and your energies are going. And most nonprofits or charitable organizations need money and donations, but they don’t offer you a reasonably priced opportunity to go and do the volunteering yourself. A portion of that $1,200 [the cost of the volunteer trip] goes back to KindredHouse to buy the medications and the supplies we need for the clinic ... and eventually to maybe build a new hospital for them.

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At that point, proponents claim, human evolution essentially ceased. Therefore— and here the argument starts to get shaky— we should return to the diet our bodies evolved to eat. n Shaky how? We don’t really know what Paleolithic peoples ate. No caveman cookbooks are extant. Paleo proponents say our stone-age ancestors subsisted mostly on game, fish, insects, eggs, fruit and berries, vegetables and nuts. Dairy products, sugars, raw fats, seeds and legumes were rarely if ever eaten. Fiber content and omega-3 fat would have been high, sodium intake low. Water was the only beverage—coffee, tea and Diet Coke were millennia in the future. Granted, that seems healthy. A lowsaturated-fat, low-glycemic-index diet high in fiber, vitamins and minerals hits most of the recommended nutritional targets. As an example of a Paleolithic diet’s benefits, boosters point to the people of Kitava, Papua New Guinea, where plenty of paleo food is available. And Kitavans do exhibit low rates of obesity and diabetes, and lower blood pressure and cholesterol than Western (specifically Swedish) adults. But it’s silly to say the Kitavans eat precisely what humans evolved to eat. They get 75 percent of their diet from carbohydrates. As hunter-gatherers go, that makes them an outlier—one survey of 229 modern H-G societies found carbohydrates accounted for 3 to 53 percent of daily calorie intake. Surely the reality is that ancient diets varied widely from place to place, as they do now, based on what was locally available. n Never mind what cave folk actually ate. What I want to know is, will the diet we call paleo do me any good? There’s little evidence so far. As is common with diet fads, experiments to date have been small-scale and inconclusive. Some of them suggest eating paleo makes it easier to lose weight, but that’s a side issue. The core question is: If you’re healthy and fit on the pyramid diet, will going paleo make you healthier and fitter? I’m not seeing it. Looking at the big picture, we don’t lead anything like a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer lifestyle. One analysis estimates prehistoric humans burned three to five times as much energy per day as we do. Never mind diet—paleostyle caloric intake with zero hunting and gathering means in no time you’re pulling a woolly mammoth’s weight. Send questions to Cecil via StraightDope. com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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Blood Money When it comes to funding health care, Utah politicians are caught between antifederal ideology and the lure of government money. By Colby Frazier cfrazier@cityweekly.net @colbyfrazierlp

Whether it’s an illegal ATV ride through a pristine desert canyon or greeting federal employees who show up to collect on grazing debts with an armed posse, in the West, disdain for all things federal runs deep. That anti-federal-government fervor has fueled Utah’s decision to forgo expanding federal Medicaid programs that would provide health insurance for up to 111,000 of the neediest Utahns. Rather than a wholesale expansion of Medicaid, which states can pursue through the Affordable Care Act largely on the federal dime, Gov. Gary Herbert has crafted his own health-care solution, called the Healthy Utah Plan. State officials say that Herbert’s plan, which will be discussed May 22 by the legislature’s Health Reform Task Force, isn’t likely to save any money, but will allow Utah to provide insurance to those in need while avoiding the political fallout generated by enlarging Medicaid rolls. Health-care advocates argue, however, that the costs of forgoing Medicaid expansion will leave tens of millions of dollars intended for Utah in federal coffers this year, while doing nothing to address the financial impact of the uninsured visiting emergency rooms and receiving other critical care. Herbert’s Healthy Utah Plan seeks to avoid being labeled by Republican legislators as Medicaid-friendly by, in the words of Rep. Jim Dunnigan, R-Taylorsville, getting Utah’s poor to have more “skin in the game.” In order to do this, Herbert is asking the Obama administration to allow Utah to charge elevated premiums, require co-payments for services and provide the insurance plans through the private sector. His plan would also have work requirements for some recipients and would be implemented as a three-year pilot project, affording lawmakers the opportunity to take another look at the program down the road. Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck, D-Salt Lake City, who sits on the Health Reform Task Force, says the governor’s plan is better than nothing, but she’s concerned about some of the concessions being sought by Herbert and would

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert’s proposed Healthy Utah Plan, a local alternative to Medicaid expansion, will be discussed at 9 a.m. May 22 in Room 30 of the House Building at the Capitol. prefer full Medicaid expansion. And make no mistake, she says, the state’s decision to blaze its own path to providing health insurance to more Utahns is not based on sound fiscal decision-making—it’s based on politics. “It’s anti-federal,” she says. Many of her Republican peers in the legislature are taking a stand on federal spending, she says, and claiming that by refusing to accept money to provide health care insurance, they will somehow help reduce the federal deficit. “I don’t see why we’re doing that on the back of sick Utahns,” she says. So far, 27 states have expanded Medicaid coverage. Arkansas and Iowa have received waivers that will allow them to take the federal Medicaid expansion funding and use it to purchase plans from private companies for its uninsured. A key difference between these states’ waivers and the one Utah could end up seeking, says Nate Checketts, health-reform coordinator for the Utah Department of Health, is that Utah would like to require insurance recipients to increase their contribution to the system through co-payments. Even if Herbert receives the concessions he wants from Washington, it’s unclear if the legislature will support him. A pair of rivaling expansion plans surfaced during the 2014 legislative session, one in the House and another in the Senate. Neither would have expanded health insurance to all of those living at 138 percent of the federal poverty line, which is anyone who has an annual income of up to $15,500. Both plans would have accepted a portion of the available federal money to provide insurance for a smaller chunk of people. Neither won widespread support.

Because Herbert’s plan would accept all $258 million of available federal funding, advocates are uncertain whether the plan will find enough allies to pass. He has set a tentative goal to call a special session of the legislature to take up the matter by summer’s end. “I am 110 percent against the expansion,” says Sen. Allen Christensen, R-Ogden, who is the chairman of the legislature’s Health Reform Task Force. “I don’t want to expand it at all. I don’t think we need it and I think it will be very expensive.” In 2015, Utah will pay $555 million for Medicaid in the state, while the federal government will contribute $1.6 billion. But if Medicaid were expanded to the more than 100,000 people in need of insurance, the state’s costs would grow to more than $600 million. But even though providing health care to Utah’s poor will impact the state’s coffers, Chavez-Houck says, this segment of the population is already costing the state significant sums of money for emergency care and other costs that tend to skyrocket when residents forgo receiving preventative care. She points to a study presented in August 2013 to Herbert’s Medicaid Working Group, in which BYU politicalscience professor Sven E. Wilson noted that expanding Medicaid in Utah offered significant economic and social benefits. “State policymakers may not want to buy into federal safety-net programs, but it is important to remember who bears the greatest costs of the state leaving Medicaid expansion dollars lying on the table, especially since Utahns are paying taxes to support those programs,” Wilson wrote. And leaving money on the table is exactly what Utah has chosen to do by putting off its expansion plans.

Democratic lawmakers say the state loses out on $4 million a month that could be going to insuring Utahns. Christensen, though, says the federal government is overspending, and won’t be able to keep up with the programs it has put into place. As it is now organized, the federal government would pay for the entirety of Medicaid expansion through 2017, with Utah picking up a larger portion each year, but never more than 10 percent. “I absolutely do not trust the federal government to keep their word on this,” Christensen says. “I absolutely think it will end up costing us more and expanding more.” While the Republican legislature may cringe at the thought of Medicaid expansion, federal funding nevertheless makes up more than a quarter of the state’s annual budget. Chavez-Houck says that when it comes to accepting federal cash for transportation, for example, state leaders do so without “blinking an eye.” Medicaid money is frowned upon, she says, because it’s destined for poor people. Whatever the fate of Medicaid expansion in Utah, some state legislators have seized this moment as one that can cement the Beehive State as an anti-federal government juggernaut. “I think Utah leads the way on financial management of all the states, so [the federal government] would love to make concessions to Utah and get us to expand,” Christensen says. Whatever those concessions might be, he says, he has little doubt they will be enough to justify wholesale expansion of Medicaid. Utahns should be allowed to find their own way, he says. Self-sufficiency, he says, “is Utah’s way. Not another handout; a hand up.” CW

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lighting personal fireworks because of the health effects. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just a fireworks display for two hours a night we worry about; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s people [lighting] fireworks all day long and having it just continuing to build,â&#x20AC;? Spangler says. Salt Lake City Councilman Luke Garrott says he considers it â&#x20AC;&#x153;sillyâ&#x20AC;? that Beckerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposal expects to address air quality by punishing two popular city events while still allowing fireworks at sporting events and on residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; streets and driveways. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If it were more than symbolic, then we would be talking about a citywide ban,â&#x20AC;? Garrott says. An inconsistent approach, he says, would not only eliminate two community gatherings but also possibly hurt air quality by providing a â&#x20AC;&#x153;perverse incentiveâ&#x20AC;? for citizens to light more fireworks at their homes if they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take part in one of the celebrations at the parks. Raymond says that Salt Lake City is not unique in attempting to move away from large public firework displays; other cities, he says, have replaced fireworks with laser shows or public movie screenings. But, Raymond says, this is early in the process, and it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be until after multiple public hearings that the council will be approving the budget in June. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We expect a healthy conversation about it,â&#x20AC;? Raymond says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of the decision-making processâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to inspire conversation and debate because thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how we get to better ideas.â&#x20AC;? Salt Lake City Councilwoman Erin Mendenhall, whose district contains Liberty Park (600 E. 900 South), could not be reached for comment. Councilman Kyle LaMalfa, whose westside District 2 includes Jordan Park (1060 S. 900 West), says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had to do some â&#x20AC;&#x153;soul-searchingâ&#x20AC;? over the proposal. While LaMalfa applauds the courage of Becker in taking a stand for clean air, he says he canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t justify the loss of the biggest event of the year for his community. LaMalfa says he takes pride in the event, which packs the park to capacity with Pacific Islander, Latino and Asian families. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a community that, LaMalfa says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;believes in the American Dream, and to take that away would be a serious cultural loss.â&#x20AC;? CW

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Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Beckerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recently released budget proposal again focuses on improving air quality in the capital city, but alongside investments in public transportation is a more unconventional air-quality solutionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the elimination of city funding for the July 4 firework display at Jordan Park and the July 24 Pioneer Day fireworks at Liberty Park. The cuts would save the city $25,000 and could keep air pollution from spiking during the summer celebrations. But city council members wonder if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth the savings, as eliminating the two community celebrations could make Becker out to be the Grinch who stole Pioneer and Independence day. Becker spokesman Art Raymond says that the administration is a strong supporter of community gatherings, but that continuing to take a stand on clean air requires the withdrawal of financial support for fireworks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We feel that we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t appropriately advocateâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as we have done and will continue to do soâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;on doing all that we can to address the air-quality issue and simultaneously fund fireworks displays as we do now,â&#x20AC;? Raymond says. Firework displays have been known to cause temporary spikes in particulatematter pollution in the air, says Donna Spangler, the spokeswoman for the Utah Department of Environmental Quality. But, she says, measuring the impact of public firework displays can be tricky, and generally, the pollution spikes donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t last much longer than the day they occur. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a point source, a moment in time; we know that,â&#x20AC;? Raymond says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But, cumulatively, these factors degrade the airquality situation.â&#x20AC;? The DEQ has advised Utahns against

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British police arrested a 30-yearold man they said broke into a hotel in Gloucester but fell off the roof while making his getaway. He tumbled 40 feet and had to call emergency services to rescue him. He had a broken pelvis, leg and nose, a police official said, adding, “Suspected stolen lead piping and music equipment were discovered nearby.” (Gloucester Citizen)

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n When a man pulled a gun on a bank teller in Pompano Beach, Fla., she rejected his demand for money and simply walked away from her bulletproof window. The robber fled empty-handed but left behind his holdup note, written on the back of an online job application with a username and password belonging to Felipe Cruz, 39. “The robber has given us a clue,” FBI agent Michael Leverock said after investigators matched fingerprints on the note with Cruz’s. “He probably should have continued looking for honest work.” (South Florida Sun Sentinel)

Let It Go, Bro Responding to reports of a man calling for help under a manhole cover in Lawton, Okla., police found a man who said he’d been trapped in the sewer for two days. He told them he’d dropped a $20 bill down a storm drain and had no choice but to go in after it. Once he got underground, however, he lost his way and had to crawl through the wet, dark, 42-inchdiameter pipe until he found a spot where someone heard his cries for help. Police Sgt. John Chelenza said it was “the first time in going on 28 years that we have found somebody down in a storm drain.” (Lawton’s KSWO-TV)

Unbroken Record Before his resignation in February, Rep. Robert E. Andrews, D-N.J., had introduced 646 bills during 23 years in Congress, the most of any lawmaker in that stretch. None became law, however. Andrews, 56, insisted his record actually demonstrates his success at working the system. “You should ask yourself how many of the ideas that were a seed planted in the bill that germinated in a larger bill,” he said, estimating that about 110 of his ideas became law in somebody else’s bills. (The Washington Post)

The Moment Was Wrong J.D. Winteregg, a Tea Party challenger to House Speaker John A. Boehner in Ohio’s 8th Congressional District, lost his teaching job at Cedarville University, a small Christian school outside Dayton, for airing a campaign ad accusing Boehner of suffering from “electile dysfunction.” The ad parodies the Cialis “When the Moment Is Right” commercial for erectile dysfunction. “Signs of electile dysfunction include extreme skin discoloration, the inability to punch oneself out of a wet paper bag, or maintain a spine in the face of liberal

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Dutch in Dutch Dutch prisons face an under-crowding crisis, with prison staff already outnumbering inmates. Justice Ministry official Jochgem van Opstal offered no explanation for the convict shortage but reassured, “We’re studying what the reason for the decline is.” Meanwhile, a British report called prison overcrowding in England and Wales “far worse than anyone imagined,” noting that a quarter of the prisoners share cells designed for one person. (The Huffington Post)

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Overrun by wild hogs that threaten native wildlife and vegetation and “breed prolifically,” Harris County, Texas, officials voted to trap, slaughter and cook them to supply local food banks, then signed a year’s contract with a processor for $217,6000. Each hog in the horde, which numbers “as many as 8,000 to 10,000,” produces 40 pounds of meat, prompting County Commissioner Steve Radack to declare the plan, which he himself proposed, a “gift from God.” Texas Parks and Wildlife responded by posting a recipe for feral hog tacos on its website. Food bank officials said they were excited to receive the hog meat. The USDA warned that “unlike domesticated pigs, wild hogs are more prone to trichinella and toxoplasma parasite infections.” (Houston’s KTRK-TV)

Celebrity Second-Amendment Follies

Tourist Judith Fleissig drove around southern Florida for two days before she happened to look in the trunk of her rental car and found an AR-15 assault rifle the previous renter had left behind. Hillsboro Beach police traced the weapon to model Lauren Tannehill, 26, the wife of Miami Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill. Broward sheriff’s official Keyla Concepción explained that Tannehill owned the gun legally and “simply forgot it.” (South Florida Sun Sentinel)

Ewe Be the Judge

Customs veterinarians examining a flock of a thousand rams being shipped from Sudan to Saudi Arabia to be sold noticed one of the sheep assume a female position for urination. They investigated and found more than 70 of them were ewes, whose export is restricted. “The smugglers used fine thread to sew male organs onto the female sheep,” the report said, noting that Sudanese officials seized the entire flock. (BBC News)

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A Toxic Tale This week, you can attend a film screening of Semper Fi, Always Faithful, which explores the cover-up of a water contamination by the military around a Marine Corps base in North Carolina; a panel discussion will follow the screening. Later this week, it’s Interim Day at the Legislature, so you can drop by a whole mess of different committees. Looking ahead to Memorial Day weekend, you can plan to go camping for a cause with the Utah Tar Sands Resistance.

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Check out this free film screening about toxic water and the betrayal of a military community that has given more than its share of service to this country. Following the screening there will be a panel discussion featuring authors Robert O’Dowd and Tim King, who wrote Betrayal: Toxic Exposures of U.S. Marines, Murder and Government Cover-Up (also see Essentials p. 22), and others, who will talk about the eco-crisis featured in the movie that may affect other military sites across the country. Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-556-0599, May 17, 2:30 p.m., SLCPL.org

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The beautiful PR Springs in central Utah are slated to be developed for the first tar-sands strip mine in the nation. This upcoming holiday weekend, why not connect with the land and the people fighting to protect it at a camp-out organized by the Utah Tar Sands resistance? You can roast marshmallows, discover allies and build solidarity. To RSVP and help coordinate trip details, e-mail tarsandsresist@riseup.net, and visit TarSandsResist.org for more details.

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It’s Interim Day on the Hill, and that means there’s a whole mess of committees that you can check out to see what your public officials are working on during this sausage-grinding off-season. The Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment Interim Committee will hear a report on the costs and benefits of transferring public lands to state ownership, while the Health & Human Services Committee will consider the regulation of e-cigarettes. And those are just a few of the committees going on all day. Utah Capitol, 350 N. State, 801538-1029, May 21, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Le.Utah.gov

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n the 25th floor of 5 Hanover Square in New York City, no one is answering the phones. These offices house Digital First Media, which has cast its broad net over 800 “multi-platform” media products that, the man’s voice on the message machine insists, reach 57 million Americans each month. Even so, no one appears to be home. One of these 800 products is The Salt Lake Tribune and, like Digital First Media, the Tribune has seen better days. In the past two years, in groups of varying size—five one month, nine another, four the next year, 19 at one time and, most recently, eight—Tribune employees have gone missing. They rise from their desks, walk to an editor’s office and never return to the newsroom. “People would just vanish,” says one laid-off Tribune reporter. Layoffs at the 143-year-old newspaper have been so common in recent years that it dominates lunchroom banter, the former reporter says, and no one seems safe. Seasoned veterans with decades of experience have been let go. So have fresh faces, whose names and bylines were barely learned before they were shown the door. “It was like The Twilight Zone. People would just be gone,” says the former reporter, who asked to remain anonymous; laid-off employees had to sign non-disparagement agreements in order to receive their severance packages. It is hard to lay blame for newspaper layoffs in any one place. The economics of the paper & ink news business have been splintering for nearly a decade.

But the economic challenges at the Tribune don’t stem from troubled balance sheets alone. And no one in Salt Lake City, or even Utah, is at the controls, making tough calls while simultaneously cultivating a healthy future for the newspaper. No, Digital First and its CEO, John Paton, are calling the shots at the Tribune. And Paton answers to a New York City hedge fund, Alden Global Capital, which specializes in making money. Those rallying behind the Tribune say that making quick cash was the main motivation behind a fall 2013 business deal between the hedge fund and the LDS Churchowned Deseret News. Along with hawking its share in the printing press, Digital First was paid an undisclosed amount for handing over 70 percent of the two papers’ printadvertising profits to the Deseret News. No one involved in the day-to-day management of the Tribune was party to these negotiations. Digital First and Deseret News executives have said the new deal is in the best interest of both parties and by no means was meant to weaken the Tribune. But weaken the Tribune it did. Critics of the deal say it will, at the very least, whittle the Tribune into a skeleton of a newspaper. And worse, some fear, the deal could bury the Tribune, despite its dominant readership and distribution. Though the distribution gap has narrowed in recent years, the church’s paper has never been as widely read or distributed as the Tribune. In 2012, the Tribune’s daily circulation was 106,619 to the Deseret News’ 75,750, according to figures from the Alliance for Audited Media. But since 1952, the two papers have been tied together through a Joint Operating Agreement (JOA), which combined the papers’ advertising and distribution operations into one entity, known today as MediaOne. Before the deal was revised in 2013, the Deseret News received less than half of the combined profits—42 percent. The split was widely regarded as favorable to the Deseret News, since, as the smaller player, it was actually receiving a considerable cut of the profits generated by the Tribune. The new JOA more than turns the tables. Critics say that the lopsided arrangement would be less than appealing to the kind of private buyers who’ve purchased newspapers in other cities. And even if someone wanted to take that risk, a clause in the JOA requires that the Deseret News approve any sale. Tribune supporters say that the Deseret News, which itself attempted to buy the competing daily paper in the early 2000s, nixed a 2013 effort by Jon Huntsman Sr. and former Tribune owner Dean Singleton to buy the Tribune.

These blows to the Tribune, supporters say, are more than just unfortunate business deals. A group called the Utah Newspaper Project says the JOA violates federal antitrust laws and has petitioned the U.S. Department of Justice to take a look. But the investigation’s timeline and outcome are unknown variables. In the meantime, Utah’s largest newspaper, left to flounder with 30 percent of the print profits, could quickly crumble, leaving the state with just one daily newspaper, owned and operated by its most powerful—economically, politically and culturally— entity: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And many vocal critics of the deal speculate that that’s exactly the plan. “This was no spur-of-the-moment decision on the Deseret News’ part,” says Jay Shelledy, who was editor of the Tribune from 1990 to 2003. “Nobody wants to be seen as putting a gag in anybody’s mouth, or taking them out and doing away with them, so this is a much cleaner way to accomplish that.”

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But with print still making up a majority of newspapers’ revenues, Conway wonders if print simply hasn’t died as quickly as newspaper owners thought it would. No one, least of all serious newspaper editors and publishers, believe they can simply rest on the laurels of proud print products to survive. But an awkward truth in this world is that the revenues derived from printing a newspaper are still massive compared to Internet money. “My sense is that the entire industry has tried to lay print to rest before it’s ready to die, and I see that as a mistake,” Conway says. “I think the revenue most places still comes from print—most of the revenue—and that’s why the new split hurts the Tribune so much.”

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Current Tribune Editor and Publisher Terry Orme began his career at the paper in 1977 as a copy boy. Copy boys were the Internet cables before there were Internet cables, moving pieces of paper from reporters to editors and on to more editors, and finally to the typesetters. “On a good day, they might let you take a story—take dictation over the phone—and you might go out and get sandwiches for people,” Orme says. Orme wasn’t a copy boy for long. He became a features writer and arts writer and covered film for a decade before becoming assistant managing editor. In this post, he oversaw coverage of the 2002 Winter Olympics. He then rose to the position of managing editor before taking the top job Oct. 1, 2013, replacing Nancy Conway, who retired after learning Digital First would be mandating deep staff cuts at the Tribune. With 19 employees walking out the door with pink slips, Orme took the reins at one of the rockiest times in the paper’s history. And things soon got worse. Three reporters received cryptic, handwritten notes that read: “Church and John Paton are renegotiating JOA. Tribune will be left with very little. Deal is Tribune interest for cash.” “That note certainly got everyone going,” Orme says. Neither Orme, nor Conway, had been aware that the business side of the Tribune was about to be drastically altered. Orme says he doesn’t even know in what city the negotiations took place. Along with dissolving the Tribune’s interest in the printing press and shifting the profits, the new JOA, consecrated Oct. 18, gives the Deseret News a three-totwo majority on the board that runs MediaOne. It also requires that the Deseret News approve any sale of the Tribune, a clause that has been characterized as nothing short of veto power. For the presses, the profits and the majority stake on the board, an undisclosed amount of cash changed hands. Orme declined to discuss this sum, but says the deal was one large package, meaning there wasn’t a particular price put on the Tribune’s projected future advertising revenue, and another for the presses. “It was one big deal,” he says. “It involved everything.” This leap away from printing presses is consistent with Digital First CEO John Paton’s business philosophy, Orme says. “His strategy is to get rid of those legacy assets and those legacy liabilities,” he says. “And just move to the future, which in his mind is a purely digital future.”

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The Internet, despite being a colossal and efficient mover of information, has not been kind to newspapers. Around the world, papers have struggled to sufficiently monetize their Web offerings—which are free, for the most part—while nurturing print products that people are still expected to pay for. “Online just has not lived up to revenue expectations,” former Tribune Editor Nancy Conway says. “It seems like it won’t.” The revenue figures at the Tribune are secret, but according to a study released in April by the Pew Research Center, digital advertising revenue in 2012 across the newspaper business was $3.4 billion, 15.4 percent of the total $22 billion in ad revenue. From the perspective of Digital First, the decision to abandon still-robust print revenue in favor of feeble, but growing, digital revenue, has been characterized as a bold bet on this oft-discussed digital future. Deseret News CEO Clark Gilbert is also a strong proponent of the “future of news media” moving into “digital formats” and has been praised nationally for his commitment to digital enterprises and the efforts to transition the Deseret News from a community newspaper into a national and even international trumpet for LDS and other religious concerns. “This digital growth creates both opportunities and challenges tied to an increasing number of competitive voices,” Gilbert says in a statement he provided to KUER 90.1 FM’s RadioWest program. “It is the responsibility of news organizations to innovate and adapt to the evolving media landscape.” Though it’s still a small portion of overall advertising revenue, all of the growth is in the digital realm. The Pew study shows that digital revenue is now three times larger than it was in 2003, while print advertising has shrunk by 52 percent. Digital revenue But in the erratic, attention-deficit world of the Web, advertisers don’t is 3 times larger see the same response to banner ads and pop-ups as they do to print adver3x than in 2003 aper industry tisements, and pay less for online ads as a result. Though digital’s tripling Total digital revenue 2012 newsp growth sounds impressive, it’s nowhere close to making up for the halving of print revenues. That’s why newspapers have seen 17,000 full-time jobs disappear between full time jobs 2006 and 2012, and the Tribune has had a front-row seat to the carnage. gone between In 2006, Conway says, the Tribune’s staff hit 178, the largest it had ever 2006 and 2012 been. Now, according to the staff list on SaltLakeTribune.com, there are 87 sing rti 61 full time employees ve ad nt pri nt ou Am remain at the Tribune employees. 03 20 ce sin k run sh has Even so, Conway says, the Tribune has managed to do more with less and continues to put out a “very strong” product. t lived up to “Online just ha s no “It’s hard to take,” Conway says, adding that staff cuts “demoralize” the s.” —Nancy Conway ion tat pec revenue ex remaining employees. “Nobody likes seeing good journalists walk out the door. And in these times, a lot of good journalists have walked out the door.”

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The effort was coined “Project Unbolt.” Heading this project was Steve Buttry, Digital First’s transformation editor and the only person from Digital First who responded to requests for an interview. Buttry says Digital First’s efforts to contain the annual advertising revenue losses that climb into the high single digits were as robust as any other media entity in the country. The severity of these losses, Buttry says, requires an “aggressive response.” He says the decline in print advertising revenue is “stark and undeniable and unprotectable.” “You can’t react timidly to that sort of a loss to your primary revenue stream,” Buttry says, adding that he doesn’t feel Digital First’s handling of the newspaper revenue quandary has been too aggressive. But going all-in on digital hasn’t paid off for Digital First. In April, Paton announced the shuttering of Project Thunderdome, a newsroom with 50-plus employees in New York. Created three years ago, Thunderdome aimed to create national stories on a variety of topics for its smaller papers across the country. In addition to closing Thunderdome and laying off many of those employees, Digital First asked its army of newspapers to lop 10 percent from operating budgets. This led Orme to lay off eight employees. In addition, the Tribune ceased publication of its Faith section, which debuted in 1992 and was widely praised. In a story for the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, media critic Ken Doctor wrote that with the closure of Thunderdome, Alden Global Capital is most surely readying its vast newspaper assets for auction. And even Buttry, the man in charge of helping Digital First’s newsrooms “move further, farther and faster down the digital path,” as he says it, received a pink slip just before speaking with City Weekly.

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Joint Operating Agreements were formed to ensure that rival newspapers competing in the same market could survive and even thrive. In essence, the agreements allow pairs of newspapers to collude and be exempt from federal antitrust laws. This allows the papers’ business departments to consolidate and focus on making money rather than undercutting each other into oblivion. For a long time, this worked. Papers with JOAs thrived, while other papers struggled; many closed, including several in Salt Lake City. At the height of their popularity, nearly 30 JOAs, by some estimates, were in place across the country. According to Rick Edmonds at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, only six JOAs remain. Two high-profile collapses of JOAs have occurred in the past decade. One involved the Rocky Mountain News, which folded in 2009, ceding all power to its partner, The Denver Post, which is also owned by Digital First. The second was the implosion of the Seattle PostIntelligencer, which in 2009 shuttered its printed product but still operates a leaner online operation. The Seattle Times, its JOA partner, survived. The difference in Utah—and in many people’s minds, it is a massive difference—is that if the Tribune were to fold, the surviving paper would be owned by a powerful religious institution. As it’s blazed a disruptive trail across the changing media landscape, the Deseret News has morphed from a community newspaper into a publication that proudly and publicly focuses on stories about religious values. On its website, the Deseret News states that its “mission is to be a leading news brand for faith- and familyoriented audiences in Utah and around the world.” The first step in this direction came in 2010, when the

Deseret News laid off 85 employees, a full 43 percent of its staff, and began publishing pieces by LDS Church publicaffairs employees and citizen journalists to fill the void. This new model has served the brand well in the digital realms with its large, built-in Mormon audience that increasingly seeks out news to its liking. Gilbert, the paper’s CEO, lays it out in a video on the website, saying he wants the paper to be a “voice that you can trust, that shares your perspective and brings the world to you.” In other words, Conway says, the Deseret News is “news with a view. It’s outside the standard practices of news organizations, and it’s really seen as the voice of the church.” Joel Campbell, an adjunct professor of journalism at Brigham Young University who worked at the Deseret News for 15 years, says the paper’s blunt stance on covering news from its own religious angle raises serious questions about its value as a community newspaper. Utahns, Campbell says, need their newspapers covering local issues and local government—like city hall, the state legislature and elected officials such as the scandal-ridden former Utah Attorney General John Swallow—not necessarily national and international religious-liberty issues. “To me, [local news] is a lot more important, and there’s not as many people watching that,” he says. Much of what the Tribune does, Campbell says, involves going to court with the government over openrecords requests—an often thankless and costly process undertaken so that Utahns know the business being conducted on their behalf. “It’s always been a very strong, strong investigative watchdog newspaper,” Campbell says. “I’d hate to see it go. It would be a bad thing.” Conway says she doesn’t fault the Deseret News for staking a claim to its broad and devoted church audience. But because the church’s paper has made its intentions clear, she says, the importance of preserving an independent voice is paramount. “I think The Salt Lake Tribune is seen as a social necessity,” Conway says. “It is a counterpoint—a balance—to the very powerful voice of the church. It needs to survive; it needs to stay strong.” Deseret News CEO Clark Gilbert noted in a letter published in his paper in April that the Deseret News is “committed to the market’s demand for multiple editorial voices, and the amended JOA upholds that commitment.” Critics of the new JOA, however, say these comments don’t square with reality. How taking revenue away from the Tribune could be good for it is “sort of a head-scratcher,” Conway says. “The new JOA split speaks to something other than that, doesn’t it?” Former Tribune Editor Jay Shelledy, who is currently a professional-in-residence at the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University, calls a Tribune-less world a “scary scenario.” “In any situation where there’s a quasi theocracy ... any state where it’s politically or religiously dominated, an independent voice or a countervoice for that matter, is critical to the survival of diverse thinking,” he says. Shortly after Orme made the latest round of layoffs in April, the renegotiated JOA and its possible consequences began to pick up press. Springing from this exposure was the website SaveTheTribune.com. Formed by Sen. Jim Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City, it includes a petition urging the Department of Justice to follow through with its investigation and, in Dabakis’ words, “stop the impending death of the S.L. Tribune.” At press time, the petition had garnered 13,149 signatures.

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Even though the Tribune’s employees have been culled, the paper’s supporters say it continues to provide a valuable service. But these cuts, Orme says, cannot continue. Years of bludgeoning the newsroom, he says, has led to diminished coverage of the state’s municipalities. And the Tribune no longer has a reporter in Cedar City to swiftly cover issues in the southern half of the state. “When do you hit that point where quality becomes a true issue?” Orme asks. “I’d say we’re getting awfully close.” To Orme, one truth about mass corporate hedgefund ownership has become clear: From the distance of a couple of thousand miles, and with hundreds of other newspaper “assets,” it’s impossible for a portfolio manager in some tower in New York City to make the best decisions for local papers and their readers. “I don’t see how it is possible for somebody back in New York to have an inkling of the importance of an individual newspaper to the community it serves when you have that many newspapers and that many communities,” Orme says. “I just don’t think that’s possible. I don’t think they think that way.” Shelledy—ever the blunt editor, but no longer concerned with offending his paper’s owner, distills what perhaps Orme means: “They don’t give a damn about anything but profit.” CW

“The entire industry has tried to lay print to rest before it’s ready to die, and I see that as a mistake. ... The revenue most places still comes from print.”

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Aside from the pure belief that journalism is important to democracy and that the Tribune is a valuable alternative to check the powerful interests of the LDS Church, there’s little to support a sound financial argument for owning the Tribune. In the past decade, the paper has transitioned from owning its 90-year-old digs on Main Street to paying for rented space at The Gateway shopping center, and from owning interest in the printing press to, in essence, paying the Deseret News to produce its product. And then there’s the revised Joint Operating Agreement hamstringing current and future revenue. “What makes the paper not worth very much is this JOA itself,” says Joan O’Brien, a former Tribune reporter. Dominic Welch, who was the Tribune’s publisher from 1994 to 2002 and a 37-year Tribune employee, says it’s hard to envision what future exists for the paper. “They sold the Tribune building, they sold the plant,” Welch says. “Now they just got a bunch of reporters sitting in a rented room, and they’re laying off reporters.” Another hurdle exists in any future sale of the Tribune: the stipulation in the JOA that requires the consent of the Deseret News. This clause first appeared in the JOA in 2001, shortly after Dean Singleton, then chairman of MediaNews Group Co., purchased the Tribune. Singleton didn’t return calls seeking comment. “We don’t know how often that’s been used,” O’Brien says of the church’s veto power. O’Brien, daughter of the late Jerry O’Brien, who was publisher of the Tribune from 1983 to 1994, has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to look into the legality of the new JOA, and has formed a website, UtahNewspaperProject.org, that advocates for the survival of the Tribune. O’Brien says that she and at least two other people close to the Tribune have been interviewed by investigators with the DOJ. In her letter to the DOJ, O’Brien says the Deseret

News vetoed an attempt in 2013 by philanthropist and business magnate Jon Huntsman Sr. and Singleton to buy the Tribune from Alden Global. Huntsman declined to be interviewed for this story, saying through a spokeswoman that he is “sensitive to the ongoing DOJ investigation and would rather not talk to anyone until such a time as he feels it would be appropriate to do so.” Although the Deseret News’ official position has been that it doesn’t want to own the Tribune, once upon a time, it did. A garbled legal battle that began in the late 1990s and spilled into the new century involved three potential buyers for the Tribune, which had been owned by the McCarthey family for more than a century before it sold

the paper to Tele-Communications Inc., which was in turn gobbled up by AT&T. The latter had no interest in owning the Tribune, and the boardroom scrum that ensued involved the church, the McCarthey family and Singleton all vying to own the paper. In the end, the church’s efforts never materialized. And, according to a Tribune story from 2002 documenting the ownership struggle, AT&T went with Singleton’s $200 million offer over the $180 million posted by the McCartheys. Thomas McCarthey, who worked at the Tribune for 30 years and was co-editor with Shelledy, says his family is “moderately interested” in once again owning the paper. But he doubts the church would approve a sale to his family, and says the Tribune’s share of profits makes owning the paper “not enticing at all” from a financial standpoint. “I’m just hoping the Tribune can make it for a little while, even the end of the year,” McCarthey says. “They still bring in more revenue than the Deseret by far—and the bigger circulation. But when your hands are tied at 30 percent … business-wise, it’s not that lucrative of a proposition. It would be strictly to have that independent voice.” If the Tribune ends up in the hands of a wealthy local such as Huntsman or McCarthey, the paper would have come full circle from family ownership, to massive media conglomerate ownership, to hedge-fund ownership and back again to local ownership—a trip that would track closely with other large newspaper sales. One recent example involves The Boston Globe. The New York Times Company sold the paper in 2013 to New England businessman and Boston Red Sox owner John Henry for $70 million. The sale, in which the Times took a more than $1 billion loss, made evident the vastly depleted value of newspapers. “There is no hope for the Tribune under the present situation,” Shelledy says. “To get a local buyer is the answer, but to get a local buyer, you’re somehow going to have to unbuckle yourself from that JOA.”

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Robert O’Dowd remembers morning physical training runs with his Marine Corps unit that would take him through white clouds of DDT. That was in 1962, before Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring revealed the hazardous effects of the toxin on the environment and people. DDT wasn’t the only toxin that O’Dowd was exposed to during his military service, but it was the only one he was aware of until 25 years later, when he experienced a series of health problems—bladder and prostate cancer, chronic hypertension, panic attacks, hyperprolactinemia— that indicated significant exposure to toxins. When O’Dowd investigated, he found evidence of exposure to Radon 226 and the known carcinogen Trichloroethylene (TCE) while working on the El Toro air station in California, which the EPA had—unbeknownst to O’Dowd—marked as a hazardous-waste Superfund site. O’Dowd went to the government to demand compensation and medical attention and was denied. Instead of quitting, he gathered evidence and the testimonials of other veterans and co-wrote—with journalist and fellow Marine veteran Tim King, who visits Weller Book Works this week—and selfpublished the book Betrayal: Toxic Exposure of U.S. Marines, Murder and Government Cover-ups. The textbook-size volume is a fast read. O’Dowd and King hook readers, starting with O’Dowd’s fall into poor health before retracing his steps back to the source of his illness and his first days of Marine boot camp. The book briefly detours into other theories of government killings and cover-ups, but finishes on a strong note with testimonies from U.S. military veterans who are suffering the consequences of government negligence. (Katherine Pioli) Tim King: Betrayal @ Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, 600 S. 700 East, 801-328-2586, May 16, 6 p.m., free. WellerBookWorks.com

Rounding out Ballet West’s 50th anniversary season is its annual spring production Innovations, a show artistic director Adam Sklute created to not only push the artistic boundaries of the world-class company but also to propel ballet itself into a prosperous future. “The art form cannot grow by curating existing works alone,” Sklute says. “We must always be creating new works—that is what keeps the artform alive and growing. … Only by taking chances can you find the next great discovery—and that goes for everything.” Beginning en pointe with The Sixth Beauty—a world premiere by Philadelphia-based choreographer Matthew Neenan—Innovations will also see three current company members (soloist Christopher Anderson, artist Tyler Gum and soloist Emily Adams) try their hand at choreographing their peers. This is another main reason Sklute created the show: To give his own dancers a chance to create for a professional production. “My dancers are wonderfully creative and brilliant individuals, and I wanted them to have a platform to try their hand at creating,” Sklute says. “And let’s face it, as much as I don’t like to talk about it, the performing life of a dancer is short, and this gives them a chance to see if they have the talent, ability and temerity to take their ideas to the next level after they finish their performing careers.” Rounding out the program is a piece commissioned for the 50th anniversary titled Great Souls, choreographed by principal artist Christopher Ruud, that demonstrates perfectly just what bold, innovative futures these dancers can have. (Jacob Stringer) Ballet West: Innovations @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, May 16-24, 7:30 pm, 2 p.m. matinee May 24, $45. ArtTix.org, BalletWest.org

Practitioners of abstract painting in Utah have had very self-assured, assertive and personal styles. The group exhibit Abstract at Rio Gallery displays the work of more than 30 artists, including current abstract painters Meri DeCaria and John O’Connell, as well as works by local abstractionists no longer with us, like Lee Deffebach and Douglas Snow, who helped define Utah as a site where abstract art could not only occur and have a place, but flourish. Abstraction has played a seemingly unlikely yet fundamental role in the history of Utah art. It’s almost as if the experience of living in the region is sometimes difficult to capture through purely representational works, and requires an artistic style and sensibility that’s grander in gesture, more emotionally and spiritually all-encompassing. Relative newcomer Toni Doilney’s acrylic “The Treehouse” (detail pictured) is teeming with natural rhythms, while Oonju Chun’s oil work “Facial Recognition” is filled with a childlike inventiveness. The historical aura of the Rio Grande building lends a sense of the historical span and importance of abstract art in the state and, as usual, it’s an added pleasure to view an art exhibit in that situation. The dialogue the works engage in is elevated as well. (Brian Staker) Abstract @ Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., 801-236-7555, May 16-June 6; Gallery Stroll artists reception May 16, 6 p.m., free. Heritage.Utah.gov

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Pioneer Theatre Company: Sweet Charity There’s a fundamental exuberance to the most satisfying musical comedies that wipes away resistance to the exaggerated situations and broadly brushed emotions. And that’s the way Sweet Charity serves up giddy satisfaction, even when it’s a little too “period piece” for its own good. Loosely adapting Federico Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria, the show follows the romantic misadventures of Charity Hope Valentine (Nancy Lemenager, pictured right), a New York City dance-hall hostess perpetually convinced that the latest guy is The Guy. After being shoved over (literally) by one cad, she finds herself swept into the life of Italian movie star Vittorio (Sean McDermott, pictured left), and eventually besotted with shy, neurotic Oscar (John Scherer). Set decisively in the show’s original production year of 1966, Pioneer Theatre Company’s production revels in the Day-Glo colors and miniskirt fashions of the era. That also means keeping the “Rhythm of Life” production number set in a hippie religious community, which feels a bit too “far out, man” for comfort, though it does offer the fun of cast members in flower-child character interacting with the audience during intermission. The real energy, though, comes from Lemenager’s enthusiastically physical performance as the eternally optimistic Charity; she does her best work in a scene set while she’s hiding in the closet of Vittorio’s tiger-striped bedroom. Familiar songs like “Big Spender” and “If My Friends Could See My Now” provide the kick of nostalgia, but it’s the spark of committed performances that can make any show feel like it still works today. (Scott Renshaw) Pioneer Theatre Company: Sweet Charity @ Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6961, through May 24, Mondays-Thursdays, 7:30 p.m., Fridays, 8 p.m., Saturdays, 2 & 8 p.m., $59. PioneerTheatre.org

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Making monsters: Lisa Collett at work on “The Rape of America” (top); Zeke Higham finishes “Saint Michael Slaying a Riot Cop” (left)

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me why I became an artist: to create work that makes people think about their belief systems while challenging my own.” Philip Lambert’s acrylic/mixed-media painting “Oppenheimer” uses J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atom bomb, as an unlikely power figure. “He was a god in his ability to get the task at hand done, he was a hero for ending the war and trying to educate on the misuse [of the atom bomb], and he was no doubt a monster to the Japanese people on the day that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were hit by his collaborative efforts to make the atomic bomb possible,” Lambert says. Other intriguing works include Zeke Higham’s oil painting “Saint Michael Slaying a Riot Cop” and Jon Lang’s Balinese culture-inspired painting “Primal Scream.”

Gods, Heroes & Monsters also includes longtime local favorites like oil-painting master Randall Lake, and new notables in the Salt Lake City scene like Steven Larsen and Sri Whipple. A wide variety of different media are represented, from paintings to the metalwork of Adrian Prazen. The exhibit opening is scheduled to include performance pieces. In Jenevieve Hubbard’s “Touch,” a collaborative performance piece, Hubbart will collect fingerprints at the opening and embroider them onto a Vietnam-era silk parachute for the duration of the evening. Jorge Rojas will perform “Lucha Libre,” exploring an ageold battle between good and evil that will manifest as a wrestling match between gods, heroes and monsters using action figures and papier mâché dolls. The Strata Fossa collective will perform music. It stands to be one of the most provocative art openings of the year, and Cummings hopes that the exhibit will spawn more than just contemplation and dialogue. “This is deeply personal work that grapples with ideas and notions, driven by an internal need to question and act,” she says. CW

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n the ancient world, the understanding of the universe and our place in it was framed by myths, with power figures functioning as symbols for processes of creation and destruction, life and death. Throughout the centuries, these characters have provided fertile subject matter for art. More recently, archetypal power figures have been used to critique sociopolitical power structures in society. The group exhibit Gods, Heroes & Monsters at Studio Elevn examines renderings of both classical and contemporary power figures. A portion of the proceeds generated from art sales and donations during the exhibition will benefit Equality Utah. Curator Anne Cummings, who operated Aperture Marketing & Gallery for years with fellow photographer Heidi Gress, brings her previous experience to this show. But she is also seeking to expand her curatorial boundaries. “Social justice, critical thinking, activism and advocacy are more important than ever and, in this sense, are vital themes for exploration in and through the universal language of art,” Cummings says. The process of curating the exhibit was an enlightening insight into the creative process and began, she says, “with me reaching out to some individuals whose work I have followed for some time to discuss the narrative concept, and engage in a conversation about various interpretations of the theme.” Cummings documented the artists’ progress with photographs, which will also be on display. “Process is of great importance to me,” she says. “Photographs of creative process allow for a brief glimpse into the magical world of these artists, and in some sense, satisfies our voyeuristic desires to share that intimate space, if only for a moment.” Cummings had close contact with the artists throughout their work, “visiting with these talented artists during their creative process and discussing their interpretation/reinterpretation of the concept,” she says. “There is such variation in interpretation from artist to artist that is clear when you see the work on display.” Lisa Collett looked to Peter Paul Rubens, the Flemish baroque painter, for her oil painting “The Rape of America,” a modern-day reinterpretation of Ruben’s masterpiece “The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus.” The show’s concept, Collett says, was an opportunity to “connect to the deepest part of myself, and reminded

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GET OUT Branching Out Arborists translate job skills into competitive tree-climbing. By Katherine Pioli comments@cityweekly.net

iding my bike past Liberty Park on a particularly warm April day this spring, I spied a man dangling from one of the park’s giant Siberian elms, the soles of his shoes 30 feet above the ground. I had nowhere to be in a hurry, so I allowed myself to be pulled in by the strange scene. As I approached, the man came sliding down a thick climbing rope, landing gently on the grass with a soft bend in his knees. I continued to watch as the man—strong and bearded and standing well over 6 feet— unclasped the rope from his chest harness and began handing it off to one of the two other tall, brawny men standing near him. Intimidated though I was, my curiosity proved stronger. “That looks like a lot of fun,” I said, stepping in. That’s when I met Christopher Erickson, the head arborist with Arbor Works in Salt Lake City. Erickson’s introduction to treeclimbing, he told me, came while he was a student of forestry in upstate New York. The challenge and the aesthetics of working in trees convinced him to make climbing them part of his job. Now, he admitted, hanging out in trees wasn’t at the top of his post-work chill-out activity list, though I’d caught up with Erickson and his friends doing just that on an afternoon off. They were also there for another reason: to practice for the 20th annual Utah Tree Climbing Championship, held this year June 6-7 at Provo’s Pioneer Park. Like rodeos for cowboys, treeclimbing jamborees like the Provo competition allow arborists to show off the skills they use in their everyday work. In June, about a dozen teams with both male and female competitors will perform in five timed and judged events, including the aerial rescue, where climbers are given a rescue scenario and must formulate and execute a plan to assist an injured climber to the ground. The secured footlock and belay events test a climber’s speed ascending and descending the tree, while the “work climb” tests the ability to move about a tree while performing tasks like pruning a branch and tossing it onto a target below. “It pays to have experience for the work test,” says Erickson. “The best climbers design their route strategically, top to bottom or side to side, to move fast.” As I talked with Erickson, I watched his friend finish hooking into the body harness—called a saddle—and reach for the rope above his head. Pulling his body skyward and hanging from his hands, he tucked his legs into a tight ball. Then,

Christopher Erickson up in a Liberty Park tree.

with a quick twist of his feet, he pulled the rope under the arch and over the top of his right foot, placed his left foot on top of the rope, locking it in place, and stood up. It was exactly the move I had seen aerialist dancers do with their silk banners. I had never tried aerial before, yet somehow my first thought at seeing this man climb with such ease was, “I could do that.” I’m not a total climbing novice. I know how to put on a rock-climbing harness, and I’m not especially afraid of heights. But when Erickson offered to let me climb, I made sure to get a full briefing on how to use the saddle and how to descend. A surge of adrenaline as I pulled myself off the ground left me winded. I barely made it 15 feet. Turning back, I began following the steps Erickson had laid out but then realized something wasn’t right. I couldn’t grab enough rope to set the metal figureeight that would allow my smooth descent. My body weight held the rope too taught. My arms were starting to tire and shake. “Lean back,” I heard one of the men shout from below. Lean back? It didn’t make sense. “Just let go. Sit back.” Finally, I sat. The saddle held me as I swung in the breeze, my feet dangling like a small child on a playground swing set. I took a deep breath, looked around and then slipped slowly back down. CW

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Howard Brough: o.o.o.m.g.A.W.E.D.: icons and boojums for the semi-agnostic By introducing his cryptically titled show to the community through an artist’s statement divided into three stanzas—the first one reading “doodle dramas/ tiny traumas/ machinations per the soul/ hellzapoppin’ o-fer-hecksake/ take it down ‘da wabbit’ hole”— Howard Brough gives you an idea of how to approach his work. A sense of humor is definitely in the picture, as is an open attitude to its meaning; you can tell that the artist does not take himself too seriously. Looking closely at the artist’s statement reveals more than the initial reading might suggest. These nonsensicallooking pieces (an untitled example is pictured) are, to Brough, sophisticated doodles that represent traditional iconic veneration that the “semi-agnostic” don’t take seriously other than as pure ritual. The reference to hell at the end of that stanza points to the devil-may-care attitude of the “semi-agnostic”— and, apparently, the artist as well. (Ehren Clark) Howard Brough: o.o.o.m.g.A.W.E.D.: icons and boojums for the semi-agnostic @ The Gallery at Library Square, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through June 13, free. SLCPL.org

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Stephanie Leitch: The Mote and the Beam In her newest installation, The Mote and the Beam, Stephanie Leitch uses white yarn— hundreds of threads of it—connecting the walls of the Gallery at Library Square to emphasize interior space, as opposed to the perimeter walls on which artworks are usually hung. Noting that “mote” originates from the Greek word for speck of dust, she says that the yarn emulates suspended dust, but also, in the blur of their taut edges, the effect of light on the camera’s eye. The installation title suggests tracing the trail of light back to its biblical implications, equating the act of perception with human fallibility, and it’s a striking statement. But in the sense

of “mote” as particle and “beam” as wave, it also echoes the ambiguities of contemporary physics. Leitch’s installations are topographies of varied terrains, by turns spiritual, social, geographical, or combinations of several. It’s the overlap of different maps, and the map with the territory, that makes them telling. (Brian Staker) Stephanie Leitch: The Mote and the Beam @ Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through June 13. SLCPL.org

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Good Company Theatre: 35MM: A Musical Exhibition Visual arts and performing arts generally exist in discrete worlds, ignoring the ways that creative work of all kinds can influence innovative artists. But composer/lyricist Ryan Scott Oliver saw the work of photographer Matthew Murphy and wondered, “Why wouldn’t it be possible to craft a piece of musical theater out of these images?” Good Company Theatre’s production of 35MM: A Musical Exhibition shows the result

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The life of a professional writer isn’t an easy one—pressing deadlines, fickle public reactions, the inherent insecurity of any creative field. So it probably helps more than a little bit if the person you’re sharing your life with really gets what that’s all about. Wendelin van Draanen and Mark Huntley Parsons have been writing for two decades and have been married even longer than that. While their respective careers have explored a variety of different areas of writing, they’re both now focusing their energies on the youth audience. Van Draanen’s novel Flipped was adapted as a film, and she continues to work on the Edgar Award-winning Sammy Keyes mystery series; Parsons just released Road Rash, the story of a 17-year-old drummer out on his first tour with a successful band. This week, they bring their joint tour to Salt Lake City to share their work with their readers. (Scott Renshaw) Wendelin Van Draanen & Mark Huntley Parsons @ Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, May 21, 6 p.m., free. WellerBookWorks.com of that unique idea, turning 15 photographs by Murphy into musical “snapshot stories” that wonder, through song and narrative, about the background and context of those specific moments in time that have been captured forever. Actors Sean Bishop, Derek Gregerson, Jennifer Hughes, Taylor Knuth and Karli Rose Lowry perform this song cycle that speculates on a single image, giving it dimensions of sound and motion the original photographer might never have imagined. (Scott Renshaw) 35MM @ Good Company Theatre, 260 25th St., Ogden, 801-564-0783, through May 25, Thursdays-Saturdays 8 p.m., Sundays 4 p.m., $15-$17. GoodCoTheatre.com

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Living Traditions Festival It’s hard to deny that one of the most appealing elements of the annual multicultural celebration Living Traditions is the food. In one location, you can experience everything from American Indian fry bread to Basque sausage and succulent Tongan pork from a spit-roasted pig. Still, those who come for the shaved ice, Turkish iskendar kebabs or soul-food mainstays like deep-fried catfish inevitably stay for all the rich cultural arts on display. This year, music headliners include Red Baraat (drum and brass from India via Brooklyn) and Quetzal (Chicano music filtered through political upheavals of 1990s Los

Angeles). Local groups like German choral companies, Taiko drummers and even an intertribal powwow provide additional opportunities to get to know your neighbors’ rich cultural backgrounds better. What Living Traditions does best is provide a great way for elders to pass down dances, music and arts distinct to their own heritage, promoting the longevity of a strong cultural foundation. (Jacob Stringer) Living Traditions Festival @ Salt Lake City & County Building, 450 S. 200 East, May 16-18, free. LivingTraditionsFestival.com

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his spring marks my 20th year of food writing in Utah. Where does the time go? Over the past two decades I’ve witnessed remarkable changes to the food scene here. I won’t recount all the restaurants and chefs that have elevated Utah dining during that time; I hope you know who you are. But I will say this: There isn’t a restaurant here that I’ve more consistently enjoyed eating at over the second half of those two decades than Takashi, which opened May 17, 2004. I encountered Takashi Gibo working at Shogun before he and his wife, Tamara, opened their own restaurant. It was obvious to me, even back then, that he had special skills. His attention to detail, his artfulness and precision, and his in-depth knowledge of flavor profiles in sushi-making was off the charts. And he couldn’t have been more friendly. Friendliness, enthusiasm and generosity are parts of Gibo’s winning personality. However, don’t think for a minute that he’s an owner who hovers in the doorway of his namesake restaurant glad-handing customers. Yes, Gibo is always ready with a warm welcome and bright smile for patrons who seek him out at his sushi bar. But he’s not about flash; he’s one of the hardest-working chefs I know, and also one of the humblest. Gibo is a torrent of energy; I used to wonder when and if he ever slept, until I stopped by the restaurant one day to return a book I had borrowed and found him grabbing a quick nap on a bench in the dining room between lunch and dinner service. Still, he deflects most of the praise that comes his way and redirects it to his excellent staff of fellow sushi chefs, cooks and servers when compliments come—which is often. As far as I can tell, there’s not a right or wrong way to “do” Takashi. I usually begin with lighter, raw foods like nigiri and sashimi, and work my way into the richer, cooked ones. To that end, I recommend an order of fresh oysters right off the bat as you digest the daunting menu. A trio of shigoku oysters on the half-shell ($9) is a colorful presentation incorporating miniature lemon slices, serrano peppers, julienned daikon, seaweed and a smidgeon of zippy red sauce. The flavor explosion would pair well with a signature Takashi shisohito—a refreshing cocktail of Kissui Japanese rice vodka with yuzu, lime, shiso leaf and cucumber. Next, I suggest asking Gibo or one of his team to recommend whatever fish is freshest and particularly unique that day— Takashi often has fish varieties you won’t

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find anywhere else around here— and have them make you a sashimi assortment: different types of raw fish, each usually topped with a distinctive garnish to enhance or complement the flavor. Gibo is exacting with his sauces and garnishes, most of which he makes from scratch. They might range from white soy sauce to a Peruvianstyle ceviche sauce like aji amarillo, or Takashi’s signature tomatillo sauce that discreetly elevates the sea bream. Among the sashimi and nigiri (raw fish on rice) selections we enjoyed during a recent Takashi visit were exemplary scorpion fish, sayori, iwana (Arctic char), black cod, kinmedai (sea bream), kampachi, sake (salmon) and madai (snapper). My two favorite nigiri selections are the monkfish liver pate called ankimo (think of it as foie gras from the sea) with ponzu, green onion and momiji, and the delicate and delectable torched sablefish, which longtime TV reporter Chris Vanocur, formerly of ABC 4, aptly calls “sex on rice.” While the food at Takashi is serious, the menu is playful. Gibo loves music— especially the Beatles—and so you’ll find specialty rolls with names like Strawberry Fields ($8), Imagine ($14.95), Yellow Submarine ($11.50) and All You Need Is Love ($7.95). My favorite Takashi roll is the subtly flavored Ebony & Ivory ($15). It’s got beautiful, glistening white escolar topped with black tobiko (flying fish roe), with kampachi, Asian pear, shiso and spicy sauce inside. It’s a gorgeous flavor spectrum ranging from the salty tobiko and delicately flavored fish to sweet pear, citrusy shiso and tangy, spicy sauce—a superb example of Gibo’s creativity and his unmatched ability to create one-of-a-kind flavor combinations.

Perfect 10: No matter what you order from Takashi, what arrives at the table is a work of art. During dinner, I’d certainly suggest an order of gyoza ($8.50), Japanese-style pork and cabbage dumplings made in-house with clean ginger flavors and served with spicy ponzu. Although it’s labeled on the menu as a “small plate,” there’s nothing small about either the portion size or the flavor of azekura: seared, tender Wagyu beef strips atop tempura-fried portabella mushroom slices and green beans, all bathed in Takashi’s top-secret essential reduction sauce ($10.95). As with the luscious ginger-soy glazed barbecued pork ribs ($9.50) and the Kuro Buta braised pork belly with Peruvian fusion-style saikyo miso and veggies, you don’t have to love raw fish to love Takashi. There is so much more to mention about the pleasures at Takashi: the superb service; the excellent beer, sake, wine and cocktail list; the snazzy atmosphere; even the remarkable mushroom panna cotta dessert (not a typo), made with candy cap mushrooms which lend a maple-syrup taste to the panna cotta. Outstanding. When I reviewed the then-new Takashi 10 years ago, I said that I felt it was on a par with America’s most renowned sushi restaurants. If anything, I feel even more confident in that proclamation today. In two decades of food writing, I’ve yet to review a restaurant that I’ve enjoyed more than Takashi. CW

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lthough I live in landlocked Utah, I periodically like to fantasize that I’m seaside—perhaps in St. Martin, Cozumel or Maui. That’s when I don my Hawaiian shirt, fetch the blender and commence concocting my favorite spring/ summer libations, like the mojito. Here’s the blueprint for a basic mojito cocktail: Smash a dozen or so mint leaves (chocolate mint gives mojitos extra pizzazz) and half a lime in the bottom of a tall cocktail glass. Ideally, you want to use a small wooden utensil in the shape of a baseball bat—a muddler—for this. A sawed-off broom handle or a wooden spoon will also work just fine. Add 2 tablespoons

simple syrup or 4 teaspoons superfine sugar and 1.5 ounces good quality rum such as Bacardi or, my favorite, Flor de Caña from Nicaragua. Stir the mixture and add a handful of crushed ice to the glass. Top with club soda and garnish with a slice of lime and a sprig of mint. Brazil’s answer to the mojito—and the margarita, for that matter—is the caipirinha. I first encountered Brazil’s national cocktail while studying the martial art capoeira in Rio de Janeiro and Salvador. It’s a potent cocktail made with the Brazilian sugarcane firewater called cachaça. So, be careful imbibing on these, and don’t get your caipirinha too close to the grill; it’s probably only a little less combustible than nitroglycerin. To make a caipirinha, quarter one lime and place it (unpeeled) in the bottom of a rocks glass along with 1 tablespoon sugar. With a wooden pestle or spoon, smash the lime with the sugar. You want to pulverize it enough to extract most of the lime’s juice. Leaving the quartered lime in the glass, add one shot of cachaça (I like Nêga Fulô brand the best) and 1/2 cup crushed ice. Stir well and garnish the glass with a slice of lime. For a more effervescent preparation, you can also use lemon-lime soda in place of the limes, substituting one cup of the soft drink.

DRINK To my mind, a piña colada is the ultimate poolside or patio beverage. And it’s really simple to make. In a blender, combine 2 ounces light rum, 5 ounces pineapple juice, 2 ounces coconut cream (h i nt: the coconut cream and coconut milk in the Thai section of the supermarket are less expensive than products like Coco Lopez) and 1 cup crushed ice. Blend at high speed, pour into a tall cocktail glass and garnish with a pineapple slice. Try to forget about the calories; you look fabulous in that swimsuit!

Somehow, during my college days, I managed to acquire a fetish for frozen banana daiquiris. They’re simple to make; just combine the following in a blender: 1/2 small ripe banana, 2 ounces light rum, 1/2 ounce banana liqueur (or try coffee liqueur for a change of pace), 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice, 1/2 cup crushed ice. Blend at high speed until smooth and serve in a shallow oldfashioned Champagne glass (called a coupe) or margarita glass. Garnish with a chunk of banana. My favorite sip of summer is also probably the simplest: pastis, as served in Provençe. Just pour 1/2 cup or so (exact amounts aren’t necessary here) of French pastis, preferably Ricard, into a chilled glass over ice and dilute with an equal amount of water; from the tap is just fine. The concoction will turn cloudy in the glass, but your outlook will remain clear and sunny. CW

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Godzilla delivers a mythical monster with surprising visual style. By Scott Renshaw scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

The big guy on the march in Godzilla a snarl of traffic caused by a downed jet airplane; a casino floor suddenly gone dark from a power failure, only to be exposed to unfamiliar natural light as the roof is ripped off. It was generally assumed that Edwards’ low-budget 2010 alien-invasion thriller Monsters was his audition tape for Godzilla, and he delivers even more memorable shots here when working on an exponentially larger scale. At last, of course, we do get to the battle of the behemoths, and there’s a nostalgic crowd-pleasing quality to the way this Godzilla pulls out a few of his signature moves and seems motivated only by killing the “bad” monsters on humanity’s behalf. Yet there’s an almost mythical, surreal sensibility to these creatures and their titanic showdowns, and Edwards commits to that idea even when it means not giving audiences exactly what they might expect from their contemporary giant-monster movies. People may be predictable in Godzilla, both in an archetypal sense and in a movieplotting sense, but—amazingly enough— the way that its director serves up a familiar franchise property almost never is. CW

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HHH Aaron Taylor-Johnson Ken Watanabe Elizabeth Olsen Rated PG-13

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is an acronym for something but seriously, who cares what. The MUTO and its mate are destined to threaten Brody’s wife (Elizabeth Olsen) and son in San Francisco, because that’s what happens in movies of this sort, and Brody in particular has a talent for being exactly where the creatures are attacking at any given moment, whether it’s a secret lab in Japan, an airport tram in Hawaii or a railroad trestle in California. The material involving the human characters is somewhat perfunctory get-back-to-your-loved-ones stuff, but Taylor-Johnson is a far better audience proxy than the plastic Charlie Hunnam was in 2013’s Pacific Rim. And while there’s a bit of subtext here about humans’ arrogant sense of being able to control the uncontrollable—including a nice moment where something “safely” stored at the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository proves to be not-so-safe after all—this Godzilla doesn’t lean on turning its titular character into a massive, roaring allegory. Instead, Edwards chooses to keep his movie interesting by making it genuinely fascinating to watch. His initial set pieces of creature-caused chaos don’t all move to the same rhythms—sometimes going for full-on destruction, sometimes pulling back for a long view that withholds the obvious money shots. Most impressively, Edwards fills Godzilla with genuinely striking images: a team of military paratroopers falling through the clouds, red flares streaming from their boots; the monstrous head of Godzilla slowly engulfed in smoke;

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t has all been building to this: The first mega-battle between Godzilla—the 12-story tall, spike-backed King of the Monsters whose trademark bellow is as familiar as a commercial jingle—and an equally massive insectoid creature. They’re going to tear each other and a significant portion of downtown Honolulu to shreds, and we in the summer blockbuster audience have a front-row seat. So, of course, when we see the first moments of that epic confrontation, it’s going to be … when a little boy in the movie is watching news reports on a small TV screen. It’s hard to convey—in an era when we’ve been conditioned to expect the Michael Bay/Roland Emmerich-ization of the “event” movie—how radical Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla feels. Because this is a giant lizard movie with style, and a willingness to tease viewers on the way to the big finale. You’ll likely see reviews comparing Godzilla to the work of Steven Spielberg— and more specifically Jurassic Park—but that’s a compliment that doesn’t actually give Edwards enough credit for the unique way he approaches a movie that could have been churned off an assembly line without too many people noticing. That’s not to say that a certain part of the plotting doesn’t feel exactly that way. Screenwriter Max Borenstein—working from a story by Expendables scribe Dave Callaham—gives us U.S. Navy Lt. Ford Brody (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), who has a family history of tragedy involving a mysterious earthquake in Japan, and a father (Bryan Cranston) determined to get to the bottom of a conspiracy of secrecy. And, naturally, they discover that a quasi-government agency is indeed attempting to study a pod from which eventually bursts forth that mantislike monster they refer to as a MUTO, which

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CINEMA CLIPS NEW THIS WEEK Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change. Fed Up HHH Yes, it follows a template familiar from a hundred other advocacy documentaries, right down to every structural and visual detail— but sometimes it’s hard to deny how viscerally a topic hits you. Katie Couric narrates director Stephanie Soechtig’s look at the American epidemic of obesity, focusing on childhood obesity and the diet of processed foods—particularly sugar—that’s creating a public-health time bomb of diabetes and other potentially fatal complications. The talking heads plow diligently through the data, hitting familiar targets like unhealthy public school lunch options and government agricultural subsidies that made high-fructose corn syrup too cheap to resist. And the individual case studies of obese adolescents seem too calculated to be the emotional touchstones in the middle of all the science and policy wonkery. It’s also an alarming, eye-opening look at how little most people understand about the real problem, and how hard it seems to be to get legislators to risk the ire of food-industry lobbyists and address the threat. I may not remember the filmmaking, but I’ll remember the soda it got me to put down. Opens May 16 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (PG)—Scott Renshaw God’s Pocket HH One of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final performances opens with a shot of him gazing at a coffin, which is a tough spot for any movie to work its way out of. Unfortunately, the directing debut of Mad Men’s John Slattery doesn’t have much else to distinguish itself, aside from a cadre of overqualified actors

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chewing their way through self-consciously retro dialogue. Set in the titular Philly neighborhood, the plot follows Hoffman’s two-bit crime guy (he has a thing for trucks of meat) who finds his precarious social status teetering when his wife (Christina Hendricks) presses him to investigate a suspicious death in the family. Adapting Pete Dexter’s novel, Slattery leans heavily on the dese-and-dose Scorsese playbook, with a combination of scuzzy violence and low-grade tough talk delivered by folks including John Turturro, Eddie Marsan and the invaluable Richard Jenkins, whose reaction shot upon first seeing Hendricks ranks high in the annals of cartoon wolf history. As for Hoffman, he’s perfect, as usual, with a demeanor somehow suggesting he’s seen it all before, no matter how outlandish the situation. Predictable as the movie is, when he’s on, you’ll wish it ran longer. Opens May 16 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—Andrew Wright Godzilla HHH See review p. 39. Opens May 16 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) Locke HHH.5 It’s not merely that writer/director Steven Knight finds a way for 90 minutes of phone conversations in a car not to feel like 90 minutes of phone conversations in a car; it’s that Tom Hardy creates such an indelible character through those conversations. He plays Ivan Locke, a construction foreman in England who takes off one night on a life-changing drive: The woman with whom the married-with-kids Locke had a one-night stand is having his baby, and he’s going to be there. Locke’s imaginary conversations with his father provide context for his decision, and perhaps there’s one too many of them underscoring his actions too neatly. But Hardy’s performance is mesmerizing in

its precision, as he plays a man with such a ferocious sense of personal integrity that it almost becomes a character flaw. And it’s astonishing that Knight builds tension while providing no physical impediment for Locke more substantial than a head cold. Would it have worked just as well as a stage play? Perhaps. But if more people get a chance to see this terrific union of script and performance, I’m glad it’s a movie. Opens May 16 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—SR

Million Dollar Arm H.5 Out of a nozzle on the Disney movie-making machine labeled “inspiring sports dramas” comes a rote, emotionally blank lump of fact-based hooey about a sports agent named J.B. Bernstein (Jon Hamm) who saves his career by teaching two Indian cricket players (Suraj Sharma and Madhur Mittal) how to be baseball pitchers. The Indian fellows have to live with Bernstein because they’re too uncivilized to stay in a hotel (really!), resulting in predictable “bachelor’s life turned upside-down by wacky visitors” tomfoolery. Directed with atypical apathy by Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) from a wan screenplay by the usually reliable Thomas McCarthy (The Station Agent, Win Win), the film shows no actual interest in America’s pastime (we never see anyone play), nor in the boys, whose recruitment is an openly cynical attempt to capitalize on the untapped Indian market. No, the focus is Bernstein, a hustling, all-business grump who must learn—you guessed it—what’s really important in life. The film paints all the numbers the right color, but it does so without passion or joy. Even the charismatic Hamm can’t save it. Opens May 16 at theaters valleywide. (PG)—Eric D. Snider

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa At Park City Film Series, May 16-17 @ 8 p.m. & May 18 @ 8 p.m. (R) Cyber-Seniors At Main Library, May 20, 7 p.m. (NR) The Dog At Brewvies, May 15, 7 p.m. (NR) The Lost and Found Series At Main Library, May 15, 7 p.m. (NR) The Passion of Joan of Arc At Edison St. Events Silent Films, May 15-16, 7:30 p.m. (NR) Shaun of the Dead At Brewvies, May 19, 10 p.m. (R)

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The Amazing Spider-man 2 HH.5 Marc Webb returns with another adventure for the web-slinger (Andrew Garfield) that’s just as over-plotted—featuring villains Electro (Jamie Foxx) and Green Goblin (Dane DeHaan)—and often frustrating at the first. But this one at least gets a few more things right after the ridiculous rebooting of the origin story, including more focus on the relationship between Peter and Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). Theirs isn’t an easy arc, but Stone’s appealing presence makes it easier to overlook the herky-jerk rhythms of their romance. And yes, Webb isn’t a complete lost cause when it comes to putting together action sequences, with the best moments coming during the big final showdown. It’s just too bad that there’s so much straining-for-epic, franchise-building busyness, aiming desperately to draw attention from Disney’s Marvel Studios films. Insecurity isn’t exactly a crime; it’s just a damned shame. (PG-13)—SR

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier HHH It starts with a terrific concept: Gung-ho patriot Captain America (Chris Evans) fighting for his country when its enemies and their motives are a murkier business, and even S.H.I.E.L.D. might be infiltrated by bad guys. The story wrestles copious material into a cohesive form, including Capâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the tension in Marvel movies: Even comic books occasionally have the luxury of devoting an issue to characteradvancing narratives that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t demand the same rigid blockbuster structure. (PG-13)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;SR

Legends of Oz: Dorothyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Return H The best way to understand whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wrong with this dreary adaptation of a book by L. Frank Baumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grandsonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which finds Dorothy (Lea Michele) returning to Oz to help thwart the evil plans of The Jester (Martin Short)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;is through an actual â&#x20AC;&#x153;jokeâ&#x20AC;? that shows a long, winding wall-like structure made up of china teacups, then underlines the gag by having someone say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Great Wall of China!â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lazy, pointless exercise without an ounce of inspiration, computer animated at a level that might have been acceptable in 1995. And with everything surrounding the original songs coming off so tedious, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to register whether theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re actually any good or not. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing here, not even flying monkeys with dyed Mohawks, that warrants throwing this thing into theaters rather than some knock-off DVD bin where it belongs. (PG)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;SR

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Fading Gigolo HH Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d love to know what John Turturro thought he was doing with this baffling patchwork quilt of tones, themes and plot elements. He wrote, directed and stars as Fioravante, a New York part-time florist whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recruited by old friend Murray (Woody Allen) to become a paid â&#x20AC;&#x153;companionâ&#x20AC;? to lonely women. But that high-concept premise gets fairly limited attention. Instead, we get plenty of time for Woody to riff enjoyably as his standard character, plus the emotional struggles of Orthodox Jewish widow Avigal (Vanessa Paradis), plus a jealous would-be suitor to Avigal (Liev Schreiber), who kidnaps Murray for some kind of rabbinical kangaroo court. Fioravante himself is a gaping hole as a character, a kindly guy with no discernible interior life. Why does he do what he does? If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sharing, Mr. Turturro, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m genuinely curious. (R)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;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 theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conception of Jesus, but some things work better when told, rather than shown. (PG)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;AW

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Neighbors HH.5 What conclusions should one draw from an ostensibly raucous battle of pranks where the most memorable thing is a cute baby? Mac (Seth Rogen) and Kelly Radner (Rose Byrne) are new parents in a suburban neighborhood forced to contend with the rowdy Delta Psi fraternity—and its partyhearty president, Teddy (Zac Efron)—moving in next door. There’s a solid notion underlying the escalating conflict: the Radners’ ambivalent transition into responsible married-with-kid adulthood, mirroring Teddy’s anxiety at what awaits him after graduation. But Neighbors is ultimately much more concerned with jokes than structure, settling for a collection of gags rather than something that coheres around the idea of growing up with grace. You laugh, then your attention wanders, and you laugh a little more, and then OH MY GOD ISN’T THAT THE CUTEST BABY YOU’VE EVER SEEN IN YOUR LIFE? (R)—SR

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Only Lovers Left Alive HHHH Jim Jarmusch’s wonderfully sublime tale of centuries-old vampire lovers Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and Eve (Tilda Swinton) looks at the notion of what can give a drawn-out existence any jolt of life. Jarmusch injects plenty of sly humor into his study of how vampires might exist in the modern world, including seeking out sources for quality blood that don’t involve gambling on a human victim who might be “unclean”; we get a sense for how they fill their endless nights when they rattle off the accumulated trivia of dozens of lifetimes. But at its best, Lovers is a lovely, funny meditation on art and immortality, suggesting through Adam’s fascination with unique musical talents that it’s possible to keep finding beauty in new creations that give meaning to being alive. Or, you know, at least not dead. (R)—SR 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.

Theater Directory 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)—MaryAnn Johanson 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 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

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A spy (Kevin Costner) sets out on One Last Mission, but gets stuck with his teen daughter and, almost as bad, brain cancer. Can he take down the terrorist and bring his family back together? Hell, if Liam Neeson can do it, why not? (Relativity)

Fugitive at 17 When a teenage computer hacker (Marie Avgeropoulos) is framed for her best friend’s fatal O.D. at a rave, she goes on the lam and uses her cyber-skills to find The Real Killer. Despite all evidence, not a movie from 1996. (MTI)

What’s coming this fall from ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC.

The Monuments Men Selfie (ABC) writer John Mulaney plays himself as an aspiring comic coming up in New York City. Says here, “multi-camera,” which means “laugh track,” which means “The Only TV Column That Matters™ ain’t watching a canned-laughs comedy in 2014.” Mission Control (NBC) It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s David Hornsby writes/produces an “Anchorman-in-space” comedy starring Krysten Ritter (Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23). This almost makes up for the loss of Community. Almost. State of Affairs (NBC) Katherine Heigl’s … triumphant? … return to television as a CIA attaché who balances advising the president with her own turbulent personal life. No, the president isn’t a hunky single dad just waiting for the right hot mess to settle down with—it’s Alfre Woodard! Constantine (NBC) From DC Comics, a supernatural monster-of-the-week drama that will make you forget that 2005 Keanu Reeves flick. Not that you already haven’t. The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (NBC) My favorite premise/star of them all: Ellie Kemper (The Office) stars as a woman starting her life over after … escaping a doomsday cult! Even better, it’s produced by Tina Fey and was originally titled Tooken. Can’t wait to watch all three airings of this. CW

Pompeii A hunky gladiator (Kit Harington) fights to save his true love (Emily Browning), who’s been betrothed to a corrupt Roman senator against her will. Oh, and there’s a volcano called Mount Vesuvius about to flood Pompeii with molten lava. Priorities. (Sony)

Vampire Academy So you expect me to believe that, not only is there a movie actually titled Vampire Academy, but also a series of books? I’m supposed to accept that the young adult audience will just buy any crap? Good day. I said good day, sir! (The Weinstein Co.)

More New DVD Releases (May 20) Call the Midwife: Season 3, Fractured, Gold, Grand Piano, House of Dust, In Secret, Like Someone In Love, Mischief Night, The Moneychangers, Nikita: Season 4, Pleased to Meet Me, Raze, The Right Kind of Wrong, Warehouse 13: The Complete Series, Way of the Wicked 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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Galavant (ABC) A “musical fairytale comedy”(!) about a brave knight’s (Rogue’s Joshua Sasse) quest to rescue his true love (Mallory Jansen) from the clutches of an evil king (Timothy Omundson, Psych). Upside: It’s produced by The Neighbors’ Dan Fogelman, which reduces the Suck Potential somewhat. How I Met Your Dad (CBS) Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha) stars as a woman regaling her kids with stories of their lame dead father and the way-better guy she eventually ended up with. NCIS: New Orleans (CBS) It’s NCIS, in New Orleans. Ask your parents. Backstrom (Fox) A self-destructivebut-brilliant Portland detective (Rainn Wilson, The Office) is given one last chance to get his shit together by leading a special crimes unit. Hey, at least it’s not called Special Crimes Unit. Gotham (Fox) The origin story of Batman’s Commissioner Gordon (as a young detective, played by Southland’s Ben McKenzie) before Gotham City became a super-crime hub. His most daunting obstacle: co-star Jada Pinkett Smith, aka The Show Killer. Hieroglyph (Fox) An action-adventure drama set in ancient Egypt that was probably pitched on a dare, like last year’s Dads. Last Man on Earth (Fox) Saturday Night Live’s Will Forte is, literally, the last man on Earth. Maybe this was the dare. Mulaney (Fox) Speaking of SNL, ex-

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iff Raff is explaining to me how someday he’s going to open up a babyoil water park. “Oh man, that would be crazy, you know, baby-oil slides, stripper pole,” he says in his patented Texas drawl. “Imagine that—instead of the water, you got the baby oil.” As absurd as it sounds, it’s hard to tell whether or not this Houston-based rapper is joking. Riff Raff has a reputation for messing with people. He rarely gives straight answers in interviews and takes just about any opportunity to diverge into random thoughts and tangents. The only real glimpse we get inside the mind of the man who changes monikers (Jody Highroller, Iceberg Simpson, Kokayne Dawkins, etc.) more than his wardrobes is found in his Vine and Instagram accounts, which are filled with snippets of absolute absurdity. In one of his Vines, the rapper zooms in on a glass of lemon water, saying, “Citrus waater, the water is so citrusy, citrusy goodness for the whole teeeeam!” In another, he orders room service pretending to be James Franco and removes a puppy from a pot, and says, “Oooh, the puppy!” There are few rappers who show more personality, but as open and hilarious as Riff Raff appears to be on social media, we hardly know anything about him. This aloofness—combined with the fact that his first major-label release, Neon Icon, has experienced nearly as many setbacks as Dr. Dre’s Detox—has transformed the self-anointed Butterscotch Prince into a polarizing figure, an artist fans and critics struggle to nail down but love to discuss. Riff Raff claimed in an interview with LA Weekly that “My mom was a pilot and my dad wrestled polar bears,” and when I ask him about his upbringing in Texas, he replies, “Oh, I don’t talk about my past.” All we know for sure is that young Riff grew up in the suburbs of Houston as a shy, gangly kid who idolized Vanilla Ice and went by his birth name, Horst Christian Simco. How, when and why he became Riff Raff is still a mystery. The only thing we know for certain about Riff Raff is that he is equally entertaining as he is fascinating, and really, that’s one of the most important qualities for any artist. His fans, the Neon Nation, claim he’s a misunderstood genius, a prophet draped in cornrows and Versace who recites catchy gospel like, “I shook dice with Larry Bird in Barcelona.” Dorm-room think tanks deliberate on whether he’s a living commentary on the overblown excess of the music industry, or perhaps an actor playing the long con like Andy Kaufman or Joaquin Phoenix. And, of course, the hiphop purists toss him into the lowly subgenres of “dumb-itdown rap,” brushing him off as a talentless hack who mocks rap music and therefore should be ignored. “The people who don’t want me to succeed expect me to never drop Neon Icon,” Riff says. “ ‘Oh, he’s just a big joke; oh, he’s just lying to people,’ and my fans be like, ‘When he drops this album, it’s gonna be the biggest album of the year.’ ”

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“Don’t make him bring the rice out.” Neon Icon is set to be released on the EDM label Mad Decent, under the meticulous eye of production wizard and label owner Diplo. Based on what’s been dropped so far, it could very well be one of the most compelling albums of 2014. In the video for Neon Icon’s lead-off single, “Dolce & Gabbana,” we find Riff Raff dancing in a studio with models and steamrolling through head-scratching nonsequiturs like, “Your bitch playing strip poker/ I’m outside eatin’ fried okra/ (With who?) With Oprah!” The track is classic Jody Highroller. Though the actual lyrics don’t always fit within the bars, his one-liners are arguably the best in the game. Later on, he raps, “I’m sitting in Tahoe/ You already know, rap game Bo/ Rap game Bo Jackson/ My trunk still relaxin’.” Whether you hate it or not, Neon Icon will be a project that won’t be ignored. However, the longer the album sits on deck, the longer the doubt surrounding Riff Raff as a legitimate artist will linger. But according to Riff Raff, Neon Icon hasn’t seen the light of day because an unnamed major label has jumped on board and is preparing for a wider release in big-box stores such as Walmart, Target and Best Buy. “I can’t say a date anymore; it’s not even up to Diplo,” he says. “We got a major-label situation we’re dealing with. Now, it’s gonna be everywhere. Anywhere you see a Justin Bieber CD, you gonna see my CD; that’s why it got pushed back.” The album is a who’s who of rap heavy hitters—Drake, A$AP Rocky, Juicy J and 2Chainz—but, as Riff Raff points out, it goes beyond rap music. “Neon Icon isn’t just a rap album; there’s country songs, rock songs,” he says. “It’s not just classified as rap.” Considering everything we know (or don’t know) about Jody Highroller, his non-rap rap album could be just as absurd as his story about his polar-bear-wrestling dad. But at the very least, Neon Icon should shed some light on, well, something. “Look, it’s gonna answer a lot of questions: ‘What is he? What does he do?’ ” Riff Raff says. “I’m an artist that was seen in public before the album dropping. A lot of people drop an album and then they’re known. I’m known and now I’m dropping an album.” CW

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The latest full-length album from Vancouver, British Columbia, band The Shilohs breaks hardly any new musical ground, if any. Instead, the ’60s-influenced pop-rock songs have a homey, nostalgic quality in a stylistic vein akin to the Beatles, with spun-gold vocal harmonies, jangly tambourine and dreamy guitar. That lighthearted feel is established in the album’s strum-y opening track, “Student of Nature,” through lyrics that describe a moonbeam bouncing off water. There’s plenty of variety from song to song, since three of the band’s four members contributed songwriting duties and also trade off in the role of lead singer. But a yearning for better days and resorting to self-soothing escapism in the meantime is a consistent theme that runs through several of the catchy songs, such as warmly hazy “Champagne Days” and the lazily meandering “Sisters of Blue.” It’s not all moonbeams and sunshine, though, such as on the reverb-filled “Strange Connections,” about flubbed personal relationships, and “Folks on Trains,” which is slightly voyeuristic with its lyrics that wonder about other passengers. But whenever The Shilohs brings up tricky emotions, it quickly insulates them in sweet medicine that causes drowsiness and daydreams. May 13, Light Organ Records

Dawn Golden, Still Life HH.5 When listening to the latest release from Los Angeles musician and engineer Dexter Tortoriello for the first time, it’s easy to wish that the turbulent and somewhat shocking nature of the lyrics at the end of Still Life was echoed in the other parts of the album; after all, the drive to the record’s “destination” is sleepy and melancholy. But after hearing the climactic lyrics of “Last Train” and “Brief Encounter”—both about a couple ending a long relationship, and the stalker-y behavior and hopelessness that ensues—it’s made evident that the mellower songs like “I Won’t Bend” and “All I Want” earlier in the track list set the stage for those painful events to happen later. The first half of the album effectively conveys the discontent that’s bubbled up between the two people, a chilliness that’s painted with synths, lots of reverb and layers of distorted vocals—all performed by Tortoriello. That’s how the “Last Train” lyrics “When you tell me you don’t want me here/ And you keep my number till the rent checks clear” and the “Brief Encounter” lyrics “I broke into your house again today and I laid in your room” are able to hit straight in the gut. We listeners, like the story’s protagonist, didn’t see such tragedy coming. May 13, Downtown/Mad Decent

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And just as Pond’s sound has undergone some fine-tuning throughout the years, so too has his songwriting technique. “I know what I was going through when I wrote [Emblems], and I know how I approached songwriting,” Pond says. “It changes from album to album, though. I appreciate things I did on one album, but at the same time, I wouldn’t want to do it again. Every album, I’m talking about the same themes, but I want to do it in a different way.” But now, with 10 years of separation from Emblems’ creation, Pond is going back for a visit—with the “PA” reinstated in the band name for this tour as a way to recall the days when the band was based in Pennsylvania—by playing Elements live in its entirety, with a twist. Recording the album was a memorable experience and Pond is pleased with the final results. But, he says, that doesn’t mean he won’t be making a few changes to some of the songs. “What I hope to do with these shows is improve on the songs and make them come to life,” Pond says. “As much as I’m proud of the things I do, I am more aware of their imperfections than anybody, and that’s what’s exciting about this is you can edit. I’m excited to be able to edit the hell out of them.” CW

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The worn-out statement that Salt Lake City rap is somehow inferior to that produced in cradles like Los Angeles or Atlanta is given a final kick out the door by Better Taste Bureau on Outliers, which is undeniably impressive in terms of lyrics as well as sound. The album’s intro, “Noose,” puts emcees Ben Harris and Shaun Bussard and producer Mason Brewer on the metaphorical stand with a sample of a judge saying, “Before we proceed further, it will be necessary for me to examine you on your qualifications.” So Better Taste Bureau prove their skill beginning with “Rise (Noose II),” during the punchy hook “How dare he get up and speak with confidence/ Dare he get up and move the audience” and lyrics that poke fun at egocentric “big brother hip-hop” ignoring Salt Lakers. The earworm-worthy hooks continue on “Outliers,” on which BTB embrace their smalltown status in the title as well as the lyrics “Where you from/ Don’t know that place/ Yeah, we heard it one too many times.” The production on the cleanly executed Outliers is tight from beginning to end, with every killer beat standing out in crystal-clear definition. Self-released, May 3, BetterTasteBureau.com

Great Interstate, Inversion Songs HHH.5 It’s interesting how the latest creation by veteran musician, producer and engineer Andrew Goldring can hit so hard while presented in a package that’s often soft and beautiful, like a brick wrapped in a cloud. Written and recorded by Goldring, Inversion Songs is richly layered, with fascinating interplay between mellow, atmospheric moments and straight-up rock breakdowns that explode into emotional climaxes. Sung with Goldring’s breathy, slightly scratchy voice, the lyrics deal with feeling trapped—reflected in the symbolism of the album title and the apathetic lyrics of “Garbage Brain”—picking up the pieces after a major loss and moving on, especially on “My Dear Friend” and the heart-rending “Frail Bones.” But what’s so incredible about Inversion Songs is that while it does bring up these really difficult emotions, it’s an ultimately cathartic listening experience. The album strikes a good balance between slower, soul-searching tracks and more upbeat, ear-catching material, such as “Exodus,” which features Goldring’s distorted, primal howls and a psych-tinged feel. Self-released, May 9, GreatInterstate.bandcamp.com

OK Ikumi, Outside HHH

It’s easy to zone out while listening to the latest album Karl Jorgensen has released through his electronic OK Ikumi solo project. But that’s not because the record is boring; it’s just trance-inducing on a level that could make people accidentally walk into a manhole or forget they’re pouring milk. The seven instrumental tracks can be described with any number of adjectives that could be applied to that dream-like, transitory period between your alarm going off and the snooze alarm going off nine minutes later. The album begins with “Outside”— which is remixed by Mooninite and RS2090 later in the track list—a textured, immaterial soundscape of various synth effects and cool, ambient tones. “Waver” seems to power forward with more purpose, with a web of crystalline threads providing a structure for the hazier effects to wrap around. There’s a surprising slight tension in “Break,” which contains disparate timing schemes that dynamically bounce against one another. “Reach” draws Outside to an effective close, as dazzling sparkles build to a full-bodied arrangement complete with percussionlike effects that eventually fades to black. Hel Audio, April 30, HelAudio.bandcamp.com

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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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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

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Author Eva Dane defines writer’s block as what happens “when your imaginary friends stop talking to you.” I suspect that something like this has been happening for you lately, Pisces— VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) The planet we live on is in constant transformation. Nothing even if you’re not a writer. What I mean is that some of the most ever stays the same. To succeed, let alone survive, we need to reliable and sympathetic voices in your head have grown quiet: acclimate ourselves to the relentless forward motion. “He not ancestors, dear friends who are no longer in your life, ex-lovers busy being born is busy dying,” was Bob Dylan’s way of framing you still have feelings for, former teachers who have remained a our challenge. How are you doing with this aspect of life, Virgo? strong presence in your imagination, animals you once cared for Do you hate it but deal with it grudgingly? Tolerate it and aspire who have departed, and maybe even some good, old-fashioned to be a master of it someday? Whatever your current attitude is, spirits and angels. Where did they go? What happened to them? I’m here to tell you that in the coming months you could become I suspect they are merely taking a break. They may have thought much more comfortable with the ceaseless flow—and even it wise to let you fend for yourself for a while. But don’t worry. They will be back soon. learn to enjoy it. Are you ready to begin?

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) There’s a piece of art on the moon: a ceramic disk inscribed with six drawings by noted American artists. It was carried on the landing module of the Apollo 12 mission, which delivered two astronauts to the lunar surface in November 1969. One of the artists, Leo maverick Andy Warhol, drew the image of a stylized penis, similar to what you might see on the wall of a public restroom. “He was being the terrible bad boy,” the project’s organizer said about Warhol’s contribution. You know me, Leo. I usually love playful acts of rebellion. But in the coming weeks, I advise against taking Warhol’s approach. If you’re called on to add your self-expression to a big undertaking, tilt in the direction of sincerity and reverence and dignity.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) In Raymond Chandler’s pulp fiction novel Farewell, My Lovely, his main character is detective Philip Marlowe. At one point Marlowe says, “I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun.” In accordance with your astrological omens, Capricorn, I’m asking you to figure out how you might be like Marlowe. Are there differences between what you think you need and what you actually have? If so, now is an excellent time to launch initiatives to fix the discrepancies.

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