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Letters No, It’s Their Land

In regard to Stuart McDonald’s letter [“This Land Is Our Land,” May 1, City Weekly], the majority of Shoshone, Paiute and Goshute are on Cliven Bundy’s side because of what the BLM did to the elderly Dann sisters: Kill their cattle, sell them at auction, show up five times with helicopters and assault rifles. In recent footage, you can see American Indians marching with Bundy. What happened to Bundy is child’s play compared to the millions of acres the government has stolen since the Treaty of Ruby Valley. BLM-loving white people have been illegally living on American Indian land forever. The feds euthanized 1,000 desert tortoises to get them out of the way. These BLM government-is-god fascists don’t want the Shoshone-Newe to own or control any of their native lands? Funny, I don’t see you complaining about the uranium mine about to be built on “BLM” land. Never mind that uranium is the No. 1 reason there is no ozone layer. I guess you forgot to check with the immigrants and black men who are on Bundy’s land with him. They knew what he was saying. That we are slaves under the current system, but that it affects different communities in different ways, and that we should all come together. Lakota activist Russell Means and Prince said almost the same thing.

WRITE US: Salt Lake City Weekly, 248 S. Main, Salt Lake City, UT 84101. E-mail: comments@cityweekly.net. Fax: 801-575-6106. We reserve the right to edit for length and clarity. Preference will be given to letters that are 300 words or less and sent uniquely to City Weekly. Full name, address and phone number must be included, even on e-mailed submissions, for verification purposes. Bundy is guilty of being an old dude who needs to take a class on political correctness, but that’s about it. Meanwhile, you may be reading this while chomping on a burger that came from a factory-farmed, inhumanely treated cow instead of one from a place like the Dann or Bundy ranch. Or maybe it’s turtle meat from the tortoises murdered by the government.

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Truth and Conspiracy

I wonder if Scott Renshaw is a lap dog of some wealthy person in power, or if he is just so sheltered from the obvious that he cannot see how Orewellian this world is becoming [“Under Control,” May 1, City Weekly]. Sure, there are so many conspiracy theories on the wind that it’s confusing. On the other hand, they can’t all be myth. There’s a lot of truth in the rumors. By my own observation, there is indeed an agenda that favors the wealthy and places burden on those of us less fortunate. I would probably find myself more in agreement with the “Angry Man” on the train, though I don’t believe the government is in any hurry to “take away our guns.” How else are we going to kill each other off ? I wonder if Renshaw has a “cognitive barometer” on society. Does he have any idea of the pressure on the middle and lower economic classes? Or is he simply

another who’s been placated by the comfort and station of his social and economic status? I’m not the only one offended by his attitude toward the “Angry Man” on the train. Nor am I alone in my belief that the federal government is expecting and preparing for some kind of an uprising. No, things are not so under control as Renshaw and many others would like to believe. In fact, for way too many of our fellow citizens, things are pretty bad and getting worse. Perhaps it’s time for you to wake up and take a walk down Rio Grande Street and observe the overpopulation of homeless people spilling onto 200 South, steadily growing, moving eastward. Maybe by the time they reach State Street, en mass, they won’t be so easy to ignore.

Jack Wraith Salt Lake City Correction: In “Disappearing Ink,” [May 15, City Weekly] Joel Campbell should have been referred to as an associate professor at BYU.

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I spent a half-hour Tuesday afternoon watching TribTalk, The Salt Lake Tribune’s online sleeping aid. No offense to Tribune Editor and Publisher Terry Orme, who presented his take on what many folks are wondering about lately—will there even be a Salt Lake Tribune a year from now?—but TribTalk is not an exciting program. Much to her credit, host reporter Jennifer Napier-Pearce, whom I’ve never met, put her best face forward while tossing Orme the appropriate softballs. I came away thinking there’s hope for the seriously white, male and gray-haired Tribune after all. I predict that the Tribune will be here next year, but I’m also the guy who predicted that Osbournes Reloaded would last more than one episode back in 2009. As coincidence would have it, 2009 was also the year that many investors discovered that buying newspapers en masse under huge corporate umbrellas was not such a swell idea. By 2009, the Internet was eviscerating the economic engine of many newspapers by wiping out their classified sections. At the same time, the national economy—the steam engine that funded most dailies—began to falter, taking national advertising with it. The financial plunge suffered by many in the print-news business lingers today, as was evidenced by the grimaces on poor Orme’s face. As much as I despise the JOA (currently managed by MediaOne), this new split doesn’t look to be a good one for the Tribune or anyone thinking of buying it. Before this latest illegal arrangement, the older illegal arrangement allowed 58 percent of revenues to be paid to the Tribune owners and 42 percent to the Deseret News ownership after MediaOne had paid for nearly all newspaper services outside of editorial. Sparing the details, the new outcome is that the Tribune gets just 30 percent of those leftover MediaOne revenues going forward. They keep all their

own digital revenue—which is growing, according to Orme—but won’t have to mess with the printing press any longer. As these are private numbers held by two private corporations, no one really knows what that 30 percent represents in real dollars, but business school dictates that all deals are fair unless one side is aggrieved. So far, readers are aggrieved, not ownership. Orme seemed to indicate he knew those numbers, but said little regarding them other than to predict a dire outcome if those numbers do not increase. Maybe—but that requires getting back to the notion that circulation is the telling factor of equity here. I’ve read countless uninformed online comments about how the unfairness of the new JOA revenue split between the Deseret News (the smart guys who are willing to bust balls to make a good deal) and the Tribune ownership (the absentee-owner hedge-fund fellas who couldn’t care less if Mormons and non-Mormons don’t get along, just so long as they get paid), is all about how many people subscribe to each paper. Really? In order to think that, you must first think that the world is only 4,000 years old—because if you believe that, you’ll believe anything. If you think that the latest circulation numbers that were reported in Tony Semerad’s most recent Tribune article are of any value, you must accept that both of our daily newspapers are only a few months old, virgin birthed in October 2013. The reality is that daily newspapers have been bullshitting their circulation numbers for decades in every city in America, even here in God’s backyard. Today’s lower circulation numbers don’t reflect the true value of either paper’s readership. Circulation has been an artificial measure of effectiveness from Day 1. The higher the circulation, the higher the rate newspapers charged for ads. Every year, merchants got a rate increase. It got to the point that selling a lawnmower in the

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daily paper cost more than the lawnmower itself. It’s not so amazing that free sites like Craigslist killed newspaper classifieds; it’s more amazing that dailies, like climatechange deniers, ignored the inevitable. Does it really matter to the local diner that the Tribune or Deseret News has 100,000 or 1,000,000 readers, if those readers live in Egypt? Or if those readers are staying in a hotel in Provo, or reading the paper in a library in Ogden, or are members of the fifth-grade civics class at a school in Tooele and not likely to eat in that diner anytime soon? Dailies have only cared about raising circulation, raising rates and selling ads to General Motors and those tire guys on State Street, so they stacked their circulation numbers. All the diner owners care about is somebody sitting down for a pile of spaghetti. A few years ago, during a separate spat of whining (and Dean Singleton being a Grinch), we bought the Tribune staffers a Christmas party. How quickly they forget, because, hey, I was really hoping Orme would speak to a bit of history today, but he didn’t. He indicated he’s not sure if he would be able to fire more people should he be put in that position again. Because, truth is, he’s already had a hand in killing quite a few. It seems to me that folks who care so much about “voices” should also care about the many that have already died, like The Midvale Sentinel, The Event, The Salt Flat News, The Green Sheet, LaPrensa and so on, partly due to the out-of-bounds monopoly play of the JOA and its ability to stack even the Titanic deck chairs in its favor. I don’t want the Tribune to die. I don’t want the remaining friends I have there on the street. But I do ask that people with an emotional stake in this consider that, unless you come clean and define it only as a Mormon/non-Mormon issue, there are not just two sides to this coin. CW Send Private Eye feedback to john@cityweekly.net.

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Kolbie Stonehocker: I’d pay $5 to read any story by Eric Peterson, Colby Frazier or Stephen Dark (I’m sure they’re worth a lot more, I’m just broke). And I’d pay Colin Wolf in penis cakes and bags of Chile Limon Diminitas Doritos so I could read the Secret Handshake.

Scott Renshaw: I suppose I already do, inasmuch as I’m a Salt Lake Tribune subscriber. If the question is whether I’d pay more, I suppose that depends on what’s in it for me. Come on, Trib, time for Kickstarter-esque perks, like a personalized T-shirt, or maybe a column on the topic of my choice. Rachel Piper:

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It must have been a happy coincidence for former state senator Dan Liljenquist that he opined in the Deseret News about “the dismal science” of climatology the day after an eminent climatologist spoke of the dire threat to the Earth. Michael Mann, professor of meteorology and director of the Earth Systems Science Center at Penn State University, spoke at a Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah’s annual spring breakfast about the big money behind the effort to squelch climate science. While the evidence is clear that mankind is pushing climate change, optimists like Liljenquist continue to tell us to just relax. You have to read his D-News piece twice to see the irony in it all. While Liljenquist says he believes in climate change, he doesn’t think we should get our panties in a bunch. His argument is that there’s no way to stop it, but we have to have faith in human ingenuity. So, doesn’t that mean people need to continue to act and search for solutions?

Future “Educators” Educators have long been bemoaning the strange way Utah elects its state School Board members—vetting them through a business-laden committee that sends the chosen candidates to the governor, who then sends his choices to the electorate. Now, the job posting for the new superintendent seeks someone who might just be “non-traditional.” In other words, the new superintendent doesn’t have to be a “public educator.” Candidates “should have at least 10 years of relevant experience, and an advanced degree is preferred but not required.” The candidate should be able to put together an executive team to implement a “strategic plan.” It apparently isn’t important for the person directing education to actually be educated. If a degree is not important to a job, then educators should stop focusing on Utah’s dismal graduation rate.

Bus or Bust The Utah Department of Transportation is doing what the Utah Transit Authority isn’t—expanding bus service to underserved areas. UDOT and Greyhound are giving a five-year fare subsidy to allow a new company—Elevated Transit—to operate and grow between Salt Lake and Blanding and Salt Lake and Richfield, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. The plan has potential, both by providing public transportation and underwriting a new business. Meanwhile, UTA, taking a page from the NSA, has chosen to put $2.5 million toward video cameras on trains and buses. Security, and the avoidance of lawsuits, apparently is more important than actual service to the community.

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Kristyn Decker lived in polygamy for 50 years before leaving. Now happily remarried, Decker has written books about her life and experiences and works with Holding Out Help, an organization that provides resources and assistance to those leaving polygamy. On May 24, Decker will be signing books from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble in Sugar House (1104 E. 2100 South, 801-463-2610). Visit HoldingOutHelp.org for more information and read the full interview at CityWeekly.net.

What was life like in a polygamous community?

My mother is the first of my father’s 13 wives. The upbringing for me was, from the time that I was born, that you have to live polygamy in order to be saved. But as I got older, I realized that things that were going on in my life weren’t OK—I was molested, there was abuse, there was heartache and sadness. I watched my mother cry all the time. I call it miserably happy—she was lonely and sad, and yet she felt she was pleasing God and doing what He wanted her to do. I was 25 when my [first] husband married my second cousin, and when they left on their honeymoon, I thought I might fall apart. It was devastating, and yet rewarding—that miserable happy of “OK, now we’re finally going to make it!” That’s the way polygamy is—it’s coercive. You have to “protect the principle” (plural marriage) “at any cost”—whether that means throwing somebody under the bus, or lying about them, or covering up things.

Don’t some say that polygamy is a harmless lifestyle choice?

When I was in, I thought I believed it, too. I thought I was happy, I thought it was my choice. People say, “Can’t it work?” Well, of course it can work. If you’re in jail or in prison, you make it work. You figure out how to survive, how to stay sane from day to day, whatever it’s going to take. I’m hoping we can get the public to see that it doesn’t go hand in hand with same-sex marriages. People have said to me over and over again, “Well, if they’re going to legalize same-sex marriage, then they should legalize polygamy.” But there’s no comparison. In same-sex marriage, you still have a partnership. You aren’t told you have to have more children than you can take care of. These people aren’t on welfare like 80 percent of plural families are. There’s not one partner saying, “Hey, I get to have other partners and you don’t.” There’s not that coercion that you have to do it or you go to hell.

Would decriminalizing polygamy help?

Pro-polygamy people and people who don’t understand say, “Well, it should be decriminalized because then they won’t have to stay in hiding.” But there are families that have been living out in the public for 50, 60 years and know they aren’t getting arrested. I pulled my children out of public school and taught them at home, and not because we were afraid that people were going to come arrest us, but because we were afraid of the evil—everybody on the outside is evil and wicked and bad. The reclusiveness is more about keeping the kids uneducated from society, away from people who might influence them in leaving or realizing that they don’t have to do this. Even after decriminalizing, they’re still going to move away and hide. If there’s anything I would advocate, it’s that the state of Utah spend way more money helping those who want to leave polygamy. It’s hard. It’s like coming out of a cage. In the cage, you’re told who, where, why, when, what, and then all of a sudden you’re out in the wicked world, without money, job or an education. Most people who leave still believe they’re going to hell. During my process, I thought, “Well, I might go to hell. But this is hell; hell’s all around me.”

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NEWS Land Justice Will Cliven Bundy get the DeChristopher treatment for his activism? By Colby Frazier cfrazier@cityweekly.net @colbyfrazierlp To protest the management of federal lands in Utah and the West, armed vigilantes, cattle ranchers and even an elected official committed calculated acts of lawlessness in April. No charges have been filed in these events, one involving Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s refusal to pay federal grazing fees, the other a motorized ride organized by a San Juan County commissioner through a pristine and archaeologically sensitive canyon. Both incidents, spokeswomen for the Department of Justice in Utah and Nevada say, are under investigation by the Bureau of Land Management; as a result, they cannot comment. BLM officials, who police and regulate federal land, have said they’ll pursue punishment through the courts. But the degree to which these two acts of lawbreaking are punished will be a test, some say, of just how blind justice is on the public lands debate, particularly in terms of whether justice falls with equal weight upon the right side of the political spectrum as the left. The criminal prosecution these cases will be measured against is that of Tim DeChristopher, a climate activist who bid on and won $1.8 million of oil & gas leases at a 2008 BLM auction. The auction DeChristopher sought to undermine was itself later invalidated by the Obama administration, which found that the BLM had failed to conduct sufficient environmental review prior to putting the land parcels on the auction block. Nevertheless, DeChristopher was charged and convicted of two felonies, which earned him two years in a federal penitentiary. He served 21 months before being released into a halfway house. “I’m suggesting that we have a new standard now—the Tim DeChristopher standard,” says Dan McCool, a University of Utah political-science professor who is also the director of the school’s environmental and sustainability studies program. Because DeChristopher went to jail for an act of public service, as McCool puts it, so too should anyone else whose motives are fueled by a spirit of protest. “The only thing that matters is if you broke the law, and if you broke the law, you go to prison,” he says. But Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, says he sees little similarity between the

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actions of Bundy, San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman or any of the other recent protesters and DeChristopher. Noel, who took part in a 2009 ATV protest ride through the protected Paria Canyon wilderness study area in the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, says he, Lyman and Bundy are frustrated with the way federal agents are administering the land, and are willing to protest to see change. That ’s what Politicians have responded differently to the land-motivated protests of Cliven Bundy (left) and Tim DeChristopher (right) D e C h r i s t o p h e r ’s the canyon and show him the sensitive other archaeologically sensitive artiattorneys and suparcheological sites. In early May, he says, facts. porters say he was doing as well. But, they took him up on it. But Lyman says Lyman says he urged the protesters Noel says, DeChristopher’s protest was all he saw were “soil stains” that could to be respectful of the closed area of the “not right.” have been from a Boy Scout camp, a cowcanyon, but many of the protesters— Where the difference lies, he says, boy camp or maybe an Indian camp. including some of Bundy’s relatives and is that DeChristopher “took money What he saw, he says, “does not rise supporters—pressed on regardless. away from the people and the schoolto the level [of requiring protection]. If “I didn’t want to get down into the children of the state of Utah.” The they think it’s that important, let’s put controversial area of the canyon,” income he cites relates to potential it on the national register.” Lyman says. “But I don’t disrespect mineral and oil royalties that might Though Lyman didn’t venture into the those that did. I think they’re earnest have flowed to the state had the 22,000 depths of the canyon with other protestand legitimate in their feelings.” acres of land DeChristopher bid on ers, he did go into an area closed by the Lyman says he isn’t a “gun toter,” gone to oil companies. BLM along what he calls a “county-mainand doesn’t even own an ATV. Still, he Bundy’s long-simmering land battle tained road.” As far as legal consequencis the latest Utah politician to become with the federal government dates back es for his actions, he speculates that he the poster child for the Beehive State’s to 1993, when the BLM began restricting could be issued a trespassing ticket. anti-federal sentiment. But some fear cattle-grazing rights to safeguard the “That’s one of the chances you can that in the cases of Recapture Canyon habitat of the endangered desert tortoise. take,” he says. “I guess you can say and Bundy and the heavily armed supFor more than two decades, Bundy has that’s breaking the law, but it’s in the porters of these causes, this fever of resisted the government’s efforts to limit form of a protest.” anti-federal rhetoric is reaching danhis cattle’s grazing. Along the way, he’s But some precedent exists to suggerous levels. racked up around $1 million in unpaid gest that charges might not be filed “Frankly, I think that some of the grazing fees. When federal agents acting against the ATV rides. proponents of defiance have the mison a court order moved to confiscate his BLM spokeswoman Megan Crandell conceptions that these kinds of demoncattle April 12, they were met by a posse says the agency forwarded evidence strations are patriotic and will result of gun-wielding states’-rights activists. relating to the Paria Canyon protest ride in change,” says attorney Patrick Shea, Reached by phone, Bundy says his to the U.S. Attorney’s Office “for potenwho defended DeChristopher against situation, and whether or not he’ll be tial criminal action.” She referred questhe federal charges and is also a forpunished for taking his stand, will boil tions regarding the case, in which no mer national director of the BLM. “In down to who has jurisdiction over him charges were filed, to the U.S Attorney. my judgment, all it does is chill other and his cattle: the state of Nevada, or Melodie Rydalch, spokeswoman for people’s First Amendment rights.” the federal government. the U.S. Attorney’s Office, declined Lyman says he didn’t do anything “My debate is all about sovereignty: to go into details about why charges illegal and that the BLM illegally closed the state of Nevada or the federal govweren’t brought. Recapture Canyon, which he says was ernment,” Bundy says. “Who’s trespassWith the level of animosity rising, a right-of-way for cattle ranchers and ing on Nevada state land—is it Cliven McCool says, the next step forward others for more than 100 years. Bundy or is it the federal government?” in the public-lands debate should be The closure stemmed in part from Shortly after Bundy’s standoff with toward starting a peaceful dialogue. the 2005 actions of two Blanding men federal officials, Lyman organized an “Everyone needs a better underwho used picks, shovels and other tools all-terrain vehicle ride into Recapture standing of their fellow Utahns’ attito construct an ATV trail into the canCanyon near Blanding. The ride was to tudes toward these things,” McCool yon. The men pleaded guilty to federal protest the closure of a portion of the says. “We’re not enemies; we’re all charges in 2011. canyon that BLM officials say is home Utahns. We need to be talking, not wavLyman says he’s repeatedly asked to Native American burial grounds and ing guns and breaking laws.” CW BLM officials to accompany him into

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This week, you can shake hands, highfive or give Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker the stink-eye in a one-on-one meeting while discussing the mayor’s handling of important municipal matters. It’s also budget season, so Sandy residents will want to attend a budget hearing and weigh in on how their tax dollars are spent. Later, a Salt Lake City Planning Commission meeting will discuss new guidelines for historic apartments and multifamily dwellings.

Meet the Mayor

May 22-May 28 Schedule a 10-minute one-on-one meeting with Mayor Ralph Becker on May 28, and you can chew the fat on any issue of city business, as long as you’re not trying to appeal a decision of a city board. Time slots will be scheduled on a firstcome, first-served basis, so book your sit-down with the mayor now. Meetings can be scheduled until May 28 at Mayor.SLCGov.com; meetings will take place in the Salt Lake City & County Building, 451 S. State, 801-535-7704, May 28, 4-6 p.m.

Sandy City Council Budget Hearing Tuesday, May 27

It’s time for Sandy City residents to see where their tax dollars are headed in the coming fiscal year and to sound off on the budget before it’s finalized. Residents will hear where money will be allocated—everything from landscape-maintenance funds to Community Development Block Grants operations. It’s your money, so make sure you know where it’s going. Sandy City Hall, 10000 Centennial Parkway, Sandy, 801-568-7100, May 27, 7 p.m., Sandy.Utah.gov

Salt Lake City Planning Commission Wednesday, May 28

Get in on the blueprint level of the future design of your city by attending this planning commission meeting. Numerous projects will be discussed, and the commission will also consider new guidelines for owners of the city’s historic apartments and multifamily dwellings. The commission will also weigh in on potentially easing regulations on outdoor dining areas that could allow more patio dining citywide. Salt Lake City & County Building, 451 S. State, 801-535-7700, May 28, 5:30 p.m., SLCGov.com/Planning

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“We could go to Military Appreciation Night at the ballpark … if you didn’t hate America.”

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Before three men who broke into a Houston lingerie store could steal anything, one with a revolver backed into another holding a rifle. Surveillance video showed the jolt caused the rifle to fire, “which then spooked the suspects,” police Officer Jeff Brieden said. Believing they were being fired upon, both armed men opened fire, discharging nearly a dozen rounds, one of which went through a mannequin, before all three fled. (Houston’s KHOU-TV)

n Australian police investigating the murder of Russell Hammond, 49, arrested Gareth Giles, 26, after they found his 18-point, step-by-step plan detailing the perfect murder, written two months before Hammond’s body was found. Supreme Court Justice Betty King said the murder plan corresponded with the actual killing in “a remarkable way.” (International Business Times)

Digging a Deeper Hole When a sheriff’s deputy arrested Blair Kelli Kaluahine, 36, after complaints he refused to stop groping a restaurant server in Palm Beach County, Fla., the suspect vowed to shoot the deputy. While being driven to the jail, Kaluahine changed tactics, the deputy said, offering him $3,000 and volunteering to paint and pressure wash his house “if I let him go without charging him.” (Palm Beach Post)

Life’s Ironies Former New York City police officer Gilberto Valle, 30, who was convicted of conspiring to kidnap, murder, cook and eat women, was assigned to cook for his fellow inmates at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center. The so-called cannibal cop earns 44 cents an hour making breakfast and lunch. (New York’s Daily News) n After Brett Bouchard, 17, lost his right arm while cleaning a pasta-making machine at the restaurant where he worked in Massena, N.Y., the Elks Lodge raised money to help defray his medical bills by holding a pasta dinner. (Potsdam’s North Country Now) n Members of France’s biggest pilots’ union called a monthlong strike to protest the rules surrounding their right to strike. The pilots seek repeal of the law that forces them to give their companies 48 hours notice before any walkout. The airlines explained the notice allows time to notify passengers, but the union insisted it gives the airlines time to find replacements to minimize the walkout’s impact. (France’s The Local)

n After Sir Young, 20, pleaded guilty to sexual assault in Dallas, he faced up to 20 years in prison. Instead, Dallas County District Judge Jeanine Howard ordered him to serve 45 days in jail and then “start 250 hours of community service at the Rape Crisis Center.” (Dallas Observer)

n Former Illinois State Rep. Keith Farnham, 66, who twice sponsored bills calling for tougher penalties for child pornography, was charged with possession of child porn. In addition, authorities linked Farnham’s e-mail account to an online forum where users chat about their sexual preference. “12 is about as old as I can handle,” Farnham reportedly said in one chat. “I love them at 6 7 8.” In another, he declared, “I wish I had access to all the vids and pics ever made.” (Chicago Tribune)

n After successfully campaigning for a stricter anti-gay law, Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa could be charged under that same law, according to Mbarara University of Science & Technology professor Paul Kaliisa. “Pastor Ssempa has, if anything, promoted homosexuality where he is allegedly trying to fight it,” Kaliisa said, pointing out that Ssempa repeatedly screens gay porn to his congregation, ostensibly to show it is evil. “Very soon people are going to get used to the idea at some point, men can have sex with fellow men, and armed with the knowledge Ssempa has distributed, they will know exactly what to do.” (Britain’s Gay Star News)

When Guns Are Outlawed

Police accused Jeffrey Willard Wooten, 50, of robbing a Waffle House restaurant in Norcross, Ga., with a pitchfork, which he used to force workers into the back of the restaurant while he grabbed the cash register and ran. “It wouldn’t be an offensive weapon in your garden,” police Chief Warren Summers said, “but it was in a Waffle House.” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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A 30-year-old employee at Japan’s biggest travel agency forgot to order 11 buses for a high school outing, so the day before the trip, he wrote a note purporting to be from a student threatening suicide unless the trip was canceled. He gave the note to the principal, who decided to go ahead with the excursion as planned. After no buses arrived the next morning, regulators from the Japan Tourism Agency raided the offices of JTB Corp, which promised to punish the worker. The school, meanwhile, rescheduled its trip with a different agency. (Agence France-Presse) Compiled from mainstream news sources by Roland Sweet. Authentication on demand.

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In the heart of coal country, Utahns worry about a toxic mountain of pollution.

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hough much maligned for its invasion into the air Utahns breathe, carbon is an element that is everywhere, throughout the earth and in all living creatures. In the human body, it’s the second most abundant element, right after oxygen. And in the heart of Utah’s Carbon County, carbon—the primary stuff of coal—is the lifeblood of the residents and the hardscrabble communities formed to mine the black gold that has powered the world for generations. Utahns en route to Moab from the north for some fun in the sun can’t miss the telltale signs of coal country: the coal-filled train cars snaking up Price Canyon; the billboard outside Helper advertising the “World’s Tallest Coal Miner” statue; and the billboard outside Price with a picture of a stoic, sootstained miner holding a chunk of the black stuff under the declaration COAL=JOBS. Most passersby won’t get much of a glimpse of the frontline of these mining communities as they continue on

Highway 6. But if you take a detour 20 miles east of Price, you’ll find the side-by-side communities of East Carbon and Sunnyside. Like everywhere else in the county, coal is king in these two towns. But for some, it comes at too high a cost. East Carbon has supported itself on several adjacent mines as well as the coal-fired power plant in Sunnyside, roughly a mile east of town. It’s a small and hardy community born of the coalmining boom, and it’s always prospered on coal, while other enterprises struggled to take hold. A drive into town reveals a vacant drive-in cafe and the New Yorker Grill, which optimistically has “Open” painted on the window despite being empty inside except for stacks of dusty chairs and tables. A simple gas station in the center of town is one of the few businesses that’s alive and well. More than 1,000 residents live here, in neighborhoods lined with homes that vary from rundown sheet-metal shacks to well-groomed prefabricated dwellings. Bleached bones and elk antlers decorate homes, and the brown dirt and yellow grass of vacant lots is punctuated by lavender patches of ironweed. Overall, it’s an attractive town, except when it’s covered in a fine film of dust blown off the nearby coal-ash landfill. Sunnyside is home to a coal-fired power plant that burns the refuse from two abandoned coalmines that operated in the area for more than a century into what’s known as coal ash, a gritty gray substance. Coal ash is a byproduct of the fossil-fuel industry that’s less visible to the general public, which has long been focused on the hazards of carbon emissions in the air. But it’s lately drawn scrutiny from environmental scientists, who say the heavy metals in coal ash—such as arsenic, lead and selenium—can contribute to cancer and developmental and neurological disabilities in humans. And every day in Sunnyside, 18-wheeler trucks haul up to 1,000 tons of coal ash into the 75-acre landfill, building a giant ziggurat-shaped pile of ash inch by inch, day by day. It’s possible to drive down State

Road 123, which leads into town, and miss the Sunnyside Cogeneration Association landfill, built in 1992, entirely. Still, residents say, they see all they need to of the dust—and breathe it, too—when the wind picks up and blows ash off the pile and into town. “I think our town sold its soul to the devil to have the power plant be so close to our community,” says Gabriel Hunt, a 33-year-old East Carbon resident. Hunt isn’t your conventional activist rallying against big polluters. He took time to speak to a City Weekly reporter after finishing an all-night shift at a coalmine more than an hour north of East Carbon. He’s not against coal, but he is against the company’s decision to burn it, pile it and let it potentially contaminate the groundwater where his two children live and play. While Utahns in Salt Lake County curse the carbon emissions hanging in the winter air like clouds of gravy, in places like East Carbon and Sunnyside, the concern is more about the gunk on the ground. And as the public places more pressure on the fossil-fuel industry to clean up the emissions in the air, more risk could be absorbed by communities like East Carbon and Sunnyside. The most hazardous parts of carbon emissions can’t be eliminated entirely, so “cleaning up” dirty carbon emissions means that they’re simply displaced—instead of going into the air, the emissions are filtered and transferred to the coal ash, which ends up in landfills like the one in East Carbon. In January, on behalf of town residents like Hunt, HEAL Utah helped file an administrative complaint against the Utah Department of Water Quality for approving a 34-acre expansion of the Sunnyside Cogeneration Associates landfill. HEAL Utah is not only concerned about the health effects of the landfill but also questions why state regulators would approve the groundwater permit even though the legally required public-comment period didn’t include relevant information about the hazards of the existing landfills. It wasn’t until December 2013, four months after the public-comment period on the groundwater permit ended, that HEAL Utah received DEREK CARLISLE

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Left: The exterior of the 75-acre terraced coal-ash landfill adjacent to East Carbon and Sunnyside. Below: A view from the top of the landfill, where a truck is unloading more coal ash onto the pile and watering it down to help prevent dust from blowing into the nearby community.

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The environmental advocates of HEAL Utah check the state’s online database of groundwater-permit applications the way some people check Facebook. On Aug. 5, 2013, staff came across a permit application for the renewal and expansion of the Sunnyside Cogeneration Associates (SCA) landfill in East Carbon. At the time, it was open to public comment until Aug. 22, 2013. HEAL Utah asked for the public comment period to be extended while it researched the proposal with the collaboration of environmental attorneys. A representative of Exelon, the energy company that owns the SCA power plant, wouldn’t comment on specific concerns about the coal ash plan other than to say that all technical questions would be addressed during the groundwater permit application process. The Utah Department of Water Quality (DWQ) denied Heal’s request for an extension. HEAL Utah filed a public-records request Aug. 9 for information pertaining to the expansion of the landfill. The DWQ responded to the request Aug. 28—six days after the end of the public comment period—and gave HEAL permission to access and make copies of additional information. The additional information from the DWQ, HEAL says, was a 2007 report from one of the monitoring wells dug to check the groundwater adjacent to the landfill for potential contaminants. HEAL filed public comments complaining of inadequate information made available to the public. Then, HEAL says, on Dec. 4, the DWQ posted 16 additional monitoring-well reports

It usually takes a catastrophe for policymakers to snap into action. With coal ash, it took a dam bursting in Tennessee in 2008 that flooded a river valley with 1 billion gallons of toxic slime for policymakers to ... almost do something. The dam break unleashed its own flood of outrage about the unregulated landfills, which are as widespread as coal-power plants across the country but aren’t federally regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency. In 2010, in the wake of the 2008 coal-ash calamity in Tennessee, the EPA proposed new regulations that faced heavy resistance from the coal lobby and politicians like West Virginia Republican Rep. David McKinley, who passed legislation in 2013 to block the EPA from regulating coal ash, arguing that recycled coal ash is a valuable recycled product and that regulating it would kill hundreds of thousands of jobs. Hundreds of other coal-ash spills have been reported since 2008, from small and troubling to large and ecologically devastating, such as when a pipe burst at a wet coal-ash landfill in North Carolina and pumped 82,000 gallons of coal ash into a river used as a source of drinking water for the residents of Danville, Va., 20 miles upstream. In 2012, the Sierra Club and a coalition of other groups sued the EPA for violating its own statutes by not offering guidelines on coal ash, prompting the agency to announce that new rules and regulations will be issued by the end of 2014. Coal ash, which is often comprised of toxic heavy metals such as arsenic, lead, mercury

and selenium, has long been known to cause deformations in wildlife and cancer and neurological damage in humans. Lead poisoning, for example, can cause developmental delays, impaired hearing and male reproductive impairment. The nonprofit Physicians for Social Responsibility issued a report in conjunction with advocates of EarthFirst—one of a group of plaintiffs that sued the EPA in 2012— highlighting some of the horror stories of people who had come too close to coal ash. And the report pointed out that while broken dams often make big headlines, “the most common threat that coal ash poses to public health comes from a less dramatic scenario: the slow leakage of toxic pollution from disposal sites such as ponds and landfills.” HEAL Utah’s complaint against the Utah Division of Water Quality for its approval of the expansion of the Sunnyside landfill includes residents’ descriptions of the ash blowing into town and covering cars, lawns and homes in a film of sooty dust. One resident mentioned seeing dead animals floating in ponds near the plant and questioned the safety of another ash landfill so close to town. Four East Carbon and Sunnyside residents added their names to HEAL Utah’s official complaint, filed Jan. 6, 2014, but declined to comment on the advice of their attorneys, who felt comments to the media would jeopardize their action against the state. Hunt, who is not an official declarant on HEAL’s petition, says the trucks carrying the ash are another problem. “You get behind one of those semis on the highway, and more often than not, you can see the ash and the emissions coming out of the back of their trucks,” Hunt says. Because the ash is super hot when hauled, it has to be mixed with a water slurry for transportation, and that can blow out the back of the trucks as they drive through town and down the hill to the entrance of the landfill. “There’s no way to know what that is they’re going down the highway with,” Hunt says, asking, “When you get a big wind, how much of that goes into the air we breathe?” Those who’ve spoken out against the landfill cite fear of a public health hazard; no one who has talked with HEAL cited specific illnesses. But HEAL doesn’t want to wait for a health catastrophe, especially after it enlisted the help of a Brigham Young University geology professor who says that the landfill is contaminating the groundwater with dangerous—and illegal—levels of toxic pollutants.

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documents through a public-records request that they say show the existing landfill is contaminating the groundwater. Now, HEAL is asking not only that the groundwater permit for the expansion be invalidated, but also that the existing coal-ash pile be relocated because of its contamination of local aquifers. When it comes to the expansion, HEAL says, the state should at least follow statutory requirements to use “the best technology available to minimize the discharge of any pollutant.” Scientists who have studied coal-ash landfills have found that simple liners can dramatically protect the groundwater beneath the waste piles, yet the state approved the expansion to be unlined, like the existing landfill. If coal power is the dirty and addictive energy source to the economy—the way a cigarette is to a smoker—a liner on an ash landfill is at least an ashtray. Critics say not requiring a liner is like letting a smoker drop ash in your glass of water.

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onto its website. HEAL quickly dug into the reports and had Brigham Young University geologist Steve Nelson begin crunching the numbers and analyzing the data. But only two days later, on Dec. 6, 2013, the DWQ gave Sunnyside Cogeneration Associates the go-ahead to move forward with expansion. Walter Baker, director of the DWQ, says there was “no shortcut in the process,” and that it’s not uncommon for permit applications to not include all the data the division has about a particular groundwater application. “Not everything is on the website,” Baker says. “If someone would like additional information that would not normally be included in the process, they can request it.” Baker says his agency “bent over backwards” to provide as much information as possible about this permit. But HEAL says the 16 additional reports were vital—and also incredibly late, too late to be included in comments that could have informed the public’s opinion before the expansion was approved. At the heart of the debate over the future of SCA’s big pile of ash is whether this landfill poses any peril to the groundwater beneath. The landfill lacks a liner to separate the hundreds of thousands of tons of ash from the groundwater below, but the site is bounded by a layer of Mancos shale, which, DWQ says, acts as a barrier against contaminants leaching into the groundwater. The new expansion will also utilize sediment traps to collect drainage running from the benched slopes of the expanded landfill to the bottom of the disposal area. When HEAL obtained the additional monitoring reports—three months after the end of the public-comment period—they turned them over to BYU’s Nelson, who used the different well reports to compare the chemicals appearing outside the landfill with those occurring right under it. The DWQ says that there are a number of chemicals that could be considered contaminates registered in the area, but says that those chemicals occur naturally. But according to HEAL’s complaint, Nelson’s analysis—which he carried out independently and is not affiliated with BYU—shows that three troublesome chemicals—chloride, sulfate and TDS or “total dissolved solids”—maintained a steady concentration outside of the landfill, but within the landfill’s 1,000-meter boundary, these chemicals “dramatically” spiked. His spatial analysis shows concentrations five to seven times higher within the landfill’s boundaries compared with outside it. For TDS, for example, Nelson found that 13 of 30 reported values from DWQ’s own data show the landfill being out of compliance. In HEAL’s complaint, Nelson says SCA’s existing landfill is in “chronic violation” of its allowable contamination limits for TDS alone. The DWQ has not yet responded to Nelson’s analysis of the groundwater, but said in response to public comments that spikes of noncompliance of certain chemical concentrations aren’t the giant pile’s fault, but are just part of the natural geological landscape, including the effect of six years of drought in the area. Nelson’s comparison of reports from wells under the pile and outside of it challenges that assumption, according to HEAL’s complaint. If drought were to cause spikes within the landfill, then, logically, spikes would occur outside of it as well, and at a similar rate—but they don’t. Nelson compared the wells with Whitmore Springs, which is upstream from the pile, and found drastic differences even during times of drought. Nelson’s data shows increases by a factor of nearly seven in chloride and sulfate from a monitoring well under the landfill compared to sources outside it. While the biggest spikes appeared to be in TDS, chloride and sulfate, Nelson’s research also sounded a warning about four different monitoring wells under the pile that are spiking out of legal compliance for reported concentrations of selenium. While not as significant as the others, selenium can take a nasty toll on animals that ingest it, and the ill effects of too much of the trace element can be passed up the food chain. If humans take in too much selenium through eating contaminated food or drinking contaminated water, there is a danger of acquiring selenosis—a nasty ailment that can cause hair loss, gastrointestinal disorders, fatigue and even neurological impairment. The “protection value,” or upper limit, of allowable selenium pollution established in the permit for these groundwater wells is .0125 per liter of water. Nelson found that Whitmore Springs, uphill from the pile, never exceeded this limit even during the drought period, whereas “up to 41 percent of [selenium] concentrations in monitoring wells are out of compliance with the protection limit.”

Coalminer Gabriel Hunt (top) says East Carbon (bottom) “sold its soul to the devil to have the power plant be so close to our community.”

Incomplete Data

It’s not just the analyzed data that Nelson and HEAL found troubling, but also the unknown factors. Though Sunnyside Cogeneration Associates first got approved for its coal ash landfill in 1992, the earliest publicly available reports are from 1998, six years after the pile started building up. But while the existing landfill is monitored by five wells, only one monitoring well has been dug to monitor the groundwater for the expansion— which, when completed, will cover 34 acres and be within two miles of town. The SCA expansion will also lack a monitoring well that’s upgradient, meaning there won’t be an upstream monitoring well to compare with the well on the site of the new ash pile. DWQ scientist Daniel Hall said in an e-mail that “the uphill cliff topography also does not allow for access to an up-gradient well location.” Hall also wrote that the same number of monitoring wells wasn’t needed for the expansion because the agency is more knowledgeable about coal ash than it was previously. “When the first ash landfill was permitted over 20 years ago, less was known about the leaching potential of the coal ash, the site hydrogeology and natural background quality of the underlying aquifer,” he wrote. But Nelson says in the HEAL complaint that there’s no documentation of the first six years of monitoring. The complaint says that if DWQ has learned enough about coal-ash contamination in the past 20 years to justify less monitoring of a new landfill, then the homework should prove it—not just to HEAL, but to the public and the people of Sunnyside and East Carbon.

Hall says that permits can always be re-opened and considered after passage if new data finds inaccurate readings of groundwater quality. But Nelson’s report, however, contradicts this sentiment, given his assessment of the DWQ’s own reports that found drought-defying spikes of illegal and hazardous groundwater contamination. In his brief to the DWQ, Nelson concludes, “The strong evidence of releases from SCA #1 that have not been recognized and addressed by DWQ is disturbing.”

It’s Not Your Backyard

It can sometimes be difficult for environmental advocates to make people appreciate how often they use resources—water, dirt, air—that are so widely available and are easily taken for granted. And when

it comes to coal ash, HEAL supporters need a bunch of Salt Lakers to care about a landfill hundreds of miles away that won’t directly impact them. For HEAL director Chris Thomas, coal ash is just another part of an industry that provides the power for most of Utah. While Rocky Mountain Power doesn’t own Sunnyside Cogeneration Associates, it does buy its power and, according to a 2013 Integrated Resource Plan for PacifiCorp—the company that owns Rocky Mountain Power—the company does operate 16 “coal combustion byproduct” surface impoundments and six landfills. “We buy power from Rocky Mountain Power, and the Sunnyside coal plant provides some of that power,” Thomas says. “So while most of us are blissfully ignorant in some ways about where our power comes from and what effect it has, it’s not so for

those people who live in East Carbon and Sunnyside ... they’re impacted on a daily basis by it. “We should know what’s going on down there and ask for it to change,” he continues. Hunt, a coal miner, understands firsthand the importance of balancing jobs with regulations that can stifle rural economies. But when it comes to the coal-power plant and the truckers who haul the sizzling ash through town to the landfill, it’s easy to draw a clear line when it means having another 34 acres of ash landfill within two miles of town—jobs or no jobs. “There are some who might be able to look past what the corporation they work for does, because it’s not affecting their kids,” Hunts says. “But you don’t have an ash dump a mile away from the place where you ride bikes with your kids. It’s just not right.” CW

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Cultural Cartography Series: Welcome to Hanksville The desert landscapes in Southern Utah look like they could be from some barren, forbidding alien planet, and have served as such during the filming of Star Trek and many other movies. French filmmaker Melik Ohanian’s film Welcome to Hanksville explored the resemblance more openly, documenting the Aug. 27, 2003, gathering of pseudo-scientists in Hanksville during an astronomical phase that had Earth directly opposite Mars. In Ohanian’s methodical cinematic exploration of the site, the Earth’s desert and that of the Red Planet become transposed in the imagination of the viewer; the seemingly familiar environs of our own state start to take on a quality of the unknown, both eerie and enticing. The expansive vistas hint at the sprawling, enigmatic nature of time and space. The film is the first in the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art’s new series Cultural Cartographies: Mapping Man-Made Interventions In Contemporary Landscapes. Exhibits in the series use still images and filmmaking to investigate the ways in which various “interventions”—whether political, environmental, urban or utopian—inform current contemplations of geography and history. Ohanian’s work begins the series on a note that is subtle, meditative and breathtaking. (Brian Staker) Cultural Cartography Series: Welcome to Hanksville @ Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through June 28, free. UtahMOCA.org

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A board with rusty nails, an old can of soda, a derelict automobile, an old metal shack. In Nancy Vorm’s work, it’s not the board, the soda, the automobile or the shack that are the focus, but rather the iron oxide known as rust. The natural question might be “why rust?” Vorm’s work, currently at Finch Lane Gallery, “is the result of an obsession with rusting paper that I began in 2010,” according to her artist’s statement. In form alone, the wall grids and circles within squares of this exhibition each have striking and complex compositional detailing. Vorm uses a combination of paper, rust and beeswax, which can be applied to sturdy surfaces or left as paper. A construct such as “Hoosier 9-patch,” with its own language of pattern, is technically extraordinary, and the philosophical context addresses the reality of transience. The manifestation and development of rust serves as an indicator of eventual decay, inspiring notions about essential change that are ripe for fascinating consideration. A hanging sculpture like “Dangling Permutations” (pictured) makes this philosophy accessible. Each individual fragment is presented in numerous hanging linear strands, perhaps to suggest the passage of time: the fragment beneath comes before, the fragment on top will inevitably proceed. Nothing in life is permanent. (Ehren Clark) Nancy Vorm @ Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane (1320 E. 100 South), 801-5965000, through June 20, free. SLCGov.com

Nathan Webster—architect and co-founder of NOW-ID with partner and choreographer Charlotte Boye-Christensen—notes that The Great Saltair, the venue perched on the shores of the Great Salt Lake, is the perfect space for the company’s new work, Feast, because of its role as a place of transition and as a threshold between the urban and the natural, and between the present and the past. Thematically, the one-night-only dance/theater event is about appetites, tastes and desires, the actual physical dimensions of the human body and how the ritual of eating can mark the passage of time. But the title is also fitting for a collaborative piece that brings together so many different international artists—architects, actors, musicians, dancers—to the same table to feed off of one another creatively. For Boye-Christensen, the work is really about “one phenomenal date, one sitting down at the table, one meal, one feast. This piece belongs in this place, this time, with a contemporary context and a deep conception of the historical. It’s a rich text that feeds off the unique environs of the salt flats and this historical building that resides out there.” Feast is designed to be an immersive event. Members of the audience will be guided through the space with an intimacy that will make them feel as if they are sitting down at the table with the performers for an all-encompassing sensory feast. (Jacob Stringer) NOW-ID: Feast @ The Great Saltair, 12408 W. Saltair Drive, Magna, 510-5016915, May 24, 7:30 p.m., $30 general admission plus options for Fun Bus or Mood Bus transportation. NOW-ID.com

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TUESDAY 5.27

Broadway Across America: Memphis Throughout America’s long, tangled history of dealing with racial tension, the arts—even more specifically, music—have played a key role in narrowing the divide between races. The winner of the 2010 Tony Award for Best Musical, Memphis explores a specific moment when the popular music of black America started crossing over into the mainstream in a way that would change the nation. Set in segregated 1950s Memphis, the show tells the story of Huey Calhoun, a white man who can’t resist the city’s black nightclubs and their distinctive music that becomes the precursor to rock & roll. He even tries to spread the word about the music through his community, eventually making his way to a local radio station, where his spontaneous decision to play black music meets resistance from the station’s owner but becomes a sensation with the city’s teenagers. But that is far from the only risk that Huey seems prepared to take in challenging Memphis’ color lines: He falls in love with a talented black singer named Felicia, beginning a relationship that risks not just both of their careers, but their lives. Energized by the spirit, tensions and music of its era, Memphis features original songs by Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan, with the book and additional lyrics by Joe DiPietro. The production will also re-create the Tony Award-winning choreography by Sergio Trujillo (Jersey Boys), adding up to an irresistible mix of music and movement. (Scott Renshaw) Broadway Across America: Memphis @ Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, May 27-June 1, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday 7:30 p.m., Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 2 & 8 p.m., Sunday 1 & 6:30 p.m., $32.50-$55. ArtTix.org

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role. In the event of a tie, closing arguShakespeare in the park: Steven Pond as ments and rebuttals were made, all Touchstone (left) and Jessica Myer as Rosalind for the goal of reaching a place where (right) in As You Like It. everyone had faith in the cohesion of the cast. It was a grueling three hours before the jury reached unanimity. you [want] to ask something of the audiRehearsals for As You Like It started just ence, trust them to give it to you.” And nine days before opening night. The first Daniel Whiting insisted that the producsix nights were dedicated to blocking onetion should remain thematically pure: third of the play per night. On the first “That’s a sex joke,” he points out again and night, the cast choreographed a jig to be again throughout the night. “It’s all about performed at the close of each show. On sex.” the fourth night, the company’s musicians When the play opened two nights later hashed out where to use mandolin, guitar, at Orem’s Scera Park, the cast and crew had clarinet, gong, etc. The final three nights taken every suggestion to heart. In addiwere dress rehearsals, though props and tion to setting a light-hearted mood before costumes showed up piecemeal before the curtain call, the musicians accentuated producer’s preview on night eight. the action beautifully, drawing laughter, The entirety of each four-hour rehearsal emphasizing romance and building suswas collaborative, as actors ran through the pense. The actors milked the humor from same scene time and again, asking for sugShakespeare’s text and built upon it with gestions in between. In keeping with origifast-paced staging and audience interacnal practice, actors aimed to ground sugtion. The audience was drawn into the gestions in Shakespeare’s original intent. action, so the evening was punctuated with As blocking one scene got particularly them cheering on heroes, booing villains, contentious, Daniel Fenton Anderson (who shouting out answers and laughing all the plays Silvius) reminded the crew, “What while. CW we’re blocking should come from the text rather than putting things on the text.” Grassroots Shakespeare Two nights before the opening performance, the Grassroots board attended a Company: As You Like It rehearsal and gave feedback that encap- Margaret Wines Park sulated the philosophy behind Grassroots. 600 N. Center St., Lehi Board member Davey Morrison Dillard May 23, 7:30 p.m. emphasized that the action should be nonAdditional performances of As You Like It and stop: “When I don’t hear something happening, it feels like a mistake,” he said. The Henry V in Utah locations through July 12 company also aims to make Shakespeare Free with suggested donation of $3 per person easy for audiences to understand, while GrassrootsShakespeare.com still respecting their comprehension. As Bianca Morrison Dillard says, “Whenever

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n a Saturday afternoon just six weeks before opening night, some 35 actors auditioned for some of the most famous stage roles in the history of theater. In addition to monologues, the audition involved questions about scheduling, musical abilities and—of course— cross-dressing. When one man responded, “I love playing a woman,” he was quickly listed for callbacks. The same happened when a woman said she could get her hands on some finger-cymbals. While the finger-cymbals may be a bit anachronistic, both cross-dressing and live music were integral parts of Shakespeare’s original productions, and Grassroots Shakespeare Company is dedicated to producing shows the way 16thcentury companies might have done them. Using a method called “original practice,” Grassroots imposes Renaissance-style conditions on its shows: minimal rehearsal time, no director, no sets, homemade costumes, live music, loads of cross-dressing and constant audience interaction. And though stripping away most of the conventional elements of modern theater might seem like a recipe for disaster, Grassroots’ productions have been drawing increasing crowds since the company launched in 2009. Callbacks for this year’s productions, to be performed in parks across Utah this summer, took place at Utah Valley University a week after auditions and upped the ante on the already quirky process. First, the 16 hopefuls were divided into groups to choreograph and perform a jig. To show how seriously Grassroots takes jigs, those who showed up late were ordered to perform their own personal jigs on the spot. After jigging, each actor performed a monologue and asked the group for suggestions. After hearing three suggestions, the actor would incorporate at least one of them and perform the monologue again. Finally, the auditioning actors themselves voted to decide the cast. Once the ballots were in, the eight cast members still had to be assigned roles. This was also done democratically, but in a process that felt more like jury duty than a best-of-Shakespeare competition. Cast members sequestered themselves in the UVU library and performed scenes from As You Like It at the request of the rest of the group. Then, heads went down and hands went up in favor of the various candidates, and an attending board member took count. The process was repeated for each

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A&E Intro to Geek Journalism Make sure to consider the source when deciding whose “news” to trust. By Bryan Young comments@cityweekly.net @swankmotron

n case you hadn’t heard, we are living in the Information Age. There’s an endless wealth of information at the fingertips of anyone with a computer. And online, any story—true or false— can spread like wildfire. Maybe it’s our own fault. We’re geeks, and part of being a geek is wanting to know even the most minute details about the things we love. We’re constantly on the hunt for news. And since we’ve coupled our interest with unbridled enthusiasm, we share what we’ve learned with others. You wouldn’t think this would be a problem, but people are often drastically misinformed about things, and it’s hard for legitimate news outlets and people with journalistic ethics to keep people informed when there are so many fake stories in the world of geekdom. Take, for instance, the recent incident involving rumors about the title of the new Star Wars film, scheduled for release next year. Harry Knowles of AintItCool. com said he was confident that Episode V II would be titled The Ancient Fear. Knowles ran a similar story in 2004, during the runup to Revenge of the Sith. That time, he was confident the title of Episode III would be The Creeping Fear. His website had also said it was 100 percent confirmed that Christopher Walken had been cast as the villain in Episode II. Other journalists looked at Knowles’ piece on Episode VII, did some digging,

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made calls to sources, and then decided to ignore it. But, just as Mark Twain said, this little piece of “journalism” made it halfway around the world while the truth was still putting on its shoes. Everyone from C-NET to Entertainment Weekly reported the announcement that Episode VII would be titled The Ancient Fear. Conan O’Brien even did a sketch using the title as a jumping off point. Searching Google News for the title yields more than 14,000 articles, and not a single one on the first page of results has a headline that casts any doubt on the veracity of the report. This is something that happens almost every day in fandom. Anyone can have a website, but not everyone is as thorough as they should be when deciding to run or not run a story. Some websites run unsubstantiated rumors as fast as they can find them because we keep clicking on them. Then you get a whole bunch of publicity for a movie (or a book or a comic book or whatever) that doesn’t even exist yet. So what can we do? First and foremost, consider the source. See how these sites are reporting the rumor. Is it being reported as fact? W here is the conf irmation from an official source or reliable outlet? Follow links back to the original article and weigh the trustworthiness of that source. If you realize a site is creating headlines that are simply clickbait, don’t read them anymore. Remove them from your bookmarks and find sites that properly source and cite their information and clearly label things as rumors. You may have to do some hunting, but you can find places that aren’t simply out to bait you. CW Bryan Young is the editor-in-chief of BigShinyRobot.com

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Alice Gallery: The Family of Things As the calendar and the weather keep inching their way toward more seasonable warmth, the world of nature starts to come into sharper focus. The Family of Things showcases some emerging local artists’ works that were inspired by the natural world. The exhibit features paintings, photography and video from artists including Mary Baum, Tiana Birrell, Ronald Linn, Hannah Mortensen and Jena Schmidt. Taking its title from a verse in the poem “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver, the show presents works that range from the strictly representational to abstract interpretations of nature. It’s not about nature being something that’s outside ourselves, but a mirror, or a constellation in which humans take their place. As the closing lines of Oliver’s poem state: “Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting—over and over announcing your place in the family of things.” (Brian Staker) The Family Of Things @ Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, 801-236-7555, through July 11, free. ArtsAndMuseums.Utah.gov

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SATURDAY 5.24

The middle is an interesting place to enter a narrative. It situates the story just so—events have come before and events will certainly come after. What you’re about to experience is just part of the big picture. Beowulf is just such a story. Believed to have been written sometime in the eighth century, Beowulf tells the tale of its eponymous hero, a wandering Scandinavian who attempts to return a kingdom to peace by destroying the monster, Grendel, that is tormenting it. Perfect theatrical fodder for Meat & Potato Theatre (which also brought Homer’s The Odyssey to stage in recent years), Beowulf interweaves historical people and places with fictional feats like destroying a mythical dragon. Even more impressive is how Meat & Potato can create epic battles of early European kingdoms on a small studio theater stage. (Jacob Stringer) Meat & Potato Theatre: Beowulf @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-3552787, May 23-June 8, Thursdays-Saturdays 8 p.m., Sundays 2 p.m., $20. ArtTix.org, MeatAndPotato.org

Dance Theatre Coalition (DTC), never willing to stage the expected, is always looking for a way to push artistic boundaries. In the case of Kinematic Suite 5, DTC presents film artist Justin Chouinard and sound artist Joe Greathouse (aka VCR5) for a unique visual and sonic collage. The VCR5 moniker makes sense when you realize Greathouse’s musical instrument of choice is an array of five VHS machines that he uses to manipulate sound on prerecorded clunky magnetic tapes. Chouinard’s work is also hands-on in that he tweaks, manipulates and bends raw film footage as it passes through a series of projectors. This is the first time Chouinard and VCR5 have worked together—a bit of a surprise, since both local artists prefer the odd repurposing of analog media. The spontaneous mix of live improvisation and re-imagined sound and visuals will be an intoxicating and immersive one-night-only artistic installation. (Jacob Stringer) Dance Theatre Coalition: Kinematic Suite 5 @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, May 24, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m. $15. ArtTix.org, DanceTheatreCoalition.org

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FRIDAY 5.23 Chris Kattan

When the gift of improv runs through your veins, it seems a natural evolution to eventually find yourself onstage doing stand-up comedy. Such is the case with Chris Kattan, the sketch comedian best known for his memorable Saturday Night Live roles like Mango the exotic dancer and Mr. Peepers the lab monkey. After years of using stand-up comedy as the butt of many of his own jokes on Saturday Night Live, Kattan now finds himself enjoying a new comedic outlet as an actual stand-up comic, connecting on a personal level with his audiences; he has even been known to jump into the audience and perform an impromptu lap dance or two. Engaging with the audience and creating a relatable show is what Kattan prides himself on, but don’t expect a scripted show. The comedian’s ability to improvise will also take him on a tangent or two—some likely suitable only for adult audiences. (Aimee Cook O’Brien) Chris Kattan @ Wiseguys West Valley, 2194 W. 3500 South, 801-463-2909, May 23-24, 7:30 p.m. & 9:30 p.m., May 25, 7:30 p.m., $25. WiseguysComedy.com

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atop avocado wedges, sprinkled Neighborhood nosh: Caffe Niche puts the focus with black and white sesame on local products with its roasted half chicken, seeds and accompanied by crispy warm quinoa salad and deviled eggs. fried wonton skins ($10). Other temptations from the “small plates” other folks awaiting takeout meals. I’ve portion of the Caffe Niche menu range from written before that the best way to judge retro deviled local eggs ($3) and warm a restaurant is by its roasted chicken; if a potato salad with peas, bacon, corn and chef can’t properly cook a chicken, there’s citrus aioli on Idaho banana fingerlings ($6) not much reason to venture any deeper to an exquisite porcini-dusted sea scallop, into the menu. And I’m happy to report seared and served with black Beluga lentils that the roast half-chicken ($16) of Lappé’s and crunchy pancetta ($9). that I ordered for takeout is a lesson in As with all of the LaSalle Group res- roasting perfection. I drooled all the way taurants, Caffe Niche focuses on the use home, the inviting aromas of the chicken of local products. The artichokes are from wafting from the back seat of my car. The Sevillo Fine Foods in Midvale, Provo’s organic chicken was perfectly cooked, with Pleasant Creek Ranch provides Wagyu crispy skin and tender, juicy meat maribeef, much of the produce is grown at nated in herb, garlic and lemon gremolata, Eden’s Sandhill Farms, elk meat for the and came with a delicious warm salad of bodacious elk burger is from Ashton Farms red quinoa and arugula. in Fillmore, and baking flour is milled at The Thai salad ($15) with beef, Napa Lehi Roller Mills. Numerous other local cabbage, toasted coconut, mangoes, avoproviders are represented on the menu cados and more is quite popular, but my and, with the exception of scallops and Niche salad fave is the crab Louis ($16). It’s salmon, there’s not much that isn’t from a big mound of lump crab meat on “live” Utah or its neighboring states of Idaho and butter lettuce with heirloom cherry tomaWyoming. Aunt Lappé would approve. toes, avocado, Champagne vinaigrette and Service at Caffe Niche is as friendly as homemade Thousand Island dressing—an it is professional, and I was particularly excellent dish for a warm spring evening. impressed by and thankful for a server When you visit Caffe Niche, make time named Venice, whose versatility and help- to belly up to the bar and have mixologist fulness in customizing a couple of dishes Chris Bradshaw whip up a classic cocktail allowed me to trade out braised greens for like the Pimm’s Cup or Sazerac. Then, shaved Brussels sprouts with my pan-fried, prepare to be delighted by Lappé’s underpanko-breaded halibut, which also came stated but excellent cuisine. CW with black-eyed peas and remoulade ($24). At lunchtime, you can’t go wrong with the Caffe Niche house-braised Snake River Farms Kobe779 E. 300 South style corned beef sandwich ($12); it’s killer. On the eve of a recent trip to Sonoma, I 801-433-3380 had no time to cook dinner and stopped by CaffeNiche.com Caffe Niche for some takeout food. It turns out that this is not so unusual; there were

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ne of the benefits of having Alexa at Dexterity Salon cut my hair is that it provides me with a convenient excuse to grab some grub at Caffe Niche, which is adjacent to the salon. I’ll probably slim down a bit when Dexterity moves into its new location on 300 South downtown. I don’t know what will replace Dexterity, but I hope its move won’t negatively affect business at Caffe Niche, because the eatery seems to be just hitting its stride. Caffe Niche has evolved over the years, beginning as a limited-menu breakfast and lunch spot, then expanding to offer dinner on weekends and finally to where it is now: You can enjoy breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week, along with brunch on Saturday and Sunday. The missing piece of the Caffe Niche puzzle might have been Joel LaSalle, whose LaSalle Group partnered with Niche’s chef, Ethan Lappé, a few months ago. The LaSalle Group also owns Oasis Cafe, Faustina and Kyoto Japanese Restaurant, but its footprint is light, not interfering too much in the day-to-day operations and menus. The LaSalle Group restaurants are anything but cookie-cutter, and Caffe Niche remains unique and inviting, with its comfy, clean décor and uncluttered food to match. As Caffe Niche has evolved, I have really come to enjoy chef/owner Lappé’s cooking. He’s a graduate of the much-lauded Culinary Institute of America in Napa, but he doesn’t wear his big-time credentials on his sleeve. His food, much like the man himself, is very approachable—down-toearth cuisine that is creative but not contrived. That shouldn’t come as a surprise given that Lappé’s aunt is food activist and Diet for a Small Planet author Frances Moore Lappé, who Ethan says “deeply influenced” his relationship with food and the culinary arts. Which brings me to the artichoke. You wouldn’t think that something as simple and satisfying as an artichoke would be so damned difficult to find in restaurants, but it is. Kudos to Lappé, then, for giving customers the opportunity to enjoy the most basic of culinary pleasures: a roasted whole artichoke ($7). It’s beautifully browned, cut in half and served on a plate drizzled with olive oil, dusted with minced parsley and black pepper, and comes with housemade aioli for dipping. Simple, yet sensational. The same can be said for sushi-grade raw tuna in the form of poke tartare: chunks of bright-red tuna in a light sesame dressing

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On Sunday, June 1, Log Haven restaurant (6451 E. Millcreek Canyon Road, 801-272-8255, Log-Haven.com) will kick off its annual Dog Days of Summer with a Summer Shake-Off cocktail contest to benefit the Humane Society of Utah. Talented mixologists from Log Haven, BTG, Finca and Taqueria 27 will create canine-themed cocktails, looking to win Best in Show. Yours truly will be a judge, along with Salt Lake Magazine’s Mary Malouf and Scott Beck, president of Visit Salt Lake. Log Haven’s Dog Days of Summer offers al fresco dining in its hillside amphitheater for dogs and their well-behaved owners. The admission price for the Summer Shake-Off is $20 per person and includes hors d’oeuvres, tax and gratuity. A portion of the proceeds from the Shake-Off will benefit the Humane Society of Utah, which will be at Log Haven during the event with dogs for adoption. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and the contest will kick off at 6:15. Reservations are recommended.

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Look for a cool new sandwich concept coming soon to 414 E. 200 South in Salt Lake City called Even Stevens Sandwiches (Facebook.com/ EvenStevensSandwiches). For every sandwich sold, Even Stevens will donate a sandwich to a local nonprofit organization. Initially, Even Stevens will provide sandwiches to the Good Samaritan Program, the Rescue Mission and Volunteers of America Homeless Youth Outreach. Among Even Stevens’ founders is former Metropolitan owner Karen Olson. Quote of the week: When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. —Saint Jerome Food Matters 411: teds@xmission.com

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riving down Redwood Road is one of the easiest ways to explore the variety of ethnic foods available along the Wasatch Front. Asian markets, pho joints, African and Indian restaurants line the street, all promising tasty adventures. And now even a fruit cart has arrived on the scene, just in time for summer.

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Popular in Los Angeles and Mexico, fruit carts sell a variety of bite-size fruits, often with spicy toppings that elevate the dish beyond a simple fruit cup or salad. There’s no menu to speak of at the Mem’s Fruit truck, which sets up shop in the parking lot of Lucero’s Tires at 1039 S. Redwood Road. The fruit is served in clear plastic bags with a fork: nicely portable and easy to eat. Orders can be customized, but the cart employees don’t speak much English, and since I don’t speak Spanish, I handed over my cash— they don’t accept credit cards—for the standard combination. The layered fruit is sprinkled with cayenne pepper and doused with fresh lime juice, which accentuates the sweetness. On top, ripe watermelon, tart mango and sliced young coconut are imbued with new, heavenly tastes thanks to the pepper and lime. The middle layer is comprised of melon and pineapple, which add interesting textures and tangy flavors to the salad. Once you’ve made your way to the bottom of the bag, the final layer of cucumber and jicama have soaked up the lime juice, ending your meal with a delicious kick. With friendly and speedy service, Mem’s Fruit is a healthy and surprisingly filling lunch option. Ordering might be easier if you speak Spanish, but even if you don’t, no worries. Pointing, nodding and smiling work well, too. CW

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hances are pretty good that you’ll find yourself at a backyard bash, barbecue or picnic in the park this Memorial Day weekend. And while cold beer is a no-brainer for cookouts, wine selections can be a bit trickier. The average backyard barbecue offers a wide array of flavors and wine-pairing opportunities, from smoked and grilled meats to buttery corn on the cob, creamy potato salad and coleslaw, tangy barbecue sauce, grilled veggies, watermelon and much more. So, the way I see it, you’ve got two options when serving wine at a cookout: You could always take the path of least resistance and just serve one all-purpose

white wine and one versatile red. Or, even easier, simply buy a few bottles of Rosé and call it a day. The second option is to try to match a range of different wines to specific dishes. Obviously, this is a rougher road, but one that will give you the chance to turn your outdoor holiday fête into an enjoyable and informative wine-tasting experience. There are no wrongs or rights here. As always, you should drink whatever you like with whatever you’re eating. Don’t overthink the simple pleasures of a holiday get-together with family or friends. Having said that, here are some suggestions for cookout food and wine pairings featuring some wines I’ve been tasting lately. For grilled meats, tomato-based barbecue sauces, burgers, pizzas and such, I often turn to inexpensive, light and fruity Garnacha from Spain. Spanish Garnacha seems to take especially well to foods with a bit of smoke. There’s a wide assortment of good Garnacha available in the wine stores here, and you might even decide to turn your barbecue into a Garnachatasting opportunity. Some specific ones I like include Tres Picos ($18.99), Zabrin Atteca ($16.99), Gardacho Vieja ($11.99) and Lo Brujo ($8.99). American Zinfandel is another good barbecue wine, although I’d seek out lower-alcohol versions; you don’t really want

DRINK to be drinking wines that are 15 percent alcohol-by-volume in the hot holiday sun. A solid go-to California Zin is Ravenswood Vintner’s Blend ($12.99), which is big enough to stand up to smoky ribs, grilled steaks and the like, but has rich fruit flavors and smooth tannins. Or, if you’d care to spend more for one of the best Zins you’ll ever uncork, I’d suggest treating yourself to a bottle of Bucklin Old Hill Ranch Zinfandel ($29.99), from gnarly old Sonoma vines that predate the American Civil War. Rosé wines are a slamdunk for barbecues and other outdoor outings. And again, I’d turn to Will Bucklin and his outstanding Old Hill Ranch Rosé ($20), a bone-dry blend of Grenache, Zinfandel, Mourvedre, Syrah and Carignane. I really like Rosé with chicken dishes, whether cold chicken salad or chicken from the grill

with barbecue sauce. I also recently had the opportunity to taste Atrea Skid Rosé ($15.97) in Sonoma. It’s a substantial wine made from 86 percent Malbec and 14 percent Grenache. It’s a perfect burger buddy. Other good Rosé choices include Zepaltas ($13.99) and Château d’Aqueria Tavel ($18.99). Crisp Sauvignon Blanc is especially suited to salads, grilled chicken or fish, vegetables and even asparagus or artichokes, which are well-known wine enemies. I’ve been enjoying a couple of South American versions lately: Mapema ($12.99), from Argentina, and Chile’s Santa Rita Medalla Real Gran Reserva ($15.28). For grilled pork or lamb kabobs, I suggest a delicious Greek white wine that is well off most wine lovers’ radar: Santorini Sigalas Assyrtiko ($21.91). It’s fruity with good mineral underpinnings, and acidic enough to cut through creamy or buttery potato salad. Time to fire up the grill! CW

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This eclectic vegan-friendly cafe specializes in crepes both savory and sweet, and is open every day until 1 a.m. There’s a nice assortment of savory crepes to choose from, like the mesquite barbecue chicken, or mushroom, pesto & cheese. On the sweet side, the strawberries & cream, banana-chocolate, and Nutella crepes are delectable. The funky, cozy atmosphere in this house-turned-coffee-shop is inviting for folks who want to enjoy a coffee and crepe to stay. Tea lovers will be pleased with the gourmet tea selections and housemade chai. 3231 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, 801-466-3273

This welcoming, family-friendly eatery serves a perfect Monte Cristo: ham, turkey and cheese on wheat bread that’s battered, fried till golden, dusted with sugar and served with raspberry jam on the side. Plus, there are big-screen TVs for watching your favorite sports action. Other popular food items include the Chubby melt burger and the hickory-spiced, charcrusted Angus shoulder steak. Fish lovers will enjoy the tortilla-crusted tilapia and the beer-battered fish & chips. Wash it all down with a cold beer, on tap or in the bottle. 3451 S. 5600, West Valley City, 801417-0051, CopperCreekPub.com

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and be prepared to be wowed. Slip your spoon into a luscious sweet-potato bisque with habañero whipped cream for Saturday brunch. For lunch or dinner, try a small plate of albóndigas—chicken, corn and cilantro meatballs smothered in chocolate mole sauce. Dessert brings more mole in the form of pastel de mole negro: a chocolate mole cake accompanied by housemade black-pepper ice cream. Absorb Frida’s energy and leave inspired. 545 W. 700 South, Salt Lake City, 801983-6692, FridaBistro.com

Cher’s Deli

This burger joint is a sort of fusion of burgers and Greek cuisine. So, along with burgers on the extensive menu, you’ll also find chicken, fish, shrimp, gyros, souvlaki, a rib-eye sandwich and fish & chips. For a sweet treat, spoon into a root beer float and enjoy nearly any soda flavor you can think of. Folks say Big Jim’s pastrami burger is life changing. 2922 S. 1900 West, Ogden, 801-622-9256; 3511 Harrison Blvd., Ogden, 801-621-5557, BigJimsBurgers.net

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With perhaps the greatest patio view of the Salt Lake City skyline, Gracie’s is one of the most comfortable, casual restaurant/bars downtown and is an inviting spot to take your out-of-town guests. The full menu of gastropub fare ups the ante on typical greasy bar snacks; even the fries are available in the sweet-potato variety served with Sriracha ketchup. Gracie’s also features live music almost every night of the week, especially in the summer. 326 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 801819-7565, GraciesSLC.com

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Asian Isle is a small Chinese restaurant with intentionally dim lighting but a bright color palette. A most delicate dish is the Triple Crown—an abundance of plump, tender shrimp, crispy sea scallops and pieces of juicy, boneless chicken breast bathed in a glistening white-wine garlic sauce with onions, snow peas, miniature corn and crunchy slices of water chestnut. The black-pepper beef is a savory delight: thin, tender slices of beef enveloped in a sassy sauce with a blast of ground black pepper, carrots, snow peas, red pepper and sweet onion. 488 E. 100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-363-8833, GoAsianIsle.com

Big Apple Pizzeria

Big Apple Pizzeria is a family neighborhood pizza joint with a casual atmosphere that dishes up authentic, New York-style pizza: thin crust, hand-tossed, with Big Apple’s signature sauce, whole-milk mozzarella and Romano cheeses and a wide variety of quality toppings. Big Apple Pizzeria also serves sandwiches, pasta dishes, calzones, salads and a variation of the calzone called the Bender. But the main attraction is pizza, so dig in to a specialty pizza like the Slaughterhouse, pesto or Chicago stuffed pie and pair it with a malted beverage. 2939 E. 3300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-485-4534, TheBigApplePizzeria.com

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Lone Star Taqueria looks like a taco shack transported from a Baja beach right into Cottonwood Heights. It’s a cool and kitschy place, with cold Mexican cervezas served in glass cowboy boots and a rockin’ sound system. Everything is fresh at this inexpensive eatery, from the tortillas and salsas to the tamales and tacos. The fresh fish tacos with jalapeño aioli are wildly popular, as is the zippy jalapeño-spiked guacamole. But don’t miss the chance to taste one of the many burrito varieties—Lone Star is a longtime top vote-getter for Best Burritos in City Weekly’s Best of Utah awards. 2265 E. Fort Union Blvd., Salt Lake City, 801-944-2300, LonestarTaqueria.com

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voids in the lives of each other’s kids: Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore in Blended Jim helping Lauren’s anxious younger son (Kyle Red Silverstein) finally learn how to hit a baseball, Lauren showthe huge chests of Hooters waitresses, even ing Jim’s tomboyish 15-year-old daughter if Jim goes to Hooters for, you know, senti(Bella Thorne) how to be a lady, etc. mental reasons. It’s pratfalls and doubleIt’s occasionally charming, in no small entendre and juvenile sex obsession and part thanks to the adorable Alyvia Alyn Lind toilet humor, but it’s pratfalls and doubleas Jim’s youngest daughter. But there’s also entendre and juvenile sex obsession and something that Barrymore seems to bring toilet humor with heart. And unlike most out in Sandler, a thing that I’d call “sincerother recent Sandler comedies, the heart ity” if that didn’t seem grossly inapproprifeels vaguely earned this time. ate for any conversation involving Adam Blended starts to overstay its welcome Sandler. Nor does the term “chemistry” once the families return from their African really apply, at least in the romantic sense. adventure, dragging toward the scene It’s more like Barrymore has shown herself where everyone lives happily ever after. willing to be ridiculous for the cause of Yet while it’s hard not to wonder about the his movies—like flailing madly in the air role played by the historically low stanwhen the car pulling her parasail runs out dard of expectations for Sandler films, of gas—and as a result, Sandler has shown Blended ultimately feels … OK. It’s a pleasher the friendly respect of not indulging ant thing watching these two performers his willingness to tell the laziest possible together, even as it’s a frustrating thing joke in the laziest possible way. watching the familiar Sandler nonsense Then again, he is fundamentally who he get in the way. We can probably thank Drew is, so Blended—directed by Sandler stalBarrymore for being the muse who makes wart Frank Coraci (The Wedding Singer, Adam Sandler put on his nice clothes every Click)—never strays too far from the Happy once in a while, limit his farting in public Madison formula. There may be weepy and generally act like a grown-up. CW moments where Jim’s middle daughter (Emma Fuhrmann) continues to have conBLENDED versations with her dead mother, but there’s also an insistence on finding it inherent- HH.5 ly hilarious whenever a female character Adam Sandler might be a lesbian, or that a teenage girl Drew Barrymore might be more skilled at basketball than a Bella Thorne similarly aged boy. We’re going to get the Rated PG-13 kind of moment where the camera ogles

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here’s a metaphor somewhere in the relationship at the center of Blended between Jim (Adam Sandler) and Lauren (Drew Barrymore). He’s a widower with three daughters who has no idea how to relate to the females around him; she’s a recently divorced mother of two boys who runs a closet-organizing service, taking disheveled areas and making them more orderly. It’s the Adam Sandler cinematic oeuvre in a nutshell: An oblivious, crude guy whose existence seems to need nothing more desperately than it needs a woman’s touch. That woman’s touch has come almost exclusively from Barrymore over the course of Sandler’s movie career; she’s the only female legitimate co-lead he’s had in 20 years of his Happy Madison-produced comedies, with the possible exception of Winona Ryder in Mr. Deeds (and that’s stretching the definition). And those pairings—The Wedding Singer in 1998 and 50 First Dates in 2004—have been the better for her endearingly goofy presence, softening Sandler’s natural tendency toward aiming at the sense of humor of an audience that (at the risk of going full McConaughey) while he keeps getting older, they stay the same age. So here we have Jim and Lauren starting off on a disastrous blind date, then winding up on together on a vacation in South Africa for blended families, sharing a suite and having everyone believe they’re actually a couple because … you know what, never mind trying to explain the logic by which this happens. Suffice it to say that Sandler has once again figured out a way to turn one of his movies into a studiosponsored vacation, though the cameos from the usual gang of Sandler’s pals are limited to half a dozen or so. And the focus is actually on the two adults helping fill the

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CINEMA CLIPS NEW THIS WEEK Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change. Belle HHH On paper, it sounds like the kind of earnest period piece built entirely around its long-historical-view sense of moral superiority: the fact-based story of Dido Belle Lindsay (Gugu MbathaRaw), the mixed-race illegitimate daughter of an English gentleman (Matthew Goode), raised in the aristocratic household of her great uncle Lord Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson)—the equivalent of 18th-century England’s Chief Justice—with all the raised eyebrows that such an arrangement entails. Yet it proves to be a more intriguing tale than that, exploring the social status of the era’s women that actually renders Dido, with her substantial inheritance, a more attractive potential wife than her white cousin, Elizabeth (Sarah Gadon), whose father has left her with nothing. Eventually, director Amma Asante loses track of that idea, and makes the story all about Lord Mansfield presiding over a potentially landmark legal case, plus the sneering bigotry of Tom Felton, who all but shouts “filthy mudblood” at Dido. Belle proves more effective when it’s mixing its romantic yearnings— like Belle’s connection to a young abolitionist (Sam Reid)—with a look at thorny questions of where one fits in a stratified society. Opens May 23 at theaters valleywide. (PG)—Scott Renshaw

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Blended HH.5 See review p. 35. Opens May 23 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) Chef HHH Jon Favreau writes, directs and stars in a sunny, small-scale story that feels like a response to the giant studio projects he’s overseen in recent years; to paraphrase someone in the film, he’s cooking for himself again. He plays Carl Casper, a once-promising chef who has grown complacent, cooking good but unimaginative dishes until a scathing review from an influential critic inspires him to try something new. He opens a food truck, then drives across the country with his adoring 10-year-old son (Emjay Anthony) and his sous chef (John Leguizamo) to hone his craft. Favreau and Leguizamo have a natural rapport, and the father-son bonding with the kid is a nice touch, sweet without being sappy. Chef is frequently hilarious and brimming with food porn; more attention is lavished on how to make a proper Cuban sandwich, for example, than on several of

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the film’s characters or on the story, which comes from a box rather than from scratch. Still, it’s a return to the Favreau we used to know and love: a sardonic motormouth with a soft center who’s just a lot of fun to hang out with. Opens May 23 at theaters valleywide. (R)—Eric D. Snider

The Immigrant [not yet reviewed] Since The Weinstein Company doesn’t give a rat’s ass about publicity in “flyover markets,” your guess is as good as mine. Opens May 23 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)

X-Men: Days of Future Past [not yet reviewed] Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) travels into the past to try to prevent a future mutant apocalypse. Opens May 23 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS The Grand Budapest Hotel At Park City Film Series, May 23-24 @ 8 p.m. & May 25 @ 6 p.m. (R) The Last Shepherd At Main Library, May 27, 7 p.m. (NR) Pulp Fiction At Brewvies, May 26, 10 p.m. (R)

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Fed Up HHH Yes, it follows a familiar advocacy-doc template—but sometimes it’s hard to deny how viscerally the topic hits you. Katie Couric narrates this look at the American epidemic of obesity, focusing on childhood obesity and the diet of processed foods that’s creating a public-health time bomb. The talking heads plow diligently through the data, hitting familiar targets like unhealthy public school lunches, and the individual case studies of obese adolescents seem too calculated to be the emotional touchstones in the middle of all the statistics. It’s also an alarming, eye-opening look at how little most people understand the real problem, and how hard it seems to be to get policy-makers to risk the ire of food-industry lobbyists and address the threat. I may not remember the filmmaking, but I’ll remember that soda it got me to put down. (PG)—SR

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Godzilla HHH Gareth Edwards serves up a giant lizard movie with style, as U.S. Navy Lt. Ford Brody (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), who has a tragic family history involving a mysterious earthquake in Japan, encounters the King of Monsters as he takes on giant insect creatures. The material involving human characters is somewhat perfunctory get-back-to-your-loved-ones stuff, but Edwards chooses to keep his movie interesting by making it genuinely fascinating to watch, full of genuinely striking images and a willingness to tease viewers on the way to the big finale. At last, of course, we do get to the battle of the behemoths, and there’s both a nostalgic crowd-pleasing quality and an almost mythical approach to these creatures and their titanic showdowns. Edwards commits to that idea even when it means not giving audiences exactly what they might expect from their contemporary blockbusters. (PG-13)—SR

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Locke HHH.5 Writer/director Steven Knight and star Tom Hardy create an indelible character through 90 minutes of phone conversations in a car. Hardy plays Ivan Locke, a married-with-kids construction foreman who takes off one night to be there when the woman with whom he had a one-night stand gives birth to his baby. Locke’s imaginary conversations with his father provide context for his decision, and perhaps there’s one too many of them. But Hardy’s mesmerizing performance captures a man with such a ferocious sense of personal integrity that it almost becomes a character flaw, and Knight builds tension while providing no physical impediment for Locke more substantial than a head cold. It might have worked just as well as a stage play, but I’m glad it’s a movie if more people can see this terrific union of script and performance. (R)—SR

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Blood Lake and Petals on the Wind bring the stoopid; Rogue brings the grit.

Gambit A remake of the 1966 film you’ve never heard of: A master thief (Colin Firth) plots to rip off a rich widower (Alan Rickman) with the help of a woman (Cameron Diaz) who resembles his late wife. Written by the Coen Brothers, no less! (CBS Films)

Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys Sunday, May 25 (Animal Planet) Movie: So … A nimal Planet is in the original-movie game now? At least it’s not another season of (Never) Finding Bigfoot. The exhaustingly titled Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys (they’re slimy, toothy, eel-like fish—not unlike Ryan Seacrest) looks like Syf y B-f lick cheese because it’s “from the creators of Sharknado” and stars Shannen Doherty (whom you’d expect to be here) and Christopher Lloyd (wha?). The surprises end there: bikini babes and hapless townies get chomped via lake, swimming pool and, yes, toilet (top that, Sharknado 2), while Doherty and Lloyd (re)act and wait for the checks to clear. In case you hadn’t noticed, terrible T V movies are replacing terrible realit y shows as social-media “events,” which is a step … up?

Petals on the Wind Monday, May 26 (Lifetime) Movie: Speaking of trainwreck cable flicks as hashtag bait, remember January’s loony-tunes Flowers in the Attic, starring Heather Graham and Ellen Burstyn? There’s a sequel! Based on the second installment of a book series The Only TV Column That Matters™ will now never, ever have to read—thanks, Lifetime— Petals on the Wind picks up a decade after the three Dollanganger kids escaped the attic. Believe it or not, years of abusive captivity and incestuous liaisons have left them not quite right, so eldest Cathy (Rose McIver) returns to Foxworth Hall to exact revenge on grandma (Burstyn) and, specifically, mom (Graham), by

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The Night Shift Tuesday, May 27 (NBC) Series Debut: It was too much to hope for that The Night Shift would be the long-longoverdue TV adaptation of the 1982 Henry Winkler/Michael Keaton comedy of the same name. Instead, it’s just another Pretty Doctors Who Barely Have Time to Bang Between Traumatic Events dramedy tossed out as summer filler until someone at NBC figures out where they misplaced those leftover episodes of The Michael J. Fox Show. Will these docs who “work hard and play harder” run afoul of their new no-nonsense boss? Will old loves/lusts be rekindled? Will anyone notice The Night Shift before it’s canceled in two weeks? Yes, yes, and Chicago Fire reruns are locked and loaded.

I Wanna Marry “Harry” Tuesdays (Fox) New Series: In what I really want to believe was originally called Royally Screwed, 12 ’Merican women are flown to England to court “Prince Harry,” who’s actually just a nobody ringer. It’s been more than

Rogue (DirecTV) 10 years since Fox brought us realitydating fake-outs Joe Millionaire and My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance, and there have been plenty of suckers born every minute since—a British royal is going wade through the skank factory of U.S. reality TV to find love? That’s as realistic as thinking none of you are already watching I Wanna Marry “Harry” no matter what I say.

Rogue Wednesday, May 28 (DirecTV) Season Premiere: In the 2013 debut season of DirecTV’s Audience Network original Rogue, Thandie Newton starred as a darkly effd-up Bay Area cop on leave working undercover in a Russian drug ring to find the killer of her young son. Ten episodes and as many double-crosses, dead bodies, duplicitous sexual encounters and inexplicably non-lethal bullet wounds later, she was, naturally, promoted to the FBI. Rogue may be a ridiculous, just-go-withit action thriller, but Newton’s (mostly) restrained performance is undeniably magnetic, deeper than the “supermodel Jack Bauer” first impressions. And yes, that is Vancouver trying to pass for San Francisco—don’t dwell. CW

Faceless alien invaders of indeterminate origin attack on the Fourth of July, and it’s up to the president, a firefighter and a gorgeous blonde scientist to save the day. But not Independence Day; that’s a matter for the lawyers. (Anchor Bay)

Journey to the West A young Buddhist demon hunter defeats then reforms/recruits three demons, then embarks on said Journey to the West … or something. It’s directed by Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle), so there’s plenty of action and distractions. (Magnolia)

Run & Jump After her husband has a debilitating stroke, a housewife (Maxine Peake) struggles to keep her family together and strikes up an unconventional relationship with a lonely neurologist (Will Forte). Neither running nor jumping is involved. (IFC Films)

More New DVD Releases (May 27) 24 Exposures, The Bob Newhart Show: The Compete Series, Blue Movie, Cheap Thrills, Claire, Could This Be Love, Covert Affairs: Season 4, Endless Love, Patrick: Evil Awakens, Suits: Season 3, Tapped Out, Theatreland, Tokyo Stray Girls, The Trials of Cate McCall, Wishes 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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n the video game Sword & Sworcery, players solve various puzzles to reveal concealed “sylvan sprites,” which, once awakened, f loat slowly into the sky while singing an ethereal tune. The forest creatures are also the namesake of the first part of Sylvan Esso’s band name, while the “esso” portion is “a beautiful word to sing marking time,” says lead vocalist Amelia Meath. Meath has a voice that’s as lovely as a sprite’s. Delicately smoky as well as prismatic, it’s a fascinating counterpart to the intricate arrangements of electronic beats and various synth effects created by Nick Sanborn, the other half of Sylvan Esso. Formed in Durham, S.C., in 2013, Sylvan Esso is entirely unlike Meath and Sanborn’s other projects. Meath is one-third of the folksy female group Mountain Man—the defining element of which is three-part vocal harmonies sung a cappella. Sanborn is the bassist in psych-folk band Megafaun. “Together, we’re more than the sum of our parts,” Meath says. “For us, it was very unexpected. Like, oh wow, if we put our two sounds together, they make sense in a completely different way than they ever did before.” Like the sprites waiting to be found in Sword & Sworcery, Sylvan Esso’s self-titled debut album—released earlier this month—is full of hidden secrets for the discerning listener. As a songwriter, Meath often alludes to other songs through various borrowed lyrical hooks and syllable schemes. Peppering her lyrics with these references is a throwback to some of Meath’s earliest experiences with music. “I grew up in a very musical family,” she says. “And the thing that would make me most excited when I was listening to the radio was when I could hear someone reference another song in their own song … and that would get me so excited because I was like, ‘Oh, I know this history ... I’m in this special club.’ ” One particularly striking instance where a borrowed lyric adds an additional level of meaning to a song is on “Coffee,” in which Meath uses the symbol of contra dancing—a cyclical style of group dancing with rotating partners and set movements—to illustrate the shifting romantic partners one has in life. The song, Meath says, is about the love that comes after the “gigantic and huge” first love. “You realize that you’re having all the same feelings that you had with your first love, but they’re for someone else,” she says. “And that really makes you question, was the first time real? Is this time real? [Does] the fact that I’ve fallen in love before cheapen this love that I have right now?” So in “Coffee,” when Meath sings, “My baby does the hanky panky”—from “Hanky Panky,” written in 1963 by The Raindrops—she seems to also be saying that when we begin to “dance” with someone, we’re falling in step with that person, romantic history and future included, but all that matters is the present moment. “By referencing another song, you’re immediately shifting the viewpoints,” Meath says. “If you say a line from another song, it includes everything that that song once said.” CW

To refer to the album as a “follow-up” doesn’t do it justice. It isn’t trying to be gritty, retro or experimental; it’s just a damned good rock album crafted by three fantastic musicians. Everything one member does complements the other two. Hatsis keeps perfect timing with great beats and barely any filler, pounding away with enough force to make you bob your head at every snap of the snare. Jones’ plucking finds that sweet spot between riding the groove and being a force of energy, giving the rhythm a laid-back feel while still bringing the heavy. Toscano’s strong vocals particularly stand out on tracks “Return to the Sky” and “Devoured By Lions,” and his hammering on the guitar practically burns the strings off the neck. The chemistry between the three musicians is audible on Pagan Fruit. “I loved watching all the parts come together,” Hatsis says. “Dwellers has and always will be the biggest no-brainer band to play in for me with how enjoyable it is to make music with Dave and Joey.” CW

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ith a bellowing, psychedelic doommetal sound, the SLC band Dwellers have created more than a unique wall of noise; they’ve built a fortress that has caught the eye of national promoters and fans alike. And with a new full-length album due out this week titled Pagan Fruit, Dwellers are poised to expand their kingdom and conquer the indie metal scene. Originally conceived as a duo between guitarist/vocalist Joey Toscano and drummer Zach Hatsis in 2008, Dwellers came together at a point when both members had already earned their stripes in the local music scene and were individually involved with other projects. But Dwellers became the focus when those projects subsided or broke apart, leading to the “gut rock” band’s first EP, titled Peace, and Other Horrors, released in 2011. When Dwellers really started to roll in late 2011, the group brought in bassist Dave Jones and started putting together their second EP, Good Morning Harakiri. Its release on Small Stone Records in early 2012 gave the band instant national exposure and a spot on the label’s SXSW showcase. “It was received well; I think we were all very flattered by the reviews,” Jones says. “It’s always nice to have a label that wants to get your music out to the public. We’ve always had a very open dialogue with Small Stone, and it has been nice not to worry what the label thinks when we are writing our music.” They started working on their first full-length album, Pagan Fruit, almost immediately after Harakiri was finalized and off to record shops. The group joined with Andy Patterson in the studio to get the great sound of their previous albums. And Dwellers sought out some additional help from local cellist Genevieve Smith to add some strings to the rock. “We chose her because we knew she had the chops to play, and she’s a rad gal, too, so it was a no-brainer,” Hatsis says. In all, it took a year for the album to be completed and mastered. Adrian Brouchy of Coven Illustración created the cover illustration, with Toscano providing the coloring and layout. Pagan Fruit was released digitally earlier this month.

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Blood Red Shoes Who says music is required to be perfect? After Brighton, England, duo Blood Red Shoes released their polished third album, In Time to Voices, “we realized that the imperfections are what makes our band—that’s what people like about us,” says co-vocalist/guitarist Laura Mary Carter in the band’s online bio. So to get back to a grittier feel in their music, Carter and co-vocalist/drummer Steve Ansell selfproduced their new self-titled album, and were rewarded for their efforts. Blood Red Shoes “came out as our rawest, heaviest, sexiest and most confident-sounding record so far,” Ansell says. With fuzzed-out guitars, creepy vocals and pounding drums, Blood Red Shoes’ psych-rock/shoegaze sound is a lot like The Warlocks but much, much catchier. Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), 8 p.m., $12, KilbyCourt.com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com

Monday 5.26

White Sea Los Angeles musician Morgan Kibby is known as the frontwoman of alternative orchestral band The Romanovs as well as her collaboration and touring with Parisian electro group M83. She’s also remixed songs by several promiment artists, including Lord Huron, School of Seven Bells, The Naked & Famous and more. But in the singer/pianist/keyboardist’s solo project, White Sea, she explores and creates her own material, as heard on her debut full-length album, In Cold Blood, which came out earlier this month. New tracks “Prague” and “They Don’t

Haim Know”—check out the trippy underwater music video—are intricate combinations of synths, darkly danceable beats and Kibby’s unique voice, which can rise with breathy sweetness as well as power through a surprising lower range. The Naked & Famous and Strange Babes are also on the bill. The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 8 p.m., $21 in advance, $23 day of show, DepotSLC.com

Wednesday 5.28

Buffalo Killers When seeing Cincinnati rock band Buffalo Killers live in concert, you’ll never encounter that disappointing feeling of realizing they sound a lot better on their albums. Since they record all their work—including their fifth album, Heavy Reverie, released earlier this year—live, what you hear is what you get. In an interview with The Waster.com, vocalist/guitarist Andrew Gabbard said, “We are not trying to fool anyone. We sound the way we sound.” And they way they sound is like true-blue American classic rock, with lots of slightly country-fied power chords, heavy percussion and easy-on-the-ears vocal harmonies between Andrew and his bassist brother Zachary. Check out the barn-burner “Poison Berry Tide” and the mellow groove of “This Girl Has Grown.” The North Valley and Strange Family will start things off. Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), 8 p.m., $6, KilbyCourt.com

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