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Tribune Fans Shouldn’t Put Faith in the Wealthy

Democracy Now

The backers of a Utah campaign to save The Salt Lake Tribune from being completely taken over and then killed— by the Deseret News (meaning the Mormon church) and the Trib’s completely corrupt and complicit, parasite billionaire hedge fund owner are now publicly wishing that the “good Mormon” billionaire Jon Huntsman Sr. will buy the Trib and thereby save it.

Really? Another filthy-rich parasite who has vastly supported and helped—both financially and through his many rich-people connections—his “good Mormon” friend Glenn Beck’s very public career as a charlatan religious huckster?

Selling the Trib to this or any other filthy-rich Mormon is the same as giving it to the Mormon church to take over and destroy. Actually, selling the Trib to any of the filthy-rich is the same as giving it to the Mormon church to take over and destroy, since the top Mormon church leaders who control that church’s dogma and actions are fully in bed with all the ever-greedier, thieving, amoral filthy-rich.

Stuart McDonald Salt Lake City

Traditionally, independent voters are typecast by the media as “swing voters,” but this year, we’ll be working on primary election day (June 24) to be visible at a time when we are most invisible.

Primary elections play a pivotal role in the democratic process and are often the most competitive. But in Utah, independents (44 percent of the electorate) are forced to affiliate with a party or accept an abridged ballot—one largely devoid of candidates—for the simple reason that we would not join a pre-approved political organization.

When phrased in these raw terms, the anti-democratic nature of our political structures is hard to miss. The right to freedom of association naturally encompasses freedom from compulsory association!

This is the plight of the independent: we’re first-class taxpayers when funding the administration of elections, but treated as second-class voters at the polls. The issue is increasingly urgent as a large and growing segment of the electorate is marginalized in its voting powers by partisan primary systems.

Utah independents are organizing support for nonpartisan reforms to the current broken system of private party primaries. For example, in a Top-Two nonpartisan open primary, all candidates—regardless of party affili-

ation—appear on a single ballot made available to all voters. The top two vote-getters go on to the general election.

In California, such a system has resulted in more competitive elections, less legislative gridlock and candidates’ attentiveness to their entire constituent base.

On June 24, Utah independents will be making ourselves seen and heard in new ways. We will be holding an informational picket that evening at Trolley Square, writing letters, petitioning and bringing attention to the flaws in our election process. We hope to lead the way to a government that’s less hampered by partisanship and more able to move ahead with the business of our state and country.

While the political parties are moving to make nearly all public positions subject to partisan elections (and party control), we are moving to make all elections nonpartisan and fair with equal access for all voters. Join us in removing the partisan barriers to a more perfect union.

Randy Miller President, Utah League of Independent Voters Syracuse

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OPINION Cable Cred Though I lean progressive, I make it a practice to watch Fox News to consider opposing viewpoints more fairly. It often irks me to listen to talking heads who spout disdain for beliefs I hold close to my heart, but I do it any way. I figure my political stances aren’t worth much if they can’t withstand the hate of the opposition.

I wish I could say the same for most of my devoted Utah Republican friends.

What perplexes me is the almost instant revulsion of Fox News super-fans when I dare suggest they occasionally consider watching MSNBC to achieve a more balanced perspective.

Their eyes cloud over when I try to convince them that neither Fox News nor MSNBC is infallible, and that listening to both sides can result in a clearer picture of the truth. I can tell I’ve completely lost their attention when I relate my transformation from a far-right-leaning conservative to a progressive liberal. It’s apparent that they believe Fox News rules and anybody who thinks otherwise has a screw loose.

I guess I felt similarly not long ago. I was frequently on the road and became a huge Rush Limbaugh fan. I voted strictly Republican, including the first term of George W. Bush. I was a Fox News enthusiast, embracing the most extreme right rants. MSNBC wasn’t on my radar. Fox News validated Limbaugh and I trusted their slogan of being “fair and balanced.”

It was about the time of Bush’s push for a second term when I first started to question my political affiliation. A progressive friend introduced me to MSNBC, and it wasn’t long until my devotion to both Limbaugh and Fox News began to deteriorate. Particularly upset with the false claim of mass weapons of destruction, I voted Democratic for the first time.

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News and MSNBC, it slowly became clear that my primary reliance on Fox News as an arbiter of the truth had been significantly overrated.

I started fact-checking the claims of both news reports and concluded MSNBC was the more credible of the two. There was no question that both networks were promoting their political stances, but Fox News time and time again advanced claims that were misleading and more often than not unsupported by credible facts. That wasn’t the case most of the time with MSNBC. I learned to respect hosts like Rachael Maddow, who routinely backs up her analysis with unassailable proof.

I haven’t been the only one to reach a similar conclusion.

Nu merous st udies have confirmed that viewers should think t wice before placing their trust in Fox News commentators. A poll conducted in November 2010 by World Public Opinion, based at the Universit y of Maryland, and Knowledge Net works pointed out the lack of credible information being fed to Fox News enthusiasts.

The poll results noted that daily Fox News viewers were significantly more likely than those who never watched it to believe that: n most economists estimate the stimulus caused job losses n most economists estimate the health care law will worsen the deficit n the economy is getting worse n most scientists do not agree that climate change is occurring n the stimulus legislation did not include any tax cuts

n their own taxes have gone up n the auto bailout occurred under Obama n and that it is not clear that Obama was born in the United States.

MSNBC, on the other hand, was identified as the news source with the lowest level of misinformation on topics including the effect the stimulus legislation had on jobs and taxes, under which president the bailout of GM and Chrysler occurred, and whether the respondent’s federal income tax had increased under Obama’s leadership. The question of whether climate change was a realit y was evenly d i v ided bet ween MSNBC, NPR and PBS. These are just a few (there are many mor e) e x a mple s pointing to the danger of viewers relying primarily on Fox News to report news that is truthful and not slanted toward the far right wing of the Republican Party.

I’m not saying MSNBC is perfect, but I have come to believe its coverage is far more reliable than Fox News, which, according to media critic James Wolcott’s book Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants, instructs staffers to “seek out stories that cater to angry, middle-aged white men who listen to talk radio and yell at their televisions.”

Still, I suggest that MSNBC viewers occasionally turn the station to Fox News, and Fox News devotees likewise visit MSNBC and grit their teeth while considering what the other side has to say. What can it hurt? CW

Numerous studies have confirmed that viewers should think twice before placing their trust in fox news commentators.

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What makes you yell at your TV? Derek Carlisle: I’d say The Walking Dead for stupid people walking backward to avoid zombies, and Fox news for thinking backward and making people zombies.

Paydn Augustine: The Big Bang Theory made me and my roommate Spencer rage so hard we destroyed our 40-inch television by kicking, punching, stabbing, smashing and it. I’ve never seen a more annoying, culturally insulting display of so-called “entertainment” in my life.

Scott Renshaw: I’ve found it much more beneficial to my health overall if, upon encountering such a thing, I choose to turn the TV off rather than begin yelling at it.

Ylish Merkley: Any competition show is nearly guaranteed to make me yell/ cheer depending on how much I like the people playing or how stupid I think the show is. If I feel like yelling because I’m getting angry I’ll just turn off the TV or walk out of the room. It’s not worth wasting my breath over someone else’s stupidity and ignorance when they do not even know I exist.

Christopher Westergard: I yell at my TV during every Game of Thrones episode because pretty soon the entire cast will be dead.

Colin Wolf: Why yell at the TV when you can go on Twitter and tell whatever it is that sucks, that it sucks, directly?

Bill Frost: The “casual interview” couch on Fox 13 News. That Pee-Wee’s Playhouse remnant can’t possibly be comfortable.

Kolbie Stonehocker: Breaking Bad made me get so worked up once that I was pacing around my living room and yelling at the TV, to the alarm of my cat.

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It says something about Utah and its wonky liquor laws that even followers of radio station X96 believed the absurd. X96’s Corey O’Brien did a bit of, ahem, satire that went like this: “In a bold move, after stating Snowbird’s Oktoberfest celebration may not receive a permit to serve beer or wine, USLA or Utah State Liquor Authority representative, Mr. Behr Mehbrow, said the state may begin … looking into issuing permits for people who plan on having more than one person as a guest in their private residence while serving alcohol.” A few of the comments illustrated just how people will believe almost anything these days.

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And speaking of absurdity, O’Brien added this: “It is a serious problem when ordinary citizens can’t celebrate in their own homes without the government stepping in. What’s next?

Photoshopping slacks and sleeves onto the Jazz Bear?” That referred to the now-explosive decision by Wasatch High School to Photoshop over “inappropriate” attire on certain girls. Not so for the boys, although we know their appropriate attire would be a white shirt and tie. On Facebook, Holly Mullen of the Rape Recovery Center has been giving Wasatch hell for promoting rape culture in Utah, and Photoshopped images of high-school girls in burkas have been making the rounds. The controversy has gone viral, making news in Cosmopolitan, The Guardian and more. It’s a racket, says Amanda Marcotte of RH Reality Check, in which “women are kept insecure and afraid, making them easier to control and dominate.”

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If you’re in a positive mood, there may be a bright side to all of these issues, and the Davis County school board is a good place to start. Board member David Lovato filed a federal civilrights complaint alleging discrimination in hiring and opportunities for minority, non-LDS, female and disabled employees. The district, in a response to the Standard-Examiner, said they’re just looking for the best teachers they can find. This is doubtless what they think. But the LDS culture is so pervasive in Utah that it’s often difficult to separate bias from the comfort of conformity. LDS values permeate the liquor laws and high school dress codes, as well. Maybe Lovato’s complaint will bring some recognition of this systemic bias.

Stephen Tryon, former vice president of Utah-based retailer Overstock.com and author of the book Accountability Leadership, is running as an unaffiliated candidate for Congress this year. Drawing upon his experience being a soldier in the U.S. Army for 21 years and observations of a broken political system, Tryon is calling citizens to action—a timely message after 2013 marked the most unsuccessful Congress in American history. Accountability Leadership addresses the urgency for increased citizen participation in Congressional elections with a tool kit to show us how. Visit TryonForCongress.com to read more about his vision for the future of American politics.

Why is our country so politically divided ?

Unfortunately, I think that we tend to get served stuff that goes along with our inclinations. So if we tend to be right wing, we get served the Fox News version of things, or if we tend to be more liberal, we get served the CNN version of things. It reinforces this separation and the sense that there are these unsolvable problems and we can’t talk to each other. We’ve also changed the way we market and distribute information over the last 50 years. From 1972 onward, you can look at some dramatic shifts. The thing that happened in ’72 is the deregulation of cable television. We went from ABC, CBS and NBC to literally hundreds of channels, and we’ve also deregulated radio. And now we’ve got this information explosion. With personal computers and mobile phones ... information is coming at us from the moment we wake up to the time we go to bed.

How is too much information hurting us?

Americans have always been passive consumers of information and government. That was kinda OK when the main channel for information was newspapers. Newspapers are geographically aligned with your member of Congress, so there was a nice symmetry there. But now as we’ve got this information explosion it’s very easy to be confused and overwhelmed. The information that you’re getting hit with first is probably targeted to you based on where you work or what kind of car you drive. I don’t think there’s a conspiracy out there of people trying to turn off American citizens; that’s just what a business does ... [try] to sell more stories, more clicks, more viewers ... in order to do that, to sell advertising, we use consumer psychology.

I also think it reinforces the sense that we’re powerless, that the problems are too complex to solve, that even if they weren’t so complex we can’t agree on a solution because we’re so divided. I think there’s a risk from that; it turns people away from the process.

How can our dysfunctional political system be fixed?

In 2012, as I was thinking about this, what occurred to me was that the solution is to get more people to participate. I have a great faith in the framework, and I believe that if enough people participate, the result will be a wholesome consensus on things we agree on. We want to be able to provide for our families, we want safe communities ... we can all agree on that stuff. It’s not rocket science to figure out how to make the rest of it work.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Mating Call

BY CECIL ADAMS

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

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

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

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

Serial monogamy is in, lifelong monogamy is out. True beyond dispute. However, we need to clarify what we mean.

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

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

Except it doesn’t hold up. Among chimpanzees, the species most closely related to us, the young reach maturity in 8 to 15 years, comparable to humans. But chimps mate promiscuously and never pair off. Although the young remain with their mothers, there’s otherwise minimal family structure. Alpha males dominate and have sex more often than males farther back in the alphabet, but they don’t have harems to organize and defend.

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

A lot of Psychology Today contributors think that, now that we’ve arrived at our present advanced state of civilization, we’d be happier if we abandoned the impossible dream of happy lifetime pairing and tried something else. The question is whether we’re actually doing so in significant numbers. Answer: Of course we are. It’s just not called polyamory, or some other trendy term. It’s called divorce.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Dialogue and Dogma

North Star conference on LGBT issues reveals divides in views of LDS Church members and leaders.

By Stephen Dark sdark@cityweekly.net @stephenpdark Halfway through a session titled “Emotional Healing: Including God in Your SSA Journey,” a young man in a yellow shirt haltingly put up his hand to speak. He sat in a room of around 100 Mormons, mostly male, who were attending the last day of a three-day conference organized by North Star International, a nonprofit dedicated “to Latter-day Saints who experience samesex attraction or gender-identity incongruence,” according to its website.

Two life coaches had led the session, talking about how to deal with loss, mourning feelings and relationships associated with “same-sex attraction” and surrendering to God your desires and “your timeline” of expectations for life.

But the young man in the yellow shirt was struggling, he said, with the idea of surrendering. “I don’t get it,” he said. “I pray and pray and pray for help, and I don’t think it comes. Maybe it does but I don’t see it. And it just bothers me.”

The momentary silence that greeted his words suggested that many others in the hall were also tired of the discord between their sexual orientation and the doctrine of the LDS Church.

Michael Ferguson—a former Mormon who was one of the first to be married in Salt Lake County after same-sex marriage was briefly legalized in the state in December 2013—says that as the issue of gay marriage continues to gain momentum in the United States, the next battleground for the LGBT community will be “the restoration of gay participation in spiritual and religious communities.”

Some of those battles, it seems, are already being fought in wardhouses across the country. Discussions during and after conference sessions revealed how the tone, approach and attitude toward same-sex relationships differs widely among LDS members and even the church’s on-the-ground local leadership of bishops and stake presidents, who are called to lead congregations on a part-time basis.

A City Weekly reporter purchased a one-day pass to attend the last day of the conference, which is unaffiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ

LGBT of Latter-day Saints. The day featured a morning session for ecclesiastical leaders in the Mormon church who are ministering “to those who experience same-sex attraction.” Two bishops and a stake president and, as the conference handbook put it, “the same-sex attracted men they shepherd—one single, one married, and one in a same-sex relationship” told their individual stories.

Panelist Tom Christofferson, who is in a same-sex relationship, requested excommunication from the LDS Church after the failure of a brief heterosexual marriage. He spoke of how, in 2007, he had wanted to return to the LDS Church and asked the bishop in a Connecticut ward if he was welcome to attend. The bishop, also on the panel, said that he couldn’t refuse the man; how could he, when he said yes to those in his congregation who had affairs, drank beer or watched porn? But Christofferson’s partner, while made to feel welcome by the ward, warned that, Christofferson said, “this will all end in tears. You are trying to reconcile the unreconcilable.”

“My prayer is that it ends in joy, that [my partner] knows what I know,” Christofferson said.

But the stake president on the panel noted that he was in ongoing communication with another church official over a downtown Portland, Ore., ward where returning members who were transgender were causing “confusion” and awkwardness.

There were no women on the panel, but a woman named Connie elected to speak from the audience, saying, “I have had SGA [Same Gender Attraction] all my life. I have been silent all my life.”

After ending that silence, she said, she had encountered “a lot of harshness, a lot of fear,” in her Mormon community.

She called for a softening of dialogue and a push to educate fellow church members about same-sex attraction.

That’s one of the stated goals of North Star’s Voices of Hope series, which features 40 stories from men and women, some of whom are in heterosexual marriages, who have “experienced” same-sex attraction, which North Star abbreviates to SSA. Ferguson says the acronym SSA pathologizes being gay to the point that the “outcome is one of fracturing and disengaging with the reality of one’s integrated self.”

North Star president Ty Mansfield declines to discuss Ferguson’s views, but agrees that certain uses of the acronym SSA, such as “I have SSA,” can sound like “I have cancer,” he says. But he emphasized that “everybody in the conference was coming from a different place” to talk about same-sex attraction in the context of LDS beliefs and practices.

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group dedicated to reducing samesex attraction and “homosexual behavior” through reparative therapy.

The conference sessions themselves didn’t mention reparative therapy, but it was touted by what Mansfield calls “third-party vendors” who had paid for tables at the Provo conference center to promote services or products that Mansfield says are not “explicitly contrary” to LDS doctrine.

A Virginia-based organization called People Can Change promoted Journey Into Manhood weekends.

According to its brochure, “the psychodynamic principles that underlie the JiM weekend are completely in accord with reparative therapy.”

A panelist at the morning session talked about having renounced his same-sex feelings to stay with his family, and how he now hopes to show his gay son “an example” of how an LDS man “with SSA” can be happy.

The conference’s final panel discussion was on “creating safe and open dialogue” for “SSA youth in our wards and stakes.”

Several women expressed concern and frustration that their questions about their children are ignored by their bishoprics. A mother whose daughter is a lesbian said, “I don’t know how to go to the council and the bishop when they don’t want to talk about it.”

Panel moderator and former North Star president Jeff Bennion suggested that she seek allies in the congregation, while another panelist suggested using social media to educate her ward.

One woman asked what the panel suggests wards do when children encourage other children to explore their “SSA.” A panel member who’s a high school teacher and basketball coach noted that children come to junior high ready to “self-identify” as

gay or lesbian.

“They post things on social media supporting gay marriage. The world they live in says ‘You’re a hater, a bigot’ ” if you don’t, he said. “They feel that pressure.”

Bennion responded that leaving the children to the influences of the outside world would prove counterproductive.

“If we don’t talk about these issues, basically we’re saying to the Adversary [Satan], have my kids, go for it,” he said.

A panelist added that one answer is to encourage gay youth who are dating to “keep the standards of the church,” and, for example, ask them to go out on group dates.

A young bishop talked about his former fear of talking to gay youth because “I had no idea what do try to do to help.”

When he did counsel a young man, he says, the youth told him, “I’m broken and I’m a freak.” The bishop, concerned the young man’s life was in peril, spent many hours talking with him. He told the audience that whatever decision the youth makes in terms of being gay and being Mormon, “If he uses his free agency to choose a different way, this bishop is still to going to love him.”

Others spoke of less loving experiences. A man on the panel talked of his cousin’s son, who disclosed to his bishop that he was gay—it was the first time he’d come out to an adult. At the follow-up meeting, the man said, the bishop told the youth that it was “very important you have no contact with any of the Primary children [those 11 and younger] in our ward.”

The teacher on the panel told the audience that when a girl came out to her bishop, the bishop told her that she could not attend girl camp.

“That’s not clear thinking, that’s dogma, puritanical silliness and fear,” the teacher said. CW

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A new standard for granting permits to serve alcohol at special events recently adopted by the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control could leave Snowbird Resor t without a permit to sell liquor and highpoint beer at its annual Oktoberfest— meaning that the resort will have to hope that pretzels and sausages will be enough to bring the typical turnout of thousands up to the canyon during the month-long event.

The DABC raised the possibility at its May 27 meeting, explaining that the commission’s new standard for judging requests for a single-event permit is whether the event is a “civic or a community enterprise” that “brings members of a community together for the common good.” Though single-event permit applications currently don’t ask whether an event benefits the public, the commission has begun weighing in favor of charitable events and against those put on by forprofit organizations.

DABC Director Sal Petilos says the commission and department are just making sure that they approve permits in accordance with Utah law and rule.

But the news caused an outcry in the community, and Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams, a former state legislator, says he worries that the DABC is not interpreting Utah law, but reinterpreting it.

“The DABC does not have authority to be setting or changing policy as it relates to liquor,” McAdams says. “What they do have is the power through rule to fine-tune the intent of the Legislature, but to me, this flies in the face of what the Legislature intended when they created the permit.”

According to Rule R81-7, a “civic or community enterprise” is to benefit the “common good,” but the same section also lists “business,” “social” and “recreational” functions as accepted temporary events.

Petilos, however, pointed to another section in the rule allowing the DABC Director “to consider” whether the event “benefits the community” or the hosting entity. This section of the rule, however, says nothing about whether events should

or need to benefit the public.

When asked if the rule is vague, Petilos responded: “It is.”

Regardless, Petilos stands by his interpretation, but says that he wants applicants to know the commission will work with them if there is an issue.

“I think these concerns may very well be overblown,” Petilo says. “I also think you have to look at the arc of the decisions the commission has made recently in regards to single-event permits.”

In January, the Maverik Center sought one of the permits, which caused the commission to question what was “special” about the event, since it was requested for the same kind of function that the arena hosts with its on-site beer license.

That application was turned down, but a single-event permit was later granted to Peery’s Eg y pt ia n T heater in Ogden since it is a nonprofit organization.

Ever since then, requests have been scrutinized for how they provide for the “common good.”

Scott Beck, the CEO of Visit Salt Lake, the Salt Lake Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, says the DABC is being far too restrictive in how it interprets what benefits the public and the “common good.” For-profit organizations, he says, “pay sales tax, payroll taxes and they contribute enormously to our community.”

Petilos also says the commission still examines applications on a case-by-case basis and welcomes for-profit organizations to explain the economic benefits their event could generate.

Petilos says it’s not yet time to bid auf wiedersehn to Oktoberfest. Snowbird has not been denied its permit, nor has it turned in an application, which, he says, leaves the DABC plenty of time to work with the resort.

He points to the example of Homestead restaurant in Midway, which was denied a special-event permit for a Memorial Day weekend crawfish boil. The commission helped it get a temporary beer permit, so at least 3.2 percent beer could be served on the lawn of the restaurant hosting the event.

Beck, however, is exasperated by the mindset of those lawmakers and others “who don’t understand the difference between a specially-brewed Oktoberfest beer, brewed at 6 percent, and a typical Bud Light in a can at 3.2.”

For Beck, it’s the kind of thing that makes or breaks a community celebration like Snowbird’s Oktoberfest.

“What’s most concerning for us is that several of these events that are iconic to who we are as a destination run the risk of not existing,” he says. CW

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Eight probable Deseret “News” headlines over Pride Festival 2014 weekend in SLC:

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“Downtown Salt Lake City Closed for Remodeling, Stay Away”

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“David Archuleta: Still Straight”

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“What Every Parent Should Know About the Tony Awards”

5. “Report: D-News Circulation

Higher Among Hetero Readers Than Tribune ”

4. “My Daughter Wears Flannel

and Spends Her Weekends at Home Depot—Help!”

3. “How Missionaries Beat Off Same-Sex Attraction”

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“A Father’s Courage: ‘My Son Rollerblades … and That’s OK”

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“Study: Homosexuality Can Be Cured Through Prayer, Medium-Voltage Shocks”

CITIZEN REVOLT

by ERIC S. PETERSON @ericspeterson

Keeping Summer Cool for the Kiddies There’s a lot of summer left, and you don’t need to spend the entirety of it passed out by a pool; why not sign up now to volunteer at Red Butte Garden’s summer camp? This weekend, head to the Haiti Kanaval 5K to check out a charit y supporting better education and greater opportunities in the Caribbean nation. This weekend, you can also learn how to write for change at a free workshop on writing to elected officials and composing letters to the editor.

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Be the cool camp counselor you never had yourself by volunteering to help kids coming to Red Butte Garden’s summer camp. The garden is looking for folks who can help engage young minds with educational and interactive lessons. Volunteers must be at least 15 years old and can sign up for one day a week or for an entire week.

Visit RedButteGarden.org for more details

Haiti Kanaval 5K

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The Community Writing Center’s free writing workshop is your opportunity to learn how to turn your passionate but overlooked letters to local politicians into the thoughtful, well-articulated missives that your local leaders won’t be able to ignore. The workshop is free, but registration is required.

SLCC Community Writing Center, 210 E. 400 South, Suite 8, 801-9572192, June 7, 1-4 p.m., www.SLCC. edu/CWC/

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Zion’s Children of Haiti is a local charity taking the dollars and efforts of local Utahns down to the Caribbean to help create educational opportunities for Haitian children. If you register by Friday, June 8, you can run the 5K to help raise funds for the charity. Or you can simply learn about volunteering and enjoy the festival (Kanaval is the Haitian Mardi Gras) that will include a raffle, photo booth, games and food, plus bouncy houses and face-painting for the kiddies.

Sugar House Park, 2100 S. 1300 East, June 7, race registration 7:30 a.m., Kanaval 9-11:30 a.m., ZionsChildrenHaiti.org

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Police charged Shanwaz Khan, 30, with being the brains behind a cartheft ring in Birmingham, England, after he attracted their attention by driving a $90,000 Audi with the personalized license plates “S2OLUN” (stolen). “This was a clear jibe at the authorities,” Detective Constable Mo Azir said after investigators who noticed his car traced it to a group of high-end thefts and subsequently linked Khan to more than 80 car thefts and car jackings. “The joke is on him now, though, as he starts a long prison term.”

(Britain’s Daily Mail)

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Silver Lining

Oil spills aren’t all bad, according to a proposal by Kinder Morgan to triple the capacity of its pipeline from Alberta to Burnaby, British Columbia. “Spill response and cleanup creates business and employment opportunities for affected communities, regions and cleanup-service providers,” the energy company pointed out in its 15,000-page submission to Canada’s National Energy Board. Kennedy Stewart, who represents Burnaby in Parliament, said proposing that a spill would actually benefit the local economy “takes the cake.” (The Vancouver Sun)

QUIRKS

n A clerk thwarted a robbery at a gas station in Ann Arbor, Mich., after a man hopped over the counter with a weapon in hand. The clerk flipped the man, who was knocked unconscious when his head hit the floor. The clerk fled to his car and called police. Meanwhile, the robber’s accomplice tried to awaken him but couldn’t and grabbed cash from the register. She dropped most of the money while fleeing. Detectives identified the couple from surveillance video and arrested Frederick Coble, 49, and Christina Maria Borcea, 48. (The Ann Arbor News)

Oh So D’oh!

Egypt’s Al-Tahrir TV claimed to have proof that the United States conspired to cause the so-called Arab Spring revolutions: a 2001 episode of The Simpsons. The news anchor introduced footage that “shows animated figures dancing, flying airplanes and dropping bombs on what must be Syria, because there are other animated figures below in Arab garb.” She then claimed that a flag painted on the side of a jeep was the Syrian opposition flag, proving that the war in Syria is part of a global American conspiracy, because in 2001 “there was no such thing as the flag of the Syrian opposition.” The anchor emphasized, “The flag was created before the events took place.” (Israel’s Arutz Sheva)

Problem Solved

Chinese authorities set up two giant water cannons to fight air pollution in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province. The longrange sprayers shoot a fine mist of tap water 2,000 feet into the air, where it will “stick to the dust and form larger particles and fall back down to the surface under gravity,” according to Martyn Chipperfield, professor of atmospheric chemistry at the University of Leeds. He explained that although the falling mixture would reduce pollution, it could also cover people with mud.

(Britain’s Daily Mail)

Spicy Lit

The Chipotle restaurant chain began featuring original stories by Toni Morrison, Michael Lewis, Malcolm Gladwell and Jonathan Safran Foer on its bags and drink cups. Foer, the vegetarian author of Eating Animals, proposed the idea to Chipotle’s CEO, Steve Ellis, who put him in charge of the project. “What interested me is 800,000 Americans of extremely diverse backgrounds having access to good writing,” Foer said, pointing out, “I wouldn’t have done it if it was for another company, like a McDonald’s.” (Vanity Fair)

When Guns Are Outlawed

Ice cream truck driver April Johnson, 37, told police in Rock Hill, S.C., that a man assaulted her with a Fudgsicle ice cream bar, leaving a red mark on her arm. Johnson said the man accused her of giving his daughter the incorrect change. (Atlanta JournalConstitution)

First Things First

Yale University basketball player Brandon Sherrod left the team to join Yale’s a cappella glee club, the Whiffenpoofs. The group, formed in 1909, comprises 14 rising seniors who take a year off school to travel the world and perform. The 6-foot-6inch Sherrod averaged 6.8 points and 4.3 rebounds with the Bulldogs, who finished this past season 19-14 and are expected to challenge Harvard for the Ivy League title next season. “This is supposed to be the year, and you want to play with your guys,” Sherrod said, “but the Whiffenpoofs is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.” (Associated Press) Compiled from mainstream news sources by Roland Sweet.

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Invisible

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Paddling through the myth and murk to find the heart of Utah’s Jordan River.

Colby Frazier

Adriaan Boogaard

“Don’t they find dead bodies in that river?”

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This is the most common question I was asked after telling people I planned to kayak the Jordan River.

“Yeah. They do,” I’d say.

This dead-body reflex is exactly why I wanted to see the Jordan River for myself, from river level—the only perspective from which a river can be appreciated for being a river.

I, too, hear about an occasional body pulled from the murky water. Stories pop up about pollution in the river, or some political fistfight over how close homes should be built to the riverbank, or how various municipalities are going to connect and expand trails that run alongside it, or how there’s an organized litter cleanup.

The river in all of these stories is secondary—a supporting character to the real news.

We discharge treated sewage water into the river, use it to grow crops and irrigate our lawns, and someday certain residents of the Salt Lake Valley may even drink the Jordan River’s water. Many Salt Lakers exercise along its banks on the Jordan River Parkway Trail.

Yet, from my perch, the Jordan River—though intensely used—seems vastly underappreciated as a possible recreational and environmental resource.

The only explanation I can think of has to do with the river’s grisly reputation as a disposal site for dead people. I reasoned, though, that this can’t be the whole story. The river is not lined with dead bodies. The flotillas of trash visible from road bridges as I travel east to west across the valley can’t run its entire length. No, there must be something else to this river that my lack of curiosity has concealed.

So I set out to paddle the river—from its start at the northern tip of Utah Lake to its termination in the Great Salt Lake. At worst, I could stumble upon a dead body and soak my kayaking gear in polluted water. But I aimed to, no matter what, learn something new about my home.

Queries of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County and state of Utah officials made me quickly aware of the fact that the Jordan River is a jurisdictional jigsaw puzzle. While maps of the river’s trail systems abound and committees and commissions discuss its future, no one could be certain how many potentially life-threatening hazards

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more money on houses than you do on a field.”

Adriaan and I had a few beers and drank some whiskey. His talk never ceased. Every bridge, every house, every river bend, every dam and every canal is charted in his brain.

I debated going it alone, reasoning that Adriaan’s views of the river might warp the views I had yet to see. But the more Adriaan talked about the river, the more it became clear that the primary threads of this man’s entire life had woven into it; a story about the Jordan River wouldn’t be a story at all without Adriaan.

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Sunday, April 27

existed on the water.

Puzzling over the drought of solid information, I fantasized that paddling the Jordan River might be one of the last great adventures. Like John Wesley Powell’s exploration of the Colorado River, I might just have to blindly enter the Jordan River and see what came my way.

In my searches for information on the river, one name kept coming up: Adriaan Boogaard, who I was told floats the river all the time.

I dialed Adriaan up. We met on a Friday—payday—at a bar.

Adriaan stands just over 6 feet tall, with a mop of reddishblond hair. He wears work shirts with his name embroidered on one pocket, and he speaks at a steady and inexhaustible pace.

The barely legible words on his faded baseball cap say, “I love the Jordan River.”

From the cab of his rusty Ford pickup, he produced a pair of displays with an array of photographs neatly and precisely placed. Every picture was of the river, its many bridges, its scenic views, its wildlife and its people.

He pointed to one picture of a bridge, saying kids sometimes leap from its upper deck, “which is stupid because people throw washers and dryers off it.”

A photo of a sickly bird: “He might have had West Nile. I don’t know what was wrong with him.”

On a photo of houses near the river: “People are really abusing the river. They’re building too close to it. … Because you make

We arrive late to Adriaan’s house. The three boats, paddles and gear barely fit on my car’s roof. The situation inside the car is just as cramped, with my wife, daughter, my pal Tim, Adriaan and me all jammed inside. We drop Adriaan’s truck behind some houses around 4800 South, a distance we think can easily be covered in a day.

Adriaan talks shop as we drive, pointing out Salt Lake County’s open space along the river and a bridge that was built too low to the water. He insists we stop at a hardware store so he can buy a folding saw, just in case we run into serious debris, like trees and other wood, on the river. He returns to the car with the saw and a package of M&M’s for my daughter; she and my wife are stuck with shuttle duty, driving us to the put-in just west of Lehi in Utah Lake.

“Best damn 24 bucks you’ll ever spend,” he says, explaining that the saw can chop through a branch the size of a man’s arm with ease, along with a finger if you’re not careful.

The sun breaks through gray clouds as we drive. Spring is in full swing, but the temperatures remain low, feeling no higher than 50 degrees.

At the edge of Utah Lake, the Jordan River flows wide and fat through a small dam. Salt Lake City Public Utilities Director Jeff Niermeyer says the Jordan River is like a backward river: To feed irrigation canals, it flows at odd times of the year, when other rivers are slow or dry. During peak runoff, he says, much of the water is held back in Utah Lake, leaving the Jordan River low on water when other rivers are gushing.

We begin the journey with abundant water. The Wasatch Mountains, dominated by Mount Timpanogos, are covered in a veil of clouds. Phragmites, an invasive reed, crowd the riverbanks, climbing into the sky. Waterfowl and birds are abundant. Barn swallows, pelicans, ducks and Canada geese are splashing and honking.

The river here isn’t easy to paddle. Stagnant like the lake, it makes for tough work that a periodic headwind makes even tougher.

At the point of the mountain, the river narrows into a So I set out to mild canyon, crunched next to the right-of-way for paddle the the Utah Transit Authority’s FrontRunner train. river—from The first obstacle to be negotiated is Turner Dam. We take out of the water just above the dam’s buoys. its start at the Adriaan insists the distance we’ll have to pack our northern tip of boats is not more than 100 yards. But as we hike, the Utah Lake to its aching in my arms and shoulders indicates it’s much termination in the farther.

The river at this junction splits in four directions: Great Salt Lake.

Some is shot into the East Jordan canal, some goes At worst, I could west into a different canal and a third portion goes stumble upon into a canal that, oddly, flows back into Utah County.

The remainder goes into the Jordan River, shooting it a dead body through a section known as the Jordan Narrows. and soak my We relax under the train bridge. Not only are we kayaking gear in without beer, but neither Adriaan nor Tim brought polluted water. lunch. The three peanut butter & jelly sandwiches and granola bars I brought along will have to feed us But I aimed to, all. A flask of whiskey is the only beverage we have no matter what, besides water. learn something The volume of water in the river after Turner Dam is a fraction—I’d guess around a quarter—of the water new about my we started out with. home.

Even so, on the roughly 50-mile stretch of river,

open wound, in hydrogen peroxide when I get home due to the water’s unknown filth quotient.

Around a bend in the river and out of sight, I can hear Tim’s helpless, frustrated laugh each time he has to exit his boat and tow it over the rocks.

I, too, am overcome by this hopeless laughter.

Two hours later, after 10 hours on the river, I call my wife from 14600 South.

“Where are you?” she asks.

“Somewhere over by the prison. A goddamn stone’s throw from where we started. Can you pick us up? And can you bring a case of beer?”

Yes and yes.

As we wait, Adriaan sounds off on what we’ve seen.

“It’s just depleted,” he says of the river, noting that many homeowners and businesses “treat it like a backyard storm drain.”

Monday, April 29

The first day on the river beat me up. I went to bed feeling terrible, and awoke not feeling much better.

I take the day off.

As I drive my daughter to school and maneuver through the streets and stoplights, the adventure of the day before, hard and poignant as it still is, feels like a dream. Running rivers always feels this way, and I am relieved to find that the Jordan can cast this spell.

This dreamlike state, I believe, comes from having a pure, undisturbed goal—a rarity in “real life.” On Sunday, my mind never strayed from the task at hand, which was either one paddle stroke after another, or one foot in front of the other. Today it is housework, helping at my daughter’s school, running errands, going to the grocery store—all of life’s stuff.

Of course, I also read the newspaper, which informs me that on Sunday morning, around the time I began the trip, authorities pulled the body of a 24-year-old man from the river near 10000 South.

A day off in the world is enough to kick my ass back out to the river.

Dan, whom Colby Frazier shared a beer with along the river

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No Tim or Adriaan today. Just me.

I have my wife drop me off in a fancy housing development just east of where she’d picked me up the day before. By cutting off a few hundred feet of river, Adriaan says, I can avoid some serious hiking, and there might be more water here.

I hope for rain, but none falls. As the river pushes farther into the Salt Lake Valley, though, it picks up water—and a lot of other things—from 193 sources that the Utah Department of Water Quality permit to be discharged into the river.

These entities range in diversity from stormI notice a man water runoff permits from cities, counties and nearby staring in other government agencies, to Cytozyme my direction. We Laboratories, Inc., Bimbo Bakeries, USA, Inc., and the Magna Fire Station. greet and shake My first dose of new water comes quickly, hands. His name from the Jordan Basin Wastewater Reclamation is Dan and, until Facility. The water discharged from this building this week, he was is crystal-clear, providing a puzzling contrast as it collides and mixes with the filthy-looking water homeless. in the river. Treated sewage water or not, the He says he additional flow is welcome. camped out At 11 a.m., I come upon the Riverbend Golf for a year in Course. Since there are no golfers out yet, I take my lunch and drink a beer on a fairway near the the mountains, river’s edge. Streaks of snow blow off the peaks braving the of the mountains. I am far enough south that I elements outside. have a clear view of Mount Timpanogos.

I float on abundant water until 9000 South, Recently, though, the site of another dam, which to my eyes, splits he made it into an the river in half again, carrying much of the apartment—his first water I want to float on west to the Kennecott in years. copper mine.

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the narrows has the best potential for whitewater. Even though it is a greatly reduced flow, we re-enter the river with hopes of swifter travel.

And swift it is. We make good time. As we negotiate a path through a flat section of water where the river spiderwebs in multiple directions, we hear a man’s voice, amplified over speakers. It’s difficult to make out the words. Adriaan speculates the voice has something to do with a polygamist compound nearby. Must be holding church outside. Why not?

The water begins to slow as we near our second obstacle, the Joint Dam. A pack of roughnecks fish from the dam’s deck. My hopes are high that these men will have beer. No luck. Despite the fact that many of them are chewing away on tobacco, they are dry. Most of them are too young for booze.

They offer to drive us to where there is more water. I decline, focused on my desire to paddle the entire river, and I soon regret my decision.

At this dam, river water is once again stolen; one canal goes east, another west. Niermeyer says the east canal goes all the way into downtown, tying in with City Creek.

The South Jordan canal carries water to the west.

The Jordan River is left with a trickle. We re-enter the water, but after a few paddle strokes, are forced to exit our boats and carefully hike through the murky water over invisible rocks and whatever else might be hidden under the surface.

It makes for tough work. At first, Tim and I are optimistic: This will get better. It could rain. Somehow the river will once again become a river.

But it does not get better. We make snail’s time, traveling a mere two miles in four hours. It is exhausting. Realizing we won’t make it anywhere near 4800 South, I call my wife to tell her she’ll have to rescue us at about 9000 South.

The river has turned into a joke of a stream. I curse it, and I curse the illegal horse pastures that have been built out into its water, stinking of cow and horse shit.

I lag far behind Adriaan and Tim. Only a few days before this trip, I lost a toenail. Already tender, each time it smashes against a rock, I cringe.

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Sunday, May 4 When I resume my float, I find myself hiking again. I paddle more than I hike, though, which I consider a joyous success.

A stiff headwind rises up in the afternoon. I fight it through business parks and suburbs as water blows back into my face. Construction at the midsection of the valley is clearly colliding with the river, with apartment buildings and office complexes bumping up against the banks.

Where there isn’t development, though, there is a veil of rugged beauty. In many places, the riverbanks are lined with fat, healthy cottonwood trees—much the way it must have been when American Indians were the lone residents here.

Rarely is there a person, and despite being in the middle of the city’s sprawl, the river is quiet and peaceful.

As the river goes under Winchester Street in Murray, another obstacle blocks my progress. A sewer line crosses the river and creates what looks like a lowhead dam—basically a line of concrete across a river that creates a waterfalllike pour-over. Even on a low-volume river like the Jordan, this can be deadly.

The recirculating motion of the water on the downstream side of a low-head dam has a tendency to pull whatever goes over it back in, recycling it and beating it to oblivion.

Signs clearly mark the obstacle at Winchester, telling me, not in so many words, to get the hell out of the water.

I oblige and use the opportunity to stretch my legs and drink yet another beer in the fair city of Murray.

Back in the water, I chase down a pack of pelicans—the first I’ve seen since the early hours near Utah Lake. This bunch is up to something. As I approach, one pelican refuses to fly away. The lone bird has its massive beak buried in the water, fidgeting with something. At last it, too, takes flight. Moments later, I spot a fat, pink dead carp floating down the river—a pelican lunch. I try to lift the sucker with my paddle and take it for a little ride, but it is too heavy.

I float through groves of cottonwoods and healthy but invasive Russian olive trees. Much of the land between 5800 South and 4800 South is void of development, courtesy of Salt Lake County’s efforts to maintain open space along the river.

Little Cottonwood Creek enters the Jordan at 4800 South, and a short distance later, the Brighton Dam—a river-wide low-head dam—forces an exit.

There are no signs marking this obstacle, but a quick inspection of the dam makes clear it is not an option to float on.

There is no good place to exit my boat. I pick a spot along a steep embankment, near a slab of concrete with rebar poking into the air. Spending too much energy trying to stay dry, I plop waist-deep into the water. Huffing and puffing, I pull the boat up the slope and down the paved Jordan River Parkway Trail, and move around the dam.

I notice a man nearby staring in my direction. We greet and shake hands. His name is Dan and, until this week, he was homeless.

He says he camped out for a year in the mountains, braving the elements outside. Recently, though, he made it into an apartment—his first in years. He says he’s excited to have his own mailbox, explaining that as a homeless man, it’s difficult to track down mail and read it in the rain. He jangles his new set of apartment keys.

I offer Dan a beer, and he accepts. As we sip, he tells me about being homeless. After his daughter died a few years back, he says he lost all hope and gave up on everything. Before she died, though, she gave him a tobacco pipe, which he grips tight and puffs on. I use the word “sentimental,” but he’s quick to correct me. “It’s more than that,” he says. “It’s all I have from her.”

I climb back into my boat, and Dan is nice enough to give me a shove into the water. “Smooth!” he yells as I slide off the side of the riverbank.

The sun begins to sink. I paddle hard and steady. I call my wife at 7 p.m. to tell her I’ll meet her near 2100 South. But before I make it that far, I spot boaters in the distance, training for a crew-rowing race. As I approach, just past where Millcreek enters the Jordan, I come upon a small dock, anchored to the riverbank.

I contemplate paddling on, but take the easy exit onto the dock as a sign that this is where I should end the day.

I hike my boat over the steep bank and emerge into the parking lot of an industrial complex.

I had hoped this journey would take only two days. But after the slow suffering of Day 1, I realize I need to pare back my goals. For this story, at least, I may not see the waters of the Great Salt Lake.

For Day 3, I set my sights on the final road that crosses the river, Center Street in North Salt Lake.

My wife and daughter drop me off in the same industrial complex they’d picked me up at days before.

I don’t make it far before the first portage.

At 2100 South, a dam splits the river again, taking much of the water into what’s called an overflow canal. This canal was created to draw water out of the river to prevent flooding.

Not surprisingly, there is another golf course here, and on the pathway, I spot a small snake. I move the little guy out of the path and proceed over a steel catwalk, which offers a great view of the dangers of a low-head dam. Tree branches and an array of litter recycles in the water, getting beaten and drowned.

From where I enter the river, I can see the water slides of the Seven Peaks water park on 1700 South. The city stretches out beyond that.

After the dam, the river is immediately smaller, and the banks are occupied by the rear ends of semi trailers, rusted tanks and other refuse.

I cross under bridges often, streets I recognize: 1300 South and 800 South. Every once in a while, I catch the scent of a Sunday barbecue. I float past the backside of the International Peace Gardens, and from somewhere out of sight, up on the banks, I hear drumming.

Between 400 South and North Temple, I encounter the most intense industrialism on the river. The homeless encampments just north of 200 South, across the river from the towering steam stacks of Rocky Mountain Power’s Gadsby power plant, are depressing and robust. I recognize the green canvas of one of the tents as a Springbar, made but a few miles away at Kirkham’s on State Street.

There is a low-head dam just before North Temple, but Adriaan has informed me a canoe chute was installed so that boaters don’t have to portage. I saddle up to this obstacle slowly, checking to see if the chute is clear of debris. It is. I reverse a few feet to pick up some speed and then race toward the shoot. The slot is narrow, maybe only 3-feet wide. I scrape my paddle on the wall as I glide through, unscathed.

At 500 North, beneath a graffiti-covered underpass, I exit the river and walk up to the street. On Redwood Road, there’s a 7-Eleven.

I trot across the street. A lady who spotted me on the water tells me it’s a great day for a kayak, and she asks if I see a lot of hobos under the bridges.

“Some,” I say.

“They were having a great time under that one there the other night,” she says. “Had a

bonfire going down there.”

It does sound like a good time.

The store clerk doesn’t seem to mind that I’m wearing a spray skirt (which keeps water out of my boat), a helmet and a life jacket.

I peruse the beer selection, and go with a 24-ounce PBR. I run back to the privacy of the underpass and, probably just as the hobos did a few nights before, drink my beer. I give Adriaan an update on my progress, and he seems happy that I found a beverage.

Back on the river, I set my sights on the finish line.

A few minutes later, though, I float past what I’m pretty sure is the Jordan River Par 3 Golf Course. A group of golf-club-wielding men call out to me, asking what on earth I’m doing. I call out to them, asking if they have any spare beer. They do, and they toss me down a Natural Light.

The river bends away from the city, arching toward the duck clubs, a nature preserve and the lake.

Before I know it, I come upon a man standing beneath the Legacy Parkway underpass, two dogs in tow. It’s Adriaan.

“I just wanted to make sure you didn’t go too far,” he yells at me. “You’ll see my truck at the take-out.”

I paddle along through farmland. In one spot, a tractor is running, its engine turning a pump that is drawing water out of the river for irrigation.

I glide under the Center Street bridge, drag my boat to the road and take a long hard look back at the valley I’ve just crossed: The craggy peaks of the Wasatch Mountains, the soft rolls of the Oquirrh Mountains and the city’s glass office towers are as familiar to me as my own bed.

Yet, nearly everything I’ve seen for three full days is new to me. And I now know this much: The river is not simply a polluted wasteland; there is much worth saving, and even improving.

To me, the Jordan River is now much more than just a vague idea snaking its way through town. It is a real river—a river that deserves my attention and respect as much as any other river. Maybe much more.

Postscript

I have not yet made it to the Great Salt Lake, though plans are afoot to do so. Beyond Center Street in North Salt Lake, the river fragments into a patchwork of canals and wetlands. The lake can be found, though. The real quandary is what to do once you broach the lake’s waters. On maps, the paddle southwest to the Great Salt Lake Marina is a long haul. Likewise, so is the float out to Antelope Island or any other point from which a car or truck could pick me up.

Not even Adriaan has done this section.

Maybe this will be the John Wesley Powellesque adventure that’s been hiding in plain sight forever. CW

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Utah Pride Festival & Parade It’s been an extraordinary year for the LGBT community in Utah and around the country, with a landmark court ruling allowing same-sex marriage in the state for the first time ever, and an ongoing legal battle that could change marriage equality forever. Recognition of those key events is a central part of this year’s Utah Pride Festival & Parade.

While events begin on Thursday with an interfaith religious service at Wasatch Presbyterian Church, the party starts on Saturday with events including a 5K, transgender rally & march and the first day of events at the Washington Square festival grounds, with entertainment including DJs, dancing, live bands and headliner Betty Who. But the centerpiece is the annual Pride Parade on Sunday down 200 South from 400 East to the Salt Palace led by a group of very special grand marshals who happen to be three couples at the center of the current legal fight for marriage equality: Laurie Wood & Kody Patridge, Moudi Sbeity & Derek Kitchen, and Kate Call & Karen Archer. Watch for City Weekly’s own parade entry among those representing many organizations and businesses showing their support, then head to the festival grounds for more food and music, featuring headliner Steve Grand. Join in the optimism that the next 12 months might turn out to be even more extraordinary. (Scott Renshaw) Utah Pride Festival & Parade @ Washington Square, 200 E. 400 South, June 7, 3-11 p.m. & June 8, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., $8 per day in advance, $10 at the gate. Utah Pride Parade @ 200 South between 400 East & West Temple, 10 a.m.

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The Utah Pride Festival has a wide array of exciting activities, but don’t overlook the booths displaying wonderful arts and crafts. Of 16 local artists exhibiting in the Art Zone near the walkway between The Leonardo and the Main Library, especially noteworthy is Ogden illustrator Chris Bodily.

Going by the nickname “Hatrobot” on Facebook and other social media, Bodily is best known for work that represents animals in a whimsical yet slightly alarming style, influenced by manga comics. Represented by the Hive Gallery in Layton, he will present posters and prints at the festival.

Bodily’s work has been featured on the cover of Salt Lake City Weekly, SLUG Magazine and Utah Stories, and his 2013 exhibit at Stoneground restaurant was awarded an Arty for Best Print Show by City Weekly. Recently, he got a gig painting wall murals for the Reddit headquarters in Salt Lake City.

His work is so assertive because it comes from an affection for the line and a solid basis in sketching. From there, the work flies into an extravagant exploration of where those lines can go, and what they can depict—often humorous, sometimes turbulent and maybe even both at the same time. It’s almost like he shakes his pen and sketches fall out. Their exuberance is perfect for the season and a wonderful addition to Utah Pride Fest. (Brian Staker) Hatrobot: Illustrations by Chris Bodily @ Utah Pride Festival, Washington Square & Library Square, 200 E. 400 South, 801539-8800, June 6-7, Saturday 3 p.m.-11 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m.-7 p.m. $8 per day in advance, $10 at the gate. UtahPrideFestival. org, Hatrobot.com

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Many of us are born in a closet of some sort— sexuality, gender, religion. For Stephen Brown, founder and artistic director of SB Dance, that closet was a kind of artistic one. And his coming out just happened to be in New York during the height of what was then called “the gay cancer.”

SB Dance’s new evening-length production The Pushers is about that specific time in history.

Combining dance pieces with personal stories told by Brown himself—because, as he puts it, he personally knows half his audience, so there was no way he’d hire an actor to do it—the performance explores ideas as varied as finding your artistic voice and fighting for gay rights.

“People laugh, and it’s funny as hell, personal and poignant, but then it’s funny again. It’s not going to be some AIDS death march,” Brown says. “This piece is far more narrative than most of my past work, in the way that there are characters and things happen to them—less abstract, more concrete. It is told from my point of view, but a better word for it would be ‘emotional.’ …

You really care about these people.”

Far be it from SB Dance to do something too somber, so The Pushers is designed to be part party, part performance. There will be a social bar open beforehand, and the show is designed to sneak up on you, with the reception blending into the actual performance. Brown says The Pushers is a show for Pride, with a celebratory mood designed to get the audience to participate.

(Jacob Stringer) SB Dance: The Pushers @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, June 6, 7, 13 & 14, 8 p.m., June 15, 4 p.m., $20. SBDance.com, ArtTix.org

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Writing is a lonely business. Hours and days spent isolated with a computer screen and the world inside your head can make it hard to remember that many, many others face the same struggles and challenges, whether that means making your work better or finding a way to get it out to readers.

Celebrating its 30th year in 2014, Writers @ Work presents an annual conference filled with opportunities for writers to interact and take their work to the next level. Talented guest faculty will present specialized workshops in a variety of areas. Poet Ellen Bass will provide guidance in the art and inspiration of poetry, including feedback on work; Robin Hemley will explore the possibilities in literary nonfiction; novelist Lawrence Coates (pictured) will help fiction writers hone specific pieces of work while also instructing in successful long-term processes. It’s an amazing opportunity for writers of all kinds to make the merely okay good, and make the good great.

Additional guests will be on hand—including representatives from the publishing industry and literary journals—to read manuscripts and provide career recommendations, including an introduction to self-publishing by Ben Behunin. And the faculty read from their own work to provide even more inspiration. Attendees can lodge on-site, or register for event participation only. One long weekend could be the difference between that world of writing isolation and sharing it with the world. (Scott Renshaw) Writers @ Work Conference @ Alta Lodge, 210 Little Cottonwood Canyon Road, Alta, 801-996-3313, through June 8, ThursdaySaturday 8 a.m.- 9:30 p.m., Sunday 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m., $690-$955, space limited.

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Sit & Soak Take a short drive to Lava Hot Springs for plenty of relaxation.

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ava Hot Springs, Idaho, gives visitors the chance to calm down and enjoy life in the slow lane. The directions are pretty simple, really: Sit and soak.

Just a little over two hours outside of Salt Lake City, the thermally heated waters of the Lava Hot Springs Hot Pools (430 E. Main, 800-423-8597, LavaHotSprings.com) have no sulphur, chlorine or other chemicals.

The waters are constantly fresh and can be enjoyed 363 days a year until 11 p.m.

Admission to the pools for adults runs just $5.50 on weekdays and $9 on weekends. The facility has different pools that start at 102 degrees and go up to 112 degrees—sort of like a salsa bar where you can gradually try hotter and hotter tastes.

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While the central theme of Lava is relaxing in the hot pools, there are also options for the adventurous. Lava Zipline Adventure (155 E. Main, 208-589-1734, LavaZipline. com) will pick you up in town and take you to a spot by the mountains where you can try ziplines, a giant rope swing or a suspension bridge.

Popular summer activities include golf at Dempsey Ridge Golf Course (9898 E. Merrick Road, 208-776-5048, DempseyRidgeGolfCourse.com), or renting a tube and floating down the Portneuf River that runs through town. When you get out, you can head to the Olympic Pool and Water Park (Olympic Pool and Water Park, 195 N. Center St., 800-423-8597, LavaHotSprings. com), which includes giant water slides.

Dinner and a Soak

Lava Hot Springs is close enough to the Wasatch Front that people have been known to simply drive up for an evening for dinner and a soak. If the warm waters put you in a gourmet mood, try the Portneuf Grille & Lounge in the Riverside Hot Springs Inn (255 E. Portneuf St., 800-733-5504, RiversideInnHotSprings.com) where you’ll find recommended wine pairings to go with dishes such as a sesame-crusted ahi tuna complemented by an apricot-ginger compote.

In a converted gas station at the end of town you’ll find Riverwalk Thai Food (695 E. Main, 208-776-5872). The family-run business has become a destination for outof-town visitors who drive long distances just for the authentic pad Thai. In the heart of Main Street, Royal Hotel & Pizzeria (11

Main, 208-776-5216, RoyalLava.com) serves its tasty pies with a slice of lemon in the East Coast tradition, while 78 Main (208-776-5106, Facebook. com/78MainStreetEatery) is both the address and name of a restaurant serving excellent salads to go along with classic diner dishes.

Greystone Manor (187 S. Second Ave. West, 208-776-5959, GreystoneLavaHotSprings. com) is a bed & breakfast, but you don’t have to stay there to enjoy the intimate dining room when you try the Dine & Unwind special: a couples massage followed by a four-course dinner.

For breakfast, it’s generally a good sign to follow the locals, and they can be found chatting away at Chuck Wagon (211 E. Main, 208-776-5141) enjoying coffee and loaded hash browns.

Soak Then Sleep Those who regularly visit the thermal waters say a good soak helps you sleep better, so it’s not a bad idea to spend the night.

Home Hotel (306 E. Main, 208-776-5050, HomeHotel.com), which has been around since 1918, is the closest hotel to the hot pools; you just have to walk about 50 yards across a bridge. Feel like staying in? Enjoy the privacy of having the waters piped right into your room as you relax in a jumbo twoperson tub.

Two other hotels on Main Street also have access to the thermal waters. Lava Hot

A private soak at the Lava Hot Springs Inn

Springs Inn (94 E. Portneuf Ave., 800-5275830, LavaHotSpringsInn.com) has several different pools right on the property. Check out the spa at the aforementioned Riverside Hot Springs Inn and you can also enjoy the indoor soaking rooms.

The Alpaca Inn (90 S. 1st East, 208-7765200, LavaAlpacaInn.com) is so named because the owners have an alpaca farm.

This cute little garden oasis just off Main Street has a store where you can buy natural wool and even learn the name of the alpaca it came from.

Step Into Relaxation

If you want to take relaxation to a whole new level, try getting out of the springs and walking into the Aura Soma Lava massage rooms (430 E. Main, 800757-1233, LavaMassage.com). The specialty is Ashiatsu, a method that involves the therapist standing on top of you and using their feet to massage and relax your muscles.

Lava’s small town, laid-back atmosphere fits right in with the calming effects of the waters. The entire destination encourages you to kick back and relax. CW Kathleen Curry and Geoff Griffin host the Travel Brigade Radio Show podcast.

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The four horsemen behind him are the Horsemen of Apocalypse, the tools of his destruction. Most often, Apocalypse brainwashes mutants to serve as his Horsemen and wreak havoc and spread death wherever they go.

Through the years of the comics, many mutants and heroes have been bent to the will of Apocalypse in this way.

The Hulk, Wolverine, Gambit, and Archangel rank among the most powerful and recognizable of his merry band of death.

There are plenty of comics you’re going to want to read before the new film. I’d suggest star ting w ith X-Men: Days of Future Past, written by Chris Claremont and drawn

by John Byrne. It’s one of the most iconic stories in the X-Men universe—a nd, not surprisingly, the inspiration for the current film. I can’t recommend it enough.

Next, I’d have you move on to Marvel’s X-Men: The Complete Age of Apocalypse Epic Volumes 1-4. This is a massive four-book collection that brings the entire epic of Apocalypse together in one place—and in an order that makes some sense, which is helpful.

The X-Men comics are notorious for having stories spread across a dozen titles, and getting them in this format helps fight the inherent confusion.

And though we’ll never see it on film because Fox controls X-Men and Marvel controls Guardians of the Galaxy, I’d still like to point you to The Trial of Jean Grey. It’s a team-up comic featuring the Guardians—whom you’re going to worship come August—and the X-Men. It’s a good middle ground between the worlds, and will help acclimate you to the increasingly cosmic scale we’re going to get from the cinematic offerings from Marvel in the coming years. CW

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y now you’ve had the chance to see the latest X-Men movie, Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. The film itself is a worthy sequel to his original films, but it also piggy-backed nicely onto Matthew Vaughn’s prequel X-Men: First Class. And we were all pleased to find out that they attempted to undo all of the damage done to the cinematic X-Men universe by Brett Ratner’s horrible, horrible X-Men: The Last Stand.

But there are still more X-Men films coming, and Singer is still scheduled to be at the helm. Many people were left scratching their heads during the postcredits sequence, which shows a gaunt, pale boy constructing an Egyptian pyramid out of thin air. Then, over his shoulder, appear four horsemen. It might’ve been baffling even for hard-core fans of the X-Men comic books, so let me explain it and point you at some comics that will shed light.

Let’s start with the ancient pale-boy mutant. The assembled crowd chants his name —“En Sabah Nur”—as he seems to telekinetically put together the pyramid. He’s the first mutant, an immortal who would live thousands of years, becoming the timeand-space-traveling villain Apocalypse, the title character of the next X-Men film.

Apocalypse is a popular villain, ranked consistently as one of the best villains ever to grace the pages of Marvel comics. He’s ruthless, a god of death in many civilizations, and bent on becoming the strongest—because to him, only the strong survive. His plots involve plenty of time travel and death, making the X-Men universe established in Days of Future Past the perfect breeding ground for his story.

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Morgan Donovan: Shower Stills Morgan Donovan’s photographic series Shower Stills, currently at Finch Lane Gallery consists of actual-size, head-and-shoulder portraits of subjects created in a studio that have the illusion of not only nakedness, but of being washed clean, divested of all that is non-essential, emerging fresh, even reborn. The intimacy and simultaneous distance of the portraits recalls the work of noted American portraitist Chuck Close, but the effect is more naturalistic.

It seems a fitting subject for the season that symbolizes renewal after a long cold winter. The illusion that these works create—in the subjects’ seemingly blank stares, or some kind of regained cleanliness, if only skin-deep—has to be read in the context of their gaze, which is always returning that of the viewers.

Donovan will present a gallery talk during the June Gallery Stroll on Friday, June 20, at 7 p.m. Her work will be shown concurrently with Nancy Vorm’s mixed-media work and John Mack’s sculpture.

(Brian Staker) Morgan Donovan: Shower Stills @ Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane. 801-596-5000, through June 20, Gallery Stroll June 20, 6 p.m., free. SLCgov.com/arts

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Salty Cricket Composers Collective: Melange 5.0 Salty Cricket Composers Collective, also known as SC3, has a valiant mission at its core: to push classical music beyond its own historical confinements into an exploratory present tense, before launching it into a bright and creative future. Of the several showcases they put on each year, the annual Melange production pushes those boundaries the farthest.

Designed as a group featuring composers from Utah or with Utah ties, SC3 is filled with artists trying to push their own art form out of the stuffy environs typically associated with it by redefining the listening and creative sphere it inhabits. This edition of Melange will see composers performing mainly their own new works, some including instruments and pairings unusual for classical music (like a quartet for soprano,

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vibraphone, electric guitar and didgeridoo), plus multimedia performances. Just don’t be too surprised if a budding young composer takes center stage and whips out an iPhone to render an electronic sonata or suite. (Jacob Stringer) Salty Cricket Composers Collective: Melange 5.0 @ Ladies Literary Club, 850 E. South Temple, 801-652-0737, June 5, 7:30 p.m., $10-$20. SaltyCricket.org

SUNDAY 6.8

Urban Flea Market On the second Sunday of every month, the Urban Flea Market takes over the parking lot at 600 South and Main Street, with rows of people waiting to make a deal. This market works on the buy/sell/trade mentality—which means if you didn’t bring money or set up a booth, no problem. Bring some goodies of your own from home, and you might be able to trade them for something awesome.

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Yes, awesome: This isn’t a market where people just bring boxes they’ve found in the attic in hopes that someone will haul it off. You’ll find real collectable and vintage items, many still functioning; the owners just have no use for them. It’s a great place to find a steal. (Gavin Sheehan) Urban Flea Market @ 600 S. Main, June 8, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., free. FleaMarketSLC.com

FRIDAY 6.6

D-Day 70th Anniversary On June 6, 1944, more than 156,000 Allied troops participated in the invasion of Normandy that began the push toward retaking the European theater of World War II from Germany; more than 2,500 Allied soldiers lost their lives in that critical operation. This year, on the 70th anniversary of the day that changed the course of the war in Europe, Fort Douglas Military Museum will host several free events commemorating its significance.

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Alex Beam: American Crucifixion In his new book, American Crucifixion, Alex Beam tells tale of the creation of Mormonism and the critical moment that was the martyrdom of its founder, Joseph Smith. According to Beam, the story of the foundation of a homegrown religion turning into one the world’s fastest-growing faiths is a purely American story.

It’s important to note that the historical narrative Beam explores is not that of a prophet, but of a man— someone who went from water-divining and treasurehunting to translating found golden plates, creating a new religion and secretly marrying dozens of young women, all propelled by “holy revelation.”

Beam presents Smith’s story as that of an American Icarus who flew far too close to the sun and ended up crashing back down to earth at the hands of an angry mob in Carthage, Ill., in 1844. Beam writes how the charismatic prophet’s embrace of polygamy divided the fledgling religion in two, and ended up being the catalyst for Smith’s eventual death. (Jacob Stringer) Alex Beam: American Crucifixion @ The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, June 11, 7 p.m., free. KingsEnglish.com The morning begins with a convoy of restored World War II-era military vehicles to the museum, which will be on display from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. The main program in the afternoon includes presentation of colors and recognition of local D-Day veterans, a historical lecture and a reenactment featuring period-accurate weapons.

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with a screening of the epic 1962 feature film The Longest Day, starring John Wayne, which looks at the events of D-Day from both the Allied and German perspective. (Scott Renshaw) D-Day 70th Anniversary @ Fort Douglas Military Museum, 32 Potter St., University of Utah, 801-581-1251, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; 3 p.m.-9 p.m., free. FortDouglas.org

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hadn’t appeared on my radar until Make room: The fantastic dishes at Skewered Thai Takashi and Tamara Gibo—of Takashi’s eponymous Japanese reswill move it to the top of your list of favorites. taurant, who know a thing or two about great food—turned me on to egg, onion and fragrant Thai basil, which it. The owner of Skewered Thai, a very tal- nicely balanced the heat of the chilies. ented woman named Lek Changkiendee, Another zippy offering is the Thai-style worked with Takashi many years ago at pork salad ($14). It’s a spicy blend of grilled Shogun, before he opened Takashi. In more pork, ground and mixed with scallions, recent years, her Thai food cart was a fix- white onion, tomato, cucumber, bell pepture at Park City’s Silly Sunday Market. per and lime juice, served with fresh letShe saved money from the food cart until tuce leaves for assembling lettuce cups at she became able to open her own restau- the table. The som tum salad ($14) is also rant. Her brother—well-known local wine an excellent choice: shredded green papaexpert, restaurant manager and bon vivant ya with shrimp, carrots, tomato, peanuts, Ty Richchouyrod—helped her put together green beans and Thai chilies tossed with a the small well-focused Skewered Thai wine hot and sour Thai dressing. list. He’s chosen well-made wines that pair Of course, there is the traditional range beautifully with Thai cuisine; you won’t of Thai curries at Skewered Thai: red, find any Super Tuscans on the list. green and yellow curries, panang curry Naturally, we had to sample the pad thai and even pumpkin and pineapple curries, ($12), a staple of virtually every Thai eatery all with a choice of protein or vegetables.

I’ve ever visited. As with many Skewered The curries are very well balanced; not too Thai dishes, diners who order pad thai can sweet and not too spicy. I really loved the opt for getting it with tofu, chicken, beef, flavor of the massaman curry ($12) with pork, shrimp, scallops, mussels, squid or tender slices of pork bathed in a coconut veggies. There’s also a choice of rice noo- milk broth with white onion, potatoes and dles or glass noodles, the latter of which carrot chunks. Unfortunately, the potatoes are made from bean and also sometimes and carrot pieces were a bit undercooked called cellophane noodles or bean thread and crunchy—the only glitch I could find noodles. We opted for shrimp for the pro- at Skewered Thai. tein and the rice noodles, which are a little Satiated, but not quite finished, we tried less delicate than glass noodles. The pad the coconut sticky rice with mango slices Thai was scrumptious: stir-fried noodles ($7), which solicited OMG! responses all tossed with shrimp, scrambled egg, scal- around. How could anything so delicious lions, crunchy bean sprouts and carrots not be totally unhealthy? We can’t wait to in a simultaneously tangy and sweet sauce be Skewered again. CW with ground peanuts on the side.

Even better than the pad thai, if that’s Skewered Thai possible, was a wicked-good noodle dish called pad kee mao, or drunken noodle ($12). 575 S. 700 East This was a platter of wide, pan-fried rice 801-364-1144 noodles and a distinctively spicy mélange SkeweredThai.com of tender shrimp, red bell pepper, mushrooms, broccoli, carrot, tomato, fresh chili,

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e who live and toil along the Wasatch Front are damned lucky to have so many good Thai restaurants in our midst. Like you, I have my favorites, although I can honestly report that I’ve never had a bad meal at a Utah Thai eatery. Well, I’ll need to make room on my list of favorite Thai restaurants—right at the top or very close to it—for an outstanding new one: Skewered Thai.

About the only thing I don’t love about Skewered Thai is the name. Maybe I just don’t get it. But it’s not as if kebabs or other skewered foods are the restaurant’s mainstay. There is the usual skewered beef and chicken satay, but that’s about it in the skewering department.

“What’s in a name” aside, the restaurant is charming. It’s located near Trolley Square in the brick house that was home to Elizabeth’s English Bakery before that business relocated. From the exterior, the place looks tiny, but inside it’s surprisingly roomy. Old wood floors, exposed brick walls and dark tables and chairs lend a warm ambiance. And, pleasingly, the typical all-too-kitschy Thai knick-knacks and bric-a-brac are absent. A handful of outdoor tables adorn the patio adjacent to the restaurant.

There are a couple of must-try sharable appetizers on the menu. The fresh spring rolls ($8) are remarkable—a taste of spring itself. Rice paper skins are rolled with cucumber, bean sprouts, spring lettuce, carrot and mint, then sliced into eight bite-size portions. The springs rolls would be delicious just as they are—“naked” —but are a real knockout with Skewered Thai’s housemade peanut sauce for dipping.

Skewered beef and chicken satay ($9) also come with that perfect peanut sauce.

The meats are marinated in coconut milk and Thai herbs before being skewered and grilled. I really liked both versions, but the chicken was particularly memorable. The four plump portions of boneless chicken breast were lightly charred and remarkably tender, juicy and full of flavor, adorned with paper-thin cucumber slices and julienned carrot. Other “small bite” temptations include fried Thai calamari with a spicy-sweet chili sauce ($9), curried puff pastry with potato stuffing ($8), and, although I normally wouldn’t go anywhere near coconut fried shrimp ($9), Skewered Thai’s version, with coconut batter, is another matter entirely.

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In February 2011, Park City’s Shades of Pale Brewing Co. (ShadesOf Pale. com) began producing beer in a tiny brewhouse in the northeastern part of the resort town. After two years of wall-bursting growth, Shades of Pale is making a big move out of Summit County and into South Salt Lake. The new brewery will occupy the former Hi-Grade Meats building at 2160 S. West Temple. Though it’s still many months away from making beer, the new brewery will eventually feature a taproom, bottle shop and art gallery.

Utah to Get Black Diamond Beers

A staple in northern California for 20 years, Black Diamond Brewing Company (BDBrewing.com) has its eyes set on the Utah market. Mostly known for higher-alcohol beers, the Concord, Calif., brewery is developing a new 4 percent alcohol-by-volume IPA called Hop Top especially for bars, restaurants and grocery stores in Utah.

And the new Black Diamond beers won’t all be limited to 4 percent ABV; many of the brewery’s standard offerings will be available in town through special orders and from some of the better beer bars in town. Look for them in the third quarter of 2014.

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Monday, June 16, is the first of the year’s wine dinners on the patio at Franck’s restaurant (6263 S. Holladay Blvd., 801-274-6264, FrancksFood.com), featuring the wines from the Fatalone Estate from Apulia, Italy. Winemaker Pasquale Petrera will be on hand to answer questions and discuss the wines. Chefs Robert Perkins and Adam Vickers have created a four-course pairing menu that includes dishes like amberjack carpaccio, fruitti di mare, housemade chive cappellini with spicy Italian sausage, and charred lamb chops with fava beans and roasted fig-wine reduction to accompany the Fatalone wines. Dinner begins at 7 p.m. and the cost is $75 per person. Call or go online for reservations.

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Congratulations to the staff—especially wine director Cara Schwindt—of Cena Ristorante & Lounge (7815 Royal St., Park City, 435-940-2200, The-Chateaux. com) for earning Wine Spectator magazine’s prestigious Award of Excellence.

Cena, which is located at The Chateaux at Deer Valley, offers a selection of 120 wines, ranging from $27 to several hundred dollars, with an emphasis on wine produced in California. The familyfriendly Italian eatery is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

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Sipping & Supping The Food & Wine Classic returns to Park City.

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tah wine lovers know that the biggest bash of the year is the Park City Food & Wine Classic, which runs this year July 9-13. However, the classic isn’t only about wine. Indeed, this year’s lineup of seminars, dinners and outdoor adventures runs the gamut from paddle boarding and fly-fishing outings to whiskey, sake and beer tastings. There is something for everyone, whether you enjoy horses, golf, biking, hiking or getting your kicks shooting guns.

Yes, guns. I have to admit, I’ve never attended a wine festival where shooting not only is OK, but is encouraged. I was brought up believing that guns and alcohol don’t mix, but at the Guns & Rosés event at Victory Ranch, attendees will enjoy

an outdoor lunch with an array of Cakebread Cellars wines (not just Rosé), and an opportunity to tour the Double Barrel shooting facility at Victory Ranch and shoot at clay targets.

Hopefully, no one from the shooting range will wind up at the Park City People’s Health Clinic. But if it happens, they can take solace knowing that a portion of the proceeds from Food & Wine Classic ticket sales go to the nonprofit clinic, which provides health care to uninsured individuals and families in Utah’s Summit and Wasatch counties. Last year, the event raised more than $40,000 for the clinic.

The classic kicks off July 9 with a Farm to Barn five-course wine dinner at Blue Sky Ranch, featuring the culinary talents of chefs from Montage, The St. Regis and High West Distillery. Master sommeliers will select wines to accompany each dish and a live auction will be held to benefit the clinic.

For golfers, two July 11 events have hole appeal. Wine & Nine, as you might surmise, combines nine holes of golf at the scenic Victory Ranch golf course, followed

Looking to impress your Dad with a BBQ feast as good as his own, but without all the work?

Celebrate Father’s Day with us and if you are having a hard time deciding when to do all of the festivities, we will be serving our BBQ for lunch and dinner at Stephen’s American Bistro inside the Salt Lake DoubleTree Suites by Hilton! Enjoy some of our favorites, like our fall off the bone house smoked ribs, succulent pulled pork platter, sliders, or our famous Cuban sandwich. If you still have room, make sure you try some of our delicious desserts or take a dessert home with you.

To make reservations, please call us at 801-359-7800 and ask for the restaurant.

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by a lunch and wine tasting at the 19th hole with Jack Gregor of Francis Ford Coppola Winery. A special golf outing for women— Ladies & the Links—will also take place at Victory Ranch, with lunch and a wine tasting to follow.

Horse enthusiasts will gallop to The Ranch at White Pine Canyon for an afternoon of horseback riding through the pines and peaks of Canyons Resort and a lunch from the grill during the Gallop & Grill outing. Lunch will include wine pairings from Waldorf Astoria Park City’s sommeliers.

My favorite Food & Wine Classic event is the Stroll of Park City, which takes place this year July 11 from 4 to 7 p.m. Ticket holders get to meander historic Main Street visiting restaurants, shops, art galleries and the 14 stroll stops along the way to sample wine, beer, whiskey, food and more. Stroll

stops this year include Rock & Reilly’s, Mustang, Zoom, High West Distillery, The Riverhorse, Sky Lodge and many more.

I hate to be a tease, but the aforementioned barely scratches the surface of the Park City Food & Wine Classic for 2014.

There are many more events to entice both wine lovers and civilians. Park City Food & Wine Classic tickets run from $75 for certain seminars and tastings to $375 for the Casts & Cabs outing, where participants will join Dennis Cakebread of Cakebread Cellars for lunch, a wine tasting and a chance to try your hand hooking the big one while f ly fishing on the Upper Provo River.

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Greek City Grill

Greek City Grill might be diminutive in size, but the flavors are gargantuan. Walk up to the counter and choose from menu items such as burgers (including a bodacious pastrami burger), souvlaki, falafel, soups, salads, hummus and, of course, gyros. Greek City Grill’s gyros are some of the best in town: thick, tender, juicy slices of gyro meat hot from the rotating spit, served on soft pita bread with a choice of red or white sauce. Service is fast and friendly, and you’ll certainly want to order a helping of baklava for dessert. There’s also a drive-thru window for your mobile convenience.

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For fresh-made juices and house-brewed coffee, head to the BlueStar Juice Bar & Coffee Cafe. Your choice of beverage and a pastry is the perfect start to the workday. Try juice blends like the Fruit Fusion, Garden Sweet and Cobra (a favorite of the Downtown Farmers Market), or tuck into your favorite coffee drink and a bagel sandwich for breakfast or lunch. 2795 S. 2300 East, Salt Lake City, 801-466-4280, The-BlueStar.com

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Here, live crawfish (also called “mudbugs”), along with crabs, shrimp and other seafood, are boiled in a special broth in huge pots, then seasoned and dumped onto plastic covered tables for diners’ messy eating pleasure—no plates needed, only lots o’ napkins.

Along with boiled seafood, Bucket O’ Crawfish offers Cajun chicken wings and fried-seafood baskets, including calamari, shrimp and catfish—the catfish nuggets have a crispy, deep-fried exterior, but are perfectly tender and juicy inside. There’s also a good beer selection, featuring bottles, drafts and local brews. 1980 W. 3500 South, Suite No. 104, West Valley City, 801-419-0900, BucketOCrawfish.com

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This Cottonwood Heights deli and cafe offers a culinary tour of southern Italy, with delicious dishes including panini, pasta, salads and tiramisu to die for. There are daily lunch specials that let you savor several flavors without breaking the bank, and a small grocery selection allows visitors to take home some incredible olive oils, sauces and breads to create their own Italian feasts.

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Joe Morley’s has been smoking barbecue since 1985 and is one of the best smokehouses in the state, specializing in takeout barbecue, along with catering and banquets.

Chicken is marinated for 24 hours and then smoked over cherrywood for six more. Popular to-go items include barbecue sandwiches; sides and starters such as kielbasa, hot wings and potato salad; and barbecue platters featuring baby back ribs, smoked beef brisket, chopped smoked pork, smoked chicken and pork spare ribs with Joe’s savory dry rub. For dessert, enjoy a mud pie (original or peppermint) or hot-fudge sundae. Most orders are ready in 15 minutes or less. 7720 S. 100 West, Midvale, 801-255-8928, JoeMorleys. com

Coffee Connection

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If you’re looking for a spacious, caffeinated and quiet setting that’s open late, look no further than Salt Lake’s Coffee Connection. This more-than-a-coffee-shop offers a variety of concoctions, from espresso drinks to bubble teas and health-conscious beverages. While you’re there, kick back in one of the spacious areas: the Lounge, Study Hall or Lobby, all decorated with local art. For something to snack on, Coffee Connection offers a variety of baked goods like muffins, bagels and cookies, and even a few sandwiches, like ham & cheese.

1588 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-467-4937, SaltLakeCoffeeConnection.com

Millcreek Coffee Roasters

Millcreek Coffee Roasters features coffees from around the world, roasted right here in Salt Lake City’s front yard. When choosing beans, Millcreek shoots for quality and sustainability. The owners travel overseas visiting coffee farms, forming bonds with the farming families and making sure the crop is raised responsibly.

In addition to coffee, Millcreek Roasters serves baked goods, tea, breakfast and lunch sandwiches and offers free Wi-Fi. 657 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-3239174, MillcreekCoffee.com

Rusted Sun Pizzeria

In 2013, Rusted Sun celebrated its 15th anniversary serving Salt Lake City. The restaurant specializes, naturally, in pizzas and calzones, but the menu also includes appetizers (the cheese dip is the most popular, with artichoke hearts, sun-dried tomatoes, spinach and three cheeses), salads, lasagna and dessert. Pizzas come in 12- and 16-inch sizes, and any pizza can be made as a calzone. The most popular choices are the Round Up (barbecue chicken, bacon and barbecue sauce), the Mediterranean (salami, artichoke hearts and green olives), and the combo pizza (pepperoni, sausage, Canadian bacon and salami). And you can wash down all the doughy goodness with a selection of wine and beer.

2010 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-483-2120, RustedSunPizza.com

El Farol

Here, you can go light with a tasty salad, such as the fajita or taco salad, or go big with dishes like the smothered burrito, chimichangas or chile verde—popular favorites at this Mexican eatery. Carnitas, served with fresh pico de gallo, are simply delicious, and El Farol also offers customizable one-, two- and three-item combo plates with your choice of two sides. From the beverage menu, try the Mexican hot chocolate, a non-alcoholic daiquiri or a cold horchata. 115 W. 7200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-255-3742, ElFarolUtah.com

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very year the Utah Pride Festival and Parade brings tens of thousands of people into downtown Salt Lake to celebrate and highlight the LGBTQ community in Utah. In addition to being the most fabulous party in the state, the Utah Pride Festival helps fund programming for your LGBTQ Community Center. The programs at Utah Pride make a difference in peoples lives every day.

The Center offers Youth and Adult Programs, Community Mental Health Services, Advocacy, Wellness Programs, and more to support a healthy and vibrant LGBTQ Community here in Utah.

Tickets Buy your tickets online or at the Utah Pride Center and get right to the fun stuff on Pride Weekend!

Saturday: $8 Pre-Sale, $10 at Festival Sunday: $8 Pre-Sale, $10 at Festival Weekend Package: $16 Pre-Sale ONLY! www.UtahPrideFestival.org www.facebook.com/utahpridefestival

Awardees Every year Utah Pride takes this opportunity to highlight people who make a difference in our community. The Dr. Kristen Ries Community Service Award recognizes those who offer outstanding service to the greater LGBT community. This year we are honoring Fran Pruyn and Mark Lawrence. The Pete Suazo Political Action Award goes to an elected official in Utah who has demonstrated an exceptional commitment to equal rights for the LGBTQ community of Utah. This year’s awardee is District Attorney Sim Gill.

Please join us in celebrating these wonderful award winners and our Grand Marshals on Friday, June 6th on the Festival Ground for our Grand Marshal Reception.

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This moment is for all of Utah. You will not catch a more exciting, fun-filled, joyous, or gigantic parade in Utah than the one on Sunday, June 8th at 10:00am, but get there early! This is a celebration & you’ll want a prime spot to watch the festivities.

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International Drag darling and YouTube sensation, Sherry Vine, will make her Salt Lake City premiere at the Utah Pride Festival! Sherry has been entertaining audiences around the world for over 20 years.

Known for her potty-mouthed pop parodies, Sherry’s show is an all live singing, stand-up comedy and always some fun audience interaction.

Something for everyone!

Betty Who earned the attention of critics with her debut EP, “The Movement”, including Time Magazine who picked Betty as one of 14 Musical Acts to Watch in 2014. Who released her second EP, “Slow Dancing,” this April, which made it to #1 on the iTunes pop music charts. Her song “Somebody Love You” was also part of a local marriage proposal that garnered over 11 million

A fixture of New York City’s vibrant downtown performance scene for 30-plus years, Joey Arias is a bona fide NYC icon.

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tah has been at the forefront of the marriage equality battle since Judge Shelby became the first federal judge to overturn a state gay marriage ban after the Defense of Marriage Act struck down in 2013. And now, as we await good news from the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on the case, there will naturally be a float to celebrate these historic advancements of LGBTQ rights at this year’s Utah Pride Festival parade!

Jolene Mewing, who came up with the idea for the float, says, “The state of Utah became number 18 out of 50 states [to legalize gay marriage] with Judge Shelby.

Nobody would have assumed that we would be number 18! We definitely have to celebrate that.” She says she thought, “There’s no way we can’t do something for these couples,” and pitched her idea to the festival’s steering committee, who quickly agreed.

For the first time, the Utah Pride Center has two floats; Mewing is

project manager of both. The Marriage Celebration Float will carry the famous Home Depot couple, whose flashmob engagement video went viral; and the first same-sex couple to be married in Utah. All of the other couples who married during this time have been invited to ride or walk next to the float dressed in white; the number of participants on this float alone could be well into the hundreds. Mewing and her wife, Colleen, married on Dec. 23, 2013, are also among the first same-sex couples to marry in Utah during the 17-day interval between the Shelby ruling and the stay issued by the U.S. Supreme Court.

In the past, the grand marshal traveled the parade route by car, but it was felt that a salute of more grandeur would more appropriately honor this year’s award recipients. The Grand Marshal float will hold the plaintiff couples and their attorneys who filed the winning case against the state that led to Amendment 3 being overturned. Mewing says they

almost didn’t have enough funds from what the Pride Center was able to provide, but thanks to Equality Utah and Marriage Equality USA getting on board in support, they were able to make it happen. “I think it’s going to be one of the most beautiful things Utah Pride parade has ever seen,” she says.

Monique Lanier, designer of the float, says, “I wanted to give the couples the most beautiful thing I could come up with using the budget and materials we had, a most beautiful space that is elegant and classy to honor their marriages. I was up all night long in my head designing. And the grand marshal float I wanted to be a little more glitzy

and make a huge statement, so it’s all gold.

“My hope is that everyone who sees it and participates knows how much they are loved and respected, and to know how special and important they are,” she continues. “I hope that’s what the float conveys to people.”

Mewing says she hopes to elicit some of the same intense feelings of happiness and joy that were felt the day Amendment 3 was overturned in Utah and couples flooded the Salt Lake County Office Building to be married.

“If we could bottle up the energy that was in the room that day,” she says, “we could sell it for a million bucks.” n

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his year’s Utah Pride Festival is expected to draw up to 35,000 people, with more attendees, vendors, supporters, parade participants, and volunteers than ever before—and in this climate of hopeful anticipation for a ruling from the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals upholding Judge Shelby’s decision, it’s set to be one of the biggest, most joyous gatherings. Despite some abrupt shifts and changes at Utah Pride Center just as festival-planning season peaked, the Steering Committee leaders at the forefront have pulled together and picked up the pieces with renewed dedication and camaraderie. “The leadership is good,” says Parade Director Bonnie O’Brien. “You can put a new leader in there and the train is already driving down the tracks.”

The team of passionate staff and volunteers who make up the Steering Committee work tirelessly year after year to make the festival a success. Michelle Stephen, director of logistics, says, “it takes a special person” to keep coming back each year. Most of the Steering Committee has been there seven or eight years. “It’s really inspiring and humbling to be a part of it.”

Jen Parsons-Soran, sponsorship chair for the past seven years, says it’s nice working with a group of people who know what they’re doing. “We have a very veteran group, and it’s great to see the time and energy they give to this festival. They have a real love for it.”

Stephen has watched the festival grow and change in the 11 years she’s been involved. The changes she is most excited about this year are the increased number of vendors (as many as 80 more than last year), a focus on local food, a bigger art zone, and newly added street performers. “It used to be just a party in the park. Now it’s a diversified party in the park, with familyfriendly hours and more representation of what our community truly is.”

The director of logistics oversees everything on the festival grounds: maps, layout, compliance, safety and security, emergency response, timing and deliveries, tents, tables and chairs.

It’s a huge undertaking, but Stephen says this is her way of giving back to the community. “I wasn’t one of those queer people that had to fight the fight. I have a lot of friends and know a lot of people who had to fight the fight—whether it was being beat up in high school, having to deal with losing their family, or losing their children. I didn’t have to sacrifice.”

The event’s director of volunteers, Katina Tuero, is looking forward to bringing her 16-year-old daughter with her to volunteer at the festival for the first time, and marvels at how much better things have become. “It’s so neat,” she says. “The next generation has a whole different viewpoint than even my generation did.” Growing up with a lesbian aunt made it confusing for Tuero to hear kids at her school saying negative things about gay people. But now she has a lot of friends who are bringing their own kids to the festival. “When we were growing up,” she says, “it wasn’t as accepted, so it’s very different for them to see their kids excited to go. It’s great to see viewpoints and attitudes changing.”

More straight allies have started volunteering, especially in the last couple years, according to Tuero, who has volunteered for the past seven years. She says people see this as something they need to support for their LGBTQ friends or family. More than 600 volunteers have already signed up, and 150 more are needed. One threehour shift gets volunteers free festival entrance for the day, plus a T-shirt. Tuero says the many hours of work involved organizing the hundreds of volunteers all starts to pay off when she sees the fences and tents go up, and all the people come pouring in. “Every year I see the parade it makes me cry,” she says. “It’s beautiful to see the love.”

Some have said that the Utah Pride Parade has become the biggest parade in Utah. Though O’Brien, who has been parade director for two years now, says she has “no proof” of it being the largest parade, it’s certainly bigger than ever before, with as many as 130 entries and 7,000 participants.

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Jan Parsons-Soran, Michelle Stephen, Katina Tuero, Bonnie O’Brien that had to be denied because it got too full, according to O’Brien, who covers all off-grounds festival events: parades, marches, rallies, and the 5K fun run. She says there will be booths selling beverages and swag along the parade route this year to raise scholarship money for Utah Pride Center Youth. The funds will send kids to Camp Any Town, a program run by the Inclusion Center, whose mission is to teach understanding and acceptance of all people regardless of ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation.

“I’ve been a ninth grade teacher at a junior high for six years,” explains O’Brien, “and I’ve watched kids struggle with their sexuality, and the religious or political dogma that they’re brought up in. I’m out and proud. I’m good, and my family is OK, and now my whole goal is helping other people to get there.”

Parsons-Soran—who covers all sponsorships, community relations, awards, as well as the Grand Marshal event and VIP tent—sees the festival as a celebration of people being able to come and be themselves. “You get to come and enjoy yourself and be yourself, and you are accepted and loved for that.” She says she was called to the work seven years ago for her expertise, but her love for it is personal.

“Although I am straight, I have many, many members of my family and friends who are LGBT,” she says, “and

as members of the ‘majority,’ we have a responsibility to stand up for our LGBT brothers and sisters. And we have a different voice in this fight. I have these people in my life that have the most amazing relationships and they don’t have the same rights as I do, and I don’t think that’s right.”

The Utah Pride Festival has come a long way from that first small park gathering of gay and lesbian folks in 1974 to the celebration of diversity it is today. It’s a community-building event that attracts not only LGBTQ people looking for a safe space to feel accepted and loved for who they are, but also the friends and families who support them.

Parsons-Soran says she appreciates being welcomed into this community: “I know that sometimes there’s a concern and a challenge about straight people being involved, but the fact of the matter is, this is my community,” she says. “This is where my friends are, this is where I feel the most welcome, and the ability to be myself. And I thank everybody for that.”

“It also gives us an opportunity to highlight who we are at Utah Pride Center,” she continues. “In many ways, it’s our gala. We throw the biggest party in town. It’s very hard for the Utah Pride Center to be everything to everyone, and this is one way we can be, at least once a year.” n

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Holy Smoke’s “Kinda-famous” Dan and “Not-sofamous” Jeff spend their time slow-smoking pork, chicken and beef to satisfy Layton’s barbecue needs.

There’s a distinct Western cowboy theme to Holy Smoke, which is decked out with lots of Western paraphernalia like rifles, pistols, branding irons, saddles and such. The menu represents a range of American barbecue: Southern-style pulled pork, St. Louis pork spareribs, Texas beef brisket and barbecued chicken that might have come from Memphis. It’s all great, especially with Holy Smoke’s housemade barbecue sauces. Definitely give the mango-mango sauce a spin. And each order comes with a side of green Jell-O. 855 W. Heritage Park Blvd., Layton, 801-614-5011, HolySmokeBBQ-Grill.com

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At On Broadway Deli, you can customize your sandwich and even order it online. First, choose your bread, then select a type of cheese and meat, with options including chicken breast, turkey, tuna and pastrami. There’s a huge list of veggies and condiments to further customize your sammie. Or, choose from a regular sandwich like the turkey apple cheddar with thin slices of crisp apple.

As they say at the deli, “The only bad thing about a Broadway sandwich: the last bite!” On Broadway Deli also serves a rotating menu of fresh soups like eightbean with ham, Wisconsin cheddar and tomato-basil.

111 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-578-1752, OnBroadwayDeli.com

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Saffron Valley has all the exotic flair of Indian street food, minus the street. It’s not your typical Indian restaurant in that there are no esoteric paintings on the wall, no Bollywood movies blaring and no incense. There is, however, delicious fare that can be hand-held like typical street food, such as biryanis, curries, chaat (puri, samosas, pakoras), kebabs, Indian wraps and flatbreads.

All of the options are as flavorful as you’d expect from a restaurant that uses spices distributed by East India Pantry. 26 E St., Salt Lake City, 801-203-3325; 1098 W. South Jordan Parkway, South Jordan, 801-438-4823, SaffronValley.com

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Bohemian Brewery is an Eastern European-style brewpub in the Salt Lake Valley. The always-lagered beers come in a variety of sizes, up to the Bohemian’s “manly” stein. The eclectic menu features authentic European goulash, pierogi and spaetzle, in addition to a Czech take on pub classics, with Pilsner-battered fish & chips, a garlic burger and chicken wings. If you can make it up the stairs at the end of your meal, check out Midvale’s largest scooter museum in the loft that overlooks the dining room. 94 E. 7200 South, Midvale, 801566-5474, BohemianBrewery.com

burrito and omelets, the cafe serves delicious burgers and sandwiches for lunch, like the chicken cordon bleu and a scrumptious patty melt. Also, be sure to try the tri-tip, grilled special on Fridays. 20 S. Orchard Drive, North Salt Lake, 801-936-0915, SunshineCafeUtah.com

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At China Hill, you’ll find a wide variety of Chinese cuisine, all served up in a contemporary setting. Specialties of the house include walnut shrimp, sesame beef, Sichuan shrimp & scallops and volcano shrimp. Of course, you’ll also find mainstream Chinese fare like kung pao chicken, beef with broccoli, ham fried rice, wonton soup, egg foo young and pot stickers. The large menu is separated into many different categories, including a vegetarian and childrens menu, which makes it easy for anyone to find what they’re craving. The lunch specials and dinner combos are popular and offer many less-expensive options. 2704 North Hill Field Road, Layton, 801779-3998, ChinaHillUtah.comGrappa

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Kowloon Cafe has been serving great Chinese food in Salt Lake City for more than 30 years. Chinese familystyle dinners feature combo meals for one person or an entire group. Among the favorite dishes are green pepper steak, shrimp with broccoli, pineapple chicken, Mongolian beef, kung pao shrimp and Sichuan beef. The prices here are low, with most dishes well under $10. An American menu offers chicken-fried steak, breaded veal cutlets, fish & chips, fried halibut, broiled top sirloin, salads and hot sandwiches. For drinks, there are sodas, tea and beer selections. 2055 W. 3500 South, Salt Lake City, 801-972-8720, KowloonCafe.com

Wild Mushroom Pizza

Everyone loves pizza, but this relaxed little pizzeria has stepped up the game, specializing in gourmet pies, pasta and oversized subs. The Mushroom Trio is a sure bet, but if you’re a meat lover, try the Stacker, loaded with Canadian bacon, sausage, beef and pepperoni. Of course, you’re more than welcome to customize your pie with your favorite toppings, even capers, pine nuts and shrimp. If you’re not feeling pizza, try the creamy fettuccini alfredo or cheesy lasagna; both are sure to please. 2711 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-4846100, WildMushroomPizza.com

New Thai Café

One of the few Thai restaurants in West Jordan, New Thai Café offers not only a tasty, mouthwatering Thai cuisine, but also an inviting spot in which to enjoy coffee and conversation. The authentic Thai décor sets the mood for a fine meal prepared by a Thai chef, all at reasonable prices. Highly recommended are the kao pad—Thai fried rice—and pad gra prow—duck with basil. Try the deep-fried donuts with whipped cream for dessert. 2653 W. 7800 South, West Jordan, 801-566-1387, NewThaiCafe.com

Main Street Deli

Main Street Deli in Park City is the perfect place to grab a quick, inexpensive breakfast, lunch or light dinner.

Locals love to pop in for a simple bagel with cream cheese. Popular breakfast items include three-egg omelets, huevos rancheros and breakfast sandwiches.

The lunch menu consists of a huge variety of sandwiches, from turkey & Swiss to the meatball sub. Conveniently located near the top of Main Street, this inviting little eatery begs you to grab a newspaper and stay a while.

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Cottonwood Heights Cafe

Here you’ll find a nice selection of lighter fare, like sandwiches and gyros, along with breakfast, which is served all day; try the ham & Swiss omelet or fresh blueberry pancakes. The little ones will especially love the Thomas the Tank Engine-style train out front.

The friendly service and affordable dining make this a convenient stop, whether you’re a local from Cottonwood Heights, a snowboarder or skier on the way to or from the slopes or a worker grabbing a big breakfast before work. 2577 E. Bengal Blvd., Salt Lake City, 801947-0760

Layla Mediterranean Grill & Mezze

Since opening Layla’s Mediterranean Grill & Mezze in 2010, the Tadros family’s delicious Lebanese food and warm, modern atmosphere have been drawing crowds.

Guests will savor a Middle Eastern dining experience with mezze (small plates) meant to be shared. Be sure to try the Black Angus short ribs, which are braised in a Burgundy demi-glaze. Another favorite is the moussaka, with layered slices of eggplant, ground beef, pine nuts and spices baked in a light tomato sauce and served over rice. 4751 S. Holladay Blvd., Holladay, 801-2729111, LaylaGrill.com

Argentine Corner

Owner/chef Jose Luis Palacios treats customers like family, serving authentic gnocchi, empanadas and pizza for local soldiers, professionals and Spanish students.

Cow’s tongue is often an unattractive, decidedly chewy morsel, but when boiled for several hours, then sliced wafer-thin and served with garlic & parsley vinaigrette, it’s a culinary jewel. Argentine Corner is one of the few proponents of this particular art. Served with crusty white bread while you wait for the chef to fire up his barbecue, it’s the perfect starter, melting like butter on your taste buds. 442 N. Main, Clearfield, 801-7739909, ArgentineCorner.com

Little Taste of Britain

Nick & Mandy Island’s Little Taste of Britain is a friendly fish & chips shop that’ll make you think you’re in soggy, foggy, merry old London town. Big meaty fillets of fresh cod are battered and deep-fried until perfectly golden and luscious. Try them with a side of pineapple fritters, “mushy” peas or baked beans. There’s also a small market filled with British specialty items—everything from kidney pies and bangers to Union Jack Bermuda shorts. 1095 N. Main, Layton, 801-543-5707, LittleTasteOfBritain.net

Canton Village

Canton Village serves a vast array of Chinese dishes— everything from egg foo young and fried rice to chop suey, chow mein and potstickers—at affordable prices.

Popular menu items include cashew chicken, mu shu pork, spicy Sichuan beef, kung pao chicken, shrimp with lobster sauce and a variety of lo mein dishes. For soup lovers, there’s a delicious house special noodle soup, and vegetarians will enjoy the veggies with black-bean sauce or Sichuan tofu. 368 E. 100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-531-1111, CantonVillageDowntown. com; 5504 S. 900 East, Murray, 801-261-2222, CantonVillageUt.com

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Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow So what the hell does any of this have to do with couples therapy? It’s there, if you look, in the central relationship between Cage and Sgt. Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), a soldier already legendary for her Mimickilling prowess largely because she too was once caught in a repeating loop. While the repeated days provide Cage a chance to learn from his mistakes on the battlefield and try to defeat the Mimics, they also offer him a chance to grow up. Vrataski may never remember Cage from one repeated cycle to the next, but she matters more and more to him every time. And when it begins to appear that Vrataski can’t survive a particular key moment in the cycle, his own survival starts to mean less than finding a way they can survive together.

Great genre work has always been a way to explore human nature, wrapped in monsters and mayhem to help the medicine go down. Edge of Tomorrow’s simple, smart pleasures include a look at how many screw-ups it can take to learn there may be things—and people—beyond yourself that are worth fighting for. CW

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thing happens: He wakes up two days earlier, stuck in a time loop where he’s able to repeat the 24 hours leading up to the attack, always remembering the events he’s lived while nobody else does.

That premise has generally been compared to a certain Bill Murray comedy, yet it’s perhaps even more reminiscent of the 2011 thriller Source Code, in which a man is sent back in time over and over again to gather the information necessary to prevent a terrorist attack. Liman and his writing team find inventive, often hilarious ways to tell this story, including montages of Cage’s repeated fail-reboot cycles, and the way he uses his knowledge of events to manipulate others. The circumstances that land Cage in the thick of battle in the first place are pretty sloppily sketched so that it makes any sense for the 50-something Cruise to be a battle rookie forced immediately into combat—the book’s protagonist is a young new-recruit grunt—but everything that follows is too energetic for it to really matter.

That includes the visual style Liman brings to Edge of Tomorrow, which charges through its “find and kill the leader” plot with impressive efficiency; it’s refreshing when a big summer movie realizes a two-hour-plus running time isn’t mandatory. The design of the alien Mimics is inventive—they’re like massive rolling virus cells, covered in frantically aggressive tentacles—and the key action sequences like the initial air drop are choreographed with a dynamic sense of real things colliding with other real things, not just CGI representations of things.

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Some examples are more obvious than others, of course. When Liman deviated most clearly from his background in genre films, it was with 2010’s Fair Game, the factbased story of whistleblower Joe Wilson and “outed” intelligence operative Valerie Plame, and how the media attention on their story pounded at the foundations of their marriage. Yet there have also been few allegories about the strains on a modern relationship more effective—and entertaining— than Mr. & Mrs. Smith, which tragically has become a footnote mostly as the launch of the “Brangelina” relationship despite being brilliantly insightful about what it takes to right a teetering marital ship.

I’ll ask you to bear with me, since nothing in the basic premise of Edge of Tomorrow— adapted from Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s 2004 novel All You Need Is Kill—suggests that it has anything to do with relationship dynamics. This is, after all, the story of an alien invasion of Earth, focusing on an impending all-or-nothing, D-Dayesque military operation five years into the “Mimics’” occupation of most of Europe.

Tom Cruise stars as Maj. William Cage, a military public-relations officer who gets thrown into actual battle for the first time.

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Chinese Puzzle HH I’m not sure who besides writer/director Cédric Klapisch was clamoring for a third installment in the saga of Xavier Rousseau (Romain Duris), Wendy (Kelly Reilly), Isabelle (Cécile de France) and Martine (Audrey Tautou)—following 2002’s L’Auberge Espagnole and 2005’s Russian Dolls—but here it is anyway. As Xavier approaches 40, his career as a novelist is taking off, but the collapse of his marriage to Wendy forces him to uproot his life and move to New York. Klapisch jam-packs this tale with plot—from Xavier’s attempt at a fake marriage to gain a permanent visa, to him serving as sperm donor for Isabelle’s baby with her lesbian partner, to Xavier’s relationship with his long-absent father— and tries to spice it all up with plenty of visual flourishes. Yet as generally likeable as these characters are, it’s hard to get past the realization that this series is merely a fluffier, more farcical attempt at a life-spanning epic like the Before Sunrise/Sunset/ Midnight films, only without a real emotional anchor. Yes, life is “complicated,” as Xavier often says, but complicated doesn’t necessarily mean interesting. (R)—Scott Renshaw Edge of Tomorrow HHH.5 See review p. 51. Opens June 6 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) The Fault in Our Stars [not yet reviewed] Two teenage cancer survivors (Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort) fall in love. Opens June 6 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)

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Filth H.5 No, you do not get to play your protagonist’s horrible behavior for outrageous laughs and try to make him a sympathetically shattered victim of post-traumatic stress. Director Jon S. Baird adapts the novel by Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh about Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy), a Scottish police detective investigating a Japanese student’s murder while also using any means necessary to undermine his co-workers and competitors for a promotion. Bruce is a truly awful human being—treating the women he sleeps with like crap, consuming massive quantities of drugs, making obscene phone calls to the wife of a friend (Eddie Marsan)—and McAvoy plays many of these moments with an “ain’t I a naughty boy” smirk to the camera. But Baird also keeps dropping hints about the demons that haunt Bruce, building to more profound breakdowns and revelations that could’ve been devastating if the rest of the film hadn’t been pitched as dark comedy. The terrific supporting cast can’t help a director with no control of material that gets more unhinged with every passing minute—and not in a good way. Opens June 6 at Tower Theatre. (R)—SR Ida HHH There’s so much intriguing style in Pawel Pawlikowski’s intriguing period piece that, for a long time, it doesn’t matter that it’s not adding up to much. Set in 1960s Poland, it follows Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska), an orphan raised in a convent who learns, shortly before she is to take her own vows, that her parents were Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Along with her only surviving relative—her mother’s sister Wanda (Agata Kulesza), a tribunal judge for the Communist regime—Anna sets out to find the remains of her parents, and Pawlikowski gets some mileage out of the clashing personalities of the

innocent Anna and jaded Wanda on their road trip. He also crafts plenty of compelling, stark black & white images using a square Academy ratio frame, often placing characters so close to the edge of the frame it feels like the rest of the world is swallowing them. Yet both central characters are also frustratingly opaque; the decisions both of them make late in the film are startling mostly because they seem to come out of nowhere.

It’s gorgeously frustrating cinema. Opens June 6 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—SR

SPECIAL SCREENINGS Alien At Tower Theatre, June 6-7 @ 11 p.m. & June 8 @ noon. (R) Khumba At Main Library, June 7, 11 a.m. (NR) Lethal Weapon At Brewvies, June 9, 10 p.m. (R) ParaNorman At Main Library, June 7, 3 p.m. (PG) Transvisible At Main Library, June 8, 2 p.m. (NR) WALL-E At Main Library, June 10, 7 p.m. (G)

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

Belle HHH It sounds like the kind of earnest period piece built around its long-historical-view moral superiority: the fact-based story of Dido Belle Lindsay (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), the mixed-race illegitimate daughter of an English gentleman, raised in the aristocratic household of her great uncle (Tom Wilkinson) 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).

Eventually, director Amma Asante loses track of that idea and makes the story all about a potentially landmark legal case, and Belle’s romance with a young abolitionist. Belle proves more effective when it’s looking at thorny questions of where one fits in a stratified society. (PG)—SR

Blended HH.5 Drew Barrymore once again provides a crucial woman’s touch in an Adam Sandler movie; this one, for reasons too

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ridiculous to chronicle, finds single parents Jim (Sandler) and Lauren (Barrymore) and their kids sharing a vacation in South Africa. Barrymore has shown herself willing to be ridiculous for Sandler’s comedies, and as a result Sandler has shown her the friendly respect of not indulging his willingness to tell the laziest possible joke in the laziest possible way.

Blended is occasionally charming in its focus on adults trying to help fill voids in the lives of each other’s kids, but Sandler is fundamentally who he is, so it never strays too far from a formula of low-brow gags. It’s pratfalls, toilet humor and juvenile sex obsession, but it’s pratfalls, toilet humor and juvenile sex obsession with heart. (PG-13)—SR

Cold in July HHH Director Jim Mickle and co-writer Nick Damici successfully translate the shaggy-dog storytelling muscle of Joe R. Lansdale’s novel to the screen, fashioning a terrific small-scale suburban noir. In 1989, small-town Texas family man Richard Dane (Michael C. Hall) is awakened by a bump in the night, with violent consequences including bringing him into proximity with the vengeful ex-con father (Sam Shepherd) of the man he killed. John Carpenter gets a shout out in the end credits, and the film is positively filthy with his fingerprints. Mickle may make his influences easy to spot, but he also brings plenty to the table that’s distinctly his own, utilizing his slow-burn horror experience to keep the screws turning until the final sprint downhill. Whatever weird dimension Lansdale and Mickle’s collective mojo hails from, the movies could stand a whole lot more of it. (R)—Andrew Wright

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

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Chef HHH Jon Favreau writes, directs and stars as Carl Casper, a oncepromising 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 is sweet without being sappy. While it’s frequently hilarious, more attention is lavished on how to make a proper Cuban sandwich, for example, than on several of the film’s characters or on the story, which comes from a box rather than from scratch. Still, it’s a return to Favreau as sardonic motormouth with a soft center who’s just a lot of fun to hang out with. (R)—Eric D. Snider

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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 God’s Not Dead h I’m not in the choir to which this movie is preaching, but that’s the point: It sets itself up as making rational arguments about God’s existence, but it does nothing of the sort. The central plot—about a college freshman (Shane Harper) forced by his stridently atheist philosophy professor (Kevin Sorbo) to “prove” the exis-tence of God—is a stacked deck in so many ways you can’t even see the top of the deck, with the cartoonishly nasty professor who’s afflicted by a Terrible Childhood Trauma that explains his lack of faith and is also clearly incompetent at his job. The rest is a collection of half-assed melodrama and quarter-assed comic relief, building to the excruciating Perry Mason moment that provides cheap audience applause.

It’s another hunk of junk for an audience willing to be congratulated for what they already believe. (PG)—SR 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 The Grand Budapest Hotel HHH It feels like there’s something going on besides Wes Anderson’s elaborate caper framework, the nested chronology of its narrative structure eventually landing in 1932, where concierge Monsieur Gustave (Ralph Fiennes) winds up framed for a wealthy woman’s murder after it appears he may be one of her heirs. Anderson’s cutaway dollhouse compositions add a wonderful geography to the farcical set pieces, yet for all this story’s charms—like Fiennes’ exuberant performance and the sheer momentum of Anderson’s storytelling—there’s a sense that Anderson is reaching for … well, something, by invoking the rise of 1930s European fascism. Or maybe it’s merely a charming (if surprisingly violent) trifle with several laughout-loud moments. Even if there’s nothing deeper than what’s right there in front of you, there’s still a reason to believe the anti-Anderson contingent is missing something. (R)—SR Maleficent H.5 Beware, children, when attempting to rehabilitate a cartoon villain or update a beloved fairy tale, for you tread on treacherous ground. Behold Maleficent, the supposed “real story” behind the fairy-born villain (Angelina Jolie) of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, which—like the recent live-action Alice in Wonderland and Oz the Great and Powerful—seems primarily concerned with being its own pop-up coffee-table book of production design than anything approaching satisfying fantasy drama. Its cartoonishly lazy simplicity is supposed to be excusable, I presume, because this is “for kids,” but I suspect even the kids will notice the muddled world-building about a vague ancient hatred between humans and fairies and the confused motives—on both sides—that follow. None of it makes any sense, not even on its own small terms, and … oooh look! A dragon! (PG)—MaryAnn Johanson Million Dollar Arm H.5 Out of a nozzle on the Disney movie-making machine labeled “inspiring sports dramas” comes a rote, emotionally blank lump of fact-based hooey about sports agent J.B. Bernstein (Jon Hamm), who saves his career by teaching two Indian cricket play-

ers (Suraj Sharma and Madhur Mittal) to be baseball pitchers.

Directed with atypical apathy by Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) from a wan screenplay by the usually reliable Thomas McCarthy, the film shows no actual interest in America’s pastime (we never see anyone play), nor in the boys, whose recruitment is an openly cynical attempt to capitalize on the untapped Indian market. No, the focus is Bernstein, a hustling, all-business grump who must learn—you guessed it—what’s really important in life. The film paints all the numbers the right color, but it does so without passion or joy. (PG)—EDS A Million Ways to Die in the West HH Family Guy mastermind Seth MacFarlane’s follows up Ted, his 2012 hit about a potty-mouthed Teddy bear, and like that film, the new one—an overlong farce starring MacFarlane as a wise-cracking Old West coward trying to prepare for a shootout with a nasty gunslinger—starts promisingly but falls prey to MacFarlane’s undisciplined, non sequitur style of writing. It has about as many laughs as a typical episode of Family Guy—which sounds okay, until you realize those laughs are spread out over 117 minutes instead of 22. The shock value of Old West characters using modern profanity fades quickly; when everything is filthy, nothing is filthy. Amusing turns by Charlize Theron and Neil Patrick Harris can’t save this indulgent misfire from MacFarlane’s inept acting, writing and direction. (R)—EDS Mr. Peabody & Sherman hhh.5 Mr. Peabody and his boy, Sherman, debuted in the 1950s The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, and now, their own feature-length cartoon is sweetly geeky, full of charm and authentic humor.

Mr. Peabody (Ty Burrell) is a genius inventor, scientist, musician, athlete, gourmand and mixologist. Oh, and he’s a dog.

When 7-year-old Sherman (Max Charles) and his schoolmate Penny (Ariel Winter) take Peabody’s WABAC—pronounced “way back”—machine out for an unauthorized jaunt to the distant past, it’s up to Peabody to repair the timestream damage they do. Ancient Egypt and Renaissance Italy are but two of the places we are whisked away to, with much good-natured silliness and tons of glorious bad puns along the way. These are the sorts of goofy yet intriguing adventures that could well inspire kiddie curiosity in history, art and science. (PG)—MAJ Neighbors HH.5 What conclusions should one draw from an ostensibly raucous battle of pranks where the most memorable thing is a cute

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

NoahHHH The madness in Darren Aronofsky’s version of the Biblical story is both baffling and inspiring. Yes, there’s a prophet named Noah (Russell Crowe), an ark filled with animals, and a great flood meant to wipe human wickedness from the earth. There are also fallen angel/rock giants helping Noah with his mission, and Lord of the Rings-esque battle sequences that emphasize the mythical component of the story yet also distract with CGI spectacle.

But once the action is limited to the ark—and Noah’s deeply conflicted sense of his holy mission—it becomes a fascinating study of the burdens of feeling tasked by God, and a complicated exploration of how to balance mankind’s capacity for doing harm with its capacity to love. Once you get past the stabs at epic grandeur, Noah wrestles with spiritual questions in a probing, surprising way. (PG)—SR

X-Men: Days of Future Past HHH Bryan Singer juggles more than a dozen mutants and whole heaps of story for a satisfying comic-book action spectacle and allegory. From an apocalyptic near future, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is sent back in time to 1973, where he must stop Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) from an act that will set the deadly events in motion. The overlap of characters from the two X-franchises is part of the fun, and for once the sheer magnitude of the cast and plotting in a super-hero epic feels somewhat justified. The bouncing between characters sometimes doesn’t allow for focus on the film’s strongest assets, like Evan Peters as happily anarchic speedster Quicksilver.

But it’s intriguing watching something pointedly set at the end of the Vietnam War, as it looks at the moral choices we can make when confronted with something we perceive as a threat. (PG-13)—SR

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A U.S. Air Marshal (Liam Neeson) receives a mysterious text demanding $150 million or a passenger will be killed every 20 minutes, so he flips into action-marshal mode to save the day. Shouldn’t this be called Dead Air? (Universal)

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Finding Bigfoot Sunday, June 8 (Animal Planet) Season Premiere: The first episode of Season 5(!) of Finding Bigfoot will be the 48th(!!) produced in three years. You know what they haven’t produced? BIGFOOT!

Murder In the First Monday, June 9 (TNT) Series Premiere: Since TNT seems deadset on becoming ’90s NBC with wall-towall cop/legal dramas broken up by the occasional sci-fi show, it makes sense that genre veteran Steven Bochco would end up here with a tweaked take on his 1995 series Murder One: a single homicide case spanning an entire season. This time, however, he only has to deliver 10 episodes (as opposed to 22), and the cast (led by Taye Diggs and Kathleen Robertson as gorgeous-but-troubled San Francisco detectives) is a more manageable size, as well. The case, in which a dickhead Silicon Valley tech CEO (TV and film’s new go-to villain) is connected to a pair of seemingly unrelated murders, is only slightly more twisty than a Rizzoli & Isles assignment, but Murder In the First is still grittier than anything else on TNT at the moment—except

Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) for the occasional Castle rerun. Or is it Bones? They’re different shows, right?

Big Smo Wednesday, June 11 (A&E) Series Debut: After the premiere of the sixth and likely final season of Duck Dynasty—it was fun, and then rabidly homophobic, while it lasted, but we’ve hit that Jersey Shore/Honey Boo Boo wall of indifference, boys—A&E debuts its next great white reality hope, Big Smo. For those unfamiliar with the pop phenomenon of “country rap” (a mashup of country, southern rock and hiphop with an inexplicable number of rhymes for “tailgate of my pickup truck”), Big Smo is a morbidly obese Tennessee hick-hopper whose star is rising as quickly as his cholesterol. His debut album is called Kuntry Livin, his music is corporately contrived cheese calculated to suck bucks out of blue-collar Wranglers, and he projects the raw intellect of a stunned heifer. Shoehorn all this raw, oozing potential into a cookiecutter, over-scripted redneck-family reality show and you have … probably a huge hit. Note that I didn’t say fat hit. CW

“Fixer” to the Hollywood rich and famous Ray Donovan (Liev Schreiber) knows how to handle any problem—except his own father (Jon Voight), a career criminal just released from prison. Can this wacky family get it together? Ha! (Showtime)

The Secret Lives of Dorks When a high-school nerd falls in stalkerlust with a head cheerleader, she sets him up with an equally awkward nerd girl and coaches him on “romance” (“Always tell a hot girl she’s smart; always tell a smart girl she’s hot”). Uh, brilliant! (Gaiam)

True Detective: Season 1 Two ex-Louisiana detectives (Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson) are interrogated about a serial-killer case they “solved” in the ’90s; flashbacks and intense hair/acting ensue. Yes, it is as amazing as the hype says. (HBO)

More New DVD Releases (June 10) Adult World, Alan Partridge, Bigfoot vs. D.B. Cooper, Cosmos: Season 1, Devil’s Knot, Hell’s Kitchen: Season 11, Klondike, Midrange, The Mummy: Resurrected, Murder 101, Resurrection: Season 1, Rizzoli & Isles: Season 4, Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles 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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Series Debut: Ghost (Omari Hardwick) is a successful-if-unfortunately nicknamed New York City nightclub owner by night, but an even-more-successful drug dealer by … later night? The logistics don’t matter— can he turn his club into more than just a money-laundering front and go straight?

Will the far-less-handsome drug players of the city let him out of the game? Did no one bring up Boardwalk Empire in the Power pitch meetings? Can producer/recurring “actor” 50 Cent hear how hilariously unthreatening his own lispy voice is? No one at Starz bothered to answer, because Power is slicker, flashier and easier to digest than their last Boardwalk knockoff, Magic City. In other words, good enough for Saturday night.

An operative (Chris Pine) in the CIA’s Financial Intelligence Unit (sure, it’s a thing) uncovers a Russian plot to collapse the U.S. economy and flips into action-spy mode to save the day. Shouldn’t this be called Shadow Accountant? (Paramount)

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Orange Is the New Black Friday, June 6 (Netflix) Season Premiere: How badly did Piper (Taylor Schilling) beat down Pennsatucky (Taryn Manning) at the end of Season 1? The bigger, more unexpected question is, were the two alone at the scene? Orange Is the New Black grew stealthily and deliberately from a pretty-white-girl-goes-to-prison comedy into a racially diverse drama with real tension and consequences during its initial 13 episodes (while still retaining some laughs—this isn’t the female Oz, yet); showrunner Jenji Kohan sends Season 2 down a darker path from the outset (while the first episode is mostly Piper-centric, she’s not the same woman who entered Litchfield Penitentiary last year). But, it’s not all a downer—two words: cunnilingus contest. Happy binging!

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fter a punch sent the piñata shaped like Michelangelo the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle flying off the string holding it to the ceiling, rapper Donnie Bonelli picked it up from its landing place on the stage and stood, cowering, holding it in the air and trying to avoid the fists swinging dangerously close to his face on their way to the paper-covered target. All it took was a couple more hits by a guy with the height and beard of Gregor Clegane for the piñata to finally get blown apart, to cheers from the audience.

It wasn’t a kid’s birthday party gone bizarrely wrong, but a round of Punch the Piñata, one of the games on the new variety show Rhyme Time Television, the first episode of which was released June 1 on RhymeTimeTelevision.com.

Filmed live in front of a studio audience at Muse Music Cafe in Provo, Rhyme Time Television is the brainchild of Salt Lake City emcee Scott Knopf, aka Atheist, who now also goes by the moniker Rhyme Time. Featuring a mix of celebrity interviews, live music, games, cartoons and stand-up comedy, the show is what would happen if The Tonight Show were filmed in Wayne and Garth’s basement and aired on Channel 62 when it was run by Weird Al Yankovic in UHF, a cult classic Knopf cites as one his inspirations for the project.

On a stage decorated with Savers relics like a tacky cat figurine, dusty sports trophies and an old TV—containing a beat-up VHS copy of The ABCs of Dutch Oven Cooking—Knopf begins all episodes of the show by rapping the theme song, accompanied by the other members of the band Rhyme Time Television: This Guy (aka Chance Clift or Chance Lewis) on the keyboards and synths, and Dino Dino (aka DJ SkratchMo or Gabe Ghent) on the turntables and drum kit, who also play original jingles that introduce various segments of the show. All three musicians also belong to the rap crew House of Lewis, but except for its strong sense of nostalgia, Rhyme Time Television—the show as well as the band of the same name—is unlike any project they’ve been part of before.

With an album titled Topanga—named after a character from the ’90s sitcom Boy Meets World—Knopf is well known for resurrecting the era of Super Nintendos, VCRs and TGIF. “I’m super nostalgia-based in my life,” he says. “I love nostalgic stuff more than getting new stuff to be nostalgic about later. I love ’80s stuff; I love ’90s stuff.” Rhyme Time Television takes that affection and expands it past the scope that’s possible for any rap album, to something that members of the studio audience—kids, parents and everyone in

Scott Knopf, right, during the first taping of Rhyme Time Television between—can fully participate in.

The Rhyme Time Television project is a new direction for Atheist, a name that’s often polarizing, especially in Utah County. When Knopf was brainstorming about his next album, he says, “I thought, ‘Let’s do something different; let’s really do something for families.’ Utah is such a familyoriented state, and Provo is such a family-oriented town, and they want clean lyrics,” which will be heard on Rhyme Time Television’s upcoming debut album, Gnarly!, set for release Aug. 8. Knopf says he still plans on doing shows as Atheist, but on Rhyme Time Television and with his new band, he’s Rhyme Time. “If you see me wearing pajamas, I’m Rhyme Time,” he says. “If you see me wearing a suit jacket, I’m Atheist.”

It’s not a coincidence that Knopf and his bandmates wear pajamas onstage (every episode culminates in an audiencewide pillow fight) or that all the celebrity guests—notable locals like comedian Jay Whittaker and actor Whit Hertford (Full House, Jurassic Park)—sit on blankets instead of in chairs as they’re interviewed onstage. “We really wanted it to feel like an ’80s slumber party,” says floor manager/coordinator Bonelli. “All of us grew up in the ’80s, and we were kids going to those slumber parties.”

One of the show’s most endearing qualities is its unpredictability, especially if you’re watching a live taping. The extreme DIY nature of Rhyme Time Television allows for funny unscripted moments, such as Knopf giving an improvised monologue on getting viciously attacked by a rooster when he was a kid, or a baby trying to pick up the cat figurine during the game Pizza Pizza Pizza Time (essentially a pizza-eating contest). “For everything that we kind of messed up or went wrong, another thing went unexpectedly great,” Clift says. “I think if [the show] has that kind of loose vibe on the actual final edit, that will be a good thing.” The next episode will be released July 1, and the next taping will be in August.

The experience of being an audience member in a Rhyme Time Television episode is something Knopf says he hopes will stick in people’s minds as much as the ’80s and ’90s have stuck with him. “I’m so nostalgia-based,” he says, “that I want to make stuff that kids will be nostalgic for when they’re my age.” CW

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e’re in Amsterdam right now; it’s pretty sweet,” says Nathan Hewitt, vocalist/ guitarist of Cheatahs, at the start of their current international tour. The London-based band has come a long way since beginning as a side project between Hewitt and guitarist James Wignall.

“We formed the band properly in 2012 after about three years of it being on the back burner,” Hewitt says. “We had all played in various bands, so it was more of something that we would do for fun when we had time, but couldn’t commit to it properly.”

After securing the current lineup—which is rounded out by bassist/background vocalist Dean Reid (who also performs double duty as sound engineer) and drummer Marc Raue—the band released two U.K.-exclusive EPs later that year. “The early EPs were mostly old songs that were written before we cemented the lineup,” Hewitt says. “We’ve definitely learned a lot from recording it ourselves and think the progression has really helped the production value as well as the songwriting. The main thing that has changed is, now it’s a much more collaborative process.”

This unified progression led to the release of Cheatahs’ self-titled debut album in 2013. The songs exude a dynamic approach with solid rhythms and harmonies, layered with ambient noise and an alternative-rock sensibility. “I think in terms of the music, the songs have definitely taken on a weirder, more nuanced feel,” Hewitt says.

Expanding on this newfound collective band consciousness, the lyrics have an almost allegorical quality, as exemplified by the new album track, “Loon Calls”: “Lost in metaphor, till days end/ You know I can’t fake it/ This is my lodge on the shore/ (Never been before).” However, the music shapes the compositions as a whole, as Hewitt describes this and other songs: “For me, the music influences the lyrics a lot. Usually, they come afterward and tend to find themselves phonetically. ‘Loon Calls’ is about me finally doing the thing I knew I should be doing: being in the right band. That sums it up—trusting yourself and not overcomplicating things.”

The release of Cheatahs’ debut album and the 2013 U.S. re-release of their two EPs (collectively titled Extended Plays), not to mention their international tour, has pushed the band farther than ever before. “The world is definitely more aware,” Hewitt says. “It’s hard to know for sure, but it seems there’s a general sense that people might actually like our band.” CW

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There are few musical pairings that blend as nicely as hip-hop and the sweltering heat of summer. It’s that magical combination that encourages liquor-store Locs, jean shorts and Lugz, and white people butchering Nelly lyrics like, “It’s getting hot outside.”

Without a doubt, the pinnacle event of this winning combo is the summertime hip-hop festival, those multi-stage, highenergy afternoons where if you don’t leave without a shirt and a bad case of “hip-hop arm,” you’re either the DD or you didn’t do it right.

This summer promises a handful of ways in which to put your hands up, but the Urban Legends Music Festival happening June 7 at Barbary Coast is this season’s only all-day, all-local hip-hop gathering—11 hours of 100 percent Utah-produced rap music.

“The DJs are diverse, the emcees are diverse, the vendors are diverse; it’s a nice chance to dip your toes in, check the water and see what’s going on with the valley,” says Urban Legends organizer and local emcee Nick Maez, aka Dr. Nick. “I’ve been doing this for six years now, and I’ve worked with a lot of these artists, and honestly, picking these guys was tough; it was like picking your favorite kid.”

In a way, Maez’s hand-selected lineup covers the full spectrum of Utah hip-hop.

The roster includes more than 30 acts and is a unique spread of veteran emcees like Dusk Raps, KIS.B, Burnell Washburn and MC Pigpen as well as young up-and-comers like Dine Krew, Dozi Duzy and New Truth.

Dr. Nick (left) and festival performer Russell Rock (right) go head to head.

“Really, the inspiration behind this festival was to offer everybody an equal opportunity,” Maez says. “All of these artists deserve a chance to represent their talent, their art and their love for the state.”

When Maez talks about “equal opportunity,” what he’s referring to is the new music-festival standard of nickel & diming local acts and paying an exorbitant amount of cash to the event’s headliners. “One of the big factors for doing [Urban Legends] was to make sure it’s fair,” Maez says. “I know a lot of promotion companies; when they do big festivals, they charge the local artists a good deal of money to do even a 15-minute set. For [Urban Legends], there’s no charge for any of the artists. In fact, they make 30 percent of each ticket they sell and they get a free merch booth.”

And the local rap community has bought into Maez’s vision. Besides regional rap acts, this event features indoor and outdoor stages, b-boy presentations, graffiti artists, rap battles and performances from the valley’s best hip-hop DJs, like KRCL’s Planit Ra Hotep and Uprok’s DJ Street Jesus.

In a way, it’s almost too much hip-hop, because throwing a large-scale hip-hop festival is a colossal pain in the ass—just ask Murs, who recently closed shop on Paid Dues. Sure, every type of music festival has its hang-ups, but dealing with rappers takes a special skill. Imagine actually wrangling cats, but these cats are exceptionally high and refuse to be on time for anything.

Maez doesn’t seem too worried about corralling this many rappers into one location. “Really, that’s the beauty of it,” he says. “Getting all these guys together allows fans to be exposed to something new. You have B-Side fans who’ve probably never given Burnell a listen, or maybe Ill Fede fans who’ve never heard Zigga and Bentley. I’m trying to give everybody the opportunity to get their dues.” CW

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by Steve Grand, a Chicago country singer who rose to fame after his self-financed music video “All-American Boy,” about an unrequited same-sex crush, went viral as well.

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Star-studded with Monáe’s many friends— Prince(!), Erykah Badu(!!) and more—The Electric Lady continues the story of Monáe’s android alter-ego, Cindy Mayweather, and is full of unapologetic anthems like the title track and “Q.U.E.E.N.” Red Butte Amphitheatre, 300 Wakara Way, 8 p.m., garden members $57, general admission $62, RedButteGarden.org

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The Faint After the completion of a year-long tour in support of their 2008 album, Fasciinatiion, The Faint were so burned out with every aspect of being a band that they went on hiatus to work separately on other projects.

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Spooky lyrics about “the moment when terror descends,” “a corpse that’s charred and black” and “vultures fighting over bones” could easily pass for something a bearded guy would scream on a metal album. Instead, the feel of Apricot Exorcist is that of sophisticatedly understated horror, with the lyrics written by Provo musician Ben Q. Best wrapped in unhurried tempos and instrumental arrangements that are content to lurk in the shadows instead of emerging to attack. On “Necrodancing,” spidery piano lines crawl over chilly drones as Best breathes “Let the death begin.” Horns and pounding drums give “Dead End Horse” considerable weight that matches the track’s ominous lyrics, but the almost peaceful mood of “Neon Halo” stands in contrast to Best singing softly about being consumed by some terrifying force. “No Aether Avenger” is a highlight track that features twisting, turning acoustic guitar lines and Best’s solemn but melodic voice that pierces like a death knell.

If Apricot Exorcist were a film, it would make the viewer wish that someone would get stabbed, if only to release the unbearable tension. Self-released, May 24, BenBest.bandcamp.com

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The influence of the bands—especially Circa Survive—that have inspired post-hardcore five-piece Visitors loom just a little too large for their debut studio EP, Blueshift, to be considered “experimental.”

However, it’s a testament to the musical skill of Visitors that they’re able to be mentioned in the same sentence as the hardly imitable Circa Survive this early in their career. The most obvious similarity between the two bands is the voices of their two frontmen, who are both able to croon angelically as well as screech like a feral cat. And while Ian Cooperstein doesn’t quite have the unearthly factor of Circa’s Anthony Green (but no one does, really), he’s an extremely dynamic singer, and hits all of the notes in his impressive vocal range with power. The Juturna-evoking “With a Y” showcases the band’s skill in putting heavy riff-driven moments and interludes of stillness right next to each other, making for a listening experience that’s never boring. Drawing the five-track album to a close is “Springtides,” which bites with ferocity and explodes with barely contained energy. Self-released, May 20, VisitorsOfficial.bandcamp.com

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Seattle singer-songwriter Rocky Votolato’s music is as intimate as a living-room jam session. Though it’s subtle, there is definitely a touch of country in this alternative-folk artist’s romantic, melancholy melodies; the Texas-born Votolato is influenced by country legends like Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. Rocky Votolato’s blunt lyrics will carve your heart out only to mend it back together, and his voice is seasoned with life’s struggles but still stays afloat with optimism. His latest album, Television of Saints—self-released in 2012—is full of sincerity and simple, heart-melting beauty. Lotte Kestner and Kevin Long will open. (Michaela Funtanilla) Thursday, June 5 @ Velour, 135 N. University Ave., Provo, 8 p.m. $15, VelourLive.com

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“Superficially, the songs are good oldfashioned rock & roll, but each song has its own underlying intricacies that give them their own personality,” says the band via e-mail. Lily Grey, ECS and Red on Black will open. (Camri Mecham) Friday, June 6 @ The Royal, 4760 S. 900 East, 5 p.m., $5, TheRoyalSLC.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“SILVER presents a complete dining experience—modern American, thoughtfully prepared dishes using only the freshest ingredients, a contemporary atmosphere with three distinctly different levels of dining spaces, artisan cocktails and attentive service,” says Alessandro. “We’ve paid attention to every detail, ensuring an evening with us is truly one to remember.”

The menu is constantly changing, as the restaurant features seasonal produce and ingredients that are locally sourced whenever possible. Executive Chef Serge Smith is releasing a highly anticipated new summer menu this month, and SILVER will also be offering an artisanal cocktail program with a variety of classic cocktails for $5 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays throughout summer. They will also have DJs spinning on the upper level on Fridays and Saturdays.

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The restaurant will be offering a two-forone entree promotion on November 29, 2014, in order to support local non-profit organizations.

The initiative became a huge success in Jackson Hole (where Fine Dining Restaurant Group is based), and after acquiring SILVER in 2011, they decided to bring the same idea to Park City. “Our dedication to the community goes beyond our desire to provide an enjoyable dining experience to each guest who enters our doors. We believe, as a restaurant and as a team, in being responsible members of the community, offering support to our friends and neighbors whenever possible,” says Kendra Alessandro, director of communications for Fine Dining Restaurant Group.

Casually called “2-for-1s with a twist,” the goal of this promotion is to raise both money and awareness for all non-profit organizations involved. “It’s also our way to welcome return and first-time guests into SILVER to enjoy a first-rate dining experience,” Alessandro says. Guests are able to purchase one entrée and get the second

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) My favorite bridge in the world is the Golden Gate Bridge. In the hundreds of times I have driven on it over San Francisco Bay, it has never let me down. I’ve always gotten from one side to the other without any problem. In addition to its reliability, it uplifts me with its grandeur and beauty. What’s your most beloved bridge, Libra?

I suggest that in the coming weeks you make it your lucky charm, your magical symbol. Why? Because the next chapter of your life story requires you to make a major crossing. You will traverse a great divide. Having your favorite bridge as a shining beacon in your imagination will inspire your strength and courage as you travel.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) “When given a choice between owning an object and having an experience,” says art critic Holland Cotter, “I always choose the experience.” He prefers to spend his money on adventures that transform his sense of self and his understanding of the world. I recommend that approach to you in the coming weeks, Taurus. The most valuable “possessions” you can acquire will be the lessons you learn, the skills you hone and the relationships you ripen.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) U2’s Bono has called Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah” “the most perfect song in the world.” It is mournful and triumphant, despairing and uplifting. It’s a riddle that improbably offers cathartic release. More than 300 recording artists have done cover versions of it, and it has even been the subject of books.

And yet it was a challenge for Cohen to compose. He wrote more than 80 verses before choosing the few he would actually include in the final version, and in one famous session he resorted to banging his head on the floor to stimulate his creative flow.

“To find that urgent song,” he said, took “a lot of work and a lot of sweat.” I nominate “Hallelujah” to be one of your sacred symbols for the next 12 months, Scorpio. From your strenuous effort, I predict, will come masterful creations.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) In Marcel Proust’s novel Swann’s Way, the narrator speaks of how profoundly inspired he is by an older writer named Bergotte: “Each time he talked about something whose beauty had until then been hidden from me, about pine forests, about hail, about Notre-Dame Cathedral ... with one image he would make that beauty explode into me.” I bring this to your attention, Gemini, because in the coming days I suspect a great deal of beauty will explode into you. Why? I think it’s because you’re more receptive than usual to being delighted and enchanted. The triggers could be anything: exciting people, eavesdropped conversations, good books, surprising music and who knows what else.

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As you expand your heart’s capacity to feel compassionate affection for the world, you have less and less to be afraid of.

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Turn away from the small obsessions that demand far too much of your energy. Withdraw from the seemingly pressing concerns that will soon start to fade because they really aren’t that important. Instead, Virgo, devote your love and intelligence to the joys and dilemmas that will animate your life well into the future. Express reverence and care for the mysteries that will teach you and teach you and teach you for years to come.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) I wish I could tell you that your power animal this month is the eagle or dolphin or panther. Having a glamorous creature like that as your ally might boost your confidence and charisma. To be paired with one of them might even activate dormant reserves of your animal intelligence. But I can’t in good conscience authorize such an honor.

That’s not what the astrological omens are suggesting. In fact, your power animal this June is the bunny rabbit. Please understand that there is no shame in this. On the contrary, you should be charmed and appreciative. It signifies that you will be fertile, fast, a bit tricky and very cute. (To read an essay on the mythology of the rabbit as trickster, go here: TinyURL.com/RabbitTrickster.)

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) If you are in even moderate alignment with cosmic rhythms during the next 12 months, you will be a connoisseur and master of recycling. I’m speaking metaphorically here. What I hope is that you will reanimate worn-out inspirations and convert faded dreams into shiny new fantasies. You will find ways to revive alliances that went off track. A once-vibrant shtick or trick that lost its cool could be retrieved from the ash heap of history and turned into a fresh, hot asset. Gear yourself up for some entertaining resurrections.

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Would you like to be a “great rider,” but you can’t be one as long as you have a horse that is too small and weak?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Let me outline the breakthroughs I hope to see for you in the coming months. First, what is pretty good about you will not interfere with what is potentially great about you, but will instead cooperate with it and boost it. Second, your past accomplishments won’t hold back your progress; you will not be tempted to rely on them at the expense of your future accomplishments. And third, the brave ideas that have motivated you so well won’t devolve into staid old dogmas; you will either renew and reinvigorate them or else move on to a new set of brave ideas.

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I’m sure we’ve all been asked why gay and trans people need a “special” festival.

The answer to that is simple. For centuries, marginalized groups have been castigated and persecuted and consistently left behind. These celebrations encourage growth, self-health, and rejuvenate our spirits after dealing with devastating setbacks in public policy.

I remember driving by Library Square when I was in college and wishing I had the courage to go through the gates for Pride.

I wanted to feel accepted and connected. I wanted to meet people and be encouraged by love and celebration. The first time I went to Pride I was shocked at how many people were there. Every kind of family, every kind of relationship, every kind of person, together, celebrating each other. It was remarkable.

“Pride: Dialing Up the Love” This year, we have so much to celebrate.

The freedom to marry finally came to Utah.

Hundreds of families are now legally protected in this state. And the thousands of couples who were married in Utah in that 17-day span are legally recognized by Utah.

While we are celebrating life, love, and family, so many others will protest our joy.

They’ll talk of the destruction of the family and pontificate about marriage equality signaling the end of days. But with each victory for human dignity in state houses and courtrooms all across America, their repulsion to human dignity is diminished.

Love is stronger than hate. In the face of adversity and tribulation, LGBT Utahns never grew weary of love. With each battle for equality, our love grew stronger and more determined.

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South KearnS elementary Community SChool Field Trip Chaperones Contact: Amy Worthington, 801.746.2566 Date/Time: May 21, 2014 8:45 a.m. – 1:20 p.m.

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the ameriCan diabeteS aSSoC. Serving utah TourdeCure Contact: Shawnie, 801.363.3024 ext:7069 Date/Time: Saturday June 14, 2014 Join us at this one-day event that raises funds to support diabetes research, education and advocacy. Volunteers are needed to help with all event activities including set up, tear down, route signage, registration, medical support, parking, road marshals, and many others. Volunteers will receive a free t-shirt and food.

Volunteers must be 18-years-old. Younger kids may volunteer if accompanied by a volunteering adult. At least 5 hours of service are requested. boyS and girlS Club in KearnS Music Instructor Contact: Terra Bueno, 801.284.4259 Date/Time: Call for details Willing volunteers are needed to teach K-6 students music. We have piano keyboards, guitars, recorders, tone bells and small rhythm sticks, open to other types of music. Volunteers must pass a criminal background check and receive orientation prior to working with youth. Volunteers must be at least 18-years-old.

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omeone reminded me that there used to be an indoor ice rink in Sugar House. My brain activated a very clear image of my friend, Mike, and I going to Hygeia Iceland one night during college. It was located right across from the Irving School apartments on 2100 South in Salt Lake City. I do not, and did not then, ice skate. We were drunk as skunks and just slid out on our tennis shoes to cause havoc during a fundraiser for the Westminster football team. But I digress.

Summer’s about here, so who’s thinking about ice skating? Many folks love the ice because they grew up playing hockey and the Super Bowl of hockey, the Stanley Cup final, begins this week. All puck fans will have their Kings or Rangers bets on.

Where can you ice skate or play hockey here? The most famous rink is, of course, the Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns. The University of Utah has a rink at the sports complex on Guardsman Way with Saturday theme nights with music and a disco ball for only $4 and a $2 skate rental. West Valley has the Acord Ice Center and South Davis has a rink for public skating as well.

When it gets hot this summer, it’s cool and cheap to glide along the ice indoors. Even better, there are summer hockey leagues to get your game.

My favorite trivia about ice skating in Utah is: (1) Frank Zamboni was born in Eureka, Utah. He invented a machine that goes along the ice surface to shave it, smooth it and adds a fresh sheen of thin water to make more ice as it passes; (2) my agent Ben skated as “Woody” for Disney on Ice around the world; (3) 2002 Olympic skater Michelle Kwan lived at American Towers condominiums during the games; (4) Dorothy Hamill, who won gold for the USA in Olympic skating in 1976, was the woman who ran the Olympic torch from the parking lot into the U of U stadium during the opening ceremonies of 2002.

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