City Weekly July 10, 2014

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Letters It’s a Tradition

This letter is in reply to the letter written by Ryan Curtis, titled “Get Over Gay Marriage” [June 26, City Weekly].

Marriage is between one man and one woman, and has always been our tradition since the 13 colonies became the United States of America.

Douglas Cotant Salt Lake City

Marriage Doesn’t Need to be Equal

What people don’t understand is that the word “marriage” does not appear any where in the Constitution, not even in the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment that yayhoos like Ryan Curtis [“Get Over Gay Marriage,” June 26, City Weekly] love interpreting out of existence, as do black-robed legislating ideologues like Judge Robert Shelby.

There are five enumerated fundamental rights in the Constitution that same-gender deviants have just like the rest of us, but marriage is not one of those rights— not even for men and women. Oh, I get it, the right to marr y for same-gender deviants is cleverly hidden somewhere between the free exercise of religion clause

WRITE US: Salt Lake City Weekly, 248 S. Main, Salt Lake City, UT 84101. E-mail: comments@cityweekly.net. Fax: 801-575-6106.

We reserve the right to edit for length and clarity. Preference will be given to letters that are 300 words or less and sent uniquely to City Weekly. Full name, address and phone number must be included, even on e-mailed submissions, for verification purposes. and the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances clause. Of course, only legislating ideologues like Shelby and sex deviants like Curtis know where it is hidden.

Since marriage between a man and a woman predates the Constitution, and since we live in a world full of men and women and not in a single-gender society, that means marriage between a man and a woman is a natural right and not a constitutional right. Samegender deviants have no natural rights to marriage or to parenthood, because we don’t live in a same-gender wacko world.

The great Samuel Adams, the father of the Revolution, warned us about corruption: “Neither the w isest Constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.”

Notice that he wrote “liberty and happiness” and not “equality and happiness.” There is a really good reason why that ver y large statue that stands inside New York Harbor is the Statue of Liberty and not the Statue of Equality.

Who Will Save You?

The grossly misnamed World Congress of Families, an international version of the equally grossly misnamed National Organization for Marriage, will hold its first U.S. conference here in Salt Lake City next year—hosted by the local Sutherland Institute.

The Sutherland Institute has always been a front group of agents for the top Mormon church leadership— its “General Authorities”—now in partnership with the Koch brothers and the other ever-greedier, thieving, amoral filthy rich, as well as the other misog ynist, anti-LGBT pseudo-religious individuals, groups and institutions.

Mormon mob boss Tommy Monson and your underling mob captains—the “General Authorities”—won’t be able to save you either if there really is a truly just and moral divine being who watches over all of us and inter venes in our affairs.

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OPINION

Eat to Live

Honestly, I never thought I’d turn into one of those people. Yet, here I am: I have A Mission.

It’s not as though I’ve never had, you know, like, principles and stuff. I’ve marched in Pride parades. I’ve given to causes that matter to me, and shared meals with homeless families. I’ve worried about trends in the world and in American society.

I’ve simply set aside time for those things, and when the timer went off, it was time to get back to binge-watching HBO shows or playing solitaire on my phone or whatever.

But something happened after I watched the documentary Fed Up and subsequently read best-selling author Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food. Something clicked in a way that started to shake me up. We’d turned our country’s food production over to industries that couldn’t possibly care less that we will all be less healthy because of what they do, and to government decision-making that’s beholden to those industries.

But more important than that: I was going to die sooner.

This is the place where one takes a hard look in the mirror at why one thing becomes A Mission and a hundred other things don’t. As a film critic, I watch a lot of documentaries every year, many of them ferociously political about some topic or another—and mostly I’m just responding to them as pieces of filmmaking. I watched Inside Job—Charles Ferguson’s insightful film about the 2008 financial crisis—and never once considered occupying any sort of street. I watched Blackfish—the Sundance hit about the plight of orcas in captivity—and didn’t immediately lament my childhood visits to Sea World.

It was different with Fed Up, though— and not because it was a great piece of filmmaking, because it’s not. As is the case in nearly all such advocacy documentaries, director Stephanie Soechtig followed a rigid formula of combining talking heads, statistics in the form of colorful graphics,

and up-close-and-personal stories to give the issue a human face. It was competent, albeit fairly single-minded, about laying the American obesity epidemic at the feet of our insatiable appetite for processed foods and sugar sugar sugar.

On a certain level, I probably shouldn’t even be one of the most alarmed audience members for such a message. Compared to most families, mine cooks significantly more of our dinners from scratch; I’ve even enjoyed baking my own bread for a long time. For virtually all of my 47 years, I’ve maintained a stable body weight, despite generally being only slightly less sedentary than my desk. At first glance, I would probably not be the poster boy for “Scared St r a i ght I nto Wholesale Dietary a nd L i fest yle Changes.”

But once you sta r t k now i n g things about the way a healthy hu ma n shou ld actually be eating, you can’t un-know them. My sodaa-day habit was doing nothing for me but increasing my chance of developing Type 2 diabetes. The tight rotation of vegetables in our family’s diet— mostly so as not to risk the annoyance of finicky kids—almost completely ignored the leafy greens that Pollan championed in particular. And while I still find it hard to see myself ever completely abandoning meat, it was clear that, as a proportion of many meals, it was … well, disproportionate.

So I started looking at things a little more carefully. I alarmed my kids with an experimental break from purchasing certain processed foods that were typically in our fridge or pantry, and brought some Brussels sprouts and asparagus to the dinnertime mix. I personally went cola cold turkey, slipping once or twice but still reducing my intake by a fairly significant

BY S COT T R E N S H AW percentage. I even discovered along the way that club soda, fresh lemon juice and fresh lime juice make for a pretty delicious substitute mixer for a 7 & 7.

The strange thing, though, is that I still can’t entirely explain why this issue, right now, became A Mission. Maybe it’s just crossing a certain middle-age threshold, facing a few extra doctor visits and figuring that stasis was no longer a wise course of action. Maybe it’s looking at my kids’ eating habits and thinking I’m somehow being a terrible parent by shrugging and thinking, “Eh, it’s what they like.” Or maybe that documentary and that book were just really good at what they were trying to do, more so than I initially gave them credit for.

The thing about A Mission though— as though I need to explain it to many of the residents of Utah—is that you have to be willing to accept the call.

On a regular basis, we’re all provided with information or an experience that asks us to change something, whether it’s something in our own lives or something in the world.

And most of the time, we respond with, “Yeah, that’s OK, I’m doing just fine over here.” Our tendency toward complacency hates the idea of A Mission, telling us all the time that changing anything is too hard, so come on, why bother?

I don’t know how far or how long I’ll be prepared to stick with this particular Mission. I just know that doing nothing has ceased to be an option.

You might not know yet what your Mission is, but you might be astonished at what you can change as soon as something pokes at your sense of what has to change.

There’s something powerful about getting that call, and deciding to say yes. CW

once you start knowing things about the way a healthy human should actually be eating, you can’t un-know them.

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Have you ever changed your lifestyle in a big way?

Kathy Mueller: My husband quit the team.

Jeff Chipian: I finally stopped playing video games and started going on dates with actual women. Aw, who am I kidding, I haven’t had a date in years!

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Kolbie Stonehocker: The thought of earthquakes kept me awake and anxious at night, until I realized the only thing I could do about such a disaster is to be as prepared as possible. So I’ve started building a 72-hour kit and learning about emergency preparedness, when before, I would’ve just done absolutely nothing and hoped for the best.

Rachel Piper: I stopped eating at my alltime-favorite restaurant after I bit into what I’m pretty sure was a crunchy cockroach torso. This might not sound like a big change, but it is: I often used to think daily about eating at this particular restaurant, and life without it has been somewhat bleak.

Eric S. Peterson: When I started at this fine paper and was still trying to figure everything out, I was also finishing an honor’s thesis so I could graduate from the U. I got to the point where I was sitting in front of a computer 14 hours a day and really felt like I needed to hit something. I started doing kung fu and have never felt healthier or deadlier.

Susan Kruithof: Yes, about eight years ago I used to be super healthy, ate right, exercised every day—basically, took good care of myself. Since then, I have stopped working out, smoke half a pack of cigarettes a day and partake of the alcohol almost every day. I couldn’t be happier. I just got tired of trying so hard.

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Cedar Hills has discovered what every secretive government organization dreams of—the ultimate stall. In 2012, former councilman Ken Cromer and the Cedar Hills Citizens for Responsible Government requested e-mail records under the Government Records Management Act for an issue involving mismanagement of the city’s golf course and questions about a former mayor and city manager, who both resigned over the matter. Cromer was charged $766, and The Daily Herald is looking at a $900 bill for public records. The quest has gone to a not-very-successful mediation with the state Records Committee, and citizens are tearing at each others’ throats, some calling Cromer “crazy,” and others just wanting to get at the truth. Meanwhile, the stall goes on. In an electronic age, shouldn’t cities be setting up sites to post all public documents immediately?

Radio Withdrawals KCPW is back making the news instead of broadcasting it.

The public radio station has been beset by problems since founder Blair Fuelner resigned in 2008 amid an outcry over his bloated salary. In 2011, the station was looking for a $250,000 loan. An anonymous donor came through after Mayor Ralph Becker threatened to stop a city loan. This year, thanks to the crowds at the Utah Arts Festival and, again, an anonymous donor, KCPW was able to raise a needed $42,000. While it’s good news in an otherwise dour journalistic environment, KCPW still has long-term financial issues to deal with. Listeners expect public radio to fundraise, but it’s a bit wearisome to always be on the brink of disaster.

Mail It In Salt Lake Count y Clerk Sherrie Swensen has long asked citizens to vote by mail. Her campaign started with the wear and tear on electronic voting booths, but has grown into a necessary if wise choice for the public. Voting by mail gives voters time to actually scrutinize the ballot and get to know the candidates. Isn’t that how it should be? Admittedly, the primary election turnout was low—near 10 percent of the county’s 435,000 voters. But Swensen said some two-thirds of the vote came from mailed ballots. The Salt Lake Tribune blamed the low turnout partly on the state’s youth, but young and old sat out the primaries this time.

Utahns tend to believe the thinking’s been done. Still, mail voting at least saved us from total embarrassment.

James Miska has been biking in Salt Lake City for more than 11 years. Now, he’s combined his love of bikes and his knowledge of the city to start Salt Lake Bicycle Tours: informative tours of the city taken entirely on a bike. Beginning in May and going through autumn, the 28-year-old provides up to 15 cruiser-style bikes, helmets, water and granola bars for one- to three-hour tours of the city, providing historical insight to some famous and not-so-famous sites. To learn more about these tours and find a full list of the places Miska and his bikes visit, head to SaltLakeBicycleTours.com.

Is Salt Lake City really interesting enough to warrant a tour?

I actually do consider it interesting enough, and touristy enough. There’s always this sort of fallback on the mountains, but even without them, there’s enough cool history here that has a lot to do with the development of the American West that a lot of people find interesting. And the Mormons are a total mystery to a lot of people. I didn’t grow up Mormon, but I know a lot about them, and I think I can dispel some myths about them—I can just be honest about what it’s like to live in this Mormon state that gets a rap for being really restrictive.

Why not a bus or foot tour?

I think people expect a bus tour, or a coach or carriage ride, or even a historic walking tour, but bike tours, for me, are important—they are accessible for so many people.

Almost everyone knows how to ride a bike, and in getting this company up and running, I tried to source bikes that are easy to ride. I want it to feel friendly. I feel like there is a natural freedom that is conjured up in people when they get on a bike, and they like it more than they thought they would. I’ve been into bikes for a long time—there is that freedom that I want to tap into; the feeling that you’re in control of the ride, too. You’re not just a passenger on a bus looking out a window. I want people to feel wind going through their hair. I see that bike tours are gaining popularity, too. There are bike tours in lots of European cities, and plenty of American cities as well. I hold Salt Lake in high regard, and I think it’s interesting and I want to show it off in a cool way.

What made you want to start giving tours?

I’ve been leading bike tours for my friends and strangers from out of town that would come through Boing! Anarchist Collective, where I used to live. A lot of people would come through there, and it was just a natural “Hey, do you want to go on a bike ride?” We had house bikes for people to use, and I would just take them to cool places that I liked. I never thought that this would be something that I would do professionally, but then I got a job in 2011 as a bike tour guide in Alaska. That wasn’t city tours; more mountain and forest tours. It was still a slow-paced guided tour and an experience doing something like that for total strangers who are used to a certain level of comfort and accommodation. I have a love and respect for bike tours.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Play It Straight Why is it that so many gay people are attracted to those of the same sex who look like the opposite sex? If you are a gay man and presumably do not fancy women, why are you nonetheless attracted to other men who copy feminine qualities? If you don’t want women, it seems strange to want your male partner to act and look like one! The same for lesbians— they don’t like men, yet many of them try to look like men and seem to find that attractive in their female partners.

—Nancy Ah, a fellow anthropologist, just back from the field. How shrewd of you to disguise yourself as a complete dumbshit.

Needless to say, gays’ and lesbians’ appearance and behavior don’t line up especially well with stereotypes based on atypical examples. You see some pretty serious acting-out in the World Cup; it’d be foolish to conclude from this that all Uruguayans bite. What we need is some data. n Asking people what they find attractive in a romantic partner tends to produce predictable results. For example, in a 2010 survey conducted in northern California, both lesbians and gay men reported that what they’d initially been most attracted to in their partners were personality traits: “fun,” “sense of humor,” and “intelligent” were at the top of the list for both groups.

Physical characteristics (“sexy,” “appearance,” “nice body”) were in the middle, while more material concerns (“successful,” “financially secure,” “owns a nice house”) were at the bottom. n The problem with such surveys, of course, is that respondents may simply be saying what they think they ought to say.

An alternative gauge of what people find attractive is what they ask for in personal ads (granted, few are entirely frank in this venue either). A common finding is that straight men tend to look for physical attractiveness and promise financial success, while straight women look for success and promise attractiveness. In contrast, lesbians advertising for partners generally downplay attractiveness and success and emphasize personality traits such as sincerity and honesty. n A 2001 study asking lesbian and bisexual women what body types they considered most attractive found a strong preference for heav y, big-breasted physiques, followed closely by heav y, small-breasted ones. This contrasts with heterosexuals, with both sexes strongly preferring slim bodies. However, that’s hardly evidence of a lesbian preference for masculine-looking partners. While straights may prefer thin bodies today, a glance through an art-history book suggests the earth-mother type (heav yset, usually but not always with prominent breasts and hips) has been a muchadmired physique throughout history, presumably by parties of various sexual orientations.

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n One study of personal ads from 1997 found that in ads placed by lesbians, 75 percent of the terms used to describe sought-after traits in a partner were characteristically feminine (most frequently seen: the word “feminine” itself), whereas 95 percent of the traits that the women actively didn’t want were masculine. n Generalizing about gay males is tougher. The same study of personal ads found more than 96 percent of the traits gay men sought in their partners were characteristically masculine, and all of the undesirable traits were feminine.

What exactly those terms mean is debatable, though—gay men have been found to exhibit a wider spectrum of stereotypically masculine and feminine mannerisms and speech patterns than straight men. It may be helpful to distinguish body type and behavioral preferences. Surveys notwithstanding, gay men’s appreciation of a well-toned male body surely is at least the equal of straight men’s tendency to drool over a shapely woman; nobody’s going to claim the gay guys at CrossFit look effeminate. Behavior is another story. A perennial controversy in the gay community pits “gay-acting” types against gay males who in terms of manner and appearance are indistinguishable from straights. n A related question is whether in a gay or lesbian relationship one of the partners habitually assumes the masculine role while the other plays the female. True, a subset of lesbians identify as either butch (masculine) or femme (feminine). However, one study of lesbians and bisexual women found butch types accounted for at most 15 percent. Assuming butch and femme women pair off, such couples would be in the minority of lesbian relationships. n A study of gay Latino men found their adoption of dominant or submissive roles was situational, and depended upon the perceived masculinity of their partners. If they considered a partner more masculine than themselves, they’d be more likely to play the pasivo (bottom) during sex. Conversely, if their partner was less masculine, they were more likely to be the activo (top).

So, do gay men and lesbians find different things attractive than straights do?

Absolutely. Does that mean gays prefer girly men and lesbians prefer mannish women? That’s absurd.

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“You work around the clock and then you see somebody bringing in food that they didn’t pick ... and you know that they brought it from out of state.” — Maryann Alston, Wasatch Front Farmers Market founder

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The plump produce at local farmers markets might be the same stuff found in heaps at the grocery store.

At a farmers market, a bounty of shiny tomatoes, bundles of green asparagus, and flats of fat black raspberries so full of juice they could explode can be bought straight from the truck of the farmer who grew them.

But those radishes might not have been grown by the farmer smiling at you from across the table. In fact, the produce might not have been grown anywhere near Utah.

As the popularity of farmers markets has grown, so, too, have efforts by growers to supplement their crops with produce bought on the wholesale market—the same place where chain grocery stores buy it.

This eye on quick profits, some smaller farmers say, is cheapening their hard work, and also threatens to undo some of the more philosophical efforts being undertaken at farmers markets, which have been championed as the first line of defense against an industrial food chain that produces massive amounts of rock-bottom-priced food by relying on genetically modified plants, chemical pesticides and cheap immigrant labor.

Kevin Nash, farmer and horticulturist at Earth First Eco-Farms, says that by meeting small farmers at the market, customers can learn about the actual cost of producing food. But any progress made on this front could be undermined if farmers of any size aren’t being honest about what they grow, how they grow it and whom they use to pick it.

“It doesn’t help my cause, and it doesn’t really help to get people to start perceiving what food actually costs to produce,” Nash says.

Nash’s produce costs up to $4 per pound, while a larger grower might charge a buck or two. That price difference, he says, is because he relies on organic growing techniques and loads of back-breaking labor. When Nash picks zucchini, he places the vegetables on a blanket and wraps each one in a different blanket to reduce bruising—a process that might sound ridiculous, he says, but isn’t if delivering the finest produce to the customer is the goal.

Holiday Dalgleish, owner and farmer at Doc Holiday’s Vegetables, says she might sit all day at a farmers market with

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Shoppers browse one of the 2013 Downtown Farmers Markets high-quality produce and make only $50.

“I just can’t compete,” she says. “It’s just kind of a waste of our time.”

Market managers’ attempts to combat out-of-state produce from being sold at local farmers markets range from conducting farm inspections to placing limitations on the distance produce can be grown from the market where it’s sold. But these policing efforts haven’t stopped the flow of wholesale-bought produce to farmers markets.

Salt Lake City’s Downtown Farmers Market at Pioneer Park, which teems each Saturday morning with thousands of people, has become so large, with 85 produce vendors alone, that its organizer, the Downtown Alliance, can’t perform an inspection at every farm.

Farms that participate in the downtown market, says Kim Angeli, the director of the downtown market, are inspected on a complaint basis. This means that Angeli relies on vendors to police each other, filing grievances when they suspect a farmer of hawking out-of-state produce. And if a vendor, or group of vendors, wants to post a $100 fee, Angeli will commission a third party to inspect a suspect farm.

“In a perfect world, we would visit every farm before that vendor sold at the market, but we do not have the staff,” Angeli says, noting that she performs an average of two third-party inspections each year that spring from vendor complaints.

Angeli says an especially bold attempt by a farmer to sell out-of-state produce came five years ago when a truck stuffed with California corn pulled up. Vendors quickly turned the farmer in, and the truck was sent away.

But less blatant instances of wholesale produce being sold at the market abound, farmers say.

One recent example came during the Downtown Alliance’s winter market at the Rio Grande depot. Chad’s Produce, owned by Chad Midgley, was told not to return to the market when a customer complained to market organizers that she’d purchased broccolini from Chad’s that was emblazoned with a produce sticker.

Midgley says the broccolini that was sold at his booth ended up there by accident. During the winter, Midgley runs his own market at the Oasis Cafe and also provides a subscription-based produce package to customers. And when the produce is scant in Utah during the winter months, Midgley supplements his stock with greens from other states—a measure that his customers appreciate, but one that isn’t welcome at the farmers market.

“It was an honest mistake,” he says, noting that he has been allowed to sell at the summer market. “I’ve assured them that it’s not ever going to happen again with me.”

Midgley says he, too, is aware of other farmers who are either selling Utah produce that they didn’t grow, or produce grown in other states. He says he’s watched as farmers remove greens from store packaging to sell at the winter market. And he says he suspects that some cherry sellers are visiting orchards that offer pick-it-yourself deals for $1 a pound, only to end up at the market where they resell those cherries for much more, even though they don’t own an orchard.

“I can go around and spot some commercial produce, but it’s a lot more rare than it used to be,” Midgley says, adding that selling wholesale-bought produce is a “temptation” for every farmer.

Maryann Alston, founder of the Wasatch Front Farmers Market, which includes markets at Wheeler Farm, Thanksgiving Point and Gardner

Village, says that when she started the markets four years ago, she immediately had problems with farmers selling wholesale produce.

Alston says she had to take a stand against the practice early and make it clear to farmers that selling produce they did not grow would not be allowed.

“It’s a big problem everywhere,” she says.

To combat second-hand produce from popping up at her markets, Alston says, she inspects every single farm that has a booth. “We partner with farms that we absolutely know are growing their own produce,” she says.

Even so, she has encountered problems. A couple of years ago, Alston says, she had to kick a farmer out because everything he had for sale had been purchased on the wholesale market.

“You just knew,” she says. “Everything looked like it was from Smith’s.”

A farmer herself, Alston can relate to the slight her peers feel when other farmers aren’t growing all of their produce.

“You work so hard to grow food,” she says. “You work around the clock and then you see somebody bringing in food that they didn’t pick—that they didn’t grow—and you know that they brought it in from another state. It just makes you sick.”

But, Nash says, the markets are still a worthwhile place for farmers like him to keep fighting for sustainable agriculture and quality food.

“I’m not sure if I feel like 100 percent that it’s broken,” he says, noting that many customers are wising up to what might be behind those cheap tomatoes and out-of-season melons. “There are people out there who realize that in order to have really cheap product, you’ve got to be cutting corners somewhere.” CW

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Raise Your Pen Coalition members at a vigil at the federal courthouse where Siale Angilau was fatally shot.

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vigil outside the federal courthouse where Angilau was shot.

NeighborWorks Salt Lake Executive Director Maria Garciaz says she’s been active in west-side communities for 30 years and has never seen a Pacific Islander youth movement like the Raise Your Pen Coalition.

“They are humble people, very familyoriented people, and very respectful of law and institutions,” she says. “If and when they organize, they organize around family or around church activities. I think this incident had a tremendous impact on these young people.”

Angilau’s death hit home especially hard for coalition member Inoke Hafoka, whose younger brother was swept up in the same federal prosecutions that targeted Angilau. At Hafoka’s brother’s sentencing, the judge had him separated from other gang members and sent to a federal penitentiary, where the 23-year-old was stabbed to death by another inmate.

That was in 2010. Hafoka, 28, still doesn’t know the details, and imagines the answers are in a file sitting on someone’s desk somewhere, just as the answers to Angilau’s death might be.

Like others, Hafoka questions the decision to charge the group with racketeering, saying the “punishment should fit the crime.” But to him, the more important cause is fighting stereotypes.

“If you’re a Tongan raised in Glendale, you’re almost at a disadvantage because already the stereotypes and labels are out there that, ‘Oh, this guy must be Tongan Crip,’ or ‘This guy must be part of a gang,’ ” Hafoka says. It’s a label he doesn’t want for himself, his son or his west-side home.

“A lot of time, the mentality is that being from Glendale and Rose Park is looked at as a deficit, that in order to succeed or be accepted by the mainstream society, one has to leave the community, one has to forget about things that are occurring,” Hafoka says.

The coalition, now picking up speed and looking to incorporate as a nonprofit, is one whose members won’t forget about home.

“These things are happening in our community,” Hafoka says. “and we don’t want to forget about it and act like nothing happened.” CW

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On April 21, during his federal-racketeering trial, Siale Angilau, an alleged member of the Tongan Crips gang, rushed toward a witness who was testifying against him.

Witnesses say Angilau was holding either a pen or a pencil and, in the eyes of the U.S. Marshal who fatally shot Angilau, the writing instrument was a deadly weapon.

Angilau died that day, but in the aftermath of the shooting, a new movement was born.

Initially, the youth of Salt Lake City’s Pacific Islander community created the Raise Your Pen Coalition in search of answers regarding Angilau’s shooting, but it’s now become a larger social justice movement.

“We’re doing this, not as saying raise your pen in violence, but to raise your pen for justice and accountability and education,” says coalition coordinator Dee Tuakalau.

Tuakalau says Angilau’s passing has galvanized the community. Rival gang members attended his funeral, she says, bringing gifts in a traditional sign of respect to the family, and also to signal a truce.

More importantly, she says, it helped push Pacific Islander youth to realize they need to speak up and change the narrative about how they’re perceived in the community.

“This time it’s different; we’re trying to let our voice be heard in a different light,” Tuakalau says.

After Angilau’s death, Tuakalau says, roughly 80 members of the Pacific Islander community gathered at NeighborWorks Salt Lake, a west-side affordable housing and advocacy organization, struggling with questions about whether such force was necessary, or if there’d been a verbal warning before shots were fired.

Many also questioned the use of hefty federal racketeering charges for the gang. As City Weekly previously reported, Angilau’s attorney, Michael Langford, described his client’s convenience-store robberies as “beer runs,” not crimes done to further an organized criminal organization, which the charge of racketeering was designed to target.

The FBI has not yet released details about the investigation into the shooting, but that hasn’t stopped the Raise Your Pen Coalition from asking the questions, or from holding workshops and events to raise awareness.

The organization has hosted workshops with the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah to help community members understand their rights, and in June, Raise Your Pen held a march for justice and a peaceful

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Legislative Interim Day Wednesday, July 16

Get a sneak peek at bills that will show up in the 2015 session by checking out Interim Day on the Hill. A bill that would allow state air-quality regulators to enact regulations more stringent than federal ones died in the last session, but will be discussed again in the Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment Interim Committee.

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Curses, Foiled Again Police accused Jeremiah Scales of selling synthetic marijuana from his girlfriend’s house in Bloomington, Ind., after a nearby sign announcing “Drugs This Way” alerted them. “Our detectives did some surveillance, as well as some buys,” police Sgt. Pam Gladish said, noting that comings and goings at all hours stood out in the otherwise quiet neighborhood. (Indianapolis’s WTHR-TV) n Police reported that when a guest at a motel in Jackson, Miss., told a man asking for cigarettes that he hadn’t any, the man pointed a gun at the guest and said, “I bet you don’t have one of these.” The guest did have one, however, and opened fire on the suspect, hitting him at least once. Police found him being treated at the hospital. (Jackson’s WLBT-TV)

Waste More, Tax More The federal government spent more than $3 million to buy eight patrol boats for the Afghan police that were never delivered, according to the U.S Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, because U.S. and NATO forces decided they didn’t need them. Four years later, the boats, which cost taxpayers $325,000 more each than similar boats

sold in the United States, remain in storage at a Virginia naval base. (The Washington Post)

Poop Scoop Dennis Kneier resigned as mayor of San Marino, Calif., after surveillance video caught him tossing a bag of dog feces on the walkway of neighbor Philip Lao, a vocal critic of some of the mayor’s proposals. In his letter of resignation, Kneier attributed his action to “a lapse of judgment.” (Los Angeles’s KCBS-TV) n Police arrested a Seattle woman who tossed cat feces, frozen chicken parts and a green liquid she identified as “a natural drink” from her fifth-floor apartment at participants and spectators for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. The “hail of garbage” hit at least two people, said investigators, who reported that the unidentified woman told them “she had worked a long shift and was angry that the runners had woken her from her slumber.”

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“I’ve always been the kind of guy who learns the hard way,” he admitted, adding that he hopes “with therapy, I’ll be able to straighten out my ring finger and pinky a little bit.” Officials of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries stressed that anyone coming in contact with an alligator should call the LDWF, not try to handle it themselves. (Lake Charles’s KPLC-TV)

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hat stopped Michael Coots that Saturday in September 2012 from going home and putting a gun in his mouth was that he could not remember where he lived.

The 54-year-old sat in his truck in shorts and flip-flops and struggled even to recall why he had left his Ogden home that morning. His life had no meaning and he wanted out of it. “I just wanted to get it over with,” he says now. “I wanted to stop the pain.”

But then the electro-mechanical technician looked through his windshield, saw a sign for Ogden Regional Medical Center, and, in a moment of clarity, realized that he was sick and needed help.

His brown eyes awash with tears, Coots took stock of his life with a doctor in the ER. Divorced once, his second marriage was now also collapsing. But more than that, he said, stress over his work at Hill Air Force Base, where he had been employed for 13 years, was destroying him.

The doctor called in a psychologist and locked the door. He told Coots that he was suicidal and needed to be hospitalized.

Coots panicked. He asked to go to the restroom and, as he was let out, twisted a guard’s arm behind his back, pushed him away and took off running, only to tumble to the parking lot asphalt as his flip-flops fell off his feet. Half a dozen medical staff and a security guard piled on top of him, strapped him onto a gurney and wheeled him into a barred room, where he spent the next week heavily medicated, monitored by the unblinking eye of a wall-fixed camera.

On the eighth day, after filling out a 500-page psychological evaluation form and being interviewed by a judge on closed-circuit television, Coots was found to be no longer a danger to himself and was released.

If Coots had managed to find his way home that Saturday morning and killed himself, it would have made him one more statistic to add to the 40 civilians and seven military employees of Hill Air Force Base who, between 2006 and the end of 2013, took their own lives, according to previously published statistics figures the base released to City Weekly.

Coots says the base is a toxic world where supervisors and managers use bureaucracy to persecute people to the breaking point. Coots and others—none of whom would go on the record for fear of retaliation—say it’s also a world filled with hypocrisy, where employees take mandatory classes on the 2002 Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act, which claims to have zero tolerance for harassment, and attend assemblies where military brass urge employees to look out for each other. Despite all this, Coots says, no one would listen to his concerns of workplace retaliation.

“That was the reason for all my desperation,” he says. “No one cared.”

In November 2013, a little more than a year after his almost-suicide, Coots filed a health discrimination complaint with HAFB’s Equal Opportunity Office, alleging he had been discriminated against because of his age and a 2006 heart-bypass surgery.

Hill declined to address Coots’ complaints, citing the ongoing litigation.

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On Feb. 15, 2008, Coots was electrocuted at work by a malfunctioning power switch, according to an OSHA form. The 270 volts of electricity caused Coots to convulse so intensely that he fractured two ribs and suffered sternal muscle spasms. Supervisor Ryan Smith identified three causes of the mishap: malfunction/defective equipment, failure to follow procedures and failure to use safety device/ equipment.

Coots says that he followed all procedures and that they were never given protective equipment, which he told safety personnel when they asked why he hadn’t been wearing any. That, he believes, gave his shift a black mark that some set out to make him pay for.

The base seeks to keep its accident rates as low as possible, Coots says. “If you hurt yourself at Hill, they act like you’ve done it intentionally. And that’s a product of protecting the record of the department.”

Soon after his accident, Coots received an e-mail from base security informing him that he was in danger of losing his 10-year-old security clearance and thus his job if he did not gather certain documents from his financial and legal past.

Coots and his two best friends, Brian and Jimmy, were hell raisers as kids, chasing each other on dirt bikes through the small town of Lemont, Ill., just outside Chicago. Brian’s sister Laurie Zuro recalls the thenredheaded Coots as being old-fashioned and respectful, someone who “loved to learn, always watching how things were done, and then doing them better.”

Brian enlisted in the military in 1977, an act that eventually inspired Jimmy and Coots to follow suit, because, Coots says, “It was the right thing to do.” Coots enlisted in the Air Force in 1984 in Chicago when he was 25. He attended jet school for four months, then went to New Mexico on active duty as a jet-engine technician. But in October 1988, his father died, and his mother, suddenly alone after 52 years of marriage, wanted him to come home. Although he had only one more year of active service left, he made a deal with the military that he would do six years of weekend duty with the Air National Guard so that he could return to Lemont.

But in the wake of Desert Storm, Coots’ knowledge of jet-engine propulsion made him invaluable, as the Air Force desperately needed replacements for their sanddamaged jets. He returned to full-time active duty, putting in 12- to 14-hour days building as many engines as he could, jet fuel running into his cuts and burns.

His supervisor wrote that Coots’ work at the jet engine shop reflected the “kind of spirit [that] is necessary to national defense. While you did not actually deploy, your mission here at O’Hare was equally important in the ‘Big Picture.’ ” Coots says his service “gave me a sense of duty and honor. It made me feel good to be able to do well there.”

“someone did something good, I’d ask for an on-the-spot reward for that person,” he says. Along with a “cheesy” item like a hat or a T-shirt, Coots would get a letter of appreciation typed up.

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to be a highly valued Shor t ly a f ter Michael Coots mechanic, maintaining the refueling wing finds solace and salvaging machines returned from deployfrom disposal that ment, the base com- in painting saved “the USAF untold mander called employ- impressionist dollars in machine ees into a hangar. To landscapes and replacement and down his surprise, Coots time,” according to a was awarded the spending time Meritorious Service with his childhood 2009 letter written by civilian manager Shane medal, the equivalent, Olsen. he says, of a Bronze friend laurie Zuro The concept of the Medal for non-combat in the ogden home chain of command is military personnel. they share. fundamental to the Air Coots moved to Force, where you are Utah in 1994 and joined accountable to your immediate “Team Hill” in 1999. superior. If an employee is not Hill Air Force Base is a world satisfied with the response of that unto itself. It’s fenced off, with immediate superior, he or she has guards at every exit and anonythe right to go up to the next level. mous voices that blare from exterCoots worked under five levnal speakers, counting down to els of supervisors, all civilians. lightning strikes or reminding The first level manages workers, employees to use safety glasses. handing out work assignments.

The 6,650 acres, straddling Layton The second level, Coots says, carry and Clearfield in Davis County, is down orders, questions and disdotted with almost 1,500 windowciplines from the third level to less buildings and 11 huge hanthe first. The fourth and fifth levgars, plus a 13,500-foot-long airels are “figureheads,” at least for strip from which high-tech fighter those working on the shop floor, planes roar into the sky. he says.

Hill is also littered with aging Hill officials, Coots says, “realmachinery, like a 1960s altitude ized my abilities and put me in chamber the base used to test charge of maintaining a lot of re-entry rocket motors for interequipment. I was very busy, and continental ballistic missiles, busy means being happy.” simulating altitudes in excess of In December 2006, the 160,000 feet. When the chamber 48-year-old Coots had heart“gave up the ghost,” Coots and his bypass surgery. After he returned team were called in. The 649th to work, his third-level supervisor, Munitions Squadron commander, Scott Boothe, asked if Coots “could Nathan Ply, described in a 2003 get the second shift to perform memo how, with no documentatheir duties and straighten up,” tion or repair manuals, Coots got effectively making him their it to work “as well now as it did on supervisor. the day it was built.”

Coots says his management According to 35 commendastyle was to work on improving tions and letters of gratitude from employee relations.

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Coots provided City Weekly with several reports prepared by investigators with the Equal Opportunity Office that detailed both his claims and documentation and the responses of colleagues and supervisors to his complaints. The first investigator made no conclusions, but several people she interviewed supported Coots’ allegation that he was being driven out of the base by disgruntled management, who, as one maintenance mechanic put it, were “maliciously trying to fire him.”

Coots is a fighter; his father boxed for money in back alleys during the Great Depression and taught his son a love of the sport. Now, Coots is determined to fight for himself and others like him, who’ve been sapped of the will to live because of their working environment.

But in boxing, Coots says, “you know where you stand, you know who you are up against. You have the opportunity to defend yourself, you can look them in the eye. With the government, you’re fighting a vast entity that is elusive in every way, and you don’t know what’s the truth, when you’re being entrapped. It’s like trying to fight the invisible man; it’s like fighting a ghost.”

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me long to figure out Coots took the e-mails, Hill’s Ogden he wasn’t there for us, which he says he viewed Air Logistics he was corporate, he as retaliatory, to the had HQ’s interests at Inspector General’s Office Complex, where heart.” on base. A few days later, maintenance of It’s all about “makhe was informed his secuing sure corporate is rity clearance was no lon- fighter aircraft is performed buffered from whatger a problem. ever happens.”

While Coots did battle The U.S. Air Force with his superiors, a shadhas made much in the public ow was looming over the base as arena of its Wingman program, the number of civilian suicides at a response to the epidemic of Hill received widespread publicity. suicides. At Hill, 18 employees Coots says that though people are assigned as wingmen and, all have their tribulations and triaccording to the base’s website, als to bear, given how much time offer “a 24/7 service for civilian people spend at work, “when you employees by providing informatake that [belief in your work] tion and referrals for on- and offaway from someone, they have base services/resources for issues nothing left but the existing probraging from personal/marital/ lems. Nothing else to focus on family stressors, financial stresbecause they’re being badgered sors, substance abuse, etc.” and harassed. They think life is What the website doesn’t say, just a huge clump of agony and Coots says, is that the Wingmen they just want to end it.” who offer a willing ear to your Ex-marine and Vietnam veterproblems and will direct you to an Frank Crofts worked alongside services can also be a direct pipeCoots for several years before retirline to base management. On the ing in 2012. As the number of suiback of a Wingman Advocate’s cides rose both on base and in indicard, it states, “Interaction viduals’ homes, Crofts says, “They’d between employees and Wingman have big draw-downs [meetings] Advocates is considered peer-toand promise to study this.” peer and no confidentiality proviBut soon, he says, base leadersions apply.” ship began to shift its focus on the Part of what fuels Coots’ anger suicides. “Management blamed it is that while the Air Force sends on alcoholism, drug dependenout e-mails saying such things as, cy and other factors, so it didn’t “We are an Air Force family, and reflect on them,” Crofts says. you mean a lot to us,” the resourcCrofts says that blaming other es the base and the Air Force say factors fails to take into account are available to civilians in the that work problems create frusevent of harassment, retaliation trations that lead to alcohol and or discrimination do not live up to drug abuse. He knew three men their claims. who’ve taken their lives in recent Banners on the base direct airyears. One called the police, then men, both military and civilian, put a deer-hunting rifle under his with concerns to the Inspector chin; another did the same with General’s Office, but when Coots a shotgun; and a third hung himwent there to file a harassment self over his own docking station complaint, he was told the office in a hangar. didn’t help civilians. Coots asked A psychologist was brought in, one of the IG officials what they Crofts recalls, “but it didn’t take

“if you hurt yourself at Hill, they act like you’ve done it intentionally,” Coots says.

“And that’s a product of protecting the record of the department.” did; he replied, Coots says, “We ask ourselves that all the time.”

ChAIN OF COMMAND After 32 years in the military as a civilian, Crofts became increasingly frustrated with Hill’s management culture, particularly when a new rule at Hill meant that those appointing new hires had to take only the last five years of employment into consideration.

“I’d been on top, underneath and between the walls of every dang building out there on the base,” Crofts says, but “all that work experience is flushed.”

Crofts and Coots saw the number of managers and supervisors grow, while the shop-floor mechanics did not. “They do nothing to bring money into the organization,” Crofts says. “You had a small number of mechanics working their guts out so they could support the overhead upstairs.”

Crofts and Coots say they found themselves being undermined as

supervisors sought to bring in relatives and friends to fill positions. Crofts says those charged with hiring would give deference to the relatives of co-workers.

“You hire my kid, I’ll hire your kid,” he says.

Hill was “directly going after you if you had gray hair and were a veteran,” Crofts says. “They wanted you out of there.”

Richard Essary of Hill’s media-relations office wrote in an e-mail that “Hill AFB takes seriously our obligation to abide by the prohibitions against nepotism found in the Department of Defense Joint Ethics Regulation and in federal statutes. If Mr. Croft can provide more specific statements regarding alleged nepotism, we will look into them and take appropriate remedial action to remedy any violations of the law or regulation.”

In mid-October 2010, Coots’ first-level supervisor, Tom Odell, gave him a letter advising him that he was being sent for a Fit For Duty examination the following month. If he failed that examination, he could lose his job.

The letter, signed by Odell, detailed how Coots “had a long history of showing up late for work,” had had heart surgery, family issues and used up all his leave. “I feel that Mr. Coots’ physical symptoms have not only become a safety concern but a possible hazard” to those he worked with, Odell wrote.

In private the next day, Odell told Coots that supervisor Boothe had ordered him to write it and that he did not believe Coots merited such an examination, particularly given that Odell had given him a “straight 9s” appraisal—basically, top marks.

“I feel that Mr. Boothe is just out to get Mr. Coots,” Odell says during an audio recording made by Coots, which Odell agrees to on the recording. “I think there’s certain people the organization has come after, and Mr. Coots happens to be one.”

According to the report made by the investigator from the Equal Opportunity Office, Odell expressed similar sentiments to her. When she interviewed Boothe, he said that he was not out to get Coots.

Coots complained to Boothe, who’d been his supervisor for 10 years, about the Fit for Duty examination and recorded the conversation. On the recording, Boothe tells Coots that going up the chain of command was “disruptive,” and if there were further attempts to go above him to complain, “I guarantee you someone else is going to pay a price for it.”

Coots asked if he meant him.

“You would be a part of it, because I would make sure you’re a part of it,” Boothe says.

Boothe later told an Equal Opportunity investigator that he did not recall any such conversation with Coots, and that he also hadn’t directed a supervisor to send Coots to a Fit for Duty examination. No one in management that Boothe was aware of, he told the investigator, was trying to remove Coots from employment.

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Coots’ supervisors wrote him up repeatedly in 2010 and 2011 for failing to secure his toolbox and not attending a scheduled doctor’s appointment. Each write-up went into his file.

In mid-2011, Coots filed a claim of work-related stress issues with the U.S. Department of Labor.

In response, an unidentified supervisor wrote an undated note that he did not believe Coots’ claims to be warranted. Rather than being singled out, “Mr. Coots has been given due process on all write-ups, and write-ups are done to rehabilitate his behavior, not harass him as claimed.”

Coots, the supervisor continued, “seems to want to make his own rules and not adhere to the same rules as his fellow employees do.”

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that the White House had called the base and requested they evaluate him.

Now, he thought, “I’m getting somewhere.”

The next day, he was summoned to a meeting with Hill Air Force Base’s commander, two-star General H. Brent Baker.

Coots says Baker had been asked to report to a three-star general in Washington, D.C., regarding Coots’ concerns.

Shortly after that meeting, he says, he received an e-mail from a colonel informing him that based on the information he’d provided Baker, there was no substantive issue that the base could address.

But Coots isn’t giving up.

“They think that’s it for me, that I’m done?”

Coots’ discrimination complaint continues to wend its way through the federal complaint system. And while the hate he feels for “the ghost” he battles continues to surprise him, Coots’ mission continues. He knows from firsthand experience how the base’s toxic culture can drive employees to contemplate suicide.

And that, he says, is something he’s determined “to bring into the light.” CW

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Coots’ Meritorious Service medal now sits on a felt board with his other medals and coins of recognition, along with a photo of himself, age 24, in his uniform— “A naïve young man with high aspirations,” he says—gathering dust on top of the fridge.

While Coots’ friend Crofts was able to retire, Coots and so many others of the 15,000-plus labor force at Hill stay on because they have no choice. Saddled with mortgages and debts and unlikely to easily find work in a region where their current employer is

the major player, many, Coots says, are simply driven to despair.

“I feel trapped, I feel so trapped,” he says. “You’re at their mercy.

This is not a land of opportunity, there is not work out there. These people have bought homes, they have debt, they figured they’d be here the rest of their lives.”

In February 2014, the Physical Disqualified Program at the base found Coots an industrial engineering mechanic position at the 75th Civil Engineer Squadron, replacing overhead doors.

In early May 2014, Coots decided to go up the chain of command as far as he could—to the Commander in Chief.

Laurie detailed Coots’ battles with “Team Hill” via the White House website. “The base is the livelihood of thousands of people here and they feel they have nowhere to go,” she wrote at the end. “That is why everyone is so scared to speak up against the base. I am begging you, at least look before another life is lost and let Michael get his faith back in his country.”

Two weeks after Coots sent his e-mail, his supervisors sent him to Hill’s Occupational Medicine clinic for an evaluation.

Coots says the doctor told him

Later that year, Coots was forcibly committed to Lakeview Hospital for suicidal ideations following his breakdown in the Ogden Regional Hospital Emergency Room in September 2012. He was released eight days later.

Coots was placed on light duty in late 2012 and worked at the Hill Air Force Base Museum, where he happily tinkered with old aircraft. “It’s great not to feel bad and to know you can still do well,” he wrote in a letter to base officials.

In June 2013, the base’s head clinician, Dr. Chris Kleinsmith, determined that Coots was “not medically qualified” to work on actively flying aircraft because the doctor viewed his mental health as too precarious for the stress of working on F-22 fighter planes.

That started the ticking down of 150 days for Hill’s personnel department, along with Coots, to find a position on base, or “I’d be out of the gate come March,” Coots says.

Merrill told the Equal Opportunity investigator that the clock on Coots’ employment worsened the mechanic’s stress. Merrill wanted to keep Coots on his team.

“He was a good mechanic and a good person,” Merrill told the investigator. “He is smart and I know that as

soon as he was through the stress stuff, he would pop right back.”

Coots went home to Illinois in June 2013 to see his mother. While he was there, he visited Laurie, the sister of his best friend Brian, who had died of cancer the year before.

Laurie had married Jimmy, Coots and Brian’s childhood buddy, but the relationship had not gone well, and Coots invited Laurie to live with him in Utah while she recovered from a spine operation.

While Laurie says Coots was the same respectful man she’d known in her youth, “I saw he was also extremely stressed,” she says. “And the stress is wearing on him.”

She’s read every single page of the voluminous reports and paperwork Coots has accumulated in his fight to document the abuse he has experienced. “It’s just not right. He’s busted his butt and given everything for this country, and they turn around and treat him like crap.”

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FrANK Crofts knew three men who’ve took their lives in recent years. One called the police, then put a deer-hunting rifle under his chin; another did the same with a shotgun; and a third hung himself over his own docking station in a hangar.

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In May 2011, a staff engineer and support squadron maintenance manager e-mailed Boothe to say that Coots had disrupted a heavy-metals toxicity class by clipping his fingernails during a slideshow and had also flipped off the instructor. Those complaints resulted in a two-day suspension.

Coots denies flipping off the instructor and says he was clipping his nails in part because mechanics’ nails get torn apart from working on machinery.

His battles with his managers took an increasing toll on his mental health. His primary-care physician wrote in an October 2011 letter to the base that Coots “has a history of severe psychological trauma associated with recent work environment issues.”

Things move slowly in a federal bureaucracy, and it wasn’t until January 2012 that a labor-management arbitrator was flown in from California for a daylong hearing on Coots’ 2011 two-day suspension.

Coots told the arbitrator that he’d made a quip during the slideshow when a photo was shown of a man mining beryllium in Africa without safety gear.

“I bet that guy never had this class,” Coots says he said aloud in the class. But, he told the arbitrator, he’d been unaware that clipping his nails during the slideshow portion of the class was distracting.

The arbitrator found that the testimony of the supervisor who accused Coots of giving the bird to the instructor “was not substantiated.” She wrote in her opinion in favor of Coots that she “could not conclude that the Grievant did not merely glance at his fingers, rather than extend his middle finger in an offensive manner.”

Three months later, in April 2012, as part of a basewide restructuring, Coots was assigned to F-22 Raptor fighters as an electrician, although, he says, he was qualified only as a mechanic, not as an electrician.

Coots’ then-first-level supervisor, Richard Merrill, later told the Equal Opportunity investigator that the two positions were quite different, and that he “understood why Mr. Coots was stressed about learning the new job.”

Coots couldn’t concentrate, appeared sad and depressed, and struggled to learn even things that Merrill knew were easy for him.

Merrill believed that not only had the stress that plagued Coots while working under Boothe continued to affect his performance at the new shop, but that Coots “wasn’t really qualified to do the […] position and that the [reassignment] set him up for failure.”

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Every summer, Logan’s Ellen Eccles Theatre becomes the site for enjoying some of the grandest stories ever set to music—or perhaps the grandest music ever set to stories. Now in its 21st season, Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre presents two grand operas and two beloved Broadway musicals.

The “opera” part of the lineup includes two choices that aren’t generally considered part of the opera canon. Samuel Barber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1958 work Vanessa tells the story of a woman who has waited 20 years for the return of her beloved, only to find that it is his son who comes back instead. And Sigmund Romberg’s The Student Prince follows a bored young heir to a mythical kingdom who tries to live as a commoner, then must decide between love and his throne.

The musical-theater titles are considerably more familiar: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s wonderful frontier story Oklahoma! (pictured), and the enchanting adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables. For the latter, UFOMT will present the only version ever seen in the state that will include a full live orchestra accompanying the songs, with MET Grammy Award-winner Patrick Miller as Jean Valjean.

In addition to the wonderful main-stage performances, audiences can also experience interactive events and backstage tours with director Michael Ballam and other cast members, including historical information about the works. Add a few special-event concerts, and you’ve got a great excuse to spend a weekend in Cache Valley.

(Scott Renshaw) Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre: Vanessa, The Student Prince, Oklahoma! and Les Misérables @ Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main, Logan, 435-750-0300, through Aug. 9, $13-$77. Full season schedule at UtahFestival.org

The Finch Lane Gallery at the Art Barn is near and dear to the heart the Salt Lake City fine art community, and its current exhibition—30 Years at Finch Lane Galleries: A Retrospective—celebrates “artistic diversity, the Salt Lake Arts Council, and honors those who have contributed to the city’s artistic fabric,” says Kandace Steadman, visual arts program manager for the Salt Lake Arts Council.

The work of 30 out of the several hundred artists who’ve shown at the gallery over the course of three decades will be on display.

Finch Lane invited one artist representing each year of its 30-year span—two posthumously, including Lee Deffebach and her work “Brown Recluse” (pictured). Those represented are some of the finest in the state, and have seen their art recognized and their careers launched while having a personal experience with Finch Lane.

Layne Meacham, one of those selected for the show, recalls that “in the ’60s, I used to run home after a class at the Finch Lane and try to copy Lee Deffebach, Don Olsen, etc.”

Justin Wheatley, whose work will also be on display, adds, “I was elated to be chosen to show my work there in 2013. That show was a defining event for me.”

For 30 years, Finch Lane has been an exciting, forward-thinking venue, and it continues to contribute to the artistic integrity of Salt Lake City’s fine-arts community. (Ehren Clark) 30 Years at Finch Lane Galleries: A Retrospective @ Finch Lane Gallery, 1320 E. 100 South, 801-596-5000, through Aug. 8, free. SLCGov.com/arts/ vizarts

It’s that time of year when Utah Symphony takes a break from Abravanel Hall and retreats to cool mountain climes for the Deer Valley Summer Concert Series. The symphony not only drops some of the formality of its home turf, but also typically leaves behind the likes of Beethoven and Mahler and explores the pop charts.

That includes work by the iconic film composer John Williams (pictured), so you can listen to the theme from E.T. while watching the moon rise over the distant hills. There might be a sense of relief that you’re nowhere near water when the theme from Jaws echoes off the mountainsides. And you’ll have the chance to lie back on your blanket and stare at the stars as you listen to those unforgettable opening chords to Star Wars. Other planned Williams’ touchstones are music from Superman, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Harry Potter.

You can also take a tour through the decadesdeep songbook of Irish rockers U2 on Saturday evening. Joined by vocalist Brody Dolyniuk—an expert vocal impersonator who has lent his talents to the video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock—Utah Symphony will re-create the atmosphere of a great rock concert. Channelling his inner Bono, Dolyniuk will work through U2 charttopping favorites like All I Want is You, Sunday Bloody Sunday and Where the Streets Have No Name, all with a full orchestra and Utah’s beautiful great outdoors behind him. (Jacob Stringer) Utah Symphony @ Deer Valley Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater, 2250 Deer Valley Drive South, Park City, 435-649-1000, July 11 (The Music of John Williams), July 12 (The Music of U2), 7:30 p.m., $15-$85. ArtTix. org, DeerValleyMusicFestival.org

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CUT! Costume and the Cinema In cinema, acting ability is supposedly the reason top actors are paid top dollar. But in period pieces, it’s hard to imagine even the best actor creating a sense of believability while dressed in jeans and a T-shirt instead of an elaborate Victorian gown. Costumes help make the character.

The traveling exhibit CUT! Costume and the Cinema at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art pairs 40 costumes from Hollywood films with paintings from the museum’s permanent collection, curated by Nancy Lawson, the North American representative for Cosprop Ltd., the famous London costume house.

It’s fascinating to see the clothes without actors like Sandra Bullock, Johnny Depp, Anjelica Huston, Keira Knightley, Uma Thurman and Kate Winslet wearing them—it’s as though the wardrobes almost have a life of their own. Costumes on display come from films like The Duchess, Sherlock Holmes, Pirates of the Caribbean (pictured), Sense & Sensibility and The Phantom of the Opera, where the wardrobes established the characters through painstaking authenticity.

The July 11 opening reception at the museum is a red-carpet night. Admission is free, but attendees are encouraged to dress as though it’s a Hollywood red carpet movie opening. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl will be screened outdoors in the museum’s sculpture garden. (Brian Staker) CUT! Costume and the Cinema @ BYU Museum of Art, 500 Campus Drive, Provo, 801-422-8287, July 11-Dec. 6, opening reception July 11, 7-9 p.m., free. MOA. BYU.edu

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Brought to Heel Damn These Heels LGBT Film Festival showcases real talent and drama.

Appropriate Behavior

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he Utah Film Center’s Damn These Heels LGBT Film Festival takes over the Rose Wagner Center this weekend with 16 features over the course of three days. Here’s a look at a few of the highlights available for pre-festival review.

The Circle Tom at the Farm

Compared to What?

The Circle

Is it a documentary? Is it a docu-drama? And would it be better to decide between the two? Director Stefan Haupt has a fascinating real-life story at the center: the titular Zurich members-only club and publication for homosexuals circa 1956, one of the few safe places in Europe for gay men to be themselves. In present-day talking-head documentary footage, longtime couple Ernst Ostertag and Röbi Rapp describe how they met through The Circle, and how a string of murders brought heightened scrutiny from public officials. Yet those same events are also presented in fictionalized dramatizations of Ernst (Matthias Hungerbühler) and Röbi (Sven Schelker) and the challenges to their relationship. Individually, both halves are well-crafted, but they sometimes collide awkwardly, with the real Ernst and Röbi essentially describing what we’ve already just seen played out, or vice-versa. It’s a good short documentary mixed with a good drama to become a merely OK hybrid.

Mala Mala

As nice as it is when a documentary is informative, it also helps if it feels like a damn movie. That’s what Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles achieve in their tour through the world of transgender people and drag queens in Puerto Rico, wisely never attempting to draw overarching conclusions about the community. Indeed, it’s most effective at providing a wide variety of voices: some that lament the focus on Barbie-doll looks, some that see no point in getting any kind of physical surgery, and so on. But even more surprisingly, it’s just a beautifully shot movie, never falling back on a static talking head when a slow-motion shot under pulsing red siren light might be more potent; even the closing credits have a spunky flair to them. The multiple profiles leave a few feeling half-sketched, and the climax built around an attempt to pass anti-discrimination legislation feels like rote material for this kind of documentary.

But damn, mija, this thing has style. CW

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Xavier Dolan adapts Michel Marc Bouchard’s stage play, and in so doing shows a surprising versatility. Dolan also stars as Tom, a young gay man from Montreal mourning the recent death of his lover, Guillaume. When he travels to the rural home of Guillaume’s family, he discovers that only his brother, Francis (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), knows Guillaume was gay—and he’ll do whatever it takes to keep the truth from their mother.

The psychological drama bends and twists in complex ways, keeping Francis’ brutish character enigmatic in his motivations. But the bigger surprise is the way Dolan—whose

features Heartbeats and Laurence Anyways explored queer themes with moments of grandly theatrical cinema—keeps things simple and restrained here. Instead of trying to bend the material to his own style, he figures out that he’ll wind up with a more effective, unsettling story if he takes it the other way around.

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Compared to What?

Desiree Akhavan has “It.” She not only stars in, but also wrote and directed this semi-autobiographical comedy about Shirin, the bisexual daughter of Iranian immigrants struggling with her recent breakup with girlfriend Maxine (Rebecca Henderson). Akhavan finds uniquely funny ways to explore familiar “coming out in a conservative culture” tropes, but the movie may be even better as a satire of Brooklyn hipster culture. And it works primarily because Akhavan has the kind of self-deprecating comic presence that gives scenes an extra kick, like a facial expression that allows an attempted three-way with a swinger couple to transition from awkwardly hilarious to genuinely sad. It’s less effective when flashback sequences cover the arc of Shirin’s relationship with Maxine, but the charms here come from watching a woman straddling cultural dividing lines

of all kinds trying to figure out who she is—even as it’s obvious to the audience that Akhavan is one hell of a talent.

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There’s always reason to be leery of profiles of partisan political figures, but Michael Chandler and Sheila Canavan have such a singular subject here that it’s easy to imagine it reaching across the aisle for support.

That subject is Barney Frank, the lightningrod Massachusetts congressman who was the first member of Congress to voluntarily come out while in office. Chandler and Canavan frame Frank’s biography with his impending retirement from Congress in 2012, while he also prepares to marry his partner, Jim Ready. But while Frank’s sexual orientation certainly plays a significant role in some of his political passions, the movie is more interestingly about his unique mix of blunt public statements and pragmatic behind-the-scenes approaches to legislating. And while it addresses the controversies that occasionally rocked his time in office, it’s less warts-and-all than a compelling profile of a man who just wanted to get things done. (Opening-night film; the directors and Barney Frank are scheduled to attend for post-film Q&A.)

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Cooler Climbs Hot summer days call for mountain escapes.

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ecently, as I lay on my side with a green stretchy band around my feet, kicking my legs apart against the resistance until I felt the burn in my glutes (it’s great cross-training for things like hiking Mount Olympus) the class instructor turned to us and asked, smiling, “Are you all looking forward to the hot weather?” Then, I swear, she looked right at me. “I love the heat,” she said. “It’s good to sweat.”

Indeed, temperatures in Salt Lake City are starting to reach their summertime highs. And if you’re the kind of crazy person who likes feeling your insides boil, that’s great. But, while I have no qualms with sweating, I prefer to spend the greater part of the summer either meditating to thoughts of ice baths, polar-bear plunges, winter sweaters and snow, or actually beating the heat by hiking up into the high elevations. When I was in my 20s, I could find some joy in the midday heat, knowing that nighttime would bring beautiful nights when biking around town in a T-shirt and shorts feels comfortable even at 3 a.m.

But now that I’m older, I fall asleep on the couch by 10 on a Saturday night. The warm nights no longer seem like a good trade-off for the hot days.

That’s why, on the last weekend in June, I hightailed it to the Unitas. As soon as I hit the start of the Mirror Lake Highway outside Kamas, I could sense the thermometer beginning to drop. The road climbed quickly from dry hills of red grass spotted with scrub oak into pines and aspen. The cool, damp air rushing in my open window

Amethyst Lake in the Uintas is a beautiful respite from the heat.

prickled my skin into goose bumps. I rolled my window down farther and took a deep breath.

There are nearly too many stops along the scenic highway to count or to name.

From Kamas to Evanston, the highway runs nearly 80 miles. At its middle, the road climbs up Bald Mountain pass, 10,700 feet above sea level, just over the tree line.

North of the pass, I pulled in at Christmas Meadows. Tents and RVs filled the campground, but only a handful of cars were in the overnight parking at the trailhead.

Before letting the dogs out or reaching for my backpack, I put on a pair of pants and a fleece.

Amethyst Lake was our destination that night. At just about six miles, with 2,000 feet of elevation gain, the trail is short enough for a day hike, yet long enough to ensure a quiet and uncrowded overnight stay.

Storm clouds made the evening seem later than it was as I settled into the trail. To my right, green grass and stunted willows lined the Stillwater Fork of the Bear River.

To my left, aspen and lodgepole pine lifted away with the lower slopes of the mountains. My feet stumbled alternately between the maze of granite stones sprouting from the path and the trenches of mud churned into sucking quicksand by boots and horse hooves. But I didn’t mind the tricky footing, just so long as the Unitas’ notoriously predatory and numerous mosquitoes never materialized (and they didn’t).

The Amethyst trail dead-ends into a cirque of impassable mountains—bald, gray shale domes that hold massive sheets of snow even through the hottest months.

The lakes and streams in the basin are made of liquid snow. That weekend, a toe dip into the frigid waters was all I could handle, but it was cold I had sought, and cold I’d, gratefully, found. CW

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Karen Horne uses impressionistic strokes to masterfully depict the light at various times of the day in downtown Salt Lake City, capturing the many different faces of Main Street, Capitol Theatre, Temple Square and other landmarks as seen in bright sunlight, cloudy twilight or under a bright moon.

Horne—whose great-grandmother Alice Merrill Horne was Utah’s “First Lady of the Arts”—was awarded a Mayor’s Visual Artist Award at 2013’s Utah Arts Festival, and she’s made a point of painting that event in different lights as well, illuminating the artworks, crowds and festival grounds and capturing the life of the annual festival.

Her works demonstrate the progression of contemporary impressionism in an urban landscape, and there’s flair to them that renders the city almost Parisian. (Brian Staker) Night and Day: Karen Horne Paints the Changing Light of Salt Lake City @ The Gallery At Library Square, Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Aug. 1, free. SLCPL.org

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Neil Simon Festival The Utah Shakespeare Festival might be the most well-known summer theatrical showcase that calls Cedar City home, but it’s not the only way to enjoy classic plays in Southern Utah. Since 1997, the Neil Simon Festival has presented some of the great works from the American master playwright, in addition to other contemporary comedies that have become audience favorites.

The 2014 season includes two Neil Simon plays. The Star-Spangled Girl finds two radicals in late-1960s San Francisco involved in a romantic triangle with the conservative Southern girl who moves in next door, while Laughter on the 23rd Floor takes its inspiration from Simon’s youthful work on Sid Caesar’s classic TV variety program Your Show of Shows.

Rounding out the season are Nunsense, Driving Miss Daisy, Greater Tuna and You’re a

Good Man, Charlie Brown. Even if you come for the Bard, take a detour for some all-time favorite laughs. (Scott Renshaw) Neil Simon Festival @ Heritage Theater, 105 N. 100 East, Cedar City, 435-267-0194, through Aug. 9, $12-$26 per show, package discounts available. SimonFest.org

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Salt Lake Jazz Festival Unless one hightails it all over town to the bars and clubs that feature jazz, the Salt Lake City Jazz Festival is really the only opportunity to spend a weekend enjoying the city’s finest jazz performers in one place.

The backbone of the festival will be the local players who contribute to the state’s ever-growing scene, like The Wasatch Jazz Collective, the Salt Lake City Jazz Orchestra, Orquesta Latino and The Jim Gus/Emily Merrell Group. National headliners include multiinstrumentalist and five-octave vocalist Ellis Hall (pictured), who will finish Friday night with a Tribute to Motown and then return Saturday for “Memories of Papa Ray” with the SLCJO. Santa Fe & the Fat City Horns—a collective of Las Vegas musicians who are as comfortable backing the likes of Bette Midler as they are jamming at a downtown jazz joint—will close out the festival. (Jacob Stringer) Salt Lake Jazz Festival @ Gallivan Center, 235 S. Main, July 11-12, $12-$75. SLCJazzFestival.org

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Antelope by Moonlight The annual Antelope by Moonlight non-competitive ride—where kids, costumes, lights and streamers are encouraged—is perhaps the best family-friendly pedal of the summer. Beginning at White Rock Bay just past the causeway, the ride follows the rolling eastern shoreline of Antelope Island 12 miles to the historic Fielding Garr Ranch.

Once bikers reach the barn turnaround point, they can grab a quick bite while being entertained by The Endless Summer Band, playing covers ranging from the Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night” to Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb.”

The best part of the ride is the return trip back to the cars, as the crowds widely disperse and you find yourself rolling along to the night sounds of the island in relative peace. Off on the distant shore, you can spot the lights of the city while you pedal past sleeping bison and the grasses sway in the gentle wind beneath the moonlight.

(Jacob Stringer) Antelope by Moonlight @ Antelope Island State Park, 801-444-2300, July 11, 10 p.m., check-in begins 7:30 p.m., $30.

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Some people love the joy of wandering through a second-hand store, finding that perfect thing they’ve been looking for, and at a bargain price, to boot. Others have more stuff than they need, and know that they could give things that still have use in them a new home (while gathering a little walking-around money in the process). And still others are looking for the perfect spot to sell their unique crafts and home creations.

Flea markets are the perfect place for all of those people, and the new Summer Flea looks to give them all a spacious seasonal home. At South Jordan’s Salt Lake County Equestrian Park, vendors offer knick-knacks, tchotchkes and surprise treasures, whether from a booth or just the trunk of a car. For the July 12 launch, visitors are invited to bring one or two of their own items

for a special Antiques Roadshow-style appraisal.

(Scott Renshaw) The Summer Flea @ Salt Lake County Equestrian Park, 2100 W. 11400 South, South Jordan, 801-916-4189, Saturdays through Oct. 18, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., $6 general admission before 10 a.m., $2 after 10 a.m., children under 12 free. TheSummerFlea.com

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hen I lived in New York City, one of my favorite restaurants—when I could afford it—was the original Le Cirque on East 65th Street. The name Le Cirque means “the circus” in French, and it’s an appropriate moniker for Sirio Maccioni’s flagship restaurant, with its bold and vibrant Fellini-esque décor featuring circus balls, tent shades, monkeys, balloons and such, along with what was often a circus-like atmosphere to match the surroundings. For four decades, Maccioni has been warmly greeting customers old and new to Le Cirque, whether they be president, pope, runway model, movie star, professional athlete or just a food writer from Utah.

I’m prefacing this review with a mention of the renowned Maccioni because Valter Nassi—executive chef and partner in Valter’s Osteria—seems to have taken a page out of the Maccioni playbook, and his restaurant is about as close as you’ll get to Le Cirque in Utah. Yes, there’s the temptation to say that the ambiance at Valter’s Osteria is circus-like. But hey, lots of people love the circus.

Every circus needs an impresario—a ringmaster—and Nassi is nothing if not that. As with Maccioni at Le Cirque, the Italy-born Nassi bounces from table to table at his restaurant, always looking the bon vivant in a well-tailored suit—greeting and wooing customers, kissing women’s hands and hugging the men. Like Maccioni, he can make brand-new diners feel like family, which is one reason his restaurant is busy even on a weeknight. Although not everyone loves Nassi’s shtick, those who do are very loyal, and many followed him from Cucina Toscana to his namesake eatery.

People who suffer from haphephobia—the fear of being touched—would be welladvised to dine elsewhere.

Located in the space that previously housed the award-winning Metropolitan restaurant, Valter’s Osteria ref lects Nassi’s personality: vibrant and buzzing. The ambiance is much lighter than at Metropolitan—literally, since the wall of windows that was covered up on the east side of the restaurant has been opened to allow natural light to flow. Tables are a bit crammed together, but that just helps to generate the bustling vibe of an authentic Italian osteria, where you’ll probably

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become fast friends with the folks In the center ring: The thinly sliced carpaccio di dining next to you. at Valter’s Osteria is blanced by arugula, bue Given the nifty makeover of the Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese and mushrooms. restaurant space, and tables adorned with crisp white linens and fresh signature piccata-style chicken: organflowers, it seems a bit unusual that the ic chicken breast from Tecumseh Farms menu comes bound in construction paper. sauteed with lemon juice, caper berries While perusing the menu and its nearly and oyster mushrooms, accompanied by overwhelming array of options, a simple risotto in lemon-butter sauce ($24). I was dish of bruschetta arrives: grilled rustic happy when our server warned us that the bread slices topped with diced tomato and risotto would take 25 minutes or so to prefresh basil, with Valter’s own rich and pare because that meant it was made from robust signature extra-virgin olive oil for scratch, which not many restaurants take dipping. the time to do.

One could make a meal of nibbling on the A staple at Valter’s—and a dish I just antipasti selections from the menu, which can’t get enough of—is linguine alle vonincludes Caprese salad ($12.50), prosciutto- gole ($24), known to English speakers as wrapped cantaloupe melon ($18), fennel- linguine with clam sauce. It’s a large bowl crusted duck breast with baked pear, of linguine cooked al dente with about plums and housemade truffled duck pâté a dozen fresh clams, snippets of basil, ($15), or luscious carpaccio di tonno ($14), a smidgeon of onion and a silky, nearly which is thin-sliced sushi-grade tuna with sensuous seafood reduction sauce. It’s the arugula. My favorite antipasti at Valter’s, type of dish—like the lasagna with Nassi’s however, is the carpaccio di bue ($15). It’s mother’s meat sauce—that, while not a plate of raw beef tenderloin shaved so breaking down any culinary doors, tastes thin you can almost see through it, topped fresh and new each time. with arugula, Parmigiano-Reggiano Maybe that’s the secret to Valter’s: concheese and sliced mushrooms. The only sistency. As food fads come and go, Nassi way to make this dish better would be to sticks to the classics, never apologizing add truffles, and Nassi is keen to oblige. for his scaloppini di vitello or the pasta e He’s definitely a “hands-on” owner, and fagioli. Another constant at Valter’s is the stopped at our table to personally drizzle man himself. I don’t think he ever takes a lemon juice onto our carpaccio and to offer day off, and he seems to gain energy the a generous accoutrement of shaved black busier his restaurant is—hustling to offer truffles. Use caution when saying “yes” to freshly ground Parmigiano-Reggiano to such upgrades, however, as they’re likely a dish here, shaving truffles onto a plate to appear on your bill. there, or helping assemble a Caesar salad If you were familiar with and enjoyed tableside. Dining at Valter’s Osteria is like Cucina Toscana’s menu during Nassi’s attending a symphony with a world-class reign there, his osteria offerings will fit maestro at the helm. This is Valter’s world; like a comfortable pair of worn sneakers. we just eat in it. CW There are many of the same pastas, soups, salads and entrees—can’t-miss dishes like Valter’s Osteria housemade four-cheese ravioli with cream sauce and asparagus ($24), housemade 173 W. 300 South potato gnocchi in a mushroom-cream 801-521-4563 sauce ($24), escolar with brandy, capers ValtersOsteria.com and a trio of mustards ($32), and Nassi’s

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After living in Canada’s great northeast for a number of years, I have a warm spot in my heart and a craving in my belly for poutine. If you’ve never had it, poutine is a dish that originated in Canada featuring french fries smothered in thick, rich brown grav y and topped with fresh cheese curds. It also sometimes incorporates meats and other accoutrements like grilled mushrooms and onions.

Well, I recently found myself cruising down the interstate behind the Gravy Train Poutinerie—a local food truck devoted to all things poutine. I urge you to try the Philly, which combines two of the planet’s best foods: poutine and the Philly cheeseteak. To find where the poutine is parked, visit Grav yTrainPoutinerie.com.

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Hops on the Hill combines craft-beer tastings with food pairings from Stein Eriksen Lodge chef Zane Holmquist and his crew and is followed by a live concert. The cost per person for preshow beer and food tastings is $35 in advance and $40 at the door. The concerts are free, and attendees can purchase beer, wine, liquor and food during the shows, which will feature the Red Desert Ramblers, Mister Sister, Fastback and others.

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But even with the brick & mortar location, Leone is still the man behind the counter, calling many of his customers by name, taking orders and cooking them up himself.

He can ser ve you 10 different types of Philly sandwiches: blue cheese, cream cheese, delu xe, tomato, mushroom, jalapeño, garlic, Alfredo, Italian and classic. You can choose bet ween 7-inch ($8.50) or 14-inch ($13.50); both options come with chips and a drink.

I had the classic Philly, with thinsliced steak, power ful peppers, onions and Swiss-blend cheese all melting onto a stoneground Tuscan roll. It was a lesson in excellence.

One other example of Leone stay ing true to that old-school sensibility is his low-tech cash box on the counter. There are no checks or cards taken here—it’s the Vito Leone way, which he’s followed for years because it’s worked for him.

He wants to focus on food and leave the business side to us.

If you walk in and find your wallet short of cash, don’t worr y. The on-site ATM is well used—because once you smell the aroma, there’s no way you are going to want to turn around and leave. CW

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hills of the Mayacamas Mountains on the outskirts of Sonoma. I don’t recall which Ravenswood wine I drank that night, but since then, I’ve become a big fan and have tasted many, many Ravenswood offerings, mostly its Zins. Ravenswood produces wines from other varietals—Merlot, Shiraz, Petite Sirah and even Chardonnay—but Zinfandel is Ravenswood’s backbone, and there’s a Ravenswood Zin for every palate and budget.

It’s interesting and a little ironic that Ravenswood founder and winemaker Joel Peterson—who’s been dubbed the Godfather of Zin—has a background in microbiology and worked as a medical researcher. I say that this is ironic because he doesn’t make “modern science” wines.

Rather, they’re “old school,” insofar as Peterson practices the art of traditional winemaking as found in Burgundy and Bordeaux. And his best wines come from old, gnarly, pre-Prohibition, dry-farmed, low-production vineyards. He utilizes wild yeast fermentation in open-top fermentors, and the wines undergo long aging in small French oak barrels. They’re neither over-oaked, nor sugarcoated. To quote Peterson, “Our goal is to exalt the grape, not overwhelm it.”

Peterson works with more than a hundred growers throughout California, and many of those grapes go into Ravenswood’s

DRINK entry level (price-wise) Vintners Blend line of wines. Ravenswood Vintners Blend Old Vine Zinfandel is a great bang-forthe-buck at $12.99, and it’s even a better bargain when it goes on sale here, which is frequently, for $9.99. It’s big and bold, but simultaneously approachable, with soft tannins and rich fruit flavors.

A step up from Vintners Blend is the Ravenswood County Series, featuring juice from Mendocino, Lodi, Napa Valley and Sonoma. I particularly like the ripe jammy flavors of Napa Valley Old Vine Zinfandel ($15.99), with hints of dark chocolate, blackberries and cocoa. At 14.5 percent alcohol, you might want to sip this one slowly.

Ravenswood’s Single Vineyard Designates is a wine series that’s all about terroir. These are vineyard locations that are ideally suited to the grapes grown there: old, low-yield vines that are site-specific. Ravenswood Dickerson Zinfandel ($34.99) offers notes of mint and eucalyptus, along with sweet mid-palate fruit flavors that are well-balanced by the wine’s acidity. You’d think that a young wine with 15 percent alcohol would taste fairly “hot.”

But not Ravenswood Big River Zinfandel ($34.99), which is loaded with concentrated cherry, blueberry and cacao flavors, along with hints of anise and vanilla. This is as complex and satisfying a wine as

you’re likely to find in its price range.

Try Ravenswood Icon Mixed Blacks if you can get your hands on some. It’s a high-end, dark and brooding wine aptly named for its black fruits and black pepper aromas and flavors. Drink it on a dark and stormy night.

By the way, should you be so keen on Ravenswood as to have their logo—a trio of ravens, talons interlocked—tattooed onto your person, it will earn you complimentary tastings for life at the Ravenswood winery. CW

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Desert Star Dinner Theatre

At the Desert Star Dinner Theatre, you get dinner and a show. Menus vary from performance to performance, which include plays and concerts.

But typical offerings include crispy Southern-style chicken breast, honey-and herb-baked salmon and garlic & rosemary-marinated beef filet. Most entrees come with a chilled green salad, fresh clover rolls, sparkling punch and strawberry shortcake. A buffet is offered during certain shows. 4861 S. State, Salt Lake City,801-266-2600, DesertStar.biz

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Open since 1983, Granite Bakery in Sugar House specializes in custom-made cakes for weddings, “baked like grandma’s.” Granite will make just about any type of cake in any shape you want. Cake flavors include pear, white macadamia, lemon chiffon and Key lime with filling options such as Bavarian cream, custard, pineapple, raspberry and strawberry.

Granite also sells delicious pies, pastries, muffins and éclairs—make sure to try the cinnamon knots. 902 E. 2700 South, Salt Lake City, 801-467-7291

Enjoy Chinese Cuisine

The name says it all: Enjoy Chinese Cuisine prepares Chinese dishes—along with some Japanese fare like teriyaki—to enjoy. The Enjoy menu is peppered with Chinese classics such as kung pao chicken and shrimp, Mongolian beef, beef with broccoli, sweet & sour pork, General Tso’s chicken, chow mein, lo mein and egg foo young. Lunch specials are very affordable—all are around $6. Sip a soothing cup of green, jasmine or oolong tea with your meal. 2629 W. 7800 South, West Jordan, 801-561-7382, EnjoyChineseCuisine.com

Nuch’s Pizzeria & Restaurant

Nuch’s claims to fame are its brick-oven pizzas and handmade pastas. Nuch’s calls its pizza “New Yorkstyle,” and though it’s not exactly your basic floppy, foldable New York pizza, the crust is fairly thin and has a nice bit of chewiness to it, and it’s fresh-made and topped with an array of carefully balanced, quality ingredients. Nuch’s also offers calzones, appetizers and tempting salads, so you won’t lack for choices.

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Sapa is named for a small northern Vietnamese market town, a melting pot of many different cultures and cuisines. Like its namesake town, Sapa Sushi Bar & Asian Grill offers a pan-Asian selection of dishes, from sushi and sashimi to Thai-style drunken noodles, lemongrass lamb and firecracker calamari. In the beautiful garden, you’ll dine in one of the unique, nearly 300-year-old Vietnamese houses imported from Vietnam. 722 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-363-7272, SapaBarAndGrill.com

Slope Side Cafe

Slope Side Cafe and espresso bar offers a delectable breakfast and lunch menu as well as snacks, smoothies, coffee and a selection of local microbrews. This is a great place for everyone to meet, skier or non-skier, for lunch or a latte and pastry. Seating is available on the outside sun deck or inside the atrium. The menu includes ciabatta sandwiches, burgers, salads, chili and a tasty meatball sub. 10351 E. State Highway 210, Alta, 84092, 801-742-2300

Burger Stop

A sort of throwback to Happy Days, complete with all the right tunes on the juke, Layton’s Burger Stop is a favorite for old-fashioned burgers and shakes. During its monthly Cruise Nights, diners can drool over all those shiny vintage cars and their immaculate paint jobs. Besides burgers, this classic joint also offers housemade scones during breakfast as well as tasty sandwiches and salads. 323 E. Gentile St., Layton, 801-544-8090, BurgerStopLayton.com

Jeremiah’s Restaurant

Located next to the Best Western High Country Inn, Jeremiah’s is a great place to stage a wedding or just enjoy a rustic dining experience, inside or out. The breakfasts are terrific, and for lunch and dinner, there are sandwiches, burgers, buffalo chili, fish tacos, pot roast, baby back ribs, fajitas, oven-roasted halibut and a lot more. 1307 W. 1200 South, Ogden, 801-394-3273, JeremiahsUtah.com

Royal Street Cafe

Located at mid-mountain at Deer Valley’s Silver Lake Lodge, Royal Street Café is a perfect spot in summer, when the crowds thin out and a leisurely lunch on the sunny deck is supplemented with fine wines and killer cocktails. The yellowfin tuna tartar appetizer is a terrific beginning to a meal, and the renowned Deer Valley turkey chili is justifiably famous. And the DVBLT (cherry chutney and Dijon-tarragon mayo make the difference) is also delicious. By all means, don’t think of escaping without sinking your teeth into Royal Street’s decadent ice cream sandwich.

Deer Valley Resort, 7600 Royal St., Park City, 435-645-6724, DeerValley.com

Flores Bakery

At Flores Bakery in the Rose Park neighborhood, you’ll discover wonderful south-of-the-border style baked goods and the tempting aromas to go with them. The Mexican bakery cooks up daily specials along with traditional flan, tres leches cake and a special choco-flan for chocolate lovers. The inexpensive prices are just an added bonus at this little gem of a bakery. 1625 W. 700 North, Suite D, Salt Lake City, 801-533-0209

Litza’s Pizza

Litza’s Pizza was founded in 1965 by Don Hale, who loved a good, rich, top-quality pizza and set out to create one. He carted his family throughout Utah and surrounding states trying pizzas from different pizzerias (his kids loved it), gathering recipes here and there for pizza, spaghetti, salad dressings and

GOODEATS Complete listings at cityweekly.net garlic bread. Litza’s makes from scratch its own pizza dough, pizza sauce, spaghetti sauce, garlic butter and salad dressings (Roquefort, Thousand Island, French and Vinegarette). You can also purchase Litza’s pizzas to take and bake at home. Multiple locations, LitzasPizza.com

Main Street Pizza & Noodle

Located in the center of Old Town Park City, Main Street Pizza & Noodle’s casual atmosphere and mouth-watering food selection attracts a varied crowd of tourists and locals, making it a fun place to dine, seven days a week. Using the freshest ingredients and top-quality cheeses and meats, this eatery offers variety, plus good value, and caters to vegetarians and meat eaters alike. Try the Maui mamma pizza, with Canadian bacon, pineapple and mozzarella cheese. 530 Main, Park City, 435645-8878, MainStreetPizzaAndNoodle.com

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Super Grinders is an original and has been around since long before chain sandwich shops began popping up everywhere. All the sandwiches (grinders) here are made to order by hand from a generous selection of meats, cheeses and vegetables. You can get a classic cold-cut combo, or try something a little different like pepper steak or breaded veal. 305 W. 4500 South, Murray, 801-263-3007

Crazy Jim’s Buffet & Grill

At Crazy Jim’s, you’ll encounter an all-you-can-eat buffet featuring mostly Chinese favorites, including chicken with broccoli, seafood, crab legs, shrimp, potstickers, egg rolls and lo mein, along with sushi, steak, tamales and tacos. The restaurant also offers discounts for children and seniors. For a big bang for the buck, Crazy Jim’s is, yes, crazy. 250 W. 2100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-326-8368

Buona Vita

Buona Vita specializes in authentic fare from northern and southern Italy. Northern dishes include pasta with Alfredo sauce, pesto specialties and fresh Bolognese. From the south comes pizza, chicken Milanese, Margherita pizza and pasta marinara.

Grilled panini sandwiches are popular at lunchtime, and the chicken cacciatore is great any time. But for a real treat, check out the smoked-salmon ravioli or the decadent sapore fiero: ravioli filled with crab in creamy saffron sauce. The restaurant also offers a good selection of Italian wines and grappa. Top it all off with a cannoli or tiramisu. 804 Main, Park City, 435-649-1336 BuonaVitaParkCity.com

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Kitty Pappas has been slinging steaks in this location since 1947. So, despite the somewhat rundown tavern ambiance, she must be doing something right.

Her son, Crazy George, is the main attraction at Kitty Pappas’ Steak House—well, he and the insanely eclectic jukebox, which he personally stocks with his own music collection. Sit back and listen to a melange of Dread Zeppelin, Bonerama, The Groundhogs and other under-the-radar artists as you dig into the juicy Club steak or maybe the delicious cholesterolbusting Eggburger. There’s also beer to help get you through the night. 2300 S. Highway 89, Woods Cross, 801-295-9981

Mrs. Backer’s pastry shop was established in 1941 and is now in its third generation of ownership by the same family. They still have the old recipes and old wooden cookie presses that were brought to America from Germany. This bakery is especially known for beautiful flowered cakes, but they also make a large assortment of Danishes, donuts, French pastries, cookies, cupcakes, brownies, lemon bars, raspberry cream cheese tarts, pies, éclairs, breads and rolls.

434 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 801532-2022, MrsBackers.com

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It’s all about freshly sliced at this deli-style sandwich franchise where sub sandwiches, grillers and salads are the stars of the show. The recipe is simple: Combine quality meats and cheeses with tasty baked breads and zesty dressings and spices and you’ll have classic subs and grillers. Port of Subs also offers a grilled breakfast sandwiches, hot sandwiches, fresh salads, chips, party trays, desserts and beverages.

For the carb-averse, the shop can make a sandwich into a salad for you. Order ahead online via the website. Multiple locations, PortOfSubs.com

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Spanky’s is a vintage ’50s-style diner that attracts high school students grabbing a quick sandwich between classes, as well as Bountiful sandwich lovers. The barbecued chicken and chicken-salad sandwiches are delicious, as is the Philly cheesesteak or the New York style hot pastrami. Be sure to try some of the tasty ice cream before you depart. 567 W. 2600 South, Bountiful, 801-294-6337

Tea Rose Diner

At this cute little diner in Murray, you’ll find unique Thai dishes served alongside a selection of 70 teas, not to mention classic American menu items.

So you can enjoy Thai curries, satay, Thai salads, spring rolls and noodle dishes next to pancakes, French toast, omelets, sandwiches, hash browns and more. It’s truly an eclectic spot to dine. Kids can munch on a PB&J or a cheeseburger. 65 E. Fifth Ave. (4880 South), Murray, 801-685-6111, TeaRoseDiner.net

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For fans of Curry in a Hurry, Curry Fried Chicken can get you the same curry-soaked Middle Eastern eats without the drive south. Both restaurants are owned and operated by the same family, which has a talent for pita, hummus and shawarma (tandoorimarinated chicken breast in a warm pita). Of course, the restaurant offers a curry-fried chicken plate (served with basmati rice, veggie curry, house salad and warm pita), and Curry Fried Chicken also has plenty of kebabs and wraps along with traditional samosas and poppadoms. Get gutsy and try the Rooh Afza, a nonalcoholic concentrated-syrup drink made with fruit, herbs and vegetables. Don’t let the name fool you—there is more to this place than chicken.

660 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-924-9188, Facebook.com/CurryFriedChicken

Greek Market

Fresh, high-quality ingredients rule the day at this authentic Greek market and cafe. Quick service allows customers to enjoy menu items such as pork souvlaki, gyros, mezedakia and dolmathes without a wait. And the bakery serves up delicious sweets like the fresh-baked baklava, kourambiedes and galaktaboureko. You can also shop here for market items to take home like feta cheese, olive oil, phyllo dough, pita, gyro meat, imported olives, Greek coffees and much more. 3205 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-485-9365

City Market Place Deli

At City Market Place Deli, you’ll find an eclectic array of breakfast and lunch items, including turkey cooked fresh every day, great tuna sandwiches and soups from scratch. In addition to standard American fare and sandwiches, there’s also frequently chile verde, chimichangas and other specials. And you can also pick up kitchen and cupboard essentials for the home—everything from napkins to aspirin. 46 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-0100

Leslie’s French Pastries

For more than three decades, Leslie’s French Pastries has been baking Danishes, éclairs, muffins, cakes, cookies, breads and even sausage rolls from scratch. The cakes—including a white cake with raspberry filling—are simply amazing, and the éclairs are some of the best around. Call ahead, though, as there are sometimes inconsistent hours.

The aroma of fresh-baked goods and the friendly smiles from bakery staff add to the Parisian ambiance. 2308 E. 4680 South, Murray Holladay Road, Holladay, 801-278-3341, Facebook. com/LesliesFrenchPastries

Robin’s Nest

Locally owned and operated, The Robin’s Nest was founded on a passion for an all-American favorite: the sandwich. All of the sauces and dressings are housemade, and everything is prepared fresh daily.

The menu offers soups, salads and more than 25 sandwiches that are all unique to The Robin’s Nest.

There’s no boring sandwich here; try options like the Aloha Oink, with black-forest ham, provolone and pineapple salsa on ciabatta; or the Rooster Call, with chicken salad, red onion, provolone and sweet-honey Dijon. All sandwiches come with orzo pasta or house made chips, which can be enjoyed inside or outside, right on Main Street downtown.

311 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-466-6378, RobinsNestSLC.com

Kobe Teppanyaki

This beautiful Japanese restaurant is situated in a house with a traditional Japanese garden and streams. The specialty at Kobe is teppanyaki, where you get a show along with dinner. The tempura and teriyaki dishes are excellent, but the real draw at Kobe are the steak and seafood offerings—try the grilled New York steak with king crab legs.

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No culinary walls are being torn down at Bistro 222—not that there’s anything wrong with that. More often than not, I’d prefer a well-made pizza to duck breast in chocolate-lavender sauce. The dinner menu is manageable: a trio of pastas, a salad quartet, a quintet of appetizers and a sextet of entrees, plus a few pizzas and sides. The fettuccine with a generous portion of fresh clams is one of my favorite Bistro 222 dishes, although not for the timid, as it’s spiked with fiery chili flakes. Kids will veer toward the Napolistyle wood-oven pizzas, which are outstanding. Like its sister restaurants Boulevard Bistro and Toscano Italian Bistro in Sandy, Bistro 222 is warm and inviting, but with a modern, urban vibe that’s perfect for the “new” downtown Salt Lake City. Reviewed June 19. 222 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-456-0347, Bistro222.com

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You’d be nuts not to try Spitz’s street-cart döner, which is available as a sandwich with foccacia or as a lavash wrap, with a choice of beef and lamb, chicken, falafel, mixed meats or veggies. The beef and lamb shawarmastyle mixture is outstanding: perfectly spiced and generously portioned. Ditto the falafel, which is the best falafel I’ve had in Utah. I suggest that when you visit, you order from the excellent selection of craft cocktails, wine or beer right off the bat, because you may be there a while. But the service, though slow, is very friendly, and the vibe is funky and fun, with eclectic music. Reviewed May 29. 35 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-364-0286, SpitzSLC.com

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This charming restaurant looks tiny, but inside, it’s surprisingly roomy, and old wood floors, exposed brick walls and dark tables and chairs lend a warm ambiance.

There are a couple of must-try sharable appetizers on the menu, like the remarkable fresh spring rolls—a taste of spring itself. And although I normally wouldn’t go anywhere near coconut fried shrimp, Skewered Thai’s version, with coconut batter, is another matter

entirely. The pad thai is scrumptious, but even better than that—if that’s possible—is a wicked-good noodle dish called pad kee mao (drunken noodle): a platter of wide, pan-fried rice noodles and a distinctively spicy mélange of tender shrimp, red bell pepper, mushrooms, broccoli, carrot, tomato, fresh chili, egg, onion and fragrant Thai basil. I’ll need to make room on my list of favorite Thai restaurants—right at the top or very close to it—for Skewered Thai. Reviewed June 6.

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Once, Twice

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A filmmaker fails to re-create his past triumph in Begin Again.

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nce upon a time—in that long-ago year 2007—there was a magical musical called Once. Set in Dublin, it was the tale of two emotionally damaged musicians whose lives intersected just enough for them to start picking up the pieces and heal through their collaborative project. Writerdirector John Carney—with a key assist from the songs by his stars, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglová—fashioned a tiny-budget miracle that became a minor word-of-mouth indie hit, leading to an Oscar win for Best Original Song and even a Broadway musical. It was the kind of creative lightning that anyone is lucky to have strike once.

But apparently that didn’t stop Carney from attaching a lightning rod to his head and trying to chase down storm clouds. His Begin Again doesn’t just try to re-capture what he managed to capture in Once; it almost plays as a remake—specifically, like a Hollywood remake, in the sense that it somehow misses the point of what made the original so appealing.

He moves the action to New York, where our two protagonists are destined, as in Once, to meet over an emotional performance by a singer/songwriter. Gretta (Keira Knightley) has been dragged up on stage at a bar open-mic night by a friend (James Corden) to perform an original composition; in the crowd is Dan (Mark Ruffalo), a once-hot music industry executive whose only discoveries of late have been how quickly it takes to get to the bottom of bottles. But Dan hears something in Gretta’s song—we see what he hears in a cutesy bit where instruments float in the air, playing the arrangement in his head— and he becomes determined to record her work and get her a distribution deal with his former partner (Mos Def).

First, however, we see in flashback the events that brought Gretta and Dan to that bar—and it’s here that Carney starts to make his biggest mistakes. In Once,

the heartaches of the Guy and the Girl were sketched in only the broadest strokes—his recent breakup, her strained marriage—without the need to provide copious backstory. Begin Again spends what feels like forever showing Gretta’s relationship with her musician boyfriend, Dave (Maroon 5’s Adam Levine), as he copes with newfound fame, and another chunk of time introducing Dan’s struggles with his estranged daughter (Hailee Steinfeld) and wife (Catherine Keener). It’s baffling how little Carney appears to appreciate the narrative efficiency he captured in Once, as though he suddenly decided that he needed 15 minutes of Knightley and Levine sparring to convey what Once communicated in its single “Lies” montage.

He’s on somewhat more solid footing where the music is concerned—though, as was the case with Once, much of your reaction may hinge on whether you think the songs are as amazing as the people in the movie seem convinced they are. Mostly co-written by Gregg Alexander, they’re a solid collection of folk-pop tunes, and Carney stages the live recording sessions— Dan’s gimmick is recording Gretta and her backup band in various public locations throughout New York—as gleeful celebrations of the creative act. By the time Begin Again moves on to scenes of Dan and Gretta spending a breathless night on the town listening to one another’s iPod playlists,

Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley in Begin Again

Carney has effectively captured music in many crucial manifestations—as inspiration, as source of healing, as discovery, as connection.

Yet this is also meant to be, in one form or another, a love story. And Begin Again spends so much time on extraneous nonsense—like Gretta connecting with Dan’s daughter by offering helpful relationship and fashion advice, or a stopover with one of Dan’s now-wealthy, appreciative discoveries (CeeLo Green)—that we’re never allowed to focus on the way these two people are supposed to be helping one another discover crucial truths about where they want to be, and with whom.

Perhaps it would’ve been just as maddening in a different way if Carney had simply copied Once note for note, but at least that approach gave us something rich with genuine emotion. Begin Again leaves you with a sad sense of a guy who once made something people fell in love with, but he has no idea why. CW

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TRY THESE You Can Count on Me (2000) Laura Linney Mark Ruffalo Rated R

Once (2007) Glen Hansard Marketa Irglová Rated R

The Kids Are All Right (2010) Annette Bening Mark Ruffalo Rated R

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) Steve Carell Keira Knightley Rated R

CINEMA CLIPS NEW THIS WEEK Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change.

Begin Again HH.5 See review p. 36. Opens July 11 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes [not yet reviewed] The few surviving humans and the genetically advanced apes led

by Caesar find themselves on the brink of what might be a final war. Opens July 11 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)

Annie Hall At Gallivan Center, July 14, 8:45 p.m. (R) Damn These Heels LGBT Film Festival See feature p. 21. July 11-13 at Rose Wagner Center. (NR) The Executioner’s Song At Utah Valley University, July 16, 7 p.m. (NR) Fantastic Mr. Fox At Tower Theatre, July 11-12 @ 11 p.m. & July 13 @ noon. (PG) Moonrise Kingdom At Brewvies, July 14, 10 p.m. (R)

CURRENT RELEASES Deliver Us from Evil HH A hardened NY police detective (Eric Bana) joins forces with a maverick priest (Edgar Ramirez) to fight an influx of demons from an Iraqi tomb. Jump scares occur on the minute, every

Earth to Echo HH Perhaps we’ve come to expect “derivative” as a typical characteristic of family fare—but everything here was poached from some other movie. E.T. is only the most obvious antecedent for a fantasy adventure about three middle-school best friends (kid rapper Astro, Teo Halm and Reese C. Hartwig) in a Nevada suburb who discover a stranded, cute alien robot-thing they call Echo.

It’s a reminder of the cute alien robot-things from *batteries not included, plus there’s coming-of-age-ish buddy stuff via Stand

By Me, and a faux-doc format that’s part Chronicle, part Super 8, and almost entirely pointless as a narrative device. The kids are solid enough—particularly Hartwig as the geeky outcast—but the story doesn’t set up the big emotional payoffs. That leaves gimmicky execution of a plot that, fittingly, is about putting something together from scattered found parts. (PG)—SR Obvious Child HHH The keywords “abortion romantic comedy” will have you halfway toward figuring out whether there’s any chance this could be up your alley; the rest depends on how in tune you

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Luna Mesa HH.5 Trent Harris is his own singular creature as a filmmaker, even when he seems to be aiming for a vibe straight out of another, very specific filmmaker. His latest somewhat stream-of-consciousness endeavor is loosely organized around a photographer/ videographer named Luna (Liberty Valentine) who’s trying to make sense of a mysterious tragedy involving a filmmaker (played

by Harris himself) with whom she had a brief affair. There’s an ambitious scope to a production that moves from Cambodia to Africa to Mexico, and a few genuinely funky scenes that provide

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minute. Based on the purportedly true case files of author/cop/ enthusiastic amateur exorcist Ralph Sarchie, this faith-based horror movie too often feels like a glumping together of the genre’s greatest hits, held together by a seemingly endless array of dark corners and death-metal groans. Director Scott Derrickson has some definite chops, as evidenced in his earlier Sinister and The Exorcism of Emily Rose, but aside from an admirably spooky sequence at a zoo, there’s not much here that really lingers. Though police procedurals + things going bump in the night can be a potent combination, this never advances beyond basic Pavlovian twitches. (R)—Andrew Wright

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For No Good Reason HH.5 It’s a damned shame when filmmaking decisions get in the way of profiling a fascinating artist. The subject here is Ralph Steadman, the British illustrator whose surreal images became iconic through his collaborations on the seminal 1970s “gonzo journalism” articles by Hunter S. Thompson.

Director Charlie Paul captures some amazing creative work

by Steadman—manipulating Polaroid photos; finding a twisted animal in a casual splash of ink—as well as the ferocious anti-authoritarian, activist spirit that inspired him and fueled his simpatico connection to Thompson. But it’s an organizational mess, haphazardly jumping between topics and throwing in amateurish stuff like showing a phone every time the subject of a phone conversation comes up. And then there’s the pointless presence of Johnny Depp (who played Thompson’s surrogate in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), interacting with Steadman as a de facto interviewer, though in fact he only seems present to utter dumbfounded variations on “That’s amazing.” Kudos, I suppose, for making me want to pick up a book of Steadman’s astonishingly corrosive art, if only to avoid all the nonsense surrounding it here.

Opens July 11 at Tower Theatre. (R)—SR

a showcase for local notables like Richard Dutcher (wonderfully coarse as a dissolute writer) and Alex Caldiero (in full shaman/ mystic mode). But while the surreal tone and shifting sense of identity make Luna Mesa feel like a late-model David Lynch project, it bounces around too much over the course of only one hour to build a single cohesive mix of dark humor and haunting obsessions. It’s too weirdly Trent Harris-ian to be a bore; perhaps it just needed more slow burn time to make the leap to genuinely hypnotic. Opens July 11 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—SR

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Third Person HH Writer/director Paul Haggis (Crash) wants desperately for his multi-narrative drama to feel like a symphony—except it’s clear from the outset that its success will depend almost entirely on nailing the big finale. He intertwines three narratives set in three different cities: a writer in Paris (Liam Neeson) spending time with his mistress (Olivia Wilde); a woman in New York (Mila Kunis) trying to regain custody of her son; and an industrial spy in Rome (Adrien Brody) becoming obsessed with a woman (Moran Atias) trying to smuggle her daughter in from Romania.

The ultimate connection between them seems baldly obvious early on, making it harder to feel that there’s much at stake even when there are effective individual moments and performances.

And as satisfying as it might be to see Neeson playing someone besides a stern action hero, or Brody spar with Atias, Haggis seems so enamored of grandiose thematic notions that he can’t recognize when he’s left the audience little to focus on but waiting for the puzzle pieces to fall into place. And the final picture on that puzzle just isn’t worth the wait. Opens July 11 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—Scott Renshaw

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are with Jenny Slate’s caustic comedic sensibility. Slate plays struggling would-be stand-up comedian Donna Stern, whose life goes from general suckiness to the existential terror of an unplanned pregnancy after a drunken one-night stand.

Slate proves to be a surprisingly terrific actress, nailing some difficult, emotionally unsettling scenes beyond the tart, memorable one-liners. It’s funny and messy and at times genuinely sweet—which makes it a shame that it’s sometimes an uncomfortable collision between slight rom-com charms and self-congratulation about how matter-of-factly it treats the topic of abortion. It’s not easy to navigate the treacherous terrain between female-empowerment raunch and overly earnest position paper. (R)—SR Snowpiercer HHH.5 Bong Joon-ho takes a hoary sci-fi scenario—a post-apocalyptic throwdown between haves and have-nots—and transforms it into something both fresh and gloriously off. Based on a French graphic novel, it finds the world a frozen wasteland, with the few humans left un-Popsicled surviving in a gigantic socially stratified train; the starving lower caste (led by Chris Evans) hatch a scheme to escape their lockdown. The performances—including Tilda Swinton as an underling of the train’s governing elite who’s part Margaret Thatcher and part upper-management drone in every job you’ve ever hated—are all effective, but what makes Snowpiercer work so well is the guy in charge. At a time when most escapist films feel like the result of a committee linked via creaky speakerphone, this hugely entertaining movie demonstrates the benefits of having a singular, loopy vision calling the shots. (R)—AW

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Tammy HH.5 Melissa McCarthy has become an improbable star playing irrationally confident forces of nature whose size might be used for physical punch lines. Her titular Tammy is a perpetual screw-up who loses her job, car and husband in one day, then decides to leave town on a road trip with her alcoholic grandmother (Susan Sarandon). At the outset, this feels like comfortable familiar territory for McCarthy, and she’s well-paired with Sarandon, who gives an edge to the tired trope of the profane granny. But there’s an inconsistency between Tammy the buffoon who bumbles through robbing a fast-food restaurant, and Tammy who later simply seems beaten down by life. McCarthy’s got the chops to play someone who’s not merely clownish, but it’s hard to work the dramatic arc while still selling audiences a completely different comic character who looks funny falling down. (R)—SR

Transformers: Age of Extinction H.5 Optimus Prime is now a clunker hunted for scrap, and Shia LaBeouf has mercifully given way to Mark Wahlberg, but everything else remains pretty much the same; if you only want to make it in time to catch the robo-dinosaurs from the ads, feel free to drag your heels for 130 minutes or so.

As a director, Michael Bay has never been known to sweat the small stuff—character development, internal logic, etc.—but his latest seems actively hostile toward anything that doesn’t directly involve pieces of metal loudly banging together; scenes drift between daylight and nighttime in a way that would make Ed Wood cry foul. There have been worse summer blockbusters—including Transformers 2—but there may never have been one that’s so openly, lazily contemptuous about its own universe. Where does the giant bearded robot buy his cigars? (PG-13)—AW

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Welcome to Sweden Working the Engels Thursday, July 10 (NBC) Series Debuts: Summer network TV isn’t all about imported Canadian filler—there’s Swedish filler, too: Comedy Welcome to Sweden is based on creator/star Greg Poehler’s (younger bro to Amy) real-life experience of moving around the world with his Swedish girlfriend (played here

by Josephine Bornebusch), and already premiered in that country months ago.

It’s only on NBC because of Amy (who guests in the premiere episode); Welcome to Sweden has a subtle, sweet, indie-flick vibe that would probably play better on cable— unlike Working the Engels, which drives home its few laughs with a sledgehammer.

Oh, and it’s Canadian.

Hemlock Grove Friday, July 11 (Netflix) Season Premiere: The Only TV Column That Matters™ asked this upon the debut of this supernatural soap opera last year, and I’ll ask it again: Why is anyone surprised that terrible things happen in a town called Hemlock Grove? Season 1 didn’t sit well with critics, who dismissed the style-oversense creep-theatrics of executive producer/occasional director Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever) when they should have just embraced the chaos and marveled at star Famke Janssen’s endless array of white outfits (seriously, they’re stunning).

Ray Donovan, Masters of Sex Sunday, July 13 (Showtime) Season Premieres: As awful and effdup as

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Ray (Liev Schreiber) and the Donovan clan are, they still won over viewers last summer—even paired with the turrible final season of Dexter (let us never speak of that again). This season, Hollywood “fixer” Ray and ex-con dad Mickey (Jon Voight, still stealing the show) face some new heat from an FBI bureau chief (Hank Azaria) and a journalist (Vinessa Shaw), both very interested in the Boston mobster Mickey plugged last season. Meanwhile, in the Season 2 premiere of Masters of Sex, Dr. Masters (Michael Sheen) and “Dr.” Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) deal with being fired and labeled a ’ho, respectively.

The Strain Sunday, July 13 (FX) Series Debut: If you’re thinking, “Not another vampire show,” don’t worry—The Strain is definitely not another vampire show. The Guillermo del Toro/Chuck Hogan series (based on their book trilogy of the same name) kicks off with a slow-burn premiere episode as an international flight full of “dead” passengers and crew lands in New York City, and it’s up to CDC agents Goodweather (Corey Stoll) and Martinez (Mia Maestro) to decipher how and why.

The “how” is in freight: an ancient vampiric monster loosed during the flight. The

Ray Donovan (Showtime) “why” is a conspiracy to turn Earth into Planet Vampire, with NYC as ground zero.

According to sources (i.e., friends of mine who actually read), the series follows the source material faithfully, and the pilot sets up what should be, in a summer filled with apocalyptic TV epics, the most genuinely scary. Suck it, True Blood.

Matador Tuesday, July 15 (El Rey)

From the producers of Paranormal Activity comes something different—ha! It’s more “found footage” horror cheese, this time about a dude filming sexy times with his annoying girlfriend in a—wait for it—insane asylum. Yes, really. (Well Go USA)

Rio 2 Blu (Jesse Eisenberg), Jewel (Anne Hathaway) and the kiddies hit the Amazon and run across new wacky characters (voiced

by Rita Moreno, Bruno Mars and Kristin Chenoweth). Child critics rave, “Loud colorful blobs and doody jokes!” (Fox)

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Series Debut: El Rey network el jefe Robert Rodriguez pulled off an impressive TV series remake/expansion of his From Dusk Till Dawn film earlier this year, but Matador seems like even more of a stretch: Tony “Matador” Bravo (Gabriel Luna) is a beloved soccer star who enjoys a jetsetting playboy lifestyle off the field—but it’s all a cover for his work as a CIA agent; his fame affords him access to criminal power players, but it’s also an increasingly liability (unless he’s on a mission in the US of A, where “soccer star” fame is equal to “badminton idol”). It may sound like a gag, but Matador is slick and action-packed, which we could all use after a month of the World Cup. CW

An alien in human skin (Scarlett Johansson) seduces and kills a succession of lonely men in director Jonathan Glazer’s (Sexy Beast) meditation on humanity and the utter futility of resisting Scarlett Johansson, even in a bowl wig. (Lionsgate)

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bands that stood out, like The Atlantics or The Deadly Ones,” especially songs that were “jazzy or darker or more goofy.”

Guantanamo Baywatch’s jungle-juice-fueled beach party hasn’t been heard on a full-length album since 2012’s campy, gloriously scuzzy Chest Crawl, but the band entered the studio to record its next album—slated for release in early 2015— at the end of June. The as-yet-untitled album will feature the band becoming more comfortable in its own skin. “I remember listening to the [Chest Crawl] mixes and being like, ‘Oh, I don’t like my voice,’ or something like that, so we’d make it quieter or add more reverb than needed,” Powell says. “So I think that now it’s like, ‘Let’s just be confident about it and make the fidelity higher so people can really hear it.’ ” And one thing listeners will hear is Guantanamo Baywatch’s unique approach to creating music, one where the instrumentation comes first and lyrics second.

“To me, the lyrics are important, but really, it’s more like the way the lyrics sound together is more important to me,” Powell says. “You try to think a lot about how the actual song sounds. So, then, adding lyrics is like adding another instrument, and it’s gotta sound cool—and if you can make it mean something that has something fun that’s memorable and goofy is usually the best.” CW

rian Kelm, host of KRCL’s Red, White & Blues show since 1980, has high praise for the blues. “The blues are Jake Skeen the roots, and all other music—I don’t care what—are the fruits,” he says. “Without blues, you don’t have shit for music. And as we move towards more technological music, it’s great to keep the real, raw, soulful music that’s the bedrock of all the others vibrant.”

Preserving blues culture was half the impetus for Kelm starting the Rhythm & Blues Rendezvous in 2009 with Ides of Soul guitarist Greg Daniels.

The other half was to raise money for worthy local causes; in its first year, the festival raised more than a thousand dollars to donate to an uninsured family in Heber whose son had a rare form of cancer. Subsequent festivals in 2010 and 2011 benefited the Salt Lake City location of Shriners Hospitals for Children, specifically to buy musical instruments for children receiving treatment, because “I firmly believe that music is medicine and that it has incredible healing powers,” Kelm says. In 2012, the R&B Rendezvous raised money for KRCL and its continued coverage of blues music.

This summer’s sixth-annual R&B Rendezvous will benefit the new nonprofit Utah Blues Society, originally formed in the ’90s but resurrected by Kelm in May. In addition to its goal of bringing blues-education programs to schools, the society also operates to “create visibility for all these underpaid blues bands in town [and] to help touring blues bands that are coming through town to get gigs … and to otherwise make sure that the blues will never die,” Kelm says.

The lineup of the festival represents a wide variety of local veteran players and newer artists, including Jake Skeen, Brother Chunky, Tom Bennett, the Jordan Young Band, Zak Parrish, Carrie Scott & the Hotties, the George T. Gregory Band, Ides of Soul and event hosts Harry Lee & the Back Alley Blues Band. Although all of the acts are “blues-based,” Kelm says, they all put their own unique spin on the genre.

In past years, the R&B Rendezvous has taken place at Rockport Reservoir, but this year’s more convenient location at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center will provide a similarly relaxed, family-friendly vibe, with plenty of grass to lounge on as attendees take in the music. And even if you think blues isn’t your thing, Kelm believes the festival will open your mind to what you’ve been missing.

“Everybody’s a blues fan, they just might not know it yet,” Kelm says. “But if you take them to a blues event ... everybody always just drops their jaw and says, ‘Wow, this is blues? I didn’t know I liked blues; this is killer.’ ” CW

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ost people were first exposed to oldies music—tunes by artists like Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly—as kids, by their parents or grandparents. And when you’re that young, the lyrics usually don’t register in your brain; you might sing along, but not grasp what the words actually mean.

As an adult, though, some of the outdated attitudes of the eras that produced those songs can clash with a more current worldview, eliciting the reaction, “Wait, what did he just say?”

Just listen again to Neil Sedaka’s “Happy Birthday Sweet 16”—about a guy watching a girl grow up and then wanting to hook up with her now that she’s turned 16—which is “one of my favorite kind of songs, where it’s so stupid,” says Jason Powell, lead vocalist and guitarist in Guantanamo Baywatch.

As Powell writes his band’s decidedly non-personal lyrics, he draws inspiration from those eyebrow-raising topics often found in oldies songs. A lot of songs written in the ’50s and ’60s have hidden in their earnest, rosyhued stylings “some fucked-up stuff that’s actually being discussed, which is kind of great,” he says. “Maybe I don’t agree with that stuff, but like there’s kind of like an edge to those kind of things. So that’s kind of cool, too.”

Akin to the innocuous packaging of the lyrics in ’60s songs, Guantanamo Baywatch’s lyrics are “mostly just about stupid love stuff, because they’re based on oldies in a lot of ways,” Powell says. “The lyrics are so generic, but they’re supposed to be generic. That’s kind of part of it.” And if you peel back the layers in the words a little bit, you’ll find Powell riffing off those past artists’ writing by playing a similar game. “I try to do some kind of twist on the lyrics where there’s maybe some kind of double meaning,” Powell says. “If you really think about what’s being said,” he says, you might realize you’re hearing something “creepy.”

Well, except on “Love This Time,” a track from Surf N Turf, Guantanamo Bay watch’s split single with Natural Child, released in 2013. “That one is pretty straightforward.

There’s definitely a story. It’s like you’re into a girl and her parents won’t let you have sex with her … and you gotta meet in secret,” he says with a laugh.

Lyrics (as well as the voices that deliver them) are, in fact, a newer addition to the Portland, Ore., surf-punk band’s music. When Powell and bassist Chevelle Wiseman decided to form Guantanamo Baywatch in 2009 based on their shared musical interests—“we were watching a lot of Elvis movies,” Powell says—the band was playing purely instrumental songs.

Drummer Chris Michael joined the band in late 2010. And when Powell finally took the mic, his Lux Interior-inflected yelps were a perfect fit for Guantanamo Baywatch’s sexed-up retro sound, which reflected his love for the work of “really generic” surf-rock bands, he says. “I really liked the kind of

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few months ago, Marcus Williams uploaded a video of himself sitting in his Portland, Ore., studio working on a rework of Macklemore’s Grammywinning single “Thrift Shop.”

“I’m gonna add a little bit of bass, and by a little bit, I mean the normal amount, which is a lot,” he says. He chops up the hook, adds some synths and begins to bob his head while mumbling to himself, “Ba ba ba ba ba baaa banana.”

For Williams, known as the rapper and producer Sapient, the purpose of this session wasn’t for anything other than his own enjoyment. Within a few minutes, Williams had completely deconstructed and rearranged Macklemore’s bundle of joy into something new and, arguably, better.

He steps away from the keyboard, puts on a pair of headphones, slides over to the mic and lays down a brief freestyle.

“Walk up in the club like what up I gotta big ween/ I’m not kidding, this thing, has been to Goodwill like 15 times this week/ fucking thrrriiiiiffffftiiiing!” A few bars later, he spits, “I texted Macklemore, but he don’t text me back no more/ I just wanted to give congrats and ask for your autograph, I’m poor/ Can I be your opening act on tour?”

It’s true; even though the two of them do have history (Sapient appeared on Macklemore’s 2009 track “Letterhead Remix”), Big Thrifty no longer texts him back. “Haha, that track wasn’t meant as any spiteful shit,” Williams said in a recent phone interview. “I actually don’t care.

He’s busy and we were just music buddies back in the day.”

Receiving nods from the Northwest’s biggest pop-rapper isn’t a priority for Sapient. Since the release of his first album, Dry Puddles, in 2004, the 30-year-old artist has successfully orbited somewhere outside the realm of conventional hop-hop and worked with some of rap’s most notable figures, such as Aesop Rock, Slug, Eyedea and The Grouch.

His latest album, Eaters Volume Two: Light Tiger, is probably his most experimental and interesting work so far. On the track “Dents,” a guitar riff glides over slaps from a trap kit while Sapient muses about the hardships that confront an indie rapper. In terms of traditional hip-hop subject matter, this topic is about as worn dry as a Wiz Khalifa verse about

Even The Grouch isn’t as artsy as Sapient. struggles at some point, but an at some point, but Sapient rarely relies on cliches.

In place of Xeroxed bars of Atmosphere’s “Trying to Find a Balance,” there are references to paying his rent on time, driving his Volkswagen Golf and celebrating life’s little milestones by eating a vitamin. “Dents” is playfully meta, and it’s not until the chorus drops that we fully grasp what’s going on: “I am, I am living in the figurative streets, literally living in a dream, it’s bigger than it seems, it’s ripping at the seams.”

Light Tiger hardly feels like a rap album, but this murky gray area is where Sapient is most comfortable. Many of the tracks are based with spacey electronica, Mos Def-inspired sing-raps and synths straight from Han Solo’s blaster pistol. But most importantly, as with his “Thrift Shop” flip, Light Tiger is a compelling display of Sapient’s ability to effortlessly twist stereotypical rap into something new and refreshingly weird. “Imagine a light tiger, in a dark jungle!” Illmaculate says on the opening track, “Lumens.”

Seriously, imagine that, and you’ll at least have a slight glimpse of Sapient’s curious thought process. “Rap has become so widely accepted,” Sapient says. “Like pop, it’s massively consumed. Now, everyone likes it to some degree. So I feel like it’s better to be a little bit out there, a little bit strange.” CW

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Happening at Liberty Park over two days, the festival will be a prime opportunity to soak in plenty of good vibes and summer sunshine. The first day will feature bigname touring acts including Matisyahu, The Expendables, Hirie, Thrive and Through the Roots, as well as locals Afro Omega, Natural Roots, Know Ur Roots, Funk & Gonzo and Tribe of I. Sunday will bring Slightly Stoopid, Stephen “Ragga” Marley—son, of course, of the Marley—Fortunate Youth, Stranger and Codi Jordan, as well as local acts Makisi, 2 1/2 White Guys and Bludgeon Muffin.

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Bonnie “Prince” Billy For a guy who’s come out with more than 40 releases since 1996, influential and prolific folk-rock troubadour/actor Will Oldham, aka Bonnie “Prince” Billy, is somewhat of an enigma. He released many of his past albums under various monikers, and all around just walks to the rhythm of his own drum; at the conclusion of an intimate 2009 profile in The New Yorker, he said flat out, “I really hate press.” But despite his best standoffish efforts, he remains a highly fascinating and sought-after figure. He’s been featured in several music videos, including Kanye West’s “Can’t Tell Me Nothing,” alongside Zach Galifianakis. Oldham’s also been covered a lot, most notably by Johnny Cash, who performed his haunting song “I See a Darkness” on American III: Solitary Man. But it’s no wonder: Oldham’s warm, resonant voice hooks the listener in a few seconds flat, and his songwriting is uniquely insightful and truly special. David Ferguson will start things off.

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Koala Temple, Blue Milk HHH.5 With its warm, hazy atmosphere, the latest fulllength album from garage-rock/glo-fi quartet Koala Temple feels like a sweltering, multicolored trip into the desert. And with its ear-catching variety, Blue Milk never settles into a predictable rut; instead, the mix of slow-burning rockers and upbeat pop numbers keeps things interesting. Kicking off the lo-fi album’s 10 songs is the heavy, psych-tinged “Man of Mud,” which batters the listener’s ears with droning vocals, pounding drums and chugging guitar chords. However, the following track, “King Ruby,” is light and snappy, with ragged, punk-esque vocals from Craig Murray, who does killer work throughout Blue Milk. The track “Dance Hit” is aptly titled—even if it’s a little tongue-in-cheek—as a danceable beat is given the Koala Temple treatment with spacey effects and spooky vocals. Blue Milk is far from an album you can listen to once and be done with it; you’ll be sucked in before you know it. Self-released, May 12, KoalaTemple.bandcamp.com

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The second full-length album from four-piece band The Circulars is moody pop-rock/shoegaze at its best, something to slip into and float away on. Most of the tempos on Ornamental are stately and steady, staying around a speed that’s comfortable to sway or nod your head to, and the melodies—often featuring ethereal harmonies between frontman Sam Burton and bassist Dyana Durfee—seem to hover in the same soothing mid-range. As a result, the album’s eight songs are an impressively arranged and cohesive collection, a blend of tight percussion, ghostly vocals and mellow guitar as well as watery synths that give the edges a blurred feel. After introductory track “For Laura” meanders through a mist of reverb, the song “Laudanum” picks the rhythm back up with its dance-friendly but still relaxed beat. “What Rots After” is a perfect example of The Circulars’ ability to weave a mood that’s as enveloping as heavy fog. Clocking in at six minutes, “What’s to Say” slowly builds to a climax of relentless, noisy guitar and Burton’s soaring voice that brings Ornamental to a cathartic finale. Self-released, June 27, TheCirculars.bandcamp.com

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The debut solo album by Anthony Pena has a sure indie-rock foundation, made with solid percussion and reverbed-out guitar that goes between dreamy and gut-punching, although there are a few spots where the vocals don’t quite work, and the layered moments can come across as discordant and harsh.

Coinciding with the album’s theme of admitting one’s mistakes and seeking to make amends, Apology’s mood is mostly a somber one. The first half of the album—bookmarked by the tension-filled “Kaiju” and the Western-tinged “Ghost”—is largely serious, with “Junius” at the halfway point injecting some energy into the mix with squealing guitar and rocking percussion, even if the off-key backing vocals mar an otherwise well-done song. The concluding “Ways” is difficult to swallow, as too-loud acoustic guitar overpowers the rest of the track, and the offbeat percussion and various sounds piled upon one another turn into a dissonant, confusing jumble. Apology works in its message, but its execution leaves something to be desired. Selfreleased, July 7, AnthonyPena.bandcamp.com

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

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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 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 THE MOOSE LOUNGE 180 W. 400 South, SLC, 801-900-7499, 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 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 SANDY STATION 8925 Harrison St., Sandy, 801-255-2078 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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Cleanses start at $52. Weekly and monthly subscriptions are also available, as are discounts for group cleanses.

Vive Juicery offers flavors like The Hulk (apple, celery, green bell pepper, broccoli, kale, parsley, coconut water, and spirulina), Dragon’s Blood (beet, apple, celery, ginger, and garlic), Strawberry Fields (strawberry, grape, apple, coconut water, lemon, and mint), and Original Vanilla (filtered water, almonds, dates, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and salt).

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“I’m kind of obsessed with the Hero— it’s out best-selling juice,” says Shamy. The Hero is made with coconut water, pineapple, grapefruit, pear, mint, and chia seeds.

Customers can also customize their own juice flavors and cleanses.

Vive Juicey has a storefront location at 1597 South 1100 East in Salt Lake City.

The store is open Monday t h r o u g h Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Vive Juicery also offers juice delivery as far north as the Marmalade District and as far south as Draper for a small fee. For more information about Vive Juicery, find them on the web at http:// vivejuicery.com. n

What makes Vive Juicery’s products special? At Vive, juice is made using a hydraulic press, which minimizes oxidation by using pressure—not heat—to extract juice. It’s a time-intensive process that Vive Juicery’s owners believe results in higher quality, better flavor, and improved nutritional content. A regular-sized bottle contains 17 ounces of juice, and on average, started with four pounds of produce. One bottle of juice contains a day’s worth of fruits and vegetables. The majority of the produce used to create Vive Juicery’s products are locally sourced, and any thing that can’t be found locally is always certified organic.

Brittany Sha my, a Vive Juicery employee, say s she loves working there.

“The people that come in are in such a good mood— everyone is excited to get their juice,” she says.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) What are the sources that heal and nourish you? Where do you go to renew yourself? Who are the people and animals that treat you the best and are most likely to boost your energy? I suggest that in the coming week, you give special attention to these founts of love and beauty. Treat them with the respect and reverence they deserve. Express your gratitude and bestow blessings on them. It’s the perfect time for you to summon an outpouring of generosity as you feed what feeds you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Why do birds fly? First, that’s how they look for and procure food.

Second, when seasons change and the weather grows cooler, they may migrate to warmer areas where there’s more to eat.

Third, zipping around in mid-air is how birds locate the materials they need to build nests. Fourth, it’s quite helpful in avoiding predators. But ornithologists believe there is yet another reason: Birds fly because it’s fun. In fact, up to 30 percent of the time, that’s their main motivation. In accordance with the astrological omens, Taurus, I invite you to match the birds’ standard in the coming weeks. See if you can play and enjoy yourself and have a good time at least 30 percent of the time.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Expect nothing even as you ask for everything. Rebel against tradition with witty compassion, not cynical rage. Is there a personal taboo that no longer needs to remain taboo? Break it with tender glee. Do something playful, even prankish, in a building that has felt oppressive to you. Everywhere you go, carry gifts with you just in case you encounter beautiful souls who aren’t lost in their own fantasies. You know that old niche you got stuck in as a way to preserve the peace? Escape it. At least for now, live without experts and without leaders—with no teachers other than what life brings you moment by moment.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Every year, the U.S. government spends $25,455 per capita on programs for senior citizens. Meanwhile, it allocates $3,822 for programs to help children. That’s only 15 percent as much as what the elders receive. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I believe your priorities should be reversed. Give the majority of your energy and time and money to the young and innocent parts of your life. Devote less attention to the older and more mature aspects. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you need to care intently for what’s growing most vigorously.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You know what it’s like to get your mind blown. And I’m sure that on more than one occasion you have had your heart stolen. But I am curious, Virgo, about whether you have ever had your mind stolen or your heart blown. And I also wonder if two rare events like that have ever happened around the same time. I’m predicting a comparable milestone sometime in the next three weeks. Have no fear! The changes these epiphanies set in motion will ultimately bring you blessings. Odd and unexpected blessings, probably, but blessings nonetheless. P.S.: I’m sure you are familiar with the tingling sensation that wells up in your elbow when you hit your funny bone.

Well, imagine a phenomena like that rippling through your soul.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) This would be a fun time for you to brainstorm about everything you have never been and will never be. I encourage you to fantasize freely about the goals you don’t want to accomplish and the qualities you will not cultivate and the kind of people you will never seek out as allies. I believe this exercise will have a healthy effect on your future development. It will discipline your willpower and hone your motivation as it eliminates extraneous desires. It will imprint your deep self with a passionate clarification of pursuits that are wastes of your precious energy and valuable time.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) The weeks preceding your birthday are often an excellent time to engage the services of an exorcist. But there’s no need to hire a pricey priest with dubious credentials. I can offer you my expert demonbanishing skills free of charge. Let’s begin. I call on the spirits of the smart heroes you love best to be here with us right now. With the help of their inspirational power, I hereby dissolve any curse or spell that was ever placed on you, even if it was done inadvertently, and even if it was cast by yourself. Furthermore, the holy laughter I unleash as I carry out this purification serves to expunge any useless feelings, delusional desires, bad ideas or irrelevant dreams you may have grown attached to. Make it so! Amen and hallelujah!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) In one of her poems, Adrienne Rich addresses her lover: “That conversation we were always on the edge/ of having, runs on in my head.” Is there a similar phenomenon in your own life, Sagittarius? Have you been longing to thoroughly discuss certain important issues with a loved one or ally, but haven’t found a way to do so? If so, a breakthrough is potentially imminent. All of life will be conspiring for you to speak and hear the words that have not yet been spoken and heard but very much need to be.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Since 1981, Chinese law has stipulated that every healthy person between the ages of 11 and 60 should plant three to five trees per year. This would be a favorable week for Chinese Cancerians to carry out that duty. For that matter, now is an excellent time for all of you Cancerians, regardless of where you live, to plant trees, sow seeds, launch projects, or do anything that animates your fertility and creativity. You now have more power than you can imagine to initiate long-term growth.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) While in Chicago to do a series of shows, comedian Groucho Marx was invited to participate in a séance. He decided to attend even though he was skeptical of the proceedings. Incense was burning. The lights were dim. The trance medium worked herself into a supernatural state until finally she announced, “I am in touch with the Other Side. Does anyone have a question?”

Groucho wasn’t shy. “What is the capital of North Dakota?” he asked. As amusing as his irreverence might be, I want to use it as an example of how you should not proceed in the coming week. If you get a chance to converse with higher powers or mysterious forces, I hope you seek information you would truly like to know.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Is there an important resource you don’t have in sufficient abundance? Are you suffering from the lack of an essential fuel or tool? I’m not talking about a luxury it would be pleasant to have or a status symbol that would titillate your ego. Rather, I’m referring to an indispensable asset you need to create the next chapter of your life story. Identify what this crucial treasure is, Gemini. Make or obtain an image of it, and put that image on a shrine in your sanctuary. Pray for it. Vividly visualize it for a few minutes several times a day. Sing little songs about it. The time has arrived to become much more serious and frisky about getting that valuable thing in your possession.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Since 2008, Marvel Studios has produced nine movies based on characters from Marvel Comics. They’re doing well. The Avengers earned $1.5 billion, making it the third-highestgrossing film of all time. Iron Man 3 brought in over a billion dollars, too, and Thor: The Dark World grossed $644 million.

Now, Marvel executives are on schedule to release two movies every year through 2028. I’d love to see you be inspired by their example, Libra. Sound fun? To get started, dream and scheme about what you want to be doing in both the near future and the far future. Then formulate a flexible, invigorating master plan for the next 14 years.

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My father prides himself on being a pretty normal guy. He had a military career that changed his perspective on the world, he faithfully attends church, he coached kids from every walk of life in every sport imaginable, and he loves his family. Before I came out I thought he was homophobic.

He never said he opposed civil rights for gay people. But when talking to his old friends or military buddies, he often used the “F” word.

After I came out, I asked my father why he stopped using that horrible word. He told me that my mother had reminded him that every time he said that word he was driving a wedge between the two of us and adding to the mistreatment of LGBT people all over this country. He told me he had a choice: he could either stop being so insensitive, or he could try to see the world through my eyes. He chose the latter.

I asked my dad if he was embarrassed that I am gay. He said what dads are supposed to say: “How could I be embarrassed about who you are?” He believes his insensitivity to LGBT was because of the time in which he grew up. He is of a generation hardened by war. He fought for a country that didn’t think he was equal. He knew people who died fighting racial injustice.

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