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Thirty years after the infamous Utah County murders, Dan and Ron Lafferty reveal the complex threads of faith and family that formed their fundamentalist beliefs. By Eric S. Peterson

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The first in a two-part series about the ’84 Lafferty killings. Cover illustration by Derek Carlisle

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Letters Vote for Change

In the past couple of weeks, there have been opposing sides of the marriage issue voiced in the letters to the editor [“It’s a Tradition,” “Marriage Doesn’t Have to be Equal,” July 10, City Weekly]. The writers of these letters have missed a very important point. In the recent primary, only 10 percent of Democrats turned out to vote. With that level of indifference, elected officials can pass anything they want because citizens aren’t paying attention. They could add further to the marriage issue and make it illegal to be single in Utah after the age of 18. The fewer people who participate in the governing process, the more the voting power is diminished. People have the right to choose not to participate, but they don’t have the right to choose the consequences of that choice.

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Neoliberalism vs. Mormon Families

One of the leading causes of divorce among Mormons is money, not same-sex marriage. That seems obvious, but lately, a lot of resources have been poured into preventing same-sex marriage as if it were the threat to the family. Those resources might be better used to change the systems that lead families into dire financial straits. For

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. instance, many Mormons believe that the ideal division of labor between the sexes means that fathers work and mothers remain at home. Yet for many families, that ideal is no longer a reality; increasingly, families need two wages to support a household. Are these dual-earning families committing sin? I doubt anyone would argue that mothers working is a sin, but in 1995, church leadership issued a proclamation about the family that called for a male-breadwinner arrangement. So are families who deviate from this ideal making poor choices? If so, why are so many Mormon families “choosing the wrong” by having both parents work? Americans tend to explain outcomes in terms of individual choice, and individual agency is a central element of Mormon doctrine. But this tendency to individualize our choices is shortsighted when it comes to understanding family employment strategies. Yes, families make choices about who will work, but they make those choices within a context—like the economy—that has placed constraints on their available options. Researchers have tracked a growing divide between the rich and the rest since the late 1970s. This shift occurred as Americans abandoned one kind of capitalism for neoliberalism, and it has been disastrous for middleclass families. For the first time in American history, the wealth of most Americans has declined. Workers are losing ground despite being more productive than ever. Instead

of reaping the benefits of hard work, their wages are stagnant, and the wealthy are experiencing unprecedented gains. This situation has pushed many families to send both parents into the workforce. Those in single-parent households, or those who choose to have only the father work, are at a clear disadvantage. It wasn’t always like this. We constructed a system that encouraged a more equitable society with wages high enough that a single worker could support a family. We can enact policies that reduce inequality while bolstering the Mormon ideal of the family and improve situations for single-parent households. Minimum wages that are tied to the local cost of living or to productivity mean that workers can afford the basics without the need of government assistance. They help to reduce the burden on the welfare state and allow more families to survive on a single income.

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OPINION

House of Love

I am attracted to the attractiveness of Mia Love’s candidacy in the 4th Congressional District. I can’t help it. To have a smart black woman named Love representing Utah in the House of Representatives is such an attractive prospect. I am also attracted to the attractiveness of Colleen Bliss’ candidacy in House District 41. I can’t help it. To have a smart, energetic woman named Bliss in the Utah Legislature is such an attractive prospect. Think about it. Love in one dysfunctional House, Bliss in another! (If only Ms. Reason were on the ballot!) ’Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished, in Hamlet’s longing words. Come November, voters in Riverton and Bluffdale can make the felicitous choice of both Love and Bliss. Or they can opt for Love without Bliss or Bliss without Love. The Loveless option is my preference. Love masks old-think at a time when newthink is desperately needed. Even Ted Cruz’s horse-holder Mike Lee has figured that out. I don’t claim to have any expertise in politics, but who can overlook the dire straits in which we find ourselves? The ship of state founders as politicians, immobilized by self-interest, retreat to their staterooms to tweet inanity. Make a list of the country’s festering problems, and you’ll find “reform” appears as often as a bad-air day in Salt Lake City. Campaign-finance reform, tax reform, Medicaid reform, immigration reform, education reform, penal reform—it is a long list, and growing longer in this age of intransigence. Climate change is in a category of its own. The government response to it has been so sluggish that nothing is in place to reform. In Utah, with Gov. Gary Herbert setting the pace, legislators drag their feet, pausing to kick another can down the road or to dance to a lobbyist’s tune. Reform is as unwelcome as a tax increase. Not so on the other side of the Wasatch.

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Republicans in Washington are reading the handwriting on the wall, and a cadre of young turks is plotting reform, explains a story in the New York Times Magazine. These “reformicons” are party insiders who “believe the health of the GOP hinges on jettisoning its age-old doctrine— orgiastic tax-cutting, the slashing of government programs, the championing of Wall Street—and using an altogether different vocabulary, backed by specific proposals, that will reconnect the party to middle-class and low-income voters.” The Republicans also have to reconnect with Reagan Democrats and woo independents if they are to become the dominant party envisaged by Karl Rove. No doubt the reformicons were watching closely in June as Mississippi’s Republican primary was decided by the votes of black Democrats. The reformicons reportedly have Mike Lee’s ear, but I don’t think the message has trickled down to Love. Neither does she seem to have taken note of the turning tide in public opinion. The Tea Party’s disapproval ratings are above 50 percent and rising. Its talking points are worn out. Love could burnish her attractiveness with a measure of centrist reform expressed in “an altogether different vocabulary.” So, too, could Dan McCay, the one-term legislator whom Bliss intends to unseat. A longtime affiliate of the libertarian organization FreedomWorks, McCay espouses its mantra of “less government, lower taxes and more economic freedom.” So does Love. Granted, the rhetoric is attractive on its face, but will it “reconnect the [GOP] to middle-class and low-income voters”? I doubt it. It didn’t in Mississippi. It doesn’t resonate because it is old-think and immoderate. Who among conservative Utahns actually believes free-market capitalism is going to cleanse our polluted air? It seems more likely that government regulation and tax revenue will be required to do the job. I think most people can live with that.

They just want government to be efficient regardless of its size. But they also want it to be responsive. That it isn’t causes what longtime pollster Andrew Kohut calls “chronic disillusionment.” Despite overwhelming public support for giving legal status to undocumented immigrants and requiring background checks for gun purchases, the congress refuses to act. More than 60 percent of Americans told Bloomberg pollsters they would gladly pay more for oil and gas if doing so would reduce carbon emissions, but a carbon tax is anathema in the halls of Congress. Doctrinaire politicians—Republican or Democrat—are sand in the gears of government. We need more Howard Bakers and fewer Ted Cruzes in Washington. For that reason, I find Bliss more attractive than McCay. I see her as a Baker challenging a Cruz. Bliss, a retired teacher and sometimes city councilwoman in Bluffdale, promises “to promote moderation and cooperation in public policy.” Granted, moderation and cooperation do not cause goose bumps, but the underlying commitment offers more hope than the old-think bromides espoused by McCay. By all accounts, Love’s attractiveness and bank account will deliver the 4th District House seat to her. I wish her well. She will be one of only 20 congresswomen. I do worry that her old-think conservatism will lead her into a bad crowd that confuses the verbs “to govern” and “to obstruct.” I don’t worry that Bliss will be co-opted. But as a woman and a moderate Democrat, she will face challenges of her own in Utah’s House of Representatives. Bella Abzug, the ardent feminist who served in congress in the 1970s, was right when she said, “This woman’s place is in the House (of Representatives).” A year from now, I hope to write that dysfunction has yielded to Love and Bliss. CW

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How do you celebrate Pioneer Day? Scott Renshaw: For the same reason that I don’t wear green on St. Patrick’s Day: I don’t choose to celebrate a day that has little or no connection to my own cultural history. Get back to me when there’s a European Mutt Day. Rachel Piper: Last year I “celebrated” by running in the Deseret News Classic before work, but the swag bag was less than impressive (cotton T-shirt? really, D-News? I know you’ve got the money for more than that), so this year I’ll be celebrating by going to work and maybe cracking open an office beer a little early. Jeff Chipian: I celebrate the only way I can. I take advantage of the extra day of fireworks!

Ylish Merkley: Well, when you have ancestors who traveled with the Donner Party, you’d expect that we’d celebrate it. However, my family does not. There aren’t any comedy movies about Pioneer Day for us to watch.

John Saltas: Yes, in the same way my onefourth Mormon side did in Illinois in the 1840s—I leave. Sarah Arnoff: Normally, I would jump at the chance to take part in any holiday that lets me create minor explosions. But this year, I’ll be out and about with members of some of the Shoshone tribes, so I doubt there will be much celebrating of pioneers.

Stephen Dark: There’s a wardhouse chuck wagon breakfast near where I live, so I’m contemplating moseying over to say hi prior to negotiating the blocked-off streets on the way to work. Since I missed the July 4 pancake festivities this year at the local wardhouse, I feel the need as a decade-long foreigner to witness a little Mormon-style patriotism.

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Bad Reputation Black eye or thumbs up? Those seem to be the choices as two of Utah’s ex-attorneys general meet their arrest warrants head-on. But for all the backslapping, you’d think the charges were actually a good thing. “What do the charges and arrests say about Utah?” asks the Deseret News. “Ex-A.G.’s charges: a black eye, a silver lining,” intones The Salt Lake Tribune. Then, of course, there’s the huge front-page photo in the D-News of Mark Shurtleff hugging his daughter. How many officials have called this a sad day for the state, but gee, look how brave we are by arresting our own? The fixes have run the gamut from appointing the A.G. to somehow getting money out of politics, according to the Trib. But face the reality: Corruption happens, and it happens easiest when citizens pass on anything Mormon and Republican as good.

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Suicide Precautions There’s no scarcit y of news about suicides just as there’s no dearth of theories about how they morph into epidemics. So it’s with both sadness and fear that Utahns try to process the self-immolation of John Christopher Wallace, the 30-year-old artist who leaped into a bonfire at Burning Man event Element 11. A certain drama and allure accompanied the news. Wallace’s art suddenly became valuable and a source of fundraising for his funeral. Apparently not depressed, Wallace had taken a hallucinogen that may have motivated his act. But, as the author Malcolm Gladwell suggests, once an act is embraced, it can grow others like it. Beware the dark appeal of suicide news.

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You know the Avenues— f unk y, gentrif ied and mixed in every sense of the word. But when Kathie Chadbourne tried to attach a patio area to her Avenues Bistro restaurant, some neighbors complained. Four neighbors, to be exact. They didn’t like fighting for parking, the noise or the mess, although the restaurant is well-kept and landscaped. This is not a new issue for the city. The Dodo was forced to move from a neighborhood on 2300 East after similar complaints. But the Avenues is different, and the cit y’s planning commission voted unanimously to allow Avenues Bistro’s patio. That should be a message for the city council, which is dragging its feet on approval.

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The Carpe Diem Flying Trapeze Company is a group of eight trapeze enthusiasts who’ve opened a flying trapeze school at the south end of Pioneer Park (300 South & 300 West). The group has traveled all over the nation to practice trapeze, and are now offering multiple daily classes and $5 test flights at the Downtown Farmers Market. Carpe Diem’s Bogart McaVoy talked with City Weekly about the art of trapeze. For more information, visit UtahTrapeze.com.

What made you decide to start a school for flying trapeze? My wife and I did this about four years ago, and we loved it so much we’ve been traveling quite a bit to different cities to do it. We started thinking, “This is crazy; we should be doing other things on our vacations.” We had a few friends who were also trapeze enthusiasts, so we bought a rig and started a school.

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If we do corporate or kids events, we can have more than just 10 people, so we can do juggling or things like silks or we’ll have trampolines. Nick Glomb does Lyra, which is the metal hoop, and Kris Hale is quite good at silks.

How advanced can the lessons become? I think you could approach professional. But it also begins with complete beginner.

Do you perform as well as give lessons?

We would like to, but we haven’t really gotten that together yet. Actually what we’re going to be doing is during the Twilight Concert Series, from 5 to 7 p.m. while people are filtering in, we’ll fly and be doing tricks. So we’ll kind of being putting on a bit of a free show for the public, and we’ll get people excited about the flying trapeze.

What are the risks of the flying trapeze?

Pretty minimal—we have an ascender that goes to a retractable device. It’s like a seatbelt, and if it’s jerked on, it’ll stop you. You see that they are always wearing a belt, and then they attach you to the safety lines, then they detach the ascender. Basically, not unlike rock climbing—you are almost always completely protected. And then, of course, you have the safety net in addition.

Are your students people who are crossing this off their bucket lists?

I think that’s the majority. But that’s how people get into it like we did. I mean, we definitely didn’t see this as our future. I think everybody does it for different reasons. It’s a mental challenge as well as a physical challenge.

How old do you have to be to start flying trapeze?

We’ll go as low as 4. For the oldest, Chris caught someone who was 77. We’ll have classes with 6-year-old kids mixed with adults—we all fly together. But during the Farmers Market, when we’re doing the $5 swings, we get a lot of young kids. The average demographic for classes is women ages 20 to 40. We’re also definitely looking into offering a sort of team-building activity—something like the trust fall that really takes you out of your comfort zone.

Is Utah ready for a flying-trapeze school?

In talking to other schools, they always say that you want an area with a big pool of different people to draw from. In Oakland and San Francisco, there are multiple schools, same with the East Coast, but we’re the only school in the area. We’re finding the reception to be really positive. And we felt that with the religious culture here and because it is so family-friendly, it’s something fun that doesn’t involve drugs or drinking.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Thought Experiments

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I’ve always wanted to go to Hawaii, but since I can’t afford a plane ticket, I’m planning on walking there. How many 3-inch-by-4-1/2inch sponges will I need to pack to absorb the Pacific Ocean? —Dave F., Springfield, Mass. Now, Dave. Surely you realize this isn’t a practical plan. Let’s think about it a bit: 1. You can’t isolate the Pacific from the other oceans of the world—you’d have to soak up most of the seawater on Earth. But OK, we’ll pretend you could strategically pile the saturated sponges so they blocked water from running into the Pacific from the Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Arctic oceans. 2. The Pacific Ocean has a total water volume of around 158,000,000 cubic miles. This may not be an easy quantity to grasp, so let’s express it in financial terms. A good surgical sponge made of polyvinyl alcohol can absorb about 14 times its own weight in water. A sponge of the size you specify can therefore absorb about 7.2 fluid ounces of water. To soak up the entire Pacific, you’ll need about 3.1 sextillion sponges, costing maybe $8 sextillion. Perhaps you can negotiate a volume discount. 3. But hang on. Trying to stack up all those sponges will compress them to the point where more than 99 percent won’t be able to absorb any water, defeating your purpose. 4. Fear not. You’ve now cornered the world market on surgical sponges. Sell a few, buy yourself a plane ticket. Better yet, buy yourself a plane. I’m an English teacher and have a student who wants to know if a hairless cat will grow hair if you put Rogaine on it. We assume it’s not safe, so we won’t try it, but we are still curious to know if Rogaine works for our feline friends as well as people. —Paige Pittman, Indianapolis Trying to grow hair on your own Mr. Bigglesworth is foolish. For one thing, people pay top dollar for Sphynx cats and other “hairless” breeds precisely because of their odd appearance—it’d be like buying a vintage convertible and welding a hardtop onto it. Sphynx cats aren’t actually hairless, but rather have fine hairs that fall out early in the growing cycle. In contrast to humans, where male pattern baldness results from scalp follicles gradually going dormant, Sphynx cats are from birth genetically incapable of growing more substantial hair. Some might posit otherwise: The active ingredient in Rogaine is minoxidil, originally an anti-hypertension drug that relaxes blood vessels and would surely have vanished into the dustbin of medical history if more than 80 percent of patients taking it hadn’t started regrowing scalp

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hair. Exactly why this happens is unclear, but because it appears to increase blood flow to the scalp, minoxidil may encourage hairs to enter their growing cycles faster. Since Sphynx cats have some hair, just exceptionally fine, couldn’t regular application of Rogaine goose up their hairgrowing cycle and make them, if not truly hairy, at least hairier than they are? It’d be cruel to try to find out. Minoxidil can be used on some animals with care, and has been used to regrow hair on cats under veterinary supervision. But there’s significant risk—we ran across vet reports of cats that died after their owners simply went ahead and applied minoxidil to hairless patches. Given the danger and the likelihood that minoxidil-induced hair growth on a Sphynx cat will be minimal to nil, my advice, teacher, is to leave those kits alone. How fast do you have to be traveling to pass unharmed through moving helicopter blades? Is it even possible? —Mike Nielsen

So, Mike. This is a thought experiment, right? Let’s take a common helicopter, such as an Army UH-60 Black Hawk. (“Take” is to be understood figuratively.) The Black Hawk is equipped with a four-blade rotor that spins at 258 revolutions per minute and describes a 53.7-foot circle. To simplify the math, we’ll assume you’re 6 feet tall, 2 feet wide, and 1 foot thick, moving straight down toward the helicopter’s blades feet first. Assuming you were able to time your descent so you’d enter the plane of the rotor just as one of the blades had passed— and let’s all say it: you can’t—then if you were heading toward the very end of the blades, about 26 feet out from the center of the hub, you’d have to be traveling at 72 miles per hour to get through unscathed. OK, you say, but what if I don’t time it just right and the oncoming blade is a lot closer than I meant it to be—what’s a safe speed then? In that case, if you’re not going at better than maybe 5,900 miles an hour, I don’t think you’ll like how this thought experiment works out. Send questions to Cecil via StraightDope. com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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“If you’re not careful ... you might destroy the neighborhoods that make our city unique and attractive.”

Building Character

—Salt Lake City Councilman Luke Garrott

SLC is outgrowing the small businesses that have kept downtown alive. By Colby Frazier cfrazier@citweekly.net @colbyfrazierlp Book by book and poetry reading by poetry reading, Ken Sanders has turned his 17-year-old downtown bookstore into one of Salt Lake City’s artistic anchors. Sanders says that during this time, he’s watched every storefront—with the exception of a tire shop and a dry cleaner—on east Broadway flip from business to business as downtown has tried to re-create the vibrancy of other big cities. Now, out of the recession, with the shadows of cranes arcing across the city’s fat streets, the sound of jackhammers in the air, and hip boutiques and bars emerging out of formerly derelict buildings, downtown is at last having its day. Sanders, 62, has weathered the years to see people once again flooding downtown. But high on his to-do list is shepherding his business—now six employees strong and standing on solid financial ground, he says—to another location to make way for a new development that could spring from his rented space in the next three to four years. The white brick building at 268 S. 200 East that houses Ken Sanders Rare Books, and the row of businesses anchored by The Green Ant furniture store that stretches from the north corner of 200 East and 300 South to Edison Street, were recently leased by Ivory Homes, one of Utah’s largest house and apartment builders. Sanders says his new landlord has told him he’s got at least three years at his current location—maybe many more, depending on the economy, Ivory Home officials say. Far from bitter, Sanders says that building his business has been contingent on receiving below-market rent for the past 17 years—a reality he suspected wouldn’t last forever. “I’ve known this day would come,” he says. “I’m grateful for the 17 years we’ve had here because we’ve just stumbled into a really sweetheart deal.” But he hasn’t missed the incongruity of the idea that he’ll soon be moving the tens of thousands of books he’s spent years piling high in his shop while playing an oversize role in mak-

Within the next few years, Ken Sanders will be moving his iconic bookstore to make way for new development. ing east Broadway the cool, eclectic place it is today. Sanders’ bookstore and other retail shops are pictured in the 35-page pamphlet for a $39 million, 189-unit residential development called Edison Quarter, which will be located on Edison Street (between State Street and 200 East). The promotional materials call the area’s businesses “nothing shy of unique, creative and authentic.” Of Sanders’ store, it says, “This bookshop is as authentic as it gets!” “I think there’s a certain irony there,” Sanders says, noting that with commercial real estate going for north of $20 a square foot, he’s unlikely to find a downtown location. “I guess by surviving long enough, we’ve somehow become some sort of iconic institution.” Salt Lake City Councilman Luke Garrott, whose district includes the east Broadway neighborhood, says he was “flabbergasted” to hear that Sanders’ bookstore and the other nearby businesses were threatened. But, Garrott says, without owning their buildings, business owners like Sanders will always be a target for developers. And if zoning ordinances allow for larger development on lots currently occupied by squat mason buildings with leasing tenants, Garrott said the scenario is a “ticking time bomb.” “If you’re not careful with the existing neighborhood fabrics, you might destroy the neighborhoods that make our city unique and attractive,” he says. “That irony is cruel, and it should be unacceptable.” Aside from attempting to keep a tight grip on zoning, Garrott says there’s little the city can do to deter

developers from developing. One avenue Garrott would like to explore is creating a loan program to help smallbusiness owners buy their buildings. In 2013, Salt Lake City’s office of economic development issued just over $1 million in loans to small businesses. The largest loan was for $250,000. Garrott says any fund aimed at helping businesses achieve property ownership would have to be substantially larger, with loans in the millions. Stuart Clason, director of the city’s department of economic development, says he, too, would like to see this sort of fund materialize. “We’re trying to create something so that there’s a larger pool of funding in the million to $2 million range,” he says. Any such fund will be too late for Sanders, who’s never owned the bookshop’s building. But he greets the prospect of relocating with an air of inevitability and perhaps relief—the building, he says, is achingly hot in summer and so cold in winter that his employees must wear mittens while restocking shelves. In mid-July, Sanders sent a newsletter to his patrons informing them that he was looking for new space—4,000 to 6,000 square feet, and preferably below the climbing commercial rates. The newsletter, he says, was not meant to irk his new landlord or fuel speculation, but to squash rumors that he was going out of business. “Don’t be alarmed by this news; the bookshop is healthy and thriving,” Sanders wrote. “In many ways, a new home will enable us to go forward to the next generation.” The fate facing Sanders and his neighbors is likely just a prelude to

what’s to come for the city’s downtown district. In its 2013 report on the state of downtown, the Salt Lake City Downtown Alliance highlighted downtown’s record retail sales, which topped $800 million, and gloated over four residential developments that will add 460 new apartments, two new hotels and three new office towers, the largest of which will climb 24 stories into the sky. No plans have been submitted for the property where Sanders’ store currently resides, but Chris Gamvroulas, president of Ivory Development, says it was the “funkiness” of Sanders’ store and the other businesses there that attracted his company to the lot. Gamvroulas says he plans to be sensitive to the businesses’ needs when plans do move forward for a development, which he anticipates will have a residential component. To that end, he says, he’s met with the tenants, and favorable rents have been stipulated in two- to three year lease agreements to ensure they can keep their doors open. Gamvroulas says it may well be that the buildings currently occupying the lot are torn down, and that some businesses may be forced to relocate. But other businesses will occupy the new development, just as something else once occupied the building that currently houses Sanders’ books and The Green Ant’s furniture. This cyclical process, Gamvroulas says, is the nature of a living city. “Just because something moves there doesn’t mean everything has to be static for them,” Gamvroulas says. “Life isn’t static, and cities aren’t static; something went away for them to create their opportunity.” CW

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Activismâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for the Birds

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This week, learn about efforts to protect Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fine-feathered hawks at a special event where you can see raptors (the bird variety, not the Jurassic Park variety) up close. Later on, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss a meeting of the Utah Public Service Commission, where the public can speak up about Rocky Mountain Powerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposal to increase fees for solar-panel users. Folks up north can check out the Utah Transit Authorityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board meeting and find out how some of their tax dollars are being spent on one of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most expensive transit systems.

Hawkwatch: Birds in the Lab! Saturday, July 26

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Banjo & Jug Bands Than in 1847â&#x20AC;?

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Utah is home to some incredible birds of prey, as well as some incredible advocates for these creatures in the group Hawkwatch International. This weekend, you can observe hawks and other large raptors up close at this special lab event and learn about how to get involved in protecting the creatures and their natural habitats. Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way, 801-581-6927, July 26, noon-2 p.m., NHMU.Utah.edu

Public Service Commission Tuesday, July 29

More than 2,000 Utah houses are using solar panels for power, and some even give clean energy back to Rock y Mountain Powerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grid. But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not stopping the energy giant from proposing to charge panel users a $4.25 monthly net metering fee. If you think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weird that a utility is charging solar lovers more for their choice to use renewable energy, come speak out at this public meeting. Public Service Commission, 160 E. 300 South, Room 403, 801-530-6714, July 29, 5 p.m., visit http://citywk.ly/ 1wXBOMk for proposal details. Comments can also be e-mailed to PSC@utah.gov, referencing Docket No. 13-035-184

UTA Board Meeting

Wednesday, July 30 Morgan County residents ought to drop by this board meeting, where UTA officials will go over safety issues, and UTAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chairman, general manager, and counsel will go over reports and the annual pension audit report. Morgan County Building, 48 W. Young St., Morgan, 801-287-2580, July 30, 2:30 p.m., RideUTA.com, e-mail Rebecca Cruz at rcruz@ rideuta.com for more info.

Curses, Foiled Again

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After a 17-year-old baby sitter reported a home invasion and robbery, police in Ferndale, Wash., wound up arresting the sitter, her 16-year-old boyfriend and another male suspect because the child being watched contradicted the sitter’s story. The sitter said two armed black men broke in, but 4-year-old Abby Dean declared the robbers were white and added, “They told us to get out of the house ’cause they wanted to steal stuff.” The sitter confessed. (Fox News)

Beijing has a new museum devoted exclusively to roast duck. Located in a 10,700-square-foot facility adjacent to the city’s most famous roast duck restaurant, the 150-year-old Quanjude, the museum boasts more than 500 items, including a golden duck sculpture out front and other sculptures inside showing the different steps in duck-making; a coupon from a duck sale dating back to 1901; and photographs of former Chinese leaders Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai eating duck. (The Wall Street Journal)

n Michael Shaske tried to turn a $3 winning lottery ticket into a $20,000 winner but his scheme unraveled after two Oklahoma City stores refused to pay on the bogus ticket. Shaske then took it to the Lottery Commission office, where officials immediately recognized it was two cards pasted together and notified police. “Basically, with the number of times he tried to pass the ticket, it seemed he was doing everything he could to get himself arrested,” police Sgt Gary Knight said. (Oklahoma City’s KFOR-TV)

Mike Aburouman, 44, picked up a firework to light it, but instead of shooting into the air, it blew into his chest. Detroit police said Aburouman died almost instantly. (Detroit Free Press)

Snooze, You Lose

Freudian Slip

A Dish Best Served Ronald Stancy, 47, retaliated against 17 people he apparently felt had wronged him by using a little-known law-enforcement policy to order them to take driving tests. Only police officers, prosecutors, judges, doctors and various government agencies are supposed to use the forms to order retests for health concerns, vision problems or mental issues, but, according to authorities, Stancy had a friend in law enforcement steal one that Stancy copied. Many of the victims, including an auto mechanic, a work acquaintance and an in-law, said they had no idea why Stancy singled them out. (Chicago Tribune)

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n Patrick Hughes, 26, was shooting off fireworks with some friends in McClain County, Okla., when he grabbed one of the fireworks and held it above his head. “That’s not a good idea,” his wife screamed after noticing embers falling from the firework. It then exploded and shot downward, hitting Hughes in the head and killing him. Investigators concluded that a fireworks shell had been put inside the launching tube upside down. Fireworks “are not meant to be held,” Sheriff’s Detective Dana Guthrie warned. “They need to be placed on solid surfaces.” (Oklahoma City’s KOTV-TV)

Which Way the Wind Blows North Korea’s Kim Jong Un chastised the country’s meteorologists for “too many incorrect” weather forecasts and ordered them to improve their accuracy. While reporting on Kim’s tour of meteorological facilities, the state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun included photos of a red-faced Kim lecturing cowering forecasters that accurate forecasts are needed to protect life and property from “abnormal climatic phenomenon.” (CNN)

Crime Doesn’t Pay A man believed to be in his 30s and wearing a Cincinnati Reds baseball cap held up five New York City banks in the same day. His spree netted him $449. Three of the banks gave him nothing. The fourth let him have $50. Finally, the fifth bank handed over $399. (New York Daily News)

Firefighters in Tuebingen, Germany, were called to free an American exchange student who got stuck in a sculpture of a giant vagina. Fire official Markus Mozer said the man was posing for a photo when he slipped. (Associated Press)

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Dutch researchers discovered a new behavioral condition: “bedtime procrastination,” defined as “failing to go to bed at the intended time, while no external circumstances prevent a person from doing so.” “We speculate that it is not so much a matter of not wanting to sleep, but rather of not wanting to quit other activities,” researcher Floor Kroese explained. Instead of going to sleep, it’s “one more episode” on Netflix or “one more quest” on that video game. Besides the resulting tiredness, the researchers concluded that putting off sleep “may also lead to harmful outcomes in the area of health behavior … and individual well-being.” (Frontiers in Psychology)

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Keyboard Follies A British judge in a custody case called a father “insensitive” and ordered him to stop sending e-mails to his children using capital letters and large fonts because they are “equivalent to him shouting” at them. Justice Pauffley told the father, who is banned from seeing his children, age 13 and 9, and communicates with them by e-mail, that he needs to learn “to make his messages appropriate and child-friendly.” (Britain’s The Telegraph)

Name Blame Authorities accused Freddie Alexander Smoke III of deliberately starting a wildfire that burned 6 square miles of forestland in Northern California. (Associated Press) Compiled from mainstream news sources by Roland Sweet. Authentication on demand.

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n Tired of complaints by her neighbors, the Naranjo family of Wichita, Kan., erected a sign in their front yard telling them, “God bless you the spiteful! We are all equal in the eye of the Lord. Judge me not lest you be judged yourself.” Noting that they’ve feuded with the neighbors since moving in two years ago, Claudia Naranjo explained, “We wanted a peaceful sign that just said, leave us alone.’” (The Wichita Eagle)

Bolivia reversed the clock on the front of the congressional building in La Paz so it runs counterclockwise. Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca explained that the change was made to inspire Bolivians to treasure their heritage as people who “live in the south, not in the north,” and to show them they can question established norms. “Who says that the clock always has to turn one way?” Choquehuanca said, while reassuring those who “want to continue using a clock of the north, you can continue doing so.” (BBC News)

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n A teenager who was bitter about losing to his 17-year-old video-game opponent called 911 to have a SWAT team storm the opponent’s home in Long Beach, N.Y., by claiming that the opponent had killed his brother and mother. The 70 emergency responders found only the opponent, playing Call of Duty. Investigators were unable to trace the 911 call, according to Long Beach police commissioner Michael Tagney, who defined Swatting as a new game where “you get points for the helicopter, for the police cars, for the SWAT team, for the type of entry. It’s very sophisticated. Unfortunately, it’s very dangerous.” (New York Daily News)

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o the visitor, the maximumsecurity wing of the Utah State Prison is a place of quiet. A cement path runs between two squat, fortresslike housing units, and mud swallows darting across the yard provide the only signs of life in an area of the prison so well-contained it feels abandoned when one first walks through it. Dan Lafferty is serving a life sentence here, in what he calls his “monastery”—a place of reverence, where he contemplates the past and, more importantly, the future, when he will act as the Biblical prophet Elijah and help usher in the Second Coming. When speaking with Lafferty, it’s easy to forget that he is serving time for the murder of a woman and a baby—his sister-in-law Brenda and her infant daughter, Erica. In person, Lafferty, a child of the ’60s, seems more like an extra from a Cheech & Chong movie than a maniacal killer. Cheerful, with an easy laugh, he’s quick to acknowledge when something he’s saying makes him sound like a nut job. Independently of the digital world, he’s started using his own emojis in his letters, ending various sentences with a sketch of a toothy smile. Lafferty is telling me about the double murders he committed 30 years ago on July 24, 1984, when, after letting slip with a profanity, he interrupts his story to explain how his vocabulary became “liberated” when he realized there is no sin in cursing. “God doesn’t give a fuck about words; what God cares about is anything that makes you happy and that doesn’t hurt anybody else,” Lafferty says. “So anyways, I was praying pretty steady from that point on as I pushed my way into the house and I took those two lives ...” Behind the plexiglass of the prison visiting cell, Lafferty rises from his chair. As he tells the story, he cradles his manacled hands as though he’s holding the baby. In one hand is an invisible knife, which he places at the child’s throat. It was too terrible a deed to watch himself do, so Lafferty turns his head, eyes clamped shut, and

Thirty years after the infamous Utah County murders, Dan and Ron Lafferty reveal the complex threads of faith and family that formed their fundamentalist beliefs. By Eric S. Peterson • epeterson@cityweekly.net

draws the knife across the space of air where, decades ago, he held a living child before he slit her throat with a cut so deep it nearly decapitated the 15-month-old. Dan Lafferty and his brother Ron have become the stuff of nightmares in Utah culture—not only for the killings but also because of the fact that for most of their lives, they were model Latter-day Saints from a sturdy, upright Mormon family. Where some families struggled in Sunday service to keep their teenagers awake and their toddlers from wandering up and down the aisles, the Laffertys filled a bench without a word, all keeping their eyes fixed on the speaker like the reverent families you see illustrated in soft tones in the pages of the LDS Church-owned Ensign magazine. I know this because it’s what my mother told me. I can’t claim the most objective distance from the Laffertys’ story, since my mother was a childhood friend of Dan, and my uncle was close friends with Ron. I was introduced to the brothers through these connections and have been in contact with them through visits and correspondence since early 2013, hearing from the bogeymen themselves the details of the killings, and the cold, iron-hard convictions that led them to rationalize the “removal revelation” that was meant to help bring in the kingdom and led to the killing of Brenda Lafferty and her baby. Over time, my interactions with Dan in particular grew closer, and I began to feel as though I was corresponding with a distant uncle. His first letter recalled that when he was in fifth grade, my mother was his dance partner in a school program meant to teach students “social graces.” During visits, he would compliment me on the growth of my beard (at one time he had a beard that grew to the center of his chest) and encouraged me to follow my heart in my endeavors. Once he even made fudge candies for me using cream cheese, chocolate and instant-coffee crystals. After 12 hours had passed after eating them, I was certain I hadn’t been poisoned and had to admit they were delicious. This closeness, while sometimes disturbing, helped introduce me to the family, including Watson Jr., one of Ron and Dan’s other brothers, and Rebecca, Dan’s oldest daughter. They both have struggled to find meaning in the aftermath of the killings. Rebecca says she grew up a schoolyard pariah with a father who chose “this fucked-up way of being over me.” Watson Jr. left Utah for more than 25 years, running from the horrors committed by his brothers. It took decades to for him to regain his faith.

“Enough time goes by, and you actually realize that the experience makes you a better person because you know what a big thing is and what a little thing is,” Watson says. “A washer breaks ... that’s nothing, but if someone in your family loses their soul—that’s the deepest, darkest hole you can go in.” I also was introduced to the specter of Watson Lafferty Sr., the stern patriarch of the clan, who left an indelible mark on the lives of the brothers—especially the firstborn, Ron. Ron’s eyes carry an intensity that makes it seem as if he hasn’t blinked in 30 years. Now 72, he speaks in a growl as if he were chewing gravel, and when topics drift to the betrayal he felt from the church or his ex-wife, his words are coated in venom. He says his younger brother’s wife drove a wedge between him and his wife that led to their divorce, which in turn led to Ron’s revelation that this troublemaker and her infant child had to go. And his animus is especially fierce when Ron speaks of his father. “I wanted to kill my father,” Ron says. “Every time I saw him hit my mother.” Ron recalls that he was also the frequent target of his father’s rage. Once, he says, his father randomly struck him, then, towering over him, pointed at Ron’s mother and, between clenched teeth, hissed, “She is mine!” Ron was only 10. Dan felt the presence of his father in his own way, as he grew up seeking to match the drive and piety of his father. He says fate led him down a path of fervid study of the scripture, which gave birth to his political and religious fundamentalism and the beliefs he’s formed in prison. According to Dan’s present ideology, the earth is a garden where the flowers of Christ are being choked out by the Devil’s weeds, in keeping with the prophecy of the wheat and the tares from the Old Testament. These satanic weeds, Dan says, have had their run of the garden for 6,000 years—but the harvesting time is nigh. Dan sees himself as the one who will make the transition orderly so that the wheat (children of Christ) can organize into communities of harmony, while the children of the Devil (the tares) are pulled, root and stem, from this world. After the nasty tare-plucking business is done, Dan says, the God of Love’s 1,000-year party can finally begin. Then the whole cycle repeats. Dan says both “wheats” and “tares” simply follow a program they cannot deviate from. For some, that may mean a mundane 9-to-5 existence; for others, killing women and children.

Free agency, Dan says, is an illusion pimped by religion to dupe its believers. “They use faith and other lies and secrets and deceptions to brain-fuck followers into thinking that they have the power to save or condemn people to hell,” Dan writes in an early letter. These days, Dan’s beard is short and tinged with copper and gray. He sports a few jailhouse tattoos, including a spiderweb on his elbow—a correctional tradition marking an inmate’s completion of 10 years inside. When I asked him how he could be “wheat” despite the killings done by his hand, he said his philosophy is something not everybody will understand. “I understand very well that my philosophy makes me sound crazy, but I try to make it as logical as I can,” Dan says. “But I don’t mind if people think I’m crazy, and I don’t know that I’m not ... but I don’t think that I am. I think there is some good shit coming. God’s a good motherfucker, and when he comes back, he’s gonna be smoking a doobie, saying, ‘Tired of this world? Well, it’s time to party.’ I really believe it.” One person who won’t be at this party, according to Dan, is his brother Ron. Though the bond between Dan and Ron seemed to have been strengthened by the 1984 murders, their relationship quickly soured, and Ron attempted to kill Dan in prison later that year. Ron says he’s effectively blacked out the incident, but it left an impression on Dan, who subsequently decided that he and Ron share different spiritual fathers—Christ and the Devil. In the telestial world, however, they shared one father: Watson Lafferty Sr. And Dan still fondly recalls the splendor of childhood and the kinship he felt with his brothers, made all the stronger by living under the strict rule of their father.

The Head of the Household

Left: A 1965 ad for the family chiropractic practice featuring Watson Lafferty Sr., which ran in an April 1965 Daily Herald.

Below: Ron and Dan Lafferty as pictured in the Deseret News and The Salt Lake Tribune during the coverage of their crime.

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Spring Lake is a farm community in Utah County, centered around an idyllic smalltown fishing hole. Dan and his five brothers fished the lake in the summer, skated it in the winter and explored the nearby hills and woods like they were the brothers’ personal kingdom. Dan always felt Ron hovering over him, his hand on his shoulder to keep a grip on his spirited younger brother. One time, Dan recalls, some bullies gave him some guff, only to catch one hell of a beating from Ron. Their younger brother Watson Jr. says there’s a strong bond among children of a tough disciplinarian. “When you grow up in a family where Dad gives you a licking, the other siblings console the one who got the licking, and then you compare bruises and kind of look after each other that way,” Watson Jr. says. He describes their father as “old school,” a product of the Great Depression who had his own struggles, having lost his mother when he was 5 to the influenza pandemic of 1918 that wiped out millions. “I don’t think he got a lot of nurturing,” Watson Jr. says. The Lafferty patriarch was a handsome man, supremely confident, and inflexible when it came to his beliefs—like his refusal to trust in modern medicine. The children aren’t certain where it came from—perhaps it was a holdover from the teachings of early church founders like Brigham Young, who once said of doctors that “a worse set of ignoramuses do not walk the earth,” or maybe he’d lost faith in doctors after they were unable to save his mother from the influenza. Such theories are only speculation, as Watson Sr. didn’t like to explain himself—he lived by example. Their father once had a hernia so bad that, Dan recalls, he could actually hear his father’s guts sloshing around inside his abdomen. For years, Watson Sr. simply gritted his teeth and would try to push his innards back into place with his bare hands. Dan also recalls being told a “providential” story about when he was a baby in his high chair, which was standing in the kitchen where his mother was cooking. Dan was rocking and kicking, trying to free himself, and just as he rocked particularly far forward, his mother turned, a knife in her hand, and Dan cut his throat on the knife. His father held him over the sink, washed the bleeding cut and simply taped it up. Coupled with Watson Sr.’s inflexible beliefs was a volcanic rage that could erupt at a moment’s notice. Dan’s oldest daughter, Rebecca, says one of her first memories of her grandfather, from when she was no more than 4, is of him getting her attention by hurling a toy at her. It smacked her in the head, and when she cried out in pain, she says, her grandfather calmly lied about what happened, and everyone believed him. “I just knew as a child to stay away from him,” Rebecca says. Ron recalls him as a tyrant who victimized their mother. “I saw him get mad and bloody her face, bloody her nose,” Ron says. “I used to go in my room and curse God for giving me that piece of a shit for a father. I shook my fist at God, but I was just too little.” Ron’s struggles with his father reached a pivot point when, at 17, they came to blows.

Above: In this photo from The Salt Lake Tribune, Ron and Dan Lafferty receive instructions from a court official during their first court appearance, in 1984.

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Ron had gone out early to help a man in the neighborhood bring in his hay. He returned home later that morning and was taking a nap on the couch when one of his brothers called him to come pluck some chickens. Ron, already exhausted, gruffly refused. Watson Sr. then charged in looking for a fight. This time, Ron struck back, and his father took off “running like a little bitch, crying ‘mother, mother!’ ” Ron says. Ron says he never had any problems with his father after that moment and, almost in spite of his father, gained a new strength and confidence. He was prolific in converting new members during his LDS mission in Florida, and when he returned home, assumed various leadership positions, including in three LDS bishoprics and later on the Highland City Council while raising a large family of his own. Their father’s unbending outlook left a mark on Dan, too. Rebecca looks at her father’s current beliefs about a world looping continuously through eons of unavoidable punishment as the bitter fruit from the tree of her grandfather’s intense outlook. “He’s come to believe that life is hard and that God wants to teach you through pain and punishment,” Rebecca says of Dan. “That’s his father’s mentality; that’s how his father raised him.”

Dan eventually took over his father’s Orem chiropractic office, and often talked bull with clients about God and politics. But in the early ’80s, these run-of-the-mill conversations cascaded into extreme libertarian activism, with Dan railing against paying for licenses, taxes and even speeding tickets. He now describes this political activism as part of a kind of “tunnel vision” that he’d obtain when he felt he was right and nothing could convince him otherwise. The activism caused Ron’s wife to send him to Dan to “straighten him out”— instead, Ron says, it was his brothers who straightened him out and convinced him to join their cause. Watson Jr. says Dan could make him believe anything. He convinced him once that by praying, they wouldn’t need to fill their car with gasoline, and another time that drinking your own urine is good for the body. The Lafferty patriarch was not so easily persuaded. Watson Sr. returned early from an LDS mission because Dan’s refusal to pay taxes had put the family business in jeopardy of being shut down by the government. Dan recalls calmly explaining his political activism to his father, only to have Watson Sr. respond by trying to perform an exorcism. “I could see him understanding the logic just like Ron did, and as soon as that started to happen, he shook his head ... and he raised his hand and said, ‘In the name of Jesus Christ, I command the devil come out of you!’ ” Dan says. Awkwardness settled around them, Dan says, as his father realized Dan wasn’t changed. In 1983, the year their father died, Dan and his brothers became increasingly involved in the School of the Prophets, which sought to re-create an institution of the LDS Church’s early years, when meetings were held to discuss social and political issues affecting members. The lesson plan at this time was a call to biblical living—plural marriage, male rule of the household and, eventually, the necessity of the death of Brenda Lafferty, the outspoken wife of younger Lafferty brother Allen, and her baby. Written out on yellow notepad, this “removal revelation” that Ron said he’d received from God showed that God and Ron shared some common enemies— mainly Brenda. Brenda “was not afraid to tell [Ron] her opinion: that he was a jerk to his wife and she didn’t want him anywhere around her husband, Allen,” Watson Jr. says. “She didn’t pull any punches.” Ron says that Brenda should not have meddled in his private affairs and should have come to him as the head of his household instead of going behind his back and sowing discord with Ron’s wife. Rebecca vividly recalls the relatively short period between the Laffertys’ role as upstanding community members and the 1984 killings. When she was 5, her life changed abruptly when Dan uprooted the family from a cozy suburban existence and into a dilapidated, mice-infested house on a lonely dirt farm in Orem. Dan allowed electricity to be used only for the refrigerator, and his wife was suddenly tasked with milking cows, baking bread, tending chickens and boiling buckets of water to bathe her children. Rebecca recalls her mother revolting against this pioneer living with pure passiveaggressive scorn. “She’d let the chickens run through the house and say, ‘OK, let’s live free!’ and then she’d let the chickens just shit all over,” Rebecca says with a laugh. She says her mother took a similar tack with Dan’s interest in polygamy, openly encouraging him to find a sister wife, which would give her an opportunity to leave Dan and his extremism behind. While Rebecca now laughs at the weird six months in the farmhouse, she also recalls it as a time her father would shift from dark depression to violent outbursts within the blink of an eye. It’s when she first saw him hit her mother and when he was the most violent with her. “He was kind of like an alcoholic, but he never drank,” Rebecca says. “The pressure would build until he would just explode. He could be so nice and yet beat the shit out of me.” Though Dan is at peace with the killings, he looks back at this experiment with regret. “It makes me sad to think of what my good wife put up with during those experimental days, especially now, as I understand—what I think I do—about how absolutely wrong it is or was,” Dan says.

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Next week’s issue will focus on the extreme politics that informed Ron and Dan Lafferty’s actions and the prevalence of similar ideologies in the current political landscape.

After researching this story since early 2013, it wasn’t until my deadline that I realized that beyond simply reporting a story, I had embarked on a naïve folly. Having encountered Dan at his monastery and being stunned by his zen-like serenity, I felt like I might be able to elicit from him some tiny measure of contrition. Thus, with my plucky reporter skills, I tried to pull a “gotcha” question demonstrating how his own beliefs damn him. Since Dan believes his brother to be an “asshole” child of the Devil, then why did Dan, as a child of the God of Love, fulfill Ron’s “removal revelation”? Dan’s response was simple. “I have to conclude that Brenda and the baby were assholes,” Dan says. “I can’t imagine God would have any of his children take the life of [those] that were wheat as opposed to tares.” I’m startled now to think that I believed I could somehow dredge a concession from the depths of Dan’s bizarre fundamentalist-turned-jailhouseguru mind—that I could hold my breath and dive to the bottom of this abyss and fumble around for ... what? It was more than hubris to think that I could find the Dan from before July 24, 1984, on this dark ocean floor. To live in such darkness for so long is to evolve into something totally different—a creature that breathes murky water instead of air and sees in the dark but squints at the light. One that finds a method in what most would call unconscionable madness. For Dan, however, it’s an upside-down world; it’s everyone else who has yet to evolve to the point where

they can see the truth of a world where free will is an illusion. As Elijah, Dan says, he alone is blessed with the ability to see the eternal recurrence of a life where 6,000 years of hell on earth is offset by a party where the chosen will get lit with Jesus and experience guilt-free mindblowing sex among other such unfathomable joys. But back on Earth, the idea of following in Dan and Ron’s footsteps haunts those closest to the brothers. As a child Rebecca recalls the anger that would flare up inside her, like when she pummeled a girl on the bus who called her the child of a babykiller. She eventually left the church. It didn’t resonate with her internal “truth meter,” she says, but she has not given up the feeling that Christ’s unconditional love is all that one needs for a moral compass. After decades of bad turns, doubt and self-loathing, she’s learned that holding on to hate is too much of a burden. In December 2013, she says, she forgave Dan for not being there. “Now I can speak up and say, ‘You know what, Dad, I don’t want to hear any preaching. I love you, and for a long time, I thought I needed to change you, that I needed to make some things right that were wrong,’ ” Rebecca says. “Now I realize I don’t need to do that.” Watson Jr. says the Lafferty family was plagued by wondering if, inside them, was the same spirit of Ron and Dan. Watson Jr. ran from his faith for years, nauseated every time he heard scriptures recited in church that he used to hear from the mouth of Dan. But now he says the experience has strengthened his testimony of the church, as well as those of the rest of his family. He also finds comfort in the memory of the brothers he once had. “I know in my heart that those are two good men that the devil took ahold of,” he says. “But the devil doesn’t care about them now; he’s hung them out to dry.” While Watson Jr. laments what took over Ron and Dan, Ron has little regard for him. Ron sees Watson Jr. as someone who was heavily involved in the School of Prophets but, instead of supporting him during the trial, fled the state. Watson Jr. says he was involved in the school, but only until Ron announced his revelation. He dismissed it as just angry talk, he says, but cut ties with the group. “What an unappreciative prick,” Ron says. “And when we were young I did nothing but protect him from our domineering father—and that went for all my siblings.” Though he’s now one of the faces of religious fundamentalism, Ron says it was his politics that caused a church court to excommunicate him, essentially putting him on his path. “The reason I lost my family is for all my brothers,” Ron says. Now, Ron lives like a political prisoner in defiance of the federal government, which he feels trampled on his sovereign authority to protect his family by any means necessary. While Ron declines to discuss specifics of the killings, he has no problem using the deaths as an example of how a justice system that empowers the head of the household to protect his family should work. “True fairness was served by the act, immaterial of who carried it out,” Ron says. “I don’t care if Santa Claus committed the act—justice was served.” CW

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Rebecca looks back on her early days with Dan as a time when her father was struggling toward some impossible standard, set down by the model of his exacting father. For Watson Jr., this need for perfection was compounded by Dan’s “weakness of the flesh,” which he saw in many of the Lafferty boys—a handsome and popular lot known for chasing the girls they grew up with. Watson says Dan repressed and compensated for his carnal desires with fervid study of law and religion, and compares Dan’s lust for “plural wives” to the problems of pornography addiction that the church now frequently speaks against. “[Dan] couldn’t handle it and it drove him crazy,” Watson says. “He wanted to be a good person and he couldn’t handle it.” Dan says he was plagued by his desires, but only because of the church’s false teachings. “When I was young and going to church, I thought because I couldn’t stop masturbating, that I might be an evil person, and it tormented me so much that I contemplated castration as a possible way to stop offending God, as I was mind-fucked to believe that I was,” Dan says. In his vision of God’s 1,000-year party, sex will be a key part of celebrating who we are as people. Unlike our current existence, he says, sex won’t be a tool of domination over women. If anything, women will enjoy a greater satisfaction from sex than men do. Dan now looks at church teachings against sexual impurity as being one of the tools of oppression wielded by religion’s “merchants of guilt and fears.” This religiously indoctrinated fear, however, is something Dan denies motivated the killings he undertook. For him, it was a different fear entirely—one of walking the “razor’s edge” of making sure he didn’t offend God by not having the will to kill.

Ron’s removal revelation made him the voice of God, and he called on Dan to be the arm of God to help carry out the divine mission. And so it was that Dan felt guided by a spirit as he pushed his way into Brenda’s American Fork duplex, cut Erica—so deeply, police said, that only a tiny thread of flesh was left connecting her head to her body—and helped Ron bind Brenda and allowed him to beat her to a pulp before Dan tied her neck with a vacuum cord and cut her throat as well. When the two men left the duplex, Dan says, he realized that, this time, the younger brother had come to the rescue of the older. Ron had been torn up by the divorce, and now it was Dan who solved Ron’s problem when, Dan says, Ron was unable to wield the knife himself. And as the brothers drove away, it was Dan’s reassuring hand on Ron’s shoulder.

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Pioneer Day/Days of ’47 Utah’s Pioneer Day has been celebrated annually almost every year since the momentous day in 1847 when Brigham Young and company declared this valley to be the place. The holiday took just one year off, during the Utah War of 1857, as the then-Utah Territory was occupied by federal troops. Only when Abraham Lincoln himself declared his hands-off policy in the early 1860s did the grand party resume. From those early days, July 24 has been spent in some combination of parading, trekking and lighting fireworks. The parade is actually one of the oldest in America, and continues to be the state’s largest. As if the parade isn’t enough, each year, scores of people re-enact the pioneers’ descent into the valley by dressing up in period attire and pulling handcarts for five miles along Emigration Creek, from Donner Park to the First Encampment Park. And as far as fireworks go, residents of the Beehive State likes to light it up to celebrate the Days of ’47 even more than they do the Fourth of July. The Days of ’47 celebrations last a lot longer than just Pioneer Day, too. The annual rodeo goes for almost a full week around the state holiday; pageants to crown a local beauty have been happening since spring; and youth parades and activities occur over several weeks leading up to the 24th. There’s even a ceremony that takes place the week before, honoring modern-day pioneers who embody the same hard-working and industrious spirit this great state was founded upon. (Jacob Stringer) Pioneer Day @ various Salt Lake City locations, July 24, parade starts at 9 a.m., fireworks at dusk. Pioneer.Utah.gov, DaysOf47.com

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In the summertime, thoughts turn to images of leisure—lounging by the pool, perhaps, or playing basketball. Piper Brett’s installation Poolside at CUAC pieces items together to form a loose narrative of her life centered on urban north Philadelphia: a gold shopping cart hanging from the ceiling (pictured), a replica of Belgium’s Manneken Pis fountain, a basketball with handle affixed and, most notably, a painting of water on the gallery floor. One wades into this exhibit; you almost want to wear beach attire. If one can’t spend enough time at the pool, one can indulge in the images and symbols of the poolside life. In this case, however, the water also stands for the mirage of memory. Through this filter, experience is detached from the weight of presence, which renders these objects even more haunting and effective. The bifurcated layout of the gallery space also offers another aesthetic. Alison Lacher’s installation Nonnative explores images of the openness of the West and the idea of things that aren’t native to this place. The saguaro cacti that dominate the works in this collection seem to be welcoming, familiar and optimistic, yet there is a barrenness and desolation in her visual landscape that contrasts against the fluidity of Brett’s. (Brian Staker) Piper Brett: Poolside & Allison Lacher: Nonnative @ CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, 385-215-6768, through Sept. 12, free. CUArtCenter.org

It’s no new realization that the United States is a land of comfort and freedom compared to most of the world, but looking at injustices abroad can increase appreciation of our home. A current exhibition at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts takes an intimate look at a great injustice in India—one that garners little media attention, but whose dynamics remind viewers of the essential value of human life. Photographer Fazal Sheikh made a preliminary visit to the sacred Indian city of Vrindavan, where thousands of Indian widows join each year— escaping “physical violence, sexual abuse and neglect,” according to the artist’s statement—to spend their remaining days on earth worshiping the god Krishna, hoping to be released from the cycle of reincarnation called samsara and find peace and unity at one with the universal spirit, the state of moksha. Sheikh had to make numerous attempts to gain full entrance into these temples and be accepted by the widows so that he could take their portraits and hear their stories. The images are inspiring—warm, with a soothing glow. “What the women find in Vrindavan is not just religious solace, but in the sisterhood of other widows, they find companionship and support,” Sheikh says. Krishna “asked me if I was sad, and I said no,” says Suniti Chatterjee (pictured). “He told me he was with me and he would protect me. He loves me too much. There is nothing left in me; everything is Krishna’s.” (Ehren Clark) Moksha: Photography by Fazal Sheikh @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, University of Utah, 801-5817332, through Nov. 30, $7-$9, college students, military families and children under 6 free. UMFA.Utah.edu

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Moksha: Photography by Fazal Sheikh

SATURDAY 7.26 Rob Delaney

One of the first comedians to harness the potential of Twitter to launch his career, Rob Delaney quickly became ubiquitous in the 140characters-or-fewer format, with jokes ranging from surreal scatology to the political. Two examples of the latter: “I love gay people. Or as I sometimes call them, ‘people,’” and “If your response to calls for gun control is ‘Should we get rid of cars too?’ the answer is, for you, yes. You should not have a gun or car.” Part of his appeal is the fact that outside of Twitter, he is, to all outward appearances, almost comically normal: strong, generically handsome features, wife and kids, the whole bit. All that added to the illusion that “anyone can make some jokes on Twitter and get famous.” But Delaney has certainly proven that not just anyone can do what he can do. He was named one of the 10 funniest people on Twitter in 2010 by Paste, then, in 2012, the funniest by Comedy Central. He now has more than a million followers, and has been on TV shows like Conan, Chelsea Lately, Key & Peele and even Cougar Town. Recently, he detailed his life—including his struggles with depression and alcoholism—in the memoir Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage. As the title suggests, despite the sometimes-heavy subject matter, the book isn’t lacking laughs. And this week, he’ll be bringing that comedy to Wiseguys in West Valley. (Danny Bowes) Rob Delaney @ Wiseguys West Valley, 2194 W. 3500 South, 801-4632909, July 26, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $20. WiseguysComedy.com

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Henry IV, Part One

responses: Heroes who don’t always behave honorably. Villains who have a point about why they’re angry. A vain coward we can all identify with. Sam Ashdown as Prince Hal ably handles the duality of his character— wanting to be a party animal, while also recognizing he’s got a duty ahead of him that rises to the level of “going down in history.” Ashdown lets the audience see young Henry breaking through from one to the other throughout the evening. Hopefully he’ll stick around for Henry IV, Part Two and Henry V as the festival continues its Complete the Canon project of performing all 38 Shakespeare plays through 2023.

Twelfth Night

This play can’t really be classified as a comedy or a tragedy. Instead, it’s a delightful combination of the two. Angelo, the duke’s minister, acts with the zeal of the Utah Legislature in trying to protect the people of Vienna from their own base desires.

Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen’s masterwork about two impoverished sisters trying to find love during an age when a dowry is still required is one of the original rom-coms. CW Kathleen Curry & Geoff Griffin host the weekly Travel Brigade Radio Show podcast.

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Henry IV, Part One

This is the perfect play for Shakespeare virgins. Even a mediocre writer can squeeze humor out of two sets of identical twins who don’t know the others exist, but this is the Bard we’re talking about. The whole thing comes in at just over two hours—including intermission—and is made all the more accessible by having this production set in San Francisco circa the Gold Rush era of 1849. The hijinks are highlighted by the slapstick performances of Aaron Gallaghan-Stierle and Misha Fristensky as twin Dromios.

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Ever wonder what happened to fairy tale characters after the “happily ever after?” Who better to lead us on a musical journey covering those stories than Stephen Sondheim? Deanna Ott as Little Red clearly stands out as a crowd favorite. Brian Vaughn— one of the festival’s artistic directors— and Melinda Pfundstein do well as The Baker and The Baker’s Wife. Cinderella, Rapunzel and Jack (the one who grew the beanstalk) tell an entertaining story with fun character cameos thrown in. Woods is light and airy at times, but more often gives a dark Brothers Grimm-type version of the fairy tales rather than the shiny, polished endings of Disney lore.

What’s a Shakespeare Festival without some confusion and cross-dressing? Nell Geisslinger, in the role of Viola dressed up as Cesario, is so well-played and likable that not only does Lady Olivia fall for her, but so does the audience. Quinn Mattfeld—who was a highlight performer of the 2013 festival as the Black Stache in Peter & the Star Catcher— has traded in his facial hair for a curly blond wig, but is no less hilarious with his physical humor, facial expressions and connection with the audience as the clueless Sir Andrew Aguecheek. This is the most “musical” of Shakespeare’s plays, with songs and musicians on stage to go with the wit, humor and mix-ups.

Into the Woods

Although the play is named for his father, this is the first of three works following Prince Hal on his arc from playboy to warrior to King Henry V, with John Falstaff along to provide comic relief. It’s Shakespeare at his finest, with a parade of complex characters inspiring ambivalent

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ummer is the time for all-star lineups in music festivals, baseball games and the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar Cit y. The roster for the 53rd edition of the summer-theater celebration features not only the Bard, but also a couple of other Englishlanguage heav y hitters by Jane Austen and Stephen Sondheim. With the ability to see six productions in three days, there’s something for everybody from Bard beginners to musical enthusiasts and Shakespeare pros. Into the Woods, Sense and Sensibility and Twelfth Night play in the air-conditioned comfort of the Randall L. Jones Theatre, while Measure for Measure, The Comedy of Errors and Henry IV, Part One can all be viewed in the under-the-stars setting of the Adams Shakespearean Theatre.

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Beautiful Game Local pickup soccer keeps the World Cup spirit alive. By Katherine Pioli comments@cityweekly.net

rgentina was my team during the final game of the 2014 World Cup, and I’m still trying to get over the disappointment. Every newspaper photo I see of Lionel Messi hanging his head like a scolded puppy wrings sorrow from my heart. I didn’t begin the World Cup as an Argentina fan. In fact, the country wasn’t anywhere on my radar, and I’d never heard of Messi. But the teams with which my allegiances lie were both eliminated—Italy first, the United States second—and I found myself looking for a new team to support. It was a necessary step in remaining interested in the global sporting event. The ability to adopt another country’s team and cheer for it as though it were our own is a uniquely American quality, or so I learned while listening to the endlessly entertaining radio sportscast Men in Blazers. The hosts chalk it up to the fact that many Americans have “hyphenated identities” and are used to indentifying with more than one side. Good Americans root for the underdog, and I became a Tica for Costa Rica. But as the teams continued to be whittled down, Argentina began working its way into my heart, till one night I found myself watching YouTube videos of Messi scoring goals and outmaneuvering flocks of defenders. My heart soared; I had found a hero. I felt sure he couldn’t be beaten, and I scoffed at the scores of sports announcers who almost

unanimously predicted Messi’s defeat. These are dark days. It’s not only Argentina’s defeat, topping off a month of watching my lineup of favorite teams bite the dust, but also having to wake up each day and step into a world without fútbol. Whatever is a girl to do when facing soccer withdrawal? Then, to my rescue, came the everperceptive Men in Blazers. Americans, they said, need to keep this soccer momentum going all the way into the 2018 World Cup in Russia. We need to immerse ourselves in Major League Soccer—available here with Real Salt Lake games, featuring U.S. National Team midfielder Kyle Beckerman. The other thing said on the podcast that really stuck with me was that in order to climb out of this funk and stay devoted to “the beautiful game,” we need to get out there and play soccer. Remember when you were 10 and played casual soccer at recess, or on that co-ed soccer team? Whether you scored goals or hung back wondering where you should be on that enormous field, wasn’t it fun just being there, outside on the green grass, feeling your shoes dig into the turf as you put on a burst of speed? Wasn’t it satisfying leaning into that kick, feeling the torque of your body, the contact with that firm, round ball? A love of soccer isn’t complete without placing your own two feet on the pitch. Find a pickup game, or form your own with friends, co-workers and random acquaintances; a game is likely to attract players, especially if you list it on Facebook or Meetup.com. Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County have numerous parks with free, no-reservation soccer and multipurpose fields (peruse the list of parks at SLCGov.com/CityParks). The adult pickup soccer group I found meets three days a week, just around the corner from my house. The last time we played, I was still sure that Argentina would win. Now I look forward to returning to the field to work out my feelings from the loss—and to score a goal for Messi. CW

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Brian Krans: Assault Rifles & Pedophiles: An American Love Story These aren’t easy times in which to be a journalist, as author Brian Krans knows all too well. Krans has covered hard stories like Hurricane Katrina and homicides, yet his profession is still endangered by changing economic models and a seemingly insatiable public desire for “news” that’s as salacious as possible. He taps into that cruel world in his new novel Assault Rifles & Pedophiles, telling the story of John Danielson, who once made a name for himself on the ghoulish beat of celebrity suicides, including documenting the tragic stars’ last words. But covering the wrong story led to an involuntary change of occupation, forcing Danielson to take a job at a big-box retail store. And his past may come back to haunt him when he finds himself in the breakroom, in the middle of a police standoff, holding the shotgun that killed the store’s manager. (Scott Renshaw) Brian Krans: Assault Rifles & Pedophiles: An American Love Story @ Weller Book Works, Trolley Square, 602 E. 600 South, 801-328-2586, July 26, 2 p.m., free. WellerBookWorks.com

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Native American Celebration in the Park Native American powwows are a time and place for gathering and sharing both cultural and spiritual practices. The Native American Celebration in the Park is an intertribal powwow that encourages participation from tribes across the continent, and has been serving that purpose here for 20 years. According to Cal Nez, president and founder of the event, it’s no longer just for Native Americans; everyone is invited to attend and encouraged to engage, as a sort of cultural outreach. During the daylong affair in Liberty Park, there will be traditional dance competitions (like Fancy Feather and Fancy Shawl), shared songs, drum circles and ceremonies. There will also be plenty of opportunities to sample native foods and purchase crafts. The powwow also serves another role: that of passing traditions from elders to the next generations. The principle has always been important, but is even more necessary in a rapidly changing world. (Jacob Stringer) Native American Celebration in the Park @ Liberty Park northeast quadrant, 900 S. 600 East, 801-688-9297, July 24, 7 a.m. until 10 p.m. fireworks, free. Facebook.com/ NACIPPowwowFestival

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Wildflower Festival Wildflowers are back in bloom inside the beautiful Cottonwood canyons, and the annual Wildflower Festival will be doing more than showing them off. For three days, hikes of all difficulty levels— including an activity hike for kids—will take place in the mountains, with options for the mornings and afternoons. Mind and body will both be activated, as breaks will be taken along the way for conversation and information about canyon ecosystem and history. There will also be tram

options available for getting to certain trails or to easy explorations and nature walks. The Cottonwood Canyon Foundation, which hosts the Wildflower Festival, believes that with awareness comes progress and preservation. So, whether you are an advanced mountaineer or a beginner, the festival makes it easy to take a limited-time gander at these lovely blooms. (Camri Mecham) Wildflower Festival @ various locations at Brighton, Alta and Solitude ski resorts, July 25-27, various departure times 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., $5 optional donation. CottonwoodCanyons.org/events/wasatchwildflower-festival

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Utah Peruvian Festival You don’t have to be Peruvian to appreciate and enjoy their culture. In honor of Peru’s Independence Day, Utah is hosting the Peruvian Festival to celebrate all things Peruvian. Daily festivities will be held at the Gallivan Center and include a fun-filled day of cultural entertainment. From singers and dancers to food vendors— including local favorite Del Mar al Lago—serving authentic cuisine, you are sure to get a feel for the sights, sounds, smells and tastes of Peru. Later that evening, the Double Tree Hilton Hotel will be hosting a special Gala Night for an added ticket price. The dinner and show will include a headline performance by Peruvian comic actor Tulio Loza. Be prepared to laugh out loud while you dine on some of the foods Peru is known for. (Aimee Cook O’Brien) Utah Peruvian Festival @ Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main, July 26, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., free. Gala Night @ Double Tree Hilton Hotel, 110 W. 600 South, July 26, 8 p.m.-1 a.m., $25.

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whiskey maple syrup (made with Elijah Craig Kentuck y Bourbon), brioche French toast with lemon curd ($9), and the waffle & whiskey ($8): a waffle with whiskey syrup and optional upgrades like an egg cooked to order ($2) and pork belly ($4). As appealing as the breakfast menu is, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the nighttime dishes that really rocked me. The dinner menuâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a mere dozen or so dishesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is divided into a handful of small-plates items and seven or eight entree-style options. Incredibly, the prices top out at just $15 for the steak and fries (more about them later). The small plates are small in name only, with plenty of food for two or three to share. Generous portions and thrifty pricing seems to be de rigueur at Rye. A plate of five â&#x20AC;&#x153;street dumplingsâ&#x20AC;? ($7) is an absolute must. These gorgeous, plump, housemade pot stickers, stuffed with minced pork, shrimp, garlic and chives and served in a salty/tangy/citrus soy vinaigrette with fresh ginger and chopped scallions are simply stupendous. I wish the dumplings came as an even half-dozen so couples donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to fight over the fifth one. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an asparagus dish at Rye that could serve as a sharable side dish or appetizer and it, too, is superb: a plate of intact asparagus tips, along with thinly shaved stalks, shallots, lemon juice, shaved Parmesan and a coddled egg ($9). As with so many of chef Nguyenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creations, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mindbending that something so simple could be so sensational. Before Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d gotten my lips around Thomas Kellerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now-famous buttermilk fried chicken at Ad Hoc, the best fried chicken Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d ever tasted was the 100spice chicken at the now-defunct Lola in New York City. Well, I can securely place Nguyenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shoyu fried chicken ($10/quarter

Tasty tunes: Rye Diner & Drinksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; street dumplings and shoyu fried chicken complement late-night concerts at The Urban Lounge. or $15/half) in the top three of my alltime favorite fried-chicken listâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and, on a good day, it might just clock in at No. 1. Again, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seemingly nothing complicated about this dish. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just chicken partsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;marinated or brined, I suspectâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in a soy-based sauce that lends plenty of salt to the proceedings but also deeply flavors and tenderizes the chicken and gives it a light-brown hue. Beautifully crispy skin gives way to impossibly tender meat, and the chicken comes with an unbeatable side of Asian-inspired coleslaw tossed in a light sesame-oil-based dressing. Frankly, I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expecting much from Ryeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s take on steak frites. After all, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been done to death, right? Wrong. For 15 smackers, the teres major steak has to be SLCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best beef bargain. Teres major is similar in size and texture to pork tenderloin, sometimes also called a beef petite tender. Mine was cooked exactly medium-rare as ordered, oh-so tender, cut into juicy medallions, and seasoned with thyme and garlic butter. I was bowled over not only by that perfect steak, but also by the mountain of equally perfect french fries that accompanied it, kissed by spicy togarashi seasoning and served with roasted-garlic aioli. But wait, it gets better: Rye is open until midnight Sunday through Thursday and until 2 a.m. on weekends. With Rye, Salt Lake Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s casual dining scene has taken a leap into hyperspace. CW

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As part of its Culinary Expedition: Spirit & Food Pairings series, Snowbasin Resort (3925 E. Snowbasin Road, Huntsville, Snowbasin.com) will host a winemakerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dinner featuring Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Iron Gate Wines (see p. 31) on Friday, July 25. The evening begins with a meet-the-winemaker reception with Iron Gate winemaker Doug McCombs at 6 p.m. in Earlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lodge. The reception will be followed by dinner with pairings such as grilled romaine hearts and crispy pancetta with Iron Gate 2005 Tempranillo; roasted lamb chop with 2009 Roussanne; an entree of seared duck breast with plum gastrique and red lentils; and 2009 Late Harvest Zinfandel paired with a dessert of sea salt dark chocolate cremeux. The cost for the Iron Gate wine dinner is $75 per person, which includes tax and gratuity. For reservations, call 801-620-1021. Quote of the week: And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sherman Alexie Food Matters 411: teds@xmission.com

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ollege memories get better with time. The fun experiences— athletic events, social activities and spontaneous road trips—are what we remember, replacing our memories of stressful project deadlines, final exams and overall anxiety. Sadly, one memory that often remains is of raiding vending machines or trying to find a meal among bad student-union options. Well, now, more than a decade later, I’m returning to the University of Utah—not for an advanced degree or a football game, but for Fiana Bistro. Fiana is the brainchild of Brandon Price and Chaz Costello, two creative culinary minds who opened the bistro in the Sorenson Biotechnology Building in late 2012.

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which I enjoyed sipping at High West Distillery—a summertime wine winner if ever there was one. Sinskey, too, has Utah roots: He loves to ski our Champagne powder, and owns property in Deer Valley. Ditto Joel Gott—who has a house in Park City— and whose Sauvignon Blanc ($10.99) is still, in my opinion, one of the best bangsfor-the-buck you’ll find in the wine world. It’s a pure, clean, beautiful expression of the Sauvignon Blanc varietal. And let’s not forget Fisher Winery. Juelle Fisher grew up in Holladay and attended Rowland Hall before founding Fisher Vineyards, which today produces some of Napa and Sonoma’s best Cabernet and Chardonnay. Fisher Unity Rosé ($14.99) is the perfect summer sipper. CW

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doesn’t come from Cedar City. Grapes for IG wines are sourced from a broad range of winegrowing regions, including Paso Robles, Columbia Valley, Willamette Valley, Lodi and Sonoma Valley. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the IG wines overall, most of which are priced in the mid-teens. The outstanding Iron Gate Tempranillo Paso Robles 2010 might exceed most people’s budget at $35, but IG’s Tempest Red—a blend of Zinfandel, Cabernet, Syrah and Ruby Red—is a blast at a barbecue, and a steal at $13.95. IG’s 2005 Tempranillo ($22.95) was a terrific match for Goldener Hirsch chef Ryan Burnham’s spit-roasted pig. Other highlights included Robert Sinskey’s Vin Gris of Pinot Noir ($29.19),

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he 2014 Park City Food & Wine Classic, held earlier this month, is now but a fading, wine-stained memory. I think it’s safe to say that a good time was had by all; I sure enjoyed it. This year, more than 100 wineries, breweries and distilleries were on hand with wares to sample, along with dozens more chefs, restaurateurs and food purveyors. It would be impossible to recount all of the interesting wines tasted, food enjoyed, people met and fun had, but here are a handful of highlights. Even if you missed the event, it’s not too late to buy and try the wines and other goodies. My favorite event of the Park City Food

& Wine Classic is the Friday night Stroll of Park City, where festival-goers meander Main Street, pinballing between participating restaurants, bars, galleries and other venues hosting tastings of wine, beer and spirits. At one juncture, I found myself at Rock & Reilly’s chatting with Eyrie Vineyards assistant winemaker Mike Eldred. The Eyrie story is worthy of an article itself, and I’ll do that soon. Talking with Eldred, I was intrigued to learn of the winery’s Utah connections. Eldred is originally from Utah, and Eyrie’s founder, David Lett, grew up in Holladay. He’s known as “Papa Pinot” in wine circles, and pioneered Oregon winemaking after moving to the Willamette Valley in the winter of 1965. He planted the first Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in the Valley, as well as America’s first Pinot Gris. The Eyrie 2012 Original Vines Pinot Gris ($27.45) is a stunner! There are only seven cases in the state, so don’t dilly dally. A winery with an even firmer Utah connection is IG Winery, based in Cedar City. IG (for Iron Gate) is run by winemaker/partner Doug McCombs. During a fun wine dinner at the Goldener Hirsch Inn called Pork n’ Cork, I got to pick McCombs’ brain a bit and tasted my way through a range of 12 IG wines, which include Tempranillo, Roussanne, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah and others. It goes without saying that the “juice”

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Golden Phoenix serves up authentic Cantonese, Mandarin and Sichuan dishes in a friendly atmosphere. Wanda, the owner, and her staff are helpful in every way. Some of the dishes you don’t want to miss are the crab-claw appetizer, walnut shrimp, kung pao chicken, hot & sour soup, pepper chicken, eggplant hot pot, fresh steamed fish and the house special noodles. Wash it all down with a cold Tsingtao beer. 1084 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-539-1122

Fratelli Ristorante

In Italian, “Fratelli” means “brothers.” Hence, the name Fratelli for brothers Pete Cannella and Dave Cannell’s popular Sandy restaurant. It’s an upscale but friendly Italian eatery, where customers are treated like members of the owners’ family. Steamed clams and mussels in garlic-lemon broth is a good place to start, perhaps paired with a glass of wine from Fratelli’s excellent wine list. The Sicilian citrus arugula and the Caesar are both superb salads, and the pizzas are equally tempting. Housemade gnocchi with Gorgonzola is killer, and ditto the bucatini carbonara. And definitely save room for Pete and Dave’s outstanding homestyle tiramisu—it’s sublimely decadent. 9236 S. Village Shop Drive, Sandy, 801-495-4550, FratelliUtah.com

Landmark Grill

For hearty, inexpensive and generously portioned American and Greek comfort food, stop by Landmark Grill for breakfast and lunch. For breakfast, try one of the freshly prepared omelets or, if you’re feeling particularly ravenous, give the Empire Stacker a go: potatoes smothered in cheese and stacked with your choice of ham, bacon or sausage, then topped with two eggs, with either toast, an English muffin or a pancake. Kids can munch on the Mickey Mouse pancake with chocolate chips and whipped cream. For lunch, there are several burgers and salads, as well as a variety of sandwiches—the lamb sliders with feta cheese and tzatziki sauce are especially delicious. 760 E. Fort Union Blvd., Midvale, 801-566-3664, LandmarkGrill.org

Reef’s Restaurant

Reef’s Restaurant, located in the Marriott Plaza district of Park City, is named for the chef/owner’s son Reef—your first tip that this restaurant is a family affair. Order a glass of wine or cardamom tea and carefully peruse the menu because, in addition to kebabs, hummus and stuffed grape leaves, there are specialty dishes such as Moroccan salmon, moussaka, excellent baba ghanoush and mujadarah. Don’t forget to finish your meal with sesame-spiked halva cookies or basbousa: a semolina coconut cake. 710 Main, Park City, 435-658-0323, ReefsRestaurant.com

Blue Bay Chinese Cuisine

There’s nothing wrong with overindulging on some spicy Chinese food every once in a while, and Blue Bay is there to serve, with Chinese fixings like egg rolls, orange chicken, sweet & sour chicken, chow mein and lo mein for reasonable prices. Loyal customers adore the walnut shrimp, cream cheese wontons and egg drop soup. When you visit, expect a warm, inviting dining experience by the kind staff. 1883 E. Fort Union Blvd, Salt Lake City, 801-944-4412

Sandwich Loft

At the Sandwich Loft in West Valley City, you’ll find all kinds of bread and fixings for a tasty sandwich or wrap. Daily specials of sandwiches, soups and salads are available for dine-in or takeout. The owner, Sherry, is very energetic, cheerful and accommodating. The fresh sliced turkey and avocado on whole wheat bread is a popular favorite, as is the potato salad. 2702 S. 3600 West, Salt Lake City, 801-968-1018

Lee’s Fish & Rice

Lee’s Fish & Rice dishes up delicious steamed halibut, cod, shrimp and chicken strips, served on white rice, among other things. Regulars frequently comment on the friendly customer service. Other menu options include tempura fried chicken, fried shrimp, french fries, egg rolls, fried rice, coleslaw, clam chowder and excellent homestyle tartar and cocktail sauce. With lunch specials under $4, this is the perfect stop for anyone on a budget. 1864 W. 5300 South, Roy, 801-774-8338

Himalayan Kitchen

A delicious Indian and Nepali restaurant known for its authentic lamb and chicken dishes, Himalayan Kitchen is famous for its tasty all-you-can-eat lunchtime buffet. But don’t miss the momos—yummy Nepali dumplings—or the other Indian/Chinese/Nepali/ Persian flavors that Himalayan Kitchen offers. Bhindi masala is a zippy okra dish that will appeal to vegetarians, while meat lovers will enjoy the tandoori lamb kababs. Indian-food fans might opt for chicken korma or lamb vindaloo. And, the housemade flatbreads are always a great accompaniment to any meal. 360 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-3282077, HimalayanKitchen.com

Millie’s Burgers

There’s no frills and no fuss at this Sugar House eatery, just tasty burgers and more than 30 different shakes. The shakes are literally over the top, and the burgers are a throwback to the days of mom & pop burger joints, where the hamburgers actually tasted like beef. The fries are made from hand-cut potatoes, and the fried zucchini sticks are addictive. The cheap prices and fast service are just an added bonus at this little slice of Americana. 2092 S. 1000 East, Salt Lake City, 801-466-6043

Fuego Bistro & Pizzeria

Located in the Prospector neighborhood of Park City, Fuego serves sandwiches, soups, salads, appetizers, pastas, entrees and wood-fired pizzas in an informal

GOODEATS Complete listings at cityweekly.net bistro setting. Start off with melt-in-the-mouth beef carpaccio or the delicious wood-fired artichokes with Asiago and Fontina cheeses before moving on to a Caprese salad or meatball fagioli. Entrees range from housemade lasagna to beef tournedos, but the real draw are the wood-fired pizzas. The Margherita is terrific, and the more adventurous might opt for the seafood pie. Back it up with a nice Italian wine, beer or even a Cosmo from the bar. 2001 Sidewinder Drive, Park City, 435-645-8646, FuegoPizzeria.com

Rice King

Rice King in Midvale features quick Chinese fare for dining in, takeout or delivery. Starters include paperwrapped chicken, barbecued ribs, fried jumbo shrimp and pot stickers. Try the yang chow wonton soup before moving on to lo mein, pan-fried noodles, chow mein, egg foo young, moo shu, fried rice and main dishes like kung pao shrimp, Mongolian beef, blackbean chicken, orange beef and Singapore noodles. 755 E. Fort Union Blvd., Midvale, 801-5689988, RiceKingMidvale.com

Pie Five Pizza Co.

This welcoming restaurant features sushi and Chinese entrees and appetizers. The sushi menu is filled with many unique gems, and the sashimi options are diverse and include yellowtail, eel, octopus, salmon and more. All sushi is 50 percent off, all day. If sushi isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t your thing, you can also choose from a variety of Asian dishes such as beef & broccoli, orange chicken, fried rice, egg-drop soup and egg foo young. The lunch buffet gets you a great amount of food for your buck. Beer and wine are available to accompany your meal. 220 W. 7200 South, Midvale, 801-352-0888

At Fongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fine Chinese Dining in Draper, you can temporarily step out of your busy world and into a friendly, warm Chinese restaurant brimming with welcoming people and vibrant flavors and dĂŠcor. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an extensive selection of lunch combos, which include an entree, egg roll or cream cheese wonton, rice and a choice of egg flower, hot & sour or wonton soup. Chef specialties at Wongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s include mango chicken, Hong Kong pepper steak, Asian-Pacific pineapple chicken and walnut shrimp. 877 E. 12300 South, Draper, 801-542-8004, FongsInDraper.com

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Hearty homestyle soups are the unheralded centerpiece of our national cuisine. Clam chowder, chicken noodle, cheese broccoli or good old-fashioned split-peaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;these are the names that call us when we smack our lips at the thought of soup for lunch. The Soup Kitchen offers all of these flavors and several others. What makes its slurp-licious products so popular its commitment to quality ingredients and making soup with oodles of flavor. When added to its lunch specials such as sloppy joes, egg-salad sandwiches or the BLT, you have a meal that not only satisfies, but also provides a damned fine, allAmerican anchor for the rest of the working day. Multiple locations, SLCSoup.com

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Alamexo

Start your dinner or lunch with some spicy guacamole, which is prepared at your table and comes with chips & salsa. For appetizers, try the hearty tortilla soup or the crispy chicken taquitos. Alamexo makes choosing an entree difficult, since there are so many delicious surf & turf options. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the mood for seafood, try the salmon mancha manteles: the salmon is slow-cooked and served with crispy bananas and pineapple salsa. Or, go with the costillas al piquin: braised beef short ribs that come with spicy poblano peppers in cream and salsa. In addition to the array of Mexican beers, Alamexo offers wide variety of tequilas and Latininspired cocktails that will pair well with your meal. 268 S. State, 801-779-4747, Alamexo.com

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Moâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s American Diner

Breakfast is served all day at Moâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;dishes like the favorite housemade biscuits & gravy and the fresh vegetarian skillet are favorites. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a variety of burgers and sandwiches on fresh-baked bread, and pizzas and housemade soups are served every day of the week for lunch and dinner. Free Wi-Fi and free foosball and pool in the upstairs game room make this a great hangout eatery for adults and kids. 1280 S. 300 West, Salt Lake City, 801-359-0586, MosBarAndGrill.com

Cafe Silvestre

Cafe Silvestre is a family owned Mexican restaurant that keeps its cuisine authentic and housemade. Start the night off with some housemade tortilla chips and salsa. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find favorite south-of-the-border classics like chimichangas and smothered burritos for dinner, and spicy options for breakfast, too, like the chorizo con huevo. Every tortilla is completely stuffed with cheesy excellence. 282 W. 7200 South, Midvale, 801565-0947, CafeSilvestreUt.com

RubySnap

This bakery features fresh-baked gourmet cookies and frozen dough, so you can devour the pastry delights on the spot or warm from your own oven. Owner/creator Tami Steggell names her creations after womenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; friends, sisters and perhaps a fictional babe or two. You can always count on Maris (a chocolate chocolatechip cookie with a carmel center), Nina (moist coffee toffee dough, topped with chocolate and a Brazil nut), Vivianna (citrus dough studded with mangoes and dark chocolate) and other fancy gals to be in the bakery case, and Steggell also offers special cookie variations each monthâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;like the raspberry Memphis, topped with fresh raspberries and powdered sugar, for July. RubySnap can also be found at the Downtown Farmers Market each Saturday, and her treats are available as wedding favors or for your own cookie party. 770 S. 300 West, Salt Lake City, 801-834-6111, RubySnap.com

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Valter’s Osteria reflects chef Valter Nassi’s personality: vibrant and buzzing. The menu has a nearly overwhelming array of can’t-miss dishes like housemade four-cheese ravioli with cream sauce and asparagus, potato gnocchi in a mushroom-cream sauce ($24), escolar with brandy, capers and a trio of mustards, and Nassi’s signature piccata-style chicken: organic chicken breast from Tecumseh Farms sauteed with lemon juice, caper berries and oyster mushrooms, accompanied by risotto in lemon-butter sauce. As food fads come and go, Nassi sticks to the classics, never apologizing for his scaloppini di vitello or the pasta e fagioli. 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. He can make brand-new diners feel like family, which is one reason his restaurant is busy even on a weeknight. Dining at Valter’s Osteria is like attending a symphony with a world-class maestro at the helm. Reviewed July 10. 173 W. 300 South, 801-5214563, ValtersOsteria.com

Bistro 222

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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. 575 S. 700 East, Salt Lake City, 801-364-1144, SkeweredThai.com

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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, Bistro-222.com

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n the opening moments of And So It Goes, Oren Little (Michael Douglas) visits the grave of his beloved wife. It’s a scene that provides a humanizing context for Oren, since he’s generally horrible to most of the people with whom he interacts— kinda casually (but vaguely adorably) racist, kinda casually (but vaguely adorably) self-absorbed, etc. And heaven forbid that, in a movie revolving around a character of that sort, we should spend more than 10 seconds worrying if we might ultimately fall in love with him. It wasn’t always this way. There were times when movies were OK with letting us gradually warm up to irascible, abrasive main characters who might require a little on-screen growing up before they’re deserving of our—and, by extension, the romantic co-lead’s—affections. Such was the case with Billy Crystal’s Harry Burns in When Harry Met Sally ... (also directed by And So It Goes director Rob Reiner); such was the case with Jack Nicholson’s Melvin Udall in As Good As It Gets (also written by And So It Goes screenwriter Mark Andrus). But in And So It Goes, we get to spend 95 minutes on the brutally tedious business of figuring out what the movie can’t wait to tell us: that deep down, Oren’s really a sad guy, not a bad guy. Of course, all the characters in the movie aren’t priv y to our filmmaker-endorsed insight. Oren—a veteran Realtor in coastal Connecticut—just looks like a plain old a-hole to the residents of one of the small apartment complexes he owns, and where he’s living himself while trying to sell his house. Among those residents is Leah (Diane Keaton), herself recently widowed and still prone to bursting into tears while singing standards at a local restaurant. All she sees in Oren is the guy who seems incapable

et’s not even pretend there’s a way for most film critics of my generation to evaluate Life Itself—Steve James’ biography of film critic Roger Ebert, taking its title from Ebert’s 2011 memoir—on any remotely “objective” basis. Personally, I owe my career to the generosity he often showed to young aspiring would-be colleagues. Watching Life Itself is like attending the memorial service for your idol; it’s not a passive experience. Yet that’s also somehow fitting, because Ebert was never one who pretended that he didn’t bring his quirks and preferences to the work of analyzing movies. Life Itself plays out in part as the story of his life as Ebert told it in the book—with the traditional archival footage and talking heads—but it also follows Ebert and his wife, Chaz, during the final months of his life, as the long struggle with cancer that first took most of his jaw along with his ability to eat and speak eventually took his life. It’s that mix of elements that makes Life Itself such a uniquely emotional experience. While the film spends time on Ebert’s early years and the alcoholism he publicly acknowledged later in life, it also focuses on his prickly relationship with his TV partner Gene Siskel—including some very funny outtakes—and how hurt he was that Siskel kept his own terminal illness so secret. The parts of Life Itself that show Ebert’s struggles with rehabilitation and other fallout from his illness feel like keeping a promise to himself to be open about the messier parts of his experience. And that’s why, even when James’ documentary is bumpy or conventional, it captures something fundamental about the process of being thoughtful about art: It’s a process of being thoughtful about life. As much as Life Itself is a memorial to its subject, it’s a celebration of a particularly worthy way of being alive. CW

of dealing with his son, Luke (Scott Shepherd), a recovering addict who is about to serve a short jail sentence. And Leah thinks even worse of Oren once he seems completely incapable— or at least unwilling—when Luke drops Oren’s 10-year-old granddaughter, Sarah (Sterling Jerins), on his doorstep to take care of while Luke is serving his time. Naturally, Leah becomes the primary caretaker for Sarah, forging such a bond that Sarah asks to call her Grandma, while Oren is only able to make Sarah baloney sandwiches and plop her down in front of Duck Dynasty. But from such awkward initial connections are nascent romances born, and Oren and Leah become chummy despite the fact that Leah is awkwardly charming and insecure in a way that may be traditionally Diane Keaton-esque but is still appealing, while Oren is a total dick— though, lest we forget, a dick who watched his beloved wife slowly die of cancer. And So It Goes plays out with machinetooled ingratiating precision, directed by Reiner with the same twinkly absence of anything recognizably human that has characterized his movies for most of the past 20 years. It’s designed to satisfy a weekday matinee crowd that doesn’t really want to wrestle with anything unpleasant; when Oren tries to track down Sarah’s heroin-addict mother, he finds her in a backlot version of The Wrong Side of Town, where the heroin-addicted mother can collapse in a sad heap right in front of the

Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton in And So It Goes poor girl, as heroin-addicted mothers are wont to do. But the main reason And So It Goes is so deeply irritating revolves around Oren, and the way Reiner and Andrus hold our collective hand through the process of making sure we realize he’s only terrible enough a person to be comically terrible. Douglas has played plenty of stiff, entitled guys over the years—he practically became the personification of the Angry White Male in the early ’90s—and he knows exactly when to switch from his gravelly growl to his crooked smile so he can provide some veteran chemistry with Keaton. That doesn’t make the pile of audience-stroking nonsense around him any easier to take. If it wasn’t immediately obvious, when And So It Goes introduces a very pregnant character, that Oren will somehow play a hilarious role in delivering the baby, you haven’t been paying attention to how much this movie wants us to adore the old rascal. Did we mention that his wife died? Of cancer? Very sad. CW

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Ernest Goes to Camp At Brewvies, July 28, 10 p.m. (R)

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Groundhog Day At Gallivan Center, July 28, 8:45 p.m. (PG-13)

The Fluffy Movie [not reviewed] Concert documentary capturing the live performance of comedian Gabriel Iglesias. Opens July 25 at theaters valleywide. (R)

Meet the Patels At Main Library, July 29, 7 p.m. (NR)

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Life Itself HHH.5 See review p. 36. Opens July 25 at Tower Theatre. (R) Lucy [not yet reviewed] Experiments in human potential turn a woman (Scarlett Johansson) into a superhuman being. Opens July 25 at theaters valleywide. (R)

22 Jump Street HHH.5 Cleverer, wittier and snarkier than 21 Jump Street, this is nonstop self-deprecation of its “sequel to a reboot” status, offering well-deserved smacks to about 817 Hollywood things that desperately deserve it: TV shows-turned-movies, sequelitis, dumb action heroes, meet-cutes, bromances, fist fights, frat comedies, 30-something actors playing teenagers, and other nonsense. Cops Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) have “graduated” to going undercover at a college—they’re investigating a drugs case that is “just like last time”—and though this is as big, loud, action-y and goofy as an action-comedy sequel can be, it’s (mostly) not stupid, sexist or homophobic along the way. And it’s surprisingly just plain nice. 22 Jump Street punches up, at the excesses and inanities of Hollywood, and not down at the usual easy, powerless targets—and even then, it’s never cruel about it. (R)—MaryAnn Johanson

Chef HHH Jon Favreau writes, directs and stars as Carl Casper, a oncepromising chef who has grown complacent, cooking good but unimaginative dishes until a scathing review from an influential critic inspires him to try something new: He opens a food truck, then drives across the country with his adoring 10-year-old son (Emjay Anthony) and his sous chef (John Leguizamo) to hone his craft. Favreau and Leguizamo have a natural rapport, and the father-son bonding is sweet without being sappy. While it’s frequently hilarious, more attention is lavished on how to make a proper Cuban sandwich, for example, than on several of the film’s characters or on the story, which comes from a box rather than from scratch. Still, it’s a return to Favreau as sardonic motormouth with a soft center who’s just a lot of fun to hang out with. (R)—EDS

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Wish I Was Here H.5 Zach Braff’s sloppy follow-up to Garden State is a phony, shallow movie, completely disconnected from reality, yet thinks it’s sincere, deep and realistic. I liked Garden State in 2004, but I’m afraid to re-watch it now. Braff plays self-centered Aidan Bloom, a caustic failure of an actor who lives off his wife’s (Kate Hudson) income and relies on money from his father (Mandy Patinkin) to keep the kids in Hebrew school. When Grandpa’s money runs out, Aidan “homeschools” the children (he hates public schools), except he doesn’t actually homeschool them, either, because it’s hard and he doesn’t take anything seriously. It’s the setup for a story where a jerk realizes he’s immature and takes steps to redeem himself, but there are two problems: 1. The movie assumes Aidan is a lovable rascal when he’s actually a negligent, all-around bastard; 2. When the movie is over, Aidan has not learned anything. The already-thin story is watered down further by extraneous characters and subplots, sitcom-dumb jokes and a clueless attitude toward real human issues. Perhaps most offensively, it wastes a rare good performance by Kate Hudson. Opens July 25 at theaters valleywide. (R)—Eric D. Snider

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A Most Wanted Man HHH.5 Director Anton Corbijn packs a wallop of geopolitical cynicism in his adaptation of John le Carré’s 2008 novel. Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as Gunther Bachmann, a German intelligence operative trying to infiltrate terrorist organizations. He finds a potential asset in Issa (Grigoriy Dobrygin), a Chechen Muslim refugee who’s suspected of having terrorist sympathies, and whom Gunther sees as a way of moving up the chain to find the bad guys in charge. The superb cast also features Robin Wright as an American intelligence officer with her own agenda, Rachel McAdams as a public-advocate attorney trying to help Issa gain asylum, and Willem Dafoe as a banker who may be a pivot point for a crucial sting operation. But the anchor is Hoffman in one of his final performances, capturing the world-weariness of a man who believes in his mission but sees shortsighted decisionmaking everywhere he turns. While Andrew Bovell’s screenplay hits a few sluggish patches, he still effectively strips down Le Carré’s narrative to a tense exploration of espionage in a world of constant fear, where the appearance of keeping people safer may be more important than actually keeping people safer. Opens July 25 at theaters valleywide. (R)—Scott Renshaw

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Begin Again HH.5 Writer/director John Carney tries to duplicate the magic of his 2007 musical romance Once, only it plays like a misguided Hollywood remake. In contemporary New York, singer/ songwriter Gretta (Keira Knightley) and struggling musicindustry exec Dan (Mark Ruffalo) connect when he hears her play her music in a bar, leading to a possibility of both healing their emotional wounds. Carney’s on somewhat solid ground with the movie’s music (though your mileage may vary as to its quality), effectively showing how music becomes an inspiration and a connection. But it’s baffling how little Carney appears to appreciate the narrative efficiency he captured in Once, or why its simple love story worked. 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. (PG-13)—SR

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes HHHH The Planet of the Apes movies have always been about how our planet has always been a planet of the apes, doomed by primitive tribalism. Matt Reeves takes this idea in a fascinating direction with a 10-year time jump since the events in Rise of the Planet of the Apes to a clash between some of the last surviving humans and the intelligent apes led by Caesar (the remarkable Andy Serkis). Reeves and his screenwriters keep shifting the sense of where the audienceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s identification should be, and while itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clear early on that this is a War on Terror allegory, the unfolding of that idea is more complicated. Reeves conjures a spectacle that has you questioning every moment where movies have conditioned you to cheer instinctively, because the heroism of a moment is so often defined by your allegiances. (PG-13)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;SR 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 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 genreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not much here that really lingers. Though police procedurals combined with things going bump in the night can be a potent combination, this never advances beyond basic Pavlovian twitches. (R)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Andrew Wright

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Earth to Echo HH Perhaps weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come to expect â&#x20AC;&#x153;derivativeâ&#x20AC;? as a typical characteristic of family fareâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;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. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a reminder of the cute alien robot-things from *batteries not included, plus thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coming-of-age-ish buddy stuff via Stand By Me, and a faux-doc format thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part Chronicle, part Super 8, and almost entirely pointless as a narrative device. The kids are solid enoughâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;particularly Hartwig as the geeky outcastâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but the story doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;SR

Edge of Tomorrow HHH.5 Director Doug Liman may be contemporary cinemaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s foremost chronicler of relationships under pressure, though nothing in this movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basic premiseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;about soldier William Cage (Tom Cruise) caught in a repeating time loop after heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s killed in a battle with invading aliensâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;suggests it addresses interpersonal dynamics. Liman finds inventive, often hilarious ways to tell that story, charging through its â&#x20AC;&#x153;find and kill the leaderâ&#x20AC;? plot with efficiency and a real sense of visual style. But thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also the story of Cageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interaction with another soldier (Emily Blunt) who has been through a similar experience; the repeated days provide a chance to learn from mistakes not just on the battlefield, but in life. The simple, smart pleasures here include a look at how many screwups it can take to learn there may be thingsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; beyond yourself that are worth fighting for. (PG-13)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;SR

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Jersey Boys HH.5 Clint Eastwood wants to give his movie audience the experience of watching a stage musical, without grasping what to keep and what to change. He adapts the hit “jukebox musical” about the Four Seasons, formed in 1950s New Jersey by childhood friends Frankie Valli (John Lloyd Young) and Tommy DeVito (Vincent Piazza). Eastwood only halfway retains a device in which each member tells the story from his own POV, and the familiar songs come almost exclusively during performance scenes, while music disappears entirely in some stretches of the narrative. Most problematic are performances that feel as though they’re being pitched at a live theater audience. There’s an ironic moment when Frankie gets advice before The Ed Sullivan Show that he should perform for the camera rather than for the balcony. Maybe Eastwood never gave his actors that same advice. (R)—SR

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How to Train Your Dragon 2 HHH.5 In the followup to the 2010 original, young Viking Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) and his seaside village have settled into a new normal where dragons are trusted companions—until a warlord (Djimon Hounsou) arrives, with designs on controlling all dragons. Hiccup also discovers that his mother (Cate Blanchett)—whom he’s always believed to be dead—is still alive, and the film finds surprisingly emotional material in this family reunion. But even more satisfying—along with the thrilling, swooping visuals—is the idea that there are different ways to be a leader, and that some choices, even heroic ones, have permanent, not always happy consequences. Perhaps there’s no way to avoid some of the more formulaic action elements of family blockbusters, yet it’s always a pleasant surprise when an institution like DreamWorks Animation decides that playing it safe isn’t the only option. (PG)—SR

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The Grand Seduction HH.5 Ken Scott (Starbuck/Delivery Man) is poised to become cinema’s reigning generator of ingratiating French-language farce source material for English-language remakes, dubious as that distinction may be. His 2003 script Seducing Doctor Lewis inspired this tale of a coastal Canadian village where a citizen names Murray (Brendan Gleeson) heads an effort to trick big-city doctor Paul Lewis (Taylor Kitsch) into staying, to fulfill the requirement of a company considering building a factory. Gleeson’s wonderfully solid presence provides the crucial, convincing sense of the town’s proud history, but while the various attempts to fool Lewis and factory company executives are occasionally amusing, director Don McKellar seems far more concerned with being inoffensively cute than with building real character material. He assumes a lot about quaint small-town charms, and everyone’s ability to forgive everything that’s done there. (PG-13)—SR

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The Fault in Our Stars HHH.5 Allow me to announce at the outset that I had a few major problems with John Green’s mega-successful novel—and this film adaptation improves on nearly all of them. It sticks to the satisfying love story between teen cancer survivors Hazel (Shailene Woodley) and Augustus (Ansel Elgort), but where Green often seemed too infatuated with quirky, quippy dialogue, director Josh Boone and his screenwriting team focus on the chemistry between the actors. And there’s a charming connection between Woodley and Elgort, one that homes in on the key difference between them: Augustus’ fear that he won’t be remembered, and Hazel’s fear that she’ll be remembered too much. One hugely miscalculated sequence at Amsterdam’s Anne Frank house leaves a sour taste, but in general, it’s terrific as the kind of movie it’s trying to be: sharply observed and nakedly emotional. (PG-13)—SR

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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 are with Jenny Slate’s caustic comedic sensibility. Slate plays struggling wouldbe 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-offactly 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 Persecuted H With all due respect to Christian conservatives convinced that a secret government cabal is doing its best to crush the American faithful under its hobnailed boot: Get over yourselves. This delusional melodrama from writer/director Daniel Lusko—about an evangelist (James Remar) who’s framed for murder when he refuses to support a vaguely sinister piece of legislation called the Faith & Fairness Act—plays like a version of The Fugitive where the one-armed man is liberal America. And it’s not even a coherent, internally consistent delusional melodrama. Sure, there are competent actors to help out, with Bruce Davison accompanying Remar. But between the nonstop second-unit footage of Founding Father statues and waving flags, and the red-meat-for-the-base warnings about what the guv’ment is prepared to do to get its atheistic way, it just plays as another overwrought, alarmist cog in the paranoia machine. (PG-13)—SR Planes: Fire & Rescue H.5 Ugly animation (that really suffers in 3-D), stale plotting and pop-culture references that date back to when the target audience’s parents were their age predominate in this sequelto-a-spinoff. Dane Cook returns to voice Dusty Crophopper, the cropduster-turned-racing-champ who discovers that his

racing career might be at an end, and thus turns to firefighting as a second career; the remainder of the plot concerns his quest to get certified. Along the way, he meets any number of embarrassing racial and gender stereotypes—voiced by an impressive cast of character actors, including Julie Bowen, Wes Studi and Cedric the Entertainer, among many others— and plays out an irritatingly predictable plot full of truly crass gags and a level of mortal peril that might be a bit too intense for younger kids. Not quite Disney’s worst ever, but not far from it, either. (PG)—Danny Bowes The Purge: Anarchy HH.5 James DeMonaco has created a fascinating, complex alternate America with its annual night of “all crime is legal” mayhem— but it feels like he’s trying to pack it all into one sequel. Instead of focusing on one family in one house, this follow-up involves five people—a mother and daughter, a married couple nearing a breakup, and one badass on a mission (Frank Grillo)—trying to survive when they find themselves on the streets during Purge Night. There’s still rich allegorical class-warfare material in the premise, and the sense of entitlement that fuels so much violence; Grillo also makes for a great haunted anti-hero. DeMonaco simply casts too broad a net, moving through episodic situations that don’t always pack a unique thematic punch. Next time, he should trust that he can show us just one compelling corner of this world. (R)—SR Sex Tape HHH Following Neighbors, it’s another tale where a Freaks & Geeks alum and his improbably hot spouse try to get their marital groove back through raunchy misadventures, as married-withkids Jay (Jason Segel) and Annie (Cameron Diaz) find that the epic night of sex they recorded for themselves just might have been uploaded to iPads all over Los Angeles. There’s a moderately successful attempt to look at longtime partners hoping to rekindle initial sparks, but mostly there’s a series of bizarre situations as Jay and Annie chase down all extant copies of the sensitive file. And when some of those situations involve Rob Lowe as a coked-up corporate exec with a creepy affinity for Disney movies, or a family trip to a porn website’s headquarters, it adds up to something you may laugh at a lot, even if you’re not proud of it. (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 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 screwup 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 Third Person HH Writer/director Paul Haggis (Crash) intertwines three narratives set in three different cities: a writer in Paris (Liam Neeson) 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 obvious early on, making it harder to feel there’s much at stake even when there are effective individual moments and performances. And as satisfying as it might be to see 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 puzzle pieces to fall into place. The final picture on that puzzle isn’t worth the wait. (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

Venus in Fur HHH It’s a silly thing, really, yet there I was, watching Roman Polanski’s adaptation of David Ives’ play, thinking, “These subtitles are a big mistake.” Polanski translates to French Ives’ story about the shifting power dynamics when theatrical director Thomas (Mathieu Amalric) auditions Vanda (Emmanuelle Seigner) for the lead role in his latest play. Ives’ play is a thrilling piece of intellectual theater, terrifically performed by the two leads here, and Polanski doesn’t monkey around with its strongest thematic ideas of sexual politics and control. Yet there’s that little matter of how the subtitles spell out in italics when the characters are supposed to be reading from the play-within-the-play’s script, a huge miscalculation in a narrative that pivots on moments where the line between theater and reality blurs. You can change the meaning of a text completely, depending on the particular slant you give it. (R)—SR

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When a teen girl (Lexi Giovagnoli) is uprooted to a new East Coast high school in her senior year, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s torn between two boys and her One Last Shot at becoming a dancer. How many previous shots sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had at the old age of 17 remains unclear. (Monarch)

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Speaking of dancing: 20 years after his career as a champion salsa dancer was traumatically ended, Bruce (Nick Frost) faces down his demons and gets back on the dance floor to win over a woman (Rashida Jones). See? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not over at 17. (eOne)

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4. Of the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s many B-celeb cameos, the least convincing are: A. Robert Hays (Airplane!) as an airline pilot and Judd Hirsch (Taxi) as a cab driver. B. Billy Ray Cyrus and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Downtownâ&#x20AC;? Julie Brown as a doctor and nurse. C. Andy Dick as an NYPD cop and pro wrestler Kurt Angle as an NYFD fire chief. D. The Today showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Matt Lauer and Al Roker as newscasters.

2. The movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s catchy, Ramones-y theme song (yes, it has a theme song) features the lyrics: A. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stay away from Central Park/ Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get your ass bit by a freakinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; shark.â&#x20AC;? B. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So damn much trouble weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in/ So ironic our heroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name is Fin.â&#x20AC;? C. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Teeth are raining from the sky/ â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Scuse me while I kiss this guy.â&#x20AC;? D. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Go, go, go, go, go, go, go!/ Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all gonna die in a Sharknado!â&#x20AC;?

5. Co-star Mark McGrath, who gets an inexplicable amount of screen time, used to sing in the band and host the TV show: A. Smash Mouth and Entertainment Tonight. B. The Spin Doctors and Access Hollywood. C. 98 Degrees and To Catch a Predator. D. Sugar Ray and Extra.

6. The guy who wrote Sharkado and Sharknado 2 is actually named: A. Cyclone Jones. B. Lightning Lebowitz. C. Avalanche Johansson. D. Thunder Levin. 7. In addition to Sharknado 2 , Syfy will also soon roll out the new monster flick: A. Meta Shark vs. Twitter Critter. B. DinoWeasel vs. SharkAardvark. C. Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark. D. Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda. 8. Beside the whole sharks-sucked-upinto-a tornado thing, the most unbelievable part of The Second One is: A. Ian Ziering flying through the sky with a chainsaw hacking up sharks. B. Tara Reidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s character was scheduled to appear on Live! With Kelly & Michael (who also appear) to promote a book she wrote. C. Said â&#x20AC;&#x153;book,â&#x20AC;? titled How to Survive a Sharknado, looks all of 50 pages long. D. A packed stadium for a Mets game. CW

Noah Before a flood overtakes the planet, God tells Noah (Russell Crowe) to build an ark and save the animals because humans suck (as true now as it was then). A poignant family drama based on a true/fake story from an old book/the Bible. (Paramount)

The Other Woman A wife (Leslie Mann), a mistress (Cameron Diaz) and a younger mistress (Kate Upton) plot revenge against the man (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been three-timing them all. Also starring Nicki Minajâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ass, which should get its own movie. (Fox)

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Answers: 1: D. 2: D. 3: D. 4: D. 5: D. 6: D. 7: C and D. 8: B, C and D.

3. At the beginning of Sharknado 2, Tara Reid loses: A. Her ability to create even the most basic facial expressions. B. Any trace of acting talent she may have, arguably, once possessed. C. Half of her screen time (and probably salary) to Kari Wuhrer. D. Her left hand.

In Vol. 30(!), Joel, Mike and the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;bots suffer through terrible flicks The Black Scorpion, Outlaw of Gor, The Projected Man and It Lives By Night, episodes that span the Comedy Central and Sci-Fi Channel (not Syfy) years. (Shout Factory)

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here are certain words that seem to accompany any online mention of Those Darlins. When describing the Nashville, Tenn., band’s 2009 self-titled debut album—with its popular single “Red Light Love”—those words are usually “altcountry” and “cowpunk.” Those Darlins’ second album, 2011’s Screws Get Loose, often got pegged as “garage rock.” And for their entire career, the female band members have been “sassy” “tough girls.” Vocalist/guitarist and songwriter Jessi Zazu is sick of all the labels. “It’s really frustrating when you know that you’re not just this one little thing that people want you to be,” Zazu says from her home. The trio’s typical response to getting labels slapped onto their work, she says, is, “Fuck that, we’re this now.” But, she adds, being pigeonholed is “also kind of nice because you can always keep people guessing.” Since Those Darlins are currently in a “transition” period between albums, that could be a prophetic statement. With their third album, 2013’s Blur the Line, the band proved they have the gumption to test their own sonic boundaries, pushing their sound into territory as diverse as doo-wop and psych rock, executed with plenty of raw guitar, pounding rock rhythms and snarling energy. But despite Blur the Line’s ambition, it had a mixed reception with listeners and critics, who could be divided into those who embraced the band’s new direction and those who clung to Those Darlins’ ragged punk beginnings or thought Blur the Line was too all over the place. Zazu isn’t concerned with seeking approval, however— only with being truthful in the music the band makes. “I feel like the people that have stuck with us from the beginning or people who respect our full career and kind of get who we actually are ... those are the people that help me just feel like, ‘OK, I’m an artist that can make art that comes from where I’m at, and that’s OK,’ ” she says. “And then there’s another school of people who just need to have some type of label or some type of box to kind of put it in to make it make sense to them.” Evidently, the place where Zazu and co-vocalist/guitarist and songwriter Nikki Kvarnes were at while making Blur the Line was a “pretty intense, serious growing stage,” Zazu says. It was a period where they realized, she says, “if we try to write songs that are just like trying to get people going, that are just fun, silly songs, it won’t be being true to where we are right now.”

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Those Darlins just dare you to define them. In addition to exploring blurred lines of all types, and the fact that “nothing in life is just black and white,” Zazu says, several songs on the album find her delving into “things inside of me that I didn’t really want to look at, but I just did anyway, and finding strength through making myself vulnerable in that way.” On the album’s final track, “Ain’t Afraid,” she sings in her distinctive twangy monotone about refusing to be daunted by a brush with cancer. That message of courage also echoes in “Western Sky,” in which she and Kvarnes sing in unison, “Let’s make our own noise.” They’re telling lyrics, hinting at how far Zazu and Kvarnes— the lineup is completed by drummer Linwood Regensburg— have come since their days playing covers of traditional country songs in restaurants with former member Kelley Anderson. In their early days, the band was more concerned with onstage antics (although Zazu can still pull off a hell of a stage dive) and “everything but the music,” she says, but with Blur the Line, the band sought to put the focus back on the music. “We want to know that if we just went out onstage and just played the songs and we didn’t do anything special, that we could feel good that we at least wrote some really badass songs,” she says. Whatever incarnation of Those Darlins is embodied in their next album, it will be something listeners have never heard before. Thanks to all those pesky labels, “we’ve been so eager to transform into something new every time we do anything,” Zazu says. “We know our full potential ... we know who we are and where we’ve come from and what we’re capable of, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we’ve showed that part of ourselves to the world yet.” CW

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Kithkin The Polyphonic Spree In order to counter the effects of a bad day, watch cat videos on a loop, eat bacon and listen to The Polyphonic Spree. The orchestral music created by this Dallas, Texas, indie-pop band is bright, shiny and joyous, featuring the voices of frontman Tim Delaughter and his 12-plus-member rock choir. And the energy The Polyphonic Spree bring to their live show is the same that’s depicted in the brand-new music video for “Hold Yourself Up,” from 2013’s Yes, It’s True. In the video, a man dies and goes to a version of the afterlife where the band is rocking out in a barn in the countryside, jumping up and down and, in the case of the cello player, showing off some epic cello spinning. Sarah Jaffe will also perform. In the Venue, 219 S. 600 West, 7 p.m., $20 in advance, $22 day of show, InTheVenueSLC.com New Madrid The debut album from Athens, Ga., quartet New Madrid, 2012’s Yardboat, was excellent, a collection of dreamy

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ear-delighting surprises, from the ragtimestyle piano solo at the end of “The Man Who Wants You” to the dark, weighty beat of “High Water”—no conventional acousticguitar strumming here. And Lee expertly melds his relaxed, bluesy voice into each style. Provo’s own Desert Noises will open the evening; it’ll be a treat to experience their rowdy rock & roll energy filling the enormous amphitheater. Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre, 300 Wakara Way, 8 p.m., $37 garden members, $42 general public, RedButteGarden.org

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “When one has not had a good father, one must create one,” said philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. What does that mean? How might you go about “creating” a good father? Well, you could develop a relationship with an admirable older man who is an inspiring role model. You could read books by men whose work stirs you to actualize your own potentials. If you have a vigorous inner life, you could build a fantasy dad in your imagination. Here’s another possibility: Cultivate in yourself the qualities you think a good father should have. And even if you actually had a pretty decent father, Scorpio, I’m sure he wasn’t perfect. So it still might be interesting to try out some of these GEMINI (May 21-June 20) ideas. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to get more of America’s biggest winery is E & J Gallo. It sells more wine than the fathering energy you would thrive on. any other company, and has been named the planet’s Most Powerful Wine Brand four different years. Ernest and Julio SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Gallo launched the enterprise in 1933 after studying the art “If I seem free, it’s because I’m always running.” So said of winemaking in pamphlets they found in the basement of a Sagittarian musician Jimi Hendrix, widely regarded as one of public library in Modesto, Calif. I foresee a less spectacular but the most inventive and electrifying guitarists who ever lived. metaphorically similar arc for you, Gemini. Sometime soon— Does that prospect have any appeal to you, Sagittarius? I don’t, maybe it has already happened—information or inspiration of course, recommend that you keep running for the rest of your you come across in a modest setting will launch you on the path long life. After a while, it will be wise to rest and ruminate. But I to future success. There is one caveat: You must take seriously do think it might be illuminating to try this brazen approach for a the spark you encounter, and not underestimate it because it week or two. If it feels right, you might also want to mix in some appears in humble circumstances. dancing and skipping and leaping with your running. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) As you weave your way through the next chapter of your story, I suggest you take inspiration from the turtle. You may even want to imagine that the turtle is your animal ally, a guide that helps you access the gradual and deliberate kind of intelligence you will need. Moving quickly will not be appropriate for the leisurely lessons that are coming your way. The point is to be deep and thorough about a few things rather than half-knowledgeable about a lot of things. There’s one other turtle-like quality I hope you will cultivate, too: the ability to feel at home wherever you are.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Hypothesis: The exciting qualities that attract you to someone in the first place will probably drive you a bit crazy if you go on to develop a long-term relationship. That doesn’t mean you should avoid seeking connections with intriguing people who captivate your imagination. It does suggest you should have no illusions about what you are getting yourself into. It also implies that you should cultivate a sense of humor about how the experiences that rouse your passion often bring you the best tests and trials. And why am I discussing these eccentric truths with you right now? Because I suspect you will be living proof of them in the months to come. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) In 1961, Paul Cezanne’s painting The Artist’s Sister was on display at a museum in Aix-en-Provence, France. Then a lucky event occurred: It was stolen. When it was finally recovered months later, it had been ripped out of its frame. An art restorer who was commissioned to repair it discovered that there was a previously unknown Cezanne painting on the back of the canvas. As a result, the appraisal of the original piece rose $75,000. Now both sides are on view at the St. Louis City Art Museum. I foresee a comparable progression in your life, Pisces. An apparent setback will ultimately increase your value.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) When a crocodile slams its jaws shut, the energy it summons is powerful. But when the beast opens its jaws, the force it exerts is weak. That’s because the muscles used to close are much more robust than the muscles used to open. I’m wondering if an analogous story might be told about you these days, Virgo. Are you more prone to close down than to open up? Is it easier for you to resist, avoid, and say no than it is to be receptive, extend a welcome, and say yes? If so, please consider cultivating a better balance. You need both capacities running at full strength in the coming days.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) In the next 11 months, Capricorn, you will be given some choice riddles about the art of togetherness. To solve them, you will have to learn much more about the arts of intimacy—or else! It’s up to you: Either work your ass off as you strengthen your important relationships, or else risk watching them unravel. But don’t take this as a grim, sobering assignment. On the contrary! Play hard. Experiment freely. Be open to unexpected inspiration. Have fun deepening your emotional intelligence. That approach will work best.

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