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Letters Hill Horror

Your article [“Broken Wings,” City Weekly, July 10] was heartbreaking. I left Hill Air Force Base in October 2012 because the toxic work environment was destroying me. I am still recovering from the anxiety. I never trusted the Wingman program or any of the other “resources” at HAFB. I met with a private counselor, who helped me a lot, but eventually, I had to pay for my therapy out of pocket because my insurance company refused to pay after a while. There are three events related to on-base suicides that I wanted to talk about. The first was an utterly shocking article in the Hilltop Times about one of the suicides. In the article, the victim’s widow said that it was all his fault: He had willingly injured himself, become addicted to prescription painkillers and then killed himself. I couldn’t believe that they published such vitriolic slander against one of our fellow wingmen. I was deeply disturbed by it. The second incident occurred on a Sunday during a church meeting. I am a Latter-day Saint, and we learned that the HAFB chaplain had requested that LDS Church leaders do more to prevent suicides among our members that worked at Hill AFB. The chaplain had said that eight of the 11 suicide victims were LDS. We felt like we were being blamed for the suicides on the base; the suicides were mostly a Mormon problem. Finally, the base commander ordered that everyone on

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ing the drug test. They all claimed that they had been pressured to keep drinking until they were able to urinate. My supervisor said that the program manger was now out to get me and I had better be careful. I had to talk to the contractor’s doctor two more times before he decided that I wasn’t a drug user. I resented being accused of drug use and being forced to prove otherwise or else risk losing my job. This was when I seriously began looking for work elsewhere. This experience is not the only reason why I left, but it was a significant factor. Thank you for doing good investigative reporting. However, I doubt anything will change at Hill AFB.

Mike Bastian Mill Creek, Wash. Correction: The article “Pizza Party” [July 31, City Weekly] should have referred to Fire & Slice Pizza Mobile Wood Fired Pizza (FireAndSlicePizza.com), which appears Sundays at the Wasatch Front Farmers Market at Wheeler Farm (6351 S. 900 East, Murray).

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OPINION Eternal Questions Most everyone has at least some opinion on the place called heaven, where, it’s claimed, the righteous will live after death. I’m sure my view is not one shared by the majority of Utahns—I’m agnostic and have no idea one way or the other if such a place exists. If it does, I need to know more before being able to provide anything approaching a rational opinion. I suspect the opinion of my Mormon friends is based on more information than members of most other religions. Instead of mere scriptural generalities, they have grown up privy to extra details of what to expect when they pass through the pearly gates, thanks to latter-day revelation that offers additional insight above and beyond what is available elsewhere. Mormon doctrine describes three degrees of glory with an explanation of who will inherit each, along with some inside information of what to expect when they get there. There are answers to hard questions about infants who die before the age of accountability and what those who didn’t have an opportunity to be baptized on Earth can look forward to when they pass through the veil. That’s definitely more info with which to form an opinion, but still not enough to satisfy me. I question how anyone can judge a mysterious place called heaven with the current dearth of significant particulars. I need to know more. For example, are we going to appear perfect in every way? Will we all look like movie stars in the prime of life forever? Will we even be able to recognize each other? I guess I wouldn’t complain if I could end up with the same handsome features of a Richard Gere or Leonardo DiCaprio. It might prove exhilarating to be a babe mag-

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net for a change—certainly a pleasant shift from what I’ve experienced so far. How much freedom of choice will there be? Will eternal life be ruled by a strict theocracy? What happens if you don’t agree with all the rules and regulations or you break them? Will you be allowed the privacy to do the things you want as long as you don’t adversely affect others? I hope heaven won’t be like it was in the part in Pleasantville, one of my favorite movies, where there’s no color. I would have a much higher opinion if it were like when the town rebelled against strict authoritarianism and the drab existence of conformity transformed from black & white to the rich colors of the rainbow. I also need to know more about the final judgment that supposedly determines who qualifies for admittance. Obviously, it can’t have anything to do with passing any kind of mortal test— no test that has been applied equally to everyone who has ever lived on earth. To be fair, everyone would have had to have been subjected to the same test criteria under the exact same circumstances. Otherwise, there’s no way to know who passed the test. For example, human A was born in the ghetto to a single mother in an atmosphere where drug lords called the shots. Human B grew up in the best circumstances possible. Maybe you’d give A a break and make it easier to get into heaven, but would that really be fair? What if A had been given the same opportunities as B, but blew it? You’ll never know. And is there going to be any reason to improve oneself if there’s no longer any room for betterment? Personally, some of my greatest satisfaction has come from

setting and achieving goals involving deficiencies of mind and body. Will such gratification be lacking in an environment where personal improvement of that kind is a nonissue because perfection has already been achieved? What about skin color? Will it remain the way it is now or will we all end up white, black or brown? What about the other bodily functions that make up the human body? I wonder if perfection might at a minimum result in no longer being encumbered with the propensity to cough, sneeze, snore, sweat, blush, burp and pass gas. That might affect my opinion (in a positive way). Back on a more serious note, I can’t imagine heaven without golf—that’s more like how I picture hell. But what fun would it be if everybody were perfect and all golfers were equally talented? W hat about other sports? Would heaven be the end of competition? What fun would it be to participate in a bowling league where everybody scored 300 all the time? If perfection means the end of competitive sports, that would definitely impact my opinion (in a negative way). I’ll quit now because it’s time for dinner. I look forward to satisfying my appetite. If we’re perfect, is hunger even going to be an issue? If we do eat, what are we going to consume? If there’s no more death, I guess that might include cows. Are we all going to end up being vegetarians? I’ll be disappointed if a tasty Texas Roadhouse sirloin steak is off the heavenly table. Better eat up now. CW

It might prove exhilarating to be a babe magnet for a change—certainly a pleasant shift from what I’ve experienced

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What would or wouldn’t be in your personal version of heaven? Scott Renshaw: I’d like to think there will be musicals. If not, show me to the place that has ’em. Derek Carlisle: Jimi on guitar, Bonham on drums, Burton on bass and a different vocalist on the hour, every hour.

Susan Kruithof: I have no personal version and follow this sound advice when it comes to heaven: “If you stop tellin’ people it’s all sorted out after they’re dead, they might try sorting it all out while they’re alive.” —Terry Pratchett, Good Omens

Ylish Merkley: Lots and lots of baby bunnies. Actually, fields of baby animals frolicking about. You could lie down in a fluffy pile of kittens and be swarmed by playful puppies. Mosquitoes would definitely not be there. I believe there’s actually a room in hell to trap the especially wicked to be devoured eternally and repeatedly by the things.

Eric S. Peterson: I wish it were like the end of a video game, where I got shown a big screen full of stats on how my life went. I want to know how many times I lied, laughed, cried, vomited, sneezed, got punched, cut off traffic, was correct in an argument; I want to know how many calories I ate, how many hangovers I had, how many books I read, and how many hours I spent writing versus just staring at a screen. I want a map with pins showing everywhere I went. Also, how many chicken wings consumed ... the whole shebang. And after I’ve gone over my stats, I want to start a new game.

Stephen Dark: Paper, kindling, wood, matches, a hunk of beef, fresh bread, a bottle or two of Malbec and some old tangos on vinyl to listen to while I grill. And friends, of course.

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HITS&MISSES by Katharine Biele

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We’re not saying stop the airport expansion, but Sen. David Hinkins, R-Orangeville, makes a good point about pollution. Why hasn’t anyone mentioned the possible ill effects of expansion on the air and, for that matter, the kind of air pollution the airport already creates? Hinkins even made a comment about pushing medical-waste company Stericycle from North Salt Lake while ignoring airport pollution. Comments on the Deseret News article about it were even more compelling. For instance, new businesses have to meet requirements from the Environmental Protection Agency before starting up, and commercial vehicles seem to be able to avoid penalties for their emissions. Driving in the valley is unrestricted, even on high-pollution days, and Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker prefers talk of restricting fireworks to any substantive solution. While taxes are a dirty word in Republican-run Utah—especially for businesses—they could also be effective in curbing large air polluters.

Wage Wars Utah’s all about women these days—at least in theory. A recent study by the National Women’s Law Center shows that 1 in 5 working mothers of young children are paid less than $10.10 an hour. The study has a seven-point recommendation, including raising the minimum wage, making affordable health-care accessible and enforcing employment anti-discrimination laws. Lucky gals, the Legislature’s Women in the Economy Commission met for the first time to “increase public awareness of women’s impact on the state economy.” Utah needs more than a little awareness.

Automatic Failure Oooh, boy! Some Utahns are so opposed to the Common Core that they’re willing to go back to the failed No Child Left Behind model—yes, NCLB, former President George W. Bush’s brainchild that sought to improve schools through ultimately unattainable benchmarks. The state school board will decide whether to continue asking for a waiver Aug. 8, and at least one member—Kim Burningham—wants to go for it. That’s because NCLB requires achievement in 40 different areas, requires all schools to reach 100 percent attainment by, ahem, this year, and would thus assure that all schools fail. Also, Utah schools would have to redirect Title I funds at a cost of $23 million. It’s interesting how a bad idea can morph into a good one through political machinations—and fear of the feds.

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When Patrick Wiggins isn’t contacting newspapers and TV stations about the latest solar event or educating Tooele schoolchildren on physics, he might be skydiving or planning his first base jump—and, on Aug. 14, he’ll be in Washington, D.C., receiving the Distinguished Public Service Award from NASA. The award, the highest that NASA gives to civilians, is in honor of the 65-year-old amateur astronomer and part-time pilot’s work as a NASA Solar System Ambassador. For more about Wiggins and the latest astronomy news, visit UtahAstro.info.

What’s so interesting about space? That it’s there! Since I’ve been a kid, I’ve been enamored with the sky—looking through a telescope and seeing Saturn for the first time; I can still remember actually doing that when I was just a little teeny kid. When I was in my early teens, my mother bought a telescope for me—a piece of junk, it turned out to be. That did kind of kill my interest; it was so clunky and hard to use, and it didn’t work very well. When I got off active duty from the Air Force and was going through civilian flight school in Oklahoma, that’s when Comet Kohoutek came around, in 1973. It fizzled, but that’s what rekindled my interest in astronomy.

What is a Solar System Ambassador?

We work through NASA on educating the public about space and astronomical events. When there’s something happening astronomy-wise, I contact the media. I think that probably most of what I do is tell people what’s going on—“There’s going to an eclipse”— or talk about an occasional meteor shower, or even something simple like, “Go out tonight and Venus is right next to the moon.” People will probably see that without my telling them, but they wouldn’t know what it was. Or they’ll find out, and go out and look. Getting people to look up—that’s what we want.

What impact do you hope to have on the community? We need more scientists. I wish this country was more science literate. Too many people have the idea that science is dull and boring. I go into a school and say, “We’re going to do science today,” and there’s invariably a few kids who groan. But then I start doing the program, and those same kids are laughing, jumping up and down, clapping. Then I’ll hear from the teachers that those kids just won’t shut up about the experiments we did. That’s what we’re looking for. Most adults, especially my age, they are going where they are going. So let’s get them when they are young, and show them that science is fun.

What’s the future of space exploration?

It may be that NASA decides to sidestep the moon and go straight to Mars. I think that during my lifetime, if I live to be a normal age, I’ll live long enough to see humans at Mars. I like free enterprise, and there are a few companies that are actually working on putting people in space. Spaceport America in New Mexico has already built the runway and all the facilities, and a guy down in the Mojave desert is building a spacecraft, and starting at the end of this year, you’ll be able to buy a ticket and be shot into space. SpaceX, another private company, is now supplying the space station. Now they are kind of saddling up to NASA. Private enterprise—I really do think that’s the way of the future. Kids today, assuming things continue the way they are, will be going on vacations in space in 20 to 30 years, maybe less.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Mod Meals

BY CECIL ADAMS

What’s the story on genetically modified organism (GMO) foods? I’m exposed to a nearly constant stream of horror stories of cancerous death caused by evil GMOs, often including terrifying photos of rats with fistsized tumors. Is there any truth to the claims of those preaching the anti-GMO gospel? —Brian “Any” is a sweeping term, Brian. Let’s say there isn’t much truth—and there better not be. Although GMO foes may not want to admit it, the battle is over. GMOs rule. Since the mid-1990s, GMO crops have steadily increased in terms of total crop area, with the United States planting more than any other country. For some crops, the great majority of acreage is planted with GMO seeds—notably soybeans. Biotech seed accounts for close to two-thirds of global cotton and roughly a quarter of corn and canola. In the United States, about half of all cropland is growing GMOs, including 93 percent of the acreage for soybeans, 85 percent for corn and 82 percent for cotton. GMOs are plants or animals with an altered genetic code not found in nature. Genetic modification in the broad sense is nothing new; humans have been creating hybrid plants and animals for centuries, with results ranging from tangelos to killer bees. The difference with GMOs is that they’re created by direct modification of the genome rather than traditional breeding methods. The first GMOs were created by inserting the Bt gene, which gives built-in insecticide properties to plants such as tomatoes, tobacco, corn and soybeans. Since then, genetic modifications have been “stacked”— often via traditional crossbreeding—to produce new crop species with multiple special characteristics. For example, several GMO corn types have been crossed to create one with greater herbicide tolerance. Gene stacking makes it possible to produce a bewildering array of GMO plants, each of which is adapted for different circumstances. It’s estimated that by 2015, at least 24 genetic modifications of corn will be commercially feasible. If they’re quadruple-stacked, that could mean more than 12,000 GMO corn varieties. So, what problems have been reported from GMO crops? Let’s dispose of the scariest. In 2012, French molecular biologist Gilles-Eric Séralini, a vocal opponent of genetic modification, published a paper claiming rats that were fed Bt-modified corn treated with Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide were much more likely to develop cancer. The press conference at which the study was released was a transparent—and successful—attempt to manipulate public opinion. In return for a first look at the research, reporters were required to agree they wouldn’t ask Séralini’s professional peers to check his work. They were shown those photos of rats with bodies grotesquely distorted by enormous tumors, and within hours, the images and other grim details had been tweeted, posted, and blogged

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around the world 1.5 million times. Séralini’s methods and conclusions were widely disputed by other scientists, and the paper was eventually retracted and republished in much milder form. But the PR damage was done. Researchers have reported other GMOlinked health issues—food allergies, stomach and uterine inflammation in pigs—but here, too, reviewing scientists have seen problems with methodology. Most studies thus far have found little reason for concern. That’s not to say there aren’t legitimate worries about GMO usage, mainly stemming from environmental impact: n A serious decline in the monarch butterfly population may be due to increased use of herbicides on herbicide-resistant GMO crops, which kills the milkweed plants monarch larvae feed on. n Chinese GMO cotton crops have seen an increase in second-tier pest insects as the primary pests have been reduced by insecticidal GMO cotton. It’d be foolish to say nothing will ever go awry with GMO crops. The history of traditional agriculture is full of seemingly bright ideas leading to massive unintended consequences (for example: kudzu, promoted as ground cover till 1953 and now considered a noxious weed, spreading at 150,000 acres annually). That said, GMOs are much more closely regulated than farming experiments of old. The hot regulatory issue now is labeling. No one can seriously dispute the public’s right to know the GMO content of consumer products, but making it happen isn’t easy— GMOs must be carefully tracked from planting to market. Laws vary among countries: The European Union requires labeling GMO content at 0.9 percent or more; in China, any GMO content must be indicated; in the United States, labeling is voluntary. GMO crops have been a boon for farmers, with an estimated $78 billion in additional farm revenue worldwide from 1996 to 2010 due to reduced costs. Since 1996 total pesticide use has dropped by nearly a billion pounds. Reduced carbon emissions due to GMO crops are equivalent to taking 8.6 million cars off the road. Upcoming GMO foods include more-nutritious “golden rice,” scurvy-fighting corn, and cancerpreventing tomatoes. Whatever may go wrong, and something surely will, GMO crops are here to stay. Send questions to Cecil via StraightDope. com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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Mormons struggle to define themselves before their church’s power. By Stephen Dark sdark@cityweekly.net @stephenpdark “Is Kate Kelly a hero or villain?” That question was thrown out by a presenter discussing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ approach to transparency when it comes to its finances during one of the final panels at the 2014 Sunstone Symposium. The answer, the presenter quipped, “depends on whether people from the Church Office Building are here.” Kelly, who was excommunicated from the LDS Church in June after leading the group Ordain Women in its ongoing struggle for gender equality in the Mormon faith, was a hero to many at the symposium, this year titled Bridges & By ways: Traversing the Mormon Landscape. She and other leaders in the Mormon feminist movement, including Margaret Toscano, received a standing ovation in a packed auditorium as part of a panel addressing how to tackle stereotypes of “nice women” when taking on sexism in the Mormon church. Another panel member, Janice Allred, received thundering applause when she characterized the obstacle to women gaining the priesthood as the men “standing at the gates of the temple with their priesthood keys dangling between their legs.” That unapologetic tone was also apparent in a panel of board members of Ordain Women who addressed the question of where the group was going. One speaker highlighted how in the run-up to, and fall-out after, Kelly’s excommunication, week ly church attendance by female and male Mormon feminists, according to an Ordain Women Facebook survey, had dropped 12 percent and 15 percent, respectively. While one panelist said that her emotional response to Kelly’s excommunication was akin to “an abused wife who won’t leave her man,” another noted that in the wake of Kelly’s excommunication, the consequences of “breaking the cultural script” that “the experience of being women in religion is being silent” was hate mail and being ostracized and rejected at their local wards.

Kate Kelly and her recent excommunication from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for her leadership of the Ordain Women movement were hot topics at the annual Sunstone Symposium, a gathering of Mormon scholars and current and former church members. The panel argued that the LDS Church had severely underestimated the impact of the Internet—Ordain Women is run “95 percent online,” Kelly said. “We’re not going any where,” said the final panelist, to rousing applause, in response to the question of the future of Ordain Women. The three-day annual symposium, held at the University of Utah, provided an opportunity for LDS scholars, church members and former members to view issues such as gender equality, polygamy, gun rights, emotional abuse, church discipline, environmental stewardship and more arcane aspects of church history through the prism of progressive Mormon thought. One panel addressed a federal judge’s December 2013 ruling effectively striking down the legal prohibition against “religious cohabitation” that was overshadowed by a federal ruling by Judge Robert Shelby that briefly opened the door to gay marriage in Utah. The ruling by federal judge Clark Waddoups, noted panelist and Nevada anthropology professor Jennifer Huss Basquiat, did not legalize polygamy, nor did it decriminalize underage marriage. “All it did was strike down the religious cohabitation section of [Utah’s] bigamy laws,” she said. Basquiat argued that “a lot of distress comes from the fact that [polygamists] can’t share [their] joy,”

of being in plural marriage because of their fear of prosecution. Polygamists, she argued, “simply want not to be felons.” Vick i Darger is “spiritually ” married to Joe Darger and has two sister wives. She cares for the nine children she had by him at their suburban Utah residence. She was raised in polygamy with 39 siblings. “We had a celebration the night we heard” about Waddoups’ ruling, she said. Her ex tended family was “overcome,” she said, but after the cheering, they realized the ruling could still be appealed, and “they lay low. There’s still a mistrust of society.” Centennial Park polygamist Stan Shepp said the ruling “was a step in the right direction.” He works in St. George, he said, and if someone learns he is polygamist, he can face discrimination. “It’s OK for [local residents] to persecute us, mock us, deny me work. That’s a problem I think needs to be overcome.” Polly, who did not give her last name, is also from Centennial Park. She highlighted the familial warmth of polygamy. She could share for the first time, she said, “what it’s like to be us” because the threat of prosecution had been lifted by the ruling. Moderater Nadine Hansen, an attorney who has represented members of the Fundamentalist

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, headquartered on the UtahArizona border, offered an alternative perspective. She highlighted a 2011 British Columbia Supreme Court ruling that found polygamy could cause harm to men, women and particularly children. She highlighted the “dysfunction” of the FLDS under former prophet and convicted pedophile Warren Jeffs. Polly responded that the problems with the FLDS community, which resides across from Centennial Park in Hildale, Utah, “had nothing to do with plural marriage.” She contrasted any attempts to stop polygamy as akin to the Holocaust. “That’s what it’s going to take. You’re going to have to kill us,” she said, to stop her and her group worshipping as they see fit. Similar passions emerged during a debate on gun rights and whether Mormon youth should carry firearms. Sunstone regular Robert Rees, who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, expressed the fear that “an alien force had occupied his fellow Mormons … who regarded the rhetoric of the gun lobby as sacred scripture.” He cited Mormon extremist bloggers who drew on quotes from the Book of Alma in the Book of Mormon—“Ye shall defend your families even unto bloodshed”—and Brigham Young, as if any potential threat to their gun ownership placed them in mortal peril.

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Janice Allred received thundering applause when she characterized the obstacle to women gaining the priesthood as the men “standing at the gates of the temple with their priesthood keys dangling between their legs.”

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no one commented when white-male church members did the same. She was summoned by the bishop for “dressing like a prostitute” because she wore sequined high heels to church. At a church activity for 12-year-old girls involving makeup and French braids, “they had this makeup laid out of 50 shades of beige.” She also spoke of being encouraged to date the only “two black boys in my stake,” and how she was stared at during a dance at BY U. White Mormons assume she is a convert when they see her with her white mother and sister, she said. A ll of this contributes to the feeling that “your testimony is never good enough,” she said, adding that white people need to acknowledge that they enjoy privileges that leave her feeling like an outsider in her own faith. The final speaker at the panel, Mormon feminist Marina Tijerino-Abe, said that hearing about Ordain Women and Kelly was like finding, for “the first time in my life,” she said, “a role model in the church.” Kelly’s excommunication left the Japanese-Venezualan feeling “so hurt and so shocked,” she said. “What are people like me supposed to take from that?” That none of the LDS Church’s leadership “stood up for her seriously sucks,” and made her “think I’m perfectly justified in losing some of my faith in my leadership.” CW

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“Mormon culture must understand [it needs] a sea change in its attitude to guns and violence,” Rees warned. Utah gun-rights attorney Mitch Vilos countered with video news clips of teenagers who used firearms to protect themselves from home invaders. “Would the Lord want a different outcome than that?” he asked. Most murders are committed in states with strict gun laws, he said. “Utah is a nice place to live, and we are awash with guns.” Mor mon yout h , separate from the issue of guns, were also the topic of a session called What the Church Can Offer Youth, hosted by five young women who all contribute to the Young Mormon Feminists blog. Julia Jarrett, a law yer and mother, addressed the church’s “slick advertising campaigns” and its attempt to reach the youth through outof-touch Twitter campaigns by senior church figures. “We’re not looking for line-in-thesand constructs,” she said. “The youth in this church wants to feel Jesus in our services.” Panelist Tinesha Zandamela addressed privileges that white LDS youth enjoy that youth of color do not. The daughter of a biracial couple, she talked about how, as a person of color, “I knew that if I did anything bad everybody [in the ward] would know about it.” Her African father got into trouble at church for wearing colored shirts, she said, while

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Covington Who’s Who Selects Bonnie Elizabeth Gordon of Salt Lake City, Utah as this week’s Executive Member of the Executive and Professional Registry for 2014. Bonnie Elizabeth Gordon, Director at Center for Awakening, has been selected as an Executive Member of the Covington Who’s Who Executive and Professional Registry. The selection recognizes Bonnie Elizabeth Gordon’s commitment to excellence in Spiritual Wellness. Bonnie Elizabeth Gordon, who holds a BS in Psychology from Bridgewater College, is an ordained minister, author, speaker, life coach, certified yoga instructor, licensed massage therapist, Shaman, and organizes charitable projects worldwide. She has been working in her field since the 1980’s. Presently, as director of the non-profit organization, Center for Awakening, Ms. Gordon donates to and organizes charitable projects locally and worldwide. She’s traveled to Costa Rica, Peru, Mexico, and India for both humanitarian and spiritual purposes. Ms. Gordon is a speaker and author, and she speaks regularly at The New Consciousness Expo, Unity of Salt Lake City, Healers Festival, and will be on a speaking tour across the United States this coming year. She also enjoys helping people as a life coach, specializing in the work of Byron Katie. She teaches yoga classes, spiritual courses, holds meditations, is a Reiki Master, Theta healer, Rebrither, Deeksha Oneness trainer and blessing giver, and organizes spiritual gatherings for the community. “It has been a passion since I can remember,” Ms. Gordon said about her chosen career path. “I would have deep spiritual conversations with my grandmother when I was five-years-old. I have been experiencing a deep sense of oneness with Spirit since my early teens. As a child, when my friends invited me to the mall or the movies, I usually chose to wander the magical forests of New England with God instead and beautiful places like Walden Pond. I still regularly wander the forests with my divine, only now I enjoy the breathtaking Wasatch Mountains.” Ms. Gordon has authored and published five books: A Love Affair with a Billionaire; You Are The One; A New Story of Creation; The Secrets of NI; and her most recent book, The Stained Glass Window. The first book was inspired by her own true story, while the other four have been inspired by her extensive spiritual study and many profound spiritual awakenings. She is also presently making a movie based on one of her books. Ms. Gordon is the Women’s World Champion Jet Ski Racer for 1982 and 1983, and is in the Jet Ski Hall of Fame. She has set many records and won numerous awards, including state and all-league champion in track and cross-country. She also ran in the Junior Olympics. She is currently a member of Toastmasters International, Unity of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living, the Yoga Alliance, and Oneness University. Praying daily for Spirit to guide her life, Ms. Gordon trusts her life’s work is expanding as divinely guided and orchestrated in her charity work, retreats, courses, counseling, and community events. For more information, visit http://www.centerforawakening.net Sponsored Content. Not Written By City Weekly Writers.

CITIZEN REVOLT

by ERIC S. PETERSON @ericspeterson

Active Outdoors Activism Activists helped halt construction at the site of what could become Utah’s first tar-sands strip mine, and now, Peaceful Uprising is extending an invitation for people to come out to the wilderness next to the mine site and take part in hands-on training for running campaigns for social change. This coming week, Salt Lakers will want to drop in on a school-board meeting to weigh in on a proposed property-tax increase to fund education, and West Valley City residents should check out a city-council hearing about the coming year’s budget proposal.

Campaign Field School Ongoing

Twenty-one activists were arrested for blocking machinery intended to be used to build Utah’s first tar-sands strip mine, adjacent to the picturesque Book Cliffs in central Utah. This direct action was just the beginning, and Peaceful Uprising is regrouping and inviting new activist groups and individuals to schedule a time to visit the protest camp at the mine site—50 miles south of Vernal—to learn how to organize a campaign for social change. Participants can enjoy some pristine country while also learning skills such as nonviolent direct-action tactics, filmmaking and using social media to get their message heard. Visit PeacefulUprising.org to learn more, and e-mail info@ peacefuluprising.org to schedule a training weekend

Salt Lake City Board of Education Thursday, Aug. 7

Utah schools tend to stack classes deep and teach ’em cheap. The Salt Lake City School District, however, is proposing a property-tax increase to fund education that residents should weigh in on. The increase would equal $54.17 in additional property taxes for an average $250,000 home. For a $250,000 business, the tax increase would add $98.50 in new taxes. Salt Lake City Board of Education, 440 E. 100 South, 801-578-8332, Aug. 7, 7 p.m., SLCSchools.org

West Valley City Council Tuesday, Aug. 12

West Valley City is holding a hearing on the coming year’s budget. This is your time to see where your hard-earned money is going before the city starts paying its bills. West Valley City Hall, 3600 Constitution Blvd., 801-966-3600, Aug. 12, 6:30 p.m., W VC-Ut.gov

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Instant Karma

Police charged Perry Martin, 55, with burglarizing two cars in Delray Beach, Fla., after surveillance video showed a man wearing a shirt that said “I Got Wood LLC” and gave a phone number. Police called the number and reached the I Got Wood flooring company, whose owner viewed the video and identified the man as Martin, an employee. (South Florida Sun Sentinel)

After Joseph H. Carl, 48, drove his pickup truck into the rear of a vehicle stopped at a traffic light in Gainesville, Fla., police said Carl jumped out and began banging on the other driver’s window. The frightened driver pulled away, and Carl’s truck, which he had forgotten to shift into park, rolled forward and ran over Carl, who failed field sobriety tests and was arrested after being treated at the hospital for foot and hand fractures. (The Gainesville Sun)

Dummy Prize

n The judge presiding over the burglary trial of Bobby Lee Pearson, 37, in Fresno, Calif., said he had no choice but to release the defendant after the jury mistakenly signed a notguilty form. Pearson went to his sister’s home to get some belongings, police said, but got into a fight with his sister’s boyfriend. Later, Pearson was found dead of a stab wound, and police arrested the boyfriend, Willie Gray, 35. After police noted that Pearson might still be alive were it not for the jury’s mistake, prosecutor William Terrence commented, “There’s not a death penalty on a burglary. I’m not sitting here thinking he got what he deserved.” (Associated Press)

QUIRKS

Satellite photos revealed that Iran is building a nonworking model of a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, which intelligence officials believe is intended to be blown up for propaganda purposes. The two-thirds-scale replica resembles one of the Navy’s Nimitz-class carriers and has the Nimitz’s number 68 painted on the bow. Photos also show mock aircraft on the flight deck. “Based on our observations, this is not a functioning aircraft carrier,” Navy Cmdr. Jason Salata said. “It’s a large barge built to look like an aircraft carrier.” (The New York Times)

Dead or Alive When the wife and son of one of India’s wealthiest Hindu spiritual leaders reported that he died from a heart attack, his followers refused to let the family take his body for cremation because they insist that he is still alive. According to the disciples of His Holiness Shri Ashutosh Maharaj, the founder of the Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan religious order, he is “in deep meditative state.” They are storing his body in a deep freezer in a guarded room to preserve it until he decides to awaken. His son, Dilip Jha, 40, claims that his father’s followers are keeping the body to retain control of his fortune, estimated at 100 million pounds. Local government officials in Punjab state called the dispute a spiritual matter and said that the guru’s followers cannot be forced to believe he is dead. (Britain’s Daily Telegraph)

Blowing Smoke Conservatives are customizing their pickup trucks to spew black smoke into the air to protest environmentalists and Obama administration emissions regulations. The diesel trucks, called “coal rollers,” are modified with chimney exhaust stacks and equipment that can force extra fuel into the engine, causing black smoke to pour out. Popular targets of the choking exhaust are drivers of hybrids and Japanese-made cars. “The feeling around here is that everyone who drives a small car is a liberal,” a coal roller named Ryan told the online news website Vocativ, which reported that Facebook pages dedicated to rolling coal had 16,000 followers as of July 1. (Business Insider)

Slightest Provocation Kenneth Chambers, 52, was charged with choking and, though toothless, biting his roommate in Lakewood, Wash., after she refused his request to clean his ear. (Seattle’s KOMO-TV)

n A worker installing signs limiting parking to 75 minutes on a downtown street in Santa Barbara, Calif., was ticketed for parking more than 75 minutes to do the job. “I was dumbfounded,” Dan Greding explained. “I said, ‘But I’m putting these signs up,’ and he (the officer) says, “Then you should know you can’t park here more than 75 minutes.’” (Santa Barbara’s KEYT-TV)

Second-Amendment Follies

Mark Ramiro, 30, fatally shot his 28-year-old friend while testing a bulletproof vest in Baltimore, Md. A third person recorded the Jackass-style incident, during which the victim bragged that he is about to take a “deuce deuce in the chest.” Ramiro then fired a .22-caliber pistol while standing in front of the victim, but the bullet hit above the vest. Noting that the incident “was a deliberate videotaped shooting of someone by point-blank range,” Assistant State’s Attorney David Chiu said after Ramiro was charged with murder that his “motivation was fame and glory on the web.” (The Baltimore Sun)

This Will Not End Well

Beginning this fall, University of South Florida students will be able to check out drones from the Tampa campus library, ostensibly to use for school projects. Faculty members said they hope the remote-controlled aircraft will help students reach new academic heights, although USF assistant director for instructional services Maryellen Allen cautioned, “I think you’re going to have to have a pretty good justification and outline exactly why you need it and what you’re going to do with it.” (Tampa Bay’s WTSP-TV) Compiled from the press reports by Roland Sweet. Authentication on demand.

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hen Trenton Mellen was 2, he was accidentally electrocuted while playing with his older brother. His heart stopped for 29 minutes, resulting in a brain injury that “affects my coordination and equilibrium,” the 44-year-old says. His family always treated him like an adult, he says, rather than someone who was handicapped. A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a licensed massage therapist, Mellen moved to Utah in 2012 to be close to his mother, Barbara Mellen, after his father died. Barbara says she hoped he would find a protective, sympathetic culture to help him when he was in need if she were not around. What she didn’t anticipate was that a late-afternoon traffic citation would mushroom into a year-long, still-unfinished legal nightmare for her son. In July 2013, Trenton Mellen was charged with a DUI after the cop who pulled him over for rolling through a stop sign in downtown Salt Lake City mistook his eccentric gait and slow speech for impairment, Mellen says. The results of a blood draw at the time of the arrest showed that Mellen was not impaired; all he had in his system was traces of a prescribed medication for depression. But that didn’t matter to the Salt Lake City Prosecutor’s Office, which pursued a conviction despite the lack of any evidence that Mellen had committed a crime. Even when a justice-court judge eventually threw out the case, the prosecutor’s office appealed the decision to district court. Mellen’s is just one of the almost 20,000 cases the Salt Lake City’s Prosecutor Office handles each year, with just 17 prosecutors and 14 support staff. But

Disquiet grows in the legal community over harsh philosophies at the Salt Lake City Prosecutor’s Office.

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for some attorneys, it encapsulates some of the concerns that have been circulating in the Salt Lake City legal community since Padma Veeru-Collings was appointed to replace Sim Gill as chief prosecutor in 2011. Former SLC prosecutors and staffers, along with defense attorneys, say that Veeru-Collings’ micromanagement of her office and its staff has resulted in both internal and external crises. There’s been high turnover of personnel and fear and frustration among employees of the office, they say, and the Salt Lake City justice system as a whole has become increasingly backlogged—the result, attorneys say, of many of her prosecutors being denied the freedom to decide how to litigate their cases. Veeru-Collings says she has not changed the policies of “offers being made and prosecutorial discretion,” but defense attorneys say these policies have evolved through how Veeru-Collings manages her prosecutors and the cases she insists on reviewing. Veeru-Collings’ prosecutors “have their marching orders,” says DUI defense attorney Jason Schatz. He says prosecutors tell him, “ ‘Here are my parameters, this is what I can offer you,’ ” or, “ ‘I can’t offer you that if I want to keep my job.’ ” Homeless and low-income defendants have been hit the hardest, attorneys say, resulting in many facing jail time due to fines they cannot pay. In an e-mailed response to questions, Veeru-Collings says Salt Lake City takes all its cases “very seriously, and is entitled to do so where it is the prosecuting entity.” Determining whether offers are “hardline” or not is a matter of perspective, she continues. “The appropriate offer on any given case is an art, not a science. Cases can be disposed of in a ‘fire sale’ to improve disposition rates,” she writes, or “prosecutors can offer/request appropriate jail, fines, community service, and other probation conditions” to meet the needs of public safety, defendants’ need for treatment, “and similar concerns of a true justice system.” City Weekly outlined Mellen’s case to Kent Hart, the executive director of the Utah Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. “There’s no societal interest in punishing this person, particularly someone who has health issues that gave the appearance of committing a crime,” he says. “This guy was swept up in some office policy.” The unspoken policy of the prosecutor’s office, says Mellen’s attorney, Angela Elmore, is that Veeru-Collings refuses “to entertain offers herself, and she has transferred that mentality to the whole office.” In late May 2014 e-mails that City Weekly obtained from the Salt Lake City Justice court, Salt Lake City prosecutor Michelle Diamond harangued defense attorney Ryan Holtan after he held out for a jury trial for one of his clients rather than take a deal she had offered. “Can you learn to take really good?” Diamond asks in one e-mail. “I just gave you a really good [offer]. Don’t like it? I’ll dismisses and refile appropriate charges and pursue jail time. … Your colleagues with more experience would kill for a resolution like this.” In an e-mail sent the next day, Diamond scolded Holtan for

“My observation is that the prosecutors appear to have less discretion on their offers than they had under Sim Gill.” —Judge John Baxter

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senior city staffers and Veeru-Collings a blistering five-page resignation letter outlining “a stifling atmosphere” of fear in the office. Veeru-Collings “has steadily tried to remove discretion from the prosecutors, requiring permission from her for many offers,” she wrote. Schaeffer-Bullock supplied City Weekly with a copy of her resignation letter after Salt Lake City denied a record request for the letter under the grounds that it did not exist. Art Raymond, the city’s director of communications, explained that the city’s response had been due to confusion over how the letter had been described in the request. In her letter, Schaeffer-Bullock, who is now a prosecutor at Saratoga Springs, wrote that Veeru-Collings is “an accomplished and articulate woman, and is so impressive on so many levels,” but, “in working so hard to separate herself from Sim Gill … she is throwing out good policies with what she considers bad just so she can establish her own identity as the chief prosecutor.” She also noted that the chief prosecutor had “tried to avoid transparency of government by telling her attorneys that we do not discuss policy decision via e-mail because they are subject to GRAMA requests.” In a September 2011 e-mail, Salt Lake City attorney Ed Ruttan responded to

Veeru-Collings is the 10th of 12 children born in Petaling Jaya, a satellite township to Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur. Her father, who died when she was 9, encouraged her to become an attorney, she told a reporter from Petaling Jaya after she was appointed as SLC’s chief prosecutor. She emigrated from Malaysia to the United States when she was 23, went to law school at Brigham Young University, and “tried very hard to follow the rules,” she says. “I am a person who believes in the rule of law.” Prior to her ascension to chief prosecutor, she spent 10 years prosecuting domestic-violence and stalking cases. By the time Sim Gill defeated incumbent Lohra Miller for the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s office in November 2010, Veeru-Collings had racked up 13 years at the Salt Lake City prosecutor’s office. David Everett, chief of staff for Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker, who appointed her as chief prosecutor, says Veeru-Collings was “a clear No. 1 recommendation” from the panel of advisers Becker set up to review candidates for the position. But, defense attorneys say, it was common knowledge that Gill had told Becker that Veeru-Collings would not be Gill’s choice as successor. Gill recalls being “very frank” with Becker regarding the candidates, but declined to comment on individuals. Six months after Veeru-Collings was appointed chief prosecutor, prosecutor Kelly Schaeffer-Bullock sent Becker, COURTESY BARBARA MELLEN

—Trenton Mellen, who refused to take a charge of impaired driving after being pulled over for rolling through a stop sign.

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not taking the deal. “It weakens your credibility and makes the city less likely to negotiate with you in the future.” According to a June 2014 court filing by Holtan, the city has been unable to proceed on three jury trial attempts since the January 2013 DUI arrest of his client. The third failed attempt stemmed from the city recognizing “its inability to prove its case” less than 24 hours before the trial, Holtan wrote in his motion to dismiss. The judge eventually dismissed the charges. Defense attorneys, most of whom declined to go on the record because they feared retaliation against their clients by Veeru-Collings’ office, say that such aggressive tactics from SLC prosecutors are common and are intended to persuade defendants to give up. Veeru-Collings, these attorneys say, has created a culture that leads her employees to either leave as soon as they can or put defendants’ feet to the fire, regardless of their crimes, in order to placate her draconian demands for justice. That, Hart say, reflects “an abdication of her role as a minster of justice. To do justice, which is a prosecutor’s duty, you have to look at the individual circumstances of the case. Relying on a broad category of crime and lumping people together is not fulfilling that duty.” But Veeru-Collings says that nothing has fundamentally changed from prior chief prosecutors; she’s simply fulfilling her role to ensure justice is being served in the city. “A prosecutor’s steadfastness to their offer of resolution may be viewed as bullying from a defense perspective, but committed to justice from a victim’s standpoint,” Veeru-Collings says.

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“Any time a prosecutor feels strongly they are welcome to come in and discuss with me a departure from the guidelines.” —Padma Veeru-Collings, Salt Lake City chief prosecutor

Schaeffer-Bullock that he did not believe the points she raised required “further action on the city’s part.” Everett says he is aware that “there has been some personality conflicts in the office, and I frankly think that’s to be expected with a new manager coming in.” Becker “has a lot of confidence in Padma,” Everett adds. He describes Veeru-Collings as “incredibly thorough, direct, very detail-orientated and very competent.” Her position as chief prosecutor is measured by several factors, including case load, how effectively cases work through the justice court system and “whether the community sense of justice” is “overall functioning well” for residents, workers and visitors, Everett says. Veeru-Collings says that when it came to the issue of e-mails and GRAMA requests, her only concern had been policy discussions being taken out of context. She declined to discuss most of the letter, noting that it’s three years old. While the city prosecutor’s office has always been seen as a stepping stone to felony prosecution positions at the district and county level, critics of Veeru-Collings say the volume of departures during her tenure reflects internal discontent and turmoil during her administration. Hart says the defense bar as a whole “has grave concerns that Padma is inflex-

ible and unreasonable.” Others in the defense community say that though some SLC prosecutors “want to do justice ... to keep their jobs, they must follow the policies,” Hart says. “There are several prosecutors who have left the city attorney’s office because they feel they lack the ability to exercise their own discretion. For some of these people, such limits on their judgment challenge their personal and professional ethics.” According to a City Weekly record request to Salt Lake City, during Sim Gill’s last three years as chief prosecutor, 13 prosecutors and six members of the support staff left. Under Veeru-Collings’ first three years, 17 prosecutors and 13 members of the support staff have departed. Veeru-Collings says she finds the statistics “perplexing,” but notes that there were similar high levels of turnover under prior chief prosecutors. During Gill’s decade of tenure, “40 attorneys and 20 staff left the office,” she says. Ten of the 17 prosecutors who left under her watch went to work for Gill at the District Attorney’s office. “Misdemeanor work can seem rather mundane compared to felony prosecution,” she says. She questions whether the volume of departing staff is “a measurement of management problems within the office, or a reflection that generally a city prosecutor position carries less status and a higher workload” than at the DA’s office. Elmore says the exodus of attorneys stems not from boredom but from fear and frustration. “Her prosecutors rarely feel comfortable going against her, and often have to justify the disposition of a case to her directly,” she says. But, Elmore says, “regardless of how scared you are of your boss, you have an obligation as an attorney,” according to the rules of professional conduct, to “not proceed on charges they know do not have merit. I believe that this rule is regularly being violated by the city prosecutors, and no one is doing anything about it.”

ALL CR IMES BEING EQ UAL In the last year of Gill’s decade as chief prosecutor, his office addressed a backlog of cases that was hampering efficiency with a new program called Temporary Internal Correction. TIC excluded DUI and domestic-violence cases and was a pilot program for what’s now called Early Case Resolution, recalls Salt Lake City’s Judge John Baxter. The idea, says one former prosecutor, “was that timely justice could be brought about through a reduction in punishment.” Thus, a homeless person caught on Trax without a ticket would be offered a plea bargain with a reduced fine, allowing prosecutors to focus on DV and DUIs, “which, in our philosophy, merited more resources.”

Veeru-Collings says that the program was not universally popular. “While some saw [it] as a needed accommodation to resource challenges, other saw it as a ‘fire sale’ with implications for deterrence and effective enforcement in the city,” she writes in an e-mail. By the time Gill left, Baxter says, the program was enjoying an 85 percent acceptance rate of offers by defendants. But under Veeru-Collings, attractive offers were replaced by “offers which defendants accepted less often,” says Baxter, who notes that his comments are not criticism but “simply explaining the difference between then and now.” “My observation is that the prosecutors appear to have less discretion on their offers than they had under Sim Gill,” he says. Veeru-Collings says her prosecutors offer lower fines and/or community service to defendants who do not have the ability to pay. But defense attorneys say that rarely happens and that her office has a policy of not offering community service, resulting in the indigent, such as homeless defendants, being hit with fines of typically $600 that they cannot pay. A judge then issues an arrest warrant, and they sit in jail until their case comes to court. “They’re not lowering crime; instead, they’re creating a debtor’s prison,” says one attorney. This comparison raises Veeru-Collings’ hackles. It “suggests that prosecutors and judiciary are only interested in fines and do not review cases for ability to comply with court orders, and that defense attorneys are failing their obligation to appeal unjust sentences.” Baxter, who founded Salt Lake City’s homeless court, says that the prosecutor’s office’s approach to the “proportionality” of fines—with regard to offers reflecting the dollar value of the crimes—has changed, and gives an example of how in two hypothetical retail thefts. One theft is of a can of beer, valued $2, the other a $400 car stereo, stolen by a defendant intending to pawn it to pay for meth. In his experience under Gill, Baxter says, the beer thief “may have received an offer for less than the full standard bail amount.” But under Veeru-Collings, the recommendation is always for the set bail schedule for a retail theft, which is $680, “without consideration of the value stolen,” Baxter says. These harsh offers mean that, in contrast from Gill’s time at the office, “We see fewer resolutions to cases early on,” Baxter says, which in turn has led to an escalating backlog of cases.

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On July 31, 2013, Officer Brandon Himle was watching for drivers ignoring the stop sign at the corner of 600 South and 600 East in downtown Salt Lake City, when, he later told a Salt Lake City justice-court judge, he saw Mellen roll through the stop at “five to 10 miles an hour” before pulling into the driveway of his home. Himle pulled up to Mellen’s driveway, blocking the car, and shouted at Mellen, according to the latter, to get back into the car. He cited Mellen for the traffic violation, then, when the car rolled back toward his motorcycle—Mellen, who’d just bought the car two days before, had accidentally put it in neutral—decided Mellen was impaired. “He said I was looking groggy, a little out of sorts— which after working an eight-hour day of physical labor, I’m exhausted,” Mellen says. Himle instructed Mellen to take off his glasses and perform field-sobriety tests (FSTs). Mellen failed the eye test, and the task of standing on one leg and walking toe-to-toe also proved challenging, given, as one of his doctors noted in a letter to the court, “his unusual

PHOTOGRAPHERS WANTED Elmore says she told the third prosecutor that the case had no merit. The prosecutor, a newly employed SLC attorney, said that “even if she thought it was a bad case, there was nothing she could do about it,” Elmore says. Veer u-Col lings wouldn’t discuss the case with City Weekly because her office’s prosecution of Mellen’s case is ongoing, but recalls that her office made him a “very favorable” offer. Mellen and his family balked at the lesser charge, which would come with a $300 fine, mar his driving record— prior to the arrest, Mellen had received only three traffic tickets in the 26 years he’d been a licensed driver—and, most importantly, meant he was pleading guilty to something he had not done. “The offer wasn’t fair,” Mellen says. “I was totally capable. I was in my faculties to drive my car.”

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Veeru-Collings says she’s proud of her office’s tough policy on DUIs, which she says was put in place prior to her promotion to chief prosecutor. Defense attorneys have expressed gratitude for the clarity of the DUI guidelines, she says. “They like the predictability, that a certain level of blood or breath results in a certain resolution.” Office DUI policy requires that when prosecutors wish to offer a plea deal for less than impaired driving, they have to consult with her. “Any time a prosecutor feels strongly, they are welcome to come in and discuss with me a departure from the guidelines,” she says. On July 9, 2014, Trenton Mellen went to Salt Lake City justice court for a hearing on Elmore’s motion to suppress the evidence from his DUI arrest because of lack of reasonable suspicion for pulling him over and lack of probable cause for the arrest. Elmore cautioned her client prior to the hearing that it would be his word against the officer’s and that “winning the motion isn’t likely, so the next step would be to set it for trial.” Prior to the hearing, prosecutor Steve Newton argued with Elmore, threatening her with a Rule 11 motion seeking sanctions against her for filing what he felt was a frivolous motion. “They fight everything,” Elmore says. “It’s almost at a personal level.” Himle’s heav y black-leather boots clomped across the small court as he took the stand. The eight-year veteran officer, who’s claimed 100 DUI arrests, said that Mellen spoke “very slow, took a little time to answer questions.” Mellen testified in an at-times tremulous voice how Himle had shouted at him

and that, though his car did roll back, he had braked at a distance from Himle’s bike. “If I would have hit it, I would have paid for it,” he said. After the two men testified, Judge Jeanne R. Robison asked Newton, “What evidence was known to the officer there was drugs or alcohol in this case?” While it was clear Himle suspected drugs, “what evidence did he have, what supported that suspicion?” Dissatisfied by Newton’s answers, Robison granted Elmore’s motion to suppress the blood draw due to lack of probable cause for an arrest, effectively gutting the city’s case. “We will be appealing,” Newton said. “I don’t want to dismiss it.” Several defense attorneys told City Weekly that Veeru-Collings’ office appeals every suppression motion they lose, regardless of the case’s merits. To do that in every case, Schatz says, is a waste of resources and “is basically saying we don’t trust the judgment of our Salt Lake City justice court judges.” Mellen’s mother says their family’s experience—dealing with repeatedly changing prosecutors, missing work for hours waiting fruitlessly at the court, and worrying about Trenton—“makes you question the whole system.” And the frustrations and inequities that have marked Mellen’s journey through the Salt Lake City justice system, his attorney says, is echoed time and again by other cases she and fellow defense attorneys fight to resolve with prosecutors whose hands are seemingly tied by VeeruCollings’ policies. “They bully people and threaten them with appeals or re-filing charges and dragging them out forever to try to force people into pleading,” Elmore says. “I think it is a miscarriage of justice and, frankly, a waste of our tax money.” Veeru-Collings sees it differently. “Ultimately I truly believe on my watch, I need to do everything I conceivably can to protect my community,” she says. CW

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appearance and gait.” After Mellen failed the FSTs, Himle arrested him for driving under the influence. “It wasn’t until after he put the cuffs on me that I told him I had a problem with my equilibrium and I was clinically dead for 29 minutes,” Mellen says. Mellen says Himle replied, “ ‘OK,’ as if it were a normal occurrence.” Himle allowed Mellen to call his mother, who got to her son’s home shortly after he was arrested. She informed Himle about her son’s medical condition, and he released Mellen to her. Through a recommendation from a member of their LDS ward, they hired an attorney, Angela Elmore. Elmore says that Himle should have recognized from Mellen’s behavior and the information from Mellen’s mother that what he perceived as impairment stemmed from Mellen being disabled. She filed a motion to suppress evidence from the arrest so that it could not be used at trial. “Himle observed that Mr. Mellen’s eyes were offset and that he could not complete the [eye test],” Elmore wrote in her motion. The field-sobriety manual, which Himle later told the court he was trained in, “indicates that brain injury can cause [failure of the eye test] without impairment,” Elmore says. The manual also explains that “the elderly or those with injuries may struggle to perform the remaining two FSTs,” she says. Salt Lake City prosecutors routinely rotate through cases. Elmore says that the first prosecutor on the case, after he read the file, went to Veeru-Collings, recommending the charges against Mellen be dropped. But Veeru-Collings, Elmore says, insisted he make an offer of impaired driving or take it to trial. That prosecutor requested a toxicology report on Mellen’s blood draw. The report showed that all that was in Mellen’s blood was traces of Trazadone—an antidepressant and sleep aid, prescribed by Mellen’s doctor, which Mellen had taken the night before at 8 p.m., per his two-year routine. Elmore was convinced charges would not be filed, in part because the level of Trazadone in Mellen’s system, according to her calculations, was below the prescribed therapeutic range required for the drug to work. Elmore also argued for dismissal to the second prosecutor, who told her that VeeruCollings felt that he should make a new offer of the lesser charge of incapable driver. The plea bargain the prosecutor offered Mellen included that he would pay a higher fine than required for the charge because, in part, of “the community resources” expended by Himle on Mellen’s DUI arrest.

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Art Access Galery: Nolan Baumgartner/ Kent Fairbanks The designs of Nolan Baumgartner’s ceramics (pictured) embody an unconventional aesthetic. Instead of colorful glazes common to Southwestern-style vessels, he uses a Middle Eastern influence—stripes and dark polka dots, arranged with a compositional precision—which is then subjected to the physical changes of being fired in the soda kiln. Their sameness affords them a solemnity, a ritual quality and also a quiet beauty. This associate professor of ceramics at the University of Utah has shown his work around the country, as well as Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, and was featured in Artists of Utah’s 2013 35x35 show at Finch Lane Gallery. His pieces exhibit a thorough control of the ceramic form, process and medium. Kent Fairbanks’ work in also very physical, but in a different way. The photographs in his exhibit, The Living Machine, depict the ways in which the forms of objects made by humans relate to and parallel the forms of natural objects—and the two aren’t as separate as you might think. Railroad cars, buildings and machinery—as solid and formidable as they may appear—still bear the impressions of weathering by natural forces: wind, dust, sand and rain. With all that, his images still impart a sense of vibrant life through their use of light and color. Visit the Art Access II gallery space to see the third-annual Kindred Spirits exhibit, displaying work from the nonprofit organization’s children workshops. (Brian Staker) Nolan Baumgartner/Kent Fairbanks @ Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, No. 125, 801-328-0703, through Aug. 8, free. AccessArt.org.

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Listening to Maria Bamford, with her wispy, almost mousy, comedic delivery, is by far the sweetest way to hear stories about anxiety, depression and the trials of a dysfunctional life. Bamford has a gift for overanalyzing every flaw while simultaneously chuckling at her selfdeprecating analysis of depression; it’s the kind of hilarity that makes you question whether you should really be laughing at it. With 25 years of stand-up experience, Bamford has explored every aspect of her own mental stability with plenty of humor, and became a must-see touring act by the late ‘90s. She was the first female comedian to have two half-hour specials on Comedy Central. Later, she, along with heavy-hitters Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis and Brian Posehn, starred in The Comedians of Comedy, a parody of the comedy-tour documentaries popular in the early 2000s. Over the past 11 years, she’s released six comedy albums through the network’s record label, including the 2009 hit Unwanted Thoughts Syndrome, and created a comedic web series called “Ask My Mom,” based on advice from her own mother. Bamford’s also become recognizable from her stint in holiday Target commercials, her voicework on Catroon Network’s Adventure Time and playing drug addict DeBrie Bardeaux in the fourth season of Arrested Development. The versatile comedic actress will be making a one-nightonly stop in Salt Lake City on the last leg of her national tour. (Gavin Sheehan) Maria Bamford @ Wiseguys West Valley, 2194 W. 3500 South, 801-463-2909, Aug. 7, 7:30 p.m., $20. MariaBamford.com, WiseguysComedy.com

In the Utah Museum of Fine Arts’ current exhibition Moksha: Photography by Fazal Sheikh, viewers enter the ancient city of Vrindavan through photography to explore the somber subject of the widows who turn to this sacred city as a place to spend their final days free from the social injustices they encounter in the outside world. The message offered in the new companion exhibit, Krishna: Lord of Vrindavan, presents an entirely different tone and mood. It’s an enchanted visitation through art from UMFA’s permanent collection, revisiting the origins of this ancient, sacred city and a deity-to-be whose legacy would become transcendent. In his mortal life, Krishna was called a “prankster, lover, warrior, philosopher,” whose “flute playing could cause young women to drop everything and follow him.” This amorous aspect is the primary element that make Vrindavan “the site of the greatest love stories in India,” particularly between Krishna and Radha. The historic art objects on display at the UMFA are of the kind that influenced the many widows who seek Krishna’s message of devotion as leading to salvation. In the 1740 image “Krishna and Gopis Swimming in the Yamuna from Harivamsa” (detail pictured), we can see the kind of affections this would-be devotee of salvation would incite in women. He, one of two males, wades in a river surrounded by women; the other male looks discreetly away. All objects, paintings, statuettes and relief carvings in the collection are devoted to amorous affairs, praising Krishna and sanctifying women. (Ehren Clark) Krishna: Lord of Vrindavan @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Dr., 801-581-7332, Aug. 8-Nov. 20, free for UMFA members, University of Utah staff & faculty and Utah college students, $9 adult non-member. Utah.UMFA.edu

According to SLUG editor Angela Brown, creator of Craft Lake City, the impetus behind the DIY event is to change the way ordinary people think about crafts and crafting. The artisans she wants to highlight are far more about the do-it-yourself ethos than a classic sewing circle (although those are cool, too). The arts at Craft Lake City generally fit into three categories: wearable arts, edible arts and somewhat more traditional visual arts. Wearable arts range from knitted hats and hand-bent jewelry to repurposed silk-screened kerchiefs and tiedyed T-shirts. There are the various incarnations of bags—such as messengers, leather satchels and purses—and a burgeoning field for artisan makeup, hand creams and perfumes. The edible arts often take a bit from Portlandia in the form of pickling things, but they also include such items like small-batch coffee roasting, hand-dipped chocolates and various jams, preserves and spreads. And the visual arts include everything from books and posters to ceramics, plus sculptures that could hang on the wall or fit perfectly into your peaceful urban garden. There are other types of artisans who handmake their goods and fit under the quite broad Craft Lake City umbrella, including creators of DIY engineering projects. The whole point of the festival is to highlight the number of artistic people living in Utah who take the time to put an interesting spin on items that might—or might not—be widely available, but are better when produced with local care. (Jacob Stringer) Craft Lake City DIY Festival @ Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main, 801-535-6110, Aug. 8, 5-10 p.m.; Aug. 9, noon-10 p.m., free. CraftLakeCity.com

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Stage Parents April and Mark Fossen fit theater into a busy everyday life. By Scott Renshaw scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

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laughter when Mark mentions his dialect in last season’s production of Clearing Bombs as an example. “His dialect wasn’t very good,” April says. “And I said it.” Scheduling has often required that they rarely work on the same production, but they’ll be collaborating more this year. In the springtime, they’ll act together in Plan-B’s production of The Pilot Program. And coming up this month, Mark will direct April in the Utah premiere of the Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning August: Osage County—a joint production of Utah Repertory Theater and Silver Summit Theatre Company—and they’ll also team up for two performances of Love Letters during that run. It’s a schedule that becomes more possible as their kids get older, and they start to envision the role theater plays in their future—roles they’d love to play opposite one another, such as Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, or whether it might be possible to devote themselves to theater full-time. Maybe “10 years in the future,” April says, “where there isn’t quite as much pressure to have a certain salary level or benefits level.” Or, Mark adds, “When you’re not always buying new clothes or … paying school fees.” CW

Christy Summerhays. Discovering Plan-B, Mark says, was what got them back into the theater, which neither of them thought would happen. Getting back into theater isn’t quite so easily done when you’re trying to squeeze it into everyday adult life. In addition to the usual responsibilities of parents—the Fossens’ daughters are now 14 and 11—April works as an accountant for KUED/KUER and Mark works from home full-time as a web designer. But the Fossens have figured out how to find time for their passion. “We probably shouldn’t be doing too many shows in a year—that part we haven’t figured out yet,” Mark says with a laugh. “In general, one of us is in rehearsal 48 weeks out of the year. The times that we’re both at home for … like, a week together, are pretty rare.” They see more upside than downside, however, both living the after-work theater life. They regularly attend the opening night of one another’s shows, and then, according to Mark, “We stay up”—“Until 2 in the morning or something,” April interjects—“with a bottle of wine, and just hash everything out. And that’s part of what works: We understand what it’s like when you come from a show and just need to process everything and get it off your chest.” And they both also insist that they can be completely honest about one another’s productions. April and Mark burst into

h, the glamorous life of an actor: the thrill of being in front of an audience, the joy of being recognized for your passion and devotion to your work … and the part where you’re making sure you’ve planned your schedule so you know who’s helping the kids with their homework. Theatergoers in Utah may recognize many of the faces on local stages from multiple productions over the years, but what’s less widely known is that for a majority of those talented performers, acting is an extracurricular activity. When April and Mark Fossen plan for their participation in a local production, for example, there’s a whole life of logistics outside the theater to coordinate—with their day jobs, with their kids and with each other as a married couple. April was a young would-be actor living in the California Bay Area in 1994. She met Mark, a then-Chicago resident, at the California Shakespeare Festival, where both were cast as apprentice actors— though their initial meeting was something of a charming coincidence. “My mom lived in California, and I went out to visit her,” Mark says. “There was this audition for the apprentice company at CalShakes, and I thought, ‘I can write it off on my taxes if I do an audition.’ ... The first show that season was Romeo & Juliet, so we always like to say that we met during Romeo & Juliet, but we were not playing Romeo and Juliet.” Adds April, “We weren’t even understudying Romeo and Juliet.” After the festival, Mark relocated to California, and ultimately they married. Their frustrations with the acting life in the Bay Area started to wear on them, however, so they moved to Pennsylvania for four years, where they had their two children and had all but retired from theater. They eventually came to Utah 11 years ago to be closer to where April’s family lived, “with no intentions of going back into the theater,” April says. But then, as if by design, April ended up on the Eagle Mountain Arts Council, producing a couple of small shows—which, Mark says, took place “in a middle-school auditorium … with folding chairs.” Not long after, April discovered auditions for Plan-B Theatre Company’s 2006 24-hour SLAM production through local actress

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I Left My Heart in San Diego Comic-Con highlights prove it’s still worth attending. By Bryan Young comments@cityweekly.net @swankmotron

very year, I swear I’m never going back to San Diego Comic-Con, for so many reasons: It’s too big. There are too many people. There is too much to do. It’s a panicand anxiety-inducing land of chaos. And yet, every year I find myself reluctantly going back, heading face-first into the crowds and the Hollywood-induced helter-skelter. Although comics have taken a back seat to the movie studios at the convention in recent years, there were still plenty of comics on display and panels to take in. My favorite might have been the panel discussing the 75th anniversary of Batman, where luminaries like Frank Miller, Denny O’Neil and Scott Snyder sat in front of a thousand people to talk about what makes Batman still relevant after all this time. Marvel Comics also announced its future plans for the Star Wars franchise— since they’ve taken it over from Dark Horse Comics—including a book from comics superstars Jason Aaron and John Cassaday that gives us the new, official version of the events that happen in the weeks after the destruction of the first Death Star. That wasn’t all the Star Wars that was shown off, however; a small audience (myself included) was treated to a look at the pilot of the new cartoon, Star Wars Rebels. It fills in the gaps between Episode III and Episode IV—and I couldn’t be more excited to see the rest of the show. On the movie front, Zack Snyder unveiled a clip from the upcoming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice film that teases a hell of a fight between our two favorite superheroes. George Miller wowed audiences in Hall H with a look at the fourth film in his Mad Max franchise. We were shown the monsters Godzilla will face off against

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next (Rodan, Mothra and Ghidorah), a trailer for the new World of Warcraft movie, and even a panel of kick-ass women in sci-fi talking about how much women kick ass. But perhaps the best presentation at Comic-Con belonged to Marvel Studios. They brought out the cast of the Ant-Man film, scheduled for a July 2015 release, then teased the audience with a conversation with the cast of The Avengers: Age of Ultron before knocking everyone’s socks off with footage from the film. Marvel capped it off with an official announcement for a sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy, coming in 2017. The great advantage of San Diego ComicCon seems to wane just a little bit every year, though. Most of the “exclusive” announcements hit the Internet within seconds of being shown to a crowd at Comic-Con; much of the footage shown is available on YouTube within days. However, there are special things you can’t replicate. Nowhere else can you be in the room with Robert Downey Jr. as he throws dozens of red roses into the audience, or watch Frank Miller shuffle behind a microphone and pontificate about the “Goddamn Batman.” And where else are you going to get stuck in an elevator with George R.R. Martin? Or have your kid bowled over by Vin Diesel on the exhibition-hall floor? These are the moments you go to San Diego for. Everything else you can see online. And I’ll keep telling myself that as I decompress from the convention. I won’t want to go next summer, but who am I kidding? I’ll be there, seeing what there is to see. Or maybe I won’t even have to leave. We have our own Salt Lake Comic Con now, and though it’s pretty clearly not affiliated with the San Diego convention, the older con on the block seems to think we’re enough of a threat to send out a cease-anddesist letter over the use of “Comic Con” in the event’s name. Sounds like San Diego knows that Salt Lake City is a force to be reckoned with. Heck, the drive to the Salt Palace is a lot shorter than the line for Hall H. CW Bryan Young is the editor-in-chief of BigShinyRobot.com.

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q Clearing Bombs [Plan-B Theatre Company] q Something’s Afoot [Pioneer Theatre Company] q Venus in Fur [Salt Lake Acting Company]

Local Theater Performance q Joyce Cohen, 4000 Miles [Salt Lake Acting Company] q Mark Fossen, Clearing Bombs [Plan-B] q Jared Larkin, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? [Pinnacle Acting Company]

Original Play q 3 by Eric Samuelsen [Plan-B] q Beowulf by Tobin Atkinson and Marynell Hinton [Meat & Potato Theatre] q Clearing Bombs by Eric Samuelsen [Plan-B]

Community Theater Group

Touring/Non-Local Production q Bring It On q War Horse q Wicked

Opera/Classical Performance or Production Multimedia Production/Performance q Feast [NOW-ID] q Nel Tempo di Sogno [Another Language] q The Pushers [SB Dance]

Dance Production/Performance q Accelerate [Ririe-Woodbury] q Innovations [Ballet West] q Land [Repertory Dance Theatre]

q Absolution Is Now Public [Michael Christensen] q Owned [BYU Animation] q Transmormon [Torben Bernhard]

Standup Comic

Graffiti/Public Art

q Jason Harvey q Natashia Mower q Jay Whittaker

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Improv Troupe

Jewelry Design

q Toy Soup q Laughing Stock q Quick Wits

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VISUAL ARTS/CRAFTS Painting Exhibition

q Abstract [Rio Gallery] q Spirit of Place [Dibble Gallery] q Jimmi Toro: Faces [Urban Arts Gallery]

Photography Exhibition q Jon Burkholz [Mestizo Coffeehouse] q Creation and Erasure: Bingham Canyon Mine [Utah Museum of Fine Arts] q Denae Shanidiin [Mestizo]

Sculpture/Mixed Media Exhibition q Shad Roghaar [Art Access] q Christopher Kelly: God Complex [Utah Museum of Contemporary Art] q Jared Lindsay Clark/Makia Sharp [CUAC]

Illustration Exhibition q Terrel van Leeuwen: Color Blind [A Gallery] q Pat Bagley [The Leonardo] q Skyler Chubak [E3 Modern]

Touring/Non-Local Exhibition q The Dead Sea Scrolls [The Leonardo] q Do It [UMOCA] q Martha Wilson: Staging the Self [UMFA]

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q Dangerous by Shannon Hale q The End or Something Like That by Ann Dee Ellis q Theories of Forgetting by Lance Olsen

Local Author Non-Fiction q Hidden History of Utah by Eileen Hallet Stone q Joseph’s Temples by Michael Homer q To the Mountain by Phyllis Barber

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Short Film

q Charlotte Boye-Christensen, Feast [NOW-ID] q Stephen Brown, The Pushers [SB Dance] q Christopher Ruud, Great Souls [Ballet West]

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It’s not uncommon for comedian Bill Maher to offend people—a lot of people, even those who might proudly defend his brash sensibilities. If you’re an outspoken atheist and liberal on a large soapbox, upsetting people is par for the course. Then again, making a whole lot of people laugh in the process is also fairly common. Maher’s most recent controversies stem from his flippant use of Twitter, like a “sacrilegious” tweet aimed at outspoken Christian quarterback Tim Tebow for blowing a big game on Christmas Eve. And though Maher may upset people by tweeting, “Dealing w/ Hamas is like dealing w/ a crazy woman who’s trying to kill u - u can only hold her wrists so long before you have to slap her,” his whole career has involved stepping up to “The Line” before obliterating it. For all the people who find him tasteless, there are crowds who find his trampling on cultural oversensitivity to be the funniest thing imaginable. (Jacob Stringer) Bill Maher @ Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, University of Utah, 801-5817100, Aug. 9, 8 p.m., $55-$95. KingTix.com

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Even in a technological age, there’s still something vaguely magical about hot air balloons. Maybe it’s their role in pop culture favorites like The Wizard of Oz or Around the World in 80 Days, or the idea of seeming at the mercy of the winds, that makes them hard to avoid watching if you see one in the air. Every year, Sandy City offers a unique chance to get up close and personal with these 10-storyhigh balloons before watching them soar. On Friday morning, learn about the nuts and bolts of operating while watching them inflate, or even experience a tethered ride. On Saturday night, catch a glimpse of the balloons once again as they take to the night sky with burners glowing—a truly spectacular twilight sight—then stick around for music from The Soulistics. Refreshments are available for both events. (Scott Renshaw) Sandy Balloon Festival @ Storm Mountain Park, 11400 S. 1000 East, Aug. 8, 7 a.m., free; @ Sandy City Promenade, 173 W. 10000 South, Aug. 9, 8 p.m., free. Sandy. Utah.gov/BalloonFest

Halloween might still be 12 weeks away, but you can warm up by trudging through Salt Lake City’s downtown streets during the seventh-annual SLC Zombie Walk, sponsored by Salt Lake Comic Con. For maximum suspense, the route won’t be announced until a few days before the walk. That night at 6 p.m., the living-impaired of all ages will meet at 400 South and State Street to arrange rules and guidelines, then slowly march through the streets. If you’d rather try to live, join with the human survivors, who’ll be running ahead of the pack of flesh-eaters. Costumes are a must, and zombies from all media and decade are welcome. No nudity is allowed, but there’s no limit to how much blood you can use. The event is partnering with the Utah Food Bank, so bring a non-perishable food item from your zombie-apocalypse food storage. (Gavin Sheehan) SLC Zombie Walk @ downtown Salt Lake City, route TBA, Aug. 10, 7 p.m., free. Facebook.com/SLCZombieWalk

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Stay Cool and Creative Local Colors’ August exhibit seems designed to ward off the heat of the hottest part of summer. Stay Cool and Creative features the watercolors of plein-air artist Blaine Clayton and encaustics by Doug Quillinan. With their sometimes heavy layers of wax, encaustics aren’t the first thing that comes to mind for “keeping cool” artistically, but Quillinan uses the medium to depict sailboats upon the jagged sea. Clayton portrays oceanic scenarios as well, but his are more placid. Quillinan’s fondness for history informs his scenes, lending an air of an epic saga, while Clayton’s are more gentle and dreamlike, even though dark clouds sometimes loom on the horizon. Their exhibit will be featured as part of the Sugar House Art Walk, and an artists’ reception will be held Aug. 8 at 6 p.m. (Brian Staker) Stay Cool and Creative @ Local Colors of Utah, 1054 E. 2100 South, 801-363-3922, Aug. 8-13, free. LocalColorsArt.com

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Godzilla: The Japanese Original The monsters of our imagination, our folklore and our films reflect society’s deepest and most personal paranoias and fears. For the people in post-Hiroshima/postNagasaki/post-hydrogen bomb Japan, that fear was of overwhelming nuclear disaster. Today, the original Godzilla monster might seem like a lumbering plastic toy on the big screen—but for the makers of the 1954 film Gojira, he was the embodiment of the horrors they had lived through, right down to his scaly black skin that resembled the burns on Japanese radiation victims. This week, celebrate the 60th anniversary of Gojira, one of the greatest monsters ever seen on film, at a screening of the original movie Godzilla, presented in partnership with the Natural History Museum of Utah, the Utah Film Center and the Utah Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. The screening will be followed by a discussion on the genetic implications of radiation exposure by Nicola Barber of the University of Utah’s Genetic Science Learning Center. (Katherine Pioli) Godzilla: The Japanese Original @ Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801524-8200, Aug. 12, 7 p.m., free. UtahFilmCenter.org

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xotic” is not a term normally used to describe Bountiful, Utah. That’s especially true when it comes to its dining scene, which, from the freeway, might seem little more than an endless abyss of fast food and franchise eateries. However, I’m here to testify that it is possible to break the chain of soulcrushing franchise meals. Here’s a handful of exotic, interesting and ethnic restaurants worth checking out. One of my faves isn’t exactly a restaurant, per se. It’s more of a truck and a tented area for seating—no jacket or tie required. Located at 724 W. 500 South in Bountiful, Tacos El Morro (801-347-3485) dishes up authentic Mexican street-style tacos at prices so low you can probably fund a meal from the change you’ve dug up from between your couch cushions (and since it’s a food truck, be sure to have that cash on hand). They’re usually only open from 10:30 a.m. until about 3 p.m. Tacos are four for $5, and include both regular and spicy versions of chicken, beef and pork tacos; the tacos al pastor are the best of the bunch. In addition, Tacos El Morro offers spicy and regular burritos and quesadillas ($4.50 each), plus watermelon and pineapple horchata. For slightly more upscale Mexican fare, try El Matador (606 S. Main, 801292-8998). While this prett y, Spanish villa-style restaurant might not win any awards for Mexican authenticity, it is a good spot for rib-sticking Americanized south-of-the-border fare. The various cheese-topped combo plates featuring enchiladas, burritos, tacos, tostadas, rice, beans, etc. ($8.59-$10.99) are filling and popular, if predictable. For something a little more interesting, try the tender, slightly sweet carnitas made of slow-roasted pork loin and served with mango-peach “tango” sauce. For South American cuisine, it’s hard to beat Jose Chu-Jon’s MIA Empanadas Factory ( 571 W. 2600 South, 801-3975222, EmpanadasFactory.com). Formerly called Lúcuma, MIA Empanadas features empanadas and tamales ($4) with housemade Peruvian-style aji dipping sauces such as para los labios aridientes (“for burnin’ lips sauce”) aji primavera, amor sernano and huancaina. The real draw here, however, is the sweets such

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as tres leches and pionono cakes, Room for dessert: MIA Empanadas Factory’s fangipane, tarts (premade or madetamales are tasty, but its sweets can’t be beat. to-order), scones, dulce de leche and fabulous f lan ($3) in three flavors: finding bona fide Shanghai fare at Boba original, de queso (cheese) or chocolate. Before heading out the door, treat yourself World (512 W. 750 South, 801-298-3626). to a chicha morada, a purple corn drink Sure, you can get your fill of cream-cheese wontons ($4.25), ham-fried rice ($8.25) and infused with pineapple and cinnamon. I wish I was as enthusiastic about kung pao chicken ($7.95)—not that there’s Rocoto Peruvian Restaurant ( 512 W. 750 anything wrong with that. But, what you South, 801-296-5970, ElRocoto.wix.com), really want is to tuck in to flavorful dishes a place I’d had high hopes for. It’s a drab, like the scrumptious steamed-pork-stuffed not especially inviting place. The menu is dumplings ($7.50 for eight), fragrant leek extensive—too extensive, in my opinion. soup with tofu ($5.95), tender flaky fish Of the 15 appetizers to choose from, I’d fillets with black bean sauce ($11) and, probably not venture past the Peruvian- of course, the “Chewing Drinks” (so says style red tamales made with a choice of the menu) that the restaurant is named shredded chicken or pork and garnished for. Boba World offers a vast array of boba drinks—aka bubble tea or pearl milk with lime and sweet onions ($4.49). Instead of wasting time with starters, tea—ranging from common flavors such as share the tiradito tricolor ($14.85), which is strawberry, chocolate and mocha, to those a sampler plate of three house ceviches: de a bit more uncommon: taro, passion fruit, mixto, de pescado, and de aji. It’s a good way green tea, coconut and almond ($3.50/ to sample ceviche-style fish, shrimp, squid small, $4.50/large). For some of the best Indian food in Utah, and scallops with a variety of sauces such as limo (lime), rocoto chiles, or amarillo you’ll need to make a trip to Royal India (made with yellow chiles). This was in Bountiful ( 55 N. Main, 801-292-1835, probably the best of many Rocoto dishes we RoyalIndiaUtah.com) or its Sandy sister tried, including a sad dish called picante de location. Indian restaurants may come mariscos ($13.85). It was a large plate— and go, but this mainstay has been among most of the plates and portions at Rocoto my favorites for years. The Shanthakumar are large, huge or ginormous—of stewed family, who owns and operate Royal India, potatoes with shrimp, fish, calamari rings provides warm and inviting ambiance and and mussels in a bland reddish-yellow service along with outstanding dishes such broth with a mound of plain white rice. The as aromatic lamb biryani, spinach-andaddition of a large shell-, tail- and head-on cream-based shrimp saag, great curry, prawn made for an attractive presentation, masalas, kormas and vindaloos, along with but when I went to peel the shrimp, it the best naan I’ve ever eaten: peshwari disintegrated into mush. Frankly, none of naan, tandoor-baked and stuffed with the shellfish tasted very fresh, and while cashews, raisins and coconut. I’ll mention a few other hall-of-fame the chicken and beef dishes we tried were massive for what we paid for them, they Bountiful eateries (not all especially exotic) here—only briefly, because I’ve written failed to impress. Authentic Shanghai cuisine is defined plenty about them in the past: Mandarin, by slow-cooking methods—often gently- Vito’s, Plates & Palates, Mo’ Bettah Steaks, braised foods—as opposed to the hot wok Joy Luck and Ho Ho Gourmet. So, get thee f lash-frying we’re used to in Chinese to Davis County. CW restaurants. Well, imagine my surprise at

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The Wild Grape New West Bistro (481 E. South Temple, 801-746-5565, WildGrapeBistro.com) has announced the appointment of a new executive chef, David Bear Stromness. “We are very excited about Dave’s passion and we are looking forward to seeing him progress and settle in,” says Wild Grape owner Troy Greenhawt. “He’s already turning heads.” Stromness boasts a 20-year career, complete with stops in Hawaii, New York, Oregon and California. Most recently, he served as sous chef at the late, great Metropolitan restaurant in Salt Lake City.

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Deer Valley Resort has opened a new casual comfort-food restaurant called The Brass Tag. It’s located in The Lodges at Deer Valley (2900 Deer Valley Drive, DeerValley.com) and will serve dinner, complete with a full bar, nightly year-round. Longtime Executive Chef Jodie Rogers will oversee the restaurant, assisted by immensely talented sous chef Ryan Swarts. The Brass Tag features brick-oven cuisine, including cheddar-truffle-chive spätzle, flatbread with house-cured duck and prosciutto, oven-fired chimichurri chips, tandoorirubbed quail, wood-oven shrimp skillets and much more. Where did the name come from? Brass tags were hung on boards by Park City miners to indicate when they were in or out of a mine. If a brass tag remained unclaimed at the end of a mining shift, a search for the missing miner was launched.

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Uinta’s Ales for ALS

In an effort to help promote research on Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS), breweries from around the country are making special craft beers with a unique hop blend in a brewery-based fundraising initiative created to accelerate development of drugs to treat ALS. Uinta Brewing Co. is Utah’s participating brewery, and its limited batch of Session White IPA used the special blend of experimental hops donated by B.T. Loftus Ranches and Hopunion to create a wheat ale with the hop characteristics of an IPA. Citrusy with subtle notes of pepper and white grape, this wheat IPA was brewed with 40 percent malted wheat and dry hopped with the proprietary Ales for ALS experimental hop blend. Uinta’s Ales for ALS beer is a draft-only beer, available at Uinta’s Brewpub (1722 Fremont Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-467-0909).

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During the 2013 St. Patrick’s Day Parade, I and others parade watchers caught a glimpse of something strange that we’d never before seen in a Utah parade: a vehicle with Shipyard Brewing plastered on the side of it. We took it to mean that one of the East Coast’s largest breweries was soon to be setting up shop here in Utah. And now, 16 months later, we had all but forgotten it, figuring it was some guy who’d gotten lost on his way to Vegas. Well, that long 16-month journey is finally over, and Utahns can start enjoying Shipyard’s fine beers right now. Look for Shipyard’s Smashed Blueberry Porter, Export Ale and—coming soon—the highly rated Pumpkinhead Pumpkin Ale at select DABC stores.

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Roosters Brewing and Beehive Cheese are teaming up once again for the eighthannual Birds & the Bees & the Flowers & the Trees party. This year’s event will take place at Red Butte Garden on Friday, Sept. 12 from 6 to 9 p.m. and feature a wide range of Roosters’ beers to pair with Beehive’s award-winning locally made cheeses. Red Butte Garden will be stunning and in full bloom, the perfect sunset venue for beer lovers and cheese aficionados alike. Live music from Patrick Briggs will also echo throughout the gardens. Proceeds from this year’s celebration will benefit Red Butte Garden. Tickets are $60 and can be purchased online.

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wine’s texture. For the low price, Goats do Roam gets it right. Located in Spain’s Priorat region, Celler El Masroig produces a 90 percent Grenache and 10 percent Syrah Rosé called Solà Fred Rosat ($12.99) that I enjoy. The nearly neon pink color of the wine belies its subtle charms. It’s a wine that seems to have been created with tapas in mind—a light-but-lovely match for gambas al ajillo and tortilla Española. A nice bang-for-the-buck pink wine from France is Les Vignes Rosé de Bila-Haut

($12.14), a wine produced by Michel Chapoutier in Côtes de Roussillon, Languedoc. This is an attractive blend of Cinsault (which imparts floral aromas and red fruit flavors) and Grenache (offering citrus notes and crisp minerality). Fun fact: The small cross symbol that forms the “T” in BilaHaut pays tribute to the Knights Templar, who once took refuge in the house on the estate now known as The House of Bila. Perennially one of my go-to value Rosés, Yalumba Y-Series Sangiovese Rosé ($10.99) never fails to please. This Southern Aussie wine is a party on the palate with pomegranate, cranberry, strawberry and apple flavors, all crisp and zingy with a citrusy finish. For something out of the ordinary, sip some with lox and cream cheese on a bagel. Two of my favorite American Rosé makers aren’t really known for their Rosé. Nonetheless, great winemakers tend to make great wines across the board, and Vin Gris De Cigare ($16.95) from Bonny Doon Vineyards and Bucklin Old Hill Ranch Rosé ($16.99) prove the point. CW

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akin to the temperature you’d serve a light white wine. Its versatility with food makes Rosé a slam dunk for picnics, barbecues and to sip on the patio while dreaming of Provençe. A nother attraction of drinking Rosé is its budgetary benefit. Although some highend French Rosé can get a little pricey, most bottles of decent Rosé can be had for under $20. Here is a smattering of some Rosé wines that I’ve found to be good values this summer. Farview Goats Do Roam Rosé ($7.99) from South Africa—the name is a witty play on France’s Côtes du Rhône—is sort of a “training wheels” wine. Even folks who eschew wine generally can find something to love in this quaffable, strawberryhued juice. It’s a blend of red-wine grapes that you’d normally expect to produce an intense, tannic wine: Shiraz, Grenache, Gamay Noir and Mourvèdre. But that’s part of the fun—and one of the winemaker’s challenges—in producing Rosé: knowing precisely when to take the juice off the grape skins. It’s a decision that determines everything from the color and intensity of the wine to the tannin structure and the

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The Paris Bistro is a tiny slice of France right next to Sugar House. Start your meal with the Paris salad: greens with pears, pecans, goat cheese and a honeymustard vinaigrette. Authentic French dishes blend with Italian classics to create dishes like a wild-fish asparagus risotto and gnocchi with garlic, spinach and wild mushrooms. A cheese and wine menu that is as extensive as it is delicious rounds out the dinner menu. Gelato and crêpes make up the bulk of the decedent dessert menu. The Paris boasts a romantic ambiance and patio seating, making it perfect for date night. 1500 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-4865585, TheParis.net

Twigs Bistro & Martini Bar

Twigs Bistro & Martini Bar serves elegant dishes with a unique spin. Appetizers walk the line between classic and eccentric, like the butternut-squash flatbread, which features bacon, caramelized onion and sage. Traditional dishes are elevated to a whole new level, such as the crab mac & cheese entree, with fresh blue crab meat, shallots, goat cheese, cheddar and jack cheese in a garlic cream sauce. And don’t forget about the martini bar—Twigs has 36 signature martinis, such as The Kinky-G, with grapefruit vodka, Kinky liqueur, oranges, a splash of OJ and Sierra Mist. 155 E. Promontory, Farmington, 801-447-8944, TwigsBistro.com

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Ninja Japanese Steakhouse

Outsiders might not think of Southern Utah as a sushi hub, but for locals, Ninja Japanese Steakhouse is perfect for getting that raw-fish fix. There’s a lot of roll variety, from traditional—spicy tuna is

always popular—to custom, such as the Cedar roll, which is topped with thinly sliced lemon. During happy hour—every weekday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.—a selection of 10 rolls are $5.99 each. And if sushi isn’t what you have in mind, Ninja also offers a number of Japanese dishes to feast on, as well as a hibachi dinner option for diners who want a bit of a show with their meal. 1180 Sage Drive, Cedar City, 435867-5577; 245 Red Cliffs Drive, St. George, 435-656-8628

Martine

Martine, situated in an old, beautiful brownstone building in downtown Salt Lake City, has been pleasing customers with its world cuisine since 1999. Owner Scott Hale and Chef Tom Grant serve an eclectic array of tapas and other dishes. Grant’s menu is influenced by his love and knowledge of Mediterranean, Spanish and North African cuisines and features dishes such as Moroccan braised beef with crimson lentils, lavenderseared wild salmon, grape-leaf-wrapped halibut with capers and house-smoked Utah trout. Dining in the classy but casual Martine can range from a glass of wine and a tapa to a full multi-course extravaganza. A very fairly priced wine list just adds to the appeal. 22 E. 100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-363-9328, MartineCafe.com

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Riverton’s Salsa Leedos offers zesty Mexican food in a fiesta-like atmosphere. There’s face-painting for the kids and a popular beer margarita for the adults, plus lots of spicy food for everyone in the family. The baby back green-chili ribs are tasty, and those who can’t resist a challenge should order the giant Leedos platter: a chile verde burrito, chile Colorado burrito, cheese enchilada and ground-beef taco, all served with rice and beans. Still have room for more? Try a helping of fried ice cream or the housemade sopapillas. 3956 W. 13400 South, Riverton, 801-565-8818, SalsaLeedos.net

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Grinders 13

For more than 40 years, Grinders 13 has been supplying Utahns with East Coast-style grinders, heros and hoagies. Rightly known for its great cheesesteak and killer Italian sub, my favorite Grinders sandwich is the hot meatball sandwich ($6.55 6-inch/$8.04 10-inch) with meatballs made from scratch (you can actually distinguish the various meats in each ball) and housemade marinara sauce, to boot. Reviewed July 31. 1618 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-467-3676, Grinders13.com

Vito’s

Vito Leone is a one-man construction crew who’s always found behind the counter of his small eatery. Because he constantly cooks, he can’t be bothered with handling money, so there’s an unusual payment system wherein customers stash their cash into a hole in the counter and make change from coin jars. I’ve eaten in all the highprofile Philadelphia cheesesteak emporiums like Pat’s, Geno’s, Jim’s, Tony Luke’s, etc. and I can honestly say that Vito’s cheesesteak ranks up there with any of them; it’s my favorite sandwich in all of Utah. Don’t take my word for it; go get your lips around one! Reviewed July 31. 100 S. Main, Bountiful, 801-953-8486

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Storm chasers spot a big one in Into the Storm get a fairly obvious nod of recognition to an iconic moment from Twister. There are ways to make that kind of “we’re actually inviting you to laugh at this” disaster movie work, as the success of Sharknado has demonstrated; jittery hand-held footage probably isn’t it. It’s obvious that plenty—if not most— viewers come to a movie like Into the Storm not caring about any of that, provided they can see some impressive big-screen carnage. Yet despite the leaps in CGI capabilities in the nearly 20 years since Twister, Into the Storm doesn’t exactly break new ground in showing flying debris and people clinging to something for dear life lest they be swept up into the funnel. The disaster movie may still serve its primal function of letting us know that people forget their petty quarrels and take care of the things (and people) that really matter when the chips are down, but if Into the Storm isn’t going to elevate the stateof-the-art in storm porn, why not stay home and watch Discovery Channel? Or maybe The Towering Inferno? We’re always gonna want Paul Newman to pull through. CW

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when it proves convenient, and abandoned when it doesn’t. It’s certainly efficient that Donnie and his brother, Trey (Nathan Kress), are making video time-capsule recordings that allow us to know within a matter of moments that their mom is dead and that Gary is tense and distant; it’s similarly useful that someone is eavesdropping on Allison so that we know she’s guilty over leaving her 5-yearold daughter behind while she’s on her research trips. And when director Steven Quale (Final Destination 5) occasionally would rather feature an impressive God’seye-view shot of destruction, or include some dramatic non-diegetic music while Donnie and Kaitlyn are gasping out their possibly last goodbyes to their families, hey, there’s no need to get doctrinaire about this whole found-footage business. The problem with that particular approach is that it’s also a tonal cue. While Into the Storm also includes footage from a pair of dim-bulb YouTube Jackasses-intraining (Kyle Davis and Jon Reep) gleefully risking their lives, the general vibe from hand-held documentary-style footage is that we’re getting something gritty and realistic, chronicling an actual disaster. That may work to ratchet up the tension when a twister is tearing the roof off a school building and threatening to whisk people away, but it makes for some jarring moments when one character gets sucked into a flame-nado, or another is lifted above the vortex for a brief idyllic glimpse over the top of the clouds, or we

n Eric Rohmer film is a particular thing; it’s more of a window into an observable world than something staged and played out for an audience’s entertainment. This assessment has varied to degrees throughout his career, but it is absolutely the case with his 1996 film A Summer’s Tale—the third in his “Tales of the Four Seasons” quartet—which tells the story of Gaspard (Melvil Poupaud), a recent university graduate who spends an increasingly eventful summer in Breton juggling three would-be girlfriends. The premise would lend itself to farce or male fantasies of irresistibility, but Rohmer’s style—patiently waiting until the reality of a given situation is revealed—highlights the organic nature of chance. In using Gaspard as a passive protagonist to tell the story, Rohmer ultimately (if gently) makes a point of highlighting that Gaspard’s way of handling things leads to both his own frustration and hurt feelings all around. The women make the film, particularly waitress/ethnologist Margot (Amanda Langlet), who serves as Gaspard’s first point of contact in the story and eventual friend and confidant. Margot, her searching-for-commitment friend Solene (Gwenaëlle Simon) and Gaspard’s kind-of-sort-of girlfriend, Lena (Aurelia Nolin)—whom he was in town for the sole purpose of meeting, only to have her arrive days late—are all drawn to Gaspard in different ways, and consistently thwart his desires by having (of all things!) fully realized inner lives. Once a viewer is able to meet Rohmer’s rhythm on his distinctly adagio pacing, his world can be an enchanting one. The power and draw of A Summer’s Tale is achieved not by attempting to enchant, but in finding that which is already there to be seen with the right kind of eyes. The kind of patience Rohmer practices in his film—and that his work in turn requires—can be a big thing to ask of an audience. But at his best, he’s more than worth it. CW

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here’s something almost quaint about the idea that, once upon a time, the stars of disaster movies were … well, stars. In the 1970s, when disaster was big box-office business, filmmakers gave their massive-scale life-threatening scenarios a patina of respectability by casting big-name above-the-line talent in the lead roles: Burt Lancaster in Airport, Gene Hackman and Shelley Winters in The Poseidon Adventure, Paul Newman and Steve McQueen in The Towering Inferno, Charlton Heston in Earthquake, Charlton Heston again in Airport 1975. And if all that star power distracted from the relative technological simplicity of the special effects, so much the better. Then came the 1990s and the CGI visualeffects age—and with it, the notion that the disaster itself was the above-the-line star. So while Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012) may keep the spirit of Irwin Allen alive with his throwback star-studded spectacles, more common are blockbusters in the spirit of 1996’s Twister, where the end of any given money-shot storm sequence was an implicit cue to audience members that it was safe to visit the bathroom or snack bar. Into the Storm continues in that tradition, adding the now-seemingly-even-morepopular device of faux-documentary/foundfootage. In the small northern Oklahoma town of Silverton, a team of stormchasers—led by driven filmmaker Pete (Matt Walsh) and meteorological researcher Allison (Sarah Wayne Callies)—try to find some amazing footage for their planned documentary before their funding runs out. Meanwhile, it’s high school graduation day in Silverton, and vice-principal Gary (Richard Armitage) is trying to track down his missing son, Donnie (Max Deacon), who’s been trapped in an abandoned factory while trying to help the girl he has a crush on, Kaitlyn (Alycia Debnam Carey), with a scholarship project. If you were feeling generous, you could say that the framing structure is employed

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Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change. The Hundred-Foot Journey HH.5 It is possible to roll one’s eyes at a story’s silly manipulations and still find it hard not to respond to those same silly manipulations. The Hundred-Foot Journey tells the tale of an Indian immigrant family looking to start over in a small French village, where they open a restaurant across the street from the country inn run by Madame Mallory (Helen Mirren). But while Mallory begins feuding with Papa Kadam (Om Puri), she also recognizes the incipient culinary genius of his son, Hassan (Manish Dayal). Director Lasse Hallström is a veteran of film romance through food porn (Chocolat) , and he lays on plenty of his twinkly tricks laced through a plot that gets overly dense as both Hassan’s celebrity and the various relationships grow. But there are also simple crowd-pleasing moments that showcase the veteran talents of Puri and Mirren, liberally seasoned with plenty of mouth-watering scenes of chefs at work. And yes, everyone learns important lessons—including viewers who can appreciate that a movie cheesier than French cuisine can still be somewhat tasty. Opens Aug. 8 at theaters valleywide. (PG)—Scott Renshaw Into the Storm HH See review p. 39. Opens Aug. 8 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge 3D [not yet reviewed] Documentary following the award-winning filmmaker in his own deep-water explorations. Opens Aug. 8 at Megaplex Jordan Commons and Megaplex The District. (PG)

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Mood Indigo HH A cartoonishly rich man (Romain Duris) meets an equally childlike woman (Audrey Tautou) in a tragic love story set firmly in Imaginationland. Coin-operated clouds, tiny men in patchy rat suits, deadly flowers and a drink-dispensing piano are just a few of the casual wonders that vroom rapidly through the frame. Director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) has never exactly been one to hold back, but this adaptation of Boris Vian’s long-thought-unfilmable cult novel Froth on the Daydream finds him throwing out absolutely all of the whimsical stops—to delightful and/or devastating effect. The original French cut ran 36 minutes longer, which seems hard to comprehend after watching this version. While the go-for-broke approach does yield some lovely, undeniably unique moments, particularly in the darker-toned back half, the showy effects straining for attention in virtually every frame quickly become exhausting; even Pee-wee’s Playhouse had a nonresponsive wall stud or two. Still, if you thought The Science of Sleep could have gone even further, this may well be your Valhalla. Opens Aug. 8 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—Andrew Wright Step Up All In HH.5 It’s all about dance-offs to satisfy random dissing, but perhaps it’s best to concede that the usual standards of cinematic discernment aren’t required here. We shouldn’t focus on the overly earnest performances or painful exposition. Instead, we should accept this installment to the franchise as a series of amazing music videos featuring astonishingly athletic dancers, doing crazy-hot modern choreography strung together by a flimsy narrative. It’s pretty much what old-school, 1930s Hollywood musicals were, right? This time, Sean (Ryan Guzman, returning from the previous film) brings a new crew together in Los Angeles to

compete in a dance competition called “the Vortex” with assists from Andie (Briana Evigan), Moose (Adam Sevani) and other dancers back from earlier installments—All In! Get it? No big social issues have been awkwardly shoved into the drama and then handily dismissed in embarrassingly naïve ways, as we’ve seen before in this series. And frankly, it’s pretty nice to see guys who know how to dance, women not wearing stupid shoes while trying to dance, and plenty of non-white and non-male people doing anything at all onscreen. Opens Aug. 8 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)—MaryAnn Johanson A Summer’s Tale HHHH See review p. 39. Opens Aug. 8 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [not yet reviewed] The latest adventures of the pizza-loving, butt-kicking reptile quartet. Opens Aug. 8 at theaters valleywide. (PG)

Yves Saint Laurent HH Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent “revolutionized women’s fashion” in the 1960s and ’70s, this French biopic informs us at its very end—but there hasn’t been the least hint of a grand influence by “fashion’s little prince” in the preceding 105 minutes. What the heck was director/co-writer Jalil Lespert thinking in neglecting to do justice to Saint Laurent’s legacy? Narrated from beyond Saint Laurent’s 2008 death by his lover and business partner, Pierre Bergé (Guillaume Gallienne), this rote life story relies far too much on telling what it should be showing. We’re briefed early on, for example, that sketching and designing are the only things that truly engage Saint Laurent, but we never really see him excited about much of anything. Pierre Niney as Saint Laurent is an appealingly wispy presence, but perhaps too wispy to hold up the

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thin film. Handsome performances and elegant precision—the film is like a beautiful, cold fashion shoot—can’t make up for the context we need to understand what we’re seeing, or the emotion to appreciate that this is a story about a real person, not a remote icon. Opens Aug. 8 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—MAJ

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to watch it wrap up with an obligatory-feeling world-in-peril finale. It’s most delightful exactly when it’s its own goofy, punky self. (PG-13)—SR

Get On Up HH.5 I may not know enough about James Brown’s life to know what events are glossed over or omitted here, but for around an hour— when it feels like 32 Short Films About James Brown—this is one weirdly unique brand of biopic. The narrative careens across decades for something that’s less a portrait of Brown (Chadwick Boseman) than it is a bunch of snapshots of his embattled childhood, determined rise to fame and various complex relationships. Boseman brilliantly mimics Brown’s raspy vocal cadences and his liquid stage moves, but there’s little room for the performance to evolve beyond uncanny impersonation. And the film’s second half falls into a more frustrating chronological march through Brown’s personal dramas. But between the performance re-creations and the stretches when it’s going for funked-up stream of consciousness, I’ll take this over movie biography by the numbers. (PG-13)—SR

I Origins HH Mike Cahill and Brit Marling (Another Earth) tell stories about the collision between logical thinking and spiritual yearning like grade-schoolers so excited to relate events to their parents that they make no sense. Ian Gray (Michael Pitt) is a biochemist obsessed with how human eyes might provide a scientific kiss-off

to creationist arguments—but personal tragedy might force him to acknowledge Things Beyond. There’s an intriguing idea here: What if the scientific method could provide evidence for things assumed to be supernatural? But Cahill doesn’t play fair in that territory; mysterious things happen, which merely become the kind of anecdotes that lead people to believe in ghosts because of that thing that totally happened to my cousin. Cahill seems to want to believe, and wants us to believe, too, but that’s not the same as submitting it to peer review. (R)—SR

Guardians of the Galaxy HHH.5 Where other comic-book fare has felt like action blockbusters with sprinkles of comic relief, James Gunn has been allowed to make a comedy that happens to feature comic-book characters. He relates the origin of the titular quintet—including thief Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), assassin Gamora (Zoe Saldana), felon Drax (Dave Bautista) and bounty hunters Rocket and Groot—in which they mostly seem interested in killing one another in various permutations, but the dysfunctional family dynamic disguises how desperate they are all for connection. Mostly, though, Gunn cuts loose with his B-movie sense of what-the-hell abandon, even as he’s cranking out energetic set pieces. Guardians is so wonderfully idiosyncratic for so long that it’s kind of a bummer

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A 1970s stripper (Halle Berry) struggles with dissociative identity disorder and keeping her other two personalities—a 7-yearold girl and a Southern white racist(!)— under control. Inspired by a true story and a fantastic afro. (Lionsgate)

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Hateship Loveship A young girl (Hailee Steinfeld) forges romantic e-mails between her widowed father (Guy Pearce) and their lonely weirdo housekeeper (Kristen Wiig) with sadmusic-montage results. Also starring Nick Nolte as … the voice of reason? (IFC Films)

Garfunkel & Oates sing it fast and funny; Outlander brings some smarts to Starz. Garfunkel & Oates Thursday, Aug. 7 (IFC)

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Series Debut: New Zealand musical-comedy duo Flight of the Conchords self-canceled their quasi-autobiographical HBO series partially because it was difficult to write so many songs for each episode—since Garfunkel & Oates (Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci) already have twice as many funny tunes to choose from than FOTC, maybe they’ll last longer than two seasons. Garfunkel & Oates is closer in spirit to femalecentric series like Broad City and the subtly groundbreaking Sarah Silverman Program than the dude-heavy comedies dominating cable right now, and the sparingly used musical numbers are sweet and scathing (DVR alert: Lindhome and Micucci’s clever wordplay flies fast and furiously).

Black Jesus Thursday, Aug. 7 (Adult Swim) Series Debut: What’s Aaron McGruder been up to besides not working on the final season his own show, The Boondocks? Making a whole new series to piss off Whitey: Despite the drama surrounding the long-long-delayed/contracted Season 4 of The Boondocks, which Adult Swim finally went ahead and just produced without him, McGruder’s still in business with the network—and really, who else would run a show called Black Jesus? A live-action series starring Grand Theft Auto voice Gerald “Slink” Johnson, Black Jesus finds The Lord “living in present day Compton, Calif., on a daily mission to spread love and kindness throughout

the neighborhood.” Black Jesus looks like it was filmed for $75 and is more concept than comedy, but since it’s already outraged Christian ’Merica, score.

The Knick Friday, Aug. 8 (Cinemax) Series Debut: Ready for another brilliant-yettroubled handsome rogue of a doctor who’s addicted to drugs, sex and narcissism? Wait, come back—what if it’s Clive Owen? In 1900s New York? Directed by Steven Soderbergh? Now you’re interested. The Knick is short for Knickerbocker Hospital, where Dr. John Thackery (Owen) has reluctantly inherited the role of chief surgeon—a rough gig for a cocaine-and-opium-addled wreck who’s pushing the boundaries of medicine while trying to pull the hospital from the brink of financial ruin. Add race and gender politics to the old-timey medical-science steampunkery, and The Knick is one more TV obligation in The Summer of Too Many Shows. It’s good, but it can wait.

Outlander Saturday, Aug. 9 (Starz) Series Debut: A married World War II nurse (Caitriona Balfe) is mysteriously transported from 1945 to 1743 in the Scottish Highlands, where’s she’s held captive by hunky Scottish warriors in an even more

Garfunkel & Oates (IFC) patriarchal, misogynistic society than the ’40s. Outlander, based on a best-selling book series, is equal parts romance, sci-fi, history and bodice-ripping ridiculousness— and, thanks Ronald D. Moore’s (Battlestar Galactica) direction, probably the smartest and most female-friendly Starz series ever. Which isn’t saying a hell of a lot, but good for you, Starz.

4th & Loud Tuesday, Aug. 12 (AMC)

Remember that cop show that AMC tried to force you to watch by only showing promos for next week’s Breaking Bad during the episodes? That was then rejected out of spite and subsequently canceled? It was actually pretty good. (Anchor Bay)

Muppets Most Wanted On a European tour, the Muppets get caught up in an international crime caper headed by Kermit’s evil double and his evil-er sidekick (Ricky Gervais). Also starring Tina Fey, Ty Burrell and nobody else from that other Muppets movie. (Disney)

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Series Debut: As I ranted a couple of weeks ago on an episode of the TV Tan podcast (which you should be subscribing to on iTunes, Stitcher or Spreaker, just sayin’), it’s bad enough that The Band Who Still Call Themselves Kiss are now in the arenafootball business, but in Los Angeles? Could have at least tried to salvage some of that old East Coast cred and bought a New York franchise, Bat Lizard and Starchild. And why is Paul Stanley, who refused to appear on Gene Simmons Family Jewels because it was a “fake” reality show, now all too happy to appear on this fake reality show? And why call the team the L.A. Kiss instead of the far-more-intimidating L.A. Destroyers? Or at least the L.A. Love Guns? So many questions, so few weeks until cancellation. CW

In his 74th straight-to-DVD release this year, Nicholas Cage stars as a father whose daughter has been taken (but not, as per the lawyers, Taken), so he tracks the scum down with a unique and violent set of skills (again, talk to the lawyers). (RLJ)

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has always been the other half of the band’s viral success. OK Go is now touring with a batch of new songs that Kulash says comes from having had some time to discover themselves as a group. Kulash describes Hungry Ghosts as an homage to their earliest influences: the ’80s dance pop of Prince, New Order and Depeche Mode that they fell in love with as kids. “I think it took us a while to figure out that there’s a way for us to do that [music] in a way we still feel genuine about,” Kulash says. “I hope we’re not being retro. It just feels like you can tell that’s the music we grew up on.” The band’s latest single, “The Writing’s on the Wall,” features the tight percussion and icy guitar sounds of that era. The song addresses how it feels when the end of a relationship feels not just near, but inevitable, and it reveals a malaise not typically found in OK Go’s traditionally upbeat singles. But what is the same is the group’s canny sense of visual style. The single premiered online with a video that follows the band members in a single take as they insert themselves in various mind-bending optical illusions. It’s gotten close to 10 million views on YouTube in the month since its debut. As for what else the band has planned before the new album comes out, fans will have to wait—but likely not that long. “We chase all of our creative ideas,” Kulash says. “You just try to keep them all in balance.” CW

n the photograph on the cover of Local Natives’ latest album, 2013’s Hummingbird, a man is struggling to get out of a precarious position. With his legs dangling over an apparently endless abyss, it looks like he just succeeded in pulling himself back onto solid ground, but only by the skin of his teeth. It’s an apt visual representation of the themes found on the Los Angeles indie-rock band’s sophomore album, as well as the personal upheaval the five musicians experienced in the two years following the release of their debut album, Gorilla Manor. In contrast to the buoyant positivity of that debut, Hummingbird is often gut-wrenchingly sad, a reflection of the band’s emotional state during its creation. “We were in a pretty tough spot,” says Kelcey Ayer, the band’s keyboardist and co-lead vocalist. “My mother passed away, [we had] various heavy relationship issues, even some health-related ones, which all made for a heavier record, but it was one we had to make to get through those things.” Atmospheric but powerful, with Ayer’s clear voice floating over layers of guitar and intricate percussion, Hummingbird is a universally applicable encapsulation of the range of human emotion. On “Bowery,” the end of a relationship is described in the lyrics “The fall is so much faster/ Than you and I could ever climb.” On “Colombia,” Ayer paints the picture of his mother’s final moments in the lyrics “The day after I had counted down all of your breaths/ Down until there were none, were none, were none, were none,” then concludes the song by repeatedly asking himself the questions “Am I giving enough?” and “Am I loving enough?” But with all of the difficulty Local Natives have endured, the creative future of the band looks bright, especially with the addition of a new bassist. “We pumped in some new blood with Nik [Ewing] joining us last year, so that’s been a cool new dynamic for everyone’s writing head space,” Ayer says. And while there is “no solid news” about a new album, he says, the band is laying the groundwork for their next effort, optimistic about what’s to come. “We are just getting a new practice space/studio together to write in that should provide new inspiration for this next record,” Ayer says. “A new creative space is always a good idea for starting a new chapter, so I’m looking forward to seeing how that affects us. … We’re in a better place than ever now.” CW

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ver since 2006, when they proved that a video of four men dancing on treadmills could capture the short attention spans of millions, OK Go has been the archetype for how a modern band stays relevant, especially in a music industry that struggles to grasp the changing habits of its listeners. One of the changes OK Go seems to have clued into is how a band’s creative output is measured in the first place. The Los Angeles-based rock group’s new record, Hungry Ghosts, comes out in October—a full four years after the release of their previous full-length album. That might seem like a long wait, but the truth is there’s really no such thing as waiting when it comes to OK Go. There’s always something—a video, a show, an app—around the corner. And OK Go’s various releases, in whatever form they take, are made to be experienced and shared rather than packaged and sold. That’s an idea lead singer and guitarist Damian Kulash says isn’t completely new. “[Music] is turning into a much more ephemeral thing again, like it was before the 1920s—before it became a commodified thing,” Kulash says. “That makes it super hard for some of us to figure out how to make a living, but it does sort of take the shackles off certain notions about what a musician is supposed to do.” OK Go is probably best known for eschewing the notion that a band’s contribution to a music video is simply to show up and lip sync. All four band members individually and collectively put as much muscle into their visual performances as they do their recordings. The group’s videos—featuring choreographed dances, performances alongside trained dogs or immensely complicated Rube Goldberg contraptions—aren’t mere promotional tools in service of a single; they’re separate and complementary creative acts of their own. OK Go’s embrace of mixed media has always been a part of the band’s makeup, Kulash says. When the band was first starting out in Chicago, Kulash—who studied semiotics at Brown University—would design and screen print the band’s early posters. “I don’t think we distinguish the same way most people do between different forms of creativity,” Kulash says. “There’s this idea that people who play songs are musicians and people who make images are filmmakers. We’re all making ones and zeroes, and we’re all putting it out on the same place.” But clickbait doesn’t go far if there’s no hook attached that’s why the strength of OK Go’s stompy power-pop records

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Xiu Xiu There’s an episode of Parks & Recreation where the parks department is brainstorming ideas for a new mural, and April comes up with a freaky project involving a guy running in a hamster wheel while screaming and eating raw beef; rats made out of garbage; and looped video of knee surgeries. I imagine that Angel Guts: Red Classroom, the latest album from experimental avantgarde group Xiu Xiu (pronounced “shoo shoo”), would be a fitting soundtrack for something so horrifying. Mostly made with ominous beeps, bloops, zips and zaps, Angel Guts—named after a violent Japanese porno, because art—is shocking and unnerving, especially with frontman Jamie Stewart whispering like a creep. On Xiu Xiu’s website, though, the band promised to play some older tunes on this tour, too, so at least you can probably look forward to a rendition of “I Luv the Valley OH!” Circuit des Yeux and Jawwzz will also perform. Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), 8 p.m., $10 JAMES WOOD

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There’s no single type of crowd that frequents the Tap; blue-collar laborers, spiffy-suited office folk, young college kids new to the drinking scene and old dive-bar veterans mingle at the bar to chat up the bartender or catch a game on the TVs. Stop in for $1.75 mini-mug draft days or the Geeks Who Drink quiz on Wednesday nights or take a spin on the Medieval Madness pinball machine (fun fact: Tina Fey voiced one of the princess characters). If you’re lucky, you may hit a day when owner Dennis Chambers brings in his homemade meatloaf. If not, pull up a stool (ladies, hang up your purses on the extremely convenient hooks under the bar), sip a beer, shoot the shit with your neighbor and relax. 2021 S. Windsor St., Salt Lake City, 801484-6692, Facebook.com/SLCTapRoom Carol’s Cove II

A strip-mall club that’s far larger than it appears outside, Carol’s Cove II is a serious karaoke bar that also happens to be a great place to catch a little ball on the tube, enjoy live music on the weekends and chow down on some good, cheap eats (the garlic burger is semi-legendary on this stretch of State Street). 3424 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801466-2683, Facebook.com/CarolsCoveII Donkey Tails Cantina

Located in Guadalahonky’s Restaurant, this cantina has an old-world feel and is a great place to unwind, enjoy live music and watch sports either inside or on the back patio, which is equipped with a cozy fire pit and plasma TV. Don’t miss Margarita Mondays or Taco Tuesdays. 136 E. 12300 South, Draper, 801-571-8134, Facebook.com/DonkeyTails Paper Moon

With pink walls, pink neon, pink streamers and more, Paper Moon is the pinkest bar in town. Once a lesbian-oriented bar, it now appeals to a more diverse LGBT and straight crowd. Thursdays are poker night; come prepared to lose a hand to Kristi from Wasatch Poker Tour. 3737 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801713-0678, ThePaperMoonClub.com The Moose Lounge

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Whether you’re in the mood for a relaxing night with old friends or the possibility of meeting eyes with someone new over a fancy cocktail, The Moose Lounge has you covered. Settle in to one of the parlor suites, which are like a more upscale version of your living room, complete with TV, fireplace and customizations. 180 W. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801-739-3337, Facebook.com/ TheMooseLoungeSLC

Friday 8.8

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Ska can often sound like happy-go-lucky circus music, but Boston natives The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have been adding some grit—accomplished partly through frontman Dicky Barrett’s gravelly voice—to the genre since 1984. Part of the third wave of ska that hit popularity in the ’90s—with bands such as No Doubt, Rancid and Reel Big Fish at the forefront—The Mighty Mighty Bosstones pioneered the ska-core style, a combination of ska and elements of punk, hardcore and rock. The band went on hiatus in 2003 but reunited in 2007, and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones proved to their fans that their plaid flame is brighter than ever with the release of two new albums, including their latest, 2011’s The Magic of Youth. Show Me Island and Interrupters will open. The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 8 p.m., $20 in advance, $25 day of show, DepotSLC.com Ben Kweller On his Facebook page, Austin, Texas-based musician Ben Kweller lists the many terms that can apply to him: “indie-popster, powerpopist, balladeer, anti-folkie, acoustic-punkrocker.” They all describe different facets of the 34-year-old’s versatile musical ability, as he can belt out a catchy pop melody over electric guitar as well as croon with genuine emotion over piano. Kweller has been in the music game a long time considering his relatively young age, as he started playing music at age 9. He discovered his highly personal, revealing writing style after he moved to New York City at age 18 in his postRadish days, and it’s since been the glowing heart of several albums, including 2012’s Go Fly a Kite. Will Sartain is also on the bill. The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $18 in advance, $20 day of show, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com

Tuesday 8.12

Jenny Lewis Early stories about Jenny Lewis’ music career made much out of her being a child actress, but her work with indie-rock/ alt-country group Rilo Kiley, in which she eventually became the clear frontwoman, is what rightfully leads her bio these days. Since Rilo Kiley’s fourth and apparently final (sob) album was released in 2007, Lewis has explored folk-country with the Watson Twins; recorded a pop album as Jenny & Johnny with her boyfriend, Jonathan Rice; and released two solo albums—the most recent of which, Voyager, just landed July 29. Whereas her other projects seemed to

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be deliberate swerves away from the Rilo Kiley sound, Voyager feels more like its next evolution, with Lewis’ sweet vocals— sometimes sing-song folksy, sometimes full of Linda Ronstadt-esque richness and emotion—belying sly, cutting lyrics and snarky soulfulness. (Rachel Piper) The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 9 p.m., $20, DepotSLC.com

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5 MONKEYS 7 E. 4800 South, Murray, 801266-1885, Karaoke, Free pool, Live music A BAR NAMED SUE 3928 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-274-5578, Trivia Tues., DJ Wed., Karaoke Thurs. A BAR NAMED SUE ON STATE 8136 S. State, SLC, 801-566-3222, Karaoke Tues. ABG’S LIBATION EMPORIUM 190 W. Center St., Provo, 801-373-1200, Live music ALLEGED 205 25th St., Ogden, 801-9900692 AREA 51 451 S. 400 West, SLC, 801-5340819, Karaoke Wed., ‘80s Thur., DJs Fri. & Sat. BAR DELUXE 666 S. State, SLC, 801-5322914, Live music & DJs THE BAR IN SUGARHOUSE 2168 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-485-1232 BAR-X 155 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-355-2287 BARBARY COAST 4242 S. State, Murray, 801-265-9889 BATTERS UP 1717 S. Main, SLC, 801-4634996, Karaoke Tues., Live music Sat. THE BAYOU 645 S. State, SLC, 801-9618400, Live music Fri. & Sat. BOURBON HOUSE 19 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-746-1005, Local jazz jam Tues., Karaoke Thur., Live music Sat., Funk & soul night Sun. BREWSKIS 244 25th St., Ogden, 801-3941713, Live music BURT’S TIKI LOUNGE 726 S. State, SLC, 801-521-0572, Live music CANYON INN 3700 E. Fort Union, SLC, 801943-6969, DJs CAROL’S COVE II 3424 S. State, SLC, 801466-2683, Karaoke Thur., DJs & Live music Fri. & Sat. The Century CLUB 315 24th St., Ogden, 801-781-5005, DJs CHEERS TO YOU 315 S. Main, SLC, 801575-6400 CHEERS TO YOU Midvale 7642 S. State, 801-566-0871 CHUCKLE’S LOUNGE 221 W. 900 South, SLC, 801-532-1721 CIRCLE LOUNGE 328 S. State, SLC, 801531-5400, DJs CISERO’S 306 Main, Park City, 435-6495044, Karaoke Thur., Live music & DJs CLUB 48 16 E. 4800 South, Murray, 801262-7555 CLUB 90 9065 S. 150 West, Sandy, 801-5663254, Trivia Mon., Poker Thur., Live music Fri. & Sat., Live bluegrass Sun. CLUB DJ’S 3849 W. 5400 South, Murray, 801-964-8575, Karaoke Tues., Thur. & Sun., Free pool Wed. & Sun., DJ Fri. & Sat. CLUB TRY-ANGLES 251 W. 900 South, SLC, 801-364-3203, Mid-week movie Wed., Karaoke Thur., DJs Fri. & Sat. THE COMPLEX 536 W. 100 South, SLC, 801528-9197, Live music CRUZRS SALOON 3943 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-272-1903, Free pool Wed. & Thurs., Karaoke Fri. & Sat. DAWG POUND 3350 S. State, SLC, 801-2612337, Live music THE DEERHUNTER PUB 2000 N. 300 West, Spanish Fork, 801-798-8582, Live music Fri. & Sat. THE DEPOT 400 W. South Temple, SLC, 801355-5522, Live music

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) If you’re planning to hurl a thunderbolt, make sure you are all warmed up and at full strength before you actually unleash it. It would be sad if you flung a half-assed thunderbolt that looked like a few fireflies and sounded like a cooing dove. And please don’t interpret my wiseguy tone here as a sign that I’m just kidding around. No, Libra. This is serious stuff. Life is offering you opportunities to make a major impression, and I want you to be as big and forceful and wild as you need to be. Don’t tamp down your energy out of fear of hurting people’s feelings. Access your inner sky god or sky goddess, and have too much fun expressing your raw power.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In your dreams you may travel to Stockholm, Sweden to accept the Nobel Prize or to Hollywood to pick up your Oscar. There’s a decent chance that in your sleepy-time adventures you will finally score with the hot babe who rejected you back in high school, or return to the scene of your biggest mistake and do things right this time. I wouldn’t be surprised if in one dream you find yourself riding in a gold chariot during a parade held in your honor. I’m afraid, however, that you will have to settle for less hoopla and glamour in your waking life. You will merely be doing a fantastic job at tasks you usually perform competently. You will be well-appreciated, GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Every February, you go through a phase when it’s easier to see the well-treated and well-rewarded. That’s not so bad, right? big picture of your life. If you take advantage of this invitation, your experience is like being on a mountaintop and gazing into SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) the vastness. Every August, on the other hand, you are more Lake Superior State University issues a “Unicorn Questing likely to see the details you have been missing. Transformations Privilege” to those people who are interested in hunting for that have been too small and subtle to notice may become visible unicorns. Are you one of them? I wouldn’t be surprised if you to you. If you capitalize on this opportunity, the experience is like felt an urge like that in the coming weeks. Unusual yearnings peering through a microscope. Here’s a third variation, Gemini: will be welling up in you. Exotic fantasies may replace your Around the full moons of both February and August, you may habitual daydreams. Certain possibilities you have considered be able to alternately peer into the microscope and simulate the to be unthinkable or unattainable may begin to seem feasible. Questions you have been too timid to ask could become crucial view from a mountaintop. I think that’s about to happen. for you to entertain. (You can get your Unicorn Questing License here: http://tinyurl.com/unicornlicense.) CANCER (June 21-July 22) You wouldn’t sip dirty water from a golden chalice. Am I right? Nor would you swig delicious poison from a fine crystal wine CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) glass or 10-year-old vinegar from a queen’s goblet. I’m sure you Your ethical code may soon be tested. What will you do if you see will agree that you’d much rather drink a magical elixir from a a chance to get away with a minor sin or petty crime that no one paper cup, or a rejuvenating tonic from a chipped coffee mug, will ever find out about? What if you are tempted to lie or cheat or or tasty medicine out of a kids’ plastic soup bowl you bought at deceive in ways that advance your good intentions and only hurt the thrift store. Don’t you dare lie to yourself about what’s best other people a little bit or not at all? I’m not here to tell you what to do, but rather to suggest that you be honest with yourself for you. about what’s really at stake. Even if you escape punishment for a lapse, you might nevertheless inflict a wound on your integrity LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Every 12 years, the planet Jupiter spends about a year cruising that would taint your relationship with your own creativity. through the sign of Leo. It’s there with you now, and will be Contemplate the pleasures of purity and righteousness, and use with you through early August 2015. What can you expect? them to enhance your power. EXPANSION! That’s great, right? Yes and no. You might love to have some parts of your life expand; others, not so much. So AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) I suggest you write down your intentions. Say something like “The thorn arms the roses,” says an old Latin motto. The this: “I want Jupiter to help me expand my faith in myself, my astrological omens suggest you’ll be wise to muse on that advice power to do what I love, and my ability to draw on the resources in the coming weeks. How should you interpret it? I’ll leave you and allies I need. Meanwhile, I will prune my desires for things to draw your own conclusions, of course, but here are a few hints. I don’t really need and cut back on my involvement with things It may be that beauty needs protection, or at least buffering. It’s possible that you can’t simply depend on your sincerity and good that don’t inspire me. I don’t want those to expand.” intentions, but also need to infuse some ferocity into your efforts. In order for soft, fragile, lovely things to do what they do best, VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) TV comedian Stephen Colbert confesses that his safeword is they may require the assistance of tough, strong, hearty allies. “pumpkin patch.” Does that mean he participates in actual BDSM rituals? Is it the codeword he utters when he doesn’t PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) want the intensity to rise any further, when he doesn’t want his If you go to an American doctor to be treated for an ailment, odds next boundary crossed? I don’t know. Perhaps he’s simply joking are that he or she will interrupt you no more than 14 seconds into or speaking metaphorically. Whether or not you engage in literal your description of what’s wrong. But you must not tolerate this BDSM, Virgo, there’s an aspect of your life right now that has kind of disrespect in the coming days, Pisces—not from doctors, metaphorical resemblances to it. And I suggest that you do the not from anyone. You simply must request or, if necessary, equivalent of using your safeword very soon. Nothing more can demand the receptivity you deserve. If and when it’s given, I be gained from remaining embroiled in your predicament. Even urge you to speak your truth in its entirety. Express what has if the ordeal has been interesting or educational up until now, it been hidden and suppressed. And this is very important: Take responsibility for your own role in any problems you discuss. won’t be for much longer. Escape your bondage. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Breve orazione penetra is an old Italian idiom. Its literal translation is “short prayers pierce” or “concise prayers penetrate.” You can extrapolate from that to come up with the meaning that “God listens best to brief prayers.” In the coming week, I invite you to apply this idea whenever you ask for anything, whether you are seeking the favors of the Divine Wow or the help of human beings. 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