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Infamous mistress Gypsy Willis tells her story.

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Letters Golfing Paradise

Mr. Hult, I too can’t imagine heaven without golf [“Eternal Questions,” Aug. 7, City Weekly].

But you don’t need to worry about everyone hitting perfect shots every time. I think I have this figured out. We will still hit good shots, bad shots and mediocre shots. It’s just that the bad and mediocre shots won’t frustrate us. We will just be happy there is golf in heaven.

Oh, and when I hit a ball into the weeds on heaven’s golf courses, I’ll always find my ball.

Steve Lybbert Cottonwood Heights

Where’s Your Perversion?

I was shocked and appalled by the Staff Box in the July 31 issue. When asked for “something you secretly enjoy,” not a single one of your writers could come up with an actual embarrassing secret. Stephen Dark’s secret shame is “enjoying … Buffy the Vampire Slayer”? Who told him he shouldn’t watch a critically acclaimed and widely beloved television show? Paydn Augustine admitted they smoke, which might be a shameful secret if he worked at Deseret News, but this is City Weekly, for crying out loud!

Where are the nostalgic reminisces about coke-fueled stripper-infested ’80s parties? Will no one cop to youthful dalliances with cock fighting? I’m not expecting a flat out admission of embezzling public funds, but no one even

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Can’t Take This Sitting Down

My wife and I had the great pleasure of going to the Tedeschi Trucks show at Red Butte Garden. We enjoy the gardens and the concert venue. We marvel at the consistently top-tier entertainment and the wonderful staff. We feel that Red Butte is the best venue in the valley, and that we are all blessed to have access to such a unique place.

The people who attend these events tend to be friendly, fun, generous and understanding. Understanding, I say, because while the venue allows chairs and blankets, people frequently choose to stand. My wife and I are dancers.

Not professionally, but when we’re enjoying the music at a show, we’re hard-pressed to want to sit down.

We were not alone in our enthusiasm. There were many concert-goers on their feet. So when we heard calls of “down in front,” we did what most other folks did: We ignored them. After a final admonishment for our indulgence, I made a mistake. I turned to the complainers (who were not directly behind us) and asked, “Did you come here to hear the show or see the show? If you want to see

the show, I suggest that you stand up.” I felt a tinge of regret when they promptly moved. It was not long after this that my wife heard over her shoulder, “Why have nice chairs like that if you’re not going to sit in them?” Minutes later, my wife noticed that one of our chairs was gone.

I suppose they were trying to teach me a lesson.

Unfortunately, the lesson failed. Now that I am chairless, I am forced to stand, and compelled to dance through entire sets. Opening acts will now have at least one visual confirmation that their material is hitting home. The temptation to sit through power ballads is no longer an issue. I am not going to take this sitting down, because now I can’t!

To the chair bandits, I can only say this: Thank you!

Alleviating me of my property will only serve to enhance my enjoyment of the coming concert calendar. I’m sure you will see me there, perhaps in front of you, dancing the night away.

Matthew Henry Sugar House Correction: In “Parking Perks” [Aug. 14, City Weekly], Wayne Holland’s title was misstated. Holland is the former chairman of the Utah Democratic Party.

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OPINION

You’re Welcome

When I was a kid, the choreography of Christmas morning required that my brother and I take turns unwrapping gifts at an exasperating pace so my father could make a list of what each package contained and who had given it. The list was long because the gift-giving protocol in our family extended to aunts, uncles and cousins. A few days later, after all the Hershey’s Kisses were eaten and the Christmas tree had begun to drop brittle needles on the floor, my mother was hounding us to get thank-you notes in the mail.

I hasten to add that “Thank you for the gloves” did not pass muster. Our thankyous had to measure up to those of my cousins—Kay, Sharon and Judy—who lived in Oregon. Theirs were more Jane Austen than Ernest Hemingway, rendered in perfect script with a fountain pen, replete with enough narrative detail to please even the most jaded giver of gifts. To wit: “The cute cap-sleeved top you sent perfectly matches the navy-blue jumper I got for my birthday, so when I wear them both to the church social next week (with the shiny black Mary Janes that Mom bought me!!!), I’ll surely be the center of attention.” So, however reluctantly, my brother and I followed suit.

Since then, handwritten thank-yous have gone the way of “good manners” and cheap gasoline. Wedding presents, when acknowledged, often generate a wan “Thank you very much for the lovely gift” from newlyweds who would prefer to text “thx” and be done with it. Miriam Footer, the owner of WriteImage on 2100 South, reports that some couples come to her store to order preprinted, generic thank-yous, an order she declines to place. Indeed, the handwritten thank-you is so neglected that job applicants are urged to follow up interviews with one so as to distinguish themselves from the herd—a clever stratagem, it seems to me.

I occasionally pen a thank-you note for a gift or a kindness, and I certainly

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am appreciative when something I do is acknowledged in writing. Most of the response to what I write in this space arrives electronically, glints in the cyber dross.

For the most part, the messages are hastily composed with more exclamation marks than commas. I read them. Whereupon— according to the Emily Post Institute, the arbiter of etiquette for decades—I have but two categorical options: “delete” and “remember.” Only once have I chosen “remember.” A prominent Salt Lake City businessman wrote to me on crimsonbordered stationery with his name embossed at the top. A year has passed and I can’t bring myself to throw it away— because it has the same sensory engagement as newsprint, books and vinyl LPs, and because someone I don’t know took time to compose his thoughts, find my address, and put pen to paper then stamp to envelope.

Footer says I am responding to his sincerity. “E-mail isn’t appropriate for a sincere thank-you,” she says. “A written note acknowledges effort sincerely and carries so much more weight.”

A written note has reciprocal benefits, according to John Kralik, a 50-something attorney who believes the act of writing thank-you notes can improve your life. In 2007, when his life had become “perfectly awful,” he committed himself to writing one thank-you note each day for a year.

It proved to be a difficult commitment to honor, and he wrote a book about the experience titled 365 Thank Yous. In it, he writes about the struggle to become more observant and more engaged with his surroundings. He had to learn to focus on people like the Starbucks barista whose service is ordinarily overlooked.

At the end of the book, Kralik describes a karmic chain of events in which “the best thank-you notes will stir in the recipients’ hearts the knowledge that their gesture was truly appreciated and even inspire

the desire to give again, knowing that they will be thanked and appreciated.” It is the identical point that behavioral economists Armin Falk and Urs Fischbacher have made in their studies. In describing the Theory of Reciprocity, they observe that “people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by its underlying intention.” A thoughtful act tends to short-circuit the recipient’s governing self-interest and spark the human tendency to repay kindness with kindness, smile with smile. Studies show that friendly servers get bigger tips.

My mother wrote thousands of letters in her lifetime. The handwritten letter was her preferred medium for communicating with friends, relatives, banks, hospitals and the like. I doubt she gave much thought to underlying intent, and if she had any notion of reciprocity at all, it was intuitive and elemental: send a letter, receive a letter; receive a gift, send a thank-you. It was a practice she inculcated in her two sons. She believed, as Footer asserts, that “kids should be taught that a gift requires a thank-you note, even if it is one 8-year-old writing to another.”

Maybe Jimmy Fallon will get credit for the resurgence of the handwritten thank-you if and when it comes. Like Johnny Carson’s Carnac routine and David Lettermen’s Top 10 list, Fallon’s funny thank-you cards (“Thank you, bowling, for giving me an excuse to drink with somebody else’s shoes on”) are a favorite of the studio audience. Notecards could become as popular as Fallon himself, even fashionable to the point that yuppies tuck embossed vellum note cards into their Dior totes as they head out for coffee. Then, lingering over a latte, Mont Blanc pen in hand, they compose a thank-you note to the barista. CW

“A written note acknowledges effort sincerely and carries so much more weight.”

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What’s the best way to say thank you?

Jeremiah Smith: A nice beer, of course.

It’s the international payment for nice gestures.

Kolbie Stonehocker: I’m a fan of the longform thank you. Do some sleuthing and figure out a gift that they’d really like or have been wanting for a while, then ninja them with kindness and thoughtfulness by giving it to them on the next present-giving holiday.

Susan Kruithof: The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. So sayeth the Dalai Lama.

I find the best way to say thank you is to open up your mouth and say “Thank you.” Simple gratitude is all it takes.

Christopher Westergard: I’m a fan of the traditional handwritten thank-you card.

Jeff Chipian: I usually say “Thanks ...” with an awkward smile and maybe throw in a high-five.

Jeff Reese: Say “Thank you” with a smile, and then do something nice for someone else.

Scott Renshaw: Call me old-fashioned, but I’ve always thought there’s no better way to show appreciation than a blood oath to return the favor by murdering that person’s worst enemy.

Paydn Augustine: I’ve always felt that “God bless” is a misunderstood statement.

You see, I don’t believe in any great Bog in the sky, but I feel the statement echoes the most solemn of vows of health and goodwill toward your fellow man. It seems quite oppressive that so many people take such offense to a saying that, even outside a religious background, is so heavily meaningful.

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HITS&MISSES

by Katharine Biele

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Well, of course the Utah Transit Authority needs more money. That’s its M.O.: If you want better, more frequent service, give us more money. Utah Political Capitol told the story of Alex Cragun, who gathered 3,000 signatures in a MoveOn. org petition asking for expanded service hours. But UTA President Michael Allegra says they just don’t have enough money, and need a sales-tax hike to make it happen. The board, according to The Salt Lake Tribune, thinks they can get the legislature to agree if they kickstart businesses. These apparently are the businesses that have benefitted from the Ghost Train, the $37 million Sugar House streetcar that has garnered only a trickle of passengers. The city likes to say it was the streetcar that caused all those new housing units and office buildings. But it’s not necessarily cause and effect.

Get Edumacated It’s been coming for some time now—the Tea Partyization of the State Board of Education. You know something’s happening now, but few understand the insider politics that have pushed out Superintendent Martell Menlove and his deputy, Brenda Hales. Part of the problem is the way board candidates are selected—by the governor after a vetting by a stacked committee. But now that a cabal of voucher supporters sits on the board, it’s not much of a stretch to say they chose Joel Coleman, a relatively unqualified, albeit interim, replacement who supports private school choice and is said to want to “clean house.”

Hales and Menlove apparently couldn’t take the abuse from the board and the legislature—to which Coleman’s wife will likely be elected in November.

Preventive Care If you’re looking for a sustainable career, try becoming an “expert.”

Salt Lake County recently asked the Council of State Governments to study recidivism and come up with some ideas on how to prevent it. That’s a good idea, even though there are maybe a million such studies available now, not the least of which come from the National Institute of Justice. Still, it’s a good thing that the county is thinking about this, particularly since the state prison is about to be moved out of the area, creating some issues for service providers. Mental health, according to the studies, is a huge concern and a major reason for recidivism. Ostensibly, the CSG will come up with some ideas specific to the county. The challenge will be to actually follow through.

COURTESY HEATHER WADE

Cough It Up

Heather Wade grew up in the foothills of Bountiful, where a home’s square footage measures in the thousands. Now a St. George resident, Wade wanted a house but didn’t want to be house poor. After learning about the tiny-house movement, she found the solution in the form of a 160-square-foot house. Wade, a graduate of Southern Utah University, spends most of her time outdoors or traveling for her work in the blood-collection division of the American Red Cross, so the small space was appealing. Thanks to the help of friends Erin Elder and Ryan Bingham, both SUU civil-engineering students, her house was recently finished, and Wade will move in September. Her house will stay in RV parks until Wade finds land to accommodate it.

Why a tiny house?

My dad was encouraging me to buy a house. I started looking at houses, but was so turned off by the homes I saw. Every house looked the same. I was very turned off by the idea of owning a home, the maintenance on a home, being in debt on a home. I came across the tiny-house movement, and it was exactly what I needed. I own my house outright; it is a pretty cool feeling to own your home.

Don’t you think you’ll eventually need more space?

I don’t need much more than a bedroom. I don’t want to get married or have kids. I don’t want all these empty rooms that I have to fill with stuff; you end up constantly purchasing things. When you have a small space, there is not a whole lot you can purchase because there is not a lot of room to put things. You are saving money, which can go to other things like traveling or helping friends and family when they need it.

There is more of a sense of freedom. I didn’t want to be one of those people confined to their house because they have to be spending their Saturdays doing yardwork or cleaning their home. Whereas for me, it will take me a few minutes to clean my house and I’m out the door. I won’t be in debt; in fact, I don’t have any debt.

What obstacles have you encountered?

The house is being built by me and engineering students; none of us have any sort of construction experience. It has been a lot of trial and error, frustrations with each other and the house itself. Everything we have worked on has been a challenge, because we didn’t always know what we were doing. I haven’t had a free Saturday in a very long time; every Saturday is dedicated to working on the house. Working on the house, I’ve been the most stressed I’ve ever been.

What have you learned form this experience?

For me it is the more simple the better. Downsizing and getting rid of a lot of my things has felt like a huge weight off my shoulders. I know that not everyone can live that way, but for me, I don’t feel like I’m sacrificing a lot of things. This is something I want to do. There is a sense of pride putting your blood, sweat and tears into your own home.

What advice would you give someone considering a tiny house?

Not everybody can live small. Be sure this is something you want and that you are passionate about. People who think they can just experiment with this tend to not stay in a tiny house long. If this is something you want, and you think might make you happy, then do it.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Ad-tention

BY CECIL ADAMS

Thinking about all the money spent on ads, I was wondering if there’s any hard evidence on how effective advertisements are in this day and age.

Everyone I know hates advertisements, and I can’t remember the last time I bought something because advertisements told me to.

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This question has tormented business moguls since the dawn of commerce. The following formulation will be of no comfort to them, but it’s indisputably true: 1. Advertising is a complete waste of time and resources.

2. Except when it works.

The conventional defense of advertising, as expressed by marketing consultant Nigel Hollis in a 2011 Atlantic piece, “Why Good Advertising Works (Even When You Think It Doesn’t),” boils down to this: A. U.S. businesses wouldn’t spend $70 billion annually on TV advertising alone if this stuff didn’t accomplish something, and B. We can all think of memorable ads and ad campaigns, ranging from the primordial “Cal-l-l for-r-r Phil-lip Mor-ray-issss” TV commercials of the 1950s to the determinedly oddball Old Spice spots of recent years.

What Hollis’ cheery analysis overlooks is the vast dunghill of advertising that didn’t work—or, more precisely, didn’t do any better than competing advertising.

Had the companies that paid for this dreck quietly agreed to keep their money in the till, they’d have maintained market share at no cost to their bottom lines.

The problem, clear to any business exec who’s ever had to allocate an ad budget, is that while it’s reasonably easy to demonstrate that advertising in general works, and that some past campaigns have succeeded, the chances of the campaign you’re now contemplating doing you any good are a complete crapshoot.

This problem hasn’t gotten any less vexing in the age of the Internet, but it’s changed in a fundamental way.

Years ago, there was considerable truth to the remark commonly attributed to Philadelphia department store magnate John Wanamaker: “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” In the days when print media dominated, and to a considerable extent after the rise of broadcasting, advertising meant a leap of faith. You spent X amount on advertising and sold Y amount of product, but who knew how much X had to do with Y? With online advertising, in contrast, it’s all too apparent. People click on your ad or they don’t. Sure, not everybody who clicks buys, and not everybody who doesn’t click doesn’t buy, but the click-through rate gives a rough idea of whether anybody’s paying attention—and mostly, nowadays, they’re not. Once upon a time, a good click-through rate for a banner ad was 5 percent or better; now it’s more like 0.2 to 0.3 percent.

Partly for that reason, print, despite its steep decline, remains the financial

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mainstay of many old-line publishing companies. Sure, advertisers may suspect that traditional advertising, print ads especially, don’t accomplish much. But the flat-line metrics of many online campaigns remove all doubt.

The evolving challenge of Internet advertising is a column for another day.

First, the larger question: While most advertising doesn’t do jack, some succeeds brilliantly. What’s the diff?

For a glimpse of the answer, let’s turn to a remarkable advertising success story— Geico auto insurance. Consider: n Insurance is, beyond a doubt, the most boring subject on earth—and Geico, in its early days, was perhaps the world’s most boring insurance company. (Its name stands for “Government Employees Insurance Company,” somebody’s idea of a marketing ploy—the firm has always been a privately owned, for-profit enterprise).

Lesson: successful advertising doesn’t require an exciting product. n Although the Geico gecko has become iconic, using an animated spokescritter is hardly a groundbreaking notion (remember Tony the Tiger?). Geico’s slogan, if you can call it that (“15 minutes could save you 15 percent or more on car insurance”) doesn’t rank with “Just do it” for memorability. n What put Geico over the top—and this is the most important lesson of all—was its willingness to invest big once it had stumbled on a formula that worked. Geico management turned to animation because of an actors’ strike, and realized it had a winner only when the first gecko ads were followed by a bump in sales.

But opportunity didn’t need to knock twice. Largely at the prodding of the guy who runs its parent company, Warren Buffett, Geico spends more than a billion dollars annually promoting itself in a broad array of media. Geico commercials have been inescapable for going on 20 years.

Has it paid off? Two data points. First, Geico was the No. 9 auto insurer before it began its marketing blitz; now it’s No. 2.

Second, when I was in the market for car insurance recently—and I like to think I’m as impervious to advertising as the next guy—I said to Mrs. Adams, “We should check out Geico.”

In the end, we bought elsewhere. But I know why that guy in Omaha always has a little smile.

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By Eric S. Peterson epeterson@cityweekly.net @ericspeterson On Aug. 8, a man who organized an off-the-books campaign fundraiser in 2012 for former Utah Attorney General John Swallow was arrested on federal witness-tampering charges, along with three associates.

Swallow never disclosed the fundraiser on his campaign records, which was referenced in the Utah House of Representatives’ final 2014 report of its investigation into Swallow.

The indictment against Montgomery cited his involvement in using threats and physical force against a former employee to keep him from providing testimony in an official proceeding. Months before the victim appeared in the indictment— identified only as A.T.H.—he spoke to City Weekly about the May 2014 incident, when, he says, he was viciously assaulted

by Montgomery and his associates for being a “fucking rat” to the FBI about Montgomery’s company.

The company, Emmediate Credit Solutions, was the focus of the 2013 City Weekly cover story “Bad Company.”

Former employees described Montgomery as a “ticking time bomb” ex-convict, and said his company sold people essentially worthless credit-repair services. They also recalled Montgomery saying he was supporting Swallow so that, as attorney general, Swallow would help keep federal regulators off of his business.

Montgomery’s arrest for witnesstampering is just one chapter in the Swallow saga and another addition to Montgomery’s long criminal record— which includes assault of a police officer and a federal conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

And the case itself may be tough for the government because of the former employee’s own lengthy criminal past.

“I would be very careful about relying on [his] veracity,” writes Montgomery’s attorney Cara Tangaro in an e-mail regarding the former employee.

On May 14, the victim—who asked that his name not be used to avoid retribution—met with City Weekly to discuss the events that led up to his violent confrontation with Montgomery.

When the victim first joined

L AW & O R D E R Emmediate Credit Solutions in October 2012 as a salesman, he says, the job was very profitable, and he fit in well. And his performance was such that, in June 2013, after taking his family on a cruise to the Bahamas, he was supposed to return to the company as a sales-team leader. The position offered more responsibilities but better pay. The victim says he left the company over a disagreement about money, but returned at the beginning of 2014 again to be trained as a team lead.

But while the former employee was being groomed for the position, he says, he was beginning to clash more and more frequently with his boss, Cameron Montgomer y—Rob Montgomer y ’s brother—over the behavior of sales staff he caught lying to customers over the phone.

He eventually would challenge his bosses, the Montgomery brothers, for turning a blind eye to this practice, leading to an argument where, he recalls, Cameron told him: “I need you to be a team leader, but I also need you to back me on everything I say.” The former employee says he told Montgomery “You need to stop lying to people.”

In spring 2014, the former employee says, his wife obtained a new job with good benefits, so he decided to quit ECS. But the brothers, he says, offered him even more money to stay.

The former employee then called the FBI to try to find out how the company might be breaking the law. He didn’t initially speak to an agent, he says, but one did call him back and left a voicemail.

When the former employee went to collect his final check, he says, Cameron confronted him about why he was leaving. The former employee played the FBI agent’s voicemail for Cameron and then left, but returned, he says, when his final check wouldn’t clear.

On that second visit, he says, Rob came “charging out of the office and he grabbed me by the neck and said, ‘You fucking rat, I’m going to fucking kill you!’ ” When he pushed Rob away, he says, Cameron and J.D. Montgomery then held his arms while Rob pushed his neck down to waist level, and another man, Jeremy Ertmann (known in the office as “Bear” for his formidable size), threw a series of uppercuts into his face.

He broke free but, under threats of further violence, exited the building and called police. Before police arrived, he said, Rob told him, “You’re a fucking rat, I’ll see you dead for this.”

When officers arrived, he says, they almost arrested Rob, but instead released him from custody and didn’t investigate the issue further.

Montgomery’s attorney Tangaro argued in court, however, it was her client who was attacked by his former employee, and the dispute was never about the FBI

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Rob Montgomery (inset) was recently federally indicted for witness tampering. In 2012, the owner of Emmediate Credit Solutions hosted a fundraiser for former Attorney General John Swallow that never appeared on Swallow’s campaign disclosures. but over the check. Tangaro wouldn’t comment about the former employee’s documented injuries, but did point out that he has a lengthy criminal history.

Court records indicate that the former employee was involved in theft and drugs since the mid ’90s, and in 1995 pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of assault on a prisoner. In 2000, he pleaded guilty to a third-degree felony charge of attempted theft. In 2005, he was federally indicted for being a felon in possession of a firearm, and in 2007, had his sentence extended for absconding from supervised release at a halfway house and for getting involved in drugs again. Because of these violations of his supervised release, he didn’t leave the federal corrections system until 2012, when he was released and was hired at ECS. The victim also has an outstanding warrant for failing to appear in court in January 2014 for a misdemeanor charge of interfering with an arresting officer.

But if his record affects his credibilit y, the same arg ument will likely be lobbed against Rob Montgomery, who also served four years in the federal system for being a felon in possession of a weapon. His conviction on that charge came after his abused wife used Montgomery’s gun to kill herself. The judge in that case noted Montgomery’s past misdemeanors,

including assaulting a police officer, and wrote that Montgomery “has a demonstrated history of violence and firearms violations combined with drug use.”

When City Weekly interviewed Montgomery in 2013, he said he had turned his life around and his campaign support for Swallow was because he wanted to “put the right person in office.”

Since that interview, Swallow has resigned from office and is facing 11 felony corruption charges. Montgomery also had a run-in with state regulators when, in late 2013, he settled with the Utah Division of Consumer Protection over telemarketing fraud citations and agreed to pay $12,500 in fines.

Since Montgomery’s arrest on the recent indictment, the former employee has not returned requests for comment from City Weekly. In May, however, frustrated by police not arresting Montgomery immediately after the altercation, he wondered if he could challenge Montgomery at all, considering, he says, that he often bragged at the office about being worth $20 million.

“The Montgomery family are so rich, I don’t even know how to mount a battle again them,” the former employee says.

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Together let’s continue to make a difference.

Trains, Music & Beer This week, South Salt Lake residents ought to drop in on a city meeting to learn about how zoning will change around the East Streetcar Corridor.

This weekend, swing by Bar Deluxe to party for a good cause at a fundraiser for the Arts-Kids nonprofit. Later, the Salt Lake City Planning Commission will talk about future growth and discuss allowing Avenues Proper to become a social club.

South Salt Lake Planning Commission Thursday, Aug. 21

South Salt Lake needs to clear the way for the East Streetcar Corridor, and that means changing the zoning in the area from Single Family Residential to allow other developments. The corridor currently would affect homes and properties along roughly 2200 South, between the east side of State Street and the west side of 500 East.

South Salt Lake Council Chambers, 220 E. Morris Ave, Suite 200, South Salt Lake, 801-4836011, Aug. 21, 7 p.m., http://citywk. ly/1sQhMWB

Arts-Kids Fundraiser Saturday, Aug. 23

Arts-Kids is a nonprofit that helps children who are struggling under tough economic circumstances, emotional stress and pressure by giving them a number of creative and recreational outlets, from painting and photography to yoga and clay sculpting. This weekend, drop by Bar Deluxe to listen to the musical stylings of the Hardy Brothers and help the nonprofit continue to offer services to kids in Salt Lake City, Summit County and the Uintah & Ouray Reservation in Fort Duchesne.

Bar Deluxe, 666 S. State, 801-5322914, Aug. 23, 8 p.m., Arts-Kids.org

Salt Lake City Planning Commission Wednesday, Aug. 27

Roll up your sleeves and head to this meeting to see the blueprint for your city. On the agenda is a presentation for Plan Salt Lake, which is analyzing future growth in the city. Planners will discuss approving Avenues Proper as a social club—meaning guests 21 and over could be served beer and liquor without ordering food—and will also consider approving an emergency homeless-youth shelter at the Volunteers of America Youth Center at 888 S. 400 West.

Salt Lake City & County Building, 801-535-7700, 451 S. State, Aug. 27, 5:30 p.m., SLCGov.com/Planning

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Curses, Foiled Again Police in Bloomsburg, Pa., arrested Jacob Close, 25, for jumping bail after he took part in the local newspaper’s “Your Opinion” feature and allowed his photo to be published.

An officer noticed Close’s photo and tracked him down. (Associated Press)

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n After Quamier Claiborne, 20, asked a passerby for a coat hanger, explaining that he was locked out of his car in Linden, N.J., the passerby notified police. Officers found Claiborne standing near a 2009 Volkswagen Passat that he claimed he’d borrowed from his aunt. A check found the vehicle had been reported stolen, and he was arrested. (Newark’s The Star-Ledger)

Getting to Be a Habit Engine trouble forced the pilot of a small plane to make an emergency landing on a highway near East Moriches, N.Y. A week later, he made another emergency landing on the same highway. “It wasn’t one of my better landings,” Frank Fierro, 75, said, adding, “My wife is going to kill me.” (New York’s WCBS-TV)

Facebook Follies Oscar Otero Aguilar, 21, whom Mexican authorities described as obsessed with taking impressive photos of himself to post on social media, borrowed a gun and was waving it around while he took pictures with his cellphone when he accidentally shot himself in the head. (Britain’s Mirror)

How the Great Unwashed Live New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation & Development approved a proposed apartment building with separate entrances for rich and poor residents. The 33-story complex will have 219 luxury units overlooking the Hudson River and 55 units facing the street for low-income families. Including affordable housing nets Extell Development Company a tax break and the right to erect a larger building than would normally be allowed. As for what critics call the “poor door,” fellow developer David Von Spreckelsen of Toll Brothers explained, “I think it’s unfair to expect very highincome homeowners who paid a fortune to live in their building to have to be in the same boat as low-income renters, who are very fortunate to live in a new building in a great neighborhood.” (New York Post and Britain’s Daily Mail) n A San Francisco nonprofit group equipped a former public transit bus to offer free showers to homeless people. The Lava Mae mobile shower bus features two full private bathrooms with clean toilets, shampoo, soap and towels. Founder Doniece Sandoval explained that the bus can reach homeless people scattered throughout the city, plus it avoids high rents that a fixed location would entail. (Associated Press)

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Florida authorities who charged Kayla R. Oxenham, 23, with intentionally branding her two children, ages 5 and 7, said she told the children that she burned them with a hot stick so she could identify them as hers. The Port Charlotte woman added that she “forgot how much she loved fire.” (Fort Myers’s WBBH-TV)

Second-Amendment Follies Heath Vanek, 35, the firearms instructor for the Hewitt, Texas, Police Department, accidentally shot himself in the hand while using his personal 9mm semi-automatic pistol to teach his family to shoot. (Waco Tribune-Herald)

n A 37-year-old New York man was shot by another man during an argument while filming a rap video. “They were fighting over who’s the star, who’s better,” said witness Ali Abdul. “They were drunk. They spit at each other, then one guy pulled out a gun and shot the other guy five times.” Police said the victim was critically injured, and the shooter fled. (New York Daily News) n Alaska authorities said Carl Timothy Forester, 50, tried to commit suicide at his Skagway home by putting his shotgun in his mouth. His girlfriend tried to stop him by hitting him in the head with the butt of another gun, but the blow caused him to involuntarily squeeze the trigger of his gun and shoot her in the upper chest, permanently disfiguring her.

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n IRS special agents fire their guns accidentally more than they fire them intentionally, according to an investigation by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

Between 2009 and 2011, the report found, “there were a total of eight firearm discharges classified as intentional use of force incidents and 11 discharges classified as accidental.”

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People would rather be doing something, even if it’s hurting themselves, than doing nothing or being alone with their thoughts, according to researchers at the University of Virginia.

When they gave 18 men a 15-minute “thinking” session, with the option of administering a mild electric shock, 12 of them gave themselves at least one electric shock. By comparison, six of 24 women shocked themselves. Prior to the sessions, all of the participants had received a sample of the shock and indicated they would pay not to be shocked again. “Simply being alone with their own thoughts for 15 minutes,” the investigators reported in the journal Science, “was apparently so aversive that it drove many participants to self-administer an electric shock that they had earlier said they would pay to avoid.” (University of Virginia press release) Compiled from mainstream news sources by Roland Sweet.

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Gypsy Willis’ affair with a married doctor led her to scandal, jail and a role as a celebrity witness at his trial.

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hen Gypsy Willis received a text from her married lover that said he’d just lost his wife, she had no idea what it meant. “I didn’t have any idea what he was talking about,” she says. “I joked back, asking if she had gone for a walk or something. I felt terrible and was in utter shock when he told me she had died.”

Willis also had no idea that she’d find herself the subject of worldwide media attention—profiled on Honduran TV, chronicled in London’s Daily Mail and featured on ABC’s 20/20—or that her lover, Dr. Martin MacNeill, would be accused and later convicted of murdering his wife.

MacNeill’s wife, 50-year-old Michele, was found dead in the bathtub of her Pleasant Grove home April 11, 2007. Pleasant Grove police and an autopsy initially ruled that the death was accidental, but Martin’s daughters and Michele’s sisters were convinced that MacNeill had killed his wife.

MacNeill had encouraged Michele to have a facelift, and had asked her plastic surgeon to prescribe stronger drugs than usual, according to testimony at the subsequent murder trial. Daughter Alexis MacNeill testified that her mother was unusually lethargic and unwell after the surgery, and that she told her daughter, “If anything happens to me, make sure it wasn’t your dad.”

The next morning, her mother was dead.

The two oldest daughters became driving forces in the case against MacNeill. Both they and prosecutors stated that MacNeill killed his wife to pursue a full-time relationship—and marriage—with Willis.

Willis, 37, is articulate and reflective. Her self-assurance was on full display during her testimony in the 2013 MacNeill trial, which was the first Utah trial to be televised and became a national sensation thanks to the tabloid-ready combination of a mistress and Mormonism. On the stand, Willis calmly responded to questions regarding phone and text contact with MacNeill around the time of Michele’s death, and described their relationship, including how she became the nanny for his children after his wife’s death and his marriage proposal. She also read excerpts from letters she and MacNeill exchanged while both were in prison on identity-theft charges.

She says she’s glad no one could tell how scared she was while testifying in the murder trial: “I felt like a hummingbird on the inside.”

Long before she ever crossed paths with Martin MacNeill, Willis’ struggles against her conservative Mormon family’s values led to her own share of sorrow. Her quest for a successful adult relationship included recovering from a failed marriage, and having access to her child curtailed following bitter conflict with her parents. While her relationship with the charming doctor offered excitement, their lives were both shattered when he was charged with murder.

In October 2012, Willis and MacNeill, then 56, were both in court for a preliminary hearing. It was the first time Willis had seen him since January 2009, she says. Although he looked much older and thinner, she says, “I would look at him and remember our life together. I don’t think anyone could do that and not feel something. Most of it is just sorrow that it didn’t work, that people were hurt, that we were in these circumstances. But I loved Martin, and I don’t think that was a bad thing.”

PARENT TRAP

Willis was born in St. Anthony, Idaho, in 1976. She was a dark-haired, dark-eyed baby who got her name after her mother put a red cap on her and remarked that she looked like a gypsy. “That should be her name,” her father said.

She came from a conservative Mormon family “that is a little bit on the fringy side,” she says. “While the Mormon church does encourage preparation, my dad had The Anarchist Cookbook and sold guns to add to our income when he was in medical school.”

The family lived in Pocatello, Idaho, until Willis was 13, when they moved to a town 30 miles from Des Moines, Iowa, where she lived during high school. She became a licensed nurse when she was 18, but wanted to be a doctor. “I thought I would use this skill to pay my way through medical school,” she says.

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Top: Gypsy Willis looks at defendant Martin MacNeill as she testifies about their relationship during an October 2012 preliminary hearing.

Bottom: Willis passes MacNeill after taking the witness stand.

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After the lunch, they stayed in touch; instant messaging progressed to texting, their relationship eventually shifting from lunch dates to lovers around January 2006, she says.

MacNeill told Willis that he sought extramarital excitement, she says, “and that is what I was. It was very passionate and very sexual. It was so fun—this beautiful, handsome doctor taking time out of his life for me.”

She recalls going with him to a building in American Fork that was scheduled to be demolished for what she calls a “rendezvous,” only for someone to walk in on their tryst. “I had my coat and threw it on. I was shaken, but it was exciting.”

When they weren’t tempting discovery, he would visit her in her apartment or she would meet him at a motel in Orem.

“It was the fun, passion and excitement that he liked,” she says. “He had a lot of demands in his life—church stuff, a large family, daughters in dance, and he and his wife being social figures. ... I was the only aspect of his life that didn’t drain him.

But, she says, the lines between his two lives were clearly drawn. “He had a perfect life and an image he was maintaining.

I had my own life and was supporting myself. I had hobbies, friends and interests and went places.”

Willis says she loved MacNeill, describing him as “the American version of Prince Charming, coming from his glorious castle.” She appreciated his dry wit and spontaneity. “I tend to fall for charismatic, insincere people, but he seemed sincere.”

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Willis met Martin MacNeill online in 2005. Back then, Yahoo had a service called Yahoo Members. “It wasn’t a dating site,” Willis says. “You created a post of who you were. When people with similar interests saw that, they would chat with you.”

MacNeill, she says, jokingly accused her of trying to be smarter than she was when she posted, “What do you know about quantum physics?”

Their casual conversations had a spark, although he alluded to being in a relationship “of some kind.” They instant-messaged back and forth for about three weeks before meeting in person.

The trial and prison life have left the present-day MacNeill looking so old and thin, she says, that he scarcely resembles the handsome, self-confident man she met in November 2005 for lunch at a Thanksgiving Point restaurant. He wore a nice overcoat and a scarf over slacks and a shirt.

She was initially attracted to his smile and tone of voice, as well as his intelligence, which she already knew about from their online conversations. “What are you doing with me?” she wondered afterward.

MacNeill seemed reserved during the lunch. “He let me talk more about myself than he talked.” She told him she worked as a nurse; he told her he was a doctor, was married and had a great life. “That’s kind of too bad,” she says she thought.

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“He had a lot

of demands In 1995, at 19, she was working as a nurse and going to college when she in his life— became pregnant. Her family, she says, church stuff, “freaked out and acted like we were in a large family, another century, saying, ‘Look at the hordaughters in rible example you’ve set.’ ” She decided to keep the baby—a daughdance, and he ter, later named Heidi Marie. The father, and his wife an engineering student, was living out of being social state, but told her they would get married.

But when her daughter was born, “I was figures. ... I having her in the hospital by myself. When was the only I did reach him, I got his fiancee. He had aspect of his moved on.”

Later, she was married for about two life that didn’t years to a man whom she put through drain him.” school while he studied to become a chef.

But, she says, he became verbally and then physically abusive. She returned to live with her family in Idaho, where she worked as a nurse, attended college and began dating a man her family initially thought was wonderful.

The wages in Pocatello were too low, she says, so she decided to move to Salt Lake City. Her family, she says, pressured her to let Heidi remain with them during the workweek.

She agreed to a temporary custodial care agreement that granted her parents rights over practical matters such as Heidi’s schooling and any necessary hospital visits, then eventually agreed to a full adoption.

But tensions soon grew over the arrangement with her parents. They changed their minds about her boyfriend, she says. She told them she wouldn’t bring him to their house, but was going to love whomever she wanted. “At that point, they said, ‘Don’t come back here,’ ” she says.

In 1999, she sued her parents to try to get custody of Heidi. In a mentalhealth assessment, counselor Karen Anderson of Pocatello, Idaho, stated that Willis was forced into relinquishing control of her daughter. “Gypsy was mentally and physically abused and ultimately signed adoption papers while in a state of duress and threat,” Anderson wrote in her report.

Willis eventually dropped her custody battle. “I pushed the ends of my finances as much as I could until she was about 5 1/2, then thought that it might be too traumatizing to take her away,” she says.

While she wasn’t able to see her daughter, she stayed in contact with her paternal grandmother. Through that contact, Willis learned that her brother was blessing his baby at a church in Bountiful. She decided to try to see Heidi. “I thought my parents might not have too much of a tantrum because we were in church.”

Willis arrived a bit late and sat down next to Heidi and her father. Her mother patted her shoulder. “It was great,” Willis says. “I was invited to a little picnic afterward.”

Over the next few years, Willis tried to approach her parents as an adult would other adults. “We slowly developed contact, which opened my heart up to being hurt more later.”

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Martin MacNeill at a January 2014 hearing in Provo for charges of forcible sex abuse. He later pleaded guilty to those charges, but is still waiting for his sentence in the murder of his wife.

She says she was dating other people, and she’s sure she wasn’t his only extramarital relationship. Such behavior seems at odds with media descriptions of MacNeill as a “former Mormon bishop” or “former Mormon Sunday school teacher,” but, Willis says, MacNeill was successful at compartmentalizing his life.

“He felt his Mormon faith was very important to the structure and social support of his family,” she says. “When he was there, he sincerely felt the spirit and participated gladly.” But it was separate from his employment, intellectual pursuits and, obviously, the time he spent with women.

“I know he felt liberated in my presence, as I did not ask, expect, or judge anything about him,” she says.

A SAFE PLACE

But their relationship wasn’t all stress-free sexual liaisons. Willis found herself dealing with MacNeill’s rapid cycles between manic and depressive phases, a product of his bipolar disorder. During his manic phases, he was “exciting, fun, funny and lively,” she says. But “there were a few times—at least 10 times, about once every six weeks—when he was extremely manic and would get paranoid and kind of belligerent. It was exhausting, and one reason why I admire Michele so much is that she spent 28-plus years of life with him.”

Willis says she admired Michele MacNeill from a distance. “Her life— with society, ballet, family and children—was not the kind of life I ever saw myself in, but I can admire a job well done, even if it is not in my field,” she says. “We were obviously very different people with different interests.

Martin loved her and always spoke well of her. He had chosen a life with her. I respected everything about her.”

In 2006, Willis found a nursing program in Draper that she could get into right away. She gave notice at her Bountiful apartment in the fall and couch-surfed while going to school.

In January, she says, MacNeill told her that he “had leased a little duplex in Lehi for people who were working on his home. They had skipped out on the job, but he still had the obligation to pay on the lease. He put me up with the lease.”

When she moved in, she says, MacNeill “gave me a debit card and said, ‘Get what you need on this card. And pay me back when you are done.’ ” The duplex had holes in the carpet and a dated ’70s décor. But, she says, “it was a place to be; that meant a lot to me.”

The nursing program was rigorous—40 hours of classroom time weekly, clinic days and a preceptorship, where students donated time. But moving to Lehi meant that she could see MacNeill more often, about twice a week.

Still, she says, he was open about seeing other people, and knew that she was, too.

“He told me from the beginning that while he might care about me, our relationship would never move beyond occasional get-togethers.”

It was only after Michele MacNeill’s death in April 2007 that she and MacNeill became exclusive, Willis says.

In May, a month after his wife’s death, MacNeill had Willis move in with him and his daughters to serve, officially, as a nanny.

Willis says she was a bit taken aback by the idea of helping as a nanny and thought it would be awkward, considering that she and MacNeill were involved. “I thought that it would be better if everyone had time to regroup, but Martin was quite insistent,” she says.

She describes the MacNeills’ 5,000-square-foot Pleasant Grove home as “a small palace, with marble floors, large original paintings and sculpture, ballet-themed artwork and very elegant furniture.”

Becoming the MacNeill nanny was quite different from her role in her own daughter’s life. “I hadn’t been involved with ballet or gone to church in quite a while, and I went with them,” she says. “They were very sweet children. I really liked his younger daughters and learned to like the older ones, too.”

During that time, Willis says, MacNeill struggled to hold together his family and his bipolar disorder.

“People didn’t see him falling apart until you were closer in his life,” she says. “When he was alone or with me, he was thrashing, was just about inconsolable when he let down his guard. He was so choked up.”

Willis’ own family issues resurfaced during this time. Willis drove to her parents’ house to pick up a dog that, she says, they’d agreed to release to a rescue organization. But when Willis arrived at her parents’ home, she says, her mother told her she couldn’t take the dog, and they got into a fistfight. Willis says her mother grabbed her from behind and choked her. “I couldn’t talk anymore, and was seeing stars.” Willis bit her mother’s

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arm to get away. “Mom said, ‘Get out of here, you are never going to see Heidi again.’ ” Willis called MacNeill, but, she says, her mother took the phone out of her hand, hung up and dialed the police.

“As I leave, I’m seeing a fire truck and ambulance all heading back toward my parents’ house,” Willis says. She says no charges resulted from the incident.

When the MacNeill drama came to light, Willis says her mother and sister took it as an opportunity to “say they were right about me, that I was evil and violent. My family does not talk to me. I had no contact and they took this as an opportunity to say I am a horrible person.”

Her father, Dr. Howard Willis, says that Gypsy “remodeled her memory” of the fistfight incident, where she was actually the aggressor. “She wanted to procure that dog, and she unfortunately assaulted her mother to get it. It was an ugly situation.”

He says he and his wife have not spoken to their daughter since 2008.

“We feel awful for the choices she has made and cannot have her around us,” he says. “She is basically not welcome on our property.”

Their greatest fear is that she was somehow involved in Michele MacNeill’s murder.

“When Gypsy and Martin got together, it was a perfect storm,” Howard Willis says. “When you’ve got a daughter that loses her morals and her spiritual guidance, she could be led on by a pathological killer. The moment she found out Martin was married, she should have shut that relationship off.”

“Martin loved [HIS WIFE] and always spoke well of her. He had chosen a life with her. I respected everything about her.”

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Before that, the only legal issue she’d had was speeding tickets.

Willis was later convicted in federal court on a count of aggravated identity theft. Part of her April 2009 plea deal was agreeing to testify in court if future murder charges were filed against MacNeill.

She served two years, surrendering her practical and registered nursing licenses. After she was released from federal prison, state prosecutors filed charges against her. She pleaded guilty to multiple felonies relating to the identity fraud and was sentenced to 36 months of probation, which ended in January 2014.

Gypsy Willis and Martin MacNeill enjoy nature in an undated photo.

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Willis says that MacNeill wanted to marry her, but didn’t want her sizeable tax debts applied against his assets while he tried to sell his house. Her tax debts stemmed from growing up “with a father who was doubtful of the government, and was a tax protestor himself,” she says. By the time she realized the problems her non-payments had caused, her debt to the federal government was about $50,000.

MacNeill’s plan was to add her to the family under the identity of the MacNeills’ adopted Ukrainian daughter Giselle.

Willis says she had reservations about the situation, but when she’d tell MacNeill that it didn’t sound like a good idea, he’d ask, “ ‘Who has the debt—you or me?’ or ‘Who is the attorney—you or me?’ ” She eventually put her worries aside. “Being as independent as I was, the benefits of having a guy in my life were to make me feel loved and let me feel safe,” she says. “Feeling safe is big—it’s not something you can always produce on your own. I don’t think he intended any of it to go down like it did.”

In January 2009, Willis was in the MacNeill kitchen when a SWAT team dressed in flak jackets and vests labeled FBI burst through the front doors. “They came in shouting, and I shouted, ‘Get out, you can’t be in here.’ I was shocked, scared and angry.”

As the FBI started taking pictures and doing a “ransacking search,” Utah County detectives pulled Willis aside to question her. “We walked outside and there were police cars everywhere,” she says.

She was arrested and booked on federal charges relating to the identity theft of MacNeill’s 16-year-old adopted daughter.

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MacNeill was also prosecuted for identity fraud and pleaded guilty to two counts of identity fraud in August 2009. He was sentenced to 48 months in prison and released July 6, 2012.

“When Martin was released from prison in 2012, they threw me in jail and tried to restart my probation,” Willis says. She says law enforcement took her into custody on an alleged probation violation to make sure she wouldn’t run away with MacNeill. “I was so scared. I didn’t even know when Martin was being released, and wasn’t allowed to have contact,” she says. She was released 10 days after MacNeill got out.

The following month, he was arrested and charged with murder and obstruction of justice in the death of his wife.

Willis testified at the 2012 preliminary hearing on MacNeill’s murder charges in a calm and poised manner, she and the defendant making eye contact while she was on the stand.

After a 22-day trial in Provo in late 2013, MacNeill was convicted of his wife’s murder, but has yet to be sentenced. A few weeks after the jury found him guilty, MacNeill attempted suicide in his cell by taking a disposable razor to his femoral artery.

In July 2014, MacNeill pleaded guilty to forcible sexual abuse of his adult daughter, a conviction his attorney is asking a judge to dismiss because the 2007 recording made by law enforcement of their interview with the victim was lost.

“I am indignant about him being treated this badly.”

Willis believes her ex-lover was “crucified” by the media and bullied by prosecutors trying to make up for a flimsy case.

Willis says she hasn’t written to MacNeill since she left jail. Now, moving on with her life, she hopes to acquire skills for a new career, as she doubts that she could ever regain her nursing career.

Before the trial, she drove a semi-truck in North Dakota.

As for her relationship with MacNeill, she says, “Even though I have a lot of pentup frustration that my association with this guy ruined my life, I am indignant about him being treated this badly.” Willis believes her ex-lover was “crucified” by the media and bullied by prosecutors trying to make up for a flimsy case.

She says she can relate to the confinement he now faces after a suicide attempt. “I was in prison, too,” she says.

“I know what it is. It’s hard, because it’s so boring, regulated and mundane.

Everything is difficult, from the other inmates, the abandonment of people you thought cared, the horrible food and the harsh treatment. For someone with Martin’s mental stimulation needs, it would be living hell. ... The conditions he has been subjected to on maximumsecurity suicide watch for the last nine months are absolutely inhumane. I have no doubt that they have severely affected everything about his physical and mental health. ” Willis says she still believes that Michele MacNeill died of natural causes and that her relationship with MacNeill had no bearing on his wife’s death. She doesn’t believe MacNeill killed his wife in order to be with her. “He had me any time he wanted me,” she says.

Still, she says, if she’d known in advance how her relationship with MacNeill would turn out, “I really can’t even say that I would have met him for lunch.” CW

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It’s not difficult to see artists at work in their natural environment. Local galleries show off their walls at openings, and studios like Poor Yorick, the Guthrie Building and the studios in Sugar House have regular open houses. A group of several local artists are inviting viewers even closer to the process, opening their homes and studios for self-guided tours, providing an opportunity for dialogue about their works.

Ben Behunin began creating ceramics in high school. More than two decades’ worth of pots later, his work (one of which is pictured) brings a Southwestern influence up to date. The paintings of Brian Blackham survey the ways light interacts with objects, and his wife, Sonja, designs vintage-style clothing. Painter Nathan Florence fuses traditional portraiture subjects with floral and other print motifs, and his film Art & Belief looks at the Mormon artists’ group of the same name in Alpine, Utah, in 1966.

Taking place in the walkable 9th & 9th neighborhood, this literal open house is a chance to see the artists’ influences and personal tastes, and offers a glimpse of the ways their lives and art intersect.

Admission charges and 10 percent of art sales benefit Art Access Gallery programs.

(Brian Staker) Artists’ Home and Studio Crawl @ residences of Ben Behunin (1150 E. 800 South), Brian & Sonja Blackham (729 S. Elizabeth St.) and Nathan Florence (817 S. 800 East), Aug. 22, 5-9 p.m., 801-328-0703, $10.

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The six resident companies that call the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center home are joining forces, as they have annually since 2012, for The Rose Exposed, a collaborative show created over the course of one day and performed that evening. This year’s unifying theme is “home.”

Opened in 1997 to house Salt Lake City-based performance companies in need of rehearsal space, and housing three performance spaces (the Black Box Theatre, the Studio Theatre and the Jeanne Wagner Theatre), the Rose Wagner Center has since become a cornerstone of the local performing-arts community.

Ranging from music to theater to dance, the participating companies—the Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation, Plan-B Theatre Company, Pygmalion Theatre Company, Repertory Dance Theatre, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company and SB Dance—come together each year in support of their home space and of charity, as all of the proceeds from ticket sales to go to The Road Home.

The participating companies are opening their rehearsals to the public free of charge all day long Aug. 23, so anyone interested can observe the creative process. And, prior to Aug. 19, the general public was invited by the participating companies to post to the event’s Facebook wall any image, piece of text, song or anything at all relating to the idea of “home.” The best suggestions will be incorporated into the performance that evening. (Danny Bowes) The Rose Exposed @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Aug. 23, rehearsals 1-7 p.m., free; performance 8 p.m., $25. ArtTix.org

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To this end, it’s fallen in step with the Salt Lake Gallery Stroll, and has offered some of the most eclectic varieties of artwork on display during the monthly event, from earthy portraits to “visceral abstraktion.”

This month’s gallery opening at Concept was all about color. The common thread among the works of Greg Gorsuch is that his paintings all include various types of eyes—often looking out from heads formed from geometric shapes, like late Picassos, sometimes embedded in fish striving to avoid being caught in a net that might have been made by Matisse, occasionally on the visage of Italian futurism that recalls Marinetti.

All of these influences have been absorbed in an intelligent manner; it will be interesting to see how this emerging artist develops a visual vocabulary that is intrinsically his own.

Mark Lee’s rice bowls and chopsticks, fashioned out of blown glass (pictured) are also on display, complementing the canvases with their own colors. Delicate creations used for delicacies, these works are enough to make the mouth water and stimulate the eye. (Brian Staker) Greg Gorsuch & Mark Lee @ Concept Smart Artful Living, 368 W. 900 South, 801541-6900, ongoing, free. ConceptSAL.com

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Sometimes, the most beautiful, intriguing and mystifying two-dimensional art objects are not painted. Just months ago at Finch Lane, we saw artist Nancy Vorm creating astonishing things from rust and wax. Now, also at Finch Lane, Julie Stutznegger stimulates the senses and challenges the mind with remarkably fine glass art.

Her works cannot be compared to the art of any other artist or any other medium; each is a singular, distinctive piece, with a distinctive vitality as a work of art.

“I marvel at the beautiful behavior of glass,” Stutznegger says. She developed the process of making her art “by closing myself up in my studio for months and experimenting with firing glass powder.” She mixed it into a paste and incorporated other materials such as copper or silver, used a sandblaster, added and removed layers, dissolved it. The incredibly involved process resulted in 30 works, each with a unique elemental core.

“The Competition” (pictured) is a unique abstract beauty, a magnificent culmination of Stutznegger’s painstaking process. There is a carefully delineated line, a web of sleek black that forms its way through the piece structurally, allowing a rippled plane of smoky white glass at the top left of the plane. At the bottom left is a cold and steely blue zone of glass, and to the right, a frosty white textured area with a central segment of vermilion red, allowing the whole composite structure to pop. (Ehren Clark) Julie Stutznegger @ Finch Lane Gallery, 1320 E. 100 South, 801-596-5000, through Sept. 26, free. SLCgov.com/arts/vizarts

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Urban Vistas Casey Kawaguchi brings street art to gallery walls.

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n recent years, “street art”—graffiti on the sides of buildings, street murals and other urban art forms—has risen to the status of fine art, with the emergence of magazines like Los A ngeles-based Juxtapoz and others that celebrate works by “outsider,” non-academic artists. One local street artist to emerge on the scene is Casey Kawaguchi, who is opening a solo show at FICE clothing boutique.

“I’ve been drawing and creating art since before I can remember,” recalls Kawaguchi, a 31-year old Northern Utah native. “It’s just what I’ve always loved and, for whatever reason, believed I was good at. I grew up drawing a lot of ninjas and superheroes. A lot of those characters are similar to stuff I’m painting today.”

Artists in the 1980s, like Jean-Michel Basquiat, often drew in a primitivist street-art style, but Kawaguchi’s work is more polished, mixing spray cans and the good old-fashioned paintbrush. His work is also inf lected with the traditional aesthetics of Japanese portraiture, samurai imager y and superhero subculture. The combination creates a sense of drama and intrigue.

“My style has been evolving ever since I started making artwork,” he says. “I’m half Japanese, and Japanese culture and imagery have always been a big influence on my art. I’m also inspired by many other artists and their work.”

In addition to making a splash in galleries, artists like Kawaguchi have pushed the commercial aspects of their work, and haven’t had a problem with blurring the boundaries between fine art and product design. Kawaguchi was chosen by the artist Saber to be featured as a finalist in a Juxtapoz art contest, and has had his designs utilized by several sporting-good companies.

“The Juxtapoz deal was cool, ’cause it was so unexpected,” he says. “And having

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my artwork chosen by an artist I admire such as Saber was a big compliment.

“The collaborations I’ve done with different companies have been fun,” he continues. “Last year, I designed a pair of skis for 4FRNT Skis called the ‘Madonna’ that won the Editor’s Choice Award for Freeskier Magazine. They gave me a huge amount of freedom with the project, and I was really happy with how the skis came out.”

With all the success of these collaborations, he still finds a lot of enjoyment in what he calls “random acts of art,” like making stickers and tucking them into publications around town. It’s a way of carrying on the prankster tradition of street art without the vandalism—the “leaving a mark” ethos of graffiti taggers that, instead of being destructive, is a kind of gift. His work

also plays with the temporary nature of street art, sometimes distressed by natural elements but always possessing a certain elegance and serenity that lifts it above bulk street art.

His solo exhibit at FICE shows how far his work has progressed since his early drawings and first shows. “I’m stoked to be having my first solo show,” he says. “I’ve worked very hard to make this show happen, and now that it’s here, I feel a big sense of accomplishment.”

It’s an assertive artistic statement. “I titled the show State of the Art,” Kawaguchi says, “because these paintings are that: the state of my art at this point in my life. I did almost all the pieces in the show over the last two months. This show and this work represent me.”

FICE owner Corey Bullough has featured nationally renowned art world heavyweights like NYC photographer Ricky Powell, but he’s also shown a lot of locals, and is excited to give Kawaguchi exposure.

“I’ve seen his stuff around for a few years now, I’ve always been a fan of his subjects and his color palette,” Bullough says. “I think, in the last year or two he’s really been honing in on his gift. He’s got a great career in front of him and I’m honored to help him hang his first solo show.” CW

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A&E Tie-In Fighters Expanded fictional universes shouldn’t be stigmatized.

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f a thing exists, you can be sure that there will be a group of people who will turn their nose up at it.

And in the world of geekdom, you can find plenty of noses turned sk y ward when it comes to licensed tie-in fiction.

These are the books w ith narratives based on mov ies, telev ision shows, v ideo games, role-playing games and comics. Sometimes, these tie-ins are simply straight adaptations of the source material; other times, they expand on the existing universes in new ways. Star Wars and Star Trek tend to be the f irst thing people think about when they think tie-in fiction, but just about everything you can think of has had its share: Alien, Robotech, Batman, BattleTech, Dungeons & Dragons, Shadowrun, Pacific Rim, Warcraft and many, many more.

Some people look at the content contained in these universes as somehow inferior to traditional modes of fiction.

There’s an unspoken rule that a book set in another universe must be less of a book than one set in ours. Though courses are taught about Tolkien’s work, it’s still slightly looked down upon. And compared to media tie-in fiction, Tolkien is raised on a pedestal.

Even I’ve fallen victim to this bias. Sci-fi books by Philip K. Dick and Robert Heinlein?

High art. Star Wars books?

Maybe I shouldn’t read them in public. But what makes the Star Wars universe, or the Star Trek universe, or Warcraft, any less valid as a milieu for fiction than Earth, middle or otherwise?

At their heart, stories are about people, and if they’re written well—and, admittedly, some of these tie-in books are not—they can illuminate truths about our lives and awaken us to new experiences and empathy. That’s what good fiction of

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any stripe does. So what makes the hero’s journey of Frodo Baggins any easier to swallow for the literati than the hero’s journey of a character who originated in a film?

We’re living in a world where people are barely reading as it is. According to a 1978 Gallup Poll, only 8 percent of Americans said they hadn’t read a book in the past year. A poll conducted

by Pew Research this year asked that same question and found that 23 percent of Americans hadn’t read a book in the past year. That’s alarming. I don’t like living in a world where people aren’t reading books at all— not just because I’m a writer and I want to convince people to read my books, but because I think we’re better people when we read about the lives and thoughts of others, especially those unlike ourselves.

If it came down to someone reading about the further adventures of Doctor Who versus not reading at all, I’d pick Doctor Who any day of the week.

What I don’t understand is why literary snobs don’t advocate for more tie-in fiction, and more respect for it. I’ve known people who use tie-in fiction as a gateway to more serious reading. Timothy Zhan’s Star Wars books and Marvel’s Civil War adaptations are a perfect stepping stone to The Lord of the Rings. And that’s one step closer to something truly literary like Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

Maybe that’s what each of us needs to learn, whether we’re a comic book nerd or a literary snob: Use whatever you can to share your passion.

It’s OK to like reading about the worlds you like, but it’s OK to read new stuff, too. Find ways to blend the two, and don’t look down on someone for reading something you wouldn’t enjoy.

And just because it’s a tie-in book someone is reading, that doesn’t mean they deserve to be shamed.

Save that animosity for people reading books written by Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. 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?

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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]

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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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THURSDAY 8.21 Intimate Italy

Photographers Drake Busath and Joel Addams spend much of the year giving week-long photography workshops in the most idyllic areas of Italy and the south of France—what some might call a charmed life. They also work on their own photography while abroad, and Intimate Italy, currently showing at Alpine Art, provides a glimpse of countless photographs they take each year.

The rustic images are a change from grand vistas of coastline or wide shots of pristine valleys. This intimate show reveals the photographers’ more candid eye and sensitive feel, conveying the personal side of the artists’ journeys to Tuscany, Venice, the Italian Riviera, the Loire Valley, Lake Como, Lugamo and the Amalfi Coast. (Ehren Clark) Intimate Italy @ Alpine Art, 430 E. South Temple, 801-355-1155, through Sept. 30, free.

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Watching an organist work his or her magic on the massive instrument is like watching a mad genius at work. The opportunity to watch the five organists for the Salt Lake Tabernacle join the newly appointed organist for the Cathedral of the Madeleine, Gabriele Terrone, on his home turf, could only happen at Organ Fest VII. The mad genius title seems fitting for Terrone, who not only served as the titular organist at the Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome after studying at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, but also has a Ph.D. in Mathematics.

The program will honor the late, great organist Douglas E. Bush, a key member of the BYU School of Music for more than 35 years and an integral part of the local organ scene. The evening will consist of some of Bush’s favorite pieces to play and listen to, including Brahms and Bach classics, as well as a selection of his own compositions. (Jacob Stringer) Organ Fest VII @ Cathedral of the Madeleine, 331 E. South Temple, Aug. 22, 8 p.m., free. Classical89.org

The anticipation for Salt Lake Comic Con, just a couple of weeks away, is building. For the younger comic-book enthusiasts who might not be attending the big event, or for those who are planning to attend and want to get in the right mood, Salt Lake Comic Con is joining forces with Discovery Gateway for an afternoon of special themed events.

At a series of stations tailored for kids ages 3 and up, attendees can design their own superhero costume and make a mask, participate in superhero training activities (including web shooting) and get a superhero photo taken. For the more creative older kids, there’s even a chance to digitally design their own skyscrapers, or learn some basic cartooning skills. Add special “character” appearances by the nonprofit costumers organization H.E.R.O.I.C. Inc., and you’ve got one super day. (Scott Renshaw) Superhero Party @ Discovery Gateway, 444 W. 100 South, 801-456-5437, Aug. 22, 5-8 p.m., $15 for Discovery Gateway members, $20 non-members. ChildMuseum.org, SaltLakeComicCon.com

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In 1925, young Mormon converts Gustav and Margaret Weller decided to leave Germany for the center of their new religion, the high deserts of Utah. Shortly thereafter, they converted their furniture, bedding and radio shop in downtown Salt Lake City into the LDS-oriented Zion’s Bookstore.

Eighty-five years and three generations later, that small, locally owned bookstore is still going strong.

After the post-World War II economic boom, Zion’s Bookstore moved to new digs on Main Street, and became popular as Sam Weller’s Zion Bookstore, named after one of Gustav’s sons who took over with his wife, Lila. Now, after yet another move from Main Street to Trolley Square, Sam Weller’s has become Weller Book Works under the guidance of Sam’s son and Gustav’s grandson Tony and his wife, Catherine. Join them for a day of anniversary events, including John Keahey reading from his new book, Hidden Tuscany, plus treats, music and prizes. (Jacob Stringer) Weller Book Works 85th Birthday @ Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, August 23, 2-9 p.m., free.

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The brass tag

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Now Open! to Brass Tags

New Deer Valley eatery gives oven-inspired casual cuisine a gourmet touch.

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Live Music on the Patio every Saturday Sandwiches Cheese Boards Wine and Beer

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MG, Dad, you have to taste this!”

That was how my son, Hank, expressed enthusiasm for his delicious 16-ounce Niman Ranch roasted beef rib-eye at The Brass Tag, the newest restaurant at Deer Valley Resort. “This is the best steak I’ve ever had!” he added. I didn’t disagree. The bite I tried was steak perfection.

Each evening, The Brass Tag menu features a “chop of the day” at market price. It’s either local beef, pork or wild game, and comes with a choice of side dish: roasted Brussels sprouts and bacon; sweet soy-roasted broccoli with shiitake mushrooms; garlic & leek creamed spinach; crispy herbed potatoes; cheddartruffle chive späetzle; or roasted garlic & rosemary focaccia. Side dishes are normally priced at $7.

Oddly, I don’t think I’d ever tasted an oven-roasted steak before this. But that’s the raison d’être at The Brass Tag: oveninspired cuisine. Virtually everything is cooked in the restaurant’s big brick oven, at temperatures averaging between 500 and 650 degrees Fahrenheit. But, if you think this is just another in a long line of the wood-fired or brick oven pizza trend, you’re wrong. There’s not even a pizza on the Brass Tag menu.

The restaurant is located on the second level of The Lodges at Deer Valley—across the street from the main parking lot at the base of Deer Valley Resort—in the formerly homely space that served as a venue for meetings and continental breakfasts. The Brass Tag’s décor involves lots of brown and tan hues; it’s a space that’s casual, inviting and comfortable, to match its brick-oven comfort cuisine.

When I asked why it’s called The Brass Tag, I was given a brief lesson in Park City’s mining past. Miners were issued individually numbered brass tags, which they would hang on a board prior to beginning a shift in the mines. Upon finishing the shift, they’d remove the tag. If a tag remained on the board at the end of a shift, it was an indication that a miner was missing, and a search party was launched.

Longtime Deer Valley Resort Executive Chef Jodie Rogers oversees the Brass Tag kitchen, along with talented sous chef Ryan Swarts. They’re easy to spot, given that the kitchen is open for diners to see. As befits

the casual vibe, you could pop in for nothing more than an appetizer or small plate and a brew, or you could go big with a multi-course dinner, cocktails and maybe a bottle of wine from the small but appealing wine list.

Appetizers range from fresh-baked pretzels to one of my favorites: crispy oven-baked flatbread topped with housecured duck, Parma prosciutto, arugula, green apple, smoked Gouda and whiskey cream sauce ($14). The spectrum of flavors this flatbread offers is awesome. I also really loved the housemade whole-wheat naan, dusted with smoked paprika, oozing melted semi-soft Port Salut cheese, and served with cashew-mint-cilantro pesto ($9). However, my favorite appetizer is the instantly addictive oven-fired potato chips topped with Gold Creek cheddar, Gruyère, bacon morsels and—here’s the kicker— chimichurri sauce ($10). Outstanding. I’d never have thought to put chimichurri on chips, but Julie Wilson, Deer Valley Resort’s food & beverage director, says, “I put chimichurri on everything!”

Much of the menu is built for sharing, and that is certainly true of the ovencooked steamed clams ($15). Like most of the dishes at The Brass Tag, the clams are served in the vessel in which they were cooked—in this case, a Spanish copper cataplana, which is, appropriately enough, a clam-shaped pan/pot with a hinged lid, perfect for steaming Manila clams in a robust white wine and fresh-herb broth.

The focaccia accompanying the clams ensures that rich broth won’t go to waste.

The shrimp skillet, too, is aptly named, since plump, juicy, perfectly cooked tail-on shrimp are cooked and served in small castiron skillets with a choice of sauce: curry chorizo, roasted red pepper, or white wine with tarragon and Parmesan ($16). I’m torn as to which sauce to recommend, since they are all delicious and unique in their way,

Simple pleasures (clockwise from top left): oven-cooked steamed clams, housemade naan and oven-fired potato chips. but I think the white wine with tarragon showcased the scrumptious shrimp best.

One of the more inventive offerings is a whole quail rubbed with Indian-style tandoori spices (garam masala, cumin, cinnamon, etc.) and oven-roasted until tender, but with crisp skin, and served with cornbread stuffing, crisp kale chips, sweet-potato puree, and lime-coconut sauce ($16). The quail paired beautifully with Château de Trinquevedel Tavel Rosé.

And, there’s a new burger in town, too. The Brass Tag Burger ($16) is a real whopper: a half-pound of hand-shaped Niman Ranch ground beef with pancetta (take that, bacon!), fresh spinach, Gruyère cheese, house-pickled onion and smoked paprika aioli.

Brass Tag service is exceptionally professional, but friendly, as is de rigueur at Deer Valley Resort, which has the whole hospitality thing perfected. The only notquite-perfect elements of our Brass Tag visit were a couple of sides: the “crispy” herbed potatoes were mighty tasty, but definitely on the limp side, and I was underwhelmed by the cheddar-truff lechive späetzle, which just seemed a bit too busy. But then, full disclosure: I don’t really like truffle oil on anything.

To put a sweet finish on the evening, we devoured the soft, warm, chewy, chocolatechip cookie, which comes in its own iron skillet with a side of ice cream. It was utter heaven. Score another success for Deer Valley Resort. CW

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FOOD MATTERS

The OTher Place RestauRant

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The Ark of Taste is a “living catalog of delicious and distinctive foods” identified by Slow Food USA as facing extinction—some 1,100 from more than 50 countries, and 200 in the United States. According to Slow Food, “By identifying and championing these foods, we keep them in production and on our plates.” On Sunday, Aug. 24, Jen Gilroy’s Meditrina (1394 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, MeditrinaSLC.com) will host a dinner to benefit Slow Food Utah featuring local and Ark of Taste foods.

The menu includes an amuse-bouche followed by heirloom-tomato salad with Shepherd’s chevre, lavender vinaigrette and basil oil; an entree of sorguhumglazed Ballard Farms pork tenderloin with Utah corn, roasted turnips and cider-braised kale; and for dessert, Millcreek Chocolate vino torte and apricot chili preserves. The four-course dinner is $40 per person with optional wine pairings available for $30. RSVP by calling 801-485-2055.

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Mark your social calendar for Monday, Aug. 25, when Franck’s restaurant (6263 S. Holladay Blvd., FrancksFood. com) hosts its annual beer dinner featuring a lineup of beers from Epic Brewing Company on the sunny garden patio. The four-course dinner and pairings—designed by chefs Adam Vickers and Robert Perkins—include ono and shrimp ceviche with Pfeifferhorn Lager; beer-braised pork cheeks and Utah Sage Saison; a “duo of duck” paired with Hopulent IPA Centennial and Amarillo; and apple-raisin crisp with Double Skull Doppelbock. The price is $35 for food and $20 for beer pairings. Call 801-2746264 for reservations.

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On Saturday, Sept. 6, Fratelli Ristorante (9236 S. Village Shop Drive, Sandy, FratelliUtah.com) will host a pancake breakfast to benefit the Utah Food Bank. It’s also on the day of the restaurant’s seventhannual car show featuring fine Italian automobiles including Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Lamborghini, Maserati, Ferrari and more. The $5 pancake breakfast will be held from 9:30 to 11 a.m., and the auto show runs from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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lowtorches and fresh fruit go hand in hand, according to Andrea Latimer, owner of the online shop Salt City Bakery. The words “torched fruit” sound gorgeous, and the actual thing tastes even better.

Latimer wanted to branch out from making gorgeous cakes and other baked goods, and try something very different.

Bittersweet Fruit Stand, a farmersmarket regular, is indeed a most unusual concept. It serves wholesome desserts and breakfast featuring torched local fruit— that is, fruit that has been submerged under a blowtorch, caramelizing the sugars. Housemade bitters and flavorinfused sugars elevate the desserts, along with additions like fresh whipped cream.

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Bittersweet’s bitters are made from locally sourced barks, roots, herbs and spices, preserved in high-proof alcohol.

Latimer uses them enhance her desserts, and will soon have them for sale at the farmers markets.

The Housewife is a dreamy combination of fresh local berries, lemon sugar and orange bitters, torched and topped with fresh whipped cream. Remember that scene in Amélie when she breaks through her creme brulee with a spoon? Have that delightful experience with The Brass Rail, where a bruleed vanilla-sugar crust encases half a grapefruit. King Remus is another option: torched cherries, combined with vanilla sugar and charred cedar bitters is a flavorful combination.

“Our menu is ever-changing, based on the fruits in season,” Latimer says.

“We will be doing the peaches until the end of August, then we will switch to apples and/or pears. In fall, we will also do oatmeal with our bruleed fruit.”

Find Latimer and her blowtorch at the Saturday Downtown Farmers Market (Pioneer Park, 300 South & 300 West, Saturdays through Oct. 25, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., SLCFarmersMarket.org) and the Sunday Wasatch Front Farmers Market at Wheeler Farm (6351 S. 900 East, Murray, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., WasatchFrontFarmersMarket.org).

Keep in touch with Bittersweet Fruit Stand by following on Instagram and Facebook. CW

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Curry Bitters and Toschi cherries. “Beard and tight pants not included,” Cobb says.

Randall Grahm, the offbeat leader of Bonny Doon Vineyard (and the “Original Rhone Deranger”), and I have a few things in common.

We’re both lifelong fans of the great English artist Ralph Steadman, we revel in all things irreverent, and we both have a lust for the French liqueur Chartreuse. Sadly, most cocktail creators tend to eschew Chartreuse—perhaps rightly so, given its unusual flavor, otherworldly tinge and mind-bending effects. So kudos to Bijan Ghiai of Pallet (237 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-935-4431, EatPallet.com) for boldly going where many mixologists fear to tread.

The Plum Variety cocktail incorporates Fernet Branca (another bold move), green Chartreuse, simple syrup, lime juice and— another ingredient you don’t typically find in your cocktail coupe—plum preserves.

If Chartreuse is an ugly stepsister to bartenders, Mexico’s Mezcal is even more mortifying for mixologists. At Caffe Niche (779 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-4333380, CaffeNiche.com), then, mixologist Christopher Bradshaw deserves a medal of bravery for his Porto Mezcal: an allbut-criminal mélange of Illegal (in name

Savory spirits: the Folklore at The Rest. only) artisanal Mezcal, Fonseca Ruby Port, Solerno Blood Orange Liqueur, Angostura bitters and an orange-peel garnish.

At prohibition-themed The Rest (331 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-532-4452, Bodega331. com/TheRest), bar manager Caleb Cannon combines old-school liqueurs like Fernet Branca and Dom Benedictine & Brandy with rye whiskey and dashes of black-walnut bitters to create his Folklore cocktail. He suggests “treating it just like an Old Fashioned,” stirred with one ice cube.

The Konsummate Kristauf ’s—a namesake cocktail at Kristauf’s Martini Bar (16 W. Market St., Salt Lake City, 801366-9490)—employs aromatic St. Germain Elderflower Liqueur along with Finlandia Grapefruit Vodka, honey water and fresh lemon juice. Why, this exotic concoction tastes downright healthy! CW

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ike the terms “artisan” and “local,” “craft” tends to get overused. When it comes to cocktails, I often feel like calling a libation a “craft cocktail” is really just a way of getting two or three bucks more for a drink than normal.

And yet, I don’t want to be too cynical.

There really is some craftiness and artistry that goes into making unique cocktails.

In the past couple of years, I’ve certainly noticed a trend toward the exotic in mixed drinks. The Campari-like Italian aperitif Aperol seems to be the latest rage, but I’m also seeing more and more bartenders using beer in cocktails, as well as unusual “flavorings” such as elderflower liqueur, mescal, herbs and unusual bitters. Here are a few locally made exotic elixirs worth trying.

At Finca (1291 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-487-0699, FincaSLC.com), bar

manager Scott Gardner makes his unique Tamarindo Fino using Pok Pok Tamarind Som, a Thai “drinking vinegar” that he combines with Spanish Fino Sherry, Wahaka Joven Espadin Mezcal, fresh lime juice and Angostura bitters. Ole! For Richie Spare, mixologist at the Boneyard Saloon & Kitchen in Park City (1251 Kearns Blvd., 435-649-0911, BoneyardSaloon.com), beer is an unusual and essential component of his aptly named Uncommon Margarita. Vida Blanco Tequila is shaken with fresh lemon juice and simple syrup, then topped off in a glass with Schöfferhofer Grapefruit Hefeweizen.

Copper Common, too, offers the uncommon in the form of their provocative cheeses and chocolates, paired with liquors like the tandem of Ron Zacapa 23-year Guatemalan Solera rum and Guido Gambino Italian hazelnut chocolate. Or, try the uncommonly delicious Pomelo cocktail. It’s a creative combo of Aperol—an Italian aperitif dating back to 1919, but just now becoming popular in America—along with St. Elder (a natural elderflower liqueur) and Angostura bitters.

Log Haven (6451 E. Millcreek Canyon Road, Salt Lake City, 801-272-8255, LogHaven.com) might not seem like much of a hipster scene, yet that’s where you’ll find barman Ian Cobb’s Log Haven Hipster.

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GOODEATS Complete listings at cityweekly.net Featuring dining destinations from buffets and rooms with a view to mom & pop joints, chic cuisine and some of our dining critic’s faves!

Contemporary Japanese Dining l u n c h • d i n n e r • c o c k ta i ls

18 west market street • 801.519.9595

Masala Indian Grill

At Masala, you’ll find a New Delhi experience in the heart of Sugar House. While you wait for your fresh Indian cuisine, you can enjoy the Bollywood music videos that play in the background. The menu features fresh and authentic naan, mild to superhot curries, and wraps filled with traditional Indian fare—chicken tikka masala, veggie samosa and fish options. 2223 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-487-2994

La Hacienda Restaurant

La Hacienda serves traditional Mexican cuisine with unique, can’t-miss housemade tomatillo, sour cream and mole sauces. Mexican favorites are pushed to the next level with additions such as lobster, but La Hacienda’s menu also has a gringo section of tasty sandwiches served with fries. 574 N. Main, Moab, 435-259-6319

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Midvale Mining Cafe

Breakfast is served till 5 p.m. at Midvale Mining Cafe and features rib-sticking fare like three-egg omelets, chile verde over hash browns, and chickenfried steak. At dinner, the restaurant serves classic American favorites with mining-themed names like roast beef (Iron Bridge), liver & onions (Black Bart), cubed veal (The Tunnel Light), and chicken cordon bleu (The Forty-Niner). The scones at MMC are large enough to feed most of the Midvale population, so order accordingly. 390 W. 7200 South, Midvale, 801-255-5511

Pan Asia

Pan Asia is a casual spot to get Chinese and Thai mainstays for a quick, inexpensive meal. Start with cream-cheese wontons, firecracker shrimp or eggdrop soup before digging into Hunan beef, Mongolian chicken and other Chinese favorites. On the Thai side of things, there’s sweet and tangy pad thai and a small selection of curries. None of the menu items will hurt your wallet—specials are mostly under $6. 5516 W. 13400 South, Herriman, 801-302-0688, PanAsiaHerriman.com

Luna Blanca Taqueria

Avenues Proper Restaurant & Publick House

The upper Avenues has always been strangely devoid of sit-down restaurants, a history that was finally vanquished when Proper sprouted. Crafting its own beers and providing an eclectic upscale menu, Proper attracts a hip crowd at all hours. You’ll find eaters and imbibers crowding into the sizeable dining room till midnight on the weekends to nibble on favorites from the late-night menu, like the outrageously addictive fries and the chicken & waffles, topped with an adorable quail egg. The beer selection changes practically by the minute, so it’s always a new experience. 376 Eighth Ave., Salt Lake City, 385-227-8628, AvenuesProper.com

Luna Blanca Taqueria offers reasonably priced, authentic Mexican dishes in a relaxed atmosphere.

Located at the base of Big Cottonwood Canyon, it really is the ideal post-hike restaurant. Enjoy the beautiful view from the patio while you start your meal with guacamole and chips. You’ll find a variety of specialty tacos, burritos, quesadillas and salads on the menu, all made with quality ingredients. There are also plenty of options for vegetarians, and there’s even a kids menu that will please the pickiest eaters. The restaurant has a variety of cervezas available, but the house margarita is truly the perfect way to complement any of the tasty food. 3158 E. 6200 South, Holladay, 801-944-5862, LunaBlancaTaco.com

Rock Creek Pizza Co.

Red Eye Express Coffee

This old-fashioned, family-owned and locally operated pizzeria offers the best in housemade, mouthwatering pizza, appetizers and salad bar.

The pizzeria combines a warm family atmosphere with pizza masterpieces for a truly unique dining experience, featuring scrumptious food and fun for adults and children alike. Specialty pizzas include the Alamo chicken, grilled veggie and Hawaiian deluxe.

There’s also a daily lunch and dinner buffet. 1276 W. 12600 South, Riverton, 801-253-3711, RockCreekPizzaCo.com

Normandie Cafe

Normandie Cafe features French-style on-premise baking. Customers line up at the counter for fresh croissants, pastries, quiche, tarts, cookies, soups, salads and sandwiches. The breakfast menu features huevos rancheros, breakfast paninis and omelets.

The lunch menu boasts a mighty tasty French dip sandwich and a delicious Monte Cristo. 1944 E. Murray-Holladay Road, 801-277-5244, NormandieCafeandBakery.com

You’ll find not only coffee and espresso favorites at Red Eye, but also friendly service and an atmosphere that can’t be beat, with comfy couches and bright accents. If you’re in a hurry and can’t stop in, use the convenient drive-thru window. For those feeling more fruity, try one of Red Eye’s smoothies, made fresh to order. And don’t forget a pastry for something sweet alongside your coffee. 7301 S. 900 East, Midvale, 801-503-2009

Riley’s

Riley’s in West Jordan serves great shakes, malts, floats, sundaes, sandwiches on fresh-baked breads, housemade salads, soups and cookies. You can choose from more than 25 flavors of thick shakes, in hundreds of possible combinations. Sandwich options include club, egg salad, tuna, crab and Swiss, turkey & avocado, Black Forest ham & cheddar, and vegetarian. Riley’s popular potato-cheese soup is served daily, along with a soup of the day. 8133 S. Redwood Road, West Jordan, 801-5664855, RileysSandwiches.com

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A sampler of Ted Scheffler’s reviews

Curry in a Hurry

Curry in a Hurry is smaller than some restaurant pantries or walk-in freezers, but don’t let the size fool you. This diminutive eatery packs a wallop in the flavor department.

My favorite combo meal is a plate of the chicken curry: tender, boneless morsels of chicken breast, bathed in a just-spicy-enough bright-orange coconut curry and served with basmati rice, warm flatbread and a choice of a veggie side dish—I usually opt for chickpeas with fragrant hints of clove, cinnamon and other spices. The Nisar family—including matriarch Mona—opened Curry in a Hurry in 1998. It was, and still is, a family affair. Mona’s usually in the tiny kitchen, while one of her sons dishes up delicious plates of curry. Eating here makes you feel like you’ve been invited to a family dinner, albeit one served on Styrofoam. It’s part of the reason Curry in a Hurry has developed such a loyal local following over the years.

Reviewed Aug. 14. 2020 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-467-4137, ILoveCurryInAHurry.com

Curry Fried Chicken

MIA Empanadas Factory

For South American cuisine, it’s hard to beat Jose Chu-Jon’s place. Formerly called Lucuma, MIA Empanadas features empanadas and tamales 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 as tres leches and pionono cakes, fangipane, tarts (premade or made-toorder), scones, dulce de leche and fabulous flan in three flavors: original, de queso (cheese) or chocolate. Before heading out the door, treat yourself to a chicha morada, a purple corn drink infused with pineapple and cinnamon. Reviewed Aug. 7. 571 W. 2600 South, Bountiful, 801-397-5222, EmpanadasFactory.com

El Matador

While this pretty, 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., are filling and popular. Also try the tender, slightly sweet carnitas made from slow-roasted pork loin and served with mango-peach “tango” sauce. Reviewed Aug. 7. 606 S. Main, Bountiful, 801-292-8998

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For some of the best Indian food in Utah, you’ll need to make a trip to Bountiful or Sandy. Indian restaurants may come and go, but this mainstay has been among my favorites for years. The Shanthakumar family, who owns and operate Royal India, provides warm and inviting ambiance and service along with outstanding dishes such as aromatic lamb biryani, spinach & cream shrimp saag, great curry, masalas, kormas and vindaloos, along with the best naan I’ve ever eaten: peshwari naan, tandoor-baked and stuffed with cashews, raisins and coconut. Reviewed Aug. 7. 55 N. Main, Bountiful, 801-292-1835; 10263 S. 1300 East, Sandy, 801- 572-6123, RoyalIndiaUtah.com

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This is the place for bona fide Shanghai fare in Bountiful.

Sure, you can get your fill of cream-cheese wontons, ham-fried rice and kung pao chicken—not that there’s anything wrong with that. But, what you really want is to tuck in to flavorful dishes like the scrumptious steamedpork-stuffed dumplings, fragrant leek soup with tofu, tender flaky fish fillets with black-bean sauce and, of course, the “Chewing Drinks” (so says the menu) that the restaurant is named for. Boba World offers a vast array of boba drinks—aka bubble tea or pearl milk tea—ranging from common flavors such as strawberry, chocolate and mocha, to those a bit more uncommon: taro, passion fruit, green tea, coconut and almond. Reviewed Aug. 7.

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This food truck 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 Tacos El Morro is cash-only, so be sure to have that change on hand.) 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. Spicy and regular burritos and quesadillas, plus watermelon and pineapple horchata, are available as well. But act fast— Tacos El Morro is usually only open from 10:30 a.m. until about 3 p.m. Reviewed Aug. 7. 724 W. 500 South, Bountiful, 801-347-3485

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Though not exactly traditional, curry-fried chicken is brilliant. It’s exactly what it sounds like: chicken pieces seasoned with curry spices and coated in a curry-infused batter, deep-fried to a golden brown. The flavor is sensational—imagine a spicy, curried version of Popeyes chicken, and you’re pretty close. Curry Fried Chicken also offers shawarma and doner wraps with a choice of boneless tandoori chicken, curried fish kebabs, keema kebab (ground chicken) or vegetable curry. And don’t overlook the sides: hummus with warm pita bread, popadoms, samosas and the french fries spiked with Indian chili powder are all terrific. The restaurant is the brainchild of Mona Nisar’s son Sunny Nisar, and, thanks to the Nisar family, the state of curry is alive and well on State Street. Reviewed Aug. 14. 660 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-924-9188, Facebook.com/ CurryFriedChicken

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Originally opened by Greek immigrant Pete Savas in 1947, Grove Market will undoubtedly be around in 2047 because of the fair and friendly service, and the incredible bang-for-the-buck sandwiches it’s famous for. Sandwiches are made-to-order and come in full or half sizes. Don’t kid yourself: the “half-size” sandwiches are about the size of my thigh. The Big John features seven deli meats—salami, ham, corned beef, pastrami, bologna, turkey and roast beef—piled 3 to 4 inches high, then topped with both Swiss and American cheeses, plus mayo, mustard, lettuce, tomato, pickle and pepperoncinis on a thick, airy Ambassador roll, or on rye, French, sourdough or wheat bread. You don’t so much eat the Big John as do battle with it ... and lose.

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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.

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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.

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Feldman’s Deli

Feldman’s overstuffed corned beef on rye is heavenly: warm, succulent, thin-sliced corned beef dripping with flavor, stacked high on excellent Jewish rye (sourced from a secret bakery), with a choice of cheeses (Swiss being the default, of course). A side of housemade potato salad seals the deal. Reviewed July 31. 2005 E. 2700 South, Salt Lake City, 801-906-0369, FeldmansDeli.com

Rye Diner & Drinks

A not-so-thick wall is all that separates popular music venue The Urban Lounge from Rye Diner & Drinks, recently opened by the venue’s owners. The proximity means you don’t need a ticket to enjoy concerts; they come blasting right through the walls. Rye, open until midnight Sunday through Thursday and until 2 a.m. on weekends, currently offers breakfast and dinner menus only, but a lunch menu is in the works. As appealing as the breakfast menu is, the small dinner menu is what really rocked me. A plate of five “street dumplings” is an absolute must. And though steak frites has been done to death, Rye breathes new life into the dish: The steak is oh-so tender, cut into juicy medallions, and seasoned with thyme and garlic butter. I was also bowled over by the mountain of perfect french fries that accompanied it, kissed with spicy togarashi seasoning and served with roasted-garlic aioli. With Rye, Salt Lake City’s casual dining scene has taken a leap into hyperspace. Reviewed July 24. 239 S. 500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-364-4655, RyeSLC.com

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Jamie Blackley and Chloë Grace Moretz in If I Stay. she crumples to her knees, wailing and pulling at her hair, while dramatic music plays in the background. Those occasions, blessedly, are few, yet they’re also some of the most crucial plot points in the story.

Turning up the volume on them feels like a case of being unwilling to trust an audience to understand loss without plenty of external cues.

And perhaps it’s nitpicking to expect so much from If I Stay, especially when it’s so generally effective as a different kind of teen romance, and as a celebration of familial love in the broadest sense of the term. A movie is not a book, and the mournful feeling evoked by a writer’s words on a page is a much harder trick to pull off in a studio-approved adaptation. That’s why a “faithful” adaptation isn’t as easy as making sure you tell the same story—because it actually isn’t the same story as soon as you tell it in a different way. CW

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at a crossroads, as her own musical future in New York puts tension on the future of her relationship with Adam.

If I Stay is often truly lovely in its small character moments—which is somewhat surprising, considering Cutler’s primary directing experience has been with documentaries (The September Issue), and not with actors. There’s an unusual, spiky chemistry between Moretz and Blackley that hints at the occasional conf lict between their respective musical worlds, while Leonard and Enos get some terrific scenes that allow their rebel history to inform their parenting without turning them into clichés of the “cool parents.” Even the truly tear-jerking scenes feel fully earned, most notably when various friends and family—particularly Stacy Keach as Mia’s grandfather, in a startlingly raw piece of acting—say what they believe might be their goodbyes to Mia. Yet despite the fidelity in the narrative structure and even individual lines of dialogue taken directly from the book, there are times when If I Stay as a movie seems incapable of duplicating what was so powerful in Forman’s prose. There’s an almost elegiac stillness to much of the book, even as the extra-corporeal Mia wrestles with devastating loss and witnesses the anguish of those around her. That’s a tone filmmakers generally are afraid to attempt, and Cutler is no different; when Moretz’s Mia learns a horrifying truth,

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or a movie-lover, the journey down the road of reading source material is a perilous one. It’s axiomatic that a movie is not a book or a stage play, and that two artistic forms often demand different approaches to the same basic concept. But it also forces a deeper interrogation of what “works” in art, and why. What does it mean to be “faithful” to the source material?

And how much is it possible to separate the story from the way a given artist tells that story?

In many of the ways that seem to matter most to people, director R.J. Cutler’s adaptation of Gayle Forman’s young-adult novel If I Stay is scrupulously faithful to its source material. It’s the story of 18-yearold Mia Hall (Chloë Grace Moretz), a cello prodigy with the whole world ahead of her—including awaiting news of whether she’s been accepted to Juilliard—when a family car trip with her parents (Mireille Enos and Joshua Leonard) and younger brother (Jakob Davies) turns tragic. Mia awakens from the wreckage of an accident on an icy road to find that she hasn’t actually awakened: Her body is in critical condition, and her out-of-body experience allows her to see the life to which she’ll return if she chooses to fight for that life.

Like Forman’s novel, Shauna Cross’s screenplay weaves its way back and forth between flashbacks and the events at the hospital where Mia lies comatose. We see the beginnings and arc of her romance with Adam (Jamie Blackley), an on-the-rise rock band frontman who sees a kindred spirit in Mia’s passion for music. There’s rich material involving Mia’s relationship with her parents—her dad an ex-punk drummer gone domestic, and her mom a one-time rocker chick—who nurture her gift and her love of classical music even as they seem completely alien to their own background. And eventually we see that the weeks before the accident found Mia

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Dinosaur 13 HHH The titular dinosaur is Sue, the T. rex whose skeleton now resides at Chicago’s Field Museum; she was, at the time of her discovery in August 1990, only the 13th example of the species ever found. This is the story of the long, strange road she took from her resting place in the sere hills of South Dakota, a journey interrupted by Byzantine legal wrangling, fetid bureaucracy, accusations of professional impropriety and other human soap opera. Controversy erupted over whether the excavation—by discoverer Susan Hendrickson and brothers Peter and Neal Larson of the Black Hills Institute—had been conducted legally.

Had Sue been discovered on land held in trust by the federal government on behalf of Native American tribes? Filmmaker Todd Douglas Miller combines new interviews with footage shot at the time, to paint a picture of modern science as not only an intellectual discipline but a shared collective experience that speaks to our imagination and wonder from across the millenia.

This becomes a lovely reminder that while the scientific method may be coolly rational, the people doing the science are deeply, emotionally caught up in their work. Opens Aug. 22 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—MaryAnn Johanson If I Stay HHH See review p. 37. Opens Aug. 22 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) Land Ho! HH.5 Few films in any given Sundance Film Festival inspire me to think unreservedly, “Now that was a movie my parents would love.”

That’s not to diminish the charms in Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz’s amiable comedy about two men who used to be brothersin-law—Colin (Paul Eenhoorn), widowed from the sister of Mitch’s (Earl Lynn Nelson) ex-wife—who head off together for a vacation to Iceland while both are facing major life changes. It’s a refreshing twist to see the “mismatched buddy” genre given such a light touch; the personality clashes between boisterous Louisianan Mitch and mild-mannered Australian Colin rarely degenerate into anything more profound than brief bouts of mutual frustration. And there’s a charmingly off-hand dynamic between the two that suggests the long history between them.

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that it would be kind of adorable to imagine one of the Coogan/ Brydon Trip films once they’re retirees. The scenery is lovely, the performances are pleasant, and it’s the kind of movie it’s hard to imagine anyone walking out of. It’s nice. Yeah: It’s nice. Opens Aug. 22 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—Scott Renshaw Sin City: A Dame to Kill For [not yet reviewed] More adaptations of Frank Miller’s gritty, episodic graphic-novel series. Opens Aug. 22 at theaters valleywide. (R) When the Game Stands Tall [not yet reviewed] Fact-based story about a football coach (Jim Caviezel) who turns a Northern California high school into a powerhouse program.

Opens Aug. 22 at theaters valleywide. (PG)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case At Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Aug. 27, 7 p.m.

Burt’s Buzz At Main Library, Aug. 26, 7 p.m. (NR) Fargo At Tower Theatre, Aug. 22-23 @ 11 p.m. & Aug. 24 @ noon. (R) The New Black At Brewvies, Aug. 21, 7 p.m. (NR) Wreck-It Ralph At Brewvies, Aug. 25, 10 p.m. (PG)

CURRENT RELEASES Boyhood HHH.5 Richard Linklater’s audacious experiment—shooting in small increments for 12 years, following Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from first grade through high school graduation—has dominated coverage of the movie. Yet despite some melodramatic bumps in the first hour, it’s much more than its gimmick, and not the universal child-is-father-to-the-man experience suggested by the title. Yes, it’s remarkable watching Coltrane and Linklater’s own daughter, Lorelei (as Mason’s older sister) grow up over the course of a single film; it’s also hard to imagine a better way

to track, for example, a boy’s steps in his own sexual awareness from lingerie catalogues through his first girlfriend. Like most of Linklater’s loose-limbed comedies, when Boyhood is on, it’s really on—smart, clear-eyed and laugh-out-loud funny without ever feeling like someone’s stopping to deliver a zinger.

Here is an often-breathtaking chronicle of the mere messy business of becoming a man. (R)—SR

Calvary HHH John Michael McDonagh may not nail his thematically ambitious drama, but at least he’s got Brendan Gleeson. Gleeson plays Father James, an Irish priest told by a man during confession that—as retaliation for being abused by a priest years earlier—he will kill Father James in eight days. The film becomes a countdown toward that threatened event, as Father James interacts with various troubled parishioners who provide a rogues’ gallery of suspects. Those encounters, unfortunately, are too episodic to build toward something profound. The heavy lifting is left to Gleeson, who’s simply superb as a priest saddened by a world that assumes he’s part of the problem rather than a possible solution.

Much of the climax is unfortunately misguided, yet still packs an emotional punch by suggesting that bitterness isn’t a response to hopelessness, but its root cause. (R)—SR

The Expendables 3 HH In which the familiar members of Team Aged Beef (Stallone, Statham, Lundgren, etc.) enlist some gargantuan-veined newbies to bring down a rogue former colleague (a winningly goofy Mel Gibson); Bulgaria goes up in smoke. While the usual crew proves more than capable of still bringing the creaky thunder, the decision to skew younger here definitely detracts from the core nostalgia of the concept, most notably during an absolutely deadening second act. Thankfully, however, the members of Team Older New Blood all liven things up considerably, with folks such as Gibson, Wesley Snipes and a hysterically amped Antonio Banderas all relishing the chance to let loose and make things explode beyond the laws of physics. Even Harrison Ford actually appears to be having fun, which may be just enough of a novelty to catch this in the theater. (PG-13)—Andrew Wright

The Giver HH.5 Lois Lowry’s novel isn’t dystopian young-adult fiction in the sense we’ve come to know it popularly, and director Phillip Noyce’s adaptation loses much of the story’s insinuating power by courting familiarity. Brenton Thwaites plays Jonas, the boy in a futuristic, rigidly organized society trained by his predecessor (Jeff Bridges) to become “Receiver of Knowledge”—where he learns that the world of the past was a very different place.

Making Jonas an older teenager certainly changes things, but it’s more frustrating watching the bursts of manufactured drama like chase scenes and speeches that make sure we’re not missing The Point. The narrative still connects in its suggestion that we’d pay a price for societal homeostasis, as well as through Noyce’s smart visual choices. It’s just a shame that making it easier to market has made it harder to love. (PG-13)—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

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set pieces. Guardians is so wonderfully idiosyncratic for so long that it’s kind of a bummer 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

The Hundred-Foot Journey HH.5 It’s possible to roll one’s eyes at a story’s silly manipulations and still respond to them. Director Lasse Hallström adapts Richard Morais’ novel about an Indian immigrant family starting over in a small French village where they open a restaurant across the street from Madame Mallory’s (Helen Mirren) country inn. But while the rigid Mallory feuds with Papa Kadam (Om Puri), she also recognizes the incipient culinary genius of his son, Hassan (Manish Dayal).

Hallström (Chocolat) lays on plenty of his twinkly tricks through a plot that gets far too dense as Hassan’s celebrity and various relationship permutations grow. But there are also crowd-pleasing moments for veterans Puri and Mirren, seasoned with mouth-watering scenes of chefs at work.

Everyone learns important lessons—including viewers who discover that a movie cheesier than French cuisine can still be somewhat tasty. (PG)—SR

Lucy HHH Featuring some of the most fictional science to ever be found in science-fiction, Lucy is the kind of sui generis, superficially exotic thing that could only have been made by Luc Besson.

It resembles both his breakthrough La Femme Nikita and the glorious drug trip The Fifth Element, but with a premise that leaves both those predecessors coughing dust in an implausibility race. The risible use of the “humans only use 10 percent of their brain” myth ends up transcending its absurd origins and becoming a breathtakingly crazy thriller, with every aspect of the movie ascending into a state of epinephric grace by the end of its startlingly concise 85 minutes. Nothing makes the slightest sense, and some of Scarlett Johansson’s acting choices are a little odd, but Lucy is good fun, if one is able to engage with it. (R)—DB Magic in the Moonlight HH In many ways, it’s a paradigm for 21st-century Woody Allen cinema—and that’s exactly what’s wrong with it. In 1928 Europe, stage magician and devoted skeptic Stanley (Colin Firth) takes the assignment of helping debunk a young woman named Sophie (Emma Thompson), who claims to be a psychic medium.

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for actual police. There are a handful of funny bits interspersed with the juvenile cop agape; Wayans doesn’t get the greatest showcase here, yet still reveals himself to be a talented, versatile performer, and even better than his dad at compartmentalizing shtick from character work. That’s the primary upside here; Let’s Be Cops lacks a mean streak, which helps it be a movie one can—if it doesn’t tickle one’s funny bone—shrug off rather than condemn. (R)—Danny Bowes

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so: Aren’t these guys supposed to be fun? Director Jonathan Liebesman cranks up a version in which they’re somehow connected to a bad guy’s plan for world domination, and intrepid young journalist April O’Neil (Megan Fox) is on the case. What follows adopts the 21st-century “gritty reboot” template of psychological trauma and apocalypse-scale stakes, but aside from one goofy set piece involving trucks and turtles sliding down the only alpine ski venue within 20 minutes of Manhattan, there’s virtually no attempt to make this light-hearted enough to be appealing to kids, while it remains too stupid for adults. And if you can’t figure out how to make silly entertainment out of sewer-dwelling, pizzaeating, katana-wielding, etc., reptiles, maybe you shouldn’t be making movies. (PG-13)—SR What If HH.5 It doesn’t put a radically new spin on the tired romanticcomedy formula, but it does apply enough wit and relatable human behavior to that formula to make it recommendable.

Daniel Radcliffe plays Wallace, a sad sack, relationshipcynical med-school dropout who befriends Chantry (Zoe Kazan), a doe-eyed animator who, alas, already has a longterm boyfriend (Rafe Spall). Can Wallace and Chantry be “just friends”? Elan Mastai’s screenplay—adapted from T.J. Dawe and Michael Rinaldi’s play—has everyone speaking with glib sarcasm and playfulness, a mostly successful attempt to mimic the attitudes of modern 20-somethings that only occasionally feels forced. The story is hurt by a few never-plausible tropes—skinny-dipping gone wrong; spurof-the-moment overseas plane trips—but Radcliffe, Kazan and castmates Adam Driver and Mackenzie Davis are breezily charming. A rom-com about people who aren’t idiots? What a concept! (PG-13)—Eric D. Snider

Theater Directory SALT LAKE CITY Brewvies Cinema Pub 677 S. 200 West 801-355-5500 Brewvies.com Broadway Centre Cinemas 111 E. 300 South 801-321-0310 SaltLakeFilmSociety.org

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Century 16 South Salt Lake 125 E. 3300 South 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com

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After a terrible blind date, two single parents (Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler) and their kids end up sharing a vacation suite at an African safari resort and going through the same rom-com motions you’ve come to know and tolerate. (Warner Bros.)

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Cat Run 2 Amateur detectives Anthony (Scott Mechlowicz) and Julian (Alphonso McAuley) return, this time unraveling a military murder case while, natch, trying to not get killed by a female ninja assassin (Winter Ave Zoli).

If it ain’t broke … (Universal)

The 12th Doctor debuts, Intruders creeps in and True Blood fades out.

Doctor Who Saturday, Aug. 23 (BBC America)

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Intruders Saturday, Aug. 23 (BBC America)

Series Finale: The sensational-tosucktastic arc of True Blood goes like this: Season 1: Exciting newness! Sookie, Bill and a reasonable amount of characters to keep up with! Sexy times! Season 2: Godric! More sexy times! Season 3: Time for the werewolves to get some!

Russell! Season 4: Uh … fairies? King Bill? Season 5: The Vampire Authority …

Billith … fuuu … Season 6: The ejection of extraneous characters and bullshit begins! Probably too late! But here’s some sexy times! Season 7: Let’s win back the fans by killing off everybody they still love! But will True Blood truly end the way I’ve been wishing at least one brave series to conclude for years now, by snuffing out the entire cast? The Shield, The Sopranos, Rescue Me, Wilfred, they all blinked—to the True Death, Bon Temps!

Rising Star Sunday, Aug. 24 (ABC) Season Finale: Same goes for Rising Star; the sub-CW ratings indicate that this will be a series finale, as well, so … Rising Star is yet another karaoke competition that claims it will launch a superstar music career, even though these shows have prov-

Intruders (BBC America) en themselves to be the Witness Protection Program of the entertainment business.

But! Rising Star has a twist: The “judges” (Josh Groban, Brad Paisley, Ke$ha and Ludacris) don’t have the final say—you do, ’Merica! Well, you would if you were watching, anyway. I’m no math surgeon, but if American Idol and The Voice, which are still viewed by tens of millions, can only produce obscurities for the state-fair circuit, then the “winner” of Rising Star will be buried near the Earth’s core, shot into space or employed as Ke$ha’s fluffer.

Legends Wednesdays (TNT) New Series: Most of the press around TNT’s new Legends refers to star Sean Bean’s propensity for screen deaths (Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, Family Guy, etc.), and little about how the producer of 24 and Homeland and Sean goddamned Bean ended up on a basic-cable FBI potboiler with a C-list cast and dialogue that actually includes lines like “trust no one” and “pulling this cowboy crap.” Still, the dumb-fun factor of watching Bean out-act everyone as a grizzled agent who’s been undercover so long he doesn’t know who he is anymore—another line sure to be uttered—can’t be denied. CW

Sons of Anarchy: Season 6 Jax struggles to get SAMCRO back on the legit path (again), only to see more members and family killed (again). The season with the most violence, depravity and musical montages was also the highest-rated yet— coincidence, America? (Fox)

The Walking Dead: Season 4 Idyllic life inside the prison ends when the Governor comes calling, forcing Team Rick back on the road, en route to alleged safe zone Terminus, which doesn’t sound very safe at all. They should make a comic book out of this. (Anchor Bay)

More New DVD/VOD Releases (Aug. 26) Almost Human: The Complete Series, Bongo: Killer Clown, Criminal Minds: Season 9, The Double, Elementary: Season 2, Haven: Season 4, Jim Norton: American Degenerate, PMS Cop, Portlandia: Season 4, President Wolfman, Revenge: Season 3, Trust Me, Young & Beautiful Listen to Bill on Mondays at 8 a.m. on X96 Radio From Hell; weekly on the TV Tan podcast via iTunes and Stitcher.

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Series Debut: This supernatural-murderconspiracy-horror production from Glen Morgan (The X-Files) doesn’t have a breakout star like Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany, but it does sport an even creepier premise than cloning: “A secret society devoted to chasing immortality by seeking refuge in the bodies of others.” Yeesh. John Simm stars as an ex-LAPD cop with a nagging twinge of a British accent whose wife (Mira Sorvino) disappears after exhibiting strange behavior and awkward jazz dancing (uh oh—Black Box flashback). There’s also a little girl (Millie Brown) who flips between sympathetic and terrifying personalities, an assassin on a mission (James Frain), an outta-nowhere appearance from screen vet Robert Forster, and the feeling that Intruders isn’t going to start making sense until a few episodes in. You know, like Orphan Black.

True Blood Sunday, Aug. 24 (HBO)

Andre’s wedding blows up, Ruxin quits the fantasy football league, Taco opens a Pubercuts salon, Kevin and Pete are generally useless, Jenny frets over no longer being able to give dogs boners, and Rafi and Dirty Randy get their own episode! (Fox)

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Season Premiere: The Only TV Column That Matters™ is glad to be rid of Matt Smith and his stupid hair—bring on the 12th Doctor, Peter Capaldi. Season … OK, Series … 8 of Doctor Who introduces a less warm-and-wacky Doctor; Capaldi’s incarnation is an all-business Time Lord who doesn’t care all that much for humans or niceties—my kinda guy. While the timeywimey shakeup is intriguing, I’m more interested in the new BBC America series that follows …

Delta Force Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas’ genre-crashing sound finds a vehicle.

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t a packed SXSW showcase at Palm Door on Sixth in March, a mid-performance Jessica Hernandez looked like she was about to burst out of her skin. Filled with more dynamic energy than her frame seemed to be able to hold, Hernandez didn’t just own the stage, she commanded it, filling the venue to the rafters with her brassy, smoky voice and shaking dramatically as if just struck by lightning, her feet planted confidently wide.

Needless to say, Hernandez knows how to make an impression. However, until now, there hasn’t existed a way for listeners to get a true picture of her power. Since about 2009, the Detroit native has been recording music, including a few EPs with her five-piece band The Deltas, and before that, “little demos I would record in my basement that I would burn onto CDs and make funny cases for,” she says.

But Hernandez doesn’t think of any of those projects as “a real album,” she says. Though the past five years have found Hernandez “giving people some kind of music all the time,” she says, they’ve just been tantalizing bites of the full meal.

But with the release of Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas’ debut full-length album, Secret Evil—which just dropped Aug. 19—listeners can finally experience a sumptuous main course of Hernandez’ accomplished songwriting and goose-bump-raising vocal ability. The album also showcases the band’s unparalleled ability to pinball between diverse musical genres while retaining a trademark sound.

In fact, the eardrum-tickling music brought to life by Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas is so multifaceted and description-def ying that even Hernandez herself can’t peg it. “I always feel so bad,” she says with a laugh. “I feel like every time someone asks me, I have a different explanation of what we sound like.”

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rock, jazz and ’60s surf tinged with gypsy, Latin and even cabaret-like influences. The fact that it’s “all over the place stylistically,” Hernandez says, frees the band from having too many preconceived notions heaped upon whatever form their next album takes. “It could go in a number of different directions without people being caught off guard, because [Secret Evil] is coming from a lot of different places,” she says.

Tracks like the creepy-carnival “Run Run Run” and the surf-y “Sorry I Stole Your Man” feel about as opposite as leather and velvet, but the common thread lacing the album together is that connection Hernandez has to the songs, as well as her personal lyrics. Deftly covering topics including “heartbreak and weird relationship stuff” (“Lovers First”) as well as her sometimes-complicated relationship with Detroit (“Neck Tattoo”)—“You’re caught between thinking it’s this magical place and this really shitty place,” she says—the songs on Secret Evil often have a hidden dark side due to their thorny subject matter, even if the sound itself is catchy and poppy.

“Almost all of my songs are dark lyrically, even if they’re kind of like a happier, upbeat song,” she says.

“When I am really writing a lot and feeling really inspired by stuff, it always ends up being in this point of some kind of inner turmoil.”

Secret Evil is a combination of recent songs as well as some written during the days when she’d moved back to Detroit to live with her parents and write music after dropping out of college. “I ended up just taking my favorite songs and trying not to think about, ‘Well, do these all fit together into one cohesive album?’ ” she says. “For my first record, I felt like it was more important to pick songs that meant something to me and that kind of told a story of each point I was in in my life while writing the record, and try to think less about, like, ‘Well, who am I as an artist and what does this mean?’ It’s just like, these are the songs I wrote, these are the ones I like.”

Now that her debut album is out, Hernandez already has her eye on the next project, even though she says she was “intimidated” by the thought of releasing a full-length. But as Secret Evil indicates, Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas have found their stride and aren’t slowing anytime soon.

“I’m just excited that I’ve finally done it,” she says. “And now I’m just excited to do a second and a third and keep going with it.” CW

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Presidential Fun Times

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residents of the United States of America drummer Jason Finn has some history with the state of Utah that goes beyond music.

“I was locked up in Provo when I was a kid, in about 1981,” he says.

“I went to this weird sort of boarding school/ reform school, which is my only real previous Utah experience.”

But he is quick to say that the past is in the past and he is ready to focus on the present, especially since this is only the second time the band will have played in Salt Lake City. Getting locked up was the result of “a whole pile of youthful indiscretions,” Finn says with a laugh, “but all is well now.

I can guarantee you already that this visit will be more fun.”

“Fun” is the sort of descriptor that has been used gobs of times over the years to describe the Seattle band and their sound. After all, when you’ve made songs that name-check your home state (“Volcano”), gleefully disparage everybody’s favorite state (“Fuck California”) and make a song about peaches, of all things—with its classic, ninja-filled video—it’s clear that Presidents of the United States of America get kicks out of creating their music.

This remains the case on the band’s latest project, Kudos to You!—released in February—which features much of the same cleverly written, amusingly delivered alt-punk that has made the trio a staple in the rock scene for the past two decades.

Brisk pacing and singer/bassist Chris Ballew’s humorous staccato English and Spanish makes “Rooftops in Spain” a treat, while “Electric Spider” is a funky rock ode to a fictitious drink. As always, the band is not above diving into the absurd, as the epic battle depicted in “Flea vs. Mite” can attest, and let’s just say you will never look at finger puppets the same way again after you listen to “Finger Monster.” Creating such vibrant, unique material is a result of the band doing things on their own terms, even if that means not touring year-round.

“We’ve done a pretty good job of, when we start to feel overwhelmed, taking a step back, or even taking a year off,” Finn says. “It’s a little perverse, maybe, but we’re good at our work ethic by keeping our work ethic kind of low.”

Knowing what works for them and being willing to sacrifice quantity for the sake of quality records and concerts are what keeps things exciting for the band, and Finn believes this show will be a blast.

After all, it has to be a better experience than his first time here, right?

“I think so, I think so,” he says confidently before pausing and adding, “fingers crossed.” CW

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Twilight Concert Series: Rapsody & 9th Wonder, De La Soul, Better Taste Bureau Ever since Little Brother dropped their 2003 debut album, The Listening, the Tar Heel State has been a steady source for deeprooted, true-to-form boom-bap. North Carolina is currently home to some of rap’s most respected artists: 9th Wonder, Phonte, Deniro Farrar and, of course, Rapsody. Signed to 9th’s label Jamla Records, Rapsody is smarter, funnier and arguably harder than most of her male counterparts. On the track “Lonely Thoughts (Remix),” from her 2013 mixtape, She Got Game, Rapsody aligns herself with her idols, A Tribe Called Quest: “I never breathe, another breed, Q, Phife, Ali Shaheed/ Check the rhyme, it’s just my time to kill it like the purge this spring.” She Got Game was one of 2013’s most notable drops on Datpiff and featured a heavy roster of talent like Jay Electronica, Chance the Rapper, Common and DJ Premier. Also performing are 9th Wonder, De La Soul and Better Taste Bureau, the 2014 City Weekly Music Awards Rap Group of the Year. (Colin Wolf) Pioneer Park, 300 West & 300 South, 7 p.m., $5, TwilightConcertSeries.com

Friday 8.22

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looked rosy. A year later, though, their ’80s-influenced debut full-length, Partie Traumatic, was a huge flop, despite the inclusion of catchy single “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You”—which, surprisingly, was written while frontman Reggie Youngblood was working in a soul-sucking call center.

But after taking a good, long break from making music and touring, Black Kids are back at it, and if their slick brand-new track “Origami” is any indication, the band’s ups and downs were only bumps in the road.

Local acts The Circulars and High Counsel will also perform. The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $8 in advance, $10 day of show, TheUrbanLoungeSLC. com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com Peter Harper, Cory Mon The first thing you see when visiting PeterHarper.com is his unique bronze sculptures and handmade belt buckles, but this California visual artist also expresses his creativity through music. As the brother of prominent blues/folk singer-songwriter Ben Harper, Peter has music in his genes. Since music is such a big part of his family, Peter felt like he had a lot of high expectations to meet when recording his self-titled album— released in fall 2013—but he was able to find his own voice on Peter Harper. The introspective, heartfelt songs—such as “Make Me Weak” and “Take It Home”—feature a warm, mellow voice, and songwriting focused on universally applicable themes.

Also on the bill is similarly minded Salt Lake City singer-songwriter Cory Mon, whose debut solo album, North, dropped recently, as well as Coin in the Sea. Velour, 135 N. University Ave., Provo, 8:30 p.m., $8, VelourLive.com

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Wednesday 8.27

The Offspring, Bad Religion, Pennywise, Stiff Little Fingers The ticket price for this show looks a little steep at first glance, but all of the names on this star-studded lineup warrant a show all their own, so it’s more like a crazy bargain. California bands The Offspring, Bad Religion and Pennywise are punk mainstays whose respective sounds share common roots of loud, fast guitar and even louder, faster drums, and their politically minded lyrics are continually relevant. The night’s setlist should prove to be full of pleasant surprises, as all the acts have long, accomplished discographies to choose from, including Bad Religion’s latest, 2013’s True North, and Offspring’s seminal 1994 album, Smash, which they’ll play from beginning to end. Also on the bill is Northern Ireland punk vets Stiff Little Fingers, who came together in the ’70s but continue to release new music, including their latest, No Going Back, which dropped in March. The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 7 p.m., $35 in advance, $40 day of show, TheComplexSLC.com

Coming Soon Twilight Concert Series: The Head & the Heart, San Fermin, Westward the Tide (Aug. 28, Pioneer Park), The Reverend Horton Heat (Aug. 28, The Depot), Sylvan Esso (Aug. 29, Kilby Court), Swans (Sept. 1, The Urban Lounge), Leopold & His Fiction (Sept. 3, The Urban Lounge)

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Thursday 8.21 DJ Infinite Horizon (5 Monkeys) Karaoke with DJ Jason (Bourbon House) Bloodgeon, Blood Purge, Enabler (Burt’s Tiki Lounge) Karaoke With Cowboy Joe (Cisero’s, Park City) Kemosabe (Downstairs, Park City) Thompson Square (Ed Kenley Amphitheater, Layton) Karaoke (Habits) Corrosion of Conformity (In the Venue/ Club Sound) DJ Erockalypze (Inferno Cantina) Sounds Like Teen Spirit (Liquid Joe’s) Jakubi (Newpark Town Center, Park City) Open Mic Night (Pat’s Barbecue) Twilight Concert Series: De La Soul, Rapsody & 9th Wonder, Better Taste Bureau (Pioneer Park) Red Butte Concert Series: David Gray (Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre) Bobby James Blues Band (Sandy Station) 801 All Stars Battle (The Shred Shed) Dirt First Takeover: Grimblee, Mr. Vandal, gravy.tron, Tetris Fingers (The Urban Lounge) Karaoke (Willie’s Lounge) Reggae Thursday: Coral Thieves (The Woodshed)

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The covered patio and club-chic interior at The Circle Lounge are packed on Friday and Saturday nights with a well-dressed clientele who come to shake it to house, hip-hop and trance DJs. The savvy crowd can also take advantage of a full sushi bar between songs. The club is a great pick during the week as well. Reserve a table and a hookah pipe in advance to get the most out of the Circle Lounge experience.

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Nestled in suburban austerity, Elixir stands out as a trendy spot for martini drinkers at almost any hour—until 1 a.m. every day. Weekends find a busy atmosphere both inside and on the patio, as DJs pump beats while you figure out which of the dozens of drinks you want to sample. 6405 S. 3000 East, Holladay, 801-943-1696 The Tavernacle

Famous for being the first piano bar in Utah, the Tavernacle is standing-room-only on Friday and Saturday. The Tav specializes in anything with rye whiskey and can make a mean Old Fashioned. The service is always friendly and the staff is willing to lend an ear—if you can be heard over the dueling pianos.

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The Hitching Post pays tribute to the good old days.

Pool tables abound, while the ceiling is made up of bygone advertising planks of Utah County businesses from yesteryear. A full menu is offered till 6 p.m.

After that, fill up on assorted fried foods. The super casual feel is perfect for friends to meet, eat and drink after work while listening to the jukebox tunes. 30 N. Geneva Road, Orem, 801-492-7760

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VENUE DIRECTORY

live music & karaoke

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

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

ABG’S LIBATION EMPORIUM 190 W. Center St., Provo, 801-373-1200, Live music ALLEGED 205 25th St., Ogden, 801-990-0692 AREA 51 451 S. 400 West, SLC, 801-534-0819, 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, 801746-1005, 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, 801-5315400, DJs CISERO’S 306 Main, Park City, 435-649-5044, 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, 801964-8575, 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

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

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

LUMPY’S HIGHLAND 3000 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-484-5597 THE MADISON/THE COWBOY 295 W. Center St., Provo, 801-375-9000, Live music, DJs MAXWELL’S EAST COAST EATERY 9 Exchange Place, SLC, 801-328-0304, Poker Tues., DJ Fri. & Sat. METRO BAR 615 W. 100 South, SLC, 801652-6543, DJs THE MOOSE LOUNGE 180 W. 400 South, SLC, 801-900-7499, DJs MUSE MUSIC CAFÉ 151 N. University Ave., Provo, Open mic, live music, all ages NO NAME SALOON 447 Main, Park City, 435-649-6667 PARK CITY LIVE 427 Main, Park City, 435649-9123, Live music PAT’S BBQ 155 W. Commonwealth Ave., SLC, 801-484-5963, Live music Thurs.-Sat., All ages The penalty box 3 W. 4800 South, Murray, 801-590-9316, Karaoke Tues., Live Music, DJs PIPER DOWN 1492 S. State, SLC, 801-4681492, Poker Mon., Acoustic Tues., Trivia Wed., Bingo Thurs.

POPLAR STREET PUB 242 S. 200 West, SLC, 801-532-2715, Live music Thur.-Sat. THE RED DOOR 57 W. 200 South, SLC, 801363-6030, DJ Fri., Live jazz Sat. THE ROYAL 4760 S. 900 East, SLC, 801590-9940, Live music SANDY STATION 8925 Harrison St., Sandy, 801-255-2078 SCALLYWAGS 3040 S. State, SLC, 801604-0869 THE SHRED SHED 60 E. Exchange Place, SLC, Live music THE SPUR BAR & GRILL 352 Main, Park City, 435-615-1618, Live music THE STATE ROOM 638 S. State, SLC, 800501-2885, Live music SUGARHOUSE PUB 1992 S. 1100 East, SLC, 801-413-2857 THE TAVERNACLE 201 E. 300 South, SLC, 801-519-8900, Dueling pianos Wed.-Sat., Karaoke Sun.-Tues.

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

CONCERTS & CLUBS Complete listings online @ cityweekly.net Celph Titled, Apathy, Reef the Lost Cauze, SMG’s, Melvin Junko, Pure Pressure, Joey & Jare, DJ Battleship (Lo-Fi Cafe) Red Shot Pony (The Outlaw Saloon, Ogden) The Party Rockers (The Royal) Karaoke (Sandy Station) Dan Smith, Confluence, Red Sweater Lullaby, Jesus Or Genome, Great Interstate (The Shred Shed) Max Pain & the Groovies, The North Valley, Beachmen (The Urban Lounge) Coma Pilot, Paper Guns, Efficiency, The Jordan Brothers (Velour, Provo) Colt .46 (The Westerner) Saturday Night Fever (Zest Kitchen & Bar)

Sunday 8.24 ILKA Hip Hop Show (5 Monkeys) Funk & Soul Night With DJ Street Jesus (Bourbon House) Funeral Horse, Red Bennies (Burt’s Tiki Lounge) Karaoke Wheel of Chance With KJ Sparetire (The Century Club, Ogden) Live Bluegrass (Club 90) Morgan Snow (The Garage) DJ Flash & Flare (The Green Pig Pub) Superstar Karaoke (Jam) Strand of Oaks, Christopher Denny (Kilby Court) Ogden Valley Roots & Blues Festival (North Fork Park, Ogden Valley) Entourage Karaoke (Piper Down) Red Butte Concert Series: Brandi Carlile (sold out) (Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre) Temple, Nora Dates (The Shred Shed) Open Mic (The Spur Bar & Grill, Park City) Wade Bowen Band, Sean McConnell (The State Room) The English Beat, DJ Dubmatix (The Urban Lounge) Karaoke That Doesn’t Suck (The Woodshed)

Monday 8.25 Muscle & Marrow, Moon of Delirium, Making Fuck, Die Off (Burt’s Tiki Lounge) Screature, Kitten Forever (Diabolical Records) Philip Gibbs Album Release (Gracie’s) Open Blues Jam (The Green Pig Pub) DJ Babylon Down, Roots Rawka (The Woodshed)

Tuesday 8.26 Open Mic Night (Alchemy Coffee) Local Jazz Jam (Bourbon House) Karaoke (Brewskis, Ogden) Be Extreme Throwback Tuesday (Canyon Inn)

DJ Raffi (Cisero’s, Park City) Karaoke (Club 90) The Offspring, Bad Religion, Pennywise, Stiff Little Fingers (The Complex) Farewell Tour of Queensryche Starring Geoff Tate, The Voodoos (The Depot) Hell Jam (Devil’s Daughter) Karaoke (Keys on Main) Open Mic (The Royal) Run-On Sunshine, Genre Zero, Red Bennies (The Shred Shed) MC Frontalot CD Release, Corn Mo, Dr. Awkward (The State Room) Open Mic Night (Velour, Provo) Open Mic (The Wall, Provo) Karaoke That Doesn’t Suck (The Woodshed)

Wednesday 8.27 Karaoke With Steve-O (5 Monkeys) Chris Bender (Aerie Restaurant & Lounge, Snowbird) Karaoke (Area 51) Open Fields, Tonight We Rise (Burt’s Tiki Lounge) Karaoke Wheel of Chance With KJ Sparetire (The Century Club, Ogden) Phora (The Complex, The Grand) DigiTour 2014: Jack & Jack, Jake Foushee, Sammy Wilk, Kenny Holland, Cody Johns, Trevor Moran (The Complex, The Rockwell) Mokie (Deer Valley Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater, Park City) Karaoke Wednesday (Devil’s Daughter) Hump Day Project With DJ Danny Boy (Downstairs, Park City) Rockabilly Wednesday (The Garage) DJ Street Jesus (The Green Pig Pub) Wednesduhh! Karaoke (Jam) The Pelicant’s (Kilby Court) Melissa Etheridge (Kingsbury Hall, University of Utah) Open Mic (Liquid Joe’s) Open Mic (Muse Music Cafe, Provo) Karaoke (The Outlaw Saloon, Ogden) Entourage Karaoke (Piper Down) Karaoke (The Royal) Karaoke (Sandy Station) Carousel Kings, For the Win (The Shred Shed) Cowboy Karaoke (The Spur Bar & Grill, Park City) Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas, Lady Murasaki, Holy Water Buffalo (The Urban Lounge, see p. 42) Monthly Acoustic Showcase (Velour, Provo) Karaoke (The Wall, Provo) DJ Matty Mo (Willie’s Lounge) Jam Night Featuring Dead Lake Trio (The Woodshed)

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One of Buckallew’s favorite parts of co-owning the food truck is meeting new people and making them happy. “I’ve never seen people with a bigger emotional connection to a food than people who grew up with poutine,” Buckallew says. “I’ve seen people cry.” For those with special dietary needs, Poutine Your Mouth is gluten-free and serves vegan options.

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ooking for a taste of the Great White North here in Utah? Look no further than Poutine Your Mouth, a food truck owned by Utahns Jen Buckallew and Ted Warner.

Poutine, a dish that originated in Quebec, is typically made with French fries, sauce, and cheese curds. At Poutine Your Mouth, Buckallew and Warner enjoy coming up with new flavor combinations.

“Every festival that we go to, we come up with a new menu item that is special to that event. There’s no end to what you can put on top of French fries, it turns out,” Buckallew says.

Buckallew first got the idea for a poutine food truck after several visits to Canada, including one trip when she and Warner ate poutine six times in one day. The vision really began to take form in February of this year when they cut the first piece of their truck. Warner built the truck from the ground-up and they started making a list of festivals around the country that they wanted to attend. “First on our list was Coachella,” Buckallew said.

They sold Coachella on the idea before the truck was even finished, and debuted their product at the music festival in April 2014.

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Since then, Poutine Your Mouth has taken their product to various events around the country, including their first Utah event at the Pride Festival in June. During Pride, their signature dish was “The Love,” fries with honey-sweetened goat cheese, strawberry compote, and a balsamic drizzle.

Poutine Your Mouth’s next Utah event will be at the Soldier Hollow Sheep Dog Classic,

Poutine Your Mouth is hoping to soon participate in food truck Thursdays at the Gallivan Center, corporate events, and will be opening a brick-andmortar store in downtown Salt Lake City sometime next summer.

For more information about Poutine Your Mouth, or to find out where they will be next, check them out on Facebook at https:// w w w.facebook.com/PoutineYourMouth, and at http://w w w.poutineyourmouth. com. n

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) On August 2, 1830, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, was King of France for 20 minutes. (It’s a long story.) I offer this to you as a cautionary tale. A few weeks from now, I don’t want to TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You are about to make the transition from plodding to skipping; have to be comparing you to him. If you hope to hold your new from moping to exulting. You will no longer be bogged down by position or continue to wield your added clout for longer than cloudy doubt, but will instead be buoyed by giddy hope. To what just a little while, you should take all necessary steps. How? do we owe this imminent turnaround in your fortunes? One Nurture the web of support that will sustain you, for example. reason is that it’s Justifiable Narcissism Week—for Tauruses Don’t burn a single bridge. Cultivate real empathy, not just the only. During this jubilee, the Free Will Astrology Council on showy kind. Avoid manipulative behavior, even if you think you Extreme Self-Esteem authorizes you to engage in unabashed can get away with it. Be a skillful gatherer of information. self-worship—and to corral a host of other people who want to SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) join in celebrating you, praising you and helping you.

Golda Meir was Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974.

Her admirers described her as “strong-willed, straight-talking, GEMINI (May 21-June 20) An eagle does not catch flies. A lion won’t hunt for mice. A grey-bunned grandmother of the Jewish people.” She had a gourmet chef shuns recipes that call for canned soup and potato good sense of humor, too. “Let me tell you the one thing I have chips. And I trust that you won’t indulge a hankering for non- against Moses,” she said. “He took us forty years into the desert nutritious sweets and treats that would spoil your appetite for in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has more robust sustenance. You understand I’m not just talking no oil.” I bring this up as a teaching story for you, Sagittarius. about your literal eating habits, right? Interpret this oracle If you plan to make any big moves, transitions or journeys in the coming months, I suggest you choose destinations that will metaphorically, please. allow you to gain access to wealth-building resources.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Now is an excellent time to phase out fantasies that bog you CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) down or drag you backward. Are you up for that challenge? Can Do you know what phase of your cycle it is? Here are a few you summon the courage to leave the mediocre past behind? If hints. It doesn’t come around often. It’s not characterized by so, here are your assignments: Wean yourself of longings to predictable events or boring certainties. And it may allow you, reconstruct bygone pleasures. Forget about trying to be like even encourage you, to take a break from being your usual self. the person you used to be and to have the keys you used to have. Give up? OK. I’ll tell you. You have entered the Nicholas Cage Stop feeding the feelings that keep you affixed to obsolete goals. phase of your cycle. Cage is a Capricorn, but not a typical one. He’s Break any taboo that makes you scared to change what needs to eccentric and manic and certifiably batty. He refers to his acting technique as “Nouveau Shamanic,” once lived in a fake castle, be changed. and owns a Lamborghini that belonged to legendary tyrant the Shah of Iran. For our current purposes, he has also testified, “I LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) The artist Amedeo Modigliani lived in Paris from 1906 until am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I his death in 1920. For most of that time, he was destitute. want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.”

Proprietors of local stores and restaurants sometimes accepted his artwork as payment in lieu of actual money. They AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) didn’t necessarily appreciate it, though. One food seller used Here’s one of my goals in life, Aquarius: to show you a type of Modigliani’s drawings as wraps for the fried potatoes he sold. astrology that does not infringe on your free will, but rather Another stashed the artist’s paintings in his cellar, where clarifies your options. In this horoscope, for instance, I will they turned into feasts for rodents. Too bad for these short- outline your alternatives so that you will be fully informed as you sighted people and their heirs: The worth of Modigliani’s works determine what course of action will be most closely aligned with eventually increased, and some sold for millions of dollars. In your high ideals. Ponder the following question, and then briskly the weeks ahead, Leo, don’t be like those food sellers. Know the exert your freedom of choice: Would you prefer to have love make your head spin, knock you off your feet, tickle your X-factor, kick value of what you have, even if it’s still latent. you gently but firmly in the ass, or all of the above?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) I’ve got three new vocabulary words for you. I need them to PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) provide you with the proper oracle. First is the German term “God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls, and Schwellenangst. It refers to timidity or nervousness about coal into diamonds by using time and pressure,” says pastor Rick crossing a threshold and heading into unknown territory. The Warren. “He is working on you, too.” Let’s make that idea your second word is a new English term, “strikhedonia.” It means the meditation, Pisces. If the word “God” doesn’t suit you, substitute joy that rises up when you feel the courage to say “to hell with “life,” “nature” or “Wakan Tanka,” the Lakotan term for “The it.” The third word is from Portuguese: desenrascanço. It means Great Mystery.” The essential point is that you are being worked the spontaneous improvisation of haphazard but ultimately on and shaped by forces beyond your conscious awareness. Some effective plans. Now let’s put them all together: To conquer your of them are vast and impersonal, like your culture, the media, and Schwellenangst, you must summon a bolt of strikhedonia and the entertainment industry. Others are intimate and close at have faith in your ability to carry out desenrascanço. (Thanks to hand, like your genes, your childhood imprints, and the characters you encounter daily. Now is an excellent time to contemplate all Other-Wordly.tumblr.com for the new words.) the influences that make you who you are.

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My best friend, James, inspires me through his compassion and unmatched ability to love from the bottom of his heart.

I am a better person because of his example of strength, courage, and kindness. Our journey is unique because I never had to worry about his acceptance of me, or losing his friendship because of my sexual orientation. His friendship has been absolute from the very beginning.

I asked James to define gay culture.

From his perspective as a straight white man, he believes gay culture has a definition because we are united in our quest for freedom— the freedom to marry, the freedom to access basic legally defined protections, and the freedom to exist without codified hate or sanctioned persecution of our identities.

His support for gay and trans people isn’t isolated to the issues I care about or the causes I support. His support extends to every person he meets. He isn’t afraid to tell anyone who will listen that he thinks everyone should be treated fairly under the law. He believes that while gay and trans people have unique individual stories about coming out, self-acceptance, and living in a time when our rights are the subjects of public debate, we are all the same.

Most of my life, I’ve found conditional relationships the norm. We can’t talk about everything, and we hide aspects of our lives. It’s hard to break these barriers because it’s human nature to guard our hearts. But James has always let me be real. He knows the most intimate details of my life and he still treats me like one of the guys. We talk freely about our own prejudices and shortcomings, and we celebrate our achievements and encourage each other to take the road less traveled.

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This new team put up homes in the 1960s in Kaysville, Tooele, Roy, Layton and Salt Lake. Prowswood (the newly formed development team) ventured into a fairly unheard of world in 1963—building condominiums. The first condos were built in Puerto Rico in 1958, but the first condos in the continental United States were built in Utah. The Greystone Manor at 2730 South 1200 East was the first built in our state, thanks to some forward thinking developers and attorneys. They had to lobby the Utah Legislature to approve a “housing cooperative” that was literally based on the ownership style used in ancient Rome where properties were called condominios.

In 1963, Prowswood Corp. began developing Three Fountains condominiums in Murray. They were such a new concept that buyers and real estate agents didn’t understand what you owned, how they were run, who paid for what, etc. I had that same problem trying to sell downtown loft spaces in the late 1990s. Soon Prowswood started attracting the current demographic for condominiums: empty nesters, people too busy for yard maintenance, single women who like the security, and couples without kids. Prowswood also built Old Farm, Brookstone and so many more projects around the state from St. George to the north. The company spun out thousands of condos in its day. Now the daughter of Wood runs her own company and the manager of Prowswood became a developer himself and is responsible for most of the larger condo and apartment buildings here that have sprung up in the last decade or so.

Condo living isn’t for everyone, but as someone who has owned and lived in one for years, I will take a moment to salute Richard Prows and his vision. Fewer of them are being built in the Salt Lake Valley; instead, more apartments are going up.

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