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Letters Poll Puzzle

A recent poll shows that Mia Love is going to win in her efforts to go to Congress. Let’s hope that prediction is as accurate as Dewey wins in a run for President. What is the accuracy of polls, and what is their inf luence on turnout? Are they simply a menace, or an accurate political and public tool? I believe they hurt rather than help.

Dale Curtis Salt Lake City

Serving the Wrong Purpose

Recently, 3rd District Judge L.A. Dever dismissed the manslaughter case against former West Valley police officer Shaun Cowley. Cowley shot and killed Danielle Willard as she sat unarmed in her car in the parking lot of an apartment complex after she allegedly made a drug deal. Dever, who is retiring in November, did no one any favors with his questionable ruling. The Salt Lake District Attorney’s Office investigated the shooting to decide whether it was justified or not. After several weeks, the office determined it was not justified. Of course, the Fraternal Order of Police was outraged because they think they are above the law, and every shooting is justified.

WRITE US: Salt Lake City Weekly, 248 S. Main, Salt Lake City, UT 84101. E-mail: comments@cityweekly.net. Fax: 801-575-6106. We reserve the right to edit for length and clarity. Preference will be given to letters that are 300 words or less and sent uniquely to City Weekly. Full name, address and phone number must be included, even on e-mailed submissions, for verification purposes. It was then Dever’s responsibilit y to determine whether the alleged crime occured within the court’s jurisdiction, and if there was probable cause to believe the defendant committed the crime. The judge does not determine guilt or innocence. After three days of testimony, the judge dismissed the case, stating that the state failed to prove Cowley’s actions were not justified. Cowley could have assumed Willard was trying to kill him, and that deadly force was an appropriate response. Utah Criminal Code states that the penalty for assault against a police officer is 90 to 180 days in jail, not a bullet in the head. Willard was backing up in a parking lot, not speeding down the freeway toward the officer. A trial would have given Cowley the opportunity to clear his name with all the available evidence. A trial would have given Willard’s family the day in court they deserve. A trial would have given the residents of Salt Lake County the chance to see whether or not police are using excessive, deadly force on unarmed suspects, or if they are acting in accordance with the law and their accepted procedures and protocol. The judge denied everyone those opportunities. I have an idea as to why Judge Dever ruled the way he did. Paul Cassell, a local legal heav y weight, had joined Cowley’s defense team. The former federal judge and University of Utah criminal-law professor said he

didn’t believe Cowley should have been charged with manslaughter, and that the DA’s Office had made a mistake. There is a good-old-boys net work among police officers, and I have no doubt the social network among judges and former judges is a much smaller, tighter knit group. I’m sure Dever’s respect and admiration for Cassell and his opinion on this case and his client did not go unnoticed. And it is interesting to note that among the nominees to replace Dever when he retires in November is Patricia Cassell, Paul Cassell’s wife. I have no doubt Dever has served the community with great honesty and integrity, but I also agree it’s time for him to retire.

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OPINION

Get in the Game

Some of the first political coverage I did for this august paper was conducting exit polls about the 2008 presidential election. I talked to people standing in line at a hotdog cart, entering and exiting a liquor store, and at a strip club. I wish I could take credit for the idea, but it was something I had stolen and adapted from a Daily Show bit— the difference being that I correlated data from the locations so that our dear readers knew, for example, what percentage of the John McCain voters were getting turkey dogs (0 percent) or what percentage of the Obama-voting strip-club-goers preferred brunettes (80 percent). I still remember one strip-club patron who responded with a fairly common refrain for liberal Salt Lakers: “I live in a red state, which means I am vote-free!” His outlook was that he could see the giant GOP elephant in the room—and state politics—clearly, and had decided against playing a losing game. And if voters see the ballot as a game to be played only if it can be won—a vote to be cast only if it will mean the election of their candidate—then why play at all if the odds are stacked against you? The cynical answer is no, you can’t win, so don’t play. And that leads many to reserve their political energy for Facebook, campaigning with angry, keyboardsmashing, all-caps posts. At least there, all your friends—who, coincidentally, think the same as you—will agree and hit that “like” button, so, congratulations! You just won by a landslide in the great echochamber election. But if one were to step back and consider voting as something that, even if not immediately impactful, can at least be educational and formative to a citizen’s civic well-being, perhaps that would be the first small step toward wiping that look of fisheyed apathy off your face.

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I should slow my tirade a little bit here and admit that I am not a perfect voter. I have regretted some votes and missed a few elections. It is not a sin to not vote, after all, though in this writer’s humble opinion, it is a mistake to not involve oneself in politics and current events. And to kick this tirade back into gear, I will say that there is no merit in the attitude of being too cool to vote. But it’s something one often sees thrown out there by activists who spit on the idea of voting because the system is too corrupt to indulge with a vote. For them, rallying and organizing for change is the only way to go. It is certainly true that organizing for change—holding rallies and making noise for a cause—works a civic muscle that is often severely atrophied in most citizens. It is strenuous work, requiring a roaring firein-the-belly passion. But that doesn’t excuse them from shitting all over the act of voting because it’s not their preferred vehicle for change. The social-justice activists out there are oftentimes light-years ahead when it comes to understanding the language of privilege. But how is it that the institution of voting—which is so vital to so many, which is at stake in battlegrounds where people are fighting against restrictive voter ID laws, and which people have died to protect and preserve—is something you look at with disdain? Something you write off just because there is no one on the ballot good enough or radical enough to mirror your exact beliefs? A vote cast in Ferguson, Mo., might have higher stakes and a deeper impact than one cast in Salt Lake City, but what they have in common is the act itself. No matter the history of crooked politicians and broken systems, the vote unites us as Americans,

from the middle to the margins. It’s also what distinguishes us from nations where election results are heralded with blood in the streets instead of with consolation speeches and losing parties simply organizing for the next go-round. And if your reason for not voting isn’t smugness but a lack of understanding of the candidates and issues, don’t be intimidated by the voting booth. If you’re unprepared, visit Vote.Utah.gov and see exactly where to vote and who will be on your ballot. If you step into the booth unprepared, don’t look at the ballot, full of unfamiliar names, as a civic test, but as a chance to learn the names of those who will represent you. They’re names to look up later, to follow in the news, and to write and call to express your beliefs. As for impact, a Salt Lake City Democrat might not sway the state in a presidential election, but there are still nonpartisan schoolboard races and competitive county races (especially in Salt Lake County), not to mention close legislative races—for example West Valley City’s House District 33, where Republican Fred Cox lost by fewer than 400 votes in 2012. When thinking about this piece, I weighed the idea of invoking the words of a founding father or Abraham Lincoln or somebody else dead and distinguished to support the vote and citizen engagement. Instead, I defer to the sage words of Omar Little, a fictional gangster from The Wire: “The game is out there, and it’s play or get played.” Voting may not always be the strongest play, but at least it will get you in the game. CW

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If you could choose anyone to represent Utah in Congress, who would you pick? Scott Renshaw: Jefferson Smith from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Because that filibuster speech should be taught in schools. BJ Viehl: Neil deGrasse Tyson. Bill Frost: The zombie-fied corpse of Ronald Reagan, just to finally shut up local Republicans who have such woodies for The Gipper. John Saltas: Pinocchio. Jeremiah Smith: I would have Alfred P. Doolittle represent us in congress. He has a real ear to the common dustmen and can get himself to the church on time.

Colby Frazier: Karl Marx. Kolbie Stonehocker: Albus Dumbledore, provided he decided to get involved in Muggle politics. I think Congress could benefit from his cool head, wisdom, sense of humor, and acceptance of all blood statuses and societal underdogs.

Jeff Reese: Jon Stewart. Rachel Piper: Coach Eric Taylor from Friday Night Lights. Clear eyes, full heart, can’t lose. Everyone in Washington would tremble before his stern Coach Taylor gaze and be won over by his righteous yet open-minded sense of morality. Second runner-up: Admiral Adama from Battlestar Galactica.

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Say “federal lands” in Utah, and you’re likely to hear the boo-hiss of states’-rights advocates wanting to take them back. You know, people seem to think energy development and motorized recreation are more important than wild vistas and hiking into the sunset. Then there’s Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who actually wants the feds to take more land. Really. He’d like an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act to allow the Utah Test & Training Range to add a thousand square miles of Utah land. Oh, gee, that will save Hill Air Force Base from the chopping block. Activist Steve Erickson told KUER that it’s ridiculous. While there’s often talk of Hill being cut, it hasn’t happened, and the base is pretty secure. Just a land grab, he says. Keep them honest, Erickson. Land shouldn’t be so easily tossed around.

Party Poopers It looks like the Democrats in Utah are in for another lesson in humility. In a Utah Policy poll, Dan Jones & Associates recently put Republicans at 47 percent of the population, Democrats at a paltry 16 percent and independents at 31 percent. And for some reason, the Dems just can’t capture the hearts of Hispanics, women and younger voters. Utah Policy’s Bob Bernick makes the sad prediction that a Mia Love win will assure her re-election until the next gerrymandering, which will surely favor the GOP. Meanwhile, the Dems are really upset with retiring Sen. Pat Jones, D-Holladay, who’s supporting the Republican opponent to Rep. Larry Wiley, D-West Valley City. Oh, and County Mayor Ben McAdams endorsed a GOP candidate, too. Well, if Randy Horiuchi could get away with it, why not everyone else?

Um, You Already Have That Oh please. We understand that most Utahns can’t stand the thought of gay marriage, but the idea of a religious-freedom bill is just ludicrous. The proposed bill by Rep. Jacob Anderegg, R-Lehi, would “clarify” that clergy don’t have to perform weddings for gay or lesbian couples. How soon we forget the First A mendment. But there are some, like Sen. Orrin Hatch, who thinks there’s this antireligious sentiment in the United States, and had hoped the Religious Freedom Restoration Act would solve the problem. The Supreme Court said no. Establishment of religion is not an American ideal. We don’t like it in other countries, and we shouldn’t want it here. That said, we ought to allow clergy who will to marry gay couples.

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At the University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt each year, there’s a blood drive where teams can earn points for donating. Increasingly, there has been on-campus criticism of how this discriminates against categories of students restricted from blood donation, especially men who’ve had sex with men (MSM) even once since 1977. Give me the straight dope: Is the FDA still justified in preventing MSM from donating blood? —Patrick Augustine Excuse me, Patrick. Since when does anybody at the University of Chicago have sex? But you want a serious answer. Allow me to provide a two-parter: Q: Is the prohibition against blood donation if you’ve had gay sex even once in the past 37 years justified? A: No. If a man had sex with another man one time (hey, maybe even twice) in 1977 and hasn’t yet come down with HIV—which of course is the issue behind the ban—he’s not going to come down with it now. Your columnist appreciates the value of brightline rules as much as the next epidemiologist, but no sense being ridiculous. Q: Is a prohibition against blood donation by male students who’ve ever had sex with another man justified? A: You won’t get any argument from me. Let’s review a few facts, starting with the odds of getting HIV from various behaviors: n From penetrative anal intercourse—1 in 20,000. n From receptive anal intercourse— about 1 in 200. n From receiving tainted blood—9 in 10. You get the picture. In the old days, getting HIV-infectious blood was tantamount to a death sentence. At the beginning of the epidemic, there wasn’t a way to test for HIV in donated blood, and many infections were transmitted by transfusions—1,220 cases in the United States by the end of 1987, plus 1,100 in Canada and 1,700 in the UK. As a result, indefinite bans were placed on blood donations from MSMs in much of the world. Drastic? Maybe, but together with crucial improvements in screening, it had the desired result: the blood supply was secured. The amount of donated blood that turns out to be HIV-positive is minute—only one unit in 1.5 million flunks screening. From 1999 through 2012, just six cases of HIV from blood transfusion were reported. Given an estimated 13 to 17 million units of whole blood donated per year, that suggests you have something like a 1 in 35 million chance of becoming infected with HIV from a blood transfusion. Rescinding a lifetime MSM ban would have consequences. One study estimated that if France’s lifetime ban were changed to exclude only MSMs reporting more than one partner in the past year, transfusionrelated HIV cases would increase 370 percent. The French idea, you’ll notice, is that monogamous MSMs (i.e., those with one

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partner in the past year) would be allowed to donate. In contrast, in most U.S. research I’ve seen, the point of comparison to present practice is a hypothetical donation ban for MSMs with any same-sex partners in the past year. In other words, assuming you’re not also into women, you’d have to be celibate. Possibly due to this stricter standard, two U.S. studies have found a one-year ban would result in a lesser increase in transfusion-caused HIV cases: 8 percent in one study, 66 percent in the other. What does that mean in practical terms? Yet another study estimates a one-year ban would result in roughly one additional case of HIV per year in the United States On the face of it, that would seem to make the present lifetime ban difficult to justify. But the change doesn’t amount to much. Insisting on what is, for all intents and purposes, a year of celibacy for MSMs drastically reduces the donor pool. Studies in the United States and Canada have generally found that moving to a 12-month ban would only allow about 1 or 2 percent of MSMs to donate—139,000 potential donors, according to one estimate. Would it make more sense to adopt the French notion of allowing monogamous MSMs to donate with no special restrictions? For the general population, arguably yes. In the United States, the prevalence of HIV among gays is substantially higher than among straights; nonetheless, healthy monogamous gay couples are at no greater risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases than healthy monogamous straight ones. But such a rule wouldn’t make much sense for college students, or for people under 30 generally (I pick this age arbitrarily), for whom monogamy isn’t necessarily the default state. Most would thus still be excluded from donating; of those who aren’t, the one partner they’ve had in the past year might be that wild man they met last week. In short, whatever restrictions short of a lifetime ban one might reasonably adopt for the more settled (read: older) portion of the population, a one-year celibacy requirement (admittedly, when you’re in your early 20s, this might as well be a lifetime) would still be the best policy for young gays. Send questions to Cecil via StraightDope. com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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NEWS Changing the Constitution Don’t go in to the ballot box blind—read about important constitutional amendments here. By Colby Frazier cfrazier@cityweekly.net @colbyfrazierlp From the top of the state to the bottom, there are only a handful of things that every single ballot in the state of Utah will have in common when voters head to the polls Nov. 4. Three of these items are constitutional amendments that, though extremely unsexy, could alter the course of Utah law. The constitutional amendments, classified as Amendment A, B, and C, were approved by the state legislature and placed on the ballot during its last general session. One proposes to alter the political makeup of the Utah State Tax Commission by tossing aside a rule that requires the commission to be made up of Democrats and Republicans. The second aims to alter the term length of an appointed lieutenant governor— which, opponents say, could make it possible for a governor to rise to power and serve for up to three years without ever being voted on by the public. The third amendment aims to allow the office of lieutenant governor, state auditor and state treasurer to hire private legal counsel, to the tune of up to $120,000 per new position. Currently, these offices rely on the Attorney General’s Office for legal advice. None of these amendments have courted controversy, and have generated next to no publicity. As a result, voters might be surprised when, in between selecting judges they will hopefully never meet, they are tasked with crossing out lines and penning some new ones on the state’s constitution. With that in mind, and your voting implement in hand, the following is an overview of the three constitutional amendments that are on the table.

Amendment A The Utah State Tax Commission is a four-member band of folks that administers and supervises Utah’s tax laws. The members are appointed by the governor and approved by the Utah Senate. Current state law requires that no more than two commissioners can belong to the same political party.

POLITICS Since part of the tax commission members’ jobs is to settle tax disputes, supporters of the amendment say their job is no different from that of an actual judge. And where justice is concerned, politics have no place. “The issue has to do with the fact that a tax commissioner’s main role is to adjudicate taxes,” says Sen. Howard Stephenson, R-Draper, who introduced the amendment during the legislative session and has been the president of the Utah Taxpayers Association for the past 26 years. “We don’t currently require a partisan affiliation of judges, and neither should we for tax judges that serve as tax commissioners.” By limiting the pool of qualified tax commission candidates to the political party in which they subscribe, Stephenson says, it has been difficult in the past for the governor and the senate to find qualified candidates. Rep. Joel Briscoe, D-Salt Lake City, wrote the opposition to the amendment in the state voter guide. Briscoe says that the partisan makeup of the commission is an important “check and balance” that should not fall by the wayside. Because Utah’s governors and the vast majority of its state elected leaders are Republicans, he says, the tax commission has historically been handpicked by Republicans. And Briscoe says it’s important that the partisan makeup of the board isn’t too far to either side of the aisle. “This provision has kept and will help keep the tax commission politically neutral, which will benefit and protect the citizens of Utah,” he writes. Briscoe also says that the desire by his Republican colleagues to make the tax commission nonpartisan strays from their contention that most other bodies in the state, like the state school board, for instance, should remain partisan. Charlie Roberts, a spokesman for the tax commission, says the commissioners themselves, two of whom are Democrats and the other two Republican, have not taken a position on the ballot. Nor, he says, did the commission seek out the constitutional amendment. “It works just fine the way it is now, and I’m sure if the voters were to decide otherwise, it might work fine as well,” he says.

Amendment B Constitutional Amendment B would require that the lieutenant governor and governor be elected during the same election year. Current law allows, under certain circumstances, for a lieutenant governor to be elected during a mid-term election, for example, while the governor wouldn’t face election for another two years. In his argument in favor of the amendment, Sen. Stephen Urquhart,

R-St. George, says that as written, state law could allow for a lieutenant governor to serve two years longer than the governor that made the appointment. The amendment, he writes, would require that the lieutenant governor and governor run in tandem. The scenario of governors and their lieutenants vacating office before their terms expire has become a recent issue in Utah. When former Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. vacated his office in 2009, his lieutenant governor, Gary Herbert, rose to the top job. Gov. Herbert then picked his lieutenant governor, and roughly a year later, the two faced an election to finish out the remaining two years of Huntsman’s term. Urquhart says the amendment simply requires that an appointed lieutenant governor face election at the same time as a sitting governor. But Rep. Jim Nielson, R-Bountiful, says this could create a situation where an appointed lieutenant governor could rise to governor and serve for years before facing an election. This scenario could play out if a lieutenant governor stepped down early during a four-year term, the governor then appointed a replacement, followed by an early exit by the governor. The appointed lieutenant governor— having never faced the voters—would then take office.

Amendment C The single year that former Attorney General John Swallow served as the top-ranking law-enforcement officer in the state continues to shake Utah’s legal and political foundations. And so it is with Constitutional

Amendment C, which would allow the offices of lieutenant governor, state auditor and state treasurer to hire private legal counsel. Under current state law, these off ices must rely on the legal advice of the Attorney General’s Office. But in 2013, the lieutenant governor’s office commenced a lengthy investigation into the alleged criminal activities of Swallow and his predecessor, Mark Shurtleff. Although the ballot arguments don’t directly reference the two former attorneys, who have been charged with a combined 21 felonies, it does cite “recent events” that have shown that conflicts of interest can exist when the Attorney General’s Office must provide legal advice to an office investigating it. Opponents, however, say that allowing these offices to retain private legal services is a costly overreach of power. Senate P resident Way ne Niederhauser, R-Sandy, said supporters of the amendment could only point to “rare or hypothetical cases” that would justify retaining private counsel. Niederhauser also says that legal advice from the Attorney General’s Office is supposed to be independent, while private counsel would presumably represent the interests of the politicians who hire them. “Under this proposal, the state would not have better attorneys or better legal advice,” Niederhauser wrote of the amendment, which could cost taxpayers up to $120,000 per position that is created. “It would—for good or ill—have attorneys who are beholden to the personality and agenda of individual politicians.” CW

NEWS Failure to Respond League of Women Voters says candidates’ lack of response to surveys speaks to troubling apathy.

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All the more reason why, Gonnelly says, the organization has been frustrated by would-be public servants’ refusal to help engage with voters by explaining their positions on key issues. For the 2014 guide, Gonnelly says, the organization sent the survey to candidates ranging from Congress and the Legislature to school boards, using the contact information the candidates included in their filing paperwork. The surveys were sent a month in advance of the LW V’s deadline, and the league followed up multiple times with candidates who hadn’t responded. The highest response per party came from Democrats, with 47 out of 80 candidates—58.75 percent—responding. Far fewer Republicans responded—only 21 out of 92, or 22.83 percent. Out of the 10 candidates running unopposed in their elections, only incumbent Rep. Ed Redd, R-Logan, returned a survey. Matt Lyon, the executive director of the Utah State Democratic Party, says there could be a lot of reasons for the low turnout, including how busy the candidates are or how engaged they are in their campaign. “Candidates get a million of these surveys,” Lyon says. “Some they respond to, some they don’t.” The league offers one of the few nonpartisan surveys, but Lyon points out that the state does create an informational pamphlet for voters, for which the state coordinates with party leaders when they have trouble getting responses. Julian Babbitt, the executive director of the Utah Republican Party, likewise wishes the league would send surveys to party leadership. He says that though the party has recently advised candidates from taking part in debates hosted by the leftleaning Alliance for a Better Utah, the party has made no recommendations one way or another regarding the LW V’s survey. Matthew Burbank, a political-science professor at the University of Utah, says candidates may be wary of surveys because of how certain special-interest groups use surveys to try to corner candidates on specific polarizing issues like guns or taxes. These groups, unlike the League, Burbank says, are “not trying to inform voters broadly. What they’re trying to do is identify candidates that agree with them or label them as completely unworthy of voting for.” For Gonnelly, no matter the reason, the end result is that an independent resource like the Leage of Women Voters is hobbled in its mission to introduce candidates to their constituents. “If you don’t engage with your voters, then why should voters go to the polls for you?” Gonnelly says. CW

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Utah has a strong history of voter turnout—well, it did in the 1970s. But recent voter turnout is historic only for how abysmal it is. Even in the 2012 election, when Utah’s chosen son Mitt Romney graced the ballots, only 57 percent of eligible voters made it to the polls. Voter apathy is a major concern for Jenn Gonnelly, co-president of the Utah League of Women Voters, but for her, it’s not quite as troubling as the apathy her organization sees coming from candidates for elected office who can’t be bothered to fill out a simple three-question survey on current events and issues to be included in the league’s free voting guide. Gonnelly feels especially frustrated given that the 94-year-old organization is well-known as a neutral and nonpartisan resource for Utahns, one that has never espoused any specific agenda other than helping educate voters. “We have never supported or opposed any particular candidate,” Gonnelly says. “Our entire mission is making sure people have the information they need to make an educated choice.” But that’s tough, she says, when candidates don’t do their part to fill out a simple survey about three key issues on the minds of Utah voters—air quality, education and health care, in the case of legislative candidates. Out of the 209 candidates the LW V contacted for its 2014 voter’s guide, only 81 responded, or 38.76 percent. Gonnelly says this candidate apathy has been gradually getting worse; 96 out of 222 candidates responded for the 2012 guide, for a 43.24 response rate. The national league’s history dates all the way back to the implementation of women’s suffrage in Utah. The league keeps its name to recognize its legacy, but is open to all U.S. citizens regardless of gender. And while the organization may advocate for issues like poll-place monitoring and against laws restricting voter access, it remains nonpartisan.

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Vote Against Apathy The elections are here, and once again it’s time to take part in the great electoral process of casting your vote for the candidates who will represent your interests, from local school board races all the way to Congress. Later, dive into the subject of public lands at a free lunch forum where Peter Metcalf, CEO and co-founder of Black Diamond Equipment, will discuss Utah’s tourism economy. After work the next day, stop by the Salt Lake County Bicycle Advisory Committee and learn how people can improve bike access in the county and promote harmony and safety among cyclists and motorists.

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Time to get off your apathy and go vote. Even if you don’t like any candidates, you can still go into the booth and write in “none of the above” or draw an elephant humping a donkey—either way, you should vote. And if you forgot to register to vote, Davis, Weber, Kane and Salt Lake County allow you to register on election day. Visit Vote.Utah.gov for candidate info and to find your polling place

Our Public Lands Tuesday, Nov. 4

When it comes to Utah’s vast and beautiful public lands, some believe in fracking everything up. But then there are those like Peter Metcalf, co-founder of Black Diamond Equipment, who are looking to preserve these lands for the recreation enjoyment of future generations. Metcalf will talk about preservation efforts, including the call for President Obama to declare a Greater Canyonlands National Monument, at this free public forum. University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, 332 S. 1400 East, 801581-6833, Nov. 4, 12:15-1:30 p.m., Law. Utah.edu

Salt Lake County Bicycle Advisory Committee Wednesday, Nov. 5

If you’re a believer in the power of the bike to increase communities’ health by keeping citizens pedaling and cars off the road, then you should consider volunteering at the Salt Lake County Bicycle Advisory Committee and learn how to keep bikers safe and improve resources to make communities bikeable and walkable. Salt Lake County Government Center, Room S-1010, 2001 S. State, 385-468-7028, Nov. 5, 5:30 p.m., SLCO.org/Bicycle

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Police got a good look at a burglary suspect who made off with $3,700 in Coral Gables, Fla., even though the man tried to hide his identity by repositioning surveillance cameras toward the office building’s elevators. A large mirror located next to the elevators reflected the man’s image and actions, which the camera recorded. (Miami’s WTVJ-TV)

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n Dylan Robert Stables, 20, attracted the attention of police by driving backward on a highway in Sebastopol, Calif. Stables reportedly told Officer David Harston that his transmission had failed, forcing him to drive north while facing south. After a check showed Stables was on probation, a search of his vehicle found credit cards that turned out to be stolen. (Santa Rosa’s Press-Democrat)

Crisis of the Week Counterfeit prom dresses are harming the U.S. economy, according to Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J. He warned Lev Kubiak, director of the Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, that Chinese manufacturers and websites that sell counterfeit goods directly to U.S. buyers threaten the domestic prom and bridal dress industry and are “ripping off consumers.” (Washington’s The Hill)

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When the Ice Bucket Challenge Isn’t Enough

Responding to reports of a disoriented man in a plastic bubble off the Florida coast asking directions to Bermuda, the crew of a U.S. Coast Guard cutter found Reza Baluchi, 42, who explained he was trying to raise money for needy children by running 3,000 miles inside his inflatable “hydro pod” to trace the Bermuda Triangle. After going only 70 nautical miles in three days, however, he became exhausted and had to be airlifted to the hospital. Following his rescue, Baluchi denied asking for help and said he activated his emergency rescue signal by mistake. “I never quit,” he declared. (The Washington Post)

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Police in West Allis, Wis., accused Konrad Peters, 28, of exposing children to harmful materials by twice throwing dildos from his car while teenage girls were nearby and then lingering to watch their reaction. In a third incident, according to the arrest report, the car stopped about 100 feet in front of two girls walking in an alley, and the driver opened his door and placed an object on the ground that the girls “inspected and found to be a giant purple dildo.” Investigators who identified Peters as the suspect reported finding “33 dildos and multiple sex toys” at his home. (Britain’s Daily Mail)

Inflammability A car at a gas pump in Lake City, Fla., was engulfed in flames while the driver was inside the gas station, according to sheriff’s official Murray Smith. He noted that the car had a lit candle inside. (Jacksonville’s WJAX-TV) Compiled from the press reports by Roland Sweet. Authentication on demand.

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THURSDAY 10.30 Slusser Gallery: Escape from Reality

Every October, Slusser Gallery breaks from its usual fare of plein air contemporary impressionism and contemporary realism for a show where the “real purpose is to have fun,” says owner, director, and curator Mark Slusser. In the past, that has meant shows like Day of the Dead; this October, Slusser hosts Escape From Reality, a series of mind-bending images from some of Salt Lake City’s best artists. Included in the group show are Cody Chamberlain, Craig Cleveland, Rod Heiss, Ti Ku, Randall Lake, Jeffrey Mauger, Christian Michael, Chauncey Secrist, Martin Stensaas, Sunny Strasburg, Sri Whipple and Benjamin Wiemeyer. Although “fun” is the primary aim, the beauty of each of the works is no less astonishing than what you’d find in Slusser’s regular shows, even as they transport viewers to psychological domains not usual for a Slusser show. “These subjects are unusual, surreal and abstract, and do not exist in reality,” Slusser says. “There is nothing else on earth like them, so they have to come from a creative spot in the mind.” Martin Stensaas’ “Lifted Veil III” has an ethereal beauty increased by iridescent paint; a woman in an exotic headdress holds a dragon painted with magnificent graphics, casting an uncanny inner lifelike glow. Sri Whipple’s “Berlin Girl #3” (pictured) causes the viewer to look once, twice and then again, while still remaining confounding. It has porcelain, doll-like pinkish skin, yet also has alien appendages that refuse to reveal themselves in scale and number, while hair erupts into a burst of flora. (Ehren Clark) Escape from Reality @ Slusser Gallery, 447 E. 100 South, 801-532-1956, through Jan. 9, free. SlusserGallery.com

THURSDAY 10.30 Cordell Taylor

Sculptor Cordell Taylor, one of Salt Lake City’s most gifted artists, challenges notions of structure by working in an almost-lost tradition of robust modernist sculpture that is abstract, geometric and aggressive. Each piece is an assertive and compelling construction of linear compositions that, when seen in the round, have seemingly limitless interesting angles, points of view and perspectives that lead the eye in and out, round and about. This is no empty use of design and formulaic placement of sculpted squared and rectangular prisms. Instead, as Taylor’s artist’s statement attests, it “constructs universal relations into personal statements about life, society, and culture.” You can find yourself trapped in a maze of one of Taylor’s sculptures, such as “Geo Met #166” (pictured)—transported by the seemingly ever-so-slightly off-balance bronze squares that are locked into the darker metal square structures behind them, which also seem unstable. And in “Geo-Met Series #121,” you might find yourself exploring two tall bronze square towers, with a grouping of interlocking darker metal cubical structures at the top. Taylor finds a balance with structure and art, as he uses his creativity to express through heavy metal and linear form some of his ideas—to return to his artist’s statement—about “relations” and “life, society and culture.” He seamlessly welds the composite forms of his structure together so that they express some of these more intangible ideas through very tangible works of art. (Ehren Clark) Cordell Taylor @ Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, 801-364-8284, through Nov. 14, free. Phillips-Gallery.com

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An Evening With the Creators of Witness Uganda In Africa—when confronting obstacles such as providing people with a good education, battling homophobia and inequality in race and gender, or even trying to provide basic health care in the face of HIV and Ebola—the first hurdle becomes believing in change. Is it even possible to make that world a better place? More than anything else, Witness Uganda is a musical production that is unflinching when it comes to posing the big questions inspired by such big issues. Created by Griffin Matthews and Matt Gould, the soon-to-be Broadway-bound performance is based on Matthews’ own lifechanging trip to Uganda, and his overwhelming need to help those he left behind upon his return to the states. An Evening With the Creators of Witness Uganda—based on the full-length production, but filled with storytelling about the creation of the work, as well as musical numbers pulled from the stage—is a way to help fund the affiliated nonprofit organization. As Gould sees it, the goal of this tour, beyond sharing the behind-the-scenes story of creating Witness Uganda, is demonstrating how the entire endeavor was designed to “teach, inspire and help.” For these two activists, spreading the word that young artists can actually make a difference is almost more important than helping support this particular cause: You can change the everyday lives of people, you can change the way people think and, ultimately, you can end up changing the world. (Jacob Stringer) An Evening With the Creators of Witness Uganda @ Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435655-3114, Nov. 1, 7:30 p.m., $20-$69. EcclesCenter.org

WEDNESDAY 11.5

Dannielle Owens-Reid & Kristin Russo: This Is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids In 2010, Dannielle Owens-Reid and Kristin Russo launched the organization and accompanying website Everyone Is Gay, with a goal of providing a safe forum for LGBT youth to ask questions and get information. But along the way, they also discovered that the youth themselves weren’t the only ones in need of information; their parents also often felt that they didn’t have a place to deal with revelations about their children that could be confusing or unsettling. This Is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids is as simple and straightforward as its title—a collection of frequently asked questions by parents whose kids may have recently come out to them, or who may simply be loving parents uncertain as to how to proactively address issues of sexual orientation and gender identity. They cover topics including how to handle suspicions that a child may be gay; reassuring and appropriate language for letting kids know you’re supportive; how to process tensions between kids’ shifting identities and the parents’ deeply held religious beliefs; and the nuts and bolts of what specific terminologies mean. But most significantly, they approach these topics with sympathy and compassion, recognizing the emotions that a parent faces in these circumstances without blaming or shaming. It’s a comprehensive resource that’s also a comforting hand on the shoulder, letting parents know they’re not the only ones to have gone through these experiences, and that there are ways to emerge from it with strong, healthy and mutually respectful parent/child relationships. (Scott Renshaw) Dannielle Owens-Reid & Kristin Russo: This Is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids @ University of Utah Social Work Building, Auditorium 134, 395 S. 1500 East, Nov. 5, 7 p.m., free. EveryoneIsGay.com

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Or maybe it’s our two favorite DC heroes in a massive, gritty misunderstanding, battling each other for the incredible nerdpandering grittiness of it all. And although I’d love to see the former, we all know it’s going to be the latter brand of slugfest. Can the blame be laid at the feet of Green Lantern? Maybe, but the executives in charge at Warner Brothers are the bigger culprits. They seem to learn the wrong lessons on a consistent basis. The film didn’t fail because people didn’t want to see jokes in a superhero film—otherwise, no one would see any of the Marvel movies. The film failed because the jokes (and the whole script, for that matter) were terrible. Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies didn’t succeed because of their grittiness; they succeeded because they were Batman films that were written and produced more seriously than Joel Schumacher’s Batman films. I’m still trying to figure out why the hell Man of Steel made money. Whatever the reason, let’s hope DC learns the right lessons from The Flash for a change. Then, maybe going to see DC superhero movies will be fun again. In the meantime, I’ll have my bored yawns at the ready. CW

fter the release of 2011’s abysmal failure of a film Green Lantern, it’s been said that the unofficial motto around the offices of DC Entertainment is, “No jokes.” Whether that was actually said, it’s hard not to assume that the sentiment was taken to heart, if only subconsciously. Both DC Comics-based movies released since that time have been a humorless morass, each one “grittier” than the last. And since we’ve only been given The Dark Knight Rises and Man of Steel during that time, how—and why—in the world do you make a Superman film grittier than Batman? On the television front, we’ve seen The CW’s popular Arrow and Fox’s Gotham. You might find a few chuckles here and there, but otherwise, those two are chock-full of grit. NBC just debuted Constantine, based on a DC Comics character, and from the commercials, it looks equally grim—doubly

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so when you consider the occult-based source material. But DC has finally given us the tiniest breath of fresh air: The CW’s The Flash. That show revolves around a reconfigured version of the hero from Central City, the Scarlet Speedster himself. Here, The Flash’s alter ego, Barry Allen, is played much more like a Peter Parker-t ype character: a down-on-his luck nerd with a dead loved one in his past who motivates his future. In fact, the pilot episode of The Flash is better, more fun and more lighthearted than Marvel’s grit-filled The Amazing Spider-Man 2. It’s engaging and actually funny, and I’m glad its showrunners missed the “no jokes” memo. The angst isn’t front and center, and the grit isn’t getting in anyone’s eyes. Grant Gustin, who plays Barry Allen/The Flash, has an honest, earnest quality that makes him a natural when it comes to having fun yet feeling the pain and anguish when necessary. But the future of DC Comics makes it seem as though this is the exception rather than the rule. DC Entertainment released its slate of planned films that will be coming out over the next six years, and there is nothing in there that screams “Fun!” The next film we’re getting is titled Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. Perhaps it’s an extended episode of The People’s Court with Batman and Superman suing each other in small-claims court.

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SUNDAY 11.2 Light As Air

As the Wasatch Front approaches the winter weather season, those of us who have been here long enough cringe at the prospect of the inversions that turn the Salt Lake Valley into one of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unhealthiest places to breathe. You can help advance the cause of clearing up some of that ugliness through an evening of beauty. Landis Lifestyle Salon and local dancer/teacher/choreographer Leigh Cornu present Light As Air, a program combining fashion and dance, with all proceeds benefitting the Clean Air Utah division of Western Resource Advocates. A VIP dinner will be followed by a cocktail-hour reception, leading in to a performance by dancers from some of Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most talented companies. Ballet West, RirieWoodbury, Transfusion Hype, NOW-ID, Underground Dance, B-Boy Federation and Park City Dance Academy are among those who will take your breath away, all to support our goal of breathing a little easier. (Scott Renshaw) Light As Air @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Nov. 2, VIP dinner 5 p.m., performance 6 p.m., $35-$100. ArtTix.org

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PERFORMING ARTS

Julie Boyden: Beowulf: A Pagan Hero, Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Salt Lake City, 801-328-2586

Dracula: Obsessed and Hating It, Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Draper, 801-572-4144 Little Shop of Horrors, Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-957-3322 Odyssey Dance: Thriller, Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City, 801-581-7100 The Owl Girl, Studio 115, 240 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-581-7100 Rapture, Blister, Burn, Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North, Salt Lake City, 801-363-7522 The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Egyptian Theatre 328 Main, Park City, 435-649-9371 Utah Philharmonia Halloween Concert, Libby Gardner Concert Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City, 801-581-7100 Kit Kat Cabaret, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-2787 Spark, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-2787

FRIDAY 10.31 PERFORMING ARTS Cirque de la Symphonie, Abravanel Hall, 123 S. West Temple, 801-355-2787 Little Shop of Horrors, Grand Theatre Odyssey Dance: Thriller, Kingsbury Hall The Rocky Horror Show: The Live Stage Musical!, Midvale Main Street Theatre, 7711 S. Main, Midvale, 801-566-0596 One Man, Two Guvnors, Pioneer Theatre Company, 400 S. 1300 East, 801-581-6961 Spark, Rose Wagner Center Rapture, Blister, Burn, Salt Lake Acting Company The Owl Girl, Studio 115 Shrek the Musical, Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 855-944-2787

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The Haunted Bride, Draper Historic Theatre Witness Uganda, Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-655-3114 One Man, Two Guvnors, Pioneer Theatre Spark, Rose Wagner Center The Owl Girl, Studio 115 Rapture, Blister, Burn, Salt Lake Acting Company

Literary arts Doug Tims & Phyllis Haskell-Tims: Merciless Eden, The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100 Tyler Whitesides: Janitors 4: Strike of the Sweepers, The King’s English Bookshop Bonnie Glee: Satin Murder, Weller Book Works

SUNDAY 11.2 PERFORMING ARTS Spark, Rose Wagner Center Rapture, Blister, Burn, Salt Lake Acting Company

The Haunted Bride, Draper Historic Theatre One Man, Two Guvnors, Pioneer Theatre

TUESDAY 11.4 PERFORMING ARTS One Man, Two Guvnors, Pioneer Theatre

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Shallee McArthur: The Unhappening of Genesis Lee, Orem Public Library, 58 N. State, Orem, 801-229-7050

WEDNESDAY 11.5 PERFORMING ARTS One Man, Two Guvnors, Pioneer Theatre Rapture, Blister, Burn, Salt Lake Acting Company

Literary ARTS Samuel M. Brown: First Principles and Ordinances, The King’s English Bookshop

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Join us for an evening of dance, creativity, and awareness for Clean Air in Utah. Teaming up with the non-profit organization Western Resource Advocates and working directly with their clean air efforts, we present an evening of celebration with passionate individuals dedicated to and working towards clean air. For one night only, over 50 of the state’s most talented dancers will share the stage, dancing 18 routines – from breakdancing to classical ballet – to address the critical issue of air quality in Utah. Combined with live musical entertainment and involvement of local salons to produce a visually captivating aesthetic, this evening is sure to leave the audience in awe and inspired.

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Differences: A Dialogue, Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, Salt Lake City, 801-3280703, Mondays-Fridays through Nov. 14

WEDNESDAY 11.5 Secrets of the Past, I.J. & Jeanne Wagner Jewish Community Center, 2 North Medical Drive, 801-236-3763

CONTINUING 10.23-10.29 Day of the Dead, Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, 801-965-5100, Mondays-Thursdays through Nov. 6 Between Worlds, Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-2367555, Mondays-Fridays through Nov. 14 Art.Write.Now.Tour, Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801-524-8200, through Nov. 19

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Here, live crawfish (“mudbugs”), along with crabs, shrimp and other seafood, are boiled in huge pots and seasoned, then dumped onto plastic-covered tables for diners’ messy eating pleasure—no plates needed, only lots o’ napkins. First, choose from shrimp, snow crab, Dungeness crab, clams or crawfish. Then, pick your seasoning: Cajun seasoning, garlic butter or lemon pepper. Next, after the cooked seafood arrives at your table in plastic bags, all you have to do is go to work. Along with boiled seafood, Bucket O’ Crawfish offers Cajun chicken wings and fried-seafood baskets, including calamari, shrimp and catfish. The catfish nuggets have a crispy, deep-fried exterior, but are perfectly tender and juicy inside. There is a good beer selection to choose from to accompany your messy Southern meal. 1980 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-4190900, BucketOCrawfish.com

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Visiting Sunrise Bistro feels like stepping into a cafe in the Harvard Yard, Ann Arbor or, perhaps, Berkeley. It has a nice, funky, out-of-Utah vibe. At any rate, the cozy cafe/market is a great lunch stops, with seating inside and out, and most selections available for takeout. The chicken salad is to die for, and the fettuccine Alfredo is always spot-on. No one leaves hungry after ordering one of the generously stuffed sandwiches, all made with bread baked in-house. The Sunrise Breakfast Bowl is a must in the morning, and the scones will make you swoon. 2095 E. 1300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-5824539, SunriseBistro.com

Gourmandise the Bakery

Be warned: Bursting into dessert-inspired song may be a side effect when partaking of the exquisite made-from-scratch pastries, cakes, breads, cookies, cream puffs, éclairs and more from Gourmandise. But by now, Executive Chef Jean-Jacques Grossi and the other masterminds behind these delicacies are probably used to customers expressing their love for European-style sweets through the art of music— just please don’t sing with your mouth full. 250 S. 300 East, Salt Lake City, 801-328-3330, GourmandiseTheBakery.com 12 neiGhBoRhooD loCaTions |

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If you’re bored with just sour cream, butter, chives and Bac-Os on your spuds, then give the loaded potatoes at Brixton’s a try. They come traditionally baked, sliced or smashed, with toppings such as Texas chili, pulled pork, chili verde, Hawaiian barbecue, Thai curry, pot roast and veggies. And yes, you can also get your potato “just baked”—an Idaho russet with butter, sour cream and chives; sorry, no BacOs. 2386 Kiesel Ave., Ogden, 801-827-0222, BrixtonsBakedPotato.com

Jason’s Deli

Jason’s is set up cafeteria-style: Get in line, place your order and pick it up when it’s ready, which is usually quickly. Choose from soup, salads, sandwiches, paninis, wraps, pasta, potatoes and desserts. The sandwich selection alone includes The Papa Joe, the MeataBalla, plus muffalettas, classic favorites and “build-your-owns.” Be sure to try the excellent Reuben. 178 S. Rio Grande Suite 100, Salt Lake City, 801-456-8989; 184 E. Winchester St., Murray, 801-263-1000, JasonsDeli.com

Los Hermanos

Kick off your Los Hermanos meal with one of the extensive selection of Mexican beers or a house specialty drink. Then, enjoy a bowl of chips and salsa before getting into something more substantial like the enchiladas, chimichangas, fajitas, chile rellenos, tacos, smothered burritos, halibut fish tacos and much more. The garden atmosphere adds to the attractive ambiance. 71 E. Center, Provo, 801375-5732; 395 N. State, Lindon, 801-7851715, LosHermanosUtah.com

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Ligori’s Pizza & Pasta attracts a large clientele from nearby Hill Air Force Base looking for good Italian fare at reasonable prices. Popular menu items include cheese bread, garlic bread, hot and cold sandwiches, chicken wings, salads, soups and, as the name implies, pizza and pasta. Customers also rave about the calzones. If you’re hungry but solo, grab a personal 8-inch pizza with as many toppings as you want. Ligori’s also offers delivery service for large parties. 4780 N. Hill Field Road, Layton, 801-476-0476

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Decorated with a painting of the islands and autographed jerseys and photos from all-star Hawaiian football players, Big Sai’s is small and fills up with hungry customers quickly, but you can always get your barbecue to go. Meals come sized either mini or regular, but even the “mini” entrees are hearty. Try the delectable teriyaki beef or chicken, chicken katsu or Kalua pork, or, if you really brought your appetite, order the mixed plate, which includes a grilled short rib, grilled chicken thigh pieces and about a quarter-pound of beef, all topped with a sticky-sweet garlic-spiked teriyaki sauce and served with a small mountain of white rice and an incredible macaroni salad. For dessert, be sure to try the guava cake. 2672 N. Hillfield Road, Layton, 801-774-7247, BigSaisHawaiianBBQ.com

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Birdman sacrifices its solid backstage farce for grand gestures. By Scott Renshaw scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

h, Alejandro González Iñárritu, well-played. You’ve practically made Birdman a dare to critics not to roll their eyes at you. The setup is clear enough: Actor Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton)—a veteran movie star forever linked to the superhero character he brought to the screen more than 20 years earlier—is taking a stab at making himself relevant again. He’s thrown most of what remains of his money at producing a Broadway adaptation of a Raymond Carver story for which he has adapted the script, directed and cast himself as the lead. It may be his last, best opportunity to revitalize his career— and the previews are offering the distinct possibility that the whole enterprise is destined for disaster. This puts Birdman in the fine tradition of classic backstage farce—and at times it’s a hilarious addition to that tradition. When a falling stage light knocks out one of Riggan’s co-stars, he turns to Mike Shiner (Edward Norton)—a gifted but legendarily difficult actor whose girlfriend is another cast member, Lesley (Naomi Watts)—as the replacement. Riggan’s own girlfriend, Laura (Andrea Riseborough), is also part of the cast—and she may be pregnant. Meanwhile, Riggan’s high-strung agent/ attorney (Zach Galifianakis) attempts to keep the production afloat, and Riggan tries to keep an eye on his daughter, Sam (Emma Stone), who’s recently out of rehab and serving as his personal assistant. Iñárritu and his three co-writers—including his Biutiful collaborators Nicolás Giacobone and Armando Bo—get their best material out of the contentious relationship between Riggan and Mike, who come at the inevitable business of artistic insecurity from very different directions. And the filmmakers have fun exploring the radically new nature of contemporary fame, as Riggan finds instantaneous renown

beyond anything a play could provide when he’s locked out of the theater while not fully dressed, and video of him marching through Manhattan in his tighty whities goes viral. But Birdman isn’t content to be a Noises Off! for the social-media age. Anybody who’s seen Iñárritu’s previous films like 21 Grams, Babel and Biutiful knows he has a fondness for the operatic gesture and weaving multiple individual storylines into an attempt to share Big Ideas. He goes big right off the bat with his concept for the visual storytelling of Birdman, so that it appears to be one continuous shot even as it spans the events of several days. It’s a virtuoso trick, but it’s one that seems to exist only to call attention to itself. While part of Birdman’s premise is ultimately redeeming Riggan’s involvement in the uniquely magic-making business of movies—one extended sequence finds him imagining, or perhaps not imagining, an action-movie set piece breaking out all around him, and himself soaring majestically through the skyscraper canyons of the city—the act of looking for the seams in cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki’s 100-minute-plus tracking shot becomes a distraction rather than an enhancement. And then there’s the scene in which Riggan squares off in a bar with the New York Times theater critic (Lindsay Duncan) who has announced her determination to destroy Riggan’s play, sight unseen. While Riggan’s precarious emotional state certainly increases the likelihood that he’d lash out at someone who holds his career in her hands, Iñárritu drags out the moment

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to become something that’s less intrinsic to Riggan’s character and more of an excuse for the filmmaker to rant. Stopping your movie dead to attack critics isn’t exactly the way to show you understand what flourishes can be aesthetically frustrating. The biggest frustration, though, is that Birdman is so often fundamentally entertaining in the moments when it’s not posing to be admired. Keaton’s performance works beyond its wink-and-a-nod to his own Batman history, and there’s even stronger work by Norton and Stone finding their own characters’ vulnerabilities. It’s often funny and crazy and perceptive about the terrifying business of being an actor, even one who has become famous. But there’s a visible strain to be something more profound about capital-A Art, and a dare not to cringe when a man on the street screams the celebrated Macbeth line “… full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” If Riggan can come to terms with the idea that it’s okay for movies just to make people happy, maybe Iñárritu could get to that place, too. CW

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HHH Michael Keaton Edward Norton Emma Stone Rated R

TRY THESE Batman (1989) Jack Nicholson Michael Keaton Rated PG-13

Noises Off! (1992) Carol Burnett Michael Caine Rated PG-13

Babel (2006) Brad Pitt Cate Blanchett Rated R

Biutiful (2010) Javier Bardem Maricel Álvarez Rated R

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

Art and Craft HHH.5 There’s something almost tragic about watching Mark Landis have the only thing that has ever given him pleasure pulled away from him—even if that thing is creating art forgeries. Sam Cullman and Jennifer Grausman profile Landis, who spent nearly 30 years creating fake works by artists from Picasso to Charles Schulz, then giving them away to museums, never seeing a penny for his fraud. The filmmakers get fascinating material as Landis opens up about how he creates his fakes—spilled coffee “ages” wood nicely—in addition to a subplot involving the Javert-like pursuit of Landis by onetime Cincinnati Museum of Art registrar Matthew Leininger. Mostly, though, they just try to understand Landis himself, a diagnosed schizophrenic with more than a slight mother fixation and a propensity for taking life lessons from movie quotes. As the story builds to a museum exhibition showcasing Landis’ own work, it’s heartbreaking to see him come to terms with the possibility that he’s now viewed negatively, after the attention he got from his faux-philanthropy provided a rare lift from a life where “it seldom happened that people were nice to me.” Opens Oct. 31 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—Scott Renshaw

Saw [not reviewed] 10th anniversary re-release of the original horror franchiselauncher. Opens Oct. 31 at theaters valleywide. (R)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS Lady Valor At Sorenson Unity Center, Nov. 3, 7 p.m. (NR) M At Tower Theatre, Nov. 3, 7 p.m. (NR) Pulp Fiction At Brewvies, Nov. 3, 10 p.m. (R) The Rocky Horror Picture Show At Tower Theatre, Oct. 31, 11 p.m. (R) To Be Takei At Park City Film Series, Oct. 31 – Nov.1 @ 8 p.m. & Nov. 2 @ 6 p.m. (NR) When I Walk At Rose Wagner Center, Nov. 5, 7 p.m. (NR)

Dear White People HHH College is a perfect setting for a movie that’s less a social satire than a character study about figuring out who you are. It focuses on four black students—firebrand Sam (Tessa Thompson), gay aspiring journalist Lionel (Tyler James Williams), high achiever Troy (Brandon P. Bell) and imageconscious Coco (Teyonah Paris)—dealing with racial tensions at a fictional upper-crust university. Writer/director Justin Simien drops in funny, pointed barbs at targets from reality TV to Tyler Perry, helping distract from clumsy editing and broadly-drawn supporting characters. But he smartly explores the struggles of black youth to reconcile the way they see themselves with the way they know others see them. It’s not so much funny or angry as deeply frustrated, staring at a society that gives these characters few choices about who they can be, then attacks every one of those choices. (R)—SR

The Best of Me HH There’s no man like a Nicholas Sparks man, who can work on an oil rig while pleasure-reading Stephen Hawking. The latest Sparks adaptation casts James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan as Dawson and Amanda, 39-year-old once-lovers reunited by the death of a mutual friend 21 years after their romance as teenagers (Luke Bracey and Liana Liberato) clearly came to an unfortunate end. There’s certainly a primal effectiveness to Sparks’ formula, and director Michael Hoffman finds some solid intimate moments to make the most of his cast. But eventually we’re going to hit Sparks’ trademark melodramatic third-act plot points, involving stuff that just leaves one’s mouth agape that he’s not playing it for laughs. Perhaps it’s foolish to expect anything remotely real from this guy, as his Emotionally Wounded Beefcake Dream Boys feed his audience a romantic life they’ll never actually find. (PG-13)—SR

Fury HH.5 At the outset, it feels like a pretty bold approach to a brothersin-arms soldier story, introducing an American tank crew in 1945 Germany—led by Sgt. “Wardaddy” Collier (Brad Pitt)— that seems barely able to stand one another. But eventually, it becomes very recognizably a David Ayer movie, despite not being in the same genre as Ayer’s previous, modern-day-set cop stories. Ayer focuses on men who—sometimes reluctantly— have to trust one another with their lives, and while he can create viscerally intense moments, he too rarely finds reality in his characters. The two hours of high-tension, high-violence wartime action will feel plenty potent to many viewers, as Ayer goes about the business of reminding us that war is hell. If you’re familiar with his work, though, you’ll know that the point he keeps making is that everything is hell. (R)—SR

23 Blast HH There’s a perfectly solid inspirational sports-movie hook at the center of this fact-based story of Travis Freeman (Mark Hapka), a talented Kentucky high-school football prospect who loses his sight to meningitis, then gets a shot at re-joining his team during his senior year. The first-time direction by actor Dylan Baker (who also plays Travis’s father) hits all the necessary genre beats, and finds a few solid performance moments amidst the melodrama and the Villainous Administrator and Jerky Sports Dad types. But there’s a sad lack of energy, as though it were presumed to be enough to meander along pleasantly through the fields of uplift, and make the role of faith pretty much an afterthought aside from the cameo appearance by the real Freeman as a preacher. Go all in on your zeal, or get thee from my sight. (PG)—SR

The Book of Life HHH.5 Director/co-writer Jorge Gutierrez (who also co-wrote) seems intent on making the definitive movie—delightful visually and aurally—that will be on TV every year come Day of the Dead. And while it’s impossible to say what the future of TV programming will bring, the movie itself is good enough—and good-natured enough—to be so immortalized. The storytelling is elegantly simple and easy to follow even, though some of the jokes are a little off-color for really young ones. For the grownups, there’s the wildly elaborate animation and inspired choice of songs, both covers and originals, and the sublime sincerity and engagement of the voice acting (including Diego Luna, Zoe Saldana and the endlessly surprising Channing Tatum). Even with the bounty of excellent animated films in recent years, this one ranks among the elite, a sparkling bit of entertainment. (PG)—Danny Bowes

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The Good Lie HH.5 Movies inspired by true stories often prove reluctant to break out of the established glossy framework. Based on The Lost Boys of Sudan, this emphatically earnest film follows four children who make the thousand-mile trek to Kenya after their village is destroyed. When they finally make it to America after years in a refugee camp, they begin the process of settling into Kansas City, while also attempting to reunite with their fourth member, sent to Boston; as a KC job counselor, Reese Witherspoon has a smaller part than her giant floating head on the movie’s poster would suggest. Director Philippe Falardeau (Monsieur Lazhar) fashions a scary/beautiful atmosphere during the early African sequences, but settles into heartstring-twanging predictability as the story progresses. Thankfully, the central performers—several of whom share histories with their characters—provide an authenticity that often belies the narrative’s persistent tendency to flatten them out into 2-D symbols. Their presence

Nightcrawler HHH.5 At first it feels a bit like a 21st-century revisiting of Network by way of American Psycho, but writer/director Dan Gilroy actually has bigger targets in his sights—sporadically to his detriment, but mostly to his credit. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Louis Bloom, a small-time hustler in Los Angeles who stumbles upon what may be the perfect occupation for someone of his, er, particular moral fiber: a freelance videographer capturing true-crime and accident footage to sell to local news stations, who isn’t afraid to cross certain lines to get the good stuff. Gilroy goes for the throat in his portrayal of a desperate news director (Rene Russo) who becomes dependent on Louis’ sensational content to help boost ratings, and at times he pushes too obviously at the media’s willingness to play on white suburban fears. But he’s even more interested in the pathology of corporate thinking, brilliantly using Gyllenhaal’s creepy performance as a sociopath adept at parroting personalempowerment jargon and turning every interaction into a transaction. Beyond observing what a bottom-line mentality does to journalism, Gilroy’s manages a dark dissection of what that same mentality does to basic humanity. Opens Oct. 31 at theaters valleywide. (R)—SR

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Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) HHH See review p. 24. Opens Oct. 31 at Broadway Centre Cinemas and Century 16 Cinemas. (R)

can’t wholly eliminate the eat-your-vegetables sheen, but they dial it back to manageable levels. Opens Oct. 31 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)—Andrew Wright

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Before I Go to Sleep H.5 Ten years ago, Christine (Nicole Kidman) was left with a weird amnesia: Every morning, she has to relearn that the strange man in her bed (Colin Firth) is actually her husband. She can’t hold a job, and all of her friends have abandoned her, he explains, which is why she would be alone if not for his faithful devotion. But can she trust him? Director/screenwriter Rowan Joffe ensures that Christine’s life is a pattern of extreme creepiness, a disturbing analogy for the isolation and dependence that an abusive relationship can entail for women. The suspense comes in how we don’t know if we can trust Ben, either, but we want to; Firth is very poignant as a man suffering in a way we can only begin to imagine. In the end, though, the story’s flimsy justifications collapse, and Christine morphs from a survivor to a victim as the film morphs from that stylish thriller to a cheap Lifetime melodrama. Opens Oct. 31 at theaters valleywide. (R)—MaryAnn Johanson

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Gone Girl HHH.5 Right from the opening credits, director David Fincher turns his adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best-selling novel into the cinematic equivalent of a compulsive page-turner. Ben Affleck stars as Nick Dunne, who returns home from work to find his wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), missing, with evidence of a struggle in the house. But is Nick a worried husband, or a calculating murderer? The pirouettes and reversals in Flynn’s narrative keep our sense of these characters unsteady, while Fincher and company nail the media and public insta-reactions that boil around a high-profile true-crime case. Gone Girl may cast an even more cynical eye on the disintegration of a marriage, and it’s somewhat less effective on that topic. Yet Fincher ultimately has a way of making dark material irresistible. Once you start flipping through these pages, it’s awfully hard to stop. (R)—SR John Wick HHH.5 There’s a brilliant moment when Russian mob kingpin Viggo (Michael Nyqvist)—upon learning that his son, Iosef (Alfie Allen) made the huge mistake of killing the dog of the titular retired legendary killing machine (Keanu Reeves)—simply responds, with a sigh of resignation, “Oh.” That kind of wonderfully efficient storytelling fills this rich underworld of gold-coin exchanges, businesslike post-homicide cleaners and hotels where it’s understood you just don’t “do business.” And while there’s plenty of brutal one-man-taking-ondozens action—tightly directed by veteran stunt guy Chad Stahelski—making effective use of Reeves’ taciturn screen presence, it’s actually more interesting when it’s not pure action spectacle. This is a revenge tale dense with the world

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The Judge HH.5 In many ways, it’s a steaming, overstuffed mess—and then there’s that thing where watching two great actors wrestle with a complex relationship makes parts of it hard to resist. Hot-shot Chicago defense attorney Hank Palmer (Robert Downey Jr.) returns to his Indiana hometown for his mother’s funeral, only to find that his estranged father, Joseph (Robert Duvall), a respected local judge, is facing a murder charge. The fact that it works at all is almost entirely thanks to Downey and Duvall, who are terrific when they get a chance to work their surprisingly edgy dynamic. But the story wanders through too many subplots over nearly two and a half hours, and builds to a predictably overwrought courtroom finale. In your brain, you know how ridiculous it is. And in your gut, it might still work a little bit anyway. (R)—SR

Ouija HH.5 Considering its origins in the primordial ooze of marketing, Ouija is a perfectly serviceable horror film. Debut director/ visual effects veteran Stiles White displays a sharp, articulate visual sense; indeed, most of the movie, with the ironic exception of the actual scary stuff, looks terrific. The young cast upholds the time-honored horror tradition of being pretty, but then actually acts effectively. But the writing—with one clever, spoiler exception—requires some astonishingly stupid fate-tempting by its protagonists, who otherwise demonstrate an intuitive efficiency that would impress Sherlock Holmes.

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e’re creatures of habit: going to work at the same time, along the same route. Cooking up meals from the small arsenal of tried-and-true recipes that everyone at the table is willing to consume. Or, heading to one of a handful of restaurants we’ve been to dozens of times before, and ordering the same thing as last time and the time before that. But it doesn’t have to be that way. This year for our annual Dining Guide, we decided to put together a dining “bucket list”—a foodfocused version of those “10 million books you should read before you die” lists. It’s not a new concept, but this one is actually within your reach. We asked local folks to help compile a list of 50 dishes and drinks that Utahns (or visitors) should consume before they shuffle off this mortal coil (or simply shuffle off to a different state). The list ranges from simple fast-food shakes to multicourse meals, and you’ll have plenty to eat your way through for the next year—and beyond. Food critic Ted Scheffler also provides a list of handy tips that’ll improve your relationship with your kitchen so that you can dive into the unexplored pages of your cookbooks without fear. He also rounds up a few warming cocktails served at restaurants and bars around the state— winter is coming, after all. And lest you think local chefs spend all their days in the kitchen, we also profiled three food stars and what they get up to when they’re not in their chefs whites. Despite their demanding careers, they’re not in any kind of lifestyle rut. So, follow their example, and let this guide lead you to new food discoveries.

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Bucket List

fancy tacos & fine tequilas

dishes and drinks you must consume while in Utah By Rebecca Frost & Nathan Turner

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e’ve all had them: dining experiences so wonderful that they inspire us—even before the plate is empty—to start thinking of all the people we have to tell about them, lest they miss out on the deliciousness. We asked Utah notables in the arts, publishing and, yes, the restaurant biz to share with our readers the local meals on their dining “bucket list”: the food they just can’t get enough of, and believe everyone should try before they die. Next time you’re scratching your head, wondering where to go for the next meal you won’t forget, just use this list.

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Brad Roll

Tona Sushi

For sushi lovers who like their rolls to bring the heat, this one combines spicy tuna, avocado and cucumber fried with panko (a Japanese-style breadcrumb). The Brad roll, topped with Sriracha and Japanese mayo, is named after Brad Wheeler himself. 210 E. 2500 South, Ogden, 801-622-8662, TonaRestaurant.com

Deep-fried Funeral Potatoes

The Garage

The dish, plucked from Mormon culture, is made from the traditional sliced potatoes (topped with scallions, bacon and cheese), which are then rolled in a cornflake crust and “baptized in hot oil” to create cheesy potato balls. Dip them in ranch dressing and be converted. 1199 Beck St., Salt Lake City, 801-5213904, GarageOnBeck.com

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BRAD WHEELER

Known for his deep voice, signature hat and larger-than-life personality, DJ Bad Brad Wheeler guides listeners of KRCL 90.9 FM through the end of the workday with his Drive Time playlist, featuring blues, Americana and rock.

Birthday Suit

Uinta Brewing Co.

Since 2012, Uinta has celebrated its birthday and successful years of brewing by creating a new, limitededition Birthday Suit beer to add to its Crooked Line of 22-ounce high-point bottled beers, with labels created by local artists. This year’s release, Sour Farmhouse Ale, keeps the sour theme found in the first two Birthday Suit beers, with notes of spice, tartness and citrus, and comes in at 6.3 percent alcohol by volume. 1722 S. Fremont Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-467-0909, UintaBrewing.com

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ANGELA BROWN

Angela Brown has been the editor of SLUG Magazine since 2000. In conjunction with running a magazine covering everything “underground” in Salt Lake City, she is also the executive director of Craft Lake City, a local festival that she launched in 2009.

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Steak Salad

Mushroom Stroganoff

Sage’s Cafe

Means is quick to praise this pasta’s sauce. “Tofu gets a bad rap as being bland, but this recipe gives it a kick—and the sauce is so creamy, you might not believe it’s vegan.” The dish replaces beef with mushrooms and is made with sherry, tofu sour cream, garlic, roasted peppers and caramelized onions. 234 W. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-322-3790, SagesCafe.com

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jalapeño sauce may seem sacrilegious, but, Wheeler says, the jalapeño sauce at Moochie’s is made to be drizzled on everything—including the fries. 232 E. 800 South, Salt Lake City, 801596-1350; 7725 S. State, Midvale, 801-562-1500, MoochiesMeatballs.com

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Miner’s Dawn

Shooting Star Saloon

The Shooting Star Saloon in Huntsville, which Wheeler says is the “oldest bar west of the Mississippi,” is known for its epic Star burger. Meat upon meat upon meat, the Star burger consists of two hamburger patties, Polish knockwurst, cheese and onions, and has gotten nothing but rave reviews. 7350 E. 200 South, Huntsville, 801-745-2002, ShootingStarSaloon.co

Meatball Sub With Jalapeño Sauce

Moochie’s

Each meatball is a third of a pound, covered with Moochie’s own marinara sauce and topped with provolone cheese. Mixing a classic meatball sub with

“Hands down, the best steak salad on any menu in town,” Brown says. The Tin Angel’s version is composed of organic greens, fingerling potatoes, blue-cheese chunks, roasted mushrooms with various in-season veggies, and mediumrare steak with housemade asparagus vinaigrette. “Once, I ordered this twice in one day—for lunch and dinner,” Brown says. 365 W. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801-328-4155, TheTinAngel.com

Sean Means

Film critic, columnist and vegetarian Sean Means has been contributing to The Salt Lake Tribune for 21 years, and can also be heard Thursday mornings on X96’s Radio From Hell talking about new movie releases.

Star Burger

The Tin Angel

The Eating Establishment

Sometimes, simplicity is all you need for a fulfilling breakfast. The Miner’s Dawn breakfast at The Eating Establishment takes seasoned potatoes and melted cheddar cheese, then tops them with basted eggs and serves it all up in a skillet with toast. “Breakfast doesn’t get any heartier,” Means says. 317 Main, Park City, 435-649-8284, TheEatingEstablishment.net

Oreo Shake

Arctic Circle

Thick, creamy, above-the-rim and topped with crushed Oreos, this shake is a classic dessert. “Not everything has to be fancy,” Means says. “It just has to be good.” Multiple locations, ACBurger.com

Taco of the Day

Luna Blanca Taqueria

Luna Blanca Taqueria has a delicious array of tacos on its menu, including crispy roasted carnitas and braised chicken with avocado crema cilantro, but the chef also always has two Mexi-fusion taco-of-the-day specials, one for meat eaters and one for vegetarians. “They’re both amazing,” Brown says. 3158 E. 6200 South, Holladay, 801-944-5862, LunaBlancaTaco.com

Brussels Sprouts

Eva

If done right, even picky eaters will enjoy sauteed Brussels sprouts. “My boyfriend thought he hated Brussels sprouts until he had these,” Brown says. “A must-order with every visit!” 317 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-359-8447, EvaSLC.com

NADIA CROW

Tune in daily to the news on ABC 4 and you’ll find Nadia Crow, the station’s first and only black reporter. Crow, a news anchor since 2010, has been delivering the news and reporting on breaking events in Utah since 2013.

Steak Burger

Smokin Bones BBQ

Crow insists the best barbecue is at Smokin Bones BBQ in Bountiful, but you shouldn’t go in just for the barbecue. “My mouth is watering just thinking about

this delicious and devilish sandwich full of heavenly goodness,” Crow says. The giant burger features never-frozen seasoned meat, topped with cheese and pork, and is especially excellent when paired with any of Smokin Bones’ housemade side dishes. 364 S. 200 West, Bountiful, 801-2981687, SmokinBonesBBQUt.com

Chorizo Con Huevos

Left Fork Grill

This restaurant is known for its pies, but Crow doesn’t want you to forget the most important meal of the day: breakfast. “Don’t skip out on the well-seasoned chorizo with perfectly spicy potatoes to begin your day,” she says. “This meal suits the spice kings out there, as well as those who just enjoy a little pick-me-up.” 68 W. 3900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-266-4322, LeftForkGrill.ipower.com

KEN SANDERS

Quattro Formaggi

Settebello

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Tucked below the humble Bodega on Main Street, The Rest is a swanky speakeasy-style restaurant, with an attractive library-style lounge. It’s where Sanders likes to order one of The Rest’s “handcrafted cocktails, something with bourbon in it, but not too sweet. They also have a variety of appetizers to nosh on and absorb the booze.” 331 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-532-4452, Bodega331.com

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Settebello’s specialty is truly authentic, certified Neapolitan-style thin-crust pizza, “served piping-hot out of their giant wood-fired oven,” says Sanders, who likes the Quattro Formaggi “with different toppings on each slice, especially sausage, mushrooms, pine nuts and pepperoni.” 260 S. 200 West, Salt Lake City, 801-322-3556, Settebello.net

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The owner of Ken Sanders Rare Books says he likes “food and drink about as much as I like books,” and adds that asking him to name just five dishes is “as unfair as asking me to name my five favorite books, or authors. Salt Lake City appears to be at the beginning of a culinary Renaissance, which makes it even harder to choose my favorites.”

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Sesame Chicken Wrap

Les Madeleines

Think of it as chicken salad with a twist: chicken, sesame mayo, cilantro, scallions and sesame seeds, all packed inside a roll of butter lettuce and a rice wrapper. The wrap is served with miso dipping sauce and edamame, and Brown suggests pairing it with espresso and an item from the bakery’s French pastry case. 216 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-2294, Les-Madeleines.com

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MARK EATON

After retiring from the Utah Jazz in 1993, the 7-foot-4 defensive powerhouse decided that “this is the place to raise my family. I love the outdoors, which makes Utah the perfect place for me.” Eaton now works as a motivational speaker and is a partner in Tuscany and Franck’s restaurants, and says he tries “to get up to Deer Valley ski resort every morning I can when I’m in town.”

Epic Brewery

Epic’s attitude is what Eaton says draws him to the brewery, which specializes in high-point beers. “They are known for their innovation, which is probably why they consistently put out great beer,” Eaton says. He says the Spiral Jetty is “a great Indian Ale with a Utah twist,” and has “a great hoppy flavor with a bit of citrus and pine and a nice malt.” 825 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-906-0123, EpicBrewing.com

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Cold Brew

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For fellow fans of no-frills, high-quality coffee, Pham recommends Publik, which “roasts their own beans overnight for the cold brew.” Pham often pairs one of Publik’s open-face sandwiches with a cup, but that’s it: “I prefer no sugar or cream in good coffee like this, just simple black coffee.” 975 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-355-3161; 638 Park Ave., Park City, PublikCoffee.com

JAMES DASHNER

Author and South Jordan resident James Dashner wrote the best-selling novel The Maze Runner, which was the basis for this year’s hit film of the same name, to be followed next year by the adaptation of its sequel, The Scorch Trials. His other books include The Eye of Minds and the 13th Reality series.

Whiskey or Vodka Cocktail

High West Distillery

It’s difficult to pick a favorite cocktail from High West Distillery’s extensive drink menu, so Crow recommends several trips. “The history you’ll find here at Utah’s first distillery is only second to the delicious cocktails mixed with the whiskey and vodka made there,” Crow says. 703 Park Ave., Park City, 435-6498300, HighWest.com

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VIET PHAM

Viet Pham started Forage restaurant with Bowman Brown in 2009. He’s still a co-owner of the award-winning restaurant, though he’s no longer co-chef. Instead, he’s been featured on several TV shows such as Iron Chef America and Food Network Star, and will soon be opening a second restaurant in Salt Lake City called Ember + Ash.

Garlic Burger Sashimi With Truffle Oil

Takashi

The Cotton Bottom Inn

Small Plates

Faustina

Early in 2014, Faustina revamped its menu, adding a bevy of small-plate offerings, ranging from mixed olives to a chicken pillow pastry (stuffed with chicken, cranberry, sage and pine nuts, and served on soft polenta with a balsamic drizzle) and filet au poivre. Dashner says that there are “too many good ones to mention, but take a group and share away,” and recommends dining on the outdoor patio if it’s warm enough. “I love this place!” 454 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-746-4441, FaustinaSLC.com

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Tony Burger

Tony Burger is “easily my favorite hamburger of all the local chains,” Dashner says. The Big Tony is a third of a pound of beef—a top-secret “tri-beef” blend of different cuts of beef that makes for a particularly juicy burger. Dashner customizes his with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, grilled onions, pickles, jalapeños (“the jalapeños are a must,” he says) and Tony Sauce. “And their fries are fantastic, too.” Multiple locations, TonyBurgers.com

Though he recommends Takashi in general for its “incredible food” and notes that the chefs are “very innovative with their meals,” Eaton singles out the sashimi with truffle oil as his “favorite meal. I mean, it’s sashimi with truffle oil; what more can you say?” 18 W. Market St., Salt Lake City, 801-519-9595

“I’m not a big-time burger connoisseur, but I like a good burger done well—like, a burger that will dislocate your jaw with each bite,” Pham says. The garlic burger at The Cotton Bottom Inn nails the ratio between meat and bun, he says: “It’s just two patties and the perfect amount of garlic, without it being overwhelming.” 6200 S. Holladay Blvd., Holladay, 801-273-9830, CottonBottomInn.com

Kobe Burger

Vieux Carre

Chicken Curry & Garlic Naan

When Eaton’s on the run, Red Rock’s Kobe burger is his go-to meal. “It’s some of the tenderest beef,” he says, and has an “incredible sauce that makes it even better. Honestly, it just melts in your mouth.” Multiple locations, RedRockBrewing.com

Pham loves all the craft cocktails at Bar-X, but the sweet, strong Vieux Carre—made with rye whiskey, cognac and sweet vermouth—is “by far my favorite,” he says. 155 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-2287, BarXSaltLake.com

Launched in Provo in 1993 as one of the first Indian restaurants in the state, Bombay House has since expanded to three locations and continually updates its menu to satisfy the cravings of its

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Carnitas With Chile Verde

Red Iguana

A Salt Lake City favorite, Red Iguana has “an expansive menu with no bad choices, but I always end up with the mole sampler with chips, and the carnitas with a side dish of chile verde that I then smother the carnitas with,” Sanders says. He also makes sure to order “margaritas or Negra Modelo cerveza to wash it all down.” 736 W. North Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-322-1489, RedIguana.com

devotees. “Sometimes I get a major hankering for Indian food, and no one beats the Bombay House,” says Dashner, who can’t resist the traditional chicken curry—boneless chicken cooked with onions, garlic, ginger, tomatoes and curry spices—and bubbly oven-baked flatbread with a touch of garlic. Multiple locations, BombayHouse.com

Chicken Shawarma Platter

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Seafood Buffet, Deer Valley Resort

Mazza

Dashner goes big with the shawarma platter: thinly sliced marinated chicken breast, seasoned with garlic spread, tahini, fresh greens and Armenian pickles, all served over hummus with two pitas and a side of Lebanese salad. The author prefers Mazza’s 15th & 15th location, which is “located right next to one of the best bookstores in the country, The King’s English, so you can imagine I go here a lot,” he says. “I get the exact same thing every time because I love it so much. When he’s lucky enough to visit me, my agent loves it, too!” 912 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-521-4572; 1515 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-4849259, MazzaCafe.com

HEATHER MAY

A longtime award-winning Utah journalist, Heather May is the managing editor of City Weekly’s sister magazine, Devour Utah, a new quarterly magazine from Copperfield Publishing that focuses on local food and drink. May’s picks are in her own words, and she notes that they’re “in no particular order.”

The milk-chocolate cremoso (a pudding-like dish) with caramel-corn cream tastes like Cracker Jack, but it’s served in a cocktail glass with whiskeysmoked sugar coating the rim, making it much more sophisticated. 2250 Deer Valley Drive South, Park City, 435-645-6632, DeerValley.com

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Forage

The nature-based menu at this pricey Salt Lake City restaurant is ever changing with the season and what Chef Bowman Brown can find on his foraging trips, so I can’t recommend one specific item. But you are sure to be wowed if you can muster the $89 tasting menu, which will earn you at least a dozen delicious and inventive dishes. This guy can transform paperythin Siberian elm seedpods into ice cream. You should experience for yourself the reasons that this restaurant helped put Utah on the national foodie map, so start saving. 370 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-708-7834, ForageRestaurant.com

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Coconut Fried Chicken

Franck’s

Eaton’s choice here is a slam-dunk, as he’s a partner in the restaurant, but he insists that Franck’s fried chicken “might be the best fried chicken I’ve ever had in my life.” The chicken is cooked in peanut oil, for what Eaton calls the “perfect combo of sweetness and tenderness.” 6263 S. Holladay Blvd., Holladay, 801-274-6264, FrancksFood.com

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Panko-fried Tofu Slider or Taco

The Chow Truck

Utah’s pioneer in mobile food, SuAn Chow also dishes up calamari, beef, pork and chicken on either a bun, corn tortilla or a bed of romaine and Asian slaw. But I, and my vegetarian husband, prefer the large wedge of crunchy tofu glazed with sambal hot sauce topped with more spice from the cilantro-chile pesto. Location varies, ChowTruck.com

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Naked Fish Bistro

Pham recommends that “adventurous eaters” dine omakase style and put their fates in the hands of Naked Fish’s chefs. “A lot of their fish comes from Japan,” he says, and they’re “the only restaurant in Utah that imports Japanese beef. They get Nueske beef, which is just amazing. It’s so juicy that you feel like it’s just gushing with flavor.” 67 W. 100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-595-8888, NakedFishBistro.com

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Chicken Marsala

Stoneground

This cozy second-story restaurant facing the Salt Lake City Main Library features local art on the walls and Italian favorites—including the rave-worthy Marsala chicken, which Steggell describes simply as “the way Marsala should be.” The tender, pan-fried chicken breast is coated with a portobello Marsala sauce and served on a bed of linguine with seasonal vegetables. 249 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801-364-1368, StonegroundSLC.com

Saturday’s Waffle Tiramisu Cake

Gourmandise

Yes, you can have your favorite Italian dessert and eat it in cake form, too. The pastry masterminds at Gourmandise soak white cake, chocolate cake and ladyfingers in espresso, then layer them with mascarpone cream and whipped cream. That’s all surrounded by ladyfingers, then dusted with cocoa powder and chocolate shavings for the ultimate decadent, caffeinated confection—approved by the cookie queen herself. “What can I say? They do tiramisu well,” Steggell says. “In fact, they do everything really well.” 250 S. 300 East, Salt Lake City, 801-328-3330 GourmandiseTheBakery.com

Hollywood Roll & Agadashi Tofu

Dan’s Parking Lot, Saturdays

Waffles are a weekend tradition in Olympus Cove, where a tiny Shasta trailer can be found every Saturday in the Dan’s parking lot, serving up dense, crispy Liege-style waffles. Steggell and others come to chat with neighbors and chow down on the infinite possibilities at Saturday’s Waffle, which offers a variety of sweet and savory toppings for a classic breakfast (e.g., strawberries, whipped cream), savory brunch (eggs, bacon, Hollandaise sauce) or even a morning dessert (peanut butter sauce, candied pecans). They “warm your heart and soul from the inside out,” Steggell says. 3981 S. Wasatch Blvd., Salt Lake City, SaturdaysWaffle.com

Akasaka Sushi

A flavor-packed expansion of the classic California roll (cucumber, crab, avocado), Akasaka’s Hollywood roll adds fresh salmon, thinly sliced lemons and orange tobiko (fish eggs); Steggell says it’s “the most refreshing sushi in Utah.” She also recommends Akasaka’s agadashi tofu: golden-brown cubes of tofu served in hot tentsuyu broth made of dashi, mirin and shoyu (a Japanese soy sauce), all topped with finely chopped negi spring onion and grated katsuobushi (dried bonito flakes) that “dance at you in the heat of the broth,” Steggell says. 3011 E. 3300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-485-5257, NewAkasakaRestaurant.com

CRISTIANO CREMINELLI Cristiano Creminelli has been curing meats since he was a teenager in Italy, and brought his Italian-style meats and sausages to America in 2006. Creminelli Fine Meats is headquartered in Salt Lake City, but its Italian roots date back to the 1600s, according to family legend.

Pizza & Gelato

Vinto

Creminelli recommends the pizzas at this modern-yetcasual Italian restaurant. The wood-fired pizzas include options like the Florentine (with spinach, artichoke hearts and garlic), patate (sliced potato, fontina and goat cheese, with white truffle oil) or the classic

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Dashner gravitates toward the traditional sausage and sour cabbage at this downtown German deli/lunch spot, and makes sure to get fried potatoes on the side. “I’m not an expert on German food,” Dashner says, “but this has to be my favorite getaway meal in the city. I relish each and every bite.” 20 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-3891

Margherita. Take Creminelli’s advice and end your meal with all-natural housemade gelato. 418 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-539-9999; 900 Main, Park City, 435-615-9990, Vinto.com

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Wisconsin native Tom Kelly, chief spokesman for the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association, moved to Utah in 1988 for the mountains, but fell in love with the desert. When he’s not traveling the world with the U.S. Ski Team, he enjoys cooking, photographing Utah’s landscapes and putting the Jeep into four-wheel drive to cruise up the slickrock face of Moab’s Hell’s Revenge trail.

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teas that are quite different from each other but bring out each other’s flavors. “Sitting on the front porch of Salt Lake’s new Tea Zaanti with a Himalayan Sunrise is a wonderfully relaxing experience,” Kelly says. 1324 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-906-8132, TeaZaanti.com

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Kelly says you have to travel to Park City’s El Chubasco for these “big-asyour-head” burritos. “What makes it really special is the salsa bar with more than a dozen specialties, including my favorite—the spicy, creamy chipotle.” 1890 Bonanza Drive, Suite 115, Park City, 435-645-9114, ElChubascoMexicanGrill.com

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“I rarely order salads in restaurants, because part of me always thinks, ‘Well, I could make that at home,’ though of course I never do,” Piper says. “But this salad is an exception—a filling, tangy-yet-refreshing dish that I crave on a weekly basis.” Cilantro-lime dressing and wasabi aioli give a kick to the tender tilapia, which rests atop layers of queso fresco, pico de gallo, quinoa, avocado and fresh spinach. Piper says she usually orders a pint of whatever seasonal or limited offering is on tap, but always goes back to Full Suspension pale ale. “When I began exploring ‘real’ beer instead of PBR, Full Suspension was the first beer that made me realize that beer is good,” Piper says. “I owe my affinity for pale ales and IPAs to Full Suspension.” Multiple locations, Squatters.com

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Editor and writer Rachel Piper grew up an extremely picky eater, and subsisted on dry cereal, microwave burritos and Chef Boyardee during her youth. She eventually grew out of her distaste for most foods and says one of her favorite parts of working at City Weekly is discovering new local restaurants and ethnic dishes.

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“Whenever I see ginger ale or ginger beer listed as an ingredient in a cocktail, I can’t resist,” Piper says. “I’d never had Pimm’s—a fruity, spicy, gin-based spirit—before seeing it on Whiskey Street’s menu, but it’s been a hugely popular summer staple in England for years.” The Pimm’s Cup is a refreshing mix of Pimm’s No. 1, ginger beer, a cucumber slice and a citrus garnish. Piper says a can’tmiss Utah experience is an afternoon or evening exploring Whiskey Street’s list of well-made classic and contemporary cocktails while noshing on Whiskey Street’s truffle fries. 323 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-433-1371, WhiskeyStreet.com

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The carbonara and stroganoff pastas at The Copper Onion are Creminelli’s favorites—he is Italian, after all. The creamy carbonara is made with fettuccine, smoked bacon, and egg yolk, while the beef stroganoff—Wagyu beef, pappardelle, creme fraiche, chives and mushrooms—is a flavorful indulgence. 111 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-3282, TheCopperOnion.com

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Kitchen

Renowned Utah chefs don’t spend all their time with wooden spoons in their hands.

By Ted Scheffler & Amanda Rock comments @cityweekly.net

e might associate artists of any kind—including great chefs—almost exclusively with their most public activities; it’s sometimes tempting to think they spend their time at home doing only that thing we know they do so well. But like so many other Utahns around you, the person who made that amazing meal for you has hidden talents and interests. Here’s a look at a few local food professionals and what inspires them when they’re off the clock.

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in fly-fishing, snowboarding and professional cooking. “Casting in fly-fishing requires finesse and precision—the ability to cast and place the fly in a precise spot—and so does cooking and plating a dish in a restaurant.” Influenced by well-known chef Dan Barber, Weinner says she likes the challenge of making “faux food” —foods made from one thing that taste and look like something else: beet

hen Katie Weinner talks about her relationship with Utah, she tends to use words like “lucky” and “blessed.” A snowboard fanatic and avid fly fisher, her culinary career began in Montana, where she’d moved to pursue her love of snowboarding. “I didn’t want to go to college, but my mom said, ‘I’ve been saving for Katie college since the day you were born!’” Weinner Weinner says. So, she moved to Missoula and worked nights in restaurants to pursue her snowboard dreams by day. Weinner would eventually compete in disciplines like boardercross and big-mountain competitions, and even made a run at joining the U.S. Olympic Ski & Snowboard Team. A car breakdown left Weinner stranded in Squaw Valley, where she would find her way into the kitchen of an Italian restaurant, learning to make pasta and pastries, and eventually, to the well-known Plumpjack Cafe. The lure of even more challenging outdoor and culinary experiences led Weinner to Utah, where she has served as an instructor at the Art Institute of Salt Lake City, acted as the head development chef for the Mist Project, and created SLCPOP, a monthly pop-up restaurant and catering business. Her most recent venture is as one of 16 contestants in this season of Top Chef on Bravo. There were some 900 applicants, but producers sought Weinner out. “I just got an e-mail out of the blue saying, “Hey, we’d love for you to be on Top Chef !” she says. Known for her skills and creativity in the culinary subgenre of molecular gastronomy—a term Weinner doesn’t relish—she sees parallels

carpaccio that looks like meat, or faux cotton candy, for example. When she’s not cooking, Weinner is likely to be shredding the steeps at Snowbird. “South Chute is my jam,” she says, adding, “I’m just so lucky. Living here in Utah is sheer bliss. Sometimes I think, ‘I just can’t believe this is my life!’” —Ted Scheffler

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hen John Francis isn’t making award-winning artisan jams and preserves, he’s been known to fiddle around. Along with his wife, Casee, John is founder of Salt Lake City-based Amour Spreads (AmourSpreads.com), but he’s also a nationally ranked fiddle player who has won Grand Champion awards for his playing, both as a teenager and as an adult. His love of music started in the third grade in Spokane, Wash., when he discovered the violin via a music program at his school. At age 15, he won his first National Grand Champion award at the National Oldtime Fiddlers Contest & Festival in Weiser, Idaho. “I got 15 bucks and a trophy for winning the junior’s division,” says Francis, who would go on to win that competition three years in a row. Just before his 18th birthday, John recorded his first album. At 27, competing against musicians from all over North America, Francis garnered his first Grand Champion honors as an adult and recorded his fourth album. Today, he competes in and judges fiddle contests, but now humbly calls himself a “decent amateur.” Still, he placed 11th at this summer’s Fiddlers Contest—not too shabby, considering that he plays fiddle only occasionally these days and was competing against full-time musicians. Amour Spreads was born during John and Casee’s 2011 wedding anniversary, which they were celebrating at a cabin in northern Idaho. “We were hiking on a Forest Service road and stumbled upon thimbleberry bushes 6 feet high,” he says. “There were berries everywhere, on both sides of the road.” So, he and Casee picked some, got back to the cabin and said, “What do we do with these things?” After a bit of research on the Internet, they began making jam. That summer, they made “three or four hundred jars of jam,” Francis says. “We were giving them to all our friends. I’d recently left my job of 20 years as an executive recruiter, and we were waiting for the universe to tell us what to do next.” Well, making jam and jamming with world-class musicians aren’t so different, according to Francis. There’s the creative aspect of both musicianship and artisan food production. But Francis also says about both skills, “You get good at it by doing it over and over again.” John’s fiddle prowess can be seen on YouTube. —Ted Scheffler

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olunteering is important to Chef Romina Rasmussen—even more than butter is. Her popular French bakery Les Madeleines (216 E. 500 South) forever changed Salt Lake City’s dining scene when it opened in 2003, as it was the first in the West to offer Kouing Aman, a pastry with meltin-your-mouth layers of buttery, flaky decadence. Two years ago, she adopted a charming, handsome black cat. Rescued in a parking lot with a too-tight collar, Nibs quickly took over Rasmussen’s apartment. It was after this that she decided to do more for the cat community. A lifelong cat person, Rasmussen jumped at the chance to work with Salt Lake County Animal Services’ kitten nursery program, launched in 2013, where she bottle-feeds and tends to kittens, watching them grow from newborn buns of fur to fledgling cats. Running a successful bakery, Rasmussen doesn’t have a lot of leisure time, but she really likes spending it with the cats. Twice a week, Rasmussen travels to South Salt Lake for her early-morning volunteer shifts. It’s not easy, she warns. “Volunteering is a lot work,” she says. “Tiny kittens need to eat every two hours.” Rasmussen and other volunteers have helped hundreds of cats, working around the clock to keep the felines clean and nourished. Rasmussen recently fostered two raven-black, bright-eyed kittens, Manjari and Tainori (named after gourmet chocolate, naturally). She taught them manners, like how to use a litterbox and conduct themselves like proper housecats. Socializing young cats is important, and it’s another way she gives her time to Salt Lake County Animal Services. She also supports the shelter by donating her baked goods and time at fun outreach events and taking pictures of cats to post on Facebook. “It feels good to do something for someone who can’t repay you,” she says. “It makes you feel like you’ve done something worthwhile. It’s appreciated. You can see it in the animals’ faces, and the staff. If animals aren’t your thing, volunteer with another cause. There are never enough volunteers.” —Amanda Rock

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love winter weather, and not only because of the promise of Utah’s champagne powder. It gives me an excuse to indulge in hearty winter libations—the type that, hot or cold, serve to warm the heart and soul. Here are a few of my local faves and where to find them. We might think of fireworks as a mostly summertime phenomenon, but at Avenues Proper (376 Eighth Ave., Salt Lake City, 385-227-8628, AvenuesProper.com), the Firecracker cocktail will light up the darkest and dreariest winter day. It’s a potent potion made with 1800 Silver Select 100-proof tequila, Cointreau orange-flavored liqueur, spicy jalapeño pepper, fresh cilantro and lime, served on the rocks. Try it with the duck-fat-cooked “Prop-corn.” The well-crafted cocktails at Pallet (237 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-935-4431, EatPallet.com) are things of beauty, and none more so than the Oh Beehive, a sassy, hot-to-trot concoction made with apple brandy, local

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artisan honey, fresh lemon, herb-infused Amaro Nonino Quintessentia and citrus bitters. Are we really in the Beehive State? If there’s a more iconic winter cocktail than the Hot Toddy, I haven’t found it. All Hot Toddys have a common booze—usually rum or whiskey—along with hot water, a sweetener such as honey, and some citrus. At Eva (317 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-359-8447, EvaSLC.com), the Hot Rum Toddy—made with Pyrat XO rum, spiced rum syrup, orange bitters, a cinnamon stick and an orange rind—is so soul-warming that City Weekly Editor Rachel Piper says, “I loathe winter but three things make it bearable: boots, coats and Eva’s Hot Toddy.” I’ve written before that Park City’s High West Distillery & Saloon (703 Park Ave., 435-649-8300, HighWest.com) is an adult fun zone that just happens to serve world-class, Utah-made whiskey and equally award-worthy cocktails.

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cube and, yes, crispy prosciutto served in a honey-rimmed cocktail glass. For a classic Irish Coffee—hot coffee, Irish whiskey and sugar—look no further than MacCool’s Public House (1400 S. Foothill Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-582-3111; 855 W. Heritage Park Blvd., Layton, 801-728-9111; 2510 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 801-675-5920, MacCoolsRestaurant. com), where the only thing not Irish is the all-American shuffleboard table, and where the Irish Coffee comes piping hot with a thick, creamy layer of luscious foam on top. The only thing that could improve it would be the incomparable lamb ribs alongside. But wait: Before leaving Ireland, let’s venture up to Ogden for the Irish Shebeen cocktail, served at the Title 32B Lounge at Hearth on 25th (195 25th St., 801-399-0088, Hearth25.com). It’s an old-school-meets-new libation that mixes Bulleit Rye Whiskey with Carpano Antica Formula Sweet Vermouth and Lillet Blanc, served up in a postprohibition atmosphere. After a day of shredding Utah’s unsurpassed snow, I like to head up to The Aerie Restaurant & Lounge at Snowbird (Cliff Lodge, 801-933-2160, Snowbird.com) for the Aerie Cider, which makes for either a perfect après-ski cocktail or after-dinner nightcap. It’s an irresistible mix of Bacardi rum, cinnamon schnapps and hot apple cider, garnished with a cinnamon stick—the perfect way to end a perfect day on the slopes. CW

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know lots of people who simply love to cook at home, and just as many who loathe it. My wife falls into the latter category, and when she’s done cooking one of her rare at-home meals, our kitchen looks like a tsunami hit it. So, I do most of the cooking. Part of the reason I get joy from cooking at home is that, over the years, I’ve discovered many indispensable tricks, tips and shortcuts that make preparing meals in my own kitchen a breeze. I hope this handful will be useful and maybe even get you to love your kitchen a bit more.

The Fast Freeze

Many meat and poultry recipes—from Asian stir-fries to stroganoff and fajitas—call for thin-sliced meat. But slicing meat super thin can be tricky, even with the sharpest chef’s knife, since meat tends to be squishy. The remedy? Place the thawed meat you’re planning to use in the freezer for 15 minutes to a half-hour to firm it up a little. It’ll be much easier to slice thinly or to grind in a meat grinder if it’s partially frozen.

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If, as I do, you use a lot of garlic in your cooking, you know what a pain it is to peel garlic cloves. The skin sticks to your fingers, and it’s ridiculously time-consuming and messy. Well, garlic lovers, I’m about to change your life. You can peel an entire head or more of garlic in literally seconds with this simple technique. First, take the head of garlic and mash it with your hand on a counter or cutting board to separate the cloves. Next, put the separated, unpeeled garlic

cloves into a large bowl such as a metal mixing bowl. Use a second bowl, placed upside-down on the first, as a lid. Now, just shake the bejesus out of the garlic for 10 to 15 seconds. Peer inside the bowl, and voila! The garlic will have separated from its skins. Just pick out the peeled garlic cloves and thank your lucky stars that you’ll never have to hand-peel a head of garlic again. Visit CityWeekly.net to watch a video of the process.

Get Organized

If there is anything I’ve learned from hanging out with professional chefs and cooks over the years, it’s the importance of organization in the kitchen. When you’ve got hungry restaurant customers waiting for their meals, you simply can’t afford to work in a discombobulated kitchen. The pros call it mise en place, which is French for “everything in place.” It’s one of the most important and elemental concepts in cooking: to have tools, food ingredients, seasonings, sauces, serving plates, etc., lined up and orderly before turning on the stove. If you’ve ever been cooking a meal and halfway through you realize the recipe calls for a quarter cup of minced garlic—which you haven’t even begun to peel yet—you’ll know how critical mise en place is in the kitchen.

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Microplane Magic

One of the most useful kitchen tools I own is a microplane grater. Once used predominantly by woodworkers, someone got the bright idea to zest citrus using a microplane, and it was off to the races! I put my microplane to use grating hard cheeses like Parmesan, as well as to grate ginger and garlic, lemon and lime peels, nutmeg, shallots, chocolate, frozen butter and a dozen other food items.

Use Your Egg

I don’t know if I’ve ever once successfully broken open eggs without getting some eggshell pieces into the mix. Usually, I just fish around in the slippery egg goo trying to pick up the shell pieces with my fingers. That is, until I learned to use my egg. The best tool I’ve found for extracting bits of eggshell is the shell itself. Just use an empty eggshell half to scoop out the little shell bits; it’s easier and much less messy than using your fingers.

Stop the Slippage

Kitchen counters are hard, and cutting boards are rarely perfectly flat. Even if they are, they tend to slip and slide around on the kitchen counter while you’re operating a sharp knife—not a good combination. I don’t know why it took me so long to discover this easy fix, but now when I’m using a cutting board, I place a kitchen towel or damp paper towel underneath the board, and it stays in place like it’s glued there. CW

Theater Directory SALT LAKE CITY Brewvies Cinema Pub 677 S. 200 West 801-355-5500 Brewvies.com

Megaplex 20 at The District 11400 S. Bangerter Highway 801-304-INFO MegaplexTheatres.com

Broadway Centre Cinemas 111 E. 300 South 801-321-0310 SaltLakeFilmSociety.org

PARK CITY Cinemark Holiday Village 1776 Park Ave. 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com

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

Redstone 8 Cinemas 6030 N. Market 435-575-0220 Redstone8Cinemas.com

Holladay Center 6 1945 E. Murray-Holladay Road 801-273-0199 WestatesTheatres.com

DAVIS COUNTY AMC Loews Layton Hills 9 728 W. 1425 North, Layton 801-774-8222 AMCTheatres.com

Megaplex 12 Gateway 165 S. Rio Grande St. 801-304-4636 MegaplexTheatres.com Redwood Drive-In 3688 S. Redwood Road 801-973-7088 Tower Theatre 836 E. 900 South 801-321-0310 SaltLakeFilmSociety.org

Carmike 12 1600 W. Fox Park Drive, West Jordan 801-562-5760 Carmike.com

Cinemark 24 Jordan Landing 7301 S. Bangerter Highway 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Cinemark Valley Fair Mall 3601 S. 2700 West, West Valley City 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com

WEBER COUNTY Cinemark Tinseltown 14 3651 Wall Ave., Ogden 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Megaplex 13 at The Junction 2351 Kiesel Ave., Ogden 801-304-INFO MegaplexTheatres.com UTAH COUNTY Carmike Wynnsong 4925 N. Edgewood Drive, Provo 801-764-0009 Carmike.com Cinemark American Fork 715 W. 180 North, American Fork 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Cinemark Movies 8 2230 N. University Parkway, Orem 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Cinemark Provo Town Center 1200 Town Center Blvd., Provo 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Cinemark University Mall 1010 S. 800 East, Provo 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com

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Tracks HHH Few movies really know how to capture solitude, but this one both respects and captures its subject’s decision to get swallowed up by her stunning surroundings. Based on Robyn Davidson’s autobiography, the film tells the story of a woman (the terrific Mia Wasikowska) who decides to trek nearly 2,000 miles from Northern Australia to the Indian Ocean. Director John Curran lets the landscapes dictate the pace here, gradually allowing the audience to discover the facets and motivations of his slow-burning central character. There are occasional distractions along the way, including a subplot involving a National Geographic photographer (a less-goonythan-usual Adam Driver), and perhaps a bit more voice-over narration than is necessary. Once the movie finds its groove, however, and everything else fades away into the distance, Wasikowska, her dog and some camels achieve a fascinating sustained state of Zen. (PG-13)—Andrew Wright

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St. Vincent HH.5 Writer/director Theodore Melfi gives Bill Murray a classic, showy part: Vincent MacKenna, an alcoholic, gambling-debtridden Brooklyn native who becomes de facto babysitter to the 12-year-old son (Jaeden Lieberher) of his new singlemom neighbor (Melissa McCarthy). The surrogate-father relationship—and the inevitable gradual softening of the misanthropic caretaker—drive most of the story, and the performances are strong enough to carry St. Vincent through most of its clunky manipulations, with Murray finding sparks of funky energy beyond Vincent’s asshole-in-needof-redemption roots. But there’s a degree of calculation at the heart of this movie that makes it impossible to become immersed in it, no matter how sloppily appealing Murray may be in individual scenes. St. Vincent ends with what’s expected to happen when actors get parts like this: They stand at center stage, receiving an award, waiting for everyone to applaud. (PG-13)—SR

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Megaplex Legacy Crossing 1075 W. Legacy Crossing Blvd., Centerville 801-397-5100 MegaplexTheatres.com

Pride HHHH This little-known, feel-good true story follows a small London gay and lesbian organization that raised money to help one tiny Welsh town that was suffering during the 1984-85 U.K. coal miners’ strike. As activist Mark (Ben Schnetzer) and his buddies bravely descend on a conservative place and find a surprising mix of everything from acceptance to wariness to hostility, this culture-clash comedy treats bigotry as the risible position that it is, and explores the odd misconceptions that some people still hold about what it means to be gay. The fantastic cast—Imelda Staunton, Bill Nighy, Paddy Considine—leads us through all sorts of happy-tears emotion about solidarity among groups of people with seemingly little in common, and the joy of finding new friends in unexpected places. This is one of those rare movies that gets absolutely everything right. (R)—MAJ

Showcase Cinemas 6 5400 S. Redwood Road, Taylorsville 801-957-9032 RedCarpetCinemas.com

Gateway 8 206 S. 625 West, Bountiful 801-292-7979 RedCarpetCinemas.com

On the other hand, this being horror rather than detective fiction, eliding the procedural bits in favor of more spooky house/insane asylum time is a strong choice—and the fact that someone managed to make an actual movie about a Ouija board is impressive enough that too much quibbling seems unsporting. (PG-13)—DB

Carmike Ritz 15 Hollywood Connection 3217 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City 801-973-4386 Carmike.com

Cinemark Tinseltown USA 720 W. 1500 North, Layton 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com

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The Arsonist

When a sharp detective (Julie Benz) is charged with arson and her son’s murder, she’s kicked off the police force, thus freeing up her time to find the real fire-starter/ killer. Obviously, the bad guy didn’t think this caper through at all. Dumbass. (MTI)

Boo!

Avoid The McCarthys; rejoin the American Horror Story circus with Freak Show ASAP.

Better Off Ted: Season 2 It only took four years, but the second season of one of the best comedies ever canceled is finally on DVD (even though it’s already been available on several streaming platforms). Blame Fox, who finally just gave it to an indie. (Olive Films)

The McCarthys Thursday, Oct. 30 (CBS) Series Debut: A fat, loudmouthed, sportsobsessed Bah-ston family has a gay son— and, go for borderline homophobic comedy! Or borderline comedy, period. Even sadder than the continued use of The Laugh Track (yes, there’s only one—all the shows share it) in 2014 is the abject laziness in the writing, staging and execution of The McCarthys: It’s like a CBS programmer found a cheap ’80s pilot in the closet, dusted it off and said “Here, just jam this into 8:30 so we can hit happy hour and blow some Big Bang money!” Unfortunately, it’ll probably work (re: last season’s The Millers).

Slednecks Thursday, Oct. 30 (MTV) Series Debut: Remember how proud MTV was of Buckwild, its southern-redneck answer to Jersey Shore—minus the intellectual discourse and hair products—and obligatory network Hicks R Durned Funny reality product? That is, until one of the stars turned up dead in a swamp at 21 last year and MTV “respectfully” canceled the show? The grieving period is over! Meet the Slednecks, a wacky group of half-naked/fully intoxicated Wasilla, Alaska, 20-somethings who like “polar bear plunges, airboating on ice, glacier parties, river wakeboarding, human catapulting” and, dare to dream, drunken brawls with Palins. Slednecks will likely be a hit—until one of the cast members meets with his/her “death by walrus misadventure” (it’s a thing in Alaska, I hear).

Dads: The Complete Series

One Starry Christmas Saturday, Nov. 1 (Hallmark) Movie: It’s the first day of November, and here’s a new Christmas original? Congratulations, Hallmark [slow clap]. Sarah Carter (you may know her from Falling Skies as Maggie, she of the impossibly-perfect post-apocalyptic blond hair) stars as an “aspiring astronomy professor and Christmas enthusiast”—wait, it gets better—who falls for a “charming cowboy” (Damon Runyan) who, coincidentally, also enjoys constellations, Christmas and wooing away the girlfriends of dumb ol’ career men who insist on working over the holidays (Paul Popowich). Only 54 more days of this …

Marvel: 75 Years, From Pulp to Pop Tuesday, Nov. 4 (ABC) Special: It would have made more sense to schedule this Marvel Comics retrospective before a new episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. instead of expecting struggling sitcoms Selfie (which you should be watching harder) and Manhattan Love Story (which, like me, you should just give up on) to deliver a lead-in audience, but who am I to question the marketing genius of Marvel? “Leaking” that Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer last week was ridiculously brilliant, after all. Anyway: 75 Years, From

The McCarthys (CBS) Pulp to Pop squeezes a surprising amount of Marvel history into an hour, documenting the good times, the bad times, and the current Galactic Entertainment Domination times, though the genius of Howard the Duck (the ’70s comic book, not the ’80s movie) will never receive enough recognition to satisfy The Only TV Column That Matters™.

American Horror Story: Freak Show Wednesdays (FX) New Season: Before watching the first two episodes of Freak Show (which arrived in the mail the day before the season premiere—you’re usually so timely, FX, what happened?), I didn’t think American Horror Story would ever top Season 1. Season 2 (Asylum) was a mess, Season 3 (Coven) was a slight improvement, but the original remains damned near perfect. Aside from the terrifying Stabby (actual name: Twisty) the Clown, the 1950s carnival-set Freak Show has been short on big scares thus far, but the atmosphere is rich and the cinematography is more gorgeous than anything currently in TV or film. If you tuned out of AHS, now is the time to catch up. It’s worth the Stabby the Clown nightmares. CW

Maybe part of the deal was that Olive Films also had to release Fox’s Dads, one of the worst comedies ever canceled, starring Seth Green and Giovanni Ribisi as two actors who showed up and collected a check for 19 weeks. (Olive Films)

Hercules In the second(!) Hercules flick of 2014, Herc (Dwayne Johnson) becomes a mercenary for hire—until he’s asked to defend the kingdom from an evil warlord, which requires him to become A Hero once again. Needed two of these, huh? (Paramount)

Maleficent In the previously untold story of the villainess (Angelina Jolie) from Sleeping Beauty, we learn that she’s really just a misunderstood, wronged woman who used to be good at heart. And yet you know Jennifer Aniston still ain’t buying it. (Disney)

More New DVD/VOD Releases (Nov. 4) About Alex, Dead Girls, Devil’s Tower, Ghost Bride, Napoleon Dynamite: The Complete Series, The Newsroom: Season 2, Planes: Fire & Rescue, Premature, Raising Hope: Season 4, Reno 911: The Complete Series, Step Up: All In, The Unauthorized Saved By the Bell Story, White Collar: Season 5 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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On their sophomore album, Fumes, Indianapolis indie-folk duo Lily & Madeleine showcase more of the sisterly vocal harmonies that made their debut album so dreamy. And for the most part, the end result is lovely and heartbreaking, even if the tracks around the middle of the album blend together, thanks to their similar tempos. It takes a bit for Fumes to find its stride; opening song “Rabbit” is bogged down by saccharine strings, and the melody on the following track, “Ride Away,” is timid and safe. But “Can’t Admit It” introduces the album’s emotional tension and weight—the realization in the lyrics “I’m not so sure I want this anymore” hits you right in the gut—and an atmosphere of piano, delicate synths and strings (utilized more effectively this time) augments the song’s bleak mood. The instrumentation takes a surprising and refreshing turn in album highlight “Cabin Fever,” which stands out with its punctuating, jangly percussion and perfectly placed hand-claps, as well as its catchy chorus. Throughout Fumes, Lily & Madeleine’s harmonies blend flawlessly, but the way the two singers’ voices wend around each other on the haunting “The Wolf Is Free” instead of matching note for note allows some of their individual personalities to come out. Upbeat indie-rocker “Peppermint Candy” redeems the album’s forgettable middle with warm electric guitar and an energetic feel, but concluding track “Blue Blades” takes Lily & Madeleine back to their mid-tempo comfort zone. Fumes is spotty, but there are parts that shine, proving the duo have potential if they continue to progress. (Kolbie Stonehocker) Oct. 28, Asthmatic Kitty Records

w/Shpongle, Emancipator, Lafa Taylor The Complex, 536 W. 100 South Wednesday, Nov. 5, 7 p.m. $32.50 BeatsAntique.com, TheComplexSLC.com

Lily & Madeleine, Fumes HH.5

Beats Antique

Clip-art cover notwithstanding, Chaz Bundick drew great inspiration for Michael, the debut full-length from his Les Sins alias, from eminence grise corporate graphic designer Paul Rand. Specifically, one quote, which served as Bundick’s recording mantra: “Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.” As Bundick’s main gig, Toro Y Moi, has moved from murky bedroom lap-pop to savvy electro soul, his esoteric electronic influences—breakbeat, Italo disco, French electro, ’90s hiphop—have been relegated to his sporadic Les Sins singles. Michael touches on each of them, serving less as an album than a collection of loosely connected ideas. Some of those ideas are great ones: The sprightly “Toy” balances gauzy ambient swells and a mesmeric flute melody atop a skittering beat equal parts Chicago juke twitch and Bomb Squad thump. The bouncy throwback funk of “Why,” perhaps the record’s most complete thought, evokes early Michael Jackson and Prince. The groaning “Past” is an exercise in mood and malevolence. But Michael sags after the plaintive and pleading “Bellow,” marred by homogenous tempos and half-baked ideas. It’s tempting to look at Michael—recorded in Bundick’s home studio and released on his newly minted Company Records imprint—as a vanity project, more the result of a two-year goof-off than of careful composition and construction. But its insouciance makes for easy listening, even as the monotonous tempos belabor Michael’s back half. Original? Maybe not. But good? Well, mostly. (Patrick Wall) Nov. 4, Company Records

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In short, it’ll be a show that pushes the boundaries of what a show can be. Known as a captivating festival act, Beats Antique are “taking what we like about festivals and putting it into a venue,” Cappel says. Since they’re co-headlining with fellow electronic musicians/producers Shpongle, Emancipator and Lafa Taylor, it’s “a more intimate setting than a festival, but it’s a bigger, sort of more overblown setting than just a normal show,” he says. And a big part of that festival-like atmosphere will be audience participation. “We want to inspire people to have fun even if it’s just for one night,” Cappel says. “We’re sort of giving them that platform.” Attendees are invited to download and print out their choice of creature mask from Beats Antique’s website and wear it to the show, or visit the on-site “creation station,” where they’ll be provided with materials to make a mask or whatever strikes their fancy, as well as meet and perhaps even collaborate artistically with other fans. One element of the Thousand Faces tour that Beats Antique is bringing to Creature Carnival is the game-show segment, where a volunteer is chosen from the audience to come up and play the game, and is then attacked by a 30-foot inflatable cat that the band calls the “dubstep kitty.” Sure, it’s all a little silly, but Beats Antique believes that people need a little silliness sometimes, at least for the duration of one concert. “I think there’s so much intense shit going on in people’s lives and in the world,” Cappel says, “that any moment that any person can have that’s not that, I think is really awesome.” CW

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espite the fact that concerts usually attract large crowds, they can be oddly nonsocial experiences. Being surrounded by strangers—even strangers who are fellow fans of the band—usually results in annoyed thoughts such as “If that guy steps on my foot one more time, I swear I’m gonna lose it” instead of any meaningful social interaction. Go to a Beats Antique show, however, and there’s a chance you’ll have a conversation with a concertgoer about more than their propensity for invading your personal space. At least that’s one of the goals of the Oakland, Calif.based electronica/world-fusion trio’s current tour, Creature Carnival. By encouraging and facilitating various forms of audience participation in the show and creating a sensorystimulating concert experience, Beats Antique hope to foster a judgment-free environment where fans can interact with each other, forget their troubles and get weird, as they’ll be allowing themselves to get a little freaky, too. “I think that oftentimes bands are so serious or are so worried about their image,” says drummer/producer Tommy Cappel. “We really don’t care. We just have fun, and I think that our stage show sort of represents some of that. It gives it a balance. There are moments where we go full-on deep, and other times we go full-on weird.” It’s not a coincidence that Beats Antique—belly dancer extraordinaire and choreographer Zoe Jakes and multiinstrumentalist David Satori complete the lineup—are now embarking on a tour that’s essentially serving as a much-needed break before they hit the studio again. Their latest project, A Thousand Faces: Act I and II, completed in April and inspired by Joseph Campbell’s monomyth about the journey of the hero, was a massive two-disc concept album that spawned an equally massive multimedia tour. Unsurprisingly, A Thousand Faces “was such a huge undertaking for us that it kind of tired us out, which is kind of why we’re doing [Creature Carnival], because it’s more fun,” Cappel says. The Creature Carnival tour will be a can’t-miss experience for longtime Beats Antique listeners. To build the setlist, the band will be remixing and creating mashups of past songs from their entire undulating, tribal discography, which features internationally inspired elements as diverse as North African electric guitar, Middle Eastern violin and gypsy-jazz horns. In typical Beats Antique fashion, the tour will be visually rich as well, with new dance performances and costumes and also resurrected stage pieces from other tours, all united by a circus/carnival theme.

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Nothing Gold Can Stay The Rural Alberta Advantage examines loss and finality. By Brian Palmer comments@cityweekly.net

he Japanese art form of kintsugi uses gold to strengthen and rebuild shattered ceramics. For Nils Edenloff, the lead singer and songwriter for the Alberta, Canada-based rock band The Rural Alberta Advantage, this was the perfect image to describe the feelings and themes presented on the band’s new album, Mended With Gold, released in September. “I went through a breakup last year, so a lot of the songs deal with the ending of relationships, the finality of certain aspects of life, and the idea that better things come from those losses,” Edenloff says. “That’s sort of what the album title alludes to, the idea that something is rendered more beautiful by its having been broken, and is better for the history it’s been through.” A number of the album’s tracks do indeed focus on the fragile nature of our lives and relationships. Apart from its self-explanatory title, a song like “On the Rocks,” for example, is given extra power with a thrumming bass line that hints at discord, while drummer Paul Banwatt’s repeated up-tempo work on his hi-hat gives the impression that the song—much like the relationship mentioned in the song—is about to explode. The dance-rock track “All We’ve Ever Known” examines those hard moments that immediately follow a lifealtering event that shakes us to our core, while the opening and closing tracks—“Our Love…” and “…On the Run”—bookend the album in a clever way, suggesting that relationships involve struggles that can, like these titles, separate people. And while the record is a confident mix of indie rock and folk pop that shows off the trio’s considerable songwriting, as well as their instrumental and vocal talents, Edenloff had to separate himself from life as he knew it just to get the ball rolling on this project.

The Rural Alberta Advantage, flaws and all

“Early on, I was having trouble focusing,” he says. “I talked to some friends who had rented a cottage up in northern Ontario, and they highly recommended it, so I went up there by myself. I didn’t realize how scary a place it was until I was there all on my own, out in the middle of nowhere.” Staying in a dark, secluded cabin by himself did a number on Edenloff’s nerves, but it was the jolt he needed to start getting to work on the record. “It was definitely surreal, a little nerveracking,” Edenloff says with a laugh. “I won’t lie, I had my Leatherman knife at hand’s reach. There’s nobody around for miles, it’s a creaky old house … it was odd, but great. Not a lot of the album’s songs came from that experience, but some did,” including “To Be Scared,” he says. “To Be Scared” is one of the album’s mellowest songs, trading in the driving guitars, rip-roaring drums and unbridled energy that courses through the veins of the majority of the album for a folksy sensibility and more restrained vocal performance from Edenloff. When paired with lines about there being no reason to be scared, especially with respect to moving on from tragedy, the overall effect is one of a person revealing their cracks to the world for the first time and gaining courage and strength from that, rather than being embarrassed by it. This title and song are emblematic of another struggle that plagued Edenloff prior to the making of this album. “I was apprehensive because I never felt like we were ready, and that the record wasn’t ready, sonically,” he says. Now that Mended With Gold is here, he credits Banwatt, sound engineer Matt Lederman and multi-instrumentalist Amy Cole for “being like, ‘You know, I think Nils doesn’t realize how much stuff we have here and how ready we are.’ ” CW

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THIS WEEK’S MUSIC PICKS Saturday 11.1

Busdriver One of the most interesting crews in hip-hop right now is the Los Angeles-based collective Hellfyre Club. The group is essentially a rap think tank of Southern California’s most avantgarde artists—and at the core of it all is rapper and producer Busdriver. A typical Bus track feels like a rap version of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy—in other words, his tracks demand your full attention and should probably be paired with CliffsNotes and a fresh pot of coffee. His latest release, Perfect Hair, finds Bus in perfect form, diving into weird tangents with rappers like Aesop Rock, Danny Brown and Open Mike Eagle, and, of course, dropping the type of next-level production that would make Ira Glass nod his head. Milo; New Truth; and Lost, The Artist are also performing. (Colin Wolf) The Shred Shed, 60 E. Exchange Place (360 South), 8 p.m., $8 in advance, $10 day of show, ShredShedSLC.com Big Wild Wings Album Release For their debut album, Speaking in Cursive, Salt Lake City indie-rock/electro trio Big Wild Wings picked a fitting title. Inspired by the feel of the vocals, which lead singer/multi-instrumentalist Lyndsi Austin describes as “smooth with the occasional haunting melody,” the title speaks to the way they delicately curl and flow through the melodies on songs such as “Cardboard Mountains” and “So Far Away.” The album will feature new takes on some of Big Wild Wings’ older songs, which the band gave “some extra layers, which added a really cool spin on the record (no pun intended),” Austin says. Big Wild Wings is celebrating the release of Speaking in Cursive with two album-release shows, and attendees are encouraged to wear Halloween costumes to the Kilby Court show, where Sarah Degraw, In Color and Maer are also on the bill. The Urban Lounge show will also feature Heaps N Heaps, Streets of Laredo and Strong Words. Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), 8 p.m., $6, KilbyCourt.com; The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, Nov. 8, 9 p.m., $5, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

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Santoros, Psychomagic What goes around tends to come back around, and that seems to be the case lately with music styles that were popular in the ’60s and ’70s. Santoros and Psychomagic are fitting tourmates as well as labelmates (on Los Angeles garage label Lollipop Records), as the two bands both play jangly, reverbsoaked music that’s influenced by those eras. Founded in Mexico but now based in Los Angeles, Santoros combine distorted vocals, surf-y guitar and some perfectly hauntedhouse-dance-party organ for a sound that’s psychedelically murky but full of punk energy, as heard on their new album, Animals, released earlier this month. Portland, Ore.based Psychomagic sing oldies-inspired surf/psych-rock songs such as “Heartbroken Teenage Zombie Killer” and “Elvis on the Moon,” which are as fun to listen to as their tongue-in-cheek titles might suggest. Local psych-rock band Red Telephone and blues-rock outfit Green River Blues are also on the bill. The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., free, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

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Greensky Bluegrass With 50 fingers between them, all strumming or plucking some type of stringed instrument, the members of Kalamazoo, Mich.-based newgrass/rock band Greensky Bluegrass fill a ton of sonic space, so much so that they can get by without a drummer. They carefully stack acoustic layers of mandolin, dobro, guitar, banjo and more that fit together perfectly, but that’s not to say Greensky Bluegrass’ music is only about picking as fast or as intricately as possible. In everything from their relatable lyrics to their band name, >>

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The Airborne Toxic Event What happens when you take novelist Mikel Jollett, give him motivation to write, and add a guitar? The result is the creation of The Airborne Toxic Event. Jollett writes narrativerich lyrics and puts them against a backdrop of indie-rock sounds with an orchestral edge, like electric guitars playing alongside a viola. Since the 2008 release of their award-winning self-titled debut album, the band has shown no signs of slowing down creatively. The release of follow-up albums All at Once and Such Hot Blood (which The Airborne Toxic Event have been touring to promote since 2013) keeps in theme with the band’s rock & roll storytelling voice by pairing heartfelt lyrics with guitar riffs and strings. In the Valley Below is also on the bill. (Rebecca Frost) Monday, Nov. 3 @ The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 8 p.m., $18 in advance, $23 day of show, DepotSLC.com

Thursday 10.30 Salt Lake City DJ Infinite Horizon (5 Monkeys) Carmel Carmela (Bar Deluxe) Live Band Karaoke With TIYB (Club 90) Robot Dream (Gracie’s) Karaoke (Habits) Morgan Snow (The Hog Wallow Pub) Jesus Sons, Red Telephone, Green River Blues (The Hotel/Club Elevate) DJ Erockalypze (Inferno Cantina) Squash, Lake Island, Tess Comrie, Anthony Pena (Kilby Court) Sounds Like Teen Spirit (Liquid Joe’s) Breathe Carolina, Candyland, Flinch (Murray Theater) Open Mic (Pat’s Barbecue) InAeona, Star Grazer, Silent Sorcerer (The Shred Shed) Wayne Hancock (The State Room) Nightfreq Halloween Party: Cobol, Bello, Shields (The Urban Lounge) Karaoke (Willie’s Lounge)

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Relient K’s roots may be in Christian punk rock, but the band’s sound has evolved several times. And the band’s lineup has also changed over the years, with Matt Thiessen and Matt Hoopes as the band’s only original members. Relient K’s musical progression is apparent on their most recent album, 2013’s Collapsible Lung, which shies away from their punk roots and hits strong with more dance-oriented songs, like the upbeat “PTL” and the album’s soulful title track. The Nashville, Tenn.-based group is on tour in celebration of the 10th anniversary of their Mmhmm album, which spawned their first major hits “Be My Escape” and “Who I Am Hates Who I’ve Been.” Los Angeles indie band Blondfire will open. (Nathan Turner) Wednesday, Nov. 5 @ The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 8 p.m., $18 in advance, $23 day of show, TheComplexSLC.com

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) If you live in Gaza, you don’t have easy access to Kentucky Fried Chicken. The closest KFC restaurant is 35 miles away in the Egyptian city of El-Arish. But there was a time when you could pay smugglers to bring it to you via one of the underground tunnels that linked Egypt to Gaza. Each delivery took four hours and required the help of two taxis, a hand cart, and a motorbike. (Alas, Egypt destroyed most of the tunnels in early 2014.) I recommend, Aries, that you be as determined and resourceful to make your longed-for connections as the KFC lovers in Gaza were. Halloween costume suggestion: smuggler, bootlegger, drug-dealer, black-marketeer. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) It’s urgent that you expand your options. Your freedom of choice can’t lead you to where you need to go until you have more possibilities to choose from. In fact, you’re better off not making a decision until you have a wider selection. To playfully drive home this point to your subconscious mind, I suggest that this Halloween you consider disguising yourself as a slime mold. This unusual creature comes in more than 500 different genders, at least 13 of which must collaborate to reproduce. Here’s a photo: bit.ly/yellowslime.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You are at a point in your astrological cycle when you deserve to rake in the rewards that you have been working hard to earn. I expect you to be a magnet for gifts and blessings. The favors and compliments you have doled out will be returned to you. For all the strings you have pulled in behalf of others’ dreams, strings will now be pulled for you. Halloween costume suggestion: a beaming kid hauling around a red wagon full of brightly wrapped presents. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Two physicists in Massachusetts are working on technology that will allow people to shoot laser beams out of their eyes. For Halloween, I suggest that you pretend you have already acquired this superpower. It’s time for you to be brash and jaunty as you radiate your influence with more confidence. I want to see you summon reserves of charismatic clout you haven’t dared to call on before. Costume suggestion: the X-Men mutant named Cyclops or the legendary Native America creature known as the thunderbird, which emits lightning from its eyes. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) The African nation of Swaziland has passed a law prohibiting witches from flying their broomsticks any higher than 150 meters above ground. That will a big problem for Piscean witches. There is currently an astrological mandate for them to swoop and glide and soar as high and free as they want to. The same is metaphorically true for all Piscean non-witches everywhere. This is your time to swoop and glide and soar as high and free as you want to. Halloween costume suggestion: high-flying witch, a winged angel, the Silver Surfer, or a mythic bird like the Garuda.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Our evolutionary ancestors Homo erectus loved to eat delicious antelope brains. The fossil evidence is all over their old stomping grounds in East Africa. Scientists say that this delicacy, so rich in nutrients, helped our forbears build bigger, stronger brains themselves. These days it’s harder but not impossible to make animal brains part of your diet. The Chinese and Koreans eat pig brains, and some European cuisines include beef brains. I’m confident, however, that your own brain will be functioning better than ever in the coming weeks, even if you don’t partake of this exotic dish. Be sure to take advantage of your enhanced

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) I’ve got two possible remedies for your emotional congestion. You might also want to make these two remedies part of your Halloween shtick. The first remedy is captured by the English word “lalochezia.” It refers to a catharsis that comes from uttering profane language. The second remedy is contained in the word “tarantism.” It means an urge to dance manically as a way to relieve melancholy. For your Halloween disguise, you could be a wildly dancing obscenity-spouter.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) This is one of those rare times when it’s OK for you to just throw out the dirty dishes that you are too lazy to wash. It’s also permissible to hide from a difficult person, spend money on a supposedly foolish indulgence, eat a bowl of ice cream for breakfast, binge-watch a TV show that provokes six months’ worth of emotions in a few hours, and lie in bed for an extra hour fantasizing about sex with a forbidden partner. Don’t make any of these things habits, of course. But for now, it’s probably healthy to allow them. Halloween costume suggestion: total slacker.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In AMC’s famous TV drama, a high school chemistry teacher responds to his awful luck by turning to a life of crime. The show’s title, Breaking Bad, refers to what happens when a good person cracks and veers over to the dark side. So then what does “breaking good” mean? Urbandictionary.com defines it like this: “When a criminal, junkie, or gang-banger gets sweet and sparkly, going to church, volunteering at soup kitchens, and picking the kids up from school.” I’m concerned that you are at risk of undergoing a similar conversion, Scorpio. You seem so nice and kind and mild lately. I guess that’s fine as long as you don’t lose your edge. Halloween costume suggestion: a criminal with a halo, a sweet and sparkly gang-banger, or a Buddhist monk junkie.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) Native American hero Sitting Bull (1831-1890) was a renowned Lakota chief and holy man. He led his people in their resistance to the U.S. occupation of their land. How did he become so strong and wise? In large part through the efforts of his doting mother, whose name was Her-Holy-Door. Let’s install her as your exemplar for now. May she inspire you to nurture beauty and power in those you love. May she motivate you to be adroit as you perform your duties in service to the future. May the mystery of her name rouse you to find the sacred portal that ushers you to your next big gift. Halloween costume suggestion: a sacred portal, a divine gateway, an amazing door.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “The egromenious hilarity of psychadisical melarmy, whether rooted in a lissome stretch or a lusty wobble, soon defisterates into crabolious stompability. So why not be graffenbent?” So said Noah’s ex-wife Joan of Arc in her interview with St. Crocodile magazine. Heed Joan’s advice, please, Libra. Be proactively saximonious. I’M KIDDING! Everything I just said was nonsense. I hope you didn’t assume it was erudite wisdom full of big words you couldn’t understand. In offering it to you, I was hoping to immunize you against the babble and hype and artifice that may soon roll your way. Halloween costume suggestion: a skeptic armed with a shock-proof bullshit-detector. (For inspiration, check out these visuals: http://bit.ly/bsdetector.)

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) In the animated sci-fi TV sitcom Futurama, Leela is the mutant captain of a spaceship. In one episode, she develops an odd boil on her hindquarters. It has a face and can sing. The actor who provides the vocals for the animated boil’s outpouring of song is Gemini comedian Craig Ferguson, whose main gig is serving as host of a late-night TV talk show on CBS. Telling you this tale is my way of suggesting that you consider going outside your usual niche, as Craig Ferguson did, to offer your talents in a different context. Halloween costume suggestion: Kim Kardashian as a nurse wearing ebola protective gear; science educator Neil deGrasse Tyson as a male stripper; a cat wearing a dog costume, or vice versa.

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