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Say His Name

Stick to the Facts

The article “Monumental Decision” [Nov. 6, City Weekly] starts out mentioning President L.B. Johnson, then refers to our current president as just “Obama.”

Like him or not, he is our president, and should be respected and referred to as such.

Dixson Rudolph Tooele

Further Investigation Needed

I have a question for your readers.

Do you think The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is in violation of any federal or state anti-gambling laws in regard to its “random” selection method of who can receive tickets for Christmas events on Temple Square, such as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert?

I ask because I received an e-mail in which the word “lottery” was used. I am going to further investigate this question.

Douglas Cotant Salt Lake City

I get that history teacher Stephanie Lauritzen [“Teach Me Liberty,” Oct. 23, City Weekly] doesn’t think much of either American exceptionalism or ancient traditions about how history should be taught.

But while I genuinely admire her honesty and eloquence, has it not occurred to her that many of her advanced-placement students will actually read what she has so passionately written? And when they do that, isn’t their conclusion likely to be that, in order to succeed in her classroom, they too will have to reject what she rejects?

When Ms. Lauritzen puts quotation marks around the word “traditional,” she quite succinctly demonstrates her contempt for the whole concept. And when she asserts that the study of history “cannot be reduced to a multiple-choice question,” she undermines the idea of history as a chronology. It is just this attitude that explains why so very many high school graduates today cannot make any necessary distinctions between, for example, the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. It is certainly to be applauded that Ms. Lauritzen wants to teach students the “critical thinking and writing skills that are vital to academic success.” But those things can only be acquired in the wider context of historical facts, and whether a student has sufficient knowledge of those

facts can, indeed, be determined by a series of carefully worded multiple-choice questions.

In 1967, when political scientist Ernest B. Fincher published, to wide acclaim, his book Government of the United States, he wrote an extraordinary account of American exceptionalism, one which (by today’s standards) seems more than a bit unrealistic. Yet Ms. Lauritzen will do her students a disservice if she doesn’t present them with the best possible case for that exceptionalism, and only then help them use their critical thinking skills to either support or oppose the idea.

No amount of genuine critical thinking can occur where the teacher merely demonstrates that history is “a complex, evolving subject,” while at the same time wholly rejecting American history as in any way exceptional.

Thomas N. Thompson Salt Lake City

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OPINION

Thanks, Obama

Republicans cleaned house in the elections, increasing their dominance of the House of Representatives and gaining control of the Senate. Republican leaders claim their victory represents a repudiation of President Barack Obama and his failed policies.

That’s probably true, but the question remains as to whether that dissatisfaction was based on a factual foundation. I say no.

Democratic contestants made a big mistake when they tried to distance themselves from the president.

One of the best examples was when Kentucky Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes, a Democrat, refused to say whom she’d voted for in the last presidential election.

Like so many others, she apparently didn’t want to associate herself with the president, whose reputation in Kentuck y was at a low ebb. She lost any way, to incumbent Republican Mitch McConnell.

She would have been better off proclaiming her support of the president and defending his accomplishments over the past six years, such as the Affordable Care Act, which Republicans were successful in making look like an abject failure. Too many voters accepted the overwhelming deluge of unsubstantiated charges without bothering to fact-check.

A nd Democrats failed to accentuate the positives, including no more denials for pre-existing conditions, no ceiling on coverage, insurance coverage for millions of Americans who previously couldn’t afford or qualify, and free preventive medical services and extended coverage for children on their parents’ policies.

Republicans also claimed that the president was primarily responsible for a failed economy and bloated federal deficit. Gullible voters forgot—and Democrats failed to remind them—that the president inherited the massive downturn in the economy caused in large part by the foolish negligence and

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gross mismanagement of the previous Republican administration.

The unemployment rate has dropped from 10 percent when he inherited the Republican debacle, to its current 5.8 percent. Ten million new private sector jobs have been created since Obama took over. The national deficit has been cut in half. The housing market has rebounded, and the American automobile industry was saved from going into bankruptcy. Yes, the rebound could have been better, but that’s not bad for a leader who got zero cooperation from the opposition.

But the die has been cast. Utah’s representatives are now 100 percent right wing, and the only weapons to preclude Republicans from passing any laws they want are the presidential veto and the use of the filibuster in the Senate. Predictions are that a primary priority for the GOP will be to continue the effort to overturn Roe v.

Wade and limit women from making choices about birth control and abortion, turning the clock back 40 years for women’s rights.

Hopef u l ly, Democrats have now learned a valuable lesson. Next time, be proud of your progressive agenda.

Don’t shy away from it. Clear up the misconceptions of the radical right. Explain to the 99 percent why it makes no sense to continue to blindly vote for those who fail to represent their best interest.

Grimes obviously didn’t vote for Romney in 2012.

She should have proudly proclaimed it, and taken the opportunit y to explain why she voted Obama. Democrats will lose again unless they quit trying to distance themselves from their own party—the party supporting the needs of the majority of Americans. CW

The unemployment rate has dropped from 10 percent when he inherited the Republican debacle, to its current 5.8 percent. ten million new private sector jobs have been created since Obama took over. The national deficit has been cut in half.

Ray Hult is a committed progressive Democrat and the author of several books on the topic of agnosticism. He worked for the FBI for 27 years as a special agent stationed in California, Texas and Utah and currently lives in Salt Lake City. Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net.

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Without looking it up, what is net neutrality?

Scott Renshaw: What’s left from gross neutrality after taxes.

Paula Saltas: It means I have no position on using AquaNet. Kolbie Stonehocker: The idea that the Internet should be allowed to exist without the inf luence of corporate or political entities, and that users should have unlimited, uncensored access to its information—be it current events or hilarious cat videos, searched for through Google or Bing.

Susan Kruithof: It’s the neutral feelings I have regarding my net worth minus the cost of my bad habits.

John Saltas: A political wedge to get millennials to switch to the Republican Party.

Derek Carlisle: Dunno, but a neutrality net is what you catch neutered Save the Whale activist in as they rally.

Colin Wolf: Didn’t Chaffetz say it was some sort of Obamacare Internet war or something? That sounds good. I’ll have that.

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“Data from around the world indicate high numbers of dolphins and porpoises are also killed by gill nets and in midwater trawl fisheries.”

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A book. It’s an interesting choice for The Salt Lake Tribune, motivated perhaps by money or that journalistic craving to be first. Whatever the reason, Mia Love: The Rise, Stumble and Resurgence of the Next GOP Star has caused plenty of media chatter on the ethical front.

The question is not so much why as how.

How did the Trib decide to send reporters, already covering the campaigns, to ask for and receive access to the life and times of one candidate—the “unique” one who is a black, female Republican and yet insists that the demographics don’t matter? Reporter Matt Canham explains that, gee, if Love had lost, they’d have just changed the last chapter. Like that would make good reading! The presumption is that the book was paramount—even if the story would have been best told during the campaign, by reporters who were expected to remain neutral throughout.

Keep Your Distance And if you have any expectations of congressional compromise, get over it. RedState.com just ran a piece that resonates with Utah conservatives.

Compromise is what they call a dangerous narrative: “Not only should Republicans not work closely with Democrats, they should instead keep them as far away as possible, preferably across a large moat filled with sharp stakes, acid, and alligators.” This, of course, follows the diatribe against Harry Reid by LDS Bishop Mark Paredes.

Wow. Not only are Democrats religiously challenged, but they’re also the spawn of the devil. Now that Republicans have the upper hand, they apparently should shun any kind of dialogue with people of differing beliefs. Just like before.

House & Home Advocates for the lowerincome bracket had a point last week when they noted that affordable housing is in crisis. While Salt Lake City is giddy over all kinds of high-rise options, affordable housing has not been in the mix. Most is upper-end housing, preferred by developers. The Leonardo is currently hosting an exhibit called No Fixed Address, highlighting the plight of the homeless. “The Low Income Housing Action Coalition’s review of affordable housing built since 2009 … indicates that less than 100 units of new low-income affordable housing have been made available each year,” the Deseret News reported. The coalition has a plan, but the city council needs to listen. “Help us make room for the working poor,” said the Rev. David Nichols. If they don’t, homelessness will be the default.

Every day, 25,000 people die of hunger—more than from tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS combined. That’s something that Natalie Blanton, a graduate student in sociology at the University of Utah and the chair of the University Service Coalition, has been thinking about a lot since she was a teenager grappling with a conservative upbringing in Heber City. The U’s 14th-annual Hunger Banquet, a soup dinner and discussion about hunger in Utah, is Nov. 18 (Union Saltair Room, 200 S. Central Campus Drive, 6 p.m.). Entrance is $5 or three cans of nonperishable goods; all money will go to Utahns Against Hunger and the International Rescue Committee’s local New Roots program, and donated canned food will be given to the U’s on-campus food pantry. Visit CityWeekly.net for more.

How has the Hunger Banquet changed in its 14 years?

It started out as a very structured evening. People would come and play various class roles.

As I understand it, people would be divvied out depending on percentages of populations in the world, and get like a soup and bread dinner if they were lower class, or a filet mignon if they were higher class. It was a really interesting dynamic of putting people into those places, but I felt really uncomfortable doing that. I think that everyone should kind of be on a level playing field, so we’ve kind of shifted it. Now, it’s just a get-together talking about Utah’s hunger issues, and hunger in general and what that really means, and what it looks like internationally as well as in our own backyard. We’ll all be eating this really basic vegetable soup that’s gluten free and locally sourced from our campus garden.

What does hunger look like in Utah?

We do a really great/terrible job of ignoring societal woes in Utah, because we do have these rose-colored glasses with this conservative, happy-go-lucky outlook. But hunger is rampant here. I don’t think that people think about hunger enough. You think of it around the holidays—like this, when there’s an event that brings it to your attention, and then you go buy your truckload of groceries and that’s enough. If everyone did a little bit more: taking a little bit off of what they buy at the grocery store throughout the year and donating to these causes that are actually putting meals into people’s bellies—throughout the year, not just in December—that’s a huge and direct step you can take against hunger in Utah.

What do the people with rose-colored glasses see?

People don’t realize that it’s so systemic, and that once you’re homeless, there’s not a lot of power to get out of that. That whole “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” just is not going to work. It’s really scary that people do that—they blame and they shame and just lower anyone that is in an unfortunate position. We need to remember that it’s all about life chances.

I think it’s rare when people have that realization, “Oh, God. This could be me if I hadn’t gotten that job, or if I did lose my house, or if I did shoot that heroin.” I teach a sex-ed class in the jail for Planned Parenthood. Every day I’m there, I realize that if I’d made one stupid decision the weekend before, I’d be right there in that class—and not as the teacher.

Is it even possible for one person to help such a big problem?

It’s bleak if people open their eyes. But I’m hopeful, and I’m really excited about people getting connected with nonprofits, the people putting in the legwork in the community. It kind of knocks the rose-colored glasses off, but it gives you a little bit of hope that people are doing this, and there are people who see the same issues that you see, and they are taking steps, no matter how hard they are, to get there.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Tax Breaks I’m sure you saw the story about the man who decided to cross 1,000 miles of ocean from Florida to Bermuda in an inf latable bubble.

Several days later, he had to be rescued via helicopter. That probably wasn’t cheap, and someone has to pay for it, and I suspect it ends up being you and me. My guess is knowing someone will try to rescue them is why daredevils take these risks. But why should the taxpayers have to cover the cost?

—Jim Huff You sound like a sensible chap who never puts himself in idiotic situations, Jim. I’m sure you floss twice a day and never mix beer with liquor. Taxpayers around the country applaud your efforts. Luckily, not everyone thinks like you—otherwise we never would have put a man on the moon.

(And yes, we did; that conspiracy theory was debunked here years ago.)

Daredevils have been at it since Icarus flew too close to the sun, so I don’t buy the idea that a free rescue is their primary motivation. That said, it’s worth investigating whether the availability of government bailouts creates what economists call a moral hazard—a situation where people take greater risks because they know someone else will bear the cost— and whether taxpayers are shouldering too much of the burden. And yes, we’re talking here about physical stunts, not banking practices, but one can see how this theme might easily be expanded.

For simplicity, we’ll focus on search & rescue (SAR) statistics on Mount McKinley over the last century, which initially seem to support the idea that such measures do more harm than good. For the decade after McKinley was first summitted in 1903, the fatality rate was an impressive 0 percent—only serious climbers made attempts. Fatalities remained low until helicopter SAR efforts started becoming commonplace, around 1976. In the following decade, the number of people attempting the summit increased by 1,500 percent, and fatalities more than doubled.

Theoretically, greater safety measures may in fact cause people to take more risks—a phenomenon known as the Peltzman effect, after the researcher who showed that wearing seat belts correlated with riskier driving. But the effect on mountaineering soon leveled off. Since the 1980s, the fatality rate per climber attempt at McKinley has fallen more than 90 percent.

So in fact, the numbers suggest that overall climbers are indulging in far less foolish behavior than before the increase in SAR efforts. The question remains whether the rest of us should be made to pay for other people’s poorly developed prefrontal cortexes.

There’s plenty of anecdotal evidence that advances in rescue technology have caused people to make foolish decisions at taxpayers’ expense. The advent of personal satellite locator beacons like the one our hamsterlike hero, Reza Baluchi, used to call emergency services from his

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ball in the ocean—the California SAR chief has nicknamed the devices “yuppie 911”—has given rise to many such stories.

One Grand Canyon camper summoned a rescue mission, costing $4,000-plus per hour, because she heard “odd noises emanating from the leader of the group as he slept.” By the time rescuers arrived, the caller was asleep herself, apparently no longer too concerned.

The price of a serious rescue can be steep—the 1998 rescue of two McKinley climbers at 19,000 feet cost $222,000. From 1992 to 2007 the National Park Service performed 65,439 SARs, at an average cost of $895; the average mountain rescue, though, sported a $27,000 price tag.

Would some of these people have been deterred if no rescue were promised, or if they had to pay for their rescues themselves? Probably. Would either measure improve the situation? Definitely not.

In the grand scheme, rescuing people just isn’t that big a deal financially. All those rescues between 1992 and 2007 cost $3.5 million a year on average—a paltry 1.2 cents per American. It’s fair to say most of that was spent not on daredevils but on reasonable, riskaverse people like yourself. Only about 5 percent of SAR efforts deal with rock climbing and mountaineering—i.e., more obviously risk y behavior—whereas day hiking, boating and swimming account for 72 percent. A review of 18 years of SARs on McKinley classified just nine of 261 rescues as due to inexperience, and only four were false alarms.

There’s also the moral issue: charging for rescues could cause people who are genuinely in trouble to hesitate when calling for help, resulting in more deaths and serious injuries.

Finally, the practical question: What public official is going to advocate denying rescue efforts to people who can’t pay the bills? Some states do charge small fees— Oregon requires people to pay up to $500 per rescue, for instance—but this is only intermittently enforced.

We know you wouldn’t be caught dead in an inflatable sphere in the middle of the ocean, Jim. Surely, though, you won’t begrudge a 1.2-cent contribution towards helping those with less brains than you but more balls.

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Nonprofit groups raise funds for storage lockers for Salt Lake City’s homeless.

By Eric S. Peterson epeterson@cityweekly.net @ericspeterson “Dash” has the kind of story that’s sadly common among those who have made the streets of Salt Lake City their home. Taking a break from panhandling on a downtown street corner, 24-year-old Dash tells a reporter that she’s had her share of struggles, including a three-year heroin addiction and, more recently, clashes with an abusive boyfriend who, she says, tried to kill her “three too many times.” Eventually, she decided to take her chances on the street rather than live under the same roof as him.

Now she has a problem that’s common among almost all of Salt Lake City’s homeless: what to do with her worldly possessions.

Being homeless, Dash has to carry everything she owns with her. A licensed cosmetologist, she has a $400 hair straightener and nice clothes that she keeps with her at all times to keep them from being lost or stolen. To have a place to safely keep belongings may seem like a simple amenity, but for homeless folks like Dash, it would be a lifesaver.

She says she occasionally hides her other belongings in a secret spot downtown, but has also had some of her scant possessions stolen, a common occurrence when living on the street alongside people in similarly desperate situations. Nevertheless, she says, it disturbs her.

“We all know what this road is like,” Dash says. “Why are we making it more of a hell for each other when we’re all in the same situation?”

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“Small things are really precious when you have next to nothing.”

for Salt Lake City’s homeless: a mobile trailer that could hold as many as 34 storage lockers that the homeless could access to store their belongings, for free, during the day.

Travis Hysell is the head of the Legacy Initiative, a Utah County-based nonprofit that does outreach with Salt Lake City’s homeless, and has long been organizing to develop a local iteration of the Dignity Village model.

That model has been adopted by cities like Portland, Ore., where officials eased zoning and ordinances to allow for a kind of cooperative community, made up of shed-like housing structures, where the homeless can live and pay only $25 to $50 a month to cover utilities.

Hysell says he isn’t giving up on that dream, but says he’s realized that a smaller project would prove that the organization is serious and committed to helping not only Salt Lake City’s homeless, but also the larger community.

“We need to produce something substantial just to demonstrate our ability to pull off a project like this,” Hysell says. “We did some needs analysis and some focus groups with the homeless folks, and having storage for their belongings is a critical need that’s not really being met.”

Hysell says they realized how important storage is when talking with homeless individuals, some of whom broke down in tears when talking about possessions they’d lost or had stolen.

“Small things are really precious when you have next to nothing,” Hysell says. He compares a life on the streets to “living like a turtle, with your whole

—Travis Hysell, head of the nonprofit Legacy Initiative

David Brooks, head of Revolution United, is helping to design a mobile storage unit with free-to-use lockers for the homeless. life on your back. You go to a job interview, and you got all your belongings with you—how likely are you going to get that job?” he asks. “Once you get a job, what do you do with your belongings? Hide them in a bush and hope they don’t get stolen?”

The Legacy Initiative teamed up w ith fellow nonprof it Revolution United to develop and build the mobile storage unit. David Brooks, the head of Revolution United, says his group also realized there was a need for storage units after coordinating with the homeless for an “idea silo,” a kind of grassroots collaborative effort that the nonprofit has used in the past to set up events like the Utah Clean Air Fair.

The two groups are looking to raise $10,000 with events and crowdfunding platforms to build their first mobile storage, which would fit on a trailer and hold 34 lockers equipped with removable keys that homeless people

could take with them—similar to the lockers that Lagoon offers its patrons.

The storage would be available for free on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Brooks says the groups are still troubleshooting some concerns such as preventing theft and drug storage by possibly attaching a security camera to the storage unit.

“We want to bring onboard local police agencies,” Brooks says. “So that we can have it be a secure spot.”

Brooks, who has a background in design engineering and is already hard at work on the physical design of the mobile storage unit, is unfazed by the project’s technical challenges.

“As an engineer, you have to think about all of the negative problems and figure out ways to implement solutions before it even happens,” Brooks says. CW

Legacy Initiative and Revolution United will be kicking off their fundraising campaign at the Big Hope Kickoff party at Bar Deluxe, 666 S. State, Nov. 21, 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. The event will feature live music, and a $5 donation will cover the entrance fee and go to support the project.

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Utahns will keep paying $28K a year to store Rolf Kaestel.

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Rolf Kaestel, who stole $264 from an Arkansas taco shop 33 years ago, has been incarcerated in Utah since 1999 and was the subject of an August 2014 City Weekly cover story.

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that choice may have rubbed the ambitious district attorney, Ron Fields, the wrong way. The steep punishment of life without parole for aggravated robbery isn’t allowed in Utah.

The circumstances that brought Kaestel to Utah are cloaked in secrecy. He entered the Arkansas prison system with the goal of drawing attention to his case through legal means. He became a paralegal and filed lawsuits against the Arkansas Department of Corrections. In one suit, while he was the editor of the prison’s newspaper, The Long Line Writer, he was victorious, settling when the attorney general’s office offered to buy him a computer and a printer.

That spirit of agitation, though, eventually caught up with Kaestel. In 1999, shortly after participating in Duda’s documentary film that drew attention to a prison bloodplasma program that had infected people across the world with HIV and hepatitis C, a pair of guards whisked Kaestel out of the breakfast line. A few days later, he wound up at the Utah State Prison in Draper.

Kaestel’s long residency in Utah is part of a program known as “interstate compact.” According to Brooke Adams, a spokeswoman for the Utah prison system, Utah is hosting 34 inmates from other states in such arrangements, while 32 Utah inmates have been transferred to other states. Often, prison officials say, these transfers are executed because a prisoner asked to be closer to family, or for the prisoner’s protection.

But in Kaestel’s case, his advocates in Arkansas say they didn’t know where he’d been moved to for months. And, as far as Kaestel knows, he has no living family.

A City Weekly reporter’s visit during the summer was Kaestel’s first in 15 years.

Duda came across Kaestel by chance while making the film, and has been an advocate for his release ever since. He says he’s optimistic that Arkansas governorelect Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, will release Kaestel when the prisoner’s request for clemency glides across his desk.

“What is required is real leadership from the governor’s office on this moral issue,” Duda says. “Rolf Kaestel’s not going away unless they let him out.” CW

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When Election Day came and went the first week of November, a blip of news on television screens in Arkansas had deep consequences for a man sitting in a prison cell in Gunnison.

Outgoing Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe announced Nov. 6 that he would grant pardons to 25 people, including a man convicted of stalking a child on the Internet and a woman convicted of negligent homicide.

Beebe also denied 64 requests for clemency and declined to take action on 21 others. There was one piece of paper, though, that did not make it into Beebe’s hands: a request from 63-year-old Rolf Kaestel, who has been imprisoned in Utah since 1999 for stealing $264 from a Bob’s Taco Hut in Fort Smith, Ark., in 1981.

Storing Kaestel away in the dusty southern edge of the Sanpete Valley costs Utah taxpayers $28,000 a year. Without adjusting to inflation, Utah has spent $420,000 warehousing Kaestel.

Kaestel’s tale was documented in the August 2014 City Weekly cover story “Invisible Man,” in which Kaestel’s dwindling cast of supporters spoke in favor of his release.

In 2013, Beebe did not take action on Kaestel’s request for clemency—a move that, Kaestel says in letters, he hoped simply meant that the governor was waiting for his last days in the governor’s mansion to make a decision. Kaestel’s current request, a Beebe spokeswoman says, did not make it to the governor in time to be considered.

The now-annual denial or non-action on Kaestel’s request for clemency irks Kelly Duda, an Arkansan who met Kaestel in the 1990s while working on a documentary.

“They just want him to die,” Duda says.

“Find me another water-gun robbery in Arkansas or Utah that resulted with a life without parole prison term. At a certain point, it just becomes absurd.”

The brush with the law that landed Kaestel behind bars came when he used a water pistol to hold up the taco shop.

Then 29 years old, Kaestel had a long list of robberies under his belt. He’d served time in prison in several states, but had never been convicted of a violent crime.

The employee Kaestel robbed has since pleaded for the man’s release. A former assistant attorney general has advocated for his release, and a report by a parole board employee in Utah also urged Beebe to set Kaestel free.

His plight in the Sebastian County Courthouse, where he was found guilty of aggravated robbery and sentenced to life without parole, was largely due to his decision to represent himself and how

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Curses, Foiled Again

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After police seeking Monica Hargrove, 34, for aggravated robbery in Columbus, Ohio, posted her photo on the department’s Facebook page, the suspect called and demanded the photo be removed because she considered it unflattering. “Come on in and we’ll talk about it,” the detective she spoke with told her. She did, public information officer Denise Alex-Bouzounis said, and was arrested. (The Columbus Dispatch)

Ebolamania After finding a Nigerian traveler shivering on the floor of Spain’s Madrid-Barajas airport, officials activated an emergency Ebola alert and declined to help him. An hour later, they summoned a team of infectious disease specialists, who examined the nowunconscious man and concluded he was a drug mule suffering from a cocaine overdose after several bags of the drug in his stomach burst. He was finally taken to a hospital but died. The man’s wife said he hadn’t visited Nigeria in at least four years.

(Spain’s The Local)

8. A giant disco ball ($50,000) 7. Monster (hybrid) truck rally

($30,000)

6.

Dunkin’ Donuts Presents: The World’s Largest Cronut Gun ($25,000)

5.

Huey Lewis & the News ($22,000)

4.

Huey Lewis reading the news ($20,000)

3. Five, maybe six, phonecharging kiosks ($10,000)

2.

Dr. Freaky’s Sideshow of Utah Oddities & Democratic Candidates ($6,000)

1.

A State Liquor Store open after 10 p.m. (TBD)

Vehicular Follies

While Megan Campbell was driving a city supply van in St. Paul, Minn., she hit a parked Nissan Pathfinder, seriously damaging its bumper. It happened to be her personal vehicle, and Campbell filed a claim against the city seeking $1,600 to $1,900. “Because I was working for the city and driving the city vehicle, I feel they are responsible for paying for the damage done to my car,” she explained in her claim form. (St. Paul’s Pioneer Press)

QUIRKS

n Authorities in Northern Ireland charged Kevin Clarence, 20, with attempted robbery after he waited in line at a supermarket with a black trash bag over his head and then demanded money. An employee who heard the demand approached the suspect, who said, “I’ll be back,” and fled. Two witnesses identified Clarence as the would-be robber, and a police officer at his subsequent trial in County Londonderry pointed out that Clarence had just been released from prison for a similar offense. (BBC News)

Eight Kickstarter campaigns for attractions to replace Salt Lake City’s New Year’s Eve fireworks:

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n The Food & Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission reported actively monitoring fraudulent claims that products, especially ones from unconventional sources, prevent or treat Ebola. “The concern is that if the pubic anxiety over Ebola continues to grow, we’re going to see more and more,” the FTC’s Richard Cleland said. “Consumers have to assess for themselves what the need for those type of products are.” Thomas Bollyky of the Council on Foreign Relations explained, “The necessary ingredients to this type of profiteering are twofold: panic and novelty.” (National Journal)

Only Human New York City’s Civil Service Commission upheld the 20-day suspension of a Health Department worker for answering an information-technology helpline “in a robotic voice.” Callers complained about the over-enunciated monotone, including one who demanded “to speak to a human.” The worker said he was articulating carefully because his Brooklyn accent can be difficult to understand, but the administrative law judge who heard his appeal called him a “disgruntled employee” acting out. (Associated Press)

n A man backing out of his driveway in Aurora, Colo., jumped out of his van to avoid being burned by a cigarette he dropped on himself.

The vehicle kept moving, knocked him down and ran over his head.

He was hospitalized in critical condition. (Denver’s KUSA-TV)

Drinking-Class Heroes After grateful members of Canada’s House of Commons applauded Alain Gervais, the guard who shielded them from gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, New Democrat Party caucus chair Glenn Thibault declared, “We just need to constantly make sure that that person never has to pay for a beer at any pub in the country for the rest of his life.” After learning that Gervais’ favorite beer is Molson, Gavin Thompson of Molson Coors Canada announced, “We will take good care of Alain.” Molson promptly delivered several hundred bottles of beer to his Ottawa home. (CBC News) n After complying with a municipal liquor ban dating back to the 19th century, residents of Hanover, Manitoba, learned that no such ban exists. “I didn’t know any better,” Stan Toews, 63, the rural community’s reeve, said. “We went back to 1880, and we could not find a bylaw that said Hanover is dry.” Toews invited local establishments interested in selling alcohol to apply for a provincial liquor license. (Canadian Press) n Minneapolis ad agency Colle & McVoy reported that since it began offering workers a free glass of beer for filling out their timecards properly, time-sheet completion has improved by 90 percent. (United Press International)

Things That Go Boom Television maker Philips received complaints that the base of some sets had spontaneously blown up. “It was a big explosion,” Denise Young said after the tempered-glass base shattered into hundreds of pieces all over her Boston living room. Philips replaced Young’s TV and said it’s now making TV bases of acrylic and plastic. (Boston’s WBZ-TV)

Reasonable Explanation Sheriff’s deputies who arrested Lisa Carol Roche, 41, after they caught her taking items from cars parked at a high school in Jackson County, Miss., said she claimed she was looking for members of the terrorist group ISIS. (Gulfport’s Sun Herald) Compiled from the press reports by Roland Sweet. Authentication on demand.

CITIZEN REVOLT

by ERIC S. PETERSON @ericspeterson

Rallies, Hearings & Legislation This weekend, a gathering will take place outside the Saratoga Springs Police Department to demand answers and accountability for the police shooting of Darrien Hunt, a young black resident who died while dressed in a samurai costume. Later, swing by Interim Day at the Utah Legislature, where lawmakers will be discussing everything from transportation funding and public lands to a bill to limit campaign contributions to candidates for office. You can also drop in at the Utah Transit Authority board meeting to sound off on the proposed 2015 budget.

Rally for Darrien Hunt Friday, Nov. 14

While the Utah County Attorney’s office has ruled the shooting of Darrien Hunt justified, many still question the use of force, especially given a medical examiner’s report confirming Hunt was shot in the back while fleeing police.

Community members will rally to remember Hunt and call for restraint in the use of deadly force by police.

Sa ratoga Springs Police Department, 1307 N. Commerce Drive Suite 120, Saratoga Springs, Nov. 14, 1-5 p.m. citywk.ly/10RHkXv

Legislative Interim Day Wednesday, Nov. 19

The 2015 session is right around the corner, and this week, you can hear about coming bills, like a proposal by Rep. Brian King, D-Salt Lake City, to put limits on campaign contributions to try to keep special interests from outright buying politicians through campaign donations. Other committees will hear reports on transportation funding, public-lands fights and other key issues.

Utah Capitol, 350 N. State, 801538-1029, Nov. 19, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Le.Utah.gov

UTA Budget Hearing Wednesday, Nov. 19

After a scathing audit dinged the Utah Transit Authority on questionable developments and a lack of bus service, UTA is now looking for public comment on its proposed 2015 budget. While the budget does look to increase bus funding by a little more than $500,000, it also proposes more than $4.2 million in new real-estate/development expenses.

Show up, speak up and don’t get railed.

UTA Headquarters, 669 W. 200 South, 801-287-2580, Nov. 19, 2-5 p.m., RideUTA.com

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Advocates worry Good Landlord programs cause an unending cycle from prison to the streets and back into the big house.

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a year ago, Toshiba Richards experienced what she now calls a blessing, though she didn’t recognize it as such at the time. In the grips of a methamphetamine addiction, Richards had been on the run for months, with multiple warrants out for her arrest, and had decided she would not go back behind bars—at least not for long. She kept a bottle of painkillers with her, and she had a plan for them.

“I was carrying them in my pocket the whole time I was on the run,” Richards says. “My plan was that when [the police] picked me up, I would pop the pills, and when they booked me into jail, I would go to sleep and not wake up.”

But she didn’t have her pills when she finally was arrested—and that was the miracle that brought forth the unusual blessing of time in prison.

The eight-month spell of sobriety gave her time to learn about herself and her addiction, and account for the destruction in her past: struggles in her marriage; the loss of her children, taken into custody by the Utah Department of Child & Family Services; the dwindling respect and love from family, friends and herself.

For Richards, corrections did what it’s supposed to. It put her on a different path and, now out of the system, Richards lives a new life in a simple apartment with secondhand furniture provided by a local LDS bishop. Her small coffee table holds scriptures and a copy of How Strong Women Pray, and she attends LDS, Protestant and Impact religious services, which she discovered while in prison.

But she’s still paying debts both emotional and tangible for her time as an addict. She started using when she was 16, she says, after being kicked out of a chaotic and dysfunctional home. From there, meth became a way for her to lose weight, party and fit in, until it took everything, including her four children, three of whom she hasn’t seen in eight years.

Richards works every day to pick up the pieces, which she says wouldn’t even be possible without a major lifeline: housing.

Though it’s generally considered a basic necessity, a place to live is out of reach for many Utahns, even those who have the means to pay deposits and rents. Richards is originally from Ogden, but could find no housing there because of the city’s Good Landlord program.

Ogden is one of many Utah cities that have Good Landlord programs, which offer discounts to landlords who agree to certain conditions, such as annual training and, often, rejecting applicants with criminal records within the past four years. Good Landlord programs vary from city to city, but a state law sets the general parameters—such as that no city may discriminate against individuals with criminal convictions older than four years.

City Weekly received a non-comprehensive list of Utah cities with Good Landlord programs from the Utah Apartment Association and, after examining the ordinances, found that 11 of 13 cities’ programs restrict landlords from renting to tenants with recent criminal records.

Those who are shut out of Good Landlord housing are faced with the limited pool of rental units that aren’t part of the proepeterson@cityweekly.net gram. And though it’s possible that

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some of these landlords have opted out of the program in order to give former convicts a break, their rental units are also not subject to city-enforced standards and are more likely to be rundown.

While proponents laud Good Landlord programs for their role in reducing crime, criminal-justice advocates see them as a way that lets cities move ex-convicts from housing to shelters—and from there, back to prison, where they come under the care of taxpayers, who subsidize their incarceration to the tune of roughly $30,000 a year.

Advocates are hopeful about the coming legislative session, however, when criminal-justice reform will be on the lips of many legislators as part of the conversation about relocating the Utah State Prison. Lawmakers will also likely be looking to tweak the state’s Good Landlord laws, which govern how cities administer their programs.

Anna Brower, an analyst for the ACLU of Utah, says that so far, the discussion over the law has been a closed-door one, between the Utah League of Cities & Towns and the Utah Apartment Association. But she’s hopeful that the discussion will broaden and consider the possibilities of making it so the law doesn’t allow for cities to so easily shut out people with criminal records.

“Most people will go back to prison within the first three years, and housing is a huge part to re-entry success,” Brower says. And these Good Landlord programs, she says, deny housing “for people during the period when it is absolutely most critical that they access it.”

Nowhere to Turn

Life after prison comes w ith daunting challenges: gaps on résumés because of years spent incarcerated; landlords who prefer not to rent to ex-convicts; a lack of support for coping with addictions and mental-health issues; less education; and fewer job skills. It’s a stacked deck ready to deal most inmates right back into a life of crime and inevitable arrest and reincarceration.

And according to Shannon Cox, who was an Adult Probations & Parole officer for 20 years, for women, the deck is stacked well before an arrest. It often starts with a pattern of sexual assault—and 1 in 3 women in Utah will experience a sexual assault in their lifetime, Cox says. She estimates that 90 percent of the women in Utah’s jails and prisons are victims of sexual assault.

And many female inmates are “in prison for non-violent crimes,” Cox says. “They get abused, and then they get addicted. They don’t get the care they need, so they start self-medicating, and they stay stuck in the cycle.”

Though it’s generally considered a basic necessity, a place to live is out of reach for many Utahns, even those who have the means to pay deposits and rents. Toshiba Richards is originally from Ogden, but could find no housing there because of the city’s Better Landlord program.

managers. For the association’s head, Paul Smith, the idea of doing everything possible to help ex-convicts find housing is admirable, but mostly at a theoretical level.

The other side of the story, he says, is landlords who have to sweat over whether a tenant is paying rent by cooking meth, or neighbors who have to worry about the couple down the hall screaming and fighting at all hours of the night.

“Its a lot more personal to the landlord and the neighbor than the advocates from afar who are trying to help reform the criminal justice system,” Smith says.

And it’s not just landlords and tenants who favor the Good Landlord programs, but entire cities. Smith points out that cites have reported significant reductions in crime rates since implementing Good Landlord programs.

That being said, Smith adds, all parties—cities, exconvicts, renters and rentees—will stand to benefit if the state law can be tweaked in some major respects in the 2015 legislative session.

For Smith, the major issue is the price of participation in Good Landlord programs.

The programs are meant to be completely voluntary, allowing property owners the choice between a reasonable discount for participating or a reasonable added Cox herself understands how the trauma of sexual cost if they would prefer to rent to whoever they want and assault can dramatically change the trajectory of a womforego inspections, training and jumping through other an’s life. She was the victim of an assault while attending required hoops. In city-code speak, participating landBrigham Young University. Her reaction was deciding to lords receive a discount on the “disproportionate fee” that become a cop. is generally charged for the added cost of city services like “I wasn’t going to be a victim anymore,” Cox says. “So I police calls that rental units use far more than, say, resifigured if I was a cop, nobody would try and hurt me.” dential homes.

Cox says that for many years, her trauma made her a But if the price difference is too large, Smith says, it “mean cop,” especially to male abusers. But as she proallows cities to economically twist the arms of landlords gressed in her career, she began to see offenders as people into participating. like her, reacting to trauma. And she saw that men often He points out that in Ogden, for example, the owner react by lashing violently outward, and women by directof a fourplex who chooses to not participate in the Good ing their anger inward—cutting themselves and succumbLandlord program would pay roughly $300 more per year ing to addictions. for the four units than if he was in the program. In Salt “As you survive your own trauma, you see the humanity Lake City, nonparticipating landlords pay $342 per unit, of the job,” Cox says. and a fourplex owner would have to cough up $1,388 to opt Now Cox has her own nonprofit, out of the program.

Journey of Hope, which aids women as “That’s outrageous,” Smith says. “It’s an they transition out of prison in finding abuse of the program, and those kinds of fees services, housing and other kinds of supneed to be capped.” port to keep them off the street and out While Salt Lake City may be catching the of prison. And with so many forces likely most flak from landlords for its high fees, it to mire a released convict in a downward doesn’t restrict landlords from renting to excycle, Cox says that Good Landlord proconvicts, and simply encourages landlords grams do more harm than good. to run background checks.

“It’s a way to keep people stuck,” Cox It’s not required under the state Good says. “To tax someone that wants to give Landlord law that cities bar landlords in the somebody else a break.” program from renting to ex-convicts, but Cox says women are particularly vulthe law does allow them to restrict landlords nerable when they’re released from prisfrom renting to individuals who’ve had crimon. She makes regular rounds with other inal convictions within the past four years. advocates, visiting and doing outreach Smith believes the state law could be with sex workers in Salt Lake City, and changed to reduce that time restriction says the overwhelming plea she hears from four to three years, a move that might from women is for a place to stay. encourage advocates. But he expects that “You can hand them a bag that has there will be resistance. some hygiene items and a bleach kit in it, “Ogden won’t like that,” Smith says.

—Anna Brower of but when women say, ‘I need to get off the “They have a disproportionate number of the ACLU of Utah ex-convicts, and they’re probably toughest street right now, I can’t do this anymore,’ and there is a John standing right behind on the [renting to ex-convicts] rule in their them, and you don’t got any place to take program.” them, it leaves a sick feeling in your stomach,” Cox says.

“Most people will go back to prison within the first three years, and housing is a huge part to re-entry success.”

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The Utah Apartment Association acts as an industry association and lobby for the state’s landlords and rental property

O-Town Blues

Ogden led the way for Utah cities in 2004 when it created its Better Landlord program, which draws a sharp line against renting to ex-convicts. Ogden requires background checks and prohibits renting to individuals convicted of most felonies and other

“You have to have emotional and physical safety in order to be able to feel emotionally and physically safe enough to overcome mental-health issues, addiction issues. You’re not going to do that homeless.”

—Shannon Cox, a former Adult Probations & Parole officer

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But for Ogden itself, the program has paid off.

A report of the program’s first five years shows that between 2004 and 2009, the city’s crime dropped by 22.78 percent—almost double the decline of the national average—property values and taxes increased, and fewer city resources were used.

Ogden’s landlord policies may also be leading the state in another way that does bring relief to both former inmates and advocates. A city variance allows ex-convicts to get into Good Landlord housing so long as they are also under case management through Weber Human Services for their substance abuse or mental-health issues—though they could still be evicted from the housing like any other tenant.

Individuals who graduate from the program after two years of supervision can access Good Landlord housing even if their conviction is less than four years behind them. Scothern estimates that there are dozens currently in the program, and says he has heard of only one individual who did not graduate.

“If we have people coming out, we want to give them the second-chance program to get them back into being productive members of society,” Scothern says.

Cox says the best approach to helping ex-convicts reintegrate into society is similar to the approach the state has used in its recent battles to curb chronic homelessness: housing first.

“You have to have emotional and physical safety in order to be able to feel emotionally and physically safe enough to overcome mental-health issues, addiction issues,” Cox says. “You’re not going to do that homeless.”

Lloyd Pendleton works as the state’s homeless coordinator for the Utah Department of Workforce Services. In his more than two decades of work in the LDS Church’s Welfare Services program, Pendleton has also been loaned out to help organizations like the Road Home and the Utah Food Bank, before those organizations even had those names. Since 2004, he’s been tasked with helping bring down the rate of Utah’s chronic homeless—those individuals with the most problematic histories of addiction and mental-health issues. Through a series of grants and pilot programs, Pendleton has helped bring Utah’s chronic homeless population down from 14 percent as a percent of the total homeless population in 2005 to a little over 4 percent in 2014.

“The Good Landlord Act don’t just affect us,” Jesse says.

“You think because we’re felons we don’t got kids, we don’t got moms, we don’t got relatives?”

debt that felons pay in prison and have to make amends for on the outside, but adds that people don’t understand the stress it places on the family of those incarcerated who have to endure the same trying environments.

Lisa recalls her granddaughter once stepping on a needle when they went out to get mail.

“The Good Landlord Act don’t just affect us,” Jesse says. “You think because we’re felons we don’t got kids, we don’t got moms, we don’t got relatives?”

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within a 10 minute’s drive a dozen other communities that don’t have a Good Landlord program.”

But multiple communities adjacent to Ogden also have programs that are equally restrictive when it comes to renting to people with criminal convictions.

In Washington Terrace, just south of Ogden, only 68 of 771 rental units aren’t under the city’s program, according to data obtained in an open-records request.

In Roy, west of Ogden, 71 percent of landlords are in the city’s Good Landlord program. And less than 15 minutes south, Clearfield—the second most populous city in the Ogden-Clearfield Metropolitan area—has just 161 out of 3,171 rental units not covered in the city’s program, which explicitly prevents renting to individuals with not just felonies but with “any” conviction for crimes dealing with drugs, alcohol or threats to persons and property within the past three years.

The way Good Landlord programs limit housing options also shift the odds so that available housing often holds numerous felons and ex-convicts, providing a less-thanideal environment for former inmates trying to better themselves.

Lisa, who asked that her real name be withheld, understands the pitfalls of addiction, incarceration and recovery. Over her lifetime, Lisa has been to prison eight times for a variety of theft and drug-possession charges.

Two years ago when she tried to find housing, she was staying at a sober house and doing well with her addiction recovery.

Then she learned that her daughter had been sent to prison, and she was forced to find housing that would accept her and her grandchildren while their mother served her sentence. Good Landlord programs barred her at every turn until she found an apartment complex in Salt Lake County that would rent to ex-convicts—lots of them, despite the fact that felons are not supposed to live in close proximity to other felons.

“Every corner I turned, someone from prison was there,” Lisa says. She endured constant temptations while struggling to find a new job and arrange day care for her grandkids. Eventually she succumbed and relapsed into her addiction.

Recovered now, Lisa is still dismayed by how the Good Landlord programs end up herding ex-convicts into the same housing complexes.

“You got to have a chance somewhere where you don’t have to worry about taking the garbage out and running into someone selling crystal,” Lisa says.

Lisa shares her apartment with another daughter and her daughter’s children, as well as her boyfriend and his son Jesse, who also asked that his real name not be published. When Jesse was transitioning out of prison in Ogden’s Northern Utah Community Correctional Center, he says, staff provided him and other men their with the phone number of one landlord in the city who would rent to felons.

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crimes within the past four years. If a police report or a complaint makes its way to the city and staff discover that a landlord rented to an ex-convict or failed to run a background check, then the landlord is kicked out of the program and forced to pay the difference in fees for being non-compliant.

The city stands out as the least forgiving when it comes to convicts, but its capacity for forgiveness has perhaps waned over decades of residents dealing with some of the highest crime rates in the entire state. In the post-war years, Ogden’s housing offered very low rents, with out-ofstate slumlords neglecting to screen tenants. As a railroad town, Ogden also attracted a more transient population of newcomers lacking strong family or other ties to the communities.

This reputation was only exacerbated by high-profile crimes like the 1974 Hi-Fi Murders, where the robbery of a home-audio store escalated when the suspects tied down five victims and forced them to drink drain cleaner. Only two of the victims survived, one of whom also endured a gunshot to the head and a pen being stomped into his ear.

A case study developed by Ogden’s Better Landlord Program says that the combination of these factors caused residents and businesses to flee the city, stalling the local economy and depressing real-estate values. “As crime increased, many good citizens left for the suburbs or other cities, leaving their properties to become rentals or to even sit vacant,” the report states.

According to figures from the Department of Corrections, 37 percent of the state’s current offenders were convicted in Salt Lake County. Weber County accounts for 16 percent, and Davis County, which sits between the two counties, accounts for 8 percent— meaning that 60 percent of all Utah inmates were convicted in these three counties, a 65-mile span.

Ogden’s Northern Utah Community Correctional Center, a halfway house with 154 beds, is also the second largest halfway house in the state. But the inmates leaving the prison and returning home to Ogden find a barrier in the city’s Good Landlord program.

According to records from Ogden City, 86.74 percent of the city’s rental units participate in the program. With just 1,487 units in the city not restricted from being rented to former convicts, it’s difficult for individuals to find housing in their hometown, close to family and friends who can help them reintegrate into society.

Though Ogden landlords aren’t hit with as heavy a fine for not participating in the Good Landlord program, Greg Scothern, who oversees the Good Landlord program for Ogden, says that there are a number of property owners in Ogden who own hundreds of units, and those owners save $10,000 to $14,000 a year by participating in the Good Landlord program.

“It’s a huge savings,” Scothern says.

But he stresses that it’s a voluntary program, and that it’s not burdensome for convicts from O-town to live in a nearby community.

“The reality is, this is just Ogden City,” Scothern says. “There are

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The next project, he says, is a pilot program funded by the Department of Corrections that will specifically help women transitioning out of prison by providing assistance to cover the cost of rent in various cities in the state. Pendleton says the pilot will coordinate with landlords and, through the help of the Utah Apartment Association, will also work with cities to develop variances like Ogden’s that will allow women to stay in Good Landlord rentals as long as they are being supervised by case managers or mentors.

And while Pendleton has put in decades of work helping the most vulnerable populations in the state, he’s also served on a planning commission in city government and understands the tightrope that cities walk when trying to both provide second chances and protect the safety of all their residents. Experimenting with variances is a way cities can compromise on the issue of housing for people with criminal records, he says.

“There are solutions to meet both needs,” Pendleton says.

While advocates eagerly wait to see what legislative reforms the Utah Apartment Association and the League of Cities & Towns will propose in the next session, other opportunities are emerging to help keep ex-convicts from being stuck in the quagmire of recidivism.

With the state pushing more and more for the relocation of the Utah State Prison in Draper so that the prime real estate underneath can be developed, a unique, perhaps once-in-a-generation opportunity is also crystallizing to enact major criminal-justice reform in the state.

At a recent meeting of the Utah Prison Relocation Commission, Ron Gordon, director of the Utah Commission on Criminal & Juvenile Justice, told legislators that without immediate reform, Utah’s prison population will grow by 37 percent in the next 20 years.

He did give some good news: 97 percent of that growth could be contained if the Legislature will address an aggressive slate of reforms.

But the reforms will not be slam-dunk bills, and include controversial proposals such as reducing drug possessions from felonies to Class A misdemeanors in order to keep addicts out of prison. Though

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Gordon didn’t address the Good Landlord issue, he also called for more aggressive funding of community-treatment resources for mental-health and addiction services, the kinds of services that could help cities that might be looking to use variances like Ogden’s to bring risky ex-convicts into Good Landlord rentals so long as they have case managers and other support.

While some legislators on the commission questioned how much the 2015 session could address, Gordon stressed the urgency of filling the void of services outside the prison.

“If we’re going to have prison time avoided right now, then we need treatment and community resources—right now,” Gordon said.

The Pew Trust, which has been working closely with Gordon and the CCJJ, did deliver more good news following the commission’s meeting. While the cost of relocating and expanding the prison with beds to accommodate future growth has been given an estimated price tag of $1 billion, more than half of that cost—$542 million— is linked solely to the projected growth in the prison’s population.

While policymakers debate the future of criminal justice, those affected by the system continue to fight to get out from under their criminal pasts.

For Richards, her history is her history, and she understands that redemption is supposed to be hard.

“I failed as a mother and at times, I failed as a wife, and I failed at life, but I got another chance,” Richards says. “And I know no matter what, my kids are going to find me one day and I’m not going to be some junkie laying in a gutter.”

Richards struggles to pay her rent even with disability for mental-health issues like depression, hallucinations and drug dependency. She has to pay more for her rent than other tenants and can only work part-time. Despite everything, Richards has an easy laugh and an infectious smile, but her good humor can be suddenly dampened when she considers everything she has to face.

“I’m grateful I’m not in prison and have the opportunity to start my life over,” Richards says, before quietly adding, “But sometimes I just wish it was a lot easier.” CW

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Nearly a quarter of all current Utah inmates were convicted in Davis or Weber counties. The Good Landlord programs of many of the cities in those counties all restrict renting to people with criminal records, leaving limited housing available for former inmates.

OGDEN, CLEARFIELD, WASHINGTON TERRACE Good Landlord Rental Units (no convictions within past three to four years)

13,672

Rental Units Outside of the Good Landlord Program

1,716

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743

Landlords Not Participating in Good Landlord Program (number of units unknown)

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City Weekly’s online series The Life In A Day provides local skateboarders with the opportunity to produce videos documenting their work, with 24 hours to complete each segment. Skating style and video styles have converged to create unique portraits of these local riders. The monthly series has showcased seven skaters, and the eighth and final episode will be celebrated with a reception at CUAC Gallery.

The exhibit will display photo stills from the series, in addition to art created by the skaters, who are talented artists in their own right; Mike Murdock, for example, is more known for his folk-art-influenced paintings. Episode 8 will be screened at the opening, rounding out the first season of video portraits. It’s not just about visually stunning tricks, but insights into the way these athletes think, and the way they utilize public space and architecture.

Skateboarding has become an art form as well as an athletic demonstration, as skaters have refined their skills and techniques in highly personal and idiosyncratic ways. The entire series will be repeated at the back of the gallery, in case you’ve missed out on any of these innovative glimpses of the Salt Lake City skater elite. As they do with any challenge they come across, these skaters have taken up the art of video with verve and an abundance of energy. (Brian Staker) The Life In A Day @ CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, Nov. 15-18, opening reception Saturday, Nov. 15, 6-9 p.m., free, RSVP required. CityWeekly.net/thelifeintheday

Tuesday 11.18

Broadway Across America: Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Christmastime is upon us once again!

(Reports of some other holiday involving turkey and football, allegedly observed on the last Thursday of November, could not be confirmed at press time.) And with it comes the eternal choice: Embrace the season and its jolliness, or be a dissolute green meanie who wants to spoil everyone’s good time.

Dr. Seuss first detailed the latter’s misadventures, three-time Tony award winner Jack O’Brien brought him to the stage, and the touring version of the show now comes to Salt Lake City’s Capitol Theatre. Featuring the popular songs “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch” and “Welcome Christmas,” Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas!—in which the Grinch plots to pilfer Christmas from Whoville, only to be foiled by the residents’ indomitable holiday spirit—has, in a relatively short time, become an end-of-year institution, pleasing audiences of all ages. With a relatively scant running time of 90 minutes with no intermission, it’s a show to bring the kids to without having to worry about them climbing the walls in boredom.

Theater-goers sensitive about things should be warned that the production does use theatrical fog and a kind of artificial snow that will get on those sitting in the first 15-20 rows. It does not, thankfully, linger, nor does it melt in the highly inconvenient, and Grinch-ifying, manner of real snow. (Danny Bowes) Broadway Across America: Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! @ Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Nov. 18-23, Tuesday-Thursday 7:30 p.m., Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m., 2, 5, & 8 p.m., Sunday 1 & 6:30 p.m., $32.50-$85.

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The horse is one of the animals represented in the 12-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac, and 2014 is the year of the horse. For Modern West Fine Art, this is cause for celebration. “You cannot separate the building of the American West from the horse, and the figure itself is so beautiful and powerful that of course it would be painted,” says gallery director Diane P. Stewart.

The horse is currently featured in an exhibition at the Natural History Museum of Utah, which, Stewart says, “made me want to look at the horse through art.” This inspiration became Year of the Horse, the current Modern West Fine Art exhibition. The gallery focuses on providing contemporary Southwestern flavor, with artists including Michael Swearngin, John Vehar and Ben Steele painting the subject of the horse very differently, conveying ranges of styles and approaches.

Swearngin offers icons and silhouettes. His horses’ forms are painted in stark, simple shapes, only alluding to the figure of the animal that’s so fundamental to the Southwest and its art. Vehar paints the horse in full motion, jumping seemingly off the canvas. His style emphasizes the body of the animal, giving full dimension to its power and strength.

Steele is a local artist who paints vibrant, Pop Art representations. In “Warrior on Horse” (pictured), the massive canvas is painted entirely with colorful numbers, emphasizing the passage of time and duration—not only this year of the horse, but its past, present and future. (Ehren Clark) Year of the Horse @ Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, 801-355-3883, through Nov. 17, free. ModernWestFineArt.com

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One moment comes close to defining Happy in totality, for better and/or worse: Near the play’s conclusion, one character embarks on a lengthy and brutal monologue, under the impression that another character has been lying. It becomes clear fairly quickly that the indignant character is mistaken, and that the other has been telling the truth; the former is due to the script telegraphing it, but the latter is due to the actor in question giving a performance of such complete commitment that it gives away the ultimate resolution just as much as the obviousness of the writing.

Robert Caisley’s script isn’t entirely bad, but it is a bit stiff structurally, and provides its actors with rudimentary starting points for performances rather than fully realized characters.

Fortunately, Brian Pilling, Alyssa Franks, George Plautz and Michelle Linn Hall take what they’re given in the script and run with it.

Indeed, Happy is a showcase at once for the limitations of naturalistic dramatic writing, and the possibilities for acting within the same form.

The story—about how a college professor’s best friend’s new girlfriend manipulates the professor into the admission that he’s not as guilelessly content with his life (and wife and sick daughter) as he would have everyone believe—is less interesting than the way the actors twist the material’s contrivance into fascinatingly real moments. The result is a compelling piece of theater—so ultimately, how we arrive at that point may be less important than getting there at all. (Danny Bowes) Wasatch Theatre Company: Happy @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, through Nov. 22, ThursdaySaturday 8 p.m., 2 p.m. Saturday matinees, $15, ArtTix.org

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utumn seemed to come and go quick ly this year. Or, maybe I was just more occupied than normal. Before I could really appreciate it, the leaves changed colors—yellow aspen, rust-red gamble oak, royal-purple Oregon grape, sunset-orange mountain maple—and fell. The hills took on their winter gray.

My own energy seemed to fade with the colors. Now, I feel like hibernating, or drinking tea and reading a long book.

My entire neighborhood seems equally affected. The streets at night are quiet like a Sunday in Utah.

A ll this slowing feels good after a long, hot, energetic summer of summiting mountains, running trails, playing soccer and baseball and ultimate Frisbee.

I’m looking forward to pulling out my cross-country and downhill skis, saying hello to my snowshoes and my winter boots. But until the snow f lies, I think I’ll keep going for slow thoughtful romps through the mountains. The dogs love it and, since we are in the heart of grousehunting season, so does my partner.

Last Sunday, we loaded up the dogs and our orange vests and set out for Wolf Creek Pass, on the south slope of the Uintas. It’s a destination that doesn’t make it onto many people’s maps—the kind of place you drive by on the way to somewhere else, the kind of place that surprises you when you discover it actually has a name.

Just beyond the dreamy rural towns of Francis and Woodland, the pass begins to rise away from the south fork of the Provo River, climbing into a steep canyon of giant aspen and beetle-ravaged conifer, dotted with majestic brushes of ancient Douglas Fir. At an oversize parking lot at the western base of the pass—a place called Nobletts—we pulled off the road.

I’ve hiked here a number of times over the years, always in the autumn. Two well-defined trails, frequented in the summer by locals on horseback, lead off from the parking lot. I never take the trails very far. This patch

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of Uintas is perfect for exploring by foot off-trail in a style of destinationless hiking that makes nature seem much more intimate.

During the handful of early afternoons I’ve spent wandering, I’ve climbed to ridges, dipped into dells and covered miles of forest. It’s the kind of hiking I associate with upland game season—which, for most birds like grouse, quail, pheasant and partridge, falls mainly between the beginning of September and the end of December. But if you’re thinking of going, always review the DNR wildlife guidebook for each animal’s exact seasons, possession limit, open areas and license requirements.

Our pr e v iou s t w o explorations th is season had produced beautiful views, but no grouse.

T he second outing ended terrifyingly in the middle of a lightning storm with bolts slamming into the hillside so close to us that we could see the halo of electric light bubble around

Fall feathers: Hunting isn’t all antlers and pelts. The search for grouse can lead to less-traveled, but beautiful, scenery.

the struck trees.

Though the day of our latest adventure was overcast, it didn’t look like lightning was on the menu. We struck out from the car, straight across a damp meadow and into a thin stand of naked aspen. The scent of rotting leaves and leftover rain was as thick as elk musk. Our cattle dog mutts ran loops through the sage, more interested in chasing squirrels than birds.

Up the mountain we climbed. At around 8,000 feet, we entered a patch of mixed aspen and conifer, and spotted our first three grouse—ruffed grouse, one of the most diminutive of the species, weighing less than 2 pounds. The ruffed grouse is easily identified by a tuft of brown feathers that sweep to a point on the top of his small brown head.

The birds took wing in a f lash, gliding down slope and out of sight. We wouldn’t spend too much time stalking them, we decided. With feathers colored to blend perfectly with the autumn shadows, our chances of finding them were slim. And besides, we were happy just being in the mountains. CW

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Selected Shorts On Tour The weekly Public Radio International program and podcast Selected Shorts offers a unique entry point into some of the most interesting short fiction available: staged readings by talented actors and other notable personalities, helping bring both classics and new work to life in programs organized around a specific theme. And it can be even more thrilling when you’re part of the audience for the live performances.

Selected Shorts On Tour makes a stop in Salt Lake City this week, with KUER’s Doug Fabrizio hosting the lineup of compelling readings. There’s quite a lineup of performers in store: Academy Award nominee David Strathairn (pictured), Parker Posey (Best in Show), Christina Pickles (St. Elsewhere, Friends) and Kirsten Vangsness (Criminal Minds) are confirmed to share their interpretations of stories by T.C. Boyle, Etgar Keret, Steven Millhauser and more. Join the audience for this special one-night-only performance, or tune in Nov. 23 for the KUER broadcast. (Scott Renshaw) Selected Shorts On Tour @ The Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State, 801-957-3322, Nov. 15, 7 p.m., $25; KUER 90.1 broadcast Nov. 23, 7 p.m. The-Grand.org

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Horacio Castellanos Moya: Senselessness, Finch Lane Gallery, 1325 E. 100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-596-5000

FRIDAY 11.14 PERFORMING ARTS Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Abravanel Hall, 123 West Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-533-6683

Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Abravanel Hall The Threepenny Opera, Babcock Theatre Friends of the Bob & Tom Show Comedy Tour, The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-355-5522 Improv Extravaganza!, Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, Park City, 435-649-9371 Disney on Ice: Worlds of Fantasy, EnergySolutions Arena

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The Threepenny Opera, Babcock Theatre Giselle, Capitol Theatre Disney on Ice: Worlds of Fantasy, EnergySolutions Arena One Man, Two Guvnors, Pioneer Theatre Happy, Rose Wagner Center Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, Rose Wagner Center Spark, Rose Wagner Center Rapture, Blister, Burn, Salt Lake Acting Company Brad Bonar, Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588 Ari Shaffir, Wiseguys West Valley

December 6 & 7, 2014 Saturday: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm Sunday: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Vendors will be offering both traditional and contemporary Native American goods including jewelry, pottery, paintings and more.

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MONDAY 11.17 LITERARY ARTS

Russ Lees: Monday Night Football, Weller Book Works, 665 E. 600 South, Salt Lake City, 801-328-2586

TUESDAY 11.18 PERFORMING ARTS Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Capitol Theatre

PERFORMING ARTS Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Capitol Theatre

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R. Duncan Wallace: The Book of Psychological Truths, The King’s English Bookshop

VISUAL ARTS The Life in a Day, CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 385-215-6768, Wednesdays-Saturdays through Nov. 18

CONTINUING 11.13-11.19 Differences: A Dialogue, Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, Salt Lake City, 801-328-0703, Mondays-Fridays through Nov. 14 Art.Write.Now.Tour, Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801524-8200, through Nov. 19 Altared Books: Offerings in Con(text), Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-596-5000, Mondays-Fridays through Nov. 21 Brandon Cook Landscapes, Finch Lane Gallery, Mondays-Fridays through Nov. 21 Driven to Abstraction, Whitespace, 2420 Wall Ave., Ogden, 801-895-2278, WednesdaysSaturdays through Nov. 22 Catherine Yass: Wall, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-328-4201, Tuesdays-Saturdays through Nov. 29

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Tempted by fish options that included wild Hawaiian ahi tuna, wild Alaskan halibut and wild Alaskan Sockeye salmon, we eventually settled upon black cod, which was excellent: lightly seared and served with subtle citrus butter, and with very good sea-salted french fries and a side of crisp, spicy green beans. My only criticism is that the two smallish pieces of cod were a bit skimpy for the $32 price tag.

I certainly had no such complaint regarding the grilled hanger steak we also ordered ($21). It was a perfectly cooked, medium-rare piece of hanger steak—about 9 inches in length—sliced into medallions, with a zippy peppercorn sauce. On the side was a generous serving of housemade macaroni & cheese (penne pasta, actually) and scrumptious peas with big chunks of crisp smoked bacon.

The service at Harbor is excellent.

And, it wasn’t until we’d gotten through part of our meal that we discovered our server was none other than co-owner Taylor Jacobsen. Both owners pitch in and work the f loor, and Taylor mentioned that, in doing so, he can afford to pay his others servers better. That’s just another reason to dock yourself at Harbor. CW

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were steamed in white wine with shallots, garlic, basil and heirloom tomatoes. We appreciated the serving of sliced Pierre’s Bakery baguette that came alongside, which we used to sop up the silk y clam broth.

A n equally outstanding appetizer— although the portion size might cause you to think it’s an entree—is tuna carpaccio ($15), which featured a big slab of sushigrade tuna, sliced to about 1/8-inch thickness so that it covered the entire dinner plate it was served upon. It’s drizzled with a light citrus vinaigrette, and topped with an edible garnish of avocado, citrus salad and—according to the menu—candied wasabi. There wasn’t any candied wasabi on our tuna, so I can’t comment on that. Candied wasabi or not, one could order the carpaccio as an entree and be quite satisfied; it was more than my wife and I could finish, even splitting it. Other Harbor starters include housemade crab cakes, raw oysters on the half-shell with mignonette, steamed mussels, fried calamari and bruschetta.

As is the case at many steakhouses, sides at Harbor are offered à la carte, priced at $5 each for sea salt fries, spicy green beans, steamed veggies, mac & cheese, peas & smoked bacon, garlic mashers, etc. And unlike at many steakhouses, steak and seafood entrees at Harbor come with a choice of two side dishes and one sauce. Available sauces include béarnaise, peppercorn, creamy horseradish, citrus butter, red-pepper pesto, plain pesto and Harbor steak sauce. Extra sauce is offered at $3 per serving, and crab can be added to sides for $5.

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hen Rino’s Italian Restaurant closed in spring 2014, it felt like the end of an era. And it really was an era; Rino’s had been in operation in Sugar House for nearly 30 years. But, as they say, all good things must end.

I was intrigued to hear of what would replace Rino’s: a seafood & steak restaurant. For pretty much as long as I can remember, the seafood restaurant scene here has been dominated by Gastronomy, which operates the Market Street Grill and Oyster Bar restaurants in Salt Lake City and through the South Valley. For quite a while, I’ve been hoping that someone would come to town with a toptier seafood eatery. And I think that has happened with the opening of Harbor Seafood & Steak Co. From the outside, Harbor doesn’t look much different than Rino’s. Owners Randall Curtis and Taylor Jacobsen mostly left the exterior alone, saving the trellises and grapevines that were a trademark of the Italian eatery. Inside, however, there is no trace of Rino’s. The owners gutted the place, threw out the 20-year-old cans of paprika they found in the storage room, and turned the space into a very appealing, modern-but-comfy restaurant.

There’s a bar/lounge area near the entrance, with a big communal table and plush sofa seating—a spot that’s sure to become a popular stop for sipping once it’s discovered by locals. The rest of the restaurant is decked out in warm tans and shades of beige and brown, with plenty of wood surfaces. The sound tends to bounce off of those wood surfaces, so the dining room can get a bit noisy when it’s busy.

Customers at certain tables can peek into the kitchen by peering through a glass window and watch Chef Justin Jacobsen— brother of co-owner Taylor—do his thing.

So far, his thing has been darned good.

At Harbor, every effort is made to utilize local, in-season ingredients, and to f ly in the freshest seafood. So, at a recent dinner, we started the evening with stuffed, battered and fried squash blossoms that came from the restaurant’s garden. They’re not always available on the Harbor menu, but if you see them, snap them up! Another terrific starter is a bowl of steamed clams ($14). This was a dozen and a half plump Maine clams that

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n recent years, the cheese course has been making a comeback in American restaurants. Where once it was primarily a French indulgence, now restaurants from New York to San Francisco—and even Utah—are offering cheese courses in lieu of, or in addition to, dessert.

Eateries like Handle, Pago, Copper Common, Eva, Martine, Atlantic Cafe, High West Distillery and an assortment of others include cheese plates as menu options. Personally, I much

prefer a slice or two of cheese and a piece of fruit or some nuts after dinner over sweet, heavy desserts. But as with any other food & wine pairing, there are guidelines to follow when choosing wine to complement cheese, and vice versa.

With the holiday season just ahead, it’s a good time to be thinking about wine & cheese pairings for parties, holiday dinners and other social get-togethers. A great way to discover what wines go with which cheeses is to throw a cheese & wine tasting party. There are lots of options here. One is to focus on a particular style of cheese. For example, you might want to limit yourself to cow’s milk cheddar cheeses: perhaps Irish cheddar, cheddar from Vermont and Canada, and English farmhouse cheddar. They’re all similar, yet distinct. A different approach is to serve an array of cheeses in very different styles.

For instance, you might start with a French chèvre followed by Spanish manchego, Swiss gruyere and finally a pungent blue cheese from California.

Next, select three or four different wines to try as you sample the cheeses— perhaps a

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DRINK Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Zinfandel. The idea here is to not only (hopefully) find cheese & wine affinities and matches, but also discover pairings that blow. It’s all part of learning what flavors work together, and why.

And here’s a suggestion: Don’t spend too much money on wine. Save the expensive Bordeaux and Burgundy for another time. Good, low-cost wines are perfect for cheese & wine pairings.

Contrary to popular belief, red wine is not always the best choice for pairing with cheese. Milder cheeses like goat cheese and brie tend to get overwhelmed by most red wines, except perhaps Rosé—a red wine (technically) that drinks like a white. As with other foods, the idea is to try to match fuller, richly flavored cheeses with full, richly flavored wines. Similarly, lighter wines will usually be better matches for lighter cheeses.

I’ve discovered, for example, that most hard cheeses cry out for red wine.

However, bold cheese with bold wine isn’t always a slam-dunk. One

exception is sharp Parmigiano-Reggiano with subtle Champagne: truly a wine & cheese pairing made in heaven. I tend to like French Bordeaux and Cornas or even a super-Tuscan with cheddar cheese, although everyday Rhone reds and Beaujolais work well, too. I’ve also discovered that there are few better cheese & wine matches than that of a tangy goat cheese with Sauvignon Blanc, especially the chalky flavors of French Sancerre.

OK, remember what I said about not spending a lot of money on wine for cheese & wine pairings? Well, that doesn’t apply to blue-veined cheese, because one of the truly great food and wine matches is salty, sharp blue cheese paired with the sweetness and acidity of Sauternes, a decidedly un-cheap wine. But you could also opt for the more classic combination of blue cheese and Port—and even an inexpensive Port like Fonseca Bin 27 will put a huge smile on your face when sipped with crumbled blue cheese and candied walnuts. CW

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It’s located in the shiny new Holladay Village Plaza, which also hosts new iterations of Taqueria 27, Caputo’s Market & Deli and other independent-only retail shops and businesses. Copper Kitchen has a boisterous brasserie feel to it—a big, bustling eatery featuring the type of food that has made so many so fond of Lowder’s other restaurants: steak frites, braised lamb shank, duck confit croquettes, beef bourguignon and noodles, and lots more.

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“Tosh” is chef/owner Toshio Sekikawa, whose name you know if you’re a fan of Asian cuisine in Utah. Tosh is a wonderfully outgoing and generous guy, and Tosh’s Ramen suits his personality. It’s a simple ramen shop—minimalist in décor and accoutrements—because the laser-like focus here is on one thing and one thing only: ramen. Like pho, ramen is really all about the broth. And, of course, Tosh makes his from scratch, simmering bones overnight. There are five types of ramen to choose from at Tosh’s, and my favorite is the one that best showcases that glistening, delicious broth: tonkotsu ramen. The broth is nearly clear, served in a huge ramen bowl with a generous helping of excellent wheat & egg noodles from Los Angeles’ Sun Noodle company. The ramen is adorned with crunchy bean sprouts, thin-sliced pork belly, half a hard-cooked egg, and minced scallions. Tosh’s is usually filled with people who aren’t ramen rookies, and you’ll want to take their lead and get your face down into that big bowl: Slurping is considered de rigueur. Reviewed Nov. 6. 1465 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-466-7000, ToshsRamen.com

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If you’re in the mood for hearty Sicilian fare, in a place where Grandma is in the kitchen and the grandkids are waiting on tables, Sole Mio is for you. You won’t go home hungry or ruin your budget here; the most expensive menu item tops out at $17.95—and that’s for bistecca alla campagnola, a grilled New York steak on an arugula bed, topped with shaved Parmesan and balsamic vinegar, with veggies on the side. The pastas are so generously portioned that I recommend sharing them. We especially enjoyed the ravioli spinaci: a plate of 10 or so large housemade ravioli stuffed with a puree of ricotta, spinach and Parmesan, served in a silky, rich tomato-cream sauce. I could barely put a dent in my piled-high plate of spaghetti alla carbonara, made with pancetta, eggs, Parmesan and cream. But when your server asks if you’ve saved room for dessert, answer with a resounding “Yes!” and order the incomparable housemade tiramisu. Reviewed Oct. 16. 8657 S. Highland Drive, Sandy, 801-942-2623

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At Chicken Express, you’ll find Greek-influenced fare like flame-roasted meats and grilled kebabs. The menu of this quick-service eatery includes rotisserie-roasted chicken, gyros, beef and chicken kebabs, beef and pork ribs, sandwiches and many combo-plate options. Try chicken shish-souvlaki, chicken or beef kebabs with side dishes like steamed potatoes & rice. Another popular item is the chicken salad: shredded roast chicken with lettuce and a bed of saffron rice, topped with house dressing. 3440 S. State, 801-487-7373

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The fried tofu topped with shrimp balls and the fivespice foil-wrapped chicken are delicious, as is the sticky rice in lotus leaves. Kids will love the steamed barbecue pork buns, while adults can munch on steamed chicken feet or great Peking duck. The Sichuan ma po tofu is fiery and delicious, and you’d be nuts not to order the deceptively simple and sensational deep-fried flounder with garlic. While you’re there, sample a few of the teas from the diverse tea selection. 565 W. 200 South, 801-531-7010, HongKongTeaHouse.com

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the Overnighters

Two for the Show City Weekly critics discuss the provocative “documentary” The Overnighters.

By Scott Renshaw & Danny Bowes comments@cityweekly.net Director Jesse Moss’ nonfiction film The Overnighters examines the controversy in the town of Williston, N.D., where Lutheran pastor Rev. Jay Reinke allowed his church building and its parking lot to serve as a de facto homeless shelter for men coming to town to find work in the booming nearby oil shale fields. Two critics decided to exchange thoughts on the movie.

Scott Renshaw: I want to start with what might seem like a prosaic question, but: What is this movie about? Because it strikes me that it’s not the simple “look how self-described Christians behave when faced with a real Christian act of charity” sting-piece the setup initially suggests.

Danny Bowes: It’s definitely not that simple. There are a few other things it touches on that could be whole movies of their own—family, the media, the failure of American capitalism to sustain the workers who keep it running—and things it ignores, like the environmental destruction fracking is causing in North Dakota and elsewhere. There’s also another thing it could be about, but revealing it could be a spoiler. The film ultimately ends up being about Jay Reinke, which is fine, but ends

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up being kind of a Sundance version of a Lifetime movie about Jay Reinke, which is a little disappointing.

SR: I’m actually not convinced it’s primarily about Jay Reinke. The amount of time that’s spent with some of the recent transplants suggests to me—and you kind of touched on this—that it’s more generally about an idea of “The American Dream” to which we give lip service, but which is thwarted repeatedly by people’s anxieties and economic realities. If this movie’s knives are out for anyone, it’s saltof-the-earth heartland folk who think real America is pulling your shotgun (literal or metaphorical) on anyone who looks sideways at you.

DB: The fact that we’re not even in agreement about something as simple as what it’s about is a sign that the whole enterprise lacks focus. Which is especially odd in a film where everything feels so staged. When you mentioned that you had one huge problem with it, that general overall feel was the first thing that I thought of.

SR: I don’t consider the fact that it may be “about” more than one thing inherently problematic; really interesting art can lead you down multiple paths. But you certainly raise the eternal question of how much of a “fly on the wall”-type documentary can be trusted to be authentic when the cameras are in everyone’s face. And that “one huge problem” to which you refer ... well, it’s hard to be specific, since it applies to that late perspective-shift, but it’s one of the rare cases I can remember where I thought a documentary filmmaker’s decision to include a specific moment was pretty much a moral failing.

DB: Yeah, the scene in question made me say out loud (and pretty loud): “WHY ARE YOU FILMING THIS?” And, while

The Rev. Jay Reinke (center) in The Overnighters

certainly the most egregious example, it was definitely not the only thing in the movie that felt rehearsed, blocked, even scripted.

There’s certainly more than one way to make a nonfiction film—“documentary” seems like a bit of a stretch here, especially considering it wasn’t the term the director used to refer to it—but if you’re going to go to all that trouble to stage something, you might as well write a script and hire actors. Instead, scenes like the one we both hate feel like half-measures, impediments to the film’s goals rather than necessary aspects of the process.

SR: The shame of it is, I actually found it pretty powerful at capturing the cost of societal stigmatizing ... right up until That Scene.

DB: The ultimate dilemma here, to me, is a filmmaker wanting to have the immediacy of cinema verité and the drama of more theatrical forms … compromising in a way that makes it a poor example of both.

The fact that there’s A Big Third-Act Twist that isn’t an organic part of the story’s chronology is a symptom of the problem: It’s a real thing that’s true, but it’s also something we—or I, anyway—guessed in the first 10 minutes, withheld until the end so it can be dramatic. It is possible to strike a balance between verité and theater, but The Overnighters doesn’t quite find it. CW

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Beyond the Lights [not yet reviewed] An on-the-rise musician (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) faces the perils of fame. Opens Nov. 14 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)

Dumb and Dumber To [not yet reviewed] Harry (Jeff Daniels) and Lloyd (Jim Carrey) reunite for more misadventures. Opens Nov. 14 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) Force Majeure HHHH My fears that I’d seen this concept explored about as well as I could hope for in The Loneliest Planet were soon squelched, as Ruben Östlund finds an angle that’s radically different

and just as fascinating. On a ski vacation in the French Alps, Swedish couple Tomas (Johannes Kuhnke) and Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli) and their two children experience near-disaster when avalanche control leads to a terrifying moment. What emerges from that moment is a darkly satirical set of scenes from a marriage, as Tomas and Ebba—through the terrific central performances—wrestle with what their respective responses to that moment of crisis reveal, while their kids and friends experience the ripple effect. Östlund maintains precise control over his scenes, from the interstitial outdoor shots punctuated

by Vivaldi and booming cannons, to the increasingly tense bathroom scenes filled with the drone of electric toothbrushes.

As it builds to a finale that reveals how much has shifted in this central relationship, it’s also brutally funny at conveying what one woman discovers she expects from her man, and what that man realizes he can’t expect from himself. Opens Nov. 14 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—Scott Renshaw The Overnighters HHH/HH.5 See review p. 32. Opens Nov. 14 at Tower Theatre. (NR)

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The Tale of Princess Kaguya HHH.5 The Tale of Princess Kaguya carries on Studio Ghibli’s tradition of lovingly, painstakingly crafted films, possessed of a rare, almost uniquely gentle humaneness. Isao Takahata takes the directorial reins here, in his first feature since 1999, not missing a beat with this adaptation of the folk tale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, the oldest known surviving Japanese narrative. Every moment is observed with care and regarded as important, with the handdrawn animation rendering each gesture with vibrant, resonant life. The effect is to make the (relatively) long film feel both eternal and over all too soon, as its protagonist—an absolutely delightful character to follow on her journey through this odd, beautiful world—finds with increasing desperation that she cannot live as much of life as she wants, and that, as a woman, her options are further restricted by an obstinate, immovable society. Takahata doesn’t dwell on the latter, but doesn’t avoid it either, with Princess Kaguya striking a harmonious balance between timelessness and modernity. If a better animated film is released in the United States this year, it will have been a very good year for the form. Opens Nov. 14 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (G)—Danny Bowes

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Rosewater HH.5 This sober, respectful account of Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari’s experiences covering that country’s controversial 2009 election—and his subsequent imprisonment on nonsensical espionage charges—makes for a perfectly good but utterly unremarkable drama that wouldn’t garner much attention if it weren’t the directorial/screenwriting debut of The Daily Show host Jon Stewart. It benefits tremendously, however, from a soulful and passionate central performance

by Gael García Bernal as Bahari, and there are hints that Maziar’s interrogator (Kim Bodnia)—known as Rosewater for the scent he wears—is disillusioned by his bosses’ corruption, but the idea isn’t taken anywhere and ends up feeling obligatory. ”Obligatory” is how a lot of it feels, actually.

Stewart’s sincerity isn’t in question, and he acquits himself better than a lot of first-time directors do. But despite his good intentions, and despite Garcia Bernal’s earnest performance, Stewart can’t find a way to make the story connect on an emotional level. In movie form, the story of falls into a familiar genre of stolid, reputable films that shine a light on the truth, are duly praised and gravely nodded at, and then forgotten. Opens Nov. 14 at theaters valleywide. (R)—Eric D. Snider

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SPECIAL SCREENINGS 52 Tuesdays At Brewvies, Nov. 17, 7 p.m. (NR) Full Metal Jacket At Brewvies, Nov. 17, 10 p.m. (R) Monk With a Camera At Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Nov. 19, 7 p.m. (NR) Sagrada: The Mystery of Creation At Main Library, Nov. 18, 7 p.m. (NR)

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Big Hero 6 HHH.5 With all of the marketing focus on huggable, inflatable robot Baymax, you’re may not get the sense that this is really a story about the ripple effects of vengeance. In some ways, it’s also a pretty standard superhero origin story, focused on 14-yearold engineering genius Hiro Hamada (Ryan Potter), who puts together a team to stop a masked villain. Baymax (Scott Adsit) provides a uniquely deadpan spin on the typical Disney comicrelief character, and the “boy and his dog” relationship between Baymax and Hiro—part E.T. and part Johnny Sokko and his Giant Robot—provides a great emotional nexus. Just be aware, parents, that Big Hero 6 gets pretty intense as it digs into wounded people causing suffering while trying to ease their own pain. It’s that classic, old-school Disney bait & switch: sell the cute, deliver the dark. (PG)—SR

Whiplash HHH Or, Full Metal Jazzband. As Private Joker, meet Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller), drummer and first-year student at New York’s prestigious Shaffer Conservatory. As Sgt. Hartman, here’s Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), the ferociously demanding teacher who pushes Andrew to his limits. Writer/ director Damien Chazelle plays with ideas out of the sportsmovie playbook: Is the asshole coach who denigrates his players the one who also gets the best out of them? It’s fairly thin at exploring why Andrew is quite so eager to show Fletcher he’s got what it takes, and his character swing from insecure to cocky feels far too abrupt. But Simmons is terrific tearing into Fletcher’s profane, epic tirades—it’s not merely a scenery-chewing piece of work—while Chazelle cuts the performance footage with tangible energy. The climactic seven-minute solo works wonderfully as Andrew showing Fletcher his war face. (R)—SR

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Interstellar HHH Christopher Nolan wants you to feel awe about the universe and the nature of humanity—and by God, you will feel it, if he has to shake you for three solid hours. In the near future, an increasingly uninhabitable Earth requires a secret NASA program—piloted by single-dad Cooper (Matthew McConaughey)—to seek a new home planet somewhere through a mysterious wormhole. Nolan does some tremendously effective world-building, in the service of profoundly humanist science-fiction that sings with the amazing things of which we are capable. But Nolan sings so long and so loud that his Big Ideas about the mysteries of time and space, about mortality, about love, etc. become a multi-hour crescendo that’s as exhausting as it is thrilling.

His ambition tells us things we need to hear, but it’s okay sometimes not to yell it. (PG-13)—SR

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22 Jump Street Cops Jenko (Channing Tatum) and Schmidt (Jonah Hill) go back undercover—this time in college to take down a drug dealer named Ghost (Peter Stormare); bromance, a thousand inside jokes about sequels and even some spring-break antics ensue. Boom! (Sony)

State of Affairs Monday, Nov. 17 (NBC)

Special: Is this really necessary? Another excuse to hand out trophies to celebrities for doing their damned jobs, after harassing them about “who they’re wearing” on the obligatory red carpet? Apparently, the imaginatively titled Hollywood Film Awards was launched in 1997 by a marketing “genius” who’s so good that it took him 17 years to get it televised … on a Friday night. Now, I’m not against recognizing quality work in movies—although I do oppose it for music, because none is being

produced in the mainstream anymore— but after the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Independent Spirit Awards and, hell, the AVN Awards, there’s no need for another dress-up dog & pony show. And 22 Jump Street is just gonna get snubbed anyway.

Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B Saturday, Nov. 15 (Lifetime) Movie: While you’d be right to be suspicious of anything co-produced by Wendy Williams, at least biopic (or telefilm, depending which TV-fabricated word you prefer) Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B has some solid biographical roots in bestseller More Than a Woman, by ex-Time music editor Christopher John Farley. Meaning, The Princess of R&B has more in common with VH1’s fun and lively CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story than recent Lifetime hackjobs like The Brittany Murphy Story, Anna Nicole, Prosecuting Casey Anthony and, probably by next weekend, The Life & Death of Brittany Maynard. “Street but sweet” Aaliyah was only 22 when she was killed in a plane crash in 2001, but she racked up a staggering number of hits that still hold up today—most of which star Alexandra Shipp delivers here with eerie accuracy and verve. Remember “hits” and platinum records? Those were the days …

State of Affairs (NBC) Country Buck$ Wednesday, Nov. 19 (A&E) Series Debut: Do we have the space for me to go off on another rant about A&E’s creative shortsightedness and their gawdawful, over-scripted redneck-reality shows? Or at least how Country Buck$ is just a shameless, beardless clone of Duck Dynasty? No? OK, here’s this: #SaveLongmire.

Lucha Underground Wednesdays (El Rey) New Series: TNA Impact attempted to do it, but eventually just became a pale imitation of the W WE enemy itself—thankfully, Lucha Underground has arrived to show ’Merica what a bloated corporate bore gringo pro-wrestling has devolved into.

Part backstage infotainment, part telenovela and all high-f lying ring action, Lucha Underground feels and looks (it’s filmed, not videotaped) like no other ’rassling show north of the border; the emphasis is squarely on the sport, and male and female wrestlers often face off as equals. They’re coming for your jobs, American beefcake. CW

A group of college archeology students accidentally awaken the spirit of Isis (porn star Priya Rai), who then resumes her ancient quest to raise her husband Osiris from the dead to rule the world with their zombie army. Upside: course passed. (MVD)

Northpole Santa and Mrs. Claus’ (Robert Wagner and Jill St. John!) magical city of Northpole, powered by holiday cheer, is in seasonalstress trouble, and only a boy and his journalist mom (Tiffani Thiessen) can save it! A very codependent cycle. (ANConnect)

Rise of the Black Bat When a city DA (Jody Haucke) is blinded with acid by a local crime boss, he gains the power to see in the dark and thus becomes superhero The Black Bat, because “Justice is blind … no more!” Any similarity to Batman or Daredevil is purely obvious. (MVD)

More New DVD/VOD Releases (Nov. 18) And So It Goes, Automata, Collar, Everywhen, A Free Bird, The Good Life, Gravedigger, Housebound, If I Stay, Into the Storm, Last Man Standing: Season 3, Not Another Celebrity Movie, Rangarok, Reclaim, Robot Chicken: Christmas Specials, The Turnpike Killer Listen to Bill on Mondays at 8 a.m. on X96 Radio From Hell; weekly on the TV Tan podcast via iTunes and Stitcher.

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Series Debut: Katherine Heigl was great in Grey’s Anatomy, and then Knocked Up—let’s pretend she joined the Peace Corps in 2007 and is just now returning to acting, OK? In State of Affairs, she plays a CIA analyst/ adviser with a special relationship with the president (Alfre Woodard): She was engaged to POTUS’ son before he was killed in a terrorist attack (as depicted in the pilot’s intense, straight-outta-Zero Dark Thirty cold opening). Now, she drowns her pain in booze and random hookups by night and helps set foreign policy by day. Of course, as we’ve seen with Madam Secretary’s middling ratings, this couldn’t be just a straight-up political drama, so there’s some Blacklist-y conspiratorial intrigue about the fiance not being what he seemed (or seems—yeah, it’s like that).

As long as Heigl isn’t called upon to “banter” with her co-workers, as she is in a particularly awkward first-episode scene (set to Skynyrd, no less), State of Affairs could stick.

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In other words, according to Mos, beneath the grandeur of the proverbial Big Apple lies its seedy, rotten underbelly.

Sixteen years later, this sentiment remains true. Gotham’s dark side still produces the most notorious rappers.

It’s this very substratum that spawned names like Non Phixion, Native Tongues and Definitive Jux, all of whom took creative liberties and pushed rap into the aberrant places that are now considered status quo. Currently, this is what we’re witnessing with Ratking, one of the most experimental and aesthetically raw rap groups residing in the Five Boroughs.

Their name is a reference to a few things: the rodent sensei Splinter from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for one, but mainly the monstrosity produced when a group of rats live in close, dirty quarters and knot their tails together.

It’s a suitable name, really. Ratking’s debut album, So It Goes, released in April on XL Recordings, is a dark and tangled melting pot of subculture and sound. The album is as New York as a Yankees hat. Rappers Wiki and Hak trade verses about mortality, gentrification and the humor of growing up in a harsh, overcrowded environment. And beneath beatmaker Sporting Life’s heavily layered production, there are hints of grime, punk and tribal, even samples of subway-door dings and police stop & frisks. Overall, the album is dark and authentic; you can almost smell the black leather of a Manhattan cab.

These creative decisions reinforce the album’s theme and title, which is a not-so-subtle nod to Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five. “Things ends and shit dies,” Wiki says. “Everything just goes on. It’s all a cycle. I feel like we’re relating that to our music and the city we live in.”

Ratking doesn’t seem to dwell on the past. For New Yorker rappers, the importance of sounding “New York” holds about as much weight as where they buy their bagels. The city has a long tradition of mimicking its own regional sound (cue up Pro Era for more on this), and there’s certainly nothing wrong with that.

But for Wiki, Hak and Sporting Life, the emphasis is all about the present.

Though their style certainly contains shades of NYC predecessors like Beastie Boys, Wu-Tang and Dipset, these comparisons are about as ridiculous as Cam’ron’s pink fur coat. Sure, those elements are there, but Ratking isn’t carrying a torch for the artists of a bygone era. The opening track, titled “*” (pronounced “asterisk”), hits the jump with a pulsing MIDI that thumps like an ominous heartbeat, while a sample of a muddled conversation can be heard in the background: “Rappers right now, it’s a whole ’nother generation, you really can’t compare no more. If your life experiences are different, then that’s gonna come out differently … So it goes.”

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Starting the album on this particular note steers the focus away from the New York legends that came before the trio and places the spotlight squarely on Wiki and Hak, musing about coming of age and the rise of Ratking: “We advanced/ got our advance/ copped a couple amps/ now we enhanced,” spits Wiki in his high-pitched voice.

There’s a coarse, frenetic energy within these bars. However, So It Goes doesn’t come across as too avant-garde or radical. Through all the noise and the occasional “daaayyyyumms,” there’s still an element of cohesiveness. Much of this organized chaos stems from Ratking teaming up with Young Guru, an audio engineer whose name is attached to projects like Jay-Z’s The Blueprint, Ghostface’s Fishscale and Little Brother’s The Minstrel Show.

“It was a little intimidating working with Young Guru,” Wiki says, “because well, he’s Young Guru.”

Ultimately, Guru stripped away the fat and gave So It Goes the feel of a tough and progressive hip-hop album, something not trying to be arty just for art’s sake.

As Wiki says on the track “Protein,” “This ain’t ’90s revival, it’s earlier/ it’s tribal revival/ whose urgence was liable/ to merk ’em and leave ’em in piles/ Before I get to earn that chieftain as my title.” If Mos Def was indeed correct, and the Big Apple will eventually make you “lose your teeth,” then Ratking will likely wear the brass knuckles. CW

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f crowd appeal is any measure, then Randy is doing just fine because this place is hoppin’. The crowd in vintage ’50s costume knows it, and if you don’t believe it, then come on by and watch Randy slap down and spin around his stacks of hot wax—but don’t expect to find a seat.”

That was Tim Weiler of Channel 4 Action News reporting on Randy Stinson at the Bongo Lounge in 1976. With muttonchops that meet his handlebar mustache and a slick silk shirt to match, Stinson is just as funky as the music he plays. Back then, two years before his record store, Randy’s Records, opened, he was one of Salt Lake City’s grooviest DJs. Today, Stinson stays mostly behind the scenes of his famous record shop, but after the long-lost video clip was discovered and posted to RandysRecords.com, he agreed to let City Weekly pull back the curtain on a side of Stinson that few have seen.

Of course, a laptop played no part in the DJing of Stinson’s heyday, but it was no simple matter of turntables, either. Except on rare occasions when he’d bring a collection of vinyl to the Bongo Lounge, he would typically take requests over the phone from his house, find the song in his mountains of records, and send the music across town to the Bongo through phone lines, using transformers hooked up to his turntables and amplifier. And the crowds would flock to hear that “hot wax.”

“The music just wasn’t available, that’s why the Bongo was packing them in,” Stinson says. “If I were to do that now, it would flop; there’s no way it would work. Music’s just so accessible, but in the old days, you had to search and search and search.”

Stinson did this every Thursday and Sunday for eight years. With a record collection larger than any Utah radio station’s, he made a name for himself for having almost everything, from Hank Williams to The Temptations.

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Although Stinson was stumped from time to time with requested songs, his fans had unwavering faith in his powers. He recalls that a Bongo Lounge bartender once made a $10 bet with a patron that Stinson could play any request. “A guy came in and said, ‘I wanna hear “Cement Mixer Putti Putti” by Slim Gaillard,’ ” he says. “That record came out in the ’30s, and I shouldn’t have had it.”

But Stinson had just bought the record a few weeks before, and when he put it on, “it about blew the guy away, and he lost his 10 bucks.”

DJing from his house to the Bongo twice a week made it difficult for Stinson to see exactly how popular he was and get out and dance. “I’d kick my fanny sometimes,” he says. “I’d think, ‘Gosh, I could have been out dancing and having fun.’ But I loved entertaining people.”

Once, Stinson recorded the show beforehand and played the recording instead of taking live requests so he could sneak down to the Bongo to see exactly how popular it was when he would DJ. “I always wanted to see what it was like up at the Bongo when I was doing a show from home,” he says. “I think I put a wig on; I didn’t want them to see who I was. I couldn’t even get in there was so many people at the back waiting to get in.”

Even the long-lost video reporting on the “hoppin’ ” crowd doesn’t do justice to how popular the Bongo was at the time, Stinson says. “There was another little room with people playing pool or just standing, but it was packed full.”

Stinson’s days as the Bongo DJ came to an end in 1980 as musical taste was changing and his record store began taking off.

“Once I opened up the store, I had to devote all my time to trying to find records to buy,” he says.

Stinson has passed the family DJ torch to his son Sam, known as DJ Feral Cat, who performs in Salt Lake City and is also the primary record buyer for Randy’s Records.

“I definitely picked up my love for music from being around him,” Sam says.

Like Randy, Sam prefers to use vinyl when he DJs, although he does use a computer from time to time. “There’s something different about flipping through a stack of 45s trying to find what you want rather than a computer,” he says. “It’s more organic.” CW

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The Wytches To get a taste of the heavy but surreal darkness at the center of the music produced by Brighton, England, garage-rock/ surf band The Wytches, check out their music video for “Burn Out the Bruise,” from their debut album, Annabel Dream Reader, released over the summer. Grainy, blown out, often blurry and filled with static, it looks like an Instagram video gone wrong, shot at a party where the pirate-garbed attendees have had too much to drink. That combination of zaniness and spookiness bubbles up in varying levels throughout the rest of the album, on ear-grating tracks like “Gravedweller” and the slowly exploding “Wire Frame Mattress,” which feature walls of blistering guitar and the primal, warbling vocals of frontman Kristian Bell. Local rockers Max Pain & the Groovies will open. Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), 8 p.m., $8 in advance, $10 day of show, KilbyCourt.com Purling Hiss Purling Hiss has grown from the solo project of songwriter/guitarist Mike Polizze into a trio, but his style still pervades the Philadelphia guitar-driven psych-punk band’s new album, Weirdon, released in September.

While 2013’s Water on Mars found Purling Hiss delving into brain-punching heavy-rock territory, the diverse and dynamic Weirdon is based around pop structures—albeit pop as heard through a trippy Polizze lens. “Learning Slowly” has some jagged edges even though it has a tight guitar line and lots of jangly tambourine, and the droning melody and minor guitar chords of “Another Silvermoon” lend the dreamy tune some smoky darkness.

Local acts The Nods, garage-rock band Chalk and punk rockers Swamp Ravens are also on the bill. Diabolical Records, 238 S. Edison St., 8 p.m., $5, Facebook.com/ DiabolicalRecords Dorothy This Los Angeles rock foursome haven’t released a full-length album yet, but they’ve been generating some buzz online thanks to the series of singles they’ve released recently in anticipation of their upcoming self-titled EP. And those songs stand up to the hype; punchy, bluesy tracks

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The Bots Laid out in the same format as a Buzzfeed “listicle,” complete with more than 40 gifs, the music video for The Bots’ new single, “All I Really Want” (billed as the “internettiest music video that has ever internetted”), is undoubtedly a product of 2014. But a live performance by Los Angeles sibling bandmates Mikaiah Lei (vocals, guitar, bass) and Anaiah Lei (percussion) is much more timeless. When The Bots did a NPR Tiny Desk Concert in October—around the time when their full-length debut, Pink Palms, was released—their performance was made up of only one dude on guitar and another on drums, but they poured tremendous energy and passion into their loosely hinged punk/ blues sound. It’s no wonder they were named Most Likely to Succeed by Rolling Stone after their performance at Coachella this summer.

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Mr. Gnome With colorful images as fantastical as butterflies with antlers, impossibly high carousel horses and evil rabbits, the album covers by Cleveland art-rock duo Mr. Gnome are eye-catching indeed— check out their Bandcamp page to see them all together.

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With its ear-grating abrasiveness and black-as-ink sonic texture, the latest album from duo Fossil Arms (Chaz Costello and Melody Maglione) is a well-crafted slice of monochrome, morose synth-punk, even if it’s not always groundbreaking. The album’s familiar combination of bass-y male vocals, crushing synths and snappy drums evokes classic post-punk groups like Joy Division as well as more modern offshoots such as She Wants Revenge. Dance-worthy album highlight and opening track “Time for Words” features a driving beat and jagged layers of computerized fuzz, relentless bass and indeterminate atmosphere, and it showcases Fossil Arms’ ability to successfully combine soft- and hard-edged sounds. “Dirty Dreamer” begins on a promising note with zippy, laser-like synths, but the main guitar part sounds a little too similar to the hook in Billy Idol’s “Dancing With Myself.” But it’s only a momentary stumble; the richly and intricately arranged tones on “Moonrise” give the track a sleek, icy beauty that contrasts with its geometric backbone. Self-released, Oct. 24, FossilArmsNoise.bandcamp.com

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With its combination of campy, B-movie spookiness and lacy, gothic beauty, the latest album by singer-songwriter Valerie Rose Sterrett features an interesting interplay between light and dark, melancholy and optimism. The piano-driven Monsteria chills like a lover’s last words and, with its strong horror theme (complete with sounds of creaky doors, screams and more), turns tales of heartbreak into monster-filled nightmares. Sterrett’s delicate, Tori Amos-esque voice is lovely throughout the album, but it’s particularly piercing and emotive on the moody, ’80s-pop-influenced “Yesterday’s Ghost,” where she cleverly uses the idea of being haunted by a ghost to describe the lingering memory of a former significant other. The lyrics on “Cobweb” depict love at its most destructive and lethal with the lyrics “You inject poison into my head.”

On album highlight “Lullaby to the Grave,” Sterrett’s sugary, overly whispery, slightly off-kilter vocals are fittingly accompanied by creepy-carnival organ, piano and wobbly theremin, giving the song an effectively off-putting combination of dreaminess and terror. Swoody Records, Oct. 31, SwoodyRecords.bandcamp.com

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Pull up a stool at this cozy hole in the wall after a long day at work and bask in the unpretentious atmosphere while downing a cold one. Or, stop by in the middle of the day for the Wednesday lunch specials.

With cheap drinks and lots of activities, including free pool every Tuesday and Sunday and free darts every Wednesday, Chuckle’s Lounge could become your regular chill-out spot. 221 W. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-532-1721 Johnny’s on Second

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Citizen Cope Singer/songwriter Citizen Cope has spent most of his career on tour, but it doesn’t slow him down from constantly creating. Using an acoustic guitar, he mixes blues, rock and funk with his raspy, deep and soulful voice to create moving songs. His style has been sought after by musicians like Carlos Santana, Dido and Sheryl Crow, who have recruited him for collaboration on their own songs. Tracks from his sophomore album, The Clarence Greenwood Recordings, have lasted through the years with songs like “Sideways” and “Son’s Gonna Rise” making the rounds on several movie and television soundtracks.

Citizen Cope is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of The Clarence Greenwood Recordings by touring and performing the album in its entirety, along with other favorite songs, with a full band. (Rebecca Frost) Friday, Nov. 14 @ The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 9 p.m., $31 in advance, $36 day of show, DepotSLC.com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com

Thursday 11.13 Salt Lake City Champagne Charlie, Folk Hogan, Hectic Hobo (Bar Deluxe) Purling Hiss, The Nods, Chalk, Swamp Ravens (Diabolical Records) Conn Curran Trio (Gracie’s) Gemini Mind (The Hog Wallow Pub) The Wytches, Max Pain & the Groovies (Kilby Court) Gaelic Storm (Kingsbury Hall) Sounds Like Teen Spirit (Liquid Joe’s) Grand Banks, The Echo Era (The Shred Shed) Dorothy, The Features, Chappo, Tristen (The Urban Lounge)

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This longstanding Sugar House fixture is a beeronly tavern that attracts visitors from across the country due to its age (est. 1947) and Swiss chalet construction. The Bar sticks to 4.0 beers, but you will find some local craft beers from Uinta and Shades of Pale. A Golden Tee machine gets plenty of use from the regulars; otherwise, all you have to do is drink beer and watch TV. Ahhhh. 168 Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-4851232, Facebook.com/TheBarInSugarHouse

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Adorned in sports swag and repping U flags, this sports bar is the place to go if you’re in the business of making friends. With comfortable couches and three fire pits, the large patio is conducive to socializing.

The outgoing staff is happy to get you a Grapeful Dead (similar to a Long Island iced tea) or piña colada martini. If you’re feeling lucky, stop by on Wednesday for the free poker night with a $250 cash prize and 50-cent wings. 677 S. 200 West, Salt Lake City, 801-355-3598, WhyLegends.com

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This laid-back bar offers plenty of diversions every night of the week, with a rotating schedule of karaoke, stand-up comedy, poker and live music. Things get competitive with pool (free till 7 p.m.), plus sports on the screens, electronic darts and even old-school NBA Jam. Tasty food can be bought at the bar—the only thing that beats the $5 lunch combo is the $4 shot & a beer special. 165 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-746-3334, JohnnysOnSecond.com

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra (EnergySolutions Arena) Marty Lyman & the Millionaires (Gracie’s) Kevyn Dern (The Hog Wallow Pub) Wednesduhh! Karaoke (Jam) The Chronicle Trio, Jazz Jaguars, Racecar Racecar, Aaron Vera, Ricky Cisneros (Kilby Court) Modern Baseball, Knuckle Puck, Foxing, Crying, SoMoS (The Loading Dock) As We Speak, Colonel Lingus (Metro Bar) Todd Rundgren (The State Room) Mr. Gnome, Young Tongue, Big Wild Wings (The Urban Lounge) DJ Matty Mo (Willie’s Lounge)

Judas Priest has a reputation to live up to, and its latest album, Redeemer of Souls, released in July, does the band’s name justice. The album shows that even after 40 years of fame, Judas Priest hasn’t lost its heavy-metal grit. Their elaborate guitar solos are still frequent, as are their poetic lyrics sung by longtime vocalist Rob Halford. They haven’t slowed their pace over the decades, either, with their use of rapid percussion beats that set the tone for their up-tempo, hard-hitting jams. Steel Panther will also perform.

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The idea for Cupbop was planted when co-owners J. Park and Jung Song had a meeting at the University of Utah and saw the long lines for food trucks on campus. They thought it was interesting that people were willing to wait so long for freshly prepared food, and noticed there wasn’t a Korean truck. They then partnered with a third friend, J.K. Kim, and created Cupbop.

“I love Cupbop. It’s always really good food, and I really like that you can get different levels of spiciness,” says customer Gabe White. That is thanks to co-owner Kim’s specially created sauces, designed to let patrons customize their spice preferences on a scale of 1 to 10.

The Cupbop menu is very simple— choose from beef, spicy pork, chicken, noodle, or tofu and kimchi. If you want to try beef, spicy pork, and noodles, order a combo. Cupbop also offers “mandoo,” or dumplings, that come in veggie, pork, or kimchi, which are very popular with customers.

“Cupbop is more of an eating experience, as opposed to other food trucks which can feel like big vending machines,” says Salt Lake City resident Joe Beatty.

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“We have purchased three more trucks recently to keep with the high demand,” says Kim. “We expect they would be ready at the beginning of next year.”

In addition to their truck and trailer, Cupbop has a concession stand at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy and a storefront location in Rexburg, Idaho. Cupbop is also expanding its menu offerings—one of the new trucks will be dedicated to KoreanMexican fusion food.

On occasion, Cupbop hosts customer appreciation events. “We pick one customer and bring our food truck over to his or her house,” Kim explains. “We feed our customer and his or her friends, up to 25 people, absolutely free.”

For more information about Cupbop, or to find out where the truck is heading next, follow them on Facebook at https:// w w w.facebook.com/CupbopKoreanBBQ, Instagram @cupbop, or Twitter @cupbop.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) We all have addictive and obsessive tendencies. They are fundamental to being human. So the challenge is not to eliminate them—that’s not possible—but rather to harness them. If you hope to keep them from dragging you down, you must work hard to channel them into activities that enhance your life. How are you doing on this score, Aries? Are you chronically dependent on drugs, gambling, sugar or chaotic relationships? Or are you, instead, hooked on the courage you summon when you face your fears and the willpower you invoke as you free yourself from your limitations? Now is an excellent time to upgrade your addictive and obsessive tendencies.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.” Winston Churchill said that, and now I’m passing it along to you—with one caveat. I don’t expect you to be perfect, and never will. To shoot for perfection is risky. It may set up unrealistic expectations that lead to bad mental hygiene. It tempts you to avoid messy experiences, some of which might be essential to your growth. So I will offer a revised version of Churchill’s maxim for your use: If you want to improve, you must change. If you want to keep improving, you must change often. And the coming months will be prime time for you to keep improving and improving and improving.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Our planet’s most abundant mineral is called bridgmanite.

It’s an amalgam of iron, magnesium, silicon and oxygen. Until recently, no one had actually seen it because it lies so deep underground it can’t be reached by digging tools. Scientists have only known about it from studying how earthquake waves moved through it. That changed in the last few years, when two mineralogists found bridgmanite in an ancient meteorite. They were able to analyze the nuances of this basic mineral for the first time. I predict a comparable development for you, Taurus. In the coming months, you will become more familiar with a core part of you that has always been a mystery. The revelations may occur with the help of an influence that resembles a meteorite.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “Sex is like pizza,” said comedian Mel Brooks. “Even when it’s bad, it’s still pretty good.” That’s a generalization, of course. I’m sure you can think of times in your past when mediocre pizza and mediocre sex were just plain mediocre. But work with me on the overarching principle, Scorpio: Some of the finer things in life just can’t be spoiled. They are always at least moderately pleasurable and interesting and lucky—and usually more than just moderately so. According to my reading of the astrological omens, your immediate future will be filled to the brim with these finer things.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Ancient people knew about Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn because all of those planets are visible to the naked eye. From GEMINI (May 21-June 20) the second millennium B.C. until the late 20th century, only three Some conspiracy theorists are paranoid that aliens or government additional planets were found: Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. (Pluto agencies use radio waves to try to control their minds. They wear was later reclassified as a dwarf planet, however.) Then in 1992, tin foil hats to protect themselves from the evil transmissions. astronomers began to locate planets orbiting other stars. On one But a recent study shows that this protective headgear has an spectacular day in February 2014, NASA announced it had identified effect that’s opposite to what it’s supposed to. In fact, it actually 715 new planets. I foresee a similar uptick for you in the next seven amplifies the intensity of radio frequencies, making it even more months, Sagittarius. Your rate of discoveries is about to zoom. likely that mind-control signals would work their dastardly magic.

This problem probably does not apply to you, but I suspect you are CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) suffering from a comparable glitch. An approach you’re pursuing When Evan Lattimer’s 92-year-old father died in 2007, she or an attitude you’re cultivating is having an impact contrary to inherited his large collection of odd relics. It included a cigar what you imagine. Now is an excellent time to make adjustments. smoked by W. C. Fields, Greta Garbo’s driver’s license, Abraham Lincoln’s shaving mirror, a bearskin coat owned by General CANCER (June 21-July 22) George Custer, and Napoleon Bonaparte’s penis. Many items I can’t remember the last time you’ve had as much artistic turned out to be quite valuable to collectors. One eager bidder freedom as you have now. It’s as if life has given you a slew of wild offered to buy the famous genitalia for $100,000. I suspect cards and X-factors to play with. You don’t have to answer to that in the coming months, you will experience events that have the past as much as you usually do. You are less beholden to the some resemblances to this story. For example, the legacy you demands of duty and the constraints of karma. Here’s the best receive may not be what you expected, but could turn out to be perk: You have been authorized by both the higher powers and more useful than you imagined. lower powers of the cosmos to fall in love. With whom? With what? Everyone! Everything!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Here’s your assignment: Get more organized and purposeful LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) about having fun. Think harder about what makes you feel good, For much of its history, the United States claimed ownership of and plan more aggressively to bring those feel-good experiences the ocean within three miles of its coasts. That changed in 1988, into your life. In offering these prescriptions, I’m not advocating when the federal government declared that hereafter it would irresponsible hedonism. Not at all. In my view, you will become have sovereignty over the ocean as far as 12 miles from land. a better servant of those you care about by boosting your With that action, American territory increased dramatically. commitment to pleasure. You will carry out your duties with I invite you to consider a comparable expansion in the coming more aplomb and effectiveness. Raising your joy quotient is months, Leo. Seize more space. Seek further privileges. Ask for actually a formula for becoming a better human being. a bigger piece of everything.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) The Appalachian Mountains span 1,500 miles from Newfoundland Poland’s most renowned ghost hunter is frustrated. Having to Alabama. They are the seventh longest range in the world. And invested a fortune in spectral detection equipment, Piotr yet they have shrunk over the eons. Their average height is 3,000 Shalkevitz finds that there are fewer and fewer spooks to feet, but when they were young they were probably twice that investigate as the years go by. I’m not qualified to speak about high. What happened? There has been constant erosion caused whether or not the whole world is experiencing a decline in the by rivers, glaciers, wind, tree roots, lichens and oxidation. Rain and ghost population. But I’m confident that this is exactly what is condensation have also played a role because when water freezes, happening for you Virgos. Recently, the haunted elements of your it expands, creating a wedging force. I propose that we make what life have begun to dissipate. And in the next eight months, I expect has happened to the Appalachians a symbol of what’s possible that you will be freed from most, maybe all, of the ghosts and pesky for you in the next eight months, Pisces. Through steady, small demons that attached themselves to you once upon a time. actions, you can significantly grind down a mountainous obstacle.

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