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Step away from the gift cards: Editor Rachel Piper has found tons and bunches of gifts at Utah’s fabulous local shops that’ll make holiday dreams come true.

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Letters No Such Thing As No Help

Babs, you are so right about panhandling [“City Views: Veterans Day,” Nov. 13, City Weekly]. There are many, many options for veterans (and others) who claim to be “homeless.” My husband was a veteran. He served 21 years in the Marine Corps and 24 years as a civilian tech rep for Blackhawk Helicopter. He saw more than his share of war. I am very proud of his service. I have had to explain many times to my grandchildren, when we drive by these cardboard-carrying people, why I am not giving them money: because there is no such thing as a “homeless” vet that cannot get help. I get so irritated when I see these people abuse the term that I want to get out of the car and hand them a list of available resources. Of course I wouldn’t, but for anyone who does not know, the help they need is available. I do understand that some people want to live on the street, but it is such an irritant when they claim they are a veteran with no help. Panhandling is so out of control in Salt Lake City. In the Sugar House area, where I live, I see two or three people waiting to take their “turn” at various intersections. Thanks again to you, Babs. I am sure you see more than your share of these folks downtown all the time.

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Ray Hult was absolutely correct in his column “Thanks, Obama” [Nov. 13, City Weekly]. It’s hard to say if praising the accomplishments of the Obama administration would have turned defeats into victories for Democrats who distanced themselves from the president, but at least they’d have had the satisfaction of standing for principle rather than merely standing for election. I was born and raised in Oregon and had the privilege of being represented in the U.S. Senate for the first 21 years of my life by Sen. Wayne Morse, who didn’t hesitate to stand up for what he believed was right, even if it was unpopular. He was the earliest prominent opponent of the Vietnam War and surely would have vigorously opposed the Iraq War if he had been in Congress in 2003. When I look at the people who will make up Congress in January, including Utah’s congressional delegation, it’s remarkable how we’ve turned into a nation that chooses mostly political hacks to represent us. I see few men and women of substance. Elizabeth Warren is a remarkable exception.

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City Weekly has stooped to the level of your compatriots by finally normalizing the sadism of hunting. Good to know I can discount City Weekly for the alternative, intelligent view it charades as, as now hiking around and shooting small birds for fun is celebrated. The glamorization of shotgunning small birds is enough to hope that City Weekly also profiles the workout routine of a domestic-violence enthusiast. I would love to read about the benefits that strength training can provide, and the incidental benefit of large muscles if your bitch happens to get out of line. Fairly certain that those who exert violence upon animals for sport would also be interested in techniques with which to exert it upon those weaker than them in the home as well! Keep it trashy, City Weekly!

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They say you don’t know the worth of water till the well is dry. You also don’t know the worth of gravy till ... the gravy boat breaks in a mad rush to make it to Macy’s on Thanksgiving. When you’re a kid, Thanksgiving can seem like a lame holiday. At school, it’s all pilgrim hats and cornucopias, which for some reason are filled with boring things like vegetables instead of candy. Dinner itself is full of dull grown-up food: turkey, more vegetables, bizarrely textured cranberry sauce. There are no presents. By the time school rolls around Monday, you’re good and ready to go back. In retrospect, I realize how much I took for granted about Thanksgiving: a warm home, loving parents, abundant food on the table—things I no doubt still take for granted on most days. But, also: naps and a four-day-weekend at home. Black Friday was probably a “thing” back then, but we didn’t participate. My first taste of Black Friday came when working at Target during high school. At the time, Target was still years from opening on Thanksgiving Day, so I got a night of picking at turkey slices before setting an alarm to get up for my 12-hour Black Friday shift. And as my “career” in retail progressed to working in a bookstore, I had plenty of tastes of holiday work. Not many Black Friday shoppers storm bookstores looking for deals on already relatively inexpensive novels, but there was always a rush around 6 p.m., as exultant shoppers, their eyes glittering, flowed in a triumphant stream from other mall stores to hang out among their new purchases and spill hot chocolate on books they didn’t plan to buy. The store made more money than usual, but it took all of our resources and left the staff feeling as though the money had been roughly shaken from each us personally. After that first eye-opening day of the holiday retail season, though, comes a certain exhilaration. The days pass quickly, and the nights are spent in heavy sleep.

Panicked shoppers looking for books for all 10 grandkids will actually listen to your recommendations and leave with a pile of what you hope will soon be beloved books. Your co-workers become fellow soldiers in the fight to restock displays, mop up hot chocolate and track down the very last copy of The Glass Castle or whatever the musthave holiday book has turned out to be. While you’re in the heat of battle, family members and friends with “normal” jobs are thoughtlessly throwing holiday parties and “getting together for dinner.” Who are these people who can spontaneously decide to go to a movie or socialize? “Don’t you understand? It’s the holidays! I’m working nights for the next 12 days straight!” you scream self-righteously into the phone, like a harried father in a TV movie. In another corner of the break room, a co-worker bursts into tears after talking to her husband for five minutes, the only contact the two of them will have until January because of their totally opposite work schedules. The happy holiday energy soon begins to twist into something darker. Customers begin to see retail workers as mindless puppets dancing to the tune of a sadistic master who’s engineered the long lines and empty shelves to thwart them specifically. The 23rd spilled hot chocolate of the season is something you stew over for the rest of the night, muttering to yourself as you pick up stuffed animals and slam board books back onto the shelf. Seeing the last copy of The Glass Castle, which you took 20 minutes to hunt down for a nice man, left carelessly on a display of wrapping paper incites a murderous rage. The cries of children being ripped from the Thomas the Tank Engine train set mingles with shouting from the register as some customer threatens to call corporate over a forgotten gift receipt. But at about 5 p.m. on Christmas Eve, people finally start going to their own homes and staying there, thank God. You clean up the store and head to someone’s house to glare balefully at rested family members who’ve spent the day playing in the snow or baking pies or whatever people who don’t live in shopping malls do. You don’t know. And less than 24 hours later,

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you’re heading off to bed, alarm set for 4 a.m. so you can strip the store of Christmas and push out the clearance items. How’s that for holiday spirit? Despite the less-than-cheery memories I just lost myself in, I’ve learned to enjoy the holidays again. Giving gifts is fun, and so is shopping—well, at least when it’s done far away from malls, at small boutiques and quirky gift shops, and well before Thanksgiving. Nov. 27, I’ll be at my parents’ house, co-cooking dinner with my sister. I’ve cast off my hatred of turkey, though I still prefer smooth cranberry sauce from a can. Freed from my retail shackles, I might have to work for a few hours Thanksgiving weekend, but I’ll be more than a shadowy, bitter figure to visiting relatives. I’ve joined the ranks of “normal people” who keep normal hours. Except, it’s not normal. In this world of a 24-hour demand for stuff, it’s not just nurses and firefighters and law enforcement who work Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s pretty much anyone who doesn’t work at a comfortable job with desk chairs and health benefits and holiday bonuses—the kind of jobs that are becoming harder to obtain. People talk about the War on Christmas, but the problem isn’t a retail worker saying “happy holidays” instead of “merry Christmas” after a 30-second transaction during which they earned one-fifteenth of a cent. It’s the fact that this adulation of giant stores and giant deals is making us lose our humanity and regard for our fellow man. Because, yeah, that person you just bought that scarf from is a person who probably likes turkey and napping just as much as you and I do. This isn’t a rallying cry to cancel your holiday plans, return all your gifts, and wear sackcloth till Dec. 26. But there’s no reason to trample all over the holidays of mindless retail workers—er, people— in your quest to have a more exciting Thanksgiving and a cheaper Christmas. Just sit back and pass the gravy. CW Send feedback to rpiper@cityweekly.net.

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Double question: What is your favorite part of Thanksgiving? Or, what do you want for Christmas? Kolbie Stonehocker: I have a stack of records and no way to play them, so I’d love to get a record player for Christmas. And the new World of Warcraft expansion, Warlords of Draenor, so I can get through January without losing my mind.

Jackie Briggs: I live and die for candied yams. So it’s my favorite thing about Thanksgiving and it doubles as what I want for Christmas. Jeremiah Smith: My favorite part of Thanksgiving is hitting the bar for pool afterward.

Eric Petersen:

The best part of Thanksgiving is smooshing different foods together. I’m a big believer in mashed potato reservoirs filled with grav y and corn. And I like to make dinner rolls into a tasty little dirgibles filled with turkey, gravy and stuffing for eating on their own, or potentially crashing into said gravy reservoirs.

Scott Renshaw: I love gravy. Just ladelfuls and ladelfuls of grav y. Grav y on everything. Even the pie. I just got a new ice cream maker, and I might just make gravy ice cream. And don’t tell me you’re not curious to try some. Jeff Chipian: My favorite part about Thanksgiving has to be the nonstop Christmas music on the radio and the beginning of Christmas Vacation marathons. Hallelujah!

Sarah Arnoff: The best (and possibly worst) part of Thanksgiving is my mom’s annual “experiment” dish she likes to try out on the family. When it’s variations of candied yams or cranberry puree, delicious! Meatloaf cupcakes and mint jelly, not so much.

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Welcome to winter in Utah, where the air is inverting, the highways are slippery and the speed limits are inflating. And if all goes as usual, parents waiting for their kids will be idling their cars outside schools. It’s a recipe for soupy air and particulate-laden lungs. So, one might ask, what was the Utah Department of Transportation thinking when it increased the highway speed limit to 70 miles per hour? That this is Utah, where anything goes and you don’t need to wear a helmet, either? In California, state law requires that the Bay Area reduce its overall level of air pollution 15 percent by 2035. To that end, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission has considered dropping the speed limit from 65 to 55 because higher speeds mean more pollution. But neither lives nor lungs can knock UDOT from its course.

Burned Out Then there’s the Little House on the Prairie issue, otherwise known as how to regulate wood burning in Utah. Apparently, there are 207 homes on the Wasatch Front that still depend on wood as their sole heat source. “Utah’s Division of Air Quality estimates a home heated with wood emits as much particulate pollution as 200 homes heated with natural gas and as many volatile organic compounds as 500 homes,” The Salt Lake Tribune wrote. On Dec. 3, the DAQ may include businesses and institutions in its burn ban. On Dec. 11, the Salt Lake County Department of Health will hold a hearing on a plan that could prohibit burning on all but the clearest winter days. There is financial aid available to homeowners who want to convert. They should take it now.

Dog Days Does Sen. Aaron Osmond really want to go there? Does he really want a fight over the state’s favorite domestic animal? Maybe it was a sweet gesture on his part to listen to a fourth-grade class at Daybreak Elementary. They apparently love the pretty golden retriever. Forget diversity, and goodbye poodles, mixed breeds and homeless pets. But more to the point, does Osmond have any idea what dog-lovers are like? Take a page from the ongoing battles over dog parks, pitbulls and leash laws. Sometimes it seems like there’s no more contentious issue than dogs. On the other hand, some suggest it’s a great idea to keep the legislature busy choosing state pets. It might keep them out of the bedroom or the bar.

After a year and a half hiatus, Salt Lake City’s Free Skool, Always Learning in Salt Lake City, is back up and running. Like many other Free Skools, Always Learning is run entirely by volunteers, who aim to share life skills and build community involvement. Many of the group’s events are held at the Boing! House (608 S. 500 East), Salt Lake City’s anarchist hangout, near Liberty Park. Always Learning members Bradley DeHerrera and Sage Paterson (pictured) talked to City Weekly about Salt Lake City’s FreeSkool. Visit AlwaysLearningSLC.wordpress.com for a schedule of their events and classes.

What does Always Learning in Salt Lake City teach people?

It’s organizing people so that we can all work together and learn from each other and share our skills and talents with each other. There are so many cool things that people are doing in the city, and this is a way that people can work together and share what we know. We get events that people are interested in on our calendar so we can get more people to attend these events. The structure is decisively non-hierarchical and outside of the monetary system. It’s completely based on personal motivation to learn things you like with people you enjoy spending time with. The barriers are a lot lower with us than it is with public schools. Unless you’re being rude, you’re welcome.

Why did Always Learning take a hiatus?

Everybody that is involved in the calendar is involved in different things. The three main organizers back then ... life just took them in different directions. Organizing this type of Free Skool is a lot of work and energy, so it just sizzled out. But this October just seemed like a good time to see who was willing to help get it back up and running. This is really a fresh group of people working on Always Learning now, so we have revamped the blog a little and have tried to keep the calendar up to date.

How can a Free Skool work financially?

The only money that’s exchanged is in the printing of the physical calendar itself. In the past, we have asked for donations at classes but right now we have just been paying for it ourselves until we decide what to do. All the classes and everything else are donated by the teachers. Really, the cost right now isn’t very significant, so we aren’t too worried about costs right now, but we have a few ideas on how to cover the cost if we need.

How do some of your more bizarre events, like dumpster diving, go over?

The dumpster-diving expedition has been one of our longest-running events. The people involved in the calendar have been avid dumpster divers for many years, so we thought, “we might as well put this on the calendar, it’s a cool experience.” You can find hundreds of pounds of food—really good, edible food—when you do it. Food is wasted all the time and for no reason; a lot of bakeries will just throw out perfectly good food at the end of the day. We usually get a fair amount of people, and sometimes we have to divide into two groups because we have so many.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Past Mistakes

BY CECIL ADAMS

Why were the futurists of the mid-20th century so wrong? Where are the robots, undersea cities, home nuclear plants, meals in a pill and moon colonies? Damn it, where’s my flying car? —via the Straight Dope Message Board The short answer? Your flying car is collecting dust somewhere in Slovakia. And for the low, low price of $279,000, it could be sitting up on blocks in your own front yard. Fact is, the creators of the AeroMobil 3.0, a somewhat car-shaped vehicle with fold-out wings and a rear-mounted propeller, have yet to put their product on the market— mostly because it wouldn’t actually address any needs we currently have. It requires 220 yards of clear road to take off, so you’d still have issues with traffic. If vertical liftoff were possible (it isn’t now), that would use up half its fuel instantly. The company claims the AeroMobil is “ideal for commuters ... especially in countries with underdeveloped road infrastructure.” But pick an example of such a locale—Nepal, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Brazilian rainforest—and I doubt you’ll find many commuters ready to spring for that kind of price tag. Here’s the thing: Most midcentury futurists were writers or filmmakers motivated by selling books or movie tickets, without (unlike yours truly) much concern for accuracy. Their “predictions” were therefore more fantastic than practical. How entertaining would it have been if the Jetsons had had high-speed Internet instead of flying cars? Judy tweets cat videos, Elroy watches porn. The 1962 cartoon-viewing audience couldn’t handle a show like that. But even the experts have, for the most part, failed at predicting long-term technological change. Western Union executives declared the newly invented telephone had no value in modern society. Tech visionary Ray Kurzweil predicted medical research would have largely beaten cancer by 2009. It took even me a while to see the point of texting. Why? Sometimes, like with cancer research, it’s because we just can’t predict how long developments will take. More often it’s because it’s always easy to misread the market. Inherent coolness notwithstanding, the success of any innovation relies on economics and infrastructure. We don’t live on Mars because it’s just not profitable to set up an artificial atmosphere there. Flying cars probably won’t become more than toys for rich people because of high oil prices, the real estate needed for personal airstrips, and the social stigma of the carbon footprint. Another reason it’s tough to foresee future developments is that technology engenders more technology. Scientific advancement has sped up so much that a single innovation can within the space of a decade send progress down a path no one had envisioned. If you didn’t predict the Internet, you certainly couldn’t have predicted online libraries or virtual gaming or Tinder.

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This isn’t to say that useless, vaguely futuristic gadgets aren’t out there—they’re just unlikely to transform society. A quick perusal of the interwebs will turn up any number of gimmicky high-end items for purchase, from air-conditioned shoes to a “Digital iPotty”—a trainer toilet with an iPad attached. (How can we expect little Tyler to tinkle without an interactive touchscreen?) Taking a look at some of the predictions you mentioned: Wrist radios and TVs, à la Dick Tracy/ James Bond: Got ’em. The Apple Watch is due out in early 2015. You can pre-order one, or sit outside the store in the snow for three days with the other crazies. Robots: We’re still limited by cost and power, but we already have robots that vacuum floors by themselves, robots that play ping-pong, robots that do standup comedy, and thousand-robot swarms that communicate with each other and act in concert. Don’t tell me you haven’t chatted with Siri when you’re bored and lonely. Space stations and space travel: We went into space, we went to the moon and we decided there really wasn’t enough interesting stuff up there to justify the cost and risk of sending humans any farther. Our relatively unambitious International Space Station has run up a $160 billion tab thus far, and currently costs more than $3 billion a year to allow six permanent crew to perform relatively mundane microgravity experiments. And after nearly 50 years of space travel, we’re still accidentally blowing things up. Undersea cities: Beyond the issue of why you’d really want to live in one, the whole enterprise is close to cost-prohibitive. True, Chinese investors have recently commissioned the design of a floating city covering four square miles of ocean. Considering China’s track record with urban planning, I remain suspicious. For the most part, the technology required for all these predictions is there, just not utilized. Take flying cars. Look at your fellow commuters: The woman in the next car is reading her Kindle. The guy on the other side is shaving. The kid ahead of you is sexting his boyfriend. These are the people you want driving around the sky at 125 miles an hour? Alternatively, you could take advantage of modern technology that’s actually useful—namely, the Internet—and eliminate your commute altogether by writing newspaper columns from bed in your jammies. The choice is yours.

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Critics question ethics of Trib‘s e-book on Mia Love. By Colby Frazier cfrazier@cityweekly.net @colbyfrazierlp From her days persuading developers to exterminate lake flies around her home near the banks of Utah Lake to her time as a Saratoga Springs city councilwoman and her now current place in history as the first black Republican congresswoman, a reporter from The Salt Lake Tribune has never strayed too far from Mia Love. And that vault of reporting and data, much of which appeared on the Tribune’s pages over the years, but some of which no doubt did not, is all available for $6.99 in the form of the e-book Mia Love: The Rise, Stumble and Resurgence of the Next GOP Star. The book was published Nov. 5, the day after Love defeated her Democratic opponent, Doug Owens, by lassoing 50 percent of 4th District voters to his 47 percent. But the book’s timing, and the fact that it was penned by the same three Tribune political reporters who covered Love’s career—and will most likely cover it long into the future— has drawn fire from some who worry that the Tribune’s coverage during the pivotal campaign months might have been swayed by the presence of a side project. The most vocal critic to emerge so far is Sheryl Worsley, news director for KSL, who, shortly after the book’s publication, ran her concerns past Andrew Seaman, ethics chair with the national Society of Professional Journalists. Worsley, a regional director of the Radio Television Digital News Association and a former president of the Utah Headliners, the state chapter of the SPJ, says the e-mail she sent to Seaman was not in her capacity as KSL news director, and was not meant to be public. Worsley says her concerns stem from the timeliness of the Tribune’s disclosure of the book to Owens (middle of October), and a potential financial conflict of interest deriving from Love’s victory. “My intent in writing the national SPJ ethics chair was not to file a formal complaint, but to get an opinion on the ethics of the situation,” Worsley told City Weekly in a written statement. “It is incumbent on journalists to ask

m e d i a m at t e r s tough questions.” The discussion surrounding the appropriateness of writing an unauthorized biography of a candidate as the campaign was unfurling is one Tribune Editor and Publisher Terry Orme didn’t shy from. Orme says his quiver of political reporters, Matt Canham, Thomas Burr and Robert Gehrke—all co-authors of the Love book—have closely covered Love’s political rise since she began to eye a national office four years ago. In this time, Love went from a mayor of a town on the muddy, buginfested western strip of Utah Lake—a town that didn’t exist 17 years ago—to a sweetheart of the neo-conservative movement who is currently undergoing a crash course in the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. Along the way, Love, a daughter of Haitian immigrants, lost her first congressional race to outgoing 4th District Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson. And, depending on whom one asks, she nearly lost her second battle to Owens in a district with gerrymandered borders that were adjusted to guarantee a Republican victory. Yet she also raised boatloads more money than Owens, receiving help on the campaign trail from the likes of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. This improbable story, Orme says, was told by the Tribune in daily snippets of 700 words here and 1,000 words there over the course of years. Now, with the ability to publish a book via the Internet in a matter of hours, Orme wonders why the Tribune shouldn’t “play in that sandbox.” “We’re covering this,” Orme says. “We know more about this than anybody. We’re the ones to write the story.” Although this is the first time the Tribune has published an e-book, it has been considered before. The saga of Susan Cox Powell, who went missing from her West Valley City home in 2009, and the series of dominoes that fell for roughly three years before her husband, Josh Powell, killed himself and his two sons, was a story Orme says he and his staff considered publishing. For various reasons, Orme says, this didn’t happen. But, as has been the case with many major news events in Utah, books were published about the Powell story. And, Orme says, they relied heavily on Tribune reporting. Orme says he doesn’t fault these books, but he also doesn’t see why Tribune reporters shouldn’t have the opportunity to put their reporting into a comprehensive package that can shed a broad light on a complex topic. “That was the attraction: ‘Hey,

“We know more about this than anybody. We’re the ones to write the story.”

—Terry Orme, editor and publisher of The Salt Lake Tribune

Salt Lake Tribune Editor and Publisher Terry Orme (left) and his paper’s new e-book on Mia Love. we’ve got this stuff, we should put it into that contextual big-picture look,’” Orme says. “To us, this is sort of an experiment. It’s stepping into a new platform.” Orme says that to his knowledge, no conflicts surfaced as the book was being written in step with the campaign coverage. He says no one, Owens included, has come forward to show that Tribune reporters went easy on Love in order to gain broader access for the book. Owens, through a spokesman, declined to comment on the publication of the e-book. Orme pointed out that on two occasions, Love got testy with reporter Matt Canham for asking her questions about her positions on abolishing the federal Department of Education, as she discussed during her 2012 congressional campaign. The Tribune’s editorial board also endorsed Owens. “If anyone was dogging Mia Love on issues, it was us,” Orme says. “I feel really strongly about that. I don’t think anybody has pointed out anywhere in our coverage where we favored one candidate over the other.” Gehrke says he and his colleagues were aware that conflicts could arise, but says the book was reported on just like any other campaign. If he were to do anything different, Gehrke says, perhaps he would more quickly disclose publicly that a book was being written. Even so, he says, he doesn’t feel that reporting on the book compromised his ability to cover the campaign. And anyone who believes this is the case, he says, should point to a specific example.

“We were handling it in a straightforward way,” Gehrke says. “I don’t think they can point to anything that we’ve left out of our coverage or killed anything in our coverage.” On the topic of disclosure, Orme says he’s not so sure the Tribune reporters needed to notify anyone that they were at work on a larger piece of journalism about Love. “It’s not very often when you’re out there going, ‘We’re writing this story or we’re writing this book,’” Orme says, noting that “one or two” other e-books by Tribune reporters are in the works. “Journalists play their cards pretty close to their chest.” Any concerns that the reporters who wrote the book will receive the proceeds, Orme says, are founded in reality. These reporters should be paid for their good work, he says, and notes that they are paid every day to cover politics. But the authors are far from becoming millionaires as a result of the book, Orme says. He hopes only that the e-book revenues will cover the costs of producing it. There was some disagreement between Orme and his reporters as to whether the book would have been published if Love had lost, Orme says. But since she did win, Orme says the decision was made to “strike while the iron’s hot” and publish quickly. “I think we aspire to it being certainly a very important chronicle of the last four years and the fight over the most competitive legislative district in Utah,” Orme says. “The one district where it’s even close to being competitive.” CW

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If you’re lucky enough to own a sweater straight out of the late-’80s renaissance of tacky winter wear, then you need to bring it down to Gracie’s to help raise funds for the Salt Lake City Road Home homeless shelter. This festival of ugly will include live music and prizes for sweaters; all you have to do is bring some gently used clothing to donate to help clothe Salt Lake City’s homeless. Gracie’s, 326 S. West Temple, 801-359-4142, Nov. 26, 5 p.m., TheRoadHome.org

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Five beachgoers who were robbed at gunpoint in Dania Beach, Fla., identified Jonathan Warrenfeltz, 24, as one of two suspects by the word “Misunderstood” clearly tattooed on his forehead. Police tracked Warrenfeltz and Joshua Zeaya, 23, because while fleeing they “started throwing [stolen] property out of the vehicle” that led to the motel where they were arrested. (South Florida Sun Sentinel)

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n When Dustin Kite, 25, fled from an outdoor-gear store in Chattanooga, Tenn., with stolen merchandise, he found himself pursued by store employees and customers, all longdistance runners. They chased him down the street, through parking lots, over a neighboring business’ fence and into nearby woods. By then, assistant manager Eric Loffland said, “he was definitely losing wind.” Langland and the other runners caught up with the suspect and held him until police arrived. (Chattanooga Times Free Press and Trail Runner)

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n England’s third-tier soccer club Rochdale is using powerful grow lights confiscated during drug raids to improve the turf on its field. Police donated the lights to avoid having to pay for their disposal. Groundskeeper Oli Makin said the team now has a lighting system comparable to rigs used by Premier League clubs that cost upwards of $48,000. (Associated Press)

Battle of the Bulge Women whose large calves make it difficult to zip up tightfitting, knee-high boots are turning to doctors, who report growing popularity for plastic surgery to combat “boot bulge.” “It’s a tricky procedure,” said Dr. Matthew Schulman, a New York City plastic surgeon. “You’re using microliposuction to take out very small amounts of fat.” The procedure requires up to 10 months for recovery and is impossible for women who’re avid bike riders or runners because their calves are all muscle, Schulman noted, explaining, “There has to be at least a little fat there to perform the procedure.” (ABC News)

Ego Trip-ups Federal prosecutors in Minnesota charged 28 people with cashing counterfeit checks using details from Instagram photos. The group obtained individual account numbers and bank routing information by searching hashtag #myfirstpaycheck, where people post photos of themselves holding their paychecks. “This case is representative of a recurring trend: the migration of traditional street criminals to white-collar fraud,” U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger said. (CNN) n Islamic clerics condemned “selfie fever” involving pilgrims taking pictures of themselves Mecca’s holy sites. Their comments appeared in an article, “Say No to Hajj Selfie,” which addressed the more than two million Muslims making the annual pilgrimage this October. “It is as though the only purpose of this trip is to take pictures and not worship,” Sheikh Abdul Razzaq Al-Badr said, noting that the Prophet called for a pilgrimage without boasting or showing off. “And when they return home, they say: ‘Come look at me, this is me on Arafat, this is me in Muzdalifah.’” (International Business Times)

Temper, Temper Oklahoma authorities looking for Lofton Gray Jr., 31, in connection with the death of his girlfriend located him in a Gallup, N.M., hospital. New Mexico State Police said Gray was driving a stolen vehicle when he got involved in a road-rage

incident and threw a crowbar at a driver, who then hit Gray with his vehicle. Authorities said Gray’s injuries weren’t life threatening. (Albuquerque’s KRQE-TV)

When Guns Are Outlawed A man broke into a home in Zephyrhills, Fla., and tried to sexually assault an 80-year-old woman, but she fought him off with her vacuum cleaner. Authorities said that when she ran for help, the suspect fled, taking the vacuum cleaner with him. (St. Petersburg’s Bay News 9)

Silence Is Golden The latest trend in resort amenities is silence. Hotels from luxury resorts to business-travel chains are marketing noise-free zones, triple-paned glass, soundproof walls, extra padding under carpets, door seals and TVs that won’t exceed a certain volume. Some hotels offer digital detox packages that include locking guests’ phones away for safekeeping. Other hotels are promoting activities designed specifically to slow guests down, tone down the noise and allow them to tune into their inner voice. “Everybody needs to try at least once to disconnect from their devices and to reconnect with their partner, wife or family,” said Pascal Forotti, general manager of the Four Seasons Costa Rica. (Fortune and The Top Tier)

Frozen Assets The latest food trend is artisanal ice. Joe Ambrose, founder of Favourite Ice, which supplies hand-chiseled frozen water to 30 restaurants and caterers in the Washington, D.C., area, said he filters minerals from tap water that make ice cloudy and then puts the water in a machine that turns out 200- to 300-pound clocks of crystal-clear ice. A band saw then cuts the blocks into 25-pound slabs or 2-inch cubes. Restaurants charge $1 or more per cube. The selling point, besides aesthetics, is that the larger cubes melt more slowly so they don’t water down the drink. “If you’re going to get a drink that’s $15,” Ambrose said, “it better have the best ice.” (NPR)

Fire Power A crematorium caught fire in Henrico, Va., while an employee was cremating a 500-pound body. “The body was so obese that the actual body fat came off and went straight up the stack,” manager Jerry Hendrix said, and then “the grease hit the roof and started the fire.” (Richmond’s WWBT-TV) Compiled from mainstream news sources by Roland Sweet.

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n Academic researchers interviewed by the media as qualified experts opposed to legalizing marijuana for medical use often are on the payroll of leading pharmaceutical companies whose costly prescription painkillers, especially addictive opioids, could be replaced by pot. When they’re quoted, their drugindustry ties aren’t revealed. (VICE)

n Seattle Municipal Court judge Fred Bonner dismissed 100 tickets for public use of marijuana, including 66 written by Bicycle Officer Randy Jokela, 52. Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole said she is considering suspending Jokela, described as having a political agenda, for three days without pay. (Seattle Times)

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There is something about a self-taught artist who has developed the ability to look at the world through an artist’s eyes. Peruvian-born Enrique Vera spent most of his life in the Nueva Leon region of northeast Mexico, and has developed an ability to capture the history, geography and culture of the region with his photography. Mestizo Gallery, in conjunction with local nonprofit organization Artes de Mexico en Utah, will present an exhibition of Vera’s photography to close out its 2014 calendar. It’s the first solo exhibition for Vera, whose photographs evoke the vast, open spaces of the region. But rather than portray an atmosphere of desolation, they convey a sense of awe at the sheer scale of the landscape. They are reminiscent of the work of Ansel Adams in their clarity and masterful composition, as well as in their reverence for the land and the impact it has had on those who inhabit it. Viewers may note resemblances between the locations he documents and the dusty, sometimes mountainous visions and vistas outside our own back door in the Mountain West. Vera will deliver an artist’s talk on Nov. 21 at 6 p.m., in honor of the 104th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution. That event will include a dinner in the culinary style of the region—RSVP, space limited to 25, $12 suggested donation. Mestizo will open its doors for a second reception during December’s Gallery Stroll on Dec. 5. (Brian Staker) Enrique Vera: Landscapes of Northeast Mexico @ Mestizo Gallery, 631 W. North Temple, Suite 700, 801-596-0500, Nov. 21-Jan. 2, free; artist’s talk Nov. 21, 6 p.m., suggested donation $12. ArtesDeMexicoEnUtah.org

Kent Budge’s work isn’t fantasy photography, but it’s still the kind that leaves viewers in a state of wonder. His pieces capture something elemental: light through a grove of trees, raindrops in a pond, sagebrush on a dewy morning. Budge will be showing a series of his photographs in an exhibition called Natural Order at the Alice Gallery. The series is built on refection and contemplation, inspiring consideration of the natural order of things. “I really don’t know what the world looks like to other people, but for me it’s a constant arrangement of shapes, patterns and composition revealing themselves,” Budge says in his artist’s statement. “I’ve found this analysis of composition is less cognitive and more intuitive. It just seems to flow from a visual truth within them. It’s natural, easy and quite beautiful.” This “revealing” might capture the harmony found within nature everywhere, if one stops to consider. “Antelope Island” is a unique visualization of the Great Salt Lake—delicate and fragile, yet monumental, made up of nuances as sand dissolves into water and blue water touches the sky. One gets a very real feeling of the “natural order” of the elements here: the changes in the lake occurring over time, and the immense balance that is captured in this one brief moment. “Carousel Swing” (pictured) presents the haunting image of a fairgrounds thrill ride, preserved like a childhood memory, yet faded with the passage of time. (Ehren Clark) Natural Order: Photography of Kent Budge @ Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, 801-236-7555, Nov. 21-Jan. 16, free. ArtsAndMuseums.Utah.gov

When Mitchell Rose first started working with Repertory Dance Theatre in the early 1980s as a guest choreographer—the company still keeps three of his original works in its repertoire—he demonstrated a refreshing sense of humor rarely seen in the dance world. This week, Rose returns to the Salt Lake City stage with that same sense of the playful and the absurd with a one-man, audience-interactive experience he calls The Mitch Show. The show is a combination of experiences— part dance, part narrative, part comedy—tied together with a few of Rose’s short films like Learn to Speak Body, Deere John, Globe Trot and more. Rose—who now teaches dance for film at the dance department of Ohio State University— transposes his previous life as a dancer and choreographer to a new medium: the screen. Like his previous work for the stage, these films are infused with humor. In Deere John, a businessman walking to his cubicle job passes a construction site and becomes lost in a daydream where, in a slow-motion love-story parody, he spends his days frolicking with a backhoe. Rose’s films also have depth: In Globe Trot, a montage of people all over the world performing the same dance steps reveals a story of human connection. Recent years have seen a renaissance of “seasoned” choreographers and performers returning to stages from New York to Los Angeles. If Rose’s return to Salt Lake City is part of that trend, it is certainly welcome. (Katherine Pioli) Repertory Dance Theatre: The Mitch Show @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Nov. 21-22, 7:30 pm, $10 general. RDTUtah.org

The premise of [title of show] is one that’s been done many times, in various forms: a piece of art about its own making. It’s the kind of thing that can quickly turn into a self-satisfied, onejoke non-starter, but Hunter Bell’s book and Jeff Bowen’s songs carry the show far beyond the point where the novelty of the meta-theatricality wears off. It ends up, especially in the hands of the Utah Repertory Theater Company’s cast, becoming one of the theater’s most moving tributes to the creative impulse. The material is strong in itself, but this production—which opened at the Sugar Space in Sugar House, and concludes at Provo’s Covey Center this week—is what it is because of its cast. Austin Archer and Jonathan Scott McBride play the roles of Hunter and Jeff and do so with such apparent ease that one wouldn’t be faulted for thinking they wrote the thing themselves. DeeDee Darby-Duffin and Megan Shenefelt are equally at home in the material, and each cast member—solo and ensemble—has at least one moment of dazzling skill. All of them are tremendous singers, and immensely appealing actors with razor-sharp comic timing. Watching them is a reminder of the simple, elemental joy of theater: sitting in a room watching other people on a stage play make-believe, sing and dance. [title of show] makes that possible because that is, on multiple levels, what it’s about as a piece—and thus it’s something anyone who loves theater should see. (Danny Bowes) Utah Repertory Theater: [title of show] @ Covey Center, 425 W Center St., Provo, 801-852-7007, Nov. 21-22, 8 p.m., $18. UtahRep.org

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e live in an architectural environment—a world shaped by humans—but we tend to overlook the most meaningful details, the ones that have the most power to shape our lives. Los Angeles artist Kim Schoenstadt uses the overlapping structures of history, memory and geography to retrace the significance of sites and situations that are, in some cases, so familiar that their contours and outlines have disappeared from our view, our mental landscape. The BY U Museum of Art is hosting Schoenstadt’s Block Plan Series: Provo, which had its official opening Nov. 7. Her architectural wall drawing—installed the first week of August by a crew of local volunteers—incorporates acrylic, pen, vinyl and three-dimensional objects, superimposing images of Provo landmarks with geometric patterns in a kind of “ode to Provo.” The work re-imagines the city as a somewhat hyper-modern though still historically resonant site, inspired by its “Silicon Slopes” notoriety as a new technology hub. “Place is important to all of us,” says Jeff Lambson, BYU’s curator of contemporary art, who adds that the work in this show touches upon its Provo environs in a unique way. “The places and buildings that surround us become a part of us, a part of our identity,” he says.

scheduled to [take] four days of painting happened in two,” she says. Lambson notes that the exhibit was both inspired by Provo and “created with the help of the community, further reinforcing the site-specific nature of the work.” The exhibit has already engaged local residents. “At the opening, a multigenerational family was examining the wall drawing, sharing diverse experiences and memories about the buildings, ranging from roller-skating carhops to a first kiss at the Malt Shoppe,” Lambson says. “Older generations may remember the ‘turtle-shell’ building as an ice-skating rink from the 1960s, or later as a Reams grocery store with a cavernous roof, or as the world’s largest seller of Tony Lama boots. The building has since been torn down, and the current generation of Provo only knows the building through a street name, Paul Reams Avenue.” Through her re-imagining of familiar aspects of the town, Lambson says, Schoenstadt has “played with our notion of time, memory, and place, asking us to imagine alternate futures and realities that might have been.” CW

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Schoenstadt’s work is biographical, he says, but her Provo is a “new and exciting landscape, helping us to see our place with new eyes, and pause to re-examine what we do and why we do it.” Schoenstadt first gained local exposure when she was awarded the Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting by the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City in 2011. The UMOCA exhibition featured a projected drawing of the museum layout on the museum wall, overlaid with drawings and painted elements from a variety of different sites, incorporating elements of architecture and geography to create an idiosyncratic statement about place—both specific and universal—and the way we live in it. The Doctorow helped support the Los Angeles-based artist, and last year, she moved “off the wall” to produce 3-D works. Coming from a city with a large animation industry, she became interested in the BYU animation department when planning this show. She got a tour, and “was struck by how much drawing was involved,” she says. Another thing caught her interest and eventually made its way into the show: the wire-frame process “where a grid or wire frame is placed over a shape to create points which can push or pull to make it move,” she says. “The show has these two visions of reality. On one side of the gallery, [there’s] my drawing/mash-up, and then the wireframe version on the opposite side. I used existing and past architecture from Provo, and mashed them up on a giant light table to create the drawing.” The more-than-130-foot-long work is large not only in scale, but also in terms of the labor required to create it. “We had too many volunteers, and what we had

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Terry Tempest Williams & Brooke Williams: Richard Jefferies’ The Story of My Heart In a bookstore in Maine while on vacation, Terry Tempest Williams and her husband, Brooke, discovered an out-of-print book by a little-remembered 19th-century British writer named Richard Jefferies. He wrote of his transcendentalist-like connection to the natural world, and the revitalizing power of getting out into that world as he struggled with illness. That book—The Story of My Heart—became something of an obsession for the two Williamses. And now they’ve brought it back to the rest of the world. The new edition of The Story of My Heart includes an introduction by Terry Tempest Williams describing how she and Brooke came to be fascinated by Jefferies’ writing and his life, followed by Jefferies’ original text and Brooke’s commentary on its observations. The two writers will discuss The Story of My Heart at a special ticketed event with Q&A, with all proceeds benefitting the University of Utah’s environmental humanities graduate program. (Scott Renshaw) Terry Tempest Williams & Brooke Williams: Richard Jefferies’ The Story of My Heart @ Rowland Hall Auditorium, 843 Lincoln St., Salt Lake City, Nov. 20, 7 p.m., $5. KingsEnglish.com

THURSDAY 11.20 PERFORMING ARTS The Threepenny Opera, Babcock Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, Salt Lake City, 801-5817100 Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-2787 A Night at the Opera, Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-535-6110 I Am Comic: A Night of Stand Up, Movie Grille, 2293 Grant Ave., Ogden, 801-6214738

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LITERARY ARTS Terry Tempest Williams & Brooke Williams: Richard Jefferies’ The Story of My Heart, Rowland Hall Auditorium, 843 Lincoln St., Salt Lake City Robin King: Remembrandt, The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-484-9100

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Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7, Abravanel Hall, 123 West Temple, Salt Lake City, 801533-6683 The Threepenny Opera, Babcock Theatre Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Capitol Theatre Shrek the Musical, Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, Park City, 435-649-9371 Cat BS Comedy Show, Gallivan Center Lyric Opera Ensemble: Scenes, Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City, 801-581-7100 Laughing Stock Improv Comedy, Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-355-4628 Flight of Fancy, Rose Wagner Center Happy, Rose Wagner Center The Mitch Show, Rose Wagner Center Brandt Tobler, Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588 Greg Warren, Wiseguys West Valley Off the Wall Improv, The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 801-954-2787

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Anthony Granato: Life, Urban Arts Gallery, 137 S. Rio Grande St., Salt Lake City, 801-651-3937, Tuesdays-Saturdays through Nov. 30 Enrique Vera: Landscapes of Northeast Mexico, Mestizo Gallery, 631 W. North Temple, Suite 700, 801-596-0500 Kent Budge: Natural Order, Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 801245-7272, Mondays-Fridays through Jan. 16

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 Altared Books: Offerings in Con(text), Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-596-5000, Mondays-Fridays through Nov. 21

Ryan Perkins & Max Kelly: The Lonesome Lightbox Boys, Salt Lake Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801-524-8200, Mondays-Sundays through Dec. 5

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Catherine Yass: Wall, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-328-4201, TuesdaysSaturdays through Nov. 29 Moksha: Photography by Fazal Sheikh, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-581-7332, Tuesdays-Sundays through Nov. 30 Howard Clark Scholarship Exhibition, Gittins Gallery, 375 S. 1530 East, 801581-8677, Salt Lake City, Monday-Friday through Dec. 5 Gerardo Meneses Jr.: Nature’s Four Seasons, Salt Lake Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801-524-8200, Mondays-Sundays through Dec. 5

Amy Jorgensen: Far From the Tree, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-328-4201, Tuesdays-Saturdays through Dec. 6

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Bikuben, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-328-4201, Tuesdays-Saturdays through Dec. 20

Yu-Hui Chang, Dumke Recital Hall, 1975 E. President’s Circle, Salt Lake City, 800433-3243 Salt City Slam, Weller Book Works, 665 E. 600 South, Salt Lake City, 801-328-2586

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East High School Annual Photography Exhibition, Salt Lake Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801-524-8200, Mondays-Sundays through Dec. 7

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Driven to Abstraction, Whitespace, 2420 Wall Ave., Ogden, 801-895-2278, Wednesdays-Saturdays through Nov. 22

Brandon Cook Landscapes, Finch Lane Gallery, Mondays-Fridays through Nov. 21

Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7, Abravanel Hall The Threepenny Opera, Babcock Theatre Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Capitol Theatre [title of show], Covey Center, 425 W. Center St., Provo, 801-852-7007 Shrek the Musical, Egyptian Theatre, Park City Lyric Opera Ensemble: Scenes, Libby Gardner Hall Laughing Stock Improv Comedy, Off Broadway Theatre Flight of Fancy, Rose Wagner Center Happy, Rose Wagner Center The Mitch Show, Rose Wagner Center Surprise Packages, Rose Wagner Center The Improvable Comedy Improv Show, Playbills’ Theater, 455 W. 1700 South, Clearfield, 801-382-7875 Brandt Tobler, Wiseguys Ogden Greg Warren, Wiseguys West Valley

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William Lamson: Hydrologies, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-328-4201, Tuesdays-Saturdays through Jan. 10 New Narratives: Recent Work by U of U Art Faculty, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Tuesdays-Sundays through Jan. 11 Body Worlds & The Cycle of Life, The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City, 801-531-9800, Mondays-Saturdays through Feb. 1 No Fixed Address, The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City, 801-531-9800, Mondays-Sundays

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Where to Give Thanks A cornucopia of local restaurants offer Thanksgiving fare. By Ted Scheffler comments@cityweekly.net @critic1

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Thanksgiving menu ($25-$29) which begins with soup or salad. Entree choices include traditional turkey, Prime rib and Utah Steelhead trout. Dessert is à la carte. ($7). Park City’s Eating Establishment (435-649-8284, TheEatingEstablishment. net) offers one of the best Thanksgiving Day deals, with lunch priced at $14.95 per person and dinner at $21.95. You’ll get the Eating Establishment’s casual, friendly atmosphere along with oven-roasted turkey, garlic mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, fresh cranberry relish, warm apple pie and more. Stein Eriksen Lodge’s Glitretind (435645-6455, SteinLodge.com) will roll out its opulent Thanksgiving Day buffet, which includes traditional turkey and sides along with grilled lamb T-bone, braised veal short ribs, roasted Arctic char, Stein’s Grand Dessert display, live music and much, much more. It costs $75 for adults, $25 for children 5-12 and is free for kids 4 and younger. Hans Fuegi and his crew at Park Cit y ’s Grub Steak (435-649-8060, GrubSteakRestaurant.com) will feature a prix fixe menu that’s $28.75 for adults and $14.75 for children under 12. The meal opens with butternut squash and McIntosh apple soup, and includes roasted tom turkey with traditional sides, plus pumpkin pie and vanilla-bean whipped ice cream or warm spiced apple bread pudding with bourbon sauce. Finally, Powder at the Waldorf Astoria Park Cit y (435-647-5566, ParkCityWaldorfAstoria.com) will host a Thanksgiving buffet with fruits, salads and assorted cold selections, a seafood station, soups, braised beef short ribs, Loch Duart King salmon, herb-crusted Prime rib, honey-clove glazed ham and roasted turkey with cranberry-orange compote. The cost is $65 for adults and $25 for children 3-11. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! CW

starters; Mary’s free-range roasted turkey, maple-glazed King salmon or slow-roasted Prime rib as entree choices; and a selection of desserts, and costs $59 for adults, $32 for children 4-12 and $10 for children under 4. Looking to add a little French flair to your Thanksgiving meal? Look no further than The Paris Bistro (Salt Lake City, 801-486-5585, TheParis.net), where Eric DeBonis and his talented team will be serving their 14thannual Thanksgiving dinner. It begins with wild chanterelle mushroom flatbread, continues with a choice of roasted pumpkin soup or mesclun salad, and the main event is Utah Wight Family Farms free-range roasted turkey with an array of delectable accoutrements. Dessert is a choice of pumpkin cheesecake with roasted chestnuts or caramelized-apple-stuffed crêpes with Calvados and crème fraîche. The cost is $49.95 for adults and $19.95 for children under 8. Tuscany (Salt Lake City, 801-277-9919, TuscanySLC.com) will host a three-course dinner on Thanksgiving, beginning with a choice of butternut squash bisque or house green salad. Entree options include herbroasted turkey and honey-glazed ham, plus traditional sides. For dessert, there is housemade apple, pecan and pumpkin pie. The meal is $45 for adults and $22 for children 12 and under. Up in Park City, Thanksgiving dining options range from economical to opulent, with something to please every budget and palate. The Montage’s Apex restaurant (435-604-1300, MontageHotels.com) will feature a Thanksgiving Day buffet with fresh salads and soups, chilled shellfish, a carvery serving herb-roasted turkey breast, peppercorn-crusted Prime beef tenderloin, rosemary-roasted leg of lamb; and chili-glazed cedar-plank salmon; plus a dozen different desserts. The cost is $75 for adults, $30 for children 5-12 and free for kids 4 and younger. The new Brass Tag restaurant (435645-6632, DeerValley.com/TheBrassTag) at Deer Valley Resort will offer Thanksgiving dinner for two ($48 per person), from Thanksgiving Day through Sunday, Nov. 30. The gourmet meal includes roasted butternut squash and arugula salad, turkey breast roulade, brick-oven Brussels sprouts with Niman Ranch bacon, Deer Valley caramelized garlic-whipped Yukon Gold potatoes, shiitake mushroom & green bean casserole and finishes with skillet pumpkin pie with lemon whipped cream and cheddar-cheese-crusted apple pie. À la carte options are also available. Cicero’s (435-649-5044, Ciseros. com) is offering a two-course prix fixe

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ach year, more and more restaurants seem to be staying open on Thanksgiving to offer plated dinners or buffets, and 2014 is no exception. There’s a smorgasbord of Turkey Day dining-out options, running the gamut from lux to laid-back. Here are a few that might whet your appetite. Maybe a trip to Brazil is in order. Three local churrascarias will be open and serving special Thanksgiving menus in addition to their regular churrasco offerings: Rodizio Grill (Salt Lake City, 801-220-0500; American Fork, 801-763-4946, RodizioGrill. com), Texas de Brazil (Salt Lake City, 385232-8070, TexasdeBrazil.com) and Tucanos Brazilian Grill (Salt Lake City, 801-4562550; Provo, 801-224-4774, Tucanos.com). At Faustina (Salt Lake City, 801-7464441, FaustinaSLC.com), Chef Joe Kemp will cook up a four-course dinner, which includes entree choices of roasted turkey, Prime rib or a bone-in pork chop with all the accoutrements. The cost is $45 per person, and managing partner Tyler Jolley will offer specially paired wine selections for an additional $20. Over at Franck’s (Holladay, 801-2746264, FrancksFood.com), a four-course feast will be on tap, including sous vide duck leg basteeya, six-day brined turkey breast, sage-braised Colorado lamb short ribs and many more gourmet menu options. The cost is $55 per adult and $25 for children 12 and under. At The Grand America, Thanksgiving Day Grand Brunch is already sold out. However, you can still reserve a table in The Garden Cafe (Salt Lake City, 801258-6708, GrandAmerica.com) for the Thanksgiving Day Prix Fixe Dinner. The three-course meal offers roasted butternut squash salad; a choice of entrees (slowroasted Prime rib, lobster pot pie, grilled pork tenderloin or roasted turkey & fixings); plus a dessert buffet. The dinner is $39 for adults, $15 for children ages 5-11 and free for children 4 and under. Located at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon in Sandy and situated on 20 elegant acres, La Caille (801-9421751, LaCaille.com) is a special place to celebrate any holiday. On Thanksgiving Day, Chef Billy Sotelo will cook up a threecourse meal for guests. It will include a choice of pear salad or pumpkin soup for

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Thanks for the Taste Turn Thanksgiving into a festive wine tasting event. By Ted Scheffler comments@cityweekly.net @critic1

or the past couple of years, I haven’t cooked Thanksgiving dinner at home. This year, though, I’ll be in the kitchen

on Thanksgiving Eve and Thanksgiving Day. As I enjoy all the food and flavors of a Thanksgiving meal, I also think that it’s a great opportunity to incorporate a wine tasting into the mix. Not necessarily a formal wine tasting, but with so many complimentary and contrasting food flavors—cranberries, dark turkey meat, salty stuffing, buttery mashed spuds, etc.— the Thanksgiving meal is a good place to try out an array of different wines with different foods and courses. Here are some pairing ideas to test drive that might be a little out of the ordinary. First, I like to treat my guests to gougeres— the cheesy little French-style choux pastry puffs—to munch on when they arrive. Or, sometimes I’ll make manchego breadsticks. Either way, I’d serve up some bubbly alongside for starters. I think Anna de Codorniu Brut ($13.99) makes a great aperitif—clean, well-balanced and refreshing. For a richer, fancier taste, try Domaine Chandon étoile Rosé ($29.99). I’d also serve this wine with pre-dinner pâté. And slip special guests a flute of Moët & Chandon 2006 Grand Vintage Brut ($59.99), the Official Champagne of New Year’s Eve in Times Square. It’s sharply crisp, but with floral notes and tasty tangerine flavors.

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Prior to the big feast, I also usually like to have some chilled crab or shrimp to nosh on, or sometimes oysters on the half-shell. In that case, I’d turn to a crisp, dry New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc to sip alongside. Specifically, Nobilo Regional Sauvignon Blanc ($13.99). Or, step up to Nobilo Icon Sauvignon Blanc ($19.99). Both are terrific with shellfish and goat cheese, with the Icon being a tad richer and bigger-bodied. I’ll probably serve either a salad course before carving the turkey, or perhaps something along the lines of artichokes or asparagus. For those, I’m thinking out-ofthe-box with something like Martínsancho Verdejo 2012 ($17.99), from Spain’s Rueda region. It’s highly extracted, herbaceous and has good minerality. For the main event, this year I’m going to try a wine from Italy: Nipozzano Vecchie Viti Chianti Rufina ($29.99). Chianti with turkey? Sure, why not. I think its walnut notes on the nose and spicy Sangiovese flavors would be a good wine to bridge dark-meat turkey and Prime rib or grilled lamb on Thanksgiving. And, for a domestic

wine, I can’t help but think of Zinfandel— the all-American wine for an all-American holiday. Ravenswood’s “Godfather of Zin” Joel Peterson makes something for every budget. At the lower end of the spectrum, but very tasty indeed, is Ravenswood Lodi Old Vine Zinfandel ($14.99). It’s quite versatile and a good overall choice for the Thanksgiving table. For a more luxurious Zinfandel that will bowl you and your guests over, opt for Ravenswood Old Hill Zinfandel 2011 ($57.99), a heady-butrefined Zin made from some of Sonoma’s oldest vines. Of course, Pinot Noir is often considered to be the go-to varietal for Thanksgiving meals. If you’re leaning toward Pinot Noir on Turkey Day, I urge you to track down a bottle or two of Loveblock Pinot Noir 2011 ($31.99) from New Zealand. It’s smooth and elegant—a wine that will pair well with everything from turkey & gravy to cornbread stuffing or salmon. Oh, and for that piece of pumpkin pie? Try a sip of Lustau East India Solera Sherry ($14.29), with its prune, spice and caramel notes. CW

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Would you like to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner at home, but without the headache of cooking it? Ogden’s Hearth on 25th (195 25th St., Hearth25.com) has you covered. Its Thanksgiving feast includes herb-butter roasted turkey, whipped Yukon Gold potatoes, maple-roasted sweet potatoes, dried fruit & sage bread stuffing, giblet pan gravy, wood ovenroasted Brussels sprouts, orange-ginger cranberry sauce, Hearth-made sourdough bread and choice of dessert for $102, which serves six people. To place an order, call 801-399-0088.

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Local and national Mimi’s Cafe locations (MimisCafe.com) are offering customers turkey feasts to go this Thanksgiving, as well as dine-in options ($16.99 for adults, $8.99 for kids). For every Family Feast ($89.99, serves six to eight) purchased, Mimi’s Cafe will send four meals to children in need through its partnership with the Children’s Hunger Fund, a nonprofit that has distributed more than $1 billion worth of food and other aid to needy and hungry children. The Family Feast includes herb-butter-basted turkey with gravy, mashed potatoes, candied pecan sweet potatoes, cornbread stuffing, green bean casserole, cranberry relish, brown-sugar-topped pumpkin muffins and pumpkin pie. Meanwhile, through the end of November, Salt Lake City Krispy Kreme (KrispyKreme.com) locations will hold a canned food drive to benefit the Utah Food Bank. Krispy Kreme stores will serve as collection points for canned food and other non-perishable items. For each food item donated, guests will receive one free original glazed doughnut.

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The Philadelphia Sub Shop’s cheesesteaks are a tad crispy, wonderfully greasy and have plenty o’ flavor, just like the real deal. The owner hails from back east, and so he has a good sense of what an Eastern Seaboard sandwich oughtta be. The cold subs and hot pastrami sandwich are also worthy of your consideration. Close proximity to Hill Air Force Base makes this a popular place with flyboys and girls. 189 S. State, Clearfield, 801-825-2844

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This is the nexus of where the Aloha State meets the Empire State, and Big Kahuna’s pizzas are nothing if not exotic. Interesting pizza options include shrimp scampi, taco, creamy chicken, sumo and barbecue chicken, in addition to more traditional pies like pepperoni, meat lovers and vegetarian. Big Kahuna’s also serves up salads, hot wings, sandwiches and desserts, and offers late-night delivery service Monday through Saturday. 470 S. 700 East, 801-467-9555, BigKahunaPizza.net

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Spencer’s for Steaks & Chops

310 BUGATTI DRIVE 300 W 2100 S, South Salt Lake

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At Spencer’s, aged USDA-certified Natural Black Angus beef steaks are hand-cut and seared at 1,600 degrees. The cuisine at Spencer’s, in tandem with sommelier Louis Koppel’s spot-on wine pairings, makes lunch or dinner a nearly riskfree experience. Before the meat, there are chilled “colossal” shrimp with Absolut Peppar Bloody Mary cocktail sauce to be had, not to mention the refreshing Romaine lettuce hearts with housemade croutons and aged Parmesan. Although the double-cut lamb chops are spectacular, it’s hard to resist the classic Spencer steak, which is 14 ounces of boneless Creekstone Farms natural beef rib-eye, cooked exactly to your specification. 255 S. West Temple, 801-238-4748, SpencersForSteaksAndChops.com

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When most people think of Peruvian cuisine, they think of ceviche—fish cooked strictly by the acidity of lime juice, with added onions. As a national export, that tangy, coastal dish can be bought from carts on the streets of San Diego to Europe’s finest restaurants. However, it takes a Peruvian to perfect the recipe, and El Rocoto owner Macario Diaz serves up a mean ceviche. But he also serves Peru’s other culinary specialties, namely pollo a la brasa and lomo saltado, at this quaint hole-in-the-wall. 3904 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801963-2657; 512 W. 750 South, Bountiful, 801-296-5970, ElRocoto.Wix.com

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Marley’s Gourmet Sliders ain’t your average burger joint. First, fresh buns baked with a hint of whiteclover honey are used. Slider options include pulled turkey (deep fried, skin removed, and meat pulled off the bones), grilled salmon, filet mignon and good old-fashioned beef. The chicken and pork tenders are also terrific. And the place is certainly unique: The restaurant and attached motorcycle dealership are in the largest reclaimed building in the entire country, made from reclaimed Geneva steel. 555 S. Geneva Road, Lindon, 801-2292469; 4801 N. University Ave., Provo, 801225-2720, Marleys.com

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and fair-trade coffees to serve at their Kimball Junction location. Among the coffees you’ll find at Park City Coffee Roaster are coffees from Sumatra, Tanzania, Mexico, Ethiopia, Kenya, Peru, Nicaragua, Colombia, Guatemala and more. And there’s free Wi-Fi, to boot. 1680 W. Ute Blvd, Park City, 435-647-9097, PCRoaster.com

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Barbecue master Pat Barber has been featured on Food Network’s Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives, so you know there’s something uniquely delicious about this Southern-comfort-food joint. The specialty at Pat’s is Texas-style barbecue, served up with Austin-style surround sound. And what could go together better than live music and barbecue? Local and touring acts appear onstage, along with other blues, bluegrass, folk and acoustic rock acts. The barbecue combo plates are popular, especially the award-winning pulled-pork and beef-brisket combo, but the delicious barbecue chicken and pork ribs are also incredible. And look out for the weekday specials: Burnt brisket ends are featured on Fridays, and Wednesday’s special is a smoked barbecue meatball sandwich. Add a cold beer and you’re all set! 155 W. Commonwealth Ave., Salt Lake City, 801-484-5963, PatsBBQ.com

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If you’re in Bountiful, you’re not far from fresh sushi and other tasty Japanese delights. Hot appetizers like agedashi tofu and Mikado prawns accompany cold plates such as lettuce cups, edamame and ika salad. Main dishes include Kobe steak, tori teriyaki and seared ahi tuna. But the real draw at Mikado is sushi, sashimi and nigiri, with a wide array of rolls and platters to select from. Mondays and Tuesdays are Miso Happy nights, with specially priced menu items for the bargain-hunting sushi lover. Cold beers, wine and sake are welcome accompaniments. 255 N. 500 West, Bountiful, 801-294-4711, MikadoUtah.com

Mo’ Bettah Steaks

Kimo and Kalani Mack from Hawaii own and operate Mo’ Bettah Steaks. The specialty here is what in Hawaii is known as a “steak plate” or “plate lunch,” a protein served with rice and macaroni salad. At Mo’ Bettah Steaks, the macaroni salad totally rocks. And so does the Kahlua pork—juicy, shredded, heavily salted (authentically Hawaiian) tender pork that is so full of flavor your taste buds will be doing the hula. The teriyaki chicken lunch plate is a pile of boneless, skinless thighs that’ll instantly transport you to the islands. Best of all, Kalani and Kimo encourage all comers to arrive in shorts and “slippahz” (flip-flops). Multiple locations, MoBettahSteaks.com

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If you love ceviche, you’ll love Del Mar. Try the ceviche de mero, which is tender fish, mussels, octopus, calamari and more served with sweet corn and onions that complement the zesty spices. Portions are generous, and plates seem designed to be passed around, so don’t keep that lomo saltado (strips of beef marinated in soy sauce, vinegar and spices, stir-fried with onions and tomatoes, served with steamed rice and french fries) to yourself. The restaurant itself is clean and airy, with an open kitchen where you can see your meal being prepared. 310 Bugatti Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-467-2890

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Royal Eatery

A longtime staple for downtown dining, the casual Royal Eatery features an extensive American and Greek menu and a particularly popular breakfast. The terrifically thin and crispy fried potatoes are a Royal Eatery breakfast crowd favorite, and the made-to-order omelets are popular as well. But take time to peruse the extensive menu before defaulting to the delicious pastrami-topped Royal Burger for lunch. Greek offerings like souvlaki, gyros and Greek salads add a little touch of the Mediterranean to the menu. 379 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-532-4301

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As you might guess from the name, Naked Fish specializes in sashimi, sushi, maki rolls, nigiri and such. Other dining options include the glazed Pacific Rim pork ribs, miso-glazed sea bass, lettuce cups and tempura. Don’t pass up the mind-blowing Wagyu beef. This is the real thing: all-natural Japanese strip loin imported from the Miyazaki prefecture on Kyushu Island. The place might be called Naked Fish, but the beef is stupendous. 67 W. 100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-595-8888, NakedFishBistro.com

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Featured on Food Network’s Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, Moochie’s is the place to go in Salt Lake City for authentic-tasting Philly cheesesteaks. But Moochie’s is about more than just cheesesteaks. Philadelphia-born owner Joanna Rendi assembles some of the tastiest meatballs around, as well. So, if you get into too much of a cheesesteak rut, just spice up your life with a meatball sandwich. The chicken cacciatore and deep-dish lasagna are also great, and be sure to try Don’s (Joanna’s husband) delicious “zappy” potato salad and a Tastykake, imported directly from Philly. 232 E. 800 South, Salt Lake City, 801-596-1350; 7725 S. State, Midvale, 801-562-1500, MoochiesMeatballs.com

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A sampler of Ted Scheffler’s reviews

Harbor Seafood & Steak Co.

At Harbor, every effort is made to utilize local, in-season ingredients, and to fly 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. An equally outstanding appetizer—although the portion size might cause you to think it’s an entree—is tuna carpaccio, which featured a big slab of sushi-grade 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 candied wasabi. The grilled hanger steak we also ordered was perfectly cooked and sliced into medallions, with a zippy peppercorn sauce. On the side was a generous serving of housemade macaroni & cheese and scrumptious peas with big chunks of crisp smoked bacon. The service at Harbor is also excellent. 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 floor, and in doing so, he can afford to pay the others servers better. That’s just another reason to dock yourself at Harbor. Reviewed Nov. 13. 2302 Parley’s Way, Salt Lake City, 801-466-9527, HarborSLC.com

Tosh’s Ramen

“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—

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Sole Mio Ristorante

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

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ow, it must be fun to get paid to shop!” That’s a sentiment I hear probably once a day during the weeks I’m out and about doing Gift Guide. And it’s true. Despite the somewhaticky feeling of telling people that I’ve come to their stores in September to write about the holidays, doing the Gift Guide is just plain fun. Maybe it’s because I’ve always loved presents. As a child, I also spent many months thinking and planning for Christmas. Back then, though, it was planning for my own gifts that consumed me, and I’d spend the purgatory-like months between my February birthday and Christmas poring over catalogues, dog-earing pages and greedily circling products. Today, I know the adage of “it’s better to give than to receive” is cheesy but true, and that there’s plenty of gleeful fun in finding that so perfect thing for your co-worker, significant other or parent. Doing the Gift Guide for five years means that my Christmas shopping is done by November, because there’s no way not to spend money when visiting our amazing local shops. The only downside is that there are still five weeks till Christmas, but I want to see the looks of delight and excitement on my friends’ and family members’ faces now. Of course, it’s not all about me. This year, the Gift Guide has ideas from other City Weekly staffers, who’ve recommended books and albums that would be great under the tree. The purpose of Gift Guide is twofold. By focusing solely on locally owned shops, we hope to alert you to the delightful and out-of-the-ordinary products that you can’t find in a shiny mall or megastore, but can acquire when shopping local, supporting the people and places that make Salt Lake City special. And we also hope to ignite that same giftgiving excitement in you, as you flip through the pages of this guide and discover items that are just right for the people in your life—OK, and yourself, too. Happy shopping!

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Cobra Vertebrae Bracelet, $32

Comic fans can put themselves in the story with this pocket-size notebook, which comes pre-paneled and provides word-bubble stencils for all the BIFFs, BAMs and KA-POWs anyone could ever need. Night Flight Comics, 6222 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-263-1940, NightFlight.com

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Help a friend conquer his fear of snakes (why’d it have to be snakes?) with this creepy bracelet, made from cobra vertebrae and stained with coffee or tea. We can’t promise that the wearer of this bracelet becomes ruler over all snakes, but you never know. Natur, 94 W. 7720 South, Salt Lake City, 801-232-4311, NaturShowroom.com

Comic Book Notebook, $4.95

It’s a fox! It’s a deer! It’s a … well, whatever adorable animal face she decides it is, this woodland creature provides plenty of space for essentials like wallet, phone and e-reader, plus a long strap that’ll keep the adorable companion close by her side. Retro Betty, 2821 S. 2300 East, Salt Lake City, 801-467-2222, Facebook.com/ RetroBettySLC

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Upcycled Book Journals, Bar10der, $50 $6-$20 Help her imbue her nightly journaling with a sense of nostalgia—or conceal her world-domination checklist in an unexpected place. These hardcover blank books—made by local company Red Barn Collections from the covers of used mysteries, quirky manuals and more—are spiral-bound so they lay flat, and contain a few pages of the original illustrations and text among the fresh paper. Unhinged, 2165 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-467-6588; 16 W. Center St., Provo, 385-312-1268, UnhingedSLC.com

Nothing takes the buzz out of a night of cocktails at a friend’s house like the mixologist realizing she’s misplaced her muddler—again. Ensure that the handcrafted drinks will never end with a gift of the Bar10der, the Swiss Army knife of bartending. The hefty stainless-steel tool contains muddler, knives, reamer, jigger, zester, stirrer, strainer, corkscrew and bottle opener. And they’re all fullsize and sturdy, so she’ll be able to tote the Bar10der along to the tailgate and campground without fear. Two Dancing Cats, 1790 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-485-0554

You know that kind of camper: After that all-day hike, he gets dinner started and goes for a quick 10-mile run, then, while everyone else drinks beer around the fire, does 100 incline pushups on the cooler. Well, if your significant other is not this guy, then the Napsack is for him. A rugged compromise between a Snuggie, a parka and footie pajamas, the Napsack provides full-body warmth while allowing basic movements, and cinches closed at the bottom so that he can transition seamlessly from sitting by the fire to sleeping by the fire. The Stockist, 875 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-532-3458, TheStockistByFresh.com

Bath Bombs, $6

The grown-up version of a hall pass, a bath bomb is basically a gift of time—even a 20-minute soak will do wonders for the body and soul, whether she’s sloughing off negative energy with the black tourmaline Let It Go bomb or getting soft and sweet with Hibiscus Passion. Cosset Bath & Body, 602 E. 500 South, Trolley Square, Salt Lake City, 801-923-4626, Facebook.com/ CossetBathAndBody

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Game of Thrones Classic Lit Mad Libs, $4 Drinkware, $9.99-$22.99 Nothing goes better with Game of Thrones than many swigs of ale—just ask the constantly imbibing characters. And he needs a pint glass or stein by his side as he drinks away the months until HBO’s series returns—and then, when it does, as he attempts to dull the pain of the latest on-screen death. Night Flight Comics, 6222 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-263-1940, Night-Flight.com

Whether she loves the classics or hates ’em, she’ll never look at them the same way again after the Mad Libs wordsubstitution game has had its way with famous passages from The Odyssey, MobyDick and others. Even Elizabeth Bennet couldn’t have taken the stuffing out of Mr. Darcy’s first proposal the way random nouns and verbs can: “In vain I have licked. It will not do. My zoos will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how weakly I admire and chop you.” The Library Store, Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801-524-8238, SLCPL.org

Buffalo Necklace, $34

Want to make an impression on a hard-to-please lady? Tell her you found this mysterious skull of a tiny buffalo on a recent camping trip in the desert, and instead of calling National Geographic, you strung it on a brass chain and gave it to her. Local tattoo artist Taylor Millet sculpts these skulls by hand and then carves intricate details with a needle, so she might believe you. White Elephant Exchange, 1790 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-485-0554, WhiteElephantBoutiqueSLC.com

HoodLamb Tech 4-20 Coat, $215

He’ll be able to overcome even the grayest, gloomiest Utah winter day in this hemp and cotton-twill coat, which features a neck guard, detachable fakefur-lined hood and “fur”-lined handwarmer pockets. And if a case of mistaken identity leads him to become embroiled in foiling an international kidnapping/ terrorist plot, there’s a hidden document pocket inside the coat, plus several other secret pockets—even one in the hood. Headphone loops, quick-draw phone pockets and a rolling-paper dispenser will keep him thinking positive even while trudging (or fleeing) through downtown’s slushy streets. SLC Hemp, 1117 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City, 385-229-4197, SLCHemp.com

Dog Ornaments, $24

The most unexpected folks have major soft spots in their hearts for their slobbering four-legged companions. Even the most stoic of men won’t be able to resist a smile when he spies a glass ornament on the tree that pays tribute to his beloved breed of dog, dressed in a dapper hat or winter scarf. Tabula Rasa, Trolley Square, 602 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City, 801-5755043, TabulaRasaStationers.com

Career Woman Accessories, $21-$24

It’s impossible for her to decline when asked to take on a new task, and her fast-walking, fast-talking ways somehow aren’t enough for people to get the picture that she’s got places to go and people to see. Well, even though she can’t tell people no, you can provide her with accessories that say it loud and clear. Got Beauty, 900 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-474-2090, GotBeauty.com

Weapon Ties, $28.99

There seem to be two kinds of ties: serious corporate-stooge ties, and silly corporate-stooge-on-casual-Friday ties with patterns of cartoon ducks or baseballs. These noir-ish ties are perfect for the man who doesn’t fit in either box but who still has occasion to tie one on—maybe to complete his onstage look for his new death-folk band. Blue Boutique, multiple locations, BlueBoutique.com

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Wine Bottle Tray, $12-$24 Wild Wool Game Heads, $59.95 Wine drinkers know that half the fun of drinking wine is picking out new varieties based on their labels. Local artist Liz Weller creates beautiful flattened bottles that can be used as serving trays, spoon rests and more— providing an opportunity for wine enthusiasts to break out a bottle any time of day without causing concern among family and friends. One World Gifts & Gallery, 2166 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-2030568, OneWorldGiftsAndGallery.com

Nothing says “I admire the majesty of this rare creature” like mounting its severed head on the wall. And now even those who can’t afford a safari to Africa can smugly adorn their walls with startlingly realistic big-game prizes that’ll be the awe and envy of friends and family. Evergreen Framing Co. & Gallery Inc., 3295 S. 2000 East, Salt Lake City, 801-467-8770, EvergreenGallery.com

Sparkle Jewelry, $10-$14

One never really grows out of a love of glitter, but it’s hard to find glittery apparel in adult sizes—and probably even harder to truly pull off. All is not lost: The earrings and pendants made by local artist Elizabeth Q (ElizabethQDesigns.Etsy.com) will add just the right amount of sparkle to any outfit, without blinding passersby. Q Clothing, 215 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-474-2000, Facebook.com/ QClothing

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Vaportini, $49.99

The James Bond of the future will sit down at the bar wearing a leather unitard instead of a suit, then request that his martini be vaporized, not shaken or stirred. Well, the future is here: Inside the Vaportini, liquor evaporates and fills the glass globe with vapors that are then inhaled for an immediate intoxicating effect, without the calories or the burn of bad booze. The Boozeteaque at E3 Modern, 315 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-363-3939

Puffin in Bloom Classics, Terrariums, $13-$80 $16 Artist and stationer Anna Bond of Rifle Paper Company illustrated gorgeous covers and endpapers for the classics in the Puffin in Bloom series, giving literary heroines Heidi, Anne, Sara Crewe and the March sisters a fresh new look that’ll be irresistible to women who grew up with them, and to those meeting them for the first time. The Children’s Hour, 898 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, 801-359-4150, ChildrensHourBookstore.com

He hasn’t yet attained the corner window office, but you can give him the outside world anyway, with an intricate terrarium built by local artist Jodi Mardesich. Her creations run the gamut from simple selfcontained gardens to tiny mini-worlds filled with curious details that’ll allow him to feel like an all-seeing overlord— even if his desk is in the company supply closet. Iconoclad, 414 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-833-2272, Facebook.com/ Iconoclad

It’s been available on mid-quality DVD before, but Shout! Factory finally released the entire 45-episode run of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse on Blu-Ray in October—and, unlike most TV series from the ’80s, it actually deserves the high-def treatment. Also unlike the Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure movie, the intricately detailed Playhouse leaned heavily on bizarro animation, all of which pops now more than when originally broadcast (though depending on your recreational substance choices between 1986 and 1991, your memory may vary). Without Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, we probably wouldn’t have Adult Swim or Laurence Fishburne today. Graywhale Entertainment, multiple locations, FatFin.com

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Forget the twist-off method—the milkdunk is, hands-down, the best way to eat an Oreo. And it’s a crying shame to waste any morsel with an overlong dunk that sends half the sandwich cookie to the bottom of the glass to turn into mush, but that’s near-impossible to avoid—till now. The Dipr cradles an Oreo by its filling, achieving the perfect milky softness sans sticky fingers or fumbled cookies. Give one to your favorite dunker, but don’t be surprised if he fills up on Oreos and ruins his appetite before Christmas dinner. Bloomingsales, 1358 Foothill Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-583-9117, ShopBloomingsales.com

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Log Cabin Throw, $130

This appropriately named blanket, made from Australian wool, looks like something that rich college friend of yours would keep in his family’s lake house. Well, even not-so-rich friends deserve a big (60 inches by 90 inches) all-purpose blanket that’s thick and rugged enough to keep in the trunk of the car for impromptu picnics, and pretty enough to come inside and be on the furniture. Bohem, 623 S. State, Salt Lake City, 385-202-7517, Bohem.co

Mighty Purse, $99.99-$140 Key Corkscrew/Bottle Opener, $22.95

As utilitarian as it is pretty, this essential tool is both a corkscrew and a bottle opener that looks like it belongs on the desk of an English country gentleman. Chalk Garden Co-Op, 74 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-364-4032, ChalkGardenCo-Op.com

Heading out into the world with a low phone battery is like heading into battle with a broken sword. At some point, the phone screen turns black and vacant, leaving you defenseless, forced to make dull conversation or stare out a window, alone with your thoughts. It’s time to protect your loved ones from such a fate. With room for cash and other necessities, this stylish clutch also conceals a powerful battery capable of fully charging a phone twice over before it needs to be recharged itself. Evergreen Framing Co. & Gallery Inc., 3295 S. 2000 East, Salt Lake City, 801-467-8770, EvergreenGallery.com

Taxidermy Ring, $140

The staring eye in this arresting copper ring by local House of Tenebris looks as though it was freshly plucked from a terrified, unworthy supplicant, and its wearer is sure to command respect tinged with more than a little fear. The eye is apparently fake—the kind used by taxidermists for bobcats and other ferocious creatures—but her office minions don’t need to know that. Tempest Couture, 1305 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, 801-486-1188, Facebook.com/ TempestCouture

Sock It To Me Socks, $12.50

Patterned socks often force one to sacrifice comfort and stretch for style, leaving calves indented and itchy. Portland, Ore.-based Sock It To Me makes its socks extra-stretchy, though, so women and men of all sizes and tastes (mustaches, cats, lightning bolts, pugs) can show off their stylish gams all day. Retro Betty, 2821 S. 2300 East, Salt Lake City, 801-467-2222, Facebook.com/ RetroBettySLC

Antique Educational Posters, $40-$80

At once quirkier and more educational than the Fight Club and The Fast & the Furious posters sold to every freshman who wanders through the student union, these vintage posters, found in government and education buildings in India, will set his dorm room apart from the rest. CG Sparks, 454 S. 500 West, Salt Lake City, 801-519-6900, CGSparks.com

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Boom Box Fanny Pack, $39.99 What do you call someone who still rollerblades on the weekend? Someone who knows how to live. But it can get even better: The Fydelity “stereobag” fanny pack not only allows for handsfree, worry-free transport of essential items, but also connects to phones or MP3 players to pump those great rollerblading classics through its speakers for all to hear. Blue Boutique, multiple locations, BlueBoutique.com

Trixie & Milo Flasks, $29.95

Inspired by vintage advertising graphics, this Portland, Ore., husband & wife duo create flashy flasks for every taste under the sun and everyone on your holiday gift list: cowboys, roller-derby girls, disenfranchised 20-somethings, unicorn lovers, A weapon disguised as an accessory, even heavy drinkers who need a different flask for each liquor. these tiny pocketknives really snap open Cahoots, 878 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-538-0606 and shut for quick-action style changes or street fights. Natur, 94 W. 7720 South, Kolbie Stonehocker Salt Lake City, 801-232-4311, suggests: NaturShowroom.com

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Gurgle Pot, $5.99-$39.99 The sophisticated lines of these fish pitchers belie their dinnertime antics. When used to pour, the pot makes a loud, goofy gurgling sound that’ll break the ice on even the stiffest table. Evergreen Framing Co. & Gallery Inc., 3295 S. 2000 East, Salt Lake City, 801-467-8770, EvergreenGallery. com

WWII Deco Frames, $9

Originally exchanged between sweethearts during World War II, these tiny art deco picture frames can provide a colorful way to display the multitude of nephews’ and nieces’ school pictures—or a not-toonarcissistic way of giving your own photo to a loved one with a special message. CG Sparks, 454 S. 500 West, Salt Lake City, 801519-6900, CGSparks.com

Owl Stack Mugs, $29.95 You’ll truly fulfill the definition of a housewarming gift when you show up to a holiday party with this set of four bright owl mugs. They’re ready to do double duty as vessels for soul-warming beverages and as a whimsical piece of kitchen décor, as they form a full image when stacked. Hip & Humble, multiple locations, HipAndHumble.com

Two folk singersongwriters recording an album of classic and original lullabies and lullaby-style covers of popular songs might not sound like a revolutionary idea, but Edie Carey and Utah’s Sarah Sample’s ’Til the Morning: Lullabies & Songs of Comfort is an album I think a lot of adults don’t realize they need until they hear it. There’s no getting around the fact that the world is a stressful place, but as Sample says, this album gives weary, battle-worn minds “a soft place to land.” The soothing instrumentation and vocals will of course appeal to kids, and adults will also appreciate the lyrics (by artists including Townes Van Zandt) and high quality of the beautiful music. Since the album came out in June, “La La Lu” has become my go-to song I play in my head whenever I’m feeling overloaded or can’t sleep— it’s healing balm for the soul. SarahSample.bandcamp.com

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My Little Pony Bags, $59.95

Orange Onyx, $10-$60

Hanna Utah calcite—also known simply as orange onyx or honeycomb onyx—is found only in the Uinta mountains and, according to legend, has the power to soothe the mind. Well, there’s no doubt that the bright, translucent stone—which looks like it’s made out of orange segments—has the power to beautify the home or office in the form of carved wine holders, candle covers and canisters. Quarry Orphans—left-behind pieces of the onyx—provide companionship and good luck, and come complete with names and genders, like more grown-up versions of Cabbage Patch Kids. One World Gifts & Gallery, 2166 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-203-0568, OneWorldGiftsAndGallery.com

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Give your favorite ’80s-born gal the chance to reclaim her rightful ownership of the My Little Pony pop-culture phenomenon, whether she prefers Ponyland or Equestria (er, you should probably ask her). These faux-leather bags feature an all-over pony print small enough to keep the bag just on the grown-up side of fun novelty. Cabin Fever, Trolley Square, 602 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City, 801-3630828, CabinFeverCards.com

These print-on-demand sweaters (and tanks, and adult onesies, and blankets, and socks …) are made by a Utah company, but have made it around the world thanks to the adoration of celebrities like Katy Perry. There’s a Beloved crewneck sweater for everyone on your Christmas list—from Cousin Tanya, who’ll rock a Nicolas Cageinspired crewneck with an ironic smile, to Uncle Dale, who’ll be tickled pink to express his earnest love of space llamas. BelovedShirts.com

Teapots, $275-$350

No one collects coffee pots, but teapots’ design and form have transcended their function—which is why tea lovers often end up with more teapots than they can possibly use. Well, since these teapots aren’t designed for use, there’s no reason not to add one to the shelf of a tea lover. TeaZaanti, 1324 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-906-8132, TeaZaanti.com

Fullgive Leather Laptop Bag, $399+

He’s gotten by since high school with the same scruffy backpack, but now that he’s got a real job, shoving laptop and papers willy-nilly into his bag isn’t going to cut it. This one-of-a-kind leather bag, dyed by hand in Salt Lake City, will instantly bump him up a few notches on the office totem pole—both for his new city-slicker style and his mad organization skills, made possible by the bag’s inner woolfelt pockets. Fullgive.Etsy.com

Rainbow Maker, $32

Know a dreamer who’s been searching for the rainbow connection? Well, it turns out the rainbows have been there all along. When suctioned to a window that receives full sunlight, this solar-powered spinning crystal splashes the room with color and magic. The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City, 801-531-9800, TheLeonardo.org

Free People Vaughn Crochet Boots, $178

With their sturdy leather construction and crochet lace trim, these Victorianstyle ankle boots are up for any situation, from running errands to the center of London to pairing with a vintage dress for a beautifully bohemian afternoon of lounging in the garden. The Children’s Hour, 898 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, 801-359-4150, ChildrensHourBookstore.com

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Matryoshka Pepper Grinder, $29.95

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According to statistics, 99 percent of engaged couples put a pricy stainlesssteel pepper grinder on their wedding registry, and 99 percent of those couples don’t know why they need someone to buy one for them, nor can they justify why everything on their registry is stainless steel. So, if you’re going to drop dough on a pepper grinder, it might as well be one that’s fun to look at. Cahoots, 878 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-538-0606

Invisible Bookshelves, $19

Book lovers have it rough: epic series with no resolution in sight, not enough time to read all the books they want, and far from enough space to store all of their beloved tomes. You can help a friend with that last problem, at least. Umbra’s Conceal shelf is an ingenious way to manage many books—up to 20 pounds per shelf—and adds a touch of mystery to the wall, as the books look as though they’re floating in the air thanks to a tricky clip that makes one of the stacked books its base. Two Dancing Cats, 1790 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-485-0554

The Man Barber Aftershave, $10

The Man Barber in Provo gets rave reviews for its classic haircuts and straight-razor shaves. Every service comes with a splash of The Man Barber’s signature aftershave, which well-coiffured gents can now also get at home, packaged in a corked bottle that’ll add beauty and class to the morning routine. Unhinged, 2165 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-467-6588; 16 W. Center St., Provo, 385-312-1268, UnhingedSLC.com

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From Hell by Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell

Motivational Blame Sign, $10.95

That “Keep Calm and Eat a Cupcake” and “Wish It, Dream It, Do It” stuff is just not going to cut it: She’s stuck in a job with horrible co-workers, and her family situation is straight out of Arrested Development. Short of taking out a hit, the only way to help the situation is to let her know that you understand and remind her that she’s not the problem with this cheery wooden sign bearing the motto “It’s not you, it’s them.” Hip & Humble, multiple locations, HipAndHumble.com

The Sherlock Holmes School of Self-Defense, $12

Sherlock Holmes knew he couldn’t rely just on his lightning-quick mind to solve crimes and fight scoundrels. He also employed a self-defense method that was all the rage in Victorian England, and those tricks have been preserved through time so that the amateur sleuth in your life can learn to overcome assailants with the aid of their coat, cane, umbrella or even bicycle. Tabula Rasa, Trolley Square, 602 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City, 801-5755043, TabulaRasaStationers.com

Knitty Kitty Winter Underwear, $26.99

Though they’re probably not the kind of thing Grandma would churn out with her needles, knitted panties do exist. Made with supersoft yarn, they might help your always-chilly significant other stay warm—but the fun patterns will make her look so cozy-sexy that you’ll be tempted to blast the heat so that she’ll strip down to her skivvies. Blue Boutique, multiple locations, BlueBoutique.com

This is the kind of work that defies the boundaries of any single medium. It’s not only a story of Jack the Ripper, perhaps the world’s most celebrated serial killer, but also a tale of the pagan undercurrent lurking beneath the genteel Christian surface of Victorian London. It’s also a meditation on time, murder, meaning and gender inequality. Be warned, though, this is a graphic novel—there are sex scenes in here that HBO wouldn’t show, and scenes of violence you would only see if you were literally watching the Ripper himself in action. Dr. Volts Comic Connection, 2043 E. 3300 South, 801485-6114, DrVolts.com

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Bug-A-Salt, $24.95

The perfect accessory for a summertime pickup game (short shorts required) or a winter indoors playing NBA Jam, these socks honor NBA greats like Hakeem Olajuwon, Larry Bird, Shaq and, of course, Stockton and Malone (who come as a pair, natch). FICE Gallery, 160 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-364-4722, FICEGallery.com

Sugar House Libations, $20

Your friend paid a pretty penny for top-shelf bourbon—then mixed it with a storebrand mixer, defeating the whole purpose. Open the door to a bright new world of cocktails and fancy virgin drinks with a pretty bottle of Sugar House Libations syrup, infused with high-quality ingredients like local fruit and herbs—no high-fructose corn syrup here. Each bottle comes with a booklet of recipes, so he can create tastebud-tickling masterpieces with that pear-ginger or strawberry-thyme syrup in time for Christmas cocktail hour. Mod a-go-go, 242 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-355-3334, Modagogo.com

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Know someone who can’t sleep after they see a spider or fly out of the corner of their eye? Give them peace of mind with this salt gun, which kills bugs of all kinds without damaging windows or walls. The salt won’t splat the bug, so there’s no gory mess—just glory. Planet Fun, Clark Planetarium, 110 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-456-7827, ClarkPlanetarium.org

NBA Socks, $16

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Dolly Parton: Dance With Dolly

Local Lounge Furniture, Coasters, $25/4 $70 Now she can feel like she’s on her honorary stool at her favorite Utah bar even when she’s at home in front of the TV. Upholstered with a colorful collage of photographs by local artist Stephanie Swift—aka Pretty Little Pixel—the chair pays homage to bars and music venues of the past and present like DV8, Port O’ Call, Zephyr Club and Bongo. A matching TV tray featuring the Cotton Bottom’s sign is also available—garlic burger not included. Evergreen Framing Co. & Gallery Inc., 3295 S. 2000 East, Salt Lake City, 801-467-8770, EvergreenGallery.com

These unicorns and cats certainly have impressive mystical powers—harness them to save a coffee table from water stains, or from the boringness of blah, colorless coasters. Iconoclad, 414 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-833-2272, Facebook.com/ Iconoclad

Kinetic Sand, $18

You had to sell the private jet and the beach villa, but when work stress gets him down, he can still enjoy some of the relaxing benefits of your past South American vacations with a few pounds of mesmerizing kinetic sand. Made from 98 percent real sand plus a secret binding ingredient, kinetic sand doesn’t spread, clumps together, isn’t sticky and can be used to create mess-free desktop sandcastles. The Gilded Branch, 2327 E. 3300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-759-4160

A must-have album for any Dolly Parton fan would be her 1978 12-inch single “Dance With Dolly.” This little beauty showcases an extended version of her hit disco single “Baby I’m Burning,” which reached No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The flip side features “I Wanna Fall In Love.” Best of all, the album is on bubblegum-pink vinyl. I tore up my bedroom floor dancing to Dolly doing disco. Randy’s Record Shop, 157 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-5324413, RandysRecords.com

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Slim Leather Wallet, $35 Fancy Camera Mug, $15.99

He sunk all his money into fancy camera gear in 2010—trouble is, so did everyone else, and that engagement-session work doesn’t pay the bills like he thought it would. At least this travel mug that looks like a fancy camera lens will help him save face until the day he can again afford to buy fair-trade coffeehouse coffee. Got Beauty, 900 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-474-2090, GotBeauty.com

Skulls, $70-$475

It’s the next-best thing to having an actual human skull in the house! Hamlet wannabes will appreciate the largest skull, carved from a solid block of wood and fitted with teeth carved from domestic water-buffalo bone. And smaller skulls (the smallest is carved from a deer antler) still provide plenty of delight for fans of the macabre. Natur, 94 W. 7720 South, Salt Lake City, 801-232-4311, NaturShowroom.com

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Yeah, she likes to go out and party without a big bag weighing her down—but her inner organizational freak can’t stand dealing with the clutch-created mess of crumpled bills and loose credit cards and I.D. These leather wallets, available in a rainbow of vibrant colors, keep cards and cash secure and snug and are slim enough to fit into skinny jeans or the tiniest of clutches. The only mess will be from the broken hearts she leaves on the dance floor. Fullgive.Etsy.com

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An Edge in My Voice by Harlan Ellison

Bath Tub, $14

You’ve taken the plunge and moved in together. Everything is going great! It’s made you closer! No complaints! Except … her baffling inability to close lids. You can barely stand to look at your formerly pristine sink now that it’s constantly covered with a mysterious goo formed of an unholy combo of lotion, toothpaste and … hair stuff? Before you throw her and her legions of oozing tubes to the curb, diplomatically gift her this handy little bathtub, which she’ll see as a cute accessory and you’ll appreciate as the savior of your sink—and your last nerve. Tabula Rasa, Trolley Square, 602 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City, 801-5755043, TabulaRasaStationers.com

Wax Seals, $11

A person who still handwrites letters in this day and age is a person who knows the value of a personal touch. And whether he’s writing a note to thank the dentist for his latest cleaning or a coded message to be hand-delivered to a secret lover, it doesn’t get more personal than closing the letter with a wax seal in his signature color and mark. The Library Store, Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801-524-8238, SLCPL.org

Personalized Notepads, $15+

Devotees of the to-do list know the deep pleasure of checking off a list of tasks one by one. Heighten that sense of satisfaction by personalizing a pad of highquality paper with the name or initials of your favorite anal-retentive list-maker, printed in a beautiful font and color. The Write Image, 2205 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-485-1909, Twio.com

Originally published in 1985, this collection of essays by Harlan Ellison consists primarily of columns he wrote in the early ’80s for Future Life magazine and L.A. Weekly on topics ranging from the Equal Rights Amendment and gun control to what it teaches us that Oreos conquered Hydrox. It became a pivotal text in my development as a critical thinker, showing me how passionate essay writing could inform and entertain. Ellison can be a dogmatic, self-aggrandizing sonofabitch, but his righteous rage backed by evidence should be required reading for anyone who wants to engage in cultural debate. Available to order from Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Salt Lake City, 801-328-2586, WellerBookWorks.com

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Speakeasy Barware, $10 Art Glass Nightlight, $35 It might not be the most mature thing to be afraid of the dark, but there’s nothing wrong with an adult being afraid of tripping over something in the dar—what was that noise?! Ahem. Anyway, these nightlights cast a sophisticated glow that’ll light one’s way safely to the bathroom without stubbed toes, or allow for a safe drift into dreamland. Evergreen Framing Co. & Gallery Inc., 3295 S. 2000 East, Salt Lake City, 801-467-8770, EvergreenGallery.com

Hollywood Cats, $45

You can’t shake a stick these days without hitting a cat accessory or cat meme—and someone who rolls her eyes at “lame cat people.” Remind folks that cats aren’t just cartoonish fluffballs beloved by Internet commenters with this gorgeous coffee-table book, featuring photographs of Hollywood stars alongside their no-less-glamorous feline companions and co-stars. Tabula Rasa, Trolley Square, 602 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City, 801-575-5043, TabulaRasaStationers.com

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Your pal got you and your friends addicted to craft cocktails, but it’s tough to scrape up the cash to hit the newest neighborhood speakeasy every night. Replicate that experience even in a friend’s dank basement apartment by dimming the lights and getting him a few quirky old-fashioned glasses featuring dapper gentlemen bears, cats or humans, made in Los Angeles by Spitfire Girl. Unhinged, 2165 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-467-6588; 16 W. Center St., Provo, 385-312-1268, UnhingedSLC.com

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East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Inkling Scents, $15+

A scent can define a person—become part of them, an essential characteristic as recognizable as their features. Inkling Scents crafts a wide range of perfumes and colognes that range from spunky to sophisticated, and the fragrances are locally made with oil, not alcohol, so that they sink into the skin instead of evaporating. And just as there’s sure to be a scent that delights your beloved, so is there a style of packaging that will do the same—Inkling Scents are available in roller-ball bottles, stainless-steel flasks and inkwell & quill sets. Q Clothing, 215 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-474-2000, Facebook.com/ QClothing

Mix & Match Tea Sets, $6+

Whether she needs a tea service for a village-wide garden party or a single cup and saucer, you’ll find the perfect pattern in the back room of Booze“tea”que, which is crammed with stacks of pretty teacups, sugar bowls and creamers ready to be mixed and matched. The Booze“tea”que at E3 Modern, 315 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-363-3939

Caml Reversible Beanies, $20 There’s nothing cozier than a soft sweatshirt—and now heads can also experience that bliss. These locally made beanies, upcycled from sweatshirts, are reversible, meaning the wearer can wear it day after day without arousing scorn. Unhinged, 2165 Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-467-6588; 16 W. Center St., Provo, 385-312-1268, UnhingedSLC.com

Forget everything you think you know about John Steinbeck. East of Eden is a page-turner, a sweeping multigenerational saga filled with enough betrayal, scandal and secrets to make a soap opera blush. But it’s also an exploration of ancient biblical themes—free will, and the battle between good and evil in its purest, realest form: within ourselves. I’ve forced almost everyone I know to read it, and they’ve all loved it, even if they loathed Of Mice and Men with a burning passion. Every re-read of this book brings something new to the surface; it’s the book that should be under the tree of every reader in your life. Ken Sanders Rare Books, 268 S. 200 East, Salt Lake City, 801-5213819, KenSandersBooks.com

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Airzooka, $19.95

Veggie Dip Sets, $7.95

Eating healthy is challenging enough without having to pull a sad plastic bag of baby carrots out of the break-room fridge. But she’ll be the envy of the office when you fill these on-the-go veggieshaped snackers with sliced veggies and her favorite dip. Hip & Humble, multiple locations, HipAndHumble.com

Initial Medallions, $38

Unless she goes into the Witness Protection Program and has to change her name, this is perhaps the one piece of jewelry that she’ll be able and proud to wear at any age, at any time. Unique without being gaudy, the bronze medallions also available to order from local jewelry maker Katie Waltman in every letter of the alphabet—your time has finally come, Quintana and Uma. Katie Waltman Jewelry, 962 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 385-227-8977, KatieWaltman.com

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Your wife has lost her voice, but not her need for unwavering fealty and obedience from her employees. Thanks to the Airzooka, just because she can’t shout doesn’t mean she can’t command their attention. When the Airzooka is fired at the required flunky from up to 20 feet away, it sends a harmless blast of air that’ll ruffle his hair and disturb papers on his desk, letting him know silently but effectively that he’s been summoned. Planet Fun, Clark Planetarium, 110 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-456-7827, ClarkPlanetarium.org

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Outlander Tartan & Kilt Pin, $64

A side effect of watching Starz’s new show Outlander is developing a desire to go back in time to the Scottish highlands and meet an attractive clansman. Edinburgh Castle will get your significant other halfway to being as attractive as Jamie Fraser, with a Fraser clan kilt pin inscribed with the motto Je Suis Prest, and lambswool clan scarves in the authentic MacKenzie tartan. Edinburgh Castle, 124 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-364-1406, EdinburghCastle.com

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Cosset Body Butter, $20

A tiny amount of this rich butter goes a long way on even the driest skin, thanks to its all-natural makeup: oils from avocado and macadamia nuts, and cocoa, shea, mango and kokum butters. Cosset Bath & Body, 602 E. 500 South, Trolley Square, Salt Lake City, 801-923-4626, Facebook.com/ CossetBathAndBody

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Booze Bamboozlers, $14.95

The ladies in your life know that one of the few, few benefits of “surfing the crimson wave” is that no security guard will dip his fingers into a pile of tampons. You can further her exploitation of men’s squeamishness with these shot holders, disguised as realistic-looking tampons, complete with wrappers. If beer is more her style, the bottle of sunblock is perfect for music festivals or pool time. Cabin Fever, Trolley Square, 602 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City, 801-3630828, CabinFeverCards.com

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The Brave Cowboy by Edward Abbey A lot of people talk about Edward Abbey classics like The Monkey Wrench Gang and Desert Solitaire, but have little knowledge that the caustic lover of the American West wrote many other novels and short stories deserving of equal praise. One such novel is The Brave Cowboy, featuring Abbey’s recurring character Jack Burns. In The Brave Cowboy, Burns is the hero, a cowboy riding his horse, Whiskey, across plains encircled by barbed wire that must be cut down. When Burns decides to break a pal out of jail, his collision with civilization and the law cascade into a Western saga that the actor and director Kirk Douglas found fit to make into the film Lonely Are the Brave. A few years back, I met Douglas in a press line and had only one thing to say: that of all his films, Lonely Are the Brave was my favorite. He shook my hand and, in his stroke-slurred speech, growled, “That was my favorite movie, too.” Ken Sanders Rare Books, 268 S. 200 East, Salt Lake City, 801-521-3819, KenSandersBooks. com

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Fingerless gloves will allow her fight off the cold while retaining the dexterity needed to fight crime. And these colorful hand-knit gloves even provide their own sound effects. Two Dancing Cats, 1790 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-485-0554

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In these festive days of celebrating one’s beliefs and convictions, I’d like to blast a little hope into the eardrums of those who stroll to the beat of a different drummer boy’s drum. Faith No More’s Angel Dust is all you will ever need under the Festivus Pole. You may find yourself celebrating with “A Small Victory” when you find the perfect furry boots for your girlfriend, or falling to your knees in a prayer over the dropped turkey leg while “Everything’s Ruined” gives you the perfect soundtrack. You must keep the faith when searching for this one, as it is a rare bird, but take it “Easy” and the good lord will show you the way. Randy’s Record Shop, 157 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-5324413, RandysRecords.com

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Your roommate the gadget king is a great asset when you’re in desperate need of a charger, but you’re sick of detangling the snarls of cords to find the headphones he borrowed, or tripping over his laptop/ camera/iPad chargers when you get up from the couch. Make his life (and yours) easier with the Recoil Winder, a Park City-made product that keeps cords of all sizes accessible but contained. Just pull to extend the cord for charging; when you’re through, the Recoil retracts the cord back into place. RecoilWinders.com

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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

Maxwell’s East Coast Eatery

Of all the pizzas in Utah, my very favorite is probably one of the hardest to categorize. It’s at Maxwell’s, home of the Fat Kid pizza, which you can get by the slice, or as a 20-inch pie. The best of the bunch is the one topped with meatball slices. This pizza is the type you find in southern New Jersey and the Philadelphia area: hearty thin-crust pies with highquality cheese and a light touch of sauce. Steven Maxwell, owner of Maxwell’s, is of Italian descent and hails originally from New Jersey. Somewhere between Penns Grove, N.J., and South Philly, he learned how to make a bodacious pizza pie, and it’s one that I depend on until my next visit to South Jersey. Reviewed Oct. 9. 357 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-328-0304; 1456 Newpark Blvd., Park City, 435-647-0304, MaxwellsECE.com

The Pie Pizzeria

For über cheesy, chewy, American classic pizza of the type most of us either grew up on or learned to love in college,

Este Pizzeria

When most of us think of NYC-style pizza, we’re thinking of the by-the-slice plain cheese pizza served on paper plates and often eaten on the run. For that, I turn to Este. The crust is just right: not too thick and not too thin, and the folks at Este never overdo the cheese-tosauce ratio. Reviewed Oct. 9. 2148 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, 801-485-3699; 156 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-363-2366, EstePizzaCo.com

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Chef/owner Briar Handly, who most recently served as executive chef at the award-winning Talisker on Main in Park City, has taken a space in Park City’s Gateway office complex and transformed it into a warm, inviting restaurant serving comforting cuisine that’s upscale but not precious. Handly has mad chef skills, so even a simple appetizer of Hawaiian albacore crudo is more than just the standard raw fish: his is presented cubed, along with cubes and slices of ruby-red grapefruit, fresh greens with a grapefruit vinaigrette and—here’s the kicker—finely grated fresh horseradish on top. Even bread service is uncommon. A bowl of fresh-baked bread comes with a trio of condiments: top-quality California olive oil, salted butter and seasonal mustard or marmalade. And the staff is so accommodating and friendly that they’d have no problem with someone coming in and just ordering the bread, or perhaps a meat & cheese plate, while enjoying one of the craft cocktails, a cold beer or a glass of wine from Handle’s brief but well-conceived wine list. Reviewed Oct. 2. 136 Heber Ave., Park City, 435602-1155, HandleParkCity.com

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Thick, deep-dish pies were made famous at Chicago’s Pizzeria Uno, The Original Gino’s Pizza, Connie’s, Giordano’s and others. However, equally in demand in the Windy City—maybe even more so—is Chicago-style thincrust pizza of the type you’ll find at Sweet Home Chicago Pizzeria, also called a “flat” pizza in the Windy City. The former owner of a successful pizzeria in Chicago’s ‘burbs called Pepe’s, Jim Pecora relocated to the Salt Lake Valley with the intent of bringing “real” Chicago pizza to Utah. Mission accomplished. Reviewed Oct. 9. 1442 E. Draper Parkway, Draper, 801-545-0455, SHCPizza.com

Utahns tend to turn to The Pie. Since 1980, university students, families and anyone else with a hankering for a large, overloaded pizza pie have been going to The Pie—a perennial City Weekly Best of Utah winner in the pizza category—for their pizza fixes. You can’t argue with The Pie’s recipe for success, and for their rib-sticking pizza. Reviewed Oct. 9. Multiple locations, ThePie.com

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Missionary

Psycho Elder

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The video-on-demand thriller Missionary shows Mormons are mainstream enough to be crazy villains. By Eric D. Snider comments@cityweekly.net @ericdsnider

hen I learned that there was a film about a Mormon missionary who sleeps with and then stalks a married woman, I thought: “Who stole my diary?” I kid, of course. If I’d done anything that bad on my mission, I wouldn’t have been foolish enough to write it down. But the film, a low-budget indie called Missionary (available through video-on-demand since Oct. 31), intrigued me. Having served an LDS mission myself (Philadelphia, 199395), I was curious how accurately it would depict missionary life. Mostly, I wanted to know where his companion was while he was gettin’ it on. To prevent the gettin’ of it on is largely why missionaries have companions in the first place. It turns out the movie isn’t very good, but not for reasons of accuracy. It belongs to the genre of preposterous thrillers about deceptively friendly psychopaths who terrorize others—a genre full of mediocre potboilers. In this one, handsome Elder Brock (Mitch Ryan) and dork y Elder Whitehall (Jordan Woods-Robinson) meet Katherine (Dawn Olivieri), a hot Florida mom currently separated from her husband. She doesn’t need religion, but her son needs someone to throw a football to him, so Elder Brock does it, briefly becoming a father figure to the boy and causing me to imagine a sitcom called Elder Dad. A few days later, by pure coincidence, Katherine drives past Elder Brock walking by himself. Seems he and Elder Whitehall were each working with local LDS men for the day (this is called “going on splits”) when Brock’s guy had a heart attack and was whisked away by an ambulance, leaving poor dumb Brock on the side of the road, helpless. (He could have ridden in the ambulance as clergy, and missionaries do have cell phones nowadays, but I’m going

to allow this scenario as plausible.) Katherine offers Brock a ride home. He declines because it’s against the rules to be alone with a woman. Then he relents, figuring this is an unusual situation, and surely one car ride won’t lead to WHOOPS they had sex! That slope was very slippery for Elder Brock. One minute he’s a stickler for the rules, the next minute he’s engaged in sensual cinematic lovemaking (not panicked, furtive sex, like it would actually be). Then we find out Brock is kooky in the head, wanting to make Katherine and the kid his “celestial family.” When she reconciles with her husband, Brock turns into a dangerous stalker who cites LDS doctrine and quotes from his patriarchal blessing to justify his increasingly violent actions. For Mormons, the kneejerk response to all this might be offense—first at the very idea of a psycho missionary, and then at how lightly the film treats things that we consider sacred. But I think it’s telling that despite several instances where it would have been realistic to show them, the film almost totally ignores the subject of temple garments. If the filmmakers wanted to ridicule Mormonism, they had plenty of chances. No, this isn’t a movie about how Mormon doctrine is crazy. It’s a movie about a crazy

Mitch Ryan and Dawn Olivieri in Missionary

person who happens to be Mormon, a psycho whose particular brand of psychosis involves Mormonism. There’s no attempt to suggest, even by implication, that Elder Brock’s actions are what practicing Mormonism leads to. There’s no agenda here, no ax to grind. One of the two screenwriters, Bruce Wood, was an LDS missionary; that explains why so many of the details of the elders’ day-to-day lives are so accurate. On the other hand: Their mission president has a goatee. But were it not for that authenticity, you’d have no reason to suspect anyone involved had any thoughts about the LDS Church at all. It’s not a religion-themed movie; it’s a lurid psychothriller with a religious aroma. As far as I know, Missionary is unique for having an explicitly Mormon villain without being “about” religion. We’ve arrived! Mormons are such an established, familiar part of American life that you can have your bad guy be one without needing to explain it. That’s progress. The movie may be disrespectful, but casually so, without malice. We’re part of the cultural landscape, and fair game if somebody needs a foil. Speaking of which, if Hollywood is listening, I have diaries for sale. CW

TRY THESE Single White Female (1992) Jennifer Jason Leigh Bridget Fonda Rated R

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (1992) Annabella Sciorra Rebecca DeMornay Rated R

The Temp (1993) Timothy Hutton Lara Flynn Boyle Rated R

God’s Army (2000) Matthew A. Brown Richard Dutcher Rated PG

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 HHH.5 Don’t tell Hollywood I said this, but chopping the final novel of the Hunger Games trilogy into two films might be the best thing that could have happened to this franchise. The Games are done here; Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is now among the leaders of a rebellion who hope to use her as a symbol to ignite all-out civil war. The series has always been about the power of propaganda, and the movies have effectively moved outside the books’ first-person narration to show how Katniss is used by others to further their own agendas. Lawrence’s terrific performance as young woman who cannot be managed raised a huge lump in my throat, while at the same time I was fully aware that her powerful rage was being turned into a product. Cutting Mockingjay into two films means we’re left with a sort of Empire Strikes Back feel, complete with a devastating cliffhanger that doesn’t leave room for much hope—except, that is, for the reasonable hope that next year’s Part 2 will deliver a satisfying wrap-up to one of the smartest, most enthralling science-fiction film series ever. Opens Nov. 21 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)—MaryAnn Johanson

of amazement how World War II is at once the most documented conflict in the history of war, and yet incompletely explored due to the superficiality of so much of the documentation. Szász spends the entire film wallowing in and somehow simultaneously being at arm’s length from various rote horrors, both imposed by the war and arising from the brothers’ gradual degeneration. There need not necessarily be someone to “root for” in a film, but when the protagonists are essentially horror movie villains who make the Nazis look reasonable, something has gone wrong. As cinema, it suffers from the belief that cinematography is a matter of keeping the camera in focus, rather than putting anything in the frame worthy of focusing on. As art in general, it simply suffers. A woeful waste of everyone’s time. Opens Nov. 21 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—Danny Bowes

SPECIAL SCREENINGS Friday At Brewvies, Nov. 24, 10 p.m. (R) The Kid At Edison Street Events, Nov. 20-21, 7 p.m. (NR) Return to Homs At Main Library, Nov. 25, 7 p.m. (NR) The Skeleton Twins At Park City Film Series, Nov. 21-22 @ 8 p.m. & Nov. 23 @ 6 p.m. (R)

CURRENT RELEASES Beyond the Lights HHH.5 Gina Prince-Bythewood takes Hollywood romantic melodrama

and gives it a jolt of life in her story of Noni (Gugu MbathaRaw), an on-the-rise pop star who’s saved from a suicide attempt by off-duty L.A. cop Kaz (Nate Parker). The title suggests a tawdry perils-of-fame tale, but Prince-Bythewood finds fascinating new angles while exploring how a talented young black woman gets packaged the only way the entertainment industry seems to know how to package young black women. And she allows this relationship room to breathe, so charismatic performances by Mbatha-Raw and Parker can kick it up to another level. There’s more predictable material in the way the protagonists’ respective parents—Noni’s ferocious stage-mom manager (Minnie Driver) and Kaz’s dad (Danny Glover)—orchestrate their lives, but if every familiar style of movie were executed this crisply, we’d all be a lot better off. (PG-13)—Scott Renshaw Big Hero 6 HHH.5 With all of the marketing focus on huggable, inflatable robot Baymax, you 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 comic-relief 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

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Birdman HHH Veteran movie-star Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton) is taking a stab at professional respect, throwing his money into a Broadway adaptation of a Raymond Carver story where the previews offer the distinct possibility that the whole enterprise is destined for disaster. Alejandro GonzĂĄlez IĂąĂĄrritu has material for some hilarious backstage farceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;including a great performance by Edward Norton as Rigganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s irritatingly Method-y co-starâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as well as interesting material about the nature of fame in the socialmedia age. But he canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t resist going for operatic gestures, like the gimmick of making nearly the entire film look like a single long take, or introducing wild fantasy sequences. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a visible strain to be something more profound about capital-A Art. The performances and comedy make Birdman fundamentally entertaining, at least whenever itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not posing to be admired. (R)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;SR

Force Majeure HHHH On a ski vacation, Swedish couple Tomas (Johannes Kuhnke) and Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli) and their two children experience near-disaster; what emerges from that moment is a darkly satirical set of scenes from a marriage, as Tomas and Ebbaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;through terrific central performancesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;wrestle with what their respective responses to that moment of crisis reveal, while their kids and friends experience the ripple effect. Director Ruben Ă&#x2013;stlund maintains precise control over his scenes, from 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, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also brutally funny at conveying what one woman discovers she expects from her man, and what that man realizes he canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect from himself. (NR)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;SR

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The Book of Life HHH.5 Director/co-writer Jorge Gutierrez (who also co-wrote) seems intent on making the definitive movieâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;delightful visually and aurallyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that will be on TV every year come Day of the Dead. And while itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible to say what the future of TV programming will bring, the movie itself is good enoughâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and good-natured enoughâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to be so immortalized. The storytelling is elegantly simple and easy to follow even, though some of the jokes are a little off-color for really young ones. For the grownups, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the wildly elaborate animation and inspired choice of songs, both covers and originals, and the sublime sincerity and engagement of the voice acting (including Diego Luna, Zoe Saldana and the endlessly surprising Channing Tatum). Even with the bounty of excellent animated films in recent years, this one ranks among the elite, a sparkling bit of entertainment. (PG)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;DB

Dumb and Dumber To HHH For 20 years, the Farrelly brothers have demonstrated a single-minded commitment to The Gag, not giving a ratâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ass if anybody else finds those gags offensive, or annoying, or just not funny. They revisit their original moron heroes, Harry (Jeff Daniels) and Lloyd (Jim Carrey), for a road-trip premiseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;seeking the biological daughter (Rachel Melvin) Harry never knew aboutâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a framework on which to hang those gags. And while thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really nothing particularly great about Harry and Lloyd as characters, there sure are a handful of magnificently ridiculous comedic payoffs here, like Harryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fantasy-sequence assistance to his daughter upon the occasion of her womanhood. Yes, other jokes fall flat, or arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worth the gross or overly involved setups. But by God, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll keep throwing those gags at the wall, and sooner or later, a few are going to stick. (R)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;SR

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 fine 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, but a lot of this story feels obligatory. 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, Stewart can’t find a way to make the story connect emotionally. 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, then forgotten. (R)—Eric D. Snider

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Cinemark Draper 12129 S. State, Draper 801-619-6494 Cinemark.com

Nightcrawler HHH.5 At first it feels like a 21st-century Network by way of American Psycho, but writer/director Dan Gilroy actually has bigger targets in his sights. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Louis Bloom, a small-time, morally shaky hustler in Los Angeles who begins a career as a freelance videographer capturing true-crime and accident footage to sell to local news stations. Gilroy goes for the throat in his portrayal of a desperate news director (Rene Russo), and at times he pushes too obviously at the media’s willingness to play on white suburban fears. But he’s even more interested in the pathology of corporate thinking, brilliantly using Gyllenhaal’s creepy performance as a sociopath adept at parroting personalempowerment jargon while turning every interaction into a transaction. Beyond observing what a bottom-line mentality does to journalism, Gilroy’s manages a dark dissection of what it does to basic humanity. (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

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 sports-movie 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

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

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

Gone Girl HHH.5 Right from the opening credits, director David Fincher turns his adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best-selling novel into the cinematic equivalent of a compulsive page-turner. Ben Affleck stars as Nick Dunne, who returns home from work to find his wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), missing, with evidence of a struggle in the house. But is Nick a worried husband, or a calculating murderer? The pirouettes and reversals in Flynn’s narrative keep our sense of these characters unsteady, while Fincher and company nail the media and public insta-reactions that boil around a high-profile true-crime case. Gone Girl may cast an even more cynical eye on the disintegration of a marriage, and it’s somewhat less effective on that topic. Yet Fincher ultimately has a way of making dark material irresistible. Once you start flipping through these pages, it’s awfully hard to stop. (R)—SR

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya HHH.5 Carrying on Studio Ghibli’s tradition of lovingly crafted films possessed of a rare, uniquely gentle humaneness, Isao Takahata adapts the folk tale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, the oldest known surviving Japanese narrative. Every moment is observed with care, the hand-drawn animation rendering each gesture with resonant life. The effect is to make the (relatively) long film feel both eternal and over all too soon, as its protagonist 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 immovable society. Takahata doesn’t dwell on the latter, but doesn’t avoid it either, as Princess Kaguya strikes a harmonious balance between timelessness and modernity. If a better animated film is released this year, it will have been a very good year for the form. (G)—DB

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Drunk History: Seasons 1&2 All 18 episodes thus far of American history as retold by FUBAR comedians and actors; so educational, it should be required viewing in all schools. Give it to your kids: They’ll be smarter about historical events and scared to death of booze. (Paramount)

The Expendables 3 Sylvester Stallone and Team Geezer are back in action, along with some pre-AARP recruits to take down an ex-Expendable (Mel Gibson) who’s become a villainous arms dealer, if not a racist nutjob. This has to be the last one … right? (Lionsgate)

Just some of the new holiday TV movies coming at you this season. An En Vogue Christmas (Lifetime; Saturday, Nov. 22) The singers of En Vogue (as played by the current legally recognized singers of En Vogue) reunite for a holiday benefit concert to save the nightclub that gave them their start and to forgive the sleazy manager (David Alan Grier) who “broke them up.” Nothing says Christmas like revisionist history! A Royal Christmas (Hallmark; Saturday, Nov. 22) When a working-class girl (Lacey Chabert) learns that her new fiance is actually the prince of a European country, they jet off for the holidays to meet the Queen mum (Jane Seymour), who has her own scheme to get her son and his duchess ex-girlfriend back together. Screenplay based on a series of spam e-mails. Signed, Sealed, Delivered for Christmas (Hallmark Movies & Mysteries; Sunday, Nov. 23) Did you know that the writer of Touched By an Angel had a Christian-y TV series about four postal workers who make it their mission to deliver dead letters (aka undeliverable mail)? “It was grandma’s dying wish that Timmy get this Circuit City gift card! Let’s roll!” Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever (Lifetime; Saturday, Nov. 29) Sigh. It’s 2013 all over again when preteen Chyrstal(?) becomes trapped in the mall on Christmas Eve and forms a fast friendship with sarcastic Internet meme of yesteryear Grumpy Cat (voiced by Aubrey Plaza). Find out if Grumpy learns the true meaning of Christmas and/or Chyrstal has her meds adjusted for talking to a cat.

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Christmas Under Wraps (Hallmark; Saturday, Nov. 29) A big-city doctor lady (Full House’s Candace Cameron Bure) moves to small-town Garland (ha!), Alaska, and falls for a local yokel—but there’s a life-changing Big Christmas Secret waiting for her in a local warehouse. If this were a horror movie, it would be the zombie Olsen Twins. Or big brother Kirk Cameron. Christmas at Cartwright’s (Hallmark; Sunday, Dec. 7) With the help of an angel, broke single mom Nikki (Alicia Witt) lands a job playing a department store Santa, as well as a new romance. Apparently, angels now fulfill the same purpose as Craigslist. Merry Ex-Mas (Ion; Sunday, Dec. 7) When a security guard (Dean Cain) is caught in some misleading photos with a rock-star client (Jodi Lyn O’Keefe), his wife (Kristy Swanson) kicks him out and divorces him. A year later, the exes become trapped over Christmas in a snowbound cabin. Will he win his ex-wife back? Can Christmas be saved? Most importantly, what’s Ion? The Santa Con (Lifetime; Saturday, Dec. 13) Recently paroled small-time criminal Nick (Barry Watson), forced to take a job as a mall Santa (sensing a pattern?), inadvertently promises a young boy that he’ll get

Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever (Lifetime) the kid’s estranged parents back together for Christmas. With prodding from his sister (Melissa Joan Hart) and a pastor (Wendy! Williams!), Nick decides to somehow make good on the promise—until he meets the hot mom (Melissa Sagemiller). So many “Yule log” jokes … The Christmas Parade (Hallmark; Sunday, Dec. 14) After being humiliated on-air, a big-city TV-news personality (AnnaLynne McCord) retreats to a small town, gets in trouble with the law, is sentenced to community service, and then falls for an artist while helping kids build a float for the local Christmas parade, which could save their community center. Sheesh. What is this, The Wire? Back to Christmas (Ion; Saturday, Dec. 20) A lonely woman (Kelly Overton) in a diner on Christmas Eve laments about how she split with her fiance last Christmas and wishes she could go back and fix it. No sooner than you can say “1.21 gigawatts,” she’s transported back in time and given the chance to change history. Choose wisely: love … or assassinating Grumpy Cat! CW

Boyd (Joel McHale) and his wife (Lauren Graham) spend Christmas with Boyd’s drunk-asshole dad (Robin Williams), and yet it still never becomes the National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation/Bad Santa mashup everybody really wants it to be. (eOne)

Not Safe For Work A killer is in the office, and only desk drone Tom (Max Minghella) can protect the other employees and expose the company’s nefarious dealings. From the brains behind The Purge, Paranormal Activity and … Captain America: The First Avenger? (Universal)

Stretch Aptly named limo driver Stretch (Patrick Wilson), desperate for a big payday for the usual gambling debts, takes a job transporting a billionaire (Ray Liotta) who leads him into a night of sex, drugs, danger and, worst of all, Jessica Alba. (Universal)

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The members of Death From Above 1979 are now heading in one musical direction—despite looking in different directions here.

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would have called it a wrap a few years ago just for the sake of the legacy of the band.” A bitter decade may separate You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine from the band’s first post-reunion record, The Physical World, but they sound barely a year removed from each other. Released in early September, The Physical World maintains the band’s unique formula—its tumultuous, bull-in-a-china-shop howl in which Keeler’s basslines roar like rockets and Grainger’s drums stomp like cavalry—and expands it, pairing more conventionally catchy songs with crushingly violent, angular riffs. It’s as if the rocky intervening decade never existed. “We’re using the same stuff and going about things the same way,” Keeler says. “We were trying to push the boundaries of the idea of what the band was and is, and define what the band is now, and trying not to repeat things from the first record.” How long Death From Above 1979 will stick around is up in the air. Keeler says he and Grainger are “playing it by ear,” and if things turn south, they’ll just pull the plug again. For now, Keeler and Grainger are getting along, and they’re no longer doing all the heavy lifting. They have people to help load equipment, people who set up their gear and know how all of it works. All Keeler has to do is just walk on stage, pick up his bass and play. “Now, I can just think about being a musician,” Keeler says. “I’ve never gotten to do that before. It’s a novelty, still. I’m not over it.” CW

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n 2011, Jesse Keeler got an e-mail from his former Death From Above 1979 bandmate. It took him a little by surprise: He and Sebastien Grainger hadn’t spoken in the five years since Death From Above f lamed out at the height of its career, leaving only one document of the duo’s high-energ y, high-volume aesthetic during its original run from 2001 to 2006: You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine, released in 2004. He was even more surprised to find his former bandmate reaching out for a chance at reviving the defunct band, which, though it had only one album, also had a rabid fan base. Even at its apex, wiry duo Death From Above 1979 brandished an attitude rooted in its sweat-soaked DIY-scene origins. The band did its own heavy lifting—literally. Keeler, who plays bass, recalls one show in particular that he and Grainger, who plays drums and sings, played in Wisconsin; the venue was upstairs, and there was no elevator, so they had to carry their equipment—mainly two 140pound bass cabinets—up 62 stairs in a row, with no landing. “When we were starting, it was just us,” Keeler says. “We had no roadies, we had no help. [So] it became kind of these feats of strength—like, ‘Can we do it?’ And that’s all fun and games until you’re done playing the show.” That strength ultimately gave out. The band’s 2006 tour opening for Nine Inch Nails should have been its launching point, but it turned out to be the breaking point. Following the tour, Grainger and Keeler pronounced Death From Above 1979 dead, a casualty of creative disagreements as well as the exhaustion of life on the road. “It didn’t seem like it was ever going to get any easier, and we were just starting to break,” Keeler says. “And we just started to take it out on ourselves in different ways.” The split was far from amicable—in 2008, Grainger bluntly told Canada’s Exclaim! magazine, “We’re not friends”—and Keeler and Grainger didn’t speak for five years. But the same attitude that spurred Keeler and Grainger to haul bass cabs up seemingly endless flights of stairs urged them back into action to give Death From Above 1979 a second chance at life. “I think there’s still an element of the feats-of-strength mentality,” Keeler says. “Like, ‘Can I still do this?’ It’s one thing to have people tell you, ‘Oh yeah, you guys were so good, I was a big fan, and blah blah blah.’ That’s nice stuff, but you hear it a lot. And you just wonder, ‘Can I still do that?’ ” From the outset of their reunion, it was clear that Grainger and Keeler could still do it; Death From Above’s first reunion show at South By Southwest in 2011 caused legitimate riots. Its headlining dates in the United Kingdom that same year sold out almost instantly. But Keeler and Grainger refused to remain in the past, lest Death From Above 1979 become a tired nostalgia act. “The band has to be alive to be worth the time and trouble,” Keeler says. “If we weren’t going to make any more music, we just

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Monster Mush Secret Abilities revel in the horribleness of love. By Kolbie Stonehocker kstonehocker@cityweekly.net @vonstonehocker

owever wonderful it is in the beginning, love sure bites when it ends. Whether your former significant other broke up with you over the phone and then wouldn’t return any of your stuff, or just flat-out stopped returning your calls (not speaking from personal experience at all), the pain that usually accompanies the end of a relationship can be acute enough to make you wish your ex would get eaten by a swarm of the poisonspitting dilophosaurus from Jurassic Park. And except in rare cases, breaking up is “something everyone can relate to, in a way,” says Davin Abegg, songwriter, guitarist and co-lead vocalist of Salt Lake City “awkward-rock” band Secret Abilities. As a result, it’s also the topic of hundreds of songs, usually not without plenty of running mascara, angst and feeeelings. But when Secret Abilities decided to write an album titled Music to Break Up By—out Nov. 22—Abegg didn’t want it to be clichéd, full of “silly love songs or even silly breakup songs,” he says. “I wanted them to be at least interesting.” So instead of stereotypical songs about puppy love and heartache, Music to Break Up By is made up of “spooky stories mostly about dying or getting killed by the person you love,” Abegg says. “Or killing the person you love, but in a fun, goofy way—like a cartoon about it,” he adds, laughing. The recording of Music to Break Up By—Secret Abilities’ fifth official release and their first on vinyl—marks a lot of significant benchmarks in the band’s sevenyear career. The band was invited to record the album at K Records’ Dub Narcotic Studio in Olympia, Wash., and got the opportunity to work with K Records’ owner and producer Calvin Johnson, all of which Abegg says was “honestly a dream come true.” The trip to the Pacific Northwest also gave them the opportunity to do their first tour outside of Utah, in May. Getting to create in a professional studio motivated Secret Abilities to buckle

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down on their sound. When they were first starting out as a band, “I was super into really lo-fi, crappy sound,” Abegg says, but for Music to Break Up By, “I decided it was kind of time for us to grow up a little bit.” They made the album as high-quality as possible, while keeping their “homemade” style, “because I don’t think we’ll ever lose that,” he says. This attention to detail certainly can be heard on Music to Break Up By, but it still has the endearingly ragged edges and dorky energy that makes Secret Abilities such a fun band to listen to. Featuring vocals by Abegg and the fabulously brassyvoiced Tink Safeer, as well as drums by Dave Todd and bass by Justin Behling, Secret Abilities’ combination of pop-punk, surf and throwback rock & roll is the perfect accompaniment to the strange tales of Music to Break Up By. The album begins with “Creepy,” a lusty, lurking number about a guy not keeping his eyeballs to himself. On primal punk track “Werewolf Love,” some unfortunate soul turns into a werewolf and unknowingly chomps the life out of its paramour. The oddly satisfying “Blame Game” is about a girlfriend who catches her fella cheating on her, and after he blames her for what happened, she gets fiery, murder-y revenge (“Now you’ll never make me cry!”). Not all of Music to Break Up By is tonguein-cheek. Abegg wrote one song on the album, “Bad Desire,” as a sincere reflection of his own past heartbreak—now far in the past since he’s been married for 10 years. But most of Music to Break Up By puts a lighthearted spin on the way that dealing with a breakup can turn people into monsters. After all, joking about something awful is the best way to not let it drag you down. CW

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Shook Twins Originally from Sandpoint, Idaho, but now based in Portland, Ore., real-life identical twins Katelyn and Laurie Shook have voices that could charm birds out of trees, making their harmony-rich indie-folk music sweetly beautiful indeed. But although some aspects of their sound are common to folk music—the presence of mandolin, guitar and violin, for example—there’s a lot about Shook Twins’ approach that’s unconventional. Enter their mysterious golden egg. On ShookTwins.com, the duo tell the story of how they received the large egg in 2010, from a guy who said he’d been told to sign the egg and pass it on. Once Katelyn and Laurie accepted it, they turned it into a musical instrument that’s a cross between a drum and a shaker, and they’re now rarely seen without it onstage. The egg plays an especially important roll in their song “Toll Free,” from the Shook Twins’ latest album, What We Do, released in April, and also serves as an eye-catching visual during their live shows. Zach Heckendorf will open. The State Room, 638 S. State, 9 p.m., $15; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com

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Twin Peaks Sometimes music videos lamely don’t at all match their accompanying song, but Twin Peaks’ (no apparent connection to the ’90s cult-classic TV show) video for their track “Flavor” fits its breezy but rocking feel perfectly. In the video, the members of the Chicago band goof off at a pool party and drive around while smoking weed in their tour van, which ends up flying ridiculously off of a cliff and back into the pool they started at. But despite their penchant for cheap beer and van smoking, Twin Peaks make music that’s lighthearted but meaty, and has the grittiness of psych and garage rock but also the catchiness and accessibility of pop. Other stellar tracks on their latest album, Bad Onion, released in the summer, are “Strawberry Smoothie” and “Making Breakfast,” with the great line “Nothing is forever, but don’t let it get you down.” Also on the bill are Los Angeles garage-rock/punk band Criminal Hygiene and local experimental rock band Koala Temple. Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), 8 p.m., $10, KilbyCourt.com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com

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Paper Diamond Prepare yourself for some heavy bass when Alex Botwin, aka Alex B, aka Paper Diamond, hits the stage at Park City Live. With hard-hitting, choppy bass lines and hip-hop inspired hooks, the EDM producer’s style gets every crowd moving. A Paper Diamond show is always full of surprises. He improvises every performance using only an iPad to remix his songs without a prepared setlist, and also doesn’t stick to one genre, bouncing from trap and dubstep to rap and reggae. Local DJ Yada will open. (Nathan Turner) Friday, Nov. 21 @ Park City Live, 427 Main, Park City, 9 p.m., $25, ParkCityLive.com

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he Downtown Salt Lake City Farmers Market may be over, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to pack up your shopping totes just yet. The Winter Market at Rio Grande Depot kicked off just in time for the holidays on November 8th, and will run every other Saturday through April 25th. The Winter Market features more than 60 unique local vendors this season, including four specialty cheese companies, four bakeries, and four natural meat purveyors that offer beef, lamb, pork, eggs and much more. Vendors are set up throughout the mezzanine of the Rio Grande Depot, and the remainder outside under the portico— the area where passengers used to board and depart trains. “We have a custom made enclosure system and a temporary heating system that we designed last year to keep it warm and cozy during the winter months,” stated Alison Einerson, Winter Farmers Market Manager.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “Every saint has a bee in his halo,” said philosopher Elbert Hubbard. Similarly, some Libras have a passive-aggressive streak hidden beneath their harmony-seeking, peace-loving persona. Are you one of them? If so, I invite you to express your darker feelings more forthrightly. You don’t have to be mean and insensitive. In fact, it’s best if you use tact and diplomacy. Just make sure you reveal the fact that there is indeed a bee in your halo. I bet you will ultimately be pleased with the consequences you stir up through your acts of courageous honesty. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Many people use the terms “cement” and “concrete” interchangeably, but they are not the same. Cement is powdery stuff that’s composed of limestone, gypsum, clay with alumino-silicate and other ingredients. It’s just one of the raw materials that is used to make concrete—usually no more than 15 percent of the total mass. The rest consists of sand, crushed stone, and water. Let’s regard this as a good metaphor for you to keep in mind, Scorpio. If you want to create a durable thing that can last as long as concrete, make sure you don’t get overly preoccupied with the “cement” at the expense of the other 85 percent of the stuff you will need. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice,” writes Louise Glück in her poem “The Wild Iris.” I think that will be a key theme for you in the coming weeks. There’s a part of you that is returning from oblivion—making its way home from the abyss—and it will be hungry to express itself when it arrives back here in your regularly scheduled life. This dazed part of you may not yet know what exactly it wants to say. But it is fertile with the unruly wisdom it has gathered while wandering. Sooner rather than later, it will discover a way to articulate its raw truths.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) “There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness,” said American CANCER (June 21-July 22) humorist Josh Billings. I propose that we make that your motto The most important thing you can do in the coming weeks in the coming weeks. It’s an excellent time to liberate yourself is learn how to take care of yourself better. What? You say from memories that still cause you pain—to garner major you’re too busy for that? You have too many appointments and healing from past anguish and upheaval. And one of the best obligations? I disagree. In my astrological opinion, there’s one ways to do that will be to let go of as much blame and rage and task that must trump all others, and that is get smarter about hatred as you possibly can. Forgiveness can be your magic spell. how you eat, sleep, exercise, relax, heal yourself and connect with people. I can assure you that there’s a lot you don’t know AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) about what you really need and the best ways to get what you Denmark has been a pioneer in developing the technology to really need. But you are ripe to become wiser in this subtle, supply its energy needs with wind power. By 2020, it expects to demanding and glorious art. generate half of its electricity from wind turbines. Recently the Danish climate minister also announced his nation’s intention to LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) phase out the use of coal as an energy source within ten years. I Naturalist Greg Munson says that many dragonflies are great would love to see you apply this kind of enlightened long-term acrobats. They are the Cirque du Soleil performers of the animal thinking to your own personal destiny, Aquarius. Now would kingdom. Not only do they eat in mid-air, they also have sex. be an excellent time to brainstorm about the life you want to be While flying, two dragonflies will hook up and bend into a roughly living in 2020 and 2025. It’s also a perfect moment to outline a circular formation to accommodate the idiosyncrasies of their master plan for the next ten years, and commit to it. reproductive organs, thereby forming a “mating pinwheel.” I don’t expect you to achieve quite that level of virtuosity in your own PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) amorous escapades, Leo. But if you’re adventurous, you could very Piscean actor Sir Michael Caine has had an illustrious career. He well enjoy experiences that resemble having sex while flying. has won two Oscars and been nominated for the award six times in five different decades. But for his appearance in Jaws: The VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Revenge, he was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Born under the sign of Virgo, Yuriy Norshteyn is a Russian Worst Supporting Actor. He confessed that his work in that film animator who has won numerous awards. His Tale of Tales was was not his best, and yet he was happy with how much money once voted the greatest animated film of all time. But he hasn’t he made doing it. “I have never seen the film,” he said, “but by finished any new films for quite a while. In fact, he has been working all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that on the same project since 1981, indulging his perfectionism to the it built, and it is terrific.” In accordance with the astrological max. In 33 years, he has only finished 25 minutes’ worth of The omens, Pisces, you have permission to engage in a comparable Overcoat, which is based on a story by Nikolai Gogol. But I predict trade-off during the coming months.

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