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Hunted A family dispute escalated into a four-year poaching prosecution that ended in three deaths and no resolution. By Stephen Dark

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CWCONTENTS COVER STORY By Stephen Dark

The Jensen family say their huge collection of hunting trophies came from decades of hard work. The Division of Wildlife Resources and the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office spent four fruitless years trying to prove otherwise.

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Letters A High Price for Trust

A hallmark of civilization is that we turn to courts to settle disputes. When a people, or a discrete minority, distrust the law, including officers, government and court officials, we pay a high price. An extreme example: A recent PBS program discussed the metastasis of the ISIS organization in Iraq. Experts cite the abuse of the Sunni minority by Iraqi government officials as the inspiration for disgruntled former military officers to join the surprisingly successful ISIS forces. Recent officer-involved shootings remind us to stay engaged in our own governance. If Ferguson teaches anything, it’s that in a free country, when officers take the life of a civilian, it’s always of utmost importance. Many—if not all—of the recent officer-involved shootings deserve deeper consideration, including the recent decision to dismiss the case of the shooting of the unarmed Danielle Willard. Apparently, the attorney general decided not to appeal the extraordinary lower-court decision to dismiss the case, and offered no analysis for the decision. Interested citizens should ask for more. Criminal procedure is the series of formal stages moving a case from accusation to resolution. The Willard case was dismissed at the preliminary-hearing stage. A

WRITE US: Salt Lake City Weekly, 248 S. Main, Salt Lake City, UT 84101. E-mail: comments@cityweekly.net. Fax: 801-575-6106. We reserve the right to edit for length and clarity. Preference will be given to letters that are 300 words or less and sent uniquely to City Weekly. Full name, address and phone number must be included, even on e-mailed submissions, for verification purposes. preliminary hearing is an important protection for the accused against the power of the government. Typically held within weeks of charges being filed, a preliminary hearing provides the citizenry with an early opportunity to hear the charges and the evidence supporting them in a public forum before a neutral judge. The prosecutor must show that there is “probable cause” to believe A. that a crime occurred and B. that a particular defendant committed the crime. The standard is practical, and presents these questions: Prosecutor, what law is violated, and why do you think this person did it? Usually it’s B—whether the accused committed the crime—that’s at issue at a preliminary hearing, but there’s no doubt that the officer shot Willard. Turning to A, the prosecutor must show the law was violated; in most circumstances, this isn’t disputed. In the Willard shooting, however, the judge apparently ruled otherwise. The judge generally will not weigh the evidence before her. The reason for this rule is practical. The case is early, and a jury will have an opportunity to determine culpability at a trial after considering all the evidence. The judge considers the evidence in the light most favorable to the government. This means if any witness or evidence shows a crime occurred, even if the evidence is

doubtful or the witness unpersuasive, the judge accepts the evidence as sufficient to bind the case over for trial. A judge then applies what is known—the facts and the evidence—to the law. Without attending the hearing or reviewing transcripts, discussion of the evidence must be limited to the written decision. Unfortunately, in my view, the decision doesn’t clearly discuss the procedure, law or facts. It’s important that we understand why a judge concluded that no crime occurred when county prosecutors offered substantial evidence otherwise.

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Correction: In “No Country for Bikers” [Nov. 27, City Weekly], an incorrect title was used for Eric Stine, who is the education coordinator for the state of Utah ABATE chapter.

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Our first downtown office in Salt Lake City was in the former Shubrick Building on the corner of West Temple and 400 South. The Shubrick was home to the renowned nightspot Port O’ Call and, at various times, a pet store, a barbershop, a livemusic agency, a tattoo parlor, a caterer, and a cluster of residents in the upstairs apartments. It was a lively area. Today, it’s not so lively, and upon the old Shubrick site sits the most gorgeous and secure mausoleum the world has ever known: the new Federal Courthouse Building. Progress. We moved into that space in 1991, when Palmer DePaulis was mayor of Salt Lake City. DePaulis was appointed mayor in 1985 when the position was vacated by Ted Wilson, who took a position at the University of Utah. Ted, or maybe Wayne Owens, was Utah’s closest version of a Kennedy, an aspiration of many politicians of the 1960s and 1970s—dashing, daring, you know the drill. Since Wilson was first elected in 1976, only Democrats have served in Salt Lake City’s top spot. That’s nearly a 40-year run during which no one can say, “Mormons and Republicans run everything in Utah.” Well, you sort of can, since Wilson and Ross “Rocky” Anderson (SLC mayor from 2000 to 2008) both have LDS roots. It’s unknown if either are on the current membership rolls of the LDS Church and thus part of the uptick in the Mormon populace that was recently reported in The Salt Lake Tribune. DePaulis, Deedee Corradini (SLC mayor from 1992 to 2000), and current Mayor Ralph Becker (since 2008) are not LDS. Indeed, DePaulis was Salt Lake City’s first Catholic mayor. He was later re-elected as mayor (evidence he was doing something right— like planting the seeds of what would become a blossoming downtown, including persuading Utah Jazz owner Larry Miller not to relocate to the suburbs). He has

always been, to his credit and bane, an advocate for the poor and homeless in Salt Lake City. So much so that, if you gave him a robe and a cardinal hat, he’d fit right in at Pope Francis’ morning coffee clatch. It’s to his credit because advocating for, then acting to, the benefit of the homeless, is often a lonely and noble cause; and it’s to his bane because to this day, his efforts to centralize the entire homeless community in a district bounded by Pioneer Park and Rio Grande Street on Salt Lake City’s near west side has flummoxed developers and potential, yet cautious, new residents for decades. The large personalities of Corradini and Anderson blotted out much of whatever accomplishments occurred during their watch. Corradini— architect of The Gateway, advocate of Tra x development, and the seller of a portion of Main Street to the LDS Church—is best remembered as being central to major scandals that lasted her entire two terms: the Olympic bribery scandal, the Bonneville Pacific financial imbroglio that sent her peers to jail, then Giftgate, where she narrowly escaped prosecution herself for the ethical breach of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash from donors to pay off personal debts. Rock y Anderson put the Olympic scandal to rest by becoming chummy with Mitt Romney and was soon the flag-waving beacon of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games. He championed gay and lesbian causes, human rights and drinking rights. I believe he won all those fights. But when the second Gulf War began in 2003, it took Rocky with it. For the next five years, Rocky was less a citizen of Salt Lake City as he was of his outspokenly defined world. “That pothole can wait—President Bush is a traitor and must be tried for war crimes” is a fair summary of everything that Rocky

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said up to 2008, when he decided not to seek a third term. He had the city in the palm of his hands, so popular was he, but he forgot his city was Salt Lake, not Baghdad. Is that a bad thing? Not really. He stood for something, like it or not, same as DePaulis and same as Corradini. Today, I find less fault in what Rocky said, and more in what he did: He opened the door for a mayor to jump in and out of Salt Lake City at his own leisure—a trait Rocky was good at, but one that the emulating Ralph Becker has failed miserably at. Rocky had a strong voice and panache. Ralph has a wonk voice and a bicycle helmet. We were talking a while back about a potential new feature in City Weekly called Where’s Ralph? We’d kind of GPS him all over the place and, of course, the only place you’d never find him would be City Hall. New York? Check. And we’d go, “Glad we found you, Ralph. How’s the vacay? Can you give us an update on the Sugar House rail line? (You like subways better. Got it.) How you feelin’ about the bike lanes on 300 South? (You don’t eat or shop on 300 South anyway. Check.) But your citizens want leadership—why didn’t you paint the first new lane, you know, like tossing the first spade of dirt on a new construction? (Paint is bad for the environment and you had tickets to Kinky Boots.) All right, then, now we’re getting somewhere! Are you ever going to say anything about the escapades going on in your building and on the City Council? No? Why not? Because I don’t need to and, golly, everyone has a skeleton in their closet, right? Thanks, Ralph, final question: Why are you running for mayor again? Why else? To piss off Luke Garrott. Gotta go. It’s intermission. CW Send Private Eye feedback to john@cityweekly.net.

Today, I find less fault in what Rocky said, and more in what he did

What would you want to be known for as mayor of Salt Lake City? Scott Renshaw: The Sword of Righteousness with which I smite all those who try to deny people their basic dignity as human beings. Also, parking tickets in cards that play wacky songs when you open them. Colin Wolf: As mayor of SLC, I will patrol this city with a chariot pulled by city employees riding Green Bikes, and you can be damned sure it’ll fit in the new bike lanes because I’ll make sure those babies are twice as wide. How wide? Wide enough for a 12-bike chariot to do a U-turn.

Jeremiah Smith: Reducing air pollution, for starters. After that, changing the zoning laws so that neighborhood pubs could become a thing all over the city.

Susan Kruithof: Free French Fry Fridays! Handed out at all downtown intersections. No fry sauce, though. F@#k fry sauce. Kolbie Stonehocker: Kitties’ rights, jail time for lazy jerks who don’t clean up after their dogs, and tickets for drivers who pull up into the crosswalks at stop lights.

Bill Frost: The implementation of drivethru liquor stores—or at least bikethru liquor stores, now that cars are outlawed downtown. Sarah Arnoff: The Great Salt Lake Spa & Windsurfing Camp—free and open to the public. Also, bike lanes that are actually functional, not just painted lines on asphalt. Eric S. Peterson: Whittling during press conferences, always referring to myself in the third person, wearing a coon-skin cap everywhere and renaming our fair capital Stink Lake City to discourage out-of-towners from moving in and taking all our parking.

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In 1726, when he was 20, Benjamin Franklin created a list of 13 virtues to live by in order to build his character, including sincerity, frugality and temperance. Although the idea of living virtuously seems archaic nowadays, Teresa Jordan took on the task of living by and noticing these virtues in her daily life. After crafting essays and meditations each week around her experiences with different virtues and vices, Jordan created a book of her experiences called A Year of Living Virtuously: Weekends Off. She’ll be discussing her book at The King’s English (1511 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-484-9100, KingsEnglish.com) on Dec. 9 at 7 p.m.

How did you embark on this experiment of living virtuously?

I had just run across the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, something I read probably in junior high. I was paging through it and found his list of 13 virtues. I’ve done a lot of teaching of writing and I use triggers to get my students free-writing and I’ll throw out a trigger or an idea or a word and it will take them in unexpected ways. I thought I’d set up a series of exercises for myself, and that was a good list to start with. The first couple were really easy, and then it got more interesting and deeper. I really started thinking about these virtues because they certainly pay off in every single one of our lives all the time. I didn’t start out thinking I was going to write a book—I thought it would be something on the side. But in the end it was quite absorbing.

Do you still try to live by the 13 virtues?

I actually finished the experiment a couple of years ago, but it has made real and increasing changes in terms of my life. I have deepened my own spiritual practice because of this book. It’s given me a much larger understanding of the degree to which most of us want to do the right thing, and all sorts of things get in the way. What I kept coming up against over and over was how our over-programmed, over-distracting lives interfere with our ability to get along with each other, to be tolerant of each other, or to even question our own motives and whether or not the way we’re living our lives is in accordance with what we believe our deep-seated values are.

Were you trying to earn a halo by living virtuously for a year?

Trust me, I never thought I was going for moral perfection. I wanted to pay attention. I wanted to think about how virtues and vices play out in ordinary life. I’ve never had much truck or interest in righteousness. I think that the really big problems of the world often derive from someone thinking that they have a handle or that they have a corner on virtue or righteousness. Benjamin Franklin’s virtues are tolerance, tranquility, moderation, humility, silence, order—they’re things that, in the end, are suggesting a way of being like each other, listening to each other, respecting each other.

How do you suggest readers begin their journey to living virtuously?

I think many of us in our daily interactions will come back from an interaction that didn’t go as well as we wish it had. Maybe we got short with our daughter, or a telemarketer called and we sounded so incredibly rude, or a misunderstanding with a friend. Those are real opportunities to get quiet, to ask ourselves what happened, why did we respond in that way, is that the core of the relationship that we want to have with this person, how do we repair it if we have damaged it or if we have in turn felt damaged? Think about the Shakespearean tragedy King Lear. He didn’t commit genocide, he wasn’t a murderer. He was hungry for flattery from his daughters, he wouldn’t listen to his best friend—these are things that happen over our dinner table every single night. That, to me, is the place where you start to look at virtue and vice.

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Rocky III Looks like there will be some real choices in the next Salt Lake City mayoral election—old and new. But the “old” could make things interesting. Former Mayor Rock y Anderson is looking at another run, mainly because he’s dissatisf ied with Ralph Becker’s leadership. Let’s talk air pollution: Anderson says the city needs the vigor and innovativeness he provided. Summer youth programs? They’re gone. Expanding open spaces? Oops, Becker wants more development, and remember when he proposed losing open space around the library? Parking issues are big, too, and Anderson says recent changes have been disastrous for local businesses. Move over, Luke Garrott and other potential candidates: Rocky is in the wings.

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No surprise here: Utah was third lowest in the nation in voter turnout. Commenters on The Salt Lake Tribune website seemed to know why: “With the most gerrymandered districts in the country, the most autocratic state government in the country, a theocracy controlling every aspect of the election and with the outcomes pre-ordained, WHY BOTHER?” OK, this sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy—or an excuse. Contested races seem to draw the most voters, but Utah is a state where civility is prized over dialogue. And it’s not all about Democrats, many of whom seem unmotivated or uninterested in the system. Republicans aren’t voting, either. It’s really about numbers. Races have been lost by as little as one vote. The issue is how to make voters believe they count.

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Speaking of Rocky, he was up front with some 200 protesters demonstrating against police br uta lit y—more specifically, police killings in the wake of Ferguson. The Trib reported that Utah police killings outpaced deaths by gangs or domestic partners, and President Obama has called for more body cameras, a task force on police practices, a report on police militarization, and has issued an order for guidelines on the use of military equipment. But body cams can’t take the place of good police training. “I also think that, instead of Ferguson (where the shooting circumstances are a much closer call), the focus should be on Saratoga Springs,” Anderson says. “The video makes it all so outrageous—a young man running from police officers shot six times in the back!”

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STRAIGHT DOPE Traffic Jam You’ve already tackled the question of whether penis size differs by race [Jan. 11, 1985]. Now I’ve got another question concerning a racial stereotype: I’m sure almost everyone has heard a stereotype about bad driving— the most common being that Asians are bad drivers, but I’ve heard the same said about almost every race. I personally think bad driving is universal. Although car-insurance companies openly discriminate based on age and gender, I don’t think they are allowed to do so based on race—but I bet they still have the figures to prove whether racial stereotypes about bad driving are true or not. What’s the straight dope? Do certain races stand out as worse drivers than others? —Jim, Baltimore I’m always happy to answer the questions of such a well-read individual. You’re right about auto insurance—companies aren’t allowed to openly discriminate based on race. However, they can vary their prices by zip code, which often ends up having the same effect: car-insurance customers in largely black Detroit, for instance, may pay twice as much as those in the whiter suburbs that surround it. Is this based on some secret set of data, collected by an army of Edward Norton-in-Fight Club types, showing that minorities are worse drivers? As with the Vatican’s porn collection, we can’t prove it’s not there. Looking at public data, however, we’ve arrived at different conclusions. The most reliable information comes from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which has recorded traffic fatalities by race since 1999 (also providing in the process a record of American bureaucracy’s often awkward struggle to label ethnic groups consistently). The evidence shows that first of all, this is a pretty significant issue: driving accidents are the leading cause of death for all races ages 4 to 34 (the 4-year-olds were passengers, not drivers, before you start getting smart). That said, in 2006 (for example) the crash fatality rates for the Hispanic, white, and African American populations were very similar— 12.27, 12.50, and 12.31 deaths per 100,000 people, respectively. The real differences show up with Asians—whose fatality rate was only 4.00 deaths per 100,000—and Native Americans, whose rate was more than twice the national average, at 31.17. Much of this has to do with alcohol use. Asians consistently have lower rates of heavy and binge drinking than any other minority population, while those rates among Native Americans are much higher. (For the record, whites have easily the highest rates of overall alcohol use.) As a consequence, more than half of Native American driving fatalities occurred when the driver was inebriated. For Asians, this number was barely above 20 percent. This doesn’t account for less serious but still unsafe driving practices like speeding. Unlike the clear-cut facts of driving fatalities, however, data involving police practices allows much more room for subjectivity and

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bias. For instance, Justice Department statisticians tell us that in 2011, black drivers were more likely to get stopped by police than white, Hispanic and Asian drivers, and blacks were also more often ticketed. However, among all drivers stopped, they were also the most likely to be allowed to proceed without receiving a ticket—arguably suggesting that police more often stop black drivers without evidence of wrongdoing. In any case, evidence supporting the idea that Asians are bad drivers is remarkably difficult to come by. Researchers at the University of Sydney reported in 2010 that among drivers aged 25 and younger, the crash risk of Asian-born drivers is actually about half that of Australian-born drivers. Lest readers immediately lampoon the native-born Australians for being too liberal with the Foster’s, these results were replicated in a 2011 Canadian study, where researchers found that recent immigrants (largely from China and India) were 40 to 50 percent less likely than long-term residents to be involved in a crash. So where does this clearly delusional fear of Asians in cars come from? Perhaps because driving in Asia, regardless of your ethnicity, is legitimately terrifying. It’s believed that more than 150,000 people die annually as a result of road accidents in India alone. (Which honestly may not sound like a lot in a country of 1.24 billion, but think of it this way: according to one estimate, India has 1 percent of the world’s motor vehicles but 15 percent of the traffic fatalities.) That’s likely a result of the fact that Asian countries are among the fastest-developing in the world, meaning more and more people are owning vehicles—in Southeast Asia, the number of registered vehicles has jumped by nearly a third in just four years. These cars are often crammed with far more people than in longindustrialized countries, resulting in more deaths when they crash. Road infrastructure and traffic-safety regulations in most countries have also not kept up with the increased traffic. The bad-Asian-driver myth can now be classified as (if I may say so) officially debunked. Shall we consolidate the information here with the data we already have about racial differences to see if penis size correlates with risky road behavior? Maybe next week. Send questions to Cecil via StraightDope. com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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NEWS Out With It After weeks of silence, SLC council members disclose relationship. By Colby Frazier cfrazier@cityweekly.net @colbyfrazierlp Salt Lake City Council members Erin Mendenhall and Kyle LaMalfa released separate statements to The Salt Lake Tribune last week disclosing that they are in a relationship. In the story, Mendenhall, who is married, said she made the decision to reveal her relationship with LaMalfa to protect against what she called an “ongoing invasion of privacy.” The Tribune story was published the day after Thanksgiving—two weeks after City Weekly first wrote of the council members’ affair. The council members’ statements were also posted to their respective campaign websites. Both say that the relationship will not negatively impact their jobs at City Hall, and that it has not done so in the past. Neither says when the relationship began, though Mendenhall wrote that she has been in the process of separating from her husband for the past “several months.” In his statement, LaMalfa said meeting Mendenhall caused his life to take an “unexpected turn.” “Recently, myself and fellow council member Erin Mendenhall developed a fondness for one another,” LaMalfa’s statement says. “Publicly disclosing our feelings is not required by law but seems appropriate to acknowledge, given that we are elected officials.” Mayor Ralph Becker, who on Monday announced his intent to run for a third term, declined to comment on the situation. District 4 councilman Luke Garrott, the council’s vice chair, says LaMalfa and Mendenhall disclosed to the council that they were involved in a relationship before City Weekly’s initial story—which he says was appropriate and appreciated. Garrott, who is running against Becker in the mayoral race, says that for workplace morale, it’s always better to have information like a co-worker relationship out in the open rather than concealed. “I think they did the right thing there,” Garrott says of their disclosure to fellow council members. “Because it will affect the work environment one way or another. If you’re keeping it from people, that would be weird.” City Weekly’s story relied on multiple anonymous sources who disclosed and

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“They are good people and earnest council members, but their relationship will make it difficult to be as effective as their constituents deserve.”

confirmed the affair. The story touched off a wave of comments on social media and comment boards proclaiming that the situation wasn’t newsworthy and accusing the paper of erring in its decision to shed light on a private matter between two public officials. Even the initial headline of the Tribune article was the ambiguous “Are romantic ties on Salt Lake City Council entanglements?” before being updated to “Romantic relationship between Salt Lake City Council members raises concerns,” an echo of City Weekly’s initial article. Interviews with former politicians, government employees and university professors make it clear that the relationships harbored by elected officials are of interest to the people, districts and cities they represent. And in this case, the relationship is occurring between two members of a seven-member council charged with directing the course of the city’s future. Every Tuesday evening, they sit behind the dais at city hall and cast votes that impact every single citizen of Salt Lake City. They take trips—on the taxpayer’s dime—to conventions and other meetings at which they are entrusted to represent the city. And the council chair and vice chair—elected at the beginning of the year—set the agendas for council meetings, a function that could make the difference between a council member’s project receiving timely debate or being punted from discussion and not heard at all. Mendenhall, who’s in her first year on the council, represents the city’s 5th District. She has championed efforts to clean the Salt Lake Valley’s polluted air. LaMalfa, who represents the 2nd District, has advocated for redevelopment on the city’s west side. He has also spearheaded efforts to reinvigorate that community through events, like a farmers market. In September, Mendenhall and LaMalfa traveled to Minneapolis for a public-transit conference called RailVolution. The four-day conference cost $1,660 per attendee, including $225 per-night hotel rooms. Because the conference was not one of the city council’s pre-authorized trips, the decision to send the council members came through a discussion with the rest of the council. “Council members LaMalfa and Mendenhall have expressed interest in going,” minutes from the meeting state. Council members aren’t required to issue a full report after attending conferences. None was given about this year’s RailVolution conference. As their relationship progressed, Mendenhall says, she and LaMalfa sought legal advice. “Before we took any steps to further this, we brought it before the city attorney to consult on

—J.T. Martin, former Salt Lake City councilman for District 6

Salt Lake City Council members Erin Mendenhall and Kyle LaMalfa have “developed a fondness for one another,” according to a statement from LaMalfa. possible legal or ethical issues related to the matter, and we have been advised that there are none,” her statement says. Soren Simonsen, who represented District 7 on the Salt Lake City Council from 2006 to 2013, says that he is friends with both Mendenhall and LaMalfa and has complete confidence in their leadership. While he could not speak to the specifics of their relationship, he did, however, say it wouldn’t need to be disclosed to the public, since there are many kinds of relationships among council members that could impact their votes that are not aired publicly. “I think any kind of relationship has the potential to influence anything we do, whether it’s a relationship with a [campaign] donor, a relationship with a family member,” Simonsen says. “The [city’s] conf lict-of-interest policy is clear that the conflicts of the greatest concern are those that have a personal financial angle. I don’t think this is of any more concern than if there are two council members that are drinking buddies or golfing buddies that talk to each other every day.” But for former councilman J.T. Martin, who represented District 6 until 2011, the element of romance changes the equation when it comes to relationships. “Romantic relationships are intense and emotional,” Martin says via e-mail. “Romantic relationships make people react and think differently than they do in non-romantic relationships.” Martin says that council members should have good working relationships but at an “arm’s length” distance that won’t compromise council members’ independent decision-making. While Martin is sympathetic to LaMalfa and Mendenhall and the effect this news has had on them and their

families, he also says that elected officials should expect that details of their private lives will be made public—especially a relationship like this. “Like it or not, that’s the way it is,” Martin says. And now that it’s out in the open, he says, the council should address concerns head-on. “I believe there needs to be a public council discussion on the concerns some have, and to have a candid discussion to try and pave a positive path forward,” Martin says. Martin says that even if the relationship doesn’t lead to actual conflicts that affect leadership elections or council business, it has created a perceived conflict that could hurt the work of both LaMalfa and Mendenhall. “I wish them both the best. I believe they are good people and earnest council members, but their relationship will make it difficult to be as effective as their constituents deserve,” Martin says. “A cloud will follow both of them the remainder of their tenure in the council. It is not right or fair, but it is a fact.” Three-term city councilman Van Turner, who was bested by LaMalfa in 2011, says that knowing about a romantic relationship between a pair of council colleagues could help prevent accusations of corruption down the road. Alliances are often formed between council members who think alike, he says, and an affair would constitute yet another instance where a close relationship could end up impacting council business. Turner, who still operates his flower shop on California Avenue, says the job of a council member boils down to saying “yes and no.” But how one reaches those answers is the hard part. “Now, how did I get to that yes or no and did I do it legitimately?” Turner

What becomes problematic, he says, is when elected officials try to “cover things up.” “If legislators come out and say, ‘It’s true, this is what I did,’ typically voters don’t care about legislators’ private lives,” he says. Susan Gard, chief of policy for the human-resources department with the city and county of San Francisco, says supervisors must report any romantic relationships they have with subordinates. Following disclosure, the subordinate answers to a different boss. Gard says this protects the city from liability when claims of sexual harassment are made. But when the affair was between a city employee and an elected official—in this case Supervisor John Avalos—who doesn’t have a boss to report to, Gard says, it quickly became evident that a gap existed in the city’s plan. To close this gap, Gard says, her department is proposing that elected officials disclose their affairs to the clerk of the board. In the case of an affair between a pair of elected officials, the two are on equal footing, Gard says, so they would not be forced to disclose the relationship. Even so, Gard says, city policies encouraging employees to avoid the appearance of favoritism and nepotism might apply. “When you are elected to public office, you are serving the public’s trust,” she says. “And if you don’t have the public’s trust, you’re not going to effectively be able to do your job.” CW Eric S. Peterson contributed to this story.

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says. “Somehow, you’ve got to get there, walk out of that meeting and feel good about what you did.” As far as city statutes are concerned, there are no requirements that elected officials, or anyone else who works for the city, disclose when they are engaged in relationships with co-workers. Matthew Burbank, an associate professor of political science at the University of Utah, says the lack of official statutes in Salt Lake City—and Utah state government, for that matter—isn’t surprising for a state that often chooses the latter when faced with regulating versus not regulating. But Burbank says there is little doubt that a relationship between a pair of city council members should be disclosed to anyone engaging politically with the duo. “Anybody who dealt with the council politically would want to know that information,” he says. The absence of a city policy regarding relationships between employees veers far from the city of San Francisco, where an affair in July between an elected county supervisor and a city employee sparked talk of reform. Corey Cook, an associate professor of political science at the University of San Francisco, says a relationship between two council members might not pose a problem so long as they’re not accused of trading votes or other corruption. Absent that, two elected officials could continue a relationship without any concerns—especially if that relationship is made public, Cook says.

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Music, Water and Books This week, you can donate that iPod you stopped using when you decided to finance your new iPhone 6 to help people with Alzheimer’s disease. Then drop in on the Utah Department of Water Resources board meeting, where millions of dollars in water projects are being discussed, including refurbishing an old dam in the Uintah Mountains. You can also attend the Salt Lake City Main Library’s Holiday Celebration and pick up some new reads at the book sale.

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The headphone company Skullcandy has donated $100,000 in headphones that will be distributed to folks living with Alzheimer’s and other cognitive diseases. The Music & Memory Utah Coalition, administered by the Utah Commission on Aging, now needs a bunch of iPods to go with them. Mail or drop off new or used iPods at Salt Lake City and Park City locations of the Jewish Family Service of Utah. Jewish Family Service, 111 E. Brickyard Road, Suite 218, Salt Lake City, 801-746-4334; 650 Round Valley Drive, Park City, 435-640-6607, Aging.Utah.edu

Utah Division of Water Resources Board Meeting  Thursday, Dec. 4

In addition to receiving an update on the Lake Powell pipeline project, the water resources board will be contemplating several water projects, including a request from the Dry Gulch Irrigation Company to spend $1.2 million—$1 million of which will be paid by taxpayers and bought back by the company at 1 percent interest over 25 years—to repair a dam at Atwood Lake in the High Uintah Wilderness Area.   Department of Natural Resources auditorium, 1594 W. North Temple, 801-535-7230, Dec. 4, 10 a.m., Water. Utah.gov

Friends of the City Library Holiday Book Sale  Saturday, Dec. 6

You’re going to buy a bunch of books this holiday season anyway; might as well start off at the Salt Lake City Main Library’s book sale, occurring instep with the library’s annual holiday celebration. Other events include a performance by the Utah Symphony and a Frozen sing-along. Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, Dec. 6, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., SLCPL.org/events

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s an investigator for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources videotaped the collection of dozens of mounted mule-deer heads, antlers and other wildlife trophies on the walls of her home on Oct. 6, 2009, Angella Jensen denounced her husband, her two oldest sons and her brother-in-law as the worst poachers in Utah history.

“That particular deer came out by Dugway,” she told investigator Jerry Schlappi, “ ’proximately five years ago.” Schlappi asked who got the deer. “Oh, my husband, Gerald D. Jensen,” she replied. In season or out of season? “Out of season.” She accused her family not only of illegally hunting deer as far back as the 1980s, during and after the November rut—when mating distracts the animals from eluding hunters—but also practicing what she called “hack-a-rack,” essentially cutting off the antlers, lodging them in the branches of a tree, leaving the carcass to rot, and then returning for the horns months later, the weather having by then turned evidence of a fresh kill into just another set of antlers. On Jan. 3, 2010, investigators from DWR and the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office served search warrants at Angella’s home and those of Angella’s brother-in-law, Robert Jensen, and Angella and Gerald’s son Jerry Jr., seizing 90 mule-deer heads and antlers. Five months later, Robert and Gerald Jensen, Gerald’s oldest two sons, and Angella—whose multiple interviews had implicated her in the poaching—were arrested and each charged with up to 20 various counts, including racketeering. Four years later, the multiple prosecutions of poaching-related charges had been dismissed, the charges of witness tampering that had been filed during prosecution were pleaded out as diversions—“Basically a slow-motion surrender by the state,” says Robert Jensen’s attorney, Colleen Coebergh—and two defense attorneys and a judge had died as the case inched its way through the legal system. Three members of the Jensen family were also dead. Robert and Gerald’s sister, Jackie, committed suicide. Her grieving father died soon after, followed by Angella. All three were casualties, the Jensens say, of a wild goose chase that was initially driven by Angella’s spite over her divorce from Gerald but soon took on an unstoppable power as the prosecution pressured family members to turn on each other,

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“Six defendants, 75 counts, over 4 years, 0 convictions.”

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imposed no-contact orders between family members and offered plea deals that defense counsel viewed as little more than extortion. All this was despite DA investigator Dirk Watrous telling a witness who was concerned about Angella’s safety in early 2010, “These are poached deer, for god’s sake, we don’t want someone getting hurt over those.” Jerry Jr.’s defense attorney, Patrick Coram, calls the Jensen prosecutions “very, very unusual.” He cites the “hot and heavy” pressure DWR brought early in the case and the fact that in four years of prosecution, his client never had a preliminary hearing. But most unusual, Coram says, was that the Jensens were charged under Utah’s equivalent of the federal RICO statute, something usually reserved for going after “mobsters, high level drug dealers or organized prostitution, not a bunch of family members that [were] allegedly poaching,” And the Jensens say that Vincent Meister—a veteran prosecutor at the Salt Lake County DA’s Office who has himself run afoul of wildlife laws—was so determined to break the family in order to get plea deals that he hounded Jackie until she killed herself. Robert’s attorney Coebergh sums up the net result, after so much effort and expense: “Six defendants, 75 counts, over 4 years, 0 convictions.” Robert’s eyes darken as he talks about how Jackie’s death changed him and his family. Before her death, he says, he had contemplated taking a plea deal to avert financial disaster and prison. But when Jackie hanged herself, a line was drawn. “I wasn’t guilty,” he says. “It really brings my blood pressure up that somebody can intimidate me to say I did something I didn’t do. I don’t care if it costs me everything. There ain’t no stinking pleas coming out of this. I’d rather go to prison than be bullied by Vincent Meister.”

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Gerald D. Jensen—known just as Jerry—met Angella when he was 16. “I found somebody I loved,” Jerry says. They had three boys, split up twice acrimoniously, then got back together. “We had our problems, mainly from me drinking,” Jerry says. In late summer 2009, Angella was reunited with the son

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she’d been forced to give up when he was a baby, fathered by someone other than Jerry when she was a teenager. Then 28, Ryan Robinson was a convicted felon with forgery and drugrelated convictions, but for Angella, the reappearance of her son after a lifetime apart was an opportunity to make amends by bringing him into her family. “I think it tore her up her entire life she wasn’t able to raise him,” Angella’s son Jerry Jr. says. Robinson is currently in jail awaiting trial on charges that he murdered his girlfriend in 2012. Robinson’s presence in the Jensen home and his drug habits drove a wedge between Angella and her husband and her two oldest sons. In August 2009, two of Angella’s sons, Jerry’s brother, Robert, and other members of their families signed affidavits condemning her violent behavior after she threw her husband out of the house. In mid-September, one of Angella’s sisters e-mailed a DWR investigator requesting immunity for Angella in exchange for information on the Jensen family. “I believe that this will be the biggest poaching case that the state of Utah has ever processed,” she wrote. On Oct. 7, 2009, Angella and Robinson went to downtown Salt Lake City to meet with prosecutor Vincent Meister. Meister joined the DA’s Office in 1987 as a law clerk, and rose through the ranks to head the gang unit before his current position as a homicide prosecutor. One prosecutor describes him as “a gifted courtroom attorney. He’s able to connect with juries. He has an everyman quality.” Some defense attorneys are less impressed, however. In several high-profile long-running homicide trials, his ethical behavior became the focus of motions and hearings as to whether he had intentionally misled the defense. “For whatever reason, for Vince, the end justifies the means, and that’s a very dangerous approach to prosecuting and enforcing the law,” says Kent Hart, executive director of the Utah Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. “Because mistakes

In a June 30, 2010, notarized letter to Meister, Robert and Gerald’s father, Gerald Jensen Sr., noted that DWR investigator Schlappi did not believe that a hunter could possess so many trophies through legal means. “They hunt harder than most; that’s how you get a trophy,” he wrote, adding that his sons have “been collecting horns and sheds since they were youngsters. It was their hobby, their passion.” As the brothers grew up, they dedicated every weekend they could come the mid-October legal hunting season to camping out in the West Desert, looking for “the smart bucks with big antlers that are really hard to kill,” Robert says. The brothers also passed their passion for hunting onto their children. Gerald D. Jensen’s son Jerry Jr. recalls how he claimed his first buck when he was 14. He was on top of a mountain, he says, and had just told his uncle “we’re not going to see crap; then out popped a three-point. I missed two shots at him, then I calmed down, put a good shot on him and knocked him down.” In his letter to Meister, Gerald Sr. described how his sons “spent months every year watching deer in their natural habitats; then they would purchase legal licenses and go hunting as is their right.” After scouting for mature bucks, they’d usually be successful in their quest to shoot one. Then they’d notch the tag—tying the day’s tag to the antler—field-dress their kill, pack out the meat and take the “cape” [the skin from the head] and antlers to a taxidermist. Gerald D. Jensen says mounting a head “shows respect to the animal. You like to remember the deer and when you got him. It brings back all the memories, all the work it takes to get them.”

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will result, and innocent people will be affected.” Meister dismisses such criticism as based on “hearsay of hearsay.” Meister has had his own brushes with wildlife violations, in his home state Wyoming. In 2001, a game warden cited him for purchasing fishing, black bear, deer and elk licenses while claiming to be a Wyoming resident, securing a much cheaper price than an out-of-state hunter. Meister pleaded no contest to 10 counts of taking wildlife on improper licenses, and paid $4,000 in restitution. That same year, he notes, Utah DWR named him prosecutor of the year. “Kind of ironic,” he says. In Angella Jensen, DWR and the DA’s Office were convinced they had found a treasure trove of information regarding generations of one family’s poaching. Meister says the consistency of the detail she gave over several interviews led them to believe she was truthful. But Angella and Jerry reconciled in late 2009, and in December, she stopped returning investigators’ phone calls. In the face of Angella’s silence, the state decided to accelerate its plans.

READY TO CRACK Robert and his wife, Wendy, were in church on the first Sunday in January 2010 when he got a text from his daughter telling him, he recalls, “you better get home, Fish & Game is going to kick your door down.” DWR and the DA’s Office had served search warrants on Robert and Jerry’s homes and Jerry Jr.’s rented apartment.

When Robert and his wife got to their South Salt Lake house, they found DWR and DA investigators surrounding their property. Among the DWR officials, to the Jensens’ surprise, was DWR conservation officer Holly Riddle, someone Robert had socialized with during the time his sister, Jackie, had dated Riddle’s father-in-law. DWR seized 29 mounted heads and antlers from Robert’s house, lining them up on the front lawn. At Angella and Jerry’s residence, they found not only heads, but also a marijuana plant and some guns in a hidden safe. The same day the search warrants were executed, DWR investigator Brad Probst pulled Jerry Jr. out of work at a local pet store and interviewed him in his truck. He told the 20-year-old that other family members were blaming him for some of the poaching. Jerry Jr. said his mounted heads came from “hiking my ass off and busting deer out of cedar trees and putting halfway decent shots on them.” Probst told him he knew he was nervous. “You’re getting a little bit dry-mouthed, kind of thirsty, ready to crack just a little bit.” Jerry Jr. was silent, then said he’d been with his father when he was 16 on a chukkar hunt one December and his dad shot a deer. Four years later, Jerry Jr. says he was frightened they were going to arrest him and gave them something he knew was false and that others had witnessed being legally killed. DWR investigators had found that Angella had applied for multiple hunting permits under Jackie Jensen’s name. Jackie told investigators that she had legally killed a deer and an antelope, and was so upset by it that she cried all the way home. But investigators believed it was her brothers who had dispatched the animals, illegally using her tags. And in the fragile Jackie, they spied a weak link in her brothers’ steadfast refusal to admit any wrongdoing. Short and delicate—weighing just 93 pounds—Jackie dealt with her multiple sclerosis while singlehandedly raising her 5-year-old son. Jackie was also caring for her mother, Patricia, who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. In February 2010, the DWR’s Riddle went to Jackie’s home. “I want to talk to you as a friend,” she said, without informing Jackie that she was recording the conversation.

Riddle said she knew Jackie was a dog and pig lover— Jackie had a potbellied pig called Lulu that routinely got into the fridge after chocolate pudding. “You didn’t shoot them, hon, we know that,” Riddle said, referring to the two animals Jackie had told the authorities she’d killed. Jackie struggled with what she wanted to say, then told Riddle she preferred to talk to her attorney first. Riddle could not be reached for comment. In February, investigators also interviewed Robert Jensen. “A firestorm’s coming,” they told him. But Robert was adamant: “I guarantee you will never have a witness take the stand who’s ever seen me poach deer. You don’t have it. There’s not one piece of DNA evidence on one of my racks. It’s not there. There’s no gun ballistics. There’s no illegal pictures. If they can prosecute on that, I don’t know how.” One of the investigators said that “your average hunter … might have one or two good trophy bucks in their whole life.” When the jury saw the number of heads Robert and his brother had, it would depict them in a bad light, the investigator said. “It can paint a picture all it wants,” Robert replied. “It’s a hearsay baloney case. I ain’t flipping on anybody; there’s nothing to flip on.” In March, Robert says, Meister called him at his shop, urging him to make a deal. When he declined, Meister told him his brother’s house was “like a wildlife museum.” Robert responded that their father had given them twothirds of the heads. Meister said that if Gerald Sr. had “the guts to take the stand,” he’d prosecute him, too. Meister denies ever speaking to Robert. “I have never talked to Robert L. Jensen in court or otherwise.” A few weeks later, on April 15, 2010, Watrous and a DWR investigator went to see Jackie. They urged her to cooperate, to “come clean” about the two animals she said she killed, to “save yourself some grief before we file charges.” One accused her of lying. “It feels to me like you guys want me to lie and that’s what you’re here for,” she told them. “It bothers me. I’m not going to lie. I’m not going to change my story.” Regardless, the investigators told her, they were going to charge her with obstruction of justice.

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On April 27, 2010, Robert Jensen and his brother, Jerry, along with Jerry’s wife, Angella, and their sons Jerry Jr. and Robert Tyler Jensen, were charged with 19 felonies and one misdemeanor, ranging from wanton destruction of a protected species to racketeering. Two days later, all five were in jail, Robert on bail of $150,007 and Jerry on bail of $225,000—amounts typically associated with homicides or defendants with high-flight risk. At their arraignment, the five co-defendants shuffled into court in orange jumpsuits, shackled wrist and ankle. “Meister acted like I was the boss of a crime family,” Jerry says. It was only when Jerry saw the probable-cause statement that he learned his wife had been DWR’s informant. He says Angella told him, “I don’t know why I did this. It’s ruined our lives.” Angella and Jerry lost their home shortly after they went to jail. Meister convinced several judges hearing different cases involving the family to agree to no-contact orders. Robert and Jerry could no longer talk to each other, or to their sister, mother

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On July 20, 2010, DWR investigator Schlappi and the DA’s Watrous interviewed John Peterson, Jackie’s widower. They’d been married just six months. Peterson told them that Jackie’s brothers had removed him from his motherin-law’s home, and that Jackie had committed suicide “due to the pressure and intimidation place[d] on her by her brothers […] to lie to law enforcement regarding her involvement in hunting activities,” an investigator wrote in his report. He told the investigators that Jackie had told him “she had gone with her brothers on a couple of hunts and they tried to get her to shoot a deer, but she wouldn’t, so they shot it and used her tag.” The day after the interview, a DWR lieutenant served a search warrant at Jackie’s home, looking for antlers and a tape of one of the hunts Jackie took part in that Peterson said he had buried in the backyard. Officers found only “holes that looked fairly recent.” On July 22, 2010, Meister called Robert’s attorney, Michael Cooper, and in a recorded conversation included in Robert’s discovery, complained about the “monstrous and unfair” claims in the affidavits of him bullying Jackie. Meister said he had “co-defen-

Before the state prosecuted the Jensens, they first had to put Angella on trial in order to, through acquittal or conviction, remove her Fifth Amendment privilege against selfincrimination, “so that she would be available to be called at Mr. Jensen’s trial,” wrote Coebergh in a 2014 motion. The others had to wait to have their preliminary hearings until Angella’s case was over. Her case became bogged down in continuances, sought by both the state and the defense. While Meister says the state asked for only one continuance, at one hearing no one from the DA’s Office even showed up, resulting in a judge awarding attorney’s fees to the defense, only for that order to be subsequently vacated. The wait dragged on and on, grinding at the defendants’ nerves. “I wanted a prelim,” Jerry Jr. says, but Meister kept putting it off. The prosecutor had surgery, he was out of town, “and the judges kept on letting him do it,” he says. “I wanted to move on with my life ... if you’re going to convict me, frigging convict me, just be done with it.” In July 2011, Gerald Jensen Sr. died at the age of 67. He’d gone to the hospital for minor surgery, Robert says, then died within the week from a heart attack. His children believe he never got over Jackie’s death. “He told me Jackie’s up there by herself,” Robert’s wife, Wendy, says. “If something was going to happen to him, he wouldn’t mind being with Jackie again.” In February 2013, after Angella’s trial was postponed for a fourth time, Judge

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Jackie found the isolation imposed by the no-contact orders brutal. “Her brothers have always lived close and been her moral support and all the sudden she didn’t have them, so meanwhile you kept the pressure on her regardless of her state of health and mind,” her father, Gerald Jensen Sr., wrote to Meister. Neighbors and friends wrote 10 affidavits attesting to Meister’s harassment of Jackie. Brenda Dais, Jackie’s neighbor since 1992, wrote that twice she witnessed Jackie’s stress and panic after being threatened by Meister. “One time it was to the point that I could hear him screaming at her [on the phone] that he was going to put her ass in jail, take away her son if she did not tell the truth about her brothers,” the affidavit states. In the early hours of June 24, 2010, Jackie climbed into the branches of a tree overlooking the back of her mother’s home and hanged herself. Jackie’s death scarred the family, Jerry says. Their mother “went downhill very fast after Jackie died,” Jerry says. “Her mind was completely gone after six months. I don’t think she could bear losing Jackie.” Their father could not contain his rage against Meister and Schlappi. In his notarized letter, Gerald Jensen Sr. wrote, “Tomorrow I’m going to bury my daughter who never hurt a soul in her life. I guess that would be a win for you. 1 down, 5 to go.”

dants in murder cases who are not as big as pricks as these guys are.” He added that “these people clearly believe we are Satan. It’s a burden I’m willing to carry.” He hadn’t even started with them, he advised Cooper. “They haven’t even seen me be zealous yet.” After Cooper—since deceased—urged his client to take a plea deal of two thirddegree felonies, 90 days in jail, and $8,000 in restitution, Robert hired former prosecutor and veteran child-welfare defense attorney Colleen Coebergh. She reviewed his discovery and told him, “Don’t take a misdemeanor [plea deal], don’t take anything. I can’t believe the prosecutor took this.” In late October 2010, Watrous filed charges alleging witness tampering against the brothers over six-month-old jail calls the state had recorded, and had Robert and Jerry arrested and jailed with bail set at $150,007. Coebergh says the bail was set so high “in direct response to Robert Jensen’s refusal to take a deal.” Robert used insurance money from Jackie’s death to bail out within hours of being arrested. Without that money, he says, he would have been forced to take a plea deal or lose the family business, American Saw & Hammer, which Robert has worked at since age 16 and later bought and staffed with his brother, nephews, wife, daughter and son-in-law.

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Ann Boyden dropped the no-contact order, which had been in place for three years. “It had just been going on for so long,” says Angella and Jerry’s son Robert Tyler. “It was terrible, it was unreal. The worst thing ever not being able to talk to your own family, not being able to see them for birthdays.”

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By November 2013, with her fifth jury trial setting pending, the stress from the legal proceedings was aggravating Angella’s chronic ulcers. Jerry Jr. brought her food on the night of Nov. 15, 2013, and told her she should go to hospital, but she refused. Early on the morning of Nov. 16, Robert Tyler checked on his mother to find she had died. She was 47. The family says that in court, the state referred to her death as a suicide, but the medical examiner later ruled it an accidental overdose of doctor-prescribed drugs. Jerry says he lost 60 pounds in the ensuing months and attempted suicide several times. Despite their often tumultuous relationship, he says, he thought, “We’d always stay together. I can’t even express it.” With Angella dead, the prosecutions on the 2010 poaching charges could move forward. Robert’s preliminary hearing was set for April 15, 2014. Ten days before the hearing, Meister and coprosecutor Stephen Nelson wrote to Coebergh that “the death of Angella has negatively impacted the prosecution of the wildlife case.” They continued, “While we feel the family has lost enough, we are not willing to walk away completely from these cases.” If Robert Jensen pleaded to two class A misdemeanors on aiding or abetting the wanton destruction of protected wildlife, then all other charges against him would be dismissed, including a Dec. 2010 case filed against his wife for obstruction of justice relating to a May 2010 jail phone call. Robert said no deal. In a letter to Meister, Coebergh wrote, “I really have no idea what interest the state has in more delay in this case, but it is clear that that is the tactic.” On May 14, 2014, Meister dismissed the wildlife charges against Robert and Jerry Jensen, and Jerry’s sons Jerry Jr. and Robert Tyler, and agreed to diversions on Jerry’s charges of obstructing justice and witness tampering. That still left Robert Jensen’s witness-tampering charges, set for an August hearing. Jerry Jr. received a call from his legal defender attorney Patrick Coram. “You’re done. Case dismissed.” His face lights up as he remembers. “Oh boy, I was freaking excited.” He went to Robert Tyler’s work, the two of them jumping up and down, hugging each other. “It was like Christmas day,” Jerry Jr. says. “It’s better; it’s hunting.” That, however, was not the end of it

for the brothers. In September 2014, four months after the cases against them were dismissed, Meister filed motions that they would forfeit their deer heads as part of a plea deal relating to the dismissals. Two days later, Judge Boyden signed off on it. While Meister finds “a measure of justice” in Jerry Jr. and Robert Tyler’s forfeited heads, this agreement was news to the brothers and also to Coram, who says he cannot recall any such deal.

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Hunting, Jerry Jr. says, standing on Black Mountain one bright early September morning, bow in hand, the distinct scent of deer in air, is about trying to best your opponent. “A great big buck is as smart as any human,” he says. “They know their way around the country, they know every nook and cranny to go to get away from a predator. So you have to try and figure out how to outsmart a deer who lives here all year round.” Though Robert’s wildlife charges had been dismissed, it took attorney Coebergh sending certified letters to Salt Lake District Attorney Sim Gill and the DWR threatening a federal lawsuit before the state returned Jensen’s 29 heads and antlers. Bare for nearly five years, his walls now echo once more with hunting memories. A hearing is set for Dec. 8 to determine the fate of Jerry’s heads. Next year’s hunting season will be the first Robert will have been able to participate in since 2009. “This business took five years of my prime hunting life, that I could have killed one or two more big deer,” he says. But the prosecution cost him far more. “Mom’s gone, Dad’s gone, my sister’s gone, Jerry’s wife’s gone,” he says, looking out the window into the night. “It’s just sad.” Meister also views the end of the case as unrewarding for either prosecutor or defendants. “I’d like to present this evidence in court. Really they haven’t had their day in court, and neither have we.” On Aug. 4, 2014, Meister agreed to a diversion—if Robert Jensen stayed out of trouble for six months, his witness-tampering charges would be dismissed. “I think people have maybe learned their lesson in this case and that’s why we’re doing a diversion your honor,” Meister said. Meister told the court that the victim in the case—DWR—was unhappy, but, given the losses the family had endured, “we think in light of everything there has been a fair resolution.” CW

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Utah Symphony: Beethoven’s Ninth There are few more recognizable pieces of music than the “Ode to Joy” that closes out Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Beethoven set the words of a poem by Friedrich Schiller expressing the brotherhood of all mankind to music to finish the final movement of his final symphony, creating a melody still known worldwide nearly 200 years later. The “Ode” is now the anthem of the European Union, is used as the music for many Olympic opening and closing ceremonies, and has been used by protesters from Chile to China in struggles for human rights. Its penetration into popular culture is so deep that it was used as the entry song for Triple H of the World Wrestling Federation. Since it can be used royalty-free, it gets tossed into a multitude of TV shows and movies to convey achievement, wonder and celebration. The premiere of the Ninth in Vienna in 1824 marked a comeback for the composer, who took the stage for the first time in 12 years to conduct an orchestra he couldn’t hear since he had become deaf. Accounts vary as to how successful he was, although all seem to agree someone had to let him know the audience was giving him a standing ovation at the end. This weekend marks the first of three concerts making up a Utah Symphony Beethoven Series, with special ticket packages available for all three performances. The other two performances will feature violinist Baiba Skride (Feb. 20-21), and pianist Andre Watts (March 6-7). (Geoff Griffin) Utah Symphony: Beethoven’s Ninth @ Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, Dec. 5-6, 8 p.m., $23-$63. UtahSymphony.org

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Some 56-odd years ago, Christo and his wife, Jeanne-Claude, met, and in the decades following, they became renowned in the art world and the general public for “wrapping” buildings and other public edifices, as well as for their installation works. They wrapped the Reichstag in Berlin, Paris’ Pont-Neuf bridge and the 24-mile “Running Fence” in California. Kimball Art Center is exhibiting works from the largest collection of the pair’s original collages, drawings, photographs and sculptures. Although the finished results of their projects always received the most attention due to their grand scale, the bulk of their work over time was spent planning and preparing for the works, including the bureaucratic hurdles they have had to overcome to get the needed permits. This planning is evident in this collection, as well as the documentary film The Gates: Central Park, New York City, 1979-2005, which chronicles their 25-year struggle to get approval from the city for “The Gates” installation. Jeanne-Claude passed away in 2009. The Kimball Art Center’s presentation of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s work is an important opportunity to view representations of their ideas in various media, as they have had an immense impact not only on the artistic landscape, but also on culture and the physical landscape, making a statement about nature and our impositions into it, and the urban world. These representations illustrate the myriad ways their installations existed first as works of their extravagant imaginations. (Brian Staker) Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Tom Golden Collection @ Kimball Art Center, 638 Park Ave., Park City, 435-649-8882, through Jan. 4, free. KimballArtCenter.org

No holiday season would be complete without experiencing the magic of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. Performing-arts companies around the world have choreographed and staged many versions of the timeless classic, but Ballet West’s annual production features the beloved choreography and staging of William Christensen, the first American to create a full-length ballet production of The Nutcracker. Christensen’s ballet is in two acts and based loosely on the beloved fairy tale by E.T.A. Hoffmann, including all the signature plot points of a grand holiday party, a mysterious uncle named Herr Drosselmeyer, snow castles and adorable sugarplum fairies. Ballet West has been staging the work to the delight of audiences for more than 55 years. For many, it is a cherished chance to engage in the time-honored tradition of witnessing a giant nutcracker turn into a handsome prince in the enchanted dreams of an imaginative girl named Clara. One of the major features of Christensen’s rendition is the inclusion of a live children’s choir and a cast featuring more than 120 young dancers from Ballet West’s academy ranks. The fact that the total number of people involved in the staging of this tradition grows annually, along with the number of attendees clamoring to get tickets to one of the several dozen performances, is proof that the seasonal tradition is alive and well. This year, Ballet West is even taking the production east, to share the magic of The Nutcracker with audiences at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. (Jacob Stringer) Ballet West: The Nutcracker @ Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, Dec. 5-31, 7 p.m., Saturday matinees 2 p.m., Christmas Eve matinee 12 p.m., $29-$84. ArtTix.org, BalletWest.org

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It’s widely understood that what we don’t know, or don’t understand, is what we fear the most. Those with No Fixed Address—the name of the current exhibition at The Leonardo— “enjoy the same books in the library and the same radio stations. We sit next to each other on the bus or the train,” says The Leonardo’s statement. “Until now, we may have been strangers, or maybe we’ve exchanged glances and a conversation or two.” No Fixed Address sheds light on the myths and the realities of homelessness and invites you to look at the faces of the individuals and families who live on the streets or in shelters. “It reminds us of our shared humanity,” reads one gallery plaque. In one of many untitled photographic images, a mother carrying her son points to the camera for the boy to see, while her daughter holds on to her coat. A lovely African-American woman kisses her radiant daughter on the cheek (pictured); this is the picture of happiness. A Native American with handsome rugged features wears a cowboy hat and stands with a proud look. A smiling man bears the look of an intellectual—goatee, round glasses, dressed in a blazer, vest, and shirt buttoned to his neck—and might easily be mistaken for a professor at the University of Utah. Through such images of the many faces of homeless Americans and through knowledge and understanding of commonalities, rather than differences, the community might develop greater empathy. (Ehren Clark) No Fixed Address: The Face of America’s Homeless @ The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, 801-531-9800, through May 15, $7-$9. TheLeonardo.org

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THURSDAY 12.4

Wiseguys Downtown Grand Opening: Joe Machi Downtown Salt Lake City has been awaiting the return of a regular live comedy venue since the Wiseguys Trolley Square location closed earlier this year. And now Wiseguys is back, in the bright, shiny new Broadway Media building on 300 South downtown. The new Wiseguys venue launches this weekend with headliner Joe Machi. The Pennsylvania native has only been performing comedy for eight years, but has already accumulated honors including winning the New York Underground Comedy Festival’s Emerging Comic competition, the “Elite 8” in Caroline’s March Madness Comedy Competition, the Boston Comedy Festival, and appearing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Help celebrate the venue’s opening, and keep an eye on the 2015 calendar for such notable headliners as Pauly Shore, Brian Posehn and Demetri Martin. (Scott Renshaw) Joe Machi @ Wiseguys Downtown SLC, 50 W. 300 South, 801532-5233, Dec. 4 @ 7:30 p.m., Dec. 5-6 @ 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $15. WiseguysComedy.com

THURSDAY 12.4 PERFORMING ARTS

Joe Machi, Wiseguys Downtown, 50 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-532-5233 Fiddler on the Roof, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-2787 Jupiter String Quartet, Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City, 801-581-7100 Jacob Leigh, Wiseguys West Valley, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-463-2909

FRIDAY 12.5 PERFORMING ARTS

Beethoven’s Ninth, Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-355-2787 The Nutcracker, Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-2787 The Wind in the Willows, Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, Park City, 435-649-9371 Carrie Snow & Sandy Hackett, Egyptian Theatre, Park City Laughing Stock Improv Comedy, Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-355-4628 Peter & the Starcatcher, Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6356 The Night Before Christmas, Rose Wagner Center A Year With Frog & Toad, Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North, Salt Lake City, 801363-7522 Joe Machi, Wiseguys Downtown

Tom Clark, Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588 Jay Reid, Wiseguys West Valley Off the Wall Improv, The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 801-954-2787

SATURDAY 12.6 PERFORMING ARTS

Beethoven’s Ninth, Abravanel Hall The Nutcracker, Capitol Theatre Flute Choir, Dumke Recital Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City, 801-581-7100 Choo Choo Soul with Genevieve, Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-655-3114 The Wind in the Willows, Egyptian Theatre, Park City Carrie Snow & Sandy Hackett, Egyptian Theatre, Park City Vivaldi by Candlelight, First Presbyterian Church, 12 C St., Salt Lake City, 801-832-3272 Laughing Stock Improv Comedy, Off Broadway Theatre Peter & the Starcatcher, Pioneer Theatre The Night Before Christmas, Rose Wagner Center The Improvable Comedy Improv Show, Playbills’ Theater, 455 W. 1700 South, Clearfield, 801-382-7875 A Year With Frog & Toad, Salt Lake Acting Company Joe Machi, Wiseguys Downtown Tom Clark, Wiseguys Ogden Jay Reid, Wiseguys West Valley

The Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake Presents:

The 25th Native American Holiday Arts Market December 6 & 7, 2014 Saturday: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm Sunday: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Vendors will be offering both traditional and contemporary Native American goods including jewelry, pottery, paintings and more.

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Vadim Serebryany, Dumke Recital Hall A Year With Frog & Toad, Salt Lake Acting Company Sunday Night Comedy Friend Time, Wiseguys West Valley

MONDAY 12.8 PERFORMING ARTS Welcome All Wonders, Libby Gardner Hall Peter & the Starcatcher, Pioneer Theatre Harp Ensemble, Thompson Chamber Music Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City, 801-581-6762

TUESDAY 12.9 PERFORMING ARTS Peter & the Starcatcher, Pioneer Theatre

LITERARY ARTS

Teresa Jordan: The Year of Living Virtuously, The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-484-9100

WEDNESDAY 12.10 PERFORMING ARTS Peter & the Starcatcher, Pioneer Theatre Philharmonia Orchestra, Libby Gardner Hall Jan Brett: The Animals’ Santa, Provo City Library, 550 N. University Ave., Provo, 801-484-9100

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Howard Clark Scholarship Exhibition, Gittins Gallery, 375 S. 1530 East, 801-581-8677, 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 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 Amy Jorgensen: Far From the Tree, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-328-4201, TuesdaysSaturdays through Dec. 6 East High School Annual Photography Exhibition, Salt Lake Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801-524-8200, MondaysSundays through Dec. 7 Bikuben, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-328-4201, Tuesdays-Saturdays through Dec. 20 Laleh Ghotbi: Painting What I Love, Salt Lake City Library Corinne & Jack Sweet branch, 455 F St., Salt Lake City, 801-594-8651, MondaysSaturdays though Dec. 27

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James Joel Holmes, Whitespace, 2420 Wall Ave., Ogden, 801-895-2278, WednesdaysSaturdays through Dec. 27

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f you cook or are close to someone who does, you probably know that the quest for the perfect collection of kitchen tools is unending. And that actually makes shopping for their holiday gifts fairly easy. Ditto for foodies in general. Just head over to Spoons ’N Spice, Tony Caputo’s Market & Deli, Pirate O’s or Liberty Heights Fresh and you can accomplish your gift-buying without breaking a sweat. However, for some really unique and out-of-the-box items, you might need to search a little harder, or at least sit down at the computer and navigate the Internet. Here are some groovy goods any foodie would love to find under the tree on Christmas morning. Let’s begin with some cooking and food preparation tools. Bob Kramer is a Seattlebased master bladesmith who has devoted his life “to the single-minded pursuit of crafting the perfect kitchen knife.” His knives, being the one-of-a-kind works of art they are, don’t come cheap. Some are ready-made, but most are sold at auction with minimum bids of $100, and usually sell for much, much more at KramerKnives. com. Sur La Table (Salt Lake City, 801456-0280, SurLaTable.com) sells Kramer’s 10-inch Carbon Steel Chef’s Knife for $349, and his limited-edition Damascus Chef’s Knife for $1,899. On the other hand, I recently picked up a very versatile, well-balanced Chinese steel chef’s knife from the Oriental Food Market (667 S. 700 East, 801-363-2122) for a mere $7.99. At Williams-Sonoma (Salt Lake City, 801-359-0459, Williams-Sonoma.com) you can purchase a cool personal Zoku Ice Cream Maker ($25.95) that allows you to create a customized bowl of homemade ice cream, frozen yogurt, sherbet, sorbet or gelato in just 10 minutes. If you cook, you have eggs. So why not turn them into kitchen art? The MannaPro.com Egg Skelter ($24.95) is a nifty way to display up to two dozen eggs on your countertop, saving room in the fridge. Cyclists and pizza lovers will enjoy the whimsical but practical bicycle-shaped Fixie Pizza Cutter ($23) from UncommonGoods.com. Speaking of pizza, my favorite pizzamaking implement is the Camp Chef Italia Artisan Pizza Oven ($400), made right

here in Utah (CampChef.com). Although portable, its high temps allow you to produce beautifully charred wood-ovenstyle pizzas on your patio in mere minutes, and it’s fueled by a single 1-pound propane canister. For less dough (pun intended), the NewWave Stone Bake Pizza Oven ($79.99) cooks single 12-inch pizzas on your kitchen counter and reaches 700 degrees in a matter of minutes. One of the best cookbooks to come across my desk in a long time is Cook’s Illustrated Meat Book ($40). It’s the culmination of more than 20 years of experimenting with recipes and techniques for cooking beef, pork, lamb, veal, chicken and turkey in the Cook’s Illustrated test kitchens. Some of the recipes are counter-intuitive. For example, the easy skillet-roasted whole chicken recipe requires cooking the bird at a high temperature initially, then turning the oven completely off to finish the chicken. The perfect steak isn’t seared to start, as you would expect, but is cooked in a 275-degree oven and then seared just before serving. It’s thinking-out-of-the-box meat preparation. There isn’t a cook or food enthusiast alive who wouldn’t love the gift of The Way We Ate: 100 Chefs Celebrate a Century at the American Table ($35) by Noah Fecks and Paul Wagtouicz. The authors invited modern-day chefs and food experts to analyze or ponder a historical food event, particular dish, cocktail, etc. for every year from 1901 to 2000, and often include recipes for dishes that might have gone out of style. The participating chefs and foodies are an all-star cast including Jacques Pépin, Ruth Reichl, Jeremiah Tower, Daniel Boulud, Marcus Samuelsson, Marc Forgione and dozens of others. Of course, what we really want for the holidays is food, right? Well, when it comes to sweets, you’d be hard-pressed to find better quality or more beautiful chocolates than those from Chocolatier Blue, available at Tony Caputo’s Market & Deli (CaputosDeli.com). Two bucks per piece might seem extravagant, but once you taste Chris Blue’s craft chocolates, you too will be

a convert. Unusual flavor combinations like sage & honey, peanut butter & strawberry, grapefruit & rosemary and sweet-potato casserole will blow your sweet little mind. For something spicy, here’s a hot stocking stuffer: Sriracha Candy Canes ($8/dozen at Urban Outfitters (Salt Lake City, 801-456-2455, UrbanOutfitters.com). Can’t decide what kind of pie to serve for the holidays? Momofuku Milk Bar (ShopMilkBar.com) has the answer: The Franken Pie has two slices each of candybar pie and caramel apple pie, plus four slices of crack pie, for $44. Or, serve up the ultimate charcuterie platter this holiday season with an acornfed, free-range, bone-in Reserva Jamón Ibérico de Bellota Ham leg ($999) from La Tienda (Tienda.com). Or you can treat yourself to the best ham I’ve ever tasted for a lot less coin: Salt Laker Cristiano Creminelli’s Prosciutto Cotto ($130). Creminelli also sells salami-tasting gift sets ranging from $45 to $100 at Creminelli.com. Seeing a package under the tree on Christmas from Russ & Daughters would bring tears to the eyes of ex-New Yorkers like me. You don’t have to book a flight to New York City to enjoy Russ & Daughters’ celebrated cured and smoked fish, herring, cream cheeses, caviar, bialys, bagels and more. You could, for example, enjoy a package of schmaltz herring fillets ($10.50) during the holidays from Russ A ndDaughters.com. L i kew ise, Zabar’s delivers. And, you need only visit Zabars.com to begin your journey into the delectable world that is New York City’s iconic 80-year-old delicatessen. While you’re at it, please order a loaf of Zabar’s classic dark Russian pumpernickel ($4.98) for me. Finally, have a little food fun during the holiday season with Foodie Fight: A Trivia Game for Serious Food Lovers ($22.95). As Mario Batali suggests, “Play this fun game after your next dinner party. The losers have to wash the dishes!” CW

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Once again, Utah’s own Beehive Cheese Co. scored big at the World Cheese Awards in London. During the Guild of Fine Food’s 2014 World Cheese Awards in November, Beehive Cheese was awarded bronze medals for three of its cheeses: Barely Buzzed, rubbed with espresso and lavender; apple-walnut smoked cheese, cold-smoked with walnut wood and red apple; and Promontory (my favorite), a creamy, Irish-style cheese with a buttery texture. For a limited time, Beehive Cheese is offering a World Cheese Award Winners gift box for $31.99, which includes the winning cheeses and a box of Beehive’s RUSK crackers. BeehiveCheese.com

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f you have friends, lovers, colleagues or family members who enjoy wine, beer, cocktails and the like, I’ve scoured the stores and the information super highway to find cool, fun—sometimes even useful— gifts for your favorite libation lover. They called it “liquid liberation”; I call it a terrific way to give your favorite cocktail a facelift. Sugar House Libations (801-7479032) makes fruit-infused simple syrups ($18) for upscaling cocktails using fruits, herbs and aromatics such as lavender, ginger, lemon grass, pear, raspberry, plum and others. Find these sweet mixers at the Winter Market in the Rio Grande Depot, at Mod a-go-go (Salt Lake City, 801-355-3334, Modagogo.com), and at SugarHouseLibations.com. New Year’s Eve is just around the corner and you’d like to make an impact when the clock strikes midnight, right?

I’ve got just the thing to shock and awe your party guests. It’s the French-made Laguiole en Aubrac Horn Champagne Sabre ($313) at US.Amara.com. Each sabre requires more than 100 production steps and is created by hand by a single craftsman. Or, for something a little less flashy and dangerous—not to mention a lot less coin—you can get a high-quality classic Laguiole Corkscrew with bamboo handle for $40 at Food52.com. If you’re looking for a nifty wine tote bag to give as a holiday gift, or just to schlep wine to your next party, consider the Save the Wino tote bag ($14.99). It’s available at Whole Foods stores and at LifeLineFashion.org, and the bags are intended to help raise consciousness about the ivory trade in Kenya by supporting rhino conservation with the Ol Pejeta Conservancy; $1 from each bag is donated to the Conservancy. Other ways to make your wine dollars do good is by purchasing wines that support important causes. For example, Rodney Strong Vineyards has donated more than $200,000 to the United Way and to food banks across the country with proceeds from sales of Rodney Strong Cabernet Sauvignon, Sonoma County ($20). Likewise, Murphy-Goode Homefront Red ($14) was created to benefit Operation Homefront, an organization providing assistance to the

DRINK families of service members and wounded veterans. Fifty cents from the sale of each bottle sold goes to help military families in need. For some reason, I hate to part with my wine corks. But I have way too many trivets made from corks already. So, I was thrilled to discover a new use for my used wine corks: Turn them into art! That’s easy to do with the Metrokane Store (Me t r ok a ne . c om) Rabbit CorkHaus ($30). It’s made from stainless steel and bamboo and sort of looks like a spice rack, except that it allows you to display your personal cork collection. The next time you’re toting a six-pack of your fa vor it e br e w, why not do it with a personalized wooden beer holder ($49)? It’s

a handsome, antique-looking wooden six-pack holder with your name embossed on it: “Scheffler’s Brew,” for example. Find it at Gifts.com, which also sells the beautiful copper handcrafted Jacob Bromwell Great A merican Flask w ith wooden gift box ($149.99). Beer lovers and tablespor ts enthusiasts will also get a kick out of the Mini Beer Pong set ($75) from UncommonGoods.com. You don’t want to have “tannin teeth” or “Malbec mouth” marring your perfect smile during the holidays, do you? Then here’s a solution from the girls at Borracha: Wine Wipes ($6.95 for a pack of 12, WineWipes.com). One swipe of the orangeblossom-flavored wipe will clear red-wine stains from your teeth and mouth—not to mention cleanse the palate. CW

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At Javier’s, you can indulge in authentic Mexican cuisine and low, low prices. The burritos, tacos and enchiladas are great. But also pay attention to the housemade tamales, chile rellenos, chile verde, menudo and carnitas. Thirsty? Try an authentic Mexican drink, like the horchata. The atmosphere here is casual, and the service is friendly and attentive. Multiple locations, JaviersMexicanFood.com

Mountain City Restaurant

Mountain City Restaurant in Holladay is a terrific family restaurant, serving up gigantic portions of both food and friendliness. Among the regulars’ favorites is the fortune chicken: a sweet & sour dish with peppers, onion and a secret hot sauce. Or, dig into a plate of the heavenly walnut shrimp or house chow mein. For something a bit more exotic, try the New Zealand green-lip mussels with fragrant ginger sauce. 4701 S. Holladay Blvd., Salt Lake City, 801-272-3332

First Tracks Cafe

Located in the lobby of the Grand Summit Hotel at Canyons Resort in Park City, First Tracks is the first stop in the morning for many Canyons skiers. This coffeehouse serves freshly brewed Starbucks coffee, espresso drinks, hot tea, cold drinks and light breakfast items like muffins and pastries. First Tracks is open daily for breakfast during the winter ski season. 4000 Canyons Resort Drive, Park City, 435-615-8033, CanyonsResort.com

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Want ghost with that? If so, this might be the place. Located in the historic Rio Grande train depot—a history-filled location—rumors of a ghostly apparition with a purple aura persist, supposedly the ghost of a jilted woman who jumped in front of a train at the depot. Slammed doors, dropped dishes and eerie footsteps in the night add to the legend of the Purple Lady. But you might be too focused on your plate to be scared. Tacos, burritos, tostadas, enchiladas and chile rellenos are the order of the day, but for a real treat, try the carnitas platter and wash it down with a cold Dos Equis or excellent margarita. This is a favorite hang for local artists, so there’s lots of cool, funky local art to take in, as well. 270 S. Rio Grande St., Salt Lake City, 801-364-3302, RioGrandeSLC.MyShopify.com

Located in the gorgeous Park City Waldorf Hotel, Powder is a fine-dining restaurant that’s simultaneously elegant and devoid of stuffiness. Come as you are, and enjoy contemporary American cuisine that spotlights the French cooking techniques utilized by Executive Chef Clement Gelas. And with Powder’s top-notch service and beautiful décor, your indulgent dining experience will be memorable as well as delicious. Start off with smoked steelhead tartare, pickled baby beets or juniper-dusted elk carpaccio. For the main event, try the roasted duck breast with parsnip puree and roasted winter fruits and veggies, or the peppered pork tenderloin with cranberry-chestnut reduction. 2100 Frostwood Drive, Park City, 435-647-5566, ParkCityWaldorfAstoria.com

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Talk about a room with a view! Dining in the Clubhouse (or better yet, the patio) at Miller Motorsports Park, you can take in all the action at the Clubhouse Turn of the world-class raceway while enjoying one of the best cheeseburgers between Salt Lake City and the Nevada border. The Clubhouse’s French dip sandwich, stuffed with thin-sliced roast beef and Swiss cheese and served with scrumptious au jus and horseradish cream sauce, is also killer. Get it with the penne pasta side salad, peppered with shredded cheese, minced red onion and cucumber. A cold glass of Squatters beer is the perfect accompaniment to speedy thrills. 2901 N. Sheep Lane Tooele, 435-277-7223, MillerMotorSportsPark.com

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Don’t be fooled by the plain exterior; inside, Tiburon is an entirely different and refined world. Start out with a unique and decadent appetizer of St. Andre triple crème brie and five-hour “dry” braised Kurobuta pork belly. Then move on to the house specialty: New Zealand elk tenderloin, charbroiled to order and served with a creamy duxelle green peppercorn demiglace. The Snake River Farms American Kobe Eye with sauteed oyster mushrooms is also a winner. For wine drinkers, the eclectic wine list is one of the best in the south valley, and, there’s even a good selection of blended and single malt Scotch for post-dinner sipping. 8256 S. 700 East, Sandy, 801-2551200, TiburonFineDining.com

You don’t have to make the 1,300-mile trip to Chicago to get real Chicago pizza. Sweet Home Chicago serves both the neighborhood-style thin-crust as well as the Chicago-style stuffed monster pizzas. Born and raised in Chicago, the Sweet Home Chicago family started in the pizza business in 1965, and still uses the same generations-old family recipes that made their pizza famous. Divine pizza, hot wings, calzones (including Chicago dogs) and salads are featured, along with incredible views of the valley from the patio. 1442 E. Draper Parkway, Draper, 801545-0455, SHCPizza.com

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This quiet eatery prides itself on serving fresh, organic vegetables and providing extensive vegetarian and vegan options. Carnivores dig the Mongolian beef, sweet & sour pork, moo shu dishes and teriyaki chicken. For seafood lovers, there’s honey-walnut shrimp, shrimp with asparagus, spicy garlic shrimp and classic shrimp with lobster sauce. Chef’s specialties include spicy salt & pepper chicken, shrimp with garlic noodles and egg foo young. All fried dishes are cooked in canola oil, and no MSG is used here. The restaurant offers free delivery within four miles. 652 E. Union Square, Sandy, 801816-9797, FortuneCuisineSandy.com

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The all-you-can-eat buffet features everything from pot stickers and pan-fried noodles and soups to steamed crab legs, beef with broccoli, tofu dishes, desserts and much, much more. Golden China is a good choice for families with kids since there are so many food options to choose from—there’ll be something for everyone. 4908 S. Redwood Road, Taylorsville, 801-969-8885

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When you’re on the go in the Salt Lake Valley, it’s easy to grab a frozen chai or iced mocha from this handy drive-thru coffeeshop, with locations from the Avenues to Cottonwood Heights. Smoothies rock the house here, too—try the tasty pairing of a strawberry-banana smoothie and a blueberry muffin. The consistently friendly service keeps coffee cravers coming back. Multiple locations, JavaJos.com

The Lodge Bistro

Located on the pool level at the Lodge at Snowbird, The Lodge Bistro is sort of a “what you make it” dining spot. It’s a perfect setting for a romantic dinner for two, with tabletop candles and fresh flowers on the patio or inside. But, it’s also a versatile place where college chums or a girls-night-out posse might meet. 9385 S. Little Cottonwood Canyon Road, Snowbird, 801-933-2145, Snowbird.com

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Tokai Sushi 4 U features many unique maki rolls, such as the Wow roll, Queen roll, Sun roll, Moon roll, lemon ball and others. The bento boxes are also popular, especially at lunchtime, as are the chicken and beef teriyaki bowls. Family Day is every Friday and Saturday, when it’s buy-one-get-one-free all day. Tokai also serves a selection of teas, sake, beer and wine. 1301 E. Miller Ave., Salt Lake City, 801-466-3311

Carvers Steak & Seafood

From its Library Room, featuring a roaring fire and book-lined shelves, to the Garden Room, with its slate floor and wicker chairs, Carvers can accommodate groups of 20 or 200. Carvers specializes in steaks, Prime rib and tempting seafood selections, and the hand-cut meats are cooked on a French broiler. The 18-ounce bone-in rib-eye is a surefire hit, and the coconut shrimp and basil-mustard salmon are also tempting. 10720 S. Holiday Park Drive, Sandy, 801-572-5177, CarversUtah.com

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Tonyburgers

The secret to Tonyburgers’ juicy, flavorful burgers is the beef: a top-secret “tri-beef” blend of different cuts of beef. And Tonyburgers lets you fully customize your burger, from the basics (four kinds of cheese, bacon) to the decadent (fried egg!), plus all the vegetables you want at no extra cost, so you can complement that juicy beef with all the grilled or raw onions and jalapeños you can stand. There are also a handful of salads available, and pretty good ones at that for a fast-food joint. Both salads and burgers pair well with Tonyburgers’ shakes and crispy shoestring fries. Multiple locations, TonyBurgers.com

Blue Bay Chinese Cuisine

There’s nothing wrong with overindulging on some spicy Chinese food every once in a while, and Blue Bay is there to serve, with Chinese fixings like egg rolls, orange chicken, sweet & sour chicken, chow mein and lo mein for reasonable prices. Loyal customers adore the walnut shrimp, cream cheese wontons and egg drop soup. When you visit, expect a warm, inviting dining experience fostered by the kind staff. 1883 E. Fort Union Blvd., Salt Lake City, 801-9444412, BlueBaySaltLakeCity.com

Prime Steak House & Piano Bar

One of Utah’s best places for beef, Prime Steak House & Piano Bar is a favorite of Park City locals and visitors alike. Start off with an appetizer like sea scallops Chester, seared ahi tuna or the jumbo crabmeat cocktail. Then, enjoy Prime’s signature 8-ounce filet with bluefin crab meat, the rare tuna steak, Australian lobster tail, bone-in rib eye, salmon or New York strip. The molten chocolate cake with ice cream rounds things out nicely, as does the live piano-bar music. 804 Main, Park City, 435655-9739, PrimeParkCity.com

Bonsai Japanese Steakhouse

At Bonsai Japanese Steakhouse, meals are cooked tepanyaki style, which means you get dinner and a show. Expert knife-wielding chefs create more than just a little excitement as they flamboyantly slice and dice everything from steaks and fish filets to shrimp, chicken, scallops, lobster, king crab and even yakisoba noodles right in front of you. Each meal includes soup, salad, rice and stir-fried veggies. It’s fun for the whole family—in fact, after a show at Bonsai, the little ones might just decide to become chefs themselves. 875 E 9400 South, 801-352-9288

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Even Stevens Sandwiches

Karen Olson, formerly of The Metropolitan (one of my favorite restaurants of recent years), has always been keen on making her community better, and with her latest restaurant venture, Even Stevens Sandwiches, she’s helping to feed those in need. The basic idea is simple: For every sandwich sold at Even Stevens, another is donated to local nonprofits helping to end hunger. I like the sandwiches I’ve had: The Sloppy Tina is a spot-on vegetarian version of a sloppy Joe, made with mushroom and chickpeas in a zippy tomato-based sauce. There is also a meat lover’s sloppy Joe, a slow-simmered combo of beef and chorizo topped with pickled red onions and served on a Kaiser roll. There’s a faux pot roast sandwich on the menu, too, that is remarkably tasty. The holidays are an especially fitting time to call attention to the work that Even Stevens is doing, as it’s a time when many of us gorge ourselves on holiday fare, while others can’t be sure where their next meal will come from. Maybe it will come from Even Stevens. Reviewed Nov. 27. 414 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 385-3559105, EvenStevens.com

Harbor Seafood & Steak Co.

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

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At Harbor, every effort is made to use 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, 801-4669527, HarborSLC.com

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lthough as a rule, promotional appearances and interviews have no direct bearing on a film itself and should be disregarded, writer/producer/ director/co-star Tommy Lee Jones’ comments on The Homesman prior to its release provide an interesting insight into his process. He has stated repeatedly that the film is “not a Western,” and by way of explanation has given a description of the genre that more resembles Hopalong Cassidy than the essential works of, say, John Ford. Considering that The Homesman fits neither popular conception of the genre, this is a more useful external thing to take into the theater than most. In many seemingly superficial ways, The Homesman runs counter to the traditions of the genre. Set in Nebraska, prior to the Civil War, and involving a journey eastward back across the plains to Iowa, it is already not quite far west enough, a decade or so too early, and heading in the literal opposite direction. The story itself is one rarely told in the genre: Three women suddenly and “inexplicably” (although Jones presents, without comment, some very good reasons) go insane, and are to be sent to a Methodist minister’s wife in Iowa, who will arrange for their passage back home in the hopes that this will calm them back to normalcy. With the town so sparsely populated, it falls to spinster Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank) to escort the women east, accompanied by a drifter (Jones) she happens to encounter. That central character dynamic—and the blunt candor with which Jones films the story—serves to highlight the horrors to which women were subjected at the time of its setting, and still. In strictly abjuring emotional manipulation in favor of simple presentation, Jones has probably made an even more powerful film than he would with bold angles and overbearing music. His eye for detail seizes on elements whose purpose is eventually, if not immediately,

clear. The final scene contains an act barely noticed by anyone that nonetheless ties the proceedings up in a quietly damning fashion. The details of that scene have been purposefully withheld because the most memorable aspect of The Homesman is that it ends in a way impossible to predict from the way it opens, thus making it one of the rare films that actually do spoil with foreknowledge of the plot. It’s less that there’s a big game-changing twist (although a liberal definition of the term could be applied) than that the story resolutely plows forth in its particular line, and it’s only near the end of the picture that we see that it’s ever been thus. The Homesman inspires a desire to see it a second time, to cast the first two thirds through the lens yielded by its totality. Though as a film, it is hardly perfect, the elements that appear to be imperfections at first glance are also the source of the more provocative avenues of interrogation. The initial passage, in the town in Nebraska, feels like a pilot for a television series, as it introduces a huge number of potential storylines, with all of the perspective shifts and the editing style one might imagine in that form. This necessarily leads to a number of apparent dangling plot threads when the focus shifts to the journey east. But given the conclusion, and how The

Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones in The Homesman

Homesman deals with forgetfulness and the randomness with which retribution finds or does not find the guilty, it’s entirely possible that what appear to be abandoned, unresolved subplots are actually more support for the ongoing references to the faults of memory and justice. With the exceptions of a slightly generic score and the occasional too-broad, caricatured performance, there isn’t much to carp about in The Homesman. It’s a film that encourages careful attention and a close read, and while it’s nothing extraordinary cinematically, it is certainly solid and carefully assembled. It is, in short, a film that reflects its director’s personality: highly intelligent, at home in the past, and stubbornly itself. It’s one that, if an appreciable notch below the level of masterpiece, certainly earns its director the label of auteur. Every frame of it is A Tommy Lee Jones Film. CW

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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) Tommy Lee Jones Barry Pepper Rated R

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Horrible Bosses 2 HH.5 Here’s a comedy built on a theoretical notion of outrageousness, while painting within the narrowest possible notions of the outrageous. Seeking funds for an entrepreneurial enterprise, Nick (Jason Bateman), Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) and Dale (Charlie Day) turn to a venture capitalist (Christoph Waltz) and his son (Chris Pine), but when they’re screwed on the deal, the friends contemplate kidnapping the son and using the ransom money to save their business. The chemistry between the three leads carries the story a surprisingly long way, their overlapping nervous chatter taking on an almost musical three-part harmony of idiocy. But the script doesn’t give them much funny stuff to do, mistakenly equating the hilarity of a scene with how loudly everyone acts. While it poses as “transgressive,” it’s mostly jokes you would have laughed at in middle school, thrown into an R-rated package. (R)—SR

The Homesman HHH See review p. 34. Opens Dec. 5 at theaters valleywide. (R) The Pyramid [not yet reviewed] An archaeological expedition unearths a terrifying creature. Opens Dec. 5 at theaters valleywide. (R)

Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas At Main Library, Dec. 6, 11 a.m. (NR)

Pride At Park City Film Series, Dec. 5-6 @ 8 p.m. & Dec. 7 @ 6 p.m. (R)

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Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol At Main Library, Dec. 9, 7 p.m. (NR)

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Penguins of Madagascar HHH Spin-offs of wacky supporting characters are risky, but after being the funniest part of three Madagascar films, the quartet of conniving penguins successfully headline this zippy, clever action comedy. After a funny prologue showing the four flightless schemers as chicks on “the Earth’s frozen bottom” (as a Herzog-ian documentary narrator calls Antarctica), we leapfrog past the Madagascar events to the present, where Skipper (Tom McGrath), Kowalski (Chris Miller), Rico (Conrad Vernon) and Private (Christopher Knights) must save their species from insane octopus Dave (John Malkovich). Directed by franchise veteran Eric Darnell

Sundance Shorts 2014: Live Action HHH It’s a diverse bundle, both in tone and quality, but this group of live-action shorts includes a couple of real winners. The sublimely hilarious Verbatim dramatizes the record from an actual deposition from a 2010 Ohio case, as one frustrated lawyer tries to get around a witness’s evasive and/or idiotic responses. And the terrific Quebeçois drama The Cut beautifully captures an awkward moment between a divorced father and the daughter he has only for the weekend. But unfortunately, there’s also nonsense like Dawn, a nihilistic 1950s period piece in which a sheltered girl dares to hang out with the dangerous kids, with head-smacking consequences. Somewhere in between is slight but satisfying material like I’m a Mitzvah, the story of a Jewish man caring for the body of a deceased friend on the way back from a trip to Mexico. Wait through the occasional dud, and you’ll find the terrific snippets that show film can evoke the sensibility of a poem or a short story, not just a novel. Opens Dec. 5 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—SR

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 HHH.5 Chopping the final Hunger Games novel into two films might be the best thing that could have happened to this franchise. 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 showed how Katniss is used by others to further their agendas. Lawrence delivers a terrific performance as a young woman who cannot be managed, yet whose powerful rage is turned into a product. Cutting Mockingjay in half means we’re left with a sort of Empire Strikes Back cliffhanger that doesn’t leave room for much hope—except for the reason-

Interstellar HHH Christopher Nolan wants you to feel awe about the universe and the nature of humanity—and by God, you will feel it, if he has to shake you for three solid hours. In the near future, an increasingly uninhabitable Earth requires a secret NASA program—piloted by single-dad Cooper (Matthew McConaughey)—to seek a new home planet somewhere through a mysterious wormhole. Nolan does some tremendously effective world-building, in the service of profoundly humanist science-fiction that sings with the amazing things of which we are capable. But Nolan sings so long and so loud that his Big Ideas about the mysteries of time and space, about mortality, about love, etc., become a multi-hour crescendo that’s as exhausting as it is thrilling. His ambition tells us things we need to hear, but it’s okay sometimes not to yell it. (PG-13)—SR

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Sundance Shorts 2014: Animated HHH.5 American audiences rarely get a chance to experience short films in a theater setting, and Sundance’s touring program of animated shorts from recent festivals would be worthwhile if for no other reason than the inclusion of Don Hertzfeldt’s towering It’s Such a Beautiful Day—somewhat less powerful removed from the context of the other two parts of his “Bill-ogy,” but still one of the most remarkable meditations on mortality ever put to film. Indeed, death and mourning are a thematic thread running through many of these impressive works, including Julia Pott’s Belly; Stephen Irwin’s The Obvious Child, a demented vision of a child pursuing a heavenly rest for her dead parents; and Oh Willy, a stop-motion tale in which a man returns to the nudist colony where he grew up to attend to his dying mother. Silly work is in short supply here, unless you count the twisted Subconscious Password, in which a man’s attempt to remember the name of a man he sees in a bar turns into a game show in his brain with Yoko Ono, William Burroughs and Chthulu among the contestants. Opens Dec. 5 at Tower Theatre (NR)—Scott Renshaw

able hope that Part 2 will deliver a satisfying wrap-up to one of the smartest, most enthralling science-fiction films series ever. (PG-13)—MaryAnn Johanson

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good as a conventional romantic biopic. It begins in the early 1960s with Hawking as a grad student receiving his presumed death-sentence of an ALS diagnosis, and does a solid enough job of conveying Hawkingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal and professional challenges through Redmayneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s terrific physical performance. But the filmmakers generally find the blandest possible way of exploring why Stephen and Jane had a connection in the first place, what factors strained that connection and why they ultimately drifted apart. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re so determined to make this story dignified and respectable that they sap it of nearly everything human, until itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as synthetic as Hawkingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voice. (PG-13)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;SR

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Guardians of the Galaxy Peter “Starlord” Quill (Chris Pratt), along with a tree (Vin Diesel), a raccoon (Bradley Cooper) and a green chick (Zoe Saldana), steals an orb and runs away from an evil supervillain (Lee Pace). Of course it’s the biggest movie of 2014. (Marvel/Disney)

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The Cabining A pair of desperate writers have two weeks to finish a horror movie screenplay or lose their funding, so they check into a quiet artists retreat—no sooner than you can say “Whoa, meta,” the bodies start piling up. Is this that movie? Dude … (Indican)

The Librarians puts a new spin on the franchise; Sons of Anarchy rides out of town. Peter Pan Live! Thursday, Dec. 4 (NBC)

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military-trained muscle), Christian Kane (who usually plays the muscle; here, he’s the brain), Lindy Booth (as a genius with heightened senses) and John Kim (as the obligatory tech-hacker). The Librarians retains the action and clever twists of the movie franchise, and adds the humorous ensemble friction/camaraderie of Devlin’s previous series, the late, great Leverage. It’s a splashy year-end capper to TNT’s solid year of new originals (like The Last Ship and Murder in the First) and jettisoned dead weight (see ya, Franklin & Bash).

Mike & Molly Monday, Dec. 8 (CBS)

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Season Premiere: It’s fitting that the worst comedy season ever (R.I.P. Manhattan Love Story, Selfie, Bad Judge, A to Z, Mulaney, Red Band Society and The Millers) is forcing CBS to call up one of the worst comedies ever to pinch-hit on Monday nights: Mike & Molly. Why CBS’ audience rejects one laughtracked hackfest (in this case, The Millers) but embraces another year after year (Mike & Molly is now entering Season 5) is a mystery right up there with The Big Bang Theory (the TV series and the cosmological model). Fun fact: If you freeze-frame certain scenes, you can see notes Melissa McCarthy has placed around the set reading “GET ME OFF OF THIS SHOW!”

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Series Finale: The #FinalRide nears the end and, as much as I want it to happen, I doubt Sons of Anarchy will grant my longheld TV wish of concluding a series by killing off the entire cast. The Sopranos, The Shield, Rescue Me, Breaking Bad, Boardwalk Empire, et al.—none of these greats dared to pull the final trigger, though Six Feet Under kinda-sorta did it with a fatal fastforward in 2005. No, I predict that Jax (Charlie Hunnam, who finally learned how to act sometime around Season 2 or 3) and most of SAMCRO will live to ride another day in Charming, the most erroneously named town in America. Also, that series closer “Papa’s Goods” will run three hours, 70 minutes of it strictly musical montages, followed by a two-hour Anarchy Afterword discussion with a bottom-screen crawl of every “Hamlet on Harleys,” “Sopranos on scooters” and “Charles in Charge on choppers” reference ever made by TV critics about SOA. But seriously: Thanks for a fantastic, flawed, exciting and maddening series, Kurt Sutter. CW

In the second season of the Stephen King adaptation, the townsfolk of Chester’s Mill are still trapped … under the dome. But then they find a way out! Or not! Here’s a mystery girl! Oh, and blood rain! What? Nevermind. (Paramount)

You Can’t Kill Stephen King Unrelated, a group of pals attempt to drop in on the author, only to find unfriendly townies who hate outsiders and questions about their famous resident. The pals start getting dead one-by-one, which makes more sense than Under the Dome. (CAV)

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In the follow-up to the 2009 Nazi-zombie classic, Martin (Vegar Hoel) wakes up in a hospital with a new arm—too bad it’s a zombie arm that wants to kill him, which will complicate his vengeance quest. Yet another Obamacare fail. (Well Go USA)

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Jingle Bell Rock Find the perfect gift for the music fan on your list. By Randy Harward & Kolbie Stonehocker comments@cityweekly.net

rying to find a gift for someone who’s into music can seem like a daunting prospect: “What if they already have this album?” But never fear: These music-themed gift ideas should help you find the perfect items to suit the taste of the music lovers on your list, whether they’re casual listeners or self-proclaimed audiophiles. In her picks, City Weekly Music Editor Kolbie Stonehocker highlights a few Salt Lake City music shops, while contributor Randy Harward has collected a selection of nationally released novelties and tunes. Steer clear of the bargain CD bins this year—you can do better. Happy holidays!

Audio Technica Turntable, $119.99 (standard), $139.99 (USB compatible)  She has amassed a sizeable stack of vinyl … but doesn’t have any way to play it. Expand her musical horizons by getting her this beginner-level but high-quality turntable, recommended regularly by the folks at Randy’s Records. The Audio Technica turntable features a built-in phono pre-amp—which allows it to be hooked up to either an amp or powered speakers (also found at Randy’s)—and high-fidelity sound quality, and can be operated manually or automatically. It also won’t shred her precious records, unlike similarly priced faux-retro Walmart turntables. (Kolbie Stonehocker) Randy’s Records, 157 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-532-4413, RandysRecords.com

Punk Rock Throbbleheads, $25 Need graven images to worship this holiday season? How about a gang of dirty rotten punks? Pennsylvania-based Aggronautix started casting polyresin “throbbleheads” in the image of punk, metal and comedy gods in 2009. They’ve since dropped 25 different numbered, limitededition figures honoring dudes like Jello Biafra, Mojo Nixon, The Meatmen’s Tesco Vee, Roky Erickson, Gwar, The Plasmatics’ Wendy O. Williams, Dwarves, David Cross and flagship license G.G. Allin, who boasts four different versions, including an Extra Filthy Bloody Edition (sadly, it’s sold out). The newest releases are The Damned’s Captain Sensible and the keytar-slinging Devo Energy Dome Man. Even the box art is cool on these puppies. So build an altar, pick up some throbblers and genuflect, mutha … superior? (Randy Harward) Aggronautix.com

Ugly Christmas Sweaters, $79  Tack y Christmas sweaters might be trendy right now, but that doesn’t mean he has to sacrifice his unique st yle for sequins, jingle bells and nauseatingly jolly designs. Instead, give him the opportunity to show off his love of 36 Chambersera Wu-Tang Clan, the Moz or blood-thirsty snowmen holiday style with these colorful (and cozy) sweaters made by Shredders, and let other unfortunate souls wear the garish light-up number with the reindeer and snowflakes. (KS) Raunch Records, 1119 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-467-6077

Primus Chocolate Bars, $25 In flavors like sturgeon, cheese and pork soda … psych. Weirdo prog-rockers Primus, teaming with Asher’s Chocolates, actually stuck to conventional ingredients for this merch tie-in with the Primus & the Chocolate Factory album and tour, a celebration of Roald Dahl’s classic story about the lunatic chocolatier. (You know …) Each three-pack contains one each of Professor Nutbutter (it’s fulla peanuts), Mr. Krinkle (made with crispy rice) and the aptly named (because dark chocolate sucks) Bastard Bar. The price (roughly $2.38 per ounce) is high, but Primus always delivers quality. Plus, if you buy these, maybe we’ll get to see more band candy down the road. Who wants to see an AC/DC bar? Maybe a Slayer-branded Abyss Crunch? My Morning Krackel? Zep Pez? This is fun. (RH) ClubBastardo.com

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with that trademark Gov’t Mule slow burn. It’s a captivating, one-sitting listen that will leave you nearly speechless. (Review is for standard single-disc version. A deluxe three-CD/one-DVD version contains the full three-hour show.) (RH) Mule.net

Record Bags, $15-$21

Transportation of vinyl is tricky business; backpacks and messenger bags aren’t friendly to the large square sleeves, resulting in dog-eared corners and other unfortunate wear. Specially sized to carry LPs with room to spare for essentials, these screenprinted canvas bags are a perfect solution and come in a variety of eye-catching designs, like the satisfying gloomy one from Stay Home Club that reads, “We are all hurtling toward our inevitable deaths.” (KS) Albatross Recordings & Ephemera, 870 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City

WKRP in Cincinnati: The Complete Series, $140

If you’ve ever wondered why WKRP in Cincinnati—one of the funniest sitcoms of the late ’70s/ early ’80s—hasn’t gotten the complete series treatment, it’s because the show was stuck in the same music-licensing muck that once stalled The Wonder Years and Freaks & Geeks. Thankfully, Shout! Factory has turned this problem into a specialty, and they’ve restored much of the original music (more than 200 songs) by artists like Chic, Nick Lowe, AC/DC and Blondie, whose “Heart of Glass” became a hit after its inclusion in the first-season episode “A Commercial Break.” Mostly intact, the series holds up with a heart as big as its wistful opening theme and a sense of humor as rollicking as the end-credits song, with its gibberish lyrics. (RH) ShoutFactory.com

Local Music, $1-$12  Heavy Metal Shop Gear, $2-$50  Hardly any article of clothing proclaims one’s love of Salt Lake City, metal and black like a hoodie with the Heavy Metal Shop skull logo on it, but that’s not the only way to support the landmark SLC music store that’s been “peddlin’ evil since 1987.” The Heavy Metal Shop also carries a wide selection of long- and short-sleeved shirts, sweatpants, tank tops, belt buckles, patches, coozies and, yes, even onesies, all boasting that trademark logo, for everyone on the edgier side of your family. (KS) The Heavy Metal Shop, 63 Exchange Place (360 South), Salt Lake City, 801-467-7071, HeavyMetalShop.com

Gov’t Mule, Dark Side of the Mule $13 (standard), $32 (deluxe) Dude. Floyd good. Mule good. Mule + Floyd = dude. That kind of monosyllabic logic isn’t hyperbole. Gov’t Mule, led by gravelly-voiced guitar god Warren Haynes, are legends in their own right, and the idea of them paying tribute to the legendary Pink Floyd should make music fans slobbery. And this set, recorded on Halloween 2008 in Boston, exceeds all expectations. Mule, joined by saxophonist Ron Holloway and two of Floyd’s actual backing vocalists, nails Floyd’s sublime atmospheric sound while infusing it

Buying local music at a local record store probably results in extra-good karma, but that’s not the only reason a locally made album would make an excellent gift for a music fan. Whenever you buy a local album, you’re supporting a passionate local artist with a crappy day job as well as the Salt Lake City music scene, instead of some money-grubbing streaming service or auto-tuned wannabe “musician.” And Diabolical Records has a diverse selection, with music from bands including Secret Abilities, Giraffula, Huldra, Red Bennies and many more. (KS) Diabolical Records, 238 S. Edison St., Salt Lake City, 801-792-9204, Facebook.com/DiabolicalRecords

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In the latest installment of their A Hymn Revival series, local gospel/folk group The Lower Lights have “revived” a collection of gospel tunes and hymns that will fill you with the spirit—whether or not you go to church on Sunday. The Lower Lights’ A Hymn Revival: Volume 1 and Volume 2 were stellar, but somehow, Volume 3 tops even those excellent releases. It’s flawless yet human, joyful yet solemn, a masterfully crafted album that welcomes listeners with warm, loving arms. Among the eclectic tracklist is something for everybody, from traditional hymns to foot-stomping Southern gospel. Volume 3 begins with a fiery rendition of “When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder,” complete with twangy electric guitar, jangly tambourine and heart-swelling group vocal harmonies, and that high energy is echoed in upbeat mid-album tracks “The River of Jordan” and mandolinfilled toe-tapper “Get Up John.” The quiet moments really demonstrate The Lower Lights’ power, though: Closing song “Where We’ll Never Grow Old,” which features angelic solo vocals by Debra Fotheringham, will put a lump in your throat. Self-released, Dec. 2, TheLowerLights. bandcamp.com

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Instrumentally, the latest album from Salt Lake City afrobeat/funk/world wizards The No-Nation Orchestra is lush, sexy and spacey, with sizzling horns and snappy percussion. However, whenever voices are added to that colorful background, they can’t seem to stand up to the big, brassy sound. Coil EP begins with the frantically energetic “Past Shadows,” but lead singer Stephen Chai’s hoarse-throated falsetto vocals are lacking and don’t reflect any of the song’s power. The musical mood on “Stay Low” is fantastic, a Middle Eastern-tinged groover that sounds like a psychedelic trip in the Martian desert, but even though the backing female vocals meld well with the track, Chai’s falsetto is tinny. Perhaps it could’ve worked in smaller doses, with different styles of singing mixed in, but it’s present throughout the EP, detracting from glorious musical moments such as the wails of guitar on “Fall From Space Into Time.” As they’ve proved before, the members of The No-Nation Orchestra can play the hell out of their instruments. They just need the right vocals to do that musical prowess justice. Self-released, Nov. 14, NoNationOrchestra.com

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Desert Noises Homecoming Show and Live Recording Provo-based rock foursome Desert Noises have been on tour for so long (virtually nonstop for the past few years) that their latest album, 27 Ways, released in March, was heavily inspired by the adventure and transience of life on the road. But despite staying busy crisscrossing the country, Desert Noises return to Utah from time to time, and for this particular stop, they’re going big. Not only are they playing two back-to-back concerts at Velour, but both shows will be recorded for a live album. Fans, the band needs your help making an album that encapsulates the rowdy spirit of a home Desert Noises performance, so come out and contribute your voice and energy. Friday’s show will feature an opening set by local singer-songwriter Timmy the Teeth—who will soon be coming out with a new album—and Provo surf/rock/psych band Lemon & Le Mule will open on Saturday. Velour, 135 N. University Ave., Provo, $10, also Dec. 6, VelourLive.com Voodoo Glow Skulls Formed in Riverside, Calif., in 1988, Voodoo Glow Skulls are one of those bands that make you ask “Are they still around?” Well, they are, and they’re really that old. But they are still bringing their “voodoo we do,” combining punk, ska and Mexican musical elements into a noisy, entertaining bilingual mix they term “California street music,” heard most recently on their 2012 album, Break the Spell, which is their first since splitting with Victory Records a few years back. Break the Spell ranges in approach from tongue-in-check (“Bro Truck”) to straightfaced political (“Dead Soldiers”), but all the tracks are full of that old-school Voodoo Glow Skulls style, defined by shout-singing, maniacal horns and gut-punching guitar. In the Venue, 219 W. 600 West, 8:30 p.m., $10 in advance, $12 day of show, InTheVenueSLC.com

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Desert Noises Monroe, Steel Born Buffalo and Northborn. Tuesday’s lineup will include Okkah, Ice Hotel, Barsie and Dreamcatcher. Wednesday will feature performances from Grey Glass, Porch Lights, The Howl and Quiet House. Thursday’s bill will include Kindred Dead, Luna Lune, O/CO and Synergy Cello Band. Friday’s showcase will feature Henry Wade, Mr. India, Go Suburban and Alarm Call. Velour, 135 N. University Ave., Provo, 8 p.m., through Dec. 13, $7, VelourLive.com Lemuria Touring as a band probably dares the universe to cause weird shit to happen, and in the case of Lemuria, the Buffalo, N.Y.-based indie-rock/punk trio’s misadventures on one particular tour were so outrageous that they warranted having a comic book written about them. Out Dec. 9, the new project is a comic book & 7-inch EP combo that’s the third in the Turnstyle Comix series by Mitch Clem and Nation of Amanda. The story details Lemuria’s tour of Russia in 2001, which, according to the band’s website, was apparently not without “violent Nazis, crooked cops, mobster shakedowns, gunshots, a tropical storm, rabid dogs and a substandard German pizza.” The EP consists of two new songs, “Christine Perfect” and “Foggy Smoke,” which, like

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Led by guitarist Al Anderson, a member of the second lineup of Bob Marley & the Wailers, The Original Wailers’ sound is reminiscent of Marley’s early days but with a modern twist. Their debut EP, 2012’s Miracle, incorporates strong reggae percussion paired with political and socially conscious lyrics, as heard on their song “Justice.” While Anderson is the only member of the band who played alongside Marley, the influence is obvious, as The Original Wailers cover many of Marley’s songs, like “Three Little Birds” and “No Woman, No Cry,” the latter of which Anderson originally played the guitar part for. Even without reggae legends Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, Anderson’s band still continue the Wailers’ legendary legacy. (Nathan Turner) Saturday, Dec. 6 @ Park City Live, 427 Main, Park City, 9 p.m., $20, ParkCityLive.com

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VENUE DIRECTORY

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5 MONKEYS 7 E. 4800 South, Murray, 801266-1885, Karaoke, Free pool, Live music A BAR NAMED SUE 3928 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-274-5578, Trivia Tues., DJ Wed., Karaoke Thurs. A BAR NAMED SUE ON STATE 8136 S. State, SLC, 801-566-3222, Karaoke Tues. ABG’S LIBATION EMPORIUM 190 W. Center St., Provo, 801-373-1200, Live music ALLEGED 205 25th St., Ogden, 801-990-0692 AREA 51 451 S. 400 West, SLC, 801-534-0819, Karaoke Wed., ‘80s Thur., DJs Fri. & Sat. BAR DELUXE 666 S. State, SLC, 801-5322914, Live music & DJs THE BAR IN SUGARHOUSE 2168 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-485-1232 BAR-X 155 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-355-2287 BARBARY COAST 4242 S. State, Murray, 801-265-9889 BATTERS UP 1717 S. Main, SLC, 801-4634996, Karaoke Tues., Live music Sat. THE BAYOU 645 S. State, SLC, 801-9618400, Live music Fri. & Sat. BOURBON HOUSE 19 E. 200 South, SLC, 801746-1005, Local jazz jam Tues., Karaoke Thur., Live music Sat., Funk & soul night Sun. BREWSKIS 244 25th St., Ogden, 801-3941713, Live music BURT’S TIKI LOUNGE 726 S. State, SLC, 801-521-0572, Live music CANYON INN 3700 E. Fort Union, SLC, 801943-6969, DJs CAROL’S COVE II 3424 S. State, SLC, 801466-2683, Karaoke Thur., DJs & Live music Fri. & Sat. The Century CLUB 315 24th St., Ogden, 801-781-5005, DJs CHEERS TO YOU 315 S. Main, SLC, 801575-6400 CHEERS TO YOU Midvale 7642 S. State, 801-566-0871 CHUCKLE’S LOUNGE 221 W. 900 South, SLC, 801-532-1721 CIRCLE LOUNGE 328 S. State, SLC, 801-5315400, DJs CISERO’S 306 Main, Park City, 435-649-5044, Karaoke Thur., Live music & DJs CLUB 48 16 E. 4800 South, Murray, 801262-7555 CLUB 90 9065 S. 150 West, Sandy, 801-5663254, Trivia Mon., Poker Thur., Live music Fri. & Sat., Live bluegrass Sun. CLUB DJ’S 3849 W. 5400 South, Murray, 801964-8575, Karaoke Tues., Thur. & Sun., Free pool Wed. & Sun., DJ Fri. & Sat. CLUB TRY-ANGLES 251 W. 900 South, SLC, 801-364-3203, Mid-week movie Wed., Karaoke Thur., DJs Fri. & Sat. club x 445 S. 400 West, SLC, 801-9354267, DJs, Live music THE COMPLEX 536 W. 100 South, SLC, 801528-9197, Live music CRUZRS SALOON 3943 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-272-1903, Free pool Wed. & Thurs., Karaoke Fri. & Sat. DAWG POUND 3350 S. State, SLC, 801-2612337, Live music THE DEERHUNTER PUB 2000 N. 300 West, Spanish Fork, 801-798-8582, Live music Fri. & Sat. THE DEPOT 400 W. South Temple, SLC, 801355-5522, Live music

DEVIL’S DAUGHTER 533 S. 500 West, SLC, 801-532-1610, Karaoke Wed., Live music Fri. & Sat. DONKEY TAILS CANTINA 136 E. 12300 South, Draper, 801-571-8134. Karaoke Wed.; Live music Tues., Thurs. & Fri. Live DJ Sat. DOWNSTAIRS 625 Main, Park City, 435226-5340, Live music & DJs ELIXIR LOUNGE 6405 S. 3000 East, Holladay, 801-943-1696 The Fallout 625 S. 600 West, SLC, 801953-6374, Live Music FAT’S GRILL 2182 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-484-9467, Live music THE FILLING STATION 8987 W. 2700 South, Magna, 801-250-1970, Karaoke Thur. FLANAGAN’S ON MAIN 438 Main, Park City, 435-649-8600, Trivia Tues., Live music Fri. & Sat. FOX HOLE PUB & GRILL 7078 S. Redwood Road, West Jordan, 801-566-4653, Karaoke & Live music FUNK ’N DIVE BAR 2550 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 801-621-3483, Live music THE GARAGE 1199 Beck St., SLC, 801-5213904, Live music GINO’S 3556 S. State, SLC, 801-268-1811, Live music GRACIE’S 326 S. West Temple, SLC, 801-8197565, Live music, DJs THE GREAT SALTAIR 12408 W. Saltair Drive, Magna, 801-250-6205, Live music THE GREEN PIG PUB 31 E. 400 South, SLC, 801-532-7441, Live music Thur.-Sat. HABITS 832 E. 3900 South, SLC, 801-2682228, Poker Mon., Ladies night Tues., ’80s night Wed., Karaoke Thur., DJs Fri. & Sat. HIGHLANDER 6194 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-277-8251, Karaoke 7 nights a week THE HOG WALLOW PUB 3200 E. Big Cottonwood Canyon Road, SLC, 801-733-5567, Live music The HOTEL/Club ELEVATE 155 W. 200 South, SLC, 801-478-4310, DJs HUKA BAR & GRILL 151 E. 6100 South, Murray, 801-281-9665, Reggae Tues., DJs Fri. & Sat. IN THE VENUE/CLUB SOUND 219 S. 600 West, SLC, 801-359-3219, Live music & DJs INFERNO CANTINA 122 W. Pierpont Ave., SLC, 801-883-8838, DJs Tues.-Sat. JACKALOPE LOUNGE 372 S. State, SLC, 801-359-8054, DJs JAM 751 N. 300 West, SLC, 801-891-1162, Karaoke Tues., Wed. & Sun., DJs Thur.-Sat. JOHNNY’S ON SECOND 165 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-746-3334, DJs Tues. & Fri., Karaoke Weds., Live music Sat. KARAMBA 1051 E. 2100 South, SLC, 801696-0639, DJs KEYS ON MAIN 242 S. Main, SLC, 801-3633638, Karaoke Tues. & Wed., Dueling pianos Thur.-Sat. KILBY COURT 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), SLC, 801-364-3538, Live music, all ages KRISTAUF’S 16 W. Market St., SLC, 801-9431696, DJ Fri. & Sat. THE LEPRECHAUN INN 4700 S. 900 East, Murray, 801-268-3294 LIQUID JOE’S 1249 E. 3300 South, SLC, 801467-5637, Live music Tues.-Sat. The Loading Dock 445 S. 400 West, SLC, 385-229-4493, Live music, all ages

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LUCKY 13 135 W. 1300 South, SLC, 801-4874418, Trivia Wed. LUMPY’S DOWNTOWN 145 Pierpont Ave., SLC, 801-938-3070 LUMPY’S HIGHLAND 3000 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-484-5597 THE MADISON/THE COWBOY 295 W. Center St., Provo, 801-375-9000, Live music, DJs MAXWELL’S EAST COAST EATERY 9 Exchange Place, SLC, 801-328-0304, Poker Tues., DJ Fri. & Sat. METRO BAR 615 W. 100 South, SLC, 801652-6543, DJs THE MOOSE LOUNGE 180 W. 400 South, SLC, 801-900-7499, DJs MUSE MUSIC CAFÉ 151 N. University Ave., Provo, Open mic, live music, all ages NO NAME SALOON 447 Main, Park City, 435-649-6667 PARK CITY LIVE 427 Main, Park City, 435649-9123, Live music PAT’S BBQ 155 W. Commonwealth Ave., SLC, 801-484-5963, Live music Thurs.-Sat., All ages The penalty box 3 W. 4800 South, Murray, 801-590-9316, Karaoke Tues., Live Music, DJs PIPER DOWN 1492 S. State, SLC, 801-4681492, Poker Mon., Acoustic Tues., Trivia Wed., Bingo Thurs. POPLAR STREET PUB 242 S. 200 West, SLC, 801-532-2715, Live music Thur.-Sat. THE RED DOOR 57 W. 200 South, SLC, 801363-6030, DJ Fri., Live jazz Sat. THE ROYAL 4760 S. 900 East, SLC, 801590-9940, Live music SANDY STATION 8925 Harrison St., Sandy, 801-255-2078 SCALLYWAGS 3040 S. State, SLC, 801604-0869 THE SPUR BAR & GRILL 352 Main, Park City, 435-615-1618, Live music THE STATE ROOM 638 S. State, SLC, 800501-2885, Live music SUGARHOUSE PUB 1992 S. 1100 East, SLC, 801-413-2857 THE TAVERNACLE 201 E. 300 South, SLC, 801-519-8900, Dueling pianos Wed.-Sat., Karaoke Sun.-Tues. TIN ANGEL CAFE 365 W. 400 South, SLC, 801-328-4155, Live music THE URBAN LOUNGE 241 S. 500 East, SLC, 801-746-0557, Live music VELOUR 135 N. University Ave., Provo, 801818-2263, Live music, All ages WASTED SPACE 342 S. State, SLC, 801-5312107, DJs Thur.-Sat. THE WESTERNER 3360 S. Redwood Road, West Valley City, 801-972-5447, Live music WILLIE’S LOUNGE 1716 S. Main, SLC, 760-828-7351, Trivia Wed., Karaoke Fri.-Sun., Live music THE WOODSHED 60 E. 800 South, SLC, 801-364-0805, Karaoke Sun. & Tues., Open jam Wed., Reggae Thur., Live music Fri. & Sat. ZEST KITCHEN & BAR 275 S. 200 West, SLC, 801-433-0589, DJs

Spoon It’s been a long four-year wait between albums for Spoon fans, so when the Austin, Texas-based band released its latest album, They Want My Soul, it felt like something of a reintroduction. Previous die-hard fans will appreciate the new vibe that Spoon’s indierock tunes have evolved into, and new fans (maybe newcomers who heard the band’s relaxed 2010 album, Transference) can easily jump right in and groove to the eclectic guitar riffs and melodies not previously heard in their catalog. The single “Do You” is a perfect example of the band mixing old styles with new flavor, keeping simple guitar and drumbeats while blending in subtle piano and echoing vocals. A Giant Dog is also on the bill. (Rebecca Frost) Monday, Dec. 8 @ The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 9 p.m., $25 in advance, $30 day of show, DepotSLC.com

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Science-fiction novelist Philip K. Dick has been one of my favorite authors since I discovered his work years ago. I love how he reconfigured my mind with his metaphysical riffs about politics and his prophetic questions about what’s real and what’s not. Recently I discovered he once lived in a house that’s a few blocks from where I now live. While he was there, he wrote two of his best books. I went to the place and found it was unoccupied. That night I slept in a sleeping bag on the back porch, hoping to soak up inspiration. It worked! Afterward, I had amazing creative breakthroughs for days. I recommend a comparable ritual for you, Aquarius. Go in quest of greatness that you want to rub off on you. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Do you enjoy telling people what to do? Are you always scheming to increase your influence over everyone whose life you touch? If you are a typical Pisces, the answer to those questions is no. The kind of power you are interested in is power over yourself. You mostly want to be the boss of you. Right now is a favorable time to intensify your efforts to succeed in this glorious cause. I suggest you make aggressive plans to increase your control over your own destiny.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) In 1662, Dutch painter Rembrandt finished The Oath of Claudius Civilis. It was 18 feet by 18 feet, the largest painting he ever made. For a short time, it hung on a wall in Amsterdam’s Town Hall. But local burgomasters soon decided it was offensive, and returned it to the artist to be reworked. Rembrandt ultimately chopped off three-fourths of the original. What’s left is now hanging in a Stockholm museum, and the rest has been lost. Art critic Svetlana Alpers wishes the entire painting still existed, but nevertheless raves about the remaining portion, calling it “a magnificent fragment.” I urge you to think like Alpers. It’s time to celebrate your own magnificent fragments.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) The limpet is an aquatic snail. When it’s scared, it escapes at a rate approaching two inches per hour. If you get flustered in the coming week, Capricorn, I suggest you flee at a speed no faster than the limpet’s. I’m making a little joke here. The truth is, if you do get into a situation that provokes anxiety, I don’t think you should leave the scene at all. Why? There are two possibilities. First, you may be under the influence of mistaken ideas or habitual responses that are causing you to be nervous about something there’s no need to be nervous about. Or second, if you are indeed in an authentic bind, you really do need to deal with it, not run away.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) With both symbolic and practical actions, Sagittarius-born Pope Francis has tried to reframe the message of the Catholic Church. He’s having public showers installed for the homeless in Vatican City. He has made moves to dismantle the Church’s bigotry toward gays. He regularly criticizes growing economic inequality, and keeps reminding politicians that there can be no peace and justice unless they take care of poor and marginalized people. He even invited iconic punk poet Patti Smith to perform at the Vatican Christmas Concert. You now have extra power to exert this kind of initiative in your own sphere, Sagittarius. Be proactive as you push for constructive transformations that will benefit all.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Now and then, it is in fact possible to fix malfunctioning machines by giving them a few swift kicks or authoritative whacks. This strategy is called “percussive maintenance.” In the coming days, you might be inclined to use it a lot. That’s probably OK. I suspect it’ll work even better than it usually does. There will be problems, though, if you adopt a similar approach as you try to correct glitches that are more psychological, interpersonal and spiritual in nature. For those, I recommend sensitivity and finesse.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In 1989, Amy Tan birthed her first novel, The Joy Luck Club. Her next, The Kitchen God’s Wife, came out in 1991. Both were bestsellers. Within a few years, the student study guide publisher CliffsNotes did with them what it has done with many masterpieces of world literature: produced condensed summaries for use by students too lazy to read all of the originals. “In spite of my initial shock,” Tan said, “I admit that I am perversely honored to be in CliffsNotes.” It was a sign of success to get the same treatment as superstar authors like Shakespeare and James Joyce. The CliffsNotes approach is currently an operative metaphor in your life, Scorpio. Try to find it in your heart to be honored, even if it’s perversely so. For the most part, trimming and shortening and compressing will be beneficial.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You now have a special talent for connecting things that have never been connected. You also have a magic touch at uniting things that should be united but can’t manage to do so under their own power. In fact, I’m inclined to believe that in the next three weeks you will be unusually lucky and adept at forging links, brokering truces, building bridges, and getting opposites to attract. I won’t be surprised if you’re able to compare apples and oranges in ways that make good sense and calm everyone down.

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