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Mentally ill inmates struggle while the prison tries to prescribe their problems away. by stephen dark & eric S. peterson

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While the Legislature considers a major investment in criminal-justice reforms, mentally ill inmates struggle for sanity from behind bars.

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Letters Keep the Prison Central

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That’s None of Our Business

Amid all the hullabaloo over location of a new prison, aren’t we forgetting something really important? How successful can our prison be in rehabilitating offenders if we make it more difficult and costly for their families to visit?

Since loving relationships are essential in preventing future recidivism, convenience to the major population area should be a consideration. Families of prisoners are, typically, already financially damaged by the incarceration of their breadwinners, and Utahns shouldn’t be adding additional expense to their burdens in the form of longer driving distances.

In 1987, the FAU-FIU Government Center of the Florida International University completed a study of the impact of correctional facilities on land values and public safety.

Funded by the National Institute of Corrections, this study showed that “correctional facilities have no negative effects on property value, public safety, or the quality of life. Conversely, the study found that correctional facilities had important positive effects on the local economies.”

Buck up, Utahns! If you’re insisting on moving the prison, be willing to host it in your community. Your welcome will have a positive effect.

So Erin Mendenhall and Kyle LaMalfa are having an affair? [“Sources Confirm That Two SLC Council members Are Having an Affair,” Nov. 13, CityWeekly.net] Thanks, City Weekly, for providing the answer to the question, “When is news not news?”

City Weekly claims to have corroborating witnesses to this story of an alleged affair. While it is true elected officials are very public figures, City Weekly does not present evidence that this alleged affair has resulted in dereliction of duty against the citizens of SLC, from either Council member. City Weekly also claims to have no knowledge of the duration and “magnitude” of the alleged affair, as if knowing and reporting those details would bolster the story. In the absence of a crime committed, this report is best described as prurient sensationalism meant to shame and humiliate.

Unless and until Mendenhall and LaMalfa commit a crime, news of any aspect of their private lives are none of our business. Democracy thrives as long as there is an informed electorate and we must have an independent press to inform us and keep government in check. City Weekly’s tabloid story about Mendenhall and LaMalfa demonstrates mission drift that serves no one.

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Take It Seriously

My gay Democratic Utah State Senator Jim Dabakis, recently also the Chair of the Utah State Democratic Party, has positioned himself firmly into the prominent role as the comedic—self-effacing and slightly barbed toward the powers that be—Jester to the Divine-Right Royal Court of the Mormon church’s top leaders who control Utah at all levels.

That role, as so far quite successfully carried out by Dabakis, is personally lucrative, both financially and otherwise. But it is ultimately not a serious or effectual way of changing Mormon church court/state ideology, policy and behavior for the better. Making cutesy comedic videos involving charity gimmicks with Gayle Ruzicka and treating essential external criticism and critics of Utah as though they are merely talking undeserved-meddling smack about our team in a football rivalry are certainly ways to fulfill his Jester role. But it makes nothing better for those oppressed in Utah whom he claims to be standing up for.

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OPINION

Career Choice

A few weeks ago, President Barack Obama gave a speech on women and the economy. In his remarks, he noted how family-unfriendly workplaces often force women out of jobs, despite the financial strain this puts on families who cannot sustain a one-income household: “Someone, usually Mom, leaves the workplace to stay home with the kids, which then leaves her earning a lower wage for the rest of her life as a result. And that’s not a choice we want Americans to make.”

Note that the choice President Obama referred to isn’t a woman’s choice to stay home or work. He was talking about the heartbreaking decision faced by numerous two-income families: the choice between a family’s emotional well-being and its financial stability.

But many perceived these statements as evidence of the president’s secret hatred for stay-at-home moms. Some insisted the suggestions for subsidized day care and parental leave are “too expensive” and “disastrous” for the economy, unaware that declaring women’s financial stability as “too expensive” might be more insulting than the president suggesting women might want to work outside the home. Many a stayat-home mom blogger smugly insisted that her decision to stay home made her a better mother, since she didn’t need something as superficial as money to sustain her. Others admitted their decision to stay home came at a financial cost, but the sacrifice of living on one income was “worth” living in a smaller home, or driving a less expensive car.

Both positions come from a place of immense privilege. Politicians declaring subsidized day care is an unnecessary expense aren’t the ones dropping Junior off at a neighbor’s house, hoping he gets fed. Mothers comfortably supported by a spouse’s income aren’t facing homelessness after missing work because the babysitter didn’t show up. The people decrying Obama for wanting to ensure economic stability for working women reveal not only their privilege, but a continued disdain for the

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groups Obama’s policies would benefit most: low-income families, single mothers and working women.

The Deseret News ran a piece responding to Obama by explaining why stay-at-home moms are better than the type of moms he wants to help. The article cites snippets of studies regarding stay-at-home parents, cobbling them together to claim that women who stay home raise healthier and smarter kids. After all, according to the D-News, “stay-at-home moms shape their children into who they are” by creating positive home environments. This, apparently, cannot be replicated by a working mother, or a stay-at-home dad.

The snippets from the studies used by the D-News are likely true. But they don’t discredit the multitude of equally valid studies showing the positive or neutral impact of two-income households. In 2010, the American Psychological Association reviewed 50 years of research on working mothers, all indicating that the children of working parents “didn’t have worse academic or behavior problems” than their peers. And the D-News piece fails to acknowledge the issue of false causation. Are children of stay-at-home parents healthier and smarter because Mom didn’t work, or because they came from a financially stable family that could afford nutritious food and good tutors?

The D-News also claims stay-at-home motherhood is a career worth an imaginary $117,000 a year, while working moms are only worth $68,405 (not including the actual real-life money they earn). This is the most insidious response to Obama’s message, because it tries to trick the public into thinking motherhood is a job or career, when it’s not.

I don’t mean that motherhood isn’t a difficult, rewarding and satisfying endeavor in many ways similar to a job or career. While it may be similar, it isn’t the same thing. A

job or career is work that earns financial compensation. I don’t consider my role as a mother a “job,” just as I wouldn’t list “wife” or “sister” on my résumé. Many important life pursuits do not bring in a paycheck, including parenthood, volunteering and pursuing an education. Suggesting that income is the only way to measure the value of an activity is classist and limiting.

But implying that motherhood is a career worth lots of imaginary money allows people to ignore the negative impact our current career model causes for both working and non-working mothers. If motherhood is a career, it doesn’t matter if a woman is forced to leave her job due to lack of maternity leave or lack of child care options; she already has a “career” waiting for her at home!

Employers can justify hiring discrimination, assuming women are just going to eventually get pregnant and leave for the “high-paying” work of staying at home. Motherhood is a career until a woman tries to re-enter the workforce, now it’s a gap in her résumé. Motherhood is a career and apparently fatherhood is not, so forcing women out of the workforce gives them a raise to a pretend $117,000!

Stay-at-home parenthood is a worthy life choice, with economic benefits, and should be recognized as such. I support subsidized child care for working parents, as well as financial incentives for families relying on a full-time stay-at-home parent. Overall, I support policies that recognize a variety of work/life balance models, a point Obama tried to make when he stated that women shouldn’t be forced to choose between motherhood and career. By recognizing that the relationship between mother and child is different from the relationship between employer and employee, Obama doesn’t denigrate motherhood, but gives women the respect they deserve as both mothers and people. CW

motherhood is a career until a woman tries to re-enter the workforce.

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Can you be a good parent and a good employee at the same time, or do you have to choose?

Stephen Dark: Once upon a time, I remember, my kids would excitedly point out their dad’s name at the bottom of a cover story glaring out from a street box. These days, they resentfully mumble about me spending all my time listening to other people’s stories, and I feel my good-parent status crumbling into dust. Yet I can’t help but notice that both of them are evolving into young writers. My 12-year-old posted her first blog about Dr. Who’s love life. So, perhaps I did something right along the way.

Paula Saltas:

It’s all about being organized and f lexible to keep my sanity, and not worrying about if the house is clean or not. (John, it’s OK if the kitchen is messy).

Susan Kruithof: Well, of course. Working is a fact of life. Kids know this, and we do our best to give the time we need to our kids without jeopardizing our work standards. Of course, it helps to have an understanding employer. I can’t tell you how many times I have brought my kids into work. Love you, City Weekly!

Jeremiah Smith: I think you had better ask my kid. Be warned, he is liable to change is opinion based on how the time-out-to-cookie ratio is that day.

Scott Renshaw: Sure, it’s not hard to be “good” at several things at the same time. The real question is whether you can be a great parent and a great employee at the same time. And the answer is no. Because you will never be as good at anything as you will be at the thing that matters most to you.

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Late Nights Lisa, Lisa, Lisa. Remember the saying, “Build it, and they will come”? That’s the way it is with nightlife. Salt Lake City Council member Lisa Adams isn’t sure there’s a demand for keeping the main library open 24-7, but how can you know until you try? And once one venue opens, often others follow suit. Just imagine a real nightlife in downtown Salt Lake. Then there are the people who worry about a homeless takeover—and increased crime—if the library stays open. That, however, is a matter of enforcement. Providing a safe place for the homeless to sit and read may not be such a terrible idea, either.

And speaking of gathering places, The East Liberty Tap House, the first neighborhood bar, is about to open in the 9th & 9th area. Maybe it’s not such a bad idea to provide places for people to go rather than troll the streets.

Locked In The Utah Legislature, in its infinite wisdom, has set the state on a course to enrich developers and line the pockets of some well-to-do landowners. A ll this in the name of building a better prison. Never did the Legislature seriously consider rebuilding on site, and that is the tragedy. Here’s the latest headline: “Cities balk at list of six potential prison sites,” and that includes West Jordan and Salt Lake City. OK, we knew this was coming because of the NIMBY factor, but maybe that’s something to consider.

Besides rebuilding, Utah should be looking at prison reform—ways to reduce the prison population and cut recidivism. Instead, The Salt Lake Tribune has discovered, the potential sites belong to the rich and politically connected. Go figure.

Voter’s Choice We thought we misheard Gov. Gary Herbert when he said, yeah, it’s a great idea to sue me. Among the many litigable issues, this one is about state Republicans saying “you’re not the boss of me.” Senate Bill 54 is the compromise from the last legislative session that allows potential candidates an alternate route to the ballot. The GOP honchos don’t like it because they adore the neighborhood caucus system that allows a few political activists to run the show. To be fair, there are some Democrats who want to preserve the mass-meeting system, too. But in Utah, it probably doesn’t matter how you choose candidates. Most voters just follow the herd and seem perfectly happy to do what they’re told.

Longtime doodler Josh Scheuerman is always in search of a creative outlet, whether that be skateboarding, snowboarding, graphic design or, more recently, painting. Scheuerman founded the Art Adoption event with the goal of finding homes for his and other local artists’ work, and creating a positive community event.

This year’s winter Art Adoption is at Photo Collective Studios (561 W. 200 South) on Saturday, Dec. 13, from 7 to 11 p.m., and will feature paintings, prints, jewelry, cards, pottery and other items made by local artists. The event is partly in benefit of a local couple looking to adopt a child—each artist has been asked to set aside one piece of work, the proceeds from which will go directly to the couple. For more, visit CityWeekly.net or Facebook.com/SLCArtAdoption.

Why does the Art Adoption exist?

I started painting six years ago and found out fairly early on that there’s nowhere to sell the art that you create. You either have to go to restaurants or coffeeshops, where most people think of it as decoration with price tags; people don’t really think, “Oh, I’m going to get that.” It’s really hard to get your art out there in the world, on gallery stroll, or have a group showing. So I came up with the idea that I was going to have my own party, and invite other artists, and create an event with the intention of having a place for artists to sell art.

Why does art need to be adopted?

The reason it was called Art Adoption is that they’re orphans. You maybe sell two or three pieces per show, and then you end up with the rest of them that you don’t know what to do with. Once you show a piece once or twice, you don’t want to show it anymore. I had some orphans lying around as well and was trying to figure out how to get rid of them. You put money and time into them, so it’s hard to not do something with them.

What’s the value for artists?

Some of the most recognized artists in the valley are involved in this [Sri Whipple, Trent Call], and then it’s some artists’ first show. It can be intimidating to be with these wellknown artists, but to get to a gallery stroll showing, you have to have some connections, and be really, really, really good at what you do. And most people don’t build up enough confidence in themselves and their art. Just being able to show it once or twice may build them up enough to pursue it. It’s a chance for them to meet other artists, as well. There’s a collaborative effect that goes on, with the artists meeting each other, and the public being able to go hang out with the artists as well.

Beyond shoulder-rubbing with local artists, what are the perks for the public?

I tell artists to bring stuff that they want to let go of, and let go of in a way that is responsible for them financially, but also gives people incentive to take it home with them. I encourage print-makers to have price points in the lows and highs. I tell people that up to $80 is pretty negotiable; after that, people got to really like the stuff. It’s really easy to go to Target and Anthropologie to buy art or cards, or to Ikea and buy an $80 reprint of an iconic image. But you can get local, awesome art for the same price, or less.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Trickle Down

BY CECIL ADAMS

There has been a lot of discussion on the distribution of wealth, particularly to the top 1 percent. I’m wondering about the bottom 20 percent—how do they compare to the bottom 20 percent of 50 years ago? Based on casual observation, it would seem the lowest class is much better off than a couple of generations ago. Is that true, or am I just getting cynical in my old age?

—DJ, Minneapolis As anyone who reads both The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times knows, the answer to this question can vary wildly depending on your political affiliation. We here at the Straight Dope valiantly strive to be a voice of reason in these partisan times, however. Brace yourself for heavy usage of the word quintile.

Worldwide, the lives of people in the very lowest-income countries have improved— or at least they last longer and are punctuated by fewer diseases. Dramatic progress has been made over the past two decades in particular: Life expectancy for the bottom quarter has improved by twice as much as in the highest-income countries. Nearly two billion people have gained access to what the World Health Organization calls “improved sanitation” (i.e., safe drinking water and hygienic latrines). Mortality as a result of TB, malaria, AIDS and measles have all gone down. The maternal and under-5 mortality rates are significantly lower, and there are fewer underweight children. Progress in these areas has vastly exceeded that for the top quarter, and poverty has dropped from 40 to 14 percent worldwide.

That’s pretty much the end of the good news. Yes, the poorest denizens of the poorest corners of the world have stopped dying from the most easily preventable of diseases. But here at the other end of the spectrum, we’re going in the opposite direction. From the end of World War II into the mid-’70s, overall U.S. economic growth was high, and income inequality significantly declined—the bottom fifth of the population’s income increased by more than the top fifth’s did for two decades.

Right around the time the mullet was becoming a popular hairstyle, though, it was growing increasingly clear that the golden years were over. Every academic paper pinpoints a slightly different year things started to go south, but the graphs all look essentially the same: Between 1980 and 2005 the bottom quintile’s income becomes a straight horizontal line (less than half a percent growth) while the top quintile is at a 45-degree angle (four times that much). The bottom fifth’s share of the overall wealth has deteriorated. In fact, the bottom 90 percent’s share of wealth has dropped by 25 percent. The richest 3 percent of Americans now own more than half of the country’s wealth. As much fun as we used to make of Imelda Marcos and her shoe collection, we now have a less equal society than the Philippines.

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But the inequality goes further than income. The gap in life expectancy between the rich and the poor has increased since 1980, as has the risk of death from cancer and cardiovascular disease. The relative risk of infant mortality for the poorest quintile compared to the richest has doubled. Gains have been made in all these areas across income levels, but the greatest benefit has gone to the richest 20 percent.

And the recession exacerbated these differences: Between 2007 and 2012 the bottom fifth’s income dropped by 11 percent. The top fifth’s income decreased by only 2 percent, and the top five percent of Americans didn’t suffer any change at all. The economically liberal will argue that our social safety net needed to work harder—but povert y-relief spending increased steeply after 2009, and U.S. poverty would have been 14.5 percentage points higher without those added benefits. Conservatives will say the issue is laws restricting commerce—but corporate profits have never been higher.

The problem is that only a tiny handful of people receive the benefits of these profits. It’s not hard to see this as evidence for the threshold hypothesis: the idea that for every state, there’s a point where economic growth stops benefiting society as a whole, and instead only serves to make the rich richer.

So where’s the Robin Hood in this situation? Some argue we need more college graduates in order to take advantage of the skilled-unskilled wage gap. This worked 70 years ago, when a huge wave of new high school graduates helped provide a more highly skilled workforce than any other in the world. But the globalized economy means American degree-holders would face more competition than ever, and any way the bottom quintile would likely remain unaffected.

Have things improved for the poor in the last 50 years? If you’re a white American male, not by much. (We left out the whole females-and-minorities end of the discussion, but hey, we’ve only got 850 words.)

Are we therefore screwed? Probably not, but I will say I’m glad I’m not the one in charge of the policy decisions, even if it means I’m staying out of the top quintile.

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SLC’s Pedestrian & Bike Master Plan proposes bringing 220 more miles of bike lanes to the city’s streets.

By Colby Frazier cfrazier@cityweekly.net @colbyfrazierlp From its days as a destination for track bicycle races in the early 1900s to a 1970s proposal for protected bike lanes on Redwood Road, Foothill Drive and Beck Street, Salt Lake City has long been enamored with bicycles.

But it has only been a decade since the city approved its first formal Pedestrian & Bicycle Master Plan, a document that carved out a place in the patchwork of streets and sidewalks for those who prefer a pounding heart and a little sweat to fossil-fuel powered propulsion.

That plan, though, has run its course, and the city now has a draft version of its new Pedestrian & Bicycle Master Plan ready.

The new plan, which the public can comment on until Dec. 17, touches on many areas that impact the lives of pedestrians and bicyclists, including signage, traffic-calming devices and traffic signals. But its main thrust is making biking and walking more inviting to residents who don’t feel comfortable cruising the city’s busy streets.

This, city officials say, is a common concern for cyclists around the country and one that was echoed as the master plan was cobbled together. According to the plan, 50 to 60 percent of those who commented on the plan said they would be more likely to take up biking if they were separated from the traffic.

To that end, the plan proposes 220 new miles of bike pathways over the next 20 years, many of which will be protected bike lanes, similar to those along 300 East and the ongoing project on 300 South. If this number of miles is completed, it will bring the amount of the city’s arterial streets with bike pathways up from its current level of 50 percent to 85 percent.

“It’s true here, too, that people are saying that ‘I would ride more often if I felt safer,’ ” says Robin Hutcheson, the city’s transportation director. This fact, she says, “led us to put a little bit more in this plan about protection.”

The plan, Hutcheson says, is as much about pedestrian improvements as it is about bicycling. It calls for more midblock crosswalks, which would include HAWK signage, which is like a traffic signal but remains solid red while a pedestrian is crossing, then flashes red for a short time, during which vehicles treat it as a stop sign, and then turns off altogether until another pedestrian presses the walk button.

“I always feel like what we do for our walking environment is one of the most important things we can do,” Hutcheson says.

Other pedestrian improvement efforts will include “refuge islands” in the middle of the roadways and better pavement markings.

For now, the plan is just that: a plan, Hutcheson says. She stressed that none of the proposals contained within are funded, and won’t be until the plan undergoes public comment, is voted on and accepted by the city council, and then implemented piece by piece over the course of years or decades.

But some pedestrian and bicycle projects are presently underway.

Among them are improvements to a crosswalk at 1250 E. 800 South, near East High School, where HAWK signage will be installed to better manage the flow of students who cross there. A bike boulevard project, which is a low-traffic roadway with signage indicating that it’s a bike boulevard, will be installed on 600 East. And a protected bike lane will be installed on 200 West. Hutcheson says this protected bike lane, unlike the one on 300 South, won’t have any impact on street parking.

The 300 South protected bike lane, though, offers a glimpse into the city’s bicycling future. Because surveys show

From top: A map of the city’s envisioned bike network in 2035; a painted shared lane on 200 South; a traffic diversion in Portland, Ore.; a rendition of a buffered bike lane.

All images from WalkBikeSLC.com

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Formation of the city’s first publictransit master plan will commence this summer, Hutcheson says.

Art Raymond, a spokesman for Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker, says the draft version of the plan is “very much the beginning of the conversation.”

Residents can view the plan at WalkBikeSLC.com, and submit comments online at SLCGov.com/OpenCityHall. The plan, at 110 pages, is expansive, though limited in detail when it comes to actual costs for projects.

Tom Millar, a bicycle and pedestrian planner at Alta Planning & Design, a consulting firm the city retained to create the plan, says cost estimates are scant because it’s difficult to know how much money a protected bike lane, or crosswalk signal, will cost in 25 years.

But the plan does provide an overview of the city’s cycling history, including its early days before cars, when most people got around on foot, or on bike. Then, like now, conflicts came into play that were hammered out through policies like banning bikes from sidewalks, and efforts by bicyclists to pave the muddy streets.

“By the 1890s, much like today, the increasing presence of bicycles in the city brought conflict that required action as well as a cultural shift in how residents went about their daily lives,” the plan says.

Millar says one of the key components of the plan is the large role that various educational and safety programs could play in the city’s future.

Some of these programs include school bike trains, where groups of students and parents ride to school together, and formation of “walking school buses,” where parents and groups of children walk to school.

Millar says city support for programs will help ensure residents know how to use the new bicycling and pedestrian systems.

“They don’t really do much if people don’t feel safe, if people don’t know how to bike,” he says. “The programs, they give people a head start.” CW

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it will lure more commuters onto bikes, the plan emphasizes “low stress” bike lanes.

These include all-out separation from traffic, like what appears on 300 South, where parked cars, concrete curbing and planters separate bikers from traffic, and the lanes on 300 East, where bike lanes are buffered from traffic by painted lines.

“Salt Lake City’s established system of multi-use paths and on-street bike lanes enables a modest percentage of the population to feel comfortable traveling by bicycle,” the master plan states. “People who feel comfortable riding in mixed traffic or in bike lanes adjacent to mixed traffic are generally able to access most places in the city currently. However, a much larger segment of the public would like to ride bicycles more but are discouraged from doing so by the currently available bikeways.”

These bike lanes won’t be cheap. The 300 South protected bike lane, which runs between 600 East and 300 West, cost $900,000.

According to the master plan, the 20 to 25 miles of proposed protected bike lanes would cost $600,000 per mile. An additional 35 miles of buffered bike lanes (lanes separated from traffic by paint) would run $25,000 per mile, while conventional bike lanes cost $20,000 per mile.

These costs, the plan shows, are puny compared with construction on the freeway, where the recent Interstate 15 construction in Utah County cost taxpayers $55 million per mile. The plan says that all of Salt Lake City’s pedestrian and bicycling improvements could be paid for just 30 percent more, or $71.5 million, than the cost of one mile of widened freeway.

Hutcheson says the cit y received “tremendous” feedback from residents about what they want to see with the city’s pedestrian and bicycling future, but the process is far from through.

Many of the comments, she says, focused on interfacing bicycling with public transportation. A great number of other folks were concerned about the Wasatch Front’s badly polluted air.

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Stop Burning Start Birding Some fleeting open space in Draper could be lost to a housing subdivision if city officials grant a rezone request from a developer. Houses are a major contributor to the Salt Lake Valley’s air-pollution problems, and so is wood burning, which studies have shown contributes massively to unhealthy winter air. To fix it, the Salt Lake County Health Department will take public comment on a new wood-burning regulation. On a brighter note, check out a free winter raptor field trip at the Great Salt Lake this weekend.

Draper City Council Tuesday, Dec. 16

Eight texting acronyms every parent should know:

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CNN (“Mom’s watching a news report on teen texting— LOL!”)

7. LMIRL (“Let’s meet in Red Lobster.”)

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SHART (“I got food poisoning at Red Lobster.”)

5. (R) (“Are you down for sex with a Republican senator?”)

4. 8> (“Quoth the Raven,

‘Nevermore.’ ”)

3. NCIS (“Can’t talk right now, Mark Harmon is in the room.”)

2. 520 (“Forgot about Daylight

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1. OCHO (“You’re not even trying, are you?”)

A 4.6-acre sliver of open space abutting what Draper city officials say is a possible wetland could soon sprout homes.

A developer is hoping to rezone the property at 12980 S. 300 East from its current allotment of one house per acre to three houses per acre. With a recent favorable nod from the planning commission, the council could follow suit.

Up for future debate, though, is the 3.5acre wetlands parcel, which is currently owned by a developer but is designated as future open space in the city’s master plan. The city, though, has no current plans to acquire the property.

Draper City Hall, 1020 E. Pioneer Road, 801-576-6329, Dec. 16, 7 p.m., Draper.Ut.us

Salt Lake County Health Board Thursday, Dec. 11

The Salt Lake Valley Health Department is considering a more restrictive ban on wood burning than the one state regulators have in place. The public can voice their comments on proposed regulation No. 35—which would prohibit burning on voluntary action days as well as mandatory action days—at a public hearing Dec. 11, or submit written comments online.

Salt Lake Count y Health Department Environmental Health Division, 788 E. Woodoak Lane, Murray, 385-468-4100, Dec. 11, 5-7 p.m., SLCoHealth.org

Raptor Watching Field Trip Saturday, Dec. 13

The Great Salt Lake is much more than just a serene body of water separating Salt Lake City from the slot machines in Nevada: it’s a bird’s paradise. And winter is a great time to view the state’s raptors. Join Hawk Watch for a free raptor-watching field trip along the Nature Conservancy’s 4,400 acres of protected wetland.

Nature Conservancy’s Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve, 41 S. 3200 West, Layton, 801-531-0999, Dec. 13, 9 a.m., HawkWatch.org

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After an employee confronted two burglars inside a business in Mulga, Ala., he chased them to a pontoon boat on a trailer hooked up to a pickup truck they had parked down the road.

Then one of the suspects opened fire with a shotgun. The employee called sheriff’s deputies, who said suspects Coy Michael Falls, 55, and Austin Blackwell, 19, yelled obscenities at them but were taken into custody. “Who commits a burglary while towing a pontoon boat?” Chief Deputy Randy Christian said. “Definitely a clown alert here.” (AL.com)

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n State police charged Gregory Louis Douglas, 40, with passing counterfeit $20 bills at a yard sale in Rayburn, Pa. The sale was run by Amy Miller, an experienced bank teller, who recognized the bills were phony. “She deals with money every day,” Trooper Terry Geibel said after police found uncut sheets of counterfeit $20 bills in Douglas’s car. (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

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Freedom Follies Eight in 10 Americans believe the public should be concerned about the government’s monitoring phone calls and Internet communications, according to a report by the Pew Research Center.

More than 90 percent of those surveyed agreed or strongly agreed that they’ve lost control over how their personal data are collected and used by companies. But 55 percent agreed that they’re willing to share some information in exchange for free online services.

(The Washington Post)

Carrying On Venice is banning tourists from using roller suitcases, which officials said make too much noise being wheeled across the city’s historic bridges and keep residents awake. To avoid the 500-

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A 45-year-old man died after shooting himself in the head and neck while hunting geese, according to police in West Windsor, N.J. “Although incredibly tragic, it is believed that the incident was solely an accident,” Lt. Matthew Kemp said. (Times of Trenton) n Police said Dennis Eugene Emery, 57, accidentally shot himself in the face at his home in Pinellas Park, Fla. According to the report, Emery was arguing with his wife when he got a gun and threatened to shoot one of the family dogs. He pulled back the gun’s hammer as if he were going to fire. He then started to release it to a safe position while pointing the gun at his face, at which point the gun discharged. (The St. Petersburg Tribune) n Becca Campbell, 26, died after she accidentally shot herself in the head with a gun she bought for protection in anticipation of violent protests in Ferguson, Mo., while a grand jury decided whether to indict Michael Brown’s killer. The St. Louis woman’s 33-year-old boyfriend told police Campbell was jokingly waving the weapon around in his car, saying she was ready for Ferguson, when she pointed it at him. He swerved trying to duck and rearended another car, causing the gun to fire. (CNN) n Christa Engles, 26, died after her 3-year-old son accidentally shot her in the head with a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun he found on a table in the living room, according to police in Tulsa, Okla. Child specialists who interviewed the boy “confirmed what the evidence led investigators to assume,” police Sgt. Dave Walker said, noting the boy repeatedly told officers, “Mommy shot.” (Tulsa World)

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n Shortly after filing its lawsuit against Hampton Creek, Unilever revised its own website to change some product descriptions from “mayonnaise” to “mayonnaise dressing” because they don’t have enough vegetable oil to qualify. (Associated Press)

euro ($625) fine, visitors will need suitcases with inflatable tires, although city official Maurizio Dorigo admitted they don’t yet exist. He expressed hope that a company will design and sell them by next May, when the ban takes effect. (Britain’s The Express)

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Food conglomerate Unilever, the maker of Hellmann’s mayonnaise, is suing San Francisco-based Hampton Creek, claiming its eggless sandwich spread Just Mayo implies it’s mayonnaise but doesn’t meet the Food & Drug Administration’s definition, which states mayonnaise must include “egg-yolk containing ingredients.” Just Mayo uses Canadian yellow peas instead of eggs. Unilever’s suit also contends Just Mayo has “caused consumer deception and serious, irreparable harm to Unilever” and the mayonnaise industry in general. Hellmann’s (labeled Best Foods on the West Coast) holds 45 percent of the $2 billion U.S. mayonnaise market. But Hampton Creek counts Bill Gates among its backers and in recent months has expanded to more than 20,000 Wal-Mart, Costco and other stores. Hampton Creek founder Josh Tetrick said he welcomed the suit to expand the company’s profile and to further “penetrate the places where better-for-you food hasn’t gone before.” (The Washington Post)

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Despite recent scandals and budget and workforce cuts at the Internal Revenue Service, Commissioner John Koskinen announced the agency is awarding millions of dollars in bonuses to “long-suffering staffers,” including those who’re delinquent in paying their own taxes. The IRS’s inspector general reported in April that 1,146 employees who had “tax compliance problems” a few years ago were handed bonuses totaling more than $1 million.

“It’s no wonder the American people find it hard to believe the IRS needs more money when the agency fails to collect back taxes from their own employees and instead rewards them with bonuses,” said Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah. (The Washington Times)

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y the time Ryan Allison was 21, he had a few goals for his life. He wanted to be a chef, get married and have children. But he also faced some challenges.

“I’ve never lived on my own,” he told a parolehearing officer at the Utah State Prison. “I’ve never had a job in my life, I don’t know how to read directions.”

That’s because for the previous 10 1/2 years of his life, Allison had spent only eight months outside of locked-down institutions.

And 18 months after sharing his modest ambitions, Allison was dead.

After at least 10 attempts to kill himself while serving five years in Draper prison for threatening a judge, the 22-year-old Allison took his own life by diving head-first from a sink or toilet fixture in a suicide-watch cell in the prison’s mental-health unit.

Allison’s life and death, says Disability Law Center legal director Aaron Kinikini, “is pretty typical of what happens when all the moving parts of the criminal justice system do what they do when somebody with mental illness is thrown into it; it’s a complete cluster from start to finish.”

Allison spent over half of his first three years in prison in solitary confinement. Solitary was the only safe place for him, according to the prison, but it also functioned as punishment for his infractions of prison rules. The DLC, which represented Allison in his last years, calculated in a report that 71 percent of Allison’s “misbehavior was punished with solitary confinement,” and two-thirds of the incidents for which he was punished “were related to his mental illness.”

The problem is, Kinikini says, that punishment only works for inmates who understand the carrot-and-stick philosophy. “Compliance with prison rules is going to be problematic when you don’t have much meaningful control over your actions,” he says.

And because mental-health programming is an inconsistent “patchwork,” Kinikini says, county jails and the state prison become the de facto warehouses for the mentally ill in Utah and the rest of the nation.

Which is why Allison—who was featured with three other mentally ill inmates kept in solitary in a 2012 City Weekly cover story—is far from rare in Utah’s jails and prison.

“There’s more Ryan Allisons in the corrections system than we would care to acknowledge,” Kinikini says.

The DLC found from Allison’s prison

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Mentally ill inmates struggle while the prison tries to prescribe their problems away.

records that it was very rare for him to see a psychiatrist—the prison has only one. As for the mental-health workers who “visited” him—speaking through the slot of his cell door—Kinikini says, “If you ask inmates, they would say, ‘They give us pills. They’re not therapists, they just write scrips.’ ” Indeed, between 2006 and 2013 (the most recent year of complete data) a total of 14,942 anti-psychotic medications were prescribed within Utah’s two prisons, an average of almost 1,800 a year. Those rates have remained relatively steady over the years, but other drugs have seen more significant increases. In 2006, there were 57 prescriptions for anti-anxiety medications, compared with 461 in 2013. In that same time period, prescriptions for anti-depressants have more than doubled—going from 2,943 in 2006 to 6,413 in 2013.

The prison, through spokeswoman Brooke Adams, says a change in psychiatrists “may have influenced prescriptions issued.” Other factors she cites as potential explanations for the rise in prescriptions include an increase in the number of inmates with mental-health issues, offenders being treated for mental illness outside the prison prior to incarceration, and the growth in the prison population from just under 6,000 in 2005 to almost 7,000 in 2013.

Adams says 16 percent of the prison population—roughly 7,000 inmates—have serious mental illnesses. That’s more than 1,100 inmates, overseen by approximately 40 clinical staff members. But Olympus, the mental-health unit generally reserved for “severe, persistent mentally ill inmates” has only 168 beds and currently houses 143 inmates, Adams says. Mental health’s budget is “a large portion,” Adams says, of the Clinical Services budget, which is roughly $31 million, of which $1.9 million is for “mental illness-related and psychotropic drugs.”

These numbers go straight to the heart of what will be one of the biggest issues on the Hill during the 2015 legislative session—a bold effort to revamp the prison and its programming as part of the Legislature’s plans to relocate the state prison, which currently sits in Draper.

The Pew Charitable Trust, in collaboration with the Utah Commission on Criminal & Juvenile Justice, recently told lawmakers that reforms could help contain nearly 100 percent of the costs of future prison growth, shaving off over half the cost of the $1 billion price tag associated with relocating the prison.

The Legislature’s desire to relocate the prison presents a unique opportunity to make a once-ina-lifetime investment in criminal-justice reform— dollars not just for a new prison, but for a new system, one that could build a network of credible communitytreatment resources to perhaps keep future Ryan Allisons from winding up as grim statistics.

Passing this legislation will be an uphill battle in

the 2015 Legislature, but a coalition of advocates, nonprofits and agencies—especially the Department of Corrections—are optimistic that now is the time to pass these reforms.

Due to the ongoing investigation into Allison’s death, the prison can’t comment on his history at corrections. But public defender Heather Chesnut, who represented Allison shortly before his death, calls him “a prime example of the lack of mental-health facilities we have in our system.

He was at the prison because we didn’t have anywhere to put someone like him.”

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From his birth, Allison was unwanted. According to his records, public defender Chesnut recalls, he was “subjected to a very heavy drug-use environment” as an infant and passed from one person to another without the stability of any basic care. Allison came to Utah when he was 4 years old after he and his sister were adopted by a family that moved to Utah County from California.

According to a 14-page document compiled by the Disability Law Center from prison records and Allison’s letters to them, from an early age he showed “conduct and impulsive control problems; as a result he was placed in several juvenile residential programs.” When he turned 18, Allison wrote, he was placed in a Utah County foster home “for people with drug, gang and problems with violence.”

Four months after his 18th birthday, in April 2010, he huffed some Axe body spray to get high and grabbed a steak knife from the kitchen. After a brief altercation over a social event his new foster family was attending, he pulled the knife and threatened his cousin with it, then ran off, subsequently surrendering to police.

That got him a misdemeanor charge of threatening to use a dangerous weapon in a fight. Once in the criminal justice system, he would never get out.

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adults with mental illnesses. In fiscal year 2013-2014, the majority of Colorado’s community treatment centers reported improvements in wellness of 1,387 clients served. Taxpayers saw relief, too: That year, $3.2 million of funding for community resources translated into over $19 million in savings for keeping these clients from being treated in prison, jails and community correctional centers.

The program’s administrator, Jagruti Shah, says this community-based intervention makes sense not just in Colorado, but nationwide.

“Are we going to continue to fund more jails or prisons or expansions, or are we going to try and keep these clients out, and offer them services in less restrictive areas where it’s cheaper to do these services?” Shah says.

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Rep. Eric Hutchings, R-Kearns, has been on the appropriations committee tasked with funding corrections programs for the past 13 years and has chaired the committee for the past six. His committee has always been the redheaded stepchild when it comes to funding priorities—until now.

Hutchings says the nearly $1 billion “sticker shock” associated with moving the prison has already set in, so now is the time to finally mobilize an added investment to rework the system from top to bottom.

“We’re not talking about just the buildings only; we’re talking about the entire system,” Hutchings says. “Everything outside the fence and everything inside the fence.”

Hutchings will be sponsoring legislation in the 2015 session bringing forward reforms developed by the Utah Commission on Criminal & Juvenile Justice and the Pew Charitable Trust that will be crucial in containing future prison growth.

Community-treatment programs could offer a variety of services: group homes that segregate offenders by the severity of their illnesses, or programs tailored to different demographics. The importance of community treatment is providing an environment where therapy and medication can offer a path to normalcy—instead of a setting where pills are paired with solitary confinement and the harsh existence of trying to find mental wellness while behind bars.

But if that means investing tens of millions into community treatment resources for individuals with substance-abuse disorders and mental illnesses, Hutchings says, it has to be done right, with treatment centers following evidence-based standards.

In the case of community treatment, the bill’s reforms would call for standardized certification for treatment centers looking for funding and evidencebased results—without which he doubts the Legislature would fund community programs.

“If we don’t come up with good numbers, this whole thing just dries up and disappears,” Hutchings says.

The other political barrier is convincing legislators that these reforms aren’t about going soft on criminals but about reconsidering who really is a publicsafety threat in our criminal justice system.

“There’s definitely [cases] for having very thick walls and very tough bars on it, but there’s also an awful lot of people that just screw up,” Hutchings says. “They’re just like ‘Help me, I’m not a bad guy, I just blew it.’ And there are some people, quite frankly, especially with mental-health issues, that it’s not even a choice for them.”

Other states are already seeing positive results for the mentally ill and for taxpayers by funding more community resources.

S i nce 2 0 07, Colorado’s legislature has provided special criminal-justice funding to its counties for community-based services for juveniles and

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While being held in Utah County jail, he used an intercom in his cell to tell a guard that he would kill the judge on his case for talking about sending him to prison. The threat earned him a felony charge, and on Nov. 3, 2010, he pleaded guilty but mentally ill before Judge Claudia Laycock, who sentenced him to five years in prison. But she found that his mental illness “poses an immediate physical danger to himself or to others […] if placed in a correctional or probation setting,” so she sent him to the state hospital in Provo for treatment.

Things did not go well. In a 2012 letter to City Weekly, he wrote that he attacked staff and patients, broke chairs, closets and shelves and fire sprinklers.

The act that led to him being sent back to Utah County jail in March 2011 was trying to break the neck of a patient at the hospital who had trash-talked him.

Laycock ruled that the Department of Corrections was “the correct placement for Mr. Allison,” so she reinstated the five-year prison sentence. “This is a young man who needs more help than you and I can provide for him,” she wrote to the parole board. “Unfortunately, the prison is the last resort for a defendant with his violent and disturbed background. He will need highly intensive supervision when placed on parole.”

Allison never made it to parole. The third day of his prison sentence, Allison attempted suicide by taking 40 pills from a prescribed blister pack. The prison ruled he was guilty of abusing and misusing medications and gave him 10 days in solitary confinement in Uinta 1.

In his first year in the prison, 13 of the 15 incidents he was punished for with punitive isolation “were likely related to Ryan’s mental illness,” the DLC wrote.

Allison wrote to City Weekly of his experience struggling for recovery in Uinta 1, where he endured lockdown nearly 24/7 in a single cell.

He was allowed out for a 15-minute shower every other day and one hour in a caged outdoor space—“a rec yard.” Transporting him to this space required him to be handcuffed, put on a leash, and wear a spithood. He got one hot meal a day, the other two meals being baloney sandwiches, with carrots and an orange.

After continued threats of suicide, Allison hanged himself in August 2011 and was found by officers “gasping for air.” He told a mental-health official he had tried to kill himself, the DLC report notes, because the hallucinated voices “were constantly telling him that no one loves him, that he is a fat, disgusting and worthless human being who needs to kill himself and who should do so as soon as possible,” The more time he spent in solitary, the more his mental-health issues worsened—which, in turn, led to more suicide attempts and self-harming so he could go to the infirmary.

Allison was more than aware of his own self-destructive impulses. In a Nov. 11, 2012, letter to the DLC, Allison explained that an inmate’s slide into suicidal thoughts and actions stem from struggling with the prison environment, regret over

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how they came to be incarcerated and shame for making their family look bad.

“These 3 reasons are [why] I attempted suicide,” he wrote. “When we attempt suicide here at the prison we are punished. And as you can see we can end up receiving Punitive isolation time.”

Allison was on multiple medications. But, according to a February 2012 note by a clinical services worker in Allison’s file, his medication “mostly cause sedation, but do little to help his mood.”

Sam Vincent, who treats the mentally ill homeless at Fourth Street Clinic, worked at the prison between 2008 and 2009. Mental-health clinicians who work at the prison are “heroic,” he says, doing the best they can with the resources they have. In front of someone clawing at their face with their fingernails, he says, a chemical restraint “seems the humane thing to do.”

Clinicians also have what Vincent calls “a tightrope walk” to get buy-in from officers to treat mentally ill inmates’ behavior as symptoms rather than misbehaving.

He says the increasing number of prescription medications at the prison might reflect national trends in the use of psychiatric medications over the last decade. “Meds are used to replace therapy in the private sector as well as in corrections,” he says. “Our culture is encouraging people to look for a pharmacological fix for emotional problems.”

CLOSING THE GAP It’s not just criminal-justice reforms that advocates are watching closely this legislative session. The fate of those whose mental illnesses and substanceabuse problems put them on a trajectory to prison is also wrapped up in the final approval of Gov. Gary Herbert’s Healthy Utah Plan, a custom approach to expanding Medicaid in the state. Herbert has been in long negotiations with the Obama administration to allow Utah to charge elevated premiums, require co-payments for services and provide certain insurance plans through the private sector in order to expand Medicaid to the nearly 100,000 Utahns who currently aren’t eligible for the assistance.

Pat Fleming, the director of Substance Abuse Services for Salt Lake County Behavioral Health, sees access to that money—$258 million—as crucial to building up community treatment programs in the counties that can intervene before individuals go to prison and, ideally, when they get out.

“I’ve got a four-month waitlist to get someone into a residential bed in Salt Lake County,” Fleming says. “I’m like the king of rationing behavioral health care—it’s a terrible spot to be in.”

With Medicaid expansion, Fleming says, programs in Salt Lake County could, for example, afford to separate low and high-level offenders in community-treatment programs, a targeted approach that’s been shown to improve outcomes.

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Medicaid expansion would also provide an incredible opportunity to individuals who regularly cycle in and out of the criminal justice system. At a recent criminal justice reform symposium, Jeannie Edens of the Salt Lake County Department of Behavioral Health Services shared statistics showing that, prior to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, Utah was in line with the rest of the nation, in that 90 percent of individuals entering county jails are uninsured.

Providing coverage to this population would also be a major relief for taxpayers, Edens noted, as the cost of two years of outpatient treatment is equivalent to 90 days incarceration or 19 days of a hospital stay. Beyond that, Medicaid expansion could finally provide resources for ex-convicts in the community to make them “into taxpayers, not tax users.”

LET ME OUT At least three times during his first three years in prison, Allison did achieve a measure of stability and pursued both vocational training and finishing his high school credits.

Graduating from high school was something that made him immensely proud, but Allison remained a fragile case. In 2012 alone, he had approximately 151 mental-health visits, though the majority of them, according to prison records, were what the DLC describes as “Direct Observation, or at his cell door within earshot of other inmates or guards,” with the health visitor speaking through a slot.

In early 2013, Allison’s behavior in Uinta 1 deteriorated yet again. “He mentioned that he cannot return to U1 as life there will be unbearable,” a mental-health official wrote in his file. “I took the time to explain (as has repeatedly been done) that if he behaved, he could leave there permanently.”

Despite such admonitions, Allison pulled most of his hair out of his head, some strand by strand.

He beat his face against the cell window when talking to a health visitor. “He reports that he will ‘do anything,’ ” a report by a clinical-services worker states, to get out of Uinta 1, the maximum-security wing, and over to Olympus, the mental-health unit of the prison. Prison staff viewed such behavior dubiously. “I suspect this activity is borderline and manipulation.” In March and April 2013, as his stress over an upcoming parole-board hearing grew, he inflicted horrific injuries upon himself. “Last month I did the following,” he wrote to the DLC. “I ripped my own Anus open with my own hand’s, I hung myself, I tried to drown myself in the toilet, I jumped off the sink backward’s headfirst, I broke 3 finger’s on my left hand with my own Right hand,” he tried to hit several infirmary officers, and as he was put on a gurney after he hung himself, “I was trying to bite a chunk out of my own hand.”

Allison went before the parole-board chairman, Clark Harms, in April 2013.

He told Harms how he wanted to have a life, any life, rather than where he was then. Harms told him he couldn’t be paroled until he was stable.

The cocktail of meds he was on did not stop Allison from

hanging himself multiple times, he told Harms.

“I hear voices and they tell me to do bad things,” he said.

As soon as Allison left Harms, despite having agreed to behave better, he hanged himself. A few weeks later, he received Harms’ recommendation that if he had no write-ups in six months, he might be eligible for parole. But since he had already tried to kill himself, that meant he had a write-up on his record and at that point, he later told a hearing officer, “I gave up.”

DEAD END Six months after seeing Clark Harms, Allison went before mental-health hearing officer Jan Nicol. She told him that both the institution and the executive director of the prison had recommended he not be released.

Allison wasn’t surprised. He told Nicol that, “When I get angry, I get to the point where I don’t care about anything and I go off.” She explained to him that while his violence might be sparked by officers trash-talking him, “really all you’re doing is punishing yourself.”

She noted that Allison probably couldn’t see her because he was not allowed glasses after breaking up his last pair and, at the suggestion of another inmate, swallowing the pieces in an attempt to perforate his bowels.

His sentence would end in May 2015, she told him.

“I would really like you to have help,” she said.

But that help never came. Allison attempted to castrate himself, spurred on by child-abuse issues from when he was an infant, according to what he wrote to a prisoner-rights advocate. That had earned him lockdown in a mental-health strip cell in the Olympus unit, he wrote.

In August 2014, Allison went to court on charges relating to assaulting two corrections officers by spitting at them. Four to six prison officers in full riot gear accompanied him, public defender Chesnut says.

He was found guilty but mentally ill and given a five-year prison sentence to run concurrently with the sentence he was close to finishing.

By then, Allison’s aspirations had changed from being a chef. He told Chesnut he would “never be able to openly live in public because he was too dangerous to himself and other people.” She says he hoped one day to be well enough to live in a group home. “I think he would have done anything to get rid of his insanity.”

One month later, on Sept. 12, 2014, Ryan Allison succeeded in taking his own life in a suicide-watch cell in Olympus, the mental-health unit. Staff gave him CPR to no avail. He was 22.

It’s unlikely Allison was aware of the political maelstrom swirling around the prison with calls for reform and funding for community services. Inside the prison, Allison was alone in his cell with the voices in his head. CW Nathan Turner contributed to this story. Visit CityWeekly.net for a timeline of Allison’s life in the Utah State Prison.

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THURSDAY 12.11 Latin American Dance Spectacular

Fifteen years ago, the Utah Hispanic Dance Alliance was founded to help strengthen community bonds by preserving Latin American art and culture in Utah. Since then, the mission hasn’t changed much, though UHDA’s reach has definitely expanded far beyond Utah’s borders— and this year’s annual Latin American Dance Spectacular highlights that growth.

The first time the Dance Spectacular was staged at the Rose Wagner Center was in conjunction with the Consulate of Mexico, celebrating its 90th anniversary in Utah. From those beginnings, the UHDA has performed all over the world, not to mention spawning many similar groups around the country.

In fact, the 15th-annual event has invited a number of alumni back home to help celebrate, along with partner organizations like Charlotte Salsa from North Carolina, Ballet Amalgama from Paraguay and Utah’s own Los Chasquis.

According to Artistic Director Jessica Salazar, it’s UHDA’s alumni artists who have really helped the organization keep going all these years, reaching more and more people and promoting that sense of community inclusiveness. “We are excited to see the collaboration of different affiliated alumni dancers united to celebrate 15 years of performances,” she says. “I am profoundly grateful to our community, dancers, supporter, partner organizations, alumni, family of our dancers who … have supported, applauded, valued, and followed what—after 15 years of effort—has become our Utah Hispanic Dance Alliance.”

Without that support, the Dance Spectacular— with its colorful costumes, authentic music, native dancers and artistic tour of Latin America—wouldn’t be able to live up to its name.

(Jacob Stringer) Latin American Dance Spectacular @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-3552787, Dec. 11, 7 p.m., $15. ArtTix.org

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Open only a few months, The Dahlia Room is helping enliven downtown’s Broadway District, which has seen some local favorite businesses come and go through the years. And The Dahlia Room is a novel addition to the neighborhood: it’s an adult store.

Occupying the site of a former joke shop, The Dahlia Room has the aura of a French salon, with all the possible implications of that word: You could imagine practitioners of the tonsorial arts, coloratura brushstrokes or the art of conversation finding a welcome environment here. Proprieter Jennifer Fei stocks a small but specialized inventory, from lingerie to soft bondage accessories, including items by local designers.

The shop has also showcased the photographs of Chris Madsen—dreamlike yet acutely illuminated—and opened the night of Nov. 21 for Gallery Stroll, presenting photographs by Keith Carlsen, whose photographs always tell a story. In this case, it’s a fully realized homage to the 1972 film The Getaway, starring Ali McGraw and Steve McQueen, complete with vintage ’70s automobiles. The prints are like movie stills, capturing the gritty realism of the era with the clarity of bold, natural lighting. The models for the shoot—especially the “female lead,” Sam—bear a remarkable resemblance to the original actors.

This exhibition—and its surroundings—may inspire you to act out some dramatic scenes of your own. (Brian Staker) Keith Carlsen @ The Dahlia Room, 247 E. 300 South, 801-953-0088, through Dec. 31, free. KeithCarlsenWeddings.com

For mixed-media painter Stanley Natchez to achieve his goals as an artist, he centers his efforts on balance—both in the physicality of his work and in the cultural messages that are personal to him as a Native American. His work involves an interplay between recognizable iconic motifs, creating an immediate, deeply felt and charged message, yet it’s also aesthetically interesting and resonates with the artist’s cultural heritage and ancestry.

According to the gallery statement for his current show at Modern West Fine Art, “Natchez feels strongly about communicating contemporary Native American philosophy that has been purged of any romantic or stereotypical idealism. … As a painter, [Natchez] has been balancing traditional and modern philosophies and techniques to achieve a complex harmony.”

Natchez paints a chief in headdress and cloaked with an American flag astride a white horse against a golden background of fireworks in “Born on the 4th of July” (pictured). The chief is not laughing. An American Indian on a galloping blue horse is poised backwards, pistol in hand, aiming at the rifles of four blue-armed cavalrymen. Painted in bright pop-art colors, on a canvas of enlarged tickets to Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, “Buffalo Bill Wild West Show” conveys an irony that’s less amusing than it is contemplative. In “Monopoly,” the image of a warrior, a young Native couple and a crude teepee gives new meaning and context to the conventional use of the traditional Monopoly board with a gilded gold background. This painting is not about fun and games. (Ehren Clark) Stanley Natchez @ Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, 801-355-3383, through Jan. 12, free. ModernWestFineArt.com

When he was a guest at Salt Lake Comic Con in September, actor Cary Elwes made frequent jokey references during his spotlight session to his new memoir about his experiences on the set of the 1987 classic The Princess Bride, where he played the heroic Westley. He even shared a few anecdotes with the assembled fans, including the generosity of Andre the Giant in sharing wine with the cast and crew. But all that was just a warm-up for the full collection of Elwes’ recollections about helping create that beloved film.

Inspired by a 25th anniversary reunion of the cast in 2012, As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride collects many of Elwes’ own recollections and stories, plus a treasure trove of never-before-seen behind-the-scenes photos, all sharing how the magical movie came to life. Elwes also includes new interviews with several of his co-stars, including Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest and Mandy Patinkin, plus novelist/screenwriter William Goldman and director Rob Reiner. The book also includes a new limited-edition poster by celebrated artist Shepard Fairey.

Elwes visits Salt Lake City again this week to tease fans with more of his stories, and sign copies purchased from The King’s English. Could any other book tell you as much about The Princess Bride? It would take a miracle. (Scott Renshaw) Cary Elwes: As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride @ Rowland Hall St. Marks, 843 Lincoln St., 801-484-9100, Dec. 15, 7 p.m., free ticket for 2 with purchase of book from The King’s English, $26. KingsEnglish.com

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t is tempting—particularly among the childless—to hold children to a higher standard of conduct than their capabilities permit. This thought was inspired—at a matinee performance of Salt Lake Acting Company’s sixth annual children’s play A Year With Frog & Toad—by the arrival some way into the performance of a child who proceeded to make constant and loud comment on the proceedings, and who was then given a cell phone to play with for the remainder of the show. All of this, naturally, in the front row, some five feet away from any downstage action, because why not?

Opportunities for entry into the Bad Audience Member Hall of Fame don’t come every day. And yet, per that unrealistic standard of conduct, this is not the kid’s fault. Nor, in a shocking plot twist, is it even the parent’s. If one is to put up entertainment for children, one must expect children, and for them to be as they are. This is not a hazard of children’s theater, but a function.

Helpfully, the nature of Frog & Toad is such that one does not miss nuance or subtext as a result of these distractions.

It is the simple story of two best friends, lent a reassuring air of permanence by its circular structure, and connection to nature by using each season of the year as a chapter. Then, as well, there are bright costumes, simple catchy songs and dancing, all of which are universal goods sorely lacking in grown-up entertainment. It’s the kind of show that’s perfect for its intended purpose, because even if one’s attention wanders momentarily, the whole is still so completely and consistently itself that missing one line won’t lead to problems “getting it.”

It’s entirely possible that the kind of presentational style favored by both Frog & Toad and Pioneer Theatre Company’s production of Peter & the Starcatcher is uniquely suitable to children’s theater, and entertainment aimed at children in general. While kids might occasionally pretend to be grownups when playing make-believe, just as (if not more) often, their flights of fancy transcend the plausible, because it is better to simply be a dragon and a unicorn at the same time than it is to fret that such a thing, to say nothing of its component parts, does not exist. Given this, it makes sense that entertainment made for children, just as diversion made by them, should focus instead on what is fun rather than what is real.

Peter & the Starcatcher is aimed at a somewhat older audience than Frog & Toad, but is no more concerned with being a staid, boring portrait of mundane jejune normal life. A prequel to/riff on Peter Pan, PTC’s production mines similar theatrical traditions as its recent One Man, Two Guvnors, if in a slightly less ribald fashion: women characters played by men in drag for comic effect, mustache-twirling villains and broad fourth-wall breaches. The jokes are proportionately a little more layered, with an element of “if you get this reference, pat yourself on the back” hipness, when they’re not broad fart jokes. In that duality is another element of the appeal of children’s entertainment pitched at this particular age group: the way in which works are designed to cater to both the kids and their parents.

It is striking, and warrants interrogation, that children’s theater (and entertainment in general) is characterized by its un-reality. One interpretation would be that there is no reason to subject the young—still possessed of an innocence that becomes untenable the more one engages with

Play time: Peter & the Starcatcher (top) and A Year With Frog & Toad the broader world—to the unpleasant things in life. While this is certainly practical—and, let there be no mistake, a good idea—this leads to a world of potential for artists who choose to work in more presentational, non-naturalistic forms. It bears remembering that while, in the theater, actors may indeed be physically in the audience’s presence, the scenes they play out are not “real.” They are fictions, make-believe.

But the real reason clear make-believe connects with kids is that honest acknowledgment of its un-reality. Kids are nothing if not honest. Look, if any proof is necessary, take that kid in the opening paragraph, yelling and playing with the cell phone. CW

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WEDNESDAY 11.17 Odyssey Dance: The ReduxNut-Cracker

Odyssey Dance has built its reputation on taking well-known work and giving it a lively modern-dance twist, whether that means the Halloween hijinks of Thriller or productions inspired

by Romeo & Juliet and Giselle. This year marks the second year of Odyssey Dance taking the beloved holiday classic The Nutcracker to its own unique place.

Using the original Tchaikovsky score, the company takes the tale of young Clara and brings it into the 21st century, as her imagination finds her pulled into her smartphone to find a world of robot tin soldiers and gangsta mice. By the time Herr Drosselmeyer pulls up in a DeLorean—and you’ve seen those beloved melodies you’ve heard a thousand times turned into the background for acrobatic hip-hop moves—you’ll realize there’s more than one way for a dance company to crack a nut. (Scott Renshaw) Odyssey Dance: The ReduxNut-Cracker @ Kingsbury Hall, 1575 E. Presidents Circle, 801581-7100, Dec. 17-23, 7:30 p.m. 2 p.m. Saturday matinee, $20-$45. KingsburyHall.org, OdysseyDance.com

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Cary Elwes: As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride, Rowland Hall, 843 Lincoln St., Salt Lake City, 801-484-9100

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Pink Martini: Joy to the World, Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 801533-6683 Forgotten Carols, Cottonwood High School, 5715 S. 1300 East, Salt Lake City, 801-517-3305 Steve Roens, Dumke Recital Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City, 801-581-6762 The Nutcracker, Eastmont Middle School, 10100 S. 1300 East, Sandy, 801-572-6222 The Wind in the Willows, Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, Park City, 435-649-9371 Ballet Ensemble, Marriott Center for Dance Laughing Stock Improv Comedy, Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-355-4628

Pink Martini: Joy to the World, Abravanel Hall Forgotten Carols, Cottonwood High School The Nutcracker, Eastmont Middle School The Wind in the Willows, Egyptian Theatre, Park City Ballet Ensemble, Marriott Center for Dance Laughing Stock Improv Comedy, Off Broadway Theatre Peter & the Starcatcher, Pioneer Theatre The Improvables, Playbills Theater, 455 West 1700 South, Clearfield Ring Around the Rose: Creativity in Action, Rose Wagner Center A Year With Frog & Toad, Salt Lake Acting Company Early Music Ensemble, Thompson Chamber Music Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City, 801-581-6762 James P. Connolly, Wiseguys Ogden Owen Benjamin, Wiseguys Downtown Bil Dwyer, Wiseguys West Valley

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Competition Winners, Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City, 801-581-6762 Peter & the Starcatcher, Pioneer Theatre

WEDNESDAY 12.17 PERFORMING ARTS Forgotten Carols, Cottonwood High School The ReduxNut-Cracker, Kingsbury Hall, 1575 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-7100 Peter & the Starcatcher, Pioneer Theatre

Bikuben, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-328-4201, Tuesdays-Saturdays, 6 p.m. through Dec. 20.

Dia de los Muertos, Salt Lake City Library Chapman branch, 577 S. 900 West, Salt Lake City, 801-594-8623, Mondays-Saturdays though Dec. 30 Keith Carlsen, The Dahlia Room, 247 E. 300 South, 801-953-0088, Tuesdays-Saturdays through Dec. 31 Enrique Vera: Landscapes of Northern Mexico, Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts, 631

W. North Temple, Suite 700, Salt Lake City, 801596-0500, through Jan. 2 Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Tom Golden Collection, Kimball Art Center, 638 Park Ave., Park City, 435-649-8882, through Jan. 4 The Horse, Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, Through Jan. 4 Statewide Annual â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14: Painting & Sculpture, Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., Salt Lake City, 801-245-7272, Mondays-Fridays through Jan. 9 Escape from Reality, Slusser Gallery, 447 E. 100 South, Salt Lake City, Mondays-Fridays through Jan. 9 Benjamin Cottam: Canyon Drawings, CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, 385-215-6768, WednesdaysSaturdays through Jan. 10 Jenny Morgan: Full Circle, CUAC, WednesdaysSaturdays through Jan. 10 William Lamson: Hydrologies, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-328-4201, Tuesdays-Saturdays through Jan. 10 New Narratives: Recent Work by U of U Art Faculty, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-581-7332, Tuesdays-Sundays through Jan. 11 Stanley Natchez, Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, 801-355-3383, Tuesdays-Saturdays through Jan. 12 Kent Budge: Natural Order, Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-245-7272, Mondays-Fridays through Jan. 16 Body Worlds & The Cycle of Life, The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City, 801-531-9800, Mondays-Saturdays through Jan. 31 Salt 10: Conrad Bakker, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Tuesdays-Sundays through Feb. 8

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as featured on the Travel Channel’s Freaky good: Bruges Waffles & Frites in Sugar Man V. Food. But there is so much House serves fresh omelets, including the Averell, more. Like waff le sandwiches which comes with Belgian “freakandel” sausage. ($7.99), for example. Yep, it’s a sandwich made with toasted waffles enjoy a signature cocktail and nosh on where you’d normally expect to find bread. fresh oysters on the half-shell ($3/each), There’s a veggie version; smoked salmon; baked mussels with herb butter ($12), or an Italian-style sammich; one with currytry a plate of toast smögen ($14), a Swedish lime tuna; a turkey, bacon & avocado; and crostini-type affair with shrimp, crab, a club sandwich. dill, horseradish crème, fresh lemon and Even more interesting, in my opinion, caviar. It’s a dish that’s made the trek from are the unique omelets ($6.99-$8.99).

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The Averell omelet, for instance, is eggs I have to admit being disappointed in with Brie, ham, roasted bell peppers, Kimi’s’ avocado shrimp appetizer ($10). It’s caramelized onions, portobellos and a not that I didn’t love the flavor of the shrimp choice of either one “freakandel” or two perched atop cucumber rounds with fresh merquez sausages. The “freakandel” is avocado, soy glaze and garnished with a play on frikandel, a Belgian and Dutch sesame seeds and tobiko. It’s just that for deep-fried, skinless, chicken-pork-beef $10, I’d expect more than a mere three sausage. You can also get the freakandel medium-sized shrimp—jumbo shrimp, at in a hot-dog-type bun ($9.25), or naked, the very least. topped with frites. My ultimate wish is While not exactly a bargain, a better that someday Van Damme will open a fullbuy was cashew-crusted sea bass ($32). It’s blown Belgian restaurant serving dishes a delicious dish, though the presentation like waterzooi, tarte au riz, filet Américain, doesn’t hit the high notes that Kimi’s lapin á la gueuze and moules-frites. But for décor or excellent service do; I thought now, Bruges Waffles & Frites serves my we’d gotten past stacking food atop more Belgian cravings admirably. food. In this case it was leek-butter sauce At the opposite end of the Sugar House topped with whipped potatoes, followed by price spectrum from venues like Melty a perfectly seasoned and cooked sea bass Way, Masala Grill, Habit Burger, Pho filet, with asparagus, dill and microgreens Thin and such is Kimi’s Chop & Oyster at the zenith, with dollops of lingonberry House (2155 S. Highland Drive, 801-946chutney strategically placed in four 2079, KimisHouse.com). I’ve known Kimi quadrants of the plate.

Eklund for many years, dating back to Sliced bavette steak ($30) served with the restaurants she opened with her thena rich port reduction, asparagus, roasted husband Staffan—Absolute!, Dijon and garlic and (by request) pommes frites Kimi’s Mountainside Bistro at Solitude— was tender and tasty, if predictable. Not and I wish her well in her newest endeavor. so predictable were the frites, which I’d I just hope that fine dining isn’t a thing expected to be standard french fry size. of the past, because Kimi’s is certainly Instead, these were big, thick wedges of a fine-dining restaurant, one with warm the sort I normally loathe. However, Chef hospitality and friendly charm.

Matt Anderson cooked these spud slices Kimi is nothing if not stylish, and as to perfection, somehow managing to make I expected, her new restaurant—in the them crisp on the outside, but not mealy or space that was formerly Caterina—is a undercooked inside. It’s the first wedge fry feast for the eyes. The modern bar with its I’ve ever loved.

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he past few years—and even the past months—have seen an explosion of new eating options in downtown Sugar House, the few square blocks with an epicenter at 2100 South and Highland Drive. Now that most of the dust has settled and the construction cranes have vacated the neighborhood, it’s beginning to look like a thriving new cosmopolitan center— especially as regards dining destinations.

From fancy, cloth-covered tables to fresh fast food, hungry Sugar House patrons now have a dizzying array of eateries in which to tie on the old feed bag. The question is, I suppose: Which ones will still be here a year from now?

Before I turn to the new kids on the block, I’d be remiss if I didn’t give props to some of the pioneers who helped make Sugar House 2.0 possible. With all the shiny new eateries, it’s all too easy to forget the folks who forged the way. Rocky Mountain Grill, Salt Lake Pizza & Pasta, Fiddler’s Elbow, Fat’s Grill, Tsunami, The Formosa, Hunan Garden, Sugarhouse Barbeque, Yanni’s, Este Pizzeria, O’Falafel, Blue Plate Diner, Michelangelo (now Omar’s) and others blazed a culinary trail in Sugar House that has allowed the new renaissance of that neighborhood to flourish. We should keep in mind and continue to support these longtime, established, independent Sugar House businesses.

That said, let’s take a look at some of the newer ones. With so many restaurants to write about, I’ve decided to do so in two parts. This week, I’ll focus on Kimi’s Chop & Oyster House and Bruges Waffles & Frites.

I remember a time when Bruges Waffles & Frites owner/founder Pierre Vandamme operated from a food cart at the Downtown Farmers Market. Eventually, he opened his first brick & mortar store, on 300 South in downtown Salt Lake. Now, there’s also a Provo location, the roaming Waffle Bus food truck, and the Sugar House eatery (2314 S. Highland Drive, 801-486-9999, BrugesWaffles.com), which is a couple of years old and features the biggest Bruges menu and selection.

At Bruges Waffles & Frites’ Sugar House store, you’ll find well-known items like Belgian-style fries with a multitude of saucing options, heavenly Liège waffles and the popular Machine Gun sandwich,

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Nature’s Wines Utah’s Ruth Lewandowski wines are nothing if not natural.

by Ted Scheffler comments@cityweekly.net @critic1

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any food fanatics around town know Evan Lewandowski as the sommelier and wine manager for Pago restaurant, where he’s assembled one of Salt Lake City’s more interesting and eclectic wine selections. But Lewandowski is also a winemaker, and a very passionate one at that.

Making wine in Utah is already an uphill battle. Making all-natural, organic, “hands-off” wines in Utah would seem to be the folly of a modern day Don Quixote.

But, as Lewandowski says, “If I don’t do it, someone else will.”

His w ines are made and marketed under the Ruth Lewandowski

(RuthLewandowsk iWines.com) label.

This leads many to think that the wines are named for Evan’s mother. In fact, Ruth is Lewandowski’s favorite book in the Bible: The Book of Ruth, which deals with death and redemption. He sees parallels in winemaking: “Nothing that is alive today could be so without something having died first,” Lewandowski says. And indeed, it’s this natural cycle of life that informs his approach to farming and to winemaking.

Ruth Lewandowski wines are unique, to say the least. They are truly natural, and undergo virtually zero manipulation anywhere along the way. Eventually, Ruth Lewandowski wines will be made from grapes grown here in Utah. For now, until those grape mature, Lewandowski makes his wines with grapes from California’s Mendocino County. They are organic and grown without the use of synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, fungicides or herbicides.

The wines themselves are made here in Utah. And this is where Lewandowski really partners with nature. Beginning with organic grapes, he produces wines that don’t employ cultured “designer” yeasts or bacteria. “No acid additions, no sugar, no water, no tannin, no filtration for f iltration’s sake, etc.,” he says.

“Insomuch as it is possible, I strive to produce wine made of solely grape juice.

DRINK That is, to me, the true expression of the land via the grapevine.”

Try Googling “approved wine additives” sometime. What you’ll discover is an almost endless list of FDA-approved additives ranging from acetaldehyde to calcium sulfate (gypsum) to poly vinylpolpyr-rolidone (PVPP), whatever that is. There are additives for clarifying, preserving, fermenting, stabilizing, coloring, producing tannins, smoothing, filtering, defoaming, fining and purifying wines, plus a lot more.

Lewandowski utilizes none of them, citing the cutting-edge Alsatian winemaker Christian Binner, for whom he worked in France.

Bi n ner, pr obabl y more than anyone, is L e w a ndow sk i’s mentor and winemaker model. And like Binner, Lewandowski pushes the limits for what is technically possible in winemaking.

For anyone accustomed to industrially produced wines (i.e., most of us), a wine like Ruth L ewa ndowsk i

Mahlon, made from organic Cortese and Arneis, is a revelation, with bold minerality, spice and floral qualities. Ruth Lewandowski Boaz—made with the notso-widely known Carignan grape—is surprisingly bright and even delicate, not traits normally associated with Carignan.

Of the three other Ruth Lewandowski wines released thus far—which include the Italian-style varietal Feints and sushifriendly Cortese-based Chilion—my vote goes to Naomi, a 100 percent Grenache Gris wine with sexy white peach aromas and tropical fruit flavors.

Now, my profile of Lewandowski might lead you to think he’s the prototypical wine geek. And, well, he sort of is. But he’s also totally down-to-earth, and a really fun dude to shred the slopes with at his favorite ski area, Brighton.

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Beer-based cocktails like the Beermosa are featured, along with popular pairings such as French toast with Big Bad Baptist Imperial Stout.

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The folks at Franck’s restaurant (6363 S. Holladay Blvd., 801-274-6264, FrancksFood.com) promise to make this Christmas Eve an affair to remember with a special four-course dinner created expressly for the occasion.

Priced at $65 per person (plus tax and gratuity), the Xmas Eve menu at Franck’s includes highlights like beer-battered sweet potato with togarashi peanuts, bacon, creme fraiche, red onion, cilantro and housemade hot sauce; heritage white-bean, roasted chestnut and lychee bisque; beef tenderloin and Wagyu beef cheek with Pinot Noir bone-marrow emulsion; and dessert of white-chocolate tart, vanilla cake “soil,” candy-cane gelato, peppermint caramel corn, dark-chocolate tuile and pulverized candy cane.

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After a long hiatus, the ever-popular Sunday brunch has returned to Park City’s Riverhorse on Main (540 Main, 435-649-3536, RiverhorseParkCity.com).

Every Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Riverhorse hosts Sunday brunch with live music and dishes such as Nutellastuffed French toast, a Utah red-trout BLT, huevos rancheros, duck confit eggs Benedict with hollandaise, buttermilk pancakes and much more, including cocktails, wine, beer and mimosas.

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Stoneground Kitchen

This cozy restaurant across from the library in downtown Salt Lake City offers delicious pizza concoctions like the Moon Dog, Greek God and the Forest Mushroom, as well as incredible pastas like the Artichoke Heart Throb and the lemon caper linguine. Make sure to end with tirimasu. 249 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801-364-1368, StonegroundSLC.com

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El Taconazo

This spacious Mexican taqueria on Redwood Road features plenty of terrific south-of-theborder flavors. Start off with the tasty fresh tortilla chips and the fabulous housemade salsa.

Burritos, tamales, enchiladas and quesadillas are all popular, but the house specialty is tacos.

The fish tacos alone are worth a visit, but the gorditas and the shredded beef burrito also get raves. 3505 S. Redwood Road, Salt Lake City, 801-886-1650

Goldminer’s Saloon

Located slope-side in Alta’s Goldminer’s Daughter Lodge, the Goldminer’s Saloon is the default spot at Alta for après ski and good munchies. The specialties here are beer and pizza, and more beer and more pizza. But since man (and woman) cannot live on beer and pizza alone, there are also heaping plates of nachos, tamales, burritos, quesadillas and calzones. And, if you eat or drink too much, you can always get a room in the lodge. 10160 E. Little Cottonwood Canyon Road, Alta, 801359-4311, GoldMinersDaughterLodge.com

Mi Ranchito Grill

Mi Ranchito Grill features authentic, inexpensive Mexican fare and—perhaps best of all—$2 margaritas every day from noon to 11 p.m. The tequila, lime and salt concoctions go perfectly with Mi Ranchito’s fare—smart diners skip the combo plates and go right for the muy authentico Mexican specialties. Definitely give the lava hot molcajete a go. 3600 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-263-7707

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Whether you eat in or out—Sampan is a popular takeout option—you’ll love the bold flavor of dishes like the beef with spicy Sichuan sauce, garlic chicken, string beans in black-bean sauce, empress duck, and fish in hot braised sauce.

Old-school types will enjoy the combo dinners, which include choices of select entrees along with soup, fried rice and an eggroll or paper-wrapped chicken. 10450 S. State, Sandy, 801-5760688; 675 E. 2100 South, 801-467-3663, ESampan.com

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The family-owned Pizza Runner has progressive politics along with great pizza, with a marquee that usually features a liberal quote. Conveniently located just around the corner from the liquor store for those who like a little wine with their pizza, Pizza Runner also offers jalapeño breadsticks, chicken wings and pasta. 3017 S. Harrison Blvd., Ogden, 801-394-4265

Elevations

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Located in the Salt Lake City Marriott Downtown, Elevations offers a great all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet and ski-town atmosphere, complete with antique skis, vintage ski posters and a warm, cozy fireplace. Porcini-crusted New York steak is one of Elevations’ specialties, and the chicken potpie is also a crowd favorite. 75 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-537-6019

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55 N. Main, Bountiful, 801-292-1835; 10263 S. 1300 East, 801-572-6123, Sandy, RoyalIndiaUtah.com

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According to the folks at Joy Luck Restaurant, open since 1998, “The ultimate goal is to make you and your stomach tickling, dancing and delighted with joy.” To that end, Joy Luck offers contemporary Chinese cuisine in a relaxing environment. Select from traditional favorites such as sweet & sour dishes, orange chicken, walnut shrimp and kung pao dishes, or more contemporary offerings like pon pon shrimp, ma po tofu and sesame chicken. The Cantonese flat noodles with beef is an especially tasty dish.

There’s also an appealing wine list, along with imported and domestic beers. 10745 S. State, Sandy, 801-501-0388; 566 W. 1350 South, Woods Cross, 801-298-0388, JoyLuckFoods.com

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Don’t get the idea that this is your typical pizzeria: for starters, you won’t find pepperoni on the menu. And how many pizza joints can you name that feature dishes such as braisedbeef short ribs, wood-roasted Brussels sprouts or charcuterie? The pizzas at Pizzeria Seven Twelve are wood-fired, thin-crust pies, topped judiciously with ingredients like hand-pulled mozzarella, butternut squash, housemade sausage, speck, caramelized mushrooms and onions, truffle oil, leeks and soppressata. The Pizzeria Seven Twelve crew is committed to using sustainably farmed produce, meats and cheeses whenever possible. 320 S. State, Orem, 801623-6712, Pizzeria712.com

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Westgate offers dishes like pork-belly tater tots, lobster chimichangas and fried green tomatoes at reasonable prices. There’s also après ski during the season from 3 to 5 p.m. along with a beautiful slopeside setting. There’s something for everybody, from applewood-smoked pork chops to the tofu & rice noodle bowl, and heavenly roasted spiral flank steak stuffed with spinach, goat cheese and onions with ultimate mashed potatoes. 3000 Canyons Resort Drive, Park City, 435-655-2260

El Matador

The Vera Cruz entree has been popular at Bountiful’s El Matador for years, with some loyal patrons ordering the plate—two cheese enchiladas, a beef taco and two battered jumbo shrimp—on every visit. The rest of the menu is made up of hearty portions of enchiladas, tacos, burritos and more, and you can choose from a variety of domestic and imported beers or a tasty nonalcoholic margarita to go along with your meal. If you aren’t already stuffed, you shouldn’t leave El Matador without topping off your meal with a house-favorite dessert, such as flan or fried ice cream. 606 S. Main, Bountiful, 801-292-8998

Nielsen’s Frozen Custard

Steve Nielsen started mixing, freezing and scooping his frozen custard in Salt Lake City in 1981. Since then, Nielsen’s has been given rave reviews.

Promoting a specially made custard that has less fat that normal ice cream, Nielsen’s is often packed on summer nights with teens and teens-at-heart. The

Simply Thai

The atmosphere at Simply Thai is cozy and casual.

The interior is decorated with vibrant colors, a few pieces of Thai art and wooden tables that are unadorned except for a bud vase of fresh flowers.

Lunch specials are delicious and affordable. Be sure to try the gang keow wan (green curry), tom kha soup, chicken or pork satay, yum tofu and massaman curry. An order of Thai coconut ice cream is a great finish to a Simply Thai meal. 37 W. 10600 South, Sandy, 801-307-1221, SimplyThaiUtah.com

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Road Island Diner

The kitschy neon signs beckon you to stop at the Road Island Diner, and the food will prompt you to return again and again. The pancakes, waffles and Southern-style biscuits & gravy are especially tempting breakfast items. And the omelets and corned-beef hash are terrific, too. Lunchtime brings out a barbecue pulled-pork sandwich, a lamb sandwich, a classic Reuben and a really good toasted sub with roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy. In the evening, try the baby back ribs, meatloaf and stuffed chicken breast, then finish it all off with shake, malt, float or sundae from the fountain. The banana split is super, too. 981 W. Weber Canyon Road, Oakley, 435-783-3467, RoadIslandDiner.com

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Located in a west-side strip mall, this unassuming, inexpensive Asian-American eatery is casual, quick and friendly. There are Chinese dishes on the menu, but the real draw is the Vietnamese fare. You can try the chow mein and the chop suey, but also direct your attention to My Tien’s excellent pho, spring rolls, lemon chicken, barbecued pork, tasty duck and bamboo rice-noodle soup. Interesting beverages include Vietnamese iced espresso and ice-preserved plum drinks. 3574 S. Redwood Road, West Valley City, 801-975-8952

signature treat is the Concrete: a shake-like dessert that can be spiced up with a number of different mixins. If you find yourself hooked, take a pint home for a late-night snack. 3918 Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-277-7479; 570 W. 2600 South, Bountiful, 801-292-7479

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Pho Cali

Pho Cali has one of the best selections of Vietnamese noodles in West Valley City, serving pho, hu tieu, bun bo hue and more. Start off with egg rolls or pot stickers and then enjoy a big, steaming bowl of pho, seafood noodle soup, stirfried flat noodles with beef, barbecued chicken or pork, or perhaps vermicelli with shrimp. For a different beverage, try the iced salty lemonade or iced salty plum drinks. 1631 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-972-2808

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Stone Ground and its use of Old World baking techniques and centuries-old family recipes is recognized as a premier bakery in Utah. Restaurant breads have been baked here since 1979, and now European hearth breads, pastries and specialty coffees are available for retail customers. Today, Stone Ground Bakery continues to use a traditional style of baking and original recipes for its artisan breads like Tuscan, German rye and pumpernickel, limpa, foccacia, ciabatta, baguettes and much, much more. 1025 S. 700 West, Salt Lake City, 801886-2336, StoneGroundBakery.com

Bangkok Thai on Main

It would be quite enough for Bangkok Thai on Main simply to dish up the splendid Thai cuisine it does. But this long-enduring local establishment also tempts customers with one of the state’s finest wine lists, winner of Wine Spectator’s Award of Excellence.

So, you can pair dishes such as a lobster-mango spring roll, butternut-squash soup, honey-ginger duck and the tamarind filet mignon with the perfect

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wine to bring out the tangy, spicy flavors. For fiery fare, try the spicy mint noodles, the massaman curry, pad ga prow, or the gang phed ped yang along with a Royal Thai rum smoothie to help put out the fire (or at least dull the pain). 605 Main, Park City, 435649-8424, BangkokThaiOnMain.com

Super Grinders

Super Grinders is an original and has been around since long before chain sandwich shops began popping up everywhere. All the sandwiches (grinders) here are made to order by hand from a generous selection of meats, cheeses and vegetables. You can get a classic cold-cut combo, or try something a little different like pepper steak or breaded veal. 305 W. 4500 South, Murray, 801-263-3007

Roma Ristorante

Roma is a little taste of Italy in Murray, with a friendly Americanized flair. Rustic soups like the potato-spinach are popular here, as is the pasta selection. Begin with housemade bruschetta or a Mediterranean salad before moving on to bigger

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Simon’s Restaurant

Simon’s Restaurant at the Homestead Resort in Midway serves a spectacular Sunday brunch buffet with a wide variety of breakfast and lunch items to fit any taste. Some of the featured items at Simon’s include carved Prime rib, eggs Benedict and a made-to-order omelet station. Simon’s also has some of the friendliest wine prices in the valley.

Reservations are required for holiday brunches.

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Chef Ross Siragusa combines the traditions of his Sicilian grandparents with some modern culinary flair to create a cozy Italian experience. A large gluten-free menu complements some good oldschool Italian comfort food like osso bucco and manicotti. Siragusa’s has locations in Cottonwood Heights and Taylorsville, so you’re never far from getting a tiramisu fix if the need arises. 4115 S. Redwood Road, Taylorsville, 801-2681520; 2477 E. Fort Union Blvd., Cottonwood Heights, 801-943-0320, Siragusas.com

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Sushi Blue

For a unique dining experience, visit Park City restaurateur Bill White’s Sushi Blue, which features sushi, contemporary Asian food and a sake bar.

The impressive sushi menu has a variety of nigiri, sashimi and maki rolls, including signature rolls, many playfully named after celebrities. Diners with a palate for more exotic ingredients will be delighted by the Snow Dance roll: spicy tuna with shrimp tempura, avocado, cucumber and mango wrapped in soy paper, topped with spicy tako. But don’t forget to try something off the small-plates menu, like the Korean street tacos or crab cake & avocado sliders.

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Named for owner Charlie Perry’s great-grandmother, Eva offers both tapas-style small plates and larger ones in a friendly, urban atmosphere. Like much of the food, the restaurant itself is stylishly simple.

The smallish rectangular dining room feels larger than it really is, thanks to high ceilings and a smart use of space, and the service is casual and friendly.

Regardless of what else you order, be sure to try the luscious, crispy fries cloaked in a mixture of garlic with fresh rosemary and Parmesan. And if you think you don’t like Brussels sprouts, you just haven’t tasted Perry’s thinly shaved sprouts, flashsauteed and tossed with cider vinegar and toasted hazelnuts.

Also enjoy weekend brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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With Sage’s Cafe, Ian & Kelsey Brandt have created one of Salt Lake City’s most unique and endearing dining spaces—vegetarian or otherwise. Located since late 2013 in the iconic former Jade Cafe building, Sage’s specialty is vegetarian, organic cuisine. And with the new location came The Jade Room, a cozy back room that offers a full bar, craft cocktails, wine, local brews, seasonal small plates and a stylish mid-century atmosphere. Sage’s is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day, with late-night weekend dining and an extended brunch menu on Saturday and Sunday. 234 W. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-322-3790, SagesCafe.com

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Even Stevens Sandwiches

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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, 385-355-9105, EvenStevens.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, 801-466-9527, HarborSLC.com

Tosh’s Ramen

“Tosh” is chef/owner Toshio Sekikawa, whose name you know if you’re a fan of Asian cuisine in Utah. Tosh is a wonderfully outgoing and generous guy, and Tosh’s Ramen suits his personality. It’s a simple ramen shop— 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

Sole Mio Ristorante

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

Maxwell’s East Coast Eatery

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

Sweet Home Chicago Pizzeria

Thick, deep-dish pies were made famous at Chicago’s Pizzeria Uno, The Original Gino’s Pizza, Connie’s, Giordano’s and others. However, equally in demand in the Windy City—maybe even more so—is Chicagostyle thin-crust pizza of the type you’ll find at Sweet Home Chicago Pizzeria, also called a “flat” pizza in the Windy City. The former owner of a successful pizzeria in Chicago’s ‘burbs called Pepe’s, Jim Pecora relocated to the Salt Lake Valley with the intent of bringing “real” Chicago pizza to Utah. Mission accomplished. Reviewed Oct. 9. 1442 E. Draper Parkway, Draper, 801545-0455, SHCPizza.com

Este Pizzeria

When most of us think of NYC-style pizza, we’re thinking of the by-the-slice plain cheese pizza served on paper plates and often eaten on the run. For that, I turn to Este.

The crust is just right: not too thick and not too thin, and the folks at Este never overdo the cheese-to-sauce ratio.

Reviewed Oct. 9. 2148 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, 801-485-3699; 156 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-363-2366, EstePizzaCo.com

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Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton in Exodus: Gods and Kings courtly wooer of his wife Séfora (María Valverde) and tormented leader who somehow develops the accent of an old Jewish man from Brooklyn during the film’s second half.

The narrow line between prophet and lunatic walked by Russell Crowe in Noah looks all the more impressive by comparison.

But Exodus’ uneasy mix of the majestic and the mundane feels most uneasy in the scenes where Moses communicates with a Yahweh who has taken the form of a preternaturally serene young boy. It is here that we’re supposed to get a sense of the meaning of “Israelite” clarified by Moses in an earlier scene as “one who wrestles with God,” providing a sense of the Chosen People’s personal relationship with awesome power. Yet every time Exodus tries to shrink anything down to a more human size, it just feels silly. These filmmakers don’t seem to realize they’ve only really got awesomeness going for them. If they weren’t going to go all-in on going big, they might as well have gone home. CW

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It’s even harder to deny that Scott— who honed his period-epic chops on Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven— knows how to deliver spectacle, if spectacle is what you came for. The pyramid & statue-studded cityscapes of the Egyptian capital of Memphis are as impressive in their above-ground scale as the slave quarry at Pithom is impressive in its below-ground scale; the opening battle between Egyptian forces and the Hittites manages some effectively controlled wartime chaos. The landslide along a mountain path that wipes out many of Rhamses’ troops feels genuinely catastrophic, and the wave that returns the water to the parted Red Sea … well, it’s big.

Really, really big.

What’s odd about Exodus: Gods & Kings is that even as it’s pulling out all the stops for visual grandeur, it’s trying desperately to provide a humanized, naturalistic approach to the story’s mythological characters and supernatural events. The Nile runs with blood, this version is careful to explain, merely as the result of a crocodile feeding frenzy gone haywire, and the flies come because, well, what do you expect with all those dead fish and frogs, and thence the diseased livestock, and so forth. Meanwhile, Rhamses alternates between vaguely petulant jealousy at the preference shown to his adopted brother Moses, and doting father to his infant son, with Edgerton seeming truly baffled as to how to play him. And Bale seems even more confused in his swings between nobleman,

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t’s … big. Whatever else you might want to say about Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods & Kings, you can’t deny that it’s big. Big scale on the CGI-enhanced sets, big crowd scenes, big plagues, big acting—they’re all here. Pull out your thesaurus and substitute every synonym for “big” that you can find—vast, immense, colossal, jumbo—and they will all apply.

Except for God. The Lord Jehovah is represented in this movie as a child. But we’ll get to that.

Hollywood cinema in the early 21st century is a parade of attempts by movies to top the big-ness of the movie that came before.

Every superhero movie has its city-leveling apocalyptic battle; every blockbuster needs its IMAX-sized set pieces. An industry desperately looking to get butts in seats keeps turning to sheer enormity as a way to counteract the universe of things people can watch any time they want on small screens— and, just as happened in the 1950s, when Hollywood was battling the rise of television, that means turning to Biblical epics.

Here, Scott and his team of writers have turned to the story of Moses (Christian Bale) and Rhamses (Joel Edgerton), raised as brothers in the palace of Egypt’s pharaoh, until Moses learns that he was actually born of the Hebrews who serve as Egypt’s slaves and becomes their leader in their fight for freedom. But the film also turns back to the grand tradition of films like The Ten Commandments in its hilariously oblivious casting decisions. Controversy has already swirled around the casting of Bale as Moses and the paucity of Middle-Eastern actors among the film’s “Egyptians,” but it’s also hard to deny the high comedy of John Turturro as the pharaoh Seti, or Ben Mendelsohn going full leering effeminate as the corrupt Egyptian viceroy.

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Comet H.5 What if somebody saw (500) Days of Summer and thought, “What that movie really needs is to be turned into Inception”?

Writer-director Sam Esmail’s romantic comedy bounces back and forth over six years in the relationship between Dell (Justin Long) and Kimberly (Emmy Rossum), from their first meeting at a meteor-watching party to four other pivotal days in their on-again/off-again romance. From the first line of discernible dialogue—“This is not a dream”—it’s clear that Esmail is in fact going for a dream-logic approach to remembering the arc of a love affair. But where (500) Days balanced potential preciousness with some moments of exuberant fantasy and genuine heartbreak, Comet depends almost entirely on the theoretically witty banter between Dell and Kimberly. And it’s not nearly as witty as Esmail seems to believe, as Long and Rossum never quite shake the sense that they’re just regurgitating Harry Burns and Sally Albright for a generation Esmail assumes has forgotten them. Gimmicky movies need to be grounded in saying something true about the human experience; this one just says things about the experience of watching other, better movies. Opens Dec. 12 at Tower Theatre.

(NR)—Scott Renshaw Exodus: Gods and Kings HH See review p. 37. Opens Dec. 12 Pelican Dreams HH.5 Documentary filmmaker Judy Irving (The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill) turns her ornithological eye to pelicans, following

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a pair of rescued birds—one that stopped traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge, and another found with a wing injury on the Central California coast—as a hook for various musings on the creatures that long fascinated her. It’s always clear this is an intensely personal project; Irving’s own narration fills the gaps, and she even names one of the rescued pelicans, against the objections of one worker. And as often happens with intensely personal projects, it appears that Irving doesn’t always see the difference between what fascinates her and what might fascinate her audience. There’s some solid nature-documentary material here—particularly when Irving turns her attention to the pelicans’ breeding grounds on the Channel Islands—but there’s also a randomness to the way Irving grabs at snippets of footage without really finding an overarching story. Sure, it’s cute watching a pelican explore a house for the first time, but that’s not a movie; it’s a YouTube video you’d forward to your mother. Opens Dec. 12 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—SR Top Five [not yet reviewed] Chris Rock wrote, directed and stars as a comedian whose wedding to a reality-TV star might become part of her show.

Opens Dec. 12 at theaters valleywide. (R) The Way He Looks HHHH Brazil’s official Oscars submission for Best Foreign Language Film is a charming teen drama bursting with a warmth and compassion unexpected in the genre—and most welcome. Leo (Ghilherme Lobo) is facing all the usual agita of adolescence, from wondering when he will get his first kiss to straining at the overprotectiveness of his loving parents, all of which is complicated— though less than you might imagine—by the fact that he has been blind since birth. But true drama only emerges when his

close friendship with Giovana (Tess Amorim) is disrupted by the arrival at school of transferring student Gabriel (Fabio Audi); all the girls have their eye on the handsome newcomer, but he seems to have eyes only for Leo. Or is that only in Leo’s imagination?

First-time writer and director Daniel Ribeiro (adapting his own short film) must find ways to transcend the tropes of romance with a protagonist who cannot gaze longingly at the object of his affection, and succeeds in ways that make us feel with fresh tenderness the sweet surprise of young love. Opens Dec. 12 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—MaryAnn Johanson

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

Dumb and Dumber To HHH For 20 years, the Farrelly brothers have demonstrated a singleminded commitment to The Gag, not giving a rat’s ass if anybody else finds those gags offensive, or annoying, or just not funny.

They revisit their original moron heroes, Harry (Jeff Daniels) and Lloyd (Jim Carrey), for a road-trip premise—seeking the biological daughter (Rachel Melvin) Harry never knew about— that’s just a framework on which to hang those gags. And while there’s really nothing particularly great about Harry and Lloyd as characters, there sure are a handful of magnificently ridiculous comedic payoffs here, like Harry’s fantasy-sequence assistance to his daughter upon the occasion of her womanhood. Yes, other jokes fall flat, or aren’t worth the gross or overly involved setups.

But by God, they’ll keep throwing those gags at the wall, and sooner or later, a few are going to stick. (R)—SR

The Homesman HHH In Tommy Lee Jones’ somewhat anti-Western Western, three women suddenly and “inexplicably” go insane, and are sent to a Methodist minister’s wife in Iowa, escorted by spinster Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank) and a drifter (Jones) she happens to encounter. That central character dynamic—and the blunt candor with which Jones films the story—highlights the horrors to which women were subjected at the time of its setting, and still are. Elements that appear to be imperfections at first glance are also the source of provocative avenues of

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interrogation. 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 reflects its director’s personality: highly intelligent, at home in the past, and stubbornly itself. It certainly earns the label of “A Tommy Lee Jones Film.” (R)—Danny Bowes

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

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 reasonable hope that Part 2 will deliver a satisfying wrap-up to one of the smartest, most enthralling science-fiction films series ever.

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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

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

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

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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 and DreamWorks stalwart Simon J. Smith, and written by a trio of men whose comedy experience is mostly in live-action, the caper comes off as an offbeat, slightly manic adventure, exuding energy but not chaos. Turns out these birds can fly on their own after all. (PG)—Eric D. Snider The Pyramid HH The discovery of a three-sided pyramid sends a team of camcorder-festooned scientists into spelunking mode beneath the Egyptian desert. Their spirit of adventure soon hits a snag, however, when they stumble into a nest of cranky mutated guardian LOLcats. Director Gregory Levasseur—making his debut behind the camera after producing The Hills Have Eyes and Piranha remakes—initially makes good use of his charmingly retro surroundings, switching between jittery found-footage and more traditionally staged set pieces for a number of genuinely well-orchestrated jumps. Unfortunately, the lack of anyone to really root for (the actors are uniformly bland, even for this sort of thing) coupled with the overtly ludicrous monsters keep this bobbing somewhere below the acceptable genre waterline. (R)—Andrew Wright The Tale of the Princess Kaguya HHH.5 Carrying on Studio Ghibli’s tradition of lovingly crafted films possessed of a rare, uniquely gentle humaneness, Isao Takahata adapts the folk tale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, the oldest known surviving Japanese narrative. Every moment is observed with care, the hand-drawn animation rendering each gesture with resonant life. The effect is to make the (relatively) long film feel both eternal and over all too soon, as its protagonist finds with increasing desperation that she cannot live as much of life as she wants, and that, as a woman, her options are further restricted by an immovable society. Takahata doesn’t dwell on the latter, but doesn’t avoid it either, as Princess Kaguya strikes a harmonious balance between timelessness and modernity. If a better animated film is released this year, it will have been a very good year for the form. (G)—DB The Theory of Everything HH James Marsh’s biopic not only pushes aside Dr. Stephen Hawking’s titanic scientific achievements in favor of a conventional romantic biopic material, focusing on the relationship between Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) and Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones); it’s also not even particularly good as a conventional romantic biopic. It begins in the early 1960s with Hawking as a grad student receiving his presumed deathsentence of an ALS diagnosis, and does a solid enough job of conveying Hawking’s personal and professional challenges through Redmayne’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. They’re so determined to make this story dignified and respectable that they sap it of nearly everything human, until it’s as synthetic as Hawking’s voice.

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

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The Americans: Season 2 Covert KGB operatives Elizabeth and Philip Jennings (Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys) are in deeper than ever as the Cold War escalates, alliances are tested and ’80s wig technology fails to keep pace. Soundtrack available on cassette. (Fox)

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Netflix serves up Marco Polo and American Ham; Syfy gets back to sci-fi with Ascension.

Arrested Development: Season 4 The Bluth family is back, if not necessarily all on screen at the same time in the 2013 Netflix comeback season that had critics raving “Well, it’s better than no new season, right?” Right, and it’s still funnier than any other TV comedy. (Fox)

Marco Polo Friday, Dec. 12 (Netflix)

Stand-Up Special: Meanwhile, in a far narrower niche, Parks & Recreation star Nick Offerman—you know, Ron Swanson— debuts his one-man show American Ham on the streaming service, which offers far more creative space than those prefab Comedy Central specials (check out the wonderfully weird Chelsea Peretti: One of the Greats, which premiered on Netflix in November).

Offerman is, and simultaneously is certainly not, Swanson: American Ham’s “10 Tips for a Prosperous Life” mostly involve

proper oral-sex techniques, overshares you’d never hear from Ron, but the rest is the kind of man-up-or-shut-up material you’d expect—and even some musical numbers, though he’s no Duke Silver. American Ham comes off more like a demo than a finished product (even though it screened at Sundance 2014), but Offerman drives it home through sheer force of personality— and, really, it’s not the worst comedy special from a Parks & Rec star.

Ascension Monday, Dec. 15 (Syfy) Miniseries Debut: Syfy has made the case that it’s serious about getting back into actual sci-fi this year, and the three-night event Ascension is a helluva convincing capper. Ascension is a top-secret U.S. starship launched in 1963 at the behest of President John F. Kennedy, who believed that since mankind seemed bent on blowing itself up here, might as well send 600 men, women and children on a 100year space mission to find a new, habitable planet. While they live and repopulate in a sealed, old-school-Star-Trek-meets-MadMen environment, back on 2014 Earth, the Ascension project is simply a 51-year-old “conspiracy theory” few people believe

Ascension (Syfy) and the government won’t acknowledge.

When orderly-if-dull life aboard the ship is disrupted by a murder—the first ever—the plot accelerates from zero to W TF? rapidly, with the first two-hour installment ending in a mind-blowing twist. The aesthetic is gorgeous, the cast is solid (especially Tricia Helfer, back in fulltilt Battlestar Galactica villainess mode as the ship’s “first lady”), and Ascension’s story is genuinely new and unpredictable.

Welcome back, sci-fi Syf y. [Continues Tuesday, Dec. 16 and Wednesday, Dec. 17.]

Best Christmas Party Ever Saturday, Dec. 13 (Hallmark) Movie: Uptight Jennie (Torrey DeVitto, Pretty Little Liars) thinks she’ll be inheriting NYC’s hottest party-planning business after the holidays—but then the boss’ fun, hunky nephew (Steve Lund, Bitten) shows up to claim the gig. Will she learn to loosen up, fall in love, know her place and set aside those silly career aspirations? Yes— and just in time for the big Christmas party, which she organized. Oh, Christmas in Vancouver, er, New York City. CW

Tourists in Bangkok are turning up beheaded after visiting a sex website, so of course traveler Allie (Tammin Sursok) jumps right in and meets up with some guys who run a sex website. You’ll never not use Chatroulette the same way again. (IFC)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Micheal Bay further plunders your childhood with the reboot that pairs four superturtles with a $125 million budget, no story and the thespian talents of Megan Fox— and it’s still better than the ’90s originals.

Can’t wait for the sequel! (Paramount)

This is Where I Leave You Several funny people (Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Adam Driver, Rose Byrne, Dax Shepard, Kathryn Hahn and more) unite to make one of those maudlin, semi-indie films with few laughs because they’re Serious Actors, man. (Warner Bros.)

More New DVD/VOD Releases: Cowboy Bebop: The Complete Series, Coyote, Dark Mountain, The Device, The Devil’s Hand, Extant: Season 1, Green Eyes, Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever, Killing Me Softly, Left of Center, Magic in the Moonlight, The Maze Runner, The Skeleton Twins, Stonehearst Asylum Listen to Bill on Mondays at 8 a.m. on X96 Radio From Hell; weekly on the TV Tan podcast via iTunes and Stitcher.

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Series Debut: Networks are jumping on the sweeping, quasi-historical period-piece bandwagon: HBO set it off with Game of Thrones, History has Vikings, Starz has Outlander and Black Sails, AMC has Turn and Hell on Wheels, The CW (still?) has Reign, and now Netflix is dropping the 10-episode Marco Polo. Showtime, who was ahead of the curve with The Tudors years ago (and, currently, Penny Dreadful), could launch a dark, sexy H.M.S. Pinafore any day now. Netflix’s version of Marco Polo—it’s difficult to just say once, ain’t it?—focuses on the early (read: young and hot) years of the infamous adventurer and, while the source material is vast and the series’ budget is vaster ($90 million!), CW-lite star Lorenzo Richelmy can’t carry this behemoth, which seems to have been scripted via a dartboard and several boxes of wine.

As couch-bound winter-binge eye candy, however, it’s oddly perfect. Netflix FTW.

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ustin Ringle generally doesn’t see things in black & white. As the lead vocalist and songwriter behind Portland, Ore.’s Horse Feathers, he’s spent the better part of a decade struggling to make sense of the gray area between joy and despair. But when it comes to the way he looks at his music, he can pinpoint the exact moment when his perspective shifted.

Two years ago, Ringle’s band had been asked to play an impromptu gig at Sasquatch a mere week before the festival. He agreed to the show, bringing with him old tunes and a fresh lineup that included a new rhythm section. In the past, Horse Feathers had been a glorified solo project for Ringle, with no bassist and little in the way of percussion, and he’d only recently entertained the idea of f leshing out the band.

The result was a Horse Feathers show with more energy and vitality than he could ever recall. As he left the stage that day, Ringle says, he thought to himself, “Why in the fuck have we not been doing this?”

“It was a major change,” he says over the phone, while laying low at singer-songwriter Joe Pug’s Texas home before a gig.

The energy from that show carried over into Horse Feathers’ new album, So It Is With Us, channeling Ringle’s music away from the spare, solemn chamberfolk that had come to define the project since its debut more than a decade ago. Getting there wasn’t easy for Ringle, though. He’d grown disillusioned following the band’s previous album, 2012’s Cynic’s New Year, which sold less than any of the three albums that preceded it. He began to question playing music as a career, and wondered if he could survive in a rapidly shifting music industry.

“All those things chip away when you professionally play music,” Ringle says. “It’s not like going to a cubicle job from 9 to 5. There’s no knowing what will happen. If you just can’t see the forest for the trees, then you need to take a break.”

After coming off tour with Cynic’s New Year, Ringle began spending more time at home. He gave up music for a few months and attached himself to a more domestic existence, relishing everyday tasks such as making dinner, taking daily walks—pretty much anything that didn’t involve being cooped up

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in a tour van. When he began to play music again, he tried to reinvigorate his enthusiasm by playing with different people. Out of those collaborations, R ingle developed a new vision for Horse Feathers, which had essentially functioned more as a backing band in the past. He loosened the creative reins, added bassist Justin Power a lon g side lon g t i me ba nd m at es Nat h a n Crockett and Dustin D y bv i g—ma ndol i n ist a nd percussion ist , respectively—and began shaping what would become So It Is With Us. While not representing a major sea change for Horse Feathers, the album is a departure. It’s still laden with an ornate mesh of acoustic guitar, cello and violin, but the tempos are breezier, with more major chords accompanying Ringle’s hushed croon. Opener “Violently Wild,” a boisterous song about the grimmer aspects of commitment, sets a joyous mood that stretches through songs like “Thousand” and the banjodriven “Dead End Thanks.” Even slower, more brooding numbers such as “The Knee” exude a newfound expansiveness and sense of optimism, owing to a creative process Ringle found less painstaking and more enjoyable.

“I’ve spent years trying to convince people with just my voice, guitar and some strings. It’s a very precious thing,” he says with some reluctance. “I know I’m no longer intrigued to go pay to sit down [at a concert]—hands in my lap, eyes closed—and listen to someone the same way I used to when I started. I personally couldn’t continue on that way forever.”

That’s not to say his lyrics have gotten any less arresting. Ringle recognizes the interplay between the downcast nature of his songwriting and the upbeat tone of the instrumentation. It’s a decision he made to express feelings that have a way of falling within the aforementioned emotional gray areas of our subconscious. Themes of faith and uncertainty abound. “Tell me why do you try hanging on?” he sings delicately over the isolated piano and sharp guitar of “Why Do I Try.” The contrast is more apparent as he

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Justin Ringle is moving Horse Feathers forward with a little help from his friends. ponders the fading relationship of “Violently Wild”: “We’re out of tune,” he sings. “You’ll be gone/ And I’ll be leaving soon.”

For Ringle, though, the recently discovered jubilance of the music was precisely what he needed.

“I spent years being concerned about a million other factors,” he says. “We have some fans who still want the music to be sad, but I’m not going to paint myself into some corner as the Prince of Darkness for the next 10 years. I just want to enjoy myself.” CW

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“Not the Band but my band. Playing with some longtime friends in the group for the first time really added a comfortable and inspiring twist to things.”

“I am consistently amazed at the wealth of material you get from these. Incredibly sucky, but true—the reflective alone time and gutwrenching agony helps move records along.”

“I have a hell of a time listening to music when working on a record, because it usually finds its way in there somehow. For this one, I went on a steady diet of weird foreign jams, so if anything came out subconsciously, at least it would be puzzling to Pitchfork.”

“Watching Portland evolve before our very eyes has been weirdly influential. Firstly, now that we have all been stereotyped and laughed at, there’s no need to take things quite as seriously. And secondly, all that exposure is bringing in a huge wave of people that is creating an Old Portland-versus-New Portland debate. The tension is good.”

“It has become so bizarre, convoluted and mysterious that it was easier to throw my hands in the air and refocus my priorities. It’s easy to get confused when you treat music like your job.

I strengthened my resolve in the idea that the reason to make music is solely for the sake of it.

Everything else is a secondary concern, and in that, I found quite a bit of freedom.”

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Pallbearer Pallbearer’s slower tempos, lengthy 10-minute songs and use of thick, low-tuned guitars pays tribute to doom metal of old. And the Arkansas quartet’s use of multiple guitar parts, emotionally charged lyrics and strong bass lines allows them to build off those slow tempos to create a sorrowful metal sound. Pallbearer’s trademark crunchy heaviness has been heard most recently on the epic and desolate full-length Foundations of Burden, which was released in August and will crush your eardrums in its iron fist. Also on the bill are fellow metal bands Solsafir and Mortals. (Nathan Turner) Saturday, Dec. 13 @ Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), 8 p.m., $13 in advance, $15 day of show, KilbyCourt.com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com

Thursday 12.11

Ogden Gar Ashby, Thirsty Thursday With DJ Battleship (The Century Club)

Utah County Battle of the Bands: Kindred Dead, Luna Lune, O/CO, Synergy Cello Band (Velour

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Pierce Fulton (Area 51) Seven Second Memory, Backwoods Burning, Par for the Curse, Machine

Action 52 (Cisero’s) BeatSessions: Miss DJ Lux (Downstairs) Bad Feather (The Spur Bar & Grill)

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Friday 12.12

Tony Holiday & the Velvetones (Brewskis) Mark Dee, DJ Peek (The Century Club) Colt 46 (The Outlaw Saloon)

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Adelitas Way (Bar Deluxe) Live Band Karaoke With TIYB (Club 90) Conn Curran Trio (Gracie’s) Karaoke (Habits) Jon O (The Hog Wallow Pub) The Word Alive, The Color Morale, Our Last Night, Dead Rabbits, Miss Fortune (In the Venue/Club Sound) DJ Erockalypze (Inferno Cantina) Breezeway, The Howl, Murphy Jackson (Kilby Court) Sounds Like Teen Spirit (Liquid Joes) Open Mic (Pat’s Barbecue) Horse Feathers, Sara Jackson-Holman (The State Room, see p. 42) Hip-Hop Roots: Lost The Artist, Astroknots, Khensu, Gentry Fox (The Urban Lounge) Karaoke (Willie’s Lounge)

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Gun Rerun, In the Arms of Atrocity (Bar Deluxe) Christmas at The Barrel Room: Mary Tebbs, Triggers & Slips, Bullets & Belles, Hope & Tim Glenn (The Barrel Room) Six Feet in the Pine (Bleu Bistro) Night Fall (Club 90) Foster Body, Swamp Ravens, Koala Temple (Diabolical Records) Marinade (Fats Grill & Pool) Season of the Witch (The Garage) Apres Ski With DJ Gawel, DJ Matty Mo (Gracie’s) Caveman Blvd (The Green Pig Pub) DJ Scotty B (Habits) Candy’s River House (The Hog Wallow Pub) DJ Bentley, Luva Luva (Inferno Cantina) The Wild War, Beachmen, Red Telephone, Grand Banks (Kilby Court) Spencer Nielsen Band, Vagablonde, Wonderstone, Swinging Lights (Liquid Joe’s) Reggae Christmas With Codi Jordan Band, Daverse, Nick Johnson (The Royal) Lukas Nelson & P.O.T.R., Jeff Crosby & The Refugees (The State Room, sold out) L’anarchiste, Book on Tape Worm, Loud Harp, The Awful Truth (The Urban Lounge) Ledd Foot (The Westerner) Intra-Venus & the Cosmonauts Album Release, Magda-Vega (The Woodshed)

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Tuesdays w/ KJ Sauce sing for progressive $ jackpot

Live Band Audition/Open Mic wednesdays call rachelle or george for booking.

Free Texas Hold’em with Cash Prize.

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Say Anything, Saves the Day, Reggie & the Full Effect To call the Say Anything, Saves the Day, and Reggie & the Full Effect tour a reunion tour is to do the bands a disservice. The tour is a trip down the broken brick road that makes up memory lane for the former troubled, rambunctious youths of the early 2000s. The punk and emo bands are reliving the glory days, performing in full the albums they released over a decade ago. Reggie & the Full Effect will be playing songs from their 2003 release, Under the Tray; Saves the Day’s set will consist of songs from their 1999 album, Through Being Cool; and Say Anything will perform the punk poetry heard on their 2004 release, ...

Is a Real Boy. (Rebecca Frost) Saturday, Dec. 13 @ The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 7 p.m., $21 in advance, $25 day of show, TheComplexSLC.com

Utah County Phil Friendly, Hurricane Kings (ABG’s) DJ Jarvicious (The Madison) The Couch Series One-Year Anniversary: Coin in the Sea, Bat Manors, Volcano Bay Ragdoll Factory (Muse Music Cafe) Battle of the Bands: Henry Wade, Mr. India, Go Suburban, Alarm Call (Velour)

Saturday 12.13 Salt Lake City The Chickens Album Release (Bar Deluxe) In Time Jazz (Bleu Bistro) Night Fall (Club 90) Say Anything, Saves the Day, Reggie & the Full Effect (The Complex, The Grand) Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Haujobb, Youth Code (The Complex, The Rockwell) Holiday Honky Tonk (Fats Grill & Pool) Jai Tai Trio (Feldman’s Deli) Phil Friendly Trio (The Garage) Chaseone2 (Gracie’s) Son of Ian (The Green Pig Pub) DJ Scotty B (Habits) Bad Feather (Hog Wallow Pub) Eat, Pray, House: Ross K, Teejay (The Hotel/Club Elevate) Dillon Francis (In the Venue/Club Sound) DJ Erockalypze (Inferno Cantina) Tony Holiday (Johnny’s on Second) Pallbearer, Solstafir, Mortals (Kilby Court) The Spazmatics (Liquid Joe’s) Cannabis Corpse, Mammoth Grinder, Inanimate Existence, Drunk as Shit, Deathblow (The Loading Dock) Blood on the Dance Floor, Whitney Peyton, Davey Suicide, Sweet Ascent, Social Repose (Murray Theater)

Kilt Night With Swagger (Piper Down) DJ Butch Wolfthorn (The Royal) DJ E-Flexx, Karaoke With DJ B-Rad (Sandy Station) Guy Davis, Kate Macleod (The State Room) How the Grouch Stole Christmas: The Grouch & Eligh, Cunninglynguists, DJ Abilities, DJ Fresh, Scarub (The Urban Lounge)

Ogden Sin City Soul (Brewskis) Preston Creed (The Century Club) Tim Daniels Music, Stranger, Codi Jordan Band, From the Sun (Kamikazes) Colt 46 (The Outlaw Saloon)

Park City Elvis Freshly (Cisero’s) DJ Scooter, DJ Juggy (Downstairs) Brillz, Georgia Mayne (Park City Live) Sounds Like Teen Spirit (The Spur Bar & Grill)

Utah County Tha Connection and Non Stop Vibes Double Album Release (Muse Music Cafe) Battle of the Bands: Finals (Velour)

Sunday 12.14 Salt Lake City Live Bluegrass (Club 90) The Steel Belts (Donkey Tails) Karaoke Church With DJ Ducky & Mandrew (Jam) Wretched, Darkblood, Eyes of Damnation, Dezecration, In the Arms of Atrocity (Metro Bar) Entourage Karaoke (Piper Down) Sunday Funday Karaoke (Three Alarm Saloon)

CONCERTS & CLUBS Complete listings online @ cityweekly.net Karaoke That Doesn’t Suck (The Woodshed)

Ogden Karaoke Wheel of Chance With KJ Sparetire (The Century Club)

Augustana, Scars on 45 (The Urban Lounge) DJ Babylon Down, Roots Rawka (The Woodshed) Jordan Young (The Spur Bar & Grill)

Open Mic (Cisero’s) Open Mic (The Spur Bar & Grill)

Tuesday 12.16

Monday 12.15

Salt Lake City

X96 Nightmare Before Xmas: Billy Idol, Bleachers, Priory (The Complex) Monday Night Jazz Session (Gracie’s) Open Blues Jam (The Green Pig Pub) Karaoke (Poplar Street Pub)

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DEC 13th

2014 Holiday Honky Tonk with The Green Grapes Band, Dusty Boxcars, Mountain Country and The Lab Dogs 7pm

DEC 17th

acoustic Talia Keys 8pm

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Jan 17: Desert Noises Jan 19: Aesop Rock w/ DJ Rob Sonic Jan 22: Saga Outdoor Retailers Party Jan 23: Hell’s Belles Jan 24: Hell’s Belles Jan 26: Heaps & Heaps Jan 27: Tig Notaro Jan 28: FREE SHOW Scenic Byway Jan 29: Breakers Jan 30: Tokimonsta Feb 3: Joy Feb 4: Giant Feb 6: DUBWISE with Roommate Feb 7: City Weekly’s Best of Utah Music Winners Show: L’Anarchiste, King Niko, Westward The Tide

Feb 10: Scott H Biram Feb 11: St. Paul & The Broken Bones Feb 12: Cursive Feb 13: Ariel Pink Feb 15: The Floozies Feb 17: Corners Feb 27: Zion I Mar 7: Doomtree Mar 15: The Dodos Mar 26: Public Service Broadcasting Mar 31: Stars Apr 21: Twin Shadow

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Ogden Karaoke Wheel of Chance With KJ Sparetire (The Century Club) Karaoke (The Outlaw Saloon)

Park City Telluride Meltdown (Cisero’s) Industry Night: Miss DJ Lux (Downstairs) Cowboy Karaoke (The Spur Bar & Grill)

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This popular West Valley club features multiple TVs, pool tables and video games and is appealing to sports fans as well as pool sharks. Kick back, relax and enjoy a dish from the menu featuring everything from your traditional Mexican dishes to tasty steaks, burgers and sandwiches. Business lunches are especially popular here. And with a full bar and intense karaoke nights, it’s no wonder this club is a neighborhood favorite, seven nights a week. 3153 W. 2100 South, West Valley City, 801-972-0506

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With a massive beer menu that boasts 300 or so beers from across the globe, The Bayou is one of Utah’s greatest haunts for beer fanatics. And its reputation goes beyond beer: The full lunch and dinner menu of creative Cajun dishes is a hit seven days a week. On weekend nights, the tables and stools fill to capacity even faster when the club hosts local and regional jazz acts for intimate performances.

645 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-961-8400, UtahBayou.com

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VENUE DIRECTORY

live music & karaoke

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

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

ABG’S LIBATION EMPORIUM 190 W. Center St., Provo, 801-373-1200, Live music ALLEGED 205 25th St., Ogden, 801-990-0692 AREA 51 451 S. 400 West, SLC, 801-534-0819, Karaoke Wed., ‘80s Thur., DJs Fri. & Sat. BAR DELUXE 666 S. State, SLC, 801-5322914, Live music & DJs THE BAR IN SUGARHOUSE 2168 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-485-1232 BAR-X 155 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-355-2287 BARBARY COAST 4242 S. State, Murray, 801-265-9889 BATTERS UP 1717 S. Main, SLC, 801-4634996, Karaoke Tues., Live music Sat. THE BAYOU 645 S. State, SLC, 801-9618400, Live music Fri. & Sat. BOURBON HOUSE 19 E. 200 South, SLC, 801746-1005, Local jazz jam Tues., Karaoke Thur., Live music Sat., Funk & soul night Sun. BREWSKIS 244 25th St., Ogden, 801-3941713, Live music BURT’S TIKI LOUNGE 726 S. State, SLC, 801-521-0572, Live music CANYON INN 3700 E. Fort Union, SLC, 801943-6969, DJs CAROL’S COVE II 3424 S. State, SLC, 801466-2683, Karaoke Thur., DJs & Live music Fri. & Sat. The Century CLUB 315 24th St., Ogden, 801-781-5005, DJs CHEERS TO YOU 315 S. Main, SLC, 801575-6400 CHEERS TO YOU Midvale 7642 S. State, 801-566-0871 CHUCKLE’S LOUNGE 221 W. 900 South, SLC, 801-532-1721 CIRCLE LOUNGE 328 S. State, SLC, 801-5315400, DJs CISERO’S 306 Main, Park City, 435-649-5044, Karaoke Thur., Live music & DJs CLUB 48 16 E. 4800 South, Murray, 801262-7555 CLUB 90 9065 S. 150 West, Sandy, 801-5663254, Trivia Mon., Poker Thur., Live music Fri. & Sat., Live bluegrass Sun. CLUB DJ’S 3849 W. 5400 South, Murray, 801964-8575, Karaoke Tues., Thur. & Sun., Free pool Wed. & Sun., DJ Fri. & Sat. CLUB TRY-ANGLES 251 W. 900 South, SLC, 801-364-3203, Mid-week movie Wed., Karaoke Thur., DJs Fri. & Sat. 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

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.

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When Randy’s sells used LPs, the shop is upfront about the condition, or “grading,” of the record. “We put out all genres of music and price our LPs according to their true value,” says Stinson. In addition to records, Randy’s also sells used CDs, new and used turntables, amplifiers, speakers, and more.

Randy’s can special order vinyl LP records that aren’t in stock if the record is still in print. The shop generally takes a $5-$10 deposit when someone places a special order and it can take 1-2 weeks for special orders to come in. “If it’s out-ofprint, we pass along information on how to find [the record,]” Stinson explains. “We appreciate our dedicated customers very much and our team members are very helpful and will try their best to help people find records they are looking for. If you are not sure where to find a record in the shop, please don’t hesitate to ask us.”

And for those who just want to dip their toe in the vinyl record pool, check out Randy’s Records periodic sales. “We hold $2 vinyl LP sales quarterly,” Rounds says. “These sales give people a chance to pick up great vinyl records at bargain prices.” The next $2 sale will be in February.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) It was a struggle. To support herself, she worked as a ticket agent Through the scientific magic of grafting, a single tree can be for airline companies. Finding the time to develop her craft was altered to grow several different kinds of fruit at the same time. difficult. Seven years went by. Then one Christmas, two friends One type of “fruit salad tree” produces apricots, nectarines, gave her a remarkable gift: enough money to quit her job and plums and peaches, while another bears grapefruits, lemons, work on her writing for a year. During that grace period, Lee oranges, limes and tangelos. I’m thinking this might be an apt created the basics for a book that won her a Pulitzer Prize: To Kill and inspiring symbol for you in the coming months, Gemini. a Mockingbird. I don’t foresee anything quite as dramatic for you in What multiple blooms will you create on your own metaphorical the coming months, Sagittarius. But I do suspect you will receive version of a fruit salad tree? unexpected help that provides you with the slack and spaciousness you need to lay the foundations for a future creation.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) No other structure on the planet is longer than the Great Wall of CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) China, which stretches 3,945 miles. It’s not actually one unbroken In the ancient Greek epic poem the Odyssey, Odysseus’s wife span, though. Some sections aren’t connected, and there are Penelope describes two kinds of dreams. “Those that pass redundant branches that are roughly parallel to the main structure. It through the gate of ivory,” she says, are deceptive. But dreams reminds me of your own personal Great Wall, which is monumental that “come forth through the gate of polished horn” tell the yet permeable, strong in some ways but weak in others, daunting to truth. Another ancient text echoes these ideas. In his poem the casual observer but less so to those who take the time to study the Aeneid, Virgil says that “true visions” arrive here from the it. Now is an excellent time to take inventory of that wall of yours. land of dreams through the gate of horn, whereas “deluding Is it serving you well? Is it keeping out the influences you don’t lies” cross over through the gate of ivory. Judging from the want but allowing in the influences you do want? Could it use some current astrological omens, Capricorn, I expect you will have renovation? Are you willing to re-imagine what its purpose is and interesting and intense dreams flowing through both the how you want it to work for you in the future? gate of ivory and the gate of horn. Will you be able to tell the difference? Trust love.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) The Arctic Monkeys are British rockers who have produced five AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) studio albums, which together have sold almost five million Your chances of going viral are better than usual. It’s a perfect copies. Rolling Stone magazine called their first album, released moment to upload a YouTube video of yourself wearing a crown in 2003, the 30th greatest debut of all time. Yet when they first of black roses and a V for Vendetta mask as you ride a unicycle formed in 2002, none of them could play a musical instrument. I inside a church and sing an up-tempo parody version of “O Come see the current era of your life, Leo, as having a similar potential. All Ye Faithful.” It’s also a favorable time for you to create a buzz How might you start from scratch to create something great? for you and your pet causes through less spectacular measures.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Alan Turing (1912-1954) was a British mathematician and PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) pioneering computer scientist. After World War II broke out, At age 80, author Joan Didion has published five novels, 10 he got worried that the German army might invade and occupy works of non-fiction and five screenplays. When she was 27, she England, as it had done to France. To protect his financial assets, wrote, “I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to he converted everything he owned into bars of silver, then buried be.” That wasn’t a good thing, she added: “We are well-advised them underground in the countryside north of London. When to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether the war ended, he decided it was safe to dig up his fortune. we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up Unfortunately, he couldn’t recall where he had put it, and never did unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s find it. Let’s draw a lesson from his experience, Virgo. It’s fine if you door and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed want to stash a treasure or protect a secret or safeguard a resource. them, who is going to make amends.” I recommend her counsel That’s probably a sensible thing to do right now. But make sure you to you in the coming months, Pisces. Get reacquainted with the remember every detail about why and how you’re doing it. old selves you have outgrown and abandoned.

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The new performing arts center on Main will be up and running in two years.

In 2007, Salt Lake City approved four towers to be built downtown as part of City Creek. One of them was a condo project that included the tallest building ever constructed in Utah at 415 feet tall. I was a planning and zoning commissioner then and I remember citizens asking if there was a limit to building height and folks worried that there was a law “that no building could be higher than the LDS Temple or the LDS office building.” That belief, my friends, is a myth. There are no height limitations for buildings in the core of downtown although there are restrictions about building big boxes on corners.

It’s possible in the near future that tourists might get confused about where downtown is when they drive over Point of the Mountain and see the 1,100 acres in the heart of Sandy developed into high rises.

The Salt Lake burb announced last month that a huge development of offices, housing and hotels dubbed “The Cairns” are to be added to the area between 90th-114th South and I-15 to the TRAX lines. The residential section will have 650 housing units of apartments and condos at Centennial Parkway where it meets Sego Lily Drive.

“The Prestige” will include two 25-story towers and two shorter six-story buildings.

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