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Letters Fault the True Culprits

Mark Alvarez in his opinion piece [“Welcome Home,” Nov. 27, City Weekly] stated, “Independent contractor schemes, temporary agencies and various other tactics are used to skirt federal laws prohibiting employment of the undocumented”. I do agree with most of Mr. Alvarez’s article, but as the founder and co-owner of All Trades Temporary Staffing Services, LLC, I must take exception to the above statement regarding “temporary agencies” in general. We strictly adhere to the letter of the law and the spirit of the law, since 1995. We do not discriminate and we do not employ individuals who cannot prove his or her right to work in the United States. The other staffing services with which I work also follow the law carefully. I am sure there are a few services that skirt the law, as there are in any industry. I do not fault illegal aliens striving to better their lives. I do, indeed, fault the employers who cheat the illegal workers out of fair wages and workers’ compensation and unemployment insurance, who cheat their fellow citizens by not hiring them, and who cheat the government by not paying their fair share of taxes so they can undercut the legitimate employers who play by the rules. The government should definitely drop the hammer on these true culprits.

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COMMENTS FROM THE WEB “When Utah Was Dumber: Take a tour of Utah’s most iconic Dumb & Dumber shot locations,” Nov. 12 Terry: When Lloyd and Harry scooter into “Aspen” they stop in front of a pink and purple building. The sign says “Stites Realty.” Debbie Stites is a friend of mine and Realtor in Breckenridge. The film crew asked her and her staff to act normal and not go to the windows to watch the filming. Driving into “Aspen” they are in fact, driving down Ski Hill Road from the direction of the base of Peak 8. In 1994, there was nothing there. Since then, the gondola has been added, as well as the Shock Hill neighborhood.

“Prison Follies,” Dec. 25 Thomas Wynne: Amen. The people and property owners in Draper knew the prison was there when they made their investments. Why now move it to one of the only places one can afford to buy a family home in a peaceful safe community? We didn’t sign up for this. If you think, “Well, it’s NIMBY, so it does not affect me,” consider the waste of all of our tax dollars, no matter where you live. It is shameful.

butterfly_maven: Love your candor about what this prison move is really about, thanks for speaking out!! Let’s DO name these politicians and developers who will benefit from moving the prison ... how those who sit on the PRC committee have direct ties with benefiting from this unnecessary move that Utah taxpayers are footing the bill for so a few people can get very rich. Sickening!! Redge Johnson: This is like argueing that the prison should still be in Sugarhouse Park. Draper is now like Sugarhouse was in 1951—The new suburbia, like it or not. I think they should move the prison out next to Mag Corp.

Blue Sky: What percentage of inmates are confined on low-level drug charges? Release them, reduce crowding, and clear space for renovation. shyreader: Agreed, but who’s to blame? “The Politicians” is an easy thing get behind, but which ones? “Cui bono” as the saying goes.

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Carol Gent steers the white Fusion hybrid to the curb, turns off the engine and picks up an iPad. “There it is,” she says, pointing to a corner house near Dilworth Elementary School. Although there is a snow shovel next to the front door, the sidewalks are caked in snow and ice. She walks quickly across the street, pauses to take three photos, and then makes her way gingerly to the porch. No one answers the doorbell, so she hangs a lime-green notice on the door handle. Returning to the street, she sets off at a trot to a nearby house where the sidewalks are obviously unshoveled. There, she repeats the process. By the time she returns to the car a few minutes later, she has documented eight violations, knocked on eight doors and left eight warnings. “Most of the time, people aren’t home,” she says as she starts the car. Gent is one of the city’s 13 civilenforcement officers who, in the wake of snowstorms, pay a call on property owners who have not cleared their sidewalks as city ordinances require. The addresses are provided by “concerned citizens” who report snow-packed sidewalks that are difficult—even dangerous—to navigate. In the wake of 2013’s massive Dec. 7 snowstorm, for example, more than 60 people called the city to report violations. Property owners and businesses are required to clear their sidewalks within 24 hours of the end of a storm. And a shovel-width track doesn’t suffice: The entire walk has to be cleared down to bare concrete. Failure to do so results in a warning ticket on Gent’s first visit, and $50 fines on subsequent ones. The longer the walks are neglected after a storm, the stiffer the fine. A few years ago, the city council increased the fines to up the ante for habitual offenders. Gent says that some landlords, businesses and homeowners are scofflaws, ticketed year after year. Unlike parking tickets, however, the fines are not considered a revenue source for the city. The intent is to enforce city ordinances,

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thereby keeping walk ways safe and passable—particularly to accommodate the disabled and elderly. “Our hope is that one visit does it, that another is never needed,” says Randy Isbell, civilenforcement manager. Gent estimates that in about 80 percent of the cases, a followup ticket is never issued. The tough winter two years ago— 31 inches of snow and ice on the valley floor—generated a blizzard of complaints. The Postal Service alone filed “pages and pages,” Gent recalls. The city council also received complaints, and two councilmen were actually ticketed. So were neighbors of Councilman Charlie Luke and then-Councilwoman Jill Remington Love. Some of them groused that they had made an effort to clear the walks and were cited nonetheless. The ensuing brouhaha caused the council to examine the complaint-based system of enforcement and to conclude that while not perfect, it was better left unchanged. The only modification was the requirement that the first visit by an enforcement officer was to be a warning. If I were a councilman, I think I would have pressed for change. Complaint-based enforcement leaves a lot to be desired if for no other reason than most people are uncomfortable tattling on their neighbors. Still, street-by-street patrolling by enforcement officers seems unworkable in a city of our size. What if the garbage-truck drivers made lists of addresses with snowcovered walks? Or the city contracted with the Postal Service for reporting violators? (The USPS could use the money.) Or Google provided real-time overhead photos? I do think Isbell is on the right track. All things being equal, most people will do what is right. Once warned, most property owners will be mindful of their responsibility to the dog-walkers, stroller-pushers, wheelchairusers, meter-readers, mail-deliverers, busand rail-commuters, joggers, and codgers

like me, for whom a fall on the ice could easily lead to a hospital emergency room. I don’t rule out that in a flush of civicmindedness, homeowners might even clear the walks of a vacant house or for a neighbor who needs the help. That’s an idea the city government is actively promoting. On the other hand, some people are blind to the responsibilities of community membership. The occupant of one home ticketed by Gent had cleared his driveway from garage to street but had left the sidewalks blanketed with snow. A charitable assessment is that he was late for work and after clearing a path for the car, had no time to shovel the sidewalks. A less-charitable view is that he is too self-absorbed to consider how his neglect affects walkers like the mail carrier. I stopped a mail carrier on a cold, gray afternoon to ask his opinion. He shrugged. For him, stairs were more an issue than sidewalks, and he had his own remedy for the problem. If stairways become dangerously icy, the postman said, he stops delivering the mail. And therein lies a simple truth: Without a consequence for noncompliance, a law is easily ignored. That’s why we have motorcycle cops, building inspectors and IRS agents. I live in a Sugar House neighborhood frequented by walkers. Within hours of a snowstorm, the foot traffic compresses the snow into an uneven, hard, white surface. A little melting and lots more feet, and the sidewalks are polished into translucent ice. Add a dusting of snow, and you’ve got a Slip’N Slide capable of injuring even the most cautious walker. I take a Hobbesian view of the problem: I clear my sidewalks promptly as an act of civic-mindedness. I count on others to do the same. For those who don’t, I think a nudge from Gent serves the greater good. CW

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What are your biggest complaints or favorite things about winter/snow? Paula Saltas: It’s harder to book bikinimodeling photoshoots in the winter— I’ve only done two this week. Also: It takes more whiskey to get warm, and my Irish coffee thermos isn’t big enough.

Nicole Enright: I love the winter and snow. Three favorite things: long sweaters with boots, sledding and tubing, holding a warm cup of coffee while it’s cold.

Jeff Chipian: Turn-offs: freezing-cold winds, frost on car windows in the morning, snow blindness in cats. Turnons: Christmas music, yellow snow, cold hands touching my naked body.

Rachel Piper: Treacherous sidewalks—I’m clumsy enough without ice in the mix, thank you. Biting winds. Soggy shoes. Never seeing the sun. When I’m asked this question in the fall, I can answer optimistically about coats and boots, but I’m ready for it to be warm again.

BJ Viehl: The inversion is the worst manmade creation of Utah winters. Kolbie Stonehocker: At the beginning of winter, I embrace the lifestyle of a hibernating bear, being lazy and eating lots of bad food. But by January, I want to shake off the winter weight and ride my bike in the sun—which, thanks to grimy air and treacherous, icy roads, is impossible. Colin Wolf: The worst part of winter is when people tell me I’m stupid for thinking it’s cold out and then I’m forced to learn all about the climate of their origin and how much colder it is there. Also, I hate wearing cold jeans.

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Non-profiteering Uh-oh! Did it really take a former Utahn living in Boston to uncover the latest legislative imbroglio? Rep. Ken Ivory, R-West Jordan, of take-our-public-lands fame has used his wife and his business to set up another nonprofit—A Most Sacred Trust—to educate people about sexual abuse in schools. Well, given the number of teachers taking liberties with kids, that may be a good idea. But Ivory likes to profit from his nonprofits—politically and financially. While this one is too new to generate speaking engagements, it’s getting ready to proffer three pieces of legislation in the upcoming session. That’s insider influence, for sure. Ken’s wife, Becky, told Eric Ethington of Utah Political Capitol that she hopes that the A Most Sacred Trust will generate income sometime soon, but that’s not the goal. The goal appears to be to take advantage of Ivory’s legislative clout and give him more.

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Meanwhile, Bob Bernick of Utah Policy took a look at all the secret bills looming for the session—Ivory’s three “Sacred Trust” bills among them. In fact, 371 of 692 new bill files were “protected.” They don’t have to be opened until two weeks into the session. While there may be reasons to keep a bill under wraps, secrecy makes lobbying, and therefore conflict, difficult at best. Bernick points out that bills can be offered with only a title and number—no text—all through the session. That’s what happened with the now-infamous anti-GRAMA bill. The public wasn’t happy with the Legislature keeping secret a bill about keeping records secret. So, if you’re hoping to find out what your representative is up to, you might want to make a call and ask. The bill file may not tell you anything.

Overruled Sometimes it takes a judge to see clearly. That’s what happened in the case of Phil Lyman, the San Juan County commissioner who led a pack of ATVs into the Bureau of Land Management’s Recapture Canyon. He was protesting the BLM’s inaction by risking misdemeanor charges of conspiracy and trespassing. Then he told the court he was indigent. U.S. Magistrate Eve Furse saw through the ruse and has ordered Lyman to pay back the feds for legal services the taxpayers already put out. In fact, according to The Salt Lake Tribune, Lyman gets $50,000 for being commissioner, and has “three streams of revenue” and real property assessed at $650,000. Lyman, of course, says he’s not gaming the system and intended to pay what he could. In this case, you have a case of a guy railing against the federal government while taking advantage of it.

After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2013, Allison Carr tried the typical medications to help slow down the progression of her disease but found that none worked for her. She found a treatment at Northwestern University Hospital called Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HSCT), a treatment used for cancer and other diseases but not often for MS. HSCT for MS is only available at one hospital in the United States—and only if patients qualify. Carr (pictured above with her wife and children) is taking the risk and traveling to Chicago to receive the treatment, and her friends have launched a GoFundMe to help cover the costs at GoFundMe.com/HelpAliKickMS.

How did you come to be diagnosed with MS?

I started having some numbness and tingling in my legs, and I thought it was my lower back. Then it moved to the whole left side of my body, so I went to an orthopedic surgeon. He did an MRI and found that I have numerous lesions in my brain and spinal cord. He sent me to a neurologist, and the neurologist looked at my MRIs and said, “You have a really serious case of MS. You’ve probably had it for 15 to 20 years.” I am 44 now. I was a stay-at-home mom for a long time, so I was always so exhausted and I just figured I was tired because of that. I was attending community college and doing great. Then, in winter quarter, I couldn’t concentrate. I would watch the teacher and it was like he was speaking Chinese, I literally couldn’t grasp anything. It turns out a lot of those things are MS symptoms that I never clued in to.

What is the HSCT procedure?

It’s similar to a bone-marrow transplant, only they use my own stem cells instead of bone marrow. First, the doctors give me a low dose of chemo and medication to harvest my stem cells and freeze them. Then, after I recover from that, I go back to the hospital and get several doses of chemo to wipe out my immune system. As soon as they wipe out my “confused MS” immune system, they give me my stem cells back to rebuild my immune system. Even though it’s my own immune system that had MS to begin with, somehow the procedure acts as a sort of “reset,” and the new immune system doesn’t have MS anymore for about 80 percent of MS patients.

Why is Northwestern the only hospital where you can get this procedure? This procedure is like a bone-marrow transplant and is routine treatment for a handful of diseases, mostly cancers and leukemia. So, theoretically, the treatment is available right here in Utah at Huntsman. What is novel about the procedure is using it to treat MS and other autoimmune diseases. Dr. Burt at Northwestern is the only one I’m aware of who will do the procedure on MS patients outside of being enrolled in a clinical trial. There are other facilities in the U.S. that have done clinical trials with this procedure for MS. I believe there’s still a trial going on in Seattle. But I think Dr. Burt has treated the most MS patients with this procedure in the U.S.

Why are you taking a risk with HSCT?

If I was going to take a risk, I wanted the least possible risk and the most potential benefit. In my view, that is HSCT. I heard a lot of, “Have you tried going to Mexico?” “Have you tried going in a beehive and getting stung by bees?” “Have you tried horse therapy like Ann Romney?” You’d be amazed at the number of suggestions people have for me for a cure for MS. Especially with all the multi-level marketing companies in Salt Lake, I’ve heard from many people saying, “Just try this pill, it will cure you” and that’s just the nature of chronic diseases: When people are desperate for a cure, they’ll try anything.

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The number of Sasquatches necessary for a viable population depends on what your goals are. From a short-term genetic-diversity standpoint, there’d need to be something like 50 breeding Bigfoots—but even then you’d still have a lot of first-cousin reproduction going on. To maintain any decent chance of genetic viability long term would probably take at least 10 times that many. Where might this large theoretical community of Bigfeet reside? A 2009 study (designed to demonstrate some limits of software-based analysis) used a large collection of Bigfoot data—646 records of alleged auditory and visual encounters plus footprints—to run an ecological-niche computer model. The model concluded that Bigfoot should be present throughout the mountain ranges of western North America, but predicted that the effects of climate change would likely drive it further north and into higher elevations, away from the coastlines. Perhaps more important, though: plugging reports of black bear sightings in the Pacific Northwest into the same modeling software indicated that the bears should share exactly the same habitat. Since they also exhibit a similar size, poundage, and full-body coiffure, the well-honed deductive mind might therefore conclude that people are commonly mistaking black bears for celebrity sightings of Bigfoot. None of this has stopped Bigfoot believers, who every so often have actually managed to get Sasquatch-preservation ordinances on the books in parts of Washington State. But let’s keep the obvious in mind here: In all recorded history there has never been found a single confirmed Bigfoot fossil, bone, hair or flesh sample. DNA testing on alleged remains of Sasquatches and yetis has proven them to have come from cows, porcupines, or occasionally the extremely odd-looking serow, but nothing previously undiscovered. As for the bear-carcass argument: Yes, bear carcasses are rare finds, but plenty of well-documented examples have turned up, as well as enough fossils to support a theory of their evolution and reconstruct their migratory patterns. Could there be one lonely Sasquatch wandering around, the last of its species, just living out the days until its uncelebrated demise? Possibly. But if the final Bigfoot falls in a forest and no one is there to see it, will all those bitter cryptozoologists be vindicated? It’s doubtful. Send questions to Cecil via StraightDope. com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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More News Is Good News Updates on City Weekly’s 2014 reporting.

By Stephen Dark, Colby Frazier & Eric S. Peterson comments@cityweekly.net From a fatal shooting inside the new federal courthouse to shedding light on law enforcement’s relaxed approach to processing rape kits, City Weekly reporters sought in 2014 to report and break stories that were mere footnotes in other media outlets. Here is a highlight reel of stories we covered, and have continued to follow throughout the year.

Rape Cases

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Acting quietly and relentlessly, the State & Institutional Trust Lands Administration’s efforts to turn Utah lands that belong to the state’s schoolchildren into money—a mission explored in the January cover story “Lots for Tots”—had another successful year. Among the highlights was the $8.8 million sale of 193 acres in St. George to Jack Fisher Homes, which builds facilities for “active adults.” The development will include 600 residential units. In its year-end report, the administration, known as SITLA, also made note that the state’s first tarsands development, located at PR Springs in Uintah County on 32,000 acres, received some pertinent permits and is moving forward with development. The lands that SITLA manages, widely referred to by state lawmakers as school-child land, were gifted to Utah by the federal government at statehood. All told, SITLA, largely through leasing and selling land to oil companies, roped in $139 million dollars in revenue. Of that, $9.5 million went to operating expenses. SITLA, which operates to the extent that it can as a private business, unencumbered by some of the oversight that would be given to a bona fide state agency, deposited $130.4 million into its “permanent school trust fund,” a portion of which—$40.4 million—was distributed to the state’s public schools. In all, SITLA’s trust fund carries nearly $2 billion. Unlike the federal Bureau of Land Management, which must provide access to myriad uses on the millions of acres it manages in the state, SITLA has but one mandate: to monetize the school-child land, a mission that may well come under the microscope as Utah continues its efforts to wrest the lion’s share of public land away from the BLM.

On Dec. 19, 2014, Jessica Ripley finally got an answer to a question she’d been asking since she was sexually assaulted by a man she’d danced with at a downtown Salt Lake City nightclub in February 2012. What had happened to the rape kit a sexual-assault nurse examiner had taken from Ripley at the LDS Hospital in the early hours of the morning after the assault? Ripley’s story of being raped and subsequently not believed by responding officers was featured in a January 2014 City Weekly cover story called “Rape in Utah.” She had sought answers from SLCPD about what had happened to her case for months after the initial investigation fizzled out. She eventually learned that the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s office had declined to prosecute her case, but the fate of her rape kit—known as a Code R kit—remained a mystery. In August 2014, she e-mailed SLCPD seeking information on her case. Her December 2014 meeting with Sgt. Lisa Pascadlo, executive officer to Chief Chris Burbank, was, with the exception of the initial interview by a responding officer, “the first time I ever met anyone face to face on my case,” Ripley says. Pascadlo told her that evidence taken that night by the nurse had yielded traces of semen, and DNA from Ripley’s rapist had been uploaded to the national Combined DNA Index System in April 2012. “Rape in Utah” also highlighted a study by BYU professor and SANE nurse Julie Valentine, whose data found that the vast majority of rape cases in Salt Lake County were not prosecuted. Other findings were equally alarming. Cops rarely believed victims, few cases were screened with prosecutors, and those that were usually ended up being declined. In addition, most rape kits idled on shelves in police departments rather than being submitted to the state crime lab for testing. Much has changed since Ripley’s story and Valentine’s report were published in City Weekly. SLCPD started a Code R kits project in late spring 2014, committing four sex-crimes detectives to reviewing all cases involving unprocessed rape kits and then publishing the results online, without identifying the victim. This came after criticism from SLC councilman Kyle LaMalfa regarding untested kits, which numbered nearly 700 at SLCPD alone. SLCPD also signed up to join four other cities as part of a Department of Justice-funded year-long review of

rape cases to determine best practices. Valentine is grateful for the pressure that the Salt Lake City Council brought to bear on law enforcement, “influencing the move to submit all Code R kits to crime lab.” On Dec. 3, 2014, the council voted unanimously to have all rape kits tested. She is in the midst of a new study of West Valley City Police Department, looking at the impact on how rape cases are investigated and prosecuted after officers have been trained in “the neurobiology of sexual assault trauma.” She will be announcing findings at an early January 2015 conference on sexual assault and law enforcement. Ripley is puzzled why SLCPD took so long to tell her about her kit. “It’s kind of strange they had it the whole time and are now just giving it to me,” she says. In response to an e-mailed query, Pascadlo replied that “there is no policy requiring notification to a victim.” Despite that, Ripley says her joy at her assailant’s DNA being available to police departments across the country to identity him if he attacks someone else is indescribable. “I can’t even explain what comfort it brings to me,” she says, knowing that something had actually been done about her rapist. “I feel like a little bit of justice has been served on my part.” Ripley’s newfound media profile—she appeared on Fox 13, KUTV and KSL and gave a speech at the 2014 Slut Walk—led to customers at the pharmacy she works at sharing stories of sexual assault they had been unable to report to law enforcement. “It’s been the shittiest experience I’ve ever gone through,” Ripley says. “But if you don’t report it, you’re letting that person win.”

NEWS Body Cam O’ Rama

In January, City Weekly reported on the Salt Lake City Police Department’s enthusiastic adoption of body cameras for its officers. Body cameras have only recently been embraced by police departments, and Salt Lake was considered a trailblazer for using the cameras, vowing to buy one for every single officer. At the time, SLCPD had just spent $269,493 for 80 of the cameras, bringing its cache to 95. The controversial and fatal police shooting of an unarmed man in Ferguson, Mo., brought the debate surrounding the importance of cameras to the mainstream. The violence, though, struck even closer to home. On Aug. 11, a Salt Lake City police officer gunned down Dillon Taylor. Body camera footage showed that officer Bron Cruz ran after Taylor, demanding that he remove his hands from his pockets. Taylor continually refused and, after pulling up his shirt, was fatally shot. The video footage was cited by police officials as vindicating Cruz’s actions. A month later, on Sept. 10, police in Saratoga Springs fatally shot Darrien Hunt, who allegedly swung a samurai sword at officers. Prosecutors said both shootings were justified. In the past few months, SLCPD spent $673,600 on 200 more cameras. It now has 295 cameras, one for all of its frontline, first-responding patrol officers. The cameras, which cost SLCPD $3,368 apiece, must be manually turned on and require loads of data-storage capacity. Salt Lake City’s pioneering role in adopting the cameras has brought other departments to its doorstep seeking advice. Detective Greg Wilking says as interest in the cameras has grown, departments from across the country have inquired about how Salt Lake City makes use of them. And, in the case of Taylor, he says the camera footage shows that the officer was in the right. “Tragic as it was, the officer ended up being cleared because that information was available,” Wilking says. And now, if Gov. Gary Herbert gets his wish, the state’s police will soon be wearing body cameras. Herbert penciled $1 million into this year’s budget for the purchase of body cameras, with the goal of eventually having one for every state trooper.

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The Salt Lake City Clean Streets Team was the focus of the April news story “Cleaning the Mean Streets.” The program, which started in 2013, gives part-time work to homeless Salt Lake City residents cleaning up around The Road Home shelter to give them work experience and help them transition into something more permanent. The team is funded through a collaboration between the Downtown Alliance, Salt Lake City and Advantage Services (formerly Valley Services) that specifically employs people who struggle to find work because of criminal backgrounds or other deterrents. Camille Winnie of the Downtown Alliance says the Clean Streets Team will continue to be funded into 2015, thanks to support from partners and donations from private companies such as American Express and GE Capital. For the April story, City Weekly interviewed two homeless members of the team, Dave and Beth, who have now joined more than a dozen other team members who have transitioned to full-time employment. Winnie says that in 2015, the program will vie for new city contracts to do clean up along the airport/North Temple Trax line and others that will help the program expand.

By Eric S. Peterson

Pens Still Raised In April, Utah’s new federal courthouse made national and international headline when Siale Angilau, an alleged member of the Tongan Crips gang, was fatally shot and killed by a

U.S. Marshal after he rushed toward a witness who was testifying against him, holding either a pen or a pencil, according to witnesses. Angilau’s death sent shockwaves through Utah’s Pacific Islander community, and in the aftermath of the shooting, a youth movement, Raise Your Pen, was formed. The group has been raising awareness of the challenges faced by minorities in Utah and of the heavy-handed tactics used against Angilau—both in his death and in the federal racketeering charges filed against him. Angilau’s attorney Michael Langford questioned why a charge usually reserved for the mafia would be used against clients like his, who was prosecuted for “beer run” convenience stores robberies. Since the shooting, the FBI has ruled that the Marshall was justified in using lethal force, and has also refused to release courtroom video of the incident. Besides joining many other groups in rallying against police brutality, Raise Your Pen is also currently crowdfunding to raise money to try to legally gain access to the courtroom video. More info on the campaign can be found at the Raise Your Pen Coalition Facebook page: http://citywk.ly/ RaiseYourPen

What a Waste

Coal ash, a byproduct of coal-fired plants, has been largely unregulated, despite the fact that it’s one of the largest waste streams in the country. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, in 2012, 470 coal-fired electric utilities burned more than 800 million tons of coal, in turn generating approximately 110 million tons of coal ash in 47 states and Puerto Rico. The waste is usually deposited in ponds or landfills—like the 75-acre landfill in East Carbon, a rural community in Carbon County. In the May cover story “Ashes to Ashes,” City Weekly looked at the landfill and the fight that East Carbon residents had against the proposed expansion of the landfill. Environmental advocates have assailed the waste product because of the toxic chemicals in the ash, which range from lead and selenium to arsenic. In Utah, state regulators allowed the East Carbon landfill to not be required to have a liner under the giant ash pile and, in 2013, approved a 34-acre expansion of the landfill that would also not require the installation of a liner, which, some have argued, would keep the toxic ash from leaching into groundwater. Regulators with the Utah Department of Water Quality say there is a layer of Mancos shale under the landfill that acts as a natural barrier, but in a legal challenge, Brigham Young University geologist Steve Nelson challenged the claim. Nelson compared the chemicals underneath the landfill to those outside of it and found that the level of contaminates consistently spiked under the landfill as opposed to outside of it. Those appeals are still in process and briefings aren’t expected until early 2015. In the meantime, the EPA has finally issued a rule on federal regulation of coal ash. As You Sow is a nonprofit group advocating corporate responsibility on key matters, coal ash being one of them. As You Sow’s Amelia Timbers, the energy program manager, says the new rule has some pluses—the phasing out of ash ponds, more transparency and requirements for liners on new landfills—but otherwise is a “disappointment.” “It’s pretty clear to us that the EPA bowed to industry pressure on this rule,” Timbers says. She points out that despite the “deeply toxic” ingredients in coal ash, that the EPA classified it as “solid waste,” putting it in the same category as garbage, as opposed to hazardous waste. She’s also troubled that the EPA left enforcement of the rule up to the states. “States were already supposed to be preventing the harm that comes from coal ash and weren’t,” Timbers says. CW

Compiler’s Note: Chronicling human folly gets harder every year because as foibles proliferate, the odd seems commonplace. These unbelievablebut-true news stories, however, stand out as the year’s quirkiest.

Caught Stupid

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When Guns Are Outlawed Sheryl Claffy, 60, told police in Albuquerque, N.M., that her daughter, Cara Claffy, 35, hit her over the head with an electric vibrator during an argument (The Smoking Gun) n Police arrested Christine O’Keefe, 53, after her daughter, Jessica Caldwell, 25, reported that the mother smacked her in the face with “a used diaper.” (The Smoking Gun) n German authorities warned that two women were robbing “mostly older women” by hypnotizing them. Police official Sandra Mohr said a 66-year-old Russian woman reported that the women “told her that they would read her fortune, but the next thing she knew she was back home sitting in an armchair, and all her jewelry and valuables had vanished.” (Britain’s Daily Mail)

Hoping to make solo diners feel less self-conscious, Tokyo’s Moomin Café began seating them at tables across from giant stuffed animals representing characters from a Finnish picture book series. (Time)

Whistle a Happy Tune

Fetishes on Parade Lonnie Hutton, 49, tried to have sex with an automatic teller machine at a bar in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Police officers who found Hutton waist-down naked said that when they took him outside and ordered him to sit at a picnic table, he “exposed himself again and engaged in sexual intercourse with the woozden picnic table.” (Nashville’s WKRN-TV) n Edwin Tobergta, 32, was arrested for having sex with a pink pool float in Hamilton, Ohio. Police said it was his third arrest for the same act, although with different pool floats. (Louisville, Ky.’s WLKY-TV)

Expert on the Subject

For the Record

When Willie Hubbard called 911 to report a carjacking after he witnessed a woman getting thrown to the ground by a man who then drove off in her car in DeKalb County, Ga., the operator informed him it wasn’t a carjacking but a theft. The two then hotly debated whether the crime was a carjacking or a theft, delaying police response for more than 30 minutes. (Atlanta’s WAGA-TV)

Rescuers needed a stretcher to carry a tourist who hurt his ankle while climbing one of Scotland’s highest mountains in his flip-flops. One of the injured man’s companions was barefoot; the other was wearing sneakers. The three men explained they wanted to reach the top of Aonach Mor to experience snow for the first time. (BBC News)

Litigation Nation

Problems Solved

Success Breeds Failure

Capitalizing on the Past

Mensa Rejects of the Year

Hoping to attract riders, city buses in Saint John, New Brunswick, began offering free wireless Internet service. It then announced it was discontinuing the service after it became so popular that the cost tripled. “We had a lot of people streaming and downloading very extensive files, and the usage got very high,” transit commission general manager Frank McCarey said. (CBC News)

Second-Amendment Follies A 51-year-old woman told police in Fremont Township, Mich., that she accidentally shot herself in the face when she slammed the butt end of a shotgun on the floor during a family dispute “to make a point.” (Michigan’s MLive.com)

It Happens A United Nations survey found that more than a billion people in the world defecate in the open. Lack of toilets isn’t the problem, the study concluded. “There are so many latrines that have been abandoned, or were not used, or got used as storage sheds,” UNICEF statistician Rolf Luyendijk said. “If people are not convinced that it’s a good idea to use a latrine, they have an extra room.” (Reuters)

Nigel Sykes, 23, sued the pizzeria he admitted robbing in Wilmington, Del., claiming that employees who tackled him and wrestled his gun away during the hold-up used “unnecessary” roughness to subdue him by “punching, kicking and pouring soup over my body.” (Wilmington’s The News)

AOL reported it still has 2.4 million dial-up Internet subscribers, paying an average of $20.86 a month. Since its dial-up business costs little to operate, 70 percent of its revenue is profit. (The Washington Post)

DIY Law & Order Police forces in England and Wales began asking crime victims to carry out their own investigations after having their car stolen or property damaged by looking out for potential fingerprint evidence, checking for witnesses and searching second-hand websites for their stolen property. (Britain’s The Independent)

Gender Benders California’s Mills College became the first all-female college to admit men but only if they were “assigned to the female sex at birth” and legally changed their gender to male. (The Washington Times)

Show or Go

Danielle Shea, 22, admitted phoning bomb threats to cancel Quinnipiac University’s spring graduation ceremony because she didn’t want her family to discover that she wasn’t graduating. She had accepted money from her mother for tuition but never enrolled. (New Haven Register)

U.S. District Court judge Denise Casper upheld a federal deportation order for Eleutherios Spirou because of exaggerated claims made on his visa application. The owners of Copeland Pizza in Quincy, Mass., where Spirou worked since 1989, declared he was able to “exercise showmanship in preparation of food, such as tossing pizza in the air to lighten the texture.” Spirou later admitted he doesn’t actually throw the dough. “Even accepting Copeland’s definition of the term ‘showmanship’ would require Spirou to perform his duties in a dramatic manner,” Casper said. (Boston Herald)

When Bobbleheads Aren’t Enough

Euphemistically Speaking

Lesson Learned

Minor league baseball’s Syracuse Chiefs offered a free funeral to the fan submitting the winning essay for the team’s “Celebration of Life” night. (Syracuse Chief press release)

General Motors reacted to rampant recalls by directing its engineers to avoid using certain words when discussing GM automobiles to reporters. Among them: asphyxiating, deathtrap, disemboweling, genocide, grenade-like and powder keg. (Detroit Free Press)

Temple University physicist Rongjia Tao proposed permanently protecting the Midwest from tornadoes by building giant walls—one in North Dakota, one along the border between Kansas and Oklahoma to the east, and the third one in south Texas and Louisiana. Tao said the walls would need to be about 1,000 feet high and 150 feet wide. He estimated they would cost $60 billion per 100 miles. (USA Today) n Hoping to reduce the estimated 50 tons of litter left by people climbing Mount Everest, Nepal ordered everyone descending to carry out 18 pounds of trash. The debris ranges from empty oxygen bottles, torn tents, discarded food containers and the bodies of climbers who died on the mountain. (The New York Times) n Chinese officials considered using giant vacuum cleaners to improve air quality in polluted cities. The devices resemble a giant hula-hoop and use an electrified wire to attract smog particles. “It’s not going to cure smog on a large scale,” Dutch inventor Daan Roosegaarde explained, “but at least we can remind people what clean air looks like.” (Reuters)

Slightest Provocation Nadja Svenson, 22, was charged with stabbing her father in the chest outside their home in Londonderry, N.H., while the two were stargazing “and began arguing over where the Big Dipper and other constellations are in the sky,” police Detective Chris Olson said. “It escalated from there.” (New Hampshire Union Leader) n Sheriff’s deputies in Monroe County, Fla., said a woman reported that boyfriend Carlos Miguel Gascon, 27, choked her, poured coffee on her, cut the back of her leg with a knife, threatened to kill her while holding a knife to her throat, picked her up and slammed her down on a glass table, and then picked up his dog, slammed it to the ground and stepped on its neck because he “was angry at her because he had a dream she was cheating on him.” (Miami Herald) Compiled from mainstream news sources by Roland Sweet. Authentication on demand.

After the military junta National Council for Peace and Order took control in Thailand, it embarked on a campaign to restore happiness by holding free band concerts and offering free haircuts and dessert. (Thailand’s Samui Times)

Intending to calm students before final exams, St. Louis’ Washington University had a petting zoo bring several animals to campus for students to cuddle. One was a two-month-old bear cub, which promptly bit and scratched at least 18 students. (Reuters)

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Unclear on the Concept

What Could Go Wrong?

Francesco Schettino, dubbed “Captain Coward” for abandoning ship ahead of passengers when the cruise liner Costa Concordia sank in 2012, gave a two-hour lecture on emergency practices to criminology students at Rome’s La Sapienza University. Schettino lectured on “panic management” and used a 3-D model of the doomed vessel to demonstrate how to conduct emergency evacuations. (Australia’s News.com.au)

QUIRKS

When the police officer who stopped Douglas Glidden, 25, in Livermore Falls, Maine, found marijuana in his vehicle, Glidden insisted the pot couldn’t be his because he had stolen the car. (Franklin Sun Journal)

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As America continues to wage its wars across the globe into 2015, the Salt Lake Society of Friends will stage a peace rally to get the year going this week. In bustling Sandy, the city council will field public comment as it considers selling five acres of land to a pair of developers. Later, make some time to visit the Capitol, which, prior to being filled with lawmakers and lobbyists, is showcasing an exhibit focusing on Utah’s women artists.

Peace Witness

Saturday, Jan. 3

Billzzfeed In memorium: Eight people and things we lost in 2014:

8. Burger King Satisfries—diet french fries, people!

7. Cliff Huxtable; hang in there, Fat Albert.

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5. Several planes to the AirlineEating Dragon.

4. Burt’s Tiki Lounge (October) 3.

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The Salt Lake Society of Friends (Quakers) is kicking off 2015—and the month of January—the same way they kick off every month: with a “Peace Witness.” The Peace Witness, which takes place the first Saturday of every month, provides a rare reminder that America remains in a state of perpetual war—one that since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, has undoubtedly fatigued the nation’s ability to even contemplate peace.   Northwest corner of 700 East and 2100 South, Salt Lake City, Jan. 3, 3-4 p.m., SaltLakeQuakers.org

Sandy City Council  Tuesday, Jan. 6

Like all hamlets strung out along the Wasatch Front, Sandy City is growing. In November, city leaders celebrated the groundbreaking of a 25-story residential tower—a $75 million nugget in a planned multi-billion dollar project known as “The Cairns.” And this Tuesday, city leaders will contemplate selling just over a half an acre and a building to Simons Platt Creations, LLC, the same company erecting that residential skyscraper. Another 4.42 acres is also up for sale, the hopeful suitor being Texas-based property management firm Kaplan Acquisitions, LLC. The city will be taking public comment on the sales, the prices of which were not posted at press time. Sandy City Hall, 10000 Centennial Parkway, Sandy, Jan. 6, 7 p.m., Sandy. Utah.gov

Women Artists of Utah  Through March 13

Before the halls are swarming with politicians during the upcoming legislative session, visit the Utah Capitol to see the Women Artists of Utah exhibition, which will showcase works by women artists from a collection that began in 1899 and continues to this day.   Utah Capitol, fourth floor gallery, 350 North State, Salt Lake City, 7 a.m.-8 p.m., Heritage.Utah.gov

Nibbling Away At 2014

Our dining critic’s favorite food, drink and more from the past year.

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One of the most memorable dishes I enjoyed in 2014 was also one of the simplest. It was Chef Tommy Nguyen’s nothing-short-of-awesome shoyu fried chicken at Rye Diner & Drinks (239 S. 500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-3644655, RyeSLC.com). I never thought I’d taste fried chicken as good as Thomas Keller’s famous buttermilk fried chicken at Ad Hoc in Napa, but now I have. The other championship chicken I enjoyed was at Bodega (331 S. Main, 801532-4452, Salt Lake City, Bodega331.com), where the honey-glazed beer-can chicken for two is tender, juicy and packed with flavor to the very last bite. Oh, and how could I forget the fried chicken claws at Dim Sum House (1158 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801359-3838, DimSumHouseSLC.com)? Granted, these are an acquired taste. But once you’ve come to terms with eating chicken feet, you’ll be jonesing for ’em as much as I do. My favorite sandwiches of 2014 can, as in the previous year, be found at Feldman’s Deli (2005 E. 2700 South, Salt Lake City, 801-906-0369, FeldmansDeli. com). I find it hard to look past the bodacious cornedbeef Reuben at Feldman’s. However, with a bit of nudging from owners Michael and Janet, I finally ate a bit outside of my normal comfort zone and tried their unique sloppy Joe, which is about as untraditional a sloppy Joe as you could imagine. It’s made with minced corned beef and pastrami, oozing with Thousand Island-soaked coleslaw, and served on Jewish rye. It’s not traditional, but it’s as unbeatable as it is messy. And Feldman’s continues to make the best boil & bake bagels in town, to boot.

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is the season for 12 calling birds, three French hens and stacks on stacks of listicles counting down the best of TV, movies, news and music. Yeah, we know that penning a year-end rundown of our favorites isn’t anything new; just about every publication from Redbook to Buzzfeed will undoubtedly dedicate a few words to what they think is the year’s finest. The year-end wrap-up listicle has become a regular holiday tradition—one that you didn’t necessarily ask for but you’re glad exists, like finding Chapstick in your stocking or seeing your weird cousin for the first time in months. It is important to reflect on your favorite albums, shows and whatever else floats your boat. But we believe these year-end recaps serve a bigger purpose. They shine a little light on the important and entertaining things you—the reader—may have missed out on. All year long, we at City Weekly love to inform people about local news, arts, music, movies, television and everything in between, and we know our readers enjoy discovering new bands or a new dish at a local restaurant. And, really, that’s the point of this issue. But we also know that many readers of year-end lists consume them simply to see if a writer’s opinions align with their own, and spout off in the comments section if they don’t. But if this is what it takes to create a healthy conversation about the great things this state produces, so be it. Let’s do this. —Colin Wolf

tah saw the emergence of a number of exciting new restaurants in 2014, including Rye Diner & Drinks, Tosh’s Ramen, Skewered Thai, the re-opened Finca, Harbor Seafood & Steak Co., Provisions, Kimi’s Chop & Oyster House, From Scratch, Pho Thin, Copper Kitchen, Sole Mio, Handle and The Brass Tag, among many others. In 2014, Takashi turned 10, Log Haven turned 20 and Tres Hombres celebrated its 30th anniversary. I, meanwhile, managed to eat and drink my way through another year without winding up in the emergency room (knock on wood at press time). I’m often asked about my favorite restaurants. But the truth is, it’s hard for a food writer/restaurant critic to have one. That’s because most of the time when I dine out, I’m working, and it’s not always the most enjoyable dining experience. I have to sample many dishes, but am not able to devour the ones I like most. And then, there’s all the analysis and contemplation of food that can dampen the dining experience. Not that I’m complaining; it’s a helluva lot better than working in a coal mine. It’s just that I don’t really get to eat at my favorite restaurants often, because I’m usually reviewing new and noteworthy ones. So, I tend to think more fondly about a certain entree here, an appetizer there, or maybe a creative cocktail that stuck with me for a while. My food memories tend to be of favorite dishes, rather than favorite restaurants. Here, then, are a few of the dishes, drinks and other foodie-type highlights of my 2014.

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On the subject of sandwiches, 2014 brought Even Stevens Sandwiches (414 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 385-355-9105, EvenStevens.com) to SLC. For every sandwich purchased, another is donated to folks in our community who don’t have enough to eat, and I applaud the charitable work the folks at Even Stevens do to make a difference. At Cafe Gaudi (5244 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801273-0837, CafeMadrid.net), sandwiches have a Spanish flair. With its Barcelona-inspired breakfast and lunch, Cafe Gaudi offers Spanish bocadillos—traditional Spanish bocatas (sandwiches) such as serrano ham with manchego cheese or chorizo de Pamplona on artisan baguettes. Delicioso! As I’m always on pizza patrol, I was thrilled that one of my favorite pizza purveyors—Midway’s Cafe Galleria—opened up shop in Murray (6055 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, 801-266-2225, CafeGalleriaPizza.com) this year. One of the things that sets Galleria pizza apart is the high quality and flavor of the cheeses used. The owner of Cafe Galleria, Cecil Duvall, is an artisan cheesemaker, and his Duvall Farms cheeses top his fabulous pies; he makes it all, from goat cheese and ricotta to mozzarella and Parmesan. The mozzarella-Parmesan mix used on most of the Galleria pizzas is perfect. Bonus: The wood-fired bagels are also superb. Before we leave the topic of pizza, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that in 2014, I finally discovered what many have known for decades: that Tony’s Pizza in Ogden (403 39th St., 801-393-1985) has been serving up some of the best traditional deck-oven-style pizza since the 1960s. When all the pizza-dough dust cleared, however, my favorite pizza of the past year was the (literally) from-scratch pizza found at, not surprisingly, From Scratch (62 E. Gallivan Ave., Salt Lake City, 801-538-5090, FromScratchSLC. com). It definitely doesn’t hurt that From Scratch mills its own flour for bread and pizzas right on the spot. When it comes to using your noodle, Chef Toshio Sekikawa certainly used his when he opened his namesake ramen eatery, Tosh’s Ramen (1465 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-466-7000, ToshsRamen.com). The place has been standing-room-only packed since the day it opened. And rightly so, because Tosh serves up the rockingest ramen in town. Beautiful broth made from scratch, perfect ramen noodles, nearly see-through slices of pork belly, soft-cooked eggs, and just the right amount of spices and seasonings make Tosh’s ramen the best I encountered in 2014. The best chocolate I encountered during the past year was introduced to me by Matt Caputo, of Tony Caputo’s Market & Deli. Matt turned me on to Solstice Chocolate (SolsticeChocolate.com), which is produced right here in Salt

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Superb subterranean dining at The Rest

Lake City by Scott and DeAnn Querry. Their Madagascar 70 percent Sambirano American Artisan Chocolate in particular approaches chocolate nirvana. There are citrus and berry notes and a vivid spicy finish. It’s the sort of chocolate you’re supposed to savor, a little at a time, but I managed to destroy an entire 2.3-ounce bar in one sitting. According to Caputo, the renowned Chocolatier Blue has selected Solstice Madagascar for 100 percent of their chocolate needs, including their remarkable truffles. That’s quite an endorsement! My favorite cocktail from the past year was La Hierba Verde, created by bar manager Scott Gardner at Finca (327 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-487-0699, FincaSLC.com). The name translates as “the green herb,” and it’s a scrumptious concoction of Absolut Vodka, white wine, fresh lemon juice, basil, parsley and Bittermens Orchard Street Celery Shrub, served in a cocktail glass. The most useful cookbook to land in my kitchen during 2014 was Cook’s Illustrated Meat Book ($40). It’s the culmination of more than 20 years of experimenting with recipes and techniques for cooking beef, pork, lamb, veal, chicken and turkey in the Cook’s Illustrated test kitchens, and immensely valuable to every cook, from rookies to seasoned chefs. Another excellent cookbook published in 2014 is also one with the longest subtitle: It’s called Ikaria: Lessons on Food, Life, and Longevity From the Greek Island Where People Forget to Die ($35) by Diane Kochilas. The author is an expert on Greek cuisine and cooking, and although the people of Ikaria may forget to die, the recipes here are to die for. Finally, my choice for my favorite restaurant of 2014 goes to what some might consider an unlikely candidate: Frida Bistro (545 W. 700 South, Salt Lake City, 801-983-6692, FridaBistro. com). I say “unlikely” because the restaurant isn’t new, and might not have the buzz surrounding it that newer kids on the block do. But I think that Jorge Fierro’s eatery, serving elevated south-of-the-border fare, is as solid as it comes. And I can’t overlook Fierro’s contributions to our community. Having started out in Utah as a self-confessed illegal alien who sold pinto beans before creating Rico Brand—which sells and caters some 125 food products such as tamales, salsas and burritos— Fierro is also the cornerstone of Salt Lake City’s Burrito Project, which is based out of his Rico Brand kitchens. Together with a team of generous volunteers, Fierro has made and distributed thousands of rice & bean burritos to the homeless people of Salt Lake City. Kudos to Fierro, Frida Bistro and Rico Brand for keeping it real in 2014 and beyond.

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Best Local

Rap of 2014

Utah-released hip-hop you shouldn’t sleep on. By Colin Wolf

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he past 12 months have produced a bounty of great local hip-hop, and the following list represents the year’s best albums, EPs, mixtapes and series of singles. The point of this list is to not only praise the individual artists but to also, more importantly, inform you, the reader, about the outstanding hip-hop that’s made right here in the Beehive State. Enjoy.

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Malev Da Shinobi, “Human” and other singles

Malev Da Shinobi is a mysterious cat. He doesn’t release albums, EPs or even mixtapes. Once a month or so, Malev will just drop a fresh track on his Soundcloud page and almost instantly rack up 3,000 plays. 2014 saw quite a few sterling singles from Malev, including “Human,” a smooth golden-era throwback that reflects on the lives lost in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the shooting down of commercial airliner MH17. Soundcloud.com/MalevMC

and Gig rap exceptionally well and exceptionally fast throughout the entire album, and particularly on tracks like “Out West” and “Rise (Noose II),” which slap like an abrupt hit of smelling salts. But the keystone to Outliers is producer Mason Brewer, who is gradually and humbly positioning himself as one of the best producers in Utah. BetterTasteBureau.com

New Jersey transplant uMaNg linked up with Swedish producer B.B.Z. Darney for their 2014 album, The Black Rose Certificate, released on Ill Adrenaline Records. It’s a diverse collection of hardhitting, boom-bap-inspired hip-hop that feels somewhat reminiscent of artists like Snowgoons and Sean Price. These comparisons probably fall short, but uMaNg has a deliberate, articulate style as well as the prowess to pen heartfelt story tracks and creative punchlines. Umang. bandcamp.com

Better Taste Bureau, Outliers

Better Taste Bureau’s greatest asset is their ability to create energy. Their 2014 full-length, Outliers, is packed with hype and feels like you’re sticking your head out the window of a getaway car. Emcees Hurris

Cig Burna, Paradise Lost: New Nigga Same View

Calhoon Popadopolis, Cheat to Win Calhoon Popadopolis is like the Rick Mahorn of Utah rap. His 2014 full-length, Cheat to Win, released by Lazarus Chamber Recordings, is anything but soft. Calhoon has a commanding presence over producer Yoga Flame Kane’s tracks and smashes over bars as if he’s the lost member of The Visionaries. Cheat to Win has little to no weak spots, and Calhoon puts listeners in a neckbrace while he waxes poetic about calling out haters, dropping off cash wads and dealing the white horse. Soundcloud.com/ YogaFlameKane

Lyrically, West Valley’s Cig Burna is one of the best rappers in Utah right now, and his May 2014 fulllength, Paradise Lost, cements that fact. The whole project breathes like a grape Swisher and runs the gamut of rugged street anthems like “Frontin Niggas,” to “even thugs need hugs” heart-bleeders like “Pour Out.” Guest spots include Statik Selektah, Concise Kilgore and VillAGE affiliates Lefty Two Guns and Yung Rip. Local kingmaker Briskoner pairs up with Cig for the majority of the album and lays down some of his best production work to date. CigBurna.bandcamp.com

Though physical copies of this album were circulating in 2013, Kill the Lights was officially released in April on iTunes. Boomboxx Music has been a consistent source of quality projects (of all sorts of genres), and this album truly covers all the bases. Essentially, KIS.B is a chameleon rapper, and Kill the Lights solidifies him as one of those rare musicians who can effectively create whatever the hell he wants; lowrider anthems, gritty stick-up-kid bangers and even polished club tracks. This album is one of the best Boomboxx releases in years. Soundcloud.com/ BoomboxxMusic

A followup to 2013’s highly ambitious KiLWave series, KiLWave 2 finds rapper Concise Kilgore back in stride with his well-honed “Spit random cool shit that rhymes” style. This collection of 10 boiled-down, referenceheavy summer bangers was released over the span of just four months. Though most tracks are only about 2 1/2 minutes long (sometimes shorter), KiLWave 2 has the dexterity of a full-length album. Every track slaps like a quick dunk in a pre-game layup line—in other words, they’re a brief glimpse of how nasty Concise can spit when he feels like it. Soundcloud.com/ConciseKil

KIS.B, Kill The Lights

Concise Kilgore, KiLWave 2

uMaNg, The Black Rose Certificate

has an extremely astute, humorous and light-hearted approach to hip-hop, and it works well. His February release, Shakeface, was a massive drop loaded with great hooks, memorable punchlines and clever wordplay. “Wiggle your leg like you’re Anderson Silva” is possibly the line of the year. DonnieBonelli.bandcamp.com

New Truth, Truth Hurts EP Part of the Bearhead clan, rapper HQ and producer Milo Green have been quietly dropping gems for the past couple of years as New Truth, and their latest EP, Truth Hurts, is yet another proper extension of their Southern-infused “Attack the Block” rap methodology. With only eight tracks in tow, Truth Hurts is packed with “ride out” tracks and is probably best heard while wearing a ski mask. HQ’s lyrics are raw, tough and honest, and Milo only amplifies his style with his “turn-up,” bass-heavy production. BearheadMusic.com

Donnie Bonelli, Shakeface When you rip Mystikal’s “Shake Ya Ass” and turn it into something completely different and—more importantly—good, that’s an amazing feat. I’m a big fan of the entire House of Lewis crew, but 2014 was without a doubt Donnie Bonelli’s year. The Masta Don

WE, E.T.’s Vol. II

WE is essentially a Dine Krew side project consisting of rapper Erasole James and producer Piccolo. Their latest album, E.T.’s Vol. II, is a breezy concoction of cartoon namedrops, weed-laced anecdotes and extremely obscure samples. This project has all the elements of a great hip-hop album; youthful scorn, effortless swagger and uncorked angst. Also, local emcees Atheist, Morris Bars, Dusk Raps and Cannibal J contribute nicely with strong features. This is arguably the best Dine Krew album to date, and if you haven’t been paying attention to the Dine family, you’re sleeping on one of Utah’s most creative rap crews. Piccolo.bandcamp.com

Honorable Mentions Zigga Big Cottonwood

Chance Lewis CF Lewis Vol.2

2 Villainz Torture Muzik mixtape

Burnell Washburn Gratitude

Cannibal J “Kakoon” and other singles

Melvin Junko Haggard Mantis

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Best

Local Albums of 2014

The top 10 albums to come out of Utah this year. By Kolbie Stonehocker

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he past year was a fantastic one for local music— so much so that trying to select only 10 albums for this list was a difficult task indeed. The scene is full of trailblazers who deserve to have their work recognized, but a few albums released this year had a certain undeniable magic about them. And as I went back and attempted to re-experience the huge variety of local music that 2014 brought with it in order to compile this list, these albums clearly stood out from the rest. If there is an album on here that you’ve never heard before, you owe it to yourself to check it out; you—like me—might wonder how you got along without it.

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Color Animal, Bubble Gum Bubble Gum, the title of the second full-length released by Color Animal, is misleading, but in a way that’s a pleasant surprise. Any suspicions that this is simply a “bubble-gum pop” record are immediately dispelled with the opening track, “Watermelon,” the listener’s first taste of the ear-catching juxtaposition that’s at work on Bubble Gum. The record is indeed often catchy and beautiful, but there’s usually a thread of melancholy underlying the shimmering guitar and upbeat percussion—like a day where the sun is shining, but there’s just enough cloud cover to make the light slightly gloomy. And that tension gives songs like “Back to the Universe” and “Under the Colored Lights” remarkable depth, the sort that warrants giving Bubble Gum multiple spins. ColorAnimalRocks.bandcamp.com

Westward the Tide, Sorry Soul The debut full-length album from Salt Lake City indie-rock five-piece Westward the Tide has such electric live energy that you can’t help feeling like you’re standing at the center of the studio, surrounded by the members of the band as they play their instruments— and that’s a very, very good thing. Every organ wail and tambourine jingle is that much more immediate,

and every heart-swelling group harmony glows all the brighter. But though Sorry Soul sounds great, it’s not too perfect; it has some rough edges that really seem to fit with the darker aesthetic that, with this first foray into a longer album format, Westward the Tide is finally getting free rein to explore, heard especially on the moody, Western-tinged track “Friction.” WestwardTheTide.bandcamp.com

ingly honest in their depiction of the times that happen between the happy times: the confusing, restless, miserable and question-filled times. From the description of the addicted woman on “Paper Bag” to the quietly earth-shattering revelation of the line “Thought I knew just what I wanted from you/ but I don’t” from “I Ain’t Happy Yet,” The Souvenirs’ songwriting cuts to the core. TheSouvenirsMusic.bandcamp.com

Love can be a scary thing, so it’s fitting that Salt Lake City pop-rock/punk band Secret Abilities filled their latest album, Music to Break Up By, with monsters and demons. The record’s spooky and lighthearted feel is a perfect match for Secret Abilities’ ragged, goofy, infectiously fun punk sound, but it’s also a surprisingly effective foil for the heavy subject matter found on Music to Break Up By. The suckiness of being cheated on, being heartbroken and not being able to let go are virtually universal pains, but there’s a strange healing power in songs about a two-timing ex perishing in a fiery explosion and a lovesick person keeping their paramour’s heart in a jar (literally). SecretAbilities. bandcamp.com

Besides being an insanely entertaining, stick-in-your-head rap album, Shakeface walks a number of tightropes with finesse. It’s got dorky geek pride as well as unabashed braggadocio, old-school boombap alongside polished electronic beats, sobering emotional subject matter and silly humor, soul-baring honesty and jet-setting fantasy, all perfectly balanced. Donnie Bonelli of rap crew House of Lewis delivers his inventive, funny and moving lyrics with nearly as much variety; he can spit tongue-tying bars with swagger on tracks like crowning album highlight “Shakeface” and “Too Hot,” then turn around and showcase a solid singing voice on the seductive “In Town.” As his official debut, Shakeface is an impressive effort, one that sets a high bar for local rap. DonnieBonelli.bandcamp.com

Secret Abilities, Music to Break Up By

Porch Lights, Caverns It’s uncommon that two musicians can hit the mark on their debut album, let alone two musicians who came together by chance and have been calling themselves a band for less than a year. But that’s exactly what Provo indie-folk duo Corey Crellin and Emily Brown did with Caverns, which is, in a word, magical. Crellin’s hushed croon is the perfect match for Brown’s ethereal soprano, and the duo seem to be reading one another’s minds as they harmonize. And the album’s instrumentation couldn’t be more fitting: Delicate piano, banjo, lap steel, guitar and the slightest touches of trumpet combine for a dreamy sound that transports the listener to lofty heights, deep forests and cloud-bound seas. Caverns’ highlights are many, but the build-up to the climax of “County Carnival” gives me a shiver from my toes to the top of my head. PorchLightsMusic.bandcamp.com

The Souvenirs, I Ain’t Happy Yet Despite their nostalgic name, The Souvenirs—the harmonizing trio of Marie Bradshaw, Kiki Sieger and Corinne Gentry—don’t take only the golden parts of the past and immortalize them in a box like a pretty diorama, untouchable and irrelevant. Their classic Americana/country sound does have a strong throwback feel, and the album includes a few traditional country/blues covers, but The Souvenirs have a way of bringing the past forward to present day, making the themes in their lyrics relatable. And, as befitting the title I Ain’t Happy Yet, those lyrics are unflinch-

Donnie Bonelli, Shakeface

The Lower Lights, A Hymn Revival: Volume 3 When this ex-Mormon found The Lower Lights, I felt like a huge void in my heart had been filled, and I felt that again when listening to the group’s latest collection of folksy gospel covers, A Hymn Revival: Volume 3. Featuring more ridiculously talented musicians than can be listed here, The Lower Lights work such magic with hymns and spiritual songs that A Hymn Revival: Volume 3 almost doesn’t feel like a cover album. The arrangements are fresh and engaging, full of masterful artistic touches that enhance the subject matter—the usually staid “Be Still, My Soul,” for example, is utterly transformed with three solo vocalists—but still achingly familiar. The Lower Lights do more than create incredible music; they create a haven where everyone, believers and non-believers alike, are welcome. TheLowerLights. bandcamp.com

Ryan Tanner, Together Is Where We Belong Utah native and singer-songwriter Ryan Tanner now lives in Nashville, Tenn., but he maintains strong ties with his home scene and recruits many local musicians for his work. But even if Together Is Where We Belong were made by Tanner singing alone into a mic, it would still easily be one of the most striking albums of the year. With its rootsy folk/country vibe and Tanner’s timeless voice, Together Is Where We Belong sounds like a classic— “Bluebird, Blue,” especially. And Tanner has a hell of a

way with words; there’s no better symbol for someone who isn’t ready to take the plunge and fall in love than in his line “black heart painted red.” He discusses regret, loneliness and the end of love in vivid, relatable detail, such as the line “I was dead the moment that you said/ ‘Baby, I don’t love you anymore.’” Whatever cracks are in your own heart, you’ll find a song to describe the hurt on Together Is Where We Belong. RyanTanner.bandcamp.com

Salazar, Saudade

There are good albums, and then there are stop-you-in-yourtracks albums, and the debut from dream-pop/folk group Salazar is one of the latter. A testament to the high-caliber talent of Salazar frontman Alexander Woods, who wrote, recorded and mixed the music, Saudade pulls the listener in and doesn’t let go. It’s richly crafted with gorgeous acoustic guitar, woodsy strings, Woods’ arresting voice, misty atmosphere and various bits of sonic ephemera (people talking, water), which take turns rising to the fore then falling back into obscurity like the pieces of a long-past memory. Woods’ ability to paint a scene is especially effective on the profoundly beautiful “Saudade,” an intoxicating dreamscape of enveloping ocean waves. Salazar.bandcamp.com

Jay William Henderson, Hymns to My Amnesia

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Honorable mentions

Best

calendar year is as arbitrary a way to recognize greatness as a numbered list is, especially in an era when so many people see movies in places other than theaters, and in years other than the year of their release. But if nothing else, year-end listmaking offers a chance for readers to revisit movies that they might have missed, or reach beyond the box-office champs to find something new for a Netflix queue. Here are 15 of 2014’s best—at least according to me.

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Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

(aka simply Alan Partridge) Steve Coogan returns to his signature role, with the oblivious, self-absorbed titular chat-show host in the middle of a hostage situation at a small-town radio station. It’s nothing more than riotously funny work by Coogan, plus blistering writing by The Thick of It/Veep creator Armando Iannucci—and that’s enough.

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Nightcrawler Writer/director Dan Gilroy rides Jake Gyllenhaal’s masterful performance as an ambitious crime-scene videographer to craft a terrific allegory not just about journalistic ethics, but about the inherently sociopathic nature of pure capitalism.

. Edge of Tomorrow I may be in the tank for Doug Liman, but he managed to take a simple, killer sci-fi premise—a soldier (Tom Cruise) caught in a loop of dying and “rebooting” while trying to find a way to defeat an alien invasion—and turn it into a story of how we learn that there may be something in our lives more important than ourselves.

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They Came Together Genre parodies

are a dime a dozen, but is this spin on urban romantic comedies—with Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler as the meet-cute couple—one of the funniest cliché-skewering efforts in years? You can say that again.

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Selma In the same way that Lincoln was wisely not a cradle-to-grave biopic, but a snapshot of a legendary leader’s approach to leadership, Ava DuVernay’s study of Martin Luther King’s organization of voting-rights protests in Alabama captures something not merely inspirational, but nuts & bolts vital.

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Listen Up Philip Jason Schwartzman hilariously embodies the self-loathing/self-absorption spin cycle of a moderately successful young writer in writer/ director Alex Ross Perry’s caustic comedy about “genius” as an excuse for being an a-hole.

Mistaken for Strangers It was mistaken for a “The National concert movie,” but it’s actually a funny, surprisingly emotional portrait of sibling rivalry, as still-living-with-mom would-be-filmmaker Tom Berninger chronicles his time on tour with his brother, The National lead singer Matt Berninger.

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Only Lovers Left Alive Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston are centuries-old vampires living in the modern world in Jim Jarmusch’s dreamy, sometimes hilarious paean to the eternal beauty of art, and how it might give meaning to immortal lives by delivering something new and beautiful.

The LEGO Movie If you’re going to craft a

narrative out of a toy that allows you to turn colorful pieces into nearly anything, this is exactly what you should make. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller manage a smart, wildly imaginative manifesto on how to find the joy in any creative endeavor—even one based on a corporate product.

Force Majeure All it takes is one crucial

We Are the Best! Lukas Moodysson adapts

moment during a ski holiday for the marriage of Tomas (Johannes Kuhnke) and Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli) to change forever, in Ruben Östlund’s darkly satirical portrait of whether we can still live with someone else—or with ourselves—when traditional roles are called into question.

his wife’s autobiographical graphic novel about life as an early-’80s punk girl in Stockholm, and the result is an exuberant, wildly entertaining study of adolescent girlhood, anchored by three terrific young performances.

Inherent Vice It’s a rambling, shambling, shaggy dog of a detective movie, adapted by P.T.

Under the Skin Jonathan Glazer completely upended the source-material novel for this sci-fi tale of a unique predatory visitor (Scarlett Johansson). But his haunting visual style made it one of the year’s creepiest, most hypnotic trips, as well as a surprisingly potent exploration of sexual power as seen through inhuman eyes.

Two Days, One Night The gut-punching humanism of Belgium’s Dardennes brothers continues in this stunning story of a depression-plagued woman (the sublime Marion Cotillard) forced to beg co-workers for a chance to keep her job. It’s a potent economic horror story, but just as heartbreaking in its refusal to find an obvious villain.

The Babadook Jennifer Kent’s stunning debut feature is pitched as a horror movie, and it’s true that there’s genuinely unsettling stuff in this tale of a single mother haunted by a figure from a pop-up book. But it’s also so much deeper and richer than mere genre jolts, with Essie Davis’ best-of-the-year performance bringing terrifying immediacy to a single mother’s guilt, grief, bone-weary exhaustion and a possibly homicidal inability to cope.

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The Best of ‑ By BILL FROST

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Part 2: The rest of everything you should revisit, or discover, from last year. OUTLANDER

BROOKLYN NINE-NINE

You’re the Worst (FX) Like the equally surprising Broad City, You’re the Worst shattered preconceptions of the “edgy” cable comedy with smarts, heart, bracing moments of relationship realism (and outright debauchery), and a fearless cast led by relative unknowns Chris Geere and Aya Cash. No worries that the Toxic Twosome and gang are moving to FXX this year … right? The Bridge (FX) Apparently, FX can only sustain so many quality dramas: The Bridge was canceled after a low Season 2 turnout, and those who did show up were treated to a Tex-Mex stew that was a little overcooked— and it was still better than most crime dramas.

The Strain (FX) Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s vampires-bent-on-world-domination tale transitioned from novel to TV series with only a few bumps and a whole lotta scares (not counting Corey Stoll’s hairpiece) and reclaimed bloodsuckers from the glam universes of Twilight and True Blood.

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Welcome to Sweden (NBC) This Swedish import turned up on NBC’s summer schedule seemingly by accident, a subdued and charmingly awkward comedy that should have no place on an American network—and yet it worked fantastically. Watch for Welcome to Sweden when it “accidentally” comes around again. Garfunkel & Oates (IFC) Musical-comedy duo Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci are no Flight of the Conchords—they’re better, at least when it comes to song quantity and absence of indecipherable New Zealand accents. For Garfunkel & Oates, TMI means both Too Much Information and Touching Musical Interludes.

Outlander (Starz) Starz finally acknowledged that women watch TV—and then told them they’d have to wait six months for the second half of their new favorite Scottish bodice-ripper. Spartacus never would have stood for this.

Sons of Anarchy (FX) The seventh and final season of Hamlet on Harleys was overwrought, overindulgent and over-the-top—and you expected, what? For all his faults, showrunner Kurt Sutter is still a passionate storyteller, and the finale of Sons of Anarchy was a fittingly chaotic closer that tied up (almost) all of the loose ends. Time to retire the patch, and the musical montage. Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Fox) It’s not the Andy Samberg Show; it’s one of the best ensemble comedies on TV, something Fox is nailing better than anyone these days. Witness …

New Girl (Fox) By no logic should New Girl be this good in Season 4, but Zooey Deschanel and crew have become a fuzzy juggernaut of funny that still manages to surprise every week, putting one-note sitcoms like The Big Bang Theory and, well, every other half-hour on CBS, to shame. Gotham (Fox) Batman without Batman? Yeah, it’s

The Knick (Cinemax) In yet another instance of indie-

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name is the title, and star Liev Schreiber did his damndest to take the show back from father figure Jon Voight in Season 2, mostly succeeding while taking on a twisted new FBI antagonist (Hank Azaria, killing it).

film directors realizing that television is where it’s at, Steven Soderbergh directed this 10-part oddity about a doped-up doc (Clive Owen) at the precipice of modern medicine—he’s House 1900, with a premium-cable license to shock.

The Blacklist (NBC) James Spader’s “Red”

Masters of Sex (Showtime) There’s no power cou-

Doctor Who (BBC America) Peter Capaldi. That is all.

ple on television as compelling and confounding as Dr. William Masters (Michael Sheen) and Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan), and they’re barely “together,” in any sense. Was anything easy in the ’50s? Besides Virginia? (Rimshot.)

Bojack Horseman (Netflix) A former sitcom star man-horse (voiced by Will Arnett) and his slacker roommate/squatter (Aaron Paul) get turnt up and knocked down in Hollywood. It’s Californication: The Cartoon.

Ray Donovan (Showtime) His sketchy character’s

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Reddington is one of the best villain-heroes (villo?) ever, and Season 2 of The Blacklist has found his FBI foil Lizzy (Megan Boone, finally free of the wig) stepping up her game, if not her crazy. And kudos for selling Pee-Wee Herman(!) as an underworld “fixer.”

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (ABC) Season 2 has introduced real danger and consequences for the Agents, as well as Marvel-flick-worthy action and effects—stop asking “When’s Iron Man gonna show up?” and just get onboard, already.

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Black-ish (ABC) Anthony Anderson’s previous TV résumé (Law & Order, Treme, The Shield) didn’t indicate that he could head up a family comedy, but new sitcom Black-ish—I know, dumb title—is more consistently funny than Modern Family is anymore, thanks to strong assists from Tracee Ellis Ross and, yes, Laurence Fishburne. The Flash (The CW) The sunny answer to Arrow (seriously—is it never daytime over there?) is the most comic-booky of all DC Comics adaptations, and the most fun.

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Foo-hater rhetoric notwithstanding, Dave Grohl’s Great American Music Roadtrip uncovered gems even the most hard-core music geek wouldn’t be aware of. Real people playing real instruments writing real songs—embrace it while you still can.

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Mike Tyson Mysteries (Adult Swim) Whatever drugs were responsible for the creation of this … thank you.

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The Comeback (HBO) The first season nine years ago was merely uncomfortable; The Comeback’s outof-the-blue comeback was borderline torturous—in the funniest possible way. Lisa Kudrow’s depiction of fame-junkie desperation is so masterful, you have to wonder why anybody’s even paying attention to Jennifer Aniston.

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Benched (USA) With no hype besides airing after the craptastic Chrisley Knows Best, new comedy Benched, about a former corporate attorney (Happy Endings’ Eliza Coupe) slumming it in the public defender’s office, managed to crank out 10 hilarious episodes this winter and no one even noticed.

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Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways (HBO) Idiotic

The Birthday Boys (IFC) The sketch-comedy troupe relied more on themselves than producer Bob Odenkirk (who was presumably busy making Better Call Saul) in Season 2; the result was a hysterical collection of bits with callbacks and intertwining gags galore (fast-food spoof “How Do You Freshy?” is an instant classic). It ain’t Mr. Show, but it’s as close as anyone’s come in years.

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The Walking Dead (AMC) Team Rick is on the road, finding new places to explore and more people (zombie or not) to kill—less talk and more rock makes for a more entertaining apocalypse; hopefully, they won’t slow down when Season 5 resumes in February 2015.

(FX) The best elements of three previous seasons came together on No. 4, Freak Show, along with more gorgeous cinematography, more sympathetic characters and more Jessica Lange than expected. The early loss of Twisty the Clown seemed like a misstep, but the rest of this season has been perfect.

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Globe-nominated” means nothing—but Jane the Virgin is the first CW show to ever score a nom! That’s also the first time I’ve ever used the term “nom.” Firsts all around, here.

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The 1990s are back for the University of Utah men’s basketball program, so put on your Andre Miller throwback jersey, pop a mixtape of your favorite grunge tunes in your Walkman and rollerblade on over to the Huntsman Center. Just as in the late 20th century, the Utes are now a ranked program, included in national conversations as a team to beat. They’ve already played three other ranked teams and beat BYU before a sold-out house in Provo as head coach Larry Krystkowiak strode the sidelines in a red coat brighter than any sweater Rick Majerus ever wore. It’s a remarkable rise, given that just four years ago, Utah went 6-25 in its first season under Krystkowiak. The resurgent Utes roster features players ranging from local kids (Jordan Loveridge) to an Austrian seven-footer (Jakob Poeltl) to senior guard Delon Wright, who has seemingly come out of nowhere to be a national Player of the Year candidate. The one big difference between the last century and this one is that the Utes are now in the Pac-12, and highly ranked teams like Arizona and Washington are on the schedule. Utah opens Pac-12 play this weekend with Southern California on Friday night followed by UCLA on Sunday afternoon. The Utes host nine Pac-12 contests in January and February before hitting the conference tournament in Las Vegas in mid-March—and possibly much more beyond that. (Geoff Griffin) Utah vs. USC @ Huntsman Center, 1825 South Campus Drive, University of Utah, Jan. 2, 8 p.m., ESPNU; Utah vs. UCLA, Jan. 4, 2 p.m., PAC-12 Network, 801-581-8849, $5-$45. UtahUtes.com

During some of the darkest moments of World War II in 1939, the city of Vienna, began a New Year’s Day tradition of holding a concert featuring the waltzes of Johann Strauss. Besides the date and the music, the new tradition also marked taking the music from private salons to public concert halls. The concert is still performed annually by the Vienna Philharmonic, and even televised to millions of people in dozens of countries. But there are a couple of drawbacks. First, they hold it on New Year’s morning. Festive morning music after you’ve been up all night? Second, you have to order tickets more than a year in advance; it would be easier to get into the Super Bowl. Third, you have to fly to Europe—before New Year’s morning. Luckily, the Utah Symphony has you covered as you start 2015. They’ll give you a day or two to recover from New Year’s Eve, and there may still be tickets available for Friday and Saturday night. In addition to Strauss, the symphony—under the baton of Maestro Thierry Fischer—will perform music by Dmitri Shostakovich, Hans Christian Lumbye and Johannes Brahms. If it’s not a waltz, it will be an up-tempo march. The percussion parts feature everything from a cuckoo whistle to a toy pop-gun shot to simulate the popping of champagne bottles—something you may remember from a couple of nights before. (Geoff Griffin) Utah Symphony: New Year’s in Vienna @ Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, Jan. 2-3, 8 p.m., $10-$69. UtahSymphony.org

Since 1899, the Statewide Annual Juried Competition & Exhibition has been drawing entries from all corners of the state to find the best of the best practitioners in every imaginable type of painting and sculpture. The annual show provides a remarkable overview of the most outstanding local artists in those media—with a nod this year to longtime local favorites like Maureen O’Hara Ure and Marcee Blackerby—while emerging artists are given their due. John Kaly’s large oil-on-canvas portrait “Tragedienne” is one of the most captivating yet contemplative images on display. The depiction of landscape is a staple of Utah art, and there is a strong sense if place evoked in Susan Kirby’s oil “Spiral Jetty #4.” Abstraction makes a strong impression in works by John O’Connell, Oonju Chun and others. The selection of George Mark England’s “Umber America” (detail pictured) as best in show is a recognition of his impact as a highly innovative artistic voice. Other adventurous hands are at work in sculpture. Though the medium is closer to the earth, perhaps the most surprising item in the show is Laura Sharp Wilson’s “Mayday,” with its astonishing array of materials: stone, wood, mulberry paper, clay, acrylic paint, and string. If you go to only one local art show this year, this is the one. (Brian Staker) Statewide Annual ’14: Painting & Sculpture @ Rio Gallery, Rio Grande Depot, 300 S. Rio Grande St. (455 West), through Jan. 9, free. RioGallery.org

Although art installation is not the usual forte for Phillips Gallery, an assemblage of wall text, photography, and stacks of books can currently be found in the Phillips basement Dibble Gallery. It’s the product of an art experiment of the most elaborate sort, one that questions and provokes in an almost existential way. The project is titled Home for an Hour, and it combines the creative energies of photographer Sarah Martin and writer Adam Moser. The project involves several key ingredients: a single apartment in a single building and “seven couples, one key, one day, one hour at a time,” Moser writes. Each of the consecutive seven couples is invited into unit No. 5 of the apartment block, Martin takes their photo, and the door is shut—the last anyone knows of the happenings inside, at least for an hour. Outside, Moser frantically writes a mock dialogue based on what he imagines could be happening inside. There’s “no pressure to perform, wondering what the guy outside in the fur coat will write about them,” Moser writes. After the hour, Martin takes a parting shot of the couple, and documents “evidence” of their one-hour occupancy, such as products used or items consumed. What Moser writes and what actually happened in the apartment is the difference between what the mind is told to believe and the truth that will never be known—sometimes based on physical attributes of the couples like age, race, clothing style or apparent social position. Preconception and expectation has an undeniable impact on the written record, when the reality is likely something entirely different. (Ehren Clark) Home for an Hour @ Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 300 South, 801-364-8284, through Jan. 9, free. Phillips-Gallery.com

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THURSDAY 1.1 PERFORMING ARTS

I am Comic: A Night of Stand Up, Movie Grille, 2293 Grant Ave., Ogden

FRIDAY 1.2 PERFORMING ARTS

Mette Ivie Harrison: The Bishop’s Wife, The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-484-9100

SATURDAY 1.3 PERFORMING ARTS New Year’s in Vienna, Abravanel Hall Is He Dead?, Hale Centre Theatre Laughing Stock Improv Comedy, Off Broadway Theatre The Improvables, Playbills Theater, 455 W. 1700 South, Clearfield John Crist, Wiseguys Ogden Marcus, Wiseguys Comedy West Valley, 2194 West 3500 South, Salt Lake City, 801-463-2909

MONDAY 1.5 PERFORMING ARTS Is He Dead?, Hale Centre Theatre

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Sara B. Larson: Ignite, The King’s English Bookshop

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Hikmet Sidney Loe: Drawing from the Lake, Salt Lake City Library Chapman branch, 577 S. 900 West, Salt Lake City, 801-594-8623, Mondays-Sundays though Feb. 26 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 The Horse, Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, Through Jan. 4

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better for you if you knew every single detail about it before it came out? It wouldn’t. I think a lot of the reason people find fault with The Phantom Menace isn’t because it’s bad; I personally find it flawed, but endlessly enjoyable. The problem was that they built up an expectation of what it should have been, rather than enjoying it for what it was. I want to know everything there is to know about Star Wars. It kills me every time I stop myself from clicking a link that might contain a spoiler. I breathe Star Wars, but I also want to park my butt in the the— ater next December and watch it unfold before me with as much mystery as possible. You only get to watch a new Star Wars movie for the first time once. This is no time to screw around. Clearly the artists and storytellers working on The Force Awakens have decided that the best way to experience the unfolding story of the seventh episode in the Star Wars saga is in a film, told in precisely the correct order of images they’ve created. If they thought the best way to experience the story was random bits of information pieced together from across the Internet, they would have designed it as an online scavenger hunt. But no. They decided this story is best experienced on the big screen. So that’s what I’m aiming for. I’ll try to avoid the leaks and the spoilers, and nourish myself on the small, official breadcrumbs they give me— like the trailer, or the Toppsstyle collector cards reveal— ing the character names. When the film opens at the end of the year, my hope is to know only as much or as little as they’ve told me. And when the modern-day equivalent of that Star Destroyer flies overhead, I’ll be that person in the audience, blown away and eager to find out just what the hell has happened in a galaxy far, far away. CW

New Year’s in Vienna, Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-533-6683 Is He Dead?, Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 801-984-9000 Laughing Stock Improv Comedy, Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-355-4628 John Crist, Wiseguys Comedy Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588 Marcus, Wiseguys Comedy West Valley, 2194 West 3500 South, Salt Lake City, 801-463-2909 Off the Wall Improv, The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 855-944-2787

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e have just under a year before another Star Wars movie comes out. Trust me; I know exactly how long it is. I’m counting every single day. Maybe even the hours. Possibly the minutes. I’m thirsty for Star Wars. We’ve been in a desert of new Star Wars films for a decade, since the release of Revenge of the Sith in 2005. Yes, Episode III came out a decade ago. And, like every Star Wars movie to come out since The Empire Strikes Back, this new installment—mysteri— ously titled The Force Awakens— is going to be the subject of every leak, speculation and spoiler known to man. It’s difficult to navigate the Internet, or even real life for that matter, without running into what could be a spoiler for the new film. Since I’m known as “The Star Wars Guy” and have a podcast dedicated to Star Wars, it’s even harder for me. I get sent every lascivious rumor and scrap of news in the world as soon as it hits the Web, no less than half a dozen times. Yes, I have seen the TIE fighter crashed on the expressway, and the Team Unicorn parody of “All About That Bass.” I understand that we’re thirsty for news about Star Wars. We do this for everything we love. But I’m starting to question the value of this constant quest for knowledge. What made Star Wars the incredible force of nature it is today? I think it has a lot to do with the fact that when the original Star Wars came out, no one had any idea what to expect. You talk to people who were there and saw it for that first time in 1977—almost 40 years ago!—and the thing they all talk about was sitting down and being blown away. Virtually all of them will tell you what it was like to watch the Star Destroyer come up overhead, and how breathtak— ing the action was. They were swept up in the middle of something they didn’t quite understand. How would that movie have been made

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Hale Centre Theatre: Is He Dead? As a new year begins, we’re often looking to fresh, new experiences. But not every new experience is “new” in the obvious sense of the word. In the case of Is He Dead?, you have a play that didn’t see its first production until 2007, which is fairly remarkable, considering it was written in 1898 by one of America’s most legendary writers: Mark Twain. The story involves a fictionalized version of an actual French painter, Jean-François Millet. As Twain’s story goes, Millet is facing the fairly familiar artistic problem of no money and serious debt, as is the father of Millet’s fiancee. But he soon realizes that there’s one sure way for an artist’s work to become worth more: He only needs to be dead. Thus begins an elaborate faked death, spiked with that familiar Twain wit. Start your 2015 with a reminder that the best new experiences might be a century old. (Scott Renshaw) Is He Dead? @ Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 801984-9000, through Feb. 7, Mondays-Fridays 7:30 p.m., Saturdays 12:30, 4 & 7:30 p.m., $16-$31. HCT.org

moreESSENTIALS Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Tom Golden Collection, Kimball Art Center, 638 Park Ave., Park City, 435-649-8882, through Jan. 4 Escape from Reality, Slusser Gallery, 447 E. 100 South, Salt Lake City, Mondays-Fridays through Jan. 9 Home for an Hour, Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 300 South, 801-364-8284, Tuesdays-Saturdays through Jan. 9 Feminine Archetypes Around the World and Through the Ages, Salt Lake City Library Sprague branch, 2131 S. 100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-594-8640, Mondays-Sundays though Jan. 9 Statewide Annual ‘14: Painting & Sculpture, Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., Salt Lake City, 801-245-7272, Mondays-Fridays through Jan. 9 William Lamson: Hydrologies, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-328-4201, Tuesdays-Saturdays through Jan. 10 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 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,

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Mondays-Fridays through Jan. 16 Trent Call: Processed, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-328-4201, Tuesdays-Saturdays through Jan. 17 Frank A. Langheinrich & Thomas B. Szalay: Confluence of East & West, Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801524-8200, through Jan. 22 Isra Pache: Hidden Realities, Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801-524-8200, through Jan. 23 P. Kent Fairbanks: The Living Machine, Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801-524-8200, through Jan. 23 Body Worlds & The Cycle of Life, The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City, 801531-9800, Mondays-Saturdays through Jan. 31 Salt 10: Conrad Bakker, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-581-7332, Tuesdays-Sundays. through Feb. 8 Mountain Lion! The Story of Pumas and People, Swaner EcoCenter, 1258 Center Drive, Park City, 435-649-1767, Wdnesdays-Saturdays through March 31 Block Plan Series: Provo, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, 500 Campus Drive, Provo, 801-422-8287, Mondays-Saturdays through April 18 No Fixed Address, The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City, 801-531-9800, MondaysSundays through May 15 [con]text, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-5817332, Tuesdays-Sundays through July 26

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2015 is shaping up to be a great year at Snowbird Resort (9685 S. Snowbird Center Drive, Snowbird, Snowbird.com) for lovers of libations and great food. During seven Saturday nights this season, The Bird will feature dinners paired with top-notch wines, beers and liquors, with some of the producers themselves in attendance. The pairing dinners will take place at various Snowbird dining locations, including The Aerie, The Lodge Bistro, Seven Summits and The Steak Pit. The fun kicks off Jan. 10 at The Lodge Bistro with a Willamette Valley Vineyards dinner. Assistant winemaker Daniel Shepherd and winery ambassador Wende Bennette will be in attendance. On Jan. 17, it’s Fisher Vineyards at The Aerie with Cameron Fisher on hand, and Jan. 31 brings Wasatch Brewery and head brewmaster Justin Kingsford to the Seven Summits for a beer pairing dinner. Additional Snowbird pairing dinners include Chateau Ste. Michelle, Balvenie Scott Whisky, Pine Ridge Vineyards and Squatters Brewery. All dinners begin with a cocktail and appetizer reception at 6:30 p.m., followed by a four-course dinner and pairings. For reservations, call the restaurants directly or phone 801-933-2464, ext. 5574.

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I love being the bearer of good news. And, the good news for oyster lovers is that Market Street Grill and Market Street Oyster Bar (MarketStreetGrill. com) locations are now offering Blue Point oysters on the half shell for 99 cents each, all day, every day. I’d like to tell you more, but I need to skedaddle so I can order a couple dozen for myself!

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In their quiet, understated manner, Thai Siam’s servers will gently guide you through the lengthy 50-item menu. The combinations of ingredients and spices are perfectly executed, while portions leave the stomach satisfied. Menu standouts are the curries—notably the gang panang and the pineapple—and the salads, including a papaya salad drizzled with mint and a sauce of sweet Thai chili and lime juice. 1435 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-474-3322; 12147 Factory Outlet Drive, Draper, 801-981-8389, ThaiSiam.net

Provisions

Opened in the space that was previously home to Lugano, Provisions is an American craft kitchen serving organic, in-season and locally sourced foods in a neighborhood setting. Menu items at Provisions include pasta made in-house; woodfired pizza; local meats, fowl and game; seared and raw seafood; and vegetarian offerings. 3364 S. 2300 East, Salt Lake City, 801-410-4046, SLCProvisions.com

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Breakfast at the Wired Walrus features an omelet bar and waffle bar, along with housemade gourmet donuts, pastries, sticky buns, fresh-baked quiche, yogurt and more. Lunch runs the gamut from soft pretzels, bruschetta, paninis and salads to soup with roasted tomato, baby peppers and artichokes, creme fraiche and herb-EVOO drizzle. And, as the name might suggest, the Wired Walrus provides free Wi-Fi. 2155 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-946-2079, TheWiredWalrus.com

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At Deer Valley Resort’s Brass Tag restaurant, virtually everything—including the 16-ounce Niman Ranch roasted beef rib-eye steak, tandoorirubbed quail and flatbread with house-cured duck and prosciutto—is cooked in the restaurant’s big brick oven. But The Brass Tag is not just another in a long line of the wood-fired or brick-oven pizza trend—there’s not even pizza on the menu. Head here for a full-on four-course meal or munch on appetizers and sip on a glass of wine in the restaurant’s casual setting. 2900 Deer Valley Drive South, Park City, 435- 615-2410, DeerValley.com

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flatbread and a choice of a veggie side dish—you can opt for chickpeas with fragrant hints of clove, cinnamon and other spices. Eating here makes you feel like you’ve been invited to a family dinner, albeit one served on Styrofoam. It’s part of the reason Curry in a Hurry has developed such a loyal local following over the years. 2020 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-467-4137, ILoveCurryInAHurry.com

Taco Taco

Taco Taco, created by Cannella’s Chef Alberto Higuera, features Mexican street-style tacos, as well as breakfast burritos, chile verde, south-of-theborder salads, and a killer salsa bar. Mix and match from a choice of tacos, burritos and quesadillas with fillings such as grilled chicken, chicken mole negro and zucchini blossom, and pair your meal with an imported Mexican soda, cerveza or margarita. 208 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City, 801-428-2704, TacoTacoSLC.com

Boba World

This downtown lunch spot serves gourmet hot dogs like Snake River Farms franks, made from 100 percent American Kobe beef. In addition to a vast array of tube steaks, including a classic Chicago dog, Redhot also serves up tasty veggie dogs, banh mi sandwiches, soups and chili, salads, fresh-squeezed lemonade and much more. 165 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-532-2499, Redhot-Dog.com

Indian restaurants may come and go, but this mainstay has been a favorite for years. The Shanthakumar family, who owns and operates Royal India, provides warm and inviting ambiance and service along with outstanding dishes such as aromatic lamb biryani, spinach & cream shrimp saag, great curry, masalas, kormas and vindaloos, along with some of the greatest naan you’ll ever find: peshwari naan, tandoor-baked and stuffed with cashews, raisins and coconut. 55 N. Main, Bountiful, 801-292-1835; 10263 S. 1300 East, Sandy, 801-572-6123, RoyalIndiaUtah.com

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Grove Market

Originally opened by Greek immigrant Pete Savas in 1947, Grove Market will undoubtedly be around in 2047 because of its fair and friendly service, and the incredible bang-for-the-buck sandwiches it’s famous for. Sandwiches are made-to-order and come in full or half sizes. Don’t kid yourself: the “halfsize” sandwiches are about the size of a thigh. The Big John features seven deli meats—salami, ham, corned beef, pastrami, bologna, turkey and roast beef—piled 3 to 4 inches high, then topped with both Swiss and American cheeses, plus mayo, mustard, lettuce, tomato, pickle and pepperoncinis on a thick, airy Ambassador roll, or on rye, French, sourdough or wheat bread. You don’t so much eat the Big John as do battle with it ... and lose. 1906 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-467-8860, GroveMarketDeli.com

MIA Empanadas Factory

For South American cuisine, it’s hard to beat Jose Chu-Jon’s place. Formerly called Lucuma, MIA Empanadas features empanadas and tamales with housemade Peruvian-style aji dipping sauces such as para los labios aridientes (“for burnin’ lips sauce”), aji primavera, amor sernano and huancaina. The real draw here, however, is the sweets, such as tres leches and pionono cakes, fangipane, tarts (premade or made-to-order), scones, dulce de leche and fabulous flan in three flavors: original, de queso (cheese) or chocolate. Before heading out the door, treat yourself to a chicha morada, a purple corn drink infused with pineapple and cinnamon. 571 W. 2600 South, Bountiful, 801-397-5222, EmpanadasFactory.com

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This is the place for bona fide Shanghai fare in Bountiful. Sure, you can get your fill of cream-cheese wontons, hamfried rice and kung pao chicken—not that there’s anything wrong with that. But, what you really want is to tuck in to flavorful dishes like the scrumptious pork-stuffed steamed dumplings, fragrant leek soup with tofu, tender flaky fish fillets with black-bean sauce and, of course, the “Chewing Drinks” (so says the menu) for which the restaurant is named. Boba World offers a vast array of boba drinks—aka bubble tea or pearl milk tea—ranging from common flavors such as strawberry, chocolate and mocha, to those a bit more uncommon: taro, passion fruit, green tea, coconut and almond. 512 W. 750 South, Bountiful, 801-298-3626

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For a real taste of New Orleans, head south to Payson. Boudreaux’s po’boy options include hot roast beef, french fries with gravy, smoked sausage, andouille sausage, alligator sausage, grilled or fried chicken, catfish and veggie. But a favorite is the classic shrimp po’boy: crispy fried shrimp piled onto a toasted French roll and dressed with mayo, lettuce, tomato and pickles. You can help yourself to the Louisiana hot sauce. 47 S. Main, Payson, 801465-1222, BoudreauxsBistro.biz

Faustina

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With new Chef de Cuisine Joe Kemp and a new smallplates menu, Faustina’s food has been re-energized. Too often, small plates are accompanied by big prices. That’s not the case here, where the small-plates menu ranges from $6 for fried goat cheese to $14 for filet au poivre. The filling Oscar fillet is a petite filet mignon seared to medium-rare and served Oscarstyle, with lump blue crab and grilled asparagus, topped with a heavenly béarnaise sauce. This minimignon is marvelous. 454 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801- 746-4441, FaustinaSLC.com

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La Barba by Charming Beard

To say Charming Beard coffee is in a league all its own would be an understatement. Since 2010, its founder, Portland, Ore., transplant Levi Rogers, has been on a quest to set his coffee apart with the goal of roasting the “absolute best coffee.” His cafe, called La Barba (Spanish for “beard”), is located inside the new downtown location of Spanish smallplate restaurant Finca. And you won’t find any drip coffee. Instead, coffee is served in the pour-over method, with a wood plank, mug and small glass carafe handcrafted by local ceramic artisans Basin Goods. If coffee isn’t your thing, La Barba also serves the local drinking chocolate Mezzo. 327 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-487-0699, CharmingBeard.com

Tacos El Morro

This food truck dishes up authentic Mexican streetstyle tacos at prices so low you can probably fund a meal from the change you’ve dug up from between your couch cushions (and Tacos El Morro is cashonly, so be sure to have that change on hand). Tacos include both regular and spicy versions of chicken, beef and pork tacos; the tacos al pastor are the best of the bunch. Spicy and regular burritos and quesadillas, plus watermelon and pineapple horchata, are available as well. But act fast—Tacos El Morro is usually only open from 10:30 a.m. until about 3 p.m. 724 W. 500 South, Bountiful, 801-347-3485

Gourmandise The Bakery

Gourmandise offers a mind-boggling, nearly overwhelming selection of desserts, breads, pastries, cakes and even bagels. And the rest of

GOODEATS Complete listings at cityweekly.net the cuisine emerging from the kitchen is damned good. The bakery recently received updates like a redesigned interior and a new menu of small-plate dinner specials, along with wine service that includes wine flights and food-pairing options. Every new day brings a featured quiche made from scratch with quality Gruyere, creme fraiche and other topnotch ingredients, and they are divine. Even more impressive is the new small-plates dinner menu, which is offered in addition to the extensive regular menu—although these “small” plates aren’t very small. 250 S. 300 East, Salt Lake City, 801328-3330, GourmandiseTheBakery.com

Spitz

Pho Thin is a little different than most of Salt Lake’s Vietnamese restaurants. It’s a bit more upscale than you might normally expect, with a vibrant color palette and subdued lighting. The menu is huge, with a half-dozen appetizers, a myriad of pho combinations, rice plates, specialty sandwiches, a variety of spring rolls, curries, wok specialties and desserts—plus, a decent wine and beer selection. The skewered chicken lemongrass rice rolls are a DIY operation: place a few chunks of grilled chicken and some noodles on the rice paper, then add your favorite condiments—shredded carrot, cucumber and radish, along with fresh mint, basil, cilantro and bean sprouts. The end result is a wonderful explosion of flavors and textures. And the pho broth is clear and pure-tasting—pretty much the definition of good pho. 2121 McClelland St., Salt Lake City, 801-485-2323

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The lounge at Ghidotti’s is a great place for a nosh and libations, with an excellent menu of wines by the glass, beers and cocktails as well as pizzas, meatball sliders, artisan cheese plates, mussels in Marsala and more. And on Saturday evenings, Ghidotti’s Italian Lounge features live jazz music with the Take 5 Trio. 6030 N. Market St., Park City, 435- 6580669, Ghidottis.com

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You’d be nuts not to try Spitz’s street-cart döner, which is available as a sandwich with foccacia or as a lavash wrap, with a choice of beef and lamb, chicken, falafel, mixed meats or veggies. The beef and lamb shawarma-style mixture is outstanding: perfectly spiced and generously portioned. Ditto the falafel. It’s a popular downtown joint no matter the time of day, so when you visit, order from the excellent selection of craft cocktails, wine or beer right off the bat, because you may be there a while. But the service is very friendly, and the vibe is funky and fun, with eclectic music. 35 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-364-0286, SpitzSLC.com

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I must say that I really do like the pizza at Mellow Mushroom, an Atlanta-based pizza chain with a hippie vibe (which perhaps explains why my pizza took 25 minutes to make). The red sauce tastes of bright, ripe tomatoes—not the bitter tomato paste that mars so many commercial pizzas. And the toppings are plentiful and of good quality. The crust is of medium thickness, slightly crisp on the bottom with a nice crunchy and lightly blistered outer crust. And, there’s wine, cocktails and a formidable beer selection, to boot, with two-dozen local craft beers on tap and more than 70 bottled brews, including ones from Deschutes, Big Sky, Rogue and others. They’ll help you remain mellow while awaiting your pie. Reviewed Dec. 25. 1080 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-844-1444, MellowMushroom.com

Even more interesting, in my opinion, are the unique omelets. The Averell omelet, for instance, is eggs with Brie, ham, roasted bell peppers, caramelized onions, portobellos and a choice of either one “freakandel” or two merquez sausages. The “freakandel” is a play on frikandel, a Belgian and Dutch deep-fried, skinless, chicken-pork-beef sausage. My ultimate wish is that someday owner Pierre Vandamme will open a fullblown Belgian restaurant serving dishes like waterzooi, tarte au riz, filet Américain, lapin á la gueuze and moulesfrites. But for now, Bruges Waffles & Frites serves my Belgian cravings admirably. Reviewed Dec. 11. 2314 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-486-9999, BrugesWaffles.com

Kimi’s Chop & Oyster House

The Annex got a revamp recently, and it knocked my socks off. A newly acquired club license allows patrons to drink alcohol without ordering food. And a new chef, Craig Gerome, is firing on all cylinders in the kitchen. A killer appetizer is a half-dozen Bouchot mussels steamed in Berliner Weiss beer with garlic confit and crisp, crunchy shoestring potatoes. Some of the starters—the pasta, for example—could suffice as small entrees, like the housemade tagliatelle pasta with beef-cheek ragu and the generously portioned housemade ricotta. The pasta was some of the best I’ve ever eaten, and perfectly cooked al dente. Exceptional entrees of steelhead trout with Beluga lentils and herb-fried chicken with fried green tomatoes and heavenly buttermilk risotto firmed up my notion that The Annex is one of the best dining options in Sugar House. Reviewed Dec. 25. 1048 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-742-5490, TheAnnexByEpicBrewing.com

Kimi’s is certainly a fine-dining restaurant, one with warm hospitality and friendly charm. It’s also a feast for the eyes, featuring a modern bar with an LED “fireplace” that pulls the eye to the center of the restaurant. The bar would be a terrific place to enjoy a signature cocktail and nosh on fresh oysters on the half-shell, baked mussels with herb butter, or a plate of toast smogen, a Swedish crostini-type affair with shrimp, crab, dill, horseradish crème, fresh lemon and caviar. The cashew-crusted sea bass is a delicious dish, and the sliced bavette steak, served with a rich port reduction, asparagus, roasted garlic and (by request) pommes frites was tender and tasty, if predictable. Not so predictable were the frites, which were big, thick wedges of the sort I normally loathe. However, Chef Matt Anderson cooked these spud slices to perfection, somehow managing to make them crisp on the outside, but not mealy or undercooked inside. It’s the first wedge fry I’ve ever loved. Reviewed Dec. 11. 2155 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-946-2079, KimisHouse.com

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Even Stevens Sandwiches

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The Bruges Sugar House location is a couple of years old and features its biggest menu and selection. 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, as featured on the Travel Channel’s Man V. Food. But there is so much more, like waffle sandwiches made with toasted waffles where you’d normally expect to find bread.

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. For every sandwich sold at Even Stevens, another is donated to local nonprofits helping to end hunger. The Sloppy Tina is a spot-on vegetarian version of a sloppy Joe, made

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with mushroom and chickpeas in a zippy tomato-based sauce. There is also a meat lover’s sloppy Joe, a slowsimmered combo of beef and chorizo topped with pickled red onions and served on a Kaiser roll. 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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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

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 of ten 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

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

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“Tosh” is chef/owner Toshio Sekikawa, whose name you know if you’re a fan of Asian cuisine in Utah. Tosh is a wonderfully outgoing and generous guy, and Tosh’s Ramen suits his personality. It’s a simple ramen shop— minimalist in décor and accoutrements—because the laser-like focus here is on one thing and one thing only: ramen. Like pho, ramen is really all about the broth. And, of course, Tosh makes his from scratch, simmering bones overnight. There are five types of ramen to choose from at Tosh’s, and my favorite is the one that best showcases that glistening, delicious broth: tonkotsu ramen. The broth is nearly clear, served in a huge ramen bowl with a generous helping of excellent wheat & egg noodles from Los Angeles’ Sun Noodle company. The ramen is adorned with crunchy bean sprouts, thin-sliced pork belly, half a hard-cooked egg, and minced scallions.

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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 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 is usually filled with people who aren’t ramen rookies, and you’ll want to take their lead and get your face down into that big bowl: Slurping is considered de rigueur. Reviewed Nov. 6. 1465 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-466-7000, ToshsRamen.com

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CINEMA CLIPS NEW THIS WEEK Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change. Antarctica: A Year on Ice HHH.5 New Zealander Anthony Powell shows us what it looks and feels like to spend a full year in the most remote place on Earth, including the American base at McMurdo. Not everyone who goes to Antarctica is a scientist, and Powell focuses on the firemen, helicopter pilots, administrators and chefs; there’s even a retail store that someone has to run. The stark, serene beauty of the place gets plenty of play, as does the spirit of international cooperation that one Antarctican notes is working better here than anywhere else on the planet. And just as I was thinking that this is what it will be like when we go to Mars, Powell shows us the place that is most like Mars on Earth: the gorgeously desolate Dry Valleys. Life in Antarctica turns out to be livelier and weirder than I ever could have guessed—months of unending darkness has a strange impact on the human mind, in both positive and negative ways—and I am delighted to have gotten the chance to see, if only secondhand, things that most of us will never be able to experience up close. Opens Jan. 1 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—MaryAnn Johanson Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death H.5 We know why 2012’s The Woman in Black watered down its scares: Because it starred Daniel Radcliffe, and couldn’t afford to exclude Harry Potter fans from its potential audience. But what’s the sequel’s excuse? It’s 1941, and a band of children has been evacuated from the London blitz to be put up in the same spooky abandoned seaside house from the original, where poor,

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sweet, cute little orphan Edward (Oaklee Pendergast) becomes a target for the spectral Woman in Black who dwells there. This is all haunted-house atmosphere—screams in the fog, rocking chairs that rock on their own, slithering somethings glimpsed out of the corner of your eye—that goes nowhere and means nothing. Despite the trappings of wartime—including a friendship between one of the children’s guardians (Phoebe Fox) and an RAF flyboy (Jeremy Irvine)—this could be taking place today, or at any almost time. Matters of family and grief that should interconnect these traumatized people completely fail to make us care. By the time the film informs us that “our own worst enemy is ourselves,” we’re only snorting with derision. Opens Jan. 2 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)—MAJ

CURRENT RELEASES Annie HHH.5 It took about 30 seconds for Will Gluck to have me in the palm of his hand with his new version of the musical about the plucky orphan. Partly it’s the great casting: Quvenzhané Wallis delivering an irresistible Annie; Jamie Foxx appealingly vulnerable as the tycoon who becomes Annie’s guardian as a ploy to boost his mayoral campaign; Cameron Diaz as a bitter yet redeemable Mrs. Hannigan. But mostly it’s watching a creative team update a text without ruining it, from the percussive arrangements of familiar songs to creating a seamless transition of the plot to the 21st century. The new songs may fall flat, and the editing may not be ideal for a musical, but it’s hard to resist a family-friendly film this confident, energetic and genuinely funny without ever pandering. I think I’m gonna like it here, indeed. (PG)—Scott Renshaw

The Babadook HHHH The titular boogeyman may not appear for half of writer/director Jennifer Kent’s magnificent debut feature, but we’ve been watching the real monster all along. It’s the story of Amelia (Essie Davis), a widowed single mom to a troubled special-needs son whose harried life gets even worse with the arrival of a creepy pop-up book. Purely as a piece of filmmaking, The Babadook announces Kent as a spectacular new talent, yet it’s also one of the most psychologically complex thrillers in years, anchored by a spectacular performance by Davis that captures unprocessed grief, guilt, bone-weariness and possible homicidal insanity. Through every truly terrifying moment in The Babadook, there’s an even scarier subtext: It’s not possible to find the happy ending by killing the monster, when the monster is really the stuff that’s inside you. (NR)—SR

Big Eyes HH Tim Burton makes his least Tim Burton-esque movie in years, with a potentially fascinating real-life story: how Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz) became one of the most successful artists in the world in the 1960s with iconic paintings of big-eyed waifs, despite the fact the painting was being done secretly by his wife, Margaret (Amy Adams). Working with his Ed Wood screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, Burton teases with ideas about the period’s gender roles, but the film eventually becomes entirely about the abusive relationship between Margaret and Walter, bypassing the complex emotions of Margaret’s plight while allowing Waltz to chew a scenery on the way to a goofy tone-shift of a courtroom finale. Burton can’t find a style that makes the story more than a flat, uninvolving chronology, and Big Eyes loses bigger ideas in a big mess. (PG-13)—SR

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-year-old 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

Exodus: Gods and Kings HH You can’t deny that it’s big—except when it’s trying too hard not to be. Director Ridley Scott presents 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 born of the enslaved Hebrews, and leads their fight for freedom. There’s plenty of spectacle here, from the scale of the sets to the enormity of the plagues. Yet even as it’s pulling out all the stops for visual grandeur, it’s also aiming for a humanized, naturalistic approach to the story’s mythological characters and supernatural events. Every time Exodus tries to shrink anything down to a more human size—including the misguided performances—it just feels silly. If the filmmakers weren’t going to go all-in on going big, they might as well have gone home. (PG-13)—SR The Gambler HH.5 Mark Wahlberg plays Jim Bennett, the titular addict to games of chance who’s built up one big debt to some pretty bad guys, and has got seven days before those bad guys collect either his money or his life. On the minus side, there’s Wahlberg, who’s

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never convincing as a thrillseeking child of privilege, and a bland romance with a student (Brie Larson, who deserves so much better). But then there’s John Goodman’s terrific work as a perpetually sauna-ing underworld figure, who gets an instantly quotable paean to the power of “F—k you” from William Monahan’s script. Indeed, The Gambler really only sings when the villains are center stage; it’s perfunctory enough the rest of the time that it starts to feel like a half-hearted attempt at a comic-book movie, rather than the character study it’s intended to be. (R)—SR The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies HH Jokes about the length (and number) of Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth films indicate a frustration at how he seems to have lost sight of the line between epic and “enough already.” Here he leaps in where The Desolation of Smaug ended, ultimately focusing on a grand battle for control of the Lonely Mountain. Castof-digital-thousands warfare ensues, and Jackson clearly excels at this scale of action filmmaking. But his insistence upon going big with this story means too many loose ends to tie up. And while Five Armies is the shortest of the Middle Earth films, there’s still a redundancy to virtually everything the movie counts on to connect with an audience. The final shot of old Bilbo being visited by Gandalf feels less like a linking piece than a threat: My God, this truly will never end. (PG-13)—SR

The Imitation Game HH.5 If Oscar-courting biopics about British geniuses were Highlander, The Imitation Game would easily triumph over The Theory of Everything, which longs for prestige without putting in the necessary artistic work. This cleverly wrought work is led by the inimitable Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, who broke Nazi Germany’s “unbreakable” Enigma code in WWII—and essentially invented the computer—only to be accused of espionage and later prosecuted for homosexuality and driven to suicide by the British government. This story is told effectively in Graham Moore’s ingenious script, but the production it receives here is standard-issue prestige drama stuff; the shot selection and cutting are rather dull, but its production design is handsome and precise, and it’s a fine actors’ showcase, though the supporting cast (Matthew Goode, Keira Knightley, et. al.) is so good as to almost overwhelm Cumberbatch at times. (PG-13)—DB

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Into the Woods HHH For large chunks of Rob Marshall’s adaptation of Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine’s musical mash-up of fairy tales, it seems he’s determined to turn a stage musical into a movie while resolutely retaining its “stageiness.” There’s not a lot of meat on the narrative’s bones, which touches on the moralizing, instructive nature of fairy tales while mostly providing a framework for Sondheim’s tunes and charming performances by cast members like Emily Blunt and Anna Kendrick. But it’s perhaps most satisfying when Marshall opts for staging that emphasizes theatrical artifice, which ultimately makes an awkward mix with the Witch (Meryl Streep) disappearing in a CGI cloud of smoke. There’s a unique vision that almost gets a thorough exploration, until Marshall gets perhaps too timid about showing movie audiences the different kind of magic that gave life to this material in the first place. (PG)—SR Top Five HH.5 Writer/director/star Chris Rock plays Andre Allen, a successful stand-up comic-turned-actor trying to make the transition to serious filmmaking; romantic complications come on the eve of his planned wedding to a reality-TV star (Gabrielle Union), as he spends the day with a journalist (Rosario Dawson) doing a New York Times profile. The tone bounces wildly between genuine relationship observations and raunchy sex gags, hung on the framework of a Stardust Memories-esque take on an artist trying to separate himself from audience demands. But, ironically, the scattershot effectiveness of the attempts at more serious subjects—addiction recovery, celebrity, professional insecurity—undercuts the realization that Top Five is so much better at its pure comedy than it is at anything else. Do I really care how hard it is to deal with bad reviews when I could be watching DMX croon “Smile”? (R)—SR Unbroken HH.5 Director Angelina Jolie’s adaptation of Laura Hillenbrand’s nonfiction best-seller about Louis Zamperini (Jack O’Connell)— Olympic medalist and World War II POW—can’t possibly tell his whole life story, but the parts chosen here suggest someone has missed the point. The story covers Zamperini’s athletic and military career—including his ordeals both at sea and in the Japanese camps—and finds some powerful material even when some of its attempts at emotionally wrenching moments feel cribbed from other war movies. But the central relationship between Zamperini and a sadistic Japanese camp commander virtually demands a resolution, and Unbroken dispenses with Zamperini’s post-war life in a few on-screen captions, as though Fat Man and Little Boy sent Zamperini off to his happily ever after. It’s a “triumph of the human spirit” story where the triumph of Zamperini’s body is all that matters. (PG-13)—SR Wild HH.5 Early in this adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) lets loose a primal scream during her 1,000-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail—and Wild doesn’t quite help us understand the personal demons behind that scream. Director Jean-Marc Valée weaves back and forth in time between Strayed’s three-month journey in 1995 and the events that drove her to it, including the death of her beloved mother (Laura Dern) from cancer. That structure never allows the relationship between Strayed and her mother to feel as powerful as she keeps saying it was, nor does Witherspoon’s performance strike the right tone of seen-it-all toughness. There’s enough tension in individual moments to keep you watching, but those moments never add up to more than a howl in the wilderness without a real sense for who’s howling, or why. (R)—SR

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

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Sun Dog Psychedelic music and the desert just seem to go together; the spacey guitar, echoing vocals and heavy percussion somehow reflect the magic and weirdness of that lonely, wild environment. One band that draws inspiration from that harmonious combination is psych-rock/shoegaze band Sun Dog, which creates music that echoes the influence of a desert a few hundred miles away from Salt Lake City, in Albuquerque, N.M. The four-piece is on tour in support of their latest EP, Before Spain, which sounds like it could be the soundtrack to a murder, head trip or both, and begs to be turned up loud. Sun Dog released Before Spain

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Rage Against the Supremes (A Bar Named Sue) Folk Hogan (A Bar Named Sue on State) Balance of Power, Eyes of Damnation, Unthinkable Thoughts (Bar Deluxe) One Way Johnny (Club 90) Reckless Kelly, Micky & the Motorcars (The Depot) Bullets & Belles (The Garage) Chaseone2 (Gracie’s) Highway Thieves (The Green Pig Pub) DJ Scotty B (Habits) Back Wash (The Hog Wallow Pub) DJ Erockalypze (Inferno Cantina) The Season of the Witch (Johnny’s on Second)

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Three-time Grammy-winning blues musician Kevin Moore, known by his moniker Keb’ Mo’, is no one-hit wonder. The passionate blues artist links the soulful Delta blues of the past to the contemporary blues of today with his use of retro blues techniques and modern incorporations of other genres. Without much use of traditional 12-bar blues, Keb’ Mo’ is still able to set an emotional mood through unique improvisations and catchy hooks. His most recent and 12th studio album, BLUESAmericana, was his seventh Grammynominated album, and displays his ability to remain original even after 20 years. (Nathan Turner) Saturday, Jan. 3 @ Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 7:30 p.m., $20-$69, EcclesCenter.org

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Virtuoso New York guitarist Frank Vignola is often labeled as a jazz guitarist, but his skills aren’t at all confined to one genre. A guitar player since age 6, Vignola has an eclectic catalog that’s flavored with many influences that venture far outside the realm of jazz, including classical, rock, pop and R&B. He has the ability to whip out a dizzying rendition of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and breezy Gershwin, all with a keen eye for perfection, fingers that move so fast they seem to blur together, and plenty of entertaining flair. As a supporting guitarist for names as big as Madonna, Ringo Starr and Les Paul—who included Vignola on a list of the five guitarists he admires the most, published in the Wall Street Journal—Vignola has garnered a reputation for versatility as well as musical perfection. And he’s just flat-out fun to watch. Tonight, he’ll perform with a group of fellow jazz legends who represent “five generations of guitar artistry”: Bucky Pizzarelli, Gene Burtoncini, Martin Taylor, Julian Lage, Ed Laub and Vinny Raniola. (Kolbie Stonehocker) Saturday, Jan. 3 @ Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 7:30 p.m., $33.50, ArtTix.com Larusso, The Boy That Lives, Dear Lucian, The Mail Box Order (Kilby Court) The Spazmatics (Liquid Joe’s) DJ Butch Wolfthorn (The Royal) DJ E-Flexx, Karaoke With DJ B-Rad (Sandy Station) Albino Father Album Release, The North Valley, Koala Temple, King Tiiiger (The Urban Lounge) Divine Sunset (The Westerner)

Ogden Hearts of Steele (The Outlaw Saloon)

Park City Miss DJ Lux (Downstairs) Keb’ Mo’ (Eccles Center for the Performing Arts) The Who Show (Egyptian Theatre)

Utah County Slumber Party 6: Book on Tape Worm, Quiet House (Velour)

Sunday 1.4 Salt Lake City Live Bluegrass (Club 90) The Steel Belts (Donkey Tails) Garage Artist Showcase (The Garage) Karaoke Church With DJ Ducky & Mandrew (Jam) Entourage Karaoke (Piper Down) Sunday Funday Karaoke (Three Alarm Saloon) Karaoke That Doesn’t Suck (The Woodshed)

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5 MONKEYS 7 E. 4800 South, Murray, 801266-1885, Karaoke, Free pool, Live music A BAR NAMED SUE 3928 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-274-5578, Trivia Tues., DJ Wed., Karaoke Thurs. A BAR NAMED SUE ON STATE 8136 S. State, SLC, 801-566-3222, Karaoke Tues. ABG’S LIBATION EMPORIUM 190 W. Center St., Provo, 801-373-1200, Live music ALLEGED 205 25th St., Ogden, 801-990-0692 AREA 51 451 S. 400 West, SLC, 801-534-0819, Karaoke Wed., ‘80s Thur., DJs Fri. & Sat. BAR DELUXE 666 S. State, SLC, 801-5322914, Live music & DJs THE BAR IN SUGARHOUSE 2168 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-485-1232 BAR-X 155 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-355-2287 BARBARY COAST 4242 S. State, Murray, 801-265-9889 BATTERS UP 1717 S. Main, SLC, 801-4634996, Karaoke Tues., Live music Sat. THE BAYOU 645 S. State, SLC, 801-9618400, Live music Fri. & Sat. BOURBON HOUSE 19 E. 200 South, SLC, 801746-1005, Local jazz jam Tues., Karaoke Thur., Live music Sat., Funk & soul night Sun. BREWSKIS 244 25th St., Ogden, 801-3941713, Live music 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 NO NAME SALOON 447 Main, Park City, 435-649-6667 O.P. ROCKWELL 268 Main, Park City, 435615-7000, Live music PARK CITY LIVE 427 Main, Park City, 435649-9123, Live music PAT’S BBQ 155 W. Commonwealth Ave., SLC, 801-484-5963, Live music Thurs.-Sat., All ages The penalty box 3 W. 4800 South, Murray, 801-590-9316, Karaoke Tues., Live Music, DJs PIPER DOWN 1492 S. State, SLC, 801-4681492, Poker Mon., Acoustic Tues., Trivia Wed., Bingo Thurs. POPLAR STREET PUB 242 S. 200 West, SLC, 801-532-2715, Live music Thur.-Sat. THE RED DOOR 57 W. 200 South, SLC, 801363-6030, DJ Fri., Live jazz Sat. THE ROYAL 4760 S. 900 East, SLC, 801590-9940, Live music SANDY STATION 8925 Harrison St., Sandy, 801-255-2078, DJs SCALLYWAGS 3040 S. State, SLC, 801604-0869 THE SPUR BAR & GRILL 352 Main, Park City, 435-615-1618, Live music THE STATE ROOM 638 S. State, SLC, 800501-2885, Live music THE STEREO ROOM 521 N. 1200 West, Orem, 714-345-8163, Live music, All ages SUGARHOUSE PUB 1992 S. 1100 East, SLC, 801-413-2857 THE TAVERNACLE 201 E. 300 South, SLC, 801-519-8900, Dueling pianos Wed.-Sat., Karaoke Sun.-Tues. TIN ANGEL CAFE 365 W. 400 South, SLC, 801-328-4155, Live music THE URBAN LOUNGE 241 S. 500 East, SLC, 801-746-0557, Live music VELOUR 135 N. University Ave., Provo, 801818-2263, Live music, All ages WASTED SPACE 342 S. State, SLC, 801-5312107, DJs Thur.-Sat. THE WESTERNER 3360 S. Redwood Road, West Valley City, 801-972-5447, Live music WILLIE’S LOUNGE 1716 S. Main, SLC, 760-828-7351, Trivia Wed., Karaoke Fri.-Sun., Live music THE WOODSHED 60 E. 800 South, SLC, 801-364-0805, Karaoke Sun. & Tues., Open jam Wed., Reggae Thur., Live music Fri. & Sat. ZEST KITCHEN & BAR 275 S. 200 West, SLC, 801-433-0589, DJs

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alt Lake City’s food scene has been booming for quite some time, but the food delivery options are slim—especially for those who live in neighborhoods outside of the downtown area. But thanks to Anthony Chukanov, CEO of 2lazy4food, that’s about to change for the better. The idea of 2lazy4food was born when Chukanov was sitting at his desk at a previous office job. “It was raining, I was hungry—and lazy,” he said. He began to search for delivery options in his area and realized that there weren’t many available, and that delivery rates were very high. “The options I did have were getting boring, and I had to order at least $20 worth of food to get anything delivered to me.” And just like that, an awesome new business idea was born. “The name was created by poking fun at the stereotype that all Americans are lazy,” says Chukanov. “We wanted everyone to laugh when they heard our company name. When people hear about 2lazy4food from their friends or on social media, they don’t believe it is a real thing—but when they try it for the first time, they become filled with happiness just like children opening presents on Christmas morning.” The concept is simple, yet genius. Let 2lazy4food know what you’d like and they’ll order it, pick it up, and deliver it right to your doorstep, hotel or place of business. Whether it’s fast food or your favorite dish from a fine dining establishment, they’re at your beck and call. But they do ask that customers order at least an hour in advance to ensure a prompt delivery window. “We wanted to bring a variety [of food options] to our customers,” said Chukaonv. “[It’s] different because we will order, pick up and deliver from anywhere our customer would like as long as that restaurant does takeout.” Unlike other delivery companies, there’s no minimum food order commitment and their delivery area covers the entire Salt Lake Valley area. Orders under $20 have a delivery fee of $4.97, and $1 is tacked on for every $10 bracket that the price enters from there. Starving, stuck at your desk and unsure of what to order? The company will also offer up suggestions when customers call. “Our network of drivers have all become local foodies, so we all know all of the amazing local spots in Salt Lake City and can

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Most salamanders reproduce by laying eggs, but the alpine salamander doesn’t. Females of that species give birth to live young after long pregnancies that may last three years. What does this have to do with you? Well, I expect you to experience a metaphorical pregnancy in the coming months. Even if you’re male, you will be gestating a project or creation or inspiration. And it’s important that you don’t let your the incubation period drag on and on and on, as the alpine salamanders do. I suggest you give birth no later than July. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Maybe you have had a dream like this: You’re wandering around your house, and at the end of a long hallway you come to a door you’ve never seen before. How could you have missed it in the past? It must have been there the whole time. You turn the knob, open the door and slip inside. Amazing! The room is full of interesting things that excite your imagination. What’s more, on the opposite wall there’s another door that leads to further rooms. In fact, you realize there’s an additional section of the house you have never known about or explored. Whether or not you have had a dream like that, Taurus, I’m betting that in 2015, you will experience a symbolically similar series of events in your waking life.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “Nothing brings people closer than business,” said composer Arnold Schoenberg. You could be living proof of that hypothesis in 2015, Libra. Your drive to engage in profitable activities will be at a peak, and so will your knack for making good decisions about profitable activities. If you cash in on these potentials, your social life will flourish. Your web of connections will expand and deepen. You will generate high levels of camaraderie by collaborating with allies on productive projects. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Deathwatch beetles have a peculiar approach to the mating game. Their seduction technique consists of smacking their heads against a hard object over and over again. This generates a tapping sound that is apparently sexy to potential partners. I discourage you from similar behaviors as you seek the kind of love you want in 2015. The first rule of romantic engagement is this: Sacrificing or diminishing yourself may seem to work in the short run, but it can’t possibly lead to lasting good. If you want to stir up the best results, treat yourself with tenderness and respect.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707) was a German composer whose organ music is still played today. He was a major influence GEMINI (May 21-June 20) The Greek god Zeus had seven wives. Themis, Leto, Eurynome and on a far more famous German composer, Johann Sebastian Hera were among them. Another was his older sister Demeter, and Bach (1685-1750). When Bach was a young man, he decided it a sixth was his aunt Mnemosyne. Then there was the sea nymph was crucial for him to experience Buxtehude’s music first-hand. Metis. Unfortunately, he ate Metis—literally devoured her—which He took a leave of absence from his job and walked more than effectively ended their marriage. In 2015, Gemini, I encourage 250 miles to the town where Buxtehude lived. There he received you to avoid Zeus’ jumbled, complicated approach to love and the guidance and inspiration he sought. In 2015, Sagittarius, I’d intimacy. Favor quality over quantity. Deepen your focus rather than love to see you summon Bach’s determination as you go in quest expanding your options. Most importantly, make sure your romantic of the teaching you want and need. adventures never lead to you feeling fragmented or divided against yourself. This is the year you learn more than ever before about what CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Even in normal times, you are a fount of regeneration. Your everit’s like for all the different parts of you to be united. growing hair and fingernails are visible signs of your nonstop renewal. A lot of other action happens without your conscious CANCER (June 21-July 22) Here are three of my top wishes for you in 2015: You will have awareness. For example, your tastebuds replace themselves a clear, precise sense of what’s yours and what’s not yours ... of every two weeks. You produce 200 billion red blood cells and 10 what’s possible to accomplish and what’s impossible ... of what billion white blood cells every day. Every month the epidermis of will be a good influence on you and what won’t be. To help ensure your skin is completely replaced, and every 12 months your lungs that these wishes come true, refer regularly to the following are composed of a fresh set of cells. In 2015, you will continue advice from Cancerian author Elizabeth Gilbert: “You need to to revitalize yourself in all these ways, but will also undergo learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select a comparable regeneration of your mind and soul. Here’s my your clothes every day. That’s a power you can cultivate. If you prediction: This will be a year of renaissance, rejuvenation, and want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. reinvention. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control.” AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Author Robert Moss has published 27 books. When he talks about all the lives I’m not living,” says a character in Jonathan Safran the art of launching and completing big projects, I listen attentively. Foer’s novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. If you have ever There’s one piece of advice he offers that would be particularly felt that way, Aquarius, I predict that you will get some relief in helpful for you to keep in mind throughout the first half of 2015. 2015. Your bones won’t be straining as much as they have in the “If we wait until we are fully prepared in order to do something, past because you will be living at least one of the lives you have we may never get it done,” he says. “It’s important to do things wanted to live but haven’t been able to before. How you will before we think we are ready.” Can you handle that, Leo? Are you handle all the new lightness that will be available? willing to give up your fantasies about being perfectly qualified and PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) perfectly trained and perfectly primed before you dive in? “Erotomania” is a word for the erroneous fantasies people entertain when they imagine that a celebrity is in love with VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) The order of fish known as the coelacanths were thought to them. Laughable, right? Just because I have dreams of Game have become extinct 66 million years ago. That was when they of Thrones actress Lena Headey texting me seductive notes disappeared from the fossil record. But in 1938, a fisherman in South doesn’t mean that she genuinely yearns for my companionship. Africa caught a live coelacanth. Eventually, whole colonies were And yet most of us, including you and me, harbor almost equally discovered in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa and near outlandish beliefs and misapprehensions about all kinds of Indonesia. I foresee a comparable phenomenon happening in your things. They may not be as far-fetched as those that arise from life during the coming months, Virgo. An influence you believed to erotomania, but they are still out of sync with reality. The good have disappeared from your life will resurface. Should you welcome news, Pisces, is that in 2015 you will have the best chance ever and embrace it? Here’s what I think: Only if you’re interested in its to become aware of and shed your delusions—even the longpotential role in your future, not because of a nostalgic attachment. running, deeply-rooted kinds.

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