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Letters First You Get the Money, Then You Get the Power

Poor Jon Huntsman Sr. He’s unhappy that his bought candidate for U.S. Senator from Utah, Bob Bennett, lost to the Koch brothers’ bought candidate for that same office, Mike Lee. For a long time, Huntsman was the only really bigmoney player in Utah politics and could pretty much dictate who would run and win for statewide offices. And the wealth-worshipping top Mormon church leaders were just fine with that. But when far more filthy-rich billionaires, individuals and corporations started dumping money into Utah elections, Huntsman Sr. couldn’t compete. Mormon church dogma and practice teaches that one is rewarded materially for one’s honest hard work and righteousness, and that the richest are the most honest, hardworking and righteous. (Nevermind that Jesus, according to the Christian Bible, taught exactly the opposite and utterly condemned the rich.) The Koch brothers are therefore obviously among the most honest, hard-working and righteous of all, far more than Huntsman Sr., with his miniscule few billion. So, the Mormon Church and its lackeys in Utah politics and government offices obviously chose the candidates of the far richer outside players in Utah politics than those of local Huntsman Sr. He can’t compete with the far greater material wealth and therefore righteousness of the Koch brothers. So, now all he can do is whine about the Koch

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Persecution Disguised as Protection

The lawyers within the legislative branch of government have passed legislation that is legislative treason and contributes to human corruption. It has to do with employment and property law as it relates to the discrimination and violation of civil rights of ex-felons. The lawyers within the legislative branch falsely stand behind the protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. They argue that if they are tough on crime, in terms of employment and property laws against ex-felons, they can protect the public. Just the opposite is true: The amount of recidivism directly relates to the injustice of the employment and property laws that punish, deprive and prevent ex-felons

from equal human rights to employment and property. According to the federal bureau of criminal statistics, 68 percent of ex-felons commit another crime and go back to incarceration. It’s simply because the laws against exfelons prevent them from employment rights and property rights. If the state says, by legal statute, that you dont have the right to a job, you don’t have the right to property, the only option for the ex-felon for shelter is to commit another crime. And committing another crime is where the legislative treason and corruption comes in. The legislative statutes against ex-felons is set up for failure and future calamity: failure against the ex-felon— and, moreover, a failure to every citizen of the federal government. It’s a legislative political argument of protection against liberty.

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A Matter of Source

As Gordon Monson would say, this piece is “my published belief—not a news report, my opinion as is my license as a columnist …” [“Kyle Whittingham’s argument with himself,” The Salt Lake Tribune, Dec. 30, 2014]. When I was investigative reporting in this state and region over the years, I can’t count how many times I’d get a “source” calling me up unbidden with some kind of potential blockbuster information that, if true, would be certain to turn into a lead story—or even months of lead stories. Alas, those calls would signal not the snagging of an immediate scoop that would then be promoted on Twitter and posted online with no attribution to any named source (aka the Gordon Monson method) but, rather, it would signal the beginning of a long process of inquiry wherein every angle of the supposed blockbuster would have to be vetted, often over weeks, before a word could be published, or a TV story aired. This would include what motive the original source might have had in contacting me in the first place. It would include interviewing additional sources (on the record) pursuing pertinent documents and evidence to prove the story was real, and sometimes, the pursuit of the target of the investigation against the will of the targeted party—never easy. Many times, nothing was aired or published, as the source’s original information would be proven wrong, or even intentionally manipulative. I didn’t appreciate people trying to use my news organization as a pawn or patsy in some scheme they were hatching. Several times, when this proved to be the case, I turned the story around and exposed the motives of the “source” that initially contacted me. They hated that. My approach, also known as journalism, is clearly not one in practice over at the

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Trib, or what is left of the Trib, as it relates to Monson’s writing about what may or may not be happening within the University of Utah’s football program. In Monson’s Dec. 30 column, he wrote that he “couldn’t care less” about where Kyle W hittingham coaches football. Well, I couldn’t care less about Monson and his endless spew of negative drivel. However, I do care about the welfare of the young men in the program, their families, the assistant coaches and their families, and the employees who toil in this sports-entertainment platform called Utah Football. While some people may think that football—and who coaches it and plays it—are not important matters, I’d reply that you can forget that part and look at the issue from a business perspective. Millions of dollars a year are wrapped around the Utah football program. Whittingham is the highest-paid employee in the state system—like it or not. Utah football is a brand-name product that sells itself to kids and their parents. Setting aside the debate as to whether or not football is worth playing—that’s a different argument altogether—the matters that are central to the operation of this multimillion-dollar operation are no joke, despite the joke of a way the Trib currently covers them. There is a level of extreme accountability required when a public institution operates something on this scale. Who is in charge, how is the operation run, and what goes into assuring that the organization is professional, ethical and, above all, focused on the benefit of the student athletes? When the people who bear that responsibility—the university president, the athletic director and the head coach—are not openly forthcoming about matters affecting these young men and their collective future, that’s a news story. That is something that begs for a digging—an accurate, relentless drive for public accountability.

Unfortunately, for the Trib and Gordon Monson, instead of going after a documented trail of evidence as to what is happening inside this massive athletic program at this publicly funded university, the Trib decided to run garbage from unnamed sources—which may or may not be total fabrications—that, in our cheap and easy Internet world, gets picked up and spread all over the digital universe as some sort of fact: Kyle Whittingham is out as Utah football coach. Um, maybe not. Um, who knows? Here is a big news story that requires real digging. Instead, Monson plays it both ways: He’s protecting his sources, oh, but he’s not really a reporter, so he can write anything he wants anyway because it’s a column—a lazy column where he messes with real people’s lives. In the meantime, the kids who play at the U and the remaining coaches who haven’t left for other jobs are seeing their recruiting season getting killed because Monson’s nonsense allows other schools to point at the U as a mess and a place to be avoided. Maybe the U is a mess and a place to be avoided—but in order to make that case, actual journalistic effort has to be put forth, and it’s not happening at the Trib. The editors at the Trib ought to wake up and smell the coffee. A real news story is brewing at the U, and they need to get some real reporters to file record requests for e-mails, phone records, every memo—all of it—as it relates to the multi-million dollar football program, so everyone, especially the players and recruits, can actually learn what the hell is happening. CW

I couldn’t care less about Monson and his endless spew of negative drivel.

John Harrington is a Salt Lake City based investigative journalist. In his 37-year career (including stints at City Weekly), he’s won multiple awards for his work as a TV and radio reporter and as a print columnist. Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net.

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Is it more important for a college sport recruit to play for a respected coach or a respected school? Jeff Chipian: Recruits should be focusing more on the school, because in three years, your coach will probably get a better offer somewhere else, or get fired. But lately, college recruits have decommitted to a school because the coach was leaving. Some even followed the coaches to the new school. Doug Kruithof: Doesn’t really matter ... whichever has best the combination of diploma guarantee, endorsement contracts and wages. Scott Renshaw: The answer to that is as wide-ranging as the goals of any 17-year-old. Does he just want to get on TV? Improve as much as possible to get a shot at a pro career? Learn from a great teacher? Use sports as a way to get a degree and a non-sports career? Until you know the answer to those questions, there’s no way to answer this one. Bill Frost: Playing along with the conceit that college ball is a real “sport,” I’m going with respected mascot.

Jeremiah Smith: That completely depends on the recruit’s expectations for his college life. If they are expecting to have a career in the NFL, then go for the coach. Also, GO UTES!!! Derek Carlisle: I’d say you play for the love, team, coach, classmates and school—in that order. Rachel Piper: Playing for a respected school might have more payoff in the long run, even if it had a bad coach while you were there. But considering the low likelihood of parlaying any college career into a pro one, why not spend those years with a coach and team you respect?

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Raise the Roof Utahns could hardly believe their ears: Utah was being praised instead of ridiculed in the national news. NPR’s Diane Rehm was interviewing Dr. Robert Okin, a psychiatrist who spent two years on the streets of San Francisco, about mental illness and homelessness. Utah, Okin said, is an example of a state that has helped the mentally ill with housing and changed the outcomes. Okin said that mentally ill homeless are largely stigmatized, and there’s generally no political will to change things. In Utah, however, a federal program called Housing First provides housing to chronically homeless people without first requiring sobriety. As a result, Utah saw a decrease of 70 percent in its chronically homeless population. Best yet, some 90 percent of those housed remained in their homes where they could better manage medications and other lifestyle challenges.

Helping Hands While Utah families were huddled inside against the cold and wind, hundreds of homeless people were wandering the streets, not necessarily seeking shelter. That’s where the Street Engagement Team—the outreach work of Volunteers of America Utah and The Road Home, housed at the Fourth Street Clinic—comes in. A Deseret News story chronicled the efforts of the group to provide blankets, food and medical advice to those who feared the shelters or simply didn’t know how to navigate the streets. Countywide, it’s estimated that 200 homeless simply refuse to move inside. And that creates a challenge in freezing temperatures. One young man who’d aged out of foster care was taken to a hospital where his toes likely would be amputated. But for the help of the team, many could die on the streets.

Cry Wolf What good is an endangered designation if there’s really no protection? There has been no official response to the so-called “mistaken identity” shooting of a 3-yearold gray wolf in December. Hunters said they were seeking coyotes, for which there’s a state bounty. Utah lawmakers are trying to de-list the wolf, for fear it will return to the state as a predator. Meanwhile, U.S. District Judge Dee Benson struck down an endangered-species application for a prairie dog whose habitat is solely in Utah. His ruling could significantly narrow the reach of the Endangered Species Act because half of the designated species exist in only one state, according to the blog Law360. But given how Utah views endangered species, a law may not be necessary. Just shoot them, no penalty.

In just a matter of days, state lawmakers will be on Capitol Hill, discussing and voting on issues and bills that affect all Utahns. But how to ensure that your representative has your interests at heart? It’s not with another 600-word Facebook rant, which is why the SLCC Community Writing Center is hosting a free Writing for Change workshop Jan. 13 at the Salt Lake City Main Library (210 E. 400 South, 6-9 p.m.). The writing center’s associate director, Elisa Stone—also a tenured English professor at Salt Lake Community College—moved from Idaho to Utah to go to law school, but switched to English and has spent the past decade exploring civic engagement and service learning in higher education. She and others from the writing center will be on hand to help participants craft effective letters, which the library will mail for free. To register, phone 801-957-2192 or visit SLCC.edu/ CWC, where handouts and screencasts can also be found.

Can a single message really have any power?

We show a six-minute TED talk that addresses that very thing. What we learn from that is that for every letter written, elected officials assume that 25 people feel the same way. I had the privilege of hearing Congressman Barney Frank speak when he was in Salt Lake a couple of summers ago. He shared with us that if someone looks out over Washington, they can see people protesting, but an elected official doesn’t know how many, if any, are their actual constituents, so they may not feel compelled to act. But if they receive a letter from a constituent and they assume that one letter represents 25 other voices, then they do take it seriously. And especially handwritten letters are really impactful, because so much is electronic these days.

People still have opinions; why don’t they write more?

When I ask, “Why haven’t you done something about these issues you all care so much about?” oftentimes, they just aren’t sure what the proper channels are. Sometimes people don’t feel educated, they don’t feel empowered. Oftentimes, they’re so saturated in social media that they think speaking out has lost its meaning. If everyone’s protesting on Facebook, what are they really doing? I think people have to re-center themselves and realize that this basic tool that we’ve had for decades is still effective, and perhaps even more so.

How is writing a letter to a public official different from writing to Grandma?

What we advise people is to come across to their elected official as members of the same community, players on the same team. We take them through a pattern of identifying a problem, coming up with feasible solution, and then offering personally to help solve that problem in partnership with their offical. It’s very much a problem-based approach to advocating for whatever issues they care about.

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A pajama ban might be slightly overstepping things—firstly, because I, for one, don’t want to be the person going around policing it. Secondly, at the risk of sounding puritanical, getting naked might be overrated. The claim, while it does follow a pattern distantly related to logic, is nowhere near scientifically proven. And while there’s no denying that regular nudity will very likely improve certain aspects of your life, unfortunately there are no reported links thus far between orgasms and insulin sensitivity. We’ll be the first to let you know when anything turns up. Let’s acknowledge that the Daily Mail—a British tabloid not best known for its science reportage—has it essentially right on at least one point: sleep is good. When you don’t get enough of it, scary things tend to happen. Microsleeps, for instance— without sufficient sleep the brain forces us to take tiny involuntary naps, more or less pulling the plug on our consciousness every so often. Add in the fact that the cognitive effects of a week of reduced sleep have been found equivalent to a blood alcohol level of 0.089, and you see why sleep deprivation is a serious menace to car, air and space shuttle traffic alike. The immune system and reaction times fall victim to drowsiness too, as do fine-motor function, working memory, and (need we even mention it?) mood. Lack of sleep can also make you fat. For one thing, sleepy people tend to eat more. Brains need stimulants to keep from crashing, and sugar is an easy (if poor) substitute. Also, fewer hours asleep equals more hours awake to eat donuts. The more people are exposed to food, the more likely they are to eat it. And leptin and ghrelin, hormones that play a major role in appetite regulation, are dependent on sleep quantity and quality—as is glucose regulation. This means that not only can reduced sleep cause increased hunger and appetite throughout the day, it makes binge-eating ice cream even worse for you than usual. Maybe unsurprisingly, a long-term study of 68,000 women found that compared to those who slept seven hours a night, women who slept five hours or less were 15 percent more likely to become obese. And being overweight can, of course, increase your risk of diabetes. There’s evidence, too, that the body’s sensitivity to insulin is much worse after less sleep, or interrupted sleep. So the idea of a connection between sleep and diabetes risk certainly isn’t crazy. All this established, we’ll move on to the central question: to strip or not to strip?

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This is where things get a little iffy. To support the big claim made in their headline, the Daily Mail cites a study published last summer in the journal Diabetes reporting that five men who slept in colder temperatures for a month showed significantly better insulin sensitivity and developed more brown fat. Brown fat is metabolically active (as opposed to the Crisco that coats the rest of our bodies), and is considered good because it takes sugar out of your bloodstream to maintain body temperature. So, OK: sleeping in the cold is better for you. But the Mail‘s crack reporting team leaves out a key detail: these men weren’t naked— they were all thoroughly pajama-ed. So far, Cecil 1, Daily Mail 0 (not that we keep track of these things). But we’re not done here: the Mail also claims more basically that “going naked means a good night’s sleep.” Admittedly, getting quality sleep is a surprisingly tricky process. Your core body temperature needs to drop almost a degree Fahrenheit for you to fall and stay asleep, meaning the ideal bedroom should be fairly cool, and bundling up too much is counterproductive. But in the process your skin temperature needs to increase, thus allowing blood vessels to expand enough to release that excess core heat. The Mail insists that being naked helps make this complex thermoregulation happen, but to defend the point it winds up relying on a 2008 Dutch study that found subjects slept more deeply and soundly with their skin warmed by water-filled thermosuits. Again—and I hate to have to mention it—these subjects obviously weren’t naked. It’s not hard to see how a paper that specializes in celebrities’ beach bodies and baby bumps might oversell the nudity concept for clickbait purposes. Some optimized combination of room temperature and skin coverage could well improve your sleep and/or even help build brown fat, either of which may in turn ultimately lower your diabetes risk, and nakedness could conceivably play a role in such a scenario. But since a. no one has yet gone full monty in a clinical setting and b. over-thinking all this provokes more insomnia-inducing anxiety than not, I hereby pardon all pajamawearers. Thermosuits, birthday suits—wear whatever helps you sleep at night. Send questions to Cecil via StraightDope. com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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the list of EIGHT

by bill frost

@bill_frost

Curses, Foiled Again

NEWS

When Damontay Wright, 19, drove himself unaccompanied to a road-test facility in Jonesboro, Ark., for his driver’s license, a police officer approached to ticket him for driving without a license, but Wright sped off. He smashed into a state trooper’s patrol car and then, with police in pursuit, lost control of his car and plowed through the wall of a house. Officers who charged Wright with felony fleeing added that the license plate on his car had been reported stolen. (The Jonesboro Sun)

QUIRKS

•While Jose Lopez was being interviewed for a job in El Cajon, Calif., the business owner confronted him about showing up drunk. Lopez took offense and a fight ensued, during which Lopez stabbed the owner in the arm. Lopez fled, but police quickly located him because he’d left behind his completed job application. (San Diego’s KNSD-TV)

Second Thoughts About Being First After the crash of Virgin Galactic’s space tourism rocket SpaceShipTwo in California’s Mojave Desert during a test flight, “about 20” of the people holding tickets on the craft’s initial space voyage requested a refund, company representative Jess Gilbert said. Tickets originally cost $200,000 each but later rose to $250,000. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Eight ways to stick to your fitness resolutions in the New Year:

workout with a small treat. Like a rum-soaked ham.

5. After your heart explodes,

n California authorities accused Kathy Rowe of harassing a couple who bought a house in a Carmel Valley neighborhood that Rowe had placed an offer on, calling it her “forever home.” The criminal complaint said Rowe signed the wife up for sex ads online that encouraged visitors to drop by unannounced while her husband was at work. The

Indiana conservation officers said that when a shooter in Martin County used modern smokeless powder in a muzzleloading rifle designed for black powder, the weapon turned into a grenade, which exploded, causing the shooter to lose a couple of fingers. (Indianapolis Star)

Secret Secrets The National Security Agency informed the Federation of American Scientists that a report to Congress on authorized disclosures of classified intelligence to the media is classified and thus exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. Congress requires government officials that authorize “disclosures of national intelligence” to notify it so congressional committees can tell authorized disclosures from unauthorized disclosures, or leaks. The NSA explanation was a response to a FAS FOIA request to learn which disclosures were authorized. (Federation of American Scientists)

Hoping to attract and retain more career women, Facebook and Apple began paying up to $20,000 for employees to freeze their eggs until they’re ready to become parents. (NBC News)

Stating the Obvious Steve Wadsworth won an “exciting competition” to name the new leisure center in Selby, England, scheduled to open this spring. “I was really surprised and excited,” said Wadsworth, who came up with the name “Selby Leisure Centre.” (Selby District Council News)

Loser of the Week Police responding to an emergency call of screams at an apartment in Oslo reported the sounds came from a male chess player “frustrated by constantly losing against his own PC.” (Norway’s The Local) Compiled from mainstream news sources by Roland Sweet. Authentication on demand.

OPEN ALL WINTER

Hire a personal trainer. Or someone fatter than you to just “hang around.”

elevator. For better results, scale the side of the building.

1. Remember: A winner

never quits. On the other hand: Sweatpants always forgive.

Legislative Nuts & Bolts At this legislative forum, citizens will have the opportunity to hear from, and question, Democrats like Sen. Jim Dabakis and Rep. Carol Spackman Moss, and Republicans like Sen. Daniel Thatcher and Rep. Dana Layton. The lawmakers will discuss the nuts and bolts of the upcoming legislative session and highlight prominent bills. Girl Scouts of Utah Building, 445 E. 4500 South, Salt Lake City, Jan. 10, 10 a.m.-noon, free, LW VUtah.org

Utah Against Police Brutality The group Utah Against Police Brutality is hosting a meeting/workshop that will feature a discussion on anti-oppression. The group has staged protests, including one on New Year’s Eve that drew around 60 people. But for those less interested in picketing and more into chatting about the issues surrounding police and the use of force, this event could be your cup of tea. Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Jan. 14, 6-9 p.m., Facebook. com/UtahAgainstPoliceBrutality

Salt Lake City Planning Commission

Wednesday, Jan. 14

The rough edges of Salt Lake City’s westside warehouse districts are scheduled to go under the sledgehammer of redevelopment. One project the city’s Redevelopment Agency is looking to press forward on involves the Beehive Brick Building at 244 S. 500 West. City planners intend to remake the building into two separate lots to accommodate commercial and residential development, known as the Beehive Arts Center Subdivision. If this sounds good to you, put your body in a seat and tell the commission about it. Same goes for those who hate it. Salt Lake City & County Building, 451 S. State, Room 326, 5:30 p.m., SLCGov.com

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The pollution that we spew into the atmosphere each day isn’t floating away to whatever sorry place it usually goes. And again, like clockwork, the Wasatch Front’s visibly filthy air signals the annual meeting of the Utah State Legislature. This year is as good a time to get engaged in politics as any, and anyone can get a first-rate schooling on the ins and outs of the session with a forum sponsored by the American Association of University Women of Utah and the League of Women Voters. Continue this thread of civic engagement by attending a meeting and presentation by the group Utah Against Police Brutality, and finish it off by reviewing the redevelopment plans for a chunk of Salt Lake’s west side, where big plans are afoot.

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3. Take the stairs instead of the

Portentous Pollution

Saturday, Jan. 10

Career Moves

you’ll have lost an easy 8-10 ounces.

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Check your heart rate frequently when exercising; shoot for 500-600 bpm.

n Police said two customers at a Tim Hortons store in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, threw a garter snake at an employee during an argument that began because they wanted the onions diced for their breakfast order. (Saskatoon’s The Star Phoenix)

Second-Amendment Follies

by COLBY FRAZIER

Between reading each number here, do a sit-up (time limit: four days).

Korean Air executive Heather Cho delayed the departure of her flight from New York to Incheon by demanding the removal of a flight attendant who served her macadamia nuts in a bag instead of on a plate. The incident prompted Cho’s resignation but boosted macadamia sales in Korea nearly 12-fold. (BBC News)

couple also received unwanted magazines, books and junk mail, and Rowe allegedly sent romantic Valentine’s Day cards from the husband to his female neighbors. “Losing that house was devastating to my family and broke our hearts,” Rowe said, calling her actions “stupid pranks.” (ABC News)

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Slightest Provocation

BY ROLAND SWEET

Cashed Out

SLC rep hopes legislature will at last agree to put cap on campaign contributions. By Colby Frazier cfrazier@cityweekly.net @colbyfrazierlp In the wake of the resignation of former Utah Attorney General John Swallow in 2013, Rep. Brian King, D-Salt Lake City, penned a new law that would have capped the amount of money lawmakers could rake in from corporations, political action committees and other donors. That bill unwound the same way other similar bills had, and died on the house floor during the 2014 legislative session by a vote of 38 to 35. Going into this year’s legislative session, Swallow is facing 11 felonies and two misdemeanors stemming from his undera-year term as attorney general. And many of the charges relate to cash and gifts he received from campaign supporters. Just as Swallow continues to be a presence in the news, King once again has his sights set on diminishing the polluting effect money can have on politics. And he says it’s not a question of if the bill will eventually pass—bringing Utah in step with the 46 other states that cap campaign contributions—but when. “There’s just too much potential for corruption and abuse there,” King says of a politician’s ability to open his or her bank account to any entity, for unlimited sums of money. “We saw it with the attorney general race and the Attorney General’s Office. It’s just too problematic, I think, to allow unlimited money.” King’s House Bill 60 would rein in contributions from political action committees, labor organizations, corporations and individuals. Under the bill, donations to state officeholders would be capped at $10,000. No more than $5,000 could be donated to a legislative, school board or judicial candidate. The cap for donations to political parties, political action committees or to labor organizations would top out at $40,000. King says he hopes that the perception that the political process is up for sale could be quelled by chopping away at the amount of money entities can give to a politician. Among other ills facing the political process is low voter turnout, and a general feeling, King says, that regular citizens can’t get the ear of their elected leaders without fistfuls of dollars. And while any money has the potential to cast a pall over the political process, placing a cap on contributions, he says, could help eliminate the perception that politics is bought and sold

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in Utah. “I think we’ve got to act as a legislature to respond to the perception that this is something that is sort of a pay-to-play environment,” King says. King cited a recent analysis by The Salt Lake Tribune that found that donations from special-interest and lobbying groups account for 82 percent of donations to state lawmakers, while donations from individual constituents account for only 7 percent of the pie. Whether or not the outsize piles of money arriving in the mailboxes of legislators buy a corporation or a lobbying firm a more favorable seat at a lawmaker’s table than a citizen is up for debate. For his part, King believes he and his colleagues make themselves available to constituents, not just special interests. But, he says, if the perception is that money buys influence in Utah politics—as authorities say it did with Swallow and his predecessor, Mark Shurtleff—a good place to begin snuffing it out would be to limit the size of contributions. “The perception, I think, is the thing that we need to push back as a legislature; the perception of corruption and the perception of undue influence,” King says. “Why in the world shouldn’t we do that?” Rep. Ken Ivory, R-West Jordan, says he won’t support any limits on cash campaign contributions so long as they fail to treat donations of time and other non-monetary contributions the same way. While he avoided saying he supported the state’s current system of unlimited contributions, he did say that he considers it to be “transparent.” “The problem that I’ve expressed in the past with Rep. King’s bill is they don’t treat money and time equally,” Ivory says. “The system we have now deals with full disclosure and people can, based on the disclosure, make decisions based on the information that’s available to them.” But King says placing restrictions on how many hours, for instance, that a person can volunteer for a candidate, could dilute citizen participation, rather than encourage it. “I reject the idea that if we have limits on money that it’s advisable to have limits on the kind of labor or volunteer work that can be performed for a candidate,” he says. “We want to encourage that.” CW

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“I think we’ve got to act as a legislature to respond to the perception that this is something that is sort of a pay-to-play environment.” —Rep. Brian King, D-Salt Lake City

Rep. Brian King, D-Salt Lake City (top), wants to pass a bill capping campaign contributions in an effort to change the perception that Utah politicians can be bought and sold, especially in the wake of scandals involving former Utah Attorney General John Swallow (bottom).

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While state funds for domestic violence dwindle, the cost in lives climbs.

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Police officers need more training, and shelters are always full; last year they served as many people, approximately 3,000, as they turned away. The courts struggle to hold perpetrators accountable—a process partially undermined, some say, by the ineffectiveness of offender treatment, which neither is standardized nor has much oversight. Mayo is intimately familiar with the nature of domestic violence and its far-reaching consequences. Her next long-term relationship after Chad’s death was verbally abusive. “I’ve always been better at helping other people than helping myself,” says Mayo, who now runs a domestic-violence shelter in Richfield and is the chairwoman of the Utah Domestic Violence Coalition board, which represents the interests of shelters. Mayo’s shelter, called New Horizons Crisis Center, serves five counties, an area of 13,581 square miles, with a full-time staff of seven, five part-timers, and volunteers. Since October 2010, there have been seven domestic-violence-related homicides in Sevier County and Sanpete County alone, two of which were murder-suicides. Mayo can recall only one prior to that. And the growing demand for New Horizons’ services has outstripped its resources. In 2014, for the first time, the shelter had to turn people away because it was full. New Horizons serves just a small slice of the state’s population, but its experiences are a microcosm of a much wider trend: Domestic

Domestic violence rears its head rarely in the public arena, perhaps when a NFL football player knocks out his wife in an elevator, or a Spanish Fork policeman kills his family and himself. But domestic violence is a quiet plague in Utah. Between 2009 and 2011, more people were killed in domestic-violence-related issues than other types of homicides. According to 2010 figures from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, one in three Utah women will face rape, physical violence and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime, and once every 33 days, on average, there is one death related to intimatepartner violence. These deaths are often the culmination of longtime violence that, in many cases, goes unreported. When it is reported, victims face a fractured, overburdened system made up of law enforcement, shelters, justice courts and treatment providers. And advocates say that anyone who looks at this system will see that change is sorely needed.

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ive years into their marriage, Debbie Mayo found out that her husband, Chad, had been having an affair. In the wake of the revelation, her young husband—they’d married as teenagers—became “an angry, crying mess,” Mayo says, though before that moment, she’d seen him cry only twice. At first, she says, her “heart just wrenched,” but his tears soon escalated to threats of suicide, and then violence. He grabbed her arms so hard he left bruises before throwing her on the bed, gripping her face in his hand and squeezing as she screamed. On Feb. 9, 1998, he went to their West Jordan apartment and asked her to take him back. When she refused, he pulled a gun from his waistband and told her to call the police. She stayed with Chad as a SWAT team deployed outside, finally leaving after he told her he would follow in five minutes. Shortly after, the 22-year-old shot himself in the head.

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YOU’RE IN DANGER

On a cold, windy Monday night in late December, West Valley City Police Department Detective Justin Boardman races in an unmarked car to a “domestic,” to show a City Weekly reporter the realities of police encounters with domestic-violence scenes. Utah defines domestic violence as both intimate-partner violence and cohabitant violence between, for example, a father and a son. As darkness falls, domestic-violence calls to dispatch pop up repeatedly on Boardman’s police computer. He stops at one family-related domestic-violence call, and another—for the apartment building behind it—appears on the on-call screen. “That’s more like the West Valley I know,” he says cheerily. On one poorly lit street with a reputation for drug crimes and shootings, officers have been called to a protective-order violation. A 26-year-old man has refused to leave the apartment of his 22-year-old ex-girlfriend, who got the protective order against him earlier that day. She’s also nine months pregnant with his child. The man had entered her apartment with his current girlfriend and refused to leave. After he verbally abused his ex, she and her 2-year-old daughter—also his child—went and sat in her car, and she called the police. The police remove the man and his girlfriend. An officer tells the ex-girlfriend that she has to go to court Jan. 6, 2015, to make the protective order permanent, but she says she plans to drop it. Once the immediate crisis has passed, “unfortunately, the majority of our victims recant, they want it to go away, they want it dismissed,” says Rachelle Hill, victim advocate at West Valley City Police Department, which sees 4,000 domestic-violence crimes a year. “And I don’t necessarily blame them. As an advocate, I can’t really promise them it’s going to get better. I can probably promise them it will get worse.” While the court system keeps fines minimal for offenders, victims find themselves having to work multiple jobs to pay their partner’s court fines or bail money. “They either stay with the abuser or try to do it on their own,” Hill says. “Ideally, we want them to become self-sustaining, but starting-level jobs pay so little. Rent, gas, day care [costs] just shadows that paycheck, and eats it up so quickly.” But for Boardman, the key moment is when law enforcement first encounters a domestic-violence victim such as the 22-year-old. A lethality assessment—a series

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violence in Utah is escalating, and outpacing the funds and support available to its victims, which has only decreased in recent years. According to documents obtained by City Weekly through a records request, the Division of Child & Family Services in 2014 had a domestic-violence budget of $2.21 million, down from $3.53 million in 2011. Yet 2014 saw a five-year peak in domestic-violencerelated deaths, with, according to provisional figures from the Department of Health, 29 women, men and children losing their lives to domestic violence.

of weighted questions—can play a key role in helping a victim understand how dangerous her situation is, he says, and perhaps save a life. In 2005, Maryland instituted a lethalityassessment protocol that’s been credited with reducing domestic-violence homicide rates within that state by 40 percent, says Woods Cross Police Chief Greg Butler, whose officers currently are the only ones in Utah trained and certified in the protocol. Thirty states have adopted the model. Butler says the protocol saved a woman’s life shortly after his men were trained. “We need to get it implemented in the state of Utah,” he says. The woman, whom Butler declined to identify, was a recent divorcee who told her LDS bishop she suspected her ex-husband was abusing their children. The bishop contacted Child Protective Services, which contacted the Woods Cross Police Department. Detectives discovered that the woman’s ex-husband, a former Marine combat medic, had been stalking her, and had broken into her house, made her bed and left a condom on it. When a detective reviewed the lethality assessment form with her, Butler says, “a light bulb came on” as she realized how much danger she was in, and moved with her children to a friend’s house. Officers subsequently cornered her ex-husband, who had been digging holes in various places, as if “looking for a place to dispose of her body,” Butler says. He killed himself with his own handgun. While West Valley officers have a domesticviolence questionnaire to fill out, W VCPD does not currently utilize the Debbie Mayo, a domestic-violence survivor who Maryland assessment, t hou gh Boa r d ma n now runs New Horizons Crisis Center in Richfield is hopeful that his department will take it additional funding,” he says. But he also cites mothers onboard. with autistic children as a group that has got his In contrast to situations attention, and compares the committee to being on a where, Boardman says, lifeboat with six children and having only one life vest. a cop’s gut says the victim “You have to decide which child you’re going to could be killed, the lethality save,” he says. assessment would allow a Utah’s 13 nonprofit domestic-violence shelters split cop to show a victim she has just over $1 million annually from DCFS and $1 million scored high, and then follow in federal grants administered by the state, along with the protocol and call the an additional $800,000-plus in federal funding. Beyond shelter W VCPD works with— that, they rely on whatever ongoing and one-time monies South Valley Sanctuary—so they can beg from the Social Services Appropriation the victim can make contact subcommittee. with a shelter worker. In January 2014, they got $300,000 in ongoing Still, Hill says, “less than funding and $393,500 in one-time funding, split 13 ways. 10 percent of clients we serve And advocates say it’s not enough for the shelters, which want to go to shelter.” are facing rapidly increasing demand. And, “that being said, that Over the past five years, Utah’s shelters increased by small handful can’t get in,” 40 percent the total annual number of nights of shelter she says. they provided, but that was still outstripped by unmet

In 2005, Maryland instituted a lethality-assessment protocol that’s been credited with reducing domesticviolence homicide rates within that state by 40 percent, says Woods Cross Police Chief Greg Butler, whose officers currently are the only ones in Utah trained and certified in the protocol.

MONEY FOR SOME

While there are preventative measures like the lethality assessment, the upcoming legislative session is a reminder that shelters will have to line up along with everyone else to seek funds from the Social Services Appropriation subcommittee. Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, is a relative newcomer to the subcommittee, at just three years on the Hill. But, come the 2015 legislative session, Weiler and the 16 other members of the subcommittee will have to perform Solomon-like acts of judgment, as they are faced by “a barrage of requests from across the spectrum,” he says. He’s visited the Davis County shelter, Safe Harbor. “I know they feel like they are in desperate need of

need, which climbed 67 percent. And while demand for services has increased, DCFS, charged with protecting the welfare of children and families, has cut back its front-line involvement in providing domestic-violence services. DCFS typically becomes involved in domesticviolence through allegations of domestic-violencerelated child abuse [DVRCA] made to Child Protective Services. Several years ago, in the face of legislative concerns over families’ civil rights being trodden on, the criteria for triggering those investigations were tightened. This led to a substantial reduction in the number of DCFS domestic-violence case investigations, from 2,876 in 2011 to 1,982 in 2013, according to a City Weekly records request.

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now lives in her parents’ basement with her children, writing erotic poetry and books on how to survive Utah’s shelters historically have received state money domestic-violence and working with women trying to through a formula that gives greater funding to shelters leave abusers. that provide a greater number of nights of shelter. Arredondo says the women she works with, many Jenn Campbell runs South Valley Sanctuary, a shelter of whom are Latina, encounter numerous barriers to hidden behind a fence in the southern end of the valley. accessing service. These include a lack of access to bank “We try to make it as homely as possible,” Campbell accounts or independent sources of income; religious says, opening the door to a boutique where survivors can issues (Mormon women “have this concept of eternal acquire “gently used” donated clothing. marriage which sometimes stops people from leaving,” “The hard component is our practice doesn’t fit she says); language—shelters often don’t have fullthe model that [the shelter-night formula] is trying to time Spanish speakers—no driver’s license or other serve,” Campbell says. “We are dealing with trust and identification; and for some, a sense of being “inhuman, safety. It isn’t about putting families in rooms.” because they are illegal,” she says. “There’s a giant While providing shelter from domestic violence is fear of being deported.” She says she’s known women important, she says, the key is building trust with who “have tried to jump off the roof, taken pills, cut victims. This means South Valley provides an array of themselves,” because they can’t find another way to support services, whether it be counseling, working with leave their abuser. attorneys to get protective orders or a myriad of other One morning, Arredondo says, she took a woman to needs victims have as they try to safely untangle their the YWCA after the woman called her saying she would lives from their abusers. kill herself rather than stay When a City Weekly reporter visited with her abusive spouse. South Valley Sanctuary, the shelter was The Y was full, so they full. Campbell says there were 40 people called three other shelters. staying there, 20 to 25 of whom were They were full, too. Finally, children. On average, the shelter turns one said they could take away 600 to 700 individuals each year. her, but only for a day. Echoing other shelter directors, “What do you do in a Campbell says South Valley simply doesn’t day?” Arredondo asks. “If have sufficient financial resources for you’ve escaped, you’ve their needs. “This is basic need. I don’t already made him mad.” know we can present it any better.” She took the woman to her Campbell feels that aspects of the home, fed her, then was shelter-night formula “almost penalize” told by a shelter to drop her shelters, though, she says, “we all try off at a different location. to serve victims in a way that’s victimThe next day, when centered.” Arredondo went to pick Across the valley, a few days later, the her up for an appointment Y WCA in downtown Salt Lake City was with a law yer, she found also full. In 2013, the Y turned away 1,200 —Rachelle Hill, victim advocate that the woman had used people. The day a City Weekly reporter the money Arredondo had at West Valley City Police visited, there were 227 people staying on given her for breakfast to Department, which sees 4,000 the campus, 156 of whom were children. get a taxi home. Keri Jones, chief program officer at domestic-violence crimes a year. the Y WCA, notes that while domestic-

Gloria Arredondo is a domestic-violence survivor whose ex-husband, over a period of 14 years, “took away the individual part of me,” she says. “I became a mother and wife; there was nothing left of me.” Arredondo, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, says even her testimony was fair game for her former partner. “My testimonies were too long, too dramatic. Everything about me started to bother him.” When she looked into the mirror, she saw a monster, she says. “But it was him; it was his reflection.” She broke away from his psychological abuse and

Jennifer Campbell, executive director of South Valley Sanctuary

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State funding for domestic-violence services has also declined. A record request to DCFS revealed that its domestic-violence budget went from $3.53 million in 2011 to $2.21 million in 2014. What that has meant for shelters is greater pressure on their resources. In 2012, Mayo wrote in a recent grant application, DCFS cut regional domestic-violence positions, pushing up the number of referrals to the shelter and putting further strain on her already overburdened staff. The number of DCFS domestic-violence positions has gone from 56 in 2011 to 29 in 2014, through a mix of attrition and reassignments, according to a City Weekly records request to DCFS. And domestic-violence workers in DCFS’ southwest Utah region, where New Horizons is located, had their job duties expanded, adding a focus on kinship placement and foster care to their domestic violence priorities. “They’re still on the domestic-violence budget, but they’re not doing domestic violence specifically,” says Jenn Oxborrow, who has been administrator of domestic-violence services at the Utah Division of Child & Family Services for 18 months. “The way we are using our funding and programming is inefficient and ineffective.” DCFS director Brent Platt says he has to manage a $167 million budget, so the domestic-violence budget doesn’t necessarily register on his radar. DCFS records show that the reduction in domestic-violence specialists employed by DCFS across the state is the main cause for the decline. But DCFS’ budget, despite the tightening, does carry a surplus. In 2011, that surplus was $735,207; in 2014, it was $455,323, part of it reflecting budgeted monies not spent on treatment providers, part of it budgeted funds not spent on specialist state DV workers. Mayo looks over the figures and winces. The surpluses are a potential lifeline she can’t understand not being made available to shelters. “I could do a lot with that surplus,” she says. She refers to the nondescript New Horizons shelter, a former nursing home, as the “bat cave.” The electronic front gate that bars access to the hostel is permanently broken, she says. Shelter workers have to wheel it shut by hand. In the front lobby, two boys energetically chase each other with NERF guns, while a girl kicks a soccer ball along a corridor. One employee recently jazzed up the communal bathroom and showers with splashes of bright pink, and affixed decals to the wall—high heeled shoes, a big lipstick, a purse—along with signs that say, “Dry those tears,” “Put on your lipstick,” and “Everything will be OK.” After Christmas, workers found several dozen garbage bags of clothes for the shelter. But donations, Mayo says, are never a problem. It’s money she needs. It costs $25,000 annually to maintain the shelter. There’s no yardmen, housekeeping or maids, she notes. The allfemale staff do what they can, she says. “A hole in the wall, we fix it—a bunch of chicks and YouTube.”

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violence services grew out of providing shelter, “I dare say if you ask the majority of victims, they don’t want to leave home. They just want the abuse to stop.” The DCFS’ Oxborrow says the shelter-night funding formula was an attempt to organize and equalize funding. She is set to change that formula, she says, to a yet-to-bedecided new approach.

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When Gloria Arredondo looked into the mirror, she saw a monster, “but it was him, it was his reflection.”

From 2010 through the end of 2013, according to statistics City Weekly requested from the Department of Health, 30 of the 67 men and eight women responsible for a total of 86 domestic-violence-related homicides in Utah had prior criminal charges for domestic violence. Of the 30 killers, just 17 had been ordered to treatment, though it is mandatory under state statute that offenders convicted of domestic violence—a misdemeanor—receive treatment. But the statute does not codify exactly what that treatment should be. Of the 17 ordered to treatment, nine were ordered to domestic-violence treatment, while the remaining eight were given bishop counseling or lifeskills and anger-management courses. Only nine of the 17 completed their treatment. Judge John Baxter of the Salt Lake City justice courts says that while under active judicial supervision, a domesticviolence defendant “seems a little more compliant in recidivism and the victim feels a little bit safer.” But, he continues, “there’s been no studies so far that have shown a lasting effect on the perpetrator.” Judge Rick Romney has a dedicated domestic-violence

calendar in his Provo Justice Court. His hope, he says, is that his court will act as a “homicideprevention business,” using evaluation by a DCFS-appointed evaluator and treatment by a DCFS-regulated treatment provider to help people acquire better skill sets. Baxter had a similarly formalized domesticviolence court for nine years but ended it partly because of a lack of funding and partly because he felt it had little impact. The presence of watchful judges seemed to do little to change perpetrators in the long run. And, he says, “the treatment models at this point don’t seem to do much.” A Utah statute that dictates a minimum of 16 weeks of sessions for domestic-violence treatment meets no one’s needs, he argues. “If a person really needed batterer intervention, 16 sessions wasn’t going to get anywhere near what was necessary,” Baxter says. “And if he didn’t need it, 16 was too much to sit in sessions with batterers learning things an individual didn’t need to learn.” Judges feel caught, Baxter says. There’s no way of predicting how someone appearing before him for a class B misdemeanor involving a punch or slap might go on to murder someone, he says. “We want it to end; we know treatment available to this point doesn’t seem to be particularly effective, yet we’re reluctant to do nothing,” he says. “We’d really like treatment professionals or academics to end domestic violence. Maybe that’s hoping for the moon; I hope not.”

learn from other abusers in groups what works in terms of avoiding more jail time while keeping control over their victim, she says. In total, according to a City Weekly record request to DCFS, the state spends approximately $1.2 million annually for adult offenders, child services and survivors to get treatment. But because the system is highly complex, only Utah’s courts typically access contracts, resulting in the bulk of the money going to help pay for offender treatment. Oxborrow believes Utah is the only state using mandatory criminal fees paid by offenders to financially offset criminal services for domestic-violence offenders. DCFS’ domestic-violence treatment budget is “dedicated to serve families, but by and large, it’s used by offenders.” Children get neglected, says Jones, whose background is in working with children caught up in domestic violence. “I tell my staff that if they do nothing else, make the child feel safe and secure and help them identify their own emotions,” she says. “Serve them, rather than send all these wounded little humans into the universe with no idea how to contain their own rage, which they’re going to exhibit one day on someone else.” According to state figures, 80 children will find their mother dead or see domestic-violence in Utah each year, but only 60 percent will receive therapy, and those often only once. “I don’t understand why our community doesn’t want to focus more on our own children,” Jones says.

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Oxborrow hopes to rebuild DCFS’ regional DV specialist network and have a domestic-violence specialist assigned in each region by the summer. She’s also pushed for a detailed assessment of domestic violence in Utah. “To help us get to a meaningful system of care, we need a datadriven needs assessment.” It’s taken a year, but finally, a contract for an independent assessment team is about to be inked, she says. Oxborrow also met with Sen. Allen Christensen, R-North Ogden, in late 2014 about securing funding of $750,000 for lethality-assessment personnel for all the shelters. He says he will run a bill to promote this approach, or possibly seek an appropriation. But while describing it as a “very worthwhile program,” he says he’s already been told “there isn’t any money for new programs this year.” He adds that he will also be pushing for the shelters’ one-time funding of $393,500 from the last session to be made ongoing, making the total request by victim-service-providers for the 2016 fiscal year $1.1 million. For the past two years, DCFS has made a financial request for the shelters on their behalf. But while Oxborrow remains a passionate advocate for the shelters that contract with her, her boss Brent Platt declined to have DCFS ask on behalf of shelters this time around. He will be their biggest cheerleader, he says, but has to focus on internal budget issues and “child-welfare issues.” The shelters “need to be their own force to be recognized with,” he says. The governor’s proposed budget for this session does not include any recommendations for money for the shelters, “so it’s going to be tough,” Oxborrow says. But New Horizons and other organizations that give support to victims, Mayo says, offer “people empowerment to help their lives.” Providing shelter, she says, can be “life-saving. It’s sometimes the only place people have to go. And their lives matter.” CW

There are 94 licensed treatment providers in Utah, but only 19 contract with DCFS. In order to contract with the state, a provider has to meet certain regulations. Oxborrow says she’s overhauled the contract language and has “extensive plans to bring in high-quality training along with the increasing expectation that they will use evidencebased programs.” But that leaves the bulk of treatment providers either licensed by Division of Professional Licensing and DHS Office of Licensing, or only by DOPL. They can set their fees at any rates, can tell the court no intervention is required, and are not subject to their programming or the outcomes of their treatment being monitored. City Weekly requested interviews with five treatment providers, both agencies and independent therapists, through phone calls and e-mails, but none responded. The Utah Association for Domestic Violent Treatment, formed in 2012, seeks to represent treatment providers. One of its founders, Isaac Phillips, a licensed clinical social worker, recalls holding a meeting with 17 agencies in domestic-violence treatment to talk about what a courtordered evaluation process of an offender should look like. “We had 17 quite different approaches,” he says. And there are several large, well-known agencies that, he says, have never attended a conference or meetings of UADVT or the Utah Domestic Violence Coalition in his eight years. “What are they doing behind their doors? That’s the scary thing,” he says, noting that this is strictly his opinion. “What we know as best practices, there’s little holding them to do that in their agencies. If people want to make big money, the system, due to its looseness, allows for that.” Some methods of treatment, shelter advocates say, can aggravate situations. “What I notice is people mention, ‘My abuser did the treatment, did the classes, he stopped hitting, but the psychological abuse is getting worse,’ ” says South Valley case manager Stella Soler. Abusers

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Identity can be a puzzle, as people try to figure out their place in the world, and Zach Franzoni takes the visual metaphor of the puzzle to its extreme. But then, being originally from Detroit, the local artist is fascinated with the ways the urban environment shapes the individual. The shapes of his figures take on the labyrinthine circuits of plumbing conduits or city thoroughfares, or other symbols of power structure that constrain and oppress the underprivileged. For example, if you follow the twists and turns of “Pencilman,” you’ll find that one of the subject’s extremities ends in the sharpened tip of a writing instrument. Another one (“Torch,” detail pictured) holds a torch aloft, like the Statue of Liberty. The body mirrors how social institutions like education and political entities not only must be navigated to advance in society; they constitute the structure of society. Movement appears difficult for these characters, not only set against their surroundings as mazes, by negative space, but also seemingly embedded in their surroundings, boxed in. These paintings, drawings and mixedmedia images are somewhat cartoonish and playful, but also contemplative and tinged with pathos as we witness their desire to escape an imprisonment not of shackles, but of misshapenness. To delve into their dilemma, we must wander through the mazes with them. These identities—in which we might see ourselves—aren’t disrupted so much as distorted, in search of disentanglement. (Brian Staker) Zach Franzoni: Disrupted Identities @ Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts, 641 West North Temple, Suite700. 801-596-0500, through Feb. 10, Gallery Stroll artist reception Jan. 16, 6-9 p.m. ZachFranzoni.com

At its peak, the Topaz Relocation Center housed 8,500 Japanese World War II detainees, and was at that time the fifth largest city in Utah. “There is a psychological and an emotional stress involved when your government labels you an enemy of your country,” says Scotti Hill, curator of When Words Weren’t Enough: Works on Paper From Topaz, 1942-1945. This is the inaugural project of the Topaz Museum in Delta, preceding the large-scale permanent Topaz Museum exhibition of history and artifacts scheduled to open this year. The story of the camp is told in this exhibit through art created in the detention center. In this full-scale concentration camp of 8,500 residents in a radius of just 1 1/2 miles—subject to bitter cold and dust storms, with crude barracks as living quarters—there were also schools, hospitals, libraries, theaters and an art school with important artists producing work that chronicled the realities, anxieties, hopes and dreams of detainees. “It gave people a reason to look forward to life,” Hill says. An estimated five artists are represented in the exhibition. The images capture camp life, traditions and home life, landscapes, abstraction, woodblock prints and more. The conditions in the camp were harsh, but art allowed detainees to process some of their feelings. Practicing the traditions and rituals of their culture and heritage was a reconnection with their humanity. (Ehren Clark) When Words Weren’t Enough: Works on Paper from Topaz, 1942-1945 @ Topaz Museum, 55 W. Main, Delta, 801-915-3646, Jan. 13-Aug. 30, free. TopazMuseum.org

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The enormously popular worldwide tour Walking With Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular visits EnergySolutions Arena this week, with 20 life-size animatronic dinosaurs, including the king of them all, Tyrannosaurus rex. Walking With Dinosaurs originated in the late 1990s, when the BBC was looking to capitalize on the popularity of the film Jurassic Park, and began as a collaboration between scientists and animators to create photorealistic dinosaurs. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh for the BBC and by Avery Brooks in the version broadcast on the Discovery Channel in America, Walking With Dinosaurs became a six-part documentary and eventually a feature film. As complex an undertaking as it is for film, the live show— which debuted in Australia in 2007 and later toured North America, Europe and Asia—is another beast entirely. The Arena Tour requires not only a full creative team for the theatricality of it as performance, but also scientific consultants to ensure the accuracy of the dinosaurs, and a veritable army of technicians to physically operate the dinosaurs, each of which requires three people to operate. That Walking With Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular manages to pull off this balancing act—again, as live theater without the benefit of the editing afforded to film—for a moment is impressive. That it’s sustained a live show with ongoing popularity for as long as it has in this highly cynical age is—for lack of a better word—spectacular. (Danny Bowes) Walking With Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular @ EnergySolutions Arena, 301 W. South Temple, 801-325-7328, Jan. 7-11, various times, $27.50-$65. DinosaurLive.com

The Utah Adventure Journal Speaker Series brings renowned outdoor adventurers of all stripes to Snowbird Resort, where they share their stories and experiences with locals. This week, Will Gadd—a world-record-holder in both ice-climbing and paragliding—will squeeze about 30 different “trips of a lifetime” into just the 60 minutes allotted for his talk. Perhaps best known in the industry for his numerous ice-climbing awards and medals, the Canadian thrillseeker also played host on the Discovery Channel’s series Fearless Planet, about various extreme environments and unique geological structures found on Earth. Known to his friends as “Captain Adventure,” Gadd is still hell-bent on pushing the boundaries of his own sport of mixed climbing, but is also eager to share his enthusiasm for adventure travel in general. He lives by the philosophy that there is always somewhere new to explore, something different to discover and new ways to push yourself to the limit. Having already piloted his paraglider to a world distance record, this past year saw Gadd, along with pilot Gavin McClurg, travel over 650 kilometers of the wild Canadian Rockies. Typical of his style, he couldn’t pick a simple route with support; he and his new traveling buddy went deep into a section of the backcountry that had no road access and a ton of virgin flying territory. Join Gadd as he talks about that experience and 29 others, including flying over the Grand Canyon, caving under the Greenland ice cap and every other nutty adventure he’s dreamed up. (Jacob Stringer) Will Gadd @ Snowbird Ski Resort, Wildflower Lounge, 9385 S. Snowbird Center Drive, Snowbird, 801-933-2222, Jan. 8, 6 p.m., 21+, free. Snowbird.com

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VISUAL ART East Meets West Two local photographers show capture thematic distinctions between their home turf. By Brian Staker comments@cityweekly.net

ometimes the East-West divide isn’t as vast as you might think. In the case of two photographers exhibiting at the Salt Lake City Main Library, the gap is as narrow as a few city blocks across town. Frank Langheinrich has taught at East High School since 1998, and Tom Szalay has taught at West High for several years longer than that. Yet their joint exhibition, Confluence of East & West, is a visual odyssey covering thousands of miles and profound cultural contrasts. Their backgrounds could hardly be more different. Langheinrich emigrated from Germany at a young age, and was imbued with a sense of history from the start. He also had access to a camera and dark room at home, and made use of that

opportunity for hands-on experience even before he was school-age. Szaly grew up in San Diego and picked up photo magazines like National Geographic and Life to pass the time while he dealt with his asthma. The summer before college, he traveled America, documenting his journey with a camera, returning to earn a BFA from Ohio University. Szalay worked as a newspaper staff photographer throughout the 1980s and early ’90s, at the San Diego Union-Tribune and the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, but his sensibilities turned from journalistic work to photo essays. He has been featured in Time magazine and other publications, and his photo essay about Romanian orphans and the Institute for the Unsalvageable was published by NPR As naturally as Langheinrich took to photography, he also wanted to learn the technical aspects. There was no photography class at East High when he attended, although he was their yearbook photographer in 1968. He worked for a local professional photographer, and then took a University of Utah class on the physics of photography” with physics professor Bill Salmon. The photographer he worked for did primarily architectural photos, and architecture features prominently in his work in this show, as artifacts of great historical importance. Before he came to East High, he started the photography program at Rowland Hall.

A&E Both photographers tell captivating stories with their work, sometimes with single images. Langheinrich’s shot of a photographer in “Channeling the Perfect Shot” captures a moment of contemplation before her subject, a young bride, arrives; Szalay’s print “Restaurant Cook, Tecate, Baja California, 1975,” the earliest work in the show, embodies the subject’s simple joy in his surroundings. The contrasts between their styles and subject matter mirror the contrast between east and west in local lore about the two schools: East more upscale and urbane, versus the workingclass West Side neighborhood school. Many of Langheinrich’s works document his travels in Europe, including the Eiffel Tower, a palace of Bavarian Kings, and the Chateau de Fontainebleu in France; his “Time Warp” demonstrates a dramatic technological contrast, in the form of a person texting in front of an 18th-century cathedral. Szalay, on the other hand, tends to feature urban street scenes in various locales, though there is nothing in the show as political as his photo from the “Hands Up Rally” in Denver after the Michael Brown shooting. His portrayal of a janitor sweeping near the Lincoln Memorial is a striking social commentary. “Aside from some stylistic differences, Tom, in my view, takes a much closer view of humanity,” Langheinrich observes. “I much admire how well Tom does this. I tend to ‘paint’ in broader strokes, where my people are part of something greater than themselves.” The exhibition space, with works hung on screens against the window in the “Canteena” in the young-adult section of the downtown library, is a bit unconventional, but these artists’ students have shown there. There’s a unique experience to viewing the work on a sunny morning, as the sun rises over Langheinrich’s almost impossibly steep-angled shot of the Eiffel Tower, and light from outside interplays with the incredible light in their works.

Frank Langheinrich looks up at the Eiffel Tower

This “Confluence” shows how these two sojourners have come full circle, exerting an immense influence on the next generation of local photographers. Both photographers strive to keep their eyes open and keep learning (even from each other) and this both helps keep their work fresh, and provides them a vision to pass on, even in teaching the fundamentals. And both artists employ extraordinary compositiona skills, to different ends. “I stress to my students the importance of studying classical straight photography to help discipline their eyes and broaden their horizons,” Szalay explains. “I also tel them to find passion first, and technique will come. Become a composer.” CW

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Pioneer Theatre Company: Alabama Story In 1958, writer/illustrator Garth Williams published a simple picture book called The Rabbits’ Wedding, about two bunnies in a forest looking to live happily ever after. But it wasn’t quite so simple when, in 1959, the White Citizens Council of Montgomery, Ala., and one Alabama state legislator began a push to have the book banned from local libraries, for one very simple reason: One of the rabbits getting married was white, and the other was black. Kenneth Jones explores this real-life controversy in Alabama Story, receiving its world-premiere production at Pioneer Theatre Company. Jones dives into the stories of many of the key figures involved in the fight, including author Williams and librarian Emily Reed, who refused to bow to the pressure to remove the book from circulation. Learn how a tense moment at the dawn of the civil rights era became defined by a love between two fluffy bunnies that dare not speak its name. (Scott Renshaw) Alabama Story @ Pioneer Theatre Company, 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6961, Jan. 9-24, Mondays-Thursdays 7:30 p.m., Fridays-Saturdays 8 p.m., 2 p.m. Saturday matinees, $25-$44. PioneerTheatre.org

THURSDAY 1.8 PERFORMING ARTS Walking With Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular, EnergySolutions Arena, 301 West South Temple, 801-325-7328 Is He Dead?, Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 801-9849000

I am Comic: A Night of Stand Up, Movie Grille, 2293 Grant Ave., Ogden Jo Koy, Wiseguys Downtown, 50 W. 300 Wouth, Suite 100, Salt Lake City, 801-532-5233

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Tracy Manaster: You Could Be Home By Now, The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-484-9100

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Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-3552787 Wigglesworth Rehearsal, Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-355-2787 Walking With Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular, EnergySolutions Arena, 301 West South Temple, 801-325-7328 Is He Dead?, Hale Centre Theatre Laughing Stock Improv Comedy, Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-355-4628 Alabama Story, Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S 1400 E, Salt Lake City, 801-581-6961 Time Stands Still, Westminster College, 1805 S. 1300 East Jo Koy, Wiseguys Downtown Shawn Paulsen, Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588 Off the Wall Improv, The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 855-944-2787

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Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, Abravanel Hall Walking With Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular, EnergySolutions Arena, 301 West South Temple, 801-325-7328 Is He Dead?, Hale Centre Theatre Laughing Stock Improv Comedy, Off Broadway Theatre Alabama Story, Pioneer Memorial Theatre The Improvables, Playbills Theater, 455 West 1700 South, Clearfield Ring Around the Rose, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-2787 Time Stands Still, Westminster College Jo Koy, Wiseguys Downtown Shawn Paulsen, Wiseguys Ogden

Sunday 1.11 performing arts Walking With Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular, EnergySolutions Arena, 301 West South Temple, 801-325-7328

MONDAY 1.12 PERFORMING ARTS Is He Dead?, Hale Centre Theatre Alabama Story, Pioneer Memorial Theatre

Is He Dead?, Hale Centre Theatre Alabama Story, Pioneer Memorial Theatre

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Local Author Showcase, The King’s English Bookshop

WEDNESDAY 1.14 PERFORMING ARTS Is He Dead?, Hale Centre Theatre Alabama Story, Pioneer Memorial Theatre

VISUAL ART NEW 1.12

Rahul Muherjee: Birds, People and the Global Environment, Salt Lake City Library Corinne & Jack Sweet branch, 455 F St., Salt Lake City, 801-594-8651, Mondays-Saturdays through Feb. 21 Seeing Red: Works from the Wasatch Women Artists’ Collective, Salt Lake City Library Sprague branch, 2131 S. 100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-594-8640, Mondays-Sundays though March 13

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When Words Weren’t Enough: Works on Paper from Topaz, 1942-1945, Topaz Museum, 55 W. Main, Delta, 801-915-3646, through Aug. 3

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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

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There’s another (unaffiliated) Karma I really like: Good Karma, located in the Prospector area of Park City. I’ve reviewed Good Karma in the past, and you can find my very favorable comments in the City Weekly archives. However, you might not be aware that one can purchase Good Karma chef Houman Gohary’s IndianPersian cuisine to go in the form of “Instant Karma” takeout products, available for retail at outlets such as The Market in Park City and at Good Karma restaurant. The last time I visited The Market, Gohary happened to be there stocking his products. A woman came up to him and said, “You make the best hummus I’ve ever tasted!” I wouldn’t argue with that opinion; it’s exceptional hummus. Other takeaway products from Instant Karma include saag with butternut squash and garbanzos, daal with spinach and tomato, gobi aloo masala (cauliflower and potatoes), naan, green chili chutney, cumin-scented basmati rice, aloo channa vindaloo (potatoes and cauliflower with vindaloo sauce), eggplant dip and more. Personally, I just can’t get enough of that killer Karma. CW

served with a mango compote. So, that korma I mentioned earlier: City Weekly dining contr ibutor A ma nda Rock counseled me to try the Karma korma, saying, “My god ... I want to bathe in it.” So I did—order it, that is. And I didn’t want to bathe in it so much as connect some sort of food delivery device to my maw that would pump that killer korma into it on a continual basis. It was divine. We ordered korma paneer ($16), which is a housemade South Asian-style cheese curd with a tofu-like consistency and texture. It was bathed (as Ms. Rock would like to be) in a stupendously delicious and silky korma sauce made with coconut milk, curry spices, ground cashew nuts and golden raisins. Entrees at Karma are prepared, as requested, in mild, medium, hot or extrahot (“at your own risk”) variations, and the medium-spicy korma was spot-on in terms of spice level. I can never resist vindaloo, the traditional curry dish of Goa, when I see it on a menu. Like the korma, the vindaloo at Karma was superb. The tanginess in vindaloo comes from vinegar, which is blended with curry spices and made into a fiery (I ordered mine hot) sauce ladled over tender boneless chicken pieces and potato. I didn’t really like the potato presentation: a single spud sliced in half, lengthwise. I’d have preferred bite-size pieces more evenly cooked. But the vindaloo flavor and the chicken were terrific. The only real disappointment was shrimp biryani ($17). It was basmati rice cooked with golden raisins, cashew nuts, charred onion and spices, and the flavor was fine. But, for 17 bones I’d expect more than the not-so-generous handful of tiny, flavorless shrimp that went into the dish.

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ith a few notable exceptions, Indian/Pakistani eateries in Utah tend to look pretty similar, like they were shaped from the same business plan. The menu offerings tend toward the predictable, as do the standard all-youcan-eat lunch buffets and sitar music that plays softly in the background. But every now and then, an establishment comes along and shatters the mold. Such is the case of Karma Indian Cuisine in Sandy. For starters, Karma, though located in an unremarkable Sandy strip mall, looks like a snazzy restaurant/bar. Walking through Karma’s front doors brings you into a fashionable and beautiful space. The lux interior was designed by Marikh and Mehwish Obaid, daughters of Karma owners Fazel and Roma Obaid, who also operate Aroma restaurant in Draper. Tables and booths are nicely spaced, aren’t crowded or cramped, and modern chandeliers and hanging table lights cast artsy shadows on the walls. There’s also an attractive contemporary bar that serves as the visual centerpiece of the restaurant— again, something I’m not used to seeing in most Indian dining venues. However, as appealing as Karma is to the eye, it’s the cuisine that will keep you coming back. I’ve never especially wanted to live in Sandy ... until I tasted the Karma korma, that is. But more about that in a bit. I was a bit puzzled by the wine service. Karma serves wine and beer, but the wine selection is a tad skimpy and we had brought our own bottle to the restaurant, fully expecting to pay a corkage fee. But instead, we were charged $6 per person for the use of two wineglasses, which showed up on our bill as two Pellegrinos at six bucks apiece. Odd. That, however, was the only service glitch of the evening, which began with an order of stuffed naan. The traditional Indian flatbread is baked in a clay tandoor oven, nicely puffed and charred around the edges, and stuffed, in this case, with minced and lightly spiced lamb ($5). There are also onion, garlic, chicken or saag (spinach) varieties available,. The lamb naan was luscious, and I thought the dipping sauces— raita, mint and tamarind chutney—were outstanding. Other interesting starters include “deconstructed hummus” served with naan ($11) and spicy Bombay “frites” with cilantro and lime ($6), which are

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The result is a creamy sparkler that is dry, fresh and clean-tasting, with pear, peach and citrus notes. The winemakers think of Evolution as an everyday sparkling sipper, and suggest pairing it with fish sticks, chicken nuggets, double-cheese nachos or fancier foods like cedar-plank salmon and chicken Cordon Bleu. From Italy comes Berlucchi Franciacorta Brut ($37). Usually, when we think of Italian sparkling wine, we’re thinking of Prosecco. This wine, however, falls into the luxury Italian sparkling wine category—made in the metodo classico manner, or using the classic methods and techniques of f ine Champagne making. This Chardonnay and Pinot Noir blend spends 18 months fermenting before disgorgement, and is quite elegant and crisp, with pear and apple aromas and citrus notes on the tongue. I like it as an aperitif, all by itself, or with light pasta and seafood dishes. Finally, don’t pass up the chance to sip Landmark Vineyards Overlook Chardonnay 2012 ($27.45). Like most Landmark wines, this one’s a stunner for the price. Serve it with butternut squash ravioli and you’re headed straight to wine pairing heaven. CW

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he Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s holiday season—a time of free-flowing libations—gave me the opportunity to sample a number of new wines. They were either relatively new to our state or just new to me. Here are some winners I’d like to share with you, since they will become part of my regular 2015 libation rotation. One of the best bargains I’ve come across in a while is Concannon Conservancy Petite Sirah, Livermore Valley, which is a lot of good juice for a mere $9.99. Oddly, Concannon sells the same wine for $18 per bottle from its own online store. Deep, rich f lavors of cassis, cherries, plums and coffee, along with subtle cedar notes, characterize

this blend of 98 percent Petite Sirah and 2 percent Syrah. The Conservancy label indicates that the wine’s grape growers have placed their land into a legal trust that protects against urban and other development, forever. A couple of Argentine Malbecs also caught my attention during the recent cold snap. Bodega Septima Malbec ($11.99) has a fancy genealogy: The winery was founded in Mendoza, Argentina, by Spain’s original winemaking dynasty, the Codorníu-Raventós family. The grapes for this wine come from two regions: half from Agrelo and half from the Uco Valley. The former delivers red fruit flavors and aromas, while the latter imparts f loral aromas and a somewhat vegetal characteristic. If you like raspberry jam— perhaps combined with smoky oak—you’ll like Septima Malbec. The other Argentine Malbec I’ve been enjoying is Trapiche Broquel Malbec ($14.99). The wine is made from single estate vineyards that average more than 25 years old. Aged for 15 months in new American and French oak barrels, it’s an intense purple-red color with lots of jammy black fruit flavors, a hint of smoke and notes of cacao and vanilla. It’s really good with grilled steaks and hearty stews. I recently served Trapiche Broquel Malbec with red chile posole and found it to be a

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This recent addition to the local bar scene, from Copper Onion owners Ryan and Colleen Lowder, happens to be a great addition to the dining scene, as well. It’s a full-on, no-nonsense bar, for sure. But it’s also a bar with a full restaurant menu— and we’re not talking nachos and chicken wings. There is something for everybody, from bar snacks like housemade pickles and smoked pork rillettes to mid-size plates of pastas, salads and such, plus large entree-type dishes. One of the best Copper Common menu items is also one of the simplest: chicken croquettes, a mixture of finely minced chicken blended with cremini mushrooms, a little seasoning and some milk and cream, rolled into torpedo shapes, breaded and deep fried. The result is crispy, ridiculously addictive bites of heaven. The service is impeccable, the vibe relaxed and friendly, the beverage selection seductive, and the ambiance delightful. It’s bar food at its best. 111 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-3550543, CopperCommon.com

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This eatery has evolved over the years, beginning as a limited-menu breakfast and lunch spot, then expanding to offer dinner on weekends. Now, you can enjoy breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week, along with brunch on Saturday and Sunday. A premium is put on the use of local products here; there’s not much that isn’t from Utah or its neighboring states of Idaho and Wyoming. The restaurant is unique and inviting, with comfy, clean décor and uncluttered food to match, like the organic roast half-chicken, which is a lesson in roasting perfection: perfectly cooked, with crispy skin and tender, juicy meat marinated in herb, garlic and lemon gremolata, served with a delicious warm salad of red quinoa and arugula. Like everything at Caffe Niche, it’s sensational, down-to-earth cuisine that is creative but not contrived. 779 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-433-3380, CaffeNiche.com

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There is so much to mention about the pleasures at Takashi: the superb service; the excellent beer, sake, wine and cocktail list; the snazzy atmosphere; even the remarkable mushroom panna cotta dessert. There’s not a right or wrong way to “do” Takashi. You can begin with lighter, raw foods like nigiri and sashimi (Takashi often has fish varieties you won’t find anywhere else), and work your way into the richer, cooked ones. For dinner, try an order of gyoza, Japanese-style pork & cabbage dumplings made in-house with clean ginger flavors and served with spicy ponzu. As with the luscious ginger-soy glazed barbecued pork ribs, you don’t have to love raw fish to love Takashi. 18 W. Market St., Salt Lake City, 801-519-9595

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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

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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

Bruges Waffles & Frites

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. 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

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David Oyelowo (center) in Selma complex, layered performance helps make up for the less effective casting in a couple of other significant roles, particularly Roth’s generally miscalculated decision to make Wallace a smug villain. Fortunately, Selma is too densely thoughtful the rest of the time to suffer much from that oversimplification. Given recent racially charged incidents and protests in America, it was perhaps inevitable that Selma would be freighted with contemporary significance—which seems both somewhat unfair, and deeply appropriate. DuVernay’s film is too effective on its own dramatic terms for it to be reduced simply to an allegory for Where We Are Today, yet it’s also tremendously encouraging for anyone who wonders if there’s any hope for change. The film’s tagline proclaims that “one dream can change the world,” but that may actually do Selma a disservice. With every moment that shows King fine-tuning his speeches and sermons, it reminds us that having a dream is only a start. Somewhere along the way, even the most eloquent dreamers have to roll up their sleeves and figure out the best way to do the work. CW

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instead encountering a president with other legislative priorities. Those conversations between King and Johnson form a vital center of Selma, but they’re not the only places where the film wrestles with the best methods for achieving social change, and the timing for employing specific methods. In one crucial scene, King explains to local activists why a specific type of confrontation worked in Birmingham, where the aggressive Public Safety Commissioner “Bull” Connor ran the show, yet was not similarly appropriate in a different place. Later, when King chooses to turn away from a confrontation on the Pettus Bridge—where marchers had earlier faced violent response from law enforcement— King’s colleagues argue over whether they missed an important opportunity. Turbulent events do indeed play a significant role in Selma—DuVernay does not shy away from the beatings and other attacks the police inflict on protesters—yet the film is ultimately more concerned with the decisions that led to those events, and their ripple effect on later decisions. It’s also a fairly powerful portrait of King himself, precisely because it takes him down from the pedestal. Oyelowo’s performance isn’t merely an uncanny impersonation of specific cadences, but a look at someone determined yet f lawed—we see him confronted by his wife, Coretta (Carmen Ejogo), over his extramarital affairs—and who understands his significance as the public face of the civil rights movement, especially when he makes a choice that may have been a mistake. Oyelowo’s

here are those who will observe— and have observed already—that Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice is weird, rambling, fragmented, occasionally over the top and not at all concerned with pulling together all the threads of its sprawling detective narrative. And I nod in agreement at those people, and shrug, because those are features, baby, not bugs. Anderson follows the misadventures of “Doc” Sportello, a private investigator living in the squalid splendor of ca. 1970 Gordita Beach, Calif. When his “ex old lady” Shasta Fay (Katherine Waterston) shows up at his door, claiming that the wealthy real-estate tycoon with whom she’s having an affair may be the target of a murderous conspiracy, Doc jumps on the case—and immediately finds himself entangled with local police, the FBI, white supremacists, the widow of a dead musician and drug smugglers. That’s one messy case all right, and much of the fun involves watching Doc grow increasingly paranoid at the way every person he encounters seems to be part of the same huge mysterious web of intrigue. And Phoenix is magnificent in the role, showing off a zest for physical comedy he’s never really indicated was in his bag of tricks before. Some of the year’s biggest laughs can be found in his reaction to a photo of a baby, or his attempt at a “sneaky” walk. The supporting cast adds enough great work—particularly Josh Brolin as the flat-topped cop who delights in tormenting Doc, and Waterston in a hippiechick spin on the classic femme fatale— to make Inherent Vice a joy even if it were nothing more than a blissed-out comedy riffing on everything from Chinatown to The Big Lebowski. But its madness in fact becomes central to its world-view: both hilarious and kind of tragic, leaving you giggling helplessly at the exact same stuff that might have you crying once the high wears off. CW

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hen we first see Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) in director Ava DuVernay’s riveting drama Selma, it’s in a context where we’re already used to seeing him: He’s delivering a speech. It’s October 1964, and King is about to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, but he’s not yet on a stage in that first scene; he’s rehearsing that speech in a mirror. One of the greatest orators in American history is doing the thing that we don’t always think about when we think about the greatest at anything in history: He’s practicing, doing the unseen work that’s essential before anything amazing can happen. Selma could have been just an inspirational drama about a pivotal historical moment, and it could have been just a hagiographic portrait of King’s efforts at promoting African-American civil rights. But DuVernay (Middle of Nowhere) and her team are interested in doing something much less common, something that echoes the similar success of 2012’s Lincoln. They’ve chosen a single crucial philosophical battle, and shown us all the struggle, negotiation, strategizing, self-doubt, mistakes and intelligence that went into winning it. It inspires not with a tale of victory, but with an instruction manual for how to get there. The narrative focuses on the efforts in 1965 by King, his colleagues in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and other allies to secure voting rights for Southern blacks, whose in-name-only legal franchise was regularly thwarted by onerous state and local regulations. As they plot their strategy on the ground—focusing on Alabama, under the control of proudly racist Gov. George Wallace (Tim Roth), and planning peaceful protest marches from Selma to Montgomery—King also begins meeting with President Lyndon Johnson (Tom Wilkinson), hoping to find an ally but

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CINEMA CLIPS NEW THIS WEEK Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change. Inherent Vice HHHH See review p. 27. Opens Jan. 9 at theaters valleywide. The Search for General Tso HH.5 What is the origin of the name—and the origin of the dish itself— for General Tso’s chicken, one of the more ubiquitous items on America’s Chinese restaurant menus? That doesn’t exactly seem like a topic that could sustain a feature documentary, and indeed for a while director Ian Cheney uses the notion more as an entry point into a history of Chinese-Americans and their restaurants from 1840s California through Nixon’s 1972 visit, and the effect of world events on acceptance and cultural assimilation. But while the bouncy visual style and episodic snippets—like a visit to a fortune-cookie factory, and a trip to a Hunan province monument to General Tso himself—might make for a particularly engaging Food Network special, the material doesn’t hold together, even at just 70 minutes. It all starts to feel like a collection of trivia answers—McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets might have originated from a Chinese menu item!—than a movie with something really compelling to say. There has to be something more insightful a movie can tell us about the American melting pot than that Jews like getting Chinese food on Christmas. Opens Jan. 9 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—Scott Renshaw Selma HHHH See review p. 27. Opens Jan. 9 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)

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Taken 3 [not yet reviewed] Liam Neeson unleashes his particular set of skills yet again. Opens Jan. 9 at theaters valleywide. (R)

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)—SR 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

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 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. Cast-of-digitalthousands 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 standardissue 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)—Danny Bowes

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Unbroken HH.5 Director Angelina Jolieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adaptation of Laura Hillenbrandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nonfiction best-seller about Louis Zamperini (Jack Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connell)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Olympic medalist and World War II POWâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t possibly tell his whole life story, but the parts chosen here suggest someone has missed the point. The story covers Zamperiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s athletic and military careerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; including his ordeals both at sea and in the Japanese campsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;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 Zamperiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a â&#x20AC;&#x153;triumph of the human spiritâ&#x20AC;? story where the triumph of Zamperiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s body is all that matters. (PG-13)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;SR

The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death H.5 The 2012 The Woman in Black watered down its scares because it starred Daniel Radcliffe, and couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to exclude Harry Potter fans from its potential audience. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the sequelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s excuse? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1941, and children evacuated from the London blitz are put up in the same spooky, abandoned seaside house from the original, where poor, cute little orphan Edward (Oaklee Pendergast) becomes a target for the spectral Woman in Black who dwells there. This is all hauntedhouse atmosphereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;screams in the fog, rocking chairs that rock on their own, slithering somethings glimpsed out of the corner of your eyeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that goes nowhere and means nothing. Despite the trappings of wartime, this could be taking place today, or at any almost time. By the time the film informs us that â&#x20AC;&#x153;our own worst enemy is ourselves,â&#x20AC;? weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re only snorting with derision. (PG-13)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;MaryAnn Johanson

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Archer, Banshee, Shameless and (too many) more return this week. Archer Thursday, Jan. 8 (FX) Season Premiere: After last season’s cocaine ’n’ country detour, Sterling Archer (H. Jon Benjamin) and crew are back in the spy game—but no longer as ISIS, since that name’s been, uh, compromised. After he’s done wallowing in “cobra whiskey and lady-boy hookers,” the new father (congrats, Archer and Lana, even though only one of you was aware of it) will be freelancing for the CIA. Other than that, it’s business—and deliciously crass hilarity— as usual. Favorite line of the new season (so far): “Eat a buffet of dicks.”

Banshee Friday, Jan. 9 (Cinemax) Season Premiere: The strangest action-thriller you keep missing opens Season 3 with a one-two punch of bloody violence and steamy sex—Cinemax hasn’t gone completely straight. It doesn’t seem to matter anymore that Banshee, Penn., “sheriff” Lucas Hood (Antony Starr) is a fraud; apparently, only a criminal can dispense justice in this town (while making felonious bank on the side). But it does, and he’ll face as much hell from his girlfriend/ deputy as he will enemies old (the local Amish mob) and new (an Indian tribe out for his blood). How many times do I have to tell you to just watch Banshee already?

Shameless Sunday, Jan. 11 (Showtime) Season Premiere: No longer knockin’ on Heaven’s door, professional alcoholic Frank (William H. Macy) has a new liver (which he wastes no time road-testing), and Fiona (Emmy Rossum) is pushing her own bad-boy limits by juggling four men (including the back-from-the-notdead Jimmy/Steve/Jack, who only counts as one). But of all the troubles the family has in Season 5—and there are plenty, as usual—none are more terrifying than the creeping coffee-shop gentrification of their craphole Chicago ’hood: The Gallaghers vs. Hipsters war is on!

Parks & Recreation Tuesday, Jan. 13 (NBC) Season Premiere: NBC is burning through Parks & Recreation’s final 14 episodes back-to-back on Tuesdays for seven weeks—damn, that’s some cold Jerry Gergich treatment. While the perfect Parks & Rec finale actually aired a year ago (“Ann & Chris,” the one where Rashida Jones and Rob Lowe left the show), at least we’ll have a little more time with these characters—now fast-forwarded to the year 2017, because why not? All I want is for Andy (Chris Pratt) to reunite with MouseRat, or at least for Ron (Nick Offerman) to reunite with the Meat Tornado.

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia Wednesday, Jan. 14 (FXX) Season Premiere: A decade?! It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia is kicking off Season 10?! And renewed for two more?! Suck on that, Friends. In typically random Sunny fashion, the first episode finds the Gang on a flight from Philly to Los Angeles, attempting to break baseball legend Wade Boggs’ record of downing over 50 beers each (save for Mac, who’s acting as “commissioner”) before they reach California. Lessons learned: Boggs’ cross-country chug-a-thon record is a real thing, and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia is still bringing it. Hard.

Shameless (Showtime) Man Seeking Woman Wednesday, Jan. 14 (FXX)

Series Debut: When he splits from his girlfriend, Josh (Jay Baruchel) walks away, followed by a literal raincloud. His first post-breakup blind date is with an actual troll. Man Seeking Woman is full of such absurdist visual gags, punching up what’s essentially just a comedy about a put-upon Jay Baruchel-type looking for love, aided/wildly misdirected by his far-cooler bud (Eric Andre—yeah, a stretch), who drops such romantic wisdom as “Tinder is like Facebook, but it’s just, like, straight to smashing.” Man Seeking Woman is cute with the potential to wear thin fast—proceed with caution.

Also Premiering This Week Portlandia (IFC, Jan. 8); Glee (Fox, Jan. 9); Real Time With Bill Maher (HBO, Jan. 9); Comedy Bang! Bang! (Comedy Central, Jan. 9); Girls, Togetherness, Looking (HBO, Jan. 11); House of Lies, Episodes (Showtime, Jan. 11); Workaholics, Broad City (Comedy Central, Jan. 14). Listen to Bill on Mondays at 8 a.m. on X96 Radio From Hell; weekly on the TV Tan podcast via iTunes and Stitcher.

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and other highlights from Outliers to numerous stages over the summer, including the Twilight Concert Series, where they opened for De La Soul and Rapsody & 9th Wonder. “It’s still crazy to think that it happened,” Harris says. And De La Soul was just one of the big names Better Taste Bureau shared stages with this summer—they also opened for SonReal, Ab-Soul, Juicy J, Biz Markie and Tyga. These shows—in addition to an appearance at the Utah Arts Fest—brought Better Taste Bureau a lot of recognition, but it was at the University of Utah’s Redfest in September that the group saw another effect of their practice regimen come into play. At that show, Bussard says, “I realized that we were a well-oiled machine, because I lost my voice and Ben was able to just keep going while I didn’t have a voice. … It’s just the little things that you pick up after so much practice.” Looking forward, the members of Better Taste Bureau are bringing that work ethic to several new projects, including Brewer’s upcoming collaboration with Luna Lune’s Tessa Barton, a new Better Taste Bureau EP, and a solo EP from Bussard. For the next Better Taste Bureau album, they plan to continue to push the envelope and “expand on what we did with Outliers, but I think that there’s going to be more depth” as far as subject matter, Bussard says. Better Taste Bureau want the new album to have plenty of their signature jumpjump-jump energy, but they also hope to “diversify how we present that energy,” Brewer says. As a rap crew that devotes their time to mastering the parts of their work that maybe aren’t as sexy as spotlights and fame, they have some simple advice for the next Rapper or Rap Group of the Year. “Practice,” Bussard says. Once you’ve put in the hours polishing your craft, he says, getting onstage and performing is “the easy stuff, and you can go on autopilot, and when you can go on autopilot you can realize, ‘How can I spice this show up?’ … My mouth is just moving when I’m on autopilot up on stage because I’ve practiced so much that I can do other things, and so can Ben. Practice is really what will pay off.” CW

efore I played any music, I grabbed the mic and knew I had to hype up the crowd,” says Matt Moriarty, aka DJ Matty Mo, about his performance at 2014’s Twilight Concert Series. “I think it was just verbal diarrhea; I don’t even know what I said.” He’s just being modest. Hyping up crowds might be one of the things DJ Matty Mo does best. The Salt Lake City DJ commands crowds like Vince McMahon at a pay-per-view event, and it’s not uncommon to attend one of his gigs and hear something along the lines of “What’s up, y’all?! This is ya boy, DJ Matty Mo! Let’s get fucked up!” At that point, you can’t help but nod your head and think, “Yeah. OK. Perhaps we should get fucked up.” For Moriarty, performing at Twilight was a massive highlight of the year. After winning the 2014 City Weekly Music Awards (now known as Best of Utah Music) DJ Spin-Off, he threw down a wellrounded set of golden-era rap classics, spanning everything from Das EFX to Mobb Deep in front of one of Utah’s largest concert crowds. But the cherry on top was opening for one of his favorite rap groups: Wu-Tang Clan. “As a New Yorker who grew up on boom-bap hip-hop—that real shit—having that opportunity was mind-blowing,” Moriarty says. “I didn’t sleep for probably a week beforehand. I was trippin’ so hard. I knew how big the crowd would be, and I knew the hype for Wu-Tang. The whole experience was fucked up. It was just so awesome.” Since then, Moriarty has had a busy year. He’s shared stages with Queens rapper Action Bronson, racked up a couple new residencies (The Downstairs on Sundays and Gracie’s on Fridays) and has been steadily building his regular gig, Willie’s Wednesdays at Willie’s Lounge. “I do snowboard contests, special events, different bars and clubs,” Moriarty says. “It’s a lot, I know. But I like to stay pretty busy.” But he’s never too busy to keep upping his game. Between three gigs a week, opening for rappers and shredding lines at Brighton, Moriarty has apparently also found the time to learn about production—a recent photo on his Instagram shows a new MPC surrounded by skulls and keyboards. “That’s something that’s been huge in my life right now,” he says. “A couple months ago, I really got my lab set up. I’ve been learning a lot about music theory, chords and how to play the piano— what sounds good and what doesn’t. It’s been really entertaining. Hopefully it turns into something that is eventually its own lane.” CW

n “Outliers,” from their debut full-length album of the same name, Better Taste Bureau spit the lyrics, “Anything worth having isn’t just gonna happen/ I see you sit down on your couch/ hope it falls in your lap/ and while you’re nappin’ I’m on the track/ rappin’ lyrically lapping.” For emcees Shaun Bussard and Ben Harris and producer Mason Brewer of Better Taste Bureau, that line could serve as a mission statement. Since they were named as City Weekly’s first-ever Rap Group of the Year after winning the City Weekly Music Awards (now known as Best of Utah Music) in February 2014, Better Taste Bureau have only stepped up their hustle, perfecting their already high-energy live shows. Participating in the CWMAs, Bussard says, helped them learn how to turn Better Taste Bureau “into a well-oiled machine.” Only a few months after their CWMA showcase at The Complex, the trio hit the ground running with the release of Outliers, their first album to feature beats and lyrics crafted solely by Better Taste Bureau. Prior to Brewer officially joining the crew full time, Harris and Bussard (previously known as Hurris & Gig) had needed to fill out some of their tracks with beats created by out-of-state producers. But Outliers is all Better Taste Bureau from corner to corner, and an example of the way the three minds in the group seem to work as one when writing music. On Outliers, “you can hear the camaraderie,” Bussard says. “Having [Brewer’s] input on everything made it a really cohesive project.” And now, the songwriting process is “much more collaborative,” Brewer adds. These days, Better Taste Bureau are not only more collaborative but more intense, in a good way—the trio practice frequently in order to keep improving themselves and what they’re giving fans. And they’ve been able to give fans a lot this year. Better Taste Bureau took “Rise (Noose II)”—which was featured in a Mountain Dew commercial—“Lookin’ Back”

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t’s easy to follow a path that’s clearly marked and guides you safely around obstacles. It’s usually the case that many of our metaphorical paths are chosen for us early in life, complete with big bold signs that say “Go this way” or “Don’t go that way.” But sometimes it’s impossible to progress without stepping off the path and striking out in an unfamiliar direction. For Provo violinist and singer-songwriter Alyssa Pyper—now a member of local bands Bat Manors and Quiet House, and the creator of Night Wings, her solo project—the path she’d been following since she was about 9 led to the demanding world of classical violin. Educated through traditional violin-technique systems, Pyper was involved with her high school orchestra and continued studying violin in college. But about a year ago, Pyper took her music to an entirely new, non-classical place, a decision that resulted in a truer expression of her musical talents. Pyper realized in college that she didn’t want to pursue the careers that would typically follow majoring in music, which she did for a short time. “I think I’ll always have a soft spot for classical music, [but] I didn’t want to play in a symphony—that wasn’t interesting to me,” she says. “I didn’t want to teach at a college, and so I didn’t really feel the need to keep majoring in [music].” To discover her creativity and find inspiration for her own songwriting, Pyper “started branching out, listening to more types of music,” she says, including national singer-songwriters Brooke Waggoner and Bryan John Appleby, as well as Florida indie-folk band The Careful Ones. She got her feet wet performing solo at open-mic nights, and eventually began collaborating with local musicians. But quitting a major “that had been my life plan years before even entering college,” she says, wasn’t an easy choice.

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“I was so used to classical music and how that went, it felt really unorthodox to go the direction I was going,” Pyper says. “I think I felt guilty about that for a while, because for a long time, I’d been really planning on doing the classical thing.” But when she began her solo project, later named Night Wings, she discovered newfound freedom as a musician. Equipped with only her violin, loop pedal and voice, Pyper branched into indie-pop, made up of ethereal vocals and richly layered recorded loops of strings. And on her self-titled debut EP, released in September and recorded at Studio Studio Dada in Provo, she also found her lyrical voice, as she was able to discuss the personal shifts that were happening in her life at the time. “Night Wings has mapped my development as an individual and a musician,” Pyper says. “I began writing and performing during a time when I was lacking a real sense of community. Nothing much was making sense to me. … And coming to terms with myself as a queer individual meant facing some difficult questions and decisions. “But it was really quite lovely,” she continues, “because a whole new reality grew from my decision to pursue something different—to do the unorthodox thing and put my classical schooling on the shelf.” For Pyper, that new reality included facing the spotlight on her own for the first time, bringing her years of violin experience to a setting that suits her musical voice—where flawless technique isn’t everything. “As a classical musician, I felt like I was just spending a lot of time in the practice room and never really performing—I was so worried about perfection and certain things like that,” Pyper says. “And where I’m at now, and playing in Bat Manors, Quiet House and Night Wings, I’m just performing a lot and sharing good music that I really love. And I think there’s something to that.” CW

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Green River Ordinance It’s been more than a year since Fort Worth, Texas-based band Green River Ordinance released their EP Chasing Down the Wind, a homey, wistful and toe-tapping blend of folksy rock and twangy country. But in the meantime, the five-piece released The Collection, a record that spans 14 years of Green River Ordinance history and features live and stripped-down version of fan favorites like “Dancing Shoes” and “It Ain’t Love,” minus any frills and editing. Fresh and intimate, The Collection encapsulates everything that makes up a Green River Ordinance live show, as well as showcases their music in its purest form, allowing the mandolin, guitar, banjo and clear lead vocals to shine through. Fans don’t have too long of

The Mother Hips a wait for new original material, though; Green River Ordinance is currently in the studio working on their third full-length, set for release in the fall. Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 7:30 p.m., $20-$69, EcclesCenter.org The Gipsy Connection: Juana Ghani, Folk Hogan, Paul Hitter Influential Romanian visual artist Paul Hitter, credited with co-founding the Balkan expressionism art movement, uses vibrant colors and patterns to create his paintings of cultural icons like Tom Waits, John Lennon and Frida Kahlo. Fittingly, his art has been featured on album covers for bands including national gypsy-punk band Gogol Bordello as well as Salt Lake City’s own gypsy-punk collective Juana Ghani. Hitter usually likes to forgo showing his art in traditional galleries and instead display it at live concerts, for events that combine music with artistic expression. Tonight, he’ll bring some of his work to Bar Deluxe, where Juana Ghani and folk-rock band Folk Hogan will perform, echoing elements of the Balkan culture that influences Hitter’s paintings. A collectable limited-edition Hitter poster titled “Crazy Kid” will be available for purchase at the show, and the proceeds from its sale will go to a foundation that helps Roma children receive an education. Bar Deluxe, 666 S. State, 9 p.m., $7, BarDeluxeSLC.com

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Zola Jesus Talk about getting back to nature to find inspiration. To write the music that would eventually become her latest album, Taiga—her fifth, released in October—Nika Roza Danilova, aka Zola Jesus, left her home in hectic Los Angeles and relocated to the remote forestcovered island of Vashon in the Puget Sound for nine months. There in the untamed boreal forest of the taiga, she connected to an ecosystem she’d become familiar with from growing up in the woods of Wisconsin. The creative result was “an effort to try to make the most massive record I could,” Danilova says in her online bio. And that drive definitely shows; Taiga is a continuation of her dark synth-pop sound, but with clearer vocals and new instrumental power, as heard on the shimmering single “Dangerous Days.” Brooklyn musician Deradoorian will open. The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $15, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com

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ith many of us resolving to support good causes in the new year, City Weekly readers should know that the Utah Pride Center is in need of both volunteers and financial donations. Established in 1992 as the Utah Stonewall Center, the Utah Pride Center (“UPC”) provides information, programs, referrals and services to a diverse LGBTQ community in Utah. Since moving to its new downtown location, UPC has been raising funds to improve the center’s facilities and provide more programming for the community. UPC’s most visible program is the Utah Pride Festival, occurring the first weekend of June every year. The Pride Festival is a three-day event with local and national entertainment, activities for all ages, food, and one of the largest parades in the state. But UPC is about more than parties and parades. “I have been involved with the Pride Center since 2009,” says Chris Wharton, vice president of the Utah Pride Center Board of Directors. “We are about so much more than celebrating the LGBTQ community during the Pride Festival, though that is also important. We provide life-saving services every day to the most vulnerable members of our community, particularly with suicide prevention, counseling, and community support groups.” Wharton also says UPC has been involved in training foster families to better help LGBTQ children in the foster care system.

“Over the years, the Pride Center has transitioned into a place that provides individual empowerment, tools for selfimprovement and wellness, been a source of suicide prevention, and worked to keep families together,” explains Operations Director Sheila Raboy. A registered nonprofit organization, the UPC provides free mental health counseling to the LGBTQ community, free yoga classes, HIV and STI testing the first and third Wednesday of every month, and operates a support line for individuals in crisis. Additionally, the UPC offers youth programing, like supporting gay-straight alliance clubs in high schools, throwing an annual Queer Prom for teens who may not feel comfortable attending their own high school dances, and resources for homeless youth. Raboy says UPC also has a special emphasis on transgender issues, offering programs every night of the week for trans and gender non-conforming youth. “Additionally, we provide meeting space for non-LGBTQ organizations that have similar goals [to UPC], like Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, church groups, and other community strengthening organizations,” she says. “The Pride Center is a true community center. We don’t just help members of the LGBTQ community; we provide resources and assistance for everyone.” One of UPC’s community events is coming up on Thursday, January 15. UPC will be co-sponsoring a screening at Brewvies Cinema Pub at 677 South 200 West. Matt Shepherd Is a Friend of Mine, a documentary about the life and death of a gay man who was the victim of a 1998 hate crime, will be screened at 7:00 p.m. Admission is free. For more information about the screening, visit http://www.utahfilmcenter.org/event/matt-shepard-friend-mine/. To reach the Utah Pride Center, call them at 801-539-8800, email them at thecenter@utahpridecenter.org, check them out on Facebook at https://www. facebook.com/UTpridecenter?ref=ts, or visit them on the web at https://www. utahpridecenter.org/. They are also on Twitter, @utahpridefest. The Utah Pride Center is located at 255 East 400 South, Suite 200, in Salt Lake City. n

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) In his novel Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut describes a character, Ned Lingamon, who “had a penis eight hundred miles long and two hundred and ten miles in diameter, but practically all of it was in the fourth dimension.” If there is any part of you that metaphorically resembles Lingamon, Aries, the coming months will be a favorable time to fix the problem. You finally have sufficient power and wisdom and feistiness to start expressing your latent capacities in practical ways ... to manifest your hidden beauty in a tangible form ... to bring your purely fourthdimensional aspects all the way into the third dimension.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Doug Von Koss leads groups of people in sing-alongs. You don’t have to be an accomplished vocalist to be part of his events, nor is it crucial that you know the lyrics and melodies to a large repertoire of songs. He strives to foster a “perfection-free zone.” I encourage you to dwell in the midst of your own personal perfection-free zone everywhere you go this week, Libra. You need a break from the pressure to be smooth, sleek, and savvy. You have a poetic license to be innocent, loose, and a bit messy. At least temporarily, allow yourself the deep pleasure of ignoring everyone’s expectations and demands.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Novelist E.L. Doctorow says that the art of writing “is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” This realistic yet hopeful assessment is true of many challenges, not just writing. The big picture of what you’re trying to accomplish is often obscure. You wish you had the comfort of knowing exactly what you’re doing every step of the way, but it seems that all you’re allowed to know is the next step. Every now and then, however, you are blessed with an exception to the rule. Suddenly you get a glimpse of the whole story you’re embedded in. It’s like you’re standing on a mountaintop drinking in the vast view of what lies behind you and before you. I suspect that this is one of those times for you, Taurus.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can,” wrote Jack Gilbert in his poem “The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart.” Judging from the current astrological omens, I’d say that you are close to accessing some of those lost vocabularies. You’re more eloquent than usual. You have an enhanced power to find the right words to describe mysterious feelings and subtle thoughts. As a result of your expanded facility with language, you may be able to grasp truths that have been out of reach before now.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “If you have built castles in the air,” said philosopher Henry David Thoreau, “your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” That may seem like GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Most people have numerous items in their closet that they never a backward way to approach the building process: erecting the wear. Is that true for you? Why? Do you think you will eventually top of the structure first, and later the bottom. But I think this come to like them again, even though you don’t now? Are you approach is more likely to work for you than it is for any other hoping that by keeping them around you can avoid feeling sign of the zodiac. And now is an excellent time to attend to such remorse about having wasted money? Do you fantasize that a task. the uncool stuff will come back into fashion? In accordance with the astrological omens, Gemini, I invite you to stage an all-out CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) purge. Admit the truth to yourself about what clothes no longer Songwriter RB Morris wrote a fanciful poem in which he work for you, and get rid of them. While you’re at it, why not imagines a smart mockingbird hearing rock and roll music for the first time. “When Mockingbird first heard rock/ He cocked carry out a similar cleanup in other areas of your life? his head and crapped/ What in the hell is that?/ It sounded like a train wreck/ Someone was screaming/ Someone’s banging CANCER (June 21-July 22) “Nothing was ever created by two men,” wrote John Steinbeck in on garbage cans.” Despite his initial alienation, Mockingbird his novel East of Eden. “There are no good collaborations, whether couldn’t drag himself away. He stayed to listen. Soon he was in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the spellbound. “His blood pounded and rolled.” Next thing you miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend know, Mockingbird and his friends are making raucous music it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in themselves—“all for the love of that joyful noise.” I foresee a the lonely mind of a man.” In my view, this statement is delusional comparable progression for you in the coming weeks, Capricorn. nonsense. And it’s especially inapt for you in the coming weeks. In What initially disturbs you may ultimately excite you—maybe fact, the only success that will have any lasting impact will be the even fulfill you. kind that you instigate in tandem with an ally or allies you respect. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Do you recall the opening scene of Lewis Carroll’s story Alice’s LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) I live in Northern California, where an extended drought led to water Adventures in Wonderland? Alice is sitting outside on a hot day, rationing for much of 2014. But in December, a series of downpours feeling bored, when a white rabbit scurries by. He’s wearing a arrived to replenish the parched landscape. Now bursts of white coat and consulting a watch as he talks to himself. She follows wildflowers have erupted along my favorite hiking trails. They’re him, even when he jumps into a hole in the ground. Her descent called shepherd’s purse. Herbalists say this useful weed can be made takes a long time. On the way down, she passes cupboards and into an ointment that eases pain and heals wounds. I’d like to give bookshelves and other odd sights. Not once does she feel fear. you a metaphorical version of this good stuff. You could use some Instead, she makes careful observations and thinks reasonably support in alleviating the psychic aches and pangs you’re feeling. Any about her unexpected trip. Finally, she lands safely. As you do your personal equivalent of falling down the rabbit hole, ideas about how to get it? Brainstorm. Ask questions. Seek help. Aquarius, be as poised and calm as Alice. Think of it as an adventure, not a crisis, and an adventure it will be. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Actress Uzo Aduba’s formal first name is Uzoamaka. She tells the story about how she wanted to change it when she was a PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) kid. One day she came home and said, “Mommy, can you call You are positively oceanic these days. You are vast and deep, me Zoe?” Her mother asked her why, and she said, “Because restless and boundless, unruly and unstoppable. 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