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Now that same-sex marriage is legal in Utah, couples are stepping out of the shadows— and putting their money in wedding businesses’ coffers.

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Cover Story, p. 15 Holly Welker’s work has also appeared in such venues as The New York Times, Slate, Bitch and The Best American Essays. She has been a supporter of gay marriage since 1992, when she attended her first.

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Letters They Don’t Care About Our Transit

Our mass-transit needs for the next 20 years have already been planned.

During the construction of Trax, FrontRunner, the Sugar House Streetcar and other UTA projects, UTA has systematically gutted our bus services throughout the city.

Recently, the Legislature did an audit of UTA, and it was not very kind to UTA. During the Transportation subcommittee’s open meeting this past fall, UTA officials admitted they “do not have funding for improving current bus services or funding for any new bus services.”

The Wasatch Front Regional Council has completed work on a Regional Transit Plan. The council is made up of elected officials from Weber, Morgan, Davis, Salt Lake and Utah counties, plus top officials from UTA and UDOT. Their plan is a nice piece of work, well-conceived and thought out. The council considered population growth, economic development, travel patterns and a host of other variables and conditions to develop the plan, and it addresses our future mass-transit needs and desires. It will cost us hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars to complete the plan.

Currently, neither UTA nor the Regional Transit Plan addresses Salt Lake City citizens’ needs or desires. Residents of Salt Lake City have made it very clear that we need and want more and better bus services now. We need to address and solve our current transit needs and not have UTA or WFRC’s RTP kick them down the road another 25 years.

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It is a popular opinion that UTA and the Wasatch Front Regional Council do not care about the current needs of residents along the Wasatch Front, Salt Lake Valley or Salt Lake City. If they really cared, the general public would have been more fully involved in the development of the Regional Transit Plan. Case in point, WFRC’s Public Involvement Policy states: “Efforts will be made to invite, by letter or e-mail, diverse groups and persons. Provision will be made for both oral and written comments at the meeting. The meetings will be advertised in area general-circulation newspapers as display advertisements or press releases, e-mail and through the regular mail. The meeting dates and locations will also be posted on the WFRC Internet home page and social media.”

This is what UTA and the WFRC consider “public involvement.” It’s no wonder residents feel that they do not have a voice in their transportation or transit needs and desires.

Don Butterfield Chairman, SLC Citizen Transit Task Force Vice-Chair, Capitol Hill Community Council

COMMENTS FROM THE WEB From “A Matter of Source,” Jan. 8

Monson Sucks!: Brilliant! Could not have been stated any more clearly. Monson is a troll and anybody that reads or listens to his drivel should have his/her head examined.

Joe Theyounger Culbertson: The more people that call

out this pathetic hack, the better. Coverage of the U should be THE beat to have as a journalist here, but it seems like reporters get stonewalled by the lack of media access and resort to speculative drivel like Monson. Even more responsible reporters get sucked into the twitter B.S. Journalism is on life support at the Trib and the D-News died a while ago.

From “Allison Carr: Hoping to Get Chance to Try New MS Treatment,” Jan. 1

AllieBeauBallie: Allison is one of my oldest and dearest friends. I am incredibly proud of her for listening to herself about her choices, which are few at this point. I am so happy that she has been given an option that has some hope within it. She is an amazing human being, and her family needs her here and whole. Even if you don’t donate, please visit the GoFundMe site and read their story.

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OPINION

A Matter of Truth

When I first started freelancing for City Weekly almost 10 years ago, then-editor Ben Fulton pointed out newly installed bulletproof plate glass at the front desk.

Apparently it had been put in place because a paint-wielding critic of the paper had decided to make a frightening point with some red acrylic.

The recent horror and tragedy in Paris involving the executions of cartoonists and other staffers at the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo was a reminder of the vulnerability of media worldwide in the face of extremists who manifest their opposition to freedom of the press with gunfire.

But it also proved a moment of reflection, for me at least, about some of the more subtle forms, pressures and forces that shape the attempts at censorship that journalists face at a community-orientated publication like ours.

Getting death threats has been a rarity at this paper, at least in my years here. After I wrote a cover story on immigration, an outraged reader left a rambling complaint on my voice mail that ended with a threat involving explosives. But his utterances were so shambolic that it was hard to take them seriously.

Another time, I was riding around Colorado City with a former member of the FLDS Church who wanted to visit her mother’s grave. A truck, the driver’s face hidden by a cap and sunglasses, appeared on a hillcrest, then came barreling toward us and forced us off the road. Somehow, though, that seemed less menacing than the member of the pro-FLDS police force who badgered us at the graveside.

I imagine that most journalists at some time hear something along the lines of the whispered threat of one angry developer who muttered, “You want to dance with me?” I took it as a bizarrely coded promise of legal payback if I ventured down an alley

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of investigation he didn’t like. But unless you get your facts wrong—thank God for court documents and audio—such threats typically vanish as soon as they are uttered.

More insidious and perhaps easier to become used to, or even ignore, are the dayto-day realities of reporting in a city and a state where one religious faith and one political party dominates. Such a power base can lead to a form of censorship, as institutions decline to recognize our right to ask questions.

In my more naïve days at this paper many years ago, I tried to cultivate a mid-levelmanagement source at the LDS Church’s downtown headquarters, only to be told with a sympathetic shrug that the folk in the upper echelons wouldn’t touch our paper with an 18-foot pole.

Censorship can also come in the form of unreasonable GRAMA fees—thousands upon thousands of dollars— charged by public institutions such as the Utah Attorney Genera l’s Of f ice, tired of responding to my colleague Eric Peterson’s endless digging for the truth.

The most obvious obstruction to a reporter is the former journalist turned public-relations professional. While some do their best to meet our needs, others are all too aware of their role as gatekeeper.

“I know what you’re looking for, I know what you want,” I recall being told by one journalist-turned-PR, the implication being that I would not get it. And I didn’t.

Jails typically do not recognize journalists as having professional standing in the same way attorneys do. If you wish to interview someone in jail, if you’re lucky, you’ll get to talk to them through glass. If you’re unlucky, you’ll often find yourself having to deal with TV monitors that show a picture of the inmate so small she appears to be on the moon, her voice almost inaudible.

A reporter told me the other day that criminals always lie, but perhaps I’m drawn back to reporting on the prison because in that stripped-down world, sometimes all you have is the truth to defend you. That was certainly the case with our recent cover story on the suicide of inmate Ryan Allison.

I’ve always believed that telling the truth as I understand it is the greatest antidote to bullying and threats, but it doesn’t stop bullets. Charlie Hebdo’s first cover after the killings was a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed holding up a “Je Suis Charlie” sign and shedding a tear, under the title “All is forgiven.”

The work goes on, regardless of how discouraging, disturbing or even violent the reception.

W hat happened in Paris is ultimately about why weeklies like Charlie Hebdo and City Weekly matter. We stand for a difference of opinion, for caring enough to take risks and go the extra mile for a truth we don’t see reflected or r epr e s ent e d elsewhere.

Years ago, I did a story about a victim of child abuse whom no one believed. I later heard from the victim’s mother that at a deposition, an attorney for the LDS Church had asked her daughter why she had gone to City Weekly, of all media in Utah, to tell her story.

Her response is something I try to keep in mind when yet another story goes out into the world of deafening silences: “They tell the truth.”

In the war against free speech, our final protection isn’t a bulletproof vest or a gun. It’s the desire to, no matter what, tell truths that matter and shine light on things others don’t want us to see. CW

Such a power base can lead to a form of censorship, as institutions decline to recognize our right to ask questions.

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When was the last time you got into a fight?

Jeremiah Smith: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” —Sun Tzu

Scott Renshaw: It was probably something on Twitter. Probably something stupid.

But I repeat myself.

Jeff Chipian: The year was 2001. After power-bombing my brother into the table, I was able to pin him for the ol’ 1-2-3. I’ve been Back yard Wrestling Champion ever since, and still grounded from using the ladder.

Eric S. Peterson: About a week ago, in a friendly bout of sparring. Ostensibly, it was about demonstrating some kung-fu skills with a teacher, but mostly it was just me trying to not get completely demolished for three agonizing minutes. No regrets though: I now appreciate that there is a certain kind of enlightenment that one can only attain from a healthy ass-kicking.

Pete Saltas: Ever heard of the Bourbon Street Brawlers? Circa 2009, Utah vs.

Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. We rolled tide on and off the field that night (and the night before). #UteNation Rachel Piper: I’m not a fan of arguing, so I think the last fight I had was probably with Derek Carlisle, over something silly he did with “graphic design.” Or maybe with Stephen Dark, over some words that I wanted to cut out of a story.

But wait, I think it was with Susan Kruithof, over a headline she thought was dumb (she was clearly wrong ).

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Let’s not conjure up Bill de Blasio right now; he’s having enough trouble of his own with the New York City Police Department. Let’s focus on us, the Utahns who are so fearful of anything or anyone out of the ordinary that the go-to is 911. This is what happened in the Avenues with the shovel-wielding guy who’s now dead. The police officer is being treated for broken bones, and all of Salt Lake is backseat quarterbacking who was right and what should have happened. For sure, the mayor, the city council and the police chief need to take this seriously and dialogue about how to “de-escalate” these situations.

Meanwhile, Utahns need to confront their own fears and learn to assess what a real threat is. Imminent danger is a good reason. Suspicious activity is tougher to figure, but not impossible. It just requires a little thinking.

Air Care The same week that brought protests over police shootings also brought a call for another clean-air rally. Aptly named Clean Air, No Excuses, the rally comes each January when smog sets into the valley with a relentless permanency.

In 2014, some 5,000 people met at the Capitol steps to call for cleaner air measures, and damn it, they meant it. Too bad the measures were weak and relatively ineffective. Gov. Gary Herbert continues to call for voluntary actions, whether it’s not idling or burning wood. Because Utah is so proud of its economic standing, there is no talk of restricting emissions from our productive petroleum plants. Utah apparently has plenty of money to move a prison, but none to help clean up industry. So, maybe this year’s rally will have a better outcome— if all is not forgotten in February.

God Alert You kind of expect this from the Deseret News, but you have to wonder about The Salt Lake Tribune.

Congress has been in session since Jan. 6, but the Trib, with an article titled “Washington Insight,” thinks it’s time to tell us how many Mormons are on the Hill. Spoiler alert: 16, one more than 2014. And apparently, they’ve been carrying on as a little LDS caucus, what with praying and stuff, and will continue in that vein. Like the Catholics, the Mormons are overrepresented in Congress compared to their makeup in the general population. Well, all this was reported on a Sunday, so maybe church was a legitimate news item. It just wasn’t very interesting.

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Erica Hammon never pictured herself becoming a teacher. Growing up, she didn’t do particularly well in school, and faced obstacles like being diagnosed with diabetes and Graves’ disease. Later, she found herself back in a classroom even though she swore she would never set foot in a classroom again. With some prodding, she became the first in her family to go to college—all while raising a family as well. Now a teacher, she wants to spread her message of “If I can go to college, you can go to college” to students who need the inspiration. Her book, Top Ten Strategies for Student Engagement, aims to help teachers inspire and educate their students who need the push, as Hammon did. The book can be purchased on her website, LoosListenLearnBooks.com, or from Barnes & Noble—Hammon will be giving a presentation on her strategies at the Sugar House location (1104 E. 2100 South, 801-463-2610) on Saturday, Jan. 17, at 2 p.m., with a book-signing to follow.

Why did you write a book for teachers?

In college, I read this study that said in classrooms, the average is only 17 percent actual learning time, and I was floored. I said, “That is not going to happen in my classroom.”

Because of that study, I was trying to fight back. We’ve got to get our kids engaged in the classroom more, and more engaged means more learning time, because engagement correlates with that.

I started writing down the things that I had found that worked really well with the students in my classroom and things I’ve learned from other teachers as well. There are so many good teachers out there, and so many who don’t have the skills and tools that they need to keep their students engaged. It’s a huge responsibility to be a teacher, to have these 25 to 30 kids every day and you’re responsible for their everything: nurse, mom, educator, big brother, sometimes counselor, sometimes psychologist. I said, “I’m not going to let that happen in my classroom, where my students aren’t engaged at least 80 percent to 90 percent of the time,” so I started writing down the strategies that turned into 10 that I thought were really important.

How have you accomplished all this? Are you a superhero?

I am not. I’m a normal, everyday person. Last February, I was watching The Secret because, you know, life is tough for everybody in one way or another. In The Secret, it says, “Whatever the mind can conceive, it can achieve,” and I believe that. I try to tell my students that every day. One of my goals at the beginning of the year was to speak at UEA, and they accepted me and I did speak at UEA this year. I think my biggest thing is that I have shown my students that whatever the mind can conceive, it can achieve. It’s been a hard year; it’s been grueling. But I can show my students that anything they can put their mind to, they can do.

Why should teachers pick up your book?

The book is a toolbox for teachers. It’s 10 strategies that you can read in an hour and a half. If you give me a thick teacher book, I’m going put it on my shelf. I’m not going to read it until I retire. But if you give me something I can use quickly and effectively, I’m going to read it. That’s what my book is. You have 10 strategies you can use tomorrow without any extra preparation. The strategies are quick and easy, and at the end of each chapter, there is a shortened procedure written down. Teachers live by procedures.

What is a strategy people that can use in their daily life to engage others, not just students?

Encouragement. Encourage each other. People can make a huge difference just by the way they treat others. Even with something as small as a smile or a small compliment, it can really encourage others. I think that students often come to school with a lot of baggage.

Even having someone say “Good morning” with a smile is a great thing for them. To have someone say, “You can do it, you’re smart, you can get through this, you can overcome this,” is really helpful.

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Did the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico really cause any lasting environmental damage?

Or did the environment just kind of take it in stride?

—Jim Huff

You know the old saying: Don’t cry over spilled oil—at least not if you’re getting billions in damages to make up for it.

These things are bound to happen, right?

A couple of CEOs get fired, the president shakes his head disappointedly, and we’re a little short on bayou shrimp for a year or so. But before long, someone drops a bomb on someone else, or someone new turns up naked on the cover of something. Twentyeight-plus billion in clean-up costs later, and we can’t help but turn our eyes to more pressing matters.

In all honesty, though, you ask a fair question. Two hundred million gallons of crude oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico over the three months following the Deepwater Horizon explosion in April 2010—19 times the official volume figure for the Exxon Valdez spill of 1989—and then another 2 million gallons of chemical dispersants were pumped in to break up the slicks. President Obama called it a “potentially unprecedented environmental disaster.” Despite all this, the surfacelevel answer is that things are better than one might have feared: humans, sea creatures and BP alike have all seemingly recovered. The entire state of Louisiana wasn’t classified as a biohazard, and not all the dolphins died.

But the consequences aren’t entirely dismissible, and the worst damage is often the hardest to quantify. It’s only been 4 1/2 years, after all; some effects might not show up for decades.

Part of the reason things look so peachy is that the spill originated 50 miles offshore— oil didn’t penetrate much more than a few yards past the shoreline. What oil did manage to get that far was extensively weathered, meaning it had lost most of its volatile organic hydrocarbons, and with them a lot of capacity for damage. As a result, marine life closer to shore fared surprisingly well. Crab and shrimp were found to have three times as many deep lesions as before the spill, but fortunately, they have an admirable reproductive instinct and their numbers rebounded to pre-spill levels very quickly. Fish were discovered with similar lesions, but these decreased by more than half after two years.

But, much as when the dog pees on your kid’s bed instead of yours, just because the damage isn’t front and center doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Promising population totals notwithstanding, there’s plenty of evidence to keep both the environmentalists and the fishing industry awake at night.

Various heavy metals contained in oil from the spill have been accumulating in the flesh of the gulf’s sperm whales ever since.

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Among these, nickel and chromium in particular are carcinogenic (some dispersant ingredients may be, too), which could lead to mutations and resulting long-term impact on the ecosystem. Fish near the site have shown evidence of DNA damage, and studies suggest exposure to oil-spill hydrocarbons would likely cause heart defects in developing tuna, swordfish and other large predator fish, limiting their ability to hunt for food.

Something like 200,000 to 700,000 birds have died thus far following contact with oil; it’ll probably wind up being a million eventually. Dispersant chemicals were found in pelican eggs in Minnesota (where the birds migrate) two years after the spill. And finally, the mammals: While only around 100 whale and dolphin carcasses were found in the months immediately following the spill, estimated historical carcass-to-death ratios suggest that 50 times as many may actually have died. Dolphins in the areas hit hardest with oil showed numerous health problems, with nearly half expected to die.

The impact on human mammals isn’t so clear either. Leaving aside the 11 oil-rig workers killed on the day of the explosion, a study of 117 people involved in the cleanup found changes in their blood chemistry and levels of liver enzymes; they also reported a variety of chronic conditions like headaches, rashes and shortness of breath. Health surveys showed that alcohol and illegal drug use increased among residents in affected counties, with the most psychological stress on fishers and coastal dwellers. Overall, however, spill-specific results were difficult to distinguish from the lingering traumatic effects of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It’s been a tough decade on the Gulf Coast.

If you’re still inclined to conclude that Obama’s a dirty liar (The environment’s fine! And these shrimp are terrific!), you should consider this: The 2010 spill was enormous, but only 8 percent of the total oil making its way into North American oceans each year comes from pipeline spills. The fact the environment recovered to the extent that it did is impressive, but this spill was just one of many, many factors contributing to the ongoing damage of the marine habitat. Maybe in 20 years, our waters will be full of three-eyed mutant fish, maybe not. We can predict with some confidence that however apocalyptic the future scenario, the Deepwater Horizon spill was probably a contributor.

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Follow that with a silent and nonviolent demonstration against racial violence and injustice at the University of Utah.

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Utah’s Big History in One Meeting The Board of State History meets only every few months, so take advantage of checking out what they do before the snow melts. Even if you don’t have a horse in the race, it should be interesting to listen to the board chatter about whether or not the Western Macaroni Manufacturing Company Factory—built in 1900 at 244 S. 500 West in Salt Lake City—should be placed on the National Register of Historical Places. Six other sites around the state will also be discussed. Rio Grande Depot Board Room, 300 S. Rio Grande St., Jan. 15, 12:15 p.m., Heritage.Utah.gov/history

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5. Utah Jazz: The Road to the NBA Championship

4. My Wife’s on Tinder But Everything’s Fine, Just Fine

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At this four-hour legislative boot camp hosted by the Libertas Institute, lobbyists, legislators and activists will give regular citizens a tutorial on how the legislative process works. If learning about how bills make their way into legislators’ brains, who writes them, how you can change them and how you can make an impact during the Legislature’s breakneck 45-day session isn’t enough, then rest assured that lunch is provided. The boot camp is free, but all attendees are required to RSVP. Utah Capitol, 350 N. State, Room 445, Jan. 17, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., visit http://citywk. ly/1svwEL9 to RSVP

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March in solidarity with University of Utah students and faculty against racial violence and injustice. The demonstration is silent and nonviolent, so don’t attend if you want to throw a brick through the library window. The march starts at the College of Social Work, winds past the student union building, continues on to the library plaza and circles back to the College of Social Work. The marches on Jan. 15 and 20 are the third and fourth in a four-part protest. University of Utah College of Social Work, 395 S. 1500 East, Jan. 15 and 20, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

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Federal prosecutor not afraid to flex power when it comes to beer, family.

Stephen Dark sdark@cityweekly.net @stephenpdark On Feb. 22, 2014, a young woman accompanied by a 20-year-old attempted to buy beer at a Smith’s in West Jordan. Manager Flavio Jauregui declined to sell her the beer because, according to a police report, “based on his training, he asks both people for their identification because juveniles are known to come in with an adult to buy beer for them.”

The young male did not have I.D., and the young woman returned solo to buy the beer at the self-checkout aisle, only to be admonished by Jauregui.

Shortly after she left, a man arrived at the store and told Jauregui that he was the two’s father, then proceeded to cause what a West Jordan police report describes as a “scene” that went on for at least 20 minutes and was so disturbing for staff and onlookers that “the people in the store [were] concerned for their safety.” The man loudly and repeatedly proclaimed himself a federal prosecutor, according to the police report, and witnesses questioned that assertion to police because of the man’s threatening behavior.

The West Jordan Police Department screened a charge of disorderly conduct with West Jordan’s prosecutor’s office because the screaming man had been “repeatedly told to stop and calm down

by Smith’s Food Store employees,” an officer wrote.

West Jordan conf licted it out, because, says city attorney Stuart Williams, a prosecutor at the office had a prior professional relationship with the man—who, as it turned out, was Assistant U.S. Attorney Carlos A. Esqueda, a former violent-crimes prosecutor at the Salt Lake District Attorney’s Office.

South Jordan took the Smith’s case and, spokeswoman Tina Brown says, the charge was declined in April 2014 because “the facts and evidence didn’t rise to a criminal offense.”

Esqueda and his boss, U.S. Attorney Carlie Christensen, declined an interview request made by City Weekly.

Former U.S. Attorney Brett Tolman, now a partner at the law firm Ray Quinney & Nebeker, reviewed the

L AW & O R D E R police reports at City Weekly’s request.

“Anybody in a public position has to be careful and has to recognize they may be held to a higher standard,” Tolman says. “That higher standard, whether you like it or not, is there for a reason,” he says, namely that the public “maintain confidence in those tasked with enforcing the law.”

In the case of the incident at Smith’s, Esqueda repeatedly identifying himself as a federal prosecutor only led to witnesses questioning his veracity, according to the police report.

Smith’s manager Jauregui wrote in his statement that the finger-wagging, yelling Esqueda “told me multiple times that he is a federal prosecutor and that I violated his daughter’s civil rights by refusing the sale.”

Esqueda was told by the store’s lossprevention officer to leave but continued to badger Jauregui and inform everyone in the store of his federal authority, according to the police report. Esqueda threatened to sue Smith’s over refusing to sell beer to his daughter, informing its employees that he knew “the law and the constitution,” adding “This is not over,” before finally leaving, according to the police report.

It wasn’t the first time WJPD was alerted to a situation involving Esqueda.

In 2008, an encounter at a family party between Esqueda and his wife’s cousin, Paul Fedel, escalated to the point of involving not only WJPD, but also the U.S. Marshal’s office, the FBI and the Colorado U.S. Attorney’s office.

Fedel had gone to prison in 2001 for aggravated assault. According to an FBI-conducted interview relating to the 2008 fight, he had blamed Esqueda, then working at the Salt Lake District Attorney’s Office, for his conviction.

Fedel’s attorney did not return a call seeking comment.

Fedel was released in 2005 and attended a family reunion a year later where he “was friendly with everyone,” a relative told the police two years later, but when he tried to talk to Esqueda, his cousin’s husband did not want him to talk to him or Esqueda’s family “because he is a convicted felon.”

In 2008, at a family barbecue celebrating the Fourth of July, Fedel again approached Esqueda and “asked if he had a problem,” according to a police report. “Carlos said he did not want to speak to him.”

Then, according to Esqueda’s statement to the police, as he walked away, Fedel “hit me in the left side of face giving me a bloody nose and cut lip.”

According to the FBI report, Fedel said that he had hit Esqueda with a piece of chocolate cake.

Esqueda went after Fedel, who fell and broke his ankle. “I am a federal prosecutor—he knows this and

Don’t you know who I am ?

confronted me,” Esqueda wrote in his police statement.

After the fight, Fedel told Esqueda they were even. “No, you’re going back to prison,” Esqueda said, according to his interview with the FBI. Along with WJPD being summoned, federal U.S. Marshals were also called, although none of the numerous reports taken at the barbecue identified who called them. Among the U.S Marshals’ duties are protecting federal employees of the court system, including prosecutors.

City Weekly requested comment from the U.S. Marshals’ Utah office on its involvement in the incident, but received no response.

U.S. Marshal Jim Phelps and Adult Probation and Parole picked up Fedel, his leg in a cast, on an Adult Probation & Parole hold for 72 hours the day after.

Those 72 hours became months in prison.

The Utah U.S. Attorney’s Office recused itself from prosecuting Fedel, and asked that the charge of assault on a federal prosecutor be handled by the

Colorado U.S Attorney’s Office, which declined to pursue the charge because of insufficient evidence that the assault was related to Esqueda’s job. Fedel was instead charged with domestic violence by the West Jordan city attorney.

Fedel pleaded guilty in November 2008 in West Jordan Justice Court, given “credit for time served,” according to the court docket, and was released from prison in January 2009.

In 2013, he briefly went to jail after a domestic-violence conviction not relating to Esqueda. He is currently out on parole dating back to the original 2001 conviction.

As a federal prosecutor, Esqueda’s power of authority provides him with significant resources to defend himself against a relative he believed to have assaulted him. But one person he may not have the upper hand with is his own daughter, when it comes to future alcohol runs. She was heard on her phone as she departed the store telling her parents, a witness wrote, “they had to buy their own beer.” CW

NEWS City Hall Alliance Bikeshare program’s hire of mayor’s son raises conflictof-interest concerns.

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by the council, and points out the mayor’s decision to not fund the program since his son’s hire.

“Mayor Becker is very sensitive to issues of real or perceived conflict of interest and has certainly taken specific action to ensure his separation on this issue,” Raymond says.

But Garrott sees a pattern going back to 2008, when Ralph chose his brother to spearhead a taskforce on advancing the Broadway-style theater project downtown, and to spring 2014, when Becker nominated Matt Lyon, then executive director of the Utah State Democratic Party—and Ralph’s former campaign manager—to the Salt Lake Planning Commission.

“It is noxious to the relationship of government and its citizens if the perception of government cronyism exists,” Garrott says, adding, “And in the case of government ethics, perception is reality.” CW

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ism involved in his hire, but that it was his previous work with Salt Lake County, especially in developing the county’s Bicycle Best Practices document, that got him the job.

“I felt like I worked hard to get into my position and was hired because of my background and experience,” Will says.

Bolte says that the funding that has come from the city has gone toward only bikes and stations—not staff salaries or operational expenses, which come through corporate sponsorships.

And when Will took the job in February 2014, the Mayor’s Office decided to not include funding for GreenBike in the mayor’s budget for the first time since the start of the program, because of the potential conflict.

“It would be the worst quid pro quo in the world if [Becker] was, like, ‘Hire my son and I promise I won’t fund you anymore,’ ” Bolte says.

In December 2014, Salt Lake Cit y Councilman Stan Penfold did make an amendment to the mayor’s budget to fund $150,000 to the prog ra m through the city.

Penfold enjoys a strong relationship with the mayor, having received from Becker one of his largest donations of $1,500 in the 2013 election. Penfold’s Avenues district is also where Becker built his political base, back when he represented the area as a member of the Legislature.

Penfold says he knew of Will’s employment by the bike-share program, but didn’t consult with, nor was consulted by, the mayor about the program, and pushed for the funding only because of the success of the program.

“Every time we add stations and expand the diameter of the service area, we get better ridership,” Penfold says.

Mathis says there was no prodding from the mayor to the council to fund the bike program.

For Garrott, there are “troubling” implications about this hire that extend beyond the actual bike-share program, since the Downtown Alliance is also contracted through the mayor’s budget to collect a property assessment to do its promotion of downtown.

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Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker has built a reputation on bikes: riding one wherever he goes, naming 2013 the Year of the Bike and promoting the installation of additional bike lanes around the city.

And he’s apparently passed that love down to his son Will, who was hired in early 2014 as program manager of the nonprofit GreenBike bike-share program.

Jason Mathis, the executive director of the Downtown Alliance, says he understands the possible conf lict of interest arising from the A lliance’s aff iliated nonprofit hiring Will Becker, given the amount of funding the program receives from the city—approximately $650,000 since 2013.

But Mathis also says that shouldn’t get in the way of hiring the right candidate for the job, no matter who their daddy is.

“It would be bullshit to hire someone because of who they’re related to, and it would also be bullshit to not hire the best candidate just because of who they’re related to,” Mathis says. “And Will was, and still is, far and away the best candidate.”

But hiring a good candidate to work for a good program can still be a bad decision, according to District 4 Councilman Luke Garrott, who is challenging Becker in this year’s mayoral election.

Perceptions of favoritism, Garrott says, gradually erode the public’s trust. “If government is just another way to pass out favors, it’s really harmful to people who care about good government,” he says.

The GreenBike program, a separate but partnering organization with the Downtown Alliance, offers green bicycles for short-term rent to encourage people to burn more calories and fewer fossil fuels in getting around the capital city.

Since 2013, more than 60 percent of the roughly $1 million the program has raised came from the city, funding the construction of 20 bike stations. In 2014, the program added 70 bikes, for a total of 150 bikes. 2014 also saw a 162 percent increase in ridership.

In December 2013, GreenBike’s former program manager stepped down, and within two months, Will Becker was hired on at a salary of $42,000 a year, a $5,000 increase from his predecessor.

GreenBike’s director, Ben Bolte, says that the increase in the salary was necessary given the demands of the position.

Will Becker says there was no favorit-

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Curses, Foiled Again After police linked Ralik Hansen, 28, to a smash & grab robbery at a New York City jewelry store in New York City, he eluded them for seven months, until a FedEx delivery driver knocked on the door of his Brooklyn home. Thinking it was the police, Hansen hid under the couch, FBI investigators said, but his gun accidentally fired, killing him. (New York’s WCBS-TV) n A couple told police in Lakewood, Wash., that they returned from a holiday trip to find someone had stolen all their furniture and replaced it with a beat-up recliner, a TV stand, empty beer bottles and pizza boxes. Police also found a pizza receipt made out to Steven Slavens, 19, who lives in the apartment next door, and a traffic citation for Eladio Lozada-Berg, 19, his friend. Slavens admitted taking the furniture but insisted that he thought the couple had moved and left it behind on purpose, so he called Lozada-Berg to help him claim it. (Tacoma’s The News Tribune)

Can We All Get Along?

When Guns Are Outlawed Police charged David Anderson Hampton Jr., 26, with using a cardboard roll of wrapping paper to choke his wife at their home in St. Peters, Mo. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) n Authorities said Jeanine Fey, 53, attacked her mother with a stapler at the victim’s home in Washtenaw County, Mich.

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Circumventing Nature British social media accused London authorities of wasting money by paying workers to climb ladders and pull leaves from 145 trees in autumn at sites around the Houses of Parliament instead of letting nature take its course. “If we waited for the leaves to fall off, it would waste a lot of time raking them up,” a House of Commons official explained. “It is more efficient.”

(Britain’s The Express)

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An Air France passenger jet traveling from the Dominican Republic to Paris with 142 passengers and 12 crew made an emergency landing at Ireland’s Shannon Airport after a fire alarm sounded in the forward cargo hold. Although the onboard extinguishers had activated, emergency workers found no fire on board and blamed the alarm on heat generated by a shipment of chili peppers. (The Irish Times)

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Cold-War Update Separate Defense Department studies concluded that the Pentagon needs to spend billions of dollars over the next five years to fix “systemic problems across the nuclear enterprise.”

Emergency repairs to the Air Force’s and Navy’s aging nuclear weapons infrastructure are necessary because neglect has caused their decay. For example, investigators found crews maintaining the nation’s 450 intercontinental ballistic missiles had only one wrench able to attach nuclear warheads, so they were required to share it. “They started FedExing the one tool” to three bases

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“We didn’t want to hang up the sign in the first place and lead

people to think we Chinese look down upon ourselves,” a salesperson at the store on Yabao Road said. “But some Chinese customers are too annoying.” The store sells chiefly to foreigners. (South China Morning Post)

BY ROL AND SWEET spread across the country, one official said, because no one had checked in years “to see if new tools were being made.” (The New York Times)

Suspicions Confirmed

“Men are idiots, and idiots do stupid things,” concludes a British study that surveyed winners of the Darwin Awards (DarwinAwards.com) over the past 20 years.

It found 88.7 percent were male. To win an award, individuals “must eliminate themselves from the gene pool in such an idiotic manner that their action ensures one less idiot will survive.”

Examples cited by the five researchers, all men, include a thief trying to steal an elevator cable by unbolting it while standing in the elevator, causing his death when it plummeted to the ground; a man who hitched a shopping cart to the back of a train trying to get a free ride home and was dragged two miles to his death; and the terrorist who mailed a letter bomb and when it was returned for insufficient postage, opened it. The study suggests drinking is often a contributing factor, supporting “the hypothesis that alcohol makes men feel ‘bulletproof.’” (British Medical Journal) Compiled from the press reports by Roland Sweet. Authentication on demand.

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Marriage equality also means even bigger money for Utah’s wedding business.

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f the names Derek Kitchen and Moudi Sbeity sound familiar, it’s because they’ve turned up in both Utah and national news: Kitchen is the named plaintiff in Kitchen v. Herbert, the lawsuit filed in 2013 by three couples challenging Utah’s ban on gay marriage, which, nearly 10 years after its passing, was declared unconstitutional by Judge Robert J. Shelby of the U.S. District Court on Dec. 20, 2013.

Because the ruling was immediately appealed, Kitchen and Sbeity chose to wait until the lawsuit had made its way through the judicial system before marrying. Not until Oct. 6, 2014, when the Supreme Court declined to hear further appeals and left intact rulings in favor of the plaintiffs, were Kitchen and Sbeity free to begin making arrangements for their wedding.

Kitchen said via e-mail that he “didn’t realize how much work went into” planning a wedding— though arrangements for this wedding might involve extra effort, given that it will be public, a celebration not only of Kitchen and Sbeity’s vows but also of the victory of marriage equality in Utah.

“So many people have been engaged in our journey of bringing marriage equality to Utah and the six states in the 10th Circuit, and we want them to feel that they are welcome to celebrate with us,” Kitchen said.

The wedding’s theme will be a farmers market, “since that’s where we spend most of our time in the summer and where so many of our friends find us,” Kitchen said, and they’ll rely on local vendors for all elements of the wedding. “Moudi and I are passionate about Salt Lake City, and we’re proud to incorporate as much of this city as possible for our big day,” Kitchen said.

Not all gay marriages since its legalization have been so elaborate. The first same-sex couple to wed legally in Utah was Seth Anderson and Michael Ferguson, who headed to the Salt Lake County Government Center on Dec. 20, 2013, as soon as they heard about the ruling—before county clerks had been informed.

“Twitter announced our wedding,” Anderson says. He tweeted the experience, from the moment the district attorney walked in for a rushed meeting with the clerk, to the notification that they could be issued a license, to enlisting people to perform and witness the ceremony. At 3:12 p.m., he tweeted a cell-phone photo of himself with Ferguson and the caption, “Me and my new husband!! My polygamous Mormon great grandparents would be so proud!”

There was no wedding photographer tailing the couple, taking photos of the moment or staging poses. Instead, there were crowds of people—members of the media, other couples— snapping photos with cell phones or news cameras.

“While I do think marriage is a community event and should be shared with family and friends, the situation in Utah made the ability to plan, prepare, invite impossible, which underscores just how second-class LGBT people have been,” Anderson says.

But when they got notice that same-sex marriage was suddenly legal in Utah, “what mattered

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“Usually we start out with, ‘Who are you marrying?’ When we’re in the dressing room, that’s what we ask them. I’ve had girls just kind of beat around the bush and try not to say anything, and then eventually she’ll say, ‘Oh, she’s a girl.’ And I’m always like, ‘That’s great!’”

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was that the state (begrudgingly) recognized our marriage and all the rights that came with it. At that precise moment, that was all that mattered to us.”

Duane and Brian Jennings were legally married at the Salt Lake County Government Center on Dec. 23, 2013. They knew they wanted some sort of reception but held off because of uncertainties about whether the state would recognize the marriages, especially after Gov. Gary Herbert announced in January 2014 that it would not.

Now that the state has been forced to recognize their marriage, “we know we want to wait for the right moment” to have a reception, Brian says, “and then we want as much of our family as we can get.”

“How many of them will actually come, we don’t know,” Duane adds.

The couple plans to have a full reception because recognition of their marriage “needs to be public.”

“It’s for the sake of family, honestly,” Brian says.

“Whether people thought we were married, we treated it as a marriage.” A reception, not just the ceremony at the courthouse, provides recognition of that.

And between the extremes of a pared-down, spurof-the-moment ceremony and a meticulously planned public event lies an enormous variety of same-sex weddings and commitment ceremonies.

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While the opportunity to make money might not be the primary reason to establish marriage equality, doing the right thing for same-sex couples is nonetheless lucrative. Marriage in the United States is not just an institution but an industry, worth over $50 billion a year, according to the market-research firm IBISWorld.

Even the smallest wedding ceremony involves planning and spending, and larger weddings involve a significant outlay: catering, venue rental, photography, rehearsal dinners, flowers, elegant new suits, manicures and haircuts for wedding participants and guests, as well as things like tips to hotel and restaurant staff from out-of-town guests.

The Williams Institute, a think tank at the University of California at Los Angeles focused on LGBT issues, looked at spending on gay marriages in states where it was legal and assessed its potential

economic impact on states without it. Its April 2014 report for Utah, deliberately cautious in its estimates given that there was a stay on same-sex marriages in place, still projected that “total spending on wedding arrangements and tourism by resident same-sex couples and their guests would add an estimated $15.5 million to the state and local economy of Utah over the course of three years, with a $9.9 million boost in the first year alone.” Furthermore, all that spending “would likely add $1 million in sales-tax revenue to state and local coffers.”

Many Utah merchants seem aware of the plumping of their bottom line that gay marriage can cause.

Every representative of every business who agreed to speak to City Weekly and is quoted in this story was eager to make two things very clear: that they see no significant difference between working with gay couples and working with straight couples, and that they will be absolutely delighted to assist gay couples in achieving the wedding of their dreams. “It’s really the same. Love is love, a wedding is a wedding,” was stated over and over.

Pressed to note small differences, vendors did note that the planning process itself can often vary with same-sex unions—but usually in a good way.

“When a couple’s in love and they come in here, I don’t pull any different books. I don’t behave any differently; it’s exactly the same,” said Miriam Footer of The Write Image, a Salt Lake City stationer.

But she does note that, as parents are sometimes less involved in same-sex-wedding planning, picking out announcements and invitations can be a smoother process.

When an entire family comes in to help a couple select wedding announcements, differences of opinion can cause bickering, making the process difficult and stressful for everyone, but “with same-sex couples, it tends to be between the couples, and they tend to agree,” Footer says. “It can be a little more of a joyful experience when we are selling to a same-sex couple.”

Linda Lukanowski of RSVP by Linda in Park City points out that many couples, whether gay or straight, arrive at the altar with complicated family structures.

“Divorces, remarriage, stepparents, even deaths come in to play when trying to draft the perfect wording to announce and invite everyone to the big day,” Lukanowski says. “By taking the time to explore people’s relationships, feelings and thoughts, you can find your way to making it just right.”

A SENSE OF COMMUNITY

Among the 11 weddings featured in the 2014 issue of the annual magazine Utah Bride & Groom is Bryan Nash and Nathan Judd’s commitment ceremony at the Natural History Museum of Utah in September 2013.

The logo of the magazine is the words “Utah Bride” in a large font, with “& Groom” tucked below, almost an afterthought, but no arrow or editor’s note tells readers that this wedding is any different from the others featured, beyond its title, “Making History,” a clever play on the venue for the ceremony—and, presciently, for what happened three months later.

The magazine happened to hit newsstands Dec.

23, 2013, as Nash and Judd stood in line at the courthouse for a marriage license the Monday after the Shelby ruling.

Nash and Judd didn’t have a marriage license on the day of their ceremony, but beyond that and the personal details that make any wedding unique, it wasn’t set apart from the other events in the magazine, neither by the editors nor by anything in the ceremony’s makeup.

That was a point of pride for Mara Marian of Fuse Weddings & Events, who planned the ceremony. “I attend a lot of industry conferences, and as gay marriage became legal in different states, there was a lot of talk about marketing to same-sex couples, and it’s such a turn-off to me,” she says. “I read somewhere that just because you’re gay you don’t need a gay doctor. We don’t do any special marketing for the gay community. I’ve opted not to do that because I don’t want to even label gay weddings as gay weddings.

They’re just weddings. They’re just clients.”

The real point is to tailor the wedding to the couple, whether they’re gay or straight, Marian says.

“Everything we do is custom. I want to get to know my couple regardless. I want to know what’s important to them, what’s not important, what traditions they want to keep and what they want to get rid of. We like to tailor the process to our couples and what makes sense for them.”

And in the case of same-sex weddings, there’s often “a lot more focus on the couple,” Marian says. “It’s much more important to them to focus on this 10-year relationship that they’re finally making official.”

That was the case for Judd and Nash, Utah natives who currently live in Las Vegas but decided to have their commitment ceremony in Salt Lake City, since so many of their family and friends still live here.

“The theme of our commitment ceremony was, ‘10 years together, committing to forever,’ ” Nash says. “Even though to us it always was real, we really wanted to make it real in front of others.”

Because there was no legal aspect to the ceremony, Nash designed a big parchment paper with a photo of the couple and a line for each guest. “Instead of, ‘Before the eyes of God,’ it was, ‘Before you as our witnesses,’ the 100 guests who were there, and we had each guest sign it—it was their endorsement for our wedding,” Nash says.

Footer has noticed that many same-sex unions seem to be more inclusive from the get-go. The couples often eschew tradition in the wording of the announcement, she says, and “tend to give thanks and inclusion not only to their family, but friends.

Often in the wording of the invitation, it will say, ‘Because you’ve shared in our lives, we’d like you to share in our joy.’ It’s not just a familial thing. It tends to invite more community.”

A PARTICULAR SET OF SKILLS

While many couples have successful DIY weddings, some vendors suggest that their professional skill can be all the more important for same-sex couples.

—Candice Green

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While every wedding day involves stress, Daniel says, “gay couples seem to deal with a bit more family drama. Not all family members will be in support of gay marriage, and so some family choose not to attend. It depends on the level of support from family members.”

Michael Ferguson jokingly calls his and Seth Anderson’s landmark legal union a “shotgun wedding,” but adds that it was perfect, in that “it avoided the pain of having an enormous party to celebrate my life and my love, and then have it become yet another reminder of why and how I hurt my family. Those are painful events. And who wants the most meaningful relationship ritual marred by family demons?”

But for other couples, involving family is integral to the couple’s sense of commitment, even with drama to manage.

Berrett and Green were both raised in traditional LDS homes. “We didn’t want to feel like we were just living together; we wanted the legal commitment to protect and honor each other,” Green says.

Joseph Broom and Mark Koepke had been together almost two years when Koepke was diagnosed in 2013 with inoperable prostate cancer, which made it important to formalize their relationship. (Koepke’s cancer is currently contained through various treatments, and he is living an active and otherwise healthy life.)

Their small commitment ceremony in their Holladay backyard in August 2013 was also a way, Broom says, to “ ‘educate’ guests (who ranged from gay men to orthodox Mormon neighbors) about what it means to be gay” as well as to “make a statement to our families” about acceptance—particularly since two of Broom’s 10 children from a straight marriage will have nothing to do with him.

Broom and Koepke were legally married in Hawaii in April 2014, but that, Broom says, “was a mere formality.”

Those early commitment ceremonies and receptions, though not legally binding in Utah, may have helped to pave the way for marriage equality by making it more familiar and less frightening.

“There has been no stronger vehicle to humanize gay, lesbian and transgender Americans than marriage,” says Troy Williams, executive director of

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‘That’s great!’ ” Hannah Herman, manager of Tuxedos

by Lee in West Jordan, also describes working with same-sex couples as “fun.” The same-sex couples she has helped were women, which “was a new experience.”

The women “were real fun to work with.

Definitely a fun group of people to have in the store,” she says.

W hat mattered most was what mattered with every group she works with: pleasing the patrons. “It’s definitely something I shoot for, working in customer service,” Herman says. “I love seeing people leave happy.”

For Daniel, having a professional onhand to focus on that happiness above all else can save the day itself, and memories of it.

Part of his job, he says, is to coax couples into poses that capture the love involved in a wedding.

“Some gay couples are afraid to show affection in front of the camera, at least in a public setting,” he says.

“Often they are fearful of a homophobic reaction.”

Megan Berrett and Candice Green, who had a reception in South Jordan before flying to New York City in 2012 to be legally married in a ceremony in Central Park, were anxious about planning a gay wedding celebration in a conservative area of the Salt Lake Valley.

“Every number we called—be it caterer, florist, photographers—we first asked if it was OK that we were a gay couple,” Green says. But everyone responded with “nothing but support,” she says. “Noah’s, the reception place, told us we were their first gay couple, and they were excited about that.”

Even vendors the women could recognize as LDS “talked to us with excitement as if we were any couple,” she says.

It was a welcome change for the two. “We had many extended family members refuse to come to the reception and even say very cruel things before and after,” Green says “But all the professionals were sweet and loving.”

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“In straight weddings, the groom just has to worry about a tuxedo and then be there on the appointed day,” says David Daniel of Dav.d Photography. “In a gay marriage with two grooms, they get to do all the planning, and often don’t know the ins and outs of planning a wedding. So as a photographer, I often find myself doing a little bit of coaching and giving some suggestions at least to scheduling and events.”

Given that they’re already changing protocol by not marrying a person of the opposite sex, many same-sex couples also feel freer to adapt or forgo convention to tailor a wedding that suits their personalities.

“Sometimes, tradition can bog traditional marriage celebrations down,” Footer says. “And when you don’t have that to fight with, it’s just a party.”

Wedding planner Marian concurs. “A lot of these couples are open to more innovative ideas,” she says.

“They don’t have a vision that they’ve been stuck on for two decades, so they’re more open to doing things different.”

Some traditions do stick. Jenna Cole, manager of the Brides Shop in Salt Lake City, says that when both brides elect to wear wedding dresses, they still maintain the tradition of not being seen in their dress by their future spouse until the wedding. “I’ve never had a same-sex couple come in at the same time,” she says. “They like to keep what they’re wearing a secret. They come in with a friend or someone they both know who will keep the secret what each bride is wearing, but help them coordinate. I think it’s cute.

It’s super fun.”

Cole admits she was initially surprised the first time she helped a woman who was marrying another woman, but that the feeling wore off quickly. “She was a regular bride and we treated her like a regular bride,” Cole says. “We’re here to help women and girls on their wedding day and help find their dream dress, be their consultant, help them style their dress and help them figure out ways to make their wedding complete. We don’t care who you’re marrying. We just want to help.”

Now that Cole has worked with several same-sex couples, “maybe the most surprising thing is how shy they sometimes are to tell you,” she says. “Usually we start out with, ‘Who are you marrying?’ When we’re in the dressing room, that’s what we ask them. I’ve had girls just kind of beat around the bush and try not to say anything, and then eventually she’ll say, ‘Oh, she’s a girl.’ And I’m always like,

Even vendors the women could recognize as LDS “talked to us with excitement as if we were any couple.”

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“With same-sex couples, it tends to be between the couples, and they tend to agree,.

It can be a little more of a joyful experience when we are selling to a same-sex couple.”

—Miriam Footer of The Write Image Equality Utah. “Marriage is a universal institution.

All cultures have some form of marriage, in some capacity. We all connect to this idea of companionship, love, building a family, as well as the economic importance of marriage. As more people started getting married, it started this momentum, and it opened up people’s hearts and minds in a way that no other political movement for LGBT folks has.”

For Bryan Nash and Nathan Judd, it was that new acceptance that made them feel comfortable about their ceremony being featured in Utah Bride & Groom—beyond the fact that “it’s a compliment and flattering, and who doesn’t like to see themself in a magazine?” Nash says with a laugh.

“But my husband, especially, has deep business and family roots in Salt Lake City, and it was like, ‘All right, the gig is going to be officially up now,”— they would be out of the closet not only to friends and family but to everyone.

“If this had been five or six or more years ago, it would have been a different conversation than we had about publishing it,” Nash says. “But I feel like Utah as a whole and people that we know have progressed enough that we felt comfortable going ahead and running the spread.”

And just three months later, while they visited family in Utah for Christmas, Shelby’s ruling meant that they could be legally wed in their home state.

THEN COMES EQUALITY

But there is still work to do for LGBT rights— work that was considered foundational elsewhere.

“Typically, in Massachusetts and eastern states, nondiscrimination laws came first, then came marriage,” Williams says. “In Utah, we’ve inverted that. You can get fired and evicted from your homes because of your sexual orientation or gender identity. You can be denied service in restaurants, buses, taxis. And until we have access to all of those freedoms and all of those liberties, we are not full citizens of the United States of America.”

The ultimate objective of the LGBT movement now is “full legal equality in all areas governed by civil law,” Williams says. “Now, we have to make the case to Utahns of why it’s wrong to fire or evict someone, a hard-working Utahn who just wants their shot at the American dream.”

But the LGBT community does not want “to force churches or synagogues to marry gay couples,” he

says. “There’s no desire to impose that on any faith. I know that’s a fear that some people have, but there’s no movement or effort. The First Amendment protects churches.”

“There’s very much a live-and-let-live attitude, so over time, those fears will dissipate,” Williams continues. “We don’t want to be sore winners. We want to reach out to our critics, our adversaries, and find ways to make friends. We’ve got to begin the healing process in this state.”

THE OTHER SIDE

Although the focus is now on the benefits of legal marriage to gay couples, eventually, some married gay couples will avail themselves of the court system to end their marriages—but this, too, is a good thing, many in the legal system say.

“The availability of legal divorce that comes with legal marriage will allow gay couples access to the orderly, equitable and civil process for dissolving their relationship that divorce provides,” said Steven Garff, an attorney with Price Parkinson & Kerr, PLLC, in Salt Lake City. “Some people who have been through divorce may take issue with some of those adjectives, but legal divorce is generally much better than the alternatives. The simple ability to turn the fighting over to your attorney so that you don’t have

“In a gay marriage with two grooms, they get to do all the planning, and often don’t know the ins and outs of planning a wedding. So as a photographer, I often find myself doing a little bit of coaching and giving some suggestions at least to scheduling and events.”

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to deal with the dispute directly can be a life-saver for some.”

Brian E. Arnold, a partner at Arnold & Wadsworth, a firm with offices in Salt Lake City, Lehi and Ogden, thinks that gay divorce will also force courts to grapple more directly with gender bias, in large part because of custody questions.

“No longer will there be the argument in a custody battle that the mother is a better caretaker of the children than the father,” Arnold wrote via e-mail.

“Now that you will be dealing with two mothers or two fathers who are raising the child (whether through adoption or artificial insemination), the stereotype that the mother is the better caretaker of the child won’t apply. I believe better child-custody determination factors will also be developed, that will be more gender-neutral than the present factors we have in place.”

Other legal details must change as well: “The child-support calculator will need an option for two moms and two dads instead of just one option of ‘mom’ and ‘dad.’ Title 30 of the Utah Code (the statutes governing marriage) will need to be revamped to include definitions and conformity for gay couples that was afforded to heterosexual couples. All the divorce forms will have to change. Child-protectiveorder forms will need to change.”

Arnold believes that rather than being a threat to straight marriage, legal recognition of gay marriage can benefit straight marriage. “As the law develops in regard to domestic partnerships and gay marriage,” Arnold says, it’s probable that “the law will become clearer, and it will progress in a way that will help people argue their cases in more detail. I believe it will provide judges with better standards to rely on as they make custody determinations. I’m hoping that as these cases progress through the court, it will lead to better law in divorce actions overall.”

Ultimately, all anyone has about what the longterm fruits of marriage equality will be in Utah are guesses—many of them extremely educated and wellinformed, but guesses nonetheless.

But as David Daniel of Dav.d Photography puts it, “It will be an exciting time for sure.”

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Graeme Simsion: The Rosie Effect

Graeme Simsion’s first novel, The Rosie Project, quickly earned a coveted spot on the New York Times best-seller list in 2013, a surprising feat considering Simsion’s late entrance into the literary world. Formerly an IT consultant, the Australian native didn’t sit down to “try his hand at writing” until he was 50.

The story followed Don Tillman—a “brilliant, if socially awkward, genetics professor” who, though it’s not expressly stated, very likely falls somewhere along the autism spectrum—on his quest to find the perfect wife.

The success of that first novel, which left Don happily married to the spunky, spontaneous, understanding and loving Rosie Jarman, launched a recent sequel, The Rosie Effect. And the natural continuation of a love story, post-marriage, is a baby.

The question of how Don will handle the disruption of an unplanned pregnancy sets readers up for a long trip through Don-land— and it won’t be a smooth ride; the novel opens with Don obsessing over changes to his regimented meal schedule.

Simsion will be visiting The King’s English Bookshop this weekend to read from The Rosie Effect, take audience questions and sign books. (Katherine Pioli) Graeme Simsion: The Rosie Effect @ The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Jan. 17, 7 p.m. KingsEnglish.com

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Utah Opera: The Pearl Fishers It’s an opera that’s new to Utah, but features a story as old as time: Two best friends fall for the same woman and things get sticky. Ever heard of that one before? Oh, yeah, and did I mention that one of the guys is a ruler who has the power to kill the other two, and he’s not in a particularly good mood about being in a love triangle?

French composer Georges Bizet penned the music at the young age of 18, showing the promise that would eventually be fulfilled with Carmen some years later. Set to a libretto by Eugene Cormon and Michel Carre, The Pearl Fishers was not particularly well received when it premiered in Paris in 1863. Like any good classical composer, Bizet died young, and the opera didn’t become a hit until well after he was dead. Even Carmen didn’t catch on until after he was gone.

Set in ancient times on the island of Ceylon— the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka since 1972—The Pearl Fishers is full of boats, fishermen, a temple, a tent, a special necklace and a funeral pyre that may or may not get used.

(No spoilers here.)

Utah Opera is presenting The Pearl Fishers for the first time, and the opera will open Saturday night, Jan. 17, at the Capitol Theatre, and then plays on alternating nights through the following Sunday, Jan. 25, when a matinee concludes the run. (Geoff Griffin) Utah Opera: The Pearl Fishers @ Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, Jan. 17, 19, 21, 23 @ 7:30 p.m. & Jan. 25 @ 2 p.m., $10-$95. UtahOpera.org

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It’s fair to say that The Second City changed the face of comedy—several times. Since its founding 55 years ago, the improv/sketch-comedy group, based in Chicago and Toronto, has served as the springboard for many comedic greats, including Mike Nichols and Elaine May, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray and many others who would fill the lineups of Saturday Night Live for decades, SCTV (the late-’70s/early-’80s Canadian, often funnier, counterpart to SNL) and more recently, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert and Tina Fey. The Second City’s traveling theatrical show, The Second City Hits Home, finds something to lampoon everywhere it goes, and in Salt Lake City, it’ll be just as topical. The cast will find plenty to skewer in local politics and culture through songs, sketches and the improv for which they are famous, in addition to routines from The Second City archives, some of the greatest comedy sketches of all time.

The performance will feature some of the cream of the current Second City crop: Lisa Beasley, Scott Morehead, Alan Linic, Liz Reuss, Marlena Rodriguez and John Thibodeaux. They’re a seasoned six who are sure to find the funny bone of the local audience.

In addition, in coordination with Kingsbury Hall Presents’ community-engagement program, two workshops have been booked with the touring company—an advanced improv workshop with actors from the local improv group at Off Broadway Theatre Company, and one with students in the University of Utah Theatre Department. (Brian Staker) The Second City @ Kingsbury Hall, 1350 E. Presidents Circle, University of Utah, 801-581-7100, Jan. 17, 7:30 p.m., $19.50$29.50. KingsburyHall.org

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The comedy of Demetri Martin—an Emmywinner for his writing work on Late Night With Conan O’Brien, a Daily Show alumnus and veteran stand-up comic—is roughly like what might result if Steven Wright wandered into a Wes Anderson movie, and has built him a reputation over the years as a one-of-a-kind voice in entertainment.

This week, he brings his tour to Utah.

His initial rise came in the early 2000s, with a Comedy Central special and two years as a writer for Late Night. His subsequent stint as a Daily Show correspondent led to mainstream fame and a rise in his profile as a comic. Martin has also been featured in several TV shows—including Comedy Central’s short-lived Important Things With Demetri Martin, which he created, produced and, per the title, starred in—and movies (In a World…), and wrote the New York Times bestselling book This Is a Book By Demetri Martin.

Smart (his website features replies to quotes by everyone from Shakespeare to Dickinson to Monet) without being intimidating (said replies are pithy but down to earth), Martin also manages a similar balancing act between the dry surrealism of his material and his engaging, pleasant delivery. Martin’s use of visual aids—mainly a large pad on which he draws—and music (he often has music play over his televised standup appearances to make them harder to edit down for length) are similarly distinctively his own. (Danny Bowes) Demetri Martin @ Wiseguys West Valley City, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-463-2909, Jan. 16, 7:30 & 10 p.m, $35, sold out. WiseguysComedy.com

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It’s Not Your Fault Two new theater productions struggle to overcome obstacles of timing and text.

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t is a rule—and if it’s not a written rule, it should be—that critics can’t hold a work accountable for not being a thing the critic wanted it to be, rather than what it is. Criticism is, after all, the study of what art actually is. It therefore may seem contradictory also to assert the critic’s right to recognize something within a given work that would make for a better focal point than the one its creator chose. However, two examples readily present themselves in the plays Pinnacle Acting Company and Pioneer Theatre Company have chosen for their current productions.

Pinnacle’s Time Stands Still—Donald Margulies’ Tony-nominated look at a convalescent photojournalist and her longtime partner—is a natural choice for an acting company, as both surface text and subtext are gradually revealed through performance. There are two oppositional booby traps directors often face with such a piece: 1. Do “too much” directing, inorganically manipulating the performances to yield a desired effect; and 2. Do no manipulating at all, and let the actors’ organic processes determine the entire tenor of the show, at the possible expense of pacing and narrative focus.

The latter is the lesser of two evils, to be sure, and L.L. West’s direction of the cast of Time Stands Still in such a mode does not in any way damage the production, given the nature of the text they’re working from. But it does lead to a piece that seems longer than it needs to, and given the power of emotion the protagonist Sarah (Melanie Nelson, in an excellent performance) channels in evoking the memory of her Iraqi “fixer,” it leaves a lingering desire to see that story told in present tense, rather than as a dark cloud looming over a much more familiar New York-based relationship drama.

And the story about the “fixer” and Sarah is right there in the text of the piece, so it’s not a case of seeing a play about puppies and being mad that it isn’t about kittens. It’s a case of seeing a play that’s about people in an overly familiar situation, dealing with the recent memory of something that would have been a lot more interesting to explore. This is a fault of the text itself, not of Pinnacle’s production of the play, but it does reduce the overall impact of the show.

Pioneer Theatre Top: Melanie Nelson and Jared Larkin in Time Stands Still Company’s Alabama Bottom: Seth Andrews Bridges and Greta Lambert in Alabama Story Story, based on real-life events in 1959 Alabama, opening the very same weekend as the faces a slightly different issue textually: that of being hard-done by current events. film. Alabama Story resists taking political In the ongoing theme of duality, there are stands with the same fervor with which two different events with which Alabama Selma notes that sometimes the simple Story finds itself inadvertently conversing. fact of a human being’s existence is itself a It’s a fact-based story in which the inciting political stand.

It is, to be sure, extremely unfair to event is the publication of a controversial compare the two works, and doing so here illustrated narrative, and as such is going to evoke the still-vivid specter of the Charlie is an unfortunate byproduct of coincidence.

Hebdo massacre. In Alabama Story’s case, But timing, through no one’s fault but Fate, the issue of offense is simpler, as is the work often works against otherwise perfectly in question: a children’s book about a white fine work. CW rabbit and a black rabbit who get married.

Time Stands Still And of course, a racist state senator decides that the book should be banned, only to find Pinnacle Acting Company himself pitted against a steadfast librarian Jewett Center for the Performing Arts who refuses to let it be.

1250 E. 1700 South, Westminster College This aspect of the play is straightforward Through Jan. 18, 7:30 p.m. to the point of audience flattery: Of course it’s Matinees Jan. 17-18, 2 p.m. wrong to ban a children’s book about bunny rabbits. There is also an ongoing story, about $15-$18 a friendship and once-romantic relationship PinnacleActingCompany.org between a white woman and a black man that’s presented in the same way: Of course Alabama Story Pioneer Theatre Company it’s wrong that they can’t be together.

This is where the other current event 300 S. 1400 East, University of Utah comes into play: the release of Ava 801-581-6961 DuVernay’s extraordinary film Selma, set Through Jan. 24 in the very same state not six years later.

This production of the gentle, genteel Times vary Alabama Story is a fine, well-played one, $29-$44 top to bottom, but it suffers badly from PioneerTheatre.org

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Silent Movies on Film As digital exhibition becomes the standard for movies, the sound of film running through a projector may start to seem like something out of an ancient time. For the start of its winter/spring 2015 Silent Films Series, Edison Street Events takes us way back indeed, running 16mm film through a projector to showcase some of the great comedians of the silent era.

The program—accompanied, as is Edison Street’s standard, by Blaine Gale on Wurlitzer organ—features fun-for-the-whole-family shorts starring vintage comedy stars including Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Laurel & Hardy (a scene from Laurel & Hardy’s Liberty is pictured). You’ll also see a short featuring a lesser-known contemporary of those famous performers: Salt Lake City’s own Mack Swain, who worked at the legendary Keystone Studios under Mack Sennett. Drop in so you can remember the magical images that made folks call movies “flicks.” (Scott Renshaw) Silent Movies on Film @ Edison Street Events, 3331 S. Edison St., 801-485-9265, Jan. 15-16, 7:30 p.m., $5-$6. EdisonStreetEvents.com

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Salt City Radio Players: Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles and Mars Is Heaven, Clark Planetarium

SUNDAY 1.18 performing arts Time Stands Still, Jewett Center for the Performing Arts 12 Minutes Max, Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801-524-8200, 2-3 p.m.

Bare, Sugar Space River District

MONDAY 1.19 performing arts The Story Stone, Draper Historic Theatre Is He Dead?, Hale Centre Theatre Alabama Story, Pioneer Memorial Theatre

TUESDAY 1.20 performing arts Is He Dead?, Hale Centre Theatre Alabama Story, Pioneer Memorial Theatre

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Graeme Simsion: The Rosie Effect, The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-484-9100, 7 p.m.

Eat. Read. Play, Trolley Square, 602 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City, 10 a.m.

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The Story Stone, Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Draper, 801-542-4144, 7-9 p.m. through Jan. 24.

Irish Comedy Tour, Egyptian Theatre, Park City Is He Dead?, Hale Centre Theatre Time Stands Still, Jewett Center for the Performing Arts, 1250 E. 1700 South, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, 7:30 p.m.

Laughing Stock Improv Comedy, Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-355-4628, 7:30 p.m.

Alabama Story, Pioneer Memorial Theatre Bare, Sugar Space River District, 130 S. 800 West, Salt Lake City, 385-202-5504, 7:30 p.m.

Demetri Martin, Wiseguys West Valley City, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-5325233, 7:30 & 10 p.m.

Paul Sheffield, Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588, 8 p.m.

Off the Wall Improv, The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 855-944-2787, 10:30 p.m.

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Salt City Radio Players: Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles and Mars Is Heaven, Clark Planetarium, 110 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 385-468-7827, 7-8:30 p.m.

Irish Comedy Tour, Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, Park City, 435-649-9371, 8 p.m.

Is He Dead?, Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 801-984-9000, 7:30 p.m. through Feb. 7 I Am Comic: A Night of Stand Up, Movie Grille, 2293 Grant Ave., Ogden, 7 p.m.

Alabama Story, Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, Salt Lake City, 801-581-6961, 7:30 p.m. through Jan. 24.

The Story Stone, Draper Historic Theatre Irish Comedy Tour, Egyptian Theatre, Park City Hale Centre Theatre: Is He Dead?, Hale Centre Theatre Time Stands Still, Jewett Center for the Performing Arts The Second City, Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 801-581-7100, 7:30 p.m.

Laughing Stock Improv Comedy, Off Broadway Theatre Alabama Story, Pioneer Memorial Theatre The Improvables, Playbills’ Theater, 455 W. 1700 South, Clearfield, 7:30 p.m.

Bare, Sugar Space River District Paul Sheffield, Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588, 8 p.m.

Steve Soelberg, Wiseguys West Valley City, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-4632909, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.

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Kent Budge: Natural Order, Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-245-7272, Mondays-Fridays through Jan. 16 Trent Call: Processed, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-328-4201, Tuesdays-Saturdays through Jan. 17 Frank A. Langheinrich & Thomas B. Szalay: Confluence of East & West, Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801524-8200, through Jan. 22 Isra Pache: Hidden Realities, Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801-524-8200, through Jan. 23

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Matt Higgins: Bird Dreams: Adventures at the Extremes of Human Flight, The King’s English Bookshop, 7 p.m.

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P. Kent Fairbanks: The Living Machine, Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801-524-8200, through Jan. 23 Body Worlds & the Cycle of Life, The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City, 801-531-9800, Mondays-Saturdays through Jan. 31 Salt 10: Conrad Bakker, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-581-7332, Tuesdays-Sundays, through Feb. 8 Zach Franzoni: Disrupted Identities, Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts, 641 W. North Temple, Suite 700, 801-596-0500, through Feb. 10 Hikmet Sidney Loe: Drawing From the Lake, Salt Lake City Library Chapman branch, 577 S. 900 West, Salt Lake City, 801-594-8623, Mondays-Sundays though Feb. 26 Mountain Lion! The Story of Pumas and People, Swaner EcoCenter, 1258 Center Drive, Park City, 435-649-1767, Wednesdays-Saturdays through March 31

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Good as gold: The roasted-beet salad (top) and lamb sirloin fricassee (left) at Goldener Hirsch Inn transcend après-ski fare.

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on chowder, made with lots of butter and cream and heightened by paprika smoked in-house and minced chives. One last seafood selection—pan-roasted sea scallop with oak-smoked, bacon-chive risotto, gala apple, basil and frisée salad and Granny Smith beurre blanc ($19)—was stupendous.

And I appreciate that The Mariposa menu is mostly small-plate-oriented, so it’s easy to try a lot of tasty dishes during the course of an evening rather than just one or two big ones.

Table and wine service were, as always, up to Deer Valley Resort’s ultra-high standards, where guest-pampering is taken to extreme levels. More divine dishes came and went: pan-roasted boneless quail saltimbocca and miso-braised kale and mushrooms in a Cabernet reduction ($20); Niman Ranch beef short rib with Pontack sauce and salsify-parsnip puree ($20); and my favorite dish, housemade lemon-thyme gnocchi with beurre blanc, Rockhill Creamery aged Edam cheese and slow-poached wild Gulf shrimp ($16). This would be hard to beat.

And lunch at Cena Ristorante & Lounge (7815 Royal St. East, Park City, 435940-2200, The-Chateaux.com), located in the Chateau at Deer Valley definitely did not beat it. Stein Eriksen Lodge took over operations of the restaurant last year, and I was expecting Stein-quality food and service. But my wife’s Caesar salad—advertised as coming with ciabatta croutons—was skimpy, with only four

lonely croutons on the plate. A flatbread pizza ($12) with Creminelli pepperoni would have been spot-on, if not for an overwhelming amount of garlic in the sauce. The grilled-chicken sandwich with basil pesto was so pesto-loaded that any chance of tasting the chicken was a nonstarter. When we left, our server didn’t even wish us good day or say goodbye. Is this place really run by Stein?

If you’ve been to the Goldener Hirsch Inn as often as I have, you probably think “fondue and wiener schnitzel” when you think of it. And sure, those classic European staples are on the lunch, dinner and après-ski menus, and probably always will be. But Executive Chef Ryan Burnham also offers up more delicate and creative dishes like his “mushroom tasting,” which is a mélange of fresh, wild mushrooms with sunchokes, cranberries, crispy prosciutto and sweet Pedro Ximenez balsamic vinegar ($22). The roasted-beet salad ($16) looks as beautiful as it tastes—cubed, roasted beets served with quinoa, blood orange, mango, Marcona almonds and French feta cheese.

But the entree section of the menu is where things really get interesting.

Potato gnocchi, made with organic spuds, is paired with duck confit, caramelized pear, arugula, lemon and a big dollop of housemade burrata on top ($29). The fact that duck confit and gnocchi are two of my favorite foods made this dish an easy grand slam. I also relished the lamb preparation: seared, medium-rare cubes of Willis Ranch lamb sirloin served fricasseestyle on a rectangular plate strewn with roasted sweet potato, apple-kohlrabi slaw and smoked-mushroom velouté ($35).

As at The Mariposa, the service, beverage selection and ambiance at the Goldener Hirsch were absolutely terrific: friendly when called for, crisp and professional when necessary. I think many a restaurateur and server would benefit greatly from taking a field trip to Silver Lake Village to see how the pros at Goldener Hirsch and The Mariposa do it. A citrusolive-oil torte dessert with lemon mousse, pistachio and blood-orange sherbet sent us back to our cozy upstairs room grinning like idiots. CW

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scend the winding and twisting Royal Street—the main boulevard that connects upper Deer Valley to lower—or take the more direct Ontario Canyon Road (aka the “mine road”), and you’ll end up at the epicenter of Deer Valley Resort, called Silver Lake Village. There you’ll find, in addition to spectacular mountain views, some of Utah’s finest cuisine packed into an area smaller than a single square city block.

There’s Stein Eriksen Lodge and its signature restaurant The Glitretind, where longtime Executive Chef Zane Holmquist dazzles diners nightly. Royal Street Cafe is another exceptional spot to take in Deer Valley Resort’s top-notch cuisine and service. I’ve written about those venues in the recent past, so I won’t dwell on them here. But a recent weekend getaway to Silver Lake afforded me and my wife the chance to sup at two of mid-mountain’s most reliable eateries: The Mariposa and The Goldener Hirsch Inn Restaurant. In between, we also lunched at Cena.

With only 20 luxurious rooms, the Goldener Hirsch Inn (7570 Royal St. East, Park Cit y, 435-649-7770, GoldenerHirschInn.com) has an exclusive yet warm and hospitable vibe that can transport you to the world-class Austrian inn for which it’s named. It’s the perfect place for a weekend getaway, and a short walk to all of Silver Lake Village’s dining and shopping. So, napped and refreshed after a day of skiing at Deer Valley Resort, we strolled over to The Mariposa (7600 Royal St., Park City, 435-645-6715, DeerValley.com/dining)—the resort’s main fine-dining venue—for dinner.

We were warmly greeted by a hostess and seated in the warm, rustic restaurant, beside a toasty fireplace. Before we knew it, there was a trio of oysters in front of us: Kumamotos on the half-shell ($3.50 each) served with housemade seafood sauce and mignonette, and resting on a bed of seaweed. Sticking with the shellfish theme, we also enjoyed a nearly transluscent, sashimi-style diver scallop ($16), sliced into bite-size medallions and drizzled with lime & aji-chile-pepper vinaigrette and cilantro emulsion. Delightful.

Not quite ready to move on to meat, we also enjoyed longtime Deer Valley Executive Chef Clark Norris’ exquisite Maine lobster chowder ($16)—a very delicate, rich take

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BEER, WINE & SPIRITS

J’adore Jadot There’s a Maison Louis Jadot wine for every budget.

By Ted Scheffler comments@cityweekly.net @critic1

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hrough the years, I’ve developed a lasting love affair with the French wines of Maison Louis Jadot. I truly adore them. J’adore!

My infatuation with Jadot wines can be traced to a very auspicious beginning. I remember being treated to glasses of Jadot Corton-Charlemagne by a wealthy winesnob friend at the venerable New York City French restaurant Lutèce. At the time, I was in graduate school and didn’t have a French White Burgundy budget, so being given the opportunity to drink CortonCharlemagne was a very special treat. And, it was the first great White Burgundy I’d ever tasted. I was sold.

I’m no closer to being able to afford Jadot Corton-Charlemagne ($150) now than I was then. However, my job as a food & drink writer occasionally permits me to sip some of the good stuff. And even when

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it doesn’t, the breadth of Louis Jadot wines is so vast that there’s always something in the Jadot portfolio I can afford.

Although Louis Henry Denis Jadot founded Maison Louis Jadot in 1859, the winery’s roots go back further. The Jadot family purchased the Clos des Ursules vineyard, a Beaune Premier Cru, in 1826. Today, Maison Louis Jadot controls 210 hectares— about 518 acres—of vineyards spread throughout Burgundy, from the Côte d’Or to the Mâconnais and on down into Beaujolais. The wines produced from those vineyards are inevitably stunning, and run the gamut from high-end Louis Jadot Chevalier-Montrachet—which sells here for $385 per bottle—to Louis Jadot Beaujolais, which runs for a mere $12.95 and is often available on sale for three bucks less. All together, Utah wine stores carry more than 30 different Jadot bottlings: truly something for everyone and for every budget.

One of the best wine bargains in the state is Maison Louis Jadot Pouilly Fuissé.

It retails here normally for $28.95, but can often be found marked down to $21.95, as it was in December in Utah wine stores. I was not embarrassed to bring a bottle of Jadot Pouilly Fuissé with me to a recent

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dinner at Deer Valley’s Goldener Hirsch restaurant (see Dine, p. 23), knowing that I’m on safe terroir with sommeliers where the name Jadot is concerned, regardless of the bottle price.

Jadot Pouilly Fuissé comes from the southern part of Burgundy, just above Beaujolais, in the Mâconnais wine appellation. Since the geology is similar to that of the Côte d’Or, Jadot Pouilly Fuissé is a great bang-for-the-buck wine—one that drinks more like a high-end White Burgundy than like a “training wheels” wine. As with all

French White Burgundy, it’s made using 100 percent Chardonnay grapes, and is fermented both in vats and in oak barrels. It’s an elegant, harmonious wine with gorgeous hazelnut flavors sharing the spotlight with lemon, gooseberry, white peach and toasted almonds. This is a wine I like very much with poached lobster tail or gnocchi with tomato cream sauce.

For a few more Jacksons, I’d highly recommend a bottle of Maison Louis Jadot Chassagne Montrachet Morgeot “Clos de la Chapelle” ($75.54). This red Premier Cru wine comes from the southern Côte de Beaune and is delicate and subtle, made from 100 percent Pinot Noir grapes. It’s a knockout with grilled meats and roasts.

Another good Jadot bargain is MaconVillages ($16.49), a simple but satisfying introduction to White Burgundy—a Chardonnay that’s aged in stainless-steel tanks, thereby extracting the maximum fruit and floral aromas and lemony flavors. Macon-Villages is an easy-drinking wine that serves the needs of an aperitif quite well, but can also partner nicely with light fish dishes and a wedge of chevre. CW

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Through Jan. 31, Rodizio Grill (600 S. 700 East, Trolley Square, 801-2200500, RodizioGrill.com) will baconize its meaty menu with a bev y of bacon-inspired dishes to supplement the endless churrasco rodizio. There’s no extra cost for the bacon bonanza with dinner, which includes items such as bacon lover’s cheese bread, baconcauliflower chowder, grilled peppered pork belly, bacon-wrapped applewood ham, a variety of bacon salads and even a bacon dessert: bacon-brittle cream and bacon-laced rabanada, which is sort of a Brazilian French toast.

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Look for a new Moochie’s Meatballs & More (MoochiesMeatballs.com) location to open in Lehi at 380 N. 850 East the week of Jan. 19. Following the success of the Salt Lake City and Midvale Moochie’s, owner Joanna Rendi is bringing her bodacious cheesesteaks, subs, pastas, salads and more to Utah County, so be sure to brush up on your cheesesteak-ordering skills: “Wit Whiz, or witout?”

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After a day of skiing Snowbasin Resort’s endless untracked powder, a cold brew is just what the doctor ordered. Well, on Friday, Jan. 16, the third-annual Snowbasin Brewmaster’s Dinner will feature Uinta Brewing Co. beers, live music and a complimentary pint glass for all guests. The festivities will kick off at 6 p.m. at Earl’s Lodge with smoked dryrub pork ribs, deviled eggs, a selection of cheeses, and blue-cheese flatbread paired with guests’ choice of Hazel Amber Wheat Ale or Wyld Extra Pale Ale. That’ll be followed by spicy lamb-sausage-stuffed potatoes and Trader Session IPA. Main courses include sweet-potato gnocchi with rabbit ragout, with King’s Peak Porter; and butter-braised cod en papillote, paired with Yard Sale Winter Lager. For dessert, there’s mile-high pear pie a la mode with Anniversary Barley Wine Ale. Reservations are required, and all guests must be 21 or over. The cost is $65 per person. Call 801-620-1021 to reserve your spot, and visit Snowbasin. com for more information.

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Beehive Grill has a sporty pub atmosphere with lots of brews on tap, including a house-brewed root beer. The menu extends beyond expected pub food—sure, you have classic burgers (served with a root-beer fry sauce), but there are also items such as a hummus wrap and many vegetarian options, as well as gluten-free substitutions. If your sweet tooth wasn’t satisfied with the root beer, grab a scoop of gelato on your way out. 255 S. Main, Logan, 435-753-2600, TheBeehiveGrill.com

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Penny Ann’s Cafe

Located on the first floor of a nondescript apartment building, this small family-owned diner is open only for breakfast and lunch during the week, and serves just breakfast on the weekend—but boy, what a breakfast. The house-specialty Heavenly HotCakes—airy sour-cream pancakes—are a must with any meal, but you’ll also find classic bacon & eggs meals, biscuits & gravy, more than a dozen different omelets, and stuffed French toast.

And if you’ve got a really big appetite, you can take on the Pot of Gold, which is basically every breakfast item on the menu—fried potatoes, three kinds of meats, veggies, two eggs—all mixed together, smothered in sausage gravy and served with toast or two Heavenly HotCakes on the side.

1810 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-935-4760, PennyAnnsCafe.com

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Catering to Utah State University students’ and staff’s desire for a close-to-campus watering hole, Bull’s Head Pizzeria & Grille, located across from Romney Stadium, is a great place to watch a game or go for a date. Prices are inexpensive, designed to fit students’ budgets, though an effort is still made to source local ingredients. The Monte Cristo sandwich is popular, as is the selection of draft beer and liquor. 1111 N. 800 East, Logan, 435-7872029, BullsHeadUSU.com

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GOODEATS Complete listings at cityweekly.net Toasters

With three locations downtown, Toasters is vying for the top downtown lunch spot for those hungry for a sammy. Pick one of the toasted specialty sandwiches such as the Caprese or crab, or customize your own.

Add a cup of coffee and a salad like the strawberrywalnut salad, and enjoy the quirky hipster, sporty vibe.

Multiple locations, ToastersDeli.com

Lookout Cabin

Lookout Cabin, located 8,300 feet up Lookout Peak, is the place to be for a fine-dining lunch on the mountain. Be sure to make a reservation and enjoy the spectacular views from either inside the rustic cabin or on the deck. This is not your average re-heated lodge food; the menu is prepared onsite by a full kitchen staff. Especially tasty are the Kobe beef burger, the “Mountain Man” bison chili and the signature ahi tuna roll. Pair your meal with locally brewed beer from the full-service bar. Lookout is open only during the winter, so don’t miss out. 4000 Canyons Resort Drive, Park City, 435-615-2892

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Silver Summit Cafe

Located just off of Highway 40 in a service station, Silver Summit Cafe offers fantastic food that goes far beyond standard gas-station grub. Swing by for a breakfast of pancakes and omelets, or enjoy a lunch of supreme pizza, a Summit club sandwich or enchiladas on the patio. Portions are generous, so prepare. Fill ’er up! 6065 Silver Creek Drive, Park City, 801649-7638, SilverSummitCafe.com

Jim’s Diner

The exterior is humble, but the breakfasts at Jim’s are nearly legendary (and available all day). The oldtimey, hometown atmosphere and classic diner vibe add to the enjoyment of this bit of Americana, so plan on a more laid-back pace. Besides, the portions are enormous—it’s going to take a while to eat everything.

9300 S. State, Sandy, 801-255-2541

El Paisa Grill

Whether you try the pineapple stuffed with cheese and seafood, or the much-lauded molcajete supreme, prepare to be served salsa as hot as the lava-stone

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Inside this saloon-style grill, three dining rooms and a copper-topped bar make for intimate eating. And there’s even a table where customers sit on a sofa to dine. Chef/owner Dean Hottle’s menu is just as eclectic as the surroundings, with tempting items such

as hoisin-glazed calamari and white shrimp, corntortilla-crusted red trout and, of course, Snake Creek Grill’s infamous black-bottom banana-cream pie.

650 W. 100 South Heber City, 435-654-2133, SnakeCreekGrill.com

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dishes they come on. The authentic Mexican décor, with photos and posters of Mexico, complements the authentic Mexico food. El Paisa also features lots of good choices from the sea, too, including fresh oysters and seafood stews. Order a margarita and hang out at the weekend fiesta for some karaoke or live music. 2126 S. 3200 West, West Valley City, 801-973-6660

South China House

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Locals describe this unassuming and inexpensive hole-in-the-wall as “cheap and cheerful.” The lowkey restaurant, which serves up both Chinese and Vietnamese food, is easy to miss because the sign is subtle, but the food is anything but. Try the fresh coconut water, sweet & sour shrimp and the pho. 428 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-364-9918

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A sampler of Ted Scheffler’s reviews Karma Indian Cuisine

Walking through this Indian eatery’s front doors brings you into a fashionable and beautiful space. However, as appealing as Karma is to the eye, it’s the cuisine that will keep you coming back. The korma—we ordered korma paneer—is divine. The paneer, a housemade South Asian-style cheese curd with a tofu-like consistency and texture, is bathed in a stupendously delicious and silky korma sauce made with coconut milk, curry spices, ground cashews and golden raisins. 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. Reviewed Jan. 8. 863 E. 9400 South, Sandy, 801-566-1134, EatGoodKarma.com

Mellow Mushroom

than 70 bottled brews, including ones from Deschutes, Big Sky and Rogue. 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

The Annex by Epic Brewing

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 ragout 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

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

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sauce. There is also a meat lover’s sloppy Joe, a slowsimmered combo of beef and chorizo topped with pickled red onions and served on a Kaiser roll. The holidays are an especially fitting time to call attention to the work that Even Stevens is doing, as it’s a time when many of us gorge ourselves on holiday fare, while others can’t be sure where their next meal will come from. Maybe it will come from Even Stevens. Reviewed Nov. 27. 414 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 385-355-9105, EvenStevens.com

Harbor Seafood & Steak Co.

At Harbor, every effort is made to use local, in-season ingredients, and to fly in the freshest seafood. So, at a recent dinner, we started the evening with stuffed, battered and fried squash blossoms that came from the restaurant’s garden. An equally outstanding appetizer— although the portion size might cause you to think it’s an entree—is tuna carpaccio, which featured a big slab of sushi-grade tuna, sliced to about 1/8-inch thickness so that it covered the entire dinner plate it was served upon. It’s drizzled with a light citrus vinaigrette, and topped with an edible garnish of avocado, citrus salad and candied wasabi. The service at Harbor is also excellent. It wasn’t until we’d gotten through part of our meal that we discovered our server was none other than co-owner Taylor Jacobsen. Both owners pitch in and work the floor, and in doing so, can afford to pay the other servers better.

That’s just another reason to dock yourself at Harbor.

Reviewed Nov. 13. 2302 Parley’s Way, Salt Lake City, 801-466-9527, HarborSLC.com

Tosh’s Ramen

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

American SNiper

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Bradley Cooper in American Sniper goes to Cooper, in a performance that’s engrossing in its taciturn simplicity. As portrayed in American Sniper, Chris doesn’t overthink his job of killing the people who threaten his comrades in arms, which both makes him very good at what he does and very bad at knowing how to live when he’s no longer doing it. He’s a God-fearing patriot, and neither Eastwood nor Cooper ever put that context in ironic quotation marks; they make Chris’ lack of introspection both intriguing and heartbreaking.

Was the real Chris Kyle that same guy?

Based on other journalistic accounts, perhaps not. Yet ultimately, that has little to do with either the successes or the failings of American Sniper as a piece of cinematic storytelling. After it plugs through the men-at-war business, it gets at something real about the fight still facing so many of America’s soldiers once they’ve returned home. That feels far more significant than what it may or may not get right about one soldier. CW

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informant for the U.S. troops faces a barbaric enforcer. Yet it’s also hard to ignore that the film’s perspective often turns it into a straightforward action movie unconcerned with moral complexity, especially when Chris’ counterpart for the Iraqi insurgents—an Olympic marksman named Mustafa (Sammy Sheik)—becomes practically a James Bond supervillain in his seeming invincibility. Virtually all the time that American Sniper is on the field of battle, it feels indistinguishable from any patriotic, troop-supporting tale you could name.

But when Chris has to stare down the aftermath during quiet moments, it’s an entirely different story. Eastwood and screenwriter Jason Hall struggle with how to incorporate Taya into Chris’ unsettled world—sometimes finding the convincing terror of a phone call home that’s interrupted by a sniper attack, sometimes making her the whiny wife who says things like, “It’s not about them, it’s about us,” or, “Even when you’re here, you’re not here.” Yet American Sniper is terrific at conveying Chris’ inability to leave Iraq behind, whether it’s his nervous reactions to sounds like a lawnmower starting, or his awkwardness knowing how to respond when he’s greeted by a soldier whose life he saved. As a portrait of post-traumatic stress that never allows the end of the war to truly be the end of the war, it’s remarkably potent.

And much of the credit for that portrait

ven if you remember the bizarre news story that inspired it, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher is likely to be deeply unsettling. Miller has a masterful way of keeping us off-balance and uneasy, building a gradual sense of doom, whether we know what’s coming or not.

In 1987, three years after wrestling brothers Mark and Dave Schultz both won medals in the Olympics, monosyllabic, unemployed Mark (Channing Tatum) is living on ramen when he’s invited to visit weirdo billionaire John E. du Pont (Steve Carell) at his massive Pennsylvania estate, called Foxcatcher. Du Pont, socially awkward, fabulously rich but friendless, fancies himself a wrestling coach, and he wants to sponsor Mark and Dave’s training. Dave (Mark Ruffalo), the savvier brother, is skeptical, but Mark is all for it.

Thus begins a peculiar, often unnervingly funny bromance, complete with a training montage with a musical score that belongs to a falling-in-love montage.

Mark is oblivious, and the film makes no overt references, but it’s not hard to see why sexually repressed John might want to hang out with strapping young athletes. Mark becomes his pet Olympic medalist prize to show off at parties.

Du Pont can be dull or outrageous, pathetic or humorous, but Carell plays the man at all times as a real person.

He loses himself in the role so well that I quickly got past the weirdness of his familiar voice coming from a face drastically altered by makeup and prosthetics to resemble the real du Pont.

Miller (Capote, Moneyball) keeps a quiet, deliberate pace, moving gently but steadily toward the climax. He lets the characters do what they do without making sport of them. The movie is often funny, yet not a comedy; it’s disturbing, but not explicitly horror. It’s a riveting character study, a non-sensationalist account of a true story that compels our interest even if we know the ending. CW

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f movie-world think pieces are any indication, American Sniper is the latest factbased movie that simply isn’t going to be allowed to be a movie. We’re apparently not allowed to talk about it without worrying about whether it smooths over the rough edges of its primary subject, Navy SEAL Chief Chris Kyle, or speculating on its politics because of what we know about director Clint Eastwood and his conversations with empty chairs. It’s not possible for me to stress this enough: If you are looking for a review of the documentary that American Sniper isn’t, I invite you to search elsewhere, good luck and godspeed.

None of which is to say that what is on the screen isn’t occasionally frustrating, or disappointing, or simplistic. But it’s also startlingly good at one particular thing: looking inside the head of a soldier who can’t process his wartime experience because he doesn’t know how to look inside his own head. And it’s a fantastic showcase for Bradley Cooper playing the kind of character it’s not always easy for an actor to capture.

American Sniper opens with Cooper’s Chris Kyle on his first tour in Fallujah, perched on a rooftop protecting the Marines clearing buildings door to door.

From the moment of his first life-or-death decision, the story flashes back—to his Texas childhood, his career as a rodeo cowboy, his eventual enlistment, and his courtship and marriage to his wife, Taya (Sienna Miller)—before returning to his experiences serving in Iraq. But between those tours, he finds himself unable to return to normalcy in his family life.

Plenty of American Sniper is spent on Chris’ battlefield exploits and traumas, from the expertise as a marksman that earned him the nickname “The Legend” to the death of fellow soldiers he was unable to save. Eastwood brings tension to plenty of those life-or-death set pieces, including a harrowing section where an Iraqi

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American Sniper HHH See review p. 31. Opens Jan. 16 at theaters valleywide. (R) Blackhat [not yet reviewed] A convict (Chris Hemsworth) is enlisted to break up a worldwide cyber-crime network. Opens Jan. 16 at theaters valleywide. (R) Foxcatcher HHHH See review p. 31. Opens Jan. 16 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R) Paddington HHH.5 The young bear gentleman star of more than 20 books by Michael Bond—and several iterations on television—comes to movie screens for the first time. And, in one of the more pleasant surprises in some time, it’s a visually creative, energetic, thoroughly satisfying film. The surprise derives mainly from the expectation that the warm charm and Britishness of Bond’s stories are irreproducible in modern times, but the movie makes the wise choice of being about the kind of nostalgia Paddington fans feel for the stories, set as it is in a cold modern world where the niceties of the past are faint memories. The key to it working is that the past is not over-romanticized, and the present is not over-demonized.

Well, that and the CGI bear is actually cute—because no matter how good the filmmaking or how measured the writing is, if the bear isn’t cute, Paddington doesn’t work. And it is (abetted by

Ben Whishaw’s note-perfect voice performance), so it does. The humans—particularly an inspired Nicole Kidman as the villain— are all ideally cast, and all seem to be having a wonderful time.

Opens Jan. 16 at theaters valleywide. (PG)—Danny Bowes Spare Parts [not yet reviewed] Fact-based story of four Mexican-American students determined to compete in a national high school robotics competition.

Opens Jan. 16 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) The Wedding Ringer [not yet reviewed] An engaged guy with no friends (Josh Gad) enlists the services of a “best man for hire” (Kevin Hart). Opens Jan. 16 at theaters valleywide. (R)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS Bears At Viridian Event Center, Jan. 17, 11 a.m. (G) Comedy Night on Film See More Essentials, p. 21. At Edison Street Events, Jan. 15-16, 7:30 p.m. (NR) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy At Brewvies, Jan. 19, 10 p.m. (PG) Sol Lewitt At Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Jan. 21, 7 p.m. (NR)

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CURRENT RELEASES Inherent Vice HHHH Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel is weird, rambling, occasionally over the top—and those are features, baby, not bugs. Anderson follows circa-1970 Los Angeles P.I./ habitual stoner “Doc� Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) as he investigates a tangled case involving his ex-girlfriend, local police, the FBI, white supremacists and drug smugglers. Much of the fun involves watching Doc grow increasingly paranoid at the way everyone seems to be part of the same mysterious web of intrigue, and Phoenix brings a magnificent zest for physical comedy to the role. It would be a joy to watch simply for Phoenix, Josh Brolin and other madcap performances, but its madness in fact proves 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. (R)—Scott Renshaw Selma HHHH It could have been just an inspirational drama, or just a hagiographic portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo). But director Ava DuVernay takes a page from Lincoln by focusing on a single crucial philosophical battle—in this case, King’s organization of protests for African-American voting rights in 1965 Alabama, including his interactions with President Lyndon Johnson (Tom Wilkinson)—and showing all the negotiation, strategizing and mistakes that went into winning it. It’s also a powerful portrait of King himself, precisely because it takes him down from the pedestal and allows Oyelowo’s powerful performance to flourish. With every moment that shows King fine-tuning a speech, 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 find the best way to do the work. (PG-13)—SR

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Taken 3 H Liam Neeson’s Grumpy Dad lays waste to the Los Angeles Police Department while avenging his ex-wife. Forest Whitaker stops by. Producer/co-writer Luc Besson’s and director Olivier Megaton’s kinda-sorta approximation of The Fugitive finds Besson’s creative powers at low ebb, displaying an almost fascinating lack of interest toward connecting one low-impact set piece to the next. In what very well may be a motion-picture first, much of the plot’s dramatic weight is shouldered by a bagel.

Neeson, his craggy growl and one really sweet leather jacket all do what they can, but lacking the novelty of the first installment—or even the goony ludicrousness of the second—all that remains here is a bunch of humdrum fights edited into near-oblivion. If you peer closely, in the right light, you can actually almost see our hero kick a guy. (PG-13)—Andrew Wright

Wild HH.5 Early in this adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) lets loose a primal scream during her 1,000-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail—and Wild doesn’t quite help us understand the personal demons behind that scream. Director Jean-Marc ValÊe weaves back and forth in time between Strayed’s three-month journey in 1995 and the events that drove her to it, including the death of her beloved mother (Laura Dern) from cancer. That structure never allows the relationship between Strayed and her mother to feel as powerful as she keeps saying it was, nor does Witherspoon’s performance strike the right tone of seen-it-all toughness. There’s enough tension in individual moments to keep you watching, but those moments never add up to more than a howl in the wilderness without a real sense for who’s howling, or why. (R)—SR

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Syfy’s 12 Monkeys kicks off Fatal Fridays; Justified begins its ride into the sunset.

Portlandia Thursdays (IFC) New Season: One of the selling points of Portlandia has always been that if you don’t like one sketch, there’s another coming along in a minute. In Season 5, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are going a different route and spending a whole episode with one pair of characters (last week’s premiere focused on feminist bookstore owners Toni and Candace; tonight’s ep is about Lance and Nina—you know, with Brownstein as the mustached dude and Armisen as the needy girlfriend). Change is good, but this setup is probably going to be stretched thin over eight or 10 episodes … though I’d totally watch 30 minutes of frequent guest star Annie Clark (St. Vincent) facing off against Armisen’s gearhead Studio Guy.

12 Monkeys Friday, Jan. 16 (Syfy) Series Debut: The 1995 Terry Gilliam film is a sci-fi classic, and Syfy’s 12 Monkeys wisely doesn’t attempt to replicate it, instead creating a new(ish) story within the framework.

Aaron Stanford (Nikita) plays Cole, a time-traveler from the, natch, post-apocalyptic future of 2043, sent back on a mission to stop the Army of the 12 Monkeys terrorist group from unleashing a virus that kills 7 billion people. That’s about it for the similarities; this 12 Monkeys is grittier (read: cheaper) and faster-paced than the movie, and Stanford is even

New Series: Critics love Duplass brothers (Jay and Mark, the latter you’d recognize from The League) movies—not necessarily this critic, but other critics. Their new HBO midlifecrisis dramedy Togetherness inhabits the same subdued, intimate world of their films—I’m not invoking the term “mumblecore” here—with Mark and Melanie Lynskey as an over-it married couple who let his unemployed actor friend (Steve Zissis) and her chronically single sister (Amanda Peet) move into their home because, hey, does anything really matter anymore? Just pour the wine. Togetherness is an odd fit between Girls and Looking on Sundays, but it’s worth tracking to see if these characters ever escape their respective funks.

The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore Monday, Jan. 19 (Comedy Central) Series Debut: You may be wondering, “Why isn’t it called The Minority Report?” Originally, the Colbert Report replacement starring Daily Show “Senior Black Correspondent” Larry Wilmore was going to be titled as such, but then Fox announced that it was considering producing a TV

series based on the 2002 movie of the same name, leading Comedy Central to say, “Screw it, just call it The Nightly Show,” which clicks nicely with lead-in The Daily Show. At least better than the other title that was in the running, Battlefield Earth With Larry Wilmore.

Justified Tuesday, Jan. 20 (FX) Season Premiere: Raylan’s (Timothy Olyphant) endgame in the … sigh … final season of Justified, home of the best dialogue on TV, is to bring down frenemy Boyd (Walton Goggins) once and for all, using the love of Boyd’s life, Ava (Joelle Carter)—obviously, it’s going to get messy. Raylan and Boyd’s Roadrunner/Coyote dance isn’t the only drama afoot in Harlan, Ky., however: Dixie Mafia heads Katherine Hale (Mary Steenburgen) and Wynn Duffy (Jere Burns) are plotting a multimillion-dollar robbery—to be carried out

by Boyd—and there are some new heavies in town stirring up trouble (guest power-players Garret Dillahunt, Jeff Fahey and Sam Elliott—sans ’stache!). But with all of this coming down the pike, the biggest surprise of the Season 6 opener, “Fate’s Right Hand,” is a sad, touching performance from previously written-off hillbilly Dewey Crowe (Damon Herriman). Sons of Anarchy was tough, but Justified is the FX loss that’s really going to sting.

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Series Debut: Why, Terry Crews, why? Is the covert comedy weapon of Brooklyn Nine-Nine stooping to host an Internet clip show in the Fox dead zone of Friday night (the final season of Glee is also here, by the way) under corporate duress? Flex twice for yes, Terry! If you’re unfamiliar with this little thing known as The Entirety of Cable, World’s Funniest Fails features comedians you’ve never heard of making withering, snarky pop-up comments on YouTube videos. For an hour. Your mom with the AOL account will love it.

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less Bruce Willis-y than Emily Hampshire (as mental patient Goines) is Brad Pitt. The series also doesn’t slow down to explain the ins and outs of time travel much, because there are only 13 episodes and Syfy figures you’re already hip to properly spelled sci-fi. Combined with the similarly apocalyptic Helix (which also returns tonight), welcome to Fatal Fridays.

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“Got heads turnin’ around like ‘Who he?’ ” he raps over the Daisy-Age-via-Minimalism beat of “1, 2, 3,” the lead track from his 2014 full-length, Hallways.

“Street don’t want him around, he too deep/ The deep don’t want him around, he too street.”

Then again, Homeboy Sandman’s not really worried about fitting in.

“That rhyme, the way it’s presented, might seem like a negative, but I’ve thought of it as a positive that I’m able to move throughout these different spheres of existence,” he says. “I think different enclaves, different groups, look at me as kind of an outsider given some of my differences.”

True enough, the bare facts of Homeboy Sandman’s life don’t paint him as a typical rap dude. Born Angel Del Villar II to a Dominican heav y weight boxer-turned-law yer father and a Puerto Rican mother, he was raised in Queens’ intensely multicultural Elmhurst neighborhood, and graduated from prep school in New Hampshire before attending the University of Pennsylvania, part of the Iv y League.

He’s an astute essayist whose incendiary articles— critical of mainstream hip-hop culture’s self-defeating lexicon and dearth of topical diversity—have been published by The Huffington Post and Gawker, among others. Del Villar studied law, and was a semester short of graduating with two different graduate degrees. He taught ninth and 10th grades in New York City’s public school system before pursuing rap full time, grinding his way through the city’s rank & file by embarking on a shameless self-promotional campaign.

He hit every stage and crowd he could, of course, and also wrote his rhymes in chalk on the sidewalks outside of the offices of music publications, and littered subway trains with stickers and CDs of his music.

“Talent is an empirical thing,” Del Villar says. “So, if you find that you have some kind of talent in some kind of field, then it’s really all about putting in work. And so all ... the train-bombings that I was doing early on, that’s just because I knew I had the goods.”

“It’s hard out here for a rapper these days,” Del Villar spits on Hallways’ “Refugee,” but his rise has been meteoric since his 2007 debut. By 2009, he was packing New York City’s Knitting Factory; in 2010, after dropping his breakthrough The Good Sun, he linked with forward-thinking hip-hop label Stones Throw. His two Stones Throw fulllengths, Hallways and 2012’s First of a Living Breed, find Del Villar at a sustained artistic peak. Hometown alt-weekly Village Voice named Hallways the top New York City rap album of 2014, calling it “simply the sound of a master rap writer at work.”

Del Villar’s appeal comes from his music’s melodic charisma, which works in tandem with his mercurial vocal

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Angel Del Villar II raps under a pseudonym, but it’s still all about him. delivery style. At times, he slides into an easy, shy-seeming lilt that suggests the influence of independent New York rap legends Talib Kweli and De La Soul; at others, he revs into a rapid-fire polysyllabic juggle that squares him in the company of Kendrick Lamar’s Black Hippy crew.

Like many independent hip-hoppers, Del Villar’s an unrepentant moralist who won’t rap about guns or avail himself of hollow endorsement opportunities.

“I’m definitely not a brand at all,” he says. “Tide is a brand. I’m a person. I change and I grow.”

Indeed, Del Villar’s staying power as an emcee could be attributed to his music reflecting his evolution as a person. When Del Villar changes his diet—“Used to be vegan/ Now every piece of chicken that I see, I’m eatin’,” he spits on “Activity”—he raps about it. When his philosophies change—contrast Living Breed’s “Illuminati,” a philippic on the darker side of the American dream, with Hallways’ celebratory “America, the Beautiful”—he raps about it.

For Del Villar, that personal growth process is inseparable from the artistic process: “Seems like motherfuckers so afraid of life/ so afraid of being wrong, so afraid of being right,” he raps on “Activity.” “I’m concerned with livin’ life greater/ fuck it if I’m wrong, I’ll correct the shit later.”

“I’m being myself,” Del Villar says. “Like many people, I spent much of my early life into conformity and trying to be what I thought I was supposed to be. Not to say that I’m completely over that, but my life is about trying to be myself, trying to be who I am. I feel like the closer I get to being me, the more there’s going to be no one like me. For me, I just want to represent that. I don’t want to be anything but what I am.” CW

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verybody knows that the Sundance Film Festival is like Christmas for lovers of independent film, but there’s plenty for music fans to enjoy, too—after all, you gotta give those peepers a rest from constant movie-watching.

So, between hustling from theater to theater, duck into the SLC Festival Cafe in downtown Salt Lake City and the Sundance ASCAP Music Cafe in Park City, and experience Sundance’s musical side Jan. 23-31. For updates, follow @visitsaltlake and @ ASCAP on Twitter.

Centrally located between the downtown festival venues of Broadway Centre Cinemas and the Rose Wagner Center, the SLC Festival Cafe (Sicilia Pizza Kitchen, 35 W. 300 South, 801-961-7077, SiciliaPizza. net) will feature an all-local lineup. Admission is free to all (no credentials needed), but seating is limited, so arrive at 8:30 p.m. sharp for all shows, then grab a slice of pizza and a beer, and enjoy. The lineup spans multiple genres, and features a lot of great local names: Hypnotic gypsy-punk band Juana Ghani will perform Jan. 23; Americana/folk band Devil’s Club will perform Jan. 24; country-rock/psych outfit Triggers & Slips will play Jan. 25 at 6:30 p.m.; Katya Murafa will perform violin-laced trip-hop Jan. 26; blues/alt-country artist John Thomas Draper will do a solo set Jan. 27; jazz/pop-rock group The Fence will perform Jan. 28; blues/Americana twosome Dusty Boxcars (John Thomas Draper & Kerry Strazdins) will play Jan. 29; rock group The B.D. Howes Band will perform Jan. 30; and video-game-influenced rapper Mark Dago will perform Jan. 31.

The 17th-annual A SCA P Music Cafe (Rich Haines Gallery, 751 Main, 435-647-3881, RichHainesGalleries.com) in Park City will be open to festival-credential holders 21 and over and host an extensive selection of national musicians, many of which have music featured in films being screened at this year’s festival. The full lineup is too extensive to list here (visit ASCAP.com/Sundance for the whole enchilada), but there are some highlights worth noting.

Andrew Dost of Fun., whose music can be heard in the film The D Train, will perform at 3:20 p.m. on Jan. 24-25. Los Angeles indie-pop brother & sister duo The Belle Brigade—whose upcoming album, Just Because (due out in March) sounds really catchy— will play at 3:20 p.m. on Jan. 29 and 2 p.m. on Jan. 30. San Francisco group The Family Crest have a rich sound that combines rock and heavy orchestral elements, and you can catch them at 4:40 p.m. on Jan. 25-26. And although folk/Americana duo Jamestown Revival are originally from Texas, they have strong ties to Utah since they lived here temporarily in a mountain-bound cabin while recording their latest album, 2014’s Utah. Jamestown Revival will most likely play some of that material when they perform at 3:20 p.m. on Jan. 23 and 4 p.m. on Jan. 24. CW

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Velour Nine-Year Anniversary As a hub of the Provo music scene and a continual supporter of local music, landmark venue Velour seems to get only better and better with age. And as has become an annual tradition, owner Corey Fox and crew are celebrating the anniversary of Velour’s opening with a huge concert. The twonight event will feature some locals, a few Provo-born bands that have relocated to Los Angeles, and a brand-new band that’s debuting tonight, so you’d better get yourself to both shows. Night 1’s lineup will include nationally acclaimed indie-rock band The Moth & the Flame, who just celebrated their third anniversary in November and are currently on tour; electro/alt-rock twosome Sego, who have roots in Utah but are based in Los Angeles, and are making their first appearance in Provo tonight; and Haarlem, a band made up of members of Polytype, Parlor Hawk and Loud Harp that’s performing for the first time at this show. Night 2 will feature oldies-inspired surf/indie-rock fivepiece The New Electric Sound; indie-rock/ electro band The Brocks; and Los Angeles indie-pop quartet Mount Saint. Velour, 135 N. University Ave., Provo, also Jan. 17, 8:30 p.m., $10, VelourLive.com

Saturday 1.17

Aoife O’Donovan As the founder/frontwoman of alt-bluegrass band Crooked Still and a member of Americana trio Sometymes Why, Brooklynbased singer-songwriter Aoife (pronounced “Ee-fuh”) O’Donovan has long lent her

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lullaby-like voice to full bands. However, since the release of her 2013 debut solo album, Fossils, O’Donovan has successfully established herself as a confident solo performer with an ear for simple but beautiful melodies and traditionally informed arrangements. And while her understated music is hauntingly lovely on its own, O’Donovan’s voice takes it somewhere completely magical. Perfectly accompanied by pedal steel and rolling acoustic guitar, that voice is particularly striking on “Lay My Burden Down,” and something about “Oh, Mama”—with the wistful line “When I was a sailor, you were my land”—will make you feel like everything is going to be OK. Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 7:30 p.m., $20$69, EcclesCenter.org

Sunday 1.18

Cody Canada & the Departed, Jason Boland & the Stragglers Besides a lot of ampersands, this show will feature a whole lot of country and rootsy rock. Texas country/rock band Cody Canada & the Departed was formed out of

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Miner When listening to the lush folk-rock sound of Los Angeles band Miner, it’s hard to believe that they’ve been together since only 2013, but it’s true. Made up of husband & wife Justin and Kate Miner, who are joined by Justin’s brother, Jeremy, as well as a few good friends, Miner hit the ground running, wasting no time crafting music that bursts with enthusiasm and wide-eyed hope—and is infectiously catchy, to boot. As heard in the sunshiny, jangly single “Hey Love”—from Miner’s debut album, Into the Morning, released in February—Miner’s golden group harmonies, toe-tapping instrumentation, and whoopin’ and hollerin’ will put a smile on your face, as well as appeal to fans of The Kopecky Family Band and The Lumineers. Local bluesrock musician and harmonica extraordinaire Tony Holiday is also on the bill. The Royal, 4760 S. 900 East, 8 p.m., $8 in advance, $10 day of show, TheRoyalSLC.com California X There’s an episode of The Office where Michael Scott suggests they make a sacrifice to a mythical creature to reverse the office’s bad-luck streak (Meredith getting run down; Sprinkles dying): a monster “with the body of an egret with the head of a meerkat,” he says. The music created by Massachusetts band California X seems to be made up of elements that are just as disparate, but unlike the combination of an egret and a meerkat, what California X is doing seems to work. Formed by buddies Lemmy Gurtowsky and Dan Jones, California X has a sound that, structurally and melody-wise, sounds like pop punk. But over the top they’ve laid a thick, gritty, scuzzed-out layer of psych-rock-esque guitar that seems to drip down into those pop-punk elements for a style that’s weighty but catchy. Recently, the band’s fanged music has been heard on Nights in the Dark, their sophomore album, released just a few days ago. The Loading Dock, 445 S. 400 West, 7 p.m., $10, LoadingDockSLC.com

Coming Soon Hell’s Belles (Jan. 23-24, The Urban Lounge), Andy Frasco & the U.N. (Jan. 22-23, The State Room), Billy Shaddox (Jan. 22, Velour, Provo), Billboard Winter Fest: Skrillex, Iggy Azalea, Lindsey Stirling (Jan. 23-24, 27, Park City Live), Guster (Jan. 23, The Depot), Jukebox the Ghost, Twin Forks (Jan. 24, The Complex), Haunted Summer (Jan. 26, Kilby Court), Heaps N Heaps (Jan. 26, The Urban Lounge), Particle (Jan. 27, The State Room), King Tuff (Jan. 28, Kilby Court), Matt Kozelek (Jan. 28, The State Room)

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How many other bars double as bona fide museums? City Club is home to both a $1 million Beatles memorabilia collection and one of the best atmospheres in Ogden. The bartenders are friendly but not overbearing, and the clientele are mellow but cheerful as they sip on beer or Beatles-themed cocktails like the Magical Mystery Tour. City Club also offers a free ride service on weekends—both to and from the bar. 264 25th St., Ogden, 801392-4447 Bourbon House

Nestled in the basement of the Walker Center and carrying a classy speakeasy vibe, Bourbon House features a menu of upscale bar snacks as well as full entrees. Take a peek at the expansive drink menu–only full-strength beer is served here, and the cocktails are arranged by spirit, complete with history lessons on tequila, bourbon and the others.

Or, just ask for a Pickle Back shot—trust us. 19 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-746-1005, BourbonHouseSLC.com Copper Common

From the folks behind The Copper Onion, Copper Common concocts creative seasonal sips like the Valentino—a sweetly named tequila-based drink with a spicy margarita-like kick, accented by one giant square ice cube with a jalapeño frozen inside.

And if you want more than a drink to keep you company at the gorgeous, window-facing bar, you’re in luck. Copper Common serves oysters and tuna tartare till 1 a.m., as well as a diverse selection of top-shelf bar snacks like Jameson beef jerky, chicken wings (the popular wings from the former Plum Alley) and Iberico Bellota—essentially, a slab of cured ham from a black-hoofed pig that spends its life eating nothing but acorns. 111 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-0543, CopperCommon.com Lumpy’s Downtown

If you hate bar-hopping, stop by Lumpy’s for the most comprehensive sports-bar experience in the downtown area. The huge three-floor bar houses a game-room basement complete with pool tables, foosball tables and video games—not to mention countless TVs broadcasting about every game possible. The main room is a watcher’s paradise, too, with projection screens and a TV in each booth, if you’re not into mingling just yet. After the final whistle blows, mosey on up to the top floor for dancing to the live DJ. 145 W. Pierpont Ave., Salt Lake City, 801-883-8714, LumpysDowntownSLC.com

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Though Johnny Cash died in 2003, the legend of the Man in Black lives on, in well-thumbed copies of Cash on fans’ nightstands, through repeated plays on bar jukeboxes, and on Netflix, which recommends Walk the Line to just about everyone. Nothing against Joaquin Phoenix, but for a more authentic experience, you’ll want to get up off the couch and head to The State Room, where tribute band Cash’d Out will be playing Cash’s early, most recognizable songs at a level of authenticity that, according to Cash’d Out frontman Douglas Benson, once made Cash’s daughter Cindy cry. (Rachel Piper) Saturday, Jan. 17 @ The State Room, 638 S. State, 9 p.m., $15, TheStateRoom.com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com

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Diva Danielle (Cisero’s) DJ Dolph (Downstairs)

16th fri January kilt night w/ swagger

Utah County Irony Man (ABG’s) Velour’s Nine-Year Anniversary: The Moth & the Flame, Sego, Haarlem (Velour)

Saturday 1.17 Salt Lake City Machine Guns N Roses (5 Monkeys) Rage Against The Supremes (A Bar Named Sue) A Walk Down Memory Lane, Damn That Rooster, Irony Man (A Bar Named Sue on State)

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DJ Infinite Horizon (5 Monkeys) Nappy Roots (Area 51) Live Band Karaoke With TIYB (Club 90) Excellence in the Community Concert Series: Michael Lucarelli (Gallivan Center) Jazz Joint: Alan Michael Quartet (The Garage) Conn Curran (Gracie’s) Marcus Bently (The Hog Wallow Pub) Green River Blues (Kilby Court) Sounds Like Teen Spirit (Liquid Joe’s) Seven Feathers Rainwater, Stag Hare, High Counsel, Terracotta (The Urban Lounge) Karaoke (Willie’s Lounge) Weekly Live Reggae Show (The Woodshed)

Tito Kennedy (The Green Pig Pub) DJ Scotty B (Habits) Marinade (The Hog Wallow Pub) Red Bennies, Great Interstate, Chalk (Kilby Court) Renee Plant Band, Angel Street, Jana & the Rebels (Liquid Joe’s) Kilt Night With Swagger (Piper Down) DJ Choice (The Red Door) Par for the Curse, Erasmus, Tortured Souls (The Royal) An Evening With Mokie (The State Room, sold out) Elvis Presley Show LTD (Totems) Class of 808: Bastion, Typefunk, Nate Lowpass (The Urban Lounge) Dirt Road Devils (The Westerner)

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Tuesday 1.20 Salt Lake City Krazy Karaoke (5 Monkeys) Open Mic (Alchemy Coffee) Steve Hester & the Dejavoodoo (Bleu Bistro) Nights to Remember: DJ Jpan, DJ Bentley (Canyon Inn) Karaoke With KJ Sauce (Club 90) Hell Jam (Devil’s Daughter) Changing Lanes Experience (Gracie’s) »

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“Weather in off-season has always been [a big] contributing factor for visitation,” states Robin Palmer, owner of Desert Pearl Inn. “When it is sunny with daytime temperatures in the high 50s to low 70s, those from the northern climates like to head to Zion for perfect hiking weather—especially those experiencing the soup of the inversion.” And plus, you can’t really beat their off-season pricing starting at $98 from now through the first week of March (holidays excluded).

Aside from being a stone’s throw—think less than one mile— from Zion National Park, Desert Pearl has a plethora of other amenities that will make your getaway over the top. Wake up to unobstructed red cliff views at sunrise, brew endless cups of Starbucks Coffee or Numi Tea in-room, and spend the morning relaxing in Adirondack chairs on your very own private balcony.

Once you’re fueled up for the day, there are plenty of things to do in the area. “Off-season is a magical time of year that allows for intimacy with the park that cannot be had in peak season,” says Palmer. Some of her favorite things to do in Zion National Park this time of year include exploring the Pa’rus Trail and the Riverside Walk, which leads to the famous Zion Narrows. Palmer also recommends the drive over Kolob Reservoir to Cedar Mountain. “[It’s] spectacular and gives a new perspective of Zion from its overlooks and the aspen-covered terrain at the top.”

After an adventurous day, there’s no better way to unwind than with a dip in the Jacuzzi, which welcomes guests yearround. There are also plans to have the free-form pool heated year-round in the months to come.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) You will never make anything that lasts forever. Nor will I or anyone else. I suppose it’s possible that human beings will still be listening to Beethoven’s music or watching The Simpsons 10,000 years from today, but even that stuff will probably be gone in five billion years, when the sun expands into a red giant star. Having acknowledged that hard truth, I’m happy to announce that in the next five weeks you could begin work in earnest on a creation that will endure for a very long time. What will it be? Choose wisely!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) What does your soul need on a regular basis? The love and attention of some special person? The intoxication provided by a certain drink or drug? Stimulating social interaction with people you like? Music that drives you out of your mind in all the best ways? The English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins said that the rapture his soul needed more than anything else was inspiration—the “sweet fire,” he called it, “the strong spur, live and lancing like the blowpipe flame.”

So the experience his soul craved didn’t come from an outside stimulus. It was a feeling that rose up inside him. What about you, Taurus? According to my analysis of the astrological omens, your soul needs much more than usual of its special nourishment.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) In 1987, California condors were almost extinct. Less than 30 of the birds remained. Then the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service launched an effort to capture them all and take emergency measures to save the species. Almost 28 years later, there are more than 400 condors, half of them living in the wild. If you act now, Gemini, you could launch a comparable recovery program for a different resource that is becoming scarce in your world.

Act with urgency, but also be prepared to practice patience.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) In 1939, author Ernest Vincent Wright finished Gadsby, a 50,000-word novel. It was unlike any book ever published because the letter “e” didn’t appear once in the text. Can you imagine the constraint he had to muster to accomplish such an odd feat? In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to summon an equally impressive expression of discipline and selfcontrol, Sagittarius. But devote your efforts to accomplishing a more useful and interesting task, please. For example, you could excise one of your bad habits or avoid activities that waste your time or forbid yourself to indulge in fearful thoughts.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Most plants move upwards as they grow. Their seeds fall to the ground, are blown off by the wind, or are carried away by pollinators. But the peanut plant has a different approach to reproduction. It burrows its seeds down into the soil. They ripen underground, where they are protected and more likely to get the moisture they need to germinate. The peanut plant’s approach to fertility might be a good metaphor for you Capricorns to adopt for your own use. It makes sense for you to safeguard the new possibilities you’re incubating. Keep them private, maybe even secret. Don’t expose them to scrutiny or criticism.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) In his poem “The Garden,” Jack Gilbert says, “We are like Marco Polo who came back/ with jewels hidden in the seams of his ragged clothes.” Isn’t that true about you right now, Aquarius? If I were going to tell your recent history as a fairy tale, I’d highlight the contrast between your outer disorder and your inner riches. I’d also borrow another fragment from Gilbert’s VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) poem and use it to describe your current emotional state: “a Have you been tapping into your proper share of smart love, sweet sadness, a tough happiness.” So what comes next for interesting beauty, and creative mojo? Are you enjoying the you? I suggest you treat yourself to a time out. Take a break succulent rewards you deserve for all the good deeds and hard to integrate the intensity you’ve weathered. And retrieve the work you’ve done in the past eight months? If not, I am very upset. jewels you hid in the seams of your ragged clothes.

In fact, I would be livid and mournful if I found out that you have not been soaking up a steady flow of useful bliss, sweet revelations, and PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) fun surprises. Therefore, to ensure my happiness and well-being, I “All the colors I am inside have not been invented yet,” wrote Shel COMMAND you to experience these goodies in abundance.

Silverstein, in his children’s book Where the Sidewalk Ends. It’s especially important for you to focus on that truth in the coming LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) weeks. I say this for two reasons. First, it’s imperative that you Libran engineer Robert Goddard was the original rocket scientist. identify and celebrate a certain unique aspect of yourself that no His revolutionary theories and pioneering technologies laid the one else has ever fully acknowledged. If you don’t start making it foundations for space flight. Decades before the Soviet Union more conscious, it may start to wither away. Second, you need launched Sputnik, he and his American team began shooting to learn how to express that unique aspect with such clarity and rockets aloft. Members of the press were not impressed with steadiness that no one can miss it or ignore it.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) In one of his poems, Rumi writes about being alone with a wise elder. “Please,” he says to the sage, “do not hold back from telling me any secrets about this universe.” In the coming weeks, Leo, I suggest you make a similar request of many people, and not just those you regard as wise. You’re in a phase when pretty much everyone is a potential teacher who has a valuable clue to offer you. Treat the whole world as your classroom.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In the plot of the TV science-fiction show Ascension, the U.S. government has conducted an elaborate covert experiment for 50 years. An outside investigator named Samantha Krueger discovers the diabolical contours of the project and decides to reveal the truth to the public. “We’re going full Snowden,” she tells a seemingly sympathetic conspiracy theorist.

She’s invoking the name of Edward Snowden, the renegade computer administrator who in the real world leaked classified information that the U.S. government wanted to keep hidden.

It might be time for you to go at least mini-Snowden yourself, Scorpio—not by spilling state secrets, but rather by unmasking any surreptitious or deceptive behavior that’s happening in your sphere. Bring everything out into the open—gently if possible.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) Daniel Webster (1782-1852) was an American statesman who served in both houses of Congress. He dearly wanted to be President of the United States, but his political party never nominated him to run for that office. Here’s the twist in his fate: Two different candidates who were ultimately elected President asked him to be their Vice-President, but he declined, dismissing the job as unimportant. Both those Presidents, Harrison and Taylor, died after a short time on the job. Had Webster agreed to be their Vice-President, he would have taken their place and fulfilled his dream. In the coming weeks, Cancerian, I advise you not to make a mistake comparable to Webster’s.

his unusual ideas, however. They thought he was a misinformed crank. In 1920, The New York Times sneered that he was deficient in “the knowledge ladled out daily in our high schools.” Fortynine years later, after his work had led to spectacular results, the Times issued an apology. I foresee a more satisfying progression toward vindication for you, Libra. Sometime soon, your unsung work or unheralded efforts will be recognized.

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Nevada will be voting on legalizing the plant at their 2015 legislative session, and well, we know about Colorado. The closer the weed gets to not-high-and-mighty Utah, the more access citizens have to the drug. Why? People travel.

Sadly, Utahns can’t get easy access to healthy drugs like pot because our leaders actually believe it’s bad for you. Cops in the capitol city tell me they rarely bust people for pot anymore. It takes too much time and costs tax payers way too much money in court to worry about when people are found to have small recreational quantities on them. What is horrifying is that because pot is illegal, kids and adults have turned to SPICE. What is SPICE? Basically, it’s green herb-looking plant matter that looks a lot like marijuana sprayed with a mix of toxic crap to bring on a mind-altering high. It doesn’t test positive if you get a drug test and worse, the chemicals in it change from batch to batch. Once the authorities figure out and ban one kind of spice form being legally sold, another kind comes out. Our cops don’t have the financial resources to test every bit they confiscate during a bust, either.

Right now the police reports from downtown Salt Lake City busts at the end of November 2014 show that 54 percent of the busts for drugs were for an “unknown-type substance.” My friends in blue say it’s the category they use to describe spice.

The effects of smoking spice/synthetic marijuana are not very good at all. Your first hit could cause you to go into a psychotic break and tear your own face off.

Or you could try it several times and get a semi-high and find yourself in the hospital with kidney failure.

Spice, spice, baby. No bueno. Don’t even try it. Stick with the bud, buds. n

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