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Letters Don’t Promote Circuses

I was disappointed to see an advertisement in the Jan. 15 issue of City Weekly for Jordan World Circus. Wild animals used in the circus spend their whole lives traveling from arena to arena. As a result, most of their lives are spent stuffed in hot, cramped boxcars. And the fleeting moments when they are let out are no better. They are surrounded by handlers wielding sharp weapons called bullhooks, which resemble fireplace pokers. Elephants don’t naturally stand on their heads, and the only reason they perform these tricks is out of fear of physical violence. The film Blackfish showed millions of people why orcas belong in the wild and not in confinement. The same principle holds true for elephants. These are wild animals that are not ours to use for entertainment. I hope that City Weekly will reconsider its promotions of Jordan World Circus.

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Narrator: “Meet Mitt Romney, a common venture capitalist who has accumulated a vast fortune by creating misfortune for others and sheltering the riches in offshore accounts. Now discontent in his leisurely boredom, Mitt once again turns his eyes toward the only item his wealthy

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and made of stone, marble and granite. It would take only modest reconditioning to make these escape-proof. First of all, bishops of this church will need to forgive all male prisoners and make all of them temple-worthy. At that time, white will become the new orange. With so many temples statewide, there should not be a need for more than 12 prisoners per temple. This simple solution will free the old prison facility so it can be developed into corporate headquarters for the state’s multilevelmarketing corporate offices.

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Correction: In “Sad Bastard, Beautiful Music” [Jan. 22, City Weekly], Mark Kozelek’s age was incorrect; he is 48. Also, it was his cousin who passed away in an aerosol-can-related accident, not his sister.

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When Polonius asks Hamlet what he is reading, Hamlet replies dissemblingly, “Words, words, words.” I take Prince Hamlet literally. I know how a word can distract from sentence sense in the same way a selfie upstages whatever is in the background. That said, I am wondering if “dissemblingly” in the first sentence is distracting. As a wordsmith of sorts, I am uneasy with it perched at the top of the column like a parrot on a wire amid a flock of pigeons. I could delete “dissemblingly.” Doing so eliminates an adverb (disparaged by Stephen King as a paver on the road to hell!) while yielding to the wisdom of Rule No. 14 in Strunk and White’s iconic book, The Elements of Style: Avoid fancy words. The resultant wordsmithing twofer is “a consummation devoutly to be wished,” to invoke Hamlet once more. On the other hand, “dissemble” nails Hamlet’s mindset with a single word. That is a minor achievement according to Strunk and White’s Rule No. 6: Do not overwrite. Hamlet reacts to the crafty Polonius from behind a cultivated, false front. The prince does not hedge, evade, fake or pretend. He dissembles. It’s this lack of exact synonyms, a characteristic of the English lexicon, that makes wordsmithing almost as fun as Comic-Con. Another twofer resides in a revision that pivots on “Hamlet dissembles.” Such quandaries as these keep wordsmiths awake at night. My abiding interest in diction spikes every January as lexicographers announce the word of the year. Merriam-Webster.com publishes the most looked-up word—”culture” in 2014—while the Oxford Dictionary shortlists words that “reflect the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of a particular year and have lasting potential as a word of cultural significance.” “Vape,” a verb associated with the use of e-cigarettes, topped Oxford’s 2014 list. Runners-up included “slacktivism” and “bae.” (Credit the latter to Pharrell Williams’ “Come Get It Bae.”) Also naming a word of the year is the American Dialect Society. For the first time, its honors go to a Twitter hashtag,

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“#blacklivesmatter,” a “succinct social message” following the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. By coincidence, the new year finds wordsmiths buzzing about a recent book by Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker titled The Sense of Style. As I studied it, I crosschecked Pinker’s examination of grammatical nuance with Strunk and White’s 1959 book. Ten-million copies later, despite a little criticism from Pinker, its rules for composition are still “clear, brief and bold.” The authors are as prescriptive as IRS agents: Do this with commas; don’t do that in the passive voice. Pinker devotes one-third of his book to prescriptivism, “telling right from wrong,” but he self-identifies as a descriptive linguist more interested in “how language is usually used rather than prescribing how it ought to be used.” He finds objective truth in usage. Writing right is important to me, so I concentrated on Pinker’s guidelines for using “that” and “which,” serial commas and such. Many rules I learned in English classes are specious, according to Pinker. In fact you may end a sentence with a preposition, and you may begin one with a conjunction. And if you want to boldly go, you may split an infinitive without being dumped on! Some conventions apply only to formal writing. This column is “formal,” so I am careful with “presently” (it means “soon”); I don’t use “quote” as a noun; I mull “they” as a replacement for “he or she”; and I write “data are” not “data is.” Granted, most people find these points of prescriptivism unimportant. They are useful in disputes with copy editors and English teachers, but that’s about it. With its snapshots of language in flux, descriptivism has more immediacy. Who doesn’t look forward to the word-of-the-year lists? A year’s worth of coinages—the likes of “sexting,” “swiftboating” and “crowdfunding”—“replenish

the lexical richness of a language,” Pinker says. As these neologisms enter the language, other words fall by the wayside. No “jalopies” at the “drive-in” anymore, and the World War II acronym “snafu” is almost beyond reach just as the Utah Legislature convenes. Other words evolve. In my lifetime, “Mohammedanism” has become “Islam,” spinning off “Islamism” and “Islamofacism” in the process. The plural nouns “data” and “media” are tracking the evolution of “agenda” by taking a singular verb as often as not. Twenty percent of English verbs start out as nouns or adjectives, Pinker says. Think of the participles googling, texting, scrapbooking and journaling. My prescriptivist side is repelled by those noun mutants, even if the damned things are trending. That I refuse to use them is foolish self-indulgence because, as my descriptivist side concedes, widespread use has given them legitimacy. I should be as willing to embrace change as UDOT is. Confronted by speeding on intraurban freeways, UDOT upped the limit from 65 to 70 mph, adjusting the rules to comport with actual practice (of lawbreaking!). It’s an ass-backward deal, but that’s the way it goes. Rules, conventions, guidelines, prescriptivism—whatever word you choose—are foundational. You need them to regulate traffic, and you need them “to provide a stable platform for style and grace” when weaving words into sentences, Pinker says. But Hamlet is remembered for what he said, not for what he wrote. Words provided an emotional release for him as they do for everyone. Most of us lack his style and grace, but many, like me, are skilled in lalochezia—a fancy word for the use of profanity to relieve stress and pain. With the Utah Legislature back in session this week, a cascade of snafus and aw-shits is sure to follow. L-a-l-o-c-h-e-z-i-a spells relief. CW

Hamlet is remembered for what he said, not for what he wrote.

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What’s a word that drives you crazy? Derek Carlisle: Like I don’t know, maybe like any uh, word that people use to uh, like fill in space while ummmm, they like come up with duhhhhh, a thought. Susan Kruithof: Well, my co-pilot, Derek, “wanders” a lot. Which is to say he thinks about things. Ponders, if you will. It does not mean he roams around the office. “I wander what it would be like if you and I didn’t make our deadlines, Susan.” It is “wonder,” D. But he’s from Georgia. Not much we can do about that—poor dear. Eric S. Peterson: For the past couple of months, it’s been “journalism,” ironically. And it’s aggravating because it has been used by people who aren’t journalists and don’t know the word but feel comfortable preaching against “bad journalism” when the product hits them right in their bias. You hypocrites know who you are.

Brandon Burt: “Impactful.” It’s not a word. It just isn’t. Stop it! Stop it, please! Tiffany Frandsen: “Disrupt.” It used to have clout, but now that the tiniest ripple gets to be called a disruption, it’s ruined. “Disrupt” needs to be disrupted. Stephen Dark: “Mountain.” Much like “Martin,” any word where the “T” is softened almost into silence and the subsequent vowel shortened courtesy of a classic Utah twang. My children have been employing such an approach and, as someone brought up on the Queen’s English, it drives me nuts. Jerre Wroble: E. coli. Not that anyone is talking about E. coli—it’s mostly ebola these days. But they sound similar. And both are going to put you down, maybe forever. But, then, you go to spell E. coli, and that’s when all the trouble begins.

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Power to the People Information is power, and the state of Utah is moving carefully into the realm of power to the people—sort of. Sen. Deidre Henderson, R-Spanish Fork, has launched an open-records portal to help people searching for government data. In an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune, she said her goal was to let “regular people” know where to search for information. But the site does more than just make it easy for citizens to file requests for public records, it also puts the vast majority of state records online for citizens to browse and analyze at the click of a button. The portal is expected to expand later to local governments, where public information is often difficult to access. Meanwhile, in the name of transparency, the EPA has issued a new Toxic Release Inventory. Utah sadly came in at No. 2, but at least we know now.

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Medicaid expansion is going down. Is there any doubt what with the Legislature railing against it? But that’s just one of the many concerns in a conservative environment that reveres personal effort and reviles government interference. Tragically, this means the rising death toll on Utah roads is likely to continue. That’s because Utah has neither a helmet law nor an effective seat-belt law. In 2014, half of motor-vehicle deaths were attributed to lack of seat belts, the Utah Department of Transportation reported. And motorcycle deaths went up 45 percent. Bicycles and pedestrians on the roads are easy targets, too. Rep. Lee Perry, R-Perry, who also works for the Utah Highway Patrol, will again push a stricter seat-belt law, but will his fellow Republicans take it up? Not if it’s up to the individual.

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Most everyone remembers reading Newbery Medal books during elementary school: Island of the Blue Dolphins, A Wrinkle in Time, The Westing Game, Shiloh and others. But once high school rolls around, it’s all about The Classics—The Scarlet Letter, Wuthering Heights and The Old Man and the Sea. What about excellent books for young adults? Such things do exist, and beginning in 2000, the American Library Association—the same folks who bring us the Newbery—began honoring them with the Michael L. Printz Award. The 2015 winners of the Newbery, Printz and other ALA awards will be announced Feb. 2. One person who will be watching with great interest is Brooke Young of the Salt Lake City Public Library, who was appointed to serve on a top-secret committee to decide the 2016 Printz winner and honorees. Young is also the manager of the new Glendale library branch, opening in February. Read the full interview at CityWeekly.net.

Why was the Printz created?

Printz was created as a counterpoint to the Newbery. There were all of a sudden these great teen novels, and there was no group to say, “This is the best, this is the most literary,” or at least no way for the librarians to do it. The Printz has one winner, and up to four honor books. They can be from anywhere in the world, and they can be fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels … just anything published deliberately for teens.

Who is the Printz for?

That’s always a huge discussion. All ALA awards are, first and foremost, to help librarians make good selection decisions. Ultimately, it’s for teens, and to help teens find the best teen literature. That’s where the popularity grumbles and discussions happen—are we only finding books that adults like, or are we finding books that teens will actually like, too? It happens pretty often that the book that people love doesn’t even make an honor. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian is a good example of one that didn’t even make an honor.

How can you possibly read enough books in a year to choose the best ones— and not get burned out on reading?

You do have to be really disciplined and have a schedule. It’s also a weird kind of reading, because you have to make sure you’re writing notes. It’s sort of like reading for college; you have to have opinions, and back them up. It’s a slower kind of reading. I was on a committee three years ago called Best Fiction for Young Adults. And because you weren’t looking for literary excellence, you had to read everything—just books you’d recommend to other librarians to buy. You had 200 nominations, plus you’d be reading to nominate. By the end of that one, I was done. I didn’t read a teen book for a year. This one is a little bit more selective. You don’t have to read everything.

Do you have predictions for this year’s awards? I really don’t. I think it’s a super wide-open field. There’s a book called Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith that’s, by far, the weirdest book I have ever read. But I think it has a shot. I also really like A.S. King’s Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future.

You’re getting your own library—how did that happen?

I got my first job at this library when I was 16. I was an aide in the periodicals department, which was in the sub-basement of what is now The Leonardo. I’ve been with the library ever since; this is my 17th year. I’ve just had a bunch of jobs.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Vitamin IQ Simple question here: There are vitamins called A, B, C, D, E and K. But what happened to vitamins F, G, H, I and J? —Chris A. Johnson, New York City This sounds like the setup for a joke like the kids’ classic “Why was six afraid of seven?” Unfortunately, there’s no humor in the health sciences, so we don’t get a punch line where a nutritionist says, “Eh, eff G, H, I and J.” But I digress. The answer, like the question, is relatively simple: Most of those missing vitamins between E and K exist, but for one reason or another—mostly scientific disorganization—are now more often called by different names. None, as far as we know, disappeared in the great Vitamin Inc. conspiracy of ’99. Our first five vitamins, A, B, C, D and E, got their sequential names when they were discovered, one after the other, during the early-20th-century search for cures to thencommon diseases. Many of these arose from limited intake of produce and other fresh food, which in the pre-Whole Foods era used to be much tougher to come by: Scurvy was a vitamin-C deficiency that made sailors’ gums bleed; beriberi was caused by lack of vitamin B (later B1—see below), found in whole grains, meat and legumes. The general gloominess of English weather was responsible for rampant rickets, due to insufficient vitamin D. After these breakthroughs, the great vitamin hunt was on; most of the alphabet was at some point put to use in naming the results. Originally, the assumption was that each new discovery would get the next available letter, but the system went to crap when, 1. Many of the post-E vitamins were later re-identified as vitamins in the B complex, bearing designations between B2 and B12 (please don’t ask what happened to 4, 8, 10, and 11); and, 2. The Germans rebelled and decided to assign letters based on medical relevance rather than order of discovery. Here’s a breakdown: Vitamin F: Known today as the essential fatty acids, of the omega-3 and omega-6 varieties. Should we seek these out? Possibly: They might decrease your risk of cardiovascular disease, but (warns the Mayo Clinic) they also might make you bleed and/or smell like fish. Vitamin G: The American name for what the British called B2. Eventually a truce was declared, and now we call it riboflavin. Vitamins H and I: H is one that got named under the German scheme—it stands for “haut,” German for “skin,” because that’s what it was thought to strengthen. It’s now called B7, or biotin. (Something similar happened with vitamin K, named for “koagulation.”) Vitamin I was said to have a role in digestion, and has since been identified with various members of the B group. And finally, vitamin J: Beneficial to guinea pigs but unneeded by people, it didn’t make the cut.

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The second half of the alphabet gets even messier: The bulk of the later wouldbe vitamins proved not to figure significantly in human growth and consequently were stripped of their status faster than a female priest. For starters, there was vitamin L, so named for its apparent role in rat lactation. Better known as anthranilic acid, L1 is now closely regulated by the DEA: As one of the primary compounds used in the synthesis of the powerful recreational sedative methaqualone, aka Quaaludes, it falls into that intriguing category of substances that are fun but potentially fatal. A period TV crime drama about its production is undoubtedly forthcoming. Vitamin M is now called folic acid or B9; vitamin P was a name given to the compounds called f lavonoids, which apparently contribute more to plant pigmentation than human wellbeing; and Q is an antioxidant called coenzyme Q or Q10. Vitamin N may have been thioctic acid, and it may have helped with “burning mouth syndrome.” Now we just wait till the coffee cools. Vitamin O goes all but unmentioned in the literature (meaning the name is available should Oprah pursue a career as a DJ), and the vitamin R stor y is nearly as murk y. Vitamins S, T, U, V, W, X, Y and Z either turned out to be inessential to human health (S promotes grow th in chicks; T heals wounds in insects) and thus failed to clear the vitamin threshold, or they never existed. The lesson in all this? Stop worrying about vitamins. Daily multivitamins in particular are a first-world solution to a third-world problem—the average American consumes plenty of the recommended daily amounts naturally without assistance in pill form. Much of the food in the developed world is injected with vitamins before it even reaches our plates. Certain vitamins, like A, can even be toxic if you get too much. A U.S. Preventative Services Task Force reviewing 27 studies covering almost a half-million people found no evidence that vitamin supplements offer a benefit for heart disease, or delay death from any cause. So really, that punch line has it right after all. Quit wasting your money on gummy vitamins and cut straight to Sour Patch Kids. They may burn a hole in your tongue, but a little vitamin N should clear that up. Send questions to Cecil via StraightDope. com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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Clucking About Climate There’s something in the air around this time of year, and it’s not just lungclogging particulate pollution—it’s also a growing demand by Utah’s citizens to do something meaningful about the abysmal air. Those who want to learn more about this debate should check out a free panel discussion on the science and economics behind air quality in the Beehive State. On Friday, drop in for a slate of budget meetings on the hill as legislators begin figuring out how to fund criminal justice, social services and other important services. Later in the week, the Salt Lake City Council will be talking about issues ranging from news rack fees to funding golf operations in the capital city.

Utah Climate Change Thursday, Jan. 29

Realize that the universe is hurtling toward entropy and nothing really matters.

Down 49 beers on Sunday before kickoff, or whatever the hell number XLIX stands for.

5. Trust that the team that

plays the game the most skillfully will come out on top.

that they’re not the Utah Jazz.

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Pray to your deity of choice for victory—or at least a halftime Katy Perry wardrobe malfunction.

Salt Lake City Council Tuesday, Feb. 3

The Salt Lake City Council will discuss new fees for news racks in the city after years of lax enforcement. They will also be taking input from the public on what to do with the city’s beleaguered golf courses, which ran a half-milliondollar deficit in the past fiscal year alone. Saving the courses may mean an increase in golf fees, among other proposed reforms. Salt Lake City & County Building, 451 S. State, Room 315, 801-535-7600, Feb. 3, 7 p.m. SLCGov.com

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If “your team” resides more than 100 miles from “your home,” rethink allegiance.

This Friday, the Legislature will begin prioritizing how to spend your taxpayer dollars. Committees will run all day and will look at social services, criminal justice, higher education, infrastructure and general government appropriations. Show up and follow your money. Utah Capitol, 350 N. State, 801-538-1029, Jan. 30, 8-11 a.m., Le.Utah.gov

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Friday, Jan. 30

JK! It’s all about the inflation of the balls, dude!

Legislative Appropriations Committees

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National organization the Citizens Climate Lobby is holding a panel discussion about the science and economic impact of Utah’s toxic inversion. The free event will include speakers such as physicist Rob Davies, Alta Ski Area’s sustainability coordinator Maura Olivos, economist Gabriel Lozada and Laura Briefer, the water resource manager for Salt Lake City. Clark Planetarium, 110 S. 400 West, 385-468-7827, Jan. 29, 7 p.m., free but tickets required, ClarkPlanetarium.org

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NEWS Second Chances

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“It can be frustrating for ordinary folks with a couple of small offenses who are not familiar with how the system works when they don’t know where to go.”—Greg Johnson, Board of Pardons & Parole spokesman

Despite Utah having two expungement programs, cleaning up one’s criminal record is still a major hurdle. By Stephen Dark sdark@cityweekly.net In 2010, Gerald Crawford hit “rock bottom.” He was a methamphetamine addict living on the street with only two duffel bags of clothing to his name. He was featured in a Dec. 2010 news story in City Weekly about the fundingstrapped Drug Offender Reform Act (DORA). At that time, Crawford, sober for three months, was sleeping at a shelter plagued with drug use. From there, he began the slow, shaky climb to a new life. He found work with AAA as a roadside service technician, he says, only to suffer a three-month relapse after hanging out with old friends. Crawford regained his sobriety and, in 2013, found work at a downtown fast-food franchise where the 33-year-old is currently a manager earning $10 an hour. In 2014, he set himself several goals to become “more self-sufficient and more employable.” He reached a deal with the IRS over unpaid back taxes and, after studying at Horizonte Instruction & Training Center, got his high school diploma. One goal, however, remains out of reach. Crawford has had several job interviews for higher-paying positions with benefits, only to be told his criminal record barred him from employment. “That was who I was then, it’s not who I am now,” he says. Crawford went to the Bureau of Criminal Identification (BCI) and applied for his record to be expunged. Crimes such as murder and first-degree felonies can’t be expunged. A clerk informed him that his six class B misdemeanor convictions—mostly drugrelated—exceeded the statute-imposed number permitted for expungement. Crawford believed he was stuck with his criminal record for life. But maybe not. Rep. Eric Hutchings, R-Kearns, says that legislation he sponsored in 2012 and 2013 means that Crawford and those wanting to clean up their records may have other routes to expungement. The BCI is, as he describes it, “a vending machine of expungements,” costing $50 for the application and $56 for an expungement certificate for each conviction. But in 2012, a legislative working group determined

that the Utah Board of Pardons & Parole could provide an alternative route to expungement after an individual has been denied by the BCI, through applying for a pardon of criminal convictions. Applicants generally need a five-year stretch without any contact with the criminal justice system. Unfortunately, word about a second chance through the Utah Board of Pardons & Parole has failed to get out to those most in need of a clean slate. “I honestly don’t think people know,” Hutchings says of the process of getting criminal records expunged in Utah. Mary Jo McMillen, executive director of nonprofit Utah Support Advocates for Recovery Awareness, was part of the 2012 work group that led to the alternative route of pardon and expungement through the Board of Pardons & Parole. “I think we still have a great deal of challenges,” she says of the BCI expungement process, which can be off-putting in its complexity. “Unless you’re an attorney, walking through the process, you have to be tenacious.” It’s also expensive. There is grant money for single mothers with dependent children to get their records expunged; otherwise, there are “no additional funding sources,” McMillen says. BCI director Alice Moffat says her agency does a “review of the complete criminal history” of an individual to determine if he or she is eligible for expungement. If they are, they then take an expungement document to court to have a prosecutor and a judge sign off on it. If the BCI finds that an individual is not eligible for expungement, he or she can appeal within 30 days to the BCI. If the person is again denied, they can appeal to a judge in 3rd District Court. In 2013 and 2014, approximately 5,500 people applied to the BCI each year to have misdemeanors or felonies expunged. Around 4,450 applicants were

approved each year “for at least one eligibility certificate,” according to a BCI official, with more than 1,110 each year denied. In 2013, 387 people appealed the denial, while only 212 did so in 2014. McMillen is concerned that the BCI is not a cheerleader for expungement by the Board of Pardons & Parole. “I don’t think they are clear enough about ‘Here’s your other option.’ ” While the BCI, Moffat says, does not provide legal advice, “We do let them know there is this one additional option,” namely the Board of Pardons & Parole. But if the BCI does not inform an applicant that expungement can be achieved through applying for a pardon, as was the case for Crawford, finding that out independently isn’t easy. On the BCI website, it’s buried at the bottom of a two-page explanation of the “criteria for a certificate of eligibility.” Furthermore, on the Board of Pardons & Parole’s website, there is no mention of the word “expungement” until you get into the nitty-gritty of instructions. Applications for a pardon has grown significantly in recent years, says board spokesman Greg Johnson. From 15 in 2012, the number of people applying for a pardon in 2013 climbed to 43, 18 of whom were granted. The following year, 53 applied, of whom 34 received a pardon. It typically takes three months for the board’s pardon specialist to investigate an applicant’s background and decide whether or not to grant a hearing before the five-member board. The board has more latitude than the BCI. “It can look at the whole history of a person—their sobriety, employment, family situations that have improved,” Johnson says. The BCI, by comparison “doesn’t consider any of that. It’s a check box; you either meet its criteria or not.” The Board of Pardons & Parole, Johnson says, has reached out to the

BCI and indigent legal defenders to spread the word about its pardon process. “We do want to be a service for everyone that can benefit from it,” Johnson says. While he acknowledges “some success” with people being referred to the board by the BCI, he hopes that the communication process will improve. People seek pardons for various reasons, Johnson says: because they are applying for a job, have put their life back together, as a final step to help them move forward, or in some cases because they are at the end of their life and want to resolve their affairs. “It can be frustrating for ordinary folks with a couple of small offenses who are not familiar with how the system works when they don’t know where to go,” Johnson says. Crawford said he called the Board of Pardons & Parole about expungement, but an employee there directed him to the BCI. In an e-mail, Johnson said it sounded like “miscommunication. If BCI told him he was ineligible to expunge a conviction(s), then applying for a pardon would be his next step.” “I want to turn around, find me a full-time career, make good money, retire, and live the American Dream,” Craw ford says. At his current job, after rent, utilities and basic costs, he has nothing left to save. He cites more than a half-dozen friends, who, like him, are held back by drug-offenserelated misdemeanor histories that they cannot erase. As Crawford stands up to go back to the serving counter at the fast-food restaurant, he says with his back taxes resolved and gaining his high school diploma, “I’m on a roll right now.” This, he says, pointing to the BCI denial, “is the only thing that’s holding me back. It’s my last hurdle.” CW

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NEWS Cop Talk

SLUG’s Ask a Cop column sparks online fury over police shootings and freedom of speech.

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free speech, it’s just asking them to publish responsibly.” He went on to say that if SLUG doesn’t comply, readers can also use their free speech to boycott the magazine— something that’s already happening. On Twitter, Fruhwirth criticized those who use “freedom of speech” to favor the voices of the “elites.” In another tweet, he argued, “Free speech absolutism/fetishism is an intellectual disease of the center-left primarily.” On Facebook, Fruhwirth called on SLUG to replace the column with Ask an Abolitionist. One of the original indignant readers, Madison Donnelly, did receive a direct response from SLUG to her comments on social media. It said, “As with all of our writers, the cop’s point of view does not necessarily reflect those of the SLUG staff or other contributors. However, we thought it was important not to censor his response, and it is our policy not to censor the opinions of our contributors.” As an olive branch, SLUG edited four particularly inf lammatory words with strike-throughs, for transparency. Brown says she set up a one-on-one meeting with Donnelly on Jan. 17. Instead, Brown says, she was met by Donnelly and nearly a dozen of Donnelly’s colleagues at Nobrow Coffee Werks. “It was like walking into a lion’s den,” Brown says. “Everybody took their turn telling me how much they hated me, and what a horrible person I am. They called me racist and misogynist. It seriously traumatized me for the day.” The group meeting lasted for an hour, Brown said, and after everyone left, Fruhwirth stayed and the two had a more level-headed discussion. “I feel like he and I had the conversation that I was hoping to have with Madison, where by the end of it, we could respect each other’s opinion, and we could agree to disagree,” Brown says. Donnelly declined to comment. Brown says she has no plans to let boycotters influence her decision to keep the column. “It’s a dangerous road to go down, when you start succumbing to this mob mentality, to changing our journalistic values based on a handful of angry people.” CW

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For more than five years, Salt Lake Underground Magazine (SLUG) has featured an uncensored and often unapologetic column written by an unnamed police officer called Ask a Cop. The phantom police officer uses the shield of anonymity to dish on issues of the day without reverting to the sanitized cop-speak so often heard from law enforcement in press conferences or public statements. While the voice of the Cop is often harsh, in SLUG’s January 2015 issue, the Cop managed to insult a number of SLUG readers while commenting on the topic of police use of deadly force. In the column, a question was posed by a “Lizardhand Gomorrah” who asked the Cop, “Why are cops still using weapons and tactics that kill people?” rather than using Tasers to stun them. The anonymous officer responded pointedly, saying people still die after being Tasered. The column went on to eulogize two officers killed in the line of duty in 2013 and demanded to know where Lizardhand and Rev. Al Sharpton (a civil-rights activist) were when those two cops were killed. “Cops die every day,” the Cop said. Activist and former City Weekly reporter Jesse Fruhwirth, an outspoken critic of police violence and brutality, joined other SLUG readers on Facebook and Twitter to blast SLUG and demand the cancelation of the column. “The recent column from your anonymous cop writer f lippantly justifying recent murders by police is appalling, and your silly defense of it in the face of criticism shows you’re in way over your heads,” said Fruhwirth in a Facebook post. Fruhwirth declined to be interviewed for this story. SLUG Magazine Editor Angela Brown said that she will not apologize, delete or discontinue the column. “Silencing peoples’ voices because it’s not the one you want to hear—that’s dangerous,” Brown says. “That’s why, ultimately, we can’t take down the column.” Brown confirmed that the original illustrator of the column’s graphic, Steve Thueson, has asked that his artwork no longer be used with the column, and a band slated to play at Localized, a monthly SLUG-supported concert, has pulled out. Activists claim the magazine has been irresponsible with its freedom of speech. “Asking someone to use their free speech differently than they have been is not counter to free speech, per se,” said Fruhwirth in a post. “That’s not cutting off someone’s

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Curses, Foiled Again

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Police charged Kahlif Aleem Buggs, 32, with fraudulent use of debit cards after Tamara Thomas noticed a family “shopping like it was Christmas” at a Family Dollar store in DeKalb, Ga., got behind them at the register and saw Buggs pay with her missing card, which she recognized because it had been customized with a picture of her, her daughter and their puppy. When she confronted Buggs, he forgot his $200 purchase and told his family to start running. Thomas followed, leading police to their location. Besides Thomas’ card, police found another missing debit card, which Buggs had used to buy $80 in merchandise. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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n Chacarion Avant, 19, tried to enter a bakery in Groveland, Fla., through the ceiling, but his plan was thwarted when he fell through the ceiling tiles and landed on top of a rack of potato chips. Police said Avant was badly hurt and took him to the hospital before charging him with armed burglary. (Orlando’s WKMG-TV)

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The Defense Department announced it successfully tested a .50 caliber bullet that changes direction in midair. Officials said the “first-ever guided small-caliber bullet” will be especially useful to military snipers in windy and dusty conditions and at night. (Stars and Stripes) n A company called Hyperloop has teamed up with graduate students at the University of California Los Angeles to develop a solar-powered “speed tube” that will let passengers in a hovering capsule inside a low-pressurized tube make the trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 35 minutes for about $30. The tube technology could be used to link other cities less than 300 miles apart, Hyperloop CEO Dirk Ahlborn said, noting, “It could be very easily put together. It’s more about figuring out how to make it a good business.” (Los Angeles’s KCAL-TV)

Know-It-All Follies During her trial for defrauding landlords, Toronto resident Nina Willis, 50, pleaded “the fifth,” only to have prosecutor Craig Power point out the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution doesn’t apply in Canada. (Toronto Star) n Evidence cited against accused murderer Faramarz Bakhshi, 23, at his bail hearing in Cook County, Ill., included his Facebook post: “It’s only murder if they find the body; otherwise, it’s a missing person.” (Chicago Tribune)

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Slightest Provocation Sheriff’s deputies in Traill County, N.D., said Brian Cutshall, 40, threatened to kill his 9-year-old son if the boy didn’t call 911 while the parents argued over a game of Yahtzee. The boy told deputies that his mother was beating up his father when the dad made the threat. (Fargo’s The Forum)

Overcome by Technology A New Zealand couple spent nearly 13 hours trapped in their new “keyless” car in their garage. Brian and Mollieanne Smith had left the car’s instruction manual in their Alexandra home and the transponder outside the car when they realized that without the transponder, they couldn’t start the engine to unlock the power doors. They tried to attract attention by honking the horn and then tried smashing a window with a car jack. Neighbors found them the next morning with only enough air left to survive for less than an hour, emergency workers told Mollieanne Smith, 65, who was hospitalized for three days. After their rescue, Brian Smith, 68, learned that the door

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could have been unlocked manually. “Once I found out how simple it was to unlock it, I kicked myself that I did not find the way out,” he said. (New Zealand’s Otago Daily Times)

Fruits of Research

Researchers linked the decline of marriage in the United States to the rise of free Internet pornography. One of the study’s authors, Michael Malcolm, a professor at Pennsylvania’s West Chester University, explained that the reason is tied to the relationship between marriage and sexual gratification. If pornography is seen as an alternate means to sexual gratification, Malcom said, then it could be undercutting the need for marriage to serve this function. (The Washington Post)

n Fast food might be making people stupid as well as fat, according to researchers at Ohio State University who compared fast-food consumption and test results among children in grades 5 through 8. “Our results show clear and consistent association between children’s fast-food consumption in fifth grade and academic growth between fifth and eigth grade,” the researchers reported. (The Washington Post)

Drone On

Michigan lawmakers introduced a ban on using drones to hunt deer and other game animals. “This came from hunters and outdoor enthusiasts” who felt the use of drones “takes away from the spirit and tradition of what hunting is supposed to be about,” chief sponsor Sen. Phil Pavlov said. Concerned that anti-hunting groups might also use drones to interfere with hunting, lawmakers are considering companion legislation to ban the use of drones to harass or interfere with hunters. (Detroit News)

Instant Indulgence

The brewer of Bud Light introduced an e-commerce app that lets drinkers in Washington, D.C., order 12-packs or 24-packs for delivery within an hour. The move by Anheuser-Busch InBev SA follows that by MillerCoors to provide free delivery of Miller Lite in Boston, New York, Seattle and Washington. The companies view e-commerce as a way to market their products to young consumers who have become accustomed to clicking an app to have food and other products delivered. (The Wall Street Journal)

n Pizza Hut and Domino’s are developing ways to order pizza faster. Claiming to have “the world’s first subsconscious menu,” Pizza Hut incorporated retina-scanning technology and “psychological research” to create a special eye-tracking tablet at its 300 locations across the United Kingdom. The digital menu shows 20 toppings and computes orders based on which ones the customer looks at the longest. “Finally, the indecisive orderer and the prolonged menu peruser can cut time and always get it right, so that the focus of dining can be the most important part: the enjoyment of eating,” a Pizza Hut official said, noting that the menus feature a “restart” button to ensure accuracy. U.K. customers can also order directly from Domino’s by using the voice-ordering function of its mobile app. Xbox One gamers can order by announcing “Domino’s, feed me,” to the voice-activated console, which then places the order. (The Washington Post)

Legalize, Schmegalize Although Colorado legalized recreational marijuana, Rhode Island topped the nation in the percentage of residents who reported using pot in 2012-13, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. (The Denver Post) Compiled from the press reports by Roland Sweet. Authentication on demand.

Hey, I’m Talkin’ to You!

How to get lawmakers to listen to you—not just lobbyists.

“We are limited by our humanity, and we can’t juggle more balls than we can,” Boyack says. “The fact that more people are paying attention increases the likelihood that the net result will be a positive one.” Chief among the reasons that a person might find themselves unable to march up the steps of the Capitol during the legislative session is that most of the people’s business is done during working hours.

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For those who can’t break away and attend the meetings that are important to them, Jenn Gonnelly, co-president of the League of Women Voters of Utah, says Utah has “one of the best websites in the country for following our Legislature.” Along with being quite easy to navigate, the state’s website, Le.Utah.gov, catalogs audio recordings of every committee hearing, which can also be heard live. Recordings of meetings are also podcast. The most important single way to participate in the lawmaking process, says Gonnelly, is to find out who represents you. “Everybody needs to know who their legislator is,” she says. “This is the time to drop an e-mail to your legislator and your senator and say, ‘This is my address. I am your constituent, and I will be tuning in; I will be paying attention.’ ” Anna Brower, public policy advocate for the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah, says that anyone who can’t attend meetings on the hill should

align themselves with organizations that follow the bills that they’re passionate about. For instance, if keeping up-to-date on legislation about police body cameras is important, people can follow the social media platforms of the group Utah Against Police Brutality. “I think there are a lot of good points to plug into where people have done a lot of the screening for you on the issues that you may care about,” Brower says, noting that another good way to keep tabs on legislators is to follow their Twitter accounts. But if the issues you care about aren’t being addressed by any watchdog groups or organizations, Brower says, by all means, attend the meetings, write to the legislators and speak up. A face-to-face encounter can have great impact, she says, even if it’s brief. “You can go up there and observe at any time,” she says. “In terms of having an impact on legislators, it reminds them that there are human beings that they’re impacting.” Even for those who make the legislature their business, like Boyack, it is impossible to keep up with everything lawmakers are doing. Boyack recommends that citizens pick a single bill and follow it through the process. Those hoping to keep tabs on individual bills may sign up for e-mail notifications through Le.Utah. gov—then receive an alert every time the bill moves, or progress on it is made.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah and the right-leaning Eagle Forum aren’t often allied on the same side of an issue. But when it comes to encouraging citizens to participate in the political process, the two groups agree that more is better. Both of these groups, and many others, including the League of Women Voters and the conservative Libertas Institute, have hosted or will be hosting special events during the legislative session aimed at training citizens on how to lobby their legislators and take a more active role in the process. By sheer numbers, the legislative session is daunting: in 45 days, 104 elected politicians lock horns over roughly 800 proposed bills, of which a few hundred see the light of day (in 2014, 486 bills were passed). As of press time, there were 470 registered lobbyists in Utah, or 4 1/2 for every legislator. And, of the money that pours into legislators’ campaign vaults, 82 percent, according to a study by The Salt Lake Tribune, comes from special interests—not individual constituents. Connor Boyack, president of the Libertas Institute of Utah—an organization that lobbies on behalf of private property rights and government deregulation—admits the legislative process can be intimidating. But he and his counterparts in the advocacy world say they would welcome more citizen lobbyists on Capitol Hill.

The Rules of Engagement

In football stadiums across the country—even in Utah—there is a belief that the crowd matters. In College Station, Texas, where the Texas A&M Aggies play, the student body is thought of as the “12th Man” (11 football players take the field in college and professional football). Same goes for the fans of the defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks—the team’s crowd, among the loudest in professional football—are called the 12th man. During this legislative session, around 800 bills, or new laws and amendments to laws, will be put forth. Hundreds will be approved. All of them, one way or another, will impact how Utahns live their lives. Thumbing a nose at this gathering is among the worst sorts of apathy. Lack of participation on citizens’ behalf is little more than a surrender to the whims and wants of these elected leaders and whoever it is that happens to be twisting their ears—and you can be sure someone is twisting their ears. But, in 2015, why shouldn’t you be doing the ear-twisting? The grand marble rooms and the imposing granite building that make up the State Capitol belong to you. Go inside and walk around. Make yourself at home. And when the opportunity arises and a topic dear to your heart is considered, make the elected leaders—and the lobbyists and campaign contributors who throw cash their way—hear you.

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y car, plane but likely not on mass transit, members of the Utah State Legislature have found their way back to the capital city, filtering in from all corners of the Beehive State to commence 45 days of lawmaking. At this very moment, the legislators—many of them attorneys, developers, ranchers and small-business men and women by day—are sitting through “appropriations” meetings, puzzling about how best to spend your money. For generations, this public show of democracy has had a tendency to draw intrigue and provoke ire from much of the state. Utah is a quirky place dominated by extremes. Like its summers and winters, its politics are either sweaty hot or icy cold—a possible consequence of the lopsided number of Republicans versus that of Democrats in both the House and the Senate. This imbalance of political ideology—which, at 12 Democratic house members to the Republicans’ 63, and five Democratic senators to the Republicans’ 24, is at its second-largest gap in the past 80 years—has a tendency to destroy the perception that meaningful debate occurs in Zion when the Legislature convenes. If bodies and party affiliations are all that matter, defeats and victories are foregone conclusions. But politics should be a lot more like that other, much more popular, American pastime: football.

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Don’t Go Breakin’ Our Hearts

Still Listening?

Ten proposed bills that could make (or break) your day. By Colby Frazier, Eric S. Peterson and Tiffany Frandsen comments@cityweekly.net

Citizen Sponsor Program

To aid in this process, the Libertas Institute has organized a citizensponsor program. Boyack says participants commit to reading a bill, contacting legislators about the bill and issuing testimony on the bill. Information about becoming a citizen sponsor through Libertas is available at LibertasUtah.org/sponsor. “The biggest thing that needs to be done for more people to get involved in the Legislature is simplification,” he says. In an echo of what Brower says about aligning with an organization, Boyack points people to the Libertas website, where around 80 bills the organization supports—and some it wants to see die—are followed. Although Boyack, Brower and Gonnelly all advocate on behalf of issues important to their organizations, Boyack says the most important thing, whether you agree with him or not, is to participate. “When more people are paying attention to a given bill, the likelihood of deceptions, the likelihood of corruption, is severely diminished,” he says. Eagle Forum President Gayle Ruzicka says, along with providing a training day for citizens, which was already held on the session’s first day, she invites anyone who wants to tag along with her at the Capitol for a crash course. “You can come up as a group; you can come up as an individual,” she says. “But the important thing is that you come.”

Citizen Engagement Events

The National Alliance on Mental Illness and Utah Support Advocates for Recovery Services are hosting a pair of advocacy days (Feb. 10, 9-10 a.m., Copper Room, first floor of East Senate Building; Feb. 23, 10 a.m.-noon, second floor of Capitol Building. Participants will be taught about citizen-lobbying guidelines and information about the legislative process. Once participants are up to speed, they’ll be asked to hunt down their legislators to tell them to support criminal justice and health-care reform. Another fine way to keep up with the Legislature is to follow the news. City Weekly reporters Colby Frazier and Eric S. Peterson will be posting stories throughout the session at CityWeekly.net. Follow @colbyfrazierlp and @ericspeterson on Twitter.

Even with hundreds of bills already listed for review, and the politicians publicly stating their views, there’s no telling what kind of heartache the Utah Legislature will cause during its 45-day session. But some things are certain: Perennial issues like liquor laws, religious liberty and thumbing the state’s collective

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nose at the federal government will surface. Others, like whether or not those on death row should be executed by firing squad and how police body cameras should be utilized will likely make waves. To give some idea of where lawmakers are headed this year, City Weekly has highlighted 10 proposed bills that could make or break your day.

Since 2003, Utah law has made lethal injection the primary method of executing inmates on death row, but that may change if Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clearfield, can convince lawmakers to pass House Bill 11 this session. The bill would bring back the firing squad as the primary form of execution if the state could not readily acquire the proper chemical “cocktail” to administer a humane lethal injection. The issue came about in the wake of a botched Oklahoma execution in 2014 where the death of a convicted murderer and rapist took more than 40 minutes after he received an inefficient chemical cocktail in his lethal injection. Ray argued that there hasn’t been an issue with a Utah firing squad execution in over 100 years. “A lot of these guys are dead before they hear a gun,” Ray told a legislative committee. While the bill will likely face little opposition, critics say that bringing back this antiquated method of execution at least will highlight the problems of capital punishment. “If nothing else, bringing the firing squad into the mix reminds people just how barbaric it is,” says Anna Brower of the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah. “If we can’t even figure out a humane way to kill people, maybe we just shouldn’t be killing people.” (Eric S. Peterson)

The Zion Wall lives on

The bane of many a restaurateur, the Zion Wall is a screen that’s required in newer restaurants to hide the preparation of alcoholic beverages from impressionable minors. The concept was defended by former point man on alcohol legislation, Sen. John Valentine, R-Orem. Rep. Kraig Powell, R-Heber City, attempted to abolish the Zion Wall in the 2014 session but was thwarted by Valentine, who ran interference on his bill. But now that Valentine has retired from the Senate,

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LDS Church breathes life into nondiscrimination bill

A bill to make it illegal to discriminate against LGBT Utahns in housing and the workplace has been shot down time and again since 2008. Things could be changing this year, as two days into the session, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints issued a statement supporting LGBT rights and religious freedom. Only days before this announcement, nondiscrimination bill sponsor Sen. Stephen Urquhart, R-St. George, predicted that without some kind of statement from the church the bill would languish once again. The LDS Church’s support may not be the last word on the bill as the church also strongly weighed in favor of protecting the religious freedom of doctors and others whose beliefs might preclude them from offering services to LGBT Utahns. What is clear, however, is that thanks to the statement from on high, the LGBT nondiscrimination bill will likely have the robust debate in 2015 that it has long been denied. (ESP)

Powell says it’s an opportunity to normalize the way restaurants serve alcohol. Powell plans to take a different approach this year. Rather than abolishing the Zion Wall, his bill would allow restaurant owners to keep it if they like or allow them the option to create a bar area in their restaurant closed off to minors. Adult patrons could sit at or near the bar and be able to watch their drinks poured and prepared. Powell says the bill would also level the playing field for restaurants since

While lawmakers have been bracing themselves for the $1 billion price tag associated with relocating the Utah State Prison, others recognize that the big move comes with opportunity for criminal-justice reform. According to research done by the Utah Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice and the Pew Center, most of any prison’s price tag is tied to future prison growth. Further, the research points out that 97 percent of prison growth can be contained over the next two decades if state legislatures embrace a host of criminal justice reforms. Rep. Eric Hutchings, R-Kearns, is presenting a package of reforms that would seek new standards, scale back punishments for simple drug possession charges, and fund community treatment centers for those with addictions. While the bill offers a historic opportunity to reform the system and keep prisons from serving as warehouses for the mentally ill and for nonviolent criminals, Hutchings says the bill is tied directly to relocating the prison. If cities prevail with their NIMBY arguments, and the prison is not relocated, Hutchings told City Weekly that he imagines the political will for reform will disappear. “Sure, lots of talk would occur, but when the discussion of money to implement new programs comes up, it would go belly up and be dead,” Hutchings said. (ESP)

some longtime establishments have been grandfathered in and are not required to build Zion Walls. Powell’s bill would require that, over a number of years, all restaurants in the state either create a segregated bar area or have a wall put in place. “Before, the rallying cry was to take down the wall,” Powell says. “But now I think we’re saying, ‘Let’s finds some good policy that works and everyone can be happy about—or that, at least, everyone can live with.” (ESP)

The right to be a guinea pig

In an attempt to circumvent the red tape of the Food & Drug Administration, a bill proposed by Rep. Gage Froerer, R-Huntsville, would allow terminally ill patients access to medical devices and drugs that have passed Phase I tests, but not yet received full FDA approval. Because of the time and expense needed for pharmaceuticals to pass through the federal approval process, terminally ill patients who want the treatments may not live long enough to benefit from experimental drugs. Froerer wants the Utah Right to Try (Life-Saving Treatments) bill, House Bill 94, to allow patients to qualify for alternative treatment if there is no comparable or satisfactory prescription available. Utah isn’t the first state to debate Right to Try legislation; Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana, Michigan and Missouri have also passed similar laws. And 19 other states are considering similar legislation. The bill doesn’t require insurance companies to cover the cost of treating or administering, but it also doesn’t prohibit insurance companies from doing so. The text also does not compel manufacturers to supply the device or drug. The manufacturers can legally decline to make the treatment available to patients. Those opposed to the legislation say that while untested drugs and devices could provide benefits, they could also cause unknown harm since they haven’t been fully tested. (Tiffany Frandsen)

You say “I do”; I say, “I won’t”

Rep. Jacob L. Anderegg, R-Lehi, proposed a bill (House Bill 66) that would give those empowered to perform marriages in Utah the right to bow out if performing the marriage goes against their religious beliefs. Under state and federal law, religious officials already have this protection. Critics of Anderegg’s bill say the protection would extend not only to religious leaders but also to public officials, like the governor, county clerks and judges. “It’s opening the door for religious refusal by people who are employed by the government to serve all members of the public,” said Anna Brower, public-policy advocate at the ACLU of Utah. “We think there are serious constitutional issues with it.” Anderegg declined to comment on the specifics of his bill, but said he was in the process of rewriting it. (TF)

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Taxes sure to have Utahns fuming

With dominating Republican majorities in both the House and Senate, talk of tax hikes is as rare as seeing an Obama button on Capitol Hill. This year could be different. Although Gov. Gary Herbert didn’t propose raising the gas tax in his budget, he has said he would consider raising the tax—an idea that might surface during the session. A potentially larger tax hike could come in the form of House Bill 54, a 1-percent hike on income taxes introduced by Rep. Jack Draxler, R-North Logan. If passed, Utah’s income tax would rise to 6 percent, a jump that legislative analysts say would generate $176.2 million in new money in 2016 and $726.4 million in 2017. Draxler’s bill would direct this cash to education programs. Another potential tax increase could land on the increasing number of people who get their nicotine fix from electronic cigarettes. Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clearfield, is working on legislation titled “regulation and taxation of e. cigarettes.” The governor’s budget, too, has targeted these products, predicting it will raise $10 million in taxes on e-cigarettes. (CF)

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A year ago, Sen. Stephen Urquhart’s LGBT nondiscrimination bill couldn’t even muster enough support to undergo a vote. Frankly, not much has changed in 2015: The Wasatch Front still has bouts of filthy air, children are shielded from viewing the mixing of alcoholic beverages, and state lawmakers are still clawing to ensure that the caucus nominating system that oftentimes ensures friction-free re-election campaigns remain in place. Nevertheless, on Jan. 27, Urquhart, his bill and the LGBT community got a big fat endorsement from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While the church’s statement in favor of laws protecting the rights of LGBT Utahns was greeted favorably by the state’s Democratic politicians, it could also serve as a compelling yardstick to measure the actual influence a single news conference from church brass has over the actions of Utah’s elected leaders. A week before the church’s news conference, Urquhart said Senate Bill 100, which would protect LGBT citizens against housing and workplace discrimination and has been shot down off and on since 2008, rested with the LDS Church. “I think the fate of this bill is in the hands of the Mormon Church,” Urquhart said. “If they do nothing, that silence will kill it because there are members [of the Legislature] that think they are supporting their God by not ending discrimination against LGBT individuals.”

The state of Utah sends its two senators and four congressional representatives to Washington, D.C., to advocate on behalf of the state’s wants and needs. But when these voices simply aren’t enough to stop the federal government from handing down a regulation or law state leaders are opposed to, what then? There is one avenue not currently in play that Rep. Merrill Nelson, R-Grantsville, hopes to put on the table: forming a constitutional convention, where states could band together and amend the U.S. Constitution to allow states to countermand orders from the feds. “The federal government’s too big,” Nelson says. “States have no check on the growth of the federal government.” Nelson says a dozen other states are considering adopting a similar resolution to his House Joint Resolution 3 that would ask Congress to call a constitutional convention of the states. If 34 states green-light such a measure, Nelson says, Congress must do so. Nelson’s efforts, though, will face opposition. Gayle Ruzicka, president of the conservative Eagle Forum, says she questions why anyone would think that amending the U.S. Constitution is a way to get Congress to start following the Constitution. Ruzicka says we should “stick with the Constitution we have.” (CF)

First, a little background: In response to a citizen petition called Count My Vote, lawmakers in 2014 considered legislation that would require political parties have open primaries instead of continuing with the old-fashioned but still popular caucus and convention system. Lawmakers came up with a compromise bill in order to halt the citizen petition. Senate Bill 54 kept the caucus/convention system in place but also allowed candidates to bypass the system by gathering signatures for a spot on the primary ballot. After the passage of SB54, the State GOP filed a legal challenge in federal court about whether the state can tell a private organization how to pick candidates running for office. In this legislative session, Sen. Scott Jenkins, R-Plain City, aims to spare his party the pain of litigation. He has put forth his own ballot initiative, Senate Joint Resolution 2, which would amend the Utah Constitution to explicitly state that it is the right of a political party to establish the process of selecting candidates—a right that “may not be infringed.” Jenkins, who was one of only seven senators to vote against the 2014 compromise, says the Count My Vote effort, and the subsequent compromise, was little more than an effort to boss around political parties. “In the end, what they were trying to do was take the parties hostage,” Jenkins says. “I’m making it from the other side. Political parties’ rights should not be infringed upon, period. It’s just that simple.” (CF)

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A year ago, body camera-wearing police were a novelty across the country, garnering news coverage in a few states where large sums of money had been plunked down for the emerging technology. Now, in the wake of fatal police shootings that have captured the nation’s attention, police departments and politicians are going all-in on devices they say will help clarify how and why police officers use deadly force. But as with all technological advances, the rush to adopt often outpaces the logic behind using a new technology. Rep. Daniel McCay, R-Riverton, plans to introduce a bill that would clarify how body cameras should be used while protecting the constitutional rights of citizens and the police officers. In addition to addressing constitutional questions regarding search and seizure, McCay says the bill, the details for which are still being ironed out, would address questions about whether an officer must disclose when he or she is recording and how the data captured by the cameras is stored, how long it should be kept and who can access it. (Colby Frazier)

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t his 2014 State of the State address, Gov. Gary Herbert dedicated a couple of paragraphs to the uninsured Utahns who didn’t qualify for coverage under the federal Affordable Care Act. Among other statements, Herbert told Utahns that “assisting the poor in our state is a moral obligation that must be addressed.” But in 2015, and after forfeiting $800 million dollars in federal funding, Utah still hasn’t taken action to offer health insurance to more than 100,000 of the state’s neediest souls. To be fair, Herbert has done some leg work. He and his aides spent a fair part of 2014 in Washington, D.C., where they haggled with the Obama Administration about how best to expand medical coverage in the Beehive State, as long as it was done the “Utah way.” The Utah way, Herbert maintains, is a system that differs from the ACA’s outright Medicaid expansion (an option that could have been adopted a year ago and that would have brought hundreds of millions of dollars back to Utah). The governor’s Healthy Utah Plan requires recipients to pay part of their premium as well as pay increased co-payments. In addition, those who use the emergency room for non-emergency issues will be charged for it. Finally, the governor’s plan requires that some recipients be working or looking for work. When the dickering over these particulars was done, Herbert announced that he had won a majority of concessions he had sought from Washington. But alas, Herbert’s plan turned out to be unpalatable to the Utah Legislature’s Health Reform Task Force, led by Rep. Jim Dunnigan, R-Taylorsville, and Sen. Allen Christensen, R-North Ogden, which swatted the Healthy Utah Plan to the mat. Many lawmakers oppose Herbert’s plan because, as with Medicaid expansion, the state would accept federal cash to expand social programs some deem unsustainable. Another problem cited by those opposed to the plan are the costs to Utah, which over time, would have to fund up to 10 percent of the price tag. Without the recommendation from the taskforce, the fate of the Healthy Utah Plan is unknown, though many people, including Herbert, hope that it rears its head one way or another during the session. The governor, says Marty Carpenter, a spokesman for Herbert, remains “optimistic and still hopeful that we can come to some kind of agreement to have a plan in place by the end of the session.” In place of the Healthy Utah Plan, the task force recommended a pair of different options to be put before the Legislature. One would insure roughly 10,300 of the state’s most frail citizens, while the other would insure 15,900 of these people. Meanwhile,

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Lives Are at Stake Insuring Utah’s neediest is an issue some Utah the Healthy Utah Plan, which was crafted as a way to avoid expanding the state’s Medicaid rolls, would provide insurance to 146,000 people. At the heart of the debate is whether or not the state can afford to provide this type of care. If Utah approved Herbert’s plan, it would cost around $18.7 million in 2017, Carpenter says. Although this is a lot of millions, the kicker is that if the state agreed to put a program in place that would sufficiently insure the most vulnerable citizens and get a nod from the federal government, Utahns could sit back and watch $502 million of their tax money flow back to the state to cover the bulk of the costs. By doing nothing, Utah has so far forfeited this cash—an amount that RyLee Curtis, senior policy analyst at the Utah Health Policy Project, says hovers around $800,000 per day. This evaporating money, Carpenter says, weighs heavy on Herbert. And he notes that the hundreds of millions of dollars that Utah has so far cast aside are being used by other states to fund their healthcare programs. “[Herbert] just doesn’t agree with the idea of paying for something that we’re not going to get any benefit for,” Carpenter says. The inability to convince a majority of the taskforce to move the Healthy Utah Plan forward, says Sen. Gene Davis, D-Salt Lake City, who was a member of the Health Reform Task Force, shows how steeped the debate over insuring poor people is in ideology rather than straight economics. Davis says if Utah were to simply expand Medicaid as it could have done and can still do under the Affordable Care Act (Davis has sponsored a bill, Senate Bill 83, which aims to do just this), the state would only be on the hook for 10 percent of the costs. Although this would be tens of millions of dollars, the bulk would be covered by taxes Utahns are already paying for the program. When explaining this scenario, Davis asks the question: Would you pay 10 cents if you could get 90 cents back? The brick wall that Davis and those who support providing health insurance to low-income residents run into, then, is the swell of anti-federal government rhetoric that has enraptured Utah politics for the past several years. “It’s not financial, it’s not economical,” Davis says of the debate surrounding health care. “Right now, the debate is all ideological. It’s the idea that this is the federal government trying to take everything over.” Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck, D-Salt Lake City, says she hopes to see something akin to the Healthy Utah Plan appear at the Legislature, but for now, she says she is “perplexed by the logic, or lack thereof, of the political paralysis that prevent us from taking care of our own.” In her years on Capitol Hill, Chavez-Houck says she doesn’t recall ever seeing so much angst about spending the sum of money that would be required to take care of these Utahns.

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Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck, D-Salt Lake City, wants to be “waking up from this nightmare.” Until lawmakers can reach a consensus, Chavez-Houck says Utahns lacking insurance will “get sicker and people will die because we are stuck and we can’t make a decision, and to me, it continues to be more of a political statement being made versus one that’s made in the best interest of uninsured Utahns.” Though no one knows for certain what form the Healthy Utah Plan could take during the session, for those in need of health care today, there is the far-flung hope that Davis’ proposal to simply expand Medicaid coverage to the uninsured could pass. Chavez-Houck doubts it, saying such an about-face from her Republican colleagues would represent an “alternative reality.” Medicaid expansion, she says, would mean “me and the hundred-plus thousand Utahns waking up from this nightmare and realizing that their government cares about them.”

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At 2014’s performance of Ririe-Woodbury’s all-ages show Flabbergast, the audience sat with rapt attention. There was none of the usual squirming: No one needed to visit the bathroom, and all eyes were fixed solidly on the stage. For a theater auditorium full of elementary-school students at a dance concert, such a level of concentration was impressive. This year, Ririe-Woodbury is bringing back this engrossing production. Quirky and playful, the choreography by Tandy Beal will be enjoyed by all, but most especially by children. To create this full-length dance performance, Beal—known internationally as a performer, choreographer, writer, teacher, producer and circus director— drew on her past work with the Moscow Circus and the Pickle Family Circus. The pieces are held together by a loose story line, which begins with a grandmother who reaches out across time and space to her grandchildren. Her words launch the children into a world of dance and discovery where they learn of life’s joy, beauty and, sometimes, sorrow. Of the individual pieces that make up the performance, some are funny, like cast members dressed as giant babies playing circus tricks on, over and around a sturdy wooden table. Some create a sense of wonder: Dancer Yebel Gallegos’ duet with a giant white balloon plays out with silky slow-motion movement. Some confront tough subjects for kids, as when the company portrays the violence and fear created by bullying. And some are just plain fun to watch, such as when the dancers manipulate costumes of lightweight, flowing fabric to create beautiful shapes and patterns. (Katherine Pioli) Ririe-Woodbury Dance: Flabbergast @ Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-3552787, Jan. 30, 7 p.m.; Jan. 31, 2 p.m. & 7 p.m., $20-$35. ArtTix.org

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Local technology and business website Beehive Startups is launching a daunting venture of its own: a grass-roots startup festival. For three days, StartSLC will take over The Gateway and various venues around Salt Lake City to give business owners and potential owners the opportunity to learn how to launch and improve their own businesses. The festival has been split into two areas: the Main Stage and Festival Events. The Main Stage will host lectures and workshops, such as Surviving Sharktank (where your ideas are put under a microscope and given criticism) and Startup Legal (where you’ll learn the ins & outs to assure everything you’re doing is by the book). The events will take you around The Gateway and downtown Salt Lake City for an array of experiences like the Co-working Crawl to explore workspaces, or Cyber Security Hackers, where your laptop and mobile devices will face different hacking methods to test their security. Throughout the three-day event, several guest speakers from local businesses will give lectures and keynote speeches, hoping to inspire people to further their own business efforts. Notable names include Josh Little (Qzzr), Matt Berry (Orca Health), Sunny Washington (Ardusat), Kreg Peeler (SpinGo), Karl Sun (Lucid), Hana Saleh (27 Spirits), Spencer Hall (KSL News), Angela Brown (SLUG Magazine), Travis Wilson (Jones Waldo) and Clark Stacey (Wild Works). (Gavin Sheehan) StartSLC @ The Gateway, 18 N. Rio Grande St., Jan. 29-31, 9 a.m.-10 p.m., free, RSVP required. StartSLC.com

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There are many ways to view the wondrous natural landscape of Utah, and artists Mark Knudson and Leslie Thomas—husband & wife for more than 10 years—both have unique perspectives. Their painting style borders on photorealism, and their choices in subject and nuances of approach catapult viewers beyond the literal into a sublime artistic experience. Thomas has the more aggressive palette of the two. One can see in an astonishing painting such as “Gray Place II” (pictured) how sharply she renders her line and how ruthlessly she treats light and shadow. In this work, a basalt-like white outcrop is rendered with minute detail in the ridges, lending an unearthly, otherworldly quality to the painting. Knudson does the opposite, presenting viewers with an entirely earthbound experience in the subjects he chooses, though they can be transportive, even ethereal. “Nefertiti” gives an impression of the legendary Egyptian queen carved naturally in stone, set high in a rocky embankment above a ridge like a royal court of red rocks. “Lion in Winter #2” is a long, horizontal plateau, with stripes of snow along the narrow formation, which is set against a telephone wire reaching into the vast distance. “Turn Left at Pace Hill” is another refined painting of rock and sky, with just a touch of something man-made in a yellow road sign that peeks out from the base of the canvas. The atmosphere takes viewers beyond a specific place to somewhere fascinating and imaginative. (Ehren Clark) Mark Knudson and Leslie Thomas: The Modern Western Landscape @ Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, 801-364-8284, through Feb. 13, free. Phillips-Gallery.com

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Immersive theater experiences, like the recent and very popular Sleep No More run in New York City, are often huge productions staged over many hours in multistoried warehouse spaces. Choreographer Graham Brown wanted to create a similar energy, but the challenge was to do so in a smaller, more intimate black-box theater. With You, presented as part of Repertory Dance Theatre’s Link Series, Brown takes on that challenge. With his background in improvisation, it makes sense that immersive theater would pique his interest. Developed over several years, this version is the first fully staged adaptation of many earlier experiments, a collaborative effort that includes original music by Mike Wall, David Schulman and Brown’s brother, Joel. You begins immediately as audience members enter the theater and find themselves immersed in a dance-club environment. The story mutates around the audience into more private spaces, as the four characters of the piece (played by Keanu Brady, Mikayla Ellison, Shawnee Jo Haycock and Jersey Reo Riemo) become clear. While furniture is moved in and out of the performance space, the audience is encouraged to interact by exploring the setting as the work unfolds around them. There’s something electric that occurs in improv dance, and that same energy is palpable when the variable of audience interaction comes into play. Anything can happen, and that nervous energy feeds both performers and attendees alike. (Jacob Stringer) Repertory Dance Theatre: You by Graham Brown @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Jan. 29, 5:30 & 8 p.m.; Jan. 30-31, 7 & 9:30 p.m., $20. ArtTix.org

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A&E X Marks the Spot What to X-pect from Salt Lake Comic Con’s FanX event. By Bryan Young comments@cityweekly.net @swankmotron

t’s January. It’s cold. There’s some snow out there somewhere. The celebrities are in town. Typically, that simply would indicate that it’s time for the Sundance Film Festival. But, in 2015, it also means it’s time for another Salt Lake Comic Con. For the second year in a row, we’re treated to the “FanXperience,” hosted by Salt Lake Comic Con. This year, however, it’s taking place at the end of January rather than in the spring. True to its name, convention organizers plan to make the event more experiential, offering more chances to interact with celebrities, exhibitors and creative folks in attendance. One way they’re doing that is by capping ticket sales. Since overcrowding was a major concern at past events, this event will limit attendance to half of what it was before, and give those who attend a fighting chance. And what is it we’ll be seeing at the event this time around? For a Star Wars nerd like myself, the biggest news comes in the form of an appearance by Princess Leia herself, Carrie Fisher. Not only is she the star of the classic Star Wars movies, but she spent much of 2014 in London, reprising that role for December’s Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens. Having met Fisher before, I can say with confidence that she’s unpredictable. Having her in the building means that anything can (and will) happen. For Whovians, there will be an assembly of talent from the BBC’s Doctor Who that is second to none, led by Matt Smith, who played the titular Doctor from 2010 to 2014. With him will be his long running red-headed companion, Karen Gillan, who played Amy Pond through much of the same stretch of time. And then there’s Billie Piper, who played Rose Tyler, companion to the ninth and 10th Doctors. Hopefully nothing goes wrong, because the last time Rose Tyler was in Utah, she and the ninth Doctor found a Dalek. And when the 11th Doctor was here last? Well … he died. And then he had to solve his own murder. It was weird. For comic-book fans, there are some incredibly exciting guests, with Superman at the top of the list—not the Man of Steel himself, but one of the guys who played him in a movie: Brandon Routh. He wasn’t just Superman, though. He was also Ramona Flowers’ evil ex-boyfriend Todd in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and is currently cast as Ray Palmer (The Atom) on Arrow.

Those of us who enjoy cartoons are in luck at this year’s FanX. Some of the most talented voice actors in the world will be making appearances. The two I’m most excited about are Jim Cummings and Rob Paulsen. Cummings has provided the voice of characters such as Winnie the Pooh, Darkwing Duck and Hondo Ohnaka (y’know, from The Clone Wars?). Paulsen is the voice of two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as well as Yakko Warner from the classic Animaniacs, among many others. If you get a chance to see them on panels, do it. They can take any story and make it the most interesting thing you’ve ever heard. Cummings is the star of my favorite online Thanksgiving stuffing-recipe video, and I once spent an hour in the green room at a convention with Paulsen as he spun a bizarre yarn about the man who killed Jimmy Hoffa—using about eight different voices. Men like these are true entertainers of the highest order. Don’t get too wrapped up in all the celebrity hype and panels, though. Convention or ga n i zers have curated what may well prove to be the absolute cream of the crop for artists and writers, both local and national. There will be no shortage of places for you to buy unheard-of books,

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Salt Palace Convention Center 100 S. West Temple Jan. 29-31 Adults $25-$60 Youth 11-17 $12.50-$30 Deluxe passes $85-$250 SaltLakeComicCon.com

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Disney’s Beauty and the Beast The plot of this stage musical is nothing new, especially for the generation that will likely take their children to see it. Following the script of the 1991 Disney movie, the musical tells of kind-hearted country girl Belle, who is tasked with caring for a selfish prince trapped by magic in the body of a beast. To break the spell, Belle must teach the prince to love others. What makes this musical special are the award-winning creative elements that have brought broad acclaim to this stage adaptation, which has been performed for more than 35 million people in 13 countries. The Broadway musical draws on Disney’s original Academy Award-winning score and songs by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, with a few new songs added to the mix. Brightening the stage is Ann Hould-Ward’s Tony Award-winning costume design, and making it all come alive is L.A. Drama-Logue Award-winning choreography by Matt West. (Katherine Pioli) Disney’s Beauty and the Beast @ Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-7100, Jan. 30, 7:30 p.m.; Jan. 31, 2 & 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 1, 1 & 6:30 p.m., $35-$75. Kingtix.com

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Sunday 2.1 Literary Arts

Frank McEntire: Final Light: The Life & Art of V. Douglas Snow, lecture & book-signing, J. Willard Marriott Library, 295 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-581-3421

Monday 2.2 Hale Centre Theatre: Is He Dead?, Hale Centre Theatre

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Literary Arts

Rumi Poetry Club, Anderson Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-594-8611

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Hale Centre Theatre: Is He Dead?, Hale Centre Theatre Art & Media Film Series: A Day in Pixar, Salt Lake Community College (South City Campus), 1575 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-581-5176

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Salt City Sirens Burlesque, Bar Deluxe, 666 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-532-2914 Ririe-Woodbury Dance: Flabbergast, Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801355-2787 Hale Centre Theatre: Is He Dead?, Hale Centre Theatre Missed Connections Release Party & Film Screening, Jordan Commons Megaplex, 9400 S. State, Sandy, 801-304-4636 Michael Jensen & David Powers King: Woven, The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-484-9100 Laughing Stock Improv Comedy, Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-355-4628 You by Graham Brown, Rose Wagner Center Utah Repertory Theater: Bare, Sugar Space Arts Warehouse Marcus, Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588 Jimmy Pardo, Wiseguys West Valley City, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-463-2909 Off the Wall Improv, The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 855-944-2787

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company: Flabbergast, Capitol Theatre Hale Centre Theatre: Is He Dead? Hale Centre Theatre Laughing Stock Improv Comedy, Off Broadway Theatre You by Graham Brown, Rose Wagner Center Utah Repertory Theater: Bare, Sugar Space Arts Warehouse Marcus, Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588 Jimmy Pardo, Wiseguys West Valley City, 2194 W. 3500 South, Salt Lake City, 801-463-2909

Hale Centre Theatre: Is He Dead?, Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 801-984-9000 I Am Comic: A Night of Stand Up, Movie Grille, 2293 Grant Ave., Ogden You by Graham Brown, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway, Salt Lake City, 801-355-2787 Utah Repertory Theater: Bare, Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 130 S. 800 West, Salt Lake City

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Fuji apple. The small-plate wood-fired mussels ($14), too, are excellent: plump black mussels cooked in Uinta 801 Pilsner and coconut cream, with Thai chiles (again), basil and garlic, and served with slices of grilled bread. But our favorite small-plate choice, by far, was the pig’s head torchon ($10). Niman Ranch pork (from the pig’s head) is formed into hockey-puck-like torchons, deep-fried and served crispy with a cherry-ginger compote, pickled mustard seeds and butterleaf lettuce for assembling “pig’s head wraps.” From the torchons themselves to the pickled mustard seeds, the entire dish was remarkable yet simple. And that’s what I like about Provisions: The food is complex, but not contrived nor convoluted. For example, a dish like the tagliarini ($19) could have easily suffered from too many ingredients. But under Chef Stokes’ watchful eye and judicious hand, it’s a comfort-food masterpiece. Fresh tagliarini pasta (similar to tagliatelle) is tossed with juicy, tender, braised rabbit meat; thin-sliced garlic; crispy speck lardons; and sage-brown-butter sauce. It’s about as perfect as pasta gets. And the melt-in-the mouth caramelized black cod ($25) is about as perfect as fish gets, served with parsnips “three ways,” Meyerlemon confit and an herb emulsion—again, simple, but sensational. So, this was one of those weeks where I donned my restaurant “critic” hat and found an eatery to be very enthusiastic about. I’m betting that, at Provisions, you will, too. CW

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I also loved the citrus-meetsspice f lavors of Provisions’ diver scallop crudo: a single raw scallop cut into four slices, topped with blood-orange wedges (there’s that orange theme again), Thai chilies, olive oil and minced chive. The only thing I didn’t like was the price: $11 for a single scallop. I applaud the freedom of choice the Provisions menu offers. There’s a small section devoted to “raw” fare like the aforementioned steak tartare and diver scallop, along with hamachi sashimi ($14) and oysters on the half-shell ($18/half-dozen). The oysters were delicious and featured, like the scallop, blood-orange pieces and thinly sliced green Thai chilies. The menu continues with a dozen smallplates options, a “wood-fired veggies” section (roasted mushrooms, baby carrots, cauliflower, beets, etc.), a half-dozen or so “large plates” and a dessert quartet. You could roll in for a plate of olives marinated with rosemary, fennel and, of course, orange ($4) with a glass of wine, and get out for about $10. Or, you could go whole hog with a multicourse dinner. We chose the latter. On Sunday evenings, Provisions is becoming a place where professional chefs and restaurateurs gather to close out their weekend. In fact, on a recent Sunday, we seemed to be the only folks in the dining room who weren’t restaurant pros. Takashi Gibo and his wife, Tamara, were at one table, the folks who own Kobe restaurant in Olympus Hills at another, and a duo from Molly Green’s Pub in Brighton had staked out a couple seats at the bar. That these talented people chose to spend a rare evening off at Provisions, I took as a good sign. Well, it was, because the food continued to impress, as did the top-notch service. Don’t pass up the small plate of fried quail ($15). It has a spicy kick to it, served with shoestring-style pickled root vegetables, butternut-squash purée and julienned

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iven that I’ve been writing restaurant reviews for more than 20 years now, I guess by default I’m a restaurant critic. However, that’s not a job description I’ve ever found particularly endearing. It carries the connotation that I visit restaurants to criticize—specifically, to find fault. But that’s not what I do. Or at least, it’s not only what I do. First and foremost, I visit restaurants to suss out what’s good about them. And frankly, that’s the part of restaurant criticism I enjoy: championing the talented, hard-working chefs, servers, bar staff and restaurateurs out there. I prefer to think of myself as a food enthusiast. And every now and then, a restaurant comes along that I can get very enthusiastic about. Provisions is such a restaurant. It’s the brainchild of chef/owner Tyler Stokes, a Park City native who left Utah for Sun Valley, where he served as executive chef at Globus before opening his own restaurant, Dashi. Prior to that—as a teenager—he worked in the kitchen of Lugäno, the very space that is now Provisions’ home. Life is a circle, so they say. As you walk up to and into Provisions, it’s hard to see a trace of Lugäno, so total and complete was the restaurant’s makeover. Even the entrance is new. Interior designer Rachel Hodson—whose creative design sense is displayed at Copper Onion, Copper Common and the new Copper Kitchen—makes a bold statement at Provisions. And that statement is, “I love the color orange!” The restaurant is contemporary, but comfortable and spacious, with a shiny gray cement floor and coral-orange wallpaper. There is orange everywhere, including orange roses on the tables—and somehow, it works. Like the decor, the cuisine at Provisions— self-described as “an American craft kitchen”—is also bold. It’s one of the more interesting menus I’ve set eyes on in a long time. It strikes me as comfort food with an edge. For example, Chef Stokes takes steak tartare ($15)—a classic dish if there ever was one—and makes it his own. Frankly, I nearly screamed “sacrilege!” when I saw that he incorporated soy sauce and mint into his tartare, not to mention Meyer lemon and sunflower seeds. Mint in steak tartare? But it was a revelation—a much more flavorful and satisfying steak tartare than any of the classic iterations I’ve tried.

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Anatomy of a Wine List Pair a Provisions meal with a beguiling libation selection. By Ted Scheffler comments@cityweekly.net @critic1

t’s not very often that I devote an entire “Drink” column to a single restaurant libation list, but the drink menu at Provisions restaurant (see Dine, p. 23) is so well thought-out and so enticing, that this week I’m making an exception. It’s a model of what even a smallish, independent eatery can offer its customers in the way of beguiling beverages. Provisions bar manager Giancarlo Farina and owner/chef Tyler Stokes have assembled one of Salt Lake City best— though certainly not the biggest—wine lists, along with an equally appealing selection of beers, spirits, cocktails and booze-free options. There is something for everyone, and for every budget. For example, anyone looking for an eco-

nomical nosh could order up a plate of Provisions’ marinated olives for $4 and a bottle of Oregon’s Full Sail “Session” lager for an addition $4, and get out of the place for $10—including a 25 percent tip. On the other hand, you might want to indulge in Provisions’ neo-classic take on the Old Fashioned ($12). I’m not certain the guys in AMC’s Mad Men would sign off on this version, despite their fondness for that cocktail, but I like it: Knob Creek bourbon is muddled with orange marmalade, bitters, fresh basil and rosemary. It’d be an interesting pairing with Chef Stoke’s equally neo-classic take on steak tartare, although you might just want to sip a glass of straight-up High West Whiskey American Prairie Reserve bourbon ($9) with your raw beef. A Belgian brew like Delirium Tremens Belgian ale ($12) would be a slamdunk with the woodfired mussels, just as Provisions’ alcohol-free Sunset Splitz (passion fruit, coconut water, soda, housemade pomegranate syrup) would saddle up nicely next to the kale

DRINK salad with persimmon, pomegranate, Marcona almonds and chevre. Over on the wine side of things at Provisions, there is also much to love. Wines by the glass run from $8 to $12, while bottle prices range from $31 for 2013 “The Show” Malbec from Argentina to $390 for 2009 Shafer “Hillside Select” Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley. The majority of the wines by the bottle are in the $35 to $60 neighborhood, however. I like the eclecticism of the wine list, which is mostly filled with American wines, as befitting the “American craft kitchen” that Provisions calls itself. There are exceptions, such as Sophie Laurenz Grüner Veltliner, from Austria ($11/glass; $43/bottle), which is a perfect foil for oysters on the halfshell. And Locations Vermentino ($42/bottle), from Corsica, France, would work nicely with the sweetpotato tortelli in chorizo broth, Napa cabbage and gremolata. With a dozen Pinot Noir choices on the wine list, you could have a ball trying different versions to drink with

wood-fire-roasted mushrooms, slow-poached egg and truffle oil. The 2012 Walt “Blue Jay” Pinot Noir ($78/ bottle) from California’s Anderson Valley was rich and concentrated, with beautiful lavender and blueberry aromas, and flavors of blackberry jam and vanilla on the tongue. At the high and low ends of the Pinot spectrum at Provisions are 2012 Sea Smoke ($130/ bottle) and 2012 Mark West ($8/glass; $32/bottle). Two of my favorite sparkling wines are featured: Gruet Brut ($10/glass; $39/bottle) from New Mexico, and 2008 Schramsberg Blanc de Noirs ($72/bottle) from California. Other bottle highlights— wines that put a smile on my face whenever I see them— include Bucklin Old Hill Zinfandel ($60), Atrea “Old Soul Red” ($45), Trefethen Dry Riesling ($55), Parallel Chardonnay ($100), Orin Swift Papillion ($134), Grgich Hills Fume Blanc ($60), Duckhorn Sauvignon Blanc ($65), Charles Cimicky “Trumps” Grenache-Syrah blend ($45) and Miraval Côtes de Provence Rosé ($52). Thirsty yet? CW

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Snowbird’s Seven Summits will present a Wasatch Brewery Pairing Dinner with head brewmaster Justin Kingsford on Jan. 31. Beginning with a 6:30 p.m. reception, the evening will feature Wasatch Brewery Ghostrider White IPA, White Label Belgian-style White Ale, Apple-a-Day Apple Ale, Devastator Double Bock and Polygamy Porter paired with dishes such as Dutch-style braised beef rouladen, mussels steamed in ale, baby arugula salad and chocolate Porter cake. The four-course dinner with pairings is $89 ($59 without alcohol). Phone 801-933-2490 for reservations, and visit Snowbird.com for more information. Quote of the week: Promises and piecrusts are made to be broken. —Jonathan Swift Food Matters 411: teds@xmission.com

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Steve Ballard—owner of Ogden’s Sonora Grill—and his management team have opened a new Ogden eatery at 582 E. 25th St. called Thai Curry Kitchen (ThaiCurryKitchen.com). According to Ballard, all curries at Thai Curry Kitchen are made in-house, from scratch; no curry pastes, preservatives, food colorings or MSG are incorporated into the curries. In addition to an array of curry dishes like green curry with pork, sour orange curry, vegetarian jungle curry, beef panang curry and yellow Papuan vegetable curry, Thai Curry Kitchen also offers Thai salads and curry & salad combos.

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Bagel lovers rejoice! A brick & mortar location of The Bagel Project has opened at 779 S. 500 East in Salt Lake City. In case you’re unfamiliar, the name Bagel Project arose from the debate that a real bagel is impossible to make without using New York City tap water. Well, according to the owners, who hail from New Jersey, “200 pounds of flour and three months later … we created the taste of our childhood!” The folks at The Bagel Project make their bagels from scratch without preservatives, sugar, eggs or honey—they are vegan. In addition to bagels, The Bagel Project also offers housemade bialys, cured fish, egg and whitefish salads, sandwiches and mandelbrodt pastries. The store is open Monday through Saturday, from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. (or whenever they sell out of bagels). Phone 801-906-0698 for more information, or visit BagelProject.com.

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Forget national chains, Banbury Cross has been making kickass doughnuts in their small cottage seemingly since the dawn of time. These are truly legendary doughnuts, including the famous cinnamon crumb. They come in all sort of shapes and sizes–glazed, jelly-filled, frosted, etc. Try the blueberry cake, bear claw, buttermilk bar, cherry fritter, the muffins–or become a regular and try everything. Go early in the day, before they run out of the gems. That said, every option is heaven. You won’t regret it! There’s even a drive-thru window to fix your doughnut craving in a hurry. 705 S. 700 East, Salt Lake City, 801-537-1433

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Runnin Cafe

Whether you are looking for a snack between frames or a full meal to satisfy your hunger, the Runnin Cafe has what you need. Conveniently located inside Bonwood Bowl, you are guaranteed to enjoy the food here. The Runnin Cafe is a full-service restaurant, with catering for company parties, private events, league banquets, and more. You can get breakfast, burgers, Buffalo wings, pizzas, nachos, Navajo tacos and more. 2500 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-487-7758, BonwoodBowl.com/ runnincafe/cafe.html

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Park City Pizza Company

Located in Kimball Junction, Park City Pizza Company serves up delicious, old-fashioned pizza– the kind you can’t get from chains. At Park City Pizza, you can eat in, get a pizza to take out, or have your meal delivered. Popular hand-tossed pizzas include the Weed Eater (mushrooms, olives, peppers

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GOODEATS Complete listings at cityweekly.net and onion), the Mexican (jalapeños), Greek (spinach, artichokes and tomatoes), Santa Fe (chicken, cilantro and tomatoes) and, of course, good old pepperoni. There is also an entire menu of gluten-free options. In addition to pizza, there are also salads, sandwiches and calzones. 1612 Ute Blvd., Park City, 435-6491591, ParkCityPizzaCo.com

Tickles

Located in Millcreek, Tickles serves great-tasting Greek and American food. Specialties of the house include shish kebabs, gyros, lemon chicken, souvlaki, zucchini fries and a yummy turkey & avocado sandwich. While waiting for your food, check out the international currency board; there is an eclectic collection of bank notes from a plethora of countries (nearly worthless, so don’t try to steal them) on display. 3872 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, 801-264-8100

Ginger’s Garden Cafe

Aroy-D focuses on presenting the eater with flavorful dishes highlighting the spices and herbs that grow in Thailand’s unique climate. The lunch menu features fare such as pad thai and drunken noodles for around $10. Popular dinner entrees include the pad preaw wan, a sweet & sour stir-fry of meat, vegetables and pineapple; and, of course, curries. The tasty gang-dang curry comes with your choice of meat or tofu, plus bell pepper, zucchini and bamboo shoots, all in a creamy red curry sauce. Almost all dishes can be prepared glutenfree upon request. If you enjoy foreign beers, try Singha (from Thailand) or Sapporo (from Japan). 1167 W. 12th St., Ogden, 801-393-2828, Aroy-D.net

Roosters

In addition to great food, Roosters also has some of the best local brews, including the rich Junction City Chocolate Stout. If you can’t decide which Roosters beer to order, ask about sampling. Roosters also brews its own root beer, which you can have straight up or “loaded.” If you’re at the Ogden location, enjoy a brew and a decadent basket of naughty fries (fries with pepper jack, gorgonzola and Louisiana hot sauces) on the outside covered patio, upstairs in the dining area or—if you’d rather have your libations with a side of sports—at the main-floor bar. 253 25th St., Ogden; 748 W. Heritage Park Blvd., Layton, 801-774-9330, RoostersBrewingCo.com

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La Caille

If you have guests from out of town, take them to La Caille, a stunning jewel of a restaurant tucked into the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon, complete with beautiful grounds to wander. French for “the quail,” La Caille features French cuisine in an exquisite dining atmosphere. Begin your meal with escargot, ratatouille or lobster bisque. For the main course, partake of roasted venison loin with a redwine demi-glace, rack of Morgan Valley lamb with rosemary jus, or bouillabaisse. For dessert, finish up with pumpkin tiramisu, bananas Foster flambeed with caramel rum sauce, or chocolate cake served with rosemary-infused grapefruit and fresh whipped cream. And please, walk around the grounds— they’re intricate and beautiful. 9565 Wasatch Blvd., Sandy, 801-942-1751, LaCaille.com

The Point After

This bar, located in Murray’s Sports Mall complex, is an uptown find. After (or in place of) a gym workout, there’s no better place to congregate for great drinks, tempting (and even healthy) dishes, than inside this party place or on the outdoor patio, complete with fire pits. With 30 flatscreen TVs on two floors, The Point After sponsors charter buses to U of U home games and golf leagues, as well as numerous charity events. But beyond sports, there’s a swanky nightclub vibe, where drinking, dining and dancing are the class acts. Food is made fresh; meats, including salad meats, are smoked in-house. 5445 S. 900 East, Murray, 801-266-9552, PointAfterSLC.com

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Spanky’s Deli

Spanky’s is a vintage ’50s-style diner that attracts high school students grabbing a quick lunchmeat-loaded sandwich between classes, as well as Bountiful sandwich lovers. The barbecued chicken and chicken-salad sandwiches are generously stuffed, as are the Philly cheesesteak or the New York-style hot pastrami. Be sure to try some of the tasty ice cream before you depart. 567 W. 2600 South, Bountiful, 801-294-6337

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There’s nothing like a lazy day full of relaxation and comfort food. Lazy Day Cafe offers a calm, homey atmosphere, and stopping here is just like visiting a friend’s house. Their motto is “work to live, not live to work.” This retro cafe/diner offers both table and counter service, and is open for breakfast and lunch. Try the steamy biscuits with gravy or lemon pancakes with an endless cup of coffee. The Lazy Day burger—a garlic burger complete with blue cheese—is a favorite among locals, along with the pulled-pork sandwiches. Who can say no to comfort food? 2020 E. 3300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-953-0311, LazyDayCafe.net

Uinta Drive Inn offers an array of old-fashioned staples at reasonable prices. You can sit on the patio or inside while you chow down on hamburgers—served on ciabatta bread—chicken sandwiches, Navajo tacos, beer-battered fries and a vast variety of milkshakes. Uinta is an excellent for those who are just coming off the hiking trail craving a nourishing bite. 235 E. Center St., Kamas, 435-783-4312

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Located inside Dr. Christopher’s Herb Shop in downtown Springville, this unique eatery offers organic, vegetarian and vegan options to satisfy health concerns without sacrificing taste. At Ginger’s Garden Cafe, they’ve taken the liberty of taking some favorite classic dishes and making them a little more wholesome for you. You can dine in or take your meal to go. Most of the menu is vegan, but they also offer several meat options. Ginger’s features organic soups, salads (with gluten-free dressing), a barbecue tofu wrap, smoothies, sandwiches and more. There’s also a kids menu, so you can get them started young. 188 S. Main, Springville, 801489-1863, GingersGardenCafe.com

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The Mariposa

9 Exchange Place, Boston Building Downtown SLC • (801) 355. 2146

At Deer Valley Resort’s main fine-dining venue, settle in beside a toasty fireplace for delicious appetizers like Kumamoto oysters on the half-shell with housemade seafood sauce and mignonette, or delightful sashimistyle diver scallop drizzled with lime & aji-chile-pepper vinaigrette and cilantro emulsion. I appreciate that The Mariposa menu is mostly small-plate-oriented, so it’s easy to try a lot of tasty dishes rather than just one or two big ones. More divine dishes came and went: panroasted boneless quail saltimbocca and miso-braised kale and mushrooms in a Cabernet reduction; Niman Ranch beef short rib with Pontack sauce and salsify-parsnip puree; and my favorite dish, housemade lemon-thyme gnocchi with beurre blanc, Rockhill Creamery aged Edam cheese and slow-poached wild Gulf shrimp. Table and wine service were, as always, up to Deer Valley’s ultra-high standards, where guest-pampering is taken to extreme levels. Reviewed Jan. 15. 7600 Royal St., Park City, 435-645-6715, DeerValley.com/dining

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Classic European staples like fondue and wiener schnitzel are on the menus, and probably always will be, but Executive Chef Ryan Burnham also offers up more delicate and creative dishes like his “mushroom tasting”—a mélange of fresh, wild mushrooms with sunchokes, cranberries, crispy prosciutto and sweet Pedro Ximenez balsamic vinegar—and a roasted-beet salad that looks as beautiful as it tastes. 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. The service, beverage selection and ambiance are terrific: friendly when called for, crisp and professional when necessary. A citrus-olive-oil torte dessert with lemon mousse, pistachio and blood-orange sherbet sent us back to our cozy upstairs room grinning like idiots. Reviewed Jan. 15. 7570 Royal St. East, Park City, 435-649-7770, GoldenerHirschInn.com

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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 Asianstyle 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 vinda-

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Mellow Mushroom

I really do like the pizza at Mellow Mushroom, an Atlanta-based pizza chain with a hippie vibe (which perhaps explains why my pizza took 25 minutes to make). The red sauce tastes of bright, ripe tomatoes— not the bitter tomato paste that mars so many commercial pizzas. And the toppings are plentiful and of good quality. The crust is of medium thickness, slightly crisp on the bottom with a nice crunchy and lightly blistered outer crust. And there’s wine, cocktails and a formidable beer selection, to boot, with two-dozen local craft beers on tap and more than 70 bottled brews, including ones from Deschutes, Big Sky and Rogue. They’ll help you remain mellow while awaiting your pie. Reviewed Dec. 25, 2014. 1080 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-844-1444, MellowMushroom.com

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Kimi’s Chop & Oyster House

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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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, 801-4669527, HarborSLC.com

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The Bruges Sugar House location is a couple of years old and features its biggest menu and selection. You’ll find well-known items like Belgian-style fries with a multitude of saucing options, heavenly Liège waffles and the popular Machine Gun sandwich, as featured on the Travel Channel’s Man v. Food. But there is so much more, like waffle sandwiches made with toasted waffles where you’d normally expect to find bread. 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 full-blown Belgian restaurant serving dishes like waterzooi, tarte au riz, filet Américain, lapin à la gueuze and moules-frites. But for now, Bruges Waffles & Frites serves my Belgian

Karen Olson, formerly of The Metropolitan (one of my favorite restaurants of recent years), has always been keen on making her community better, and with her latest restaurant venture, Even Stevens Sandwiches, she’s helping to feed those in need. For every sandwich sold at Even Stevens, another is donated to local nonprofits helping to end hunger. The Sloppy Tina is a spot-on vegetarian version of a sloppy Joe, made with mushroom and chickpeas in a zippy tomato-based sauce. There is also a meat lover’s sloppy Joe, a slow-simmered combo of beef and chorizo topped with pickled red onions and served on a Kaiser roll. The holidays are an especially fitting time to call attention to the work that Even Stevens is doing, as it’s a time when many of us gorge ourselves on holiday fare, while others can’t be sure where their next meal will come from. Maybe it will come from Even Stevens. Reviewed Nov. 27. 414 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 385-355-9105, EvenStevens.com

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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, 2014. 1048 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-7425490, TheAnnexByEpicBrewing.com

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

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

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When most of us think of NYC-style pizza, we’re thinking of the by-the-slice plain cheese pizza served on paper plates and of 10 eaten on the run. For that, I turn to Este. The crust is just right: not too thick and not too thin, and the folks at Este never overdo the cheese-to-sauce ratio. Reviewed Oct. 9. 2148 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, 801-485-3699; 156 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-363-2366, EstePizzaCo.com

Sweet Home Chicago Pizzeria

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

Maxwell’s East Coast Eatery

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

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Black or White dabbles obliviously in thorny questions of race and privilege. By Scott Renshaw scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

Jillian Estell and Kevin Costner in Black or White Reggie smoking crack with his friends. Costner continues his late-career maturing as an actor, capturing Elliott’s seething anger, but he’s practically fighting against Binder’s inability to recognize that, yeah, Elliott kind of is a little bit of a racist, and how does he square that with raising his half-black granddaughter? When it comes right down to it, though, Black or White isn’t remotely interested in the tough question of what’s best for Eloise. The thorny complexities of whether it’s better for a black girl to grow up with upper-class private-school privilege or with more familial contact with black culture are more than Binder’s willing to dive into. Eloise is simply a prop necessary for Elliott’s personal growth, and the climactic courtroom scenes merely a place for actors to give grandstanding speeches. It’s a superficial and off-putting way to capitalize on an edgy premise, and it’s hard to watch it tossed around casually by a filmmaker who seems to have no clue how to take it seriously. CW

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from much of what Binder does, as he demonstrates the same sitcom-writertrying-really-hard-to-be-significant sensibility that derailed his 2007 9/11-trauma dramedy Reign Over Me. Elliott hires as Eloise’s math tutor, an overachieving African immigrant (Mpho Koaho) who’s always handing out fliers touting his credentials; Rowena frequently interrupts court proceedings with her sassy comebacks, somewhat undercutting the notion that she’s a savvy, successful entrepreneur. Rowena even snaps her attorney (Anthony Mackie)—who’s also her brother—into line by threatening to call their father. And the less said about the bizarre decision to set Elliott’s visit to Rowena’s South Central Los Angeles home to a music cue of Billy Joel’s “Don’t Ask Me Why,” the better. But by far the most aggravating element in Black or White is how oblivious it seems to be to its own casual brand of judgment. There’s the potential for some ironic selfdiscovery in Elliott’s disdain for Reggie’s drug problem, despite his own obvious issue with a more socially acceptable addiction; Binder sets up a great moment where the two obviously intoxicated men square off in a physical confrontation that’s as pathetic as it is dangerous. Yet Binder also never seems to seriously entertain the possibility that Elliott is just as much of a mess as Reggie. Elliott’s drunken stumblings and hangover-addled attempts to get Eloise ready for school are played almost for laughs, while there’s something sinister about the moments when we watch

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here are many reasons why a narrative can piss you off to the point where you can’t see straight. Everyone’s got their hot button, installed in uniquely sensitive areas of the psyche, whether it’s a matter of politics, or misrepresentation of a particular demographic, or filmmakers expecting us to be far stupider than we actually are. Sometimes we’re able to set those things aside. And sometimes— as is the case with Black or White—you find yourself wondering what the hell most of the people involved were thinking. Black or White is worse than a movie that’s merely tone-deaf about the issues of racial politics it raises; it’s one where the filmmaker seems insanely confident that he’s onto something really great. And writer/director Mike Binder has fashioned a huge pile of crap into the shape of a cake, expecting that we’ll give him the blue ribbon in the bake-off. There’s a potentially compelling central character in Elliott Anderson (Kevin Costner), a successful attorney who has been raising his 7-year-old granddaughter, Eloise (Jillian Estell) with his wife, Carol (Jennifer Ehle), ever since their daughter died in childbirth. But, as the film opens, Carol has died in a car accident, leaving Elliott grief-stricken, turning frequently to alcohol for comfort and alone in raising Eloise. He gets an offer to help take care of Eloise from Rowena (Octavia Spencer), Eloise’s other grandmother, but Elliott harbors a deep grudge against her son, Eloise’s absentee, drug-addict father, Reggie (André Holland). So, when Elliott resists sharing custody, Rowena heads to the courts as her only recourse. In a simpler movie, the only reason to be deeply irritated would be the way Binder reduces Carol to a mute angel appearing only in flashback and drunken fantasy, utterly wasting the gifted Ehle. But that decision gets a whole lot of competition

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Black or White H.5 See review p. 31. Opens Jan. 30 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) Black Sea HHH On some level, you almost have to try to screw up the inherent tension in a submarine-in-distress thriller, and director Kevin Macdonald seems aware of that. Jude Law stars as Robinson, a recently laid-off employee of an ocean salvage company who agrees to lead a private, illegal mission to recover millions in Nazi gold believed to be in a sunken U-boat in disputed territorial waters. But greed, claustrophobia and fear set the British and Russian crew members against one another, with disastrous consequences. The character conflicts in Dennis Kelly’s script often weave back and forth between economic pressures, culture clashes and good old-fashioned craziness, at times leading to an unnecessarily complicated narrative and muddled motivations. It’s much stronger when focusing on simple survival missions— like the attempt to haul in the gold dangerously close to a steep drop-off—and the close quarters of the rustbucket Russian submarine they’re trying to keep running. Between the flickering lights, threatening sprays of water and underwater creaks and groans, Black Sea wrestles enough anxious moments not to need any psychological bells and whistles. Opens Jan. 30 at theaters valleywide. (R)—Scott Renshaw The Loft [not yet reviewed] An apartment shared by five friends for extramarital affairs becomes the site of a murder. Opens Jan. 30 at theaters valleywide. (R) A Most Violent Year HHH.5 You’d be forgiven if the idea of a movie built around a man always doing the right thing doesn’t sound inherently compelling—but that’s failing to take into account what happens when Oscar Isaac plays that man. He’s Abel Morales, an entrepreneur in New York’s heating-oil business circa 1981, and he has ambitious plans to expand his operation—plans that are threatened when someone keeps hijacking his trucks, and an investigation into his finances might sabotage a crucial bank loan. The plot rotates around the simple premise that Abel insists upon being aboveboard and legit in everything he does, despite the frequent whispering and/ or snarling in his ear by his wife (Jessica Chastain), whose family history suggests sometimes playing dirty works, too. And while writer/director J.C. Chandor (All Is Lost) rarely operates here in a register intended to get the pulse pounding, he does a terrific job of setting the scene of a time and place where hard-nosed decency seems absurd. Mostly, though, he’s got Isaac, in a performance that’s remarkable because it wrestles so much out of something as simple as a man’s ferocious pursuit of integrity. Opens Jan. 30 at theaters valleywide. (R)—SR Project Almanac [not yet reviewed] A group of teens face the consequences when they build a time machine. Opens Jan. 30 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS Buster Keaton Showcase At Edison Street Events, Jan. 28-29, 7:30 p.m. (NR) The Princess Bride At Brewvies, Feb. 2, 10 p.m. (PG)

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Sundance Film Festival At venues in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance Resort, through Feb. 1. (NR)

genuinely emotional about the way this story tries to manipulate our response to Claire’s behavior—unless genuine irritation counts. (R)—SR

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Foxcatcher HHHH Bennett Miller’s version of a real-life story has a masterful way of keeping us off-balance and uneasy. In 1987, three years after wrestling brothers Mark (Channing Tatum) and Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo) both won Olympic medals, weirdo billionaire John E. du Pont (Steve Carell) offers to sponsor and coach U.S. national team wrestlers. Thus begins a peculiar, often unnervingly funny bromance; it’s not hard to see why sexually repressed John might want to hang out with strapping young athletes. Du Pont can be dull or outrageous, pathetic or humorous, but Carell plays the man at all times as a real person, and Miller keeps a quiet, deliberate pace, moving gently but steadily toward the climax. The movie is often funny, yet not a comedy; it’s disturbing, but not explicitly horror. It compels our interest even if we know the ending. (R)—Eric D. Snider

American Sniper HHH Maybe Navy SEAL Chief Chris Kyle wasn’t the same guy in real life that he was portrayed as by Bradley Cooper here—but that doesn’t mean the movie can’t say something potent and true about the experience of being a soldier and returning home. The narrative follows Kyle through multiple tours in the Middle East post-9/11, while between those tours, he finds himself unable to find normalcy in life with his wife (Sienna Miller) and kids. Plenty of American Sniper is spent on Chris’ battlefield exploits and traumas, but those straightforward battle scenes at times feel indistinguishable from other wartime dramas. When Chris has to stare down the aftermath during quiet moments, however, the film becomes a compelling portrait of post-traumatic stress, with Cooper’s taciturn performance rendering Chris’ lack of introspection both intriguing and heartbreaking. (R)—SR Blackhat HH.5 Near the end of Michael Mann’s pursuit-of-a-cyberterrorist thriller, the antagonist is revealed to be someone who values technical achievement over human lives—ironic, since that has often been a characteristic of Mann’s filmmaking. Chris Hemsworth plays convicted felon/hacker Nick Hathaway, who gets a furlough to help his friend/Chinese government official (Leehom Wang) and an FBI agent (Viola Davis) track down the guy who tinkered with a Chinese nuclear reactor and the New York Stock Exchange. Globe-hopping espionage ensues, punctuated by punchy, gritty action sequences and Mann trademarks like speedboats and pretty people falling into bed together. But the slick professionalism of Mann’s visuals gets torpedoed by his resolute joylessness. Blackhat moves through its plot points with a lack of personality that would make a Klingon go, “Sure, revenge is a dish best served cold, but not this cold.” (R)—SR The Boy Next Door H Director Rob Cohen’s “thriller”—in finger-spraining air quotes—follows Claire (Jennifer Lopez), a teacher whose rocky marriage leads her into a one-night stand with hunky 19-year-old neighbor Noah (Ryan Guzman), who turns out to be psychotically obsessed with her. Lopez has a thin range as an actor, but she’s actually the best thing about a tale that recycles early-’90s “[fill in the blank]-from-hell” potboilers. Guzman can’t wrestle anything beyond “I’m crazy and look good with my shirt off” out of Noah, and the script traffics in head-smacking stupidity like Noah offering Claire a “first edition” of Homer’s Iliad (go ahead, do the math). Throw in Cohen’s typically murky visuals and jump-scares with more cobwebs on them than this movie’s vintage “yowling cat” sound effect, and watching this movie becomes more of a harrowing ordeal than anything Claire faces. (R)—SR Cake HH Director Daniel Barnz and screenwriter Patrick Tobin twist and contort the story of Claire Bennett (Jennifer Aniston)—whom we meet in a chronic-pain support group, covered with scars—to guide us from seeing her as horrible to seeing her as tragically sympathetic. And what, specifically, caused those scars? Well, Cake plays coy with the details long past the point where it’s more or less obvious what happened, filling the intervening time before details are revealed with writerly contrivances like imaginary conversations with a dead woman and a relationship between Claire and that woman’s widower (Sam Worthington). Aniston does fine work with shabby material, particularly in her physical performance conveying everyday agony, but there’s nothing

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies HH Jokes about the length (and number) of Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth films indicate a frustration at how he seems to have lost sight of the line between epic and “enough already.” Here he leaps in where The Desolation of Smaug ended, ultimately focusing on a grand battle for control of the Lonely Mountain. Cast-of-digitalthousands warfare ensues, and Jackson clearly excels at this scale of action filmmaking. But his insistence upon going big with this story means too many loose ends to tie up. And while Five Armies is the shortest of the Middle Earth films, there’s still a redundancy to virtually everything the movie counts on to connect with an audience. The final shot of old Bilbo being visited by Gandalf feels less like a linking piece than a threat: My God, this truly will never end. (PG-13)—SR

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

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)—SR

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Into the Woods HHH For large chunks of Rob Marshall’s adaptation of Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine’s musical mashup of fairy tales, it seems he’s determined to turn a stage musical into a movie while resolutely retaining its “stageiness.” There’s not a lot of meat on the narrative’s bones, which touches on the moralizing, instructive nature of fairy tales while mostly providing a framework for Sondheim’s tunes and charming performances by cast members like Emily Blunt and Anna Kendrick. But it’s perhaps most satisfying when Marshall opts for staging that emphasizes theatrical artifice, which ultimately makes an awkward mix with the Witch (Meryl Streep) disappearing in a CGI cloud of smoke. There’s a unique vision that almost gets a thorough exploration, until Marshall gets perhaps too timid about showing movie audiences the different kind of magic that gave life to this material in the first place. (PG)—SR

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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Paddington HHH.5 The young bear gentleman star of Michael Bond’s books comes to movie screens in 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. But no matter how good the filmmaking or how measured the writing, 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. (PG)—DB

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Spare Parts HH.5 Real-life underdogs-make-good movies often try way too hard, or not nearly hard enough. This one weaves back and forth across that path, telling the story of four Mexican-American kids from a Phoenix-area high school who decide to participate in a national robotics competition. George Lopez plays their advisor, a downon-his-luck engineer slumming as a substitute teacher, and his obligatory backstory pushes past Lopez’s range as an actor and distracts from the real story. It’s much more effective when director Sean McNamara hones in on the familial and societal challenges facing these students—all of them undocumented immigrants—and their creative ways of overcoming the financial obstacles to their project. If the story had given more time to all four of the kids equally, instead of leaving two of them relatively unexplored, their triumphs might have felt even more satisfying. (PG-13)—SR

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Strange Magic HH.5 A pair of fairy princesses attempt to find love, in a universe where pop-song singalongs can seemingly rain down without warning. When the two sisters (voiced by Evan Rachel Wood and Meredith Anne Bull) turn to magical means to fix their various relationship woes, they attract the attention of a potion-addled Bog King (Alan Cumming, delivering some terrifically off-kilter line readings). Did we mention the songs already? Weirder than any spoilers can probably convey, producer George Lucas’ long-gestating pet project slams together A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Happy Feet, resulting in a welcome-yet-spotty subversion of the standard Pixar/DreamWorks formula. Uneven, to say the least—the successful gag ratio drops swiftly as the action ramps up—but the bombardment of randomly neat stuff makes it odd enough to warrant a viewing. (PG)—Andrew Wright 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)—AW The Wedding Ringer H.5 The Wedding Ringer was made by people who have not learned a fundamental rule: When you start with a stupid premise, you have to work a lot harder. Kevin Hart plays a guy who sells his services as best man to grooms who don’t have any real friends (or qualms about deceiving their brides); Josh Gad is the chubby, desperate client who needs a best man and a fleet of groomsmen. There is much frantic idiocy: an outrageous bachelor party, a muddy football game against the father-in-law, etc. Hart and Gad, both game performers, earn a few laughs through sheer enthusiasm and commitment, but the film never embraces its potential as a bawdy frat-house comedy, seemingly content to stick with safe, easy jokes and a formulaic plot that wastes the talents of its stars. (R)—EDS

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

Megaplex 20 at The District 11400 S. Bangerter Highway 801-304-INFO MegaplexTheatres.com

Broadway Centre Cinemas 111 E. 300 South 801-321-0310 SaltLakeFilmSociety.org

PARK CITY Cinemark Holiday Village 1776 Park Ave. 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com

Century 16 South Salt Lake 125 E. 3300 South 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com

Redstone 8 Cinemas 6030 N. Market 435-575-0220 Redstone8Cinemas.com

Holladay Center 6 1945 E. Murray-Holladay Road 801-273-0199 WestatesTheatres.com

DAVIS COUNTY AMC Loews Layton Hills 9 728 W. 1425 North, Layton 801-774-8222 AMCTheatres.com

Megaplex 12 Gateway 165 S. Rio Grande St. 801-304-4636 MegaplexTheatres.com Redwood Drive-In 3688 S. Redwood Road 801-973-7088 Tower Theatre 836 E. 900 South 801-321-0310 SaltLakeFilmSociety.org WEST VALLEY 5 Star Cinemas 8325 W. 3500 South, Magna 801-250-5551 RedCarpetCinemas.com Carmike 12 1600 W. Fox Park Drive, West Jordan 801-562-5760 Carmike.com Carmike Ritz 15 Hollywood Connection 3217 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City 801-973-4386 Carmike.com Cinemark 24 Jordan Landing 7301 S. Bangerter Highway 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Cinemark Valley Fair Mall 3601 S. 2700 West, West Valley City 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Showcase Cinemas 6 5400 S. Redwood Road, Taylorsville 801-957-9032 RedCarpetCinemas.com SOUTH VALLEY Century 16 Union Heights 7800 S. 1300 East, Sandy 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com

Cinemark Station Park 900 W. Clark Lane, Farmington 801-447-8561 Cinemark.com Cinemark Tinseltown USA 720 W. 1500 North, Layton 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Gateway 8 206 S. 625 West, Bountiful 801-292-7979 RedCarpetCinemas.com Megaplex Legacy Crossing 1075 W. Legacy Crossing Blvd., Centerville 801-397-5100 MegaplexTheatres.com WEBER COUNTY Cinemark Tinseltown 14 3651 Wall Ave., Ogden 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Megaplex 13 at The Junction 2351 Kiesel Ave., Ogden 801-304-INFO MegaplexTheatres.com UTAH COUNTY Carmike Wynnsong 4925 N. Edgewood Drive, Provo 801-764-0009 Carmike.com Cinemark American Fork 715 W. 180 North, American Fork 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Cinemark Movies 8 2230 N. University Parkway, Orem 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Cinemark Provo Town Center 1200 Town Center Blvd., Provo 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com

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Key & Peele and The Blacklist take on the Super Bowl; Beautiful & Twisted is half-right. Duff Till Dawn Thursday, Jan. 29 (Food Network) Series Debut: In the four years since the greatest foodrelated reality show ever, Ace of Cakes, shut down production, Charm City Cakes boss—not a damned Cake Boss, OK?—Duff Goldman has starred in several short-lived Food Network series, none of which have come close to AoC’s casual genius. In the new Duff Till Dawn, he hosts an after-hours cake-decorating competition in his familiar Baltimore shop, with a rotating cast of celebrity judges that also includes the occasional sorely missed Charm City Cakes face (like Geoff Manthorne and Elena Fox). Which leads me to ask: Why not just bring Ace of Cakes back already?! What’s the holdup? Why do you hate America?! OK, I’m better now.

Beautiful & Twisted Saturday, Jan. 31 (Lifetime) Movie: “The true story of a couple’s obsession, jealousy and greed, which ends in one of the most notorious cold-blooded murders in recent history,” says Lifetime of Beautiful

Red Band Society Saturday, Jan. 31 (Fox) Return/Burn-Off: Remember Ryan Murphy’s Gleein-a-cancer-ward dramedy? Last seen in December? Surprisingly, it never caught on—and before you blame the crowded competition it used to face on Wednesday nights, note how equally ridiculous hip-hop drama Empire is blowing up for Fox in the same timeslot. Anyway: One episode tonight, the final two next Saturday, and then lesser TV critics get to use that “pull the plug” metaphor they’ve been sitting on for months.

The Blacklist Sunday, Feb. 1 (NBC) Winter Premiere: In theory, the post-Super Bowl timeslot

would be a great place to give a few zillion viewers a taste of a struggling network series instead of an established hit like The Blacklist. But, since NBC needs to promote the hell out of their revamped Thursday on Feb. 5 (no comedies anymore, just The Blacklist sandwiched between new The Americans rip-off Allegiance and new guaranteed failure, er, limited series, The Slap), football fans immobilized by Bud Light and hot wings will get Red and Lizzie chasing down baddie du jour Ron Perlman. Not that a Super Bowl showcase could have saved a circling-the-drain NBC series like, say, State of Affairs or Constantine (let’s all imagine John Constantine staring down a nation of unsuspecting football-heads for a moment), but, whatever.

Fresh Off the Boat Wednesday, Feb. 4 (ABC) Series Debut: A ’90s coming-of-age tale about a young AsianAmerican boy and his family moving from Washington, D.C.’s Chinatown to Orlando, Fla. … a trip that requires no boat. That’s funnier than anything else that happens on Fresh Off the Boat. CW Listen to Bill on Mondays at 8 a.m. on X96 Radio From Hell; weekly on the TV Tan podcast via iTunes and Stitcher.

Special: While I couldn’t possibly care less about the Super Bowl and all the overpaid felons involved (it’s the Seadogs and the Maple Leafs this year, right?), it is important to recognize that no one does sportball humor better than Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele—and Comedy Central has given them an hour to run wild with it. K&P will host a series of sketches, sports-desk style, straddling the line between mocking the time-wasting babble of football commentary and celebrating the time-wasting babble of football commentary. Some NFL stars will also stop by to fumble the proceedings (athletes should not talk, much less attempt comedy), but Key & Peele can’t be stopped from hitting a home run in the paint. Sportball talk, mastered!

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& Twisted—and it still doesn’t prepare you for what’s to (almost) come. Rob Lowe(!) plays Miami hotel heir Ben Novak Jr., a millionaire who drives Batmobiles(!!) and makes the fatal mistake of marrying a stripper (played by Paz Vega) instead of simply renting them by the dozen(!!!). Her name is “Narcy,” fergawdsakes, and she makes good on Novak’s creeping suspicion that she’d kill him—and her mother-in-law, played by Candice Bergen—for his money. Beautiful & Twisted goes for camp over chills (Lowe narrates from beyond the grave—yes, really), but never fully commits to the crazy. Still, with the right box of wine …

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Murder by death

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Murder by Death do it their way, fans be damned (or delighted).   By Kolbie Stonehocker  kstonehocker@cityweekly.net  @vonstonehocker

“I

hate repetition that never reveals anything new,” says Adam Turla, frontman/guitarist of Bloomington, Ind.born indie-rock/folk band Murder by Death. As soon as his words float through the phone, I feel a little twinge of guilt. Because when I first listened to Murder by Death’s latest album, Big Dark Love—slated for release Feb. 3, the same day they hit the stage at Bar Deluxe—I thought the band had lost their minds. But first, let me back up and get a key fact out in the open: Murder by Death has been my honest-to-God favorite band since my freshman year of college, and one I recommend with a fervent glint in my eye to anyone who I think will appreciate their moody, twangy rock and haunting cello melodies. And no bad day or writing session is complete unless accompanied by a soundtrack of my favorite album: 2003’s Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them?, Murder by Death’s sprawling, apocalyptic and soul-crushingly melancholy concept album about a small Western town battling the devil. But no matter how much I love Who Will Survive, I know Murder by Death can’t keep making it over and over. “Every time we put out a record, I hope that it reaches as many people as possible, and they’ll enjoy it as much as their favorite. But you never know,” Turla says. “I can’t predict what every single person who has heard us is gonna feel like.” After almost 15 years as a band, Murder by Death haven’t reached their creative peaks by pandering to fans, rehashing the same old material. With lyrics like “Buckshot is my bread/ I drink whiskey instead of water” and huge rolling-across-the-desert guitar chords, Murder by Death and a Western aesthetic historically have gone together like a stiff drink and a broken heart. But from album to album, they’ve shaken up their sound, often by incorporating new instruments and experimenting with various genres. In more recent albums such as 2012’s Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon, Murder by Death stepped out of the desert and into the realm of woodsy folk-rock. But Big Dark Love, the band’s seventh full-length, could be Murder by Death’s biggest surprise yet—think elements like synthesizer and hip-hop-inflected drumbeats. “Whenever we make records, I tend to sort of react and respond to the different qualities of the past record,” Turla says. With Big Dark Love, he continues, he wanted the music to be created by the band playing their instruments more sparsely—in contrast to the richly layered Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon. And that meant Murder by Death would have to approach the recording process in a novel way. “Instead of just trying to write songs and going into the studio and force them out as, like, a concrete, ready-to-go thing, I would go in and I’d play my parts, and then everybody would add as little as possible,” Turla says. It became something of a “creative exercise,” he continues, where “everything I play has to be cool and count. There’s no extra playing allowed.” In the studio, Murder by Death found creative chemistry during their first experience recording with new band member David Fountain, who joined the group roughly a year ago after multiinstrumentalist Scott Brackett—the mastermind behind such diabolical inventions as a theremin that shot off sparks when played— found himself with an immune system that couldn’t handle being on the road. “I was really happy to be able to let [Fountain] just be

Murder by Death out in the open, musically and physically.

the talented musician he is and not have to be like a control freak or something,” Turla says. “He just really showed up ready to work and nailed it, it was cool.” The final version of Big Dark Love has “more open space,” Turla says, compared to the earthy density of Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon. And what will probably strike fans the most are not the album’s clean lines and tightly composed arrangements, but its very unlike-Murder by Death stylistic touches. When I mention that the hip-hop drumbeat on “I Shot an Arrow” doesn’t sound like Murder by Death at all, Turla laughs. “That song is, I think, one of the more strange songs we’ve done. … I was going for, like, a David Bowie kinda thing with that song,” says Turla, a Bowie fan since he was 10. (Fun fact: He says the track is linked to the ’50s-influenced “Spring Break 1899,” from Murder by Death’s 2008 release, Red of Tooth & Claw.) Big Dark Love is still undeniably Murder by Death: Sarah Balliet’s cello parts rise and fall beautifully, and Turla’s booming baritone is full of grit and power. He also still tends to write a lot of songs from the points of view of unreliable narrators, who, on Big Dark Love, often tell dark tales of love and obsession. But overall, the album features a Murder by Death that fans have never heard before. And, every time I listen to it, I sing along to more and more lyrics, and hum along to tunes like “Natural Pearl” and “Big Dark Love.” For all my feet-dragging, Big Dark Love is slowly but surely taking its place among my beloved Murder by Death favorites. And it never could have been if Murder by Death had stayed in the devil-plagued town of Who Will Survive. “It’s not fun to do something that you’ve done a million times. It’s boring; it’s boring to the listener,” Turla says. “Taking risks, doing things that are more exciting, I think ultimately will pay off more in the end.” CW

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Whitey Morgan & the 78’s  If you’re a fan of classic outlaw artists like Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard, or even more modern country artists like Sturgill Simpson, honky-tonk quartet Whitey Morgan & the 78’s will be right up your alley. Hailing from the hard-luck city of Flint, Mich., Whitey Morgan & the 78’s play a style of hard-edged honky-tonk music

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that’s filled with twangy guitar, smokecured vocals, and lyrics about heartache and blue-collar pride, as heard on the band’s 2010 self-titled album. But to be truly immersed in the live Whitey Morgan & the 78’s experience (you know, besides attending this show), check out Born, Raised & Live From Flint—released in December—a rough and raw collection of songs recorded in their hometown. Joe Fletcher is also on the bill. The State Room, 638 S. State, 9 p.m., $15, TheStateRoom.com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com Killer Dwarfs Like fellow Canadian metalheads Anvil, Killer Dwarfs have been recording and touring since the dawn of the ’80s; unlike Anvil, no one’s made a Spinal Tap-esque documentary about Killer Dwarfs because the drama ain’t there. The hooks are, though: Early hits like “Stand Tall” and “Keep the Spirit Alive” were MTV staples back in the day, smashing pop melodicism into hard-rock riffage years before poodle-haired Hollywood bands came along and ruined it for everyone. After sitting out most of the ’90s, Killer Dwarfs returned to the road (and classic-rock fests and cruises, of course) in 2001 and haven’t let up since. And yes, old-schoolers, original singer Russ “Dwarf” Graham can still do a twirling headstand. Network, Loss of Existence and Berlin Breaks open. (Bill Frost) Liquid Joe’s, 1249 E. 3300 South, 7 p.m., $15 advance, $20 day of show, LiquidJoes.net

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Nothing adds to the gritty character of a roadhouse bar like surviving a close-call fire in 2012 that burned down parts of the building. This rollicking live-music venue has risen from the ashes no worse for wear—in fact, it’s adopted the slogan “the hottest bar in town” in honor of its fiery renovation. Kick back on the huge gravel back patio in the shade of the refinery, or head inside where cold brews pair well with hot music. Patrons can enjoy a casual atmosphere and nearly nightly samplings of roots, blues, rock and sometimes jazz music from local and national touring artists. 1199 N. Beck St., Salt Lake City, 801-521-3904, GarageOnBeck.com Bar-X

Open since 1933, the year Prohibition was repealed, Bar-X survived for decades as a beer-only man cave. Today, Bar-X makes its name on true cocktails, like Old Fashioneds and other pre-Prohibition drinks. The bar also showcases local musicians—especially jazz musicians. The bar’s seriously dark interior exudes a lavish roaring ’20s aesthetic—the exclusive “speakeasy back room” furthers the theme with a private bar, muted lighting and an iron-gated door to keep out the prohibitionists. Feeling adventurous? Order the Bartender’s Choice. 155 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801355-2287, BarXSaltLake.com 5 Monkeys

With pool, an elevated stage and an upstairs bar overlooking a bodacious dance floor, there’s no better place to monkey around in than 5 Monkeys. This roomy bar serves up all the usual libations—the perfect accompaniment to an order of wings or a garlic burger— and live music representing a wide range of genres happens Fridays and Saturdays. 7 E. 4800 South, Murray, 801-266-1885, 5MonkeysClub.com The Penalty Box

Whether it’s the Super Bowl, March Madness, NBA playoffs or the Stanley Cup finals, you can bet The Penalty Box will be showing it for their customers. This bar is inviting spot for Murray-ites to come in after work, drink a cold beer and enjoy the game with a group of friends and a lively staff. The Penalty Box not only goes all out for sports, but also puts on weekly karaoke nights, poker games, live music and beer pong. 3 W. 4800 South, Murray, 801-590-9316 The Red Door

You get a sense for the target clientele just by looking at the martini menu—a 46-drink list of wild, creative indulgences from mild to “high-octane,” and bearing scrumptious-sounding titles like Carrot Cake and

Butterscotch Sundae. Other cleverly named cocktails like the Black Cat Martini and The “Che” (whom you can also see a gigantic poster of inside) kick things up another notch at this dimly lit spot with intimate tables, casual conversation and weekend music (DJs on Friday night; and live jazz on Saturday night). 57 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-363-6030 Down Under Club

This basement bar occupies the lower level of a building that also houses a Mexican restaurant and veterans’ hangout. Once inside, the atmosphere is so inviting you’ll forget you’re underground. Six TVs show sports and are always on. There’s also pool, shuffleboard, darts and video games, but the real fun is outside on the heated patio. With colorful Christmas lights strewn all over the tall wooden fence and awning, this is one of the best, wonderfully divey patios in Utah. Exclaim your excitement by ordering Down Under’s signature cocktail, called Oh F—k Yeah. 544 W. 400 North, Bountiful, 801-397-0758 Mixed Emotions

It’s not the Copacabana, and you’re not Henry Hill, but to patronize this local hangout you’ll need to use the back entrance, Goodfellas-style. You can drop the gangster act inside, where you’ll find a mellow, more Western atmosphere, friendly staff and live bands that frequent the Mixed Emotions stage. The bar’s roomy ’70s interior also houses two pool tables, electronic darts, a pinball machine and a host of old-fashioned candy dispensers. 1030 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-355-8055 The Deerhunter Pub

Probably one of the best-kept secrets in Utah County, the Deerhunter Pub has live music every Friday and Saturday (with bands playing on the back patio if weather permits), karaoke every Sunday and a good selection of beers. This cowboy bar is for the true beer connoisseur or for anyone looking for a casual, laid-back place to drink. 2000 N. 300 West, Spanish Fork, 801-798-8582 Cotton Bottom Inn

The garlic burger—celebrated throughout Salt Lake City in song and story—is Cotton Bottom Inn’s claim to fame and sets this beer bar apart from all others. The Cotton Bottom is where active folks gather to wind down after a day of skiing, hiking or any other adventure enhanced by Utah’s great outdoors. The dark, cozy bar is a great setting for a pitcher or a game of pool. Nothing says comfort like a frosty mug of beer paired with Cotton Bottom’s legendary garlic burger. As the weather gets warmer, take your burger out on the patio for maximum pleasure. The intimate pub is nestled in a scenic canyon that makes every visit feel like a grand getaway. 6200 S. Holladay Blvd., Holladay, 801273-9830, CottonBottomInn.com The Royal

The Royal is a shiny, black & chrome monument to rock & roll excess in an otherwise sedate suburban setting. Hometown heroes (and partial club owners) Royal Bliss and other rockers regularly tear through new tunes and old favorites for a shoulder-to-bare-sweaty-shoulder crowd who’ve obviously come to par-tay. Not 10 feet away from the two frenzied levels inside, there’s a calming patio overlooking Big Cottonwood Creek—these guys do everything to extremes. 4760 S. 900 East, Murray, 801-590-9940, TheRoyalSLC.com

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