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Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams calls foul on his former campaign manager, Justin Miller. By Stephen Dark

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Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams calls foul on his former campaign manager, Justin Miller. Cover photo illustration by Mason Rodrickc

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CONTRIBUTOR STEPHEN DARK

Stephen Dark worked as a reporter in the U.K. before falling in love with Argentina in the mid-’90s, only to be driven out in 2004 along with his family by social and economic instability. For the past 10 years, he’s explored the highs and lows of Utah while working as a writer at City Weekly.

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LETTERS Mike Noel’s Resistance to Reason

I enjoyed Colby Frazier’s cover story about state Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab [“The Herd Bull of the House,” May 14, City Weekly]. I attended the Great Public Lands Gamble Rally at the Capitol in January 2015, at which Noel audaciously stepped up to the microphone to attempt a refutation (the gospel according to St. Mike) of the “lies” being perpetrated by the proponents of public lands. Noel is a man so stubbornly obtuse, he makes Gov. Gary Herbert seem like an open-minded intellectual. After someone wisely cut the power to the microphone, silencing Noel mid-diatribe, he made a beeline for the nearest TV camera, where he strutted and opined about the benefits of state-managed lands and the evils of federal control. Several years ago, I spoke with Noel regarding my personal concerns over his myopic vision for the future of Utah’s lands and the people who love them. I came away frustrated by his resistance to reason and his lack of respect for opposing opinions. Noel’s attitude seems to be, “I got my little slice of Utah, and to hell with everyone else.” Sadly, this is the attitude of the majority of our elected officials. Sanctimony and hegemony are alive and well in Utah.

DAVID E. JENSEN Salt Lake City

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Homosexuality Is a Genetic Variation

A homosexual person is one who is sexually attracted to others of the same sex. Except for a genetic variation of nature, they are virtually identical to their heterosexual counterparts. They feel the very same kind of attraction to the same sex as heterosexuals feel about the opposite sex. Some would argue that the Bible condemns homosexuality, but I believe (through the persistence of science) this behavior will be proven to result from natural genetic variation. It’s possible to draw on the example of the developmentally challenged (no offense intended toward either group) who, by no action of their own, are born slow or deficient in mental, physical or emotional growth. Homosexual people are therefore entitled to engage in sexual behavior consistent with their genetic makeup, so long as it is between consenting adults—and they should be allowed to marry as well. To deny them this right would be the same as denying heterosexuals their right to consensual sex. Some would argue that sexuality is strictly for the purpose of reproduction—yet the animal kingdom has many variations of species that also cannot reproduce. Human beings are sexual beings as was intended by their creator, and to suggest that a genetic variation of nature somehow makes homosexuals less human is indeed an inhuman concept.

JOE BIALEK Cleveland, Ohio

Solar Energy Creates Jobs

Here in the United States, we have a 30-percent energytax credit, due to expire December 31, 2016. The League of Conservation Voters has already taken the lead in the fight to extend the credit, and it will be major campaign issue during the 2016 election season. I find it interesting the right is not seeing the writing on the wall: Solar means jobs, jobs, jobs. As of now, in America, more people install solar panels for a living than mine coal! And battery technology is rapidly improving. Progress is made every day in other forms of energy, and nothing can stop it. People are beginning to realize the gas, coal and oil industries are costing them money, and they would rather have cheap alternatives.

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OPINION

A Sprinkle in Time

As winter in Utah (or what passed for it this year) has drifted into spring, it’s time once again to prepare for our local summer traditions: Outdoor concerts. Parades and festivals. Hiking and biking. People watering things as though we don’t live in a desert. The latter phenomenon was at the forefront of my mind during a recent rainy week in the Salt Lake Valley, when drips, drizzles and cloudbursts dropped more than an inch of rain in many locations. A reasonable person, looking from the outside, might think, “Why, there is a region that received a much lower than average snowpack this year. The temperature is currently hovering in the 60s and 70s. And they have just received a generous helping of precipitation. Surely, the people living there could turn off their lawn sprinklers for a week or so.” Of course, anyone who doesn’t want to court madness has long ago given up expecting reason to guide human behavior. And so it was that, during this particular week, an LDS ward house in my Sandy neighborhood had its lawn sprinklers blasting—including generously irrigating the street—at 3:30 in the afternoon, despite both the recent weather and a Sandy City ordinance prohibiting sprinkler use between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. And so it also was that the UTA Trax station at 9000 South was watering its grass the morning after it poured down rain locally. To the credit of UTA, someone responded quickly to my snarky Twitter comment about the weather-inappropriate running of the sprinklers: “Our sprinklers are set on timers, I will follow up with facilities to discuss this further.” Sandy City, as of now, has not similarly chosen to tweet back at me, though I imagine they’re very busy over there finding new places for speed traps.

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But the real matter at hand is the manner in which lawns are watered all over Utah. We could address the craziness of thirsty Kentuck y bluegrass being used at all in this region, but let’s start with a simpler notion: Maybe lawns could be watered consciously. That would seem like a simple idea, but that’s not what a lot of us generally do. It’s certainly not what the LDS ward house and the UTA Trax station were doing. And that’s because we have timers—wonderful modern conveniences that allow us to set a specific daily (or nightly) time for sprinklers to run, flip a switch and not bother thinking about it again until the first fall flurries fly. Which is why we end up seeing lawns doused by sprinklers just hours after they were doused by Mother Nature. Take the case of my next-door neighbors, for example. By nearly every conceivable metric, they are approximately the Platonic form of the Good Neighbor—an older couple who have checked our mail when our family has gone on vacation, brought us holiday gifts, and generally proven themselves to be lovely people. They also, come springtime, water their huge lawn automatically every single night, copiously, in rain or shine, sending the water over our fence in sufficient quantities for us to consider starting a mushroom farm. As considerate as they are in virtually every other evident way, it never seems to have occurred to them that they could water less often, or only when the weather requires it. This shouldn’t be surprising, of course. Americans never met a convenience they were unwilling to employ to its maximum capabilities, so we set timers to make sure our coffee starts every morning, and we never miss an episode of Game of Thrones, etc. We’ve got stuff

to do, and the more of that stuff that we can get done without having to actually remember to do it, the better. The problem comes when not having to remember to do something means not having to remember when it doesn’t have to be done at all—and when it comes to water in the arid West, that’s a luxury we can’t afford. We treat our subsidized flat-ratebill water supply as something we can use as often as we wish without consequence, either to our personal finances or to the larger community. It’s just there, because it’s always been there, and having to make a conscious decision every single time that, yes, tonight I’m going to water my lawn—well, that takes work, even if you’ve managed to start believing that it’s a good idea. A wet May along the Wasatch Front might have given local residents reason to believe that this drought isn’t really anything to be concerned about. But even the minor extent to which our ample spring rains might make up for the skimpy winter snowpack vanishes when we don’t allow that rain to do simple things like water our lawns so that we don’t have to. Every summer, every one of us likely drives by commercial developments, homes and churches with sprinklers blasting either in the middle of the day or in the middle of wet weather—and in virtually every one of those cases, it’s because someone turned on a timer, walked away, and stopped thinking about it. We’ve convenienced ourselves into apathy about a resource we need for basic human survival. Maybe it’s time to stop leaving its fate in the hands of a timer. CW

LET’S START WITH A SIMPLER NOTION: MAYBE LAWNS COULD BE WATERED CONSCIOUSLY.

Scott Renshaw is City Weekly’s A&E editor.

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What use of Utah water do you refuse to give up? Mason Rodrickc: When I get stressed, I set up a series of slowly descending strings coming from the tap and see how far I can get a droplet of water to travel down the string before dripping. I would appreciate the government staying out of this. Brandon Burt: I am capable of going months without washing my car. Happily, in a drought, I cease being a slob and am magically transformed into a good citizen! One thing I refuse to give up: ice water. No tepid water for me—I’d drink it at sub-zero temperatures if it stayed in liquid form.

Josh Scheuerman: It’s important to keep the public showers at Gateway’s Olympic Legacy Plaza open during the hottest summer months for everyone to keep showering in. Oh, wait—it’s art?

Jackie Briggs: I’d rather have drinking water above anything else. But I do reserve one luxury: I dump at least 16 ounces of water on my boyfriend’s head every month. It’s worth skipping a shower for.

Bryan Bale: Dishes need to be done, and I need to shower at least every other day. Sanitation trumps the irrigation of recreational areas. But I could get behind a campaign that encourages water-saving measures like shower sharing.

Jeremiah Smith: My yard is xeriscaped, so we try, but Artesian Park on 500 E. 800 South should be safe. Where else in town can local residents fill their gallon jugs with rocket fuel-infused tap water? Jeff Chipian: People need to start conserving water like me. I shower, wash my car and water my lawn all at the same time with the sprinklers. Am I lying? Maybe ... Or is my car always clean, and do I smell like freshly cut grass?

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HITS&MISSES BY KATHARINE BIELE

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Minding the Gap The good news is that Utah closed the graduation gap between whites and Hispanics by 7 percent between 2011 and 2013. That’s a bigger improvement than any other state, according to “Building a Grad Nation,” a report by Civic Enterprises. The bad news is that the large jump was likely possible only because the gap in Utah was so abysmal to begin with. Utah’s overall graduation rate is at 83 percent (Wisconsin and Vermont do better, at 90 percent), but minorities and low-income students fare much worse. The state is only near the middle in closing the gap for lowincome students, which former Lt. Gov. Greg Bell calls unacceptable. “I wonder if Utahns generally are really unaware of both the prevalence of poverty and its heavy costs on impoverished children,” he wrote in the Deseret News.

Reading, Writing, Republicanism Will someone save us from these “disruptive” leaders? You might remember Clark Gilbert, formerly of the Deseret News, who transformed the paper with faith-based content and a 40-percent reduction in staff. Now Utah looks to Brad Smith, the state superintendent of education, whose reputation is equally draconian. The Ogden School District, where he was superintendent, is leaner and meaner because of him. Now he has given two associate superintendents their walking papers. They were in charge of financial reporting and testing—an essential function that is now in the hands of politically right-wing sympathizers. Sen. Jim Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City, wonders out loud, “I am desperately afraid the very few, loud delegate TeaFolks will bully their way into the classrooms of our state and replace science with voodoo science.”

Utah: The High-Rent Hive If Utah’s future is indeed smaller lots and more high-rises, as economists and researchers predict, then someone needs to lecture Utahns about fair-housing laws and the effects of high rents. A survey by a fair-housing specialist and a Utah State University professor showed stunning results—for instance, 16 percent of property owners believe they have the right to sell to white buyers only. Deseret News reported that the average score on the fair-housing survey was 52 percent—not good by any standard. Envision Utah says one possible future scenario has people living in big suburban lots or high-density housing, much of which could be unaffordable. The high costs of construction added to mounting municipal fees are largely to blame.

It’s the season for fun runs, mud runs and glitter runs. This year, a stunt run has been thrown in the mix for Utah—the ThrillSeeker Stunt Run, organized by Jared Willardsen, former stunt producer of Nitro Circus and Fuel TV’s ThrillBillies, and Del Andrus. The two met when they were wreaking havoc at Brigham Young University. Now, their antics have been upgraded, researched and turned into obstacles meant for the brave of all ages. The run has been 3 1/2 years in the making, and will be hosted at Hee Haw Farms in Pleasant Grove on May 23. For more information, visit StuntRun.com.

What makes this stunt run different? Jared Willardsen: A lot of our obstacles are designed to be chain-reactive: One obstacle is three obstacles in one. They are multi-faceted, like you would see on a cartoon. Del Andrus: We created an experience that’s not just heavily focused on running or on a challenge. It’s more to give you adrenaline and a fun, exhilarating experience.

Why Utah County?

JW: A lot of us are from the area. I still live here, and a few members of the team are still here. Utah is such an athletic, outdoor community, it just makes sense to do one in our hometown.

DA: I went to school in Utah, enjoyed all of the great outdoor activities and the people in Utah. This is exactly the type of thing that Utah loves to do. It’s totally in alignment with Utah culture. Coming back and providing something for a large, mass gathering is an exciting opportunity for me.

Why did you partner with the Guardian Angel Council?

JW: Most events go find a charity to help them out. Guardian Angel Council came to us to create awareness. That’s a cool aspect of this. The charity is putting it on—it’s not an event company with a charity slapped on the side. DA: The Guardian Angel Council is adamantly trying to encourage more people to register on the database for Be the Match, who connect bone marrow donors with leukemia and lymphoma patients. One hundred percent of the charitable proceeds from ticket sales go to the council.

What shenanigans did you pull at BYU?

DA: The typical dinner and a movie wasn’t in our DNA. We had to romp around in the mountains at night, or build a bonfire, dirt biking up the stairs. There’s always some guy’s friend who takes things too far, and we’re guilty of having those people, too, but we really didn’t try to hurt people.

JW: Race trash cans down Temple Hill, set off stink bombs in the library—dumb stuff like that. I got kicked out for doing gainers on the high dive. We would jump trucks down the Marriott Center, or take huge water-cannon grenades and race through campus in this old convertible we had. They knew it was us, but we were faster than them.

Do you pull these kinds of antics at the office? JW: I’m not admitting to anything.

DA: I’ve had to be a lot more professional because of my position. But the problem is, with some of our group, if you do something, it gets escalated to the point where sometimes, it’s just better not to poke a lion. JW: He’s afraid.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Cloud Control

BY CECIL ADAMS

The trend in computers is to store all your files “in the cloud.” That doesn’t mean they’re up in the sky; they’re in a big hard drive somewhere. But that got me wondering: How secure is the cloud? Are we one good case of sunspots or an electromagnetic pulse away from losing it all? —Richard Aldrich, Napa, Calif.

All of it, no. But the situation is more complex than cloud promoters would have you believe. One problem is the term “cloud.” It suggests that core computing resources— not just storage but also processors and communications infrastructure—reside in some unknowable realm, like Valhalla or the quantum foam. This is crap, as you know; the stuff lives on physical machinery. However, it’s not just “a big hard drive somewhere.” Rather, copies of your data presumably are distributed among multiple servers in widely separated locations, so no single disaster can destroy it or render it inaccessible. But nothing in the usual definitions of cloud computing actually requires this. Rather, one abstraction—the cloud—is expressed in terms of other abstractions, such as “pooled resources,” “rapid elasticity” (meaning resources can be scaled up or down as needs change), and “measured service.” The metric cited most often is availability—the percentage of time the cloud is accessible. The higher the availability, the better. But it comes at a cost. About that machinery. I once toured a data center, commonly known as a server farm. It was cool but spooky: a vast array of dimly lit server racks. No people, no activity except blinking LEDs, no sound but a faint whir. The place was as impregnable as human ingenuity could make it—fingerprint scanners to gain entry, on-site generators to provide instant backup in the event of blackout. Still, somebody could nuke the place. The real security of the cloud is there are many server farms, and they can’t all go offline, can they? Here we get back to availability. All some business types know about cloud computing is they should demand “five nines” availability—i.e., access to data, applications, etc. 99.999 percent of the time. This works out to downtime of about five minutes per year. It’s possible to achieve this, or anyway get close. Amazon Web Services, currently the leading provider of cloud computing, offers a service level agreement (SLA) essentially guaranteeing your data will survive any catastrophe short of the end of the world. That means installing redundant instances of said data and related services on server farms around the globe, with 24/7 monitoring to spin up a new stack and copy everything over automatically if an old server starts to wobble. But five nines is expensive, and for most businesses unnecessary. A cheaper option is 99.9 percent availability, in which redundant virtual servers are implemented on (say) three data centers scattered around Virginia.

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This is riskier. In June 2009, lightning caused Amazon’s cloud computing service to go offline for four hours. That same year Rackspace had to issue customers around $3 million in service credits after a power outage took down its Dallas data center. In June 2012, a storm disrupted an Amazon data center in Virginia, knocking out Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest, and other sites for hours. In these cases data wasn’t destroyed, just rendered temporarily inaccessible. But if all the data instances are in the same region, which is what many Amazon cloud customers wind up buying, they’re theoretically vulnerable to large-scale natural disasters and yes, even sunspots and electromagnetic pulse. Other perils lurk. Since cloud computing is multi-tenant, there’s a nonzero chance somebody pulling down her data could get yours accidentally. You’ve got non-cloud-specific hazards such as hacking and Internet slowdowns. Or, commonly, an IT jamoke misconfigures something and ... oops. Am I warning you off the cloud? No, just trying to demystify it. Whatever the risk, the cloud is the only practical way to store data long-term. Banks have downsides too, but nobody seriously thinks stashing cash in a mattress is better. Bad things can happen to data: Hard drives crash; laptops get stolen; backups are lost or become unreadable. That’s not all. Think of the storage technologies that have come and gone: punch cards and punched paper tape; Volkswagen-tire-sized platters for mainframe hard drives; halfinch magnetic tape and cassette tape; 8-, 5.25-, and 3.5-inch floppy disks; Bernoulli, Zip, and Jaz cartridges. Even CD-ROMs are starting to fade away. If you have vital data stored on one of these media but not the device to read it, you’re hosed. The point is, data is fragile and the technology used to store it is ephemeral. You don’t want dealing with such things to be your problem, and the average person isn’t equipped to do so anyway. Better to turn your data over to experts who supposedly can make it safe and accessible. Does this have its risky aspects? Yup; so does giving your savings to an investment firm. Churchill famously said democracy was the worst form of government except all the others. Is it premature to talk that way about the cloud? Maybe, but that’s how it looks. Send questions to Cecil via StraightDope. com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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Growing Pains

A real-estate deal threatens the end of an era for Pierpont Avenue tenants. By Colby Frazier cfrazier@cityweekly.net @colbyfrazierlp

s Salt Lake City has become the hip place that politicians and developers have always wanted it to be, the capital city is running into a problem that cool cities before it have faced: the dismantling of the soulful stores, establishments and housing that made it cool in the first place. Few locations are more emblematic of this dynamic than the artist enclave of Pierpont Avenue, where in the early 1980s, Artspace founder Stephen Goldsmith inked a 25-year lease on the now century-old Eccles Browning Warehouse, providing a haven for creativity and small businesses. But that lease expired in 2008, and ever since, as surrounding lots have filled with condominiums that climb into the sky, swanky redevelopment projects and the unstoppable march of prosperity headed west, artisans at Pierpont have wondered just how long their community would last. Some clarity came five months ago, when it was announced that a Seattlebased developer, Timberlane Partners, had purchased the property on Pierpont Avenue between 300 West and 400 West. But since then, some Pierpont tenants say communication from the new owners has been nonexistent. The most concrete exchanges have come from a local property-management company which, in March, raised rents and—for shop owners wanting to renew leases—signed extensions through December of this year. The rent hike and the general instability has prompted Elemente owner Kate Bullen to close her doors. Her store, which was a generation ahead of the furniture reusing and recycling boom of this hipster decade, will close at the end of June. On a recent stormy afternoon, Bullen sat in a corner of the store known as Poetry Corner, a shrine of sorts to conversation where over the decades, passersby, dedicated customers and friends and family have talked out their joys and sorrows. “I’m just slowly taking things down off the walls,” Bullen says. “Everything comes to an end.”

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In late March, Bullen says she received a notice indicating that her rent was increasing by 35 percent, and that she had only a couple of weeks to decide whether or not to agree to the terms and sign on through December, or split. With a store full of antique furniture, much of which is on consignment, Bullen says she couldn’t just pack up and leave. So she agreed to pay the increased rent through June. Bullen says Elemente was a “refuge from the harsh world.” Over the years, she resisted the digital age by declining to develop a website. There are no computers, or screens for that matter, in her store. The cash register is a relic that is perhaps as old as the building and the receipts are handwritten. For now, Bullen says she doesn’t have any plans to open up in another location. John Chaffetz, a co-founder of Timberlane Partners, says he hasn’t evicted anyone from Pierpont, and doesn’t intend to any time soon. The rent hike, he says, was an effort to bring rents into the realm of commercial viability. “If someone’s paying a quarter of market rent and you move them to half of market rent, and they can’t afford it, that’s something that’s hard to handle,” Chaffetz says, noting that he, too, is bummed to see Elemente leave. “We’ve increased rents modestly to make the building more viable, but we have not made an effort at all to raise rents as much as possible, even if we have the ability to do so.” Chaffetz says he has no immediate or long-term plans for the spaces. He says they will not be ripped down and he also doesn’t ever want to see it brimming with national chain stores. He says he’s wary of identifying his company as a sort of savior for buildings that could face demolition, but along this line, the value he sees in Pierpont can be realized by preserving it largely as it is. “We bought it because of its character and the character of the tenants as well,” Chaffetz says. “We buy properties where we think that property will eventually sell, and if it’s not us buying it, it will probably be torn down or be completely stripped of character.” Despite Chaffetz’s preservationminded words, Pierpont tenants say the lack of communication about what the future holds is worrisome. Salt Lake Underground Magazine has occupied a space at Pierpont for the past 10 years. SLUG Publisher Angela Brown says that, like Bullen, she received word of a rent increase, which she agreed to pay until the magazine’s lease expires in December. The irony inherent in the redevelopment of a city, or a neighborhood, isn’t lost on Brown, who along with her work at SLUG, founded the nonprofit orga-

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“I’m just slowly taking things down off the walls. Everything comes to an end.” —Shop owner Kate Bullen

Businesses on Pierpont Avenue, such as this furniture store, face an uncertain future. nization Craft Lake City, which hosts an annual weekend-long localized craft fair each summer, and conducts workshops and other outreach events throughout the year. SLUG, Craft Lake City and the other artists and entrepreneurs in the area are what has made it possible for a property in the area to fetch millions of dollars. (Chaffetz declined to say how much Timberlane paid, though some tenants say it was $10 million). According to Salt Lake County records, the building and the two lots it sits on have an assessed value of $3.5 million. But Brown also understands that things change, and as the economic tide rises, developers will be increasingly lured to areas traditionally occupied by lower-income residents and small-business owners. To help ease the blow of this reality, Brown says she’d like to see the city develop some type of system to help facilitate communication between developers looking to make cash and the real people who happen to occupy these real-estate gold mines. “Ultimately, this company from out of state, what they decide to do will impact Salt Lake City for years to come and will change the community that’s already there,” Brown says. “We’re just going to keep seeing this happen as Salt Lake City continues to get all of this incredible press all over the country.” The Pierpont sale came on the heels

of another property transaction in July 2014 involving the lot that houses Ken Sanders Rare Books at 268 S. 200 East, The Green Ant furniture store and several other small shops that stretch from the corner of 200 East west to Edison Street. This lot was leased by Ivory Homes, one of the state’s largest home and apartment developers. Goldsmith, who is now an associate professor at the University of Utah’s Department of City & Metropolitan Planning, says he hopes the new Pierpont owners will take care of the building, the tenants and the neighborhood. If they do, he says it’s possible for Pierpont to fill their pockets as well as their spirits. “I think it’s up to the new owners to join us as we cared so much about people and place and making sure that we can retain that authenticity and diversity and retain a place that provides safety for those who are creative, as a safe place to take risks, whether as an artist or a small business,” Goldsmith says. As it is, Goldsmith says Pierpont houses exactly the sort of shops and artisans that give a city its soul. “One more Prada store, one more Porsche store, you find those things anyplace, but you don’t find an Elemente anyplace, you don’t find SLUG Magazine anyplace,” he says. “You only find that on Pierpont, and that’s what we want to find in our cities: those places you can’t find anyplace else.” CW

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Politics

4th District Council candidate Derek Kitchen eyes housing, developers and the RDA.

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Council Dreams By Colby Frazier cfrazier@cityweekly.net @cfrazierlp

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In 2012, Kitchen and his partner, Moudi Sbeity, started Laziz Foods, a package-food company that began selling its wares at the Downtown Farmers Market, and now distributes products to Whole Foods Market and other grocery stores. One area of city government Kitchen is personally concerned with is the Redevelopment Agency. As Kitchen and Sbeity’s business has grown, they decided to open a small deli in the Central Ninth neighborhood, near 900 South and 200 West. The Redevelopment Agency owns several chunks of land in the neighborhood, and Kitchen says his plan to open a deli on some of that land was approved. Kitchen says he secured funding and believed the project would break ground five months ago but, he says, for reasons unknown, the RDA is moving slowly. “As a business owner, I’m incredibly frustrated with that slow-moving city policy,” Kitchen says, noting that the RDA’s mission is to combat blight, but that “sitting on properties and preventing them from moving forward is encouraging blight.” D.J. Baxter, executive director of the RDA, says legal review of the project, which includes a mix of retail and housing, and is new territory for the RDA, is behind the reason for the wait. “That has taken longer than anticipated,” Baxter says, noting that the project didn’t gain RDA approval until November 2014, and so, under any circumstances, January seemed an ambitious date to break ground. “We certainly bear some of the responsibility on that part.” Kitchen says he hopes to streamline development and perhaps reduce the fees developers must pay to build. But, he says, care must be taken to ensure that the apartment complexes popping up across the city, many of which are dominated by varying color schemes of stucco, are built to lasting standards. More than anything, though, Kitchen says if he is elected, he’s looking forward to working collaboratively with his fellow council members and the community. “I know what it takes to be a creative decision maker and to collaborate,” Kitchen says. CW In the lead-up to the Aug. 11 primary election, City Weekly will be publishing candidate profiles on all of the council candidates.

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hortly after the U.S. Supreme Court declined in October 2014 to hear Utah’s arguments against same-sex marriage, Derek Kitchen, the named plaintiff who challenged the Beehive State’s ban, found himself with a whole lot of free time. So, spurred by the success of the lawsuit and buoyed with a sense of possibilities, Kitchen announced in February that he intended to run for the District 4 Salt Lake City Council seat. “I was feeling really energized with the end of our case,” Kitchen says. “I felt empowered to put my voice and my energy behind something that I cared about, and I thought that the city council would be a great way to continue that.” Community and political activist Nate Salazar has also announced his intention to seek the District 4 seat, which is being vacated by Luke Garrott, who is running for mayor. [Editor’s note: Realtor/Broker Babs De Lay, who is a City Weekly contributor, is also filing to run in District 4.] At 26 years old, Kitchen would be the city’s first politician of the Millennial generation, which is often characterized by its general lack of interest in anything other than smartphones—and, well, smartphones. Kitchen, though, says he sees many areas where Salt Lake City could improve, including with economic development, access by small businesses to city grants and funding, and a topic that has only recently begun to penetrate the minds of the city’s politicians: affordable housing. The city’s current building boom is adding apartments and condominiums at a rapid clip, but Kitchen says none of those units are being designated as affordable or below-market-rate housing—a fact that must change. “Otherwise, we’re going to become a very, very expensive city that’s exclusive to the rich and, in the name of equality, that’s not a good thing,” Kitchen says. Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker has announced an initiative called “5,000 doors” that aims to provide that number of affordable housing units in the next five years. A 2013 study commissioned by the city found that the city already has a deficit of 8,200 affordable-housing units. Nevertheless, Kitchen points out, affordable housing didn’t even make the list of the City Council’s 2015 priorities. “We don’t have any inclusionary zoning on the books right now in Salt Lake City,” Kitchen says, referring to zones in many other cities that stipulate that new developments must contain a certain percentage of affordable units.

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CITIZEN REVOLT

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Volunteering

United Way of Salt Lake Celebration of Service Little America Hotel, 500 S. Main, 801736-7756, Wednesday, May 27, 12-1:30 p.m. Utah’s Go Grey in May 5K to End Brain Cancer Liberty Park, 900 S. 700 East, Monday, May 25, 7-10:30 a.m.

Community Events WalkToEndBrainTumors.org

Downtown Yoga Festival The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, 801-999-8479, May 23-24, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

Nature & Environment

Eight reasons Gov. Gary Herbert opposes privatization of Utah’s liquor sales:

Annual Birdhouse Competition and Exhibit Ogden Nature Center, 966 W. 12th St., Ogden, 801-621-7595, through June 30. Salt Lake Astronomical Society Star Party Harmons Brickyard, 3270 S. 1300 East, 801602-8661, Friday, May 22, 8-10 p.m. Saturday Nature Walk Swaner EcoCenter, 1258 Center Drive, Park City, 435-649-1767, Saturdays, 10-11:30 a.m. Stansbury Park Observatory Star Party Stansbury Park Observatory Complex, 15 Plaza, Stansbury Park, 801-602-8661, Saturday, May 23, 8-10 p.m.

The word “privatization” contains more than two syllables.

Because Utah is all about small businesses … the right kind of businesses.

6. It’s certainly not about LDS political influence. Only a drunk like you would believe that.

5. Education funding shortfalls would have to be made up with a lottery, and no one wants that.

The new computerized inventory system from startup Skynet will fix everything.

3. It would be seen as

“promoting” an unhealthy lifestyle—what if private liquor stores had drive-thru windows?

It’s still probably the least corrupt section of local government.

1. He says the current system is “working good”—and who can argue with that kind of keen articulation?

Stansbury Park Observatory Star Party University of Utah South Physics Observatory, 125 S. 1400 East, 801-587-7223, Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m. Wetland Bird Walk 2015 Swaner EcoCenter, 1258 Center Drive, Park City, 435-649-1767, Sat., May 23, 7 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Wild Wednesdays: Our National Symbol A Memorial Day program celebrating America’s beloved avian symbol, featuring Ogden Nature Center’s own bald eagle, Des Ta Tes. Ogden Nature Center, 966 W. 12th St., Ogden, 801621-7595, Wed., May 27, 3:45 p.m. Got a volunteer, activism or community event to submit? Visit CityWeekly.net/addevent

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Curses, Foiled Again Police were able to link Christopher Furay, 33, to six bank robberies in Pittsburgh, Pa., by his distinctive red beard. After media coverage of the first four robberies, he wore a fake red beard over his real one for the next two. He was arrested anyway after the sixth robbery when a detective recognized his getaway vehicle as the same one used for previous heists. (Pittsburgh’s WTAE-TV)

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n Tyler Trammell, 27, was arrested as the “Average Joe Bandit” when he robbed a Phoenix, Ariz., bank he’d robbed only weeks earlier. This time, a detective standing “approximately 15-20 feet away” said he recognized Trammell as the suspect and saw him accepting money from the teller in a small blue bag. Trammell explained he robbed the bank a second time because he needed money “because the country is so fucked up.” (Phoenix’s KPHO-TV)

First Things First The utility company on the Philippines island of Palawan asked residents to turn off refrigerators and other electrical appliances so there’d be enough power to broadcast the boxing match between local favorite Manny Pacquiao and American Floyd Mayweather. (Australia’s News.com.au)

n Utah authorities arrested Weston Frank Vetere, 25, after he told them he started a brush fire that burned 40 acres of old-growth cottonwood trees and threatened several buildings. The Grand County Sheriff’s Office said Vetere explained that he set the fire to signal for help after his car got stuck. (Reuters)

Crime and Punishment Peter Mutty, 57, received a heavy sentence for brewing light beer because he did it Saudi Arabia. Authorities arrested him after finding two cartons of home-brewed light beer and two cases of homemade red and white wine in his car. “I knew it was wrong and I made no attempt to hide the fact I was guilty,” he said after serving six months in the notorious Thuqba prison “with rapists, murderers and killers.” Before being released, he received 28 lashes with a cane and was told he cannot leave the country because his case is not finalized. He also cannot work. “I am trapped in limbo and have not earned a brass razoo in six months,” he said. (Britain’s The Telegraph) n Quebec police issued a $148 ticket to 91-year-old Yvette Vachon for making too much noise with her recliner rocking chair. Two officers responded after her downstairs neighbor complained about being irritated by the sound of her chair and her television and insisted that police take action. Lawyer Charles Cantin took on her case pro bono. After he reported the ticket to the media, prosecutors in Saguenay canceled the fine and said the officers should have issued her just a warning. (Canada’s National Post)

Not Lovin’ It Hoping to overcome its junk-food image, McDonald’s began testing two breakfast bowls in Southern California. One includes kale. The chain is also introducing three salads in Canada that contain kale. The new menu items follow recent ads for the Big Mac that mocked trendy foods like kale, soy, quinoa and Greek yogurt. (Associated Press) n A Michigan court sentenced Shaneka Torres, 30, to three to seven years in prison for opening fire at a McDonald’s restaurant that failed to put bacon on her burgers. She complained when the burger she ordered at the drive-through was missing bacon. She was offered a free replacement, but this one also lacked bacon, provoking her to shoot through the restaurant. (Associated Press)

Compiled by Roland Sweet. Authentication on demand

Firebuggery Federal authorities were forced to drop criminal charges against a California man accused of starting a wildfire because two key witnesses died within months of his indictment. The 2013 blaze burned 400 square miles, including parts of Yosemite National Park, destroyed 11 homes and cost $125 million to fight. One of the witnesses died in a workplace accident, the other of a

heart attack. Prosecutors said statements they made implicating Matthew Emerald, 33, can’t be used in court. (Associated Press)

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What Could Go Wrong? After the Rubbin’ Buttz BBQ in Milliken, Colo., announced that the restaurant would celebrate White Appreciation Day on June 11 by offering white customers a 10 percent discount, co-owners Edgar Antillon and Miguel Jiminez began receiving threats, including one bomb scare. “It’s been phone calls, it’s been emails, it’s been on social media,” Antillon said. “Some are just, ‘Hey, you’re an idiot,’ and others have been legit threats.” He added, however, that the messages have been “overwhelmingly positive.” Antillon said the idea for White Appreciation Day was to “highlight a double standard,” where African American and Hispanic Americans have month-long celebrations of their heritage, but he emphasized that the discount would apply to all patrons. All they have to do is ask. (The Washington Times)

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Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams calls foul on his former campaign manager, Justin Miller. By Stephen Dark sdark@cityweekly.net @stephenpdark

tah’s Democrats fight to hold ground in Utah politics. Not only are there few Democrats in elected office, but when a dispute erupts among the few in prominent positions, it can ensnare a swath of party members. Take, for instance, the early May 2015 spate of news stories involving Democratic Party luminaries Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams, state Rep. Justin Miller, D-Salt Lake City, and former congressional candidate/now political-consultant Donald Dunn. The roots of this lingering scandal can be traced back to one explosive confrontation on Oct. 13, 2014. On that day, the three men met at the offices of the Exoro Group, a public affairs agency in the elegant Crandall building in downtown Salt Lake City. McAdams and Dunn looked upon Miller as a friend and in Dunn’s case, his protégé. Miller had worked on both men’s campaigns: Dunn’s 2002 unsuccessful U.S. congressional bid and McAdams’ 2012 mayoral campaign. McAdams

then appointed Miller to become Salt Lake County associate deputy mayor, a newly created position (Miller went on to be elected to the House in late 2014, and now represents District 40). By the end of the meeting, however, the kind regard both men held for Miller was well on its way to becoming a casualty not so much of politics as bitter allegations of betrayal and criminal wrongdoing, including the alleged embezzlement of nearly $30,000 from McAdams’ campaign. McAdams recorded the 20-minute confrontation, a fact that Justin Miller says he was unaware of. “Kind of feels like a set-up,” he says with a laugh, during a May 12 phone interview. Subsequent attempts to contact Miller, who told a City Weekly reporter he was leaving for Disneyland the next day, proved unsuccessful. As with many news outlets in town, City Weekly obtained a recording of the conversation through a record request to Salt Lake County. Also available to the news media were 600 pages of documents from Salt Lake County, which revealed McAdams

Ben McAdams, left, and Justin Miller out on the mayoral stump

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had been in the process of firing Miller just prior to the October 2014 confrontation. It became clear that Miller wasn’t just getting a pink slip: McAdams went so far as to report Miller to the Salt Lake City Police Department for allegedly embezzling funds from McAdams’ campaign. McAdams’ claims drew a vitriolic response from Miller, who then made his own allegations against Salt Lake County. In December 2014, Miller filed a notice of claim alleging inappropriate financial relationships between McAdams, Deputy Mayor Nichole Dunn (spouse of Donald Dunn) and the Exoro Group, a powerful public-affairs firm run by Maura Carabello, a longtime friend of the Dunns, who, in fact, managed Donald Dunn’s first congressional campaign in 2000. Both Carabello and Donald Dunn deny there is any truth whatsoever to Miller’s claims. The Salt Lake County District Attorney Office reviewed Miller’s claims and, in February 2015, the prosecutor’s office found them without merit. Writing to Miller’s attorney, Salt Lake County DA Sim Gill wrote, “Although our investigation is ongoing, to date we have been unable to substantiate the key factual allegations made by Mr. Miller and have discovered myriad lawful bases for the termination of Mr. Miller’s at-will employment with Salt Lake County.” The emerging scandal has also triggered a criminal investigation by the Salt Lake City Police Department and Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings, who are looking into Miller’s financial involvement with McAdams’ campaign. The investigation may yet turn to the Salt Lake County Mayor’s office to address Miller’s concerns, specious or not (see “Screening for Charges,” p. 18). It may also shed light on the cozy relationship between the McAdams’ campaign and Exoro, a self-described bipartisan public affairs agency (see “Office Space at Exoro,” p. 17). Ultimately, the public may come to know more about Miller’s history, which includes a 2006 plea in abeyance on a shoplifting citation—for which Miller did community service at the Salt Lake County Democratic Party—as well as allegations from a 2010 Salt Lake County Council candidate, similar to those made by McAdams.

Words Between Friends

someone who has a county contract,” McAdams said. “So [Exoro] charged a fair-market value.” It was that decision that Miller red-flagged in an email. Carabello is a McAdams’ supporter and was brought in to work on his campaign in August 2014. She makes it clear, however, that she and her chief administrative officer, Blaes, worked simply as volunteers for McAdams. Not only did Blaes volunteer with bookkeeping assistance, but she and Carabello also committed to a more formal position in McAdams’ fundraising machine. Carabello, Dunn and Blaes signed up as incorporators on Oct. 6, 2014, of Ben’s Leadership Political Action Committee, while, on the same day, Dunn, Blaes and McAdams’ wife incorporated a nonprofit called Ben McAdams for Mayor, formed to “solicit or receive funds” to advocate for McAdams’ re-election. Carabello says to remember that she and Blaes were brought in to make order from Miller’s chaos. “Because of our experience in managing and organizing political efforts, we felt like it was critical to start fresh by establishing new entities, systems and documents,” she says. She is proud of her work on McAdam’s campaign. “I wish more people were involved in shaping our civic dialogue, and I’m very proud of my support of Mayor McAdams.” One casualty of the Miller affair appears to have been Exoro, whose contract was not renewed in March 2015, despite there being an option in the contract for another two years. When asked why, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said, “Sometimes these contracts are renewed, sometimes they aren’t. This wasn’t.” —By Stephen Dark

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Nowhere in the nearly 600 pages of documents released by Salt Lake County regarding Justin Miller’s firing was there a mention of Miller’s past plea deal over a retail-theft charge, nor were there claims of his alleged shortchanging of another campaign in the same fashion that McAdams feels he was wronged. What was highlighted was Justin

and Maura Carabello, the Exoro Group has evolved into a powerful policy advocacy and public-affairs agency. Carabello describes the agency as bipartisan: “We only work on heartsand-minds issues.” Webb cut financial ties with Exoro several years ago. In March 2014, the Exoro Group won a $100,000 contract from Salt Lake County to work on township and incorporation issues. McAdams says that Exoro had won multiple competitively bid contracts with Salt Lake County for nearly a decade. Carabello wasn’t impressed by Miller’s attempt to rope her agency into his termination from the county. When she read his notice of claim, she says, “It really looked like the traditional spitball that gets thrown up at the wall to see what splats.” Carabello says, because her company is so heavily involved in politics, it has to follow “best practices” at all times. She says it’s easy to fact-check that she and Donald Dunn “have never been partners, he’s never had an interest in Exoro, never shared ownership.” But it’s not to say that Carabello and Donald Dunn, two friends for 15 years, don’t have connections. Donald subcontracted with Exoro to raise funds for Count My Vote, billing the campaign directly, Carabello says, for his $55,000 in fees. Exoro handles the Utah part of a campaign for nonprofit Fuel Freedom Initiative (FFI), which seeks to decouple American consumption from Middle Eastern oil. Dunn worked for FFI as its development director and fundraiser, but the connection there actually came through a longstanding friendship with former Deseret News chief and FFI president and chief executive Joe Cannon. Dunn recently left FFI and set up The Opinion Group, which he runs from offices he sublets from the Exoro Group. Donald Dunn is a volunteer adviser to McAdams. In a quest to cut expenses, McAdams says he had Exoro employee and volunteer Dina Blaes review his books. “She is a longtime supporter of mine and volunteered for my campaign,” McAdams says. “And, quite frankly, she was somebody who was more detail-orientated and not sloppy, like Justin.” McAdams himself needed an office separate from the county, a “cubby hole” to store signs, where he could make phone calls or conduct interviews unrelated to his governmental work, and, like Dunn, agreed to rent space from the Exoro Group, even though the county had a contract with the agency. “County procurement says I can’t accept an in-kind contribution in excess of $100 from

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n an August 2014 email, shortly after campaign volunteer (and Exoro employee) Dina Blaes asked Rep. Justin Miller to hand over Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams’ campaign books, Miller sent a short but incendiary response to his thenboss. “I have concerns about moving Andrew [Roberts, campaign consultant] and the Mayor Campaign [staff] over to Exoro. They are a county contractor, and one that receives funds sans the open contracts and procurement process. I believe this places an unnecessary risk upon you and your future as well (sic) shines a light upon the relationship with Exoro and the Mayor’s office.” Deputy Mayor Nichole Dunn sounded a note of caution the following day in an email she sent to McAdams, her husband, Donald, and Exoro’s managing partner Maura Carabello. “We probably do need to be careful as Exoro is a contractor and can’t contribute more than $100. Dina can volunteer but office space may be an issue.” McAdams thanked Miller for raising the concern but noted in an email that he carefully followed all county regulations regarding campaign expenditures. He said that he was moving his campaign office to Exoro after he and Carabello had agreed he would “pay fair market value for office space and related expenditures.” When a City Weekly reporter recently spoke by phone to Miller, he said he recognized the damage his email would do to McAdams, a man he had helped get elected. “It was one of the hardest things I’ve done, because I admired Donald, I admire Mayor McAdams. Sending that type of email changes relationships and dynamics, and realizing who I was arguably making a claim on had real implications. So it wasn’t something I just did. It’s something I struggled [with] and still struggle with today.” Despite those struggles, he did not provide further details to support the allegations contained in his wrongfultermination suit, in which he accused McAdams of everything from bribery to federal racketeering. He further alleged financial links between Donald Dunn and Exoro. The notice of claim sought either $750,000-plus, or, if they settled, $250,000-plus from the county. “Everything we have is outlined in the notice of claim,” he said. “I assume there’s more.” Utah Department of Commerce records show no mention of Donald Dunn in Exoro’s corporate history, nor has Miller provided any evidence to support his claims linking the Dunns with the Exoro Group. Nevertheless, longtime county contractor Exoro does enjoy a close relationship with the McAdams’ administration. Founded in 2003 by LaVarr Webb

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Emails City Weekly received through a record request show that McAdams, in summer 2014, had become deeply frustrated with Miller’s performance as associate deputy mayor. Among other things, McAdams had been surprised when Miller decided to run for Democratic state Rep. Lynn Hemingway’s seat when Hemingway stepped down. But most troubling of all for the mayor, according to emails, was that after McAdams had asked Miller to turn over McAdams’ campaign finance books to a campaign volunteer, Miller had admitted to him that $10,000 in campaign funds was missing. Dina Blaes, the chief administrative officer at Exoro Group, served as a volunteer on McAdams’ team and was taking over the campaign accounting from Miller. In doing so, she told McAdams and Dunn she had discovered irregularities in the mayor’s campaign finances. On the audio recording of the October 2014 confrontation, Dunn asked Miller, “Given the fact that you’ve just admitted $24,388.45 that you know you need to repay the campaign, it leads me to believe what else needs to repaid, what other things [you] have maybe intended to pay back?” Exasperated, McAdams told Miller he wanted either the receipts for the campaign expenditures or he wanted the missing cash, and either way, it all had to add up to zero. Miller, incredulously, then asked for an apology from McAdams “for all these accusations.” In a recent phone interview, Miller says that, to the best of his recollection, the reason he asked for an apology was, “I don’t feel like I did anything.” Miller was terminated at his county job several days later. The initial reasons cited in a termination letter were jobperformance-related, but Deputy Mayor Nichole Dunn also included a breach of trust in the final letter. Meanwhile, Miller continued to campaign for the House and, several weeks later, won the District 40 House seat. But if he hoped that his alleged financial misdeeds would be behind him, they eventually came center-stage after McAdams went to the police.

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wo days after Rep. Justin Miller filed a notice of claim against the Salt Lake County Mayor’s Office, District Attorney Sim Gill attempted to answer the challenge by initially walling himself off from the criminal investigation. Meanwhile, his civil division chief Ralph Chamness, sent a letter addressed to both the DA’s criminal division Chief Deputy Jeff Hall and Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings. To forestall any conflict of interest, Chamness took the unusual route of asking Hall to investigate McAdams’ allegations related to Miller and send them to Rawlings to decide whether or not Miller should be charged. If Rawlings found that charges were warranted, Chamness wanted him to file them in Salt Lake County. “If criminal charges are filed against Mr. Miller, this office intends to handle the resulting criminal prosecution,” Chamness wrote. Keeping the criminal prosecution largely in-house, however, was an approach that was later abandoned. Rawlings noted in an emailed statement to City Weekly that “given the potential conflicts and surrounding issues, the Salt Lake County DA’s office agreed that the December 19 letter did not outline the best, most practical or viable procedure.” In February 2015, Chamness wrote a second letter to Hall and Rawlings noting that the latter would both screen and prosecute charges, if any were forthcoming, against Miller. Gill, a Democrat, and Rawlings, a Republican, have formed a formidable bipartisan team when it comes to tackling highprofile political crimes. For instance, Gill’s office is prosecuting former Attorney General John Swallow, while Rawlings is prosecuting Mark Shurtleff, Swallow’s predecessor. When it came to the Miller investigation, Gill initially distanced himself from a criminal investigation into Miller, in part, he acknowledges, because of perception issues related to McAdams’ campaign donating $6,000 to the Elect Sim Gill campaign in October 2014, in the midst of the final turmoil of Miller’s departure. By the end of February 2015, Gill’s civil division had investigated Miller’s complaints against McAdams, the Dunns and Exoro, and found them to be without merit. Even still, in his statement to City Weekly, Rawlings wrote that Miller was both presumed to be, and may well be, innocent, and that no charges had been filed. His office would be looking at “all allegations, defenses, and possible innocent explanations.” City Weekly asked Salt Lake County’s Gill if Rawlings’ statement could be construed to mean that Rawlings is also investigating the county mayor’s office. “I need Troy to make an independent judgment and evaluation,” Gill said. “I want him to chase out the truth, wherever the evidence leads him.” He continued, “He’s a competent and honorable professional. He’s going to do what he’s going to do.” —By Stephen Dark

But Miller’s professional relationships weren’t always dogged by allegations and acrimony. In 2002, he worked on Donald Dunn’s bid for U.S. House. “I was his field director,” Miller recalled in a telephone interview. “I looked up to him. He was a mentor and somebody I admired greatly.” For all Miller’s political ambition, he was capable, at times, of curious lapses of judgment—although, even when it came to a brush with the law, he still managed to find a political method of resolution. Miller was at a Salt Lake Bees baseball game at Franklin Covey field on April 21, 2006, according to a police report City Weekly requested from Salt Lake City Police Department, when he was observed by employees putting on a Bees jersey, tearing off the sales tag, and then going to the cash register and paying for only a $15 hat. Security escorted Miller to the first-aid office, where Miller claimed that he had paid for the jersey but could not provide a receipt. According to the police report, upon further questioning, “Justin acknowledged he had ‘accidentally’ failed to pay for the jersey.” According to a Salt Lake City justice court docket, Miller pleaded guilty to a retail theft class B misdemeanor on May 15, 2006. In lieu of a fine, Judge John Baxter allowed Miller to do community service, which Miller served at the Salt Lake County Democratic Party. The charge was dismissed a year later as part of a plea in abeyance—essentially, an admission of guilt given in exchange for, after a probationary period, the charge being dropped. Miller went on to be elected vice chair of the Salt Lake County Democrats in 2009. He also found employment at the Salt Lake County Mayor’s Office as aide to thenCounty Councilwoman (now state Sen.) Jani Iwamoto, D-Holladay. In 2010, Miller pitched himself as campaign manager to Diane Turner, who was running for Salt Lake County Council. According to Turner, he was good in that role: “He told me everything I wanted to hear,” she says. Ego-stroking, it seems, “is what you do in politics,” Turner says. “You make them feel good, then they’ll run. He did that very well.” Yet despite Miller’s skill at handholding, her professional relationship with Miller did not end well. “I didn’t have a positive experience,” she says, referring to a $3,000 check that he allegedly wrote himself from the campaign account he had set up for her. Turner was unaware of Miller’s retail-theft charge and plea deal. Had she known, she says,

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“it would have made me more questioning. I wouldn’t have been so trusting.” (McAdams also says he did not know about the class B misdemeanor until City Weekly brought it to his attention.) County officials informed Miller that his working for both the county and Turner was a conflict of interest. “I had paid him for that first part of my campaign, and he was not able to fulfill that,” Turner recalls. He did not return the money despite her asking, and she did not pursue him for it. “It’s kind of a ‘he said, she said,’ tale. Justin is pretty good at not taking responsibility for those things, from my perspective.” Mary Bishop ran against Miller for Salt Lake County Democratic Party chair the following year. She recalls that some in the county party questioned Turner’s claim “that Justin hadn’t done $3,000 worth of work.” But make no mistake, she says: Miller “is an able body, he’s a good campaign manager and a smart cookie.” In politics, “there are those who are in, and those who are out. There is a tendency to believe whoever your friend is,” she says. When the news of McAdams’ concerns with Miller surfaced, Turner says she felt badly for McAdams, but the allegations did not surprise her. “I think when you’re not open and honest with someone, that’s usually not just done in a vacuum,” she says, referring to Miller. “You have those kinds of dealings with other people, too.” Bishop agrees. With regard to Miller keeping Turner’s payment for work he didn’t do, “it was almost like he convinced himself that he was owed,” Bishop says. Given Miller’s current problems, “it shows a bit of a pattern is there, just not on that scale,” she says. Miller’s employment as council aide for Councilwoman Iwamoto did not work out, either. She terminated Miller in December 2010, and has declined to comment, citing Miller’s pending litigation against the county. “I had a young family,” Miller says about his parting ways with Iwamoto, “and things just ultimately weren’t working out.”

“I don’t feel like I did anything.”

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Miller about $10,000 Miller had admitted to mistakenly appropriating from campaign funds after McAdams requested his campaign books back. He also complained about Miller’s moonlighting as a political consultant “contrary to my explicit desires or without my knowledge.” Miller emailed back that he understood McAdams’ disappointment. He hoped that one day McAdams would find it in his heart to forgive him. “I think of you as a friend and a mentor. I admire no one more.” One month later, instead of apologizing, it was Miller who was asking McAdams for an apology for accusing him of malfeasance.

Miller had more success working as a consultant on Ogden Mayor Mike Caldwell’s campaign in November 2011. It was Miller’s work on that successful campaign that led McAdams to bring Miller on board as campaign manager—as well as the fact that “Justin was recommended to me as a potential campaign manager by people I trust,” McAdams says.

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Miller is “a very capable politician, he understands the ins and out.” -Bryan Schott

shame because he’s a good politician and a good political operative.” What Miller’s constituents make of his ups and downs, however, is another matter. Indeed perhaps the biggest question Miller faces, other than the outcome of the criminal investigation into his financial dealings, is whether he should step down. “That’s up to the members of his own caucus and himself,” Schott says. In Utah, there is no recall mechanism for politicians. Former Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon, now chair of the Utah Democratic Party, hopes for a speedy resolution to the issue. “It’s not our place to be seeking a resignation,” he says. Corroon says the party’s position on the Miller/McAdams debacle is that “it’s an employment matter between the county and one of its former employees.” While memories may still be fresh of indicted former Utah Attorney General John Swallow refusing to step down as his legal situation worsened, for now, Miller has to wait out Davis County’s investigation to see if McAdams’ allegations will result in charges. Miller says he is not concerned about the scandal impacting his legislative seat. “Even though, personally, for me the trip is difficult—it deals with friends, colleagues and mentors—at the end of the day, I can sleep at night because I feel like I did the right thing.” He hopes that notifying the mayor and then the council through his notice of claim will stand him in good stead with the voters. “I hope that my constituents don’t view that as a negative. I certainly don’t.” CW

Justin Miller landed on his feet after he left Salt Lake County, securing, in November 2014, a position at a union office, AFSCME Local 1004, as executive director. President Ray Wickens says Miller told him about his termination from the county. “Politics [is] at play; you need to wait and see on this one,” Wickens says. Miller oversees the local’s day-to-day operations and contract negotiations. “He has been fantastic for us,” Wickens says. UtahPolicy.com managing editor Bryan Schott can’t recall the last time a sitting legislator had criminal charges brought against him, a situation that, as yet, Miller does not face. “If what is being alleged turns out to be true, it paints a picture of someone who likes to play ‘push the boundaries of the rules,’ play fast and loose.” he says. “Sometimes in politics, that works for you, where you don’t care what ethical lines you’re crossing.” Schott views Miller’s results as a campaign manager for McAdams, among others, “to have been outstanding.” But, in the minority party, where everybody knows everybody, Schott says, “It’s not hard to build up a lot of friends. It’s also not hard to build up a lot of enemies.” Voters may have short memories, Schott continues, but politicians hold grudges for years, if not decades. “In politics, perception is reality. Even that [audio of the confrontation with McAdams] does a ton of damage to [Miller’s] reputation, which is a

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Bryan Schott is managing editor at UtahPolicy. com, a website founded by LaVarr Webb, a former partner in the Exoro Group. Schott says Miller is “a very capable politician, he understands the ins and out. Getting McAdams elected was not an easy task. Salt Lake City is very friendly to Democrats, but the county, overall, is not.” After McAdams got elected, he appointed Miller in January 2013 to the newly created position of associate deputy mayor that came with an $8,115-permonth salary. “My expectation was he would perform community outreach and liaison to stakeholders throughout the community,” McAdams says. “He had worked on my campaign, and I had some trust and experience working with him in that capacity and felt his skills were suitable.” Miller says his responsibilities were “fairly fluid. I spent a lot of time working with constituent issues, press relations. The last year, the bulk of my work was with the Community Preservation project and shepherding that finally to passage.” In February 2014, McAdams learned that Miller, under the auspices of his own consulting business, had been wooing congressional candidate Doug Owens in hopes of being hired to run Owens’ campaign against Mia Love. Miller had written to Owens that “time is of the essence on your race, and Mia is pulling in more cash by the day.” Owens called McAdams to check Miller’s references. McAdams was furious. “I was not comfortable with the associate deputy mayor having a highprofile government job and also managing and consulting on political campaigns. That was not an appearance I wanted someone in my administration to be doing.” Needless to say, McAdams did not give Miller a good reference, he says. Miller says his consulting business “never really materialized and got off the ground, unfortunately.” When McAdams found out that Miller had taken out a three-year lease for a property using McAdams’ campaign funds “to the tune of $800 a month,” for his political consultancy, M2 Research and Consulting, he was shocked. “I had not approved the lease, and I wanted it terminated,” McAdams says. He adds dryly, “I wasn’t aware that I was funding a start-up venture, especially in the offyear when my goal was to buckle down and save money for my election.” Emails released by the county depicted deficiencies in Miller’s work performance—failing to respond in a timely manner on work issues, for example—which led McAdams to conclude in summer 2014, “that we wanted to part ways with him as a county employee. It was roughly at the same time we also felt it was advisable to terminate his responsibilities with my campaign.” In early September 2014, McAdams emailed

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Wasatch Theatre Co.: Deadly 7 Page-to-Stage Festival For 14 years, Wasatch Theatre Co. has provided one of Utah’s most reliable showcases for new work by new playwrights with its annual Page-to-Stage Festival. For the most part, the works produced are the same ones presented to the company for consideration. But in an effort to shake things up, Wasatch has thrown a little devil into the details. In the spirit of artistic “iron [fill-in-the-blank]” challenges that give creative people a fixed time frame to create works within certain specific parameters, the 2015 Page-to-Stage Festival welcomed playwrights accepted through the regular submission process, then presented them with a twist. The seven writers would each be assigned to write a short play thematically connected to one of the seven deadly sins—pride, envy, greed, sloth, lust, wrath and gluttony. But they’d also be given a few additional tasks: incorporating a predetermined line of dialogue, one specific prop and writing for a specific cast. Playwrights Sherry Allred, Beth Bruner, Elise Hanson, Jim Martin, Ryan Noufer, George Plautz and David Sanderson make up the lucky septet who took on the challenge—and handed it off to the seven-member cast: Alyssa Franks, Michelle Hall, Natalie Keezer, Malinda Money, Brian Pilling, Michele Rideout and Allen Smith (with writers Martin and Plautz also acting as segment directors). The result is a diverse evening of theater, from comedy to drama. And you get a chance to pay for their sins. (Scott Renshaw) Wasatch Theatre Co.: Deadly 7 Page-toStage Festival @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, May 21-23, 8 p.m., matinee May 23, 1 p.m., $15. ArtTix.org

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Hot on the heels of a show in April featuring some of the area’s most outstanding abstractionists, 15th Street Gallery opened for Gallery Stroll on May 15 with a trio of artists whose work, at least in this show, is representational. Steven Larson’s works are fascinating in the way they sketch out landscapes—sometimes with human imprints—with a tentativeness that renders them almost ephemeral. On the other hand, Lindsay Frei’s figures are so definitive that they emphasize the bold compositional element. The wild card in this show is Trent Alvey, known for her mixed-media works ranging from whimsy to Buddhist profoundness. In this exhibition, however, the work includes landscapes that more than hint at abstraction—emotive yet well-balanced, reflecting the seasonal transitions in Emigration Canyon near her home (“Emigration Canyon #5” pictured)—as well as mixed-media collages echoing the white of the gallery walls. With its expansive, open interior and white walls that welcome the eclectic collection of artists they exhibit, the 15th Street Gallery is one of the most well-designed gallery spaces in Salt Lake City. It’s in a walkable neighborhood, yet is not difficult to park in, and a visit to the gallery also invites a stop at nearby bookstore or eatery. The back area of the gallery often showcases pieces by artists not represented in the current featured show, which gives patrons a chance to check out some other notable locals they might have otherwise missed. (Brian Staker) Trent Alvey, Lindsay Frei & Steven Larson @ 15th Street Gallery, 1519 S. 1500 East, 801-468-1515, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m; through June 12. 15thStreetGallery.com

During his lifetime, composer Gustav Mahler was far better known for his conducting than he was for his own music. Sure, people knew he wrote symphonies, and some of them were even performed occasionally, but his compositions were considered to be minor contributions to the modern canon. As another small twist of fate, Mahler made his name conducting music by Wilhelm Richard Wagner—Hitler’s favorite composer—only to later have his own music banned during the Nazi era as “degenerate” because of his Jewish roots in Bohemia. Mahler completed nine symphonies, helping to bridge the Romantic period of classical music with the Modern, and Utah Symphony is in the middle of a two-year cycle celebrating the composer. While Mahler is known for his fixation on everything in his compositions—choirs, large horn, percussion sections and little-known instruments—Symphony No. 4 is actually one of Mahler’s simpler, not to mention shortest, works. It’s commonly considered the final instalment of the Wunderhorn symphonies, an end cap for the previous three that deal with a similar theme culled from an even earlier work, Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Child’s Magic Horn). Mahler’s conducting chops are now a historical footnote, but his works have clearly found appreciative ears—although, as is so often the case, long after his death. Other works on the bill for Utah Symphony’s season closer will be Dmitry Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 (featuring violinist Veronika Eberle), and Morgen, Op. 27, No. 4 by Richard Strauss. (Jacob Stringer) Utah Symphony: Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 @ Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, May 22-23, 8 p.m., 801-355-2787, $18-$63. UtahSymphony.org, ArtTix.org

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SATURDAY 5.23

Downtown Yoga Festival When the Indian practice of yoga began gathering a popular following in the Western world in the 1980s, a little something was lost in translation. In the most traditional sense, yoga was—and is—a lifestyle practice, encompassing spirituality, health, diet and philosophy, as well as the physical aspect that has become de rigueur in gyms and studios across the United States. This weekend, the Downtown Yoga Festival, organized by the nonprofit Yoga for the People, will, in many respects, return yoga to its classical roots, offering classes and seminars in health, food and (of course) yoga. Before founding Yoga for the People, Santosh Maknikar was a successful software engineer for companies like Citigroup, Overstock.com, InComm and Goldman Sachs. In 2011, he started his nonprofit with the mission of giving underserved populations of children and adults access to health and wellness through yoga. He began giving free yoga classes to people in local homeless shelters, hospitals, schools and prisons. When not teaching class, Maknikar organized yoga festivals; he previously organized the annual Great Salt Lake Yoga Festival at the Salt Lake City Krishna Center. This weekend’s two-day festival will be the first that Yoga for the People has brought to downtown Salt Lake City. All levels and styles of yoga will be represented—Hatha, Vinyasa, Kundalini, prenatal and others. Additionally, participants will have access to film screenings; panel discussions and seminars exploring yoga studies in the medical field, cooking and nutrition classes; and workshops covering topics from meditation to gardening. Online registrations closes May 22. (Katherine Pioli) Downtown Yoga Festival @ The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, 801-533-6683, May 23-24, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., $59-$90 in advance, $70-$108 day of festival, $25 kids’ one-day pass. DowntownYogaFest.com

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“Aquarius and Caine,” by Cody Chamberlain among those on display at Howa Gallery

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equally. Viewers can proceed from John Collins’ oil “Wasatch Fall Aspens” directly to a Bill Lee abstract painting like “DKY831” with all its frenetic energy, or from the intricate detail of Alexander Hraefn Morris “City to Sea 0720” to a David Maestas with its violent brushstrokes. The playfulness of Susan Kirby’s oil “Cat on Oriental” or Traci O’Very Covey’s gouache “Two Birds With Flora,” influenced by fabric art, meld in the mind with the sociopolitical impact of a work like Lenka Konopasek’s oil “Flooded Landscape New Orleans”—and the effect is quite breathtaking, if not downright mind-blowing. Like any innovative gallery space, Howa’s has the effect of being pleasantly educational, coaxing you to look at the world anew. “Diversity was the main objective,” he admits. “Realism, abstraction, sculpture, jewelry—I wanted to include a lot of different things here.” CW

A Gallery and Phillips a run for their money. Howa is a businessman, not an arty social butterfly. He stacks ’em deep, and when he sells a piece, there is no red-dot baloney; he puts up more stock, and the buyer hauls out their artwork. I watched this, personally, a number of times. He also has a sense of humor and likes to have a lot of fun. I can let myself be 12 years old around him.” Prior to becoming a full-time artist in 1998, Howa was vice-president of Howa Construction for 24 years. “This business gave me the experience that is required to operate a profitable, sustainable business,” he says. “I carried this philosophy not only as artist, but in incorporating basic business models. “The community north of Salt Lake is flourishing—the whole bench, from Farmington to Ogden,” Howa says. “With more homes being built in the area, and more affluent residents, it’s becoming a real art community. Davis County is the fastestgrowing county in the state, with the highest median income. From there to Ogden, art options have been limited.” Along with the recent remodeling of the BountifulDavis Art Center, he hopes Howa Gallery will help attract Salt Lakers, as well as those farther north who are eager to view a wide variety of local artists on display. It’s uncertain what underlying scheme informs how the artworks on the wall are organized, unless it’s sheer eclecticism— and that is a strength. The overall quality of the work suggests a democracy of styles, in which everything should be considered

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ne of the newest galleries along the Wasatch Front has a decidedly northern flair—northern Utah, that is. Thomas Howa opened Howa Gallery in Bountiful on May 9 and the 30 artists in the debut show—representing just about every imaginable artistic genre and style in the area—offer a remarkable cross-section of current local artists. Their works range from challenging, abstract paintings and sculptures to more readily accessible representational paintings featuring Western motifs and landscape; glass art, pottery, jewelry and even clothing are also featured. It was one of the most exciting and wellattended art openings of the spring season. As a successful businessman and an artist in his own right, Howa has a unique perspective on the local arts scene and on operating a gallery—and that perspective shows in his selection of artists and design of the space. “[Since I’m] familiar with the art community in the state, as well as some out-of-towners, the show was invitational at first,” Howa says. “But then, as news traveled, artists contacted me.” The Salt Lake City resident has had an art studio in Bountiful for three years, and when a space became available next door to that studio, he jumped at the chance. “I always wanted to be in the art-gallery business, and the space is ideal,” he says. In addition to the 30 “house” artists at the opening, he plans in the coming months to mount shows featuring solo artists. Frank McEntire, who has several sculptural pieces in the show, says, “Thomas Howa’s gregarious personality and desire to be an influence in Utah’s art scene are but two reasons he had no refusals by artists to his invitation to show their work in his new Bountiful gallery, myself included. His inaugural exhibition showcased an eclectic mix of work by a diverse group of artists, some [who have been] friends for many years and others I’m just getting to know—a third reason for me to have consented to his invitation. Besides, not many people venture to my studio way out west in Kearns. And for Tom to do so showed me how serious he was about me and my work.” Abstract painter Layne Meacham, also featured at Howa, applauds the gallery’s diversity and approach: “It’s high time that a third contender entered the ring, giving

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Salty Cricket Composers Collective: Low, Lower, Lowest If you’ve got it in your head that the world of classical music—even chamber music—is stuffy and locked into familiar formats, then clearly you haven’t been paying attention to Utah’s Salty Cricket Composers Collective. Not only does the organization offer opportunities for producing brand-new classical work by local composers, but occasionally a format will turn all of your expectations upside-down. For the one-night-only performance Low, Lower, Lowest, for example, you could hear works performed for a unique trio of instruments: the deep notes of the bassoon, string bass and tuba. Utah Symphony musicians Leon Chodos (bassoon) and Ted Merritt (bass) will join University of Utah Ph.D. candidate Ben Ordaz on tuba for music by Margot Murdoch, Aaron Kirschner, Doug Wood, Kathryn Jones and others that truly is all about that bass. (Scott Renshaw) Salty Cricket Composers Collective: Low, Lower, Lowest @ Ladies’ Literary Club, 850 E. South Temple, May 21, 7:30 p.m., $10-$20, tickets half-price if purchased online before May 21. SaltyCricket.org

Performance Theater Always…Patsy Cline SLCC Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State Street, 801-957-3322, May 21-23, 7 p.m., Saturday matinee, May 23, 2 p.m. Annie Get Your Gun Terrace Plaza Playhouse, 99 E. 4700 South, Ogden, 801-393-0070, through May 30. Big Fish Hale Center Theater Orem, 225 N. 400 West, Orem, 801-226-8600, through June 20. Into the Hoods Desert Star Theatre, 4861 S. State, Murray, 801-266-2600, through June 6. Lucky Stiff The Echo Theatre, 15 N. 100 East, Provo, 801-375-2181, Mondays, ThursdaysSaturdays, 7:30 p.m., through May 30. Over the River and Through the Woods Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 Decker Lake Dr, West Valley City, 801-984-9000, through May 23. Deadly 7 Page-to-Stage Festival Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, May 21-23, 8 p.m., Saturday matinee, May 23, 1 p.m. (see p. 20) Rabbit Hole Midvale Main Street Theatre, 7711 South Main Street, Midvale, 801-566-0596, May 22-23, Sunday matinee, May 24, 3 p.m. The Revengers Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, through June 16.

Dance America the Beautiful Sugar Space, 616 E. Wilmington Ave. (2190 South), 888-300-7898, May 22-23, 8-9 p.m. Ballet West: Innovations 2015 Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, May 21-23, 7:30 p.m., Saturday matinee, May 23, 2 p.m.

Classical & Symphony

Salt Lake Avenues Community Choir First Annual Memorial Day Concert Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, University of Utah, 801-581-7100, Thursday, May 21, 7:30-9 p.m. Salty Cricket Composer’s Collective: Low, Lower, Lowest Ladies’ Literary Club, 850 E. South Temple, 801-652-0737, Thursday, May 21, 7:30-9 p.m. (see above) Utah Symphony: Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-533-6683, May 22-23, 8 p.m. (see p. 20)

Comedy & Improv

Bengt Washburn Wiseguys West Valley City, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-463-2909, May 22-23, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.

Literature Author Appearances

Amy Hughes & Scott Parkin: Writers of the Future Barnes & Noble Orem, 330 E. 1300 South, Orem, 801-229-1611, Thursday, May 21, 6 p.m. Carson Ellis: Home The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Tuesday, May 26, 6:30 p.m. Dallas & Melissa Hartwig: The Whole30 The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Tuesday, May 26, 7 p.m. Dave Dewitt: Microfarming for Profit King’s English, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Wednesday, May 27, 7 p.m. Heidi Doxey: Liam Darcy, I Loathe You The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Saturday, May 23, 3-5 p.m. Michael Evans: The ABCs of Amsterdam Mestizo Coffeehouse, 631 W. North Temple, 801-596-0500, Saturday, May 23, 12-1 p.m. Raven Dawn: The Walls of Farswell The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Friday, May 22, 5 p.m. Stella Branca: The Maverick The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Saturday, May 23, 1 p.m. Taya Cook: Hurricane Coltrane The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Saturday, May 23, 11 a.m.

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Eat. Read. Play. Weller Book Works, Trolley Square, 602 E. 500 South, 801-328-2586 Saturdays, 10 a.m Great Reads with Random House The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Thursday, May 21, 7 p.m. Lit Knit Weller Book Works, 665 E. 600 South, Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, fourth Wednesday of every month, 6 p.m.

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Life in Sudan: Drawings by Gatluak Deng Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through June 20. Memorial Day Weekend Celebration Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way, May 23-24, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Opening Night: 12x12 and Persistence/Focus/ Matter Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, Friday, May 22, 7-9 p.m. Orange Art At The Main, 210 E. 400 South, 801363-4088, through June 15. Our America Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, University of Utah, 801-581-7332, through June 28. Out Loud Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through June 27. Panopticon: Visibility, Data & the Monitoring Gaze Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through July 25. Rebecca Pyle: In the Open Air Anderson Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, 801-594-8611, through May 29. Relational Forms: Robert Bliss & Anna Campbell Bliss CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, 385-215-6768, Saturdays, 12-4 p.m.., TuesdaysFridays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., through July 10. salt 11: Duane Linklater Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, University of Utah, 801-581-7332, through Aug. 2. Scott Peterson: Etched Finch Lane & Park Galleries, 1340 E 100 South, 801-596-5000, Mondays-Fridays, through June 5. Sean Moyer: Persistence/Focus/Matter Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through June 13. Seven: Perspective Landscapes Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St. (455 West), 801-5333582, Mondays-Fridays, through June 12. Super Kids Save the World Discovery Gateway, 444 W. 100 South, 801-456-5437, MondaysSundays, through Aug. 23. Utah Wilderness 50 Photographic Exhibition Swaner EcoCenter, 1258 Center Drive, Park City, 435-649-1767, Wednesdays-Sundays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., through June 7.

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Sunomono salad ($5) at Shoyu. It’s a straightforward dish of Japanese cucumber (kyuri) served with ponzu. Another tasty vegetarian-friendly appetizer is chilled tofu ($5), a light serving of soft, airy Japanese tofu with bonito flakes, radish sprouts, ginger and ponzu. Most of the nigiri at Shoyu is priced at $5 or $6 for two pieces. I was happily surprised by the thick, generous slices of hamachi, maguro and saba with the nigiri I ordered. This is definitely “two-bite” nigiri. It comes unadorned, with nothing more than ginger, wasabi and soy alongside. If you’ve always wanted to try uni (sea urchin) but were scared off by the cost, order some at Shoyu, where it’s a mere $7, when available. I don’t know the significance of “88,” but the 88 Roll ($13) is outstanding. I tend to like maki rolls where the fish, rice and other ingredients are the main attraction, not rolls smothered in too much sauce. Well, the 88 Roll fits the bill perfectly: wedges of avocado and albacore tuna with sushi rice, wrapped simply in strips of fresh escolar with just the slightest hint of ponzu citrus sauce. It’s a perfect example of how simple and sensational sushi can be. But, shh! Don’t tell anyone. CW

luxuriating in a scrumptious citrusy yuzu-soy bath. Another Shabu sushi favorite of mine is the Coco Loco roll ($19). Avocado, cucumber and albacore tuna is wrapped in rice and Thai basil, then topped with slices of salmon and maguro tuna, along with more avocado slivers and tobiko, then finished with wasabi-coconut aioli. The lip-smacking aioli delivers a beautiful blend of sweet and heat to the proceedings—a truly exceptional sushi roll. The best menu item at Shabu, in my opinion, isn’t just my favorite Shabu dish; it’s one of the best things I’ve ever eaten anywhere: the Wagyu beef hot rock ($23). Its simplicity and sensational flavor blew my mind. Thin slices of premium Snake River Farms Wagyu beef strip loin come to the table raw, along with ponzu butter. A blazing hot rock (I think it’s about 850 degrees F) is delivered to the table in a wood container. You simply dip the beef slices into the ponzu butter, rest them on the red-hot rock for a few seconds, and then allow them to melt in your mouth. The flavor is nothing short of spectacular, yet it is so simple; less is more. Order the amazing blistered green beans with spicy miso ($11) to share on the side. And, for the ultimate Wagyu hot-rock experience, there’s also certified Japanese Wagyu available for $50. Meanwhile, at The Junction, Shoyu restaurant is a place that many sushi aficionados would like to remain a secret. That’s because it’s a diminutive eatery that fills up quickly: just five four-top tables, two twotops, and six sushi-bar seats. Plus, the prices are remarkably low for Park City. I’ve heard that, despite its size, service can get bogged down since there’s typically just the owner, “Hoki,” and an assistant making sushi and hot food, plus one server. However, I’ve never had any problem with slow service at Shoyu. Your mileage may vary. Cucumber lovers will enjoy the

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ith the ability to have just-caught fish and seafood delivered post haste from far-flung places like Hawaii and Japan, being in landlocked Utah is no longer a hindrance to enjoying sushi that’s as fresh as any you’d find on either coast. Even in a mountain ski town like Park City, superb sushi flourishes. Two of my favorite Park City restaurants for sushi, sashimi, nigiri and other Asianinspired dishes couldn’t be more different from one another. Shabu, in Old Town, is fairly large, with stylish décor, a patio in warm weather, a full bar and an extensive menu; Shoyu Sushi House & Japanese Kitchen, on the other hand, located in Kimball Junction, is tiny, with more limited offerings. What both Shabu and Shoyu have in common is excellent food and service, and some of the freshest flavors I’ve tasted in Park City. Back in 2004, brothers Kevin and Bob Valaika teamed up to open Shabu, a restaurant specializing in what they call “freestyle Asian cuisine.” Since the beginning, the outgoing and terminally upbeat Kevin has managed the restaurant, while Bob— influenced heavily by chefs Charlie Trotter and Nobu Matsuhisa—has been overseer of the Shabu kitchen. They are a tight-knit team, as you’d expect brothers to be. Like the restaurant’s name implies, shabu shabu ($27-$32)—an Asian hot-pot meal—is one of the highlights here. It’s a DIY dish where diners order a customized bento box filled with a choice of veggies and proteins such as tofu, chicken, beef, seafood or a combination of favorites. There’s also a choice of broth: vegetarian, Thai coconut, or traditional (ramen-style), plus fresh noodles. The bento ingredients are dipped into the steaming hot broth at the table, and then noodles are added, making for a satisfying soup. As delightful as the shabu shabu is, it’s not my favorite offering at Shabu. I’ll get to that in a moment. First, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention some of the exceptional sushi. An absolute must, for me, is the Yellowtail jalapeño “cold plate” ($22). It’s a dish with origins from Nobu, where Bob Valaika spent time in the kitchen: eight thin yellowtail sashimi slices formed pinwheel-style to look sort of like wagon-wheel spokes, topped with slivers of jalapeño pepper, tiny dollops of hot sauce and garnished with cilantro leaves, all

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ho knows what any given coming weekend will hold, weather-wise? So far this spring, with such a drenching of much-needed rain, I’ve been inside catching up on a lot of TV series and films that I’d previously neglected. If you’re in the same soggy boat, I have a suggestion: “Wino Weekend.” There are a lot of really great films about wine out there—many available for streaming on various platforms—that would make for a great weekend of binging. Why, you might even want to have a glass alongside—for “research” purposes only, of course. Here are four of my favorites.

Somm: To be honest, I thought this was going to be a yawn. After all, who really wants to watch a documentary about four professional wine geeks immersed in studying for, and eventually taking, the two-day test for the prestigious master sommelier certification—a test with one of the biggest failure rates of any. And yet, I was quickly pulled into Somm. In part, it plays like a reality TV show, and you’ll find yourself at times rooting for or against some of the candidates for acceptance into the often secretive and mysterious Court of Master Sommeliers. If there’s one word to describe the main players, it’s “obsessed.” There’s nary a waking moment when the wannabe master sommeliers aren’t studying flashcards about wine, testing one another’s knowledge and sipping—lots and lots of sipping. Along the way, I learned plenty about not only the art of being a sommelier, but also a lot more about wine that I hadn’t known, just by osmosis from taking a wine-soaked ride with these driven individuals. Red Obsession: Wine experts have been speculating lately that it’s only a matter of time before a Chinese investor—given the recent rise of Chinese luxury consumption—will buy a first-growth château in Bordeaux. There are already several wealthy Chinese investors lined up to do so, according to an article in the March

DRINK 2015 issue of Wine Spectator, “Will a Chinese Investor Buy a First-Growth Château?” Narrated by Russell Crowe, Red Obsession is both a history of Bordeaux wines—from Roman times, through Thomas Jefferson’s love of them—and a look at the present, where the primary markets for Bordeaux exports have shifted from the U.S. and Japan to China. It’s an eye-opener. Blood Into Wine: This is a really fascinating film about rock star Maynard James Keenan (Tool, Puscifer, A Perfect Circle) and his foray into winemaking. And not just winemaking, but winemaking in Arizona, of all places. He owns Merkin Vineyards and Caduceus Cellars, southwest of Sedona. But this isn’t just a story about a rich guy who buys a winery. It’s about a rich guy who

puts his heart and soul into learning about wine and winemaking; this is much more than a hobby to Keenan. In the process, the viewer learns more about the challenges and techniques of making wine than in any other movie I can think of. It’s also highly entertaining, thanks to Keenan’s self-deprecating humor and sarcasm. A Year in Burgundy: For the escapist, I really recommend this film. It follows seven different wine-making families in France’s Burgundy region throughout the wine seasons of a full vintage year in 2011. There’s drama (weather), along with insight into various winemaking methods (traditional vs. modern). I’ve heard this movie called “great armchair travel,” and it surely is. It’s lush and scenic and, like the other three films mentioned here, taught me about wine without being overly pedantic. I highly recommend viewing it with a glass of great Burgundy in hand. CW

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This eatery has evolved over the years, beginning as a limited-menu breakfast and lunch spot, then expanding to offer dinner on weekends. Now, you can enjoy breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week, along with brunch on Saturdays and Sundays. A premium is put on the use of local products here; there’s not much that isn’t from Utah or its neighboring states of Idaho and Wyoming. The restaurant is unique and inviting, with comfy, clean décor and uncluttered food to match. Like everything at Caffe Niche, it’s sensational, down-to-earth cuisine that is creative but not contrived. 779 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-433-3380, CaffeNiche.com

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Dasks Greek Grill

For the past 29 years, Dasks Greek Grill has offered some of the best Greek cuisine in the Salt Lake Valley. From the original location in the Crossroads Mall to the present one in Old Mill Village in Holladay, Dasks has served thousands of Utahns authentic Greek food. At Dasks, only the freshest ingredients are used in the delicious gyros, souvlaki, burgers and salads. Specialties of the house include gyros (meat, vegan and veggie), souvlaki (pork and chicken), falafel and burgers, including a popular pastrami burger. Authentic Greek items include dolmathes and spanakopita. There’s beer available, too. 6522 S. Big Cottonwood Canyon Road, Holladay, 801-733-5010, Dasks.com

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Lorena’s may not be much to look at—a few Christmastime piñatas and colored lights notwithstanding—but this Mexican restaurant is always packed. Lorena’s has been around for many years, and folks in the North Salt Lake/Bountiful/Woods Cross corridor long ago sussed out the good food and cheap prices there. Happily, the restaurant is roomy enough that there’s usually not too long of a wait for a table. 2477 S. 800 West, Woods Cross, 801-295-2441

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The Flying Sumo in Old Town Park City is open for dinner nightly. Enjoy traditional nigiri, sashimi and maki rolls or try some of the Sumo’s hot plates. Start off with agedashi tofu or coconut shrimp before dining on the Flying Sumo’s exceptional teriyaki chicken, grilled short ribs, Korean BBQ, yakisoba, tempura or other tempting dishes. For dessert, don’t ßmiss the tempura-fried banana called the Half Pipe. There’s also both hot and cold sake at the Flying Sumo, along with beer, red and white wine. 838 Park Ave., Park City, 435-649-5522, FlyingSumoSushi.com South Jordan • 10500 S. 1086 W. Ste. 111 • 801.302.0777 Provo • 98 W. Center Street • 801.373.7200 Gift certificates available • www.IndiaPalaceUtah.com

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since—as cable news has proven over and over again—there’s no economic incentive to talk about anything except as Greatest Thing Ever or Harbinger of the End of All That is Good and True. But critics need to aim for something better, and that starts with recognizing the value of the point at the top of the normal curve. We all might have a different definition of what “average” is, but it exists for all of us, and it matters as a baseline for recognizing truly exceptional works of art—even if it’s “just” popular art. And by extension, it matters as a baseline for understanding the things in life that are truly consequential, as opposed to the stuff that someone is trying to convince you is earth-shattering, when it’s barely earth-nudging. Writing about mediocrity is hard—far less rewarding than writing about greatness and less amusing than writing about awfulness—but it’s important work. We can teach people that it’s OK to think something is just OK. An emotional life lived exclusively at the endorphin-fueled fringes of Orwellian twominutes hate and orgasmic flawlessness is a recipe for an unhealthy understanding of the world. Most of everything is just OK: a movie, a political decision, the writing you might find in any given publication. And that’s … well, that’s fine. CW

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range. Even accounting for self-selection bias, the existence of absolute perfection or jaw-dropping incompetence should be rarities. But somewhere along the line, we have lost the ability to view things with any sense of modulated response. The noisy clutter of the online world steers our eyes away from thoughtful, measured commentary and toward headlines that grab onto our lizard-brains. It’s not enough that someone responded to a politician’s questionable policy statements with a great rebuttal; we need to know that so-andso “destroyed” Sen. Jerkface. Or, we’ll be informed that a particularly sad viral video will make your sadness-feels explode (or perhaps make you “shit your tear ducts”). We’ve seen the effect of this phenomenon all over the world of film criticism. Plenty of writers have noted the inability of certain genre-movie fanboys to handle any negative reaction to their favorite movies, resulting in online harassment of anyone who dares question the awesomeness of the cinematic universe du jour. But that’s only one subcategory of the problem. Because it’s understood that any pan of a generally beloved new movie will get attention, there’s an incentive for a writer who wants attention to throw out an overstated contrarian takedown. And even setting aside the badfaith assumption that such writers are being dishonest about their strong dislike, any discussion about a movie generally becomes a war between factions standing at opposite sides of a broad No Man’s Land. The Army of It-Rules is going to be sending volleys of superlatives in the direction of the Army of It-Sucks, and vice-versa, and anyone standing in the “guys, it was fine” center is destined to get pummeled by both of them. It’s a brutal, depressing scenario,

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or this particular piece of writing, I have a modest, perhaps counter-intuitive, yet not-easily-accomplished goal in mind: If at the end of it, you’re able to think, “yeah, that was fine,” I may have done my job. This notion was inspired most recently— though far from exclusively—by the critical response to George Miller’s post-apocalyptic action spectacle Mad Max: Fury Road. Even more specifically, it was inspired by a Twitter comment from a colleague— Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl— who noted “after Fury Road, our national reserves of critical hyperbole are at an all time low.” Now, I happened to be among the many who thought Fury Road was a truly remarkable piece of filmmaking, but I knew where Scherstuhl was coming from. For several days after the earliest press screenings, critics seemed to have been engaged in a contest for who could express their reaction to the film in the most eye-catching terms. “Awe-inspiring,” “masterpiece” and “the Sistine Chapel of action filmmaking,” were among just a few of the descriptors— and that’s not counting the creative soul who announced that Fury Road “will make you shit your dick.” I’m not necessarily doubting the integrity or the sincerity of the writers in question regarding this particular movie—admittedly, in large part, because I happen to agree with all of them (maybe not quite so much with the guy who came up with the biologically impossible last one). But it’s easy to understand if people don’t know how to react to such raves, because we’ve started to treat them so frivolously. In an age where only the most breathlessly extreme responses get any attention, we’re losing the ability to recognize either true greatness or true awfulness. And by extension, we’re losing the ability to comprehend the concept of “average.” In statistical terms, that would be considered an absurdity. Line up any random number of creative works, in any given medium, and you should respond more or less along a normal curve: A few things might strike you as terrible, a few things as exceptional, but the majority should fall somewhere between “pretty good” and “not so hot,” with a majority of that sub-section falling squarely in the “meh”

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CINEMA CLIPS NEW THIS WEEK Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change. GOOD KILL BB From a room in suburban Las Vegas, drone pilots kill people half a world away. It sounds like science fiction; it’s from writer-director Andrew Niccol, of The Truman Show and Gattaca fame, so you might be forgiven for thinking that it is. But this is based on fact. Thomas Egan (Ethan Hawke) is a former combat pilot now pulling joystick duty in a “first-person shooter” war; the people he’s killing may be only on a screen, but he cannot deny what he’s done when he witnesses, for instance, children accidentally caught in a drone strike that he pushed the button on. So he goes home and yells at his wife (January Jones) and drinks too much. There are important issues running through Good Kill, but the film forgets to be sufficiently engaging in the course of being Significant. The underscoring of the disconnect that comes when a soldier can see combat during the day and be home for dinner at night is unsettling, but the intense moments are few and far between. This feels like a 30-minute short ineptly padded out to a feature run-time. Opens May 22 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—MaryAnn Johanson IRIS BB.5 Sometimes, all a documentary needs is a colorful central character—and then sometimes you realize that the colorful character isn’t quite enough. In one of his final projects, the late Albert Maysles profiles Iris Apfel, the legendary New York fashion maven and interior designer whose unique sense of style found its way into everything from White House refurbishments to museum shows of her bold, costume-jewelry-enhanced outfits. The lively nonagenarian with her trademark owl-eye glasses and layers of accessories keeps the proceedings entertaining enough, and it’s hard for Maysles’ recent passing not to give Apfel’s meditations on mortality even more elegiac impact. But there’s really not much there there, either in the film’s observations about the world of fashion or even in addressing Apfel’s life choices as a woman who opted for career over children at a time when that simply wasn’t done. The result is sporadically amusing but shapeless, desperately in need of Apfel’s gift for figuring out what particular addition to an ensemble of pieces might pull the whole thing together. Opens May 22 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (PG-13)—Scott Renshaw LOST RIVER [not reviewed] A single mother (Christina Hendricks) and her teenage son discover a mysterious, fantastical underworld. Opens May 22 at Tower Theatre. (R)

POLTERGEIST [not yet removed] Remake of the 1982 classic about a family terrorized by malevolent spirits in their home. Opens May 22 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) ROAR BBB.5 I feel bad for everyone involved in this patently ridiculous, fairly insane production that it ever happened, and yet I’m fairly certain that I will never forget it. The bizarre 1981 thriller/drama casts writer/director Noel Marshall as Hank, a wildlife conservationist living and researching in Africa with a house full of wild cats— lions, tigers, panthers—that he’s raised from cubs. Imagine the madness when his semi-estranged wife (Marshall’s real-life wife Tippi Hedren) and kids (including Hedren’s real-life daughter Melanie Griffith) come from Chicago to visit and find dozens of predators in the house! Never mind, because whatever you’re imagining couldn’t possibly match the situations that finds the terrified family members trying to stay alive while Hank is far afield, in scenarios that are like Jurassic Park, if the actors were dodging real dinosaurs, and if it somehow tried to make John Hammond the hero, all scored to whimsical DisneyNature-esque music. Though the tatters of a plot barely matter, and Marshall tags a hilariously earnest environmental-themed song over the coda, this is the kind of awful filmmaking that simply must be seen to be believed. Opens May 22 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—SR TOMORROWLAND [Not yet reviewed] A teen (Britt Robertson) and a former boy inventor (George Clooney) seek the secret of a lost optimism for the future. Opens May 22 at theaters valleywide. (PG)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS 1971 At Main Library, May 26, 7 p.m. (NR) FANBOYS At Brewvies, May 25, 10 p.m. (PG) GRAY MATTERS At Utah Museum of Fine Arts, May 27, 7 p.m. (NR) A MORMON MAID At Organ Loft Silent Films, May 21-22, 7:30 p.m. (NR) PRIDE At Brewvies, May 21, 7 p.m. (R) SPACEBALLS At Brewvies, May 25, midnight. (PG)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cinemark Sugar House 2227 S. Highland Drive 801-466-3699 Cinemark.com Water Gardens Cinema 6 1945 E. Murray-Holladay Road 801-273-0199 WaterGardensTheatres.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 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 Draper 12129 S. State, Draper 801-619-6494 Cinemark.com Cinemark Sandy 9 9539 S. 700 East, Sandy 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Megaplex Jordan Commons 9400 S. State, Sandy 801-304-INFO MegaplexTheatres.com Megaplex 20 at The District 11400 S. Bangerter Highway 801-304-INFO MegaplexTheatres.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 Cinemark University Mall 1010 S. 800 East, Provo 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Megaplex Thanksgiving Point 2935 N. Thanksgiving Way 801-304-INFO MegaplexTheatres.com Water Gardens Cinema 8 790 E. Expressway Ave. Spanish Fork 801-798-9777 WaterGardensTheatres.com Water Gardens Cinema 6 912 W. Garden Drive Pleasant Grove 801-785-3700 WaterGardensTheatres.com

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS At Park City Film Series, May 22-23 @ 8 p.m. & May 24 @ 6 p.m. (R)

CURRENT RELEASES AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON BBB.5 Joss Whedon’s latest pivot point in the Marvel Cinematic Universe may be an action blockbuster, but it’s fundamentally about what makes humanity worthy—a challenge the superhero team faces when Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) creates a robot (James Spader) intended to protect the earth, but which sees humans as the gravest threat. Whedon is choreographing a metric ton of moving parts here, introducing new characters while dealing with subplots, fan service and set-ups for future movies. But there’s also potent subtext rolling around about fear bringing out the worst in us, while genuine crisis finds us at our self-sacrificing best. That’s why some of the centerpiece battle sequences here pack more than just a CGI wallop: Sometimes, comic-book mythology is a way of giving us a glimpse of how we flawed, occasionally monstrous humans can sometimes prove ourselves worthy. (PG-13)—SR

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD BBB.5 George Miller returns to the dusty, post-apocalyptic wasteland that launched his career with all the intense, explosive energy you’d expect from a passion project 20 years in the making—which is to say, it is wall-to-wall bonkers. The story is actually pretty simple: In our ruined future, loner Max (Tom Hardy) runs afoul of a warlord and finds common ground with 1.5-armed badass Furiosa (Charlize Theron). What follows is essentially a feature-length car chase, with ferocious albino kamikaze soldiers pursuing Max, Furiosa and their small band of survivors, both sides attacking without bothering to pull over first. Miller paces the almost nonstop action so that it’s neither tiresome nor hard to follow, with spectacular stunts and choreographed fights in full clarity. The characters may be merely serviceable, but such things don’t matter when you’re staring goggle-eyed at high-velocity mayhem. (R)—Eric D. Snider PITCH PERFECT 2 BB.5 What’s the magic ratio where how much you’re laughing at a movie balances how much you’re cringing? This sequel finds the a cappella Barden Bellas—Beca (Anna Kendrick), Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) et al—trying to atone for a humiliating performance by winning the World A Cappella Championship. Returning screenwriter Kay Cannon once again offers great punch lines and hilarious individual moments for Wilson and Keegan-Michael Key. But there’s also a flimsier structure holding it all together and a lot of genuinely off-putting identitybased humor—and not just stuff where the joke is on the obliviousness of announcers John Michael Higgins and Elizabeth Banks (who also directed). If your only joke for the Latina girl is that she’s an illegal immigrant or for the gay girl is that she’s indiscriminately horny, maybe you need to put in a little more effort. (PG-13)—SR

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FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD BBB.5 Thomas Hardy’s novel may be a century-and-a-half old, but this new adaptation is more modern, progressive and just plain grown-up than half the movies in our stodgy multiplex landscape. The bones of the story remain the same, with director Thomas Vinterberg following estate heiress Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan) and the various men trying to woo her. Bathsheba isn’t perfect, which is what makes her so intriguing. She makes stupid mistakes, but everything she does is a consequence of the work that she loves being her life; any romantic entanglements will necessarily impact that work, and have to become part of it.

Yet this isn’t a “message film;” it’s a ridiculously romantic one, in all the best ways. It’s fun, and sexy in a way that most movies nowadays can’t be bothered with. Sexy here isn’t naked bodies, but bared hearts. (PG-13)—MAJ

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What’s new next season from The CW, CBS, Fox, NBC and ABC.

ver the current television season? So are the broadcast networks—they’re moving on to the 2015-16 season. Here’s some of what they’ll serve up this fall and early next year:

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (The CW) The Atom, Captain Cold, Heatwave and various other characters previously seen on Arrow and The Flash team up in this sort-of spin-off, as well as The Heroine Formerly Known as Black Canary, White Canary, and “time-traveling rogue” Rip Hunter (!). Oh, you can stave off that superhero burnout until 2016. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (The CW) A successful-but-lonely New York woman (Rachel Bloom) impulsively moves to California to pursue her ex in a musical comedy originally produced for … Showtime? Remember: Jane the Virgin seemed like a bizarre idea once, too. Supergirl (CBS) Speaking of superhero burnout and single gals in the big city, here’s Superman’s cousin, Kara (Melissa Benoist, Glee). The first trailer, while impressive, is far more The Devil Wears Prada than Daredevil, and strangely similar to Saturday Night Live’s fake Black Widow rom-com Marvel movie. But, she’s unrecognizable in glasses—classic. Angel From Hell (CBS) Is

Allison’s (Maggie Lawson, Psych) wacky new frenemy (Jane Lynch, Glee) a bona-fide guardian angel, or just insane? Since single-camera, laugh-track-less comedies are COA (canceled on arrival) at CBS, you’ll probably never find out.

Scream Queens (Fox) Ryan Murphy’s comedic (but still dark),

broadcast-friendly take on his American Horror Story series, starring Emma Roberts (AHS: Freak Show) and Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween). A sorority-slasher series may seem like a stretch, but it’s still a more-likely Fox hit than Murphy’s defunct Red Band Society: Kourageous Kancer Kids.

Bordertown (Fox) This “Mexifornia”-set cartoon from Family Guy writers/producers (as well as cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz and Ask a Mexican columnist Gustavo Arellano) has been

floating around for almost two years, and will finally premiere in 2016 … an election year. Pretty sneaky, Fox.

The Grinder (Fox) After

his hit legal drama The Grinder is canceled, an actor (Rob Lowe) moves back home to Boise and joins forces with his unwilling brother (Fred Savage), a real lawyer, in the courtroom. And if the younger demographic likes this …

Heartbreaker (NBC) Melissa

George (The Slap) stars as a heart surgeon (get it?) who’s as annoyingly feisty as she is brilliant and stubborn … or as brilliantly annoying as she is stubbornly feisty … or something.

People Are Talking (NBC) Mark-Paul

Gosselaar (Franklin & Bash) and Tone Bell (Bad Judge) play buds who “analyze and obsess about everything.” This is one of two whole comedies airing this fall on NBC—analyze and obsess about that.

Grandfathered (Fox) … They’ll love John Stamos as a suave bachelor-about-town whose swingin’ lifestyle gets recordscratched when he learns he has an adult son and a baby granddaughter. At least Stamos has Fuller House to fall back on.

Oil (ABC) It’s

Lucifer (Fox) The Devil (Tom Ellis, Rush) retires as “Lucifer

Uncle Buck (ABC) America has rejected a TV version of the

Morningstar” and opens a Los Angeles nightclub, which of course leads to him working with the LAPD to solve the murder of a young pop star. Skeptical? Lucifer is based on a Vertigo comic-book series, and involves writers and directors from Californication, Sleepy Hollow and Underworld. Parents Television Council, you’re up!

Blindspot (NBC)

The clues to unravel a vast international conspiracy lies within the tattoos of an unidentified woman found naked in a duffle bag in Times Square. Damn, those Suicide Girls will do anything for attention.

Dallas in North Dakota! With Don Johnson as the designated local oil tycoon/villain! Lucifer doesn’t sound so ridiculous now, huh?

beloved 1989 movie once before—but this one has an allblack cast, so ABC at least deserves some credit for further chipping away at the tube’s Whiteytown. Uncle Buck, however, is gonna suuuck.

The Muppets (ABC) Imagine

The Office as a behind-thescenes docu-com at The Muppet Show. Yeah, I can’t believe that pitch worked, either. CW

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Midvale Mainstreet Theatre Garden parties have gotten rowdier at Red Butte. pop music is as sweet as cherry ChapStick, the lyrics are heavier and deeper, about power and gender dynamics, money and class disparities. May 22, 7:30 p.m., $25-$40

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Chromeo, Odesza: Chromeo, a Canadian R&B electro-dance outfit with an ’80s-funk vibe, are headlining the outdoor dance party with a set list from their booty-shaking 2014 release White Women, as well as tracks from some of their earlier records. Live shows are as relentlessly energetic as their studio albums, and even more theatrical. Pee Thug’s synthesizer sits on a pair of plastic woman’s legs, and Dave 1 has been known to bust into scorching, metal-tribute guitar solos. They are joined by Odesza, an experimental, electronic dance group from Seattle, who are touring their smooth, tribal-sounding album In Return. The captivating visual effects are like a gigantic psychedelic kaleidoscope, adding to the trance fever that is their performance. May 27, 7 p.m., $30-$45

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The Decemberists: The Decemberists are riding the wave from the Sasquatch! Music Festival in Washington and Big Sky Brewing Company in Missoula into Red Butte Garden. The Portland, Ore., indie folk band is back from hiatus with their newest release, What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World. The album came together in a much different way than the band was previously used to working: Instead of spending four or five weeks in the studio to record, they went in for a few days at a time over a two-year period. The tracks on this album are more personal, and influenced by Colin Meloy’s new project of writing children’s books. The name of the album comes from the track “12-17-12,” which was named for and inspired by the date President Obama addressed the nation after the Newtown school shootings. This tour is far different from the last time the band played the Twilight Concert Series in 2011 and Kilby Court in Salt Lake City in 2004, but the concert promises to be no less engaging. Meloy is a theatrical performer who encourages the audience to participate—like when Meloy pulls fans up onto the stage to fill in the anarchy in “Chimbley Sweep.” Missoula orchestral folk band Wartime Blues opens. May 26, 7:30 p.m., $35-$50

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Passion Pit, Holychild: The kick-off concert in Red Butte this year is headlined by Passion Pit, a glittery indie-electronica synthpop band from Massachusetts. Passion Pit have played Salt Lake City before (at The Complex and In the Venue), but this is their first time playing an outdoor concert here, and the band has new summery material, from their April release, Kindred. The album is as falsetto-heavy as past albums, but more tracks sound like they have an ’80s-influenced production. Their opener, Los Angeles-based Holychild, is a Red Butte veteran, having opened for Fitz and the Tantrums there last summer. This year, the brat-pop duo is releasing their first full-length album, The Shape of Brat Pop to Come. Their sound is like rock candy—sugary, but with plenty of edge. While the

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his year marks the 30th anniversary of Red Butte Garden inviting guests in—and its 28th year of hosting concerts. The venue has come a long way since the days of Sunday lawn shows, when tickets were $10 and jazz trios and local bands headlined. Red Butte’s annual summer concert series has grown from four concerts a year to 28, with bigger and bigger names appearing each year. Chris Mautz—co-owner of both The State Room in Salt Lake City and O. P. Rockwell in Park City—handles booking bands for the venue, and is partially responsible for this trend; it also helps that, in 2008, the amphitheater underwent a $6 million renovation. In determining the lineup for the series, Mautz says, “There’s not any set formula or checklist that we cross off. It’s about feel and each individual artist, how it would be a blend and a contributing force in the overall lineup.” “We’re still trying to go back to the roots of the thing, which is a very eclectic and diverse lineup, and trying to offer a little bit of something for as many people as possible,” says Mautz. Since Mautz books bands for his own venues and the Garden (as well as another garden venue in Michigan, the Frederik Meijer Gardens), he gets to see bands start as openers at Red Butte, to headlining at one of his venues, and then graduating into headlining back at Red Butte. For example, Alabama Shakes played (and sold out) The State Room in 2012—before they had even released their debut album—and this summer, are headlining a Red Butte show on August 4. “That’s kind of neat. It’s nice to see artists grow, and be able to participate in that,” says Mautz. Now that Red Butte has ramped up to (and found its groove in) a 28-show summer series, Red Butte’s communications director Bryn Ramjoue and Mautz say it will continue with more of the same approach in the future: The same number of shows, and the same attempt to appeal to both younger and older crowds. There isn’t going to be anything specifically anniversary-related during the 2015 series (and although not intentionally celebratory, 28 shows for 28 years of concerts is certainly appropriate). According to Ramjoue, “We just did what we do best.”

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THE ENGLISH BEAT The original lineup of The English Beat (known simply as The Beat outside the U.S. and Australia), a ska revivalist band from Birmingham, England, was only together for five years. After a few different manifestations, The English Beat turned into two bands: The reformed English Beat, known for their 2-tone sensibilities (think Brit-punk attitude mashed with ska revival), is fronted by original lead vocalist/guitarist Dave Wakeling. The band had a unique schism—the original cofrontman, Ranking Roger, also continued his own version of the band (not unusual), but he also kept the band name, The Beat (less usual). Wakeling, whose lineup is the one on tour, is an enthusiastic showman, engaging concertgoers with banter between songs. The upbeat tempo of the rock gets the crowd skanking, but even when the music mellows out to more saxophone-induced reggae tendencies, the lively funk beat is heavy and easy to groove to. Yet the band can also throw down a message, as in “Two Swords,” a 1980s hit from I Just Can’t Stop It, about “violence, and how stupid violence is,” as Wakeling said at their performance at the 1983 U.S festival in San Bernadino, Calif. That philosophy is reflected by the band on and off stage; proceeds from several albums were donated to anti-nuke campaigns such as the Committee for Nuclear Disarmament (“Stand Down Margaret” is about English Prime Minister Thatcher, urging her to resign). They are currently working on a studio album called Here We Go Love, funded through the PledgeMusic website, so expect some new material. The project has already surp ass e d

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TUESDAY 5.26

KATE TEMPEST If you didn’t already know what she looks like, Kate Tempest might not be recognizable as a concert headliner, even as she takes the stage. Her humble appearance is the first obvious thing that distinguishes her from mainstream rappers; not only does she perform sans bling, she generally takes the stage in a T-shirt and jeans. And her nonflashy look is echoed in her performance. A poet, Tempest puts an emotional and exposed emphasis on her words and beats. Her narrative-laden, melodic raps are spat over industrial beats, produced by Dan Carey, of Big Dada Records. Her debut release, Everybody Down, is a ferocious concept album centering around recurring characters, Becky and Harry, and is critical of decadence and vanity. Her touring band drops out at some points in the show, leaving a raw and exposed Tempest to spin emotional and personal stories. Her voice is mellow and low-key, but onstage, she bounces like a hype artist and contorts her face to convey emotion. She is a performance artist, not limited to just rapping: she has published plays, written novels and poems. (Her novel, The Bricks That Built the Houses, correlates to the album; the tracks go hand-in-hand with the chapters of the book. Vinyl Tapestries opens. Kilby Court, 740 S. Kilby Court., 8 p.m., $10 in advance, $12 day of show, KilbyCourt.com

The English Beat that is blown into like an oboe) and even an electric toothbrush. They tour a cover of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know” that features the five band members crowded around one guitar, plinking/tapping out the tune while they harmonize. It’s not the only cover they feature; they also bring their creative energy to Rage Against the Machine’s “People of the Sun,” B.O.B’s “Magic,” Pharrell Williams’ “Happy,” Madonna’s “Material Girl” and Malvina Reynolds’ “Little Boxes” (the theme song for the Showtime series Weeds). Although they are known for their unique covers, the five-piece indie-rock band has released several original alt-rock, reggae-influenced albums; their upcoming release, Sing It All Away, will be released in June. Fellow Canadian singer/songwriter Scott Helman opens with a set of upbeat and uplifting indie rock. The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 8 p.m., $25, TheComplexSLC. » com

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Eric Church North Carolinian Eric Church is back after only a few months; when he and his crew came in January, most of his band was wiped out with the flu. Rather than canceling the show, he played a stripped-down acoustic set and rescheduled the full show for Memorial Day. The newest release, The Outsiders, is an ominous and defiant country-soul record with a rock edge that slips into hip-hop and electrofunk. His live show is just as defiant and rebellious—from a giant, inflatable devil, to mashing up Black Sabbath’s “Sweet Leaf” with the end of “Smoke a Little Smoke” (a track off of his 2009 release, Carolina). (Tiffany Frandsen) EnergySolutions Arena, 301 W. South Temple, May 25, 8:30 p.m., $32.50-$59.50, EnergySolutionsArena.com

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) The English writer and caricaturist Max Beerbohm moved away from his native land when he was 37 years old. He settled in Rapallo, Italy, where he lived for much of the rest of his life. Here’s the twist: When he died at age 83, he had still not learned to speak Italian. For 40 years, he used his native tongue in his foreign home. This is a failing you can’t afford to have in the coming months, Pisces. The old proverb “When in Rome, do as the Romans,” has never been so important for you to observe.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Are you willing to entertain an outlandish possibility? Here’s my vision: You will soon be offered unexpected assistance, either through the machinations of a “guardian angel” or the messy blessings of a shape-shifting spirit. This divine intervention will make it possible for you to demolish a big, bad obstacle you’ve been trying to find a way around. Even if you have trouble believing in the literal factuality of my prophecy, here’s what I suspect: It will at least come true in a metaphorical sense—which is the truest kind of truth of all.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Renowned author George Bernard Shaw was secure in his feeling that he did good work. He didn’t need the recognition of others to validate his self-worth. The British Prime Minister offered him a knighthood, but he refused it. When he found out he had been awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature, he wanted to turn it down but his wife convinced him to accept it. The English government also sought to give him the prestigious Order of Merit, but he rejected it, saying, “I have already conferred this order upon myself.” He’s your role model for right now, Taurus. Congratulate yourself for your successes, whether or not SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) There are many possible ways to create and manage a close anyone else does. relationship. Here’s one of my favorite models: when two independent, self-responsible souls pledge to help each other GEMINI (May 21-June 20) “Aha!” is your mantra for the coming weeks, Gemini. Keep it on activate the best versions of themselves. If you don’t have a the tip of your tongue, ready to unleash. This always-ready-to- partnership like this, the near future will be a favorable time to be-surprised-by-inspiration attitude will train you to expect the find one. And if you already do have an intimate alliance in which arrival of wonders and marvels. And that will be an effective way the two of you synergize each other’s quest for individuation, the to actually attract wonders and marvels! With “Aha!” as your coming weeks could bring you breathtaking breakthroughs. talisman, all of your wake-up calls will be benevolent, and all of the chaos you encounter—or at least most of it—will be fertile. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) It’s a challenge to drive a car through Canada’s far north. For example, if you want to get from Dawson in the Yukon Territory CANCER (June 21-July 22) Do you chronically indulge in feelings of guilt? Do you berate to Inuvik in the Northwest Territory, you take Dempster Highway. yourself for the wrong turns and sad mistakes you made in the It’s gravel road for the entire 417-mile trip, so the ride is rough. past? These behaviors may be sneaky ways of avoiding change. Bring a spare tire and extra gasoline, since there’s just one service How can you summon enough energy to transform your life station along the way. On the plus side, the scenery is thrilling. The if you’re wallowing in worries and regrets? In presenting the permafrost in the soil makes the trees grow in odd shapes, almost possibility that you might be caught in this trap, I want you to like they’re drunk. You can see caribou, wolverines, lynx, bears, and know that I’m not sitting in judgment of you. Not at all. Like you, countless birds. Right now, the sun is up 20 hours every day. And I’m a Cancerian, and I have periodically gotten bogged down in the tundra? You’ve never seen anything like it. Even if you don’t the very morass I’m warning you against. The bad news is that make a trip like this, Capricorn, I’m guessing you will soon embark right now you are especially susceptible to falling under this on a metaphorically similar version. With the right attitude and spell. The good news is that right now you have extra power to preparation, you will have fun and grow more courageous. break this spell. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Aquarian author James Joyce wrote Ulysses, one of the most LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) In the TV comedy-drama Jane the Virgin, the fictional character celebrated and influential novels of the 20th century. The known as Rogelio de la Vega is a vain but lovable actor who narrative is both experimental and tightly structured. Its chaotic performs in telenovelas. “I’m very easy to dress,” he tells stream-of-consciousness passages are painstakingly crafted. the wardrobe supervisor of a new show he’ll be working on. (Anyone who wonders how the astrological sign of Aquarius “Everything looks good on me. Except for peach. I don’t pop can be jointly ruled by the rebellious planet Uranus and the in peach.” What he means is that his charisma doesn’t radiate disciplinarian planet Saturn need only examine this book for vividly when he’s wearing peach-colored clothes. Now I want to evidence.) Joyce claimed he labored over Ulysses for 20,00 ask you, Leo: What don’t you pop in? I’m not simply talking about hours. That’s the equivalent of devoting eight hours a day, the color of clothes that enable you to shine, but everything else, 350 days a year, for over seven years. Will you ever work that too. In the coming weeks, it’s crucial that you surround yourself hard and long on a project, Aquarius? If so, now would be an auspicious time to start. with influences that make you pop.

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Ol’ Sissy

isyphus was a famous king in Greek mythology. He liked to have travelers and guests killed, thinking it would maintain his iron-fisted rule. He pissed off the god of all gods, Zeus. Sisyphus’ punishment (for believing he was smarter than Zeus) was to endlessly roll a boulder up a steep hill. Zeus cursed the rock so it would roll away before he reached the top of the hill—every damned time. Ol’ Sissy became a metaphor for all things useless and frustrating. Jump forward to Salt Lake City, 2015. We used to have coin meters to pay for downtown parking, but that system became outdated and couldn’t handle the pocket change needed for higher fees (because who carries $4.00 in change in their pocket, anyway?). City officials spent the GDP of a small country, pushed the boulder up the hill and bought new electronic parking stations. That surely would solve the need for more parking revenue and create an easy collection system, right? Oops, the boulder rolled downhill. The pay stations were flawed, difficult to use and melted down in the summer heat. Push the boulder back up and Salt Lake City gets the bad pay stations upgraded and simplified. Parking officials then had to remove the rock that fell back on top of them, when they realized so many of the new paid parking spaces weren’t being used, so they had to adjust signage and take out the blue space numbers/poles. Part of the movement to improve parking and move that damned boulder up the hill again has also been about creating bike lanes. Former Mayor Rocky Anderson began the uphill push for bike lanes and then, in 2010, the city passed the Complete Streets Ordinance, which specified designs for protected bike paths, like the one on 300 South between 200 and 300 East. Their own website, SLCGov.com, says protected bike lanes are part of the SLC initiative to create “lowstress urban bikeways connecting neighborhoods to the heart of downtown. These placemaking projects also support our downtown businesses because this type of street brings a positive economic impact.” Feel the landslide? Talk to most business owners about the protected bike lanes on 300 South, and you’ll get an angry conversation. And note, heavy rains and snow turn the paths complete rivers. They haven’t helped businesses; some have closed, and others want to move. This spring, Salt Lake City started promoting a phone app, “ParkSLC,” so you can pay or feed the meter and get a warning when time is running out. Plus, merchants can now offer discounts on parking to their customers by giving them a validation number to put into their phone for parking nearby. Sadly, the merchant has to pay for said parking and will not get reimbursement … and the rock of frustration rolls back down the hill. n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not by City Weekly staff

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