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Remember fun?

It’s what summer used to be, back when we rode bikes, went to water parks and took road trips. Well, those days are back! Let City Weekly be your guide to amusing yourself during these long, hot days and blissful cool nights.

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CONTRIBUTOR KATHERINE PIOLI

Katherine Pioli is a native Salt Laker. When she’s not camping, gardening or playing sports, she’s writing about her exploits and local environmental issues.

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LETTERS Memorial Day Apathy

I picked up the May 21 issue of City Weekly with the intention of finding local Memorial Day activities focused on truly honoring our fallen servicemen. I paged through the paper three times to find a list of events, or even a reference to the true meaning of the holiday. There was not one reference to recognizing our servicemen, events or other listings.

Has Utah and City Weekly forgotten our fallen servicemen? The only reference I could find was a 20-percent off sale at Black Diamond. Even the merchants don’t care.

There are articles on water usage in the spring [“A Sprinkle in Time,” Opinion], a ThrillSeeker stunt run [Five Spot], “Cloud Control” [Straight Dope], Pierpont Avenue realestate issues [“Growing Pains”], “Council Dreams,” and Salt Lake County investigative issues [“Fast Bucks”]. Also, there were the usual movie reviews, art shows, musicians and music events, etc.

But, really, nothing about our fallen?

I understand City Weekly is a liberal-oriented periodical that plays to the progressive population in Utah. I am OK with that, as I do appreciate the range of views and expression of speech. How about coverage of Armed Forces Day at the Gallivan Center? I found that through a Google search.

Is there no time to write about our veterans, our currently enlisted men and women—and, especially, the people who paid the ultimate price so that we can go to music

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The level of apathy towards our servicemen and servicewoman is appalling. The apathy is well represented by City Weekly.

TOM NIED Murray

Two Women Asking the Right Questions

Regarding the April 23 City Weekly article “Gone But Not Forgotten” by Eric S. Peterson, it’s great that you featured an article about The INN Between, a new hospice inpatient-care facility for the homeless, and its executive director, Kim Correa.

The idea for The INN Between came about when two very bright women were volunteering at a church food pantry and began to wonder about a place for the homeless who are dying. The two women asking the right questions were Deborah (“Deb”) Thorpe, a nurse practitioner, and Margaret (“Meg”) Brady, a retired U of U English professor/folklorist and longtime volunteer at the Huntsman Cancer Center.

These two women began the hard work of forming a committee and looking for funding. As a result, a board of directors was formed—now led by Thorpe, along with co-chair Alan Ainsworth, founder and director of the Fourth Street Clinic for 23 years, now retired from that position.

PEG HUNTER, LCSW Salt Lake City

Taxi Follies

For the past four years, I have been living most of the time in Southeast Asia. While there, I have traveled the region extensively. From India to the Philippines, and from China to Bali, the absolute worst part of travel there is dealing with taxi drivers at airports.

Imagine my surprise when, after 20 hours in the air, I returned to Salt Lake City to discover that it has followed the backward leadership of our Second World friends, and instead of metered cabs, or predetermined Uber fares, I get to “negotiate” the cost of my cab ride. I recently paid 30 percent more for a “cab” in Salt Lake City than I had previously. This figure is nearly 60 percent more than what my average Uber ride was before Mayor Ralph Becker punted on the issue at the airport and ran ride-sharing away. Salt Lake City’s paralysis in the face of change tells folks like me that it is not nearly as progressive as Becker says it is.

DAN HESSE Auburn, Wyo.

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PRIVATE EY

S­­­­ ummer Safely

After planting some of my garden in early April, I was finally able to get the remainder in this past week. It’s rained so much lately that working the garden soil was a non-starter. Come August, I’ll reap the world’s smallest and greenest tomatoes. On the bright side, the cherry tree at my garden’s edge is full of cherries for the first time since it was planted about 10 years ago. It’s never yielded a single cherry till this year.

Such is springtime in Utah these days, a time this year when boys’ baseball teams cancelled many games due to cold rain but could have completed those same games in January in short sleeves.

Gardeners and skiers alike were all over the Twittosphere suggesting that something was seriously wrong with our planet. Even geese and butterflies clarioned their alarm at this so-called global warming on their own Twitter feeds. I was all a-shiver until a funny looking fellow I’ve barely heard of named Ted Cruz calmed my nerves by declaring that he had just visited Boston, where it wasn’t warm at all and where there was plenty of very cold and deep snow. So there.

Good weather will come, I thought, and sure enough, it did—in 30-minute batches all through May—but there was not enough consistently good weather to get my last tomatoes in until three days ago. Oh well.

I raise a pretty good vegetable garden every year, though it’s not like I depend on it for sustenance. The farmer’s market in Murray Park is for that, where I’ve learned it’s cheaper to buy in big batches from local growers than to depend on my own greenish thumb. I have a simple rule when it comes to measuring gardening prowess: If all you will share with your neighbors is a zucchini the size of dachshund, you are not a gardener. You are one more garden pest.

Now, the weather warms and you are reading our annual Summer Guide issue.

Ted Cruz be damned, there is really only one portent of the light God shines on our planet, a singular evidence that global warming is a giant liberal hoax, and that is the City Weekly Summer Guide. Have at it.

You’ll find plenty of things to do and plenty of places to go throughout Utah, which we all know is the grandest and most diverse state of all in which to find things to do. That’s what we do in Utah: We find things to do.

On a dour note, I’d like to tell you we finished our summerguide app, but we didn’t. When it got warm in January, we abandoned plans for the app, not knowing if we had already arrived at summer.

We, in this newspaper business, can’t seem to catch a break these days.

Even as El Niño conspires against us, we do the heav y lifting.

All we ask of you is that, as you venture out, do so safely and smartly. As well, if you do anything in Utah with a beer in either hand, don’t drive.

Or use watercraft. Or ATVs. Or get pissed off at your friends and start hiking back to the highway alone. Or stand too close to the fire. Or sleep in a tent with a gas space heater. Or take a bite of your hot dog while it’s still on the stick. Or fling a hot marshmallow. Or stand next to a cliff. Or cliff dive. Or walk behind a horse. Or try to tip a cow or milk a bull. Or walk barefoot on asphalt. Or eat Power Bait on a dare. Or forget to take the flashlight on the way to the outhouse. Or have sex on a pine-bough mattress. Or forget where the outhouse is.

We awoke Tuesday morning to the terrible news of four persons dying Monday

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evening after a boating accident on Bear Lake. That they were wearing life preservers means they were both safe boaters and aware of the danger they were in. Their boat capsized. The lake was cold, and the winds were strong. Water Safety 101 dictates that is a bad combination. After nearly two hours of being tossed in the churning and wild Bear Lake, they were pulled from what is normally the prettiest blue water in Utah. So, do be careful, please— because if it can happen in the blue waters of Bear Lake, it can happen any where. As it nearly happened to me.

A number of years ago, I was in the middle of Pineview Reservoir, enjoying my first ever ride on a WaveRunner. It overturned. As is the habit of folks with beers in their hands, no one showed me how to get back onto the craft should it tip— I had boarded it like a horse in shallow water before speeding to midlake where a rogue wave the size of just one pat of butter was enough to toss me into the water. There, I bobbed for nearly an hour—in the middle of a hot, summer day—sweating and struggling to get back onboard, watching boats and other single rider craft come and go, screaming uselessly at every one of them.

It wasn’t long before I couldn’t even lift my arms. The only thing that kept me motivated—yes, I did think this—was that I wasn’t ready for this headline in The Salt Lake Tribune: “Good Riddance to Jackass Publisher.”

I was finally thrown a rope and towed to shore (think reeling in a halibut). It’s a pretty funny story, but I can’t make it funny today. I feel terribly for those folks who died in Bear Lake. Be safe this summer. CW

EVEN AS EL NIÑO CONSPIRES AGAINST US, WE DO THE HEAVY LIFTING. ALL WE ASK OF YOU IS THAT, AS YOU VENTURE OUT, DO SO SAFELY AND SMARTLY.

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What’s the dumbest dangerous thing you’ve done while having “fun?”

Jeremiah Smith: Attending the 2008 Best of Utah staff party was the most dangerous thing I’ve done in the name of fun in Utah.

Jeff Chipian: Ten years ago, we had a national basketball tournament in Salt Lake City. In the midst of celebrating our championship victory, I ran around on the roof of the Little America in my underwear.

Christa Zaro: Driving my golf cart— overloaded with five girls and open containers—to a Red Butte concert. We parked in the VIP lot without VIP tickets and were pulled over by University Police.

Scott Renshaw: By the time I moved to Utah, I was already married and preparing to become a homeowner. Dangerous fun things had long been relegated to the ash-heap of my personal history.

Tiffany Frandsen: Solo off-trail scrambling in southern Utah. I got stuck on a 30-foot rock ledge. I thought I’d have to jump and, worst-case scenario, would break my back—or, you know, die. But finally, I discovered a foothold and scrambled up. I neither died nor broke a thing.

Brandon Burt: My friends and I rode bikes down the gnarly hill all the neighborhood mothers said not to ride our bikes down.

Ended up with a skull fracture. Next year, I rode our walleyed Appaloosa stallion whom only my brother could control.

Accidentally kicked him in the flanks.

Ended up with a concussion. Every time I break a bone, it’s my headbone.

Mason Rodrickc: One time, I left a jug of milk in the backyard on a hot summer day. I was told it would be a hoot, and that eventually I’d get yogurt. Neither were true.

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FIVE SPOT

RANDOM QUESTIONS, SURPRISING ANSWERS

Princess Nika is a lifelong Salt Laker who has been doing drag since 2009. She won last year’s Miss City Weekly pageant and will help judge the 2015 competition June 4 at 9 p.m. at Club Elevate (155 W. 200 South, 801-478-4310, TheHotelElevate.com). Look for Princess Nika to crown the new queen and do her farewell performance. The sixth annual Miss City Weekly Pride Pageant, held to kick off Pride weekend, will also include performances by former Misses City Weekly Drewnicorn (2010), Nikki James (2011), Angela Saxton (2013), as well as performer Flame Fatale from Fusion Saturdays.

What can you say about your drag personality?

I am sassy, sexy and built on a lot of boldness. I am a perfectionist and love to create new looks depending on my mood. I am friendly, and meeting new people is always a thrill. Getting to introduce people to the world of drag is one of the best parts of my passion for drag.

What constitutes true beauty?

Each of us represents true beauty. We are all unique and different, and we can’t be defined by what we see in the media but rather how we can exemplify our own unique characteristics.

How does it feel to be the prettiest girl in the room?

Honestly, I don’t know. If drag queens say they are the prettiest, they are lying, because I am always trying to improve my look and myself. I put so much effort into the way I portray myself to the world from the top of my head to what goes on my feet. If you like it, great; if not, then at least you will be talking about it.

Do you have any tips for owning it on the catwalk?

Practice! Practice! Practice! Even if you have no clue what you’re doing, put some of your personality into it, and it will make people interested.

How has your life changed since being crowned Miss City Weekly?

Well, for one, I will forever be Miss City Weekly 2014, and no one can take that from me. I have definitely enjoyed the recognition that comes along with the title and the new friends that I have met because of the pageant.

Any advice for this year’s pageant contestants?

Let me reach into my clutch for some pearls of wisdom: 1. Wear something flashy, something that will catch the judges’ attention. 2. Use any opportunity on stage to show off your personality. 3. Give everything you’ve got, and don’t hold back—the worst is thinking you didn’t do enough. And, finally, 4. Make sure you know where the edge of the stage is.

—DEREK EDWARDS comments@cityweekly.net

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STRAIGHT DOPE Mad World I am the parent of two young children. I was recently reminiscing with fellow parents about our youth and the freedom we enjoyed to play around the neighborhood without parental supervision. We all agreed we wouldn’t allow our children to do the same given today’s more dangerous world. That made me wonder: Is today’s world really more dangerous for kids than it was 30 years ago? Have incidents of abduction and other assaults on children increased, or has the information age’s constant news barrage given us the impression that predators lurk around every corner?

—Peter Stedman

HITS&MISSES

BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

Land Rush? No Rush

SLUG SIGNORINO

While the Republicans can’t seem to get enough of lawsuits, the Utah GOP seemed to acquiesce to reality and voted to comply with Senate Bill 54, the compromise bill letting candidates gather signatures to get on the ballot. It’s not like that would strip the party of its already overwhelming power in the state, but at least it would give those few rebellious Republicans an electioneering chance.

Of course, state party Chairman James Evans is none too happy, and Gov. Gary Herbert and GOP Convention Selection Chairwoman Enid Greene Mickelsen just want to stop the pain. But the pain is all in the minds of the central committee. Everyone knows that the party is the place to play.

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There is nothing more Utah than the phrase “have faith.” So why was it surprising to hear the superintendent of education call on Utahns to have faith “that we can change this very big, very complex system in a way that benefits our kids?” Don’t look for money or even resources to get this done. Superintendent Brad Smith was speaking to the choir at the conservative Utah Taxes Now conference. He’s already labeled Utah teachers whiners for seeking more money for classrooms, and now he’s on the record saying there’s no great shame in being dead last in the nation for student funding. That these statements came after his April apology and clarification about funding and teachers makes you question the chief school administrator who comes to the position with no particular credentials.

Send questions to Cecil via straightdope. com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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crime-wise, cities remain more dangerous than suburbs. For example, despite the crime drop in New York City, as of 2012 the violent crime rate there was 57 percent higher than for New York State.

People always think the good old days were better. You were unconscious of the dangers around you as a child; you’re acutely aware of them as a parent. Have you ever asked your parents how risky they felt the world was during the 1980s?

The it’s-more-dangerous-today meme had become embedded in the collective psyche by 1970 and nothing that’s happened since has been sufficient to root it out. This gets to the heart of the matter, in my opinion. Lenore Skenazy can argue all she likes that things are no worse now than they were in 1970. The fact remains that in 1970 people thought the world had gone to hell, and statistically speaking it had—crime had more than doubled in just seven years.

The case can be made that relaxed childrearing practices prior to 1963 had been made possible by an unusual conjunction of circumstances. First, as I pointed out in 2002, crime in the 1950s may have been exceptionally low by historical standards.

Meanwhile, the Baby Boom was in full swing and families were large; frazzled parents had no choice but to let the kids go out and play without supervision, and anyway there was safety in numbers.

By 1970, this was no longer true. The world seemed, and demonstrably was, a more dangerous place. (The turning point in terms of public perception arguably was the widely publicized 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese, stabbed to death outside her Brooklyn apartment while her neighbors reportedly ignored her screams. It later turned out several neighbors had in fact stepped in to help, but newspaper editors distorted the story, seemingly to support a grim-city-life narrative.) Smaller families made it easier for parents to hover, and that’s what they’ve done since.

In short, Peter, whatever your childhood may have been like, the notion that the world at large is more dangerous than when you were young has no basis in reality. It’s just the conventional wisdom passed along unchallenged for going on 50 years.

The most important takeaway from the public-lands debate is that it isn’t going to end soon. You may think it’s all about Recapture Canyon critic Phil Lyman asking the public to pay his legal bills— and, who knows? The anti-federalist Utah Legislature just may do that. “What is [the state’s] motive behind a land grab that’s sure to cost millions in legal fees, and millions more in management?” writes Spencer Durrant in the StandardExaminer. “One word: energy.” And energy means money for businesses, and mounting costs for the state. Montana’s governor recently vetoed a Utah-inspired bill to create a land-transfer task force. Former forest ranger Jerry Covault notes that “this same destructive story was beginning to happen in the American West in the late 1800s. At that time, short-sighted land policies were primarily to produce profits from logging and grazing.” It’s never a done deal.

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No, today’s world isn’t more dangerous.

You grew up during the most crime-ridden period in modern American history. By objective measures, the country is far safer now. But you and countless other parents think the reverse is true. What accounts for this delusion?

The facts, as explained in my 2002 column on this subject: A crude benchmark of public safety is the violent-crime rate reported annually by the FBI. In 1960 the rate was 161 per 100,000 people. Starting in 1963, the rate began rising sharply, reaching 364 by 1970 and peaking at 758 in 1991.

Since then it’s dropped steadily: in 2013 it was down to 368, about the same as in 1970.

Assuming you’re now 35, you were born in 1980 or so and were 11 in 1991, the worst year on record. And yet you think it was safer then than now. Possible explanations: You believe everything you’re told by the media (other than me). This is the theory advanced by Lenore Skenazy, author of FreeRange Kids, who created an uproar in 2008 when she revealed in her syndicated column that she’d let her 9-year-old son ride the New York subway home alone. Skenazy blames cable-news sensation-mongers abetted by child-advocacy alarmists.

I don’t buy it. Alarmism is nothing new.

In the 1980s, following several cases of children being abducted and murdered, dairies around the country began publishing pictures of missing kids on the sides of milk cartons. Newspapers reported that as many as 2 million children went missing each year. (One 1992 estimate put the actual number of kids abducted by strangers in the low hundreds annually; incidence now is thought to be in decline.) Posting missing-kid pix fell into disfavor late in the decade when child psychologists and the like warned it was needlessly frightening kids.

As one such kid, Peter, you probably stared at a fair number of milk-carton abductees over your Frosted Flakes; obviously that didn’t frighten you.

You grew up in the suburbs and now live in a city. You provide no details about your background, but raising a middle-class family in the city is more common now than in the 1980s. If that’s a flow you happened to go with, you’d have some legitimate basis for your rosy view of your childhood—

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NEWS Protect & Serve

“It’s not about the number of police officers, it’s about how effective they are and what they’re doing.”

L AW & O R D E R —Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank

ERIC S. PETERSON

Councilman proposes replacing SLCPD’s homeless outreach with social workers.

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olice officers tend to hover near the corners of a city, where crime and poverty meet. That way, the long arm of the law doesn’t have to reach too far when it knows where most problems are likely to start. In downtown Salt Lake City, officers are in constant orbit of The Road Home shelter, where they regularly attend to overdoses, stabbings and robberies—while struggling to elicit investigative leads from a homeless community generally distrustful of authority.

But a few officers of the Salt Lake City Police Department’s Homeless Outreach Services Team (HOST) have a different job description: Instead of writing tickets, they point the homeless toward medical, housing and job resources. Instead of throwing the homeless in the paddy wagon and taking them to booking, officers give rides to the homeless for job interviews.

It’s a vital service, says Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank, but one he’s not sure should be done solely by police officers.

“Every morning, we have officers who show up at 5 a.m. and drive about 20 people to get jobs,” Burbank says.

“We’re placing people in jobs and changing their lives, and we’re proud to be doing that, but that’s an expensive resource that someone else should be providing—but nobody’s filling that void right now.”

The issue came to a head during Burbank’s May budget presentation to the Salt Lake City Council. This prompted District 6 Councilman Charlie Luke to seek $50,000 in funding to hire social workers who could do the outreach in a more cost-effective way than HOST officers—freeing up those officers for other duties. Burbank is very supportive of the plan but differs with Luke on a key point—he believes added social workers should help support his HOST officers, not replace them.

“If we’re actually going to impact homelessness, if we’re going to change the dynamic, then we need more people to support the overall mission of provid-

Salt Lake City’s HOST cops provide many vital services to the homeless—but some say social workers should be lending a hand. ing for these individuals,” Burbank says.

Luke, however, argues that his East Bench district, that covers much of the foothills and neighborhoods surrounding the University of Utah, is in need of more police officers and questions the need for officers to act as social workers, when actual social workers would fulfill that role better.

“When you look at other cities that provide a similar service, none of them are being done by police officers,” Luke says. The department did well in filling a void, but now that the system is working, “I don’t think that it necessarily needs to be handled by a deputy chief or sworn officers,” he says.

Currently, the HOST team comprises two officers, who report to a deputy chief of the department’s Metro Bureau, located adjacent to Rio Grande Street.

Burbank says he would like to expand the team to four dedicated officers.

Luke, however, hopes those officers could be reassigned. While he lauds the officers for being effective in what they’ve done, he adds that he is responsible to citizens to make sure that service is provided at the best cost to taxpayers. Not only is it not cost effective to tie up police equipment, patrol cars and salaries in this kind of social work, he says—it’s unfair to add this burden to officers. “We ask so much of our officers anyway,” Luke says. “This is one thing we can take off their list of responsibilities.”

Burbank, however, sees the HOST officers as serving a core mission—they just need help, not replacing. He says his two officers juggle a kind of caseload of roughly 400 people each, linking them up with services. Some officers help the homeless get to job interviews, medical appointments and to apply for assisted housing. In some instances, officers have tracked down relations willing to bring their homeless kin in off the street.

With case workers, Burbank says, the HOST team would be able to still interface with the homeless, but the case workers would follow up with arranging transportation to appointments. Burbank’s officers, he believes, still have a role to play with the existing service providers. “We have a lot of great people doing good work, but we need many more, because the need is tremendous,” Burbank says.

Zach Bale is the development director for the Volunteers of America Utah (VOA) and has worked personally with the organization’s homeless services for years. Bale says he understands that services provided by the HOST team are likely to be more expensive than those provided by traditional outreach workers. But he also sees great value in having police officers project a different image toward the homeless community.

He recalls one of VOA’s homeless clients was afraid to visit the HOST team because of outstanding warrants. However, after overcoming his trepidation, he did—and,

instead of being helped into a jail, the officers helped him find employment.

“They helped him get a job all the while they are in their get-up and in their uniforms, and I’m sure that drastically changed his feeling of, ‘Does law enforcement exist in my community to help or to hinder me?’” Bale says.

For Councilman Luke, however, it is a lack of police resources in his district that remains an overarching concern for his constituents. To that end, Luke, also plans to pushfor the hiring of 25 new officers funded through city money and a federal grant.

“We’re understaffed as it is with officers,” Luke says. “I know the police chief has expressed otherwise, but I’ve talked with rank-and-file officers who dispute that.”

Burbank points out that hiring more officers would incur immediate added costs—things like new patrol cars and laptops, things he says the force is already lacking, and for which he has requested funding in the new budget.

“We have demonstrated in this nation that it’s not about the number of police officers, it’s about how effective they are and what they’re doing,” Burbank says. Hiring a slew of new officers to simply patrol, ticket and arrest people to justify their salaries has, historically, not worked out in Salt Lake City, or the nation as a whole.

“It’s time to learn something new,” Burbank says. CW

Eyeing a seat on the City Council since childhood, Nate Salazar is making his run.

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ever, he says he’d like to see the city form stronger partnerships with school districts.

In particular, Salazar says the city could assist school districts in applying for federal cash to be spent on after-school programs.

Salazar says the city could also play a key role in expanding the Salt Lake Education Foundation’s Community Learning Centers (CLC), which provide increased services to students and families. There are CLCs in Glendale and Rose Park, but Salazar says they are needed in other corners of the city.

“We really need to think about what a partnership looks like with our city and schools,” Salazar says.

One theme that is not currently on the city council’s radar, but which is on the mind of Salazar and other District 4 candidates, is affordable housing.

Salazar says he’s not convinced that implementing a mandate forcing developers to provide a certain number of below-marketrate units is the best way forward. But he does believe the city must provide incentives for developers to provide affordable housing in the apartment complexes expected to be built as the city’s population climbs.

Without robust affordable housing, the city, Salazar says, could become uninhabitable by its lower-wage workers, including municipal employees like firefighters, police officers and teachers. If low-wage workers are pushed out, Salazar says the city will become less diverse.

“If we don’t have that diversity in the city, we’re not representative of who we are as a society,” he says.

Salazar says he’s well-suited for city council, a role he’s had his eye on for decades.

“It’s not about popularity, it’s not about just having something else to do,” Salazar says. “This is something I’ve been dreaming about since I was a kid.” CW In the lead-up to the Aug. 11 primary election, City Weekly will be publishing candidate profiles on the council candidates.

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t 29 years old, Nate Salazar can already say he’s been prepping for a run for Salt Lake City Council for much of his life.

In 2012, he ran a campaign field office in southern Colorado for President Barack Obama. And at present, he is the vice chair of the East Central Community Council, chair of the Salt Lake County Democratic Hispanic Caucus and was appointed to the Salt Lake City Public Library’s board of directors.

“I really think it’s important that people recognize my community connection and the experience that I do have,” says Salazar, who is vying for the District 4 council seat being vacated by Councilman Luke Garrott, who is running for mayor. “I feel like these things have given me a very good level of knowledge and expertise as well.”

Salazar, who grew up in District 4—a zone that includes the bulk of downtown—believes the city could be doing more to facilitate economic development. He says the process to open a business in Salt Lake City has become burdensome.

“We need to make it a pleasure to open a business in Salt Lake,” Salazar says, noting that he would be in favor of tweaking development impact fees and zoning ordinances to create a more development-friendly environment. “There’s just a logjam in the city right now. That’s something that we need to look at. We don’t want opening a business to be a burden.”

In Utah, Salt Lake City has led the way on measures that prohibit discrimination in the housing market and workplace. Salazar says he’d like to see the city take another leap in this direction by making public areas like parks more accessible to those who identify as transgender. He says these folks should be able to use the restroom that they feel most comfortable using.

Salazar says that an explicit assurance from the city that this is OK is “crucial” to letting residents and visitors alike know that they are welcome.

Though Salazar remains active in community organizing and politics, his day job is in education, where he is a community school director for United Way of Salt Lake. In this position, Salazar says he maintains an office in a school in Kearns, where he connects services provided by United Way to children and their families.

In this capacity, Salazar says he’s developed a passion for education that he’d like to bring to the City Council. Salazar says he’s well aware that as a councilman, he would have no influence over school policies. How-

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ACTIVISM

Utah Pride’s Dyke, Trans*, Sexually Fluid & Poly Rally Sign-making at 6 p.m., rally at 7 p.m., march from Capitol to Library Square at 8 p.m., free admission to Pride’s opening ceremony and kickoff party at 9 p.m. Utah Capitol, 350 N. State, Friday, June 5, 6 p.m.

UtahPrideFestival.org Shatterproof Challenge Rappel Salt Lake City National organization committed to protecting children from addiction. Hilton Salt Lake City Center, 255 S. West Temple, 800-597-2557, Friday, June 5, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Citizen Naturalization Ceremony Court Clerk Julie Wierschem will administer the oath to 100 immigrants from 40 countries at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m., U.S. District Courthouse, 351 S. West Temple, June 5, 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.

SOCIAL EVENTS & GATHERINGS

Eight foolproof summer shape-up tips:

8. Buy a magazine with the

headline “Get Bikini Ready!” Eat magazine instead of lunch.

7. Switch to diet soda.

Arguing with “healthy” friends about the dangers of diet soda burns calories.

6. Join CrossFit. Talking

incessantly about CrossFit also burns calories.

5. Bicycle to work. If unemployed, bicycle to liquor store.

4. Use a weight-tracking app, like MyFitnessPal or GoodMorningLardass.

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3. Have a salad with every meal.

Said meals should consist of only a cigarette and a vicodin.

2. Train with a workout

buddy. A much, much, much fatter workout buddy.

1. Be between 21-25.

Any older, no one cares.

Drinking Liberally Salt Lake Chapter Meet mayoral candidate, Luke Garrott. Piper Down, 1492 S. State, Friday, June 5, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Piper Down Green Party Pride party/fundraiser for Equality Utah. Piper Down, 1492 S. State, Friday, June 5, 9 p.m.

World Refugee Day 2015 Liberty Park, 900 S. 700 East, 801-618-5096, Saturday, June 6, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Jobs.Utah.gov/Refugee Granary Row Grand Opening Biergarten, live music, local vendors, food trucks, 336 W. 700 South, Friday-Saturday, June 5-6, 6-10 p.m.

LECTURE & CLASSES

The Illusion of Freedom: Literature & the Invention of the Psychological Police State UVU English professor Nathan Gorelick, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, June 4, 7 p.m.

Writing for Change SLCC Community Writing Center, 210 E. 400 South, 801-957-4992, Saturday, June 6, 1-3 p.m.

VOLUNTEERING

HEAL our Trees, Save our Wild Utah Joint Mixer Volunteer appreciation party. ArtSpace Commons Conference Room, 824 S. 400 West, Thursday, June 4, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Park Silly Sunday Market Park Silly Market, 2210 Monarch Drive, Park City, 435-649-5151, Sunday, June 7, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Stansbury Park Community Association Lake Opener and Clean Up Stansbury Lake, Saturday, June 6, 6:30 p.m.

NATURE & ENVIRONMENT

Beer & Wine Brewing supplies

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Avian Adventure Summer Camps Tracy Aviary, 589 E. 1300 South, 801-596-8500, Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., through Aug. 19.

Salt Lake City Parks and Birds Popperton Park, 1400 Popperton Park Way, 801-484-6808, Saturday, June 6, 10-11:30 a.m.

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Curses, Foiled Again Police said they received their “strongest investigative lead” in the case of 80 frozen pizzas stolen from a warehouse in Gambell, Alaska, when John Koozaata, 29, and Lewis Oozeva, 21, called the police station and tried to sell the pizzas to on-duty officers. (Anchorage’s Alaska Dispatch)

QUIRKS

n Police who found a 43-year-old man covered with blood in Suffern, N.Y., said the victim said his son stabbed him several times in the head with a screwdriver during an argument. After putting out a description of suspect Jared Hudson, 23, officers received a call from police headquarters that a man fitting Hudson’s description had just been spotted running into the station to use the bathroom. He was promptly arrested. (New York’s The Journal News)

Better World Without People Nevada granted permission for Daimler to test self-driving trucks on public roads. Daimler’s Wolfgang Bernhard said autonomous trucks were likely to be on the road before driverless cars because they operate “in a less complicated traffic environment” on open highways, whereas passenger cars spend more time in congested urban settings. The 18-wheelers still need human drivers to perform more challenging off-highway maneuvers, such as backing into loading docks. Bernhard said he expects other states to join Nevada, resulting in a regulatory framework and providing an incentive to truck operators, who would save on fuel and wages. “These guys have to make money,” he pointed out. (Reuters)

Corpse Follies Shaynna Lauren Sims was arrested for illegal dissection at a funeral home in Tulsa, Okla., for cutting a deceased woman’s hair, smearing makeup on the woman’s face and using a box cutter to make “a large vertical cut starting from the hairline stretching to the tip of the nose,” according to the arrest report.

Sims is dating the dead woman’s ex-boyfriend. (Tulsa World)

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n Dominique Sharpton, 28, is suing New York City for $5 million, insisting she was “severely injured, bruised and wounded” when she stumbled over uneven pavement on a downtown sidewalk.

“I sprained my ankle real bad lol,” Sharpton posted on Instagram after last fall’s incident. She claims “permanent physical pain,” even though subsequent social-media postings show her wearing high heels and climbing a ladder to decorate a Christmas tree.

Sharpton is the eldest child of Al Sharpton, whom critics accuse of using threats of protests and boycotts to shake down major corporations for cash donations to his causes. (The New York Post) n Jennifer Burbella, a nursing student at Pennsylvania’s Misericordia University, is suing the school after failing a required course twice because, she claims, her professor didn’t do enough to help her pass. She acknowledged that he provided a distraction-free environment and extra time for her final exam the second time, but said she “broke down and wept more than once” because he didn’t respond to telephoned questions as he had promised. (Wilkes-Barre’s The Citizens Voice) n Fred Habermel, 72, filed a lawsuit against Norton Healthcare for losing part of his brain. The complaint said doctors at Norton Cancer Institute in Louisville, Ky., extracted a piece of brain tissue to use to develop a vaccine to inject into Habermel’s head in an experimental procedure to fight a brain tumor that had resisted previous treatment. “I can see losing a blood sample, but how do you lose brain tissue?” his attorney, Gary Weiss asked. “I can’t imagine worse negligence.” Weiss said Habermel doesn’t have enough of the affected tissue left in his brain to undergo the procedure again. Despite his client’s poor prognosis, Weiss noted one silver lining: The hospital told them they wouldn’t have to pay for the surgery. (Louisville’s The Courier-Journal)

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n Melanie Nash, 53, admitted smashing the concrete vault that held her father’s corpse, along with three other people, and rifling through the casket in search of his “real will” because she felt she hadn’t received her proper inheritance. Instead, she found only vodka and cigarettes. Police in Colebrook, N.H., discovered the crime the next day when a patrolman reported “the gravesite of Eddie Nash did not look right,” Judge Peter Bornstein said when he sentenced Nash to 1-1/2 to three years in prison. “That is the understatement of the century.” (Associated Press)

Sons of Beaches The world is running low on sand, a finite resource that’s the material basis of glass and concrete. Both are vital to construction, the prime user of sand. Sand is also used in detergents, cosmetics, toothpaste, solar panels and silicon chips. Demand is causing riverbeds and beaches worldwide to be stripped bare to provide the more than 40 billion tons of sand that people consume every year. That figure is increasing due to the worldwide construction boom, particularly in the Arab world, whose abundant desert sand is unsuitable for concrete. As a result, criminal gangs in some 70 countries are dredging up tons of sand to sell on the black market. In India, for example, “sand mafias”

Litigation Nation James Brickman filed a lawsuit against Fitbit, claiming that his wrist-worn Fitbit Flex “consistently overestimated sleep by 67 minutes per night.” The suit, filed in a San Francisco federal court, accused the company of misleading consumers by touting that its gadgets present “exact” sleep data. “Thinking you are sleeping up to 67 minutes more than you actually are can obviously cause health consequences, especially over the long term,” the lawsuit states. Fitbit insisted the suit has no merit, pointing out, “Fitbit trackers are not intended to be scientific or medical devices, but are designed [to help users] reach their health and fitness goals.” (Britain’s Daily Mail)

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n Google announced that its self-driving cars are capable of interpreting the hand signals of bicyclists. A patent issued to the company says its system uses a combination of sensors to determine when a bicycle is present and to track arm angles indicating a turn. (The Washington Post)

have killed hundreds of people, including police officers and government officials, to capitalize on demand for sand. “The fundamental problem is the massive use of cement-based construction,” said Ritwick Dutta, an Indian environmental lawyer. “That’s why the sand mafia has become so huge.” (Wired)

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n Google Inc. disclosed that 11 of its driverless vehicles have been involved in minor accidents on California roads since testing began six years ago. The incidents involved “light damage, no injuries,” Chris Urmson, director of Google’s self-driving car project, explained. “Not once was the self-driving car the cause of the accident.” (Associated Press)

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THURSDAY 6.5

Utah Pride Festival Salt Lake City has the distinction of being the gayest city in America, according to the national gay and lesbian news magazine The Advocate.

That may surprise some who live here, but for anyone who has watched the Utah Pride Festival grow from a small gathering in a park in 1974, to a relatively well-attended parade down State Street, to the massive four-day celebration that it is today, it’s obvious that Salt Lake City is out, loud and proud.

This year, there’s plenty to celebrate at Pride Fest. Utah’s gay community has seen blockbuster achievements, from a court ruling striking down the ban on gay marriage to an anti-discrimination bill passed by the Legislature. Reflecting these great changes is the open-ended theme of the 2015 festival: Pride is ____. “With all that has happened in the last year,” says Jen ParsonsSoran, co-director for the festival, “we know that Pride means many things to many people.”

It certainly means a great party. Kicking things off on June 4 is thesixth annual Miss City Weekly Pride Pageant, a showcase of Utah’s most beautiful and outrageous drag queens. On Friday, participants can take their voices to the streets with rallies and marches following the grand marshal reception. Saturday and Sunday feature performances by comedians, musicians (including singer Dev and the band Xelle), dancers and more. And be sure to join in Sunday morning’s pride parade at 10 a.m. The route begins at the corner of 400 East and 200 South and continues west on 200 South, to the Salt Palace, where it ends. (Katherine Pioli) Utah Pride Festival 2015 @ Washington & Library squares, 451 S. State, June 4-7, 9 a.m.-11 p.m., $20 full-festival pass, $12 single-day pass, $50 grand marshal reception.

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FRIDAY 6.6

Phillips Gallery is a can’t-miss on the Gallery Stroll circuit, but if you somehow didn’t make it to the May opening, the gallery’s current offerings remain on display until June 12. The pairing of sculptures by Francesc Burgos with Hadley Rampton’s oil paintings is certainly a harbinger of springtime, with the fresh, inviting manner in which both artists present their subject matter.

Burgos’ sculptures like “Quill” and “Bounty” unroll their designs and shapes toward the viewer in a simple, organic motion, often mimicking the forms of natural structures, their articulated repeating motifs like veins of a leaf; the porcelain of those pieces lends itself to a clean, yet earthy, manifestation. The stoneware “Tall Vessel (Tectonic)” would even, in title as well as form, remind us of the shifting plates of the Earth itself. Yet several of Burgos’ earthenware pieces, like “Derrida,” emphasize the constricting nature of society in the midst of nature, including the mask that is language.

Hadley Rampton’s landscape oils often portray autumnal scenes, but there is a clarity and precision, as well as an expert use of light, that is as refreshing and exhilarating as spring air.

Especially in a work like “Whisps of Fall” (oil on canvas, detail pictured), the composition appears so natural, the brushwork so seemingly effortless, that you almost expect hints that it’s a photograph to appear in the frame. In other works, the brushstrokes are bulkier, more expressionistic, but also like the result of a germination as opposed to an artist’s imposition. (Brian Staker) Francesc Burgos & Hadley Rampton @ Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, 801-364-8284, through June 12, TuesdayFriday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Phillips-Gallery.com

It’s not easy to mix farce and serious exploration of institutional racism without some kind of tonal matter/anti-matter explosion. Yet somehow, that’s what People Productions manages in its staging of David Henry Hwang’s funny and piercing Yellow Face.

The Tony Award-winning playwright launches his story with himself (played by Michael Tadashi Havey) as a central character, involved in public statements against the controversial 1990 decision to cast actor Jonathan Pryce as a Eurasian character in the Broadway production of Miss Saigon. But then comes a potentially careersabotaging mistake: He unwitting casts a white actor, Marcus G. Dahlman (Cody V. Thompson), in his own new play satirizing “yellow-face” casting, forcing him to support the fiction that “Marcus Gee” actually has Asian ancestry.

Director Kerry Lee keeps up a lively pace, centered around Havey’s wonderful performance as a version of Hwang that the playwright isn’t afraid to make look ridiculous and petty at times. The diverse ensemble cast allows for some entertaining, theme-appropriate color-blind casting across multiple roles, including African-American actress McKenna Jense playing Jane Krakowski and AsianAmerican actors playing white U.S. Senators.

But the real trick here is the seamless manner in which Yellow Face swings from its most overthe-top comedic scenarios—like Hwang seething over Marcus getting recognition from an AsianAmerican organization—to the fact-based persecution experienced by Asian-Americans whose patriotism is easily questioned. Hwang explores many things we can see when we see a yellow face, and does so in a way that’s as entertaining as it is thoughtful. (Scott Renshaw) People Productions: Yellow Face @ Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 132 S. 800 West, May 29-June 14, Friday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m., $15. PeopleProductions.org

Francesc Burgos & Hadley Rampton

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MONDAY 6.8

Colm Tóibín: Nora Webster In Colm Tóibín’s 2009 novel Brooklyn (the film adaptation of which debuted at Sundance this year), he brought readers to his own Irish hometown of Enniscorthy in County Wexford, to tell a story of a 1950s community where everyone knows one another—at times, to a fault.

He returns to that world in the 1960s-set Nora Webster, once again crafting a beautiful story of a woman straining against the life everyone around her expects her to lead.

Nora is recently widowed in her mid-40s as the novel opens, left to care for the two youngest of her four children and pick up the pieces of her shattered life. That includes returning out of financial necessity to the employer for whom she worked 25 years earlier and wrestling with the well-intentioned but often frustrating interactions with friends and family.

Tóibín employs spare prose and a wry sense of humor in his observations about the insular Enniscorthy, and builds Nora into a wonderful, flawed character trying to deal with her own grief and anger even as she realizes she doesn’t really know many of the people closest to her, including her own children. While Nora Webster may be a period piece set against some turbulent moments in Irish history, it still feels like a vital story of any woman’s attempt, aside from her role as wife or mother, to find her own voice—in some cases, quite literally. Join the author for a reading and signing of his latest exceptional work. (Scott Renshaw) Colm Tóibín: Nora Webster @ The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-485-9100, June 8, 7 p.m., free.

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An exhibition in Ephraim celebrates an outsider artist who embraced his LDS faith.

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d “Big Daddy” Roth: You’re probably familiar with the name, especially if you’re 40 or older, and had any interest in the counterculture of the 1960s and ’70s. Roth was known for his instrumental role in the car culture of the period with his eye-popping, outlandish custom car designs, as well as cartoon characters like Rat Fink—a crazed rodent with a manic, ravenous grin and bulging eyeballs— a weirdo answer to Mickey Mouse. But there’s another side to the larger-than life figure, who was a Utah resident, living in Manti until his death in 2001.

The exhibit Rat Fink! collects the art of Roth—in addition to fellow hot-rodder Von Dutch and outsider artist/Juxtapoz Magazine founder Robert Williams—for the first time in Utah, at the Granary Art Center in Ephraim. For Laura Allred Hurtado, global acquisition art curator for the LDS Church History Museum, who is guest curating the exhibit, it was a bit of a stretch from her usual subject matter, but she found commonalities in his work.

“I was involved with the Granary when I curated their inaugural exhibition [in 1991], so their mission—to exhibit local, regional and international artists, with particular attention to place and community—had been on my mind,” she recalls. “Within that time frame, Ed Roth emerged as both a regional and an international artist who not only stood as an icon for custom car ethos and all the alternative subculture that came with it, but also, his legacy has come to shape and inform the small town of Manti with the annual Rat Fink car show and reunion. … Thus, the effect of community follows Ed into Utah, and his creative production comes to shape that place as well.”

A convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1975, Roth didn’t just pay lip service to his faith but actively embraced it while continuing his design work.

He was even invited to deliver a lecture at Brigham Young University in 1999.

“As much as he stood for the counterculture that resisted the pristine-ness [and] squeaky cleanness of Disney, he was fully converted to Mormonism and moved to Manti to be close to the temple,” Hurtado notes. “But this transformation doesn’t equate to a rejection of his cultural projection, or his unique way in which he saw the world. Nor, really, is it a rejection of his [sense of] rebellion. How else is one to rebel when tattoos become common?

In the world of custom cars, Mormonism is super-strange, very out-there.”

Jeff Decker, who met Roth growing up in Southern California when his father worked with Roth at Cars of the Stars, later sought the artist out in Manti, and was surprised to find Rat Fink emblazoned on signs reading “Slow Down,” “Watch for Children” and the like. “The cartoon character who used to frighten me as a child was now on these gentle messages,” Decker recalls.

Although Roth traveled in the circles of the hot-rod crowd, his work had a relationship with more elevated Pop Art of the ’60s and beyond, which often appropriated images from the worlds of comics and advertising in the service of ironic commentary. His commentary came from a different direction, but art aficionados like Robert Williams were eventually drawn to his effusive style, and artists like Roth helped blur the line between highbrow and “outsider” art.

Several of Roth’s works even take a tongue-in-cheek look, at fine art. One is Roth’s re-creation of Picasso’s Three Musicians; another is a re-creation of the René Magritte painting Time Transfixed.

“These references to cubism and surrealism are important because, like Pop, they are terms ascribed to his work,” she notes.

“But Roth deconstructs these paintings by inserting Rat Fink, who dangles from the train emerging from the fireplace in Time Transfixed, and places the rat at the foot of the musicians in the Picasso.”

In the stylistic mashup that is contemporary art, Roth seems more relevant than ever.

The Huntington Museum mounted a show featuring Von Dutch, Robert Williams and

“Bad Bad Doggy” by Ed “Big Daddy” Roth

Roth recently, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art currently hosts a traveling retrospective of Williams’ work. “In my professional work with the LDS Church, I am continually on the hunt for talented and complex artists who are Mormon. Roth’s work is that in spades,” Hurtado explains.

As much as Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s work was an outspoken, fantastical thumb in the eye of mainstream culture, it was also about community—whether hot-rod enthusiasts, counter culture “weirdos” who didn’t fit in to mainstream society or the rural LDS community to which he migrated. Still, Roth’s art is on display—and that’s just cool.

“Sure, it makes the Granary cool,” Hurtado admits, “and it expands the gallery’s audience outside of the art world. But I also think that the Granary is the right place to host such a show—there in Ed’s backyard, among his people.”

RAT FINK!

Granary Art Center 86 N. Main, Ephraim 435-283-3456 May 30-Sept. 18 Opening reception June 5, 6:30 p.m.

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BYU Department of Theatre: Princess Academy If a Utah theatrical organization is going to produce a stage adaptation of a best-selling book, they usually need to wait for a premiere in a major media market and hope the rights can trickle down eventually. But three women in the BYU theater department—director Megan Sanborn Jones, playwright Lisa Hall Hagen and dramaturge Janine Sobeck—decided to cut out the middleman and secure the rights to local author Shannon Hale’s 2005 young-adult adventure Princess Academy.

The production retains the story of Miri, a simple 14-year-old girl from a mountain town in the kingdom of Danland. A prophecy by the royal priest dictates that one from her town is to be the bride of the prince, so Miri and her peers are taken away to train as potential royalty. But others know the value of a future princess, and Miri will need to call upon her new knowledge and strength to save them all. (Scott Renshaw)

BYU Department of Theatre: Princess Academy @ Pardoe Theatre, Harris Fine Arts Center, BYU Campus, Provo, May 29-June 13, 7:30 p.m., Saturday matinees 2 p.m., $9-$12. Arts.BYU.edu

PERFORMANCE THEATER

Big Fish Hale Center Theater Orem, 225 N. 400 West, Orem, 801-226-8600, 3 & 7:30 p.m., through June 20.

Disney’s The Little Mermaid Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 801-984-9000, Fridays, Saturdays, Mondays-Wednesdays 7:30 p.m., matinee Saturday, June 6, 12:30 & 4 p.m., through Aug. 1 Disney’s When You Wish Tuacahn Theatre, 1100 Tuacahn, Ivins, 800-746-9882, Fridays, Saturdays, Tuesdays, 8:45 p.m., through Oct. 16 Into the Hoods Desert Star Theatre, 4861 S. State, Murray, 801-266-2600, Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays, 7 p.m., Fridays, 9:30 p.m., Saturdays 2:30, 6, 8:30 p.m., through June 6.

The Revengers Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, 7:30 p.m., through June 16.

Thoroughly Modern Millie Empress Theatre, 9104 W. 2700 South, Magna, 801-347-7373, Mondays, Fridays, Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. and matinee Saturday, June 6, 2 p.m., through June 20.

West Side Story The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 855-944-2787, Friday

& Saturday, June 5-6, 7:30 p.m., through June 27 Yellow Face Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 130 S. 800 West, Fridays, Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. and Sundays, 3 p.m., through June 7 (see p. 16)

DANCE

Don Quixote Salt Lake Ballet, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Saturday, June 6, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

COMEDY & IMPROV

Chris D’Elia Wiseguys West Valley City, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-463-2909, June 5-6, 7:30 & 10 p.m. (see p. 16) Craig Bielik Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588, June 5-6, 8 p.m.

Art Krug & Leland Klassen Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, Park City, 435-649-9371, June 5-6, 8 p.m.

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Colm Toibin: Nora Webster The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Monday, June 8, 7 p.m.

Dan Wells: The Devil’s Only Friend Day-Riverside Library, 1575 W. 1000 North, 801-594-8632,

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Steffani Raff: The Ravenous Gown Barnes & Noble Orem, 330 E. 1300 South, Orem, 801-229-1611, Wednesday, June 10, 7 p.m.

BOOKISH ACTIVITIES

Amigos y Libros Salt Lake City Public Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-594-8651, second Wednesday of every month, 7 p.m.

Lit Knit Weller Book Works, 665 E. 600 South, Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, second Wednesday of every month, 6 p.m.

Fierce Reads Spring Fling The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, June 4, 6 p.m.

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

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Life Diverse: Explorations of Emotion, Life and Light Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through June 26.

Life in Sudan: Drawings by Gatluak Deng Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through June 20.

Orange Art At The Main, 210 E. 400 South, 801-363-4088, through June 15.

Our America Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, University of Utah, 801581-7332, 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.

Relational Forms: Robert Bliss & Anna Campbell Bliss CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, 385215-6768, Saturdays, 12-4 p.m. and 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 Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande Street, 801-245-7272, Mondays-Fridays, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., through June 12.

Trent Alvey, Lindsay Frei & Steven Larson 15th Street Gallery, 1515 E. 1519 South, 801-468-1515, Mondays-Saturdays, through June 12.

UMOCA Annual Gala: Vicious Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-3284201, Thursday, June 4, 6 p.m.

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.

When Words Weren’t Enough: Works on Paper from Topaz, 1942-1945 Topaz Museum, 55 W. Main St, Delta, 435-864-2514, MondaysSaturdays, through Aug. 28.

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Adam Thomas: Looking Up Finch Lane & Park Galleries, 1340 E. 100 South, 801-596-5000, Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., through June 5.

Adjunct Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through July 25.

Ancient Nights: Photography by Mark Toso Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through June 19.

Anne Munoz: “ ... with trees in mind” Finch Lane & Park Galleries, 1340 E. 100 South, 801-596-5000, Mondays-Fridays, through June 5.

Beaux-Arts Academy’s Lost Masters Art History Lectures Beaux-Arts Academy, 329 S. Rio Grande, 801-915-4848, Wednesdays, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Brian Charles Patterson: Missileblower (and the Selected Good) Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through June 20.

The Cost of Anything Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, 801-236-7555, Mondays-Fridays, 8 a.m.5 p.m. through July 10.

Et in Utah Ego Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts, 631 W. North Temple, Suite 700, 801-596-0500, through June 27.

Geek Themed Group Show Mod a-go-go Furniture Gallery, 242 S. Temple, 801-355-3334, Mondays-Saturdays, through June 12.

Jeff Juhlin: Strata “A” Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, 801-583-4800, Mondays-Saturdays, through June 12.

Land and Sky: Views from the Avenues and Beyond Sweet Library, 455 F Street, 801-594-8651, through June 20.

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SLC POP—the pop-up restaurant experience created by chef Katie Weinner—is back with a couple of pop-up events in June. She’ll be popping up at Red Moose Coffee in Sugar House (1693 S. 900 East, RedMooseRoasting.com) for dinners on June 6 and June 20 (the latter just in time for Father’s Day). Weinner was featured as a competitor for eight weeks on Season 12 of Top Chef, and is creator and owner of SLC POP. According to Weinner, her spring menus will feature fresh chickpeas, rhubarb, roses and lamb. She says she’s been “perfecting her curries” during the recent weather, too. SLC POP also offers private catered dinners. For tickets and more information, visit SLCPOP.com.

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Craft Lake City has announced that Harmons Neighborhood Grocer will return this year as presenting sponsors for the seventh annual Craft Lake City Do-ItYourself Festival, held on August 7-8, 2015. In a statement announcing the continuing partnership, Craft Lake City executive director Angela H. Brown said, “As a longtime customer of Harmons myself, I value their contributions to Utah’s craftfood creators and our shared goal of elevating creative culture in our community.”

Restaurant Honors

At the Utah Restaurant Association (URA) Industry Awards Banquet held in May at the U of U Ballroom, a number of local restaurants, restaurateurs, chefs and others were recognized for their contributions to our culinary culture. Among the recipients of the highest honors were Mark Robbins of Ruth’s Chris, who was awarded the prestigious “Golden Spoon” award, and Ruth’s Diner, which was given a “Lifetime Achievement” award. For a complete list of recipients and further information about URA visit UtahDineOut.com.

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Amber Restaurant You won’t find cutting-edge cuisine or complicated wine lists at Amber Restaurant, which is just fine with the neighborhood folks who flock to Amber for its solid, no-nonsense, diner-style dishes featuring classic American cuisine. Popular menu items include chicken cordon bleu, chicken-fried steak and Prime rib.

The restaurant is located close to the Century 16 theaters, making it the perfect place for an inexpensive, friendly pre-matinee meal or go for breakfast and get your day started right. 217 E. 3300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-484-3222, Facebook.com/ AmberRestaurant Billy Blanco’s Motor City Mexican The restaurant is decked out with vintage cars and motorcycles, and the menu brings together the best of Mexican and American cuisine. Start your meal with the guacamole sampler; there are five unique recipes, so at least one is sure to delight. For your entree, you can go the gringo route and get fried chicken, barbecued ribs or a specialty burgers. If you’d rather have something spicy, order off the Mexican menu. There you’ll find authentic dishes like enchiladas, fajitas and carnitas tacos. Either way, you won’t be disappointed.

8208 Gorgoza Pines Road, Park City, 435-575-0846, BillyBlancos.com Bistro 412 Walking up to Bistro 412, you might think you’ve wandered onto a Parisian boulevard. With French lace curtains, photos and intimate seating, the décor provides the feel of a French bistro. While the menu is French-influenced, with dishes like steak frites, beef burgundy and escargot, there are also other options such as Beehive mac & cheese, Thai spring rolls and much more. A bar is located upstairs, with a specially priced bar menu and frequent live music. 412 Main, Park City, 435-649-8211, Bistro412.com Cafe Trang At Cafe Trang, the extensive menu of traditional Vietnamese cuisine also features Chinese fare with a focus on Cantonese. Since 1987, Cafe Trang has been pleasing customers with authentic Vietnamese cooking and time-tested dishes such as its popular hot wok noodles, fire-pot soups, Vietnamese “shaking” beef cubes and mango fish fillet with Thai basil. Veggie lovers will appreciate the extensive vegetarian offerings, and heat seekers should focus on the lemongrass and red-pepper chicken, or perhaps the Red Emperor fire pot. Multiple locations, 801-539-1638, CafeTrangOnline.com

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Porcupine Pub & Grille Located at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon, Porcupine Pub & Grille is a great place to go for lunch, dinner and even weekend brunch. This modern pub has everything from housemade soups to pizzas, salads, pastas and salmon. The wahoo fish tacos are a perennial favorite. Come in on Saturday or Sunday for huevos rancheros or eggs Benedict.

Wash it all down with a beer from one of Utah’s local breweries. 3698 Fort Union Blvd., Salt Lake City, 801-942-5555, PorcupinePub.com Ruth’s Diner One of the oldest restaurants in Utah, Ruth’s opened at its current location in 1949 in a Salt Lake City trolley car that Ruth had moved up Emigration Canyon.

Though Ruth is gone, her legacy lives on in the comfort-food menu. You’ll also find contemporary dishes like raspberry chicken alongside classics such as Ruth’s meatloaf and tender braised pot roast. And breakfast is served into the late afternoon, so you can order the famous mile-high biscuits & country gravy for lunch. In warm weather, the sprawling patio is the place to be, and Ruth’s also features live music from local artists.

4160 Emigration Canyon Road, Salt Lake City, 801-582-5807, RuthsDiner.com Spur Bar & Grill Located in the alley next to 350 Main American Brasserie on Main Street in Park City, the Spur Bar & Grill is an upscale Western eatery and club that features live music along with an eclectic global menu. Now serving brick oven pizza, the classic Spur Burger and the grill’s famous wings are still excellent reasons to visit. Be sure to try a signature cocktail like the pink panther or the high-altitude peach julep. 352 Main, Park City, 435-615-1618, TheSpurBarAndGrill.com

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Chef/owner Mike Fukumitsu has put Kobe on a very short list of my favorite Utah Japanese restaurants. The tonkotsu ramen is as good as any I’ve ever eaten, with bodacious house-made broth cooked down from pork pieces and bones for a minimum of 24 hours, plus crisped pork belly batons, slightly runny hard-cooked egg, scallion, bean sprouts and perfectly cooked ramen noodles. Twice a week, Fukumitsu gets a “surprise package” delivery of fresh fish from central Tokyo’s renowned Tsukiji wholesale fish market. That keeps things interesting and fresh at Kobe; for example, during one recent visit, we enjoyed a sashimi platter featuring an 18-piece assortment of five different raw fish. We’ve also enjoyed melt-in-the-mouth hamachi belly nigiri, sea bream, escolar and a superb salad of mixed greens, tangerine wedges and fragrant citrus-ginger dressing topped with a flash-fried soft shell crab—all at very reasonable prices. Among the must-try specialty rolls are Kobe’s most popular: the Summer Breeze—a huge roll with yellowtail, jalapeño, mango, cilantro, avocado and spicy sauce, all topped with salmon, lemon, honey, habanero powder and tobiko. Reviewed May 28. 3947 Wasatch Blvd., Millcreek, 801-277-2928, Facebook.com/KobeJapaneseRestaurant

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This diminutive eatery at Kimball Junction fills up quickly—just five four-top tables, two two-tops, and six sushi-bar seats—plus, prices are remarkably low for Park City.

Cucumber lovers will enjoy the Sunomono salad—a straightforward dish of Japanese cucumber served with ponzu. Most nigiri is priced at $5 or $6 for two pieces; I was happily surprised by the generous slices of hamachi, maguro and saba with the nigiri I ordered. It comes unadorned, with nothing more than ginger, wasabi and soy alongside. I tend to like maki rolls where the fish, rice and other ingredients are the main attraction. The 88 Roll is outstanding: 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. Reviewed May 21. 1612 Ute Blvd., No. 116, Park City, 435-901-3990, ShoyuSushiHouse.com

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Like the restaurant’s name implies, shabu shabu—a DIY Asian hot-pot meal of broth, veggies, noodles and choice of protein—is one of the highlights here, but there’s also exceptional sushi. The Yellowtail jalapeño “cold plate” includes eight thin yellowtail sashimi slices formed pinwheel-style, topped with jalapeño pepper, hot sauce and cilantro leaves in a citrusy yuzu-soy bath. Also try the Coco Loco roll with avocado, cucumber and albacore tuna wrapped in rice and Thai basil, topped with salmon and maguro tuna, more avocado slivers and tobiko, then finished with wasabi-coconut aioli. But the best menu item at Shabu is one of the best things I’ve ever eaten anywhere: the Wagyu beef hot rock ($23). Thin slices of premium Snake River Farms Wagyu beef strip loin come to the table raw, with ponzu butter. A blazing hot rock is delivered to the table in a wood container. You simply dip the beef into the butter, rest them on the red-hot rock for a few seconds, then allow them to melt in your mouth. The flavor is nothing short of spectacular. Order the amazing blistered green beans with spicy miso to share on the side. Reviewed May 21. 442 Main, Park City, 435-645-7253, ShabuPC.com

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Owner Kathie Chadbourne has turned this restaurant into something that resembles a funky neighborhood restaurant in Portland or Boulder. An appetizer like the Manila clams—a dozen-and-a-half clams in a peppery broth made with sautéed garlic and shallots with white wine—is hefty enough to serve as an entree if you’re dining by yourself.

If you’re bored with the dry, cardboard-textured garden burger on most menus, sink your teeth into the Bistro’s lentil-rice burger. My wife and I both loved the griddled trout entrée—a generous serving of two trout fillets with a swizzle of butternut-squash purée, radish chunks, warm ginger-spinach-arugula-fennel salad, sprinkled with sunflower seeds. My favorite dish was outstanding—the spicy chicken tortilla—and yet, it could have been even better. It’s an airline-chicken portion, encrusted and fried with crisp tortilla morsels and served with a fiery, rich, scrumptious black-bean, rice and corn soup. But, the dish would be even better if the crispy chicken weren’t sitting in the soup, which makes it soggy. Once the home of a small pharmacy, Avenues Bistro on Third soothes and comforts far beyond the ability of pharmaceuticals.

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The list of collaborators behind Current reads like a Who’s Who of the Utah dining scene, and the space that was previously home to not-so-modern Salt Lake Antiques now looks like a million bucks. But how do the food and drink stack up to the heavy-hitters at the helm and the eye-popping décor?

Pretty damned well, actually. It’s a no-brainer to begin with fresh, delicious oysters, which come with a choice of cucumber mignonette, spicy ponzu or cocktail sauce. On the “cold plate” side of the menu, try the Alaskan King crab lettuce wraps ($18) with cocktail sauce and citrus-basil aioli; I’d make a light meal of those wraps and Current’s stupendous french fries, which are the best fries I’ve eaten in a Utah restaurant. One of my favorite dishes was a whole branzino fish, cooked to a beautifully crisp exterior and flaky, tender interior in sea salt and extra-virgin olive oil; equally delicious is the oven-roasted chicken. For dessert, I recommend the homemade sorbets and gelatos. Somehow, Current has managed to hit the sweet spot: It’s au courant without being especially hip or trendy. Reviewed May 7. 279 E. 300 South, 801-326-3474, CurrentFishAndOyster.com

Slices Pizza

Located across the street from the new Holladay Village complex, Slices Pizza has the potential to join a very short list of my favorite pizza joints. It’s not much to look at: a few tables and a messy-looking interior. But über-friendly service and outstanding pizza will keep you coming back—at the very least, for takeout. Slices run from $2.75 to $3.25, and a one-topping pizza is $15.50 for a 16-inch pie, $17.50 for the 19-inch. The crust at Slices is excellent; at its thinnest point a mere 1/32-inch thick or so, with a delightful snap, while the rest of the thin crust is slightly chewy. I love the housemade meatball topping, although I do wish Slices would go the extra mile and pony up for top-notch Grande mozzarella cheese for their pies. Reviewed April 23. 4655 S. 2300 East, 801-613-9901, SlicesPizzaUtah.com

Lucky Slice

This is very good New York-style pizza, close to the type bought by the slice at any of a thousand pizzerias in the Big Apple. A slice at Lucky Slice sells for $3-$3.50, and it痴 a generous wedge taken from a 20-inch pizza. Whole pies run from $10 for a basic 14-inch cheese pizza, to $23 for a 20-inch pie with five or more toppings. The options for toppings and sauces at Lucky Slice are mind-boggling: Thai peanut, ranch, herbal, barbecue, creamy pesto and more. Then, there are specialty pies, like the unusual potato pesto or tapenade (chef/ co-owner Will Shafer is a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu). Still, the best way to experience Lucky Slice pizza is the simplest: hand-tossed crust, with cheese and fresh tomato sauce. The pizzas are stone-fired and the crust is light, with exactly the right amount of sauce and cheese. Transplanted New Yorkers will approve (although the super-friendly service might take some getting used to). Reviewed April 23. 200 E. 25th St., Ogden, 801-627-2229; 1245 S. Legend Hills Drive, Clearfield, 801-820-6992, TheLuckySlice.com

Layla Mediterranean Grill & Mezze

The location that used to be Confetti’s—where you’d find Italian staples and rib-eye steak next to hummus and baba ghanoush—has undergone quite an overhaul. With Layla, owners Leila and Raouf Tadros went back to their roots to embrace Middle Eastern cuisine. A good option for sampling mezze (appetizer-size dishes) is the combination platters, which allow guests to sample slightly smaller-than-normal hot or cold mezze. I particularly liked the kibbeh: ground sirloin shaped into croquettes and mixed with pine nuts, onions and Middle Eastern spices, deep-fried and served with cucumber-mint yogurt. One of my favorite dishes turned out to be musakhen, a Palestinian dish of toasted, thin flatbread served wrap-style, stuffed with roasted chicken, caramelized onions, pine nuts, sumac and spices.

I love the complexity of the musakhen flavors, which are simultaneously savory and slightly sweet. The fire-roasted red-pepper hummus is equally delicious, especially if you love garlic. There’s a warm, family-style approach to table service at Layla; every server seems to be watching every table, so you won’t be neglected. Reviewed April 16. 4751 S. Holladay Blvd., 801-272-9111, LaylaGrill.com

Chabaar Beyond Thai

Like Tea Rose Diner (also the creation of Anny Sooksri) Chabaar goes way beyond Thai. American breakfast items like omelets, pancakes, waffles, eggs and hash browns mingle in the spirit of multicultural detente with Thai breakfast soups like kow tom kai and a Thai vegan omelet. It’s a Midvale melting pot, right down to the lunchtime Reuben and tuna sandwiches. But as good as the American staples are, I come for the flavors of Thailand, like an appetizer of fresh spring rolls. I’d heard others sing the praises of the drunken noodles (pad kee mao) at Chabaar, and I can see why. The pad thai is excellent as well: a hefty serving of thin rice noodles tossed with a tangy, citrusy and slightly sweet pad-thai sauce; scrambled egg; green onion; and a halfdozen medium-size shrimp, all topped with shredded carrot, bean sprouts and crushed peanuts, plus lime wedges on the side. It’s nearly as good heated up as leftovers for lunch as it is fresh from the kitchen. For those who prefer their Thai food on the mild, lighter side, I recommend Chabaar’s Jungle Curry with tofu. Reviewed March 26. 87 W. 7200 South, Midvale, 801-566-5100, AnnysTakeOnThai.com

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hen the furnace known as “summer” begins to ignite, it’s tempting to raid the snack shelves at Trader Joe’s and commence binge-watching Unbreakable Kimmie Schmidt, Orange Is the New Black and True Detective. With your swamp cooler roaring full blast, mini-pizzas crisping in the oven and that bottle of Epic Spiral Jetty beading with condensation beside the remote, the fluffy couch is just waiting for your pale, soft bottom to crash down upon it.

It’s all too easy to while away the summer indoors, isn’t it? But is it really fun? Pleasant, maybe—but it’s somehow lacking in the heroic and hair-raising misadventures of your youth.

Sometimes it’s necessary to lasso the mindset of childhood, when we basically invented fun. Fun was what happened when we woke up on a summer day and didn’t have to mow the lawn, paint the deck, empty the dishwasher or let the dog out. And oftentimes, fun came most easily when we ecaped the confines of home.

If it’s a challenge for you to “remember when,” perhaps this issue will jog a memory or two. Let this be the year you check out the newest gut-wrenching ride at a theme park or find yourself idling by (or in) a lazy river. Afterward, snap out your beach towel and recline on an actual sandy beach (yes, there are some in Utah) while listening to your “Summer 2015” mixtape (remember mixtapes? Fun!). Then, experience that elation that comes from finding a shop or eatery serving a dish you enjoyed as a kid, when you discover it tastes just as great now as it did then.

If you can’t bring the fun on your own, let someone else make you laugh out loud at a summer play or musical. Or, embrace your inner nomad and explore a park or attraction that few people have heard of before. It’s never too late to have fun on a bike; try pedaling your way to high spirits on a pub crawl. Or, prove your hole-in-one prowess with a game of disc golf or putt-putt.

If shopping punches your fun button, check out our list of offthe-wall hangouts and swap meets. Finally, our rosters of festivals and concerts will give you a summer’s worth of events where your wild-child self can come out to play.

If all else fails, you can always sit home and do nothing—but only on the Fourth of July!

In the 1960s, young people were urged to “turn on.” In summer 2015, we invite you to “turn off.” Abandon your flat-screens, your tablets, your smartphones and controllers—whatever devices hold you captive indoors and on the couch—until you’ve availed yourself at least one excellent adventure described on the following pages.

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t was right around the third roller coaster of the day—when the car on Lagoon’s Jet Star in which I was riding with my daughter dove into a particularly sharp curve, and my neck snapped in a way that didn’t seem quite right—that I wondered what the hell I was doing.

The concept seemed like sheer writerly perfection: For a City Weekly Summer Guide with a thematic connection to childhood memories of summer fun, I was going to be reliving a particularly vivid memory.

After my eighth-grade graduation in central California, my class visited Six Flags Magic Mountain, the amusement park in nearby Valencia famous for its then-state-of-the-art roller coasters like the Great American Revolution. What would it be like now, more than 30 years later, to spend a day dashing from one thrill ride to another?

In another spark of inspiration, I invited my 13-year-old daughter, Anna, to accompany me on this visit. Her own eighth-grade class would be making a trip to Lagoon in early June. Perhaps I could see my own decades-removed experience through her eyes. Perhaps a torch would be passed.

There were a few potential bumps in my plan. The years since my last visit to Six Flags Magic Mountain had turned me into an avid fan of Disney parks, with the emphasis more on the atmosphere and theme than thrills.

Additionally, I was simply older and creakier, and whatever yearning I ever had for being spun around and turned upside down had dwindled to a level approaching zero.

Nevertheless, Anna and I entered Lagoon on Mother’s Day and found the bliss of every amusement park enthusiast: The place was practically empty. Not only were most folks taking their moms out for brunch that day, but the fact that it was Sunday (and preseason) and gloomy clouds hovered in the air after a string of storms, it made it feel as though we (along with a few hundred other hardy souls) had the place to ourselves. Sure, the big

new attraction for 2015—the muchanticipated Cannibal roller coaster— was not yet operational as engineers worked out a few final kinks ahead of the busy summer season. But we’d be able to stroll from one headline attraction to another with less than a five-minute wait.

An amusement park without lines— would it even feel like an amusement park at all?

There was, however, a wee bit of a downside to such an efficient day: No downtime for the old body to settle down between jolting rides. We started with Wicked, the coaster that begins by blasting riders up a 110-foot-tall tower, then plunges them down the other side before corkscrewing, inverting and generally G-force-ifying them for 90 seconds. Then it was over to the wooden piece of amusement-park history simply dubbed Roller Coaster, for all the creaky clickety-clacking and deep dives of one of the classics. And then it was the Jet Star, and that aforementioned certain special pop at the base of my skull.

By that point, it was time to break for lunch—or, as I thought of it, “sit down for a while before I snap in two.” We checked out one of the park’s “dark rides”—the low-tech haunted-house attraction Terroride—immediately thereafter, but there was no indefinite putting off of a return to the coasters. There was the swooping, surf-like ride of Bombora (perhaps my favorite in its thematic simplicity), and the suspended flight of The Bat. And after a brief drenching break on the undulating Rattlesnake Rapids raft ride, it was back to the double upside-down loops of Colossus: The Fire Dragon, then the hey-you’re-aboutto-plunge-to-your-death-ha-ha-fooledyou hairpin turns of the Wild Mouse.

This was the point at which my inner ears, stomach and various joints called it quits. I’d already made it clear to Anna that I wasn’t remotely interested in the “spinny rides”—those many attractions whose only purpose appears to be testing one’s personal queasiness red-line—and I bailed out on trying the Spider, a rollercoaster where the

passengers rotate 360 degrees while the car dips and dives around the track.

On some level, I worried that I had failed. I wasn’t re-living my carefree adolescence; I was simply reminding myself how far from it I now was.

So instead, Anna and I grabbed a bowl of Dippin’ Dots and sat in the shade by the park’s carousel. We wandered Lagoon’s capacious midway area, and paused for a game of Whac-a-Mole that won her a plush animal. We strolled into the arcade and plunked down a few tokens for a rousing game of air hockey.

We discovered a video-game version of Deal or No Deal, where I made my final deal (51 prize tickets) before discovering that I had, in fact, picked the suitcase with the grand prize of 200 tickets. We took a couple of very happy-looking selfies before heading across the freeway to check out the show fountain at nearby Station Park.

That’s the thing you realize about youthful visits to amusement parks, and in a similar way, about any special summer moment: They weren’t about the rides. As cool and exciting and dizzying as any individual feat of engineering imagination might be, they were only a delivery system for memories, shared with the people who matter in our lives: friends, significant others, children. Those who fixate on how many rides they can squeeze into a day are missing the point. Being there together is the thing. It’s the thing you’ll remember, whether you spend the entire day walking around or upside-down.

Around the time this story goes to print, Anna will be making that next visit to Lagoon with her school friends.

She was careful to note the location of photo booths where they could take pictures, and where lockers are located to store valuables prior to turbulent or wet rides. They’ll have a day that they’ll probably recall with a smile 30 years from now, when it has become even clearer that a place like Lagoon delivers its biggest thrills in the joy of shared experience. I’ll still have that—long after my neck has returned to normal. CW

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On a hot summer day, there’s nothing more refreshing than shooting down a water slide and being launched full-force into a cool pool. The Wasatch Front is loaded with water parks where you can combine your love of water with the need for speed: Seven Peaks Salt Lake Conveniently located close to downtown in Salt Lake City’s Glendale neighborhood, the park features 14 water slides, including two face-first mat slides, along with a 400,000-gallon wave pool.

1200 W. 1700 South, Salt Lake City, 801-972-3300, SevenPeaks.com, day pass $24.99.

Farther south, sister park Seven Peaks Provo has 17 slides and features a giant half-pipe and a ride with a 100-foot free-fall. 1330 E. 300 North, Provo, 801-373-8777, SevenPeaks.com, day pass $24.99

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Cowabunga Bay Water Park Nothing says “extreme water park” like naming a ride “Mondo.” Mondo lives up to its name by offering 1,000 feet of twists and turns through darkness. The Bay also features a gigantic 1,500-gallon bucket—so big, it’s visible from the freeway—that periodically spills out onto guests below. 12047 S. State, Draper, 801553-1000, CowabungaBay.com, day pass $19.99 Courtesy Lagoon

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Lagoon A Beach Boasts a series of slides, rivers and water features spread out over six acres. The water park is just one part of the larger Lagoon experience that features exhilarating amusement-park rides (see p.34).

375 Lagoon Lane, Farmington, 801-451-8000, LagoonPark.com, Single Day Passport $49.95 (includes admission to Lagoon Amusement Park)

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From water slides and hot springs to interactive fountains and running waters, check out these spots where you don’t need anything more than a swimsuit and sunscreen and, in some cases, you don’t even need money. Just take the plunge, already!

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1325 S. Main, Kaysville, 801-451-5379, Cherry-Hill. com, day pass $20

Soak It In There’s a reason songwriter Charles Tobias wrote about the lazy days of summer. Sure, it’s a time to get out and play, but it’s also a time to kick back, relax, and enjoy soothing natural spring waters: Crystal Hot Springs Just an hour north of Salt Lake City off Interstate-15, these ancient springs produce natural waters loaded with all sorts of healthy vitamins and minerals.

Temperatures range from very hot (120-134 degrees) to the very cold (65-75 degrees) within 50 feet of each other. There are also two water slides. On the way to and from the springs, you’ll pass by Brigham City, which has a number of good restaurants allowing you to turn this into a full day or evening getaway.

8215 Highway 38, Honeyville, 435-279-8104, CrystalHotSprings.net, pool pass $7, pool & slide pass, $10 Homestead Crater A visit to the Homestead Crater is both a Utah tradition and an otherworldly experience.

Reservations are required to enjoy the 96-degree waters that are found inside a 55-foot tall limestone cone with a hole at the top. 700 Homestead Drive, Midway, 435-657-3840, HomesteadResort.com, 40-minute soak, swim or snorkel, $11 MondayThursday, $16 Friday-Sunday

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Lava Hot Springs Head two hours north out of Salt Lake City, cross the Idaho border and arrive in the small town of Lava Hot Springs, whose five outdoor pools filled with spring waters have no chemicals, sulfur or odor, and range in temperature from 102-112 degrees. In town, there is a large pool and a river, which you can float down on a rented tube. For a small town, Lava offers a surprising number of great dining options and a favorite pastime for Utahns is to drive up for dinner and a soak. You can also make it a quick getaway trip and stay at one of the hotels in town, some of which feature their own access to the spring waters. 430 E. Main, Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, 208-776-5221, LavaHotsprings. com, Monday-Thursday $6, FridaySunday and holidays, $10

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A River Runs Through It Sometimes the best way to experience water on a summer day is simply to stroll along next to a creek or stream, have a picnic in the shade as water rolls by, and interact with the riparian wildlife. Salt Lake City offers a number of experiences of this type: Sugarhouse Park Feeding bread to the resident seagulls, ducks and geese at Sugarhouse Park is a longstanding tradition. The whole reason Salt Lake City survived its infancy is because seagulls saved the Mormon pioneers and their crops from swarming crickets. Don’t

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Seven Canyons Fountain For a geography lesson and afternoon of fun all in one, this fountain simulates rivers and streams coming down from

Tanner Fountain Located on the University of Utah’s Marriott Library Plaza, the Tanner Fountain has been beloved by generations of Utes.

Rather than shooting water into the air, the fountain’s waters cascade down a series of steps. Signs are clearly posted that people should not climb on the fountain, but

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After all, if you’re going to create a cool fountain with steps, you have to expect that there will be climbing. Utah.edu

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Gateway Olympic Snowflake Fountain The Gateway fountain pays tribute to Salt Lake City’s hosting of the 2002 Winter Games. In the 13 years since the Olympics, most kids (and adults) find it a temptation overload to walk past the jets of water shooting up out of the ground to synchronized music without breaking down and deciding to get soaked. 18 N. Rio Grande St., 801-456-0000, ShopTheGateway.com.

the mountains and through to the Great Salt Lake. It was originally created to be something people just looked at, but the sight of water running along channels in an open area became too much for kids to resist splashing around in. A filtration system was added to keep the water clean, and now it’s an interactive attraction. While you’re at Liberty Park, stroll over to what is known as Liberty Lake (a very generous use of the word “lake”) where paddle boats can be rented for $8. Liberty Park, 600 E. 900 South, 801-972-7800, SLCGov.com

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Jordan River Parkway The Jordan River flows northward more than 50 miles from Utah Lake to the Great Salt Lake. Paralleling the river is the Jordan River Parkway, a trail system that weaves in and out of urban areas, parks and marshy areas throughout Utah, Salt Lake and Davis counties. Hikers, cyclists and equestrians all enjoy the trail, just as canoers, kayakers, and rafters enjoy floating the river. Visit the Bend-in-the-River Open Space at 1030 W. Fremont Ave. and the Jordan River Peace Labyrinth at 1550 S. 1125 West. For a map, visit SLCo.org

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Memory Grove Another spot to enjoy running water is Memory Grove, where City Creek comes trickling towards downtown Salt Lake City amid beautifully landscaped grounds and historical buildings. 300 N. Canyon Road, 801-972-7800, SLCParks.gov.

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City Creek Center If the Great Outdoors isn’t your thing, consider sitting creekside at City Creek Mall’s 1,200 foot stream featuring six separate fountains, rippling pools, ponds and waterfalls. With aquatic plants and trout, the creek almost seems like the real thing. But if you think it is, you need to get out more. 50 S. Main, 801-521-2012, ShopCityCreekCenter.com

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Drink Up Artesian Well Park The artesian well sitting on this quarteracre spot is listed as a city park, but the main reason people flock here is to fill up jugs with the water that constantly flows from an ancient well. Diehards won’t drink anything else, due to its delicious taste. Legend has it that Brigham Young commissioned this park and even blessed the well that it would forever produce water. Of course, he may not have foreseen that 21st-century beer hobbyists would find these waters perfect for brewing their suds. 500 E. 800 South, SLCGov.com When Brother Brigham led the Mormon pioneers here on July 24, 1847, they looked down from the mouth of Emigration Canyon on a desert valley that had one tree and a huge lake filled with salt water. Finding a source of fresh water was the first order of business. Once they were able to get the waters flowing, they made the desert, as predicted in Isaiah 35:1, “blossom like a rose.”

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begrudge the gulls a crust of bread! Thanks to the addition of The Draw, which opened in the summer of 2014, visitors can now walk west out of Sugarhouse Park under 1300 East to emerge in Hidden Hollow. Here they can enjoy walking or sitting by the ravine that runs through the area. There are also various interpretive signs describing the area’s bat population, and telling the history of how Utah’s sugarbeet industry gave Sugar House its name. 1400 E. 2100 South, 385468-7275, SugarhousePark.org

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State Park just outside of Heber City in Heber Valley on Highway 189 and the crystal waters of Pineview Reservoir near Ogden, just off Highway 39.

The closest you can get to a natural beach—at least for Salt Lake Valley residents—is Bridger Bay on the northern edge of Antelope Island. It’s a two-mile long stretch of white sand looking out onto the salt-laden waters of the Great Salt Lake.

On holidays and weekends, the line of cars coming from Syracuse to get onto Antelope Island could mean as much as a half-hour wait. But the payoff, at least at Bridger Bay, is a stunning vista of undulating mountains mirrored perfectly in the blue waters and the kind of incipient beach life you might expect at any sea resort.

While some picnic in their cars, families with small children traverse the metal tracks down to a long stretch of muddy sand and stone, slender sea gulls fighting in the air above them. A 10to 15-minute walk from the parking lot brings you to the water’s edge. Adults and children with rolled up trouser legs wade out into the waters, as Mexican dance music from a young woman’s iPod drifts across the white expanse.

One man with a metal detector searches for buried treasure, while another flies a kite, to his young son’s delight. There is a similar relaxed look on everyone’s faces as they gaze out over the saline lake, caught up in nostalgia for their own childhood, or simply marveling at how beach life could exist in the desert.

Bridger Bay Beach offers covered tables, the Island Buffalo Grill—a fast-food eatery with buffalo and hamburgers on the menu—and showers to wash off the sand after an afternoon of gently floating in the lake’s calm embrace.

If you’re looking to get farther away from Salt Lake City, check out Willard Bay State Park, near Brigham City. Or, heading south, you’ll find popular beach spots, such as Lake Powell and Flaming Gorge—with their majestic red-rock terrain—while Hurricane offers at Sand Hollow State Park, a sandstone landscape cradling sandy beaches and warm blue waters. CW

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he yen for beach life for city-dwellers in land-locked Utah can be overpowering at times, particularly in those summer months when it seems the closest you can get to the seaside is watching oversize seagulls pecking at garbage in parking lots and tar “beaches” on rooftops. Thanks to the wide variety of reservoirs and lakes across the Beehive State, that itch to throw down a towel and then wade out into still waters can easily be scratched. And you don’t have to travel far to do it.

Let’s take the man-made options first. In some cases, a beach amounts to little more than land near water. Climb up the winding path at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon to Bell Canyon Reservoir in Sandy on any sunny weekend, and the sight that greets you at the southern end of the Salt Lake Valley is a gorgeous stretch of water and mountainous terrain. Wend your way around the water’s edge, and you’ll find spots of land occupied by families on blankets picnicking, or sitting on rocks with their feet in the water, enjoying their views of the tree-lined water’s edge and the ducks.

Just across the valley from Bell Canyon in Herriman is an even better example of a beach in Utah, although it’s one that’s so hidden away in the ‘burbs, it takes a little time to find it. Follow Bangerter Highway towards Riverton and Herriman and then turn west on 13400 South. From there, it’s a matter of wending your way up through a residential neighborhood of McMansions almost to the top of South Ashland Ridge Drive to be greeted by the black gates of Blackridge Reservoir and a sign, that says “Swim at your own risk.”

Blackridge is very ‘beach’-like. Essentially, it’s a large round pool, with one side walled in by boulders and the other a sandy beach with grass and sheltered tables. Walk the beach, and the feel of sand between your toes brings back vivid childhood memories of half-burying a family member or building sandcastles—which makes it all the more surreal, given the suburban location.

Other man-sculpted beach spots within an hour or so drive from downtown Salt Lake City include a reservoir in Deer Creek

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t’s summertime, and I’m in the back seat of a hot car, playing “slug bug” with my sisters. Each time we see a Volkswagen Beetle on the highway we yell, “Slug bug!” and the first one to spot the Beetle gets to slug the others in the arm. My parents are both smoking. It’s stuffy and cramped, and well before the days of in-car air conditioning. We’ve been hostages in the car since about 3 or 4 a.m.; on road trips, my father always wants to get “an early start.”

My mom spots a sign for Stuckey’s— home of the famous Stuckey’s Pecan Log Roll—and we stop for an early lunch. It is a revelation. I eat the first restaurantmade grilled-cheese sandwich of my life. And what are those things next to it?

French fries! Two incredible discoveries in one memorable meal. Today, I eschew most professionally made grilled-cheese sandwiches, preferring to eat homemade.

Unless, that is, I find myself in the vicinity of a Melty Way (MeltyWay.com). Then I treat myself to a taste of gooey nostalgia.

It’s summertime, and my dad and I have driven—well, he’s driven—from where our family lives, in Seville, Spain, to Torremolinos on the Costa del Sol. We arrive at night, and for reasons I don’t recall, I choose to sleep under the car on the beach while my dad sleeps in it. The next day, Dad takes me to a chiringuito— one of the small beachfront bar/cafes that serve cold beer and hot tapas. My dad orders a beer for himself and a CocaCola for me, along with gambas: a small plate (my introduction to tapas) of fresh shrimp wrapped in serrano ham, grilled and served in a garlicky sauce. These are flavors I’ll never forget. But, if I need a reminder, I order the gambas con bacon at Cafe Madrid (5244 S. Highland Drive, 801-273-0837, CafeMadrid.net).

It’s summertime, and we’re on the road again. We’ve returned stateside from Europe and are headed to sunny California, where we’ll put down stakes for a couple years. Somewhere in the Midwest, we stop for dinner at a Howard Johnson’s where, at my mom’s insistence, I discover what would become one of my favorite edible treats on the planet: fried clams. Years later, I would learn that my culinary hero, Jacques Pépin, was hired in 1961—after working for the likes of Charles de Gaulle—by Howard Johnson

Lone Star’s fish tacos himself to update the menus at the chain of roadside restaurants. He stayed with HoJo’s for nearly a decade.

According to Pépin—whom I had the honor of studying with briefly in New York City—the fried clams were made from the tongues of huge sea clams (the rest of the clam was used for chowder). Since my childhood introduction to fried clams, I’ve eaten them in dozens of places, from the Lobster Trap on Cape Cod (where you can get them with the bellies intact), to Gladstone’s on the beach in Malibu, Calif.

On Long Beach Island, off the coast of New Jersey—where I now spend hot and humid summers with my son, Hank—we eat piles of fried clams at The Clam Bar. One future hot summer, he’ll teach my future grandchild to love clams as much as we do; food ways are passed from generation to generation. For the best fried clams in Utah, you’ll need to head up to Park City, surprisingly—to Cena Ristorante and Lounge in The Chateaux at Deer Valley (7815 Royal Street, 435940-2200, The-Chateaux.com).

It’s summertime in Morocco, and I’m riding a camel. I’m in Morocco to play in an all-star Little League tournament against other teams from around the region (yes, there is baseball in Morocco).

My mom is a chaperone for our team, and our guide is escorting us through the colorful chaos that is a Moroccan bazaar in Rabat. I buy a souvenir fez. At some point, the guide leads us through an alley and into a small house filled with exotic smells.

A family that is helping to host our Little League team has invited a few of us to lunch, and I think it’s cool we get to eat with our hands—no utensils.

We are treated to a sweet-and-savory (a term I’d only come to know decades later) Moroccan dish—a sort of phyllodough pie filled with chicken, nuts and spices, and dusted with powdered sugar and cinnamon. Many years later, during college, I’d come across this amazing dish again at a Boulder

restaurant called Mataam Fez, and would learn that it’s called pastilla (aka bastilla, bisteeya, bstilla and b’stilla). It’s still one of the most remarkable dishes I’ve ever encountered—and now when I want to remember those Moroccan flavors, I check into Cedars of Lebanon (152 E. 200 South, 801-364-4096, C e d a r s O f L eb a non Re s t au r a nt .com ) for its delicious pastilla. Alas, our Little League team ultimately lost the tournament, but discovering pastilla still makes me a winner.

It’s summertime in the late 1960s, and my mom is dragging me and my sisters around Manhattan. She loves the city, and my father won’t go near it.

She takes us to a place for lunch called an “automat.” It’s a big, lunchroom-type eatery where customers plunk money into coin-operated slots that dispense food—stuff like sandwiches, coffee, pie slices and even soups and stews—which await behind a small glass window.

Decades later, when I moved to New York City on a hot summer day in August, I’d learn that the place was called Horn & Hardart, on East 42nd Street. It’s closed now. I’d moved to New York City to attend grad school, and quickly found my way (via a guide called New York on $15 a Day) to Manganaro’s Hero Boy in Hell’s Kitchen.

There, I relished the massive, inexpensive hero sandwiches (said to be invented there), piled high with fresh-sliced meats, cheeses and extras like pepperoncini.

Today, when I want a terrific bang-forthe-buck hero (or hoagie or sub or grinder or torpedo or whatever you want to call it), I go to Grove Market & Deli (1906 S. Main, 801-467-8860, GroveMarketDeli.com) for the Big John, to the original Granato’s (1391 S. 300 West, 801-486-5643) to enjoy their Godfather, or to Caputo’s Market & Deli downtown (314 W. 300 South, 801531-8669, CaputosDeli.com) to get my lips around The Caputo, with prosciutto, mortadella, salami, provolone and fixings.

It’s summertime, and I’m in Belgium eating steamed mussels.

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It’s a warm summer night, and I’m dining at one of Brussels’ oldest restaurants, Aux Armes de Bruxelles. It’s one of the simplest, yet most memorable, meals I’ll ever enjoy.

Since then, I’ve gone on to make many batches of my own moules marinières, but when I’m too lazy to cook or just want to enjoy a good restaurant meal, I order the moules marinières at The Paris Bistro (1500 S. 1500 East, 801-486-5585, TheParis. net) or at J&G Grill in Deer Valley’s St. Regis (2300 Deer Valley Drive East, 435-9405760, JGGrillDeerCrest.com).

It’s summertime, and I’m in Brazil— which means it’s December. During a break from graduate school, I’m honoring my obsession for the Brazilian martial art of capoeira by flying down to Rio de Janeiro to study under Mestre Camisa, the Bruce Lee of Brazilian capoeira. There, I discover the carnivorous phenomenon that is churrasco at the churrascarias serving skewered, grilled meats in an endless, all-you-can-eat rotation (rodizio).

Eventually, I roam north with my capoeirista compatriots and eat at

Moules marinières at Paris Bistro seaside shacks in Salvador, Bahia, where I buy acarajé—a mashed-and-fried bean concoction—from women attired in native garb. I enjoy it on the beach between capoeira sessions, along with other delectable Salvadoran dishes like vatapá, moqueca and, on Saturdays, feijoada.

Although the cuisine of northern Brazil is hard to come by here, there are plenty of places to get the churrasco experience: Tucanos Brazilian Grill (162 S. 400 West, 801456-2550, Tucanos.com), Texas de Brazil (50 S. Main, 385-232-8070, TexasDeBrazil.com), Rodizio Grill (600 S. 700 East, Trolley Square, 801-220-0500, RodizioGrill.com), Tushar Express (1078 W. South Jordan Parkway, 801-446-6644, TusharExpress.com) and Braza Grill (5927 S. State, 801-506-7788, BrazaGrillUtah.com), for example.

It’s summertime, and I’m spending it in Oaxaca, Mexico. It’s the Reagan 1980s, and I’m much in need of a mental-health break and some separation from Reagan’s America. I’m awakened before dawn every morning by the crowing of the rooster that resides at the house next to my little

bungalow in Oaxaca’s Colonia Linda Vista, where my anthropology mentor and friend, Michael, has procured me an apartment for $40 per week, including maid service.

The city of Oaxaca is landlocked, and I crave the ocean in summer. So, I drive south to Puerto Escondido and check into the Hotel Santa Fe, overlooking Zicatela beach and its famous Mexican Pipeline, which draws serious surfers from around the globe. It is here, at a seaside shack—the name long forgotten—that I come every day for fish tacos. If memory serves, they were made from local red snapper or sea bass.

Today, when I need an escape from reality and I’m jonesing for South of the Border flavors and ambiance, I head to Lone Star Taqueria (2265 E. Fort Union Boulevard, 801-944-2300, LoneStarTaqueria.com) and order up their excellent fish tacos.

It’s summertime, and I can’t wait to discover what flavors and adventures this summer will offer. So far, summers have treated me very well. CW

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ith summer’s close approach, it’s time to pack away the dark flannels and change into summer whites. That goes for wine as well as attire. The heavy, bruising wines that got us through winter won’t do for spring and summer concerts, picnics, barbecues and such. So, it’s time to turn to lighter, refreshing, warm-weather white wines. Here are a few of my favorites, in part due to their bang-for-the-buck pricing. All will partner nicely with a wide variety of summertime cuisine.

During a recent dinner at Kobe Japanese Restaurant, we sipped glasses of a Spanish Rueda called Sitios de Bodega Con Class ($11.99).

This is a heavenly white wine that worked wonders alongside everything from salty ramen to clean-tasting

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perfumed-fruit aromas and flavors.

Meanwhile, Carlson 2015 partially ferments and ages the Roussanne in neutral French-oak barrels, which lends body and depth. It might be made in California, but the first sip will transport you to France.

Another great California wine with the same DNA—Viognier and Roussanne—is Atrea “The Choir” ($16.01). It’s elegant and lovely, with Viognier’s apricot aromas, plus honey notes from Roussanne. Stone fruits dominate on the palate. Quite simply, this is a knockout wine, and one of my go-to favorites.

I first learned of Italy’s Maculan Pino & Toi from restaurateurs Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich, who are big fans of this affordable wine, priced here at a mere $11.99.

It’s a lovely little white wine from the foot of the Italian Alps in Veneto that’s perfect for springtime on the patio—a blend of 60 percent Tai (formerly called Tocai in Italy), 25 percent Pinot Bianco and 15 percent Pinot Grigio. It’s intensely aromatic, with frilly floral aromas, but also crisp and clean on the palate—a nice match for vegetable risotto, white-sauced pizzas or grilled chicken.

Bubbly is always appropriate for summer sipping, and one of my favorite sparkling wines—perfect with a wide range of foods or just solo—is Roederer Estate Anderson Valley Brut ($25). It’s slightly sweet and sensational on a sunny day. CW

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sashimi and spicy maki rolls. It’s Sauvignon Blanc, with that varietal’s grapefruit, guava and gooseberry flavors, blended with Verdejo and Vura, which lend roundness to the wine along with pineapple and melon notes.

Sauvignon Blanc also gets top billing in Château Bonnet Blanc ($12.49), a crisp, summery wine from France’s Entre-Deux-Mers appellation. This classic white Bordeaux blend of 52 percent Sauvignon Blanc, 33 percent Sémillon and 15 percent Muscadelle is made by André Lurton, whose Bonnet vineyards date back to the 16th century. I saw a review of this wine wherein the writer described Château Bonnet Blanc as “nervous, expressive and intelligent.” I can’t begin to tell you what that means; all I’ll say is that it’s a well-balanced blend, with tropical fruit flavors and citrusy aromas. It’s a terrific wine to sip by itself, but also a good partner for seafood and shellfish, chicken, salads, most veggies and almost anything else except strong cheeses and rich, heavy meats and sauces—an ideal picnic choice.

Although it’s a bit of a splurge, a California white wine I like a lot is Curtis Heritage Blanc ($18.65), a great example of the Rhone-style wines made by Santa Barbara County’s Curtis Winery. Head winemaker Chuck “Calypso” Carlson makes his wines in a fruit-forward style, and Heritage Blanc is no exception.

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Even with The Book of Mormon’s Broadway buzz, this year’s locallyproduced Saturday’s Voyeur promises to be top among the best theatrical satires of contemporary life in Utah. A comedic catharsis of all things local, a new variant of the show has been produced almost annually since 1978.

The summer ’s theater offerings promise mirth, merriment and more than a little drama.

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ike the Bard, you’ll soon be telling yourself that “this summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” Heavy on the laughs, this summer’s stage offerings will leave you and your split sides wanting more. Featuring a number of Shakespeare and Broadway favorites, with some locally written offerings in the mix, this wide range of productions caters to all tastes. This season’s biggest splash looks to be the long-awaited Utah appearance of The Book of Mormon at the Capitol Theatre; the smash hit musical from the creators of TV show South Park has already sold out. Those who didn’t get their tickets can seek similar comedic consolation in this year’s production of Saturday’s Voyeur. Regular theatergoers will certainly find the annual pilgrimage to the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City worth the trip, and Tuacahn’s bigbudget Disney productions similarly continue to beckon to families looking for worthwhile entertainment. Whether your bent leans to community productions or to big-time Broadway musicals, there’s sure to be a summer performance geared to your liking.

Through June 6

June 4-June 13

Into the Hoods: A Fractured Fairy Tale Desert Star Playhouse 4861 S. State, Murray 801-266-2600 DesertStar.biz

Princess Academy BYU Department of Theatre Franklin S. Harris Fine Arts Center, Provo 801-422-2981 Arts.BYU.edu

Mary Poppins Brigham’s Playhouse 25 N. 300 West, Washington 435-251-8000 BrighamsPlayhouse.com

June 5-June 20

The Revengers The Off Broadway Theatre 272 S. Main 801-355-4628 TheOBT.org

Through June 20 Big Fish Hale Center Theater Orem 225 W. 400 North, Orem 801-226-8600 HaleTheater.org

Salt Lake Acting Company’s Saturday’s Voyeur

June 11-June 21

June 12-June 20

June 12-July 25

Disney & Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins Scera Shell Outdoor Theatre 699 S. State, Orem 801-225-2787 Scera.org

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown Babcock Theatre 300 S. University St. 801-581-7100 Theatre.Utah.edu

Oliver: The Musical Rose Wagner Center 138 W. 300 South 801-355-2787 ArtTix.org

1776: America’s Musical Terrace Plaza Playhouse 99 E. 4700 South, Ogden 801-393-0070 TerracePlayhouse.com

June 5-June 27

June 11-June 27

June 12-June 27

June 12-Oct. 17

Alice in Wonderland Jr. The Old Barn Community Theatre 3605 Bigler Road, Collinston 435-458-2276 OldBarn.org

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Tuacahn Amphitheatre 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins 800-746-9882 Tuacahn.org

Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Heritage Community Theatre 2505 S. Highway 89, Brigham City 435-723-8392 HeritageTheatreUtah.com

June 5-Aug. 1

Echo Writer’s Showcase: 3 Plays From Local Playwrights The Echo Theatre 15 N. 100 East St., Provo 801-375-2181 TheEchoTheatre.com

June 11-July 30

Thoroughly Modern Millie The Empress Theatre 9104 W. 2700 South, Magna 801-347-7373 EmpressTheatre.com

Disney’s The Little Mermaid Hale Centre Theatre 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive West Valley City 801-984-9000 HaleCentreTheatre.org

Noises Off Caine Lyric Theatre 28 W. Center St., Logan 435-797-8022 Arts.USU.edu/Lyric

Through July 2015

June 11-June 14

The Comedy of Errors & Julius Caesar Various Utah venues 707-722-7529 GrassrootsShakespeare.com

The Foreigner Egyptian Theatre 328 Main, Park City 435-649-9371 EgyptianTheatreCompany.org

Grease’d: Happy Days Are Here Again!

Desert Star Playhouse 4861 S. State, Murray 801-266-2600 DesertStar.biz

June 11-Aug. 22

Treasure Island: A Modern Day Musical Draper Historic Theatre 12366 S. 900 East, Draper 801-572-4144 DraperTheatre.org

June 12-July 3 Harvey Centerpoint Legacy Theatre 525 N. 400 West, Centerville 801-298-1302 CenterpointTheatre.org

June 13-Oct. 16 Disney’s When You Wish Tuacahn Amphitheatre 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins 800-746-9882 Tuacahn.org

June 16-July 11 Anne of Green Gables Brigham’s Playhouse 25 N. 300 West, Washington 435-251-8000 BrighamsPlayhouse.com

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June 19-July 18

June 25-Oct. 31

Joseph Smith: Praise to the Man Brigham’s Playhouse 25 N. 300 West, Washington 435-251-8000 BrighamsPlayhouse.com

The Compleat Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) The Off Broadway Theatre 272 S. Main, SLC 801-355-4628 TheOBT.org

June 17-July 31

June 24-Aug. 1

Last Train to Nibroc Caine Lyric Theatre 28 W. Center St., Logan 435-797-8022 Arts.USU.edu/Lyric

The Mystery of Edwin Drood: The Musical Caine Lyric Theatre 28 W. Center St., Logan 435-797-8022 Arts.USU.edu/Lyric

King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, Henry IV: Part Two, Amadeus, Charley’s Aunt, South Pacific, Dracula, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Affluence, Caesar’s Blood, Closure Utah Shakespeare Festival 351 W. Center St. Cedar City 435-586-7878 Bard.org

June 18-July 19

June 24-Aug. 30 Saturday’s Voyeur 2015 Salt Lake Acting Company 168 W. 500 North 801-363-7522 SaltLakeActingCompany.org

And Then There Were None Caine Lyric Theatre 28 W. Center St., Logan 435-797-8022 Arts.USU.edu/Lyric

July 2-July 18 Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Scera Shell Outdoor Theatre 745 S. State, Orem 801-225-2787 Scera.org

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The Book of Mormon While The Book of Mormon’s billing in Utah may have hit a little too close to home for some, for the less-religiously invested the nine-time Tony Award winning musical promises to be an outrageously funny visit from one of the most lauded Broadway productions in recent years. The long-anticipated 16-night run sold out the first night tickets went on sale. Satirizing Utah’s most cherished belief system, “God’s favorite musical” promises to leave Zion nourished and strengthened with loud laughter. (The play contains explicit language.)

July 2-Aug. 15

July 9-July 19th

July 23-Aug. 15

Into the Woods Hale Center Theater Orem 225 W. 400 North, Orem 801-226-8600 HaleTheater.org

Twelfth Night Babcock Theatre 300 S. University St. 801-581-7100 Theatre.Utah.edu

July 3-July 25

July 9-Aug. 7

The Wizard of Oz Sundance Summer Theatre 8841 N. Alpine Loop Road, Sundance 866-734-4428 SundanceResort.com

1776 The Empress Theatre 9104 W. 2700 South, Magna 801-347-7373 EmpressTheatre.com

July 3-July 26 West Side Story Egyptian Theatre 328 Main, Park City 435-649-9371 EgyptianTheatreCompany.org

July 8-Aug. 7 La Bohème Ellen Eccles Theatre 43 S. Main, Logan 800-262-0074 ArtTix.org

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel Ellen Eccles Theatre 43 S. Main, Logan 800-262-0074 ArtTix.org

July 10-Aug. 8 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Ellen Eccles Theatre 43 S. Main, Logan 800-262-0074 ArtTix.org

July 11-Aug. 8 Man of La Mancha Ellen Eccles Theatre 43 S. Main, Logan 800-262-0074 ArtTix.org

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July 27-Aug. 8 Nephi & The Sword of Laban Grand Theatre 1575 S. State 801-957-3322 The-Grand.org

July 28-Aug. 9 The Book of Mormon Capitol Theatre 50 W. 200 South 801-355-2787 ArtTix.org

July 31-Aug. 15 Crazy For You Scera Shell Outdoor Theatre 745 S. State, Orem 801-225-2787 Scera.org

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Aug. 5-Sept. 12

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Aug. 7-Oct. 15

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Aug. 21-Sept. 12

Into The Woods The Old Barn Community Theatre 3605 Bigler Road, Collinston 435-458-2276 OldBarn.org

Fiddler on the Roof Brigham’s Playhouse 25 N. 300 West, Washington 435-251-8000 BrighamsPlayhouse.com

Jurassic Park City The Off Broadway Theatre 272 S. Main 801-355-4628 TheOBT.org

Sister Act Tuacahn Amphitheatre 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins 800-746-9882 Tuacahn.org

Oklahoma!

Hale Centre Theatre 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive West Valley City 801-984-9000 HaleCentreTheatre.org

Shrek: The Musical Heritage Community Theatre 2505 S. Highway 89, Perry 435-723-8392 HeritageTheatreUtah.com

Aug. 7-Sept. 19

Aug. 10-Sept. 5

Aug. 4-Aug. 29 Bridge to Terabithia Brigham’s Playhouse 25 N. 300 West, Washington 435-251-8000 BrighamsPlayhouse.com

Aug. 7-Aug. 29 The Wiz The Empress Theatre 9104 W. 2700 South, Magna 801-347-7373 EmpressTheatre.com

Seussical Terrace Plaza Playhouse 99 E. 4700 South, Ogden 801-393-0070 TerracePlayhouse.com

Guys and Dolls Centerpoint Legacy Theatre 525 N. 400 West, Centerville 801-298-1302 CenterpointTheatre.org

Aug. 13-Sept. 21 West Side Story St. George Musical Theater 212 N. Main, St. George 435-628-8755 SGMusicalTheater.com

Aug. 20-Aug. 23 They’re Playing Our Song Egyptian Theatre 328 Main, Park City 435-649-9371 EgyptianTheatreCompany.org

Aug. 21-Sept. 26 The Diary of Anne Frank Hale Center Theater Orem 225 W. 400 North, Orem 801-226-8600 HaleTheater.org

Aug. 27-Nov. 7 Star Wards: These Are Not The Elders You’re Looking For Desert Star Playhouse 4861 S. State, Murray 801-266-2600 DesertStar.biz

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Richard II Various Utah venues 707-722-7529 GrassrootsShakespeare.com

The Drowsy Chaperone The Empress Theatre 9104 W. 2700 South, Magna 801-347-7373 EmpressTheatre.com

The Glass Menagerie Centerpoint Legacy Theatre 525 N. 400 West Centerville 801-298-1302 CenterpointTheatre.org

Sept. 4-Sept. 27 Sophocles’ Electra 45th Annual Classical Greek Theatre Festival Various Utah venues 801-832-2458 WestminsterCollege.edu/ greek_theatre

Sept. 11-Sept. 26 The Crucible The Echo Theatre 15 N. 100 East St., Provo 801-375-2181 TheEchoTheatre.com

Sept. 18-Oct. 3 Fiddler on the Roof Pioneer Theatre Company 300 S. 1400 East 801-581-6356 PioneerTheatre.org

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Sept. 25-Oct. 31 Breaking Vlad The Off Broadway Theatre 272 S. Main 801-355-4628 TheOBT.org

The Secret Garden Brigham’s Playhouse 25 N. 300 West Washington 435-251-8000 BrighamsPlayhouse.com

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Moqui Caves

oad trips are a summer classic—and, from north to south, Utah has some great destinations for any adventurer behind the wheel. Visit roadside attractions with real local flavor. Dip into Mormon history. Contemplate works of art. Travel the back ways and discover spectacular scenery. For travelers looking for places that tend to be far from the madding crowd, here are seven sights worth exploring.

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Kodachrome Basin State Park—near Tropic on Highway 12 Inspired by the basin’s color and shadow, the redrock spires against seamless blue skies, the National Geographic Society, in 1949, gained permission from the Eastman Kodak film company to give the park its imagination-stirring name. Found in a remote south-central part of the state, Kodachrome has few visitors and a geology that tells of Earth’s great shifts and changes through time.

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Moqui Caves—Kanab This kitschy roadside museum, located inside a sandstone cave, houses a collection of arrowheads, American Indian pottery, rocks and minerals from around the world. But, the real reason to visit is Lex Chamberlain. Chamberlain’s family has owned and operated this attraction for more than 50 years, and Lex personally serves as tour guide and storyteller giving visitors his own account of local history—from the Anasazi to the Mormon pioneers—to “acquaint visitors with the experience of the inhabitants of southern Utah.”

Best Friends Animal Shelter—Kanab Just down the street from the Moqui Caves is Angel Canyon, home of Best Friends, a beautiful no-kill sanctuary for all types of unwanted, abused and abandoned animals—pigs, horses, rabbits, dogs, cats and others. The sanctuary has, since the early ’90s, operated as a nonprofit charity. The work they do to promote animal welfare is unmatched. If you have children, take them to Best Friends; they will think they’ve died and gone to heaven.

Cove Fort—near Beaver on Interstate 15 Geologically speaking, Utah has a lot of history on display. The state’s pioneer past, on the other hand, isn’t etched in stone and could fade away over time. Cove Fort is one rare example of pioneer history brought to life in the present. Built in 1867 as a safe haven for traveling Mormons, the stone fort is beautifully preserved and authentically furnished. Tour guides will show you around, and it’s a great quick stop along Interstate 15.

Check out some of Utah’s oftenoverlooked wonders.

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Topaz Museum—Delta In the dry flatlands of Utah’s Great Basin desert lie the remains of a shameful piece of American history, the crumbling barracks of Topaz, once a World War II Japanese-American internment camp that housed 11,212 American citizens. The new Topaz Museum presents its inaugural exhibit this summer. The collections include photographs documenting camp life and artworks created by internees at the Topaz Art School. Housed in a restored barrack, the museum seeks to preserve the site and serve as a reminder of that infamous moment in our history when civil rights were so blatantly discarded.

Utah’s Little Grand Canyon—San Rafael Swell An uplift in the Earth’s crust created central Utah’s spectacular San Rafael Swell 40 million years ago, but it was the Swell’s subsequent erosion that gave life to Utah’s Little Grand Canyon. Located in the Swell’s north end, 20 dirt-road miles from Castle Dale at the Wedge Overlook, the canyon’s sheer 1,200-foot cliffs reveal a panorama of winding water, layered buttes, domes and spires that exemplifies the southern desert.

Golden Spike—near Corrine & Highway 83 It’s pretty cool to stand on the spot where, on May 10, 1869, the final spike was driven in linking the First Transcontinental Railroad. A visitor center now stands where the Promontory train station and ticket office once stood. While the building doesn’t house the actual Golden Spike— it is kept at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University—it does have a few exhibits and ranger presentations. CW

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n May 10, 1869, a golden spike nailed together two lines of the Transcontinental Railroad that bound the nation together at Promontory Point in northern Utah. Thousands of miles of iron rails snaked through flat sea-like prairies to the east. To the west, rail lines found a foothold in the rocky Sierra Nevada mountains after thousands of Chinese immigrants dynamited a precipitous path through sheer cliff faces and dizzying ravines.

Any Beehive State history buff making a sojourn north ought to visit the Golden Spike National Historic Site in Box Elder County. No trip through Utah’s railroad past is complete without venturing a little farther off the beaten path to visit the remnants of towns that blossomed in the late 1800s only to disappear a century later.

The Park Valley area of northern Box Elder County is home to what remains of railroad settlements that once hosted residences, hotels, saloons and some of the most vital segments of the Transcontinental Railroad. Prior to the rise of the railroad, the United States were united only by a loose patchwork of stagecoach trails and disjointed riverways.

A disclaimer: Don’t expect to see a vacant town when visiting ghost towns. You’re not likely to wander into some decrepit saloon and find the skeleton of a bartender clutching a dusty bottle of hooch in his bony hand. It’s more about finding the slightest remains of civilization, and appreciating how things have disappeared after a way of life has been blown away by the indifferent winds of history.

For those heading into Park Valley, there are several interesting destinations not too far from Promontory Point. Lucin was an important water stop for the train’s steam engines. Nowadays, it is said that a grain cellar remains, as does a small reservoir.

The town of Terrace, on the east side of the valley, still has remnants of a roundhouse and a switchyard, while Kelton was once a crucial Transcontinental Railroad stop.

Founded in April 1869, just a month before the golden spike ceremony, Kelton thrived thanks to the railroad, and was a spot where fine hotels, saloons and gambling halls sprang up. The town even boasted a post office and a telephone exchange.

The town lived and died by the rails and survived only as long as locomotives rolled past. It even survived, in 1934, a 6.6 magnitude earthquake, considered the strongest to ever hit Utah. While shaking homes, splitting fissures and creating chasms through the ground, the quake also took two lives. The town’s death knell came in the ’40s, when the Southern Pacific Railroad dismantled the line and handed the hardware over to aid the war effort. Today, few traces of the town remain, other than its cemetery (pictured above, left and right).

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The trip to Kelton from Salt Lake City is also mostly on decent paved roads—except for the final 10 miles or so, which is a fair but bumpy dirt and gravel road in good weather. It’s a beautiful drive, but damned desolate. The roads have all the delightful hallmarks one could hope for in a good country drive: lush rolling farmlands, crows perched on cattle gate posts, road signs chewed up by buckshot and surly-looking kids on 10 speeds waiting impatiently for you to pass so they can cross the road.

Little remains of the town but a stone square of foundation and a pioneer cemetery, fenced off and holding up a handful of wilted posts and cracked headstones.

If the wind is low, you might just get to enjoy that wonderful yet terrifying feeling bubbling through your blood that you’re just a flea in a great sandbox, standing over the final resting spot of your flea forebearers. Now a century later, those who have gone before are just sand and grit beneath your feet.

Directions from Salt Lake City to Kelton: Travel north on Interstate 15 and keep left to Interstate 84 toward Boise, take Exit Utah-30 for Park Valley/Elko and head left toward Park Valley for roughly 25 miles before taking a left at the sign for Kelton, follow this dirt road for seven miles to the old Kelton cemetery. CW

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Riding for the Cause Whether you’re riding for fun, fitness or charity, chances are you’re not alone. Why not try riding with the neighbor kids again? Casual riders will enjoy the weekly group rides offered by local bike shops, whereas more ambitious cyclists may prefer training groups like Schmos to Pros Cycling (Meetup. com/Schmo-To-Pro-Cycling) and Team Fast Lane (TeamFastLane. com). For particularly passionate peddlers, Salt Lake City offers several cause-focused biking groups, including the Huntsman Cancer Institute’s Bonneville Cycling Club, Cycle4aCure and Animal Liberation Racing, a group of endurance athletes dedicated to showcasing the health benefits of a vegan diet.

(BCCUtah.org, Cycling4ACure.org, AnimalLiberationRacing.com)

Go the Distance Satisfy your inner Boy Scout with a biking/camping combo trip led by the Salt Lake Randonneurs (SaltLakeRandos.org). This summer’s upcoming randonnees (French for “excursions”) range from 200-1,200 km, lasting up to four days. For a more competitive trek, try Planet

Peak Experiences Maximize your downhill time by taking advantage of Utah’s summer resort packages. For a premium, Solitude Mountain Resort, Park City Mountain Resort and Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort all allow guests to haul mountain bikes up their chairlifts. Stick around Sundance Mountain Resort after a biking date for a romantic Full Moon Lift Ride, $28 for two people. (SkiSolitude. com, $10; ParkCityMountain.com, $15; Snowbird.com, half-day $19).

Bikes & Beer Adult beverage enthusiasts can get in on the action by joining one of several pedal-powered pub crawls. Check out Cutthroat Racing (CutthroatRacing.com), a collaboration between Brewvies, Pie Hole and Uintah Brewpub, or CrankSLC’s (CrankSLC.com) weekly bar and taco tour, the Tuesday Night Slow Roll. Already have a drinking team? Book a night out on the Pedal Hopper (PedalHopper.com), a human-powered wagon that can shuttle as many as 16 people from bar to bar.

Race Ya! Revisit the schoolyard with Sundance Mountain Resort’s weekly bike races. Held alternately at Sundance and Soldier Hollow (SoldierHollow.com), these casual competitions welcome riders of all ages and experience levels.

Particularly ambitious amateurs can ride alongside the pros in the Tour of Utah’s Ultimate Challenge (TourOfUtah.com), a week-long

riding event, Aug. 3-9, that exposes cyclists to the world of professional racing. Cool off with a friendly game of bike polo in Liberty Park, hosted every Sunday by the Beehive Bike Polo Team.

Double Date … or Not! Put date night on wheels with a tandem rental from Bingham Cyclery (BinghamCyclery.com) or the SLC Bicycle Company (SLCBike.com)! The team efforts of pedaling, steering and braking make great bonding experiences.

If you’re looking for something a bit less pedestrian, local bike shops offer several additional variations on bicycles, including unicycles, electric road bikes and the Elliptigo, a mobile elliptical machine designed for those with joint pain or other mobility issues. Utah Home Fitness (UtahHomeFitness.com) offers half-, full- and two-day Elliptigo rentals.

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Ultra’s Hoodoo 500 (Hoodoo500. com), a 500-mile race through three Utah national parks, starting Aug. 28.

Racers can compete on a solo bike, tandem bike or relay team.

Sharing Your Ride GREENbike’s (GreenBikeSLC.com) ridership increased by 184 percent in 2014, making it the most successful bikeshare program in the country. With more than 150 bikes at 20 different stations, Salt Lake City’s newest transportation system continues to expand, making it an increasingly viable option for commuters or people who don’t own bikes. Pay as you go or purchase a one-year unlimited pass for $75.

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n the endless crusade to burn calories, it’s tempting to turn once-enjoyable activities into grueling challenges. Sunday mornings once whiled away on a beach cruiser are now spent sweating it out pedaling up a steep canyon road or on the stationary mount in the basement. The blood, sweat and tears can cloud our vision, making it difficult to see what we enjoyed about biking all those years ago.

Here are some ways you can keep the shiny side up (and the rubber side down!) this summer.

Pedicabs: Pedaling on your own power just isn’t your speed? No worries. Thanks to Salt Lake City’s emerging pedicab industry, you can still enjoy the benefits of zero-emissions wheeled transportation. Flag down a Salt City Cycle Cab (SaltCityCycleCab.com) operator for a pleasant, sustainable ride of up to 60 miles. CW

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What’s your favorite part of driving a pedicab?

Every day is different and has a lot of different challenges. A lot of people come to work and get really bored with whatever they’re doing. That monotony isn’t found here. Yes, the grind is the same, but the people and the experiences are always unique. You might have a chance to drive Ralph Becker around or get Michael Jordan in your cab.

Get off your ass, man! Biking changes the world in a way that we can measure with each pedal stroke. It’s our responsibility as a community to improve the quality of the lives of others, and if you’re not doing what you can by riding a bike—if you’re out there driving a gas guzzler—it’s time to start.” CW

The one that was like, $375 at the end of it? That was memorable.

The other memorable rides are the ones to unique places, like 1400 East or outside 2700 South, or things that are halfway through the valley—those are memorable. But I don’t know, it’s all so much. I’ve been doing this for 5 1/2 years. How am I supposed to just isolate one fare?

An attitude, a little bit. They can’t be taken advantage of. On top of that, somebody who is mechanically inclined—anybody who can bring their own wrench to work and not have me do everything for them is great.

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How do you deal with maintenance and repairs?

I am responsible for all my own maintenance. At first, I was sourcing certain things as simple as fixing wheels to other bike shops, but I realized they were just charging me way too much. And as soon as you get into the self-sufficient areas of biking mechanics, you eventually just incorporate that into everything—not just biking, but also welding and making your own metal and parts and batteries. It’s an endeavor.

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Where to Huck & Duck Roots Disc Golf Course in the Rose Park area is fresh on the scene, officially opening in November 2014. It has a ball-golf-course feel to it because, well, it used to be a ball golf course, but it’s becoming a go-to destination for frolf-ers. The grass is well kept and the water won’t be much of a factor—no need to bring your waders. 1250 N. Redwood Road, Salt Lake City (See “Get Back to Your Roots,” p. 62) Creekside Park has been the core frolf course since Utah’s scene came to existence. Scattered trees and moderate hills keep the scenic course interesting, though the unofficial Hole 21 offers a chance to practice under a pavilion before getting serious. It’s still a local favorite, so watch out for a crowd. 1664 E. Murray-Holladay Road (4800 South), Holladay

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ry saying “frolf” out loud and with a straight face. Or telling your bros to meet you for a round of “Putt-Putt.” Whatever you call ‘em, the games are a blast and ideal for playing with friends and family.

For the “go big or go home” folks, these games also can be highly competitive. Disc golf, or “frolf,” has its own competitions, discs, regulations and safety rules (because who wants to take a flying Frisbee to the head?). And for those who love their dimply balls and putters, playing a couple rounds at one of the area’s elaborately themed miniature-golf courses may prove surprisingly challenging.

So, go ahead and laugh at the notion of whirling discs and putting at windmills. It’s supposed to be fun. But spending your summer playing at the diverse and creatively imagined courses below may bring out the Olympian in you.

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A 9-iron isn’t always needed for a hole in one.

Ryan Sperry grips it and rips it at the Roots Disc Golf Course in Rose Park.

University of Utah’s frolf course is beginner-friendly with a green of only nine holes after being cut in half about a year ago. It comes with the usual pros and cons of a U of U facility: Lovely views of the city and mountains being the pros, but parking may be a problem. The Trax red line will take you right to it. Many note the course for its lack of foot traffic—in other words, fewer moving targets. 101 Wasatch Drive, Salt Lake City Valley Regional This Taylorsville park will have plenty of patrons engaged in things other than frolfing, but the variety of shots and solid length of the course have many local enthusiasts singing its praises. It might be a quieter alternative to nearby Creekside. 5084 S. 2700 West, Salt Lake City

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Brady Eldard launches a drive at Roots.

Get Back to Your Roots in Rose Park.

Solitude Mountain Resort Aptly named Solitude offers dual enjoyment: Play the course, hike down the mountain. Frolfers rave about this course due to its mountainous setting. The course starts at 9,000 feet and winds along the mountainside for 18 holes. There’s a lot of buzz in particular about the 1,200-foot Hole 18, which has a 400-foot vertical drop and takes quite the huck to conquer. Just keep a close eye on your disc so you don’t lose it. Frolfers can pay $10 for the lift or hike half a mile to hole 1 for free. Solitude Ski Resort, 12000 Big Cottonwood Canyon, SkiSolitude.com

well into the evening—the course closes at 10. 850 N. 2200 West, Layton, 801-546-1045, SwanLakesGolf.com, Cost: $4-$5, Open: March-November

Where to Putt Your Butt Off

Cherry Hill The website boasts that it’s one of the most challenging courses in the state. True or not, it supplies all the kitsch-y wonders of the classic mini-golf experience: Windmills, castles, waterfalls and all. At summer’s end, the course transforms to Scary Hill with all the spooky trimmings. 1325 S. Main, Kaysville, 801-451-5379, Cherry-Hill.com, Price: $6.50, Open: May-Sept. 12

Mulligans Golf & Games Adjacent to a popular driving range, these courses are known for their lack of the usual wear-and-tear sported by other family courses. No themes, no neon lights—just simple, engaging mini-golf. Some holes are surprisingly challenging for real enthusiasts.

692 W. 10600 South, South Jordan, 801-254-3377, Mulligans-South.com, Cost: $5-$7, Open: April-October

Eagle Lake The course carries a theme called The Mining Adventure, complete with waterfalls, streams and mountains—yes, mountains, the highest peak reaching 12 feet in altitude. It’s designed to optimize family fun and improve the most serious golfer’s short game. Eagle Lake Golf Courses, 756 West Old Mill Lane, Kaysville, 801-825-3467, EagleLake-Golf.com, Cost: $5$6, Open: Year round, weather permitting

Rose Park is a nice, quiet neighborhood and the Roots Disc Golf Course (1200 N. Redwood Road) is a nice, quiet course that’s great for families thanks to the hardcore disc golfers who endeavor to keep it that way. The golfers worked to get a grant from the city to restore the course—which was Utah’s first, until it was converted to ball golf in 1986—to its past glory.

Now the lush, green course is bustling on weekdays and weekends, a favorite of avid disc-ers and a popular draw for families keen to play this fun, free-to-play, fast-growing sport.

—Randy Harward comments@cityweekly.net

Boondocks Fun Center—Draper & Kaysville Think you have thick skin? See if you can handle the tiki head at the end of the course that heckles you for missing. A 30-foot volcano can also “erupt” at any time, so the atmosphere is pretty intense for mini golf.

These sister facilities offers two courses apiece for your putt-putt pleasure. 75 East Southfork Drive, Draper, 801-838-9800; 525 S.Deseret Drive, Kaysville, 801-6606800; Boondocks.com, Cost: $7, Open: May-August Swan Lakes Golf Course This outdoor course boasts fancier landscaping than most of its kind around the state, and the good lighting allows for games to be played

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ew Utahns ever reached adulthood without having trounced around a fairground, munched on cotton candy and immersed themselves in local arts, music, ethnic traditions and agriculture. If it’s been a while since you’ve “festivaled,” this could be your summer to visit a new town and drink up the good times.

JUNE 5-7 Days of Yore Festival St. Thomas More Catholic Church 3015 E. Creek Road STMUtah.org/doy JUNE 6-13 Art City Days Civic Center Park 50 S. Main, Springville Springville.org/Art-City-Days JUNE 6-OCT. 31 Provo Farmers Market Saturdays 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Pioneer Park 500 W. Center St., Provo ProvoFarmersMarket.org JUNE 7-SEPT. 20 Park Silly Sunday Market Sundays 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Historic Main Street, Park City ParkSillySundayMarket.com JUNE 8-13 Saratoga Splash Days Neptune Park 452 W. 400 North, Saratoga Springs SaratogaSpringsCity.com/ CivicEvents

JUNE 13- OCT. 31 Downtown Farmers Market Saturdays 8 a.m.-2 p.m.

Pioneer Park 300 South & 300 West SLCFarmersMarket.org JUNE 12-13 Ogden Arts Festival Noon-8 p.m.

Ogden Municipal Gardens and Ampitheater 343 E. 25th St. OgdenArtsFestival.com Utah Scottish Festival & Highland Games Thanksgiving Point 3033 N. Thanksgiving Way Lehi UtahScots.org JUNE 13 Utah Asian Festival 10 a.m.-7 p.m.

South Town Expo Center 9575 S. State, Sandy UtahAsianFestival.com Heritage Arts Festival 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Bill of Rights Plaza 20 N. Main, Brigham City BrighamCity.Utah.gov/HeritageArts-Festival.htm Kaysville Arts & Music Festival 11 a.m.-10 p.m.

Heritage Park 250 N. Fairfield Road, Kaysville KaysvilleCommunityEvents.com

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JUNE 4-7 Utah Pride Festival Washington & Library squares UtahPrideFestival.org

Utah Scottish Festival & Highland Games JUNE 14-21 Pleasant Grove Strawberry Days Various locations, Pleasant Grove StrawberryDays.org JUNE 14-SEPT. 20 Yoga Rocks the Park Liberty Park 900 S. 700 East YogaRocksThePark.com/saltlake-city-utah.html JUNE 14, JULY 12, AUG. 9, SEPT. 13, OCT. 11 Urban Flea Market 600 S. Main 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

FleaMarketSLC.com JUNE 16-22 South Ogden Days Various locations, South Ogden SouthOgdenDays.com

JUNE 18-20 Summerfest Arts Faire 50 N. Main, Logan LoganSummerfest.com JUNE 18-21 WestFest Centennial Park 5415 W. 3100 South, West Valley City WestFest.org JUNE 19-20 Chalk Art Festival The Gateway 18 N. Rio Grande St. ChalkArtFestival.org JUNE 19-21 Tooele Arts Festival Tooele City Park 200 W. Vine St., Tooele TooeleArtsFestival.org

Salt Lake City Gem Faire South Town Exposition Center 9575 S. State, Sandy Eyes to the Sky Balloon Festival Salina EyesToTheSkyBalloon.com JUNE 25-28 Utah Arts Festival Library Square 210 E. 400 South UAF.org JUNE 26-28 Iceland Days Spanish Fork City Park 49 S. Main, Spanish Fork Facebook.com/ IcelandicAssociationofUtah

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JULY 1-5 North Ogden Cherry Days North Ogden Park 2705 N. 550 East, Ogden NorthOgdenCherryDays.com

4th of July Celebration Fisher Park 920 S. 1000 East, Clearfield JULY 2-5 Northern Ute 4th of July Celebration Pow-Wow Grounds Fort Duschene UteTribe.com

JULY 10-11 Payson Scottish Festival Payson Memorial Park 250 S. Main, Payson PaysonScottishFestival.org

JULY 25-AUG. 1 Highland Fling Days Highland HighlandCity.org

July Jamboree Cruise-In Historic Downtown Cedar City JulyJamboree.com

JULY 28-AUG. 1 Springville World Folkfest Spring Acres Park 700 S. 1300 East, Springville WorldFolkFest.com

JULY 18 Urban Arts Festival 11 a.m.-10 p.m.

The Gateway 18 N. Rio Grande St. UrbanArtsFest.org

JULY 30-AUG 1 Tooele County Fair Deseret Peak Complex 2930 W. Highway 112, Tooele TooeleFair.com

JULY 18-24 Days of ‘47 International Culture Fest Various locations Daysof47.com

JULY 31-AUG. 2 Kimball Arts Festival Historic Main Street, Park City ParkCityKimballArtsFestival.org

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JULY 8-11 Utah Midsummer Renaissance Faire Main Street Park 200 N. Main, Cedar City UMRF.net

JULY 23-24 Butlerville Days Butler Park 2407 E. Bengal Blvd., Cottonwood Heights CottonwoodHeights.Utah. gov/Home.ButlervilleDays

Entertainers · Tons of Visual Artists Children’s Art Yard · Cuisine Vendors Plein Air Art Contest

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JULY 2-4 Provo Freedom Days Various locations in Provo FreedomFestival.org

July 9 Eat Drink SLC 6-9 p.m.

Tracy Aviary 589 E. 1300 South EatDrinkSLC.com

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AUG. 1-8 Summit County Fair Fair Park 202 Park Road, Coalville SummitCountyFair.org AUG. 5-8 Weber County Fair Golden Spike Event Center 1000 N. 1200 West, Ogden WeberCountyFair.org AUG. 6-9 Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival 2100 South Highland Drive GreatSaltLakeFringe.org

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AUG. 7-8 Craft Lake City DIY Festival Gallivan Center 239 S. Main CraftLakeCity.com AUG. 11-15 Bluffdale Old West Days Various locations, Bluffdale BluffdaleOldWestDays.com AUG. 10-12 Utah County Fair Spanish Fork Fairgrounds 475 S. Main, Spanish Fork UtahCountyFair.org AUG. 14-15 Helper Arts & Musical Festival Main Street, Helper HelperArtsFest.com Aug. 15 Utah Beer Festival Library Square CityWeekly.net

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AUG. 1 Utah Ukulele Festival 10 a.m.-9 p.m.

Willow Park 419 W. 700 South, Logan UtahUkeFest.com

AUG. 15-OCT. 11 Snowbird Oktoberfest Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort, Little Cottonwood Canyon Saturdays Snowbird.com/Events/ Oktoberfest AUG. 21-22 Great Basin Fiber Arts Fair Salt Lake County Equestrian

Park and Events Center 2100 W. 11400 South, South Jordan GreatBasinFiberArtsFair.org

AUG. 27-29 Western Legends Roundup Main Street, Kanab WesternLegendsRoundup. com

Snowbird Oktoberfest

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SEPT. 4-5 Midway Swiss Days Town Square, Midway MidwaySwissDays.com

SEPT. 7 Wellsville Founders Day 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

100 E. 100 South, Wellsville Facebook.com/WellsvilleFoundersDay

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SEPT. 9-12 Brigham City Peach Days Various locations, Brigham City BCAreaChamber.com/Pages/Peach-DaysSchedule SEPT. 11-13 Salt Lake City Greek Festival 279 S. 300 West SaltLakeGreekFestival.com

1624 South 1100 East Open from 7:30am to 2:30pm daily 7 days a week

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Some of the scheduled entertainment includes: ∙ Ryan Chrys & The Rough Cuts

∙ Knights of Mayhem

∙ The Hypno Hick

∙ Monster Truck Racing League

∙ A Roaming Dinosaur

∙ Utah Heavy Athletics

∙ SL County’s Got Talent Show

∙ 50/50 BMX Stunt Show

∙ H20 Fishing Exhibits

∙ Phantom Flyers Dunk Team

∙ Noah’s Ark Petting Zoo and much much more!!

Please continue to check saltlakecountyfair.com for updates on events/activities as we will continue to add them right up to the date of the Fair!

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∙ Joe Nichols/David Fanning in concert

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Element 11: A celebration of radical self-expression

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y day, Jeff Reese is lead systems developer for City Weekly’s sister companies, Avenews Software and Kostizi. But outside of the office, he is Ranger Thermyte, chairman of the Element 11, Utah’s regional Burning Man festival, scheduled this year July 9-12 at Stargazer Ranch in Box Elder County. The event attracts determined revelers of all stripes each year— but how can you tell if you belong there? Do you have to be an artistic exhibitionist? Reese says no, because, “everyone is a Burner! One of our most important principles is ‘radical inclusion.’ We are all about creative expression, having fun—and doing it responsibly. If you like learning new things and stretching your creative muscles, you will fit right in.” To learn more about the festival, visit Element11. org, and check out what Reese had to say in the interview that follows:

Jeff Reese

How did Element 11 come about?

The first Utah Regional Burn was in 1999 and was held at the Sun Tunnels. At first, it was run and coordinated by passionate community members who wanted to bring a piece of Burning Man home with them. Three years ago, we started a nonprofit 501(c)(3) and now have a working board of directors moving things forward.

Why is there a regional Burning Man when Utahns are so close to the real one in Nevada?

There are regional Burning Man events all over the country and world. Burning Man is much more than just a festival, it is a cultural movement. Part of the mission of Burning Man is to fund artists on new projects, and that’s what we do locally, too.

How is Element 11 unique or different from Burning Man? It is the brainchild of our local community. We have the same overall feel, it’s just Utah flavored.

Where is Element 11 held, and how many usually attend?

Since 2003, the festival was held at Bonneville Seabase. This year, in 2015, we’re moving to a new venue called Stargazer Ranch in Box Elder County. We cap our attendance at 1,200 and have sold out the last few years.

What should newcomers expect to experience and/or be prepared for?

Expect to be blown away by the creativity of our participants. There are theme camps, art cars, performances, music, dancing, and we burn structures that our community builds for the festival. You will also see people wearing some of the craziest and amazing clothing you have ever seen. Radical Self Expression is one of our principles.

What is new this year?

There is always new art. Every year, Element 11 grants money to community artists so that they can create new and amazing things for the festival. You never know what people are going to come up with.

In 2014, Element 11 experienced its first tragedy when a participant died at the festival. Have you changed the way you operate the festival?

With tragedy comes the opportunity for growth. We are closer than ever as a community, and we have learned a lot. We are committed to doing everything we can to make our festival as safe as possible. One thing we have done is start a monthly initiative called Food for Thought, a series of lectures about various issues, including our first one: “Dealing With Trauma.” Preventing people from being in the state of mind to harm themselves is key to avoiding tragedy. We are also creating a new mental-health branch of volunteers for 2015’s festival to help when people are having a hard time.

As an organizer, you have to be aware of everything going on, all the time. Is it hard to enjoy the festival?

So why are you a Burner?

Because it is a culture of acceptance and creativity. We don’t have fights at our events or gatherings. Burners clean up after themselves, and our events are always spotless afterward—even the big ones (seriously!). The growth and learning that comes from being a part of the community is amazing. We have a very large network of other regional events, and each year, Burning Man produces a Global Leadership Conference in San Francisco. Getting to know other leaders around the world and to experience their creativity is inspiring.

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I am an organizer because I love it. I don’t experience the festival in the same way that I used to, but I see it as an evolution of my good time. I derive a great deal of pleasure from serving my community and a huge reward in seeing the amazing things they create.

When you work closely with people on projects like Element 11, you get to know them better than you would in any other casual hang-out environment, and I value that greatly.

How much does it cost to attend?

Tickets are $90 [Editor’s note: As of press time, only about 175 tickets were available to purchase at Element11.org]. If you are interested in volunteering, you can talk to one of our volunteer coordinators, and they will fill you in. CW

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Curio shops, off-the-grid eateries and wayward haunts in which to while away a lazy summer day.

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emember summer vacations? Everyone signed your yearbook saying “stay cool” and “have a fun summer”—and that’s exactly what you did. You attached Iron Maiden buttons to bottle rockets and sent them on a parabolic trajectory toward the neighbor’s parched back lawn. You threw Chinese stars into the side of the landlord’s shed. You slept outside in order to swathe That Girl’s house in a two-ply expression of your love, signed, “Very truly yours, Prince Charmin’.”

Oh, and then there was the time you and your buddies made fake IDs out of baseball cards and told the Sugar House liquor-store security officer that, yes, you are frickin’ Fernando Valenzuela, and kindly accept this jar of coins in exchange for that bottle of mezcal. ’Scuse me. I’m getting misty.

Summer is such a magical time for a youngster, but who says the adventure has to end with graduation, or employment, marriage, parenthood and other such shackles? Even if you have to take it down a notch in order to demonstrate a modicum of personal growth, you can still have a good time. So reclaim your childhood this summer, starting with these suggestions, which are designed to get you out exploring new neighborhoods.

(And maybe take the kids along—good parenting starts with being a good example.)

DOWNTOWN Screw the ice-cream man—gimme a cookie!

Downtown Salt Lake City, being, you know, downtown doesn’t seem like the kinda neighborhood that could benefit from press. But suppose you don’t get down there very often? There are a few places you should know about. One of ‘em is RubySnap (770 S. 300 West, 801-834-6111, RubySnap.com) a cute little bakery with riot-grrl spunk—so much so, that a portrait of Rosie the Riveter hangs behind the counter. What’s more, each cookie is given a female name, and they work their way into your heart via your tummy. So here’s your ostensibly counterintuitive summer tip: Thumb your nose at the ice-cream man this summer. Head into a tiny little building where the ovens are going all day

Customer Michael Allen checks out the gory goodies at Art on You Studios. long. Fork over 3 bucks for a cookie. Reflect briefly on how, to paraphrase Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction, this better be one effin’ good cookie. Then discover that, yes, yes, it is.

MAGNA Monsters, tattoos, pizza, beer and sausage: Magna has it all.

What’s to do in Magna? Well, until “Super” Dell Schanze ruined it for everybody, you used to could kick an owl while piloting yer paraglider. Verily, this sleepy little mining town at the foot of the Oquirrhs has occasionally been the butt of jokes about its lack of activity. Magna, however, is full of surprises. A big one is the combo tattoo studio/horror memorabilia shop, Art On You Studios (8971 W. 2700 South, 801-981-8180, ArtOnYou.com). Cool enough for downtown Salt Lake City or Sugar House, the combo vintage horror-movie theater/Old West tattoo shop overflows with smalltown friendliness. Owner Storm loves to chat with fellow horror fans while pointing out such cinematic treasures as a film canister that once held a test reel for The Exorcist. There’s also fresh, hot popcorn. His tattoo work, by the way, is top-notch and photo-realistic.

Next door, there’s a decent pizza shop secreted inside The Filling Station (8987 W. 2700 South), a good-size bar with a similar aesthetic, a killer jukebox and Nonna’s Pizzeria in back. Two blocks down the road, you can get your meat on at

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If you’re free on July 18, Art on You Studios gets together with other Magna businesses and throws one hell of a block party: Halloween in July. For more information, visit HalloweenInSummerFestival.com.

WEST VALLEY CITY Slashing prices at the swap meets.

Shopping, particularly sidewalk sales and swap meets, are big during summer months. The biggest swap meet in town is at the Redwood Drive-In (3688 S. Redwood Road, 801-973-7088, RedwoodDriveIn.com).

On Saturdays and Sundays, 7 a.m.-4 p.m., the theater’s parking spaces are packed with merchants offering great deals on new and used goods (cars start filing in for outdoor double features later in the evenings). So if you’re lookin’ for Mexican candy, furry seat covers, ladies’ unmentionables, yard-sale/pawn-shop sundries, or a sweet butterfly knife, this is the place to go.

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The Atomic Arcade (3939 S. Highland Drive, 801-634-1130) provides not only a place to cool off, but also a time-warp back to your childhood. Nice and dark, like an arcade should be, The Atomic Arcade offers vintage games at vintage prices. That means a pocketful of quarters gets you hours of fun on classic games like Galaga, Marble Madness, NBA Jam, Pengo, Tron, Off Road, Q*bert and various Pac-Mans. Once done, you can head across the street to A Bar Named Sue (3928 S. Highland Drive, 801-274-5578, ABarNamedSue.net) for some beer and grub, then carefully wobble back to the arcade, open from 3 p.m. until 1 a.m., for more gaming. CW

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From stadium concerts to intimate clubs, there’s a band showing up to rock your world.

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utdoor life is what Utah is all about, so it’s only natural that we live for summer’s outdoor music festivals and concert series. There are almost too many choices (not a bad problem to have), from downtown’s Twilight Concert Series to Red Butte Garden’s stellar lineup.

Bands range from eclectic world music and blues to hard rock and indie—every Salt Laker will have something they can jam out to. And sure, the promise of air conditioning (and lack of mosquitoes) may lure you indoors to a club venue for a show. So get out there, get in there, and bust a move. (Note: Concert dates are subject to change. Check CityWeekly.net for updates)

June 4 Joe McQueen Quartet The Garage on Beck Dylan Roe The Hog Wallow Pub Holiday Mountain, Diatom Kilby Court

Mojave Nomads, The Raven & the Writing Desk, Lemon & Le Mule Stereo Room Plastic Plates, Devareaux, Typefunk Urban Lounge

June 6

Built to Spill, Lo-Fang, Sego Ogden Twilight Series

Gleewood The Hog Wallow Pub

Helio Sequence, Lost Lander Urban Lounge

June 7

Whitey Morgan & the ‘78s State Room

June 5 Bullets & Belles The Garage on Beck Bad Feather The Hog Wallow Pub Vagablonde, Barbaloot Suitz The Royal

Shatterproof Loading Dock Celtic Woman Maverik Center The Doobie Brothers Sandy Amphitheater Preservation Hall Jazz Band The State Room The Life and Times, Mystic Braves, Magic Mint Urban Lounge

The Raven & the Writing Desk, Joel Pack & the Pops Urban Lounge

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June 8

Cosmic Gate The Depot

Tori Kelly The Depot Emily Kinney Kilby Court Fighting the Phoenix, Alumni, Hollow I Am, Oculus Loading Dock

Allen Michael Quartet The Garage on Beck Satisfi The Hog Wallow Pub Fetis, John de Alma, Ben Roa Kilby Court

After putting her tour on hold for cancer treatments, Sharon Jones, from Brooklyn, is back on track with the Dap Kings and their most recent release, Give the People What They Want. The band’s fifth studio record, the soul revivalist album is heavy with groovy funk and upbeat, dance-crazed beats. It’s authentically short, clocking in at just over 30 minutes.

Her dancing is as dexterous as her vocal performance; the diva can Twist, Jerk and Pony. They are performing in a lineup with Doyle Bramhall II opening and blues/rock group Tedeschi Trucks Band (from Florida) headlining. Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, June 12, 6 p.m., $55$70, RedButteGarden.org

June 13

June 15

Kill Paris The Depot

Agalloch, Helen Money Urban Lounge

The Peculiar Patriots, Hectic Hobo The Garage on Beck

Surfer Blood, White Reaper Bar Deluxe

The Steel Belts The Hog Wallow Pub

Cooder-White-Skaggs, Robert Earl Keen Red Butte Gardens

Joshua James, Sego, Quiet House Provo Rooftop Concert Series

World Party, Gabriel Kelly Urban Lounge

Ryan Shupe & the RubberBand Sandy Amphitheater

JP Harris & Tough Choices The Garage on Beck

Unwritten Law, Ten Foot Pole Urban Lounge

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The Doobie Brothers Kenley Amphitheater

June 12

Dubwise, Von D, 2be, illoom Urban Lounge

Dennis is Dead, Set Your Anchor Loading Dock

June 6 The Truman Brothers Kenley Amphitheater

Jared Ray Gilmore, Erasole James, Ske22um Urban Lounge

Broken Water, NSPS, days Kilby Court

Café R&B, The Lloyd Jones Struggle, The Soulistics Utah Cultural Celebration Center

June 17

The Story So Far The Complex

Ufomammut, Usnea Area 51

Brit Floyd Maverik Center

June 14

John Davis The Hog Wallow Pub

Dulce Sky The Royal

June 10

Perish Lane, Never Before, Veio The Royal

Cirque, Life+, Panama Sky

June 9

Blackberry Bushes The Hog Wallow Pub De Lux Kilby Court

Blonde Redhead, Owen Pallett, The Raven & The Writing Desk Ogden Twilight Series

Tedeschi Trucks Band, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Doyle Bramhall II

Calamity Cubes The Garage on Beck Stonefed The Hog Wallow Pub

Dark Seas, Breakers, Albino Father Urban Lounge

CVPITVLS, Armpigs, Zombiecock Kilby Court

Morgan Snow The Garage on Beck Sage Francis, Wheelchair Sports Camp, Burnell Washburn Urban Lounge

June 16

Coyote Vision Group Urban Lounge

Stranger Band Deer Valley

American West Symphony Sandy Amphitheater Mewithoutyou, Foxing Urban Lounge

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SUMMER Gordon Lightfoot June 24

June 18 CrucialFest Area 51, Urban Lounge

Sonic Prophecy, Shadowseer, Principium, Nopium Loading Dock

Sammy J The Complex

June 20

Harry Lee & Back Alley Blues Band Gallivan Plaza Mark Chaney and the Garage All Stars The Garage on Beck Main Street Regulators The Hog Wallow Pub Dee-Dee Darby-Duffin Kenley Amphitheater Hollywood Ending Kilby Court Other Lives, Hamilton Leithauser, The Moth & The Flame Ogden Twilight Series Kottonmouth Kings The Royal Diamond Rio Sandy Amphitheater Delta Spirit Urban Lounge

June 19 CrucialFest Area 51, Urban Lounge Ingrid Michaelson The Complex Shabazz Palaces, Better Taste Bureau The Complex Triggers & Slips The Garage on Beck

CrucialFest Area 51, Urban Lounge Screen Door Porch, ThePatti Fiasco The Garage on Beck Bonanza Town The Hog Wallow Pub Nora Dates, Aspen Grove Kilby Court The Soulistics O.P. Rockwell

June 24 Theory of A The Complex Changing Lanes Experience Deer Valley Michelle Moonshine The Hog Wallow Pub The Mainstream, Mojave Nomads, Black Tie Event Kilby Court Gordon Lightfoot Sandy Amphitheater Grand Banks, Westward, Your Meteor, Electric Cathedral Urban Lounge

Sinbad Sandy Amphitheater

June 25

Cure for the Common Snowbird

Corey Christiansen Organ Trio Gallivan Plaza

Willie Nelson, Alison Krauss Usana Amphitheatre

Morgan Snow The Hog Wallow Pub

June 21

Claire Elise Kilby Court

CrucialRest TBA Jordan Young The Garage on Beck

June 22 Pins, Secret Ablities Kilby Court Maudlin, Strangers, Lany, Oh, Be Clever Loading Dock

June 23 Death Grips The Complex

Rage Against the Supremes The Hog Wallow Pub

The Stone Foxes, Band on the Moon Loading Dock

San Cisco, The Prettiots Kilby Court

Lenka, Nick Howard Urban Lounge

Purity Ring, Slow Magic, The Brocks Ogden Twilight Series Rob Thomas, Plain White Ts Red Butte Gardens Jack Beats Sky Tavaputs, Of Course Of Course, Stephen Lee Pratt Urban Lounge Karen Hakobyan, Micky & the Motorcars, Utah Arts Festival

June 26 Granger Smith, Earl Dibbles Jr. The Complex

The June Brothers, Michelle Moonshine The Garage on Beck

Radio Moscow, Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas Urban Lounge

Tony Holiday & The Velvetones The Hog Wallow Pub

Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers, Frank Vignola & Vinny Raniolo Utah Arts Festival

Low Roar Kilby Court

June 27

Jon Morrow, The Wild Coyotes, John Gorka, Royal Southern Brotherhood Utah Arts Festival

Tyler, The Creator The Complex

June 27

I the Mighty, Hail the Sun, Too Close to Touch Loading Dock Sneaky Pete & The Secret Weapons O.P. Rockwell

Taylor Caniff The Complex Phoenix Rising The Hog Wallow Pub Paul Revere’s Raiders featuring Mitch Ryder Kenley Amphitheater

Orgone The State Room

Jelly Bread Snowbird Flash & Flare, Mr. Vandal, Gravy.Tron Urban Lounge

Trails and Ways, Waterstrider, RKDN Kilby Court

June 28 Mark Farina The Garage on Beck Rachel Lee Priday, Vaudeville Etiquette, The Lloyd Jones Struggle Utah Arts Festival

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June 30 Toad the Wet Sprocket, Smash Mouth, Tonic Deer Valley

Blair Crimmins Snowbird

July 5

Utah Symphony, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Deer Valley

Bobaflex, Penrose The Royal

Kristeen Young, FEA, Mermaid Baby Kilby Court

Electric Cathedral, Charles Ellsworth Kilby Court

Scott H Biram Urban Lounge

Tanlines, Mas Ysa Urban Lounge

Taylor Dayne Sandy Amphitheater

July 1

Nickelback Usana Amphitheatre

L’Anarchiste, Haarlem, Big Wild Wings Urban Lounge

Robyn Cage Deer Valley Rose Pawn Shop The Garage on Beck Kayo Dot, Dust Moths Kilby Court Myriad Dance Company The State Room Breakers, Quiet Oaks, Strange Family Urban Lounge

July 2 Joe McQueen The Garage on Beck The Family Crest Kilby Court Ancient River, Red Telephone, Lemon & Le Mule Urban Lounge

The Mother Hips, The Suffers, Johnny Utahs Snowbasin

July 6 Widowspeak Urban Lounge

July 7 Head North, Light Years, Casey Bolles Loading Dock

July 8 The Chickens Deer Valley Kaz Mirblouk, Red Telephone Kilby Court International Folk Festival Sandy Amphitheater

Night Demon Bar X

Electric Cathedral, Charles Ellsworth, Grand Banks Urban Lounge

July 3

July 9

Funky Meters, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Lucia Micarelli Deer Valley Rosie & The Ramblers The Garage on Beck Arabrot Kilby Court

July 4 Utah Symphony Deer Valley

Brian Wilson, Rodriguez Red Butte Gardens Toe, StarRoe Urban Lounge Zac Brown Band Usana Amphitheatre

July 10 Third Eye Blind, Dashboard Confessional The Complex

July 11 Justin Martin The Depot Utah Symphony, Smokey Robinson Deer Valley Erica Hansen Kenley Amphitheater Arrival: The Music of ABBA Sandy Amphitheater Young Dubliners Snowbird Blitzen Trapper The State Room Rocky Votolato & Dave Hause, Chris Farren Urban Lounge

July 13 Ceremony, Tony Molina, Creative Adult Kilby Court Rush Maverik Center

July 14 Indigo Girls Kenley Amphitheater Letlive., Charlatan, Visitors Loading Dock Hank Williams, Jr., Luke Bell Red Butte Gardens

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SUMMER Lissie, Tyler Lyle Urban Lounge

July 15 Slickrock Gypsies Deer Valley Sonreal Kilby Court COURTESY PHOTO

July 16 Warren Haynes, Gov’t Mule Deer Valley Pacific Groove Gallivan Plaza Mark Robinette’s Amp’d Up Band featuring Collin Raye Kenley Amphitheater

Toby Keith Recording and touring relentlessly since the ‘90s, country singer Toby Keith (originally from Oklahoma, but now living in Nashville) is presenting his 18th studio album, 35 MPH Town at the Usana Amphitheatre. The singer’s foundation, the Toby Keith Foundation, is also using the tour, called Good Times & Pick Up Lines, to raise money for cancer patients. The show kicks off with Chris Janson and Ned Ledoux. Usana Amphitheatre, 5125 S. 6400 West, July 25, 7 p.m., $20-$59.75, Usana-Amp.com

Death Cab for Cutie, Tune-yards Twilight Concert Series The Appleseed Cast, Dads, The Coaster Urban Lounge Darius Rucker Usana Amphitheatre

July 16 Heartless Breakers, Larusso, Sights Urban Lounge

July 17 Utah Symphony Deer Valley Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers Kenley Amphitheater Through the Gates, Aether, The Anchor, Like Wildfire Loading Dock The Adarna, Never Before, Moneypenny Kilby Court Salt Lake City Jazz Orchestra Sandy Amphitheater

Alive Like Me, Hour 24, Racing On the Sun Loading Dock One Voice Children’s Choir Sandy Amphitheater Earphunk Snowbird Van Halen Usana Amphitheatre

July 19 Mavis Staples, Patty Griffin, Amy Helm & the Handsome Strangers Red Butte Gardens

July 21 Say Anything, Modern Baseball, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Hard Girls The Complex The Hunts Kilby Court Steve Miller Band Red Butte Gardens

July 22 Tracorum Deer Valley

July 20

Jonny Slaughter, The Bipolar Express, Homo Leviticus Urban Lounge

July 18

Alice In Chains The Depot

July 23

Morrissey, Amanda Palmer The Depot

Kip Moore EnergySolutions Arena

The Adolescents & the Weirdos Urban Lounge

Utah Symphony Deer Valley Cayucas Kilby Court

Train Usana Amphitheatre

Eleni Mandell Kilby Court

Good Old War Kilby Court Ces Cru, Joey Cool, Self Expression Music Loading Dock

Easton Corbin, Parmalee Deer Valley Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Father John Misty Twilight Concert Series Slim Cessna’s Auto Club Urban Lounge

July 24 Turnpike The Complex Utah Symphony Deer Valley

July 25 Utah Symphony, Frank Sinatra, Jr. Deer Valley Whiskey Gentry Snowbird Timpanogos Music Festival Mt. Timpanogos Park Toby Beard The State Room

Contortionist The Complex

Lady Antebellum Usana Amphitheatre

Sugar Ray, Better Than Ezra, Uncle Kracker, Eve 6 Red Butte Gardens

Unknown Mortal Orchestra Urban Lounge

Andrea Gibson, Chris Pureka Urban Lounge

Esperanza Spalding, Perla Batalla, Anna Wilson Deer Valley

July 28

Evenings in Brazil Gallivan Plaza

Charli XCX, Bleachers, Borns The Complex Imagine Dragons EnergySolutions Arena Chappo, Yukon Blond Kilby Court

July 30

Prhyme, Adrian Young, Bishop Nehru, J Godina Twilight Concert Series Fall Out Boy, Wiz Khalifa Usana Amphitheatre

July 31

Torche, Melt Banana, Hot Nerds Urban Lounge

Lower Dens, Young Ejecta Urban Lounge

Utah Symphony Deer Valley

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July 29

Max Pain & the Groovies, Breakers, Heavy Does Urban Lounge

Lyle Lovett & his Large Band Red Butte Gardens

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August 1 Utah Symphony, Ozomatli Deer Valley Imagine Kenley Amphitheater

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SUMMER Kaskade, Flux Pavilion Kaskade, the stage name of Chicago DJ Ryan Raddon, once played an epic—a 12-hour set of electronic dance music at the Marquee nightclub in Las Vegas.

That was three years ago. Since then, Kaskade has churned out more material, including a recent single, “Never Sleep Alone,” and although the entire EDM festival (entitled Das Energi 2015) is slated to last more than ten hours, expect a set not much longer than two hours (which is still lengthy). In addition to the musical trance induced by Kaskade, the visuals he brings along are mesmerizing and often more involved than a general lightshow (he has used animated pilots and giant robots, cityscapes, animals and trees). Flux Pavilion is also on the bill, with the rest of the lineup to be announced shortly. The Great Saltair, 12408 W. Saltair Dr., Aug. 15, 4 p.m., $40-$100

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Grace Potter & the Nocturnals Deer Valley Alabama Shakes, Chicano Batman Red Butte Gardens

August 5 Rob Bell The Complex Chet Faker The Depot The Kings of 88 Deer Valley Sam Smith Maverik Center

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Walk the Moon The Complex

Kansas Kenley Amphitheater

Utah Symphony, Kristin Chenoweth Deer Valley

Michael Franti & Spearhead Red Butte Gardens

The Suffers Snowbird

The Kills, Metz, Fictionist Twilight Concert Series

Jackie Greene Band The State Room

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But summer has one huge problem—it tends to fill up with too much fun stuff. And when that occurs, it can breed a secondary problem: doing too much fun stuff. A glut of fun can be just as terrible as doing no fun stuff. Everyone knows what it feels like to teeter on the brink of fun overload. It is seen on the faces of mothers and fathers who drag their children to swimming lessons, baseball games, birthday parties and fireworks displays—all in the same day.

It is an ailment that young adults encounter when torn between going to this party or that party and then to a bar or a concert and then to yet another party. And for the child wailing in the backseat of a searing hot car on the way home from the carnival, too much fun can be identified by the number and color of ice-cream stains on a face.

After too many summers of doing too much fun stuff, I decided two years ago that I would take one day of summer—the Fourth of July—and do nothing.

The first year went really well. My wife and daughter were out of town, so I didn’t have to worry myself with other people’s fun stuff. I contacted a friend, and we planned a small barbecue, during which we would do nothing more than cook meat, drink beer and watch the sun travel across the weary blue sky.

In order to honor the day of nothingness, we each did our shopping a day early. My pal bought a tri-tip—my favorite style of cow to heat up and eat—and I brought 5 gallons of beer. The usual side dishes, like chips and salsa, were consumed.

The sun marched across the sky and beat down on my reddening arms. I stared it down, sure of myself, cocky in my approach to living this day. I watched my pal’s dog, Banjo, bark and jump at birds. I marveled at my friend’s mighty garden with its shining bright-green leaves, the vines already heavy with the year’s crops.

As we drank our beers and ate our food, we laughed about our wisdom in choosing to do nothing. I knew that beyond this fenced-in patch of yard I sat in, hordes of people in Salt Lake City were running in road races, standing in food lines, sitting in traffic and watching parades. “Not me—

never again,” I thought, as I watched the sun dip westward.

As the evening cooled, the boom of fireworks filled the air. From my perch in the back yard, I could not see the spectacle, but the sounds were vivid and jarring.

For several more hours, we sat. Friends, thwarted in their attempts to convince us to visit them, visited us. There was talk of patronizing a bar, but we stayed true to our day and remained stuck in our seats.

Though my skin was substantially sunburned, I resolved to repeat this tradition the following year. My wife and daughter were on board. As if preparing to observe the Sabbath, we made our preparations and fortifications the day before. I invited all of my co-workers and friends over to experience this event, urging them to remain in their seats, or very near their seats, until the day expired.

Many people came, and without taking a poll, many seemed to enjoy the lazy ambiance of sitting quite still in one place for several hours.

As this summer approaches, the usual long list of fun stuff is once again piling high. It will take a surprising amount of effort each day to shield myself from taking on too much fun. On the Fourth of July, though, when everyone else is red-lining, I’ll be stuck in some chair with a beverage, paying homage to simplicity. CW

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I love this movie so much, with only one caveat: Comedies for grownups do not need poop jokes (nor does comedy for kids, for that matter). Ditto the other few bits of pure gross-out humor, which are totally unnecessary and totally unfunny. They don’t overwhelm the film, nor do they negate the rest of the genuinely clever humor, but they do hint that Feig doesn’t trust himself that his smart, sympathetic, witty approach to the particular battles professional women fight—one that is also mostly sympathetic to men learning to deal with women as equals—is enough. It totally is, dude. Don’t let Hollywood gaslight you into thinking otherwise.

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They’re a team, a very capable team, him doing the physical stuff of taking out bad guys and her alerting him to the henchmen coming around a corner from her perch behind a computer at Langley.

But then comes the sneaky subversion: When Fine’s mission unearths the fact that the big-time European arms dealer they’re after—Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne), playing a female villain whose badness has nothing to do with sex—knows the identity of all the CIA’s current field agents, they have to send in someone she can’t possibly know—someone like Cooper, who kicked ass at the CIA training academy, but has been deskbound ever since. Yet as much as Cooper aches for a chance to prove herself, she also worries that she’s not up to the job because she has been gaslighted by Fine (and by the world at large) into believing that the best use of her talent is supporting—to the point of mothering, even—the likes of Bradley Fine.

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But now, Feig has made a movie that allows McCarthy to be her own delightful self without asking us to laugh at her. In Spy, we laugh with her, while also commiserating with her, because this sneakily subversive movie confronts head-on issues of women’s confidence (or lack thereof) and men’s arrogance (and fear!) that so many movies—including The Heat—dare not touch, though they sometimes pretend to.

I hasten to add: Spy does its wonderfully seditious feminist things while also being funny as hell. I never laugh out loud at movies, and I laughed out loud a lot at Spy. Be sure to stay through the credits for one final laugh-out-loud moment.

At first, Spy looks like a simple spoof of James Bond flicks and other secret-agent adventures. Bradley Fine (Jude Law, sporting a perfect American accent) is a top CIA operative—suave, cool, badass and tuxedoed at the Bulgarian cocktail party he has infiltrated in order to catch a nuclear terrorist. We quickly see, though, that his awesomeness is at least as much a function of the assistance given him remotely by Susan Cooper (McCarthy)—his handler back at CIA HQ and in his earpiece—as it is his own doing.

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ENTOURAGE B.5 I’d never watched a single minute of the 2004-2011 HBO series before sitting down to this movie, so if it was going to work for me, it wouldn’t be as fan service; it would have to work as a movie. But despite making vague gestures at introducing newcomers to actor Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) and his posse of coattail-riders, this feature—centered around Vincent’s debut directing effort on

INSIDIOUS CHAPTER 3 [not yet reviewed] Prequel story to the series’ haunting of the Lambert family … so shouldn’t this really be Chapter 0? Opens June 5 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS BBB Director/co-writer Brett Haley’s simple, low-key character drama gets a boost from Blythe Danner’s lovely lead performance and a unique spin on the crises of purpose that can face us at any age. Danner plays Carol, a long-widowed California woman who responds to the death of her dog companion by finally reaching out from her bridge-playing pals to new relationships, including a friendship with her pool cleaner (Martin Starr) and a romance with a new arrival in the retirement community (Sam Elliott). Haley generally resists obvious gags and sentimentality, though he does trot out the old “isn’t it hilarious when old people get stoned” bit.

Mostly, it allows Danner room to do spirited work as a woman

who’s finally trying to figure out what she wants from the rest of her life, even as Starr’s under-employed pool guy provides a great generations-removed counterpoint. While never revelatory, it almost always feels sweet and honest—and who knew the year’s heart-melting-est romantic line would be Sam Elliott saying, “I like you a little bit, I think.” Opens June 5 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (PG-13)—SR

LOVE & MERCY BB.5 We all have our cinematic hot buttons. One of mine is the infuriatingly predictable things so many biopics do that make them feel more dutiful than inspired. Director Bill Pohlad splits his story of founding Beach Boy Brian Wilson into two intertwined parts: circa-1965 Brian (Paul Dano) yearning to do more creative musical work while facing the first indications of mental illness; and circa-late-’80s Brian (John Cusack), beginning a relationship with a woman named Melinda (Elizabeth Banks) while he’s under the domineering care of psychiatrist Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti). Pohland and his screenwriters show some visual spark by opening with an almost avant-garde layering of sounds over a black screen, and the “good times” montage of the Beach Boys’ success you’d expect to find in the second act. But despite Dano’s effective performance as the younger Brian, the film sags whenever it turns to the conventional rhythms of the conflicts between Landy and Melinda over Brian’s well-being, and to efforts by Cusack that fall well outside his comfortable range. The events of Brian Wilson’s later life make for more obvious drama, but a lesser movie. Opens June 5 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (PG-13)—SR SPY BBB.5 See review p. 91. Opens June 5 at theaters valleywide. (R)

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SUNSHINE SUPERMAN BB.5 Thanks to filmmaker Marah Strauch, I now know who Carl Boenish is; I just wish I could be more enthusiastic about the actual movie she made about him. The pioneer in the field of BASE jumping—he and his cohorts invented the term—is profiled from cradle to grave, following his life as a determined polio survivor through his twin fascinations with skydiving and filmmaking in the late 1970s, right up to the tragic events that claimed his life.

Strauch leans heavily interviews with Boenish’s wife, Jean, and others who knew him well, while also making use of some remarkable footage from Boenish’s own seminal adventure-sport movies; the vertigo-prone might not survive watching the aluminum rig Boenish creates so he can capture footage of jumpers leaping off a cliff towards him. Yet for much of the last half-hour, it starts to feel like a long march through the circumstances surrounding Boenish’s death, including plenty of re-enactments of events.

Boenish’s enthusiasm and life-force energize Sunshine Superman whenever he’s an onscreen presence; his absence proves to be a much harder thing to turn into compelling cinema. Opens June 5 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (PG)—SR

SPECIAL SCREENINGS ANTBOY At Main Library, June 6, 11 a.m. (NR)

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LAMBERT & STAMP BB.5 I should be awesome listening to folks who were around at the dawn of a pivotal rock-and-roll era talk about the old days—and director James D. Cooper finds some fascinating material in anecdotes focused around Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert, the British friends who essentially discovered The Who and shepherded them to stardom as their managers. It’s left to Stamp and surviving band members Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey to share those stories, providing some terrific insights into dynamics within the band as well as the influence Lambert and Stamp had on them.

But two hours becomes an awfully long time to spend with these stories, especially when they’re played against not-particularlycompelling archival footage pretty much throughout. A musichistory footnote needs more visual imagination to justify turning it into a film, rather than letting it remain a footnote. (R)—SR SAN ANDREAS BB It isn’t terrible as disaster movies go, but I don’t know what that phrase means any more. A series of catastrophic earthquakes is narrowed down to the problems of several people: rescue chopper pilot Ray (Dwayne Johnson), his estranged wife (Carla Gugino), their daughter (Alexandra Daddario), and a pair of visiting British brothers. That’s fairly typical for this sort of spectacle, in which various landmarks crumble to dust, sweeping thousands of anonymous people away with them. But even given the catharsis of seeing how people survive calamities, it’s too unsettling watching random people die creatively-yet-bloodlessly just so that we can find out if one traumatized dude can redeem himself. Many of director Brad Peyton’s set pieces are solidly conceived, but then comes the realization that it’s the end of the world as we know it, and I don’t feel fun. (PG-13)—SR

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ALOHA B.5 Cameron Crowe can still write swoony romantic dialogue with the best of them, but it’s been years since he wrote something that holds together as a story. Bradley Cooper plays Brian, a civilian military contractor in Hawaii for an assignment, where he re-connects with old flame Tracy (Rachel McAdams) and finds a new spark with his Air Force escort (Emma Stone). Crowe packs a mini-series worth of plotting into 104 minutes, leaving relationships that evolve into major transition points within a matter of moments. And none of the characters make sense, from Cooper’s variously damaged bad boy to Stone’s baffling mix of mania and earnestness. Occasionally, you get a glimpse of the emotional honesty that once earned Crowe his fandom. It’s somewhat fitting that Aloha is about a guy whose most romantic gesture is also an act of self-sabotage. (PG-13)—SR

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annibal (NBC; Thursday, June 4) Season Premiere: Hannibal (Mads Mikkelsen) and Bedelia (Gillian Anderson) are hiding out in Europe—but can the doctor keep his “tastes” under the radar? What a bore that show would be. (In Utah, Saturday, June 6 on CW 30.)

Sense8 (Netflix; Friday, June 5) Series Debut: The Wachowski siblings bring their Matrix-y weirdness to TV in the tale of eight people around the world who can tap into each other’s existences. Coincidentally, they’re all ridiculously good-looking.

Orange Is the New Black (Netflix; Friday, June 12) Season Premiere: The gang’s all back—and so is Alex (Laura Prepon), as well as new inmate Stella (Ruby Rose). Larry (Jason Biggs), not so much. Please contain your indifference.

Dark Matter (Syfy; Friday, June 12) Series Debut: The crew of an adrift spaceship wakes up with no memories, and to outside threats galore. Based on the Dark Horse graphic novel (woo!) and produced by the Stargate SG-1 team (uh-oh).

Proof (TNT; Tuesday, June 16) Series Debut: A brilliant but troubled surgeon (Jennifer Beals) is hired by a dying tech billionaire (Matthew Modine) to find proof—get it?—that death is not the end. TNT, maybe, but not death.

California. Hold your “Season 1 was better” critiques until at least after the opening credits.

Ballers (HBO; Sunday, June 21) Series Debut: A sports dramedy(!) about retired—and rookie—football players just trying to get by in Miami, starring Dwayne Johnson, Omar Miller and Rob Corddry, and produced by Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg. Hut! The Brink (HBO; Sunday, June 21) Series Debut: Bureaucrats (including Jack Black and Tim Robbins), military hawks (Geoff Pierson) and fighter pilots (Pablo Schreiber) scramble to avert World War III. It’s like Veep with higher stakes and (slightly) less profanity.

The Astronaut Wives Club (ABC; Thursday, June 18) Series Debut: Imagine Mad Men, but focused on the spouses of NASA heroes of the late ’60s. That would be a better show than this reheated network leftover, but the fashion is sooo cute!

Mr. Robot (USA; Wednesday, June 24) Series Debut: Vigilante hacker by night/corporate IT drone by day Elliot (Rami Malek) is recruited by the mysterious “Mr. Robot” (Christian Slater) to e-destroy the company he works for.

Never give up on TV, Slater.

Complications (USA; Thursday, June 18) Series Debut: A suburban doctor (Jason O’Mara) becomes embroiled in a gang war after saving the life of a kingpin’s son at a driveby. From the creators of Burn Notice, so expect plenty of yelling and gunplay.

Humans (AMC; Sunday, June 28) Series Debut: In the “parallel present” of suburban London, the must-have accessory is a “Synth,” a human-like servant/friend. But what happens when the Synths develop emotions? And, since they’re British, how do you tell?

Killjoys (Syfy; Friday, June 19) Series Debut: A trio of sexy bounty hunters (Aaron Ashmore, Hannah John-Kamen and Luke Macfarlane) work the interplanetary warzone. It’s Firefly meets Guardians of the Galaxy meets a Canadian budget.

Zoo (CBS; Tuesday, June 30) Series Debut: Animals are rising up against humans all over the planet, and only a “renegade biologist” (James Wolk) can stop the pandemic.

People of Earth: If your lives are in the hands of a “renegade biologist,” you’re boned.

True Detective (HBO; Sunday, June 21) Season Premiere: Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch navigate murder and mustaches in the badlands of

The Strain (FX; Sunday, July 12) Season Premiere: New York City is being overrun with not-pretty vampires, and it’s up to Eph (Corey Stoll) and Nora (Mia Maestro) to

The Astronaut Wives Club (ABC) Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll (FX) create a cure for the epidemic … if they can keep it in their pants. NYC, you’re also boned.

Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll (FX; Thursday, July 16) Series Debut: A failed ’90s rock band (featuring Denis Leary and John Corbett) gets a second shot at fame with a hot young singer (Elizabeth Gillies). This will be the second-wiggiest FX series after The Americans.

Wet Hot American Summer (Netflix; Friday, July 17) Series Debut: An eight-episode prequel to the beloved 2001 cinematic classic, all about the first day of summer at Camp Firewood—with all of the cast members anyone cares about! Bring on the short-shorts!

Bojack Horseman (Netflix; Friday, July 17) Season Premiere: Everybody’s favorite Hollywood horse has-been (voiced by Will Arnett) is back! And so is Todd (Aaron Paul)!

Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (Syfy; Wednesday, July 22) Movie: The chompstorm hits Washington, D.C.! Ian Zering and Tara Reid are back! Mark Cuban is the president! Ann Coulter is the VP! Like you needed any more reasons to root for the sharks.

Fear the Walking Dead (AMC; TBA) Series Debut: A six-episode flashback to the beginning of the zombie apocalypse, set in Los Angeles. No “renegade biologists” involved. CW

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ne man! One flugelhorn! Two tape recorders! You hooked yet? Let’s make it sexier by adding software.

How about another man? And an exotic locale!

Matt Starling is the first guy—the one with the horn. The second guy is minimalist composer Terry Riley, who wrote the 1964 piece “Dorian Reeds.” Starling, a music teacher at East Hollywood High School in West Valley City, has recorded his own version of the piece—“Dorian Reeds (for Brass)”—to fulfill requirements for a master’s of music technology from Indiana University-Purdue University, which he attends online.

Starling is the founder of the Salt Lake Electric Ensemble and member of the Salt Lake Alternative Jazz Orchestra.

Both entities have reputations for playing some of the most innovative jazz music in the state. “Dorian Reeds” is another such project—a mesmerizing listen from the first measures.

In his liner notes, Starling writes, “[In] Terry Riley’s score for solo performer and two tape recorders, the performer interacts with layers of music which were recorded in the past. The score is filled with modules of music meant to be repeated by the performer against a constantly mutating tape loop.”

In the original piece, Riley played soprano saxophone into one tape recorder. The tape from that machine then traveled to another, which was positioned far enough away that five quarter-notes would pass before the signal arrived. The tape then traveled back into the original machine, where the live signal—Riley continuing to play—was recorded and mixed with the previously recorded music. “The system created many layers of sound,” Starling

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Founder of the Salt Lake Electric Ensemble recreates Terry Riley’s “Dorian Reeds.”

writes, “with the older moments, like memories, slowly fading away.”

Starling took his flugelhorn (which sounds like a fatter, darker trumpet) and minimal gear to João Pessoa in Brazil, where he holed up in a bedroom to record “Dorian Reeds”— piecemeal—over and over again. At home, he says, “I listened to all the performances and used the 10 percent I liked the best to construct the piece.” Using Ableton Live software and Waves plug-ins, Starling placed sections of the piece at different points on the sequencer timeline in order to achieve the same effects as Riley did with tape machines.

“Dorian Reeds” starts with four notes—E-G-F#-E— repeated 28 times, according to Starling’s transcription in the booklet. The notes seem to come faster, and take on an urgency—but that may be when the loop kicks in. It’s hard to tell. As the piece progresses and Starling plays new phrases and they pass each other in this sonic stream, the urgency wanes. You begin to notice things—for example at 3:42, how the horn takes on the sound of a stringed instrument. At 8:28, some notes merge into a drone that persists for the duration of the piece. Throughout the performance, the mood of the music goes from mellow, to bright, to melancholy and back to urgent—and then keeps changing.

And then, notice your eyes are open but you see nothing.

You’ve forgotten the music is even playing. You’ve warped ahead to 38:18. Whuh? Is that a bassoon? The urgency is back and building. The drone is higher-pitched and out in front of those faded memories Starling mentioned. Finally, everything fades out.

“The intense repetition of it, along with sort of the gradual change,” Starling says, “I definitely find it very hypnotic and easy to disappear into. It’s one of those pieces where time stops, in a way, if you give yourself over to the music.”

Which you should do. With headphones. Also, check out Starling’s Bandcamp page (MattStarling.Bandcamp.com), where you can stream “Dorian Reeds (for Brass)” and buy it digitally, on CD or on hi-res audiophile DVD-Audio or Bluray. You can also hear or buy SLEE’s performances of Riley’s “In C” or Karlheinz Stockhausen’s “Set Sail for the Sun,” as well as Starling’s debut ambient track, “Origin.” CW

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Matt Starling’s flugelhorn gets the ’60s minimalist treatment.

he cover art for “Dorian Reeds (for Brass)” shows Matt Starling’s flugelhorn overlapped by a grainier version of itself, followed by increasingly pixelated iterations until the horn is a jumble of cyan, magenta, yellow and black polka dots.

Ryan Fedor—former Tolchock Trio guitarist and Starling’s bandmate in the Salt Lake Electric Ensemble—designed the booklet. Intending a simple, clean, bold and modern design, Fedor took his cues from the 20th-century modern, avant-garde and classical record covers of the ’50s and ’60s, which often used famous pieces from designers and artists like Kandinsky, Mondrian and Josef Albers. Fedor also incorporates the pop art, half-tone look popularized by artists like Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, as well as ‘60s psychedelia.

The style seemed appropriate, Fedor says, because it’s inspired by the era from which Terry Riley’s original version of “Dorian Reeds” surfaced, and conveys what’s happening musically in the piece. “Repetition, repetition, repetition, with slight variation. Slow movement and change over a period of time,” Fedor says. “ ‘Showing’ minimalism perhaps, rather than actually being minimalist.”

Fedor featured the flugelhorn—photographed by his wife, Chris—in order to call attention to Starling’s twist on the piece: Namely, that Riley originally performed on soprano saxophone, a reed instrument, while Starling’s horn is reed-less brass. The inclusion of a note transcription is a poke at the old CD booklet trope: lyrics. Fedor delivers the punchline: “There aren’t any!”

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The series’ original location, the rooftop of the downtown Marriott parking structure, didn’t allow for much growth. Only so many fans could fit on the two open-air levels, and although food trucks lined the street surrounding the venue, space was fairly limited. The new venue on Center Street in front of the Nu Skin headquarters (where Neon Trees performed last October) means more fans can attend, and more food trucks can park on the fringes. The concerts remain free, and will still happen on the first Friday of the month, May through September.

Series organizers, blogger C. Jane Kendrick, photographer Justin Hackworth, musician Mindy Gledhill and Provo native Sarah Wiley, in partnership with the Provo City government, are faced with a new set of challenges with the move. One is working out the logistics of both a new venue and a new stage, which will be set up in the middle of Center Street downtown and, consequently, must be broken down after each concert. Another is explaining to people why they’re keeping the name when the bands won’t be performing on the rooftop anymore (fans can still watch from the rooftop, half a block away).

The decision was made in an effort to stick to their roots; even with the shakeup, the Rooftop series has a specific feel (with alums like The National Parks, The Moth & The Flame, The Strike and Cory Mon), which they intend to maintain. The series is intended to bring attention to Provo’s downtown and, along with it, highlight local food trucks and restaurants, while promoting and supporting Provo’s music and art scene.

Eclectic Provo artist Steve Vistaunet will design the concert posters this summer.

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Joshua James, American Fork singer/ songwriter, is headlining the first concert in the series on June 4. It’s fitting—he has been involved in producing albums for other Utah County artists like Desert Noises, Isaac Russell and Blue Aces; he has also promoted local music with his own Fork Fest (in 2010).

It’s the third time James will have headlined Rooftop in its six-year run, because concert organizers wanted someone “dynamic, a real showperson,” says Kendrick. “It’s also a nod to the fact that even though we’re moving … and getting a bigger venue, we’re not straying from that local music feel.”

In the past, the series has featured local artists mostly in the vein of indie rock with some folk. As the audience grows and the demographic expands from families who found the shows from Kendrick’s blog (CJaneKendrick.com) to younger, more musically inclined crowds, bands have begun to approach them, to vie for a spot on the stage. “We always say to bands, ‘Don’t come to us, we’ll come to you.” If you’re right for Rooftop, we’ll know,” says Kendrick.

The series usually starts in May, just after the local universities’ semesters end, to kick off summer. The start is delayed this year, as Kendrick and her team work out the details involved with the new stage and venue.

“We were so overwhelmed with the idea of having to design a whole new stage for the show,” says Kendrick.

Provo Mayor John Curtis suggested that Rooftop organizers could buy themselves some time by dropping the first and last concerts of the series in order to see if the new model works. Kendrick is unsure whether or not they’ll return to the ambitious six-show summer.

The June lineup was announced in May, and each month’s bands will be announced at the concert previous. “We thought we would try … to have an ongoing narrative, to be able to focus on this concert, and then have another big announcement for the next concert,” says Kendrick. Local bands Quiet House and Sego complete the June 4 lineup. CW

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THE HARMS Austin-based lady garage rockers The Harms are finishing their debut LP (a followup to their 2013 EP), but two psychedelic and sassy songs—a ballad about a teenage vampire suicide pact, called “Graveyard

Helio Sequence Love” and a post-punk-paced surf-pop track, called “Sound Dragons”—were released in May on lavender vinyl. The trio play the dark side of pop, with hectic and sometimes fuzzy guitar riffs from frontwoman Chase Frank and frantic drumming from Jessica Alexander. They played three intimate sets at SXSW earlier this year, and May marked the beginning of their first national tour. Diabolical Records, 238 S. Edison St., 8 p.m., free, Facebook.com/ DiabolicalRecords

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2015 MDA EVENT FEATURING KIX Rock Your Face Off (Loud and Proud) is the first new music from this Baltimore-based quintet since 1995. It’s also the first not written by founding songwriter and bassist Donnie Purnell, the band’s ostensible “creative mastermind.” Since Kix quit in 1995 and reformed without Purnell in 2003, it might seem like they lacked creative juice without him. Nope.

Rock Your Face Off is heaving with the bluesy, power-poppy rock & roll that propelled Kix to platinum status in the ‘80s and ‘90s. “Mean Miss Adventure” and “Tail On the Wag” are right up there with classics “Get It While It’s Hot” and “Ring Around Rosie,” and prove Kix are still for kids. (Kix goes on at 7:30, but a battle of the bands and other festivities begins at 11 a.m.) (Randy Harward) Harley-Davidson of Salt Lake, 2928 S. State, 7:30 p.m., $22, HarleyDavidsonOfSaltLakeCity.com/ Events »

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As early as their first LP in 2011, The Story So Far was making the type of pop punk Warped Tour delinquents eat for breakfast, only they were making it better than their fizzy post-Paramore peers. This found them graduating to the Warped main stage in 2014. Now, with a fresh record, the band has settled on a definitive sound that all but substitutes the crystal clear vocals of past records for a gravelly, angst-heavy performance, found impressively on display in the lead single “Heavy Gloom.” The rest of the band, meanwhile, has honed a more dynamic, instrumentation that makes for a head-bangy, live-friendly sound. It’s pop punk on a platter, carrying the torch of the Yellowcards and New Found Glories of yesteryear. (Robby Poffenberger). The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, June 8, 6 p.m., $20, TheComplexSLC.com

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) The Persian scholar Avicenna was so well-rounded in his knowledge that he wrote two different encyclopedias. Even as a teenager he was obsessed with learning all he could. He got especially consumed with trying to master Aristotle’s Metaphysics, which did not easily yield its secrets to him. He read it 40 times, memorizing every word. When he finally understood it, he was so excited he celebrated by giving out money and gifts to destitute strangers. I suspect you will soon be having an equivalent breakthrough, Aries. At last you will grasp a truth that has eluded you for a long time. Congratulations in advance!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) When it’s rush hour in Tokyo, unwieldy crowds of commuters board the trains and subways. They often need help at squeezing in. Railway workers known as oshiya, or pushers, provide the necessary force. Wearing crisp uniforms, white gloves, and neat hats, they cram the last stragglers into each car. I foresee the possibility of you being called on to perform a metaphorical version of the service these pushers provide. Is there a polite and respectful way for you to be indelicate in a worthy cause? Could you bring light-hearted tact to bear as you seek an outcome that encourages everyone to compromise?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) I love to watch an evolved Scorpio get his or her needs met by helping other people get their needs met. It’s thrilling to behold the paradoxical Scorpio assets in action: the combination of manipulativeness and generosity; the animal magnetism working in service to the greater good; the resourceful willpower that carries out hidden agendas and complex strategies designed to make the world a better place. I expect to see a lot of this idiosyncratic wisdom from you in the coming weeks.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree,” says the Talmud. “But it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.” That’s a lyrical sentiment, but I don’t agree with it. I’ve come to prefer the shimmering dance over the static stance. The ever-shifting play of light and dark is more interesting to me than the illusion of stability. I feel more at home in the unpredictable flow than in the stagnant trance of certainty. What about you, Sagittarius? I suggest that in the immediate future you cultivate an appreciation for the joys and challenges of the shimmering dance.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) The core of your horoscope comes from the poem “A Color of the Sky” by Tony Hoagland. Imagine that you are the “I” who is saying the following: “What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a CANCER (June 21-July 22) You’ve wandered into an awkward phase of your cycle. Missed tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color connections have aroused confusion. Disjointed events have led of the sky.” Please understand, Capricorn, that speaking these to weirdness. I’ve got a suggestion for how you might be able to words might not make total sense to you yet. You may have to restore clarity and confidence: Make a foray into a borderland take them on faith until you gather further evidence. But I urge and risk imaginative acts of heroism. Does that sound too cryptic you to speak them anyway. Doing so will help generate the or spooky? How about if I say it like this: Go on an unpredictable transformations you need in order to make them come true. quest that will free your trapped vitality, or try a mysterious experiment that will awaken your sleeping magic. P.S. For best AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Lessons in luck are coming your way. Will they help you attract results, ask for help every step of the way. more luck? Maybe. Will they show you how to make better use of your luck? Maybe. A lot depends on your ability to understand LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Gesamtkunstwerk is a German word that can be translated as and love the paradox of luck. I’ve assembled a few enigmatic “total art work” or “all-embracing art form.” It refers to a teachings to prepare you. 1. “Luck is believing you’re lucky.” — creative masterpiece that makes use of several genres. The 19th- Tennessee Williams. 2. “It is a great piece of skill to know how century composer Richard Wagner had this in mind when he to guide your luck even while waiting for it.” —Baltasar Gracián. produced his opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, which included 3. “Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of orchestral music, singing, theater, and literature. I’m invoking luck.” —Lorii Myers. 4. “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” the spirit of Gesamtkunstwerk for your use, Leo. The coming —Samuel Goldwyn. 5. “You’ve got to try your luck at least once weeks will be an excellent time to synthesize and coordinate all a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.” —Jimmy Dean. 6. “Go and wake up your luck.” the things you do best, and express them with a flourish.

—Persian proverb.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Defender was a popular video game that young people played PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) in video arcades during the 1980s. Fifteen-year-old Steve The word “boudoir” means a woman’s bedroom. But hundreds Juraszek was profiled in Time magazine after he racked up a of years ago, it had a more specific definition. It was a room where record-breaking 16 million points while playing the game for a well-bred girl was sent when she was pouting. “Boudoir” is 16 hours straight. But when his high school principal found derived from the French verb bouder, which means “to sulk.” If out that Juraszek had skipped classes to be at the arcade, he it were in my power, Pisces, I would send you to the sulking room was suspended. I’m wondering if there may soon be a similar right now. In fact, I would encourage you to sulk. In my opinion, development in your own life, Virgo. Will you have to pay a small a good long sulk would be just the right prescription for you. It price for your success? You should at least be prepared to risk an would trigger brainstorms about how to change the soggy, foggy conditions that warranted your sulking in the first place. acceptable loss in order to accomplish an important goal.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Nobel Prize-winning physicists Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr were both amused at how counterintuitive their innovative theories seemed. Once Pauli was lecturing a group of eminent scientists about a radical new hypothesis. Bohr got out of his seat in the audience and walked up to the front to interrupt his colleague. “We all agree that your theory is crazy,” Bohr told Pauli. “The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.” Pauli defended himself. “It is crazy enough!” he said. But Bohr was insistent. “It’s not crazy enough!” he argued. I’m going to pose a comparable query to you, Gemini. Are your new ideas and possibilities crazy enough to be true? Make sure they are.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) People I meet are sometimes taken aback by the probing questions I ask them. Recently an acquaintance said to me, “Why don’t you feel driven to talk about yourself all the time, like everyone else?” I told him the truth: “Being curious is just the way I was made. Maybe it’s because of my Mercury in Gemini, or my seventh-house sun, or my three planets in Libra.” I suspect that you are due to go through a phase similar to the mode I’m so familiar with. If it doesn’t happen naturally, I suggest you coax it out. You need to be extra inquisitive. You’ll benefit from digging as deeply as you dare. The more information you uncover, the better your decisions will be.

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andom phone call this week: “Hi, Babs, I’m from Kiplinger’s magazine in Washington, D.C., and I’m doing a story on senior citizens.” “Sheesh, I’m not that old,” I said to myself. Long story short, the reporter was investigating what are the best cities for retirees to live. Here’s what I told her about Salt Lake City: If you’re on a fixed and/or low income, there’s a waiting list to get into any assisted housing. The high-rise senior apartment buildings built decades ago aren’t in great shape, and one building went the entire summer without air conditioning in 2014. My friend Sally said she was told in her search that the wait could be six months to two years, and was told that there was a five-year waiting list for Section 8 housing (subsidized private apartments to rent to seniors). You can turn to Utah Housing Authority and several nonprofits to find housing, but they say, “Prepare to wait.” One national company (Danville Development) has more than 62 housing complexes in six Utah cities and runs Calvary Tower near Trolley Square for low-income seniors. The first new building, Legacy Village of Sugar House, has broken ground next to Wilmington Flats and will offer three kinds of care for independent and assisted living, plus a memory-care facility.

For seniors who can afford to buy, there are condos priced from $100,000 to upwards of $1 million dotted in and around downtown, the Avenues and the University District.

Seniors can’t be turned down for loans on the basis of age or income source, so they qualify like anyone else for home loans. There are no “over-55 only” condos downtown, though, and I haven’t seen anyone building any.

The active seniors I work with who want to buy condos want to live downtown— near Trax stations, booze, food, shopping, theater and museums—unless they want the ’burbs of Daybreak.

If you’re reading this publication, you’re probably not a doddering old coot like me. But your parents or grandparents may be, and they might be facing a move in the near future. (God forbid your elders might have to move in with you because they can’t find housing!)

As we age, we think about how we want to spend our senior years, and who we want to spend them with. Wouldn’t it be great if a bunch of Burners got together and built an elderly compound, where fire-pits battle between dubstep and lyric-less music? One friend of mine cared for an elderly transwoman. They let her wear her wig in her hospital bed, even though she presented as a man. Sadly, she complained about not having any other LGBTQ people in the facility to talk to about the old days of disco, poppers and barebacking. n Content is prepared expressly for Community, not by City Weekly staff.

[Editor’s note: Babs De Lay is a candidate for Salt Lake City Council District 4.]

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