City Weekly July 16, 2015

'Happily ever after' does not figure into this torrid tale of Utah romance novelists.

By Carolyn Campbell

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“Happily ever after” does not figure into this torrid tale of Utah romance novelists.

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Carolyn Campbell has been writing for City Weekly since the 1980s. She has published more than 800 articles locally and nationally.

Her City Weekly articles have won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists chapters in Utah and Colorado.

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LETTERS Ban Confederate Flag in Utah

The Confederate battle flag is a part of our country’s history, but it is not to be celebrated. We don’t celebrate winning the wars of America’s enemies by flying their flags.

For those who cry it is the flag of their heritage, I would say that heritage is treasonous, terrorist and extremely hate-based. The real flag of their heritage is the white flag of surrender. The South declared war on America in allegiance to white supremacy, and they lost. They fought to rape, mutilate, torture, murder and sell human beings.

I urge Gov. Gary Herbert to work with the Legislature to pass a bill banning the display and sale of the Confederate battle flag on all government property.

The flag represents a deeply shameful period for our nation, and the harmful, hateful effects of that time are still felt today by African-Americans and the nation as a whole.

This symbol of domestic terrorism, hatred and intolerance does not belong in public spaces, or on government property. Our state should not be associated with these shameful messages.

I feel very strongly about this issue. A racist serial killer, Joseph Paul Franklin, murdered two of my friends who were black—Ted Fields, 20, and David Martin, 18—in Liberty Park Aug. 20, 1980. Franklin purportedly was a proud Southerner who was lured to Salt Lake City by a fellow white supremacist. Franklin allegedly joined the LDS Church because blacks weren’t allowed in the priesthood. When the church lifted the

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The ripple effects of the Confederate flag came to Utah because racism is everywhere, even Utah. We have come so far, but we have so far to go!

My friends should still be alive. Out of respect to their memory and their loved ones, I feel strongly that Utah must lead the nation in supporting the removal of the Confederate flag from all government grounds.

TERRY JACKSON-MITCHELL Salt Lake City

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I was once asked why I find City Weekly’s online edition hard, impossible, to read. After looking at it for a couple of months, and not clicking on many stories, I have an answer: It looks the stories are all just thrown on a page.

There is no organization, no meaningful separation of stories, just a lot of things tossed randomly on a page.

Take it for what it is worth, but the City Weekly I used to pick up regularly on Thursday hasn’t been in my home for more than a year, and although I click on the website regularly, I never read a story. It’s jumbled, tossed, difficult to read and a mess.

ERIC LEALAND Salt Lake City

Gone but Not Forgotten

I am the niece of the late Max Mercier, and Jeannot Mercier’s sister. I really enjoyed reading Ted Scheffler’s review of Eric DeBonis’ Paris Bistro [“Parisian Nights,” July 9, City Weekly]. You are so right, there is a lack of French food in this city!

I am happy to hear that DeBonis and his staff are doing great. He reminds me so much of my Uncle Max. He has the very same ambitious drive!

Thank you for your kind words and memories, it was nice to see that my family has not been forgotten.

MURIELLE “FRENCHY” MERCIER Salt Lake City

Correction: Let’s Do It: West Valley City’s Official Early History was written by Michael Gorrell. City Weekly’s July 9 cover story, “Chesterfield U.S.A.,” incorrectly identified the author.

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Trumped Up

The Donald Trump presidential candidacy just keeps getting more fascinating. What started as a possible unscripted slip-ofthe-tongue in his announcement that offended Mexican immigrants and just about any thoughtful, feeling human has blossomed into what many believe is a fullblown crisis for the Republican Party with The Donald in second place (or even leading) in some polls. It’s not anywhere close to a problem, and here’s why.

I watched Trump’s entire 45-minute coming-out party in mid-June, which was a litany of self-aggrandizing claims, macho international saber-rattling and drum-beating for class and race war. As a student of Italian history, I even found Trump’s smug head nods and expressions reminiscent of Benito Mussolini’s oratory pouts and postures.

In the days that followed, even normally Trump-enthralled Fox News hosts gave him sympathetic opportunities to tone down his vitriol for Mexicans, which he refused to do; instead, he upped the ante.

Networks canceled coverage of his “booty” pageants, retailers dropped Trump product lines and Trump himself lamented that his brand may be suffering as a result of him courageously speaking “the truth.”

All those years I’d spent in marketing and sales kicked in, and I realized something: Trump isn’t really running for president. He knows he couldn’t possibly win in a general election. America is not really that dumb and hate-filled—not yet, anyway—and he’s certainly smart enough to know that. Rather, he’s doing a cameo appearance in Republican political theater.

The Trump candidacy will get the support of the worst elements of the xenophobic Right and most ardent disciples of materialism and greed (the haves and wanna-haves) that he’ll, at some point, hand-off to the real nominee.

At the proper time, he’ll instruct his posse to support Team GOP. His constituency is a narrow one, and his supporters will flow to the next-orneriest candidate when he drops out. Conversely, he’ll gain little new support

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if others cave first. The real nominee will be someone Trump and the Billionaire Boys’ Club can trust to do their bidding—reducing taxes on corporations and the rich, and privatizing any aspects of government and society that might turn them a profit.

Trump’s outlandish candidacy also gives swing voters the impression that other Republican candidates are sane by comparison, even if they hold many of the same beliefs— albeit not so crudely expressed. Voters in the middle will more likely support someone like Bush III (when compared to Trumpster) and will believe they’re supporting a “moderate” rather than a radical, which essentially all modern GOP politicos have become.

I suspect some others aren’t genuine candidates, either. Instead, they’re playing roles in a bogus play-off intended to drive shoring stakes around an enlarged Republican circus tent that most likely will have another Bush as its ringmaster. The others (with some exceptions, if they have vice-presidential aspirations) are unofficially tasked with locking up support from various constituencies. So far they’ve potentially got: Marco Rubio for Latinos; Ben Carson for African-Americans; Bobby Jindal for legal, hardworking immigrants; Rick Santorum for Catholics; Mike Huckabee for evangelicals and other conservative Christians; Ted Cruz and Scott Walker for Tea Partiers; Chris Christie, John Kasich and George Pataki for “moderates;” Rand Paul for libertarians; Rick Perry for good ol’ boy rednecks; Lindsey Graham for gentlemen Southerners and closeted, conservative Log Cabin gays; and Carly Fiorina to prove that, hey, women can be Republicans, too.

They’re doing their duty for the party, and their loyalty might someday land them a spot on Fox News. In Trump’s case, he also gets to remind America that the belligerent ass he’s always played on TV is still relevant, while burnishing his image as a no-pulled-punches

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tough guy. He also gets free exposure for the Trump brand. His announcement featured shameless plugs for his casinos and golf courses and, despite any temporary negative fallout, his brand and name recognition grow.

It’s the time-honored publicity seeker’s adage inspired by P.T. Barnum: I don’t care what you say about me, just spell my name right.

If you’re still tempted to believe Trump’s bid is genuine, remember, he regularly pulls shameless publicity stunts. Google Trump’s greatest WWE moments, and watch the video: All doubts will vanish.

What you’re witnessing is the political equivalent of professional wrestling. There’s little doubt it’s a mind-game, and the lower one’s awareness levels are, the more effective the ploy. Trump is playing his part in the grander production to turn as many Americans as possible into submissive pawns in service to the corporate machine and buying its products.

In case it isn’t obvious, I’m supporting a Democrat candidate. I’ve been fully down with up-and-coming Bernie Sanders from the start. Apparently, most Americans are, too, even if they don’t know it. When polled, about 72 percent agree with Sanders’ Scandinavianlike policies rather than favoring a return to the Gilded Age and getting raped by the rich, which is what all modern Republicans—and even Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton to some degree—seem to be offering.

It’s time to redirect my attention toward something that might actually advance the human condition: I’m studying the pope’s encyclical that tries to convince humanity not to doom itself with climate destruction, materialism and greed. I agree 100 percent, and I’m far from being a Catholic. Now, if only a few presidential candidates—besides Bernie Sanders—would give those issues the attention they so critically warrant and cut out all the melodramatic play-acting. CW

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What should Donald Trump’s campaign slogan be?

Colby Frazier: Donald Trump is running for president?

Mason Rodrickc: “Now, I know most of you don’t like me, I know most of you have read my tweets and think I’m a complete nutjob, I know that I’d do a really pisspoor job of being president.” Or, “Just Tweet it.” Or, “Do you think immigrants made this wig? No, Americans made— Um, wait, this is real hair ... American hair”

Brandon Burt: “Trump ’16 … ’Cuz dat guy sure knows how to class up a joint”

Jeff Chipian: “If I become president, everyone will receive complimentary haircuts to look like me!”

Jeremiah Smith: “I’m Donald Trump, and I don’t care.”

Tiffany Frandsen: “Don’t

pretend you are any less boisterous, offensive and attention-desperate-at-parties than I am, America.”

Jerre Wroble: “Your sorry ass just got Trumped!” (thanks, Urban Dictionary)

Scott Renshaw: “My qualifications for public office are as authentic as my hair”

Bryan Bale: “The greatest, classiest, most luxurious provider of comedy source material in the history of the universe”

Mikey Saltas: “El Chapo: You’re Fired!”

Paula Saltas: “Think big, like my hair and ego, and vote Trump”

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In the heat of the summer season, Utah lawmakers don’t want to take the heat.

Important matters will simply have to wait. San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman got his sentencing delayed two months by hiring new lawyers.

Lucky for him, the governor and others gave him plenty of money for his legal team. Meanwhile, those same folks said they’ll miss the July 31 deadline for compromising people’s health with a Medicaid-expansion plan. Never mind that people’s lives hang in the balance.

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Utahns Against Hunger has come up with a great way to feed impoverished people while shoring up the local produce market. Fox 13 reported on Double Up Food Bucks, a program taking off at farmers’ markets around the state: Utahns Against Hunger will match up to $10 when someone uses a SNAP card at a farmers market, said executive director Gina Cornia. Those matched dollars can only be used for Utah-grown produce. Food banks often rely on the increased shelf life of canned goods, so this program provides low-income Utahns a break with fresh produce. A grant of $53,000 will start the program in 19 locations.

The Real Threat

Not only have the courts declined to prosecute the Utah hunter who killed “Echo,” the first gray wolf seen in the Grand Canyon for 70 years—but now gray wolves are in danger of losing all federal protection. Indeed, the hunter seemed to have mistaken the wolf for a coyote, but advocates say the message should be clear: Know what you’re shooting. To make matters worse, federal wildlife officials rejected a petition to reclassify the gray wolf as “threatened,” a less-protective designation than “endangered.” The idea was to pre-empt Congress from removing protections altogether. But the plan failed.

The feds said the claims of threat weren’t backed up. And the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has proposed an end to protection under the Endangered Species Act. The sage grouse may not fare any better.

The state hired an anti-wolf activist to fight the designation, a Salt Lake Tribune story noted. Apparently, you have to wait until a species dies off completely before trying to save it.

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Jeff Reese, a developer for City Weekly sister company Avenews Software, is known as Ranger Thermyte in the Burning Man community and heads up Element 11, a Burning Man regional event that took place July 9-12. He offered a recap of the sold-out event that brought more than 1,200 Burners to the Stargazer Ranch in Box Elder County.

Did the new location at Stargazer Ranch work out? How does the terrain compare with the previous location?

Stargazer Ranch was amazing! The local law enforcement and fire departments were great to work with, and our EMS team worked with them very fluidly. The terrain was similar [to our previous location], but it was less salty and wet. It is a perfect new venue, and we are happy to call it our new home.

Rumor has it some Burning Man bigwigs were in attendance this year.

Yes. Meghan “Megs” Rutigliano is the regional network coordinator for Burning Man. Megs is a singer/performer who performed for us and also did an interview on our E11 radio station. She told us that our festival is the most like Burning Man of any regional she has been to, which is an amazing compliment for us.

Also attending was Danger Ranger, a co-founder of Burning Man, who is also responsible for starting the Black Rock Rangers. Danger Ranger did an awesome presentation about the prankster culture that led to the formation of Burning Man. There was a lot of pranking at Element 11 this year, especially having to do with the “capture the flag” game going on between the theme camps. It was fun seeing all of the creative ways people stole camp flags from each other and raised them in their own camps.

What were the effigies you burned this year?

We had three: “Tet,” which was created by Matt and Laura Chiodo; “A Fixed Luminous Point in the Night Sky,” created by David Shelton, Eric Christensen and The Pineapples; and the “Twelvefold Temple of the Cosmos,” created by Bobby Gittins and Alice Toler with their large team.

What other types of art/creativity showed up?

It would take a book to list everything, but we had awesome theme camps, art installations, art cars, sound stages and creative people coming up with inspiring ways to radically express themselves.

Do most people wear costumes, or is it pretty much a nudist’s paradise?

Clothing is a very big part of our festival. People spend a lot of time dressing up. Many of the things people wear are handmade and are some of the most exotic and fascinating things you will see anywhere. While nudity does occur and is the way that some choose to express themselves, it is far from the standard “attire.”

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We know some far-off stars like Betelgeuse look highly unstable and could go supernova at any time (this being a relative term). But what about closer to home—say, within 50 light-years? What if Arcturus burned through all its hydrogen and went supernova? What effect would that have here on Earth?

—Travis van Dreven We’ve got drought in California, an economic crisis in Europe, random mayhem all over, and you’re fretting about supernovas?

Well, somebody has to. Luckily, one of our top individuals has already done the spadework.

Let me introduce astronomer Martin Beech, author of a 2011 paper, “The Past, Present, and Future Supernova Threat to Earth’s Biosphere.” Short version: You can renew your magazine subscriptions for another year.

To set the table for the long version, let’s talk about existential threats. These can be categorized as follows: First order. We may think of these as hundred-year perils, indicating the timeframe within which the cloacal discharge has a decent chance of encountering the rotary distributor. Examples abound: nuclear war, global warming, resource exhaustion.

If the most alarming predictions have yet to become reality, that’s partly because some of the biggest brains in our species have devoted a good chunk of the available clock cycles to heading them off.

Second order. These are the thousand- to hundred-thousand-year threats. The classic example, brought to mind by my recent column on the subject, is the next ice age, once thought to loom but now indefinitely postponed. Modern humans—people who, with a little cleaning up, you could invite over for an evening of spare ribs and pinochle—have endured at least one such trial already. For now, global warming has pushed the return of the glaciers to the back of the freezer, as it were. But there’s much we don’t understand. Who the hell knows?

Third order. These are perils that may come to pass in the millions or tens of millions of years. Here we’re talking about giant asteroid strikes, great extinctions (I realize one can cause the other), and other cataclysms that permanently affect the planet and everything living on it. So far as we know, no such event has occurred within human experience. That said, there’s good evidence these things have happened, and they might again.

Fourth order. These are disasters that may strike within the hundreds of millions to billions of years—“very low probability, high-consequence problem[s],” as Professor Beech puts it. This is the territory he’s staked out. In the densely argued paper referred to above, he makes the following observations: n A typical supernova must occur within 10 parsecs (about 33 light-years, or 192 trillion miles) of Earth to have any noticeable effect on terrestrial life. The closest star that’s on track for supernovadom, IK Pegasi (a binary pair, actually), is 46 parsecs away;

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Betelgeuse, considered the star likeliest to go supernova next, is 197 parsecs distant.

Arcturus, since you asked, is 11 parsecs away.

Seeming implication: don’t worry about it. n Not so fast. No supernova candidates are within striking distance of us now.

However, as the stars wheel through the cosmos over astronomical time, some may come within range. n Another cosmic peril is gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), focused beams of high-energy radiation thought to be thrown off by, among other things, massive supernovas.

GRBs have a lethal range of 1,000 parsecs.

The GRBs we detect (they’re quite common) come from galaxies much further away and so are harmless. However, if: 1. a massive star within 1,000 parsecs of us were to go nova, and 2. said nova produced a GRB, and 3. said GRB were pointed in our direction, Earth would be smoked. n What are the chances? Professor Beech calculates that, “over the remaining life of the biosphere”—that is, the roughly 2 billion years he thinks we’ve got left before our dying sun snuffs out earthly life—we may get belted by one GRB and 20 supernovas, or roughly one every 100 million years.

Indeed, Earth may have already gotten smacked a few times. n But—a very big but, if I may speak frankly—we don’t know this for a fact. Although scientists have conjectured that this or that turning point in Earth’s history stemmed from the planetary surface having been crisped by a close-up supernova, evidence confirming this is lacking. (A few supernovas have been spotted in historical times, but all were at harmless distances.)

In other words, the risk posed by supernovas and GRBs is entirely theoretical.

Granted, theorizing is what scientists do.

Professor Beech concedes the threat is “not one of immediate concern,” immediate being defined as within the next several million years. However, in his view that’s no reason to put the matter out of our minds.

He think it’s worth looking near other prenova or just-past-nova stars for signs of large-scale astroengineering projects constructed by advanced civilizations attempting to shield themselves from incineration.

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“The mayor evolved on LGBT issues, but I wouldn’t exactly call him a Harvey Milk.“ —Utah Sen. Jim Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City

LGBT Legacy Mayor Ralph Becker may have been SLC’s most pro-gay mayor yet.

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he 2015 legislative session saw the formation of an unusual and historic alliance. Mormon church leaders, conservative lawmakers and LGBT activists put their shoulders to the wheel of progress and passed a statewide nondiscrimination law, which protects LGBT Utahns in housing and the workplace, and also carved out religious-liberties protections for people of faith in the state.

But one name that didn’t get much congratulatory ink or air coverage was Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker.

Becker’s original LGBT nondiscrimination ordinance passed in 2009 and arguably set off a domino effect of more than a dozen other cities passing similar ordinances, laying the foundation for Utah’s historic statewide law.

Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams recalls that when Becker took on this challenge in 2008, it was a time when tensions were at an all-time high between The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the LGBT community. In the aftermath of California’s 2008 Proposition 8 decision, which banned same-sex marriage in the state, McAdams—then working as Becker’s government-relations point man—says some of Becker’s associates warned him not to push LGBT causes, for fear of invoking the wrath of the über-conservative Utah Legislature.

In spite of those fears, “Ralph said, ‘This was my campaign promise, and I’m going to move ahead with it,’” McAdams says. Now, with same-sex marriage legal nationwide and Utah being hailed as a pioneer for its statewide nondiscrimination law, one might expect Becker would be remembered for his LGBT work in 2009.

But not everyone is singing his praises. State Sen. Jim Dabakis, who himself briefly entered the race for Becker’s mayoral seat, says the mayor never really made LGBT issues a priority.

“The mayor evolved on LGBT issues, but I wouldn’t exactly call him a Harvey Milk,” Dabakis says of Becker’s record on the hill and at city hall, citing a lack of LGBT staffers in his administration. “It just hasn’t been a top issue with him.”

McAdams, however, points out that Becker’s first action once he took office in January 2008 was to propose a “domestic-partnership registry” whereby same-sex couples could register as

Some say LGBT ordinances Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker initiated started a ripple effect. partners, with the official recognition hopefully encouraging employers to approve health insurance and other partner benefits for them.

“That landed him squarely in the sights of Senator [Chris] Buttars, who ran legislation to overturn it,” McAdams says.

Buttars, the curmudgeonly Republican West Jordan senator who retired in March 2011, was known for shooting down laws favorable to LGBT Utahns, and his quick response to Becker’s ordinance presented an important lesson for the new mayor—any LGBT ordinance better be bulletproof to withstand the will of the Legislature.

Becker re-branded the ordinance as a “Mutual Commitment Registry” so it would not be defined by sexual orientation, a maneuver that succesfully kept lawmakers from repealing it.

For nondiscrimination, McAdams says Becker set out to build an ordinance that could last. To accomplish that meant McAdams and Becker had to win support through back channels with legislators, wheeling and dealing with then-Senate Majority Leader Sheldon Killpack, R-Syracuse, at a Layton diner or meeting one-on-one with then-Senate President Michael Waddoups, R-Taylorsville, on Capitol Hill. McAdams and Becker also made the rounds with the likes of Buttars, members of the Sutherland Institute and even Gayle Ruzicka of the Eagle Forum. By 2009, they had convinced Buttars not to shoot down the ordinance on the hill, but even then they weren’t in the clear.

McAdams says at the time, the staff kept up a poker face, despite a real fear that if the ordinance didn’t have a solid foundation, it would have been legally challenged, given that state law regularly trumps municipal ordinances. At the time, Utah offered no protection to

its LGBT citizens.

“We needed to argue that we weren’t exceeding state law, but that we were filling a gap in state law,” McAdams says.

The mayor’s staff then hosted community dialogues with residents to document stories of discrimination of LGBT Salt Lakers when it came to housing and the workplace, in part to shore up the ordinance’s legality.

Parallel to this lengthy process, the “Gang of Five”—as they were sometimes referred to—also entered the fray as a group of LGBT advocates, who in the summer of 2009 met secretly with representatives of the LDS Church.

The meetings came in the aftermath of a controversy involving two men who were cited for holding hands and kissing on Temple Square, leading in turn to a “kiss-in” protest led by former Salt Lake City Councilwoman Deeda Seed.

Seed reached out to former Salt Lake City Councilman for District 1 Carlton Christensen in 2009, who helped make introductions between the activists and the church officials. The meetings led to a culture shift that Seed says played a pivotal role in having a representative of the LDS Church endorse the ordinance at its first public hearing.

But she also credits Becker’s herculean efforts in drafting the ordinance.

“What he and his staff did was to put together what became the model for Equality Utah to work with other municipalities that really was the template for everything that came after,” Seed says.

Dabakis, another key member of the Gang of Five, however, says it was the informal work of the gang that really made the difference.

“From my perspective, the thing that rocked the world wasn’t that liberal Salt Lake City passed a nondiscrimination ordinance,” Dabakis says, but that the LDS Church supported it.

“I don’t think the mayor had a bit to do with that. It was the Gang of Five that sat down and hashed that out,” Dabakis says. Others at the time, however, said the church’s endorsement was in response to public pressure in the wake of Prop 8’s passage in 2008.

“Their endorsement was a direct response to the onslaught of negative press they’ve received over the last year,” then-activist, now Equality Utah executive director Troy Williams told City Weekly in 2009.

Brandie Balken, another Gang of Five member and former head of Equality Utah, however, says that Becker’s administration, through community dialogues and consensus building, helped bridge the cultural divide even if he wasn’t a part of the secret meetings.

“That’s where it started, a willingness to engage in meaningful and sometimes challenging dialogue,” Balken says. “That was something Mayor Becker put forward.” While mayoral candidate Jackie Biskupski, if elected, would be Salt Lake City’s first openly gay mayor, Balken points out that during Biskupski’s time in the Legislature, her work was focused on public-safety issues and lessening regulations for midwives, while Becker does have a substantive track record on LGBT issues as mayor. City Weekly contacted Biskupski’s office for comment but, as of press time, she had not responded.

McAdams argues that while Becker had the votes on the council, he wanted to do it the right way instead of rushing to pass an ordinance that would have triggered a political showdown. He might have won praise, but it would have cost him the ordinance.

“It would have been a great symbolic gesture, but Ralph had the vision to say ‘I don’t want a symbolic gesture, I want protection,’” McAdams says. CW

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Mormon feminist blog gives younger LDS women a forum to speak out.

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sion happening on Wheelwright’s Facebook page, and she realized she wasn’t alone in wondering where women fit in the faith culture.

“Nobody likes that spotlight shone on them and to feel like the weirdo or the anomaly,” Sweeney says. “But, sometimes, you realize it’s just that one voice that needs to speak up.” The voices have now become something of a chorus—though, they don’t all sing the same notes. As Wheelwright points out, the site includes a diversity of beliefs from critics, questioners and defenders of the faith alike.

The posts also are provocative and the emotions, often raw and unrefined. One woman posted about her struggles cutting herself due to anxiety over her weight and cultural pressures about not being able to find an eternal mate. Another post, “Satan Is My Personal Savior” is a satire about the “caricature” of Satan, whom the author commends for reasons like: “Because he told a woman that she could know like God knows.”

Kristeen Black, a professor of religion and society at Drew Theological School in Oakland, Calif., and a former Utah Valley University instructor, sees the younger Mormon feminist generation as playing a crucial role for women in the church. She says, in the LDS culture, women often feel their only meaningful interactions in the church are dependent upon them getting married. But now, as younger Mormon women can use sites like YMF to evaluate the role of women in their religious communities, Black says family dynamics will change for the better.

“I think they will be more conscientious about who they marry and what they teach their children,” Black says. “They’ll give them a different world view, because they have a different world view themselves.”

For Wheelwright, that discussion shouldn’t be one with any specific agenda other than honest and open dialogue. She says she doesn’t censor posts on the site simply because she may disagree with them.

“It really is a blank space for people to post whatever they want without worrying that it’s too brash or too feminist or not feminist enough,” Wheelwright says. “It’s a place for them to say what they really think.” CW

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annah Wheelwright still recalls the fateful visit she received from a pair of home teachers who came to her with a dire warning in the spring of 2012.

Wheelwright at the time was a Brigham Young University student—if perhaps an unorthodox one because of her progressive beliefs. The home teachers wanted to talk about the F-word: feminism. They told her that, if she wasn’t careful, her feminist beliefs would lead her astray from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Wheelwright took the teachers’ warning to heart and made it her own personal calling to establish a place for women to come together to speak about matters of faith and feminism.

She created the Provo Feminists Facebook page, which soon drew in hundreds of women seeking a place they felt they could be heard and listened to—not preached to. That page evolved into YoungMormonFeminists.org, which will celebrate its third anniversary July 21, having in that time garnered almost 1 million views, while the Facebook page now counts more than 1,300 members.

For Wheelwright, the site has served as an important forum not just for Millennial Mormon feminists to express themselves but also as a place to stand out among older generations of Mormon feminists who faced different issues than their younger counterparts. Compared to the longstanding FeministMormonHousewives.org blog, Wheelwright says YMF contributors are more likely to be edgy and outspoken.

“These young whippersnappers are being a lot more blunt in their criticism of the church than FeministMormonHousewives,” Wheelwright says. “That’s one of the biggest differences.” YMF, she says, provides a platform for young Mormon women who might not be married or mission-bound, where they can be more outspoken in their beliefs.

Brittany Sweeney helps with the YMF site and says she was always a feminist—since before she even knew the name for it. She recalled that once, while she was serving a church mission in the Dominican Republic, a high-ranking church authority visited and asked a group of men and women missionaries what made them effective missionaries.

One of the elders said it was the power of the priesthood—reserved only for male members—and added a refrain of, “Sorry, sisters.”

“I was so pissed off!” Sweeney says with a laugh. When she returned from her mission, she was drawn to the candid discus-

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Fair-Housing Testers Needed The Disability Law Center (DLC) operates a fair-housing enforcement program and needs testers to visit or call landlords to inquire about apartments and then submit written reports about their experiences. Testers receive a $50 stipend for each completed test after attending a training session. Apply online at DisabilityLawCenter. org/job-posting-fair-housing-testers Holiday Candy Windows Macy’s at City Creek Center invites artists to submit proposals to create oversize candy ornaments for its holiday windows. Six artists will be selected to create and install their work from Nov. 2-18. The windows will be on display Nov. 19 to Jan. 2.

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Meet & Greet Kristian Bush Meet Kristian Bush, one half of country-music duo Sugarland, in advance of his EnergySolutions concert at Millcreek Goodwill where she encourages fans to donate clothing, electronics and small household goods. 4545 S. 900 East, Monday, July 20, 10 a.m.-noon, Goodwill.org

TRAINING & ASSISTANCE

Banking on Women is a 15-week comprehensive program that provides women entrepreneurs with the training, mentoring and microloans to build their businesses. Female entrepreneurs looking to start or grow their microenterprises are encouraged to apply.

Applications accepted until Aug. 3 for the fall/ winter class, starting Sept. 3. More information at GECapital.com/Banking_On_Women.html.

Women United is a safe space for refugee women to met one-on-one with trained volunteers who can help connect them with resources in the community. Volunteers are available during two four-hour blocks weekly: Hartland Community Center, 1575 W. 1700 South, Wednesdays, 3:30-6:30 p.m.; Hser Ner Moo, 479 E. 2250 South, South Salt Lake, Thursdays, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

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Yappy Hour Bring your pooch to enjoy offleash play, live music by the Dirty Johnson’s Band, food and beverages. Liberty Park (east side of park), 600 E. 900 South, Tuesday, July 21, 5-9 p.m. SLCgov.com Weekday Workouts Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main, every Monday-Thursday, now through Aug. 13. Monday, Wednesday: yoga, 5:30-6:30 p.m.; Tuesday, Tursday: Boot Camp, 5:30-6:30 p.m. SLCgov.com

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Curses, Foiled Again British police recovered a stolen car in Middleton when the two suspects tried driving it into the police station parking garage. Surveillance footage shows the 25-year-old and 26-yearold men thwarted by the security gate but unable to back up because two police vans were waiting behind them. Thinking the vans were pursuing them, the men fled on foot, Detective Inspector Lee Hopwood said, but officers tracked them down. (Britain’s Manchester Evening News)

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n When a television news interview with accident witness Courtney Barnes went viral, as much for his hilarious account of events as for his green hair and green fingernails, the owner of a store in Ridgeland, Miss., recognized Barnes as a shoplifting suspect from surveillance video and notified police. (Jackson’s WLBT-TV)

What Were They Thinking?

A public-safety message intended to shock people was removed because it shocked people. The billboard, promoting bicycle safety in Bakersfield, Calif., depicted a bicycle and a victim chalk outline, with the words, “See and be seen. Don’t be roadkill.”

Rhonda Hiller complained of the wording and its location, near where her son died in a traffic crash. “My son’s not roadkill,” she declared. Kern Council of Governments official Susanne Campbell said the “roadkill” message would be changed on billboards and bus ads. (Bakersfield’s KBAK-TV)

Milking the System The federal Medicare Fraud Strike Force concluded a nationwide investigation into home health-care fraud by charging 243 people, including 46 doctors and other medical professionals.

n Naica Gibson, 31, an unemployed mother of four in London, withheld 400 pounds ($615) from her 1,300 pounds ($2,000) monthly welfare check until she’d saved 4,000 pounds ($6,150) to travel to Poland for breast rejuvenation surgery. During the two years she saved, she admitted taking some of the money from the food budget but declared she went hungry as often as her children. When she could afford the procedure, she said the plastic surgeon left one breast bigger than the other and both breasts covered by unsightly scars. She’s asking Britain’s National Health Service to pay 5,000 pounds ($7,687) for corrective surgery. (Britain’s Daily Mail)

Punctuation Heroics Andrea Cammelleri had her pickup truck ticketed and towed from in front of her home in West Jefferson, Ohio, because she parked it on the street for more than the allowed 24 hours. She protested after her boyfriend pointed out that the ordinance about parking time limits applies to “motor vehicle camper,” not a motor vehicle and a camper, because there’s no comma between them. An appeals judge agreed the ordinance should be read as it’s written and ordered the city to reimburse her for towing and legal fees. “I was told, ‘don’t fight City Hall,’ I’d never win,” Cammelleri said. “I did.” (Columbus’s WTTE-TV) Toyland Administrators at Encinal High School in Alameda, Calif., insisted that a teacher was only joking when he assigned students to, according to one of their mothers, Kimberly Cobene, “go into your parents’ private drawers or whatever to seek out sexual toys or condoms, or anything of that nature and to take a selfie with it.” But Cobene and fellow mom Evangeline Garcia took him seriously and promptly mounted a campaign to have the school district fire him. (San Francisco’s KPIX-TV) n Someone threw a large rock through the window of the I Do! I Do! Wedding Boutique in Flagstaff, Ariz., according to police, who reported the only item stolen was a 2-foot-long, 20-pound rubber adult toy modeled after a woman’s torso. It sold for $600. (Flagstaff’s Arizona Daily Sun)

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n At a Fourth of July celebration in Calais, Maine, Devon Staples, 22, decided to launch fireworks off the top of his head. He died instantly.

“There was no rushing him to the hospital,” said his brother Cody Staples, 25, who was standing a few feet away when Devon placed a reloadable mortar tube on his head and ignited the fireworks. “There was no Devon left when I got there.” (Associated Press)

Agents said various schemes netted a combined $712 million in billings for nonexistent treatments.

One of the accused doctors, Noble U. Ezukanma, 56, submitted invoices claiming to have worked 205 hours in one day in 2012. Agents seized $344,900 from his Fort Worth, Texas, home.

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n After Carl McCoid, 42, got divorced in 2010, he covered his body with 29 Miley Cyrus tattoos. But after the performer told an American interviewer, “There’s a dude that holds a record of the most pictures of my face, he has like 18 pictures of my face and they’re really ugly,” the disappointed father of four in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, decided to have the tattoos removed by laser. “Right now, I have 29 tattoos done and have spent 2,800 pounds [$4,300],” McCoid said.

“I never thought I would regret it.” (Britain’s Daily Mail)

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‘Happily ever after’ does not figure into this torrid tale of Utah romance novelists.

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h en reviewers told LDS romance novelist Rachel Nunes that a book titled The Auction Deal, scheduled for release in August 2014, seemed suspiciously similar to hers, she was sure it was a mistake. She hoped it was “just a similar plot,” she recalls, never envisioning a stranger could possibly steal her story and rework it. But that’s what Nunes now claims: A writer changed the point of view of her 1998 romance novel, A Bid for Love— and spiced up what was originally a Christian novel by adding some steamy sex scenes.

The conflict between the two writers would escalate far beyond charges of plagiarism. Nunes alleges the plagiarist used various Internet pen names to conduct a disinformation campaign showing “a clear plan of attack that I’m learning is used by many plagiarists.” The alleged literary thief tried everything “to discredit and hurt me,” Nunes says, claiming the writer “slammed my writing, threatened me professionally, and then dragged my extended family into the fray.”

Today, Nunes hesitates every time she receives a Facebook friend request, because she worries it could be from a supporter of her foe—someone “who could fling more rocks and mud in my direction.” For her, the act of being plagiarized was so personal, it is difficult for her to talk about. “But with all the added drama in my case, it also feels like a literal physical attack. Feels, not felt, because I’m still dealing with it every day and could be for another year or more.”

She complains about how much time she has lost dealing with the issue. Those were hours she could have spent with her husband and seven children, or writing another book. “The lifetime earnings I won’t make on the book I didn’t write in these past months is something I’ll never recoup.”

Meanwhile, the author of The Auction Deal has removed the book from Amazon.

Nunes (pronounced Noon-esh) was born in Provo. She learned to read when she was 4 and began writing in the seventh grade. Until her recent run-in with the alleged plagiarist, Nunes enjoyed a prolific writing career as a Christian novelist. Now residing in Orem, she writes books ranging from romance and suspense to women’s fiction and family drama, including Before I Say Goodbye, the Autumn Rain novels, and the Ariana series.

Rachel Nunes is a luminary in the LDS writing community, having published 48 books with the three largest LDS publishers, says local writer Heather Moore, herself the author of 20 novels and 16 novellas. “She is also the founder of the LDS Storymakers organization, in which she has mentored LDS writers from all over the country.” Plus, Nunes serves on the Indie Author Hub board and has won the Whitney Award, a distinction honoring LDS writers. Her book, Daughter of a King, won Best Book of the year by the Independent LDS Booksellers Association.

Moore recalls how motivated she felt after taking a workshop from Nunes. “She talked about how she wrote 2,000 words a day.

Sometimes it took a couple of hours, but most of the time it took the whole day,” Moore said.

“She said she’d often pick her kids up from school still wearing PJs. She frequently wrote with a toddler in her lap. As a young mom, it was a huge inspiration to me to know that I could set a word-count goal and that, sometimes, my family could have hot dogs for dinner, and it would be OK to follow my dreams.”

A Complete Violation

When Sam Taylor Mullens self-published The Auction Deal on Amazon in the summer of 2014, Mullens may not have counted on the fact that Mullens and Nunes traveled in the same romance-novelist circles, and that the multiple reviewers who were sent a copy would remember Nunes’ book, A Bid for Love.

Originally titled Love to the Highest Bidder, Nunes’ book is a story about two art dealers— one from New York and the other from California—who meet and fall in love while bidding on an Indian Buddha statue. It was first published by Deseret Book, a publishing house for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. Nunes got the copyright after the book went out of print and published a slightly revised e-book edition on Amazon.com titled A Bid for Love.

The Auction Deal, according to Nunes, has the same plot but is told in the first person. It is about an art dealer who bids on a sculpture in Beverly Hills and meets a Chicago gallery owner. Nunes understood that Mullens’ book included sex scenes, another difference from A Bid for Love.

In late July 2014, Nunes said several reviewers emailed her, telling her that Mullens’ book was very similar to hers. “They said it was a copy of my book and that [the author] was claiming to have collaborated with me,” Nunes says. Writing back to the reviewers, Nunes asked them to read her novel to confirm if it was true. Either that, she said, or send her a copy of Mullens’ book. Nunes “was freaked out” by the

idea of people writing reviews about a novel that was hers (with the exception of the sex scenes). She then found The Auction Deal author’s email address and Shawn Bailey is Nunes’ attorney. In his “other” life, he sent off a message asking for an explanation as well as is a published writer of a novel and short stories. When an opportunity to review the book. She asked to see an a friend of Nunes’ wrote a blog post about Nunes and ARC, or advance reading copy. “I still hoped that it just how she was having difficulty paying legal fees to file had a similar plot,” she recalls. a copyright-infringement lawsuit, he thought he could Nunes says that Mullens claimed The Auction Deal help. He says he appreciates Nunes’ accomplishments evolved from a writing group before about two dozen as an author and “what it takes to write a novel—the beta readers reviewed it. Nunes says that Mullens refused work and craft that goes into that. I could feel in my to send an ARC but attempted to allay her concerns by bones how it feels to do something creative and love it saying the The Auction Deal would not be published. and want to share that with other people and also how Nunes said she emailed Mullens again requesting an it must feel to have that stolen by someone else and ARC, saying that reviewers had said there were “eerie passed off as their work.” similarities” between the two Bailey says, “A lot of people author’s books. If Mullens would just back down, but would just send the ARC of she sees this as a fight worth The Auction Deal, Nunes said fighting, as standing up for Chapter 2 of A Bid for Love by Rachel Ann she told Mullens, “I could look Nunes (1998) other creative people.” at it and then email the three “I strongly believe in The dark brown curls were everywhere. They people I’ve talked to about this were a curse, and had been for twenty-eight of intellectual-property rights and put it to rest. It shouldn’t Cassi’s twenty-nine years. They puffed out from because they protect the ability take me long to review it.” her scalp and plunged halfway down her back as of people to earn a modest But Nunes says Mullens if they had lives of their own, helplessly tangled reward for what they do,” Bailey declined and also asked Nunes and twisted together. The bathroom lights above says. “Even though she has not to request an ARC from the double sink reflected from the brown tresses, published many novels, it is any other sources because, “If bringing out the subtle gold highlights. also a labor of love, and people you are still a member of the don’t make big money unless LDS Church, I would not feel they are J.K. Rowling, or a few comfortable about sharing The others in the publishing world.

Chapter 2 of The Auction Deal by Sam Auction Deal due to the sexual Copyrights enable writers to put Taylor Mullens (2014) content … and there is a lot.” groceries on the table for their Dark brunette curls were everywhere. They Nunes claims that in an families.” were a curse, and had been for the thirty-one email exchange, Mullens said, years of my life. They puffed out from my scalp Copyright laws give the and plunged halfway down my back. They “I do not write for a living, it owner of a copyright (often helplessly tangled and twisted together. The is a hobby.” Mullens allegedly a publisher, author or both) bathroom lights above the sink reflected the said Goodreads had removed the exclusive right, for a brown tresses. the link and that The Auction period of time, to benefit from Source: RachelAnnNunes.blogspot.com copyrighted work by displaying, Deal would not be published in any form. With that, reproducing, distributing and Mullens hoped the matter would be resolved because, making “derivative works” of that work. Bailey says according to email exchanges posted on Nunes’ blog, suing for copyright infringement is the legal avenue for reviewers were feeling “harassed.” Nunes emphasizes copyright owners claiming a violation of their copyright. that she never harassed any reviewers, claiming she sent In contrast, Bailey says, plagiarism is a broader, them a single polite email and nothing further, unless ethical concept concerned with using the work of others they responded to her. without proper attribution. There is generally no legal Nunes wrote back to Mullens, saying she was still claim for plagiarism. Some plagiarism is also a copyright confused about why she would not send her an ARC. “If violation (and vice versa) but the overlap between the you never read my book or copied it, then there can’t two concepts gets muddied. be a problem, right? I don’t want any money from you.

I mean, I could just turn it over to my attorney if that were the case, because copyright infringement is a big deal. But I’m trying to believe what you say—that you haven’t read my book or copied it. That is what you are saying, right?”

Looking back, Nunes said in a recent interview with City Weekly, “I know that she was trying to assuage my worry with her emails, but I realized right off that there was something very wrong because of her refusal [to send the ARC]. Plus, too many reviewers were saying it was the same book. Also, I had no guarantee that she wouldn’t go ahead with publishing my book. I needed to know the truth so I could decide what to do.”

A sympathetic reviewer finally sent Nunes the ARC of The Auction Deal on Aug. 8, 2014. That’s when Nunes discovered that entire phrases were exactly the same, while other sentences and sections were summarized.

“When I saw the ARC, I knew that everything the reviewers said is true. The entire plot, words. A complete violation. No wonder [Mullens] wouldn’t send it to me.”

Nunes said, “It felt like somebody came into my house and stole something very precious to me.”

On Aug. 29, 2014, Nunes filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, seeking $150,000 in damages for each copyright infringement.

Horrendously Expensive to Prosecute

—Christian romance novelist Rachel Nunes

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Further, copyright infringement is a civil matter, not a criminal one. “It is horrendously expensive to prosecute,” Nunes said, noting it is also a federal offense. “You are victimized even more when you have to pay money to seek damages. And when a plagiarist rewrites a book by changing a few words, how many readers are going to … realize it is plagiarized? … It’s so much easier to rewrite someone else’s book than write your own.”

Nunes says she didn’t write for about six months after discovering the alleged plagiarism. She says she could have written two novels in that time, so the loss was huge.

“Not only the loss of income,” she says, “but the loss of the emotional connection I have with writing. Writing is how I relieve stress. Writers know that if you are not writing, your world is not OK.”

Adding Insult to Injury

Not long after Nunes says she asked Mullens to send an ARC, she received an email dated Aug. 5, 2014, from Tiffanie Rushton, a woman claiming to be a friend of Sam Taylor Mullens. The letter alleged that a man who was a member of a writing group gave Nunes’ manuscript to Mullens, telling Mullens it was no longer in print. The man claimed to have collaborated with the author on the original work and challenged Mullens to spice it up. The man had since died in a car accident, Rushton said, and as such, Mullens and Rushton did not feel comfortable questioning his family about the collaboration.

In the letter, Nunes says that Rushton went on to criticize her for requesting an ARC from reviewers, saying it was upsetting them. Rushton concluded by painting Mullens Chapter 14 of The Auction Deal in glowing terms, letting it slip that Sam Taylor Mullens

by Sam Taylor Mullens (2014) is, in fact, a woman. Not only that, but she is the mother of He paused to adjust the light on the an autistic son who found time to volunteer as a counselor camera and jotted down a few notes on at a domestic-violence shelter and in classrooms as a a pad of paper. When he was satisfied, he moved to another machine and teacher of “illiterate young moms,” Rushton wrote. “Please directed sound waves toward the do not discredit this wonderful woman in the small, indie Buddha, scribbling more notes on publishing community,” Rushton implored.”They need his pad. He had a complete look of her.”

Court documents allege that Mullens emailed a concentration on his face.

Taking off his glasses, he said, “It’s reviewer, claiming to be Nunes’ niece. The “niece” told definitely a fake. Someone has gone the reviewer that Mullens had the original idea for Nunes’ to a lot of trouble by using paint that book, and that Nunes gave Mullens permission to rework has almost the same emission and the story. According to court documents, the “niece” absorption spectrum as the original. wouldn’t divulge Mullens’ identity because Mullens’ family The sound waves and the depth check didn’t know she wrote about sex, and if they found out, she were the final indicators that it’s not an would get kicked out of her church and lose her husband. original from Mathura in central India.”

Nunes also alleges that Mullens wrote to her under a pseudonym, claiming to be the niece of Sheri Dew, CEO of Source: Rachel Nunes Deseret Book (the company that publishes Nunes’ books).

According to court documents, a Facebook post using the name of “Mercedes Booklover Drakos” stated, “Rachel [Nunes] feels threatened because I told her I would be

“If I, as a fiction writer, were to make up a character who did these things, no one would believe it.”

—Sci-fi writer David Wolverton (aka David Farland) Compare for yourself: Chapter 14 of A Bid for Love by Rachel Ann Nunes (1998) Carl moved a machine attached to an extendable arm and looked through it at the Buddha. Every now and then, he paused to change the light and jot down a few notes. Then he moved to the second machine and scribbled more on his pad.

Finally, he turned the machines off.

“It’s fake, all right. But someone’s gone to an awful lot of trouble to make it appear real. They used paint that has almost the same emission and absorption spectrum as the original.

But where I could tell was when I did the depth check with sound waves. This Buddha is not as thick as the original— or at least it’s not made up of the same material. Then I checked it with this,” he pointed to one of his machines. “The magnetic resonance proves that it’s definitely hollow. But I’m sure it weighs the same, or it wouldn’t have come undetected as far as it has. That means it’s probably made out of a heavier clay.”

contacting my aunt, Sheri Dew, and letting her know how she is handling the situation through reviewers and not through the author. Deseret Book and Seagull Book are appalled at the way she is handling the situation.”

The lawsuit further claims that Mullens used false identities to harass reviewers who spoke against Mullens, and that she utilized more than 20 aliases, or “sock puppets,” to leave one-star reviews of Nunes’ books on dozens of social-media websites. Nunes says she even found five one-star reviews for A Bid for Love under aliases dating two months prior to Mullens’ book being published on Amazon, even before Nunes was aware of the The Auction Deal’s existence.

These disingenuous book reviews are noted in Nunes’ lawsuit, with Nunes claiming Mullens violated Utah’s Truth in Advertising Act as well as the federal Lanham Act, as they allegedly caused harm to Nunes’ reputation and book sales.

According to court documents, these false identities included names such as Jennifer Greer, Jennifer Booklover, Abby Forbush, Macey Forbush, Aubrey Powell, Mercedes Drakos, Bethany Johnson, Emma Koster, Lucy Evans and possibly others. Court documents allege that as Nunes uncovered Mullens deceitful actions, Mullens began a campaign to discredit Nunes through various means, such as the following comment by Mercedes Drakos (a purported alias) on Nunes’ author page on Facebook: “I have lost a lot of respect for Rachel Nunes as an author and a person. She (is) harassing readers/reviewers online.

In my eyes, she does not have the character trait of being kind, caring understanding or compassionate.”

Nunes felt vulnerable and began having panic attacks. “[Mullens] was going on my Facebook and posting things.

I felt attacked every time I opened my email, because I didn’t know if there was going to be something more.”

She took action to protect herself: grabbing screenshots, communicating with attorneys, deleting posts, asking Amazon to take down reviews, trying to raise funds for her legal defense.

The timing couldn’t have been worse for Nunes because her husband had recently gone part-time at his job, so the couple could start an author-related business, which was “horribly delayed because of this.” Not only has the conflict taken over her life, “The biggest devastation of all is that I fear I’m neglecting my seven children,” she says. “Even when I had a slice of time, working was impossible because of the emotional upheaval.”

Even after Nunes filed a complaint in federal court, Nunes alleges the harassment continued. Nunes would find both public and private posts on Facebook and her GoFundMe account that claimed Nunes’ story was all a scam, she says. The posts also appeared to be written under aliases.

Volunteer investigators finally helped Nunes track down the identity of the sock puppets and that of Sam Taylor Mullens herself. While an online bio described Mullens as “happily married and living in beautiful Colorado with two daughters, a son and a schnauzer named Charlie,” it turns out that Mullens is actually Tiffanie Rushton, the person Nunes said had written to her claiming to be a friend of Mullens. According to court documents, Rushton is from Layton, Utah. Nunes also notes that Rushton is a thirdgrade teacher for the Davis School District.

Rushton declined to be interviewed for this story. Her attorney, Brennan Moss, spoke to City Weekly, stating his client, Rushton, pulled the online copies and offered an apology to Nunes, but was rebuffed by Nunes.

Internet Forensics

Helping Nunes unravel Rushton’s identity and connecting her to the sock puppets was an online supporter of Nunes’, author John Doppler. A software developer in Southern California, Doppler says he stumbled across Nunes’ blog by accident. After reading her story, he said, “it was pretty clear that she was an innocent victim. So I wrote to her to express my sympathy and offer any help I could.”

÷Brennan H. Moss, attorney for Tiffanie Rushton

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harass Rushton at her place of employment by sending vague subpoenas that ask for information such as “all information of plagiarized work of Rushton.”

Further, Moss claims that Nunes is pursuing her story in the media giving her outdated book “a new bump in publicity.” He argues that Nunes is leveraging her claim that she is the victim of terrible plagiarism (remember only two copies were sold) to raise thousands of dollars.

“Nunes’ refusal to seek a just resolution speaks volumes of her motivations. Rushton has attempted to settle with her appropriately but all offers have been rebuffed,” he says.

“What I find interesting in this case is Nunes’ overly aggressive approach to a case where the maximum violation was the sale of two books,” Moss says. “What is troubling is that Nunes is attempting to ruin Rushton’s career as a loyal educator, and shame her as a person and a member of her community.”

According to the Davis County School district, Rushton is still employed as a grade-school teacher in the district.

Moss notes, “Copyright laws are meant to compensate people for damages they have suffered, not to penalize people.

Nunes is trying to use the copyright statute as a punishment tool.”

Nunes’ attorney says the courtroom is the best place for a resolution. “At first, all Rachel hoped for was an acknowledgment that the book was plagiarized and an apology,” Bailey says. “Far from an apology, she received all kinds of harassment and bizarre behavior. My sense is that some of that harassing behavior online continued after the lawsuit had filed, [which is] why she felt like she had to pursue it the way she has.”

Today, in seeming opposition to the tactics she claims to have been the victim of, Nunes advises others who find out about her situation not to harass Rushton. She wants the conflict resolved in court. CW

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From Chapter 2 of The Auction Deal I looked up from the paper and scanned the pamphlets displayed on a rack next to the table. The paper I sought was near the bottom, so I bent over to retrieve it.

A hideous-looking Buddha stared out at me from the pamphlet cover. “Ewww, are you ugly,” I whispered. “Why does Frederick want you?” I traced the lines of the image with the tips of my fingers as I recalled the conversation I had with Frederick, the gallery owner, the day before.

“I want you to bid for the Buddha,” he said adamantly. “It’s a very interesting piece from the late Kushan period. It’s believed to have been made at Mathura, and is a well-preserved piece for the price.

If you win the bid, call me and I’ll come down with a crew to transport it.”

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While Tiffanie Rushton could not be reached for comment for this story, City Weekly spoke to Brennan Moss, Rushton’s attorney. Because of pending litigation and discovery, he says he can offer few specifics about the case. He cannot provide Rushton’s explanation as to why the two books contain similarities. He says that as soon as Rushton was notified, she backed down right away and pulled her books.

He adds that she was willing not to publish and she offered an apology letter, but those offers were rebuffed by Nunes, who also would not agree to a standard protective order.

“I think it warrants looking at the allegations and defenses, then looking at the level of response generated by Rachel Nunes,” Moss said. “Even if Nunes’ allegations are true regarding the plagiarism, only two copies of the alleged infringing work were sold, and both copies were purchased by the author. Even if both copies were not purchased by the author, the total revenue generated for the sales was approximately $4.00.”

In an email to City Weekly, Moss wrote that Rushton immediately From Chapter 2 of Love to the Highest Bidder pulled the copies from the Amazon store when (now titled A Bid for Love) She looked up from the paper and scanned the confronted by Nunes and offered to destroy all copies, pamphlets again until she found the one she was and to issue an apology as looking for. It was near the bottom, and she bent to part of a settlement. “Nunes retrieve it.

A hideous-looking Buddha stared out at her. “Boy, rejected that settlement and are you ugly,” Cassi whispered. This was the main is pushing the litigation item she had come to bid for. “Why on earth would extremely aggressively anyone want you?” She traced the lines of the Buddha (seeking approximately as she remembered her conversation with Linden only $150,000 in damages). the day before.

Nunes has refused to drop “I want you to bid for the Buddha,” he said. “It’s a the issue and is causing very interesting piece from the late Kushan period. It is both sides to spend tens believed to have been made at Mathura, and is a wellof thousands of dollars in preserved piece for the price. If you get it, call me and legal fees,” noted Moss. He I’ll come down with Justin and Gary to get it.” Justin wrote that Nunes is also and Gary were the guards who worked for the gallery, using the legal system to and they always picked up the most important items.

New York Times best-selling science fiction author Dave Wolverton, who writes fantasy books under the name of David Farland, is the author of 50 novels. He became familiar with Nunes’ situation and encouraged her to establish a GoFundMe page to raise money for her lawsuit.

In an email to City Weekly, he wrote, “Tiffanie Rushton’s alleged crimes against Rachel Nunes quite frankly constitute the most bizarre and disgusting behavior that I’ve ever seen in a plagiarism case. The idea that a third-grade teacher would steal an entire romance novel from another author, turn it into smut, sell it as her own, defraud customers by posting fake review using the name of her underage students, cyberbully the victim, then try to hide her crimes by pretending to be the parents of her students standing up in her own defense goes beyond the pale.” He concludes, “If I, as a fiction author, were to make up a character who did these things, no one would believe it.”

Nunes feels that if someone had plagiarized Stephen King or J.K. Rowling, that person would face a legal challenge, but it is easier to get away with victimizing authors with more moderate sales who have yet to become a worldwide sensation. “The truth is,” Nunes says, “that all authors are at risk, and this is becoming a huge problem. This is a new breed of plagiarist.” Nunes wants plagiarists to know they can be prosecuted and held accountable.

Nunes’ case is scheduled for trial in August 2016.

Bailey explains that the attorneys are still in the process of discovery. He views it as pure luck one of the reviewers that Rushton asked to read her book had also happened to read Nunes’ book. “What Rushton was doing [was] kind of ingenious. I suspect that she thought there wasn’t a lot of overlap (between) people who read Christian romance novels, and ones that have the steamier love scenes.”

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Doppler has been involved in animal-welfare cases in the past, such as tracking down crush-video producers, animal hoarders and con artists. “With 20-odd years in IT,” he says, “I’ve picked up some useful investigative skills. I was happy to put those to use in Rachel’s case.”

He and his team noticed distinctive traits in the mannerisms and cover stories used by the sock puppets that were disparaging Nunes. “We soon realized that we were dealing with one very prolific individual rather than a mob of cyberbullies.”

Doppler and other online fans of Nunes’ employed a type of “Internet forensics” whereby, “We sent email and private messages to the accounts we suspected,” Doppler says.

“Those messages contained a link that pointed back to web servers I own.” The servers logged each user’s IP address, the time of access and a unique code associated with the message. Doppler claims that every one of the connections came from the same IP address—from the same house.

At first, they only knew that the messages came from the same individual in Utah, Doppler says. But one day, Rushton allegedly clicked on a link sent to her personal email, and Doppler claims it matched the other IP traces. That breakthrough opened additional avenues of investigation.

“Thanks to the hard work of some extremely dedicated and wonderful people, we were able to compile a daunting collection of evidence against Tiffanie,” Doppler says.

Nunes claims that a number of the aliases Rushton allegedly wrote under were actual real-life names of students in her third-grade class. Nunes operates the blog, RachelAnnNunes.blogspot.com, where she writes about her lawsuit as well as news about her novels. When she wrote about her novel allegedly being plagiarized and made claims about Rushton’s alleged use of the children’s school-issued email addresses, Nunes said that, days later, a student’s parent posted on her blog, asking that all the comments about Rushton be removed. “But the IP address showed the [comment from the “parent”] came from Rushton’s computer,” Nunes alleges.

“A lot of people would just back down, but she sees this as a fight worth fighting, as standing up for other creative people.”

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Any collection of works by a single artist aims for some kind of unity, but Sean Morello’s Constellations & Supersymmetries—currently on exhibit at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art—manages to reference art history and particle physics in an idiosyncratic manner. Curated

by Adam Bateman, executive director of CUAC Gallery, these pieces emanate a postmodern style referencing art history in subtle ways, using refuse and other found materials to forge a syntax of prototypical mark-making that also comments pointedly about the detritus of modern society. Collages bristle with color and form that speaks of Morello’s education at Brigham Young University and Pratt Institute as a painter.

The Constellations series of collages consist of snapshots of discarded materials [“4.10.2013 (Actual Size)” is pictured]. Interestingly, the materials for each work were gathered at the same place and time; it’s almost like viewing specimens from an archeological dig, but the history of a past that’s barely distant at all, and has implications for the future. He draws our attention to items as near as under our feet but as fragmented as star clusters.

The Supersymmetries group is based on a scientific theory that arose to augment the standard model of particle physics, modifying that model to allow the existence of phenomena like dark matter. Morello uses this description as a metaphor for the way his assemblages impose order or meaning on the disorders of capitalism, mass consumption and waste in the modern world. His artful depiction of an artless world is nothing less than uncanny. (Brian Staker) Sean Morello: Constellations & Supersymmetries @ Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Aug. 1, free (suggested $5 donation). UtahMOCA.com

It’s not often that you find a theatrical production as comfortable with silence as Sunset Baby—yet that’s one of the most compelling things going on in People Productions’ regional premiere of Dominique Morisseau’s play. While it digs into social issues like the ripple effects of fatherlessness and the individual costs of trying to change the world, the production finds remarkable grace notes in Richard Scharine’s direction of people alone with their thoughts.

That might not be intuitively obvious from the set-up, or from the conflict introduced at the outset. Kenyatta Shakur (William Ferrer), a radical social-justice activist recently released from prison, has tracked down Nina (Michaela Johansen), the daughter he hasn’t seen in 20 years. He’s interested in getting his hands on letters written to him by Nina’s now-deceased mother, but Nina—who makes her living selling drugs with her boyfriend, Damon (Calbert Beck IV)—isn’t feeling particularly charitable towards him.

The confrontations between Kenyatta and Nina don’t always produce the kind of fireworks they seem designed for, and it’s even harder that they lack Beck, the standout member of the cast.

But the text does dig into some thorny questions of relationships splintered by economics, and an emotional distance that can feel like selfpreservation. Better still are the scenes in which Johansen’s Nina conveys an ease in solitude that she never seems capable of when she’s around another person. Often with little more than a Nina Simone song on in the background, Sunset Baby finds power in how easy it is to get comfortable being alone. (Scott Renshaw) People Productions: Sunset Baby @ Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 132 S. 800 West, July 16-18, 7:30 p.m.; July 18-19, 3 p.m., $15. PeopleProductions.org

When Walt Disney conceived of Fantasia in 1938—a feature-length expansion of an idea that was originally intended simply as a “Silly Symphony” starring Mickey Mouse, accompanied by Paul Dukas’ tone poem The Sorcerer’s Apprentice—it was a risky attempt to meld the worlds of classical music and animation. And while the initial release of the film was a financial failure, in part due to the expanding war in Europe, it remains a unique part of film history.

Fantasia also provides a unique opportunity for a symphony orchestra to invite a younger audience into an art form often assumed to be for old folks. As part of its annual Deer Valley summer concert series, the Utah Symphony presents a program of great works that were featured in both Disney’s original Fantasia and the updated Fantasia 2000 theatrical re-release, with the live orchestra accompanying the on-screen animation.

That program—which leads off with wellknown movements from Ludvig van Beethoven’s 5th and 6th symphonies—of course, includes Paul Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and its celebrated Mickey Mouse sequence full of marching mops; it’s hard to imagine Fantasia without it.

Selections will also include Amilcare Ponchielli’s Dance of the Hours, Pyotr IlyichTchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, Ottorino Respighi’s Pines of Rome and Edward Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance. And as a special treat for Disney fans, there’s the segment set to Claude Debussy’s Clair de Lune that was cut from the original 1940 program for length. Guest conductor Richard Kaufman steps in for Fantasia’s Leopold Stokowski. (Scott Renshaw) Utah Symphony: Disney’s Fantasia Live in Concert @ Deer Valley Snow Park Amphitheater, 2250 Deer Valley Drive, Park City, 801-355-2787, July 17, 7:30 p.m., $10-$72. ArtTix.org

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SATURDAY 7.18 Alt Press Fest

If there’s one thing Utah does well, it’s giving birth to counterintuitive underground scenes, like the punk scene immortalized in the movie SLC Punk. Another great counterculture scene alive and well today is the alternative press scene: comics, zines and other book arts all produced by creative, independent folks right here in the land of white bread and Jell-O. The Salt Lake City Main Library has long been a friend and ally of independent press artists. In 1997, the library started the first zine collection in the country—the collection now resides on the second floor—and, seven years ago, it started the Alt Press Festival, a place where artists and word-crafters share their voice, network with each other and inspire new creators.

Since the start of Salt Lake’s Alt Press Fest, employees at the city library have noticed a significant increase in the number of locally produced zines in their collection. This summer’s seventh annual Alt Press Fest includes the work of more than a dozen local artists, such as Bonnie Kaye Varga Cooper, a former librarian and current paper-crafts wizard, who will be inviting passersby to write poetry on her collection of typewriters and handing out homemade starter kits for the zine-curious. Larger collaborative writing projects will be present with works from Same Coin Press, Saltgrass Printmakers, the poetry journal Sugar House Review, and the new eco-literary journal Saltfront. Visitors to the free festival can also partake in various workshops and handson activities. Don’t miss seeing the steamroller printmaking in action. (Katherine Pioli) Alt Press Fest @ Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, July 18, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., free.

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Christensen’s life has been guided and defined by many places. At the age of 17, she left her native Denmark and spent the next decade and a half in noncommittal relationships with large cities around the world: She studied in London and New York, visited and worked in Singapore and Mexico City. When an offer came, in 2002, to move to Salt Lake City and become assistant artistic director of Ririe-Woodbury, she hesitated. The place seemed provincial, small and isolated. But she took the job, committing only to a one-year contract.

Thirteen years later—even after stepping down as Ririe-Woodbury’s artistic director in 2013 and starting her own company— Boye-Christensen is still here. Salt Lake City is home. “I fell in love with the landscape and people, the artists,” she explains.

“This place helped me develop a unique perspective on art in general and on nature and how you bring nature into your life.”

Now, with Nowhere—a site-specific and collaborative art performance set at Libby Gardner Concert Hall—Boye-Christensen hopes to guide audiences thought a carefully curated sensory exploration of their own complex relationship with place, a part of the human experience and identity that she sees as at once universal and also very personal. In addition to her own choreography, Nowhere includes the work of architect and Now-ID executive director Nathan Webster (Canada), organist Laura Cutler, composer Steingrimur Rohloff (Iceland), musician and composer Jesper Egelund (Denmark), lighting designer Cole Adams, and artist and CUAC contemporary art gallery director Adam Bateman.

Bateman, who’s currently working on his own performance-art piece—re-imagining the myth and the place called the American West by walking the pioneer path of his Mormon ancestors—recently received a visit from Boye-Christensen. Somewhere west of Cheyenne, Wyo., on a dirt road la-

beled “Brigham Young 1847,” she shot footage of Bateman on the lonesome high desert—a place of grass and sagebrush, a place, Bateman says, where you can see forever.

After filming Bateman in what BoyeChristensen describes as “that natural context where his needs were really practical”—the need for water and shelter— she brought the footage home, and is now working on inserting it, along with all the other components of sound, light and space, into the performance. Inside the “unnatural created context” of the concert hall, Bateman will become a symbol of man’s relationship with place, and the video, a method through which the audience may contemplate the places in which they find themselves.

“One thing we talked about early on,” recalls Bateman, “was having the audience move in specific ways through the venue.

We saw this walk as a dance the audience would perform, and moving through the hallways as being on a trail.”

And so, Libby Gardner Concert Hall—the hallways, the seats, the doors, the foyer— will become the final integral component in this exploration of place. As a site-specific dance, Nowhere responds to the architecture of the hall and inhabits it in a way that makes transporting the same performance to another space impossible. Trisha Brown, one of the first choreographers to create site-specific work in the 1970s, is most remembered for her piece Man Walking Down the Side of a Building, which sent a dancer walking seven stories down the face of a New York City apartment building rigged to mountaineering equipment.

Since then, site-specific dances have been performed on ships and bridges; in hotels, jail cells, hospitals and government halls; in subway terminals and on baseball

Commitment to place: Now-ID’s Nowhere diamonds. Each work uses place and architecture to advance an idea. “By moving the audience through [the hall’s] architecture in unconventional ways,” explains Bateman, “we can make [our audience] conscious of and contemplate their immediate relationship to place.”

Back at the rehearsal studio, where director and dancers have been hard at work for the past nine hours, it’s time to wrap up the day. But first, Boye-Christensen wants one last run of the duet. “I wanted the emotional energy of this piece to continually shift,” explains Boye-Christensen.

“It gets us back into this idea of push and pull. What do you want your identity to be in terms of where you are?”

Two dancers, close but not yet touching, position themselves in the center of the space. She moves first; he moves only when she pushes him into motion. Their two bodies become almost inseparable in the shifting play between power and intimacy.

Finally, crouched side by side, her arms form a circle. He threads his body into it.

Together, energetically and physically, they end inhabiting the same place. CW

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Peruvian Festival Five years in, the downtown Peruvian Festival is still going strong. Organized by the Utah Latino Arts Foundation, the Peruvian Festival is a unique opportunity for locals to experience the vibrant energy of Salt Lake City’s Peruvian community.

The two-day festival is packed with opportunities for adults and children to enjoy and learn more about this unique culture. Both days will feature live music, local art, cultural dancing and—perhaps most enticing of all—the Peruvian Gastronomic Fair. Those who have had the opportunity to visit local Peruvian eateries know that Peruvian cuisine is not to be missed. Authentic Peruvian chefs will be on hand to oblige those who have yet to try some refreshing ceviche or comforting lomo saltado.

Between the lively performances and the soulful food, the downtown Peruvian Festival is a great, family-friendly way to experience something new.

(Alex Springer) Peruvian Festival @ Salt Lake City Main Library Plaza, 210 E. 400 South, July 17, 4-9 p.m., July 18, 10 a.m.-11 p.m., $3.

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1776 The Empress Theatre, 9104 W. 2700 South, Magna, 801-347-7373, Monday, Friday, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., through July 25, EmpressTheatre.com 1776: America’s Musical Terrace Plaza Playhouse, 99 E. 4700 South, Ogden, 801-393-0700, Monday, Friday, Saturday, 7:30 pm, no show July 24, through July 25, TerracePlayhouse.com A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare in the Park, 360-620-5463, Anderson Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, July 16, 6:30 p.m.; Glendale Library, 1375 Concord St., July 20-21, 6:30 p.m.

Alice in Wonderland Salty Dinner Theater, Dry Creek Steakhouse, 10290 S. State, Sandy, 801262-5083, July 16, 7:30 p.m.; Joe Morley’s BBQ, 100 W. Center, Midvale, 801-255-8928, July 17, 7:30 p.m., SaltyDinnerTheater.com The Compleat Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 Main, 801-355-4628, Friday, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., through July 18, TheOBT.org Disney’s Beauty and The Beast Tuacahn Center for the Arts, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins, 435-652-3300, through Oct. 17, Tuacahn.org Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Herriman Arts Council, Rosecrest Pavilion, Butterfield Park, 6212 Butterfield Park Way, Herriman, 801-916-9679, July 16-18, 20, 7:30 p.m., Herriman.org/Arts-Council/Beauty Disney’s The Little Mermaid Hale Centre Theater, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 801-984-9000, through Aug. 1, HCT.org Disney’s When You Wish Tuacahn Center for the Arts, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins, 435-652-3300, through Oct. 16, Tuacahn.org Grease Midvale Main St. Theatre, 7711 S. Main St., Midvale, 801-566-0596, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 7 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m.; through July 18, MidvaleTheatre.com Grease’d: Happy Days Are Here Again! Desert Star Theatre, 4861 S. State, Murray, 801-266-2600, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, 7 p.m.; Friday, 7 & 9:30 pm; Saturday, 2:30, 6 & 8:30 pm; no performance July 24; through Aug. 22 DesertStar.biz

Into the Woods Hale Center Theatre, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, 801-226-8600, Monday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; matinee Saturday 3 p.m.; through Aug. 15, HaleTheater.org Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Scera Shell Outdoor Theatre, 699 S. State, Orem, 801-225-2787, Thursday-Saturday, 8 p.m., through July 18, SCERA.org Joseph Smith: Praise to the Man Brigham’s Playhouse, 25 N. 300 West, Washington, 435-251-8000, Tuesday-Saturday, 7 p.m.; matinee, 2 p.m.; through July 25, BrighamsPlayhouse.com The King and I CenterPoint Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, 801-298-1302, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 pm, through July 18, CenterPointTheatre.org Neil Simon Festival: Chapter Two, The Foreigner, I’m Not Rappaport, They’re Playing Our Song Heritage Center Theater, 105 N. 100 East, Cedar City, 435-327-8673, through Aug. 8, SimonFest.org Once Upon a Mattress Midvale City Park Amphitheater, 455 W. 7500 South, ThursdaySaturday, 7:30 p.m., through July 18, MidvaleArts.com Ordinary Days Sugar Space, 616 Wilmington Ave., Friday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; matinee Sunday, 3 p.m.; through July 26, UtahRep.org Saturday’s Voyeur Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North, 801-363-7522, WednesdaySaturday, 7:30 pm, Sundays, 1 & 6 pm, through Aug. 30, SaltLakeActingCompany.org Sunset Baby Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 132 S. 800 West, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; matinee, Saturday-Sunday, 3 p.m.; through July 18, PeopleProductions.org (see p. 20) Twelfth Night Salt Lake Shakespeare, Babcock Theater, 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-7100, Wednesday-Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 2 & 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 2 & 7:30 p.m.; Theatre.Utah.edu Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre: La Bohème, Carousel, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Man of La Mancha Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main St., Logan, 435-750-0300, through Aug. 8, UFOMT.org Utah Shakespeare Festival: Amadeus, Charley’s Aunt, Dracula, Henry IV Part Two,

moreESSENTIALS King Lear, South Pacific, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona 351 W. Center Street, Cedar City, 1-800-752-9849, through Sept. 5, Bard.org West Side Story Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, Park City, 435-649-9371, Thursday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 6 p.m.; through July 26, EgyptianTheatreCompany.org

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Big Band Dance Night with the Wasatch Jazz Project Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main, 801-535-6110, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., TheGallivanCenter.com The League Finals 3 v 3 BBoy Battle Leona Wagner Black Box Theater, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, July 18, 7 p.m., BBoyFed.com Nowhere Now International Dance Co., Libby Gardner Concert Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, University of Utah, 510-501-6915, July 17-18, 7:30 p.m., Now-ID.com (see p. 22)

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Days of ’47 Pioneer Day Concert LDS Conference Center, 60 W. North Temple, July 17-18, 8 p.m., LDS.org Disney’s Fantasia Live in Concert Utah Symphony, Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater, 2250 Deer Valley Drive South, Park City, 801-533-6683, July 17, 7:30, DeerValleyMusicFestival.org (see p. 20)

COMEDY & IMPROV

Andrew Schulz Wiseguys West Valley, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-463-2909, July 19, 7:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Marcus Wiseguys West Valley, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-463-2909, July 17-18, 8 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Rob Schneider Wiseguys Comedy Club, 2194 W. 3500 South, 801-463-2909, July 17, 7:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Shawn Paulsen Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588, July 17-18, 8 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com

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LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

David Gessner: All the Wild That Remains The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, July 18, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com J.R. Johansson: Mania The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, July 17, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com Jennifer White: Survival Strategies of the Almost Brave, The King’s English, 1511 S. 15th East, 801-484-9100, July 16, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com

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9th West Farmers Market Jordan Park, 1000 S. 900 West, Sunday, July 19, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., 9thWestFarmersMarket.org Alt Press Fest Salt Lake City Main Library, Urban Room, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, July 18, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., SLCPL.lib.ut.us (see p. 20) Crystal Mountain Pony Con Radisson Hotel, 215 S. Temple, July 17, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; July 18, 10 a.m.-midnight, CrystalMountainCon.com Downtown Farmers Market, Pioneer Park, 300 W. 300 South, Saturdays at 8 a.m., through Oct. 24, SLCFarmersMarket.org Halloween In Summer Festival Historic Main Street, Magna, 801-981-8180, July 18, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., HalloweenInSummerFestival.com Ogden Pioneer Days Festival various locations throughout Ogden, 801-621-1696, through July 25, OgdenPioneerDays.com Park Silly Sunday Market Historic Main Street, Park City, Sunday, 10 a.m., 435-655-0994, ParkSillySundayMarket.com Peruvian Festival Salt Lake City Public Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-834-1853, July 17, 4-9 p.m.; July 18, 10 a.m.-11 p.m., LatinoArtsFoundation.org (see p. 24) Provo Farmers Market Pioneer Park, 500 W. Center St., Provo, Saturdays 9 a.m.-2 p.m., through Oct. 31, ProvoFarmersMarket.org Urban Arts Festival The Gateway, 137 S. Rio Grande St., 801-363-2787, July 18, 11 a.m.-10 p.m., UrbanArtsFest.org Utah Uke Fest American Fork Historic City Hall, 31 N. Church St., American Fork, July 18, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., UtahUkeFest.org

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Adjunct Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through July 25, UtahMOCA.org Art Talk: Amanda Douberley on Claes Oldenburg’s Geometric Mouse, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, July 16, 7 p.m., UtahMOCA.org Brian Lindley: A Light in the Dark Art Barn/Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, 801-596-5000, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., through July 31 Darin Jones: Celebration Hotel Monaco, 15 W. 200 South, 801-805-1801, through Sept. 30, Monaco-SaltLakeCity.com Duane Linklater: salt 11 Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Drive, 801-581-7332, through Aug. 1, UMFA.utah.edu Eleanor Schultz: Controlled Burn: Pyrography Art Barn/Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, 801-596-5000, through July 31, SaltLakeArts.org Eugene Tachinni: in the hands Salt Lake City Anderson Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East,

moreESSENTIALS 801-594-8611, through July 18 SLCPL.org From Crayons to Krylon: Paintings by Alex D. Hall Day-Riverside Library, 1575 W. 1000 North, 801-594-8632, through Aug. 3, SLCPL.org Highlights of the Collection Tour Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, University of Utah, through Oct. 7, UMFA.Utah.edu Salt Lake Gallery Stroll Various galleries, July 17, 6 p.m.-9 p.m., GalleryStroll.org Jared William Christensen: Strange Environment Corrine and Jack Sweet Branch Library, 455 F Street, 801-594-8651, through Aug. 15, SLCPL.org Jerry Hardesty: Exposed Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, Monday-Saturday, through July 31, SLCPL.org Justin Carruth: Depart Broadway Center Cinemas, 111 E. 300 South, 385-215-6768, through Oct. 3, CUArtCenter.org Milton Neely: Metal Art, a Natural Inspiration Salt Lake City Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-594-8623, Monday-Saturday,

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ne of the hip-and-happening districts in Bangkok is the EkamaiThonglor area. It’s bustling with bars, cafes, restaurants and nightclubs, as well as the young, trendy crowds that frequent them.

The Ekamai Thai restaurants in downtown Salt Lake City and Sugar House are also hip— if perhaps not so trendy—and tend to attract a youngish clientele. Each location is different, but there’s an irreverence I like, such as walls that look like they were tagged and restrooms with huge male and female symbols painted on them. There’s also contemporary alternative music playing usually—the type of tunes you’d most likely hear on KRCL 90.9.

The Ekamai Thai restaurants here aren’t shrines to Thai cuisine or culture—just comfy, friendly and cool spots where you can get a taste of both.

The petite, downtown Ekamai Thai has a limited menu, so my review is mostly based on visits to the larger Sugar House venue, situated in an old house next to Blue Boutique, across from Sugar House Park.

At the downtown store, near Caputo’s, the Ekamai menu features six menu items that change daily, although some standards like massaman beef curry and yellow-curry chicken make the cut all six days a week (Monday-Saturday) that the cafe is open.

Customers can choose one item from the menu for $5.99 (served with rice) or two items for $8.49, which includes an egg roll.

In addition, there are a handful of house specials ($9.49): papaya salad, green-curry pasta, pad seiw and dunken noodles among them. Needless to say, at these prices lunch at the downtown location is quite popular and seating is sparse.

Ekamai in Sugar House is open for dinner nightly at 5 p.m. and serves a lunch buffet ($11.95) six days a week, Tuesday through Sunday. The regular Ekamai menu is also available at lunchtime if you’d prefer to stray from the buffet.

The service at Ekamai couldn’t be more friendly. But then, that’s something I say about almost every Thai restaurant I visit.

The Thai people are some of the warmest, most generous and happiest people I’ve ever met. That’s a big generalization, I realize, but true in my experience.

In addition to a number of Thai servers—mostly from Bangkok—at the Sugar

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House Ekamai, there’s also plenty who aren’t Thai-born, such as a fantastic woman named Miriam, who also is part of the team. I could build an entire restaurant around friendly, top-notch servers like her.

After being seated quickly, I found myself surprised a bit at the wine list. It isn’t lengthy, but there are some jewels, including Santa Margherita Prosecco, Ferrari-Carano Chardonnay, d’Arenberg The Hermit Crab Viognier, A to Z Pinot Gris, Plantagenet Pinot Noir and St. Supery Cabernet Sauvignon, plus decent sake and beer options.

So, we settled on a versatile wine— Fisher Unity Rosé ($35/bottle)—and dug into an appetizer of curry dumplings ($7).

I’m not used to seeing dumplings on Thai menus, and these are standard pork- and cabbage-stuffed potstickers—the same as those found in Chinese restaurants—but bathed in a sweet and spicy coconut-green curry. It’s a nice starter, as is the chicken satay ($9), which is four skewers of grilled, boneless chicken breast that somehow isn’t cooked to death, but surprisingly tender.

My only complaint was that more of the delicious peanut dipping sauce didn’t come with the skewers; we quickly ran out.

My favorite Ekamai appetizer, however, is the chicken larb ($8). Although you’ll find larb on most Thai menus, it is the national dish of Laos: a minced meat salad, made typically with pork or chicken seasoned with fish sauce, chilies, onion or shallots, kaffir lime leaves, garlic and Thai basil or cilantro. The meat—in this case, chicken— is minced and cooked, then served with large lettuce leaves you use at the table to make into “cups” or taco-style wraps.

The larb at Ekamai is very good, but not as spicy as I’m used to. And it occurred to me afterward that not once during our visits did anyone ask how spicy/hot we wanted any of our dishes, as is the norm in most Thai eateries. In general, the dishes at

Delectable garlic noodle prawns from Ekamai Thai are prawn-stoppable.

Ekamai are prepared on the mild side.

A dish I’d highly recommend is the garlic noodle with tiger prawns ($20). This was a generous serving of a half-dozen or so large, plump grilled prawns that were tender and delicious. They’re served atop a mound of thin, ramen-style egg noodles stir-fried with garlic and served with broccoli and deep-fried, crispy basil and onions, all topped with chili sauce.

I hate to say it, but a bowl of yellow curry ($12) with chicken, potatoes and carrots was pedestrian at best. As with many Ekamai dishes, it came with steamed broccoli and shredded carrots on the side. In fact, almost every dish we ordered was garnished with shredded carrots. I can’t say we were too impressed with the mahi mahi see ew ($18), either. See ew is a popular soy-sauce and black bean-based sauce that’s dark and rich with hints of star anise. The see ew at Ekamai was fine—very tasty, in fact—but the mahi mahi portion, while generously large, was overcooked and mushy. Predictably, there were carrots, broccoli and potatoes along for the ride on the plate.

A better see ew choice is the more traditional pad see ew ($12), which is thick, flat rice noodles stir-fried with egg, baby corn, broccoli and an overdose of sliced and shredded carrots in Ekamai’s rich see ew sauce. Somebody in the kitchen needs to cut back on the carrots, but for a taste of Thailand and Thai hospitality, Ekamai should be on your radar. CW

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n early July, the prestigious wine publication Wine Spectator announced the winners of its 2015 Restaurant Wine List Awards. Utah restaurants garnered 17 of them. To receive a Wine Spectator Restaurant Wine List Award is quite a distinction—a feather in any restaurateur or sommelier’s chapeau.

That being said, it should be noted that restaurants must apply to be considered for Wine Spectator awards and pay a $250 annual application fee. Many restaurants choose not to participate.

Wine Spectator bestows awards in three tiers: The highest award is the Grand Award, “given to restaurants that show an uncompromising, passionate devotion to the quality of their wine program,” according to Spectator. “These restaurants typically offer 1,000 selections or more, and feature serious breadth of top producers, outstanding depth in mature vintages, a selection of large-format bottles, excellent harmony with the menu and superior organization, presentation and wine service.”

Only eight restaurants were given the Grand Award this year: Aux Beaux Arts in Macau; Bleu Provence in Naples, Fla.; Capo in Santa Monica, Calif.; Marcello’s La Sirena

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The second award tier is the Best of Award for Excellence, which was created “to give special recognition to restaurants that clearly exceed the requirements of the [more basic] Award of Excellence. These lists typically offer 350 or more selections, along with superior presentation, and display either vintage depth, with several vertical offerings of top wines, or excellent breadth across several wine regions.” Five Utah restaurants were among the Best of Award for Excellence winners: Snowbird’s Aerie; Bangkok Thai on Main, Glitretind and J&G Grill in Park City; and Salt Lake City’s only representative, Tuscany.

The remaining Utah restaurant winners were given the Award of Excellence “for lists that offer a wellchosen selection of quality producers, along with a thematic match to the menu in both price and style. Typically, these lists offer at least 90 selections.” The Award of Excellence winners from Utah were 350 Main New American Brasserie, Bistro 222, Cena Ristorante, Edge Steakhouse, Fireside

Dining at Deer Valley Resort, Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, La Caille, Log Haven Restaurant, Spotted Dog Cafe, The Mariposa at Deer Valley Resort, The Tree Room at Sundance and Zoom Roadhouse Grill.

There were—to me, at least—some insights into restaurant wine lists and how they are judged by Wine Spectator. For example, corkage fees don’t seem to enter into the equation. If I were judging a restaurant’s overall wine program, for example, I would tend to favor those with small, fair (or zero) corkage fees. The Utah award winners run the gamut for corkage, from a low of $10 (Spotted Dog Cafe) to $35 at the Glitretind at Stein Erikson Lodge.

It would also seem that to garner the higher awards like the Best of Award Excellence, you’d better have France and California covered. All five Utah winners showed “wine strengths” in those regions. Interestingly—and a bit surprising—in addition to California wines available, The Tree Room’s wine list was recognized for its strength in Canadian wines. Huh. I look forward to the day when Wine Spectator creates an award for distinctive, well-chosen, smaller wine lists—the type you’d find at places like Caffe Molise, Meditrina and Martine. Let’s not forget the little guy.

All of the Wine Spectator 2015 Restaurant Wine List Awards will be published in the Aug. 31 issue of Wine Spectator, which will be available on newsstands July 21. CW

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If you’re looking for authentic New York-style pizza— the kind you can buy in The Big Apple by the slice— look no farther than Este. Owner/operator Dave Heiblim, a die-hard New York Yankees fan, keeps a season-long Red Sox vs. Yankees tally behind the counter. Pay attention, there are strict house rules at Este: No Red Sox apparel allowed, no ranch sauce for dipping and no pineapple on your pizza. If the superb pizza isn’t enough, Este also offers killer calzones, spectacular stromboli and bodacious Buffalo wings.

You can wash it all down with beer, wine or green tea.

Multiple locations, EstePizzaCo.com

Five Guys Burgers and Fries

When Five Guys says “Burgers and Fries,” they aren’t kidding. Those two items pretty much make up the entire menu, except for hot dogs and a few other sandwich offerings. The standard Five Guys burger is two 3.3-ounce patties piled atop one another, with a choice of some 15 free toppings and served on a standard baked bun. The burgers actually taste how a burger you’d make from scratch at home might taste.

According to Five Guys, the restaurant uses only fresh 80-percent lean ground beef that’s never frozen and serve it on fresh baked buns. Five Guys also serves up terrific-tasting fries made from skin-on Russet taters cooked in peanut oil. Speaking of peanuts, there are free peanuts to nibble on while you wait for your burger. Multiple locations, FiveGuys.com

Fazoli’s

Italian fare that is “fast and fresh” is what Fazoli’s is all about. At Fazoli’s, pasta, sauces, breadsticks and salads are freshly prepared thoughout the day.

Popular oven-baked items at Fazoli’s include twicebaked lasagna, penne with creamy basil chicken, tortellini robusto, chicken parmigiano, rigatoni Romano and chicken broccoli penne. Other tasty treats include spaghetti with meatballs, fettuccine Alfredo and broccoli with fire-roasted tomatoes. Free breadsticks while you wait, too. 3737 W. 7800 South, West Jordan, 801-280-8078; 12361 S. Minuteman Drive, Draper, 801-816-0305, Fazolis.com

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Order a bucket of ice-cold Coronas and hunker down to magnificent Mexican fare, including savory fajitas and excellent chile verde; the menu is so extensive you might need some time to settle on which dishes to order. In addition to typical Mexican items like tacos, tostadas, burritos and such, there are specialty items, like flautas, taquitos rancheros, sopas and seafood offerings such as crab enchiladas, camarones à la crema, fish tacos and much more. The bar offers a complete selection of cocktails, wine and beer. 816 E. 9400 South, Sandy, 801-553-1505; 852 E. State, American Fork, 801-492-0042; LaCostaMexicanRestaurantUtah.com

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O’Falafel Etc.

Lots of vegan and vegetarian items pepper the extensive Middle Eastern/Mediterranean menu at O’Falafel Etc., owned and operated by Mustafa and Osama Khader. Falafel and shwarma are very popular here, along with kifteh, mujadara, kebabs and baba ghanouj. There are plenty of great salads, sandwiches and wraps, too, plus housemade ice cream. O’Falafel is also a nice, friendly place to sip Turkish coffee. 790 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-487-7747, OFalafelEtc.com

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Litza’s Pizza

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Litza’s Pizza was founded in 1965 by Don Hale, who loved a good, rich, top-quality pizza and set out to create one. He carted his family throughout Utah and surrounding states trying pizzas from different pizzerias (his kids loved it), gathering recipes here and there for pizza, spaghetti, salad dressings and garlic bread. Litza’s makes from scratch its own pizza dough, pizza sauce, spaghetti sauce, garlic butter and salad dressings (Roquefort, Thousand Island, French and vinaigrette). You can also purchase Litza’s pizzas to take and bake at home. Multiple locations, LitzasPizza.com

The Kathmandu

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At Anna’s, you’ll discover a menu chock-full of comfort-food specialties—classic American dinerstyle food with a Greek spin. The choices are wide open, since the menu runs the gamut from strawberry pancakes to chicken-fried steak, burgers, sandwiches, spaghetti with Greek-style meat sauce, gyros and much more. 4700 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, 801-261-5399, AnnasRestaurantInMurray.com

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At The Kathmandu, you’ll discover a broad range of Nepalese and Indian cuisines, including specialties from the tandoor oven. Specialties from Nepal include rayo ko saag, aloo kauli, banda govi and quanti masala. From India, you’ll enjoy flavorful dishes such as chicken vindaloo, aloo tikka masala, baigan bharta, lamb jalfrezi and fish curry. Be sure to order extra tandoor-baked breads like naan, roti, bhatura and poori. The Kathmandu is very vegetarian-friendly, and there’s a popular all-you-can-eat lunch buffet Monday through Saturday. 212 S. 700 East, Salt Lake City, 801-355-0454; 3142 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-466-3504; TheKathmandu.net

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Featured on Food Network’s Diners, Drive-ins & Dives, Moochie’s is the place to go for authentictasting Philly cheesesteaks. They’re made from thinly sliced rib-eye steak and topped with grilled onions (optional) and melted American cheese. But Moochie’s is about more than just cheesesteaks: Philadelphia-born owner Joanna Rendi also assembles some of the tastiest meatball subs around. So if you get into a cheesesteak rut, spice up your life with a meatball sandwich. 232 E. 800 South, Salt Lake City, 801-596-1350; 7725 S. State, Midvale, 801-562-1500, MoochiesMeatballs.com

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Joy Luck Restaurant

According to the folks at Joy Luck Restaurant, open since 1998, “The ultimate goal is to make you and your stomach tickling, dancing and delighted with joy.” To that end, Joy Luck offers contemporary Chinese cuisine in a relaxing environment. Select from traditional favorites such as sweet & sour dishes, orange chicken, walnut shrimp and kung pao dishes, or more contemporary offerings like pon pon shrimp, ma po tofu and sesame chicken.

The Cantonese flat noodles with beef is an especially tasty dish. There’s also an appealing wine list, along with imported and domestic beers. 10745 S. State, Sandy, 801-501-0388; 566 W. 1350 South, Woods Cross, 801-298-0388, JoyLuckFoods.com You’ll get live sound and video pumped in if you eat during an Urban Lounge concert. But don’t think that’s the only time to eat here. Rye features brunch every day, dinner until at least midnight all week (until 2 a.m.

Fridays and Saturdays) and is an operating coffee bar 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Rye caters to all tastes, ranging from hangar steak and porkbelly to a flavorful vegan hash.

Finish off your evening with a Rye sundae: ice cream topped with bourbon-soaked cherries, whiskey caramel and salted caramel popcorn. 239 S. 500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-364-4655, RyeSLC.com

Tepanyaki Japanese Steakhouse

At Tepanyaki Japanese Steakhouse & Sushi Bar, dining is about much more than just, well, dining: It’s dinner and a show with every meal. Sit around one of the tepanyaki tables, and your personal chef will delight in showing off his knife and fire skills for your entertainment. Menu options include items such filet mignon, salmon, shrimp, New York steak, lobster tail, chicken and king crab. But it’s not all about tepanyaki-style food. Sushi, tempura, noodles, teriyaki and more are also available. It’s wholesome, delicious fun for the entire family. Multiple locations, My-Tepanyaki.com

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The pies at Wasatch Pizza cover the gamut, from a traditional cheese pizza with housemade marinara sauce to gourmet blends. The dough is made daily and left to rest for 24 hours to make the ultimate, chewy crust. Order the buffalo wings or cheese bread for an appetizer and lighten up the meal with a Caesar or garden salad. And don’t miss out on the Italian dessert pizza, featuring mixed berries or peaches with mascarpone cream sauce. Multiple locations, SaltLakesBestPizza.com

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Uinta Drive Inn

Uinta Drive Inn (formerly known as Dick’s) offers an array of old-fashioned staples at reasonable prices.

You can sit on the patio or inside while you chow down on hamburgers—served on ciabatta bread—chicken sandwiches, Navajo tacos, beer-battered fries and a vast variety of milkshakes. Uinta is best experienced by those just coming off hiking trails who are craving a nourishing bite. 235 E. Center St., Kamas, 435-783-4312

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I’ve only seen two non-Asian customers during my visits, and I consider that an auspicious sign. All of the restaurant’s specials and much of the rest of the menu is written in Chinese; there is an English menu without prices, but those prices are ridiculously low. Start with a plate of a dozen made-fromscratch steamed dumplings—perfectly cooked, fresh-made pasta purses stuffed with juicy minced pork, cabbage and Chinese chives. I normally like to begin a Chinese meal with hot & sour soup, but was told by our friendly server that it was too big for two people. Generous portions are the norm; unless you come with a crowd, there will be leftovers. Often in restaurants, I leave thinking, “I could’ve made that at home.” But the fragrance, flavors and complexity of dishes such as cumin-spiced lamb and garlicky, fiery, slightly sweet pork ribs are another story altogether. My favorite dish so far is shredded, tender pork and soft, airy tofu tossed with peas, carrots and onion in a gorgeous, spicy sauce with anise and ginger notes. Reviewed June 11. 1465 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-821-3622, RedHouseSLC.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

Attractive wood floors, contemporary design features, and beautiful lighting have turned the somewhat sad-looking spot that once was Shogun into a very eye-catching dining destination. The menu still seems to be a work in progress: An order of kushi shrimp was disappointingly small and overcooked. A much better starter would be delicate yellowtail slices, or the lightly seared tuna tataki. Whereas a standard order of nigiri at most sushi bars is two pieces, Yellowtail offers its nigiri a la carte; I recommend the raw scallops, yellowtail belly, tuna and snapper, all served in generous portions over good quality sushi rice. The “bistro” part of the name comes into play with some of its not-so-standard specials. Yellowtail serves foie gras sashimi with balsamic vinegar and yuzu “Jell-O.” There are some bargains to be had on the midday menu, including a combo lunch platter and the lunchtime sushi/sashimi platters which include miso and salad or rice, plus a choice of 10 pieces of sashimi; 12 sushi roll pieces or 10 pieces of “chef’s choice” nigiri. Add a surprisingly good wine list, and you’ll find a solid place to satisfy your sushi and sashimi appetite. Reviewed June 25.

321 S. Main, 801-364-7142, YellowtailSLC.com

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The newly decked-out Lucky H Bar sports a soothing blueand-tan color scheme, a post-modern looking circularshaped bar, and contemporary lighting and fixings. As for the Grille, it looks like a classy steakhouse, with comfy chairs and banquettes. The menu is much like Little America itself: a mix of old and new. Chef Berhard Gotz’s menu ranges from Continental to more nouveau offerings. For starters, we shared the assorted appetizer platter of one tasty crab cake with remoulade, a single seared scallop, one jumbo shrimp, and a generous portion of homemade gravlax with capers; for sharing purposes, how about two scallops and two shrimp? There are Mad Men-style throwbacks, such as Prime Rib in both a 14-ounce “Gentlemen’s” cut or more petite 10-ounce “Lady’s” portion. But there are also up-to-date choices like a tender, perfectly roasted Mary’s free-range, all-natural chicken. The house salad could have used some work presentation-wise; a giant cucumber slice and oversized chunk of underripe tomato required a knife and fork to eat. Reviewed July 2. 500 S. Main, 801-596-5704, SaltLake.LittleAmerica.com

After several different restaurants have occupied the space at what is now the Park City Waldorf Astoria, the current one, Powder, with Chef Ryker Brown, is the best of them all. Start with an artisanal cheese board or charcuterie board sourced from local purveyors, or perhaps a refreshing summer salad like gold, purple and red baby beets served with watermelon, Feta cheese, hazelnuts and watercress, drizzled with white balsamic vinegar. The tasty ahi tuna tataki appetizer is sushi-grade ahi tuna peppered and seared just long enough to create a crisp outer crust, with the interior of the tuna left essentially uncooked, cut into squares and served with radish, micro cilantro leaves, serrano pepper and a ginger-soylime vinaigrette. Chef Brown has kicked the fried-chicken comeback up a few notches by preparing his organic chicken sous vide for at least 24 hours, then deep-frying it ever so briefly; the chicken is so tender and juicy that it’s astonishingly delicious. Finish up with hot, sugar-dusted beignets with raspberry coulis and vanilla cream. Reviewed June 18.

Waldorf Astoria, 2100 Frostwood Drive, Park City, 435-647-5566, ParkCityWaldorfAstoria.com

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Thanks to a renewed commitment to classic and contemporary French fare, Paris Bistro isn’t merely surviving, but thriving, with a menu chock-full of temptations. The pea soup is the best I’ve ever had: a gloriously fresh bowl brimming with the spring flavors of English peas, fava beans, chives, mint, chervil and crème fraîche. Chef Levarek’s ris de veau à la Grenobloise is a generous serving of tender, melt-in-the-mouth, pan-seared veal sweetbreads, lightly butter-browned, with a heaping helping of fresh chanterelles, and classic caper-lemon-parsley sauce. Call me predictable, but I can’t walk into The Paris without ordering the perfect duck confit, while the missus ordered a spectacular Moroccan-style salmon. Having learned that it was recently my birthday, the kitchen sent out a fabulous apple-stuffed crepe, caramelized with Calvados, sea salt, crème fraîche and a candle on top. With our French server and a French chef in the kitchen, I began to feel like I was back in France myself. Somehow, The Paris Bistro manages to capture and shine on its customers that special light that the City of Lights is so well known for. Reviewed July 9. 1500 S. 1500 East, 801-486-5585, TheParis.net

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n the scene from Marvel Studios’ latest superhero tale Ant-Man in which Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) first tries out the suit that can shrink him to the size of an insect, his greatest threat is being washed down a bathtub drain, or flung from a spinning record during a dance party. During one late action sequence, Lang flees from explosions that reduce the buildings and landscape around him to rubble—only the exploding surroundings are a scale model. In his climactic battle with an equally minuscule adversary, Lang hurls a train car—except that it’s the 3-inch-long wooden caboose of a Thomas the Tank Engine toy.

We’ve grown so accustomed to the ever-growing apocalyptic stakes of modern blockbusters that even Lang’s mentor, scientist Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), jokes about the Avengers probably being off somewhere “dropping a city.” And that’s part of what makes Ant-Man so refreshing on a variety of levels: There’s no assumption that the stakes for a rousing adventure must include the threat of widespread annihilation. It’s a reminder that being a superhero—aside from, you know, the occasional threat of being blown up by a supervillain—might actually be kinda fun.

The setup finds Lang just released from a stint in San Quentin for a Robin Hoodesque burglary at a tech company, and trying to get his life back together enough to spend time with his young daughter. But a return to a life of crime seems like the only option—until Pym shows up with that hightech suit and a unique offer. It seems that Pym’s successor at his company, Darren Cross (Corey Stoll), is developing a similar size-reducing technology, with the intent of weaponizing it. And Pym wants Scott to combine the suit’s abilities—communicating with and controlling ants, in addition to becoming the same size and strength as one—with his own breaking-and-entering

talents to shut down Cross’s operation.

The planning also involves Pym’s badass daughter, Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), and there’s more than enough parental and surrogate-parental angst to go around, what with Cross fuming over not getting enough approval from Pym, and van Dyne wondering about the mysterious, never-explained circumstances of her mother’s death, and Lang trying to convince his ex-wife (Judy Greer, wasted as per usual lately) that he should be allowed to be around his daughter. Virtually none of it works beyond the level of background noise, in part because it’s nearly impossible to make sense of Lang as a character, including the specifics of his criminal career. Rudd may be a charming actor, but it feels as though Ant-Man doesn’t really know what to do with that charm, beyond giving him a chance to flash that goofy smile a few times and letting him be endearingly awkward when van Dyne is smacking him around during their training sessions.

Yet that lack of an emotional center feels less frustrating when director Peyton Reed (Down With Love) kicks the action into gear.

What the story lacks in fate-of-the-universe consequences, it more than makes up for in simple pleasures, combining the slickness of a heist thriller with the special-effectsdriven fisticuffs. And perhaps best of all, it’s the most playful comic-book story since Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man films, from the silliness of the sequence in which Lang’s partner-in-crime (Michael Peña) discur-

Paul Rudd in Ant-Man sively explains how he learned about a specific break-in target, to the sheer kinetic pleasure of super-human abilities. Gravitas gives way to what The Flash TV series is reminding everyone: Sometimes all you ask from costumed crime-fighters is that they leave you with a stupid grin on your face.

Because this is part of the ever-growing Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ant-Man makes sure to provide its connection to The Avengers (including an extended character cameo for one action sequence), and to set up Scott Lang’s ongoing presence in that universe. But it’s better at carving out this character’s unique place in that universe, as a hero who doesn’t necessarily need to be chasing down Infinity Stones and Tesseracts and whatnot. While Ant-Man may not have mastered giving its hero a soul, it reminds us that you can still have a blast at the movies even when the good guy and bad guy are having a life-or-death fight that can be contained inside a briefcase. CW

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ANT-MAN BBB See review p. 38. Opens July 17 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) MR. HOLMES BBB Plenty of Hollywood movies are built around a star playing a popculture character, and there are far worse things than the result of someone thinking, “Ian McKellen as Sherlock Holmes.” This adaptation of a Mitch Cullin novel weaves between three timelines in the life of the legendary detective: In 1947, where an increasingly dementiaaffected Holmes lives at the seaside with his widowed housekeeper (Laura Linney) and her young son, Roger (Milo Parker); several months earlier, on a trip to Japan to find a folk remedy for his memory lapses; and between the wars 30 years earlier, as Holmes takes the case that will become his last—for reasons he’s trying to remember. The mystery of that case is never particularly fascinating, and director Bill Condon proves simply functional at keeping the chronological balls in the air.

Mostly, it’s about the pleasure of watching McKellen’s performance, subtly affecting at conveying a man famed for his dazzling mind trying to cope with its deterioration. His surrogate-father relationship with Roger provides an anchor in a sometimes overplotted story that works even if it’s mostly about that one casting pitch. Opens July 17 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)—Scott Renshaw

THE TRIBE BBB In one sense, it is a gimmick: Writer/director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy delivers a film entirely in sign language, without subtitles, set at a Ukranian boarding school for the deaf. Yet it’s also a brilliant way of allowing viewers to understand how much you can depend on one sense to make sense of things. The central plot focuses on a new student, Sergey (Grigoriy Fesenko), who’s indoctrinated into the school’s criminal gang, which revolves mostly around pimping a pair of the female students. It’s fair to say that many details remain unclear, except in the broad-

est strokes involving the consequences when Sergey becomes infatuated with one of the student prostitutes, Anya (Yana Novikova). But while The Tribe does at times feel designed to be shocking, it also demands that you pay attention in a way that we’re not used to paying attention in the movies; every bit of body language can become a critical detail, and some harrowing long takes are very hard to watch. On those rare occasions when a sound is significant—a truck’s “backing up” warning, or a gasp of pain—it only magnifies the intensity of the experience. Opens July 17 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—SR

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TESTAMENT OF YOUTH BBB.5 Women have war stories, too. And Vera Brittain’s experiences during World War I make up one of the great women’s war stories: Her 1933 book about how the war changed British society was a best-seller. This adaptation of Brittain’s book is a compassionate, distressing tale of a woman’s determination to find her own purpose in an era when that was not kindly looked upon, and one in which women’s contributions beyond wife and motherhood were going to become essential. The conflict between generations and the profound impact the war has on Vera (Ex Machina’s Alicia Vikander) and her peers is built up over every small victory of Vera’s, and then how every victory comes with a great price. Vera makes the decision to leave Oxford University (after fighting to get in) in order to work as a military nurse, because she’s desperate to serve the war effort in one of the few ways allowed to her. She then becomes a close-up eyewitness to the human destruction ravaging her generation. This is a film full of tiny heartbreaking moments that pile up until they’re almost unbearable. Opens July 17 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (PG-13)—MaryAnn Johanson

TRAINWRECK BB.5 Amy Schumer, our current favorite potty-mouthed comedienne, is striking while the iron is hot with this rambunctious, hard-Rrated romantic comedy that showcases her sweetly poisonous manner. Schumer wrote the screenplay, which is rambling and overlong, and Judd Apatow directed it (which explains why it didn’t get tightened up). She plays a 30-something writer at a men’s magazine whose life is a series of commitment-free onenight stands, drinking and weed-smoking—in other words, the sort of movie lifestyle normally reserved for male characters.

(The film doesn’t really do anything with this gender reversal, by the way.) It befalls a sports doctor (Bill Hader) she’s profiling for a story to tame her wild ways and help her grow up. Schumer stays disappointingly close to the rom-com formula and its contrived complications, and the film is burdened by unnecessary cameos and meandering tangents (e.g. everything with her dad, played

by Colin Quinn). But the laughs outnumber the groans by a wide margin, thanks to Schumer and Hader’s virtuosity, plus funny supporting performances by such unlikely suspects as John Cena, LeBron James and Tilda Swinton. Opens July 17 at theaters valleywide. (R)—EDS

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STRANGERLAND BB Not to complain, but things like this sluggish Australian melodrama—overlong, ambiguous and unsatisfying, yet marked by beautiful cinematography and a few terrific performances— make it really hard to reduce movies to a simple “fresh” or “rotten.” This one stars Nicole Kidman and Joseph Fiennes as a couple who have just moved to a hot, dusty Outback town because of some trouble their skanky teenage daughter, Lily (Maddison Brown), caused back in the city. When Lily and her brother go missing (spoiler: dingos do not eat them), the investigation by a local cop (Hugo Weaving) drags family secrets out of hiding.

Kidman’s dramatic range remains impressive, even when she’s doing ridiculous things like throwing herself at neighborhood boys, and Weaving makes for a likably disheveled cop; newcomer Brown’s sultry sadness as Lily hints at a successful future career.

But first-time director Kim Farrant isn’t interested in solving the mystery as much as she is in conveying a dreary, bleary tone.

The gorgeous landscapes suggest the hopelessness of being lost in such a vast place, but Farrant denies us the satisfaction of a coherent, rational ending to the story. Opens July 17 at Tower Theatre. (R)—Eric D. Snider

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documentary: Long before her death in 2011, the result of years of substance abuse, Winehouse shouted her despair for all to hear. Asif Kapadis’s movie looms in tragedy and portent, an infuriating and dismal portrait of how celebrity warps artistry, wealth warps love, and suffering trumps everything. Of course, Winehouse was ultimately responsible for Winehouse, but when fame meant she was surrounded by yes-men, including the father with whom she had such a complicated relationship— yikes, this movie is rough going. She may have been “a complete force of nature,” as one record company exec describes her, but even personality cannot win out over the demands of corporate “art” and contractually obligated fame and a gossip-hungry public. (R)—MAJ

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THE GALLOWS BB Twenty years after a tragic high school play, a new batch of horned-up students discover that a vengeful spirit may still be treading the boards. Made on a micro-budget, this compact found-footage entry initially gets some promising mileage out of its after-hours high school location, before devolving into the standard assortment of Pavlovian shocks. First-time directors Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff do have some definite chops, especially during moments when the audience is allowed to discover for themselves that something grody may be lurking in the gloom at the corners of the frame. (Another advantage of the ultra low-light shooting style: somewhat disguising the fact that these supposed teens appear to have been held back for the better part of a decade.) Ultimately, though, the brief glimmers of quiet creepiness are swallowed up and drowned out by cheap jump scares and speaker distortions. Boo. (R)—Andrew Wright

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SELF/LESS BB Of the many things one could always say about a Tarsem Singh movie, you could never say it didn’t look like a Tarsem Singh movie. And yet we have this bland science-fiction suspense yarn about terminally ill multi-millionaire Damian Hale (Ben Kingsley), who undergoes an experimental procedure to have his consciousness transferred into a new body (Ryan Reynolds), only to discover that body has a history. Rote conspiracy-thriller elements ensue, with Reynolds making as little effort to mimic Kingsley’s mannerisms as the movie does exploring its economic allegory. It could have used more of Tarsem’s distinctive Tarsemness, but the style remains mostly functional, pushing the story forward without much attempt to expand the concept of a person absorbing another man’s life. Appropriately, the story finds a unique personality buried beneath something with no greater goal than continuing to exist. (PG-13)—SR TERMINATOR GENISYS BB.5 The fragile cause-and-effect issues of time travel take a beating in this addition to the science-fiction franchise. Like the original, it begins with Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) sent back to 1984 to save Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke), future mother of rebel-againstthe-machines leader John (Jason Clarke), from a time-traveling robot assassin—but there have been crucial changes in the timeline. The filmmakers throw in plenty of nods to the first two films—including footage that allows old Arnold Schwarzenegger to fight his 30-years-younger self—plus decently crafted set pieces. But the story gets too tangled in exposition rationalizing the characters’ actions and the stakes if they fail, ignoring chances to take advantage of the modern-day plugged-in world.

“How?” Reese asks about chronological developments, to which Sarah replies, “Does it matter?” Which might have been the best way to deal with it. (PG-13)—SR

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Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll Thursday, July 16 (FX)

Series Debut: Singer Johnny Rock (Denis Leary) and guitarist Flash (John Corbett) scored 15 seconds of fame when their critically hailed—and accurately named—rock band The Heathens released their debut album and broke up on the same day in the early ’90s. Twenty-five years later, Johnny’s broke and forgotten, and Flash is in an even worse place: touring with Lady Gaga. Enter Gigi (Elizabeth Gillies), the—spoiler, but not really—daughter Johnny never knew he had. She’s also a singer, but has no desire to be a pop tart: Gigi wants to be a rocker. She has backing and she wants The Heathens to re-form to write her songs and join her onstage—except for Johnny, who would remain behind the scenes. Will he be able to put aside his raging ego, raging-er addictions and raging-est hair? Ha! Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll—written entirely by Leary, including the songs—has all the This Is Spinal Tap moments and mini-rants about the state of modern music you’d expect, but never takes itself too seriously. It’s only rock & roll, and Leary and Corbett are having a blast—depending on your level of Leary tolerance, you will too.

Married Thursday, July 16 (FX)

Season Premiere: Maybe the problem with Season 1 was putting a sad-sack married couple (the usually comic-reliable Nat Faxon and Judy Greer) on before the raucous party animals of 2014’s breakout hit You’re the Worst (which moves to FXX in September). This time around, they’re on after the raucous party animals of Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll.

So … improvement?

BoJack Horseman Friday, July 17 (Netflix)

Season Premiere: The debut season of BoJack Horseman dropped with zero hype in August 2014, but the animated series about a washed-up ’90s sitcom actor who happened to be a horse (voiced by Will Arnett) became a cult hit instantaneously. Then, BoJack was struggling to finish his

memoir with the help of a ghostwriter (Alison Brie) while being encouraged/antagonized by his deadbeat roommate (Aaron Paul) and his agent (Amy Sedaris). Now, BoJack’s landed his dream film comeback gig (the lead role in a Secretariat biopic), and he’s determined to drop the booze, drugs, terrible dietary habits and questionable sexual conquests, or at least hilariously determined-ish. On the surface, BoJack Horseman is just a viciously funny swipe at mid-level Hollywood fame, but there’s also unexpected darkness and emotion that genuinely makes you feel for the guy, er, horse. The Venture Bros., Archer and now BoJack Horseman: The best serialized cartoons ever.

Welcome to Sweden Sunday, July 19 (NBC)

Season Premiere: Brother-to-Amy Greg Poehler’s Welcome to Sweden was an odd bit of filler in NBC’s summer schedule last year; a Swedish import whose quirky comic rhythms weren’t helped by the American commercialbreak format, not to mention those jarring “Swenglish” accents. Still, the funny and sweet (and based on Poehler’s own life) story of an American celebrity accountant who packs up and moves with his girlfriend to her native Sweden translated nicely. Season 2 finds Bruce (Poehler) still trying to fit in and move forward with his engagement to Emma (Josephine Bornebusch) while dealing with visiting old clients (like Jack Black, Jason Priestly, Aubrey Plaza and Amy Poehler, all playing ridiculous versions of themselves). Enjoy Welcome to Sweden now—it’ll be the only real comedy on NBC for the rest of 2015. No lie.

Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll (FX) Knock Knock Live Tuesday, July 21 (Fox)

Series Debut: You know what TV doesn’t need? More Ryan Seacrest. What’s Fox giving us in the usually frosted-tipassclown-free zone of summer? More Ryan Seacrest! Says here, “Knock Knock Live features Seacrest in a Los Angeles-based studio, while the Knock Knock Live team travels across the country, to any city at any time, surprising unsuspecting people at their front doors with a chance to win big cash prizes, meet their favorite celebrities and turn their wildest dreams into reality.” So Seacrest isn’t even on your doorstep when you release the bloodthirsty hounds … the hypothetical bloodthirsty hounds, that is.

Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! Wednesday, July 22 (Syfy)

Movie: Ian Ziering and Tara Reid return as the chompstorm hits Washington, D.C., and the guest list explodes with David Hasselhoff, Bo Derek, Michele Bachmann, Anthony Weiner, Jerry Springer, Chris Jericho, Michael Bolton and (literally) a hundred more, not to mention Mark Cuban as the President and Ann Coulter as VP (recently deleted: Jared the Subway Guy, because, well …). What’s the story? You know the damned story! Join City Weekly and TV Tan Podcast at Brewvies Cinema Pub (677 S. 200 West, Salt Lake City, 21+) tonight at 7 p.m. and we’ll all watch it unfold on the big screen together. CW

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Critics have sometimes accused Zach of cribbing guitar styles and rhythms popularized by Vampire Weekend, and while he doesn’t dispute that Vampire Weekend’s East Coast elite sound is a major influence, his inspiration always seems to carry him back West.

The jangly guitar on “Moony Eyed Walrus,” for example, owes more to Dick Dale than Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig.

Besides, Blue Lagoon’s overall sound seems to draw back further than just the mid-2000s.

Zach says a major influence on the record was Joe Meek, the ’60s British record producer whose production of The Tornados’ spacey hit “Telstar” has its own sunny qualities.

Still, Zach says he is flattered to be mentioned in the same breath as one of his influences.

“You just have to embrace it,” he says.

“It’s hard to forge a musical path with only one album, now two. … We’re still looking for that sweet spot.” CW

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Zach explores some of that reality in the song “Champion,” where he sings about the tension between self-doubt and dreaming, using snippets of memories of his hometown in Davis, Calif.: “As dreamers do, I did believe that fate would be kind to my foolishness/ Put the tape in the VCR, go to Channel 3.”

“When I was young, I would dream about things, and a lot of that was based around TV and movies,” Zach explains, in regard to the song.

But even at its soaring chorus, its promise of realized dreams is conditional: “You could be a champion … if only for a night/ Feel your feet lift off of the pavement/ Above the two-story houses you’ve taken flight.”

Much of Blue Lagoon finds itself in that tenuous space between dreams and heartache. Even a song like “Backstroke”— an electronic-tinged time machine to a “Jacuzzi night” at the “Chateau de la Queen near the border of Paraguay”—doesn’t let the listener escape into its fantasy of “white suit jackets” and “copper-tinted ashtrays” for long.

“Sometimes you fantasize being drenched in the yellows and Tahitian blues/ Salty water slaps into your ears/ Lips puckered up, girl, and you hear nothing at all.” Zach sings.

“Lyrically, I think [this record] is a little bit deeper, maybe more personal, but in the same vein,” Zach says. “We did realize that maybe we should write songs that would be fun to play live.”

The back-to-back romps “Moony Eyed Walrus” and “Hella” seem to fit that description nicely. Both are sunny and danceable, and they carry a familiar sound.

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ven if you don’t know that Cayucas’s name comes from a sleepy beachside town on the Pacific Coast, it’s not hard to tell where they’re from.

Led by singer and principal songwriter Zach Yudin and his twin brother, guitarist and bassist Ben Yudin, Cayucas exports easy California surf vibes in a way that quickly draws parallels to that other fraternal group whose musical compass always pointed west. “I think we try to channel California,” Zach says. “It worked for the Beach Boys, so why not, right?”

But being a band that identifies as closely with California as the Beach Boys did comes with a price. There is perhaps no other place in the atlas of popular music that comes with such mythical expectations, and the burden on bands from the Golden State to personify that ideal can be an unexpectedly heavy one.

So as sunny and light as the band’s newest record Dancing at the Blue Lagoon (Secretly Canadian) may sound, it is not surprising that there’s also a subtle ache within its songs of glamorous Jacuzzi nights and sunny suburban days. (Interestingly, the record was actually recorded in rainy Seattle.)

Part of that ache comes from the nostalgia that Blue Lagoon evokes, which Zach says mostly stemmed from childhood experiences. “It’s all personal, but not necessarily emotional,” Zach explains. “It’s not about heartbreak or falling in love—the more typical themes. It’s the stories that don’t get told, really. I don’t write about my prom night; I write about the night before.”

The Yudins have been through a whirlwind in the past couple of years. Cayucas started as a series of home recordings Zach made in his bedroom under the moniker Oregon Bike Trails, which quickly evolved into Cayucas’ 2013 debut Bigfoot (Secretly Canadian), which spawned the respectable alt radio hits “Cayucos” and “High School Lover,” along with a grueling world tour.

However, Zach says he resisted the temptation to use those experiences as the basis for the band’s follow-up. Instead, he channels a paradise that exists in his mind.

“Everything draws from real life,” Zach says. “That’s the starting point. Then I go from there and like to get creative, whether it’s fact or fiction. … But it all starts from a real place.”

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n 2006, I interviewed David Lee Roth for Harp. The publicist said I’d get 15 minutes, tops, on the phone. When we connected, Roth proved he was just as great a showman offstage as he is onstage. He was off like a shot—talking fast, telling jokes and sharing stories like a rock & roll Robin Williams. I think I squeezed in three questions.

Wanna hear one of those jokes? (Brace yourselves; a cringe is coming.) While discussing what he called “mid-level fury,” meaning how the middle class in Pittsburgh live, Roth said, “… they eat Tina Turner fried chicken.” “What’s Tina Turner fried chicken, Dave?” “Lightly battered!”

Roth also had a story about Salt Lake City.

He didn’t recall the venue or the exact year, but said that to one side was downtown, and to the other was pretty much nothin’. So it could’ve been the Salt Palace. Anyway, after the show, DLR was standing behind the venue when a car careened around the corner, hitting another vehicle. Rushing over to help, Roth asked the driver—who was pretty banged up—if he was OK. “He looked at me for a minute,” Roth said. “Then he yelled, ‘Diamond Dave?!’ and started looking around for something for me to sign!”

After 98 minutes, he took a breath. I told him that my recorder hit max capacity 10 minutes prior. We bid each other a friendly farewell. I hung up, high on the once-in-alifetime encounter.

The buzz lasted roughly one year. One day in 2007, the bossman at Harp called. Our back-page column, “Reflections,” had fallen through at the last minute. We needed to find a noteworthy musician to interview about an album that changed their life. “Whose numbers do you have?” asked my editor.

I looked through my phone, and found DLR’s digits. “Call him,” I was instructed.

I asked if he was sure I could call him cold

Calling Diamond Dave: Van Halen ca. 2015

like that. He said I’m within my rights to call him until he says not to call again. So I did, despite feeling that it could end horribly.

But maybe not, you know? After all, Roth gave me 83 minutes of bonus interview that time. He’s totally cool. I dialed.

“Yo!” said a booming voice on the other end. It had to be Roth. I introduced myself and suddenly the voice was nasal and nebbishy.

“Dave’s not here.” The line went silent. “Dave, are you there? Hello?”

No response.

I wasn’t sure what to do. There was no click, no static—only silence. What would I tell Harp? We were going to press that day. Could I go back to my boss and tell him that maybe Roth hung up on me? Or should I sack up and call back? I mean, he didn’t say not to call.

You should always trust your instincts. For the second time that day, I ignored them and, trembling, redialed. It was then, as the phone rang, that I noticed, among the other headlines on my computer screen, that the Van Halen reunion tour had imploded. An alarm in my head went off: Hanguphanguphangup!

“Yo!” Eek. Too late. So I tried. “Hey Dave, I think we got cut off—” “Get off my fuckin’ telephone! You understand that? Implicitly? Get off my fuckin’ telephone. You understand that?

Fuck off. Both words. You understand those?

Implicitly. Do you understand ’em?”

“Yessir,” I squeaked.

That time I was pretty sure he hung up on me. I put down the phone and hung my head, monumentally bummed. Oh, man, I thought to myself. Diamond Dave hates me. Then again, there was a bright side: I had a recording of David Lee Roth telling me to fuck off! I edited the clip down to those two words and made it my email notification sound.

No hard feelings, Dave. CW

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These two legendary punk bands have been around for 35 and 40 years, respectively.

You gotta wonder if the O.G. fans still have the knees to get in the pit. Not that they shouldn’t try—or that it matters. It’s just a thought. The important thing is that both bands are still around and kicking booty.

Both have landed songs in Grand Theft Auto V (The Ads’ “Amoeba,” The Weirdos’ “Life of Crime”). The Adolescents’ La Vendetta …

Go now to YouTube and check out “Pauline” by singer-songwriter Eleni Mandell. If the noir-ish, sultry, tell-you-what message from a mistress to her man’s main squeeze doesn’t hook you from the first chugging bass notes—well, try any other song. She’s that good. Everything Mandell has done since her 1998 debut, Wishbone (Mr. Charles), is golden. She gets her darkness—and lyrical acumen—from influences like Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen, and even the storied Los Angeles punks X. Her voice, which can go from low and throaty to high and mellifluous, can make her sound like Nancy Sinatra or Patsy Cline. The latter is an influence—along with Hank Williams, George Jones and Tammy Wynette—that bubbles up on her ninth fulllength, Dark Lights Up (Yep Roc). She doesn’t get near the gritty vibe of her earlier albums on this one, but the songs are as good as anything else in her discography. Kilby Court, 750 Kilby Court, 7 p.m., $10, KilbyCourt.com

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Death Cab for Cutie frontguy Ben Gibbard recently told Stereogum that if the band’s last album, Codes and Keys (2011, Atlantic/ Barsuk), turned them off, the new one, Kintsugi, “could win them back.” The decent but spotty Codes saw the guitar take a diminished role, with a more keyboard-driven—though no less moody—sound. That could lead to speculation as to why guitarist-songwriter-producer Chris Walla left the band last year, except that Walla’s playing and songwriting are all over Kintsugi—he’s just not producing this time. Casual ears may not notice a difference between Walla’s production style and that of Rich Costey (Muse, Jane’s Addiction), but there is one. While it is a return to the band’s signature style, the album finds the band sounding re-energized, as though Codes and Keys was a dream.

Death Cab is kicking off the 2015 Twilight Concert Series tonight, but be sure to arrive early. You don’t want to miss the relentlessly creative tUnE-yArDs and their Pee-Wee’s Playhouse-inspired, a-little-of-everything thing. Pioneer Park, 350 S. 300 West, 7 p.m., $5 in advance, $10 day of show, TwilightConcerts.com

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No disrespect to Snow Tha Product—the Mexican-American female rapper who’s headlining this bill—but I just discovered Audio Push, a hip-hop duo from Inland Empire, Calif. They released their ninth album on Interscope this year; the most recent, The Good Vibe Tribe, is available as a free download on Soundcloud, and I’m on a second playthrough. It’s a 14-track feast for fans of West Coast hip-hop that Audio Push calls a “master piece” [sic]. But don’t all rappers think that about their jams? Well, it’s real good, for sure, full of the titular vibes—something you could listen to front-to-back all »

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The best shows are the ones where you know every song. No, wait: The best ones are where you know every song and like the ones you don’t—and the artist builds a rapport with the audience. Steve Miller’s exactly that guy.

He comes armed with a slew of hits like “The Joker,” “Jet Airliner,” and “Take the Money and Run,” and has stories to accompany them. For example, did you know that he swapped the lyrics for “Take the Money and Run” with those of another Miller hit, “Rock’n Me,” before he recorded them? Or that “Jet Airliner” was originally written and performed by blind singer-songwriter Paul Peña, whom you may recognize from the Tuvan throatsinging documentary Genghis Blues? Miller also likes to share one of his many guitars with the audience, telling them all about it and why he uses it on a particular song.

He’s also proud of his band, and makes sure they get their moments in the spotlight. It’s kinda like a rock concert meets Prairie Home Companion, which sounds—but isn’t—weird.

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Max Bemis, the sole full-time member of the indie/ pop-punk outfit Say Anything, has spent more than a decade taking stands against the labels often slapped on his band. The latest SA record, 2014’s Hebrews (Equal Vision), contained no guitars—just orchestral synth, upbeat drums and messy vocals— as a reminder that not all SA fans are Blink 182 fans. Say Anything’s 2004 album … Is a Real Boy (Doghouse) was a sleeper hit, popularized by the Holocaust-themed love song “Alive With the Glory of Love,” which made waves as an artful, confessional, theatrical take on pop punk. Four albums later, the pop punk has evolved into more indie tones, but Bemis’ diary-esque lyrics remain the band’s signature. (Robby Poffenberger) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 6 p.m., $18.50 in advance, $21 day of show, SmithsTix.com

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WEDNESDAY 7.22 Faun Fables Perhaps “experimental” is too obvious a word for this Oakland, Calif.-based duo.

But they were playing the broom, toy piano and gamelan before the broom, toy piano and gamelan were cool. Whatever twist of fate brought Dawn McCarthy and Nils Frykdahl together must have been ordained by the gods of chaos; with so many instruments and found objects scattered about the stage, a Faun Fables performance resembles the playroom occupied by two precocious, hyperactive children. Yet somehow out of this seeming disorder they manage to construct their dreamy, otherworldly tonalities. An evening with them is a trippy little brain vacation, perfect for relieving the midweek hump-day doldrums. Opening acts include Sala & the Shakedown and Tess Comrie.

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E3 is the brainchild of audiophile and audio designer Josh Stippich. I remember my grandfather in Philadelphia had an original Victor Victrola Talking Machine—its logo depicted a dog listening to a horn. Stippich has über-skills and builds hi-fi vacuumtube audio equipment—from scratch—in a beautiful, modern way that harks back to the early 1910s. They look more like sculptural art installations than technical audio equipment.

The shop is home to a huge record collection—not for sale, but to demonstrate sound quality. E3 equipment has a depth and warmth like none other. The space also houses Stippich’s handmade furniture collection, including a wooden credenza with acrylic fronts from local company 3 Form, groovy sound-blocking walls, trippy plastic lighting fixtures and one-of-a-kind wine racks, shelves and tables.

The second part of the emporium is called Boozetique and houses an array of wine and booze-related accessories. It’s like a Whole Foods for booze products but without the booze, because, well, it’s Utah. Josh’s wife, Ivonna (Ivy) Earnest, got the idea when she went to the wine store behind the shop to purchase a bottle as a gift. God forbid the UDABC would ever offer gift-bags—or any accoutrement of any kind—for sale! Hence, the idea for her shop was born.

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The Boozetique offers wine coolers, wine openers, gift bags, charms, glassware, decanters and everything else a wino might need. The cocktail décor is what impressed me most: I have been experimenting with old-timey drinks at home using spoons and outdated shakers.

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Earnest is an art major and it’s evident in the selected work she has picked to adorn her walls which she rotates quarterly. Follow the art to the back of the store, which houses a third component called Boozeteaque, with an emphasis on tea. Remember Lisa Brady of the Beehive Tea Room? I do miss hiding out from my City Weekly sales responsibilities, eating a tuna sandwich and drinking tea in her cafe. Brady has moved most of her inventory and many of her Beehive Teas, including my favorite, Cream & Honey.

The Boozeteaque is reminiscent of the old shop and you may even recognize the red neon lights that spell “Tea” and “Room” There are new, used and vintage barware, teapots, cups and glassware from your grandma’s era, which go so well with oldtimey cocktails. This Friday, June 17, E3 Modern & Boozetique will be open late for Downtown Gallery Stroll. Booze up and drop out. n

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Stop Making Sense was originally the name of the film and music soundtrack produced by the Talking Heads in the 1980s, and now it is the central theme of your horoscope. I think your brain would benefit from a thorough washing. That’s why I invite you to scour it clean of all the dust and cobwebs and muck that have accumulated there since its last scrub a few months back. One of the best ways to launch this healing purge is, of course, to flood all the neural pathways with a firehose-surge of absurdity, jokes and silliness. As the wise physician of the soul, Dr. Seuss, said, “I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “A failure is a person who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience,” wrote American author Elbert Hubbard. In light of this formulation, I’m pleased to announce that you are likely to achieve at least one resounding success in the coming weeks.

At this juncture in your destiny, you know exactly how to convert a past mistake into a future triumph. A gaffe that once upon a time brought you anguish or woe will soon deliver its fully ripened teaching, enabling you to claim a powerful joy or joyful power.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) The poet Mary Ruefle describes reading books as “a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan.” Are there other ways to do that?

Watching films and plays and TV shows, of course. You can also listen to and empathize with people as they tell you their adventures. Or you can simply use your imagination to visualize what life is like for others. However you pursue this expansive pleasure, Scorpio, I highly recommend it. You are set up to absorb the equivalent of many years’ experience in a few short weeks.

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But she didn’t start out to be a film star. Mathematics was her main interest. Then, while serving as a youth ambassador in South Africa at age 18, she contracted malaria. At the height of her sickness, she had hallucinatory visions that she would one day be “a really good actress who also won an Oscar.” The visions were so vivid that she decided to shift her career path. I foresee the possibility that you will soon experience a version of her epiphany.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) When you read a book that has footnotes, you tend to regard the footnotes as being of secondary importance. Although they may add color to the text’s main messages, you can probably skip them without losing much of the meaning. But I don’t recommend this approach in the coming days. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, footnotes will carry crucial information that’s important for you to know. I mean this in a metaphorical sense as you live your life as well as in the literal act of reading books. Pay close attention to the afterthoughts, SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Sagittarian rapper Nicki Minaj is not timid about going after what the digressions, and the asides. she wants. She told Cosmopolitan magazine that she’s “high-maintenance in bed.” Every time she’s involved in a sexual encounter, GEMINI (May 21-June 20) The English word “quiddity” has two contrary definitions. It she demands to have an orgasm. In accordance with the current can refer to a trivial quibble. Or it can mean the essential nature astrological omens, Sagittarius, I invite you to follow her lead—not of a thing—the quality that makes it unique. I suspect that in just during your erotic adventures, but everywhere else, too. Ask for the coming weeks you will get numerous invitations to engage what you want, preferably with enough adroitness to actually obtain with quiddities of both types. Your first task will be to cultivate what you want. Here’s another critical element to keep in mind: To an acute ability to know which is which. Your second task: Be get exactly what you want, you must know exactly what you want. relentless in avoiding the trivial quibbles as you home in on the CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) essential nature of things.

A college basketball player named Mark Snow told reporters that “Strength is my biggest weakness.” Was he trying to be funny?

CANCER (June 21-July 22) “A poet must not cross an interval with a step when he can cross No. Was he a bit dim-witted? Perhaps. But I’m not really interit with a leap.” That’s an English translation of an aphorism ested in what he meant by his statement. Rather, I want to hijack written by French author Joseph Joubert. Another way to say it it for my own purpose, which is to recommend it as a meditation might be, “A smart person isn’t drab and plodding as she bridges for you in the coming weeks. Can you think of any ways that a gap, but does it with high style and brisk delight.” A further your strength might at least temporarily be a weakness? I can. I alternative: “An imaginative soul isn’t predictable as she travels suspect that if you rely too much on the power you already posover and around obstacles, but calls on creative magic to fuel sess and the skills you have previously mastered, you may miss her ingenious liberations.” Please use these ideas during your important clues about what you need to learn next. The most valuable lessons of the coming weeks could come to you as you’re adventures in the coming weeks, Cancerian. practicing the virtues of humility and innocence and receptivity.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) July is barely half over, but your recent scrapes with cosmic AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) law have already earned you the title of “The Most Lyrically In Margaret Mitchell’s novel Gone with the Wind, Rhett Butler Tormented Struggler of the Month.” Another few days of this delivers the following speech to Scarlett O’Hara: “I was never productive mayhem and you may be eligible for inclusion in one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together the Guinness Book of World Records. I could see you being again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. selected as “The Soul Wrangler with the Craziest Wisdom” What is broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at or “The Mythic Hero with the Most Gorgeous Psychospiritual its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.”

Wounds.” But it’s my duty to let you know that you could also Your oracle for the near future, Aquarius, is to adopt an approach just walk away from it all. Even if you’re tempted to stick around that is the exact opposite of Rhett Butler’s. Patiently gather the and see how much more of the entertaining chaos you can over- broken fragments and glue them together again. I predict that the come, it might be better not to. In my opinion, you have done result will not only be as good as new; it will be better. That’s right: The mended version will be superior to the original. enough impossible work for now.

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