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POWER STRUGGLE

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In the solar-panel debate, Rocky Mountain Power turns a blind eye to the environmental benefits of sunshine.

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Eric S. Peterson is a news writer living in Salt Lake City. He has won multiple awards for investigative reporting. Having worked at City Weekly for eight years, Eric is now moving on to greener pastures, and has plans to start a nonprofit news agency.

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LETTERS Kudos to Frazier

I’ve been reading this paper for many years, and the article “River of No Return” [July 30, City Weekly] is the best one of all.

This is a well-written, informative and interesting story.

A damned good job by Colby Frazier!

DICK RAUN Salt Lake City

Required Reading

I can’t thank you and Colby Frazier enough for the great “River of No Return” article [July 30, City Weekly]. This is one of the best things that I have read in a long time.

I truly think this should be mandatory reading for all Utah legislators and anyone in Utah who cares about the future.

TONY PIGNANELLI Salt Lake City

Your Wish Is Our Command

I was sorry to learn that News Quirks was ending due to the death of the author, Roland Sweet. May I suggest that you carry News of the Weird instead, which is very similar?

BRUCE HAMILTON Salt Lake City Editor’s note: Thanks, Bruce. We were already on it. News of the Weird is now running in the space formerly reserved for News Quirks.

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Free-Market Religion

U.S. House Rep. Chris Stewart, D-Utah, as well as all other Republicans and many Democrats in Congress, use their elected positions there to serve as high priests for their free-market religion whose god (they claim) controls and manipulates the economy with an infallible “invisible hand.”

These high priests demand religious freedom for their own, the country’s and the world’s unfettered practice of that religion—including forcing everyone to practice it.

But it’s a lie of a religion and the most evil of cults.

Their holy free-market isn’t “free” at all. It is absolutely controlled and manipulated by an oligarchy of the evergreedier, thieving, amoral, sociopathic, narcissistic filthyrich—who are, in fact, the patrons and benefactors, and the only real constituents, of these high priests.

They, their religion and these filthy-rich are an abomination in the eyes of any truly honest, moral and just divinity that might exist. That’s why Jesus condemned all the rich and rich-wannabes, as well as their corrupt amoral lackeys like Rep. Stewart. And their believers and followers are just the brainwashed useful-idiot minions of these filthy-rich. They are all well on their way to taking over and destroying society, the human species, and probably all life on Earth.

STUART MCDONALD Salt Lake City

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Thanks to the Americans With Disabilities Act, public buildings now have on-ramps, making them accessible to people who use wheelchairs or assistive technology. For many with disabilities, the on-ramp to economic success is still blocked.

Utah established a framework for systems change, called the Employment First initiative, which is centered on the idea that all citizens, including individuals with significant disabilities, are capable of fully participating in integrated employment and community life. This policy is a good start, but further change is necessary. Under the new Workforce Innovation and Opportunities Act, Gov. Herbert can bring each branch of government together so that education, transportation, workforce development, healthcare and other departments can align their systems to better serve all job-seekers.

People with disabilities deserve the opportunity to achieve the friendships, income and purpose that jobs provide.

JENNIFER LASZLO MIZRAHI Bethesda, Md.

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PRIVATE EY

God’s Help

I think Ted Wilson was mayor of Salt Lake City at the time. Maybe it was Jake Garn or Palmer DePaulis. I don’t know. But as I recall it, a long-ago mayor was walking around downtown Salt Lake City with the ebullient Ed Koch, the late mayor of New York City, who was visiting, perhaps as a humanitarian, perhaps out of curiosity, perhaps to grab our self-conscious notions by the collar and drag us into the modern age. Of all the things he said, of all the wisdom he could impart, of all the puffery that those nearest the mayor of the greatest city in the world could puff their swelling heads around, that the most profound thing he had to say about Salt Lake City was something to this effect: “Your sidewalks are very clean.”

That was the apparent highlight of a short tour around downtown with local dignitaries. Well, right, it had to be a short tour since—and it’s true—add up all the office space in downtown Salt Lake City at that time, and it would have fit inside the World Trade Center, just a fraction of the realm that Mayor Koch ruled. Still, the beaming pride of his words could be felt from Logan to St. George, and by God, we were thrilled the mayor had the good sense to notice our essentially cigarette butt- and bubblegum-free sidewalks. One of the most powerful men in the country was speaking about us. He was complimenting us. It was something we could build upon.

And we did. We beautified Main Street twice, killing it twice in the process. We installed Trax and killed it a third time. We put in bike lanes that have actually helped draw new residents downtown, but those bikes have killed 43 innocent pedestrians over the past three years alone. None of them, by the way, died on our clean city streets or sidewalks. They died at home from racing hearts that exploded at the dinner table after four hours of barely contained high blood pressure inspired by pent-up anger at nearly being run over—again— by a biker speeding and texting down the

middle of the sidewalk (bike lanes are for sissies). Mercifully, since those 43 people died outside of downtown, this statistic is never counted against Salt Lake City as a great place to live. With cleaner sidewalks than ever, and 43 fewer pedestrians, I, too, attest that downtown Salt Lake City is better now than I ever remember.

Then, as now, we are proud of our sidewalks. Also, then as now, we are proud when someone from outside of Salt Lake City reassures us that we are good, clean people, by paying notice to us and saying something flattering about us. Yes, we have clean sidewalks, but while we treat our sidewalks with great respect, we litter our campgrounds and fishing holes with so many baby wipes, empty water jugs and tangled fishing lines that even a certified New York City dumpster diver might migrate westward if he or she knew such bounty could be had without the trouble of actually diving inside a dumpster. We seldom show our visiting dignitaries what it actually looks like at those campgrounds in the Ashley and Uinta national forests—we just show them the flyover videos or wait till they’re covered in snow. It’s our dark secret, and it’s staying there, right? Utahns are clean, but they’re also dirty. Most people are like that. Most people have dirty secrets.

We just like to show our good side. We want to embellish what others say about us, even when they say something as trivial as having clean sidewalks. As I wasn’t exactly sure what Mayor Koch actually said—only remembering the gist of it—I did a Google search and found an article that pretty much cements Salt Lake City as a place that just yearns to be loved. In the Church News section of the Deseret News dated Feb. 4, 1989, I found a quote by Mayor Koch—

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plus quotes or citations of visits to Temple Square by similar celebrities (who are wiser than pissants) in the prior year, including former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis, an ambassador from Norway, boxer Muhammad Ali, actress Shirley Jones, actor Hal Linden and British author Shirley Harrison, who said about the building of the LDS Tabernacle, “They certainly must have had God’s help.” She was raised on tasteless British food, so she would know what God’s help actually is.

In the midst of that article (BTW—yes, it was assumed back then that when the words “Church News” were used in newsprint, one knew which church was newsworthy) was a separate quote by Mayor Koch. I’m not sure if it was declared during the same trip in which he spoke of our clean sidewalks but it ranks equally on the importance scale. Here’s what he said about our seagulls: “God sent manna to save the Jews; God sent seagulls to save the Mormons. The same God, wasn’t it?”

And today, Salt Lakers are again talking about gods and seagulls. The Book of Mormon is playing at the Capitol Theatre, and some people are judging the musical on the Koch relevance meter. Is the content of the play the important thing, or is it that somebody cared enough (or didn’t) to use Salt Lakers and Mormons to make a point about religion in the first place? As with Koch, Salt Lake City is reacting like a self-conscious ninth grader, combing hair over its forehead acne.

Time to see past the acne. Salt Lake City has become a great and desirable city because we have ever clean sidewalks, gluttonous sea gulls—and thanks to God’s help, more than two nightclubs on a city block. CW Send Private Eye comments to john@cityweekly.net

UTAHNS ARE CLEAN, BUT THEY’RE ALSO DIRTY. MOST PEOPLE ARE LIKE THAT. MOST PEOPLE HAVE DIRTY SECRETS.

Upon your first visit to Salt Lake City, what was your lasting impression of downtown?

Brandon Burt: When I was a kid, downtown was total glam. The sidewalks glittered like diamonds in the sunlight. I don’t know what kind of fairy dust the city planners put in the concrete, but some of those old, sparkly sidewalks still exist, for instance on parts of 300 South.

Nicole Enright: I was a bright-eyed 16-yearold from the West Jordan bubble. I wasn’t supposed to drive my car that far, but The Queers were playing at DV8.

All of the buildings were so tall and glamorous. The streets were dirty to my little suburbia eyes and DV8 was filthy.

I was completely in love. Oh, and I got a parking ticket that first night, so my parents found out.

Jeremiah Smith: A lasting impression I have is standing in line at the old Centre Theater, waiting for our second showing that day of The Empire Strikes Back. I thought downtown was magical then, and I do now—even if beautiful buildings like the Centre are gone.

Robby Poffenberger: I spent the early years of my life in an apartment two blocks from Temple Square and grew up in Tooele. Only recently did I realize that downtown Salt Lake City isn’t the center of the universe.

Jerre Wroble: With a long layover at the Salt Lake City airport, I took a cab downtown. It was Christmas time, and I strolled into a glowing, gated square with a castle, a dome-topped hall and a maze of twinkle lights. I expected knights on horseback to gallop by at any minute. Then, someone in a long black coat welcomed me to Temple Square.

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HITS&MISSES

BY KATHARINE BIELE

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What do you want to bet that a nearly $6 million judgment against Siegfried & Jensen won’t make a bit of a difference to their personal-injury business?

The law firm seems to keep bouncing back and proclaiming its expertise in TV commercials. This time, a former business partner claimed in civil filings that Ned Siegfried and Mitch Jensen diverted money from the firm to other entities they owned, according to court filings and news reports. They do have a lot of “other entities.” S&J averages about 2,000 pending cases and earns the partner gross revenues of more than $15 million a year, court documents from a previous case noted. Typically, contingency cases earn lawyers one-third of the award plus their other costs. It adds up, or rather subtracts down, for the client. Still, S&J spend a lot per month promoting themselves, and that must make an impression on prospective clients.

Drugs & Digs

While a Salt Lake Tribune poll found that Salt Lake City voters think downtown homelessness is a major problem, it also found that no one quite knows what to do about it. But wait—this isn’t one problem. You’ve got homelessness, and you’ve got crime. Now the mayor and police are trying to clean up crime—especially drugs—in the area, and later have civilian case workers try to assess the issues of the homeless. This is a great start, although ABC 4 Utah reported that homeless-outreach teams were shortcircuited by a premature police sweep.

Yes, these are two problems.

Parking Plan Problems

Salt Lake City can’t seem to figure out how to plan its neighborhoods, despite master plans and a professional planning staff. We won’t even go into the historic district mess, but surely the city could do better at planning for neighborhood commercial districts like 9th & 9th. Not long ago, there was the big fight over a Smith’s gas station. The neighborhood lost. Now a lawsuit has been filed in district court against the city, the planning department and the property owners of the former Mutual Beauty Supply, according to Michael Cohn, cochairman of the East Liberty Park Community Council. The proposed development would erect a 35,000-square-foot, three-story building with 28 housing units, retail space and only 25 parking spaces. Again, the winners are developers and the out-of-scale developments they advance.

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Suing, Again

The presence of a world-renowned violin-making school in Salt Lake City may be a secret to some locals—as if the large mural on the west side of the Violin Making School of America (304 E. 200 South, 801-209-3494, VMSA.net) didn’t give it away. Student luthier Marinos Glitsos, 27, says when he asked the apartment owners across the street, they weren’t aware of its existence. Prior to enrolling at VMSA, Glitsos earned a bachelor’s of music from the University of Wisconson and apprenticed with a prominent lute builder. He spoke with City Weekly about what it’s like to train at one of the only schools of its kind in the country.

When the other kids wanted to be cops and firefighters, was violin-making your siren song?

I knew early on I’d be involved in music in some capacity. One night in college, I was hired as a musician for a dinner party where I met an organ builder. He introduced me to a great lute maker who allowed me to apprentice in his shop for two years. This is when I came to the realization that I wanted to make a career as a violin maker. Or a firefighter.

What’s the biggest advance in violin making in the past 100 years?

Nothing. That’s the real beauty of it! Violin making is relatively the same now as it has been for hundreds of years. Modern makers strive to create instruments as great as those that were built in the 1700s.

What is it about music that you love?

There is a cliché saying about music transcending all languages. It’s true.

Do you hope for a crescendo in your career as great as that of your school’s founder, the late Peter Prier?

Peter left behind a legacy. The school he founded has trained many of the world’s greatest contemporary violin makers. Very few people in this field will ever leave an impact as momentous as he did.

Have you sustained any injuries in production?

There are some nine-fingered violin makers. I was born with eleven fingers. Either someone was rooting for me all along … or bad genetics. “There is no more important safety rule than to wear these: safety glasses.” —Norm Abram.

Will you ever build yourself a dream violin?

My dream violin will probably be the last instrument I ever work on. I assume I’ll die at the workbench, so it will probably look unfinished.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Trans Siam

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Why are there so many “ladyboys” in Thailand, and why are they such a huge part of the sex industry? Also, what’s up with the ping-pong-ball act?

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“Pick sexier topics,” the Straight Dope staffers are always complaining. “Stop writing about the environment and give us something hashtaggable.” Well, here you go: a column on possibly the most notorious sex industry in the world. But the joke’s on them, because half of this is going to be about Buddhism, and the other half about the foreign-economy-warping might of American military power.

Still: sex, religion and guns—what’s more compelling to the American demographic than that?

To start with the possibly obvious, the Thai sex trade is booming: It’s estimated there are some 200,000 prostitutes in the country, and the industry produces $2.5 billion to $4 billion each year, or around 1 percent of GDP. (A comparable percentage in the U.S. comes from “arts, entertainment and recreation” —which I suppose might cover some of the same things.) Kathoey—Thai slang for transgender women; the English term “ladyboy” is widely considered pretty offensive— are often the most visible part of the industry, even if the estimated rate of transgender people in the population is the same as in most other countries, roughly 0.3 percent.

Even outside the sex industry, transgender women in Thailand may be more socially integrated than their peers elsewhere in the world—in one study of 200 trans women there, the subjects were found on average to be better educated and more affluent than the country as a whole. And contrary to the suspicions of some, every participant in the study identified as female or transgender; none were men dressing up as women solely in order to attract tourist cash. But, thanks in large part to the sex trade, Thai trans women have become a more visible part of the cultural landscape than their counterparts in the U.S. and most other countries. So what gives?

Much of it, it turns out, is probably Buddhism. The religion was adopted in Thailand by way of India about 800 years ago, and 95 percent of Thais now identify as Buddhist.

Traditional Buddhists were never exactly sold on the whole sex idea in general. Reaching nirvana means achieving the absence of all desire, and sticking anything into pretty much any bodily orifice amounts to spiritual defeat for a monk, “even if only the width of a sesame seed” (not an optimistic bunch, these guys). It wasn’t for lack of thinking about it: The Buddhist code of monastic conduct called the Vinaya lists 27 categories of people, creatures and objects that one shouldn’t have sex with, including men, women, dead women whose flesh has or hasn’t been eaten away by animals, female monkeys, wooden dolls … you get the picture. Amid this overall disdain for getting off, heterosexual sex and homosexual sex were viewed as equally sinful (at least for monks).

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Transsexualism is also surprisingly well-defined in Buddhist scripture, and is described in great detail in several stories.

The historian Peter Jackson has argued that pre-existing Thai notions of gender interacted with Buddhist thought in a way that uniquely conflated gayness with transness; for many years, gay men were simply understood as having women’s desires, and often referred to as kathoey too. But while same-sex inclinations were long thought in Thai Buddhism to be sinful, they were also thought to be congenital—meaning they couldn’t be changed during a person’s lifetime, and therefore had to be accepted.

Of course, this doesn’t exactly constitute a Caitlyn-Jenner-on-the-cover-of-Vanity Fair level of public acceptance—no one’s claiming Thailand is a perfect role model for the equal-rights movement. But compared to Christianity’s effects in the West, Buddhism has helped create a society that’s probably more accepting of divergence from traditional orientation and gender norms; Jackson describes Thai gay and trans subcultures that are notably vibrant, if idiosyncratic.

The sex-industry part of the story is much simpler. When American troops fought in the Vietnam War, roughly 700,000 of them passed at some point through Thailand, the U.S. military’s official rest-and-relaxation area. Their spending in restaurants, bars, and brothels exceeded 40 percent of Thailand’s export earnings, all happily paid for by the American government, and produced a proliferation of sex-based businesses. See also: the Philippines while the U.S. had bases there, and Korea during the Korean War and since.

To complete the equation, transgender populations all over the world are much more heavily involved in prostitution than the population at large, because thus far no society is so accepting of transness that it’s simple for a publicly transgender person to find other employment. Here in the U.S., the National Trans Discrimination Survey reported in 2011 that 26 percent of transgender people had lost their jobs due to gender identity/ expression and 11 percent had done sex work for income. With Thailand’s high-profile sex trade, these trends stand out all the more.

As for that ping-pong-ball trick, let’s just say the physics behind it is pretty simple.

The rest I’ll leave to your imagination and/ or your Google search history.

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

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NEWS Cracking Down

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“Putting people in jail because they do things outside that the rest of us are able to do in our homes—such as go to the bathroom, go to sleep, have a drink with a friend—is an expensive, ineffective way to keep our communities safe.”

—ACLU of Utah spokeswoman Anna Brower

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A new homeless policing strategy focuses on minor offenses.

BY ERIC S. PETERSON epeterson@cityweekly.net @ericspeterson

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ncumbent officeholders in an election season have to face a veritable firing squad of critical bullet points from their opponents. Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker has faced, ducked, dodged and had to bite various bullet points from his mayoral challengers for months, including the criticism that Becker did not take the downtown homelessness problem seriously.

But in late July, Becker took the ammo away from challengers by announcing a homeless strategy that would include city-funded social workers in the area, a new hotline (801-799-DNTN, for “downtown”) to report problems—and, most importantly, a dedicated “beat” of sixto-12 bicycle officers who will stay permanently in the shelter area.

Becker and Salt Lake City interim Police Chief Mike Brown assured media at the press conference that the city can’t arrest its way out of the homeless problem, but that it can target serious criminals in order to make it easier for those who need help to get it. This “new” strategy, however, is not very new in some respects; in June, the call for social workers to help out downtown was heralded by Salt Lake City Councilman Charlie Luke, who also led the fight to hire more police officers—against the wishes of then-Chief Chris Burbank. In spring 2015, Burbank told City Weekly new officers hired for the shelter area could potentially find themselves ticketing and arresting people simply to justify their salaries [“Protect and Serve,” June 4, 2015].

What is new about the city’s approach is, perhaps, exactly what Burbank feared: A new emphasis on “community standards” policing that will step up targeting homeless residents for minor offenses such as jaywalking, public urination, open-containers and public intoxication.

“While those aren’t high on the list of serious criminal offenses, they are illegal and they take away from and detract the quality of life for people—not just visiting, but people living there,” says police Lt. Josh Scharman, who will oversee the project. Combined with other measures, he says a focus on petty crime will play a role in revitalizing the neighborhood.

A police crackdown on minor infractions downtown has homeless advocates worried.

Scharman was a SWAT commander before he joined the Metro Support Bureau where he is now tasked with overseeing services and public safety in the homeless-shelter area. Scharman has taken over the bureau from Deputy Chief Fred Ross, who has moved to investigations. Ross’ role with the bureau was criticized by some in city hall—not for poor performance, but for the fact that, as head of the Homeless Outreach Services Team, he personally drove homeless individuals to job interviews.

Scharman says that, for the time being, the Homeless Outreach Services Team (HOST) officers will continue to transport shelter clients to appointments, but he’s not sure if HOST will continue to fill that function in the future. Eight new social workers will be deployed during the next few months, and Scharman says that role may be passed on to them—although it’s uncertain what vehicles would be used to transport homeless individuals to job interviews and appointments.

Scharman stresses that the department is not trying to criminalize being homeless, and that the new approach is meant to target and clear out the hardcore criminal element, a contingent of dealers often distributing drugs for dangerous Mexican cartels. The more visible police presence, Scharman says, will also be augmented by a more stealthy element—undercover officers, purchasing drugs and busting dealers. One week into the new strategy, Scharman says officers busted a dealer who had more than $8,000 on him from a single day’s worth of slinging.

“If we can eliminate some of the drug dealing, if we can sort that out, then we can identify the people we can really help,” Scharman says. But between drug

busts and dealing with other criminal activities, officers will keep busy targeting minor offenses. “It’s important to have standards and expectations, and we expect them to obey the law like any other community,” Scharman says.

This prong of the new homeless strategy is raising eyebrows with Bill Tibbitts of the Crossroads Urban Center, an organization that advocates for homeless and low-income Utahns.

“Chief Burbank was always very clear that he understood that homeless people have civil rights, and so you don’t hassle them just because you hope it will make them go away,” Tibbitts writes via email. “It is not clear that the people running things now have that same understanding.”

Some are concerned that this kind of nuisance policing could work too well downtown—and simply shift the homeless from Pioneer Park farther west.

Nan Weber, a member of the Poplar Grove Community Council, says over the past couple years, more and more homeless individuals have migrated from the shelter area to camping along the Jordan River trail or in west-side parks. She worries the new police strategy could push more of the homeless away from downtown and its services, and to the west side. “Moving folks from downtown where [support] facilities are and scattering them about in places with no facilities doesn’t help them,” Weber says.

For Anna Brower, a spokeswoman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah, this get-tough approach is highly troubling.

“Salt Lake knows how to reduce homelessness: Give people stable housing,” Brower writes via e-mail. “Putting

people in jail because they do things outside that the rest of us are able to do in our homes—such as go to the bathroom, go to sleep, have a drink with a friend—is an expensive, ineffective way to keep our communities safe.”

Brower also argues that overcriminalizing “nuisance” behvaior disproportionately affects an already vulnerable population. Often, individuals with mental-health and addiction issues can’t afford to pay tickets anyway. “That doesn’t do much to improve community relationships between law enforcement and members of the public,” Brower says.

Scharman, however, is not a newcomer to the shelter area. He has already established relations with the community, and he hopes they will continue. While Scharman recognizes that targeting minor offenses could alienate some homeless people from helping police target serious criminals, he also believes that the homeless themselves want to see better standards in their community.

Scharman recently held a forum where he polled homeless residents on the idea of standards, and he says, the homeless were overwhelmingly supportive. “They believe the community should have expectations too,” Scharman says.

“Nobody likes coming into contact with a puddle of urine or a pile of feces on the sidewalk. Even people down on their luck shouldn’t be exposed to that—and they don’t want to be. “[It] is a fine line we’re walking with maintaining relationships with the homeless,” Scharman says, “but we’ve been very successful so far at maintaining that balance.” CW

NEWS M E D I A M AT T E R S Info Patrol Media analysts say public information officers stifle a free press.

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But Raymond’s anonymous comments, Everitt says, “raises questions about judgment reflecting the approach and the tone and tenor that Mayor Becker really expects of us all.”

Concerned by the growing use of public information officers, Kathryn Foxhall, a Washington, D.C.-based freelance writer, has organized journalism-advocacy groups around the issue. In July 2014, 39 organizations, including the Society of Professional Journalists, sent a letter to President Barack Obama that outlined concerns with PIOs. The letter calls the use of PIOs and public affairs offices a form of “censorship—an attempt to control what the public is allowed to see and hear.”

Foxhall says that most reporters don’t have any problem with a person installed in government who is there to help facilitate the official story. But when PIOs begin placing blanket restrictions on which public employees are allowed to speak to the press, information is suppressed, and the public loses out.

“It’s censorship that has become a cultural norm,” Foxhall says. “And people in power have just jumped on it, because we … as a society or we as a press have not condemned it for what it is, which is information control.”

Luke Garrott, the chairman of the Salt Lake City Council who is running against Becker for mayor, says that during his eight years on the council, he’s found it “quirky and annoying” that all media requests are funneled through a single individual.

“What happens there is, more often than not, you get spin on a story that is made for public consumption in the most benign way that doesn’t have much information,” Garrott says. “That’s not a public-information officer position, is it? That’s a PR position.”

Foxhall, whose primary experience is in the federal government, says reporters were once able to call a person—or bang on an office door—to gather information. But those days are long gone, she says—and, as a result, important stories aren’t being told.

“Because information control is the most powerful thing in human society, anything that can be used for information control will be used,” Foxhall says. “We don’t have any reasons to trust the situation.” CW

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etting an interview with the experts who manage Salt Lake City’s watershed divisions or signs and markings division has become a lot like getting a sit-down with a movie star: It is possible, but you have to go through a handler.

In most branches of government, that person is called a Public Information Officer, or PIO. While considered a public servant and paid by public dollars, this person often walks a tight wire attempting to balance serving the public versus serving the elected official who signs his or her paychecks.

Joel Campbell, an associate professor of journalism at Brigham Young University, says the employment of public-relations experts by government entities has been on the rise for years, and is becoming more prevalent in Utah.

“They always want to control the message, and I guess that I would disagree with that,” says Campbell. “I think policies that would tend to make the mayor and his staff control everything that comes out of city hall are really contrary to the idea of public information.”

Linda Petersen, a local freelance journalist, has helped lead a nationwide effort to call attention to the rise of PIOs in government whose primary job isn’t to help the press, but to make the entities they work for look good.

Petersen notes that these PIOs often soothe the press’ concern by telling them that their job is to help, and that they’ll streamline information and help direct reporters to the correct people.

But, really, what they’re telling their bosses is that they’re corralling and controlling the media, she says. “The government has now somehow, across the board, thought that part of their role or one of the employees’ roles, is to make them look good, and therefore, everything has to be sanitized and scrubbed before it meets the public,” Petersen says.

“The idea of a free press and dialogue with government—it died somewhere in the past few years, and nobody noticed.”

David Everitt, Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker’s chief of staff, says the city uses PIOs to help reporters be more efficient. But the dual roles of ensuring that light is shining on the government while simultaneously guarding the city and its mayor’s image can clash.

This conflict became evident last week when Art Raymond, Becker’s spokesman, was placed on paid leave when it was revealed that Raymond had been anonymously advocating for his boss in the comments section of The Salt Lake Tribune’s website.

Everitt says he believes Raymond—in his duties as a PIO—is responsive to the media.

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There’s an App for That Among the health and fitness apps for computers and smartphones are sextracking programs to document the variety of acts and positions, degrees of frenzy and lengths of sessions (via an on-bed motion detector)—and menstrual trackers aimed at males (to help judge their partner’s fertility but also her predicted friskiness and likelihood of orgasm). Several have chart- and graph-making potential for data (noise level, average thrust frequency, duration, etc.), and of course, the highlight of many of the apps is their ability to create a “score” to rank performance—even encouraging comparisons across a range of populations and geography. (Sociologist Deborah Lupton’s app research was summarized in the July Harper’s Magazine.)

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We Are Not Alone Scientists from Australia’s James Cook University told reporters in June that they had spotted an aggressive fish that can walk on land making its way toward the country from Papua New Guinea.

The native freshwater “climbing perch” can live out of water for days and has survived short saltwater treks from PNG toward Australia’s Queensland. n In July, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department posted a warning photo of a so-far-rare Texas Redhead—an 8-inch-long centipede with gangly white legs tipped with venom-delivering fangs and which eats lizards and toads.

Profile in Leadership Maryland State Delegate Ariana Kelly was charged with trespassing and indecent exposure in June after she arrived at her ex-husband’s home to drop off their kids and learned that his girlfriend was inside. According to police, she started banging on the door and ringing the bell repeatedly and, aware that her hus-

Ironies An 87-year-old man, taking his license renewal driving test in Deerfield, Illinois, in June, accidentally crashed into the driver’s license office (based on brake/accelerator confusion). Neither he nor the examiner was injured. n An 83-year-old man, driving around Cape Coral, Florida, in May, suffered a fatal heart attack at the wheel, and the uncontrolled car came to rest in shrubbery ringing the Florida Heart Associates building.

Wrong Place, Wrong Time: A court in Lincoln, Nebraska, which had already sent Paul Boye to prison for at least 10 years for shooting his girlfriend, ordered him in June to cover her resulting medical bills. The woman had taken a .22-caliber bullet, which left a scar cutting right through her tattoo reading “Happiness Is a Warm Gun.” n A task force of Benton, Arkansas, police and U.S. Marshals tracked down Tieren Watson, 26, in June after he had spent several days on the lam as a suspect in a shooting. When arrested, he was wearing a T-shirt reading “You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide.”

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Mine worker Joshua Clay claimed in a lawsuit that a foreman had twice taunted him for complaining about conditions—by restraining him and spray-painting his testicles white. Clay filed against Kielty Mine in Mingo County, West Virginia, in July, alleging that the company had forced him to work on the dirty side of a coal-dust conversion machine—a practice forbidden by federal regulations—and that when he complained, he was subjected to off-the-books discipline.

Inexplicable A KPHO-TV news story in Phoenix featured a local doctor advising expectant mothers against “tweaking” the result of home pregnancy tests. Some women, apparently, had discovered the magic of “Photoshopping” the pink reading on the home test’s strip—to take a faint pink line (not a certified pregnancy) to make it bold (pregnant!). Although the doctor warns of the general hazard of “false positives,” the 415-word news story does not explain how Photoshopping a not-positive reading into a positive one improves the likelihood of conception.

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n The Undernews From Wimbledon: The All England Club, host of tennis’s most hallowed tournament, is, formally, the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, at which presumably Britain’s 11,900 croquet “regulars” aspire to play—although their British Open Championship is actually held at the nearby Surbiton Croquet Club, which this year hosted 50 competitors from four continents, according to a July New York Times dispatch. The leading U.S. player—Ben Rothman of Oakland, California, the “croquet pro” at Mission Hills Country Club near Palm Springs—is the reputed “world’s leader” in prize money ($4,500).

band had a camera trained on the doorway, she faced it, exposed her breasts and shook them, one in each hand, toward the lens.

Eventually, she dared an officer to arrest her. (The Washington Post reported that Kelly is a member of a legislative task force studying maternal mental health issues.)

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The Continuing Crisis Reuters reported in early July that a big loser in the nuclear pact between Iran and six world powers was (since all negotiators have gone home to sell the deal) the brothel industry of Vienna, Austria, which hosted that final round. With so many (male, mostly) diplomats in town for two stressful months, business had been robust—especially compared to the previous round in notoriously expensive Lausanne, Switzerland.

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In the solar-panel debate, Rocky Mountain Power turns a blind eye to the environmental benefits of sunshine.

By Eric S. Peterson epeterson@cityweekly.net

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ark Larsen fits the bill of a stereotypical solar-panel user. He’s a semi-retired college Spanish professor, active member of Utah Citizens Advocating for Renewable Energy (UCARE) and lives in a suburb of brown adobe homes outside of St. George. From across the valley, his community blends into the surrounding red rock, like a field of boulders on the beige desert horizon. Since he more or less lives under a sun-baked rock, Larsen decided he might as well soak up the rays and use them to power the three-bedroom home on a half-acre he shares with his wife and a feisty Pomeranian named Tisa (short for Petisa or “petite” in Spanish).

His solar-panel array keeps the home cool, powers his electric car and gives back excess electrons to the grid. Considering the fact that Larsen is such a progressive carbon-footprintconscious professor, it may come as a surprise that his major beef with Utah’s regulated monopoly, Rocky Mountain Power (RMP), is, he says, the company’s “socialist” posturing.

The way Larsen describes it, if electrons were wealth, RMP would be the redistributor-in-chief when it comes to skimming clean solar-generated electrons and giving them to customers still reliant on the utility’s deep and dirty fossil-fuel energy mix—which, between coal and natural gas, accounts for more than 70 percent of RMP’s delivered energy.

“For the last 4 1/2 years, we donate those [extra] electrons to Rocky Mountain Power, and Rocky Mountain Power then turns around and sells them to our neighbors at the full rate, even though they haven’t done anything to generate it. Now they want to fine me for making that donation to the grid?” Larsen asks with a scoff.

“They keep up a facade of this socialist appearance in order to maintain their capitalist profit, and to me, that is the last straw,” Larsen says.

While the sun shines on us all, the solar-energy debate is one that divides people along class and color lines, oftentimes with proponents of traditional fossil fuels arguing that “net meter” customers—those who power their homes with solar power—have for too long had their costly panels subsidized by average customers. This line of argument goes that “distributed generation” (DG) that results from net-meter (solar panel) customers actually can strain the grid, and the discount those customers receive on their bills is significantly higher than the value of the energy they give back. The “Sunny DG” crowd, however, argues that clean energy returned to the grid profits the utility immediately while providing long-term benefits to the community and the planet overall. According to an outside expert, Severin Borenstein of the Energy Institute at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, both claims are true.

But what’s interesting in the current netmetering debate is what’s not being talked about: the external environmental and publichealth benefits of solar in reducing air, land and water pollution. Currently, the referees in this debate—the Public Service Commission (PSC), which is studying the costs and benefits of solar net metering—have been studying the issue with plans to offer a proposal that would be up for public comment in October.

In 2014, when RMP first floated the idea of a $4.25-per-month tariff on net-meter customers, the utility was battered by negative publicity.

Since then, the PSC has made a strong move to block out “externalities” from the debate.

The PSC has agreed that, during this phase of the discussion, clean-energy advocates will not be able to argue for the long-term benefits of solar, but will be restricted to analyzing costs and benefits only in terms of rates and utilityinfrastructure concerns.

To put it another way, if the regulation debate

were a trial, and lawyers for the sun wanted to cross-examine coal for past crimes of pollution and mass assaults on the public’s health, RMP would be the lawyer objecting to hearsay, and the PSC would be the judge appointed by Gov. Gary Herbert sustaining the objection.

In Utah, state regulators have set up the analysis now to take “externalities” off the table, but advocates point out that it’s still possible for the public to let the commission know they want these factors to be part of the discussion, and that such things can still be presented as an appeal argument when the commission begins debating a “just and reasonable” solar tariff.

There are only an estimated 3,000 rooftop-solar users in Utah, so why is there so much heat over the issue? Solar advocates point out that, left unchecked, the utility will do everything it can to muscle out renewable-energy providers so it can keep burning dirty fossil fuels. For now, solar net-meter customers comprise a small subset of ratepayers, but RMP realizes that they are a rapidly growing demographic. RMP’s parent company Pacificorp noted in its 2015 Integrated Resource Plan that, at the end of 2014, it had 8,266 net-meter customers across the six states it operates in—an increase of 48 percent from the previous year.

As for those “external” factors such as air quality and environmental concerns? Larsen, for one, says it shouldn’t be hard to bring them into the PSC’s calculations. He says that during the four years since he went solar, the reduction in carbon-dioxide emissions from his home and his electric car added up to more than 140,000 pounds of CO2.

“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to look up on the Environmental Protection Agency’s website to see how much CO2 is developed by burning a lot of coal,” Larsen says.

Severin Borenstein

The current debate is in response to 2014 legislation that called on the Public Service Commission to study the David Eskelsen costs and benefits of solar net Rocky Mountain metering. RMP argued in its legal filing before the PSC that since Power spokesman the legislation sought quantifiable benefits, then surely it did not mean external societal benefits—arguing that nothing in the bill language “indicates that the Legislature intended to task the Commission with the impossible undertaking to quantify the unquantifiable.”

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In the net-meter report released by the Environment America Research & Policy Center, researchers took a broad view and compared cost-benefit analyses undertaken in 11 states.

The studies done in the individual states were commissioned either by state utility regulators, outside groups such as environmental nonprofits, or directly by utilities themselves.

The report found that eight out of 11 of the studies determined that “the value of solar energy was worth more than the average residential retail electricity rate in the area at the time the analysis was conducted.” The other three

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Energy Institute professor at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business

“The kilowatt-hour charges paid by residential customers are intended to cover fixed costs of the system, not just energy costs that can be avoided by net metering.”

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“You’re imposing a cost on everyone else in the system.”

Borenstein points out that net-meter customers across the country generally reap their rewards in discounts on their bills. If a net-meter customer consumes 100 kilowatt-hours in a month, and generates 30 of those kilowatt-hours from his solar panels, the energy he generates offsets his bill—but at the retail, not wholesale, rate. This, Borenstein says, hurts utilities.

“Most utilities—not all, but with most utilities—their cost of generating a kilowatthour is substantially lower than the retail price, because it also pays for things like transmission and distribution costs that are mostly fixed,” Borenstein says. So, if the net-meter customer is reimbursed at the retail rate, the utility has to make up the difference somewhere—that is, at the expense of other ratepayers.

“You’re imposing a cost on everyone else in the system,” Borenstein says.

It’s a point echoed by David Eskelsen, a spokesman for Rocky Mountain Power. “The kilowatt-hour charges paid by residential customers are intended to cover fixed costs of the system, not just energy costs that can be avoided by net metering,” Eskelsen writes via email.

In Utah, net-meter customers don’t receive compensation for energy generated in excess of consumption, and this can be unfair to consumers, Borenstein says. However, it’s not that common, he says. In sunny California, he says, less than 5 percent of all houses with solar actually generated more than they consumed over a year—still, regulators there recently adopted a system to provide compensation for these excess electrons.

In a recent presentation to Utah state regulators, RMP warned that implementing a two-way flow of power could be costly: For example, line fuses that cost $1,300 which need to be installed at stations throughout the network would have to be replaced with $24,000 line reclosers.

From Borenstein’s perspective, there are concrete savings in “distributed generation”—for example, in the reduction of “line losses” that occur when energy dissipates while traveling through long transmission lines. Other dollarsand-cents arguments don’t stack up, though, such as the idea that net-meter users will help significantly delay upgrades to the utility’s traditional coal-powered infrastructure.

Still, while the societal benefits that come from reduced carbon emissions are obvious, Borenstein doesn’t agree that net metering is the proper subsidy, because net metering is a difficult subsidy to measure—and current subsidies are likely too high. He would much rather stakeholders agree on a clear and open rate at which solar customers should be compensated.

While RMP would agree with Borenstein about the unfairness of a subsidy, RMP differs on the point of evaluating any “societal benefit.” RMP has repeatedly argued that it is too difficult—if not impossible—to evaluate the benefits of solar energy in dollars and cents.

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The sun business is booming and has, in recent years, presented incredible opportunities as an energy industry. According to a June 2015 report

by Environment America Research & Policy Center, by the end of the third quarter of 2015, “21,300 megawatts of cumulative solar electric capacity had been installed around the country, enough to power more than 4.3 million homes.”

The report congratulates progressive policies that have helped make it affordable for these projects to soak up the sun and pass the savings on to solar customers.

The report cited the standard benefits one would expect: Solar has reduced 71 million tons of carbon emissions since 2007. Buoyed by a drive for cleaner energy, the industry also has helped create a booming workforce—the report cites that, in 2014, the solar-energy industry added jobs at a rate 20 times that of the overall economy.

In late July, two separate solar companies announced plans to expand operations in Utah, with expectations to add 7,000 new jobs to the local economy in coming years.

But not everyone is convinced that this booming business is a win for all consumers.

Professor Borenstein says that net metering provides a significant and oftentimes unfair subsidy for customers who decide to go solar.

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“Our Public Service Commission has a total disconnect from what’s going on in the real world.”

Jay Vestal UCARE advocate studies were those commissioned by utilities that undervalued—or excluded altogether—the health and environmental benefits of solar.

It’s not surprising that this is a battle raging in highly technical commission meetings across the nation. Unlike in Utah, however, some state regulators are more willing to look beyond the billing cycle to consider benefits of solar. In Vermont, regulators found significant benefits to solar net metering and relied on a defined value for climate-change-related costs that would be reduced or eliminated, thanks to solar. Vermont assigns a value of $100 per metric ton of reduced CO2 emissions.

A 2015 Maine study used data from the Environmental Protection Agency’s “AVoided Emissions and geneRation Tool” (AVERT) a dataanalysis program that calculates state-specific pollution emissions. Maine also looked at the “social cost of carbon” as spelled out in the EPA’s 2010 guidelines, which were determined by experts from nearly a dozen agencies ranging from the Department of Energy to the Office of Management and Budget.

Even conservative states like Nevada found benefits to solar net metering and were willing to factor societal benefits into the equation. In 2014, regulators in the Silver State commissioned a study that found rooftop clean-energy systems there would net $36 million in benefits through 2016. That analysis used a common standard to place a dollar value on displaced emissions like sulphur oxides, mercury and particulate pollution.

But in Utah, RMP asserts that quantifying these externalities is impossible. Rather than analyze the external-benefit numbers other states have used, RMP says the Public Service Commission should not look to any studies outside of Utah.

The utility makes this claim by zeroing in on

the 2014 legislative language that directed the PSC to study “the costs and benefits to this utility and these customers. …” Since the utility is in Utah, and since the customers are in Utah, Rocky Mountain Power’s legal brief claims that any major studies or analyses that might be buzzing outside the Beehive State should simply be ignored. So far, the PSC hasn’t completely banned out-of-state studies but seems to agree with RMP, stating in a docket filing that it sees “little probative value” in such studies.

“Our Public Service Commission has a total disconnect from what’s going on in the real world,” says Jay Vestal, a renewables advocate with UCARE. “They want to put blinders on and not consider the larger issues and consider how to quantify the value of those larger issues.”

While other, more progressive state legislatures have helped push utility regulators toward recognizing the societal benefits of solar, there has been no mandate from the highly conservative, coal-loving Utah Legislature.

And the Public Services Commission takes its cues from the Legislature when it comes to implementing utlilty-related legislation. It’s also influenced by the governor, who appoints new members. The most recent member appointed to the PSC, utility lawyer Jordan White, previously had done work for RMP and used his confirmation hearing repeatedly to praise Gov. Herbert’s fossilfuel-heavy energy goals, according to testimony at a legislative hearing.

The PSC has also already come down on the side of the utility in a matter similar to the current net-metering question. In 2013, the regulators were debating the value of “avoided costs” the utility would have to pay to large-scale renewable-energy projects for power sold to RMP. Back then, renewables advocates implored

regulators to factor in societal benefits—and the commission refused.

The key point in that debate, similar to the current one over rooftop solar, comes down to the scope of such a benefit—for RMP, the issue isn’t benefiting society—it’s about benefiting the ratepayer, their customer.

“How many dollars-per-month [are] offset on an electric bill because of an unmeasurable contribution to ‘cleaner air?’” RMP asks in a legal filing before the commission. “The quantification at issue must pertain to a measureable benefit enjoyed by a ratepayer or a cost saved from a power bill, even when the external value an intervener wants to quantify is otherwise desirable.”

Sunset on the Renewable Boom?

For its advocates, the solar industry is having its moment. Thanks to state and federal tax incentives and a glut of cheap solar panels manufactured overseas, bright silvery solar panels by the millions are bedazzling the country from residential homes to businesses and giant solar towers spread across the deserts of the West. But some solar advocates worry the shine on the burgeoning industry could fade in the very near future.

While states like Utah weigh a net-meter tariff that could make solar a more costly investment, solar-industry advocates like Lauren Randall of SunRun warn that a key federal tax credit is set to expire in 2016. Established in 2006, Randall says the tax credit “leveled the playing field” by giving solar a 30-percent tax credit, comparable to credits the government has long given to the fossil-fuel sector.

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“That’s when I got involved in this particular issue, because I thought, ‘Why are we going to penalize people who are looking at an alternative that will benefit us all in the future?’” customers

all to better track Rep. Angela Romero what kinds of energy D-Salt Lake City they consume and when, but that move would require new equipment and would likely raise rates.

As the issue moves closer to resolution, advocates like Sarah Wright, executive director of the nonprofit Utah Clean Energy, worries that the PSC, while doing a good service in looking out for the economic well-being of ratepayers in the state, still need to look farther than the short-term nickel-and-dime issues and instead consider long-term savings in health and quality of life.

“Sometimes our regulators forget that we’re not just ratepayers,” Wright says. “We’re citizens with families and children and grandchildren— and we want decisions that benefit not only the pocketbook, but the ongoing best interests of our families and communities.” CW

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“We’re looking at it from a narrow lens right now,” Romero says. “But we as a state need to look at the implications of where we fit in the larger picture.” It’s a point echoed by her colleague, Sen. Luz Escamilla, D-Salt Lake City, who says the utility ought to focus more on adapting for the future than on complaining about one customer subsidizing another.

“What they try to do is create wars between consumers, but where is the industry?”

Escamilla asks. She argues that if there were more competition and more choices for utility consumers, then the industry would be encouraging new options—not penalizing users.

While RMP serves a majority of Utahns, Eskelsen says there still is competition—40 other utilities serve smaller cities and rural cooperatives throughout Utah. Still, he defends the regulated monopoly for bringing stability to an energy market, citing the California energy crisis as one brought on by deregulation of larger utility companies. Regulated monopolies overseen by government authorities—with defined service areas and an obligation to serve all customers in those areas—provide essential services in the best way possible, Eskelsen says.

“The arrangement results in lower costs to customers, greater efficiency, and financially healthier utilities—all of which enhance the reliability of service,” Eskelsen says.

The rooftop-solar question is far from settled as the PSC ramps up its cost-benefit study, and is encouraging members of the public to contact the commission and add their input.

According to RMP’s Eskelsen, the utility is not simply pushing toward a tariff but is, in fact, considering other ways of offering rate fairness, including a separate rate schedule for net-meter customers—one that wouldn’t lump them in with traditional ratepayers. “A separate rate schedule for net-metering customers could more accurately reflect the system benefits that those customers may bring and the costs for the grid that they still rely on and use,” Eskelsen says.

Eskelsen also points out that the utility supported legislation in the 2015 session that would direct some expiring net-meter credits to be directed toward low-income residents as a way to help funnel net-meter energy to ratepayers most in need.

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“If the credit expires, that would cause a major disruption in the growing renewable energy industry,” Randall says. “Ninety percent of solar companies could go out of business.”

The toll could be devastating to an industry that she says employs more than 175,000 people across the nation. Since the credit will sunset at the end of 2016, its fate could rest in the hands of a new Congress and a new president—who might not necessarily see the value in reinstating the credit.

For UCARE’s Vestal, the economics of solar mean everything. His system cost him $12,000, he says—but between state and federal tax credits, he got back almost half of that. He now proudly joins a sliver of RMP’s overall customers using solar net-metering, but he says, important consumer trends necessarily have to start small.

“This isn’t going to make or break Rocky Mountain Power. There’s less than 3,000 people in Utah that have solar on their homes right now,” Vestal says. “What scares [RMP] is that more and more people drive by my house and see it, and they stop and ask, ‘What’s going on here?’ and I show them my power bill, and then they say, ‘Maybe I could do that, too.’”

In Utah, there is another front to the renewableenergy debate: Rep. Angela Romero, D-Salt Lake City, is fighting to show that communities of color want renewable energy, even if it’s something that may be difficult for lower-income minorities to afford. The issue came to her attention when a resolution was presented to the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators asking it to criticize net metering for disproportionately hurting low-income minorities.

Romero, however, has taken the opposite tack and is working on a counter resolution arguing that traditional energy unfairly affects communities of color, which are often located near transmission lines and refineries, and whose residents suffer a slew of health issues for living on the fossil-fuel front lines.

“That’s when I got involved in this particular issue, because I thought, ‘Why are we going to penalize people who are looking at an alternative that will benefit us all in the future?’” Romero says. While Romero has only recently got involved in the renewables issue, she believes if the PSC is unwilling to consider societal benefits, it may be up to the Legislature to begin a conversation

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Broadway Across America: The Book of Mormon At the end of The Book of Mormon’s opening musical number, “Hello,” a screen lifted to show a painted backdrop representing downtown Salt Lake City, complete with signs for Crown Burger and Zions Bank—and the crowd exploded, drowning out the last several bars of the song. This musical—our musical—had come home.

The gleefully crude show by Robert Lopez and South Park creators Trey Parker & Matt Stone— following eager young Mormons Elder Price (Billy Harrigan Tighe) and Elder Cunningham (A. J. Holmes) on their challenging mission to Uganda—offers plenty of catchy songs and punch lines that transcend Utah cultural specifics.

Yet it’s also hard to ignore that plenty of people in the Capitol Theatre audience felt a unique connection to the jaunty paean to repression in “Turn It Off,” or laughed particularly hard at Ugandan LDS convert Nabulungi (Alexandra Ncube) singing a ballad to the wonders she expects to find in magical “Sal Tlay Ka Siti.”

Of course, it’s a show that steps up to the boundary of good taste, takes a huge crap on that boundary and runs naked several miles past it. But even as specific LDS doctrine becomes the comedic lyrics of “I Believe,” it’s also a unique celebration of how religious stories—no matter how ridiculous they might seem—bring comfort to people’s lives, and an alternate perspective on what a missionary might accomplish. Salt Lakers are far from the only people who are finding that notion delightful, even if certain jokes are bound to hit far closer to home. (Scott Renshaw) Broadway Across America-Utah: The Book of Mormon @ Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, July 28-Aug. 9, daily lottery tickets only available, $26. ArtTix. org

THURSDAY 8.6 Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival

Mounting a performing arts production is hard.

Finding or creating the basic material, bringing together performers and technicians, raising funding and even securing a venue can make the effort seem almost heroic. And in Utah, one might also face the challenge of making sure that the material is unlikely to give offense, lest you limit your audience.

It’s hard, but the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival is trying to make it a little easier. While many local performing-arts organizations are still ramping up for their fall seasons, dozens of local actors, dancers and writers will be bringing original, risky work to venues in the Sugar House area, providing more than 200 individual opportunities to sample short plays, dance performances, yoga, comedy and even magic, with 100 percent of the ticket proceeds going directly to the artists.

Some of the shows are created by familiar Salt Lake City theater companies: Plan-B Theatre Co. (Jennifer Nii’s family-friendly story of shelter dogs, Ruff!); Pygmalion Theatre Co. (offering The Weyward Sisters, which imagines actual witches cast in the original production of Macbeth); and Pinnacle Acting Co. (the Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned to Drive). But many other productions—like the zombie musical Undying Love—take advantage of the minimalist technical requirements to deliver all-new work by artists taking chances and inviting viewers along on innovative journeys. As they push local arts beyond the fringes, let them push you, as well.

(Scott Renshaw) Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival @ various Sugar House venues, Aug. 6-9, tickets $5 minimum donation per show, $10 recommended, Sprague Library shows free.

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It’s been more than five years since Salt Lake City had a major videogame convention, the last being GEEX (one of the precursors to Salt Lake Comic Con). But as our geeky conventions have expanded, gamers were left as one of the few groups that haven’t been tapped for their own cons.

Salt Lake Gaming Con is looking to change that in as many was as possible by offering gaming fans one of the biggest weekend tournaments to ever happen in Utah. Over the course of three days, the South Towne Expo Center will host dozens of table-top and videogame tournaments, featuring beloved titles like League of Legends, Super Smash Bros., Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter IV Ultra, Magic: The Gathering, HeroClix, Dice Masters, Dungeons & Dragons, Halo, Doom, Rock Band, Call of Duty, Splatoon and more.

Beyond the tournaments will be a gigantic cosplay competition with nine different levels of entry, exhibits from gaming companies like Microsoft and Wildworks, the Geek Comedy Tour, and Utah’s Biggest Murder Mystery Game, where attendees can play a gigantic version of whodunit with fellow attendees.

Other scheduled guest appearances include Steven Ogg (GTA:V), Amber Goldfarb (Assassin’s Creed, Helix), Elias Toufexis (Assassin’s Creed, Dues Ex), Nikki Rapp (The Walking Dead videogame), professional cosplayers Destiny Nickelsen and Kristen Hughey, and composer Rika Muranaka. Brush up on your skills, figure out a cool costume and join fellow gamers in a celebration of gaming geekiness. (Gavin Sheehan) Salt Lake Gaming Con @ South Towne Expo Center, 9575 S. State, 385-468-2260, Aug. 6-8, Thursday, 1 p.m.-10:30 p.m.; Friday, 11 a.m.-midnight; Saturday, 9 a.m.midnight; $15-$20 single-day pass, $25 three-day pass. SaltLakeGamingCon.com

Originally a one-day festival with 72 artisan vendors, Craft Lake City DIY Festival has expanded in its seventh year to two days, with almost three times as many artisans, a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Building, two performance stages, a busking lounge for street performers, local food vendors, food trucks and attendance of more than 40,000 visitors.

As a new feature at this year’s Craft Lake City, local company Animal Jam will present live, exotic animals in front of the Graywhale Stage on both days. The company, which provides knowledge of animals and the outdoors through an online gaming experience, is a part of the festival’s STEM educational mission.

The musical entertainment includes some of the most well-liked bands in the local-music scene, representing the wide spectrum of musical genres.

Among the scheduled performers: indie rockers Color Animal and Birthquake!; folkies Hectic Hobo; the self-explanatory Jazz Jaguars; “dad rock” with Albino Father; longtime local favorite singer/songwriter Kate MacLeod; alt-country combo Bronco; the electro-dance music of Minx; and the House of Lewis hip-hop collective.

As a festival recognizing the participatory nature of all the arts and crafts, Craft Lake City is a celebration of locals making it by making things—and it helps craft the community into a better place to live. (Brian Staker) Craft Lake City @ Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main, Aug. 7-8, Friday, 5-10 p.m.; Saturday, noon-10 p.m.; $5 single day; $7 two-day, children under 12 free. CraftLakeCity.com

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Original Play q A/Version of Events by Matthew Ivan Bennett [Plan-B] q Mama by Carleton Bluford [Plan-B] q Pilot Program by Melissa Leilani Larson [Plan-B]

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q No Fixed Address [The Leonardo] q Hunter Metcalf [Art Access Gallery] q Stephen Seko [Phillips Gallery]

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ear Lake is so big, it spills into two states on the Utah-Idaho border.

Only a little more than two hours from Salt Lake City, the lake is a summer destination that provides many different options for recreation, dining and accommodations. Bear Lake’s annual Raspberry Days festival runs Aug. 6-8, with three days of concerts, rodeos, fairs, dancing and a classic small-town pancake breakfast.

Whether you’re going up for a day or a weekend getaway, check out these options:

Shake It Up

You can’t really say you’ve had the Bear Lake experience unless you’ve had a raspberry shake. There are many spots in and around Garden City at the south end of the lake that serve them. The best known is LaBeau’s Drive-In (69 N. Bear Lake Blvd., Garden City, 435-946-8821), and it’s also the easiest to find. Just look up for a giant raspberry-shake cup sitting on top of a pole—or just look around for the spot that always seems to have a line because it’s so popular.

If you’d rather have your raspberries in a large crepe, check out Crepes and Coffee (211 N. Bear Lake Blvd., 435-946-2896, Garden City) and try the house specialty. This new-toGarden City place is also the spot to cool off with an ice coffee or tea in the summer.

For Mexican dishes with a unique

twist, check out the summerBarely move: Relax on the beach of Bear Lake only location of Cafe Sabor (21 E. 75 North, Garden City, 435-946-3297, CafeSabor.com). The restaurant has been popular in Logan for more than a decade, and during the warm months they take Whether sleeping under the stars or their dishes like Chino Latino egg rolls, enjoying modern amenities, there are a carne asada fries or chicken al pastor tawide variety of accommodations around cos up to their Garden City location.

Bear Lake.

The recently opened Conestoga Ranch Conestoga Ranch brought “glamping”— “glampground” (400 W. 300 North, Garden glamour camping—to Bear Lake this sumCity, 844-464-5267, ConestogaRanch.com) mer. Stay in something that is structurally is also home to the Campfire Grill, which a tent, but also includes luxury beds and serves up amazing wood-fired pizzas. (See linens, bathrooms and showers that have below for more information.) the aroma of a spa. Another option is the Conestoga Wagons. Sleep like the pioneers did—that is, if the pioneers had had wagons with full beds, ready-made fire pits With stats like “20 miles long, 8 miles and access to a luxury bath house. To be wide, 200 feet deep and 48 miles of shoreas close to the water as possible, visit the line,” the question isn’t whether or not hotel at Blue Water Resort (2126 S. Bear you’re going to get out on the water at Bear Lake Blvd., Garden City, 800-756-0795, Lake; it’s just a matter of what you’re going BlueWaterResor t .w i x .com / bluewater), to be on once you get out there. During the which sits right on the beach. Beside the summer, the elevation of nearly 6,000 feet hotel, other options at this site include priand average daily high temperatures in the vate cabins and suites with full kitchens low 80s makes it an ideal recreation spot. that can accommodate larger groups.

For those who want a motorized lake If you’re looking for a spot for an RV or a experience, Bear Lake Rentals, located tent, the Garden City KOA campground inside Blue Water Beach Resort (2126 S. (485 N. Bear Lake Road, 435-946-3454, Garden Bear Lake Blvd., Garden City, 435-946-8611, City, KOA.com/campgrounds/bear-lake/) BearLakeRentals.com), has jet skis, ponis the place to find it. There’s also a general toons and speed boats for pulling wakestore on site stocked with everything you’ll boards and water skis. If you’d rather move need for a summer barbecue. CW on the water by your own power, check out Bear Lake Water Adventures (420 S. Bear For more information about Bear Lake Lake Blvd., 435-757-9003, Garden City), loRaspberry Days, check out BearLake. cated at Garden City Beach. Rentals of padorg, or GardenCityUT.us. Kathleen Curry dle boards and kayaks also come with life and Geoff Griffin host the Travel Brigade jackets and a lesson to help novices have an Radio Show and Podcast. You can find them at enjoyable day on the lake.

TravelBrigade.com and on Twitter If the water doesn’t cool you down, check @TravelBrigade. Enjoy the Trip! out Minnetonka Cave (Minnetonka Cave Road, St. Charles, Idaho, 209-524-7500, FS.USDA.gov). It’s always a chilly 40 degrees when you take the 90-minute tour through nine rooms filled with stalactites and stalagmites. The cave sits just over the Idaho border, about a 20-mile drive from Garden City.

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Sandy Hot Air Balloon Festival Any unidentified flying objects spotted in Sandy’s skies on Aug. 7 & 8 might not need to be reported to the authorities. It isn’t Superman or aliens—it’s the Sandy City’s Hot Air Balloon Festival, which features 15 eyepopping, multicolored balloons.

On Friday and Saturday, there will be two launches at Storm Mountain Park, at 7 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. Head over early to talk with the hot-air balloon pilots, who encourage questions. Vendors will serve coffee and breakfast.

Later, the balloons move to the South Towne Promenade for the Balloon Glow & Festival on Saturday evening. Around 8:30 p.m., the balloons light up. Enjoy food from local vendors and live music from Van Lady Love, who will play throughout the night. (Shawna Meyer) Sandy City Hot Air Balloon Festival @ Storm Mountain Park, 11400 S. 1000 East, Aug. 7 & 8, 7 a.m. & 7:30 a.m.; Balloon Glow & Festival @ South Towne Promenade, 10000 S. 173 West, Aug. 8, 8-10 p.m., free. Sandy.Utah.gov

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The Book of Mormon Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Tuesday-Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 2 & 8 p.m.; Sunday, 1 & 6:30 p.m.; through Aug. 9, tickets limited, SaltLakeCity.Broadway.com (see p. 20) The Comedy of Errors New World Shakespeare, Sorensen Unity Center, 1383 S. 900 West, 801719-7998, Thursday, Saturday 7 p.m., Sunday, 5 p.m.; Aug. 7-16, NewWorldShakespeare.com Crazy for You SCERA Shell, 745 State, Orem, 801-225-2787, Monday, Thursday-Saturday, 8 p.m., through Aug. 15, SCERA.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 When You Wish Tuacahn Center for the Arts, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins, 435-652-3300, through Oct. 16, Tuacahn.org Exposed Plan-B Theatre Company, Jeanne Wagner Theatre, 138 W. 300 South, Aug. 9, 6 p.m., PlanBTheatre.org 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 p.m.; Saturday, 2:30, 6 & 8:30 pm; through Aug. 22, DesertStar.biz Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival various Sugar House venues, Aug. 6-9, 10 a.m.-11:30 p.m., GreatSaltLakeFringe.org (see p. 20) Guys and Dolls CenterPoint Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, Monday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Aug. 10-Sept. 5, CenterPointTheatre.org Into the Woods Hale Center Theater, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, 801-226-8600, Monday-Saturday, 7:30 pm; matinees Saturday, 11 a.m. & 3 p.m.; through Aug. 15, HaleTheater.org Jurassic Park City Off-Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, Monday, Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Aug. 7-Sept. 12, TheOBT.org Mary Poppins The Broadway Musical Alpine Community Theater, Covey Center for the Arts, 425 W. Center St., Provo, through Aug.15, AlpineCommunityTheater.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 Oklahoma! Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, 801-984-9000, Monday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 12:30 & 4 p.m., Aug. 12-Oct 3, HCT.org Saturday’s Voyeur Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North, 801-363-7522, WednesdaySaturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sundays, 1 & 6 p.m.; through Aug. 30, SaltLakeActingCompany.org Shrek the Musical Sandy Arts Guild, Sandy Amphitheater, 9400 S. 1300 East, MondaySaturday, Aug. 7-15, 8 p.m., SandyArts.com Sister Act Tuacahn Center for the Arts, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins, 435-652-3300, through Oct. 15, Tuacahn.org Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre: Man of La Mancha, Carousel, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, La Boheme Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main, Logan, 435-750-0300, through Aug. 8, UFOMT.org Utah Shakespeare Festival: Amadeus, Charley’s Aunt, Dracula, Henry IV Part Two, King Lear, South Pacific, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona 351 W. Center St., Cedar City, 800-752-9849, through Sept. 5, Bard.org The Wizard of Oz Sundance Summer Theatre, 8841 N. Alpine Loop Road, Sundance, 866-734-4428, Monday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m, through Aug. 15, SundanceResort.com/Summer-Theatre-en.html

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Best of Africa & Jambo Africa Drummers Chase Home Museum, Liberty Park, 1100 E. 600 South, Aug. 10, 6:45 p.m., Heritage.Utah.gov/ Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival various Sugar House venues, Aug. 6-9, 10 a.m.-11:30 p.m., GreatSaltLakeFringe.org (see p. 20)

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Utah Symphony: Hollywood Under the Stars Deer Valley Amphitheater, 2250 Deer Valley Drive, 801-355-2787, Aug. 7, 7:30 p.m., UtahSymphony.org

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Crowdsourced Comedy Night The Club at 50 West, 50 W. 300 South, 385-229-1462, Tuesday, 7 p.m., through Aug. 25, $10, CrowdsourcedLive.com Marcus Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588, Aug. 7-8, 8 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Chris Kattan Wiseguys West Valley, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-463-2909, Aug. 7-8, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., Aug. 9, 7:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Carma Sirrine: 10 Secrets for a Happy Marriage Barnes & Noble Murray, 5249 S. State, Murray, 801-261-4040, Aug. 8, noon, BarnesAndNoble.com Jason King: The Soulless Grave Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, Aug. 8, 2 p.m., WellerBookWorks.com Jennifer Adams: Edgar and the Tree House of Usher King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Aug. 8, 11 a.m., KingsEnglish.com Teri Harman: Storm Moon The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Aug. 8, 2 p.m., KingsEnglish.com Jamie Bianchini: Bicycle Built for Two Billion The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Aug. 11, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com Rydel Lynch: Rock Your Life Barnes & Noble Sugar House, 1104 E. 2100 South, 801-463-2610, Aug. 11, 11 a.m., BarnesAndNoble.com

SPECIAL EVENTS CONVENTIONS

Salt Lake Gaming Con South Towne Expo Center, 9575 S. State, Aug. 6-8, $20-$75, SaltLakeGamingCon.com (see p. 20)

FARMERS MARKETS

9th West Farmers Market Jordan Park, 1060 S. 900 West, Sunday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., through Oct. 25, 9thWestFarmersMarket.org Downtown Farmers Market Pioneer Park, 300 W. 300 South, Saturday, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.; Tuesday, 4-9 p.m.; through Oct. 24, SLCFarmersMarket.org Park Silly Sunday Market Historic Main Street, Park City, Sunday, 10 a.m., 435-655-0994, ParkSillySundayMarket.com Provo Farmers Market Pioneer Park, 500 W. Center St., Provo, Saturday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., through Oct. 31, ProvoFarmersMarket.org Wheeler Farm Farmers Market Wheeler Farm, 6351 S. 900 East, Murray, 801-792-1419, Sunday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., through Oct. 25, WheelerFarm.com

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VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

Articles of Clothing Rio Gallery, 300 S. 400 West, 801-245-7272, Monday-Friday, through Aug.28, Heritage.Utah.gov Bill Reed: Fine Gold & Stainless Steel Art at the Main, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Sept. 12, SLCPL.org Flora+Fauna Alice Gallery, 617 S. Temple, 801-236-7555, Monday-Friday through Sept. 11, Heritage.Utah.gov Jared William Christensen: Strange Environment Corrine and Jack Sweet Branch Library, 455 F Street, 801-594-8651, MondaySaturday, through Aug. 15, SLCPL.org Justin Carruth: Depart Broadway Center Cinemas, 111 E. 300 South, 385-215-6768, through Oct. 3, CUArtCenter.org Mary Sinner: Memento A Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, 801-583-4800, Monday-Saturday, through Sept. 11, AGalleryOnline.com Milton Neely: Metal Art, a Natural

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Since most of Mexico is surrounded by water—the Pacific Ocean to the west, and the Gulf to the east, it shouldn’t really be news that there would be great sushi made with the freshest fish there. And here in Utah, I’ve encountered many Latino sushi chefs, including one of my new favorites: Fernando Trejo.

Trejo and his wife, Saymi Machuca, own Sáme Sushi, a Japanese restaurant in the space on 300 South that was formerly home to Dojo. She’s from Chihuahua; he comes from Mexico City. Trejo has worked for 15 years in local restaurants, including at Ichiban, Log Haven and Tsunami. And, while the emphasis at Sáme Sushi is definitely on Japanese flavors, South of the Border culinary influences also pop up here and there. I like to think of it as MexicAsian cuisine. And no, I’m not talking about the local phenomenon known as the sushi burrito.

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other side, soothing blue highlights and ceiling lamps fashioned from The Trejo, beef yakisoba and Sáme roll at Sáme Sushi upside-down rice-paper umbrellas.

It’s a very modern space but also very We rounded out our first visit to Sáme warm and appealing. I miss Dojo’s ramen, which was some of the best in Utah, but Sushi with beef yakisoba ($12.50)—panthere’s a lot to like about the Sáme Sushi fried ramen-style noodles with cabbage, onion, mushrooms, scallions and tender menu—especially the prices.

I can’t say my first visit got off to a great slices of beef. Unfortunately, the yakisoba— start. A very shy and seemingly inexperi- which I think would have been great with enced server could barely be heard as she just a little seasoning—was drowned in a whispered answers to questions like, “Do bitter Japanese barbecue sauce that held you serve wine?” She said she thought they little appeal. Skip the yakisoba.

The low prices at Sáme Sushi cause me served wine and that she would check to to wonder why the place isn’t packed every see what they had. Upon her return, she said “We have Mark something …” “Mark night. Granted, the location is a bit hidden, West?” my wife inquired. “I think, maybe,” but only $13.95 for Kobe beef teriyaki (including miso soup, rice and tempura vegour server said. “I’ll check.”

Well, lo and behold, she returned to the gies)? Are you kidding me? Or, how about table, this time with a beverage list that in- a 10-ounce New York steak with teriyaki demi-glace for a mere $17.95? cluded beer, wine and sake. Huh. But we were really bowled over by the So, we ordered a bottle of Mark West price of the sushi and sashimi combinations.

Chardonnay ($27) and an assortment of nigiri. Sáme Sushi offers both nigiri We ordered the Large Sashimi Combination, and sashimi priced at $4.50 for two piec- which was 15 pieces of sashimi (five differes, which is not bad. We tried hamachi, ent types of raw, sliced fish) for $18.95. I’ve maguro and tai (yellow tail, tuna and red seen restaurants charge $30 or more for the snapper) in nigiri form (on thumb-size rect- same quantity of sashimi. Granted, Sáme angles of rice). The nigiri was fine—fresh Sushi doesn’t have the most exotic or rare tasting, with good quality sushi rice—but fish available, but if you like the classics, was nothing remarkable, served solely with this is the place to swim in sashimi withwasabi and ginger slices. At some of my fa- out breaking the bank. Oddly, our sashimi vorite sushi restaurants here and in Park came with only a single bowl of miso for two City, the chef will kiss the nigiri with the people. I must say, however, that our server tiniest drop or two of sauce or seasoning on the second visit was terrific.

Sitting at the sushi bar, we got to know to match the fish’s flavor profile, making it a little about Fernando Trejo. He’s an exmore interesting than just eating raw fish.

At our server’s suggestion, we ordered tremely generous and kind man, a guy the restaurant’s namesake Sáme roll. Sáme who—until opening Sáme Sushi—had almean “shark” in Japanese, but there’s no ways held two restaurant jobs at once. In shark on the Sáme Sushi menu. The Sáme roll between chatting about the dishes of Chi($9.50) is yellowtail, salmon, shrimp tempu- huahua, Puebla, Oaxaca and Mexico City, ra, avocado and cucumber slivers rolled and we enjoyed a roll named for him: the Trejo. topped with thin-sliced lemon and ponzu This, by far, was my favorite: a fiery Mexicosauce. It’s a very good maki roll with interest- meets-Japan combination of tuna, jalapeño ing textures and flavors. We also enjoyed the and spring salad with cilantro wrapped in Color Me Fancy roll ($9.50), which is 10 pieces pink-colored rice paper and drizzled with of crab, yellowtail, tuna, salmon and red spicy Asian vinaigrette ($9.50).

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The cost is $60 per person, plus tax and gratuity, for the dinner and wine pairings, or $25 for dinner without wine. Phone 801-533-9977 for reservations.

Dinner and a Show

I often lament the lack of dining venues here that feature live music with quality cuisine and libations. In that regard, Bleu Bistro (1615 Foothill Drive, BleuBistroSLC.com) is a bit of an outlier —a venue offering live music performances by nationally recognized artists, plus great good and drink, including an excellent wine selection. To wit, Bleu Bistro will feature a live show with the great guitarist Scott Holt (who played with Buddy Guy for many years) on Friday, Aug. 9, at 7 p.m. Tickets are a mere $20. It’s proof that you can have your live blues and eat quinoa salad, arancini and beef empanadas, too. Phone 801-583-8331 to reserve your table.

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t’s with ever-increasing frequency that I find myself in Utah bars and restaurants thinking, “This certainly doesn’t seem like Utah!” Maybe it’s just time I got on board with the idea that a lot of things about Utah just don’t seem like Utah anymore—especially the drinking scene.

Yes, I know there are still hoops to jump through, but nothing like the days of the private clubs and memberships (remember?). It wasn’t very long ago that one had to be “sponsored” into a club where one didn’t have a membership. And, while you could always get a drink in town, there were few true destination bars or clubs of the type you’d want to impress out-of-towners with.

Well, it’s easy to forget those bygone days—no matter how desperately some of the Powers That Be in the Utah Legislature would like to return to them—when you walk into a watering hole like the new Under Current Club. It’s a place that, from a design perspective, could compete with bars from New York City to San Francisco.

Under Current Club is adjacent to—not literally “under”— Current Fish & Oyster restaurant. Although it’s not a private club, you do have to be 21 or older to enter; if you want to bring the kids, visit Current restaurant next door. Under Current

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was made for adults, and although it’s new, it has a very grown-up feel about it. It’s a place where even someone of my advanced age can enjoy a cocktail and a nosh and still hold a quiet conversation. Not that I have anything against frat boys, but you’re unlikely to find them here.

Under Current Club is snazzy. Like Current restaurant, the design combines modern, sleek lines with aspects like reclaimed wood-barrel ceilings. There’s a long, backlit bar on the ground floor, with table seating, too, and a comfy lounge-type area upstairs, with a floor-to-ceiling glass wall the separates the upstairs of the restaurant from the upstairs of Under Current.

It’s the type of place where you just want to crawl into one of the comfy couches and sip the night away.

Amy Eldredge is Under Current’s bar manager, a mixology professional who apprenticed under Sasha Petraske at Philadelphia’s Ranstead Room. She also designed the cocktail program for Philly Stephen Starr’s Dandelion restaurant.

We’re lucky to have her in Utah.

Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder at Under Current, where that botanical spirit is highlighted in a number of cock-

tails, as well as being served traditionally. You’ll find it in the Life After Death (cognac, absinthe, lemon, sparkling wine), The Siren (Beehive gin, absinthe, lemon, egg white), Glasgow Sazerac (Scotch, rye, absinthe, Peychaud’s), and the Oh My, Moai (pisco, absinthe, pineapple, lime). That last one—the Oh My, Moai—is one of my favorites.

But, I also like and appreciate that Under Current takes the time to serve absinthe in its classic form, via a four-armed device that looks like a cross between an octopus and a hookah. At a recent Under Current absinthe tasting, I discovered how nuanced absinthe can be. Sipping Swiss Kübler Absinthe, anise, fennel and licorice were the primary notes, while St. George Absinthe from California is floral and grassy. The absinthe I liked best—Pernod Supérieure from France—was the most pastis-like of the absinthes at Under Current, but with mint and subtle cinnamon flavors.

Well, whether absinthe is your cup of tea, or you’d rather sip wine, cocktails, beer, spirits and such, Under Current Club has the goods and a very well-trained bar staff to help indulge your drinking fantasies. Why, you’d think you weren’t in Utah. CW

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Ogden Pizzeria’s specialties include chicken Alfredo, Hawaiian, meat lovers, barbecue chicken, vegetarian pizza and more. Or, just create your own delicious combo from a variety of toppings. Additional menu choices include salads, breads and pasta dishes, and there’s also a kids’ menu. Lunch specials are served from 11 a.m. -4 p.m., and you can also get pizzas to take and bake at home. 936 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 801-393-3191, OgdenPizzeria.com

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At The Melting Pot, fondue becomes a memorable four-course meal. With a relaxed atmosphere, private tables, attentive service, fine wines, this fondue restaurant is a fantastic dining experience. Be sure to save room for a dipped dessert. 340 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-521-6358, MeltingPot.com 2005

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Located downtown in the trendy Patrick Lofts building, J. Wong’s Asian Bistro offers customers an eclectic menu with a focus on Chinese and Thai cuisine.

Peking duck, walnut shrimp and firecracker shrimp are some of the Chinese highlights, and the hot & sour soup is excellent. Thai offerings include a range of yellow, green and red curries, along with pad thai, tom kha, basil eggplant and Thai basil beef. For those who enjoy food skewered, J. Wong’s also sports a satay grill.

There’s also a cozy bar and full array of alcohol, beer and wine available. 163 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-350-0888, JWongUtah.com

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India Palace

India Palace is truly a palace of vibrant Indian dining. The menu is a whopping three pages filled with fresh baked breads, tandoori dishes, curries and, of course, lots of spice. To conquer the heat, India Palace serves refreshing lassi drinks, as well as imported beers from India and Germany. The diverse food options will satisfy even the most inexperienced Indian food diners, and include lamb, chicken, seafood and vegetarian dishes. Monday through Friday, you can take part in the three-hour lunch buffet. Finish your meal off with some smooth mango ice cream for dessert, because when you’re at India Palace, your taste buds are king. 98 W. Center St., Provo, 801-373-7200, IndiaPalaceUtah.com

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Lunaberry

The folks at Lunaberry are dedicated to the art of “groovy yogurt and crepes,” which probably tells you all you need to know. Everything served at Lunaberry is all natural—no canned fruits or veggies. The nonfat, fresh yogurt is made from scratch, just the way you like it. Even the smoothies are made with fresh, wholesome fruit with no artificial colors, corn syrup, additives or preservatives. 358 S. 700 East, Salt Lake City, 801-359-0427, Lunaberry.com

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Many local pho aficionados know about Pho Tay Ho’s perfectly balanced beef broth, a long-simmered brew artfully enhanced with hints of cinnamon and brought to its full potential with the addition of fragrant, fresh Thai basil at the table. Inside, the impeccably clean restaurant sports fresh paint, neutral colors and a view straight into the kitchen from the host stand. It’s all very intimate and family-run—with gracious, if informal, hospitality.

Choose among the menu’s 15 recommended pho variations—a rather comprehensive list that posits every conceivable combination of rare steak, well-done flank, tendon, well-done brisket and tripe. Enjoy your pho in the house, or get it to go, the separate elements all perfectly packaged for assembly in your own home. 1766 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-466-3650, PhoTayHo.com At Utah’s La Frontera restaurants, created by the Tovar family, rib-sticking Mexican fare and low prices are the main calling cards. For many, the family’s chile verde recipe is a national treasure. But equally appealing are the enchiladas, tacos, smothered burritos, chimichangas, tamales, tostadas or a dozen other items from the extensive menu. And you can always put the fire out with a cold cerveza. Kids especially like the easy-to-eat flautas.

Multiple locations, LaFronteraCafe.com

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Located in the center of Old Town Park City, Main Street Pizza & Noodle’s casual atmosphere and mouth-watering food selection attracts a varied crowd of tourists and locals, making it a fun place to dine, seven days a week.

Using the freshest ingredients and top-quality cheeses and meats, this eatery offers variety, plus good value, and caters to vegetarians and meat eaters alike. Try the Maui mamma pizza, with Canadian bacon, pineapple and mozzarella cheese. 530 Main, Park City, 435-645-8878, MainStreetPizzaNoodle.com

Tandoor Indian Grill

The flavors at Tandoor are enticing and the service is friendly. Along with the typical curries, masalas, biryanis and kormas (the tender lamb korma is outstanding), Tandoor also offers items rarely seen in Utah’s Indian restaurants, like Hyderabad bagara baigan (baby eggplant stuffed with a peanut and sesame-seed paste, cooked with tamarind and onions, and served with a scintillating red curry). Another special at Tandoor is dosa, and the tandoor oven-baked breads will leave a smile on your face, from the basic charred naan to paratha methi, multilayered whole-wheat bread with dried fenugreek.

For dessert, order the gulab jamoon: golfball-size fried wheat-and-milk nuggets macerated in sugar syrup. 729 E. 3300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-486-4542, TandoorIndianGrill.com

Mimi’s Cafe

Mimi’s manages to serve up homestyle cuisine that tastes, well, like it was actually made at home. If stickto-the-ribs fare like chicken potpie, pot roast with gravy, meatloaf, grilled beef liver, slow-roasted turkey and chicken cordon bleu float your boat, then set sail for Mimi’s. The sandwiches and soups are excellent, as well, and Mimi’s bread pudding is highly addictive.

There’s beer and a surprisingly respectable wine list, too.

Multiple locations, MimisCafe.com

Pace’s Drive-In

Pace’s is the antithesis of cookie-cutter fast-food chain joints. Do you crave Rainbows, Country Boys and supertasty sodas? Then you’ll love Pace’s. This unique Utah eatery features fresh, old-fashioned burgers, AstroPops and homemade ice cream and onion rings made from scratch, not to mention super-sweet-tasting Coca-Cola.

Pace’s also offers fries, malts, hot dogs, corn dogs and many other delicious foods. 1090 W. 300 North, Clearfield, 801-614-1393; 344 N. Main, Layton, 801-593-6936

The Rose Establishment

Located near The Gateway, The Rose Establishment is an unplugged cafe that refuses to offer Wi-Fi in order to encourage face-to-face conversations. The small food menu boasts fresh sandwiches and housemade salads. For drinks, there is a wide selection of tea, but the main attraction is the coffee. Each cup is individually made from micro-roaster Four Barrel beans and Salt Lake’s own Charming Beard—available by French press or pour-over. 235 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-990-6270, TheRoseEstb.com

Trolley Wing Company

Trolley Wing Company’s menu centers on wings, which are served with your choice of the numerous housemade sauces. If you don’t feel like paying, try the Enema Challenge: 12 wings in the hottest sauce. If you can finish them in 20 minutes, there’s no charge. If wings aren’t flying for you try the veggie plate, pork ribs or the Miller Dogs—cornbread-covered hot dogs served with chips or veggies. 2148 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, 801-538-0745, TrolleyWingCo.com

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Rebecca Hall, Jason Bateman and Joel Edgerton in The Gift “rough patch.” We’re meant to wonder if Simon is now gaslighting his wife, trying to deflect her from getting suspicious about his long-ago high-school relationship with Gordo. But it’s the movie that is gaslighting Robyn, seemingly positioning her in the center of the story when the supposedly significant stuff is happening elsewhere.

And The Gift gaslights the audience, too.

It sets itself up in a way that seems to be a pre-emptive defense against potential detractors by borrowing hot-button and even feminist issues, but then treating them in implausible ways. Of course, some women suffer in the wake of a miscarriage—but not like this. Of course, marriages can have trust issues—but not like this. Of course, bullies deserve their comeuppance—but not. Like. This. CW

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when they run into Gordo in a shop.

Simon doesn’t remember the guy at all, except that he was a bit of an oddball, which seems proven when Gordo shows up at the house without invitation (and clearly having obtained the address in some nefarious way, because Simon didn’t give it to him) several times, bearing increasingly and inappropriately extravagant gifts, and only when Robyn is home alone. Still, Robyn thinks that, while Gordo may be a little socially awkward, he seems OK—but Simon is increasingly weirded out, and wants to break off the new forced friendship.

There are several intriguing directions where this basic scenario could have gone.

The Gift, however, ignores all of them, and chooses one that has no ring of emotional truth at all—but which, I suspect, Edgerton thinks is incisive and subtly smart. Even though Simon was the one who didn’t want anything to do with Gordo—and rather condescendingly informs others that it’s only because Robyn is “too nice” that she struck up a friendship with him—Robyn is the one who gets cast in the role of the fragile irrational when she begins to see that Gordo might actually be pretty creepy, after all.

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h, but The Gift is an infuriating movie on so many levels. It can’t decide if it wants to be serious drama or a salacious thriller, so it’s nowhere near enough of either, and each aspect seems to be laughing at the other. It touches on sensitive, tangled emotional matters that could easily be the basis for either sort of movie—how the effects of bullying in childhood linger into adulthood; how stress and grief can render us unable to function in daily life; how even the most intimate of relationships can be tinged by a lack of trust—but it fumbles all of them so badly that it contradicts itself constantly, as if it doesn’t really understand the pain it is attempting to appropriate. It wants you to doubt who the villain is, but doesn’t have the nerve to do anything meaningful with that gambit.

I’m trying not to spoil anything. Suffice to say that The Gift, after descending into emotional idiocy and insufficient intrigue, ends up in a disgusting place that presumes its audience will be horrified at the repulsive suggestion that a medieval notion about marriage has been contravened. Granted, this notion remains something that some real people in the real world still believe, and it’s an awful trope that movies like this one frequently trot out. But it is a trope that deserves to die, not be perpetuated.

I cannot even say that The Gift—written and, in his feature debut, directed by actor Joel Edgerton—starts out promising. Almost from the get-go, we are led down a path that treats Robyn (Rebecca Hall) as an appropriate battleground for a war of wills between her husband, Simon (Jason Bateman), and an old school friend of his, Gordo (Edgerton); the movie is totally on board with the idea that women are properly pawns in games men play. The couple has just moved back to Los Angeles—to one of those masterpieces of mid-century architecture faced with huge glass windows, all the better for creepazoids to peer through from the darkness beyond—

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DARK PLACES [not yet reviewed] A woman (Charlize Theron) investigates the violent crime that tore her family apart. Opens Aug. 7 at Tower Theatre. (R) FANTASTIC FOUR [not yet reviewed] Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell form the latest incarnation of the Marvel Comics super-team. Opens Aug. 7 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) THE GIFT B See review p. 44. Opens Aug. 7 at theaters valleywide. (R) IRRATIONAL MAN B.5 Upon the release of any new Woody Allen movie, the only thing more predictable than Allen recycling 40 years worth of thematic material is the reviews—which could just as easily have been recycled themselves. Yet here we are: He’s once again musing about death and existential philosophy and morality and inappropriate relationships, and it has all grown quite exhausting.

Joaquin Phoenix mutters his way through his role as the latest Woody-be stand-in, Abe, a Kant-spewing philosophy professor at a Rhode Island liberal arts college who’s wallowing in nearsuicidal despair; Emma Stone is Jill, the student who becomes infatuated with him. The plot kicks in when Abe wonders if murdering a corrupt judge is the kind of world-changing direct action he’s sought his whole life, but before that point—and after it, for

that matter—we get the kind of expository nonsense that has crippled so many late-period Allen films, including double voiceover narration by Abe and Jill that further assumes the themes and plot points need additional repetition. But if you’ve seen Crimes and Misdemeanors or Match Point or Cassandra’s Dream, you’ve already gotten all the repetition you need. Opens Aug. 7 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—Scott Renshaw THE LOOK OF SILENCE BBBB Joshua Oppeneheimer’s 2012 documentary The Act of Killing was one of the most emotionally staggering explorations ever filmed about how easy it is to justify horrible evils; this followup approaches the subject from a different, equally devastating angle. Where Killing focused on perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian genocide, Silence takes the point of view of a survivor: Adi, an optometrist whose own brother was executed before he was born, and who is trying to get those responsible to acknowledge and repent of their crimes. Those exchanges are riveting, both in the stillness Adi maintains, and the growing unease of those still in positions of power, who could easily make the lives of Adi and his family hell. The notion that history is written by the victors continues from the first film, along with the horrifying images of Adi’s children being taught in school how these murders were heroic. But there’s a genuine heroism in Adi’s quest, as a man who wants nothing more than to be able to forgive collides with a society still incapable of seeing that they have anything to be forgiven for. Opens Aug. 7 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—SR RICKI AND THE FLASH [not yet reviewed] A musician (Meryl Streep) tries to make amends with the family she sacrificed for her career. Opens Aug. 7 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)

SHAUN THE SHEEP BBB.5 If only Aardman Animation (Wallace & Gromit) could bottle the ineffable quality that allows them to make fart jokes play as charming rather than pandering. The studio’s Plasticine creations come alive again in a tale that finds Shaun leading his flock in an attempt to break the dull routine of their farm days, unfortunately resulting in their farmer/owner being lost in the Big City with amnesia. Not a single discernible word is spoken in the film—the humans’ grunted syllables are clear from context—leading to a story that relies on the great visual gags of vintage silent comedy; aside from a subplot built around a viral photo, the story could easily take place any time in the last century. Neither Shaun, his dog pal Bitzer nor any of the menagerie is as singular a character as Gromit, and the animal-control officer antagonist is a bit too reminiscent of the third Madagascar movie. But most objections get washed in a way in a creation that’s a joyous mix of simple family-friendly narrative and a nononsense duck being paid off for his part in a scheme with slices of bread. Opens Aug. 5 at theaters valleywide. (PG)—SR

SPECIAL SCREENINGS FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS At Tower Theatre, Aug. 7-8 @ 11 p.m. & Aug. 9 @ noon. (R) KNOCKED UP At Brewvies, Aug. 10, 10 p.m. (PG-13) NOW, FORAGER At Main Library, Aug. 11, 7 p.m. (NR) RED 2 At Main Library, Aug. 12, 2 p.m. (R)

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ANT-MAN BBB We’ve grown accustomed to the apocalyptic stakes of modern blockbusters—and part of what makes this adventure refreshing is that it finds fun in small-scale action. Recently paroled burglar Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) is recruited by scientist Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) to wear a high-tech suit that can shrink him to insect size and help thwart the hawkish plans of Pym’s protégé (Corey Stoll). There’s plenty of parental/surrogate-parental angst in an attempt to find an emotional center, and it all feels like background noise, despite Rudd’s charms. But the set-pieces are full of simple pleasures, combining the slickness of a heist thriller with special-effects-driven fisticuffs in the most playful comicbook story since Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man films. Ant-Man reminds us that you can still have a blast at the movies, even when a lifeor-death fight can be contained inside a briefcase. (PG-13)—SR

INFINITELY POLAR BEAR B.5 Isn’t it adorable when a man with bipolar disorder refuses to take his medication or stop drinking, thus jeopardizing his own health and the well-being of his children? Maya Forbes’ movie—the title comes from a kid’s malaprop of “bipolar disorder”—stars Mark Ruffalo as Cameron, an eccentric bohemian who, in 1978, must care for his daughters while his wife (Zoe Saldana) goes to business school; the film flirts briefly with ’70s gender roles, then doesn’t. The kids, accustomed to his nonsense, are embarrassed

by Dad’s loony adventures, but golly, they sure love him. To viewers, his manic friendliness and peripatetic train of thought can be amusing, but his stubbornness is infuriating. When it’s over, Cameron hasn’t grown or changed; if anything, the lesson is that the others should as free-spirited as he is. No thank you, generic indie twaddle. (R)—Eric D. Snider

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THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT BBB A laser focus on the infamous 1971 incident—where Dr. Philip Zimbardo (Billy Crudup) recruited students to serve as guards and inmates in a simulated prison—keeps this dark drama intriguing even through obvious nudges at 21st-century events. Director Kyle Patrick Alvarez doesn’t waste time establishing who these 18 young men were before being randomly assigned one of the two roles, a savvy choice given the experiment’s premise that behavior had little to do with background. And it’s harrowing watching how quickly the participants become emotionally invested either in asserting control (Michael Angarano as alpha guard) or resisting that control (Ezra Miller as the most volatile prisoner). There’s some unfortunate pointless business involving Zimbardo’s colleague/girlfriend (Olivia Thirlby), and Alvarez isn’t subtle about the Abu Ghraib allegory. Yet it certainly captures how

VACATION BB.5 How do you respond to a comedy when incessant marketing keeps ruining the jokes? Ed Helms stars as all-grown-up Rusty Griswold, taking his own family on a cross-country trip to Walley World, just like his dad did 30 years earlier. Vacation follows the lead of so many 21st-century raunch-comedies, trying to balance the gross-outs with the idea that it’s really all about people and their emotions and whatnot. But it’s at its best when the jokes are simply surreal, or making the most of comic performances

by Christina Applegate and Chris Hemsworth. Still, it’s hard not to wonder how much funnier it might have seemed if we hadn’t already seen all the wildest high concepts. The filmmakers fumble many opportunities, but mostly collide with a marketing department whose job isn’t to trust that this Vacation will stand on its own. (PG-13)—SR

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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE— ROGUE NATION BBB.5 Like the James Bond films, entries in the Mission: Impossible series are really only as good as the sum of their set pieces—and they might actually have become more reliably thrilling. Director/co-writer Christopher McQuarrie follows Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team as they to take down a vast terrorist network, assisted by a deepcover British agent (Rebecca Ferguson, kicking unholy ass). Beyond grim determination, Ethan Hunt still barely exists as a character after five movies—virtually all the personality is left to Simon Pegg—but it doesn’t matter much when the action beats are this strong. Between a fistfight on the lighting rigs of the Vienna Opera and a motorcycle chase through Casablanca—plus giving Ethan his strongest female counterpart yet—this installment does nothing to dim the hope that the franchise can keep rolling. Your move, 007. (PG-13)—SR

power corrupts—and not just those wielding the power. (R)—SR TANGERINE BBB Sporting innovations both welcome (transgender characters played by actual transgender performers) and potentially worrisome (director Sean Baker shot entirely on tricked-out iPhones), this kinetic Sundance blast delivers enough spillover juice to light Los Angeles for a year. Friends Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) and Alexandra (Mya Taylor) reunite on Christmas Eve, but an accidental revelation that Sin-Dee’s boyfriend/pimp has taken up with another woman sends her stomping toward the offending “fish” with a hilarious single-mindedness. The filmmakers brilliantly make their limitations work for them, concocting a delirious glow that captures the nuclear-hued aura of Los Angeles in a way few movies can. Even if the energy does diminish some in the last 20 minutes, a final lovely gesture between the two terrific leads ensures that Tangerine’s wonderfully unstable molecules persist. After the credits roll, the dizzy crackle remains. (NR)—Andrew Wright

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Moment of Zen

TV

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Jon Stewart signs off from The Daily Show; your True Detective torture is almost over.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Thursday, Aug. 6 (Comedy Central)

Series Finale: Jon Stewart is leaving television much richer with comedic fake-news reporting than when he took over The Daily Show from Craig Kilborn (’member him?) in 1999. Now, we have Comedy Central’s own Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore, HBO’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, Fox News’ Hannity, er, The Greg Gutfeld Show, and others current and canceled (you’re still missed, Onion News Network), but none have the faux gravitas of Stewart.

We all got over the loss of The Colbert Report fairly quickly, because we know Stephen Colbert will be back on TV come September as the new host of CBS’ Late Show, but Stewart’s probably going to opt for the quick fade, a la David Letterman (or make more movies like Rosewater … let’s hope for the quick fade). Say goodbye and salute the man who forced all TV news—fake, real and Fox—to up their respective games.

The Comment Section Friday, Aug. 7 (E!)

Series Debut: Of all the ill-conceived half-hours E! has attempted to pair up with long-running hit The Soup, The Comment Section is, well, the latest. After a stretch of failures that includes recent airballs The Grace Helbig Show (not the worst thing E! has ever run) and New Money (literally the worst thing E! has ever run), The Soup’s producers took it upon themselves to come up with their own lead-out … and it’s a show about Internet comments. Admittedly, there’s plenty of funny/hateful/inexplicable material out there, but that’s the problem: It’s already out there! To find yourself!

There’s no need for a TV show about the Internet! (Notable exception: Comedy Central’s @Midnight.) The concept makes about as much sense as watching a YouTube clip of someone else playing a videogame … OK, never mind …

America’s Next Weatherman Saturday, Aug. 8 (TBS)

Series Debut: For being a network dedicated to “Very Funny” comedy, TBS has had little luck producing an original series to complement its endless blocks of old broadcast sitcoms and movies that invariably star Owen Wilson. On the surface, America’s Next Weatherman looks like another desperate TBS future-fail on par with King of the Nerds and anything that isn’t Conan—but wait! ANW is an odd collaboration between reliable comedy platform Funny or Die and reality-show king Mark Burnett, and there’s a new regime at the network that seems more interested in quality than insta-crap. After surviving challenges both professional and ridiculous, as well as the dead-eyed stare of kinda-celebrity-newser Jillian Barberie, the winning weatherperson (both men and women compete, despite the WeatherMAN title) will receive $100k (sweet) and a gig on CNN (oh, so sorry …).

True Detective Sunday, Aug. 9 (HBO)

Season Finale: The majority of complaints about Season 2 of True Detective from pros and civilians alike boil down to “It’s not exactly like Season 1!” Yes, stars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, and then-director Cary Fukunaga set an impossible bar, but creator/ writer Nic Pizzolatto and new stars Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch have brought serious heat to the anthology series’ second chapter (for the sake of my own argument, I’m going to conveniently leave out Vince Vaughn and Kelly Reilly). Try this: Finish your hatewatching tonight, give it a few months, then revisit True

The Daily Show (Comedy Central)

Detective S2 during some holiday downtime. If you’re still not impressed, come find me and give me a front-porch beat-down, cool?

Kevin From Work Wednesday, Aug. 12 (ABC Family)

Series Debut: Like TV Land, ABC Family is slowly phasing out multi-camera laugh-tracked sitcoms and going after the audiences who grew up on The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Arrested Development. Kevin From Work is nowhere near as funny as any of those, but at least it’s a step in the right direction away from Melissa & Joey (R.I.P.). The titular Kevin (Noah Reid) is an office drone who, upon the eve of his transfer to another company position overseas, declares his long-secret love/lust for co-worker Audrey (Paige Spara), because he’s outta there, so why not? Transfer falls though; awkwardness ensues. The pluses (McG directs and Amy Sedaris co-stars) outweigh the minuses (Reid and Spara are boooring), but Kevin From Work is at least as funny as The 700 Club (which ABC Family is contractually bound to run until Pat Robertson is Raptured— true story). CW

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In addition to The Kills working on The Kills’ new album, Mosshart has been busy contributing vocals to a new The Dead Weather album, Dodge & Burn with Jack White (due in September), and as a painter, opened her first solo show, Fire Power, at Joseph Gross Gallery in Manhattan. Hince showcased his photography in the solo exhibit Echo Home at the Morrison Hotel Gallery in New York.

Last year, Mosshart had work in the group show Push It highlighting female artists at ArtNowNY, and placed work in Art Basel in Miami last December.

Her artwork has been compared to other expressionists with ties to the music world, such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart). “The solo opening was great; it was a dream come true that I never did dream,” she says.

Her artistic journey has been as full of epiphanies as her musical one: “A lot of my influences, like Captain Beefheart and the Velvet Underground, have visual elements, but I’m also influenced by a lot of bands that don’t. I love pictures, and I love music, and sometimes, they intersect. It’s exciting to find new things—there’s always great stuff going on.” CW

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here have been a lot of two-piece indie bands in recent years, but The Kills explore the dynamic possibilities of the format more than any other—loud/ soft, fast/slow, rock/blues, as well as the emotional dynamics of two people playing music together. Like the White Stripes, to whom they’ve been compared, their music has some roots in the blues. But unlike that band’s two-dimensional duality (that sometimes resulted in caricature), the results here are something more varied and fractious, reflecting both musicians’ punk-rock and visual-art backgrounds.

They use a drum machine for percussion, but that, oddly enough, makes their music seem more human, as they are both up front, side by side. Jamie “Hotel” Hince churns away at guitar, vocalist Alison “V V” Mosshart breathes life into her lyrics as though resuscitating a man gasping for air. The interplay between her cool, breathy voice and his guitar, incisive yet rarely ragged, makes for something that’s more than the sum of its parts, and doesn’t seem minimalist in the least.

From talking to Mosshart, it’s apparent that The Kills largely prefer to let their music speak for itself. She is reticent to describe or analyze it, preferring to just play and let the chips fall where they may. Releasing only four albums in 15 years together, they like to let their songs breathe, too—somewhat fussy of them/her, which is surprising, given her spontaneous approach to songwriting.

“I write lyrics fairly quickly,” she explains. “There’s not a lot of going back and editing. There are usually bursts of inspiration, which come from life experiences, situations I’ve been in, looking around at what I see, traveling the world. I’m inspired by everywhere and everything; whatever I’m feeling that day or that hour, … I try not to question them too much, or pick through them too much, or define them too much, because that slows down the process and the honesty, I think. They’re just like blasts of thought.”

Their songs often start with an emphatic drum beat, joined by acerbic guitar lines and finally, Mosshart’s drop-dead vocalisms. They seem almost like living, breathing beings in their own right, full of passion and mystery and guts and heart. In “The Heart Is a Beating Drum,” from their most recent disc, Blood Pressures (Domino, 2011), she intones, “It takes more than you wanted before/ To keep it on, it’s a beating,” and there’s a point in their trajectory where they have transitioned from driving the music to the music driving them. It’s dark and demonic, but in a very subtle way.

“I hope we’ve progressed as a band,” she admits. “Your goal is to constantly move forward and outdo your last effort, to become a better songwriter and a better performer, and time and experience does that. But that’s hard to tell; I’m too in the middle of it.” From the perspective of witnessing their music live, which might provide a better vantage point than recordings, it can seem like the eye of a hurricane.

The past year was a big one for them, touring internationally and at festivals, opening for hugely popular acts like Arctic Monkeys, The Black Keys, Jack White, and Queens of the Stone Age. The duo has been working on their fifth album for a couple of years now, and with all but a few of the songs recorded, Mosshart is still elusive about which ones they might play here: “We play a varied set, so I can’t tell you which ones we’re going to play in Salt Lake—it’ll be a surprise.”

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“T

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As founder and managing director of Excellence in the Community, Whiteley is attempting to do just that. Excellence in the Community is a nonprofit organization that works to promote local musicians by promoting free public concerts in Salt Lake City and surrounding areas of Utah.

Whiteley and his wife, Melinda, started as street musicians in Paris. “My wife’s voice would stop traffic,” Whiteley says. “I thought, watching the effect her voice had on the French people, we could make something happen with music.” The couple liked Utah, and wanted to bring to the state the same musical vibrancy they experienced abroad. However, in the early 2000s, they observed that, “generally as Utah musicians, you played in the background, things like parties, weddings and restaurants.”

Whiteley believed this was detrimental for the community. “There is a very civilizing effect when people come together and focus on the thousands of hours of practice that have gone on before the performance,” says Whiteley, “They share an experience. … Human achievement brings our community together. If no one cares about that, I think our city is diminished.”

He determined to find “cool venues” downtown where local artists could perform and founded Excellence in the Community in 2005. At first, facing skepticism from potential sponsors, Whiteley and his team “wandered from venue to venue.”

“Oftentimes, the tone of the meeting is, ‘Who let you in here?’ ” says Whiteley.

Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker, however, supported Excellence in the Community’s philosophy, and the organization has found an ideal venue in the city-owned Gallivan Center. Whiteley works with Talitha Day, Program Director of the Gallivan

Swinging to Excellence in the Community Center, to put on Big Band Swing Dancing Nights and Thursday night concerts.

On Tuesday nights at the Gallivan, swing dancers enjoy a live band and an open dance floor. University of Utah student Alyssa Bertelson has attended this event on multiple occasions. “This is my favorite night of the week,” she says. “You can invite people because it’s free, and it’s great to have exposure to the classics in music.”

The Tuesday night concerts will move to Thursday beginning in September.

Katherine Potter, senior advisor to Becker, explains that arts and culture are large parts of Becker’s “livability” agenda.

“Jeff Whiteley has done an incredible job of bringing community groups of an amazing quality and caliber to the public,” she says.

Excellence in the Community receives funding for its events through a combination of sponsorships and grants, including one from the Utah Division of Arts and Museums (UDAM) to put on a Mondays in the Park concert series at Liberty Park. Jason Bowcutt, who handles community and performance art at the UDAM, says, “What Jeff does is a really valuable service for the state. We have all of these terrifically talented people that live in Utah, and there aren’t always opportunities for them to be seen. He provides these opportunities.”

Whiteley is grateful to his “Excellence team” and the supporters he has, but would still like more local leaders to “just come and see” what Excellence in the Community is doing. Meanwhile, Whiteley will continue to bring as many local diamonds out of Utah’s sock drawer as possible. “I’m just a guitar player with an idea,” he says.

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Since 1994, horrorpunk icon Wednesday 13 (nee Josh Poole) has put out nearly 30 releases with six different bands.

Murderdolls, his band with Slipknot’s Joey Jordison, is the one you’re likely to know.

There’s also a country band called Bourbon Crow, a glam band named Gunfire 76, and the Murderdolls precursors Maniac Spider Trash and Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13. More than a dozen of the releases, however, are under his own name—which, to horrorpunk fans, is as good as gold. Also on the bill tonight is Holy Grail, a band that flies the flag of old-school metal (singing more than shrieking or growling), but embraces ideas from the new school (breakdowns!).

Ride the Void (Prosthetic) came out in 2013, but rumor has it there’s a new one due this year or next. Death Division opens. Area 51, 451 S. 400 West, 8 p.m., $13 advance, $15 day of show, Area51SLC.com

YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND

After releasing nothing (not counting the proverbial substance-load of live recordings available at YonderMountainStringBandLive.com) since 2009, YMSB finally dropped Black Sheep (Frog Pad) in June. It’s their first LP without founding member Jeff Austin, who left the band last year due to creative differences. The new stuff isn’t much of a departure, but for the fact that Austin has been replaced by two new members: mandolinist Jake Joliff (Austin’s direct replacement) and fiddle player Allie Kral.

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Listening to High on Fire’s seventh album Luminiferous (E1), I start to miss Burt’s Tiki Lounge. That’s where I finally got to see HoF live—and have the hearing loss to show for it. I stood right up front between frontguy Matt Pike and a stack of speakers and thought about how my ears kinda hurt so good. Was it a dumb move? Yeah.

But you know how you wear scars from skateboarding accidents with pride (and as a reminder to try not to be so stupid next time)? That’s how I feel about being just a little deaf. Because High on Fire kills it live.

Pike stands up there, lookin’ mean, wringing crushing riff after crushing riff out of his sunburst Les Paul while the decibel meter redlines.

That’s what metal fans live for—ending sentences with prepositions. The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 7 p.m., $16 in advance, $18 day of show, TheComplexSLC. com

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After releasing an album every year or two until 2010, and hearing from critics how good he is, what’s singer-songwriter Jackie Greene been doing for the last five years? Well, for one, he spent two years playing guitar with the Black Crowes until they broke up in January. Aside from that, he’s been part of two supergroups.

First there’s Trigger Hippy with Joan Osborne and fellow Crowe, Steve Gorman. And then there’s WRG, which stands for the Grateful Dead’s Bob (W)eir, Black Crowes singer Chris (R)obinson and Jackie (G)reene. Back to Birth (Yep Roc) is Greene’s new solo album and it finds the songsmith still has a knack for writing rootsy rock that nods to the days of AM radio.

He has three shows—tonight in Park City and Saturday and Sunday downtown (Saturday is sold out). O.P. Rockwell, 628 Main, Park City, 9 p.m., $27, OPRockwell.com; The State Room, 638 S. State, 8 p.m., $26, » TheStateRoomSLC.com

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OK, it was a little disappointing to learn this isn’t a tribute to the punk legends The Stooges. I mean, who doesn’t want to hear “Search and Destroy” or “I Wanna Be Your Dog” arranged for brass? Actually, it’s not a letdown. The Stooges Brass Band plays New Orleans jazz with threads of hip-hop, R&B and soul. It’s good-time music, the kind that can get even the most dance-averse to get up and wiggle—no booze required.

Joining the SBB tonight are The Suffers, another band that deals in good vibes. The Texan 10-piece group plays smooth soul that ranges from bright and sunny to slow and smoky, incorporating bits of Philly, Stax and Motown. This show’s gonna be hot, so even though you won’t need to imbibe to get into the festivities, it’s a good thing there’s gonna be a lotsa beer. Richard Tyler Epperson opens. Blues, Brews & BBQs Festival at Snowbasin Resort, 3925 Snowbasin Road, Huntsville, 12:30 p.m., free, SnowBasin.com

So an email pops up this morning: “I’m a one-man weirdo garage band from San Francisco called The Slow Poisoner, and I have a gig coming up in your neck of the woods!” Andrew Goldfarb had me at “weirdo,” but there was more hype about him playing “catchy, offbeat songs” on just an electric guitar and a bass drum. And these songs, they’re about “swamp witches, sinister flowers, strange hungers and giant worms that drive hot rods.” Also, he displays his lowbrow paintings onstage, and his “wild show” also includes “dancing spiders, severed fingers and a giant head that devours him onstage.” He then describes his sound as “a cross between Johnny Cash and Alice Cooper— rootsy but weird, like a hoedown on Mars.” (Drool.) He’s headlining the first SLC Solo Fest, an all-ages event that also includes Mañanero, Grumpy Grandma, Bill Murray (no), Ian Mooron, Adverse Effects, Eyesore, Well Okay and Wu Fei. The Underground, 833 S. Main, 7 p.m., $5, Facebook.com/pages/TheUnderground/154196961288785

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SATURDAY 8.8

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Walk the Moon, Coin

All this 80s revival stuff is so … totally awesome! When it’s done well, anyway— and Cincinnati’s Walk the Moon does it right, fer sure. You’ve probably heard their infectious, omnipresent hit “Shut Up and Dance,” which somehow blends U2, Starship and Mr. Mister into a surprisingly palatable mix. That’s the dominant sound on Talking Is Hard (their second for RCA), but there’s more to the band: Sometimes they drop in screechy indie and garage-rock influences and a little soul, showing they’re more than simple revivalists. Coin opens. (Randy Harward) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 7 p.m., $27 advance, $30 day of show, TheComplexSLC.com

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Dusky, TypeFunk, Blessed 1 (The Urban Lounge) Evening in Brazil (Viridian Events Center) Iamtheshotgun, One Among the Horde, DiseNgaged, Bleeding Crown (The Loading Dock) Jackie Greene Band, The Saint Johns (The State Room, see p. 42) Joy Spring Band (Sugarhouse Coffee) Kelly Clarkson, Pentatonix, Eric Hutchinson (USANA Amphitheatre) Kristin Chenoweth w/ Utah Symphony (Deer Valley Amphitheater) Kevin Dern (Snowbird Resort) Lazlo & The Dukes (Fats Grill) Leo Kottke (Egyptian Theatre, see p. 48) Listen Out Loud, Speed of Sound, School of Rock (Kearns Oquirrh Park) Metal Mayhem 2, Ontic, You’ll Die Knowing, Aether, Oculus (In the Venue) Walk The Moon, Coin (The Complex) When the Fight Started, Zamtrip (The Royal) You Topple Over (Hog Wallow Pub)

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TIN ANGEL CAFE 365 W. 400 South, SLC, 801-328-4155, Live music THE URBAN LOUNGE 241 S. 500 East, SLC, 801-746-0557, Live music TWIST 32Exchange Place, SLC 801-3223200, Live music VELOUR 135 N. University Ave., Provo, 801818-2263, Live music, All ages WASTED SPACE 342 S. State, SLC, 801531-2107, DJs Thurs.-Sat. THE WESTERNER 3360 S. Redwood Road, West Valley City, 801-972-5447, Live music WILLIE’S LOUNGE 1716 S. Main, SLC, 760828-7351, Trivia Wed., Karaoke Fri.-Sun., Live music THE WOODSHED 60 E. 800 South, SLC, 801-364-0805, Karaoke Sun. & Tues., Open jam Wed., Reggae Thurs., Live music Fri. & Sat. ZEST KITCHEN & BAR 275 S. 200 West, SLC, 801-433-0589, DJs

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TUESDAY 8.11 LIVE MUSIC

Crobot and Mothership (Area 51) Electric Cathedral (The Urban Lounge) Emery, As Cities Burn (In the Venue) R5, Jacob Whitesides (Maverik Center) Wasatch Jazz Project Big Band (Gallivan Center)

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Chubby Checker (Egyptian Theatre) Iron & Wine (Park City Live) John Davis (Hog Wallow Pub) Magic Beans (Garage on Beck) Nate Robinson (Snowbird Resort) Son of Ian (Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater at Deer Valley) Tom Bennett (Fats Grill) Trampled By Turtles, The Devil Makes Three (Red Butte Garden)

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The dog that inspired the 123Degrees Campaign was left in a hot car in June 2015.

The car was parked in the shade, and the windows were open a crack, but the dog was still in extreme distress. Wakeham and Brickyard Kennel trainer Mike Sperry saw the dog and called 911. Animal Control officers would later measure the internal temperature of the car at 123 degrees Fahrenheit. After the owners arrived and the dog was rescued, Wakeham decided that Brickyard would offer one hour of free dogsitting to avoid situations like that in the future.

Ultimately, there are no surefire safe ways to leave dogs in hot cars unless an adult human stays with the dog to let it out if the car gets too hot. Wakeham knew of an owner who left her dog in the car with the air conditioner on. Unfortunately, the car stalled after a few minutes, and the air conditioner turned off. It could have been a deadly situation. Fortunately, “the owner came back in time,” Wakeham says. Still, “it was very close.”

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ummer may be the season of Otter Pops, outdoor concerts and barbeques, but it’s also a dangerous time for our furry four-legged friends. With temperatures soaring, a simple trip to the store with their human friend can be deadly for a dog. Now Brickyard Kennel is starting an awareness campaign and community service to help dog owners learn about the dangers of dog in hot cars. As part of the 123Degrees Campaign, Brickyard Kennel staff and management will volunteer time on Saturdays to patrol local shopping-center parking lots. If they find an overheated pup, they’ll notify Salt Lake Animal Control or find the dog’s owner and take Fido to a shady spot with some fresh water.

“I think the campaign is going really well,” Margie Wakeham, the president and general manager of Brickyard Kennel, says.

“We’ve saved probably five dogs by now.”

In addition to keeping an eye out for dogs locked in parked cars, Brickyard employees go out of their ways to thank responsible dog owners who are sitting in cars with their dogs or tying them outside of stores.

“We’re not judging anybody when it comes to this campaign,” Wakeham says.

“We’re just trying to inform them. No one would intentionally kill their dog by locking them in a hot car. I think they just don’t realize how hot it gets, or how quickly.”

Still, she acknowledges that some of the owners they have helped have not been happy with the interventions—especially those who have had their windows broken by officers in efforts to rescue the dogs.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Charles de Lint is a novelist whose stories are influenced by folklore, myths and science fiction. In his book Yarrow, a wizardly character named Toby is skilled at conjuring. He can make small objects appear and disappear, for example. But Toby yearns for more. “I want to be magic,” he says. “I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don’t want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic.” If you have ever wished for a comparable upgrade, Aries, now is an unusually favorable time to work on it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) An imaginative Welsh man named Liam Bennett has developed a “dausage,” which is a blend of a doughnut and sausage. One of his most requested treats is pork meat stuffed with strawberry jelly.

Even if this novel blend doesn’t appeal to your taste buds, it serves as a good prompt for my advice: The coming weeks will be a favorable time to expand your notion of what types of nourishment are fun and healthy for you. I mean that in the metaphorical as well as the literal sense. Experiment with new recipes, both with the food you provide your body and the sustenance you feed your soul.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In one of his poems, Jack Gilbert mentions “the incurably sane,” who are “uncrippled by beauty” and “unbutchered by love.” When I read those lines, I felt a surge of protest. Is there a single person on the earth who fits that description? No! I was miffed by such starry-eyed idealism. Later, though, as I studied the astrological omens for you Scorpios, my attitude softened. I realized that the coming weeks may be a time when many of you will at least temporarily be incurably sane, uncrippled by beauty, and unbutchered by love. If you’re one of these lucky ones, please use your blessed grace to spread an abundance of blessed grace everywhere you go.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) If you’re not skirting the edges of the forbidden zone, you’re playing it too safe. If you’re not serving as a benevolent mischiefmaker for someone you care about, you’re shirking your duty.

Your allegiance should be with X-factors and wild cards. You will thrive to the degree that you cultivate alliances with mavericks and instigators. Are you shrewd enough to mess with time-tested formulas? Are you restless enough to rebel against habits that stifle your curiosity?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) How to be a Capricorn, according to my Capricorn reader Sadie Kennedy: When you are younger, take yourself too seriously.

Look and act older than you actually are as you serve what’s CANCER (June 21-July 22) Here are some tips on being the best Cancerian you can be: 1. most practical. Sacrifice fun and frivolity, working doggedly Cultivate your sensitivity as a strength. Regard your emotional to achieve the goals you yearn for, until you reach some level vulnerability as a superpower. 2. Nurture yourself at least as of accomplishment. Then realize, as if struck by a thunderbolt, much as you nurture others. 3. Learn to know the difference that fun and frivolity have practical value. Begin to age backbetween your golden hunches and the glimmering delusions wards like Benjamin Button as you balance work with play and that your demons stir up. 4. Be kind, but don’t be exorbitantly discipline with leisure. Enjoy the fruits of your intense efforts nice. 5. Remember that others’ unhappiness is rarely your fault as everyone tells you how relaxed and supple and resilient you or responsibility. 6. Keep reinventing the way you love yourself. are becoming.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Cracking open the shell of a soft-boiled egg is a tricky task. You must be firm enough to break the shell, but sufficiently gentle to avoid making a mess. If you live in Germany, you have access to a metal instrument that provides just the right measure of soft force. It’s called an Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher, translated as “soft-boiled egg shell cracker.” Your assignment in the coming weeks is to cultivate a talent that is metaphorically similar to an Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher. I believe you will need that blend of sensitivity and power on numerous occasions.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) In the woods, living matter isn’t segregated from the decaying stuff. Rotting tree trunks are host to teeming colonies of moss.

Withered stems of ferns mingle with cheerful saplings. Audacious mushrooms sprout up among scraps of fallen leaves. The birds and beetles and lizards and butterflies don’t act as if this mix is weird. They seem to be at peace with it. I suspect they thrive on it, even exult in it. That’s the spirit I suggest you adopt as you enjoy the paradoxical mélange of your life in the coming weeks, Gemini.

Celebrate the mysterious magic that emerges as you simultaneously fade and flourish, decline and increase, wind down and rise up.

a shared goal. It may also be an agreement to provide mutual aid: I help you do what you need to have done, and you help me with my task. Gotong-royong also implies that we enjoy working together. The emotional tone that we cultivate is affection and care. By sharing a burden, we lighten the load that each of us has to bear. I bring this to your attention, Libra, because it’s the gotong-royong season for you and yours. Be the ringleader who initiates and sustains it.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?”

This question was posed by Leo author Ray Bradbury in his book Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity. Even if you’re not a writer yourself, you will benefit from responding to his exhortation.

It’s one of the best things you could possibly do to activate your dormant creativity and intensify your lust for life. This is one of those times when working with your extremes is not only safe and healthy, but also fun and inspirational. So do it, Leo! Get excited and expressive about the best and worst things in your life.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Americans often regard Cuba as impoverished and backwards.

There is an element of truth in their prejudice, primarily because the U.S. has imposed a stifling embargo on the Caribbean nation for over 50 years. That’s why, for example, many Cubans drive cars that were manufactured in the 1950s. But I wonder how my fellow citizens would respond if they knew that in some ways Cuba’s healthcare system is better than America’s. The World Health Organization recently congratulated Cuba for being the first country on earth to eradicate the transmission of syphilis and HIV from mothers to babies. Can you identify a metaphorically similar situation in your personal life, Pisces? Are there people you regard as inferior or undeveloped who could teach LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) In Indonesia, the term gotong-royong is defined as the “joint you an important lesson or motivate you to grow? Now is a bearing of burdens.” In practice it means that you and I and perfect time to benefit from their influence. our allies get together voluntarily to help each other achieve VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) It’s time to leave behind the golden oldies. You’d be wise to tiptoe away from tradition, and give the ghosts of the past one last kiss goodbye, and wean yourself from nostalgia for the good old days. Frankly, my dear, you’ve got numerous appointments with the future, and it would be a shame to miss them because you’re mucking around with memories. In the coming weeks—for that matter, in the coming months—you’re most likely to thrive if you become an agent of change. And the most important thing to change is your relationship to the person you used to be.

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It’s always great to hear when we travel out of town from past visitors: “I love your city!”

The Parliament of the World’s Religions has shaken up our town by bumping its event here a year ahead of schedule. Imagine the nightmare of planning an international event with up to 10,000 in attendance and then being told that not only did you have one less year to plan it, you must raise millions of dollars very quickly to do so.

For the past six months, I’ve registered to be a volunteer at the convention. I hadn’t heard anything back until recently, and now, I have learned that the organizers have finally hired a full-time volunteer coordinator who is moving here to get things rolling.

Along with the Dalai Lama, this gathering will bring to Dr. Karen Armstrong, Mairead Maguire, Óscar Arias Sánchez, Dr. Eboo Patel, Chief Avrol Looking Horse and dozens of other prominent leaders from 80 different countries and 50 different faiths Oct. 15-19.

The Dalai Lama loves to come to Utah. Sure, we adore him and his peaceful and sometimes funny messages but he also has kin who live in Utah County. His handlers added another opportunity for people to hear him speak on Oct. 18 at the University of Utah. The tickets sold out in roughly 10 minutes and were supposed to be offered as an inexpensive alternative to the pricy conference passes that weekend. Most of the tickets went directly to scalpers, unfortunately for the many who stood in line or parked on the interwebs to buy a $10 ticket. This past Friday, the U of U released 3,000 “obstructed-view seats” to the public as a crumb to the angry masses who were shut out by scalpers. Scalper tickets list for $178-$613 on several sites. The U of U event is a fundraiser for the Utah Tibetan Association, to fund the Tibetan Community Center, a gathering place to celebrate and encourage the preservation of Tibetan culture. Methinks his Holiness would be sad to learn who’s going to get the majority of the money from this extra event.

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