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LETTERS Keep Prison Where It Is

The Prison Relocation Commission’s recommendation to move the Utah State Prison to Salt Lake City is completely outrageous. It should remain exactly where it is and undergo an extensive renovation. Moving the prison so greedy developers can plunder the land is simply asinine. Does Draper really need yet another office park, strip mall or subdivision of bland stucco houses? I think not! Salt Lake City is, in many ways, the crown jewel of our great state. It is a veritable cultural oasis brimming with life. Our city does not deserve to be tarnished by the presence of a prison. I urge Gov. Gary Herbert to put his foot down and do what’s right for the people, not the corporations.

RYAN D. CURTIS Salt Lake City

Don’t Let Anti-Psych Groups Derail Bill

The bipartisan Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, HR2646, introduced in June by Reps. Tim Murphy, R-Penn., and Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, has come under attack. The purpose of the legislation is to resolve a number of problems within our health-care system, particularly for the treatment of America’s seriously mentally ill. The measures within this legislation would effectively improve treatment and outcomes for those with severe brain diseases, ultimately resulting in a significant reduction in homelessness and incarcerations.

WRITE US: Salt Lake City Weekly, 248 S. Main, Salt Lake City, UT 84101. E-mail: comments@cityweekly.net. Fax: 801-575-6106. We reserve the right to edit for length and clarity. Preference will be given to letters that are 300 words or less and sent uniquely to City Weekly. Full name, address and phone number must be included, even on e-mailed submissions, for verification purposes. But various groups, agencies and organizations are trying to halt the entire bill or have a number of crucial measures removed or watered down. There are anti-psychiatry and anti-psychology groups intervening to halt any and all efforts to correct our failed system. There are also anti-science and anti-pharmaceutical groups who, rather than accepting empirical studies of evidence-based treatment, maintain faith in pseudo-scientific therapies for severe mental illness (SMI). Such faith is often based on mere anecdotal stories by the herbal-supplement industry, the mistaken notion that diet and nutrition alone is the cure-all to everything. Perhaps the most disconcerting opposition, however, is from the agencies and organizations whose purpose is or should be to care for and treat the seriously mentally ill. Some of these mental-health agencies, along with many of my fellow Democrats, are opposing such crucial measures as assisted outpatient treatment (AOT), which refers to courtordered treatment. Evidence has shown this to be the only way to effectively treat the most seriously mentally ill with psychosis and anosognosia. Yet misguided civil-rights laws to protect the seriously mentally ill continue to be upheld as justification to allow those incapable of making an informed decision about their treatment from receiving critical care. Some of these agencies also favor mental-health reform that benefits the 25 percent to 40 percent or so of the population who might need various services from time to time to deal with such issues as personal stress. Other agencies

might place all or most of their focus on reducing stigma, peer support groups and educating about work-related stress. These agencies prefer to manage the easy-to-treat. While these goals are admirable, these agencies are often funneling and misusing funds that were intended for treatment of the seriously mentally ill. As a result, such organizations have strongly objected to measures in the legislation that would require oversight. In doing so, these agencies deplete the extremely limited resources intended to serve the critical needs of those with the most severe brain diseases, who are the most underserved. In light of daily tragedies occurring across the country and the severity of the various problems associated with serious mental illness and our ineffective mental-healthcare system, it is imperative legislators co-sponsor and advance this legislation—and keep the measures within fully intact.

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n my life, I’ve met more Congressional Medal of Honor winners* than I have Eagle Scouts. That true. The only Eagle Scouts I’ve ever really known were an old friend, Scott Crump, and my nephew, Nick Saltas. Scott was the best scouter in the Copperton LDS Ward troop, of which I was also a member. I made it to Star ranking—basically a knucklehead with a Cracker Jack compass. I earned a few merit badges but when the non-LDS kids were given the choice between staying in the troop or attending Mutual on Monday nights, my scouting career ended. Scott was a studious scout and had merit badges flying off his chest. All of us kids in Bingham Canyon knew how to sleep out in the hills with a small fire, a few hot dogs and a crappy sleeping bag. We probably all had camping merit badges. I remember our troop leaving Copperton one day and hiking high into Barney’s Canyon in the Oquirrh Mountains for a camping trip. That was a really pretty little canyon—if you never saw Barney’s Canyon, sorry, it’s kinda gone now. Anyway, Scott somehow carried nearly every size and shape of cooking utensil in his rucksack. We were grateful he did. He fed us well to earn his cooking merit badge. I like to think all Eagle Scouts are equally dedicated as Scott. It may surprise some in the Greek community, but my nephew was awarded his merit badge at Prophet Elias Greek Orthodox Church in Holladay. Churches and scouts are a bad mix, but that’s how it is, I guess. Nick was a good scout, too, but there were only a few kids in his troop, which must have made for some serious challenges—like, what’s the point in earning a bugling merit badge if there’s no one to wake up? Some dedicated adults do their best to get Greek kids interested in scouting, but lacking merit badges for Greek *Ed “Too Tall” Freeman, Bennie Adkins and Colonel Hal Moore

dancing, frappe making, filo dough rolling or horta gathering, scouting has been a tough sell to Greek kids. I’d rather not guess why, lest I piss off the few remaining Greeks who still talk to me. Let’s just say that the last time most of today’s Greek kids saw the inside of a tent was during the Greek Festival, and the last time they saw a lamb was also at the Greek Festival, spinning round and round over a bed of charcoal. No, paidi, garlic is not found naturally inside a leg of lamb. So that makes two: Scott and Nick as the Eagle Scouts I’ve known. Surely there must be others, but damned if I know who they are. Actually, if you can believe the job résumés that have been submitted to City Weekly over the years, I’ve met lots of Eagle Scouts, because it’s a common attribute to embellish a job résumé with—especially in these parts where listing Eagle Scout status is a known method to indicate religious affiliation. An employer cannot ask about religious beliefs in an interview, but an applicant can volunteer that information willingly or divulge it in other ways. And they certainly do. So, when an employer sees Eagle Scout listed under “other qualifications” on a resume, that employer can quickly surmise with more than 90 percent accuracy in Utah that the applicant is LDS (that percentage rises to 100 percent if the blueeyed applicant also lists that he is fluent in Korean and boasts about his genealogy merit badge—yes, it exists now). That can be good or bad. Some applicants list Eagle Scout expressly to let the employer know what their religion is. Some employers are just as grateful to discover that aspect without breaking any equalopportunity hiring laws. At the same time, other employers are quick to disqualify

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Eagle Scouts, because they don’t want to hire Mormons. Life: such a gamble, eh? Poor Nick—a Greek Orthodox Eagle Scout in Utah. I wonder how many employers he’s confused. It now appears that additional confusion is coming. A recent UtahPolicy.com poll reveals that most active LDS members prefer that troops currently under the dominion of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) depart, and that LDS troops go their own route. The poll didn’t ask the question directly, but it’s easy to determine that the recent announcement that the BSA will allow gay scout leaders has clearly made some former Eagle Scouts uncomfortable. It’s no secret that the modern LDS Church struggles to understand gay men and women, and for roughly 67 percent of active members, one of the lines is drawn at the Scouting level. What’s the big deal? I swear, and on my honor to do my best, I don’t give a rat about a gay scoutmaster, so long as he knows how to tie an Adams Wulff fishing fly, can show me where true north lies, can teach me how to treat hypothermia and can tell a gloriously scary campfire story. Gayness is not an indication of sexual predation. This is, plain as day, paranoia about gays and sexuality—not a position based on facts or a willingness to “help other people at all times.” I don’t believe that being gay and “morally straight” are mutually exclusive—especially so long as we blindly allow the straight scoutmaster to carry booze in his canteen and store porn images on his cell phone. It’s time to give up the ghost. A place to start might be on insisting that the first merit badge earned should be Citizenship in the Community. And, if you leave the larger community to form your own community, you can’t earn it at all. CW Send Private Eye comments to john@cityweekly.net

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Did you ever participate in Boy or Girl Scouts? What did you learn? Doug Kruithof: Camping was fun. Merit badges were too much work for me to leave the luxury of pre-Tenderfootedness.

Mason Rodrickc: My little brother got kicked out for not going to church. He just wanted to learn how to bandage up his buddies after he learned how to make his own hatchet. Poor little bro.

Brandon Burt: I enjoy camping and hiking, but the kind of organized, blasé, mandatory cheer that the BSA enforces is repellant. They were baffled by my odd sense of humor. I earned one merit badge (in cooking). Then I ditched.

Molli Stitzel: I participated in Brownies as a kindergartner. I learned that false advertising is a real thing. There were no brownies in sight! What a letdown.

Jeremiah Smith: My family spent a lot of time outdoors, so when it came to my scouting career, I learned very little that I didn’t already know. My troop was also exceptionally large, so I mostly learned to screw around and scare the crap out of my scoutmasters by continually breaking the rules.

Robby Poffenberger: After six years of camping, instruction and extensive lastminute paperwork, I obtained an Eagle Scout award At this point, I don’t know any more knots than the next man, and my fire-building capabilities are spotty at best. They were good times, though. Jerre Wroble: I learned to load up an empty coffee can with ground meat, chopped potatoes and onions and seasonings, cover with the top with foil, and then bury the can in coals. And an hour later: voila, it became “campfire casserole.”

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In a society where so many are opposed to a $15-anhour minimum wage, it’s interesting to watch how we compensate the problematic privileged. This week we’re talking about Art Raymond, spokesman for Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker, and Mike Allegra, CEO of Utah Transit Authority. Raymond posted nasty comments on The Salt Lake Tribune‘s website under a pseudonym, evidently from a city computer. For that, he was demoted from his $112,381 job to one that pays a mere $82,000. Allegra has been alternately lauded and lambasted for questionable travel while heading a mass-transit effort that emphasizes development over efficiency. Allegra is retiring from his $397,970 job to become a senior adviser to his board—with his salary intact for at least a year. Then comes the pension. No one denies these men their due, but it could be that we’re paying too much up top and not enough for the rank-and-file.

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Bob Bernick, a writer for UtahPolicy.com, recently wrote about his buddy Art Raymond, being a stand-up guy, but not defending Raymond for his naughty online comments. The article wasn’t really about Raymond—it was about how The Salt Lake Tribune can allow libelous or tortuous comments to slip by, and yet managed to ferret out Raymond from among the multitudes. Bernick talked about employees leaving the Trib (although he really wants the paper to survive) and the emphasis on clicks and hits these days. He even intimated that the Trib is anti-Becker, now that its editorial writers have endorsed Jackie Biskupski. These are all good points—although Bernick might have left Raymond out of it.

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Another employment misstep: Utah Division of Arts & Museums administrator Lynnette Hiskey was given the heave-ho, although technically she resigned. Her boss, Julie Fisher, said it wasn’t working out, and that they’re “moving in a different direction,” according to The Salt Lake Tribune. Hiskey had achieved national prominence, but was summarily escorted from the office. Apparently there was animosity somewhere, but it’s unclear where the call to terminate came from. Still, commenters blamed Gov. Gary Herbert, who fired Forrest Cuch and oversaw the decimation of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. There’s plenty of advice about how to fire someone compassionately, “keeping your humanity and upholding your employee’s dignity,” says Robert Sutton, a Stanford University professor and author of Good Boss, Bad Boss. Too bad it isn’t practiced.

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When former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson reactivated his law license, it appears he also reactivated his activism. Long a civil-liberties defender, he decided to call out the federal government after reports surfaced in 2013 that the NSA and FBI allegedly conducted illegal surveillance on Salt Lake-area residents before and during the 2002 Winter Games. He recently filed a lawsuit (that two City Weekly staff joined) seeking damages from the U.S. government for unlawful invasions of privacy. Anderson explained the purpose of his lawsuit below (read the complete interview at CityWeekly.net):

The Winter Olympics were so 13 years ago. Why sue now?

Apparently, no one outside the NSA and FBI knew of the blanket surveillance over Salt Lake City during the 2002 Olympics until The Wall Street Journal broke the story in an article on Aug. 20, 2013. The information would probably never have been known to the public if one or more courageous sources hadn’t provided the information.

The 9/11 attacks took place less than six months prior to the 2002 Winter Olympics. Wasn’t safety a huge issue, serving to justify such drastic measures?

As mayor during the Olympics, my greatest concern, even before 9/11, was safety. In fact, the only heated words between Mitt Romney and myself related to my incessant demands that we have a far more robust immediate response capacity in the event of violence or major property destruction. However, there was absolutely no justification for the abandonment of the rule of law and unprecedented violations of the protections of individual rights, including fundamental privacy, provided by our state and federal constitutions and statutes passed by Congress to prevent these very sorts of Stasi-like governmental abuses. To accept the illegal and unconstitutional spying on people in this country by our government only helps pave the way for further disregard of the rule of law by the executive branch and, ultimately, a more totalitarian society.

Did employees at local phone and Internet companies need to cooperate?

Some employees of telecommunications service companies would have needed to cooperate. At the time, such cooperation would have constituted a federal felony, just as every instance of the surveillance by the FBI and NSA constituted a federal felony. That is exactly why, in 2008, Congress (including then-Senator Obama) voted for the unprecedented, outrageous bill [an update to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] granting retroactive immunity from prosecution and civil law suits for telecommunication companies that cooperated with the illegal and unconstitutional initiatives of the federal government under the Bush administration.

What’s happened to the data that was captured during the Olympics?

We do not know what has happened to the data unlawfully captured by the NSA and FBI. However, the guiding philosophy of the NSA is to hoard everything possible so it will be available in future years if the government seeks to investigate anyone who has been subjected to surveillance. One director of the NSA justified such hoarding by saying, “You have to have a haystack to find a needle in the haystack.” An unbelievable amount of data from illegal surveillance is being stored at the enormous NSA facility recently constructed in Bluffdale.

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I heard from one of the local ambulance chasers that medical malpractice is the third-leading cause of death. Can that many deaths be blamed on doctors and hospitals? My hunch is someone pulled the number in question completely out of their ass.

—John Hang on. Before we peer into where this idea got pulled out of (and get sued for an unnecessary colonoscopy in the process), let’s get our terms straight. Medical malpractice isn’t what kills you, it’s what your survivors accuse the doctor of when they’re trying to collect damages. Only about 11,000 such claims are paid out in the U.S. each year, they’re costly to pursue and hard to prove, and nearly 60 percent of total compensation goes to “administrative fees” (read: lawyers), so malpractice suits aren’t even a leading get-rich scheme. No, the thing you’ll see cited among the top causes of death is medical errors, also known in the literature as “preventable adverse events”: when medical personnel do the wrong thing, or fail to do the right thing, or do the right thing but do it wrong. This can often take the form of misdiagnosis, or miscommunication between various healthcare providers, or between providers and patient. And it does happen with some regularity, and patients do die. How many, though? The report that really wound everyone up on this issue was released in 1999 by the Institute of Medicine, titled To Err Is Human. It relied in part on a study of 30,000 records from New York hospitals in 1984, which researchers used to calculate the rate of adverse events per hospitalization (3.7 percent), how many were due to negligence (27.6 percent), and how many led to death (13.6 percent), and then weighted the numbers to estimate figures for the state overall. What the IOM authors did was to extrapolate these results to the total number of U.S. hospital admissions in 1997, 33.6 million, arriving at a high-end figure of 98,000 deaths and thus enabling the claim that medical error was the fifthleading cause of death for that year. In 2013, a NASA toxicologist turned patients’-rights crusader presented a new report based on more recent hospital data and came up with an even scarier estimate: 400,000-plus deaths due to preventable harm—good for a theoretical third place on the causes-ofdeath list, right behind cancer. But even if the raw numbers behind the reports were absolutely correct, assigning all these deaths to medical error doesn’t really make sense. As critics of the 1999 report pointed out, that 13.6 percent of patients who died in the New York study all had life-threatening conditions in the first place, but the authors never establish a baseline rate for how many would have died anyway; they concede that had the adverse events not occurred, the life expectancy for many terminally ill patients wouldn’t have been improved, but don’t work this into

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their death figures. Both the 1999 and 2013 reports get some of their data from tertiary hospitals—i.e., where people wind up when their problems are so complicated they’ve already seen two other doctors. Both also analyze a significant number of Medicaid patients, who tend to have a notably high rate of co-morbidity (simultaneous multiple ongoing health troubles)—making their risk of death within a month of hospital admittance 40 percent greater than the general population’s. A medical error is still a medical error, but these higher baseline death risks have to be accounted for before drawing major conclusions about causality. Beyond that, given the byzantine nature of U.S. healthcare logistics and the constant implementation of new technologies, errors may just be part of the game. The theory of “normal accidents”—introduced by Charles Perrow in 1984 and applied to disasters like the meltdown at Three Mile Island and later the Challenger crash— describes serious accidents that occur in complex, high-risk systems as being a result of “multiple failures that are not in a direct operational sequence.” Basically, the idea is that as small errors occur independently in different areas of the system, they’ll ultimately interact with each other in ways that are more or less impossible to prevent or respond to appropriately. It’s unfortunate, and particularly in the case of medical care often tragic, but that’s the reality when the process is complicated and the stakes are high. Obviously hospitals still need to minimize mistakes, and evidence suggests a little prevention can go a long way. Two years ago a Milwaukee hospital modified their ID wristbands for not-yet-named newborns to include the mother’s first name as a secondary identifier—rather than “Babygirl Smith” (as it would appear in most of the country’s neonatal ICUs) a kid’s wristband might read “Sarahsgirl Smith.” The apparent result: a reduction of 36 percent in wrong-patient orders. Not all fixes are this simple, of course, and if nothing else both these reports effectively bring to light the dangers inherent in our healthcare system. But that doesn’t mean we’re all doomed every time the steak knife slips and we have to go in for stitches—nor, unfortunately, can we count on that strategy to make our first million. n

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The city’s new blue parking kiosks relegated the iron coin-fed machines to the surplus heap. BY COLBY FRAZIER cfrazier@cityweekly.net @colbyfrazierLP

n M Street in the Avenues, a rusty D-ring, anchored deep into the curb, is available for anyone to hitch their horse to. In front of the David Keith mansion on South Temple, a sandstone pillar equipped with rings for horse hitching sits near a sandstone stoop used to step up into a high-clearance carriage. These relics are a distant leap from the city’s modern parking system, the guts and gears of which are 300 blue, solar-paneled kiosks that accept all major credit cards, offer seven minutes of parking for a quarter and allow parkers to pay via smartphone apps. But the parking system that dominated Salt Lake City’s streets for much of the 20th century, and into the first part of this century—the iron coinfed parking meter—is a ghost. The only signs of the city’s 1,175 coin-fed parking meters are the pipes in front of most parking stalls where the roughly 50-pound bodies of parking meters once rested. Signs with parking-stall numbers now hang from the poles. And twelve of the city’s former parking meters have been placed around the city, used as donation jars for the Homeless Outreach Street Team. The meters, though, are still around, gathering dust beneath an awning at the Salt Lake City Streets Division, located at 2010 W. 500 South, a straight 20-block shot away from the downtown streets where the parking meters once stood. As the tons and tons of steel have sat idle, parking has become a political grenade launched at Mayor Ralph Becker, who spearheaded the move from the old coin-fed machines to the new kiosks. The series of events that culminated with crews hacking the coin-fed machines from their perches began in early 2012

Salt Lake City Signs and Markings Supervisor James Aguilar surveys what remains of the city’s old coin-fed parking system. when the City Council voted to allocate $4.1 million to buy a new and improved parking system. Robin Hutcheson, Salt Lake City’s transportation director, says the city’s master plan in 2008 made clear that the city needed to somehow wed technology to its street-parking program. Accepting credit cards as a form of payment was an important part of the puzzle. Once the new system was in place, technical glitches and critiques of the machines’ general user-unfriendliness stacked up. When temperatures soared during the summer months, some of the machines failed. At times, credit-card readers refused to work. The keypads weren’t illuminated, and payments took too long to process. These concerns have bled into the mayoral campaign, where Jackie Biskupski, who is challenging Becker’s bid for a third term as mayor, has been critical of the

mayor and the city for the parking system. Behind many of the problems that the kiosks initially faced, Biskupski says, was the city’s failure to fully a vet a system that cost millions in taxpayer money. “I think the original meter system and all of the problems that came with it came from the rush with not really vetting out the kiosks,” she says. Matt Lyon, Becker’s campaign spokesman, says the new system is functioning the way it should and that the city’s decision to jump into the modern era of parking was well advised. “The city recognized there was an issue and there was a complete overhaul,” Lyon says. “I think the city responded and managed the project extremely well, and it’s an effective, modern parking system that you see in nearly every other city.” When it comes to visiting downtown Salt Lake City, parking remains a marquee concern to many Utahns. A recent

marketing survey conducted by the Downtown Alliance showed that when respondents were asked what would make them visit downtown more often, 25 percent said “improved parking.” The next closest category, besides “other” 19 percent, “can’t think of anything” 15 percent, “don’t know” 13 percent and “miscellaneous” 8 percent, was improved public transportation at 5 percent. Exacerbating the problems with the parking system, Hutcheson says the vendor wasn’t responsive to the city’s woes. To remedy the problem, Hutcheson says city leaders used the remaining $600,000 of the initial $4.1 million to replace all of the kiosk’s innards. Since this switch took place in March 2015, Hutcheson says the bugs have been worked out. Seemingly small things, like illuminated screens and improved keyboards have increased the kiosks’ functionality. Since then, Hutcheson says not a single kiosk has failed. The new kiosks, though, are still not immune to criticism. For one, in 2012, a quarter bought ten minutes of parking, where a quarter now buys seven. And although the new kiosks accept credit cards, the minimum charge is $2, which buys an hour of parking even if one only needs to park for five minutes. On a recent Friday afternoon, as the summer sun unleashed its fury, this was Mary Potter’s concern as she fed the blue kiosk with coins. Potter fondly recalled the old coin-fed meters, which showed clearly how much time remained on a parking space. And carrying

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one of the nagging parts of living in a city that is never praised by the public. “You can have machines that make you 10 pounds thinner and deliver you chocolate cake, and you still won’t like parking,” Hutcheson says. “We want to make it as good of an experience as it can be.” To that end, Hutcheson says, the parking system in place allows people to park their cars conveniently, so they can get on with whatever else they might be doing downtown. “I am proud that the city recognized the problem and fixed it quickly and was smart with the resources we have,” Hutcheson says. “We made it a lot better for the public.” But, like the typewriter, the record player and the rotary phone, the antiquated coin-fed hunk of steel that functioned fine for decades only to be replaced with shiny blue computers, touches a nostalgic nerve. At the Streets Division yard, the parking meters have been dismantled. The gray machines are stacked on pallets; the addresses, marking their locations— for example, 2E108S (108 S. 200 East)— still emblazoned on the steel. A bin holds 1,615 meter-head caps, which sat atop the machines, while 2,100 digital meter modules (the electronic mechanisms that kept time) sit in a second bin. James Aguilar, the city’s Signs and Markings supervisor, says that from a maintenance perspective, the largest problem with the old machines was people who purposely jammed them with pennies wrapped in paper so they wouldn’t have to pay for parking. Also, the batteries needed to be replaced every six months. Ryan Zumwalt, the city’s parking supervisor, says people still purposely jam the new machines with pennies that have been glued together. But because the blue kiosks are solar powered, the batteries never need to be changed. As for the old machines, which new cost around $1,000, Aguilar says the city has made one attempt to auction them off. Only three were sold. He says another attempt at an auction could be made, or these most recent relics of the age of the automobile could end up as scrap metal. “We’re moving to new times,” Aguilar says. CW

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around coins, she says, never bothered her; that’s how she still pays. “Those were fantastic,” Potter says of the old machines. “I think everybody liked them. If it’s not broken, don’t fix it, right?” Like a typewriter, which serves only a single function of printing letters on a page, the old parking meters lacked a secondary function: In addition to providing a way to charge for parking, Hutcheson says the new system provides data collection. With the new machines, Hutcheson says city officials can map parking habits and study ways to improve the system. One key change since the new system arrived involves a reduction in the actual number of metered spaces, which were chopped by 400. Hutcheson says these 400 stalls, primarily located along the outskirts of downtown, were cut from the pay system because the amount of money it required to install and maintain the parking kiosks and signs wasn’t being generated by the spaces. “We just were able to collect data, which we could never do before,” Hutcheson says. “We have a much more refined system now.” The city is also collecting a lot more money. With rate increases that have doubled from $1 in 2011 to $2 today for an hour of parking, and a time extension that requires parkers to pay until 8 p.m. (up from 6 p.m.), the city’s parking meters raked in $2.7 million in the most recent fiscal year, says Mary Beth Thompson, the city’s financial operations director. The last year with coin-fed parking meters brought in only $1.5 million. And credit-card users make up a hefty portion of those parking in the city’s remaining 1,700 stalls—a demand that Hutcheson says the city correctly anticipated. She says 75 percent to 80 percent of parking transactions are made by credit card. And the city’s new smartphone app, ParkSLC, which kicked off in April, tallied 7,000 transactions in June. Parking, or more accurately, paying for parking, is

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Their friendship, you see, is magic, but not federally funded. -G. Herbert

CITIZEN REVOLT VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

May 16th - Sept. 27th Schedule a time now! 10:00am - 12:00pm or 2:15pm

Got wheels? Got time? Then you might be in line to help Salt Lake County’s Meals on Wheels program. This program provides midday meals to frail and isolated older adults. The meal volunteer is often the only person they interact with all day. The county is actively recruiting for teams to develop new volunteer routes. Organizations form volunteer delivery teams of eight to 10 people, which adopt meal routes close to their geographic location. Each delivery route takes one hour or less to complete. For more information or to form a volunteer team, contact Independent Aging at 385-468-3201 or Janet Frick at jfrick@slco.org.

GRANT APPLICATIONS

Eight other things Gov. Gary Herbert understands as well as Planned Parenthood funding:

8. Most of the intricate plot dynamics of My Little Pony.

7. That mankind will never

know if the refrigerator really goes out when the door closes.

6. To wipe front to back—

and he didn’t need no guv’mentfunded sex farm to tell him how.

5. How to tie a clip-on tie

without any help from Jeanette.

4. That Utah’s separation

distance of Church and State is approximately the size of a whitemale member in January.

3. How to prepare his own Toaster Strudels in a pinch.

2. The concept of “coloring

outside the lines,” as someone who works exclusively in crayon.

1. The contemporary social politics of 1955.

Nonprofits and local governments might want to take note of grants available to preserve at-risk, historic records and to provide access to important collections. In other words, here’s a way to safeguard records that are getting a little old and moldy. The funding comes from the Utah State Archives and Records Service, and should be used for short-term projects. You could be eligible for one of four grants of up to $3,000 or seven of up to $1,500. The grant guidelines and application are available at Archives.Utah.gov/USHRAB/forms.html. Request information from Janell Tuttle at jtuttle@utah.gov.

ENVIRONMENT

Live clean, build green: This Saturday, you can tour homes that could help Utahns breathe in the future. The Green Homes Tour highlights new and remodeled environmentally friendly and efficient homes in Salt Lake City. Saturday, Aug. 22, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $5 for a self-guided tour; $15 for a bus tour with lunch. Register at USGBCUtah.org/event-1991163. Locations will be revealed when you register.

PROGRESSIVE MEDIA

Happy anniversary, The Nation. The Salt Lake City Public Library is kicking off an eight-week celebration of the oldest weekly magazine in the country. Oh, did we say that it’s also progressive? For 150 years, it has hosted writers involved deeply in the struggles for social and economic justice. Aug. 20: Hot Type: 150 Years of The Nation film screening; Aug. 27: Mark Hertsgaard on the environment; Sept. 3: George Zornick on the 2016 presidential race; Sept. 10: Katha Pollitt on reproductive rights; Sept. 17: Ari Berman on voting rights; Sept. 24: John Nichols on money in politics; Oct. 1: Zoë Carpenter on librarians vs. the NSA; Oct. 8: Mychal Denzel Smith on race & policing.

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Pets of the 1 Percent “The worshipful treatment of pets may be the thing that unites all Americans,” wrote an Atlantic magazine blogger in July, describing the luxury terminal for animals under construction at New York’s JFK airport. The ARK will offer shower stalls for traveling horses, “conjugal stations” for ever-horny penguins, and housing for nearly 200 cows (that might produce 5,000 pounds of manure every day)—and passengers traveling with dogs or cats can book the Paradise 4 Paws pet-pampering resort. The ARK is a for-profit venture; said one industry source, quoted in a July Crain’s New York Business report, “You hear stories about the crazy money that rich people spend on their [animals] … they’re mostly true.” Government in Action Officially, now, it is “unreasonable” for a federal agency (the Bureau of Land Management, in this instance) to fail to say yes or no for 29 years to a drilling permit application. (Before July’s federal court decision, BLM had been arguing that 29 years was not too long.) A company had requested to drill just one exploratory well in Montana for natural gas in 1985, but the bureau had delayed the proceeding six times since then. The judge ordered the bureau to set a deadline for deciding.

n Georgia, one of six states that make taxpayers shell out huge fees to access its databases of public records, tries so relentlessly to control its archive that, recently, in a federal lawsuit, it said opposition to its policy was basically “terrorism.” Activists (Public.Resource. org) have been establishing workarounds to free up some databases for citizen use, and Georgia demands that they stop. Georgia even claims “copyright” protection for one category of important legal documents that were initially drafted by state bureaucrats, audaciously calling them “original” and “creative” works. n Mandatory Inaction: In July, the mayor of the town of Ador, Spain (pop. 1,400), officially enacted into law what had merely been custom—a required afternoon siesta from 2 to 5 p.m. Businesses were ordered to close, and children were to remain indoors (and quiet).

Police Report At a traffic stop in Rockingham, Vt., on July 26, both driver and passenger were charged with DUI. Erik Polite, 35, was the driver (clocked at 106 mph on Interstate 91 and, according to police, with drugs in the car), and while he was being screened for intoxication, passenger Leeshawn Baker, 34, jumped behind the wheel and peeled off in reverse across the highway, nearly hitting the trooper, who arrested him.

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n Nathaniel Harrison, 38, was arrested in July in a Phoenix suburb on several charges, including possession of a deadly weapon during a felony, but he escaped an even more serious charge when a second “deadly weapon” failed to engage. Harrison reportedly intended to retaliate against a “snitch” and arrived at the man’s home carrying a rattlesnake, which he supposedly pointed at the man, hoping it would bite him. However, the snake balked, and Harrison’s attempted payback failed.

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Still More “Intelligent Design”? Zoologists at the University of Basel in Switzerland, publishing recently in a prestigious British journal, reported the likelihood that a certain flatworm species has overcome the frustration of not finding a mating partner in its lifetime. The scientists believe the flatworm exploits its hermaphroditic qualities and injects its sperm into its own head, from which the sperm sometimes migrates to its reproductive facilities. (Flatworm researchers are aided on their projects by the species’ transparent bodies, facilitating the tracking of the sperm.)

WEIRD

n Lame Defenses in Lake County, Florida: 1. Daniel Baker, 40, and Robert Richardson, 19, were arrested in Altoona, Florida, in August after getting caught loading appliances from a vacant house. According to the arrest report, both men appeared incredulous to learn that items in a vacant house aren’t just “free.” 2. Six days earlier about 20 miles away in Tavares, Florida, Corey Ramsey, 23, was arrested for burglary when a police officer caught him sitting on a toilet in a vacant, for-sale house attending to a need. Ramsey’s extensive petty-crime rap sheet belied his explanation for being there—that he was contemplating buying the $299,000 house and wanted to try it out first.

Protest! About 200 protesters gathered in front of Hong Kong police headquarters on August 2 to denounce the 3 1/2-month jail sentence given to Ms. Ng Lai-ying, 30, who was convicted of assault for shoving a police officer with her chest. Women (and some men) wearing bras as outerwear chanted, “Breast is not a weapon.” (Ng was originally protesting the hardly sexy issue of import-export abuses between Hong Kong and mainland China cities.) Read more weird news at WeirdUniverse.net; send items to WeirdNews@earthlink.net, and P.O. Box 18737, Tampa, FL 33679.

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on Empty By Stephen Dark sdark@cityweekly.net @stephenpdark Photos: Niki Chan

Even with food banks, food stamps and wealthy churches on nearly every corner, Utah children still go to bed hungry.

n a cramped, dimly lit basement apartment in a Murray complex a few blocks from Interstate 15, a single mother and her daughter curl up on a worn blue sofa and talk about hunger. For six months, Jane put her two daughters to bed hungry on the weekends. “Almost every night, I was hungry,” 10-yearold Lulu says. (The family requested anonymity to talk about their experiences.) By late 2014, despite having a full-time job as a nurse, Jane could no longer make ends meet. In the face of her other daughter’s medical needs, as well as paying rent and utilities, “Food seems to be the last thing in the budget.” While Jane was able to provide two meals on the weekends, they had to be spaced out “to try and convince the kids they weren’t hungry before dinner. She’d tell her girls to drink large glasses of water before dinnertime. “We were really well hydrated,” Lulu says with a wry smile. “Those nights you tuck the children into bed, and you start feeling really frustrated,” Jane says. “You’re working full time and, yet, it’s still not enough. You get to the end of the month, and there’s no savings. You don’t even have a penny.” Lulu has attended a Boys & Girls Club in the southern end of the Salt Lake Valley for the past five years. She isn’t the only child at the club who has struggled with hunger. “Sometimes, a kid will come up to you and ask if they can have your milk or your salad, or your strawberries and pasta, or even your ranch packet,” she says. “And it makes me feel sad that they get a dinner, and they eat it all, and they’re still hungry, so they’re going around begging for food.” In late 2014, several children switched from asking for food to stealing it. A longtime benefactress of the club, 70-year-old Lynda Brown, learned at a December 2014 club gala committee meeting that children on Fridays were taking snacks she donated without asking because they faced the prospect of hunger over the weekend. Boys & Girls Club’s child-care director Jamie Dunn told Brown that several of the children were part of a large family cared for by a single father. While they got food at the club during the holidays for breakfast, lunch and dinner, on the weekend, it was hard for them. “Once, when I was talking to the little girl, she told me that her daddy doesn’t eat food because he’s a grown up,

and food is just for his kids,” Dunn wrote in a short piece published on the Boys & Girls Clib’s website. “They usually only have cereal to eat at home.” As the club tried to find out more about why the snacks were taken, so they found more children who were hungry over weekends. “Parents don’t want to talk about it, parents don’t want people to know they aren’t doing enough to feed their children,” Brown recalls club officials telling her. “A lot of parents don’t want to say, ‘I can’t do that.’ ” Feeding America is a network of 200 food banks across the country. Its “Map the Meal Gap” chart for 2013 estimates the total number of “food-insecure” children in Utah as just under 180,000, of which 57,350 were in Salt Lake County. “Food insecurity” occurs when a household cannot rely on access to food yearround, says advocate Marti Woolford of Utahns Against Hunger, a nonprofit which works to secure funding for food “safety-net” programs. While Utah’s hungry population reflects the national average, “14 percent of households not having enough food is not acceptable,” Woolford adds. With 220,000 Utah children qualifying for free or reduced school meals, the squeeze on food access for many of them only gets worse when school is out. Summer feeding programs provided by school districts, nonprofits and Head Start (which provides dinners) and backpack programs by the Utah Food Bank and several pantries “work to fill this gap,” Woolford says.

“It’s easier to make assumptions about people when you don’t know their story.”

—Gina Cornia, Utahns Against Hunger

Advocates say parents struggling with multiple, poorly paid jobs can face many challenges in terms of barriers to accessing federal, state and charity programs, such as language, lack of awareness and bureaucracy. “The simple reality is that many families in Utah just don’t make enough money to have an abundant amount of healthy food available on the weekends and during the summer for their kids,” Woolford says. Yet despite such overwhelming need, many Utahns, Brown has discovered, “are in denial that there is such a problem.” One woman told her, “If people are going hungry, it’s their own fault,” Brown recalls. “That’s what the soup kitchens and pantries and food banks are for.” Gina Cornia heads up Utahns Against Hunger. “It’s easy to make assumptions about people when you don’t know their story,” she says. “It’s easier to do that than fix what keeps them poor.” Many Utahns view poverty as a moral flaw, she says. Work harder, try harder and they will climb out of poverty. But such myths and assumptions about work and single parents are easier than looking at underlying systemic reasons. “Poverty goes down, hunger goes down,” she says. Brown identified a niche of children of low-income parents living in Murray and Midvale, who “are hungry, and I just feel a need to feed them.” In a world of innumerable federal-food programs and underfunded nonprofits and food pantries, Brown’s efforts as a private citizen to address the food needs of children in her own city and beyond stand in stark contrast to the seeming lack of a coherent effort at either the state or federal level to deal with weekend hunger. Despite the existence of various food-bank programs designed to insure children don’t go without, people like Brown and others who work directly with children were discovering that donated food isn’t always making it into homes where food is in short supply. The children themselves are letting it be known they’re going without, and that caught Brown’s attention. According to the Road Home’s executive director Matt Minkevitch, a fired-up volunteer such as Brown is “the perfect example of the organic nature of how services are provided.” A sprightly and energetic 70, Brown’s challenge is both sustaining and developing the program to the point others can take it over. Along with feeding children in the valley, her ultimate goal is to educate Utahns that hunger is real. “You choose to not do something, that’s fine—but don’t tell me this isn’t an issue.”

For five years, Brown has donated healthy snacks for afternoon treats that the Boys & Girls Club couldn’t afford, but vanquishing the weekend hunger “gap” has proved more challenging. Her solution was to turn a basement room in her Murray home into a pantry, where she would stock what has become between 40 and 60 backpacks with meals to cover children over the weekend. The children pick up the backpacks at the Boys & Girls Club on Friday, return them on Monday, and Brown refills them for the following weekend. While Utah Food Bank distributed more than 70,000 backpacks to schools during the 2014-15 school year, the fact that 60 children still “need food on the weekend was an astounding number to me,” Brown says. The problem, as she has come to understand it, she says, is not that there isn’t enough food. Rather, “the problem is the food isn’t getting to people that need it, either through lack of public awareness or pride on the part of people who don’t want others to know they can’t quite cut it.” The drive to feed children has consumed her, to the point she dreams of bare shelves and children going hungry. “I’ve taken on this, and I don’t want to look failure in the face,” Brown says. “I don’t want to fail the children who are now dependent on this.”

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Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salt Lake Vice President Bob Dunn with 2014’s Volunteer of the Year Lynda Brown, who started a backpack program.

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Utah State Office of Education’s child-care program coordinator Matt Anderson says that while there are limited opportunities for federal funding for weekend food programs, “not a lot of our programs address hunger that may occur during the weekend.” While the state channels just under $40 million annually from the liquor-sales tax to the child nutrition program run by the Utah State Office of Education, which contributes to school-food programs, nonprofit agencies dedicated to emergency food funding might count themselves lucky to receive the crumbs from the table. Under $1 million annually goes to nonprofit emergency food agencies, and $290,000 per year to help with distribution of food to pantries. That leaves the federally funded food stamp and WIC programs to feed those in Utah who fit within its income criteria and nonprofit emergency food agencies to largely fend for themselves. For a child to be eligible for a free school meal, a family of four in Utah has to have a gross income of $2,628 or less a month. UAH’s Woolford notes that a three-bedroom apartment in Salt Lake City rents for $1,300 a month. While there are a few breakfast and numerous lunch summer feeding sites across the Wasatch front, that still leaves annual holidays, winter vacations, the end of summer vacations (many school sites close early), snow days and weekends when children can struggle to find food. “At the end of the day, people are falling through the cracks for sure,” Woolford says. Advocates bluntly caution neither to judge nor blame parents who cannot provide food for their children, despite the seeming abundance of services. Bountiful Pantry director Lorna Koci started a weekend food program three years ago in Davis County. She says it has grown from 155 kids at three schools to currently 702 kids at 15 schools, identified by teachers as at-risk of food insecurity over the weekend. They receive several pounds of food on Fridays to take home during the scholastic year, although the program doesn’t operate during the vacations. While there are some parents Koci terms “missing-in-action,” she says there are many factors that shape why children can be hungry over the weekend. “People won’t access the food pantry because they are not registered citizens,” she says. “They are fearful of providing information necessary to register at food pantries.” Along with embarrassment, pride can also get in the way, she notes, of people accessing foodassistance services. Lack of access due to pantries being open only a few hours—not the case, she says, with Bountiful, which has nine openings per week—and lack of awareness also contribute. “We still have people come in and say, ‘I wish I’d known you were here.’ ” Koci cites one single mother who is concerned that her ex-husband does not have enough food to eat when it’s his weekend to care for their children. “She knows they can take the pantry pack with them.” Then, there’s the single mother working as a Walmart cashier, who recognized the items an Eagle Scout was buying for the pantry program and started crying. Her daughter is in the Bountiful program. She told

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Children missing meals has a raft of health consequences, say advocates, including vulnerability to illness, lack of cognitive development, behavioral and educational issues at school and lower graduation rates. If they are not dealing with the gnawing pain of hunger, that may only be because all their family can afford is cheap, highly processed, high-calorie food. Hunger, says Rep. Angela Romero, D-Salt Lake City, is but one piece of the much larger challenge of tackling poverty, which includes addressing income inequality, a living wage, access to healthcare, along with federal issues including immigration reform. “The system doesn’t work for everyone,” Romero says. “How do we ensure that we are taking care of the most vulnerable? How do we support people in a vulnerable part of their life so they can get back on their feet and support their families?” Brown says she can’t solve poverty. All she can do is put food in children’s hands. “Buy a six pack of applesauce or a can of soup. It costs a buck. Bring that food over to my basement or the club. It’s that simple.” Such a simple act profoundly impacted Lulu and her mother. When a Boys & Girls Club official asked Jane if she would let the club help her with weekend food, “My mom cried that day more than once,” Lulu says. “Working full time, I didn’t feel I had the right to stand in line for the food bank,” Jane says. While she had some food, she simply didn’t have enough to feed her children. “I didn’t want to take from someone who had less.” That was why, she continues, the backpack program meant so much to her. “It really took away a lot of that guilt for me. Because this was food that someone had donated to our children. This was someone who wanted to help with my kids, and I guess I could accept that.” It’s tough trying to get the backpacks to the car without the children opening them, she says. “When they get home, it’s like opening a present. The kids love the fact it comes with fruit snacks and granola bars with chocolate.” The children enthuse over the contents, planning the meals they will make, Italian one night, and, if there’s a can of refried beans, Mexican another. Hunger, Jane says, is everywhere, you just don’t see it. “Look to your left and look to your right, and I can

guarantee you you’re looking at someone that does not have enough food,” she says. It’s not a county or a town away, it’s but one person away, “and they’re not going to tell you. There’s a big shame factor in it. Everybody’s raised to believe you have enough to eat, that you’ll be able to provide for your family. And it’s just really hard to stand up and say, ‘My kids are going to bed hungry, I need help.’”

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the scout’s mother, Koci says, “how helpful it is to her that she has extra food, that her daughter can have something to eat if she gets home late from work.”

The number of children going hungry haunts Ginette Bott, Utah Food Bank’s chief development officer.

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KID-FRIENDLY Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salt Lake Vice President Bob Dunn started the South Valley club 37 years ago, with a budget of $19,000 and a staff of two. Even back then, he recalls in an email, there were several club attendees without food on the weekend. Staff would take a bucket of fried chicken and mashed potatoes to a family they knew had little for the weekend. “Not just weekend food needs but access to health care (especially dental care), clothing (especially shoes) and other needs have always been a problem for our kids and their families, and we have partnered with many agencies and volunteers over the years to try and meet these needs,” he writes in an email. Without any direct funding to address the lack of weekend food for children, partnerships with local markets to take advantage of dayold food items on Fridays were ultimately little more than “small Band-Aids,” he writes. For a while, the clubs were open on Saturdays until budget cuts forced them to close. “I really want to start a Saturday program again.” Lynda Brown’s history with the Boys & Girls club dates back to one of her brothers literally laying the foundation for the building and getting local members of the Murray Elks Club to donate construction materials. Brown was a registered nurse for seven years, until she dedicated her life to caring for a quadriplegic brother handicapped from a basic-training accident during the Korean War, a second brother laid low by a stroke and subsequently her elderly parents. After her husband, onetime Deseret News sports reporter Tom Brown, unexpectedly died six years ago, Brown found herself “needing something to do.” For several years, she ran Utah’s Congressional Award program, helping children earn medals in honor of their volunteer service. She also got a local bus company to donate a 62-seat bus to address the Boys & Girls Club’s transportation needs. When Brown told the club she wanted to help children with weekend food shortages, the club identified children in need through its teachers and staff. Brown set about putting seven meals in each backpack, “not full-course meals, but something these kids can open and not be hungry.” The staff told the children if they needed food on the weekend, to grab a backpack. Brown was told the recipients wanted to remain anonymous. “The privacy issue seems to be so strong, this anonymity makes it easier for them to accept help,” she recalls being told.

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The Utah Food Bank distributes backpacks to schools and will start a mobile pantry program in September 2015.

Brown first started providing backpacks to the clubs in February 2015. Two breakfasts, two lunches and three dinners make up the meals that go into a backpack. Brown unzips a backpack on a table in her basement, then turns to the plastic shelves she’s erected to store food. She grabs two packs of oatmeal, spaghetti and meatballs, a can of sauce, a cup of ramen noodles, fruit cup, two puddings, two fruit rolls and granola bars, putting each in the backpack. “And that’s a backpack,” she says triumphantly.

Then she reaches for the next. The guiding principle as to weight is that a 5-year old girl can pick it up, she says. From the beginning, the most perplexing question Brown faced has been how to keep her pantry’s shelves, and thus the backpacks, filled. Initially, she funded the food out of her own pocket, prowling grocery store aisles for bargains and wrangling with managers for the best deals on canned goods. Aid for Brown came from the Utah Department of Corrections after she told her son-in-law, Jeremy Shaw, of the children’s plight. Shaw supervises a division that investigates inmate crimes at the Draper prison. In conversations with Brown about her desire to help the children, Shaw says, “It hit me this was something that would be a great thing to be involved in.” He organized a small food drive among the 22 employees at his office. Utah Department of Corrections Executive Director Rollin Cook subsequently elected to extend a department-wide invitation to contribute to Shaw’s food drive. In April 2015, a food drive among the prison’s 2,300 staff resulted in a large white truck pulling up outside Brown’s home. “They filled up my basement with food,” she says, producing 490 filled backpacks. “It was Lynda’s first bulk donation where she didn’t personally have to buy those things out of her own budget,” Shaw says. Then Brown learned that the Murray and Midvale clubs weren’t the only ones with children facing bare cupboards and empty stomachs on the weekend. After she asked the Boys & Girls Club to check with other branches in the state, the Tooele club announced they needed 30 backpacks by Friday. “Their kids are starving, and I said, ‘No, I can’t.’ It just wrenched my heart out.” For now, she says, she simply does not have the resources.

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The idea of using backpacks for children to take food home isn’t new. Since the late 1990s, Feeding America has promoted a backpack program to food agencies across the United States. Federal regulations require that the Boys & Girls Club, which provides hot dinners during the week through the Utah Food Bank’s Kids’ Cafe program, cannot also draw upon the backpack program. “The contents of the pack has to be kid-friendly, so kids will eat it, and kids will fix it, and it has to be products kids will eat,” UFB’s chief development officer Ginette Bott says. The Catholic Community Services of Northern Utah [CCS] provides food to children in need for weekends and holidays. CCS’s program is called “Bridging the Gap,” and involves a red beverage-delivery truck employees call “Clifford” visiting low-income elementary schools on Fridays. Students take home “two bags of healthy, easy-to-prepare meals and snacks,” according to CCS’s website. Advocates debate the value of the backpack program, some arguing they target more children than their families. Feeding America has asked state food banks to come up with new ideas to replace the backpack program. Bott thinks the backpack program is “a good concept,” but adds as more students need to be fed, it becomes expensive and time-taxing for administrative staff at the schools. As of September 2015, the Utah Food Bank is trying a new tack, launching a mobile pantry

Putting a few cans in a box at a Sunday church service is one thing, but to run a food drive takes work, Brown says. She lies awake at night, pondering how to make food drives easier, to encourage more volunteers. “It’s like baking a cake. You don’t want to figure it out from scratch how to do it—you need a recipe.” Brown’s generosity has made its mark on the club and its members. In late 2014, she was named Volunteer of the Year and celebrated her 70th birthday at the club. “You have not lived until you’ve had 300 children singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to you,” she says. “I was bawling.”

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Utah Food Bank’s Bott applauds those individuals who try to address hunger in their neighborhood but also expresses concerns regarding food-handling safety, product recall notices and sustainability. Brown says media publicity surrounding food recalls in the recent case of boxes of mac & cheese being taken off shelves nationwide, meant she alerted fellow volunteers to check all the boxes donated by Corrections to separate any that were in the recall. While all the items she puts into backpacks are factorysealed, being able to sustain the food drives is something that constantly nags at Brown. As she learned with her husband’s early death, “no one knows how long their own ‘sustainability’ will last. Hopefully, I have started something that does not require more than a desire to keep it going.” The only drawback to her program, she says, “is if the food donations can’t keep up with the expansion.” If Brown’s backpack program were to fold, Jane and her daughters would have to retrench. “We’d go back to the pizza option, unfortunately,” Jane says, referring to buying a pizza and rationing out several slices to each child twice a day on the weekend. “It’s not as healthy, it’s not ideal. We’d go back to trying to get invited to someone’s house for Sunday dinner, that kind of stuff. We’d pull out the casserole again, which the kids hate. I can stretch those really far.”

THE HUNGER NEXT DOOR UFB’s Bott says that, ultimately, all the federal, state and nonprofit agencies dedicated to tackling hunger in Utah, while sometimes overlapping each other, have one thing in common: “We all hope there’s a child at the crossroads [of their attention] to benefit.” Like many in her field, she came to it out of a passion to aid the hungry. Yet, she says, “I am haunted by, ‘Am I doing enough for these kids?’ For those

One mid-June afternoon in 2015, Brown visits the University of Phoenix accompanied by a City Weekly reporter. A business manager marvels at how, “You’re kind of just going month to month on this.” Brown confides to her, “My nightmare is I won’t be able to fill those packs.” The university commits to a food drive by its alumni during two weeks in September, which means Brown can count on two more weeks being covered in terms of sufficient food. She then goes to visit Murray City Mayor Ted Eyre. Eyre points out that Utah’s population is predicted to double to 5.4 million within 35 years. “That doubles all the backpacks I need to do,” Brown quips. Eyre signs off on a food drive among the city’s employees that should help Brown through two months, she estimates. Brown’s next stop is the Boys & Girls Club in Murray. She issues a sharp, piercing whistle, which silences the chatter of children in several seated rows. What she learns from the impromptu Q & A with the children is that while some do not need backpacks, others cannot access them because their parents do not bring them on Fridays. “We need to be a little more discerning,” she says, about which children get backpacks. Later she emails, “When you see these kids ask for more and tell you they never get that food at home, it kinda makes you know they don’t have a lot of choices.” In late July, Brown met with LeAnn Saldivar, chief executive of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salt Lake. From that conversation, Brown learned that if she started providing backpacks for children at the Salt Lake area clubs, she would need to add to her output of weekly backpacks another 80 to 100. They agreed to start off with a half-dozen backpacks. Brown asked for help from Saldivar’s board to develop more food drives.

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of us working to help, we have to recognize so many things you can’t control.” Jane recalls her former husband predicting she wouldn’t make it on her own and would “crawl back to him” after they got divorced. “She hasn’t,” says her oldest daughter. “She won’t,” adds Lulu. But despite such determination, things recently have only got more difficult. Jane lost her eight-year job as a nurse in April. While she has an associate’s degree and extensive work experience, she can’t find work. “I apply for jobs, but I don’t get call-backs.” As she talks about having to sell her blood twice a week, Lulu goes unbidden into a bedroom and returns with a tissue box for her mother. Losing her job made May a tough month for the family. When Lulu got $20 for her birthday, “I took us all out to eat at McDonalds,” she says. In June, Jane became eligible for food stamps. For a family of three, she gets $500 a month for food. “Who spends that much money on food?” she marvels. Without the federal government’s support, particularly Medicaid to cover her daughter’s $1,000-a-month medications, “we would be absolutely dead in the water.” Brown’s backpack program is another element in what helps keep Jane’s family afloat. Brown’s ongoing search for collaborators on food drives to keep the backpacks full has been fruitful. The Parley’s 7th Singles Ward of 700 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is doing a two-month food drive in August and September. She’s even found two men to help with bin placement and retrieval, whom she nicknames “the heavies.” In July 2015, after the Boys & Girls Club of Salt Lake and the Greater area announced they were merging, Brown says, the club is taking on new space. The plan is, “they will include a large room for food donations and the staging and building of the weekend backpacks.” That means she and other volunteers will be able to run the program directly out of the club. Department of Corrections’ supervisor Jeremy Shaw says his takeaway from working with Brown is clear: “We need to stop this [weekend food-insecurity], we need to figure out what’s going on, why this is happening, rather than just leaving her out there taking care of it.” Nothing, it seems, will deter Brown. “How, in good conscience, can I walk away from that kind of need, one that is real, legitimate and staring you in your face in your own backyard?” CW

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that will target schools. With the help of corporate sponsors, “starting Sept. 30, schools will receive mobile pantry visits on their playgrounds once a month, during the week,” Bott says. The mobile pantry will allow families to access a greater variety of food to take home. The focus on mobile pantries has meant that the backpacks “have taken a second seat for us,” Bott says. While agencies may be leaving the backpack program behind, Brown works with what she has. “I’m not naïve enough to think I can do it by myself,” she says. “Nor arrogant enough to think I can do it all. I’m feeling my way into this the best I can.”

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Salt Lake City native Nick Pedersen is a mixed-media artists who uses illustration and photography to highlight the intricacies of the world around us. Since breaking onto the scene, he’s exhibited in Los Angeles; Miami; Santa Fe, N.M.; and even in Iceland. Recent achievements include releasing his first book, Sumeru, in 2011, and receiving the Stella Art Award from Digital Arts California in 2013. Now, after many years of intense focus and planning, Pedersen will be releasing a brand new book, titled Ultima. Centered around the theme of environmentalism, the works within the book showcase a postapocolyptic world in which nature has reclaimed places that were human-occupied. Ships are frozen on icy shores where people now hunt for food; city monuments and parks are overrun with greenery in a near deserted cityscape; desert towns are ravaged by war and left to decay as the few souls remaining search for animals. (“Fallen Kingdom” is pictured above.) It’s Fight Club’s Tyler Durden’s vision of the future in artistic detail. The limited-edition hardcover book features all 36 images from the three-part series and will be sold during a one-night exhibition at Copper Palate Press, where the works will be on display. The series itself is one over which to ponder, as Pedersen does his best to show that once we’ve become all but extinct from this planet, nature will pave over our accomplishments, as if we were never here. (Gavin Sheehan) Nick Pedersen: Ultima Exhibition & Book Release @ Copper Palate Press, 160 E. 200 South, No. B, Friday, Aug. 21, 7 p.m., free. Facebook.com/events/496559953844281

A theater manager steps in front of her audience before the start of the play and directs the patrons’ attention to the exits. It’s a gesture familiar to anyone who frequents the theater—and, for Claire Porter, it’s a moment ripe with artistic potential. Porter, a choreographer and comedian, uses her wit, her words and her movement in her touring production, Portables, a constantly revolving repertoire of comedic vignettes that she’s created and adapted over the past 40 years. In “Green Dress Circle,” one of the earliest Portables works, Porter plays a theater manager whose opening words take an absurdist turn as she guides the audience on a spiraling tour from the auditorium to the lobby, neighborhood, distant galaxies and then back again. Her sophisticated humor, say reviewers, is accentuated by the kind of flawless timing and expressiveness that only a dancer knows. This week, Claire Porter performs “Green Dress Circle” and four other Portable vignettes one night only at the Rose Wagner Center—a special guest performance in honor of Repertory Dance Theater’s 50th season. Behind the scenes, Porter is also in town to work with RDT dancers on a piece that makes its world premiere in November during the company’s regular season: Revel. Porter’s performance of Portables will also include “Interview,” about an anxious young college graduate sitting for her first job interview, and so eager to please she dances, bends over backwards and turns upside down, literally; and “Piano” in which an egotistical concert pianist must play it cool when her piano fails to arrive in time for the performance. (Katherine Pioli) Claire Porter: Portables @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Saturday, Aug. 22, 7:30 p.m., $20. RDTUtah.org

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The Living Traditions Festival recently celebrated 30 years of showcasing the diverse cultures that make up the local community. The annual threeday event, produced by the Salt Lake City Art Council and held at Salt Lake City’s Washington Square, highlights more art, craft, dance, food and music from more than 50 different cultures. An exhibit at the Chase Home Museum of Utah Folks Arts in Liberty Park now commemorates the festival’s history. The Chase is worth a visit in its own right as a historical building—built 150 years ago, it is itself an example of folk art. It’s notable as the only museum in the country specifically purposed to house a state-owned collection of contemporary folk art. The museum’s permanent collection includes a wide array of ethnic, folk and occupational folk art. This encompasses works from native peoples in the state, giving a window onto history and culture, as well as a variety of immigrants’ crafts, including everything from Japanese origami to Swedish weaving. This exhibit documents the history of the festival with photographs of artists and other participants throughout the history of the festival, and evidence of dance, music and other crafts that have been highlights of the festival. A number of the artists featured in the show also have work in the museum’s permanent collection. (Brian Staker) Living Traditions Festival exhibit @ Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts, Liberty Park, Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 pm., through Sept. 15. Heritage.Utah.gov

For most listeners, since its debut in 1974, A Prairie Home Companion has—along with shows like Fresh Air and This American Life—become virtually synonymous with public radio. Red Butte Garden’s Outdoor Concert Series continues with a stop from the show’s cross-country America The Beautiful Tour on Tuesday. Host Garrison Keillor leads a touring program highlighting the long-running variety show’s traditional combination of comedy skits and Americana music. Along with Keillor, the tour’s featured acts include folkroots musician Sarah Jarosz (pictured right, with Keillor) and sound-effects artist Fred Newman. With an aesthetic that falls somewhere between Grand Ole Opry and The Lawrence Welk Show, A Prairie Home Companion delivers a distinctive Midwestern sensibility that has remained constant throughout its run. Recurring comedy bits include the pulp-fiction parody character Guy Noir and the segment “News From Lake Wobegon,” which documents daily life in Keillor’s fictional hometown. The show was also the subject of an eponymous 2006 movie that was legendary director Robert Altman’s final film. The tour comes as A Prairie Home Companion prepares for significant changes behind the scenes. Earlier this summer, Keillor announced that he would step down from the program in September 2016. Keillor will still head A Prairie Home Companion’s scheduled 2015-16 season beginning this fall, but before his official retirement, the show plans to have several guest hosting and co-host stints from Keillor’s successor: mandolinist Chris Thile, a member of the musical groups Nickel Creek and Punch Brothers. (Eric Chiu) A Prairie Home Companion: The America the Beautiful Tour @ Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, 801-585-0556, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 7:30 p.m., $54-$59. RedButteGarden.org

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suspect the way that most Americans gain most engaging and immersive exposure to the worlds of fantasy comes not from books, but from role-playing games. Most of those immersive experiences no doubt originated with campaigns of Dungeons & Dragons, a role-playing game created by a group of war-gaming enthusiasts and first released in 1974. Sure, people have immersed themselves in Tolkien’s works and other fantasy stories for generations but, in the past 40-plus years, it’s estimated that more than 20 million people have played D&D. Those 20 million have used the game setting to tell millions of stories, and go on millions of adventures. For those unfamiliar with the game, Dungeons & Dragons is a tabletop role-playing system where one player takes on the role of “Dungeon Master,” orchestrating an adventure for the rest of the players. Each player, in turn, adopts the persona of an individual character, acting as that character. Using a detailed set of rules and many-sided dice, this Dungeon Master describes the world and surroundings and bad guys, and the players offer their creative responses to those situations. It’s imaginative gaming of the highest order; if you’ve ever played with a good group of players, you know it’s more fun than you’d have guessed. With so many people invested in their own characters and stories in this massive shared world (a world that is overseen these days by a company called Wizards of the Coast), it makes sense that film studios would want to make another fantasy movie with brand recognition and franchise opportunities. And Warner Bros. announced recently that all of the lawsuits regarding the rights to make a Dungeons & Dragons feature film have been worked out, and a new movie is coming— which should be good news for everyone. So far, only one D&Dbased movie has been made—and it would probably be better if we forgot it. I only wish I could, though. I was there on opening day in 2000, witnessing the horror for myself. Starring Jeremy Irons, Thora Birch and Marlon Wayans, this movie was about as bad a fantasy as you could get. Based on this film, you would have every right to be suspicious of any upcoming D&D films. But you also have to remember the years during

which that film was made. This Original Dungeons & Dragons (2000) film poster Dungeons & Dragons movie came out a full year before Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. In the past 15 years, we’ve had six films set in Middle Earth, eight in the Harry Potter-verse, a few seasons of Game of Thrones and a handful of other fantasy realms. It’s been a sea-change in how sword-andsorcery stories are filmed, as well as how they’re perceived by general audiences. Modern-audience expectations of a fantasy film will force them to give us a much higher-caliber movie. Since Warner Bros. is the studio that gave us those Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films as well as Harry Potter, it would make sense for us to get excited for this new chapter of film for the most popular fantasy-gaming franchise ever created. We can’t hold the sins of the 2000 film against the potential of a new film. And—maybe, just maybe—those who are fans of good cinema and well-done fantasy films might get a new franchise that has infinite stories to tell. There is a legitimate concern, however, that this film will bomb no matter what they do with it. The chief interest people have in the game is that they’re able to participate in the storytelling. This might be the single most significant obstacle facing movies based on video games, but I think this is a different case. Role-playing gamers love consuming media that will inspire their own games and stories. It doesn’t work that way with video games; you can’t watch a Resident Evil movie and think about how much differently you’re going to craft your next play-through of the game. With Dungeons & Dragons, there’s every chance it could tap into what makes RPGs great in the first place, inspire people to take up imaginary arms with imaginary characters and enter the world of tabletop role-playing. Currently, no release date is set for the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons film. However, if you are so inspired, you can get core rulebooks and/or a starter set for the fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons at game specialty stores and bookstores across the valley. CW Bryan Young is the editor-in-chief of BigShinyRobot.com

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Utah Summer Dance Festival: Desert Rhythms Some art forms are tinged with the exotic, which can add to their appeal, yet can make them less immediately accessible. But Middle Eastern dance and music don’t need to be relegated to some curious corner, and the many local practitioners of these forms want to invite all comers into a chance to learn and experience more. The second annual Utah Summer Dance Festival brings together many of the state’s top professional belly dancers in a showcase of many forms and traditions for a day-long festival. As a special guest for the event, the festival is featuring Grammy-nominated world music performers, Brothers of the Baladi (pictured), who have fused traditional Middle Eastern music and multi-language vocals with a Western sensibility. Come just to be a spectator—and enjoy a variety of vendors selling food, clothing and crafts—or consider taking one of the mini-classes for adults. You can even bring the kids to learn their own rhythms. (Scott Renshaw) Summer Dance Festival: Desert Rhythms @ Viridian Event Center, 8035 S. 1825 West, West Jordan, Aug. 22, 12:30-9 p.m., free, UtahSummerDanceFestival.com

PERFORMANCE THEATER

Affluence Utah Shakespeare Festival New American Playwrights Project, Auditorium Theatre, 300 W. University Blvd., Cedar City, 435-586-7879, Aug. 26, 10 a.m., Bard.org Bridge to Terabithia Brigham’s Playhouse, 25 N. 300 West, Washington, 435-251-8000, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, through Aug. 29, 7 p.m., BrighamsPlayhouse.com Closure Utah Shakespeare Festival New American Playwrights Project, Auditorium Theatre, 300 W. University Blvd., Cedar City, 435-586-7878, Aug. 21, 22 & 28, 10 a.m., Bard.org The Diary of Anne Frank Hale Center Theater Orem, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, 801-226-8600, Monday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Saturday matinee, 3 p.m.; through Sept. 26, HaleTheater.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 Fiddler on the Roof Brigham’s Playhouse, 25 N. 300 West, Washington, 435-251-8000, Wednesday & Friday, 7 p.m., through Aug. 31,; Saturday matinee, 12, 2 p.m., BrighamsPlayhouse.com The Gondoliers Staged Concert featuring Utah Opera Chorus, Sorenson Unity Center, 1383 S. 900 West, 801-953-3250, Aug. 20-22, 7 p.m., SorensonUnityCenter.com Grease’d: Happy Days Are Here Again! Desert Star Theatre, 4861 S. State, Murray, 801-266-2600, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, 7 p.m.; Friday, 7 & 9:30 p.m.; Saturday, 2:30, 6 & 8:30 p.m.; through Aug. 22, DesertStar.biz Guys and Dolls CenterPoint Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, Monday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., through Sept. 5, CenterPointTheatre.org Hairspray Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 S. Washington Blvd., Ogden, 855-944-2787, 7:30 pm, through Sept. 5, ZigArts.com Jurassic Park City Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, Friday, Saturday & Monday, 7:30 p.m., through Sept. 12, TheOBT.org

Oklahoma! Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 801-984-9000, Monday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 12:30 & 4 p.m.; through Oct. 3, HCT.org A Prairie Home Companion:The America the Beautiful Tour Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, 801-585-0556, Aug. 25, 7:30 p.m., RedButteGarden.org (see p. 22) Saturday’s Voyeur Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North, 801-363-7522, through Aug. 30, Wednesday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 1 & 6 p.m.; SaltLakeActingCompany.org Seussical Beverly’s Terrace Plaza Playhouse, 99 E. 4700 South, Ogden, 801-393-0070, Monday, Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m., through Sept. 14, TerracePlayhouse.com Sister Act Tuacahn Center for the Arts, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins, 800-746-9882, through Oct. 15, Tuacahn.org They’re Playing Our Song Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, Park City, 435-649-9371, Aug. 20-22, 8 p.m.; Aug. 23, 6 p.m., EgyptianTheatreCompany.org Utah Shakespeare Festival: Amadeus, Charley’s Aunt, The Comedy of Errors, Dracula, Henry IV Part Two, King Lear, South Pacific, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona 351 W. Center Street, Cedar City, 800-752-9849, through Sept. 5, Bard.org West Side Story St. George Musical Theater, 212 N. Main, St. George, 435-628-8755, Monday, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Aug. 29 matinee, 2 p.m.; through Sept. 18, SGMusicalTheater.com The Wiz Empress Theatre, 9104 W. 2700 South, Magna, 801-347-7373, Aug. 7-29, Monday, Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; EmpressTheatre.com

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Claire Porter: Portables Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Aug. 22, 7:30 p.m., RDTUtah.org

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Special Utah Classical Guitar Society KickOff Concert Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East, Aug. 22, 7:30 p.m., WestminsterCollege.edu

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PERFORMING ARTS Local Theater Production

q Mama [Plan-B Theatre Company] q The Music Man [Pioneer Theatre Company] q Ordinary Days [Utah Repertory Theater Co.]

Local Theater Performance q Camrey Bagley, Mockingbird [Pygmalion Theatre Company] q Brighton Hertford, Ordinary Days [Utah Repertory Theater Co.] q Latoya Rhodes, The Color Purple [Wasatch Theatre Company]

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

Sculpture/Mixed Media Exhibition q Marcee Blackerby [Art Access Gallery] q Liberty Blake [Phillips Gallery] q Jason Manley [CUAC] q Panopticon [Utah Museum of Contemporary Art]

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q Almost Tango [Ballet West] q Nowhere [NOW-ID] q Portal [Repertory Dance Theatre]

q Christo and Jeanne-Claude [Kimball Art Center] q Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art [Utah Museum of Fine Arts] q Body Worlds & The Cycle of Life [The Leonardo]

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q Efrén Corado Garcia [Repertory Dance Theatre] q Ursula Perry [Repertory Dance Theatre] q Bashaun Williams [Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co.]

q Of One Heart, by Doug Fabrizio, Joseph LeBaron & Travis Pitcher q Ram’s Horn, by Jenna Hamzawi q Return With Honor, by Madi Palmer, Ryann Beeler & Lauren Finlinson

q The Devil’s Only Friend, by Dan Wells q Ink and Ashes, by Valynne E. Maetani q The Late Matthew Brown, by Paul Ketzle

Local Author Non-Fiction q Building Zion, by Thomas Carter q Requiem for the Living: A Memoir, by Jeff Metcalf q The Year of Living Virtuously: Weekends Off, by Teresa Jordan

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Heath Harmison Wiseguys Comedy Club, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588, Aug.21-22, 8 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Steve Soelberg Wiseguys Comedy Club, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-463-2909, Aug. 21-22, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Robert Kelly Club 50 West, 50 W. 300 South, Aug. 20-22 7 p.m.; Aug. 22, 9:30 p.m., 50WestSLC.com

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Russ Beck & Chadd Vanzanten: On Fly-Fishing the Northern Rockies The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Aug. 20, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com

SPECIAL EVENTS FARMERS MARKETS

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 Provo Farmers Market Pioneer Park, 500 W. Center St., Provo, Saturday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., through Oct. 31, ProvoFarmersMarket.org 9th West Farmers Market Jordan Park, 1060 S. 900 West, Sunday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., through Oct. 25, 9thWestFarmersMarket.org Park Silly Sunday Market Historic Main Street, Park City, Sunday, 10 a.m., through Sept. 20, 435-655-0994, ParkSillySundayMarket.com 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

FESTIVALS & FAIRS

Magna Main Street Arts Festival Historic Main Street, 8600 W. 2700 South Magna, 801-738-8712, Aug. 22, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Facebook.com/MagnaArts Oktoberfest Snowbird Resord, Highway 210 Little Cottonwood Canyon, 801-933-2222, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6:30 p.m., through Oct. 11, Snowbird.com Box Elder County Fair Box Elder County Fairgrounds, 320 N. 1000 West, Brigham City, Aug. 22-29, BoxElderCounty.org/fair.htm

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

Alla Prima: Acrylic Paintings by Jennifer Seeley Main Library Level 2 Canteena, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Sept. 20, SLCPL.org Andrew Fillmore: Proof Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts, 631 W. North Temple, Reception Aug. 21, 6-9 p.m., through Sept. 13, MestizoArts.org Articles of Clothing Rio Gallery, 300 S. 400 West, 801-245-7272, 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 Chalk on the Sidewalk: Works by Layne Meacham Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Sept. 25, SLCPL.org Faith Hagenhofer: Newland Kimball Art Center Badami Gallery, 638 Park Ave., Park City, 435-649-8882, through Aug. 30, KimballArtCenter.org Flora+Fauna Alice Gallery, 617 S. Temple, 801-2367555, through Sept. 11, Heritage.utah.gov Hyunmee Lee Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South,

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801-364-8284, through Sept.11, Phillips-Gallery.com Illustrating Literature: Drawings by Stephanie Peters Day-Riverside Library, 1575 W. 1000 North, 801-594-8632, through Sept. 20, SLCPL.org Justin Carruth: Depart Broadway Center Cinemas, 111 E. 300 South, 385-215-6768, through Oct. 3, CUArtCenter.org Living Traditions Festival Exhibit Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts, Liberty Park, Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., through Sept. 15, Heritage.Utah.gov (see p. 22) Macie Hamblin and Eugene Tachinni The Green Loft, 2834 South Highland Drive, 801-599-5363, through Sept. 4, Reception Aug. 21, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Memento: Paintings by Mary Sinner A Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, 801-583-4800, through Sept. 11, AGalleryOnline.com Milton Neely: Metal Art, a Natural Inspiration Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-594-8623, through Aug. 27, SLCPL.org Nick Pedersen: Ultima exhibition & Book Release Copper Palate Press, 160 E. 200 South, Aug. 21, 7 p.m. (see p. 22)

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s kids and college students prepare to head back to school, it occurs to me that some of us might benefit from some schooling as well—in the kitchen, that is. I have never been a “natural” cook. I’m not somebody who instinctively knows that this ingredient will play nicely on the plate with that one. Yet, I’ve been told that I’m a pretty good cook. Some folks—whose judgments I seriously question—have even said, “You should open a restaurant.” Over the years, I have learned to cook. But it was with a lot of trial and error and, most importantly, some really good cookbooks. When I first began poking around in the kitchen, the only televised cooking shows were on PBS. And the only celebrity chefs I knew of were The Galloping Gourmet (Graham Kerr), Julia Child, Jacques Pepin and The Frugal Gourmet (Jeff Smith). Batali, Lagasse, Flay, Ray and others wouldn’t come along until years later. So I turned to cookbooks—and still do. However, too many cookbooks are nothing more than a collection of recipes. Not that there’s anything particularly wrong with that; it’s just that they don’t really contribute much in the way of practical technical advice. That is, the nuts and bolts behind good—and great—cooking. Thankfully, you don’t have to go to The Culinary Institute of America or Le Cordon Bleu to learn to cook. With the help of the fine books that follow, you’ll be a top chef in no time. Most of these books aren’t new, and inexpensive secondhand copies are easy to find. The most oil-splattered and tattered cookbook I own is Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home, by Julia Child and Jacques Pepin. It’s a hefty cookbook that you can find used for a few bucks, but it’s priceless. I doubt I’ll ever find a better recipe than the lemon-stuffed roast chicken in Cooking at Home—and, thanks to beautiful step-by-step illustrative photography, I now know how to carve one. This book is stuffed with useful advice from two of the planet’s best cooks. Pepin and Child devote two entire pages, for example, to the topic of steaks and how to pan-fry them. Just as much space is given to making mayonnaise. If I could have only one cookbook in my kitchen, this would be the one. For learning the most basic components of successful cooking, Michael Ruhlman’s book Ruhlman’s Twenty is both innovative and indispensible. The subtitle describes what Ruhlman is up to: 20 Techniques—100 Recipes—A Cook’s Manifesto. Wanna make spectacular scrambled eggs? It helps to understand the main principle of eggs: “Eggs require gentle heat and gradual temperature change.” To make a great vinaigrette, it helps to understand the principles of using

acidity in the kitchen. Roasting, poaching, grilling, braising, frying, sautéing—it’s all here. There is no possible way that you could read this fine, wonderfully photographed book and not become a better cook. I like Ruhlman’s Twenty so much I have both a hard copy in my kitchen and another on my Kindle, so it’s never far from hand. Looking for a professional culinary course without the big tuition price tag? Look no further than The Professional Chef by The Culinary Institute of America (CIA). The great Paul Bocuse—who knows a thing or two about cooking—calls The Professional Chef “the bible for all chefs.” You should know, however, that this is a textbook. Most of the recipes are for large serving quantities, and the sheer volume (1,232 pages) can be intimidating. But if you want to get really serious about cooking and try to step up your skills to a professional level, this book is for you. Or, as Anthony Bourdain says, “This is The Mothership for recipes and basic culinary techniques. Anyone and everyone serious about food and cooking should have one in their kitchen.” When I bought Jacque Pepin’s La Techinique: An Illustrated Guide to the Fundamental Techniques of Cooking many years ago, I didn’t know that he would eventually become my culinary guiding light. There’s no chef I respect more. He’s also just a helluva nice, down-to-earth guy. Anyway, La Technique was the book I turned to when I was trying to impress dinner dates in grad school. Although it does contain recipes, this is not a cookbook per se. It’s really a how-to book about cooking techniques such as how to hold a knife, fillet a fish, turn a tomato into a flower garnish, cook and eat a lobster and so much more, all with step-by-step illustrations. La Technique is a classic book that could turn you into a first rate sous chef—or, at the very least, a really good prep cook. Eric Ripert’s book, On The Line: Inside the World of Le Bernardin, tells you everything you’d ever want or need to know about how a top-notch restaurant kitchen operates, from explaining the stations in a professional kitchen (executive chef, sous-chef, tournant, garde-manger, etc.) and some of the slang you hear in a busy kitchen (“Uptown!” “Downtown!” “Behind!” “Fire!”), to what’s in the Le Bernardin pantry and walkins. Chapters like “The Birth of a New Dish,” “A Night on the Line” and “Food Costs Explained” are enlightening to both the future restaurateur and the curious customer or home cook. For anyone considering a cooking career, I’d strongly advise reading On The Line first. Now, most of these books are fairly dense. If you’re a first-time cook or someone just learning the basics, I’d recommend Essentials of Cooking by James Peterson. It contains 100 essential recipes and the skills and techniques to accomplish them, from how to dress a salad, to cooking risotto and grilling fish. Unlike some of the aforementioned titles, Essentials of Cooking nurtures the amateur cook with solid, practical advice, photographs and recipes to go along with them. I’ll see you back in school! CW

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hanks, in part, to innovations in winemaking technology over the past 20 or so years, you don’t have to spend a fortune to drink good wine or stock a wine cellar. And, perhaps, like me, you don’t have the fortune to do so, even if you wanted to. I’m happy to report that you can buy bottles of very good wine for under $20—in some cases, under $10. Here are a few of my current favorites: Priced at $8.99, Cono Sur Bicicleta Viognier from Chile’s Colchagua Valley is a steal. Tropical-fruit scents emerge upon opening, followed by peach, apricot and nutty flavors. Great with sushi and other Asian cuisines. Crisp acidity and tropical pineapple and passion-fruit flavors burst from a bottle of New Zealand’s Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc ($15.99). This zesty white is one of only a few I’ve found that loves asparagus.

Torrontes from Argentina is almost always a good bang-for-the-buck, and that’s the case with Kaiken Terroir Series Torrontes ($13.99). Lychee, white peach and apricot notes please the palate, and the slightly off-dry sweetness and fruitiness of this Torrontes makes it a nice match with spicy dishes. Another terrific Cono Sur wine is its Cono Sur Bicicleta Chardonnay ($8.99) from Chile’s Valle Central wine region—a well-balanced wine that is aged in stainless steel and shows peachy aromas, bright fruit flavors and solid mineral underpinnings. Established back in 1693, winemaking at South Africa’s Fairview vineyards has a long history. Pinotage is the only grape variety that is authentic to South Africa, and to taste a good one, pick up a bottle of Fairview Pinotage ($13). Dark fruits dominate this subtly oaked Pinotage, followed by clove and cinnamon notes. Drink it with beef and lamb dishes. Made from 100-percent Spanish Tempranillo, Bodegas Bilbainas Viña Zaco ($13.99) pours into the glass looking nearly neon cherry-colored, and with intense aromas of black fruits and anise. It’s a robust, well-rounded wine that pairs well with grilled meats and poultry, and is a nice partner for tapas. With the U.S. dollar getting stronger against the Euro, wines from Europe are

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DRINK becoming a little more affordable. One bargain from France is Château du Juge Bordeaux ($11.99). This pleasant, everyday Bordeaux comes from the right bank of the Garonne River Valley and is remarkably harmonious and wellstructured for the price. I like to drink du Juge with steak frites, but it also pairs well with pasta Bolognese. It’s back to Argentina for one of my favorite value Malbecs: AchavalFerrer Malbec ($19.99). This Malbec sells in Utah for about $5 less than elsewhere, so take advantage of the deal. Founded by winemaker Santiago Achaval and partners, Achaval-Ferrer is known for its old-vine fincas (estates) and for being one of Argentina’s premier winemakers. Achaval-Ferrer is dense and solid-bodied, with black-and-red-fruit flavors and aromas, good minerality and smooth,

silky tannins. It’s a no-brainer to enjoy this wine with grilled or smoked meats. New to Utah stores are wines from Sonoma’s Haraszthy (pronounced “hare-ass-tee”) Family Cellars. One I really enjoy is Haraszthy Old Vine Lodi Zinfandel ($11.99). A Sonoma wine family for six generations, the Haraszthys know a thing or two about Zinfandel. This one is flavor-packed with fruit— raspberry and blackberry, most notably—with a subtle minty finish. It’s a good barbecue wine. Finally, we all need to have a bottle of Port at hand, and Cockburn’s Special Reserve Port ($18.99) is an economical place to start. Cockburn’s celebrates its 200th year of winemaking this year, so toast its birthday with this rich, luscious Special Reserve Port. CW

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It would be quite enough for Bangkok Thai on Main simply to dish up the splendid Thai cuisine it does. But this long-enduring local establishment also tempts customers with one of the state’s finest wine lists, winner of Wine Spectator’s Award of Excellence. So you might, for example, kick off dinner with a lobster-mango spring roll paired with a Gewürztraminer from Londer, and follow that up with tom kha and a St. Supéry Sauvignon Blanc from Napa Valley. Honey-ginger duck calls for Beringer Pinot. For fiery fare, try the spicy mint noodles, the massaman curry, pad ga prow or the gang phed ped along with a Royal Thai rum smoothie to help extinguish the fire (or at least dull the pain). 605 Main, Park City, 435-649-8424, BangkokThaiOnMain.com

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Apple Spice Junction offers box-lunch delivery, corporate catering and deli dining. Sandwich selections feature freshly baked breads, fine meats and cheeses and crisp veggies. Homemade soups, healthy salads and fresh bakery treats round out the box-lunch menu, while breakfast offerings range from pastries and fruit to gourmet eggs and seasoned potatoes. Among the tasty sandwich offerings are turkeyavocado, albacore tuna, egg salad, cashew chicken and roast beef deluxe. Multiple locations, AppleSpice.com

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REVIEW BITES A sampler of Ted Scheffler’s reviews Sáme Sushi

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While the emphasis is definitely on Japanese flavors, South of the Border influences also pop up in chef Fernando Trejo’s food. I like to think of it as MexicAsian cuisine. The décor hasn’t changed in the spot that was formerly home to Dojo, and that’s a good thing; it’s a very modern space, but also very warm and appealing. Sáme Sushi offers both nigiri and sashimi priced at $4.50 for two pieces, which is not bad. The low prices cause me to wonder why the place isn’t packed every night. The location is a bit hidden, but only $13.95 for Kobe beef teriyaki (including miso soup, rice and tempura veggies)? We were really bowled over by the price of the dishes like the Large Sashimi Combination, 15 pieces of sashimi for $18.95. I’ve seen restaurants charge $30 or more for the same quantity of sashimi. A roll named for Trejo himself was by far my favorite: a fiery Mexico-meets-Japan combination of tuna, jalapeño and spring salad with cilantro wrapped in pink-colored rice paper and drizzled with spicy Asian vinaigrette. Hasta la vista, Sáme. We’ll be back. Reviewed Aug. 6. 423 W. 300 South, 801-363-0895, SameSushi.com

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Hidden away inside the Deer Valley Plaza building is a spot that offers an array of specialty foods to take home, plus the café itself. Highlights from the breakfast menu include house-made challah French toast, and a Southwestern breakfast wrap featuring scrambled eggs, black beans, pepper jack cheese, green chilies, heirloom tomatoes, fresh guacamole, spiced spuds and salsa fresca. Lunch runs the gamut from salads, soups and chili to sandwiches, pizzas and a handful of specialties, like the delicious butternut squash and shiitake mushroom enchilada. I’ve largely given up on fish tacos in restaurants, but here they’re made from salmon dusted with rice flour, flash-fried to a crispy crust, and served with grilled scallion-citrus slaw and roasted poblano guacamole, drizzled on warm corn tortillas and sprinkled with pumpkin seeds. I do wish the management would require only customers buying takeout items to pay at the register, and offer full, sit-down table service for customers who are eating in. That register line gets especially crowded on Sunday evenings, for good reason: a special menu with items grilled on the deck, along with live music. Reviewed July 30. 1375 Deer Valley Drive South, Deer Valley Plaza Building, 435-615-2400, DeerValley.com/dining

Ekamai Thai

Both of the two locations—in downtown Salt Lake City and Sugar House—are different, but they’re comfy, friendly spots. At the smaller downtown store, the menu features six menu items that change daily, although some curry standards make the cut every day. My favorite Sugar House appetizer is the chicken larb: minced chicken seasoned with fish sauce, chilies, onion, kaffir lime leaves, garlic and Thai basil or cilantro, served with lettuce leaves for taco-style wraps. It’s good, but not as spicy as I’m used to; in general, the dishes at Ekamai are prepared on the mild side. I’d highly recommend the garlic noodle with tiger prawns; a bowl of yellow curry with chicken, potatoes and carrots, on the other hand, was pedestrian at best. As with many Ekamai dishes, it came with steamed broccoli and shredded carrots on the side. The traditional pad see ew is thick, flat rice noodles stir-fried with egg, baby corn, broccoli and an overdose of carrots in Ekamai’s rich see ew sauce. Somebody in the kitchen needs to cut back on the carrots, but for a taste of Thailand and Thai hospitality, Ekamai should be on your radar. Reviewed July 16. 336 W. 300 South, 801-363-2717; 1405 E. 2100 South, 801-906-0908; EkamaiThai.com

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David Foster Wallace, The End of the Tour and the perils of biographical drama. BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

hat does a biographical dramatic work owe to the real-life people it uses as subjects? If you don’t think movies wrestle with this question all the time, then you weren’t paying attention during awards season last year, when there commenced a great fuming and fussing over portrayals of Lyndon Johnson in Selma, Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, etc., and whether they were historically accurate. Fascinating people may have fascinating lives, but those lives don’t always fit neatly into a 120-page screenplay. Art is art, and we just have to make peace with the fact that sometimes artistic interpretations of real people get messy. Right? James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour collides squarely with that predicament— but it doesn’t look obvious from the outset. Yes, it does deal with real people—specifically, author David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) and journalist David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg)—further complicated by the reality of Wallace’s suicide in 2008. That event frames the movie’s story, as Lipsky hears about Wallace’s death, and begins rummaging through taped interviews from the five days he spent with Wallace in 1996, assigned by Rolling Stone to write a profile of the suddenly celebrated writer as Wallace wrapped up his publicity tour for Infinite Jest. The dynamic between the two Daves begins with more than a hint of Salieri-byway-of-Amadeus. Lipsky in 1996 has just published his own novel, and we see him at a sparsely attended reading before he first reads and is blown away by Infinite Jest. The interview, for Lipsky, becomes an attempt to understand what produces the kind of work he isn’t sure he has within himself. Maybe he thinks the reflected genius of an interview with Wallace will permit him to reach great-

ness; maybe he wants to impress Wallace, or just spend time being impressed by him. But he’s never an objective journalist. He’s already emotionally invested in the outcome. Segel and Eisenberg both capture their interplay beautifully in what is essentially a two-hander built around their conversations. Eisenberg brings a bit of the calculating smarts he showed in The Social Network, alternating between questions that attempt to catch Wallace off guard and moments that show him wanting to be considered a friend. Segel, meanwhile, crafts a version of Wallace who stands out mostly by virtue of his intense desire not to stand out, while also showing his own insecurities in his interactions with Lipsky. As wary as he is of the way Lipsky might try to shape their conversations into his article, Wallace isn’t willing not to be a real person, and Segel conveys that yearning for realness in a way that’s almost never forced or precious. That “almost” is a fairly huge qualifier, however, as Ponsoldt and screenwriter Donald Margulies fall victim to a trap that seems to be part of Lipsky’s own need in that framing narrative: believing that Wallace telegraphed that his suicide was coming. In a scene set just before Lipsky returns to New York City, a dimly lit Wallace stands in the doorway of the guest room, as he tells Lipsky about his darker feelings and that he’s “trying really hard to find a way not to let them drive.” And during their farewell, Wallace responds to Lipsky’s

Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel in The End of the Tour obvious envy with a plaintive, “I’m not so sure you want to be me.” Whether the exchanges actually happened isn’t entirely the point; it’s about what the story becomes once it shifts from a tale of artists sparring over talent and celebrity and respect to a tale of David Foster Wallace the Tortured Artist Who Was Already on the Road to Killing Himself. Perhaps The End of the Tour is playing a subtle game with Lipsky’s own point of view and misplaced guilt, and how we’re always shaping our understanding of people around the way we happened to know them. Still, that angle ends up leaving a strange aftertaste to a largely effective character study. So yes, we’re only seeing one version of a few days in the life of one real man. Maybe The End of the Tour doesn’t owe us anything more; maybe it doesn’t even owe Wallace anything more. But if “authenticity” is part of that version of Wallace this movie is trying to sell, it’s hard not to ask the question. CW

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BBB Jesse Eisenberg Jason Segal Mamie Gummer Rated R

TRY THESE Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (2009) Julianne Nicholson Timothy Hutton Rated R

The Spectacular Now (2013) Miles Teller Shailene Woodley Rated R

Selma (2014) David Oyelowo Tom Wilkinson Rated PG-13

The Imitation Game (2014) Benedict Cumberbatch Keira Knightley Rated PG-13

CINEMA CLIPS NEW THIS WEEK Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change. AMERICAN ULTRA [not yet reviewed] A stoner (Jesse Eisenberg) doesn’t realize he’s been trained as an assassin until the government tries to eliminate him. Opens Aug. 21 at theaters valleywide. (R)

THE END OF THE TOUR BBB See review p. 36. Opens Aug. 21 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE At Tower Theatre, Aug. 21-22 @ 11 p.m. & Aug. 23 @ noon. (PG)

INTERNET CAT VIDEO FESTIVAL At Main Library, Aug. 25, 7 p.m. (NR)

CURRENT RELEASES ANT-MAN BBB We’ve grown accustomed to the apocalyptic stakes of modern blockbusters—and part of what makes this adventure refresh-

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MARGARITA WITH A STRAW At Brewvies, Aug. 20, 7 p.m. (NR) WHITE LIKE ME At Main Library, Aug. 21, 12 p.m. (NR)

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 deep-cover 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 fran-

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HIGH SOCIETY At Main Library, Aug. 26, 2 p.m. (NR)

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. BBB It might be another movie version of an old TV show, and another spy movie, but Guy Ritchie offers a distinctively frisky tone in his Cold War-era story of the reluctant partnership between CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) and KGB agent Ilya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) as they try to prevent neo-Nazis from obtaining nuclear technology. There’s plenty of entertainingly bro-ish sparring between the two agents, which overcomes their respective chewy fake accents, but the real energy comes from Ritchie’s willingness to get playful with both the sound design and visual style of many scenes. That inventiveness makes up for a terrible extended

chase sequence that emphasizes Ritchie’s struggles with choreographing conventional action. The unique climax shows that a familiar genre can still leave us with a grin, rather than the feeling that we’ve been here a hundred times before. (PG-13)—SR

GET HIM TO THE GREEK At Brewvies, Aug. 24, 10 p.m. (R)

IRRATIONAL MAN B.5 Woody Allen continues recycling 40 years worth of thematic material about death, existential philosophy, morality and inappropriate relationships, and it has all grown quite exhausting. Joaquin Phoenix plays Abe, a Kant-spewing philosophy professor who’s wallowing in near-suicidal 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 voice-over 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. (R)—SR

HITMAN: AGENT 47 [not yet reviewed] The latest video-game-inspired exploits of the genetically engineered assassin (Rupert Friend). Opens Aug. 21 at theaters valleywide. (R) SINISTER 2 [not yet reviewed] The demon Bughuul terrorizes another family. Opens Aug. 21 at theaters valleywide. (R)

ing 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

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BEST OF ENEMIES BBB.5 I’d gladly have watched a documentary that consisted of nothing but the lively, sometimes ferocious, often personal “debates” between William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal during the 1968 Republican and Democratic National Conventions. But directors Morgan Neville (Twenty Feet From Stardom) and Robert Gordon provide some wonderfully effective context as well: How ABC News, mired in last place, took a chance on an idea beyond straight news coverage of the conventions; the long history of both philosophical and personal antagonism between Buckley and Vidal; and the parallels in their life stories that made their battles perhaps all the more compelling. Still, the centerpiece moments come in the footage of the arguments themselves, and the filmmakers often wisely stay out of the way to show two masters of language at work attempting to eviscerate one another. Neville and Gordon do occasionally bang a bit too strenuously on the notion that this was the watershed moment that turned American political discourse into polarized shouting matches, but it’s too colorful and entertaining a portrait of that moment—and the fascinating personalities who created it—for it to matter much. Opens Aug. 21 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—Scott Renshaw

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chise can keep rolling. Your move, 007. (PG-13)—SR MR. HOLMES BBB Many Hollywood movies are built around a star playing a popculture character, and there are far worse things than “Sir Ian McKellen as Sherlock Holmes.” This adaptation of a Mitch Cullin novel weaves between three timelines: in 1947, where an increasingly dementiaaffected Holmes lives with his widowed housekeeper (Laura Linney) and her young son; on a trip to Japan to find a folk remedy for his memory lapses; and 30 years earlier, as Holmes takes his final case. The mystery of that case is never particularly fascinating, and director Bill Condon proves simply functional at keeping chronological balls in the air. Mostly, it’s about the pleasure of watching McKellen’s performance, subtly affecting at conveying a man famed for his dazzling mind trying to cope with its deterioration. A sometimes over-plotted story works even if it’s mostly about that one casting pitch. (PG-13)—SR ONCE I WAS A BEEHIVE BBB.5 “Faith-based” cinema is so regularly disastrous that it’s almost startling when someone gets it right. Writer/director Maclain Nelson tells the story of Lane (Paris Warner), a 16-year-old girl still mourning the death of her father when her mother remarries into a Mormon family, and Lane reluctantly spends a week on a Young Women’s camping trip. Considering how many potential traps Nelson has to navigate—a young cast, mixing grief-based drama with broad comedy—it’s impressive how few missteps he makes. But mostly, he introduces religious elements delicately, combining a good-natured skewering of Mormon culture with genuine respect for a girl still not sure if she’s ready to believe. While the pacing gets sluggish as the two-hour story slightly overstays its welcome, it’s hard not to smile at a movie that respects faith for its power to comfort, heal and unite. (PG)—SR

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STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON BBB The rise and fall and rise of Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins), Eazy-E (Jason Mitchell) and Ice Cube (O’Shea Jackson Jr.) as they face adversity, unscrupulous managers and the terrifying wrath of Suge Knight, the rags-to-riches portion of this raucous, unexpectedly funny crowdpleaser is a blast, culminating with the band’s decision to directly provoke noticeably unamused cops in a crowded auditorium. Once N.W.A. hits the top, however, standard flat biopic re-creations unfortunately begin to stack up, compounded by the self-serving dangers of having the surviving subjects produce the movie. Still, that first hour is really something to see, as director F. Gary Gray and his terrific cast (Jackson Jr. does a spookily credible imitation of his actual father) successfully re-create the pressures, excesses and sheer rocketing force that pinned so many unsuspecting ears back, back in the day. (R)—Andrew Wright

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Series Debut: Relax, it’s not a real documentary series—IFC doesn’t do that anymore. The former Independent Film Channel is now in the Irregularly Funny Comedy business, and Documentary Now! (the exclamation point should’ve been a giveaway) is a faux-doc series from Portlandia and Saturday Night Live folks (Fred Armisen, Seth Meyers and Bill Hader), lent some seriously confusing cred by host Helen Mirren(!). As with Portlandia and SNL, the half-hour eps fluctuate between killer (a profile of a hapless ’70s rock band; onlocation with a Vice-like news program) and filler (Armisen and Hader in old-lady drag), but at least Documentary Now! is only six episodes long (unlike the fictional DN! series, all 50 seasons of which are available in a 294-disc box set—order yours today!).

The Unauthorized Full House Story Saturday, Aug. 22 (Lifetime)

Movie: The Only TV Column That Matters™ has never understood the fascination with Full House, a half-assed sitcom from the Golden Age of the Half-Assed Sitcom (late ’80s-early ’90s). Every half-hour comedy of the time—and

Fear the Walking Dead Sunday, Aug. 23 (AMC)

Series Debut: It’s not like Fear the Walking Dead will have any trouble snagging The Walking Dead’s audience—all 16 million of them. The series is undoubtedly going to debut big, but, before we get Run the Hell Away From the Walking Dead and The Walking Dead: Miami, the Los Angelesset Fear the Walking Dead has to, well, not suck. Which it doesn’t, but FTWD only has six episodes to introduce new characters and set up a pre-“walker” world (in the early stages of the Z-apocalypse, they’re few, still fresh and referred to as “the infected”). We know what’s ahead, but these Angelinos are delusionally optimistic that the outbreak will be contained and don’t know to not let the in-

Fear the Walking Dead (AMC) fected get right up in their faces (far scarier here than in the well-aware environs of The Walking Dead). Fear the Walking Dead has all the potential of the original … as long as there are no farms in the area.

From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series Tuesday, Aug. 25 (El Rey)

Season Premiere: Never heard of the El Rey Network? Had no idea there was TV series based on the classic Mexi-vampire flick? [Facepalm] Anyway. From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series was Robert Rodriguez’s first original series to debut on El Rey (also his network) in 2014, a blown-out, 10-episode expansion of his 1997 movie, with new Gecko Brothers (D.J. Cotrona and Zane Holtz), a new Santánico (Eiza Gonzalez), a new scary-ass adversary (Wilmer Valderrama—yes, really), and an ending that set up a whole new chapter for Season 2 (like Rodriguez was going to cancel his own show on his own network). Check out Season 1 on the on-demand platform of your choice, then come back for Season 2—trust me, it’s worth it. CW Listen to Bill on Mondays at 8 a.m. on X96 Radio From Hell; weekly on the TV Tan podcast via iTunes and Stitcher.

Series Debut: Starz used to be a premium-cable joke, but the network has been on a creative roll lately: Outlander, Black Sails, Power, the upcoming Ash vs. Evil Dead—hell, even Survivor’s Remorse (which returns for Season 2 tonight) is a better sports dramedy than HBO’s Ballers. The new Blunt Talk could be Starz’s most blatant grab for buzz yet; a raunchy comedy starring Patrick Stewart (yes, that Patrick Stewart) as British newsman Walter Blunt, recently transplanted to Los Angeles to shake up cable news and set ‘Merica straight—if his appetite for booze, drugs and women don’t kill him first. Stewart tears into this Newsroom-via-Californication role like he’s been waiting forever to play a reckless hedonist, and creator/producer Jonathan Ames (HBO’s late, great Bored to Death) gives him plenty of comic room to roam. If American Dad didn’t kill off Capt. Picard, Blunt Talk will.

there were hundreds of them—was a loud, indistinguishable, laugh-tracked abomination made up of cheap sets, lazy punchlines and, blech, children. But somehow, Full House has always stood out from the rest—so much so that a Fuller House reboot is coming to Netflix next year, which would give John Stamos two concurrent TV shows (the other being Fox’s new fall series Grandfathered). There is no universe in which John freakin’ Stamos should have two series. Just kidding: Grandfathered will be long-canceled by then. Oh, The Unauthorized Full House Story? It’s terrible, but you already knew that.

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Itinerant songwriter Gina Jones is a living country song. BY TIFFANY FRANDSEN tfrandsen@cityweekly.net @tiffany_mf

fter decades as an itinerant musician, “organic, outlaw singer” Gina Jones is settling in Salt Lake City. “My dad was kind of like a gypsy and wanted to move around a lot,” Jones says. Her family moved to the sticks outside Branson, MO.— “there’s not really a city there. Steelville is the closest city.” There, the family band of five kids, age 9 to 15, started, singing covers. Their father managed the band; their mother traveled with them. Living so deep in the Missouri backcountry meant spending a lot of time traveling to gigs. Jones’ father bought a bus and asked his youngest daughter what color it should be. “I said I wanted it green, like a frog.” He complied, adding the band’s name: Ozark Rhythm Aires. Only 9 at the time, Jones and her not-mucholder siblings had to get permits to play in bars. And even then, they had to be onstage playing—or outside. Her first performance was at Buck Cody’s Jamboree in Marceline, Mo., in front of 1,000 people. When Jones’ siblings started to play, she froze. Cody stood next to Jones and prompted her: “He said, ‘You can start singing, little Miss Gina.’ And I opened my mouth and let it fly.” Jones says traveling “formed who I am.” After Missouri, when Jones was 12, the family moved to Idaho. She and her brother, Stan Barnhart, continued to play music and signed a record deal, but the label went bankrupt before they could record. At 16, Jones married and played only weekend shows. When she divorced at 19, she hit the road solo. “I didn’t know how to do anything else.” Landing in Nashville, Jones found some success as a songwriter. The Peach State Quartet recorded her song “Right On Time, God” and it hit No. 86 on the Top 100 Southern Gospel Chart. A partnership with Barry Paul Jackson (Sammy Kershaw’s “We Didn’t Go Near the Water”), yielded 15 published songs. Tanya Tucker and Lorrie Morgan put two of Jones’ songs on hold, perhaps indefinitely, Jones says, because “the publisher passed away.” And she gigged, moving from venue to venue on Music Row, sometimes playing three shows in a day, she opened for 38 Opry stars, including Porter Wagoner and Merle Haggard, survivingon tips and CD sales. Eventually, Jones met her mentor, late Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer Harlan Howard—writer of more than 40 No.1 songs, including Patsy Cline’s “I Fall to Pieces.” When Howard introduced himself, he was appalled Jones didn’t recognize him, saying he’d written some of the best songs in the town. She told him, “That’s what everybody [in Nashville] says.” He encouraged Jones not to be so personal in her music and helped rein in some of her more raw, intimate tracks. But now, she is back to telling her stories, however tragic. “It causes you to face that situation more, and heal from it,” she says. One of her newer songs, “I’m Lost,” is written for her niece Jill, with whom Jones had a close relationship. “She was murdered by her boyfriend. He shot her in the back of the head and only got 15 years for it.” Jones’ sister—Jill’s grieving mother—came to Jones with a poem, and “I wrote the song in maybe 10-15 minutes.” It’s a difficult song for her to perform, “but I feel like I’m doing a tribute to her.” “I’m Lost”

hasn’t been recorded Calling the Salt Lake area yet, but Jones plans to home (for now): Gina Jones include it as the single from her next album, which she expects to release sometime next year. Her current CD, You’re Not the Only Heart in Town is available on Amazon, iTunes, CDBaby.com and streams on many music services. Jones arrived in Salt Lake City less than two weeks ago, and she’s already performed at Park City pub Molly Blooms; she’s talking with them about her own Sunday residency in/through September called “Nashville Unplugged 2.” The event will be an in-the-round/improv songwriters’ night modeled after similar events in Las Vegas and Reno, Nev. While she intends to stay in Salt Lake City for a while, Jones says she’ll have to travel “a little bit.” That will include jaunts into Nevada and Studio City, Calif., where she occasionally performs at the weekly “Songwriter Sundays” at the Fox and Hounds. “I’ve kind of lived a country song,” Jones says. “I did the tour bus thing, I wrote songs, I really paid my dues there [in Nashville].” She says her divorce wasn’t her first, and she’s had health issues, but “I keep doing what I know is my calling. … I’m a seed-planter, so there will never be a time when I’m not telling a story or planting a seed in someone’s heart.” CW

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Summer Cannibals frontwoman Jessica Boudreaux found rock & roll, and she’s gonna eat the whole thing. BY RANDY HARWARD rharward@cityweekly.net

our clicks of drumsticks. Bass and drums, pumping insistently, followed by a nasty, fuzzy guitar riff. The actual video part of the YouTube video didn’t matter. Not when you have texts to return. This was just an exploratory listen to see if Portland band Summer Cannibals warranted a measly concert preview blurb. But those clicks, that rhythm, that fuzz. Look up in time to see singer-guitarist Jessica Boudreaux sing, “What do you do when you just don’t know?/ What was real and what was just show?” To her right, guitarist Marc Swart shakes his head to the beat. At Boudreaux’s left, bass player Jenny Logan bounces. To the rear, drummer Devon Shirley propels the tune on his spare Slingerland kit. Boudreaux plays it cool—or tries to. A smile flickers here and there until the chorus—“I’ve been lookin’ for somethin’ new/ to keep my head busy while I get over you.” She takes a wider stance and wrings a super-fuzzed solo out of red Fender Mustang. After repeating this, she’s all smiles, rocking out like her bandmates. So are you, almost stupidly. It’s great. The song is “Something New,” from Summer Cannibals’ second album Show Us Your Mind (New Moss). Reached while practicing for the band’s upcoming tour, City Weekly asked Boudreaux to relate a similar experience, an instance where she got caught up in a rock & roll song like that. “Oh, gosh,” she says. “I always hate when people ask me that. My childhood memories of music are N’Sync, Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys.” Music wasn’t big in her household, Boudreaux explains. Her parents weren’t into music. Not because it’s of the devil; they just didn’t listen to it. “But when I started playing, my parents loved it. They come to every show we play [in Portland, Ore.]. My mom says it makes her feel like she’s young again. It’s pretty cool.” Boudreaux says she started listening to rock & roll in high school, probably age 15,

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but “only a couple of bands.” One of those bands was The Thermals, from her hometown, who are now friends and fans. But when Boudreaux became a musician, she played electronic music and pop. One day, though, she was “over it,” realizing, “If it wasn’t my band, I would never listen to that.” When Swart won passes to a local music festival, Boudreaux happened to see allaround rock wizard Ty Segall play. “I had a moment,” she says. “I thought, Why am I not doing that every day of my life?” She started listening to punk rockers Wipers, postpunks Mission of Burma and “lots” of Black Sabbath. “I’ve been playing catch-up,” she says. “But the fact that it’s all new to me makes it more exciting.” It’s astonishing, hearing that Boudreaux is such a rock & roll neophyte. Listening to Show Us Your Mind, you think you know the contents of Boudreaux’s record collection. That particular fuzz must come from a steady diet of garage and surf rock from labels like Estrus, Dionysus and Get Hip. Album closer “TV” does loud-quiet-loud so well that she must own the Pixies catalog. Nope. “People always assumed I’m a big Breeders (Kim Deal’s post-Pixies band) fan, but I wasn’t until those comparisons.” Now that she is a bona fide rock fan—and rocker—Boudreaux and her bandmates are doing it right. Summer Cannibals recorded Show with recording engineer Larry Crane [Sleater-Kinney, Elliott Smith], who’s also the publisher of the respected music production publication Tape Op. And her priorities are definitely in order. “I’m all about the live show,” she says. “That’s what I connect with. I love people who perform and have fun and let loose. There’s really nothing like a rock show. And good guitar tones. I keep fuzz on my guitar at all times, and I turn on a second fuzz pedal when I’m soloing. “Maybe it’s not the coolest thing that I wasn’t into rock music my whole life, but I’m pretty stoked that I found it.” CW

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The lineup for this three-day, Aug. 21-23 festival, put on by Ogden Friends of Acoustic Music, is no joke. Mississippi bluesman James “Super Chikan” Johnson will be there playing his trademark cigar-box guitars. Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band (a three-piece, actually) is bringing vintage National, Resonator and Gibson guitars—and a washboard. Floridian blues-rock trio Swamp Cabbage will lay down their humid blues and odd covers like their hicked-up version of Isaac Hayes’ “Theme from Shaft.” All that, plus sultry blues crooner Janiva Magness, roots-rockin’ singer-songwriter Eilen Jewel— and our own local sax master Joe McQueen is gonna prove that, even when you’re nearly 100 years old, you can still blow like a champ.

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Nekrogoblikon, Crimson Shadows, The Manx

Are you one of the 4 million-plus people who’ve seen Nekrogoblikon’s video for “No One Survives?” It made the Los Angeles-based, goblin-fronted, melodic death-metal band famous, and for good reason. Sure, they’re gimmicky. Their singer—John Goblikon—is dressed in a full-body prosthetic, which is very metal. But sometimes he wears business-casual attire over it because, get this, he’s an accountant—at least in that video, and the follow-up, hilariously titled, “We Need a Gimmick,” from Heavy Meta (Mystery Box), the band’s third full-length. And

Epic Rap Battles of History they would be exactly that, pure gimmickry, if they couldn’t play or write. But this is one technical band, precise like an accountant at a Big Six firm—and also musically creative. Their brand of melodic death metal incorporates EDM (and even, I think, a banjo!) with nary a seam. Wait … is precision a gimmick? (RH) Music Garage Live, 250 W. 1300 South, 6 p.m., $20, MusicGarage-Live.com

SUNDAY 8.23 Pimps of Joytime

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Since 2010, Peter “Nice Peter” Shukoff and Lloyd “EpicLLOYD” Ahlquist have been pitting figures from history and pop culture against one another with Epic Rap Battles of History, their immensely popular YouTube channel. Boasting more than 12 million subscribers, and averaging 30 million views per episode, Shukoff and Ahlquist have orchestrated hip-hop fisticuffs between cultural icons such as Rasputin vs. Stalin, Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates and Rick Grimes vs. Walter White. By definition, musical parodists are not to be taken seriously, but the pair’s meticulously crafted wordplay flows easily while nailing the nuances of comedic timing. In addition to performing some of their more popular ERB bits, the duo’s live show relies heavily on elements of improv comedy as well as audience participation—perfect for the venue’s intimate environs. (AS) Kilby Court, 741 S. 330 West, 7 p.m., $25, KilbyCourt.com

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Michael Jackson and Madonna are odd company for a parody artist, but they share membership in an exclusive club with Weird Al Yankovic: They’re the only artists to score Top 10 songs in four separate decades. Indeed, when Weird Al wrote his first parody “My Bologna” (his take on The Knack’s “My Sharona”) in 1979, who would have guessed that his career would outlast the original artists’? But it did, and almost 40 years later, Weird Al is riding the coattails of his first No. 1 album, 2014’s Mandatory Fun (RCA). New material, including parodies of Imagine Dragon’s “Radioactive” (“Inactive”)

and Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” (“Tacky”) as well as old classics (“Eat It” and “White and Nerdy”) will be performed live in various costumes. Expect him to close out his set dressed as a Jedi, crooning Star Wars parodies. And don’t expect him to slow down— the force is particularly strong with him. (RP) Sandy Amphitheater, 1245 E. 9400 South, 8 p.m., $29-$54, SandyArts. com/Sandy-Amphitheater

WEDNESDAY 8.26 Failure, The New Regime

The ‘90s revival continues with the reunion of a band responsible for one of the most popular, yet most square-peg-in-round-hole sounds of the decade. Failure’s last album Fantastic Planet (Slash, 1996) was antigrunge without quite the subtlety of indie acts like ironicker-than-thou Pavement. A thinking-person’s Foo Fighters? Maybe. The sci-fi artwork of the disc belied themes of space rock as metaphors for drugs? Sex? All the popular vices of the decade? It’s memorable enough to be set for reissue on vinyl later this year. The band’s new album, The Heart Is a Monster (INgrooves Music Group), was released June 30, and it is a monster, at times lumbering, at others breathless. Opener The New Regime is the nom de tune of Nine Inch Nails/Lostprophets drummer Ilan Rubin. (BS) In the Venue, 219 S. 600 West, 6 p.m., $25 plus fees. InTheVenueSLC.com.

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Listen to Black ’N Blue and your brain summons images of sunny beaches and the phantom scent of cocoa butter. (Yet they’re from rainy ol’ Portland, Ore. Go figure.) The big choruses and happy, trebly power chords on songs like “Nature of the Beach” and “Miss Mystery” are bodacious and infectious—a whole lot of fun. So are balls-out rockers like “Autoblast,” from their self-titled 1984 debut, which fans consider their magnum opus. Nearly 30 years later, they’ve released Hell Yeah (Frontiers), a return to first-album form. It’s raw like AC/DC, and Jaime St. James’ voice is lower and grittier, but after checking out recent performances on YouTube, these guys still sound great. (Randy Harward) Liquid Joe’s, 1249 E. 3300 South, doors at 7 p.m., $15 advance/$20 day of show, LiquidJoes.net

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Advent Horizon, The Mercury Tree (Fats Grill) Coal Chamber, Fear Factory, Devil You Know, Madlife, Saint Ridley (The Complex) Huey Mack, Futuristic (In the Venue) Joe Bonamassa (Usana Amphitheatre) Justin Townes Earle (O.P. Rockwell) Kytami, Phonik Ops, Jay Tablet (Downstairs Park City) Lullwater (Metro Bar) Marcus Bently (Hog Wallow Pub) Mimi Knowles, Static Waves, VanLadyLove (The Urban Lounge) Mojave Nomads, Vinyl Tapestries, The Howl, Stereotype Inc (Velour) Mutoid Man, Who Throne, He Whose Ox is Gored (Liquid Joes) Paramount (The Complex)

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Ogden Roots & Blues Festival (Cutler Flats, see p. 44) Quinn Brown Band (Brewskis) Roots Like Mountains, Anchors Overboard, The Glass House, Allies Always Lie (The Loading Dock) Shiba San, Devareaux, TypeFunk, Bello (The Urban Lounge) Slipknot, Lamb of God, Bullet For My Valentine, Motionless in White (Usana Amphitheatre) Speak Uneasy, Jail City Rockets, Nods (The Woodshed) The Strike, Static Waves (Velour) Teresa Eggertsen (Snowbird Resort) Wilson Harris Band (The Westerner)

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble,” said psychologist Carl Jung. “They can never be solved, but only outgrown.” I subscribe to that model of dealing with dilemmas, and I hope you will consider it, too—especially in light of the fact that from now until July 2016 you will have more power than ever before to outgrow two of your biggest problems. I don’t guarantee that you will transcend them completely, but I’m confident you can render them at least 60 percent less pressing, less imposing, and less restricting. And 80 percent is quite possible.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Hundreds of years ago, Hawaiians celebrated an annual holiday called Makahiki. It began in early November and lasted four months. No one worked very much for the duration. There were nonstop feasts and games and religious ceremonies. Communitybuilding was a featured theme, and one taboo was strictly enforced: no war or bloodshed. I encourage you Scorpios to enjoy a similar break from your daily fuss. Now is an especially propitious time to ban conflict, contempt, revenge, and sabotage as you cultivate solidarity in the groups that are important for your future. You may not be able to make your own personal Makahiki GEMINI (May 21-June 20) The ancient Greek epic poem the Iliad is one of the foundation last for four months, but could you at least manage three weeks? works of Western literature. Written in the eighth century BCE, it tells the story of the 10-year-long Trojan War. The cause of the SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) conflict was the kidnap of Helen of Troy, reputed to be the world’s Located in Ann Arbor, Mich., the Museum of Failed Products is most beautiful woman. And yet nowhere in the Iliad is there a a warehouse full of consumer goods that companies created but description of Helen’s beauty. We hear no details about why she no one wanted to buy. It includes caffeinated beer, yogurt shamdeserves to be at the center of the legendary saga. Don’t be like poo, fortune cookies for dogs, and breath mints that resemble the Iliad in the coming weeks, Gemini. Know everything you can vials of crack cocaine. The most frequent visitors to the museum about the goal at the center of your life. Be very clear and specific are executives seeking to educate themselves about what errors and precise about what you’re fighting for and working towards. to avoid in their own companies’ future product development. I encourage you to be inspired by this place, Sagittarius. Take an inventory of the wrong turns you’ve made in the past. Use what CANCER (June 21-July 22) The comedian puppets known as the Muppets have made eight you learn to create a revised master plan. movies. In The Great Muppet Caper, the Muppets Kermit and Fozzie play brothers, even though one is a green frog and the CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) other a brown bear. At one point in the story, we see a photo of “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a their father, who has the coloring and eyes of Kermit, but a bear- different result.” Virtually all of us have been guilty of embodylike face. I bring up their unexpected relationship, Cancerian, ing that well-worn adage. And according to my analysis of the because I suspect that a similar anomaly might be coming your astrological omens, quite a few of you Capricorns are currently way: a bond with a seemingly improbable ally. To prepare, stretch embroiled in this behavior pattern. But I am happy to report that your ideas about what influences you might want to connect with. the coming weeks will be a favorable time to quit your insanity cold turkey. In fact, the actions you take to escape this bad habit could empower you to be done with it forever. Are you ready to LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) English author Barbara Cartland published her first novel at age make a heroic effort? Here’s a good way to begin: Undo your 21. By the time she died 77 years later, she had written more perverse attraction to the stressful provocation that has such a than 700 other books. Some sources say she sold 750 million seductive hold on your imagination. copies, while others put the estimate at two billion. In 1983 alone, she churned out 23 novels. I foresee a Barbara Cartland- AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) type period for you in the coming months, Leo. Between now “Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it,” confessed and your birthday in 2016, I expect you to be as fruitful in your the late, great author David Foster Wallace. Does that describe own field as you have ever been. And here’s the weird thing: One your experience, too? If so, events in the coming months will of the secrets of your productivity will be an enhanced ability to help you break the pattern. More than at any other time in the past 10 years, you will have the power to liberate yourself chill out. “Relaxed intensity” will be your calming battle cry. through surrender. You will understand how to release yourself from overwrought attachment through love and grace rather VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ‘‘On or about December 1910, human character changed,’’ wrote than through stress and force. English author Virginia Woolf in 1924. What prompted her to draw that conclusion? 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