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LETTERS McDonalds’ Vitriolic Hate

It seems every week I open the Letters section of the City Weekly, there’s yet another rant by Stuart McDonald. Whether the issue is or isn’t caused by the LDS Church, we can be sure McDonald’s words are fueled by hate. In last week’s issue, he blamed Mormon Republicans obeying the LDS Church for not expanding Medicaid [“Medicaid Insanity,” Letters, Aug. 27]. McDonald thinks the church is against expansion because it wants control as to who gets health benefits in Utah. McDonald then goes on to call church leaders “monsters.” This is ludicrous on several fronts: First, in thinking the church wants to control everyone’s access to health care— which is funny, because the Republicans think President Obama is the one who wants control. Second, when Gov. Gary Herbert, who is Mormon, announced his plan to expand Medicaid, the presiding bishop of the church was in attendance. A few days later, the Deseret News—which, as McDonald often says, is the “rag” of the LDS Church—came out in support of the governor’s plan. Third, maybe, just maybe, the Republican-controlled Legislature doesn’t want to expand Medicaid for the same reasons 19 other Republican-controlled states—including Wisconsin, Florida, Wyoming, South Dakota and Texas— haven’t expanded Medicaid. The Legislature only listens to the LDS Church when it is convenient. The recent prison move shows politicians actually

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. worship money and are lap dogs of lobbyists. McDonald’s vitriol only hurts, not helps. He is not attacking the real problem while at the same time, alienating people. Keep McDonald’s hate and bigotry out of the City Weekly. If I wanted to read this, I’d read the Tribune’s comment section or Westboro Baptist Church’s propaganda.

BRYAN WHITE South Jordan

Monster-Mongering by McDonald

Regular readers of City Weekly and other local newspapers are no strangers to Stuart McDonald’s open disdain for all things and people LDS. His latest rant, [“Medicaid Insanity,” Aug. 27, Letters, City Weekly] comes as no particular surprise. But his accusations of efforts on the part of LDS Church leaders to oppose Medicaid expansion under the ACA is simply ludicrous, blatantly false and slanderous. McDonald further alleges the same church leaders are “monsters” whose purported refusal to support Medicaid expansion has apparently caused “suffering and death” to unnamed victims who otherwise would presumably have received Medicaid-covered services. Freedom of speech is a wonderful thing. But as the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, “everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” When accusations this serious are presented absent any corroborating facts, it serves no purpose other than perpetuating the all too common ani-

mosity between believer and non-believer and provides no positive contribution to rational public discourse. Controlling monsters that have caused suffering and death? Hardly. These so-called monsters have established and provided humanitarian services around the world, including lifesustaining food and clean water, immunizations, maternal and newborn care, vision care, wheelchairs, disaster relief, emergency response, and much more. Millions of people in well over 100 countries have benefitted from these services. Those are facts, the accuracy of which is easily confirmed. The free and open exchange of ideas and opinions is a welcome and necessary part of a democratic society, except when that discourse is also free of truth and facts.

ALAN HUGHES Orem Correction: Richard Mack was Sheriff in Graham County, Ariz. City Weekly’s Aug. 27 news story “Armed Resistance” stated an incorrect county.

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OPINION

Problem Not Solved

“We are 90 percent of the way with the housingfirst model toward eliminating homelessness for our chronically homeless in this city. It is an incredible national achievement that is recognized every day.” —Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker, at the Poverty Summit, Aug. 29, 2015

t several Salt Lake City mayoral debates (at which I was present, as a former mayoral candidate), Mayor Ralph Becker touted the fact that Salt Lake City had received national recognition for its efforts to stem chronic homelessness, reporting that homelessness had dropped more than 90 percent over the past decade under Utah’s Housing First initiative. Yet most who live, work or visit downtown would say certain parts have developed an increasingly bad reputation as a drug- and crime-ridden neighborhoods, even causing some downtown visitors to be concerned for their personal safety. Even many of the homeless are afraid of areas near the homeless shelters and have moved away. New homeless youth are targeted for victimization in the area. Those who do care about and immerse themselves in efforts to clean up the problem spots often recoil at the troubled conditions. Those of us who opposed Mayor Becker challenged him on the homelessness and drug issues that go on near the Rio Grande. In July, during an overhaul of the law-enforcement efforts, Salt Lake City ramped up the police presence in the area. It appeared to have decreased the more obvious drugdealing next to the Road Home homeless shelter. The city also put in extra fencing to separate the children’s play area from the sidewalk drug dealing. The city deserves credit for finally realizing, after seven years, this is an issue that

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deserves more attention. However, Becker refused to hire more police and add permanent walking patrols in the afflicted areas until the City Council ordered more police. The Salt Lake City Police Department also announced, under the direction of the administration, that police would ticket and enforce quality-of-life ordinances, such as loitering and public intoxication. Ticketing the homeless, who then end up with dozens of tickets, only increases hopelessness and encourages homelessness. The police stated that they recovered 160 shopping carts while providing users with a recently opened 8 a.m.-to-5 p.m. storage facility. But is it working? The homeless may simply move, with their shopping carts, to other parts of the city. At the Poverty Summit held Aug. 29 at St. Mark’s Cathedral, Mayor Becker again boasted about the Housing Firstmodel that he said has helped nearly to eliminate chronic homelessness in this city. But the Road Home executive director, Matt Minkevitch, told a different story in his opening remarks. Salt Lake City, he said, still needs nearly 8,000 housing units to really solve the issue. Solutions to homelessness should include a multi-pronged approach that combines hiring more police and social workers, getting people the medical help they need and getting people off the streets. Here’s how I would address the problem head-on: n The quickest way to restore the areas of concern to a safe, inviting and developable neighborhood is to provide more overtime funding for police. We need to permanently increase the number of police in walking patrols throughout the area and in other parts of the city as well, including along North Temple. n Development of more affordable dwelling units must be encouraged.

Unfortunately, the only low-income apartments being built now are through the Utah Housing & Community Development tax-credits system. Tamera Kohler, with Housing & Community Development, and Claudia O’Grady, with Utah Housing Corporation, indicated they provide only between 700 and 1,000 low-income-housing units through their services each year. n Salt Lake City could convert several of its vacant buildings in affected areas to provide a safe environment for 24-hour storage individual sleeping facilities and supervised, inviting day centers that encourage the homeless to come in off of the sidewalks. n As the Road Home is filled beyond capacity, and minor infractions could result in a person being kicked out for 30 days or more, the city should open an expansion facility now. If the homeless stay outside, they develop relationships with their homeless “family,” who only encourage staying homeless. n Healthy Utah or some form of Medicaid expansion is needed to fund treatment of the mentally ill and those struggling withdrug and alcohol addiction, conditions that are endemic in the homeless population downtown. Salt Lake City should encourage the Legislature to pass a Medicaid-expansion program to help address the issue. n We should not accept, nor ignore, people living on sidewalks. It is outrageous that people have to sleep on sidewalks. We don’t need more studies, commissions or metrics, and we need to stop saying the homelessness situation is getting better. And Mayor Becker should stop saying that we have chronic homelessness 90-percent solved. CW

WE NEED TO STOP SAYING THE HOMELESSNESS SITUATION IS GETTING BETTER.

George Chapman was a candidate in the Salt Lake City mayor’s race in the August 2015 primary. Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net.

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Is the problem of Salt Lake City’s chronic homelessness 90-percent solved, as some leaders say? Jeremiah Smith: We should wait until

this winter to make any judgments on homelessness. It’s easy to say things are looking up when it almost never dropped below freezing this year.

Mason Rodrickc: No chance. I don’t know the answer but, the revolving door around mental health and the homeless has to be adjusted. It’s everyone’s responsibility. Tax money needs to go to chronic homelessness, the shelters and the programs.

Jeff Chipian: Solved? Walk down Main Street and tell me it’s solved.

Tiffany Frandsen: I’d love to learn how that percentage was calculated. It’s hard to pin down exactly how “solved” any problem could be when it’s difficult to collect specific-enough data. There appear to be a lot of noble ongoing efforts and I’d feel safe saying that, to activists and the city’s credit, there have been tremendous improvements, but 90 percent is steep. If it somehow reached 90, that’s not 100. Even at the most optimistic, we’re not done.

Brandon Burt: The mayor’s office has been making a big deal out of putting all those shopping carts safely back into the cart corrals where they belong. If we could spend as much effort trying to put people in safe living spaces, we might get somewhere.

Jerre Wroble: Leaving work late at night, I often see three men sleeping on the sidewalk in front of the Wells Fargo building. They are less-hassled on Main Street than they would be at the shelter. Not solved.

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This Land Is My Land

Meanwhile, the Legislature’s attempt to save San Juan Commissioner Phil Lyman from further legal woes proceeds with gusto—if you can understand it. After debating the Federal Quiet Title Act and the statute of repose vs. the statute of limitations, Sen. Lyle Hillyard, R-Logan, summed it up nicely: “I think it’s very clear, the Legislature passes legislation.” In other words, screw the courts. Given that, they passed a bill “clarifying” a bill from last session that set the statute of limitations back to 1953. It’s all about whose right it is to what property, and, in this case, it’s for Recapture Canyon and Lyman’s illegal motorized jaunt through it. Only Sen. Jim Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City, argued against the bill, but he figures the courts won’t buy it, anyway.

Brush Up Your Résumé

We know this happens, but seldom is there this kind of substantiation. You know those Medicaid cheaters? Well, the Legislature has been after them for some time, so a few years ago, it created an inspector general position for someone to go get ’em. Sen. Jim Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City, believes the hiring qualifications were so specific as to point to only one person—the one who allegedly got the job. But then, that inspector general left, and six months of searching turned up no replacement. Now a national search is under way, with new qualifications. It required the Legislature to amend the qualifications during its recent special session. “So, with SB 1002, the Legislature normalized the job qualifications, so the state could fill the post,” Dabakis said.

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We live under a government that doesn’t like itself. It’s always wanting to go on a diet—get smaller, make less of itself. And often, it wants to cut off parts of itself and give them away to private interests because, of course, business knows best. This is why there is a proliferation of private prisons, why mass transit in Utah is run by an outside agency and why executives of that agency make big bucks. But wait: Is anyone seeking to privatize the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control? No, Utah wants to be in control of its citizens’ personal habits. DABC has labored under bad management and worse customer service, so the governor asked for a report on the situation. Ironically, the report on the governor’s website gives a 12-step solution, but does not address the chief problem—that one manager oversees multiple stores.

Austin Craig (above) and a group of filmmakers have organized a festival accessible to anyone with a smartphone: the Pocket Film Festival. Over Sept. 1-5, the festival will feature documentaries and workshops, as well as submissions filmed on smartphones. Jason van Genderen, the Pocket Filmmaker, is coming from Australia to teach workshops. Provo city paid for his flight, and hope he’ll make a film about the community. The organizers made the festival free to match the spirit of the event. Only one event isn’t free—Craig and his wife, Beccy, filmed a documentary of their three months living on the web-based currency Bitcoin called Life on Bitcoin (tickets are $8, and yes, they accept Bitcoin) at the Covey Center for the Arts. See the schedule at PocketFilmFest.com

Why a festival based on smartphone films?

Having a Hollywood budget doesn’t help you be more creative. My hope is to encourage people to refocus on the craft—focus on the storytelling, the character. Be creative with the tools they already have. My hope is this event levels the playing field, and lets the 20-year director of photography veteran compete using the same tools as the 15-year-old aspiring film maker. They’re competing on the same level, because it’s essentially a zero-budget iPhone film fest. We have an emphasis on youth media, we’ll have workshops geared specifically to young people.

What about the quality of a smartphone-filmed movie?

It’s not without its merit. My iPhone doesn’t record the same kind of footage as a professional Hollywood camera. But you know what it is? Exceptionally better than anything that existed 10 years ago. And everyone has it. Smart phones we have are capable of shooting in ultra-high definition, capable of going places that larger cameras can’t go; they’re with you all the time.

Are you concerned films will be perceived as amateur and not taken seriously?

I’m a firm believer that the right constraints on a creative project are a good thing. They help drive the creative work forward. Where some people might see our festival and think, “Ah, that’s kid stuff. You’re using toy cameras, you’re not doing anything serious.” To them, I might say, “Maybe, but we’re doing creative, original, inventive work that you wouldn’t find at other festivals, and it’s because of constraints, not in spite of them.”

How stressful was living on Bitcoin for three months?

The real challenge was not necessarily living on Bitcoin—although that was challenging— but making a movie about it. It was our first time doing a feature-length documentary film.

How does Provo stack up, as far as businesses accepting Bitcoin?

We wanted to test the limits of Bitcoin—both literally and metaphorically. When we got comfortable in Provo, we went to New York City, Stockholm, Berlin and Singapore. I always thought the next place we were going was going to be better. There’s no single geographical location that is stronger than others. When we got to New York two years ago, there were fewer businesses we could find accepting Bitcoin. In Provo, we’d been evangelizing it and got people to accept it. We chose the neighborhood we did in Berlin because it was notorious for having a lot of Bitcoin-accepting businesses. Sure enough, there were a couple of dozen— mostly because of one guy who loved Bitcoin and kept encouraging them to accept Bitcoin.

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STRAIGHT DOPE No Place Like Dome I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It’s -40 Fahrenheit and Celsius this morning with the windchill. When I was a kid I was led to believe we’d live in domed cities in the future (in addition to being served by robots and driving flying cars). Would domes over cold-weather cities be worthwhile? Are there materials available today that could hold up to the stress? —Michael Stephensen

I live in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Right now it’s 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Odd time to reply? The hell. It’ll be plenty brisk here in six months (eh, probably six weeks), and writing about bitter cold while simultaneously experiencing it is more than I can bear. The short answer is no, we don’t have materials up to the challenge of doming a city the size of Winnipeg. But we’re getting closer—carbon nanotubes have an incredible strength-to-weight ratio, and may someday yield dome-building materials that would let northern city dwellers go naked (well, coatless) in January. Nonetheless, formidable challenges remain. Let’s examine a few. As you rightly surmise, a dome’s diameter is limited by the stresses on the supporting structure. You can minimize these by making the bottom of the dome thick and the top paper-thin, making the dome inflatable (i.e., held up by air pressure), or hanging the roof on cables from steel towers passing through it. (Google “Millennium Dome” to see what this looks like.) Next, you have to consider the elements—wind, rain, and snow. Let’s start with a small-scale example: doming your neighborhood with a hemisphere 1,000 feet in diameter. Domes are resistant to wind loading, but a 30-mile-per-hour wind on a 500-foot-tall hemispherical dome still exerts a total lateral force of 96 tons. Since this thing will enclose people’s homes, businesses, and Starbucks, it has to be able to handle a lot more wind than that—in the opinion of my assistant and engineering consultant Una, at least a 100-mile-per-hour gust, for a lateral force of over 1,000 tons. A simple inflatable dome would be ripped to shreds. Rain isn’t a big issue, but since we’re talking about Canada we have to consider snow loading. Some snow will slide off the dome but not all. If a quarter of our 500-foot dome is covered with an inch of accumulation, the roof load is going to be more than 250 tons. Maybe you could install de-icers and snowclearing machines, but they’ll add cost and weight. And we haven’t even mentioned hail. Other dome downsides: a nonporous dome will trap the heat and pollution generated by the people living under it, and if it’s transparent you’ve basically got a giant, stinky greenhouse. Either you’re going to have to riddle the base with passages and fans for ventilation, or cut vents in the dome itself—weakening it and reducing some of the benefit in the winter.

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Then there’s wildlife—you want some, right? Migratory birds will be unable to migrate, unless you somehow manage to safely catch and release them outside your dome each year. With year-round mild-to-hot temperatures, you could find yourself looking at a serious insect problem. And if humidity builds up under the dome, say hello to mold. So: impossible, right? Not if you manage expectations. Last year the Singapore Sports Hub opened for business featuring the world’s largest free-standing dome, with a roof that can be opened or closed depending on the weather. While not hemispherical, with a diameter of 310 meters—1,017 feet—it can certainly cover your 1,000-foot neighborhood. Using a steel structure and translucent plastic panels, the dome is designed to withstand anything Singapore’s climate can throw at it. More covered exterior spaces are in the offing. The planned Skidome Denmark, featuring six indoor and two outdoor ski slopes, consists of three huge, hollow arches intersecting over a river; the largest spans a half mile and rises to 360 feet at the center. Mind you, the low ceilings inside might feel claustrophobic, but hey—sacrifices must be made. If you had something more visionary in mind, we’ll need to go pretty far back. Around 1960 Buckminster Fuller (his name was bound to turn up here eventually) and Shoji Sadao designed a climate-controlled dome two miles across to cover midtown Manhattan. In 1971 a German-funded study floated the idea of building a utopian city under a 1.2-mile-wide inflatable dome at 58 degrees latitude in the Arctic, providing a warm environment for up to 40,000 people. In 1979 plans were drawn up to dome Winooski, Vermont, a town of 7,000 people beleaguered by 20-below winters and crushing snowfall. Covering roughly 800 acres, spanning 6,600 feet, and rising 250 feet in the center, the Winooski dome would have been held up by air pressure, requiring all entering or leaving to pass through an airlock. The pollution problem was to be handled by electric cars and monorails. When federal funding didn’t pan out (no shock), the idea fizzled. That’s likely why you don’t hear much about domed cities anymore, apart from the occasional dubious scheme kicking around the Internet. Super plastics might make it physically possible to raise a city-scale dome someday. But how would you raise the cash?

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“I’m deciding to say, ‘enough.’ It was Todd Weiler. He seems to have this pattern of doing everything he can to harm the party.” —Utah Republican Party Chairman James Evans

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GOP chairman accuses senator of telling donors to withhold from the party. BY ERIC ETHINGTON eethington@cityweekly.net @EricEthington

Utah Republican Party Chairman James Evans, pictured above, claims State Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, is asking potential donors not to give to the GOP.

long-standing feud between Utah State Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, and Utah Republican Party Chairman James Evans may have finally reached a tipping point, as Evans told City Weekly this week that Weiler has been calling party donors and telling them not to give any more money while Evans is chairman. Weiler strongly disputes the allegation. “I’ve never once called any donor and told them not to donate. In fact, there’s a chair in the Republican Party headquarters with my name on the back of it because of how much I’ve donated to the party myself. … These tactics are just ridiculous. I would love to see him name that donor [making the claim].” Evans declined to provide the names of these donors for City Weekly. “I’m making the claims. Todd can refute it all he wants. But I’m not going to drag them into the middle of this,” Evans says. “I’m just baffled why Todd continues to attack the party and seems to have such a negative narrative,” says Evans. He says donors had called him to ask why Weiler was telling them not to give money to the party. “I’ve complained repeatedly at meetings that there was an elected official who contacted our donors and asked them not to give to the party, but I’ve never said who it was. But now, I’m deciding to say, ‘enough.’ It was Todd Weiler. He seems to have this pattern of doing everything he can to harm the party. He just doesn’t stop.” Weiler says Evans isn’t releasing the name because the claim is a fiction. “There is no donor. The name doesn’t exist,” he says. James has “the worst job in politics—an unpaid position, I might add,” he says, “and I have a lot of sympathy for him. … James has gotten the party to where it needs to be. He’s moved mountains and worked miracles. I take issue with the way he got us here, but he got us here, and I give him credit for that.” However, Weiler says, “I’m not his therapist, but I think James likes to portray himself as a victim.” When Evans first ran for chairman of the Utah Republican Party in 2013, Weiler endorsed him for the position. “I was proud to stand next to him that day, and I still consider him a friend,” says Weiler. But things between the two grew tense, as did tensions between the Republic delegates and lawmakers, in the spring of 2014, when the Utah Legislature passed Senate Bill 54. The election-reform law created a compromise between the Republican Party’s desire to stick with the caucus-convention system and the Count My Vote (CMV)

initiative that would create a direct primary (allowing Utah’s 650,000 unaffiliated voters to participate in the primary election of their choice). Now that SB54 is law, candidates can take either the convention or signature-gathering route to get their names on the ballot. The compromise did not sit well with Republican Party leaders and delegates, and Evans filed a lawsuit in late 2014 to have the law overturned. In previous interviews about the lawsuit, Evans questioned whether or not the state should have a say in how private organizations choose their candidates. Over the months that followed, the spat between Weiler and Evans became more constant in press interviews and on social media. On April 20, the GOP’s official Twitter account sent out a tweet: “It’s sad that [Weiler] chooses to attack [the Republican Party] instead of assisting.” “I’m sorry—what did I get wrong?” Weiler tweeted back. Weiler takes exception to what he calls “being turned into the bad guy,” when he says the Legislature was simply acting to protect the caucus-convention system however it could. “Once Mitt Romney endorsed [CMV], we felt it was inevitable that it would pass, so we had to do something,” says Weiler. That sentiment was shared by many of Weiler’s Republican colleagues in the Legislature, including then-Rep. Jon Cox, R-Ephraim, who, in an op-ed on UtahPolicy.com wrote, “All of my colleagues who supported SB 54 honestly believed the CMV initiative would pass and the [caucus-convention system] would be gone … probably forever.” Evans, on the other hand, called SB 54 a “travesty” at a press conference discussing the party’s lawsuit, and an infringement on the party’s rights. The rift seemed to grow deeper earlier this year when Evans announced a proposal that the party institute an interview process for candidates, so the party could control which candidates would be allowed to list themselves as Republicans on the ballot. The new proposal

“I’ve never once called any donor and told them not to donate.” —State Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross

was not implemented, but it would have compelled Republican candidates choosing either the caucus-convention route or the petition route to sit for a “star-chamber” type of interview with a few high-ranking members of the Republican Party, with each candidate being questioned about where they stand on the party’s issues. They would also have been required to pay a $10,000 fee. If candidates refused the interview or the fee, they would not be allowed to identify themselves as Republicans on the ballot. At the time, Evans said that if the party didn’t require Republican candidates to go through this interview, “there’s absolutely no requirement that they’d have to interact with the party whatsoever, and you might have Democrats running as Republicans. This is about controlling the Republican brand.” Weiler quickly dubbed the interviews “PPIs” on Twitter, a reference to the LDS Church’s practice of Personal Priesthood Interviews, in which each church member meets with local leaders, who determine whether or not the member is worthy to enter LDS temples. In a heated April 2015 debate aired on KVNU 610 AM’s For the People radio show in Logan, Evans accused Weiler of misrepresenting him and the proposal. “It’s a constant twisting, a twisting of what we’re doing,” Evans told Weiler and listeners. “We are simply trying to compel behavior by defining our membership.” “It’s the voters who should decide [candidates’] worthiness,” Weiler fired back, “not the party.” “This whole concept just stinks of exclusiveness,” added Paul Mero, former president of the the conservative Sutherland Institute who was co-hosting the show with radio host Jason Williams that day. “And it just tells me what happens when ideologues try to do anything.” “I just can’t understand this idea that the Republican Party is suing the Republican Legislature and the Republican governor for enacting a law that protects the Republican Party,” Weiler said in a recent interview with City Weekly. “It’s insane.” But things may have finally reached a tipping point in August at the Republican State Convention. On the ballot were four proposals—three of which involved bringing the party into compliance with SB 54 (although the lawsuit will continue moving forward, says Evans). After Evans made the initial presentation, Weiler and others spoke in opposition to the proposal that would give the Republican Central Committee the power to determine party membership. Weiler says while he is in favor of candidates

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want to be candidates through the caucusconvention system, and we’ve got a number of statewide offices up for election, the presidential race, and especially that Senate race with Mike Lee. So, you can fairly say that there’s a relationship between the struggles over the status of SB54, and that’s politics. They’re looking ahead to 2016. “The Republican Party is the dominant party in the state,” says Chambless. “And when you have such a large party, you’re going to have many differences of opinion within their membership. A party that tries to stand for everything is going to have many dissident voices.” Chambless says it’s “foggy” as to whether the feud or even SB54 itself will have much effect on voters next year, but he says he believes that the Evans/Weiler feud has become very personal. So will the face-off between two senior Republicans continue, or can the rift be healed? “Politics is all about relationships,” Chambless says. “It’s also about power and getting what you want from the public-policy process. You can have good relationships by doing what James Madison said, ‘Compromise, compromise, compromise,’ and you can also have political feuds. The Democratic Party has them as well, but in Utah the Republican Party is far more likely to have feuds and have matters taken personally, because they have all the power.” CW

signing disclosure statements so voters know where they stand on issues, he fears that allowing the Central Committee to make alterations to membership requirements at any time concentrates too much power in the committee’s hands. “Instead of leaving the decisions [on membership] to the 4,000 state delegates,” says Weiler, “that power now goes to 180 Central Committee members, [giving them] a blank check.” Weiler himself is a member of the committee, but since not all 180 members show up to each meeting, it means that some committee decisions are passed by only a handful of people. Some votes require a simple majority of those present; others require a two-thirds majority. Thus, any major decision about who can or cannot identify as a Republican on the ballot could be decided by a small number of committee members. “They could easily say, ‘OK, anyone who votes in favor of [Governor Herbert’s] Healthy Utah is no longer a Republican,’ and start excommunicating Republicans when they’re up for re-election.” The day after the convention, Weiler tweeted a list of “Top 10 disturbing things” about the convention. Of the 10, six involved Evans’ treatment of the proposals. “Parliamentary procedure was ignored and abused at the chair’s pleasure,” wrote Weiler, who pointed to an hour-long conference call for delegates before the convention where Evans spent time advocating for the proposals. Weiler also tweeted his objection to Evans using personal time as chair to rebut every person who spoke against the proposals. Evans says his comments weren’t intended as rebuttals. “I was simply trying to clarify the misrepresentations being made about the proposals, which I’m absolutely allowed to do under our bylaws,” he says. T i m Chambless, a professor of political science at the University of Utah who is also affiliated with the U’s Hinckley Institute of Politics, says he’s not surprised that the feud between Evans and Weiler is ongoing. “You’ve got to look at the calendar. In about six months, there will be the caucus meetings for candidates and those who

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ENVIRONMENTAL ARTS

They call it Dinosaur’s 100th anniversary, but this is not revisionist history. It’s not dinosaurs, but the 210,000 acres of Dinosaur National Monument that were saved for posterity a century ago. Monument staff are offering art-in-the-park-themed activities that include service projects, singing, photography and fiber arts. And if you believe dinosaurs are only 100 years old, you may be interested in imagining what it’s like to get a postcard from a fossil for the National Fossil Day Art Contest. Visit Nature.NPS.gov/nationalfossilday to enter. From Tuesday, Sept. 8 to Friday, Oct. 9, local artists will showcase their work at the Dinosaur Centennial Art Exhibit at the Uintah County Heritage Museum in Vernal. On Saturday, Sept. 26, the $10 per vehicle fee will be waived in honor of Public Lands Day. For information, call 435-781-7700, visit NPS.gov/dino, or find the National Park Service on social media.

Eight answers given by City Weekly readers when asked “Who is Taylor Swift?”:

8. “Whoever he is, my damned kids won’t shut up about him.”

7. “Did she play the Zephyr

back in the day? So when’s the Zephyr re-opening?”

6. “She was in the great Swift

vs. Minaj War. I remember it like it was yesterday.”

5. “If she’s not on cassette, I haven’t heard her.”

4. “Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! I won tickets! What? No? Aww … ”

3. “She’s a pop sellout—I only listen to real country music, like Florida Georgia Line.”

2. “Do they do suit alterations?

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to trick me into liking anything popular. Or awesome. Or that I’ll be third-row center at on Friday.”

LGBT RALLY

In the face of the increasing number of transgender murders in the United States (19 this year, as of August 2015), local groups Stand for Queer Lives and Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement will host a rally to stand with trans women of color on Thursday, Sept. 3, at 6 p.m. at the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building at 125 S. State. The public is invited; signs will be provided. Follow online with the hashtag: #SayHerName. More information at FamiliaTQLM.org

SOCIAL JUSTICE

This is storytelling of a different ilk. At 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 5, community speakers and families of victims will speak out about the disturbing escalation of police violence in Utah and the nation. Speakers include civil-right attorneys Rocky Anderson and Andrew McCullough; families of recent victims Danielle Willard, Dillon Taylor, Darrien Hunt and Corey Kanosh; and William Lawrence, who investigates police militarization and police violence in a documentary called Peace Officer. Meet at the Salt Lake City & County Building, 451 S. State. Time allowing, there will be an opportunity for others to share their stories. Join the event on Facebook: No More Tears, Stories of Police Violence.

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Oh yes, in the Era of Donald Trump, you need to know more about The Conservative Heart, and what’s going on in there. The Hinckley Institute of Politics has invited Arthur C. Brooks, New York Times bestselling author, social scientist and president of the American Enterprise Institute, to speak on Tuesday, Sept. 8 from noon-1 p.m. on “How to Build a Fairer, Happier and more Prosperous America.” Co-sponsored by the Sutherland Institute, the talk takes place at the Institute, University of Utah, 260 S. Central Campus Drive.

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Barnyard Theater British director Missouri Williams brought an adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear to the London Courtyard art facility in August for a one-week run, centered on a human actor struggling to stage the play using only sheep. The pivotal character, Lear’s daughter Cordelia, famously withholds flattering Lear (thus forgoing inheriting the kingdom), and her silence forever tortures Lear—and of course silence is something sheep pull off well. Actor Alasdair Saksena admitted there is an “element of unpredictability with the sheep,” but lauded their punctuality, calmness and lack of fee demands. Williams promised another Courtyard run for King Lear With Sheep in the fall.

BY CHUCK SHEPHERD

n A woman identified only as Zeng, age 39, was finally imprisoned in August in Urumqi, China—10 years after she was convicted of corruption. Availing herself of a traditional “probation” option in Chinese law for expectant mothers, Zeng had remained free by getting herself pregnant (and proving it) 14 times during the 10 years (although only some of the fetuses were carried to term).

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Suspicions Confirmed The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia, has an award-winning “telework” program allowing patent examiners flexible schedules, leading half of the 8,300 to work at home full-time—despite a 2014 Washington Post report on employees gaming the system. In August, the agency’s inspector general exposed several of the most ridiculous cases of slacking off, including one examiner who was paid for at least 18 weeks’ work last year that he did not perform and that his manager did not notice. (The examiner, who had been issued nine poorperformance warnings since 2012 and who had flaunted his carefree “workday” to co-workers for years, abruptly resigned two hours before a meeting on the charge and thus left with a “clean” personnel record.) Wrote the Post, “It’s a startling example of a culture that’s maddening.”

The Americanization of China After five students drowned while swimming in a reservoir in China’s Yunnan province, parents of two of them sued the reservoir’s management company, complaining that it should have posted signs or barricades or, even better, guards to keep kids from frolicking in the dangerous waters. According to an August report, the management company has now countersued the parents, demanding compensation for the additional watertreatment measures it was forced to undertake because the reservoir had been “polluted” by their children’s corpses. Adventures in Turtle Sex 1. A female Yangtze giant softshell turtle, believed to be the last female of her species, was artificially inseminated in May at Suzhou Zoo in China through the efforts of animal fertility experts from around the world. She is thought to be more than 100 years old (as was the last male to “romance” her, although their courtship produced only unfertilized eggs). 2. The Times of London reported in July that Briton Pamela Horner, seeking her “escaped” tortoise Boris (even though, as they say, he couldn’t have gone far), found “tortoise porn” on YouTube (mostly, mating sounds) to play in the yard and lure him back. A tortoise expert told The Times: “They make quite a lot of noise. We can hear them groaning for miles.” Thanks This Week to Jim Moir and Edward Hess, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors. Read more weird news at WeirdUniverse.net; send items to WeirdNews@earthlink.net, and

Highly Committed People Impersonating a police officer in a traffic stop is not uncommon, but Logan Shaulis, 19, was apparently so judgment-impaired on May 30 that he set up his own elaborate “DUI checkpoint” on Route 601 near Somerset, Penn., complete with road flares, demanding “license, registration and insurance” from driver after driver. The irony of the inebriated Shaulis judging motorists’ sobriety was short-lived, as real troopers soon arrived and arrested him (on DUI, among other charges).

n Tough Love: Sexual assault is certainly punishable in New Hampshire by prison time, but pending legislation assumes prison is not enough. By House Bill 212, anyone who commits sexual assault while out hunting or fishing will also have his hunting or fishing license revoked.

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Bright Ideas Only China and Iran execute more prisoners, but Saudi Arabia also has a soft side—for jihadists. Saudis who defy a ban on leaving the country to fight (usually against the common enemy, Syria’s Bashar al-Assad) are, if they return, imprisoned at a maximum-security facility in Riyadh, but with liberal short “vacations” at “Family House,” hotel-quality quarters with good food, playgrounds for children and other privileges (monitored through guest-satisfaction surveys). Returning jihadists also have access to education and psychologists and receive the equivalent of $530 a month with ATM privileges. The purpose is to persuade the warriors not to return to the battlefield once released, and officials estimate that the program is about 85 percent effective.

New Hampshire Blues The president of the University of New Hampshire publicly complained in July about the “bias-free language guide” posted on the school’s website—since, he said, it denounces use of such words as “Americans” (as insensitive to South Americans), “seniors” (better, “people of advanced age”), “rich” (should be “person of material wealth”) and “poor” (change to “person who lacks advantages that others have”). (One state senator mockingly suggested changing the state’s “Live Free or Die” motto to “Live Free but Upset No One.”)

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n a humid August night in 2008, in the town of Colonia Dublán in Chihuahua, Mexico, Cristina saw a young man fly through her front door and dive onto the floor of her home as AK-47 rounds hammered into the plaster above her. She was sure it was her son. Then he looked up and an overhead light revealed the features of a youth she didn’t know. The youth jumped to his feet and ran outside. She followed him screaming, her husband chasing after her to the small plaza across the street where three crumpled bodies lay: her 17- and 18-year-old sons and an acquaintance she later found out had been the target of a sicario—a drug-gang assassin. Her children were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. The parents’ names have been changed at their request. The vicious, brutal rattle of assault rifles had become commonplace in recent years in Nuevo Casas Grandes and the neighboring tiny community of Colonia Dublán, just 1 1/2 hours south of El Paso, Texas. Cristina’s 17-year-old was dead. Cristina’s oldest son, one month away from his mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, cried out in agony in her arms. A relative of Cristina’s put her eldest son into his pick-up truck and raced to the hospital, but doctors and nurses refused to treat his wounds for fear of gang reprisal. He died shortly after reaching the hospital. “It is a terrible thing, so hard to understand, how far cruelty can go,” says Cristina’s second husband and the boys’ stepfather, Eduardo, in Spanish, seven years after their murders. His meaty hands move back and forth around the edge of the round table as if he is trying to understand what is before him, as he recalls the boys going out for tacos with their cousins and attending Spanish-language LDS ward dances. “Their world was the church, work and school,” he says. A mist hangs over the treeless plaza, lending it an otherworldly silence, a place haunted by a past that Cristina and Eduardo face every day when they leave home for work. In the Mormon faith, you and your partner are “sealed” for life and eternity. Cristina says while she would like to leave, she won’t move from the house, because her first husband left her the property. “He told me before he died, first he would come for our children, then he would come for me,” she says. While many Mormons left Colonia Dublán for Utah after the eruption of cartel-related killings and kidnappings in the midto-late 2000s, some chose to stick it out, preferring to live in what several call “an LDS bubble,” rather than to start a new life elsewhere. A little over 1,000 miles south of Utah, the Mormon colonies Colonia Dublán and its close neighbor, Colonia Juárez, provide a unique perspective on the relationship between the Anglo and Latino Mormon communities in the Beehive State. In the colonies’ struggles to create a future for its children and ward off the violence that both Anglos and Mexican Mormons faced

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during the years kidnappers and killers roamed the streets after dusk with impunity, residents have remained defiantly proud of the colonies and their independent spirit. That sense of uniqueness is testament to the strength of the Mormon culture that defines those communities—even as economics, wealth and race still divide them.

Saints in Mexico

Three years after the U.S. government banned polygamy in 1882, the LDS Church dispatched 350 church members—mostly polygamists—to live in Mexico. “The Mexican colonies were to be a refuge for many who had practiced plural marriage and would not abandon their families,” Don L. Searle and LaVon B. Whetten wrote in an August 1985 Ensign story on the Chihuahua colonies. “But the colonies would also serve,” former LDS Church President John Taylor said, “as something much more enduring—a focal point for spreading the gospel in Mexico.” A few hundred hardy souls, living in overturned wagons and dirt dugouts built irrigation canals and developed farms. More than 3,000 Mormons eventually settled eight colonies in northern Chihuahua, but shortly after Pancho Villa launched the Mexican revolution in 1910 on the colonies’ doorstep in northern Chihuahua, the local church leaders voted to return to the United States. Fewer than half of the original settlers later returned to Mexico, and “isolation, transportation difficulties, and the lack of schools beyond the primary level caused all but two of them—Colonia Juárez and Colonia Dublán—to be permanently abandoned,” Searle and Whetten wrote. The LDS Church would itself ban polygamy in 1890, and the practice eventually fizzled out in the two colonies. A thousand people now live in Colonia Dublán, a few hundred of them descendants of the 1880s Utah and Arizona pioneers. Many of these Anglo-Mormon families own and run the peach, apple, cherry and pecan farms immediately to the south. It’s a 20-minute drive from Dublán to the other surviving Mormon colony, Colonia Juárez—past the windowless, sprawling American-owned assembly plants that dominate neighboring Nuevo Casas Grandes, through the sleepy, historical small town of Casas Grandes, up and over a hill where the gleaming white walls of the LDS temple standing guard over the Piedras Verdas valley comes into view. The valley is home to Colonia Juárez and the church-owned Juárez Academy, which since 1904 has played a key role in producing bilingual missionaries to spread the church’s gospel. The academy’s contribution to the LDS Church’s growth drew high praise from the church’s then-president, Gordon B. Hinckley, who, according to BYU archives, told Mormons gathered on the academy’s sports field in 1997 that “these little colonies in northern Mexico have made such a tremendous contribution. … I didn’t know before that this place had

furnished more mission presidents than any other stake in the church.” But while Hinckley told the crowd he saw their geographical isolation as their strength, these two colonies still struggle to find a future for their children beyond producing fruit or leaving for their missions and never coming back.

Game Changer

One person who hopes to provide the colonies with job opportunities is Utah immigration attorney Aaron Tarin. The lifelong LDS Church member has long been a singular voice in Utah’s immigration-attorney community. In a City Weekly cover story [“Prophet Motive,” January 7, 2010], he criticized Anglo Mormons for failing to acknowledge the significance of LDS scripture which foretold that Mormon Latinos would be key to the Second Coming. The church’s concerted missionary efforts in South America, for which Mexico and the colonies in particular serve as a springboard, is built on the belief that Latino and other non-Anglo converts to Mormonism “shall blossom as the rose,” which, according to scripture, will be one of the signs of the return of Jesus Christ. In July 2015, a City Weekly reporter accompanied Tarin and his parents, Jose and Ovidia, who grew up in the colonies, on a trip to northern Mexico. Tarin spent his childhood summers in the colonies and hoped to bring his wife and children there for a visit, but his wife is still fearful about violence her in-laws had experienced in recent years. Tarin was there to evaluate the operations of two call centers he’s set up in Colonia Dublán and in the state capital of Chihuahua to provide telephonic paralegal services for his undocumented clients in Utah. By outsourcing to Mexico, he says, he can provide much cheaper and more effective legal services for the undocumented, as well as what Tarin calls “handholding” for immigrant clients from South America. That can include guidance on navigating language, culture and bureaucracy in the United States, dealing with tax issues, insurance, landlords and contracts. He calls his employees “technical melting-pot experts.” In 2014, Tarin set up a company called Outlaw Infomatics, with attorneys and technology experts as investors, to fund call centers in Chihuahua City and Colonia Dublán. So far, the company has invested $350,000, he says, and plans to at least double that investment this year. But doing business in Mexico isn’t easy. “In Mexico, you have to know somebody or pay somebody to get anything done,” Tarin says. “One of the primary challenges I confronted on my trip was how to do everything in a 100 percent ethical and legal manner, when many things can’t get done that way in Mexico.” When Tarin visited Colonia Dublán businessman Kelly Jones, he learned that a public utility was far advanced in laying down fiber optics in the colony, crucial for expanding Tarin’s call centers.

In a community that has doggedly bet on agriculture, the possibility of emerging high-tech businesses excites Jones. “You could literally change the history of the colonies,” he tells Tarin.

A Need for Tech

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Colonia Juárez, in the valley of the Piedras Verdes river

Aaron Tarin’s father, Jose, decided to leave the colonies immediately after graduating from the Juárez Academy in 1975. Jose’s father worked in the Angloowned fields and died of heart failure when Jose was 13. When Jose told his stake president he was leaving for the United States, he says the Anglo-Mormon told him to stay, and to be a laborer. “He was very upset,” Jose says. “The mentality of them is, ‘Stay here, work for us.’” Ovidia went to school in nearby Colonia Dublán with Anglo-Mormon children who had last names like Romney, Pratt and Whettan. “My best friends were gringos and only spoke English,” she says. Being surrounded by these white Mormon families “was a blessing” for his mother, Aaron says. “They brought culture, a different world view—that there is opportunity, that there is hope.” And yet hope in terms of work beyond the fields was in short supply, and so Jose and Ovidia , who at that time were only acquaintances from the academy, separately traveled to Utah, “to explore the American dream, to see what it’s all about,” Jose says. They later met in Salt Lake City, dated and married. Ovidia graduated from LDS Business College and worked for a bank, before the couple moved to Delta, Utah, where Jose worked as a trainee electrician at a power plant. On the July 2015 trip to Mexico, Aaron visited the house where his mother grew up. Jose describes it as having been simply a kitchen and a bedroom, with mattresses stacked in the bedroom. “It was pretty bad,” he says. The shack is now overgrown by weeds and trees. Aaron has to jump over a stream and push through brush to reach a door that won’t open. “My parents were pioneers,” Aaron says, as he ponders the tangled branches masking the walls. “They went from an income of less than $5 a day into the middle class of the United States. They bet big, they risked a lot to go, and it paid off in a manner I can barely perceive. Why I didn’t end up in this decaying little house, I don’t know.”

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Colony residents are known to keep a foot in both worlds. There have also been significant Anglo-Mormon imports from the colonies to the United States, notably colonyborn George Romney, auto-industry CEO, governor of Michigan from 1963-69, and father of Mitt—as well as chemist Henry Eyring, father of LDS Church First Counselor to the Presidency Henry B. Eyring. Anglo-Mormons in the colonies typically hold both Mexican and American passports and speak fluent Spanish, with barely an accent. The Joneses and the Robinsons are two of the surviving Anglo-Mormon families that can be found in large numbers in the colonies. Jeffrey Max Jones says the problem the area has always faced is the cyclical nature of its agrarian economy: “You have employment in the harvest and planting season. What do you do the rest of the year?” His brother Kelly Jones runs a food-manufacturing business in Colonia Dublán and is a LDS stake president. He describes the colony as “a sleepy little Mormon town with good values,” where milk cows, orchards of peaches, apples and cherries, and fields of chilies have long defined the landscape. “Everybody believes if you have 10 hectares

Tarin compares the colonies’ potential economic prospects with the ongoing tech boom in Lehi. “The same reasons why Google and Adobe are flocking to Utah now, those same reasons exist in the colonies,” he says. There’s “a highly educated bilingual talent [pool] to choose from, who are willing to take less pay to stay in Utah.” Tarin’s cousin, Ginna Cervantes, and her husband, Elco Bencomo, operate Tarin’s colony-based call center in a cinder block room at the back of their simple, three-room house. Both attended the Juárez Academy and speak fluent English. “I think Aaron is trying to give people a reason to stay here,” Cervantes says. “There is no work, there is not a good reason.” Bencomo grew up in a two-room adobe-walled house with his parents and six siblings. “I never knew I had a future,” he says. “I thought I’d end up like my dad and brother working on the orchards, but I never wanted to wear dirty clothes and gloves to work. I wanted a better life.” Bencomo tried out for the Juárez Academy basketball team, even after a neighbor advised him not to, since they chose only Anglos. Bencomo didn’t make the cut. “I felt anger, I had practiced so much. So, I practiced more.” His second attempt was successful. He made friends with his Anglo teammates. Still, “I did feel ashamed inviting them to my house. They had swimming pools, and I had nothing—a basketball hoop made of a bicycle tire.” Nevertheless, it was those friendships, he says, combined with serving an LDS mission, that opened his eyes to a future through education. Cervantes expresses gratitude to the academy as she stands under a tree near its entrance, having enrolled her children for the 2015-16 academic year. “Everything I’ve accomplished in my life, I got it from here—I met my husband, we grew up with the same principles, the same goals, the same circle of friends in a purely LDS environment. We were taught to look forward to live like that.” But while she loved her time as a student at the academy, come graduation time, “the gringos were going on a mission or going to BYU in Utah,” Ginna says. “In my time [the mid-1990s], there was only one college here in town. There were no options. Everybody was worried.” Now there are five small colleges. Bencomo has a Mexican friend who achieved a master’s degree but found no work in the colonies, except as a cashier in a market. “I don’t know why [my friends] stay,” he says. “Maybe they have their families here. It’s very hard to start in another place. Life is hard everywhere.” After Bencomo’s LDS mission, he attended college in Chihuahua City and married Cervantes. They wanted to return to the colonies, but wondered, “Whatever would we do here if we came back?” he says. They wanted their children to be bilingual, so they prayed and fasted, he says, about the decision, deciding, “we’d come and see what happened.” Some of Cervantes’ friends ended up working for families of former academy peers. “It is kind of sad working for people you grew up with,” she says. Cervantes says that for Mexican-Mormons, progress in the colonies is limited. “There is a line marked: ‘Here is all the way you can go, no farther than that.’” But Bencomo disagrees. “If there was ever a culture line that should divide us, I don’t think it’s there—or, at least, not there anymore.”

Cultural Glue

Ginna Cervantes , Elco Bencomo and their family on the steps of Juárez Academy

Colonia Juárez features both the kind of old Victorian homes still found in rural Utah and Spanish-influenced ramblers that would not be out of place on the east benches of the Wasatch Front. At its heart stands the sandstonebricked Juárez Academy, effectively the cultural and social glue that binds the two colonies together. In the school lobby, on the left, stands a statute of Joseph Smith holding an ax; on the right, a bust of Benito Juárez, five-time Mexican president and national hero. Here, Anglo and Mexican Mormons study side by side, along with a few non-Mormon students whose parents can afford the tuition fees and don’t mind their children attending LDS seminary on a daily basis. The Juárez Academy displays a distinctly American spirit. There are homecoming and prom dances, pep rallies for sports teams and even an English-language school yell chanted after the Mexican national anthem “Mexicanos, al Grito de Guerra”

is sung at morning assembly: “All things you don’t have elsewhere in Mexico,” says Tarin’s cousin, Cervantes. “If something happened to the high school, we would have to think if we have to stay,” Michele Robinson says. She met her husband and Dublán-native, Eric, in Utah. They married and, in 2000, he brought them to the colonies, where he has since run the family farm. While Anglo-Mormon graduates of the Juárez Academy can typically afford to leave for the States and attend LDS institutions such as Brigham Young University, BYU-Idaho and LDS Business College, Mexican Mormons, even while qualifying for scholarships, usually attend colleges in Mexico, because their families lack the resources to send them to Utah. And when they graduate from college, the lack of jobs in the colonies and neighboring Nuevo Casas Grandes beyond assembly-plant positions means they leave for Chihuahua City or beyond to look for work.

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Compared to the challenges the community has faced keeping its graduates, the cascade of violence the colonies faced in the mid-2000s was much more destructive. Cervantes, a Juárez Academy graduate, says the first she knew something had changed in her community was while watching a LDS stake basketball tournament. A woman ran onto the court and grabbed a player. “You need to go home,” she screamed. Cervantes found out several days later that the player’s oldest brother, and then his brother-in-law—had been kidnapped. The Anglo-Mormon family brought in the FBI, but the victims were never found. “That was when we found out something big and bad was coming,” Cervantes says. There are many local theories as to why the colonies found themselves besieged by ruthless kidnappers and sicarios to the point that, in 2008, there were more killings per capita in Nuevo Casas Grandes—which includes Colonia Dublán— than in the, until recently, infamously violent Ciudad Juárez 112 miles away. Most argue that pressure from Mexico’s war on the drug cartels not only drove cash-strapped gangs out of Ciudad Juárez and into Nuevo Casas Grandes, but also encouraged would-be imitators to employ similar secuestroexprés (quick-kidnapping) tactics for financial gain. Several colony residents interviewed by City Weekly requested that the names of well-known criminals not be referenced in this story, for fear of reprisals. Local newspapers reported very little on the ongoing violence. Journalists who did cover it faced intimidation or even death, such as with Web radio news reporter Norberto Miranda Madrid. Known as “El Gallito” (“The Tough Guy”), Madrid worked on a tiny budget covering local gang crimes until he became a victim himself, shot to death in his Nuevo Casas Grandes’ studio in October 2009. He was but one of 26 murders that month and 200 killings that year in Nuevo Casas Grandes, according to a TV news report that aired shortly after his death on Mexico’s Canal de las Estrelles network.

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of land, you’ll be successful.” And that historical agrarian focus is the problem. The community “has fallen in a hole,” he says, mired in a mix of technological ignorance and apathy. “Your dad has a farm, and you have six brothers and sisters,” he says. Hypothetically, the children graduate from Juárez Academy, go to BYU and, typically, “one gets to come back to run the farm. That’s why the colonies don’t grow. We’ve got to find something else to do.” The main thoroughfare in Colonia Dublán divides the Mormon colony between spacious homes with pristine lawns—some owned by old Anglo-Mormon families—on the west side of the street where the Dublán ward house stands, and the more humble, dusty streets on the east where members of the Mexican Mormon community mostly live. That’s where Marvin Longhurst grew up. “My family was born on the wrong side of the tracks,” he writes in an email. “We never really felt accepted in the Dublán Ward. Not even as married adults.” Longhurst says the wards were given names rather than numerical designations to avoid the stigma that “the 1st Ward was better, and the 2nd was next best, and so forth.” So Las Huertas is the Spanish-language ward nearest the orchards, while Lomas ward was named after the muddy hills created in nearby dirt streets during the rainy season. Longhurst and his wife, Gay, have embraced the Mexican Mormon community, and seven years ago, started attending the Spanish-language Las Huertas ward. Initially, Marvin was a counselor; then, for six years, a bishop. “We love the Mexican people. They accept us,” Marvin, a pecan farmer, writes in an email. They now teach a course on self-reliance as service missionaries at Las Huertas. “We are using the principles of the gospel to teach providing enough for yourself,” he says. His wife Gay adds, “We’re helping them become gods and goddesses.”

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After the violence began, it prompted an exodus of Anglo-Mormons. “We had a sacrament meeting, and there were [only] 10 people” who attended, says Kelly Robinson, “and we were two.” Husband Russell adds, “There was nobody here. It was eerie. What was really insolito [absurd] was the real calm when you walked outside.” A Dublán Anglo neighborhood organized a communitywatch group. Neighbors put up fences and talked of blocking off the streets running into the Mormon enclave. Mormons, both Anglo and Mexican, waited for direction from church headquarters during LDS General Conference. “We were all scared, waiting to see what the prophet would say,” Cervantes recalls. A high-ranking church official reassured them that they were safe. “He said in the conference for the Mexicans to stay calm, everything would be fine.”

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Aaron & Jose Tarin (father & son) in the lobby of the Juárez Academy

While the 2009 kidnapping of Mitt Romney’s cousin, Meredith Romney, a colony resident, made national headlines in the United States, Mexican Mormons abducted by gangs went without much publicity. “If you’re white and you’re rich, they make a big scandal about it,” Ovidia Tarin says. “Hispanics, forget it. They’d get rid of you, your body was a liability.” Aaron Tarin’s uncle, Armando Barrera Hernandez, cuts and polishes stones and sells them in the United States. On Sept. 11, 2009, Barrera was getting ready to leave his store in Nuevo Casas Grandes for a rock show in Denver, when four masked men armed with three AK-47s and an M-15 shot down the door. “Quien es el patron?” one shouted. Barrera raised his hands. The leader hit him in the face several times. Barrera’s eyes were taped over, two hoods were pulled over his head, and he was placed in the back of a truck with a gun stuck to his chest, while Cumbia, Mexican folk music, blasted on the radio. They pulled up at a house behind a peach-packing plant, where he was dragged out of the truck and beaten again by the four men. They wanted 1.5 million pesos ($140,000) and negotiated with Barrera’s family on his Blackberry, which Barrera, blindfolded, had to explain to them how to use. The kidnappers were afraid of being discovered. Barrera heard one of them say on the phone to a friend that conditions were “very dangerous” in Nuevo Casas Grandes. His kidnapper told the man on the phone that he should be careful and that he would pray for him. “God will bless you,” the kidnapper said to the caller. Barrera would later learn that the gang who held him killed six other captives. The leader tortured Barrera, at one time discharging a gun so close to Barrera’s ear, he remains partially deaf to this day. When he heard them say on the third night, “We’re going to throw out the rubbish,” Barrera thought they were going to murder him. “The kidnappers always said they were going to kill me if they didn’t get the money. They were going to return me in pieces.” Just after midnight, they took him in a truck, still blindfolded and hooded, opened the door while still moving, put their feet in the small of his back and pushed. He forward-rolled into a field, yanked off his blindfold, and watched the truck’s lights disappear into the darkness. By then, his family had put $25,000 in cash and some gold into a bag and left it under a bridge in Colonia Dublán. When Barrera got home, he was greeted by crying relatives. In the shower, he knelt down, he says, his voice breaking, and, “I pardoned [my abductors]. I felt free.” His friends in the police told him not to report his ordeal,

since some cops were connected with the gangs. “It was very dangerous to speak,” Barrera says. But, he adds, you have to move on. “If you live with fear, it is very difficult to live. You have to bury it.” Some credit the federal police and military who blanketed the area with ending the violence that targeted civilians, while numerous colony residents City Weekly interviewed highlighted what they believed was the role cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman played from prison prior to his July 2015 breakout. In 2012 or so, Guzman, they say, had promised to restore order—and, over a 10-day period, bodies appeared in piles on street corners, in plazas, with cardboard signs stating, “This is what happens to criminals.” Colonia Juárez, locals say, largely escaped the violence that impacted Colonia Dublán and Nuevo Casas Grandes. Former Juárez Academy sub-director Michael Romney speculates that graduates who became involved in the drug trade respected their education enough to spare the green valley from brutality. In the five years since relative calm has returned to the colonies, a renewed sense of freedom has also gradually emerged. You can walk the streets at midnight, sit on a rickety bench at a taco stand in mostly silence, the night punctuated by an occasional passing car. The only signs of the violent past are armed soldiers patrolling a main street in a truck late at night, and the occasional spilling over of blood-letting between gangs into Nuevo Cases Grandes. That happened as recently as late spring 2015, when four youths alleged to be robbers had their hand chopped off and were shot and dumped in a plaza.

Este es el lugar "This is the place"

Armando Barrera says he has made the most of the years since his brutal kidnapping. His favorite pursuit is riding his motorbike in the mountains, alone, just the wind in his face. “For the last seven years, we have lived in paradise again,” he says. “We have returned to the Nuevo Casas Grandes of before.” Others take a more nuanced perspective. Whenever Elco Bencomo sees families out for a walk at 10 p.m. along the dusty side streets where he lives, “I know for sure it’s ended. But I’m still reluctant, because it happened once, it might happen again.” Cars and trucks with dark windows are still present in his neighborhood, Eduardo, stepfather of Cristina’s slain sons, says. “We’ve had these years of tranquility, it’s true, but there’s many things we don’t know.” Cervantes’ words tinge with bitterness as she talks about her family’s economic struggles while those wealthy AngloMormon youths she graduated with, 22 years later, continue to enjoy the same life they lived back then—riding motorbikes around town, playing basketball. “Sadly, we Mexicans have to burn our butts off to be able to earn our way. I have two jobs; Elco has three jobs, and we can barely make it.” While Tarin negotiates his way through the bureaucratic labyrinth to operate a business in Mexico, Cervantes and Bencomo remain committed to raising their children in the community they love, even as the hi-tech world that Tarin seeks to usher in, threatens to only amp-up a cultural Internet invasion that has largely passed these dusty, quiet streets by. “That’s all you can do,” Bencomo says. “You try to protect them, and if ever there was a place where they can be protected, it is here.” CW This is the third in a series of articles on technology, the law and society.

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The 2015 college football season kicks off this weekend with a national focus on two Utah teams. The University of Utah hosts Michigan on Thursday night in a nationally televised game that features the return to college football of Wolverines coach Jim Harbaugh. Brigham Young University takes center stage on Saturday afternoon on an ABC telecast when the Cougars play at Nebraska. Michigan’s trip to Utah marks the first time the Wolverines have ever played on a Thursday night in their long and successful history, as well as the first time Michigan has started the season on the road since 1998, when an unknown kid named Tom Brady got his start in a loss at Notre Dame. The Utes follow the Michigan matchup by hosting Utah State on Sept. 11. Utah’s PAC-12 home schedule will feature Cal, Arizona State, Oregon, UCLA and Colorado. BYU’s trip to Nebraska marks the first time the two storied programs have played each other. The Cougars will host their home opener Sept. 12 against Boise State. Other games in Provo will include Connecticut, East Carolina, Cincinnati, Wagner and Fresno State. Utah State opens in Logan on Thursday against Southern Utah. The Aggies’ home schedule includes Colorado State, Boise State, Wyoming, Nevada and a season-ending contest with BYU on Thanksgiving weekend. Weber State opens at Oregon State on Friday. The Wildcats play their home opener against Sacramento State on Sept. 19. Other Ogden games include Southern Utah, North Dakota, UC Davis and Idaho State. (Geoff Griffin) Michigan vs. Utah @ U of U Rice-Eccles Stadium, Sept. 3, 6:30 p.m., FOXS1; Southern Utah vs. Utah State @ USU Maverik Stadium, 7 p.m.; Weber State at Oregon State, 6 p.m., PAC12; BYU at Nebraska, 1:30 p.m., ABC

The collaboration between Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler resulted in some of the most significant conceptual art installations of a decade-long period, until Ericson’s death from brain cancer in 1995. They used familiar formats and contexts to subtly alter the believers’ perceptions, with the optimum result that, after seeing their work, the experience of your own everyday world would shift slightly, be rendered less opaque. Grandma’s Cupboard at UMOCA charts a multiplicity of channels through which their work traveled: aesthetic as well as political and social. The artwork speak to viewers through common touchstones, as seemingly recognizable and comforting as items in your grandmother’s cupboard—like the balloons in “Hold Your Breath” (pictured), filled with air from sites historically associated with death. What isn’t immediately evident is the sheer poetry in these objects, in the power of their presence. Along with the project, the exhibit includes Ziegler’s solo works and an extension of their works together, which embarks on a slightly different pathway in terms of craft and wit, and a slightly different sensibility. Utilizing objects from domestic environments, his work seeks to induce new insights into the ways we represent ourselves and the ways those representations play— how we perceive ourselves and are perceived by others. (Brian Staker) Kate Ericson & Mel Ziegler: Grandma’s Cupboard @ Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, Aug. 28-Dec. 19, UtahMOCA.org.

Long before Shakespeare ever bothered to write plays drenched in Greek tragedy, the ancient Greeks were writing some of the finest dramatic works in history as they lived it. Oedipus the King, Medea, Hippolytus and Antigone—just to name a few—were some of the earliest depictions of betrayal, war, family squabbles and love. These plays are the foundation of what modern theater looks like today, and what every playwright has attempted to duplicate ever since. So it is with great joy that we get to see Westminster College host the 45th annual Classical Greek Theatre Festival, featuring the tragedy Electra by Sophocles. The play tells the tale of the title princess of Argos, who saved her brother Orestes from being slain by their mother, Clytemnestra. Years later, Orestes returns home plotting revenge on the family who stole his right to the throne. Reported to be dead, Orestes’ ashes were brought to their home as part of the plot. Electra herself, still mourning the passing of her father at the hands of Clytemnestra, vows revenge in her own right and holds Clytemnestra responsible. Her grief is doubled when she learns of Orestes’ “demise” and gives a moving lament over her fallen brother. The play itself takes a turn from sorrow to hateful revenge, but the real joy from this play is watching Electra take center stage, risking her own joys to prevent an injustice. The production will tour throughout Utah in September, including the traditional Red Butte Garden daybreak performances Sept. 26-27. (Gavin Sheehan) Classical Greek Theatre Festival: Electra @ Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East, Sept. 4-5, 11-12, 7:30 p.m.; Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, Sept. 26-27, 9 a.m., $7-$15. Additional performances in West Valley City, Provo and Ogden. Visit WestminsterCollege.edu.

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Pablo Picasso famously said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” A child sees the world through a simple lens, before the child learns the what and how and why, which interrupts this purity of vision. That clarity of vision might be the best way to approach—not read, comprehend, or analyze—the paintings of Hyunmee Lee. Like children’s books that reduce images to simple, gestural shapes with a reliance on color, Lee’s various shapes, substances and amorphous forms are engaged in playful relationships that, like a children’s book, tell stories, or convey the kind of play the audience can get involved with. “Inland Passage No. 1” (pictured), massive at 72 square-inches, is quintessential of Lee’s work, where purity of form freely engages in as many relationships as her audience responds to. The upper right is a canary yellow, with crisp lines, bright and radiant—a large gesture. Toward the base is what looks like a frenzied watermark, with smudges of black. The two forms are hard to perceive without considering their relationship to each other, as well as their placement on an otherwise empty canvas. The intensity of the yellow form may dry up the vestiges of the semi-transparent, watery mark, while the heavy black remains. A smudge in space to the left and center echoes the transparency, mingled with black. There need not be a what or how or why, but simply an interconnectivity of elements. (Ehren Clark) Hyunmee Lee @ Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, 801-364-8284, Aug. 21-Sept. 11, free. Phillips-Gallery.com

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The Hart Is a Lonely Hunter One of the biggest stars in comedy doesn’t seem to be treated that way. BY CRAIG R. LINDSEY comments@cityweekly.net

evin Hart should’ve gotten a solo cover on Entertainment Weekly a long time ago. Hart, a 35-year-old Philadelphia native, is one of the most popular, successful comedy superstars out there. His list of accomplishments in 2015 alone is impressive: He starred in two of 2015’s most money-making comedies, The Wedding Ringer and Get Hard. He hosted Saturday Night Live for the second time. He presented at the Oscars. He emceed the Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber. And he was in Time’s annual 100 Most Influential People issue, with Chris Rock contributing an accompanying essay. Now he’s selling out arenas on his What Now? Tour, which makes a stop in Salt Lake City at the Maverik Center Sept. 8. And yet there is a sense that Hart doesn’t receive the same acclaim, esteem or media attention as comedians like Louis C.K. and Amy Schumer, both of whom have been featured in Entertainment Weekly cover stories. They are revered as brilliant comic minds, whereas Hart is dismissed as the funny short guy you see all over the place. In a recent Daily Beast piece, “Who Thinks Kevin Hart Is Funny?” writer Stereo Williams pondered why Hart doesn’t get enough respect. “Hart’s success shouldn’t be slighted,” Williams wrote. “He’s worked hard to get where he is. But it doesn’t feel like he’s where a comedian of his stature should be.” One is almost compelled to yell the dreaded R-word about this. After all, Hart also has a TV show, Real Husbands of Hollywood, which actually pulls in big ratings whenever a new season airs. But since it’s on BET— Black Entertainment Television, for those who don’t know—people other than black folks might assume it’s geared toward only black audiences (it’s not, by the way); that it’s not as white-people-friendly or buzzworthy as, say, Louie or Inside Amy Schumer.

Raleigh, N.C.-based comedian Thomas Dixson isn’t ready to pull the race card just yet. He feels Hart is a comedian for all audiences, and his positive, populist swagger may turn off tastemakers who like their comedians progressive, thought-provoking and a little pissed-off (which would certainly explain why biracial comedy duo Key & Peele gets so much mainstream love). “I think Kevin Hart is kind of like Drake, and Louis C.K. is like Kendrick Lamar,” says Dixson. “Hart is way more popular, but Louis C.K. does the kind of work that warrants the kind of attention he gets.” It’s not as though Hart is seeking that sort of attention, anyway. After all, he originally built his own brand and fan base through social media, extensive stand-up touring and YouTube videos. So he is very aware that if you go straight to the people and give them what they want, you don’t need to wait for the media or the industry to call you the Next Big Thing. Saul Austerlitz, journalist and author of Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy, thinks this may explain why the media won’t hop on the Hart train. “I think that, particularly for African-American performers, there does seem to be this track of creating your own brand and finding your own audience, and achieving incredible success without the awareness or the assistance of the mainstream media,” he says, citing Tyler Perry and Katt Williams as other examples of self-made black stars. “And I think that what happens, in part, is that the people in the media feel like, ‘Oh, someone like Tyler Perry or Kevin Hart has become really famous without my being aware of it.’ And therefore, that success is somehow less significant, because it didn’t involve media attention.” Hart continues to work hard for the laughs. Next year, he’ll star in Central Intelligence, a buddy-action-comedy with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and Ride Along 2, with Ice Cube. He’ll also voice a character in the animated feature The Secret Life of Pets—alongside media darling Louis C.K. So even if the purveyors of hype are still sore that they weren’t involved in launching Hart’s success, he’ll be letting them know he’s not going away anytime soon. CW This feature originally appeared in Indy Week.

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Soldier Hollow Sheepdog Championship & Festival Utah residents looking for something unique to do this Labor Day weekend might consider the 13th annual Sheepdog Championship & Festival. Perfect for any animal lover, this event highlights the amazing bond between man and dog. Each year, 64 of the world’s smartest dogs and their trainers come from all over the world—this year including the United Kingdom, South America, Africa, Canada and the United States—to compete. The competition course is designed to test what the dogs do in a normal work situation. They’ll retrieve a group of sheep, herd them through a marked course and separate them into different pens. The top dogs from the weekend compete on Monday in a more technical course for a bronze, silver or gold medal. The winning dog and trainer will also receive $10,000. Other events and demonstrations are planned throughout the weekend, and a wide variety of food will be available. (Shawna Meyer) Sheepdog Championship & Festival @ Soldier Hollow, 2002 Soldier Hollow Drive, Midway, 801-668-8016, Sept. 4-7, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. (approximately). Single-day tickets $8.50-$13.50; multi-day passes $27.50-$49. SoldierHollowClassic.com

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Defending the Caveman Sandy Amphitheater, 1245 E. 9400 South, Sandy, 801-568-6097, Sept. 8, 8 p.m., SandyArts.com The Diary of Anne Franks Hale Center Theater, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, 801-226-8600, MondaySaturday, Aug. 21-Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 3 p.m.; HaleTheater.org Electra 45th annual Classical Greek Theatre Festival, Various Utah venues, 801-832-2458, Sept. 4-27, WestminsterCollege.edu/greek_theatre (see p. 21) Fiddler on the Roof Brigham’s Playhouse, 25 N. 300 West, Washington, 435-251-8000, TuesdaySaturday, 7 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m., through Sept. 12, BrighamsPlayhouse.com Forever Plaid The Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State, 801-957-3322, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m.; through Sept. 19, The-Grand.org 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 p.m., 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 p.m. & 4 p.m.; through Oct. 3, HCT.org Seussical Beverly’s Terrace Plaza Playhouse, 99 E. 4700 South, Ogden, 801-393-0070, Mondays, Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m. (no performance Sept. 7), through Sept. 14, TerracePlayhouse.com Star Wards: These Are Not The Elders You’re Looking For Desert Star Playhouse, 4861 S. State, Murray, 801-266-2600, through Nov. 27, DesertStar.biz Tuacahn: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; Disney’s When You Wish; Sister Act Tuacahn Center for the Arts, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins, 800-746-9882, through Oct. 15, Tuacahn.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

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Movement in Film: A loveDANCEmore Exhibit Sweet Library, 455 F Street, 801-594-8651, performance Sept. 5, 3:30 p.m., through Oct. 17, SLCPL.org

COMEDY & IMPROV

Kevin Hart Maverik Center, 3200 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, Sept. 8, 7 p.m., MaverikCenter.com (see p. 22) Laughter Saves Comedy Tour w/ John Larocchia Wiseguys Comedy Club, 2194 W. 3500 South, 801-463-2909, Sept. 8, 7:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Marcus Wiseguys Comedy Club, 2194 W. 3500 South, 801-363-2909, Sept. 4-5, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Russ Nagel Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588, Sept. 4-5, WiseguysComedy.com Seaton Smith Club at 50 West, 50 W. 300 South, Sept. 4-5, 7 & 9:30 p.m., 50WestSLC.com

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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

A Celebration of Cultural Diversity Performing Arts Festival Pioneer Park, 350 S. 300 West, Sept. 5, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m., SaltLakeAmericanMuslim.com Festival LatinoAmericano Utah County Historic Courthouse, 51 S. University Ave., 801-655-0258, Sept. 4, 6-10 p.m.; Sept. 5-6, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.; FestivalProvo.com Oktoberfest Snowbird Resord, Highway 210 Little Cottonwood Canyon, Snowbird, 801-933-2222, through Oct. 11, Saturday & Sunday, noon-6:30 p.m., Snowbird.com Payson Golden Onion Days Memorial Park, 250 S. Main, Payson, 801-465-5200, Sept. 4-7, PaysonUtah.org

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moreESSENTIALS Pocket Film Fest Covey Center for the Arts, 425 W. Center Street, 801-358-2041, Sept. 1-5, PocketFilmFest.com (see p. 8) Polynesian Days Thanksgiving Point’s Electric Park, 3003 Thanksgiving Way, Lehi, 801-341-1100, Sept. 4-5, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sept. 7, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; PolynesianDays.com Soldier Hollow Sheepdog Classic Soldier Hollow, 2002 Olympic Drive, Midway, Sept. 4-7, 8 a.m.-6 p.m., SoldierHollowClassic.com (see p. 24) Timpanogos Storytelling Festival Mt. Timpanogos Park (Provo Canyon), Orem Public LIbrary, The Shops at Riverwoods and SCERA Shell Outdoor Theatre, Orem, Sept. 2-5, TimpFest.org

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

18th annual Teen Exhibit Art Access Gallery II, 230 S. 500 West, 801-328-0703, through Sept. 11, AccessArt.org 21st annual Partners Exhibit Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, 801-328-0703, through Sept. 11, AccessArt.org Alla Prima: Acrylic Paintings by Jennifer Seeley Main Library Level 2 Canteena, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Sept. 20, SLCPL.org Amalia Ulman: Stock Images of War Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Oct. 31, UtahMOCA.org Andrew Fillmore: Proof Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts, 631 W. North Temple, Suite 700, through Sept. 13, MestizoArts.org Aundrea Frahm: We Revolve Ceaseless Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Oct. 3, UtahMOCA.org Bill Reed: Fine Gold & Stainless Steel Art at the Main, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Sept. 12, SLCPL.org The British Passion for Landscape: Masterpieces from National Museum Wales Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, 801-581-7332, Aug. 29-Dec. 13, UMFA.Utah.edu (see p. 22) 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 Flora+Fauna Alice Gallery, 617 S. Temple, 801-236-7555, through Sept. 11, Heritage.utah.

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gov/dha/dha-featured/things-galleries-alice Hyunmee Lee Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, 801-364-8284, through Sept.11, Phillips-Gallery.com (see p. 21) Justin Carruth: Depart Broadway Center Cinemas, 111 E. 300 South, 385-215-6768, through October 3, CUArtCenter.org Kate Ericson & Mel Ziegler: Grandma’s Cupboard Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Dec. 19, UtahMOCA.org (see p. 21) Lizze Määttälä: Uphill/Both Ways Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Nov. 7, UtahMOCA.org Macie Hamblin and Eugene Tachinni The Green Loft, 2834 South Highland Drive, 801-599-5363, through Sept. 4 Mall No. 2 Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Sept. 12, UtahMOCA.org Memento: paintings by Mary Sinner A Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, 801-583-4800, through Sept. 11, AGalleryOnline.com Nature’s Beauty: Photography by Brenda Lower Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, 801-594-8611, through Sept. 25, artist reception Sept. 3, 7 p.m., SLCPL.org Rebecca Reese Jacoby Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, 801-596-5000, through Sept. 25, SaltLakeArts.org Ricardo Levins Morales: Joe Hill Art Exhibit Ken Sanders Rare Books, 268 E. 200 South, 801-521-3819, Sept. 1-12, artist reception Sept. 4, 6-8 p.m., KenSandersBooks.com Richard Lance Russell Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, 801-596-5000, through Sept. 25, SaltLakeArts.org Rob Wees: Dreams Unfolded Salt Lake Library Sprague Branch, 2131 S 1100 East, 801-5948640, through Sept. 18, SLCPL.org Rodrigo Valenzuela: Prole CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, 385-215-6768, through Sept. 12, CUArtCenter.org Still Life Exhibition Slusser Gallery, 447 E. 100 South, 801-532-1956, through Oct. 9, SlusserGallery.com Utah Watercolor Society Signature Show Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, 801-585-0556, through Sept. 13, RedButteGarden.org

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hanks to the presence of a robust Polynesian culture here in Utah, it’s possible to find authentic Hawaiianstyle cuisine right here in the Beehive State. I’ve written before about places like Mo’ Bettah Steaks and Big Sai’s Hawaiian BBQ, both of which I like a lot. But I recently discovered two more Hawaiian eateries—each very different from the other in menus and style—that are equally excellent. Moki’s Hawaiian Grill is located on a section of Redwood Road that is a smorgasbord of ethnic flavors and eateries. There’s lots of parking, and Moki’s is very roomy, decked out with plenty of Hawaiian kitschy décor like ukuleles, beach signs, shark’s teeth, tables with surfboards etched into them, Hawaiian and reggae music playing, etc. But somehow, it all works together. The folks who run the place are Hawaiian, and frequently speak in Hawaiian among themselves; guests are greeted with a friendly “Aloha!” Moki’s is primarily known for what in Hawaii is called the “plate lunch,” although there’s no reason you can’t have it for dinner. The prototypical plate lunch is one or two proteins with macaroni salad and scoops of white rice alongside. Food historians say that the plate lunch has its roots in the Japanese bento box lunch. Most plate lunches at Moki’s run from about $8.50 to $9.95, and include a salad (macaroni, Hawaiian chicken with Asian noodles, tossed green salad, or spinach with feta cheese), two scoops of white or brown rice and sliced pineapple. It’s a lot of food for the price. My favorite dish is the Two Meat Combo ($9.50). And, my go-to meat selections are the chicken katsu and kalua pork. The chicken is like German schnitzel or Japanese katsu (which are both usually made with pork). In this case, it’s a boneless chicken breast pounded thin, then breaded and deep-fried in oil. The chicken is golden and crisp, served with a tangy dipping sauce that I love; it tastes like a tropical marriage of fry sauce and ponzu. But the pork … oh, the pork. The kalua pork (shoulder, think) is smoked, shredded and served with chopped cabbage. It’s so tender and juicy that it requires no sauce at all. Other lunch plate options include Koreanstyle kalbi ($8.95), teriyaki beef ($8.95) and another of my favorites: Loco-Moco, which is hamburger patties topped with fried eggs and gravy ($8.95). On a visit to Hawaii, I discovered what would become one of my favorite foods:

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poke. I’ve heard it pronounced both “po-key” and “po-kay.” Take your pick. It’s a fish (usually tuna) salad that’s typically served in Hawaii as an appetizer, and it’s so ubiquitous there that you can get really good poke at grocerystore deli counters. It is most often made with yellowfin tuna, chopped into bite-size pieces and tossed with soy sauce, sesame oil, sea salt, seaweed and chili pepper or chili sauce. The poke is served raw, similar to ceviche. There are many variations, but that’s the basic recipe. The poke salad ($9) at Moki’s—listed on the menu as a “side” dish, but generous enough to serve as an entree—was freshtasting and very good, and came with a large scoop of sticky rice and pineapple. If you’re looking to round out your poke meal, I’d recommend a side of manapua: steamed pork buns ($4). Moki’s also offers smoothies, Hawaiian shaved ice, shakes, Hawaiian Sun sodas, and the perfect closer to any meal: the Hawaiian doughnut with ice cream, strawberries, pineapple and whipped cream, called mokisada ($5.95). I’d always thought that poke was limited to what I’ve described above: basically, raw tuna with fixings. That is, until I visited the Laid Back Poke Shack, which might as well be called “Poke R Us.” At Laid Back Poke Shack, the aforementioned tuna poke is merely one of some dozen or so poke options available on any given day. For example, on a recent Friday, the poke choices included shoyu ahi, ginger ahi, spicy ahi, oyster ahi, California spicy ahi, shoyu salmon, sesame calamari, kimchi tako, sweet chili shrimp, kimchi mussels, taegu (Korean seasoned cod) and spicy snow crab.

Kick back with shoyu salmon with seaweed salad over rice from Laid Back Poke Shack. The shoyu ahi is the standard ahi tuna with soy, sesame, etc., and it is excellent. But it’s also interesting to try the same fish— ahi—with other flavors and seasonings, like ginger or oyster sauce. The poke options at the Shack can be daunting. Thankfully, the folks who work there are super helpful and ready to guide a poke rookie like me through the various choices. There’s a sampling station where you can “try before you buy” any or all of the poke flavors you desire. To be honest, I’m not a huge fan of octopus, which tends to be too chewy. But at the Shack, the tako (octopus) poke was terrific. The menu setup is simple: There are small and large poke bowls priced at $11.50 and $14.50, accordingly. They come with rice and a choice of one or two pokes. The small bowl looks small, but was more food than I could finish at lunch. When all the poke cleared, my favorites were the California spicy ahi (with avocado) and the luscious snow crab (the crab is cooked). The Laid Back Poke Shack also has a handful of non-poke menu items such as kalua pig and a native-to-Hawaii sushi-like snack called musubi. It’s grilled Spam on sushi rice, wrapped in nori (dried seaweed). Hey, don’t knock it until you try it. CW

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Late Summer Sippers Last call for summer’s picnic wines. BY TED SCHEFFLER comments@cityweekly.net @critic1

’m not ready to think about shoveling snow just yet, especially in what is predicted to be an El Niño year. So while there’s still time before the air turns crisp and cool, I’m getting in as much camping and as many picnics and barbecues as I can. And, that means I’m working my way through the remainder of my favorite summer wines. Can I share a bargain with you? Utah liquor stores (some, not all) are giving Mezzocorona Anterra Chardonnay from Italy a trial run here. This is a terrific wine at a terrific price: $5.99. No, that’s not a typo. I don’t usually think of Chardonnay as an ideal picnic wine, but this one is light and crisp (I don’t detect any oak), with lemon and hints of ginger. Anterra reminds me more of French

Chablis than it does a bombastic Chardonnay. It would be great with cold chicken salad and chilled seafood dishes. I really like screwtop wine bottles for picnics, camping and barbecues, because it’s a sure bet that I’ll forget to bring one of the 40 or so corkscrews that I own. I remember the first screwtop wine I ever encountered. No, it wasn’t Boone’s Farm. The first legitimate wine I ever had with a screwtop was Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc ($15.99) from Marlborough, New Zealand. It was at Stein’s Eriksen Lodge’s prestigious Glitretind restaurant, of all places. The Kiwis are justifiably renowned for their Sauvignon Blanc, and you can certainly find pricier ones than this. But I don’t think you’ll find a better value. I’d stack Kim Crawford S-V up against the fancy-pants wines from New Zealand in a blind tasting, and it would do just fine. The wine is simultaneously brimming with sweet tropical-fruit flavors but also has great acidity and crispness—a nice balancing act. It’s a natural with oysters and grilled asparagus. I tend to eschew most wine gadgets, but here is one that is actually functional and adds some pizzazz to your summer sipping. The aforementioned Kim Crawford Wines teamed up with designer Anna Rabinowicz of Anna NYC to create RabLabs Wine Gems. These are fluorite “gems” that look like stone marbles. The idea is to freeze the gems and then use them to keep your wine cool, even

DRINK in hot temperatures. Because they’re made from stone, they’ll keep your glass of wine cool without diluting the wine’s flavors. Pretty nifty, eh? They’re $76 for a set of six with a carry bag, and can be found at RabLabs.com. If I could only choose one wine to drink during summer, it would probably be Rosé. Just last week, I wrote an entire column here about some of my favorites [“Rosé Roundup,” Aug. 27, City Weekly]. One I didn’t mention is another of my faves: Napa Valley’s Domaine Chandon Étoile Rosé ($31.99). This is a beautiful sparkling wine made from the classic Champagne grape combo of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier. When you decide to open that terrine of foie gras you brought home from France, open Chandon Étoile Rosé along with it. Fun fact: It’s about $20 less here than it sells for in California, and even $10 cheaper than it is to Chandon Wine Club members. Finally, for years, one of my favorite go-to warm weather wines has been Conundrum ($19.99). Conundrum is a nontraditional white-wine blend made of Chardonnay,

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Complete listings at cityweekly.net Featuring dining destinations from buffets and rooms with a view to mom & pop joints, chic cuisine and some of our dining critic’s faves! Notch Pub

Located east of Kamas on Mirror Lake Highway, The Notch Pub is a cozy drinking spot and music venue in a log cabin where you can find frosty brews and tasty food. When the weather is pleasant, enjoy nachos, a fresh salad or a burger basket with crinkle fries on the patio. Dave’s famous burger, a patty made with ground tri-tip steak topped with cherrywood-smoked cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato and onion is especially mouth-watering. The chili cheese fries, grilledchicken salad, barbecued pulled-pork sandwich and Notch dog are also delicious. There is also free pool on Sundays and Mondays, an open-mic night on Fridays and live music on Saturdays. 2392 E. Mirror Lake Highway, Kamas, 435-783-6244, TheNotchPub.com

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The handsome, dark-wood bars that stretch through the two Maxwell’s establishments are the pride of the business, and a staple in their respective nightlife scenes. But it’s not just about the drinks: Along with the rest of the menu, the delicious Fat Kid pizza that founder Steven Maxwell built his reputation on is well worth trying. This high-volume bar and restaurant has worked hard to develop its atmosphere, earning a clientele of regulars who come in several times a week. 1456 Newpark Blvd., Park City, 435-647-0304; 357 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-328-0304, MaxwellsECE.com

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At Olympus Burgers, you’ll find a big selection of gyros, souvlaki, chicken, fries and, of course, burgers. The food is fast and fresh, and you’ll also want to order one of the thick shakes to accompany your burger fix. Other tasty options include Greek pastitsio, spanakopita and rice pudding. Olympus Burgers dishes out delicious fry sauce, too. 9326 So. 700 East, Sandy, 801-571-6868; 6100 S. 900 East, Murray, 801-262-6293, OlympusBurgers.com

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The Greenery Restaurant is famous for its sunny and soothing garden-like ambience. Nestled in the Wasatch Mountains, overlooking the Ogden River, The Greenery Restaurant is also known for its bran Mormon Muffin, the “gabby crabby,” housemade caramel-apple pie and signature dishes like chicken fettuccine Alfredo, turkey enchiladas and the broccoli stuffed spuds. And although this eatery has a large Mormon clientele, you can still enjoy wine or beer with your meal. 1875 Valley Drive, Ogden, 801-392-1777, RainbowGardens.com

This little oasis on the edge of the Grand StaircaseEscalante National Monument, is both humble and refined. All the produce served is grown organically in the restaurant’s own “no-harm” farm, and all lamb and beef is raised locally and grass fed. Beloved by the community, Hell’s Backbone Grill is a lovely example of sustainable dining. The skillet-fried trout is sensational. Ditto for the chocolate chile cream pot. Despite the name, the restaurant is a heavenly dining experience well worth the drive. 20 N. Highway 12, Boulder, 435-335-7464, HellsBackboneGrill.com

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At Masala, you’ll find a New Delhi experience in the heart of Sugar House. The menu features fresh and authentic naan, tasty chicken tikka masala, mild to super-hot curries, and wraps filled with traditional Indian fare. While you wait for your fresh Indian cuisine, you can enjoy the Bollywood music videos that play in the background. 2223 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-487-2994, MasalaSLC.com

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What I Learned on My Summer Vacation

City Weekly film critics contemplate the lessons of the cinematic summer. BY SCOTT RENSHAW, MARYANN JOHANSON, ERIC D. SNIDER & ANDREW WRIGHT comments@cityweekly.net

A movie can make a billion dollars around the world yet somehow not have a single moment that’s memorable five minutes after you leave the theater (Minions). Nobody can turn a parent into emotional pudding like Pixar (Inside Out).

Scott Renshaw: Earthquakes & Zombies

If I want to see a bunch of guys treat women badly and behave with a smug sense of entitlement, I can just check out Reddit. (Entourage)

Entourage The most bankable stars at the indie-film box office are septuagenarians (Woman in Gold and Mr. Holmes). If you’re in the music business, whatever you do, avoid having Paul Giamatti manage your affairs … (Love & Mercy and Straight Outta Compton) … but you can trust him to know exactly when a catastrophic earthquake is going to hit (San Andreas). Arnold Schwarzenegger fighting zombies can be surprisingly boring (Maggie). Don’t assume that a young-adult novel adaptation is a predictable manic-pixie romance just because of the way it’s being sold (Paper Towns).

Unarmed kids on bikes are an even match for bad guys with guns in trucks (Max). One kid with a screwdriver can infiltrate and sabotage a NASA facility while a security guard’s back is turned (Tomorrowland). It’s easy to mistake human excrement for a relaxing mud facial (Vacation). However dumb you think sheep are, it turns out to they’re even dumber (Far From the Madding Crowd and Shaun the Sheep Movie).

Inside Out Eric D. Snider: Operas & Strip Clubs

When the artificially intelligent robots finally arrive, they will have fully articulated lips (Avengers: Age of Ultron).

Avengers: Age of Ultron

t’s hard to believe the kids are back in school already, and the summer movie season of 2015 is now in the rear-view mirror. But like those kids now getting back into their fall groove, those of us who cover movies need to switch gears, as the weather turns cooler, to the generally more serious fare in theaters. And it’s an opportunity to reflect on the life lessons we absorbed—like how, when Labor Day weekend offers so little new material at the movies, it might be a good idea to shamelessly rip off a gimmick used by outlets such as Entertainment Weekly and CNN. So, without further ado, here are some things we learned from summer movies both big and small.

MaryAnn Johanson: Mud Facials & Accents

The main reason people don’t attend their high school reunions is that none of their classmates have become sufficiently famous (The D Train). Even after the apocalypse, men will refuse to stop and ask for directions (Mad Max: Fury Road).

Far From the Madding Crowd

Pronunciation resides in the flesh, not in the mind, so if you want to acquire a sexy English accent, transfer your consciousness into a British body (Self/Less). The man who sang “We Saw Your Boobs” at the Oscars felt fit to give us a would-be touching story about civil rights and human dignity (Ted 2). Paul Blart, Mall Cop could plausibly be elected President of the United States (Pixels). If you’re looking to make it as a DJ, sleep with your celebrity mentor’s hot girlfriend; he won’t mind, really (We Are Your Friends).

Andrew Wright: Neck-Wringing & Evil Machines

Lab rats? Chimpanzees? Nah. Sheep. Sheep is where it’s at (Ant-Man).

Mad Max: Fury Road Clowns are always scary, even in movies that aren’t (Poltergeist). The CIA does not actually have a Face/Off machine (Spy). A good aunt knows exactly how old her sister’s children are, unless she’s some kind of workaholic monster (Jurassic World).

Jurassic World

The most adorable thing a mentally ill father can do is refuse to take his medication (Infinitely Polar Bear). There are people who are nostalgic for ’90s hip-hop (Dope). It’s possible to make a movie about strippers without showing anyone naked (Magic Mike XXL). Exciting things can happen at an opera (Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation).

Ant-Man

To a trained assassin, absolutely everything in your average warehouse can be used as a lethal weapon. Especially, you know, that jet engine hanging right over there (Hitman: Agent 47). Facing off against a legendary superhero renowned for his amazing powers of stretchiness? Eh, just grab his neck and start choking (Fantastic Four). In the future, evil machines can do anything: leapfrog through various illdefined time-streams, give a cyborg a distinguished gray dye-job, and just oodles of stuff involving nanobots. Fashioning a nonterrifying recreation of beloved character actor Bill Paxton’s face from 1984, however, is a circuit-melter (Terminator Genisys). Carwashes should really have spectator stands (Tangerine). CW

CINEMA CLIPS NEW THIS WEEK Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change. JIMMY’S HALL BB No one has mastered the art of turning tense discussions over political philosophies and tactics into drama like director Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty; it’s a shame there’s not more of it here. They plumb the fact-based story of Jimmy Gralton (Barry Ward), who returns from American to his home in Ireland in 1932, 10 years after his communist sentiments made him a target, and sets about re-opening a secular social hall that threatens the fragile peace between political factions. The narrative strolls through some conventional conflicts, including Jimmy’s reunion with the now-married girl he left behind (Simone Kirby) and a clash with the stern parish priest (Jim Norton). But the film struggles to turn Jimmy into a vital character; he often seems more passionate about teaching American jazz dancing than inciting the working class to fight. The real energy emerges in a few debates between pragmatists and idealists over how forcefully to challenge authority, but Loach can’t sustain that energy. The struggle against predictable biopic rhythms is one Jimmy’s Hall should have been willing to fight more strenuously. Opens Sept. 4 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—Scott Renshaw

A WALK IN THE WOODS BBB There’s almost nothing here beyond the opportunity to watch two veteran actors play off one another—and it turns out that’s enough. Robert Redford stars as travel writer Bill Bryson in this adaptation of Bryson’s book about his attempt to hike the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine, accompanied by Stephen Katz (Nick Nolte), a ne’er-do-well old college buddy Bryson hasn’t seen in 40 years. Director Ken Kwapis has worked on a lot of TV comedy over the course of his career, and there’s certainly a jokey sitcom vibe to situations like Katz fleeing from a jealous husband, or Katz and Bryson dealing with an irritating fellow hiker they encounter along their way. But Kwapis also allows room for the awkward reunion between the two aging men to evolve, as Redford and Nolte employ their respective personas as stoic outdoorsman and grizzled troublemaker to charming effect. There’s an elegiac quality to the way both men use the trail to find out what they still have left in the tank as they near the end of their lives, but the movie itself is a reminder of the value of experience. Opens Sept. 2 at theaters valleywide. (R)—SR Z FOR ZACHARIAH BB.5 It’s one thing to be understated in approaching the end of the world as a cinematic subject; it’s another thing for it to feel that virtually nothing has been stated. Director Craig Zobel loosely adapts Richard C. O’Brien’s novel, set in a Southern

U.S. valley where Ann (Margot Robbie) believes she may be the only survivor of an unnamed nuclear disaster. But one day, an engineer named John (Chiwetel Ejiofor) wanders into the valley, offering the hope of human contact again—which is complicated when another survivor, Caleb (Chris Pine) arrives some time later. The adaptation stumbles out of the gate by not taking enough time to establish the lonely normalcy of Anne’s pre-John existence, then recovers to find strong moments as the two survivors contemplate what their relationship will be. But it all collapses again once Pine shows up, briefly raising two potentially intriguing areas of inquiry—race, and faith vs. pragmatism in crisis—without doing anything substantive with either of them. Despite the solid performances by Robbie and Ejiofor in particular, it simply pokes along as a golden-toned Nicholas Sparks melodrama version of the apocalypse. Opens Sept. 4 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—SR

SPECIAL SCREENINGS GANGRENE COMEDY FILM FESTIVAL At Ed Kenley Amphitheater, Layton, Sept. 4, 7 p.m. & 10 p.m. (NR) GOLDFINGER At Main Library, Sept. 9, 2 p.m. (NR) REPO: THE GENETIC OPERA At Tower Theatre, Sept. 4-5 @ 11 p.m. & Sept. 6 @ noon. (R) THE SAGEBRUSH SEA At Main Library, Sept. 8, 7 p.m. (NR)

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STEVE JOBS: THE MAN IN THE MACHINE BB.5 Alex Gibney loves the sound of his own voice, both literally and metaphorically. This sprawling exploration of the life of the late Apple Computers co-founder begins with a potentially intriguing idea, built on footage of reactions to Jobs’ death from cancer in 2011: Why did people feel such a personal connection to this businessman and the brand he created? What follows from that idea, however, is a combination of conventional biography—from childhood as an adoptee through various professional reversals of fortune—and exposé. That means plenty of time addressing the more unpleasant aspects of Jobs’ life and personality, from attempting to deny paternity of his illegitimate daughter to cutthroat treatment of anyone who dared to cross him professionally. And through it all, there’s Gibney inserting his narration, which makes it harder to focus on his potentially interesting thesis when we’re hearing compulsive smartphone use described as “like Frodo’s hand to The Ring.” Sure, Jobs was a genius and a jerk, but Gibney spends so much time rambling and musing that we don’t get a chance to understand why so many people only wanted to hear the “genius” part. Opens Sept. 4 at Tower Theatre. (R)—SR

THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED [not yet reviewed] Ed Skrein takes over the role of mercenary Frank Martin for his latest dangerous assignment. Opens Sept. 4 at theaters valleywide. (R)

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PHOENIX BBBB Hitchcock’s Vertigo has been invoked repeatedly as a comparison for Christian Petzold’s mesmerizing drama, but while he’s adapting a French novel that has already been turned into a film once before, absolutely nothing here feels second-hand. In 1945 post-war Berlin, wounded Holocaust survivor Nelly (Nina Hoss) undergoes reconstructive surgery that completely changes her face. When Nelly seeks out her husband, Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld), he doesn’t recognize her, instead thinking she’s a stranger who might pass as Nelly just enough to help him collect her family inheritance. Hoss gives a remarkable performance as a woman forced to play-act her own life, while also conveying the ways in which she has changed—particularly a shambling, zombie-like walk—that makes her almost the different person Johnny believes her to be. There’s complexity in every key relationship—including that between Nelly and her caretaker, Lene (Nina Kunzendorf)—that emphasizes how impossible it might be to find a happy ending after so much horror. And Phoenix’s final scene builds to such a devastating revelation that it’s hard to believe anyone would leave thinking of some other movie. Opens Sept. 4 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (PG-13)—SR

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CURRENT RELEASES DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL BBB.5 Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner’s graphic novel moves beyond merely leering at adolescent female sexuality, bringing complexity to the circa-1976 story of 15-year-old Minnie (Bel Powley)—recently deflowered by her mother’s 34-year-old boyfriend (Alexander Skarsgård)—and she how thinks about sex, love and physical intimacy. While there’s a welcome sex-positivity to much of the story, it’s hardly a grand celebration of Minnie’s exploits, as Powley’s performance beautifully captures someone who’s, at times, mature and watchful and, at times, still girlish in her bouncy physicality. A mix of giddiness and danger isn’t easy to sustain over 105 minutes, and there are moments when Diary veers toward becoming the Trainspotting of teen sexual experimentation. But Heller never stands in judgment of Minnie, understanding the weird emotional place where the only reasonable response to “I had sex today” would be, “Holy shit!” (R)—SR THE END OF THE TOUR BBB What does a biographical dramatic work owe to its real-life subjects? This fact-based story—about five days journalist David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) spent with author David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) in 1996—collides with that problem. Segel and Eisenberg both do a terrific job at capturing the tentative, often insecure interplay between the two writers; Segel, in particular, conveys a yearning for realness that’s almost never forced or precious. Yet a framing narrative set after Wallace’s suicide in 2008 also suggests that Wallace must have telegraphed that his death was coming, and director James Ponsoldt draws attention to those potentially telling moments. Maybe

The End of the Tour doesn’t owe us—or Wallace—anything more. But if “authenticity” is part of that version of Wallace the movie is trying to sell, it’s hard not to ask the question. (R)—SR MERU BBB.5 You know a documentary is working when you see its subjects talking about events that have already happened, yet you’re still anxiously wondering if they’ll survive. Co-directors Jimmy Chin and E. Chai Vasarhelyi track the multi-year quest by alpinists Chin, Conrad Anker and Renan Ozturk to conquer the neverbefore-summitted “shark fin” peak of India’s Mount Meru. The filmmakers introduce just enough history to establish the three climbers as characters, but the real star is the intensity of Chin and Ozturk’s GoPro footage of the Meru expeditions, capturing not just the vertiginous reality of the climbs themselves, but the moments at rest when they have a chance to ponder dangers ahead, and how much they’re willing to risk for the chance to stand in a place where no one has ever stood before. (NR)—SR MISTRESS AMERICA BB.5 Noah Baumbach follows new Barnard College freshman Tracy (Lola Kirke) as she struggles to adjust socially to her new environs, then finds a ready-made friend and life-tour-guide in her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke (Greta Gerwig), a charismatic whirlwind of big ideas that never quite go anywhere. The first half is genuinely charming, both in capturing Tracy’s initial insecurity and loneliness, and in giving Gerwig another great alpha-female showcase. Then the plot shifts abruptly to focus on Brooke’s trip to beg an old flame for funds to invest in her planned restaurant, and the whole thing turns into a shrill farce of dueling recriminations, generally building the need for some sort of headache medication. Whatever Baumbach and Gerwig want to say about the inspirational charms of life’s colorful, flaky characters, they can find a way to say it without shouting. (R)—SR

NO ESCAPE BB.5 At first glance, it looks like another Liam Neeson flick about beating up cartoon foreigners, but No Escape wants to be Something Serious. The Dwyers of Austin, Tex. (Owen Wilson and Lake Bell) and their daughters have just moved to an unnamed Asian country where engineer Jack will bring clean drinking water. But the locals are angry at Western corporate colonialism and launch a bloody uprising. Once you get past being startled at how unexpectedly fierce Wilson can be—and past the cultural narcissism that Western corporate colonialism is only an issue when it impacts a nice white American family—No Escape is actually enjoyably intense as the Dwyers have to get the hell out of Dodge amid violent revolution (assisted by Pierce Brosnan’s shady covert operative). It’s not very plausible, but it’s occasionally the stuff of arm-rest-gripping and breathholding. (R)—MaryAnn Johanson

WAR ROOM B.5 The title’s military metaphor seems apt, since this feels like a gung-ho, conveniently-ignore-the-hard-part recruitment video. Christian auteurs Alex and Stephen Kendrick tell the story of Elizabeth (Priscilla C. Shirer), struggling with an unhappy marriage to her husband, Tony (T.C. Stallings)—until widow Clara Williams (Karen Abercrombie) becomes her spiritual adviser. It’s initially refreshing to find an affluent African-American family as protagonists, and there’s merit to the self-healing that comes from spiritual practice. But the messy structure builds to so many different endings it should’ve been called The Return of the King of Kings. And even more troubling is the mix of victim-blaming and an infantile depiction of prayer that turns God into a genie. There’s nothing uplifting about suggesting that you can tell a real Christian by the way everything always works out exactly the way they pray for it. (PG)—SR

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 crowd-pleaser 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

WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS BBB The buzz of restless energy in co-writer/director Max Joseph’s movie at times keeps it from finding a groove, but it certainly captures the Millennial uncertainty at its center. Zac Efron plays Cole, an aspiring Southern California DJ who finds a mentor in superstar DJ James (Wes Bentley)—but that dynamic is only a small part of a story that also sprawls through Zac’s relationship with his Entourage-esque crew of buddies and his attraction to Reed’s girlfriend/assistant (Emily Ratajkowski). And while the constantly shifting settings are at times disorienting, Joseph uses that approach to explore a 20-something generation with no confidence that they know how to find a path to success. The momentum of his visual style allows him to wiggle through the character clichés and find a uniquely propulsive coming-of-age story. (R)—SR

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Series Debut: Probably no one is more excited about the long-awaited arrival of new Late Show host Stephen Colbert than James Corden, who’s been working The Late, Late Show for more than three months without a proper lead-in, just reruns of CBS dramas (no comedian should be forced to follow the unintentional hilarity of CSI: Cyber). As for Colbert, the Late Show Stephen Colbert will be the real Stephen Colbert, not the hyper-arch “Stephen Colbert” of Comedy Central’s Colbert Report … follow? Night 1’s guests are no great shakes (reliable charmer George Clooney and GOP snoozer Jeb Bush), but don’t worry: Trump can’t stay away for long.

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Season Premiere: Hulu’s original content ranges from expectedly average (Quick Draw, Deadbeat, The Hotwives) to surprisingly good (Difficult People, the rescued-from-Fox Mindy Project); animated superhero comedy The Awesomes falls somewhere in the middle. Producer Seth Meyers voices Dr. “Prock” Awesome, the son of retired superhero Mr. Awesome, who reluctantly turned the super-team brand over to his (mostly) power-free kid. Prock’s assembled replacement squad of reject superheroes (voiced by Taran Killam, Kenan Thompson and Rashida Jones, among others) isn’t exactly The Avengers, hence, comedy. It’s more hit than miss, and who can resist a supervillian team called P.R.I.C.K.S. (“Primates Really Into Crime and Killing Sprees”)?

The League Wednesday, Sept. 9 (FXX)

Season Premiere: Meanwhile, adding insult to idiocy, The League is ending on Season 7! The series has had a great run, however—hell, it’s survived an NFL near-lockout and a move to FXX, two hits that would have killed a lesser fantasy-football comedy (if there were another fantasy-football comedy, anyway). The League is more about the fine art of trash talk and friendly-occasionally-turning-nasty rivalry than football stats, and the cast (Mark Duplass, Stephen Rannazzisi, Nick Kroll, Jonathan Lajoie, Paul Scheer and Katie Aselton) have ratcheted both up to ridiculous new levels every year (last season ended with a beach house in flames and a ghost Adam Brody—OK, now what?). Don’t let the sportsball angle

deter you; catch up on The League before the quarterback throws the final home-run hard in the paint.

You’re the Worst Wednesday, Sept. 9 (FXX)

Season Premiere: The most buzzed-about new comedy of 2014 began as a decadent raunch-com about a pair of narcissistic Los Angelenos (Chris Geere and Aya Cash) who fell in love in spite of themselves, and ended on the sweet/sour note of them (ack!) moving in together. You’re the Worst, from casting to writing, was so sharply perfect that Season 2 seems like an impossible dream—fortunately, the first couple of episodes show no sign of waning. Unlike Jimmy (Geere) and Gretchen (Cash), who are so terrified of becoming a “boring couple” that they’re partying 24/7 at near-lethal levels (if you’ve ever fantasized about hijacking a Google Car, prepare to squee). You know what? Forget everything else I’ve written (like you already haven’t): You’re the Worst is the only show you need to watch. 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.

The Awesomes Tuesday, Sept. 8 (Hulu)

Season Premiere: Six years ago, The Only TV Column That Matters™ declared Cake Boss an unwatchable knockoff of reality classic Ace of Cakes and questioned the “Learning” component of The Learning Channel. Now, we all know that TLC stands for Toddlers, Lunatics and Cake (thanks, Natasha Leggero), Ace of Cakes is long gone and Cake Boss is now entering Season 7(!). This inexplicable survivor of the Guido Reality Wave (remember when this nation was rapt with Jersey Shore? We’re far more sophisticated now) is just as obnoxiously stoopid and overtly scripted as it was in 2009, so let’s hear it for consistency!

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hough it’s a century too late to save Joe Hill from the Utah firing squad, Bucky Halker wants to rescue him from the folkies. Labor activist and songwriter Hill was the bard of the itinerant and the immigrant, the unskilled and the unwanted. He took the raw material of working-class lives and turned it into music—songs to amuse, to organize, to “fan the flames of discontent.” As semiofficial songwriter for the militant Industrial Workers of the World—popularly known as the Wobblies—he composed songs to be sung on soapboxes, picket lines or in jail. In 1914, Hill was arrested in Salt Lake City and charged with killing a storekeeper, allegedly in a botched robbery. Despite the flimsy nature of the evidence, Hill was convicted and sentenced to death. An international amnesty movement pressed for a new trial, but Utah Gov. William Spry refused, and Hill was executed on Nov. 19, 1915. In a final message, Hill urged fellow workers, “Don’t waste any time in mourning—organize.” Since his death, Hill has been immortalized in a wide variety of cultural expression: poetry by Kenneth Patchen, fiction by Wallace Stegner, a song by Alfred Hayes and Earl Robinson, popularized by Paul Robeson, promising “wherever workingmen are out on strike, Joe Hill is at their side.” But primarily, Hill’s legacy has been kept alive by such folk artists as Joan Baez, Phil Ochs and Utah Phillips. On Sept. 5, several performers—including Judy Collins and Joe Jencks—will play a free all-day concert at Sugar House Park commemorating the centennial of Hill’s death. Halker, a Chicago musician and labor historian, has released a CD of new interpretations of Hill’s music Anywhere But Utah—The Songs of Joe Hill (Revolting Records, available online at CD Baby), taking his title from Hill’s dying wish that his remains be transported out of state, because he didn’t want “to be found dead in Utah.” Inspired by Hill’s mastery of working-class vernacular and various music styles, Halker draws on a wide range of musical forms while maintaining the humor and pointed commentary of the originals. The album includes such familiar Hill classics as “The Preacher and the Slave,” “There is Power in a Union” and “The Rebel Girl” as well as some surprising obscurities, like the wistfully romantic “Come and Take a Joy-Ride in My Aeroplane.” “I wanted to make a record that Hill would like,” Halker says. “That was my priority from the beginning. I don’t think he’d like a straight folk-revival, strumming-acoustic-guitar approach, as that has nothing to do with most of his material. He played the piano and the fiddle, after all. The folk revivalists did a great service by keeping Hill’s work in circulation but trying to keep him in that small musical box is way off the mark. So, I borrowed from vaudeville and the music hall, piano blues and early jazz, alt-country, swing, punk and gospel.” Hill occasionally wrote his own music, but he typically adapted the tunes of hymns or popular songs of the day. As Halker comments, “With all his tune choices, he was like other working-class writers and had the same goal—use tunes that workers knew already for labor songs, and then they’d be easy for workers to sing.

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Don’t mourn: organize. Bucky Halker sings Joe Hill. “Music was a centerpiece of the Wobbly movement culture,” Halker continues. “The IW W cleverly used singing and chanting as a way to garner attention from workers, the media and the authorities. Fifty workers singing makes a lot more noise at a rally or in a jail cell than one speaker on a soapbox or one person ranting in the joint. Singing jailbirds can make a big ruckus, one that the taxpayers and authorities discovered early on.” Hill’s mastery of American vernacular is especially impressive given his background as a Swedish immigrant. “His work is filled with humor, irony and sarcasm, hardly easy skills to gain in your second language,” Halker comments. “You can tell from his lyrics that he paid close attention to the music-hall and Tin Pan Alley writers of the day.” Halker believes Hill’s legacy continues to resonate because many of the issues he discussed remain timely. “I think there are many people who hear his songs and immediately sense that the issues raised by Hill and other Wobbly bards remain important to our national discussion—including decent wages and working conditions, immigrant rights, discrimination based on race, the oppression of women, the right to form a union and the right to free speech. “I think that Hill and other Wobbly bards and writers should get some credit for their use of sarcasm and irony in the development of American literature,” Halker continues. “They had sharp wits and tongues that worked deftly and at great speed, something which only pissed off the lunkhead bosses, the law and the ruling elite even more. The authorities and their lackeys dislike radicals, and they really hate them when they’re much smarter than they are.” CW David Cochran teaches history at John A. Logan College in Carterville, Ill.

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ukas Nelson & Promise of the Real met at a Neil Young show. After the concert, Lukas, drummer Anthony LoGerfo, bassist Merlyn Kelly and some friends adjourned to Kelly’s practice pad in Seal Beach, Calif. They jammed into the wee hours and went surfing in the dark. It was so much fun that, when a stingray zapped Nelson, he shook it off just to keep the night alive. The next day, he wrote the lyrics for “My Own Wave”: “So much left to show/ But the music never slows/ It goes and goes.” Knowing they’d found something real, Nelson says, “We started the band that night.” Recruiting longtime family friend and percussionist Tato Melgar, the foursome spent the next six months playing on the beach for anyone who’d listen. Then they decided to hit the road. Nelson intended for the band to pay their dues. “I’d just read [Hermann Hesse’s] Siddhartha—I needed to leave a place of comfort and go out and feel the extremities of both sides of humanity. I wanted to sleep in cars, on couches and get to know people. I felt like my parents had already given me a fulfilling life; I didn’t want to have to ask them for money.” And that’s an admirable sentiment, considering Nelson’s father is living legend Willie Nelson. So in fall 2008, POTR lit out in LoGerfo’s old pickup, calling themselves Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, inspired by a verse from Neil Young’s “Walk On”: “Some get stoned/ Some get strange/ But sooner or later/ It all gets real.” On tour, Lukas bared his soul, and used his teeth to play ripping extended guitar solos inspired by his guitar heroes Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan and J.J. Cale. The band played as though they’d forged a telepathic connection. The crowd embraced POTR’s open, joyful vibe and sincere, raucous country-rock tunes. It took five months before they saw any money, but finally, proceeds from a soundboardrecorded EP, Live Beginnings, enabled POTR to upgrade from a truck to a dangerously rickety RV.

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That’s when Willie and his wife Annie intervened: “They didn’t want us to kill ourselves in that RV.” The Nelsons gave the band one of their buses, but left the fuel, maintenance and driver expenses to them. That was a deal Lukas could live with. In June 2009, the group released the Brando’s Paradise EP, featuring “My Own Wave.” Kelly left and Corey McCormick joined in time for the band’s eponymous first LP. The group logged hundreds of shows, including appearances at Farm Aid, Neil Young’s Bridge School Benefit, and Stagecoach. Their fan base dubbed themselves “Realers”; April 2012 brought the group’s second album, Wasted. The band played 250 shows, picking up more new fans—like Neil Young, who came to POTR’s show this time. Although Young and Willie had been friends for years, Lukas “didn’t know Neil that well”—they’d only met a few times in his life. Since connecting backstage, however, Young has become POTR’s guru. “He’s given us a ton of advice,” says Lukas. “Besides my father, Neil is my biggest influence. My father is who I go to when I’m looking for spiritual advice and the roots of who I am, musically. In life decisions, I look at what my father has done. Technically and musically, I look at Neil, too.” Mutual admiration led Young to invite the band to back him up on his 2015 album, The Monsanto Years (Reprise), which is credited to Neil Young + Promise of the Real. POTR toured with Young to promote the record, and will do more shows with him soon. In the meantime, they’re finishing their upcoming third album, and they’ve released Realer Bootlegs Vol. 1 (PromiseOfTheReal.com), a stopgap EP to pacify fans while POTR talks with record labels. For business reasons, Lukas is mum on which labels they’re meeting with. Otherwise, he’s about keeping it real. “That’s a promise Neil made, and it’s a promise we make: We’ll deliver reality whether it’s sadness, happiness, boredom, good friends, inspiration … whatever it is, we’ll deliver it musically.” CW

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What’s the formula for determining a band’s cool quotient? Social Distortion—Social D to their adoring fans—would score pretty high. After all, they’re drawing from three different strains of hip. They’ve got raw punk cred, greasy rockabilly authority and they made Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” their own—which earns them their country stripes, and then some. That’s why, even when they don’t put out new music on a reliable schedule, we’re happy just to know they’re still out there. A band that cool usually breaks up, leaving their fans crestfallen and wishing for a reunion. Happily, Social D is out on tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of their watershed self-titled album (which features “Ring” as well as “Ball and Chain” and “Story of My Life”) and they’re talking about a new album in 2016. Meanwhile, country singer-songwriter Nikki Lane, is just getting started, having released her second album, All or Nothin’ (New West) in late 2014. Produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, it’s garnering comparisons to Wanda Jackson, the Queen of Rockabilly herself. Lane’s sound definitely smacks of Jackson, but she doesn’t deal with the ‘billy so much as the blues, and even hints at Phil Spector pop on “Good Man” and “I Don’t Care.” Opening the evening is a set by Colorado’s Drag the River, a sublime alt-country band featuring members of All, Armchair Martian and The Nobodys. (RH) The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 8 p.m., $37, DepotSLC.com

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Say what you will about ’80s synth-pop maestro Howard Jones: He dressed funny; in the hair department, he one-upped A Flock of Seagulls and went full-on Flock of Peacocks; his songs are—eeeewww—poppy. Actually, that’s what they said about him back in the day—even as he strung together hits like he was making a macaroni necklace. And you know you like at least one of his songs. The synth-pop/reggae lite tune “Like to Get to Know You Well” scores the reversal-of-fortune montage in Savage Steve Holland’s beloved 1985 cult comedy Better Off Dead. The inspirational “Things Can Only Get Better” and the be-happy ditty, “New Song,” are kryptonite for the doldrums. Even when he’s bummed out, like in his no-fault break-up ballad “No One Is to Blame,” Jones is still looking on the bright side. And “Joy” from his CD/DVD, Engage (HowardJones. com), is no different, talking about being the change you want to see in the world. The one difference is that, nowadays, HoJo’s not so flashy—but that’s fine. ‘Cause it was always about the music, anyway. (Note: This is the first of three Howard Jones preformances at the Egyptian this weekend. Details below.) (RH) The Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St. (Park City), Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 6 p.m., $39-65, EgyptianTheatreCompany.org

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Social Distortion to the musician’s dapper attire. Add the slick James Brown-esque dance moves, Bill Withers-like voice and some of the darker subject material, like poverty, and it’s a soulful glimpse out into a less-affluent world. The themes on his 2014 release, Lift Your Spirit (XIX Records/Interscope Records), are generally either joyful or political. Even though “Wake Me Up” was originally released as a collaboration with Swedish DJ Avicii, he tours his own version, an alternative-rock acoustic arrangement. (TF) Deer Valley’s Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater, 2250 Deer Valley Drive, Park City, 7 p.m., $45-$85, DeerValley.com »

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Experimental indie band On an On, from Minneapolis, is touring their newest record, And the Wave Has Two Sides (Roll Call Records). Like a fusion of Sufjan Stevens, Tame Impala and something entirely new, their music is likewise representative of two sides of experimental indie sound: On some tracks, gloomier than their 2013 debut, Give In, but when it’s rocking, it’s encouraging and upbeat. Their evolved sound is as melodic and beautiful as Give In, but this time, they worked with producer Joe Chiccarelli (The Shins, White Stripes, My Morning Jacket), and he brought out a deeper level of experimentation, with more elements from the keys and catchy backup vocal hooks. All three of the bandmates contribute vocals, which are drifting and beautiful over the restless bass and beats. Opening the concert is the feisty electro-indie artist Eliot Sumner and electro-experimental instrumentalist Dosh. (TF) Kilby Court, 741 S. 330 West, 8 p.m., $10 advance, $12 day of show, KilbyCourt.com

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Master of beautiful melodies and edgy electronic strategy, Zedd (alias of Anton Zaslavski) is touring his 2015 EDM release, True Colors (Interscope Records). The German/Russian DJ has produced albums from Ellie Goulding, Lady Gaga and Foxes. The spectrum of artists he works with is reflected in his own DJ albums, tracks of which range from triumphant and playful, like “Straight Into the Fire,” to dramatic and anguished, like “Papercut.” At Saltair, it might be easier for him to stay behind his DJ equipment, but he has been known to meander over to the piano to play “Stay the Night.” At the end of August, Zedd called out the British-bop band One Direction, whom he says ripped off the melody and phrase “All my life” from the chorus of his track, “True Colors,” on their single, “Drag Me Down” (which dropped 2 1/2 months after his). Madeon and Alex Metric open. (TF) The Great Saltair, 12408 W. Saltair Drive, Magna, 7:30 p.m., $38.50 in advance, $40 day of show, TheSaltair.com

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Sweden’s on a roll with progressive house music. While Avicii collaborates with Coldplay and Madonna, Cazzette—also from Sweden— is collaborating with bubble-pop artists like A-Trak, The High, and Newtimers, easing their way up the ladder. The duo bass-dropped into the scene in 2012 with their debut LP Eject, which garnered respectable reviews. Now, they’re best known for their R&B-infused track “Beam Me Up” and its clever video, which has accrued more than 7 million views on YouTube. They also scored a No. 1 hit on the Billboard dance charts with “Blind Heart,” featuring vocals Terri B. They’re touring their latest EP, Desserts (LE7ELS) which dropped earlier this year. (Robby Poffenberger) Park City Live, 427 Main, Park City, 9 p.m., $20-$40, ParkCityLive.com

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WEDNESDAY 9.9

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The people who architecture and paved roads. They were prolific artists, and had wrote the tune offered it first to Pink and then to Hillary Duff, a profound understanding of mathematics and astronomy. And but neither accepted. Don’t be like those two singers, Gemini. yet they did not make or use wheeled vehicles, which had been Be like Clarkson. Recognize opportunities when they are pre- common in much of the rest of the world for over 2,000 years. I see a certain similarity between this odd disjunction and your sented to you, even if they are in disguise or partially cloaked. life. Although you’re mostly competent and authoritative, you are neglecting to employ a certain resource that would enhance CANCER (June 21-July 22) “Going with the flow” sounds easy and relaxing, but here’s your competence and authority even further. Fix this oversight! another side of the truth: Sometimes it can kick your ass. The rippling current you’re floating on may swell up into a boisterous CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) wave. The surge of the stream might get so hard and fast that If you have ever fantasized about taking a pilgrimage to a wild your ride becomes more spirited than you anticipated. And yet frontier or sacred sanctuary or your ancestral homeland, the next I still think that going with the flow is your best strategy in the 10 months will be an excellent time to do it. And the best time coming weeks. It will eventually deliver you to where you need to to plan such an adventure will be the coming two weeks. Keep the following questions in mind as you brainstorm: 1. What are go, even if there are bouncy surprises along the way. your life’s greatest mysteries, and what sort of journey might bring an awakening that clarifies them? 2. Where could you go LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “Money doesn’t make you happy,” said movie star and ex-Califor- in order to clarify the curious yearnings that you have never fully nia governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. “I now have $50 million, understood? 3. What power spot on planet Earth might activate but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.” Despite his avow- the changes you most want to make in your life? al, I’m guessing that extra money would indeed make you at least somewhat happier. And the good news is that the coming months AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) will be prime time for you to boost your economic fortunes. Your When he died at the age of 77 in 1905, Aquarian author Jules ability to attract good financial luck will be greater than usual, and Verne had published 54 books. You’ve probably heard of his sciit will zoom even higher if you focus on getting better educated and ence fiction novels Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. He was a major influence on organized about how to bring more wealth your way. numerous writers, including Jean-Paul Sartre, J. R. R. Tolkien and Arthur Rimbaud. But one of his manuscripts never made VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge it into book form. When he finished it in 1863, his publisher of my hand.” So sang Jimi Hendrix in his raucous psychedelic refused to publish it, so Verne stashed it in a safe. It remained tune “Voodoo Child (Slight Return).” We could view his state- there until his great-grandson discovered it in 1989. Five years ment as an example of delusional grandiosity, and dismiss it later, Verne’s “lost novel,” Paris in the Twentieth Century, went as meaningless. Or we could say it’s a funny and brash boast on sale for the first time. I suspect that in the coming months, that Hendrix made as he imagined himself to be a mythic hero you may have a comparable experience, Aquarius. An old dream capable of unlikely feats. For the purposes of this horoscope, that was lost or never fulfilled may be available for recovery and let’s go with the latter interpretation. I encourage you to dream resuscitation. up a slew of extravagant brags about the outlandish magic powers you have at your disposal. I bet it will rouse hidden reserves of PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) “I enjoy using the comedy technique of self-deprecation,” says energy that will enhance your more practical powers. stand-up comic Arnold Brown, “but I’m not very good at it.” Your task in the coming weeks, Pisces, is to undermine your own LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) It’s the phase of your cycle when you have maximum power to skills at self-deprecation. You may think they are too strong and transform yourself. If you work hard to rectify and purify your inner entrenched to undo and unlearn, but I don’t—especially now, life, you will be able to generate a transcendent release. 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