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Circumcision Decision

Male circumcision rates in Utah decline as parents reconsider the procedure.

By Allison Oligschlaeger

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CWCONTENTS COVER STORY CIRCUMCISION DECISION

Male circumcision rates in Utah decline as parents reconsider the procedure.

Cover photo illustration by Mason Rodrickc and vecteezy.com

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CONTRIBUTOR ALLISON OLIGSCHLAEGER

Allison is a freelance writer and activist based out of Salt Lake City. Her interests include queer liberation, Hunter S. Thompson and cherry Slurpees.

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LETTERS Well Worth the Price of Admission

A few comments in response to Babs De Lay’s “Last Notes of Summer” on the Twilight Concert Series [Urban Living, Aug. 27, City Weekly]: De Lay makes a good point that this season had a lower turnout, but let’s be real: Tens of thousands of people enjoyed top-quality concerts in downtown Salt Lake City this summer for $10 per show.

There is no other venue in Salt Lake City that programs the caliber of artist or quality of production for a similar price. It is a shame that kids showed up at the gates unaware of the price change, but that info was amply provided on the Salt Lake Arts Council’s social-media feeds and website. You couldn’t see any of these shows or any previous Twilight act for this ticket price.

I think the point is to get out, enjoy downtown and hear new music. If you haven’t heard of the band, that’s all the more reason to check it out. You won’t lose on a $10 ticket price.

Most people who went to the Death Cab for Cutie show would have paid more than it costs to buy season tickets to the Twilight series. Buy the season ticket, see the bands you know, and check out some new stuff while you are at it.

I went to most of the shows and had a blast every time.

I’m excited to see what they program for next year.

LEAH JARAMILLO Salt Lake City

Note: Leah Jaramillo is married to Jesse Schaefer, who manages the Salt Lake Arts Council’s performing arts program.

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Bipartisan Solutions

As the presidential races have already started, let us get down to work and get something done. Whether conservative or liberal, here are some ways of achieving our common goals.

Energy: The left argues that burning fuel affects the weather and worse. Libertarians and conservatives argue it is taxation, legislation and regulation with more federal government intrusion. Solution: Take the greenhouse effect and other effects off the table, and work on what is left: fuel pollutes.

For example, coal is an ore, and as such, is not 100 percent pure, so obviously, coal plants produce a variety of by-products. Solution: The 30 percent tax credit is working; commercial and residential energy customers are going steadily to solar. This tax credit is fair, as it is not abused and is working better than the horrendous government largesse under President Obama. The credit should be extended beyond the end of 2016. And relying more on solar and other renewable sources means Americans are more self-sufficient and less at the mercy of the whims of unfriendly governments.

Abortion: The problem is caused, in part, by men who do not have the experience of being pregnant. I ask any young male to consider the ultimate: What it’s like to have the operation and then to have a child.

Totalitarianism: We must stand up to fascism and communism. This includes accepting no campaign monies from the

Koch brothers or from nations such as North Korea. Even Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood up to the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union. I oppose U.S.-fought wars over fuel and other resources.

Public monies (going to groups such as enviros): Rather than the typical battles on Capitol Hill, I propose straightforward donations. We can pair up those who want to donate with those who want public funding.

Helping the poor: I support training and an education for a career instead of a minimum-wage job.

How we spend our money: I have realized that every penny I spend on material, from a pair of socks to a ream of paper to a camera, can be donated to the poor in my estate; whereas, every penny on services is only enjoyed by myself or anyone in my household. So dining out cannot be given to the poor.

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PRIVATE EY

Football Reason

Of all years not to have BYU football season tickets, it had to be this year. I can’t admit to being a BYU fan; I am not. Actually, I’ve been known more as an anti-BYU fan, though with old age, that sentiment has tempered a bit.

Still, for two precious years—the best two years of my life, I might add—I was a seasonticket holder to BYU football. I never saw a single game.

Indeed, I’ve only seen one game ever in Provo’s LaVell Edwards Stadium. And it was a doozy. A local club had chartered a bus to the afternoon game and, by the time we all boarded, everyone was fairly pie-eyed. That we would be stuck in traffic for an ungodly amount of time (a journey that will become a two-day passage once Draper fills with its 50-story-building campus after the Utah State Prison moves) was made tolerable by the mass quantities of booze aboard the bus, which dumped its drunken cargo near the stadium entrance. The icy stares and shouts of, “Go home, you alcoholics!” were both deserved and welcomed.

Sneaking booze into a game has never been easier. Thanks to BYU security not expecting anyone to dishonor the honor code, they weren’t adept at spotting a vodka smuggler. Which made it all the more easy to simply show them the Jell-O shooters inside the stacks of Tupperware, and never mind that each sugary square held a full shot of tequila. Which only encouraged the flashing of body parts or the dismembering of BYU fans who had somehow bought tickets inside the Utah cheering section deep in the corner recesses of the north end zone— which turned out to be a blessing.

Because right there we watched as, only yards away, a male Utah cheerleader beat the snot out of a frustrated, manic BYU fan who couldn’t bear that Utah was about to win the football game. Without discrediting the Utah cheerleader, I recall a short

discussion during the even-shorter melee that any of several female Utah cheerleaders also could have kicked his BYU butt.

The BYU fan had taken umbrage at the waving of a giant Utah flag by said cheerleader, ran onto the field and tried to wrest it from him. No go. That legendary and heroic Ute cheerleader, who, according to bartender lore, went on to light the Olympic torch during the 2002 Winter Games, modestly boasts 37 confirmed Heimlich-maneuver saves, and was last seen on the banks of the Ebola River seeking the source—and potential cure—for the Ebola virus. The pummeled BYU kid later served an LDS mission. BYU banned big flags—which is like banning sodas but not sugar. Stupid.

In 2006 or so, the Utah ticket office just up and sold City Weekly’s season tickets without so much as a la-de-dah, up yours, suckah.

Twelve seats out the window. Yeah, we traded for them, but neither did we get cash from Utah Football for all those years they all but begged us to run their ads because they couldn’t fill the stadium and couldn’t afford to buy ads. As Utah alumni, we did. Whatever. It’s over. Utah football needs City Weekly about the same as it needs a backup quarterback.

They’ve got donors coming out of their Pac12 pores these days anyway, right?

So, since no one wants to belong to a club where they’re not welcome, I simply joined another club. When I learned that our Utah seats were no longer ours (two weeks before kickoff of the first game that season), I just picked up the phone, called the BYU ticket office and bought two season tickets. Do you know how cheap it is to go to a BYU football game? I do. So I did it again the following year, too. And I gave every ticket away to whoever asked for them. After all, despite

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being pissed off at the Utah ticket office, I remain a loyalist to Utah football in spirit, both emotionally and in glass containers.

After a couple of years, I got tired of not going to BYU football games. I quit buying tickets. In no small measure, BYU head coach Bronco Mendenhall contributed to my ultimate disillusionment with BYU football. Only a young man can tolerate Bronco, which explains why there are no players on his team this year over the age of 26. I’m over Bronco.

I can’t wait for the upcoming games for both schools this weekend. I’ve forgiven the Ute ticket office (until they stiff us during basketball season—but they’re nicer now and we may be considered for comp tickets for women’s basketball and men’s baseball) so I’m rooting for Utah against Fresno State. (I would be remiss not to note that part of my forgiveness derives from the fact that, a couple years into my Utah boycott, Dr. Chris Hill, Utah’s athletics director, called with a peace offering I could not accept.

Thanks anyway, Doc.) If you take away three long “miracle” passes in the past two games, BYU loses both games. But you can’t take anything back, good or bad, and that 22-year-old freshman deserves all the glory he can sweep in right now—even if his glory derives from the Virgin Mary and a mini-prayer offered up by Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach, a Roman Catholic, a half-century ago. Anyway, I sincerely (half-assed) wish I’d been there last week against Boise State, just to feel that emotion. But, I must say, as I watched from home, that it appeared the referees missed a very important, game-changing call against BYU. Wasn’t it “piling on” for BYU to have a White Out in Cougar stadium in the first place?

Go Utes. Go Bruins. CW Send Private Eye comments to john@cityweekly.net

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THANKS TO BYU SECURITY NOT EXPECTING ANYONE TO DISHONOR THE HONOR CODE, THEY WEREN’T ADEPT AT SPOTTING A VODKA SMUGGLER.

Colby Frazier: I miss it like I miss beer, which is to say very, very much.

Nicole Enright: Yes, I miss the rivalry. Now, how do we go about proving yearly that BYU sucks?

Pete Saltas: I would take wins in the Pac-12 over that rivalry all day. Plus, it’s nice to know that, no matter what, when we play again in 2016, it will have been seven years (and, presumably, counting) since Utah lost to the Team Down South. #MaxHallStillHatesMe.

Jeff Chipian: I grew up with the rivalry.

That’s why my favorite color is red, and I don’t like going past Draper (unless I’m driving straight through). It’s a shame we won’t get to play them for a while, because it was the only major rivalry game Utah had. It was also the lambdinner game at our tailgate.

Scott Renshaw: I have no rooting interest either way, but I’m worried that evidence suggests BYU players are building up a lot of frustration over not having this game. I’m nostalgic for a time when they would’ve reserved a sac-punching for a player wearing red.

Mikey Saltas: I miss the Utah-BYU rivalry a lot more than the forced Utah-Colorado “Rumble in the Rockies.” However, the resurgence of the Utah basketball team makes me miss it a little less.

Brandon Burt: Yep, I miss it. I don’t really understand the intricacies of football and why the Utes were forced to give up the traditional Holy War against BYU. But I understand blind rage, righteous indignation and nursing a grudge. That makes good football!

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HITS&MISSES

BY KATHARINE BIELE

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Utah, if anything, is conflicted about education. A headline in The Salt Lake Tribune doesn’t help: “Utah’s open-enrollment law allows for ‘white flight’ from troubled schools, some parents say.” Emphasis on “white.” But reading through the story, you realize the flight has multiple reasons, likely none of them the racism implied in the headline. Parents look for schools near their work or with better test scores— an admittedly flawed system, said Salt Lake City School District Superintendent McKell Withers. The transportation issue relying largely on parents is a major problem for lower-income students looking to transfer out. But note that families aren’t moving out of their neighborhoods. The focus needs to be on more accurately evaluating schools and solving the transportation problem. The Legislature, as it targets teachers and pushes for vouchers, hasn’t been good at solving either question.

All the World’s a Stage

It’s time to give the Utah Shakespeare Festival kudos for maintaining a literary tradition in an era of technological quickies. The festival just bid farewell to its Adams Shakespearean Theatre, the outdoor venue where the company showcased the Bard’s works. Yes, often those were the long and often abstruse plays that are still politically topical today. Coming next year will be the Engelstad Shakespeare Theatre, which is part of the $38.5 million Beverley Taylor Sorenson Center for the Arts. It will include a flexible roof cover for bad weather, which used to force performances indoors. The “old” guard— festival founder Fred Adams and 88-yearold architect Max Anderson—were honored before the final performance. The festival has worldwide acclaim and is a bright spot in Utah.

Call for Compromise

Do we think Congress will listen to Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch as he calls for, ahem, compromise? That whole “compromise” thing didn’t work so well for former Sen. Bob Bennett, whose 2010 ouster during the GOP convention heralded an era of Tea Party conservatism.

But Utah’s Republican elite have had a hard time with the ideological stalemate that followed. Zions Bank president Scott Anderson hailed Hatch’s Senate speech in a Deseret News op-ed, pleading with our congressional delegation to collaborate.

“In some respects, the Senate today is but a mere shadow of its former self, another casualty of the permanent political campaign,” Hatch said, without wading into the Citizens United waters. “Courtesy and decorum foster an atmosphere where we can work in good faith to find common ground,” Hatch said. Good luck with that.

JO-ANNE WONG

Flow of Information

Karrie Galloway, president/CEO of Planned Parenthood Association of Utah, just received official word that the Utah Department of Health will not continue its contract with Planned Parenthood, effective Oct. 1, the start of the organization’s fiscal year. At risk is a fertilityprotection program that diagnoses and treats chlamydia, and PREP, a program that teaches teens healthy sexual behavior that includes preventing teenage pregnancy (while teaching teens to be community leaders). In August, Gov. Gary Herbert announced he would defund the organization of federal pass-through grant dollars after a series of videos appeared online in July depicting Planned Parenthood medical staff (from outside of Utah) discussing fetal-tissue procurement with fake medical researchers. Galloway seems confident that funding for the programs will be found elsewhere.

How will the loss of funding hit Planned Parenthood’s budget?

We’ll be sharpening our pencils, for sure. We have done good fundraising, but you have to maintain that. We will figure it out. I haven’t yet, but it’s the beginning of our fiscal year.

We don’t break our commitment to the community. That’s just how we roll here.

How does Planned Parenthood plan to respond to the governor’s action?

Our reaction has been pretty clear, through the press, and directly to the public with our press conference [on Aug. 25] and a pretty substantial rally with a lot of Utahns backing us up that we are not pleased with his process of policy-making. We don’t break our promises to the community. We will continue all the programs that the federal funding paid for, because we don’t break our promises to the people of Utah.

Planned Parenthood makes sure people are healthy, they can actualize their family planning decisions. We do everything we can, we raise our own money, we work with the federal government, and here, the governor, through allegations on a YouTube video that have not been substantiated, chose to cancel contracts for the people of Utah. That’s the part I find arbitrary and capricious.

How many Planned Parenthood clinics in Utah perform abortions?

Only one does. We have always complied with the letter and the spirit of the law. We have passed every scheduled, as well as surprise, inspection [from the state licensing bureau], and we are very proud of the programs we offer. We offer comprehensive reproductive health care to the people of Utah in a compassionate and nonjudgmental way. Nobody is shamed for decisions they have made. We are committed to making sure that the letter and the spirit of the law are maintained, whether we agree with it or not.

So the state was aware that clinics have been abiding by regulations?

Yes. There have never been any problems with that. In fact, all of these laws that have been made over the years to make women jump through hoops to achieve their familyplanning goals, the offenses have come from outside of Utah that have prompted them to enact these legislations. There have not been any infractions in Utah. This isn’t a good way to do policy.

What programs will change after the state cuts the funding?

The chlamydia contract has been in place for over 10 years. And it’s not just a loss to Planned Parenthood—it’s a contract between the state lab, the state health department, and Planned Parenthood. We do over 17,000 STD tests a year that are sent to the state lab.

What happens to the state lab if they don’t get our business? We’re still going to do it, but he’s not just toying with our business model—he’s toying with his own business model.

There are other labs.

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Spoken like a true Minnesotan, Katrina.

Labor Day weekend is upon us, and you know what that means. Winter’s here.

The larger issue you raise is whether the products of civilization sap our natural bodily defenses and turn us into helpless lapdogs. Little research has been done on whether moisturizer weakens healthy skin’s ability to protect itself. But what there is suggests it might.

Moisturizers and lotions serve three basic purposes: they act as a barrier against irritants, they supplement natural skin moisture, and they help repair irritated or damaged skin. The key components in moisturizers can be variously categorized as humectants, which draw the body’s moisture to the skin surface; occlusives, which help prevent water from escaping the skin; emollients, which fill gaps in the skin; proteins and acids to assist the body’s natural moisturizing processes; and non-steroidal antiinflammatory agents, which can help repair dry skin in people suffering from eczema.

Once a moisturizer has been applied and the water in it evaporates, the emulsified lipids left behind—fats, essentially—can penetrate the outer layer of skin and apparently improve its hydration level, as indicated by an increase in the skin’s electrical capacitance. Repeated application to healthy skin can increase hydration levels within two days; the effect lasts for a week after stopping.

That’s good. But every silver lining must have its dark cloud. One study examined the use of a lipid-rich moisturizer three times a day on the healthy forearm skin of 20 volunteers. After four weeks the applications of moisturizer were stopped, and a patch of sodium lauryl sulfate, a common detergent, was applied to both of each subject’s forearms—one treated, the other untreated—to measure the level of irritation on each. Significant differences were seen in water loss through the skin, indicating the moisturized skin was more susceptible to the irritant. That’s bad.

Another study examined how moisturizer might affect healthy skin in test subjects with contact allergies. Twenty-two volunteers, 12 of whom were known to be allergic to nickel, applied a lipid-rich moisturizer to their upper arm three times a day for a week. The moisturizer was then stopped and patches containing nickel chloride solution were applied to both treated and untreated skin. The ones with the nickel allergy dem-

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I live in Minnesota. The winters here are as dry as they are cold, and by mid-December I’m slathering myself with lotion on a daily basis just to keep my skin from disintegrating. My question is, am I getting caught in a vicious cycle? I’ve often heard people casually remark that using lotion, lip balm, etc, eventually results in a compensatory response such that your body stops creating its own natural moisturizers. Is there any truth to this?

—Katrina

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onstrated significantly increased sensitivity shortly after application. More bad.

To be clear, none of this necessarily demonstrates that lotions cause your skin to stop moisturizing itself naturally. In the study using using moisturizer followed up with detergent, for example, the researchers theorized that the extra moisture made the skin more permeable and thus more vulnerable to irritants. The fact remains that for healthy skin, the lotion made things worse, not better.

These studies focused on lipid-rich moisturizers. We found another study comparing high-lipid-content and moderate-tolow-lipid-content moisturizer when used on healthy skin. Again, healthy volunteers used the moisturizers three times a day, and then tested their skin reactions to a detergent patch. The skin treated with the highlipid moisturizer reacted more intensely to the detergent than untreated skin; for lower-lipid moisturizer, there was no measurable difference between the treated and the untreated skin. Conclusion number one: high-lipid moisturizers make skin more vulnerable to irritation. Conclusion number two: neither type of moisturizer increased protection against skin irritants.

Still another study tested nine different moisturizers and found five increased moisture loss in healthy skin—thus actually drying the skin out more—while none of them decreased moisture loss. On the other hand, when these moisturizers were tested on damaged skin, three of them reduced moisture loss and none increased it.

While a lot of this sounds ominous, don’t toss your moisturizers yet. The benefits of moisturizer on damaged skin have been demonstrated by numerous studies, and research has found healthy skin can benefit from some moisturizers. Still, it appears we can say two things: 1. There’s only limited benefit to applying moisturizer to healthy skin.

2. Some types of moisturizer may make your skin more susceptible to irritation and damage.

Choosing the right moisturizer is more complicated than you might think—for example, some studies have found that different racial skin types show varying sensitivity to different kinds of moisturizers.

U.S. sales of hand and body lotion exceed $775 million annually. High time we knew if it was doing us more harm than good.

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Speaking of Wilderness John Worlock’s radio segment is as solid as the mountains he strives to protect.

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n three-minute bursts of clarity, comedy and environmental wisdom, John Worlock’s Wasatch Environmental Update has infiltrated Utah’s public-radio airwaves at 2 p.m., most every Sunday, for the past 13 years.

Like a tireless piston in an engine that won’t quit, Worlock, 84, has attacked his volunteer position with a consistency and precision that leaves listeners, admirers and radio veterans impressed. Employees at KRCL 90.9 FM, which broadcasts Worlock’s piece, know the weekend is near when the gray-bearded Worlock enters the building at exactly 4:30 p.m. each Friday to record his segment.

“His dedication is really what strikes me,” says Amy Dwyer, development director at KRCL. “I don’t think he has taken weeks off. There are occasional weeks where we have to ask him to take a day off. He’s like clockwork; it’s really impressive.”

If the central Wasatch Range and its three wilderness areas have a voice, it is that of Worlock’s.

In 2002, Worlock and his close friend, Save Our Canyons founder Gale Dick, were asked by KRCL to produce a radio segment.

At first, Worlock remembers it was to be a brief question-and-answer format between himself and Dick, but the duo couldn’t carry on a radio-friendly conversation. “It turned out that Gale and I have a very different idea of how conversation goes,” Worlock says, remembering that Dick would ask a question “that he thought was leading to something, and it would just floor me. I couldn’t respond.” Later, Dick stopped doing the show. “He just kind of slowly slipped out of it, and they asked me to continue.

I’ve done it solo,” Worlock says.

Worlock attempts to keep the focus of his report on issues facing the much-beloved jagged teeth of mountains that sit between Salt Lake City and the Point of the Mountain—the central Wasatch. But occasionally, in his search for material, Worlock lends his voice to other environmental

ENVIRONMENT battlefields, such as protection of the state’s rivers and deserts.

The prime benefactor of Worlock’s time on the air is his sponsor, Save Our Canyons, for which he serves on the board of directors and sometimes consults for material.

A close friend of Dick’s, who died in 2014, Worlock came to Utah in 1992 after retiring from a physics research career in New Jersey. The two men had met in “nineteen hundred and fiftythree,” as Worlock says, in graduate school at Cornell University.

By the time Worlock arrived in Zion, Dick had founded Save Our Canyons to combat the construction of Snowbird Resort’s bomb-shelter-like concrete buildings.

In response to development pressures in the Wasatch, Worlock says Save Our Canyons fought hard for implementation of Salt Lake County’s Foothills and Canyons Overlay Zone, which dictates how development can unfold in these areas.

Over the years, Worlock and Save Our Canyons have battled individual development projects, expansions of heli-skiing, resort growth and routine efforts by the seven ski resorts in the central Wasatch to connect all of the resorts by trams and chair lifts.

“We’ve been involved in a number of escapades, and it always looks as if we’re trying to keep things from happening, which is just about right,” Worlock says.

Speaking into a recording machine all alone at KRCL studios, Worlock says he doesn’t know for sure if his three minutes per week have any impact on the people who hear his program, or on the program’s subjects.

But Save Our Canyons, he says, is an “essential” component to keeping development interests, and the governments charged with regulating them, in check.

Worlock says he views some environmental losses as victories—if for no other reason than Save Our Canyons managed to delay development processes by raising its concerns. “The other point of getting into these fights is that they know we’re watching,” he says. “Sometimes I think that will keep people from trying to do things that they shouldn’t do just because they know we’re going to fight them.”

But Worlock isn’t all fight. Many of his most recent segments have dealt with informing listeners of the latest news from the Mountain Accord process—an endeavor by multiple cities, environmental groups, ski resorts and government entities to reach some agreement over the central Wasatch’s future.

He’s also interviewed The Lorax, a Dr. Seuss character who spoke on behalf of the environment as industrial progress decimated a world [on that day, Worlock spoke as himself, the Lorax and

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“The other point of getting into these fights is that they know we’re watching.”

-John Worlock John Worlock educates KRCL 90.9 FM listeners on the environment, three minutes a week. the narrator, reading passages from the book], and has reported a Christmas Eve invasion by a renegade St. Nick who smokes indoors and stays warm under the fur of endangered species.

Whether the topic is serious or fun, all agree Worlock has become a master craftsman on the radio.

“It’s kind of his thing,” says Carl Fisher, executive director of Save Our Canyons. “We’ve turned him loose on it.

He loves doing it, and I think it’s a great service that he provides to the people of the Salt Lake Valley, to give them a quick snippet of the goings-on on issues affecting our environment.”

Worlock’s ability to concisely dispatch reports on complicated subject matter has put more than one reporter (this one included) to shame. And his voice—deep, deliberate and soothing— is as natural as his talent for radio.

“It was just never hard,” Worlock says, of getting used to radio. “It just seems like I have a good voice. People said that right from the beginning, and it seems to be recognizable.”

But Worlock works hard to find the right subject matter. On weeks when material is scant, he begins to fret. By a writer’s standard, his task is unenviable: take a topic and dice it up into 376 words that sound good to listen to.

“I think people mistakenly believe that presenting a few minutes of environmental perspective can be done on the fly,” says Zach Frankel, executive director of the Utah Rivers Council. “But in truth, it requires a lot of preparation, especially for someone like John who, this isn’t his job, he’s not paid to do this.”

In the recording booth, Worlock says he’s learned to edit his own segments, removing his extended breaths, which

he says look like “rat tails” stretching across the screen, to buy more time for his words. “It’s three minutes long,” Worlock says. “That means you don’t get to say much, so you better choose wisely.”

Worlock traces some of his radio IQ to his love of reading aloud to his children—a pastime he recalls enjoying so thoroughly that he was a bit disappointed when his children grew old enough to read on their own.

But his children’s loss is Utah’s gain, as Worlock has amassed a body of work that, combined, stretches for a day and a half and is a full-voiced ode to wilderness in a world where the religion of growth often comes at the expense of nature.

“What John has done is an immense level of service,” says Frankel, whose organization’s efforts are occasionally aired by Worlock. “We’re talking about over a thousand hours of environmental commentary. It’s critical to Utah’s future and everyone owes him a debt of gratitude who enjoy Utah’s great outdoors.”

Worlock, who has no intention of ceasing to read any time soon, will be at KRCL this Friday afternoon as surely as the granite peaks of the Wasatch will be standing watch over the Salt Lake Valley.

“They’re there, they’re always there,” Worlock says of the mountains. “And you can count on them.” CW

Visit CityWeekly.net to hear some of Worlock’s favorite Wasatch Environmental updates.

POLITICS

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NEWS All in Moderation

Judge urges GOP party & Gov. Herbert to negotiate.

BY ERIC ETHINGTON eethington@cityweekly.net @ericethington

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Judge Nuffer wants Republicans to mediate their dispute over Senate Bill 54’s election reforms.

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there’s an even bigger political nature to it.” All the governor’s office can do, Thomas says, is to “make sure that whatever [the parties] agree with is ultimately ratified by the Legislature.”

Previous discussions between the parties have been unfruitful, and tensions are high among Republican Party leaders, legislators and the governor [see “Party Animals,” Sept. 2, City Weekly].

If the Republican Party had not changed its rules to comply with SB54 in time for the State Republican Convention in August, GOP candidates would not have been allowed to run as Republicans in the general election.

In an earlier sworn declaration in the case, Evans stated that it would be “impossible” for the party to change its rules in time for the election. But delegates managed to change the party’s rules in time for the August state convention, bringing the party’s nominations process into compliance with SB54.

Evans explained that the party was able to quickly pass those changes thanks to the advice and counsel of Judge Nuffer himself. “The judge said several times during that hearing that we should use our membership rules, so that’s what we did,” says Evans. The Republican Party now requires candidates going through either the caucus-convention system or the petition route to sign disclosure statements on their positions.

Even though the Republican Party met the deadline to be in compliance with SB54, it is still moving forward with a lawsuit in hopes of overturning the law entirely.

Nuffer has ordered the parties to agree to a mediator by Sept. 16. Some of the names suggested at the hearing included U.S Magistrate Judge Dustin B. Pead, former Lt. Gov.—and now CEO of the Utah Hospital Association—Greg Bell, and the Legislature’s former general counsel Gay Taylor.

The first round of mediation will take place on either Sept. 30 or Oct. 1. CW

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.S. District Judge David Nuffer is pushing the Utah Republican Party, the Utah Constitution Party and Gov. Gary Herbert to use a mediator to resolve their ongoing lawsuit over Senate Bill 54.

The election-reform law, passed by the Utah Legislature in 2014, allows political candidates to circumvent the traditional partyrun caucus convention system and appear on the ballot by gathering signatures.

Lawmakers intended SB54 as a compromise between the Republican Party’s desire to stick with the caucus-convention system and the Count My Vote (CMV) initiative that would have created a direct primary (allowing Utah’s 650,000 unaffiliated voters to participate in the primary election of their choice). In late 2014, the Utah Republican Party sued the governor, arguing the state shouldn’t have a say in how political parties choose their candidates.

At a Sept. 8 hearing, Judge Nuffer seemed to have little appetite for issuing a ruling on the lawsuit himself. “I get an ax, and you have pocket knives,” said Nuffer.

“You could do a wonderful sculpt, and I just cut broadly.”

Mark Thomas, chief deputy to Utah’s lieutenant governor and director of elections in Utah noted it was the Constitution Party that filed the motion asking the judge for mediation. “We’re happy to try and mediate this,” said Thomas. “But there’s also the Republican Party. [GOP Chairman] James Evans said at the [Republican State Convention in August] that the Republican Party isn’t going to settle this, so we’re kind of in a tough spot.”

In an interview with City Weekly, Evans seemed at least willing to give the mediation method a try. “The Republican Party has always been open to any avenue that would get this resolved,” says Evans. However, he adds, “We’re holding fast on our constitutional claims” that the state did not have the authority to pass SB54 in the first place.

In addition to the difficulty of finding a solution that all parties can live with, negotiations could be tricky because the governor does not have the power to enact changes to the law; that is the work of the Legislature. “You are, to some extent, negotiating with a ghost,” Nuffer acknowledged.

Thomas says that while Nuffer is busy pondering the legal aspects of the case, he is well aware of the political impacts.

“When you’re talking about laws,” Thomas says, “there’s always a political part to it.

But when you’re talking about election law,

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Dry-cleaning solvent has its faults, but now it’s become part of the ecosystem. Learn more about the “PCE plume,” at a clean-up meeting and update at the McGillis School, 668 S. 1300 East, at 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 17. In May 2013, the Environmental Protection Agency added the “700 S. 1600 East PCE plume” to the National Priorities List, officially designating 330 acres of Salt Lake City’s east bench as a Superfund cleanup site. PCE was discovered in a well at Mount Olivet Cemetery in the early 1990s. In 2010, after the Red Butte oil spill, further testing led to the discovery of PCE in several residential springs located downhill from the suspected source at the VA Hospital. If left untreated, it could migrate into public water supplies. Phone Jeremy Laird, VA Public Affairs 801-582-1565, x1955 or email jeremy.laird@va.gov for more information. n Sunday, Sept. 27, the ReWilding Medicine Day will let you experience a day (7 a.m.-4:30 p.m.) in the Wasatch Mountains “to drop in deeply into your real self, to re-connect to mystery and magic, and find peace, healing and precious signs and wisdom to guide you on your path.” For $75, join this ancient practice and find what’s wild in you and what medicine you need. Sponsored by New Moon Rites of Passage, you will meet at the Willow Heights Conservation Area. For more information and to register, please contact Kinde Nebeker at kinde@newmoonritesofpassage.com

CHARITABLE GIVING

Eight new Utah specialty soda shops opening near you:

8. Diabetastic!

7. Turk’s Slurp n’ Burp 6. WWJC’s

(What Would Jesus Chug?)

5. CarboNation 4. Fizzy Pizzers 3. Toothless in Tooele 2. Syrup Yours 1. Is Pepsi OK?

Don’t miss Crossroads Urban Center’s 13th annual Wine & Cheese Party at the Bayou, 645 S. State, Sunday, Sept. 20, from 1-4 p.m.

Crossroads runs and supports advocacy projects on poverty-related issues, such as affordable housing, utility rates and vision/dental care for Medicaid recipients.Tickets are $45 in advance, $50 at the door and $250 for a table of six.

Purchase tickets at CrossroadsUrbanCenter.org (click on the Eventbrite link).

TALKS

The Hinckley Institute of Politics will hold a panel discussion called Social Entrepreneurship, Community Innovation, Investing and Impact on Thursday, Sept. 17, from 12:30-1:30 p.m., 260 S. Central Campus Drive. The concept of social entrepreneurship—drawing on business techniques to solve social problems— has been taking hold in Utah. This speaks to why you donate and what the outcome is.

Join the free event on the University of Utah campus. Find more information at Hinckley.

Utah.edu.

EATING LOCAL

Eat Local Week started Sept. 12 at the Downtown Farmers Market. This statewide, weeklong program promotes local agriculture and food artisans in the midst of the harvest season. It’s all about making conscious choices to support local food, with the benefit of eating well for health. There are educational activities and events all week long. Check out EatLocalWeek.org for more information.

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A Paper Drone The Federal Aviation Administration recently granted (likely for the first time ever) an application to fly a paper airplane. Prominent drone advocate Peter Sachs had applied to conduct commercial aerial photography with his “aircraft” (a Tailor Toys model with a tiny propeller and maximum range of 180 feet), and the agen- cy, concerned with air traffic safety, accommodated by treating the request (unironically?) under the rules for manned flights (that, among other restrictions, Sachs must not exceed 100 mph and must engage a licensed airplane pilot to fly it). “With this grant,” said the “victorious” Sachs, “the FAA has abandoned all logic and sensibility.”

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New World Order Digital World: 1. The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction announced in July that it would be experimenting with online phys ed courses for high schoolers. Students would watch videos on certain activities, then engage in them, and later self-report their (as the agency calls it) “mastery.” 2. British police warned in August of a brand-new sex crime based on the iPhone app AirDrop. The app sends text or photos instantly to nearby AirDrop users (who choose to receive from “contacts” or from “everyone”). Thus, perverts can “flash” strangers by posting nude pictures of themselves to reach AirDrop users set carelessly (or purposely!) to “everyone.”

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Names in the News Charged with choking and punching his fiancee: Mr. Daniel Gentleman, 28 (Prescott, Arizona, May). Charged with killing her husband and burying his body in a manure pile on their farm: Ms. Charlene Mess, 48 (Attica, New York, April). Charged with sexual assault: Mr. Huckleberry Finn (Keene, New Hampshire, July). And prominent in the news (confusingly so) when the Food and Drug Administration approved the so-called “female Viagra” drug Addyi in August: FDA spokesperson Dr. Janet Woodcock.

Least Competent People “Selfies” continue to take their devastating toll on Americans. On Aug. 30 in Orient, Maine, driver Jordan Toner, 29, attempting to lean into a seven-person selfie among his passengers, crashed into a tree, causing numerous injuries. On Aug. 24, Alex Gomez, 36, of Lake Elsinore, California, tried to take one after draping an angry 4-footlong rattlesnake around his neck. The predictable bite was damaging but not fatal. On Sept. 1 in Houston, a 19-year-old man taking selfies while clumsily fondling his handgun is no longer with us.

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n DIY dentistry seemed off-limits—until amateur orthodontia got a boost from a 2012 YouTube video in which Shalom DeSota, now 17, praised rubber bands for teeth-straightening. DeSota’s family lacked dental insurance at the time, so the would-be actress experimented by looping rubber bands around two front teeth she wanted to draw together. Many painful days later, she succeeded. The American Association of Orthodontists expressed alarm in August at the video’s recent popularity. So much could go wrong—infection, gum-tearing, detachment between tooth and gums—that DeSota, the organization said, had simply been lucky.

Government Inaction The streets of Jackson, Mississippi, apparently have potholes that rival the worst in the country, but without adequate budget to fix them, according to Mayor Tony Yarber. His remedy, offered earnestly to constituents in August: prayer. “I believe we can pray potholes away.” (Yarber, elected in 2014, was pastor of the Relevant Empowerment Church.)

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Seems Like the Season of Email Muddles All Sherri Smith wanted was copies of background emails about her son (who has a disability) in the files of the Goodrich, Michigan, school system, but the superintendent informed her in June that the Freedom of Information request would cost her $77,780 (4,500 hours of searching—taking two years to complete). (Michigan’s FOI law was somewhat liberalized on July 1, and Smith said she may refile.) 2. After a McKinney, Texas, police officer was filmed pointing his gun at unarmed black teenagers at a pool party in June, the online Gawker Media filed a Public Information Act request for the officer’s records and any emails about his conduct. The city estimated that request’s cost at $79,229 (hiring a programmer, for 2,231 hours’ searching—plus “computer time”). Gawker said it would appeal.

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Circumcision Decision

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penst Hansen knows better than to take his body for granted.

Born in the midst of his parents’ divorce, the 24-year-old Salt Laker was, of course, a major sticking point in the split. More surprisingly, so was his circumcision status.

“My mother and her side of the family really wanted to get [the procedure] done—so much so, apparently, that they were threatening to get it done behind my father’s back,” Hansen says.

“My father was very adamant and very passionate about letting me keep my whole and unaltered body. From what I understand, he actually put out a court-ordered cease and desist for every pediatrician in the state.”

To Hansen’s relief, his father’s legal threat proved remarkably effective. “No doctor would even see me at that point,” he said. “I met the lawyer personally and thanked him.”

Today, Hansen honors his father’s efforts with work of his own. As a local “intactivist,” Hansen is an active participant in the growing fight against the widespread nontherapeutic removal of infant foreskin.

“My father raised me with an attitude that my body is my body, and it should be my choice and nobody else’s what happens to it. I’ve always had the same attitude after seeing how important it was to him,” he said. “It’s a very empowering feeling.”

OLD BONES

Few cultural customs boast a history as long or as complex as that of the world’s oldest known surgical procedure, which has cropped up relatively independently in dozens of faiths and cultures throughout the Middle East and Africa.

Its significance ranges from that of a customary coming-of age ritual, as in the many African tribes who circumcise at puberty, to that of an eternal covenant with divinity.

Circumcision was first introduced to Judaism roughly 2,000 years before the birth of Christ, with God’s commandment to his aging servant, Abraham. “By age 99, Abraham had fulfilled all of God’s commandments … with the exception of circumcision,” said Rabbi Avremi Zippel, the youth and program director for Sugar House’s Chabad Lubavitch synagogue. “He was told that this would be his final test, the final commandment, and that he would be found to be complete and whole and pure in the eyes of God.” Abraham was later instructed to circumcise his newborn son, Isaac, on his eighth day of life, giving rise to the traditional Jewish “bris” ceremony. The commandment to circumcise has since remained in force, compelling the orthodox Jews of Chabad Lubavitch to circumcise in exactly the same manner.

“Heritage is something that remains with us forever,” said the rabbi. “Once you start adapting and changing and modifying, I believe you kind of lose the beauty of it. This is the way Jewish boys have been brought into the faith for nearly 5,000 years. Who are we to change the way it’s always been done?”

FEELIN’ MYSELF

With few exceptions, circumcision remained confined to religious and cultural circles until the Victorian era, where it found myriad champions among sexphobic medical professionals desperate to curb children’s “endemic” self-stimulation. As the human male’s primary erogenous zone, the hyper-sensitive foreskin found a particularly dedicated opponent in Battle Creek, Mich., medical doc-

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Male circumcision rates in Uta h decline as parents reconsider the procedure.

“THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT CIRCUMCISION IS A CULTURAL PHENOMENON,”

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tor John Harvey Kellogg. The puritanical breakfast-cereal who wrote in his 1891 book History of Circumcision From czar produced volumes on the subject, and wrote in 1888 the Earliest Times to the Present, “The prepuce seems to about possible solutions to “self-abuse”: exercise a malign influence in the most distant and appar“A remedy for masturbation, which is almost always ently unconnected manner. … beginning to affect him with successful in small boys, is circumcision,” he wrote. “The all kinds of physical distortions and ailments, nocturnal operation should be performed by a surgeon without adpollutions and other conditions calculated to weaken him ministering an anesthetic, as the brief pain attending the physically, mentally and morally; to land him, perchance, operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, espein jail or even in a lunatic asylum.” cially if it be connected with the idea of punishment. In Post-circumcision improvements observed in a child’s females, the author has found the application of pure physical, mental or spiritual integrity were often carecarbolic acid to the clitoris an excellent means of allaying lessly attributed to the procedure, ultimately earning it the abnormal excitement.” a reputation as a sort of miracle cure. An 1890 study reTo the relief of many, Kellogg’s zeal for clitoral excivealing that Jews, then the nation’s largest circumcising sion failed to gain popularity. His hatred of the foreskin, out-group, were less likely to suffer from syphilis and though, spread through the medical field like herpes gonorrhea sparked the sloppy conclusion that circumcithrough an “abstinence only”-educated high school. sion offered protection from sexually transmitted inDavid L. Gollaher’s 1994 Journal of Social History article, fections. This, in turn, led to a recommendation that all “From Ritual to Science: The Medical Transformation newborn males be circumcised as a form of preventaof Circumcision in America” explains how Kellogg’s tive treatment of venereal diseases. smear campaign, in conjunction with advanceThe National Organization of Circumcision ments in anaesthesiology, created the perfect Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC) is, medical environment in which routine ciraccording to its website, committed to “secumcision could thrive. curing the birthright of male, female By the end of the 19th century, Amerand intersex children and babies to ica’s obsession with moral purity had keep their sex organs intact.” Heading evolved to a fixation on physical cleanup the Utah chapter of NOCIRC is longliness. But with doctors only just begintime foreskin advocate Steve Scott, ning to understand germ theory, their who thinks doctors continue to canondesire to eliminate dangerous microbes ize observable health correlations as far outstripped their practical ability to do causal. “Whatever disease was prominent so. Information was scarce, fear was abunduring any specific time in U.S. medical hisdant and, as a result, the science conducted tory, that disease was caused by the foreskin was poor. and curable through circumcision,” Scott Genitalia’s “unclean” association with both told City Weekly. “It is an industry in constant sexuality and bodily function/excretion search of a reason to exist.” made them a perfect medical scapegoat. They Despite now-glaring logical and procedural were associated with any number of illnesses, CIRCUMCISION ADVOCATE errors, anti-foreskin findings were generally especially those relating to sex or immoralaccepted by the medical community with little JOHN HARVEY KELLOGG dissent. According to David L. Gollaher’s jourity. Physician Peter Charles Remondino, a vice nal article, circumcision was seen as both so president of the California Medical Society,

common and so beneficial by the end of the century that medical textbooks began depicting circumcised penises as the standard. Additional diagrams and fine print fell away over time until no indication was given that those penises had ever looked any other way.

NUTS & BOLTS

Though far from simple, the arguments against circumcision can be broken into distinct camps. Anti-circumcision activists have attacked the procedure for reasons rooted in medicine, sociology, finance and ethics.

For Spenst Hansen, the moral concerns are the only concerns. “I don’t want to make the medical or cultural arguments,” he said in an attempt to identify the core of his convictions. “The issue is simply that everyone should Circumcision also enjoyed a brief period of popularity in Australia, have the choice over what happens to their own body.”

New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom. The practice erupted Far and away the most common neonatal procedure, circumcision especially quickly in the U.K., where doctors were circumcising is also the only surgery routinely performed without the consent of more than half of all middle-class infants by the time World War II the patient—the only consent that matters, Hansen said. began.

“Parents often say things like, ‘It’s my parental choice,’ or, ‘It’s my ButBritishdoctorswerelessunitedontheefficacyofthesurgerythan right as a parent.’ And while there are certain things that I consider American professionals, and zealots were few. Dr. Robert Darby, an a parental right, like where you choose to send your child to school, Australian historian who has studied circumcision since the late if you choose to raise your child with or without religion or if you 1990s, said the crown’s finances played a key role in eliminating the decide your kid needs to be on a special diet or something—those practice. Still reeling from the war’s financial impact, the impoverare parental choices.” Hansen says. “But circumcision is typically ished British government opted to omit circumcision from the list of classified as a cosmetic surgery, which means there’s no medical procedures covered by the newly established National Health Serneed for it. To impose that on someone else without their informed vice. Parents were welcome to circumcise their children, the governconsent is a radical violation of their rights.” ment said, provided they paid the surgical fees out of pocket.

“It’s an issue of human rights, not parental rights,” said AdriBy the early 1960s, the Brits had all but eliminated ciranna Costello-Martin, a midwife’s assistant and naturalcumcision. Circumcision rates (at less than half of 1 perbirth instructor at The Birth Center in Murray. “It’s about cent of all births) experienced a similar post-war plummet the bodily integrity of that baby boy and his right to his throughout the Anglosphere, quickly falling to negligible own body. It is his body. Why are we making unnecessary levels. Today, circumcised men in former outposts of the changes to it without his consent?”

“It behooves us to respect what British Empire (the U.S. excepted) are typically assumed to But Schaeffer says the question of circumcision is one of each culture holds to be true,” be Jewish or Muslim. many medical decisions for which the parents of underage In contrast, America’s rates of the surgery continchildren are responsible. “Until the child is 18 years old or a ued to climb after World War II. Numerous variables liberated minor, parents are acting in what they see as the Pediatric urologist at the have a made a mess of circumcision statistics—neither best interest of their child,” Schaeffer said. “The same [conUniversity of Utah Hospital the government nor the medical community keep official resent] argument could be made for not giving children vaccines.” cords—but based on sampled hospital records, the anti-circ Rabbi Zippel worries that requiring a child’s informed conorganization NOHARMM—the National Organization to Halt the Abuse and Routine sent, necessarily given after an “age of consent” (16, 18, 21, etc.), would damage the spirit of Mutilation of Males—estimates circumcision peaked in the the covenant represented by circumcision. “We believe the purpose is to form an everlastUnited States in 1981 at 85 percent of all male infants. ing covenant between this young man and the almighty God, and a covenant is not subject These days, NOHARMM puts the circumcision rate at 60 percent, slightly above estito human intellect,” the rabbi said. “If we were to allow this young man to make the decision mates from the Nationwide Inpatient Survey (56.3 percent in 2008) and Charge Data Mashimself … the drive and inspiration and motivation he found to make that covenant might ter (54.7 percent in 2010). State attitudes toward the procedure are remarkably diverse, one day dry up. When performed on an 8-day-old baby, circumcision forms a covenant that with Nevadans circumcising just 10 percent of their babies and West Virginians circumtranscends the boundaries of human intellect, and we are confident it will last forever.” cising all but 10 percent of theirs. Generally speaking, the procedure becomes less common as you move farther west; no West Coast state circumcised more than 20 percent its infants in 2010.

Other intactivist arguments focus on the operation’s physical risks. “People think cirThe American Association of Pediatrics has a rather embattled history regarding circumcision is a perfect procedure, but there is a long list of complications that can, and frecumcision, having continued to defend its validity decades after peer organizations dequently do, occur,” Hansen said. nounced and abandoned the practice. The association’s most recent statement on the issue, According to research published in the British Journal of Medicine in 1993, infection ocreleased in August 2012, marks a notable departure from previous statements in that it curs in up to 10 percent of circumcision patients. Moreover, research from the University does not recommend routine infant circumcision for all newborn boys; however, the AAP of California San Francisco says that 2 percent of all circumcised infants experience seristill claims that “the health benefits of newborn male circumcision outweigh the risks of ous hemorrhage as a result of the surgery, potentially ending in blood loss, brain damage the procedure.” Those health benefits include, according to the AAP, prevention of: urior even death. Deaths from circumcision are rarely reported as such, but a 2010 study by nary tract infections, acquiring HIV, transmission of some sexually transmitted infections Dan Bollinger, director of the International Coalition for Genital Integrity, concluded that and penile cancer. between 117 and 120 American infants die each year as a direct or indirect result of their A task force of eight physicians representing general medicine, pediatrics and pediatric circumcision, yielding a relatively high mortality rate of one in 11,000 operations. For conurology associations throughout Scandinavia and western Europe responded to the AAP’s text, only one in 16,000 uncircumcised infants will need therapeutic circumcision in life, statement with a four-page critique titled “Cultural Bias in the AAP’s 2012 Technical Reand only one in 30,000 will choose it for religious or aesthetic reasons. port and Policy Statement on Male Circumcision.” The critique stated: Simply put, said Murray midwife’s assistant Costello-Martin, “Your risk of dying from “Seen from the outside, cultural bias reflecting the normality of nontherapeutic male the procedure is greater than your risk of needing it later on.” circumcision in the United States seems obvious. … Claimed health benefits, including proStatistics related to circumcision complications are hard to come by. Death is “never tection against HIV/AIDS, genital herpes, genital warts, and penile cancer, are questionrecorded as a complication of circumcision,” NOCIRC’s Scott said. “The one thing you can able, weak, and likely to have little public-health relevance in a Western context, and they count on in anatomy is diversity. A blood vessel might not be where it’s supposed to be, and do not represent compelling reasons for surgery before boys are old enough to decide for you might get a bleeder. … So the child dies of exsanguination, but not of a ‘circumcision,’ of themselves.” course. There are no numbers on those deaths.”

Still, local doctors generally follow the American Association of Pediatrics party line— Other post-circumcision problems don’t manifest themselves until the child reaches that, at least in most cases, the risks presented by circumcision are worth taking. “It’s like anypuberty. Even the research of Dr. T.E. Wiswell, one of circumcision’s strongest advocates thing,” says Anthony Schaeffer, a pediatric urologist at University of Utah Hospital. “There’s throughout the 1980s and ‘90s, estimates as many as 1.7 percent of circumcised men will no perfect answer. I present the facts and certain medical indications. … [For instance,] we will experience one or more postneonatal complication of circumcision, including preputial recommend circumcision pretty strongly if the boy has urinary-tract infections in the first cysts, meatal stenosis and bowed or “tight” erections from excessive skin removal. year of life.” Ultimately, though, the decision is left entirely to the boy’s parents.

“There are a lot of complications that occur as the child grows into his adult penis,” Hansen As “a very esteemed practice,” Schaeffer says, circumcision is a sensitive topic. said. “With a doctor cutting a little infant’s penis, there’s no gauge. You don’t know what it’s “It behooves us to respect what each culture holds to be true,” Schaeffer says. “It’s not my going to grow into. They don’t always know how tight to go, and for that reason, even if you role to put values on it.”

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Even a best-case-scenario circumcision is a step down from the naturally intact penis, function-wise, Scott says.

“You’ve removed half of the skin covering his most vulnerable organ, and it’s anatomically the most complex half, physiologically the most dynamic. These are the external moving parts of the penis, these are the parts of the penis that have the highest concentration of specialized nerve endings,” he says.

Both intact men and their partners are quick to identify the foreskin, not the glans, as a man’s primary erogenous zone. In a survey published in the 2004 book Flesh and Blood: Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society, 22 of 38 sexually active men circumcised in adulthood for medical, religious or aesthetic reasons (58 percent) said that the pleasure of intercourse was lessened and that they would not choose circumcision again, given the option.

Furthermore, women report higher sexual satisfaction when partnered with an uncircumcised male. A 1999 survey by O’Hara and O’Hara, published in the British Journal of Urology, of women who had been with both circumcised and uncircumcised partners reported that women preferred their partner to be uncircumcised by a ratio of 8.6-to-1, citing fewer problems with vaginal dryness, condom compliance and reaching orgasm/ multiple orgasms.

“Most men never think to connect their circumcisions to certain sexual dysfunctions, like the fact that their female partner can’t orgasm through penetration,” CostelloMartin said. “I know that some women anatomically can’t, but I’ve always wondered if it has something to do with how many men are circumcised here.”

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Utah intactivist Nathan Kennard is one of many Utahns questioning the integrity of doctors promoting African circumcision. Kennard stumbled across the anti-circumcision movement in 2002 while researching a complication of his son’s circumcision. Among other things, Kennard learned that in 2002, Utah Medicaid public insurance covered the costs of nontherapeutic neonatal circumcision to the tune of $379,964 annually.

“It’s a very, very irresponsible use of taxpayer dollars,” Kennard said. “There’s just no reason to submit an infant to that.”

At the time, 10 U.S. states (either through administrative action or legislation) had already eliminated Medicaid funding for elective circumcision. After Kennard met briefly with NOCIRC’s Steve Scott, Kennard began researching both issues of circumcision and of state funding Of course, it doesn’t matter how good the on his own, ultimately creating and personally sex is if it isn’t safe. Intact genitals’ alleged distributing factsheets and CD-Roms to each proclivity for venereal-disease transmission, member of the Utah Legislature. “My goal was would certainly negate their abundant tactile to ask, ‘How much is it? How much can you save? benefits. But despite America’s long-running What else can you fund?’ ” Kennard said. malignment of the foreskin as a risk factor Somewhat to Kennard’s surprise, he said, in for sexually transmitted infections, the in2003, the Legislature agreed to defund nontherternational medical community has repeatapeutic circumcision, joining North Carolina edly failed to prove such a link between one’s and much of the Western United States. “It’s a circumcision status and his likelihood of conhuge victory,” Kennard said, 12 years later. “It’s tracting an STI. change that’s measurable, and that’s huge.”

In a report released by Seattle-based orWithout state funding, Utah’s circumcision ganization Doctors Opposing Circumcision, rates have quickly dropped off, mirroring those researchers Gregory J. Boyle and George of the U.K. after circumcision was removed Hill detail a host of methodological problems from its state-sponsored procedures. State stawith the commonly cited African randomized tistics reflect a fall from 56 percent to 33 perclinical trials, including “selection bias, inadcent of all male births, although officials seem equate blinding, problematic randomisation, to agree that both the starting and ending numtrials stopped early with exaggerated treatMIDWIFE’S ASSISTANT AND NATURAL-BIRTH bers are, in reality, significantly higher. ment effects; and not investigating non-sexual INSTRUCTOR AT THE BIRTH CENTER IN MURRAY Today, NO-CIRC reports that 39 percent of transmission.” The trials’ oft-touted 60 percent all male babies born in Utah are circumcised reduction in HIV transmission is a relative risk, before leaving the hospital. No official records they write, impacted by unmeasured confoundof clinic, home or religious circumcisions exist, but Scott imagines their exing variables (for instance, African Muslims’ low STD contraction rates istence would boost the statistic above 50 percent, and possibly even above could be due to Islam’s prohibition of premarital sex, not its espousal of the national average of 55 percent to 60 percent. circumcision). After controlling for associated variables like religiosity,

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have a ‘perfect’ circumcision, when you grow up, a lot of people have problems with tension or it healing wrong or brittle scar tissue.”

promiscuity, drug use, etc., Boyle and Hill concluded the absolute decrease in transmission risk after circumcision is roughly 1.3 percent.

The World Health Organization has persisted in beating the circumcision drum, drowning out concerns about the effectiveness and appropriateness of prophylactic circumcision. Citing the same randomized clinical trials debunked by Boyle and Hill as “compelling evidence that male circumcision reduces the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men,” the WHO is encouraging all adult African men to volunteer themselves for the procedure, shooting for an 80-percent circumcision rate across the continent.

“Um, can you say, ‘condom?’” Costello-Martin said, raising an eyebrow.

“Like, why are we cutting people? What happened to handing out condoms?”

If WHO efforts have had an impact on HIV transmission, it may have been to actually increase transmission rates. Circumcised men may actually be less likely to wear condoms, motivated both by the fear of further loss of sensation and by the belief that they are impervious to STIs. “If people are led to believe that circumcision is actually ‘protective’ in the sense of conferring full immunity, this could be seriously counterproductive, resulting in behavioural disinhibition in circumcised men and their abandonment of other preventive methods,” wrote University of Cape Town professor J. Myers in a 2007 South African Medical Journal article.

Perhaps because of this, Myers wrote, Ugandan women with circumcised partners appear twice as likely to contract HIV as women partnered with uncircumcised men, and 90 percent of new HIV cases appearing in South African 15- to 24-year-olds are occurring in women.

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HARD OF THE MATTER

Why, despite mounting scientific and sociological evidence against the benefits of circumcision, do doctors continue to recommend it? What gives this ritual its outsize staying power? “The bottom line is that circumcision is a cultural phenomenon,” Scott said. “That’s what drives it. It’s the sheer force of power of social practice.

There’s no greater legitimizer than social custom, and that’s what’s at work here.”

“It’s a strong societal and medical norm just to circumcise,” Hansen says. “It’s sort of assumed, ‘Oh, you have a baby? Let’s circumcise it. Let’s cut his umbilical cord, give him a bath, and then we’ll circumcise him.’ It’s a very routine procedure.”

But tradition alone hardly seems a compelling enough argument to offset circumcision’s apparent ethical and health concerns. Many of the procedure’s proponents, it seems, have developed personal stakes in the continuation of the practice.

“It gets to be a very personal thing for a lot of people,” Scott said. “If you’re a man, and you’re circumcised, and you’ve hired someone to circumcise your child, you’re going to have a very hard time accepting that you’ve done something wrong.

“That’s hard on mamas, too,” says midwife’s assistant Costello-Martin.

“That regret, that guilt, that, ‘What did I put you through?’ It’s tough.”

Of course, there’s also the ability to charge between $50 and $125 for a five-minute operation, making circumcision a rather profitable procedure. According to Scott, nontherapeutic neonatal circumcisions alone generate over $1 billion annually.

“And it’s quite clear that the money that’s made on circumcision-complication repairs is more, even, than that made on circumcisions,” he said gravely. “I’m starting to look at this as an entire circumcision industry. It has to defend itself.”

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Scott predicts the “circumcision industry” will face a backlash once the numbers of uncircumcised males approaches 50 percent, noting the proximity of current rates to the midline. “Once more than half of the U.S. is not circumcising, for the same locker-room reasons that it rose to popularity, circumcision will die out. We’re at critical mass now.”

“I’m hoping it’s looked on like bloodletting, or like we look at some of our weirder former practices, just within a generation or so,” Costello-Martin says. “I really think that even boys who have been cut today will not cut their sons.”

As it stands, Utah’s inactivist community isn’t much more than a decentralized collective of passionate people working individually. But the future looks bright, says David Lee of Foregen, an Italian-American nonprofit dedicated to regenerating amputated foreskins by repopulating the cell matrices of donated prepuces with recipient’s’ stem cells (see sidebar).

“The thing that’s exciting about Utah is that this is a community of people who want to make the world a better place, and they’re looking for outlets for that,” Lee says. “We’ve got such diverse culture with our two polar opposites that people vacillate between. You’ve got the religious side, which is very interested in ethical standards and moral behavior and creating a safe happy community, in making things positive. And then we’ve got sort of a counterculture which gravitates around the university, which is into intellectuality and knowledge and openness and truth. The two aren’t mutually exclusive, and I think, between the two of them, we have a lot of people that are interested in learning more.”

Meanwhile, Spenst Hansen keeps trying to connect with people and raise awareness of the issue. “Even people that don’t right now think about it, because they’ve never had the chance to, but once presented with the facts—it’s an unnecessary procedure that people don’t necessarily consent to, and maybe they should—once presented with those ideals, they’d be like, ‘Of course, I absolutely support this cause,’” he said.

“I just wish we could find each other more easily.” CW

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Until 2010, circumcised men hoping to “restore” their lost foreskins had two choices: tug or stretch loose shaft skin back over the head of the penis using weights and pulleys, much like gauging one’s ears, or undergo a graft surgery to transfer skin from the scrotum to the shaft. Both are very painful, neither very effective.

But a new Italian-American nonprofit, Foregen (a portmanteau of “foreskin” and “regeneration”), hopes to raise a new option.

“It’s not just science fiction anymore,” said David Lee, a Utah native and Foregen representative. “It does sound like it, I know, but it’s very possible and very cool.”

Using a combination of tissue donation and stemcell therapy, Foregen’s scientists are developing a procedure they hope will allow them to regenerate foreskins with functioning blood vessels and nerve endings. Donated adult foreskins removed for medical, aesthetic or religious reasons are decellularized until only the extracellular matrix remains, much like the scaffolding of a building. The ECM is then repopulated with the recipient’s stem cells and later surgically attached to the recipient’s body.

“Sometimes when you get transplants, you have to take the immunosuppressant drugs your entire life.

But with this, it’s your own DNA. No medication, no problem,” Lee says.

The procedure is still in experimental stages, focusing primarily on animal research. Already, scientists have managed to regrow a rat foreskin “as complex as a limb,” says Lee. Foregen plans to commence human clinical trials soon, with hopes of making the procedure publicly available by 2019. As a member of the organization, Lee gets first dibs on access to trials.

“I want to be a part of history,” he said, explaining his decision to receive the experimental surgery.

“I want to be involved in this, and I want to make it happen, so I guess I’m the lab rat. … There’s so much to be gained from this, and not just in my own life.

We don’t know how this piece of anatomy affects psychology or overall health, just because nobody’s ever been circumcised and then uncircumcised. It’s been impossible to compare,” he said. n

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THURSDAY 9.17

Aaron Wallis: The Street Bible Borrowing from the past to illuminate the present is an effective way to address ideas. Revisiting history dynamically helps viewers understand contemporary life and how humanity has evolved.

Virginia-native artist Aaron Wallis, now based in Jackson, Wyo., met Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts curator Renato Olmedo-González by chance, and an exhibition was born. Wallis is aggressive with his compositions, his subjects, and what he is able to say about the relevance of contemporary culture for people of color today.

His subjects are popular with minority communities, and, as such, he depicts infamous contemporary figures—”icons”—in his art. Wallis then uses historical motifs and incorporates them into precise screen prints he creates from history. The complete cycle of his current work is called The Street Bible—and it hits home.

Most of the historical motifs that surround his figures are medieval Catholic shrines or images from medieval illuminated manuscripts, images more likely to enshroud the Virgin Mary rather than notorious figures. The historical work is extraordinarily refined and detailed, but the “icons” are the focus. Wallis says he is “depicting rappers, drug-dealers and gang leaders in the context of Christian iconography and the illuminated manuscript. These figures, through a process of counterculture deification, have become lionized in a manner similar to Christian saints.” He does not indicate if the lionization of these figures in contemporary culture should be perceived as something positive or negative— merely that is primarily a culture’s point of view.

(Ehren Clark) Aaron Wallis: The Street Bible @ Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts, 631 W. North Temple, Suite 700, Sept. 14-Oct. 24.

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Two works of dance—Adam Barruch’s “Prima Materia” and RW Artistic Director Daniel Charon’s “Together Alone: Part 1”—will have their world premiere this weekend at Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co.’s Fall Season performance. The third piece, Doug Varone and Ellen Bromberg’s “States Rendered,” rounds out the evening with an audience favorite, back by popular demand.

Undoubtedly the most anticipated part of the evening should be Charon’s “Together Alone: Part 1,” a performance that will offer the audience a rare chance to see the complex and creative mind of the man who molds Ririe-Woodbury from behind the scenes. Inspired, says Charon, by his own life experiences and social observations, “Together Alone” touches on the familiar subject of human relationships evolving in a world that is increasingly experienced and filtered through technology. Charon’s narrative runs an emotional gamut from energetic to eerie as his characters evolve from a world of human interaction to one of detachment. “Hopefully,” says Charon, “this piece will inspire the audience to think about their own personal interactions and how they deal with technology in their life.”

Don’t be surprised if the conclusion of “Together Alone: Part 1” feels a little unresolved. This is just the beginning of a journey that Charon hopes people will want to continue exploring with him. Part 2 of the piece is scheduled for its world premiere at Ririe-Woodbury’s Spring Season performance—and, someday, says Charon, there might be a Part 3 to round out the dance trilogy, giving this choreographer plenty of space to explore a complex societal evolution.

(Katherine Pioli) Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co.: Fall Season @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Sept 17-19, 7:30 p.m., $35-$40. ArtTix.org

Those who are familiar with Amadeus exclusively from the 1984 Oscar-winning film version might have very specific expectations for what they’re likely to see on stage. And when Utah Rep’s production welcomes audience members into the theater by playing the first movement of Mozart’s Symphony No. 25 in G minor—which opens the film—it’s easy to keep thinking that way.

But Peter Shaffer’s text is a completely different creation in its current theatrical incarnation, one that brings the audience into the show as the confessors for Antonio Salieri (Roger Dunbar) as he tries to convince us, late in his life circa 1823, how he was responsible for the death of his great musical rival, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Geoffrey Gregory). And while many specific scenes are familiar, the focus shifts to an intimate study of an artist unable to process the idea that genius hasn’t been granted to him.

Yet, there’s still that remarkable character of Salieri, played by Dunbar not just with a ferocious sense of entitlement but with a more operatic villainy. He’s on stage for virtually the entire production, commanding attention whether he’s raging against the God he deems unjust or playing at humility. Director JC Carter does a fine job of working within the technical limitations of the Sorensen Unity Center space, and Nancy Susan Cannon’s costumes provide glorious bursts of color, but Dunbar’s performance is the electrifying centerpiece. It’s enough to make you forget that somebody else once won an Oscar playing Salieri.

(Scott Renshaw) Utah Repertory Theater: Amadeus @ Sorensen Unity Center, 1383 S. 900 West, Sept. 11-26, Friday-Saturday 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Sept. 20, 3 p.m.; $12-$15.

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Rebecca Klundt is fascinated with the impact of the human hand on the physical world in which we live. On the largest scale, that includes mining the earth for raw materials for manufacturing, which is a manner of rearranging the very elements that constitute the Earth. Of necessity, this leaves behind by-products in “piles” of excess materials that are discarded as a part of the process.

Klundt’s art is an attempt at a redemption of these materials, in the sense of artistic representation. Her works on wood and acrylic appear like aerial photographs of heavily worked farmland or mining districts, with their reordering of physical materials arranged in various geometrical shapes, as you can see in “Summer Day” (pictured).

They also aspire to take a place in the order of art history, reminiscent of the geometrical compositions of Paul Klee or Josef Albers, and an entire line of geometric abstractionists to follow.

Her works aim for a more organic quality than the typically cerebral examples of the tradition that most often come to mind.

The shapes in her works delineate processes of reordering but also imply fissures and fault lines, as well as acts of violence—even while attempting to make the Earth whole again; that’s the dilemma of the human footprint. While these works might initially appear like a dispassionate, detached view of the environment, they also point toward an integration of humanity into the natural world, a synthesis that is heartening.

(Brian Staker) Rebecca Klundt: Reformation: A Rearranging of Elements @ Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, 801-236-7555, Sept. 18-Nov. 13; Gallery Stroll artist reception, Sept. 18, 6-9 p.m. VisualArts.Utah.Gov

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Draper Amphitheater will play host to the best and most unique dance show in the State! With dance performers from most every college and university in the state along with some top dance companies and high schools, this is the dance spectacular not to be missed. It will be fast paced with lots of performances with a wide variety from contemporary to hip-hop, modern-jazz, ballet-clogging and everything in between.

A jam packed show of group after group.

Just look at a few scheduled to perform!

University of Utah Hip-Hop (Rhythm) SUU Hip-Hop/Belly Dance Snow College BYU Dixie State Drill Team Jesse Sykes-Popper High Definition Cloggers Underground - Contemporary Juan Diego High School Corner Canyon High School Brotherson Elite Utah Artist Ballet ...And More *Performance groups subject to change. *See webpage for full line-up.

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aturday, Sept. 26, will mark the 22nd annual National Public Lands Day. This one-day celebration mobilizes thousands of volunteers, at more than 2,000 public-land sites around the country, in a day of service: pulling invasive weeds, removing trash and maintaining trails. The best perq about this special day is that entrance fees to many national parks and monuments are waived for everyone, whether or not they volunteer. In Utah, 10 sites—including all five national parks in the state—are offering free entrance to visitors for National Public Lands Day. If you were looking for an excuse to visit some place in Utah you’ve never been before, make this free-entrance day your reason to explore. It could be as simple as a day trip north to the Golden Spike National Historic Site. Or, take a nice long road trip south to Zion National Park. If you’ve never been before, I would suggest a jaunt over to Arches National Park.

Only a four-hour drive from Salt Lake City, Arches is likely the most iconic of Utah’s parks, thanks to the popularity of its famous Delicate Arch, whose image graces calendar pages, billboards and many Utah license plates. But there’s more to see. There are the narrows hikes in the Fiery Furnace, the petroglyphs at Wolfe Ranch and the petrified dunes where humps of red stone make desert moguls across the valley floor.

As for the arches, there’s almost no way to see them all. There are more than 2,000 known arches within the park’s boundaries, including my favorite: Landscape Arch in the Devils Garden.

I last saw Landscape Arch when I was 16 years old, during a summer road trip with my dad, younger sister and a second cousin from Illinois. My dad was eager to impress our Midwestern relative, and he had put together an itinerary that covered all the best of Utah. Our last stop was at Arches. Our cousin wasn’t much of a hiker; a childhood

in the flatlands hadn’t prepared him for the wild high-elevation scrambling that we liked to do. So we chose a moderate hike, a short 2-mile round trip to Landscape Arch.

At first, I was disappointed we couldn’t do something longer, but the trail soon won me over. The first thing I noticed was the quiet.

Located on the far northern end of the park— far from the Delicate Arch, which draws all the crowds—we never met a single other hiker on the entire climb up and down the juniper-covered hills of sand. Even better was the prize at the end: The arch was stunning.

An impressive ribbon of red rock, Landscape Arch measures 306 feet across, the longest span of any natural arch in North America.

Arches National Park owes its preservation, strangely enough, to the conservation vision of a prospector, Alexander Ringhoffer, who was so impressed with the unique rock formations around Moab that he decided, in 1923, to enlist the help of some of America’s most powerful people—the railroad executives—to keep the land from development.

The Moab area, Ringhoffer told the railroad barons, could be a major tourist destination: Once they knew about it, people from all over the country would board trains bound for the Utah desert to witness the arches and balanced rocks. Tourism to the arches, he said, would bring increased patronage and money to the railroads.

The executives were sold. Six years later, President Herbert Hoover agreed Arches was worth preserving, and he created Arches National Monument, which Congress later changed to a national park in 1971.

Today, the numbers show unequivocally that Ringhoffer was right about Arches. Preserve it, and the people will come. In 2010, annual visitation to the park tipped into the millions. In 2014, the park saw 1.3 million people—a more than 200,000 increase from 2013.

Unfortunately, federal funding hasn’t kept up with the boom in national park visitors, leaving parks unable to deal with general maintenance—and, sometimes, even traffic flow. In May 2015, too many visitors and vehicles caused state troopers to shut down the entrance to Arches. Those who want to keep Utah’s public land treasures in their best condition should use this entrance-feefree National Public Lands Day to spend a few hours volunteering at one of 18 service projects planned at sites across the state. CW

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42nd Street Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, Sept. 22-27, Tuesday-Thursday 7:30 p.m.; Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 2 & 8 p.m.; Sunday, 1 & 6:30 p.m.; SaltLakeCity.Broadway.com Amadeus Utah Repertory Theater Co., Sorensen Unity Center, 138 S. 900 West, Sept. 11-26, FridaySaturday, 7:30 p.m.; matinee Sunday, Sept. 20, 3 p.m., UtahRep.org (see p. 20) Back to the Present The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 S. Washington Blvd., South Ogden, 855-944-2787, Friday-Saturday, 7:30pm, Sept. 18-Oct. 3, TheZiegfeldTheater.com Blackberry Winter Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, 801-363-7522, Wednesday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 1 & 6 p.m.; through Oct. 25, SaltLakeActingCompany.org The Diary of Anne Frank Hale Center Theater, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, 801-226-8600, MondaySaturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 3 p.m.; through Sept. 26, HaleTheater.org Drowsy Chaperone Empress Theatre, 9104 W. 7200 South, Magna, 801-347-7373, Sept. 11-Oct. 3, Monday, Friday, Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m., EmpressTheatre.com Electra 45th annual Classical Greek Theatre Festival, daybreak performances, Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, 801-832-2458, Sept. 26-27, 9 a.m.; information on touring performances available at WestminsterCollege.edu/greek_theatre Famous & Infamous: History Lives Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, 435-649-9371, Sept. 18-19, 8 p.m., EgyptianTheatreCompany.org Fiddler on the Roof Pioneer Theatre Co., Pioneer Memorial Theatre, University of Utah, 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6961, Sept. 18-Oct. 3, Monday-Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m., PioneerTheatre.org Forever Plaid The Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State, 801-957-3322, Thursday-Saturday 7:30 p.m., Saturday matinees 2 p.m., through Sept. 19, The-Grand.org Green Day’s American Idiot University of Utah Dept. of Theatre, Marriott Center for Dance, 330 S. 1500 East, Sept. 18-27, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 2 p.m., Theatre.Utah.edu Star Wards: These Are Not the Elders You’re Looking For Desert Star Playhouse, 4861 S. State, Murray, 801-266-2600, Monday, WednesdayThursday, 7 p.m.; Friday, 9:30 p.m., Saturday, 2:30,

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Katherine King: The Other Side of the Stars Utah native Katherine King’s suspenseful, pageturning debut novel, The Other Side of the Stars, can easily be read in a day, but the characters may haunt you for weeks. The Holocaust is a backdrop in King’s historical fiction, but that familiar setting never detracts from the originality of the work.

The story centers around Gita, a young German immigrant woman in post-World War II America, who unexpectedly finds herself in an arranged marriage following a life-changing tragedy. A complicated relationship grows between Gita and Max, her new husband, as she searches for clues to both her forgotten past and who Max really is.

King artfully reveals the pieces of her characters’ pasts through alternating perspectives, bringing to light secrets from Gita’s childhood and Max’s own heroic tale. Ogden’s Wisebird Bookery is the perfect host for this indie author booksigning, as it is always buzzing on Saturday mornings with locals hungry for French crêpes, coffee by Grounds for Coffee and a fine book selection. (Deann Armes) Katherine King: The Other Side of the Stars @ Wisebird Bookery, 4850 Harrison Blvd., Ogden, 801-479-8880, Sept. 19, 10 a.m., free. TheWisebirdBookery.Wordpress.com 6 & 8:30 p.m., through Nov. 27, DesertStar.biz 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 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: Charley’s Aunt, Dracula, The Two Gentlemen of Verona 351 W. Center Street, Cedar City, 800-752-9849, through Oct. 31, Bard.org West Side Story SCERA Center for the Arts, 745 S. State, 801-225-2787, Sept. 18-Oct. 10, Monday, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Scera.org Wit Wasatch Theatre Co., Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, ThursdaySaturday, 8 p.m., through Sept. 26, ArtTix.org

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CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Beethoven Festival: Symphony Nos. 1 & 3 Abravanel Hall, 123 S. West Temple, 801-355-2787, Sept. 18, 7:30 p.m., ArtTix.org Beethoven Festival: Symphony Nos. 2 & 7 Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, Sept. 19, 7:30 p.m., ArtTix.org

COMEDY & IMPROV

Todd Barry Wiseguys Comedy Club, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588, Sept. 19, 8 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Hal Sparks Club at 50 West, 50 W. 300 South, Sept. 18-19, 7 & 9:30 p.m., 50WestSLC.com Paul Sheffield Wiseguys Comedy Club, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-463-2909, Sept. 17, 7:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Spencer King Wiseguys Comedy Club, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588, Sept. 18, 8 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Tom Green Wiseguys Comedy Club, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-463-2909, Sept.

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LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Ari Berman: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, Sept. 17, 7 p.m., SLCPL.org/thenation Authorpalooza 2015 Barnes & Noble Sandy, 10180 S. State, Sandy, 801-233-0203, Sept. 19, 1-4 p.m., BarnesAndNoble.com Colleen Houck: Reawakened The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Sept. 23, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com Jonathan Evison: This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Sept. 22, 7 p.m.,

moreESSENTIALS KingsEnglish.com Kristyn Crow: Zombelina Dances the Nutcracker The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Sept. 19, 2 p.m., KingsEnglish.com Leanne Brown: Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4 a Day The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Sept. 17, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com Richard Paul Evans: Michael Vey: Storm of Lightning Barnes & Noble Layton, 1780 N. 1000 West, Layton, 801-773-9973, Sept. 17, 6 p.m., BarnesAndNoble.com Ruth Ellen Kocher & Ashley Seitz Kramer Westminster Poetry Series, Gore Auditorium, 1840 S. 1300 East, 801-832-2376, Sept. 17, 7 p.m., WestminsterCollege.edu Tina Martin: My Father Alberto Misrachi The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Sept. 18, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com

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18, 6-9 p.m., MestizoArts.org (see p. 20) 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 Art on Vinyl Group Show Mod-a-go-go, 242 E. South Temple, 801-355-3332, Sept. 18, 6-9 p.m., ModaGoGo.com Aundrea Frahm: We Revolve Ceaseless Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Oct. 3, UtahMOCA.org Bill Reed: Changing Visions: Womanscapes, Botanicals, and More Salt Lake City Library Chapman Branch, 577 S. 900 West, 801-594-8623, through Oct. 29, SLCPL.org Brian Bress: Make Your Own Friends Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, 801-581-7332, Sept. 18-Jan. 10, UMFA.Utah.edu 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 Fibonacci Fine Art Exhibit and Launch Party Fibonacci Fine Arts, 221 E. 300 South, Sept. 18, 5-7 p.m., FibonacciFineArts.com Illustrating Literature: Drawings by Stephanie Peters Day-Riverside Library, 1575 W. 1000 North, 801-594-8632, through Sept. 20, SLCPL.org In Conversation: Brian Bress Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, 801-581-7332, Sept.

17, 4 p.m.; artist reception, 6 p.m., umfa.utah.edu JazzSLC: 20 Years of Jazz Music in the Crossroads of the West Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Sept. 30, SLCPL.org Joe Ostraff Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, 801-364-8293, Sept. 18-Oct. 14, artist reception Sept. 18, 6-9 p.m., Phillips-Gallery.com Justin Carruth: Depart Broadway Center Cinemas, 111 E. 300 South, 385-215-6768, through Oct. 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 Lizze Määttälä: Uphill/Both Ways Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Nov. 7, UtahMOCA.org Movement in Film: A loveDANCEmore Exhibit Sweet Library, 455 F Street, 801-594-8651, through Oct. 17, SLCPL.org Nature’s Beauty: Photography by Brenda Lower Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, 801-594-8611, through Sept. 25, SLCPL.org Rebecca Klundt: Reformation - A Rearranging of Elements Rio Grande Depot, 300 S. Rio Grande St., Sept. 18-Nov. 13, VisualArts.Utah.gov (see p. 20) Rebecca Reese Jacoby Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, 801-596-5000, through Sept. 25, SaltLakeArts.org 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, 801-594-8640, through Sept. 18, SLCPL.org

Utah State Fair Utah State Fairpark, 155 N. 1000 West, Sept. 10-20, UtahStateFair.com 2015 Rumi Festival Anderson Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, 801-594-8611, September 19, 2-4 p.m., RumiPoetryClub.com Blues Barbershop Car Show Holladay City Hall, 4580 S. 2300 East, Sept. 19, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., BluesBarbershop.com DogFest Walk ‘N Roll Wheeler Farm, 6351 S. 900 East, Sept. 19, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Kintera.org Eat Local Week Activities throughout downtown Salt Lake City. Finale: Rooftop Party, Harmons City Creek, 135 E. 100 South, 801-428-0366, Sept. 19, 6-9 p.m., EatLocalWeek.org Festa Italiana Rio Grande Depot, 400 W. 300 South, 801-597-9098, Sept. 19, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sept. 20, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., FestaItalianaSLC.com Festival of India Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple, 331 W. 5800 South, Spanish Fork, 801-798-3559, Sept. 19, 5-8 p.m., UtahKrishnas.org Harvest Moon Celebration 25th Street, Ogden, Saturday, Sept. 19, noon-8 p.m., Historic25.com Oktoberfest Snowbird Resord, Highway 210 Little Cottonwood Canyon, Snowbird, 801-933-2222, Saturday & Sunday, noon-6:30 p.m., through Oct. 11, Snowbird.com Salt Lake AIDS Walk Utah AIDS Foundation, City Creek Center, 50 Main, Saturday, Sept. 19, 9:30 a.m., SaltLakeAIDSWalk.org Sugar House Fall Crawl Sugar House Monument Plaza, 2100 S. Highland Drive, Saturday, Sept. 19, noon-5 p.m., SugarHouseChamber.org

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uffering from being in the middle of a construction zone adjacent to City Creek Center, Martine Cafe coowners Scott Hale and Tom Grant decided to close up shop for a few weeks and give their restaurant a design reboot. Gone is the dining room dry wall; now on display are the original red bricks of the historic building that is home to Martine. The walls of the restaurant’s west dining room feature the artwork of the late painter and beloved raconteur Kenvin Lyman. Hale and Grant did much of the redesign themselves, including building new banquettes.

I’d waited too long to check out the new Martine, but recently did explore the new digs and the beautiful, warm ambiance the owners have created.

Renovation aside, it’s a tribute to chef and co-owner Grant—who’s been with Martine from the beginning, in 1999—that the cuisine at Martine never seems dated or tired.

Options abound: a collection of “small plates” allows patrons to enjoy a range of dishes and flavors, while larger entrees like pan-seared sea bass with couscous and saffron broth ($24) provide more traditional meals. And then there is a duo of economical three-course ($25) and four-course ($32) prix fixe menus. At Martine, you can have it your way.

No sooner were we seated than a terrific server with a memorable name, Venice, brought us ice water and a gratis bowl of olives. The wine list at Martine is excellent and affordable; markups on most wines are less than what you usually find, so give credit to Hale, a wine enthusiast, for that.

We settled on a versatile bottle of Guigal Côtes du Rhône Blanc ($30), which we figured would pair well with a range of dishes.

The “Bar Bites” menu offers tasty nibbles that are a great way to kick off dinner: fried Brussels sprouts with pancetta ($5.50), Spanish anchovies with roasted peppers and olive oil ($4) and skewers of sliced Creminelli salami and Rockhill Edam cheese ($4), for example.

Grant has a knack for taking simple ingredients—local and organic, where possible—and elevating them in delicious dishes. The flavors are complex, but not complicated, overwrought or over-thought.

A sweet-pea soup ($9), for example, is all about the sweet peas, enhanced judiciously with a kiss of lavender and Shepherds goat cheese. The lobster-rolls ($15) tapas plate is a serving of three squares of toasted brioche topped with heavenly tarragon-spiked lobster salad and pickled red onions—a

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Other enticing items from the Tapas & Soups section of the Martine menu include deeply flavored wild-boar ribs with a sweet and tangy pomegranate barbecue sauce and garlic chips ($10); heirloom tomato gazpacho soup with marinated shrimp and avocado crème fraîche ($10); mushroom escabeche with rosemary-grilled bread ($9); crab salad with Belgium endive and artichoke heart ($14); and rich, roasted shiitake mushrooms with rapini and hoisin sauce ($10).

I don’t normally think of fish as a candidate for pairing with tomatoes, but I do now, thanks to a divine plate of roasted halibut atop a bed of charred heirloom tomatoes. The halibut was cooked perfectly, and the tomatoes lent acidity to provide both balance and contrast to the fish flavors. It’s a very creative combination.

My teenage son, Hank, allowed me a nibble of his gorgeous lamb rack ($28), cooked medium-rare, as requested. The dish is composed of four ribs—two ribs, each separated into two pieces—artfully stacked on a generous serving of blistered, charred green beans which sit on a bed of corn grits, all drizzled with balsamic vinegar. It’s a lamb-lover’s dream dish.

Another must-try Martine dish is the Mystic wild Alaskan salmon ($24), which is flown in freshly caught from the Yakutat district of southeast Alaska.

Mystic owners David and Shannon Negus offer only sustainably managed premiumcatch salmon to their clients, and I defy you to find tastier salmon than Grant’s.

The richly colored—almost burnt orange— salmon is served on a bed of greens and topped with stone-fruit chutney, with a mound of yogurt quinoa alongside. It’s another interesting and successful combination of flavors that you might not think of putting together, but Grant does.

Restaurant renovated, but food stays classic: Lobster salad on brioche rolls at Martine Ordering duck in restaurants, I feel, is always a crapshoot. I’ve had so many overcooked, undercooked and just plain underwhelming duck dishes that I generally shy away from them. But Martine’s boneless duck breast ($24) was stupendous— so good, I had to share half of mine with Hank, who normally doesn’t eat duck. It’s a generously sized duck breast, cooked medium-rare and cut into thin slices, served with a subtle curry vinaigrette and roasted shiitakes. Again: It’s an unexpected combination of flavors—curry vinaigrette and duck—that simply works. A serving of crispy sautéed kale rode shotgun alongside, and I had to fight Hank for the duckskin cracklings that rounded out this exquisite dish.

Although I’ve focused here on the dinner menu, Martine also serves lunch, offering mostly pub-style fare such as paninis and sandwiches, salads, quiche and soups.

The Thai red-curry beef skewers ($11) on house linguini are a real winner, as is the Southwestern-influenced hot roast-beef sandwich: tender roast beef with red bell peppers, poblano chile, onion, pepper jack cheese, spicy au jus and chipotle mayonnaise on a fresh baguette ($10.50).

If the distinctive ambience and cuisine aren’t quite enough to get you through the door, I’ll remind you they also offer valet parking right at the front door, making a night out at Martine both effortless and delectable.

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No, I’m not talking about craft and artisan brews, nor home brewing. They say that history repeats itself, and I remember a time when most beer came in cans. Then, beer snobs decided that quality beer should be stored only in bottles. Well, the latest revolution in the craft beer industry is canned beer. Yep, everything old is new again.

There are good reasons to buy beer in cans. Cans are lighter to carry than bottles, so they make for easier transporting for camping, hiking, fishing, tailgating and other outdoor activities. Cans also require less packaging than bottles, and are easy to recycle. Light doesn’t penetrate cans like it does bottles, and cans have tighter seals than bottles, thus locking in flavor more efficiently. Cans don’t shatter when you drop them on your kitchen tile floor. I am certainly not above drinking beer straight from a can, although most brewers would recommend pouring the beer into glasses, like you would with bottled beer.

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Here are a few good ones to pop open: The aforementioned Bohemian Brewery 1842 Czech Pilsener Lager is my go-to canned Pils. It’s about as close as you’ll get to classic Pilsener without going to the Czech Republic, made with Saaz hops and pale Pilsener malts for that signature Czech flavor.

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If you like apples, you’ll love Wasatch Brewery’s Apple-a-Day Apple Ale. It’s a 5-percent ABV canned beer with a thin white head, brimming with apple fragrance and flavor—a crisp, clean-tasting brew that sits somewhere between a beer and a cider. New to Utah stores is 6-percent ABV Wasatch Brewery Ghostrider White IPA, an unfiltered ale made from pale barley and citrusy hops with a bit of coriander brewed in, as well.

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Moab Brewery packages its canned beers in 16-ounce cans, and one of my favorites is Moab Brewery Squeaky Bike Nut Brown Ale. This 4-percent ABV beer garnered a silver medal at the 2014 World Beer Cup in the Session Beer category. It’s an English-style brown ale with dark-caramel & roasted malts, hopped with English Noble Hops.

At a whopping 9-percent ABV, you’ll want to handle Squatters Hop Rising Double IPA with kid gloves. This dryhopped IPA is among the best canned beers I’ve tried.

Epic Brewery, too, has gotten into the canned-beer game, and I’m especially fond of Epic Brewing Hop Syndrome Pils Lager. It’s one of hoppiest lagers I’ve tasted, with refreshing crisp fruit notes and a somewhat tart-sweet finish.

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The third annual Salt Lake Comic Con returns to the Salt Palace from September 24-26 to further solidify its reputation as Utah’s favorite pop culture event. After shattering attendance records in 2013 and 2014, this year’s event is shaping up to be bigger and better than ever before. Join more than 120,000 other attendees and immerse yourself in a weekend full of comicbooks, cosplay, science fiction, fantasy, horror, Hollywood, anime and other pop culture phenomena! Spend three days browsing booths of incredible authors, artists and vendors, shopping and attending awesome panels. More than 400 panelists and experts will provide hundreds of hours of programming for attendees of all ages. Don’t miss your once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet some of your favorite characters from Harry Potter, “Doctor Who,” “Star Trek,” “The Walking Dead,” “The Vampire Diaries,” The Lord of the Rings and many more, including four iconic members of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Hayley Atwell and Captain America, himself - Chris Evans! Come find out why Stan Lee called Salt Lake Comic Con “the greatest comic con in the world!”

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All celebrity guests at Salt Lake Comic Con 2015 will be selling autographs at their booths during the convention. Head to Celebrity Row to purchase an 8”x10” glossy print for your favorite celebrity guest to sign. If you want to have a small personal item signed, this may be available for a slight fee (at the discretion of the guest and his/her agent). Photo Ops are opportunities to have a picture taken of you with your favorite celebrity by a professional photographer. You will receive an 8”x10” print of the photo and may also purchase a digital print that is emailed to you. These often sell out, so don’t procrastinate - purchase your Photo Op in advance! Celebrity autographs and Photo Ops are available for pre-order at SaltLakeComicCon.com.

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Salt Lake Comic Con 2015 is bringing Utah the best in geek entertainment!

Taking place over three days, Salt Lake Comic Con is jam-packed with things to do. There will be over 300 hours of panel programming, gaming tournaments, sci-fi speed dating, after parties, meet-and-greets with your favorite celebrities, and more! Get the full schedule at SaltLakeComicCon.com

SALT LAKE COMIC CON EVENTS

There are all kinds of special events to keep the con spirit alive! Gaming Tournaments, Zom-b Laser Tag, Sci-Fi Speed Dating, Cosplay Photo Meet Ups and more. The party doesn’t stop there! With the Comic Con Bash, Comic Con After Dark and the Official After-Party, there are plenty of opportunities to keep up the geeky fun late into the night.

ARTIST ALLEY

Artists from all over the world come to show and sell their best at Salt Lake Comic Con’s Artist Alley! Browse aisle after aisle of awesome geek prints, posters, cards and more in every style imaginable. Come buy incredible art or commission a custom piece.

AUTHOR AVENUE

Authors from around the world and from every genre! Whether you like books in the realm of fantasy, tomes from the world of the supernatural or novels from the universe of science fiction, you’ll find an author at Salt Lake Comic Con you will geek out about.

FEATURES

When trolls, time machines, imperial legions and cool cars come together, you have the Features at Salt Lake Comic Con! See the amazing craftsmanship and likeness of our Weta Workshop™ statues featuring characters from Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies.

CHRIS EVANS PANEL

Saturday 9/26 - 10:00 a.m., Grand Ballroom Don’t miss the once-ina-lifetime opportunity to see Chris Evans, Captain America, live and onstage at Salt Lake Comic Con 2015.

GUINNESS WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT

Friday 9/25 - 6:00 p.m., Hall E (South Salt Palace Doors) Salt Lake Comic Con fans have already broken the records for Largest First Year Comic Con in North America, Most Attended Convention in Utah and the Largest Convention Per Capita in North America. Now it’s time to take it to the next level and break a WORLD RECORD! Come be a part of history as Salt Lake Comic Con breaks the World Record for the Largest Gathering of People Dressed as Comic Book Characters!

COMIC CON BASH W/ JESS HARNELL & ROCK SUGAR

Friday 9/25 - 9:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m., SKY Lounge $20 GA in advance // $25 GA at the door // $100 Platinum (online only) AGES 21+ only Don’t miss the BIGGEST party of SLCC15! Start the party off with DJ Jarvicious, then rock out to the 80’s mash-up sounds of Jess Harnell’s band, ROCK SUGAR. Come enjoy a variety iconic heavy metal and pop songs, sung by one of Salt Lake Comic Con’s fan-favorite celebrity guests!

SUPERHERO RUN

Saturday 9/26 - 8:00 a.m., Southeast Salt Palace Plaza Join the forces for good and come participate in The 2015 Superhero Run with Salt Lake Comic Con! Proceeds will benefit the new Specialty Hospital of Utah. Come run, jog or walk with other costumed attendees and be a real-life superhero for the patients and families who need this hospital!

THE “ANYTHING CAN BE” COSPLAY AFTER-PARTY

Saturday 9/26 - 9:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m., SKY Lounge $15 in advance // $20 at the door - AGES 21+ only Kick back and have a good time on the last night of Salt Lake Comic Con 2015! We’re going out with a bang with live performances by Kirby Krackle, DJ Jarvicious and DJ Karma, as well as cosplay contests! Don’t be late: The first 400 attendees to show up in cosplay before 10:00 p.m. get in free!

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Thursday 9/24 - 4:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m.; Friday 9/25 - 11:30 a.m. (LGBT), 1:00 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 6;00 p.m.; Saturday 9/26 - 11:00 a.m. (LGBT), 1:00 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 6:00 p.m Are you single and tired of looking for love in Alderaan places? Are you ready to Terminate your single life? Then give Sci-Fi Speed Dating a try!

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Hunt down that limited-edition comic issue or action figure, or grab an official Salt Lake Comic Con T-Shirt! With hundreds of Vendor Booths and Tables, there is something for everyone.

Saturday Evening 9/26, Grand Ballroom The SLCC15 Cosplay Contest is now not just a competition but a huge celebration of cosplay and costuming! This extravaganza will showcase store-bought costumes and hand-crafted cosplays of contestants from various skill levels and ages and is one of the most popular events of the entire convention! Contestants compete for trophies, medals and cash prizes that will be announced by our celebrity judging panel.

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KIDCON AT SALT LAKE COMIC CON

We pride ourselves in being a family-friendly event, so bring the whole crew. KidCon is a special section of the Salt Lake Comic Con Vendor Hall set apart just for our youngest fans! With tons of fun activities, arts and crafts, interactive booths, and pint-sized photo opportunities, you and your children will have a memorable time.

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SPACE CRAFTS AT KIDCON

Every Day at Salt Lake Comic Con 2015’s KidCon! Are you ready to defend the galaxy? Join the Galaxy Training Academy at Salt Lake Comic Con 2015’s KidCon and find out! Our Cadets are tested and tried with the best of the best to see if they’re up to snuff. Explore the cosmos, decode alien messages and save the galaxy! Once your training is complete, you’ll receive your Certificate of Achievement, proving that you can protect us from any intergalactic threat.

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Every Day at Salt Lake Comic Con 2015’s KidCon! Come have some fun with Space Crafts in Kidcon! Bring your kids and watch them have making crafts and memories at Salt Lake Comic Con 2015. KidCon is hosting 6 different crafts, including: “LightSabers”, Jetpacks, Galaxy Defender Disks, Beaded Bracelets, Make Your Own Comic Book, and Duct Tape Crafts! Prices range from $1 to $5 dollars.

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To celebrate the end of the patio season, Franck’s restaurant (6263 S. Holladay Blvd.) is hosting a wine dinner on Monday, Sept. 21, highlighting wines of Italy. Discussing the wines will be special guest Brian Moore, of Frederick Wildman & Sons, one of the country’s top wine importers.

The four-course dinner kicks off at 6:30 p.m. with a goat-cheese tart, caramelized pineapple, roasted almonds, ancho chili crème Anglaise and herb salad paired with 2012 Santi Soave Monteforte, followed by a course of sable fish and calabrese Bolognese, with an asiago baguette, peppadew chili, fried capers and lemon confit, plus 2012 Santi Valpolicella “Salone.” The third dinner course will be plum-roasted Red Bird chicken “shank” with Utah corn & mint succotash and garlic-plum aioli paired with 2012 Marzianno Abbona Barbera d’Alba “Rinaldi.” The final course is pressed 44 Farms Prime beef belly with olive-oil-whipped potatoes, currant-redwine sauce and honey-glazed heritage snow peas served with 2005 Melini La Salvanella Chianti Classico Riserva. Seating is limited, and the cost is $80 per person (tax & gratuity not included). Visit FrancksFood.com or phone 801-274-6264 to book a table.

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GOODEATS 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!

Primo Restaurant

Primo Restaurant is a classic, old-school eatery with old-fashioned professional service and the traditional fare to go with it. Pasta is offered with a choice of sauces, including amatriciana and puttanesca. There are four sensational veal dishes on the menu, along with filet mignon Bordelaise, rack of lamb, shrimp scampi, chicken piccata and more, including a well-selected wine list. 4699 S. Highland Drive, Holladay, 801-947-0025, PrimoSLC.com

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If you’re craving sushi, Red Ginger Bistro’s menu offers an extensive selection of rolls, rolls and more rolls! Of course, humans cannot live on sushi and sashimi alone, so also consider treats like the mussel shooters, crab Rangoon, soft-shell-crab salad and “chicken on a stick.” In addition to Japanese-style cuisine, there is also a lengthy Chinese menu featuring everything from chow mein and egg foo young to shrimp with lobster sauce. You can wash it all down with sake, wine or beer. 3333 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-467-6697

Sampan

Whether you eat in or out—Sampan is a popular takeout option—you’ll love the bold flavor of dishes like the beef with spicy Szechuan sauce, garlic chicken, empress duck, and cod in hot braised sauce. Old-school types will enjoy the combo dinners, which include choices of select entrees along with soup, fried rice and an eggroll or paper-wrapped chicken. 10450 S. State, Sandy, 801-576-0688; 675 E. 2100 South, 801-467-3663, ESampan.com

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The appealing ambience is actually overshadowed by the cuisine, which ranges from wood-fired-oven-baked Margherita pizza to lobster ravioli. And everyone will appreciate the top-notch service and stellar desserts.

Don’t miss the out-of-this-world molten chocolate cake made with El Rey Bucare chocolate, and the equally divine white-chocolate creme brulee. 225 25th St., Ogden, 801-475-7077, MyZucca.com

Acapulco Restaurant

Fans of fresh, home-style Mexican fare rave about Acapulco, where the tortillas are made fresh daily.

Friendly service accompanies every taco, burrito, enchilada, tamale and bowl of spicy salsa. Be sure and remember to score a bag of fresh tortillas to take home for later.

4722 S. 4015 West, Kearns, 801-964-1553, AcapulcoRestaurantUtah.com

Bohemian Brewery & Grill

In the heart of Midvale, Bohemian Brewery is a beer lover’s oasis. Owned by a family with roots in the Czech Republic, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that Bohemian Brewery produces the finest Czech-style lagers in the state, all brewed according to the Reinheitsgebot German beer-purity law. The food options are terrific, too: Bohemian goulash, Bavarian bratwurst, pierogies, chicken paprikash and Old World roast pork are favorites. A nice place to start is with an appetizer of whole roasted Gilroy garlic bulbs, served with toast points and a tomato-basil tapenade, paired with Bohemian Pilsner.

Be sure to check out the Vespa collection and the cool artwork while you treat yourself to an award-winning Cherny Bock. 94 E. 7200 South, Midvale, 801-566-5474, BohemianBrewery.com

The Wing Coop takes chicken wings seriously, serving only the largest of chicken wings to customers. A rather unusual twist on wings here is the option of having them grilled or fried. Wing Coop features 22 sauces to choose from, including Loco Lime, teriyaki, raspberry-chipotle, spicy garlic and honey habanero. Look out though for the incendiary Out of Bounds and Eleven sauces, the hottest of Wing Coop’s delicious sauces. 3971 S. Wasatch Blvd., Salt Lake City, 801-274-9464, WingCoop.com

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It’s hard to beat Café Trio for al fresco dining—the patio

is typically bustling with energy. Kick off a meal with Trio’s famous rosemary flatbread or a bowl of steamed Manila clams. Then, launch into more substantial fare such as the roasted chicken, pork tenderloin or seared wild salmon. The no-nonsense, economical wine list is wonderful. For kids and kids-at-heart, Trio offers tempting desserts like creme brulee and a rhubarb bar.

For adults, there’s an equally tempting array of dessert martinis. And on weekends, Café Trio ought to be at the top of your list of brunch destinations. 680 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, 801-533-8746; 6405 S. 3000 East, Salt Lake City, 801- 944-8746, TrioDining.com

Deep-dish and regular brick-oven pizzas and housemade root beer are a perfect match in this family-friendly environment. For years, Brick Oven has offered tasty pizza and Italian options like calzones and heaping portions of pasta. Friendly servers whisk out the food, while the occasional balloon artist entertains, setting up for the final round of fresh, warm brownies slathered in ice cream, whipped cream and caramel.

There is also a gluten-free crust option, so everyone can enjoy.

Multiple locations, BrickOvenRestaurants.com This casual, kitschy, boisterous restaurant serves family style portions of Italian dishes like penne alla Vodka, manicotti, eggplant parmigiana and great margherita pizza. At Buca di Beppo, family-style food is served in two portion sizes. Buca Small feeds up to three and Buca Large feeds up to six hungry people. At lunch, Buca offers single servings in addition to traditional family style portions. At this unique downtown restaurant, you can also enjoy a glass of wine, refreshing cocktail, Italian soda or soothing after-dinner drink. It’s loads of delicious fun, Italian-American style. Multiple Locations, BucaDiBeppo.com

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to see whatever it is that allows the director to say: “This. This is what I wanted you to see.”

Me, I’m just foolish—and, I suppose, stubborn—enough to think that the constraints and restrictions of a collaborative, commercial medium mean that you accept the compromises. The version of a movie I see for the first time—often, but not always, in a theater, given my job—is the version with which I’ll engage. If you’re a director, and you don’t understand that the work will likely be sent out into the world in a way different from that movie in your head, you’re probably in the wrong business. In subtle ways, we’re being told over and over again that the movie initially released to the world is basically a dress rehearsal for the real thing, once the DVD release is available. If so, why bother going to the movies?

The question of a text’s “definitive version” is a messy business, and I’m not about to provide the final word. But I know what my version of a text is. It’s the version I shared in the dark with an audience, and wrestled with, trying to put into words the way I understood it. For me, Mad Max: Fury Road involves magnificent use of shifting color tones, and it always will. With all due respect to George Miller, the question of whether or not he gets the last word is far from black-and-white. CW

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executives. History has been full of lost or near-lost masterpieces as the result of directors engaged in losing battles with those in positions of power: Erich von Stroheim’s Greed. Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons. Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. All have become standard lessons in the terrible things that can happen when Philistines in suits stick their noses into the work of artists.

I get it. What film historian wouldn’t want to see those lost reels of Greed, or Welles’ version of Ambersons? But I’m not a film historian. I’m someone who explores the text in front of me and tries to make sense of what I find. And I’ve made peace with the fact that film is a collaborative medium, which almost inevitably involves compromise. There’s not enough time, or there’s not enough money, or there’s not enough creative autonomy. It’s always, or at least almost always, something.

We have seen, particularly in the era of home video, the desire on the part of filmmakers to show us the movie they had in their head before that “something” happened. Some of these revised versions have become legendary, or maybe infamous: Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner without Harrison Ford’s narration and the “happy ending”; Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now Redux; Steven Spielberg’s gun-free, digital-effects-added cut of E. T. the ExtraTerrestrial; and, of course, George Lucas’ “special editions” of the original Star Wars trilogy. Some viewers are frustrated with these alterations, some viewers are fine with them, but most viewers at least want

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hat if—just humor me— what if a director’s ideal vision for what a movie might have been isn’t actually a version I want to see?

I found myself wrestling with this notion recently, after fans of Mad Max: Fury Road—a movie I love—responded to comments made by director George Miller that “the best version of this movie is black and white, but people reserve that for art movies now.” A Change.com petition was launched, requesting that distributor Warner Bros. release not just a black & white version of Fury Road, but also a “silent version” which includes no dialogue. (Neither version appeared on the recent DVD/Blu-ray release of the movie.)

And my immediate response, via Twitter, was as follows: “No. This is a terrible idea.”

Rather quickly, I was challenged. Why wouldn’t I want to see a version of the movie as the director intended? Why wasn’t his original vision deserving of a public airing?

It’s here that I’m forced to admit a dark secret of my cinephilia: I really don’t like supplemental material on home-video releases. I don’t listen to commentary tracks, or watch “behind-the-scenes” featurettes.

I don’t watch “alternate endings.” And I don’t give a rat’s ass about “director’s cuts” or “unrated versions.”

Mine is something of an outlying position, based (at least in part) much more on gut than reason. The commentary-track part is simplest: As far as I’m concerned, a great artist says all she or he needs to say about a work in the work, and a bad artist can’t tell me anything that makes it better.

“Making-of” features assume that I want to have the magic of creation affected by looking behind the stage curtain. As for “alternate endings,” I’d argue that a movie with more than one ending doesn’t actually have an ending. If the story isn’t leading up to one, and only one, possible outcome, it needs a re-write.

But the “director’s cut” part is trickier, since it flies in the face of the way movie lovers treasure the notion of an auteur’s pure, unsullied vision over commercial compromises, demanded by everything from the MPA A ratings board to studio

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BLACK MASS [not yet reviewed] Fact-based story of Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger (Johnny Depp) and his improbable role as FBI informant. Opens Sept. 18 at theaters valleywide. (R) CAPTIVE [not yet reviewed] An escaped prisoner (David Oyelowo) takes as a hostage a single mother (Kate Mara) struggling with a drug addiction. Opens Sept. 18 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) COOTIES BB.5 The clever premise is so simple that it’s hard to believe no one had already used it before Saw writer Leigh Whannell and Glee cocreator Ian Brennan got to it: A bacterial outbreak at an elementary school turns the kids into ravenous, flesh-eating zombies who attack each other, while the uninfected teachers, would-be horror novelist Clint (Elijah Wood) and old friend Lucy (Alison Pill) barricade themselves inside the building—the “little monsters” figure of speech made literal. The tone is arch and satiric, often funny, as first-time directors Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion revel in the campy gore and get laughs at the expense of public-school bureaucracy and political correctness. But Cooties, while suitably gross and buoyed by game performances, doesn’t exploit its concept nearly as well as it should. It turns out to be a fairly standard horror-comedy with uneven execution and a script that needed revision. When you see little girls on a playground using someone’s intestines as a jump rope, you think: That kind of macabre brilliance should be the rule in a movie like this, not the exception. Opens Sept. 18 at Tower Theatre. (R)—Eric D. Snider [reviewed at Sundance Film Festival 2014] EVEREST BBB.5 Big, visceral and intense, this is a heart-stopping adventure, the kind of movie movies were invented for; see it in IMAX 3D if you can. During the 1996 climbing season on Mount Everest, eight people died because Everest had gotten commercialized and too many people were trying to get to the summit during narrow windows of opportunity. Jon Krakauer chronicled the disaster in his best-seller Into Thin Air, though the movie is not based directly on that book, he appears as a character here, played by Michael Kelly. This movie may make things even worse on the mountain, since it’s such a spectacular experience that it may make some viewers hungry for the real thing. New Zealender Rob Hall (Jason Clarke) and Seattle-based Scott Fischer (Jake Gyllenhaal) lead

clients (played by John Hawkes and Josh Brolin, among others) to the top of the world, and the pain and the effort that goes into it is vivid and acute—but then to actually reach the summit is a thing of immense awe and pleasure. “Because it’s there” suddenly makes a lot of sense to those of us down here. Opens Sept. 18 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)—MaryAnn Johanson GRANDMA BB.5 There are worse ways to spend 90 minutes than with Lily Tomlin being irascible, but that doesn’t make it enough to sustain a feature. The film’s loose structure basically involves an episodic daylong road trip, as Elle Reid (Tomlin)—a once-celebrated but now broke lesbian-feminist poet—tries to rustle up enough money to help her teenage granddaughter, Sage (Julia Garner), pay for an abortion. The various encounters—Sage’s boyfriend (Nat Wolff); a transgender tattoo artist (Orange Is the New Black’s Laverne Cox); a bitter old flame of Elle’s (Sam Elliott)—make for a colorful milieu, and plenty of opportunities for Tomlin to earn smiles by biting through some tart one-liners from writerdirector Paul Weitz. But while the journey is meant mostly as a chance for Elle to make peace with the pain and mistakes in her past—including the recent death of her longtime partner, and her relationship with Elle’s mother (Marcia Gay Harden)—Weitz seems resolutely determined to keep the stakes low. It’s a mellow journey backed by an acoustic-guitar soundtrack, never building any emotional response stronger than the warm fuzzies. Opens Sept. 25 at theaters valleywide. (R)—Scott Renshaw MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS [not yet reviewed] Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) and the other teen escapees from the maze learn more about the post-apocalyptic world around them.

Opens Sept. 18 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) THE SECOND MOTHER BB.5 It’s always presumptuous to suggest that a filmmaker doesn’t realize where her narrative’s attention should be directed, yet it’s hard not to wonder if writer/director Anna Muyleart picked the right protagonist. Her story focuses on Val (Regina Casé), a housekeeper/nanny in São Paulo, Brazil, who has spent 13 years separated from her own daughter, Jéssica, while raising Fabinho (Michel Joelsas)—until Jéssica (Camila Márdila) moves to stay with her mother while preparing for college entrance exams.

Muyleart effectively captures the tension as Jéssica begins living with Val’s employers more as a guest than as daughter of “the help,” built on Val’s own sense of being a social inferior. But while the dynamic between Val and Jéssica is intriguing, there’s even richer ground in Fabinho’s mother, Bárbara (Karine Teles), who begins to realize how little connection she has to her own son, or her husband, Carlos (Lourenço Mutarelli). Muyleart, however,

mostly opts to turn her into a villain. And considering the odd choice to focus on Carlos’ infatuation with Jéssica, it’s frustrating to watch The Second Mother miss the opportunity to plumb the insecurities and regrets of the first mother. Opens Sept. 18 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—SR

SPECIAL SCREENINGS AMERICAN OUTRAGE At City & County Building, Sept. 18, 12 p.m. (NR) BALLET BOYS At Main Library, Sept. 22, 7 p.m. (NR) COLD COMFORT FARM At Main Library, Sept. 23, 2 p.m. (PG)

I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS At Park City Film Series, Sept. 18-19 @ 8 p.m. & Sept. 20 @ 6 p.m. (PG-13) LIFE OF RILEY At Brewvies, Sept. 23 @ 7:45 p.m. (NR) OUT TO WIN At Brewvies, Sept. 17, 7 p.m. (NR) THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY At Brewvies, Sept. 21, 10 p.m. (R)

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90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN BB Michael Polish turns Texas minister Don Piper’s autobiographical best-seller into something that feels like a movie instead of a sermon—just not a particularly good movie. A 1989 car crash left Don (Hayden Christensen) clinically dead, but he survived, then had to deal with both his injuries and the conviction that he saw heaven. Much of the movie deals with the harrowing real-world aftermath of the accident, and Kate Bosworth does a fine job as Don’s wife, struggling to hold her life together. Yet there’s also the huge problem of Christensen’s limp performance, and pacing that makes it feel like we’re watching Don’s months-long recovery in real time. Some fine, restrained moments exploring faith as comfort and struggle collide with a vision of heaven complete with giant gates that feels like somebody’s telling us exactly what he thinks we want to hear. (PG-13)—SR

KAHLIL GIBRAN’S THE PROPHET BBB While director Roger Allers stretches to turn the philosophical poems of Kahlil Gibran into a story—about a troubled young girl (Quvenzhané Wallis) learning life lessons from imprisoned philosopher-poet Mustafa (Liam Neeson)—it’s the way the film stretches the sense of what’s possible in animation that makes it sing. The thin story is little more than an excuse for some slapstick, but the individual segments illustrating those lessons, each by a different animator, make The Prophet a breathtaking display of visual imagination, from the geometric wizardry of Nina Paley to the body whimsy of Bill Plympton. The simple, Disney-style look of the framing story merely feels like a delivery system for those dazzling depictions of wisdom, and the most memorable lesson is that there are so many more glorious ways to tell an animated story than just Disney-style. (PG)—SR

LEARNING TO DRIVE BBB Learning to drive can be thrilling, risky and surprising; Learning to Drive is simply a pleasant 90-minute entry in the sub-genre of Indie Films Where Two People From Different Walks of Life Are Brought Together to Learn About Themselves. Directed by

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Isabel Coixet with an emphasis on the actors’ expressive faces, the unassuming film stars Ben Kingsley as Darwan, an Indian Sikh working in New York as a cabbie and driving instructor; and Patricia Clarkson as Wendy, a book critic whose sudden abandonment by her husband has her seeking new horizons— including getting her first driver’s license. Sarah Kernochan’s screenplay is sophisticated and humorous, respectful of Darwan’s religion (and arranged marriage), if also overloaded with driving-as-metaphor-for-life dialogue. But Kingsley and Clarkson give it life, using their considerable talent to imbue two fairly unremarkable movie characters with humanity and grace.

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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.

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(R)—Andrew Wright

THE VISIT B Here’s another M. Night Shyamalan movie that relies on people behaving in ways real people wouldn’t behave. Adolescent siblings Becca (Olivia DeJonge) and Tyler (Ed Oxenbould) spend a week with their mother’s estranged parents (Deanna Dunagan and Peter McRobbie)—whom they’ve never previously met—at their rural Pennsylvania farm. This is Shyamalan’s found-footage movie, and if he thought he had something to add to this long-played-out technique, there’s no evidence here. While there appears to be a movie happening, it’s all flimsy, halfhearted feints at empty air.

The Visit never gets anywhere near a meaningful exploration of the relationship between grandparents and grandkids, or family secrets. And though it clearly hopes to elicit emotions along those charged tracks, it does nothing but inspire outrage that Shyamalan has, once again, managed to trick us into wasting our time on anticlimactic banality. (PG-13)—MAJ

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Blindspot Monday, Sept. 21 (NBC)

Series Debut: A naked woman (Jaimie Alexander) turns up in a duffel bag in Times Square, covered in mysterious tattoos and devoid of memory. One of the largest tats is the jumpingoff point: “Kurt Weller FBI.” Turns out the ink is a tapestry of clues about future terrorist attacks on American soil, and it’s up to Agent Weller (Sullivan Stapleton) and “Jane Doe” to decode and stop the crimes, and maybe eventually learn her identity. Sure, Blindspot is another Quirky Outsider Works With the Law drama, but there are enough twists and tension to almost justify the “next Blacklist” hype.

Alexander is note-perfect, while Stapleton could stand to dial down the tough-guy routine (probably a residual of five seasons on Cinemax’s Strike Back). Nagging first-episode question: Are we really to believe that no one in the New York City FBI speaks Chinese?

Minority Report Monday, Sept. 21 (Fox)

Series Debut: Fox’s last attempt at a futuristic crime thriller, Almost Human, burned out slowly after an intriguing pilot. Minority Report (a sorta-sequel to the 2002 movie) barely even catches fire in its premiere … so, nowhere to go but up? It’s 2065, 10 years after the end of the Precrime program (which used three child “precogs” to see crimes about to happen), but Dash (Stark Sands) still has the visions and tries, with no success, to stop the incidents on his own. Then he meets up with D.C. cop Lara (Meagan Good) and, this is straight out of the Fox PR, an “unlikely partnership between a man haunted by the future and a cop haunted by her past” begins. Argh. Minority Report aims to be Sleepy Hollow, but just comes across as—I’m going to hate myself for this, but it’s too easy—sleepy and hollow.

The Muppets Tuesday, Sept. 22 (ABC)

Series Debut: There’s absolutely no need for this, but here it is: The Muppets, a behind-the-scenes docu-type show a la The Office, with an equally obvious debt to 30 Rock. Gonzo admits right away that shaky-cam reality shows with cutaway confessionals are played-out (in a cutaway confessional, of

course), but neither that self-awareness or Kermit’s “new romance” with Denise (a pig, natch) warrant a 13- to potentially 22-episode series. The Muppets has its funny moments, but you’ve seen them all in the promos, because ABC—and all the other networks, apparently—have lost their comedy touch this season.

Scream Queens Tuesday, Sept. 22 (Fox)

Series Debut: Ryan Murphy cross-fades his Glee (pretty teens with probs, snark) with his American Horror Story (you know, horror) and hopes Scream Queens will make us forget all about his previous Fox bomb, Red Band Society (already there, Ryan). Emma Roberts (AHS) and Lea Michele (Glee) head an unusually large cast that’s supplemented further with high-profile guests like Ariana Grande—but at least one sorority sister will be killed off every week, so Murphy needs the spares. The setup is familiar: A Wallace University sorority pledge died mysteriously 20 years ago, and now a devil-masked menace is killing creatively (decapitation by lawnmower, etc.) across the campus on the anniversary. The delivery, however, is a seamless melding of Murphy’s greatest hits, with dashes of Heathers (Roberts’ queen-bitch WASP is an instant camp classic) and Scream (the murderer is one of them). Need I even mention …

Jamie Lee Curtis? Nah.

Blindspot (NBC) Limitless Tuesday, Sept. 22 (CBS)

Series Debut: At least it’s better than Minority Report.

Bradley Cooper reprises his role from the 2011 flick about super-pill NZT, which grants access to 100 percent of your brain and apparently unleashes mad parkour skills, as well. In the series, Cooper hands the pill down to another beardy-pretty boy (Jake McDorman) as part of his own sketchy agenda—but, as per TV law, Cooper’s new protégé is also roped into using his 12-hour superpowers to help the FBI solve crimes (Dexter’s Jennifer Carpenter is the obligatory Female Counterpart here). Limitless is loaded with slick action and possibilities but could easily devolve into just another CBS cop procedural—take only as directed.

Rosewood Wednesday, Sept. 23 (Fox)

Series Debut: Brilliant and beautiful Miami pathologist Dr. Beaumont Rosewood (Morris Chestnut) teams with a fiery and beautiful Miami PD detective (Jaina Lee Ortiz) to solve crimes and banter/bicker while looking beautiful.

If the cast were whiter, I’d swear this is a CBS reject. 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.

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For fans of The Blasters, or of either Alvin’s work in the years since the original lineup split, both new albums are vivid reminders of how potent the brothers can be when they work together. Dave acknowledges that doing albums of other folks’ songs helps keep the creative tension that overwhelmed the brothers years ago at bay.

“Maybe if I had written 10 or 12 songs for him to sing, the recording would not have gone as smoothly as these last two have gone,” he says. But getting the chance to perform together and hang out regularly for the first time in decades has been good enough to get him thinking about potential projects after Lost Time.

“Maybe—maybe—we could do another four albums of this,” Dave says. “And maybe—maybe—we’ll do an album of songs that I write. Maybe.

“I’m enjoying playing music with my brother, as the [album] title implies. I’m trying to make up for more than 30 years of not recording together or playing together, sort of make up for lost time since we were little kids.” CW

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attling brothers are nothing new in rock & roll. They are part of a proud tradition of dysfunction in some great bands, ranging from Ray and Dave Davies’ long-running feuds that split The Kinks to the sneering mutual disgust of the Gallagher brothers that took down Brit-pop heroes Oasis.

Redemption stories of brothers putting aside their differences for the sake of family—and great music—are a rarer thing. But that’s just the story that roots-rockers Dave and Phil Alvin are writing, three decades after the somewhat acrimonious split of the original lineup of The Blasters.

Los Angeles scene cohorts in the early ’80s of bands like X, Black Flag and The Germs, The Blasters always stood out, thanks to their love of classic blues and rockabilly, Dave Alvin’s stinging guitar playing and older brother Phil’s distinct voice, an instrument that evoked singers from decades before his time. The band got some love from music critics and fellow musicians—in one month, they played gigs with the diverse likes of New York punks The Cramps, Texas honky-tonkers Asleep at the Wheel and British stadium royalty Queen—but never broke through commercially to the satisfaction of their record label. Frustrated by their lack of momentum, the band frayed in the mid-’80s, with Dave splitting to join X briefly before launching a successful solo career, and Phil forging on with various lineups under The Blasters’ banner.

A health scare during a European tour a couple years back was the trigger for the Alvin brothers to record together for the first time since 1985, using the songs of their shared teenage favorite Big Bill Broonzy to create 2014’s self-released Common Ground. The recording process and subsequent tour were so harmonious—a rarity in the creative relationship of the two brothers—that joining forces again for another album seemed obvious. In a phone interview, Dave said that throughout the Common Ground tour, fans asked what artist would be next for the Blasters brothers to tackle in the studio.

The answer arrives Sept. 18, with the release of Lost Time (Yep Roc Records), a collection of 12 classics from artists including Big Joe Turner, Leadbelly and James Brown. Choosing the songs, Dave says, was a matter of just remembering where his brother was coming from all those years ago when the Blasters were young, blues-loving punks making a scene.

“When [Phil] was a teenager, he had a really good blues band. A couple of these songs were in their repertoire, and I really wanted to put a feature on my brother’s vocals,” Dave says. “I wanted to capture his voice, because I really think there aren’t many voices like his. And it’s taken me a long time to appreciate that. Especially in roots music, there tends to be two or three types of voices, and he’s got a voice that’s from another time.”

Hearing Dave deliver lead guitar parts that cut through the sound of his Guilty Ones—who serve as the brothers’ backing band on the albums and on tour—is not surprising, but hearing Phil take on a soul classic like James Brown’s “Please, Please, Please” will make fans old and new sit up and take notice when they hear it. Approaching a familiar favorite like that one is not something the Alvin brothers did without trepidation.

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What is important is some enterprising producer of the film decided to release its soundtrack with Paul McCartney’s name prominently emblazoned across the album cover, ensuring the Beatle member’s name would prompt a few extra purchases of what turns out to be a purely instrumental soundtrack. McCartney sings nary a note.

I can assure you—the trick works. At the 2015 Record Store Day in April, among the exclusive 7-inch singles and limited-edition picture disc pressings, I found The Family Way, once again touting McCartney’s name in bold letters. But this time, on the back, it had that extra sprinkle of legitimacy: “Limited Collector’s Edition.”

So I bought The Family Way Original Soundtrack Recording: Music Composed

by Paul McCartney. I own The Family Way Original Soundtrack Recording: Music Composed by Paul McCartney. I still have not listened to The Family Way Original Soundtrack Recording: Music Composed by Paul McCartney.

The reason is, of course, I don’t listen to orchestral arrangements designed to play in the background of a movie unless they’re actually playing in the background of a movie. It’s dumb to pretend I do. I didn’t buy that record because I wanted to listen to it; I bought it because I wanted to own it. There’s a big difference between the two.

That distinction has sharpened for me in the past few months. I, like many others,

Streaming services are busting the music industry standard.

signed up for the free three-month trial for Apple Music, the new streaming service that lets you listen to Apple’s music library for a monthly subscription. Now that my trial is almost up, I’ve quickly discovered how easy it is to discover new artists, to finally listen to that one album I’ve been curious about but never brave enough to buy. It’s easy. I somehow forgot discovering music should be easy.

Apple Music costs $10 a month. So does Spotify Google Play Music. So does the cheapest version of Tidal. Amazon Prime’s yearly subscription averages $8.33 a month. Either option is dramatically less expensive than buying vinyl, which—according to the RIAA— averaged $23.84 per record in 2014. That is unsustainable for the average music lover.

Yes, I get it. It feels nice to buy vinyl. All that stuff people say about it being fun to hold the art in your hands, to physically drop the needle onto the record and hear what’s engraved on it? All true. You experience the music, right?

Well, here’s another experience. A few weeks ago, I saw a picture of Billy Corgan glumly riding a train ride at Disneyland.

I laughed, shared it on Facebook with my older brother, who first introduced me to the Smashing Pumpkins, and then got on my Apple Music app and listened to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness for the first time in probably 20 years. It was one of the most enjoyable album experiences I’ve had in a while. So, yeah. I stream music now. I’m not ashamed to say so.

And maybe you don’t have a smartphone.

Maybe you still buy CDs or cassettes. Maybe you honestly, truly, deeply cannot part with vinyl. That’s fine. What I’m really railing against is music classism—a perverted idea that your tastes are somehow more legitimate because of the piece of technology attached to your headphones. That’s a really stressful way to listen to music.

A wall full of records is still cool. If you can afford it, collect away. But let’s stop pretending that every music lover has the money it would take to make that happen. The rest of us are just trying to listen to as much as we can because that’s what we love to do.

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If you’re expecting a bunch of Mike Huckabeelookin’ Southern gentlemen in string ties and big loaves-and-fishes-eating grins, have I got a surprise for you. Frankly, it surprised the hell out of me to click-start the track “Little Light” and hear a pumpin’ bass line over low-key, jazzy piano—and then this sassy, soulful voice.

This band sounded straight out of the blaxploitation era. Then the chorus opened up big and loud like a gospel choir before easing back into Shaft in Bethlehem. The rest of the SoCal band’s songs are as interesting as that one, and they draw from soul, but also country and indie rock. I’m gonna listen to Heavenly Fire (Ba Da Bing!) a lot. And I’m an atheist. (RH) Alleged, 201 25th St., Ogden, 8 p.m., free, Alleged25th.com

The Lighthouse and the Whaler, Born Cages, Good Graeff

After both becoming new fathers since the previous record release, brothers Michael and Matthew LoPresti’s new album with their band, The Lighthouse and the Whaler, is more mature than the sparkly indie-pop of their first two records and EP. Mont Royal (Roll Call Records), named after the street on which they lived while recording in Montreal, is an indie-folk jubilee full of catchy melodies and introspection. The xylophone from 2012’s This an Adventure is replaced with electronic harmonies, and the string instruments have a stronger presence. Listen for bonus track “Brothers,” which hasn’t been available for streaming online, and was released only on the vinyl pressing of Mont Royal and on the Brothers sampler. The concert opens with alt-rock trio Born Cages and Good Graeff, led by twin sisters who play cello and guitar. (TF) Kilby Court, 741 S. 330 West, 8 p.m., $10 in advance, $12 day of show, limited tickets available at CWStore.CityWeekly.net, KilbyCourt.com

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How long was I out? What’s playing now?

Ruby the Hatchet? I love when chicks sing badass, creepy, heavy rock. The singer sounds hot. What album is this? Aurum (Tee Pee). Dude, I am so hungry. (RH) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $15, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

Marty Friedman, Exmortus

Marty Friedman gained notoriety in the late ‘80s for his shred guitar albums, both solo and with Jason Becker in Cacophony (before Becker tragically contracted ALS).

Friedman eventually joined Megadeth, and his 10-year tenure in the Big Four thrash band was Megadeth’s most successful period: 1990’s Rust in Piece is considered among the top metal albums of all time, and its predecessor, Countdown to Extinction, went double-platinum. Friedman left Megadeth in 2000, moved to Japan, where he continued to release solo albums, worked with the Japanese prog band Sound Horizon, J-Pop girl group Momoiro Clover Z, and hosted two TV shows, Mr. Heavy Metal and Rock Fujiyama. Friedman is currently touring behind Inferno (Prosthetic), another exercise in shred that showcases his intense guitar acrobatics—and includes guest vocals

by Danko Jones on “I Can’t Relax” and “Lycanthrope” (a duet with Children of Bodom’s Alexi Laiho). Friedman’s live performances are energetic and theatrical, and will please guitar nerds and nonplayers alike.

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With a voice reminiscent enough of the raspy ‘60s powerhouse Janis Joplin that she played her in the Off-Broadway musical, Love, Janis, bluesy Beth Hart has a new album out this year: Better Than Home (Provogue). The Los Angeles badass of a singer uses her personal life—such as stories of her sister dying from AIDS, her own drug addiction and learning how to live with bipolar disorder—to fuel her emotional and energetic shows. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this year she has been covering blues legends Etta James, Ike & Tina Turner and Ray Charles. (Tiffany Frandsen) The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 8 p.m., $30 in advance, $32 day of show, DepotSLC.com

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The Acoustic Space also hosts shows that are free to the public, as well as events like Monologue Mondays, which is co-hosted by Radical Hospitalit y (RadicalHospitalit yTheater.com). Actors submit a headshot, resume, hard copy of monologue and a 30-second video clip of one of their performances. Fifteen are chosen to perform a three-minute piece.

A panel of judges made up of casting directors, filmmakers, theater representatives and agents. Celebrit y guests pick the top three actors, then the crowd ultimately crowns the winner with a $100 cash prize. “We are excited about this event,” says Tara Norton, co-founder of Radical Hospitalit y. “It gives local actors a chance to be seen and also gives the communit y a chance to get out and support artists in a unique way.” Tickets are $7 in advance, $10 at the door.

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hoppers at The Gateway have probably already noticed, but there is a new event space in downtown Salt Lake City where artists can hone their skills, bands can host performances, and people can throw their parents an anniversary party. Jacki Chilton, a voice coach with 34 years of experience, opened The Acoustic Space on July 1. Chilton helps actors, singers, and speakers improve their performances. “I love teaching voice, and I love teaching artists,” Chilton explains.

One of Chilton’s goals in opening The Acoustic Space was to provide a chance for local artists to meet one another and network, perform their art and collaborate on projects. Chilton is proud of the space she has created with The Acoustic Space. “It gives artists the energy to perform or create here—whether it’s an actor working on a film who needs a space to explore their character, or a performance space for a jazz artist,” she says.

Readers who are interested in checking out Chilton’s services should attend a free show at The Acoustic Space, at 7 p.m., on Sept. 22. The show will display what vocal coaching is all about. Chilton offers a range of vocal-coaching options, including a single class or a package of classes, for anyone who is interested in singing, acting or professional-speaking training.

And Chilton’s clients love her work.

Paul Anthony Sonnier Jr. is one of Chilton’s newer clients, and he raves about her. “I’m a military kid that has lived in Europe and Asia and I have taken acting classes but was looking for a teacher to give me something more. Needless to say, I found it with Jacki,” Sonnier says. “She is amazing. If anyone is trying to take their acting to another level, I’d recommend her to anyone.”

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) I won’t go so far as to say that you are surrounded by unhinged maniacs whose incoherence is matched only by their self-delusion. That would probably be too extreme. But I do suspect that at least some of the characters in the game you’re playing are not operating at their full potential. For now, it’s best not to confront them and demand that they act with more grace. The wiser strategy might be to avoid being swept up in their agitation as you take good care of yourself. If you are patient and stay centered, I bet you will eventually get a chance to work your magic.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Many of the heroes in fairy tales survive and thrive because of the magical gifts they are given. Benefactors show up, often unexpectedly, to provide them with marvels—a spinning wheel that can weave a cloak of invisibility, perhaps, or winged shoes that give them the power of flight, or a charmed cauldron that brews a healing potion. But there is an important caveat. The heroes rarely receive their boons out of sheer luck. They have previously performed kind deeds or unselfish acts in order to earn the right to be blessed.

According to my analysis, Taurus, the coming weeks will be prime time for you to make yourself worthy of gifts you will need later on.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Since you seem to enjoy making life so complicated and intense for yourself, you may be glad to learn that the current astrological omens favor that development. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that you’re about to dive deep into rich mysteries that could drive you half-crazy. I suspect that you will be agitated and animated by your encounters with ecstatic torment and difficult bliss. Bon voyage! Have fun! Soon I expect to see miniature violet bonfires gleaming in your bedroom eyes, and unnamable emotions rippling through your unfathomable face, and unprecedented words of wild wisdom spilling from your smart mouth.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) The Adamites were devotees of an ancient Christian sect that practiced sacred nudism. One of their central premises: How could anyone possibly know God while wearing clothes? I am not necessarily recommending that you make their practice a permanent part of your spiritual repertoire, but I think you might find value in it during the coming weeks. Your erotic and transcendent yearnings will be rising to a crescendo at the same time. You will have the chance to explore states where horniness and holiness overlap. Lusty prayers? Reverent sex? Ecstatic illumination?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) “I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.”

That’s the mantra that Frank O’Hara intoned in his poem “Meditations in an Emergency,” and now I’m inviting you to adopt a modified version of it. Here’s how I would change it for your use in the coming months: “I am the least difficult of passion artists. All I want is to give and receive boundless, healthy, interesting love.” To be frank, I don’t think O’Hara’s simple and innocent declaration will work for you. You really do need to add my recommended nuances in order to ripen your soul’s code and be aligned with cosmic rhythms.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Some people express pride in gross ways. When you hear their overbearing brags, you know it’s a sign that they are not really confident in themselves. They overdo the vanity because they’re trying to compensate for their feelings of inadequacy. In the coming weeks, I expect you to express a more lovable kind of self-glorification. It won’t be inflated or arrogant, but will instead be measured and reasonable. If you swagger a bit, you will do it with humor and style, not narcissism and superiority.

Thank you in advance for your service to humanity. The world needs more of this benign kind of egotism.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) One of your key themes in the coming weeks is “grace.” I suggest that you cultivate it, seek it out, expect it, and treasure it. To CANCER (June 21-July 22) Now is an excellent time to close the gap between the Real You prepare for this fun work, study all of the meanings of “grace” and the image of yourself that you display to the world. I know of below. At least two of them, and possibly all, should and can be two ways to accomplish this. You can tinker with the Real You so an active part of your life. 1. Elegance or beauty of form, movethat it’s more like the image you display. Or else you can change ment, or proportion; seemingly effortless charm or fluidity. the image you display so that it is a more accurate rendition of 2. Favor or goodwill; a disposition to be generous or helpful. the Real You. Both strategies may be effective. However you go 3. Mercy, forgiveness, charity. 4. A temporary exemption or about it, Cancerian, I suggest you make it your goal to shrink the immunity; a reprieve. 5. A sense of fitness or propriety. 6. A prayer of blessing or thanks said before a meal. 7. An unmerited amount of pretending you do. divine gift offered out of love.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Born under the sign of Leo, Marcel Duchamp was an influen- AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) tial artist whose early work prefigured surrealism. In 1917, he Be good, but not necessarily well-behaved. Be extra exuberant submitted an unusual piece to a group exhibition in New York. and free, but not irresponsible. Be lavish and ardent and even It was a plain old porcelain urinal, but he titled it Fountain, and rowdy, but not decadent. Why? What’s the occasion? Well, you insisted it was a genuine work of art. In that spirit, I am putting have more-or-less finished paying off one of your karmic debts. my seal of approval on the messy melodrama you are in the You have conquered or at least outwitted a twist from your past process of managing. Henceforth, this melodrama shall also that had been sapping your mojo. As a reward for doing your be known as a work of art, and its title will be “Purification.” duty with such diligence, you have earned a respite from some (Or would you prefer “Expurgation” or “Redemption”?) If you of the more boring aspects of reality. And so now you have a finish the job with the panache you have at your disposal, it will mandate to gather up the intelligent pleasure you missed when you were acting like a beast of burden. forevermore qualify as a soul-jiggling masterpiece.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) We humans need nourishing stories almost as much as we require healthy food, clean air, pure water, and authentic love.

And yet many of us get far less than our minimum daily requirement of nourishing stories. Instead, we are barraged with nihilistic narratives that wallow in misery and woe. If we want a break from that onslaught, our main other choices are sentimental fantasies and empty-hearted trivia. That’s the bad news. But here’s the good news: Now is a favorable time for you to seek remedies for this problem. That’s why I’m urging you to hunt down redemptive chronicles that furnish your soul with gritty delight. Find parables and sagas and tales that fire up your creative imagination and embolden your lust for life.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) The rooster is your power animal. Be like him. Scrutinize the horizon for the metaphorical dawn that is coming, and be ready to herald its appearance with a triumphant wake-up call. On the other hand, the rooster is also your affliction animal. Don’t be like him. I would hate for you to imitate the way he handles himself in a fight, which is to keep fussing and squabbling far beyond the point when he should let it all go. In conclusion, Libra, act like a rooster but also don’t act like a rooster. Give up the protracted struggle so you can devote yourself to the more pertinent task, which is to celebrate the return of the primal heat and light.

The Minds War

Out of the pain and anger I feel the roar, These demons rise and begin to soar.

My angels take flight and begin to fight, But the darkness falls and they lose their sight.

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Most interesting and impactful to myself, as a real estate broker, is the effect our aging population has on home sales. Seniors close to retirement or newly retired are often shedding their homes and downsizing to condos for the attractive “lock and leave” lifestyle.

Two of my clients last month sold their homes because their kids and extended families kept moving back in with them and they wanted to have peace without the noise of grandchildren. Then again, one client moved so that she could live with her daughter and son-in-law, because her mobility was decreasing and she needed assistance.

The Parade of Homes in the Salt Lake Valley polled people to see what they wanted in a new home. Here are the results: 1. Bigger great rooms to gather family and friends; 2. Master bathrooms with double sinks, and walk-in closets with built-in organizers; 3. Technological features, such as remote control locks, live video feeds of the house to smart phones, alarm systems, etc. Also, green features: tankless water heaters, and more energy-saving appliances and fixtures; 4. Walk out basements. Speaking of basements, build a radon venting-system into a new home. It’s much cheaper than installing it after the home is already built, when the radon is discovered and you have to get an engineer in to mitigate the levels of gas; 5. High ceilings for better light; 6. Three car garages (because so many people in Utah have ATVs, boats, bikes and ski equipment); 7. Large kitchen pantry; 8. Central air. It appears global warming is making the evaporative-cooler industry here cool off in unexpected ways. n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not by City Weekly staff

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