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LETTERS A Strange and Barbaric Practice

In the well-written City Weekly cover story on circumcision [“Circumcision Decision,” Sept. 17], the God of the Jewish, Muslim and Christian religions is credited with beginning this practice: God demands that the 99-year- old Abraham cut off his foreskin in order to prove his loyalty. God further demands the same of all Abraham’s male offspring.

Why was God so fascinated with an old man’s penis? If God required a physical proof of a man’s membership in this limited fraternity, why not something more easily visible? A tattoo on the upper arm would have sufficed. Only a complete body search would reveal this mark of the chosen ones.

Today, it would be considered pretty sick and against the law if the coach of a football team required circumcision of the players. Likewise, it would be very strange if a corporate CEO demanded that all male employees show proof of not having foreskin.

Yet, as strange and barbaric as all of this is, Congress and legislators in Utah and most other states make decisions based on the supposed teachings of the God who demanded the sacrifice of an old man’s shriveled foreskin.

TED OTTINGER Taylorsville

The Unkindest Cut

Just wanted to say a big thank you for the article on circumcision [“Circumcision Decision,” Sept. 17, City Weekly]. It confirmed our choice not to have the unnecessary cosmetic surgery performed on our son’s genitals 16

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My husband and I are atheists, so we had no religious reason to circumcise our son (and the religious justification described in your article sounded ridiculous and even sadly comical to me) but I hadn’t really given the idea serious thought until the class we took at the Seattle hospital where our son was born.

The nurse conducting the class was against circumcision but, instead of trying to explain to parents as to why they shouldn’t opt for it on their boys, she just matter-offactly described the procedure itself in explicit and accurate detail. Most of the mothers looked horrified, and the men looked pale and nauseous.

According to the nurse, the baby’s arms, legs and torsos are strapped down, there is usually screaming, and there is often bleeding. My husband and I just looked at each other and didn’t have to say a word: There was no way in hell someone was going to do that to our precious little man! Somewhere in his psyche, that would be one of his first memories of life on Earth. Not if we could help it!

Interesting that there seems to be a movement to repair or replace the foreskin. I wish all these men well and hope they are successful. Hopefully that kind of surgery will not be necessary in the future as we quit performing this ridiculous operation in the first place.

I shared the information in this article with my now-16-

year-old son and he was interested and pleased to hear it but slightly confused. He says he has never experienced any problems of any kind in the locker room or elsewhere as a result of being uncircumcised, and was even surprised that some boys or men would. I guess, in his generation, it just seems to be normal. How awesome is that?

So thank you again for having the courage to put this story on your front page. Keep up the great work!

LAURA ZIELINSKI Sandy

Correction: Oct. 1 is the first day of the federal government’s fiscal year. City Weekly’s Sept. 17 Five Spot column incorrectly listed the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah’s fiscal year.

City Weekly’s Sept. 17 cover story, “Circumcision Decision,” incorrectly named the the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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PRIVATE EY

Play Attention

About the only thing that spurs more passion in individuals than sports rivalries is writing about them. We mortals like to vicariously think we, too, are destined for the same sainthood as the loveable former Utah Jazz head coach and general manager, Frank Layden. We also take decades of frustration out on a school and religious body thanks to the mouthy misgivings of a certain BYU quarterback named Max. Or we can quit paying attention altogether.

If you are paying attention, you’ve certainly realized by now that, in this age of shrinking newsrooms and newspaper resources, most newspapers kept their sports sections pretty much intact. That tells you something, doesn’t it? We are told there were 25 percent to 40 percent editorial layoffs at both The Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News. But neither newspaper let go of the same ratio of its sports reporters or columnists. The message is clear: Sports moves the reader needle; reporting on dog-leash ordinances does not. A good quarterback controversy trumps a city council hearing every time.

Even City Weekly succumbs here and there despite the fact that there are plenty more important things to write about. In this world of being an alternative newspaper, we don’t follow the mold of writing about what passes for importance to everyone at every turn. We don’t do that.

That’s what Twitter is for, which is another reason we seldom write about sports (and why I personally no longer read sports columnists except for the Deseret News’ Brad Rock). On Twitter, I get a mostly unwelcome and unimaginative play-by-play of a game by the very writer who will write tomorrow’s story, and who is tweeting about the same thing I’m watching on TV. That all said, here’s the most important reason why writing about football (as I also did last week) is so painfully lame:

Football is an increasingly dangerous and deadly sport. Ignoring that fact—as I did last week—is a shame on me and others who promote the game without acknowledging the damages associated with it. I wear surgical scars on both knees and my right shoulder due to injuries sustained while playing high-school-level football.

I know how messed up my body is, how those injuries changed my life, making me a terrible boyfriend and a very good drinker, so I should have considered that.

As sore and cranky as I’ve been, at least I never had a concussion. I remember a game we played against Orem and our fine QB, Brad Oakeson, got his “bell rung” as we used to say. I played center, so I gathered our guys into a huddle, and we all looked around dumbly at one another, waiting for a play to come from Brad. But Brad was over on the Orem sideline. This was the era when coaches gave their players salt pills during practice to fight dehydration. No wonder they sent Brad back in the game a few plays later. Brad came out OK. Many others do not. Ninety-one former and now dead NFL players were autopsied, and 87 of them—96 percent—were reported to have evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease attributed to repeated head trauma and concussions. In just two weeks during the current NFL season, over a dozen players were removed from the field after suffering concussions. We cheer now that Utah quarterback Travis Wilson is back leading the Utes, but we damningly forget his serious head injuries in 2013 and 2014.

If football were a cigarette, it would be banned. Ten percent of all smokers eventually develop lung cancer—and polite society spits a shitstorm, despite smoking ails being mostly self-inflicted. Yet 30 percent of all NFL players will eventually develop dementia or Alzheimer’s—also killer diseases

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(see Mike Webster or Cookie Gilcrist)—and society claps its hands, sings out of tune, burns a burger, swigs a beer and goes all Caligula while the players below them bash each others to shreds.

When John Wayne died of lung cancer, he took the cigarette industry to his grave with him. Who will be the John Wayne of football? It won’t be the high school kid who died on the field in Florida a couple weeks ago.

It wasn’t even that Detroit Lion who died on the field when I was young, Dick Butkus standing over him (which only added to the badass Butkus storyline, but Butkus didn’t hurt that guy, it was just a poor camera angle). We simply shrugged it off and waited for the next Sunday’s games.

Nor will it be the scores of permanently disabled or paralyzed former players from every level, who sadly become fodder for documentaries that only make us cringe for just a little bit of our precious time. It will take someone big and famous to die young to bury football. It may never happen. Meanwhile, the damage is measureable and predictable: If you played football, you got hurt. If you let your kid play today, when the competition is bigger and faster and meaner, you’re crazy. You must be eliminated from all Parent of the Year awards.

I’m more than a little ashamed to have groused about not having season tickets to Ute football these past years. It took a simple email to me after last week’s column to realize that—to comprehend that my support of football is akin to lighting a cigarette for a smoker outside a cancer ward. Yay, team!

Right. It was an unintended consequence of writing that column that I’m writing this one. I’m thankful for the wake-up-call email. I am also warm to his suggestion that someday there should be a professional flag football league. Yeah, that would be cool. CW

IT WILL TAKE SOMEONE BIG AND FAMOUS TO DIE YOUNG TO BURY FOOTBALL.

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If you were publisher of The Salt Lake Tribune or Deseret News, which newspaper section would you either expand or shrink?

Colby Frazier: Since we’re dreaming, I’ll dream. It’d be fatter times, say 1965, and as publisher of The Salt Lake Tribune, I’d hold court and smoke huge Cuban cigars each day at 6 p.m. on the roof of the old Tribune building on Main Street. I’d expand in every department, in every section and hire hundreds and hundreds of reporters.

Each night, I’d fall to sleep smiling, the roar of printing presses in my ears, the needle of inky stories pinned to full blast.

Brandon Burt: On the day I am called to be the D-News publisher, I will greatly expand the Church News section, since its coverage is currently so narrowly focused. I think readers want to know what’s going on with all kinds of religions: extraterrestrial cults such as Raëlism, gentle faiths like Bahá’í, and even religions without diacritical marks, such as the one that worships Argentine soccer player Diego Maradona.

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Tiffany Frandsen: For this to work, we’re stepping into an imaginary world where newspapers have plenty of cash.

From now on, local news coverage is expanded—especially investigative.

Music and arts, you get more journalists and resources too. The readers sure like the sports coverage, so we’ll expand that to cover more underground athletics, like disc golf. Hell, while I’m spending money I don’t have for papers I don’t control, I’ll expand all sections.

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HITS&MISSES

BY STEPHEN DARK, COLBY FRAZIER & BRANDON BURT

FIVE SPOT

RANDOM QUESTIONS, SURPRISING ANSWERS

Interstate 15 commuters may have noticed a recent billboard ad for a gym membership that purports to help save child slaves.

Exercising now has a moral component, it seems, since proceeds from the for-profit gym, which opened in September 2015, go to Operation Underground Railroad (OUR), a nonprofit that parachutes into foreign countries to rescue child sex slaves.

Ex-Homeland Security agent and Mormon Tim Ballard founded OUR, which came under fire in an article on ForeignPolicy.com highlighting concerns that emerged when Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes took part in an undercover OUR op in Columbia in 2014—namely, that rescued children are typically turned over to the local government, which may not have the resources or the will to care for them. OUR’s slick packaging, adrenaline-fueled rescue stories, and now this gym, speak to the good intentions of this group but also to the significance of fundraising, while the long-term impact of its activities on human-trafficking remains, at best, unclear. (SD)

They’re Both Good

Resisting the temptation to endorse Salt Lake City mayoral candidate Jackie Biskupski on her sexual orientation alone, Equality Utah announced its endorsement of not only Biskupski, who is gay, but also her opponent, incumbent Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker, who is heterosexual. Equality Utah said it would be a “disservice” not to recognize Becker’s efforts over the past eight years to make the capital city a more equal place for the LGBT community. But Biskupski’s record of speaking up for the gay community during her days in the Legislature merits their endorsement, too. (CF)

Ticket Talk

When Pope Francis addresses a joint session of Congress Sept. 24, Washington, D.C., will be the place to be.

Such throngs are expected that transportation officials in D.C. and Arlington County will close off streets and bridges. Space is so limited, even members of Congress only get a plus-one Golden Ticket (in addition to a number of lesser lawn tickets, which allow spectators to be in the vicinity of the Capitol, but guarantee no line-ofsight glimpse of His Holiness). Not all are so thrilled about the papal visitation, however: Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., is boycotting the visit because the Pope recognizes the existence of climate change. And Utah’s delegation doesn’t seem so thrilled about it, either—although Rep. Chris Stewart did give away lawn tickets on his official House website, there’s been nary a peep about which constituents/cronies, if any, were gifted with Golden Tickets here. (BB)

DEREK CARLISLE

Bench Press for a Cause

Late one night in June 2007, Marty Kasteler and his wife were riding their bikes near 600 East and 2500 South when a driver of a white delivery van ran him over and sped away. Kasteler, a body piercer at KOI Piercing Studio at the time, spent months in the hospital undergoing multiple surgeries to heal a crushed pelvis, a collapsed lung and a leg that was nearly torn off, to say nothing of myriad internal injuries and a cracked skull. In recognition of all he’d been through, City Weekly awarded Kasteler the “Best Survivor” in its 2008 Best of Utah competition. But, Kasteler says, his darkest days were yet to come. In the intervening years, Kasteler struggled with depression and opiate dependency, so much so that he discarded his Best Survivor award plaque. After weaning himself off painkillers, Kasteler went on to college and became a teacher. Now, he feels he truly has survived the accident and stopped by the office to pick up a replacement plaque. Read the entire interview at CityWeekly.net.

Are you mostly healed from the 2007 accident?

Yes and no. I have a different body, and my pelvis still has something like 25 screws and 5 plates. Because of the damage to my sacrum, I have nerve loss and nerve pain, but not in any disabling way. Anytime you reconstruct that much of yourself, you will lose some function. I lost a kidney a couple years back as an indirect result of my damage, so I am mindful to keep the other one healthy. … I can do most of the activities I once could, but on a more limited level.

How did you overcome your dependency on pain meds?

It was not easy. It was ironic to me that I had survived the injuries, but one of the most difficult battles was the aftermath from the painkillers. I have a lot of sympathy for vets struggling with addiction after they come home with injuries. I failed multiple times to go cold turkey, getting really sick and emotionally wrecked. I finally quit going to the pain clinic altogether and talked to my normal physician. He helped me understand the level of opiates I was actually on and that I couldn’t go cold turkey. I began weaning myself off over a monthlong period. Ultimately, you have to have a reason to want it. We had lost several friends to addiction, so it was important for me.

Why did you decide to be a teacher?

I had always planned on becoming a teacher, but economically, it just didn’t make sense.

After my incident, I decided it was time to make the move from piercing to teaching. I just started a new job at Utah International Charter School. I can’t begin to tell you what a great school it is. I am a special-education teacher and mostly teach math.

Were the police able to identify the person who hit you? Is the case still active?

No. I don’t know if it is still active. We have this idea that investigations are like CSI. The truth is that most criminals get away unless the evidence is right in front of your face.

Is there anything you’d like to say to that person driving the truck?

No point in saying anything. In a way, I am grateful that I never had to know who it was.

I never could focus anger or blame on them, and [instead I] just had to concentrate on recovery. I know that whoever was capable of it will never have the quality of life I had or have. Every day they have to be themselves is punishment enough for me.

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If aliens on a planet 100 light-years away had a really strong telescope with super-zoom, could they look at Earth and see life as it was 100 years ago? I know they can travel at warp 90 and have cloaking devices, so why should they bother when they can get here in five seconds? But say they didn’t. Please answer. I’ve wondered about this for 55 years, and I don’t have as much time left as when I was 11.

—Ted Steckley, Malvern, Ohio Well, I wouldn’t waste any more of it on science fiction, Ted. Answer: no.

I’m wondering if you’ve seen the old Star Trek episode “The Squire of Gothos,” because you’re not too far from its premise.

In the show, the Enterprise crew stumbles on a planet inhabited by a nutty alien called Trelane, whose roughly Napoleonic-era taste in clothing and décor is based on what he somehow believes are up-to-date observations of earth, some 900 light-years away.

Trelane also talks like an English country squire circa 1800 (or at least the actor tries to), so I guess he’s supposed to be really good at reading lips through his telescope.

Whatever the case, it’s vintage Star Trek: endearing, superficially plausible, but basically nonsense when examined close up.

Here in reality, telescopes are imperfect instruments subject to the constraints of physical existence. The planet-bound variety must contend with clouds, haze, dust, atmospheric distortion, and vibration. Even instruments in orbit like the Hubble Space Telescope must gather light that’s passed through trillions of miles of cosmic dust and debris.

You say: I know, but surely advanced civilizations with super technology will figure out a way to deal with dust.

Ain’t that easy, bubba. Here’s why.

Even assuming a clear path between an alien’s telescope and us, the laws of physics put a cap on how much detail a distant observer can see. One indication of this is the diffraction limit, which effectively tells us the distance from which a telescope of a given diameter can distinguish between two objects a given distance apart. This limit is a function of the wavelength of the light conveying the distant image to your eye; shorter wavelengths (as in ultraviolet light) allow finer resolution.

For example, if a Hubble-type telescope were anchored on earth and atmospheric interference were nonexistent, the smallest feature it could resolve on the moon would be about 250 feet across. Given the moon’s brightness, additional camera trickery could be employed to essentially double the resolution, meaning objects 125 feet across could be distinguished.

To resolve a human-scale object, the Hubble would have to be within 5,360 miles. From where I sit (Chicago), that’s about the distance to Rio de Janeiro.

No problem, you say. I’ll build a bigger telescope.

BY CECIL ADAMS

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Fine. Let’s suppose: 1. the aliens only need to resolve down to 100 feet, enough to track human activity at a gross level (large structures, aircraft carriers, Donald Trump), 2. they’ve parked their telescope just outside where Pluto’s orbit comes closest to the sun.

If it uses visible light, the telescope would have to be 46 miles wide to see details down to 100 feet, ignoring atmospheric haze. Citizens of the Alpha Centauri system, 4.37 light-years distant, would need a visible-light telescope 428,000 miles wide.

If we were to switch strictly to UV light to economize, that would reduce the size to a not much more practical 214,000 miles.

Can advanced technology get around this problem? Up to a point. A technique called optical interferometry takes what an array of small, widely-spaced telescopes sees and combines it into a single image, in effect sampling what a larger telescope would capture. An array of four 1-meter telescopes can achieve the resolving power of a single 330-meter telescope. The current record holder, the Very Large Telescope array in Chile, uses eight connected telescopes to such effect that they could distinguish between the left and right headlights of a car parked on the moon.

But the moon’s only about 1.3 light-seconds away. Optical interferometry is designed for use at much greater distances. It doesn’t produce direct images—at extreme ranges, the telescopes simply don’t capture enough photons. Instead, the technology takes precise measurements of the target using the relative handful of photons it does collect, and a computer synthesizes the data into the best visual approximation it can.

The resulting images, while scientifically interesting, aren’t much to look at— typically fuzzy blobs. Interferometry works best with bright objects such as stars, which produce lots of photons; nonluminous bodies such as planets aren’t so cooperative. One now-canceled NASA planethunting project, the Space Interferometry Mission, would have probed for distant Earth-size planets, but wouldn’t have been able to resolve more than a tiny light dot.

No surface detail would have been visible.

Given the march of progress, no doubt someday we’ll see detail about heavenly bodies 100 light-years distant that by today’s standards will seem astonishing. But making out the furtive scrabblings of dim creatures such as ourselves? Sorry, friend. Won’t happen.

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

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Not So Free Speech

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Several municipalities along the Wasatch Front charge permit fees for small free-speech events.

“These people are now terrified that the police are going to track them down.”

—UARC director Jeremy Beckham

rom the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 March on Washington and the 1970 Kent State demonstrations in Ohio, to the 2011 Wisconsin Teacher’s Strike, protests have been instrumental throughout U.S. history as citizens have used their right to free speech and assembly to speak out against perceived injustice. But the right to free speech isn’t always free.

Along with Lexie Levitt, animal-rights activist Jeremy Beckham, above, was arrested for protesting Lagoon.

In fact, when protesting in many Utah locales, it often comes with a price tag. contacted 30 municipalities along the Wasatch Front police are going to track them down,” Beckham says, Activists with the Utah Animal Rights Coalition to learn the requirements on protests involving 100 or to the point that some tried to have protest photos de(UARC) staged several protests this summer outside fewer people who want to protest on public sidewalks leted from their social media. of the Lagoon amusement park in Farmington, speakor in parks without blocking auto or pedestrian traffic.

Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings says the charges ing out against what they allege is the park’s mistreatEach city transferred the reporter, on average, between never should have been filed in the first place. “I agree ment of zoo animals. After demonstrations over several three and four times, usually shuffling calls between the with them,” says Rawlings. “[Beckham and Levitt] should Saturdays, coalition director Jeremy Beckham along city manager, parks & recreation, the mayor’s office and not have been charged. It’s a prosecution that should not with Direct Action Everywhere organizer (and former eventually to the city police departments. Most of the have commenced. It’s an ordinance that should be reCity Weekly intern/freelance writer) Lexie Levitt were calls ended up with the city’s chief of police. pealed, and it is unconstitutional.” charged with class B misdemeanors for violating a city Of the 30 cities, 16 have laws requiring protesters obRawlings says that when he met with Farmington ordinance that made it illegal to “participate in any adtain permission to protest. Permit costs range from free officials, he told them that there was no way they could vanced, planned free-speech expression activity with(in North Ogden, Layton, South Salt Lake, West Jordan, win a legal challenge against the law, particularly beout first obtaining a permit for the event.”

South Jordan, Cottonwood Heights, Eagle Mountain, cause Farmington did not apply the law equally to all Representatives of UARC say they contacted the city Pleasant Grove and Lindon) up to $100 (in Holladay). free-speech events. “They weren’t requiring a permit of Farmington via email asking it to waive the $50 perWhile “time, place and manner” restrictions on free for the Farmington Junior High cheerleaders out on protest fee but were denied. The protests took place on speech are commonly applied, they must be applied withthe street waiving at people … They didn’t require a a public sidewalk and did not obstruct automobile or out regard to the content of the speech. “When the governperson dressed in a clown suit outside of a tax business foot traffic. The charges were later dropped. ment puts restrictions on free-speech activities, it needs to get a permit.”

After UARC and the American Civil Liberties to do so in a very narrowly tailored sort of way,” says John Are these Utah cities purposefully intending to infringe Union of Utah sued Farmington City for violatMejia, legal director of the ACLU of Utah. Two years ago, upon the free-speech rights of citizens? Most likely no, ing the coalition’s free-speech rights, the Farmthe ACLU of Utah successfully sued the Utah Department says Connor Boyack, head of the Libertas Institute, which ington City Council repealed the $50 permit of Transportation for requiring protesters from the group is conducting a similar study regarding municipalities requirement on Sept. 15. iMatter to purchase a multimillion-dollar insurance polithroughout Utah. “Farmington’s rushed repeal of their Every municipality is different, and permit laws are cy and sign indemnification forms—in addition to paying protest permit requirement is an indication that such ornot identical. In Salt Lake City, for example, a $5 “Free the city for a Free Expression permit—before the group dinances are not well thought-out,” says Boyack. “HopeExpression Permit” requires 30-days advance notice to could march on State Street in Salt Lake City. fully, Farmington’s fix will be replicated elsewhere.” CW process. However, according to the city’s website, “ApThree years ago, the ACLU also sued Brigham City plications for spontaneous free expression activities, over its permit requirement after the city refused to aloccurring due to some current event, can be submitted low members of the Main Street Church of 14 or fewer days Protest Permit REQUIRED W/ FEE* Protest Permit NOT Required* Protest Permit REQUIRED* Brigham City to distribute religious fliers from event, to in•Bountiful •Orem on public sidewalks at an open house priClearfield $5 • Cottonwood • Pleasant clude day of.”

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Attorney Margaret Holladay $100 • Eagle • S outh •Highland •Taylorsville But, according to activist Beckham, $20 Plane says while the Mountain Kaysville Jordan •Midvale •West Valley City the problem with having to file a law$20 city’s permit is difLehi • L ayton • South •Murray •Woods Cross suit every time a municipality requires ferent from Farm$5 Provo Salt Lake •North Salt Lake • L indon a permit for free speech is that even the ington’s, it’s still $5 •Ogden Salt Lake City • N orth Ogden • W est Jordan possibility of a potential misdemeanor “constitutional.” is enough to scare away some protestors “[It’s] just meant from participating. “There are other to plan for the things the capital people who came to that protest besides Lexie and city deals with,” she says. me who have now dropped completely out of the acStill, differences between the tivist community,” says Beckham. Often this is becities’ laws can make the permit cause employers enforce strict “no criminal chargprocess especially difficult for es” policies. “These people are now terrified that the protesters. A City Weekly reporter * Of 30 municipalities surveyed along the Wasatch Front

NEWS Paradise For Sale

ENVIRONMENT

A mountain wilderness is up for sale in Morgan County—but the price tag is likely too steep for conservation groups.

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lawmaker—preferably one of Utah’s representatives—pushed hard for an earmark that would bankroll the purchase.

Like Fisher, Mirr says the property, which he calls a “blank slate,” would be a good candidate for conservation—an outcome that he would welcome, though he has yet to hear much interest from the conservation community.

In the meantime, his firm is touting the property’s recreational opportunities.

“The ranch controls a continuous ridgeline comprising 24 peaks and 15 bowls on the property and adjoining national forest lands,” the listing states. “Recreation options abound with fly fishing along 1.75 miles of the Weber River, big-game trophy hunting, hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding and other recreational pursuits on over 80 miles of trails and unlimited access to the bordering forest.”

Mirr says the parties he represents haven’t indicated whether they have a preference as to who purchases the land, or what they do with it afterward. But Mirr says he’s worked on large conservation acquisitions in the past, and would welcome that in this case.

“We’re just trying to paint the right picture for such a unique property,” Mirr says.

“If I could sell it for conservation purposes, I would be happy.”

Luke Ratto, a mountain-biking enthusiast who works at Ski Utah—a tourism association that represents the ski industry—has started a fundraising effort called Citizen Mountain on the public fundraising website GoFundMe. Ratto’s dream is to provide access to the property’s myriad recreational opportunities, while turning the land itself over to a conservation group. Ratto says he’s not opposed to Forest Service ownership, but he knows they don’t have the dough.

With 40 days remaining on the fundraising drive, Ratto has raised $12,700 of his $56 million goal.

Fisher says that a conservation-minded buying effort will require an “all-handson-deck” effort between public and private money to secure a property that he says is “critical to the local environment.” CW

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plit by 11 creeks, encompassing 24 peaks in the Wasatch Range and stretching for 20 square miles in Morgan County, the $46 million Wasatch Peaks Ranch might well be among the rarest real-estate opportunities in the world.

The 12,740-acre property—owned by Snowbird cofounder Dick Bass and Sinclair Oil Corp. magnate and Snowbasin founder Earl Holding, both of whom recently died, in 2015 and 2013, respectively—the ranch recently hit the market, sparking at least one Internet fundraising effort, some interest by deep-pocketed folks and dreams from environmental groups to have the land roped into the public domain.

Ken Mirr, owner of Mirr Ranch Group in Denver, Colo., is the broker for the property. He says the campaign to sell the land, which is void of any structures, is in the beginning stages.

“I would say with such close proximity to Salt Lake and Ogden, with the unique attributes of the property going all the way up the ridgeline—there’s a number of drainages—that type of layout is pretty unique for anything in the West that close to a metropolitan area,” Mirr says.

Mirr says Bass and Holding bought the property, which is zoned for one home per 160 acres, in the late 1990s.

Helicopter ski companies have accessed adjacent property and, according to the

listing, limited hunting occurs there.

The chunk of land borders dozens of miles of Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, and according to Carl Fisher, executive director of Save Our Canyons—a group that advocates for preservation of the Wasatch Range—the parcel appears to be a prime candidate for Forest Service management.

Aside from the 2014 sale of Park City Mountain Resort to Vail Resorts Inc. for $182.5 million, Fisher says massive patches of Wasatch wilderness don’t often come up for grabs.

“This is still larger than [Park City Mountain Resort],” Fisher says. “An organization like Save Our Canyons—we definitely are interested but just don’t have $46 million kicking around.”

For the past 50 years, Congress has allocated money for acquisition of lands through the Land & Water Conservation Fund. The amounts of money provided through this program, though, has consistently shrunk over time, says Fisher.

This fund, says Loyal Clark, a public affairs officer for the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, would be the primary way the Forest Service could purchase the land.

But $46 million is a giant leap from the $4 million the local Forest Service usually receives through the fund each year.

“Our funding in that appropriation has been decreasing over the last several years, so we struggle to just purchase parcels of land that equal even $1 million,” Clark says.

The Forest Service, Clark says, buys property on a regular basis. Many recent acquisitions have been along the Bonneville Shoreline Trail, where parcels of private land threaten access to public lands.

Between 2005 and 2012, Clark says the Forest Service purchased 11,600 acres on the north slope of the Uintas for $11 million, and in 2011, acquired 200 acres near the shoreline trail in Ogden for $1.6 million. In 2014, the Forest Service bought six acres in Mill Creek Canyon for $55,000.

“Would we be interested?” Clark says.

“We are always interested in acquiring parcels of land that are adjacent to national forest land.”

Clark says the only way the Forest Service could acquire the land is if a federal

A portion of the Wasatch Peaks Ranch

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THE LIST OF EIGHT

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READINGS

In Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War, award-winning author Helen Thorpe follows the lives of three women over the course of 12 years of military service in Afghanistan and Iraq. Thorpe’s book provides an intimate look at the effects of military service on the personal lives, families and friendships of three different women. Attend Thorpe’s free reading and discussion sponsored by Westminster College’s Center for Veteran & Military Services at Walker Hall One, 1840 S. 1300 East, Sept. 30, 6-7:30 p.m.

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OUT & ABOUT

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Eight new series that didn’t make the cut for this week’s Fall TV Preview 2015:

8. Mom Cop & The Bro

(Jennifer Love-Hewitt and YouTuber PewDiePie as mismatched crime-solvers.)

7. Jeb! (Sitcom/advertorial for

Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign.)

6. Malibu’s Most Wanted:

The Series (Not the last sign that TV has run out of ideas.)

5. The SpongeBob SquarePants

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4. Celebrity Naptime

(Jimmy Fallon lies down with tuckered-out stars.)

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3. Late Night With Alex Jones (Topical jokes, sketches and doomsday conspiracy theories.)

CHARITABLE GIVING

One in 75 women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer in their lifetime. HERA Women’s Cancer Foundation is raising awareness and research funds with Climb4Life Salt Lake City on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 25-26. Event kickoff takes place on Friday evening at 7 p.m. at Petzl headquarters (2929 Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City) with food, drinks and prizes.

Saturday’s activities include a day of climbing at Momentum Climbing Gym (South Towne Center, 220 W. 10600 South, Sandy) from 9 a.m.3:30 p.m. followed by a summit dinner party at the Black Diamond campus (2092 E. 3900 South). CrowdRise.com/Climb4LifeSaltLakeCity has more details. n In honor of Diaper Need Awareness Week (Sept. 28-Oct. 4), a number of Salt Lake County Library branches will host drop off bins for disposable-diaper donations. Federal food-stamp and WIC programs do not cover the cost of disposable diapers—which can cost more than $100 per month. Low-income parents need disposable diapers to use licensed day-care centers, since most require parents to provide diapers. Without access to daycare, parents struggle to work or attend school on a consistent basis. More information is available at UtahDiaperBank.org

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2. Reddit Live! (A scrolling Reddit thread. For hours.

That’s it. Going to be huge.)

1. Random Non-Threatening

Timeslot-Filler (For whenever local “affiliate” KSL 5 discovers an objectionable NBC show six weeks into its run.)

Lunar Eclipse Weather permitting, Utahns will be able to view a total eclipse of the moon on Sunday, Sept. 27. Totality starts at 8:11 p.m. and runs through 9:23 p.m., followed by the emergence phase until 10:27 p.m. Making it easier to observe the eclipse is the Salt Lake Astronomical Society, which will set up telescopes in the Harmons parking lot at 125 E. 13800 South in Draper. Visit Patrick Wiggins’ NASA Solar System Ambassador website at UtahAstro.info for more information.

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An almost-forgotten piece of Jewish history in Utah will be memorialized with the unveiling of the Clarion historic marker. In recognition of the efforts of Jewish farmers who, in 1911, began and eventually abandoned an agricultural colony 3 miles southwest of Gunnison, Utah, the ceremony will include music, speakers and refreshments. Legacy Plaza, Main & Center streets, Gunnison, Friday, Sept. 25, 6 p.m.

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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 agency, c o n c e r n e d 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.”

BY CHUCK SHEPHERD

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.”

WEIRD

Names in the News Charged with choking and punching his fiancee: Mr. Daniel Gentleman, 28 (Prescott, Ariz., in May). Charged with killing her husband and burying his body in a manure pile on their farm: Ms. Charlene Mess, 48 (Attica, N.Y., in April). Charged with sexual assault: Mr. Huckleberry Finn (Keene, N.H., 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.

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Questionable Judgments Because temperatures were in the high 90s the last weekend in August, tourists visiting the historical Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland were greeted by an outdoor sprinkler system dousing them near the gates. It was intended as relief, said operators, to keep guests from fainting, but, as one Israeli visitor said, “It was a punch to the gut”—too reminiscent of Auschwitz’s gas chamber. (Jewish prisoners had been marched calmly to their deaths under the pretense that they were only being taken for showers.) 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.

Seems Like the Season of Email Muddles 1. All Sherri Smith wanted was copies of background emails about her son (who has a disability) in the files of the Goodrich, Mich., 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.

Government Inaction The streets of Jackson, Miss., 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.)

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, Calif., tried to take one after draping an angry 4-foot-long 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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(Starz) Premieres Saturday, Oct. 31: This is what you’ve been waiting for, S-Mart shoppers: Ash (Bruce Campbell), and his Boomstick and chainsaw, are back! The original Evil Dead trilogy may have wrapped up 30 years ago, but gore-splattering technology has never stopped evolving, so of course Ash vs. Evil Dead had to happen—whether Ash likes it or not. After three decades of doing little besides lying low, nurturing a beer belly and pretending the dead never rose—even though re-killing said dead and saving the world is the only thing he’s ever been good at—Ash reluctantly springs (OK, creaks) back into action when the Deadites re-emerge. This time, he’s backed-up by adoring sidekick Pablo (Ray Santiago), indifferent runaway Kelly (Dana DeLorenzo) and a familiar face from the universe of producer/director Sam Raimi: Lucy Lawless. You could think of the 10 30-minute Ash vs. Evil Dead episodes as a couple of new back-to-back movies with advanced bloodbath techniques, or you could stop thinking altogether and just enjoy the thrill-ride. That’s what Ash would do (at least the “stop thinking” part).

Supergirl

Supergirl

(CBS) Premieres Monday, Oct. 26: If you’re still asking “Why isn’t this on The CW?” remember that CBS is a co-owner (The “C” stands for CBS, the “W” for Warner Bros.—clever, huh?) and Supergirl could easily end up there anyway if she doesn’t hit NCIS ratings numbers.

Creator/producer Greg Berlanti’s take on Kara Zor-El (aka adopted earthling Alex, played by Melissa Benoist) is more in line with his bright, zippy The Flash than his dark, broody Arrow; at times, Supergirl comes across like a romantic comedy with an absentee boyfriend (Superman, while referenced, will never appear here). But, once you get past the comic-lore exposition

and Calista Flockhart’s over-the-top Devil Wears Prada tribute act as Alex’s media-magnate boss, Supergirl proves herself in action to be as tough as she is enthusiastic about living up to her cousin’s legend. Supergirl should be a hit—but, again, there’s always The CW.

The Grinder

(Fox) Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 29: Fox wound up with one of the worst new sitcoms of the season (Grandfathered; more on that later), and one of the best in The Grinder—both just happen to be headlined by handsome older dudes. The Grinder was a charismatic lawyer character Dean (Rob Lowe, taking that loony Parks & Recreation energy to a new level) played on TV so, naturally, after his show is canceled, he returns to his small hometown to work in his brother Stewart’s (Fred Savage) real law firm. The townsfolk love it; Stewart, not so much. Lowe and Savage are a perfect comic wacky/straight-man team—maybe enough so to overcome their Grandfathered lead-in.

The Grinder

Con Man

(Vimeo) Premieres Wednesday, Sept. 30: While his former co-star (Nathan Fillion) of the 10-yearscanceled space-adventure series Spectrum has gone on to become a huge star, Wray Nerely (Alan Tudyk) can only get work at sci-fi conventions, which are slowly (but hilariously) crushing his soul. If the Firefly/Serenity meta-signal flares have already eluded you, there’s probably no point in mentioning geektastic Con Man cameos like Gina Torres, Summer Glau, Sean Maher and Jewel Staite, as well as Tricia Helfer, James Gunn, Felicia Day, Seth Green, Sean Astin and Joss Whedon, himself. The rest of you, consider your heads exploded.

Con Man

Marvel’s Jessica Jones

Casual

(Hulu) Premieres Wednesday, Oct. 7: Director Jason Reitman (Up In the Air, Juno) probably didn’t mean to remake Fox’s canceled 2012 sitcom Ben & Kate, but no one saw that, so who cares? Casual stars Michaela Watkins (scene-stealer of a hundred comedies, most recently Trophy Wife and Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer) and Tommy Dewey (The Mindy Project) as a divorcee single mom and her bachelor brother as once-again roommates trying (and mostly awkwardly failing) to teach each other how to navigate the Tinder age. It’s sharp, funny and everything corporate cousin NBC’s Comedy Division (now located in an abandoned basement utility closet) has completely given up on.

(Netflix) Premieres Friday, Nov. 20: It’s going to be tough to follow-up Daredevil, especially with a lesser-known character like Jessica Jones—but Marvel’s too big to fail, so why worry? Based on the Alias series, Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) is an ex-superhero now trying to lead a relatively normal existence as a private detective, even though all of her clients seem to be of the super-powered variety. Considering Netflix’s Daredevil track record, as well as the show’s creator (former Dexter writer) and the solid cast behind the always-winning Ritter (David Tennant, CarrieAnne Moss and future Luke Cage Mike Colter), Jessica Jones should be another gritty smack upside the head. Or in the SUV door, whichever you prefer.

Into the Badlands

(AMC) Premieres Sunday, Nov. 15: For being one of the few new series not based on a comic book, martial-arts actioner Into the Badlands certainly looks like one: Bullet-biking warrior Sunny (Daniel Wu) kicks ass and sheds blood across a future America ruled by seven warlords, like Kung-Fu (Wiki it) meets Mad Max with a Tarantino twist (the producers of Django Unchained and Pulp Fiction are involved, after all). If Walking Dead viewers don’t stick around for this, I don’t know what the hell’s going on anymore.

The Bastard Executioner

SuperMansion

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

(Amazon Prime) Premieres Friday, Nov. 20: In an alternate universe where the Germans won World War II, early-’60s U.S.A. is halved into the Greater Nazi Reich and the Japanese Pacific States—yes, of course there’s an underground resistance working to take back ’Merica, silly. The Man in the High Castle’s production and attention to detail is impressive, bringing the 1962 Phillip K. Dick to fullblown life even as the lead actors appear lifeless (could have done better than Pretty Little Liars’ Luke Kleintank and Mob City’s Alexa Davalos, Ridley Scott).

Life in Pieces

The Expanse

Scream Queens

(Fox) Premiered Tuesday, Sept. 22: Ryan Murphy cross-fades his Glee (pretty teens with probs; snark) with his American Horror Story (well, horror). Emma Roberts (AHS) and Lea Michele (Glee) head an unusually large cast that’s supplemented further with high-profile guests. The setup is familiar, but 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).

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(Syfy) Premieres Monday, Dec. 14: Syfy’s ambitious new The Expanse could either be the network’s next Battlestar Galactica (a long-running, critically acclaimed, fan-beloved landmark) or its next Ascension (none of the above). Set 200 years in a future where humans have colonized the entire solar system, dwarf-planet detective Josephus Miller (Thomas Jane) sets out searching for a missing woman (Florence Faivre) but inadvertently uncovers a vast conspiracy—and it is vast, because, you know, it’s the entire solar system. The Expanse, based on a book series that’s essentially Game of Thrones in space, will likely be more of a Galactica than an Ascension.

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(CBS) Premiered Monday, Sept. 21: It’s not surprising that Life in Pieces producer/director Jason Winer is also a Modern Family honcho, given that his new single-camera comedy for notoriously single-camera-comedy-phobic CBS plays like a mashup of that hit (wacky vignettes focused on various factions of the family) and Parenthood (earnest Life Learning Moments and blatant tearjerking). A cast that includes Colin Hanks, Zoe Lister-Jones, Dan Bakkedahl, Betsy Brandt, James Brolin, Dianne Wiest and Jordan Peele demands attention, and Life in Pieces strikes a keen balance of tender moments and subtle, clever laughs. But on CBS? After The Big Bang Theory? Catch it while you can.

(The CW) Premieres Monday, Oct. 12: It was originally developed as a halfhour comedy for Showtime, but now it’s a full-hour dramedy on The CW, where you’ll have to imagine your own profanity and nudity (it’s fun; try it). The setup: A successful-butlonely New York City lawyer (Rachel Bloom, a “YouTube Star”—don’t hold it against her) impulsively moves to California to pursue/stalk her highschool sweetheart. And not the good part of California, if there is such a thing: Los Angeles suburb West Covina: “Two hours from the beach!

Four with traffic,” as the song-anddance number goes. Oh, did I mention that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is also a musical? Just like Jane the Virgin last season, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is a wild, colorful, original swing that could hit big or fail spectacularly. Either way, there’s nothing else like it on TV—maybe you blew it, Showtime.

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(Crackle) Premieres Thursday, Oct. 8: Geezer superhero Titanium Rex (voiced by Bryan Cranston) and his equally creaky League of Freedom live together in the SuperMansion when not out fighting crime and/or the battle to remain relevant. This senior-citizen stopmotion Avengers looks like Robot Chicken because it’s from the same creators, but the humor is geared toward (slightly) longer attention spans. Best of all, the League of Freedom counts among its members American Ranger, Black Saturn, Cooch and … RoboBot.

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(FX) Premiered Tuesday, Sept. 15: Game of Thrones, Vikings and other dramas have trod this heightened historical ground already—but, unsurprisingly, writer/producer Kurt Sutter’s take is uniquely his own: a bloody, violent, viscerally real world devoid of Thrones’ mystical hoodoo and Vikings’ low-budget cheese. It’s a sprawling, dense epic Sutter’s trying to pull off here—but they once said “Hamlet on Harleys” couldn’t be done, and look how his Sons of Anarchy turned out.

MAYBE SAVE FOR LATER Heroes Reborn

Heroes Reborn

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(NBC) Premieres Thursday, Sept. 24: Noah (Jack Coleman) is back, and Hiro (Masi Oka) and Matt (Greg Grunberg) drop in but, as the title suggests, this is a whole new Heroes. See, kids, back in a time when Marvel movies and DC television series weren’t dropping every other week, there was a show called Heroes, about seemingly ordinary people who suddenly discovered that they had superpowers—we’re talking ancient history, like 2006. After an excellent first season, the series went cross-eyed, eventually ending unceremoniously with Season 4 in 2010; showrunner Tim Kring promises Heroes Reborn will be the back-on-track reset he originally promised in 2007 … and 2008 … and 2009. You may find yourself rooting harder for Zachary Levi (Chuck) as a vigilante Hero hunter.

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The Player The Player

(NBC) Premieres Thursday, Sept. 24: Phillip Winchester (Strike Back) plays Alex Cane, an ex-FBI operative now working as a Las Vegas security consultant who’s approached by the mysterious “Mr. Johnson” (Wesley Snipes—yes, that Wesley Snipes) to play a game: Try and stop these high-stakes crimes while a secret society of the super-rich bets on the outcome, aided by a high-tech “crime prediction” computer—so, it’s Person of Interest with a pit boss. Snipes and Winchester are solid and the action is flashy (The Player comes from the same producers as The Blacklist), but there’s also a tired “Who killed my wife?!” subplot and the fact that NBC hasn’t launched a viable Thursday-at-9 player since ER ended.

I could say roll the dice on this one … but I won’t.

Quantico Quantico

(ABC) Premieres Sunday, Sept. 27: Remember when Homeland didn’t suck and the term “Sexy Terrorism Drama” actually meant something? Quantico, from Gossip Girl and Smash producer Joshua Safran, aims to bring back the STD … yes, I just noticed it, too. Anyway: A group of pretty FBI recruits (including Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra, who may be the most super humanly gorgeous being on the planet) learns that one among them may have masterminded a major outside attack on U.S. soil; flashbacks to first day of training and worried realizations of “Well, I’ve had sex with everyone here— but did I bang a terrorist?” ensue. Quantico has an intriguing, twisty story and a solid—and did I mention hot?—cast; now the TD just needs to catch up to the S.

Benders

Benders

(IFC) Premieres Thursday, Oct. 1: Denis Leary has produced shows about cops (The Job), firefighters (Rescue Me), EMTs (Sirens) and music (Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll),

so it was inevitable that he’d get around to another of his obsessions: hockey. Benders’ beer-soaked concept of an amateur hockey league that spends more time bro-bonding and trash-talking off the ice than playing on it feels a bit off-brand for IFC, which has established itself with a more highbrow style of comedy (or whatever you’d call Maron and Documentary Now!). But, Benders is the best new hockey-themed comedy of this season, so it has that going for it.

Red Oaks

(Amazon Prime) Premieres Friday, Oct. 9: If Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp revival didn’t satiate your hunger for retro-’80s comedy, here’s Red Oaks: the Caddyshack 2 we deserved 27 years ago. College student David (Craig Roberts) takes a tennis instructor job at Red Oaks country club in the summer of 1985, and every glorious comingof-age lesson, fashion catastrophe and cheesy music underscore of the Reagan era unfolds—in a surprisingly earnest, non-parodic manner. Killer pilot, but Amazon’s Hand of God proved you can’t always trust the first taste.

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The Last Kingdom

(BBC America) Premieres Saturday, Oct. 10: He was raised by Vikings as a Norseman, but Uhtred (Alexander Dreymon) was originally a Saxon—and King Alfred is now coming for him. This torn-between-two-cultures epic is based on the historical novels of Bernard Cornwell, which gives The Last Kingdom a thinkier edge on History’s Vikings. But really, you want blood, and you got it: The Last Kingdom has plenty of sword-swinging action to go with its history lessons, not to mention a bigger budget and better actors—which still can’t quite match the odd, gritty appeal of Vikings.

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Wicked City

(ABC) Premieres Tuesday, Oct. 27: A serial killer (Ed Westwick) is murdering big-haired women on the early-’80s Sunset Strip while the spandex-metal blares and the neon glares—sound like an exciting show, right? Maybe for Cinemax. On ABC, Wicked City feels like a sanitized version of, if not something better, at least something more sensationalized (which is preferable to boring, admit it). It’s not the cast’s fault: Westwick, Erika Christensen (as his equally sociopathic girlfriend), Jeremy Sisto (as a cop working the case) and Taissa Farmiga (as a reporter following the case) are typically excellent, but the faux sleaze and half-assed period set dressing is distracting—if I wanted to see a cheap-wigged “band” badly lip-sync the hair-metal hits, I’d hit ’80s Night at the bar.

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Flesh & Bone

Master of None

(Starz) Premieres Sunday, Nov. 8: Showrunner Moira Walley-Beckett (a former Breaking Bad writer) says the first two episodes of ballet (Netflix) Premieres Friday, Nov. 6: Comedian/actor Aziz Ansari (Parks & Recreation) plays a New York City comedian/actor drama Flesh & Bone are “the lightest,” and that it gets bleaker from there. Considering that those episodes—of eight total—are darker who’s a hell of a lot like Aziz Ansari. Depending on your Aziz Ansari tolerance levels, this is either great or terrible news. than True Detective strangling Black Swan in a puppy mill, fans of cringe-watching should take note. Flesh & Bone follows a troubled young dancer (Sarah Hay) who joins a prestigious New York ballet company and quickly learns what kind of twisted world she’s stepped into. With the exception of occasional-but-welcome bitchy outbursts from the company’s demanding artistic director (Ben Daniels, House of Cards), this is a discomfiting, humorless affair. Come for the ballet, stay for the angst.

Moonbeam City

(TNT) Premieres Sunday, Nov. 8: Agent X is John Case (Jeff Hephner, Interstellar), a super-secret weapon to be called in when the FBI and CIA can’t hack it. Even the president doesn’t know who he is, so Agent X is deployed by the vice president, played here by … Sharon Stone! Oh yeah: The Bourne Identity’s William Blake Herron wrote the pilot and executive-produces, but I think VP Sharon Stone is all we need to go on here.

Blindspot

(NBC) Premiered Monday, Sept. 21: A naked woman (Jaimie Alexander) turns up in a duffel bag in Times Square, covered in mysterious tattoos and devoid of memory. Turns out the ink is a tapestry of clues about future terrorist attacks on American soil, and it’s up to FBI Agent Kurt Weller (Sullivan Stapleton) and “Jane Doe” to decode and stop the crimes. Blindspot is another Quirky Outsider Works With the Law drama, but there are enough twists and tension to almost justify the “next Blacklist” hype.

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(Crackle) Premieres Thursday, Nov. 19: Small-time crook Graham Connor (Christian Cooke, Witches of East End) slips into the high-end art world of the super-rich—but if the dark side of the auction house doesn’t sting him first, his shady secret past will. The slick and sexy Art of More is relatable to your life in no way whatsoever (sure, Graham came from nothing, but he’s still ridiculously goodlooking), but it’s deeper than you’d expect luxury porn to be, and the supporting cast (Dennis Quaid, Kate Bosworth and Cary Elwes) ain’t bad for a streaming service you’ve barely heard of, either.

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(CBS) Premiered Tuesday, Sept. 22: Bradley Cooper reprises his role from the 2011 flick about super pill NZT, which grants access to 100 percent of the brain. Cooper hands the pill down to another beardy-pretty boy (Jake McDorman) as part of his own sketchy agenda—but, Cooper’s new protégé is also roped into using his 12-hour super-powers to help the FBI (mainly, Dexter’s Jennifer Carpenter) solve crimes. Limitless is loaded with slick action and possibilities, but could easily devolve into just another CBS cop procedural.

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(Comedy Central) Premiered Wednesday, Sept. 16: More or less Archer redrawn as a Duran Duran album cover, Moonbeam City follows the inept exploits of detective Dazzle Novak (voiced by Rob Lowe), his rival Rad Cunningham (Will Forte), exasperated police chief Pizzaz Miller (Elizabeth Banks) and aspiring rookie Chrysalis Tate (Kate Mara). It looks cool but, just like a Duran Duran album, there are only a couple of hits amid a whole lotta pastel filler. But hey, it worked for Miami Vice.

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Angel From Hell

(Fox) Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 29: John Stamos stars as a single, successful 50-something restaurant owner and all-around playah who suddenly learns he’s a father and a grandfather—cue the age-denial vanity jokes and tired Man vs. Diaper gags. Grandfathered is not only a waste of Stamos (he was a charming, capable actor once … right?), but also of newcomer Josh Peck (The Mindy Project) and veteran Paget Brewster (Community, Criminal Minds). Superior lead-out The Grinder only makes it look that much worse.

(CBS) Premieres Thursday, Nov. 5: At least CBS is still trying to break out of their traditional sitcom mold, first with Life in Pieces and now, Angel From Hell. Like Life in Pieces, Angel From Hell follows the single-camera format sans canned laughs, and features a solid cast (Jane Lynch, Maggie Lawson, Kyle Bornheimer and Kevin Pollack). But then it goes weird, if not Wilfred: Is the crazy lady (Lynch) who’s forced her way into Allison’s (Lawson) stableif-dull life actually a guardian angel, or just a stalker, or a figment of her imagination? One more question: Who thought they could stretch a Hallmark Christmas movie setup into a series?

Chicago Med

(NBC) Premieres Tuesday, Nov. 17: Before Chicago Animal Control, Chicago Building Inspection, Chicago Credit Union, Chicago Uber, Chicago Pizza, Chicago Dog and Chicago Sunroof, yeah, the next logical Chicago Fire/Chicago PD spin-off would be Chicago Med. Smart move, Dick Wolf.

Blood & Oil

(ABC) Premieres Sunday, Sept. 27: It was originally titled just Oil, but apparently some branding genius thought tacking on Blood & would help—it doesn’t, but nice try. Either the first or second showrunner (No. 1 was escorted away in secrecy, also not helping) has insisted that Blood & Oil isn’t just Dallas relocated to North Dakota, and that under all the soapy trappings of starry-eyed young couple Billy and Cody (Chace Crawford and Rebecca Rittenhouse) going to work for the burgeoning new oil empire of Hap Briggs (Don Johnson), much to the chagrin of Hap’s evil-ish son Wick (Scott Michael Foster), lies Important Drama. But, really: Billy? Cody? Hap? Wick? Blood & Oil is as ridiculous as a sequel to Will Ferrell’s The Spoils of Babylon and The Spoils Before Dying—call it the Spoils of Oil, and edit everyone who isn’t Johnson or Crawford out.

Code Black

Best Time Ever With Neil Patrick Harris

(NBC) Premiered Tuesday, Sept. 15: In theory, Jimmy Fallon’s annoying late-night playtime segments stretched into a full primetime hour and hosted by NPH sounds insufferable. In practice … yeah, absolutely insufferable.

Minority Report

(CBS) Premieres Wednesday, Sept. 30: CBS has had as much luck launching new medical dramas as it’s had with nonlaugh-tracked sitcoms—which is none, as it’s been 15 years since Chicago Hope ended. “Code Black” refers to an overloaded ER situation in where there are far more patients than good-looking doctors and nurses, hence, shouty “Stat!” drama and plenty of gurneys racing down hallways. Problem is, this Marcia Gay Harden-led slog is so dire and serious that it reminds you why “sexy” doc shows (Grey’s Anatomy, The Night Shift, Childrens Hospital, et al) have sewn up the genre.

(Fox) Premiered Monday, Sept. 21: Minority Report (a sorta-sequel to the 2002 movie) is set in 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. Then he meets up with D.C. cop Lara (Meagan Good) and an “unlikely partnership between a man haunted by the future and a cop haunted by her past” begins. Minority Report aims to be Sleepy Hollow, but just comes across as sleepy and hollow.

Dr. Ken

(ABC) Premieres Friday, Oct. 2: In the three-way slugfest for Worst New Comedy (not to mention First Cancellation), Dr. Ken may have the edge over Grandfathered and Truth Be Told: The latter two have stars that could, in theory, carry a well-executed comedy, whereas Ken Jeong (The Hangover, Community) is the definition of the A Little Goes a Long Way Side Player Who Should Never, Ever Be Expected to Carry a Show on His Own (see also: any former Seinfeld co-star who’s not Julia Louis-Dreyfus). Jeong is Dr. Ken Park, a physician with a crazy work and family life, and … well, that’s all there is. And no, ABC, the fact that Jeong was actually a doctor before becoming an actor does not add to the comedy in the least.

The Muppets

(ABC) Premiered Tuesday, Sept. 22: The Muppets is 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 nor 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.

Truth Be Told

(NBC) Premieres Friday, Oct. 16: Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Franklin & Bash and, of course, Saved by the Bell) has proven he do funny, as has Tone Bell (the best part of last season’s Bad Judge). Unfortunately, they’re saddled with a tepid, laugh-tracked bro-com that’s paired with the awful (but now “Live!”) Undateable on Friday nights, and a lone creative note from NBC that reads “We’ve given up on comedy—just fill 30 minutes and turn out the lights when you leave.”

Rosewood

(Fox) Premiered Wednesday, Sept. 23: 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. Also, odds-on beautifully canceled by the time you read this. CW

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THURSDAY 9.24

A Conversation With Michael Lewis

Let’s face it: We don’t give our kids enough credit for their ability to handle more than the simplest art directed at them. You only have to look at the kinds of animated films that earn hundreds of millions of dolllars at multiplexes to get a sense that there’s only one way to engage a young audience.

The Utah Film Center’s Tumbleweeds Film Festival has spent five years trying to shake the foundations of those assumptions. For three days, the festival programs family-friendly features and short films that aren’t merely brightly colored, fast-moving computer animation, but also live-action films, documentaries (gasp!), films from other countries (gasp!!) and even films with subtitles (gasp!!!). It’s a festival built on the idea that, given the chance, kids’ sense of what makes satisfying films are more diverse than we might believe.

This year’s lineup includes shorts and features from Australia, Germany, England, Spain and India, plus a documentary about a Ugandan Little League baseball team attempting to qualify for the Little League World Series. A centerpiece screening also celebrates the 30th anniversary of The Goonies (John Matuszak, as Sloth, pictured) with a 35 mm presentation. And beyond the films, there are workshops on panel discussions about film-related topics, including how to make eye-catching YouTube videos. There’s even a Kids’ Clubhouse with activities to let kids burn off some energy between films. It’s a weekend at the movies that will leave children with a broader sense of what a weekend at the movies can be.

(Scott Renshaw) Tumbleweeds Film Festival @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-746-7000, Sept. 25-27, $6 per screening; $40 for 10-screening passes; $20 workshop registration. Check out the full schedule at UtahFilmCenter.org/twds2015

Like many comedians, Gabriel Iglesias started out taking the easy route: jokes about his Latino heritage and his plus-size figure (including his self-administered nickname “Fluffy”) or funny voices. But somewhere along the line during a career that has spanned almost two decades, something changed.

Well, not entirely: The 39-year-old Southern California native still pokes fun at ethnic stereotypes. He still talks about his struggles with his weight. And he still loves trotting out a silly voice when the situation seems appropriate.

But as Iglesias made the shift from clubs to arenas, he actually developed a more intimate relationship with his audience. No longer content to be simply a deliverer of punch lines, Iglesias became a tremendous storyteller, opening up his life to viewers in a way that’s more characteristic of great essayists than standup comedians. In his 2013 concert film The Fluffy Movie, he shared the story of his first meeting with his absentee father in 30 years—a tale that was funny, poignant and startlingly honest, especially when juxtaposed with equally soul-baring stories about his attempt to build a relationship with his teenage stepson.

And that’s why catching Gabriel Iglesias in a venue like the Maverik Center may feel less like a rock concert than an evening sitting at the bar catching up with an old friend. He can hit you with a laugh, and then hit you with genuine emotion. That’s what happens when an entertainer only wants to get real with you. (Scott Renshaw) Gabriel Iglesias @ Maverik Center, 3200 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 801-988-8800, Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m., $45-$124, MaverikCenter.com

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SATURDAY 9.26

Tumbleweeds Film Festival

Sports fans in 2015 use a very different vocabulary than they did just 10 years ago, thanks to the advent of advanced analytics. Baseball fans talk about OPS and WAR, basketball fans discuss “use of possession,” football fans compare Pythagorean Win totals. Pitcher WHIP numbers, a fixation on corner threes and an app that can tell you whether to go for it on fourth down didn’t exist back in the 20th century.

For all of this, you can thank Michael Lewis and his 2003 book, Moneyball. The advanced analytics movement was already underway before he came along, but it was Lewis who brought the concepts and lingo to the masses. The book—which later became a 2011 film starring Brad Pitt—became synonymous with new ways of looking at sports, so much so that any team relying on advance analytics is said to be playing “moneyball.”

Moneyball succeeded because of Lewis’ ability to take difficult statistics and concepts and make them digestible for the general public, while still telling interesting stories about unusual people.

In recent years, he’s taken those same skills and applied them to the financial system with books like The Big Short (2010) and Flash Boys (2014).

Whether he talks sports or money, it should be an entertaining evening when Lewis visits Salt Lake City as part of the Sam Rich Lecture Series put on by the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics. KUER’s Doug Fabrizio will conduct the interview. (Geoff Griffin) A Conversation With Michael Lewis @ Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, Sept. 24, 8 p.m., $12-$34.

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Salt Lake Comic Con is back this week, claiming to be bigger and better than ever—and based on the guest list and panel schedule, we’re ready to agree.

The third annual convention will reunite the cast of the Captain America movies, with Chris Evans, Sebastian Stan, Hayley Atwell and Anthony Mackie all slated to attend. SLCC is also bringing in Anthony Daniels, who plays everyone’s favorite Star Wars protocol droid, C-3P0.

Doctor Who, Star Trek and The Lord of the Rings are all well represented by cast-member guests as well. Perhaps one of the biggest events we wouldn’t advise missing is the voice-over stars who will be reading the script from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as their famous cartoon characters, including the Animaniacs, Ninja Turtles, Looney Tunes and more.

Beyond the guests, there are more than 300 hours of panel programming, ranging from cosplay tips to in-depth discussions of nerdy minutia. Between the celebrities, the riveting discussions and the exhibit hall—chock full of artists and writers from near and far hawking their wares—there’s no shortage of things to do.

Although actors, writers and artists of all stripes will be descending on Salt Lake City for the convention, we locals are the real winners. The convention is easily accessible by Trax, and it welcomes geeks of all levels. (Bryan Young) Salt Lake Comic Con @ Salt Palace Convention Center, 100 S. West Temple, Sept. 24 (1-9 p.m.), Sept. 25 (10 a.m.-8 p.m.) & Sept. 26 (9:30 a.m.-7 p.m.). Visit SaltLakeComicCon.com for panel/guest schedule & ticket pricing.

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Curtain Raisers Three powerful productions open the new theater season.

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Pioneer Theatre Co.: Fiddler on the Roof

Great pieces of art are always about more than they are about on the surface. And that’s why a production of Fiddler on the Roof—a 50-year-old play based on 100-year-old stories—can still feel so vital and relevant.

Even superficially, it’s still a delightfully entertaining piece of musical theater. Joseph Stein’s book adapting the stories of Sholem Aleichem captures the charming specificity of the early-20th-century Russian Jewish town of Anatevka, from the telephone-game gossip that renders any piece of news unrecognizable after a few iterations, to the celebratory folk dances in director Karen Azenberg’s exhilarating choreography. Then, there are the iconic songs by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, alternating between giddy playfulness (“Matchmaker, Matchmaker,” “If I Were a Rich Man”) and meditative cultural reflections (“Sabbath Prayer,” “Anatevka”).

But there’s powerful, challenging material as patriarch Tevye (a warm and wonderful Michael Thomas Holmes) confronts the upsetting of tradition represented by the marriage choices of his daughters: the love match preferred by Tzeitel (Kim Sava); the request for a blessing rather than permission from Hodel (Nadia Vynnytsky); the pairing with a non-Jewish Russian soldier by Chava (Mandy McDonell). In each case, Tevye is forced to consider how much he can bend the rules of the only world he understands in order to accept the choices of the children he loves. It’s potent and heartbreaking to understand there are lines even a loving parent feels he can’t cross—and as joyful as Fiddler can be while re-creating a long-ago world, there’s a different loveliness in showing us where our own world remains much the same.

Pioneer Memorial Theatre 300 S. 1400 East 801-581-6961 Through Oct. 3 PioneerTheatre.org

April Fossen as Vivienne Avery in Salt Lake Acting Co.’s Blackberry Winter

Wasatch Theatre Co.: Wit

Vivian Bearing (Teresa Sanderson)—a professor of literature specializing in the 17th-century metaphysical poetry of John Donne—uses the precision of language to understand the world. The reality that makes Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit so compelling is that when you’re faced with Stage 4 ovarian cancer, there’s only so much reasoning your way through the situation that you can do.

Sanderson’s rich, raw performance is the commanding center of Wasatch Theatre Co.’s production, conveying the way that an intelligent, driven woman gradually comes to terms with her own mortality. There are subtle shifts throughout as the pain Vivian endures through her clinical trial of experimental treatment reduces her to tears, and the proud woman is forced to an unexpected humility in the face of that mortality.

That confrontation with the inevitability of death drives the text in complex ways, most notably in the Donne poems that Vivian has made her life’s work. Wit is in some ways a recognition of the ultimate limitations of art to confront that subject—like Dannes’s struggles to find the comfort in God’s redemption—in addition to the limitations of wit to reduce the terror of the ultimate mystery. Knowledge disconnected from humanity becomes a constant battle, as Vivian’s clinical doctor (Nicholas Dunn) has to keep reminding himself to treat her as more than just a collection of data points. And there’s beauty in Vicki Pugmire’s direction when a kind nurse (Haley McCormick) takes a bit of lotion and gently massages the hands of the dying Vivian.

In this magnificent play, the most profound truth could be found in the simple willingness to touch.

Rose Wagner Center 138 W. 300 South 801-355-2787 Through Sept. 26 WasatchTheatre.org

Salt Lake Acting Co.: Blackberry Winter

There’s a practiced smile on the face of Vivienne Avery (April Fossen) throughout the first half hour of Steve Yockey’s new play. Her mother, living with Alzheimer’s disease, is in a care facility, and a letter from that facility may be informing Vivienne that it’s time to move her to a nursing home. But Vivienne doesn’t want to open the letter; she’ll focus instead on the ritualistic details of making her mother’s recipe for coconut cake, and attempting to make sense of the cruel disease that is taking away her mother by crafting a mythological origin story for how it came to be in the world.

Director Sandra Shotwell’s production reaches beyond any limitations in a show that consists almost entirely of one character, occasionally interrupted by the lovely stagecraft of puppeteered cutouts and two onstage cutouts performing Vivienne’s fable. The set design by Keven Myhre places every necessary prop on elevated stands, turning Salt Lake Acting Co.’s Chapel Theatre floor into what looks like a museum of the memories Vivienne’s mother is losing one day at a time.

Blackberry Winter rises and falls as a wrenching caregiver tale, digging into the unspoken emotions of anyone forced to watch a loved one decline: the helplessness, the misdirected anger, the guilt. Fossen—whose ability to disappear into roles is consistently astonishing—navigates a remarkable transition between that early sense of controlled frustration and the woman who unloads a wallet full of coins that she knows she’s going to need for her piggy-bank/swear-jar. The real tears she spills as Vivienne tries to understand what is within her power to control feel like tears she’s sharing with everyone who has ever had to hide them behind a practiced smile. CW

Chapel Theatre 168 W. 500 North 801-363-7522 Through Oct. 25 SaltLakeActingCompany.org

Michael Thomas Holmes as Tevye in Pioneer Theatre Co.’s revival of Fiddler on the Roof

Teresa Sanderson, left, and Sallie Cooper as E.M. Ashford in Wasatch Theatre Co.’s Wit

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Salt Lake Symphony: The Brahma Viharas There are plenty of romantic gestures one could make to recognize a life partner’s birthday. Phillip Bimstein kicked things up a notch. In honor of the 60th birthday of his partner, Charlotte Bell (pictured), Bimstein wrote a concerto, to be premiered by the Salt Lake Symphony.

The Brahma Viharas takes its name from four Buddhist contemplative practices employed in yoga, intended to cultivate the virtues of loving kindness, compassion, empathetic joy and equanimity; Bimstein and Bell are both longtime yoga practitioners. The four movements offer musical expressions of those four practices. Bell will perform the solo part for English horn.

Bimstein and Lama Thupten Dorje Gyaltsen will lecture on the themes before the concert, at 6:15 p.m.

The program also features Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 and Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration. Happy birthday, Charlotte. (Scott Renshaw) Salt Lake Symphony: The Brahma Viharas @ Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, University of Utah, 801-531-7501, Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m., $5-$10. SaltLakeSymphony.org

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OGDEN GREEK FESTIVAL Friday: 9/25/2015 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM Saturday: 9/26/2015 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM

Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church 674 42nd Street, Ogden, UT 84403 (801) 399-2231

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Chamber Orchestra Ogden Browning Theater, Union Station, 2501 Wall Ave., Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m., ChamberOrchestraOgden.org Salt Lake Symphony: The Brahma Viharas Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, 801-531-7501, Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m., SaltLakeSymphony.org (see above) Sci-Fi Spectacular Utah Symphony, Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, Sept. 25-26, 7:30 p.m., ArtTix.org Westminster Concert Series: Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas, Op. 31 Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East, 801-832-2682, Sept. 28, 7:30 p.m., WestminsterCollege.edu

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Adrenaline with Christian Pieper Wiseguys Comedy Club, 2194 W. 3500 South, 801-4632909, Sept. 27, 7:30 p.m., WiseguysComedyCom Alonzo Bodden Wiseguys Comedy Club, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-463-2909, Sept.

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FESTIVALS & FAIRS

Big Lebowski Festival Perry’s Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 801-689-8700, Sept. 26, 8 p.m., EgyptianTheaterOgden.com Circus Xtreme Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey, Energy Solutions Arena, 301 W. South Temple, 801983, 8450, Sept. 24-28, 7 p.m.; matinees Sept. 26, 11:30 a.m.; Sept. 25-26, 3:30 p.m.; Sept. 27, 1 p.m. & 4:30 p.m.; Ringling.com F&MAD Film Fest Tower Theatre, 876 E. 900 South, 801-581-5127, Sept. 27, 7 p.m., Film.Utah.edu Hispanic Heritage Festival Logan Library, 255 North Main Street, Logan, 435-716-9123, Sept. 26, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., library.loganutah.org Last Blast of Summer Millcreek Pub, 2020 E. 3300 South, 801- 995-0720, Sept. 24, 11 a.m., MillcreekPubSLC.com Made in Utah Festival Red Rock Brewing Co., 254 S. 200 West, Sept. 30, 4-9 p.m.

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Jack’s. Stop by at lunchtime, as we did—or apparently anytime, from what I’m told— and there may be a wait for a table. The place is consistently packed and popular.

And, with $8-$9 lunch specials that include a personal pizza and a generous salad or soup of the day, why wouldn’t Jack’s be mobbed? A homemade Tuscan potato soup with sausage morsels was one of the best soups I’ve enjoyed in many a moon. And definitely order the addictive Lyon bread ($4) to nibble on while you wait. It’s crisp pizza crust with melted cheese—nothing more, nothing less, and it’s sensational.

The Margherita pizza at Jack’s—again, my baseline pizza—was absolute perfection. But, there are other tremendous wood-fired pizzas that demand attention, too. My favorite is The Sunnyside ($15.50), which is a breakfast lover’s pizza dream: potatoes, cream sauce, prosciutto, bacon, smoked cheddar and—the best part—two sunny-side-up eggs, finished with maple syrup. My wife and I both enjoyed her Cozumel ($15.50) pizza with white sauce, small shrimp, avocado, Peppadew peppers and Caribbean spices.

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made from scratch, I was in. I was pleasantly surprised when the dish arrived. The al dente thin spaghetti was lightly coated in homemade tomato-basil sauce, not smothered to death with it. Atop the mound of spaghetti rode three handball-size meatballs, house-made with a perfect combination of pork and beef. These meatballs vie with Vinto’s for the best balls on the Wasatch Front. By the way, they’re also available as meatball sliders ($12), on Stoneground brioche buns with fresh mozzarella, basil and tomato sauce.

My wife opted for a Caesar salad (called Cassar salad as tribute to regular customer and Real Salt Lake Coach Jeff Cassar) with seared salmon. It was an entire salmon filet, perfectly cooked, and equally perfectly dressed romaine lettuce. It’s a salad that would make Caesar himself proud.

Ultimately, though, it’s the wood-fired pizzas that will bring you back again and again.

As always, my baseline for pizza is the Margherita, so I ordered one. Wow. It’s not rocket science to make a good Margherita pizza—I do it at home all the time—yet so many places screw it up. Not Oak Wood Fire Kitchen, however. It is as good—and as simple—as the best Margherita I’ve ever tasted. Nothing more than top-notch crust, lightly charred bubbles intact, with tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella cheese and fresh basil ($10). Next time, I’ll try the Creminelli prosciutto and arugula pizza with fontina, Parmesan and ricotta.

Passing through Logan on the way to Bear Lake, we stopped in to Jack’s Wood Fired Oven, a place I’ve heard raves about for years. Shame on me for not heading to Jack’s sooner. Those raves are justified.

Originally opened and owned by Jack and Julie Carlisle, more recently Jack’s has been in the hands of a super-nice guy named Steve Sampson. Even more recently, Marc Ensign became the new owner, and his son Jordan is the new manager at

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brief history of mankind: In the beginning, there was wood. Then, the heavens bestowed upon us the wood-fired oven; brick ovens have been discovered in excavations of nearly every ancient civilization. Finally, pizza was created, and it was good.

Modern wood-fired pizza ovens are usually dome-shaped, insulated with high-tech ceramics and refractory materials for efficiency. No electricity or other power source is involved; the ovens are heated with wood, as in the days of Pompeii, where nearly intact brick ovens have been found preserved beneath the ashes of Mount Vesuvius. “Firein-the-oven” cooking—650 degrees and up—is used for cooking pizzas, flatbreads and such, but pizza ovens are also used for roasting meats, fish and poultry, baking breads and desserts, cooking pasta dishes and more. In capable hands, the wood-fired pizza oven is an amazing culinary tool.

I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure the first wood-fired pizzas to appear in Utah arrived with the opening of Red Rock Brewery. It’s the first I remember, anyway.

Years later, Settebello upped the ante with its genuine Vera Napoletana wood-fired pizzas, followed by many more like From Scratch—one of my favorites. I recently had the distinct and delicious pleasure of discovering two more wood-fired pizza restaurants, both of which are as worthy a visit as any in our state.

Last year, executive chef/partner David Kimball opened Oak Wood Fire Kitchen in Draper. Why did it take me until now to check it out? Well, it’s in Draper. But now, Oak Wood Fire Kitchen is permanently loaded into my car’s GPS system, as I’ll be visiting Draper for pizza frequently.

This restaurant is not just about pizza, however. The pizza is incredible, but so were the other dishes we tried, beginning with a gargantuan serving of fried calamari ($9) with lemon and parsley on a smear of zippy “feisty sauce.” Other worthy starters include Oak Bread ($4) with parmesan, rosemary, garlic oil and black pepper, and incendiary Sriracha-honey chicken wings with shredded carrot slaw and blue cheese ($10).

If the planets align correctly, you’ll have the luck to be served by an über-friendly and outgoing fellow named Ryan. He could make even a mediocre meal enjoyable, so imagine how much fun you’ll have with Oak Wood’s excellent cuisine.

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The biggest is probably the on-mountain Roundhouse, now called the Himalayan Hut and serving traditional Himalyan fare like lamb rogan josh, butter chicken, lentil dal and naan, with a portion of sales donated to worldwide mountain relief efforts.

Last Chance is now a Southwest Grill with a taco bar, chilies, soups, nachos and such, while St. Bernard’s—Solitude’s fine dining spot—will feature “European family favorites” in a casual, buffet-style setting. Look for pretzel schnitzel with brown-butter lemon sauce; sundried potato risotto with Appenzeller cheese; and spaghetti & meatballs for kids. Honeycomb Grill will offer lunch and dinner daily, along with Sunday brunch. Gone is the Italian-inspired menu in favor of an eclectic North American menu with items like poutine, bison carpaccio, oven-roasted salmon, shrimp & grits, Wagyu hanger steak and the like. Visit SkiSolitude.com for more details.

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Alsatian Sensations

Getting to know the other white wines of France.

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W

hen wine aficionados contemplate the great wine regions of France, they’re usually reflecting upon Burgundy, Bordeaux and Champagne, or perhaps the Rhone Valley and Loire. But Alsace tends to get lost in the wine shuffle.

Maybe that’s because Alsatian wines seem so German—unsurprising, since the Alsace region, which borders Germany, has at times been part of Germany.

But Alsace, to me, is one of the most inviting and charming wine regions in the world. Houses—some centuries old—are inevitably dressed up with flower boxes, with the grandiose Vosges Mountains looming in the background. And then there’s the cuisine of Alsace: choucroute garni, foie gras,

flammekueche and baeckeoffe, for example, which deliciously illustrate the synergy behind a melding of German and French cooking styles. Alsatian wine, not surprisingly, pairs flawlessly with the local food flavors.

Alsace is all about white wine. There’s a tiny bit of Pinot Noir grown there, but the primary wine grapes are white ones: Riesling, Pinot Gris, Gewürztraminer, Pinot Blanc and Muscat. Riesling and Gewürztraminer, in particular, get a bad rap for being sweet. Not so in Alsace. The wines here can be bone dry, bold, distinctive and delicious. And, Alsatian winemakers tend to hold onto the belief that wine should be an expression of the terroir it comes from as well as of the grape from which it’s made. Purity is key, so you infrequently find blended wines from Alsace. Thus, Pinot Gris is almost always 100 percent Pinot Gris, Riesling is 100 percent Riesling, and so on.

Since Alsatian wines are usually produced with the aforementioned philosophy of purity in mind, they tend to be “hands-off” wines that aren’t manipulated much by the winemaker. Oak is rarely used for fermentation; Alsatians prefer neutral containers like cement-and-stainless-steel tanks. And the wines don’t go through the process of malolactic fermentation (which “softens” the wine), allowing for dry, crisp, acidic wines that fully showcase the region’s Riesling, Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc and other grapes.

The main producers of wines in Alsace

DRINK are Hugel et Fils, Domaine Zind Humbrecht, Kuentz-Bas, Trimbach, Domaine Marcel Deiss, Domaine Weinbach, Helfrich, Willm and Domaines Schlumberger. Wines from all of these houses are available in Utah. Here are a handful of my favorite, less expensive ones.

For a prototypical expression of Pinot Blanc, I turn to Domaines Schlumberger Pinot Blanc Les Princes Abbés ($15.99), a lively wine that’s the perfect accompaniment to flammekueche (onion tart). The first Alsatian wine I ever tasted was Trimbach Pinot Blanc ($15.99), and it’s still a favorite to serve as an aperitif or to sip with shellfish.

Willm Riesling Réserve ($14.99) brims with green apple, white-peach and mandarinorange flavors, balanced with snappy acidity. This Riesling would partner well with a range of flavors, from sauerkraut to sushi.

Kuentz-Bas, which sits on one of Alsace’s highest points and which has been producing wine for 220 years, makes an interesting blended wine called Kuentz-Bas Alsace

Blanc ($15.99), composed of Sylvaner, Auxerrois and Muscat. It’s bone dry with lively, bright citrus flavors—a unique opportunity to try an Alsatian blended wine.

I love Domaines Schlumberger Pinot Gris Les Princes Abbés ($20.99), a well-balanced Pinot Gris with apricot, white peach and honey notes, combined with a hint of smoke.

It’s an ideal pairing for choucroute garni.

One of my favorite bottles of Gewürztraminer, although leaning toward the pricy end of the spectrum, is Domaine ZindHumbrecht Gewürztraminer ($28.95), which is about as good as Gewürztraminer gets. Beautiful floral rose aromas accompany elegant spice tones and flavors of lychee, apricot and ginger. It’s a match made in heaven for foie gras. CW

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Chubby’s Cafe

Aptly named, Chubby’s serves delicious fare that is an absolute cure for being too thin. The menu has burgers, chicken sandwiches, barbecue and signature sandwiches, including po’ boys and patty melts. There are also plenty of fried sides, and cheese and bacon can be added to anything on the menu. If that’s not enough, there’s also the Chubby Challenge: a 15-minute trial where a contestant consumes three grilled-cheese sandwiches, four half-pound beef patties, six slices of cheese and 1 pound of fries. Yum. 336 S. Main, Pleasant Grove, 801-785-1503, ChubbysCafeUT.com

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DP stands for “Downtown Philly,” and a DP cheesesteak is on par with the best that “The City of Brotherly Love” has to offer. What makes DP Utah’s cheesesteak champ? Well for starters, a DP cheesesteak starts out with sliced-to-order rib-eye steak. Also you can get your sandwich slathered with Cheez Whiz, just like you would in Philly. It’s true that there’s no substitute for the Amoroso rolls used for cheesesteaks in Philly, but the Stoneground Bakery rolls used at DP Cheesesteaks are awfully good. And DP stuffs those rolls to the hilt with perfectly grilled and chopped steak. Multiple locations, DPCheesesteaks.com

Miguel’s Baja Grill

The burritos at this Moab Main Street staple are humongous, so make sure you visit Miguel’s when you’re prepared for a feast. The fish is a popular, filling choice for any of the Mexican entrees, but there’s plenty to choose from, and almost all menu items can be made gluten-free upon request. You can wash down your giant meal with a tangy margarita. 51 N. Main, Moab, 435259-6546, MiguelsBajaGrill.com

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With perhaps the greatest patio view of the Salt Lake City skyline, Gracie’s is one of the most comfortable, casual gastropubs downtown and is an inviting nightlife spot to take your out-of-town guests. The full menu ups the ante on typical greasy bar snacks: even the fries are available in the sweet-potato variety served with Sriracha ketchup. Notable for being one of the few places to serve late-night food downtown, Gracie’s also features live music most nights of the week. 326 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-819-7565, GraciesSLC.com

Mi Ranchito Grill

Mi Ranchito Grill features authentic, inexpensive Mexican fare. Their margaritas go perfectly with the fare—smart diners skip the combo plates and go straight for the muy authentico Mexican specialties. Definitely give the lava hot molcajete a go. 3600 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-263-7707, MiRanchitoGrill2.com

Indochine Vietnamese Bistro

Almost nothing is tastier than Chef Tuan Vu’s incendiary beef noodle soup. For more delicate palates, try his pho.

Also considerably mellower is an Indochine specialty of curried beef stew, which is served with a French baguette on the side. The calamari appetizer is served with an outrageously yummy homestyle Sriracha, and you’ll also enjoy Indochine’s barbecued short ribs, served with smoky “broken” rice and a garlic-lime dipping sauce.

In warm weather, enjoy the inviting sidewalk patio.

230 S. 1300 East, Salt Lake City, 801-582-0896, IndochineUtah.com

Johnniebeefs

This 1950s-inspired diner specializes in Chicago-style hot dogs. Johnniebeefs serves Italian beef, bratwurst, and 100 percent beef hot dogs, all on steamed poppyseed buns. The menu has a premium-dogs section that seems to have every hot-dog combination imaginable, from the classic Chicago dog to a pastrami dog and veggie dog; a premium sandwiches section that is known for its meatball sandwich; and an add-ons section that features Frito pie: Fritos topped with beef chili and pico de gallo. Johnniebeefs also has a kids menu, family meal packs and daily specials. 6913 1300 East, Cottonwood Heights, 801-352-0372, Johnniebeefs.com

Mi Ranchito Grill

Mi Ranchito Grill features authentic, inexpensive Mexican fare. Their margaritas go perfectly with the fare—smart diners skip the combo plates and go straight for the muy authentico Mexican specialties. Definitely give the lava hot molcajete a go. 3600 S. State, Salt Lake

City, 801-263-7707, MiRanchitoGrill2.com

Salazar’s Mexican Cafe

Salazar’s is a small, family-run joint specializing in authentic, housemade tamales, enchiladas and chile verde. The entire menu is available for takeout, and there’s always cold beer available, including Dos Equis and Corona. Be sure to try the yummy cheese enchilada and the excellent chile rellenos. 3325 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, 801-485-0172, SalazarsCafe11.wix.com/ Salazar-Cafe

Tonyburgers

The secret to Tonyburgers’ juicy, flavorful burgers is the beef: a top-secret “tri-beef” blend of different cuts of beef. Tonyburgers lets you fully customize your burger, from the basics (four kinds of cheese, bacon) to the decadent (fried egg!), plus all the vegetables you want at no extra cost, so you can complement that juicy beef with all the grilled or raw onions and jalapeños you can stand.

There are also a handful of salads available, and pretty good ones at that for a fast-food joint. Both salads and burgers pair well with Tonyburgers’ shakes and crispy shoestring fries. Multiple locations, TonyBurgers.com

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Located at Bear Lake’s new “glamping” spot Conestoga Ranch, the restaurant is a large timber-framed, tented space, which opens up in nice weather to let the outdoors in. The public is invited to enjoy lunch and dinner daily, and breakfast on weekends, but the dinner menu stands out; I really liked the fire-roasted chicken wings with homemade apple barbecue sauce, though the presentation left something to be desired.

By contrast, a plate of pan-seared fresh Atlantic salmon was lovely to look at, plated atop puréed potatoes, with spears of charred asparagus, gremolata and a swish of tomato beurre monte. Campfire Grill Mac & Cheese is far from routine: made with fresh-made campanelle in a silky white cheddar, smoked gouda and provolone sauce, garnished with a crisp-fried slice of coppa. The Conestoga Steak Frites was a gorgeous, 1-pound Angus rib-eye steak cooked medium rare with béarnaise sauce and excellent Parmesan-dusted french fries. The steak was so tender and juicy—one of the best pieces of meat I’ve tasted in a long time. For dessert, it’s a no-brainer to enjoy the raspberry crème brûlée in the raspberry capital of the universe.

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A recent design reboot presents a chance to remember that chef and co-owner Tom Grant’s cuisine at Martine never seems dated or tired. The “Bar Bites” menu offers tasty nibbles—like fried Brussels sprouts with pancetta—that are a great way to kick off dinner. A sweet-pea soup is all about the sweet peas, enhanced judiciously with a kiss of lavender and goat cheese from Utah’s Shepherd’s Dairy. The wonderfully satisfying lobster-rolls tapas plate is a serving of three squares of toasted brioche topped with heavenly tarragon-spiked lobster salad and pickled red onions. 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. Another must-try Martine dish is the Mystic wild Alaskan salmon, flown in freshly caught, served on a bed of greens and topped with stone-fruit chutney, with a mound of yogurt quinoa alongside. The boneless duck breast features another unexpected combination of flavors—curry vinaigrette and duck—that simply works. Martine also serves lunch, offering mostly pub-style fare such as paninis and sandwiches, salads, quiche and soups. Reviewed Sept. 17. 22 E. 100 South, 801-363-9328, MartineCafe.com

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I mean, this was the filmmaker whose most defining work has been apocalyptic actiondisaster epics like Independence Day, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow and 2012. Sure, he had dabbled in historical fiction-based stories like The Patriot and Anonymous, but even then, his work was big and blustering, pulling audiences along at a pace that demonstrated little concern for niceties of characterization. Was this the guy who could do justice to the single most pivotal moment in the American gayrights movement?

It’s easy to understand why anyone concerned about the cinematic telling of this story might have knives out before the lights even go down, despite a screenplay written by talented gay playwright Jon Robin Baitz. And Emmerich doesn’t do much to assuage fears at the outset, launching right into black-&-white dramatizations of the June 28, 1969, start of the riot, serving as background for on-screen captions about the conditions gay Americans faced at that time: prohibition from employment in the federal government; laws making it illegal to serve alcohol to homosexuals; electroshock therapy as a standard form of “treatment.” Only two minutes into Stonewall, and it already doesn’t feel like a movie. It feels like a lecture.

Emmerich soon flashes back three months and dives into the narrative proper, focused on a highschool senior and prospective Columbia University freshman named Danny (Jeremy Irvine) who has fled his Indiana home for New York City’s Christopher Street—the center of America’s gay universe—after being discovered in flagrante delicto with another boy. He soon connects with a group of essentially homeless young street hustlers, including

Ray (Jonny Beauchamp), and tries to navigate a world of nightclubs run by organized crime and cops looking to raid any place where gays congregate.

At least initially, Irvine does a solid job conveying Danny’s sense of having no idea where he belongs, from his go-along chuckle as his high-school class is shown an “instructional film” about predatory homosexuals, to his amazement when seeing two men openly holding hands on Christopher Street. It’s a fairly obvious dramatic structure for such a story—introducing a clueless audience proxy who can receive all the expository dialogue meant for us—but it’s at least modestly effective at setting the scene of daily life for an LGBT American circa summer of ’69.

The problem with Stonewall is that “fairly obvious dramatic structure” comes to define everything about it—and that’s the good news. Danny’s story turns into a kind of romantic triangle, as he becomes fascinated with a middle-class political activist named Trevor (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), even as Ray starts falling for Danny’s Middle American innocence. And those two conveniently become stand-ins for opposing points of view on how to pursue gay rights—Trevor as the patiently-working-within-the-system guy, and Ray as the rabble-rouser. Everything starts to feel like it was cobbled together from spare parts of every possible movie cliché: Danny’s stern father (who, naturally, is also the macho football coach); the police brutality that’s full of sneering gay slurs; the softly lit seduction scene. By the time we get to the guy for whom Danny has been kidnapped to

Jeremy Irvine, center, and friends fight the straight power in Stonewall. provide sexual favors—a closeted man in a dress and lipstick, playing opera music on the stereo as he drops hints that he may be a murderer—Emmerich’s attempt to create a scene ostensibly meant to be menacing instead turns unintentionally hilarious.

Emmerich might have salvaged Stonewall if he could have staged the centerpiece uprising with any sense of urgency. But despite all the thrown bottles and clashes with riotgear-clad cops, he seems to approach those scenes the same way he has created life-ordeath moments in his disaster movies—as a carefully choreographed climax, with telegraphed beats (including tension-breaking jokes, albeit poor ones), rather than the genuine rage that launched a civil-rights movement.

Those who know the real-life story or milieu better might have different kinds of frustrations, but Stonewall also fails as basic filmmaking. This can’t be the kind of equality that those Stonewall activists were fighting for: the right to have their story turned into formulaic historical fiction as tedious as the kind about straight people. CW

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TRY THESE Stonewall (1995) Guillermo Díaz Frederick Weller Rated R

Independence Day (1996) Will Smith Bill Pullman Rated PG-13

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HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2 BB.5 This animated sequel confirms what its predecessor gave us reason to believe: Adam Sandler can still be funny and likable; he just has to be a cartoon to do so. Sandler, who co-wrote the screenplay with old pal Robert Smigel, returns as the voice of hotel-for-monsters owner Dracula, whose daughter, Mavis (Selena Gomez), has just married a human named Jonathan (Andy Samberg) and produced a son, Dennis. Grandpa Drac loves the tyke either way, of course, but hopes Dennis has inherited the vampire DNA, not the human stuff, and sets out to show him how great being a monster is (“Just wait, this kid’ll be guzzling goat’s blood in no time!”). His efforts are amusingly undercut by the fact that monsters are cute and fangless nowadays—a cuddly TV puppet called Cake Monster is especially galling—and instead of being frightened by Frankenstein (Kevin James), the Mummy (Keegan-Michael Key), and their friends, passersby ask for selfies and tell Dracula, “Love your chocolate cereal!” It’s harmless, pleasant fun—a far cry from the aggressive, grating live-action turds Sandler has been plopping out. Whaddaya know, childish jokes play a lot better when they’re actually aimed at children.

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SPECIAL SCREENINGS THE 78 PROJECT MOVIE At Main Library, Sept. 29, 7 p.m. (NR) BORAT At Brewvies, Sept. 28, 10 p.m. (R) THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY At Park City Film Series, Sept. 25 @ 7 p.m. (PG-13) THE LOST WORLD At Organ Loft Silent Films, Sept. 24-25, 7:30 p.m. (NR) MR. TURNER At Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Sept. 30, 7 p.m. (R) REEL ROCK 10 At Megaplex Gateway, Sept. 30, 7 p.m. (NR) TUMBLEWEEDS FILM FESTIVAL See Essentials, p. 23. At Rose Wagner Center, Sept. 25-27. (NR)

BLACK MASS BB.5 It’s nice to be reminded that Johnny Depp is an actor, not just a walking delivery system for makeup and questionable facial hair.

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PEACE OFFICER BBB Scott Christopherson and Brad Barber take a national hot-button issue and give it a local human face in a compelling documentary exploring the growing militarization of local police forces. As sheriff in the 1970s, Dub Lawrence initiated the use of SWAT teams in Davis County; then, in 2008, his own son-in-law, Brian Wood, was killed during a domestic-violence-related confrontation with a SWAT team in Farmington. The bulk of the film follows Lawrence as he applies his own impressive investigative

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PAWN SACRIFICE BB Film biographies fight constantly against the reality that human lives don’t usually have neat narrative arcs—but this one feels more tin-eared than most regarding how to deal with that problem. Tobey Maguire plays Bobby Fischer, the American chess prodigy whose talents made him a threat to Russian champion Boris Spassky (Liev Schreiber) in the early 1970s—and hence a kind of Cold War-era hero. He also wrestled with undiagnosed mental illness throughout his life, and while director Edward Zwick works overtime to try to convey the way the world looked and sounded to him, it generally feels as though Steven Knight’s screenplay turns the basic story structure into an underdog sports drama, all building to the 1972 World Championship matches against Spassky. The performances are uniformly solid, with Peter Sarsgaard and Michael Stuhlbarg—as Fischer’s main confidants—supporting Maguire’s egotistic volatility as Fischer. But while the upshot here would seem to be the tragedy of an amazing gift cut short from opportunities to flourish, too much of the rest of Pawn Sacrifice tilts the balance toward “but, hey, it was so awesome what happened in ’72.” Opens Sept. 25 at theaters valleywide. (R)—Scott Renshaw

MEET THE PATELS BBB.5 What begins as a goofy attempt at turning home movies into a feature documentary evolves into a sweet, funny and occasionally fascinating look at the intersection between romantic love and family expectations. Ravi Patel, an Indian-American actor, finds himself approaching 30 and unmarried—a matter of great concern to his traditional, first-generation immigrant parents.

So, shortly after breaking up with a white girlfriend, he begins a year-long immersion in more traditionally Indian attempts at finding him a wife. Ravi’s sister, documentary filmmaker Geeta Patel, co-directs, and together they capture the uniquely charming personality of their parents and the grueling reality of Ravi turning finding a spouse into a job. Yet, while many of the details are wonderfully culturally specific—a nationwide marital expo for single Patels!—Meet the Patels also finds something tragically genuine about people who don’t know how to process their family’s expectations for how they should live their lives. It’s a film that pokes good-natured fun while maintaining a real respect both for traditions that have survived for generations, and for the circumstances when it’s healthier to set some of those traditions aside. Opens Sept. 25 at Tower Theatre. (PG)—SR

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experience to prove Brian’s death was unnecessary, while also looking into other Utah cases of officer-involved shootings where hyperaggressive procedures might have played a role. And he’s a hard protagonist to ignore—a law-enforcement man deeply disillusioned with the state of the profession he believes in. The narrative does sprawl as it brings in multiple talking heads, and plays as fair as possible with letting those law-enforcement members who opted to speak present their side of the hard job of policing. Yet it’s difficult to escape the conclusion that many deaths result from turning too many situations into shock-andawe campaigns—and that Lawrence’s quiet, firm opposition makes him heroic. Opens Sept. 25 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—SR

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icking sprawling Scorsesean gangster tales like GoodFellas and The Departed but rarely exploiting its potentially unique perspective on neighborhood loyalties; it’s more fascinated with a situation than with the people in that situation. It’s left to Depp to carry things, and he’s a convincingly creepy portrait of hair-trigger violence, even scarier when the mere possibility of his wrath is invoked. He should apply this renewed vitality to a story that does it justice. (R)—SR CAPTIVE BB.5 After an escaped murderer (David Oyelowo) holes up in her apartment, a drug-addicted single mother (Kate Mara) keeps the situation from a rolling boil by reading to him from Rick Warren’s The Purpose-Driven Life. This stodgy, fact-based melodrama is hamstrung by the uncinematic, two-people-ata-table nature of its source material; director Jerry Jameson, a longtime TV vet, often seems actively fearful of staging an interesting shot. The performers keep you watching, though.

Mara, an actress with a layer of remove that can sometimes be off-putting, makes that reticence work beautifully here, creating a character for which every emotion seems hard-won. Her prickliness pairs marvelously with Oyelowo, who balances sympathy with rage in burbling, unpredictable measures. Without their collective charge, this could easily have devolved into the syrupy morass of so many faith-based films. With them, it mostly flows.

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EVEREST BBB.5 Big, visceral and intense, this is the kind of heart-stopping adventure movies were invented for. 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.

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 Zealander Rob Hall (Jason Clarke) and Seattle-based Scott Fischer (Jake Gyllenhaal) lead clients 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.

(PG-13)—MaryAnn Johanson GRANDMA BB.5 There are worse ways to spend 80 minutes than with Lily Tomlin being irascible, but that’s not enough to sustain an episodic road trip, as Elle (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 make for a colorful milieu, and plenty of opportunities for Tomlin to earn smiles by biting through some tart one-liners from writer-director 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 her relationship with her daughter/Sage’s mother (Marcia Gay Harden)—Weitz seems resolutely determined to keep the stakes low. It’s a mellow journey backed by acoustic guitar soundtrack, never building any emotional response stronger than the warm fuzzies. (R)—SR

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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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That outside world offers more opportunities for high-energy set-pieces than The Maze Runner, between escapes from the enigmatic WCKD and the infected “Cranks,” plus some intriguing moral complexity as the protagonists wrestle with individual survival vs. collective need. It’s a bit of a rambling story, and the relative blandness of the main characters comes into sharp focus when actors like Alan Tudyk and Giancarlo Esposito show up. But genre fare of this kind can prove satisfying if made by people who understand that there’s really no excuse for screwing up a movie with abandoned cityscapes, secret armed rebellions and screeching zombie-things. (PG-13)—SR

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Navigating pop and other influences was tricky, he said. Places of inspiration for the new record ranged from European reggae to his parents—“Sometimes I think, ‘Well, my mom would like this kind of song,’ ” he said.

“The challenge is really making it us,” he said. “Because the scary thing is taking a lot of different influences or things that you love and meshing it all together, but then it could turn into some crazy toxic sludge that doesn’t make any sense. … We really have to work to make it a Twenty One Pilots song and not this crazy thing. That’s the challenge, but it’s also the fun part.”

Another main character on Blurryface is the music itself; seven of the 14 tracks appear to address the music directly, starting with the first verse of the first (and title) track, where Joseph raps, “This is not rap, this is not hip hop/ Just another attempt to make the voices stop.”

But those insecurities and copious amounts of self-awareness are tough to spot onstage, despite the fact that Dun admits to having spurts of panic before stepping into the spotlight.

“There are times when my tour manager will count down from 10 before when we walk on stage, when it’s so bad … every other second, I’m like, ‘We’re going to go on!’ and the next second, I’m like, ‘I can’t do it.’ I’m all stressed out.”

They don’t appear nervous onstage. Joseph’s mother has publicly condemned his tendency to climb things during performances, and Dun has been known to do a killer backflip off Joseph’s piano, between and during performances of fan favorites like the pianohappy “Tear in My Heart,” existential rant “Car Radio,” and ode to self-control “Holding on to You.” All songs, Dun said, he is happy to listen to for the foreseeable future. CW

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When faced with the task of writing a follow-up to their breakout album Vessels, Dun, drummer of Twenty One Pilots, said it can get complicated with so many competing forces at play.

“When there are more hands in the pot— maybe it’s more fans, or maybe radio’s involved, or a label, or even just people in the industry who want to throw out opinions or suggestions—it’ll trip you out a bit,” Dun said.

The duo’s fear of suffering the fate of other sophomore slumps churned in their guts, he said, but singer Tyler Joseph and Dun simplified the process by considering those who will be listening to their music the most: themselves.

“At the end of the day, Tyler and I sit down, and we’re like, ‘You know what? If things go the way that we want them to, what do we want to be playing for the next two years, 10 years, however long?’” he said. “Because we actually listen to our music, and I enjoy listening to our music. So it’s like, ‘What do we want to listen to?’ And at the end of the day, that’s what we end up writing.”

The Columbus, Ohio, schizoid pop duo is coming off a 2014 that many consider their breakout year—a delayed reaction, some might say, considering their last record dropped in January 2013 and what might have been their breakout year came and went without a hit single on the charts. But extensive touring—including at some big-name festivals like Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo— and positive word of mouth culminated in enough buzz to land their follow-up, Blurryface (Fueled By Ramen), at No. 1 on its debut week in May. The album, which has received positive nods from critics and fans, ventures beyond the keyboard-and-drums foundation of their first two full-lengths to explore everything from power pop to reggae. The ukulele-driven “We Don’t Believe What’s On TV” sounds like a Violent Femmes-esque hootenanny, while the synthheavy “Hometown” finds Joseph using a baritone croon that brings Depeche Mode to mind.

It’s not a new direction; it’s expounding on the lyrical shtick they had already refined by the time Vessels dropped, where the main topics of discussion are the all-too-relatable feelings of selfdoubt and insecurity and how to overcome them. “Am I the only one I know/ Waging a war behind my face and above my throat?”

Joseph laments on “Migraine,” the third track on that record.

This time around, they continue addressing those topics but project them onto the aforementioned pressure to release a second consecutive hit album. “I’m in constant confrontation with what I want and what is poppin’ in the industry/ It seems to me that singles on the radio are currency,” they confess on Blurryface’s latest single, “Lane Boy.” But Dun said not to read too much into that line as it pertains to the current state of music, since he actually listens to the top radio tracks for influence.” That song in no way is to meant to bash the industry or the whole idea of singles,” he said. “I’ve always been

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Fans wonder whether they’ll hear Lawrence Gowan’s Wolfcop track Monday night.

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hen you think of archetypal classic rockers Styx, which songs come to mind? Bitchin’ rock anthems like “Too Much Time on My Hands” or “Renegade?” Power ballads like “Babe” and “Lady?” The geek-tastic “Mr. Roboto?” The latter—that’s the one people wanna hear, and most of us take for granted that they’ll play.

They don’t. That’s a bummer. When Dennis DeYoung, the author and voice behind “Roboto” and “Babe,” was replaced in 1999 by Canadian progressive-rock singer/songwriter Lawrence Gowan, Styx made decisions. Since “Babe” was written specifically about DeYoung’s wife, it would’ve been weird for Gowan to sing it.

Also, since DeYoung’s penchant for more theatrical songs clashed with the band’s desire to just rock, the remaining members cut “Roboto”—as much a Broadway-style musical number as a cool prog-rock concept album opus—from the set.

Instead, Styx added Gowan’s “A Criminal Mind,” a mega-hit from his decade-and-ahalf solo career in Canada. It’s theatrical— a sort of “Bohemian Rhapsody” through a 1980s pop-AOR filter. But who cares? It’s a cool tune with its own geek appeal—the video’s concept is partly told in comic-book panels. And Gowan sings the hell out of the Styx stuff. I was watching a performance of “Come Sail Away” on YouTube and, just as Gowan called for this interview, the YouTube Gowan of the past was nailing the iconic line “… to caaaaarry on.” You know, the second time, when the song opens up from solo piano-andvocal to its full-band majesty.

Every bit the stereotypically pleasant Canuck (except he’s a born Scot), Gowan laughs heartily at the coincidence. And he’s gracious when you praise his performance of Styx material. He says they made him welcome from the start. “The first day, before I even played a Styx song, Tommy [guitarist Shaw] said, ‘Actually, could you play the last song you played at those shows we

Wolfcop (2014) popularized Styx’s new lead singer’s solo project.

did together?’” That was “A Criminal Mind,” and Gowan obliged. When he finished, Shaw said, “We should make that a Styx song.”

The song became a staple of Styx shows for years. And, after 15 years singing and playing keyboards in the band, Gowan’s no longer the new guy. But another of his solo songs is getting a little boost thanks to the 2014 horror-comedy Wolfcop.

A generous 2:20 portion of “Moonlight Desires,” from Gowan’s 1987 album Great Dirty World (Linus Entertainment), plays just as our hero, cursed cop Lou Garou, is getting the girl. The long, sensuous montage satirizes similar scenes from other 1980s films, and the song is a perfect fit: A high keyboard part intertwines with sultry lead guitar as Gowan—who, in the video, sports a (now long-gone) feathered mullet and stands atop a huge Aztec temple— sings (backed by Jon Anderson of Yes), “These moonlight desires/ haunt me/ they want me, they want me.”

It’s almost as if the song were written for just that scene. Nope, says Gowan. He says the werewolf similarities aren’t lost on him, and the song is about a duality, but not the man-wolf variety. “We all kind of live two lives; there’s our internal life and there’s the life that we present to the world.” Late at night, he continues, “we live on more honest terms with ourselves—and some people blame that on the moon.”

So what are the chances of this song from Gowan’s past solo life sneaking into Styx’s set when the band plays Salt Lake City on Monday night? Once more expressing his gratitude for the warm reception he and his music got from his Styx mates, he says he’d welcome it—but “I wouldn’t say it’s likely.”

It is a Styx show, after all, and—even without DeYoung’s songs, there’s “just so much in the Styx canon of songs” that there just might not be room for it in the set.

That’s another bummer. Except, you know, Styx still has plenty of killer tunes.

And Gowan did, however, offer this tidbit: “Earlier this year, Tommy and I were singing [‘Moonlight Desires’] backstage.” CW

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The distortion and reverb of Brooklyn psychnoise band A Place To Bury Strangers is more focused and melodic on the new record, Transfixiation (Dead Oceans). In true shoegaze style, singer/guitarist Oliver Ackermann’s vocals are nonchalant and nearly monotone. But APTBS’s shoegaze isn’t simply three guys with heads hung low, dispassionately playing their instruments—their shows are an intense assault of sometimes industrial and always very loud rock. The stage will be extremely dim, with an occasional white spotlight drifting through the onstage fog, pushing your ears to make up for the lack of sight. Brooklyn altrock group Grooms and local punks Foster Body open. (TF) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $12 advance, $14 day of show, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

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Blues, Brews & BBQ has been a weekly fest at Snowbasin every Sunday from mid-June, continuing through late September, and the penultimate date this year is one not to miss. The songs from Winnipegger countryfolk quartet The Bros. Landreth evoke the wide-open spaces up North that recall the American West—alt-country drenched in a

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Idaho-born Jeff Crosby, together with bassist brother Andy and a few others form the Refugees, whose music was featured on the cable series Sons of Anarchy. Crosby’s Too Many Walls EP was recorded in Utah, and he looks forward to returning since last December’s guest spot with Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real at the State Room.

His rock & roll with tinges of folk and even country pedal steel helps him feel almost like a native son here. Colorado jam band Digg opens. Crosby will also play at The Cabin in Park City on Saturday night; for details, visit TheCabinParkCity.com. (BS) Blues, Brews & BBQs Festival at Snowbasin Resort, 3925 Snowbasin Road, Huntsville, 12:30 p.m., free, Snowbasin.com

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The Desired Effect (Island), the second solo album from The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers, is upbeat and catchy while confronting serious themes like growing up, love and redemption. Expect tonight’s set to focus on this material, with some crowd-pleasing Killers hits. Since spring, new singles have been arriving from Mexico City’s Rey Pila’s upcoming release, The Future Sugar (Cult), which has been in the works since the band moved to New York City in 2012. Sugar’s indie-synthrock band’s songs are atmospheric, spacious and reminiscent of ‘80s pop. The music is freeing, as evidenced by frontman Diego Solorzano, who flails about with reckless abandon onstage. (TF) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 8:30 p.m., $35, TheComplexSLC.com »

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Underground hip-hop artists tend to be able to get away with more experimentation than mainstream rappers—like maybe embedding a clip of Yoda saying “Do or do not. There is no try.” “Psalm 84” from New York duo Cannibal Ox, from the new record, Blade of the Ronin (I Hip Hop), does just that, in fact. A ronin is an masterless samurai, and the album is katana-sharp, with references to Dave Chappelle and G.I. Joe. It’s Kickstarter-funded, and it’s the first full-length release since their debut, The Cold Vein—which dropped 14 years ago. The opening lineup is Liam Tracy, A-Dub and Jay Citrus. (TF) Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $13 in advance, $15 day of show, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

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Antidote: Hot Noise (The Red Door) Chaseone2 (Gracie’s) Griz (Sky, p. 42)

FRIDAY 9.25 LIVE MUSIC

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Advent Horizon (Fats Grill) The Aquabats, The Interrupters (The Depot) The Brocks, New Shack, Nate Pyfer (Velour) Candy’s River House (Johnny’s on Second) Caveman Boulevard (Scofy’s) Crimson (The Spur Bar & Grill) Genre Zero (Pioneer Park) Grits Green (Hog Wallow Pub) Jay William Henderson (The Barrelhouse) Little Barefoot, Your Meteor (Kilby Court) One Drop, The Green Leefs (The Royal) ODW (The Garage on Beck) Phat Daddy (Ice Haus) Platinum Party (Club 90) Porch Fest (University Gardens Neighborhood) Porter Robinson (Park City Live) Red Shot Pony (Outlaw Saloon) Rock Sugar 2 (Sky) Simon Says Die (The Loading Dock) The Spazmatics (Liquid Joe’s) Twenty One Pilots, Echosmith, Finish Ticket (The Great Saltair, p. 39)

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What is a Megafauna? Just an overly large creature, especially anything with “-saurus” in its name. No dinosaurs of rock, however, the Austin, Texas-based band adds a new spiral to the DNA of heavy music with their idiosyncratic mix of math, psych and prog rock. A power trio with a female vocalist, Dani Neff, they are capable of shredding on occasion. Maximalist (Danimal Kingdom), their third release, proves them taking the power of three to the max, while showing off some tasteful playing. They answer the musical question, “Where have all the riffs gone in indie rock?” and show they haven’t all disappeared to the land of the lost.

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TUESDAY 9.29

Brandon Flowers, Rey Pila (The Complex, p. 42) Def Leppard, Styx, Tesla (Usana Amphitheatre) The Donkeys, Days, Panthermilk (Kilby Court) The Fratellis (The Urban Lounge, p. 44)

Aer, Cody Simpson, Chef’Special (The Depot) Crizzly and Friends, Yung Nation (In the Venue) Erasole James, Dine Krew (The Urban Lounge) The Fabulous Milf Shakes (Garage on Beck) Lorin Madsen (Fats Grill) John Davis (Hog Wallow Pub) Matt Frey (The Spur Bar & Grill) Nick Diamonds (Kilby Court, p. 47) Salem Swing, Noelle Bybee (Velour)

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62. Opposite of humility 63. The works

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12. Project's end?

13. Kvetchers' cries 21. It's south of Eur. 22. Suffix with cash 25. Org. headed by MLK Jr. and MLK III 26. Greek earth goddess 27. ____-la-la 29. Whichever 30. "Who, me?"

31. McKellen of "X-Men" 32. It's hard to get across 33. Prefix with dermis 36. Its name features the postal abbreviations of U.S. states it swims by during migration DOWN 37. Call for 1. Hardly Mr. Right 38. "Funky Cold Medina" rapper 2. Feedback producer Tone ____ 3. Whoopi's Oscar-winning role in "Ghost" 39. 1090, on a monument 4. ____ oxide (beachgoer's protection) 40. Finnish hockey star Tikkanen 5. Brainchild 41. Pres. between JEC and GHWB 6. Guam, e.g.: Abbr.

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23. Oscar-winning role for Cotillard 24. ____ Records 25. Police dept. rank 28. What the dragster made in pottery class?

34. 2014 biblical title role for Russell Crowe 35. Guilty, e.g.

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60. Imagined while sleeping 64. Greek war god 65. Britney Spears' "____ Slave 4 U" 66. "Brokeback Mountain" director 67. Big pile 68. Grp. seeking to improve No Child Left Behind 69. Chews out 70. "Death in Venice" author 71. Newspaper heads, for short

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You and I both know that you can heal the sick and raise the dead and turn water into wine—or at least perform the metaphorical equivalent of those magical acts. Especially when the pressure is TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Taurus-born physicist Wolfgang Pauli won a Nobel Prize for on, you have the power to attract the help of mysterious forces his research. His accomplishment? The Nobel Committee said and unexpected interventions. I love that about you! When he discovered “a new law of nature,” and named it after him: people around you are rendered fuzzy and inert by life’s puzzling the Pauli Principle. And yet when he was a younger man, he riddles, you are often the best hope for activating constructive testified, “Physics is much too difficult for me and I wish I were a responses. According to my analysis of upcoming cosmic trends, film comedian or something like that and that I had never heard these skills will be in high demand during the coming weeks. anything about physics!” I imagine you might now be feeling a comparable frustration about something for which you have SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) substantial potential, Taurus. In the spirit of Pauli’s persever- Some astrologers regard the planet Saturn as a sour tyrant that cramps our style and squelches our freedom. But here’s ance, I urge you to keep at it. my hypothesis: Behind Saturn’s austere mask is a benevolent teacher and guide. She pressures us to focus and concentrate.

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The coming weeks will be a favorable time to break a spell you’ve been under, or shatter an illusion you have been caught CANCER (June 21-July 22) The astrological omens suggest you could get caught up in up in, or burst free from a trance you have felt powerless to dreaming about what might have been. I’m afraid you might escape. If you are moved to seek help from a shaman, witch, or cling to outworn traditions and resuscitate wistful wishes that therapist, please do so. But I bet you could accomplish the feat have little relevance for the future. You may even be tempted to all by yourself. Trust your hunches! Here’s one approach you wander through the labyrinth of your memories, hoping to steep could try: Tap into both your primal anger and your primal joy. yourself in old feelings that weren’t even good medicine for you In your mind’s eye, envision situations that tempt you to hate when you first experienced them. But I hope you will override life and envision situations that inspire you love life. With this these inclinations, and instead act on the aphorism, “If you don’t volatile blend as your fuel, you can explode the hold of the spell, study the past, you will probably repeat it.” Right now, the best illusion, or trance. reason to remember the old days is to rebel against them and AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) prevent them from draining your energy.

“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.” So advised author Ray Bradbury. That strategy LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You may laugh more in the next fourteen days than you have dur- is too nerve-wracking for a cautious person like me. I prefer to ing any comparable fourteen-day period since you were five years meticulously build and thoroughly test my wings before trying old. At least I hope you will. It will be the best possible tonic for a quantum leap. But I have observed that Aquarius is one of your physical and mental health. Even more than usual, laughter the three signs of the zodiac most likely to succeed with this has the power to heal your wounds, alert you to secrets hiding in approach. And according to my astrological calculations, the plain sight, and awaken your dormant potentials. Luckily, I sus- coming weeks will be a time when your talent for building robust pect that life will conspire to bring about this happy development. wings in mid-air will be even more effective than usual.

A steady stream of antics and whimsies and amusing paradoxes is PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) headed your way. Be alert for the opportunities.

You are being tempted to make deeper commitments and to give more of yourself. Should you? Is it in your interests to mingle VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) It’s a favorable time to fantasize about how to suck more cash your destiny more thoroughly with the destinies of others? Will into your life. You have entered a phase when economic mojo you benefit from trying to cultivate more engaged forms of intiis easier to conjure than usual. Are you ready to engage in some macy? As is true for most big questions, there are no neat, simple practical measures to take advantage of the cosmic trend? And answers. Exploring stronger connections would ultimately be by that I don’t mean playing the lottery or stealing strangers’ both messy and rewarding. Here’s an inquiry that might bring wallets or scanning the sidewalk for fallen money as you stroll. clarity as you ponder the possibility of merging your fortunes Get intensely real and serious about enhancing your financial more closely with allies or potential allies: Will deeper commitfortunes. What are three specific ways you’re ignorant about ments with them inspire you to love yourself dearly, treat yourself with impeccable kindness, and be a superb ally to yourself? getting and handling money? Educate yourself.

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t’s less than 100 days until Christmas Day. I realized this when an aisle of red-andgreen wrapping papers tripped me up as I was seeking out my bacon quota at Smiths.

The economy is better locally and nationally, and retailers are getting all excited for Black Fridays and midnight-madness sales, which I will avoid like Spandex at Burning Man. There are actually people in the world who absolutely adore jumping into the mosh pits of sales displays at malls and climbing over the backs of old ladies to save a few bucks on mom jeans or Mo-Tab Xmas CDs … but I ain’t one of ’em.

Cottonwood Mall was Utah’s first mall, erected back in 1962. It was only the second mall ever built in the United States when the doors of now defunct Auerbach’s and Castleton’s stores opened to the public. Sadly, it was torn down and sits awaiting big money plans.

Valley Fair Mall went up in 1970, followed by Fashion Place in 1972. The ZCMI and Crossroads malls on Main Street went up in the 1970s and were later torn down and replaced

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Gateway Mall (which calls itself “Everybody’s Downtown”) opened in 2001 and has turned into a ghost town, due to outside competition.

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News that Gateway is going to try to get some local motion going for the holidays is as welcome as snow to skiers at Alta. It’s owned

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Gateway managers are putting up holiday stockings to attract our dollars. The Christmas-tree lighting there happens Nov. 21, with a “Santa 5K” ending there the same day at 4:30 p.m. There will be music, and that guy Santa, to make the place seem festive. The mall would like anyone who wants to set up a “pop-up” retail store to contact them immediately. Managers plan on filling empty retail spaces around the Olympic Legacy Plaza Nov. 21-Dec. 19 with any size merchant willing to pay $100-$200 per day to set up a table and chairs to sell baubles and beads, DIY duds and stuff to holiday shoppers. Contact Laura 630-634-4283 to apply now. Deadline is Oct. 30.n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not by City Weekly staff

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