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IN ROD WE TRUST With a penchant for Utah politics and a blunt delivery style, reporter Rod Decker’s inimitable voice keeps viewers tuning in. BY COLBY FRAZIER

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Born in Spanish Fork, Colby grew up draggin’ Main, jumping off the Salem Pond Bridge and eating Oreo shakes at Glade’s Drive Inn. Among other professions, he has worked as a beer brewer, a grease monkey in a big-rig truck shop and a pizza-delivery boy.

Though a failure at both religion and amassing wealth, he has but one major regret in life: not seeing the band Rage Against the Machine play the Spanish Fork Fairgrounds in 1996.

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LETTERS Stop the Cycle of Discrimination

My wife and I are that interesting Utah combination of formerly Mormon and never Mormon—I being the “never Mormon.”

Having grown up never Mormon in Utah, and now having two children being raised never Mormon in Utah, I and a great number of people I know have been witness to and victims of Utah’s silent bigotry: the 8-year-old ostracism. I am talking about those parents who stop their children from befriending or continuing friendships with children outside of the faith once they reach 8 years of age and are baptized into the LDS faith.

It’s a sadly common occurrence, but I wonder how often those in the fold speak about this vicious cycle of hate and discrimination. My wife—who was raised Mormon—understood, in theory, that it existed but had never seen it herself. She was raised in a community where it didn’t matter what religion you were, and many of her friends were of other faiths. When I spoke of it, my wife would become furious at “those Mormons” for behaving so badly.

Then it happened to our daughters.

Children suddenly weren’t allowed to attend our daughters’ birthday parties or come to our house, because their parents didn’t know what we were like and had no desire to find out. Our oldest was coming home with tales of battles over my wife’s honor because not only

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Having daughters of my own, I recognize the desire to protect children from bad influences. Yet teaching children to judge others solely on their faith seems to me as something from which Mormons once were forced to escape by trekking across the country on foot, pushing their belongings in carts.

Stop the cycle. Teach your children to judge others by their social and moral values (which even atheists have).

Teach them that we live in a world that is filled with 7 billion people and a multitude of faiths, colors and ideas, and individuals need to be judged based on their actions, not their belief systems—especially when those belief systems are not of their own choosing, but of their parents.

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Corrections: The location for Alex Caldiero’s Oct. 9 reading of “Howl” as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival [“Coming of Page,” Oct. 1, City Weekly] was incorrect. It will be performed at the Salt Lake City Main Library.

The price to purchase a lute ranges between $2,000 and $20,000. An incorrect price range was listed in the Five Spot interview with Sterling Price [Oct. 1, City Weekly].

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Mayor Migraine

Hmmm, tough question: Ralph Becker or Jackie Biskupski? I live in Murray. Can’t vote. But City Weekly’s offices are on Main Street, so we do have a horse in this race.

And our horse needs a new rider.

If elected, this would be Ralph’s third term. City Weekly supports term limits for elected officials and, on that basis alone, we do not support a third term for Ralph Becker. He’s got good staff people. He’s a nice guy. We get it. But it’s time for Ralph to take a seat and enjoy Evita.

Some folks don’t support Jackie because she “has no record.” But neither did Ralph Becker when he became mayor—same as any other Democrat in the Utah Legislature (where both served) and where Democrats build resumes as easy as ants build railroads. Others say she’s just the “anti-Ralph.”

But what’s wrong with that? After all, Ralph greatly won his first election by promising to be the anti-Rocky—and former mayor Rocky Anderson wasn’t even running.

Ralph Becker’s ads say he brought life back to downtown. Slow down. He’s reigned over robust downtown growth, but in his eight years as mayor, I’ve seen Ralph Becker on Main Street exactly twice. One time was when he zoomed past me on his bike. The other was when he was walking up the street to talk to me about city news-rack ordinances, which he pledged to fix in the first week of his first term. His words to me in my office were, “What good is a city government if it has ordinances it doesn’t enforce?” but those rack ordinances are not fixed today, eight years later. So there’s that.

And there’s the badly handled dismissal of Police Chief Chris Burbank. There’s the bike lanes on 300 South that, one year later, many bikers still avoid and which some others consider unsafe (small cars use them as frequently as bikers, it seems).

There’s parking confusion. There’s generic west-side neglect. There’s the potential closing of the popular, revenue-generating Glendale Golf Course. There’s the prison

relocation to Salt Lake City, which he, of course, says he is fighting. There’s pissedoff dog owners.

Conversely, there’s a great new theater coming to Main Street. Yeah, that’s it. If there’s more, do tell, do tell, because the third act is about to begin, and I want to know how this fictional mystery theater is going to end.

Because it was during the mayoral term of Rocky Anderson that the city embarked on a plan to get businesses back on Main Street via $10,000 inducements for moving here. City Weekly took advantage of that initiative (our landlord actually got the benefit of that money—not us) and we moved to Main Street in 2004 when few other businesses were investing in Main Street; even The Salt Lake Tribune had abandoned its historic Main Street digs.

When we arrived, we were The Martian.

Truthfully, it was the liquor-law changes that greatly altered the night-time atmosphere, bringing a vibrancy to Salt Lake City. The 222 Building was built and filled.

Main Street is now littered with clubs and restaurants that could not have otherwise survived. So when people come downtown, it’s not due to nifty bike lanes; it’s because one can finally get a drink with a plate of pork-belly sliders on an open-air patio.

Thank former Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. for that.

Nor did Ralph spend the billions of dollars building City Creek Center. But that does beg the question—even though Ralph didn’t help on the mall, why is the LDS Church, the mall owners, apparently so agog over Ralph? The church is officially neutral on political matters. Unofficially, it is not.

For example, when you see former Gov. Mike Leavitt on a Becker ad, you should know the LDS Church approves. Or, how about the recent Salt Lake Tribune commentary by Scott Anderson, president of

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Zions Bank (which was founded by the LDS Church), endorsing Ralph Becker? The last time two prominent LDS members endorsed a Democrat was, well … never. To be fair, there are only Democrats in this race, but to be fair again, we should ask why conservative LDS Republicans support a liberal Democrat at all. And why not Jackie?

She’s a little too openly gay, perhaps?

The LDS Church is more welcoming to gays these days, you say? Then return the real dollars sent to defeat gay rights via Prop 8 in California and explain how gay marriage affects religious freedom in any way, shape or form. That is their unfounded fear.

Some peace accords have been struck, true, but a Jackie Biskupski mayorship is an major migraine for the LDS Church. Having an openly gay mayor—a lesbian to boot—of Salt Lake City would be akin to Stephen Hawking being elected mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. He’s just too smart for that town, the same way Jackie is just too gay for Salt Lake City.

Some in the LGBT community don’t support Jackie. That’s to be expected. Everyone should be judged on merit, and it’s silly for someone to vote for a gay person, just because he or she is also gay. It doesn’t work any way. I can sum up why that doesn’t work in one word: Dukakis.

Every Greek in America voted for Michael Dukakis when he ran for U.S. president in 1988. Look where that got the Greeks. We are still known only for bad-fitting hats and gyros.

Curiously, what amount of silver will Ralph Becker owe for the support of the hierarchy of the LDS Church (verily, those walls whisper), which, in any other race, he would not have gotten? It’s not like he’s been a friend to the church all these years.

And, in politics, everyone eventually owes someone. So what gives? The left hand giveth—and it taketh from the right. CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net

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You are mayor of Salt Lake City.

Make one thing better.

Mikey Saltas:

It’s simple: Increase investment in public transportation and make it affordable, quick and efficient.

Get people out of cars and onto trains and buses. Maybe that way we can all take a breath in the winter.

Jeremiah Smith: My first priority would be to remove or divert the sewer-vent smell from outside Hotel Monaco on 200 South & Main Street. I know I would be praised by locals and visitors alike, ’cause that thing stinks.

Jeff Chipian: Every day, there will be a flash mob of my choosing—whether it be movie-inspired or music from different decades. You will never know when they might occur, but occur they will, and they will be magnificent.

Elizabeth Suggs: While there’s a lot going into public transportation, more can be done.

A car-free day, like they’ve done in France, would be mandated if I were in office.

Derek Carlisle: The City Creek Center’s creek should occasionally have flash floods to educate the youth on the dangers of nature.

Colby Frazier: From this point forward, dear citizens, 12 ounces of beer dispensed at any community event shall not be sold for more than $4. Amen.

Scott Renshaw: Resign, so that I am no longer the mayor. You’re welcome.

Brandon Burt: That sucking sound is not only the sound of Utah’s sucky Legislature, but of the tax money being vacuumed out of our pockets. As mayor, I’d find some legal way to bypass the Do Nothings on Capitol Hill and implement full Medicaid expansion within city limits.

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HITS&MISSES

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Chaffetz on the Rise

Medicaid Expansion Stalled

While legislators have no problem throwing money at development issues, they are loath to put one red cent toward health care for the uninsured. They shake their heads and grumble about the cost to Utahns, as they roll out the ill-titled Utah Access Plus proposal.

Let’s face it: Nothing is going to appease the Utah GOP—not even assessing doctors and hospitals for the privilege of treating Medicaid patients. House Majority Leader Rep. Jim Dunnigan, R-Taylorsville, speaking to KUER 90.1 FM, said he wants to hear from constituents and providers. The question? “Do you want to be taxed more?”

Meanwhile, Sen. Jim Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City, says Republican lawmakers dreamed up the plan only “to meet the ideological needs of the extremists in the Republican party.” So far, the Republicans have passed on every iteration of Medicaid expansion, waiting, it seems, for President Obama to leave office. Meanwhile, uninsured Utahns suffer and even die without coverage.

A Street to Call Home?

Glenn Bailey has a good idea, although it requires Salt Lake City passing a bond measure for $30 million. Bailey, of Crossroads Urban Center, got tired of waiting for the Homeless Services Site Evaluation Commission to spit out a solution to the problem near the homeless center. Many believe the ultimate recommendations will be simply to move the shelter. That’s not a solution. Crossroads is asking for a bond to start the process, which includes closing Rio Grande Street between 200 South and 300 South to protect the homeless from crime and drug-dealing. There’s more to the plan, including the stillborn Medicaid expansion effort, which would include mental health coverage. Increased police presence in the area is also part of the mix.

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Hand it to Salt Lake Tribune reporter Thomas Burr for his coverage of Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz and his dark-horse bid to become House Speaker. Burr helped write the less-than-memorable book about the less-than-memorable Mia Love, even before she won office. Reporters were giddy at the prospect of a black female Republican on the national stage. But Chaffetz is a different case. Egotistical as he may be, the congressman has boundless energy to implement his strategy for achieving power. He’s seen both sides of the political spectrum and chose the one that gave him the best boost. He plays the poor kid well, even while dealing with the power brokers. He throws off embarrassment and loss, and just keeps on talking— even when he’s wrong. So, don’t discount this latest maneuver as a fool’s quest.

Fanfiction, or “fic,” is fiction created by fans of books, movies and TV shows, in which plots and characters are re-imagined and rewritten. Once perceived as the preoccupation of nerdy fans with too much time on their hands, now, as fic and fan culture enter the mainstream, it’s sparking scholarly interest. Anne Jamison, University of Utah professor of English, was introduced to fanfiction through Buffy the Vampire Slayer. What started as a teaching interest grew into an academic fascination as she observed the creativity and analytical skills of fans in their discussions. Jamison’s book, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, provides an overview of the fan authorship.

What sets fanfiction apart from other literary genres?

In some ways, fanfiction is very traditional. Before copyright and intellectual property changed how we think of authorship, stories were told about a common cast of characters and legends, simply as a matter of course. Today, the online, networked and community nature of fanfiction seems very different from the single-authored text produced in a single volume. It doesn’t claim to be autonomous; it usually assumes knowledge of its source, so it can start anywhere.

People have been rewriting and retelling stories for a long time, yet fanfiction has acquired a unique notoriety that other genres lack. Why is that?

It’s confusing to people that fanfiction is written down. If this were an oral tradition, it wouldn’t seem as transgressive. Copyright makes these stories of dubious legality, which delegitimizes them for many. And, of course, most fanfic writers are teenage girls, women, queers—often writing about sex—that’s easy math.

Does fanfiction’s online presence help make it more, or less, legitimate?

While its online presence might, at first, have made [fanfiction] seem more marginal, online life is becoming more mainstream. But the single factor most responsible for mainstream interest in fanfic is Fifty Shades of Grey, which was first posted as a Twilight fanfic.

E. L. James changed the names of the characters from Edward and Bella to Christian and Ana, and boom! publishing changed.

Why study fanfiction?

It’s crucial for people who study literature to pay attention to this way in which writing is now being produced and disseminated. It’s crucial for us as literature professors, because so many of our students will have read and written this way, [and have] learned to critique and engage this way—even if they sometimes won’t admit it. It has had and will have an effect on published books, but it is also where we first see how digital, networked texts are changing reading and writing habits and expectations—as well as the texts themselves.

What is one of the strangest or unusual fanfiction tropes you’ve run across?

The strangest trope I enjoy is characters re-imagined as cute animals. Dr. John Watson as a cat, or Sherlock Holmes as a parrot, that kind of thing.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Vector Virus

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a tropical region with abundant wildlife plus a rapidly growing human population.

Here’s a common scenario, as explained in a 2012 series on zoonoses in the medical journal Lancet: Stage 1—pre-emergence. The bug is initially confined to the animal reservoir, but for one reason or another starts to spread.

In the case of Nipah virus, people began raising pigs and planting orchards in parts of Malaysia inhabited by fruit bats, the reservoir for the virus. The bats started feeding on fruit trees near the pigsties, and the virus soon made the leap to the pigs.

Stage 2—localized emergence. Humans contract the disease from infected animals, either members of the reservoir species or a vector. Although some outbreaks can be large, human-to-human transmission at this point is limited or nonexistent.

Stage 3—full pandemic. The disease spreads primarily from one human to another. In the age of air travel, this means it can spread around the world, but that’s unusual; much depends on the life cycle of the bug in question. The most virulent pathogens in a way are the most merciful—they kill so quickly and horribly that the healthy soon learn to take precautions and even the most lethargic governments are goaded into action. Ebola arguably falls into this category. Much crueler are the ones that kill slowly, like HIV. By the time the world realized it was a threat, it was everywhere.

Given the staggering mortality due to infectious diseases throughout history, it’s not like zoonotic bugs are a novel threat.

On the other hand, the combination of modern technology and rising prosperity on the one hand with scarce resources and ancient hatreds on the other puts us in a more vulnerable position than we in the developed world might care to admit.

No one’s predicting the return of the Black Death, but zoonotic pandemics tend to coincide with times of social upheaval.

The flu epidemic of 1918, thought to have caused 20 to 50 million deaths, began during the closing days of World War I, when movements of troops and refugees, plus the chaos of war, helped spread the bug around the globe. Protracted violence, crowds of innocents fleeing for their lives … sound like anything we’ve got going on today?

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ecause vectors are a critical factor in the spread of zoonotic diseases.

You say this means nothing to you? Notable zoonotic diseases include the plague of Justinian, the Black Death, yellow fever, the influenza pandemic of 1918, and more recently HIV/AIDS, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Ebola virus. Got your attention now?

Zoonotic diseases are those that spread from animals to humans. Most diseases start out as zoonotic, including some that eventually become endemic among humans, such as measles and smallpox. The animal species in which zoonotic diseases originate is called the reservoir. The species in which they wind up, namely us, is called the host. A critter that helps spread a zoonotic disease from reservoir to host is called a vector. Rats, tsetse flies and mosquitoes are among the better-known vectors; other examples include shellfish (cholera), armadillos (leprosy), and dogs (rabies, most famously, but possibly Ebola too). Zoonotic diseases can also spread via contaminated food.

When first encountered, zoonotic diseases can be devastating, since they derive from pathogens to which we’ve built up little or no resistance. In extreme cases they can lead to global pandemics that kill millions. More commonly, the resources of the modern world being what they are, the death rate can be brought down relatively quickly but the cost remains high.

For example, the World Bank estimated the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which so far has resulted in more than 11,000 deaths, would cost the economies of the affected countries $1.2 billion in 2015—admittedly much less than the $32 billion feared at one point. The Nipah virus (which can cause fatal swelling of the brain) was brought under control in Malaysia in 1998-99 after causing about 100 deaths, but required the slaughter of 1 million pigs, a vector species in which the disease had become endemic.

Are zoonotic diseases becoming more common? Let’s put it this way: They sure haven’t gone away. Of more than 400 new diseases identified since 1940, 60 percent have been zoonotic. And they sure haven’t gotten less deadly. The nightmarish symptoms of Ebola evoke the plague. HIV, which originated as simian immunodeficiency virus in several species of African monkey, has killed 39 million people to date.

Zoonotic diseases typically emerge when civilization collides with what remains of the wild. Contrary to what you might expect these days, climate change doesn’t have much to do with it. Rather, the breeding ground often is a place like southern Asia—

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ithout a doubt, the Ragnar Relay Series knows how to brand its races. To give runners a special incentive to run both its June signature race in Utah, The Wasatch Back, and the Ragnar Relay Las Vegas, held in Nevada on Nov. 6 this year, Ragnar awards the coveted Saints & Sinners medal to those who take part in both.

Ragnar’s 12-year path to becoming the largest national overnight relay-race owner, however, has left some in the running community seeing the company as more sinner than saint. The organizers of three different competing races each raise questions about how Ragnar has grown, highlighting what appears to be a significant difference in philosophy between the business grads from Brigham Young University who developed the world of Ragnar, and smaller mom & pop operations that have had to deal with Ragnar’s dramatic success.

According to Ragnar co-founder Tanner Bell, the venture-capital backed relay-race series has always sought “the best course we could find with the least amount of overlap” to other scheduled races. But according to one of Ragnar’s most outspoken critics, Colorado-based Timberline Events’ Paul Vanderheiden, that’s where things went wrong. “A lot of race directors go out of their way not to duplicate what somebody else has done,” he says.

“Ragnar does not seem to have that problem. They really don’t care. They’re so big now, they can get away with it.”

In August 2011, Vanderheiden—who owns multiple races, including two in Colorado, the Wild West and

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Flaming Foliage—posted an article online alleging that Ragnar “steals” races from other groups. He highlighted two races where Ragnar’s race was significantly similar to the routes of existing races, while organizers of a third race in Quebec report similar concerns after their 2013 encounter with Ragnar’s management. “A race director cannot trademark a route, and we certainly cannot reserve exclusive use of a date,” Vanderheiden wrote. “However, there is an unwritten code of ethics between race directors that you don’t steal someone’s course, and you don’t piggyback on an established race’s date with a nearby, similar event.”

Ragnar’s Bell dismisses the controversy as “a three-year-old story,” with, he adds, little to back up Vanderheiden’s central accusation. Bell argues that Ragnar has only done good for the relay-race industry. Bell has often been quoted as saying, “A rising tide floats all boats.”

According to figures provided by Ragnar, from 2006-14, the relay-running industry grew 21 percent. This reflects 81,000 new participants in Ragnar races as well as 22,000 in non-Ragnar races.

“While we do not take full credit for the industry’s growth,” Ragnar’s marketing manager Elise Timothy, wrote in an email, “Ragnar has played an important role in the success of running relays over the years.” The fear among race organizers where Ragnar has muscled into their territory is that Ragnar will draw teams away from them through aggressive marketing.

The Golden Gate Relay [GGR] in California, which takes place in late April or early May, is one of the oldest overnight relays. Unlike most in the field, it is operated by a nonprofit, Organs R Us. The organizer, Dr. Jeff Shapiro, says the purpose of the GGR in its first 15 years was to raise awareness of organ donation. It relied on local newspapers in 36 cities that runners raced through to spread the message.

Shapiro says that in 2009, he negotiated with Ragnar to “combine forces in

Timberline Events’ race, the Wild West, in Colorado

some way. They really thought the course we chose here was the most amazing they’d ever seen.” Talks went on for several months, and Shapiro says Bell told him Ragnar representatives would be traveling to San Francisco within two weeks to finalize an agreement. “When I called to learn their travel plans, they never returned my calls,” he said.

That’s not the way Bell remembers it.

“I worked really hard to connect with Dr. Shapiro on multiple occasions to figure out a partnership,” but “I could never really nail him down on what he wanted to do or how he wanted to partner. Ultimately, we ran out of time.”

As a result, Ragnar went on to launch its own Bay Area race in October 2009.

Shapiro says Ragnar “took a lot of our course and reversed it.” GGR starts in Napa Valley’s Calistoga, goes south over the Golden Gate Bridge through San Francisco and ends in Santa Cruz at the Pacific Ocean. Ragnar’s starts near the bridge and ends in Calistoga. “There’s so many states and so many locations, I feel and other people feel that, instead of going to a place where [races are] already there, they could have gone to places where none exist,” Shapiro says.

Shapiro says GGR “has been losing teams in the last four or five years since Ragnar’s presence in Northern California. We’re at a crossroads trying to figure out what the next step is for this event.” Referring to Bell’s “rising tide” philosophy, in his race’s case, “that doesn’t seem to have happened.”

Bell denies that Ragnar had anything to do with GGR’s drop in numbers. “The year we came in, their team numbers were down from their peak. It’s not like we had anything to do with that.”

Paul Vanderheiden got into relay races in 2004, after he took part in the Oregon-based overnight relay-race, Hood to Coast. Vanderheiden felt the relay could have been better organized, so he decided to put on his own. In his first years operating the Wild West race in Colorado, he corresponded with Bell and his business partner, feeling they shared similar values as race directors.

“Eventually, they grew into having a grander vision than I was interested in.

I wanted to be a small business. All I was after was to earn a living,” he said.

In 2010, Ragnar’s Bell ran the famous Colorado Relay and called Vanderheiden to apologize for not running in his relay, the Wild West. In mid-2011, Ragnar attempted to buy the Colorado Relay, only to learn that its owner was talking to gym-owning group, Lifetime Fitness.

Ragnar then launched its own race in Colorado. When Vanderheiden checked out Ragnar’s route, he found it followed much of the Colorado Relay’s route but went in the opposite direction. Not only that, it was scheduled the same day as his own race, the Wild West.

Bell admits the scheduling was a mistake. “The thing I do feel bad about is, that first year, we launched on his date,” Bell says. Ragnar subsequently changed the date.

Vanderheiden posted a furious blog on his company’s website at TimberlineEvents.com that accused Ragnar of stealing both GGR and the Colorado Relay. “It takes a lot of time, effort, and expense to design a route for an overnight relay, and I have a hunch that Ragnar, in at least these two instances, wanted to save themselves the trouble of designing an original course.”

Vanderheiden forwarded City Weekly an email Bell sent to concerned runners who reached out to him, informing them that changes by both Ragnar of its route and the Colorado Relay meant “both of us have caused more overlap.” He stated, “We are sorry if we have offended anyone in the process. Our intentions are to put on the best events possible in the most beautiful locations.”

In February 2012, a month after Lifetime Fitness bought the Colorado Relay—and shortly after Ragnar announced its route—Lifetime abruptly sold the race to Ragnar.

Bell says that Vanderheiden leveled “heav y accusations that people who know me and Ragnar laugh at. It’s a bummer.”

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They decided to get their race out first.

In September 2014, 20 teams totaling 200 people ran RelaisXtrême.

Bell expresses ignorance of Wauthier’s concerns. “I think they heard some preliminary discussions from [Espaces] and must have thought we were moving on without them,” he said. While Ragnar did operate a race in Ontario in June 2013, “what we learned was, going across country borders is a little more expensive than we realized,” so, for now, expansion into Canada is on hold.

While some race-event managers view Ragnar’s ever-growing nationwide presence with concern, others have chosen to accept Ragnar’s embrace. In early 2014, some relayrace watchers were surprised to see that Ragnar had reached a deal with a venerable name in the industry, Massachusetts-based Reach the Beach. In an email, RTB race director Mike Dionne links Ragnar’s growth to helping “the overnight running industry grow.” Despite selling to a brand-heavy giant, Dionne writes, “Reach the Beach is still Reach the Beach with its local feel and community focus. We just have more support and get to introduce our beautiful course to even more relay enthusiasts.”

By the end of September 2015, Ragnar claimed 30 races across the United States, the most recent of which takes place in Hawaii. “I am proud of Ragnar and what Ragnar has accomplished,” Bell says. “I think we’ve inspired hundreds of thousands of lives, since the inception of the company.

I believe we are incredibly ethical.”

Perhaps some issues could have been handled differently, Bell says. “We are not without mistakes,” he says. “Perhaps there were communications that we missed. But to categorize it as unethical, I think, is a stretch.”

Vanderheiden remains defiant. “You can’t trademark a relay route. You can’t trademark a date. But this company is stealing somebody else’s work. I’d support the original, not the copy.” CW

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Vanderheiden is the first to acknowledge Ragnar’s corporate success, “but I don’t approve of how they’ve done it.” For a while, a number of independent relay-race organizers discussed setting up a coalition that would pool marketing resources to challenge Ragnar, but no coalition was formed.

Sébastien Wauthier read Vanderheiden’s blog in June 2015, and the complaints about Ragnar sounded painfully familiar. Quebec City-based Wauthier and his business partner, Stephane Marcotte had started developing a race in and around greater Quebec in 2012, called RelaisXtrême. They wanted to associate with Ragnar and met with them in August 2013. “We showed them our project and routes,” Wauthier says, and Ragnar executives were very enthusiastic.

In early September, acccording to emails supplied to City Weekly by Wauthier and Ragnar, a Ragnar executive emailed Wauthier, noting they were considering partnering with Montreal-based Groupe Espaces, since along with being a media publisher, “they also produce local running events.”

Ragnar’s marketing manager, Elise Timothy, says emails between the group and RelaisXtrême show Ragnar was “working on identifying a potential course in Quebec independent of the two individuals. As a practice, we are very honest with those who are helping/partnering with us.”

On Sept. 26, 2013, Marcotte ran in the Ragnar Relay Adirondacks. There he talked to a journalist from Groupe Espaces. The journalist bragged, Wauthier says, “that he was working with Ragnar, and they were putting together a race in Quebec.” What particularly upset the RelaisXtrême partners was the journalist described the route they had shown Ragnar. Wauthier believes that Ragnar had found a better suited financial partner “and they just put us aside.”

Wauthier says he wrote to Ragnar that his partner “had met someone in the states who was talking about the same route, the same schedule. What’s going on?’ I never heard back.”

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If it seems like Donald Trump has co-opted the political air, think again. Local races and importantly, the Salt Lake City mayor’s race, are coming up in November. No three-hour Fox News debates here, but you can hear Ralph Becker and Jackie Biskupski go at it about public transportation, LGBT rights, healthcare and visions of growth for the city in the upcoming Mayoral Debate. Ken Verdoia hosts. KUED Channel 7, Thursday, Oct. 8, streamed live, 10 a.m.; Broadcast, 7 p.m.; KUED.org

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Now here’s an alternative to the American love of the gun. The United Clans Swordsman Association will be crossing swords with students from True Edge Academy of Provo—pretty much all day. This is the second year of this competition. “The Historical European Martial Arts are incredibly complex, but we really enjoy studying them; it is a little piece of history that really comes alive for me,” says student Jordan Hinckley. The operative word here is “alive,” since this can be a dangerous pastime. East side of Liberty Park, Oct.10, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., TheUCSA.com, TrueEdgeAcademy.com

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The Job of the Researcher Scientists at North Carolina State and Wake Forest universities have developed a machine that vomits realistically, enabling the study of “aerosolization” of dangerous norovirus. “Vomiting Larry” can replicate the process of retching, including the pressure at which particles are expelled (which, along with volume and “other vomit metrics,” can teach the extent of the virus’ threat in large populations). The researchers must use a harmless stand-in bacteriophage for the studies—because norovirus is highly infectious even in the laboratory.

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In a “manifesto” to celebrate “personal choice and expression” in the standard of beauty “in a society that already places too many harmful standards on women,” according to a July New York Times report, some now are dyeing their armpit hair. At the Free Your Pits website, and events like “pit-ins” in Seattle and Pensacola, Florida, envelope-pushing women offer justifications ranging from political resistance to, according to one, “want(ing) to freak out (her) in-laws.” Preferred colors are turquoise, hot pink, purple and neon yellow.

n “Odette Delacroix,” 25, of North Hollywood, Calif., is a petite (86 pounds) model who runs an adult fetish website in which people (i.e., men) pay to watch her tumble around, bikini-clad, with “plus-size” models, up to five at a time, squashing and nearly suffocating her in “pigpiles.” “Odette” told London’s edition of Cosmopolitan that her PetiteVsPlump.com website has so far earned her about $100,000.

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Men Are Simple Update: Five years after News of the Weird mentioned it, Japan’s Love Plus virtual-girlfriend app is more popular than ever, serving a growing segment of the country’s lonely males—those beyond peak marital years and resigned to artificial “relationships.” Love Plus models (Rinko, Manaka and Nene) are chosen mostly (and surprisingly) not for physical attributes, but for flirting and companionship. One user described his “girlfriend” (in a September Time magazine dispatch) as “someone to say good morning to in the morning and … goodnight to at night.”

Said a Swedish observer, “You wouldn’t see (this phenomenon) in Europe or America.” One problem: Men can get stuck in a “love loop” waiting for the next app update—with, they hope, more “features.”

Buddhists Acting Out 1. Police in Scotland’s Highlands were called in September when a Buddhist retreat participant, Raymond Storrie, became riled up that another, Robert Jenner, had boiling water for his tea, but not Storrie’s. After Storrie vengefully snatched Jenner’s hot water, Jenner punched him twice in the head, leading Storrie to threaten to kill Jenner (but also asking, plaintively, “Is this how you practice dharma?”). 2. A Buddhist monk from Louisiana, Khang Nguyen Le, was arrested in New York City in September and accused of embezzling nearly $400,000 from his temple to fuel his gambling habit (blackjack, mostly at a Lake Charles, La., casino).

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n Actress Melissa Gilbert (a star of TV’s Little House on the Prairie), 51, announced in August that she would run for Congress from Michigan’s 8th Congressional District—even though she is currently on the hook to the IRS and California for back taxes totaling $470,000. Gilbert, a former president of the Screen Actors Guild and member of the AFL-CIO Executive Council, promised that she (and her actor husband) would pay off her tax bill—by the year 2024.

Police Report Relentless Wannabes: 1. Authorities in Winter Haven, Florida, arrested James Garfield, 28, with the typical faux-police setup—Ford Crown Victoria with police lights, uniform with gold-star badge, video camera, Taser, and business cards printed with “law enforcement.” (Explained Garfield lamely, the “law enforcement” was just a “printing mistake.”) 2. In nearby Frostproof, Fla., Thomas Hook, 48, was also arrested in September, his 14th law-enforcement-impersonator arrest since 1992. His paraphernalia included the Crown Vic with a prisoner cage, scanner, spotlight, “private investigator” and “fugitive recovery” badges, and an equally bogus card identifying him as a retired Marine Corps major. Hook’s one other connection to law enforcement: He is a registered sex offender.

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With a penchant for Utah politics & a blunt delivery style, reporter Rod Decker’s inimitable voice keeps viewers tuning in.

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ROD

Decker apologizes. The KUTV Channel 2 political reporter must call the station to make sure a cameraman will be ready for him at 10 a.m. sharp.

“This is Decker. There’s a news conference at 10. I’ll need to leave the station at a quarter to 10.”

And then he hangs up. No hello, no goodbye, not a line of pleasantry, just that no-nonsense Decker voice, pouring forth threeword sentences like a machine gun—the same stout tone that he’s used to deliver the news to Utahns for the past 35 years.

In the world of young, beautiful, uplifted faces of TV news, Decker is a warhorse. But that warhorse knows his pasture—the pasture of Utah politics—as well as any living reporter in Zion.

Decker’s longevity, his colleagues say, is a testament to the man’s work ethic—which, at age 74, has not faltered.

After a fourth cup of coffee, Decker outlines his week’s schedule to a newspaper reporter. On this Tuesday morning, he’ll cover a campaign kickoff event for Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker. The news conference, Decker explains, will inevitably lead to at least three other news stories that he’ll report on throughout the week.

By week’s end, Decker will have accomplished his goal, plus reported a story about a political poll that the station will save for Sunday.

While some reporters define their careers by the size and number of exclusive scoops that help sniff out corruption and bring a tenor of honesty to an issue, Decker’s career is more of a steady drumbeat: Its value isn’t easily measured by the magnitude of any particular story, but, rather, as a body of consistent work that stretches for decades.

“My TV news style has always been ‘lots,’ ” Decker says. “I do more stories than other people, maybe of a lower quality—of sufficient quality—but ‘lots.’ That’s my style. And that succeeds in TV news, and it fits the time.”

Although Decker doesn’t respond to emails, and he lacks a “Tweeter” account, as he mispronounces the name of the social-media website Twitter, his specialty—shorter political news segments that cut to the chase with a leaner word count than his rivals—seems to mesh well in this age of shrinking attention spans.

And if one happens to be tuned to KUTV for the 6 p.m. news, it’s hard to ignore that cutting voice, which sounds as if it’s saying the most important things in the world.

“It sounds like I’m shouting, ‘Extra! Extra! Read all about it,’ ” Decker says of his delivery. But it’s not a manufactured style—it’s simply the way he talks. “That’s kind of the voice. And I kind of like that, in a way, because it sounds as if it might fool you at first and make you think what I’m saying’s important.”

Decker takes a sip of coffee, and continues.

“Most of the time, after I’ve got a story together, I like it,” he says, a glint in his eye as he elevates his voice while seated in a booth at Lamb’s Grill on Main Street, rounding out what he hopes his voice conveys. “This is worth a minute—this is worth a minute and a half— pay attention!”

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Decker didn’t know the first thing about being a reporter.

As he slowly learned the ropes of newspaper writing, an opportunity sprung up: The Deseret News wanted to start a talk show on KUED Channel 7 called Civic Dialogue, and not a soul in the newsroom offered to moderate—except for Decker.

Decker’s career at the Deseret News chugged at a steady and upward tilt. He became a columnist and moderated the talk show. In 1976, Decker spent a year at Harvard University on a fellowship through the Nieman Foundation, a prestigious journalistic training ground.

“I thought I had a very good life at the Deseret News,” Decker says. “I had a column, I had a TV show.”

But Decker says he never jibed with the paper’s owners, the LDS Church, and its management.

“While I respected management there, and they were good journalists, I never could get along with them very well. I always felt like I was never doing honest journalism,” Decker says. “I think maybe the church exercises less control over journalism there now, but when I was there, you had to be careful. The church didn’t want some things said, and that made young reporters all the more eager to say them.”

In 1980, the late Utah media mogul George C. Hatch, who then owned KUTV, hired Decker away from the Deseret News.

Decker’s first assignment at the station was to moderate a talk show, Take Two—which occasionally still airs to this day whenever, as Decker says, “they don’t have football or something important to put on.” The show was immensely successful, Decker says, and it maintained a “serious” timeslot about as long as any such program in the nation.

“It used to draw the biggest audience of shows of its kind,” Decker says. “It used to be a good showcase, and it was fun to do.”

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Raised a Mormon on the east side of Salt Lake City, Rodney W. Decker began to break from the religious mold when he enrolled at the University of Utah—a short walk from his childhood home.

Concurrent with his studies, Decker also enrolled at the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house, where he drank beer and partied into the early morning before walking back to his parents’ house, where he slept until noon.

“I was a fraternity boy, and I had just a great time at the U,” Decker says. “Mostly what I did was fraternity.”

Decker’s father was a professor of accounting at the U, and the young man’s parents took notice of their son’s new lifestyle.

To straighten his son out, Decker says, his father vowed to wake him at 7 a.m., regardless of what time he went to sleep.

The elder Decker followed through, only to watch his son stumble down the street to the fraternity house, where he took to sleeping on the couch.

“By the time of my sophomore year, I decided that I’d schedule a number of my classes at the same time in order to conserve my valuable time for poker and drinking, stuff like that,” Decker says.

One morning, when Decker came home at 4 a.m., his father greeted him at the door, promising another 7 a.m. wake-up call.

But that rousing didn’t arrive until noon. Father and son walked to the U together that day and, Decker says, “He checked me out of the U, packed my bag, put me in the car, drove me down to BYU and enrolled me.”

Decker says he tried to fit in at Brigham Young University, and even passed a couple of classes. But he speculates that he may have spent more time at the frat house in Salt Lake City as a Cougar than a Ute. “I tried to go to class and so forth, but before the end of the semester, I was leaving Provo on a Thursday, going up and staying at the Pi Kappa house, getting back to Provo maybe in time for class on Wednesday.”

Decker joined the ROTC and, after nearly six years of college, earned his degree in political science from the U. In 1965, Decker did a two-year stint of graduate school in Chicago before becoming, at age 27, Captain Rodney W. Decker, a U.S. Army Military Intelligence officer stationed in Saigon in Vietnam.

“It was OK; I liked Vietnam,” Decker says. “I guess that speaks poorly to my character. I was not in combat, except in bars.”

While working 10-hour days, seven days a week overseas, Decker hired a tutor to help him learn Vietnamese. His instruction stalled once his command of the language grew sufficient for him to carry on with women at the bar. And although he didn’t yet have a glimmer of what his future would be, Decker began to learn lessons and show traits that would help him in his journalistic pursuits.

The first lesson dealt with his primary job: gathering information and briefing his superiors. Decker recalls briefing William Colby, the highest-ranking CIA officer in Vietnam, who later would become the director of the CIA, on “a thing called the Hamlet Evaluation Survey.”

This involved Decker going out to various spots around the country, compiling data and feeding that info into a massive computer that spit out a neat form of rankings and statistics— an outcome that Decker says often amounted to “bullshit.”

“Briefing was an art,” Decker says. “I understood it was bullshit, but I couldn’t say it was bullshit. I had to say, ‘Well, sir, we do this and we do that, and we get monthly reports and we put them into the computer, and they come out in this neat format, as you can see, sir!’ So that’s what I did with Colby.”

To Decker, Vietnam was a place where he worked hard, had some fun and got to know a lot of great American and Vietnamese people.

When it was time to leave, Decker, flush with poker winnings, took the long way home, traveling through Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Landing on American soil was the hard part.

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“All of my friends were strongly anti-war, and I thought we were committed. I thought of the Vietnamese I knew over there, and most of them would be killed or thrown in labor camps,” Decker says of America’s looming decision to withdraw from the war. “I thought, well, maybe we should stay. In any case, it was hard afterward. I felt like lots of people were angry at me.”

The blowback and strong anti-war sentiment that greeted Cpt. Decker upon his return gave rise to a healthy skepticism that played no political favorites. “The way it formed me was it made me skeptical of liberals,” he says. “Liberals said that what we did was bullshit, and they were right. But I could see that what they did was bullshit, too, and they couldn’t see that.

It made me skeptical of academics, of liberals, of perceived opinion.”

After his two-year stint in Vietnam, Decker returned to graduate school, where he thought he would take a shot at being a good student (it didn’t work out). So he returned to Utah, where in 1972, he married Christine Shell Decker, who, before her retirement earlier this year, went on to become a juvenile court judge for the 3rd Judicial District. Together, they raised three children.

“It was clear that academia wasn’t working, and when you’re married, it’s customary that you get a job, or at least it was in those days. So, I looked for a job,” Decker says.

A decade or so earlier, in a Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints seminary class at East High School, Decker’s instructor had been Bill Smart, editor and general manager at the Deseret News. As a seminary student, Decker remembered that Smart had once suggested he become a reporter.

“So I wrote him and said, ‘I need a job. Can I work for the Deseret News? Remember what you said all those years ago?’

Well, by then, he had seen how I’d turned out and said, ‘No, we have no positions,’ ” Decker says.

But fortunately for Decker, Smart lived close to Decker’s mother, who “sort of stared at his front door until he hired me.

So, I went to work for the Deseret News.”

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Long talk shows of that kind, Decker says, slowly disappeared as news executives realized politics simply didn’t generate ratings. He noted that KUTV 2 and other news stations used to set up shop at the Republican and Democratic state conventions and provide expansive coverage.

“What drives ratings is police stories, stories with action, stories that affect ordinary people and affect them pretty directly, like crime, or police or accidents,” Decker says.

But with a his degree in political science, and with a divining rod that pulled him in that direction, Decker dove into covering politics first and foremost.

Whether Decker knew it or not at the time, he was perched at the apex of American journalism. “Two reporters took down a president,” Decker says, referring to the Watergate scandal that spurred President Richard Nixon’s resignation. “We took ourselves very seriously back in those days. Robert Redford played a reporter; can you imagine a thing like that? A newspaper reporter, and it wasn’t funny.”

And, when it came to getting permission from upper management to do a story, Decker says “you only had to think something up for it to happen.”

DECKER’S JOURNALISM: A HISTORY

Six months on the job at KUTV, Decker was flown to California, where he interviewed physicist Edward Teller, known as the “father of the hydrogen bomb.” The interview was part of a pair of two-hour specials looking into whether nuclear explosions caused cancer. In addition to Decker’s part, he says, KUTV sent a reporter to the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, where the U.S. had conducted nuclear-bomb tests. Another reporter went to Alamogordo, N.M., to stand at the site of the first nuclearbomb explosion.“There was nowhere we wouldn’t fly, and there was a lot of that,” Decker says.

Decker says his counterparts on TV thought of themselves as investigative journalists. “They didn’t do a story every day—they did maybe two or three a week—but they were thought to be stories of real substance,” he says.

Decker dabbled in all of it—talk shows, long stories and short stories—but even in those early days, his fast pace (few men look as comfortable as Decker with a steel camera tripod swung across his shoulders, and he can ditch a newspaperman half his age while taking a staircase two steps at a time), tended toward “lots.”

Compared to newspapers, which have steadily shrunk in the past decade, leaving herds of print reporters scrambling for new work in Salt Lake City and other news markets throughout the nation, Decker says he feels like TV news stations haven’t suffered as acutely.

But that may not be the case. Former KSL 5 news editor Con Psarras, now an associate instructor at the University of Utah Department of Communications, says TV news numbers have plummeted along with newspaper circulation and print readership.

In the mid-1990s, Psarras was KUTV’s news director and Decker’s boss. He says the fact that a hard-charging political reporter like

Decker has remained a key piece of the station’s news team is testament to the wisdom of the station’s management in seeing the value in what Decker provides.

“If what they want to provide is relevant news to the community,” Psarras says, “Rod’s strong ammunition in that.”

The longer-form journalistic pursuits of Decker’s early years have been largely supplanted by shorter bits crafted, perhaps, for an era of shrinking patience, attention spans and budgets. A large part of this is due to a fractured audience, which, rather than being channeled into a handful of TV networks, now has the infinity of the Internet, and cable and satellite television to wallow in.

“TV news is no longer protected from the tiresome desire of people to get what they want,” Decker says.

But in this environment, Decker has thrived.

The need for “lots” of stories and short stories suits his talents well. In terms of sheer hours required, Decker’s preferred subject, politics, is typically easier to cover than, say, a car crash—which Decker had covered a few days before this interview. “I had to stand around for several hours while the cops got their act together and told us what was going on. You don’t have to do that in politics,” Decker says. “I’m going to go to a news conference today, and Becker will talk for 30 minutes, and I’ll have three stories. I’ll have to hunt up [Becker’s opponent, Jackie] Biskupski, but she’s eager to get on; she’s running for office. TV’s what she needs.”

Although Decker himself has a difficult time pointing to one knock-out story in his career, he has played a pivotal role in educating the public on the daily heartbeat of politics. To use a term that is becoming increasingly dated, Decker is a true “beat” reporter.

“He’s truly the hardest working man in TV news,” says Patrick Benedict, a TV producer who worked with Decker at KUTV for eight years. “Rod hearkens to a day in journalism that is, on a lot of levels, sadly going away.

He is the original Mr. Shoe Leather. He grinds it out on

the beat.”

But another key TV cliché, “If it bleeds, it leads,” has aided Decker’s long career. According to Decker and others in the TV news business, young, ambitious TV news personalities have little desire to wade into politics.

“Most of them don’t want to be political reporters,” Decker says of his younger colleagues. When asked why, Decker bellows the answer as if surprised by the question.

“When you’re a kid, and you look at TV, you see wrecks and murders,” he says. “You think: wrecks and murders, that’s what leads the show.”

POLITICALLY SPEAKING

Decker has barked questions at so many governors, he even remembers the last two whose names appeared on the ballot with big Ds next to their names: Govs. Calvin Rampton and Scott Matheson Sr. In the years since, Decker has become wiser than the average TV dog on what fuels and moves Utah politics.

By sheer number of interviews, Decker says he’s probably had more sit downs with Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch than anyone else, but only because Decker was a reporter before Hatch became a senator. And Hatch became a senator in 1977—38 years ago.

But in this time, says Salt Lake Tribune political reporter Robert Gehrke, Decker has gained a rarefied wisdom and perspective on his subject. “I worry a little bit about when he hangs it up; what’s it going to look like?” Gehrke asks.

“Do you have anybody who can step in and fill that voice, who can tackle the issues and give people what they need to know and give them the level of context and depth?

That starts with the reporter. The reporter needs to know his stuff before telling it to the people.”

Decker could fill the TV waves with days of commentary on Utah’s politics, drawing from a memory that Psarras says is damned close to photographic.

It’s that sharp memory and ability to draw from a well of experience, says Gehrke, that allows the man to stand alone in the TV pack.

A fact of the TV medium is that there is often very little time to tell a story. And without some sort of extended programming slot, a reporter taping a one- or two-minute news segment may struggle to convey the depth found in a print news story. So it’s not unusual for TV news reporters to fail to go after some important, although mundane, information, like the nitty-gritty of a budget.

This is where Decker shines, Gehrke says.

“Rod will show up at news conferences and be taking notes on the back of an envelope and will have sort of an understating of the budget numbers to the point where he can ask a question. Sometimes you take a double take because you don’t expect it to come from the TV guys,” Gehrke says. “He’s still sort of rooted in that old-school print mentality.”

With the benefit of the long view, Decker holds most Utah governors in kind regard.

Overall, he says, Utah has had good governors, all of whom have “worked at bridging the Mormon Republican, non-Mormon Democratic divide.”

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“WHEN YOU’RE A KID, AND YOU LOOK AT TV, AND YOU SEE WRECKS AND MURDERS, YOU THINK: ‘WRECKS AND MURDERS. THAT’S WHAT LEADS THE SHOW.’” —ROD DECKER

ROD DECKER HAS INTERVIEWED THE ‘FATHER OF THE H-BOMB,’ AND FOUR DECADES OF UTAH GOVERNORS .

“SOME PEOPLE DON’T LIKE HIM, SOME PEOPLE LIKE HIM A LOT. MY FEELING IS, LIKE HIM OR NOT, PEOPLE LIKE WATCHING HIM.” —KUTV GENERAL MANAGER KENT CRAWFORD

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To be grammatically correct, one might begin a sentence with the phrase, “Rod Decker’s voice sounds like …”

But it’s far more common to hear a news watcher describe Decker as though the voice and the man are two different entities: “The voice of Rod Decker is …”

Decker insists he never sat in front of the mirror, raking his vocal chords over various octaves to achieve the perfect pitch.

It just came.

A unique voice in TV, however, is increasingly “unfashionable,” Decker says. And he speculates that, had he ever worked for another TV station in some other town, he might have had to change it.

KUTV General Manager Kent Crawford says that not everyone likes Decker or his voice. “Some people don’t like him, some people like him a lot,” Crawford says. “My feeling is, like him or not, people like watching him.”

Decker’s tough tone is also indicative of his all-business way of cutting through to the meat of a subject—and his ability to hold a politician’s feet to the fire.

“I would say Rod Decker is a dying breed of reporters,” says Peter Corroon, a former Salt Lake County Mayor who is now the chairman of the Utah Democratic Party. “He’s the type of reporter who can strike fear into your heart when he calls for an interview, but at the end of the day, does his homework and presents the true facts.”

Mark Koelbel, KUTV 2News anchor, says Decker’s ability to take a complicated story and make it simple and understandable is effective and, often, funny. “He can take a complicated story, and you feel like he’s just talking to you as opposed to everybody out there in TV land,” Koelbel says. And compared to some other TV reporters, who Koelbel says will yammer on for up to 40 additional seconds interjecting themselves into the story, Decker’s intros last only a few seconds.

The quality of a state, or a city, is measured by many metrics, including the size of its workforce, affordability and the winning records of its sports teams.

As a young journalist, Decker says he believed one way to gauge the quality of a town was by its journalism. “I thought when I was young that the quality of journalism in a town affected the quality of the town,” he says. “Good journalism was an attribute of a good town.”

Decker has witnessed firsthand journalism’s high-point during Watergate to the low of today’s hemorrhaging news businesses—enough history and upheaval to cause the steeliest journalist to become jaded. But Decker’s outlook on the future isn’t as bleak as one might expect. Decker says the key to journalism is for reporters to continue to draw a paycheck while sniffing out great stories.

“It seems to me that news editors are important, camera people are important and all of that’s important, but it seems to me you’ve got to have reporters,” Decker says. “You’ve got to have someone who goes out, figures out what’s going on and tells people.”

At Becker’s campaign kickoff event, a few newspaper reporters were present, and Decker was the only TV reporter.

Many TV stations sent camera operators to catch some film. At the post-news-conference Q&A with Becker, Decker held the microphones for his news outlet and two others—and it was Decker who asked all of the questions.

Whether reporters are employed in the future by mighty organizations like The New York Times remains to be seen. What Decker knows is that we humans enjoy, and will always enjoy, a good story.

“I think, you got a good story, people pay attention,” he says.

And, for the past 43 years during his print and TV careers, Decker has been telling those stories nearly every single day—a habit that he says he doesn’t plan to stop any time soon.

“I’m a man of little character, I require structure,” Decker says. “And I’ll work for probably as long as they’ll have me. I don’t know, things may change. For what they pay me, they could hire 2 1/2 beautiful young women.”

Not only does Crawford, who started working at KUTV in 1982, intend to keep Decker around—he says as KUTV has changed hands over the years, not once has he been asked to get rid of Decker.

“They see what he brings—all of the journalistic qualities,” Crawford says. “I’ll take his work ethic and attitude over [beauty] any day.”

In spite of the body of political reporting Decker has amassed over the decades, Crawford, Koelbel and Gehrke all remember one story in particular. It involved an orange jumpsuit, which Decker was wearing, the Utah State Prison he was escaping from, and a bloodhound named Sherlock, which was trying to catch up to the fleeing reporter, who was there filming a story about the quality of the bloodhounds.

In the reel, Decker runs through brush, swims canals and floats down the spring-swollen Jordan River. After an hour of running, Decker circles back to the starting point. “Well, you’re a pretty good runner,” the police tracker says.

Rather than feigning modesty, or brushing the successful escape off as a fluke, Decker says it like it is: “Damn right,” he says. CW

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who helmed the Beehive State—Rampton, Matheson, Bangerter, Leavitt, Walker, Huntsman and now Herbert, a list that reads like a map of Utah state buildings and roadways— Decker’s career has paralleled a political shift in Utah that many of his fellow political reporters were born too late to witness: the Legislature’s sea change from a mixed bag of Democrats and Republicans (as late as the 1960s, he said, state lawmakers were split roughly evenly between the two parties) to today’s era of single-party domination.

Decker traces the migration toward a Republican supermajority back to the controversial 1973 Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which allowed women to receive legal abortions.

“Politics in Utah are conservative because of Mormons,” Decker says. “Mormons weren’t always conservative. Mormons are conservative [today] because American public morality changed.”

The fact that Mormons are religiously Republican, and non-Mormons in Utah tend to be staunch Democrats, has made Utah home to “the most religiously polarized voters in America,” Decker says. He notes that if no Mormons had voted in recent presidential elections, Utah would have been among the strongest Democratic-leaning states.

But, Decker says, the fervent LDS support for Republicans ranks the Saints high in a club, and a historic morality, that once persecuted it. “It’s a little ironic Mormons have become the rear guard of the old public morality—19th-century Protestant morality—that they used to invoke to throw [Mormons] in jail,” Decker says.

If it sounds like Decker has a lot to say on the topic of Utah politics, it’s true. He is in the middle of writing a book on the subject, which he hopes to publish sometime in 2016.

When published, this book will be his second plunge into the literary world. His first novel, An Environment for Murder, was published in 1994 by Signature Books.

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THURSDAY 10.8

Mychal Denzel Smith: Race & Policing In April 2015, The Nation contributing writer Michael Denzel Smith wrote a blog post with a provocative premise: Why not abolish the police?

In light of the widely publicized acts of violence against people of color by police officers and statistics that suggest that 90 percent of police activity involves enforcing municipal rules like traffic violations and the like, would all of us—not just wealthy white people, but all of us—actually be safer if there were no police at all?

“I don’t know what a world without police looks like,” Smith wrote. “I only know there will be less dead black people. I know that a world without police is a world with one less institution dedicated to the maintenance of white supremacy and inequality. It’s a world worth imagining.”

Since August, the Salt Lake City Main Library has been celebrating the 150th anniversary of The Nation with presentations by contributors to the magazine, covering a wide variety of hot-button topics. And few are hotter than Race & Policing, the topic of Smith’s presentation this week which wraps up the series. Smith has interviewed the founders of #BlackLivesMatter and is the author of the new book Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, a mix of memoir and political commentary about the evolution of the experience for young black males in the years since the election of Barack Obama. Join Smith in a conversation where there are no easy answers.

(Scott Renshaw) Mychal Denzel Smith: Race & Policing @ Salt Lake City Main Library Auditorium, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, Oct. 8, 7 p.m., free but registration is recommended at SLCPL.org/events/view/4294

THURSDAY 10.8

Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor: Confetti & Distress/ Honey & Suspicion Detritus, refuse, garbage: Call it what you will, the by-products of everyday life, with all their packaging, marketing and “planned obsolescence,” amount to a massive collection of objects and materials we spend an inordinate amount of energy to discard and avoid. In a manner of speaking, we’re rendering them almost ubiquitous in their conspicuous absence.

Sacramento, Calif.-based artist Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor has found a way to repurpose found objects—like fabric scraps and other castaways of consumerism—by fashioning them into sculptures that seem to take on human qualities; “Muppet-like” might be the most apt description. Simultaneously monstrous and endearing, both qualities are the result of a brush with the familiar, which is then turned by the artist into something radically different.

The twin titles of the show direct the viewer to contemplate the relationship between what we have come to rely on as comforting visually and texturally, and that which is disruptive to our expectations about experience, even to the point of cognitive dissonance. It’s not just the superficial sensory “fluff” of confetti set against the usually momentary experience of distress; it’s the much more subversive gulf between the sustenance of “honey” and a nagging feeling that these works suggest something that undermines our routines.

Those routines are based on a certain amount of waste, which we are in the habit of discarding from view. The difference this exhibit makes is it compels you to look and ponder. (Brian Staker) Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor: Confetti & Distress/Honey & Suspicion @ Mary Dee Elizabeth Shaw Gallery, 3964 Campus Drive, Weber State University, Ogden, through Nov. 21. Weber.edu/DOVA

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SATURDAY 10.10

Aerial Arts of Utah has been putting on fantastic showcases for more than five years, after taking over Revolve Aer­ial Dance in mid2010. The combined efforts of Deborah Epstein and Annie Kocherhans have helped highlight performers who specialized in aerial fabrics and trapeze shows throughout Salt Lake City—and not just in performing, but teaching techniques to professional and amateur dancers. Their wondrous shows make you wonder just how they achieve such graceful and imaginative displays.

Most likely, you’ve caught their performances at the Utah Arts Festival, as teams of dancers lift themselves 50 feet or more above the ground with little to protect them below.

This Friday, the company will take over the Black Box at the Rose Wagner Center for two nights to present its annual main stage performance of Flight of Fancy. Invoking images of costumed carnival performers of old, the group will showcase an array of acrobatic dance, trapeze, lyra (aerial hoop), aerial fabrics and more for 90 minutes.

Viewers will be treated to the grace and elegance of watching multiple dancers twist and bend far above the ground with nothing more than a strand of cloth keeping them from falling.

Thrill to fantastic poses and pure acrobatic feats from a pair of performers dangling from a ring as well as old-school trapeze work from artists who put their lives into each others’ hands to give you a masterful display using little more than a bar hanging from a pair of ropes. (Gavin Sheehan) Aerial Arts of Utah: Flight of Fancy @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-1787, Oct. 9-10, 7:30 p.m., $15-$25.

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Tosca—the opera by composer Giacomo Puccini and librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa—has garnered constant popular approval from audiences since its debut in 1900, ranking as one of the five most produced operas of the last decade. This week, Utah Opera brings Tosca to the Capitol Theatre.

The storyline follows in familiar operatic footsteps, full of intrigue, jealousy, broken promises and a love triangle. Tosca (Kara Shay Thomson) is our doomed heroine. Her lover, the painter Cavaradossi, meets with trouble when he helps a friend, escaped from prison, by hiding the fugitive in his apartment. The general, Scarpia (Michael Chioldi), who’s had his eye on Tosca, arrives on the scene and arrests Cavaradossi. With the lover out of the picture, Scarpia coerces Tosca to reveal the location of the fugitive. The final act, in which Cavaradossi and Tosca briefly reunite, ends in opera’s timeless tragic fashion.

Though this will be Thomson’s Utah Opera debut she is no stranger to Tosca, a role she has performed more than 100 times. But the star of this production might be the scenery. Each of Tosca’s three acts takes place at a different iconic location in Rome: the church of Sant’ Andrea della Valle, Scarpia’s apartment in Palazzo Farnese, and on the battlements of the Castle Sant’ Angelo.

The painted backdrops and wings—created by the late Italian master designer Ercole Sormani, and on loan from the Seattle Opera—re-create these scenes with astounding effect using little more than perspective and dimensionality to create the illusion of depth. (Katherine Pioli) Utah Opera: Tosca @ Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, Oct. 10, 12, 14, 16, 7:30; Oct. 18, 2 p.m. & 7 p.m.; $18-$89.

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Pod People

How the SLC radio host turned his basement into a professional studio.

BY GAVIN SHEEHAN comments@cityweekly.net

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n the landscape of podcasting, whether local or national, a good many creator are record their shows out of their homes. They’ve scrounged up equipment from a pawn shop, a free editing program, a card table and some folding chairs, a couple of beers and some good friends—and they have a show.

If you’re an avid podcast listener, probably 75 percent of the shows you listen to might be made this way. But when a podcaster has more than 25 years broadcasting experience under his belt and a top-ranking morning show to your name, that casual approach just doesn’t cut it for quality recording.

X96 Radio From Hell co-host Kerry Jackson launched the Geek Show Podcast in April 2008 in much the same manner— talking nerdy news with his trusted friends over shots in his basement. Jackson needed to take the show home due to his then-owner Simmons Media only having one studio that could do a multiple microphone setup: the X96 studio. With that space used for broadcasting 24/7, he sought out the next best alternative, which eventually came as a suggestion from his wife: to record it at home. After working out the kinks, the show’s schedule was established to record three episodes in a long session every three weeks, with weekly “broken news” spots from those who could join Kerry on their free time.

But as is the case with most home recordings, problems persisted in the form of background noise.

The sessions were recorded beneath the kitchen, so there were challenges when people were overhead. After years of having the studio setup in the basement—surrounded by toys and other geeky memorabilia—both Kerry and his wife Suzanne decided to remodel the lower half of their home. And with that came the opportunity for improvements for the show in the form of a brand new studio space.

They knocked down walls and made one large room for the studio, says Kerry. His wife “thought of most of it, actually. She said,

‘You sometimes have people over to observe, so you should have seating in Kerry Jackson, above, records the Geek Show there somehow.’ So we got some couchPodcast in his basement studio, pictured below. es over there for a private audience to come over and watch,” Kerry says.

When the renovation was underway, and you’ve been to one where this is muthey worked with what they had availsic,” Jackson says. “The one where there able in the house and improvised along is music, people are talking. It feels like a the way. They replaced everything they meeting if you don’t have music. You put could to make the room better for both on music, everyone relaxes a bit. It also recording and the comfort of the panelhelps with the image, because I’ve created ists. The table a special channel with punk, ska and rap. It they record on helps the mood along.” is a customized While he was able to make substantial IKEA office improvements for his own show, Jackson table, with a recognizes that not every podcaster is able hole in the cento make major changes to improve recordter for cords ing quality. However, he still hears shows to and a Velcro this day recorded with people over Skype, vinyl top for and bad microphone setups that would easy cleanup. make any listener cringe. To those who Thicker insulaare passionate about making a podcast, tion was added Jackson offers a few simple words of advice: to the west wall “It really baffles me,” Jackson says. “I think to block noise if you’re going to do [a podcast] on a regular from adjoinbasis, you really need to have a place that you ing rooms and can do it. But if you’re doing a podcast and hallways. The you’re daisy-chaining it that way, it’s just not main challenge listenable, and you’re losing listeners. to this new studio space was ventilation, “You should really dedicate a space, needed to heat and cool the room, with the whether it’s your living room or whatfurnace directly next to the studio. ever, but just make sure at that time evIn the end, Jackson had created one of erybody knows this is what we’re doing. It the best home studios he could construct. will just sound better, more professional, One of the more interesting highlights to and you’ll actually get a better show out recording sessions is that even with all the of it. When you have better shows, you get measures made to soundproof the room, more people listening. And that’s really Jackson still plays music in the background the key, right?” CW that can be subtly heard. It’s a conscious choice made for conversations.

“It’s a very simple equation: You’ve been to a party where there’s no music,

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Bengt Washburn Over the course of a nearly 20-year comedy career, Bengt Washburn has had plenty of fun at the expense of his Mormon heritage. On stage, he has described the rules for being a good Mormon as including “no drinking, no smoking, no premarital sex and, of course, the most logical one: No coffee. Because think about it: No drinking, no smoking, no sex … why stay awake? Why even bother getting out of bed, really?” And more generally: “One person doing something crazy, that’s a nut. A bunch of people doing something crazy, that’s a religion.”

Those who have seen Washburn perform locally during previous visits—including his headline sets during the 2013 Utah Arts Festival—will know that his off-kilter sensibility is wonderfully selfdeprecating, often focusing on his own relationships and his failure as an ideal physical specimen.

And if you can’t get enough of him from this week’s performance, you can buy his CD Bengt Over In Europe. (Scott Renshaw) Bengt Washburn @ Wiseguys Comedy Club, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588, Oct. 9-10, 8 p.m., $12, WiseguysComedy.com

PERFORMANCE THEATER

Aida CenterPoint Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, 801-298-1302, Oct. 5-31, 7:30 p.m., CenterPointTheatre.org A Midsummer Night’s Dream Covey Center for the Arts, 425 W. Center, Provo, Oct. 9-10, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m., CoveyCenter.org The Addams Family Beverly’s Terrace Plaza Playhouse, 99 East 4700 South, Ogden, Monday, Friday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., through Nov. 14, TerracePlayhouse.com The Addams Family Hale Center Theater, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, Oct. 8-Nov. 28, MondaySaturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 3 p.m.; HaleTheater.org An Ideal Husband Utah Valley University School of the Arts, 800 W. University Pkwy., ThursdaySaturday, 7:30 p.m.; matinee, Saturday, 2 p.m.; through Oct. 10, UVU.edu/arts Animal Farm Babcock Theatre, University of Utah, 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-7100, Oct. 2-10, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m.; Utah.edu Arsenic & Old Lace St. George Musical Theater, 128 N. 100 West, No. 124, St. George, 435-628-8755, Monday, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., through Oct. 31, SGMusicalTheater.com Behold, Zebulon Westminster College Jewett Center, 1840 S. 1300 East, Oct. 8-10 & 22-24, 7:30 p.m., WestminsterCollege.edu Big Fish Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 801-984-9000,

Oct. 14-Nov. 28, Wednesday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinees, noon & 4 p.m.; HCT.org Blackberry Winter Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, 801-363-7522, Wednesday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 1 & 6 p.m.; through Oct. 25, SaltLakeActingCompany.org Breaking Vlad Off Broadway Theatre, 272 Main Street, 801-355-4628, Monday, Friday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., through Oct. 31, TheOBT.org Bride of Frankenstein Sackerson Theatre Co., The Warehouse, 1030 S. 300 West, through Oct. 31, 8 p.m., Bride-of-Frankenstein.com Buried Child Silver Summit Theatre, Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 132 S. 800 West, 801-541-7376, Oct. 9-25, Friday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 4 p.m.; SilverSummitTheatre.org The Glass Menagerie CenterPoint Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, 801-298-1302, Monday, Thursday-Saturday, 7 p.m., through Oct. 17, CenterPointTheatre.org The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Covey Center for the Arts, 425 W. Center St., Provo, Monday, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., through Oct. 31, CoveyCenter.org Salem Witch Trials Salty Dinner Theater, 801-262-5083, various locations in Midvale, Murray, Sandy, Orem & Layton, through Oct. 29, SaltyDinnerTheater.com The Secret Lives of Clowns The Hive Theatre Co., Sorensen Unity Center, 1383 S. 900 West, Oct. 9-17, Friday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Saturday matinees 2 p.m.; HiveTheatre.com Star Wards: These Are Not the Elders You’re Looking For Desert Star Playhouse, 4861

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S. State, Murray, 801-266-2600, Monday, Wednesday-Thursday, 7 p.m.; Friday, 9:30 p.m., Saturday, 2:30, 6 & 8:30 p.m., through Nov. 27, DesertStar.biz Tuacahn: Disney’s Beauty and The Beast, Disney’s When You Wish Tuacahn Center for the Arts, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins, 435-652-3300, various dates & times, through Oct. 17, Tuacahn.org Utah Opera: Tosca Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, Oct. 10, 12, 14, 16 & 18, 7:30 p.m., UtahOpera.org (see p. 18) Utah Shakespeare Festival: Charley’s Aunt, Dracula, The Two Gentlemen of Verona 351 W. Center St., Cedar City, 800-752-9849, through Oct. 31, Bard.org West Side Story SCERA, 745 S. State, Orem, Monday, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., through Oct. 10, SCERA.org Young Frankenstein Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State, 801-957-3322, Oct. 8-30, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m.; The-Grand.org

DANCE

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Black Holes in Music Alpine Church, 254 W. 2675 North, Layton, Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m., DavisArts.org Eccles Organ Festival Cathedral of the Madeleine, 331 E. South Temple, 801-328-8941, Oct. 11, 8-9:30 p.m., EcclesOrganFestival.weebly.com Beethoven Sonatas op. 31 Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-6762, Oct. 11, 7 p.m., Music.Utah.edu

COMEDY & IMPROV

Bengt Washburn Wiseguys Comedy Club, 269 25th Street, Ogden, 801-622-5588, Oct. 9-10, 8 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com (see p. 22) Dan Cummins Wiseguys Comedy Club, 2194 W. 3500 South, 801-463-2909, Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 9-10, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Eddie Ifft Wiseguys Comedy Club, 2194 W. 3500 South, 801-463-2909, Oct. 14, 9 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Steve Hofstetter Club at 50 West, 50 W. 300 South, 385-229-1461, Oct. 9, 7 & 9:30 p.m., Club.50WestSLC.com

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Marriott Center for Dance, U of U, 330 S. 1500 East, 801-581-7100, Oct. 9-10 & 22-24, FridaySaturday, 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, 5:30 p.m.; Tickets.Utah.edu Rafael Dance: Emerge Peery’s Egyptian Theatre, 2415 Washington Blvd., 801-689-8700, Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m., EgyptianTheaterOgden.com

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LITERATURE AUTHOR EVENTS

Alex Caldiero reads Allen Ginsberg’s Howl Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-359-9670, Oct. 9, 7-9 p.m., UtahHumanities.org Becky Wallace: The Storyspinner Barnes & Noble Sugar House, 1104 E. 2100 South, 801-463-2610, Oct. 10, 2 p.m., BarnesandNoble.com Carl Phillips: Reconnaissance The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Oct. 12, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com Dr. Lynn Webster: The Painful Truth Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, Oct. 10, 2 p.m., WellerBookWorks.com Jennifer Jenkins: Nameless The King’s English Bookstore, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Oct 8, 7 p.m. KingsEnglish.com Margaret Stohl: Black Widow: Forever Red Viridian Event Center, 8030 S. 1825 West, Oct. 13, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com Mychal Denzel Smith: Race & Policing Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, Oct. 8, 7 pm, SLCPL.org/thenation (see p. 18) Tiffany Papageorge: My Yellow Balloon The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801484-9100, Oct. 10, 11 a.m., KingsEnglish.com

SPECIAL EVENTS FARMERS MARKETS

Downtown Pioneer Park, 300 W. 300 South,Saturday, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.; Tuesday, 4-9 p.m.; through Oct. 24, SLCFarmersMarket.org 9th West Jordan Park, 1060 S. 900 West, Sunday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., through Oct. 25, 9thWestFarmersMarket.org Riverton City Riverton Park, 1450 W. 12800 South, Saturday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., through Oct. 17, RivertonCity.com Sugar House Sugarmont Plaza, 2234 Highland Drive, Friday, 4-8 p.m., through Oct. 16, SugarHouseFarmersMarket.com Wheeler Farm Wheeler Farm, 6351 S. 900 East, Murray, 801-792-1419, Sunday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., through Oct. 25, WheelerFarm.com

FESTIVALS & FAIRS

Ogden Yoga Festival Weber State University Central Campus, 3848 Harrison Blvd., Ogden, 801-626-6000, Oct. 9-10, 4:30 p.m., OgdenYogaFest.org The Goblin’s Masquerade Crone’s Hollow, 2470 S. Main Street, 801-906-0470, Oct. 10, 8 p.m., CronesHollow.com Oktoberfest Snowbird Resort, Highway 210 Little Cottonwood Canyon, Snowbird, 801-933-2222, through Oct. 11, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6:30 p.m., Snowbird.com Pumpkin Festival Butterfield Park, 6212 Butterfield Park Way, Herriman, Oct. 10, 5-7 p.m., Herriman.org Salt Lake City Mini Maker Faire, Utah State Fairpark, 155 N. 1000 West, Oct. 10, noon-6pm, SLCMakerFaire.com

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

Aaron Wallis: The Street Bible Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts, 631 W. North Temple, Suite 700, through Oct. 24, MestizoArts.org Amalia Ulman: Stock Images of War Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Oct. 31, UtahMOCA.org Art2Go Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, 801-328-0703, through Oct. 9, AccessArt.org Bill Reed: Changing Visions: Womanscapes, Botanicals, and More Salt Lake City Library Chapman Branch, 577 S. 900 West, 801-594-8623, through Oct. 29, SLCPL.org Brian Bress: Make Your Own Friends Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, 801-581-7332, through Jan. 10, UMFA.Utah.edu Chad Farnes: Duct Tape Paintings Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, 801-596-5000, through Nov. 20, SaltLakeArts.org Chris Wiley: Black and White CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, 385-215-6768, through Nov. 14, CUArtCenter.org Create Your World: Photography by Carol Davis Day-Riverside Library, 1575 W. 1000 North, 801-594-8632, through Nov. 10, SLCPL.org

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Sandy Williams: Just Paint Art at the Main, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Oct. 10, SLCPL.org Sean Moyer: Winners and Losers CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, 385-215-6768, through Nov. 13; CUArtCenter.org Shawn Porter: Into the Ether Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Nov. 7, UtahMOCA.org Simone Simonian Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, 801-364-8293, through Oct. 16, Phillips-Gallery.com Skyler Chubak God Hates Robots, 314 W. 300 South, 801-596-3370, through Oct. 9, GodHatesRobots.com Stefan Lesueur: Obscura Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Dec. 19, UtahMOCA.org Still Life Exhibition Slusser Gallery, 447 E. 100 South, 801-532-1956, through Oct. 9, SlusserGallery.com Stitchscapes: Painted Collages by Laura Sommer Sprague Library, 2131 S. 1100 East, 801-594-8640, through Nov. 20, SLCPL.org The Balance: New Paintings and Sculpture by Brian Kershisnik David Ericson Fine Art, 418 S. 200 West, through Oct. 19, DavidEricson-FineArt.com The British Passion for Landscape: Masterpieces from National Museum Wales Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, 801-581-7332, through Dec. 13, UMFA.Utah.edu Trompe L’oeil Still Life Exhibition Slusser Gallery, 447 E. 100 South, 801-532-1956, through Oct. 9, MarkSlusser.com

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DesignArts Utah 2015 Rio Grande Depot, 300 S. Rio Grande St., 801-245-7270, through Oct. 23; artist reception Oct. 16, 6-9 p.m., Heritage.Utah.gov Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor: Confetti & Distress/Honey & Suspicion Mary Dee Elizabeth Shaw Gallery, 3964 Campus Drive, Weber State University, Ogden, through Nov 21, Weber.edu/DOVA (see p. 18) Firelei Baez: Patterns of Resistance Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Jan. 16, UtahMOCA.org Joe Ostraff Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, 801364-8293, through Oct. 14, Phillips-Gallery.com Kate Ericson & Mel Ziegler: Grandma’s Cupboard Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Dec. 19, UtahMOCA.org Kristina Lenzi and Darryl Erdmann Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, 801-596-5000, through Nov. 20, SaltLakeArts.org Letters: Great Authors, Great Quotes Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, through Oct. 21, CulturalCelebration.org Lizze Määttälä: Uphill/Both Ways Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Nov. 7, UtahMOCA.org Movement in Film: A loveDANCEmore Exhibit Sweet Library, 455 F Street, 801-594-8651, through Oct. 17, SLCPL.org Rebecca Klundt: Reformation—A Rearranging of Elements Rio Grande Depot, 300 S. Rio Grande St., through Nov. 13, VisualArts.Utah.gov

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It’s about a six-hour drive from Salt Lake City, but by air, it takes longer to get through security and the airport boarding process than the actual flight, which is a little more than an hour. At any rate, every now and then I get the urge to indulge in the vices a quick getaway to Sin City offers.

Those vices might not be what you think.

I don’t really gamble much; on this most recent trip, I was given a voucher from the hotel when I checked in for a free slot-machine pull. I won $10, walked away with my winnings, and didn’t gamble the rest of the trip.

Nor do I overindulge in drink when I’m in Las Vegas; you won’t find me staggering The Strip with a yard-long neon plastic cocktail container in my hand. And hookers would be out of business if mine were the standard Las Vegas visitor profile. No, my Vegas vices revolve around excellent food and entertainment.

With so many dining options and celebrity chef-run restaurants in town, it’s difficult at times to decide where to eat—a problem I embrace, happily. Should I dine at Joel Robuchon’s or at Guy Savoy’s? At Charlie Palmer’s Aureole or Tom Colicchio’s Craftsteak? Hubert Keller. Pierre Gagnaire. JeanGeorges Vongerichten. They all beckon.

However, on this most recent visit to Vegas, I tried some spots that are probably under the radar of many foodies, and places that wouldn’t require refinancing our house to pay for the meals. Here are a few I can highly recommend if your travels take you to Las Vegas.

If the name Matthias Merges sounds familiar, it should. He was chef du cuisine at Charlie Trotter’s in Chicago, and served as Charlie Trotter’s right-hand man for most of the time the restaurant existed. Merges took some time off to open The Metropolitan here in Salt Lake City before returning, eventually, to continue working with Charlie. A few years ago, Matt opened his own very successful Chicago restaurant, Yusho, and more recently, a second outpost in Las Vegas’ Monte Carlo Resort and Casino.

Yusho (3770 S. Las Vegas Blvd., 702-730-6888, YushoLV.com) specializes in Asian-style street food at close-to-street-food prices. It’s one of the best bargains in Vegas.

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outside of Japan. Homemade steamed buns ($5-$6) are excellent and include Give Thai a try: Fried Lobster from Lotus of Siam choices of crispy cod, pork shoulder with caramelized kimchi, eggplant with sweet soy marinade and Fuji apples, the show by Beatles producer George Martin and crispy chicken. Skewers from the grill in- and his son Giles Martin, and 2. not casting clude octopus, duck breast, Chilean sea bass, characters to play John, Paul, George and pork belly, lamb, tofu steak, hamachi kama Ringo. The only time individual Beatles are and ribeye. Better yet, just put yourself in the identifiable is via photos and videos prochef’s capable hands and dine omakase-style jected on screens. If you see only one show “to entrust”: $65 for five courses. in Vegas, it should be Love.

Prior to attending Cirque du Soleil’s And, love is what I feel for Las Vegas’ best Beatles extravaganza, Love, we enjoyed pizza: The coal-fired oven at Grimaldi’s an early dinner at the Hard Rock Hotel’s (3327 S. Las Vegas Blvd., 702-754-3448, Mexican cantina, the Pink Taco (4455 GrimaldisPizzeria.com) in The Palazzo proParadise Road, 702-693-5525, HardRock- duces pies exactly like those from the pizzeHotel.com). It’s a fun, boisterous place with ria’s original 1905 Brooklyn Bridge location.

2-for-1 drinks and inexpensive antojitos The best meal, by far, I’ve had this year during happy hour. The menu ranges from was at Lago, the new Julian Serrano resMexican sandwiches called tortas and So- taurant in The Bellagio (3600 S. Las Vegas noran “street dogs” to full-on meal-size Blvd., 866-259-7111, Bellagio.com). This is plates like pescado Veracruz ($18), slow-roast- Serrano’s brilliant take on Italian-style ed pork carnitas ($15), street tacos (three tapas. Seated on the patio next to the for $11), burritos, tamales and more. I was Bellagio’s famed dancing fountains, we thrilled to discover another outstanding eat- enjoyed plate after plate of simple, yet ery at the Hard Rock, a restaurant with a ter- exquisite, food. A crudo choice like tonno rific poolside patio called Culinary Dropout ($19)—raw ahi tuna with orange and mi(4455 Paradise Road, 702-522-8100, cro-greens—was divine, as was lightly CulinaryDropout.com) (I’ll give you one browned potato gnocchi with lobster guess about chef Sam Fox’s culinary edu- knuckles and salsa di crostacei, a heavenly, cation). Share a pot of black mussels with rich shellfish sauce. Veal-stuffed agnolotti spicy sausage cooked in Stella Artois ($13) or ($16) in a silky veal demi-glaze was stupebarbecued pork-belly nachos ($14), before fying; ditto fusillioro pasta Abruzzo-style moving on to entrees such as sweet-corn with lamb ragu and fresh ricotta ($15). cannelloni ($16), homestyle meatloaf ($18), I said I didn’t gamble, but that’s not quite or rainbow trout with green beans, caramel- true. There’s an incredible Thai restaurant ized shallots and toasted almonds. in an off-Strip shopping center called Lotus About The Beatles Love: I grew up with the of Siam (953 E. Sahara Ave., 702-735-3033, Beatles, so I was expecting greatness from LotusofSiamLV.com). The food is amazing, the Cirque du Soleil show. And I got it. But as is the wine selection. An entire wall is demy 15-year-old son, Hank, provided the ul- voted solely to Riesling. I was told by foodie timate review: “That’s the most amazing friends to order the fried lobster, which thing I’ve ever seen!” he said. And, like any must be done in advance, so I did. Did I ask Cirque du Soleil performance, Love is im- what the market price was? Nope. That was possible to capture in words. It is, at times, my big gamble. When the bill arrived, the a participatory experience on the part of the lobster was $145! It was a helluva lobster, audience, and kudos to the creators for 1, us- but I sort of felt like I walked away from the ing original Beatles recordings, remixed for table a Las Vegas loser. CW

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One of the tastiest food and drink soirees each year is Slow Food Utah’s annual Feast of Five Senses. The 11th annual feast will take place Sunday, Oct. 18, at Westminster College’s Jewett Center for the Performing Arts (1840 S. 1300 East).

Local chefs were asked to “re-imagine” their favorite family recipes for this year’s theme, “Our Family Table.” Participating chefs include Amber Billingsley of 3 Cups, Forage’s Bowman Brown, Logen Crew from Current, Em’s’ Emily Gassmann, Jen Gilroy of Porch, Elisabeth LaFond from Bon Appetit, Tin Angel’s Jerry Liedtke, Les Madeleines owner Romina Rasmussenf, Liberty Heights Fresh’s Wendy Robinson, and Provisions’ Tyler Stokes. Tickets are available at SlowFoodUtah.org.

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In addition, Hearth’s new menu offers hearty fall items like wood-oven-roasted bone marrow; seared and braised quail with blue-cheese dumplings; red-winebraised beef short ribs with creamy herb polenta; a chorizo-spiced Wagyu-beefand-wild-boar Autumn Hearth Burger; espresso elk and waffles; grass-fed yak tartare; “slow food Stroganoff” and much more, including seasonal cocktails.

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SEGMENTS Monopalooza

Chamonix

Deer Valley

Featured Athletes: Rachael Burks, Various Monoskiers

Featured Athletes: JT Holmes, Espen Fadnes

Equipment: Monoskis, Motorcycle

Equipment: Parachutes, Skis, Helicopter

Featured Athletes: Jonny Moseley, Dylan Walczyk, Sho Kashima, Troy Tully, K.C. Oakley, Troy Murphy, Hannah Kearney, Bryon Wilson, Joe Discoe, Mikaela Matthews

Few people have ever even heard of Monopalooza, and most folks can spend an entire season on the slopes without spotting a monoskier. For 17 years, a group of single-plank diehards have congregated annually and chartered local ski resorts. This year, White Pine, Jackson Hole and Grand Targhee are the lucky hosts of this motley crew. Rachael Burks is a pro when it comes to big-mountain skiing, but she’s a rookie on the monoski. For her, this week is “an opportunity for all the lone wolves to get together and run as a pack.”

Chamonix is a place of pioneers. An epicenter in climbing, skiing, base jumping and more—it is a region that has always set the bar in extreme snowsports. It is the perfect mountainous terrain for speedriders JT Holmes and Espen Fadnes to push the limits. As local French photographer Rene Robert puts it, there are plenty “white pages” of mountainsides to write on. Communication is key when defying gravity and taking flight where the mountain ends. Both Holmes and Fadnes are able to distinguish the crucial difference between skiing and speedriding: It’s not okay to fall. When something goes wrong in speedriding, both Holmes and Fadnes recognize that “you’re either lucky, or you’re in big trouble.”

Valdez

Alaska’s Chugach

Nepal

Featured Athletes: Lexi DuPont, McKenna Peterson, Amie Engerbretson

Featured Athletes: Kaylin Richardson, Marcus Caston, Oystein Aasheim

Featured Athletes: Rob Kingwill, Seth Wescott

Equipment: Skis, RV, Helicopter

Equipment: Skis, Skins, Avalanche beacon, Shovel, Probe

Equipment: Snowboards, Helicopter

Guides: Valdez Heli Guides

Guides: Points North Heli Guides

Guides: Himalayan Heli Ski Guides

Impressive landscapes of immaculate terrain make up the mountains of Valdez, Alaska. Athletes Amie Engerbretson, McKenna Peterson and Lexi duPont are willing to admit the high level of intimidation these jagged peaks can generate.

Standing at the top, as Engerbretson puts it, “can be a mixed bag of emotions.” Hailing from ski towns like Tahoe and Sun Valley, these three perceive skiing this territory not only as an ambitious feat, but also as one of legacy and curiosity.

With parents who are local skiing celebrities, fishermen and adventure filmmakers, these girls have been motivated to ski Alaska’s mountains their entire lives. Traveling via helicopter and RV across the Valdez region, they are here to find out what the hype around AK is all about.

Earning your turns takes on a different meaning when you base out of a picturesque touring camp in the heart of the Chugach and ski flawless summits day after day.

Professional skiers Kaylin Richardson, Marcus Caston, and Øystein Aasheim sleep beneath the Northern Lights, waking each morning to sustained, 50-degree pitches outside their tents at PNH Touring Camp. In the Chugach, you can’t force your agenda. Safety comes first when hiking and skiing vertical topography. As Richardson puts it, “you bow at the foot of these mountains,” and know that it is ultimately up to the landscape whether you ski each day or not. Up here, it’s the kind of solitude and quietness that can fulfill and sustain you as you trek up mountainsides in pursuit of deep and playful lines.

After weeks of delays and travel mishaps to Kathmandu, snowboarders Rob Kingwill and Seth Wescott find themselves in Nepal, one of the world’s most visually striking and culturally rich countries. Kingwill, always an optimist, says “it’s not really an adventure until something goes wrong.”

After exploring the countryside, the two snowboarders arrive at 17,000 feet in the Himalaya, carving and floating amongst some of the most stunning geological features on the planet, the Annapurna Mountain Range. Back at Annapurna Basecamp, Wescott and Kingwill share their love for snowboarding with Sherpas and local staff. The guys find that in a location like Nepal, it’s easy to reflect on why it is they do what they do.

Equipment: Skis The U.S. Freestyle Ski Team has a roster of some of the best skiers in the world. Combining speed, agility, acrobatics and style, athletes like Jonny Moseley paved the way for those currently navigating the mogul courses at Park City and Deer Valley—athletes like Hannah Kearney, Dylan Walczyk, Sho Kashima, K.C. Oakley and many more. What makes this new regime so strong is “a healthy disrespect for the current state of mogul skiing,” says Moseley, reflecting the essence of the freestyle attitude. Follow the team as we see a stylistic return to how the sport originated in the 1970s.

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Featured Athletes: Chris Anthony

Equipment: Skis, Snowboards, Powsurfer, Avalanche beacon, Shovel, Probe, Skins What most Utah-based snow explorers have in common is a deep appreciation for what Utah’s mountains have to share with any adventurous spirit. The Wasatch Mountain Range towers above Salt Lake City, Utah, and among it are peaks as high as 12,000 feet. The backcountry landscape is known for being heavy in pure ski action and light in populated and skied-out terrain. Midwest and East Coast transplants Caroline Gleich, Matt Philippi and the Provo brothers, Ian and Neil, hike narrow ridges and ascend peaks on foot, all with the goal of later ripping down them. Utah natives Jeremy Jensen and Steven Nyman never left their home state and continue to thrust the snowsports they love in new directions.

The “Cowboy Downhill” is an opportunity for rodeo all-stars to prove themselves on the ski slopes. For 41 years, Steamboat, Colorado, has hosted this annual mountain mayhem. This year, Warren Miller veteran Chris Anthony is just another cowboy keeping it country.

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The Warren Miller film crew, accompanied by a team of powerhouse athletes: Ian McIntosh, Sage Cattabriga-Alosa and Ingrid Backstrom, held out on conditions before heading to South America. Patience is rewarded when the Chilean Andes get hit with 100+ inches of snow over seven days in Portillo. With road closures blocking other folks from reaching the slopes, the crew gets the goods at Ski Portillo all to themselves.

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his fall, Warren Miller Entertainment releases Chasing Shadows, the 66th edition of its annual winter sports film. This year’s installment of the iconic winter sports film series celebrates why skiers and snowboarders commit themselves every winter to a passion that’s guaranteed to melt away every spring. And, as always, Warren Miller’s annual film tradition marks the beginning of colder weather, winter exploration and premier cinematography that reignites the excitement for winter sports. Warren Miller once said, “A pair of skis are the ultimate transportation to freedom,” and in this year’s film, Chasing Shadows, skiers and snowboarders find that very freedom as they chase storms, snow and lines on the world’s highest peaks.

Follow the world’s biggest names in skiing and snowboarding on a breathtaking cinematic journey. Watch JT Holmes, Seth Wescott, Caroline Gleich, Steven Nyman, Marcus Caston, Ingrid Backstrom and more as they pursue turns on the mountains of our dreams—the French Alps, Alaska’s Chugach, Utah’s Wasatch, the Chilean Andes and the mightiest range of them all: the Himalaya.

“This year’s film will inspire viewers to search out their dreams and find freedom,” says Director of Cinematography Chris Patterson, who has been making films with Warren Miller for 24 years. “ Our athletes show us that anything is possible if your passions and desires are in the right direction.”

Take a glimpse into the world of the U.S. freestyle team and the snowsports that live on the fringe, like monoskiing, powsurfing and speedriding. Then explore what it is about culturally rich locations and snow-covered summits that motivate passionate skiers and snowboarders to keep searching and chasing after a feeling, a memory, a storm, a turn each winter and for a lifetime more.

The annual Warren Miller Film Tour for Chasing Shadows will kick off in Salt Lake City, Utah, on October 16, 2015, and will hit cities the Rockies, Midwest, California, Pacific Northwest, East Coast and Southwest on a national tour October through December 2015.

Dates and show times can be found at warrenmiller.com.

Attending a Warren Miller film is a tradition that marks the start to every winter season. Each attendee will receive exclusive resort and retail savings from Warren Miller resort, retail and manufacturer partners with the best values in the industry. Additionally, moviegoers have a chance to win ski vacations, ski and snowboard gear, swag and the opportunity to meet athletes featured in the film.

Tickets go on sale September 21, 2015, and a presale will be available one week before, starting September 14. The presale will be offered online and at participating REI locations for $4 off each ticket purchased.

Winter starts with Warren Miller, and this year, we’re Chasing Shadows.

“Monopalooza” Wyoming “Space Cowboy” Steve Miller Band “Blaze up the Fire (feat.

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Tacos, Pizza or Sushi What do you enjoy doing to give your body a break?

(Recovery routine, healing tips, etc.) Ice bath, massage, recovery run Can you tell us about some of the gear you were using in your segment with WME? Patagonia clothes, Pret helmets (so lightweight and awesome and great colors), Leki poles, Nordica skis (lightweight and rip on the down), Skida headbands and neck gaiters - my fav! Elemental Herbs Sunscreen Other than professional athlete, what is your dream job?

An artist - painting Most memorable moment filming with WME this year?

Sunrise on Superior Your idea of a perfect vacation sans skiing?

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“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” - Wayne Gretzky Tunes to ski to?

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BEER, WINE & SPIRITS

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Snowbird’s brats & beer celebration ends this weekend.

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lthough the annual number of attendees differs by a couple degrees of magnitude—some 6 million-plus visitors in Munich as opposed to 60,000 here—one thing Snowbird Resort’s 43rd annual Oktoberfest has going for it is that there’s still one last weekend to enjoy the Oktoberfest fun in Utah, whereas the 2015 Munich Oktoberfest in Germany ended Oct. 4. So dust off your lederhosen for one last Bavarian-style fling. Oktoberfest ends Sunday, Oct. 11, at 6:30 p.m.

Unlike Oktoberfest in Munich, Snowbird’s is about more than just beers and brats (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Visitors to Snowbird during Oktoberfest will discover a dizzying ar-

ray of local and regional artists displaying handmade arts and crafts at “Der Marktplatz,” where you can shop until you drop for a winter sweater, piece of artwork for the living room or one-of-a-kind article of jewelry. There are kids’ activities galore, from face-painting and bounce houses to the Mountain Flyer zip-line, bungee trampoline, carnival games, caricature drawings, climbing wall, alpine slide, mountain coaster, vertical drop, mining for gold, bike and scooter rentals, fishing at Austin Pond and a ropes course. There’s also hiking, mountain biking, Snowbird Aerial Tram rides, the Peruvian chairlift and tunnel, as well as live music and entertainment for the entire family.

You won’t want to miss the Alphorns of Salzburger Echo, which you can enjoy while taking an Aerial Tram ride. They perform on Hidden Peak (bring a sweater or jacket!) each day during Oktoberfest at 3:15 p.m. Other entertainers for Oktoberfest 2015 include Shan the Juggler and Dale Myrberg, the YoYo Man. Inside the Oktoberfest Halle, you’ll also be treated to the sounds and sights of traditional German Oktoberfest by the likes of the Polkatones, Alpenfolk, Alpine Express, B&B All Stars and Europa. There’s also live music outside on the Chickadee Music Stage.

You may want to meet the Bürgermeister (Mayor of Oktoberfest) while you’re there.

Part of the Bürgermeister’s job is to help

DRINK promote Bavarian culture and to help explain Oktoberfest’s 205-year history. Rick Schwemmer is in his fifth year serving as Bürgermeister; his father Walter was Bürgermeister for 10 years. The original Bürgermeister for Snowbird’s Oktoberfest was Horst Young, who held the position for 26 years.

Of course, there will be brats and beer.

In recent years at Snowbird’s Oktoberfest, visitors devoured some 6,000 pounds of bratwurst and weisswurst, 4,500 pounds of chicken and 2,000 Granny Smith apples in the form of strudel. Of course, much beer will be consumed as well, in addition to wine at Biergarten locations throughout the Oktoberfest grounds. And this year, Oktoberfest is appropriately featuring a large selection of German beers. You can even purchase a 22-ounce refillable glass souvenir stein like they serve beers in at the München Biergarten in Germany.

Anyone looking for a peaceful dinner after celebrating Oktoberfest should head up to the 10th floor of the Cliff Lodge to the Aerie restaurant, with its spectacular mountain views and excellent cuisine from executive chef Ken Ohlinger. His eclectic menu covers the bases, from poke

salad and sushi rolls, to elk meatloaf, lobster macaroni & cheese, grilled pork loin with braised pork cheek, pan-seared trout, burgers, sandwiches and more.

Or, find South of the Border flavors at Cliff Lodge’s El Chanate, where chef Carlos Perez cooks up tantalizing Mexican dishes like pollo & mole, shrimp taquitos, sopes de carne asada and steak filet with cactus, to name a few.

I hope you enjoy this last gasp of Oktoberfest at Snowbird. Prost!

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Serving loyal customers since 1993, first at the original Foothill Boulevard location and now on Parley’s Way and University Avenue in Provo, Bombay House combines authentic Indian flavors with equally authentic Indian warmth and hospitality. Starters like onion bhaji and chicken pakora combine with soups like saag shorba and mulligatawny to get things rolling. The lamb, chicken and shrimp tandoori offerings are quite popular.

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Naan, paratha and roti flatbreads are perfect for sopping up every last drop of the luscious curries. For those looking for heat, give the vibrant vindaloo a go. Bombay House also features lots of vegetarian options, along with Indian tea and coffee, rose milk, strawberry and mango lassis, a mango soy shake, plus beer, sodas and wine. Multiple Locations, BombayHouse.com

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Some come for stinky cheeses from the cheese cave, others pop in to satisfy their sweet-tooth cravings with the vast gourmet-chocolate selection. There’s also the temperature-controlled curing cell where stupendous artisan sausages and salami are cured. And then there’s the vast array of gourmet foodstuffs: imported cheeses and meats, pastas, olive oil and vinegars, fresh truffles and about a thousand other items to tempt your palate.

If all of that isn’t enough, there’s also Caputo’s deli, brimming with made-to-order sandwiches, salads and lots more. 314 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-531-8669; 1516 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-486-6615, CaputosDeli.com

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Standards include pad Thai & spring rolls, but if you’re in the mood for something more exotic, try the honey-ginger duck or Thai curry puff. Tofu can be substituted for meat in any dish, and an extensive vegetarian selection will thrill herbivores. Named for its owner, Sawadee specialized in wholesome, family-style Thai cuisine served up in a friendly atmosphere. Hot & spicy dishes include the Thai curries, which can be tamed to your specification. Pretty good wine list, too. 754 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-328-8424, Sawadee1.com

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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

Texas de Brazil of Salt Lake City is an authentic BrazilianAmerican Churrascaria, or steakhouse, that combines the tastes of Brazil and Texas. Turn your place card from red to green and prepare for the carvers to ready cuts of beef, lamb, chicken, pork and sausage. Accompany your meal with the restaurant’s signature cocktail—the Caipirinha—a mix of Brazilian Cachaca, syrup, ice and a fresh lime. Open for dinner every day except Sunday, Texas de Brazil will undoubtedly impress. 50 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 385-232-8070, TexasDeBrazil.com

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Notable for being one of the few places that serve latenight 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

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ometimes, to understand the end, you have to know the beginning” goes the early narration in Pan—and it’s hard to imagine a 2015 movie that fails so spectacularly at fulfilling its own thesis statement.

We’ve become accustomed to movies that attempt some new spin on a familiar popculture character, whether it’s the seemingly infinite brand-extensions in Disney’s live-action versions of its animated classics, or relatively sedate tales like Mr. Holmes.

In the risk-averse world of modern moviemaking, it’s easy to understand why studios take advantage of opportunities where half the marketing work is already done for them. There even sometimes can be uniquely fertile creative ground in re-imagining a well-known narrative for a different era, or to explore a new theme.

But there’s a promise implicit in the above quote, as well as in the related tagline (“Every legend has a beginning”) employed in Pan’s ad campaign: This movie is going to provide a backstory that evolves logically into the Peter Pan known from J.M. Barrie’s book, or from the beloved Walt Disney animated feature. That does not happen.

The screenplay by Jason Fuchs opens with a child being left by his mother (Amanda Seyfried), on an orphanage doorstep in London accompanied by a letter and a necklace with a pan-flute charm. Twelve years later, in the middle of the World War II Blitz of London, young Peter (Levi Miller) lives with the other orphans, getting into adventurous shenanigans that vex the greedy, cruel nun who runs the place. Throw in a few musical production numbers about their hard-knock life, and you’d have Pannie.

Soon, most of the orphans have been kidnapped by the bungee-jumping crew of a flying pirate ship and spirited away to the airborne island of Neverland. There they are turned into slave laborers for the pirate

Blackbeard (a pleasantly campy Hugh Jackman), mining a rare mineral that provides the fairies with their fairy dust, which includes among its powers the ability to bestow eternal youth. It’s here that Peter meets James Hook (Garrett Hedlund, chewing over his dialogue with a ferocity that might convince you he’s faking his actual American accent); the surly, fedora-wearing adult has apparently been working in these mines since childhood, and he presumably is destined to eventually lose his hand and turn into Peter’s primary adversary. It’s also here that director Joe Wright (Anna Karenina [2012]) gets cutesy trying to turn Neverland into a place out of time, so that the kids can chant the lyrics to “Smells Like Teen Spirit” upon the arrival of the new recruits, and we can learn the new level of chutzpah required to ignore the ironic significance of “Here we are now/ Entertain us.”

The rest of the plot is a dense collection of elements—characters including a hidden population of fairies with a near-infinite supply of “pixium”; a group of Neverland natives, including the warrior princess Tiger Lily (Rooney Mara); the mysterious tale of Peter’s mother—intended to build an archetypal hero-quest character arc for Peter as he tries to determine if he is “The One” foretold by prophecy to defeat Blackbeard and the pirates. But the fundamental nature of the hero’s quest is that it’s a coming-of-age story. This makes literally zero sense when the character we’re talking about is Peter Pan. The character’s singlemost defining trait—

Hugh Jackman and Levi Miller in Pan the one everybody knows—is that he never wants to grow up. Yet, somehow, someone thought it was a brilliant idea to suggest that the legend of that mischievous eternal adolescent began with him learning to accept his heroic destiny.

It’s fair to ask if such a reading ignores what Pan delivers as simple fantasy spectacle—and indeed, it is occasionally satisfying on that superficial level. Some of the characters die in explosions of pastel powder that make the action sequences resemble a Hindu Festival of Colors; the soaring pirate ship flies past spherical floating oceans inhabited by strange creatures. But the decision to take an energetic kiddie-oriented blockbuster and connect it to the story of Peter Pan was one made by the filmmakers, and you can’t have it both ways: If you’re going to pull viewers in by telling them you’ll explain how a young boy became Peter Pan, you’d better actually give them Peter Pan. We already understood the ending, but whatever beginning it might have, this ain’t it. CW

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99 HOMES BBB.5 Ramin Bahrani—writer and director of the warm character studies Man Push Cart and Goodbye Solo—isn’t kidding around with his latest, which begins with a real-estate agent complaining that a certain house will be harder to re-sell now that its former owner has messily committed suicide in it. It’s 2010, and the vulture, Rick Carver (Michael Shannon), makes his living grabbing up foreclosed-upon homes. He’s the soulless counterpart to Bahrani’s emotion-driven protagonist, Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield), a jack-of-all-trades who loses his house to Carver, and then, desperate to support his family, takes a job working for him. Carver’s greed-driven operation requires numbness to the pain of evicting people, plus some actual law-breaking; the question is how dirty Dennis will let himself get.

Bahrani’s earnest, didactic style is occasionally strident, but the film’s simple formula gives it the feel of a morality play, with Carver as the devil and Dennis as the good man being tempted. Shannon is magnetic as the conniving, acid-tongued Carver, making the film funnier than you might expect it to be, while Garfield’s expressive tearfulness provides emotional balance. It’s a potent mix. Opens Oct. 9 at theaters valleywide. (R)—Eric D. Snider

HIGHWAY TO DHAMPUS BB.5 Good intentions spill from every corner of writer/director Rick McFarland’s low-key drama; if only it all added up to something more substantial. The narrative begins with English socialite Elizabeth (Rachel Hurd-Wood) attempting to salvage a tabloid-tarnished reputation by taking a trip to do charity work at a Nepalese orphanage, accompanied by American photographer Colt (Gunner Wright).

Typically, this might be the cue for a clueless Westerner to learn important lessons from her work in the Third World, but the pleasant surprise is that even more of the film is devoted to the actual Nepalese characters: Laxmi (Suesha Rana), the orphanage’s teacher, and Ajit (Raj Ballav Koirala), the pilot-for hire who takes Elizabeth and Colt to the remote location. And there’s some lovely location footage to accompany the slow evolution of the character relationships. But

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Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for women’s rights in the Third World. It’s just a shame that conceit doesn’t work better. Much of the film follows Malala and her family in exile in England, attempting to humanize her by showing how she’s just a normal teenager who fights with her brothers and looks at cute celebrities on the Internet. Yet there’s also a lot of time spent on context—both the world of Malala’s home in the Taliban-controlled Swat Valley, and her childhood with an education-committed father who named her after a legendary Muslim freedom-fighter. And both sections fall flat in different ways, as Guggenheim captures both the whirlwind of her present-day public life and those formative years in ways that are respectful without often being terribly illuminating. He mostly seems determined to show how nice Malala is—which feels disappointing, considering her work is all about girls refusing simply to be “nice.” Opens Oct. 9 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)—SR

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The narrative moves back and forth between the near aftermath of the accident and legal proceedings six months later, and there’s a general plodding lugubriousness to the film as Chris mourns while getting advice from pretty much everyone he encounters, including a convenience-store clerk. But the larger problem is that Just Let Go builds to a revelation that feels designed merely as a big “surprise!” while never helping inform the first hour, except for resulting in the character of Chris’ mother (Brenda Vaccaro) making no sense whatsoever. The well-intentioned lessons about forgiveness and redemption can provide their own emotional impact; a script has a responsibility for creating characters who behave like actual people.

Opens Oct. 9 at theaters valleywide. (PG)—Scott Renshaw

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MISSISSIPPI GRIND BBB The new film from Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson) is bound to please moviegoers who dislike excessive expository handholding. It may not play as well with those who expect traditional character development and motivation, since it’s about gambling and the inexorable role luck plays in it, reflected structurally in a narrative with action that’s based entirely on coincidence and happenstance. Given all of this, it’s only natural that underlying truth, to the extent it’s even present, is a bit inscrutable. All of this opacity is made more palatable by the two lead performances: Ben Mendelsohn and Ryan Reynolds are both very good (particularly Reynolds) and extremely appealing, as two different types of compulsive gamblers who fall in a kind of platonic love-at-first-sight and embark on an impromptu journey gambling down the Mississippi River from Iowa to New Orleans. Neither is exactly as he initially appears, and the resistance by Boden and Fleck to putting them through conventional gambling movie hijinks forces Mendelsohn and Reynolds to really

WALT BEFORE MICKEY B.5 I’d like to think that this partial biography of Walt Disney (Thomas Ian Nicholas)—following him from his childhood through his early career as an animator, right up to the creation of the character that changed his life and the world—would feel quite unsatisfactory even to those who were not already extremely familiar with the true story on which it’s based. Actually, it’s not even so much about taking liberties, though director Khoa Le and the screenwriting team do so. It’s the decision to douse everything in a twinkly, romanticized tone that probably struck the filmmakers as apropos for Disney’s life but, in fact, loses all that was spiky and determined about the man. Sure, he just weathered his early failures with spunky determination, not because he was a single-minded perfectionist. And there’s an awful lot of not-very-good acting going on, which doesn’t help matters. Maybe this is the perfect version for everyone who thought the first hour of the PBS American Experience documentary savaged the idealized legend of Walt Disney. This one won’t offend anyone, except people who prefer movies not to be pre-digested for them. Opens Oct. 9 at Megaplex Jordan Commons and Megaplex South Jordan. (PG)—SR

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THE WALK BBB Glimpses of the Robert Zemeckis who was a consummate craftsman of pop entertainment elevate his adaptation of the true story of Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the French tightrope artist who launched a daring, illegal attempt to walk across the span between New York’s as-yet-unfinished Twin Towers in 1974.

That story was already told in James Marsh’s Oscar-winning documentary Man on Wire, and Zemeckis proves far clunkier in setting up Petit’s fascination with his dangerous “coup.” It’s far more engaging once it becomes a de facto heist caper, and the walk itself is breathtaking filmmaking, even if Alan Silvestri’s heavy-handed score almost ruins the tone of exhilarating accomplishment. Zemeckis and his visual effects team revive the Towers themselves as characters—modern peaks inspiring “because it’s there” exploration, now just ghosts—while also reviving memories of Zemeckis’ own peaks as a director. (PG-13)—SR

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SuperMansion Thursday, Oct. 8 (Crackle)

Series Debut: 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 seniorcitizen stop-motion 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.

Red Oaks Friday, Oct. 9 (Amazon Prime)

Series Debut: 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 all those 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 coming-of-age lesson, fashion catastrophe and cheesy music underscore of the 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 up-voted taste.

The Last Kingdom Saturday, Oct. 10 (BBC America)

Series Debut: 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-twocultures 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—and yet it still can’t quite match the odd, gritty appeal of Vikings. Upside: It’s easier to follow than The Bastard Executioner.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Monday, Oct. 12 (The CW)

Series Debut: Originally developed as a half-hour comedy for Showtime, but now a full-hour dramedy on The CW, where you’ll have to imagine your own profanity and nudity (try it, it’s fun). The setup: A successful-but-lonely New York City lawyer (Rachel Bloom, a “YouTube Star,” but don’t hold it against her) impulsively moves to California to pursue/ stalk her high school 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-and-dance number goes. Did I mention that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is also a musical? Just like Jane the Virgin last season, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is a wild, original swing that could hit big or fail spectacularly. Either way, there’s nothing else like it on TV—maybe you shouldn’t have taken a pass, Showtime.

Fargo Monday, Oct. 12 (FX)

Season Premiere: The 2014 debut season of Fargo recaptured and redirected the dark humor of the 1996 Coen Brothers film; Season 2 refines and expands upon it. Set in 1979—a year rife with hilarious hair and clothing choices, all exploited here—this Fargo story follows an escalating turf war between small-town thugs and big-city crime bosses,

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adding to the headaches of local cop Lou Solverson (Patrick Wilson, playing the younger version of Keith Carradine’s character from Season 1), who not only has a child and cancer-striken wife (Cristin Millioti) at home, but also a new assignment to protect a visiting presidential candidate on the campaign trail, one Ronald Reagan (Bruce Campbell—yes, really). And those are only three of multiple intersecting storylines and characters (colorfully delivered

by Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Ted Danson, Jean Smart, Jeffrey Donovan, Nick Offerman, Bokeem Woodbine, Brad Garrett and more). It’s a seemingly overwhelming abundance of people and predicaments, but series creator/writer Noah Hawley again makes it all flow effortlessly. If you’re still feeling let down by True Detective (I stand by Season 2, but we’re not getting into that here), Fargo might well be the American crime-anthology series you’re looking for. CW

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What remains are her lyrics. Olsen is skilled at turning a phrase.

Her tongue-in-cheek ode to the boredom of solitude “Hi-Five,” captures the inherent narcissism of two lonely people. “Are you lonely too?” she sings. “High five! So am I!” Olsen often relies on the language of heartbreak, anxiety and loneliness. She seethes in “White Fire,” a mid-album guitar-picking rumination that pushes seven minutes: “If you’ve still got some light in you/ Then go before it’s gone/ Burn your fire for no witness/ It’s the only way it’s done.”

But Olsen says her lyrics, while confessional and introspective, aren’t usually autobiographical. “They seem personal, but it’s not this thing where I’m having an open therapy session with myself in front of an audience,” Olsen says. Still, Olsen bases her lyrics on truth, if not always on personal experience.

“I have all of these thoughts all the time. Some of them, I think, are realer than others. Sometimes when you write them down you make them real in a way.”

The key, she says, is not to force it. “My fear is that I’m going to make pop music that isn’t for me. As a writer, you know when you’re forcing it. It’s clear to you—it may not be clear to anyone else.” CW

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ngel Olsen has had a big year. Her most recent album, Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar), took her to a level of exposure she had not yet experienced in her short career. The album, her second, was released in February 2014, and landed on many critics’ best-of lists for that year. Olsen continues to tour on the strength of those songs, which are sometimes sweetly contemplative, other times hooky and aggressive, but always clear-eyed and powerfully stated.

Now, 20 months after Burn Your Fire’s release, Olsen finds herself at the “what’s next” phase of her career.

Olsen is in the middle of a short tour that took her first through Europe and now through the United States. It’s her first set of shows after she took an extended break, which she says was needed. “We spent 120 out of the last 365 days just playing shows,” she says. “I was losing my mind—not sleeping well. And when you’re on tour, you gain weight and drink beer.

You’re just out of it.” she says. “So this set of shows was put here to do one last swing before I really settle down for fall and winter and start recording.”

But lest fans start marking their calendars for a new release, Olsen says she’s still not sure what’s coming next. And that’s fine with her. “People expect you to always just shoot stuff out, and I really don’t want to do that,” Olsen says. “I don’t want to make it turn into this awful machine that I don’t have control over.”

One thing Olsen has learned in playing to larger audiences is that trying to make everybody happy is an exercise in futility. Olsen seems to have taken that fact in stride. “I don’t need to give [fans] everything they want,” she says. “It’s not about them. It’s about making art that I think is good and not getting distracted by what they want. … I love that people can vibe in to what I’m doing and really be reached by it, but if it doesn’t happen in the future, let’s not all be hurt by it.”

Despite the uncertainty of her situation, Olsen is still largely in control. She has a solid year or so of touring behind her and is now more comfortable than ever playing with her band, which she assembled in 2014 after the album’s release.

Burn Your Fire was the first time Olsen had incorporated a full band into the recording process, and the process injected songs such as “Forgiven/Forgotten” and “High & Wild” with a fresh, jangly power-pop energy without covering up Olsen’s singular vocal range. It was a notable departure from Olsen’s earlier work, known for its spare arrangements that relied mainly on the merits of her earthy vibrato and unflinching lyrics. Her first EP, Strange Cacti, was recorded in her kitchen. Her follow-up LP, Half Way Home, was more produced, but featured only subtle backup arrangements.

Burn Your Fire is a stark contrast, Olsen says, but it’s also a natural progression for her. “I finally understood how a band’s sound worked, and I let that into my style of writing,” she says. “Part of it was that I was listening to new music as well. I was listening to [New Zealand cult indie band] The Clean, and I wasn’t listening to folk standards from the ’60s anymore. …To me, it’s a really natural step, and to other people, if they hear two recordings side by side, it’s really drastic.”

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Like Dale Watson. His ire isn’t for the genre so much as for what it’s become.

The mainstreaming of once-great, consummately American music can be traced further back than to Taylor Swift and Blake Shelton, and could be blamed on the other oft-vilified genre: rap. Some evil jackass thought it’d be good to blend the two hyperprofitable genres. Suddenly, we had Bubba Sparxxx, Cowboy Troy, Kid Rock, Uncle Kracker and a slew of dirt-road hoodrats putting a twangy stank on lame beats.

Since then, Toby Keith hopped on the bandwagon with “Getcha Some.” Trace Adkins introduced the world to the “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk.”And then there’s Shelton, the country artist who hosts a pop-music talent show and has his own country-rap song, “Boys ’Round Here.”

“He said nobody wants to listen to their grandad’s music,” says Watson. He also defied the “old farts” who decry modern country music, and called them jackasses for not realizing it’s the kids who buy music—and that’s what matters. As you can imagine, this gave some folks—like Watson, and late country music legend Ray Price, the red-ass.

“He pretty much said what Nashville really thought,” Watson says, alluding to the long-lamented commercialization of the Country Music Capital of the World. Price, 84 at the time, even protested on Facebook.

Watson paraphrases: ‘There’s not a hat big enough to fit that boy’s head. Let’s see how his music stands up in 65 years.”

Dale Watson doesn’t like what country music has become either.

This led Watson, 52, with more than two-dozen albums to his name, to create the Ameripolitan genre, encompassing honky-tonk, Western swing, rockabilly and outlaw. “Country music is so convoluted with pop, it’s not country anymore,” says the Ameripolitan.com FAQ. “And because [Nashville] hijacked the term beyond repair, we aren’t country, either—we are Ameripolitan.”

Watson also started the Ameripolitan Music Awards, the third iteration of which is slated for February 2016. “[It’s for] artists that carry their roots and need recognition,” says Watson. “ ’Cause the only thing that asshole was right about is that Nashville doesn’t give anybody a choice.” Awareness of many of these artists, Watson says, is really low— ”[People] don’t realize they have a choice.”

He speaks of AMA honorees Billy Joe Shaver, Rosie Flores, Jesse Dayton, Wayne Hancock and Unknown Hinson. Bill Kirchen, Asleep at the Wheel, James Intveld and Hot Club of Cowtown are on the Ameripolitan rolls as well. These artists are famous in their musical microcosm because of their devotion to real country music—while the Sheltons of the world get rich by diluting it.

Dale Watson is among them. The whitehaired country-western troubadour with the Johnny Cash-meets-George Jones voice has put out an album a year—sometimes two— since 1995. The latest, Call Me Insane (Red House) came out this summer. The title track could be about the Ameripolitan plight.

“Call me insane/ I’ve been here many times/ Thinkin’ things would change/ With a new frame of mind/…/ Will I ever learn?/ Ever tire of the burn?/ Or is my destiny this insanity?”

These are thoughts we have in adulthood.

You know, after we’ve lived enough to know that heartache is at the core of country music, the unrequited longing for something—whether love, success or some other vital component of life—yet, in spite of our failures, we keep chasing it. So let the kids have their music. They’ll eventually have their Ameripolitan epiphany. CW

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A co-founder of storied Southern rockers the Allman Brothers, Gregg Allman has had it rough in recent years. In addition to a litany of serious health problems, he also saw Midnight Rider, a biopic named for his biggest hit, canceled because of the on-set death of a crew member, caused by the filmmakers’ negligence.

On top of that, the Allmans broke up for good late last year. But, you know, maybe Gregg Allman is a pretty fortunate guy after all. He’s pushed through hepatitis C, a tumor-ridden liver, lung infections, respiratory infections and addiction. And last year, a cast of talented friends—including Widespread Panic, Dr. John, Robert Randolph and John Hiatt—paid tribute to him on with the 2CD/DVD live set, All My Friends: Celebrating the Songs and Voice of Gregg Allman (Rounder). Being out on the road, after all that Allman survived, is pretty amazing, too—especially when, in YouTube videos of recent shows, he looks no worse for wear.

Gabriel Kelley opens. (RH) The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 8 p.m., $50 in advance, $55 day of show, DepotSLC.com

MONDAY 10.12

Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls

Folk and punk are strange bedfellows, yet they share a belief in the virtues of simple, straightforward songwriting speaking the common language of working-class people.

Bahrain-born English singer-songwriter Frank Turner was a part of post-hardcore group Million Dead after the turn of the millennium,

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but split 10 years ago to embark on a solo career. His latest recording, Positive Songs for Negative People (Xtra Mile) was produced by Butch Walker, to give you an idea of the kind of heart he puts into it. Frank Turner also has the distinction that his name is an entry on UrbanDictionary.com, definitions of which include “to sing loudly enough as to not necessitate a microphone or PA system,” and “to be able to denounce the idea of being a rock star while at the same time be[ing] a rock star and mak[ing] it work.” That’s punk rock, right there! Skinny Lister and Beans on Toast open. (BS) Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $20 in advance, $24 day of show, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com.

Vacationer

What is “Nu-Hula” music? It’s the term Kenny Vasoli (lead singer/bassist) of Philly/Brooklynbased band Vacationer uses to describe his group’s sound. Vasoli, formerly of pop-punk band The Starting Line, now presents a much more leisurely approach to music, and life, recalling the lush, tropical pop of the ‘50s and ‘60s, with lyrics that cling to summer like the last leaf to the tree. And Kilby Court in the early autumn, with the fire pit going and a slight nip in the air, is just the place to sing along. For just a moment, feel like you are a perpetual vacationer. Great Good Fine OK open the show. (BS) Kilby Court, 741 S. 330 West, 8 p.m., $12 in advance, $14 day of show, KilbyCourt.com

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The New Mastersounds

Choose any release by UK jazz-funk fusion quartet The New Mastersounds, put on headphones and fall down the rabbit hole. Therapy (Royal Potato Family), the ultra-prolific band’s 10th studio album and 26th release (counting

Gregg Allman EPs, and 7- and 12-inch singles) is no exception.

Its dozen (mainly instrumental) tracks, from opener “Old Man Noises” through “Treasure” are a fun, funky ride through sounds previously explored by groups such as Booker T. & the MGs, Parliament/Funkadelic, The Greyboy Allstars, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, George Benson and Galactic. There’s even a little disco and reggae in the mix, plus a little bit of pop: “Treasure” is a Bruno Mars cover. Pop haters might cringe at the notion of these sickly talented players tackling ostensible dreck, but I’ll tell you this: The rabbit hole leads you to weird places, including grudging appreciation of Mars’ original version of the song. (RH) The State Room, 638 S. State, 8 p.m., $25, TheStateRoom.com

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You might think Dan Bejar’s indie-rock band Destroyer was a side project for him from the more widely publicized Vancouver neighbors New Pornographers. But Destroyer is actually more prolific, and started a few years earlier in the mid-‘90s as a home-recording project for Bejar. Among the cognoscenti, Destroyer is as highly lauded. After 2011’s middling dancey record, Kaputt, Bejar & Co. return with the double album, Poison Season (Merge/ Dead Oceans). His vocal style, along with his unique pop-influenced compositions the focal point of the band, creating a rare combination of continental ennui and openhearted romanticism. His obscure images often resemble poetry and are capable of remarkable transports. Toronto singer-songwriter Jennifer Castle opens. (BS) Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $16 in advance, $18 day of show, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com.

Kopecky

They’ve dropped “Family Band” from their name; they’re just Kopecky now. But it’s cool—they still play “Heartbeat” (released on KFB’s 2012 record, Kids Raising Kids between tracks from their recent ATO Records release, Drug For the Modern Age). Things are not always how they seem with this Nashville adult-oriented pop group—they’re friends, not blood relations, and even though the album sounds bright and happy, the subject matter is serious and emotional. Their second album is poppier than their debut, but they aren’t without range: They play covers of R&B/soul singer The Weeknd’s “I Can’t Feel My Face” and Fleetwood Mac’s “Tusk.”

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Pop-R&B Louisiana artist Mikky Ekko is back in Salt Lake City for the second time in 2015—in March, opening for Broods, and now headlining his own tour.

His newest record, Time (RCA) is full of bluesy urbanpop and both moody and catchy tunes. In addition to tracks from the new release, on tap are tracks from his electro EPs and a solo version of his song with Rihanna, “Slow.” Joining him on tour is indie band Transviolet, with their debut self-titled EP. “Girls Your Age,” from the EP, is flowing, Lorde-like and vocally emphatic. (Tiffany Frandsen) In the Venue, 579 W. 200 South, 7 p.m., $15 in advance, $17 day of, InTheVenueSLC.com

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After entertaining dive bar patrons in five episodes of the popular True Detective this year, Lera Lynn is taking her powerful, moody songs on tour (yes, including some of the ones you heard on the show). The Nashvillebased Americana singer and songwriter independently releases her sophomore album, The Avenues (LeraLynn. com), at the end of next month. The tracks from that record that aren’t as dark as the ones featured in the HBO series, but they all feature her sultry and smooth as honey-whiskey vocals.

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WEDNESDAY 10.14 LIVE MUSIC

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1. Pear variety 2. "The hottest spot north of Havana," in a Barry Manilow song 3. Tea traditionally made with cardamom 4. Dumpster-dive, say 5. China's Chiang ____-shek 6. Stopover

54. "The Faerie Queene" woman 55. Private remark 56. Stephen of "The Crying Game" 60. Since 61. Greedy person's demand 62. It hits the ground silently 64. ____ de deux 66. Circus safeguard 67. Gathered dust

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No math is involved. The grid has numbers, but nothing has to add up to anything else. Solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. Solving time is typically 10 to 30 minutes, depending on your skill and experience.

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7. Frat letter 8. Steakhouse order 9. Bygone explosive 10. 1,400, to Caesar 11. Endive, e.g.

12. Beethoven dedicatee 13. Cosmetic problem 18. Monopoly quartet: Abbr.

22. Flub 25. Milwaukee schoolteacher who became Prime Minister of Israel 26. ____-pedi 27. Way to go 28. ____ bed 29. Many an Al Jazeera viewer 30. What the last two letters of 1-Across stand for 35. Raid target 37. Voice below soprano 38. Architectural starting point 40. Flowing hair 41. Mattress size 42. Help with an answer 43. "... you get the idea" 48. Venomous snakes 49. Simple shelter 50. TV screen choice, for short 53. Lennon/Ono holiday song "Happy Xmas (____ Over)"

Complete the grid so that each row, column, diagonal and 3x3 square contain all of the numbers 1 to 9.

1. Include in an e-mail without other recipients knowing 4. Enjoys Aspen 8. One of 11 pharaohs 14. Kid's interjection before "I'm telling!"

15. Marvin Gaye's "____ Get a Witness" 16. Nonpanicked assurance 17. Getting ready for a fight, say 19. Golfer's headache 20. Setting for much of the fiction of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz 21. Rendezvous 23. Words before result or rule 24. Legal decision made by a court that is issued without an opinion 28. Cul-de-____ 31. Org. supporting Common Core 32. Mark down anew 33. Pop star Rita ____ 34. Gershon of "Showgirls" 36. "I don't give ____!"

39. Nursery rhyme character whose name precedes "Heigh-ho" 44. "Mamma Mia!" group 45. Boob 46. Frat letter 47. ____ fours (crawling) 51. Company name ender 52. Prefix with smoking 53. Oenophile's vessel 57. Hyperbola part 58. Some stay-at-home parents 59. Office pool picks 63. Get back in business 65. At the right time for consumption (or a description of each of the groups of uncircled letters in 17-, 24-, 39- and 53-Across) 68. Somewhat 69. Letter opener?

70. Spanish gold 71. Declares emphatically 72. "At Last" singer James 73. Not very many

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Game Night Games holds almost too many events to mention, but almost every evening something different is going on. Currently there are weekly and monthly game events, such as Magic: The Gathering, Pokemon, Warhammer 40K, Star Trek Attack Wing, Dungeons and Dragons, and more. For a full lineup, check out the event calendar at GameNightGames.com Want to play with a group of friends? Game Night Games offers table reservations and private parties in its game area.

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Tim Hall, the owner of Game Night Games, loves being around fun products and people. “It’s fulfilling to be able to add enjoyment to people’s lives through fun games and in-store events,” he says. “We bring people together and lots of friendships have started in our store.”

Hall is proud of the environment he and his staff have created in the store. “Our walls ooze fun,” Hall says. “We carry an incredible number of titles, and new customers often tell us this when they first come in the store.” Hall is enthusiastic about the world of board gaming, which is experiencing a golden era enhanced by incredibly innovative game design and unequaled production values.

“Whether you’re into zombies or suburban planning, we’ve got a game for you,” Hall says. And Hall’s passion for gaming extends to his staff, which he calls “the nicest, most caring bunch of game geeks you could pull together in one place.”

Connor Montgomery, a senior staff member, loves working at the shop. “Over the past 10 years, Game Night Games has created a really wonderful community of gamers from all walks of life,” Montgomery says. “It’s really inspiring to interact with so many different players who are filled with excitement about gaming.”

Customers definitely appreciate both the kindness and the knowledge of Game Night Game’s staff. “Make this your first stop when you’re looking for a specific board or card game, or if you just want a recommendation or two,” says Salt Lake City resident Nick Mathews. “The staff knows their stuff.”

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Color-block sweater by Kerisma, $74; Katie Waltman Jewelry—The Shop (926 E. 900 South 385-227-8977, KatieWaltman.com). This loose-fitting, black-and-ivory everyday wardrobe staple is a soft wool blend. KWJ—The Shop is nationally known for owner Katie’s handmade jewelry line, but she has added clothing to the mix in this darling 9th & 9th store.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) If I warned you not to trust anyone, I hope you would reject my simplistic fear-mongering. If I suggested that you trust everyone unconditionally, I hope you would dismiss my delusional naiveté.

But it’s important to acknowledge that the smart approach is far more difficult than those two extremes. You’ve got to evaluate each person and even each situation on a case-by-case basis. There may be unpredictable folks who are trustworthy some of the time, but not always. Can you be both affably openhearted and slyly discerning? It’s especially important that you do so in the next 16 days.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) As I meditated on your astrological aspects, I had an intuition that I should go to a gem fair I’d heard about. It was at an event center near my home. When I arrived, I was dazzled to find a vast spread of minerals, fossils, gemstones and beads. Within a few minutes, two stones had commanded my attention, as if they’d reached out to me telepathically: chrysoprase, a green gemstone, and petrified wood, a mineralized fossil streaked with earth tones. The explanatory note next to the chrysoprase said that if you keep this gem close to you, it “helps make conscious what has been unconscious.”

Ownership of the petrified wood was described as conferring “the power to remove obstacles.” I knew these were the exact oracles you needed. I bought both stones, took them home, and put them on an altar dedicated to your success in the coming weeks.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Galway Kinnell’s poem “Middle of the Way” is about his solo trek through the snow on Oregon’s Mount Gauldy. As he wanders in the wilderness, he remembers an important truth about himself: “I love the day, the sun ... But I know [that] half my life belongs to the wild darkness.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, Scorpio, now is a good time for you, too, to refresh your awe and reverence for the wild darkness—and to recall that half your life belongs to it. Doing so will bring you another experience Kinnell describes: “an inexplicable sense of joy, as if some happy news had been transmitted to me directly, by-passing the brain.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) The last time I walked into a McDonald’s and ordered a meal was 1984. Nothing that the restaurant chain serves up is appealing to my taste or morality. I do admire its adaptability, however. In cowloving India, McDonald’s serves only vegetarian fare that includes deep-fried cheese and potato patties. In Israel, kosher McFalafels are available. Mexicans order their McMuffins with refried beans and pico de gallo. At a McDonald’s in Singapore, you can order McRice burgers. This is the type of approach I advise for you right now, Sagittarius. Adjust your offerings for your audience.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) The editors of the Urban Dictionary provide a unique definition of the word “outside.” They say it’s a vast, uncomfortable place that surrounds your home. It has no ceiling or walls or carpets, and contains annoying insects and random loud noises. There’s a big yellow ball in the sky that’s always moving around and changing the temperature in inconvenient ways. Even worse, the outside is filled with strange people who are constantly doing deranged and confusing things. Does this description match your current sense of what “outside” means, Cancerian?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) If so, that’s OK. For now, enjoy the hell out of being inside.

I haven’t planted a garden for years. My workload is too intense to devote enough time to that pleasure. So eight weeks ago, I LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) We all go through phases when we are tempted to believe in was surprised when a renegade sunflower began blooming in the factuality of every hostile, judgmental and random thought the dirt next to my porch. How did the seed get there? Via the that our monkey-mind generates. I am not predicting that wind? A passing bird that dropped a potential meal? The gorthis is such a time for you. But I do want to ask you to be extra geous interloper eventually grew to a height of 4 feet and proskeptical toward your monkey mind’s fabrications. Right now duced a boisterous yellow flower head. Every day, I muttered a it’s especially important that you think as coolly and objectively prayer of thanks for its guerrilla blessing. I predict a comparable as possible. You can’t afford to be duped by anyone’s crazy talk, phenomenon for you in the coming days, Aquarius. including your own. Be extra vigilant in your quest for the raw PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) truth.

The coming days will be a favorable time to dig up what has been buried. You can, if you choose, discover hidden agendas, expose VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Do you know about the ancient Greek general Pyrrhus? At the deceptions, see beneath masks and dissolve delusions. But it’s Battle of Asculum in 279 BCE, his army technically defeated my duty to ask you this: Is that really something you want to do?

Roman forces, but his casualties were so substantial that he It would be fun and sexy to liberate so much trapped emotion ultimately lost the war. You can and you must avoid a compa- and suppressed energy, but it could also stir up a mind-bending rable scenario. Fighting for your cause is good only if it doesn’t ruckus that propels you on a healing quest. I hope you decide to wreak turmoil and bewilderment. If you want to avoid an out- go for the gusto, but I’ll understand if you prefer to play it safe. come in which both sides lose, you’ve got to engineer a result in which both sides win. Be a cagey compromiser.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) George R. R. Martin has written a series of fantasy novels collectively called A Song of Ice and Fire. They have sold 60 million copies and been adapted for the TV series *Game of Thrones.* Martin says the inspiration for his master work originated with the pet turtles he owned as a kid. The creatures lived in a toy castle in his bedroom, and he pretended they were knights and kings and other royal characters. “I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom,” he has testified. I think the next seven months will be a perfect time for you to make a comparable leap, Gemini. What’s your version of Martin’s turtles? And what valuable asset can you turn it into?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) If I could give you a birthday present, it would be a map to your future treasure. Do you know which treasure I’m referring to? Think about it as you fall asleep on the next eight nights. I’m sorry I can’t simply provide you with the instructions you’d need to locate it. The cosmic powers tell me you have not yet earned that right. The second-best gift I can offer, then, will be clues about how to earn it. Clue No. 1.

Meditate on the differences between what your ego wants and what your soul needs. No. 2. Ask yourself, “What is the most unripe part of me?”, and then devise a plan to ripen it. No. 3. Invite your deep mind to give you insights you haven’t been brave enough to work with until now. No. 4. Take one medium-sized bold action every day.

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Hurrahs to Utah transplant Michael Sanders, leading us all out of darkness. This gay cowboy from New York, who owns a small furniture resale business downtown (and doesn’t work for any pharmaceutical company), has been pounding on doors of health providers to educate about a simple treatment.

PrEP, which stands for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, is an anti-HIV medication that keeps people from becoming infected.

PrEP is approved by the FDA and has been in circulation for more than a year. A single pill taken daily interferes with HIV’s ability to copy itself in the body after someone has been exposed. Few people in Salt Lake City know about the treatment—even medical professionals. Even fewer people feel they know enough about it to make an informed decision about whether to use it.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, when taken as prescribed by a doctor, PrEP has been 92-percent effective at preventing HIV infection—regardless of whether a condom is used. Getting information about PrEP can be challenging.

Yet bringing the rate of new infections— which have been skyrocketing among key risk groups such as young gay and bisexual men—“below epidemic levels” could prove to be a critical turning point in managing the virus.

Sanders created a petition to ask Salt Lake County to help educate the masses.

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This coincides with the World Health Organization’s Sept. 30 statement that everyone who has HIV should be offered antiretroviral drugs as soon as possible after diagnosis. The battle against AIDS/HIV is far from over.

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