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As Ralph Becker and Jackie Biskupski Enter the home stretch, The Salt Lake City mayors race may end in a photo finish.

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As Ralph Becker and Jackie Biskupski enter the home stretch, the Salt Lake City mayor’s race may end in a photo finish. Cover illustration by Henry N. Smith

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LETTERS Republican Legislators Lack Christian Compassion

The overwhelming majority of the Utah Legislature is Republican, and most are also members of the LDS Church. Thus, it would seem to reflect poorly on Mormons that, once again, the Utah State House failed to pass an expansion of Medicaid. Secret meetings that were held behind closed doors— not even allowing duly-elected Democrats to be present— reminded me of secret temple ceremonies. How sad for the 125,000 Utahns who will continue to suffer and die because of legislators’ indifference to the poor! Many Mormons bristle when fundamentalists claim the LDS Church is not truly a Christian church. If Christianity is about the teachings of Jesus as told in the New Testament, the actions of the GOP/LDS Church lend credence to such claims. The LDS Church has a well-deserved reputation for taking care of its own. But, based on the actions of LDS legislators, this compassion does not extend to others.

TED OTTINGER Taylorsville

We Need a More Respectful Mayor

Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker once called me a liar. Becker frequently touts his role in leading the way to Salt Lake City’s current economic prosperity. The economic development successes of this city are due to many

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single-family homes and higher taxes, and asked me to change it to read that studies had been conducted but there were no present plans to rezone residential areas or raise taxes. Out of respect, I changed the flier to reflect exactly what Becker asked. Imagine my surprise when Becker sent out a letter essentially calling me a liar. In a May 22, 2013, Salt Lake Tribune story, “Sugar House Streetcar vote continues to echo in City Hall,” Becker’s administration characterized my flier as “Mr. Chapman’s misrepresentations, inaccuracies and false statements”—even though the flier’s language was exactly what Becker asked for! So when Anderson claims that Becker has a “gracious demeanor” and “doesn’t tear others down to build himself up,” but rather “treats everyone with respect,” I just remember that, in an effort to tear me down, Becker said my flier was full of untruths, and I laugh. We need a new, better and more respectful mayor.

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There are plenty of people out there who would love to see this newspaper and all other newspapers—especially this newspaper—go away. Die. Feed the tulips. Register for the worm convention. Bid adieu. Snuff the candle. Get toe tagged. Or, in the jargon of Earth First newspaper people, [Go] to Spare the Forests. Like Mark Twain, a firm number of us in the newspaper business continue to protest our predicted demise with the optimistic notion that “the reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated.” For the most part, that’s been true, since, while a painful number of newspapers have closed shop, a far greater number still apply ink to paper daily, weekly or monthly. The more true story—also painful—is that the newspaper industry as a whole has lost thousands of jobs in the past decade—most painful of all being that many of those jobs lost were reporting and editing positions. If you believe newspaper comment boards, you already know the reason for the demise of the newspaper industry: Newspapers are too liberal. Yeah, uh-huh, that’s it. But that’s not it at all, lest we also believe that the Deseret News laid off about half of its editing positions because readers were put off by the Deseret News’ liberal viewpoints. It is not whether a newspaper is liberal or conservative that determines its fate—it is economics, nothing more. There are basic reasons the newspaper industry has suffered this past decade. The funding cash cow and profit center for newspapers—the classified section—moved to the Internet, where independent companies like Monster and AutoTrader devoured whole industry categories, while Craiglist and KSL.com ate up the service categories (lawnmowers, old furniture, etc). That revenue transfer to online caused newspapers to begin shaving payroll. Soon, those very newspapers starting writing their own obituaries in a print reverb that echoed for a decade—a fair number of intelligent people

wanted them to die and shut up. A loss of trust by both readers and advertisers followed: Why invest time or money in a Yugo? Next came mobile devices. It’s cliché for newspaper to claim that they cannot replace the dollars they formerly gathered in print with the dimes they now gather from their individual websites. Worse is chasing pennies on mobile devices, where only one or two small ads are displayed at any given time. The double doozy regarding mobile devices is they eat so much of our time. All of us have only a fixed amount of attention we can give to anything in a day. Our mobile devices are to us what a binky is to Maggie Simpson. During any given day, most of us spend more time on social media on our mobile phones than we formerly did reading the daily newspaper. People just run out of time as their time priorities have shifted; do you see people doing crossword puzzles any longer as they ride Trax into the city, for instance? On the bright side, such reliance on our mobile devices benefits a separate industry: Sex counselors report an uptick of couples attempting to reconcile their personal attention deficits with their relationships. Today’s modern person, sadly, tracks and holds their mobile device more tightly than their significant other, and worse—not even counting taking and texting amateur porn images (the only legitimate reason for having a camera on a phone in the first place, say some)—such persons are even known to descend into Googling while locked in lust’s embrace. Jeezus, Apple and Android—did you know it would come to this? Did you know you might one day replace the TV remote as the handheld device most often cited in divorce settlements—even more than you know what? And the newspaper industry thinks it has problems? Yeah, it does, or some of them do. In a column published in the Southern

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Newspaper Publishers Association (SNPA) on Oct. 20, 2015, industry analyst Gordon Borrell writes, “I think that if you own a major daily newspaper above 50,000 circulation, you’re in trouble. You’re in really big trouble.” Well, if that doesn’t buttress the confidence of potential buyers about the viability of The Salt Lake Tribune, nothing will—and remember, that statement is inclusive of newspapers getting full shares of their revenue. The Salt Lake Tribune has a disadvantageous revenue-share Joint Operating Agreement with the Deseret News. Borrell also predicts that small dailies will be OK, that larger newspapers will begin migrating to weekly publication, and that, within the next two years, no dailies will be printing seven days a week. What does that mean to you? It means mostly that if you can’t wait for the Monday paper, you’re SOL. What does it mean for us? Not much, and (except for having the imaginative Gordon Monson being available on fewer days) we’d welcome a world with fewer Salt Lake Tribunes lying around. What does it mean for potential buyers of The Salt Lake Tribune? This—801-575-7003. Give me a call, and I’ll help you spend that money wisely. In case any one is wondering, the news from Borrell is worse for other media. The Yellow Pages will disappear. After the next election cycle, broadcast media will begin its own death spiral. Half of all radio stations will disappear by 2025. On the bright side for print, over 32 percent of 3,000 businesses surveyed cited print newspaper advertising as being their most effective means to attract new business, plus 17 percent cited other print media (print total 49 percent. YAY!). Radio came in at 16 percent, TV ads at 11 percent. Dead last at effectiveness: mobile campaigns at 4 percent. Maybe that number would increase if newspapers could sell pre-roll and post-roll ads on videos of their newsroom romps. Here’s hoping. CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net

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Paula Saltas: Declining your calls. Jeff Chipian: Watching the new Star Wars trailer over and over again until my phone dies.

Doug Kruithof: Playing Back to the Best of Utah Future Trivia. Is it 04:29:10:21:15 yet?

Mikey Saltas: I’m devising an algorithm that predicts the trends of the stock market, and unbeknownst to all, gradually becoming a multi-billionaire. Joke’s on you, Padre.

Brandon Burt: As I was writing this on my phone, I nearly collided head-on with a cyclist on the sidewalk. Cyclists are dangerous! Can’t they see I’m on the phone?

Kylee Ehmann: Studiously avoiding adult responsibility.

Tiffany Frandsen: Most of the things I do can be done faster on my phone— chatting with folks, getting my news (I know, I’m part of the problem) and stressing about whether to play Carlos Hyde in my fantasy football team.

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Ashley Hallstrom, of Logan, left a heartbreaking suicide note that set afire the LGBT community in Utah and throughout the nation. But, among mainstream media, only the Logan Herald Journal thought it was worth a mention. Ashley was a transgender woman struggling with heroin addiction and, of course, all the associated trauma of her gender identity. After posting a suicide note Oct. 14 on Facebook, she took a fatal walk into traffic. “I don’t know how to fight this beast inside of me that says I’ll never amount to anything and I’ll never be anyone. How did I get here?” she wrote. Initially, The Salt Lake Tribune ran a short item in which Ashley was identified by male pronouns, which enraged the LGBT community. Then the story disappeared.

Don’t Say the “S-Word”

The media is a strange animal, especially when it comes to suicide. A 1987 campaign citing “suicide contagion” resulted in most media shying away from suicide coverage. Readers know the code words: “died unexpectedly,” “died suddenly,” “lived with depression,” etc. But the word “suicide” is taboo. The Herald Journal justified its coverage of Ashley Hallstrom “because of the public nature of the suicide note and the national attention it has received.” It’s kind of a sick twist that the media indulge in reporting deaths from gun violence without the same caution as with suicide reports. In 2011, the Australian media changed their standards, saying that reporting a death as suicide is in the public interest. But the Hallstrom reporting is actually more of a transgender issue than one of suicide prevention. “From a very young age, I was told that people like me are freaks and abominations, that we are sick in the head and society hates us,” Ashley wrote.

Utah’s Wired

Reports say Google Fiber is coming to Salt Lake City. But that’s only one notch in Utah’s connectivity belt. A recent Utah Foundation report said 96 percent of Utah households have access to broadband services, making the state “one of the top states in the nation for broadband availability.” The report, “21st Century Infrastructure: How Broadband Internet Has Shaped and Is Shaping Utah,” cites public investment in systems like UTOPIA (oops, the Salt Lake City Council spurned that one), iProvo and the Utah Education and Telehealth Network. Private companies such as Comcast and CenturyLink have provided subscribers with megabit connections but their monopolistic traits are a source of frustration among many customers. Still, Utah is at the forefront.

Stacie Gladwell, from Pleasant View, began bodybuilding four years ago after she fractured her hip and was diagnosed with osteopenia, a condition characterized by low bone density, which may be a precursor to osteoporosis. To improve her health, she changed her diet and began weightlifting. While women do not have the testosterone to build muscle in the same way men do, Gladwell says, her athletic build allowed her to amass bulk. She began competing in amateur bodybuilding contests organized by the National Physique Committee (NPC) and now works as a personal trainer. After competing in the NPC’s bikini division, which emphasizes proportion, symmetry, balance, shape and skin tone; she switched to the figure division, which emphasizes symmetry and definition. For more information, visit her Instagram feed, @get.fit.gladwell.

How did your friends and family react when you first got into bodybuilding?

My family and friends have been amazing, I truly have the best support group around. When I announced I was switching from bikini bodybuilding to figure, a more muscular division, there were a few concerns. I was told “not to get to big” once by my dad. Now he loves it and is one of my biggest fans!

Is bodybuilding like other sports?

Bodybuilding is the foundation of all sports. Bodybuilders are dedicated athletes.

How has bodybuilding changed for women recently?

Bodybuilding has evolved over the years. There are more divisions for women to compete in, and the stereotype of looking like a man has diminished. Muscle is being seen as beautiful and sexy, not manly.

What is your workout and eating schedule?

Maintaining my fitness level takes dedication, not only to the gym, but to diet as well. I work out six days a week. I lift all six days and incorporate 30 or more minutes of cardio into my routine. My diet consists of lean protein, some complex carbohydrates, healthy fats and veggies. I eat six meals a day about three hours apart, and I always drink at least one gallon of water a day.

Would you encourage other women to take up bodybuilding?

I encourage women to pick up weights. I have never been more confident and happy than I am now, and I’m in the best shape of my life! Weight training is great for women’s overall health. Lifting increases the number of calories you burn, raises your metabolism, strengthens your bones and decreases stress—to name just a few benefits.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Give It Up

BY CECIL ADAMS

It seems like an ironclad rule of geopolitics that countries never give up territory except under some form of pressure. In the last 100 years or so, when have countries actually gone out of their way to rid themselves of territory? The only example I’m aware of is Malaysia expelling Singapore from its federation. —Chris S., Tallinn, Estonia Estonia, eh? You guys know something about giving up territory. On Aug. 6, 1940, the members of the elected assembly of Estonia petitioned the Supreme Soviet for admission to the USSR, in effect ridding themselves of their entire country. (The Soviets generously took them in.) True, Estonia was then occupied by Soviet troops, and a couple months earlier, the Soviet government had demanded the creation of an Estonian puppet government that then called for elections, which produced the pliant assembly mentioned above. Doesn’t that sound voluntary to you? OK, one of your more blatant examples of being under pressure. My point is, just because a change in sovereignty is nominally voluntary doesn’t mean it is. On the contrary, some form of political, economic, ethnic, or religious pressure lurks behind almost any division of a nation-state. You mention Singapore. After it hooked up with Malaysia in 1963, disputes arose between the two sides, with violent riots in 1964 over Singapore’s failure to accord preferential treatment to ethnic Malays. The result, in 1965, was like a high school breakup—depending on who you believe, either Singapore dumped Malaysia or Malaysia dumped Singapore. Most of the major map recolorings not resulting from war over the past few centuries have arisen from the unwinding of dubious land grabs. These aren’t as common as they once were, because neither are land grabs. Then again, as the Ukrainians can tell you, they’re not a thing of the past. Years ago, acquisitive empires finding themselves with more land than cash weren’t averse to trading the former for the latter. The U.S. was the beneficiary of several such deals, the two largest being the Louisiana Purchase (828,000 square miles for 3 cents per acre) and the acquisition of Alaska from Russia (586,412 square miles at 2 cents per acre). Those were about as close to voluntary as these things ever are—the Russians, for example, concluded they couldn’t defend Alaska, so they might as well sell it for whatever they could get. National territory isn’t sold much anymore, although the idea still comes up. In 2010 two German MPs seriously suggested that Greece consider selling several of its uninhabited islands to pay its national debt. The Maldives, a low-lying island nation threatened by rising sea levels, is considering purchasing land elsewhere to house its citizens if needed; Kiribati, in similar straits, has already pulled the trigger, having acquired 5,000 acres in Fiji last year. Sadly for Kiribatian national aspirations, all they’ve bought is real estate,

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not sovereignty. Most cases of unloading territory in the past century have been a consequence of decolonization, the premier case being India, which was voluntarily-but-not-really cut loose by the U.K. in 1947. Embarrassment at the imperial adventure having finally sunk in, the British didn’t charge the locals to get the subcontinent back, they just left. Some might consider the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 a willful ceding of territory, but from a legal standpoint, the U.K.’s 99-year lease just ran out. A better example is Portugal’s return of the seaport of Macao, its former colony, to China in 1999. Unlike the British, the Portuguese had a treaty entitling them to manage and reside in Macao perpetually, but in the ’70s, Portugal formally renounced all overseas colonies and territories, meaning getting out of Macao squared with its overall policy. The fact that Portugal could no longer defend a tiny outpost half a world away no doubt also eased the pain. Things didn’t go as smoothly when Portugal decolonized East Timor, in the Indonesian archipelago, in 1975. East Timor declared its independence, prompting Indonesia to invade. More than 100,000 died in the resultant conflict, which wasn’t fully settled until 2002 when East Timor became a sovereign state. Some countries don’t cede territory, they just break up. Starting in 1991, Yugoslavia fissioned into what ultimately became seven nations; the ensuing civil wars and ethnic cleansings helped destabilize Eastern Europe for more than a decade. Czechoslovakia fractured into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993 with considerably less drama. The U.S. has willingly given up territory a few times over the past hundred years. The Philippines, won from Spain after the Spanish-American War, were granted independence in 1946. The American-Mexican Chamizal Convention Act of 1964 ceded 630 acres of American territory in exchange for 193 acres from Mexico to settle a boundary dispute along the Rio Grande. Similar treaties in 1970 and 2009 resulted in the net transfer of a couple additional square miles from the U.S. to Mexico. Don’t expect to see larger transfers any time soon. The Torrijos-Carter Treaties of 1977 returned the Panama Canal Zone to Panama in 1999. Can you imagine trying to get that through Congress now?

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Bishop’s Pawn A federal-lands program had broad support until Utah Congressman Rob Bishop gave it the ax. BY ERIC ETHINGTON eethington@cityweekly.net @ericethington

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ery quietly, one of the few federal conservation programs that enjoyed wide bipartisan support in Congress and among the public was allowed to expire at the end of September, 2015. No public vote was taken. Instead, the chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee—a man with a long history of opposing conservation efforts—refused to allow the program to be considered for renewal. That chairman was the Republican Congressman for Utah’s 1st district, Rob Bishop. The Land & Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) was started by Congress 50 years ago with a simple goal in mind: to use the money oil and gas companies pay for offshore drilling permits to protect public lands and expand opportunities for recreation and conservation. When most national parks, forests and other public lands were first created, most of their boundaries included both public and private land. So while Zion National Park, for example, encompasses 229 square miles in area, some of the land within its boundaries is privately owned and inaccessible to the public. Whenever such parcels go up for sale, LWCF funds are used to purchase them—ensuring coal mines and lumber mills don’t end up in the midst of hiking trails, hunting areas and fisheries. Additionally, LWCF grants are given to states and local communities to use in the creation and maintenance of state parks, as well as community parks such as picnic areas and baseball fields. Bishop declined to be interviewed for this story. But his spokeswoman, press secretary for Natural Resources Julia Slingsby, said the bill needs to be reformed. “Chairman Bishop believes that the Land & Water Conservation Fund has strayed away from its original intent,” says Slingsby. “In the beginning, there was 60 percent of the funds that were going to state and local projects, and going to [states] so they could best allocate what to do with those resources. “Now that number is down to 16 percent,” Slingsby says. “So the feds are using more and more of those funds to buy up lands, and Chairman Bishop is opposed to that, because the federal government cannot even take care of

Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, pictured at a 2011 conference, blocked Congress’ renewal of the 1955 Land & Water Conservation Fund. the lands that it has.” But according to advocates for the 1965 law, not only do states and local governments frequently take advantage of the program to fund local projects, federal agencies like the U.S. Forest Service rely on it to patch up the holes in national parks and forests so that they can better be maintained. Leaving large patches of private lands within national parks and forests hinders efforts by the National Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service to fight fires and protect the land. According to National Park Service reports, more than 450 projects in almost every county in Utah were created with the help of $48 million from LWCF funding—including golf courses, baseball diamonds and parks such as Murray Park and Sugar House Park. The state’s forests have benefited as well, says U.S. Forest Service Legislative Affairs Coordinator Wade Muehlhof, who added, “Going back 20 years in Utah, there are roughly 20,213 acres that the Forest Service has acquired since 1995 using LWCF-appropriated funds.” Muehlhof says those acres were purchased with more than $34.5 million in LWCF funds collected from offshore drilling. One of the LWCF’s biggest local success stories, says Muehlhof, is the 1,790acre Orderville Gulch property located between Zion National Park and the Orderville Canyon Wilderness Study Area. “The property serves as the popular alternate route to the stunning Zion Narrows hike,” Muehlhof says. The sandstone Orderville and Birch slot canyons attract more than 20,000 climbing and

canyoneering enthusiasts from around the world, contributing more than $3 million to the local economy. Without the LWCF funds, Muehlhof says, privately owned land such as Orderville Gulch could have gone to energy-development companies or just other private buyers—either of whom might immediately have put up fences and denied public access to those trails. LWCF monies have been responsible for the creation and development of parks in all 50 states, including Grand Canyon National Park and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, as well as the preservation of 19 different Civil War battlefields and more than two-thirds of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail—all without the use of tax dollars. Despite this, Bishop maintains that “the status quo needs to be challenged,” says Swingsby. “He wants to update the law.” The LWCF’s expiration puts at risk many different ongoing projects in various states, Muehlhof says. In Utah, for example, the Forest Service is working to purchase roughly 858 acres in Mill Creek Canyon from Boy Scouts of America. The purchase is supported by state, county and local governments, and contains portions of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail on its western side. It also would provide trail access to the Mount Olympus Wilderness area in its easterly portion. Muehlhof says the Forest Service wants to purchase the land in order to increase management efficiency and provide access to critical in-holdings

such as Pipeline Bike Trail, Rattlesnake Gulch Trail, Thayne Canyon Trailhead, and the Church Fork and Box Elder picnic areas. The end of the LWCF may have consequences that are difficult to predict, says Muehlhof. Bishop’s spokesperson is skeptical that current projects would be interrupted much. “There are still funds in the program,” says Slingsby, in reference to moneys that have not yet been used. “But we want to take our time to make reforms to the law … and empower states, and not use it for federal land acquisition.” However, any new parks or projects by Utah or local cities could be put on hold until the program is renewed. There have been three bipartisan bills introduced in Congress to reauthorize the LWCF, including some that would make the reauthorization permanent and keep royalties from oil and gas companies flowing into communities adjacent to national parks and forests. However, before any such bill could receive a vote, it would need the support of the House Natural Resources Committee, which Bishop chairs. For a bill to get to that point, Bishop would need to allow it to be heard and discussed in committee. Bishop’s spokesperson said she expects to see Bishop introduce a reform bill within the next four to six weeks. “Congress is not meant to just keep reauthorizing [laws],” says Slingsby. “If it’s not working the way we need it to be, then we let it expire, and we’ll be reforming it this fall.” CW

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CANINE FUNDRAISERS

Spend Saturday with your canine companion doing activities that benefit pups. Start with Best Friends’ Strut Your Mutt, a fundraiser walk/run to benefit the Humane Society of Utah. Register by noon Friday, Oct. 23, to get 10 percent off tax-deductible entry fees. 2015’s event adds a 5K run, and after the race, at 2 p.m., enjoy a doggie-themed festival that includes pet contests, photos, doggie goodies, fun activities for you and your furry friend, food, refreshments and more! Liberty Park, 700 E. 900 South, Saturday, Oct. 24, check-in 8:30 a.m. for 5K walk/run, race begins at 10 a.m. Adult walkers, $30; adult runners, $45; 12 and under, free; BestFriends.org

n Later that day, head out for the 11th annual Muttster Mash Fundraiser. Compete in a contest for best doggie Halloween costume, and then join in on a potluck, chili cookoff, trick contest and last, but not least, take advantage of an open bar. All proceeds go to benefit the West Valley Animal Services—a no-kill shelter. Dogs R Us, 1458 S. Main, Saturday, Oct. 24, 5-7 p.m., 801-485-7387, DogsRUsSLC.com.

FILM SCREENING

Be part of this epic journey by watching a free screening of Unbranded. Sponsored by Impact of the Horse, the story is about four young cowboys who want to adopt, train and ride a string of wild mustangs 3,000 miles from Mexico to Canada. If you don’t make it on Friday, you can purchase the digital version for $14.99. Wasatch County Special Event Center, 415 Southfield Road, Heber, Friday, Oct. 23, 7 p.m., free, UnbrandedTheFilm.com

Eight new radio stations coming soon to the already oversaturated Salt Lake City market:

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5. 66.6 The Beast:

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4. K-SPOT 88.9: The Best of Spotify

3. Far Right Conservative Talk AM 1660

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Here is a way to add to the suspense of the Halloween season—but the correct term here is Day of the Dead, or Dia de los Muertos. Beginning at 6 each night, this free event will welcome the public to an open mic until 10 p.m. MICA and Truth Cypher, a community of Salt Lake City- and Utah-based writers, storytellers and spoken-word poets, is sponsoring the week, starting Monday, Oct. 26, with a class on the origins and traditions of the season. On Tuesday, Oct. 27, learn how to make a Calaca sugar skull, traditional on Día de los Muertos. Wednesday, Oct. 28, create decorative paper banners cut into elaborate designs. On Thursday, Oct. 29, help build altars to the dead; and on Friday, Oct. 30, a writing workshop will be taught by members of Truth Cypher. Finally, on Sunday, Nov. 1, share what Día de los Muertos means to you in this community. Altars will stay on display until Friday, Nov. 13. Mestizo Institute of Culture and Arts, 631 W. North Temple, No. 700, Oct. 26-Nov. 1, Monday-Sunday, 6-10 p.m., free, MestizoArts.org

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“Tag” Banned; “Red Rover” in Jeopardy Two suburban Minneapolis elementary schools this fall hired a consulting firm to advise officials on kids’ recess, and the leading recommendations (promoting “safety” and “inclusiveness”) were elimination of “contact” games in favor of, for example, hopscotch. Some parents objected; r e c e s s , they said, should be more freestyle, unstructured. (More consultants’ advice: De-emphasize refereed “rules” games in favor of monitors who simply praise effort.) One Minnesota principal noted improvement—fewer fights and nurse visits now—but as one parent said, her child feels that recess is no longer really “playing.”

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started a fire in the fireplace, did some laundry, put out hay for the horses, and even wrote some touchingly personal notes in the resident’s diary (“Today was my first full day at the ranch.” “I have to remind myself to just relax and take my time.”) In court, he apologized. “I made a lot of mistakes.” “Beautiful ranch. Gorgeous. I was driving [by] and I just turned in. Beautiful place.”

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Bright Ideas Unapparent Problem, Solved: Vladimir Laurent (an insurance executive in Coral Springs, Fla.) received his U.S. patent on Sept. 29 and can proceed mass-producing “The Shield”—his brainstorm to keep men’s genitalia from dragging on the inside of toilet bowls while they’re seated. Laurent told the South Florida Business Journal that his device was something he “needed, personally” (though he’s aware that not all males experience the sensation). The Shield is basically a cup attached to the bowl by suction that allows movement via a ball-and-socket joint.

Inexplicable Christopher Hiscock, 33, got only a year’s probation after his guilty plea for trespassing on a ranch in Kamloops, British Columbia, in September—because it was a trespass with panache. Since no one had been home, Hiscock fed the cats, prepared a meal, shaved and showered, took meat out of the freezer to thaw, made some coffee,

Latest Religious Messages The Power of Prayer: 1) Two men with handguns walked through an open door of a Philadelphia home in July and demanded drugs and cash from the three women inside, threatening pistol-whippings. According to a Philly.com report, a 55-year-old woman in the home immediately burst into loud prayer, causing the gunmen to flee empty-handed. 2) Police in Bellevue, Ohio, initially believed that texting behind the wheel was what caused Marilyn Perry, 62, to crash and badly injure another driver. However, in July, she and her lawyer convinced a judge that she was “looking down” as she drove only because she was praying over “personal problems.” Thanks This Week to Pete Randall and Alex Boese and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors. Perspective A year-long investigation by GlobalPost revealed in September that at least five U.S. or European Catholic priests disciplined for sex abuse have surfaced in South America, ministering unstigmatized in impoverished parishes. In Paraguay, Ecuador and Peru (all with softer law enforcement and media scrutiny than in the U.S., and where priests enjoy greater respect), dioceses have accepted notorious priests from Scranton, Pa; Minneapolis and Jackson, Miss; and Catholic facilities in Brazil and Colombia now employ shamed sex-abusers from Belgium and San Antonio, Texas. (The Belgian priest had been allowed to start an orphanage for street kids.) GlobalPost claims the Vatican declined

Can’t Possibly Be True Florida Justice: Orville “Lee” Wollard, now 60, was convicted of aggravated assault in 2008 after he fired one “warning shot” into a wall of his home during an argument with his daughter’s boyfriend. Believing his shot defused a dangerous situation (the boyfriend had once angrily ripped sutures from Wollard’s stomach), Wollard had declined a plea offer of probation and gone to trial, where he lost and faced a law written with a 20-year minimum sentence. Florida has since amended the law to give judges discretion about the crime and the sentence, but Gov. Rick Scott and the state’s clemency board have refused to help Wollard, who must serve 13 more years for a crime he perhaps would not even be charged with today.

The Job of the Researcher Scientists have somehow determined that rats dream about where they want to go in the future. Dr. Hugo Spiers of University College London (and colleagues) inferred as much in a recent eLife article based on how neurons in the rodent brain’s hippocampus fire up in certain patterns. They discovered similar patterns when a rat is asleep just before conquering a food “maze” as when he awakens and actually gets to the food (as if it plotted by dream). (Buried Lede: Rats have dreams.)

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Latest Human Rights Kentucky’s government-ethics law bars gifts from lobbyists to legislators, but state Sen. John Schickel, R-Union, filed a federal lawsuit in September claiming that he has a constitutional (First Amendment) right to receive them. (The laws were passed after the FBI found several Kentucky politicians selling their votes.) And in May, officials of the American Gaming (gambling) Association and the Association of Club Executives complained to the Pentagon that a threatened prohibition of the use of government credit cards at casinos and strip clubs violated card users’ constitutional rights, in that protected activities (such as business strategy meetings) take place at those venues.

New! Amazing! Awesome! Low-benefit (but Internet-connected!) devices now on sale (from February’s MacLife magazine): HAPIfork (Bluetooth-connected, alerts you if you’re eating too fast); iKettle (heat water at different temperatures for different drinks, controlled by phone); an LG washing machine that lets you start washing while away (provided, of course, that you’ve already loaded the washer); Kolibree “smart toothbrush” (tracks and graphs “brushing habits”). Also highlighted was the Satis “smart toilet,” which remotely flushes, raises and lowers the seat, and engages the bidet—features MacLife touts mainly as good for “terrorizing guests.”

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AS RALPH BECKER AND JACKIE BISKUPSKI ENTER THE HOME STRETCH, THE SALT LAKE CITY MAYOR'S RACE MAY END IN A PHOTO FINISH.

n the multipurpose room at River’s Bend Senior Center, all the seats are full. Women with wispy-white hair and others with dark dye jobs are mixed among a smattering of bald men. They’ve been waiting for this day in late September, when Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker and former state Rep. Jackie Biskupski, the challenger vying for the city’s top job would come to this cinderblock building in the western shadows of downtown and court their votes. At a modest podium in front of a vintage bingo sign that lights up on evenings and weekends, the candidates spar over the issues of the day, including affordable housing. And this fixed-income crowd isn’t easy to win over. Becker touts his “5,000 Doors” initiative designed to help low-income residents remain in Salt Lake City, which to date, he says, has created 1,000 affordable-housing units. A numbers-savvy woman in the crowd calls Becker out, asking what “affordable” means to someone living on Social Security. Biskupski sees an opportunity to set the mayor’s numbers on fire. She tosses out some numbers of her own, arguing that only 500 new “affordable” units have been created through Becker’s program—and she claims that many of the units Becker is counting cost $1,500 per month. The crowd lets out a sigh, a murmur of disappointment. After some brief closing statements, the debate ends. The seniors are left to make sense of the numbers, the bold claims, the promises and the bluster stitched into the fabric of American politics. The mayor, busy no doubt, exits stage right with a campaign aide. Biskupski, though, hangs around. A small line forms near the stage to pick the challenger’s brain. In the background, a raffle drawing is held for a box of See’s Candies. Rose Park-resident Joe Ross says he’s as red as Republican gets, and it’s not ideal that he has to choose between a pair of Democrats. But, invoking a cliché popular in this country’s watered-down two-party political system, Ross says he’ll take Biskupski, whom he sees as “the lesser of two evils.” Shirlene Estacion jumps into the conversation, saying that Becker cares more about the “homeless and the wilderness” than he does about the city. She rips the mayor for installing bike lanes throughout the city. “Seniors don’t ride bikes, and Becker will soon be a senior,” Estacion says. “What do the bikers pay, other than giving us a pain in the butt?”

Comical as it may seem, this mayor’s race—a virtual tie, according to an Oct. 13 UtahPolicy.com survey conducted by Dan Jones & Associates, going into the final weeks before the general election—may well come down to how voters feel about bike lanes. That this is possible in big-city politics is a testament to the nature of this race, a contest between a pair of Democrats. Both served time in the Republican-dominated Utah Legislature, where Democrats hold about as much sway over public policy as a TV weatherman over the direction wind blows. But even though Becker and Biskupski share certain ideological beliefs, a key difference between the two is personality. Becker is notoriously unflashy. His opponents and supporters alike have been known to critique the man for his lack of presence whether times are good or bad. When Becker does speak on an issue, though, it would be hard for even the harshest of his critics to say that he doesn’t know his stuff. In addition to his time in the Legislature, Becker served on the Salt Lake City Planning Commission. He owned an environmental planning firm, Bear West. There, among other projects, he devised a statewide affordable-housing plan. Only one week ago, at an Oct. 14 mayoral debate, Biskupski declared that she brings the perspective of a single mother to the race. On many levels, she has made herself out to be the fighter who—as the gay, single mother of an adopted child—has had to fight for every scrap of privilege she’s ever earned. Biskupski has owned a private investigation business, worked in the insurance industry, served for 12 years in the Legislature and, for the past eight years, worked as a senior policy adviser for Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder. In this job, Biskupski says, she played a large role in forming the Unified Police Department—which, under Winder’s direction, provides policing services for parts of Salt Lake County. Another thing any Utahn should know about both of these folks is that neither was born within 1,000 miles of Utah. Biskupski, a native Minnesotan, has retained her Midwestern accent, saying that you might be “allooowed” to build that building. The son of the U.S. ambassador to Honduras during President Gerald Ford’s tenure, Becker was born in Washington, D.C. His posture is the envy of any office worker with slouched shoulders. He has two sons and fancies shirts with the initials “REB” embroidered on the left breast pocket. Both badly want to be mayor. And, with Becker—well, Salt Lake City has seen, and is seeing, what the man has to offer. He wants to finish the job he started. Biskupski, on the other hand, is promising change, while vowing to listen more intently to citizens’ concerns than Becker has.

On the streets of Salt Lake City, people are not fuming mad about these past eight years of Ralph Becker. In fact, by the most common measure of success—cold, hard, cash—Salt Lake City is enjoying what Becker and his pals at the Chamber of Commerce are calling a “great renaissance.”

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Construction cranes are arching across the sky, the plywood skeletons of apartments and condominiums are rising, new residents are flocking to the city and shiny new bars that sell budget-busting cocktails amid reclaimed barn wood and subway tiles are now almost too numerous to count. But clearly, Biskupski’s ability to beat up on Becker in the primary election and take him down to the wire in the general election means all is not well in the Capital City. Garrott, the chairman of the City Council who received 13 percent of the votes in the mayoral primary, has had a

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From the installation of protected bike lanes on 300 South to the proposed closure of the popular Glendale Golf Course, many of Becker’s projects have been criticized for their failure to fully engage the public. When the “transparency” word is mentioned, Biskupski says, “Ugh.” “They act like they’re listening,” she says of Becker’s administration. But “the decisions have already been made. The mayor’s very heavy-handed. When he wants something done a specific way, the council has pretty much rubber-stamped it.” Biskupski says this as she munches on chips and salsa at Mestizo Coffeehouse on North Temple. Her statement isn’t so much grounded in fact—she doesn’t provide any specific examples—as it is a hunch. And this is exactly the sort of accusation that she has been so effective at bowling to Becker, forcing him to defend himself. Becker takes offense to the notion that he or his administration are less than transparent. In fact, one of Becker’s favorite quotes is: “Democracies die behind closed doors.” The statement was included in a decision written by Judge Damon Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th District in regard to the conduct of the Bush-Cheney administration. “I’ve always believed that part of our responsibility and part of our accountability to the public is to be open and transparent,” Becker says. During his time as mayor, Becker says the city has convened a committee made up of residents and members of

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If the election had been decided at the August primary, Biskupski would have won handily by 15 percentage points, a genuine trouncing of an incumbent who, by name recognition alone, is widely popular. Biskupski’s success in the primary could have been due to a pair of factors. The first involves Becker’s lack of actual campaigning. While Biskupski spent all but $70,000 of her money in the primary, Becker, who raised $212,000 more than Biskupski, managed to save around $379,000 for the general-election homestretch. Another key factor, says Tim Chambless, an associate professor of political science at the University of Utah, was Becker’s firing in June of former Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank. Burbank’s dismissal came a month after three female police officers announced their intent to sue the city over how a substantiated sexual-harassment claim against a deputy chief was handled. Burbank placed the offender, Rick Findlay, on paid leave for several months until Findlay could retire with full benefits. Becker told City Weekly that Burbank’s response to sexual harassment in the department failed to live up to the expectations he has for the city. In the end, Becker says it became clear that he and Burbank didn’t see eye-to-eye on how to handle harassment situations, and the two had to part ways. Both Becker and Biskupski have sparred over sexual harassment ever since, with both claiming to have zero-tolerance policies. In debates, though, Biskupski has badgered Becker over his choice of Brian Dale for Salt Lake City fire chief. Dale was sworn in, and his appointment approved in May, with a 5-1 vote from the Salt Lake City Council, even though an investigation is underway looking into a sexual-harassment claim filed by a female firefighter against Dale. Becker’s administration has said the claims are unfounded. But the Burbank saga, says Chambless, undoubtedly hurt Becker. In an April poll, Becker was handily in the lead with roughly 33 percent approval, Chambless says. Biskupski had 12 percent, while state Sen. Jim Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City, who stepped into the race for 10 days, had 16 percent approval. Roughly 30 percent were undecided. Three other challengers also appeared on the primary ballot: Councilman Luke Garrott, activist George Chapman and businessman Dave Robinson. And on Election Day, Chambless says he could “see where that 30 percent went”—which is to say, nowhere near Becker. But now the primary is long past, and, according to one poll, Becker and Biskupski are in a dead heat. Since the primary, in addition to spending boatloads of cash on television advertisements and kicking his campaign machine into high gear, Becker has done what Chambless would expect of an incumbent fighting from behind: going toe-to-toe with Biskupski every chance he gets. It is in the mayoral debates, says Chambless, where Becker can show off his familiarity with the workings of city government and, whether reality or not, sound more polished than Biskupski. While watching recent debates, Chambless says, “Ralph had more of the details than Jackie did.” According to Chambless, the fact that the general election is a two-candidate race has enabled Becker to shrink his deficit in the polls: “People are coming home to Ralph,” he says. “They may have been offended by things in the past, but as they compare and contrast between two candidates, not five, they’re coming back to the incumbent who’s doing the job. That’s my gut perception.”

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front-row seat to Becker’s first two terms. In that time, Garrott says that, although Becker has not been “unpopular,” he has not been “popular,” either. As a result, Garrott says, Becker’s support appeared to be “a mile wide and an inch deep.” In other words, Garrott, Biskupski, Chapman, Robinson—and, for a few fleeting hours, Dabakis—saw Becker as vulnerable. “Jackie’s success has borne that hunch out,” Garrott says. Few mayors of Salt Lake City have won more than two terms. Becker’s uphill battle toward a third term has, at its crux, a wall of perception. Biskupski, Garrott says, can be perceived as being more progressive than Becker. She is a lesbian and was the first openly gay legislator in Utah history. If courting progressive voters is the path to the winner’s circle—as it certainly is in Salt Lake City—then Becker must overcome the perception that he is wearing out his welcome in an office that lacks term limits. And so, Chambless says, Becker has embarked on a journey to tell voters why he’s done a good job and why he should be allowed to keep doing it. He has courted the city’s Republicans, receiving endorsements from former U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett and former Gov. Mike Leavitt. As Becker walks a tightrope attempting to woo both Republicans and Democrats, and as he outlines his plans for preserving the Wasatch Range and the city’s watershed, marshalling affordable housing and bolstering the city’s transit system, the door has been left wide open for Biskupski to take jabs as she sees fit. This is the luxury of the challenger: Rather than mapping out detailed plans of what she’ll do as mayor, Biskupski has managed to make headway by criticizing Becker, and putting the incumbent on his heels. Because she’s so effective at what Garrott calls “identity politics”—a brand of politics that, whether on purpose or by sheer coincidence, aligns a candidate with certain pockets of voters—he says she can “get by on less substance because of the strength of her personal profile.” This has not been lost on Becker, who at his home in Federal Heights on a drizzly Saturday morning, said, “I do not see from her an agenda—she’s a great critic of things I’ve been involved with in the city. She’s basically mimicked things that we’ve already done, or are doing.”

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the media to formulate proposals for increasing transparency. activity and job losses, Utah weathered the recession better The amount of information posted to the city’s website has than most other states. increased, and planning documents for development projects In Salt Lake City, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day are also now online. Saints dropped an estimated $1.5 billion (the true cost wasn’t The notion that the city’s mind is made up before hearing publicly disclosed) on the 23-acre City Creek Center shopping from the public, Becker says, “is “factually and substantively mall. wrong.” Now, well out of the recession, with a growing state Becker’s problem here may lie with the location at which economy second only to oil-saturated boom state of North ideas ferment, and the controversial bike lanes on 300 South Dakota, it is easy for Becker to kick back and say he are a prime example. shepherded the city through the roughest economic downturn In Becker’s travels—Biskupski has criticized him for trips that routinely find him addressing politicians in Washington, D.C., and New York City—he keeps a close eye on what other cities are up to. And one of the things Becker noticed years ago was that European cities had created protected bike lanes for their cyclists. Becker says that, in those bike lanes, he saw the next phase in his efforts to make Salt Lake City more bicycle-friendly—a request he says he routinely received when he first ran for office in 2008, and that he made good on by doubling the number of bike lanes within his first couple of years in office. In explaining the lure of the protected bike lane, Becker touches upon a key fact: The protected bike lanes were his idea. The bike lanes were one piece of a “comprehensive complete streets approach,” which states that the city’s streets are for motorists, transit users, cyclists and pedestrians. The public process that resulted in the construction of the 300 South bike lanes involved years of planning, a pilot program on 300 East between 600 South and 900 South, a campaign to notify residents and property owners through direct mail, and an ombudsman who knocked on doors. “We talked to motorists, we talked to cyclists, so this was over a four-year period,” Becker says. “This was not something that happened overnight.” Garrott says that the bike lanes are illustrative of Becker’s belief that his job is not simply to implement policy in the city, but to create policy. “Clearly, Ralph and other mayors in the past have taken their innovation duties at least as seriously as their implementation duties,” Garrott says. In the case of the bike lanes, Garrott says one can imagine a different sequence of events, where the policies germinate within a neighborhood itself—a process that is more time-consuming than top-down visions—and more expensive. But such a scenario reduces the likelihood of residents and business owners feeling as though city leaders are heedlessly marching forth on their enlightened plans. “This is Ralph’s typical process: ‘We have a solution, you may not know that there was a problem, so give us feedback,’” Garrott says. “I think that the engagement needs to happen at the very beginning—at the point of generating ideas.” But in Becker’s eyes, what has transpired on 300 South is nothing short of phenomenal. He says studies have shown that pedestrian traffic is up, bicycle use has risen by 30 percent and sales taxes along Broadway have —Former state Rep. Jackie Biskupski outpaced revenue increases in the rest of the city. Sure, the bike lanes pissed a lot of people off— especially, Becker says, people over the age of 50—but, at the end of the day, he maintains that the bike lanes were the in a generation. And it’s true: Becker was the mayor during right thing to do for the city, regardless of how many political the recession. But a pair of projects—the 222 Main office tower spears he’s taken in the side as a result. and the LDS Church’s mall—that the mayor uses as examples “Politically, the easiest thing to do is avoid risk,” Becker of the city’s resilience during the recession, were both well says. “And avoiding risk means you don’t make any decisions under construction by the time Becker took office. that are controversial, to the extent you can help it. That’s not The problems that plagued Becker’s administration when he me. That’s not the approach that I take and believe reflects took office, he says, involved figuring out how to lure residents what our public in Salt Lake City wants.” downtown. At the time, Becker says, conventional wisdom held that the largest segment of downtown residential growth would come from empty-nesters tired of mowing lawns in the suburbs. But today, whether Becker or Biskupski wins the election, an entirely different crisis is emerging. The next mayor will When Becker took the city’s reins in 2008, the nation was in have to deal with a city that is enticing new residents at the throes of the Great Recession. But in terms of construction a rapid pace and becoming increasingly gentrified. Becker

We need impact fees to help pay for infrastructure that has to go in when a facility is built. But they have to be realistic, or we can’t compete.”

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sees this, and he says he’d like to avoid ever having to make a statement like he once heard from the mayor of Austin, Texas, who told him that Texas’ capital has become so gentrified, “People can’t live in our city anymore.” By “people,” the Austin mayor meant middle-class people: mechanics, postal clerks, firefighters, police officers—and newspaper reporters. “That’s the last thing in my mind we want,” Becker says. To combat the lack of affordability as the city grows, Becker and Biskupski, along with developers and other city leaders, are united in the belief that Salt Lake City must somehow create affordable housing. Whenever anybody poses the question to Biskupski, she bluntly finishes it: Ask “How did Salt Lake City become this place—” and she’ll jump in: “—that nobody can afford?” Biskupski is attuned to the affordable-housing issue, though her plan draws scoffs from Becker and some developers. She says the best way to combat skyrocketing housing costs is simply to “streamline” the planning process. “Our planning and zoning department is so dysfunctional right now that, when you go in and you present your plans, and they go through a review process and they get approved, then all throughout the project the city keeps coming back and saying, ‘Oh, by the way, you need to do this,’ and, ‘Oh by the way, you need to do that,’ and, ‘By the way, you need to do this,’” she says. “Projects become extremely costly, much more costly because of it.” Becker doesn’t entirely disagree with Biskupski. He says the planning and permitting processes for the city need to be constantly evaluated and improved. In fact, in 2008, Becker says he inherited a dysfunctional planning process that had become so politicized, it was paralyzed. “I’m not saying we don’t need to improve our permitting process continually,” Becker says, “but you can look at our permitting efforts since I’ve been in office, and we are nationally renowned for the way we have set up our permitting that has streamlined processes incredibly around development.” To see that this is true, Becker says, one needs only to look up. Indeed, if appearances are any indicator of whether developers are achieving their dreams, then it seems like dreams are coming true in Salt Lake City. One of these dreamers is Dan Lofgren, president of Cowboy Partners LLC. Lofgren’s company has given $5,000 to Becker’s campaign. Other developers are also stepping up to donate, including Big-D Construction ($5,000); Dell Loy Hansen ($2,500); Hansen’s company, Wasatch Commercial Management ($2,000); Garbett Homes ($5,000); and Granite Construction ($1,000). Lofgren’s Cowboy Partners is building 177 residential units at 150 S. 200 East, and will break ground soon at the old Hostess bakery site on 400 South near 700 East, where 268 units will be built. Lofgren admits that he would love fewer hurdles in planning and permitting. Still, Salt Lake City’s process has not prevented him from breaking ground on new projects and seeking out future endeavors, he says. “We continue to look at additional opportunities in the Salt Lake City limits,” Lofgren says. “I offer that as evidence that, OK, we’d like it to be better. It is not keeping us from doing deals.” Lofgren has also found success in leveraging city incentives through the 5,000 Doors campaign, combined with lowinterest loans and tax credits, to provide some affordable housing—an issue that he says is “real and meaningful.” Garrott says the City Council is at this moment grappling with how best to encourage development of affordable housing. The bottom line seems to be this: Developers need to make money on their developments, and selling units for less than market rate doesn’t make money. This is where the city, county, state and federal governments can swoop in to make sure that developers get their share—while people who aren’t millionaires can still have a roof over their heads. There are various ways government can sweeten the pot for developers. One direction the City Council is looking involves offering height variances as a carrot for developers

who build affordable housing. For example, building heights near 700 East and 2100 South might be capped at 75 feet— but a developer could go to 105 feet if 20 percent of the units were made affordable. Without better incentives, Garrott says he sees Becker’s 5,000 Doors effort falling woefully short. And if all Biskupski does is streamline, he says, she’ll be streamlining the same sorts of projects being built today—which, according to some affordable-housing advocates, homeless advocates and the senior citizens at River’s Bend, are hardly affordable. Developer fees—known as “impact fees—are another area of contention that whoever becomes mayor will be forced to deal with. Developers pay these fees to the city for infrastructure improvements like streets, traffic lights, parks and public utilities. Becker and Biskupski both say the current fees, having netted tens of millions of dollars that sit in city coffers waiting to be spent, are too high. At press time, the City Council was considering a moratorium on such fees while it retools its rate formula. If developers don’t cover the costs of the municipal infrastructure needed to accommodate growth, property owners will pay for it in the form of property-tax hikes. And if the city’s impact fees are too high, as both candidates agree, then Salt Lake City will lose opportunities as developers flock to cities with lower fees. “We have to be reasonable,” Biskupski says. “We need impact fees to help pay for infrastructure that has to go in when a facility is built. But they have to be realistic, or we can’t compete.”

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Every city government employee, except for City Council members and their staff, work for Becker. And, according to Becker, when complaints flow his way about how various arms of the city are functioning, he takes them seriously. For example, Becker says a fire marshal wasn’t exhibiting the “solution-oriented” mentality that he was trying to instill in city employees, so the person was replaced. “The mayor is so important to the way the city looks, feels and functions,” Garrott says, noting that decisions ranging from who is chief of police to how city lawns are watered come back to Becker. “The mayor’s in charge of those decisions, and they effect quality of life in serious ways.” In everyday life, though, most residents of Salt Lake City interface with the city at the street level—

In this race, this trio of topics has meshed into one. And it is possible that the most glaring difference between Biskupski and Becker is how they plan to improve mass transit. Biskupski says the key to improving public transportation in the city is to create a municipal bus service—separate from the Utah Transit Authority. “It would be a complimentary service, and it’s done all over the country,” Biskupski says. “It’s really a partnership that you develop, and it’s needed.” Her campaign estimates that it could cost around $14 million a year, based on other cities’ transit models. “Every month on this campaign trail, transit service has been at the top of people’s lists,” she says. “They want to get out of their cars. They want to do their part to help clean up our air, and we are not spending the resources to enable that.” Biskupski cites her own experience with mass transit, saying it takes her at least 45 minutes to travel downtown from her home near 1900 East and 1500 South. Becker says such a plan would simply create a new bureaucracy. Instead, he says, the city must work with UTA on expanding services. One potential billion-dollar UTA project of great interest to Salt Lake City is one of the transportation solutions embedded

driving, biking or walking to and from work. And, using 300 South as an example, some of the city’s streets look and feel a lot different than they did the last time Becker’s name was on the ballot. Whether it’s fair or not, every time a cyclist cuts in front of a motorist, a car skins its tire on a concrete bike wedge, or parking spots are scarce on Broadway, Becker’s name comes to mind. But bike lanes are not the only controversial project Becker has been given credit for. The Sugar House Streetcar, which has inspired highdensity development in one of the city’s most sought-after neighborhoods, as well as epic traffic congestion on 2100 South near Highland Drive, and the construction of the $119-million Eccles Theater on Main Street, which Becker says will attract performances the likes of which Salt Lake City has never seen, are accomplishments he likes to tout. In an Oct. 18, 2015, opinion piece in The Salt Lake Tribune, Stephen Trimble, a U of U instructor, wrote that this election isn’t about Becker—it’s about “Becker, the planner who gets things done.” “You may be disappointed with the mayor’s off-key skills as a communicator; you may be angry about one of his policy decisions,” Trimble wrote. “But our city has undeniable new vitality, and Becker has brought us here.” But tough critics to Becker’s story line have emerged. Among the fiercest is the man who sat in the mayor’s seat from 2000-2008, Rocky Anderson. In a Salt Lake Tribune opinion piece, Anderson said the economic prosperity occuring under Becker would have happened if “Elmer Fudd were mayor. “Credit should instead be given to the businesses, entrepeneuers, working people and developers (including the LDS Church) who created jobs, constructed amenities (many of which were underway before Becker was elected) and built businesses,” wrote Anderson. Economy aside, Biskupski says a key difference between herself and Becker is her accessibility and willingness to listen. “Our expectations in Salt Lake City might be pretty high when it comes to accountability and responsiveness and transparency of local government,” Garrott says, noting that in New York City, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg got away with executing loads of innovative policies, because no New Yorker believes that their mayor is accountable to them. “That might be a reason why people are willing to jump off the good ship Becker,” Garrott says, adding, “Because they have higher expectations, and he has been top-down.” Whether Biskupski is given the chance to deliver on her promises of a city with better listening skills remains to be seen. But exactly 4,455 more voters filled in the Biskupski bubble during the primary than went with Becker—a wealth of support that the challenger says is due largely to the fact that she listed her home phone number is on her campaign fliers, and she isn’t paying lip service to her desire to listen to the public. “People want that,” Biskupski says. “They want an elected official, one that they can relate to, one that is accessible, one that is listening.” CW

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within the Mountain Accord. It could result in a train up Little Cottonwood Canyon and a tunnel through the mountain to Big Cottonwood Canyon. The project is still on the drawing board. Among other hurdles, the Mountain Accord Transportation plan must undergo a federal environmental review followed by an extensive planning process. Yet the proposal’s presence in the Mountain Accord—which Becker signed off on, along with environmental organizations and dozens of other cities, counties and stakeholders—means that the train and the tunnel exist within the realm of possibility. Biskupski has said she supports Mountain Accord, but that a large dose of caution is needed before boring holes through the Wasatch and running trains up the guts of canyons. A rapid-transit bus system is a more palatable and affordable canyon transportation option, Biskupski says. That was the recommendation of a transportation study she participated in as part of her duties with the sheriff’s department, which provides law enforcement in the canyons. If UTA were to embark upon a rail project in the canyons, Biskupski worries that it could siphon money away from the agency’s already depleted bus system. “We don’t have the UTA transit service that we need just to move people around within the cities that are here in our county,” Biskupski says. “I’m not opposed to Mountain Accord, and people need to understand that. I am much more thoughtful, though, around the environmental potential impacts, the cost and the needs of people right here in our county.” While Becker believes a key piece of the puzzle in protecting the Wasatch and the city’s watershed is transportation, he feels too much emphasis has been placed on the potential for trains. “Through Mountain Accord, we have the path forward to protect the Wasatch in ways that everybody appreciates,” Becker says. “All of this is going to kind of shake out as we go through this much more narrow process examining transit in the canyons.”

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Silver Summit Theatre: Buried Child It takes a deft touch to mount a production that is simultaneously a dysfunctional-family drama and an absurdist comedy. Yet, it’s exactly that funky recipe that makes Silver Summit Theatre’s production of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child so intriguing. Set in a rural Illinois farmhouse, it opens with almost stereotypical bickering conversation between long-married Dodge (Andrew Maizner, pictured) and Halie (Barb Gandy). Their two sons are still around—haunted, childlike Tilden (Justin Bruse), who has recently moved back from New Mexico, and Bradley (Stein Erickson)—but between the offstage yelling and Dodge’s fear that Bradley will do something to him in his sleep, it’s clear that there’s not a lot of affection between these people. But the truly surreal encounters begin with the arrival of Tilden’s son, Vince (Aaron Kramer) and his girlfriend, Shelly (Natalie Keezer). Neither his grandfather, Dodge, nor his own father seems to recognize Vince, and as the family’s history is gradually exposed, Buried Child becomes a tale of how family members can become lost to one another over time, separated forever by wounds that may be impossible to heal. Director Lane Richins leads a solid cast that finds enough bitter comedy in Shepard’s script to keep the show from becoming a slog through archetypal tragedy. And when Keezer’s Shelly winds up brandishing a prosthetic leg at the creepy members of Vince’s family, it’s clear that Buried Child has shown us an unhappy clan the likes of which you’re unlikely to find anywhere else. (Scott Renshaw) Silver Summit Theatre: Buried Child @ Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 132 S. 800 West, Oct. 9-25, Friday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 4 p.m., $18. SilverSummitTheatre.org

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Pioneer Theatre Co.: The Rocky Horror Show Concert Version Continuing a tradition launched last year, Pioneer Theatre Co. helps us get into the true Halloween spirit with its production of The Rocky Horror Show, Richard O’Brien’s classic slice of campy theatrical delirium. This year, PTC is bringing the concert version of this late-night double feature to Salt Lake City for a limited run—just enough time to break out those fishnets and corsets that have been cluttering up your closet for the last year. The concert version is a script-in-hand performance. Audience participation is strongly encouraged. Audience members are free to attend in costume, and prop kits will be available for purchase in the lobby so that you can offer a “toast” or keep yourself dry in a rainstorm with a newspaper. For the uninitiated, The Rocky Horror Show tells the demented tale of Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, two newlyweds whose automotive problems lead them to an evening of sweet transvestites, fringe science and B-movie aesthetics. PTC’s rendition will feature Broadway favorite Will Swenson as Dr. Frank N. Furter, and Utah’s own Sen. Jim Dabakis reprising his role as The Narrator. It’s one of the most raucous nights of PTC’s season, so it’s a good idea to get tickets early—especially considering the huge expected turnout of glittery fans eager to pay tribute on this, the 40th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. (Alex Springer) Pioneer Theatre Co.: The Rocky Horror Show Concert Version @ Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, Oct. 22-23, 8 p.m., Oct. 24, 5 p.m. & 10 p.m., $25-$40 ($5 more at the door). PioneerTheatre.org

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Art Meets Fashion: Anamorphic: Distortions of Humanity Art Meets Fashion has been exploring the intersection of the two (sometimes strange) bedfellows for a number of years now. They continue to push the envelope of expectations, focusing on art that defies traditional ideas about fashion, and what kind of art meshes well with couture. This season’s AMF event is perhaps the most surprising yet, examining the ways humanity is reshaped and transformed by fashion and other arts. Interactive art exhibitions are on display from a host of local artists, including Shelly Huynh, Veronica Lynn Harper, Manicproject Photography, the Salt Lake Community College Fashion Institute and others. A focal point of the event will be the opening of AMF featured artist Mark Seely’s exhibition, Vivisection (untitled mixed media on aluminum detail pictured). Seely’s mixed-media works are some of the most visceral abstract art being produced by anyone in town, and yet they find themselves used as decorative elements in some fashionable homes around the valley. AMF events have helped identify a path forward for both art and fashion: as a way art can engage with people in different arenas other than the rarified air of the gallery, and how fashion can continue to develop as an art form in its own right, not always tied to commerce. Together, they can serve as instruments to reveal something about our humanity. (Brian Staker) Art Meets Fashion: Anamorphic: Distortions of Humanity @ The Fallout, 625 S. 600 West, Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m., industry $25; regular admission $45. ArtMeetsFashion.net

SATURDAY 10.24 SALT Contemporary Dance: Surge II

SALT Contemporary Dance’s artistic director, Michelle Henriksen Nielsen, says she isn’t sure the word “contemporary” completely explains the vision of this three-year-old professional company. Once a word that denoted choreography not beholden to the traditions of either classical or modern dance, “contemporary” now itself comes with a certain set of expectations. That just doesn’t sit right with a company like SALT, which is forging a new kind of company that performs in a style Nielsen calls “emergent,” and SALT’s sold-out performances prove that the troupe’s instincts are impeccable. This weekend, SALT Contemporary Dance performs Surge II in Park City. Surge I, performed in May in Salt Lake City, played to a packed house every night, so the company decided to give the evening another run with a few new works. The 90-minute show (SALT purposefully avoids producing overlong concerts) is composed of six pieces. Four of the works are from Surge’s May performance, including These 10,000 Hours, co-choreographed by SALT company members Joni Tuttle McDonald and Garrett Smith; and Flock, by Los Angeles-based choreographer Will Johnston. SALT’s junior company, SALT II, performs one of the program’s two new numbers, and the second new work comes from guest choreographer Gabrielle Lamb. Lamb is one of the nation’s most in-demand choreographers, working with big-name companies around the nation, including Ballet Austin and Dance Theatre of Harlem. Earning the chance to work with a choreographer of this caliber shows once again that SALT Contemporary Dance is on track to be one of Utah’s best creative performing groups. (Katherine Pioli) SALT Contemporary Dance: Surge II @ Prospector Square Conference Center, 2200 Sidewinder Drive, Park City, Oct. 24, 6:30 p.m., $20-$35. SaltDance.com

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a game? Of course not—but understanding what the odds are when the batter comes up to the plate certainly raises the stakes on how you feel about it. But with Star Wars, there’s always been an excitement in not needing to know what’s going on, and that first Star Wars film proves it. For all of our best guesses, that’s what J.J. Abrams is going to give us with The Force Awakens. If you’ve noticed, none of the trailers have answered any questions. In fact, they’ve only raised more. All of the material coming out is answering some of those questions in a really interesting way, yet in a way that doesn’t actually reveal anything about the new story. For instance, remember that shot in the trailer on the desert planet with the star destroyer crashed into it? Well, thanks to a book called Lost Stars (Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens)—which I highly recommend—we not only know that it was the star destroyer Inflictor, but who was commanding it when it crashed (no spoiler here: If you’re curious, you’ll have to read the book). Why is it still on that desert planet 30 years later? I have no idea. But I love the story of how it got there. Star Wars fans love to know the little details. Maybe all those details aren’t germane to the story we’re watching, but there’s a certain thrill in recognizing an Easter egg or some other bit of context rewarding the astute viewer. That’s part of why I ravenously devour all the Star Wars content that’s flooding out like water from a broken dam. The period of time in the Star Wars universe between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens is a blank slate, so any answer we can get is one I want to know about— but if I happen to miss something, it’s not going to diminish my enjoyment in any way. If you’re not on the bandwagon of reading all the books and comics, playing all the video games and watching the TV shows, don’t worry. You don’t need any of it, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Star Wars: The Force Awakens comes out Dec. 18, and that’s enough. Though if you ask me, it’s not soon enough. CW

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The Addams Family Hale Center Theater, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, 801-226-8600, MondaySaturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 3 p.m.; through Nov. 28, HaleTheater.org The Addams Family Beverly’s Terrace Playhouse, 99 E. 4700 South, Ogden, 801-393-0070, Monday, Friday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., through Nov. 14, TerracePlayhouse.com Aida Centerpoint Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, 801-298-1302, Monday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2:30 p.m.; through Oct. 31, CenterpointTheatre.org Behold, Zebulon Westminster College Jewett Center, 1840 S. 1300 East, Oct. 22-24, 7:30 p.m., WestminsterCollege.edu Big Fish Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Dr., West Valley City, 801-984-9000, Monday-Saturday, 7:30; Saturday matinees, 12:30 & 4 p.m.; through Nov. 28, HCT.org Blackberry Winter Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North, 801-363-7522, Tuesday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 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-Satudray, 7:30 p.m., through Oct. 31, TheOBT.org Bride of Frankenstein Sackerson Theatre Co., The Warehouse, 1030 S. 300 West, Monday-Thursday, 8 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, 8 & 11 p.m.; through Oct. 31, Bride-of-Frankenstein.com Buried Child Silver Summit Theatre, Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 132 S. 800 West, 801-541-7376, Friday-Saturday 8 p.m.; Sunday, 4 p.m.; through Oct. 25, SilverSummitTheatre.org (see p. 20) Clue: The Musical Empress Theatre, 2700 S. 9104

West, 801-347-7373, Monday, Friday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; matinee Oct. 24 & Nov. 7, 2 p.m.; through Nov. 7, EmpressTheatre.com The Exonerated People Productions, U of U Social Work Building, 395 S. 1500 East, Oct. 23-24, 7:30 p.m.; Oct. 25, 2 p.m.; PeopleProductions.org James and the Giant Peach SCERA, 745 S. State, 801-225-2787, Monday-Friday, 7 p.m., through Nov. 6, SCERA.org Jekyll & Hyde Heritage Theatre, 2505 S. Highway 89, 435-723-8392, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Oct 24 matinee, 2 p.m.; through Nov. 7, HeritageTheatreUtah.com The Kreutzer Sonata Plan-B Theatre Co., Rose Wagner Theater, 138 W. 300 South, SundayMonday, 7 p.m., through Nov. 9, PlanBTheatre.org The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Covey Center for the Arts, 425 W. Center, 801-852-7007, Monday, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., through Oct. 31, CoveyCenter.org The Rocky Horror Show Concert Version Pioneer Theater Company, 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6961, Oct. 22-23, 8 p.m., Oct. 24, 5 & 10 p.m., PioneerTheatre.org (see p. 20) Salem Witch Trials Salty Dinner Theater, various locations in Midvale, Murray, Sandy & Layton, through Oct. 29, SaltyDinnerTheater.com Star Wards: These Are Not the Elders You’re Looking For Desert Star Playhouse, 4861 S. State, Murray, 801-266-2600, Monday, WednesdayThursday, 7 p.m.; Friday, 9:30 p.m.; Saturday, 2:30, 6 & 8:30 p.m.; through Nov. 27, DesertStar.biz Titus Andronicus New World Shakespeare, Sorensen Unity Center, 1383 S. 900 West, 801-719-7998, Oct. 22-Nov. 1, Thursday-Saturday, 7 p.m.; Sunday, 5 p.m.; NewWorldShakespeare.com Tribes Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North, 801-363-7522, Wednesday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 6 p.m.; Oct. 21-Nov. 15,

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Brian Selznick: The Marvels Author Brian Selznick has carved out a unique niche for himself in literature for young readers. In illustrated novels like The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck, he has combined his prose with his own pencil drawings to craft stories that are often complex, with narratives that jump across time and take their time revealing the connections between characters. Selznick’s latest work, The Marvels, spans centuries in telling the story of two boys left alone in the world. In pictures, he follows shipwrecked Billy Marvel in 1700s London as he is taken in by a Shakespearean theater company; in words, he tells of runaway Joseph in 1990 London, who seeks the eccentric uncle he has never met. Selznick rewards viewers with close attention to all facets of his stories, and offers a story that—like much of the author’s work—is about the power of storytelling itself. Pre-order the book for a personalized autograph. (Scott Renshaw) Brian Selznick: The Marvels @ Salt Lake City Main Library auditorium, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, Oct. 23, 7 p.m., free. KingsEnglish.com SaltLakeActingCompany.org Under a Street Called Freedom Gallery Theater Productions, Eccles Community Art Center, 2580 Jefferson Ave., Oct. 20-22, 7 p.m., Ogden4Arts.org Utah Shakespeare Festival: Charley’s Aunt, Dracula, The Two Gentlemen of Verona Randall L. Jones Theatre, 351 W. Center, Cedar City, 435-586-7878, through Oct. 31, Bard.org Young Frankenstein Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State, 801-957-3322, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m.; through Oct. 30, The-Grand.org Young Frankenstein Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 S. Washington Blvd., Ogden, 855-944-2787, FridaySaturday, 7:30 p.m., through Nov. 14, ZigArts.com

DANCE

Odyssey Dance Theatre: Thriller Various dates and locations in Salt Lake City, Park City & Ivins, through Oct. 31, OdysseyDance.com Performing Dance Company: Fall Season Marriott Center for Dance, 330 S. 1500 East, 801-581-7100, Oct. 22-24, Friday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, 5:30 p.m.; Tickets.Utah.edu Salsaween Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, Oct. 24, 9 p.m., CulturalCelebration.org Salt Contemporary Dance: Surge II Prospector Square Conference Center, 2200 Sidwinder Drive, Park City, Oct. 24, 6:30 p.m., SaltDance.com (see p. 20)

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Gabriel Fauré Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East, 801-832-2682, Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m., WestminsterCollege.edu Fall Classics All Saints Episcopal Church, 1710 S. Foothill Drive, 801-581-0380, Oct. 25, 7 p.m., AllSaintSSLC.org Mozart Piano and Violin Sonatas Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-6762, Oct. 25, 7 p.m., Music.Utah.edu Märkl: “Carmina Burana” Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-533-6683, Oct. 23-24, 7:30 p.m., UtahSymphony.org Pianist Mirian Conti: “Babar the Elephant” & “Tangos Argentinos” Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-297-4250, Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m., Bachauer.com Symphonic Band Harris Fine Arts Center, 1

University Hill, Provo, 801-422-4636, Oct. 27, 7 p.m., Calendar.BYU.edu Wasatch Chorale: Faure’s “Requiem” Covey Center for the Arts, 425 W. Center, Provo, 801-852-7007, Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., WasatchChorale.org Wind Ensemble Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-6762, Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., Music.Utah.edu Utah Symphony: Wizarding Halloween Spooktacular Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-533-6683, Oct. 27, 7 p.m., UtahSymphony.org

COMEDY & IMPROV

Brad Williams Wiseguys West Valley City, 2194 W. 3500 South, 801-463-2909, Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m., WiseGuysComedy.com Gay Siedel Wiseguys West Valley City, 2194 W. 3500 South, 801-463-2909, Oct. 23-24, 7:30 p.m., WiseGuysComedy.com Keith Stubbs Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th, 801-622-5588, Oct 23-24, 8:00 p.m., WiseGuysComedy.com Pete Holmes Wiseguys West Valley City, 2194 W. 3500 South, 810-463-2902, Oct. 23-24, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., WiseGuysComedy.com Shaun Latham Club at 50 West, 50 W. 300 South, Oct. 23-24, 7 & 9 p.m., Club.50WestSLC.com Suzanne Westenhoefer Wiseguys Comedy Club, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-463-2909, Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m., WiseGuysComedy.com

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Anca Cristofovici: Stela The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Oct. 22, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com Brian Cannon: The Awkward State of Utah: Coming of Age in the Nation 1896-1945 Utah State Archives, 346 S. Rio Grande St., 801-531-3848, Oct. 28, noon, Archives.Utah.gov Brian Selznick: The Marvels Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, Oct. 23, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com (see above) Dan Marshall: Home is Burning Barnes & Noble Sugar House, 1104 E. 2100 South, 801-463-2610, Oct. 24, 3 p.m., BarnesandNoble.com

moreESSENTIALS Julie Checkoway: The Three-Year Swimclub The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Oct. 27, 7 p.m. KingsEnglish.com Lora Koehler & Jake Parker: The Little Snowplow The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Oct. 24, 11 a.m., KingsEnglish.com Peter Cole: The Invention of Influence Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, Oct. 22, 6 p.m., WellerBookWorks.com Rachel Hunt Steenblik & Hannah Wheelwright: Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, Oct. 27, 6 p.m., WellerBookWorks.com

SPECIAL EVENTS FARMERS MARKETS

9th West Jordan Park, 1060 S. 900 West, Sunday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., through Oct. 25, 9thWestFarmersMarket.org Downtown Pioneer Park, 300 W. 300 South,Saturday, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.; Tuesday, 4-9 p.m.; through Oct. 24, SLCFarmersMarket.org

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Bill Reed: Changing Visions: Womanscapes, Botanicals, and More Salt Lake City Library Chapman Branch, 577 S. 900 West, 801-594-8623,

Stitchscapes: Painted Collages by Laura Sommer Sprague Library, 2131 S. 1100 East, 801-594-8640, through Nov. 20; SLCPL.org A Salty Horror Art Show Urban Arts Gallery, 137 South Rio Grande St., 801-230-0820, through Nov. 1, UtahArts.org A Visual Feast Horne Fine Art Exhibit, 142 E. 800 South, 801-533-4200, through Nov. 31, HorneFineArt.com 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 Art Meets Fashion: Anamorphic: Distortions of Humanity The Fallout, 625 S. 600 West, 323-481-0825, Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m., ArtMeetsFashion.net (see p. 20)

Black Island Farms Black Island Farms, 3178 S. 3000 West, Syracuse, 801-825-6236, MondayFriday, 4 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.; BlackIslandFarms.com Block Party Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main, 801-5356110, Oct. 24, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., TheGallivanCenter.com Castle of Chaos 7980 S. State, Midvale, 7:30 p.m. nightly, through Nov. 14, CastleofChaos.com Cornbelly’s Corn Maze & Pumpkin Fest Thanksgiving Point, 3003 N. Thanksgiving Way, Lehi, 801-794-3276, Monday-Thursday, 4 p.m.; FridaySaturday, 10 a.m.; Cornbellys.com Crazy Corn Maze 8800 S. 4000 West, West Jordan, 801-569-2356, Monday-Friday, 6 p.m.; Saturday, noon; UtahMaze.com Dawn, Day & Night of the Running Dead Andy Ballard Equestrian Park, 1600 E. Highland Drive, 801-656-5897, Oct. 24, 9 a.m., 1 & 8 p.m., UndeadRace.com Dining in the Dark The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, 801-531-9800, Oct. 23, 7-9 p.m., TheLeonardo.org Día de los Muertos Celebration Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts, 631 W. North Temple, Suite 700, 801-596-0500, Oct. 26-30, Nov. 1, 6 p.m., MestizoCoffeeHouse.com Día de los Muertos Celebration Westminster on the Draw, 2120 S. 1300 East, 801-466-6730, Oct. 24, 6 p.m., TheSharingPlace.org Fear Factory 666 W. 800 South, Monday-Saturday, 7 p.m., through Oct. 31, FearFactorySLC.com Frightmares Lagoon Park, 375 Lagoon Drive, Farmington, through Oct. 30, 5 p.m., LagoonPark.com Garden After Dark Red Butte Garden Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, 801-585-0556, Oct. 22-24 & 29-30, 6 p.m., RedButteGarden.org Grimm Ghost Tours 18 W. South Temple, 801-508-4746, Friday 7, 9 & 10:30 p.m., Saturday, 5, 7, 9 & 10:30 p.m., GrimmGhostTours.com Halloween Carnivore Carnival George S. Eccles Dinosaur Park, 1544 Park Blvd., Ogden, 801-393-3466, Oct. 23-24, 30, 6:30-8:30 p.m., DinosaurPark.org

Haunted Hollow Haunted Hollow, 1550 S. 1900 West, Ogden, 801-903-3039, Wednesday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., through Oct. 31, HauntedUtah.com Insanity Point Thanksgiving Point, 3003 N. Thanksgiving Way, Lehi, 801-794-3276, Friday, Saturday & Monday, 7:45 p.m., through Oct. 31, InsanityPoint.com Little Haunts This Is The Place Heritage Park, 2106 Sunnyside Ave., 801-582-1847, Oct. 24 & 31, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., ThisIsThePlace.org Mystery Escape Room The Gateway, 157 S. Rio Grande St., 385-322-2583, Monday-Saturday, MysteryEscapeRoom.com Nightmare on 13th 300 W. 1300 South, Monday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., through Oct. 31 Nightmareon13th.com Pumpkin Days Wheeler Farm, 6351 S. 900 East, 385-468-1755, Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.; through Oct. 31, WheelerFarm.com Pumpkin Festival Pioneer Park, 300 W. 300 South, 801-333-1103, Oct. 24, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., SLCFarmersMarket.org Pumpkin Festival Syracuse Community Center, 1912 S. 1900 West, Syracuse, 801-825-1477, Oct. 22-24, 7-10 p.m., SyracuseUT.com Spirits & Spirits Costume Ball O.P. Rockwell, 268 Main, Park City, 435-615-7000, Oct. 24, 8 p.m., OPRockwell.ticketfly.com Strangling Brothers Haunted Circus 98 E. 13800 South, Draper, nightly, 7:30 p.m. StranglingBros.com The Corn Maize 2801 S. 3500 West, Ogden, 801-645-5392, Monday-Friday, 4 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m.; through Oct. 31, TheCornMaize.com Timpanogos Storytelling Festival: Hauntings Orem City Library, 58 N. State, Orem, 801-229-7050, Oct. 26, 7 p.m., OremLibrary.org Tower of Terror Tower Theatre, 876 E. 900 South, 801-321-0310, Oct. 16-31, 11 p.m., SaltLakeFilmSociety.org WitchFest Gardner Village, 1100 W. 7800 South, 801-566-8903, through Oct. 31, Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m., GardnerVillage.com Witchstock Festival Ogden City Amphitheater, 343 25th St., Ogden, 801-393-3866, Oct. 24, 4 p.m., Historic25.com

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or too many years now, my culinary colleagues and I have lamented the lack of upscale Greek cuisine in Salt Lake City. Sure, there are dozens of perfectly good places to find a great gyro or souvlaki. But when it comes to fine dining, Aristo’s has, for as long as I can recall, been pretty much the only Greek game in town. That has always struck me as odd, given Utah’s vibrant Greek community. I’m happy to report that one such Greek eatery has recently opened. The newly opened restaurant is Manoli’s, named for owner/chef Manoli Katsanevas. Trained in culinary arts at Salt Lake Community College, Katsanevas boasts kitchen experience ranging from working in his parents’ Crown Burgers restaurant to stints at Fresco, Caffe Niche, Fleming’s and Grand America’s Garden Café. Following the success of his catering business, chef Katsanevas now has a restaurant to call his own, and it’s been a hit from the day its doors opened. When Matt Caputo of Caputo’s Market & Deli raves about a restaurant, I listen. He doesn’t pull punches and, like his father, Tony, he is very discriminating when it comes to food—especially Italian and Greek food. So, while I normally don’t like to visit restaurants during their first few weeks of business—Manoli’s has been open only about a month—I was eager to find out what all the fuss was about. If you’re anticipating the predictable Greek blue-and-white color scheme with splashes of gold and bouzouki music playing in the background, think again. Manoli’s is an ultramodern space, bright and bustling. White plastic chairs and benches with blond-colored wood tables complement the lemon and tan hues of the walls. One entire side of the restaurant is an open kitchen, where diners can enjoy watching Greek magic being made. A small bar in the rear of Manoli’s is the perfect spot for a cocktail and meze, classic Greek small plates. A word to the wise, however: If noisy restaurants bother you, avoid Manoli’s during rush hours, which seem to be all the time. There’s nary a soft surface in the place, and sound bounces freely around the restaurant, seemingly amplified. On the positive side, it’s that buzz that helps makes for a lively, energetic eatery. Before I tell you what’s on the menu at Manoli’s, let me tell you what’s not: gy-

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The Image Reborn Foundation (ImageRebornFoundation.org) provides weekend retreats for breast-cancer survivors at no cost, giving them a chance to reclaim a sense of personal power and live beyond breast cancer. Through the end of October, the Brazilian restaurant Rodizio Grill (600 S. 700 East, Trolley Square, 801-220-0500, RodizioGrill.com) will donate 100 percent of its sales of rabanada—cinnamon pastry with a creamy center, served with vanilla ice cream and laced with caramel sauce—to the Image Reborn Foundation. Wary of wild game? Conquer your fears with rattlesnake sausage, wild hog, spicy elk and bison on the Rodizio menu during October.

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n my opinion, any day is a good day for Champagne. However, for those who need an official reason to celebrate bottled bubbles, Oct. 23 is Global Champagne Day. From Australia to Paris and Hong Kong to Rio, Champagne toasts will be in abundance. A number of restaurants and bars throughout the country—STK in Las Vegas is the closest to Salt Lake City—will offer complimentary glasses of Champagne to their guests. Sadly, freebies are discouraged here by the UDABC, and I know of no local restaurants participating in the complimentary Champagne toast. But what of this stuff called Champagne? If

you’ve sipped Champagne only at weddings, you might not be all that fond of it, since it was likely either Gobi Desert-dry to toothache-sweet. First things first, though: Champagne is wine. To be called “Champagne,” it has to come from the Champagne region of France, about 90 miles northeast of Paris. California and other winemaking regions might produce excellent sparkling wines—wine with bubbles—but they are not Champagne. There are approximately 110 producers of Champagne in France— called “maisons” or houses—most based in Reims and Epernay. Like most still wines—Sauvignon Blanc, for example—Champagne isn’t just one thing. It ranges widely in style and type, from very light to full-bodied and, as mentioned, from bone-dry to sickly sweet. The most popular and common type of Champagne is golden-colored, and made by blending three Champagne-grown grapes: Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier. Also produced in Champagne are three other types: Blanc de Blancs, Blanc de Noirs and Rosé Champagnes. Blanc de Blancs (“white from whites”) Champagnes are made solely from Chardonnay grapes, a style created by the founder of Salon Champagne, Eugène-Aimé Salon. Salon is the best Blanc de Blancs on the planet, and probably the most expen-

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Customers flock here for its menu of Neapolitan pizza with a twist, premium gelato and fresh salads. Try artisan pizzas such as the Viola with blackberries, Parmigiano Reggiano, proscuitto, house marinara and fresh mozzarella; the Caprese with fresh aged mozzarella, red onions, garlic, balsamic and tomatoes; or a classic Margherita. Salad options at the restaurant include the tre sorelle with pear and pistachios, Italiano with pepperoncinis, Caesar and Caprese. All of the salads come with crosta, crispy, chewy pizza crust served with olive oil and Parmesan. There is also a great selection of European sparkling waters and sodas available. Try the excellent limone, raspberry, vanilla or chocolate gelato for dessert. Multiple Locations, PizzeriaLimone.net

Del Mar al Lago

If you love ceviche, you’ll love Del Mar. Try the ceviche de mero, which is tender fish, mussels, octopus, calamari and more, served with sweet corn and onions that complement the zesty spices. Portions are generous, and plates seem designed to be passed around, so don’t keep that lomo saltado (strips of beef marinated in soy sauce, vinegar and spices, stir-fried with onions and tomatoes, served with steamed rice and french fries) to yourself. The restaurant itself is clean and airy, with an open kitchen where you can see your meal being prepared. 310 W. Bugatti Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-467-2890, DelMarAlLago.co

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Featured on Food Network’s Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, Moochie’s is the place to go for authentic-tasting Philly cheesesteaks, now with locations in downtown Salt Lake City, Midvale and Lehi. But the restaurant is about more than just cheesesteaks. Philadelphia-born owner Joanna Rendi assembles some of the tastiest meatballs around, as well. So, if you get into too much of a cheesesteak rut, just spice up your life with a meatball sandwich. The deep-dish lasagna and chicken cacciatore are also great, and be sure to try Don’s (Joanna’s husband) delicious “zappy” potato salad. For desert, try Tastykake, a delicacy imported directly from Philly. Multiple locations, MoochiesMeatballs.com

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There is more to Japanese cuisine than just sushi, and Suehiro Japanese Restaurant in Midvale has it in spades. Not that the sushi isn’t terrific—it is, and the nigiri portions in particular are generous and always fresh. But the highlight is traditional family dishes from Japan such as the tenzaru: a seasonal specialty made with buckwheat soba noodles, and the pork tonkatsu—essentially a Japanese version of Wiener schnitzel. 6933 S. 1300 East, Midvale, 801-255-1089, Facebook.com/ SuehiroUtah

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Ab’s Drive-In

Ab’s Drive-In has been satisfying West Valley City folks’ cravings for old-fashioned hamburgers, hand-cut french fries and thick milkshakes since 1951. The specialty at Ab’s is the Fat Boy burger, which always tastes best with a thick, peanut-butter shake next to it. Beyond burgers, Ab’s also serves up grilled chicken, corn dogs, chili dogs, fish & chips and tasty onion rings. 4591 S. 5600 West, West Valley City, 801-968-2130, AbsDriveIn.com

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The flavors at Tandoor are enticing and the service is friendly. Along with the typical curries, masalas, biryanis and kormas (the tender lamb korma is outstanding), Tandoor, located in Salt Lake City, also offers items rare-

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Everything is fresh at this inexpensive, funky eatery, from the tortillas and salsas to the tamales and tacos. The Lone Star Taqueria looks like someone transported a taco shack from a Baja beach right to Cottonwood Heights. It’s a cool and kitschy place, with cold Mexican cervezas served in glass cowboy boots and a rockin’ sound system. The only thing missing is a beach. The mahimahi fish tacos with cilantro aioli are wildly popular at Lone Star, as is the zippy jalapeño-spiked guacamole. The burritos aren’t bad, but at Lone Star Taqueria, it’s really all about the tacos. Flip-flops are optional. 2265 E. Fort Union Blvd., Cottonwood Heights, 801944-2300, LoneStarTaqueria.com

ly seen in Utah’s Indian restaurants: Hyderabadi bagara baingan, for example. That’s baby eggplant stuffed with a peanut and sesame-seed paste, cooked with tamarind and onions and served with a scintillating red curry. Another special at Tandoor is dosa, a fermented crepe made from rice batter. The tandoor-baked breads will bring a smile to your face, from the nicely charred naan to paratha methi, multilayered whole-wheat bread with dried fenugreek. For dessert, order the gulab jamun: golfball-size fried wheat-and-milk nuggets macerated in sugar syrup. 733 E. 3300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-486-4542, TandoorIndianGrill.com

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Restaurateurs Shana and AJ Hubbard don’t play it safe when it comes to the food and drink they proffer. Who else would put yak tartare on an Ogden menu? This may be Ogden’s priciest restaurant, but as the saying goes, you get what you pay for. The coconut-curry popcorn at the bar is $5, but it’s the best popcorn I’ve ever tasted. The centerpiece of the kitchen is, indeed, a hearth—specifically, a Tuscan wood-burning oven. Like virtually everything on Hearth’s menu, the pizzas and flatbreads are eclectic, and you can even try bone marrow—which tastes a bit like warm foie gras—spread on thick slices of house-baked sourdough toast. Hearth’s “Slow Food Stroganoff” features excellent house-made noodles, but contained stringy, dry strands of beef, mountains of mushrooms all but obliterated what little beef there was in the dish, and the flavor was bland and lacked seasoning. A much more satisfying entree is the quail and dumplings, with seared-then-braised tender quail in a hearty chasseur sauce with lots of wild mushrooms, pancetta, small blue-cheese dumplings, grilled endive and pickled quail egg. Utah’s culinary scene could surely benefit from more risk-takers. Reviewed Oct. 13, 2015. 195 25th St., Suite 6, Ogden, 801-399-0088, Hearth25.com

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Two culinary cultures come together under one roof—Mama Zhang hails from Beijing, while Mama Chen is Taiwanese—and the combination is killer. Don’t expect a cookie-cutter, lunchbuffet Chinese restaurant experience. A lunch of minced pork came in a bowl with brown sauce and the slightest hint of star anise, with a generous mound of steamed white rice, a cold cabbage salad and hard-boiled egg. Noodles, buns, potstickers, fried dumplings and such at Mom’s are lovingly homemade, and taste like it. Another terrific starter/small plate is the greenonion cake—a crepe-thin wheat flour “pancake” with minced green onions between the layers, fried crispy in oil, sliced into wedges and served with its own dipping sauce. The Kung pao chicken and shrimp is the best in Utah, a much more traditional dish that you’ll find in most Chinese restaurants, featuring nothing more than chicken and shrimp fried in oil with peanuts and dried chili peppers, garnished with minced scallions. If you only order one thing at Mom’s, however, make it Mom’s cold noodles with a silky, heavenly peanut sauce. These dandan type homemade noodles simply can’t be improved upon. Reviewed Oct. 1, 2015. 2233 S. State, 801-486-0092, MomsKitchenRestaurantSaltLakeCity.com

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Oak Wood Fire Kitchen

Executive chef/partner David Kimball’s place isn’t just about pizza. The pizza is incredible, but so were other dishes we tried: a gargantuan serving of fried calamari with lemon and parsley on a smear of zippy “feisty sauce”; Oak Bread with parmesan, rosemary, garlic oil and black pepper; incendiary Sriracha-honey chicken wings with shredded carrot slaw and blue cheese. I’m a sucker for spaghetti and meatballs, and the meatballs and sauce here—like most menu items—are made from scratch; the al dente thin spaghetti was lightly coated in tomato-basil sauce, not smothered to death with it. Ultimately, though, it’s the wood-fired pizzas that will bring you back again and again. My baseline for pizza is the Margherita. Unfortunately, so many places screw it up. Not Oak Wood Fire Kitchen, however. It is as good—and as simple—as the best Margherita I’ve ever tasted. Nothing more than topnotch crust, lightly charred bubbles intact, with tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella cheese and fresh basil. Next time, I’ll try the Creminelli prosciutto and arugula pizza with fontina, Parmesan and ricotta. Reviewed Sept. 24, 2015. 715 E. 12300 South, Draper, 801-996-8155, OakWoodFireKitchen.com

Jack’s Wood-Fired Oven

Stop by at lunchtime, as we did—or apparently anytime, from what I’m told—and there may be a wait for a table. The place is consistently packed and popular. And, with $8-$9 lunch specials that include a personal pizza and a generous salad or soup of the day, why wouldn’t Jack’s be mobbed? A homemade Tuscan potato soup with sausage morsels was one of the best soups I’ve enjoyed in many a moon. And definitely order the addictive Lyon bread to nibble on while you wait. It’s crisp pizza crust with melted cheese—nothing more, nothing less, and it’s sensational. The Margherita pizza at Jack’s was absolute perfection. But, there are other tremendous wood-fired pizzas that demand attention, too. My favorite is The Sunnyside, which is a breakfast lover’s pizza dream: potatoes, cream sauce, prosciutto, bacon, smoked cheddar and—the best part—two sunny-side-up eggs, finished with maple syrup. My wife and I both enjoyed her Cozumel pizza with white sauce, small shrimp, avocado, Peppadew peppers and Caribbean spices Reviewed Sept. 24, 2015. 256 N. Main, Logan, 435-754-7523, JacksWoodFiredOven.blogspot.com

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Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs right the complicated but still creative mess one person’s life can be, or manages it in such a deeply satisfying way. And then there’s this: All of what we witness has a certain impact only via what we bring with us into the movie. Steve Jobs assumes that we understand how important Jobs was to how we live today. It assumes that we have a long and intimate relationship with the Mac and with Apple products such as the iPod and the iPhone, or with the various non-Apple products that have raced to catch up with their innovations. None of that is in the film, and yet, it is there all the same. There is nothing in Steve Jobs that mythologizes the man, and nothing in the film that is about the cult of the Mac. It is about how that happened any way. If history is about finding the roots of the present in the past, then this is one of the more compulsory bits of modern history I’ve ever seen. CW

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techno-doodad we’d soon discover we couldn’t live without. Steve Jobs is almost a stage play, except that virtuoso director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) renders it so cinematically that it could never be mistaken for one. For instance, Boyle uses sites near and similar to real Jobs locations, such as the San Francisco Opera Center and the War Memorial Opera House for the NeXT launch (which had originally taken place across the street, at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall) to glorious effect, letting them make marvelous statements on the outsize-ness of Jobs and the mad beauty of Jobs’s vision. But there’s a stagelike intimacy to how we eavesdrop on the interactions between Jobs and a small handful of people before each event, most importantly his head of marketing and best platonic friend Joanna Hoffman (Kate Winslet); and his daughter, Lisa (played at ages 5, 9 and 19 by Makenzie Moss, Ripley Sobo and Perla Haney-Jardine, respectively). Much of what we overhear relates to engineering, marketing and corporate governance, and Sorkin and Boyle do not hold our hands through it. We get it any way. Much of the rest relates to what a monster he was to his daughter, wrapping the family side of Jobs’s life up with the work side; the same impulses drives everything he does. Which is perfectly understandable. I can’t recall a film that so beautifully gets

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Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change. EXPERIMENTER BBB.5 Social psychologist Stanley Milgram’s infamous 1961 experiment measured people’s willingness to inflict pain on strangers—and writer/director Michael Almereyda’s turns it into a playful, self-aware movie with an eccentric personality. Milgram (a twinkly eyed Peter Sarsgaard) breaks the fourth wall to narrate the story, and Almereyda uses things like visual metaphors (an elephant in the room) and deliberately fake backdrops to remind us of the movie’s inherent artificiality. The film takes us through the whirlwind of notoriety that followed Milgram’s controversial work, including an amusing visit to the set of a TV movie based on the experiment, starring Ossie Davis (Dennis Haysbert) and William Shatner (Kellan Lutz); Winona Ryder adds warmth as Milgram’s supportive wife, Sasha. Almereyda shrewdly avoids telling Milgram’s entire biography, focusing instead on the more easily managed story of this experiment and its after-effects. As Milgram, Sarsgaard is resourceful and optimistic, a trustworthy pal who is eager to let us in on his secrets. Despite the alarming questions the study raised about human nature, the film is enjoyably relaxed, a humorous and upbeat account of a fascinating phenomenon. All social science should be this entertaining. Opens Oct. 23 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (PG-13)—Eric D. Snider

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JAFAR PANAHI’S TAXI BBB.5 Facing a 20-year ban on making movies in his native Iran, Jafar Panahi continues to find imaginative, fascinating ways to make them anyway— and to turn them into commentaries on the state Iranian cinema. This one is structured as something akin to a free-form documentary, with Panahi himself driving around Tehran as though he were a cab driver and picking up random passengers, filming the encounters with dashboardmounted cameras. As it plays out, it’s never entirely clear if some or even most of those encounters are staged; one passenger, a purveyor of

black-market DVDs who recognizes Panahi, assumes some of his fellow passengers are actors, and even makes connections to some of Panahi’s other films. But that uncertainty feeds into Panahi’s often-reflexive exploration—including commentary by his own niece, Hana, regarding her assignment for a school film class—of how Iran’s restrictive policies for filmmakers cloud the notion of how much “reality” you’ll ever get a chance to see. There are fascinating glimpses of contemporary Iranian life here, even if every viewer shares the sentiment of Hana when she says, “Real, unreal … honestly, it’s beyond me.” Opens Oct. 23 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—Scott Renshaw JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS [not yet reviewed] Film adaptation of the 1980s animated series about four young women who become music superstars. Opens Oct. 23 at theaters valleywide. (PG) THE LAST WITCH HUNTER [not yet reviewed] Vin Diesel plays the titular protector of humanity against supernatural wickedness. Opens Oct. 23 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE GHOST DIMENSION [not yet reviewed] A family uses a special camera to try to see the spirits tormenting them. Opens Oct. 23 at theaters valleywide. (R) ROCK THE KASBAH B.5 It’s staggering to see the contortions a movie will go through to take a story about a non-white, non-American woman and make it about a white American guy. The inspiration comes from events portrayed in the 2009 documentary Afghan Star, with a young Pashtun woman named Salima (Leem Lubany) risking her life to sing—against cultural proscriptions—on a popular televised talent show in Afghanistan. But the central character here is Richie Lanz

STEVE JOBS BBBB See review p. 31. Opens Oct 23 at theaters valleywide. (R)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS FREQUENCY At Main Library Auditorium, Oct. 28, 2 p.m. (PG-13) HERB & DOROTHY 50X50 At Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Oct. 28, 7 p.m. (NR) THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1927) At Edison Street Events, Oct. 22-23, 7 p.m. (NR) THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW At Tower Theatre, Oct. 23-24, 11 p.m. (R)

TESTAMENT OF YOUTH At Park City Film Series, Oct. 23-24 @ 8 p.m. & Oct. 25 @ 6 p.m. (NR) WES CRAVEN’S NEW NIGHTMARE At Brewvies, Oct. 26, 10 p.m. (R) THE WINDING STREAM At Main Library Auditorium, Oct. 27, 7 p.m. (NR)

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BRIDGE OF SPIES BBB The modern-day Jimmy Stewart sensibility of Tom Hanks as Jim Donovan—the real-life Cold War-era attorney who defended accused Russian spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) and helped negotiate the trade of Abel for downed U2 pilot Frances Gary Powers—drives Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Donovan’s story. It plays out fairly baldly as an allegory for our contemporary approach to the War on Terror, as fear of an opposing ideology leads people to abandon their principles when those principles prove inconvenient. Hanks’ ability to make fundamental moral clarity and decency interesting is essential here, even as the screenplay occasionally feels clunky, inefficient or formulaic. Yet there’s still an edge to this story of sticking to a by-the-book sense of justice; Hanks’ performance emphasizes that, whether it’s hard or easy, doing the right thing is still doing the right thing. (PG-13)—SR

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CRIMSON PEAK BBB Guillermo Del Toro finds a solid foundation for his distinctive style in this Gothic ghost story. In 1901 Buffalo, N.Y., Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) meets down-at-the-heels British aristocrat Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston) and his sister Lucille (Jessica Chastain) when they seek investment funding from her wealthy father, and Edith’s fascination with the Sharpes leads her to the dark world of their crumbling estate. Del Toro does glorious things with Allendale Hall, from the blood-red clay seeping through the walls, to hallways with spiny, almost organic arches. The focus is less on overt horror than atmospheric slow burn, and perhaps the story’s revelations aren’t particularly revelatory. But when Chastain’s taut menace draws a genuine threat out of a spoon scraped against a china bowl, it’s a reminder that creepy spectacle doesn’t have to be deep to be fun. (R)—SR

FREEHELD BB.5 It’s hard for a film to fight through the reality that it’s built around speeches for an audience that already agrees. Director Peter Sollett and screenwriter Ron Nyswaner adapt the true story of Laurel Hester (Julianne Moore), a New Jersey police detective who, after learning in 2005 she’s been diagnosed with cancer, tries to have her domestic partner, Stacie (Ellen Page), designated as beneficiary for her pension. The film spends a lot of time establishing Laurel and Stacie’s relationship, including Stacie’s role as caregiver. But there are too many scenes of characters giving cue-for-applause testimony, while bad-guy bigots get their talking-point lines that we can boo. When Steve Carell shows up as a flamboyant gay activist, the weird tonal shift may offer needed energy, but emphasizes that this is a story more about politics than about people. (PG-13)—SR GOOSEBUMPS BB.5 Should it matter if a movie based on R.L. Stine’s series of scary books isn’t actually, you know, scary? Teenager Zach (Dylan Minnette) moves to a new town with his mom (Amy Ryan) and discovers weirdness associated with his new neighbors, Hannah (Odeya Rush) and her mysterious dad (Jack Black). Darren Lemke’s screenplay is wittier than might be expected from a family-friendly adventure, with gags that work as more than in-jokes for those who grew up with the books. But ultimately, it’s a variation on movies like Jumanji and even Pixels that loose crazy CGI threats upon the world. And while director Rob Letterman delivers a fun little action movie, Goosebumps never really aims for creepiness—or in allowing brave, resourceful kids to be the center of attention. That’s a twist we should have hoped not to see coming. (PG)—SR

PAN BB “Every legend has a beginning” goes the tagline to this “origin story” of Peter Pan—except there’s no way this is that beginning. In 1940 London, 12-year-old orphan Peter (Levi Miller) is kidnapped away to Neverland by the pirate Blackbeard (Hugh Jackman), and Peter’s story is inexplicably turned into an archetypal hero quest. When the single most defining trait of Peter Pan is that he never wants to grow up, it makes literally zero sense to suggest his legend begins with learning to accept his heroic destiny. It’s fair to ask if such a reading ignores what Pan delivers as simple fantasy spectacle, and it is occasionally satisfying on that superficial level. But 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. (PG)—SR

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Series Debut: What’s going on at MTV? The Forgotten Music Star and His Wacky Family Reality Show® setup is at least a decade past its expiration date, but here’s Ja Rule (he was an early-2000s rapper who co-starred in the Steven Seagal tour de force Half Past Dead—saved you a Wiki) dispensing questionable parenting advice like, “Son, women make no sense” (OK, maybe he has some insights). If this regression to MTV tropes of the past continues, I demand to see the returns of Headbanger’s Ball, The Grind, Singled Out and Total Request Live With Jesse Camp before next summer.

Wicked City Tuesday, Oct. 27 (ABC)

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

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New Season: Still looking for a Sons of Anarchy replacement fix, and Kurt Sutter’s Bastard Executioner isn’t quite cutting it? Check out DirecTV Audience channel original Kingdom, now in its second season (all previous episodes are available on demand—if you happen to be a subscriber, that is): The rough-and-tough series is about the in-andout-of-the-octagon drama of a family-run MMA gym in Venice, Calif. It’s not perfect (then again, neither was SOA), but it is soaked in testosterone and tattoos, set in SoCal, and everybody calls each other “brother” a lot (some actually are brothers—including a buff and broody Nick Jonas, who’s better here than you’re imagining). It also has plenty of violence, sex and nudity—now you’re paying attention. CW Listen to Bill on Mondays at 8 a.m. on X96 Radio From Hell; weekly on the TV Tan podcast via iTunes and Stitcher.

Series Debut: If you’re still asking “Why isn’t this on The CW?” remember that CBS is a co-owner (The “C” stands for CBS, the “W” for Warner Bros.—clever, huh?) and Supergirl could easily end up there anyway if she doesn’t hit Limitless ratings numbers. Creator/producer Greg Berlanti’s take on Kara Zor-El (aka adopted Earthling Alex, played by Melissa Benoist) is more in line with his zippy The Flash than his dark Arrow; at times, Supergirl comes across like a romantic comedy with an absentee boyfriend (Superman is referenced but will never appear). But, once you get past the comic-lore exposition and Calista Flockhart’s over-the-top Devil Wears Prada tribute act as Alex’s media-magnate boss, Supergirl proves herself in action to be as tough as she is enthusiastic about living up to her cousin’s legend. Supergirl should be a hit—but, again, there’s always The CW.

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ike its name, Ought’s music is difficult to define, but suggestive of something else just beyond reach. The young Montrealbased band formed in 2012 in the cradle of the Canadian city’s eclectic music and art scene. The band’s diverse backgrounds and influences coalesce around a shared intensity of performance that clashes together mid-’90s punk, Strokes-era indie and some Velvet Underground to create a sound that is complex without losing its DIY energy. Each member is an expatriate who was drawn to Montreal for school. Guitarist and vocalist Tim Beeler Darcy, originally a folk singer from New Hampshire, shared an apartment and started playing music with keyboardist Matt May of New Jersey and Australian drummer Tim Keen. They were later joined by Portland, Ore., transplant Ben Stidworthy on bass. Keen says he originally planned on staying only for a semester in 2009, but he was drawn into Montreal at a haven for artists, musicians and other vagabonds whose community warmth made up for the city’s long winters. “In order to move to Montreal, you’re inevitably making a sacrifice,” Keen says. “You’re not going to have a very good job outside of music, and you’re going to brave an incredibly long winter.” But that environment also attracts artists who are there for good reasons and take their work seriously, Keen says. “That’s a really nice environment to build something in, because you feel like everyone around you cares a lot and is going to respond to what you do.” Ought released its first album, More Than Any Other Day, in 2013 after signing to Montreal-based Constellation Records. Energetic and earnest, it was a practical explosion of pent-up yearning that blew wide like a shotgun, with no particular aim besides leaving a mark. This time around, with their recent follow-up Sun Coming Down , Ought has found a precision in its music that doesn’t sacrifice its essential energy. Keen says Sun is “much more deliberate” than its predecessor. “There were more specific decisions made with regards to production and pushing songs into more specific modes. If a song was going to be fuzzy, then [we focused on] really bringing that out.” In contrast, More Than Any Other Day “was just eight songs, and we just knocked them all out.” Darcy’s voice is the most notable change. On Sun Coming Down, he’s transformed himself from yelping youth to a more even-keeled baritone who conveys an earnest, if slightly catatonic, stare. In the opener, “Men for Miles,” a thumping, glassy-eyed post-punk slow burn, Darcy ironically sighs through the line, “Excuse me, did you say there’s a chance of bringing this whole fucker down?” A line like that seems designed to be screamed, but Ought is determined to undermine expectations. That tendency to turn their influences in on themselves makes other songs, such as the noise-rock track “The Combo,” such a compelling listen. At first, the band slams through a spastic, feedback-heav y freak-out until, suddenly, it doesn’t, interrupting

Indie-punk rockers Ought are back in the U.S. groove, touring their sophomore album. itself with a jangly, syncopated number that finds its most logical conclusion and ends as suddenly as it began. It’s as hypnotic as it is jarring. Keen says each member listens to everything from folk to black metal to underground dance music, but he says their musical influences don’t get in the way when they’re playing. “It would never come up in practice that we happened to sound like a specific band—even when that is true. We just want to come at it from first principles, based on the pure ability that we have in our instruments and what resources are available to us. That just happens to be the sound that forms.” At the mention of one specific influence, Keen bristles a bit. “I love the Velvet Underground. Obviously, they’re a very important band to me.” He takes comparisons to the iconic art-rock band as a compliment. How much they influence Ought’s music is another story. “I look to them for influence to no greater or lesser extent than I look to my friends, who are in a band and have never had a single review written about them. To me, they’re equally as important.” A band like Ought, with its diverse array of backgrounds and influences, can distill that diversity into something wholly original—even if that something may not sound exactly the same over time. To Keen, that’s an exciting feeling. “I don’t think of us as a post-punk band, really,” he says. “I just think of us as a band that happens to have made two post-punk albums. So we’ll see what happens. As long as we find a way to keep interesting ourselves musically, I don’t feel particularly emotionally invested in a genre.” CW

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Kyrbir Is-p confronts demons and reclaims redemption on the first new Purr Bats album since 2007. BY BRIAN STAKER comments@cityweekly.net @stakerized

ocal musician Kyrbir Is-p has gained a lot of perspective in the past several years. He took a complete break from recording, performing and even listening to music. But grappling with demons can be exhausting. Born Robert Dey, the 46-year-old’s last release with his band Purr Bats was 2007’s And the Cows Came Home in Pirouette (19 State of Deseret). The music he created with this and other bands is some of the most psychologically riveting local lo-fi postpunk of the past several decades, and it was bound to take its toll. Family responsibilities also demanded time and energy. He started playing shows again last year with long-time cohort Dave Payne (Red Bennies) and Payne’s wife Leena-Maija Rinne. Then, Eli Morrison (Red Bennies, Puri-Do, Wolfs) collaborated on some cassette experiments with Is-p, adding vocals. Red Velvet Devil Worship, the sixth Purr Bats disc, releases this Halloween on Morrison’s 8ctopus Records (8ctopusRecords.com). “The album revisits growing up gay and goth in Utah County in the 1980s—probably from a more amused perspective than PuriDo,” Is-p says. That band’s work epitomized the lo-fi, DIY aesthetic of the early indie days. “The period was more a psychological landslide than a musical project,” he half-jokes. “The title has nothing to do with magical practice,” Is-p says. “But it has everything to do with the absurd, almost cartoon-like mania that people got themselves worked up to in the 1980s. There were record burnings, and Satan’s favorite weapon was rock music.” It’s not surprising then that Is-p left the LDS Church as a youth. He started making music early, too. As a teen, he and his sister,

Kyrbir Is-p, left, and Eli Morrison reunite to record as Purr Bats.

“Knykir” (Nicole), formed Screaming Yellow Manifestations, banging pots and pans. They made fliers and cassette covers, got talked about at school, and asked the record-store clerk to order their releases “on import.” After forming noise outfit Mary Throwing Stones with reclusive psych-folk artist B’eirth and songwriter/illustrator Lincoln Lysager, he moved to Seattle. “I saw the whole world’s not like Utah Valley, and I got really pissed off.” He returned to Utah and co-founded Puri-Do, which he says was really “kicking against the pricks,” a term from the Bible meaning going against a power to one’s own detriment. In 1997, while living in London with actor Neil Smith, Is-p got the inspiration for Purr Bats. “Puri-Do was really manic, so I thought of doing some over-the-top squishy pop band, but like the kid who sings loudest, offkey, [and is] not quite able to get it.” “Pony Boy” leads off the new album, with Morrison’s rumbling bass line. “It’s basically a sex song,” Is-p notes, with references including The Outsiders. “Special Place in Hell” refers to the smug spirituality of a character like Saturday Night Live’s Church Lady. The real demons in his work tend to be religious authorities. “Bucking Nutter” repeats the phrase, “You’ve gotta learn to surf [through a chemical imbalance]”—actual advice. Sampled phrases from advertisments and religious media, taken out of context, illuminate possible hidden meanings. The woman enthusing about “succulent family freedom” in that song starts to sound a bit panicky as the song progresses, while Warren Jeffs repeating, “You must obey the prophet” sounds Big Brother-ish. The primitively recorded rhythm tracks recall early industrial music of the 1980s, and the hypnotic, almost spoken lyrics invoke the intonation of early punk bands. There’s been no other musician writing songs to address the oftentimes dangerous psychological effects of the local dominant religion. Yet he still has an odd affection for the religious. “ ‘Take It in the Breast’ is my closest to Christian rock,” Is-p says. The phrase, “Stab me in the heart, Jesus,” was taken from a faith healer in a Flannery O’Connor story. Is-p is still searching for an experience that isn’t exactly spiritual, but is hard to describe. “It might be looking at a leaf on a tree, or a work of art, that state—it’s hard to articulate,” he struggles. “It’s being able to go into a different place.” His own music is that kind of transport. “A lot of the album is about taking back redemption from somebody else, realizing that nobody has a monopoly on it.” CW

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Justin Ringle wanted to quit music after touring behind his aptly titled fourth album, 2012’s Cynic’s New Year. Disillusioned and defeated, he was wracked by self-doubt and didn’t touch his guitar for months. After a hiatus, he decided maybe he wasn’t having enough fun. “I stopped editing myself as much. The joy of playing live became its own reward, and I dared myself to allow that joy to shape the songwriting. In the end, I was able to let it go, and I don’t own it anymore. Which also feels like joy. That’s the way it was,” he said, setting up the title of his fifth Kill Rock Stars release, And So It Is With Us.” The record, tracked in a barn in rural Oregon, is packed with the introspective, pastoral songs the Portland band is known for—but thrums with an endearingly unencumbered freedom. The River Whyless opens. The State Room, 638 S. State, 8 p.m., $18, TheStateRoomSLC.com

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Iller Than Most is Oakland rapper’s 11th solo album, but his discography is thrice as long if you count his popular Leak Packs, three LPs with Hieroglyphics, two with Deltron 3030 and numerous collaborations. If you dig Del’s casual but intense—and truly sapient—flow, you probably have everything. If you don’t, start by streaming Iller at DelThaFunkyHomosapien.com. Tonight he’s joined by Provo hip-hop group House of Lewis, and DJ Juggy, who’s celebrating the one-year anniversary of his Monday Night Mixtape. Metro Bar, 615 W. 100 South, 8 p.m., $18 in advance, $20 day of show, MetroSLC.com

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Wildly prolific blues-folk singer-songwriter Alejandro Rose-Garcia makes so much music that he gives much of it away. The Austinbased tunesmith dropped his third official album, And the War Came (Dualtone), in 2014. That, and the Donor Blues EP, are available at full price. But his debut—the one that started his seemingly meteoric rise to fame, is paywhat-you-want at Bandcamp. Now get this: Each year, for three days in February, you can get five unreleased Graves albums at the same discretionary price—and he plays a cheap show. That’s because the mayor of Austin proclaimed Feb. 9, 2012, as Shakey Graves day, and that’s how Graves thanks his supporters. Considering how War, Bones and Donor are packed, start to finish, with stunningly great songs that leave you wanting more, you’ll happily pay full price for them, anyway. Tennis opens. The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 8 p.m., $15 in advance, $18 day of show, DepotSLC.com

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Even though there are also a reggae singer and two experimental Japanese bands called “Ghost,” you won’t confuse any of these entities with this Ghost. Only one member of this sextet of Swedish Satanists, singer Papa Emeritus III (succeeding P.E.’s I and II, but potentially the same dude in different papal robes and skull-ish makeup), has an individual identity. The other five guys, clad in shiny devil masks, answer to A Nameless Ghoul—and they never appear in public. It’s definitely a unique shock-rock gimmick, and the mystery—borrowed from Kiss in their heyday—is tons of fun, especially in our increasingly celebrity-oriented culture. The focus can remain on the music and the live spectacle, where Papa and the Ghouls serve up one killer rock & roll Black Mass. These

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It may take some getting used to: Jenn Ghetto—whom you know as co-founder of Seattle shoegazers Carissa’s Weird—now writes upbeat tunes under the moniker S. She’s also changed her surname to Champion, hoping to put an end to the “anti-black racism [she] perpetuate[d]” by using the word “ghetto.” The switch came in September, and the fourth S album Cool Choices (Hardly Art) came out over a year ago—but that, along with choosing erstwhile Death Cab for Cutie guitarist, Chris Walla, to produce the slightly less lo-fi than usual album, goes to show she’s making the titular activity a habit. Kilby Court, 741 S. 330 West, 8 p.m., $8, KilbyCourt.com

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words from the band’s official bio by Peter Berbegal, author of Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll (Tarcher, 2014), says it best: “There is no power beyond that which the all-seeing eye controls. The gods are all dead. Even art is pure commodity. But some still fight, quietly at first, but soon they will rise and make the glorious noise of the ancients, donning their masks, these nameless ghouls led by Papa Emeritus III.” The title of the band’s third album, released in August, says it more succinctly: Meliora (Loma Vista) is Latin for “better.” And Ghost’s strangely accessible mix of doom metal, arena rock and droning, monk-ish incantations gets better with every album. Postscript: Wouldn’t it be sweet if, after openers Purson finish their set, the roadies kill Purson … and they become Ghost?! Post-postscript: A free download of Meliora comes with every ticket purchased. The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 8 p.m., 21 and over, $22.60; 20 and under, $24.60; DepotSLC.com

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90s Television, Bat Manors, The Artificial Flower Company (The Urban Lounge) BoDeans (Egyptian Theatre, p. 43) Flannel Graph, Dustin Christensen, Laken (Velour) Hollywood Undead, Crown the Empire, I Prevail (In the Venue) Horse Feathers, River Whyless (The State Room, p. 40) Jordan Young Duo (The Spur Bar & Grill) Knuckle Puck, Seaway, Head North, Sorority Noise (In the Venue) The New Orleans Project (Garage on Beck) Madchild (O.P. Rockwell) Misterwives, Waters, Cruisr (The Complex) Ought, Baby Ghosts, Chalk (Kilby Court, p. 36) Morgan Snow (Hog Wallow Pub)

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Reggae Night (Liquid Joe’s) Reggae Thursday (The Woodshed) SSB (O.P. Rockwell) Sundae, Mr. Goessl (Gracie’s) Destructo (SKY SLC) Tom Young Quintet (Gallivan Center) Trivium, Hemlock, Seven Second Memory, Perish Lane (The Royal)

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Jazz Jam Session (Sugarhouse Coffee) Live Jazz with the Jeff Archuleta Combo (Twist) Open Mic Night, Hosted by Once the Lion (Legends Billiards Club)

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FRIDAY 10.23 Matt Nathanson (The State Room) BoDeans (Egyptian Theatre, p. 43) Bone (Fats Grill) Codi Jordan Band (Barrelhouse) Deafheaven, Tribulation (The Urban Lounge) Del the Funky Homosapien, House of Lewis, DJ Juggy (Metro Bar, p. 40) Dirt Road Devils (The Outlaw Saloon) Funk Cracker (The Green Pig) Gold Standard, Robot Dream (Gracie’s)

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Lazy Susan, 90s Television, Beachman (The Woodshed) Longshot, Natural Causes (Club 90) Melle, The Fab Folk (ABG’s) Outside Infinity, Towards Chaos, Random Dance (Liquid Joe’s) Neptunes Porch, My Private Island, Black Water Jack, Hisingen (The Royal) New Politics with Andrew McMahon, The Griswolds, Lolo (The Complex) Nina Slipper Takeover (Area 51) Polka Doodle Doo (Whole Foods Sugar House Oktoberfest) Quinn Brown Project (Brewski’s) Rage Against the Supremes (The Spur Bar & Grill) Red Yeti, The Mojave Nomads, Okkah, Kindred Dead (Gezzo Hall) Sal’tripin (The Fifth Amendment) SOJA, J Boog, Dustin Thomas (The Depot) Stonefed (Hog Wallow Pub)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) According to the online etymological dictionary, the verb “fascinate” entered the English language in the 16th century. It was derived from the Middle French *fasciner* and the Latin *fascinatus,* which are translated as “bewitch, enchant, put under a spell.” In the 19th century, “fascinate” expanded in meaning to include “delight, attract, hold the attention of.” I suspect you will soon have experiences that could activate both senses of “fascinate.” My advice is to get the most out of your delightful attractions without slipping into bewitchment. Is that even possible? It will require you to exercise fine discernment, but yes, it is. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) One of the largest machines in the world is a “bucket wheel excavator” in Kazakhstan. It’s a saw that weighs 45,000 tons and has a blade the size of a four-story building. If you want to slice through a mountain, it’s perfect for the job. Indeed, that’s what it’s used for over in Kazakhstan. Right now, Taurus, I picture you as having a metaphorical version of this equipment. That’s because I think you have the power to rip open a clearing through a massive obstruction that has been in your way. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock did a daily ritual to remind him of life’s impermanence. After drinking his tea each morning, he flung both cup and saucer over his shoulder, allowing them to smash on the floor. I don’t recommend that you adopt a comparable custom for long-term use, but it might be healthy and interesting to do so for now. Are you willing to outgrow and escape your old containers? Would you consider diverging from formulas that have always worked for you? Are there any unnecessary taboos that need to be broken? Experiment with the possible blessings that might come by not clinging to the illusion of “permanence.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Are you an inventor? Is it your specialty to create novel gadgets and machines? Probably not. But in the coming weeks you may have metaphorical resemblances to an inventor. I suspect you will have an enhanced ability to dream up original approaches and find alternatives to conventional wisdom. You may surprise yourself with your knack for finding ingenious solutions to longstanding dilemmas. To prime your instincts, I’ll provide three thoughts from inventor Thomas Edison. 1) “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” 2) “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” 3) “Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.” SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Some unraveling is inevitable. What has been woven together must now be partially unwoven. But please refrain from thinking of this mysterious development as a setback. Instead, consider it an opportunity to reexamine and redo any work that was a bit hasty or sloppy. Be glad you will get a second chance to fix and refine what wasn’t done quite right the first time. In fact, I suggest you preside over the unraveling yourself. Don’t wait for random fate to accomplish it. And for best results, formulate an intention to regard everything that transpires as a blessing. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) “A waterfall would be more impressive if it flowed the other way,” said Irish author Oscar Wilde. I appreciate the wit, but don’t agree with him. A plain old ordinary waterfall, with foamy surges continually plummeting over a precipice and crashing below, is sufficiently impressive for me. What about you, Capricorn? In the coming days, will you be impatient and frustrated with plain old ordinary marvels and wonders? Or will you be able to enjoy them just as they are?

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) In the coming weeks, you will have a special relationship with the night. When the sun goes down, your intelligence will intensify, as will your knack for knowing what’s really important and what’s not. In the darkness, you will have an enhanced capacity to make sense of murky matters lurking in the shadows. You will be able to penetrate deeper than usual, and get to the bottom of secrets and mysteries that have kept you off-balance. Even your grimy fears may be transformable if you approach them with a PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) passion for redemption. When I advise you to GET NAKED, I don’t mean it in a literal sense. Yes, I will applaud if you’re willing to experiment with VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) New friends and unexpected teachers are in your vicinity, with brave acts of self-revelation. I will approve of you taking risks more candidates on the way. There may even be potential com- for the sake of the raw truth. But getting arrested for indecent rades who could eventually become flexible collaborators and exposure might compromise your ability to carry out those catalytic guides. Will you be available for the openings they noble acts. So, no, don’t actually take off all your clothes and offer? Will you receive them with fire in your heart and mirth wander through the streets. Instead, surprise everyone with in your eyes? I worry that you may not be ready if you are too brilliant acts of surrender and vulnerability. Gently and sweetly preoccupied with old friends and familiar teachers. So please and poetically tell the Purveyors of Unholy Repression to take their boredom machine and shove it up their humdrum. make room for surprises.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Years ago, I moved into a rental house with my new girlfriend, whom I had known for six weeks. As we fell asleep the first night, a song played in my head: “Nature’s Way,” by the band Spirit. I barely knew it and had rarely thought of it before. And yet there it was, repeating its first line over and over: “It’s nature’s way of telling you something’s wrong.” Being a magical thinker, I wondered if my unconscious mind was telling me a secret about my love. But I rejected that possibility; it was too painful to contemplate. When we broke up a few months later, however, I wished I had paid attention to that early alert. I mention this, Aquarius, because I suspect your unconscious mind will soon provide you with a wealth of useful information, not just through song lyrics but other subtle signals, as well. Listen up! At least some of it will be good news, not cautionary like mine.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) Terence was a comic playwright in ancient Rome. He spoke of love in ways that sound modern. It can be capricious and weird, he said. It may provoke indignities and rouse difficult emotions. Are you skilled at debate? Love requires you to engage in strenuous discussions. Peace may break out in the midst of war, and vice versa. Terence’s conclusion: If you seek counsel regarding the arts of love, you may as well be asking for advice on how to go mad. I won’t argue with him. He makes good points. But I suspect that in the coming weeks you will be excused from most of those crazy-making aspects. The sweet and smooth sides of love will predominate. Uplift and inspiration are more likely than angst and bewilderment. Take advantage of the grace period! Put chaos control measures in place for the next time Terence’s version of love returns.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) More than any other sign, you have an ability to detach yourself from life’s flow and analyze its complexities with cool objectivity. This is mostly a good thing. It enhances your power to make rational decisions. On the other hand, it sometimes devolves into a liability. You may become so invested in your role as observer that you refrain from diving into life’s flow. You hold yourself apart from it, avoiding both its messiness and vitality. But I don’t foresee this being a problem in the coming weeks. In fact, I bet you will be a savvy watcher even as you’re almost fully immersed in the dynamic flux.

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