City Weekly Nov 12, 2015

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UTAH SYMPHONY PATRONS AND MUSICIANS STRUGGLE TO ACCEPT THE DEMOTION OF LONGTIME CONCERTMASTER RALPH MATSON.

BY KATHARINE BIELE

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CWCONTENTS COVER STORY MUSICAL CHAIRS

Utah Symphony patrons and musicians struggle to accept the demotion of longtime concertmaster Ralph Matson.

Cover photo illustration by Mason Rodrickc

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CONTRIBUTOR KATHARINE BIELE Cover Story, p. 20

A freelance writer in Salt Lake City, Katharine studied journalism at Northwestern University. She’s been publishing on dead trees for many years, but is no stranger to the digital game: Online projects include “UtahRose,” a transcription of journals written by her great aunt—who, generations ago, lived in the home Katharine now shares with her husband.

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LETTERS LDS Church Overlooks Jesus’s Words

When I first heard about the stance of the LDS Church regarding children of same-sex couples not being allowed to be baptized, I accepted it as their freedom to admit the members they choose, who abide by their rules.

But when I read further and saw that those same kids, when they became adults, would have to denounce their parents to gain admission, I was horrified. After reading Scripture, I was reminded of the words of Jesus when he said, “Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”

With that in mind, I don’t understand how the literal words of Jesus could have been overlooked with this new doctrine. Jesus loved and welcomed children and families; has this changed in the past 2,000 years?

ADAM MCDONALD Salt Lake City

Save the Children

In Exodus, it is stated: “I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fouth generations of those who hate me …”

Move ahead some 3,000 years to 2015 and to the Mormons on high denying church membership to

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Many of these children were adopted; some were adopted after years in foster homes and/or group homes.

In Deuteronomy, Ezekiel and Matthew, God becomes much nicer and sort of denies the wrath he expressed in Exodus.

This latest pronouncement, once again, as demonstrated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ support of Proposition 8, that the church continues to be an organization of bigotry, not one of love and acceptance.

How blessed the children of same-sex parents are to never be subjected to the historic racism, sexism and homophobia of that church. If only all children could so protected!

TED OTTINGER Taylorsville

Corrections: City Weekly’s Nov. 5 Best of Utah edition listed an incorrect bagel ingredient in The Bagel Project’s blurb (“Best Thing Since Sliced Bread”). Robb Abrams (whose first name is spelled correctly here) let us know the secret to his bagels is actually Old World dough preferment.

The winner of the “Best Little Black Dress” award, KWJ, is owned by Salt Lake City designer Katie Waltman,

whose name is spelled correctly here.

The “Best Original Philly” winner, Grinders 13, has two locations: 1618 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-467-3676, Grinders13Subs.com; and 2125 S. 3200 West, West Valley City, 801-973-6489, Grinders13.com. An incorrect location was given.

Finally, the final few lines of John Saltas’ Nov. 5 “Triple Irony” Private Eye column were inadvertently omitted.

The final paragraph should have read: “It’s been subsequently reported that a potential sale of [The Salt Lake] Tribune to a local buyer—believed to be Jon Huntsman Sr.—fell through this week. Speculation is that others suitors, one local, may step up to the plate. That’s another irony, I believe, and one best left for another day.”

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OPINION

The Worsts

Water is taught by thirst; Land, by the oceans passed.

—Emily Dickinson

Each year, I look forward to City Weekly’s Best of Utah (BOU) edition. I thought Nov. 5’s BOU was especially good. To my mind, it is a celebration of place, and I enjoy seeing Utah’s places through others’ eyes. I have been reading BOU editions long enough to recognize the hardy perennials—KRCL, Red Iguana, Coffee Garden, to name a few—and to conclude that BOU is more grounded in whimsy than science. Thus, the margin of error allows that Shauna Lake and Hope Woodside can read a teleprompter as well as Mary Nickles and that Sugar House Coffee can make as good a cappuccino as Coffee Garden.

I confess that as I read the celebratory “bests,” my mind stole away to the “worsts.” You can’t have one without the other: they are reciprocal. Applying Dickinson’s logic, the pleasure of a hot, Krispy Kreme donut is a function of having eaten a few leaden, convenience-store pastries. Our lives are framed by such binaries— love-hate, sick-well, bad-good, happy-sad, etc. If you are like me, you spend your days in-between the poles of black and white in a comfort zone of gray. That doesn’t mean I ignore the polarities, but as Republican Sen. Mike Lee learned from the 2013 government shutdown, the extremes are often untenable—or unprofitable. Lee is not the best senator in Washington, but he’s not the worst.

He has lots of company in the not-thebest-but-not-the-worst category. Consider the F-35 fighter, a recent arrival at Hill Air Force Base. Our congressional delegation heralds the high-tech airplane as a boon to Utah’s economy. The Government Accountability Office says the cost of operating the F-35 fleet may be unaffordable at more than $1 trillion over its lifetime. Not the best for taxpayers, but not the worst for the Utahns who get a trickle-down benefit from Hill AFB.

BY JOHN RASMUSON

Utah is not the best state for bicycling, but it is not the worst either. It is a great state for golf. Greens fees are about the lowest in the nation. But interest in golf is waning; lacrosse and pickleball are the ascendant sports. Utah is not the best place for pickleball, but not the worst. At the moment, Utah has more golf courses than pickleball courts, but as the predicted megadrought tightens its grip, lush fairways will revert to cheatgrass or be repurposed for pickleball.

Water is definitely a not-the-best-butnot-the-worst issue. It is the lifeblood of Utah’s oasis cities and towns. Despite being in short supply, Utah’s water is tasty and cheap—so cheap that each of us can afford to use almost 200 gallons a day.

Our profligate use of water is not the worst example of husbandry, however.

Idaho and Nevada are worse. Most of our water is sprayed on lawns, but 40 percent of all the water used in the state irrigates alfalfa. Not a few bales of Utah alfalfa are exported to China.

When it comes to water, we condone a lot of not-the-best practices.

Would an alfafa grower in Payson agree?

Of course not! Judgments based on a bestworst scale are mostly subjective. Age, race, gender and ideology are all mediating factors. For example, some people think Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, 68, is one of Utah’s best legislators, a passionate crusader. Others peg him on the opposite end of the scale as a blowhard, a bully and worse. Recently he has been a vocal opponent of the Bears Ears National Monument proposed by a coalition of American Indian tribes. Noel fits the profile of the opposition—a Republican over 65. Those in favor of Bears Ears are likely to be Democrats under 25. If I were President Obama, I wouldn’t give a damn what Utah Republicans wanted. In fact, after taking crap from them for six years, I would sign off

on the new national monument just to even the score. I side with the American Indians and the young Dems. Protecting parcels of land from paving, drilling, bulldozing and building seems like a good idea, especially in urban centers. The Salt Lake Valley has 17,178 acres of well-used recreational space. It sounds like a lot but it is not enough, county planners say. Utah has the highest birth rate in the United States, and to accommodate all those kids in the next 15 years, 20,119 acres will be needed. That’s 29 more Liberty Parks.

Utah is famous for its “Mighty Five” national parks. The state is also known for powder snow, Ponzi scams, Bonneville Speedway, Osmonds, bizarre liquor laws, Mormons and wacko politicians.

Even the not-so-wacko are parsimonious when it comes to health care for the poor but generous with concealed-weapons permits for nonresidents.

They are skeptical of medical marijuana but love nutritional supplements like ginseng. They pay lip service to improving air quality that is not so good and getting worse.

The governor is not the worst of the bunch, however. He’s a middling politician whose decisions have earned both bouquets and brickbats over the years. He recently gave a speech critical of the federal government in which he asserted, “The states are solving problems in innovative ways.” I laughed.

Squandering millions on doomed lawsuits is hardly innovative, and the refusal to expand Medicaid is downright shameful. On the governor’s watch, voter malaise has worsened to the point that 70 percent of Utahns didn’t cast a ballot in 2014 (because the outcome is foreordained?)

A French proverb, “Appetite comes with eating,” makes a concluding point. In celebrating the bests of Utah, we acknowledge that the worsts exist and could use some attention. CW Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net

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What do you wish Utah was not best known for?

Kylee Ehmann: Utah drivers’ inability to navigate through the snow each year. I’m not sure how an entire state collectively forgets how to drive but, each year, with the first snowflake, we somehow do.

Paula Saltas: That Jell-O is Utah’s office snack of choice. Gross.

Andy Sutcliffe: Providing way more than our fair share of zany Republican/Tea Party politicians who wreak havoc on the lives of citizens (and undocumented workers) in the other 49 States.

Jeremiah Smith: I wish we weren’t known for being the “best at tailgating other drivers and not signaling.”

Jeff Chipian: ​W hen I travel and people ask where I’m from, they immediately think I’m Mormon. I wish Utah were known for more than just that. Then again, I get to disappoint them by saying, “I’m a drinking, swearing, loudmouth Greek.”

It gives me pride each time.

Mason Rodrickc: I wish Utah could be less good at bad air quality. Out-ofstate folks don’t know it as a thing, but hospitals here sure do.

Nicole Enright: ​I dig that Utah is known for polygamy and other crazy things. When I travel and people are stupid enough to ask me if I ​a m polygamous or Mormon, I always say “Why, yes, of course I am!”

Then I ask if they’d like to join.

Pete Saltas: I hate the perception that you can’t get a drink in Utah, because you can—at lots of great bars, community events and music venues. If I rounded up those dummies who believed that and took them on a bar crawl, they’d be crawling back to whatever hole they came from by the end of the night.

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You know what would buoy trust for the Utah Transit Authority in the wake of Proposition 1’s failure? How about starting over? How about we just get rid of the “quasi” part of the quasi-governmental organization and put UTA under government control? Certainly, that would solve the problem that UTA bosses are perceived as profiting handsomely with global trips and hefty bonuses at the expense of the bus-riding middle class.

Right now, there’s no governmental oversight but for a few nasty audits the Legislature dismisses. There was no mention of UTA in Proposition 1, but everyone knows what “transit” meant. No, it wasn’t the Koch Brothers who felled Prop. 1. It was UTA itself.

Pollution Profit

If it turned out that there were all kinds of economic benefits to bad air, would you buy it? What if communities profited by polluting your water and weakening the earth you stand on? Just what kind of risk is risky enough to stop the fracking craze? A Deseret News article notes a study by the National Bureau of Economic Research that shows “significant economic benefits” to counties and nearby regions where the oil & gas industries were booming—probably “booming” both literally and figuratively. Employment overall went up some 60 percent.

Whoopee! But at what cost? You have to wonder when studies seem like attempts to derail research in alternative energy.

If there’s less need for oil, there will be less need to frack. Meanwhile, the low price of oil casts a shadow the fracking industry, too.

School Board Candidates

Maybe it took a federal judge’s ruling, but Gov. Gary Herbert is out of the social-engineering business, at least as far as the Utah Board of Education is concerned. The governor didn’t set up a committee to vet candidates, as the law had allowed.

At one time, the committee would interview candidates and submit names to the governor, who picked two lucky winners to appear on the ballot. Each time the law was changed, it was argued that the public didn’t know squat, and they needed qualified candidates to be chosen for them. Instead, they were getting the pro-voucher folks. The judge said that biased the ballot. So now, you may not have any idea whom your school board member is, but you’ll actually get a chance to check out the candidates.

The school board apparently is a popular office to strive for, and lawmakers want to narrow the field. They just don’t want you doing it. Stayed tuned for proposed legislation.

Imagine having to run 155 miles in 1 1/2 days with no sleep. Chris Chatzis, a Salt Lake City electrical contractor, completed this challenge posed by Greece’s Spartathlon, a 250K race from Sparta to Athens, finishing in 70th place in little more than 33 hours. Chatzis began running in 2006 and, in May, started training with Karl Meltzer, a local ultrarunner who is considered one of the best in the country. Chatzis went on to complete races such as Snowbird’s Speed Goats (50K) and the Brazos Bend 100-mile, which he had to run in under 21 hours to qualify for the Spartathlon. Chatzis, who has dual American-Greek citizenship, represented Greece in the race because he felt being an American running as a Greek participant would honor both countries.

What was it about the Spartathlon that caught your interest?

The history, heritage of Greece and difficulty of the race caught my interest. That seemed like the ultimate race to run, as it combined difficulty and history, and it took place in Greece. It honors Pheidippides, the historical runner who asked the Spartans to help Athens fight the Persian invasion in what would be known as the Battle of Marathon.

Were you concerned about the endurance needed to complete it?

Absolutely. One small thing can go wrong on that specific day and can hinder your success. The cutoffs for this race are very strict—385 people started and 174 finished the race because of each qualifying stage.

How did your family deal with it?

My family was very supportive and sacrificed a lot for me to train long hours. My wife and I have two small kids who couldn’t be at the finish line, but they were following the race online and on the live-stream from the Spartathlon website. Two great friends, Tyler Lamprecht and Lex Curtis, traveled from Utah to Greece to assist me and played the important role of being my crew. I did have many family members and friends at the race and at the finish line, including my parents and father in-law, as well as uncles, aunts, cousins who live in Greece and a friend from the Greek army.

Did you ever think of giving up during the race?

Giving up was never an option. The one challenge that stands out is a stomach issue around Mile 75 as a result of overhydrating. I was not able to consume calories at this point, and I ended up finishing up the race on lemon-lime soda for 100 miles.

You’ve finished one of the most grueling races on the planet. What’s next?

When I finished the race, I told my wife, “I never want to do this race again.” However, as my body has recovered, I look forward to doing this race again one day. The support that the people of Sparta give the runners is incomparable to any other event I know. The Spartans honor all entrants, including runners who attempt, but do not finish, the race.

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STRAIGHT DOPE How to tame

BY CECIL ADAMS

How long does it take to “officially” domesticate an animal? What is the last wild animal humans have domesticated? If we tried long enough, could we end up with domesticated koalas or beavers?

—Dane Coffey, Bella Vista, Arkansas

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fficially”? There’s not exactly a UN Bureau of Domesticated Animals where species register once they’ve become housebroken. But sure, plenty of animals are ripe for domestication, given enough time. Maybe eventually we could train those beavers of yours to replace the Army Corps of Engineers.

First, let’s make something clear about domestication. In brief, it’s not the same thing as taming, which is the easy part—what you do when you (e.g.) take a baby tiger from the jungle and hand-feed her through cubhood. By the end of this process, ideally, she’ll be amiable enough to star in your Vegas stage act.

But say that tiger then has cubs of her own.

They won’t have inherited any of their mother’s ease around humans. Taming refers to learned behavior, whereas domestication indicates an actual shift in the animal’s genome that takes generations to come about.

Scientist-author Jared Diamond argues in his blockbuster Guns, Germs, and Steel that this distinction disqualifies certain well-known working animals, notably the draft elephants of South and Southeast Asia—they’re not bred by humans but rather plucked from the wild a la carte and trained. A domesticated animal, as Diamond puts it, is one “selectively bred in captivity and thereby modified from its wild ancestors, for use by humans who control the animal’s breeding and food supply.” (Plants can undergo a similar process, of course—the domestication of cereal crops like wheat has had a not insignificant effect on human history—but we’ll focus here on fauna.)

As to your question, there’s an easy answer: the last wild animal to be domesticated was the silver fox, and it took a startlingly short time. In the late 1950s a Soviet biologist named Dmitry Belyaev rounded up about 150 of the animals with the goal of, essentially, replicating and observing the process by which, 10,000 years before, some wolves became dogs. As he bred each successive generation of kits, Belyaev selected for one trait: how the animals got along with humans.

The results were remarkable: by 1964, Belyaev had produced fourth-generation foxes as friendly as dogs—tails wagging, the whole shebang. But it wasn’t just their behavior that changed. Belyaev noticed a phenomenon identified earlier by Darwin: domesticated mammals share certain physiological qualities that set them apart from their wild forebears. They’re smaller, with smaller brains and teeth; their fur has white spots or patches; their ears are floppier. Between their juvenile morphology and their friendly behavior, it’s as though domesticated animals are wild ones that have been stunted, forever stuck in adolescence. The ears of Belyaev’s foxes began to droop after just nine generations.

By the time National Geographic checked

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in on this long-running experiment, in 2011, researchers had identified two regions of the domesticated foxes’ genomes that differed from those of their wild relatives. It was once thought there might be a single gene responsible for domestication, though it’s beginning to look like it’s actually a far more complex process of genetic change.

The ease with which Belyaev pulled this off makes it sound as if, with a little effort and a healthy research budget, you can domesticate whatever you please. But Diamond believes there are a few prerequisites. Domesticable animals, he thinks, should: n Grow quickly. Nobody wants to wait around 15 years for an elephant to mature. n Breed in captivity. (Difficulties on this front apparently thwarted Belyaev’s attempts to domesticate otters.) n Be efficient eaters, in terms of biomass conversion, and not picky, either. This rules out your koalas. n Have decent personalities, which rules out grizzly bears and Dick Cheney. n Not be too nervous. n Come from a social structure with a “well-developed dominance hierarchy,” which humans can then insert themselves at the top of. (This would seem to rule out cats, but Diamond suggests the reason cats were domesticated is that we never tried to herd them; they’ve only ever been pets.)

So domestication is a highly contingent process by which humans have sometimes manipulated evolution to benefit ourselves.

Or animals have, to benefit themselves. One hypothesis has it that the process by which wolves became dogs sprang from their own initiative, whereby the less aggressive among them realized a selective advantage in hanging around people—namely, the buffet possibilities presented by human garbage. Humans subsequently did their part by adopting and breeding the friendliest pups.

Researchers continue to be intrigued by the self-domestication hypothesis. These days they’re looking at it to explain certain traits observed in bonobos, vis-a-vis their violent cousins chimpanzees, from whom they split taxonomically about a million years ago.

The bonobos are peaceful and, in line with Darwin’s observations, display those familiar differences in morphology. Have they domesticated themselves, and why? The import of this question is obvious. Certain hominids abandoning aggression, embracing sociality, becoming more … evolved? Sound familiar?

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

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“That’s the hard part, because it is vandalism. You are damaging property, but there’s still a lot of artistic merit in that.”

—Benjamin Wiemeyer

Graffiti artists slapped with enhanced charges.

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hen a documentary film about the graffiti artist Banksy was screened during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Banksy himself, spray paint can in hand, took a little tour of the mountain town’s walls.

The images he left behind have since been shrouded in glass, protected as if they are museum-quality pieces of art work. And in 2014, when a California vandal shattered the protective glass and defaced the Banksy pieces with his own aerosol spray can, the man, David Noll, was promptly charged, prosecuted and fined around $10,000, which was paid to the building owners so they could restore the Banksy paintings.

Few examples of graffiti blurring the line that separates fine art from vandalism are as stark as the Banksy works in Park City, where, rather than being promptly painted over by angry property owners, the pieces have become tourist attractions, proving that not all vandalism is created equal.

But in Salt Lake County, graffiti artists aren’t treated quite as saintly as Banksy.

On Oct. 27, six graffiti artists were arrested and charged with dozens of felonies related to graffiti vandalism. That a graffiti artist is charged with criminal trespass and vandalism is not unusual, but these most recent arrests represent an unsettling milestone for artists whose work exists in the gray area between art and criminal mischief.

Investigators claim the graffiti artists committed their works of art at the behest of a criminal street gang—a contention that warrants gang-enhanced charges, which increase the severity of fines and, for some of the defendants, could result in decades of prison time.

Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill says that this string of cases, brought forth by a graffiti task force within the West Valley City Police Department, represents the first time that prosecutors have charged graffiti artists with committing crimes for the benefit of a criminal street gang.

Benjamin Wiemeyer, a local mural painter who knows several of the defendants, says that gang charges will bump each allegation up a notch. For instance, a third-degree felony would

A legal mural on the Guthrie building in Salt Lake City, is similar to graffiti throughout Salt Lake Valley that sparked criminal charges. become a second-degree felony, and a Class A misdemeanor would become a third-degree felony.

“A gang enhancement just seems pretty egregious,” Wiemeyer says, noting that, while he understands spray painting private property is against the law, there is a bit of irony in the heavyhanded nature that some crimes are dealt with in society. “Graffiti artists aren’t out there just fucking beating people up and extorting people, or having home invasions. They’re just fucking painting their names on shit.”

Wiemeyer is among the more wellknown local graffiti artists, whose work appears on the side of businesses that have hired him to bring life to their walls. One prominent Wiemeyer work is on display on the walls of Gallenson’s Gun Shop (166 E. 200 South). On the same block is the Guthrie building, which houses artist studios and Fice Gallery. The brick walls in this pocket of the city explode with aerosol color.

On a Monday afternoon, as Wiemeyer spoke to a news reporter, tourists could be seen snapping photos in front of the murals—some of which were painted by defendants in the vandalism case.

Wiemeyer says painting graffiti represented an important part of his development as an artist, and he suspects the same is true for his friends. The city wouldn’t look as vibrant and interesting as it does today without their gifts for commanding spray paint, he says.

“They also have contributed to the graffiti subculture in Salt Lake City by promoting good artwork and keeping the style alive and getting walls,” Wiemeyer says. “That’s why you see all of the beautiful artwork around Salt Lake on big walls is because of our subculture and

our relationships with business owners and moving the subculture that way.”

Wiemeyer says another troubling aspect to this recent round of arrests lies in the fact that not one of the suspects was ca,ught in the act.

Gill declined to release any details on the specifics of the case, and West Valley City Police Det. Michael Lynes, who heads up the graffiti task force, declined to comment for this story. Shortly after the arrests, Lynes told ABC 4 that the suspects destroyed property, commited criminal mischief and trespassed. As to the graffiti’s artistic merit, or lack thereof, Lynes said much of the artistic side of graffiti has ceased since investigators began cracking down.

However, according to probablecause statements filed in 3rd District Court, most charges date back at least a year, and some go back as far as 2012. For instance, on Nov. 22, 2012, detectives say two of the defendants painted the inside of a water pipe, causing $500 in damage.

Wiemeyer suspects that the long stretch of time that the charges cover indicates investigators have used socialmedia accounts to collect evidence. And using social-media accounts, as opposed to catching a graffiti artist in the act, can be problematic, Wiemeyer says, because sometimes a moniker can be used by more than one person.

“You never really know if the person’s name that you’re seeing, if that person painted it, or if someone else painted it,” Wiemeyer says. “So there’s a lot of gray area. That’s the biggest concern: They weren’t caught red-handed; they’re building these cases off social media, we suppose.”

Gill declined to say how much investigators have relied on social-media ac-

counts to compile evidence in this case, but he says investigators have used social-media accounts before and will continue to do so in the future.

“Evidence is evidence, and law enforcement uses all sorts of techniques to go out and gather that evidence, and social media is one domain of that,” Gill says. “We used to shake people’s hands and have conversations on sidewalks, and now we have conversations on social media.”

In probable-cause statements, investigators maintain that the charges warrant gang enhancements because the graffiti artists “are members of known graffiti/tagger crews and suspects added their graffiti/tagger crew name into the graffiti to further the crew’s reputation.”

Under Utah statute, this wording is indeed enough to warrant a gang enhancement. In fact, anyone who on a regular basis hangs around with three or more people and does illegal stuff (think smoking marijuana or having a keg party with booze from Wyoming), could be viewed under Utah law as a criminal street gang.

Wiemeyer doesn’t believe graffiti artists should be lumped into the same category as gangs that actually hurt people.

And when it comes to assessing the value of art, the discrepancies in Wiemeyer’s mind are vast. One man’s Picasso, protected under glass in Park City, is, in Salt Lake County, another man’s laundry list of felonies.

“That’s the hard part, because it is vandalism,” Wiemeyer says. “You are damaging property, but there’s still a lot of artistic merit in that. I mean, Mount Rushmore: whose property is that? They carved fucking faces into the fucking side of a rock, but no one’s getting charged with that.” CW

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information faster. But when you do vote-bymail, you’re going to have many more uncounted ballots on election night.” Cox says he’s hopeful he can work with lawmakers to find a solution that won’t leave candidates hanging, wondering if they won or not.

Vote-by-mail systems won’t fix everything, and Cox still worries about Utah lagging behind the national average. What are other states doing differently? “Well, [having] competitive races, I think, is probably one of the reasons. Part of me likes to believe that [Utah state and municipal governments] are just doing such a good job that everybody is just really happy with how things are going. But I’m not that naïve to actually believe that.”

General competitive races are a rarity in Utah. In the 2014 election, 15 different House and Senate incumbents lacked opponents.

And because of the way in which voting districts have been drawn—calculated to group party members in strategic ways—incumbents usually have more to fear from challenges within their own party than they are with competition from the opposing party.

This leaves few surprises on election night.

Cox says he thinks that lack of competitiveness leads to real apathy among voters, especially younger voters. “I talk to Millennials a lot,” says Cox, “and they really feel like their vote doesn’t matter, or it’s not going to make a difference, so why bother?”

Cox also says there are other tangible things Utah could do to increase turnout, such as allowing same-day registration— where unregistered voters can show up to the polls on Election Day, register and cast a ballot. “I was ready to do that when I was in the Legislature,” before being tapped for the lieutenant governor position, says Cox, “so it’s something I believe in.” Several proposals to create a same-day registration system in Utah have failed to pass, although lawmakers did approve a pilot program in 2014, authored by Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck, D-Salt Lake City, and Sen. Deidre Henderson, R-Spanish Fork.

Activists in many states have been pushing to adopt digital voting methods, arguing that if you can manage your finances, register at the DMV, and have a video chat with someone in India via a smartphone, you should be able to vote online.

“That’s something I really hope we’ll be able to do someday,” says Cox. But he doesn’t think it will be any time soon, mostly because of security concerns. “You don’t need someone to hack an election; you only would need someone to claim they hacked an election,” he says. According to Cox, there would be no way to prove a hacker didn’t actually get into the system without an investigation, but because of strict secret-ballot election laws, it would be illegal for the state to examine votes. CW

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overnment watchdogs and lawmakers have long been concerned about Utah’s low levels of voter participation. During the 2014 midterm elections, a mere 28.8 percent of Utah’s eligible voters cast ballots— the third lowest turnout in the country. In 2011, that figure was only 23 percent.

The trend toward meager participation saw an abrupt turnaround in Salt Lake City this year, with the turnout rate in Salt Lake City shooting up to 46.8 percent.

The sudden jump in voter interest and participation was caused by a variety of contributing factors: first, it was Salt Lake City’s competitive mayoral race between Jackie Biskupski and Ralph Becker, and second, that the election was handled almost entirely by vote-by-mail. Election experts say the vote-by-mail process— sending a ballot to voters’ households to be filled out and dropped in the mailbox— probably played the biggest role.

Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, who oversees all elections in the state, says he would favorably compare the 2015 elections to those of previous years. But there’s still a long way to go: “When it comes to vote-by-mail, we’re constantly monitoring, learning, researching and gathering data until the final numbers come in,” says Cox. “One of the things we really like, obviously, is the increase in voter turnout. We saw between 35- and 40-percent turnout in most municipalities that did voteby-mail, which is double what we’re seeing in non-vote-by-mail municipalities.”

But Cox says there are still some tweaks that need to be made to the system.

“There are some things we’ve known [we’ve needed to fix] for a while,” says Cox, “that we’re working with legislators to fix soon.”

One such fix, Cox says, is lag time between election night and the official canvass of the vote weeks later. In Salt Lake City, that lag has kept voters waiting to see if Biskupski really did beat Becker, or if somehow the votes that came in toward the end of the election period will swing enough in Becker’s favor to turn the tide. “I think in today’s world, with the technology we have available,” says Cox, “we should be able to disseminate

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Nine reasons children of same-sex marriages shouldn’t worry about exclusion in the LDS Church until they are of legal age.

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Being lectured about your parents is about as fun as being lectured by your parents.

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The secret handshake is not nearly as cool as the one you and your buddies came up with.

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By waiting until 18 to get baptized, at least you’ll have some solid sins under your belt.

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You can avoid the Mean Girls who always say you can’t pray with them.

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Being the god of your own planet is pretty lame if your parents can’t visit for the holidays.

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“I Am a Child of God (Now That I’m of Legal Age),” doesn’t really have the same ring to it.

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Spending less time with scriptures means more time with T. Swift on Twitter

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Your now-defunct missionary fund will buy lots of iPhones.

9.

You won’t have to worry about supporting a family before you’ve hit legal drinking age.

CITIZEN REVOLT In a week, you can

CHANGE THE WORLD

MARCH & RUN

Students are taking presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at his word. He said if a million students marched on Washington, then college would be free. Well, here’s your chance. Participants in the #MillionStudentMarch will demand that public colleges be made tuitionfree, all student debt be cancelled and a $15 minimum wage be given to all campus workers. The rally will start near the patio walkway of the A. Ray Olphin Student Union building on the University of Utah campus. For more details, phone 801-703-4631 or email Scott Wood at scottadamwood@gmail.com. Thursday, Nov. 12, 12:30 p.m., StudentMarch.org n The Utah Human Race is opening its Holiday Food & Fund Drive with a familyfriendly 5K/10K race, held to give Utahns a chance to “run with an attitude of gratitude.”

Every dollar from sponsorships and registration fees raised through the race directly benefits Utah Food Bank’s mission of fighting hunger statewide. Registration closes at noon Monday, Nov. 23. For more information, email kellyo@utahfoodbank.org.

Draper Spectrum, 12101 S. State, Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26, 5K, 8 a.m.; 10K, 7:30 a.m., $20-$25, groups of five or more get a $5/ person discount, UtahHumanRace.org

FARMERS MARKET

The Winter Market at Rio Grande, a project of Urban Food Connections of Utah, returned to downtown Salt Lake City on Nov. 7.

In addition to produce, you can buy grass-fed meats, wild and sustainable seafood, honey, jam, salsa, spreads and more. There are also products from bakeries, cheese vendors and six local natural meat purveyors featuring beef, lamb, pork and eggs. With more than 60 local vendors, the market is held for 13 alternating Saturdays, through the month of April.

Every other Saturday (next one is Nov. 21), Rio Grande Depot, 300 S. Rio Grande St., 10 a.m.-2 p.m., SLCFarmersMarket.org

PUBLIC ART

Utah artists or artist-led teams will have an opportunity to submit models and applications for a new series of permanent sculptures as part of the Flying Objects program. Up to 18 permanent sculptures that will be installed in the Broadway District atop the center islands along 300 South from 400 West to 300 East. This is the fifth series of sculptures highlighting local Utah artists, and the first that will be permanent.

Each selected artist will fabricate a sculpture that will be attached to a steel post and permanently installed into the medians along 300 South. The budget for each selected sculpture is $12,500 and includes artist’s fees and related expenses for design, supplies, fabrication, insurance and transportation. Submit proposals online at SaltLakePublicArt.org by 5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 11.

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Annals of Justice A 2015 decision of the Georgia Supreme Court has created a puzzle for drunk driver enforcement. In Georgia (and other states), blood alcohol tests are “voluntary” (to bypass the issue of whether drivers can be forced, or even pressured, to endure a test that ultimately helps to convict them), but the Georgia court has ruled, against custom, that a “consenting” driver might be “too” drunk to appreciate the consent—in which case, the test results would be inadmissible in court.

Equally awkwardly, prosecutors would be forced to argue that the drunk driver—too drunk to handle a motor vehicle—was still sober enough to give knowledgeable consent. Atlanta’s WSB-TV reported in October that judges statewide are grappling with the issue.

hoping to keep their pets in no-animal dorms, The New York Times noted that school officials have entertained student requests for the “comfort” of (besides dogs and cats) lizards, potbellied pigs, tarantulas, ferrets, guinea pigs and “sugar gliders” (nocturnal, flying, six-ounce Australian marsupials). Informal Justice Department guidelines rule out only animals that are aggressive or destructive or that trigger other students’ allergies.

WEIRD

Recurring Themes (Recent Instances of Familiar Weird Behaviors) Funerals and burials, in the United States and elsewhere, are no longer always so staid. Most famously, one man was, per his instructions, lowered to the ground inside his beloved Cadillac; dressing corpses in fanciful outfits (such as the Green Lantern) is not unheard of. In October, after Mr. Jomar Aguayo Collazo, 23, was killed in a shootout in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the family outfitted his body in his favorite blue tracksuit and propped him up at a table in his mother’s tavern (“playing” dominoes and holding a drink and a condom)—as friends and relatives passed by to pay their respects. n The list of all-time extreme body modifiers would start with the late Dennis “Stalking Cat” Avner (who incrementally cut, chipped, tattooed, pierced and implanted his body to make himself a human feline) and the similarly obsessive Erik “Lizardman” Sprague, who at one time toured with the Jim Rose Circus.

Newer to the scene is Britain’s Ted Richards, 57, working to become a human parrot. With 110 colorful tattoos, 50 piercings and a split tongue, he currently seeks a surgeon to turn his nose into a beak. Even without the beak, though, Richard says becoming parrotlike “is the best thing that has happened to me.” (London’s Daily Telegraph, publishing astonishing photos of Richards, asked, rhetorically, whether we’ve reached “peak plastic surgery.”)

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n In October, a 20-year-old man in Macomb Township, Michigan, became the most recent alleged drunk driver to reveal himself in the most awkward of ways: by accidentally swerving into the midst of a sheriff’s deputies’ roadside stop—of another alleged drunk driver. (Coincidentally, both arrestees are 20 and registered matching 0.17 blood-alcohol readings.)

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n College “Inclusiveness” to the Next Level: “Service” animals (mostly guide dogs) are ones that have been specially trained to provide help for people with disabilities, but untrained “comfort” animals are also privileged for those diagnosed with panic attacks or depression. In an October report on college students

n Raised Right—or Snitch-in-Training? In September, Audrey McColm, 25, traffic-stopped in Randolph County, Indiana, for driving “erratic(ally),” became the latest parent ratted out by her child. When Mom denied having been drinking, her daughter, 7, blurted out, “Yes, you have, Mom.” McColm registered 0.237, had nearly hit another officer’s car head-on, and was so hammered that she “urged” a different officer to “shoot her in the head.” n A chapter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals undertook one of its favorite consciousness-raising tactics in August, demanding that Pennsylvania officials erect a roadside grave marker near Lancaster at the spot where a tractortrailer hauling 80 pigs overturned, killing several of them. The “terrified animals” that suffered traumatic deaths should be memorialized by the community, PETA said. The pigs, of course, would have eventually found their way to a slaughterhouse, and it is possible that the ones euthanized as a result of the accident passed more peacefully than the “survivors.” n In October, The Washington Post and the New York Post separately reported recent episodes of government agencies keeping high-earning employees on the payroll for more than a year, with no job assignment, because the agencies were unable to adjudicate their misconduct cases. Almost 100 shelved Homeland Security employees turned up in a Washington Post Freedom of Information Act request, and one information technology analyst warehoused by the New York City employee pension fund said she had earned $1.3 million over 10 years doing absolutely no work for the city. “I watched movies,” said Niki Murphy. “I crocheted—right in front of (supervisors).” n Drivers who blindly follow their vehicle’s satellite navigation with disastrous results are almost No Longer Weird, but a truck driver’s mishap in Ashton, England, in October still seemed worthy of reporting—in that he was working for a company called Dachser Intelligent Logistics when his tractor-trailer got stuck in a narrow alley (directed there by the sat-nav, in violation of all common sense). (Bonus: It was not the first time sat-nav had misdirected a vehicle into the same alley; the town had even placed a formal traffic sign at the approach to the alley: “Do Not Follow Sat Nav Next Left.”)

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UTAH SYMPHONY PATRONS & MUSICIANS STRUGGLE TO ACCEPT THE DEMOTION OF LONGTIME CONCERTMASTER RALPH MATSON.

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“I DON’T BELIEVE IN REVOLUTION, ESPECIALLY IN AN ARTISTIC ORGANIZATION.” Thierry Fischer Utah Symphony music director

evidence of continued displeasure with their performance,” Silverstein says, referring to the need for documentation or a paper trail.

Matson, however, has had nothing but rave reviews from both audiences and orchestra administration.

“Ralph doesn’t want to go to the mat with the music director,” Silverstein says. “It would be an extremely divisive thing for the orchestra and their relationship.”

Circumstances such as these have caused problems in the world of classical music before. A similar personnel issue all but destroyed the relationship between legendary conductor Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which he led for 29 years. Ozawa did not renew the contract of the first trumpet within a few months of his getting tenure, and the player won his case in arbitration.

That began a long period of discord that ultimately led to Ozawa’s departure. “He never recovered,” Silverstein says.

“You don’t want an orchestra on stage with palpable hostility to the music director.”

The upheavals within the Utah Symphony, however, have been publicly subdued, and the orchestra continues to play well, perhaps better than ever.

So why all the fuss over the concertmaster position? The Washington Post explained why the position is so important in an article titled “The Modern Orchestra Concertmaster: First Among Equals,” noting, “The choice of a first violinist is the most important appointment that any orchestra’s music director can make, for the position requires not only superb playing ability and broad musicianship, but also grace under pressure, the optimism of a cheerleader and the finesse of an ambassador.”

And so the removal of someone in such a position— especially someone so beloved—creates a negative buzz in the community.

Ricklen Nobis, former longtime Utah Symphony keyboardist, believes the symphony has become a cult of personality under Fischer. The same could be said for the symphony under Abravanel, Nobis said, but “he had a great respect for the musicians in the community, and had an inclusive personality.” While it’s the music director’s prerogative to come in and clean house, Nobis says, Fischer “has been less than graceful.”

Gerald Elias, former Utah Symphony associate concertmaster and now a Boston Symphony violinist and a mystery writer, puts it a little more delicately: Fischer, he says, “might have done a better job at recognizing the contribution those people gave. They were real pioneers to create a firstclass orchestra when [Salt Lake City] was just a tiny town.”

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ension is building as Thierry Fischer’s baton deftly draws his orchestra into Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. But the musical tension is nothing compared to the human drama being played out behind the scenes.

As the concertmaster—the official title of the first-chair violinist—Ralph Matson, comes on stage, orchestra members begin to applaud and tap their feet in a pronounced show of support for the man they have long revered and who many now feel was ill-treated.

While it’s customary for an audience to applaud politely when the concertmaster appears, this is an unusual time for the Utah Symphony, and the orchestra is not reacting in its customary way. As the symphony embarks on its 75th anniversary season, looking back at the legacy of Maurice Abravanel and reenvisioning the orchestra for the next generation, it is simultaneously energized and enervated.

Moving the art form forward has some difficult implications for the orchestra, and Matson’s apparent demotion from his almost 30-year run as concertmaster is the most visible consequence.

Maestro Fischer would not talk about the change.

“We don’t comment about this. I love him and respect him immensely. Ralph is a sweetie.”

Since Fischer took the baton in 2009, 34 orchestra members, representing about a third of the symphony, have been replaced. He says he understood it as a mandate from the symphony board and orchestra members themselves.

Fischer’s efforts to cull the herd are described on the maestro’s own website at ThierryFischer.com/ QandA: “The rebuilding and retooling process [of the Utah Symphony] began almost immediately [upon being hired],” Nicholas Beard, a contributor for MusicalAmerica.com, wrote. “Within 36 months, there were 30 new players in the orchestra. Most of the changes came about through natural attrition, but it is a testament to Fischer’s grace and good judgment that the turnover went smoothly.”

Former Utah Symphony conductor Joseph Silverstein would take issue with that. “The deed was done without proper preparation,” he says of Matson’s demotion. Utah symphony maestro from 1983-98, Silverstein was also Matson’s violin teacher at Yale University.

Silverstein says that Matson recently told him he would not fight the demotion, although he has cause. “In the case of a principal player, a move back, and to take away a titled position, there must be

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Lake Tribune article, discussing personnel turnover at the Symphony, reported that Erich Graf was on a ‘leave of absence’ and that all musicians who had left the Utah Symphony had left voluntarily. Erich believes that both these statements are factually wrong and violate the [Personal Service Employment Agreement].”

The letter goes on to state: “He believes he was forced to alter his musical career because of the strong desire of Maestro Fischer. In fact, Fischer’s private comments to other musicians demonstrate the fact that it was Fischer’s desire to force Erich out of the Symphony.”

But acting CEO Pat Richards says Fischer was hired based on a vision expressed by the musicians. “I think personally what was so compelling and inspirational was that the musicians said we want somebody who can make us better, we want to be part of the best orchestra we can be.”

How that is accomplished is solely Fischer’s purview. But some think he has a scorchedearth policy that has gone too far with Matson’s replacement. Neither Matson nor his violinist wife, Barbara Scowcroft, would comment for this story “He has certain high standards [for] musicians,” says Melia Tourangeau, who hired Fischer and who was CEO from 2008 until leaving this year to serve as Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra CEO. “He felt it was time for somebody—for the next generation to take over. It seems like this massive turnover, but it’s quite natural.”

“I don’t believe in revolution—especially in an artistic organization,” Fischer is quoted as saying in his website article. “But I do believe in consistently aiming for excellence, and that has guided all of my decisions.”

While providing the symphony fresh energy, the new hires certainly benefit from the experience of the older members. They “could not do anything without the two-thirds of the orchestra who have been there—some were appointed by Abravanel,” Fischer said in an interview with City Weekly. “And people don’t realize that Abravanel appointed even more young musicians [than I have].”

Violinist Ralph Matson Former Utah Symphony concertmaster

“HIS WORK ETHIC, THE QUALITY OF PLAYING, THE TYPE OF PERSON HE IS—ALL THAT ACCOUNTS FOR ALL THAT FOOT-STOMPING.” —GERALD ELIAS

Hobson’s Choice

The changes may well have started with Erich Graf, who spent 35 years with the symphony, 17 as president of the American Federation of Musicians Local 104, and who, as the orchestra’s principal flutist, was ousted amid secrecy.

“In 2009, I was given a ‘Hobson’s Choice’ about remaining in the orchestra by a European flutist/ conductor who assumed the Utah Symphony’s helm,” Graf wrote in his recently published memoir, Erich Graf: Musician, Flutist, Advocate. “[Fischer] targeted me on his second day as music director.

As a result, Local 104’s attorney, Joseph Hatch, negotiated a multi-year settlement for me. The last concerts I played with the orchestra were in 2011.”

In an interview with City Weekly, Graf says his experience with Fischer was “very, very brief,” and that he had played with him only during Fischer’s two audition weeks. Fischer was only in Utah a few days during his first season, but in the first week of his second season, he called Graf in to the office.

“He told me my sound didn’t work in the orchestra and that I was not qualified as principal flutist, and barely qualified to play in my own section,” Graf says. “I was to keep my mouth shut, or things could get very bad for me.”

Graf was not to speak of his compensation package for three years, a period which ended in August last year. In a September 2011 letter to the symphony, attorney Hatch wrote: “The Salt

Legacies Live on

Of course, Abravanel was hired in 1946 by the Utah State Symphony Orchestra, a struggling entity that played out of the LDS Tabernacle, and at times, couldn’t even pay its conductor. Over his 32-year tenure, he built the group into a world-renowned organization, which obtained its own venue in 1979, right after Abravanel retired. Upon his death in 1993, Symphony Hall was renamed Abravanel Hall.

Varujan Kojian conducted after Abravanel retired, from 1979-83. He not only brought vibrancy but a scandal to Utah, with various reports alleging a dalliance between Kojian and a Mormon missionary in 1982. A native of Beirut, Lebanon, he died at 57 while serving as director of the Santa Barbara Symphony, just 10 years after leaving Utah.

Then came Joseph Silverstein, an accomplished and versatile American violinist. He left an enduring legacy in Utah in 1998. Audience members and

musicians remember him as a kind man who was highly talented. “He was first a human being, and then a musician,” said one longtime patron. “He wouldn’t put anyone on the street.”

Prior to Fischer’s arrival, Keith Lockhart commanded the Utah Symphony baton. Lockart split his time between Utah and the Boston Pops Orchestra between 1998 and 2009. Despite his having led the orchestra for the opening of the 2002 Olympic Games, Lockhart seldom talked about Utah in interviews.

“Music directors really do create an orchestra in their own image,” says Elias. “When Keith Lockhart was here, both the repertoire and the sound of the orchestra had a lot of splash. The sound was bright and open but somewhat amorphous and unrefined.

Thierry Fischer, on the other hand, is an exercise in precision. Everything is carefully calibrated, balanced, and clarified.”

Sea Change

Fischer’s personality and management style may simply be a reflection of a sea change for the orchestra. It is no longer the small-town community orchestra that hired Frances Darger, then a 17-yearold violinist who preceded Abravanel (and endured after him) to play pops at the University of Utah Stadium. According to a Deseret News report, her first concert included the “Salute to the Men in the Armed Forces.”

In 2012, after 69 years, with what started as a parttime community orchestra, she retired. Some wonder why Darger couldn’t have had just one more year— to make it 70. While she left with grace and amid accolades, some orchestra members were stunned.

“It used to be that if you wanted to die on the job, you died on the job,” said one, who requested anonymity, referring to the tradition started by Abravanel. Several orchestra members interviewed were concerned about their careers and sought anonymity for this story.

“The Utah Symphony has been transitioning for some time as to what its own identity is,” says Elias. “It’s important to remember that the Utah Symphony was created as a community orchestra in the Depression. For decades, even with Maurice Abravanel, it maintained that community feel even while attaining high artistic achievement.”

The seminal orchestra was created under the Roosevelt’s New Deal program from the 1940s, the Works Progress Administration. Under the direction of early conductors such as Hans Henriot and Werner Janssen, it played five concerts a year with 52 part-time musicians. Now, there are 85 fulltime professional musicians who perform more than 175 concerts each season.

“It always had this community feel to it. A lot of local musicians were hired to play in it, and it was like, ‘OK, guys, let’s put on a concert!’” Elias says.

That quality remained so even under the previous conductors, Silverstein and Lockhart.

“In more recent decades,” Elias says, “as the orchestra expanded, national auditions were required to fill vacancies, and the personnel in the orchestra has increasingly come from outside Utah—even outside the U.S. And with that change in demographics, the orchestra has become more ‘professional,’ and I don’t use that term either in a positive or negative sense.

That’s just what it has become.”

Big Shoes

to Fill

Budgetary Low Notes

“PEOPLE WHO ARE BURYING CLASSICAL MUSIC ARE NOT GETTING OUT FROM THEIR DESKS.”

Utah has always been uniquely welcoming to music. In what must have been a heroic effort, the Mormons carted musical instruments in almost every company crossing the Great Plains—mostly bass violins, clarinets, flutes and trombones, according to the The Works Progress Administration Guide to Utah: The Beehive State. And Brigham Young encouraged a musical culture embodied by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Salt Lake Theater Orchestra.

This is not to say that the going has been easy. In the not-too-distant past, the symphony struggled with relevance and was in danger of extinction. In 1993, a resounding defeat of an art tax sent a clear message that the symphony was seen as an elitist organization, focused on the rich and powerful.

Ultimately, the Zoo, Arts & Parks (ZAP) tax passed, but the slump in symphony attendance continued.

To tighten operations in an era of many competing entertainment options, in 2002, the symphony merged with Utah Opera, and Don Andrews, chief executive at the symphony, resigned under pressure.

At that time, there were only two symphonies in the country buying into this hybrid model, which became the subject of a Harvard Business School case study, according to arts blogger Andrew Taylor.

And it took years for the two cultures to become comfortable with one another.

But, the Tribune reported in 2005 that spending still increased, even while performance revenue from ticket sales and fees declined. By 2005, the symphony was still begging for donor dollars to make up deficits—$1.7 million in 2002-03 and $1.6 million for 2003-04, according to then-CEO Ann Ewers. An audit showed that income had suffered after the merger.

“Performance revenue from ticket sales and fees from Utah Symphony & Opera’s [2004] season was $3.7 million—lower than the $4.2 million earned by Utah Symphony alone in the year leading up to the merger,” the Trib reported.

In 2008-09, then-CEO Tourangeau took a 10 percent pay cut while cutting operating expenses by $1 million. That meant pay cuts for musicians, administrators and staff, the Trib reported.

A 2011 audit showed that in the previous three years, “the organization has reported deficits in the Operating Fund of approximately $3,283,000 on a cumulative basis. These factors raise substantial doubt about the organization’s ability to continue as a going concern.”

Joseph Silverstein Utah Symphony director (1983-98)

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But for the economic downturn, the merger might have helped with operating costs. USUO relied heavily on donors to shore up its bottom line. Also, a staff hiring freeze, salary and benefits cuts came in response to a $950,000 deficit at the end of the 2010-11 season.

This past May, the symphony and opera ratified a new three-year contract. The deal for the 87 musicians includes an average 3.5 percent increase in base salary in each of the next three seasons, according to a USUO press release. That was good news for the musicians, who had taken contract concessions collectively totaling $3.8 million in over the past seven years. In fiscal year 2014, the music director earned $515,875, while the base salary for the musicians is $67,872, putting the USUO 19th among the top 20 U.S. orchestras.

Tourangeau believes the key to solvency is “finding that core of relevancy in the community, demonstrating relevancy as an institution. We are curators of an art form that is also a living, breathing art form, and we must stay true to the mission and our core competencies.”

But Silverstein thinks the relevancy is still there.

“People who are burying classical music are not getting out from their desks,” he says. “Audiences are getting older—but the United States is getting older.”

Accessibility is the key. Silverstein thinks weekday and Sunday afternoon performances should be considered, as well as reduced prices. “Yes, bring in people who haven’t been there before. But if you believe in the product—that it’s performed beautifully and in the persuasive quality of that product—then you will bring people to the hall if it is accessible in time, location and price.”

Of course, all this financial upheaval takes a toll on orchestra members, too. Morale has ebbed and flowed with the fiscal tides, and often it has been the orchestra’s conductor who maintains the collective psyche.

The deficits appear to be gone now and the budget balanced. And the symphony is definitely headed in a new direction.

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In June, the only mention of Matson’s change of status came in the form of a statement on the Utah Symphony website: “Thierry Fischer, Music Director of the Utah Symphony has initiated a search for a new concertmaster of the Utah Symphony. Auditions for the position began in February 2015 and are ongoing. Auditions for the Utah Symphony are conducted by the Music Director and the Musician’s Audition Committee. After a new concertmaster has been selected, the Utah Symphony’s current concertmaster, Ralph Matson, will continue with the orchestra in the position of associate concertmaster.”

It’s quite a comedown for a man who has been recognized as one of the best. Matson has been concertmaster since 1985, and was approaching his 30th year in 2015. In a Deseret News story from 2014, Matson’s wife characterized him as a “violin geek.”

“My hobby is the violin,” Matson told the D-News. “If I were not doing this for a living, I would still be doing it. I think about it every day—the idea of having this obsession and making a living doing that is fantastic.”

And no, he doesn’t take summers off. Since 1996, he’s been at the Grand Teton Music Festival where he serves as concertmaster of the festival orchestra.

Detroit-native Matson first got a music scholarship from Oberlin College, and then received a bachelor of arts degree from Yale College and a master’s degree from the Yale School of Music. He had stints in the Minnesota and Cleveland orchestras, but found home in Utah.

His solos, now missing as a string of concertmaster hopefuls appear and audition, were always joyfully received. As the season progresses, the foot-stomping will wane, and the orchestra will go on with Matson in a second chair.

Sue Wallace, a longtime symphony supporter, says it’s hard to see some of her “old friends” relieved of duty on stage. “And it’s not very transparent. The replacement of Ralph Matson—we’re still not sure what’s going on, but auditions are going on.”

There are big shoes to fill. So much so, a guerrilla campaign is being mounted behind the scenes: One former symphony member created Facebook posts offering “Free Ralph” T-shirts, “Just pay attention to the message on the T-shirt” the post reads. “Very bad things are happening in Utah.”

The symphony has now hired Kathryn Eberle as associate concertmaster. She is a bright, young woman who was in the running for concertmaster

but did not get the job. A committee of orchestra musicians conducts “blind” auditions, in which the candidate is behind a wall or screen. When a candidate makes the cut, his or her name is sent on to the music director, who makes the ultimate hire.

At this point, whoever gets the job will have a tough time. “It’s very unfortunate,” Silverstein says. “It will cast a very unfortunate light on the person brought in to replace him—for that person to create a productive relationship with the violin section.”

MICHAEL SCHOENFIELD

By the time Fischer arrived in 2009, a lot of musicians were near the end of their careers. “The orchestra is playing on a very high level now,” says Elias, who chose to leave in 2011, at the age of 59.

“Being a music director is a lonely place, and there are a lot of difficult decisions.”

Silverstein was the kind of music director who played with the hand he was dealt. “It would have been wrenching to see people put out to pasture,” Elias says. “As it turned out, players were replaced through attrition and death, and they were often replaced by people infinitely superior.

“But bad morale is more injurious than the playing of one member of the violin section,” he says.

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A TOP-TIER ORCHESTRA NEEDS TO ATTRACT NEW TALENT. David Porter Utah Symphony violinist

Arts:

Humanity’s Currency

The Utah Symphony orchestra members continue to rise to the musical challenge, and some would argue that the symphony’s direction is where it needs to be. David Porter, for example, a violinist who’s in his 20th season with the orchestra, calls this an exciting “period of growth and artistic exploration.”

For one thing, there is a new recording. In fall 2014, Fischer conducted the symphony for its first recording—of Mahler Symphony No.1—now on sale on the USUO website. The symphony is also collaborating with other arts organizations—the Utah Opera, Ballet West, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Madeleine Choir School and the Utah Shakespeare Festival. Each will share the stage with the symphony.

One of the most welcome initiatives is one resurrected from the Abravanel days: the symphony’s return to school auditoriums. Utah Sen. Jim Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City, remembers how seeing symphony as a schoolboy transformed him. In fact, he wrote on Facebook about how he was moved to tears as he recently sat in the auditorium of Bryant Middle School. “A child next to me asked, ‘Senator, are you all right?’” he wrote in his post.

“I nodded, embarrassed (and without tissue),” Dabakis wrote. “Full Utah Symphony at Bryant Middle School. A Title One school with 23 languages.

Flashback 50 years: Little Jimmy sitting ... with my school—mesmerized. Transformed. It was unthinkable to go to the symphony for our poor family. But there I sat so long ago, ‘Peter and the Wolf ’ playing, and I remember the haunting oboe sound— so clearly, from five decades ago! This morning, I

looked into the children’s faces and felt the power of the music reverberate through my soul. … OMG, we need arts in our schools—arts are the currency of humanity!”

Renee Huang, public relations director for the symphony, says the school visits are important, providing symphony members with the image of the community. “We have an educational department that brings the symphony to schools. Our mandate is to get to all schools in a three-to-five-year rotation.

That’s more than 155,000 students every year,” she says.

In spring 2016, the orchestra will travel to Carnegie Hall. “On the program will be works

by Haydn, Bartók and Richard Strauss,” writes veteran music critic Edward Reichel on his blog. He noted the symphony would also give its New York City premiere of Andrew Norman’s Concerto for Percussion, which had its world premiere at Abravanel Hall on Nov. 6-7.

The orchestra has commissioned other new works, too. One by 34-year-old Nico Muhly will be unveiled in December. This could be a stretch for Utah: Muhly’s opera Two Boys, which premiered in 2011, was based on a true story of the online relationship of two male teens, one of whom killed the other, Muhly told the Advocate, an LGBT-interest magazine.

A Return to Pure Classical Roots Of course, Fischer has his fans and supporters, and they

know where he is taking the Utah Symphony. There are clues even in his choice of music.

In 2014, the Swiss-born flutist made his Boston Symphony Orchestra debut—almost by accident. The scheduled conductor, Rafael Frühbeck, suddenly had died, and Fischer took over the program of Brahms and Carl Nielsen. He had just done an entire year of the symphonies of Nielsen in Utah, so, naturally, he pretty much killed it.

In an October 2014 interview with the Boston Musical Intelligencer, Fischer talked about the Utah Symphony season. “We’ve performed complete symphony cycles by Beethoven and Mendelssohn, and last season a cycle of Carl Nielsen’s complete symphonies, which, except for the first symphony, were composed in the 20th century.

“This season,” the article continued, “we began a two-year Mahler symphony cycle. In 2010, we started, symbolically, to perform the complete Haydn symphonies, playing them in order, one per season.

This is symbolic in that it is a return to our pure classical roots. We will have performed the first nine symphonies by 2019.”

All this forward thinking is possible because, according to the Utah Symphony website, Fischer’s contract has been renewed through 2019.

“Fischer came from a chamber orchestra background and has worked with a period orchestra,” says violinist Porter. “His approach is very much in that vein, taking into account historic practice and

playing it.”

Fischer maintains a globe-trotting schedule although he calls Utah his home now, and speaks endearingly of Utah. “I am totally refreshed in Utah. … I love it. And I played in Deer Valley last year, and will do that next year. In the winter season, I have a lot of activities in Europe. But I love Utah so much, I feel totally inspired and that’s it.”

What’s the Vision?

To the public, Fischer has an understated flair, a foreign charm heightened by his obvious talent.

Some orchestra members, however, claim to see another side. Perhaps because he is from another country, the concept of union protocols and procedures escape him. “He didn’t understand why he couldn’t do certain things,” one musician says, referring to Fischer’s frustration at making staffing changes. “I’ve seen him go absolutely berserk.”

Another musician thinks Fischer has taken his mandate to return the symphony to the Abravanelera a little too seriously. “He has gotten caught on the word ‘restore’ like Joseph Smith restored the true gospel,” he said.

This season has been demanding for all the musicians—playing the Mahler and Beethoven symphonies within weeks of each other, all while keeping an eye on Carnegie Hall. And because of the challenge, the loss of Concertmaster Matson has been magnified.

“These days, there are a lot of musicians in the prima donna category,” Elias says. “But Ralph has been on stage for everything all the time. He rarely missed a concert and set an example for the entire orchestra. His work ethic, the quality of playing, the type of person he is—all that accounts for all that foot-stomping.”

Both Elias and Matson studied violin under Silverstein at Yale, and were roommates in college.

“Clearly, the public is scratching its head over it, and the maestro should respond to it,” says Elias. “What happened to Ralph is a travesty.”

Utah Symphony violinist Porter says attracting new talent is what goes into becoming a top-tier orchestra. And financial stability will help attract the best people. Yet, if Matson were as popular and accomplished as his peers claim he is, isn’t he already one of the best?

“There’s a lot of self-interest at stake,” says one orchestra member. “What we do has such humanity to it, but we have all the flaws. I’m not sure anybody quite knows what the vision is,” the musician says.

“It is the role of the symphony not just to play the great hits from past generations, but to propel the art form forward,” says symphony public relations director Huang.

Acting CEO Richards says the administration and board are wordsmithing a vision now. “We want to be recognized nationally as a leader in artistic excellence and serving our community. We aspire to be a destination for artists, an inspiration for audiences and a beloved cultural treasure for our entire state. That’s our big, hairy, audacious goal.”

The symphony is on its way toward that goal, but not without major bumps. “Though I wasn’t in the room when some of the senior members of the orchestra were invited to retire over the past five years,” says Elias. “ ‘Grace and good judgment’ and the ‘turnover went smoothly’ are in the eye of the beholder.” CW

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Following a run to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament last spring, the University of Utah basketball team (guard Brandon Taylor is pictured) is back in the spotlight for the 2015-16 season. The Utes snared a No. 16 national ranking in the pre-season poll, and will host one of the featured games in ESPN’s Tip-Off Marathon, which will see the network televise 16 college basketball games from across the country over two days on Nov. 16-17.

Utah will host San Diego State at the Huntsman Center on Monday night, in a 7:30 p.m. game that will be broadcast nationally on ESPN2.

BYU will also get in on the Tip-Off action on ESPN2, but their fans will need to stay up late for a game that literally will be played over two days.

The Cougars play at Long Beach State in a game starting at 11:45 p.m. on Monday, finishing sometime in the early hours of Tuesday. After that, those who want to pull an all-nighter can keep watching Nevada at Hawaii beginning at 2 a.m.

But those who just can’t wait for their hoops can get started on Nov. 13, when we will see all six Utah NCAA Division I hoops teams in action against each other: Utah State travels to Weber State, Utah hosts Southern Utah, and Utah Valley plays at BYU. With the football rivalry on a two-year hiatus, haters of either the blue or the red will have to get their fix when the Utah and BYU basketball teams meet in Salt Lake City on Dec. 2. (Geoff Griffin) Southern Utah vs. Utah @ Huntsman Center, 7:30 p.m.; Utah Valley vs. BYU @ Marriott Center, 7 p.m.; Utah State vs.

Weber State @ Dee Events Center, 7 p.m.; all Nov. 13. ESPN Tip-Off Marathon: San Diego State at Utah, 7:30 p.m.; BYU at Long Beach State, 11:45 p.m., Nov. 16

For much of the past decade, polygamy has emerged from the shadows. The secretive world of Warren Jeffs’ Fundamentalist LDS Church has been exposed through court cases, books and documentaries. The HBO series Big Love brought what was always, for many, merely a 19th-century relic into the modern world. Reality TV has taken us into the homes and lives of actual polygamist families. Yet somehow, this world still feels confusing, strange and exotic. The simple stories of simple people living in it remain largely untold.

Seventeen Sisters explores how distinct those stories can be, even within the same family.

Albert Barlow fathered 34 children from his three wives, and two of his daughters—Barbara Barlow and Virginia Webb—gathered the stories of their father and their 15 other surviving sisters, in their own words, to present a comprehensive look at what it was like to be living “The Principle” in the 20th century. That includes Albert’s own recollections of making the decision to pursue polygamy in opposition to the official church doctrine of the 1920s, and fourth daughter Frances remembering what it was like when the first plural wife, Vio, joined her mother, Amanda, in their family.

The resulting memoir bypasses exploitation to offer a humanizing portrait of growing up in the kind of family most of us would find hard to comprehend. Linda Barlow joins her sisters for a reading and Q&A from this unique oral history.

(Scott Renshaw) Barbara Barlow, Virginia Webb & Linda Barlow: Seventeen Sisters @ Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, Nov. 13, 6 p.m., free. WellerBookWorks.com

Now’s your chance to revel in Ravel. The Utah Symphony’s November program provides an opportunity to view three local performing arts organizations producing a work in collaboration.

The Utah Opera Chorus and The Madeleine Choir School will lend their voices to a Utah Symphony production of Maurice Ravel’s “The Child and the Enchantments.”

The “semistaged” theatrical production uses scenic and character projections in addition to props and wardrobe items from Utah Opera. It’s a tale of a wayward young child and the tools of his misbehavior. Inanimate objects—toys, pets, even plants in the garden—are given singing roles, including resident artists and guest artists of the opera, and members of the choir school.

It’s a whimsical, light-hearted work that also contains some poignant moments portraying the pains of childhood. Ravel was first commissioned to create the work during World War I, completing the score in 1925. It’s perhaps an attempt to recapture the innocence lost by the world during that great struggle.

The all-Ravel program also includes the everpopular “Bolero,” plus “La Valse” and “Une Barque sur l’Ocean.” The program encapsulates a great deal of the romanticism, sweeping melodies, and wide stylistic variation in the composer’s body of work. It’s a kind of enchantment to see these local musical artists combining their talents in telling the story, and if you know Ravel only for “Bolero,” here’s an opportunity to broaden your horizons. (Brian Staker) Utah Symphony: “The Child & the Enchantments” @ Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, Nov.13-14, 7:30 p.m., $18-$80. UtahSymphony.org.

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Video artist Tyrone Davies is fascinated by taking video and film to their extreme limits, whether that takes his work to a place that seems logical or not. That work is very much informed by the ideas of the late Marshall McLuhan, who said “the medium is the message.” Sound, literature and music are integral to the mix, as though media only exists in plural—synesthesia—and that’s very McLuhan-esque, too.

The title reminds us of the Latin origins of “camera,” from the root meaning “chamber.” In the darkened echo chamber of UMOCA’s Projects Gallery, Davies concocts a mashup of video images featuring Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus and Friedrich Nietzsche mixed with clips from Hollywood films, TV programs such as Gilligan’s Island, Eastern meditations, commercials and even “right-to-die” activist Dr. Jack Kevorkian.

The mixture is equal parts engaging and oppressive in its overstimulation, but also implies that elevated, academic ideas about selfhood, perception and identity are inextricably entangled with the detritus of pop culture. In fact, neither can exist without the other, since academia has to account for the effects of cultural change—and even fare like Gilligan’s Island strives for a story that’s on one level Homeric.

The multiplicity of fractured narratives, chopped up and layered as though intended to resonate with the observer almost subliminally, leaves viewers in a state of disorientation, with the uncanny sensation that the medium is doing a number on them, not leaving them the same as when they entered. (Brian Staker) Tyrone Davies: In Camera @ Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, Nov. 13-Jan. 16, UtahMOCA.org

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Funny Business

Three engaging comedies light up Utah theater stages.

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Outside Mullingar

When Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley writes a romantic comedy, it rarely fits the conventional perception of that term. Anyone who has seen the Shanley-written Moonstruck or Joe Versus the Volcano has already gotten a strong sense of that.

You might not necessarily see it coming from the set-up for Outside Mullingar, set on two neighboring farms in contemporary Killucan, Ireland. Widower Tom Reilly (Max Robinson) and his 42-year-old, never-married son Anthony (Tom O’Keefe) live beside Aoife Muldoon (Sybil Lines) and her 30-something, also-never-married daughter Rosemary (Amy Bodnar). And plenty of history exists between the families, at times antagonistic but also built on neverexpressed emotions.

Julie Kramer’s simple production keeps the focus on the four actors, and a typically charming script by Shanley that offers plenty of laughs while we’re allowed to watch the characters evolve. There’s an unfortunate tendency for some of the punch lines to be delivered as the performers turn toward the audience—as though anticipating the laughter—but there’s a genuineness to the interactions between them that delivers some surprisingly raw emotion.

That doesn’t mean one particular turn won’t initially seem like a left-field bit of

weirdness—except that Shanley and this cast employ it beautifully as a metaphor for people who seem convinced that their imperfections will forever doom them to isolation. The charms in Outside Mullingar come from the idea that it’s never too late to let the people in your life know what’s really in your heart, even if that means revealing every last crazy bit of yourself. —Scott Renshaw

The Flick

In the first act of Annie Baker’s The Flick, movie usher Avery (Avery Franklin, pictured below) sits in an empty theater on the phone—presumably with his therapist—explaining a recent dream he had: In order to enter heaven, he has to find a movie that will get him out of purgatory. After scanning hundreds of movies—most of them with pretentious-sounding titles—it’s an old VHS copy of Honeymoon in Vegas that grants him access to the afterlife. Even Avery is perplexed by such an odd cinematic choice.

The seemingly insignificant moment establishes the tone for The Flick. Set in the last 35mm-projected movie theater in Massachusetts, this slice of life production follows Avery, fellow usher Sam (David A. Boice), and projectionist Rose (Kaylee Lloyd) as they navigate the mundane aspects of their jobs interspersed with tidbits of their personal lives. While this gives each character a small arc, it’s the movie banter between Sam and Avery that’s most entertaining to watch. From making fun of Avatar and The Tree of Life to playing “6 degrees of separation,” Avery proves he knows movies.

Director Trent Cox helps the trio—along with Skylar/The Dreaming Man (Alex Van Dyke)—capture the clumsy, superficial conversation often spoken among colleagues. Franklin, in particular, shines in this role, especially when playing opposite Lloyd. And with such a small cast, it’s easy to relate to these characters. As Avery would probably attest, The Flick is no Pulp Fiction, but it’s still really good. —Missy Bird

Tom O’Keefe as Anthony, left, and Amy Bodnar as Rosemary

Buyer & Cellar

It’s been a while since Salt Lake City audiences have had a chance to see Aaron Swenson—whose electrifying Hedwig and the Angry Inch rocked local theaters in productions spanning 2003-12—singlehandedly take command of a stage. In case there was any reason for doubt: He still knows how to do it.

Jonathan Tolins’ let-there-be-no-question-that-this-is-fictionalized tale was inspired by a quirky real-life footnote: a coffee-table book written by Barbra Streisand about her lavish Malibu estate, which showed a basement designed like a quaint boutique shopping mall. The speculative premise imagines under-employed Los Angeles actor Alex (Swenson, pictured) answering an ad to serve as the sole employee of that “mall,” maintaining the pretense that it’s an actual shopping destination whenever “The Lady of the House” comes calling.

Swenson takes on multiple roles throughout the 95 minute show—including Alex’s boyfriend, Streisand’s personal assistant and, of course, Barbra herself—and it’s a tour-de-force of physical acting. The voice changes are almost incidental to the way director Teresa Sanderson and Swenson find a single trademark gesture, like the assistant’s world-weary over-the-shoulder glare, to convey a change of character. Add the hilarious exchanges in Tolins’ script, and Buyer & Cellar becomes almost criminally entertaining.

At times, it feels that Tolins is reaching for something more profound about the slack that we cut celebrities and how easy it is to be dazzled by star power. The play may be moderately successful on that level, but there are better reasons to attend. Swenson’s performance—abetted by the intimacy of Sanderson’s cabaret-style staging—proves that some star power is worth being dazzled by. —Scott Renshaw CW

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Disney On Ice: Dare to Dream Those Disney princesses: They’re irresistible and ubiquitous. Maybe you have a youngster in your house who just can’t get enough of those big-eyed heroines and pleads for a chance to visit them at Disneyland. But when time or finances don’t permit, you can take advantage of an occasion when you don’t have to go to the princesses, because they’ve come to you.

The popular touring Disney On Ice productions make another local stop, this time with the princesscentric Dare to Dream show. Snow White, Cinderella, The Princess and the Frog’s Tiana and Tangled’s Rapunzel will all be on hand, skating and soaring through elaborate productions of their familiar stories, including some of those great Disney songs that are the soundtrack of every American childhood. Join hosts Mickey and Minnie Mouse to re-live some enchanted big-screen adventures live and in person, performed with soaring athleticism. (Scott Renshaw) Disney on Ice: Dare to Dream @ Vivint SmartHome Arena, 301 W. South Temple, 888-929-7849, Nov. 12-15, $10-$60. DisneyOnIce.com

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9 Circles Browning Center, Weber State University, 3950 W. Campus Dr., Ogden, Nov. 13-21, Friday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Weber.edu 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 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 Big Fish Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 801-984-9000, Monday-Saturday, 7:30; Saturday matinees, 12:30 & 4 p.m.; through Nov. 28, HCT.org Buyer & Cellar Pygmalion Productions, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, through Nov. 22, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m.; PygmalionProductions.org (see p. 22) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Sandbox Theatre Co., Midvale Performing Arts Center, 695 W. Center St., 385-202-5027, Friday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., through Nov. 21, SandboxTheatreCompany.org Don Juan Comes Back From the War Westminster College, Jewett Center for the Arts, 1840 S. 1300 East, Nov. 12-21, ThursdaySaturday, 7:30 p.m., WestminsterCollege.edu The Flick Good Company Theatre, 260 25th Street, Ogden, 801-564-0288, through Nov. 22, Thursday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 4 p.m.; GoodCoTheatre.com (see p. 22) Miss Nelson Is Missing Kingsbury Hall, 1395 Presidents Circle, Nov. 13-14, 7 p.m., Utah.edu Outside Mullingar Pioneer Theatre Co., 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6961, Monday-Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; matinee, Saturday, 2 p.m.; through Nov. 14, PioneerTheatre.org (see p. 22) Trail of Dreams SCERA, 745 S. State, Orem, 801-225-2787, Nov. 13-21, Monday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; matinee, Saturday, 2 p.m.; SCERA.org 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 Tribes Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, 801-363-7522, Wednesday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 6 p.m.; through Nov. 15, SaltLakeActingCompany.org

Young Frankenstein Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 S. Washington Blvd., Ogden, 855-944-2787, FridaySaturday, 7:30 p.m., through Nov. 14, ZigArts.com

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Ballet West: Iconic Classics Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, Nov. 6-14, Wednesday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m.; BalletWest.org Ring Around the Rose Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Saturday, Nov. 14, 11 a.m., ArtTix.org Utah Ballet: Fall Season Marriott Center for Dance, 330 S. 1500 East, 801-581-7100, Thursday, 5:30 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m.; through Nov. 14, Ballet.Utah.edu Ririe Woodbury Dance Co. Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, Park City, 435-649-9371, Nov. 13-14, 8 p.m., EgyptianTheatreCompany.org Worldance: The Unexpected Empress Eastern Arts, Kingsbury Hall, 1395 Presidents Circle, Nov. 18, 7 p.m., Utah.edu

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Salty Cricket: Belt Canto Urban Arts Gallery, 137 S. Rio Grande St., Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m., SaltyCricket.org BYU Philharmonic Harris Fine Arts Center, 1 University Hill, Provo, 801-422-4636, Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m., Byu.edu Chamber Music Series: A Walk Through Italy Kaysville Tabernacle, 198 W. Center, Kaysville, 801-546-8575, Nov. 14, 7:30 p.m., DavisArts.org Chamber Orchestra Harris Fine Arts Center, 1 University Hill, Provo, 801-422-4636, Nov. 14, 7 p.m., Byu.edu The Child & the Enchantments Utah Symphony, Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, Nov. 13-14, 7:30 p.m., UtahSymphony.org (see p. 21) The Concord Sonata: A Centennial Retrospective Westminster College Gore Concert Hall, 1840 S. 1300 East, 801-832-2682, Nov. 16, 7:30 p.m., WestminsterCollege.edu Conservatory Orchestra Fall Concert Honoring Deborah Moench Rice-Eccles Stadium Tower, 451 S. 1400 East, Nov. 14, 5:30 p.m., GiftedMusicSchool.org Guest Artist Recital: Boris Konovalov Dumke Music Hall, 1375 Presidents Circle, 801-581-6762, Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m., Music.utah.edu Russian Masterworks Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, 801-531-7501, Nov. 14, 7:30 p.m., SaltLakeSymphony.org

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COMEDY & IMPROV

Comedy Night Covey Center for the Arts, 425 W. Center St., Nov. 13, 8 p.m., CoveyCenter.org Adrenaline with Christian Pieper Wiseguys Downtown, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Divas of Arizona Comedy Totem’s, 538 S. Redwood Road, 801-975-0401, Nov. 13, 9 p.m., Facebook.com/TotemsNightClub Funny Fridays: Women Power Weekend Sandy Station, 8925 Harrison St., 801-255-2078, Nov. 13-14, 9 p.m., SandyStation.com John Moyer Wiseguys Comedy Club, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-363-2909, Nov. 13-14, 8 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Julian McCullough Club at 50 West, 50 W. 300 South, 385-229-1461, Nov. 12-14, Thursday 7 p.m., Friday-Saturday 7 & 9:30 p.m., Club.50WestSLC.com Shawn Paulsen Wiseguys Comedy Club, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588, Nov. 13-14, 8 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Sina Amedson Wiseguys Comedy Club, 2194 W. 3500 South, 801-363-2909, Nov. 12, 8 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Steve Soelberg Wiseguys Downtown, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Nov. 13-14, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com

AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Costume Night The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, 801-531-9800, Nov. 13, 7-10 p.m., TheLeonardo.org Hanukkah Market Jewish Community Center, 2 N. Medical Drive, 801-581-0098, Nov. 15, noon-6 p.m., SLCJCC.org Tumbleweeds Film Festival Screening: The Prophet Orem City Library, 58 N. State, Orem, 801-229-7050, Nov. 14, 2 p.m., OremLibrary.org Utah Cat Fanciers Utah State Fairpark, 155 N. 1000 West, 801-974-5586, Nov. 14-15, 9 a.m., CFA.org

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FESTIVALS & FAIRS

A Visual Feast Horne Fine Art Exhibit, 142 E. 800 South, 801-533-4200, through Dec. 31, HorneFineArt.com Benjamin Gaulon: Corrupt.Yourself Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Jan. 16; artist reception Nov. 13, 7 p.m., UtahMOCA.org Brian Bress: Make Your Own Friends Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, 801-581-7332, through Jan. 10, UMFA.Utah.edu Brian Christensen: Reconfigure CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, 385-215-6768, through Feb. 7, CUArtCenter.org The British Passion for Landscape: Masterpieces from National Museum Wales Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, 801-581-7332, through Dec. 13, UMFA.Utah.edu Chad Farnes: Duct Tape Paintings Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, 801-596-5000, through Nov. 20, SaltLakeArts.org Channel 801 Mod a Go Go 242 E. South Temple, 801-355-3334, Nov. 12, 8 p.m., ModaGoGo.com Chris Wiley: Black and White CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, 385-215-6768, through Nov. 14, CUArtCenter.org Christine Kende: Crushed Light: Fused Glass Paintings Art at the Main, 210 E. 400 South, 801363-4088, through Nov. 14, ArtAtTheMain.com Colors of the Season Art at the Main, 210 E. 400 South, 801-363-4088, Nov. 15-Jan. 10, ArtAtTheMain.com Dennis Smith David Erickson Fine Art, 418 S. 200 West, 801-533-8245, through Nov. 15, DavidErickson-FineArt.com Emotion and Abstraction Slusser Gallery, 447 E. 100 South, 801-532-1956, through Nov. 13, SlusserGallery.org Firelei Baez: Patterns of Resistance Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Jan. 16, UtahMOCA.org Jeff Clay: Cambodia: Joyful Craziness & Ruth Kudas: Luna Creations Local Colors of Utah, 1054 E. 2100 South, 801-363-3922, through Nov. 17, LocalColorsArt.com Juan Pablo: Gasca Light, Color, And Shape Charley Hafen Gallery, 1409 S. 900 East, 801-521-7711, through Nov. 14, CharleyHafen.com Kate Ericson & Mel Ziegler: Grandma’s Cupboard Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Dec. 19, UtahMOCA.org Kindra Fehr: Taking Flight Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, 801-328-0703, through Nov. 13, AccessArt.org Kristina Lenzi and Darryl Erdmann Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, 801-596-5000, throughNov. 20, SaltLakeArts.org Material of Memory Urban Arts Gallery, 137 S. Rio Grande St., 801-651-3957, through Nov. 28, UtahArts.org Paper West Alvin Gittins Gallery, 375 S. 1350 East, 801-581-8677, through Nov. 25, Art.Utah.edu Photography from the East Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Dec. 10; SLCPL.org Picturing the Iconic: Andy Warhol to Kara Walker Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-649-8882, through Jan. 3, KimballArtCenter.org Tyrone Davies: In Camera Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, Nov. 13-Jan 16; artist reception Nov. 13, 7 p.m., UtahMOCA.org

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here is certainly no shortage of Mexican restaurants in Utah. I’d have to use the fingers and toes on both hands and feet to count the ones I like in Rose Park and West Valley alone. The one place I wouldn’t expect to find authentic South of the Border flavors is at a ski resort.

But, that’s precisely what you will find—authentic Mexican flavor—at Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort’s El Chanate restaurant.

“Chanate” in Spanish means “blackbird.”

It’s an appropriate moniker, then, for it soars at such a high altitude. I recently spent a weekend at Snowbird to help judge a chili cook-off, which gave me plenty of time and opportunities to reacquaint myself with El Chanate’s. During the chili cook-off weekend, chefs from five Snowbird eateries—The Aerie, The Lodge Bistro, The Steak Pit, the Forklift and El Chanate—prepared different chilies for a “people’s choice” competition. Among them were a lamb chili, a white bean and sausage chili, a red chili made with Prime beef, and a buffalo meat chili. But when all of the chili spoons were put away, the crowd favorite was from chef Carlos Perez of El Chanate.

The chili is indeed award-worthy: a red chili brimming with tender roasted pork and posole-inspired hominy in place of the traditional beans. The pork chili will appear on El Chanate’s winter menu. The restaurant’s décor, which dates back to the 1970s, is somewhat out-of-date. But I’m told that, by the end of spring, a facelift— á la the magnificent makeover of The Aerie a few years back—will be completed. With the (Ian) Cummings family now majority owners of Snowbird, look for many of the food and beverage facilities there to get an upgrade as well. For starters, the all-new Summit restaurant—a 23,000 square foot eatery with 360-degree views at the top of Hidden Peak—will open in December.

If you haven’t visited El Chanate in a while, I encourage you to do so. I was told that longtime chef Perez has been encouraged (“unhandcuffed” is the way one employee put it) to create dishes inspired by his homeland, Chihuahua. That unleashed creativity shows up in an appetizer of pork empanadas ($10), which are lightly fried and stuffed with shredded, slow-roasted pork, Chihuahua cheese, creamy salsa de árbol, and zippy habanero salsa.

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Before we get to the entrees, a couple more appetizers are worth noting. An order of shrimp taquitos ($11) consists of four large shrimp wrapped in tortilla strips, lightly fried until just cooked through and tender, served with house-made pico de gallo atop a lattice-design of salsa de árbol and avocado-tomatillo salsa. It’s a gorgeous dish that tastes as lovely as it looks. One more excellent app is the mini sopes ($10): a trio of small masa-flour cakes topped with spicy shredded chipotle-flavored chicken, queso fresco, salsa de árbol, avocadotomatillo salsa and sour cream.

Chef Perez is gifted when it comes to cooking pork. Order any pork dish from the El Chanate menu, and prepare to be bowled over. One of his secrets is to baste the pork frequently while it slow-roasts, which not only helps keep the pork tender but also gives a glistening, delicious “bark.” It’s irresistible, so don’t hesitate to order the pork tacos ($14): two generously sized tacos stuffed with delectable, adobo-marinated pork and topped with minced red onion, cilantro and chile de árbol sauce. The carne asada tacos and beer-battered fish tacos are equally inviting. All come with a side of deliciously decadent creamy refried beans (lard is the secret here). Unfortunately, the accompanying Spanish rice was a bit dry and disappointing.

Still, the service at El Chanate is topnotch, and I have a feeling that talented new general manager Riley Marlowe has

Great El Chanate’s shrimp taquitos. something to do with that. He’s energetic, focused and seems to be a man with a plan: to elevate the El Chanate dining experience for customers old and new. He recommended we try the pollo & mole entrée ($21), and I’m glad he did. This was a juicy, roasted chicken leg and thigh, smothered in Perez’ “original mole recipe,” which had both sweet and spicy notes from mole made with fresh pumpkin, dried guajillo and ancho chiles, almonds, raisins and chocolate.

However, of all the dishes I enjoyed at El Chanate, my favorite was the pork chili Colorado ($17). Think not chile verde (which is also very good here), but rather chili rojo. The chili Colorado is a hearty New Mexico-style chili consisting of bitesize chunks of slow-roasted pork, bathed in a rich red-chile sauce made with broth and guajillo chiles. It comes with warm tortillas for soaking up every bit of that killer Colorado sauce.

Dessert options include mud pie, coconut panna cotta, frozen Key lime cheesecake, and a brownie sandwich with dulce de leche and topped with ancho chile chocolate sauce.

However, I prefer the sensational simplicity of a sizzling sopapilla ($6): flash-fried flour tortillas tossed with sugar and cinnamon and served with chocolate sauce and agave syrup for dipping.

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The indoor Winter Market at Rio Grande—a project of Urban Food Connections of Utah—has returned for the 2015-16 season. With more than 60 local vendors—including producers of meats and cheeses, baked goods, jams, salsas and more—the market is held on alternating Saturdays, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Rio Grande Depot (300 S. Rio Grande St.) through April 2016. The first market of the season was on Nov. 7; the next will be held on Nov. 21, themed “Winter Needs.” So, in partnership with the Road Home, volunteers will be on hand to accept donations of hats, gloves, towels, new pillows and blankets to support the most urgent needs of shelters and Salt Lake City’s homeless. For addition information, visit DowntownSLC.org.

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Pinot Pioneer Known for Pinot Noir, winemaker Rick Longoria is more diverse.

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t wasn’t until I sat down and chatted recently with Rick Longoria—founder and winemaker of California’s Longoria Wines—that I discovered he has ties to Utah (In fact, full disclosure, City Weekly staff writer Colby Frazier is his son-in-law.

Small world).

We were enjoying a glass of wine— Chablis was Longoria’s preference—at the Copper Kitchen prior to a tasting of his wines at the Caputo’s Market in Holladay.

During the tasting, guests were treated to five of Longoria’s wines, ranging from Pinot Grigio and Albariño to a small-batch, hard-to-find Tempranillo. The wines were paired with distinctive cheeses and meats from Caputo’s, including an herb-rind Jean d’Alos Tome de Bordeaux, sweet and nutty Starnachas, incredible salami from

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Although he’s probably best known as a master Pinot Noir maker, Rick Longoria doesn’t like to be boxed in as just a Pinot guy. “I make 14 different wines,” he noted, while reflecting on the diversity of Santa Barbara County, Calif., which allows him so many wine varietal options. The terms “artisan” and “craft” are overused, but, in the case of Longoria’s wines, they really do apply. Handcrafted in small quantities of 50 to 700 cases, Longoria wines qualify for our state’s small winery exemption, so they aren’t marked up as high as wines from larger producers. Longoria was surprised to find that his wines sell for less here than they do at his Los Olivos tasting room.

Whether he likes the tag or not, Rick Longoria was a Pinot pioneer; he’s been making world-class Pinot Noir and Chardonnay since 1982. According to Libation Inc. owner Francis Fecteau, “Rick is the reason Miles [Paul Giamatti] in the film Sideways says ‘I am not drinking any fucking Merlot!’ ” proclaiming his preference for Pinot Noir.

Indeed, Longoria Pinot Noir is worth seeking out. At Caputo’s, we got to taste two of them, beginning with “Lovely Rita” Pinot Noir 2013 from the Santa Rita Hills ($24.99). Whereas Longoria used more

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If it’s elegance you’re looking for, open a bottle of Longoria Pinot Noir 2012, Sta. Rita Hills, Fe Ciega Vineyard ($44.99). Light tannins and high acidity make for a silky textured Pinot, and although this wine will continue to improve with age, it’s absolutely beautiful to drink now, after being decanted for an hour or so. It’s a no-brainer for salmon, duck and mushroom dishes.

If you don’t like Pinot Grigio because

it’s all too often flimsy and pedestrian, you haven’t tasted Longoria Pinot Grigio 2014, Santa Barbara County ($14.99). When asked why he calls it “Pinot Grigio” rather than “Pinot Gris” (both are made from the same grape), Longoria says that the Santa Barbara climate is well-suited to producing unoaked Pinot Grigio in the style of northern Italy, rather than in the Alsatian style of Pinot Gris. This also raised the question of why so many Oregon winemakers call theirs Pinot Gris when, in fact, Oregon’s climate is closer to that of Italy than that of France.

Anyway, that’s wine-geek stuff. All you need to know is that this is a bright, lipsmacking Pinot Grigio, and it will elevate a meal of shellfish to new heights. CW

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This restaurant is open 24 hours and, as the name implies, serves breakfast round the clock, including the Belgian brunch and steak & eggs. Midnight isn’t for hoity-toity fare—it’s the time to dive into the stuff that only an oldschool diner can offer. This Midvale stalwart has served up a menu for 30 years with something for every appetite.

Dig into a juicy burger or classic sandwich or share a banana split with a friend. Or, if an after-hours breakfast is just what the doctor ordered, take the restaurant’s name at face value and enjoy a plate of waffles or a massive Denver omelet. Any time is the right time; the lights are always on. 7331 S. 900 East, Midvale, 801-566-5731, BelgianWaffleInn.com

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Provisions

Provisions describes itself as “an American craft kitchen that offers modern cuisine in a neighborhood setting.”

Fittingly so—the house-inspired architectural design of the restaurant might convince you you’re sitting at your own dining-room table. The servers are friendly and knowledgeable about the ever-shifting menu—the bill of fare changes with the seasons—and all the chef’s ingredients are as organic and local to Salt Lake City as they come. The small plates are all wonderful, including the steamed buns and roasted-beet salad, but don’t leave the restaurant until you have tried the tagliarini: braised rabbit coated with a sage-brown butter sauce that melts in the mouth. With its voluminous wine and cocktail menu, Provisions promises to keep your satiety in check. 3364 S. 2300 East, Salt Lake City, 801-410-4046, SLCProvisions.com

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Hub & Spoke is a welcome addition to Salt Lake City’s modern dining scene. From the same owners that brought you Pago, Finca and East Liberty Tap House, Hub & Spoke Diner brings together the essence of all three. The restaurant boasts of high-quality ingredients sourced from local Utah farmers, in-house, fresh-made bread, pastries, scones and pies, shakes and ice-cream specials, housemade sausage and smoked bacon. For dinner, the delectable chicken potpie made with the restaurant’s fromscratch herb crust will put Grandma’s to shame. Indulge in the Rum Swizzle Shake, mixed with pineapple, orange juice and citrus gelato. 1291 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-487-0698, HubAndSpokeDiner.com

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From items on the griddle to omelets and specialty items, there’s a reason there’s always a line going out the door on the weekends. If crowds aren’t your thing, lunch may be a bit more manageable—and the noontime is every bit as good as breakfast. 1810 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-935-4760; 280 E. 12300 South, Draper, 801-662-0009; PennyAnnsCafe.com

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For an appetizer, the wild-mushroom tart is splendid, as is the goat-cheese crème brûlée. There’s a nod to France on the restaurant’s menu with three-cheese fondue, as well as New World specialties such as organic Southernfried chicken, pan-seared sea bass and smoked duck breast & confit leg. Franck’s take on meatloaf is slowly braised pulled pork, veal and chicken in a blueberry-lavender sauce.

Don’t miss out on Franck’s not-so-traditional take on steak: Wagyu sirloin steak served with porcini purée, crimini mushrooms and blackberries. 6263 S. Holladay Blvd., Holladay, 801-274-6264, FrancksFood.com

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Few are as loyal to the art of barbecue as the owners of R&R. Barbecue-competition veterans Rod and Roger Livingston pride themselves on their smoke, fire and patience that can be displayed at this barbeque restaurant in downtown Salt Lake City. R&R offers pork spare ribs, pulled pork, beef brisket and chopped brisket, as well as burgers, smoked and deep-fried wings, and traditional barbecue sides like baked beans, fried okra, hush puppies and coleslaw. Order an ice-cold beer, pull up a chair and prepare for authentic, cooked-slow, cooked-low, finger-licking barbecue. 307 W. 600 South, Salt Lake City, 801-364-0443, RAndRBBQ.net

Zao Asian Cafe

There is much to mention about the pleasures of Zao: the spice-rubbed steak and grilled chicken; the organic sodas and fresh Vietnamese iced coffee; even the enticing housemade tangy dressing. Decisions are simple at the restaurant: Choose between a bowl, salad, three tacos or the banh mi sandwich; then, your choice of protein: seared steak, chicken, juicy meatballs or tofu. A favorite is the banh mi, a toasted French baguette stuffed with sliced cucumbers and carrots, spicy jalapeños, chili-lime aioli and the house hoisin. Aside from the downtown Salt Lake City location, Zao has now opened in Sandy and Murray with more locations still to come. Multiple Locations, ZaoAsianCafe.com

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Aristo’s

Aristo’s sidewalk patio might not be perched on the Mediterranean Sea, but once you dig into its extensive selection of mezedakia (Greek tapas) and other delicious dishes crafted by Aristides Boutsikakis, you’ll definitely feel like you’re in Greece. There’s sauteed baby octopus and thick cuts of battered and flash-fried calamari, baked eggplant whipped with olive oil, Greek meatballs, sauteed shrimp in marinara and much more. You’ll have a tough time finding better pastitsio in town, and the Corfu seafood platter brimming with shrimp, scallops and grilled tilapia is a real crowd-pleaser. 224 S. 1300 East, Salt Lake City, 801-581-0888, AristosSLC.com

REVIEW BITES A sampler of Ted Scheffler’s reviews Hot Dynasty

Hot Dynasty is hidden away in the Chinatown Supermarket building—and once you find it, you’ll discover a restaurant that’s very upscale in appearance, though not in price. With nearly 250 dishes to choose from, it’s hard to know where to begin, so start with pan-fried dumplings, steamed mini pork buns, or perhaps a noodle dish. I was thrilled to spy dan dan noodles on the menu, but we were disappointed that the noodles were overcooked and a tad mushy. More to our liking were the Sichuan Cold Noodles: thicker, lo mein-type egg noodles served cold with a deliciously spicy peanut-sesame sauce. Some Hot Dynasty ingredients might be off-putting to the Western palate, but if not, try the Hot Pot with Pork Blood, Bungs & Vegetables. Another menu category is called “Famous Boiled in Chili Sauce”; the fish version came in a bowl that took up half of our table surface, with a ladle for dishing out individual portions. One order could literally feed eight people. And while I don’t normally expect much in the way of a wine selection in Chinese restaurants, this list—including Dom Pérignon Vintage Champagne—blew my mind. 3390 S. State, 801-712-5332, HotDynasty.com

Manoli’s

This bright and bustling ultra-modern space foregoes the predictable Greek blue-and-white color scheme and traditional bouzouki music playing in the background. While there are plenty of other places in Salt Lake City to get Greek fast food, here you’ll find contemporary meze (small plates) and entrees. The yemista meze is a trio of bright-red roasted and peeled piquillo peppers, stuffed with smoked feta, sprinkled with chopped scallions, olive oil and black sea salt. Other enticing meze options—and there are many—include htenia (sea scallops on a purée of yellow split peas, garnished with microgreens and a ring of citrus-ouzo vinaigrette), arni psito (lamb-belly sliders with smoked feta-cheese spread, Greek coffee barbecue sauce and pickled cucumber), and htapodi (charred octopus with warm Zürsun heirloom-bean salad).

You could easily make a meal of meze, but that would mean that you’d miss out on wonderful entrees like moist and juicy Mary’s half-chicken, roasted and served with lemon rice pilaf, grilled toast and an exceptional chamomile broth. Excellent, friendly service to the roster of fine Greek fare, and it becomes clear what all the buzz is about. Reviewed Oct. 22, 2015. 402 E. 900 South, 801-532-3760, ManolisOn9th.com

Hearth on 25th

Restaurateurs Shana and AJ Hubbard don’t play it safe when it comes to food and drink. 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 coconutcurry 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—a Tuscan wood-burning oven. Like 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, all but obliterated by a mountain of mushrooms, 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 wild mushrooms, pancetta, small bluecheese dumplings, grilled endive and pickled quail egg. Utah’s culinary scene could surely benefit from more risk-takers like Hearth on 25th. Reviewed Oct. 13, 2015. 195 25th St., No. 6, Ogden, 801-399-0088, Hearth25.com

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Antonio Banderas, center left, leads a crew of trapped miners in The 33. or inspirational speeches; the actors— including Banderas and Lou Diamond Phillips—play those moments for all the bombast that isn’t already underscored by the music (a sadly underwhelming final credit for the late James Horner). And it’s not much better on the surface, where Binoche offers up line readings that would be embarrassing even if she weren’t a French woman playing a Latina.

There’s one wonderfully atypical scene in which the miners—facing what they believe might be their last supper—imagine a lavish feast of all their favorite foods. It’s a terrific example of what The 33 could have accomplished if it were interested in anything resembling psychological realism, rather than ticking off a checklist of events on the way to generic uplift. There’s nothing wrong with a survival-against-all-odds story that aims for the heart instead of the head, but this one keeps blasting indiscriminately away at the heart, destroying all the other vital organs along the way. CW

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with interpersonal tensions. The other half follows the efforts above-ground to get to them, as the Chilean government’s head of mining (Rodrigo Santoro) and a no-nonsense engineer (Gabriel Byrne) try to maneuver the massive drills around pockets of impenetrable bedrock.

The 33, unlike The Martian, doesn’t commit itself to being fundamentally about problemsolving, but it also doesn’t succeed at being an emotional, character-based drama. It wants to grasp the sad dilemma of men separated from their loving, concerned families, even if that means setting up those connections in the manner described above—entirely in movie shorthand, too concerned with giving a handful of characters at least one identifiable relationship and/or conflict to give any individual a character that feels real. While there’s more potential in dealing with the goings-on on the surface—between the technical challenges, political wrangling and the tent city/ media circus that surrounds the mine site like something out of Ace in the Hole—director Patricia Riggen (Under the Same Moon) and the screenwriting team still waste time on comicrelief nonsense like the wife and mistress of one miner (The Office’s Oscar Nuñez) fighting over which one he loves best.

Then again, that example represents the broad strokes with which Riggen paints virtually everything in The 33—including the performances. There’s little sense of the danger or claustrophobia facing these men, because nearly every moment spent with them involves shouting matches

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et’s assume—just for the sake of argument—that you bought a ticket for The 33 without knowing anything about events its based on. Let’s say you were just introduced to several characters who worked at a mine in Chile in the summer of 2010: Mario (Antonio Banderas), who wasn’t scheduled to work on this particular day, but asked to take an extra shift to earn extra money; Alex (Mario Casas), who is blissfully happy, as his wife is pregnant with their first baby; Darío (Juan Pablo Raba), an alcoholic who is estranged from his sister, María (Juliette Binoche); and even a gray-bearded veteran who is just about to retire. And then let’s say the plot showed them all heading off to work.

Now tell me that there’s any other possible development, except that something terrible is going to happen.

The 33 is, of course, based on the real-life incident in which 33 workers at a gold and copper mine in Chile’s Atacama Desert were trapped after a massive rock fell and blocked the only exit, inspiring rescue efforts that drew international attention. The improbable circumstances behind their (historical spoiler alert!) survival is a natural for a cinematic treatment, one that could be inspirational both as an example of resilient faith and as a case study in institutional determination. But a movie needs more than a concept. It needs to be executed with some degree of skill. And The 33 is a case study in poor execution.

It probably doesn’t help that it appears so soon after The Martian, employing a structure that’s virtually identical, except that the seemingly impossible rescue is here on Earth.

Half of the narrative focuses on events underground, where Mario becomes the de facto leader of the 33 miners, figuring out how to ration their meager food supplies and dealing

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THEATER DIRECTORY SALT LAKE CITY Brewvies Cinema Pub 677 S. 200 West 801-355-5500 Brewvies.com

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E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL At Brewvies, Nov. 16, 10 p.m.

THE 33 B.5 See review p. 33. Opens Nov. 13 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)

FAR FROM HOME At Main Library Auditorium, Nov. 17, 7 p.m. (NR)

LOVE BB.5 Gaspar Noé spends a lot of time in this movie explicitly justifying its existence, but that doesn’t mean he’s made a particularly good version of what he’s trying to do. The plot unfolds mostly in flashback in Paris, as American film student Murphy (Karl Glosman)—now living with Omi (Klara Kristin), the mother of his young son—reflects on his previous relationship with French artist Electra (Aomi Muyock) after learning that she’s missing. Noé certainly dives right in to his sexually explicit tale, opening on a shot of Murphy and Electra mutually pleasuring one another, and he uses his knack for vivid lighting to craft some fairly potent scenes of his characters, um, enjoying the physical act of love.

But while he hands Murphy dialogue about the importance of “truly depict[ing] sentimental sexuality,” or praising porn performers by saying that “these people are unafraid,” Noé is still stuck with actors who are more willing to get naked than they are able to deliver performances when their clothes are on. Admirable though the concept may be, Love is far more successful at exposing genitals than at exposing hearts. Opens Nov. 13 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—Scott Renshaw

OF MEN AND WAR At Main Library, Nov. 12, 7 p.m. (NR)

LOVE THE COOPERS BB Perhaps the worst thing that can happen to an ensemble comedydrama is for one vignette to be so much more interesting that all the others feel even worse. Directed by Jessie Nelson and written by her Stepmom co-screenwriter Steven Rogers, it pulls together four generations of a Pittsburgh family for various dysfunctional crises: Charlotte (Diane Keaton) and Sam (John Goodman) are about to separate after 40 years of marriage; Charlotte’s sister Emma (Marisa Tomei) has been arrested for shoplifting; Charlotte and Sam’s son Hank (Ed Helms) is struggling with being unemployed and freshly divorced; and their daughter Eleanor (Olivia Wilde) is flirting with a soldier named Joe (Jake Lacy) she met at the airport. This latter story is actually fairly charming, capitalizing on some genuine chemistry and a welcome respect for Joe’s conservatism. But the rest borders on excruciating, as weird fantasy moments clash with messier realism, all underscored by narration (by Steve Martin) that spells out every already-obvious emotional beat. It’s lovely that these people could figure out that they actually care about one another, but the audience barely gets 15 minutes worth of reason to love them. Opens Nov. 13 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)—SR

EXPERIMENTER BBB.5 Writer/director Michael Almereyda turns social psychologist Stanley Milgram’s infamous 1961 experiment—about people’s willingness to inflict pain on strangers—into a playful, self-aware movie with an eccentric personality. Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) breaks the fourth wall to narrate the story through the whirlwind of notoriety that followed Milgram’s controversial work, and Almereyda uses things like deliberately fake backdrops to remind us of the movie’s inherent artificiality. He also shrewdly avoids telling Milgram’s entire biography, focusing instead on the more easily managed story of this experiment and its after-effects. Sarsgaard plays Milgram as resourceful and optimistic, a trustworthy pal 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. (PG-13)—Eric D. Snider

MY ALL AMERICAN BBB If anyone knows how to craft an unabashedly corny underdog sports drama, it’s Angelo Pizzo. The writer of Rudy and Hoosiers takes his first turn behind the camera with the true story of Freddie Steinmark (Finn Wittrock), an undersize but relentless young football player who became a star safety for the University of Texas in the late 1960s, before facing a life-threatening health crisis. Wittrock faces a tough challenge for an actor—making a squeaky-clean, says-his-prayersand-puts-in-the-work kid interesting—but he provides exactly the kind of earnestness required for a story about someone who inspired others around him, and could respond to a potentially lethal diagnosis with a tight-jawed “OK.” And yes, it’s often formulaic in its relationship dynamics—between Freddie and his stalwart girlfriend (Sarah Bolger), and between Freddie and Texas coach Darrell Royal (Aaron Eckhart)—while making the occasional misstep like spending 17 minutes on a single (albeit legendary) football game. But My All American really has only one goal: putting a lump in your throat at watching a kid refuse to stop believing that every one of his dreams could come true. Lump delivered. Opens Nov. 13 at theaters valleywide. (PG)—SR

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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

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

LABYRINTH OF LIES BB In this fact-based drama set in 1958 Frankfurt, an idealistic young prosecutor (Alexander Fehling) begins pursuing legal action against exNazis, contrary to a national mood that such matters are best forgotten.

Director/co-writer Giulio Ricciarelli adds a romantic interest and plenty of bureaucratic opposition to reopening wounds, but the entire narrative is painfully schematic, with every revelation about a character coming about half an hour after we’ve already figured it out, and Fehling playing his character’s emotional rollercoaster with little subtlety. Though the

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Auschwitz survivors’ stories are inevitably haunting, this turns into a story that would be easy to translate into a Hollywood version with almost no changes—and that’s no compliment. (R)—SR THE MARTIAN BBB.5 “I’m going to have to science the shit out of this,” says astronaut/botanist Mark Watney (Matt Damon) when he realizes he’s been stranded on Mars with no apparent hope for rescue—and the story becomes a celebration of the idea that a problem can be solved, if you just set aside the distracting nonsense. Damon’s performance turns captures Watney’s sardonic sense of humor that helps keep him going when prospects look bleak, but there’s also a giddy pride that feels characteristic of many pioneers. While the story takes on a cyclical quality of trying, failing, retrying, re-failing, etc., the repetition emphasizes that in this survival epic, the hero is the scientific method. With potential catastrophes seeming to add nothing but shit into the modern world, it’s wonderful to consider the possibility that we could science that shit out of it. (PG-13)—SR

SUFFRAGETTE BB Set in 1912 London, it wraps real historical characters around the tale of Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan), a young woman who improbably finds herself joining a freshly radicalized faction of the British women’s suffrage movement. And a brutal existence it is: police beatings, jailings, losing custody of her son, harassment by her employer and surveillance by a veteran inspector (Brendan Gleeson).

Indeed, the primary purpose seems to be chronicling how awful it was to be at the forefront of this cause, and how horrible their opponents were. It works, for a while, on that visceral level of watching other people suffer for rights now taken for granted, but that’s all it can manage. Leaving aside Gleeson’s inability to phone in a performance, it’s all about emotional response to being on the right side of history. Think of it as “righteousness porn.” (PG-13)—SR

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SPECTRE BB The opening sequence is spectacular, following 007 (Daniel Craig) through, around and above raucous Day of the Dead revelers in Mexico City while he does a Secret Agent Thing; what amazing goodies might it have up its sleeve for the rest of the movie? As it turns out, not many. Spectre never reaches that same pinnacle of movie-movie joy again, and the thin plot—involving Bond’s pursuit of a Big Bad Guy (Christoph Waltz)—never catches fire. Apart from occasional explosions of not entirely un-diverting action, Bond’s spycraft is dreary and perfunctory. While the earlier films actively worked to make room for a Cold War relic like Bond in the new global paradigm, Spectre throws that all away in favor of a retro vibe that’s never nostalgic yet sometimes icky. Old-school Bond sex and violence now feels trite and tired. (PG-13)—MaryAnn Johanon

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THE PEANUTS MOVIE BBB “The Peanuts Movie by Schulz,” reads the opening title card— and it’s clear from the outset—director Steve Martino (Ice Age: Continental Drift) isn’t interested in shaking up the world of Charlie Brown, Lucy, Snoopy and company too radically. The loose plot focuses on Charlie Brown’s attempts to impress the new-in-town Little Red Haired Girl, interspersed with Snoopy’s fanciful battles with the Red Baron. The gentle adventure avoids the frantic pacing of many contemporary family movies, while still making the unfortunate decision to indulge in jokey fan-service moments.

Mostly, it honors Schulz’s idea that children had complex interior lives, as well as his respect for integrity. While Charlie Brown may forever be finding himself in embarrassing situations, it’s because of everything that’s good and decent about him. He’s more than just a character; he has character. (G)—SR

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W/ Bob & David Friday, Nov. 13 (Netflix)

Series Debut: I’m going to assume/hope my audience is too young to remember HBO’s Mr. Show With Bob & David—if not, then I’m talking to a bunch of geezers who won’t be around much longer to continue to support my lavish lifestyle. Anyway: Mr. Show was a ’90s sketch-comedy series starring Bob Odenkirk (now of Better Call Saul fame) and David Cross (Arrested Development and The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret infamy) that was nothing less than the American Monty Python, a fearless, biting comedy whirlwind that eviscerated pop culture and influenced every show after it. W/ Bob & David isn’t the groundbreaking vehicle that was, but Odenkirk and Cross (as well as several returning Mr. Show regulars and some new faces) still deliver the goods like it’s 1995. Where’s my flannel shirt and sixer of Zima?

Spotless Saturday, Nov. 14 (Esquire)

Series Debut: A new original drama … from the Esquire Network … because maximum saturation in The Age of Too Much TV has not yet been achieved, apparently.

Esquire’s original programming thus far has only consisted of iffy reality shows (Knife Fight, White Collar Brawlers, Friday Night Tykes, etc.), but London-set Spotless has an intriguing premise: Professional crime-scene cleaner Jean (Marc-André Grondin) is dragged into the mob underworld by his criminal brother (Denis Ménochet) to scrub murder scenes before the law gets involved—or, as per mob tradition, they and their family’s blood will be the next splattered. Spotless balances darkness, tension and humor as if it’s shooting for Breaking Bad with a Brit twist, and occasionally succeeds—if it were on a betterestablished network, it could maybe even last a couple of seasons.

Into the Badlands Sunday, Nov. 15 (AMC)

Series Debut: For being one of the few new series not based on a comic book, martial-arts actioner Into the Badlands certainly looks like one: Bullet-biking warrior Sunny (Daniel Wu) kicks ass and sheds blood across a future, gun-free(!) America ruled by seven warlords, like Kung-Fu (Wiki it) meets Mad Max with a Tarantino twist (the producers of Django Unchained and Pulp Fiction are involved, after all). This should click with The Walking Dead fans, but of course AMC had to shoot itself in the brain stem by sandwiching Into the Badlands between TWD and Talking Dead, a beyond-stupid move that will only piss off zombie connoisseurs: “I have to wait an hour to dissect this week’s episode with Chris Hardwick and three randos?!”

The Royals Sunday, Nov. 15 (E!)

Season Premiere: The first season wasn’t perfect, but at least The Royals broke E! out of its Vacuous Morons With Too Much Money reality-show groove with soapy modern drama and serious star power (Elizabeth Hurley was born to play the Queen of England, and newcomer Alexandra Park should be an It Actress by the time this series ends, if not sooner). Season 2 continues the Gossip Girl In Buckingham Palace ridiculousness, with Queen Helena (Hurley) plotting

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to wrest the throne from under her conspirator Cyrus (Jake Maskall), party kids Princess Eleanor (Park) and Prince Liam (William Moseley) still on the outs with the Monarchy, and the Grand Duchess (Joan Collins—yes, Joan Collins) still unnecessary with all of these other spinning plates in the air. As escapist trash goes, The Royals is as sophisticated as E! gets.

Chicago Med Tuesday, Nov. 17 (NBC)

Series Debut: Ah, Dick Wolf. If anyone can resurrect the primetime medical drama (no, Grey’s Anatomy and The Night Shift don’t count, and CBS’ new Code Black is flatlining), it’s probably him. Sure, The Walking Dead’s Laurie Holden dropped out of this early on, as well as the original showrunner, but so what? Chicago Fire and Chicago PD are the highest-rated non-karaoke shows on NBC, so get ready for years of Med and, soon, Chicago Animal Control, Chicago Building Inspection, Chicago Credit Union, Chicago Uber, Chicago Pizza, Chicago Dog and Chicago Sunroof. CW

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Bongwater—a duo comprised of actress-singer Ann Magnuson and Mark Kramer, producer of Low, Galaxie 500 and Urge Overkill—was psych music’s head-on collision with grunge of the ’80s. The ’80s had its own fuzz merchants, like Mudhoney and Green River, but Bongwater paid tribute to the originals with its grungy covers of Gary Glitter’s “Rock and Roll Part 2,” The Beatles’ “Rain” and “Love You To” and others. The psychedelic send-ups were in the don’t-takeanything-too-serious tenor of the original times.

Magik Markers, Balf Quarry (Drag City, 2009)

Magik Markers is an example of the kind of noise rock that made Sonic Youth’s early work a staple of the psychedelic genre; very early in the 2000s, they even opened for SY. The psych-rock value of distorting the senses was taken to extremes, but on Balf Quarry everything began to coalesce. Balf also overlapped into the freak-folk subgenre inhabited by Devendra Banhart, Animal Collective and Thee Oh Sees.

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By Voices referred to the way everything from the Fab Four to The Who has influenced him. Circus Devils is the most psych and progressive of his output, a kaleidoscope of surreal characters like Stomping Grounds’ “Sunflower Wildman,” combining psychedelic tropes of wild nature and madness: “Off to the kitchen/ and sneak through the back/ don’t let him hear you/ he hides in the cracks of dementia.”

The patron saint of psychedelic music, Syd Barrett, went too far, ingested too much and was lost, never to come back. The music Barrett and others have created remains, returns every so often, and through it, we experience what they experienced and see what they saw. CW

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The band Love is known for their 1967 psych-folk masterpiece Forever Changes, but you should get to know FC’s predecessor, and not just for singer Arthur Lee’s brilliant “She Comes in Colors” (which purportedly inspired both the Rolling Stones’ “She’s a Rainbow” and Madonna’s “Beautiful Stranger”). Love is also said to have influenced both The Doors and Led Zeppelin.

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Ever since the Beatles, psychedelic music has been inextricably linked with the British Invasion. That was true for the ’80s psych revival as well, when groups like Echo & the Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes made waves over here. Robyn Hitchcock was one of the most tuneful of the songwriters of the period, both solo and with The Soft Boys.

The late ’60s/early ’70s band of Floridian Tom Rapp and a changing cast of characters is an example of how some folk music started to morph into a more hallucinatory form. The album cover’s use of Hieronymous Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights” hinted at the strangeness that came. Pearls Before Swine is also notable for late local folk hero Bob Moss’s cover of Rapp’s “Every Change Is a Release.”

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ver since the psychedelic movement in music began, it has waxed and waned, always to re-emerge every few decades, when old timers begin to wax nostalgic, inspiring a new generation of practitioners, which adds its own wrinkle and keeps the genre fresh. The origins of psychedelic music are as various and promiscuous as any musical genre: in the poetry and idealism of ’60s folk music, the soulfulness of the blues, garage rock’s spontaneity and improvisatory bravado, and even in the surf rock’s reverb and vibrato. Psych music’s embrace of experimentation encourages inventiveness that incorporates additional genres and makes its influence even more profound.

Elisa Ambrogio, of Hartford, Conn., band Magik Markers visits Diaboloical Records Nov. 18 with San Francisco group Peacers, where they add their own spin on the genre. “When I think about psychedelic music,” Ambrogio says, “I think about anything that was created for a certain kind of listening experience. Music for headphones—separation of sound, panning back and forth.”

She cites two of her favorite psych musicians as hip-hop artist Migos and electronic musician Holly Herndon, which demonstrate the diversity that fits under the umbrella of “psychedelia.”

Peacers is the new group of Mike Donovan, formerly of Sic Alps.

“They use a Fender Bassman amp, and they like The Zombies,” Ambrogio says of her tour mates. Perhaps tongue-in-cheek, the quip is a nod to the genre’s preference for old-school, vintage rock instruments and its reverence for traditional music of the genre. Peacers also features noted psych-rocker Ty Segall, of the band Fuzz.

Psych is a genre worth delving into for its experimental fervor.

The canon of major psych albums, from Hendrix to the Who, is well known, but a number of key releases are more obscure, while revealing something integral about the nature of the genre. What follows is a highly subjective list of essential psychedelic discs.

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ult Leader drummer Casey Hansen is awakened by the phone. “No,” he doesn’t need time to get his thoughts together. “Uh—I feel good,” he laughs.

Perhaps a softball question to let him warm up would be a good idea. Or we can jump right in and ask if there were any particular reason Cult Leader recorded Mark Kozelek & Desertshore’s “You Are Not My Blood” for their EP, Useless Animal. You know, the song where Kozelek—or, in Cult Leader’s version, singer Anthony Lucero— tells someone, in crystalline terms, that they’re not kin; they’re not friends; they’re not even of the same species and they should piss off to a richly deserved living hell ending in a lonely death. Kozelek must have had someone in mind when he wrote the tune. But, did Cult Leader?

“Interesting question,” says Hansen through the morning haze. He knows that I, in fact, have someone in mind. As for the band? “Not explicitly. … But anytime there’s bitterness to be expressed in a oneon-one scenario, there’s always something running in the back of, at least, my mind.

But yeah, it’s just a great song.”

It certainly is. The seven-minute tune plods along as minor-chord arpeggios ring out beneath the bilious lyrics, which are talk-sung, as though this droning kiss-off were an incantation, a dispassionate banishment. Reading the lyrics is enough to reveal that their author or their utterer means what he says. The words aren’t fueled by raw hatred—their power comes from the lack of emotion in Kozelek’s and Lucero’s deliveries, thrumming with finality.

Someone in Cult Leader’s world may warrant what is, ostensibly, this open letter. It warrants mention, however, that Cult Leader is now two years old. They have two EPs and one full-length, the newly issued

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Lightless Walk (Deathwish, Inc.), under their belts. They deserve distance from their previous incarnation, Gaza, and the rape allegations against singer Jon Parkin that leveled a band in its prime. Parkin and his accuser have since agreed to disagree and move on.

Maybe some sorcery exists that can banish memories as well as people.

If there is intent behind Cult Leader’s choice of the song, it must be an expression of something wholly different. It’s slower and more atmospheric than Cult Leader’s typical crusty punk-metal blitzkrieg. You can actually understand the lyrics, and Lucero, for the first time, explores pitched singing. “Style in music … doesn’t have to be one-size-fits-all,” says Hansen. “You can express the same types of things in all sorts of ways. Aggressive music—punk, metal, hardcore—all comes from the same place, so why not use all of them together as a means of expressing yourself?”

Cult Leader said back when their debut LP, Nothing for Us Here, came out in 2014 they were abandoning the humor—and political and anti-religious commentary—of Gaza in favor of more introspective, personal themes. “It’s almost as if the words don’t matter; [often] you can’t even hear ’em, because there’s so much going on.” Hansen says. “I’ve not known what [some of our] songs are about for years.”

On Lightless Walk, the politics and religion still factor in, but they’re filtered through Lucero’s dark stroll through halls crowded with personal demons. On album opener “Great I Am,” Lucero ponders that hell is not only his own, it is himself. “A Good Life,” Walk’s closest cousin to “You Are Not My Blood,” concerns one stumbling through a wretched, frozen existence, rejected by even his mother. It could be a reverse angle on “Blood,” or simply Lucero’s own expression.

But feeling alienated is universal, and Lucero’s words aren’t so murky that we can’t apply them to our own lives and find catharsis in them. Just like Kozelek fans—or Smiths or Cure or blues fans—do with that music.

And the purge leaves us feeling awake and purged and, ultimately, good. CW

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Both Sarah Versprille and Daniel Hindman had previously played with freak-folk band Vetiver, but you wouldn’t know it strictly from the sound, which has more looping, subtle melodies behind Versprille’s vocals. Fellow PDXers Wild Ones open. (TF) Kilby Court, 750 W. Kilby Court, 8 p.m., $10 in advance, $12 day of show, KilbyCourt.com

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Prog metal is, as they say, a thing, and Los Angeles quartet Intronaut has explored the genre/subgenre since 2004. A master of polyrhythms, drummer Danny Walker at times gives Neal Peart a run for his money. They retain roots in tradition, as shown by their cover of “Arnold Layne” on the 2008 Syd Barrett tribute album Like Black Holes in the Sky: A Tribute to Syd Barrett on Dwell Records. The band occasionally also offers a more sophisticated take on sludge metal. Their most recent release, The Direction of Last Things (Century Media) finds a place where heavy riffs and complex time signatures can co-exist. Huldra and A Lily Gray open. (BS) Kilby Court, 741 S. 330 West, 7 p.m., $12, KilbyCourt.com

Have you ever gotten Low? Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker have been playing their musical equivalent of the slow-food movement for more than 20 years. For most of the past decade, Low has been part of the new Sub Pop and its quieter, in general more folk-oriented, muse. Their new set, Ones and Sixes (Sub Pop Records), is charting, and where guitars are relatively submerged in the mix, their vocal harmonies rise to the surface.

“No Comprende,” the single, evidences—like that one Seattle band that made the label—a mastery of dynamics, although on a much more subtle level. Brooding Saskatchewan singer-songwriter Andy Shauf opens. (BS) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 7 p.m., $20, TheComplexSLC.com

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Physical product, in the music industry, is now a novelty. Everybody’s goin’ digital and enjoying the portability. So why bother with tangibility? You can feel the bass—why do you need paper and plastic?

Local DJ/producer/sound collage artists Fisch Loops (Furthermore, Numbs and Rotten Musicians among umpteen other projects) and Applegreen (a low-profile dude out of Ogden) take the novelty a step further with Jabuticaba, a world-music influenced medley of world music and found sounds—on cassette. Fisch’s side consists of 18 tracks named for animal sounds that have little, if anything, to do with beastly vociferations.

Applegreen renamed his tracks after parts of the body—because the original song list happened to be corporeally shaped. Those two tidbits are just a taste of the super-chill sonic fruit loops they’ve committed to magnetized ribbon. Stag Hare opens. (RH) Diabolical Records, 238 S. 150 East, 8 p.m., free, Facebook.com/DiabolicalRecords

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Greensky Bluegrass’ style of Americana brings in heavy acoustic bluegrass—no surprise, given their name—but If Sorrow Swims also borrows from ‘90s rock. Even though the rock has started to play a little heavier in newer albums, bluegrass is inherently a jam-driven genre, and the band, in true bluegrass tradition, spends time on extended improvisations during sets. American Babies also stretch the Americana genre to reflect rock sensibilities, including angst, raw vulnerability and a little musical darkness. (TF) The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 8 p.m., $17 in advance, $20 day of show, DepotSLC.com

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You can cite Richard Thompson’s illustrious list of contributions to popular music, from Fairport Convention to work with ex-wife Linda and his extended solo career, and even his award of the Order of the British Empire.

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prolific back catalog with its classic songs such as “1952 Vincent Black Lightning.” He’s played Red Butte Garden before, but this is an exceptional opportunity to witness the master perform in a setting as intimate as this. His Electric Trio includes bassist Taras Prodaniuk and Michael Jerome on drums, and they appear on his latest, Still (Fantasy Records), produced by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy.

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This show is not for the faint of heart. Swedish band Watain’s performances include candles (normal), pyrotechnics (sure) and parts of animal carcasses (there it is). Audience members may get doused with animal blood.

Norwegian co-headliners Mayhem are no tamer: They use all of the above in their shows—plus their original singer, Dead, killed himself. Then guitarist Euronymous photographed his corpse, which he also cannibalized and used to make jewelry.

Then, drummer Varg Vikernes stabbed Euronymous 23 times. All in the name of music. And Satan. Greece’s Rotting Christ opens. (TF) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 7 p.m. (doors), $23 in advance, $25 day of show, TheComplexSLC.com

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The triple-disc project includes one fulllength solo disc from each of the guys, and another with both combined. So the show will pack a punch. Touring with them is Chali 2na, a founding member of Jurassic 5, touring behind Against the Current EP.3: Bloodshot Fisheye. ReMINDers opens. (TF) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $20 in advance, $22 day of show, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

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When I first learned of the Iron Maidens—a tribute band staffed by foxy ladies—I wept copious, bloody tears. I’d never seen the real deal live, and figured I never would. Still haven’t.

But this is entirely acceptable—nay, preferable!

Wait. What am I saying? No offense, Bruce, et al. But you gotta understand: Iron Maiden songs, performed competently (nay, bitchin’-ly!) by babes? And they have their own giant Eddie mascot? Dare I say it’s even better than the real thing? Surely, the Maidens would object, so I won’t. I just hope the Liquid Joe’s stage can accommodate Eddie, huge columns of fog, and the weight of a chubby, drooling stage-rusher (plus security). Local Black Sabbath tribute band Irony Man and thrashers Truce in Blood open. (Randy Harward) Liquid Joe’s, 1249 E. 3300 South, 9 p.m., $15 advance (limited to 150), $20 day of show, LiquidJoes.net

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Ash of August, No Safe Way Home, Samserrah (The Loading Dock) Craig Larson Tribute Band (Viridian Center) Cult Leader (Kilby Court, p. 38) Fisch Loops and Applegreen (Diabolical Records, p. 40)

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One of Salt Lake City’s most original local bands, Scenic Byway released their most previous album, Kinda Sorta Pretty Really in 2011 to much praise. Four years later, the experimental hip-hop septet has new music for us. Haven’t heard it yet—had to find out about this show on the Urban’s website—but Kinda Sorta Pretty Really is/was adventurous, playful, intelligent and propelled by mostly live instrumentation and quick-witted, sly rhymes. In other words, it’s generally The Shit. So expect whatever they’re serving up on this new platter to be just as good— plus four years of growth. GeorgeLife and Vinyl Tapestries open. (Randy Harward) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., Free, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

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TO CELEBRATE THE LIFE OF HER SON, THE LATE DJ “NICO CALIENTE,” HIS MOTHER FLEW FROM SALT TO CANCUN WHERE SHE CREATED A DAY OF THE DEAD ALTAR DEDICATED TO HIM IN THE HOME OF HIS OLDER BROTHER. Salt Lake DJ “Nico Caliente” remembered in Cancun with Day of the Dead altar

By Paul Douglas SALT LAKE CITY—Life has not been the same for the fans, friends and family of Salt Lake’s popular house music DJ, “Nico Caliente,” since he died unexpectedly in his sleep late last Sept. The thriving downtown bar that he managed, Johnny’s on Second, hasn’t been the same with 34-year-old, Nico Vermonte, running the place.

Then, some of Johnny’s regulars, who terribly miss “the Sexy Mexi,” as he was called by the bar’s regulars, started talking about possibly using last Sunday’s Day of the Dead holiday (which Spanishspeakers call “La dia de los muertos”) to create a mixed Mexican-Gringo altar that would celebrate the good times they had shared with Nico.

But those plans fell apart when they found their grief too overwhelming.

Not so with Nico’s mother, Magdalena Lowe, who had flown to Cancun with a black and white Storm Trooper teddy bear to place on the altar she planned to create in the home of Nico’s brother there. And, true to that plan, on Sunday Nov. 1, thousands of miles away from Salt Lake, a small group Nico’s family members and friends, gathered to celebrate of the all-too-brief life of the popular Salt Lake DJ and bar manager Inigo “Nico” Vermonte Rodriguez.

That altar in Cancun, decorated mostly by his mother, Magdalena Lowe, a former teacher at Northwest Middle School in Rose Park, also held sweets and other items added by Nico’s older brother, Mauro, and his sister-in-law, Cristi. Nico’s father, Doug Lowe, a former manager of public relations and advertising at Salt Lake’s late, great Hansen Planetarium, placed on the altar a small, stainless hip flask that Nico could have used for carrying around a few shots of something special.

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OPEN MIC & JAM Certainly, the small number who gathered around the altar in Cancun was nothing compared to the record-breaking crowd that came to Nico’s Sept. 25 viewing and funeral.

On that sunny Friday afternoon, nearly 1,200 people—carefully counted with one of those handheld clicker gizmos—showed up the Garner Funeral Home, on 11th Avenue, to pay their last respects.

When it was over, Joe Phono, who had mostly kept it together while standing in front of everybody and eulogizing his “best friend,” expressed his amazement at the crowd, saying, “It blew me away—seeing all the people who are going to miss him.”

Perhaps the size of the crowd shouldn’t have amazed Phono. Not when a few days before the memorial service, after posting a request on Facebook for photos of Nico, Phono had received more than 5,000 pics, with Nico in them, within the first three hours!

As Joe Phono wrote of Nico in a recent email message “in the last 12 years of his life he changed a lot of Salt Lake’s electro music scene; and, he also changed a lot of people’s lives, as a mentor, a coworker and as their boss.”

Some of those looking for good ways to honor Nico’s memory are already talking about a something different than a Day of the Day celebration because Nico got so much enjoyment out of, and always had such a special connection to Cinco de Mayo.

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WEDNESDAY 11.18 LIVE MUSIC

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Indeed, cosmic coincidences being what they are, when Magdalena, his mother, gave birth to her second son, on Jan. 1, 1981 and named him Inigo, she happened to be living in the Mexican mountain valley town of Puebla, the very place where, in 1862, a hastily assembled rag-tag bunch of patriot defenders won an unlikely, almost miraculous, victory over invading French troops on the fifth of May—thus giving birth to “Cinco de Mayo” as a day to be celebrated forever.

The new plans that beginning to take shape for honoring Nico would involve having two different Cinco de Mayo celebrations next year when the 5th of May rolls around—one in Salt Lake and one in Puebla. Both would involve planting a new tree in Nico’s memory.

Perhaps, without realizing it, Nico had a moment of prescience; because, only two or three weeks before his sudden death, he had told his mother how much he like the idea of having a tree planted and growing from the remains of his body. So, with her son’s ashes now in hand, Magdalena has begun making plans for some tree-plant ceremonies—at least two other them.

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35. Like volcanoes 36. Iowa State city 38. Mall cop weapon 40. Approaching 41. Money in la banque or la banca 43. Toys with tails 45. Corp. leader 46. Like someone unsubscribing from a popular music streaming service?

49. Org. conducting lots of X-rays 50. 2014 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film 51. Inform someone with 100% accuracy?

58. Piece in the Middle East?

60. ____ the side of caution 61. City of Light, in a Cole Porter song 62. "Sheesh!"

63. Check the total 64. Boy band with the 2000 hit "Liquid Dreams" 65. Gorilla, e.g.

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And for consumers who like to vote with their pocketbooks, Andrew Hardy and the others at the Jewelers Guild want readers to know that they’re a progressive bunch that spends accordingly. “That may seem overly political, which is not our intent,” Hardy says. “We just think things can be better here in Salt Lake City and Utah as a whole.” As such, The Jewelry Guild pushes for positive impacts, such as encouraging the city to be more walkable, for improved mass transit, and other air quality improvements around the state. n

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ooking for a unique piece of jewelry to add to your collection, or maybe just one unique statement piece? Check out The Jewelers Guild, a local customjewelry manufacturing company that was started in 1971 in Trolley Square. Now located in a retrofitted cottage located on 700 East, The Jewelers Guild offers customers unique pieces such as rings made of acid-stained steel or pieces with classic diamond settings.

For many years, The Jewelers Guild had many different artists working out of, and selling from, the same shop. “Before the internet, it was much more feasible to have a ‘guild,’ as any artist needed a storefront or market to sell their work, or even just have a place to create,” says Andrew Hardy, a jeweler at The Jewelry Guild.

Now, although fewer artists work through The Jewelers Guild, the name remains. Hardy’s family are the primary owners of The Jewelers Guild, though other artisans still come in to use the equipment and space. But The Jewelers Guild is staying true to its small-business, locally crafted roots.

“As more people have the desire to buy locally made products, we think [business] will be more like it was before the rise of the internet,” Hardy says. And the world wide web does have its benefits—The Jewelers Guild gets and fulfills orders from customers all over the country via their website.

It’s no wonder—The Jewelers Guild creates some of the most unique jewelry in the valley. “We create items that most other jewelers do not even consider making,” Hardy says. The artists at The Jewelers Guild go beyond just rings in gold, silver or platinum but also experiment using other metals like titanium, stainless steel, palladium, meteorite or even a mixture of metals known as mokume gane. Artists at The Jewelers Guild can also to reproduce antique rings with excellent detail and have a

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ith Halloween over, I’ve turned to my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving.

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I have a tray problem (and a vase problem) but at least I have a place for all of my treasures. Whether you use the trays for their function, to serve, or to display who you are, decorating with trays is fun and lets your personality shine. I’ve scoured local shops to show some stylish options:

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) “I demand unconditional love and complete freedom,” wrote Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun. “That is why I am terrible.”

In accordance with the astrological omens, I’m offering you the chance, at least temporarily, to join Šalamun in demanding unconditional love and complete freedom. But unlike him, you must satisfy one condition: Avoid being terrible. Can you do that?

I think so, although you will have to summon unprecedented amounts of emotional intelligence and collaborative ingenuity.

failure.” So please don’t try *too hard,* Libra! Over-exertion should be taboo. Straining and struggling would not only be unnecessary, but counterproductive. If you want to accomplish anything worthwhile, make sure that your default emotion is relaxed confidence. Have faith in the momentum generated by all the previous work you have done to arrive where you are now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Elsie de Wolfe (1859-1950) was a pioneer in the art of interior design. She described herself as “a rebel in an ugly world.” Early in her career she vowed, “I’m going to make everything around me beautiful,” and she often did just that. In part through her influence, the dark, cluttered decor of the Victorian Era, with its bulky draperies and overly ornate furniture, gave way to rooms with brighter light, softer colors, and more inviting textures. I’d love to see you be inspired by her mission, Scorpio. It’s a good time to add extra charm, grace, and comfort to your environments.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You have the answers you need, but you keep sniffing around as if there were different or better answers to be had. Moreover, you’ve been offered blessings that could enable you to catalyze greater intimacy, but you’re barely taking advantage of them— apparently because you underestimate their potency. Here’s what I think: As long as you neglect the gifts you have already been granted, they won’t provide you with their full value. If you SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): give them your rapt appreciation, they will bloom.

At the age of 36, author Franz Kafka composed a 47-page letter to his father Herman. As he described the ways that his dad’s GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) tried to earn a living by toxic narcissism and emotional abuse had skewed his maturation selling pencil sharpeners, but couldn’t make it. In frustration, process, he refrained from lashing out with histrionic anger. Instead he turned to writing novels. Success! Among his many popular he focused on objectively articulating the facts, recounting events novels, 27 of them were about a fictional character named from childhood and analyzing the family dynamic. In accordance Tarzan. The actor who played Tarzan in the movies based on with the astrological omens, I recommend that you write a letter to Burroughs’ books was Johnny Weissmuller. As a child, he suf- your own father—even if it’s filled with praise and gratitude instead fered from polio, and rebuilt his strength by becoming a swim- of complaint. At this juncture in your life story, I think you especially mer. He eventually won five Olympic gold medals. Burroughs need the insights that this exercise would generate. (P.S. Write the and Weissmuller are your role models in the coming weeks, letter for your own sake, not with the hope of changing or hurting or Gemini. It’s a favorable time for you to turn defeat into victory. pleasing your dad. You don’t have to give it to him.)

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Shizo Kanakuri was one of Japan’s top athletes when he went to compete in the marathon race at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.

Partway through the event, fatigued by sweltering heat, bad food, and the long journey he’d made to get there, Kanakuri passed out. He recovered with the help of a local farmer, but by then the contest was over. Embarrassed by his failure, he sneaked out of Sweden and returned home. Fast forward to 1966. Producers of a TV show tracked him down and invited him to resume what he’d started. He agreed. At the age of 74, he completed the marathon, finishing with a time of 54 years, eight months. I think it’s time to LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the coming weeks, take special notice of the jokes and humor- claim your own personal version of this opportunity, Capricorn. ous situations that prompt you to laugh the loudest. They will Wouldn’t you love to resolve a process that got interrupted? provide important clues about the parts of your life that need liberation. What outmoded or irrelevant taboos should you AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): consider breaking? What inhibitions are dampening your well- In most sporting events, there’s never any doubt about which being? How might your conscience be overstepping its bounds competitor is winning. Each step of the way, the participants and and making you unnecessarily constrained? Any time you roar spectators know who has more points or goals or runs. But one with spontaneous amusement, you will know you have touched sport isn’t like that. In a boxing match, no one is aware of the score until the contest is finished—not even the boxers themselves. I a congested place in your psyche that is due for a cleansing. think you’re in a metaphorically comparable situation. You won’t find out the final tally or ultimate decision until the “game” is VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): For each of the last 33 years, the Society for the Prevention of complete. Given this uncertainty, I suggest that you don’t slack off Cruelty to Animals in Los Angeles has selected a “National Hero even a little. Keep giving your best until the very end.

Dog.” It’s an award given to a canine that has shown exceptional courage in helping or rescuing people. In 2015, the group departed PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): from tradition. Its “National Hero Dog” is a female cat named Tara. One night as you lie sleeping in your bed, you will dream of flying Last May, she saved a four-year-old boy by scaring off a dog that through the sunny summer sky. The balmy air will be sweet to had begun to attack him. I’m guessing you will soon have an experi- breathe. Now and then you will flap your arms like wings, but ence akin to Tara’s. Maybe you’ll make a gutsy move that earns you mostly you will glide effortlessly. The feeling that flows through an unexpected honor. Maybe you’ll carry out a dramatic act of com- your body will be a blend of exhilaration and ease. Anywhere passion that’s widely appreciated. Or maybe you’ll go outside your you want to go, you will maneuver skillfully to get there. After comfort zone to pull off a noble feat that elevates your reputation. a while, you will soar to a spot high above a scene that embodies a knotty problem in your waking life. As you hover and gaze down, you will get a clear intuition about how to untie the knots.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to cartoon character Homer Simpson, “Trying is the Whether or not you remember this dream, the next day you will first step towards failure.” I don’t agree with that comic advice. work some practical magic that begins to shrink or dissolve the But I do think the following variant will be applicable to you in problem. the coming weeks: “Trying *too hard* is the first step toward CANCER (June 21-July 22): Artist Andy Warhol had an obsession with green underpants. In fact, that’s all he ever wore beneath his clothes. It might be fun and productive for you to be inspired by his private ritual. Life is virtually conspiring to ripen your libido, stimulate your fertility, and expedite your growth. So anything you do to encourage these cosmic tendencies could have an unusually dramatic impact. Donning green undies might be a good place to start. It would send a playful message to your subconscious mind that you are ready and eager to bloom.

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nce upon a time, there was no pro basketball in Utah. As far back as 1901, there were pro-baseball teams along the Wasatch Front. It wasn’t until 1970, when the Utah Stars started up, that we people of Zion had a pro basketball team to call our own.

To have a pro team, a city must have an arena for the players and fans. The old court was located in the Salt Palace where the Outdoor Retailer and Comic Con conventions now take place. That space was built in the late 1960s to bring in conferences and pro ball. And it worked! An American Basketball Association team, the Los Angeles Stars, was losing money, and a smart investor swooped the team up to play in the pro-ball-hungry desert. Fans cheered the footwork of players like Zelmo Beaty, Moses Malone and Ron Boone.

In 1971, screaming fans watched the Stars win the ABA national title at home against the Kentucky Colonels. Sadly, the team was not a financial success, and Daniels sold it. Then he had to buy it back. The league cancelled the franchise in 1975 for missing its payroll.

Utah lost pro-basketball until 1979, when several wealthy businessmen brought the New Orleans Jazz to Utah. The team was renamed the Utah Jazz and, upon arrival, immediately lost 11 games. Frankly, it was a lousy team at first. But, soon enough, the losers became winners.

Later, Larry H. Miller bought a controlling interest in the Utah Jazz and, with the help of the RDA and some banks, built a bigger arena west of the Salt Palace. Et, voila! The 20,500seat Jazz arena was completed in time for the 1991-92 season opener.

Naming rights went to Delta Airlines, which agreed to fork over about $1.5 million per year for the privilege, and the “Delta Center” moniker was burned into our brains as we bought tickets for The Stockton & Malone Show. Then, in 2006, the name was sold to nuclear-waste company Energy Solutions. Locals began calling it “The Glow Box” and “Energy Pollutions.”

Recently, a Provo-based home security company bought the naming rights. Effective immediately, and for the next 10 years, the arena’s official name is Vivint Smart Home Arena. When I saw the new banner go up, I cheered and dubbed it “Vivvy” on Facebook.

Friends liked the name, and suggested that when we go to Jazz games, we’ll have to hunt for which “Vivvy-section” we’re sitting in.

What’s next for the arena? It’s the oldest and smallest in the country, so be expecting the Miller Group to come out one day with a request to build something bigger, better and very expensive. n

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Alcoholism

Saying something without saying something.

I guess we’re all smart enough, to know what that means.

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I said my piece, not a sound, it’s up to you to be around.

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