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Scientists, authors and activists predict the outcome of the upcoming U.N. climate talks in Paris.

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LETTERS Violence Is Eating Nations Alive

On Nov. 14, Imam Muhammed Mehtar of Khadeeja Islamic Center in West Valley City posted this statement on behalf of The Islamic Society of Greater Salt Lake. I hope your readers will be our condemnation of these acts.

Suicide bombers are not given a place in paradise, according to our religion, and they cannot take innocent lives.

We Muslims are also fighting a battle of being heard against people who claim to be Muslim. Please help share this: The Value of Humanity This past week has seen the world victimized by the actions of people whose mindsets are beyond the understanding of peace-loving peoples of all faiths. We offer our heartfelt condolences to those who lost loved ones in the senseless tragedies that occurred in Paris this week, as well as to those who lost loved ones in Beirut and elsewhere.

Tragic, senseless violence recognizes no borders, and takes innocent victims without regard for distinctions such as race, gender, or religion. As Muslims, it is with dread and despair that we see people who align themselves to us in faith commit such acts of soul-crushing violence.

As Muslims, we are all deeply aware of the injunction in our Holy Book, the Qur’an, that urges us to be mindful of the value of human life: “If any one slew a person unjustly, it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one

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It is our most sincere prayer that cycles of violence come to an end. Violence and hatred is eating nations and peoples up alive, and the path to peace cannot be paved with blood. We hope for wisdom and love for humanity to prevail upon all people, so that we may all know the blessings of harmony.

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Correction: A remembrance written by Paul Douglas on behalf of the late Nico Vermonte, aka DJ Nico Caliente, appeared on page 48 of the Nov. 12 issue of City Weekly. The space for this remembrance was donated; a line of text indicated it was an ad. We regret the error.

Nico Vermonte aka DJ Nico Caliente 1981-2015 A good friend always.

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Clarifications: In the article, “Musical Chairs,” [Nov. 12, City Weekly], Gerald Elias’ association with Boston Symphony Orchestra was described imprecisely. Elias worked as a full-time member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1975-78, after which he joined the Utah Symphony. Since the late ’90s, he has worked as a freelance musician for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, playing only occasionally.

Also, both the Utah Symphony and Thierry Fischer separately have produced commercial recordings over the years, but the 2014 recording referenced in “Musical Chairs”—Mahler Symphony No. 1, “Titan”—was the first recording of Fischer conducting the Utah Symphony.

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Hail Herbert

Just two weeks ago, City Weekly readers voted Utah Gov. Gary Herbert the Worst Utahn in our annual Best of Utah issue. I now wonder, if the voting took place today, whether he’d again win that distinction.

In the past 14 days, he’s posited a locally heretical compromise (as if he has any leverage, but still) on federal and state land issues. That’s new.

But Herbert also did the unthinkable.

While 26 of his fellow Republican governors (plus Democrat Gov. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, which belongs in Canada) took the position that they would not accept Syrian refugees in their states, Herbert announced that Utah would not follow that shadowy din, and Syrian families are welcome here. That categorically eliminates him from being Worst Utahn. Too late, of course, but it was a worthy gesture on Herbert’s part.

Syrians have fled their own country by the hundreds of thousands this past year. Until the events in Paris this past week, Syrians had generally been regarded across Europe as being more worthy of sympathy than other Middle Eastern refugees, especially after images of Syrian children drowning in the Aegean Sea made even the Germans feel guilty.

In the days following the Paris attacks, it was revealed that the bombing plot was likely hatched in Syria and that at least one of the dead attackers—or at least his passport, valid or counterfeit—had passed through a refugee checkpoint on Greek island of Leros. That was that. Syrian refugees are now considered to be terrorist threats.

If citizens of the United States are very good at something, it’s that we always fall hard for manufactured enemies. Our leaders and political pundits know this. They are jingoists: “persons who brag about a country’s preparedness to fight … blustering, bellicose, or blatant ‘patriots.’” Thus, the posturing, patriotic governors in 27 states say they will not accept Syrian refugees. And people cheer. And they will cheer until something blows up. And by the looks of things, something might. And if it does, chances are very

slim it will be at the hands of a Syrian—refugee or otherwise.

Let’s see: The United States has committed to accepting 80,000 refugees from the Middle East. Of that number, only 10,000 will come from Syria. A blip. Yet Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, whose state is home to 2 million undocumented residents, says, “no federal official can guarantee that Syrian refugees will not be part of any terrorist activity.” Yes, the irony is lost on Abbott that his fellow Republican Donald Trump wants to build a wall along the Texas border to guarantee we keep out criminal or dangerous Mexicans. Abbott suddenly worries about legal Syrians? A couple thousand new residents of the Lone Star State will not hide the crap covering Abbott’s boots.

Or how about Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal? He’s come out loudest and strongest against Syrian refugees, but get real: He was just a pop-off presidential prospect. Jindal, a Catholic, was raised Hindu. Wanna bet that if a person of the Hindu faith ever commits a similar crime, that Jindal would be so outspoken? Actually, you don’t have to wait, for there are many recorded acts of Hindu violence against Christians in India, where Jindal’s parents were born. Wouldn’t you know it? Both Christians and Hindus view India’s Muslim population as a larger threat to each.

But why go there? Try this 2005 sentiment instead: “Thousands of refugees were dispersed to other states, some as far away as Utah. As the refugee population disperses, it is possible that individuals with criminal records will be sent to other states—and some may resume their criminal activities.”

Yet, despite that sentiment and fear we were warned of, Utah warmly took in citizens left homeless from Hurricane Katrina that struck hardest in New Orleans, La., USA. How about a thank you, Bobby, you sniveling weasel?

Utah did that for Bobby’s state because it

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was the right thing to do. Yeah, yeah, they were fellow citizens unlike those Syrians.

But be honest and remember how much anti-black racial rhetoric was spread post-Katrina. Playing off of fear is always a dangerous game. While others played the race card, Utah stood up. I’d rather be a Utahn than a Louisianian.

Or a Floridian. Ted Cruz, son of a Cuban immigrant father, knows better, but ambition makes fools of us all. He foolishly claims Syrian Christians are less risk to us than Syrian Muslims. Remember the boat people of Mariel Harbor in 1980, anyone? Of the 125,000 Cuban refugees who finally reached Florida, weren’t a large number of them considered to be criminals and mentally ill? American “patriots” were cruel to those Cubans. Yet, we took them in, not even asking if they were Communists.

Is America worse off ? Cuba now accounts for 3 percent of all new U.S immigrants. We take the good with the bad. Bad: Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. Good: Cuban Sandwiches and Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez.

Has Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona forgotten that his state gave birth to the Oklahoma Bomber, the Catholic Timothy McVeigh? And will Gov. Sam Brownback of Kansas please take ownership of McVeigh’s born-again Christian bombing partner, Terry Nichols?

Alabama gave us the Olympic Park Bomber, Eric Rudolph. Thanks, Gov. Robert Bentley.

I’m more happy than ever that the Ute football team smacked your ’Bama hicks in 2009.

In our Best of Utah issue, we named the Topaz Museum as Utah’s Best Historical Art Exhibit. You really should visit. And when you do, be reminded that we’ve been through this before, we’ve survived and become stronger, and that hate and suspicion are our real enemies. And, be reminded that Gary Herbert did a very good thing this week. For now, he is not our Worst Utahn. CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net

WHILE OTHERS PLAYED THE RACE CARD, UTAH STOOD UP. I’D RATHER BE A UTAHN THAN A LOUISIANIAN.

Have you ever felt unwelcome in your own country?

Scott Renshaw: Being a straight white male of European ancestry and Christian upbringing, I haven’t really had to face the suggestion that somehow I’m not American enough. Except when I start talking about guns. Things can get a little dicey at that point.

Derek Carlisle: No, but I’ve witnessed couples getting kicked off church property for kissing, children excluded from religious experiences, business deals fall through, and women not allowed in business. Now, I’m not a religious man, but I haven’t heard of this much exclusion since a young Hebrew told some Romans that he was the son of God.

Elizabeth Suggs:

I suppose it’s not necessarily me feeling unwelcome in my own country, but rather me feeling unwelcome in my hometown. However, that was when I was teen, and very much not a part of Utah’s dominant culture.

Mason Roderickc: I was born in the United States, and I happen to be biracial. I’ve the perfect skin tone for people to guess just about any ethnicity—sometimes Middle Eastern. After 9/11, the looks that I got, the times I was told I “look like a terrorist”—I still remember the shifting glances and the forward distrust some strangers had for me. That was the only time I ever felt like “other than.” It was surreal and unpleasant, and I hope to never make anyone feel that way.

Josh Scheuerman: I can’t say I have ever felt unwelcome, particularly in the United States. However, I have felt welcomed as an outsider into fishing huts in Belize, casas in Spain and Mexico as well as maisons in France. It’s great to feel the generosity and acceptance of the human spirit throughout this great planet!

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Utah officials have long had trouble thinking about the future—except, of course, when it comes to Medicaid expansion. In that case, they can’t go forward because they know the future holds unsustainable debt. On the other hand, when the subject turns to alternative energy, suddenly their philosophy is all about living for today. Why in the world would anybody support Utah’s fledgling solar industry when the state already does a booming business in fossil fuels? In a helpful gesture to the dirty-fuels industry, the Utah Public Service Commission decided it’s too iffy to consider any long-term value rooftop panels have on air quality and the environment. So when commisioners factor in costs and benefits of solar power on PacifiCorp rates, the benefits won’t really be there.

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Despite the Utah Public Service Commission’s blinders, the state still comes out on top when it comes to clean-energy jobs. The Deseret News reports that Environmental Entrepreneurs, a national group promoting renewable-energy business, says for the past four quarters, Utah has been among the Top 10 states for creation cleanenergy jobs. That includes 3,000 new jobs that include solar- and wind-installation projects. One solar company is even looking at Utah for its corporate headquarters.

And Utah Public Radio says the USDA provided $800,000 in grants to help with solar costs for small businesses. As part of the Farm Bill, it guaranteed $50 million for funding of renewable energy projects in rural America. The idea is to “increase energy independence by increasing some of the private sector supply of renewable energy,” says USDA’s Jason Justesen. Just don’t tell the Utah PSC.

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Mike Abu is a freelance writer from Salt Lake City who represents the self-proclaimed Republic of Zaqistan, a remote patch of land (and art project) located west of the Great Salt Lake. It came into being 10 years ago, when Zachary Landsberg bought 2 acres of land in Box Elder County for $610 off eBay, because he wanted a piece of the American West before it was gone. Abu is managing Zaqistan’s Independence Day celebration in Salt Lake City, honoring the republic’s decennial anniversary. Abu will operate a one-night embassy at Twilite Lounge (347 E. 200 South, 801-532-9400, TwiliteLounge.com) on Thursday, Nov. 19, from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m., offering free citizenship as well as $40 passports. Art gallery CUAC will buy all citizens a beer and will host an academic symposium on the project on Dec. 3 as well as a monthlong embassy in the spring. For information on the history and various expeditions to the republic, visit Zaqistan.com.

Describe the living conditions at Zaqistan.

It’s so quiet that sometimes your ears ring from the sound of nothing. The sound waves don’t carry. They get absorbed, so there’s no echo whatsoever. There’s cryptobiotic soil— living soil that you’re not supposed to walk on—rattlesnakes and sage brush. The only things that apparently can live there are the ground itself and things that can kill you. So it’s a terrible place in a weird way.

With a decade under its belt, where does Zaqistan go from here?

The conception’s built up—but what is a nation, anyway? What are these things—they’re just figments of our imagination, but they’re real because of that. Who says whether you can have a nation or not? What are the rules here? Are there any? That’s where it’s at now, and we want to see how far we can take this. We want to legitimize this nation.

Have you ever wanted to quit working on Zaqistan?

Every single day. Yet every single day, I wake up, and I start working on it. Much as I’d like to take a step back and say, “Well, whatever,” my nation needs me, and this won’t work without me. It’s part of me now, and I’m part of it.

What do you hope Zaqistan inspires in people?

Thoughtfulness. Instead of taking things for granted, actually think about what is happening, why is it happening—just probe reality itself. We want to plant seeds of thought and see where they sprout.

What if someone else wants to found another Zaqistan?

I would advise them to be honest with themselves. I’d say just be yourself and, if you want to do it, do it. And make it like you. Be thoughtful, be yourself, and don’t declare war on us.

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What if the Cuban missile crisis had gone badly?

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BY CECIL ADAMS SLUG SIGNORINO

STRAIGHT DOPE Cuban Jitters I

’m confident human society would have survived, which I assume is your main concern. Even if things had gone off the rails, and the odd nuke popped off here and there, I think cooler heads would soon have prevailed. But that’s easy to say now. For a week in October 1962 the whole planet was wondering if Cold War antagonism was about to boil over into nuclear armageddon.

Everyone knows the story: U.S. spy-plane photos reveal Russian nuclear-missile bases under construction in Cuba; President John F. Kennedy orders a blockade of the island and demands the missiles’ removal; six tense days later, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev complies. What’s better understood now is how little Khrushchev had thought through the ways it might all play out. He needed more negotiating leverage than the USSR’s iffy intercontinental missiles could buy him, and he hoped he could rattle the Americans by placing mediumrange missiles at their doorstep.

The Americans were rattled all right. Despite the insistence of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara that the new deployment didn’t change the balance of power, the Joint Chiefs of Staff initially supported some sort of invasion of Cuba in response; it was only after a full week of deliberation that Kennedy was able to sell the blockade idea instead.

Why didn’t it go worse? Most obviously, neither side was crazy enough to want to precipitate the end of the world; it was pretty obviously acknowledged by both that detonating a nuclear bomb would be a bummer for all involved.

This was particularly plain to the Soviets in 1962, when the U.S. warhead stockpile was nine times the size of theirs. (They’d catch up over the next 15 years, and by 1978 were out in front.) It was openly known by both governments that even if Russia were to launch all its missiles in Cuba, it couldn’t take out the U.S.’s capability to obliterate the USSR in response. So while theoretically we might have suffered massive loss of life, the chances of the Soviets purposely ordering the all-out attack needed to accomplish it were low.

Beyond that, historically speaking there simply haven’t been many preemptive wars—i.e., ones where, amid ongoing high international tension, one country strikes first for fear of becoming a target itself. By this standard, arguably the only cases since 1861 that qualify would be World War I, the Korean War, and the Arab-Israeli war of 1967. Empirically it seems fairly difficult for governments to pull the trigger (so to speak), even when they’re under serious threat.

Nonetheless, it was a scary time, with many opportunities for the shit to hit the fan. During the last days of the standoff, sixty-plus B-52 bombers were in the air carrying nuclear payloads at any given time; one technical or communications glitch could have meant catastrophe. A Russian submarine lost communication with the surface, assumed war

had broken out, and almost launched its own nuclear torpedo. According to an Air Force vet who only recently came forward, launch orders were sent by mistake to U.S. missile bases at Okinawa. The crews didn’t comply only because a commanding officer noticed enough irregularities in protocol to investigate further.

So let’s say the worst happened: an overconfident officer made the wrong call, or Kennedy listened to his military advisors.

If the U.S. had invaded, we might have walked into another embarrassing Bay of Pigs-type fiasco—the Soviets had four times as many troops on the ground as the CIA thought at the time—but most likely no mushroom clouds.

If either side did go nuclear, though, accidentally or not, then we’ve got a whole different picture. The emergency document called the Single Integrated Operational Plan provided the U.S. military command with a prioritized list of thousands of targets in the Soviet bloc and China. The first tier of targets included missile launch sites, airfields for bombers, and submarine tenders; Cuba had all of these, making it an obvious place for an early attack.

Again, if the Soviets had struck first it’s likely the U.S. would have been able to retaliate, but that’s little consolation. U.S. antiballistic missiles developed under the (pre-sportswear) Nike program had proved largely useless in testing. Despite optimistic government-produced PSAs instructing citizens on how to wash radioactive particles off their potatoes, our country’s population would have been immediately reduced by 20 percent if a third of Soviet nukes had hit their targets. If all of them had hit home, half the population would have been wiped out, not including after-the-fact deaths from fallout, cancer, starvation, etc. Of course, our retaliatory capability meant things probably would have been still grimmer on the Soviet end.

That said, it’s unlikely either side would have launched its full arsenal. A few tactical bombs might have gone off; there might have been a ground war in Berlin; possibly there’d be several million fewer people around now. But it was in neither state’s interest to escalate. This, unfortunately, may not hold true for today’s conflicts—but that’s another topic for another column. n

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As Sen. Mike Lee rips efforts to combat emissions, locals head to Paris climate talks.

BY COLBY FRAZIER cfrazier@cityweekly.net @colbyfrazierLP

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he perpetual tug-of-war over how nations large and small should combat the impacts of climate change will commence in Paris on Nov. 30, when world leaders from 190 countries gather for the U. N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Many hope the convention will yield a legally binding treaty that will force polluting giants like China, India and the United States to make good on commitments to cut greenhouse-gas emissions that lead to global warming.

Others, though, like Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee, say that the climate conventions, which began in 1992, are little more than a way for heads of state to rack up frequent-flier miles while traveling to exotic parts of the world to hammer out meaningless and economy-hurting initiatives to curb greenhouse-gas emissions.

In a Nov. 4 speech at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C., Lee mocked efforts by world leaders to clamp down on greenhouse gases. He called President Barack Obama’s goal to reduce emissions little more than a plot to enshrine his own energy plan, the Clean Power Plan that aims to cut U.S. carbon emissions by 32 percent by 2030. To make matters worse, Lee says, Obama could try to lock this in without consulting him and other members of Congress.

After explaining to the Heritage Foundation the many ways in which Obama has attempted and—according to Lee— failed to hem progressive change into the fabric of America during his seven years as president, Lee took a jab at Obama, climate-change science and the efforts to contain global pollution that many believe is critical to saving the planet.

“But, today, with just one year left in office,” Lee said to the group, “and with the smug satisfaction of someone who believes the policy of climate change is just as settled as the science supposedly is—President Obama knows that compulsion, not persuasion, is the only way to fundamentally transform a nation.”

But some Utahns see Paris as a beacon of possibility, where nations can at last agree that the Earth’s climate is warming, spawning chaotic weather events,

People from around the world will attend the U.N. climate-change convention in Paris—including some student journalists from Utah. massive drought and turning millions into climate refugees.

Cherise Udell, founder of the group Utah Moms for Clean Air, says that while her organization has almost exclusively focused for the past eight years on making the Wasatch Front’s air more breathable, it is now branching out into climate change.

And the two efforts, Udell says, are intricately entwined. “The local is connected to the global and the global is connected to the local,” she says. “If our air is clean in Salt Lake but our ecological systems are collapsing, it doesn’t really matter how clean our air is.”

Eight weeks ago, Udell says she decided she would attend the Paris convention. Her hope Sen. Mike Lee for a meaningful R-Utah deal in Paris, and her desire to be present, it turns out, was contagious. Now, Udell is leading a contingent of 20 Utah schoolchildren and 12 adults to Paris.

The terrorist attacks in Paris could prompt a change of travel plans for some, but for now, Udell says that she and many who signed up plan on attending the conference.

While in Paris, the students plan to cover talks as journalists. ABC4 News has partnered with them to broadcast dispatches, Udell says. This week, many of the students are taking a six-day crash course on journalism, tutored by local reporters.

Piper Christian, a 16-year-old stu-

dent at Logan High School, will attend the conference. Some of her teachers will broadcast her dispatches to their classrooms. Christian hopes that her presence at the conference will help spark young people’s interest in climate change.

“It’s a little bit troubling that the very people who are going to be most affected by climate change, my generation, are often left out of the climatechange narrative,” Christian says. “After the people who have created these problems are gone, we’re going to be the ones cleaning up this mess.”

Udell says the students might not be able to cover some high- profile negotiations, but she is attempting to secure interviews with leaders who are party to those discussions. One is Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker, president of the National League of Cities, who is also slated to attend.

Udell says the students will interview Becker and likely cover an international mayor’s summit. And by having Utah students in Paris, Udell hopes the attention paid to the Utah contingent will spark interest in other Beehive State residents.

“There isn’t a lot of conversation here about the climate summit,” Udell says.

“We’re trying to create a reason to have that conversation.”

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grapple with rising carbon emissions, she has no patience with people, such as Senator Lee, who deny the problem even exists. “My tolerance for climatechange deniers is about zero,” she says.

“History will cast those doubters in the light that they deserve, which is people who dragged their feet and got in the way of change and progress,” Udell says. “That will be their place in history, and that’s their own doing.”

Matt Pacenza, executive director of the clean-air organization HEAL Utah, says he, too, sees hope in the fact that world leaders continue to address the impacts of climate change.

On a topic of the magnitude of climate change, which often involves rising oceans and warming worldwide temperatures, it’s easy to get bogged down in hopelessness. But Pacenza— who routinely goes up against Utah lawmakers on clean-air initiatives that quite often crash and burn—has a hopeful perspective.

And his analogy on dealing with climate change involves Utah Rep. Ken Ivory, R-West Jordan, who has led the state’s efforts to wrest millions of acres of public lands within Utah from the federal government.

Pacenza speculates that deep down, Ivory and his environmental foes know that the federal government will never turn a single acre over to the state. But that doesn’t stop him from fighting tooth-and-nail for something that he believes in.

“I think that’s the way we should look at climate change,” Pacenza says.

“It’s a crisis and we should deal with it, and we might look back in the long run and say we didn’t do enough, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.” CW

Read “Letters to the Future” on p. 19 for more insight on the Paris climate talks.

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You’re on Your Own

One man found couldn’t stop a crime in progress when he dialed 911.

BY JOHN HARRINGTON comments@cityweekly.net Salt Lake City has become a dangerous place. Crime is skyrocketing.

Mayor Ralph Becker did his best to hide it, but it’s true. Maybe the mayor-elect, Jackie Biskupski, will make it her priority to do something about it.

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arning: If you need help from a Salt Lake City Police officer— unless you’re in a gunfight—or some other unfolding, life-threatening situation—good luck phoning 911.

The story: The phone rang at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 3. My friends, a husband and wife from France, were calling in a panic. Their car—a locked 1999 Subaru Outback containing an expensive new bike, a laptop and an iPhone—was just stolen from the busy Smith’s parking lot on Sixth Avenue in Salt Lake City while the couple was inside buying groceries. They don’t speak perfect English. They moved to Salt Lake City because the international recreation company that employs my friend, whom I will call Guy, transferred him here 11 months ago. They used to love the city. Now, not so much.

They called the Police Department and were blown off only a couple minutes from the time the car was boosted.

The police dispatcher told them someone would “call back.” They phoned my son, who was with me, saying they needed immediate help. Why? They were watching the thief, or thieves, drive away from them on an iPhone belonging to Guy’s wife’s (I’ll call her Marie) via the “Find My iPhone” app.

They were able to track the car because Guy’s phone was still on inside the car.

They could see the phone’s location in real time as it moved across the map.

Crime in progress!

I told them I’d call 911 for them, as Dispatch might understand me more clearly when I explained we knew exactly where the criminals were. I told Guy they would likely dispatch several cars to bust them.

Wrong.

While Guy was trying to find a cop, I was placed on hold twice by a 911 answering machine. The first time, I waited, waited and hung up. A half hour

I explain that it was likely the people involved in this crime in progress were armed. The 911 dispatcher said, “How do you know that?” ...

Finally, exasperated, I tell her, “I’m going to go find the damned car myself.” was gone. Guy and Marie called back on my son’s cell phone. They were on the way to the police station for help. They had hiked uphill in the Aves and picked up the couple’s other car at their house after waiting for a call back that never came.

I tried 911 again and held the line.

Dispatch finally answered. I explained that this situation was live, and the police needed to help. Dispatch said something like, “Your friends already called.” They were very busy, she said.

I told her I was looking at a screenshot of the exact location of the stolen car on Redwood Road, at about 1100 South.

“You can bust them!” I implored. She blew me off.

Meanwhile, Guy calls my son to say the dispatcher told him that the police “don’t do geo location.” He tried to explain that it was he who was doing geo location and that he only wanted to show the phone to a police officer.

Moving ahead another half hour, my son and I arrive outside the Salt Lake City Police Department’s downtown palace to meet Guy and Marie.

The building is locked. It’s been more than an hour since the car was stolen, and we’re still watching it move around along the Redwood Road corridor via the live app. Police cars are driving by us, not stopping, despite the fact that

Dispatch knows we’re outside the door.

I call back 911. The dispatcher starts chewing me out about re-dialing 911.

The call has become very testy. I explain that it was likely the people involved in this crime in progress were armed.

She said, “How do you know that?” I said, “They are likely to be.” I then tell her that I’m going to be writing about this for publication. Finally, exasperated, I tell her, “I’m going to go find the damned car myself.”

She tells me not to do that because, she said, “You’ll be putting yourself in danger.” What? These people we’re tracking might be dangerous? We called the police! Repeatedly! No response!

I get in my car with my son. We’re off to Redwood Road between 400 and 500 North, the last location of the stolen iPhone. We pull into the Super Saver lot on 700 North and see a police car.

We go in. We meet an off-duty officer on store-security duty. We tell him what’s up, and without hesitation, he says, “Let’s go!” (Great guy!) We point him to the last location we had from the iPhone.

Meanwhile, Guy and Marie ran across an officer on the street downtown and got him involved. Now, there are two police officers on the case—willing and ready to help because we’d finally bypassed Dispatch and explained the ur-

gency and the chance to actually catch someone, for a change.

Too late! We’d lost the 90-minute advantage we had while out begging for help.

The car was found four days later, contents gone. The thieves left an earring and baby articles inside. They broke the starter due to hot wiring.

Guy and Marie had to pay the impound lot $215 for the tow that the police arranged, and then, $75 more to tow it to the shop. The cops have addresses to investigate if they want to catch the criminals, but that seems unlikely.

We found two great officers on our own. The problem is—there aren’t enough to go around. You are not safe in this city. You are on your own. And the bad guys know it. CW

John Harrington is a freelance writer who lives in Salt Lake City.

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Scientists, authors and activists predict the outcome of the upcoming U.N. climate talks in Paris.

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espite the fresh tragedy of the Paris terrorist attacks, the French government remains committed to hosting the U.N. Climate Change Conference (known as COP21) scheduled in Paris from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11. As such, world leaders from more than 190 countries (President Obama is slated to attend) will convene in Paris to consider passage of a binding global treaty aimed at reducing the most dangerous impacts of global warming. While some speculate that the attacks actually have improved the odds of a successful outcome, others fear that efforts to achieve a global climate pact could stall.

Letters to the Future, a national project involving more than 40 alternative weeklies across the United States, set out to find authors, artists, scientists and others willing to get creative and draft letters to future generations of their own families, predicting the success or failure of the Paris talks—and what came after.

Some participants were optimistic about what is to come—some not so much. We hereby present some of their visions of the future. To find out how locals are involved in the conference, see “Hot Topic,” on p. 12. Read even more letters (and add one of your own) at LettersToTheFuture.org.

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley has composed numerous novels and works of nonfiction.

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Dear Great-Great-Granddaughter, Do you remember your grandmother, Veronica? I am writing to you on the very day that your grandmother, Veronica, turned 7 months old—she is my first grandchild. That is how quickly time passes and people are born, grow up, and pass on. When I was your age—now 20 (Veronica was my age, 65, when you were born), I did not realize how brief our opportunities are to change the direction of the world we live in. The world you live in grew out of the world I live in, and I want to tell you a little bit about the major difficulties of my world and how they have affected your world.

On the day I am writing this letter, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives quit his job because his party—called “the Republicans”—refused absolutely to work with or compromise with the other party—now defunct—called “the Democrats.” The refusal of the Republicans to work with the Democrats was what led to the government collapse in 2025, and the breakup of what to you is the former United States. The states that refused to acknowledge climate change or, indeed, science, became the Republic of America, and the other states became West America and East America. I lived in West America. You probably live in East America, because West America became unlivable owing to climate change in 2050.

That the world was getting hotter and dryer, that weather was getting more chaotic, and that humans were getting too numerous for the ecosystem to support was evident to most Americans by the time I was 45, the age your mother is now. At first, it did seem as though all Americans were willing to do something about it, but then the oil companies (with names like Exxon and Mobil and Shell) realized that their profits were at risk, and they dug in their heels. They underwrote all sorts of government corruption in order to deny climate change and transfer as much carbon dioxide out of the ground and into the air as they could.

The worse the weather and the climate became, the more they refused to budge, and Americans, but also the citizens of other countries, kept using coal, diesel fuel, and gasoline. Transportation was the hardest thing to give up, much harder than giving up the future, and so we did not give it up, and so there you are, stuck in the slender strip of East America that is overpopulated, but livable. I am sure you are a vegan, because there is no room for cattle, hogs, or chickens, which Americans used to eat.

West America was once a beautiful place—not the parched desert landscape that it is now. Our mountains were green with oaks and pines, mountain lions and coyotes and deer roamed in the shadows, and there were beautiful flowers nestled in the grass. It was sometimes hot, but often cool. Where you see abandoned, flooded cities, we saw smooth beaches and easy waves.

What is the greatest loss we have bequeathed you? I think it is the debris—the junk, the rotting bits of clothing, equipment, vehicles, buildings, etc.—that you see everywhere Jane Smiley and must avoid. Where we went for walks, you always have to keep an eye out. We have left you a mess. But I know that it is dangerous for you to go for walks—the human body wasn’t built to tolerate lows of 90 degrees F and highs of 140. When I was alive, I thought I was trying to save you, but I didn’t try hard enough, or at least, I didn’t try to save you as hard as my opponents tried to destroy you. I don’t know why they did that. I could never figure that out.

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Dear Rats of the Future: Congratulations on your bipedalism: it’s always nice to be able to stand tall when you need it, no? And great on losing that tail, too (just as we lost ours). No need for that awkward (and let’s face it: ugly) kind of balancing tool when you walk upright, plus it makes fitting into your blue jeans a whole lot easier. Do you wear blue jeans—or their equivalent? No need, really, I suppose, since you’ve no doubt retained your body hair. Well, good for you.

Sorry about the plastics. And the radiation. And the pesticides. I really regret that you won’t be hearing any bird song anytime soon, either, but at least you’ve got that wonderful musical cawing of the crows to keep your mornings bright. And, of course, I do expect that as you’ve grown in stature and brainpower you’ve learned to deal with the feral cats, your one-time nemesis, but at best occupying a kind of ratty niche in your era of ascendancy.

As for the big cats—the really scary ones, tiger, lion, leopard, jaguar—they must be as remote to you as the mammoths were to us. It goes without saying that with the extinction of the bears (polar bears: they were a pretty silly development anyway, and of no use to anybody beyond maybe trophy hunters) and any other large carnivores, there’s nothing much left to threaten you as you feed and breed and find your place as the dominant mammals on earth. (I do expect that the hyenas would have been something of a nasty holdout, but as you developed weapons, I’m sure you would have dispatched them eventually).

Apologies, too, about the oceans, and I know this must have been particularly hard on you since you’ve always been a seafaring race, but since you’re primarily vegetarian, I don’t imagine that the extinction of fish would have much affected you. And if, out of some nostalgia for the sea that can’t be fully satisfied by whatever hardtack may have survived us, try jellyfish. They’ll be about the only thing out there now, but I’m told they can be quite palatable, if not exactly mouth-watering, when prepared with sage and onions. Do you have sage and onions? But forgive me: of course you do.

You’re an agrarian tribe at heart, though in our day, we certainly did introduce you to city life, didn’t we? Bright lights, big city, right? At least you don’t have to worry about abattoirs, piggeries, feed lots, bovine intestinal gases and the like—or, for that matter, the ozone layer, which would have been long gone by the time you started walking on two legs.

Does that bother you? The UV rays, I mean? But no, you’re a nocturnal tribe anyway, right?

Anyway, I just want to wish you all the best in your endeavors on this big blind rock hurtling through space. My advice?

Stay out of the laboratory. Live simply. And, whatever you do, please—I beg you—don’t start up a stock exchange.

With best wishes, T.C. Boyle P.S. In writing you this missive, I am, I suppose, being guardedly optimistic that you will have figured out how to decode this ape language I’m employing here—especially given the vast libraries we left you when the last of us breathed his last.

A novelist and short story writer, T.C. Boyle has published 14 novels and more than 100 short stories.

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Prominent scientists testify for the first time before U.S. Congress about dangers of global warming.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) formed to gather and assess evidence.

In Rio de Janeiro, IPCC agrees a United Nations framework is needed to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.

The worldÊs governments gather in Kyoto, Japan, to negotiate a treaty to curb global warming. The United States never ratifies the treaty. A developing nation, China, was never bound by the treaty.

The Third IPCC reports that global warming will likely cause unprecedented sea level rise, extreme weather events and grave consequences for humanity. A few months into the next year comes a dramatic collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast. This and other severe weather events spur debate over impact of global warming. U.N. parties continue negotiations toward global carbon reductions.

Seize the Moment

Political Boneheads

Hello? People of the future … Anyone there?

It’s your forebears checking in with you from generations ago. We were the stewards of the Earth in 2015—a dicey time for the planet, humankind, and life itself. And … well, how’d we do? Anyone still there? Hello.

A gutsy, innovative, and tenacious environmental movement arose around the globe back then to try lifting common sense to the highest levels of industry and government. We had made great progress in developing a grass-roots consciousness about the suicidal consequences for us (as well as those of you future earthlings) if we didn’t act pronto to stop the reckless industrial pollution that was causing climate change. Our message was straightforward: When you realize you’ve dug yourself into a hole, the very first thing to do is stop digging.

Unfortunately, our grass-roots majority was confronted by an elite alliance of narcissistic corporate greedheads and political boneheads. They were determined to deny environmental reality in order to grab more short-term wealth and power for themselves. Centuries before this, some American Indian cultures adopted a wise ethos of deciding to take a particular action only after contemplating its impact on the seventh generation of their descendants. In 2015, however, the ethos of the dominant powers was to look no further into the future than the three-month forecast of corporate profits.

As I write this letter to the future, delegations from the nations of our world are gathering to consider a global agreement on steps we can finally take to rein in the looming disaster of global warming. But at this convocation and beyond, will we have the courage for boldness, for Jim Hightower choosing people and the planet over short-term profits for the few? The people’s movement is urging the delegates in advance to remember that the opposite of courage is not cowardice, it’s conformity—just going along with the flow. After all, even a dead fish can go with the flow, and if the delegates don’t dare to swim against the corporate current, we’re all dead.

So did we have the courage to start doing what has to be done? Hello … anyone there?

An author, educator and environmentalist, Bill McKibben co-founded 350.org, a planet-wide grass-roots climate-change movement. He has written more than a dozen books.

A national radio commentator, writer and public speaker, Jim Hightower is also a New York Times bestselling author.

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Climate science enters into popular consciousness but political polarization mounts.

Congress stalls on the climate, leaving state governments to lead the charge.

California passes the Global Warming Solutions Act and soon leads the nation in energy efficiency standards and regulation of emissions.

China overtakes America as worldÊs largest greenhouse gas emitter. NASA finds Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and Arctic Ocean sea-ice cover shrinking faster than expected.

Fourth IPCC report warns of more evidence of warming. Gore and the IPCC win joint Nobel Peace Prize for climate work.

Many experts warn that global warming is arriving at a faster, more dangerous pace than expected.

Meanwhile, the United Nations Framework Climate Change Conference talks in Copenhagen, held in the midst of global recession, fail to negotiate binding emissions agreements.

UNFCCC meets in Durban, South Africa, and parties agree to work on a new and universal agreement involving all countries, not just wealthy ones, to join in combating global warming.

This accord is to be negotiated in Paris.

Mean global temperature at warmest in thousands of years; concentration of carbon in the atmosphere reaches 397 parts per million, highest it's been in millennia.

Scientists and politicians become bolder in connecting increased extreme weather events and climate change

Global rallies are held in 2,000 locations across the world demanding urgent action on climate change.

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Dear Descendants, The first thing to say is, sorry. We were the last generation to know the world before full-on climate change made Bill McKibben it a treacherous place. That we didn’t get sooner to work slowing it down is our great shame, and you live with the unavoidable consequences.

That said, I hope that we made at least some difference. There were many milestones in the fight—Rio, Kyoto, the debacle at Copenhagen. By the time the great Paris climate conference of 2015 rolled around, many of us were inclined to cynicism.

And our cynicism was well-taken. The delegates to that convention, representing governments that were still unwilling to take more than baby steps, didn’t really grasp the nettle.

They looked for easy, around-the-edges fixes, ones that wouldn’t unduly alarm their patrons in the fossil-fuel industry.

But so many others seized the moment that Paris offered to do the truly important thing: Organize. There were meetings and marches, disruptions and disobedience. And we came out of it more committed than ever to taking on the real power that be.

The real changes flowed in the months and years past Paris, when people made sure that their institutions pulled money from oil and coal stocks, and when they literally sat down in the way of the coal trains and the oil pipelines. People did the work governments wouldn’t—and as they weakened the fossil-fuel industry, political leaders grew ever so slowly bolder.

We learned a lot that year about where power lay: less in the words of weak treaties than in the zeitgeist we could create with our passion, our spirit and our creativity. Would that we had done it sooner!

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A teacher, author and speaker on the environment, agriculture, the food industry, society and nutrition, Michael Pollan’s letter is adapted from an interview in Vice Magazine.

U.S. Sen. Harry Reid

You Deserve a Chance

As a young boy growing up in Searchlight, the unique beauty of the Nevada desert was my home.

Our family didn’t travel or take vacations, but we were able to visit Fort Piute Springs which was just 15 miles from our home. Fort Piute Springs was a starkly beautiful place. From the gushing ponds of water to the beautiful lily pads and cattails, Fort Piute’s beauty was magical. Decades later, I returned to visit Fort Piute Springs and found the magical place of my childhood in ruins. I remember thinking how sad it was that my descendants would never get to appreciate the stark beauty of the desert I cherished as a child. It was in that moment that I decided to fight to protect our environment.

Throughout my career, I fought to protect my home and my country from the permanent damage of climate change. I thought about the world you would live in, the burdens you would face and the health issues that could one day challenge your very existence. You deserve a chance to experience the beautiful world that I grew up in. We all need clean air, clean water and natural resources to lead healthy lives. The idea that our actions could jeopardize your future was simply unbearable.

The only way to solve this problem was if we all worked together to save the planet for you and future generations. During my lifetime, the overwhelming majority of scientists across the world concluded that pollution from burning fossil fuels was beginning to raise temperatures and alter our climate. These scientists predicted that if countries failed to work together to replace fossil fuels with cleaner energy sources, the world would face uncontrollable rising temperatures and sea levels, water shortages, climate-fueled migration crises, and landscape-altering wildfire, drought, and extreme weather.

At the close of 2015, the world finally did something about it. Everybody knew we needed to address climate change and that a failure to lead could destroy the progress we fought so hard to achieve and endanger your future. In the face of this reality, the United States pressed on and led a historic global agreement to change the course of climate change worldwide. We had already done so many things to make Nevada a cleaner, greener place—but now the entire world was ready to join us.

I’m proud of the work we did to protect our environment for you. I hope, by now, you can run just about everything on renewable energy, and you no longer have to worry about if your children will suffer from asthma because of smog.

Today, you may face a number of issues I could have never imagined. My hope has always been that the United States’ efforts to combat climate change would create a cleaner future for my descendants and future Nevadans. I hope that you are no longer burdened with the issue of climate change and can enjoy more of the Nevada I have always known. But if you face similar challenges, draw strength from my experiences and continue to fight for a cleaner environment.

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Dear Future Family, I know you will not read this note until the turn of the century, but I want to explain what things were like back in 2015, before we figured out how to roll back climate change. As a civilization, we were still locked into a zero-sum idea of our relationship with the natural world, in which we assumed that for us to get whatever we needed, whether it was food or energy or entertainment, nature had to be diminished. But that was never necessarily the case.

In our time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture still handed out subsidies to farmers for every bushel of corn or wheat or rice they could grow. This promoted a form of agriculture that was extremely productive and extremely destructive—of the climate, among other things.

Approximately one-third of the carbon then in the atmosphere had formerly been sequestered in soils in the form of organic matter, but since we began plowing and deforesting, we’d been releasing huge quantities of this carbon into the atmosphere. At that time, the food system as a whole—that includes agriculture, food processing and food transportation—contributed somewhere between 20 percent to 30 percent of the greenhouse gases produced by civilization—more than any other sector except energy. Fertilizer was always one of the biggest culprits for two reasons: It’s made from fossil fuels, and when you spread it on fields and it gets wet, it turns into nitrous oxide, which is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Slowly, we convinced the policy makers to instead give subsidies to farmers for every increment of carbon they sequestered in the soil.

Over time, we began to organize our agriculture so that it could heal the planet, feed us and tackle climate change. This began with shifting our food system from its reliance on oil, which is the central fact of industrial agriculture (not just machinery, but pesticides and fertilizers are all oil-based technologies), back to a reliance on solar energy: photosynthesis.

Carbon farming was one of the most hopeful things going on at that time in climate change research. We discovered that plants secrete sugars into the soil to feed the microbes they depend on, in the process putting carbon into the soil. This process of sequestering carbon at the same time improved the fertility and water-holding capacity of the soil. We began relying on the sun—on photosynthesis—rather than on fossil fuels to feed ourselves. We learned that there are non-zero-sum ways we could feed ourselves and heal the earth. That was just one of the big changes we made toward the sustainable food system you are lucky enough to take for granted.

A U.S. Senator from Nevada, Harry Reid is a longtime member of the Democratic Party and served a lengthy term as Senate majority leader.

DON BUTTON ADAM KARSTEN

I just flushed my toilet with drinking water. I know: you don’t believe me: “Nobody could ever have been that stupid, that wasteful.” But we are.

We use air conditioners all the time, even in mild climates where they aren’t a bit necessary. We cool our homes so we need to wear sweaters indoors in summer, and heat them so we have to wear T-shirts in midwinter. We let one person drive around all alone in a huge thing called an SUV. We make perfectly good things—plates, cups, knives—then we use them just once, and throw them away. They’re still there, in your time. Dig them up. They’ll still be usable.

Maybe you have dug them up. Maybe you’re making use of them now.

Maybe you’re frugal and ingenious in ways we in the wealthy world have not yet chosen to be. There’s an old teaching from a rabbi called Nachman who lived in a town called Bratslav centuries ago: “If you believe it is possible to destroy, believe it is possible to repair.” Some of us believe that. We’re trying to spread the message.

Friends are working on genetic editing that will bring back the heath hen, a bird that went extinct almost 80 years ago. The last member of the species died in the woods just a few miles from my home. Did we succeed? Do you have heath hens, booming their mating calls across the sand plains that sustain them? If you do, it means that this idea of repair caught on in time, and that their habitat was restored, instead of being sold for yet more beachside mansions. It means that enough great minds turned away from the easy temptations of a career moving money from one rich person’s account to another’s, and instead became engineers and scientists dedicated to repairing and preserving this small blue marble, spinning in the velvet void.

We send out probes, looking for signs of life on other worlds. A possible spec of mold is exciting—press conference! News flash! Imagine if they found, say, a sparrow. President addresses the nation! And yet we fail to take note of the beauty of sparrows, their subtle hues and swift grace.

We’re profligate and reckless with all this abundant life, teeming and vivid, that sustains and inspires us.

We destroyed. You believed it was possible to repair.

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Author of short stories, novels and essays, Pam Houston wrote the acclaimed Cowboys Are My Weakness, winner of the 1993 Western States Book Award.

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Dear Future Inhabitants of the Earth, I was speaking with an environmental scientist friend of mine not too long ago, and he said he felt extremely grim about the fate of the Earth in the 100-year frame but quite optimistic about it in the 500-hundred year frame. “There won’t be many people left,” he said, “but the ones who are here will have learned a lot.” I have been taking comfort, since then, in his words.

If you are reading this letter, you are one of the learners, and I am grateful to you in advance. And I’m sorry. For my generation. For our ignorance, our shortsightedness, our capacity for denial, our unwillingness or inability to stand up to the oil & gas companies who have bought our wilderness, our airwaves, our governments. It must seem to you Pam Houston that we were dense beyond comprehension, but some of us knew, for decades, that our carbon-driven period would be looked back on as the most barbaric, the most irresponsible age in history.

Part of me wishes there was a way for me to know what the Earth is like in your time, and part of me is afraid to know how far down we took this magnificent sphere, this miracle of rock and ice and air and water.

Should I tell you about the polar bears, great white creatures that hunted seals among the icebergs; should I tell you about the orcas? To be in a kayak, with a pod of orcas coming toward you, to see the big male’s fin rise in its impossible geometry, 6 feet high and black as night, to hear the blast of whale breath, to smell its fishy tang—I tell you, it was enough to make a person believe she had lead a satisfying life.

I know it is too much to wish for you: polar bears and orcas. But maybe you still have elk bugling at dawn on a September morning, and red tail hawks crying to their mates from the tops of ponderosa pines.

Whatever wonders you have, you will owe to those about to gather in Paris to talk about ways we might re-imagine ourselves as one strand in the fabric that is this biosphere, rather than its mindless devourer.

E.O. Wilson says as long as there are microbes, the Earth can recover— another small measure of comfort. Even now, evidence of the Earth’s ability to heal herself is all around us—a daily astonishment. What a joy it would be to live in a time when the healing was allowed to outrun the destruction. More than anything else that is what I wish for you.

RANDI BAIRD

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Dear Future Robinsons, Back around the turn of the century, flying to space was a rare human privilege, a dream come true, the stuff of movies (look it up), and an almost impossible ambition for children the world around.

But I was one of those fortunates. And what I saw from the cold, thick, protective windows of the Space Shuttle is something that, despite my 40 years of dreaming (I was never a young astronaut), I never remotely imagined.

Not that I was new to imagining things. As you may know, I was somehow born with a passion for the sky, for flight, and for the mysteries of the atmosphere. I built and flew deathdefying gliders, learned to fly properly, earned university degrees in the science of flight and then spent the rest of my life exploring Earth’s atmosphere from below it, within it and above it. My hunger was never satisfied, and my love of flight never waned at all, even though it tried to kill me many times.

As I learned to fly in gliders, then small aircraft, then military jets, I always had the secure feeling that the atmosphere was the infinite “long delirious burning blue” of Magee’s poem, even though of all people, I well knew about space and its nearness. It seemed impossible to believe that with just a little more power and a little more bravery, I couldn’t continue to climb higher and higher on “laughter-silvered wings.” My life was a celebration of the infinite gift of sky, atmosphere, and flight.

But what I saw in the first minutes of entering space, following that violent, life-changing rocket-ride, shocked me.

If you look at Earth’s atmosphere from orbit, you can see it “on edge”—gazing towards the horizon, with the black of space above and the gentle curve of the yes-it’s-round planet below. And what you see is the most exquisite, luminous, delicate glow of a layered azure haze holding the Earth like an ethereal eggshell. “That’s it?!”

I thought. The entire sky—my endless sky—was only a paper-thin, blue wrapping of the planet, and looking as tentative as frost.

And this is the truth. Our Earth’s atmosphere is fragile and shockingly tiny—maybe 4 percent of the planet’s volume. Of all the life we know about, only one species has the responsibility to protect that precious blue planet-wrap. I hope we did, and I hope you do.

After 36 years as an astronaut—with a tenure that included four shuttle missions and three spacewalks—Stephen K. Robinson retired from NASA in 2012. He is now a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, Davis.

Let Me Tell You a Story

Well, My Great Ones, The Europeans finally tried to do something after all this time. We told them over and over again; we showed them how to sustain and live within the capacity of their environment; but for hundreds of years they continued to rape and destroy our mother, Earth. What they didn’t understand was that it was too late. You will never get to see or hear the thousands of species of frogs sing their songs, and you will never get to see countless varieties of bees, butterflies and birds take flight or hear their wings flutter by you as you marvel at their bright and beautiful hues. I assure you that these creatures existed in great diversity, helping the world to stay in balance.

Right now in California, we are in a drought and have been for several years. No one listened when the rain stopped coming. People continued to use water for green grass in their front yards because they wanted to prove they could afford to waste more than anyone else, never thinking to appreciate water and save it to quench their thirst. Some people saved water by painting their grass green. Who would have ever thought people would paint grass? If they would just plant indigenous drought-resistant plants with healing properties, we could save water and make our own medicine. But that would put the big corporations who make the drugs that we have become addicted to go out of business.

My Precious Ones, I am so sad to say that those in power strayed so far from what is important, caring for each other and for our planet; that it left you and the continued existence of our sovereign tribal nations in jeopardy. I wonder, did they ever learn that we are interdependent, not independent? Everything that is done to the Earth, impacts us, and our survival.

My Dear Ones, let me tell you a story … there once was a time when the rivers Tamara Cheshire were full of many types of fish and the water flowed clean, clear and bright because the rain came for many months throughout the year. There was plenty of food for everyone, and we lived with the understanding that we are all interconnected. What happens next is up to you to remember what was and make what is, different. The power has always been yours. We, your ancestors, are waiting.

Tamara Cheshire is an indigenous adjunct professor of anthropology and Native American studies in Sacramento, Calif.

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Danny Quintana: Space & Ocean Exploration: The Alternative to the Military-Industrial Complex When President Dwight Eisenhower warned in his farewell address of the “military-industrial complex,” he foresaw an economic juggernaut that could be impossible to slow down, as economies grew to depend on military spending. And political will can be hard to find when so many jobs are dependent upon direct and indirect American military spending.

Local attorney and activist Danny Quintana has come up with a provocative alternative in his new book Space & Ocean Exploration: The Alternative to the Military-Industrial Complex. It’s not enough, he argues, to say that we must cut our massive military-spending budget; that spending needs to go somewhere, in a way that will not cripple communities that have grown to depend on military bases or military contractors as pillars of their local economies.

Quintana’s proposal is to redirect that spending—and the technical/scientific/policing power of the American military—toward work that may help preserve our planet. As humanity faces threats to the environment from climate change, overpopulation and the depletion of the world’s fisheries, Quintana argues, military might could be channeled into the exploration of space in an effort to expand medical knowledge, or even help protect the Earth from asteroid strikes. And the defense of oceans from overfishing would be an ideal mission for naval vessels. In a work that combines optimism with political pragmatism, Quintana offers a bold way of considering changing the world through a change in perspective. (Scott Renshaw) Danny Quintana: Space & Ocean Exploration: The Alternative to the MilitaryIndustrial Complex @ Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, Nov. 20, 7 p.m., free. WellerBookWorks.com

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Sarina Villareal: Efflorescent Interference In her paintings, Sarina Villareal delineates the shifting borders between representation and abstraction, with human figures as well as flora suspended in a watery background that emphasizes their fluid qualities. The artwork becomes a representation of memory traces, not as distinct as we might assume.

Her new series, Efflorescent Interference, takes the process even further, “using myself as a subject of neuropsychological experimentation,” she writes in her artist statement. The morphology of the figures in these acrylic works is shifting, as though movement altered not only their position but their definition; it seems intended as analogous to thought. The deft compositions (“Rose Interference,” detail above) draw your eye in to the decorative quality of the works, and render the conceptual framework a bit of a clever subterfuge.

Coming to fine art from a career in design and advertising, Villareal’s work demonstrates a certain stylish composure that is a sign of selfassurance. The artist has exhibited widely in local venues and is represented by 15th Street Gallery.

She cites the influences of abstract expressionist Cy Twombly and colorist Frank Klein, as well as more contemporary works by Jenny Saville and Susan Rothenberg. Monet’s “Water Lilies” comes to mind with her subject matter.

Villareal’s work is showing concurrently with Episodes: Salt Lake City, photographs by Robert Martin. (Brian Staker) Sarina Villareal: Efflorescent Interference @ The Gallery at Library Square, 210 E. 400 South, Level 4, 801-524-8200, Nov. 21-Jan. 8; an artists’ reception will be held Saturday, Nov. 21, 4-5:30 p.m. SLCPL.org.

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So, you’re a Christmas expert: Not only do you know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen—you can rattle off the names of the other four reindeer, as well as every single word to the song “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” Likely, your reindeer smarts are thanks in large part to the 1964 animated Rankin-Bass TV special.

While watching RTRR: The Cartoon is a requirement for having a classic Christmas, you can also spend an entire evening enjoying the songs and watching the characters come to threedimensional real life when Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical comes to town. A national touring company will give five performances at the Capitol Theatre, from Nov. 20 to 22.

The musical version uses a combination of costumed actors, puppetry, scenery and projections to bring the RTRR story to life while sticking close to its stop-motion animation roots. All of the characters are there, from Yukon Cornelius to King Moonracer to the Abominable Snow Monster. The story is still about how the fascists of Christmas-town drive Rudolph out due to his “misfit” ways that threaten the social order.

He eventually comes back to save the day and make everybody see they were behaving like idiots.

Even Santa has to admit he was acting like a jerk.

Anybody who’s every been barred from the Reindeer games, been teased for being different or just plain felt like they wanted to take refuge on the Island of Misfit Toys—in other words, pretty much everybody—can relate to Rudolph. Enjoy an evening of entertainment while dreaming of how you will exact a horrible revenge on your unsuspecting enemies … errrr, ummm, come back and save Christmas. (Geoff Griffin) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical @ Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, Nov. 20, 8 p.m.; Nov. 21, 1, 4 & 7 p.m.; Nov. 22, 1 p.m., $55-$68.50.

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This week, Repertory Dance Theatre performs the second production of its 50th anniversary season, Revel, a concert that brings together elements of the company’s rich past even while celebrating its future.

Crippled Up Blues reunites a creative duo: dancer Bill Evans, RDT company member from 1967-74; and Utah musician/folklorist Hal Cannon, whose first collaboration harks back to 1973. Forty years down the line, the two have cooked up a playful homage to their Utah home and heritage— and to growing older.

The program also includes the world premiere of Begging the Question by humorist/ choreographer Claire Porter—who performed her one-woman show in Salt Lake City this past August—and the Utah premiere of Jack by Joanie Smith of Minneapolis-based company Shapiro & Smith. But the gem of the night likely will be She, a tribute to Virginia Tanner by choreographer Jacque Lynn Bell. It was Tanner’s advocacy that helped solidify the original Rockefeller grant that made RDT a reality 50 years ago and for Bell, who as a child took dance lessons from Virginia Tanner, the opportunity to create a piece for her former teacher has been an honor and an enormous responsibility. “I’m the voice for so many people who have benefitted from her incredible vision,” says Bell. In her attempt to show the scope of Tanner’s influence, one still felt today, Bell has created a work with 26 dancers. They include RDT company members past and present, ranging in ages from 3 to 75, of the Children’s Dance Theater, which Virginia Tanner founded in 1949.

(Katherine Pioli) Repertory Dance Theatre: Revel @ Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Nov. 19-21, 7:30 p.m., $30 ArtTix.org

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Because there’s so much material out there, though, it’s sometimes difficult to distinguish the truly great from the merely adequate, especially when attempting to pick out a comic-book title for a loved one as a holiday gift. As gift-buying season is upon us, we asked the owners and employees of comic-book shops to offer up their recommendations as to the best comics of the past year, and here’s what they gave us:

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Dave Landa, owner of Dr. Volt’s comics (2043 E. 3300 South, 801-485-6114, DrVolts.com) offers these picks:

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(Marvel Comics): Join everyone’s favorite misanthropic water fowl in his magnificent return to comics.

Star Wars returns to Marvel comics in a number of new series. New stories from the original trilogy (and soon the prequel trilogy!) will delight both new fans and old.

Greg Gage, owner of Black Cat Comics (2261 E. Highland Drive, 801-461-4228, BlackcatComics.com) suggested these picks:

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Young Terrorists is a “what if the Smoking Man were real” story. But he dies, and his daughter is left behind to pay for his crimes. The story features a strong female lead. With 80 pages for the first issue and selling for o n l y $6.99 ($10 for our store variant), it’s a great value. It’s also the introduction of the informal Black Mask universe, as characters from other titles make small appearances.

Trent Hunsaker, owner of Death Ray Comics (57 S. Main, Logan, DeathRayComics.com) suggests his favorites:

The Fade Out (Image Comics):

Pick this up if you like the films The Maltese Falcon, Sunset Boulevard and LA Confidential.

It’s the most noir of noirs. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips tell the story of murder, coverup, blackmail, sex and just about anything else you can toss into back-lot 1950s movie studios.

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl

(Marvel Comics): This is everything that your typical tightsand-capes comic isn’t (plus all the nut puns you can fit in a Planters jar). Squirrel Girl has been secretly living in the Avengers Mansion attic, but it’s time for college. And if you think an 18-year-old who has had minimal social interactions and has gone unnoticed living in an attic might be a little awkward in college … then you are exactly right! Grab this series if you like Bee and Puppycat, Steven Universe and MAD Magazine.

And finally, Kiley Wachs, comics manager of the Nerd Store (3601 S. 2700 West, Valley Fair Mall, West Valley City, 801-964-4776, NerdStoreUtah.com) recommended these titles:

Paper Girls (Image

Comics): A story about four teenage girls trying to finish up their paper routes the day after Halloween. Meanwhile, a mystery creeps in. This comic has a very Goonies vibe to me.

Letter 44 (Oni Press): Autumnlands (Image Comics): Magic is dying. The pecking order that keeps each kind in their place (the owls, bison, dogs, hogs, etc.) depends on the waning mystic power. The only hope is for the wizards of the Autumnlands to reach back through time for a hero—only to find, to their surprise, a strange beast you and I would call “human.” I’m not a fan of the fantasy genre, but this series is the exception.

A newly elected president faces the nation’s problems: war, economy, health care, etc. But on his first day in office, he learns that NASA has discovered alien life and a possible threat to Earth. Now he has to decide whether or not to tell the people of Earth or keep this secret to himself. A great sci-fi read.

If you find you need more comic-book ideas for yourself or your precious loved ones, just go into your local store and ask.

Each shop has a friendly staff that will guide you through your comic-book purchases with no hassles—or judgment of your taste—whatsoever. CW

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It was a bit of a wait after Wiseguys Comedy vacated its Trolley Square location, and the downtown core was missing that regular dose of weekend laughs. But a new location at the Gateway finally launched in early November, with a prime spot at the mall’s southeast corner. And headliners including Gilbert Gottfried, Jeff Dye, Dwayne Perkins and filmmaker Kevin Smith are already lined up through early 2016.

This weekend, if you’re eager to check out the new venue and revel in the funny, you can catch one of Utah’s most talented comedians. Jay Whittaker—City Weekly’s 2014 Best of Utah Arts award winner for Best Comedian. Whittaker brings his distinctive style out from behind the microphone of the also-award-winning Geek Show Podcast and in front of audiences. You might not see him engage in a push-up contest with Anthony “The Falcon” Mackie like he did at this year’s Salt Lake Comic Con, but there’s always something entertaining happening when Whittaker’s on a stage. (Scott Renshaw) Jay Whittaker @ Wiseguys Downtown, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Nov. 20-21, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $12. WiseguysComedy.com

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9 Circles Browning Center, Weber State University, 3950 W. Campus Drive, Ogden, Nov. 13-21, Weber.edu Big Fish Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 801-984-9000, Oct. 14-Nov. 28, $16-$33, HCT.org Buyer & Cellar Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Nov. 6-21, ArtTix.org Don Juan Comes Back from the War Westminster College, Jewett Center for the Arts, 1840 S. 1300 East, Nov. 12-21, ThursdaySaturday, WestminsterCollege.edu The Grouch Who Stole Christmas The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, Nov. 20-Dec. 26, Monday, Friday & Saturday; 7:30 p.m., TheOBT.org Joe Hill’s Last Will The State Room, 638 S. State, 800-501-2885, Nov. 19, 7 p.m., TheStateRoom.com Lyric Opera Ensemble: Scenes Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-6762, Nov. 20-21, 7:30 p.m., Music.utah.edu Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801355-2787, Nov. 20-22, ArtTix.org (see p. 25) The Flick Good Company Theatre, 260 25th Street, Ogden, 801-564-0288, Nov. 6-22, Thursday-Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 4 p.m., GoodCoTheatre.com Trail of Dreams SCERA, 745 S. State, Orem, 801-225-2787, Nov. 13-21, SCERA.org Young Frankenstein Egyptian Theatre Company, 328 Main, 435-649-9371, Nov. 20-Nov. 29, EgyptianTheatreCompany.org

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CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Abravanel Visiting Composer: Steve Jaffe Dumke Recital Hall, 1375 Presidents Circle, 801581-6762, Nov. 23, 7:30 p.m., Music.utah.edu Guest Artist Recital: Gerald Elias, Vedrana Subotic Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, 413-717-7103, Nov. 24, 7:30 p.m., Music. utah.edu Mahler’s ‘’Tragic’’ Symphony Utah Symphony, Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 385-4681010, Nov. 20-21, 7:30 p.m., ArtTix.ArtSaltLake.org Pizzetti’s Messa di Requiem UVU Chamber Choir, Orem City LIbrary, 58 N. State, Orem, 801229-7050, Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m., OremLibrary.org Utah Symphony Harris Fine Arts Center, 1 University Hill, Provo, 801-422-8903, Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m., Arts.BYU.edu

COMEDY & IMPROV

Aaron Woodall Gezzo Hall, 490 Freedom Blvd.

200 West, Provo, Nov. 21, 8 p.m., GezzoHall.com Adult Improv & Open Mic Club at 50 West, 50 W. 300 South, 801-961-1033, Thursday, 7 p.m., $5-$8, Club.50WestSLC.com Jay Whittaker Wiseguys, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Nov. 20-21 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., WiseGuysComedy.com (see above) Karen Rontowski Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., 801-622-5588, Dec. 11-12, 8 p.m., WiseGuysComedy.com Ryan Hamilton Wiseguys West Valley City, 2194 W. 3500 South, 801-463-2909, Nov. 19-21, 7:30 & 9:30, WiseGuysComedy.com Sasquatch Cowboy Improv The Loft, 3934 S. Washington Blvd., Ogden, Nov. 7, 9:30 p.m., OgdenComedy.com

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Christian Bök: The Xenotext The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-4849100, Nov. 19, 7 p.m. KingsEnglish.com Danny Quintana: Space & Ocean Exploration: The Alternative to the Military-Industrial Complex Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, Nov. 20, 7 p.m., WellerBookWorks.com (see p. 25) David McCllelan: The Boy Who Spoke to the Earth The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Nov. 21, 11 a.m., KingsEnglish.com Jessica Lahey: The Gift of Failure The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-4849100, Nov. 24, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com Noy Holland & Melanie Rae Thon The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-4849100, Nov. 23, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com

SPECIAL EVENTS FESTIVALS & FAIRS

Nitro Circus Vivint Smart Home Arena, 301 W. South Temple, 801-325-2000, Nov. 20, 7 p.m., VivintArena.com The pARTy Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, 801-9655100, Nov. 20, 6:30 p.m., CulturalCelebration.org International Games Day Viridian Center, 8030 S. 1825 West, West Jordan, 801-948-7858, Nov. 21, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Calendar.ViridianCenter.org

LECTURES

Mark Anderson Eccles Center, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-655-3114, Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m., EcclesCenter.org

SEASONAL EVENTS

Sacrament Holiday Blessings Boutique Blessed Sacrament Church, 9757 S. 1700 East, Sandy, 801-571-5517, Nov. 21, 9 a.m., BlessedSacramentSandy.org Celebrate With Joy: Annual Bells on Temple

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As in years past, Tuscany (2832 E. 6200 South, 801-277-9919, TuscanySLC. com) will provide a memorable Thanksgiving meal for guests, priced at $45 for adults; $22 for children 12 and under. The Tuscany menu includes a choice of butternut squash bisque or green salad, entrees of herb-roasted turkey and honey-glazed ham, sides such as sage & apple stuffing, sweet potato gratin, garlic whipped potatoes, herb-roasted root vegetables, and an assortment of house-made pies for dessert.

Up at Log Haven (6451 E. Millcreek Canyon Road, 801-272-8255, Log-Haven.com), chef Dave Jones is preparing a four-course plated luncheon ($49.95 adults; $24.95 children 12 and under) featuring a choice from three starters (roasted Hubbard squash soup, braised chicken “oysters” or King crab cake), a salad course, and entrees including all-natural Coleman turkey, grilled King salmon, Black Angus New York steak or wild mushroom-butternut squash risotto, plus dessert options.

The Paris Bistro (1500 E. 1500 South, 801-486-5585, TheParis.net) celebrates the 15th anniversary of its opening with a six-course Thanksgiving dinner priced at $49.95 for adults; $24.95 for children under 8. Thanksgiving menu items include wild chanterelle mushroom flatbread with thyme & Gruyère; soup and salad; Utah Wight Family Farms free-range turkey rôtí with Calvados-thyme jus and roasted chestnuts; sides such as purée blanche ravioli, cranberry compote with candied oranges and mapleglazed pecans; roasted sweet potatoes and yams; quinoa with fresh herbs, shallots and roasted pine nuts; corn bread with honey butter; Romanesco and Brussels sprout gratin; and a choice of pumpkin cheesecake with roasted chestnuts and honey gelato or carmalized apple-stuffed crêpes,

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Texas de Brazil (50 S. Main, 385232-8070, TexasDeBrazil.com) is “carving a new tradition” this year with its regular churrasco menu plus signature Thanksgiving specialties such as roasted turkey, sweet potato casserole, homemade gravy, dessert, and non-alcoholic beverages all included in the $42.99 dinner price. And, they open early at 11 a.m. Rodizio Grill (600 S. 700 East, 801-220-0500, RodizioGrill.com) is also getting in on the holiday action by offering four days of Thanksgiving: November 25-28 during dinner hours, and all day on Thanksgiving. They’ll offer the “Full Rodizio” Brazilian buffet ($26.99 adults; $9.99 children 7-11; 0-2 years eat free) plus orange turkey and stuffing, sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie.

Up in Ogden, Hearth on 25th (195 25th St., 801-399-0088, Hearth25.com) is doing the heavy lifting for your holiday meal by offering gourmet Thanksgiving feasts “to-go.’ For as little as $17 per person you can order fully cooked roasted turkey, whipped Yukon Gold potatoes, maple-roasted sweet potatoes, dried fruit and sage stuffing, giblet pan gravy, wood oven-roasted Brussels sprouts, orange-ginger cranberry sauce, sourdough Hearth bread, and a choice of pumpkin cheesecake or sticky toffee pudding.

At Zucca (225 25th St., 801-475-7077, MyZucca.com) Thanksgiving menu choices include “three-way” pork or cioppino appetizer; Waldorf salad or roasted apple and butternut squash soup; entrees of

slow-roasted turkey breast roulade, house-smoked honey-cured ham, or braised lamb shanks; plus dessert options ($39 adults; $15 children 12 and under).

Local Marie Callender’s Restaurant & Bakery locations (MarieCallenders.com) will offer holiday indulgences from individual pies to full feasts for serving at home, ranging from $99.99 for a Turkey Breast Feast with all the trimmings (serves 4-6) to the Ultimate Whole Turkey & Ham Feast for $149.99 (serves 6-8).

Over in Park City, Thanksgiving dining options abound, as well. At Deer Valley Resort (DeerValley.com dining), The Brass Tag (2900 Deer Valley Drive East, 435-6152410) will offer a prix-fixe dinner for two priced at $48 per person, which includes turkey breast roulade, butternut squash and arugula salad; brick oven Brussels sprouts with Niman Ranch lardons; caramelized garlic whipped Yukon Gold potatoes; green bean, shiitake and leek skillet; oven-baked pumpkin pie, and more.

The Brass Tag Thanksgiving dinner will be available November 26-29. The Grub Steak (2093 Sidewinder Drive, 435-649-8060, GrubSteakRestaurant.com) Thanksgiving dinner includes roasted Tom turkey, stuffing and gravy, sides, pumpkin pie, and more, priced at $29.75 adults; $14.75 children 12 and under). According to the Park City Restaurant Association (ParkCityRestaurants.com), additional restaurants offering Thanksgiving specials include Baja Cantina, Bistro 412, Butcher’s Chop House & Bar, Cisero’s Ristorante, Deer Valley Grocery-Café (pies and takeaway items), The Glitretind at Stein Eriksen Lodge, and Zoom.

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A new Natural Grocers opens in Bountiful at 55 W. 500 South on Saturday, Nov. 21, with free nutrition and educational events scheduled on Saturdays. Founded in 1955 by Margaret and Philip Isely in Golden, Colo., Natural Grocers now has more than 90 locations, all founded upon five principles: nutritional education, highest quality products, affordable pricing, commitment to community, and commitment to employees. Saturday free events begin at 4 p.m., and include A Taste of Fall (Nov. 21), Gluten-Free Holiday Fare (Dec. 5), Taste the Difference Food Standards Make (Dec. 12) and Paleo Fare (Dec. 19). Visit NaturalGrocers.com for more information.

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For those—like me—who were beginning to feel like the Greek dining scene here was becoming a bit stale, it’s been a great autumn. As I reported recently in City Weekly, upscale Greek restaurant Manoli’s is wowing customers at 402 E. 900 South (ManolisOn9th.com), and Chipotle-style GR Kitchen (EatGRKitchen.com) has opened to provide quality fast-food Greek cuisine to customers at 7702 Union Park Ave. in Midvale. Well, there’s more good news for Greek-food fans: Look for a new “quick serve street Greek” food emporium called Padeli’s to open soon at 30 E. 300 South in Salt Lake City. It’s the creation of the folks behind Greek Souvlaki (GreekSouvlaki. com), which has been voted Best Gyro in City Weekly’s “Best of Utah” for more than 15 years.

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I usually prefer to stick with a couple of wines—one white and one red—and perhaps some bubbly, rather than trying to find one wine for the turkey, another for the spuds, a third for stuffing, and so on. Versatility is what I look for in a Turkey Day wine, not specialization.

There are, of course, the usual suspects.

Zinfandel is favored by many because of its uniquely American heritage. Red

Burgundy, too, is a good all-purpose Thanksgiving wine, one that bridges dishes from dark turkey meat to pumpkin pie. And, Riesling is always a safe and smart choice during holiday meals due to its unmatched versatility for pairing well with so many different foods. However, if you’d like to play around with some novel wine pairings this Thanksgiving, here are a few that I’m considering.

I like to greet holiday guests with a glass of sparkling wine, and it’s hard to beat the 272 year-old Champagne house of Moët & Chandon for consistency and quality. Their Dom Perignon ($170) might not be in your (or my) Thanksgiving budget, but Moët & Chandon Impérial Brut NV ($49.99) can be. It’s bright and lively in style, the perfect opening for a memorable meal.

I don’t especially like to weigh down Thanksgiving guests with high-alcohol wines, which is one reason to stay away from Zins. So, I’d consider serving a Rosé with a little heft, such as Chateau du Donjon Minervois Rosé ($13.99). This tasty Syrah-Cinsault-Grenache blend is hearty enough to enjoy with roasted turkey, but light enough to sip as an aperitif.

An interesting “starter” or aperitif wine, if you’re working your way slowly up to the main event (turkey) is Luigi Voghera Langhe Arneis ($12.49), from Italy’s Piedmont region. The wine is unoaked, but

DRINK full-bodied and ultra-dry—a really nice partner for hors d’oeuvres and appetizers.

As one who is always happy to find quality Chardonnay being poured at the holiday table, I’d look toward a wellcrafted California Chard such as Landmark Vineyards Overlook Chardonnay Sonoma County ($27.49) to fill the bill. With flavors of quince, apricots and brioche, this luscious Chardonnay is round enough to enjoy with roasted poultry dishes like turkey.

If you’d like to surprise your guests with something truly unique—right down to its unusual Vinolok crystal bottle closure—then pop the Vinolok on a bottle of Tenuta Sant’Antonio Scaia Cornvina ($12.99) for Thanksgiving. This Veneto wine is easy-drinking and very versatile, with robust cherry flavors that will run the pairing gamut from roasted turkey and stuffing to sharp cheeses served after dinner.

Increasingly, French winemakers with Burgundian backgrounds are finding their way to the less-expensive Languedoc region of France to make their wines, and many are doing it organically. Such is the case with organic Chateau PechLatt Corbieres ($14.99). This lovely blend of old vine SyrahGrenache-Mour vèdreCarignan has good structure and is robust enough to enjoy with deepfried turkey, turduckens, goose, Prime rib and bolder Thanksgiving table flavors.

The same goes for Tenuta Frescobaldi di Castiglioni ($22), a powerful, rich wine from Tuscany. Intense blueberry and cherry aromas accompany black pepper and spice scents, with dense tannins and a full body. Serve this one with dark-roasted turkey meat, beef or lamb, and roasted root vegetables. It will also pair well with bold after-dinner cheeses. CW

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Bangkok Terrace

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Atlantic Cafe & Market on Salt Lake City’s Main Street has so much to offer that it’s hard to know where to begin. For breakfast, omelets are a great choice, and at lunch, the sandwiches and pizzas are the way to go.

Especially tasty is the terrific Mediterranean pizza and the vegetarian lasagna. There are also luscious chicken kebabs, Balkan sausages called cevapi and much, much more, including wine and beer, and sidewalk seating in warm weather. 325 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801524-9900, AtlanticCafeMarketSLC.com

Cedars of Lebanon

Cedars of Lebanon cuisine from Lebanon, Morocco, Israel and Armenia is complemented by super service and even a private Moroccan room with floor seating for those looking for an exotic dining experience. But, of course, The Cedars is really all about Raffi, the outgoing host and owner, who welcomes customers as if they are members of his family. At lunchtime, the meza appetizer combos are popular, as are the gyro sandwiches, falafel, kebabs and Greek salads. In the

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Royal Eatery

A longtime staple for downtown Salt Lake City dining, the casual Royal Eatery features an extensive American and Greek restaurant menu and a particularly popular breakfast. The terrifically thin and crispy fried potatoes are a Royal Eatery breakfast crowd favorite, and the made-to order omelets are popular as well. But take time to peruse the extensive menu before defaulting to the delicious pastrami-topped Royal Burger for lunch. 379 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-532-4301

Wing Nutz

What makes Wing Nutz different from other wings joints? These chicken wings are baked, not fried.

At this downtown Salt Lake City location, try them with a choice of more than a dozen sauces, including Jamaican jerk, chipotle barbecue, Carolina mustard, lemon hotties, spicy peanut ginger and chili garlic.

Wraps and salads are also featured, along with buffalo chips and Wing Nutz’s “famous” hog wings.

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Named for Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, Frida Bistro is a restaurant from Rico Brand’s founder Jorge Fierro.

Step into the sleek space with its limegreen and fuchsia walls, craft-paper-covered tables (with linen napkins), and be prepared to be wowed. The artichoke, cheese & asparagus tamale steamed in banana leaf is wonderful. Presented like a gorgeous painting on a plate, it is moist and light, nicely paired with tomatillo & avocado salsa and a side of frijoles ranchero—pinto beans with a chunk or two of porkbelly. Tender shredded chicken cooked in mole negro is equally impressive: sticky, sweet and savory. In addition to meals at Frida Bistro, you can also purchase Rico products such as salsas, tamales, burritos and guacamole, fresh from the factory floor. 545 W. 700 South, Salt Lake City, 801-433-9923, FridaBistro.com

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f you’re skeptical about all the praise heaped on Spotlight from film critics in print media, it’s understandable. We’ve all got our sweet spots, and those of us who sometimes wonder if our own dead-tree outlet will be the next one to start hemorrhaging employees are bound to gravitate toward a story about how important these publications are, and what can be accomplished through time-honored shoe leather and paper-chasing. If a movie is going to spend a lot of time telling you that you’re awesome … well, come on, we’re only human.

But that’s also a fairly limited way of looking at Spotlight, which is more than just a big sloppy kiss in the general direction of investigative reporting. In fact, it may be even more compelling as a look at all the things standing in the way of breaking an important story, and how easy it can be to miss that something is a story. In the course of addressing issues that are particular to the real-life time frame, co-writer/director Tom McCarthy also looks at issues that are bigger than the context of turn-of-the-21stcentury newsrooms, folding them into a terrific slow-burn procedural.

The main story begins in 2001, as the Boston Globe is bringing on new editorin-chief Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber). He wants the paper’s “Spotlight” investigative news team—editor Walter “Robby” Robinson (Michael Keaton) and reporters Mike Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams) and Matt Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James) to turn their attention to the case of a Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing several children. And as they begin digging—at first reluctantly—into the case, they discover that the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston might be engaging on a massive scale in hushing up cases of abusive priests, and deliberately relocating sex offenders to other parishes.

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Singer faced a tough challenge in juggling the details of these cases—and the many newsroom employees, victims, attorneys, church officials and other peripheral characters involved in the investigation—in such a way that it would still be easy for a viewer to follow.

But the script proves marvelously efficient at conveying that nuts-and-bolts information, while never feeling that it’s only about expository details. Like the reporters at the center of the story, Spotlight always feels like it’s trying to dig down to the next level.

And what it finds on those next levels is generally fascinating. The story’s timeline intersects with the events of Sept. 11, 2001—which also had a Boston connection—and Spotlight effectively conveys how a developing story, even one this potentially huge, can get set aside when an even bigger story emerges.

There’s also an ongoing undercurrent dealing not just with the work of intrepid journalists, but the way that work fits into a business trying to survive—at a time when newsroom layoffs are being discussed— and beat its competitors. There’s a terrific moment where Matt Carroll discovers that one of the houses used by the church as a residence for “recovering” pedophile priests is in his own neighborhood, yet is told by editors not to warn his neighbors, just to make sure that the rival Boston Herald might not get wind of the scope of the Globe investigation. It’s rare for a movie about journalism to recognize not just the importance of getting a story, but of making sure the other guys don’t get the story first.

Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, Brian d’Arcy James, Michael Keaton & John Slattery in Spotlight Spotlight’s most intriguing subtext, however, might be the inevitable subjectivity of the people reporting the news.

Right from a prologue set in 1976, McCarthy sets the stage for Boston as a “company town” where the company in question is the Roman Catholic Church, exerting its influence over the faithful. Yet this isn’t a conspiracy story in which the only conspirators are on the outside of the newsroom; there are frequent allusions to the opportunities the Globe had to dig into this story many years earlier. The restrained performances are top-notch throughout, and Spotlight explores just enough of the journalists’ personal lives to show their own emotional connections to the Catholic Church, and how it might have taken an outsider like Baron to shake them from their assumption that this couldn’t really be such a horrible story. Spotlight may make the results of old-school reporting look heroic, but it also makes that work look human. CW

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The Paper (1994) Michael Keaton Glenn Close Rated R

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ASTHMA B.5 So, Jake Hoffman has great taste in music; maybe he can make that work for him, since this “making movies” thing may not be so much his forte. His wildly episodic story deals with a New York City heroin addict named Gus (Benedict Samuel) who impulsively steals a Rolls Royce, then, just as impulsively, offers a local girl he’s been crushing on, Ruby (Krysten Ritter), a ride to a party in Connecticut. For a while, it’s an indie road-trip romance, one where it’s hard to take seriously a woman who willingly has unprotected sex with an intravenous drug user. And then it turns into an almost random selection of scenes at the hippie/hipster house party, with an unrecognizable Goran Visnjic under dreadlocks as a yoga guru, and Nick Nolte voicing the werewolf Gus sees in his hallucinations.

The insufferable lack of momentum, or any sort of point to it all, is at least occasionally mitigated by a soundtrack featuring great tunes by Parquet Courts, So So Glos, The Kills and more. Too bad the music has to stop for anyone on screen to talk. Opens Nov. 20 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—Scott Renshaw

SECRET IN THEIR EYES [not yet reviewed] A trio of investigators (Julia Roberts, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Nicole Kidman) deal with the fallout when one of their lives is destroyed by a violent crime. Opens Nov. 20 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) SPOTLIGHT BBB.5 See review p. 38. Opens Nov. 20 at theaters valleywide. (R)

AI WEIWEI: THE FAKE CASE At Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Nov. 19, 7 p.m. (NR) CHARLIE CHAPLIN CAVALCADE At Edison Street Events, Nov. 19-20, 7:30 p.m. (NR) DRAG BECOMES HIM At Brewvies, Nov. 19, 7 p.m. (NR) HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS At Main Library, Nov. 25, 2 p.m. (PG-13) IRIS At Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Nov. 25, 7 p.m. (PG-13) MEET THE PATELS At Park City Film Series, Nov. 20-21 @ 8 p.m. & Nov. 22 @ 6 p.m. (PG) SOME KIND OF SPARK At Main Library, Nov. 24, 7 p.m. (NR) THE THING (1982) At Brewvies, Nov. 23, 10 p.m. (R)

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THE NIGHT BEFORE BB.5 There’s something fundamentally confused about a comedy whose characters ostensibly are trying to find maturity, but whose humor is built around drugs and dick jokes. Isaac (Seth Rogen), Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Chris (Anthony Mackie) are three New York pals-since-high-school, enjoying what might be the last of their annual Christmas Eve boys’ nights out, ending with the mysterious private party they’ve longed to attend. Each gets his own narrative—Isaac wrestling with impending fatherhood, Ethan hoping to patch things up with his ex (Lizzy Caplan), pro athlete Chris enjoying a steroid-fueled career resurgence—which all nod towards their need to move on to new phases of their life. But the movie—reuniting Rogen and Gordon-Levitt with 50/50 director Jonathan Levine—is only really satisfying when it’s being goofy, whether showcasing Michael Shannon as a guru-like drug dealer, or allowing Rogen to cycle through a dozen different kinds of substance-induced freakouts. The episodic humor is sometimes funny, yet rarely builds on

ROOM BBB.5 It’s a risky maneuver to take a story that could easily become psychological horror, and instead turn it into a delicate, almost fanciful character piece. Emma Donoghue adapts her own novel which opens in a single small room, where Jack (Jacob Tremblay) is just turning 5 years old. And he’s lived in that room his entire life, along with his mother, Joy (Brie Larson), who was abducted as a teenager and imprisoned there by a man they know only as Old Nick (Sean Bridgers). Donoghue and director Lenny Abrahamson keep the focus on Jack’s point of view, and Tremblay’s terrific performance allows an understanding of the resilient, flexible ability of a child to adapt to the only world he knows. But Larson is also remarkable at capturing Joy’s ability to help Jack navigate that world, and craft a narrative that protects them both. The second half of the story complicates their relationship in intriguing ways, even if there’s less powerful tension. It’s still a terrific manifestation of the truth behind fairy tales—both their underlying horror, and their goal of keeping children safe. Opens Nov. 20 at Broadway Centre Cinemas and Century 16 South Salt Lake. (R)—SR

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THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY—PART 2 BBB.5 One of the smartest, most enthralling science-fiction film series ever reaches a thoroughly engaging and very fitting end, questioning all of our assumptions about war, power and peace—particularly as blockbuster film series tend to present them. People’s heroine Katniss Everdeen (the amazing Jennifer Lawrence) doesn’t lead the rebels of District 13 in an assault on the decadent Capitol: She’s bringing up with the rear with the propaganda filmmaking team, which is taking big risks in bringing along tortured Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), Katniss’s former Hunger Games partner, hoping to show Panem’s President Snow (Donald Sutherland) that he’s turned back toward the forces of good. But it’s just as likely that he’ll try to kill Katniss.

And who is “good,” anyway? Amid some of the series’ most breathtaking and original action sequences—Snow has turned the Capitol into a deadly obstacle course for the invading rebels—problems with the revolution itself are coming to light. Is Katniss about to overthrow one tyrant only to install another? Matters of trust—intimate and personal, as well as social and political—make this an emotional experience as much as an explosive one. Opens Nov. 20 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)—MaryAnn Johanson

how much these guys are supposed to mean to one another. Being an arrested adolescent winds up looking so much more appealing than being an adult. Opens Nov. 20 at theaters valleywide. (R)—SR

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between survival drama and rescue efforts, but director Patricia Riggen and the screenwriters replace the focus on problemsolving with lazy movie shorthand to give a handful of characters one token conflict and/or relationship. There’s little sense of the danger or claustrophobia facing these men, because nearly every moment spent with them involves shouting matches or inspirational speeches. There’s nothing wrong with a survival-againstall-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. (PG-13)—SR

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LOVE THE COOPERS BB Here’s an ensemble comedy-drama with one worthwhile vignette that makes all the others feel even worse. 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; their son Hank (Ed Helms) struggles with being unemployed and freshly divorced; and their daughter Eleanor (Olivia Wilde) flirts with a soldier named Joe (Jake Lacy) she met at the airport. This latter story is fairly charming, capitalizing on some genuine chemistry, 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.

These people may figure out that they actually care about one another, but the audience barely gets 15 minutes worth of reason to love them. (PG-13)—SR

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)—MAJ

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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 before facing a life-threatening health crisis. Wittrock faces a tough acting challenge—making a squeaky-clean kid interesting—but he provides exactly the kind of earnestness required for a story about someone who could respond to a potentially lethal diagnosis with a tightjawed, “OK.” And yes, it’s formulaic in its relationship dynamics—including a stalwart girlfriend (Sarah Bolger) and Texas coach Darrell Royal (Aaron Eckhart)—while making missteps like spending 17 minutes on a single football game. But there’s really has only one goal: putting a lump in your throat at watching a kid refuse to stop believing his dreams could come true. Lump delivered. (PG)—SR

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The Art of More Thursday, Nov. 19 (Crackle)

Series Debut: Small-time crook Graham Connor (Christian Cooke, Witches of East End) slips into the high-end art world of the super-rich—but if the dark side of the auction house doesn’t sting him first, his shady secret past will. The slick and sexy Art of More is relatable to your life in no way whatsoever (sure, Graham came from nothing, but he’s still ridiculously good-looking), but it’s deeper than you’d expect luxury porn to be, and the supporting cast (Dennis Quaid, Kate Bosworth and Cary Elwes) ain’t bad for a streaming service you’ve barely heard of, either. Given the app/network’s (appnet?) recent surge in original programming, looks like reports of parent company Sony’s lack of interest in Crackle are greatly exaggerated. Also: There’s now really Too Much TV.

Northpole: Open for Christmas Saturday, Nov. 21 (Hallmark)

Movie: The crime here isn’t that Hallmark is dropping a new Christmas movie on Nov. 21—it’s that the network already began the jingle-blitzkrieg three weeks ago! On Halloween! Northpole: Open for Christmas is just another one of the Mad-Libbed holiday-rom-com-shot-up-withfuzzy-feels treatises on the True Meaning of Christmas that we’ve come to expect/endure from Hallmark (and ABC Family, Lifetime, et al) every year the millisecond a leaf turns brown. Says here: “Dermot Mulroney stars as Ian, a small-town handyman who comes to the aid of Mackenzie (Lori Loughlin) to help restore a cherished local inn she inherited, but wants to sell. Unbeknownst to Ian and Mackenzie, Santa sends his trusted elf Clementine (Bailee Madison) on a special mission to help Mackenzie rebuild and rediscover the magic of the holidays.” By not

selling her rat trap? Maybe she wants out of this money pit and into a new condo on the gentrified side of town, next to the microbrewery and the artisan crepery! You don’t know, Santa! Damned hippie …

The Last Man on Earth Sunday, Nov. 22 (Fox)

Final New Episode of 2015: Or maybe ever? Fox’s revamped schedule (coming in January, because who cares about December?) will involve moving Brooklyn Nine-Nine back to Tuesdays to help New Girl save Grandfathered and The Grinder, debuting two-years-on-the-shelf animated series Bordertown on Sundays, kicking off the final American Idol death march, reinstating The X-Files and pretending Minority Report never happened, but no plans for The Last Man on Earth. It’s too weird to slot anywhere but Sunday among the cartoons, and too healthily (relatively) rated to outright cancel. Glimmer of Hope: Last Man’s “replacement,” Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life, is even worse than the title suggests. Tandy and the gang could/ should be back by February.

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Series Debut: It’s going to be tough to follow-up a series like Daredevil, especially with a lesser-known character like Jessica Jones—but Marvel’s too big to fail, so why worry? Based on Brian Michael Bendis’ darkly fantastic Alias series, Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) is an ex-superhero trying to lead a relatively normal existence as a private detective, even though most of her clients end up being of the super-powered variety. Also impeding her process of powering down and fitting in: Jessica has more issues than, well, the Marvel Universe. Considering Netflix’s Daredevil revelation, as well as the show’s creator (a former Dexter writer) and the solid cast behind the alwayswinning Ritter (David Tennant, Carrie-Anne Moss and future Luke Cage Mike Colter), Jessica Jones is another gritty smack upside the head. Or in the SUV door, whichever you prefer.

Series Debut: In an alternate universe where the Germans won World War II, early-’60s USA is halved into the Greater Nazi Reich and the Japanese Pacific States—yes, of course there’s an underground resistance working to take back ’Merica. The Man in the High Castle’s production and attention to detail is impressive, with Ridley Scott bringing the 1962 Philip K. Dick novel to full-blown life even as the lead actors appear lifeless (could have done better than Pretty Little Liars’ Luke Kleintank and Mob City’s Alexa Davalos).

Atmosphere and high concept mostly win out, however, and just set aside any Danger 5 nutty-Nazi memories—this is serious business!

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lmost a century ago, the socialist journalist John Reed wrote of the Industrial Workers of the World—popularly known as the Wobblies— “Remember, this is the only American working-class movement which sings. … They love and revere their singers, too, in the IW W. All over the country, workers are singing Joe Hill’s songs.”

Hill, the IW W’s unofficial songwriter, had been dead three years when Reed penned those words. Born in Sweden in 1879, he immigrated to the United States in 1902.

His songs were written and sung to inspire workers and further the IW W’s goal of organizing the working class into One Big Union.

He was convicted on scanty evidence of murdering a Salt Lake City grocery clerk and his son, and sentenced to death by firing squad at Utah State Prison, on the site that is now Sugar House Park.

Thursday, Nov. 19, is the 100th anniversary of that execution.

In tribute, six-time Grammy nominee John McCutcheon will re-create Hill’s last night in Joe Hill’s Last Will, a one-man play based on Hill’s writings and songs, written by community organizer and folksinger Si Kahn.

McCutcheon released a CD on May 1, also titled Joe Hill’s Last Will, featuring the songs heard in the play, including Hill’s “The Preacher and the Slave,” “There Is Power in a Union” and “Rebel Girl,” as well as such obscurities as “What We Want” and “Overalls and Snuff.”

Hill is difficult to understand by today’s standards, says McCutcheon. “He was a different animal. He never did a gig. Was never on the radio. Never made a recording. Didn’t do anything that would further his artistic notice. He wrote to be useful, nothing more. He is a complete anachronism in 21st-century terms.”

For Wobblies, music was a weapon in the class war, and proved essential in organizing campaigns. “A pamphlet,” Hill once wrote, “no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over.”

As McCutcheon explains, “you had a large immigrant workforce with songs that held great emotional meaning to these workers.

Utilizing those melodies, with words fitted to immediate concerns, was very powerful. Think of the music of the Civil Rights movement; the song sources had tremendous, spiritual and historical power to people which, in turn, lent that foundational power to their usage in new contexts with slightly altered words. Same thing with IW W songs. They understood that people need information, but they also need emotional connection.”

The songs reflect Hill’s gift for vernacular—an especially impressive accomplishment, given he was not a native English speaker. But as McCutcheon says, “When you hang around with people who don’t speak the King’s English—especially workers who are making nicknames up for one another, giving descriptive and often scatological nicknames to jobs that they have to do—you end up having an ear for the vernacular. Hill certainly seemed to have a gift for that.”

Hill drew on a wide range of influences in composing his songs, from Tin Pan Alley and vaudeville to ethnic music and popular hymns, often depending upon audience and situation. His most famous song, “The Preacher and the Slave,” was written during an organizing campaign in Spokane, Wash., during which members of the IW W and the Salvation Army often stood on streets near each other competing for the same audiences. Local company bosses began paying the Salvation Army to drown out the Wobblies.

John McCutcheon portrays slain labor leader Joe Hill, whose incendiary songs, often set to popular tunes, inspired workers.

“Joe Hill decided if you can’t beat them, co-opt them,” McCutcheon observes, “and wrote new words to ‘In the Sweet By-and-By,’ which was one of the most popular songs that the Salvation Army was playing, and got all the men singing his words to the hymn. It was partially a matter of necessity, because it doesn’t matter how loud you sing, three trumpets, two trombones and a bass drum are going to drown you out, so you find a way to use that to your advantage.”

McCutcheon’s performance also includes the remarkably contemporary take on working-class conservatism, “Mr. Block,” the worker whose loyalty consistently lies with the bosses. “One of the most interesting things about doing this … is the reaction it gets from younger people, college-age people, who say, ‘All that stuff was going on 100 years ago, and we’re still dealing with it today?’ ” Throughout Hill’s oeuvre runs a sharp sense of humor, which served both entertainment and political purposes. In McCutcheon’s words: “Humor is a powerful weapon. It allows the weak to reduce the powerful to manageable size. Plus, the powerful, for some reason, rarely have a sense of humor. Humor makes them vulnerable and, ultimately, conquerable. When you show them you’re not afraid, they don’t know what to do. That was a great gift that the Wobblies gave to the American labor movement, and we could use a hell of a lot more of it now.” CW David Cochran teaches history at John A. Logan College in Illinois.

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isch Loops and Applegreen: For a conversation about their split cassette release, Jabuticaba, chose Harmon’s. You see, the recording is named for a rare South American fruit. And Harmon’s boasts one of the best produce sections in town, its shelves laden with things you typically see pictured on bottles of fruit juice: Dragonfruit, quince, kiwano.

All the exotics except, evidently, one: “They didn’t have the jabuticaba,” says Fisch. Everyone was mildly surprised.

Since Fisch Loops and Applegreen are dropping a split release, it seems like a fun idea to interview them separately. And so it was that Daniel Fischer, aka Fisch Loops, is banished to a far corner of the deli to eat his mac and cheese. This leaves City Weekly and Applegreen alone at a table consuming DayQuil and sushi, respectively.

Applegreen, aka Chase Estes, is a softspoken, low-profile dude out of Ogden—a virtual stranger compared to Fisch, whose umpteen other projects include Furthermore, Numbs and Rotten Musicians. “I’m not surprised you haven’t heard of me,” says Estes. “I’m not a performer.” He’s done shows, mostly as a DJ. “I don’t have a real steady image, so it gives me the freedom to come up with [different names] for every project.” Applegreen, however, may become his most-used handle “because I think I might have some momentum under this name.”

Applegreen met Fisch through MySpace, searching for similar artists in Salt Lake City. They traded music online, and finally

met by chance at Randy’s A new release by Fisch Loops, pictured left, and Applegreen, Records. “He’s a really explores animal noises and other exotica. distinct-looking dude, so I recognized him,” Estes says. The pair continued to bump into each happened to be corporeally shaped. From other at record stores and DJ nights, each “Headnod” through “Footstomp,” Estes time discussing the wax treasures they dug takes listeners on a late-night, slow-mo up since their last meeting, and ideas on magic carpet ride with a cast of sampled fellow travelers who look familiar. (Is that mixing them.

Years later, they’re releasing Jabuti- Sergio Mendes? The dude from Tinariwen? caba, a medley of world music and found Who’s the lady that sounds like my old fifthsounds—on cassette. Fisch’s side consists grade teacher?).

Both sides fly by; if you’re listening to the of 18 tracks named for animal sounds, but has little to do with beastly vocalizations. digital versions, the whole thing takes a lean Recording his side was an adventure for 42 minutes. And despite Fisch Loops’ and ApFisch, who’s been allowed to return to the plegreen’s stylistic idiosyncrasies, if you’re table, scrapping the idea for a split-inter- not paying attention, it sounds like one conview feature. “I got bored with the same old tinuous listening experience. One that can be shuffled for any number of listening experitime signatures,” he says.

Becoming a father has curtailed Fisch’s ences, with different peaks and valleys. Jabuusual hyper-prolific activity, so he wanted ticaba, then, is like a lucid dream-travelogue; to stretch his legs on Jabuticaba. To that Lonely Planet for your ears.

Which begs the question: Why physical end, Fisch looked to world music for the 17 “sound collages” that make up his side— product? In an obsolete format? Everywhich, despite his protestations, is some- body’s goin’ digital and enjoying the porthing of an aural zoo: “Trill!” has a gorilla- tability. Why bother with tangibility? You like hip-hop beat. “Roar” has roaring lions. can feel the bass—why do you need paper, But it’s not a theme. “Snort!” blends punk, plastic, aluminum and tape?

Both Fisch and Estes agree it’s part new wave and far out sci-fi samples, and “Croak!” loops a tranquil keyboard melody novelty and nostalgia. This cassette is that could’ve come from a Philly soul album. different, Fisch says. Estes says there’s Applegreen’s side draws upon similar just something about the cassette. “You sounds, but is more ambient, like Boards of wanna keep it, hold on to it.” That makes Canada dreaming they’ve been dropped in sense. Jabuticaba is a dream you can hold the jungle. The tracks are named after parts in your hand—phantom fruit that’s sweet of the body—because the original song list to your ears. CW

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Aren’t there enough Joe Hill tribute shows this week? Well, when you’re talking about labor organizer/songwriter/martyr Hill … nope.

Tonight’s the 100th anniversary of Hill’s execution for a crime he likely didn’t commit, and a perfect time to commemorate his life and his work—but it’s just a coincidence that this show is happening tonight. “Adam at Diabolical Records just flipped through his calendar, and this was the first open night,” says actor/ musician/Salt Lake City resident Dave (Gruber) Allen (Freaks and Geeks, The Naked Trucker & T-Bones Show). “I told him, ‘That’s the 100th anniversary!’ That’s awesome. Let’s do it.”

Tonight, Allen’s friends from Los Angeles altcountry duo HoneyHoney, will play an opening set, then Allen will join them for a set of Hill songs. Afterward, Allen says it’ll get “loose and weird” with a random set that may include some Naked Trucker chestnuts. The best part about tonight, though, is it’s an all-ages show.

“Audiences under 21 don’t know Joe Hill,” says Allen. “So I told Adam, ‘Let’s do it for the kids!’”

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That this list could be twice its size before hitting on every name, image and sound conjured by this Denver trio—which consists of two overdriven acoustic guitarists, a drummer and some fine, fine songwriting—should make you very curious. The Yawpers are the kind of band that you can get into. Seriously. You’ll want the back catalog, every single, bootleg, demo, compilation appearance, poster-stickershirt-button—and you’ll follow them like a puppy for as long as they last. (RH) Club X, 445 S. 400 West, 7 p.m., $10 in advance, $12 day of show, ClubXSLC.com

FRIDAY 11.20 Modern Baseball

There’s something just really unhip about baseball—whether it’s the lore of its history, or the modern variation that, come to think

The Yawpers of it, hasn’t changed much. That’s precisely what makes it endearing. The same goes for Philadelphia, Pa., band Modern Baseball, naming themselves after an archaic manual on the sport. Brendan Lukens and Jake Ewald emote vocally with a snarky emo style, but somehow they make it likeable.

You’re Gonna Miss It All (Run For Cover), their sophomore release, doesn’t indicate a slump at all, but rather a growth spurt.

They make you not want to miss out, as though they might hit a home run and be the next big thing. (BS) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 6 p.m. (doors), $13.50 in advance, $16 day of show, TheComplexSLC.com

MONDAY 11.23 Fuzz

Fuzz. That pretty much says it all with this fuzzed-out trio, in which Mr. Ty Segall plays drums and sings. Wait. That’s saying more than just “fuzz,” huh? Well, I’m pretty sure there are parts on the new album, II (In the Red), like “Rat Race,” where there’s fuzz on the guitars, bass and organ; it’s like if shag carpet could sing. So fuzz is a big deal with these cats. But the record has other attributes, like flower-child moments that induce mild tie-dyed synesthesia (“Let It Live,” “Silent Sits the Dustbowl”), punky garage romps (“Red Flag”) and a mid-tempo, surf instrumental that references Land of the Lost (“Sleestak”)! So maybe it does take more than one word to describe II. Ha! (RH) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $15, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

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A celebrated battle tactic of the soldiers of ancient Greece was to sneak into their enemy’s camp under the guise of a gift—the famed Trojan horse. Mukilteo, Wash., band The Fall of Troy sneak up on you with surprising changeups in dynamics, time signatures and even vocal styles: Guitarist Thomas Erak and bassist Tim Ward converse via the former’s unadulterated vocals and the latter’s screams. They’re two years into a reunion tour that commenced in 2013 after a threeyear breakup. Kylesa, a metal band that dips so deep into the sludge that they have to drop-tune their guitars to get there, opens.

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Mother Falcon, Ben Sollee, Six Feet in the Pine

Lexington, Ky., native Ben Sollee has made a name for himself both as a classically trained cellist and, recently, as folk singer. (His 2010 Sub Pop record with Daniel Martin Moore is lovely). For this tour, he teams up with Mother Falcon, the Austin-based brainchild of Nick Gregg, who picked folks off the street (or, to be more exact, out of 7-Eleven parking lots) to round out his symphonic collective.

If you call them a poor man’s Polyphonic Spree, Gregg might either clock you or buy you a cup of coffee. Local bluegrass outfit Six Feet in the Pine opens. (Tim Hinely) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $12 in advance, $14 day of show, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

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Previously held at the Masonic Temple in Salt Lake City, the group realized this year that they would need a bigger venue after all seven shows sold out in 2014. Renditions of classic Christmas hymns like “The First Noël,” “O Come All Ye Faithful,” and “Go Tell It on the Mountain”—with acoustic guitars, banjos, surprising percussion choices and the vocal power of a group that’s just a bit smaller than the Mormon Tabernacle Choir—will turn even the biggest Grinch into a holiday elf.

“We sing Christian songs,” says Fotheringham, but non-Christians need not feel left out. She credits the universal appeal of Yuletide carols to their message of love and hope. “I think, also, the joyful way we arrange and perform them attracts people of many faiths and beliefs, [both] religious and nonreligious,” she says.

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The eclectic nature of the group is something that percussionist Darin Lesueur loves best about the Lower Lights.

“I love that no two songs sound the same,” Lesueur says. “They come from different voices and instruments, or different influences musically and spiritually.”

The chance to play with such a large group of extremely talented musicians is also a draw for Debra Fotheringham, vocalist, guitarist and percussionist for the group. “My favorite part is being able to make music with amazing people whose talent I’ve admired for many years and who I now get to call my bandmates,” Fotheringham says. “That never stops being cool to me.”

The Lower Lights originally began when a group of friends toyed with the idea of recording traditional gospel hymns in a folk-Americana style. They brainstormed about which other musicians they’d like to invite to their project. Dominic Moore— who provides vocals, guitar and his skills at arranging music—says he feels very lucky to have been invited.

“During the first session we did together, this project didn’t have much of a shape or a structure … but we finished the recordings and really liked them,” Moore explains. “They were messy and different and heartfelt and ours.” The finished product was the group’s first album, A Hymn Revival. The group now has six completed albums—four gospel and two Christmas-themed.

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The Kloverart coverlet, $198, at Anthropologie (City Creek Center, 801-4560431, Anthropologie.com) is made from beautifully embroidered cotton and is machine washable. (Two bulldogs call me Mom, so I’m a sucker for anything that can be tossed in the washing machine.) This quilt feels like something your grandmother might have made (or at least bought) for you. Are Netflix and the couch calling your name yet?

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You’ve arrived at a crossroads. From here, you could travel in one of four directions, including back towards where you came from. You shouldn’t stay here indefinitely, but on the other hand you’ll be wise to pause and linger for a while. Steep yourself in the mystery of the transition that looms. Pay special attention to the feelings that rise up as you visualize the experiences that may await you along each path. Are there any holy memories you can call on for guidance? Are you receptive to the tricky inspiration of the fertility spirits that are gathered here? Here’s your motto: Trust, but verify.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) English model and TV personality Katie Price has been on the planet for just 37 years, but has already written four autobiographies. You Only Live Once, for instance, covers the actionpacked time between 2008 and 2010, when she got divorced and then remarried in a romantic Las Vegas ceremony. I propose that we choose this talkative, self-revealing Gemini to be your spirit animal and role model. In the coming weeks, you should go almost to extremes as you express the truth about who you have been, who you are, and who you will become.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Some athletes think it’s unwise to have sex before a big game. They believe it diminishes the raw physical power they need to excel. For them, abstinence is crucial for victory. But scientific studies contradict this theory. There’s evidence that boinking increases testosterone levels for both men and women. Martial artist Ronda Rousey subscribes to this view. She says she has “as much sex as possible” before a match. Her approach must be working. She has won all of her professional fights but one, and Sports Illustrated calls her “the world’s most dominant athlete.” As you approach your equivalent of the “big game,” Scorpio, I suggest you consider Rousey’s strategy.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) If you were embarking on a 100-mile hike, would you wear new boots that you purchased the day before your trip? Of course not. They wouldn’t be broken in. They’d be so stiff and unyielding that your feet would soon be in agony. Instead, you would anchor your trek with supple footwear that had already adjusted to the idiosyncrasies of your gait and anatomy. Apply a similar principle as you prepare to launch a different long-term exploit.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) The Confederation of African Football prohibits the use of magic by professional soccer teams. Witch doctors are forbidden to be LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) How well do you treat yourself? What do you do to ensure that on the field during a match, and they are not supposed to spray you receive a steady flow of the nurturing you need? According elixirs on the goals or bury consecrated talismans beneath the to my reading of the astrological omens, you are now primed to turf. But most teams work around the ban. Magic is viewed as expand and intensify your approach to self-care. If you’re alert an essential ingredient in developing a winning tradition. Given to the possibilities, you will learn an array of new life-enhancing the current astrological omens, I invite you to experiment with strategies. Here are two ideas to get you started: 1. Imagine your own personal equivalent of this approach. Don’t scrimp on at least three acts of practical love you can bestow on yourself. logical analysis, of course. Don’t stint on your preparation and 2. Give yourself three gifts that will promote your healing and discipline. But also be mischievously wise enough to call on the help of some crafty mojo. stimulate your pleasure.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Slavery is illegal everywhere in the world. And yet there are more slaves now than at any other time in history: at least 29 million. A disproportionate percentage of them are women and children. After studying your astrological omens, I feel you are in a phase when you can bestow blessings on yourself by responding to this predicament. How? First, express gratitude for all the freedoms you have. Second, vow to take full advantage of those freedoms. Third, brainstorm about how to liberate any part of you that acts or thinks or feels like a slave. Fourth, lend your energy to an organization that helps free slaves. Start here: http://bit.ly/liberateslaves.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) To activate your full potential in the coming weeks, you don’t need to scuba-dive into an underwater canyon or spelunk into the pitch blackness of a remote cave or head out on an archaeological dig to uncover the lost artifacts of an ancient civilization.

But I recommend that you consider trying the metaphorical equivalent of those activities. Explore the recesses of your own psyche, as well as those of the people you love. Ponder the riddles of the past and rummage around for lost treasure and hidden truths. Penetrate to the core, the gist, the roots. The abyss is much friendlier than usual! You have a talent for delving deep into any mystery that will be important for your future.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Here’s how Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins: “Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.”

The preface I’d write for your upcoming adventures would be less extreme, but might have a similar tone. That’s because I expect you to do a lot of meandering. At times your life may seem like a shaggy dog story with no punch line in sight. Your best strategy will be to cultivate an amused patience; to stay relaxed and unflappable as you navigate your way through the enigmas, and not demand easy answers or simple lessons. If you take that approach, intricate answers and many-faceted lessons will eventually arrive.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) A flyer on a telephone pole caught my eye. It showed a photo of a nine-year-old male cat named Bubby, whose face was contorted in pain. A message from Bubby’s owner revealed that her beloved pet desperately needed expensive dental work. She had launched a campaign at GoFundMe.com to raise the cash.

Of course I broke into tears, as I often do when confronted so viscerally with the suffering of sentient creatures. I longed to donate to Bubby’s well-being. But I thought, “Shouldn’t I funnel my limited funds to a bigger cause, like the World Wildlife Fund?” Back home an hour later, I sent $25 to Bubby. After analyzing the astrological omens for my own sign, Cancer the Crab, I realized that now is a time to adhere to the principle “Think globally, act locally” in every way imaginable.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Normally I charge $270-an-hour for the kind of advice I’m about to offer, but I’m giving it to you at no cost. For now, at least, I think you should refrain from relying on experts. Be skeptical of professional opinions and highly paid authorities.

The useful information you need will come your way via chance encounters, playful explorations, and gossipy spies. Folk wisdom and street smarts will provide better guidance than elite consultants. Trust curious amateurs; avoid somber careerists.

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It’s official: Gateway has been sold. At least, that’s what I hear from Jill Love, director of Salt Lake City’s Community and Economic Development Department.

Reportedly, the sale will close escrow before the end of the year, and the new owners will begin a much-needed transformation of the 623,973-square-foot downtown mall.

Gateway opened in 2001 and earned the nickname “Beige Way” due to its stucco exterior—although people on the original paint crew claim they dipped rollers into more than 70 different shades of paint.

Let’s all hope for a tasteful remodel.

Since it’s a redesign with Millennials in mind, its focus will be on entertainment and hip, affordable shopping.

Speaking of entertainment, the new Regent Street experience is being constructed behind the still-under-construction glass high-rise at 111 S. Main and the Eccles Performing Arts Center.

As part of that experience, Salt Lake City is negotiating a contract with an out-ofstate artist to grace that street with a sculpture. To create this work, the Salt Lake City Art Design Board issued an RFP for up to $2 million, with an additional amount for technology infrastructure.

One of the largest art grants to come along in some time, it was awarded to Boston artist Janet Echelman, known for her fluid sculptures that move with wind, water and sunlight.

In 1984, Salt Lake City officials passed the “Percent for Art” ordinance requiring that 1 percent of new construction budgets be allocated for art at the project.

Recent examples are the various pieces at the Public Safety Building patio east of Library Square, and art at more than 20 Trax stations on the light-rail system.

The selection process should be inclusive of local artists who want to create permanent works, which is why this highdollar award smells fishy to me.

There were five finalists, including one Utah group. Unfortunately, the local finalists’ proposal did not make the cut.

What stinks is that our local talent had support from the likes of Sundance and Spy Hop, University of Utah College of Fine Arts and Salt Lake Community College Media & Arts Program.

I’m a huge fan of artists who can work with a collective of community groups across the board to create pieces for all of us to enjoy. Sadly, this local art appreciation most likely won’t happen on Regent Street when the area opens for business in late 2016. n

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