City Weekly Nov 26, 2015

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Utah's failure to adopt federal prison-rape-prevention guidelines enables a cruel, but not so unusual, form of punishment.

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CWCONTENTS COVER STORY THE HURT LOCK-UP

Utah’s failure to adopt federal prison rape-prevention guidelines enables a cruel, but not so unusual, form of punishment.

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LETTERS Symphony Softball

As a 22-year subscriber and longtime donor to the Utah Symphony, I appreciated your article about Concertmaster Ralph Matson [“Musical Chairs, Nov. 12, City Weekly].

Unfortunately, you played softball with Music Director Thierry Fischer. The guy conducts like a robot and has the musicality of a brick. Nearly everything is off: tempos, dynamics and sensitivity to the music. We’ve thought about giving up on the symphony, but we want to support the arts.

I’ll concede the possibility that Fischer has replaced mediocre musicians with superior artists, but you’d never know it with his conducting. The orchestra sounds worse, not better. I’d much rather hear an orchestra of modest talent led by a superior conductor. Fortunately, we sometimes have that opportunity when a guest conductor takes the podium.

Fischer should look in the mirror before canning orchestra members. Perhaps, just perhaps, he’s the problem.

KEN ROACH Salt Lake City

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We all watched for the past few weeks, as we were bombarded with billboards, fliers and even phone calls to convince us that if we just voted “yes” to a tax increase, we would have clean air and no more potholes. Life would be better for everyone.

Then the questions started: Who could afford to spend tens of thousands of dollars on this campaign? And who

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A majority of voters saw through this scam, and said, “No.” Now, it is time that we, the taxpayers, get a full accounting of where all of this money is coming from and going. We have been begging the Utah attorney general to look into the UTA for years now. Now, there is no excuse. We need a full investigation into where our tax dollars are going.

TONY PIGNANELLI Cottonwood Heights

Chorus Query

There are several puzzling changes mentioned in your article on the Utah Symphony [“Musical Chairs, Nov. 12, City Weekly], but there is one more that should be noted.

Nearly every member of the volunteer Symphony Chorus has unceremoniously been replaced by paid professionals. Many of the former members have given of their time and considerable talents for years to enrich our symphony experiences.

I’m not sure as an audience member that I value the increased emphasis on professionalism if it means taking out the community. Why would an organization that has struggled so much with finances oust such a dedicated and talented

group willing to volunteer in favor of a paid chorus?

BECKY HICKOX Bountiful

Tagging Not Appreciated

Hello! These graffiti artists are just f—king up people’s sh—t!

Really? [“Paint Misbehavin’,” Nov. 12, City Weekly]. A local railroad club owns two rail cars: Visualize two 85-footlong cars—one wood, one steel—with graffiti along one side of both of them. At least, the taggers were afraid to do both sides, as they would have been seen from the street.

Now take a group of men mostly in their 70s and 80s using steel wool to clean up the one car. The other car is still full of the graffiti. Tagging is nothing more than destroying people’s private property.

So, Mr. Wiemeyer, are you ready to come paint the wood rail car in the spring to cover up the graffiti?

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OPINION

Laugh ➔ Think

In 2009, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Barack Obama for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” Two weeks later, the Ig Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Stephen Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael Thali and Beat Kneubeuhl of the University of Bern, Switzerland, for determining—by experiment—it is better to be smashed over the head with an empty beer bottle than a full one.

Obama’s prestigious prize was awarded by the Nobel committees of Sweden and Norway.

The Ig Nobel awards, now 25 years old, are sourced in the Harvard University campus.

The annual award ceremony, held earlier in the fall, evokes the irreverent theatrics of such other Harvard satirists as the Lampoon and Hasty Pudding Club. That the Ig Nobels are presented by Nobel Laureates like Obama redeems the event from low comedy.

“The Ig Nobel awards are arguably the highlight of the scientific calendar. The prizes, which are the wayward son of the more righteous Nobels, are supposed to reward research that makes people laugh, then think,” wrote Helen Pilcher in Nature.

As much as I enjoy smart parody, I look forward to the sober-sided Nobels from Scandinavia each fall. The Peace Prize and the Literature Prize are the two that interest me. The others are usually too arcane to appreciate. Svetlana Alexievich won the prize in literature this year. She is a Ukrainian whose “novels of voices” were cited as a “monument to suffering and courage in our time.”

The 2015 Ig Nobel literary prize went to three scholars from the Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands “for discovering that the word ‘huh?’ (or its equivalent) seems to exist in every human language—and for not being quite sure why.”

I detected literary aspiration in the citation of the 2015 Ig Nobel Mathematics Prize.

Two scientists from the University of Vienna published The Case of Moulay Ismael—Fact or Fancy. The title brings Sherlock Holmes to mind. In this instance, however, science prevailed. The award recognized the “use

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of mathematical techniques to determine whether and how Moulay Ismael the Bloodthirsty, the Sharifian Emperor of Morocco, managed to father 888 children between 1697 and 1727.”

Laugh, think, then fetch a calculator.

How long does it take to drain a bladder of urine? Answering that weighty question garnered scientists at Georgia Tech the Ig Nobel Physics Prize “for testing the biological principle that nearly all mammals empty their bladders in about 21 seconds (plus or minus 13 seconds).

Angus Deaton, an economist at Princeton University, was named this year’s Nobel Laureate in Economics for “his analysis of consumption, poverty and welfare.”

I tried to understand his achievements in m a c r o e c on om i c s , but the prose was too dense. Much easier to understand was the Ig Nobel Economics Prize. It was awarded to the Bangkok Metropolitan Police “for offering to pay policemen extra cash if they refused bribes.”

The Ig Nobel in Medicine was shared by researchers from Japan and Slovakia “for experiments to study the biomedical benefits or biomedical consequences of intense kissing (and other intimate, inter­ personal activities.)” Chilean scientists won an Ig Nobel “for observing that when you attach a weighted stick to the rear end of a chicken, the chicken then walks in a manner similar to that in which dinosaurs are thought to have walked.”

The discovery that many business leaders “developed in childhood a fondness for risktaking after experiencing natural disasters (e.g. earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis) that—for them—had no dire, personal consequences” earned Gennaro Bernile, Vineet Bhagwat and Raghavendra Rau the Ig Nobel Management Prize.

Pain is the common denominator in two of this year’s Ig Nobels. The Medicine Prize recognized groundbreaking work in

“determining that acute appendicitis can be accurately diagnosed by the amount of pain evident when the patient is driven over speed bumps.” But that scientific breakthrough pales in comparison to the Schmidt Sting Pain Index developed by Justin Schmidt, a research ento­mologist, and Michael Smith, a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell. Schmidt’s index, which received the Physiology and Ento­mology prize, rates the relative pain from the stings of various insects. “Smith arranged for honey­bees to sting him repeatedly on 25 different locations on his body to learn which were the least painful (skull, middle-toe tip and upper arm) and which were the most painful (nostril, upper lip and penis shaft.)”

Laugh, then think.

It was Smith’s penis, not Schmidt’s, that was stung. I am thinking of Dr. Honeydew’s longsuffering assistant, Beaker, on The Muppet Show. Can’t you hear Beaker whimpering as Honeydew orders him to unzip his fly for the sake of science?

Finally, the Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to a group of Australian and American scientists who figured out how to return a cooked egg to its previous liquid state. Unboiling an egg reminds me of the Golden Fleece Awards handed out by Sen. William Proxmire in the 1980s. They generated the same “smile, then think” reaction, but the intent was to spotlight government officials who were fleecing the public by funding inconsequential research.

One award went to the Federal Aviation Administration for a $60,000 study of the size of stewardesses’ butts. As it turns out, however, altering an egg’s protein structure—uncooking it, so to speak—has farreaching implications for synthesizing anesthetics like Lidocaine and other drugs.

I conclude the Ig Nobels are certainly funny but not as ignoble as they seem to be. CW Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net

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There were two winners in Salt Lake City’s mayoral election. One was Jackie Biskupski; the other was money. To curb the influence of money on the elections, Move to Amend is redirecting its focus from the U.S. Constitution to municipalelection ordinances. The group’s mantra has been “corporations are not people,” and that apparently applies at the city level, too. Move to Amend asked the Salt Lake City Council to limit individual donations to $500 per person for council races, and $1,000 per person for the mayor’s race. No corporate dollars. It may be a hard sell, though. This election saw outgoing Mayor Ralph Becker raise $676,618, of which 35 percent came from corporations and unions. Forty-seven percent came from individuals giving $1,000 or more. Biskupski did about the same as Becker, raising $620,978, 28 percent or $176,251 from corporations or unions.

Individuals giving more than $1,000 accounted for 48 percent or $298,925.

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2015 Double Bump

The Deseret News had two stories on the front page of its local section: “Study: Bad air may trigger serious heart attacks,” and “Fleeing for their health?” a story about refugees leaving Utah to find Medicaid coverage. Seems like people are sick and dying off left and right, so what’s the big rush to build for that expected 2050 double bump? Sugar House residents are none too happy about the latest building frenzy—a 10-story complex slated for the old Granite Furniture site. Maybe 100 people foresee traffic and parking problems if it gets filled. Despite the din, ABC 4 managed to find one guy “excited” to fill the empty space. Unfortunately, he’ll be priced out of the area.

UTA’s Board Member Beef

Oh no, the resignations of Utah Transit Authority board members caught red-faced after a Switzerland trip had nothing at all to do with the trip. Nothing. D-News reporter Dennis Romboy took an in-depth look at the issue, from a Swiss official’s trip to the Sundance Film Festival to the fivestar hotels the delegation booked.

Through an open-records request, he got documents from the Governor’s Office of Economic Development. Oops, UTA had to cancel a competitive bid when it found out its board members were chatting up a Swiss competitor. But board members insist they resigned just because it was time. It’s time to get UTA out of the quasi-public sphere.

As cold weather moves in, a heap of local agencies and volunteers are mobilizing to help the homeless. But the Salt Lake City Marching & Chowder Club takes a different approach to the problem. Bountiful resident Lauren Smith (above, right) is secretary for the homeless-outreach group, founded by 92-year-old “Dr. John” Shannon (above, center, along with club vice president, Charlotte Mates, left). Smith notes that “Dr. John” began his work after talking to homeless people on public transit. The group bypasses the clothing- and food-donation route in favor of working to uplift the spirits of homeless people, offering them small gifts and engaging them in discussions. The club is open to the public and meets Tuesdays noon-1:30 p.m. at Same Sushi (423 W. 300 South, No.150, SameSushi.com). Memberships cost $1. Read more at SLCMCC.org.

Why were you drawn to the Salt Lake City Marching & Chowder Club?

I was introduced to Dr. John at the Rescue Mission when I went there to volunteer. He is my “chaperone” while we help serve lunch. At 92 years old, he still walks to the mission three times a week and says hello to people near The Road Home and the Weigand Center.

He invited me to the first club meeting, and I was honored to take on the role of secretary.

Rather than fundraising and providing for basic needs, your group focuses on raising the morale of those who are homeless. Why?

The top-down approach has been used to address homelessness for a long time, with only limited success. We believe that any lasting change must come from within.

Your group sponsored the Two Rose Initiative. How does it work?

We passed out roses to women in the homeless area. They were each given two roses with a little note. The note said to keep one rose and give the other to a stranger who was somehow different from them. We hoped to appeal to the women’s maternal instincts, as it would lessen fear and help them relate to one another better. Then, that would wear off on others. The only way to begin to shift to a more peaceful atmosphere is by way of strength and love.

Describe an encounter since beginning this work that’s pinged your emotions.

I hesitantly approached some teenagers who were exchanging money. I told them that I have a teenage son, and I would be heartbroken if I saw him down there. One boy said they were just selling clothes. As I was preparing for rejection and expecting to be told off, he reached out and gave me a huge hug. I told them to take care of each other. It doesn’t get much better than that.

Many try to avoid encounters with people who are homeless.

Why do you think this is?

It is just plain awkwardness. Most people are not malicious. The way to bridge the gap is to reach out to each other.

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STRAIGHT DOPE To Skip or Not to Skip?

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been schooled on the importance of eating a substantial breakfast, but millions of people routinely skip breakfast and it doesn’t seem to hurt them. In fact, we’re now hearing that periods of fasting are beneficial. So why is breakfast supposed to be such a great thing?

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unny you should mention this just now, Rob. We’re fast approaching the culmination of a five-year cycle wherein the departments of Agriculture and Health & Human Services draw on the current scientific literature and come up with recommendations about how people should be eating.

Last time around, in 2010, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans suggested that skipping breakfast could lead to obesity, leaning on evidence like a 2007 study in which men who ate a morning meal were found less likely to gain weight. (If you’re thinking there’s a lot more to good health than skinniness: don’t worry, we’ll get there.) “Eat a nutrient-dense breakfast,” goes this terse recommendation, noting that breakfast-skipping has been “associated with” weight gain.

Hang on, you say—“associated with”?

That’s even slipperier than “correlated with,” right? Buddy, you’re not alone. A 2013 paper on the “proposed effect of breakfast on obesity,” or PEBO, undertook a metaanalysis of the available research. The paper’s title is “Belief Beyond the Evidence,” if that gives you any idea of where and how strongly its authors stand on the subject; they write, “The observational literature on the PEBO has gratuitously established the association, but not the causal relation, between skipping breakfast and obesity.”

They also spend a little time tracking the PEBO on its journey from the academy to the popular consciousness, finding it parroted everywhere from respected sources like the Mayo Clinic to, um, less-respected sources like Dr. Oz. Their objections are several, but revolve (as suggested in the above quote) around the observational nature of the work they analyze—observational studies being, as their name indicates, far less rigorous than those based on that scientific gold standard, the randomized controlled trial.

Helpfully, a couple teams of researchers have pitched in with RCTs over the past several years. One such study, conducted at a New York hospital, divided obese patients into three groups; over four weeks, one got high-fiber oatmeal for breakfast, one got nofiber Frosted Flakes, and a control cohort skipped breakfast altogether. Turned out that the no-breakfast crew lost a little weight compared to the other two. A study published in 2014 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition arrived at a similar conclusion.

(How this will affect the 2015 Dietary Guidelines is impossible to know, but the advisory-committee report that comes out ahead of the guidelines, which was

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published in February, keeps mum on the association between breakfast-skipping and obesity. “I just don’t think it surfaced as a priority question,” the committee chair told the Washington Post. The report notes only that breakfast tends to have a “higher overall dietary quality” compared with other meals because of the greater nutrient density of breakfast foods. Presumably they’re not eating Frosted Flakes.)

Those New York researchers did find higher cholesterol levels in the breakfastskippers, which suggests to me that “Does it or doesn’t it make you fat?” is perhaps not the apposite question here, though in recent years it’s one that’s preoccupied nutritionists and, as those federal guidelines indicate, policymakers. There’s plenty of other health benefits breakfast has to recommend to it: regular consumption of the meal has been linked to lower risks of heart disease and type 2 diabetes, for instance.

Of course, in my tender youth, it wasn’t like my mother was telling me to eat a good breakfast so I’d have better cholesterol in middle age. Rather, kids get some hazy bromide about “feeding your brain.” So what about that? Well, a 2013 lit review in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience found that the available information “may indicate that children who eat breakfast are more able to concentrate, pay attention and are more alert at school.” On the other hand, it also noted that much of the research (again) lacked “scientific rigor”: beyond the subjective nature of evaluating kids’ classroom behavior, you’ve got major confounding factors like socioeconomic status, which tends to correlate independently with both academic performance and breakfast-eating.

But what if, as you suggest, we rebrand breakfast-skipping as fasting, in accordance with new diet trends? Eh—the jury’s still out. The case has been made that skipping breakfast—i.e., de facto fasting, assuming you haven’t eaten all night—increases the stress on your body such that it can result in insulin sensitivity, then diabetes, then high blood pressure, etc. The case has also been made (via work with mice, at least) that skipping a meal increases stress on the body such that cells build important defenses, and the skippers end up leaner and healthier. Maybe, by 2020, the feds will have something to offer this discussion; maybe, by 2025, it’ll even be right. n

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A Big, Harry Deal A Utah prosecutor crosses swords with federal investigators.

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ack in March 2014, Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings and Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill went on camera, sitting side by side for an interview with ABC News, urging federal prosecutors to investigate a pair of U.S. senators, one of whom was Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev. Their investigations, they told a reporter, had revealed questionable campaign contributions given by indicted St. George businessman Jeremy Johnson to both senators.

Rawlings told the network reporter: “We’re not ready to pronounce [the] prosecutions of any federal officials.

But I will tell you this: By virtue of somebody being a federal official— be it elected or an appointed official, whatever it is—does not give them immunity from state crime.”

Twenty months later, in response to emailed questions, Rawlings confirmed to City Weekly that he is investigating Sen. Reid as part of his office’s prosecution of former Attorney General Mark Shurtleff on corruption charges. Tired of waiting for the federal government to take action, Rawlings decided to do the job himself, sparking a titanic struggle between Utah and the federal government over just how far a local prosecutor can take a public corruption investigation.

According to charging documents from 2014, both Shurtleff and his heir apparent as attorney general, John Swallow, allegedly had dealings and received donations from Jeremy Johnson. Court documents referenced in both cases detail how Johnson sought Swallow’s help to ward off civil and criminal investigations into his company, IWorks. Johnson went on to allege Reid’s involvement in two bribery schemes. In an email to City Weekly, Rawlings says as a “special assistant Utah attorney general,” he has statewide jurisdiction to look “into allegations related to Sen. Reid and others.” Further, he said he has obligations as a prosecutor that know “no jurisdictional boundary.”

According to a legal source close to the Shurtleff case, the Utah Attorney General’s Office gave Rawlings the special designation because of the obvious conflicts of interest it would face prosecuting

two former AGs. After the Shurtleff and Swallow prosecutions were divided up in December 2014—with Salt Lake County agreeing to prosecute Swallow, and Davis County agreeing to prosecute Shurtleff— Rawlings then sought the authority under Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes to investigate issues involving Shurtleff outside of Davis and Salt Lake County counties—and outside of Utah itself.

Jeremy Johnson claims that Reid was involved in a pay-to-play bribery scheme focused on gambling, the details of which were published in The Salt Lake Tribune in October 2014. A transcript of a conversation that Johnson recorded between himself and Shurtleff included allegations about a group of online poker business owners who had funneled $2 million to Reid in 2010 to get the most powerful Democrat in the Senate to introduce legislation legalizing online poker. According to a June 6, 2013, Associated Press story, Reid as well as Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., in 2014 “pursued federal law to legalize Internet poker but ultimately gave up before even introducing the legislation.”

That wasn’t the only time the name of the Mormon Democratic Senate leader— who grew up dirt poor in Searchlight, Nev.—was mentioned in corruption investigations relating to the Utah Attorney General’s office. In charging documents filed in 2014 by Davis County and Salt Lake County district attorneys, prosecutors laid out a series of email exchanges between Johnson, Swallow and the late Provo payday-loan magnate Richard Rawle. The charging documents allege that Swallow was helping Johnson send funds through Rawle to a contact close to Reid in hopes of securing a meeting with the senator. Johnson claimed he needed Reid’s help to make a Federal Trade Commission case against him disappear.

According to court documents, Johnson sent Rawle $250,000, some of which allegedly went to Swallow.

Reid’s D.C.-based communications director Kristen Orthman issued a statement after City Weekly broke the story of Rawlings investigating Reid, accusing the Davis County Attorney of self-promotion. “This individual has decided to use Sen. Reid’s name to generate attention to himself and advance his political career, so every few months he seeks headlines by floating the same unsubstantiated allegations, which he admits have been dismissed by federal prosecutors.”

Rawlings responded to the statement sarcastically by thanking the spokesperson for, in effect, confirming there had been a prior federal investigation into Reid, albeit one that had apparently led nowhere. He asked Reid’s office to, “Please urge the Department of Justice to provide the exonerating evidence and information, so we do not have to litigate the issues in Utah.”

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Rawlings’ admission that he is now officially investigating Reid comes after Rawlings’ recent attempts to force the DOJ to hand off evidence the FBI and other federal agencies gathered in other investigations. Targets of those investigations included Johnson, Shurtleff and Swallow.

Rawlings wants to know, among other things, what the feds did—or did not do—to trace the money that Johnson allegedly gave to Rawle.

Historically, state and federal prosecutors have had strong Under local scrutiny: U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev. relationships with Utah, says former U.S. federal government deems relevant to Attorney for Utah Brett Tolman, now this prosecution is a classic case of the a high profile white-collar criminal fox guarding the henhouse,” Shurtleff’s defense attorney. The public brawl attorneys wrote. between Rawlings and the DOJ “is It is, however, curious that the something that seems very uncharacSalt Lake County District Attorney’s teristic and unusual. In some ways, it’s Office has not joined Davis County in troubling, because you’d like to think its quest for material from the feds. there is full cooperation between those Shurtleff’s lawyers have argued that entities that are currently tasked with some of the material the Davis County enforcing our criminal laws—in this DA is attempting to wrest from the DOJ case, attempting to hold the former AGs could have an even greater impact on accountable for the allegations that Swallow’s defense than Shurtleff’s. have surfaced against them.”

Swallow’s attorney Scott Williams Tolman cannot explain the rift did not respond to a voice mail seeking between Rawlings and the DOJ but says comment. that until the department says it has All the same, Rawlings says the Salt turned over everything, “You’re going Lake County DA’s office does not have to to see Troy Rawlings continue to pursue follow his lead in investigating Reid, “if, it,” he says. If there are documents out in their judgment, I am off base.” He adds there Rawlings believes can help him that cases can and do end up dismissed prosecute the former Attorney General, “for a prosecutor’s knowing failure to “I wouldn’t blame him getting everypursue and obtain material the defendant thing he can. Whether good for his is constitutionally entitled to.” Part of case or bad for his case, I would want to Rawlings’ dual role as a prosecutor is to know about it,” Tolman says. find evidence that incriminates—but also Given the adversarial relationship that can exonerate—Shurtleff, he notes. of criminal proceedings, it is notable Salt Lake County District Attorney that Shurtleff’s defense team has joined Sim Gill did not comment as to why ranks with those prosecuting their client his office hasn’t joined Davis County in to call for evidence the feds are allegedly its fight with the feds, but he wrote in holding back. Rawlings maintains an email: “Troy and I have worked the Shurtleff has a constitutional right to all investigation together and are prosethe information the feds have gathered. cuting the two matters separately. I Meanwhile, Shurtleff is also trust Troy to make the motions he deems attempting to take the feds to task. He necessary for his case, and I assume [he recently made a statement—through will share] relevant materials … as we his attorneys—criticizing the DOJ and have with him where appropriate.” alluding to the fact that he had served Rawlings writes that he cannot turn as a confidential informant to the FBI away from where the evidence leads and federal prosecutors, feeding both him. “To simply ignore and run from camps information about Johnson’s what has been presented by multiple attempt to bribe a U.S. senator. witnesses and sources, and the potential A month ago, Shurtleff’s law firm impact on the Mark L. Shurtleff case, took the highly unusual step of filing a would mean I am either intentionally motion in support of Rawlings’ request blind, or overly worried.” CW for the feds’ evidence. “The DOJ claim An earlier version of this story appeared at CityWeekly.net on Nov. 17, 2015. that it has produced everything the

NEWS Utah’s $71-million turkey industry booms in a quiet corner of Sanpete Valley.

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to a half of a degree to make sure the turkeys are extremely comfortable.”

During the early stages of the birds’ lives, Cox keeps the barns at a balmy 90 degrees.

But as the turkeys mature, Cox says, the heat is gradually reduced until the air reaches a temperature between 62 and 65 degrees.

Then, at an old age of 14 to 16 weeks, the birds have reached full maturity—around 14 pounds for a female, up to 40 pounds for a male—and they’re sold for processing.

Turkey farming was once more common throughout Utah, Cox says. At one time, he says, a smattering of growers existed in Cache County; and, a few years ago, Norbest operated a hatching facility in St. George, where eggs were sent to incubate. He says that while high elevations are suitable for breeding turkeys, hatch rates are increased at lower elevations.

Although the industry became centralized in Sanpete County, Cox and Wangerien say Norbest is looking to expand elsewhere. Cox says new barns are being built across the state by farmers looking to diversify their agricultural products. And Wangerien says Norbest is looking to double in size over the next two to three years. “[Farmers have] tons and tons of buildings going into this state, and we’re going to be expanding into a lot of areas,” Cox says.

And, like the fabled alfalfa grown in Utah’s high mountain valleys that is sought after the world over, so, Wangerien says, are these mountain-grown turkeys—a roughly 5,000-foot-above-sea-level advantage that birds grown in the Beehive State have over those grown in other parts of the country.

“We think it adds a little uniqueness to our bird,” Wangerien says. CW

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Norbest operated as a co-op until August of this year, when it became an LLC. Roughly 40 percent of the area’s turkey farmers own an interest in it. This helps insulate the farmers from rapid cost shifts and market swings, Wangerien says.

Gary Cox (no immediate relation to Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, who is also from Sanpete Valley) is a third-generation turkey farmer. His operation, Southwest Farms in Manti, is the largest turkey farm in the state, producing 500,000 male turkeys, known as toms.

When one refers to a turkey being “grown”—like a head of lettuce or a tomato— there is some truth to it.

Cox says he receives baby turkeys, or poults, from breeders in California, Iowa and Minnesota, the nation’s largest turkeyproducing state. Just a couple of weeks old, they are small upon arrival, but they start to mature quickly on a diet of corn and soybeans. An important factor in the growth of a turkey is the temperature at which the 60-feet by 600-feet poultry barns are kept.

“Most people don’t realize how it’s a very technical business,” says Cox. “Most of our facilities are run by computers, so that everything is monitored

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hen it comes to food, Utah is known for a few dishes, most notably Jell-O, which Utahns routinely consume at a rate unparalleled by other states. Then there is that other famous local delicacy: funeral potatoes.

Utahns also have a ravenous lust for national chains, such as The Cheesecake Factory and In-N-Out Burger.

But in Sanpete Valley, where Mormon pioneer towns such as Fairview, Manti, Ephraim and Mount Pleasant are beaded along Highway 89 at consistent and picturesque intervals, one agricultural product reigns over the others: turkeys.

Outward indications of the turkey economy aren’t easy to spot along Highway 89. But if you head south on Interstate 15, exiting onto State Route 132, you will see them come into view as you enter the valley from the west, past the southern flank of Mount Nebo.

The squat metal barns stretch out in linear patterns on the outskirts of towns like Fountain Green and Moroni.

Employment statistics compiled in 2009 by the Economic Development Corporation of Utah, a nonprofit that promotes industry, show that Norbest LLC, Utah’s largest turkey processing operation—rivals Snow College in Ephraim

as Sanpete County’s largest employer.

The turkey industry is “tremendously important,” says Bob Wangerien, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Norbest. Roughly “one in five [Sanpete County residents] is associated, or revenue is probably associated, with Norbest,” Wangerien says.

The average American eats around 15 pounds of turkey per year. To help meet that demand, he says, Norbest will produce 4.2 million turkeys this year totaling more than 100 million pounds. Utahns buy only about 10 to 15 percent of Norbest’s turkeys, Wangerien says, a statistic born of the fact that Norbest’s turkeys outnumber Utahns by 1.2 million.

Utah’s wholesale turkey industry accounted for $71 million of the state’s total $1.8 billion in 2014 livestock earnings, according to Larry Lewis of the Utah Department of Agriculture & Food.

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CITIZEN REVOLT In a week, you can

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SOCIAL ACTION

At a time when the world seems cruel and frightening, the YMCA is asking kids and their families to perform 1,000 acts of kindness through December. This Kind Acts Challenge 2015 is sponsored by the Salt Lake and Weber County After School Programs. The idea is to inspire others with your own acts of kindness.

Last year, the Y logged 1,700 acts, and is aiming for 2,000 this year. This can be as easy as bringing in the trash cans.

Y MCAUtah.org/1000kindacts-2015, through Dec. 31

PUBLIC HEARING

Nine conversations you may have around the table this Thanksgiving.

9. Cousin Claire’s friend’s

sister’s old roommate’s new landlord lived in Paris for about a week, like, 10 years ago. But just so you know, she’s totally fine.

8. Your woodworker uncle who won’t stop making sanding puns about Bernie Sanders, claiming they’re part of his “Bernacular.”

7. Your 13-year-old brother

explaining why he won’t take off his Guy Fawkes mask because he wants to remain Anonymous.

6. The University of Utah football team and the fact that—Jeez!

OK, I won’t talk about it.

5. Which dish most resembles Donald Trump’s “hair.”

4. Who at the table would be first to die in The Hunger Games.

3. Your newly vegan sister muttering #turkeylivesmatter all through dinner.

2. Your Grandpa telling you to

get a job and refusing to drink any of your ‘socialist swill.’

1. Dad’s new girlfriend extolling

the virtues of locally sourced cranberries and gluten-free stuffing.

And you thought Salt Lake City was just a disorganized mess. Well, now you can take part in planning for the future— at least 25 years of the future. Plan Salt Lake is a comprehensive, citywide vision plan for the city, and has already gone through an extended review period with public input on many levels.

The City Council will be reviewing it now before a possible adoption. Salt Lake City & County Building, 451 S. State, Council Chambers, Dec. 1, 7 p.m., SLCCouncil.com

SPENDING ACTION

Buy Local First Utah is about to launch Shift Your Spending Week starting on Nov. 27 (Black Friday), through Dec. 5 (which is just a normal-color Saturday). The idea is to shift at least 10 percent of your holiday shopping to locally owned, independent businesses.

They’re even offering businesses “unique and versatile” marketing materials to help them get the message out, Last year, holiday sales for local businesses were up 4.8 percent , which beat retail sales of national brands. Visit LocalFirst.org for more information.

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The Patient Will See You Now Professional patients now help train would-be doctors, especially in the most delicate and dreaded of exams (gynecological and prostate), where a becalming technique improves outcomes.

One “teaching associate” of Eastern Virginia Medical School told The Washington Post in September that the helpers act as “enthusiastic surgical dummies” to 65 medical colleges, guiding rookie fingers through the trainer’s own private parts. The prostate associate might helpfully caution, “No need for speed here,” especially since he will be bending over for as many as nine probings a day. A gynecological teaching associate, mentoring the nervous speculum-wielder, might wittily congratulate pupils on having a front-row sight line the “GTA” will never witness: an up-close view of her own cervix.

increasingly allow customers to sign away state and federal rights by agreeing to contracts providing private arbitration for disputes rather than access to courts—even if the contract explicitly requires only religious resolutions rather than secular, constitutional ones. A November New York Times investigation examined contracts ranging from Scientology’s requirement that fraud claims by members be resolved only by Scientologists—to various consumer issues from home repairs to real estate sales limited to dockets of Christian clerics. n At a ceremony in Kabul in November, prominent Afghan developer Khalilullah Frozi signed a $95 million contract to build an 8,800-unit township and was, according to a New York Times dispatch, toasted for his role in the country’s economic rebirth.

However, at nightfall, Frozi headed back to prison to resume his 15-year sentence for defrauding Kabul Bank of nearly $1 billion in depositors’ money. Because he remains one of Afghanistan’s elite, arrangements were made for him to work days but spend his nights in prison (in comfortable quarters). Said one Western official, laconically, “(I)f you have stolen enough money, you can get away with it.”

Cultural Diversity Before the terrorist murders gripped Paris, President Francois Hollande and Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani had been trying to arrange a formal dinner during Rouhani’s planned visit to the city to celebrate the two countries’ role in the recent accord limiting Iran’s nuclear development. France’s RTL radio news reported that “dinner” is apparently more vexing than “nuclear weaponry”—as Rouhani demanded an alcohol-free meal, which was nixed by Hollande, who insisted that the French never dine without wine.

Compelling Explanations Skeptics feared it was just a matter of time, anyway, until the “political correctness” movement turned its attention to dignity for thieves. San Francisco’s SFGate.com reported in November on a discussion in an upscale neighborhood about whether some-

one committing petty, nonviolent theft should be referred to by the “offensive” term “criminal” (rather than as, for example, “the person who stole my bicycle,” since “criminal” implies a harsher level of evil and fails to acknowledge factors that might have caused momentary desperation by a person in severe need). n Reginald Gildersleeve, 55 and free on bond with an extensive rap sheet, was waving a gun as he threatened a clerk and tried to rob a store in Chicago on Halloween night—until a customer (licensed to carry) drew his own gun and, with multiple shots, killed Gildersleeve. Closer inspection revealed Gildersleeve’s weapon to be merely a paintball gun, leading the deceased man’s stepson to complain later that “Some people (the licensed shooter) don’t actually know how to use guns. They go to firing ranges, but it’s not the same … as a bullet going into flesh. … Someone’s got to answer for that.”

The Continuing Crisis U.S. and European entrepreneurs offer extreme “games” in which liability-waiving “players” volunteer for hours of kidnapping, pain and death threats, but the cult-like, under-the-radar “McKamey Manor” in Southern California (said to have a waiting list of 27,000) is notable for the starkness of its threats of brutality—and the absence of any “safe word” with which a suddenly reluctant player can beg off. (Only Russ McKamey himself decides if a player has had enough.) The “product” is “100 percent fear,” he said. “We’re good at it,” he told London’s The Guardian in an October dispatch from San Diego (whose reporter overheard one of McKamey’s thugs promise, “I’m going to tear that girl (player) apart” and “No one is leaving with eyebrows today”). n In October, the student newspaper of Toronto’s Ryerson University reported a mighty scandal that upset the student body: The school’s executive offices’ restrooms routinely supply two-ply toilet paper while most other campus buildings offer only one-ply. Following up on the hard-hitting Ryerson Eyeopener’s expose, The Canadian Press noted that the universi-

ties of Guelph, Ottawa and Toronto comfort all toilet-users’ bottoms the same. Ryerson officials defensively noted that older plumbing in many of their buildings cannot handle two-ply paper.

Least Competent Criminals Nicholas Allegretto, 23, was convicted of shoplifting in Cambridge, England, in October (in absentia, because he is still at large). The prosecutor knows Allegretto is his man because, shortly after the February theft, police released a surveillance photo of Allegretto leaving the store with the unpaid-for item, and Allegretto had come to a police station to complain that the suddenly public picture made him look guilty. In fact, he claimed, he intended to pay for the item but had gotten distracted (and besides, he added, his body language often looks somewhat “dodgy,” anyway).

Recurring Themes Lowering the Bar in Zero Tolerance: The 6-year-old son of Martha Miele was given an automatic three-day out-of-school suspension at Our Lady of Lourdes in Cincinnati in October after, emulating actions of his favorite Power Rangers characters, he pretended to shoot a bow and arrow at another student.

Principal Joe Crachiolo was adamant, insisting that he has “no tolerance for any real, pretend or imitated violence.” An exasperated Martha Miele confessed she was at a loss about how a 6-year-old boy is supposed to block out the concept of a superhero fighter (and instead imagine, say, a superhero counselor?).

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Latest Religious Messages American Sharia: 1. U.S. parents have a right to home-school their kids, but are subject to varying degrees of regulation, with Texas the most lax, and one El Paso family will have a day before the Texas Supreme Court after one of its kids was reported declining to study because education was useless since he was waiting to be “raptured” (as described in the Bible’s Book of Revelation). 2. U.S. courts

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THE HURT LOCKUP Utah’s failure to adopt federal prison-rape-prevention guidelines enables a cruel, but not so unusual, form of punishment.

By Stephen Dark • sdark@cityweekly.net

ape is a nightmare for any victim, but when the victim is locked up with his or her rapist, it becomes a recurring nightmare with no escape.

Molly Prince is a licensed clinical social worker who has worked with sex offenders since 1996. As founder and president of Utah Prison Advocate Network (UPAN)—a nonprofit dedicated to improving prison life and supporting inmate families and friends—Prince knows only too well of inmates’ struggles to cope. “When you are locked up, and you don’t have any way to escape and protect yourself,” she says, “I’ve got to believe that’s one of the most helpless situations a human being can be in: to be in prison and be sexually assaulted repeatedly and not be able to do anything about it.”

The effects of sexual victimization in detention are pervasive and devastating, with profound physical, social and psychological impacts, says Leslie Miller, sexual-assault response team coordinator at the Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault (UCASA).

“I would dare to say victims suffer greatly because their ability to gain any control over their lives is close to nil,” Miller says.

Prison is designed to remove power from an individual. “You are told when to wake up, eat and sleep,” Miller says. “If you are a victim of sexual violence, you have literally lost all control over your existence. You have no way of escaping your perpetrator.”

While sitting in a drab visiting room at the Utah State Prison, an inmate named “David” (who requested that his name be withheld for this story) claims he came to Utah to get away from using meth. Things didn’t go well, however, and in June 2008, he was arrested for touching a 14-year-old girl at a water park. Six months later, the 22-year-old was sentenced to serve 1 to 15 years for several childsex offenses. He served three years at the Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison before being transferred to the Utah State Prison in Draper.

A slender 5-foot-11, with watery blue eyes, David has a distinctly nerdish appearance. “I’m a childsex offender, I’m small, and I’m weaker than other inmates,” he says. That, he says, should have rendered him as a “Sigma” in the prison’s personality-profile classification, which determines housing, someone who is essentially passive and easily victimized by predators. But his housing classification was “Kappa,” meaning the guards characterized him as aggressive and lacking empathy, or a troublemaker. He was housed with other Kappas, who, contemptuous of his sex-offender status, beat him up, he says.

David learned that sex offenders only found acceptance if they “bought” it. He noticed sex offenders would take care of their cellmates, buy them a TV, perhaps, or provide sex.

After several years behind bars in Gunnison, David felt he was starting to fit in, that he could relax his guard. In July 2011, however, he was moved to a new cell with an inmate who was a serial rapist. Another inmate warned David that his new cellmate physically abused those he shared a cell with. What David later found out, he says, was that the 43-year-old also had a history of raping cellmates. A court filing by the prison, however, claims that David’s cellmate had no complaints against him by other inmates.

One night, just days after David moved in, his cellmate attacked him twice. Each time after David was raped that night, his assailant stood by the emergency button used to communicate with guards, as if taunting him to push it.

As soon as officers opened the cells for the morning medication line, David told an officer what had happened and that he had an internal injury from the assault.

David was transported to the hospital where a Sexual Assault Nursing Examiner (SANE) performed a rape kit, a deeply intrusive evidence-gathering process that includes intimate photographs. His bloody shorts were booked as potential evidence and a doctor tended his wounds. In a 2012 court filing, David detailed both physical and emotional injuries from being raped.

Rape is not a topic that is broached in prison. “Nobody talks about [rape] around here,” David says. His eyes glass-over with unshed tears as he talks about the aftermath of the assault. “It was rough for a while,” he says. He filed a complaint against his rapist, which was investigated by the prison’s internal police, the Law Enforcement Bureau (LEB). The LEB sent the case to the Sanpete County Attorney, but no charges were filed.

Utah has taken positive steps in addressing sexual assault in the community, through recent legislation aimed at, for example, tackling the backlog in rape-kit processing. But when it comes to preventing the sexual assault of inmates in prison and jails, along with minors in juvenile-detention facilities, advocates say that Utah, along with three other states, took a huge step backward in May 2015 in declining to comply with the U.S. Department of Justice’s rape-prevention guidelines of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA).

In November 2014, Leslie Miller with UCASA completed her training in auditing prisons and jails to PREA standards.

Those standards include, she says, “guidelines that will help foster a safe environment for those incarcerated.”

She believes prisons and jails that implement PREA can mitigate sexual violence. “Inmates have access to physical and mental health services, they have access to confidential advocacy,” she says. “They should have access to a thorough investigation, safe housing, and the best alternatives that will promote their safety and well being.”

As communication director for Just Detention International, a nonprofit advocacy group formerly called Stop Prison Rape, Jesse Lerner-Kinglake says that the standards are “common-sense policy” and include educating all new prisoners about their rights and how to get help if they are under threat or sexually abused, along with developing partnerships with rape crisis centers in the community. “If an inmate is assaulted, they should have access to the same level of care available in the community.”

So why does the state of Utah object to the federal guidlelines of PREA? Through a records request,

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In 2001, Human Rights Watch published “No Escape,” a disturbing analysis of the brutal, degrading and unchecked nature of sexual assault

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in U. S . prisons.

One inmate told Human Rights Watch that rape in prison is a daily occurrence and even where a prisoner engages in sexual acts without being forced, he “is still a victim of rape because ... deep inside, this prisoner (does) not want to do the things that he is doing but he thinks that it is the only way that he can survive.”

Rape in prison, the report noted, has far less to do with sexual deprivation than the expression of power and control. “In the prison context, where power and hierarchy are key, rape is an expression of power. It unequivocally establishes the aggressor’s dominance, affirming his masculinity, strength, and control at the expense of the victim’s.” One inmate noted in the report that the more oppressive the facility, “the higher the incidents of assaultive behavior in general.”

Two years after the report was published, then-President George W. Bush signed into law the Prison Rape Elimination Act. It would take another 10 years before federal standards would be finalized in 2012.

The final standards included screening inmates for potential for victimization and using that information to house them, investigating all incidents of sexual abuse, performing rape kits, providing rape crisis advocacy to victims and ensuring ways to report both within the prison and to external bodies in order to maintain anonymity.

Sharon Daurelle was director of the Office of Victims Services at Utah Department of Corrections (UDOC) in the 2000s. While corrections officers across the country historically viewed inmates reporting sexual assault as attempts to manipulate their housing, Daurelle told the Deseret News in 2007, that inmates who report assault are likely to be telling the truth. “If you self-identify as a victim of sexual assault in the prison, you’re really setting

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City Weekly accessed a May 2014 letter the state submitted to the federal PREA Management Office at the Bureau of Justice Assistance in Washington, D.C. In the letter, Gov. Gary Herbert wrote that Utah is so concerned with prison rape “that we have evaluated carefully every line of PREA and the implementing regulations, and we have implemented, or are in the process of implementing, every recommendation that is good policy for Utah.” Indeed, the prison acted on most of the recommendations “prior to the passage of PREA in 2003,” Utah State Prison spokeswoman Brooke Adams writes in an email.

But, Herbert wrote, state administrators were opting out of PREA because of costs to audit the program in Utah correctional facilities and the fact that some guidelines could actually “undermine our efforts to eliminate prison rape.” He cited a guideline that required officers of the opposite gender from inmates to announce their presence in a housing unit. That, he wrote, “can create dangerous situations for the officers and can create an opportunity for inmates perpetrating sexual assault to stop and hide their offenses.”

In a November 2014 letter, an assistant attorney general with the Bureau of Justice Assistance responded that the guideline was simply to stop officers encountering opposite gender inmates while they were undressing, showering or using the toilet.

More than anything, the emails from the governor’s office (produced in response to City Weekly’s records request) shed light on Utah’s long-standing dislike of federal mandates. In one email, Ron Gordon, the director of the Utah Commission on Criminal & Juvenile Justice, wrote to a state colleague about Utah’s non-compliance, saying, “We do not support Congress overstepping its bounds and trying to legislate in every state.”

Such political posturing, however, came with a price tag. States that opted out of PREA faced a 5 percent cut in federal grants relating to sexual assault issues. In Utah’s case, that amounts to nearly $220,000 cut from $1.5 million in state funding received through the federal Violence Against Women Act. That’s money that would have gone to victim assistance for rape survivors in the community, says Rape Recovery Center’s executive director Holly Mullen. “Our state sometimes wants to act politically and work politically, but what they do can come back to hurt victims.” She says the funding cut is “very troubling.”

Miller and other rape prevention advocates aren’t buying that Utah has implemented PREA in all but name alone. A 2012 report titled “Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails reported by Inmates,” prepared by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), featured anonymous survey results of adults and minors in prisons, jails and detention centers across the country. Out of 233 state and federal prisons, Utah State Prison had the 11th highest rate of inmate-on-inmate sexual victimization. While the national average for inmates reporting severe sexual assaults was 4 percent in prisons [and 3.2

percent in jails], in Utah, it was 5.6 percent.

That makes Utah’s decision to opt out of PREA inexplicable to advocates. “It’s incredibly disappointing that Utah is out of sync with the rest of the country,” says Lerner-Kinglake with Just Detention International.

Records received from the prison and the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s office show that Utah’s inmates who broke the prison culture’s code of silence to complain of assault, did so only to rarely ever see their assailants prosecuted in court.

Utah State Prison’s inmate population is close to 7,000. Out of 87 sexual assault incidents at the prison between 2011 and 2014, 21 inmates filed complaints of rape. However, only one Utah prison inmate who complained about sexual assault out of 87 incidents saw his victimizer prosecuted in court, with the inmate pleading guilty to lewdness.

Utah and Idaho (also not in compliance with PREA) have been in discussions to develop a mutual auditing process, where each prison administration would audit the other, to ensure “we are doing all we can to keep offenders safe,” an unnamed prison employee wrote in an email to the CCJJ’s Gordon. The planned alliance, however, seems somewhat questionable given that the survey that ranks Utah State Prison as 11th on the inmate-on-inmate sexual-assault list has Idaho’s Maximum Security Institution at No. 2.

The Utah State Prison faces serious challenges in attempting to address prison rape. Utah Prison spokeswoman Adams writes in an email that the Draper prison currently faces shortages of around 125 officers, while the Gunnison mediumsecurity prison is down 19. In order to maintain a full staff, some officers either provide voluntary or mandatory overtime shifts. Three housing units have also been closed and inmates are being moved to other units or county jails.

Under these constraints, “It’s got to be really, really difficult to make sure that everyone is protected,” Prince, with the Utah Prison Advocate Network, says.

Some see rape as part of the penance for prisoners, especially sex offenders. But such perceptions fail to address the impact on sexual-assault victims and the fact that such inmates, upon release, will return to the community with their psychological and emotional wounds yet to heal. “We have to understand that those that are victimized in our detention facilities will one day get out and be members of society, and they’ll be coming out dealing with this trauma of sexual assault,” UCASA’s Miller says.

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for which is posted throughout the facility. Such is the prison grapevine, however, an ex-con tells City Weekly, that calling the hotline to report an assault without other inmates knowing is very difficult.

In addition to the hotline, Fawson writes, “any inmate may contact an officer, caseworker, volunteer or family member to make a report.”

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yourself up as a target for further victimization. You get labeled, and if you turn it in to authorities, you get labeled again. We have found, generally speaking, that if somebody comes forward with a report, and they’ve had to face all those other obstacles, it has some validity.”

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In early May 2015, national media revealed that Utah was one of four states not complying with PREA and the criticism of Utah’s position stung. Emails obtained through a record request show that Jacey Skinner, general counsel to the governor’s office, wrote to Utah Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice’s Ron Gordon that the state needed to explain what it was doing, “so that the story is not, as was tweeted by the ACLU earlier today, that we are a ‘renegade state’ that does not care about eliminating prison rape.

The reason the governor has not sent a letter confirming compliance with PREA is detailed and based on conflicts with the state’s own diligent efforts to prevent this unacceptable behavior in our correctional facilities.”

Doug Fawson is a 32-year UDOC employee, working as victim-services coordinator and PREA coordinator for six years. In an emailed response to questions, Fawson said the prison established a Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) in 2005 to respond to sexual-assault allegations. That same year, 75 staff members, including the SART team, received training from UCASA. The prison decided to shift its training in-house in 2008, the prison’s SART team members taking over PREA training at the prison, Fawson writes. All correction officers have to do an annual online PREA training program.

PREA guidelines emphasize the need for confidential reporting. “We operate a free PREA telephone hotline,” Fawson writes, the information

City Weekly requested copies of all sexual assault complaints filed by inmates over a five-year period. The prison instead provided sexual-assault survey forms generated by the prison for the year 2010 and Department of Justice survey forms from 2011 to 2014. The federal government requires annual survey data on sexual assault behind bars as part of PREA. The anonymous forms paint a bleak picture. (Data for this story was extracted from the DOJ forms.)

Between 2011 and 2014, according to figures supplied to City Weekly by the prison, there were 87 incidents of sexual assault. Fifty-nine incidents allegedly took place in Draper, and five in Gunnison. The reports show that 25 inmates were victims of nonconsensual sexual assault, which includes rape, object rape and forcible sodomy.

Twenty-one complaints were made by the victims themselves.

Seventeen inmates received counseling and 21 had medical exams. Rape kits were done on only three inmates. Fawson wrote that a SANE nurse at the Family Justice Center reviews rape allegations and advises whether a rape kit is needed, based on the time frame between the event and the report as well as evidence preservation.

The documents list 81 perpetrators, although that number is muddied due to some instances of multiple assailants. There were 36 incidences of male-on-male assaults, and 13 of female-on-female reports.

The surveys identified three cases of staff sexual misconduct, one of which was described in the report as “a romantic relationship,” while another— the only one of the three slated for prosecution— was labeled by a corrections’ officer as “a sexual relationship between inmate and staff that appeared to be willing.” Prison spokeswoman Adams writes in an email that, “Staff-on-inmate sexual assault is always a crime, even if claims are made that it was consensual. There is no need to prove lack of consent.

We will always refer such cases for prosecution.”

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In total, the prison deemed 41 of the sexual assault incidents as voluntary, meaning that officers completing the surveys viewed them as consensual acts rather than assaults.

What makes prison rape so insidious, advocates

say, is that within the coercive nature of prison or jail life, the weak obey the strong. That makes the very idea of consensual sex questionable. “Where prisoners feel unprotected and know in advance that their escape routes are closed, a narrow focus on consent is misguided,” the Human Rights Watch report on rape in prison noted. “In other words, the relevant inquiry in evaluating sexual activity in prison is not simply ‘did the inmate consent to sex?’ but also ‘did the inmate have the power to refuse unwanted sex?’”

Forty-four perpetrators were sanctioned by prison officials and typically were moved to higher security levels in the prison, including solitary, according to survey forms. However, 34 victims were also moved to other parts of the prison or to other facilities, 11 of which were sent to administrative segregation, also know as solitary and restrictive housing. The fear of being moved to solitary is one reason several advocates cited for why many inmates do not report sexual assaults.

But, prison spokeswoman Adams disagrees, noting that, “Very seldom, if ever, is it necessary for an inmate who has alleged a sexual assault to be moved to restrictive housing.”

Reporting a sexual assault in prison can be a profoundly isolating experience. A complainant could become labeled with a “snitch jacket,” slang for a reputation as an informant. It also pins a target on their backs for further assaults.

UCASA’s Miller, who worked for Corrections for 20 years, says staff could label a complainant as a troublemaker. Much like assault victims in the free world, “you’re putting your own emotional and mental health at risk of not being supported or believed,” she adds.

Miller says the numbers from the data request seem not only significantly under-reported but also raise the question, “What is the benefit of reporting? If you are truly being harmed, the numbers tell me that nothing happens. If nobody’s being held accountable for causing harm, then why report, why put yourself out there?”

Everything boils down to safety, UPAN’s Prince says. “In prison you really don’t have a lot of places to hide.” If your victimizer is powerful—either physically or through supplying drugs—he will learn that an inmate is talking because people are either afraid of him or he controls the distribution of contraband in his block. “For victims to report rape in prison,” Prince says. “I think it’s terrifying for them, they’re really putting their future on the line.”

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“If you do report [that you’ve been raped at the prison], you’re going to have a lot more anger if you don’t get some kind of justice, if the person is not held accountable,” Prince says.

Inmates face a different scale of values than those outside the prison walls. “If you’re an inmate, the value of your life is not the same as on the outside,” Prince says. “Somebody kills you, they are not going to get the same sentence as if it was out here and they kill you. The same thing goes for rape.” Combine that with the stereotype of prisoners not being good witnesses

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In David’s case, pressing charges against his alleged assailant yielded little in the way of justice.

On Feb. 27, 2014, more than two years after his cellmate raped him, David was pulled out of his cell for a meeting with a prison investigator and the Sanpete County Attorney Brody Keisel.

David says Keisel told him the state wasn’t going to prosecute his former cellmate, despite the state having DNA evidence that the assault took place. David recalls Keisel telling him, “As always with these incidents, just because there is DNA, it doesn’t mean it wasn’t consensual. The defense is going to be, ‘Yes, we did have sex, but it was consensual,’ they will say.”

Keisel explains that the long gap between David filing his complaint and the prosecutor deciding not to pursue it in court was due to an administrative glitch. That decision, Keisel says, was ultimately based on lack of evidence. “I’ll say, right now, it may very well have happened just the way he explained it,” Keisel says. But in terms of the burden faced by the prosecution and the amount of evidence available, “it came down to (David)’s word against [the alleged assailant’s], plain out.”

UCASA’s Miller says one PREA guideline recommendation that would have helped David, but which as yet is not available at the prison, is external confidential advocacy, primarily through an agency such as the Rape Recovery Center (RRC). “Non-judgmental support helps survivors tremendously as they recover from this traumatic event,” Miller says. She questions the confidentiality of the counseling David received from the prison.

Prison spokeswoman Adams writes that the prison is working on establishing a relationship with an external advocacy group. One issue, however, is who will pay for it. The RRC hotline number will be added to posters being prepared for housing units, along with the PREA hotline number. Adams says calls to RRC will be confidential. Calls to the PREA hotline, on the other hand, are “reviewed” by the shift commander who sends the information to Fawson. Inmate calls to the PREA hotline are “not monitored as in the sense of other calls to the prison,” says Adams.

Another PREA guideline focuses on screening inmates for vulnerability. While David’s criminal complaint against his former cellmate did not gain

traction in the state court system, he’s had more success pursuing a civil rights lawsuit against the prison before U.S District Court Judge Clark Waddoups, focusing on what he argues is his wrongful classification that housed him with a predator, subjecting him to “cruel and unusual punishment.”

Prison spokeswoman Adams wouldn’t comment on David’s civil suit but did acknowledge that the prison classification system—which dates back to 1987, and, she writes, “is used to predict institutional behavior of all kinds”—is currently being evaluated by a prison classification-systems consultant.

David recently completed his sex-offender treatment program and is awaiting his parole rehearing next year. Upon release, scheduled for April 2017, he hopes to return to his home state of California and go to college.

With a new prison set to be built near the Salt Lake City International Airport, one question for those designing the new facility might be how the facility could be designed to prevent sexual assault. Adams simply noted, “We believe a new prison will provide increased security and safety for all inmates.”

For now, sexual-assault victims are left to fall back on their own resources and address their trauma the best they can upon release. Mullen with the Rape Recovery Center says she can envision paroled inmates who experienced sexual assault in prison but who received little support or professional help to address the trauma he or she suffered, “more easily returning to crime and violence on the outside.” In the face of a perceived threat, “acting out against others or self-harm may seem rational to this person,” she says. When trauma is left “unresolved or dismissed or ignored by others, the victim simply can’t heal. That doesn’t bode well for the victim or for the community.”

While PREA standards may seem rudimentary, Miller says they are better than nothing. “My overall impression is I’m a proponent for PREA.” Faced with Utah being one of four states refusing to adopt federal standards, she shakes her head. “I don’t think 47 states can be wrong.” CW

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and that sexual-assault cases prosecutors say are difficult to win, it’s hardly surprising that very few rape victims in prison see their assailant held accountable.

Just Detention International’s Lerner-Kinglake says the rate of referrals of sexual assault complaints is typically very low, “absent a slamdunk case,” he says. “The vast majority of cases are found to be unsubstantiated and also ones that are substantiated, there is very often no follow-up consequences.”

Prison spokeswoman Adams, however, points to a different reason for why so few cases reach court. “The primary reason that reports end up not being sent on for screening is because the inmate declines to pursue a prosecution,” she writes— basically, not wanting to go to court. “For these inmates, a primary objective is ensuring their own personal safety by being housed away from an alleged perpetrator.” For those inmates who do want to pursue prosecution, the prison contacts prosecutors. “It is the DA’s call whether to pursue criminal charges,” she adds.

Inmates are far more likely to get a judicial reckoning if allegations are proven that staff, rather than inmates, molested them. In response to record requests made to Corrections and the Salt Lake County District Attorney asking for the number of prison sexual-assault cases referred for prosecution in the 2011-14 time frame, City Weekly learned that a total of 17 cases were screened with prosecutors in Salt Lake, Sanpete and Weber counties. Of those cases, the Salt Lake County DA prosecuted only one inmate-on-inmate case and declined six others.

But it prosecuted five cases of staff-on-inmate sexual-abuse allegations while declining only one.

Sanpete and Weber counties declined three cases, and Sanpete dismissed one.

The only inmate-on-inmate sexual-assault case the Salt Lake County DA prosecuted was a charge of forcible sexual abuse. The prison inmate charged with the crime took a plea deal to a reduced charge of lewdness, after confessing to prison investigators that he touched the prisoner’s genitals whom he sat next to in the cafeteria.

“I just wanted to touch him to get aroused,” the inmate told a prison investigator, according to the charging document.

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FRIDAY 11.27

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The Letter That You’re Writing Christmas in Color Doesn’t Mean You’re Not Dead Outdoor Light Display Artworks speak not only to the viewer, but also to each other. In this artistic equation, one plus one equals three. Florida-based artists Benjamin Zellmer Bellas and Noelle Mason each create an exhibit at CUAC Contemporary Art, both titled The Letter That You’re Writing Doesn’t Mean You’re Not Dead.

In the back section of CUAC’s bifurcated exhibition space, Mason has fashioned dozens of handmade embroideries on lace handkerchiefs (detail pictured), describing details of the Columbine High School massacre—including love letters and other personal revelations—from the point of view of the shooters. An oversize print of a still from the surveillance video is also featured, for an installation piece that is nothing less than incendiary. As a whole, her works examine the sensationalism of the media, as well as the self-mythologizing nature of the written, declarative mode.

Zellmer Bellas’ work, in the front of the gallery, looks at landscape in unusual ways. According to the exhibit description, the photographs of shadows cast by birch trees were printed from paper made from the bark of those same trees.

An array of empty frame hangers was taken from an exhibit of photos by John James Audubon, an emphatic statement about the vanishing nature of wilderness. You have to take his word about the genesis of these and the rest of his works, and his booklet accompanying the exhibit is completely engrossing.

The two artists’ work connects in a dialogue about the nature of loss, and what is preserved in the aftermath. The viewer is left to connect the dots between the two. (Brian Staker) The Letter That You’re Writing Doesn’t Mean You’re Not Dead @ CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, 385-215-6768, through Jan. 8.

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Every holiday season, families head out together in search of festive illuminated decorations.

Sometimes they’ll find neighborhoods full of cars packed with eager viewers, resulting in traffic jams. Or people decide to head out on foot and wind up chilled to the bone. It’s enough to make you consider staying at home and staring at a TV Yule log.

Utah native Richard Holdman—founder of Animated Color, one of the producers of the popular Midway Ice Castles—has come up with a dazzling solution for those who want to enjoy holiday-light displays. And this one ranks among the most ambitious such displays ever created: an outdoor showcase of more than a million LED lights, including tunnels and towering Christmas trees. In this brand-new creation from Holdman— whose own house display has racked up nearly 40 million YouTube views—visitors will take a 20-minute ride through a Kearns neighborhood, listening on their radios to beloved holiday tunes that work in synchronization with the light show.

It’s a unique drive-through spectacle, all from the warmth of your own vehicle.

Tickets and reservations are available exclusively online, as a way to manage traffic flow; no guests will be admitted who show up without pre-payment, so be prepared. Start a new holiday tradition, and make your reservation early. (Scott Renshaw) Christmas in Color Outdoor Light Display @ enter at Ed Mayne Street off 4800 West, Oquirrh Park, Kearns, Nov. 27-Jan. 2, Monday-Thursday, 5:30-10 p.m., $20 per vehicle; Friday-Saturday and Christmas week, 5:30-11 p.m., $25. Pre-purchase only.

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SATURDAY 11.28 Messiah Sing-In

Opportunities to perform with a group of pros are rare. The Utah Jazz generally don’t invite you to come make a spot start for them. The actors at Pioneer Theatre Co. don’t ask you to say their lines along with them. So when the Utah Symphony invites you to get in on the act, it’s time to step up.

Whether you think you’re a good singer, or you know you’re not a good singer but still like to belt out the tunes, the symphony invites you to sing with them at the annual Messiah Sing-In on Saturday night at Abravanel Hall. The evening features highlights from The Messiah, the oratorio for which George Frideric Handel (pictured) is best known, and which is still running 273 years after its Dublin debut. With the symphony providing accompaniment, and the Utah Symphony Chorus offering some guidance, thousands join as one voice to mark the opening of the holiday season and sing, “Hallelujah!”

The list of other chorus pieces typically includes “And the glory of the Lord,” “For unto us a child is born,” “Glory to God in the highest,” “His yoke is easy” and “Worthy is the lamb.” To give the singing audience a break, four professional vocalists are on hand to tackle the solos.

The annual performance of “Hallelujah,” one of the most recognized choruses in history, will be followed the first weekend in December by another famous chorus as the Utah Symphony performs Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” in conjunction with multiple choirs. (Geoff Griffin) Utah Symphony: Messiah Sing-In @ Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, Nov. 28, 7 p.m., $10-$41.

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MONDAY 11.30

Utah 2015: Photography, Craft, Video & Digital Works

Utah’s Division of Arts & Museums commemorates 116 years of juried exhibitions and artistic competitions in the state, and this year’s competition is the first to include video and digital works along with its photography and crafts competition.

From more than 400 works entered, 56 were selected as the best representation of this variety of media produced in the state. The Statewide Annual Competition rotates categories every year; last year was painting, sculpture and installation, and 2016 will be mixed media/works on paper.

It’s an intriguing blend of traditional and high-tech media that gives us a work like Brian Christensen’s “Breath of Life” composed of blown glass, steel and breath condensation displayed in the same room with Susan Harris’ “Three Sided Jar” (pictured), of black stoneware, laterite wash, reduction cooled. It also gives pause to consider that a medium such as photography, which was once a new technology, was then eclipsed by digital art, which was then again transformed by digital technology. And then a work like Heidi Moller Somsen’s “Papoose” combines an old technology like bicycle inner tubes along with natural elements such as willow branches to create an innovative work of art, demonstrating the resourcefulness of local artists.

The list of award recipients, presented Nov. 20 at the opening reception, included Best In Show winner Amy Jorgensen’s high-definition video “Far From the Tree,” as well as six jurors’ awards and two honorable mentions. (Brian Staker) Utah 2015: Photography, Craft, Video & Digital Works @ Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., 801-245-7270, through Jan. 8, 2016. VisualArts.Utah.gov

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s winter approaches, grizzly bears become hyperphagic: That is, during this annual autumnal phase, bears aggressively consume as much food as possible, packing on essential body fat they will need to survive until spring.

Even with all this preparation, bears’ basic bodily functions slow as they enter hibernation, allowing them to conserve energy through long winters in their dens. Their respiration and heart rate slow.

Metabolism slows. Body temperature lowers. If you’ve ever experienced winter camping, you might have some idea what hibernation feels like—gorging on calories, and then burrowing into a warm den for a long dark night of fitful sleep.

Winter camping is for hearty souls.

Though it may seem an elite activity achievable only by the likes of Caroline Gleich and Conrad Anker—professional mountaineers decked out with top-of-the-line gear—it’s certainly possible for anyone with the desire, some gumption and a little know-how.

My earliest experience with winter camping is less an example of preparation and good practices than a story of learning through trial and error. It goes back to a cold September in Wyoming— winter comes early in those parts. I was on a work assignment camped out in the Gros Ventre Wilderness. Night temperatures were consistently dropping into the low 30s. I’d been pitching a tent to sleep in, but no matter what I tried, I couldn’t get warm.

One night, I decided not to set my tent.

Instead I spread my space blanket—a 7-by5-foot sheet of aluminum lined with a plastic polyethylene film and Astrolar reinforcing fabric—out on the ground. My sleeping pad and bag went on top, and after sliding into my bag I pulled the other half of the thin blanket over the top and, in true burrito fashion, tucked the end back under the other side of my pad. In the morning, a thick layer of ice crystals spread over the top of

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the space blanket, but I was warm, dry and rested. Without knowing it, I had employed some of winter camping’s best practices People often think that it’s the clothing material, or sleeping bag, that keeps them safe from the cold. In reality, what insulates your body from winter chill is air. Between your skin and each layer of clothing, or between the feathers in a down sleeping bag, is a micro gap of space—what’s called “dead air.” This dead air is a poor conductor of heat, and holds the warmth we generate close to our body. When we layer clothing or sleeping materials, each added layer creates another air gap, increasing heat retention.

Back in Wyoming, it took a lot longer for my body to heat the space of the tent than to heat the spaces between my bag and my space blanket. It also helped that my space blanket, a recommended addition to any wilderness first-aid kit, was designed specifically to radiate my body heat—as much as 80 percent—back at me.

I haven’t always been so lucky.

There have been plenty of failed winter camping trips, including one that, in my circle of friends, will go down in infamy. We’d stopped for a night just outside of Kanab and pitched an enormous family-size canvas tent atop 6 inches of old snow. By morning my feet were so white and numb, I worried I wouldn’t be able to revive them. My friends didn’t fare much better.

There were a number of things we’d done wrong, including trying to winter-camp in a three-seasons tent; only four-season tents are designed for the cold. But the experience could have been entirely different, even with our summer gear, if we’d followed some essential winter camping protocol: warm up before you go to bed (do jumping jacks if you have to); brush off snow from your clothing and shoes before getting in the tent (to avoid condensation inside); take off damp clothes (like socks) and replace them with dry layers; wear layers to bed; get a bag that’s rated lower than the nighttime temperature you will be in (if it gets to -15 degrees F, bring a bag rated for -30 degrees F) or use a bivy sack inside your bag (it can increase the rating by 10-15 degrees).

Winter doesn’t have to mean packing your camping supplies into storage until spring. It just means planning for different conditions, and gathering around a blazing campfire under the stars before slipping into a warm den for a long, long sleep. CW

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WEDNESDAY 12.2

Primary Children’s Hospital Festival of Trees One way to rekindle the holiday spirit after the Black Friday fallout is to spend the day at Salt Lake City’s annual Festival of Trees. To accommodate this one-stop shop for all things yuletide, the South Towne Convention Center is transformed into a surrogate North Pole. Attendees can admire the 700-plus trees decorated by several local organizations, check out mindboggling feats of cookie-based engineering at the Gingerbread Village and pick up a fresh-baked cinnamon roll for some holiday sweetness.

Not only do admission proceeds go to Primary Children’s Hospital, but the wide variety of trees can be purchased via silent auction to raise additional funds for the hospital. This year’s event marks 45 years of operation, during which time the Festival of Trees has raised more than $37 million for Primary Children’s. If surrounding yourself with wall-to-wall cheer while donating to a truly noble cause doesn’t say it’s time for the holidays, what does?

(Alex Springer) Festival of Trees @ South Towne Expo Center, 9575 S. State, Dec. 2-5, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., $6. FestivalofTreesUtah.org

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LITERARY EVENTS

Salt City Slam! Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, Nov. 30, $5 cover, SamWellers.com

SPECIAL EVENTS FARMERS MARKETS

Downtown Winter Market Rio Grande Depot, 300 S. Rio Grande St. (450 West), alternate Saturdays, Nov. 21, 2015–April 23, 2016, 10 a.m.2 p.m., SLCFarmersMarket.org

SEASONAL EVENTS

7th Annual Thanksgiving Dinner Church at Liberty Park, 662 E.1300 South, Salt Lake City, Nov. 26, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

7th Annual Turkey Leg 5k 160 South Main, Farmington, Nov. 26, 7 a.m., $20 pre-registration; $25 day of race Cannery Christmas Market Cannery Boutique, 2005 N. Washington Blvd., Ogden, 801-7828747, Nov. 28, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., CanneryCenter.com Christmas in Color Ed Mayne St./Oquirrh Park, 5624 S. Cougar Lane, Kearns, Nov. 27-Jan. 2, Monday-Saturday, ChristmasInColor.net Christmas Nativity Celebration Kaysville Tabernacle, 198 W. Center, Kaysville, Nov. 27, 2-9

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Johnny Worthen: The Finger Trap Barnes & Noble Sugar House, 1104 E. 2100 South, 801463-2610, Nov. 28, 5 p.m., BarnesandNoble.com Jennifer Adams, Rubin Pingk, Jennifer Jenkins, Jeff Metcalf, Emily Wing Smith & Julie Checkowaywork: Indies First Day The King’s English, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Nov. 28, 10 a.m., KingsEnglish.com Rosemary Wells: Felix Stands Tall The King’s English, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Nov. 28, 11 a.m.-noon, KingsEnglish.com

Aspen Winds Chamber Music Provo Library, 550 N. University Ave., Provo, 801-852-6650, Nov. 30, 7 p.m., ProvoLibrary.com Illuminati Concert Eccles Center, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-655-3114, Nov. 28, 7:30 p.m., EcclesCenter.org Messiah Sing-In Utah Symphony, Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-533-6683, Nov. 28, 7 p.m., UtahSymphony.org, see p. 26 New Music Ensemble Dumke Recital Hall, 1375 Presidents Circle, 801-581-6762, Nov. 30, 7:30 p.m. Music.utah.edu The Snowman Covey Center for the Arts, 425 W. Center St., Provo, 801-852-7007, Dec. 2-3, 7:30 p.m., UtahValleySymphony.org BYU University Orchestra & Strings Harris Fine Arts Center, 1 University Hill, Provo, 801422-4636, Dec. 1, 7 p.m., Calendar.BYU.edu

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Christmas Village Parade, Gala & Fireworks Show Parade: 22nd Street to 28th Street, 2500 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 5:30 p.m.; Gala & Fireworks: Municipal Building, 2549 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 6:30 p.m.; Nov. 28, 801-399-4357, OgdenCity.com Christmas Village Municipal Gardens, 25th St. & Grant Avenue, Ogden, 801-399-4357, Nov. 30-Jan. 1, OgdenCity.com Cottonwood Heights Thanksgiving Day 5k Cottonwood Heights Recreation Center, 7500 South 2700 East, Salt Lake City, 801-943-3190, Nov. 26, 9 a.m.

Draper City Tree Lighting Draper City Park, 12500 S. 1300 East, Draper, Nov. 30, 6 p.m.

Elf Displays & Scavenger Hunt Gardner Village, 1100 W. 7800 South, West Jordan, Nov. 20-Dec. 24, Monday-Saturday, GardnerVillage. com Feast With the Beast Hogle Zoo, 2600 E. Sunnyside Ave., Nov. 26, HogleZoo.com Festival of Trees Sandy Expo Center, 9575 S. State, Sandy, Dec. 2-5, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., FestivalofTreesUtah.org Giving Tree Festival National Ability Center, 1000 Ability Way, Park City, Nov. 28, 6 p.m., ParkCityRotary.com Holiday Electric Light Parade 801-399-4357, Nov. 28, 5:30 p.m., OgdenCity.com Kids and Christmas Peery’s Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 801-689-8700, Dec. 1, 7-8:30 p.m., EgyptianTheaterOgden.com Lights On Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main, 801535-6110, Nov. 27, 4-6 p.m., TheGallivanCenter. com Santa Claus & Paws Station Park, 833 Clark Lane, Farmington, Nov. 30, 4 p.m.

Santa’s Reindeer Thanksgiving Point, 3003 N. Thanksgiving Way, Lehi, Nov. 27-Dec. 23, Monday-Saturday, noon-10 p.m., ThanksgivingPoint.com Utah County Christmas Expo Utah Valley Convention Center, 111 S. University Ave., Provo, Nov. 27-28, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., ZooLights Hogle Zoo, 2600 E. Sunnyside Ave., Dec. 2-31, HogleZoo.com

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622-5588, Nov. 28, 8 p.m., WiseGuysComedy. com/Ogden Bryan Callen Wiseguys, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Nov 27-28, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., WiseGuysComedy.com Comedians Give Dating Advice Sandy Station, 8925 S. Harrison St., Sandy, 385-743-1136, Nov. 28, 8:30 p.m., SandyStation.com

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Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, Nov. 6-Jan. 16; artist reception Nov. 13, 7 p.m.; UtahMoca.org Brian Bress: Make Your Own Friends Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, 801-581-7332, through Jan. 10, UMFA.Utah.edu Brian Christensen: Reconfigure On display at Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111 E. 300 South, through Feb. 7; artist reception Oct. 8, 6-9 p.m.; CUArtCenter.org Bridgette Meinhold: Timing Is Everything Gallery MAR, 580 Main St., Park City, 435-6493001, Nov. 27-Dec. 11, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; artist’s reception Nov. 27, 6 p.m.; GalleryMar.com Cheryl Sandoval: Steps from the Reservation Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts, 631 W. North Temple, Suite 700, 801-596-0500, Nov. 16-Jan. 9; MestizoArts.org Colors of the Season Art at the Main, 210 E. 400 South, 801-363-4088, Nov. 15-Jan. 10, ArtAtTheMain.com Firelei Baez: Patterns of Resistance Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Jan. 16, UtahMOCA.org From the Collection of Thomas M. Alder Charley Hafen Gallery, 1409 S. 900 East, 801521-7711, Nov. 20-Jan. 9, CharleyHafen.com Glass Art Guild of Utah Show Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, 801-585-0556, Nov. 6-Dec. 20, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., GlassArtGuild.org Holiday Group Exhibition Slusser Gallery, 447 E. 100 South, 801-532-1956, Nov. 20-Jan. 8, 6-9 p.m., MarkSlusser.com Jean Richardson: Every Now and Then I Fall Apart Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, Nov. 13-Dec. 19, UtahMOCA.org

Jennifer Jo Deily: Mostly Wildlife Anderson Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, 801-594-8611, Nov. 27-Dec. 9; artist’s reception. Dec 10, 7–8:30 p.m.; SLCPL.org Kate Ericson & Mel Ziegler: Grandma’s Cupboard Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Dec.19, UtahMOCA.org Layne Mecham & Frank McEntire Howa Gallery, 390 N. 500 West, Suite H, Bountiful, 801-232-5710, Nov. 13-Dec. 5, HowaGallery.com Lindsay Frei Inside: Out Alice Gallery, 617 East S. Temple, Nov 20-Jan 16, VisualArts.Utah.gov Mark Thomas Palfreyman: Little Monsters: Scientific Illustrations Sprague Branch, 2131 S. 1100 East, 801-594-8640, Nov. 23-Jan. 18; SLCPL.org Material of Memory Urban Arts Gallery, 137 S. Rio Grande St., 801-651-3957, Nov. 3-28, UtahArts.org Noelle Mason CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, 385215-6768, Nov. 20-Jan. 9, CuArtCenter.org Photography from the East Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, Nov. 4-Dec. 10; SLCPL.org Picturing the Iconic: Andy Warhol to Kara

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described my KFC Two-Piece Fill-Up Box ($5.38) as “a rainbow of brown and white.”

It was mushy chicken, mashed potatoes that you could eat using a straw, a nothing-special chocolate chip cookie, and they forgot to give me my soda. The good news is you don’t need teeth to eat at KFC. Grade: F Since Carl Edwards is my favorite NASCAR driver and is also a spokesman for Subway, I could be biased. However, I really did enjoy my delicious Subway Turkey Italiano Melt ($7.52/value meal). Sure, I’d rather have a sandwich from Caputo’s or Grove Market, but this roasted turkey sandwich—toasted on Italian bread with Genoa salami, spicy pepperoni, provolone, and Italian vinaigrette—hits all the right notes. Grade: A Sriracha is this year’s “it” sauce, so Burger King lazily repurposed its Original Chicken Sandwich bun as the Extra Long Sriracha Cheeseburger ($6.12/value meal). It consists of two side-by-side burger patties (about 1/8-inch thick) with almostmelted American cheese, iceberg lettuce and white onion, topped with Sriracha sauce. The sauce hits the tip of the tongue at around the third bite, and from then on it’s a three-alarm fire. A pretty tasty one, however. Grade: B I sometimes swing by McDonald’s on a ski day for a 1-buck Sausage McMuffin, which I like. But, in the interest of research, I decided to try McDonald’s Premium Buttermilk Crispy Chicken Deluxe Sandwich ($6.12/ value meal). The glossy bun looks fantastic, but is as dry as I’d imagine eating kitty litter to be. Not lovin’ it. Throw out the bun and unripe tomato, and just enjoy the crispy chicken with the crunchy romaine lettuce.

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Angus beef. This was a burger with potential. The beef burger is topped with nicely charred, fire-roasted red and green peppers, thick-cut bacon, pepper jack cheese and a zippy “Santa Fe sauce” on a bun (available as a half- or thirdpound patty) with tomato and lettuce. I really liked the flavor of the Santa Fe sauce—which seemed to be a blend of mayo with some cayenne and paprika, plus a little sweetness (from teriyaki?)—and I really dug the charred peppers. The beef patty, however, tasted (and even looked) like it had been lost in the back of the walk-in for the past decade, tasting of freezer burn and looking grayish. Otherwise, this one could’ve been a contender. Grade: C Taco Bell’s Volcano Quesarito Box ($6.93) came with a contest code to win a limited-edition Gold PS4 Bundle. However, when I texted in my code, it had already been used; methinks somebody working at my local Taco Bell was texting in the codes clearly printed on the outside of the Quesarito boxes. Nasty Velveeta-style cheese aside, the hot and spicy Volcano Quesarito—a grilled flour tortilla filled with ground beef, rice, beans, cheesy “Lava” sauce and reduced-fat sour cream— was damned tasty. It came with a regular crunchy taco (bleh) and a Fiery Doritos Locos Taco that tasted like it was coated with Doritos-flavored chalk. I’m still pissed about the PS4. Grade: C I am an unrepentant fan of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen. I love its spicy chicken.

However, for this project I decided to branch out and try Popeyes Shrimp Po’ Boy ($5.36), and was pleasantly surprised. It’s a generous portion of breaded-and-deep-fried small shrimp with lettuce, pickles and tartar sauce (I wish it was remoulade) on a pretty good soft baguette. Drizzle on some Crystal Hot Sauce, and you’re good to go. Grade: B+ It had been decades since I last visited KFC and, thankfully, I won’t have to do it again in this lifetime. A foodie friend of mine best

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As I grumbled between each inning, it occurred to me that I so rarely set foot in fastfood restaurants (Popeyes being the single exception) that maybe I was unfairly prejudging them. We all know about the lack of high nutritional standards in fast food joints, but I assume most people go to these places with eyes wide open and not really looking for a meal that their yoga instructors would approve of. They want a Whopper. But, perhaps I’d been criticizing these places for years—and not eating in them—just because they’re such easy targets. Maybe it was time to get into the fast lane, and find out what this stuff actually tastes like.

So I did.

Over the course of eight days, I ate at some of the popular fast-food franchises touted by the series’ advertisers. That might not be the most scientific, statistically sound or significant study but, hey, I’m no Morgan Spurlock, and I wasn’t willing to risk life & limb for the sake of a City Weekly article. Do you have any idea how many out-of-control toddlers there are in these places?

Still, I got a pretty good snapshot of America’s fast-food dining scene. And maybe it was just coincidence, but I also managed to gain nearly 10 pounds in my week of eating dangerously. The things one does for science.

Confession: I actually like A1 Steak Sauce.

Smothering my mom’s overcooked steaks with A1 made them almost edible, and I grew up with a fondness for the stuff. So, after seeing the commercial about Arby’s A1 Special Reserve Steak Sandwich ($5.69) for the 15th time during the World Series, I caved in and ate one. To call this a “Steak Sandwich” is really bending the definition of “steak.” Thin slices of Angus beef are overpowered with an A1-based sauce that doesn’t really taste much like A1 Sauce. It’s smokier, for starters. The sauce just kills everything it touches, and not even the crispy Steakhouse Onion Ring or cheddar cheese survives.

Grade: CAngus beef shows up again in the Carl’s Jr. 1/3-pound Tex Mex Bacon Thickburger ($5.51), which is made of 100 percent Black

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Bambara’s Bacon to Beat AIDS

Throughout the end of November, Bambara restaurant (202 S. Main, 801-363-5454) at the Hotel Monaco is hosting a tasty fundraiser for the Utah AIDS Foundation. Bambara will donate $1 to the AIDS Foundation for every dish ordered that contains bacon. Bambara general manager Nicole Willis said via a press release, “We are serving some truly ‘guilt-free’ bacon at Bambara all month. Utah AIDS Foundation does such important, life-saving work here, and we’re proud to support and recognize their efforts.” Bambara-SLC.com Quote of the week: If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording.

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Been There; Doon That An evening with Bonny Doon’s Randall Grahm

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t’s no secret to anyone who reads this column that I’m a longtime fan of Bonny Doon founder and winemaker Randall Grahm. He was one of the first wine “industry” types to get me excited about wine, in part because his talents extend so far beyond winemaking. Grahm’s worldclass wit, endless affection for puns, mastery of language, self-deprecating humor, and love of philosophy and literature are just a few reasons to love the guy.

He’s also a mensch who happens to make uniquely fabulous wines. So, when I was extended an invitation to attend a Bonny Doon wine dinner at Finca restaurant earlier in November, I jumped at the chance.

Earlier, we’d begun the evening with pumpkin “leather” and peppercorn ricotta while sipping Bonny Doon Querry Cider ($13.75). I hadn’t realized that Grahm had gotten into the cider biz, but this grown-up fruit juice brimming with pear, apple and quince flavors made me happy he did. I’d be tempted to bring a bottle of Querry with me to my next sushi sit-down.

Bonny Doon Le Cigar Blanc Réserve (en bonbonne) 2011 ($50) was a surprise. I was expecting a traditional Ch ât eau neu f-du-Pape Blanc-style wine— which happens to be one of my favorite indulgences. Without getting too wine geeky, this R ou s s a n ne/Gr en a c he Blanc/Picpoul blend ages not in barrels, but in glass demijohns (bonbonnes) which serve, as Grahm puts it, “as a sort of lees hotel: the lees check in, but they don’t check out.”

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Through the years, we’d exchanged tweets, emails, faxes and such on topics ranging from French Chartreuse to the German philosopher Edmund Husserl, but somehow I’d always missed meeting Grahm in person. So, my first order of business was to tell him how much I enjoyed his writing; I assumed he already knew how much I enjoyed his wines. Each bottle of Bonny Doon comes with added value. Whatever you think of the wine, you can rest assured you’ll be entertained— and possibly even informed—by Grahm’s witty wine labels. For evidence, just do a little research, or take a look at Grahm’s terrific book Been Doon So Long regarding the labeling of his Clos de Gilroy California Grenache. It’s just one of a long lineage of less-than-lackluster labels.

We dipped into some Clos de Gilroy 2014 ($19.32) Grenache from Monterey County (my wife’s favorite wine of the evening) alongside a stunning dish of trout mousse with grilled toast, pickled strawberry and watercress that chef Phelix Gardner’s team had created. As Grahm put it, Clos de Gilroy isn’t made from the “weapons-grade Grenache” that he uses to produce Bonny Doon Le Cigare Volant.

This is a softer, more feminine, spicy wine that’s mostly Grenache, with a smidgeon of Mourvédre and what Randall calls “a homeopathic amount of Syrah” blended in.

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The presence of the lees in the wine gives it a luscious, cloudy and creamy texture with hints of pear and quince (is there some Querry in there?)—a wine with elegance that could tag-team a plate of buttery shellfish. At Finca, it was served with a killer dish of creamy leeks and cavegrown mushrooms.

Le Cigare Volant is Bonny Doon’s flagship wine, so it was a real treat to get to taste 2008 Le Cigare Volant en foudre ($55). En foudre refers to the 10,000-liter upright wood tanks that this blend of Grenache, Syrah, Mourvédre, Cinsault and Carignane lives in before bottling. Here’s a little secret: There just might be Grenache clones from the renowned Châteauneufdu-Pape producer Chateau Rayas in a bottle of Le Cigare Volant.

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Arella Pizzeria

Arella in Bountiful specializes in thin-crust, wood-fired pizzas and calzones. Kick off your meal with an order of bruschetta, garlic bread or chicken wings before jumping into a pizza. Pizza options run the gamut from a traditional Margherita or white pizza to an excellent barbecue-chicken pizza. You can also create your own pizza or calzone from a lengthy list of ingredients, including caramelized onions, artichoke hearts, Kalamata olives and brie. The salads are generously portioned, and there’s also beer and wine available. Wonder where the name Arella came from? It comes from “mozzarella,” which features prominently in most Arella pizzas. 535 W. 400 North, Bountiful, 801-294-8800, ArellaPizzeria.com

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Start your meal at this “Epic” restaurant in Midvale with the three-olive tapenade & hummus before you move on to an appetizer of tender steamed clams in garlic, white wine and butter with parsley. From there, perhaps choose the mushroom-Marsala grilled chicken, grilled beef tenderloin with blue cheese butter and port reduction, or the crowdfavorite: sauteed pork medallions with caramelized onions and a sherry-sage demi-glace. The fact that almost nothing on the menu is priced over $20 means you can splurge with a selection from the very appealing wine list. 707 E. Fort Union Blvd., Midvale, 801-748-1300, EpicCasualDining.com

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Café Madrid’s exterior immediately communicates classic Mediterranean in its architecture and landscaping, and that authenticity carries over into the restaurant’s menu, which features both hot and cold tapas as well as full entrees. If you are unsure of what to order, don’t be surprised if the owner’s brother or one of the excellent servers comes by to advise you. And, of course, make sure to order a Spanish wine to pair with your meal. 5244 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-273-0837, CafeMadrid.net

Sala Thai Kitchen

Located next to Brewvies in downtown Salt Lake City, Sala Thai Kitchen is a spacious, well-lit restaurant that serves up gorgeous, authentic Thai food. According to owner Jitrada Dreier, “sala” means to “rest” or “relax,” which you can’t help but do here as you enjoy delicacies such as chicken satay with peanut sauce, Thai squid salad, tom kha coconut soup with lemongrass and galangal, sen yai nam, spicy green curry with shrimp and eggplant or chicken stir-fried with bell pepper, Thai basil and asparagus. To cool down from all those spices, there is a beer and wine list available. While you are dining, be sure to check out the art displayed in the restaurant, by local artists.

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There are two dining options available at Forage in Salt Lake City: a three-course menu, and an extensive chef’s tasting menu. It’s crystal clear at Forage that food is the star. The small dining space is clean and uncluttered; there’s almost nothing, including wall art or music, to distract from the dining experience. It’s not dinner and a show; dinner is the show. Forage isn’t for everyone, but if you’re a restaurant enthusiast, you’ll definitely want to foray to Forage. 370 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, 801-708-7834, ForageRestaurant.com

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here has always been one thing we could count on whenever Pixar trotted out a high-concept premise: The movie itself wasn’t going to be about that high-concept premise. Whether it was sentient toys, a floating house, suburban superheroes or anthropomorphic emotions, it was always an idea in service of something bigger.

The Good Dinosaur begins with one such high-concept premise: What if the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs missed the Earth? And then, as a timid runt-ofthe-litter Apatosaurus named Arlo (Raymond Ochoa) winds up separated from his family, trying to return home with the help of a feral, apparently orphaned human boy he calls Spot (Jack Bright), it launches into another high-concept idea: What if you had a “boy and his dog” story in which the boy was the dog?

Both of the concepts are solid, and director Peter Sohn finds several fun concepts within that framework, like a family of T. rex buffalo ranchers (with a patriarch voiced by Sam Elliott) trying to protect their herd from a pack of Velociraptor rustlers. And from a visual standpoint, The Good Dinosaur is almost certainly the most stunning thing Pixar has ever produced, reproducing the mountain landscapes and whitewater rivers of what appears to be the American Rockies with a gorgeous, almost tactile realism.

The only thing that’s missing is that distinctive emotional punch that comes when you realize what a Pixar movie is really about. The Good Dinosaur is a coming-of-age quest adventure, and it’s an effective coming-of-age quest adventure; it just isn’t much more than that, even as the narrative arc evokes The Lion King and tries to address the ties of both biological and chosen family. There’s no reason to dismiss something that’s often funny, charming and exciting, even if the moment when the movie is clearly reaching for your tear ducts inspires more of a nod and a smile. CW

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f anything should be painfully clear as we approach the release of a new Star Wars film, it’s how impossible it is to separate a movie from what we bring to it as viewers. The feverish anticipation is part of a 40-year-history and an emotional connection that may be only incidentally connected to whatever J.J. Abrams ends up putting on the screen. William Faulkner’s celebrated quote—“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”—might as well be the marketing slogan for the perpetual reboot/remake/sequel cycle of contemporary filmmaking.

Creed, coincidentally, also appears this year as the seventh installment in a 40-year-old franchise, and co-writer/ director Ryan Coogler brings a fresh concept for revitalizing it. Yet, it would be crazy not to acknowledge that much of what works about Creed is built on a larger filmhistory context. Rocky Balboa’s name may be nowhere to be found in the movie’s title, but it’s his soul that animates the story.

In no way is that a slight to Michael B. Jordan, who plays Adonis “Donny” Johnson. We meet the character first as an angry orphaned teen, rescued from the foster-care system by the widow (Phylicia Rashad) of boxing legend Apollo Creed.

She has learned that Donny is the illegitimate son of her late husband, and has decided to take responsibility for him— and that unique backstory, as a tough kid brought into a life of privilege, gives Jordan the opportunity for a terrific performance. Jordan has a fascinating face on screen, one that can melt in an instant from ferocity into the look of a scared boy, and Coogler—who directed Jordan in Fruitvale Station—takes advantage of those characteristics to let the actor shine.

Coogler also tries to place his own stamp on the Rocky legacy both through his story

and his direction, with uneven results.

It’s an unexpected shift from the tradition of the series’ boxing sequences when Coogler shoots Adonis’ first big fight in one seemingly unbroken take, giving it an edgy energy that’s perfect for a young fighter still learning on the job. But he also introduces a romantic subplot—between Adonis and his neighbor, a hearing-impaired musician (Dear White People’s Tessa Thompson)—that feels about as perfunctory as a romantic subplot can feel, the kind of thing that plays more like a studio script note than a relationship that shapes Adonis in any way.

That’s largely because the truly significant relationship is between Adonis and Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), whom Adonis seeks out in Philadelphia to train him when he decides that fighting is his destiny. And it’s hard to separate the appeal of Stallone’s performance from seeing him return to the introverted, big-hearted Rocky of the original film. When Coogler shows him visiting the graves of his beloved wife Adrian and best friend Paulie, it feels like eavesdropping on a genuinely intimate moment, not like an actor trying to get back into a character by reverting to familiar tics. Creed builds an affecting connection between Adonis and Rocky—one of them in need of a father figure, the other a lonely man looking for his own family ties—but there’s little question that the connection is as potent as it is because one of those guys is Rocky Balboa.

Coogler is savvy enough not to mess with

Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone in Creed the formula of building up to one climactic showdown with a seemingly invincible opponent, in this case a British champ (reallife boxer Tony Bellew) looking for a last big payday before heading to prison. He even knows well enough to turn that fight into a rock-’em-sock-’em battle; the next time you see a guy fight defensively in a Rocky movie will be the first time.

But the buzz of familiarity starts long before the fight itself, when we see Rocky pass on to Adonis that training technique of chasing a chicken around a yard. And then comes the moment in the Big Fight’s final round when Coogler fires up Bill Conti’s rousing old-school Rocky theme, and the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, and audience members involuntarily applaud.

By the time Creed concludes with a walk up those iconic steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, it feels less like a passing of the torch than a recognition that the torches we all carry for beloved movies never really stop burning. CW

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TRY THESE Rocky (1976) Sylvester Stallone Talia Shire Rated PG

Rocky II (1979) Sylvester Stallone Carl Weathers Rated PG

Rocky IV (1985) Sylvester Stallone Dolph Lundgren Rated PG

Fruitvale Station (2013) Michael B. Jordan Melonie Diaz Rated R

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BROOKLYN BBB.5 Director John Crowley and screenwriter Nick Hornby take the story from Colm Tóibín’s brilliant novel in a much more conventionally satisfying direction—but boy, do they ever succeed at conventional satisfaction. In 1952 Ireland, young Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan) gets a chance to move to New York and get a job to help her widowed mother. Profound homesickness eventually gives way to a romance with an Italian boy (Emory Cohen), but tragic circumstances might still pull her heart back to Ireland.

Ronan proves to be a perfect casting choice in a film that rests on her watchful discomfort with her surroundings, and there’s a wonderful blend of crisp dialogue (with a splendid Julie Walters’ as Eilis’ landlady) and tentative romantic connection. That this version of Brooklyn opts to bypass the darker implications of a choice Eilis ultimately faces—between two options that both limit her future in some way—in favor of an immigrant story built on a shifting understanding of what constitutes “home” is no great failing, considering how effectively they build a period love story with a big heart. Opens Nov. 25 at theaters valleywide.

(PG-13)—Scott Renshaw CREED BBB.5.5.

See review p. 34. Opens Nov. 25 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)

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TRUMBO BB.5 Like so many recent issue-oriented historical dramas, this bio­ graphy of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) seems built largely around making viewers feel good about what they already believe—but fortunately, it’s also fairly entertaining.

The story tracks Trumbo’s life from around 1947, when he was flying high as Hollywood’s highest-paid screenwriter, through the 1950s, when his membership in the Communist Party made him a target of congressional investigation and eventually resulted him being blacklisted from being able to work in movies.

A terrific cast is on board to play the high-profile figures of this era—Helen Mirren as gossip columnist Hedda Hopper; Michael Stuhlbarg as Edward G. Robinson; John Goodman as schlock producer Frank King—and there’s plenty of zing to the exchanges in John McNamara’s script. But Trumbo also gets bogged down in domestic drama, as Trumbo’s professional plight takes a toll on

VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN BB The narration by hunchback Igor (Daniel Radcliffe) begins “You know this story,” which is likely the only reason it was ever made, but you certainly don’t know it with this kind of grandiose goofiness. It begins with Igor as a circus freak who’s also a self-taught physician (!), leading Victor Frankenstein (James McAvoy) to rescue the poor lad and bring him in as an assistant on his experiments in re-animation. Screenwriter Max Landis also throws in a police inspector (Andrew Scott) with a Javert-like mission to stop Frankenstein’s godless perversions of the natural order; his mania has to go toe-to-toe with Frankenstein’s, which McAvoy plays with enough gusto and flying spittle to warrant a 4D theatrical presentation. It all builds to the expected lightning bolts and explosions in a dark castle, and it’s a shame that Radcliffe appears to be taking much of this seriously. It’s also hard not to have at least a little fun with a movie featuring an attack by a patchwork zombie chimpanzee, and a guy sucking the fluid out of an abscess.

It’s alive! Opens Nov. 25 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)—SR

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LEGEND BB Tom Hardy is Ronnie Kray. And Tom Hardy is Reggie Kray. And Tom Hardy is the only reason to check out this shockingly laudatory crime thriller based on the lives of London’s most notorious gangsters ever. Hardy is a wonder, carrying his body, comporting his face, and subtly shifting his voice in ways that never leave the viewer in any doubt as to which twin he is embodying at any given moment. But these are violent, narcissistic men with no thought for anyone but themselves (except, perhaps, the mother who worships them) as they rule the criminal underworld of London’s East End in the 1960s. They are not mythic or heroic or legendary, but writer-director Brian Helgeland treats them as such, introducing us to them as “gangster princes of the city they meant to conquer,” and depicting them as glamorous, sometimes even amusing, in their viciousness. This is GoodFellas-lite, deploying all the clichés of the genre but failing to come to any true understanding of what drives men like the Krays. Even if we cannot sympathize with their motives, we should understand them.

And we never do. Opens Nov. 25 at Broadway Centre Cinemas.

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his relationship with his wife (Diane Lane) and oldest daughter (Elle Fanning). The blacklist was horrible because it destroyed families, we’re told, but the earnest finger-wagging at injustice proves far less satisfying than the behind-the-scenes showbiz tell-all. Opens Nov. 25 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—SR

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ROOM BBB.5 It’s risky to take a story that could easily become psychological horror, and turn it into a delicate, almost fanciful character piece.

Emma Donoghue adapts her novel about 5-year-old Jack (Jacob Tremblay), who has lived his entire life in a single room with his mother, Joy (Brie Larson), who was abducted as a teenager and imprisoned there. Donoghue and director Lenny Abrahamson focus on Jack’s point of view, and Tremblay’s terrific performance conveys a child’s resilient adaptation to the only world he knows. But Larson is also remarkable at capturing Joy’s ability to craft a narrative that helps Jack navigate that world, and protects them both. The second act complicates their relationship in intriguing ways, even if there’s less powerful tension. It’s still a terrific spin on the underlying horror of fairy tales, and their goal of keeping children safe. (R)—SR

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SECRET IN THEIR EYES BB Years after uncovering a murder near an Los Angeles mosque, a disillusioned trio of former federal terrorism task-force members (Julia Roberts, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Nicole Kidman) uncovers new information, hinting at larger horrors in store. Adapting the 2009 Argentine Oscar winner, writer/director Billy Ray makes some interesting deviations from the source material, particularly in strengthening the connection between Roberts’ dogged DA investigator and the initial victim. Unfortunately, his measured, procedural approach lacks the bravura pulpiness that propelled the original, resulting in what seems like scene after scene of the talented cast standing around and seeing who can out-dour the others; Ejiofor, normally a terrific team player, here looks like he’s constantly on the verge of remembering where he left his keys. Whether you’ve seen the original or not, it’s hard not to feel like there are some lines down somewhere.

(PG-13)—Andrew Wright

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SPOTLIGHT BBB.5 As much as co-writer/director Tom McCarthy celebrates shoeleather/paper-chase investigative reporting. Spotlight may be even more compelling as a look at the things standing in the way of those stories. The story—following Boston Globe reporters (Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams and Brian d’Arcy James) digging into sexual abuse by Catholic clergy and cover-ups by the archdiocese—involves multiple moving parts, presented here with impressive clarity. But as the timeline intersects with the new economics of American newsrooms and the events of Sept. 11, 2001, the film wrestles with moral and pragmatic questions of timing a story’s release. Even the history of the city of Boston itself and the reporters’ own personal stories complicate their ability to see what’s right in front of them.

Spotlight may make old-school journalism look heroic, but it also makes that work look human. (R)—SR

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Series Debut: Either WeTV (it’s a real channel, promise) is embracing the binge-watching model by dropping all seven episodes of South of Hell tonight, or they’d just rather get it over with and hope no one notices. This likely oneseason-and-done horror series, about a Southern demon hunter (Mena Suvari) who herself has a demon inside who’s fighting for soul custody, is co-produced by Eli Roth (Hemlock Grove, Hostel) and Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity and, even scarier, Jem & The Holograms), and it’s just as over-the-top-of-the-top insane as you’d expect from that unholy union. The sex and scares are served up buffetstyle, and Roth’s visual flare is in full effect, but South of Hell lacks the humor of an American Horror Story, as well as the, oh, story. And isn’t this about a month late?

Superstore Monday, Nov. 30 (NBC)

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Real Rob Tuesday, Dec. 1 (Netflix)

Series Debut: Just because Aziz Ansari surprised the hell out of us with Master of None doesn’t mean that everybody needs to be awarded their own Seinfeld/Louie-esque vehicle. As you don’t recall, Rob Schneider attempted to make a sitcom out of his life a few years ago with ¡Rob!, a laughtracked tire fire that lasted all of eight episodes on CBS. Real Rob isn’t entirely a misstep in Netflix’s hot streak of original programming: In addition to directing, Schneider financed this himself, which means Netflix is as culpable for this as they are, say, ¡Rob! reruns (which, probably for point of comparison, are also available on the service). A mix of Schneider’s “real life” (which includes a “stalker”

and an “incompetent assistant,” neither of which seems likely) and the occasional stand-up bit (only slightly more likely), Real Rob does have moments of uncomfortable celebrity-vs.-civilian comedy … which are lifted directly from Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce Tuesday, Dec. 1 (Bravo)

Season Premiere: Expectations were low for Bravo’s first scripted-drama debut last year because, well, Bravo. But Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce turned out to be a fizzy, winning series, thanks to star Lisa Edelstein’s commanding charisma (all those years wrangling Dr. House have paid off) and scripting that played it smart by only occasionally dumbing it down (because, again, Bravo). The Woman of a Certain Age Navigating the Newly Single Life ante has been dramatically upped by Hulu’s Casual recently (go watch it hard—now), but Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce has a lighter touch, as well as a serious fashion advantage that even a straight dude notices (guilty). CW Listen to Bill on Mondays at 8 a.m. on X96 Radio From Hell; weekly on the TV Tan podcast via iTunes and Stitcher.

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Season Premiere: The crime procedural once actually titled The Rememberer(!) was canceled twice by CBS before it inexplicably wound up on A&E—here’s hoping they step in to save the doomed CSI: Cyber, the most unintentionally hilarious cop drama on TV, too. Unforgettable isn’t quite as funny, but it is ridiculous: Poppy Montgomery stars as Carrie Wells, a New York City Police detective with hyperthymesia, a rare medical condition that allows her to remember every detail of everything she’s ever seen or heard, like, ever. How exactly does this help in solving cases? The writers somehow find a way every week so they’re the real heroes and Montgomery can really rock a tank-top and leather jacket so don’t think too hard and just chill. No wonder it’s made it to Season 4.

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edy Superstore now because … no one really understands NBC’s programming strategy anymore, probably not even NBC. On the upside, at least it’s not another laugh-tracked sitcom, and it’s nice to see America Ferrera (Ugly Betty) back on TV. But, despite the should-be-hilarious cast (which also includes Mad Men’s Ben Feldman, Super Fun Night’s Lauren Ash and Kids in the Hall’s Mark McKinney), this sorta-Wal-Mart workplace comedy feels as played-out and lazy as TBS cable filler (not even Carrie Wells remembers 10 Items or Less from 2006). Just rename it Chicago Superstore and slap “Dick Wolf” on it, and it’ll be fine.

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t one time, I had 20,000 CDs. That’s not counting a couple of terabytes of digital music, and a relatively modest stack of wax. I can’t identify a favorite. Not because they’re like my children; that’d be pretentious. It’s just tough.

This abundance is lovingly organized: Alphabetically, then chronologically, then by genre, like a record store. Like a good hipster, I’ve toyed with other filing systems, like arranging them by mood or some other fun but fruitless nonsense. At times, I thought I’d found my soul platter. Then I discover others I enjoy as much, but for different reasons. That’s how you start to consider sorting by emotional connection, or associated memories. You wanna honor the music that moves you.

My first record was Rock and Roll Over by Kiss. My mom was browsing a record club catalog, choosing her 10-for-a-penny. I was 4; given Kiss’s kabuki look, I thought the platter was a comic book.

I begged; Mom surrendered and showed me how to use our turntable. Everything changed.

I got a new Kiss album for every birthday and Christmas—even Easter, Valentine’s Day and good report cards (thanks, Mom!).

Eventually, I had my own record club memberships. When my first editor told me of the impending deluge of freebie CDs, I rejoiced, but was issued a caveat: “Someday you’ll hate music.” Ha. Sure.

Soon my home was tremendously cluttered. I constantly kicked over piles of CDs, or crunched them underfoot. My office walls—all but one—were covered in discs. These were blocked by tall stacks of banker’s boxes. After a decade, I realized that this musical horn of plenty was virtually empty. Years ago, I had a relationship with every disc on my one shelf. Now I resented them. Just like the guy said.

Finally, I started to let them go. It was tough. I’d kept some of these because they looked like they might be good, and what if I gave up a potential new fave? But I jettisoned more music than I thought possible. It was—is—liberating. Choosing made me realize what I prized in music: songwriting, guitar solos, the ability to be swept away by sound, to have social and political ideas challenged, and how just one song or an entire album can change the arc of my day.

I could list examples. But I won’t. Instead, I’ll just say that, this Thanksgiving, I’m grateful to love music again.

HÜSKER DÜ, WAREHOUSE: SONGS AND STORIES (WARNER BROS., 1987)

BY DAN NAILEN I already knew Hüsker Dü when Warehouse: Songs and Stories came out in 1987, thanks to an older sister with excellent taste. This is the album, though, that made me a fanatic and obsessive, and made me dig into their older material with renewed fervor. I kept this new collection—first purchased on cassette, later becoming my first-ever CD—in constant rotation in my car and on my Sony Walkman for months. It holds up remarkably well thanks to the songwriting chops of guitarist Bob Mould and drummer Grant Hart. The psychedelic sonic swirl of insistent, tasty hooks they brewed up served songs of heartbreak, pain, guilt and, occasionally, even hope remarkably well.

I still listen to it several times a year. The songs remind me when every genre wasn’t absurdly subdivided, and when the opening chord of the opening song on a much-anticipated new album from a favorite band was enough to put butterflies in my stomach. I’m thankful it still does.

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BY BRIAN STAKER I discovered Guided By Voices in late 1998 on KRCL. I’d been listening to grunge, jam bands and bad techno, and needed a change. I picked up the EP Sunfish Holy Breakfast at Salt City CD (R.I.P.) because of the three naked hippie dudes on the front, not expecting the Beatles-meets-’90s lo-fi magic. Soon I developed a serious habit, trying to get my hands on all of their stuff I could— impossible, considering frontman Robert Pollard has written 1000s of songs, releasing dozens of albums including multiple side projects. The live experience was essential to “get” GBV—beers handed out to select audience members, Pollard’s high kicks and microphone tricks, drunkenly singing along. My GBV baptism was at SXSW 1999, and I’ve seen them 14 times total. Robert Pollard is a modern renaissance man: a poet, musician, artist and showman, who has inspired myself and a lot of others to make music. I am thankful for Pollard’s seemingly endless fountain of creativity.

Rock and roll is a dying art form, and he keeps surprising me with another new facet of his fascinating mind.

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BY KIMBALL BENNION I was in seventh grade, and I still remember standing in the store debating whether my first official album purchase should be Radiohead’s new album, OK Computer, or the latest Reel Big Fish. I went with Radiohead … and ended up thinking I should have gone with Reel Big Fish. OK Computer, this opus of paranoia set in the not-too-distant future, was too weird. As I got older, I learned to like weird, and I liked that warm, smug feeling I’d get telling people it was the first record I ever bought. Now that I’m a white American male in my 30s, there’s nothing weird about me liking Radiohead. It’s standard for my demographic. But looking back at myself as an awkward middle-schooler still trying to figure out my musical tastes, I’m thankful I went with the risky choice. We should have a few of those records in our collections—the ones that evict us from our comfort zones and prompt a few sideways glances. I’m thankful OK Computer was my first, primitive foray into making weird choices—and not my last. CW

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n April 20, 2010, Washington, D.C., sextet Periphery released their selftitled debut album. The release went over even the most loyal metal fans’ heads, but marked the beginning of a controversial scene in heavy metal music: djent.

Djent is a spinoff of progressive metal that revolves around a very specific guitar sound achieved through palm-muting techniques and specific settings on amplifiers and effects units. The word “djent” itself is onomatopoeia for the sound. Besides the guitar sound, chugging offbeat melodies and polyrhythms would become its other defining characteristics.

While Periphery was the first djent album released on a mainstream record label (Sumerian/Distort, via Roadrunner), djent had in fact existed for several years before its inception. The earliest days of the style were its development in the sounds of bands such as Meshuggah and SikTh, both prominent progressive metal bands.

The scene around djent, however, had a very different origin that sprung from an online community of guitarists recording at home. Englishmen Paul Ortiz and Alec “Acle” Kahney, and Americans Misha Mansoor and Tosin Abasi were parts of this community; they would share their compositions among and work off of each other. It was from this web that the pioneers of djent would emerge. As Kahney continued to make music, he sought out other musicians and formed TesseracT. Mansoor formed Periphery, and Tosin Abasi would form Animals as Leaders. Ortiz would continue to work solo as Chimp Spanner. Today, these four bands are considered the vanguard of the movement.

Why exactly, then, is djent so polarizing even five years after its beginnings? Certainly, these bands have a respectable following and are carrying on the tradition of pushing the envelope, which they can only be appreciated for; why is djent such a hotbutton issue in heavy metal? The answer is the fight over whether or not djent is. From the beginning, people have questioned whether djent is an actual genre of music, or an example of an over-categorized fad.

On one hand, it would be easy to consider djent a genre or subgenre. It has a set beginning era, bands that define it, specific characteristics that make it what it is, and a rather die-hard fanbase. Many listeners would say that there is an indisputable difference between regular progressive metal and djent, that djent’s heavy syncopation, low pitch, and technical complexities set

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it apart from any other kind of metal. And there’s no doubt that the artists involved have received considerable acclaim for their music.

However, simultaneously, many other listeners claim that djent is nothing more than another progressive metal scene, and has no validity as a separate genre. Musicians such as Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe and Rosetta’s Mike Armine have condemned the classification of music as djent.

Even Misha Mansoor believes that djent isn’t a genre as much as a specific sound. He explained that, in the beginnings of Periphery, he was looking for “djenty equipment” that could be used to create the sounds that Mansoor desired. In an interview with Guitar Messenger, he explained, “For some reason, it caught on, but completely in the wrong way because people think it’s a style of music I play.”

Whether djent began as a genre of any sort is irrelevant; over the last decade, such a definitive sound has been built around the term, a definitive style and fanbase. While it may not be accurate to call it a genre, djent is absolutely a movement. For having existed for such a short time, it has made its impact on the progressive metal scene; in the future, given more time and more artists breaking out into the mainstream, it could develop into a legitimate genre.

Periphery’s first release marked its beginning, TesseracT’s Altered State solidified it, Meshuggah’s thrashing madness gave it ground. If nothing else, djent can be called a new step in musical experimentation, which, although the source of a passionate dichotomy, is also the source of innovative music and a new age in heavy metal. CW

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There are performers, and there are performers.

Jerry Joseph takes it to an even higher level.

Salt Lake City knows this well, since Joseph and his band used to call SLC home. When he’s onstage, he can’t stand still—he rocks, sways, stumbles and poses while wringing tortured chords from his Stratocaster and talksinging his demons to life. This, while his ace band—now featuring Jeff Crosby, a fine singersongwriter himself, on guitar—lays down tight grooves behind him. With a discography a mile long, including 2014’s Singing in the Rain and the new two-track, 31-minute Istanbul/Fog of War (both on his Cosmo Sex School label), and songs that you can feel deep in your gut, Jerry Joseph is someone you need to hear, and see. Just ask Widespread Panic, who cover his tunes. (Incidentally, Panic’s bass player Dave Schools produces Joseph’s records and plays with him in Stockholm Syndrome.) Jerry Joseph is absolutely the real deal. Bring cash, ‘cause you’ll want every disc—including his stuff with Stockholm Syndrome—and a T-shirt.

Hell, pick up some of Crosby’s stuff if it’s there.

Then remember he’s playing a CD release show at the State Room on Dec. 12. (RH) The State Room, 638 S. State, 9 p.m., $10, TheStateRoomSLC.com

SUNDAY 11.29 Megan Peters

Once upon a time, local folksinger Megan Peters and her band Big Leg were a hot draw in the local music scene. So much so, in fact,

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that Peters won City Weekly’s Southby-Southwest Showdown to Austin, and we sent her to SXSW to represent the best of SLC music. The year after, 1994, Peters moved to Austin, although she continued to transit back and forth to play for the loyal audience she’d built up at coffee shops and similar venues in this area. After a few years and releasing several albums, she’s returned to the Beehive State, seasoned by her time in Texas’s music mecca.

Her piquant fingerpicking and mellifluous voice make her sound something like Cheryl Wheeler, or a less strident Ani DiFranco. This evening show (starts at 6, ends at 8) will be Peters’s second visit to The Garage in as many months. Last time, it was part of an evening of musical duos, but this time she’ll shine with a solo set. (BS) The Garage on Beck, 1199 Beck St., 6 p.m., free, GarageOnBeck.com

TUESDAY 12.1 mr. Gnome, New Shack

Much like clowns, there’s something unsettling about a gnome. More than apparitions of outright creepiness, a figure that mixes endearment with a “creep factor” is far more anxiety-producing.

Cleveland duo Nicole Barille and Sam Meister are married, so you might call them mr. and mrs. Gnome. The singerguitarist and drummer couple meld sometimes mechanistic, at other times spacey, sounds in a prog-psych hybrid that

Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons emphasizes her haunting vocals and his hypnotic rhythms. Their eighth release, The Heat of a Dark Star (El Marko Records, 2014), takes its title from a phrase in a Neil Gaiman book.

As the title implies, the collision of light and dark is intriguing, and for a duo, their sound mix has surprising prog-rock depth. Local dark wave band New Shack opens. (BS) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $12, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

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Spreading awareness of various charities on their website, they are aligned with the spirit of bands coming out of the region in the ‘60s. Co-headliner Lights, aka Valerie Anne Poxleitner, wields the keytar and similar instruments in her north-of the border synth-pop hits. Her success has carried her touring schedule into America as well, and her third studio album, Little Machines (Warner Brothers), scores a hat trick, chartwise, on both sides of the border. Forget the British Invasion, it’s the War of 1812 all over again. Let’s put up a wall! Lo-fi hip-hop/pop artist K.Flay, touring behind Life As A Dog (Bummer Picnic), opens.

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From Byron Bay, New South Wales—one of the metalcore centers of Australia (see Northlane, 50 Lions)—comes Parkway Drive.

They rose, much like their predecessors in the ‘80s, from disillusioned youth playing in tiny venues across their area, revitalizing the almost DIY ethic that has been embraced by the new members of the metalcore scene.

Since 2002, they’ve toured across the world, released five albums, and amassed a number of fans. Their latest album, Ire (Epitaph), is a change from their original sound, with more of a traditional heavy metal vibe, but still retains the essential Parkway Drive qualities: a heavy, chugging sound and angry spirit.

They are currently embarking on another tour after success with Ire. Miss May I, Thy Art Is Murder and In Hearts Wake—Parkway Drive’s hometown buddies in Bryon Bay— open. (DB) In the Venue, 219 S. 600 West, 7 p.m., $24.50, InTheVenueSLC.com

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There’s a track on Together Pangea’s third album, Badillac (Harvest), called “Sick Shit.”

There aren’t two words more fitting to describe the band’s sneering punk. As influenced by ‘90s grunge and alternative rock as by garage and surf and Pete Seeger, Together Pangea makes an irresistible, hooky din. Their newest release is the The Phage EP (Burger), produced by Replacements/Guns ‘N Roses bassist Tommy Stinson, and it picks up where Badillac left off, and grows from there. First single “Blue Mirror” sounds like something that could’ve been on Slash Records in the mid-1980s, almost as though they’ve picked up another influence in X or even the Del Fuegos. White Reaper and Max Pain & the Groovies open. (Randy Harward) Kilby Court, 741 S. 330 West, 7 p.m., $10 in advance, $12 day of show, KilbyCourt.com

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Tommy Castro & the Painkillers

There’s a video on YouTube from the Montreux Jazz Festival earlier this year, where Tommy Castro and his band come onstage to the strains of R.L. Burnside’s “It’s Bad, You Know.” Then they tear into a cover of B.B. King’s “Bad Luck.” When your entrance music and your first track refer to two disparate blues greats, you know the dude onstage has deep love and knowledge for the blues. The rest of the 68-minute show, which features tracks from Method to My Madness, Castro’s fourth album for venerable blues label, Alligator Records, proves he and the Painkillers have the chops to accompany that love. (Randy Harward) The State Room, 638 S. State, 8 p.m., $20, TheStateRoomSLC.com

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they need to propel their story to the [next] level. … More than that, though, this is a conference where people come to feel nourished and uplifted and encouraged and inspired. You can’t put a price on that.”

Author Julie Peterson Wright found her literary agent at LDStorymakers. “I am so grateful for the opportunities, learning and growth LDStorymakers has given me,” Crowe said in an email interview. “I love my agent and love LDStorymakers!”

Allison Merrill also ultimately signed with an agent that she found through LDStorymakers. “[The conference] opens the door to success,” Merrill writes. “It brings solace to my soul and assures me that writing doesn’t have to be a journey of solitude.”

And many other writers who have attended LDStorymakers also have success stories.

But even if you’re a writing newbie, don’t be intimidated—the organizers of Storymakers love beginners, too, and have plenty of classes targeted at those who are just starting out.

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LDStorymakers was originally founded by a group of Mormon writers more than 10 years ago, but the conference is not limited to LDS Church members. Conference organizers pride themselves on creating a community that feels like a family. “Our slogan this year has been, ‘Welcome to the Tribe,’ ” wrote Jenny Proctor via email. Proctor is the 2016 Chair of LDStorymakers and a published romance author. She explains that the conference is a spectacular opportunity for writers to meet other people who understand their goals.

“It’s for writers who are ready to get serious about perfecting their craft and learn about the publishing model that’s right for them,” Proctor explains. “It’s for established writers that are already published who love networking and learning from other authors and seeking inspiration that will propel them forward in their careers.”

Storymakers is one of the most inexpensive writing conferences in the country, yet consistently has a high caliber of visiting editors, agents and instructors. The attendees of the 2016 conference will hear a speech from best-selling author Brandon Sanderson, a keynote address from Dr. Chris Crowe, and have a chance to pitch nationally renowned literary agents, editors from local publishers, and an editor with Disney Hyperion. And in addition to all that, there are 98 classes on the craft of writing by established authors like James Dashner, Sarah Eden, J. Scott Savage, Janette Rallison and more.

Proctor cannot sing the praises of Storymakers loud enough. “There are so many success stories that come out of the conference and that is thrilling to see,” Proctor writes in an email interview. “There are so many writers that find their agent or meet their publisher, or get just the feedback

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“As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.” I’m guessing that these days you’re feeling that kind of homesickness, Aries. The people and places that usually comfort you don’t have their customary power. The experiences you typically seek out to strengthen your stability just aren’t having that effect. The proper response, in my opinion, is to go in quest of exotic and experimental stimuli. In ways you may not yet be able to imagine, they can provide the grounding you need.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) The Pekingese is a breed of dog that has been around for over 2,000 years. In ancient China, it was beloved by Buddhist monks and emperors’ families. Here’s the legend of its origin: A tiny marmoset and huge lion fell in love with each other, but the contrast in their sizes made union impossible. Then the gods intervened, using magic to make them the same size. Out of the creatures’ consummated passion, the first Pekingese was born. I think this myth can serve as inspiration for you, Taurus. Amazingly, you may soon find a way to blend and even synergize two elements that are ostensibly quite different. Who knows? You may even get some divine help.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted,” wrote Leo author Aldous Huxley. That’s the bad news. The good news is that in the coming weeks you are less likely to take things for granted than you have been in a long time. Happily, it’s not because your familiar pleasures and sources of stability are in jeopardy. Rather, it’s because you have become more deeply connected to the core of your life energy.

You have a vivid appreciation of what sustains you. Your assignment: Be alert for the eternal as it wells up out of the mundane.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Whether or not you are literally a student enrolled in school, I suspect you will soon be given a final exam. It may not happen in a classroom or require you to write responses to questions. The exam will more likely be administered by life in the course of your daily challenges. The material you’ll be tested on will mostly include the lessons you have been studying since your last birthday. But there will also be at least one section that deals with a subject you’ve been wrestling with since early in your life—and maybe even a riddle from before you were born. Since you have free will, Capricorn, you can refuse to take the exam. But I hope you won’t. The more enthusiastic you are about accepting its challenge, the more likely it is that you’ll do well.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) For $70,000 per night, you can rent the entire country of Liechtenstein for your big party. The price includes the right to rename the streets while you’re there. You can also create a temporary currency with a likeness of you on the bills, have a giant rendition of your favorite image carved into the snow on a mountainside, and preside over a festive medieval-style parade. Given your current astrological omens, I suggest you consider the possibility. If that’s too extravagant, I hope you will at least gather your legion of best friends for the Blowout Bash of the Decade. It’s time, in my opinion, to explore the mysteries of vivid and vigorous conviviality.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Are you available to benefit from a thunderbolt healing? Would you consider wading into a maelstrom if you knew it was a breakthrough in disguise? Do you have enough faith to harvest an epiphany that begins as an uproar? Weirdly lucky phenomena like these are on tap if you have the courage to ask for overdue transformations. Your blind spots and sore places are being targeted by life’s fierce tenderness. All you have to do is say, “Yes, I’m ready.”

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) In their quest to collect nectar, honeybees are attuned to the importance of proper timing. Even if flowering plants are abundant, the quality and quantity of the nectar that’s available vary with the weather, season, and hour of the day. For example, dandelions may offer their peak blessings at 9 a.m., cornflowers in late morning, and clover in mid-afternoon. I urge you to be equally sensitive to the sources where you can obtain nourishment, Virgo. Arrange your schedule so you consistently seek to gather what you need at the right time and place.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) From the dawn of civilization until 1995, humans cataloged about 900 comets in our solar system. But since then, we have expanded that tally by over 3,000. Most of the recent discoveries have been made not by professional astronomers, but by laypersons, including two 13-year-olds. They have used the Internet to access images from the SOHO satellite placed in orbit by NASA and the European Space Agency. After analyzing the astrological omens, I expect you Sagittarians to enjoy a similar run of amateur success. So trust your rookie instincts.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) Some people are so attached to wearing a favorite ring on one of their fingers that they never take it off. They love the beauty and endearment it evokes. In rare cases, years go by and their ring finger grows thicker. Blood flow is constricted. Discomfort sets in. And they can’t remove their precious jewelry with the lubrication provided by a little olive oil or soap and water. They need the assistance of a jeweler who uses a small saw and a protective sheath to cut away the ring. I suspect this may be an apt metaphor for a certain situation in your life, Cancerian. Is it? Do you wonder if you should free yourself from a pretty or sentimental constriction that you have outgrown? If so, get help.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) I suspect your body has been unusually healthy and vigorous lately. Is that true? If so, figure out why. Have you been taking better care of yourself? Have there been lucky accidents or serendipitous innovations on which you’ve been capitalizing?

Make these new trends a permanent part of your routine. Now I’ll make a similar observation about your psychological wellbeing. It also seems to have been extra strong recently. Why? Has your attitude improved in such a way as to generate more positive emotions? Have there been fluky breakthroughs that unleashed unexpected surges of hope and good cheer? Make these new trends a permanent part of your routine.

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You’re in the Season of Togetherness, which is a favorable time to seek and cultivate interesting kinds of intimacy. If there is no one to whom you can sincerely deliver a memo like Woolf’s, search for such a person.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Are you willing to dedicate yourself fully to a game whose rules are constantly mutating? Are you resourceful enough to keep playing at a high level even if some of the other players don’t have as much integrity and commitment as you? Do you have confidence in your ability to detect and adjust to ever-shifting alliances? Will the game still engage your interest if you discover that the rewards are different from what you thought they were? If you can answer yes to these questions, by all means: jump all the way into the complicated fun!

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hanksgiving is here this week, and Hanukkah starts Dec. 6; then there’s Christmas and New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day—well, lets just say, ’tis the season to drink more alcoholic beverages than usual.

But how anybody manages to get their hands on the Holiday Spirit is anybody’s guess. There are a paltry 44 state liquor and wine stores in the entire state of Utah.

Our liquor was placed under the state’s control soon after prohibition ended. The 21st Amendment not only made adult beverages legal again, but also gave individual states the right to control distribution. Two years later, the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (UDABC) was formed.

On its website, the UDABC explains: “The purpose of control is to make liquor available to those adults who choose to drink responsibly—but not to promote the sale of liquor. By keeping liquor out of the private marketplace, no economic incentives are created to maximize sales, open more liquor stores or sell to underage persons.” Utah’s system may seem archaic, but it is far from unique: There are 18 states and a county in Maryland that control sales of booze at the retail level.

The Utah liquor auditors reported that drinking is up this year in the Beehive State, racking up $396 million in sales for the 2015 fiscal year. OMG, that is double what was sold here less than 10 years ago!

The UDABC has also released a list of the most popular beverages sold in Utah during that time period. Top branded products were Barton Vodka and Jack Daniels black label. Barton is the vodka many bars used in “well” drinks—that is cheap mixed beverages. To me, Barton smells and tastes a bit like rubbing alcohol.

Are you a wine drinker? Then you know that each year’s Beaujolais is released worldwide on the third Thursday of November. I always run down to snatch a few bottles of “baby wine”—or “just barely wine”—so as to wash down my turkey dinner with the new red. UDABC is notorious for its failure to get Beaujolais in stock on the day of its release, but it’s there now, so try some. It’s cheap and sweet.

Utahns are white wine drinkers, according to sales data. In 2014, we drank 55,029 bottles of Kendall Jackson chardonnay.

Those among us who enjoy drinking cheap beer bought a million units of Coors Icehouse.

But, whatever you drink, here’s a toast to you from me and the staff at City Weekly for a happy and safe holiday.

Plan your liquor shopping accordingly.

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