City Weekly Dec 3, 2015

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For Salt Lake City’s downtown to thrive, it needs to reclaim its dead zones.

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CWCONTENTS COVER STORY WASTED SPACE

For Salt Lake City’s downtown to truly thrive, it needs to reclaim its dead zones.

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This bundle of joy and sweetness joined the City Weekly team back when cargo pants were still in style, and he sees no sense in changing his look now. Brandon is devoted to spreadsheets, VBA macros and JavaScript. A Utah native, he is old enough to remember a time when there was nothing but empty space between Murray and Midvale. Brandon lives in Salt Lake City with his partner, Dave, and Kumo, a very nice cat.

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LETTERS Tolerance Does Not Mean Acceptance

In the Nov. 12 issue of City Weekly, Adam McDonald writes a letter [“LDS Church Overlooks Jesus’ Words”] that is critical of the LDS Church for the recent stand it took on gay relationships. McDonald, like many of his ilk, has either chosen to misunderstand or ignore what was actually said. Nothing was said about denouncing parents. The statement was about denouncing that lifestyle. McDonald quotes, “Suffer little children. …”

Can you imagine how they would suffer if exposed to that lifestyle at home and having different expectations at church? When they reach the age of 18, they can choose for themselves. What is more fair?

Ted Ottinger [“Save the Children”] then adds his farthing.

He seems concerned about children being denied church membership because of same-sex parents (see the above). He dislikes the church’s opposition to Proposition 8 and what he calls its lack of acceptance. The church recognizes the law of the land and that everyone has a right to choose as he sees fit.

No one is prevented from living as he wishes because of the church. And then he brings up homophobia. If you’re against the gay lifestyle, you’re a homophobe, un-American, un-patriotic, against the Constitution. Blah! Blah! Blah!

The church is tolerant toward differing points of view, but tolerance does not mean acceptance.

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How Should Salt Lake City Spend Its Block Grants?

What is the best use of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds? These funds are given to cities from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). They are our tax dollars coming back to us to help local governments improve our communities.

Some state, county and city governments have their staffs determine where those CDBG funds should be spent while others use a board made up of local citizens. Salt Lake City, to its credit, uses the board model, and in so doing, makes its process to dispose of these funds properly more transparent.

The question and discussion that I believe needs to be brought to the attention of Salt Lake City residents is: Should CDBG funds be used to pay for executive and/or administrative salaries? There are good arguments for and against using those monies to pay salaries. However, we don’t know how the people of Salt Lake City feel.

I’d like to propose a poll/debate/forum be initiated to learn the wishes and desires of Salt Lake City citizens. From an informal poll that I conducted: Out of 32 respondents, 62 percent said to pay no salaries; 22 percent said a small percentage of the salaries could be paid; and 16 percent said funds could be used to pay salaries. I wonder if those percentages would hold true for the city as a whole.

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Idaho’s State-Run Liquor Stores Have It Together

I recently moved to Idaho. As a lifelong Utahn, it’s been quite a shock to see beer and wine in every grocery and convenience store. The state-run liquor stores are open Sunday and are friendly, well-run establishments. How can this be in a state almost as conservative as Utah?

Well, maybe it’s attitude. The Idaho State Liquor Division has the following vision statement: “to be the most respected and highest performing purveyor of distilled spirits in the U.S.A.” The Utah Dept. of Alcoholic Beverage Control doesn’t have a vision statement. But, judging by its actions, if it had one, its statement might be: “to be the most dysfunctional organization in state government with the goal of making purchasing alcohol a generally miserable experience for customers and employees.” Kudos to the DABC managers and state legislators who have made this vision a reality.

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Fire and Aim

I’m at the kitchen table writing this week’s column. The only distraction facing me is Leonardo DiCaprio filling the television screen, a mild background for what little else I am doing, mostly mumbling to myself. I’ve seen nearly all of his movies since first noticing him sitting in a tree in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? Not all, but most, and I’ve never seen this particular movie so it has my attention.

The movie is J. Edgar, and Leo is playing the role of J. Edgar Hoover, the misogynist, racist, gay-hating director of the FBI of my youth. Hoover was a deeply closeted homosexual who took revenge on anyone who questioned his sexuality. Some find that ironic. I don’t. Lots of powerful men and women get there via the insecurity railroad while living two lives, and only a thin line separates the brain surgeon from the butcher.

Depending on your perch, Hoover was either good or evil. The man who basically created the FBI also used FBI resources to instill fear in private citizens and to violate civil rights in the name of national security (a playbook never far off the shelf of modern politicians). When Hoover died, the announcement was made in a televised broadcast by then-President Richard M. Nixon. They were a pair, those two. I’ve just learned that Hoover had served faithfully eight U.S. presidents dating back to Calvin Coolidge. Eight!

A person accumulates oodles of power in that much time. Lots of people will owe him favors, and more will grow to fear him—as was the case with at least three of those American presidents who feared dumping Hoover would expose them to some type of blackmail, the type that could end a presidential career.

Appointed government positions—like head of the FBI— are often gained by one person doing a favor for another. That’s true all the way from head dog catcher in Chicago to head of Utah’s UTA. During every political cycle we moan and groan about

big government, but government keeps growing. What a surprise. Nationally, we recycle the very same people to Washington, D.C., for decades and we replicate that in our individual statehouses. The very ones who say that they are against big, bad or corrupt government are, often as not, big, bad and corrupt. As a current Facebook meme points out, we grind about a president who might serve four to eight years, but we have no qualms about keeping a senator in office for 40 years.

We vote partisan. We stick to party lines.

We vote on dogma. We reward fear. Even if we take the time to really study a candidate, we end up making a voting choice not based on practical leadership or new ideas, but on wedge issues like abortion, gay rights or, the latest hot potato, Syrian refugees. Oh, by the way, J. Edgar Hoover cut his government teeth by identifying disloyal foreigners, mostly Germans after World War I and marking them for deportation. Ninety eight were arrested. Out of millions. He expanded that duty into identifying domestic radicals—like Martin Luther King Jr. and Vietnam War protesters. Ahhh, such great memories. Sound familiar? The current presidential stump debates are just a repeat of America in the 1920s and 1960s, with different surnames and different causes.

So, what of all this? Who cares about a wrinkled old pervert anyway? I don’t.

I just find it interesting when the above is juxtaposed with today’s other big news: Mayor-elect Jackie Biskupski has asked for the resignation of all Salt Lake City department heads and staff, with the exceptions of the fire chief and interim police chief. I know virtually no one inside City Hall, yet I’m confident that each of them is capable in whatever position he or she holds. However, Salt Lake City residents elected a new mayor who

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can select her own team of department heads to run the city on her terms. That’s politics.

Some people think she’s wrong, that’s she’s being a Grinch. Well, if that’s the case, then let’s hold elections in the summer, so that an incoming politician doesn’t have to worry about robbing a skateboard from beneath someone’s Christmas tree. Folks making that kind of argument are plain silly—and every employer in Utah knows that, for no sooner is the Christmas ham eaten than people begin dusting off their rèsumès. No one quits before Christmas.

The holidays should have nothing to do with Biskupski asking for resignations. Nor should “arrogant,” the label just now attached to her by one of her biggest supporters, former Salt Lake City mayor Rocky Anderson (who reaffirmed his support on Facebook).

Setting her own tone for how she will run Salt Lake City, and with whom, is not arrogance, it’s leadership. She’s drawn the line. We have four years to learn if it is good leadership or bad. She only did what Salt Lake City voters asked her to do—lead. That was among Ralph Becker’s greatest faults. He was not respected as a leader, just one who could be nice to the right people.

I’m sure there is not an entrenched, manipulative J. Edgar Hoover-type currently working in City Hall. Well, I hope I’m sure. And I hope as many as possible hold their positions and continue to do good work for Salt Lake City. But do remember, some of them got their jobs in exactly this manner, replacing former public servants but without the hubbub. This is the government we always ask for, and we shouldn’t be complaining about it. Because, what good does it do to change presidents and not Congress? What good is it to replace mayors if they stand merely for portraits? CW

WE VOTE PARTISAN. WE STICK TO PARTY LINES. WE VOTE ON DOGMA. WE REWARD FEAR.

If you could replace one elected government official at any level with just one vote, who would it be?

Randy Harward: Orrin Hatch. Not necessarily because of his politics—it’s just unnerving to be represented by a wraith.

Bryan Bale: I think Orrin Hatch would be a good (long overdue) start.

Mikey Saltas: Orrin Hatch, if for no other reason (though there are many) than his tenure. Thirty-eight years is way too long.

Jeremiah Smith: I would replace U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch with anyone half—make that one-third—his age.

Brandon Burt: Her Royal Majesty Elizabeth II. Not that I don’t like her—she’s great, as queens go. It’s just that she’s had a very long run. Have you seen the way she always frowns at official functions?

It’s because she’s an old woman, and she needs rest. Let her hand off the crown to Harry or whomever is decreed to wear it next. Have mercy, people! Let her retire.

Derek

Carlisle: I’d kick that Ronald Reagan-inducted, lazy-headed, conservative-voting Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas the hell out of our highest court and get someone in there who’d like to help shape the future. The only thing Thomas has going for him is that he’s a fellow Georgian, but that just ain’t enough!

Andy Sutcliffe: Bibi Netanyahu. Israel would be more secure without a rightwing neocon at the helm.

Pete Saltas: My very distant cousin, Orrin Hatch.

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HITS&MISSES

BY KATHARINE BIELE

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On Nov. 27, liquor took center stage in both Salt Lake City’s dailies, with a front-page article in the D-News, [“Utah liquor consumption is up, but underage drinking is down”] and a local front in the Trib [“Utah’s underage drinking ads successful, but funding raises questions for some employees”]. There were striking differences: Both highlighted a ParentsEmpowered.org ad campaign—the one with the creepy bobble-headed dads. It has been a wild success in decreasing underage drinking, according to a survey the organization itself commissioned. Oh, and the funding for the ads? The D-News story never mentioned it, but the ads are paid for with restricted tax dollars earmarked for media and educational campaigns—so unfortunately, overworked and underpaid DABC employees won’t see a dime.

The Legislature cut funding for DABC by $500,000, but the ParentsEmpowered budget keeps growing. It’s the law.

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Environmental advocates are trying to bring climate change out of the political realm.

Sixty-one scientists and educators sent a letter of concern to the Utah Office of Education about revised science standards— especially the idea of an incremental approach to climate change. The writers worry that some science teachers misunderstand the science and will pass those misconceptions on to students unless the standards are explicit. The main bone of contention appears to be the greenhouse effect, although the curriculum doesn’t really involve discussion of whether climate change is due to natural or human causes. The state school board still must adopt the changes before they are implemented in 2017.

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No surprise, but Utah is still the gender gap capital of the nation. 24/7 Wall St. (247WallSt.com) conducted a study addressing various factors in order to identify the 10 worst states for women. Its findings? “Utah trails the nation as the state with the worst gender gaps, while Oregon has the smallest gender gaps overall.” In a Deseret News article, Voices for Utah Children found that women fell behind in educational achievement and their ability to break into male-dominated and higher-paying jobs. It’s a tough sell, because Utah women are generally taught that it’s their duty to sacrifice for the home and family. Sen. Margaret Dayton, R-Orem, summed it up: “I think there needs to be caution in focusing on women in highly visible settings only, lest we discount the benefits the women generate in other areas.”

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Teri Orr is the director of the Park City Institute, where she worked since 1996, before the Eccles Center in Park Center was built in 1998. But she is also an award-winning journalist and former editor of the Park Record newspaper, where she remains a columnist today. After hearing Edward Snowden speak at the 2014 TED conference via live stream, she had the idea to bring the infamous leaker of government secrets to Utah. “I came into that experience neutral and left feeling I needed to understand more about the National Security Agency and how whistleblowers are treated,” she writes in an email. “The entire freedom of the press issue hit me in the gut.

And I understand in a new way, nothing electronic is private, anymore.” Orr’s idea will become a reality this Saturday, Dec. 5, at 7:30 p.m., when the Eccles Center in Park City will host Edward Snowden streamed live from Russia (see The Essentials, p. 22, for more event information, and read more from this interview at CityWeekly.net).

After hearing Edward Snowden talk at the TED conference, what was your take— was he a patriotic whistleblower or a traitor who put national security at risk?

The more you study Edward Snowden—what he actually did and did not do, and his concerns for our country—you have to admire his bravery. If you saw the Oscar award-winning documentary, CitizenFour, you understand the enormous sacrifice and risk. … I think we will come to view Edward Snowden as we once did Deep Throat or Daniel Ellsberg. We will discover we initially misjudged him and come to understand him as a remarkable patriot.

How does one go about arranging such a talk with Edward Snowden?

Edward Snowden is represented by All American Speakers Bureau. They were just given that opportunity this summer. Because of a longstanding relationship with an agent there, we were given the first opportunity to present Snowden. We remain the only public event he has booked—he has done several closed-circuit events—Princeton, Harvard, Hong Kong—but we are the only ticketed event to date.

Has there been any fallout with your board, sponsors and supporters for your choice?

The board of the Park City Institute was unanimous in their support of presenting Snowden— though they all hold varying political beliefs. They felt it was a rare opportunity. We have had a few ticket buyers share with us this was a show they would not attend and wish we hadn’t booked. There have been some minor Internet trolls. Our sponsors and donors have come to expect us to present edgy, provocative shows. They continue to support us.

Why do you think Snowden is willing to speak at the Eccles Center?

Does he have any ties to Utah?

I think Snowden welcomes opportunities to tell his story, to answer provocative questions, to engage in a healthy dialogue about world affairs. To my knowledge, he has no ties to Utah. The NSA being here was, maybe, just a bonus.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Fruitonium

BY CECIL ADAMS

My boyfriend says that bananas are so radioactive that they’re listed as a dangerous food.

Is he right?

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Are bananas radioactive? Sure. In fact, a few decades ago, a government physicist with a knack for public relations created what he called the banana equivalent dose, or BED, which proposes one banana’s worth as the measure of a minuscule amount of radiation. He was trying to convey the notion that we encounter minuscule amounts of radiation everywhere, including, yes, the produce section.

Are bananas, by virtue of their radioactivity, dangerous? If that logic attracts you, you’ll want to spend tonight on the sofa. Over a year, sleeping next to your boyfriend (who does seem a little credulous, if we’re being honest) is liable to expose you to one millirem of harmful radiation—about a hundred times more than you’ll get from eating the average banana, and thus 100 BEDs. Physicists call this background radiation, which we absorb constantly from sources both natural (like radon gas, the result of uranium breaking down in the soil) and manmade (like nuclear power plants). In this case, both boyfriend and banana contain the element potassium, which winds up in the body via food and in food via soil, fertilizer, etc. (If you’re a gardener, you know potassium as one of three primary elements your plants need to grow, the other two being nitrogen and phosphorus.)

Bananas are a good source of potassium nutritionally, but the amount they contain is small: only about four grams per kilogram.

Now, about 0.01 percent of all potassium occurs in the form of the unstable though extremely long-lived isotope potassium-40, or K-40. Roughly one in eleven times that K-40 decays, it converts to argon-40. Ar-40 is stable, but conversion from K-40 leaves it very briefly in what’s called an excited state, overcharged with energy. In promptly transitioning to its normal energy level, or ground state, it kicks out a biologically harmful gamma ray—the stuff your mother warned you about, provided your mother was a nuclear physicist.

Within the earth’s interior, potassium-toargon conversion is occurring continually on a beyond-massive scale. The radioactive output of a single banana, though, is genuinely teeny—fractions of fractions of fractions.

OK, you say. But what about, like, a whole bunch of bananas? I mean, truckloads of the fruit have been known to trigger radiation sensors at international borders. There are some countries in Africa where bananas constitute up to a quarter of the caloric intake. What’s the deal there?

First of all, kudos for your command of international nutrition stats. Second, outside of a shielded laboratory environment, taking an exact measurement of bananagenic radiation is tricky. Doesn’t mean we can’t try, though. I sent my assistant Una to the nearest grocery to gauge conditions in the field. She

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started by measuring the ambient radiation in the air at the store: eight microrems. (The rem is a unit of radiation dosage that, like much of our metric-system-defying measurement, is unique to the United States; more advanced civilizations have switched to the sievert.) Then Una measured the radiation in the banana bin: 15 microrems. Progress at this point was interrupted by a store manager’s inquiry regarding the customer wielding the Geiger counter. Having justified her presence, Una broadened the investigation. Idaho potatoes? Eleven microrems. Kitty litter? A whopping 19. (We presume you’re not eating that.) Not to unduly freak your boyfriend out, but Brazil nuts, lima beans and red meat can all produce Geiger readings as high or higher than bananas do.

Exposure-wise, then, there’s not much of a threat here. Diet-wise, I asked Una to crunch the numbers. The key here is that (assuming normal kidney function) potassium doesn’t accumulate in the body; the K-40 you’re dealing with is whatever you’ve recently ingested. Thus, according to Una, in order to get radiation poisoning—not even die—from consuming bananas, you’d have to put away 82,552,779, a meal after which, obviously, radiation is going to be the least of your bodily concerns.

So that’s the micro to the macro. What about the other way around? Here we find some wit at Forbes trying to downplay the effects of the 2011 nuclear meltdown at Fukushima by comparing the radiation emitted there each hour to 76 million bananas—only 76 million!

Hence we get a peek at the dark side of the BED, which certain paranoid corners of the Internet see as a nefarious distraction promulgated by Big Nuke: Who’s afraid of a little old banana? Humorless, sure, but these folks aren’t totally off-base. For instance, a 2014 oped column in South Africa’s Business Day (in a detail many screenwriters might consider a little too on-the-nose, the columnist also runs a group called the Free Market Foundation) endeavored to make the case that, in the wake of Fukushima, the proposed building of new nuclear power plants was really no big deal because, come on, bananas are radioactive, too. The guy who created the BED just wanted to demystify radiation, but I wonder if he’s developed any concerns about the concept’s half-life.n

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

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A SLC ordinance looks to force businesses to get into the recycling game.

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safe neighborhood, clean carpet, slick view from the deck— these are three ingredients that Salt Lake City’s itinerant renting population, which accounts for half of the city’s souls, might look for as they move from place to place.

But it’s only after the couch has been hauled up the stairs, the television mounted to the wall and the ink’s dry on that one-year lease that a renter realizes that the apartment building doesn’t offer recycling services.

The gravity of the situation sinks in as a renter stands by the dumpsters, a bag of trash in one hand and a bag of plastic jugs, empty beer cans and paper in the other, fretting about what his or her mother, elementary school teachers and homeowner friends with blue recycling bins in their driveways would say as all the bags get tossed into one bin, destined for the landfill.

No exact numbers exist for how many multi-family apartment complexes in Salt Lake City lack recycling bins. But according to a city survey conducted in 2012, only 10 percent of waste from all of the city’s businesses and its apartment complexes is recycled. And because roughly 50 percent of the waste in the city is generated by businesses—this lack of recycling poses a real threat to the city’s goal of becoming a zero-waste city by 2040.

The city’s attempts to grapple with this drought of recycling have taken the shape of a proposed ordinance, which would phase in over several years and require businesses and most multi-family apartment complexes to provide recycling bins.

“It’s noticeable,” says Debbie Lyons, the city’s sustainability program director, of the number of residents who bemoan the lack of recycling opportunities. “We’ve heard a lot from people who just wanted to be able to recycle where they live, regardless of where they live.”

The ordinance has been in the works for more than a year and could be voted on by the council later this month. It has received mostly favorable reviews

ENVIRONMENT from residents who are tired of being forced to either horde items and deliver them to a collection facility, or toss them into landfill-bound garbage, but some business associations have registered concerns.

The Utah Restaurant Association and the Utah Apartment Association both say they’re worried that a city wide recycling mandate could force business owners to undertake costly renovations to accommodate the bins, which could result in a loss of valuable parking spaces.

“I think all landlords love recycling and I think it’s a good idea,” says Paul Smith, executive director of the Utah Apartment Association, which represents 104,000 apartment owners in the state. “The issue is always cost.”

Smith says mandating recycling programs is fine, but renters should know that landlords will pass any increased costs associated with recycling onto their tenants.

To soothe the concerns of Smith and other business interests, multiple loopholes and exemptions have been woven into the ordinance. For instance, if a business doesn’t have room for an additional bin, that business could be exempted.

Importantly, the ordinance would apply only to businesses and apartment complexes that weekly generate more than 4 cubic yards of waste (the equivalent of roughly eight curbside bins used by households). A staff report prepared for the city council notes that this amount of trash and recycling would most likely be created by apartment complexes with 15 or more units, and by businesses with between 10 and 15 employees.

The ordinance is arriving at an awkward moment in the recycling world, says Matt Stalsberg, owner and general manager of ACE Recycling & Disposal, the largest independent trash and recycling hauler in the city. While passage of the ordinance would result in more business for ACE, Stalsberg says space restrictions, increased truck traffic and a worldwide market that is currently oversaturated with recyclables, all contribute to his subdued enthusiasm.

“Many other cities have adopted these types of programs, and we have enough infrastructure now that we could easily handle a mandatory amount,” Stalsberg says. “Whether I’m for it or not is questionable. The space is already such a huge issue in Salt Lake.”

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According to a city survey conducted in 2012, only 10 percent of waste from all of the city’s businesses and apartment complexes is recycled. to fit two. And in Salt Lake City, trash disposal rates at landfills are still a bargain, Stalsberg says, making it even less desirable for business owners to go out of their way to provide recycling.

“Unfortunately, that is what’s most economical for us at this time,” Stalsberg says of dumping garbage in the landfill.

But Stalsberg says the city is on the right path, and as a garbage hauler, he understands the importance of diverting waste away from the landfill. “I think that what they’re asking is pretty reasonable,” he says. “For a mandatory program, I think it’s pretty well put together.”

John Lair, president and CEO of Momentum Recycling, which provides all types of recycling services—but no trash-disposal services, says it is often more cost efficient to throw everything away than to recycle.

“For a business that doesn’t consider anything but the bottom line, it’s tougher now to justify recycling,” Lair says. However, Lair says that even though recycling rates in the business community appear low, many businesses choose to make sustainability a priority, even in the face of increased costs. “It’s nice to see the city stepping in and saying, ‘Hey, if you want to do business in Salt Lake City, you have to do these things.’”

That a business “has” to do anything, though, might raise some red flags with state lawmakers who, despite fervent cries for local control, have a history of undoing Salt Lake City’s policies.

The most recent example occurred during the 2015 legislative session, when the Legislature passed a law forbidding municipalities from requiring restaurants or businesses with a drive-

through window to accommodate bicyclists and pedestrians. The law was prompted by a Salt Lake City ordinance approved earlier in the year.

Salt Lake City Council Chairman Luke Garrott says he’s concerned that the recycling ordinance could meet a similar fate. Melva Sine heads up the Utah Restaurant Association, and like her counterpart, Smith, at the Apartment Association, she says that the economics of a mandatory program must make sense to restaurants. If a recycling ordinance costs restaurateurs money, then her organization will have a hard time backing it, she says.

“Restaurants, per se, have concerns,” Sine says. “Sustainability is a hot topic and one that the restaurant industry is on top of because we can save some money by conserving. The question is, does the money we’re saving outweigh what it costs to actually provide the service?”

Momentum Recycling’s Lair says that the ordinance allows enough loopholes to accommodate businesses that simply cannot comply, either because of space restrictions or because of costs. As the city continues to grapple with how best to deal with the hundreds of thousands of tons of waste it produces each week, Lair says his hope is that the ordinance on the table now will get even stricter.

“It’s a great step and, hopefully, it’s just one first step and there will be a lot of more to come later,” he says. “We would hope that this is a good compromise starting point, but that over time, as grandfather periods expire, some of these loopholes get tightened up so that every business is participating.

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However, not accepting “signature candidates” could prove to be a mistake. If the GOP did refuse to allow candidates going the signature route, it could lose its status as a QPP, says Mark Thomas, chief deputy to Utah’s lieutenant governor and director of elections in Utah, “If a QPP doesn’t follow the rules, then the default is a Registered Political Party [RPP],” he says. And if such a downgrade were to occur, every Republican candidate in the state who didn’t collect signatures could find themselves removed from the ballot, because an RPP

BY ERIC ETHINGTON can accept only signature-gathering, not eethington@cityweekly.net convention nominations. @ericethington “This is unprecedented,” says Tim Chambless, a professor of political sciho decides who will be on the ence at the University of Utah who is also ballot in the next Republican affiliated with the U’s Hinckley Institute of primary election? With the 2016 Politics. “This is really all about political elections right around the corner, party power. The Republican Party chair, James bosses and the state are still locked in Evans, doesn’t want to lose power. He has battle, trying to figure that out. the perception that the power should reThe current law is seen as a compromain entirely within the party.” mise between the Utah Republican Party’s Both the Utah Republican Party and the convention-only system and the Count My Lieutenant Governor’s Vote initiative drafted to Office have signaled that create alternate routes they want a new lawsuit by which candidates to go before the Utah could appear on balSupreme Court to settle lots. On Nov. 23, U.S. the matter. But this now District Judge David years-long dispute could Nuffer ruled that the be causing serious damRepublican Party cannot age among average Utah be forced to allow unafvoters. filiated voters to partici“The reason [the pate in their elections.

Count My Vote initiaHowever, candidates tive] had collected over can still appear on the 100,000 voter signaprimary ballot through tures is because there the signature-gathering was a perception among process if those signaa large number of tures are from regisUtahns that an injustice —Tim Chambless tered Republican voters had been perpetrated,” in that district.

Hinckley Institute of Politics says Chambless, “and Many thought Nuffer’s that due process had been violated.” Speruling would be the end of the issue, but cifically, Chambless points to the 2004 now the party has signaled that it may not Utah Republican Party convention, when allow Republican candidates on the primadelegates removed Gov. Olene Walker; and ry ballot, even if they’ve collected enough 2010, when they did the same to U.S. Sen. signatures to do so, unless those candidates Bob Bennett. Both candidates had been also receive at least 40 percent of the vote popular, with high approval ratings among from the party’s delegates at its convention. rank-and-file voters.

A letter sent by the Lieutenant Governor’s “It was one thing to have the injustice Office to State Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods occur once,” says Chambless, “but then to Cross, argues that the law requires any paralso have a very popular senator go down ty registered with the state as a Qualified without the voters getting a say prompted Political Party (QPP) must allow candidates the [CMV] initiative process. And now, we on the primary ballot who either have gathsee the Republican Party going to court ered enough signatures from Republicans against the law that was seen by most as a in their districts or received at least 40 pergood compromise, and getting a favorable cent of the delegate vote at convention—or ruling from one judge. So there are several both. Under existing code, the letter reads, aspects to this plot … and I think that the “a QPP must allow candidates to collect sigaverage voter is looking at the Republican natures. The Utah Republican Party will not Party nationally and seeing it in disarray. be in compliance with the [code] if it does “Then, they look here in Utah—supposnot allow a candidate to collect signatures.” edly the best-managed state in the naIn an email to his fellow Republican lawtion—and see the Utah Republican Party makers, Weiler wrote that the party—at its involved in similar finger-pointing, and Nov. 21 Central Committee meeting—may have lawsuits, and division rather than unity,” been signaling it will not allow candidates to Chambless says. “So what does that do? It appear on primary ballots unless they have 40 angers voters, and they could very well just percent of delegates’ votes, even if they have end up not voting.” CW gathered the requisite number of signatures.

Utah’s GOP remains locked in battle with the state over who gets to pick candidates.

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You can help keep someone from the cold by donating new or gently used coats and warm clothing to any Bank of Utah or Arctic Circle location. Do it for the feeling of love or for a voucher for a free Ranch Burger. There are 19 branches and mortgage loan offices that will take your coats, scarves, gloves and blankets participating in the annual Warm Bodies, Warm Souls coat drive through December. The 39 Arctic Circle locations have collection barrels for your donations.

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Revolution United and more than 50 organizations are gathering for the third annual Utah Clean Air Fair, a familyoriented event that empowers citizens with solutions to Utah’s unique air issues. Bryant Middle School, 40 S. 800 East, Saturday, Dec. 5, noon-5 p.m.

UtahCleanAirFair.com n Help architecture students from Utah State University as they review their Master Plan for South Summit Park in Marion. USU students, partnering with Wasatch Back Trees, will explain the park plan and take comments. Saturday, Dec. 5, 10 a.m.-noon, Kamas Library, 110 N. Main Street, Kamas, 435-503-8968

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In the present case, the court denounced the full-dress SWAT raid in 2010 of the Strictly Skillz barbershop in Orange County, Fla., for “barbering” without a license. (All certificates were found to be up-to-date, and in fact, the raiding agency had verified the licenses in a walk-through two days before.)

The Continuing Crisis Disappointed: 1. Cornelius Jefferson, 33, was arrested for assaulting a woman in Laurel County, Ky., in October after he had moved there from Georgia to be with her following an online relationship. Jefferson explained that he was frustrated that the woman was not “like she was on the Internet.” 2. In November, an unnamed groom in Medina, Saudi Arabia, leaped to his feet at the close of the wedding, shocked at his first glimpse of his new bride with her veil pulled back. Said he (according to the daily Okaz), “You are not the girl I had imagined. I am sorry, but I divorce you.” n The recovery rate is about 70 percent for the 1,200 injured birds brought for treatment each year to the Brinzal owl-rescue park near Madrid, Spain—with acupuncture as the center’s specialty treatment. Brinzal provides “physical and psychological rehabilitation” so that eagle owls, tawny owls and the rest can return to the wild, avoiding predators by being taught, through recordings of various wild screeches, which animals are enemies.

However, the signature therapy remains the 10 weekly pressurepoint sessions of acupuncture.

Ironies 1. In October, Reynolds American Inc., whose iconic product is Camel cigarettes, announced it would ban employees at its North Carolina headquarters from smoking in the offices, relegating them to special smokers’ rooms. (Critics of the company noted that Reynolds has for years staunchly denied that “secondary smoke” is dangerous.) 2. In September, Guinter Kahn, the South Florida dermatologist who developed minoxidil (the hair-restoring ingredient in Rogaine), passed away at age 80. Dr. Kahn himself had noticeable hair loss, but was allergic to minoxidil.

Suspicions Confirmed Even though one state requires 400 hours’ training just to become a professional manicurist, for instance, most states do not demand nearly such effort to become armed security guards, according to a CNN/Center for Investigative Reporting analysis released in December. Fifteen states require no firearms training at all; 46 ignore mental health status; nine do not check the FBI’s criminal

BY CHUCK SHEPHERD background database; and 27 states fail to ascertain whether an applicant is banned by federal law from even carrying a gun. (After an ugly incident in Arizona in which a juvenile gun offender was hired as a guard, the state added a box on its form for applicants to “self-report” the federal ban—but still refuses to use the FBI database.)

n Two high-ranking Hollywood, Fla., police officers were absolved of criminal wrongdoing recently even though they had intentionally deleted their colleagues’ names from Internal Affairs investigative records. Assistant Chief Ken Haberland and Maj. Norris Redding somehow convinced prosecutors that they were unaware the files were “public records” that should not be altered. The two are still subject to fines and restitution, but have been returned to administrative duty.

Scenes 1. The owner of a wine shop in Highgate, England, said the thief who robbed him in September somehow placed him in a trance so the man could pick his pockets—and then, brushing past him on his way out, the man brought the shop owner out of the trance.

Victim Aftab Haider, 56, pointed to surveillance video showing him staring vacantly during the several seconds in which his wallet was being lifted from his trousers. 2. In October in Scotland’s Perth Sheriff Court, Paul Coombs was sentenced to 14 months in jail for a June home invasion in which accomplices conveyed Coombs’ threats to the resident because Coombs himself is deaf and does not speak.

People Different From Us Cry for Help: Calvin Nicol, 31, complained that he was obviously the victim of a “hate crime” when thugs beat him up in Ottawa, Ontario, on Nov. 1—just because he is intensely tattooed and pierced, with black-inked eyes, a split tongue and implanted silicone horns on his forehead. (Though “hate” may have been involved, so far “body modification” is not usually covered in anti-discrimination laws. However, Nicol suggested one legal angle when he explained that “piercing myself and changing my appearance, and making me look like the person I want to look like is almost a religious experience to me.”)

Least Competent Criminals 1. Three women, whose ages ranged from 24 to 41, were charged with larceny on Black Friday in Hadley, Mass., when they were caught in the Wal-Mart parking lot loaded down with about $2,700 worth of allegedly shoplifted goods. The women had moments earlier begged a Wal-Mart employee for help getting into their car— because they had locked themselves out. 2. Michael Rochefort, 38, and Daniel Gargiulo, 39, were merely burglary suspects in Palm Beach County, Fla., on Sept. 25, but sheriff’s deputies’ case against them soon strengthened. While being detained in the back seat of a patrol car (and despite a video camera pointed at them), they conversed uninhibitedly about getting their alibis straight.

Recurring Themes In December, Florine Brown, 29, finally accepted removal, by the city of St. Petersburg, Fla., of the estimated 300 rats, grown from her initial three, inhabiting her house (with the familiar droppings and smell). “I just want them to go to good homes,” she said, comforted that a local rat “shelter” would take them in temporarily. “I really depended on the rats to get me by (bouts of depression).” (It turns out rat-removal is a slow process, since they hide. It took several days even to trap the first 70.)

A News of the Weird Classic (From April 2010) The long-standing springtime culinary tradition of urine-soaked eggs endures, in Dongyang, China, according to a March (2011) CNN dispatch. Prepubescent boys contribute their urine (apparently without inhibition) by filling containers at schools, and the eggs are boiled according to recipe and sold for the equivalent of about 23 cents each. Many residents consider the tradition gross, but for devotees, it represents, as one said, “the (joyous) smell of spring.”

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t’s the holiday season, and vehicles packed with fun seekers are barreling into downtown Salt Lake City. They’re coming for the twinkling lights, the concerts, The Nutcracker, ice skating at Gallivan Center, the high-end mall shopping. Some end up at City Creek Center to shop and gawk at illuminated Temple Square. Others drive to the Gateway for dinner and a concert, or to Capitol Theatre for a show.

And before you know it, traffic into downtown grinds down to a crawl.

Holiday cheer becomes holiday road rage as drivers vie for parking in time for their shows and concerts. The problem? With the long gaps between shopping, dining and entertainment venues, visitors and city residents spend far too much time driving and searching for parking spots close to their destination. Not only do they assume (incorrectly) there is no place to park, but the constant shuffle adds to congestion, air pollution and a general dislike of heading downtown.

So how is it that such malaise exisits when there is so much going on downtown? Especially after Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker just spent two terms in office making downtown vitality a key priority. Under his watch, construction started on a $110 million Broadway-style theater and the 111 Main office tower.

GREENbike, the nonprofit bike-share program that was launched downtown in 2013, set a national ridership record in November 2015 compared to other programs, with the most rides per bike. Ridership has increased by 300 percent since its launch, growing from 10 stations and 55 bikes to 25 stations and 200 bikes at various downtown locations. This fall, downtown also welcomed the second protected intersection in the country where cycle tracks on 300 South and 200 West intersect.

The streets of downtown have lately filled with workers and shoppers, after the new 222 Main building and City Creek Center opened in recent years. Goldman Sachs, which occupies most of the 222 Main tower, will expand into the 111 Main tower when that project opens in the fall of 2016.

Working in concert with new development are organizations such as the Downtown Alliance, which is tasked with creating events and activities that bring people downtown. The Downtown Alliance’s Eve celebration attracts around 40,000 visitors over the three-day event. The Farmer’s Market at Pioneer Park brings nearly 250 vendors and 10,000 people each Saturday during summer months.

Downtown is also the host to Salt Lake Comic Con and trade shows like Outdoor Retailer that bring an estimated 170,000 visitors each year, according to estimates from organizations that stage the events.

Yet, despite the buzz and popularity of downtown, the city still struggles to create a cohesiveness and sense of vitality. While there are small pockets of synergy, many of downtown’s long blocks remain empty outside of business hours. The onus of solving that puzzle now rests upon the shoulders of Mayorelect Jackie Biskupski and the Salt Lake City Council. The Mayor-elect’s plans for downtown, according to Biskupski’s campaign website, include reassessing parking fees, financing more affordable housing, enhancing transportation options and lowering the costs to do business downtown. While she did not respond to calls asking for comments to this story, Mathew Rojas, spokesman of Biskuspki’s transition team, said the Mayor-elect plans to make improving downtown vibrancy a priority.

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While, to many locals, downtown seems more alive than ever, it actually leaves room for improvement. Emil Malizia, a professor of city and regional planning at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, says that among peer cities, downtown S a l t

Lake scores low in vibrancy.

“Vibrant spaces are dense, diverse and connected places where you can live, work and play,” Malizia said in a Nov. 5 presentation to the Utah chapter of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), a nonprofit organization that advocates for responsible land use.

To measure vibrancy, Malizia looks at the compactness, density, walkability, regional and intra-city connectivity and mixed land uses of the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas. Salt Lake City scored below average on Malizia’s downtown vibrancy index, below neighboring cities such as Boise and Denver. Both in terms of walkability and what Malizia refers to as the “18hour downtown”—activities that draw people downtown both day and night— Salt Lake City fell short.

Downtown Salt Lake City’s notoriously large city blocks are partially to blame. Making up what is referred to as the “Mormon grid,” Salt Lake City’s 10-acre blocks are four to five times larger than the average city block.

According to Malizia, by comparison, the average downtown block in Portland is 0.92 acres while Denver’s blocks average 2.39 acres. And surface parking lots that take up an entire block would be comparable to four or five continuous

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“Parking was a lot easier 10 years ago because there was less going on,” says Downtown Alliance’s spokesman Nick Como. The seeming lack of parking “is a sign of a city growing up and being vibrant.” Quite to the contrary, “We have more than enough parking for a city of our size,” Como said.

U of U researcher Ewing agrees, noting that downtown Salt Lake City not only has enough parking, it might even be “over-parked.” That means that downtown development could continue to grow at its current pace for years without the need for additional public parking.

In Salt Lake City, surface parking lots are among the biggest culprits in killing downtown energy. According to estimates from Salt Lake City’s Division of Transportation Planning, surface lots make up about 20 percent of the land downtown, or 55 acres (equal to nearly three City Creek Centers, or five Temple Squares). According to parking

data from ParkingSLC.com, a website managed by the Downtown Alliance which compiles data from the Salt Lake City’s Transportation Division, nearly half of the parking facilities in downtown are surface parking lots.

“Parking is a good thing, but surface lots are not. They are dead space,” said Ewing, who is professor of city & metropolitan planning at the University of Utah. “Parking is the ultimate dead space because it replaces active space.”

The city’s surface parking lots, though plentiful, provide only 20 percent of available stalls. They aren’t nearly as efficient as parking garages that not only hold hundreds of more parking stalls, but they can be tucked behind buildings or, if they face city streets, they can allow street-level uses.

In the past, surface lots proliferated downtown because they are cheaper than a parking garage to build and, for downtown land owners, remain an easy source of income.

“Property owners will buy up several parcels [of old buildings], then want to demolish the building, so that they don’t have to pay property tax on them,” said Salt Lake City Councilman Stan Penfold. “You can get a pretty good return on a surface parking lot, and you don’t pay taxes like a normal business would.”

In general, property taxes are higher when there is a physical structure on a lot. Buildings carry higher value than land, making it more enticing for developers to hold the parcels while waiting to sell when the land’s value increases.

What’s more, Penfold says, Salt Lake City can’t change how surface lots are taxed because those taxes are regulated by other entities. Salt Lake County sets the rates but the state writes the tax laws. Because taxes are based on property (market) value, developers pay less property tax on undeveloped lots.

To discourage new surface lots from developing downtown, the Salt Lake City Council in 2012 passed a building ordinance prohibiting the demolition of downtown buildings to create parking lots in the downtown business

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that open to the street contribute to transparency, pushing the energy of active spaces onto the sidewalk, which ultimately engages pedestrians.

For example, Main Street scored high in University of Utah study. “Walking on Main Street feels different from walking on State Street,” said Salt Lake City urban designer Molly Robinson during an October Salt Lake Design Week downtown walking tour that looked at urban design principles.

According to Robinson, Main Street has active uses and qualities that make it vibrant and interesting to a pedestrian, while other sections of downtown discourage walking with dead space—places that offer little activity to hold a pedestrian’s interest. In comparison, Robinson cites buildings, such as the Federal Reserve Bank building on State Street, that don’t engage at the street level. State Street also lacks bike lanes, has a higher speed limit and has fewer trees and signage, which discourages pedestrian activity, according to Robinson.

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According to Malizia, vibrant downtowns aren’t just more interesting, they impact the entire region. Malizia argues that metropolitan areas with a vibrant downtown boast healthier residents, have fewer car fatalities and enjoy a larger economic output.

Good urban design increases vibrancy and encourages people to get out of their cars and walk. That was the conclusion of a 2015 study by University of Utah professor Reid Ewing, along with others. For the study, researchers conducted pedestrian counts at 32 randomly selected block faces across Salt Lake County during the spring of 2012. They counted zero pedestrians at over half of the block faces. Only the downtown blocks selected had a significant pedestrian presence.

Researchers began a more in-depth study of downtown pedestrians, taking into account five urban design qualities.

The first is “imageability”—what a pedestrian sees, including trees, landscape, landmarks and signage.

The second is enclosures—buildings, trees and walls that create a room-like ambience.

Human scale makes up the third design quality, referring to the spatial arrangement between structures and people Transparency is the fourth quality referring to the ability to see human activity within public and private spaces.

Complexity is the fifth designquality measure. It refers to the the structural and aesthetic details that create a “rhythm” along a street.

Of the five, imageability and transparency most influenced pedestrian activity in downtown Salt Lake.

A streetscape with high imageability is more visually interesting to pedestrians.

Outdoor dining, display windows and large doors

Downtown’s Gallivan Center brings visitors and residents downtown year-round.

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“With our big city blocks, we can tuck parking structures in the middle of the block, behind buildings.”

—Stan Penfold, Salt Lake City Councilman for the 3rd District

district from North Temple to 700 South between 200 West and 200 East.

The 2012 ordinance prohibits surface lots and parking structures from being built on block corners downtown and along Main Street. Mid-block surface lots either must be set behind a building or set back 75 feet back from the front property line.

Penfold, who represents District 3— which includes the lower and upper Avenues, Capitol Hill and Federal Heights—sponsored the ordinance because surface parking lots exaggerate the impact of the city’s large blocks by creating dead space. Surface lots also tend to discourage adjacent development.

But, Penfeld says, Salt Lake City’s large blocks also give it a unique opportunity.

“With our big city blocks, we can tuck parking structures in the middle of the block, behind buildings,” he said.

Even though new surface parking lots are prohibited by the ordinance, developers who receive approval to demolish a downtown building only need to landscape, not build a structure, on the property.

Penfold said the city needs to encourage developers to find other temporary uses that activate a space while waiting to build new projects.

Penfold cites the temporary shops and eateries built on Main Street while builders waited for market conditions to improve to construct the new 222 Main tower.

According to parking data gathered by the Salt Lake City Transportation Planning Division, there are nearly 33,000 public parking stalls between 400 South and North Temple and 200 East and Interstate 15.

By comparison, based on data from the Downtown Denver Partnership, Denver has 42,009 parking spaces. But with an estimated 2014 population of 663,862 residents, Denver is more than three times larger than Salt Lake City’s estimated population of 190,884. There is one downtown parking space for every 15 residents in Denver.

Salt Lake City has one downtown parking space for every 6 residents.

Thus, per capita, downtown Salt Lake has more than twice the amount of parking than Denver.

Both Denver and Salt Lake City are regional job centers and have large daytime downtown populations. But even considering the 2014 metropolitan population estimates (Denver’s metro has 2.7 million, while the Salt Lake City metro has 1.15 million), Utah’s capital city still has nearly double the downtown parking per capita. There is one stall for every 65 Denver metro residents, while in Salt Lake there is one stall for every 36 metro residents.

The city’s Transportation Division estimates that the nearly two blocks of parking under the City Creek Center— which accounts for nearly 16 percent of downtown parking—are only at 20 percent occupancy on any given day.

There are 79 privately owned surface parking lots and garages downtown between 500 West and 300 East and North Temple and 500 South, 40 of which are parking garages or structures.

Although those garages account for just over half of the total places to park, they represent 80 percent of the total public parking downtown.

SLC Parking Is Affordable, Too

City Weekly made inquiries with a number of parking facilities listed on the Downtown Alliance’s ParkingSLC. com website. In general, most downtown surface lots charge a flat daily rate, while garages are more likely to charge by the hour.

Underground parking garages at the City Creek Center and the Gateway offer the most competitive rates. The Gateway charges $1 an hour with the first hour free. City Creek charges $2 an hour with the first two hours free and third hour free if the ticket is electronically validated. Combined, the shopping centers account for nearly one

of every four parking spaces downtown.

Parking garages offer more parking, but tend to cost more (with the exception of City Creek Center and the Gateway). Prices among three of the largest non-mall downtown operators range from $1 to $4 an hour.

Downtown’s bumper crop of 39 surface parking lots are easy to spot. But surface lots, even the uber-large city-block size lots, don’t come close to holding the number of vehicles that can be parked in a garage. Surface lots are also priced for longer stays. According to City parking data, most surface lots downtown average around $5 per day of parking.

Not surprisingly, the LDS Church earns a pretty penny from parking lots.

Searching property records, it appears that City Creek Parking—part of City Creek Reserve Inc., a for-profit arm of the LDS Church— is the largest parking operator downtown. It operates 19 lots and garages, with around 13,000 stalls, which represents almost 40 percent of the total parking stalls available downtown.

City Creek Parking also offers the most competitive rates. Not only does the City Creek mall charge only $2 per hour after the two free hours of parking, two of the church-owned parking garages charge only $1 per hour. However, the parking garage west of the Triad Center charges $3 an hour and the garage under the LDS Conference Center charges $10 per day.

Ampco Parking and Diamond Parking are the second and third largest operators respectively, however, in general, neither Ampco nor Diamond Parking own the parking lots/garages they manage. While Ampco operates 10 surface lots and 11 garages, it manages just under 7,500 stalls, or 23 percent of the total stalls downtown.

Diamond Parking operates 8 surface parking lots and 6 garages, but that includes just over 2,200 stalls, or 7 percent of downtown parking stalls.

It tends to be more expensive to park in Ampco and Diamond lots. The majority of Ampco-managed parking garages charge between $2 and $4 an hour, while most garages managed by Diamond charge between $2 and $3 an hour.

Dealing With Dead Space

One of the keys to bringing “dead space” back from the dead is to develop them into residences and businesses that attract more people to downtown. The goal is to make downtown more livable. Malizia says that as more residents choose to live downtown, more amenities (places to eat, drink, shop and celebrate, etc.) will be needed, all of which increases vibrancy.

Population density is a key contributor of pedestrian activity. The more people work, live or play on a block, the more

oriented streets and street-level activity instead of parking. Future parking structures will be designed to include active ground-floor uses while surface parking lots will make way for new development.

Surface parking and other downtown dead zones could be phased out in the next two decades if the goals of the current draft of the Downtown Community Plan are realized. But like any plan, according Robinson, its success depends on public buy-in.

In the meantime, the Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake and the City Council are focusing RDAmanaged downtown projects designed to enhance mid-block streets. Construction will soon begin on pedestrian improvements on the 100 South block of Regent Street that will be incorporated into the new Broadway theater. And on Regent and 200 South, construction of the Regent Street Hotel a 20-story mixed-use development, will start next year.

The RDA is looking for a new developer to take over the stalled State Street Plaza project, a 10-story mixed-use project on the 200 South block of State Street. That project includes enlivening Edison Street by building a pedestrian walkway across the street from Gallivan Avenue and will connect State Street with Edison Street.

The key, it seems, to a more vibrant downtown all comes down to Salt Lake City walking its talk: literally getting feet on the street. Robin Hutcheson is the director of Salt Lake City Division of Transportation and Planning who oversees the blueprint of downtown. “As our city grows, having a lively and engaging walk feels much differently than having a desolate and dark walk,” she says.

“That is where the land use comes in on how we are changing to really support a better walking environment.” CW Isaac Riddle is a Salt Lake City journalist who operates the blog SLCityNews.com.

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According to U of U professor Ewing, “Great downtowns don’t have a lot of surface parking.” As downtown Salt Lake City grows, the demand for parking will decline as higher-density projects and transit-orientated developments make downtown less car dependent.

Ewing co-authored another study in 2014 with University of Utah Department of City & Metropolitan Planning professor Guang Tian and New York University economics professor William Greene.

The study points out that Salt Lake City’s lack of density is essentially the cause of lack of vibrancy.

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Downtown currently has an estimated population of just over 5,000 residents. But, according to the study, nearly 58,000 more residents would move downtown from nearby metro areas if it were feasible. That’s a lot of feet on the street.

The same 2014 study also found that residents valued “complete streets”—streets designed for cars, pedestrians and bicycles—over streets designed just for cars.

Salt Lake City can’t force developers to build on the parcels, but it can leverage impact fees and other taxes to incentivize downtown development.

The city itself is close to finalizing the Downtown Community Plan, which, when adopted, would shape land use downtown for the next two decades.

Not only will the plan encourage developing diverse housing options to accommodate new residents, but it also calls for enhancements to downtown’s current rail network. City planners want to create a downtown “circulator” by extending TRAX west from Main Street along 400 South to Intermodal Hub at 600 West, helping keep visitors and residents downtown.

A second route would extend TRAX down 400 West off 400 South to reconnect with the current TRAX line at 200 West and 700 South. The 400 South extension would allow for a circular TRAX route and enhance downtown connectivity.

The new plan also proposes a downtown streetcar that would connect 500 East and South Temple to the Intermodal Hub, running east to west on 100 South and 200 South and north to south on both 500 East and West Temple. A second phase would extend the streetcar east to the University of Utah and south to 900 South in the Granary District.

The Downtown Community Plan would modify downtown zoning regulations to help encourage more activity at the street level by making it easier to add ground-floor retail to new and existing buildings. In addition, priority will be to pedestrian-

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pedestrian activity that block will have.

Malizia recommended increasing density and with more multi-family and high-density development, including workforce housing to keep it affordable for middle and lower incomes.

Thus, developing surface parking lots with buildings that attract residents, workers and visitors is a laudable goal. The good news is it could be accomplished without a significant loss of parking. Based on the city’s Transportation Division data, if downtown’s available surface lots were all utilized for new businesses and residences, and thus removed from the parking inventory, there would still be almost 25,000 parking stalls available to the public. That is a ratio of one parking stall for every 8 residents, still almost double the parking ratio in Denver.

It’s already starting to happen in some locations.

In 2014, a six-story office building replaced a large surface lot at the intersection of 100 South and 200 East. Just a half a block away, on the 100 South block of 200 East, construction is underway on a seven-story apartment building that replaced a 410-stall surface parking lot.

The site of a former 46-stall parking lot across from Pioneer Park will soon become a six-story apartment building. And Salt Lake City is pushing for development along mid-block streets like Regent and Edison Streets.

But getting the surface lots developed could still be a challenge due to the ownership of the lots.

Two religious institutions own large swaths of downtown surface parking: Property Reserve Inc., the private real-estate arm of the LDS Church, and the Greek Orthodox Church of Greater Salt Lake.

The LDS Church owns close to 28 acres of surface parking. The church also owns the only two blocksize parking lots, the lot across from the Radisson Hotel on South Temple, and the full city block lot across from the federal courthouse on 400 South.

(The late oil and hotel magnate Earl Holding sold the lot to the LDS Church a few years back). The LDS Church did not return calls to City Weekly in response to this story.

The Gateway maintains the second-largest amount of surface parking, the majority of which is tucked away behind buildings.

And the Greek Orthodox Church of Greater Salt Lake, with nearly 3 acres of asphalt from its two surface parking lots on the 200 South block of 300 West, owns the third largest amount of surface parking, all managed by Ampco Parking.

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The Utah Symphony’s program for its Dec. 4-5 performances will feature a beginning, an ending and a tribute.

The tribute will be for Maestro Joseph Silverstein, the Utah Symphony’s conductor and music director from 1983-1998. Silverstein passed away on Nov. 22, and the orchestra he once conducted will honor him by performing Variation IX “Nimrod” from Elgar’s “Enigma Variations.” It was a piece he loved and that he had the orchestra perform to honor those who had passed.

The ending is the performance of the last of Beethoven’s nine symphonies. The Utah Symphony played the first eight over two weekends in September, but saved No. 9—with its famed “Ode to Joy” chorus—for its very own weekend. Thierry Fischer will conduct the orchestra and the Utah Symphony Chorus in Beethoven’s Choral symphony, which lasts 75 minutes. Four vocal soloists will also be performing. With the Christmas season underway, it’s hard to think of a better way to celebrate than singing about humanity and brotherhood.

The beginning is the world premiere of composer Nico Muhly’s Control (Five Landscapes for Orchestra). The work was commissioned by the Utah Symphony and will be recorded over both nights for later release. The work was inspired by Utah’s natural wonders and striking landscapes, with the five parts representing Landform, Mountain, Beehive, Petroglyph & Tobacco and Red Dust. An interactive digital media presentation by visual artist Joshua Higgason will also be part of the performance. (Geoff Griffin) Utah Symphony: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9: The Choral @ Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, Dec. 4-5, 7:30 p.m., $18-$73. UtahSymphony.org

Twenty years ago, a troupe of performing artists from the Bronx pooled their collective talents to become Universes. During its two decades of existence, the group has used a signature blend of hip-hop, jazz and poetry to tell stories about the often marginalized communities within our country’s inner cities. As outspoken advocates for social justice and equality, Universes has performed in venues across the nation and participated in international theater festivals held in Sudan, Chile and Poland.

Thanks to the efforts of UtahPresents and its partnership with the University of Utah’s Department of Theatre, Universes is bringing its award-winning showcase Live From the Edge to Kingsbury Hall. Live From the Edge plays out like a mixtape that spans the ensemble’s impressive repertoire. Attendees can expect a few scenes from Ameriville, the group’s commemoration of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, as well as excerpts from Party People, which delves into the formation of the Black Panthers and Young Lords in the 1960s. Universes will also be featuring samples of their newest material, which is steeped in the poetry of August Wilson.

Before the performance, group founders Steven Sapp, Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, Gamal A. Chasten and William “Ninja” Ruiz will be hosting workshops with students from the U of U’s theater department. They will also be hosting a free Lunch & Learn lecture in the Union Panorama East Room from 11:50 a.m.-1:50 p.m. on the day of their performance. Universes’ unique perspective on urban culture coupled with the group’s multigenre approach to storytelling promises to be a thought-provoking trip to the theater. (Alex Springer) Universes: Live From the Edge @ Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. President’s Circle, 801-581-7100, Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m., $20.

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In early 2013, Edward Snowden was merely an anonymous guy, working as a lead technologist for the National Security Agency’s informationsharing office in Hawaii. By the end of that same year, he would be one of the most controversial figures in America—considered a patriot by some, and a traitor by others.

That’s all because of the information that Snowden released to the media through journalist Glenn Greenwald and documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, evidence of the American government’s massive program of collecting email, cell phone and Internet data about not just foreign governments, but our own citizens. Nonprofit organizations were targets of spying, as were foreign heads of state like German chancellor Angela Merkel. The revelations were chilling to many, and The Washington Post and The Guardian shared a Pulitzer Prize for their stories about Snowden’s information. And the release of this classified information turned Snowden into a fugitive, now living in exile after he was granted asylum in Russia.

This week, the Eccles Center presents a fascinating opportunity for a live conversation with Snowden via satellite from Russia.

KUER 90.1 FM’s Doug Fabrizio will serve as moderator for an interactive discussion, which will also feature special guest Ben Wizner of the American Civil Liberties Union Speech, Privacy & Technology Project (see Five Spot, p. 8, for more information). Is Snowden a threat to national security or a protector of individual security?

You can be part of the evening where you might be able to tell him what you think yourself.

(Scott Renshaw) Edward Snowden: Live from Russia @ Eccles Center, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-655-3114, Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m., $50-$150.

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The holidays are a time of year when Americans find themselves singing songs that date back centuries, evoking the profound feeling of believers. That might make it an ideal time for those who aren’t familiar with Utopia Early Music to embrace their unique artistic mission to keep alive the music and songs of the medieval, Renaissance and baroque era.

For their annual holiday program, Utopia Early Music presents several works with roots in the sacred traditions of European nations. Some songs represent devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, as well as choral pieces and Christmas carols representing composers from the Czech Republic, Poland and Finland. Dance songs from Llibre Vermel de Montserrat capture devotional hymns sung by pilgrims on the famed Camino de Santiago through France and Spain to the shrine of Santiago de Compostela. There will even be an opportunity to experience the 13th-century Play of Daniel, a liturgical drama telling the biblical story of Daniel, the Jewish exile whose visions challenged the kings of Babylon; the “melodic variety” of the work has never before been performed for Salt Lake City audiences.

Visiting artists Shulamit Kleinerman (vielle) and Therese Honey (Gothic harp) join Utopia cofounders Emily Nelson (soprano) and Christopher LeCluyse (tenor), along with mezzo-soprano Megan Lee, in this fascinating program. It’s a chance to really connect with those ghosts of Christmases past. (Scott Renshaw) Utopia Early Music: Angel Song: A Medieval Christmas @ Cathedral Church of St. Mark, 231 E. 100 South, Dec. 5, 8 p.m.; Dec. 6, 5 p.m.; pay as able (suggested $10$15). UtopiaEarlyMusic.org

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Winter Frame of Mind At Phillips Gallery, a “holiday group show” doesn’t mean just a random collection of artists.

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t’s that time of year—when local art galleries turn to holiday-themed shows.

It’s a wonderful opportunity to see large groups of artists exhibiting work together, and since galleries often have extended hours, it’s ideal for people who might not otherwise get out into the gallery scene to get an eyeful of works by local artists and craftspeople.

But the very nature of the holiday show can indulge the stereotype: seasonal cards and knick-knacks designed to move as gifts that holiday shoppers can pick up in between visits to bustling mall stores. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with art as a thoughtful, creative gift, but galleries need to avoid the trap of catering to the holiday gift-buying public in this over-commercialized season.

Phillips Gallery’s Winter Group Show has always been a little different. The gallery’s director/curator, Meri DeCaria, who has been working for the gallery for 25 years— half of the 50 years it’s been in business— explains how the show, largely drawn from the gallery’s extensive collection of local artists, is assembled. She asks artists to submit works, and, this year, she received several options from 30 of their artists.

“When we laid it all out; they all seemed to find their places,” she said. “It’s a nice way to show that a wide variety of styles can hang together.” More than a third of the works represented in the show is newly created for the show—a higher percentage than in previous years.

Though the presentation may appear to be completely intuitive or spontaneous, there is some method. The gallery alternates the number of works hung in a vertical column on the wall, and tries to group together works with similarities, like similar frames, or color schemes. “It’s carefully arranged so it’s harmonious,” DeCaria said.

But then whimsical mixed-media pieces (including Maureen O’Hara’s “A Lucky Life”) appearing here and there add an element of surprise and keep things from becoming monotonous. “She delivered on the day of opening, so we squeezed hers in where we could,” said DeCaria. “That’s the way it goes; we are expecting that sort of thing will happen.”

Detail, above, Jim Jacobs’ “Princessa”; at left, Heather Barron’s “Angels”

The serendipity with which the exhibit is arranged carries over into the viewer’s experience. Walking around three floors of exhibits (not counting the permanent sculpture garden on the upper deck) and more than 90 artists on display, it somehow manages to feel comprehensive, but not overwhelming. This is largely because gallery owner Bonnie Phillips strives to keep the walls full without appearing cramped during this show, according to DeCaria.

These works have space to breathe and maintain their integrity. Given this liberty, they can start to tell a story.

A few works refer directly to the time of year, like Patricia Kimball’s “Play Pups” (oil) cavorting in the snow, or the religious symbolism of Heather Barron’s “Angels” (oil), but the gallery avoids assigning specific themes to its artists. “We really like to let artists do what they’re inspired to do, and we feel we get the best results that way,” explains DeCaria.

These works engage in a vital conversation, both with the viewer and with each other: The landscape paintings of Connie Borup and Hadley Rampton can coexist on the same wall with abstract works

by Oonju Chun, Jean Arnold, Hyunmee Lee and Tom Bettin. The figurative works of Sandy Freckleton Gagon can be in the same room with sculptures by Claire Wilson and Cordell Taylor. These are all different perspectives of seeing the world in new ways and what one can make of it.

The exhibit is also a wonderful celebration of the gallery’s half-century mark, with its mix of the old and new. Deborah Hake Brinkerhoff’s new works are fresh and invigorating, while Tom Kass is new to the gallery. The former University of Utah architecture professor’s work is influenced by his academic discipline. New works submitted by the family of the late sculptor Larry Elsner enhance his legacy. A number of artists in the exhibit have passed on, and it’s fortunate to have their work preserved for display.

New technology is evidenced in the digitally manipulated pigment prints of Ed Bateman. Jim Jacobs turned from wood sculpture to mixed media (“Princessa,” inkjet and acrylic on panel) to relate experiences living abroad. Trent Alvey took scraps from her paintings and repurposed them into collages (“Strange Attractor,” mixed media).

Phillips Gallery’s winter group exhibit— opening during the time when autumn turns into winter, a time of endings and beginnings, looking back and looking forward—is a reminder of the way art, in general, and the local art scene in particular, are capable of remarkable rebirth and renewal.

Looking at this show, art lovers are reminded of much to be thankful for in the local art scene. In addition to the sheer bounty of art, it’s a celebration of the unity and diversity of the local arts community. CW

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The King’s English Holiday Party

Every year, as Christmas shopping season draws near, we hear with increasing frequency a call to “buy local”—to take a break from online warehouses and massive chain retailers, and support the businesses that carve out their unique personalities right here in Utah. Yet even that call to buy local doesn’t always connect you to those who have created the gifts you might want to buy—like Utah’s many talented authors.

This year, come down for The King’s English Bookshop’s annual holiday party for a chance not just to buy from a locally owned business, but to support—and meet—local authors, such as Julie Checkoway (The Three-Year Swim Club, pictured), Caralyn & Mark Buhner (Merry Christmas, Mr. Mouse), James & Donna Poulton (Painters of Grand Teton National Park) and Salt Lake Tribune cartoonist Pat Bagley. Hors d’oeuvres are included and all purchases made during the party are 20 percent off regular price. (Scott Renshaw) The King’s English holiday party @ The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Dec. 3, 5-7 p.m., free. KingsEnglish.com

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ReduxNut-Cracker Odyssey Dance Theatre, Weber State University, Val Brouning Center for the Arts, 3750 Harrison Blvd., Ogden, 801-6268500, Dec. 4-5, 7:30 p.m., OdysseyDance.com Fearless Marriott Center for Dance, 330 S. 1500 East, No. 106, 801-581-7100, Dec. 3; 5:30 p.m., Dec. 4; 7:30, Dec. 5; 2 p.m.; 7:30 p.m., Tickets.

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Kris Johnson Quartet Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main, 801-535-6110, Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m., ExcellenceConcerts.org Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, 801-5816762, Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m., Music.Utah.edu Pleasant Grove Orchestra and Choir: Handel’s Messiah Pleasant Grove High School, 700 E. 200 South, Pleasant Grove, 801-7855045, Dec. 5, 7 p.m., PLGrove.org Salt Lake Symphony: Angels and Visitors Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, University of Utah, 801-581-7301, Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m., SaltLakeSymphony.org The Snowman Covey Center for the Arts, 425 West Center St., Provo, 801-852-7007, Dec. 2-3, 7:30 p.m., UtahValleySymphony.org Utah Chamber Artists: Christmas Past & Present Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-7100, Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m., UtahChamberArtists.org Utah Symphony: Beethoven’s Symphony

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matinee, 2 p.m.; EmpressTheatre.com Grouch Who Stole Christmas The Off Broadway Theater, 272 South Main, 801-355-4628, through Dec. 26, Monday; Friday; Saturday, 7:30 p.m., TheOBT.org It Happened One Christmas Pioneer Theater Co., 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6961, Dec. 4-19, Monday-Thursday 7:30 p.m.; Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 2 p.m. PioneerTheater.org It’s a Wonderful Life: The Musical SCERA Center for the Arts, 745 S. State, Orem, 801-2252787, Dec. 4-19 except Tuesday & Sunday, 7:30 p.m., SCERA.org

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Winter Market Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, 801-9655100, Dec. 5, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., CulturalCelebration.org Holiday Shopping Bazaar The Shared Space, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, Dec. 8-20, noon-4 p.m., SLCPL.org Weber County Holiday Festival Golden Spike Event Center, 1000 N. 1200 West, 801-399-8798, Dec. 4-8, 2-9 p.m., WeberCountyHolidayFestival.com

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Bright Lights Concert Gala: Operation Underground Railroad SKY, 149 S Pierpont Ave., 801-883-8714, Dec. 4, 8 p.m.-midnight, SkySLC.com Brunch With Santa 5th Street Grill at Sheraton, 150 W. 500 South, Salt Lake City, 801-401-2000, Dec. 5, 12 & 19, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., reservations available, SheratonSaltLakeCityHotel.com BYUSA: Freeze Fest Peaks Ice Arena, 100 N. Seven Peaks Blvd., Provo, 801-422-7696, Dec. 4, 7-11 p.m., MarriottSchool.BYU.edu Christmas in Color Ed Mayne St./Oquirrh Park, 5624 S. Cougar Lane, Kearns, Nov. 27-Jan. 2, Monday-Saturday, ChristmasInColor.net Christmas Village Municipal Gardens, 25th St. Grant Avenue, Ogden, 801-399-4357, Nov. 30-Jan. 1, OgdenCity.com Festival of Trees South Towne Expo Center, 9575 S. State, Sandy, 801-662-5959, Dec. 2-5, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., FestivalOfTreesUtah.org The Great Christmas Adventure Gardner Village, 1100 W. 7800 South, West Jordan, Dec. 4-23, Monday-Saturday, 5:30 p.m.-10 p.m., GardnerVillage.com Holiday Concert: Beehive Statesmen Barbershop Chorus Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, 801965-5100, Dec. 7, 7 p.m., CulturalCelebration.org Santa’s Reindeer Thanksgiving Point, 3003 N. Thanksgiving Way, Lehi, through Dec. 23, Monday-Saturday, 12 p.m.-10 p.m., ThanksgivingPoint.com Stories for a Holiday Season: Storyteller Donald Davis Thanksgiving Point Gardens, 3900 N. Garden Dr., Lehi ZooLights Hogle Zoo, 2600 E. Sunnyside Ave., Dec. 2-31, HogleZoo.com

Gary Gulman Wiseguys, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Dec 3-5, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., WiseGuysComedy.com Gilbert Gottfried Wiseguys Downtown, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Dec. 9-10, 7 & 9 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Jackson Banks Wiseguys Downtown, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m., Wiseguyscomedy.c)om James P. Connolly Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., 801-622-5588, Dec. 5, 8 p.m., WiseGuysComedy.com Stand-Up Like an Egyptian Comedy Egyptian Theatre Co., 328 Main St., 435-649-9371, Dec. 4-5, 8 p.m., EgyptianTheatreCompany.org

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Book Signing and Boutique Extravaganza Salt Lake County Magna Library, 2675 S. 8950 West, 801 252-9165, Dec. 3, 6-9 p.m., SLCoLibrary.org Caralyn and Mark Buehner: Merry Christmas, Mr. Mouse; Julie Checkoway: The ThreeYear Swim Club; James & Donna Poulton: Painters of Grand Teton National Park; Pat Bagley and more The King’s English Holiday Party, The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Dec. 3, 5-7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com, see p. 25 James Dashner: The Game of Lives The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801484-9100, Dec. 3, 5-7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com Richard Paul Evans: The Mistletoe Inn Barnes & Noble, 1780 N. 1000 West, Layton, 801-7739973, Dec. 3, 7 p.m., BarnesandNoble.com Rubin Pingk: Samurai Santa The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-4849100, Dec. 5, 2 p.m., KingsEnglish.com Tom Mangelson & Todd Wilkinson: Grizzly: The Bears of Greater Yellowstone The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-4849100, Dec. 9, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com

SPECIAL EVENTS MODERATED DISCUSSION

Edward Snowden: Live from Russia Eccles Center 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-6553114, Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m., EcclesCenter.org, see p. 22

WINTER MARKETS

Simple Treasures Boutique Golden Spike Event Center, 1000 N. 1200 West, 801-814-8670, Dec. 3-8, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., SimpleTreasuresBoutique.biz Utah Winter Faire Legacy Events Center, 151 S. 1100 West, Farmington, 801-451-4080, Dec. 4-6, noon, UtahWinterFaire.com Christkindlmarkt Christmas Market This Is the Place Heritage Park, 2106 Sunnyside Ave., 801-582-1847, Dec. 3-5, 11 a.m.-8 p.m., ThisIsThePlace.org

SEASONAL EVENTS

VISUAL ART HOLIDAY GROUP EXHIBITS

A Gallery 1321 S. 2100 East, 801-583-4800, Dec, 4, 6-9 p.m., AGalleryOnline.com Art Access Gallery 230 S. 500 West, 801-3280703, through Dec. 16, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., AccessArt.org Slusser Gallery 447 E. 100 South, 801-5321956, through Jan. 8, 6-9 p.m., MarkSlusser.com Phillips Gallery 444 E. 200 South, 801-3648284, through Jan. 8, Phillips-Gallery.com

GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

Art Talk: Dan Mills Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-3284201, Dec. 9, 7 p.m., UtahMOCA.org Benjamin Gaulon: Corrupt.Yourself Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Jan. 16, UtahMoca.org Brian Bress: Make Your Own Friends Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, 801-581-7332, through Jan. 10, UMFA.Utah.edu Brian Christensen: Reconfigure CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, 385-215-6768, through Feb. 7, CUArtCenter.org

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crowd favorites like unlimited chilled shellfish, roast duck, Prime rib, fabulous desserts and the like. One particularly inviting new menu item is the sensational seared sea scallop. It’s a large sea scallop, seared and served on a Himalayan salt block with grilled kale, roasted Brussels sprouts, oven-dried tomato, shiitake “bacon,” smoked mozzarella arancini di riso (a breaded rice ball) and superb lemon-herb Champagne vinaigrette.

Up at Snowbird resort (Snowbird.com), I’m told that El Chanate restaurant [“A Blackbird Sings,” Nov. 11, City Weekly] will be getting a total makeover and updating— the current décor dates back to the 1970s, and isn’t too current—by the end of spring.

But the bigger news is the opening of the all-new Summit restaurant, adjacent to the Tram stop at the top of Hidden Peak. The Summit is a 23,000 square-foot, upscale cafeteria-style restaurant with two stories and a 10,000 square-foot deck. It’s also the highest altitude, year-round, lift-served guest facility in North America at 11,000 feet above sea level, offering 360-degree views of the surrounding Little Cottonwood mountains. The 7,600 square feet of insulated, double-pane glass windows alone are nearly the size of two Imax movie screens.

Finally, Snowbasin resort (Snowbasin. com) will offer guests a full schedule of Dining Discovery events, which includes mountaintop brunches, cooking classes, special wine/spirit/beer tasting dinners, culinary expeditions and more. Upcoming dining discovery offerings range from a Uinta Brewing brewmaster’s dinner and a wine & tapas après-ski, to a Polynesian spirit pairing and a spring lobster celebration.

However, if you’re an old-school sort, Brighton Resort (BrightonResort.com) reminds you that it is one of the few mountains left that actually invites guests and families to brownbag it and offers picnic lunch spots at the base of the mountain. CW

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base of Quicksilver Gondola and the Silverlode Lift, and will offer housemade soups and chili, artisan salads, Mediterranean kabobs, gyros and more.

For the third consecutive year, Deer Valley Resort (DeerValley.com) has been honored as United States’ Best Ski Resort by the World Ski Awards at the 2015 Ski Oscars Award Gala Ceremony in Kitzbühel, Austria. Not content to rest on their laurels, Deer Valley is constantly sizing up the competition, and usually staying ahead of it. At a recent Deer Valley Winter Menu Tasting, bloggers, writers and other media types got a peek at some of the new dishes and improvements slated for the 2015-16 season.

Among the physical and visual changes at Deer Valley is the total redo of Silver Lake Lodge and Silver Lake Restaurant. Gone are the Natural Buffet, the Deli and Bald Mountain Pizza at Silver Lake. The latter has been replaced with a Vietnamese-style pho bar called Bald Mountain Pho. At Silver Lake Restaurant this season you’ll also find the all-new Taqueria, which will offer streetstyle tacos such as mole Wagyu beef; red chile, lime and cilantro shrimp; and Niman Ranch pork carnitas. I’ve gotta admit, those carnitas are killer!

I was pleasantly surprised by the excellent quality of the Bald Mountain pho. Frankly, I wasn’t expecting fabulous pho at a ski resort.

However, the Deer Valley culinary team takes the time to make broth from scratch with beef knuckle bones, and the pho is fragrant with hints of clove and cinnamon. The pho I tried featured thinly sliced Wagyu beef, perfectly cooked rice noodles and accoutrements such as bean sprouts, lime wedges, fresh mint, Thai basil and sliced jalapeños, plus house-made Sriracha, hoisin and red chili oil sauces. For vegetarians, Bald Mountain Pho also offers pho with ginger-mushroom broth, tofu and shiitake mushrooms.

Down at Deer Valley’s Snow Park Lodge, there are some changes afoot at the Seafood Buffet, as well. This season you will find fresh ahi poke on the menu, in addition to

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The recent purchase of Solitude Mountain Resort (SkiSolitude.com) by Deer Valley Resort means the dining scene at Solitude is getting a reboot. While some venues, such as Stone Haus Pizzeria and Creamery, Moonbeam Lodge and Thirsty Squirrel remain mostly the same, others have undergone substantial changes.

The biggest is probably the on-mountain Roundhouse, which has been reborn as The Himalayan Hut. The Hut will be serving traditional Himalayan fare like lamb rogan josh, butter chicken, lentil dal and naan, with a portion of all sales being donated to worldwide mountain relief efforts.

Last Chance at Solitude is now a Southwest Grill, with a taco bar, chilies, soups, nachos and such, while St. Bernard’s—Solitude’s fine-dining spot—will feature “European family favorites” in a casual, buffet-style setting. Look for pretzel schnitzel with brown-butter lemon sauce, sundried potato risotto with Appenzeller cheese, and spaghetti & meatballs for kids. Honeycomb Grill will offer lunch and dinner daily, along with Sunday brunch. Gone is the Italian-inspired cuisine, replaced by an eclectic North American menu with items like poutine, bison carpaccio, oven-roasted salmon, shrimp & grits and Wagyu hanger steak.

The biggest change at Park City (ParkCityMountain.com), formerly Park City Mountain Resort, is the incorporation of Canyons Resort, creating the largest resort in the United States, with 7,300 acres of skiable terrain. In addition, $50 million in mountain projects includes some much-needed improvements to resort dining. Red Pine Lodge has a completely new con­temporary look and an upstairs dining deck with 250 additional seats, and an all-new Miners Camp restaurant is scheduled to open in mid-December.

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ddly enough, I never drank a single Manhattan during the 13 years that I lived in Manhattan. I wasn’t much of a cocktail connoisseur back then, and I didn’t come to appreciate the Manhattan— one of a handful of true classic libations in the cocktail canon—until I moved to Utah, of all places.

If you know anything about the history of the Manhattan cocktail, it’s probably wrong.

The story that’s been passed on through generations has it that the Manhattan was created at New York City’s Manhattan Club in 1874, where it was invented by a Dr. Iain Marshall for a banquet attended by Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston.

Perhaps the Manhattan was given birth at

the Manhattan Club, but it certainly wasn’t created in honor of Lady Churchill, who at the time was pregnant in France, and due shortly to give birth to little Winston. Other accounts suggest that a bartender named Black, who ran a joint a just south of Houston Street in Manhattan, concocted the cocktail as an homage to his beloved borough.

Regardless of its origins, the Manhattan is about as perfect as a cocktail gets, in part because of its simplicity.

The bare bones of a classic Manhattan are nothing more than whiskey, sweet vermouth and bitters. It’s extremely easy to make, requiring no special tools or gadgets. It’s totally satisfying any time of the year. But it seems especially suited to the holiday season. Maybe that’s due to the drink’s festive red-orange hue.

Although early Manhattans were made using straight rye—the 19th-century spirit of choice—today, bourbon whiskey is thoroughly acceptable. The other main ingredient is sweet vermouth, and boozy historians claim that the Manhattan was one of the first cocktails to utilize

DRINK that aromatic a p a r i t i f , predating other classic vermouth drinks like the martini and the Rob Roy. When you’re assembling a cocktail as stripped down as the Manhattan, top-quality ingredients are of the utmost, so don’t skimp. I like to break out my Henry DuYore’s rye whiskey (named for the legendary moonshiner) when making Manhattans, because it is so well-balanced. The distiller, Tad Seestedt, says of his Henry DuYore’s: “With this Rye Whiskey, we sought to temper the admirable innate feistiness of rye with the rich, supple flavor of malted barley.”

Hence, the grain bill for Henry DuYore’s rye whiskey is roughly 78 percent rye and 22 percent barley.

Sweet vermouth is an integral Manhattan ingredient, too. Don’t even think of using cheap vermouth; buy the real stuff. I like Ransom sweet vermouth, which is barrel-aged in French oak. I’m a traditionalist, so I turn to classic bitters like Angostura. However, feel free to experiment: There are some fine regional

bitters, including some made in Utah.

Maraschino cherries are an optional garnish that I enjoy. However, don’t let those florescent-red Maraschinos from the supermarket come anywhere near your Manhattan! Be sure to use real Maraschinos, or quality Maraschino liqueur such as Luxardo.

Manhattans are usually served cold (stirred, not shaken), but feel free to enjoy yours on the rocks or perhaps with a single ball of ice.

Here then, is my version of the Manhattan cocktail:

MANHATTAN COCKTAIL: This classic drink’s festive red-orange hue makes it perfect for the holiday season.

Servings: 1 2 ounces top-quality rye whiskey (I like Henry DuYore’s) 1 ounce top-quality sweet vermouth, such as Ransom 1-3 dashes bitters, such as Angostura 1-2 Maraschino cherries (optional) Orange or lemon peel, for garnish (optional) Rub the rim of a martini or rocks glass with orange peel. In a cocktail shaker with ice, add the rye, vermouth and bitters.

Stir gently and strain into the glass. Add a Maraschino cherry or two and garnish with lemon or orange peel.

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For more than 50 years, Coachman’s has been a triedand-true breakfast spot for Salt Lake City residents, specializing in classic American and Greek fare. It’s a big coffee shop and diner that features bodaciously huge breakfasts, along with roast turkey, chicken-fried steak, pork chops, housemade dinner rolls, roast beef, Caesar salad and, well, just about anything else you can think of. Soups and salads at the restaurant are all made from scratch, and the family atmosphere is simply terrific. 1301 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-486-3579.

Olive Bistro

The Olive Bistro specializes in panini sandwiches and offers a dozen different varieties, from the salmon, basil and provolone and the Black Forest ham & Swiss to an avocado & sharp cheddar panini. Not hungry for a sandwich? Try a fresh salad from the restaurant, such as the Tuscan or Mediterranean, or snack on antipasti and tapas options such as bruschetta, crostinis, and cheese and olives. The cool music mix at The Olive Bistro, located in downtown Salt Lake City, is terrific, as is the art that decorates the roomy eatery. There’s imported beer and wine available, too, along with tea, cappucinos, sodas, San Pellegrino and more. 57 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-364-1401.

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When speaking of coffee shops, few smell as sweet as The Rose Establishment. Located by The Gateway in downtown Salt Lake City, it’s an unplugged cafe that doesn’t offer Wi-Fi, in order to encourage face-to-face conversations.

Rose also distinguishes itself through service, simplicity and an excellent brew. They offer micro-roaster Four Barrel beans for one of the best cups in town, which enhances the stay-for-a-while vibe. 235 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-990-6270. TheRoseEstb.com

Michelangelo Ristorante

Michelangelo Ristorante is known for its authentic Italian cuisine, and the intimate, romantic setting only seems to enhance the amazing food. To start out, try the carpaccio di carne—thinly sliced filet mignon served with arugula and Parmesan—or the prosciutto and melon plate. For your

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main course at this superb Salt Lake City restaurant, be sure to try the rigatoni with sausage, served with caramelized onions and roasted peppers in a fresh white-wine herb pomodoro sauce. Or, if you’re craving wood-fired pizza, try the pie with slow-roasted tomato, roasted garlic, balsamic vinegar and fresh mozzarella. If you have room, order the tiramisu for dessert, and try to think about your caloric intake as you’re enjoying those ladyfingers and mascarpone. 3005 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-466-0961. MichelangeloRistorante.com

Big Ed’s

This is the default breakfast joint for U of U students, faculty, staff and nearby citizens. And the default dish is the Gawd Awful: a cholesterol-buster consisting of two eggs on fried hashed browns with chili and cheese on top. It’s located at the edge of the U campus in Salt Lake City, but some have suggested that the wood-paneled restaurant is closer to the edge of reality. Stick around until beer o’clock for a cold can of PBR and pretty good burgers—especially the chili burger. There’s also an excellent French dip sandwich on the menu. 210 S. University St., Salt Lake City, 801-582-9045.

Eggs in the City

Enjoy breakfast or lunch in a friendly, warm and hip environment that is also a Salt Lake City favorite. The owners took a garage and converted it into a stylish, enticing eatery. Try the eggs Benedict, French toast, custom-tailored omelets, huevos rancheros or cheese blintzes for breakfast. The huge salads—especially the Cobb salad—the Philly cheesesteak as well as the chile verde are lunchtime favorites. 1675 E. 1300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-581-0809.

Feldman’s Deli

Feldman’s Deli is a New York City-style deli specializing in Jewish soul food. With restaurant favorites like matzoball soup, spinach knishes and overstuffed corned-beef & pastrami sandwiches, you’ll feel like you’ve been transported to the Big Apple. Make sure to try the salami sandwich with garlicky, all-beef salami and provolone cheese.

And bring your appetite: These sandwiches are huge, large enough to have leftovers for later. Other authentic treats

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Landmark Grill

For hearty, inexpensive and generously portioned American and Greek comfort food, stop by Landmark Grill in Midvale for breakfast and lunch. For breakfast, try one of the freshly prepared omelets or, if you’re feeling particularly ravenous, give the Empire Stacker a go: potatoes smothered in cheese and stacked with your choice of ham, bacon or sausage, then topped with two eggs, with either toast, an English muffin or a pancake. Kids can munch on the Mickey Mouse pancake with chocolate chips and whipped cream. For lunch, there are several burgers and salads, as well as a variety of sandwiches—the lamb sliders with feta cheese and tzatziki sauce are especially delicious. 760 E. Fort Union Blvd., Midvale, 801-566-3664. LandmarkGrill.org

Noodles & Co.

The upper Avenues has always been strangely lacking sitdown restaurants—a history that was finally vanquished when Proper sprouted. Crafting its own beers and providing an eclectic upscale menu, Proper attracts a hip crowd at all hours to the Salt Lake City restaurant. You’ll find eaters and imbibers crowding into the sizable dining room till midnight on the weekends to nibble on favorites from the late-night menu, like the outrageously addictive fries and the chicken & waffles, topped with an adorable quail egg. The beer selection changes practically by the minute, so it’s always a new experience. 376 Eighth Ave., Salt Lake City, 385227-8628. AvenuesProper.com

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Boston Deli

There are plenty of reasons to love the Boston Deli, starting with the scrumptious Albacore tuna sandwich and chicken club. And then there’s all the funky paraphernalia scattered about the place, too, like the drum set hanging from the ceiling. Situated in the downstairs of the Exchange building, this New England-themed deli is sure to bring happiness in sandwich form to downtown Salt Lake City. But who’d have thought you’d also find the best chili in town at Boston Deli? This ain’t Texas-style chili con carne; this version has yummy, tender beans mingling with tasty beef and a secret concoction of spices that’s ever so appealing.

Plus, you get crackers and bread on the side to sop up every last luscious drop. 9 E. Exchange Place, Salt Lake City, 801-355-2146. BostonDeli.com

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Star of India

Salt Lake City’s Star of India serves authentic curry, masala, biryani and naan with all-natural spices. The downtown restaurant also offers an extensive menu of vegetarian curries and seafood delights. For dessert, finish with the signature specialty Indian sweets. There’s also a terrific all-you-can-eat lunch buffet that usually features curries, tandoori chicken, veggie dishes, naan and lots more. 55 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801-363-7555. StarOfIndiaOnline.com

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Wing Nutz

What makes Wing Nutz different from other wing joints? These chicken wings are baked, not fried. Try them with a choice of more than a dozen sauces, including Jamaican jerk, chipotle barbecue, Carolina mustard, lemon hotties, spicy peanut ginger and chili garlic.

Wraps and salads are also featured, along with buffalo chips and Wing Nutz’s “famous” hog wings. There is a nice selection of Uinta beers and imports. It’s also a great place to watch sports on TV, with NFL Sunday Ticket and NBA League Pass. Multiple Locations.

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Noodles of every flavor, from stroganoff and pad Thai to soba noodles. Also serving curries and fresh salads. As the name suggests, Noodles & Co. is all about noodles. Noodle dishes come in three sizes and include variations such as Japanese udon noodles, pad Thai, pasta fresca, mushroom stroganoff, Wisconsin mac & cheese, penne Rosa with tomato-cream sauce, whole grain Tuscan linguine, Indonesian peanut saute and more. You can customize your noodles by adding chicken, beef, shrimp or tofu. Not in the mood for noodles? No problem, Noodles & Co. also offers soups, salads, desserts and side dishes like cucumber and tomato salad or Asian potstickers.

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time restaurateur Royal Tyler. This restaurant features a diverse menu of carefully prepared classics and just enough unexpected twists to keep the meal—and the dining experience—interesting. The cafe is a graceful and charming place on the ground floor of the vintage Jvdge Building on Broadway. The historic building was built in 1906 by Mary Judge. Daily specials include great sandwiches, Mandarin chicken salad, grilled salmon with orange-rosemary sauce, a French dip panini, chicken parmesan and a buffalo chicken wrap. You be the judge. 8 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-531-0917. JudgeCafe.com

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Nothing could be better on a cold winter day than chef Tuan’s incendiary Hue hot & spicy noodle soup. For more delicate palates, try his pho. Also considerably mellower is an Indochine specialty of curried beef stew, which is absolutely delicious and served with a French baguette on the side. Equally enjoyable is Indochine’s catfish filet, which is simmered in a clay pot until oh-so-tender and delivered hot (really hot) and steaming to table in the same pot it was cooked in. The fried calamari appetizer is served with an outrageously yummy home-style Sriracha sauce (sort of a Vietnamese fry sauce) and you’ll also enjoy Indochine’s barbecued short ribs, served with smoky-tasting “broken” rice and a garlic-lime dipping sauce. In warm weather, enjoy the inviting sidewalk patio. 230 S. 1300 East, Salt Lake City, 801-582-0896. IndochineUtah.com

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At Cafe Zupas, the focus is on the housemade soups, with recipes derived from kitchens around the world. Offerings include Yucatan chicken tortilla, Wisconsin cheese cauliflower, Thai lobster curry, Tuscan white bean & vegetable, wild mushroom bisque and shrimp & sausage gumbo.

Not hungry for soup? No worries, as there are also plenty of specialty salads to choose from, like the “nuts about berries” and Thai chicken peanut. In addition, there’s an array of tasty panini sandwiches and scrumptious desserts. Multiple locations. CafeZupas.com

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Angela Bassett, center, in Chi-Raq That doesn’t mean that Chi-Raq won’t sometimes swing wildly, and get caught in awkward tonal shifts. A lengthy sequence set at the dead child’s funeral involves not just a liturgical dance, but an extended sermon by the minister (John Cusack) detailing all of the government policy decisions contributing to the culture of violence among young African-American men. It’s also hard to take seriously the sub-plot involving finding the identity of the child’s killer, once it becomes clear that the obvious resolution is supposed to be somewhat surprising.

But this is, after all, the realm of the Spike Lee who will end a film with his longfavored call to “WAKE UP.” A call to action and refusal to accept the status quo like the one in Chi-Raq can certainly be delivered in an entertaining package. And if it needs to be delivered with a shout rather than a whisper to get that message across, that’s a lack of subtlety we should all be able to live with. CW

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all the men the pleasures of their flesh until those men can put down their guns and end the killing.

It’s not just the premise of Lysistrata that Lee and his co-writer Kevin Wilmott (The Confederate States of America) have adapted here; they go full classical Greek theater, right from the outset. The opening song plays over a black screen displaying the lyrics, serving as almost an overture. Samuel L. Jackson appears as narrator Dolmedes, and announces that the dialogue will be in verse. Even the choreographed moves and “chastity pledge” evoke the unity of a Greek chorus— and a kind of unity, even from the strippers and prostitutes, that would be essential for Lysistrata’s movement to have any effect.

That theatricality makes it easier to embrace all of Chi-Raq’s more outrageous conceits, including a cadre of women led

by Lysistrata taking over a National Guard armory simply through application of their feminine wiles, and the subsequent attempt by an official of the mayor’s office (Harry Lennix) to break the women’s no-sex will power by playing a slow jam by the Chi-Lites.

And when a group of middle-aged guys in a fraternal order—led by Old Duke (Steve Harris)—decides to confront these women because after all, they’re not the problem, it feels like a wonderful swat at the #NotAllMen posturing of guys more willing to take out their frustration on uppity females than confront the possibility that they have any role to play in solving the problem.

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pike Lee is not a subtle filmmaker.

And it has taken me nearly 30 years— up to and including his latest feature, Chi-Raq—to fully appreciate that this is not necessarily a problem.

Because I’ll confess it: I’m a member of the Cult of Subtlety. There’s a unique feeling that comes from narrative’s ideas sneaking up on you, shifting your perspectives between the opening and closing credits, or between the closing credits and the next day. The fine strokes of a paintbrush feel like art; the banging of a hammer against an anvil, even when forging a weapon, can just feel like noise.

But Lee has never been timid about forging cinematic weapons. Whether striking at the overtly political, or doing what amounts to Hollywood work-for-hire, he won’t shrink quietly into the corners. And while his relentlessness has produced both masterpieces like Do the Right Thing and misfires like She Hate Me, it’s long past time for me to recognize more consistently when relentlessness has its place. While Chi-Raq may be broad, scattershot and brazenly unsubtle, its blunt force feels bracing.

And here Lee is consciously working within a tradition of confrontational satirical truth-telling, adapting Aristophanes’ Lysistrata into the violent world of modernday Chicago, which is occasionally (and controversially) dubbed “Chi-raq” due to its post-9/11 homicides totalling higher than American military deaths in the Middle East. Here, the armies are rival gangs on the South Side: the Spartans, led by rapper Chi-Raq (Nick Cannon), and the Trojans, led by Cyclops (Wesley Snipes).

As the gun violence continues to add casualties—including the young daughter of a local resident (Jennifer Hudson)—it seems that desperate measures are called for. That’s what Helen (Angela Bassett) suggests to Chi-Raq’s girlfriend, Lysistrata (Teyonah Parris): a “sex strike,” denying

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CHI-RAQ [STAR RATING TK] See review p. 37. Opens Dec. 4 at Tower Theatre. (R) CHRISTMAS EVE [not yet reviewed] Comic vignettes capture groups of New Yorkers trapped in elevators on Christmas Eve. Opens Dec. 4 at Megaplex Jordan Commons. (PG) DON VERDEAN [not yet reviewed] A celebrated “Biblical archaeologist” (Sam Rockwell) manufactures a fraudulent epic discovery. Opens Dec. 4 at Megaplex Jordan Commons and Megaplex. (PG) PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT BB.5 A colorful character can carry a documentary a long way, but when that colorful character exists primarily in the past tense, it isn’t carried quite so far. Director Lisa Immordino Vreeland looks into the life of Peggy Guggenheim, whose free spirit and liberated sensibility carried her from her privileged New York family through the artistic incubator of 1920s Paris, and into a career as forward-looking patron of—and early advocate for—dozens of crucial modern art figures like Jackson Pollock.

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by Guggenheim’s biographer Jacqueline B. Weld, conducted in the last years of her life, provide a flavor of the woman beyond the talking heads attesting to her significance in the world of 20th-century art. Yet Guggenheim herself remains surprisingly enigmatic; this is a story less about who she was than what she did—and, more frequently, whom she did. No matter how many names are dropped as notches on her bedpost (Max Ernst! John Cage! Samuel Beckett!), it all still feels mostly like a gracefullyexecuted episode of PBS American Masters. Opens Dec. 4 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—SR KRAMPUS [not yet reviewed] Family members at a Christmas gathering inadvertently summon a demon. Opens Dec. 4 at theaters valleywide. (R) THE LETTERS BB The premise teased by the title—that Mother Teresa of Calcutta’s correspondence with her spiritual advisor suggested a crisis of faith lasting nearly the entirety of her ministry with the poor of India’s slums—could have made for a fascinating movie about a woman who was considered a saint, even while she still lived. But writer/director William Riead’s biopic—framed as the story of the Vatican investigator (Rutger Hauer) looking into the candidacy of Teresa (Juliet Stevenson) for actual sainthood in 1998—instead becomes a predictable, sluggish piece of hagiography. The token conflict mainly deals with Teresa occasionally butting up against a nun who discouraged her from leaving her cloistered order to work in the streets, and persuading skeptical local Indians that she wasn’t out to convert the Hindus with whom she worked to Christianity. But there’s virtually nothing in the story or in Stevenson’s performance that addresses this despair that everyone in the 1990s-set scenes keep talking about. Teresa is simply portrayed as a dedicated servant of God, while whatever internal struggle she dealt with remains told, not shown. Opens Dec. 4 at theaters valleywide. (PG)—Scott Renshaw

SPECIAL SCREENINGS CINDERELLA (1959) At Main Library, Dec. 5, 11 a.m. (G) DOCTOR WHO: LAST CHRISTMAS At Main Library, Dec. 8, 7 p.m. (NR) MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY At Main Library, Dec. 9, 2 p.m. (PG-13) PAWN SACRAFICE At Park City Film Series, Dec. 4-5 @ 8 p.m. & Dec. 6 @ 6 p.m. (PG-13)

CURRENT RELEASES BROOKLYN BBB.5 Director John Crowley and screenwriter Nick Hornby take Colm Tóibín’s novel in a much more conventionally satisfying direction—but boy, do they ever succeed at conventional satisfaction.

In 1952 Ireland, Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan) moves move to New York to get a job to help her widowed mother; profound homesickness eventually gives way to romance, but tragedy might still pull her back to Ireland. Ronan is wonderful at conveying watchful discomfort with her surroundings, and there’s a superb blend of crisp dialogue and tentative romantic connection. That this adaptation bypasses the novel’s darker implications of Eilis’ choice— between 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. (PG-13)—SR

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

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Broadway Centre Cinemas 111 E. 300 South 801-321-0310 SaltLakeFilmSociety.org

Redstone 8 Cinemas 6030 N. Market 435-575-0220 Redstone8Cinemas.com

Century 16 South Salt Lake 125 E. 3300 South 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com

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Cinemark Sugar House 2227 S. Highland Drive 801-466-3699 Cinemark.com Water Gardens Cinema 6 1945 E. Murray-Holladay Road 801-273-0199 WaterGardensTheatres.com Megaplex 12 Gateway 165 S. Rio Grande St. 801-304-4636 MegaplexTheatres.com Redwood Drive-In 3688 S. Redwood Road 801-973-7088 Tower Theatre 836 E. 900 South 801-321-0310 SaltLakeFilmSociety.org WEST VALLEY 5 Star Cinemas 8325 W. 3500 South, Magna 801-250-5551 RedCarpetCinemas.com Carmike 12 1600 W. Fox Park Drive, West Jordan 801-562-5760 Carmike.com Cinemark 24 Jordan Landing 7301 S. Bangerter Highway 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Cinemark Valley Fair Mall 3601 S. 2700 West, West Valley City 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Showcase Cinemas 6 5400 S. Redwood Road, Taylorsville 801-957-9032 RedCarpetCinemas.com SOUTH VALLEY Century 16 Union Heights 7800 S. 1300 East, Sandy 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Cinemark Draper 12129 S. State, Draper 801-619-6494 Cinemark.com Cinemark Sandy 9 9539 S. 700 East, Sandy 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Megaplex Jordan Commons 9400 S. State, Sandy 801-304-INFO MegaplexTheatres.com Megaplex 20 at The District 11400 S. Bangerter Highway 801-304-INFO MegaplexTheatres.com

Cinemark Station Park 900 W. Clark Lane, Farmington 801-447-8561 Cinemark.com Cinemark Tinseltown USA 720 W. 1500 North, Layton 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Gateway 8 206 S. 625 West, Bountiful 801-292-7979 RedCarpetCinemas.com Megaplex Legacy Crossing 1075 W. Legacy Crossing Blvd., Centerville 801-397-5100 MegaplexTheatres.com WEBER COUNTY Cinemark Tinseltown 14 3651 Wall Ave., Ogden 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Megaplex 13 at The Junction 2351 Kiesel Ave., Ogden 801-304-INFO MegaplexTheatres.com UTAH COUNTY Carmike Wynnsong 4925 N. Edgewood Drive, Provo 801-764-0009 Carmike.com Cinemark American Fork 715 W. 180 North, American Fork 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Cinemark Movies 8 2230 N. University Parkway, Orem 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Cinemark Provo Town Center 1200 Town Center Blvd., Provo 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Cinemark University Mall 1010 S. 800 East, Provo 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com Megaplex Thanksgiving Point 2935 N. Thanksgiving Way, Lehi 801-304-INFO MegaplexTheatres.com Water Gardens Cinema 8 790 E. Expressway Ave. Spanish Fork 801-798-9777 WaterGardensTheatres.com Water Gardens Cinema 6 912 W. Garden Drive Pleasant Grove 801-785-3700 WaterGardensTheatres.com

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CREED BBB.5 Rocky Balboa’s name may be nowhere in the movie’s title, but his soul animates the story. That’s no slight to Michael B. Jordan, who plays Adonis, the illegitimate son of Apollo Creed who comes to Rocky for training help when he decides to pursue a boxing career. Writer/director Ryan Coogler brings out a great performance from Jordan, while also placing a unique visual stamp on the Rocky legacy. But it’s hard to separate the appeal of the Rocky/Adonis relationship from Stallone’s wonderful return to the introverted, big-hearted Rocky of the original film, and Coogler’s savvy use of Rocky staples like the final Big Fight, Bill Conti’s stirring original theme, and those iconic steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It’s less a passing of the torch than a recognition that torches we carry for beloved movies never really stop burning. (PG-13)—SR

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY—PART 2 BBB.5 One of the smartest, most enthralling science-fiction film series ever reaches a thoroughly engaging and fitting end, questioning all of our assumptions about war, power and peace—particularly as blockbuster film series tend to present them. Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) doesn’t lead the rebels in an assault on the Capitol: She’s bringing up with the rear with the propaganda team, which is taking big risks in bringing along tortured Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), hoping to show that he’s turned back toward the forces of good. But who is “good,” anyway? Amidst some of the series’ most breathtaking and original action sequences, problems with the revolution itself are coming to light. Is Katniss about to overthrow one tyrant, only to install another? Matters of trust—personal, as well as political—make this an emotional experience as much as an explosive one. (PG-13)—MAJ

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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. Hardy is a wonder, using his body, face and 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 ruling the criminal underworld of London’s East End in the 1960s; they’re not mythic, heroic or legendary, but writer-director Brian Helgeland treats them as such, depicting them as glamorous, sometimes even amusing, in their viciousness. This GoodFellas-lite deploys all the clichés of the genre, but fails to unravel what drives men like the Krays. Even if we cannot sympathize with their motives, we should understand them.

(R)—MaryAnn Johanson

VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN BB The narration by hunchback Igor (Daniel Radcliffe) begins “You know this story”—but not with this kind of grandiose goofiness.

It begins with Igor as a circus freak-slash-self-taught physician (!), leading Victor Frankenstein (James McAvoy) to rescue him and bring him into his experiments in re-animation. Screenwriter Max Landis also includes a police inspector (Andrew Scott) with a Javert-like mission to stop Frankenstein’s godless experiments, while McAvoy plays Frankenstein’s mania with enough flying spittle to warrant a 4D theatrical presentation. It all builds sluggishly to the expected lightning bolts and explosions in a dark castle, which Radcliffe appears to be taking much too 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! (PG-13)—SR

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THE GOOD DINOSAUR BBB Pixar has always trotted out high-concept premises, but usually they wind up in service of something bigger. The notion that dinosaurs never faced extinction allows timid, lost Apatosaurus Arlo (Raymond Ochoa) to find his way home along with a feral human boy (Jack Bright), and there are several fun concepts within that framework, along with a stunning visual re-creation of mountains and rivers of the American Rockies. What’s missing is that distinctive emotional punch that comes when you realize what a Pixar movie is really about. It’s an effective coming-of-age adventure; it just isn’t much more than that, even as the narrative arc evokes The Lion King. There’s no reason to dismiss something that’s often funny, charming and exciting, even if the moment when the movie reaches for your tear ducts inspires more of a nod and a smile. (PG)—SR

TRUMBO BB.5 Like so many recent issue-oriented historical dramas, this biography 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. It tracks Trumbo’s life from the peak of his success in 1947 through the “black list” that made restricted Communist Party members like Trumbo from working in Hollywood. A terrific cast—Helen Mirren, Michael Stuhlbarg, John Goodman—is on board to play the high-profile figures of this era, and there’s plenty of zing to the dialogue. But Trumbo also gets bogged down in domestic drama, as Trumbo’s professional plight takes a toll on his relationship with his wife and kids. 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. (R)—SR

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A Very Murray Christmas Friday, Dec. 4 (Netflix)

Special: Not a “holiday variety show” in the traditional sense, because it’s directed by Sofia Coppola, so you know it’s going to get weird: When Bill Murray’s grand plans for a Christmas cabaret show at the Carlyle Hotel are dashed when Manhattan is hit by an even grander blizzard, he puts on the show any way for the hotel guests and staff, because he’s Bill freakin’ Murray. Braving the storm and pitching in are George Clooney, Miley Cyrus, Rashida Jones, Amy Poehler, Michael Cera, Jason Schwartzman, Maya Rudolph, Chris Rock, Jenny Lewis, David Johansen and, for no apparent reason, French awk-pop band Phoeni x (told you it would get weird). Finally, a reason to look forward to Christmas!

Telenovela Monday, Dec. 7 (NBC)

Series Debut: Former Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria can do funny (check out her brief stint last year on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, or in the terrible/hilarious movie The Baytown Outlaws), and telenovelas ( you know, Spanish soap operas) are already inherently ridiculous, so how could Telenovela possibly go wrong? First of all, it’s on NBC, a network that hasn’t instilled an ounce of comedy confidence in a looong time; the recent Superstore is at least a (weak) step in the right direction. Second, Voiceloving Middle America may not be ready for a bilingual sitcom that will involve “reading” and “paying attention.”

Still, the behind-the-drama setup of a famous telenovela starlet who can’t speak Spanish herself is a great hook, on which Longoria and her equally funny castmates deliver like this show has already been on for years. If Telenovela fails at night, maybe just slip it into the daytime lineup, NBC.

Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter Monday, Dec. 7 (Adult Swim)

Miniseries Debut: When small Vermont town Garrity (“B&B Town, USA!”) is terrorized by a killer werewolf, they call in the one man with the skills to put down the hairy menace: Neon Joe (Jon Glaser, Parks & Recreation), an eye-patched mercenary with attitude to match his overkill weaponry, a near-indecipherable Cajun accent and a fluorescent jumpsuit that would make it seemingly impossible to sneak up on anything—but he’s just that good. Neon Joe began as a random joke Glaser once tossed out on The Tonight Show, and has now come to fruition as worthy entry into Adult Swim’s legacy of wacko live-action series. Fans of The Heart, She Holler and Eagleheart, this is for you; all others, best go to bed early.

The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Tuesday, Dec. 8 (CBS)

Special: Remember the days (like, 14 years ago) when this commercialized jigglefest was denounced and protested as a threat to The Children, Morality and ‘Merica’s soul itself? Now, it’s just another holiday tradition—bring on the tits and glitz! Filmed in New York City weeks ago, this year’s edition features the traditional $2 million Fantasy Bra (as opposed to the other realist bras), as well as musical guests Selena Gomez (the obvious commercial pick), Ellie Goulding (the kinda-indie oddity) and The Weeknd

A Very Murray Christmas (Netflix) (because nothing says “half-naked party” like limp Canadian R&B). Sure, it’s ridiculous, but if you don’t tune in … the terrorists have already won.

Rich in Faith Wednesday, Dec. 9 (Oxygen)

Series Debut: The Only TV Column That Matters™ was certain that, when the rails finally ran out from under the realityshow train, it would happen on E! Nope. The network that’s finally plowed through the end of the line is Oxygen, and the final piece of reality to be filmed before we drift off into the Great Nothingness (if you subscribe to Patton Oswalt’s theorem of pointless reality TV eating up actual reality) is Rich in Faith, a docu-series all about … Rich Wilkerson Jr., the Miami pastor who married Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. Yes, the guy who simply performed a service for a pair of assclowns who are only famous for marginal hip-hop and marginal-ier sex tapes now has his own TV show. See that void on the horizon? It’s getting closer … and closer …

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her set list. But for a sneak peak, fans might check out videos of Chachki’s past performances, including a Halloween “Night of the Living Drag” striptease tribute to Vampira, or, in another video, an aerial-silk acrobatic dance.

She’ll probably forgo the Halloween theme this time. Recently, Chachki collaborated with other drag queens on a Christmas album: Christmas Queens (Producer Entertainment Group), released this November, featuring kinked-up versions of Christmas classics. Chachki’s cover of “The Night Before Christmas” turns a family-friendly feel-good poem into a dangerous and steamy tale: “’Twas the night before Christmas/ And all through the whorehouse/ Every vixen was twerking/ And stripping to Deadmau5.”

In the Christmas cover, the accompaniment is sparse; for the first verse, just a cautious and subtle drum pattern and occasional piano chord-change. Further into the song, the piano picks up a noir-ish boom-chuck restlessness. Chachki’s voice is as fierce here as it is in her dance-pop electronica. Even when she’s talking, Chachki’s voice is low, and has a sexy, almost-bored drawl with enough vocal fry to compete with a live, sizzling wire.

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But the City of Salt’s drag community holds its own, with drag crews performing at Club X on Saturday nights, the Damn These Heels film festival (which goes year-round now), and that dowager queen mother of all drag organizations, the Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire, now its 40th year and showing no intention of ending its reign any time soon.

But, while Salt Lake City may be a drag mecca, the surrounding countryside decidedly isn’t. And rural places don’t evade Chachki’s radar. “It’s almost more important to make sure you’re showing support in those places where they may not have a queer role model in their lives,” says Chachki.

Before the age of 19—and before donning Violet Chachki’s Golden Age of Hollywood wig, ferocious eyebrows, hot red lipstick and cool persona—Dardo grew up in the South, near Atlanta. “I have a pretty good grasp of rural areas,” says Chachki. “It’s not an issue for me, because I’m from that mindset, but there are places that I can’t believe [have] a gay culture, or a gay community—or a drag community, even.”

Those places, Chachki says, deserve not to be neglected, because queer folk who live in small communities are often those most in need of a confidence boost.

And confidence is what drag is all about. Confidence is weaved into the messages on Chachki’s debut EP, Gagged (Sidecar Records), released this summer. The dance-pop electronic erotica is simultaneously smoky, coy and energetic. Titles on the five-song EP—such as “Harlequin,” “Vanguard” and “Show Off”—hide no shame, no secrets.

“My message is very clear: It’s about being confident, about having fun; it’s about gender expression, gender identity and gender norms,” she says. Before getting into music this year, Chachki modeled and performed drag at clubs in Atlanta, going on to compete in Season 7 of RuPaul’s Drag Race. She won.

And, while her music is fierce and catchy, it is that confidence that really shines though in music videos. For example, take “Bettie,” from Gagged: The music video for this song opens up on a scene in a quaint kitchen, with Chachki looking like a bored but sensual Donna Reed. Then, two young men come over for dinner, and the nature of the music video flips itself upside down. What was wholesome and tedious is now covered in leather and gagged.

The video is a tease—not exactly hardcore porn, but possibly NSFW. And Chachki’s performance translates to the stage. Her live performances are nothing short of burlesque. In fact, you may expect to see a striptease of some kind: Chachki is working on a new piece, an art deco-inspired number she’s hoping to have ready by her Metro Bar performance. “If not,” she says, “I have some tricks up my sleeve.”

Of course, Chachki has a flair for the dramatic, and that includes the reveal—she’s not about to expose all the surprises within

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andy’s River House may be the only local Utah band that can also call itself an authentic Southern rock band and get away with it.

The long-running project of Rooseveltborn singer/guitarist Jordan Young actually started in the backwoods of Tennessee, where Young, on a pilgrimage of sorts, learned his craft in the cradle of the blues.

Young—a 29-year-old country-bred wanderer with the long blond mane of young Gregg Allman—crafted his style as a guitarist and songwriter was during a four-year stint in Tennessee during his early 20s. He lived and played in a tiny trailer park community called Gassaway, about 30 miles outside of Murfreesboro. It was there, Young says, that he learned to play in a way that could finally match the music he’d heard in his head.

“I knew that if I didn’t learn to play blues guitar, then I wouldn’t have a very good foundation to start from,” Young said. “Everything out there feels older, and smells older. You can just tell you’re in the presence of something that, for me growing up in rural Utah, was vastly different.”

Broke and hungry, Young kept an eye on the work of blues greats like John Lee Hooker and Little Walter, and he played while living out of a van. Occasionally, Young would work up the courage to go into Nashville and play a couple of shows alongside professional pickers who would “just destroy you,” Young said. Humbled, Young crawled back into his van and keep playing.

Candy’s River House was born in the midst of that hunger to survive. Young decided that he could hold his own better on the road, and enlisted a bassist and drummer to follow him on a grueling tour schedule across the country that Young booked himself. By the end, he was the only member of the band left.

Young moved back to Utah, and he brought the idea of Candy’s River House

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with him. The band, which now includes Joey Davis on drums and Nathan Simpson on bass, has carved out a unique place for itself in Salt Lake City’s local scene.

But ever since Young returned to Utah, he’s kept a piece of the South with him.

“Whenever I write a song or write lyrics, I like to sort of build an environment,” Young says. “I’ll just make sure I don’t have anything to do for the next three days and just be in one room—and that room might was well be in the backwoods of Tennessee.”

Although the band has changed through the years, Young’s original vision of what Candy’s River House should be has stayed the same. He always wanted the band to be a trio that plays raw, southern-flavored music with a slight hard-rock edge. The band’s upcoming album, Another Night, sticks to that original vision, although Young has found new ways of bringing it to life. His favorite new addition for the new record is a three-string cigar-box Dobro guitar, an endearingly simple roots music relic.

But the flavor of Young’s music doesn’t depend solely on where he’s been; it’s part of where he’s from, too. After all, Young says, there’s not much of a difference between blue-collar folks in Roosevelt and blue-collar folks in the South. The music comes more from an attitude, he says.

Young says he learned his work ethic from pouring concrete and working in in his family’s log-house construction business as a kid. “I immediately adopted that into anything I did,” he says. “I don’t think I would have ever picked up the guitar and assumed I could learn how to play it without working my ass off.”

Of course, that’s also what drove him to be a musician in the first place: “I’ll play as many shows in as many cities as I have to, to not lay concrete in January.” CW

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Wayne “The Train” Hancock

Two of the first promo CDs I received as a music journalist were Wayne “The Train” Hancock’s That’s What Daddy Wants and Thunderstorms and Neon Signs. They were also the first country albums I ever owned, not counting a Restless Heart album I bought because of a girl. I wasn’t even into country at the time. In fact, I was still somewhat twangaverse; I found guys like Hancock and their reedy, nasal vocals—and nonsense lyrics like “hoy, hoy, hoy”—supremely goofy. I almost gave the CDs away, but since I’d been listening to country-lovin’ bands like Southern Culture on the Skids, I decided to give ‘em a shot.

Turns out I’d grown up enough to get over myself and pay attention. I gained an appreciation for twang in a variety of forms, like bent Telecaster strings, and the sound of metal or glass sliding along taut high-set pedal steel strings. And Hancock’s voice no longer sounded silly. I wanted to hang out at the same bars, drive the same cars, sweet-talk the same sweet girls—and, when I hit a dry spell with the latter, sing the “Milk Cow Blues.” What’s more, I wanted to travel back in time to when country was cool for the first time. Hancock’s show is about as close as I’ll get—which is pretty damned close. Ghostowne opens. (RH) The State Room, 638 S. State, 8 p.m., $31, TheStateRoomSLC.com

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metaphor about the “synthetic human,” Los Angeles experimental post-rock band El Ten Eleven is solely instrumental, making a statement about the synthetic nature of music itself. While a post-rock band like Trans Am continually recontextualizes itself in reference to “rock” as well as other genres, El Ten Eleven is more purely musical.

Their latest release, Fast Forward (Fake Record) charts a synthetic geography of loss and remembrance. (BS) Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $13 in advance, $15 day of show, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

FRIDAY 12.4 Health, Pictureplane

LA noise techno band Health first gained wider notice when their song “Crimewave” was remixed by Crystal Castles in 2007, but they made a much bigger leap when they opened for Nine Inch Nails the next year. Their mixture of caustic, at times frenetic dissonance with a melodic flair is an ingenious, even subtle combination.

Their newest album, Death Magic (Loma Vista), finds the band delving even deeper into its pop melodicism while eschewing the jarring elements that drew the NiN comparisons. Darkwave producer/singer Travis Egedy, better known as Pictureplane, opens; he’s one of the originators of the witch house dance music subgenre. (BS) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 8 p.m., $12, TheComplexSLC.com

SATURDAY 12.5

Nikki Lane, Clear Plastic Plates

So all that stuff I just said about learning to love country music? I forgot to mention songwriting. Some of the best songwriters ever have had at least a toe in country territory.

El Ten Eleven Nikki Lane has both feet in the genre, and her songs are both lucid and gauzy, sublime, beer-goggly dreams you don’t want to end, even when they’re a little sad. She has a bit of a rockin’ side, too, which is probably why she recently toured with Social Distortion, and definitely why her shows are so darn fun.

And since she’s easy on the eyes and often wears very sexy—sometimes sheer—outfits, I probably would’ve come around to country a lot sooner. Alas, I had only the Mandrell sisters and their stupid chastity gowns. But mmm … Irlene. (RH) Kilby Court, 741 S. 330 West, 7 p.m., $13 in advance, $15 day of show, KilbyCourt.com

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Soulfly, Hooga, Crisis In Consciousness, Arsenic Addiction

Soulfly is the brainchild of Max Cavalera, former frontman of Brazilian thrashers Sepultura, which he co-founded in 1984 with brother Igor. After leaving Sepultura in 1996, Cavalera went on to form Soulfly.

Intentionally using different lineups with each album, Cavalera created a unique sound by fusing metal with ethnic and tribal music.

Lyrical themes range from spiritual to sociopolitical, shaped by Cavalera’s experiences growing up in Third-World poverty to the current horrors of the modern world. Soulfly is currently touring behind their 10th release, Archangel (Nuclear Blast Entertainment).

This latest offering is a streamlined collection of heavy-as-hell groove metal mixed with elements of thrash and death. Soulfly continues their trademark of adding touches of world music to the mix. The very capable musicians in the band (including Cavalera’s son, Zyon, on drums), help Soulfly stand above the legions of mediocre aggro-metal outfits. Opening are local bands Hooga, who add their own Brazilian flair; melodic thrashers Crisis In Consciousness; and epic goth-metallers Arsenic Addiction. (MH)

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WEDNESDAY 12.9 Graveyard, Earthless

Upon first hearing the Swedish band called Graveyard, you might think they are death metal—after all, that genre is associated with Scandinavian rock, and the band is on the Nuclear Blast label. Guitarist/vocalist Joakim Nilsson’s voice is, however, reminiscent of the tender and vulnerable yet earthy and tough singing of the late, great Jeff Buckley. The band also takes the postHendrix blues-rock guitar idiom into lovely places. Their latest, Innocence and Decadence (Nuclear Blast) is full of change-ups and stylistic flourishes. San Diego instrumental psych band Earthless breaks ground for a show that promises to provide its share of ecstatic improvisational release. (BS) In the Venue, 579 W. 200 South, 8 p.m., $15 in advance, $20 day of show, InTheVenueSLC.com

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Even without former partner Ranking Roger, who fronts the UK version of this band (known by their original tag, The Beat), Dave Wakeling and company still make a skank-worthy racket.

Recent set lists feature the requisite hits like “Mirror in the Bathroom” and “Save It for Later” as well as General Public’s “Tenderness” and well-known covers like Smokey Robinson’s “Tears of a Clown” and the Staple Singers’ “I’ll Take You There.” Expect to hear some new stuff, too: The band recently raised 144 percent of their goal on PledgeMusic.com, which says we’re just under two months from seeing a new album, Here We Go Love. Get out your checkerboard pants or jacket, ‘cause this one’s gonna be a two-tone riot. (Randy Harward) The State Room, 638 S. State, 8 p.m., $31, TheStateRoomSLC.com

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4. Japanese word etched into Arlington National Cemetary's U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial 5. Obi-Wan's apprentice 6. Life Saver flavor 7. Human ____ 8. Spots

48. Director Roger who was married to Brigitte Bardot and Jane Fonda 49. Speak one's mind 50. Honda model 51. Small amount 52. Itching 53. "Did I do ____?"

56. New Wave band Depeche ____ 58. Prime meridian std.

59. "31 Days of Oscar" network

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9. Wine often referred to by its first syllable 10. Perjurer's admission 11. NFL ref's aid 12. Astronomer's sighting 13. Was in the red 18. Fill 22. Singer with the album "Live at the Polynesian Palace" 24. Furniture megastore 25. Mullah's decree 28. Bus schedule word 29. Keypad locale 30. Grimy abode 31. NBA Hall-of-Famer Thomas 32. "Ridiculousness" network 33. Had wings?

34. Put down, as track 35. Response: Abbr.

37. Caffeine-rich seeds 38. Campaign sign directive 39. Pod used to thicken gumbo 44. "Heart of Darkness" author Conrad 45. Jai ____ 46. Unfrost 47. Word with circle or city

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

1. ____ Strauss jeans 5. Jessica of "Sin City" 9. "Empowering the Internet Generation" company 14. "____ pronounce you ..."

15. More than want 16. Let happen 17. Farewell offered to novelist Kingsley?

19. Tundra or rain forest, e.g.

20. Gretchen of "Boardwalk Empire" 21. One-named singer with the 2006 album "Konvicted" 22. Thought 23. Like someone anticipating the end of a run-on sentence?

26. Thriller author Follett 27. Newswoman Curry 28. Still-life subject 31. "Oh, now ____ bad guy!"

33. In the style of 36. Motto from a couple of beachgoers?

40. Adams of "American Hustle" 41. Three-time A.L. batting champ Tony 42. Piano's 88 43. Thompson of "Back to the Future" 44. Place for tips 46. Treat enjoyed by a demander of special treatment?

53. One paying for staying 54. City down the river from Florence 55. Aries animal 57. One who believes in karma 58. "Try!" (or a hint to making 17-, 23-, 36and 46-Across sound more familiar) 60. Nail the test 61. Barbershop sound 62. Kept in the loop, briefly 63. Contract fine print 64. Virginia ____ 65. Scant

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On Black Friday, the Hive released a Christmas mead. “And in December, we’re releasing a blackberry brandy,” Jay says.

In addition to its commitment to produce high-quality wines and spirits, the Hive is also dedicated to environmental responsibility. The company recycles its bottles and implements energy-efficient upgrades to its building. Because the Hive conserves water by making ice and using a makeshift condensing unit, it only uses about 20 gallons of culinary water per day, compared with the 700 to 900 gallons of water a day used by most commercial distilleries.

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very holiday party needs some holiday spirits, but if the thought of spending a blustery evening in line at the state liquor store has you feeling overwhelmed, check out The Hive Winery & Brandy Co. It’s a local company specializing in fruit and honey wine made from local produce. The Hive’s wines and brandies are designed to complement any meal and they vary in sweetness levels. Batch sizes are small, which allows The Hive to ensure quality and make a larger variety of wines available throughout the year. And in addition to supporting local business, buying from The Hive means you will have a pleasant shopping experience.

“We have short lines, plenty of parking, a cheerful staff and tastings of our wines,” says The Hive coowner Jay Yahne. “My favorite part of working here is our customers. It’s fun that people notice we’re doing something that is a little countercultural for Utah.”

Jay Yahne and wife, Lori, started making and selling wine in 2011. Jay makes the company’s wines and Lori distills its spirits. They added brandy to the Hive’s lineup in 2014.

“We [originally] wanted to make port wines,” Jay explains. Port requires brandy, but The Hive couldn’t find high-quality brandies to blend with its wine—a fact that spurred the Yahnes into action.

“The quality of your product is in direct proportion to the quality of what you put in it,” Jay says. “So we decided to make our own brandies, and then make port that way.”

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) In September of 1715, a band of Jacobite rebels gathered for a guerrilla attack on Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. Their plan was to scale the walls with rope ladders, aided by a double agent who was disguised as a castle sentry. But the scheme failed before it began. The rope ladders turned out to be too short to serve their intended purpose. The rebels retreated in disarray. Please make sure you’re not like them in the coming weeks, Cancerian. If you want to engage in a strenuous action, an innovative experiment, or a bold stroke, be meticulous in your preparations. Don’t scrimp on your props, accouterments and resources.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) “Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe that two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot,” Mary Ruefle wrote in her book Madness, Rack, and Honey. “The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the friable nests of birds, completely intact and unharmed on the ground.” I think that’s a paradox you’d be wise to keep in mind, Capricorn. In the coming weeks, what’s most delicate and vulnerable about you will have more staying power than what’s massive and fixed. Trust your grace and tenderness more than your fierceness and forcefulness.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) If you give children the option of choosing between food that’s mushy and food that’s crunchy, a majority will choose the crunchy stuff. It’s more exciting to their mouths, a more lively texture for their teeth and tongues to play with. This has nothing to do with nutritional value, of course. Soggy oatmeal may foster a kid’s wellbeing better than crispy potato chips. Let’s apply this lesson to the way you feed your inner child in the coming weeks. Metaphorically speaking, I suggest you serve that precious part of you the kind of sustenance that’s both crunchy and healthy. In other words, make sure that what’s wholesome is also fun, and vice versa.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Aztec king Montezuma II quenched his daily thirst with one specific beverage. He rarely drank anything else. It was ground cocoa beans mixed with chili peppers, water, vanilla and annatto. Spiced chocolate? You could call it that. The frothy brew was often served to him in golden goblets, each of which he used once and then hurled from his royal balcony into the lake below. He regarded this elixir as an aphrodisiac, and liked to quaff a few flagons before heading off to his harem. I bring this up, Aquarius, because the coming weeks will be one of those exceptional times when you have a poetic license to be almost Montezuma-like. What’s your personal equivalent of his primal chocolate, golden goblets, and harem?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You will generate lucky anomalies and helpful flukes if you use shortcuts, flee from boredom, and work smarter rather than TAURUS (April 20-May 20) I suspect that in the coming days you will have an uncanny power to harder. On the other hand, you’ll drum up wearisome weirdmake at least one of your resurrection fantasies come true. Here ness and fruitless flukes if you meander all over the place, lose are some of the possibilities. 1. If you’re brave enough to change yourself in far-off fantasies, and act as if you have all the time your mind and shed some pride, you could retrieve an expired in the world. Be brisk and concise, Scorpio. Avoid loafing and dream from limbo. 2. By stirring up a bit more chutzpah that you vacillating. Associate with bubbly activators who make you usually have at your disposal, you might be able to revive and even laugh and loosen your iron grip. It’s a favorable time to polish off restore a forsaken promise. 3. Through an act of grace, it’s pos- a lot of practical details with a light touch. sible you will reanimate an ideal that was damaged or abandoned.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what’s out there GEMINI (May 21-June 20) To the other eleven signs of the zodiac, the Way of the Gemini without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.” Buddhist sometimes seems rife with paradox and contradiction. Many teacher Pema Chödrön said that, and now I’m telling you. non-Geminis would feel paralyzed if they had to live in the midst According to my divinations, a new frontier is calling to you. An of so much hubbub. But when you are at your best, you thrive unprecedented question has awakened. The urge to leave your in the web of riddles. In fact, your willingness to abide there is familiar circle is increasingly tempting. I don’t know if you should often what generates your special magic. Your breakthroughs surrender to this brewing fascination. I don’t know if you will be are made possible by your high tolerance for uncertainty. How able to gather the resources you would require to carry out your many times have I seen a Gemini who has been lost in indecision quest. What do you think? Will you be able to summon the necesbut then suddenly erupts with a burst of crackling insights? This sary audacity? Maybe the better inquiry is this: Do you vow to use all your soulful ingenuity to summon the necessary audacity? is the kind of subtle miracle I expect to happen soon.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) “Unfortunately, I’m pretty lucky,” my friend Rico said to me recently. He meant that his relentless good fortune constantly threatens to undermine his ambition. How can he be motivated to try harder and grow smarter and get stronger if life is always showering him with blessings? He almost wishes he could suffer more so that he would have more angst to push against. I hope you won’t fall under the spell of that twisted logic in the coming weeks, Pisces. This is a phase of your cycle when you’re likely to be the beneficiary of an extra-strong flow of help and LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Police in Los Angeles conducted an experiment on a 10-mile serendipity. Please say this affirmation as often as necessary: span of freeway. Drivers in three unmarked cars raced along as “Fortunately, I’m pretty lucky.”

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Your mascot is a famous white oak in Athens, Ga. It’s called the Tree That Owns Itself. According to legend, it belongs to no person or institution, but only to itself. The earth in which it’s planted and the land around it are also its sole possession. With this icon as your inspiration, I invite you to enhance and celebrate your sovereignty during the next seven months. What actions will enable you to own yourself more thoroughly? How can you boost your autonomy and become, more than ever before, the boss of you? It’s prime time to expedite this effort.

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One woman who begs at Temple Square has been there for eight years and is well known to police and locals. She’s very firm in telling the cops that she doesn’t need help and doesn’t ever plan to move from her favorite spot because she makes a good living, especially during the holidays when people are in a charitable spirit.

A year ago, soon-to-be-outgoing Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker formed a committee to study options for homeless services and facilities. Although a new small shelter recently opened in Midvale, there are still nearly 1,000 people in and around The Road Home getting emergency housing, food, counseling, jobs and treatment. The committee—headed by Gail Miller, former Mayor Palmer DePaulis and Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams—worked diligently to get to the bottom of the issue.

Allow me to paraphrase the group’s findings: 1. The whole state sends its homeless to downtown Salt Lake City because there aren’t any shelters elsewhere; 2. “The homeless” is a group that breaks down into many subgroups: veterans, families with kids, single moms and single dads with kids, teenagers, drug & alcohol addicts, seniors and even registered sex offenders; 3. It is essential that many of these groups be separated from one another; and 4. It will take at least $20 million to fix the system.

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