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BITING THE BULLET HOW A PEACE-LOVING BRITISH JOURNALIST ENDED UP SHOPPING FOR A GUN IN UTAH. BY STEPHEN DARK

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LETTERS Oil Spill Story Exceeded Expectations

Not always, but more often than not, City Weekly publishes really good journalism. “Crude Awakenings” [Jan. 7, City Weekly], by Colby Frazier, has exceeded all expectations and has risen to really great journalism. Kudos to Frazier, who took the time to develop this lengthy analysis of the Red Butte Creek oil spill and its consequences. Kudos to City Weekly for devoting the space to print it. Good job.

STAN ROSENZWEIG Cottonwood Heights

Silly Questions

I am pleased that the spokesperson of the LDS Church has rejected the protesters’ actions in Oregon when the protesters identified as Mormons. Were Joseph Smith alive, would he identify with the current Mormon leadership or would he be leading his own anti-government militia as he did in Nauvoo against the state government of Illinois? Would the prophet be in support of a free press as most Mormons are today or would he burn down the offices of any publication which questioned him or his beliefs as he had done in Nauvoo? These are silly questions, but aren’t all LDS members expected to believe that Joseph was a saint, a faithful husband and a law-abiding U.S. citizen?

TED OTTINGER Taylorsville

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A Paradise for Lizards

In the Jan. 7 Opinion column [“Sing Along,” City Weekly] about songs dealing with Utah, you didn’t mention the other Salt Lake City song, this one by Bob Weir. The lyrics aren’t quite as bright and frothy as the Beach Boys tune: “It was a paradise for lizards when young Brigham got there first, said, ‘I’ve seen some nasty deserts, Lord, but this one here’s the worst’”— but it’s still a good shuffling rocker. Wouldn’t give too much credit to the acid tests for “Friend of the Devil,” which was very much in the mold of songs about outlaws on the run; Old Scratch was a pretty regular character in some of those tunes. As for reminders of home, I grew up in Pennsylvania and had grandparents on the New Jersey coast, so Tom Waits’ “Jersey Girl” clinches it for me. Thanks for getting lively discussions going.

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Only Humans Appreciate Miracles

Cecil Adams’ article, “Earth Without Humans” [Straight Dope, Dec. 31, City Weekly], raises interesting questions. The column’s underlying premise implies that mankind is some sort of toxic interloper on Earth, inhibiting what would otherwise be a beautiful, smoothly running ecological machine. Apparently, the author fails to ask one obvious question: Without man, what relevance would the earth have? The

answer is none. Who would be left to appreciate it? What creature besides the human can marvel at its own existence, or contemplate the beauty of a sunset, or the symmetry of a nautilus shell? Only man, made in the image and likeness of God, can appreciate such miracles and in turn give credit to their divine authorship. Not surprisingly, there are many rooted in today’s cynical mindset who balk at such claims, but the fact that we are even capable of pondering these issues speaks volumes. The bottom line is that we are the reason the Earth exists, and before we came along, only God was there to appreciate his marvelous handiwork.

JAMES SORLEY Layton

Correction: The band King Niko is a rock group. Their genre was misstated in the Jan. 7 City Weekly article “Free Local Music.”

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Game Off

History will remember that when the University of Utah and BYU basketball teams played for the 257th time in December, the final score was 83 for the Utes and 75 for Cougars. History will forget that in the second half of that game, a BYU player was ejected for coldcocking a Utah player, and that that incident would lead, just a few weeks later, to the University of Utah cancelling the scheduled 2016 basketball game against the Y on BYU’s home court. Just seconds after the announcement, many BYU fans began calling Utah fans and their basketball team “a bunch of pansies.” And wussies. And cowards. And fraidy cats. And chickens. And all of that because the head coach of the University of Utah men’s basketball team, Larry Krystkowiak, said he was suspending the long, historic rivalry because said rivalry had become so heated that he was concerned for his players’ safety. Since that announcement, you’d think there was nothing else going on in Utah. As with nearly every other hot topic in these parts, discussion quickly distilled—negatively—into religious beliefs or drinking. “Go back to your holy handcart you hypocrite wannabes,” came the spew from Utah fans to BYU folks, to which they replied, “Well, at least we’re not drunks like you retarded mid-level crybabies.” To an outsider, this must have seemed foolish. To long-of-tooth Utahns, it was nothing new—for every tit, there is always a tat in Utahlandia, and another round of finger pointing. In the midst of it all, Coach K, as he’s known in Utedom (Koach Kry to BYU fans), also became a target since he’s the one who is credited with calling off next year’s game (which can’t be fully true since he didn’t need to wait three weeks to do it). BYU fans quickly retorted that Krystkowiak was a jackass player himself as he, too, was ejected at least once for fighting, and that since he played for Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan, he should bear more skin and less hypocrisy. Those were the nice comments.

At a press conference on Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, Krystkowiak admitted that part of his rationale was that he was indeed once a basketball hot-head and his knowing that was a factor. Honesty. He also said he would pay back the $80,000 himself, money due to BYU in lieu of playing the game, which was written into the game contract. Restitution. Did God transfer to the U? Yet for that paltry sum, it truly reveals that an education at the University of Utah is for squat because someone should have thought of that sooner. If I had the money, I’d have paid it long ago, but no, I have that University of Utah degree and clear thinking wasn’t a requirement for me to get it. I spent $80,000 in the Union Building by the time I graduated, much of it on coffee in the Huddle and who knows how much playing snooker and pinball. I got nothing for that except a very rare run of the pool table—which was not captured on my nonexistent PED, so I can’t prove it—and some equally rare replays on Bally’s Fireball Pinball Machine, the greatest dinger ever. Coach K at least got the pleasure of giving it to his rival. Coach K paying out of his own pocket to not play BYU only potentially affects local bartenders, waitresses and sellers of the famous Montana sweetgrass that he burns in pregame, mentally soothing rituals. It will cost the taxpayers nary a cent, which must chagrin certain BYU fans who threw a Hail Mary to the Utah Legislature for intervention. They indignantly said they didn’t want their taxes going to a school that was too afraid to play little ole BYU, a non-tax supported school. It was silly to engage Utah’s “get government out of our lives” lawmakers since

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they’ve proven since time immemorial that they have no qualms at all about intervening in private enterprise when it suits them. And burning non-Mormons suits them. Like with liquor laws or LGBT rights. However, think about it: When BYU gets money to play Utah—in any sport—isn’t that a form of channeling funds (some of it taxpayer driven) to that private, religious institution? And, if so, why should Utah taxpayers pay for that? Dumb? Hardly—when it comes to Utah and BYU, every argument, no matter whether it is logical or not, makes perfect sense to the person who presents it. It’s equally logical for BYU fans to whack me for not making sense to them. Meanwhile, I believe choosing to skip playing BYU next year didn’t happen it in a vacuum. Utah’s athletic director Chris Hill says he not only knew about, but supports, the coach’s decision. I also believe that Utah’s biggest donors knew. No matter that Coach K is basically gifting 5 percent of his annual salary to BYU (half a tithe), that $80K decision in any other organization could not be made without certain people in the loop. A bank branch manager doesn’t say, “Hey, that’s a sweet turtleneck ya got, let me give you some money,” does he? No. So, I believe Jon Huntsman Sr. likely knew. Or Spence Eccles. I could be up in the night, but it mostly works that way—the guys who pay the bills want to know what they’re paying for. Or they figure out how to get out of the way—something that the BYU men’s head basketball coach and the BYU basketball program didn’t do when BYU’s Nick Emery laid some fist on Ute guard Brandon Taylor and allegedly said, “… and stay fuckin’ down, bitch.” It’s just a game, right? CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net

After the Utah-BYU basketball rivalry suspension, what is the second most important issue facing the state today?

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I HAVE THAT UNIVERSITY OF UTAH DEGREE AND CLEAR THINKING WASN’T A REQUIREMENT FOR ME TO GET IT.

Scott Renshaw: Why don’t we have the Powerball? We need us a taste of that sweet, sweet billion!

Enrique Limón: I’m with Scott. Last night, I went to get some divey Chinese food at Little World. I proceed to rub the golden buddha’s belly and the lady behind the counter tells me I should go buy some Powerball. I followed her directive, went to 7-Eleven, and was laughed at. Hard. I’m still learning about the Utahs.

Nicole Enright: Utah-BYU football rivalry is way more important.

Doug Kruithof: Will March Hoops Mania come back to life in 2016?

Brandon Burt: You know that sharp corner of Utah that’s up there by Tremonton? They’ve had road cones and safety tape around it for years now, but it’s time to take definitive measures. We need to sand that down once and for all before somebody gets hurt. It’s a safety issue.

Colby Frazier: Making sure the Utes get a chance to beat the Cougars at football, too.

Randy Harward: That there still isn’t a Dave & Buster’s here. Or an El Pollo Loco.

Andy Sutcliffe: If the unthinkable happens and Donald Trump actually becomes president, should Utah secede from the Union?

Mason Rodrickc: I left a pair of headphones on Trax around 8:30 a.m. last Thursday. This is pretty important in local news I think because I really liked those headphones. Plz return. Also, Where’s mah Powerball, huh?

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HITS&MISSES BY KATHARINE BIELE

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These days, comparisons are the justification for almost any act, illegal or not. If you want to justify the occupation of an Oregon wildlife preserve, you compare it to Henry David Thoreau’s 1849 essay titled “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.” Or you compare it with Occupy Wall Street, and the Ferguson and Baltimore riots. Oh wow. Do we recall that Thoreau didn’t think voting or petitioning for change would accomplish anything? And he was writing during a time when the country supported slavery? And he didn’t write the Constitution? We don’t own slaves anymore, so something did, in fact, accomplish that change. Anyway, a motley group of Utah supporters took a road trip to Oregon in support of Ammon Bundy, and posts about this and Thoreau have been all over social media. It was so fun, apparently, protecting someone else’s private property rights. Even if they didn’t ask for it.

Clara’s Warnings

OK, it goes without saying that Michael Clara ruffles feathers. To the Salt Lake City School District, he is also a massive legal headache. It’s not that Clara has no good ideas, it’s just that he never lets go, seldom listens to the other side and doesn’t recognize efforts at collaboration. So when Clara was fired from the Utah Transit Authority, there was likely a collective sigh of relief. But not everything is karma. And in this case, the public trusts UTA less than it trusts journalists and politicians. Clara has worked for the agency for 20 years and was fired after warning about problems with some bus stops and shelters. The warnings came as UTA was trying to get Proposition 1 passed. Whether the two are related is unknown, but even though Clara is an at-will employee, you can be sure we’ll be hearing more about this.

Sign Here

Both daily Salt Lake City newspapers had a negative take on the new method for getting on a ballot. Whether it was “hits a snag” or “causing more strife,” both papers noted that perpetually pissed-off GOP Party Chair James Evans wants the lieutenant governor to quit verifying signatures until the party makes some pronouncement. Well, that didn’t go well, and the lieutenant governor’s office will just do what it’s planned—without Evans’ approval. Meanwhile, candidates are out getting signatures, and many say it’s been good to interact with the grass roots. Of course, it turns out to be expensive, too. According to the Deseret News, some have paid $8,000 to professional signature gatherers. Ostensibly, they’ll be returning with comments to the candidates.

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Civil Disobedience Is Fun

Let’s be frank. The humble hot dog, even with its mystery meats, fillers and nitrates, remains a guilty pleasure few can resist. Coming to town to plant a subconscious street-meat craving is Molle Klein, aka Mustard Molle, and her sidekick, Ketchup Kelly. You’ll spot them downtown Jan. 18-25 driving the 27-foot-long hot dog on wheels known as the Wienermobile. It’s a long tradition, with the first Oscar Mayer hot-dog vehicle making an appearance in 1936. Now, at 11 feet high, with a fiberglass hot dog and bun mounted on a Chevy W4 series chassis, powered by a V-8, 6.0-liter engine, the Wienermobile is a tribute to culinary-inspired engineering. Check out the hot-dog shaped dashboard, ketchup and mustard colored seats, gull-wing door with retractable step, removable bun-roof, official wiener jingle horn and a smiling front grill. Klein says they drive the rig throughout the country, on average 500 miles per week. They’re not a food truck, though, so don’t expect to be chowin’ down on a free hot dog. You will, however, be gifted with a “Wiener Whistle,” something you may not have known you needed until now. To determine their whereabouts, download the Wienermobile app at Google Play or the App Store.

What are the challenges of piloting the Wienermobile?

It’s probably finding a parking space that’s big enough for the Wienermobile. The Wienermobile is our vehicle for a year, and we drive it all across the country. We like to say that we “haul buns” on the road, but we do abide by all traffic laws.

How does it navigate in the snow?

We received extensive training on how to drive the Wienermobile in all conditions at “Hot Dog High” in Madison, Wis. We look like a “chili” dog in the snow sometimes.

How many parking places does it need?

We are a 27-foot-long hot dog, so we take up around four spaces. We always abide by all traffic laws so if that requires us to plug multiple meters, we are sure to do so.

Have you ever caught flak from animal-rights groups or militant dietitians who decry the popularity of hot dogs? Frankfully, most people are absolutely thrilled to see the Wienermobile.

How did you become a “hotdogger”?

Each hotdogger’s story is a little bit different. We have both held this position for six months and we “relish” every moment! Oscar Mayer looks for recent college graduates for this position that have great people skills and a willingness to travel. Thousands of college graduates apply every year for this distinguished position so we are lucky enough to say that we “cut the mustard!”

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Raw foodists claim that heat destroys digestive enzymes in fruits and vegetables, reducing the benefit we can derive from eating them. I’ve also heard an opposing claim: that cooking vegetables breaks down indigestible cellulose, which allows us to absorb more nutrients. What do you say? —Red Ree

can’t blame you for seeking a second opinion on this one, RR. A quick Google search for “digestive enzymes” yields reams of websites with names like Life Force and Soul Healing, all vigorously encouraging the reader to ingest extra helpings of these enzymes—whether as found naturally, in fruits and vegetables, or synthetically, via the growing supplement market. Keep clicking and pretty soon you’re reading about vaccinations, autism, colloidal silver, precious bodily fluids, etc. In such a context, trend pieces about celebrities who’ve bought into enzymes start to look authoritative; legit medical literature is sparse at best. This is because, as far as I can gather, the alleged science in play here is so crackpot that doctors and dietitians have been disinclined to waste time refuting it. As a columnist in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association succinctly put it, “The problem with this theory is that the body already makes the enzymes needed to digest and absorb food, and the enzymes in food are inactivated by the acidity of the stomach.” In other words, you don’t need ’em, and they don’t help. That’s not to say there isn’t a good question here apropos the value of raw foods. In this regard, we have plenty of research to fall back on, not to mention 200,000 years of lived experience, the cooking of food being a reasonably significant development in the evolution of the human species. Is it better to eat your vegetables raw or cooked? Depends on both the vegetable and the cooking method. As to the former: You’ll get more vitamin C out of a raw tomato but cooking increases your intake of the far rarer antioxidant lycopene, released as heat breaks down cell walls. Indeed, according to a 2008 study in the British Journal of Nutrition, subjects on a raw-food diet had lower-thanaverage levels of lycopene in their blood. Cooking carrots increases the amount of beta-Carotene, an antioxidant and an important source of vitamin A. Antioxidants in general have been shown to be more available to human eaters when the food they’re in is cooked; see also zucchini and broccoli. This stuff is tricky, though. Cooking broccoli at high heat, for example, damages an enzyme that releases a compound called sulforaphane, a potential anticarcinogen, but leaving it undercooked allows a rogue protein to render the sulforaphane inactive. In 2005, a researcher at the University of Illinois reported finding a “just enough” prep method

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to reliably split the difference: steam the broccoli lightly for three to four minutes. Cooking food also, yes, breaks down its cellulose—that is, dietary fiber—making it easier to both chew and digest. And, as I say, how you cook it matters, too. You’ll be shocked to hear that a broad consensus abjures frying, which introduces into the equation free radicals—cell-damaging agents linked to a number of diseases, including cancer, when their levels in the body grow disproportionate; it’s antioxidants that keep them in check. Beyond that, research has complicated the commonly held belief that steaming vegetables is better than boiling them. Again: depends on the veggie. A 2008 paper in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry reported that carrots, for instance, retain slightly more carotenoids when boiled than they do steamed. In some cases you might best ditch the old ways altogether: in a 2007 study, microwave cooking led to greater retention of vitamin C in broccoli than either steaming or boiling did. As to the overall implications of a raw diet on a person’s health, this is where the research to date gets limited, but here’s a few things we know so far: A 2005 study of 17 raw-food “leaders”— the movement’s evangelists, in other words, mostly also vegan—found that subjects “met or exceeded recommended intakes of vegetables, fruits and fats and did not meet recommendations for calcium-rich foods, proteinrich foods and grains.” In terms of shock value, this is right down there with reports that frying is bad. (Why the grains deficit? Likely because if you’re determined not to cook them, making grains human-digestioncompliant involves a bunch of soaking and sprouting—a significant hassle.) Long-term raw, vegetarian diets have been linked to low body weight and BMI, but also to low bone mass. Finally, a 2008 observational study tracked participants’ sense of their quality of life, anxiety, stress, etc., following a period of weeks spent at a Florida raw-foods institute. Researchers surveyed the attendees at check-in, then again three months later, and wouldn’t you know: responses broadly expressed feelings of a higher quality of life, with lower stress, and little displeasure among those who decided to keep on the diet after their stay. Great news, of course. But I suspect it had something to do with the Florida vacation as well. CW

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The Utah Connection The story behind militia and

public-lands movements in Utah BY ERIC ETHINGTON eethington@cityweekly.net @ericethington

hroughout the recent armed occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge building at an eastern Oregon federal bird-refuge, two ideological forces seem increasingly intertwined: the public-lands-takeover movement and the patriot (aka militia) movement. These two crusades evolved independently over time, but some see them as having been “married” two decades ago in Bountiful, Utah. Ostensibly, the occupation was prompted by the jailing of the Hammonds, father and son Oregon ranchers who had attempted a controlled burn on public land. However, despite what many mainstream media outlets reported, the occupiers of the building are not Oregon ranchers or miners holding legitimate grievances with the federal government. Rather, locals in Burns, Ore., reportedly say the militiamen—including Ammon Bundy, the son of Cliven Bundy who caused a national incident in 2014 when he staged an armed standoff with federal officers after refusing to pay to graze his cattle on public lands—are primarily from outof-state organizations demanding federal public lands be turned over to state and municipal governments. Despite the broad media coverage, it’s difficult to determine who and how many individuals are inside the buildings. However, there are reports that members of several patriot-movement groups—Oath Keepers (and its sister organization, the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, or CSPOA), and the Three Percenters—assisted in organizing the armed march that preceded the occupation. And, according to Spencer Sunshine, an associate fellow at Political Research Associates and independent writer/researcher who’s been on the ground in Oregon tracking the buildup of militia activity, it was the Three Percenters that organized the heavily armed convoy that on Jan. 9 surrounded the refuge buildings and claimed to be a buffer between the militiamen inside and law enforcement. While locals reportedly were upset with the Hammonds’ jail sentence, at a packed Jan. 6 town-hall meeting, residents overwhelmingly voted to demand that the militiamen leave immediately. This was repeated on Jan. 11 when, at another town-hall meeting, local residents booed and jeered militiamen until they left the room, as seen in an online video. It was the patriot/militiamen’s LDS faith and familiar “take back our lands”

messaging that tied the situation back to Utah. The Bundys invoked their Mormon faith—with Cliven Bundy telling a group of supporters “The Lord told me ... if (the sheriff doesn’t) take away these arms (from federal agents), we the people will have to face these arms in a civil war. He said, ‘This is your chance to straighten this thing up,’” As a result, the LDS Church issued a statement condemning the actions, saying “this armed occupation can in no way be justified on a scriptural basis.” Likewise, state Rep. Ken Ivory, R-South Jordan, who heads the Utah-based public-lands-takeover advocacy group American Lands Council (ALC), also tweeted his concerns, saying that armed takeovers are not the way to privatize public lands. But despite Ivory’s distancing himself from the Oregon armed occupation, the historical Utah connection between the public-landstakeover movement and Far Right paramilitary organizations is hard to ignore. Rep. Ivory’s controversial 2012 Transfer of Public Lands Act was only the latest attempt by Utah politicians to forcibly turn over public lands to local control for resource extraction and private development. Back in the early ’90s, the Utah Legislature was one of several to pass laws attempting unique and legally questionable tactics to stymie environmental regulations. It was known as the “Wise Use” movement, and was founded by former Dow Chemical consultant Ron Arnold in 1984. In the organization’s published paper “The Wise Use Agenda,” the movement’s founders laid out a series of goals that could be described as a wish list for resourceextraction industries, including opening all federal lands to logging, mining and off-road vehicle access. The ’90s rhetoric of the Wise Use movement corresponds with the language of Rep. Ivory’s early websites from 2012, where he listed as a goal of his fledgling movement to obtain rights to the “subsurface mineral estate” of national parks. But, over the past three years, the ALC’s language has shifted, and it now drapes itself in environmentalprotection language. It claims that public lands can only be cared for by the states and that the health of the land can only be protected by resource-extraction companies. The multifaceted Wise Use movement established in the ’90s w h a t w a s known as its “county supremacy arm,” or a branch of the movement that believed county governments, and particularly the county sheriffs, had supremacy over federal laws and law enforcement. What may surprise many Utahns is that the county supremacy arm was coordinated through the Bountiful, Utah-based National Federal Lands Conference (NFLC). In his book The War Against the Greens, author David Helvarg explains that with the Wise Use movement’s founder Ron Arnold serving on the advisory board of the NFLC, the Utah organization claimed that county sheriffs were the ultimate legal authority, possessing the power to arrest

federal agents who “fail to respect the customs and culture of logging, mining and grazing on public lands.” PRA fellow Spencer Sunshine describes the ’90s militia movement’s membership as made up of conspiracy theorists, anti-abortion and Christian Right activists, rightwing libertarians, gun-rights activists and a minority of white supremacists. The NFLC quickly became a boiling pot for militia and even vigilante activity. Arnold and the NFLC were extremely vocal in their support of local armed militia groups, and, in so doing, reportedly caused no small headache for the LDS Church. In one of the NFLC’s newsletters, dated October 1994, the NFLC produced an article titled “Why There Is a Need for the Militia in America,” claiming that militias were constitutionally empowered to “enforce punishment” against federal agencies including the Bureau of Land Management; the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms; the Environment Protection Agency; and the U.S. Forest Service. The rhetoric fomenting in northern Utah reached such a level that LDS Apostle Dallin H. Oaks gave a speech in 1994 warning that LDS militia members’ “excessive zeal for one aspect of patriotism is causing them to risk spiritual downfall as they withdraw … from the governance of those civil authorities to whom our 12th Article of Faith makes us all subject.” Oaks doubled down on these statements again in 2012, when he expressed concern about “right-wing groups who mistakenly apply prophecies about the last days to promote efforts to form paramilitary or other organizations.” The ’90s militia movement largely disappeared with the election of George W. Bush and the events surrounding 9/11, says Sunshine. Writing for The Progressive Media Project’s Progressive magazine, Sunshine notes that the new patriot movement exploded after the election of President Obama. In comparing websites, it’s easy to see that many of the patriot-movement talking points are similar to those espoused by groups like the American Lands Council. In August 2015, City Weekly reported that a speech given by Rep. Ken Ivory to the patriot group Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association was filmed and used as a CSPOA promotional video. Ivory also signed a county supremacy-style resolution for the group under his official title as a Utah legislator saying that the “arrest of citizens or seizure of persons or property without first notifying and obtaining the express consent of the local sheriff” will not be tolerated. While leaders of the current federal lands takeover movement may try to distance themselves from ties to the patriot movement, the overlap in ideology and membership are obvious. Ivory has strongly denied any connection to paramilitary organizations (in the City Weekly article, he likened his speaking at their events to giving an interview to NPR), but a number of county leaders in Utah, Nevada and other states who have who signed on as ALC dues-paying members are also members of the Oath Keepers, CSPOA or other paramilitary groups like the Three Percenters. On the Oath Keepers of Oregon homepage, there is a link to the American Lands Council alongside other Oath Keeper organizations. Considering the strong anti-government stances of both groups, you have a recipe for ongoing armed occupations or standoffs based on the rhetoric of the public-lands-takeover movement. CW Eric Ethington is communications director for Political Research Associates, an organization that studies the U.S. political right wing, including paramilitary organizations.

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BUSINESS

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1983. During his 32-year stint on 400 South, he’s watched the area evolve. Among the most glaring changes for someone in the business of moving pounds of coffee and double lattes—a business that requires the faithful, repetitive sales from thousands of customers—is the street itself. Once a wide thoroughfare with street parking, 400 South now resembles a throughway, with three traffic lanes unraveling on each side of a set of train tracks. Promises from city officials that Trax would bring customers from the University of Utah to Bolton’s business, he says, did not materialize. “As much as we’ve made great steps forward with public transportation, and Trax being a stellar example of that, I still think the majority of my customers don’t access me by public transportation,” Bolton says. “When I entertain questions about ‘Where the hell can I park?’ from every customer, I surmise, perhaps, that they’re driving a vehicle to get here.” Bolton retained 20 parking spaces at the center of the block, but since the Public Safety Building opened, these spots are often full while traffic in the coffee shop is scant. When speaking about parking, Bolton offers a glimpse of the street in quieter days. “There was wonderful parking on Fourth South,” Bolton says of the days before TRAX. “It was relatively a laid back, casual street.” The Roasting Co. building was built in the early 1950s, and Bolton says the city is the third owner. In addition to it being his workspace for a quarter of a century, Bolton lived in the building for 20 years. Bolton says he believes his new space has the potential to carry his business into its new era. He hopes to continue doing most of what he currently does. What he won’t do, though, is try to make his new home a replica of his old haunt. “It’s a wonderful building,” he says. “I won’t even attempt to duplicate it. It was a great place to spend some time, and I’m thankful for it.” CW

While the city does occasionally offer up taxpayer-owned parcels for development—which was recently done with the former public-safety building at 315 E. 200 South that will be turned into a mix of affordable and market-rate apartments by Cowboy Partners LLC—the real-estate holdings around the Salt Lake Roasting Co. are unique. Remington-Love said that Salt Lake City historically hasn’t played developer, and in this case, acquisition of the Barnes Bank building was intended to house some of the city’s planning department. When this didn’t work out, and a prime piece of land sat vacant, the city joined the ranks of private developers that are often criticized for “land banking.” “I’m not aware of another time when we have purchased property for the intent of developing it,” Remington-Love said. “When we purchase property, it’s for a public purpose.” While this type of real-estate deal has historically been rare in Salt Lake City, Akerlow says it is not in other cities. And, in this case, any future development at this site, he adds, will likely be a mix of affordable housing and commerce. Akerlow cited the former public-safety building as an example of city-owned property being used to help provide relief for the widening gap in affordable housing across the city. “That’s an example of where the city has owned something and turned it around for a specific purpose, and we’re going to do the same thing on Fourth South,” he says. In the meantime, Bolton now finds himself leasing a building from the city that he owned for nearly 26 years. On Jan. 7, Bolton was busily preparing plans to commence a remodel on a building at 820 E. 400 South that once housed a Wasatch Pizza parlor. If everything goes smoothly, he hopes to be open at this new location—which is roughly half the size of his current digs—in the next five months. Bolton began roasting beans in 1981 and opened his first shop at 249 E. 400 South in

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it by million-dollar bit, the City of Salt Lake has acquired multiple chunks of property along 400 South near the corner of 300 East, with the latest piece of the puzzle—the Salt Lake Roasting Co. building—falling into the city’s hands at the end of 2015 for $1.7 million. City planners have been enamored with the cluster of properties, including the Roasting Co., for more than a decade, slowly buying up parcels for future development. All told, the city now has $7 million tied up in four parcels. With the Salt Lake Roasting Co. building, the area can now become one big chip in the city’s redevelopment efforts. “We were trying to assemble all of the properties together because it’s kind of a funky layout over there,” says Mike Akerlow, the city’s director of Housing & Neighborhood Development. “It makes it tricky to develop something around an existing building like that.” The city began gobbling up real estate on the block, which is directly east of the Salt Lake City Main Library, in 2008, when plans to place a new $125 million public-safety building there were solidified. Jill Remington-Love, the city’s former director of Community and Economic Development, told City Weekly in mid-2015 that it was around the same time—roughly 2008—when the city began having discussions with Roasting Co. owner John Bolton about buying his building. Although those early discussions didn’t result in a sale, the city purchased all of the property surrounding Bolton’s business, including the former Barnes Bank building at 431 S. 300 East and an adjacent parcel for $3.8 million in 2008, and four parcels connected to the former Celtic Bank building at 340 E. 400 South in 2011 for $1.8 million. Bolton says he decided to sell his building (Akerlow says Bolton initiated the most recent round of negotiations) partly because, with the Barnes Bank building sitting largely vacant to his west, the Celtic building to the east and the Public Safety building to the south, he says it wasn’t hard to “read the writing on the wall.” “I knew the city wanted the property, and it’s kind of obvious since they owned everything else around me that it would be inevitable that they would acquire it,” Bolton says. With Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski’s administration taking the helm, Akerlow says the portfolio of properties will be analyzed and, ideally, the city will be ready to solicit development proposals in the early part of this year.

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Hope and Change. Or not. The Bastian Foundation Diversity Lecture: “Racism’s Adaptations Since the Civil Rights Movement” will try to move you into that sphere of understanding through narratives, film and spirituals performed by famous Baritone Robert Sims. There will be choreography and theater by local dancers and choreographers Sofia Gorder and Notasha Washington. Robin DiAngelo, former associate professor of multicultural education at Westfield State University in Massachusetts, will help you answer the questions about racism, blatant or subtle. Vieve Gore Concert Hall, Jewett Center for the Performing Arts, Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East, Monday, Jan. 18, 11 a.m., free, WestminsterCollege.edu

n Those who get mad at the media com-

Nine more executive orders we might expect from President Obama in his last months in office.

9. Cracking down on pun laws. 8. Making Twitter etiquette a required class in all elementary schools.

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plain of a lack of objectivity. But let’s face it—human beings are subjective. Jay Rosen, press critic and associate professor of journalism at New York University, has a different view of the situation. He calls it “Transparency Is The New Objectivity: Two Ways To Be Trusted In the Production of News.” Seating at this lecture is limited. University of Utah, Language and Communications Building, Room 1110, Thursday, Jan. 14, 3:30 p.m., free, non-students RSVP at: bit.ly/1RaKGwP

PANEL DISCUSSION

Remember the 2002 Olympics? Utah has the greatest snow on earth—and the worst inversions. KUER Conversations focus on cleaning up Utah’s air and will examine the role politics plays. This new series will address public issues in an open, solutions-based forum. Join them for “Pollution Gets Personal,” moderated by environmental reporter, Judy Fahys. The panel even includes an industry lobbyist and a state senator on the natural resources committee. Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801524-8200, Thursday, Jan. 14, 7 p.m., free, SLCPL.org

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There has to be a reason to celebrate after New Year’s Eve. Help Sustainable Startups welcome its second year of fostering entrepreneurial minds and spirits in Salt Lake City. It’s a Two-Year Anniversary Party, featuring fledgling City Councilman Derek Kitchen speaking about his vision for Salt Lake and how entrepreneurship and sustainability play an important role in the future of our city. Sustainable Startups, 340 E. 400 South, No. 50, Salt Lake City, Friday, Jan. 15, 5:30 p.m., tickets donationbased, SustainableStartUps.org

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Hard Times for Science A tractor-trailer driver with a load of bottled water tried to make it over a historic bridge in Paoli, Ind., on Christmas Day, with the obvious outcome when 35 tons of water starts across a limit-6-tons span. The driver told police she saw the 6-ton sign but did not know how that “translated” to pounds.

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ever approved, he followed each one immediately with another petition, and it was not until 2013 that one judge finally declared Stenstrom a “serially abusive filer,” barring further petitions for two years—at which point his bank was able to conclude the foreclosure. Upon expiration of the two-year period in September 2015, Stenstrom quickly filed another bankruptcy petition—to keep from being evicted from the townhouse on whose rent he is four months behind.

WEIRD

n Among the activists denouncing a proposed solar-panel farm at a December Woodland, N.C., Town Council meeting were a husband and wife certain that vegetation near the panels would die because the panels would (the husband said) “suck up all the energy from the sun.” His wife (described as a “retired science teacher”) explained that the solar panels prevent photosynthesis (and also, of course, cause cancer). The council voted a moratorium on the panels.

Recent Recurring Themes Paul Stenstrom of Tarpon Springs, Fla., is among the most recent Americans to have discovered the brightest side of federal bankruptcy law, having lived in his mortgaged home basically free of charge from 2002 until 2013 by using the law to stave off foreclosure. Even though none of his 15 petitions was

Bright Ideas In October, once again, police (this time in Liyang in Eastern China) arrested a man whom they accused of stealing women’s underwear, prolifically, with a device likened to a fishing rod, enabling him to reach into windows and extract goodies. The suspect, 32, admitted to a three-year scheme, and in his van police found 285 bras and 185 panties. n In December, Carlos Aguilera, 27, became the most recent brain-surgery patient to assist doctors by remaining conscious during the 12-hour operation—and playing his saxophone to help assure surgeons that their removal of a tumor was not affecting his speech, hearing or movement. The operation, at

Spain’s Malaga Regional Hospital, was supposedly Europe’s first, but News of the Weird has reported two in the United States, including on a guitar-strumming man in 2013 at UCLA Medical Center. Least Competent Criminals Nurse’s aide Candace McCray, 36, is the most recent theft suspect to have worn some of the purloined jewelry when meeting police detectives investigating the theft. An assisted-living resident in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., had described her missing gems, and McCray was questioned as someone with access to the woman’s room. n Joshua Jording, 26, in Latrobe, Pa., became the most recent burglary suspect caught on surveillance video during the crime wearing a shirt with his name on it (which was later found in Jording’s home, along with a stash from the Dec. 2 burglary).

More Core Failings of Carjackers Albert Luna, 19, was arrested in Coachella, Calif., in December and charged with swiping the keys while a Federal Express driver was unloading a package. The driver reported that Luna later walked away when he could not figure out how to drive the truck. (Bonus: The arrest report noted that during the entire episode, Luna was naked.)

n Kyle Blair, 25, was arrested in Surrey, British Columbia, in November when he approached a car at an intersection and attempted to pull the driver out. For one thing, the two men in the car were later described as “big, burly” guys, but more important, they were plainclothes police officers on a stakeout.

Another Way to Tell If You’re Really, Really Drunk Her passengers had run away, leaving Elena Bartman-Wallman, 23, behind the wheel but oblivious on a December afternoon in Aleknagik, Alaska, and her car’s tires had started to smoke. She had lodged her foot against the accelerator, facing the wrong way on the road, with her wheels spinning continuously, and by the time police arrived (to discover Bartman-Wallman passed out), the front tires had melted down to the rims. Almost No Longer Weird When a woman leaped to her death on Dec. 12 from an apartment building in New York City, she of course landed on top of another woman, 71, who was left in critical condition. Thanks This Week to Rey Barry and Mark Lillicrap, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.

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How a peaceloving British journalist ended up shopping for a gun in Utah.

hen I was a young reporter in London in the late 1980s, my dream was to live in Paris and write a great novel. I aspired to spend days feverishly scribbling in a lonely garret and nights walking by the Seine and sipping Pernod and water at a table outside a bar. While I ended up a reporter in Salt Lake City, my literary love for Paris never faltered, culminating in a summer 2013 visit to the city of lights, where I strolled its tree-shrouded neighborhoods with my family, basking in its street-café lifestyle. On Nov. 13, 2015, the Paris of my dreams was no more. As CNN’s coverage blared of Islamic extremists firing upon diners and concertgoers in Parisian suburbs, I watched as the assaults ultimately claimed 130 lives in the French capital. Along with the mounting death toll, the defenselessness of the victims on that unseasonably warm late autumn evening also became clear. Something in me shifted that night. As a British national who moved to Utah in 2005, I have spent more than a decade in this Western state. Yet, in that time, I have remained unfamiliar with firearms. Weapons are anathema to most journalists, unless you’re a gun-toting gonzo writer like Hunter S. Thompson. Guns are about quelling violence, while reporting is about uncovering the root causes of violence so that it will end. Tragically, over this past decade, my initial horror at what I had come to view as a national malaise—mass shootings—gradually segued into muted disbelief and finally passive despair at the endless repetition of images of people running scared from buildings, sobbing survivors, blood-stained sheets over victims and the inscrutable features of a killer, typically dead by his own hand or law enforcement. In a country awash with 300 million-plus guns and 30,000 gun-related deaths each year, I might have been forgiven for dismissing my concerns as little more than paranoia fed by the 24-news cycle. But Paris was different. I felt harmed. I thought of laughing with my daughters, then 11 and 13, while they devoured crêpes bought from street-side kiosks. Some of the innocence surrounding those pleasures had gone. Almost seven hours after the Bataclan concert venue massacre began, at 8:37 p.m., I texted a close

friend with an extensive history in military and law enforcement. “Fuck. I need to learn how to shoot. And then teach my girls.” He came back immediately: “Anytime bro, anytime.” For a while, I left that impulse where I’d immortalized it, in just a few characters of text. But, a few weeks after the Paris carnage, on Dec. 2, 2015, another unthinkable event occurred: Fourteen people were gunned down in San Bernardino, Calif., by a heavily armed and armored couple at a holiday party for employees of a center for the developmentally delayed. I went back to my gut-impulse to arm myself and to train with a firearm. “We’ve been here [in Utah] far too long,” my incredulous wife said, shaking her head in disbelief. After 10 years of living in a state where the dominance of gun culture seemed so utterly foreign to me, I’d blocked it out as white noise emanating from right-wing gun nuts. I now wondered what it meant to be a gun owner. How difficult would it be

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to acquire a firearm in Utah, given I had heard estimates that more than two-thirds of Utah residents owned a firearm? What did it involve? And did I have a responsibility to myself, my family and to my community to arm myself? Somewhere between the unyielding rhetoric of the left and the right, perhaps there was a middle-ground to address the insecurities I felt in the wake of Paris. Law-enforcement officials across the country seemed to concur. One sheriff from upstate New York, urged citizens “to responsibly take advantage of your legal right to carry a firearm.” A Washington, D.C., police chief told 60 Minutes, “If you’re in a position to try and take the gunman out, it’s the best option for saving lives before police get there.” So, I decided it was time to consider arming myself, determining I had something of a moral obligation to defend my loved ones in these perilous times. My journey into the world of gun ownership led me to talk with law enforcement and former cops and train briefly with both. That training included experiencing a shooting simulation drawn from the real-life 2014 shooting of Siale Angilau that took place in the Salt Lake City federal courthouse while he was on trial. I ventured into gun stores packed with men and women determined to thwart any gun-control

FIREARMS TRAINER DAVE ACOSTA, FAR RIGHT, SCHOOLS REPORTER STEPHEN DARK, FAR LEFT, ON HOW TO HOLD A HANDGUN.

AT A GUN RANGE IN SPRINGVILLE, ACOSTA, CENTER, DEMONSTRATES EFFECTIVE SHOOTING TECHNIQUE.

TO PACK OR NOT TO PACK I grew up in an English town in a southern-eastern

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county called Kent, surrounded by the verdant glories of the countryside. In England, most firearms are outlawed, except for farmers protecting livestock and landowners out hunting. The local constabulary were unarmed, except for truncheons—thin wooden clubs— since replaced in the 1990s by extendable batons. I moved to Argentina in the mid-1990s, where police were armed and paid for their own ammunition and body armor. In my experience, few citizens there carried firearms. After the collapse of the Argentine economy in 2002, my family and I emigrated to the United States, to the country of my wife’s birth, three years later. When I decided to explore the idea of gun ownership in December 2015, I asked my Eastern European friend, the former cop and now a businessman in Utah, what he thought. “The majority of people in civilian life pull a gun to show off or scare someone,” my friend, who asked not to be named, says. “They don’t understand they are escalating rather than de-escalating. If I pull that gun, I have only one objective, and I do anything not to pull it. Soon as you pull it, you need to use it.” He argues that cops don’t want to use their

guns. “As soon as you use it, you can’t retract it. It’s not like a video game.” In mid-December, I called Spanish Fork-based Dave Acosta, formerly with a North Las Vegas SWAT team, who is now a firearms trainer and international security consultant. Previously the subject of a 2005 City Weekly profile on cops and deadly force, Acosta runs a company called YouTactical and frequently travels to Brazil and Mexico to train federal police facing heavily armed gangs. He’s also traveled to Afghanistan on government-security contracts. He says that I’m far from alone in pondering “packing heat.” Since late 2011, he has seen the number of men and women looking for firearms training skyrocket, be it learning how to shoot, how to train for combat or how to clear their home of intruders. He’s also worked with teachers seeking to protect their students, training an astonishing 2,400 teachers in Utah.

killed. That gets people hurt. You can’t afford to over- or under-react, but you can’t afford to do nothing.” Is arming myself an answer to such situations? Is it better than doing nothing? Or does it only make matters worse? A friend, a former cop from Eastern Europe, looks at me as if I’m stupid. “You have one or two situations in your life you know that you or someone close to you are in danger. Would that warrant you start carrying a gun all your life?” he asks me. Although many were clear on the benefits I stood to gain with having a gun, the downside proved more elusive. The friend I first texted for help says all I stand to lose is, “a little bit of your innocence.” But Jenn Oxborrow, executive director of Utah Domestic Violence Coalition, paints it differently. What may I lose if I join Utah’s ever-swelling gun owning ranks? “Your soul,” she says.

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measures President Obama might mandate before the end of his term in office. As I strolled through the stores, I half-expected someone to point at me and scream “Liberal!” at the top of their lungs. I went from one bemused gun salesman to another, my cluelessness about firearms stamped clearly on my forehead. Without ever having fired a gun, I discovered how disturbingly easy it was for me, a foreign national, not only to acquire a gun but to carry it concealed on my person. Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill carries a concealed handgun and has done so for several years. It was a very personal decision he says he made based on his concerns about the visibility of his position as well as the issues and cases he was working on two years ago. “If you didn’t have that handgun and now you have it, are you going to feel more compelled to use it?” Gill asks me, rhetorically. “Is it going to change your behavior in any way?” He cautions me that buying a gun in response to the Paris attacks is part of a larger conversation about whether the United States is becoming a more “fearful nation.” He says not to confuse being vigilant and prepared “with being reactionary and fearful, of being suspicious of every Muslim who walks down the street. If we treat our fellow American citizens of diverse backgrounds differently, then [terrorists] have won. They have found their way into our souls in the most insidious and destructive way,” he says. Two summers ago, I visited Tampa, Fla., with my family. Standing in a store’s doorway in a mall and talking to my 90-year-old mother-in-law, a man began haranguing another man who sat down in front of him. Directly behind the violently gesticulating man—perhaps 8 feet away—sat my youngest daughter, staring at the argument with huge eyes. I couldn’t move. I knew I should, yet I didn’t. I felt paralyzed with uncertainty. Do I grab her, only to risk drawing his attention? That’s called “condition black,” one cop told me. “You just don’t know what to do, you lock up. That gets people

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Hook killing of 20 children and six adults, he wrote a mass shooting are “pretty slim,” as they account for blog explaining why he had decided not to arm him- 2 percent of gun-related homicide deaths. However, self. “I think when we arm people, as we do with cops she says, “your chance of living next to someone who and soldiers, that weapon becomes the key focus of perpetrates violence on his family with a firearm, their professional life,” he writes in an email. “When your chances of having someone date your daughto use [it], how to use it, how to keep track of it/main- ters who has a firearm is significantly greater.” tain it, and how to maintain those skills. I don’t quite Guns are tools, she says, and to have access to that get how you layer that focus on top of what a teacher tool, “you should have to be able to meet very specific already is supposed to focus on training and access criteria.” (and who, by definition, chose a The reality, as I discovered career that didn’t involve firefrom conversations with gun arms).” advocates and gun salesmen, is Evancich has mixed feelings that buying a handgun is surabout firearms. “I’m a very prisingly easy. All I needed in faithful person, I would have order to buy one was my driver’s a very hard time taking a life, license and information related even in the context of it being to my permanent-resident stame or him.” Where he found tus. Then, it took about five he could draw a line was if minutes while they ran a backhis daughters, wife or schoolground check. As long as I existchildren were in danger. “It’s ed in state and federal records, about protecting the innocents and did not have a felony on my around me.” record, or a misdemeanor conHe’s not the only one conviction for domestic violence, I cerned about children and firewas good to go. arms. State Sen. Todd Weiler, Gun-rights advocate Nick R-Woods Cross, is preparing -DAVE ACOSTA Moyes co-founded and majora bill for the 2016 legislative ity-owns the online gun sales session that would introduce website UtahGunExchange. firearms-safety classes to Utah middle schools. com. Once I leave a store clutching my “piece,” he told At Acosta’s invitation, I attended a night training me, I can have it loaded in my home or in my car, with for teachers at the APA Draper campus. The point a round in the chamber. If I step out of the car or leave Acosta hammers home is that responsible gun own- the house with the gun, I have to remove the round and ership means training with your firearm, “and not keep the unloaded weapon zipped up in a case. just once a year.” He told the teachers that if they I can apply for a concealed-carry permit, which rebought anything smaller than a Glock 19, “I will not quires me to attend a lecture on gun safety, storage and train you. The right tool for the job is huge. If I am the laws surrounding what I can and can’t do in terms engaging multiple shooters, I need a gun that’s going of delivering deadly force. But I’m not required to unto get the job done.” dertake any firearms training other than attending that He taught the dozen or so, mostly men, how to four-hour course. advance at a half-run up and down the school corridors, as children beamed down from photographs on JENN OXBORROW, the wall. Acosta had us enter a classroom, a plastic DOMESTIC VIOLENCE handgun pulled tightly into our chest, ready to immediately engage a gunman. I struggled to maintain ADVOCATE an expression as serious as my co-trainees. Acosta scolded me for grinning at him as I scampered along a corridor and, as instructed, glanced down at him waiting in the shadows for me to yell out how many fingers he was or wasn’t holding up.

“I THINK OUR CARRY-CONCEALED WEAPON REQUIREMENTS ARE A JOKE ... YOU DON’T HAVE TO SHOOT OR EVEN TOUCH A GUN, YET YOU CAN WALK OUT WITH A LICENSE.”

GUN SELLER AND ENTHUSIAST NICK MOYES AT A SPRINGVILLE GUN RANGE

PROTECTING THE INNOCENTS While public schools are provided with school-re-

source officers, typically policemen, charter schools don’t have that same benefit. Tim Evancich is chief operations officer at the American Preparatory Academy (APA), which has seven schools in Utah and Nevada. Part of his responsibility is school security. With the increasing advent of “active shooters” on school campuses, Evancich talked to law-enforcement agencies about security. What’s become clear, he says, is “that the gap of time between when the first shot is fired and law enforcement arrives and is able to remove the threat,” is when nearly all children and adults die. Evancich brought in Acosta to train some of APA’s teachers so they would have “tools they could use to defend themselves and their kids,” something the teachers, despite some initially feeling physically ill even at the thought of talking about children facing harm, ultimately found empowering, he says. “We know that it’s a numbers game for most school shootings,” Acosta says, meaning that an armed assailant storming a school seeks to eclipse prior body counts by other shooters. “If you take an aggressive posture in your preparation, that’s a huge deterrent.” Evancich has an average of four or more teachers at each campus whom he says, by personal choice, carry a concealed firearm on campus. Interestingly, a number of former soldiers who now are APA teachers largely elected not to carry at school, because “they were not at a point in their lives where they wanted to continue that level of training and preparedness,” Evancich says. Keith Manring is a former Marine who teaches at an Indiana middle school. In the wake of the Sandy

TALK, DON’T SHOOT Utah Domestic Violence Coalition’s Jenn Oxborrow

owned a gun at her father’s insistence, when she was living alone in Las Vegas. “I got rid of it. I don’t feel I am wired appropriately, I don’t feel it is in my base nature. My base nature is to talk.” When an intoxicated man broke into her former downtown Salt Lake City house and confronted her and her children in her bedroom, she talked him out to her garden, where he was tasered by police in front of her kids. “If I had had a gun and shot him, even if I had been skilled enough, my kids would have witnessed that.” As it was, they had nightmares about the tasering. She tells me the chances of finding myself in a

WILLING TO CHANGE? Several weeks later, I went to the Salt Lake County

TAKING A LIFE

“You surprised me,” Roberts says. “You got the shot off in under one second.” And, he continues, “you were in total disgust. You were pissed you just shot him.” Did I have a pre-determined view of the courthouse shooting, he asked, namely, that I didn’t think it was justified? I struggled to answer, to articulate why I had felt full of self-loathing—indeed, why it seemed for a few moments as if an inky abyss were seeping across the floor toward me. The black irony that I, a reporter, had shot a man wielding a pen—even as Roberts showed me one he kept for self-defense—did not escape me. He says, “You made a decision that, yeah, you could (have shot him) but you’re going to have a hard time with it. You’ll spend the next hour running this through your mind. You just made the decision that every police officer dreads.”

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went shopping for a gun. Rep. Oda told me not to be in a hurry over my purchase. “Firearms are like shoes, you have to be comfortable with it. It has to fit your hand, you have to feel confident with it. It’s something you want to enjoy shooting recreationally as well as for selfdefense,” he said. Finding such a versatile tool proved challenging. The first downtown gun store I went into, I felt an odd furtiveness that reminded me of going into a London porn store for the first time as a callow teenager. I stared at the handguns in a glass case and felt vaguely nauseated by their squat, brutal lines. I told the less-than-impressed salesman I was a gun novice and wanted one for self-defense. He handed me an unloaded Smith & Wesson SD9. I had no idea what to do with it, where to point it, whether to pull the trigger or not. Weren’t you suppose to treat all guns as if they were loaded? (Answer: yes)

“NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO KILL ANYONE. THE GOAL IS TO STOP THE THREAT.”

POLICE OFFICER IAN ADAMS, SPOKESMAN FOR THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE

Sheriff’s Office shooting range in Parleys Canyon and spoke with range master Nick Roberts. He asked me intently about my desire to bear arms. Most telling was this question: After 52 years of relatively peaceful existence on this planet, was I willing to change? If I wasn’t willing to change, the consequences for myself and those around me could be dire. “You bring the gun up and can’t pull the trigger, you are now a target, you will be the first to die.” He took me up to the first floor where a large platform awaited, buttressed by three 8-foot-tall screens. Roberts gave me a handgun that recoiled each time I pulled the trigger. I went through three multi-panel interactive video simulations, the first involving a woman at night at an outdoor ATM, 10 feet or so in front of me. A man jumped out of a car to my left, told me to back off and pulled a knife on the woman, forcing her back, the point of the weapon at her chest. I thought he was about to strike, and I shot him. He crumpled to the ground and I stared at his body, hypnotized by what I had done, only for another man in the would-be mugger’s car to open fire on me. For the second simulation, I entered a suburban house to screams and curses. “You are going to see the worst part of humanity you will ever see in your life,” Roberts warns. A blindfolded woman was tied to a chair, her male partner had a gun to her head, a baby crying just under his left arm. I started moving to the right and the man turned and screamed at me. “Don’t Ian Adams is a serving police officer and spokesperson move, don’t you take another fucking step or I’ll kill her, for the Fraternal Order of Police. He agrees to meet for you hear me?” I froze in indecision. He fired and the woman’s head a coffee and give me his perspective on my conundrum. Americans have a weird relationship with violence, jerked back, blood and matter splattering on the table he says. They love it on TV, at the movies or in video behind her. I fired and he went down, groaning in pain. “You shot him after he shot games, “but actual violence they her,” Roberts says. “The news abhor.” He argues that everyone is going to say you let her die.” has a responsibility to underRoberts tells me cops have to stand how quickly violence ocread people, that they learn curs. “It happens in quarter-, how to verbally “de-escalate” half- and second increments.” situations. He says he hates the quote, The last simulation drew to “when seconds count, the posome extent on the shooting of lice are only minutes away.” Siale Angilau. According to the Nevertheless, in a world where authorities, he was shot mul“unimaginable, random viotiple times by a U.S. Marshal in lence is being visited upon you, a federal courtroom where AnI think that’s a natural instinct,” gilau was on trial in 2014, when to want to arm yourself. While he attempted to stab a witness deciding to kill someone is dewith a pen. humanizing, in a lethal encoun-REP CURT ODA, Since the video of Angilau’s ter, that same person has made R-CLEARFIELD shooting has not been released a decision to kill you. “Taking a by the feds to the public, I have life in protection of a life seems no idea how far or close the simlike an even trade,” he says. ulation is to the actual events. He looks around the coffee bar. “How long would it take you to kill every person What I do know is that I found it deeply troubling. In the in this building right now? A quarter-second trigger simulation, a drug dealer is on trial, and the prosecupull, that’s four bullets every second,” he says. “As a so- tor asked a witness, a former member of the defendant’s ciety, as an individual, we have to start grappling with gang, if the defendant was a gang leader. A minute into the question of how long are we willing to let an [ac- the examination, the defendant shouted “Motherfucktive shooter] go undistracted and unconfronted?” He er,” jumped up and moved around the table, running at cites the 2007 Trolley Square mass shooting, where the the witness, one hand raised. As I watched the simulation, I took aim just as he shooter, after claiming five lives, was pinned down by fire from an off-duty cop, the youth subsequently killed reared up over the witness, about to stab him in the throat with a pen or pencil. I shot; he fell to the floor and by arriving law enforcement. did not move.

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So, in essence, once I have my concealed-carry permit, I can go most places with a loaded firearm on my hip and a chambered round, without my ever having fired a shot in a shooting range. Places where I can’t venture armed include federal buildings, “secure” facilities (i.e. with metal detectors, such as airports and court houses), mental health facilities and LDS ward houses (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints annually renews a public notice that guns are banned, as allowed by Utah statute). “I think our carry-concealed weapon requirements are a joke,” Acosta says. “There’s an online class and a shooting test to kill a deer, but if you want to kill a human being, you have to be in a class for [four] hours. You don’t have to shoot or even touch a gun, yet you can walk out with a license.” Carrying a gun, or having a concealed-carry permit, is not a license to use a gun, says state Rep. Curt Oda, R-Clearfield. He is a tireless gun-rights advocate who teaches carry-concealed classes. “No one has the right to kill anyone,” he says. “The goal is to stop the threat,” of imminent potential injury or death. “Proficiency should never be a prerequisite to the right of self-defense,” he says. And taking permit applicants post-class to a firing range to show them how to use a gun would not work, he adds. “People aren’t going to remember that (training).” Oda is supportive of my struggle to reach a decision about whether or not I arm myself. “It’s not just about terrorists,” he says. “We’ve got neighborhood terrorists—they’re called gangs and criminals.”

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to read the range’s instructions and then asks, among other things, if you are suicidal or depressed. If so, check the box marked “Yes.” The man in charge of the range handed us two 9 mm firearms, a Ruger and a Smith & Wesson. We got a 30-second explanation of how to load each of the guns and were told to come back with any questions. Neither of us left the store unscathed. My friend pinched his thumb in the slide of the first handgun. Blood spotted his shirt. While I had been told at another range that my reading glasses were sufficient protection while shooting, they proved inadequate on this day. An ejected hot shell casing landed between my glasses and my lower left eyelid, scorching my skin with a half-circle burn. We left without a handgun and none the wiser if we wanted one or not. I also had my own “mark of Cain” to explain to my family when I got home.

A VIRGIN NO MORE

REPORTER STEPHEN DARK HOLDS AN AR15 WHILE PONDERING HIS FUTURE RELATIONSHIP WITH FIREARMS. At a second downtown store, again my inexperience surfaced. A salesman handed me one handgun, took it back, then gave me another in my price range. I still had no idea what I should be looking for, what questions I should ask. Just before New Year’s Eve, I met Acosta, Moyes and his girlfriend at a range in Springville. Acosta had me work on the shooting stance I’d learned at the teachertraining. I fired various handguns at paper targets 12 feet away but repeatedly jerked at the trigger. “The gun is shooting you,” Acosta says. “You’re letting the gun put you where it wants.” He pulled in the paper target and pointed to one shot that went high over the silhouette’s head. “This is why you need to come here,” he says. “That could have been a mom in a mall you just hit.”

COLLATERAL DAMAGE My 53rd birthday came on Jan. 2. I met a friend also

interested in purchasing a handgun at a gun store in the southern end of the Salt Lake Valley. It was a Saturday morning, and the store was bustling with people perusing firearms and waiting to go on the range at the back of the store. To my bemusement, you can walk in and rent firearms to try out on the range with no more than a driver’s license. First, you fill out a form that asks you

On Jan. 4, as I went through my notes, trying to figure out how I felt about guns, the friend I’d reached out to the night of the Paris massacre, texted. “Gonna shoot by for a min if you’re home,” he punned. He placed on the table between us a .380 automatic and next to it a magazine clip with six rounds. “Guardian” was stamped on the barrel, along with the name of the manufacturer, Provo-based North American Arms. Support your local business, I thought. A gift, it turns out. You pull back the slide and let go, he explains. “A full, violent boom,” he adds, by way of describing the action to load a round into “the pipe,” or chamber. It had belonged to his wife, but she had switched to a Glock. There were four rules to remember: “All guns are always loaded”; “never let your muzzle cover anything you’re not willing to destroy or kill”; “your finger is never on the trigger until your sights are on the target, and you’re ready to fire”; and, “beware of your back stop and beyond,” meaning know what will stop your rounds and what lies behind that target. I felt nervous at being responsible for a handgun. My momentary case of butterflies evoked distant memories of being about to lose my virginity. (Sex and death; go figure.) It was a gun with which to address an imminent threat, he continues. It’s like using your finger, “Just point and shoot.” But, then, he says something that brought me back to where I started: to Parisians and foreigners cowering behind tables as gunmen calmly shot one defenseless person after another. “It’s just a save-your-life gun,” he says. “Let them know you’re not just going down. You can fight back.” Through the afternoon, I picked up the unloaded weapon, racked it a few times, checking to make sure it hadn’t magically loaded itself while I wasn’t looking. I immediately had to deal with some practical questions. Where to hide it from my children? I put the clip in the garage and the handgun in a box under some scarves in a closet. Not much use, I thought that night at 2 a.m. when I woke up after hearing a strange noise in the house. The thought of running down to the garage and asking any would-be burglar encountered en route to wait while I got the magazine brought a weary smile.

MAN WITH A GUN It is hard to ignore how much owning a gun changes

your existence. While I feel safest when the gun and the clip are squirreled away in two separate locations, slamming the clip into the automatic and putting it in my car leaves me with constant unease that I have a loaded firearm near me about which I know very little. What would I do if a Utah Highway Patrol officer pulled me over, asked for my insurance, and I opened the glove compartment only for the gun to fall out? Would he shout, “Gun!” and reach for his weapon? Would I be stupid enough to fumble around to pick up mine? When I leave the gun in my car, I am paranoid I have left the car unlocked and someone will steal it, so I constantly check that it’s locked. I find myself looking at men and women’s waistlines, particularly when their shirts are untucked, to see if they are carrying. Encountering someone in a concrete stairway, I am tempted to look at him with more suspicion, wondering if he is armed, and what his intentions might be. How much more, I wondered, would my world view change if I got a concealed-carry permit and wore the weapon on my hip? I have not found an answer to the question that set me off on this tale, namely, how far do I need to go to protect those I love and those around me in an active-shooter situation? All the same, I’ve found the journey to be endlessly informative about the American psyche. I seem to be approaching a line where having a gun forces me to assess the world in terms of threat or no-threat and be prepared to respond appropriately. It’s a line that, once crossed, will require me to train and prepare for something that—God willing— I hope to never have to address. Utah Gun Exchange’s Moyes says if I can’t picture myself with a firearm on my hip or in my pocket, he’s fine with that. “Someone comes in here with a gun, I’m going to do my darnedest to save both of us,” he says. His greatest fear, though, is not so much being a victim of someone else with a gun, but of the government taking away his right to bear arms. His voice breaks with emotion as he says, “Please don’t vote for anybody that would take my right away from me [to bear arms]. It’s really important to me. I don’t want to be a victim of a violent crime.” Evil will always exist, he says, “and as long as evil carries a gun, so will I.” While I do not believe in good and evil but rather see the world around me as a vast spectrum of grays, my curiosity about guns and their meaning to American life means that this is a journey I will continue on, for now. Next stop, concealed-carrypermit class. I can’t help feeling that each day I own a gun, I am betraying some intrinsic aspect of my identity, that I’m damaging some part of my connection to the universe that I can’t, as yet, name. A comment from my European friend, the former cop, comes back to me as I weigh the gun in one hand, a clip of bullets in the other. “If a wild dog bites you, do you need to bite him back?” he asks. CW

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Wasatch Theatre Co.: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

The objectification of woman in society is an indelible issue, not only because of its outward manifestations, but also because of its subtle influence on women to self-objectify, and allow their self-images to become entangled with social and cultural expectations. Salt Lake City artist Carina Barajas, a senior in painting and drawing in the University of Utah’s College of Fine Arts, uses the art of portraiture to confront these issues. In portraits of herself and other women (“Self-Identification” is pictured), Barajas utilizes every artistic element—color, composition, texture and brushstroke—to create a remarkable overall depiction of female identity. Figures of women sometimes meld into background colors, denoting their objectification as objects in the room. Sometimes downcast expressions suggest moods and narratives of being subjected to societal roles. Even skin tones— blotchy or blurred or even discolored—suggest an ambiguity about identity. There’s tension in the portraits: Do the subjects have insight into their objectification? They also stand in contrast to the commonplace depiction of women as idealized figures. Barajas is an artist of Basque and Mexican descent, and traditional female roles in those cultures have to be taken into account when viewing this exhibit. But her approach to depicting female identity is subtle and that serves to make it more powerful. An artist’s reception will be held Jan. 15, 6-9 p.m. during Gallery Stroll. (Brian Staker) Carina Barajas: Objects and Self @ Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts, 631 W. North Temple, Ste. 700, Salt Lake City, 801-596-0800, Jan. 15-Feb. 12.

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The Hardcore Legend, Cactus Jack, Mankind, Dude Love. Whatever name you know him or love him best as, Mick Foley left an unmistakable, blood-stained mark on the world of professional wrestling. Most know him from diving 15 feet from the top of a cage and into a table against the legendary Undertaker, and, to a lesser extent, as the guy who fought Terry Funk in a match with C4, barbed wire and thumbtacks decorating a ring in Japan. But however you think about his wrestling career, the three-time world champion remains a force to be reckoned with. After years of putting his body through brutal matches across the globe, for every promotion under the sun, Foley ended up pursuing several different outlets including becoming a best-selling author, voice talent, actor and, currently, standup comedian and spoken-word performer. Much in the vein of Henry Rollins, Foley travels around sharing anecdotes about his career and life experiences. The time he lost part of his ear, seeing a porn star working with a knee brace, hearing a U.S. President going over his catchphrases, life as a father and family man, and many other stories from his decorated wrestling past all make their way into his shows. Foley will perform twice at two different Wiseguys venues: Ogden on Friday, then south to SLC on Saturday to command the new downtown stage. One food or drink item purchase is required with each show. (Gavin Sheehan) Mick Foley @ Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., 801-622-5588, Jan. 15, 7 & 9 p.m., $25; Wiseguys Downtown, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Jan. 16, 7 & 9 p.m., $25. WiseguysComedy.com

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Mick Foley

Anyone with siblings can relate to Wasatch Theatre Co.’s production of Christopher Durang’s Chekov-inspired play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. The title characters, with the exception of Spike, have bickered their entire lives—and haven’t stopped, even as middle-age, single adults. For the most part, they’re miserable. Sonia (Karrie Ann Ogilvie), the adopted, oft-forgotten sister of Vanya (Jeffrey Owen), and Masha (Cathy Ostler) never truly grew up. After their parents died, she and Vanya stayed in their childhood home which Masha, a successful movie star, pays for. When Masha comes to visit with her new, young boyfriend, Spike (Allen Smith), for a neighbor’s party, Masha threatens to sell the home—which was prophesized by the cleaning lady Cassandra (Kathryn Wilkins). Add in Nina (Ashlynn Brooke Anderson), a young aspiring actress, and it’s a house full of unique personalities. Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike starts out at a slow pace, but director Brian Pilling builds it to an epic freak-out. Each of the title characters has a unique turning point, the most compelling of which comes from Sonia who, after dressing up for the party as the Evil Queen from Snow White—as portrayed by Maggie Smith attending the Oscars—gets asked out on a date the next day. Ogilvie, Owen and Ostler capture the essence of unhappy siblings forced to grow up—something most people have to figure out at some point. (Missy Bird) Wasatch Theatre Co.: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Jan. 7-30, Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Saturday matinees, Jan. 23 and 30, 2 p.m., $15. WasatchTheatre.org

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Iconic comedian Jerry Seinfeld is back on stage with a microphone in hand. The space that launched him into a prolific career has called him home, center stage. Seinfeld will be making a local stop this week, and his show at Abravanel Hall is already sold out. Best known for his self-titled role in the long running television sitcom, Seinfeld, co-created by him and fellow comedian Larry David, Seinfeld proves he can still pack a venue. Growing up in New York City, Seinfeld performed in theatrical productions and open mics throughout college. His big break came in 1981 when he was invited to perform on The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson. Shortly after his appearance, he was contacted by NBC and asked to present ideas for a sitcom. He and David went on to create a show that ran for nine seasons with a concept about nothing other than the ordinary life of a group of 30-something friends who lived in Manhattan. The simple concept ended up being a genius idea, and in 2002, TV Guide named Seinfeld the “greatest television program of all time.” After Seinfeld went off the air in 1998, he vowed to never create another sitcom. He later returned to the acting arena, so to speak, in 2007 when he co-wrote and co-produced the animated film Bee Movie. Seinfeld is also slated to perform once a month at the Beacon Theatre in New York during 2016. (Aimee L. Cook) Seinfeld Live @ Abravanel Hall, 123 S. West Temple, 801-355-2787, Jan. 14, 7 p.m., sold out at press time. ArtSaltLake.org

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ince the first human creativity that could be classified as “art,” visual expressions have been used as a tool to help people understand nature and the world around them, at least from an aesthetic point of view. But there is still this post-modern notion that the human eye alters the thing observed, so you can’t really “see” the world free of the shadings of the human lens. It is within this framework that Utah Arts & Museums’ Rio Gallery kicks off the new year with an exhibit titled Raw and Cooked, about the intersection of nature and culture. The phrase “the raw and the cooked” originated in the works of French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss in his 1964 book of the same name. In the volume, Lévi-Strauss looked at a number of everyday objects and experiences in various cultures, and how they play a role in the “culture/nature” dialectic. According to his theories, our relationship with objects is the foundation of myths—in the anthropological sense, cultural narratives to explain our place in the world. The artists in the exhibit Raw and Cooked use mundane objects and experiences to investigate the relationship between nature and culture. Paul Crow, Jim Jacobs and Josh Winegar, three faculty members of the Department of Visual Art & Design at Weber State University, have created very different works that relate to the theme, and they participate in a dialogue with one another and the viewer. Crow’s “On Ice” is a series of large inkjet prints and text that look at the way ice has been culturally transformed from a substance that was on the margins of cultural awareness to something we pay intense attention to as an indicator of global climate change. At the same time, the photographic images resemble artistic abstractions, highlighting the ways that a substance, which can be physically threatening, even chilling, is also graceful and aesthetically beautiful, and an object of artifice. In his “Unnamed” series, Jacobs grafted natural tree limbs to pieces of milled lumber, and the results are aesthetically pleasing yet also slightly jarring. As sculptural works, there is an elegance and symmetry, and they are imposing and visceral. There is also an uncanny sense of the ways the

segments are combined. Since the raw material is all natural, these “grafts” want to appear like natural growths, even though they are the product of the human act of grafting, and it’s a kind of graft that isn’t going to result in further growth. “Unnamed” evolved out of previous work by Jacobs, in which wooden objects were intertwined—and in many cases, built—around natural limbs. Winegar’s “Corresponding” is the one series of works in the show that directly depicts humans confronting nature, in a number of photographs of hillside landscapes, some with people in them. These characters in the landscape appear anonymous, but in the natural setting, they attain a quality of contemplation that they perhaps would be unlikely to achieve away from it. Thus, nature is a place of discovery, both of the world and of one’s self, but also the site of projection of our idealized notions about it. Crow explains the importance of the subject matter of the show: “The show is about the nature in us, and on a few levels disabuses us of the fallacy that we are somehow not a part of this world.” Interestingly, all these works were already in progress before the idea for the exhibit germinated, so the show itself came together somewhat organically—its own natural expression. By this point in human history, it seems that culture and nature have, in some senses, traded places. The environment in which we find ourselves in the world is more and more artificial, a manufactured cultural product. And culture has almost

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been accorded the status of an organic phenomenon, at least in ways we speak about it, as in viral memes and other cultural phenomena. Lévi-Strauss might find it fascinating. Nature and culture could be at an impasse, a crossroads at which they are both possibly transformed. But the conflict, the tension, is still there, to be delineated and devoured, whether raw or cooked, by anthropologists and artists and anyone who cares about life on earth. The mythic narrative about culture and nature in these works is about the ways humans have altered nature for our own purposes, and attempted to shape nature in our image. These three artists give us some fascinating examples of ways to grapple with it. Jacobs says: “I think of the idea of nature and culture as a construct. They are really one. I believe we create this binary model to make sense of the world and justify our actions. Although we apply this dualistic perspective to many ideas, I believe these borders are gradually being erased.” CW

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The Merry Widow Utah Opera: Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, Jan. 16, 18, 20 & 22, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday matinee, Jan. 24, 2 p.m., UtahOpera.org My Valley Fair Lady: Get Me to the Mall On Time! Desert Star Playhouse, 4861 S. State, Murray, 801-266-2600, through March 19, Monday & Wednesday-Friday, 7 p.m.; additional performance Friday, 9:30 p.m.; Saturday 11:30 a.m., 2:30, 6 & 8 p.m., no show Tuesday or Sunday, check website for holiday and specialevent schedule, DesertStar.biz The Nerd Hale Center Theater, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, 801-226-8600, through Feb. 6, Monday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 3 p.m., HaleCenter.org Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Empress Theatre, 9104 W. 2700 South, Magna, 801-3477373, through Jan. 30, Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m. check Website for special performances, EmpressTheatre.com Star Ward The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, Jan. 15-Feb. 20, Monday, Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; no performances Jan. 18 or Feb. 8-13; Saturday matinee Feb. 6, 2 p.m., TheOBT.org Two Dollar Bill Pioneer Theatre Co., 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6961, Jan. 15-30, PioneerTheatre.org Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike Wasatch Theatre Co., Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, through Jan. 30, Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m.; matinee Saturday, Jan. 23 & Jan. 30, 2 p.m., WasatchTheatre.org, see p. 26

KRCL “Music Meets Movies”: Lemmy When legendary band Motörhead cut short its performance at The Complex in August—with frontman Lemmy Kilmister citing both a bad back and problems breathing due to the altitude—there was no way of knowing that it would be the last time a Salt Lake City audience could ever see Lemmy perform. On Dec. 28, the singer passed away from cancer. Fortunately, in addition to all the music still left behind for fans, there’s another permanent record of Lemmy in all his mutton-chopped, Jack Daniels-chugging, chain-smoking glory. Greg Olliver and Wes Orshoski’s 2010 documentary Lemmy explores the life and legacy of the man, spanning his 40-plus year career and interviewing musicians like Slash, Dave Grohl, Henry Rollins and Mick Jones to capture his influence on—and maybe even creation of—heavy metal for generations to follow. Pay tribute to the majesty of Lemmy, and learn a few things you might never have known before. (Scott Renshaw) KRCL “Music Meets Movies”: Lemmy @ Brewvies, 677 S. 200 West, 801-355-5500, Jan. 14, 7:30 p.m., $10 or 2-for-1 with KRCL member card, 21+ only. Brewvies.com

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t goes without saying that there is no shortage of upscale, fine dining restaurant options in Park City. But, the high ticket prices common in a resort town don’t always reflect the quality of food. I won’t name names. However, I will call out the name of a Park City restaurant where the quality of food, service and ambiance does fit the bill: Tupelo. Tupelo was conceived by the husbandand-wife team of Matt Harris (chef/owner) and Maggie Alvarez (partner/“Tiger Mom”). They are ably assisted by a team of loyal, topnotch servers, managers, mixologists and a superb pastry chef, Shirley Butler. Many of the Tupelo crew worked with Harris and/ or Alvarez in the past, particularly at the St. Regis Deer Valley, where Harris was the executive chef who opened J&G Grill under the tutelage of Jean-Georges Vongerichten. Tupelo occupies the space that was formerly Silver. Do you remember it? Well, even if you do, forget it, because there is nary a shred of it left (including the actual silver veins that were part of the restaurant’s décor). Silver dazzled, but also, at times, disappointed. Nearly the antithesis of Silver, Tupelo sports a lot of warm wood and soft lighting, and it feels more like a comfortable, inviting restaurant than a nightclub; gone is the DJ that used to pound out music. For my money, Matt Harris has always been one of Utah’s most creative, yet most disciplined chefs. I loved his work at J&G, although he wasn’t really working with his own menu; it was primarily Vongerichten’s. At Tupelo, Harris and Alvarez have the freedom and fearlessness to create food that is truly vital and unique. They are setting a new standard for Park City diners. Why the name Tupelo? Well, Harris is a Southern boy, from Georgia. Tupelo trees, from which delicate Tupelo honey is produced, bloom for a “brief, spectacular moment,” according to the restaurant‘s website. Tupelo honey is rare, difficult to harvest and is “a labor of love,” says Harris. For him it’s an analogy to the “hyperlocal, small-scale production model that bees epitomize.” Like pollinators traveling from bloom to bloom, Harris and Alvarez have spent much of the past few years traveling the globe, which has inspired Tupelo’s cuisine.

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Matt Harris ($36) and a 12-ounce woodland buffalo ribeye ($44), to a 14-ounce wagyu strip loin ($84) that is tender and tasty, and everything a carnivore could ever wish for. I applaud any chef who puts rabbit on their menu; it’s a hard sell here. And, if there’s one dish above all others I’d recommend at Tupelo, it’s the pappardelle with rabbit ($28). Perfect homemade pasta is tossed with juicy morsels of braised rabbit, fried ham, kale, Pecorino cheese and a unique twist: crispy Brussels sprouts. It’s a delightful wintertime dish. I tend to eschew restaurant desserts because, more often than not, they are merely an afterthought. Not here, where even if you dine at a different restaurant, I highly recommend stopping in at Tupelo for one (or five) of Shirley Butler’s flawless desserts. I tasted an assortment and honestly don’t know which one to recommend highest. The pistachio pomegranate “bark” mousse made with Ritual chocolate ($10) is outstanding, but then so is the sticky toffee pudding ($10) with pecan-caramel sauce and Earl Grey bitters ice cream. Warm whiskey apple cake, too, is a stunner—with cumin-spiced caramel—but if push came to shove, I’d probably have to order the luscious lemon-ricotta cheesecake ($10) with a graham cracker and almond crust ($10). And, I’m not normally fond of cheesecake. Factor in a very smartly conceived selection of wine, beer and cocktails, plus some of the best service in town, and you’d have to say this new eatery is as sweet as, well, Tupelo honey. CW

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troll the Chilean wine aisle of your local wine shop, and you’ll find a variety there that you won’t see in most of the other sections of the store: Carménère. Although it’s considered one of the six original red grape varieties of Bordeaux, France—along with Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Malbec and Petit Verdot—Carménère is now a rarity in France. Not so in Chile, which today produces the vast majority of it available on the wine market. A while back, I picked up bottle of Glen Carlou Grand Classique ($17.95) from South Africa, not really knowing much about it, but always on the lookout for an

interesting wine bargain. When I opened it, I was surprised. Remember Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water”? This wine, I thought, is made for barbecues. It had a smoky fragrance and flavor that seems to be a match made in heaven for smoked meats, poultry and fish. However, this Glen Carlou is not considered Carménère. That’s why I was taken aback by the smokiness of the Glen Carlou: I’ve come to associate smoky flavors in wines mostly with the Carménère grape. And yet, there was no Carménère listed in the winemaker’s notes for the Glen Carlou, which is a blend of the aforementioned Bordeaux red grapes, minus Carménère. So, I was surprised not to find any Carménère in this smoky wine. Having said that, I’d estimate that something like one-third to one-half of all “big” red wine descriptions from wine writers say that the wine “contains a hint of smokiness,” or something along those lines (I’m guilty, too). There’s also typically a mention of spice, but that’s another story. Well, with many of the bigger and bolder reds, you certainly can detect a hint of smoke. But nowhere will you find it more frontand-center than with wine made from Carménère. The Carménère grape looks and tastes much like Merlot. And in Chile, the latter is often mistaken for the former. In fact, a DNA study of Chilean Merlot which was

DRINK completed in 1998 determined that 50 percent of what was thought to be a Merlot clone going into Chile’s Merlot wines was actually Carménère. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if that’s what happened with the Grand Classique—perhaps some of the “Merlot” in it is actually Carménère? Anyway, much of the Carménère you see today—it all but disappeared in France during the 1800s due to phylloxera—does come from Chile, where it’s been correctly identified. According to the late Bebe Hutter, former marketing manager for Baron Philippe de Rothschild, “Chile is trying to make of [Carménère] what New Zealand did with Sauvignon Blanc and Argentina did with Malbec.” So, Chile is the best place to get a handle on smoky, earthy, dark Carménère.

It’s not a wine for the timid. If you’re interested in trying some Carménère to see if you like it, the good news is that it can be fairly inexpensive. For $9.99 you can snag a bottle of Concha y Toro’s Carménère Casillero del Diablo, and Chilean winery Santa Rita has a Carménère called “120” that sells for $12.99. I’m a fan of Anderra Carménère ($10.99), and really love Montes Alpha Carménère ($22.95). But beware, because while good, ripe Carménère has that tinge of smoke that pairs so well with barbecue, underripe Carménère sort of has an icky vegetal greenpepper flavor that’s not so appealing. I suggest trolling your Chilean wine aisle and picking up a couple different Carménère to try out side-by-side. CW

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Why I want no part in the “Oscars conversation” BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

ight around the time the print issue of this paper hits the streets on Jan. 14, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce nominees for the 88th Academy Awards. I’m quite comfortable with the idea that those nominees have nothing to do with me. I risk treading into territory that’s pretty inside-baseball for most movie fans, and territory I’ve covered previously over the years. I’ve made peace with the Oscars as a part of the movie world that, if they’re ever actually about greatness, are about it incidentally. The correlation between Oscar nominees and my own favorites inspires a shrug more than a grumble. But in 2015, the matter became personal again. For several years, I’ve been a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, which selects the Critics’ Choice Awards. This year, members’ nominating ballots were due in early December, before any media would see the much anticipated Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens. When critics finally did see the movie, and it was generally well-received, BFCA leadership considered adding The Force Awakens to its already-announced list of 10 Best Picture nominees. The question posed to members, verbatim: “If you had seen The Force Awakens before casting your Critics’ Choice Awards ballot, would you have included it in your five choices for Best Picture?” On Dec. 22, the BFCA announced that The Force Awakens had been added as a Best Picture nominee. A few hours later, I resigned. That decision didn’t come impulsively. For a while, I’d been ambivalent about membership in the BFCA, partly as a result of expanded awards categories that felt designed more to draw eyeballs to an awards broadcast than to recognize greatness. Then the BFCA leadership sent out an email to members in December, attempting to address potential confusion over performances that could be identified either as lead or as supporting. While the message did offer common-sense suggestions like Rooney Mara as lead rather than supporting in Carol—she actually has more screen time than Cate Blanchett—it also said, “Traditionally, BFCA respects category assignments made by the studio.” Here’s the problem with that sentiment: The studios are often playing a game with category assignments, designed to improve

the odds of getting a nomination or win. BFCA members are, at least nominally, journalists. And the notion that those members would “respect category assignments made by the studio” even when they’re patently idiotic and self-serving—as happened when Rooney Mara was placed by the BFCA in the supporting category anyway for Carol—suggests either an icky coziness with the studio marketing system, or a lazy unwillingness to figure out what “lead” and “supporting” actually mean. This idea came further into focus when Variety writer Kris Tapley reported on communication he’d received from BFCA publicists, which focused on the Critics’ Choice Awards historical correlation to eventual Oscar nominees. The upshot of the information was that the Critics’ Choice Awards are important because they help predict Oscar picks. And that, dear friends, is where I head for the door. There’s nothing inherently compromised about movie critics’ groups giving out awards. Those groups often draw attention to movies that would otherwise be outside the typical awards conversation, as the Utah Film Critics Association—where I’m also a voting member—did in 2015 when they awarded Best Supporting Actress to Rose Byrne in Spy. They serve readers and movie-lovers by saying, “This is what we think excellence in cinema looks like.” That is all they should serve. While it may seem fair on the surface to allow a back door for a movie that couldn’t be seen by pre-set deadlines— and apparently had been allowed once previously, for Cast Away, in a year prior to my membership—the phrasing of the question to BFCA members stacked the deck in a bizarre way, since no other film

was required to be on a true majority of ballots in order to become a nominee. If a majority of BFCA members voted to include The Force Awakens, only one of three things could be true: 1. A majority of members actually thought The Force Awakens was one of the five best movies of the entire year; 2. They misunderstood the question; 3. They deliberately lied in order to make sure the year’s most popular film was nominated— and Star Wars fans might be more likely to watch. I really don’t want to believe that No. 3 is true; in a response to my resignation, BFCA president Joey Berlin wrote to me, “Dozens of members requested that we DO SOMETHING [his all-caps] to recognize The Force Awakens after they saw it because they believed it was one of the year’s best films. THAT was the primary motivation in doing this.” But the accumulated actions and statements of the BFCA and on its behalf suggested an interest in something besides journalistic integrity. They suggested a desire to be part of the bigger Oscars conversation, in a way that would increase its value as a brand. It should never be forgotten that the Academy Awards are recognitions that an industry gives to itself and, as such, are about showing the world a very specific image of that industry. There’s a difference—or there should be—between supporting the art of film, and supporting the film industry. So yeah, I’m OK with those who snicker at the idea that talk of “integrity” has any place in a conversation about picking a Best Picture. This critic’s choice happened to be ducking out of any attempt to be part of the “Oscars conversation.” Critics’ time, in general, might be better spent on conversations about movies themselves. CW

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FROM DUSK TILL DAWN At Brewvies, Jan. 18, 10 p.m. (R)

13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI [not yet reviewed] Director Michael Bay’s dramatization of the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. Opens Jan. 15 at theaters valleywide. (R)

LEMMY See p. 23. At Brewvies, Jan. 14, 7:30 p.m. (NR)

CURRENT RELEASES CAROL BBBB In adapting Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt, director Todd Haynes faces the challenge of conveying two people falling in love circa 1952, when both of them happen to be women: New York City department store employee Therese (Rooney Mara), and recently separated wife and mother Carol (Cate Blanchett). Haynes turns a car ride into a perfect impressionistic snapshot of emerging possibilities, built on the two terrific central performances. Phyllis Nagy’s screenplay also explores the limitations facing all women of the time and how hard it is to imagine being in a relationship with a woman, when being a woman generally meant being defined by a man. Carol risks turning into finger-wagging at those repressive 1950s, yet manages to build from that dreamy first moment of falling in love into the real-world power of being in love. (R)—SR THE FOREST BBB After a suicidal woman disappears into Japan’s notorious Aokigahara forest, her more sensible identical twin (Natalie Dormer, pulling double duty) treks in for the rescue, only to discover that the place’s reputation for angry ghosts is, if anything, a bit of a soft sell. A good setting can do wonders for a genre film, and director Jason Zada has landed a beaut here, with the location’s real-life tragic history lending a tangible weight to every eerie background glimpse and unaccountable rustle. While the film’s early tendency toward telegraphed jump scares does occasionally threaten to break the mood, there’s really a lot to like here, ranging from Dormer’s no-nonsense performance(s), some notably deranged work by the sound department, and a cleverly ambiguous resolution. (PG-13)—Andrew Wright

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RIDE ALONG 2 [not yet reviewed] The soon-to-be brothers-in-law (Kevin Hart and Ice Cube) re-unite to take down a drug dealer. Opens Jan. 15 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)

TROUBLEMAKERS: THE STORY OF LAND ART At Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Jan. 16, 7 p.m. (NR)

NORM OF THE NORTH [not yet reviewed] A polar bear (Rob Schneider) displaced from the Arctic makes his way to New York City. Opens Jan. 15 at theaters valleywide. (PG)

LE TABLEAU (THE PAINTING) At Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Jan. 17, 3 p.m. (NR)

MUSTANG BBB There’s one brilliant conceit at the heart of co-writer/director Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s drama, set in a seaside Turkish village where five orphaned sisters—ranging in age from pre-adolescent to late teens—are effectively imprisoned by the grandmother and uncles who are their guardians, primarily to preserve their virginity before marriage. That decision involves telling it largely from the point of view of Lale (Günes Sensoy), the youngest of the five sisters, who can’t yet grasp the reasons why being a girl means that she needs to be isolated. And that turns it into a pretty powerful case study in how defining females entirely though their status as potentially desirable (read: chaste) wife simultaneously forces them to grow up too quickly, and refuses to let them be autonomous adults. Yet there’s also one really misguided decision involving one of Mustang’s supporting characters. It’s effective enough to craft a narrative in which the prison that this culture builds for its girls also ends up being what empowers them to escape; there’s no need to create an actual villain when the social structure itself is a monster. Opens Jan. 15 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—SR

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IN JACKSON HEIGHTS BBB.5 Frederick Wiseman has spent his 50-year career as a documentary filmmaker largely covering the fascinating way that institutions function, whether those institutions are governmental, artistic or commercial. It’s intriguing to think of In Jackson Heights as a portrait of the urban American neighborhood as an institution, but one that teeters on the brink of extinction. Over the course of the summer of 2014, Wiseman observes the ethnic, religious and philosophical diversity that makes this Queens enclave so unique, peering into local restaurants, social gatherings and even religious services with his trademark matter-of-fact clarity. But he also captures a community of activists, people who join together to work against injustice, whether that injustice involves transgender people being denied service or business owners trying to understand the gentrification process that might force them out. Few individuals—aside from Jackson Heights’ councilman Danny Dromm—become recurring characters over the course of three hours, but the breadth of Wiseman’s canvas is a huge part of its appeal. In an America where some factions fear heterogeneity, here’s a case study in a place that flourishes because its cultural “melting pot” refuses to melt. Opens Jan. 15 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—Scott Renshaw

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CINEMA CLIPS THE REVENANT BB.5 Something as ephemeral as a breath becomes the indicator of what Alejandro G. Iñárritu gets wrong in his loosely fact-based story of Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio), a guide for an early 19thcentury fur-trapping operation who finds himself alone and mortally injured in the winter wilderness. Iñárritu has plenty of skills at crafting fascinating visuals—like the hard-to-watch bear attack that cripples Glass—and DiCaprio’s largely wordless performance transcends the ubiquitous media focus on the physical hardships he endured. The trouble comes when the two-and-a-half-hour film starts to become simply exhausting—and when we start to see a character’s breath condensed on the camera lens. As infatuated as Iñárritu seems to be with making sure audiences appreciate the gritty realism, he also wants to make sure they know he’s there behind the camera—and he can’t have it both ways. (R)—SR

STAR WARS: EPISODE VII —THE FORCE AWAKENS BBB Co-writer/director J.J. Abrams gets those of us who grew up with Star Wars as our defining childhood movie-going experience. Maybe he gets us a little too well. Because Abrams and his team have crafted a structure so deeply indebted to the original Star Wars that it’s almost audacious. He brings in a new generation of compelling characters to take the torch from returning characters like Harrison Ford’s Han Solo, and he grasps that an old-school hero-quest narrative is considerably more viscerally satisfying than galactic trade disputes. But it’s also hard to shake off the seemingly non-stop parade of callbacks to the original trilogy. For my generation, childhood memories were formed because Star Wars created something. The Force Awakens, for all its charms and virtues, tries to re-create something. (PG-13)—SR

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Series Debut: There was absolutely no need or demand for a realit y series centered around fitness magnate Jillian Michaels, her partner and their kids, but that’s the genre E! is doubling-down on in 2016: inconsequential f luff posing as important stuff. They’re lesbians! They’re parents! They’re as spontaneously wack y as the next tightly scripted family with a T V crew! Who cares? Do we really need another one of these shows? While Just Jillian is blissfully free of Kardashians, and certainly less dangerous to the health of T V ’Merica than The Biggest Loser, it’s just as empt y and useless as the other lesbian E! series that precedes it, Total Divas. Wait … the Divas aren’t lesbians? Then what’s the point of that show? I’m so lost without The Soup …

Idiotsitter Thursday, Jan. 14 (Comedy Central)

Series Debut: An unemployed Iv y Leaguer (Charlotte Newhouse) breaks down and takes a babysitting job— but the “baby” turns out to be an adult wild-child heiress (Jillian Bell) under house arrest in her parents’ (Stephen Root and Jennifer Elise Cox) mansion. It only sounds like a super-niche web series because it was: Bell and Newhouse originally created Idiotsitter for Comedy Central’s digital CC: Studios in 2014. It doesn’t arrive as fully realized as fellow web expat Broad City once did, but Idiotsitter is probably the best comedic

Colony (USA) companion that the equally juvenile Workaholics (which drops Season 6 right before it) has ever had.

Billions Sunday, Jan. 17 (Showtime)

Series Debut: Headliners Damian Lewis (as charismatic and arrogant hedge fund billionaire Bobby “A xe” A xelrod) and Paul Giamatti (as principled and troubled U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades) churn plenty of bluster and testosterone Acting! As! Hard! as they can against each other, but they’re not Billions’ most interesting players. Maggie Siff, who’s held her own alongside alpha males before in Sons of Anarchy and Mad Men, plays Chuck’s wife, Wendy, a psychiatrist-turned-performance-coach who helped Bobby build his empire and has an invisible, spook y command over everyone around her, could lead this series on her own. Likewise, Malin Akerman, as Bobby’s wife, Lara, turns in a surprising performance that flips from sweet to Satan Incarnate with the bat of an eye. The heart of Billions is the righteous, macho clash between the men, and how their dichotomous personalities (Bobby may not actually be a bad guy, while Chuck sometimes comes off like a supervillain with kink y sex habits) fuel the fire, but keep an eye on the women. Listen to Bill on Mondays at 8 a.m. on X96 Radio From Hell; weekly on the T V Tan podcast via iTunes and Stitcher.

Series Debut: Despite a confusing rollout plan (a 10-episode Season 1 marathon that premieres tonight, then repeats for 20 hours, followed by Season 2, premiering Jan. 25), not to mention confusing-er commercials that portray the comedy as a dead-serious crime procedural, Angie Tribeca is the original series that finally delivers on TBS’ ancient “Very Funny” promise (OK, new series—Conan and American Dad were technically hand-me-downs). Unlike relatively realistic cop comedies Brooklyn Nine-Nine and CSI: Cyber, Angie Tribeca (starring Parks & Recreation’s Rashida Jones as the titular detective) embraces the full-tilt farce of ’80s classics like The Naked Gun and Sledge Hammer!, where nothing’s ever too silly (she works for the Really Heinous Crimes Unit, and her partner is named Jay Geils, another sly ’80s reference). Another Angie Tribeca victory for comedy: TBS’ marathon will displace more than a few Big Bang Theory reruns.

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n his DVD, Live at Ground Zero Blues Club (MVD, 2007), Bobby Rush looks like a televangelist and maybe a pimp—and he has the flash and fire of both. His sequined shirt flickers in the lights. His dark, wavy hair glistens with activator. His face, alternately intense and bright, drips with sweat. Behind him, the Bobby Rush Band is stoic (except for the keyboard player, a token white guy who looks like a cross bet ween The Muppet Show’s Dr. Teeth and the guy from the Trans-Siberian Orchestra), laying down fat, funk y grooves. He’s f lanked by four young women whose tight, revealing dresses cling to their ample behinds. They bump, grind and t werk as Rush prowls the stage, occasionally stopping to knock his knees together—or sing directly to one of the dancers’ backsides. When Rush sings, he’s preaching the good word of blues and big booties. You wanna jump up and shout amens and hallelujahs because he knows your sorrows, he knows your joys. And, you know, booty. So, in 2011, when I found out that Bobby Rush would headline a Mississippi blues showcase during South by Southwest—and it was on the top floor of my hotel—I was stoked. But when I got to the show, and settled into a great seat on the second row, I noticed no band had set up. And when Rush took the stage, which was actually a dance floor, he was alone. His hair wasn’t shiny. There wasn’t even a tenderoni backline. Didn’t matter. All alone with only his music and stories, Rush communed with the crowd for the duration of his lean, 40-minute set. At the end, he thanked one wheelchair-bound member of the audience for attending: his friend, Mr. Pinetop Perkins. “That was the last time I saw him,” says Rush, reached while awaiting his turn at the ophthalmologist’s office. The 97-year-old blues legend told Rush at the end of his set: “I love you, little brother.” Within 48 hours, Perkins was gone. Rush, now 82, is a legend, himself, with a long career that has taken him from his birthplace of Homer, La., through Pine Bluff, Ark., and Chicago, Ill., before he finally settled in Jackson, Miss., a bona fide king of the Chitlin’ Circuit. He was a peer of not just Perkins, but also Elmore James, Muddy Waters and virtually every other noteworthy bluesman. But he carved his own niche with his funky soul-blues, in which he often gets down and dirty. “Being independent, it didn’t put me in the light, like a B.B. King or a Buddy Guy, or what have you,” Rush tells City Weekly. “I got a little bit of the short end of the stick, but nevertheless, when you’re independent, you look for those kinds of things [to set you apart]. Because I don’t have the big corporation, the big managers and the big record labels to put me out there and do things for me. But I survived tough times. And here I am, done what I’ve done, and I’m still doin’ it.”

Bobby Rush The four-disc box set Chicken Heads: A 50-Year History of Bobby Rush (Omnivore) chronicles five decades of Rush’s career, with material from more than 20 labels. It shows that there’s more to Rush than the humorous, libido-driven songs like the title track and “I Wanna Do the Do.” He does a tender cover of Willie Nelson’s “Always on My Mind” and actually keeps it country instead of funkin’ it up. And in “She Put the Whammy on Me,” Rush juxtaposes straight-up blues lyrics with a whompin’ groove worthy of Funkadelic. But some of the most enjoyable tracks are the ones where Rush goes blue. The thing about that, though, is that Rush’s raunch is sincere, and stylish. On “Night Fishin’” he lets you read into the lyrics: “I’m goin’ night fishin’/ that’s when the catfish love to bite.” When he’s singing to that badonk on “Crazy ’Bout You,” crowing, “I looove this woman,” he’s expressing his affection for said woman as well as how much he’d like to wax that ass. Other times, a seemingly dirty reference, isn’t. Like on “Tough Titty,” where Rush catches his woman with his best friend and says, “That’s a tough titty, y’all/ and can’t nothin’ suck it but a lion.” That’s just blues music— empathetic, honest and fun. “That’s what the music is all about,” Rush says. “You know, when you’re entertainin’—when you’re singin’, that’s one thing. And havin’ a show is another thing. And I try to have a show, I try to make it fun, because there’s too many things, before the show and after the show, that you can worry about and have bad days about. But I try to make you forget about some of those.” As for the dirty stuff? “There’s nothin’ wrong with that. Everybody like that, man.” CW

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Salt Lake City soft rockers return, showing off a new concept album, Byzantium. BY GAVIN SHEEHAN comments@cityweekly.net @gavinsundrgrnd

t’s taken two-and-a-half years for the members of Your Meteor to finalize their second album, Byzantium. But the wait may be well worth it, as they embark on a musical journey only a few local bands have taken in the past decade: creating a concept album. The current lineup of the band formed at the start of 2011, as Andrew Goldring (Great Interstate) caught Thomas Jacques (Red Tape) and Zeke Hartmann playing coffee shop gigs in Sugar House. The duo had been writing music together since junior high, and were essentially playing random shows and experimenting with their sound. Goldring reached out to Jacques through Facebook and quickly bonded, which led to him join the band. Over the next year, the group played all-ages shows with various other members, including a stint with Stuart Gardner as their drummer, but all agreed that things gelled best when the band became a trio. They hit the studio and recorded their debut album, The Retroscope, which came out in June 2012 to a huge reception. The band hadn’t promoted the project or the release, so it came as a great surprise to see Jed’s Barber Shop packed for a release show, which led to regular airplay on KRCL and festival appearances. The group followed up the album with a quick single later that same summer, but fizzled out near the start of 2013. “Since we didn’t have a full-time live drummer, we kind of just holed up in the studio and kept writing and demoing new ideas,” Goldring says. “We didn’t play live much at all for probably a year or more, ’cause we just didn’t really have what we needed to put on a good show.” Before the fizzle began, Jacques started to lay the groundwork for what would eventually become Byzantium. The structure of the album required them to take time off before heading back into the studio, a feat few

Your Meteor Utah-based artists have attempted in recent years. More than a year was spent developing the characters and plot structure, and figuring out what the whole story meant. Working in Goldring’s Soundcave Productions studio in February 2014, the process itself became a massive undertaking, with Your Meteor spending 14 months fine-tuning every song. Once recording was finally finished, the band turned to Kickstarter to help fund the finalization and pressing of the vinyl copies. “We all tend to be perfectionists in the studio,” Goldring says. “Getting everything just the way we wanted took a lot of time. Vocals were especially a challenge, since we do everything the old school way without any Auto-Tune, and there are a lot of three-part harmonies that had to be as perfect as we could get them. We even tracked some of the vocal parts live together so that we could get a more natural feeling.” Byzantium is an interesting mix of late’80s alternative, conceptual-indie themes and hints of jazz, all melted into a solid storyline that is both harmonious and melodic. It’s as if a small town tucked away in the hills had its own soundtrack, recounting the days that have passed by and the tales woven into its streets by the people who lived there. There are bouncy tracks like “Biggest Bang,” groovy beats like “Pacify” and folkdriven tunes like “Gordian Knot.” The story itself will leave many to ponder its meaning, and give dedicated fans much to speculate about regarding its thematic subtext. Moving forward, the band members are working to create a five-person lineup with live keys and drums, and also have plans for a punk EP. Ultimately, the focus is to see what the public thinks of their creation. “I’m curious to see how people respond to the show and the album,” Goldring says. “So far, the people we have shown it to have really enjoyed it, so hopefully that will open some more opportunities for us as a band.” CW

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SLUG magazine has been presenting the Localized local band showcase at Urban Lounge since it seems like forever, and its first offering of 2016 aims to break through the haze of the annual climatic inversion with the musical equivalent of sunshine: reggae. It’s not the first thing that comes to mind genre-wise in local music, but three local outfits fill the bill. Herban Empire is the one most purely situated in the upbeat, reverb-infused style, although they term themselves “altreggae.” The guitar work of Andrew Cole and Adam Lenkowski comes more to the forefront to accent their vocals than the traditionally minimalist, rhythm-guitar scratches of reggae, as you might expect given their favor for bands like Slightly Stoopid, 311 and Sublime. The Tribe of I fuses reggae with hip-hop and jazz, and Wasnatch is the musical wild card of the three, with a formidable horn section that utilizes elements of reggae’s stylistic predecessors—rocksteady and ska—but is always ready to veer off into whatever jazz/funk/punk detour the rhythm section might lead. And the cover of their 2013 album Front to Back gives new meaning to the word “horny.” (BS) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., free, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

SATURDAY 1.16 Wing & Claw

James Miska has his own way of doing things. In 2010, with his last band, Bramble, he busked on snowy Main Street in Park City during the Sundance Film Festival. In October of that same year, he toured the East Coast on a bicycle, riding

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65-70 miles daily while towing his gear. Now, with his new Americana duo, Wing & Claw, Miska hosts “summertime guerilla shows in secret downtown locales.” Saturday’s gig, while no secret, is at a barbershop. Usually, when a band goes to ostensibly gimmicky lengths, it’s a red flag. Occasionally, as with Miska, it’s just a sign of creativity. A better indicator, though, would be the spare, stunning songs on W&C’s eponymous debut LP, which you can hear now at WingandClaw.Bandcamp.com, and grab tonight for cheap. (RH) Stefahn’s Barber Shop, 409 N. 300 West, 7 p.m., $5 (admission only), $10 (admission plus download code), $12-15 (admission plus vinyl LP and download), Facebook.com/ WingAndClawMusic

Cas Haley

Thirty-five-year old Paris, Texas, native singer/guitarist Cas Haley was the runnerup on TV show America’s Got Talent during its second season in 2007. The year after that, his self-titled debut reached No. 2 on Billboard’s reggae charts, and its 2010 follow-up, Connection (Easy Star), did the same, but 2013’s La Si Dah did not chart. All of this is fairly runof-the-mill in terms of musician tribulations, but after a 2014 skiing accident in which he temporarily lost his voice, his outlook on music and life was transformed. Last year, voice regained, he recorded his newest set, More Music,

Herban Empire More Family at Steelgrass Farm in Kauai, Hawaii, crowd-funded on PledgeMusic and released last November on Jimmy Buffett’s Mailboat Records. The release adds a touch of island music to Haley’s sound, which always included some Texas blues and soul, and features a guest appearance from the Beach Boys’ Mike Love. Also on the bill are Emily Bea, a 20-year-old Salt Lake City singer/songwriter; Layton guitarist and tunesmith Kyle Linder, and Provo indie-folk quartet Cephas. (BS) Kilby Court, 741 S. 330 West, 7 p.m., $13 in advance, $15 day of show, KilbyCourt.com

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Everyone, at some point, has heard Todd Rundgren’s 1972 hit, “Hello It’s Me,” because it has a way of popping up on department store overhead music. But Rundgren’s no one-hitter: His curriculum vitae is lengthy and far-reaching, covering garage rock (Nazz, who originally recorded “Hello It’s Me” in the late ‘60s), prog rock (with Utopia), power pop and new wave (when he replaced Ric Ocasek in The New Cars). He even has two more hits you might know: “I Saw the Light” (1972) and “Bang the Drum All Day” (1983), and has continued to put out critically-acclaimed solo albums—including last year’s Global. This, while still forming new projects such as the highly experimental Runddans, a 39-minute song divided into 12 parts and four album sides. Expect this careerspanning show to be meaty and satisfying, with accompanying eye candy. (RH) The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 8 p.m., $30 in advance, $34 day of show, DepotSLC.com

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Munsters, but Bat Manors is one of the latest entrants in Utah County’s push to rival Portland, Ore., as a center for the folkcore scene. What’s folk-core? It’s a genre that seems to draw a lot of disparate adherents under its tent, the common denominator being a kind of acoustic music based on elements of traditional folk, but emphatically more rough-edged; some participants even veer towards the folk-punk of bands like The Pogues. In the case of Bat Manors, their “-core” is an introspective look at the spirituality of vocalist/main songwriter Adam Klopp. The band has had a rotating cast of characters in its three-year life span, but has inched its way from noisier beginnings to a light chamber pop that is quite beguiling, and finds your ear entranced. P.S. Their website BatManors.com is like the ‘90s Internet came back just to give out epileptic seizures, in 256 colors. Much better is their Bandcamp page, BatManors. Bandcamp.com, where you can take a listen to their 2015 LP Literally Weird (Bleed 101 Records), whose artwork is literally that, a sight (and sound) to behold. With Strong Words, No Sun, Tess Conrie. (BS) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., free, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

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As the main man behind ‘70s classic rockers Grand Funk Railroad, Mark Farner is responsible for some incredible music. Perhaps the greatest acknowledgement of this is when Farner’s old band was immortalized in an episode of The Simpsons. “You kids don’t know Grand Funk?,” Homer asked Bart and Lisa incredulously. “The wild, shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner? The bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher? The competent drum work of Don Brewer?” His incredulousness is justified, when you consider some of those classic songs he’s given us, like the inspirational “I’m Your Captain (Closer to Home),” the joyous “Some Kind of Wonderful,” and “We’re an American Band,” the only patriotic song that has a shout-out to a groupie. God Bless Sweet Connie Hamzy! (Randy Harward) The Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St. (Park City), 8 p.m., $29-55, EgyptianTheatreCompany.org

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): You love autonomy. You specialize in getting the freedom and sovereignty you require. You are naturally skilled at securing your independence from influences that might constrain your imagination and limit your self-expression. But here’s a sticking point: If you want the power to help shape group processes, you must give up some of your autonomy. In order to motivate allies to work toward shared goals, you need to practice the art of interdependence. The next test of your ability to do this is coming right up. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Nothing is really work unless you’d rather be doing something else.” So said Taurus writer James M. Barrie (1860-1937), who created the Peter Pan stories. Your challenge and invitation in the coming months is to increase the amount of time you spend that does not qualify as work. In fact, why don’t you see how much and how often you can indulge in outright play? There’ll be no better way to attract grace and generate good fortune. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here’s my proposal: Get in touch with your madness. And don’t tell me you have no madness. We all do. But listen: When I use the word “madness,” I don’t mean howling rage, hurtful lunacy or out-of-control misbehavior. I’m calling on the experimental part of you that isn’t always polite and reasonable; the exuberant rebel who is attracted to wild truths rather than calming lies; the imaginative seeker who pines for adventures on the frontiers of your understanding. Now is an excellent time to tap into your inner maverick.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I love kissing,” testifies singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens. “If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because there’s no end to it. You can kiss forever. You can kiss yourself into oblivion. You can kiss all over the body. You can kiss yourself to sleep.” I invite you to temporarily adopt this expansive obsession, Libra. The astrological omens suggest that you need more sweet, slippery, sensual, tender interaction than usual. Why? Because it will unleash sweet, slippery, sensual, tender emotions and sweet, slippery, sensual, tender thoughts—all of which will awaken a surge of dormant creativity, which you also need very much. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Everything has been said before,” said French author André Gide, “but since nobody listens, we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.” I am happy to inform you that you’re about to be temporarily exempt from this cynical formulation. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will be able to drive home certain points that you have been trying to make over and over again for quite a while. The people who most need to hear them will finally be able to register your meaning. (P.S. This breakthrough will generate optimal results if you don’t gloat. Be grateful and understated.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Good news: Your eagerness to think big is one of your superpowers. Bad news: It’s also one of your liabilities. Although it enables you to see how everything fits together, it may cause you to overlook details about what’s undermining you. Good news: Your capacity for intense empathy is a healing balm for both others and yourself. At least potentially, it means you can be a genius of intimacy. Bad news: Your intense empathy can make you fall prey to the emotional manipulation of people with whom you empathize. Good news: Your willingness to explore darkness is what makes your intelligence so profound. Bad news: But that’s also why you have to wrestle so fiercely with fear. Good news: In the next four weeks, the positive aspects of all the above qualities will be ascendant.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Fate has transformed a part of your life that you didn’t feel ready to have transformed. I won’t offer my condolences, though, because I’ve guessed a secret that you don’t know about yet. The mythic fact, as I see it, is that whatever you imagine you have had to let go of will ultimately come back to you in a revised and revivified form—maybe sooner than you think. Endings and beginnings are weaving their mysteries together in unforeseen ways. Be receptive to enigmatic surprises.

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