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LETTERS What’s Being Done to Stop Bullying?

When I was growing up in the public school system, nothing was tolerated. When something happened between the children, it was dealt with by the staff. The punishment was stern and you learned your lesson. Today, it is OK for children to emotionally, physically and mentally abuse other children, mine being two of them. I have spent more time in the principal’s office as an adult than I ever did as a child. I advocate for my children, I speak professionally, I speak emotionally. I have yelled, and I have even cried when it got really bad. My child attempted suicide at the age of 10 because the abuse got so bad at school. She was kicked in the face, her glasses were broken; she was pinched and she had her hair pulled. It wasn’t until her failed attempt at suicide that one of her bullies was suspended. I don’t think the school system handles bullying with stern discipline. It is not OK that school-system employees and the principal would rather treat students as friends instead of being the disciplinary adults. So I ask: Who is going to protect my children when the bullies have learned it is OK to be a bully, when I am not there to wrap them tightly in a bubble to make sure they are unharmed on a given school day? Who? The public reached out to help Mark Ryan and Kreg Christensen throw a community event called Ogden FreeVent on Aug. 15, 2015, to raise awareness of bullying and suicide on behalf of my child and another who had taken his life because he was bullied. If the community can come together to help a child, why

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You Should Hunt

I am against personal-carry weapons [“Biting the Bullet,” Jan. 14, City Weekly]. In the hands of the untrained, undisciplined masses, personal-carry weapons can only be a powder keg near an open flame. I cannot disprove the arguments for owning a firearm for personal protection. They are largely sound arguments, as are the arguments against it. Growing up a Montanan, I learned an old way of thinking about guns. They are dangerous tools for a deadly trade. My family traditionally uses guns for hunting. It’s an incredibly peaceful experience, most of the time—a long, quiet walk in the mountains, alone, with nothing but your wandering thoughts for company. We have a saying, “It is all fun and games until you shoot something. Then, it’s a lot of work.” I own a couple modest rifles, weapons that I practice with to make sure I am good enough for the occasion when I use one. Listen carefully to veterans. It is a lot of work to keep up

such a deadly skill, and to carry in public is an enormous responsibility and commitment. Perhaps, before making a decision about carrying, hunt. The hike, I find, gives me clarity on what is more and less important. The weight of a rifle over your shoulder along with the grave, deadly intent to use it will leave an impression on you before carrying in society. More important than any training or loathsome necessity, it is real, and time will be on your side when the moment to act is at hand. Where micro seconds count in combat, with hunting, you have minutes, sometimes hours—time to take full stock of your decision, the life in your hands, and the life around you. Hunting gives you the luxury to be sure of everything and not rush to make the decision right for you. And if your long walk with a gun ends in a hunt, you will know yourself better. Before making any decision whether to carry a gun, you need that experience to know yourself.

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Which Way Gateway

When the Gateway outdoor mall project was announced in the 1990s, nearly everyone was taken by surprise. Salt Lakers thus quickly took up a new sport: public outrage and criticism, especially since a goodly portion of the announced construction was to be paid for with public money. Everyone had a guess for how it came to be, such as: thenSalt Lake City Mayor Deedee Corradini being in the pocket of developers, that said developers were in the pocket of the LDS Church, that the LDS Church wanted to kill Main Street and keep it for itself (including the reinvention of its own downtown ZCMI Center mall), and so on. Everyone had a theory, because the suddenness of the decision was, well, sudden. Few saw it coming. While it was obvious that the city’s near west side was ripe for development, when the plans for Gateway were splashed about, the resounding feedback was, “You want to build an outdoor mall in Salt Lake City and you want it where?” The answer to the first question returned as “Yes, we can build a successful outdoor mall” (ahh, recall the cheerleading?). The denizens of downtown’s two existing malls (Crossroads Plaza Shopping Center and the ZCMI Center) plus what remained of the skeletal retail base on Main Street remained skeptical. All those retailers and business owners formed the basis of public concern. Those fears were somewhat allayed when it was revealed that The Gateway wouldn’t steal merchants from those malls or Main Street, an argument reversed a decade later when the builders of the City Creek Center promised not to poach Gateway merchants into their new space. Such promises were easily and quickly broken and cut both ways. The new City Creek got the Apple store. Years earlier, The Salt Lake Tribune sold its historic building on Main Street and left for a stucco rental office at Gateway. If

that doesn’t say “we’re connected to our community,” nothing does. I remember former Tribune publisher Dean Singleton promising Salt Lakers that, not to fear, the paper that meant so much to our community would hoist up a sign so large that everyone for miles around could see it, especially those drivers on Interstate 15. He actually said that. Well, try to find the sign. Dick’s Sporting Goods has a larger sign. Now, with the recently announced sale of The Gateway once again, we all get to start over and have the same debate as we’ve had the past couple of decades: What should our city core become— wherever it is—and what can we really do about our west side? Besides attracting the ever-elusive retail mix that lures savvy shoppers, the new owners plan to recast the Gateway as an entertainment and dining district. That seems pretty wise since The Depot is already there and has been since Day 1. The building formerly known as the Delta Center is right across the street. The ever-popular Wiseguys Comedy Club recently returned to downtown Salt Lake City, taking up residence at The Gateway and is already bringing life back to the neighborhood. There are the cinemas. New housing and other development may come. And therein lies the rub. If you look out one side of a Trax train riding along 200 South you see modern stores and shops of The Gateway. If you look out the other, you see the homeless shelters. Guess which side of the street has more foot traffic? Since the dawn of this city, the homeless, the less fortunate, those some would coldly deem “less desirable,” have been skirted to the west side. As in many cities, part of that was due to the proximity of a railway station and we have two: the Rio Grande and Union Depot. The area, a bona fide railroad district, was already a natural hub for persons

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seeking food, shelter, warmth and companionship (either at an illegal gambling table or in the arms of a paid paramour). Add in that Pioneer Park is nearby, and you have a full-blown neighborhood, but one built on homeless amenities, not hair salons. Through years of new construction, from the gentrification of old warehouses into businesses and residences, the homeless have been the solitary constant. Merchants and residents have come and gone, especially along the once busy 200 South, but the homeless remain. Even a casual observer would quickly note that there are more disenfranchised people in that area than ever. I hope that’s not true, but it probably is. Or maybe they’re being squeezed into a smaller, more visible corner. But, I do remember that corridor 20 years ago and longer, and there’s no doubt in my mind we have all failed more than once. We’ve icily deluded ourselves into thinking none of us could ever end up among the displaced. Yet, we can, and we do. We hold onto the notion that segregating “them” from “us” somehow makes “the problem” go away. It doesn’t—if the shelters are moved farther west (someone has suggested relocation way out there, past the airport and new prison—Jeezus, Gawd!), the city’s white-collar druggies will simply put more mileage on their BMWs. But this is not simply a west side issue— ask anyone on Main Street if they are not also affected. It’s a political hotbox that bounces from mayor to council and back again. Former Mayor Becker is rumored to be off casting in the Broadway remake of Breaking Away, and he never paid attention to the west side, anyway. Now it’s up to Mayor Biskupski to do—or at least attempt to do—what the city has failed miserably at thus far: Deciding which side of the street to party on and making a real go of it. CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net

WE’VE ICILY DELUDED OURSELVES INTO THINKING NONE OF US COULD EVER END UP AMONG THE DISPLACED.

What advice do you have for the new owners of The Gateway mall? Paula Saltas: Please keep your shops open on Sunday—unlike City Creek Center.

Scott Renshaw: Don’t get accustomed to using the escalators. Randy Harward: If you don’t pay attention to the ghosts, they’ll go away. Also, jiggle the handle on the toilets.

Enrique Limón: Consider adding a 7-Eleven and a second Starbucks. There aren’t enough of either in this city. Nicole Enright: Put a dollar movie theater in there and some event venues. That is most likely what will work for ya.

Jeff Chipian: If whatever you are planning doesn’t involve fireworks, live animals, music and a butt load of alcohol ... then it might not work.

Colby Frazier: Good luck! Even in chain store-loving Utah there is a limit to the tonnage of homogenous, poorly made and overpriced garbage that can be consumed in a single city.

Mason Rodrickc: If every store is an Orange Julius, I’ll come back more. Also, trampoline walkways. Trampoline walkways. Trampoline walkways. Andrea Harvey: Some outdoor heaters would be nice. It’s too cold to shop there in the winter!

Derek Carlisle: A wine bar. I want that whole place to be an adult play party.

Jeremiah Smith: Allow all the empty shops to become temporary emergency shelters for the homeless. They basically live there anyway, so get ’em out of the cold.

Andy Sutcliffe: Advertise heavily in City Weekly to bring in Sunday shoppers.

Jerre Wroble: Be an antidote to crass consumerism. And lose the beige.

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Running With Scissors

Why is running with scissors considered so dangerous that moms everywhere chastise their kids for doing it? It seems to me like a pretty oblique way to hurt yourself. Shouldn’t they be telling clumsy kids to tie their shoelaces and sheathe their machetes instead? Are there any actual reports of people falling on scissors? —Tyler

s a rule of thumb, Tyler, for any question of the form “Has anyone ever managed to sustain a significant head injury while [insert name of activity]?” the answer is almost always yes. I’ll refer you to a story from Mississippi earlier this year in which a guy was mowing his lawn when the mower blade launched a three-and-a-half-inch length of heavygauge fence wire straight up his nose and into his sinuses. He was fine, somehow, but I think you’ll find the takeaway from this week’s column to be: From a purely safeside standpoint, most human behavior is probably best conducted while wearing protective eyewear, if not a full face mask. So, running with scissors: Sure, suitably cautionary real-life tales are out there. A quick search soon turns up the recent case of a scissors-wielding 3-year-old Australian boy who tripped and fell while running, thereby introducing the blades into his frontal lobe via the left eye socket. (He, too, pulled through OK.) One small latter-day Phineas Gage isn’t much of a sample size, admittedly. We therefore turn to the data. The National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), a project of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, estimates consumer-productrelated injuries by sampling emergency visits to hospitals across the country; in other words, it won’t give us a comprehensive report of all such incidents, but rather a snapshot of what they look like as reported by NEISS-sampled hospitals and thus a decent idea of the rate at which they occur in the larger population. For 2014, my assistant Fierra found 678 NEISS injury records in which scissors factored somehow. Mind you, these include the gamut: stabbings with scissors, suicides with scissors—even, in theory, walking with scissors. Refining her search to cases where the injured party was rapidly on the move, Fierra found exactly three instances last year: n A 23-year-old man fell while running with scissors, lacerating his forearm. n A 2-year-old girl fell while running with scissors, lacerating her face. n Running outdoors, a 10-year-old boy fell on a pair of gardening scissors, injuring his elbow. (This one’s an uneasy fit, I think; the gardener’s at least as culpable as the boy.) On average, between 2009 and 2014, NEISS collected 3.6 reports per year involving RWS

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injuries. Of these, 14 befell children under the age of 17; two of four incidents involving people 17 and older had something to do with alcohol. Extrapolating, we can estimate the average number of RWS incidents in the U.S. over the past five years as 131 annually. No fatalities were located. Broadening our inquiry, we find a clear pattern—no matter what activity the victim was engaged in (locomotor or otherwise, at high speed or low), the eye was definitely at particular risk: n A study conducted at a hospital in Verona, Italy, found that scissors were the most common cause of eye injury—13 percent—for children age 6 and younger. n In Turkey and Canada both, research suggests that scissors are responsible for around a 10th of all eye injuries. n Statistics from a hospital in Taiwan implicated scissors in nearly 14 percent of eye injuries. They seem to be doing a little better in Qatar, where five years’ worth of records from one hospital suggest that their national rate of pediatric eye injuries from scissors is only about 3 percent—tied for prevalence with palm trees. As I say, people will ably hurt themselves with whatever’s at hand: Fierra also, for example, dug up a rather gruesome case study out of Japan about a 4-year-old boy who suffered a penetrating head injury (again, via the eye socket) after falling on a wooden chopstick. Maybe it’s just the season, but to my mind the question that logically follows from this one is, with respect to the classic film A Christmas Story: Can you really shoot your eye out with a BB gun, Red Rider or otherwise? Well, you can certainly shoot out somebody else’s. Way back in the early 1990s, the CDC was reporting about 30,000 incidents a year of eye trauma by way of BB or pellet guns. Twenty years later, the technology’s evolved but the threat remains: Rates of eye injury from newly popular airsoft guns (convincing-looking replicas that fire spherical plastic bullets) grew 500 percent from 2010 to 2012, according to a study from Stanford University School of Medicine; in 2012 alone, more than 3,000 kids were treated in emergency rooms for eye injuries related to airsoft guns. I haven’t been able to find anything on toy-gun injuries that were accidentally selfinflicted, as in the movie: It’s safe to say that most of the danger comes from others. CW

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BALLOT RECOGNIZING THE FINEST IN UTAH’S MUSIC SCENE.

You’ll notice a few changes to Best of Utah Music 2016 competition. This year, the voting will be done entirely online (with no showcases as we have done in the past).Winners’ names will be published in the March 3 City Weekly, after which, City Weekly will host a grand winners’ party. Also, three of the winners will be invited to open a show at the Twilight Concert Series next summer. So, if you love local music, go online now, research the nominees, and vote for your favorites.

BEST ROCK ARTIST

The Lovestrange Candy’s River House Top Dead Celebrity The Weekenders Foster Body

BEST METAL ARTIST

Visigoth The Ditch and the Delta Die Off Baby Gurl Hard Men

Crook & the Bluff Tavaputs Isaac Russell Mad Max & the Wild Ones

Colt .46 Gina Jones J.J. Jennings

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Canyons Wing & Claw Folk Hogan St. Boheme

BEST HIP-HOP/ RAP ARTIST

Apt Burnell Washburn Scenic Byway Rhyme Time (formerly Atheist) Grits Green

BEST POP ARTIST

The Strike RKDN Diatom The Blue Aces

BAND/ACT OF THE YEAR

Visigoth The Ditch & the Delta Candy’s River House The National Parks

BEST LIVE ACT

The Nods Baby Gurl Thunderfist Foster Body Visigoth

BEST JAZZ ARTIST

The Joe McQueen Quartet Corey Christiansen Organ Trio Tad Calcara & New Deal Swing Orchestra Alan Michael Band

BEST ALBUM COVER/ BEST ELECTRONIC ARTIST POSTER ARTIST

DJ Robot Dream Muscle Hawk Nate Lowpass Siak

BEST REGGAE ARTIST

Afro Omega Natural Roots The Tribe of I Hemptations

Sri Whipple Korey Daniel Martin Martin Bradshaw Chris Bodily

BEST VENUE

Diabolical Records The Urban Lounge Metro Kilby Court The State Room

BEST LOCAL PRODUCER

Andy Patterson Mike Sasich Terrance DH Mike Fuchs Nate Pyfer

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Candy’s River House: Another Night BassMint Pros: The BMP Pirate Radio Takeover Show The Lovestrange: I Liked It, No I Didn’t New Shack: Shadow Girl L’anarchiste: Giant

WHICH LOCAL BAND SHOULD GET BACK TOGETHER?

Vile Blue Shades Form of Rocket The New Transit Direction Band of Annuals

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BEST FRIEND OF LOCAL MUSIC

Clark Stewart Radford Circus Brown Discoid Sam S&S Presents (Will Sartain and Lance Saunders)

Jarom Bischoff Cory O’Brien Chris Holifield

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BEST BLUES ARTIST

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Newest Fashionistas In January, the upscale Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana introduced stylish hijabs and abayas aimed at Muslim women unafraid to call attention to themselves as they exercise their obliged modesty. D&G’s marketing effort even accessorized models’ headscarves and cloaks with stilettos and oversized, gaudily framed sunglasses. It was clear from the suggested retail prices that D&G would be pitching the line mainly in the wealthy Persian Gulf countries like United Arab Emirates. Unclear on the Concept Government watchdog MuckRock requested records on the cause of death of a dolphin in New Jersey’s South River last year (to investigate larger dangers to the animal), but in January 2016 the state’s Department of Agriculture initially declined to release them—citing “medical privacy” (usually requested, for autopsies, by “the deceased’s family”). n At the same time, Maria Vaccarella is facing a $500 fine in Howell, N.J., for violating a state law because she illegally rendered “care” to two apparently orphaned baby squirrels when their mother abandoned them. She was due in court as News of the Weird went to press.

Questionable Judgments The director of senior services for Cranston, R.I., resigned in January after a mayor’s press conference went badly. To publicize a snow-removal program that would benefit seniors unable to shovel for themselves, the director (needing a proper example of a beneficiary of the program) instructed a middle-aged male subordinate to (unconvincingly) don a wig and dress and stand beside the mayor during the announcement. Cultural Diversity Among the sites Japan has submitted for 2017 United Nations World Heritage status is the island of Okinoshima, home of a sacred shrine with which Shinto gods have been “protecting” fishermen as long ago as the fourth century. (The island is so sacred that females have never been allowed on it—judged either too delicate to make the trip or menstrually unclean). n A current Tokyo craze, reported an Australian Broadcasting correspondent, involves “stressed out” professionals and office workers publicly outfitted in colorful, full-body Lycra suits (“zentai”) in a rebellion against the nation’s stultifying conformity. Said one, “I’m a different person wearing this. I can be friendly to anyone.”

Least Competent Criminals Jason Hayes, 17, was arrested in a Philadelphia suburb in January when he arrived for a scheduled appointment with a robbery victim from the night before. According to police, Hayes had attempted to shake down a woman in her home, but was still dissatisfied with the money she had on hand. Fearful, she agreed to bring more the next day if they met at a local shopping mall, and he agreed (promising to wear the same clothes so she would recognize him). She, of course, called police. n Dusty Ingram, 38, being searched by jailhouse guards in Crestview, Fla., in January, said she had prescriptions for everything—but then said she thought they were in her purse and professed not to know how they got into that plastic bag in her genitals.

Wait, What? Surgeons treating 4-month-old Teegan Lexcen (born with only one lung and a critically deformed heart) had given up on her, but doctors at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami jury-rigged a surgical tool that saved the infant’s life. In a delicate seven-hour procedure, using an iPhone app and $20 Google Cardboard box virtual-reality viewers, doctors guided themselves through Teegan’s chest based on twodimensional body scans that the app had converted to 3-D. (Old-style 3-D images, they said, were too grainy for precision surgery.) Thanks This Week to Larry Neer, Steve Binning, Jan Wolitzky, Jim Gough, Mel Birge, Rey Barry, Bruce Strickland, and Robin Daley, and to the News of the Weird Board Senior Advisors and Board of Editorial Advisors.

HITS&MISSES BY KATHARINE BIELE @KathyBiele

The Trib vs. the Church

While polls say most Utahns want to see The Salt Lake Tribune survive, there’s an influential minority that are less inclined to see the newspaper overcome its financial woes. And since so many want the Trib to endure, it’s hard to place the blame for the Trib’s troubles entirely on the LDS Church. That’s not to say that the church doesn’t influence how people think. To wit, a post on LDS-themed blog, Millennial Star, commented on the Trib’s coverage of suicides among teens with same-sex attraction: “None other than The Salt Lake Tribune, always anxious to find ways to criticize the church, went looking for information to corroborate the claim of 32 suicides. But, in a strange twist, actual journalism took place at the Tribune, and they were forced to report that there is no evidence of that many of suicides.” You can sense the distaste for dissident voices.

Free Our Food

It may not exactly be an antiMonsanto bill, but House Bill 144 hopes to give those big corporate producers a kick in the pants. The idea is to get rid of intrusive regulation (yes, this sounds very Republican—or Libertarian) so that consumers can buy directly from local suppliers. “We can determine for ourselves whether the food we purchase is safe and wholesome,” according to an op-ed in The Salt Lake Tribune. It’s a more official take on the whole Buy Local effort. The bill, currently being held in the Rules committee, encourages expansion of agricultural sales by farmers markets, ranches, farms and home-based producers. It purports to bring consumers closer to the food they eat—and makes it economically viable to sell local products. Wyoming has passed a similar law without evidence of increased food-borne illnesses, but a similar 2012 bill in Utah died.

End Mob Rule

Sen. Alvin Jackson, R-Highland, was appointed to the Utah Senate and reportedly will resign before he has to face election. Nonetheless, he’s making a statement by sponsoring Senate Joint Resolution 2 calling for the repeal of the 17th Amendment. Say what? Not the First Amendment? Quick lesson: The 10th Amendment Center (which promotes limited government and the principle that powers not delegated to the United States are reserved for the states) and Jackson want to repeal the 17th Amendment (providing for direct election of senators) and send senate elections back to state legislatures. These guys don’t like “true democracy,” which they call “mob rule.” They do have a point, however, in talking about campaign finance. If senators are appointed, there’s no need for campaign financing. Or is there?

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“We need to make sure the public knows our business.” —Cindi Mansell, Salt Lake City recorder M E D I A M AT T E R S

A SecondClass Matter

A new bill could pave the way for small publications to cash in on legal notices. BY COLBY FRAZIER cfrazier@cityweeklynet @ColbyFrazierLP

The Legislature revisits the rules that stipulate where legal notices may published.

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in inky paper is a question of how best to reach the citizenry with important public information. Saltas points out that City Weekly prints 50,000 papers per week, all of which are distributed along the Wasatch Front, while the Deseret News prints roughly 40,000 copies per day and distributes those copies from Tremonton to St. George. In other states, legal notice advertising has been made available to news outlets, including weekly newspapers. The Santa Barbara Independent carries scores of legal advertisements each week, mostly “doing business as” ads for new businesses. Brandi Rivera, the Independent’s chief financial officer, says the paper has been permitted to carry legal notices since 1987 and that, as the daily paper in that town, the Santa Barbara News-Press, for which this reporter once briefly worked, saw its circulation numbers decline amid an ethics scandal, the Independent became a repository for ever-more legal notices. “In our market, we are the most circulated paper so it is definitely a disservice to the general public to not publish in the Independent,” Rivera says, noting that legal notices make up about 25 percent of the paper’s classified advertising revenue—a stream of money that all but disappeared in many of the nation’s newspapers with the advent of Craigslist and other free online advertising forums. Saltas says City Weekly long resigned itself to succeeding without being able to publish legal notices. The possible revenue from the advertisements, he says, was never as important as the fact that his paper was forbidden to try. Setting money aside, though, Saltas says, municipalities should also be asking themselves whether their legal notices in daily newspapers are reaching the state’s growing population. “You’re merely going through the process of spending money and not caring if you truly are fulfilling the ambitions of informing the public,” he says. CW

public knows our business.” That readers under the age of 30 are still in the dark is not surprising. As the Tribune and Deseret News have steadily shed circulation over the past decade, conventional wisdom would hold that the number of readers privy to information contained in the tiny print of legal notices also has shrunk. City Weekly Publisher John Saltas says the main inhibitor to his access to legal notices over the years was the second-class matter provision. The details are now fuzzy, but decades ago, Saltas says he sought out this classification, but found it near impossible to obtain. Now, Saltas says he sees some irony in a law that, from his perch, appears to have been written by a conservative Legislature known to bemoan the reporting found on the pages of the Trib, all the while funneling cash into the newspaper’s pockets in the form of legal notices. What Saltas says he’s always wanted, and hopes Chew’s bill will afford, is a chance to publish legal notices that, todate, have eluded him. “That horrible left-wing media is being funded by the right-wing Legislature that hates them. That’s a very strange relationship, and we’re caught in the middle,” Saltas says. “All we’ve ever wanted is the opportunity. It’s only fair that we get the same opportunity, and why shouldn’t we?” Bryan Scott is the publisher of the City Journals, which print and mail 250,000 copies of 13 different small newspapers between Ogden and Draper each month. Scott says he’s looked into a getting a second-class matter permit but was told by the post office that no such thing existed. Like Saltas, Scott says it’s clear the law needs to be cleaned up, and he hopes the final version will allow him to compete for legal-notice advertisements. “All in all, we’re glad to see that all newspapers will be on an even playing field now with a law that doesn’t seem to be written for a couple,” Scott says. Also evident in this day where more and more souls walking the streets of Salt Lake City bow their heads to glowing screens rather than bury their noses

“Not everybody gets a paper, but everybody, when they sit down at the coffee shop, they pick up the ads,” says Chew, who is a rancher in Jensen, at the gateway of Dinosaur National Monument, and whose district includes the far-flung stretches of eastern Utah. He says his neighbors often note that they “wouldn’t have know about soand-so passing away if I hadn’t seen the obituary in the nickel paper.” Opposition to Chew’s bill, though, could be mounting. On the morning of Jan. 27, shortly after Chew’s bill became public, he said a representative from a media entity had just finished vocalizing his or her concerns with the bill. While the piles of cash at stake might seem like table scraps to a large media conglomerate, tens of thousands—if not hundreds of thousands of dollars— flow into the coffers each year of The Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News, whose advertising business is run by an entity called Newspaper Agency Corp. (NAC), which, in modern times is also known as MediaOne. Because City Weekly isn’t permitted to accept the advertisements, the City of Salt Lake does its legal advertising with NAC. In 2015, Salt Lake City Recorder Cindi Mansell placed 199 legal notices with the NAC. The advertisements cost an average of $154, bringing her department’s total legal-notice expenses for the year to $30,641. Mansell says she typically spends $2,000 to $3,000 per week. In a general election year such as 2015, the number of advertisements climbs. For instance, in 2014, Mansell placed 168 notices at an average cost of $122.50, for a total of $20,580. Mansell can rattle off the array of meetings and special circumstances that, under the Open and Public Meetings Act, must be publicly noticed with an advertisement in a newspaper. “We do administrative hearings, auctions, auditor notices that budget documents have been completed, elections, land-sale notices; we put out [requests for proposals],” Mansell says. “We need to make sure the

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estlake Junior High School needs a new roof. Salt Lake Community College is looking for someone to remodel its culinary arts kitchen. The county might rezone some commercial property. An oil-drilling corporation is looking to release a $51,000 bond for a waste disposal facility in Duchesne County. All of these notices—and an entire newspaper page filled with other interesting facts—was available on page D9 in the Friday, Jan. 29, edition of the Deseret News. These offerings, which sometimes cover multiple pages of the state’s two large daily newspapers, are known as legal notices—a lucrative and state-mandated classified advertisement. For decades, these notices have been funneled to larger papers. But a proposed law could disperse these advertisements to smaller newspapers, such as this one. Rep. Scott Chew, R-Duchesne, has penned a bill, House Bill 178, which would strike much of the legalese from the state’s present statute, freeing up smaller papers to compete for legal notices. Chew declined to name the publication that asked him for the law change, but said it was an advertising circular, the sort that might end up blanketing a neighborhood uninvited on a Saturday morning. As it stands, the law requires that any newspaper of “general circulation” can solicit and publish legal notices so long as it has at least 200 subscribers, has been published for no less than 18 months and is eligible for mailing under the U.S. Postal Service’s “second class matter” stipulations. Under Chew’s bill, the second-class matter stipulation—which no longer exists in Postal Service parlance— will fall, while the 200-subscriber and 18-month rules will stand. The hope, Chew says, is that by allowing advertising circulars to carry legal notices, more people who don’t subscribe to daily newspapers will see whose homes are being sold at auction on the courthouse steps and when, where and at what time government entities will be meeting.

Remarks made at St. George public-land hearing become grimly prophetic.

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offices, with the majority adamant in their dislike of federal land agencies, particularly the BLM and Forest Service. Randy Parker of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation claimed, “We are seeing the systematic dismantling of ranchers’ ability to graze their livestock. The BLM and the Forest Service are attacking livestock grazing and water rights,” he said. Parker also claimed that the number of ranching families in the area has been reduced by more than 60 percent since the 1950s, and that he believes that is “entirely the fault of federal agencies’ policies and grazing fees.” Piute County Commissioner Darin Bushman echoed other speakers, claiming that there is a vast “collusion scheme between federal agencies and special interest [environmental] groups.” One of the few speakers to defend conservation of Utah’s public lands was Ty Markham, a former Torrey, Utah, town council member, who owns a bed-and-breakfast and a ranch. Markham argued that the far more economically sound policy would be to conserve the lands to capitalize on the ever-growing tourism industry. “We need good jobs year-round that aren’t subject to boom-and-bust economies,” said Markham. But Rep. Noel disagreed, saying that the BLM and other federal agencies are acting illegally by having federal lawenforcement agencies working on these public lands. Noel calls it “ridiculous” that a Utahn could get pulled over for a broken tail light by a BLM officer. “The only legitimate authority,” said Noel, “is the county sheriff.” Noel went on to say that if federal land agencies continue to impede the development of public lands in Utah, he predicts it could end badly. “This has got to stop,” Noel exclaimed. Prior to Finicum’s death in Oregon, group leader Ammon Bundy and several others had already surrendered. Through his lawyer, Bundy called for the remaining militants at the wildlife refuge to give up and go home. As of press time, there were reportedly four militants remaining who have posted videos saying they’ll only leave if they get a guarantee from law enforcement they won’t be arrested for their armed takeover of the government building. CW In addition to writing news for City Weekly, Eric Ethington is communications director for Political Research Associates, an organization that studies the U.S. political right wing, including paramilitary organizations.

t a recent congressional hearing called in St. George where local ranchers aired concerns with the federal Bureau of Land Management, Utah Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, noted that tensions between pro-land development factions and the federal land agency tasked with managing public lands had grown so tense that he feared there would be “bloodshed.” Four days later, his prediction came true with the Jan. 26 shooting death of Robert “LaVoy” Finicum, one of the militant occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Ore., who was shot by an Oregon state trooper at a highway barricade. The St. George meeting took place on Jan. 22. Reps. Rob Bishop, Chris Stewart and Jason Chaffetz —Republican representatives for Utah’s 1st, 2nd and 3rd districts, respectively—were present at what was an oversight hearing for the Subcommittee on Federal Lands, called to ensure that local concerns were being addressed in the wake of the BLM’s recent release of a proposed management plan for national conservation areas (NCAs). Before a packed audience at the Dixie Convention Center, Utah’s congressmen accused the BLM of violating the spirit, and perhaps the letter, of Congress’ 2009 law, the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act. According to conservatives serving on the committee, the act required developing a new transportation corridor through a deserttortoise land preserve. Jenna Whitlock, director of the Utah BLM, countered that the 2009 law doesn’t specifically require that the road be built. “The act requires the BLM to identify one or more alternatives,” she said. But the transportation corridor wasn’t the conservatives’ only concern. St. George Mayor Jon Pike complained that in the six years the BLM spent developing the proposed management plan, not once was he, his predecessor or the city council of St. George ever consulted. Whitlock didn’t deny that the BLM hadn’t directly worked with the St. George city government but noted the agency had taken in more than 1,000 comments in the past few years and was considering “each one.” Two hours after the hearing Reps. Bishop, Stewart and Chaffetz convened a congressional “listening session,” where the three heard comments from constituents about federal land agencies. Fourteen speakers were pre-selected by the congressmen’s

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Crossroads Urban Center is marking 50 years of service to the Salt Lake City community by hosting a series of events throughout 2016. The first is what is described as “a joy-filled Gospel Extravaganza concert” featuring gospel choirs from Calvary Baptist Chuch, Hilltop United Methodist, Second Baptist and Unity Baptist. Entrance is free, but Crossroads asks attendees to bring two nonperishable food items or a clothing donation for the Thrift Store. Calvary Baptist Church, 1090 S. State, 801-364-7765, Monday, Feb. 8, 6:30 p.m., free admission with donation. CrossroadsUrbanCenter.org

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The

Real You A woman charts her wild time-machine journey of DNA genetic testing and, through it all, finds a sense of belonging.

By Sarah Aswell comments@cityweekly.net @SarahAswell

ne recent Christmas, my parents sent me a small box containing an empty vial. All I had to do, according to a note on the box that read like something from Alice in Wonderland, was spit. So I spat. Then I spat several more times to reach a fill line. And then I sent the sample off to a lab, where technicians extracted epithelial cells from my saliva and extracted DNA from those cells. While well over 99 percent of my DNA is exactly like yours (and about 96 percent the same as a chimp’s, by the way), the results I would receive would only involve the few and tiny differences in my strands—the sequences of nucleotides that make me truly me. Just spit, and find out more about where you came from, who you really are and what will happen to you next. It’s like your body telling a secret to your mind. It’s like tea leaves or palm readings or tarot cards—if any of those things were solidly based in scientific fact. It’s like getting a cheat sheet to your life, information that could change how you see and do everything. I had read articles here and there about the genetic-testing company, 23andMe, that analyzed my DNA. There were stories of people finding their long-lost children, but also stories of people finding out their dad wasn’t their biological dad. There were stories of people learning amazing facts about their past, but also stories about people discovering secrets better left buried. There were stories about how DNA testing could even save your life, but also stories about genetics companies hoarding medical information. Was I opening a double-stranded can of worms for no reason except curiosity? DNA testing would be like opening a gift (and mine was literally a gift), except the contents could be good or bad or both—and that’s the feeling I had when an email informed me several weeks later that my results were ready to view.

Deciding to test I am not exactly a stranger to the wonders of DNA. My parents both

happen to hold doctorates in medical science and have professional backgrounds that run fairly parallel to the unfolding story of genetic research over the past five decades. I grew up in a home where science ruled. When I asked where babies came from, I got a Darwinian fairytale from my father. When I asked what happens when we die, I got a blunt but loving lesson in decomposition from my mother. Although I was ambivalent about spending hundreds of dollars on genetic testing—current 23andMe kits run $199—my parents seemed much more aware of the benefits and opportunities that could come from the experience. Finally, they told me, with commercial DNA sequencing, we would receive three pieces of information denied all humans who came before us: unimaginable answers about our past (through analyzing our mitochondrial DNA),

My mom, Jane Aswell

How has getting your DNA analyzed changed your everyday life? JA: I had sporadic bouts of atrial fibrillation over 10 years. When I went into the emergency room the first time, they ran all sorts of tests but didn’t give me any information about what caused it. When I got my 23andMe results, I found out that I was homozygous for caffeine metabolism; I had a snip at two alleles that both indicated one of my enzymes that helps metabolize different drugs is not induced properly. My gene doesn’t respond properly to break it down.

insights into our present (through analyzing our traits) and hints about our future (through analyzing our known health risks). My mom, who has always loved being on the cutting edge of technology (she boasts having owned one of the first calculators, one of the first VCRs and, more recently, one of the first Apple watches), saw the potential of a revolution in how individuals could care for their own health, from how doctors would decide on cancer treatments to how annual physicals would be conducted. I didn’t quite understand the extent of her excitement about DNA home testing until I read her 23andMe profile, which reads simply, “To be able to participate in the dawn of personalized medicine is beyond my wildest dreams.”

What does caffeine intake and caffeine metabolism have to do with atrial fibrillation? JA: An article noted by 23andMe showed that people who drank two to three cups of coffee and had a heart attack, they had this same snip. If you have two of them, you have an even worse time metabolizing drugs. When I found that out, it was an awakening. I realized that if I cut out caffeine completely, I could solve the problem.

And the problem is totally gone now? JA: It took about six months, but my heart completely straightened out. Twice after the first six months, I’ve drank caffeine and an arrhythmia happened within 24 hours. Since then, it’s been about five years with no incidents. I am not on any prescription drugs for it, like blood thinners. I’ve never gone back to the ER. My heart is happy. I can tell.

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But you are still glad you know? DD: You know, after I found out about it, I learned a lot and read a lot about it. That’s what I like getting out of it. My initial reason for getting my DNA sequenced was contributing to the growing science of it all, and to learn along the way. And I’ve learned so much along the way.

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Wow. It’s strange because that seems to be a significant thing to learn about yourself, and yet it probably doesn’t affect your everyday life. It’s probably not something that you think about regularly.

DD: Right.

That is really cool. Are scientists researching how this knowledge could help cure HIV/AIDS? DD: Yes, they’ve actually helped someone by giving him stem cells from a donor with the CCR5 mutation, though I am not up-to-date about the most current research.

My third cousin, Derek Dohrman

What’s the coolest thing you found out from getting your DNA sequenced? DD: That I’m basically immune to HIV. In my DNA, there is a part of a gene called CCR5 that I’m missing. Both my parents have a deleted mutation on the gene, and I inherited two. I have done a lot of reading on it and it makes me virtually immune to HIV. It codes for certain receptors on blood cells and since I can’t make those receptors, the virus can’t attach to my cells.

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DNA results deal with your ancestors: who you are, based on where you came from. When I first logged onto the 23andMe website, I was welcomed by a visual breakdown of my ancestral composition based on region, a list of my known relatives with 23andMe accounts (based on our common genes) and a rough sketch of a shaggy Neanderthal, who informed me of my exact percentage of Neanderthal ancestry: 2.8 percent. I looked at the Neanderthal, who, like all sketches of Neanderthals, seemed to be looking off to the side, as if focused on evolving off the page. I hoped we did not share the same brow. The details of my ancestry results contained one immediate surprise—and one that was echoed in my father’s and grandmother’s results. Although we had considered it a fact that my “Maw-Maw” was Korean, her genes told a different story. She is actually 25 percent Japanese. Two generations later, I am about 15 percent Korean and 10 percent Japanese, with about 5 percent of random East Asian genes mixed in—math that only works due to chromosomal crossing over. While my immediate family took the news with interest and acceptance—after all, as my dad pointed out, you can literally see Korea from Japan—it was information that wasn’t especially welcomed by my older Korean relatives, all of whom harbor understandable animosity toward the Japanese after a long history of conflict between the nations and cultures. We debated

telling my 92-year-old grandmother at all, or simply withholding the information. One of my great uncles hasn’t spoken to my dad since he mentioned the genetic discovery, highlighting one of the possible hazards of getting your DNA analyzed: finding out that you are literally your own worst enemy. The next ancestry surprise landed in my inbox months later, when a stranger named Derek Dohrman sent me an email simply titled, “Fam?” It was from a computer programmer about my age who shared 1.56 percent of my analyzed segments, making him a probable second or third cousin. I referred him to my mom, who in addition to being a biologist is also a genealogy buff who has traced our family tree back hundreds of years. My mom looked at Derek’s DNA results as well as the results of his father, David. For a geneticist, the conclusion was black and white: “David shares a little more than 10 percent of genetic variants with me,” my mom explained. “So if you backtrack, his mother would have shared a fourth with me. While we haven’t proven anything, it’s pretty obvious that Derek’s grandmother was my half-sister.” It was a piece of information that fit into what we had already pieced together. David’s mother, Shirley, who passed away 15 years ago, was adopted and never knew her biological parents. My grandfather lived in Shirley’s hometown of Flint, Mich., at the time she was born. My mom suddenly had a half-sister. All of us suddenly had new blood relatives. Finding out I am one-tenth Japanese and that I had an aunt I never knew were certainly interesting facts, as was finding out my mitochondrial DNA traces my heritage back to the ancient Sami reindeer herders 40,000 years ago. But the real treasure is that these discoveries led to conversations with my family members and those conversations led to stories. My dad told me about my great-grandfather who lost everything after the Japanese invaded Korea in 1910. He immigrated to Hawaii after reading an advertisement that said he could get rich there, but then spent the rest of his life working on sugar-cane plantations in poor conditions, exploited for cheap labor. My mom told me about my grandfather’s life before he was a Louisiana farmer with eight kids, when he worked in a GM factory in Flint before he was fired for dancing all night and being late for work—not once, but twice. Possibly, we know now, he was dancing with a woman who became pregnant and gave their baby up for adoption. In these cases, the DNA information resulted not in an epiphany, but rather acted as a prompt. It was a gateway into stories I would have otherwise never heard. While a lot of people refer to DNA analysis as a way to find missing puzzle pieces, I found that my DNA results simply encouraged me to appreciate the puzzle.

What’s the most interesting aspect of DNA testing to you? MA: I enjoy connecting with the people who reach out to you because you are related. The community that it builds is really cool. I’ve had several people contact me who want to learn about my family and share information about their family. And each person has their own story. I had one person who wrote to me saying, “I want to find my parents before I die,” and that was powerful to me.

Peering into the future The far more controversial half of DNA testing

is the health results. Based on research conducted around the world (including some research involving data from 23andMe participants), the website outlines your health risks, your possible drug interaction, toxicity and response issues and your likely inherited conditions. For example, my biggest health risk is a 20.8 percent chance of being diagnosed with breast cancer during my lifetime, almost twice the risk of the average woman. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration heavily restricted DNA testing health results in 2014 and 2015 but have allowed 23andMe to share modified health results beginning again this year. The reason for the restrictions have been twofold. The FDA required 23andMe to prove its health results were accurate (and accurately portrayed), and they were concerned users of the service did not have enough knowledge or information to understand or process their results. Telling someone they have a genetic marker associated with colitis, for example, is very different than having colitis, developing colitis in the future or passing colitis on to your children. When I asked my mom about what she thought were the biggest drawbacks of getting your DNA tested, she echoed the second concern. “For people who don’t have much of a science background, they might jump to conclusions,” she said. “They might just assume they’re going to get a disease. They might not talk to their doctor about it. They might become depressed about it. Or they might start demanding expensive tests. It is not as simple as it used to be. It’s not like Mendelian inheritance with big B’s and little B’s like you learned in high school. The interactions of genes and proteins can throw everything off. You might have one marker that counteracts another marker. Our DNA is doing a lot more than most people have any idea.”

“One of the possible hazards to getting your DNA analyzed: finding out that you are literally your own worst enemy.”

The main concern posed by critics of direct-toconsumer genetic testing is that there is no requirement for a doctor to be involved—no one to interpret or explain your results, no one to guide your medical decisions after analyzing your traits and risks, no one to tell you the difference between a diagnosis, a trait or a risk, not even someone to explain the extent of your risk, which can be more difficult to understand than it first appears. While doctors are now offering DNA analysis and being trained to interpret and use the information, it is not a mandatory component of testing. The 23andMe platform now tries to combat these issues by educating its users, which can be a challenge since what we know about genetics changes literally by the day. When I clicked on my 20.8 percent risk for breast cancer, for example, I

Are we all just looking for a way to relate to each other? MA: I think that it’s easy to find other ways to relate to each other, especially with today’s technology. You can go to a forum with people who share the same taste in music or movies. You can relate to people in so many ways because you can easily find so many people who like what you like. What makes people who are connected genetically different is the sense of belonging. It allows people to say, hey, we share something more innate. That’s the differentiator.

was sent to a page with links to support groups, genetic counselors and additional DNA tests specific to breast cancer. I also saw detailed information about my risk—of eight breast cancer markers, I had an increased risk for cancer based on six markers and decreased risk for two. The page also reminded me that getting breast cancer is only an estimated 27-40 percent genetic. Under that reminder is a list of steps I could take to protect myself, from maintaining my weight and limiting alcohol intake to avoiding hormonal birth control. I suddenly felt a huge, new accountability for my health. Now that I knew I was at risk for breast cancer, would I feel guilty every time I gained 5 pounds or ordered a pint of beer? If I do get diagnosed with breast cancer, will I feel that it was 6073 percent my fault? I also experienced some of the fear that many have raised about personalized medicine: Could this or other genetic information be used against me? I gave 23andMe permission to use my information for research, but how could others use it in the future? Could having breast cancer markers affect the price of my health insurance or my status in society or even my daughters’ abilities to find partners or have children? While some of these concerns edge toward conspiracy theory, there are real questions about how raw DNA data will be used 10, 20 or 100 years from now. And yet other people in my family had breakthroughs in their health that permanently changed their lives for the better. My mom discovered her body doesn’t metabolize caffeine and other drugs efficiently, which was causing her frightening heart problems. And my brother was able to better understand the autoimmune issues he has been struggling with since he was a kid. They agree the information they discovered was worth the risk of their genetic information now existing in a computer file.

Courtesy of 23andMe.com

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Do you feel more connected to them just because you have a higher percentage of matching DNA? MA: Yes, I feel more connected because I know we share family somehow. But when you think about history, the further back you go, the more everyone is related. So that’s not the primary thing I think about. I think about the person’s story. We relate to each other through stories. It’s like when you meet someone who went to the same school as you did. You talk about such-and-such a building or about people you might have both known. You say, I grew up in Louisiana, and she says, my dad’s from there. It’s about making connections.

Looking into a mirror Perhaps the oddest part about DNA analysis is

“It is not as simple as it used to be ... Our DNA is doing a lot more than most people have any idea.”

My husband, Ben Fowlkes

Right—a weird kind of confirmation bias. My DNA told me I was a “likely sprinter.” And I was like … oh, well, that was probably some sort of mistake. How do you feel about getting your analysis done, cilantro and all?

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I think that’s true of a lot of the DNA results—it’s like a fortune-teller warming up by telling you things that have happened in your past. Are there downsides to having your DNA analysis confirm things you already believe about yourself? BF: Going over the report, I noticed that I glossed over things that didn’t seem accurate or that didn’t fit with how I view myself and latched onto ones that confirmed my beliefs. It’s like a horoscope. Except it’s a horoscope that tells you if you’re likely to develop Alzheimer’s, which, frankly, I’d like to know about.

BF: I can’t say that I think about it often. Maybe it’s because the report deals largely in terms like “likely” or “slightly less likely,” but very little about the genetic traits—which seems definite enough to be more than a curiosity. The thing I think about is the way it grounds you in the vastness of human history. I learned that my genetic haplogroup comes from people who once lived in an area (“Doggerland”) that is now the North Sea, but melting glaciers and rising seas eventually forced them out. It’s fascinating to think about my ancient ancestors standing around and looking at the trickling stream running through their home wondering if it’s their imaginations or if it’s actually getting bigger. That gives my day-to-day concerns and my sense of my place in human history some helpful context.

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But you absolutely already knew that you didn’t like cilantro. Why would you need a $200 DNA test to tell you that information about yourself? BF: In a way, the cilantro gene thing was a welcome surprise. I’ve been accused, not inaccurately, of being an unadventurous eater in the past. So when I asked for the cilantro-free version of things, a part of me felt like that was me being too picky or boring. Learning that there’s actually a genetic reason for it, it’s some

very, very minor form of validation—like walking around with a doctor’s note that justifies your tastes.

You’ve always hated the taste of cilantro. How does it taste to you? BF: It tastes bad. Honestly, I never would have been able to put my finger on what that bad taste was until I read the report that came with my DNA test, which said I have the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap. That’s not a perfect description. It doesn’t taste exactly like soap to me, but it does taste bad in the same this-is-not-food sense.

with the inability to respond to errors. As I read about this trait, which lives in each and every one of my cells, I wondered how I should process this knowledge about myself. Do I fight against it? Do I accept it? Do I simply try to be more aware of my weaknesses? It’s the heart-dropping feeling you get when you walk into the break room and your co-workers are joking about something you do, except you know with certainty what they are saying is true. It’s a flaw in who you are, in plain language, laid bare.

can’t tell you if you’ll be hit by a bus tomorrow. It can tell you who your father is, but it can’t tell you who you consider your father. It can tell you you have trouble learning from your mistakes, but it can’t tell you you’ll never learn. As I spoke to my family members about their experiences with DNA testing, patterns and themes began to emerge. Most people said they didn’t think about their results very often. Most people said they are glad to know about future health risks. And everyone said they would do it again. But the biggest consensus surprised me. Almost everyone I spoke to said they had initially spit into that little vial to find out how they were different and special, but what they ended up feeling was closer to everyone else—that the 99 percent of our genome trumped that 1 percent. My new-to-me cousin Derek put it best: “It changed how I feel about myself. When you start to trace your DNA back, you see how many people you are related to, all over the world. It’s just a big web of people. It opens your mind up. There’s no reason to be so clannish or us-versus-them. We’re all related. It’s arbitrary and temporary to group ourselves or label ourselves. It’s made me a little bit more open.” A little more open and a little bit connected is how I feel, too. To reindeer herders and my Asian ancestors and people who have trouble learning from their mistakes. To a normal family who lives in Flint, Mich. To my four aunts who have battled breast cancer. To my mom and dad. You can see DNA testing as a time machine, a mirror, a fortune cookie, a diagnostic test, but perhaps what it is most is a simple reminder that we are all in this together. CW Sarah Aswell is a freelance writer for the Missoula Independent, where this article first appeared.

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that you get a lot of information you already know and a lot of simple statements about who you are, right now. I am a female with straight brown hair and brown eyes. I am lactose intolerant. I tend to have big babies. I like the taste of broccoli. I have wet earwax, whatever that means. But from there, it gets stranger. As researchers delve deeper into genetic research, they are making connections between genes and traits that are more and more subtle and abstract. Promethease, a computer program that analyzes your raw data DNA file and compares it directly to SNPedia, a public human genetics database, provides anyone who has access to their DNA file with ongoing information about their variants as researchers make progress. For $5, I uploaded my 23andMe data file to have Promethease tell me that I have a higher pain tolerance than the average person, that I likely have slightly better body odor than average and that I probably perform well under pressure. These trait results sounded more like a horoscope than the results of DNA analysis, and in a way, they are, since the science is both complex and far from perfect. For me, being told who I am seemed much more personal than being told where I come from or where I might go. For example, I carry the A1 variant, which everyone agrees is bad. It’s associated with not being able to learn from your mistakes, with addiction problems, with the inability to be persistent and

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THURSDAY 2.4

Cirque Alfonse: Timber! The story seems too good to be true, but, as it’s told, the world-touring Quebec-based circus troupe Cirque Alfonse began when adult siblings Antoine and Julie Carabinier created an entertaining sketch as a birthday present for their father, Alain. Not everyone’s party piece would turn out to be stage-worthy. But, Julie was a trained dancer, her brother a seasoned circus performer and their father an amateur clown, so it didn’t take much for the three to realize they had something with potential. The full company of professional musicians and acrobats, still headed by the Carabinier family, started touring in 2005 and, a decade later, they bring their original production Timber! to Kingsbury Hall. There are no lions or tigers in this modernday circus, but you might still gasp with fright as you watch performers juggling hatchets, landing flips on a wooden two-by-four held by two strong men, or jumping through a hoop made of razor-sharp crosscut saws. Set all this to the old-timey sounds of a well-strung banjo, and you’ve got a good sense of how the night will go. Cirque Alfonse falls clearly in the realm of contemporary circuses like Cirque du Soleil, relying on amazing feats from clowns, acrobats, trapeze artists, musicians and others. These performances are often strung together with a simple story line. Timber! is held together with Canadian folklore and tales of the lumberjacks of old. There’s guaranteed to be beards and red suspenders aplenty in this lively, family-friendly show. (Katherine Pioli) Cirque Alfonse: Timber! @ Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-7100, Feb. 4, 7:30 p.m., $19-$39, student $5. KingsburyHall.Utah.edu

FRIDAY 2.5

David Brothers: Rolithica David Brothers is an underappreciated local master of a multiplicity of media. Brothers has added his unique sensibility to animation, film, painting, photography, printmaking and video, but hasn’t received much notice by the mainstream visual-arts community. The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art presents Brothers’ exhibit Rolithica to showcase the work of this eccentric figure. Utahns may be familiar with Brothers’ work as a set designer for films like Trent Harris’ Plan 10 From Outer Space. Also, his series Any Act—featuring local actor Gyll Huff, who recently passed away—used photographic tableaus resembling stills from sensational B-movie productions. Rolithica continues his exploration of stage sets that are alternately places of extravagance and sites of utter wreckage and impoverishment as dramatic environments—dreamscapes in which scenes of sublime romanticism as well as utter depravity might be imagined to take place. The exhibition will include an installation that is site-specific to the museum, as well as a series of large-format photographs providing a glimpse into Brothers’ eccentric artistic process and methods. His dedication to the discipline of his craft enables him to construct these pieces with intricate details that add a sinister humor to the experience. The exhibit is part of UMOCA’s exploration of Utah’s outsider arts culture that began with the museum’s Mondo Utah exhibit several years ago. (Brian Staker) David Brothers: Rolithica @ Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through April 30, TuesdaySaturday, suggested $5 donation for admission, opening reception Feb. 5, 7-9 p.m. UtahMOCA.org

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SATURDAY 2.6

100 Cent Canary: Dada at Weller Book Works Dada—the art movement formed in Europe as a reaction to the horrors of World War I— was known for its use of satirical humor, elements combined in seemingly random collages and assemblages, and the use of nonsense words, thus the name. Weller Book Works celebrates the 100th anniversary of the art that exploded out of the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland, in February 1916 and spread like wildfire across Europe, and whose influence is still being sharply felt today. On Feb. 6, a wide array of artists from a number of disciplines will show the enormous influence of Dada, including BYU professor of music Christian Asplund with his Avant GaRAWage. “Wordshaker and sonosopher” Alex Caldiero bridges the worlds of language and pure sound. Poet José Knighton will read Tristan Tzara and his own works. Homage is paid to musical matters with Mattson McFarland’s “Intonarumon” noise-making apparatus, and Mike Kaly and cohort performing the John Cage-influenced musical piece “To C.” Performance art group Another Language presents their work “Bug Splatter,” while store owner Tony Weller will re-enact “Gadji Beri Bimba,” a nonsense/sound poem by Hugo Ball, founder of Cabaret Voltaire. Many more are on tap, including alphabetically last but not least, Dada drummer “Jammin Jerry Z.” War and other human violence doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon, but this celebration shows that artists still maintain an arsenal of sharpened sensibilities to meet the nonsense of life with the good sense of nonsensical art. (Brian Staker) 100 Cent Canary: Dada at Weller Book Works @ Weller’s Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, Feb. 6, 8-11 p.m., free. WellerBookWorks.com

MONDAY 2.8

The Harlem Globetrotters The Harlem Globetrotters roll into Salt Lake City this week, for their annual appearance, while also celebrating 90 years since the first edition of the squad was formed—not in Harlem, but in Chicago. Over the course of those nine decades, the Trotters have put on more than 20,000 “shows”—the term used on the team website, rather than “game”—in 120 countries, playing for presidents, popes and royalty. They’ve been on Gilligan’s Island and Scooby Doo, and played a goodwill role during the Cold War when they played for Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow in 1959. The team is also celebrating the memory of Meadowlark Lemon, the “Clown Prince of Basketball” who held court as the Globie’s leading man for 24 seasons, and passed away in December at the age of 83. While the players are new (there are now female Trotters and the hapless opponent is no longer the Washington Generals), much of the Globetrotters experience is just as it has been for decades. The red-white-and-blue uniforms. The Magic Circle before the game set to “Sweet Georgia Brown.” The three-man weave offense. The amazing dribbling exhibitions. The highlight dunks. The half-court shots. And, most of all, the gags that are just as funny to 21st-century kids as they were to their grandparents. Not many groups formed in the days of Prohibition and Babe Ruth have stood the test of time. On Monday, the Globetrotters will show once again show why they’ve endured. (Geoff Griffin) The Harlem Globetrotters @ Vivint SmartHome Arena, 301 S. Temple, 801-325-7328, Feb. 8, 7 p.m., $20-$135. VivintArena.com

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Andrew Moncrief’s art grapples with norms. BY ENRIQUE LIMÓN elimon@cityweekly.net @EnriqueLimon

uality strikes a chord with 28-year-old artist Andrew Moncrief. Be it blurring the lines between what’s typically hard or delicate, masculine and dandyism, brooding sexuality and underlying homoeroticsm. Known for his large-scale figurative paintings, the Montreal-based artist presents A Strange Feeling, his wrestlingtinged exhibition, which opens this Friday at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. The genesis of the exhibit came last year, when Moncrief found himself living in Salt Lake City. He’d returned briefly to Canada for his third solo exhibition and wandered into the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts where he was captivated by “The Still,” a piece by his former teacher, Marion Wagschal. “It’s this painting of this old man on his bed on his back, and these two kids wrestling sort of in the foreground of the painting,” Moncrief recalls. “One of them is in a headlock, and there was something super weird and violent—and also really weirdly intimate— about the whole situation. It hit me.” He remembers staring at the painting for 45 minutes. “I wasn’t really sure exactly what it meant for me; there was just something really captivating about it.” Taken by the painting, he felt a switch went

off in his head. He was struck by the dichotomy between violence and intimacy. “It was the catalyst for something. I started looking at images of wrestlers, and it evolved naturally,” he says. The attraction was foreign. He calls his newfound infatuation “totally the opposite of who I was growing up. I was fairly quiet; I hid in the art room in high school. I was a closeted gay kid who was super uncomfortable in his body. I hated gym class in high school. I was completely traumatized by all that,” he says. He now sees wrestling as an ideal vehicle to convey his own diffidence. “Looking at these works, I was thinking about being a teenager in gym class, and perceiving this thing—the act of wrestling—as something more than benign,” he says. “It’s not just a platonic act, there are so many more layers to it for me, so that’s part of why I wanted to use it as a metaphor, and that’s how I became enamored by it.” Moncrief admits to grappling with other issues as well. “Whatever this project catalyzed this summer, is still something I’m very interested in and want to explore more; the male body, the male form, taboo in sports and my insecurities with my own sexuality,” he says. “I mean, I’m a pretty secure person, but I still have my insecurities. I guess it kind of plays on that.” Seven paintings compose A Strange Feeling. Thick oil strokes in blues, grays and pinks invite viewers into a world marked by grueling larger-than-life snapshots that attempt to be balanced by titles like “Innocence” and “The Admiration.” “By exploring the limitations of anachronistic ideals, Moncrief’s laden portrayals of tangled poses and aggressive movements awaken internalized ideas and attitudes about how we relate to one another as body-selves,” museum curator Becca Maksym says. For previous works, Moncrief, like many

Moncrief strikes a pose in front of “The Imprudent Boy.”

emerging artists, was his own model. “I used to photograph myself a lot but that was quite often a pragmatic thing,” he says. “When you’re an art student, you’re quite often investigating and scrutinizing yourself. Also, you can’t afford models so you take pictures of yourself.” For A Strange Feeling, he appropriated images of Turkish oil wrestlers he found online. “I found that sport to be really interesting,” he says. “It’s the longestrunning sanctioned sport in history. It’s been running for, like, 758 years, and it’s a highly respected sport.” The fact the mostly Muslim country delights in something that “looks so homoerotic when you watch it” presented yet another divide for the artist. “It’s kind of baffling to me,” he says. Moncrief doesn’t necessarily expect viewers to experience the same aesthetic arrest he felt when looking at his old teacher’s piece. “I feel that as an artist, my job is to create the work. I never have an idea of what exactly is going to happen.” He pauses, “I hope that I have enough skill under my belt to engender in people a certain reaction, but I don’t think I can ever say, ‘I want to do this’ specifically because, no matter what, people bring their own subjective perspective to my work.” CW Courtesy of the artist

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A STRANGE FEELING

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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 The Producers Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 800-259-5840, Feb. 4, 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 5, 8 p.m.; Feb. 6, 2 & 8 p.m.; Feb. 7, 1 & 6:30 p.m.; SaltLakeCity.Broadway.com Snow White Covey Center for the Arts, 425 W. Center Street, Provo, 801-852-7007, Feb. 4-6, 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 6, 2 p.m., CoveyCenter.org Star Ward The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, through Feb. 20, Monday, Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; no performances Feb. 8-13; Saturday matinee Feb. 6, 2 p.m., TheOBT.org Streetlight Woodpecker Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, 801-363-7522, Feb. 10-March 6, Wednesday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Sunday, 1 p.m. & 6 p.m.; Feb. 23 & March 1, 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 27 & March 5, 2 p.m., SaltLakeActingCompany.org Two Henrys Play-by-Play Reading, Pioneer Theatre Co., 300 S. 1400 East , 801-5816961, Feb. 5, 8 p.m.; Feb. 6, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. PioneerTheatre.org Twelfth Night Harris Fine Arts Center, 1 University Hill, 801-422-298, Feb. 4-5, 7 p.m.; Feb. 6 & 13, 2 & 4 p.m., Arts.BYU.edu You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown Terrace Plaza Playhouse, 99 E. 4700 South, Washington Terrace, 801-393-0070, through Feb. 6, Friday, Saturday & Monday, 7:30 p.m., TerracePlayhouse.com The Vagina Monologues Vieve Gore Concert

Hall, Jewett Center for the Performing Arts, Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East, 801-484-7651, Feb. 4-6, 7:30 p.m., WestminsterCollege.edu/Theatre_Arts

DANCE

BYU International Folk Dance Ensemble Conference Center, 60 N. Temple, 801-570-0080, Feb. 6, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.; LDS.org/church/ events/temple-square-events/2016-winterfest Utah Ballet Two Hayes Christensen Theatre, Marriott Center for Dance, University of Utah, 330 S. 1500 East, 801-581-7327, Feb. 4, 5:30 p.m.; Feb. 5-6, 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 6, 2 p.m.; Tickets. Utah.edu

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Cheng-Chow Trio: Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Fauré, Brahms & more Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-3552787, Feb. 5, 7:30 p.m., Bachauer.com Chamber Music Series Kaysville Tabernacle, 198 W. Center St., Kaysville, 801-543-2814, Jan. 5, 7:30 p.m., DavisArts.com Utah Symphony: Jackiw Plays Mendelssohn Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Feb. 5-6, 7:30 p.m. UtahSymphony.org

COMEDY

Ryan Hamilton Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588, Feb. 5-6, 8 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Tom Segura Wiseguys Downtown, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Feb. 5, 7:30 p.m. & 9:30

p.m., Feb. 6, 7:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m. & 11:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com

LITERATURE BOOKS, TALKS & AUTHORS

100 Cent Canary: Dada Weller’s Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Feb. 6, 8-11 p.m., free, WellerBookWorks.com (see p. 18) Ira Glass: Reinventing Radio Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-655-3114, Feb. 6, 7:30 p.m. EcclesCenter.org/ Guest Writers Series: Laura Kasischke and Sara Wallace Art Barn/Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, Reservoir Park, 801-596-5000, Feb. 4, 7 p.m., SaltLakeArts.org Elisabeth Zuniga: A Friend for Bo The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-4849100, Feb. 6, 11 a.m., KingsEnglish.com Jessica Day George: Fridays With the Wizards The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Feb. 9, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com David Silverman: Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World Salt Lake City Public Library, 210 E. 400 South, 908-276-7300, Feb. 10, 6:30 p.m., Atheists.org (see p. 22) Shannon & Dean Hale: The Princess in Black and the Hungry Bunny Horde The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-4849100, Feb. 10, 6:30 p.m., KingsEnglish.com

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Cirque Alfonse: Timber! Kingsbury Hall, 1395 Presidents Circle, 801-581-7100, Feb. 4, 7:30 p.m., Tickets.Utah.edu (see p. 18) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 S. Washington Blvd., Ogden, 855-9442787, Feb. 5-March 5, Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 27 & March 5 matinees, 2 p.m. TheZiegfeldTheater.com First Date: The Musical Midvale Main Street Theatre, 7711 S. Main, Midvale, 801-5660596, Feb. 4-6, 12-14, 19 & 20, 7:30 p.m., MidvaleTheatre.com The Foreigner CenterPoint Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, through Feb. 6, CenterPointTheatre.org The Last Five Years SLCC Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State, 801-957-3322, Feb. 5-26; Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m. The-Grand.org My First Time A-Muses Productions, Mod a Go-Go, 242 E. South Temple, 801-355-3334, Feb. 4-7 & 11-14, 7:30 p.m., ModAGoGo.com 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, DesertStar.biz

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WEDNESDAY 2.10

David Silverman: Fighting God

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In recent years, atheists in America have become more politically active, railing against the efforts of organized religions, which, in their view, increasingly seek to blur the separation of church and state. David Silverman, president of American Atheists, maintains that religion is not only superstition but also a toxic force in society. In his book Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World, Silverman—who often appears in the media, from Fox News to NPR—has put his convictions into a “manifesto” aimed at religion and its unhealthy alliance with politics. He speaks to the effects of religion on everything from anti-science views against climate change to vaccinations, from gay rights to women’s rights— even “In God We Trust” stamped on our money. Silverman will speak about his book and atheism in general, including the struggles faced by atheists in “a religious world.” The talk will be followed by a Q&A session, and Silverman will sign copies of his book. (Brian Staker) David Silverman: Fighting God @ Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, Feb. 10, 6 p.m., free. SLCPL.org

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24 Hours in China: Photography from the China Overseas Exchange Association, Part Two Main Library, Lower Urban Room Gallery, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Feb. 21, SLCPL.org American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell BYU Museum of Art, North Campus Drive, Provo, 801-422-8287, through Feb. 13, MOA.BYU.edu Blackened White: Works by John Sproul Sweet Library, 455 F Street, 801-594-8951, through Feb. 20, SLCPL.org Brian Christensen: Reconfigure CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, 385-215-6768, through Feb. 7; CUArtCenter.org Carina Barajas: Objects and Self Mestizo Gallery, 631 W. North Temple, 801-361-5662,

through Feb. 12, 6 p.m.-9 p.m., MestizoArts.org The Color of Being Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West #125, 801-328-0703, through Feb. 12, AccessArt.org Cultivate Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, through March 4, VisualArts.Utah.gov David Brothers: Rolithica Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-3284201, through April 30, UtahMoca.org (see p. 18) Grant Fuhst: The Yearning Curve Art Barn/ Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, 801-5965000, through Feb. 26, SaltLakeArts.org Larry Revoir: July 16, 1945: Enter the Anthropocene Art Barn/Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, 801-596-5000, through Feb. 26, SaltLakeArts.org Lindey Carter & Rebecca Klundt Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, 801-364-8293, through Feb. 12, Phillips-Gallery.com Nuns and Other Spiritual Grrls: Paintings by Carol Berrey Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, 801-594-8611, through Feb. 25, SLCPL.org Portraitures of Life: Works by Bea Hurd Main Library Canteena, 210 E. 400 South, 801-5248200, through Feb. 7, SLCPL.org Raw and Cooked Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., 801-245-7270, through March 11, Heritage.Utah.gov To Express: To Set Forth in Words Art Access II Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, No. 125, 801-3280703, through Feb. 12, AccessArt.org Water and Light: Photography by Raymond Marlow Chapman Library, 577 S. 900 West, 801595-8623, through Feb. 25, SLCPL.org Yoshua Okon: Oracle Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-3284201, through April 30, UtahMOCA.org

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polenta, calamari or a savory chèvre cheesecake. Entrée options feature seared sea bass, baked gnocchi, New York strip steak, bucatini with eggplant meatball, ravioli with lobster and chicken involtini. Pastry chef Alexa Norlin has created a chocolate raspberry cake with raspberry sorbet to finish. Chef Andy Morrison compiled a romantic Valentine’s Day menu ($50) for Feb. 13 and 14 at Caffe Niche (779 E. 300 South, 801-4333380, CaffeNiche.com), beginning with a redhot cinnamon-and-honey Jell-O shot. Diners will then choose between a baby greens salad with raspberries, walnuts and Champagne vinaigrette; or warm mushroom bisque with truffle cream. Entrées of rosemary-crusted lamb chops; lobster mac & cheese; stuffed quail with fig and blue cheese; or pappardelle with sage, wild mushroom and artichoke, are followed by dessert selections of a chocolate box filled with whipped cream and fresh mixed berries or a red velvet cupcake. Oasis Café (151 S. 500 East, 801-322-0404, OasisCafeSLC.com) will offer a four-course, $40 menu for Valentine’s Day weekend. Chef Efren Benitez’ V-Day specials include smoked salmon and English cucumber with caviar, chives, sour cream and lemon zest; beef Wellington with Parmesan polenta, zucchini and rosemary demi-glace; shrimp bisque with chives and toasted baguette; and applewoodsmoked bacon-wrapped Alaskan halibut with Gorgonzola mashed potatoes, mango and fig purée. Dessert options include red winepoached pear and dark chocolate panna cotta. For two nights, Feb. 13-14, Pago (878 S. 900 East, 801-532-0777, PagoSLC.com) will offer a five-course tasting menu ($85 plus $35/wine pairing) with highlights such as ahi tuna with blistered shishito peppers, smoked avocado, fried shallots, watercress and toasted sesame oil paired with Tablas Creek’s Côtes de Tablas Blanc; and carne cruda with quail egg, pickled mushroom, house mustard and lavash. The Paris (1500 S. 1500 East, 801-486-5585, TheParis.net) is taking reservations for “La St. Valentin à Paris,” Feb. 13 & 14. Highlights from the weekend’s five-course menu ($74.95) include Thai-spiced Alaskan king crab cake; pan-roasted Chilean sea bass and wild Sea of Cortez prawns with carrot orzo and lobster nage; and black Angus beef filet “Oscar”

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alentine’s Day is one of the busiest of the year at many restaurants, second probably only to Mother’s Day for dining out. So, if you’re hoping to snag a romantic table for you and your sweetie on Cupid’s big night in Salt Lake City, it’s never too early to make a reservation, as many restaurants will sell out. Here’s an array of V-Day dining options from the restaurants that provided information to me. At Alamexo Mexican Kitchen (268 S. State, 801-779-4797, Alamexo.com) chef Matt Lake and his crew will celebrate Mexico’s El Día del Amor y la Amistad (the day of love and friendship) with regional specialty dishes and drinks, including filete de res con recado negro: filet mignon seasoned with black chile paste, served with a handkerchief tamale, jalapeños rellenos and salsa de molcajete; and Halibut Veracruz-style, cooked in salsa with roasted tomatoes, sweet peppers, olives and capers, topped with crispy plantains. For dessert, there is dark chocolate cake soaked in raspberry purée, topped with sweet goat cheese mousse. Current Fish & Oyster (279 E. 300 South, 801-326-3474, CurrentFishAndOyster.com) chef Logen Crew has created three dinner specials for Valentine’s Day weekend (Feb. 12-14), to supplement his regular menu. VDay specialty dishes at Current are fritto misto di mare: fried assorted seafood with chervil, beech mushroom and sultana mustard; fluke slivers with citrus, hearts of palm and Thai herbs; and red snapper en croute for two, with onion petals, endive, tarragon and Champagne sauce. On Feb. 13 and 14, Finca (327 W. 200 South, 801-487-0699, FincaSLC.com) will offer lovers a six-course tasting menu with wine pairings ($65 plus $35/wine pairings), including dishes such as chilled strawberry soup; oysters with mignonette; chocolate mole duck breast; seared arctic char with yuzupomegranate sauce; and mandarin orange crème caramel. Each course is paired with a specially selected wine (optional). At Fresco Italian Café (1513 S. 1500 East, 801-486-1300, FrescoItalianCafe.com), Valentine’s Day will be celebrated Feb. 12-14 with a four-course menu ($60) from chef Adrian Harris. Oysters with Rosé mignonette kick things off, followed by a selection of appetizers: carpaccio with quail egg, leek tart, creamy

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n the one day of the year dedicated to sweethearts, what could be more appropriate than sipping sweet wines and cocktails? Just as Valentine’s Day is an excuse to throw caution to the wind and binge on Whitman’s chocolate assortments, it’s also an opportunity to indulge in perverse pleasures like sweet beverages that you might forego at other times of the year. Here are a few naughty sips to get you and your sweetie started. Sparkling wine is always appropriate at Valentine’s Day celebrations, and Martini & Rossi Sparkling Rosé Minis ($14.99 for a four-pack) are a good way to kick-start a romance. These petit 187ml bottles are sold

in a decorative pink carrier and filled with slightly sweet, sparkling Rosé—a blend of Moscato Bianco, Brachetto and Malvasia— perfect for sipping alongside chocolates, fruits, smoked salmon and mild cheeses. Or, pick up a bottle of the more traditional 750ml size ($12.99) and enjoy that. You can also use Martini & Rossi Sparkling Rosé to create a Cupid’s Cup. In a cocktail shaker over ice, shake together 1 part St. Germain Elderflower Liqueur, 2 parts vodka, 3/4 part fresh lemon juice, 1/4 part simple syrup and 1 part muddled strawberries. Strain into a cocktail glass and top with Sparkling Rosé; garnish with a fresh strawberry. If you’d prefer to crack open a bottle of higher-end pink bubbly, turn to Moët & Chandon. For a decadent splurge, get your mitts on a bottle of Moët & Chandon Grand Vintage Rosé 2006 ($90). It’s an intense and powerful, yet refined, Rosé Champagne with stone fruit notes and plenty of depth. For a little less coin, Moët & Chandon Impérial Rosé NV ($55) is a fruit bomb brimming with strawberry and raspberry flavors and floral aromas—a good accompaniment to Valentine’s Day desserts. My very favorite Valentine’s treat, however, is Italy’s luscious Banfi Rosa Regale Brachetto ($22.49). Rosa Regale is created in one of Italy’s smallest production zones, the Brachetto d’Acqui Denominazione

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James Suckling awarded 90 points to Fifty Shades of Grey Red Satin ($14.99), a deliciously rich blend of Syrah and Petite Syrah. At the end of an evening— Valentine’s Day or any other—Port is always fitting. And Cockburn’s Special Reserve Port ($18.99) won’t break the bank. Cockburn’s, founded in 1815, celebrated its 200th birthday this past year, and its Ports are still produced in the upper Douro Valley of Portugal, in Cockburn’s premier vineyard of Quinta dos Canais. Matured in oak casks for four to six years, Cockburn’s Special Reserve Port has concentrated cherry, strawberry and plum aromas. On the tongue, rounded sweet red berry flavors dominate and lead to a fruity finish. A perfect way to wrap up Valentine’s Day is with this Port and strong cheeses or a nutty chocolate dessert. Confession: I like Port with Reese’s Pieces. CW

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

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can do is give you a chance to see artists taking chances. Robert Greene’s documentary Kate Plays Christine told the story of an actor named Kate Lyn Shiel doing research into the role of Christine Chubbuck—a news anchor who committed suicide on air in 1974—and transformed it into a radical critique of why we feel the need to have certain stories told at all. The documentary NUTS! employed simple animations and a savvy use of unreliable narration in a distinctive biography of an American medical “pioneer.” And Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits told the story of an 11-year-old girl’s coming-of-age through allegory and magical realism (in addition to the breakout lead performance by Royalty Hightower). Maybe the fact that Hightower was among several standout adolescent and pre-adolescent performances—Markees Christmas in Morris from America; J.J. Totah in Other People; Julian Dennison in Hunt for the Wilderpeople—highlights both the blessing and the curse of Sundance. Unlike many international film festivals filled with established filmmakers, Sundance is about discovery. It’s thrilling being part of the first time a great new movie introduces a great new talent. The hype can be crazymaking, but it can be built on love. We all wish we could be in the theater for the next AbracaDeborah. CW

n the Tuesday of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, social media exploded with response to a movie called AbracaDeborah. Starring Kristen Wiig and James Marsden, it was praised on Twitter by profesional critics as “a statement on human loneliness,” “wondrous” and “profound, heartbreaking and sublime.” Also, the movie didn’t actually exist. Initiated as a lark by Uproxx critic Mike Ryan, the gag made its way through a filmwriters party (full disclosure: I was one of those participating). It hit Twitter hard enough that the offical @SundanceFestNow account had to ask, “Please, please maniacs— stop DM’ing us about whether or not there are tickets available to AbracaDeborah.” And it provided a marvelous lesson in the way hype can take control of the festival conversation: Everyone is so eager to be on board with the Next Big Thing, it almost doesn’t even matter if that thing is actually a thing. As it happened, many of the festival’s most talked-about movies actually deserved the attention. Nate Parker’s incendiary The Birth of a Nation—about slave-preacher Nat Turner and the 1831 insurrection he led—landed the biggest distribution deal in festival history ($17.5 million), ahead of the film winning both the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. Reaction was similarly euphoric for Kenneth Lonergan’s latest grief study Manchester by the Sea, featuring a stunning lead performance by Casey Affleck; it pulled in yet another eight-figure deal via Netflix and Roadside Attractions. But “buzz” took a different turn with respect to another high-profile U.S. Dramatic Competition’s entry: Swiss Army Man, starring Paul Dano as a man stranded on a deserted island who gets a chance at salvation when Birth of a Nation a dead body (Daniel Radcliffe) washes ashore. Industry reports focused on walkouts at the premiere screen- central performances. On the lighter side, ing, as it became obvious that a central plot Jacqueline (Argentine) turned a fake docupoint was that the dead body’s intestinal mentary about a would-be government congases could have a useful purpose. Those re- spiracy whistleblower into a story about makports ignored the reality that walk-outs at ing something from nothing; aside from its Sundance premieres are, historically, almost goofy humor at the expense of the director’s entirely based on industry types who have flailing attempts at manufacturing drama, it decided that they can’t sell the movie, and became an almost heartbreaking look at the are thus racing off to see something else they things we do to try leave a mark in the world. might be able to sell. As a result, Swiss Army But mostly, what a festival like Sundance

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Man’s Sundance coverage went overwhelmingly for describing it as the “farting corpse movie,” ignoring the way that filmmakers Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan created a lovely exploration of how the things we find shameful and embarrassing keep people isolated. The focus on big-buzz stories also too often relegates some of the festival’s best movies to the sidelines, because they don’t have the biggest stars or inspire the biggest bidding wars. The single best film at Sundance 2016 may have been Tickled, a New Zealand documentary about a journalist whose initially light-hearted inquiries about “competitive endurance tickling” videos he found online leads him into a darkly fascinating story full of cyberbullying and legal threats. While, on some level, this is an inspiring story about a reporter doing the hard, potentially dangerous work of exposing a criminal, it also digs into hidden fetish subcultures, and how it might twist people that those subcultures need to remain hidden—and does all of this while remaining thoroughly entertaining. The lower profile World Cinema categories also produced two wildly different festival highlights. Elite Zexer’s World Cinema Grand Jury Prize-winning Sand Storm— set in an Israeli Bedouin community—explores topics like patriarchy and arranged marriages in a way that never feels like a lecture, while showcasing a trio of superb

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NEW THIS WEEK Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change. 45 YEARS BBBB Cinematic adaptations of short stories can seem like a risky business, but writer/director Andrew Haigh finds the emotional power that a single revelation can hold over decades of history. The film spans a week in the lives of British couple Geoff and Kate Mercer (Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling) leading up to a party for their 45th wedding anniversary, after Geoff learns that the body of his girlfriend before Kate—lost during a Swiss mountaineering holiday—has been discovered. Haigh brilliantly structures the story around the routines of the Mercers’ lives like a morning dog walk, providing a framework for details about Geoff’s previous relationship that affect each of them in different ways. And the two lead performances are magnificent: Courtenay conveying Geoff’s struggle to avoid contemplating a life that never was, and Rampling the crumbling belief that the life she had was never meant to be. It all builds to a finale that captures two colliding realities in the lives of these two people: the profound wish to focus on the happiness of those 45 years, and the suspicion that nothing can be the same after this one week. Opens Feb. 5 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—Scott Renshaw

ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED SHORT FILMS—LIVE ACTION BBB.5 If these five excellent films can be said to have a unifying theme, it’s this: We’re not alone. That is always comforting to hear, and these films all say it so well that picking a best from among them is tough. But picking a favorite is easy. It’s Day One, from former U.S. Army paratrooper Henry Hughes, about the really rough first day a new interpreter (the absolutely marvelous Layla Alizada) has with a band of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Close behind is Ave Maria, from British-Palestinian filmmaker Basil Khalil, a comedy of culture clash as Israeli settlers in the West Bank must work together with Arab Christian nuns after a car accident outside their convent. The other nominees are Everything Will Be Okay, from German filmmaker Patrick Vollrath, about a divorced dad who picks up his young daughter for an overnight visit that will not be like their typical weekend; Shok, from British filmmaker Jamie Donoughue, a coming-of-age tale set in Serb-occupied Kosovo in

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ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED SHORT FILMS—ANIMATED BBBB Whatever it is that they’re feeding the people who select Oscar nominees in this category, can they please give some to the rest of the Academy? There’s a staggering amount of talent, imagination, emotion and creativity on display in this program, which features the five nominees as well as four additional shorts by such animators as Bill Plympton and Cordell Barker. Even

if you’ve already seen the two most familiar nominees—Don Hertzfeldt’s epic-of-human-experience World of Tomorrow and the Pixar entry Sanjay’s Super Team that was shown with The Good Dinosaur—you’ll get a fresh look at some of 2015’s best filmmaking of any kind. Gabriel Osorio’s Bear Story tells the beautifully heartbreaking tale of a bear using his mechanical skills to create a happy ending. Konstatin Bronzit’s We Can’t Live Without the Cosmos chronicles the special friendship between two men training to be astronauts. And Prologue, by veteran Disney animator Richard Williams (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) is an intense pencil-sketched snippet of ancient warriors in bloody combat. “Everyone deserves to win” may be a cliché, but for this collection of masterworks, it applies. Opens Feb. 5 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—SR

THE CHOICE [not yet reviewed] Another Nicholas Sparks tale of white people (Benjamin Walker and Teresa Palmer) falling in perhaps-tragic love. Opens Feb. 5 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) HAIL, CAESAR! [not yet reviewed] Coen brothers farce about chaos breaking out at a 1950s Hollywood studio when a movie star is kidnapped. Opens Feb. 5 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) PRIDE & PREJUDICE & ZOMBIES [not yet reviewed] Empire waists and the undead: a classic combination. Opens Feb. 5 at theaters valleywide. (R) REGRESSION B Writer/director Alejandro Amenábar (The Others) would like you to believe that Regression is based on a true story, probably hoping to elevate its solemn silliness into the plausible. It doesn’t work. Yes, in the 1980s and 1990s, mass hysteria about Satanic cults murdering babies (and worse) did indeed sweep the United States. But the details of this story are wholly invented, and where Amenábar takes them does no justice to the phenomenon, and ends up in a place that is repulsive, and perhaps even dangerous. In 1990 Minnesota, cop Bruce Kenner (Ethan Hawke) begins investigating a case of child abuse against a teenager (Emma Watson), and eventually unravels what looks to be a vast Satanic conspiracy in the small town. Preposterousness rules: It’s appallingly unlikely, say, that the shrink (David Thewlis ) Kenner brings in to interview victims doesn’t realize how much he’s leading them toward the answers he wants. Vulnerable, suggestible people in real similar cases did indeed “remember” things that never happened, but if those false memories were implanted in so blatant a way as we see here, Amenábar has missed a much bigger story. Opens Feb. 5 at Megaplex St. George. (R)—MAJ

SPECIAL SCREENINGS AUTISM IN LOVE At Rose Wagner Center, Feb. 10, 7 p.m. (NR) HANDS UP At Edison Street Silent Films, Feb. 4-5, 7:30 p.m. (NR)

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CURRENT RELEASES FIFTY SHADES OF BLACK B With A Haunted House, A Haunted House 2 and now Fifty Shades of Black, Marlon Wayans has proven that he doesn’t need any help from his brothers to make a truly awful spoof. This is probably a great source of pride for him at family gatherings: “Did you see how low the Rotten Tomatoes score was on that last one?” Marlon Wayans must say. “I did that without you.” Working again with director Michael Tiddes and co-writer Rick Alvarez, Wayans stars in this filthy, witless parody of Fifty Shades of Grey (a movie no one took seriously in the first place), with Kali Hawk as the naïve college student who falls under his spell. Expect a few “black people do it like this” jokes, a lot of wang talk and Florence Henderson cameo-ing as a dominatrix. Do not expect to laugh. (R)—Eric D. Snider

KUNG FU PANDA 3 BB.5 Kung Fu Panda 2 improbably found another satisfying story in a character who should have lost all his charm with the acquisition of power at the end of the first movie. But Dragon Warrior Po (Jack Black) returns again to battle a powerful supernatural menace (J. K. Simmons) who is continuing a centuries-long, across-spiritual-planes battle with Master Oogway (Randall Duk Kim). Additional emotional resonance comes in Po’s reintroduction to the panda community—including his birth father (Bryan Cranston)—while returning Kung Fu Panda 2 director Jennifer Yuh guides action sequences that mix energetic choreography with often-dazzling visual design. But Black’s Po rarely taps into the earnest silliness that made him so much fun in the previous two films. All that’s left is for him to learn the same lesson in self-confidence that he’s already learned twice before, with diminishing returns. (PG)—SR

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THE FINEST HOURS BB The real-life rescue of the men trapped aboard the SS Pendleton—an oil tanker ripped in half during a terrible storm in 1952—has been turned into a family-friendly movie that treats its characters with respect, but all rough edges have been sanded away by the Disney Machine. Coast Guard Boatswain’s

Mate 1st Class Bernie Webber (Chris Pine) is the stoic rulefollower who decides not to follow the rules; he will rescue those guys! Ray Sibert (Casey Affleck) is the Pendleton’s engineer who reluctantly assumes control of the tanker; he’s not going to let his shipmates die! They’re archetypes, and the screenplay doesn’t let them develop beyond archetypes. That’s a pity, because director Craig Gillespie doesn’t inject any sense of struggle, daring or danger into what, in real life, must have been a huge struggle, impossibly daring, and unfathomably dangerous. (PG-13) —David Riedel

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Animals Friday, Feb. 5 (HBO)

Series Debut: HBO’s history with animated series is sparse but solid; the most recent network original, canceled 201012 obscurity The Life & Times of Tim, was a dry, hilarious slice of weirdness that more than deserved a second chance on Adult Swim (come on, HBO and Adult Swim are owned by the same media megacorp—why can’t we bring Family Guy Tim back from the grave, already?). Anyway: The new Animals comes from the Duplass brothers, the guys who brought you HBO’s Togetherness and many a far-less-watchable indieflick, and this sharply drawn cartoon hints that maybe the bros have been wasting their time on humans. Animals follows the daily lives of dogs, cats, rats, mice, horses, birds and bugs in New York City, arguably the worst residence on earth for wildlife. The tropes are NYC comedy-typical (relationships, racial tensions, jealousies, being swallowed by snakes, etc.), but Animals’ deep bench of voice talents and clever critter-specific writing makes even 30 seconds of a rat with a podcast (voiced by Marc Maron, of course) more entertaining than the 79 minutes of the Duplasses’ The Overnight that I’ll never get back. However, you probably won’t want to live with a pet ever again.

Manson’s Lost Girls Saturday, Feb. 6 (Lifetime)

Movie: Everything’s coming up Manson! Not only will NBC’s Aquarius, wherein David Duchovny hunts 1960s cult-leader-in-the-making Charles Manson, return this year, now there’s a Lifetime movie about the original hipster. More accurately, as per the title, Manson’s Lost Girls is about Linda Kasabian (MacKenzie Mauzy), Susan Atkins (Eden Brolin) and Leslie Van Houten (Greer Grammer), teen girls lured into Manson’s SoCal Spahn Ranch commune by free love, drugs and, just where The Man said it would lead, the occasional murder spree. This movie’s Manson (Jeff Ward) is at least more menacing than Aquarius’ hippie bore, but the already-unnecessary Manson’s Lost Girls didn’t even license the better tunes of the time (The Turtles? Donovan? Bummer).

Super Bowl 50 Sunday, Feb. 7 (CBS)

Sportsball Event: I’ve been calling for dropping the pretentious Roman numerals from the Super Bowl ever since this column launched in the late ’70s in the back of The Koupon Klipper, and it’s finally happened! Vindication! And now I suppose the National Felons League (Ha! See what I did there?) will be looking for some free ink on their little football match this year—not going to happen. The Carolina Putas and the Denver Bunkos … eh, close enough … will have to scramble for publicity on their own, and the less said about the halftime show (Coldplay … seriously, Coldplay), the better. Wait, what? The Roman numerals will be back in 2017? Oh, you bastards.

Full Frontal With Samantha Bee Monday, Feb. 8 (TBS)

Series Debut: The late-night talk show “sausage fest,” as former Daily Show correspondent Samantha Bee calls it, has settled into a predictable groove: Jimmy Fallon does celebrity playtime, Stephen Colbert remains too smart for ’Merica, Jimmy Kimmel snags the A-listers, James Corden does celebrity playtime on MDMA and Carson Daly is … still on, right? Meanwhile, Trevor Noah and Larry Wilmore are trying like hell to return their Comedy Central block to greatness, and my two personal favorites, Seth Meyers and Conan O’Brien, still manage to surprise occasionally.

Animals (HBO) So what does Conan’s new nightly lead-in, Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, bring to the fray? Since, like you, I haven’t seen the show yet, I’ll say … a vagina. Late night is better already!

Not Safe With Nikki Glaser Tuesday, Feb. 9 (Comedy Central)

Series Debut: Between Chelsea Lately and Full Frontal, MTV gave two women a shot in late-night talk: 2013’s Nikki & Sara Live was one of the funniest and freshest shows the network ever launched—so, naturally, it had to be canceled after 24 episodes. In her new series sans Sara Schaefer, Nikki Glaser will focus less on celebrity pop culture and get right down to topics like “losing your virginity, masturbation and putting stuff in your butt!” Not Safe is a sexand-relationships talk show with fellow-comedian interviews and pre-taped bits—it’s been done before, but Glaser has the smarts and presence to eventually rise to the comic level of Chelsea Handler and Amy Schumer. Also, she’s on Comedy Central, not MTV, so maybe she’ll be around for a while. Listen to Bill on Mondays at 8 a.m. on X96 Radio From Hell; weekly on the TV Tan podcast via iTunes, Stitcher and BillFrost.tv.

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ictionist has mostly kept a low profile since its 2014 debut LP. But that doesn’t mean that the brothers behind the band—lead singer Stuart Maxfield and his songwriting partner and Fictionist’s erstwhile manager Andrew Maxfield—haven’t been busy. The Maxfields have spent the past year preparing a musical retelling of a story that takes place during the Civil War—an ambitious departure from the taut electro-pop Fictionist is known for. But Andrew Maxfield, the show’s producer and co-songwriter, makes clear that this is not a Fictionist project. It’s a collaboration that he and his brother have wanted to do ever since the full-time job of Fictionist made working together on their own music more difficult. “It’s been 10 years since we have really done something together,” Andrew says. The project, titled The Bridge, is based on the 1890 Ambrose Bierce short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” The production includes an orchestra, video projections, actors and Stuart Maxfield at center stage serving as a musical narrator. The show, Andrew hopes, will provide a kind of concert hall experience that has the energy of a rock show. Andrew admits he had the idea for how the show should feel long before he had settled on what it would be. It started in late 2014, when Mark Ammons, the jazz ensemble director at Brigham Young University, asked Fictionist to collaborate for a live jazz show. “Something kind of fun and unexpected happened,” Andrew says. “When I sat down in the concert hall, I realized I was having this cool musical experience that really worked.” When Ammons asked if they wanted to do something else together, he became obsessed with trying to re-create that experience. Andrew and Stuart decided to dive into the project without the rest of Fictionist, and they spent the rest of 2015 figuring it out from there. “The thing I knew, kind of at an instinct level, is I wanted to do a show that is story-based,” Andrew says. “What I did not want to do was have characters on stage singing in first person.” So while The Bridge is a story told through music, it stops short of being a musical in the traditional sense. The music, a cold electronic dirge that captures the impending death and dark irony described in Bierce’s story, is the main character, supported by a small cast of

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such as Polytype, Kid Theodore and Eyes Lips Eyes, haven’t played together in years. Others, like Fictionist, have brought back former members to play old songs. “One of the bands just called me the Maury Povich of the Provo music scene,” says Fox, “for all of the mediating I’ve had to do … to help mend the broken bridges. It has been really fulfilling to see some of these friendships rekindled. Some of these bands are making huge sacrifices to play these shows.” The shows coming down the pike for the next few weeks are dream combinations for local music fans. The array of bands between Feb. 5-18 include Location Location, Code Hero, Shark Speed, The New Nervous, John Allred, A Film in the Ballroom, Kissed Out, Abby Normal, Broke and Al Deans. But the occasion itself isn’t just about the bands. For the first time ever, Velour has merchandise, specially made for the event with the help of artist Travis Bone. The items include a limited-edition T-shirt, screenprinted posters and a double-album compilation featuring tracks by many of the bands that have played at the venue over the past decade. Fox wants to emphasize that Velour may have started with his vision, but reaching this milestone is due to the efforts of many. He credits Johnson, who he calls “basically a personal PR company for all of these upcoming bands,” as well as Velour’s employees and volunteers for accepting “way less [compensation] than they deserved to further a cause.” Fox also applauds the community, and Provo Mayor John R. Curtis, for embracing Velour as a positive influence, “rather than the bad element they were originally [concerned it would be].” Most of the credit, however, he saves for the bands and their fans, who continue to frequent Velour and “keep our doors open.” CW

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Jug bands. Need more be said? With San Francisco group The Brothers Comatose, there actually is more to be said. While not technically a jug band, TBC is certainly making music that reminds listeners of something they might hear in Frontierland at Disneyland, but with a much more endearing quality to it. It’s more than just acoustic Americana. Brothers Alex and Ben Morrison, who front the band, formed TBC from their fond recollections of their mother singing folk songs, and in time they had accompaniment, going from just a guitar and banjo to adding mandolin, bass and fiddle. With their first two albums under their belt, the group presents City Painted Gold (self-released) as a love letter to the San Francisco of their childhood, and a lamentation on what the brothers see as the heart and soul of the famous Haight-Ashbury district where they lived and grew up. The Brothers Comatose are like Mumford & Sons, but they don’t get tiring after one listen—the music stays bright, pleasing and exuberant. With Hectic Hobo. (DB) O.P. Rockwell, 628 Main, Park City, 9 p.m., $17-28, OPRockwell.com

SUNDAY 2.07 Rubedo

Rubedo, the Latin word for “redness,” was appropriated by alchemists to describe the final stage of their process of transforming base metals into gold or other

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noble metals or substances. Denver band Rubedo also seems like they partake of the act of refining a certain kind of sound—call it “transgressive synth-pop” or indie rock’s version of prog. Comparisons with Mars Volta are apt, as Ikey Owens of that band and the Jack White Band often accompanies this trio, and he produced both of the band’s full-length releases, Massa Confusa (20 Sided Records, 2012) and Love Is The Answer (self-released, 2014). Rather than the platitude it might seem, the title of the latter implies gazing into the multifaceted complexities of being alive—no small part of that being the sonic explorations upon which they embark and that beckon the listener to follow. Opening are Rubedo’s Mile High City neighbors Holophrase, local avant-punk group Soft Limbs and Magic

The Brothers Comatose Mint, aka musical magician Andrew Shaw. (BS) Kilby Court, 741 S. 330 West, 7 p.m., $6, KilbyCourt.com

MONDAY 2.08 Enforcer, Warbringer

Thrash metal came alive with the likes of Metallica and Megadeth, and it stays alive in the hearts of Warbringer. They came together as high school friends and, a decade later, are still banging heads with hard, fast, pounding music. The lineup has changed its fair share, but the vibe is still the same, injecting fresh blood into the age-old genre. They’ve kept the mile-aminute tempos, complete with plenty of double-bass thumping and tremolo picking, and put their own spin on it, combining the lyrical themes of thrash with speed metal, and the guitar techniques and melodies of black and death metal. With Warbringer comes Swedish powerhouse Enforcer. Having formed in the same year as Warbringer, Enforcer is—along with bands like Holy Grail and White Wizzard— part of the New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal—a non-denominational revival of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (which spawned Iron Maiden, Saxon and Tygers of Pan Tang), with the same studsand-leather look, operatic vocals and speedy guitar riffing. As Warbringer keeps thrash alive, so does Enforcer keep classic heavy metal an undying phenomenon. (DB) In the Venue, 219 S. 600 West, 8 p.m., $15, InTheVenueSLC.com

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Whew! Blues luminary Mark Hummel’s assemblage of musicians invokes the nicknames of two of the more sizeable states of the union, both with their share of lore. Born in the unlikely locale of New Haven, Conn., Hummel has for several decades taken on the mantle of journeyman blues harmonica hero, to the extent of a Grammy nomination and two Blues Music Awards. Lone Star guitar legend Anson Funderburgh joins Hummel, as well as Alligator Records recording artist, guitarist Little Charlie Baty. Together with Austin, Texas, bassist R.W. Grigsby and drummer Wes Starr, they form the Blues Survivors, a unit that shows the genre to be alive and kicking, to put it mildly. Local blues combo Tony Holiday and the Velvetones, nominated for Best Blues Artist in City Weekly’s Best of Utah Music 2016, kicks things off. (BS) The State Room, 638 S. State, 8 p.m., $17, TheStateRoomSLC.com

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David Bowie was a pop icon known, more than anything else, for being a musical shapeshifter, taking on a seemingly infinite number of different identities and costumes. The loss of the Thin White Duke has shaken fans of his work, because he prompted us all to look at ourselves more closely, and ponder the myriad of identities available to us as we never had before. The Urban Lounge is hosting this tribute to Bowie’s work, featuring locals Rumble Gums, whose music contains elements of rock and hip-hop; dark bluesy outfit Daisy and the Moonshines; psych-surf combo ’90s Television; “neofolkelectronidelia” band Coyote Vision Group; and DJ Nix Beat. Each of these local acts will pay homage to the departed music legend with their unique interpretations of Bowie’s unique genius, in a show that is but a small example of the immense influence he had on musicians in a wide array of genres. (BS) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 8 p.m., $3, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

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Outside of his main gig, Phish, virtuoso bassist Mike Gordon is most prolific. Overstep (Megaplum/ATO), released in 2014, is his fifth solo studio album—seventh, counting two collabs with guitarist Leo Kottke. When you factor in his seven official live releases, and realize they all dropped in the last 12 years, that’s impressive. With Overstep, Gordon cedes control to producer Paul Q. Kolderie (known more for his rock work with the Pixies and Radiohead), for a batch of sonically inventive tunes that have the free-floating feel of Phish tunes, but with a rock focus. Not that Gordon’s jammy tendencies are a bad thing—when great songs and stellar musicianship collide, you’re in for a great show. (Randy Harward) Park City Live, 427 Main, 9 p.m., $25, ParkCityLive.net

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) The African Association was a 19th-century British group dedicated to exploring West Africa. Its members hoped to remedy Europeans’ ignorance about the area’s geography. In one of the Association’s most ambitious projects, it commissioned an TAURUS (April 20-May 20) The archaic English word “quaintrelle” refers to a woman who adventurer named Henry Nicholls to discover the origin and to treats her life as a work of art. She is passionate about cultivating chart the course of the legendary Niger River. Nicholls and his beauty and pleasure and wit in everything she is and does. But crew set out by ship in their quest, traveling north up a river she’s not a narcissistic socialite. She’s not a snooty slave to elitist that emptied into the Gulf of Guinea. They didn’t realize, and notions of style. Her aim is higher and sweeter: to be an impec- never figured out, that they were already on the Niger River. cable, well-crafted fount of inspiration and blessings. I propose I’m wondering if there’s a comparable situation going on in your that we resuscitate and tinker with this term, and make it available life, Scorpio. You may be looking for something that you have to you. In 2016, you Tauruses of all genders will be inclined to already found. incorporate elements of the quaintrelle, and you will also be skilled at doing so. If you have not yet dived in to this fun work, start now. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Richard P. Feynman was a brilliant physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 1965 for his pioneering work in quantum electrodyGEMINI (May 21-June 20) Sufi teacher (and Gemini) Idries Shah offered this teaching: namics. He also played the bongo drums and was a competent “They say that when Fortune knocks, you should open the door. artist. But excessive pride was not a problem for him. “I’m smart But why should you make Fortune knock, by keeping the door enough to know that I’m dumb,” he testified. “The first prinshut?” Let’s make this your featured meditation, Gemini. If there ciple is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest is anywhere in your life where proverbial doors are shut—either person to fool.” I suggest you adopt him as your role model for in the world outside of you or the world inside of you—unlock the next two weeks, Sagittarius. All of us need periodic remindthem and open them wide. Make it easy for Fortune to reach you. ers that we’ve got a lot to learn, and this is your time. Be extra vigilant in protecting yourself from your own misinformation and misdirection. CANCER (June 21-July 22) Many Cancerians harbor a chronic ache of melancholy about what they’re missing. The unavailable experience in question could be an CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) adventure they wish they were having or an absent ally they long to be Food connoisseur Anthony Bourdain has a TV show that near or a goal they wish they had time to pursue. That’s the bad news. enables him to travel the globe indulging in his love of exotic cuiThe good news is that you can harness the chronic ache. In fact, it’s sine. He takes his sensual delights seriously. In Charleston, S.C., your birthright as a Cancerian to do so. If you summon the willpower he was ecstatic to experience the flavorful bliss of soft-shell to pull yourself up out of the melancholy, you can turn its mild poison crab with lemon pasta and shaved bottarga. “Frankly,” he told into a fuel that drives you to get at least some of what you’ve been his dining companion, “I’d slit my best friend’s throat for this.” Bourdain was exaggerating for comic effect, but I’m concerned missing. Now is a favorable time to do just that. you may actually feel that strongly about the gratifications that are almost within your grasp. I have no problem with you getting LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) How will the next chapter of your story unfold? I suspect there are super-intense in pursuit of your enjoyment. But please stop two possible scenarios. In one version, the abundance of choices short of taking extreme measures. You know why. overwhelms you. You get bogged down in an exciting but debilitating muddle, and become frazzled, frenetic and overwrought. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) In the other possible scenario, you navigate your way through the You may sometimes be drawn to people or places or ideas long lavish freedom with finesse. Your intuition reveals exactly how to before they can give you their gifts. Although you sense their make good use of the fertile contradictions. You’re crafty, adapt- potential value, you might have to ripen before you’ll be ready able and effective. So which way will you go? How will the tale to receive their full bounty. Here’s how author Elias Canetti unfold? I think it’s completely up to you. Blind fate will have little expressed it: “There are books that one has for 20 years withto do with it. For best results, all you have to do is stay in close out reading them, that one always keeps at hand, yet one carefully refrains from reading even a complete sentence. Then after touch with the shining vision of what you really want. 20 years, there comes a moment when suddenly, as though under a high compulsion, one cannot help taking in such a book VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “To hell with my suffering,” wrote Arthur Rimbaud in his poem “May from beginning to end, at one sitting: It is like a revelation.” I Banners.” I suggest you make that your mantra for now. Anytime you foresee a comparable transition happening for you, Aquarius. feel a sour thought impinging on your perceptions, say, “To hell with my suffering.” And then immediately follow it up with an expostula- PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) tion from another Rimbaud poem, “It’s all too beautiful.” Be ruthless The Leaning Tower of Pisa is eight stories high, including its about this, Virgo. If you sense an imminent outbreak of pettiness, or if belfry, and tilts sideways at a four-degree angle. When builders a critical voice in your head blurts out a curse, or if a pesky ghost nags started construction back in 1173, they laid a weak foundation you, simply say, “To hell with my suffering,” and then, “It’s all too in unstable soil, and the building has never stood straight since beautiful.” In this way, you can take advantage of the fact that you now then. And yet it is the most lucrative tourist attraction in the city of Pisa, and one of the Top 10 in Italy. 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