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SMART FILES After 14 years, the Elizabeth Smart police report sees the light of day.

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After 14 years, the Elizabeth Smart police report sees the light of day. Cover by Derek Carlisle

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LETTERS The new courthouse is an ugly, scary box

The new federal courthouse displays a prominent example of European “New Brutalism” architecture within Utah. GSA project manager Al Camp’s commission for the building architects to serve the judges completely misses the point that government is designed to meet the needs and aspirations of the public. In the past, courthouses were architectural knockoffs of Greek and Roman civilizations, perhaps because of their philosophical and/or spiritual quests defining good and evil. The new courthouse gives utterly no exterior hint of its purpose other than some industrial-type activity. It is an example of how blind some federal bureaucrats can be in seeing the sensitivities of the locals. This should have been an easy, stately building design. Most times when I take Trax by the old federal courthouse, I think of the numerous cases in which federal prosecutors and the courts were able to resolve cases, which, for one reason or another, could not find justice in local or Utah state courts. They were truly dragon slayers in many cases. Every time I drive by the new federal courthouse I think, “Gosh, what an ugly, scary box that is!”

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Trax rules need to be enforced

The Utah Transit Authority should be defunded. Why? Because they fail to enforce their rules, such as no smoking or skating at the train stations, no foul language and no feet on the seats of the train. They also refuse to have Trax police on the trains. Yesterday, while I was riding on train car No. 1163, there were two boys sitting behind me, wanting to shoot rubber bands, and had I not said something to them, they would have shot a rubber band that could have hit me in the head. I have seen people smoking cigs or asking for money on the platform. This has got to stop. I have seen people skateboarding on the platform, but Trax police laugh at my complaints and look the other way. I complained to the Salt Lake City Council, but they just let it go in one ear and out the other. If Trax police won’t do their job, then I suggest they be replaced by the Utah National Guard or the United States military. Enough said.

Medicare, Medicaid and all of the city, county, state and federal agencies, etc., are all socialist agencies/systems. They are definitely not failures; a few of them just need reform. For example, if Medicare were to include all adults and children, and be financed by a progressive health tax upon all employed citizens and businesses earning more than the federal poverty level, it would not need government funding, nor would it cause any debt. The Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, private health insurance, HMOs, PPOs, etc., would all go away. The taxes collected would go into a Medicare checking account, held by four large private banks. The funds would pay the private medical providers. This system has both private enterprise aspects and socialist aspects, and would be better than the systems used by Canada or the European countries.

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OPINION

The Draft

A lot of people thought the federal government should help with the contaminatedwater problem in Flint, Mich. Said Sen. Mike Lee: “I respectfully object.” A lot of people believe the Senate should hold hearings the president’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Said Sen. Mike Lee: “I respectfully dissent.” A lot of people and most senators hate Ted Cruz. Said Sen. Mike Lee from a Florida dais in March: “It is time to unite” around Cruz as the GOP nominee. A lot of people in Utah have been targeted by the right-wing Super PAC FreedomWorks for America with re-election ads for Sen. Mike Lee asserting he has been “making Utah proud.” I respectfully dissent. I think Lee is often an embarrassment to Utah. Recent examples include singlehandedly blocking federal aid to Flint and a piece of specious legislation titled “Only Congress Can Change The Draft Act.” The latter represents Lee’s knee-jerk response to a congressional hearing in which the Commandant of the Marine Corps and the Army Chief of Staff testified in favor of registering women in the Selective Service System (SSS). Opined Sen. Lee: “There is a real danger that either the Obama administration or federal courts could try to change current policy and force American women into combat.” With Armed Forces Day coming up on May 21, it is a good time to examine the current policy Lee wants to shield from “unelected bureaucrats and judges.” The country’s first military draft was in 1917. After World War I, an on-again, off-again draft became a lottery in 1969. It was eliminated in 1973 coincident with the military’s shift to an all-volunteer force. Then, in 1980, as the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, the SSS was resurrected. At the moment, all male citizens must register with SSS within 30 days of their 18th birthday. Meanwhile, more and more women were enlisting. They now make up 15 percent of the force. Restrictions on where they serve have been eased. In 2013 the Pentagon lift-

ed the ban on women in combat units, and, at the request of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the four services were given three years to “implement these initiatives successfully without sacrificing our war-fighting capability or the trust of the American people.” At the time, Lee wasn’t interested in what the Pentagon was doing. He was playing Sancho Panza to Cruz’s Don Quixote, a performance that ultimately cost the economy $24 billion and shut down government services for 16 days. The three-year implementation period ended in December with an announcement by the Secretary of Defense. “There will be no exceptions,” he said. Women “will be allowed to drive tanks, fire mortars and lead infantry soldiers into combat. They’ll be able to serve as Army Rangers and Green Berets, Navy SEALs, Marine Corps infantry, Air Force parajumpers and everything else that was previously open only to men.” Lee had little to say even as two women graduated from the Army’s grueling Ranger School amid great fanfare. He did defend his parliamentary maneuver to withhold federal aid from Flint, however. Said Lee: “The only thing Congress is contributing to the Flint recovery is political grandstanding.” To which I say, it takes a grandstander to know one. Lee’s grandstanding on SSS policy is embarrassing because it is so simplistic. Conscription is a 20th century artifact. Lee was 2 years old when it was last used. It is unbecoming for such a bright guy to be raising alarms about women being forced into rifle platoons and howitzer crews. Had Lee any military experience, he would realize it ain’t gonna happen regardless of changes to SSS registration rules. A self-described reformer, Lee advocates “open, rigorous, transparent debate about ideas.” In this case, the idea deserving debate is not so much about bringing the SSS in line with 21st century norms as it is about

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a citizen’s responsibility vis-a-vis the national defense. Who should don a uniform to protect the homeland? Only men? Only volunteers? Everyone? These are important questions for Lee to address if he is really serious about reform. The SSS is predicated on the fact that the government can impress 18- to 25-year-olds into the military when the need arises. However, for the last 40-plus years, our all-volunteer military has sufficed. When you get down to cases, then, all that America requires of the citizenry is to pay taxes, vote and serve on juries. That modest investment returns outsized dividends—chiefly in the area of security— and it is ironic that the majority has come to expect a tiny minority will do the heavy lifting. Is it fair that 1 percent of the population endures successive combat deployments while the rest of us take our ease? Answering that question inevitably leads to an idea promoted by the Aspen Institute—universal national service. Crafted by such notables as Jon Huntsman, Robert Gates and Ariana Huffington, the Franklin Project proposes a year of fulltime national service as “a civic rite of passage for every young American.” While they could choose to serve in such areas as “health, poverty, conservation or education,” the military would be an attractive option to many—maybe even to Lee’s three children. Armed Forces Day is this weekend. Since 1950, the third Saturday in May has been designated as a day for educating the public about the military and for honoring those who serve in uniform. It is an opportunity for Lee to make me proud. As a member of the Armed Services Committee, he could lead a debate on national service. As a father, he could instill in his kids the importance of serving their country in uniform. CW

May 21 is National Armed Forces Day. How will you celebrate it?

WHO SHOULD DON A UNIFORM TO PROTECT THE HOMELAND? ONLY MEN? ONLY VOLUNTEERS? EVERYONE?

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Doug Kruithof : Not quite sure. Probably doing something peaceful.

Scott Renshaw: Maybe I’ll think a little bit about the flukes of birth and time that meant I never had to risk my life for a greater good, and think respectfully about all those who do.

Pete Saltas: On the May 21, my sister will be championing her way through a triathlon in St. George. Meanwhile, I’ll be attempting my first marathon aka Burger Week during that time. Both require ample training periods well in advance. I’ve been passively training for Burger Week my whole life. Neither have anything to do with Armed Forces Day, but you know where to find us.

Jeremiah Smith: I am fixin’ to soak my bones in booze and hot spring water in Lava. My favorite overnight getaway.

Mason Rodrickc: I would like to say that I’ll spend that day Googling what that day is, but in all honesty, I just did, and now I feel bad because my dad is in the military and I have never heard of this. I’ll be visiting him.

Lisa Dorelli: I’ll celebrate it by flying to L.A. to go see my favorite band in the world, the Cure, and having more of my dreams coming true.

Tyeson Rogers: By celebrating my Second Amendment right to shoot guns and blow stuff up ... ’Merica!

Randy Harward: I’ll buy a new bumper sticker. Online. Then I’ll drink domestic light beer and watch Stolen Valor videos.

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Despite attempts to ensure that public business is just that, the quest for transparency in government is a long-shot at best. The good news is that, after decades of cloak-and-dagger business at Dugway Proving Ground, the U.S. Army recently released logs of thousands of experiments there. Fox News reporter Ben Winslow’s story revealed curious experiments involving “weaponized mosquitoes” and others that reveal what activist Steve Erickson calls a “long legacy of human experimentation.” On the immediate front, the Utah Transit Authority was outed by its nemesis, The Salt Lake Tribune. UTA admitted closing its committee doors to the public because “you screw us up.” And the State Records Committee agreed with the Utah Rivers Council that the Washington County Water Conservancy District should release documents on the repayment plan for the Lake Powell Pipeline, St. George’s The Spectrum reports. Transparency is a never-ending battle.

Renters Beware

If you’re looking to rent in Salt Lake City, you’d better be ready to pay. Apartment complexes are springing up to meet the perceived population boom coming by 2020, but that population had better be flush with cash. A University of Utah report shows vacancy rates now at a mere 3 percent, sending developers into a building frenzy. But a two-bedroom unit could cost you $1,400 a month. The Deseret News, which reported on the trend, editorialized about the increasing homelessness, quoting Mike Akerlow, Salt Lake City’s director of housing and neighborhood development, saying “if Salt Lake City were to get every tax credit in the state, it would still take us 15 years to fill that gap of 8,000 units.” Policy makers need to see that government intervention is critical.

Preserve Utah

While many Utahns would prefer mandates for conservation, they can at least see some willingness to tackle the problems. St. George’s The Spectrum reported on the “Petroglyph Patrol,” a volunteer effort to protect some of Utah’s amazing ancient rock sites. During the busiest visitation days, volunteers will monitor the sites, talk to visitors and report vandalism or looting. The state has not been big on preservation efforts, but there’s a growing realization that historic treasures cannot be replaced. Whether people’s health can be preserved is another problem. Utahns have long been asked to be aware of air pollution, and now the Utah Division of Water Resources has launched a water conservation initiative, H2Oath, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. Residents, though, need to do more than promise.

The Utah Department of Health has a preparedness and emergency response program that includes managing Utah’s portion of something called the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), as well as maintaining an Emergency System for Advanced Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR/VHP). In a State of Utah Department of Health office in Salt Lake City, Brett Cross is our manager of all this.

There are a lot of initials in the title SNS/ESAR-VHP Manager, Preparedness Program. What is it that you do?

I am kind of the counter measure program manager. I plan for responses to biological and chemical terrorist events and I have a logistics role to make sure there is adequate supply of professionals and antibiotics for things like anthrax, for instance.

Looks like you have to keep track of a lot of assets. How did you train for this?

My background includes time as an EMT, then military service in Afghanistan, ten years as a National Guard Medic and then under the GI Bill I got a degree in emergency services administration from UVU. In this current job, we do all the logistics, including four portable 25 bed hospitals to deploy where needed, mass casualty trailers, communications equipment and medical equipment to respond to all emergencies. Also, we maintain a database that has registered approximately 3,500 volunteer health professionals.

You coordinate these services with other agencies around the state?

Yeah, we have lots of meetings, we do frequent equipment checks and do a lot of relationship-building with other emergency preparedness professionals all around the state. We are similar to firemen in that we spend a lot of time getting ready for whatever may come. We plan and coordinate with many other Utah Emergency Management professionals in cities and counties throughout the state.

So, what do you do in your spare time?

Service is my passion. I volunteer with the Boy Scouts in what is called the Enterprise Risk Management Group. That is tasked with helping the Boy Scouts run a safe smooth operation. I volunteer with the Utah AIDS-HIV-STD Prevention Council. At the American Red Cross, I have two volunteer jobs. I am the Utah-Nevada Regional Disaster Officer Volunteer Counterpart and I provide resource mobilization and support for the pacific region. As a veteran, I am part of Team Rubicon and am the Veteran Disaster Based Field Ops Coordinator. I am in the Salt Lake City Medical Reserve Corps, am president of the Utah Emergency Management Association, am President of my Home Owners Association and a few other jobs. And then I go home and watch NCIS.

You do an awful lot of things. Why do you take on so much? I wish I knew.

—STAN ROSENZWEIG

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Do cigarette filters provide any benefits to the smoker, or were they simply created by the tobacco companies to make customers think they were addressing the health risks of smoking? Filters seem to trap something, as evidenced by the discoloration noticed on any discarded butt. While I’m on the topic, why don’t manufacturers make filters out of something that actually decomposes when exposed to the environment, rather than something that litters our beaches, parks and sidewalks forever? —Tom M.

Why don’t they design a biodegradable butt? Yeah, that’s a real puzzler—if there’s one thing cigarette makers are known for, it’s their deeply felt sense of social responsibility. Probably just nobody’s brought it to their attention yet. We’ll come back around to this in a minute, but let’s talk in the meantime about the first part of your question. The short answer is no, filters don’t really do anything. They’re about the illusion of a lighter cigarette rather than the fact of one. This revelation shouldn’t exactly be shocking, but you may be interested to learn that manufacturers didn’t set out to make a deceptively useless filter—early on, cigarette manufacturers appear to have actually wanted something that would remove some of the harmful materials their products contained. You old enough to remember the 1950s, Tom? Americans had by then been puffing happily away on their mass-manufactured smokes for half a century, while at the same, time lung cancer—previously quite rare—was becoming epidemic. It was only after World War II that scientists started putting the pieces together. As we know now, cigarette-industry players—Philip Morris, Lorrilard, et al.—were soon well aware of the link between their products and lung cancer; they just didn’t feel like sharing this info publicly. Manufacturers did, however, put some cash behind a project to mitigate, in earnest, some of the malign side-effects of smoking: the cigarette filter. And they appealed to textile and chemical companies for help. An early result was the Kent Micronite filter, designed by Lorillard; it used asbestos fibers to trap, uh, harmful substances. The fact that it was literally full of carcinogenic matter wasn’t what made it unpopular. Rather, the thing worked too well: The Micronite, which removed 30 percent of tar particulate, also removed the cigarette’s flavor and forced smokers to pull harder on their draw. It also proved excessively tricky for mass production, as did filters using natural materials like cotton and wool, which have a nonuniform structure. What manufacturers needed was something that could be made in volume and at low cost— Americans at the time were, after all, going through about 400 billion cigarettes a year. The answer turned out to be a filter made of cellulose acetate. This did, indeed, block a little tar and toxic gas, but smokers, ever resourceful, responded by changing their

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behavior—smoking more, taking deeper puffs, etc.—thereby making the practical effect of the cellulose-acetate filter approximately nil. At this point cigarette makers basically threw up their hands, yielding to the intractability of what was known as the “filter problem.” As a 2011 paper in the journal Tobacco Control put it, researchers had “confronted an engineering contradiction: to design a cigarette filter that would appreciably reduce the health hazards imposed by smoking (caused by tar, nicotine and gases) while preserving the taste and ‘satisfaction’ that smokers craved (provided by tar, nicotine and gases).” Accordingly, the industry did something that conformed much more to our expectations for its behavior. One chemist discovered that if you adjust the pH in celluloseacetate filters, you can get them to change color during the smoking process, making it look like some really bad stuff is being screened out. Thus does the filter story take its ghoulishly cynical left turn: Hoping to keep concerned smokers onboard but unable to actually make cigarettes safer, manufacturers settled for tricking the smokers into thinking the cigarettes were safer. Where does that leave us? The fact that filters change smokers’ MO has produced one observable public-health effect: a shift in the type of cancer you get from smoking. A 2011 study in the International Journal of Cancer, based on 30 years of research, suggested that while declining rates of squamous cell cancer can be attributed to cigarette filters, so can increasing rates of another type of cancer, adenocarcinoma, which occurs in parts of the lung that smoke reaches through deeper inhalation. You can’t win for losing. Anyway, getting to your other question: Cellulose-acetate filters are photodegradable, meaning UV in sunlight breaks them down somewhat. This might be OK but for the fact that so many of them—globally about 4.5 trillion butts become litter every year, out of 6 trillion cigarettes annually smoked—end up in the environment. We don’t yet know what damage this is doing, though (for instance) under lab conditions, one cigarette butt in 1 liter of water is enough to kill both salt- and freshwater fish. The tobacco industry’s position? It’s smokers’ responsibility not to litter—full stop. You can expect to be waiting on your better filter just a while longer. CW Send questions to Cecil via StraightDope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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NEWS Say Hello to Harvey Milk Blvd.

Gay icon’s legacy a uniting force for activists in Salt Lake City. BY JORDAN FLOYD comments@cityweekly.net @JordanFloyd17

alt Lake City’s 9th and 9th district was filled with people last Saturday, who joined together below rainbow-hued banners and balloons waving atop street signs to celebrate the dedication of the newly named Harvey Milk Boulevard.

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“Harvey is an icon to the LGBTQ community. He taught us to come out of the closets and into the streets.” — Equality Utah executive director Troy Williams

The ceremony began with District 3 City Councilman Stan Penfold exclaiming, “Welcome to Harvey Milk Boulevard.” Following Penfold, Mayor Jackie Biskupski marveled at the size of the celebration’s crowd and emphasized her belief in the pertinence of Milk’s local legacy. “Every time people walk down this street it will give them hope that we will be equal one day,” Biskupski said. “The street name doesn’t simply celebrate a person but celebrates a movement toward equality.” Biskupski closed her dedication by pointing to the need for activism to further the cause of equality for all people across Utah. “We still have work to do,” she said. “I hope you’ll stay in the game and help us.” The mayor was not alone in calling for equal rights activism. Forrest Crawford, a Weber State University professor and civil rights activist, spoke of a distinction between those who “use the movement and those who participate in the movement.” He then looked out

across the 9th and 9th crowd—as if bidding them to become the participants he described—and asked, “Which one are you?” Senator Jim Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City, also called for activism in an emotionally charged plea at the latter portion of the dedication. “Will you protect the children of Utah?” he asked. “Will you be there? I beg you, get involved.” It is within the thread of activism that the spirit of the dedication found unity. In 900 South is now Harvey Milk Boulevard. addition to Penfold, Biskupski, Crawford “I think it’s the same as it has been and Dabakis—each diverse individufor generations. It’s about acknowledgals in their own right—the dedication ing we are all welcome here, we all matfeatured words from Troy Williams ter and that it is unfortunate people and Lucas Fowler of Equality Utah, Salt had to lose their lives to get that point Lake City’s NA ACP Chapter President across,” Biskupski said. “But we need to Jeanetta Williams and Archie Archucelebrate those people, their spirit and leta of the Board of the Utah Coalition their foresight in saying, ‘we’ve got to of La Raza. Despite their evident difstand up for ourselves.’” ferences in cause, the speakers were The path to naming the stretch of road united in the advancement of equality after the slain City of San Francisco suthrough activism. pervisor was a rocky one. The Salt Lake Specifically, Jeanetta Williams carCity Council voted unanimously on ried a unifying tone in her message, April 19 for the name change, but while drawing similarities between strugsupport was widespread, some present gles both the African American and at the meeting expressed concern beLGBTQ communities have faced. cause they felt 900 South was “already Williams addressed the issues surwell recognized,” and the name change rounding transgender individuals’ had the potential to detract from that. bathroom use, stating it was remiOne community member, David niscent of the segregation AfriWirthlin, believed the city should have can Americans were subject to considered naming the street after under Jim Crow law. someone with definite ties to Salt Lake “We won our separate bathCity. Further, some expressed concern room fight,” Williams said. “We over the community’s knowledge of will win this one as well.” Milk in general and said Milk, and his The “separate bathroom legacy within the LGBTQ community, fight” Williams mentioned didn’t “speak” to them. was interwoven among the Despite opposition, the name change lauding and celebration of Harvey stood and was championed by crowds Milk’s legacy in many of the dediof supporters Saturday. cation speeches—likely, markWilliams heralds Milk as a uniter, ing the next step for the LGBTQ noting his ability to create a collective community in their fight toward movement. Milk’s legacy as an inclusive equality. revolutionary—now enshrined on street Lucas Fowler, most memorably, signs along 900 South—has the potenspited Gov. Gary Herbert’s recent call tial, he says, to affect the lives of many to fight President Obama’s directive LGBTQ youth and the larger community. that ordered public schools to al“Harvey is an icon to the LGBTQ comlow transgender students to use bathmunity. He taught us to come out of the rooms that match their gender identity. closets and into the streets,” Williams “As long as Gov. Herbert wants to tells City Weekly in an email. “We know check our kids’ genitals at the baththat Harvey Milk Boulevard on a promroom door, we are not done,” Fowler inent downtown street will be a beasaid. con of hope to LGBTQ youth, as well as Saturday’s dedication—as much as any marginalized teen. Over time, we it was a celebration—was a call to achope Harvey will become a hero to all tion embedded in the namesake of 900 Utahns.” CW South.

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Even in Utah you can celebrate great craft beer while you wander the streets of Sugar House. It’s American Craft Beer Week and 10 watering holes plus the Sugar House Chamber are teaming up to host the 2nd Annual Sugar House Pub Crawl. A portion of the funds raised will purchase much-needed educational classroom supplies from Lakeshore Learning for the Sugar House Boys & Girls Club. Get passports at each location and bring them stamped to Monument Plaza by 5 p.m. for a prize drawing. Local rock group Quiet Oaks performs from 4 to 6 p.m. Ten Sugar House locations to start (listed online), 801448-7292, Saturday, May 21, noon-5 p.m., free, no purchase necessary, SugarHouseChamber.org

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In a week, you can CHANGE THE WORLD

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Nine candidates the GOP would prefer over Donald Trump at this point:

9. A dried-up ham sandwich found on the sidewalk.

8. Sarah Palin, with the promise that she’ll never go off-script.

7. Obama Pt. 3. 6. Parole videos of Charles Manson.

5. YouTube clips of people coming out of anesthesia.

4. A 40-foot-tall Minion plush. 3. Two kids in a trench coat. 2. Randy “Macho Man” Savage from 1987.

1. “Hey, you! Naked stranger

hiding in the bushes. Yeah, you, what’s your name? Wanna be our candidate?”

Here’s a chance for special needs and general students, their families and educators to collaborate on projects in dance, drama, music and visual art. The annual Utah Inclusive Arts Festival works with Tanner Dance at the University of Utah, independent arts educators and special educators to provide an experience in which workshops culminate in a public “informance” by participants. Re-licensure points available. 1721 Center Campus Drive, 801-721-8421, Saturday, May 21, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., $18 registration fee covers entry, materials and T-shirt; TannerDance.Utah.edu

PUBLIC MEETING ON COAL

Make your voice heard on an issue that affects the air, jobs and the presidential election. The Bureau of Land Management is soliciting public input from six meetings, where the public will be able to help identify and evaluate potential reforms to the Federal Coal Program. This is part of a formal, comprehensive review of the federal coal program. The BLM is particularly interested in gathering public input on issues such as whether Americans are receiving a fair return for federal coal, how market conditions affect coal, how federal coal affects the environment and how these and other factors impact coal-dependent communities. Salt Palace Convention Center, 100 West Temple, Friday, May 19, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., free, open to public, On.doi.gov/1NQBrfL

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Google Sees the Future Google filed a U.S. Patent Office application on April 28 for a vision-improvement device in liquid form that, once inserted (i.e., injected directly into the eyeball!), solidifies into not only a lens replacement for the eye but an instrument that carries its own storage, radio and wireless power supply. The idea, according to inventor Andrew Jason Conrad, is to better focus light onto the retina. (The patent process does not assure that the device will ever come to fruition, but it might indicate that Google’s parent, Alphabet, is concerned that other inventors might be doing similar work.)

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The Entrepreneurial Spirit! Before new parents ruin their baby daughter’s chances of future success by giving her “weak” names (such as Polly), they should consult one of several services that recommend more powerful ones (such as Elizabeth). A New York City woman offers personalized naming research for fees starting at several hundred dollars, but a Swiss agency whose primary work is helping to name product brands now offers parents suggestions on their offspring’s “brand” (for corporate-like fees beginning at around $29,000). (Parents in South Korea and India traditionally seek baby-naming recommendations from priests, who review religious text, culture and astrology—in exchange for modest offerings.)

Simple As That Bingham County (Idaho) Sheriff Craig Rowland told reporters in March that the state’s legislature had no reason to improve the statewide administration of “rape kit” evidence because the majority of local rape accusations are, he is certain, consensual sex. n Scout Hodge, 20, angry at his mother, was charged with arson in Austin, Texas, in January for setting fire to her rug. He told police he did it as a “political” statement (unexplained) and to prove he isn’t a “loser.”

Chutzpah! New York City police rounded up 39 people on April 26 suspected as part of a massive credit-card-scamming operation targeted at customers of high-end retailers such as Saks Fifth Avenue—and whose members are affiliated with the rap-music group Pop Out Boyz, which makes reference to the scams in its songs. (One number, “For a Scammer,” features the lyric, “you see it, you want it, you have it,” while another voice repeatedly brags, “I’m cracking cards cause I’m a scammer.” A New York Post report describes “cracking cards” as a scheme paying a bank customer a fee to accept a phony deposit into his account to be later withdrawn—but the scammer removes much more money than the phony deposit.) n Ricardo Ruiz, 26, was arrested in March on complaints from women that he had groped them at parks in Davie and Cooper City, Fla., but the case got easier afterward when police were tipped to a YouTube video that they believe is of Ruiz, addressing the camera while driving a car and extolling his groping habit. “Man, today was a good … day, touching ass,” he says. “If you don’t touch ass, you’re crazy. That’s all I got to say.”

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Leading Economic Indicators As China’s real estate construction boom fades, tempers have flared, and according to a local government officer in Hebei province, two companies’ officials angling for a contract wildly dueled each other in their bulldozers in an incident captured on

n The body of Peter (“Petey Crack”) Martinez, 28, who had a long rap sheet, washed up on a beach in Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 2—with his feet encased (up to his shins) in a bucket of hardened cement. It was the first time veteran New York detectives could ever recall seeing actual “cement shoes” (though they have, of course, been icons of true crime stories for decades).

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n William Timothy Thomas, 25, was arrested for vandalizing a home in Largo, Fla., in April. He told police he needed to go “destroy” stuff because he “listened to too much music and masturbated too much.” (Bonus: Three first names! Special police surveillance warranted!)

Cliches Come to Life The British broadcast censor Ofcom declined to punish a January edition of “The Jeremy Kyle Show” on which a guest used a “well-known swear word”—because the speaker has a Scottish accent and, Ofcom said, probably no more than two or three people thus comprehended what he was saying.

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Modern Problems Sophia Sanchez, 27, was charged with intentionally crashing her car into her boyfriend’s vehicle in April in Riverside, Ill. According to police, the couple had been arguing the night before, and Sanchez said she felt she had to disable his car so that he would talk to her.

Cavalcade of Weird Animals The species Acanthonus armatus first showed up in waters near Vancouver, British Columbia, 10 years ago, generating ichthyological excitement—in that it is widely known as the assfish. The Royal BC Museum in Victoria, British Columbia, put one on display in January with its bulbous head and flabby skin resembling a “glorified tadpole,” said a museum curator, who declined to guess at the origin of the assfish name (bypassing a chance to link it to the fish’s large mouth and tiny brain).

Compelling Explanations Peter Jensen of Athol, Idaho, filed a lawsuit against the state transportation department in April after his driving privileges were revoked because his car had no license plate. For the inconvenience, he believes he deserves $5.6 million in damages (gold and silver only, please) because, for example, there is nothing about “license plates” in the Ten Commandments.

Least Competent Cops Motorist Rebecca Musarra was stopped for speeding in October 2015 by state troopers in New Jersey, and dutifully handed over her license, insurance and registration, but declined to answer the troopers’ “do you know why we stopped you” questions. Annoyed at her silence, troopers Matthew Stazzone and Demetric Gosa threatened several times, with increasing aggressiveness (according to dashboard video obtained by NJ Advance Media), to arrest Musarra for “obstruction.” Musarra pointed out that—as nearly every American knows—she has the right to remain silent. The troopers nonetheless arrested her (then recited, of course, her “right to remain silent”). After nearly two hours back at the station, a supervisor offered a weak apology and released her. Musarra, an attorney, unsurprisingly has filed a federal lawsuit.

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n Entrepreneur.com reported in April the surprising success of “Ship Your Enemies Glitter,” in which, for about $10, the startup sends an envelope full of glitter that, when opened, scatters, irritating (or enraging) the recipient. The concept was an overnight sensation, but quickly petered out and was seemingly worthless—until a prescient businessman offered $85,000 for its two assets: 1. a valuable list of customers who might buy similar pranks (such as a cupcake that’s really horse manure) and 2. an opportunity at additional waves of customers newly discovering the original glitter product. The $85,000 purchaser now reports sales “in the high six figures.”

n Italy’s top appeals court ruled in April that a homeless man stealing cheese and sausage from a grocery story in Genoa, and who received a six-month jail term for it, was actually not guilty of criminal behavior at all. The court set him free using a traditional Italian legal principle that no one is required to do the impossible—which, the court surmised, would be to allow himself to starve.

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SMART FILES After 14 years, the Elizabeth Smart police report sees the light of day.

By Colby Frazier cfrazier@cityweekly.net @ColbyFrazierLP

hen they came for him, Richard Ricci was enjoying a plate of spaghetti and a beer. Or maybe it was manicotti; he loved Italian food. An experienced armed robber, Ricci shot a cop while knocking off a pharmacy in 1983. He was also a drug addict, who had bounced in and out of the Utah State Prison seven times in 29 years. Ricci had been a bad man, and maybe he still was when police officers—accompanied by agents from the Utah Department of Probation and Parole—rapped their knuckles on the metal door of trailer No. 158 in the Shadow Ridge Estates on June 14, 2002. By most appearances, though, Ricci was attempting, as all humans must do, to plow forward in life. On Valentine’s Day, four months prior, he married Angela Morse, and became the only stable male figure to ever pass through the life of Angela’s young son, Trevor. Another thing Ricci was pursuing was work. He was handy at construction, and had labored for a number of contractors around the Salt Lake Valley. For Ricci, it is possible to imagine that his life had never looked so good. Each Saturday, he loaded Trevor and other neighbor kids into his white 1990 Jeep Cherokee and hauled them to their Jr. Jazz basketball games. He mowed the plush green lawn that connected trailer No. 158 to No. 159—where

Angela’s parents lived—and he loved his new wife, whose picture he’d first seen while serving the tail end of a four-year prison sentence with Angela’s brother, David Morse. But a blinding series of poor choices, abysmal luck, a past he could not shake and the blender of pressure that nearly every law man and woman in Utah found themselves in when 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart disappeared from her castle-like home in Salt Lake City’s Federal Heights neighborhood on June 5, 2002, ensured that this pasta dinner would be Ricci’s last. All four of these elements of the Richard Ricci story became tragically intertwined with the fortunes of Ed Smart—a mortgage broker and realtor whose home at 1509 Kristianna Circle had, for years, been a hive of work. Roofers, drywallers, finish carpenters, framers, painters, handymen and plumbers had cycled through the home. For roughly eight months in 2001, Ricci was one of these men, painting, hanging drywall and roofing the Smart home, which would soon be put on the market for $1.19 million. As work commenced on the home, Smart, his wife, Lois and their half-dozen children were living there. And on June 5, 2002, one of these children, a shy, lanky blond girl name Elizabeth, vanished. This tale—the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping, investigation and the girl’s triumphant and bizarre return—has been told more than its fair share of

times, in multiple formats, including a made-forTV movie. Elizabeth Smart’s uncle, Tom Smart, a former photographer for the Deseret News, penned a book, In Plain Sight: The Startling Truth Behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation. But for all of the stories, media interviews and interest, no mere member of the public—not even Tom Smart, whose book provides a first-person account of the investigation—has ever laid eyes upon the 1,529-page Elizabeth Smart police report. While working on an unrelated story in the fall of 2014, a Salt Lake City Police officer made an offhand comment to a City Weekly reporter about the department’s habit of classifying police reports. The report that City Weekly was searching for dealt with a lunch lady who had garnered national media attention when she threw away children’s lunches at Uintah Elementary School. The lunch lady report, the officer noted, had been marked “classified,” and therefore, officers had no knowledge of it. One probing question about how police reports are classified led the officer to note that many police reports are private, including the Elizabeth Smart report, which had never been seen. Hoping to arrive at a quick, easy story about the Salt Lake City Police Department’s method of classifying documents, a one-sentence Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA) request was filed on Feb. 24, 2015: “I’d like to obtain

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High atop the northeast bench of Salt Lake City sits Kristianna Circle, a cul-de-sac lined with hulking homes that are in turn occupied by the Salt Lake Valley’s monied set. In 2001, the Smart family shared the street, and the surrounding neighborhood, with a gaggle of physicians, surgeons and retired physicians and surgeons, all of whom were interviewed by police. Although he was one of six offspring of Dr. Charles Smart, a surgeon, Ed did not enter the medical field. According to Tom Smart’s book, Ed was a homebuilder of sorts who, in 2002, was six years into a project on Kristianna Circle that involved no fewer than 60 construction workers. While Ed was dubbed a rich man in the media, the police report, and Tom Smart’s book, indicate that, at the time of the kidnapping at least, this simply was not the case. In the way that rich men enter and exit the world

In the morning

the same way as poor men, so too do men usually property had gone missing one time before when awake. But in the early morning hours of June 5, Ricci was working—he suspected his handyman. Ed Smart awoke in a manner that few men, rich Police spoke to Ricci and all of the other contractors or poor, have experienced. His youngest daughter, who were working in the Smart home around the Mary Katherine, told him that someone had crept time the bracelet was taken. Ricci and everyone else into her and her sister’s bedroom, and taken Eliza- denied taking the bracelet, and investigators closed beth. the case. Information is conflicting about exactly what Ricci’s name popped up on the police’s radar one occurred next. The police report indicates that Ed time prior, in April of 2001, after a brazen nighttime Smart’s first calls for help went to family and fellow robbery at a home on Federal Heights Circle, near members of his Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day the Smart’s. At 3 a.m. on April 4, the homeowner Saints ward. Tom Smart insists in his book that Ed told police that a houseguest was awakened by a first dialed 911, then called family and friends. Ed rustling. When the person questioned the intruder, says he absolutely called police first. a male voice replied, then exited the room. The robEither way, police reports note that when inves- ber took $2,000 in jewelry and $300 cash. The day betigators did arrive, the Smart home—a bonafide fore the robbery, a man named Richard was workcrime scene—was littered with family members, ing in the room, the homeowner told police. neighbors and church goers, some delivering stereotypical flats of food, as if preparing for a From top: Kristianna Circle high above the Salt Lake Valley; the former Smart home; Tom Smart, at podium, Mormon baby blessing or baptism. with members of the Smart family. “It was a mess,” remembers Det. Cordon Parks, who, along with every other homicide detective in Salt Lake City, was called to the scene that morning. “It was an absolute mess. We got there, the house was full of people.” Parks says he watched as a woman walked past the policeman at the front door, entered the kitchen and put a dish of “Jell-O down next to the footprint on the kitchen counter, next to the point-of-entry window.” With much of the Salt Lake City police force on the scene, or on their way, and agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and surrounding police departments soon to arrive, all kinds of people were being awakened to the jarring news that a young girl had been abducted from her bedroom in the middle of the night. It didn’t take police long to glean that Ed’s home had for years been a hive of activity, involving, in part, a network of workers acquired through an employment program administered through the LDS Church. This is how Ricci met Ed, and, the police reports show, the two men appeared to get along well. As partial payment for his services, Ed sold Ricci a Jeep Cherokee Pioneer. Of the contractors interviewed by police, Ricci was among the longertenured employees, spending eight months doing construction work around the Smart home for $10 an hour. “He was looking for a job,” Smart, in a phone interview, tells City Weekly. “A person that I knew said he was going to hire him and that he seemed to be able to do a lot of things. He was just incredibly friendly to the kids.” Smart’s involvement with Ricci, and most of the other people who had been hammering nails, repairing shingles and laying carpet in his home in 2001, came to an end almost a year to the day before Elizabeth went missing, when a $1,600 bracelet belonging to Lois Smart disappeared. Ed reported the missing bracelet to police on June 8, 2001—and because

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the police reports, incident reports and any investigation reporters relating to the 2002 disappearance of Elizabeth Smart.” What began as a simple request quickly became a 13-month effort to acquire a tree’s worth of paper on the principle that reports compiled by public agencies on the public’s behalf are in fact public, unless proven otherwise. After haggling over the high costs assessed by the police department to drag a thick black marker over nearly every single name contained in the report, and convincing city attorneys that a gag order issued during a criminal trial that had expired years prior did not forbid them from releasing it, the Elizabeth Smart police report arrived via a secured email link, on March 3, 2016. According to Candee Allred, the police department’s GRAMA coordinator, the report had never before been released to the public. A separate open-records request seeking all of the instances the report had been formally sought yielded only two: City Weekly’s and one on Oct. 1, 2015, from a true-crime writer. Allred says the city hangs onto GRAMA requests for only two years, meaning that it could have been requested before. Certainly, though, it was never released. The sprawling report is peppered with a sense of panic and confusion. The first 110 pages are a diffused jarble of supplemental reports, beginning at the end, with the arrests of the actual kidnappers, Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee. There is a police sketch of a face covered by a robe, similar to what the kidnappers and Elizabeth wore. By page 110, the report becomes a nauseating chronological slog through Salt Lake City’s hot summer months, on through fall and into the winter, when, the world now knows, police were never too far away from finding Elizabeth, but also spent a potentially cataclysmic amount of time sniffing around the wrong tree: Richard Ricci. And it is Ricci, who was arrested at his trailer on June 14, 2002, and who was found in his cell at the Utah State Prison on Aug. 27, 2002, unconscious and not breathing, and who died from what a doctor notes in the police report appeared to be a “stress related” brain aneurism, who for hundreds upon hundreds of pages, is the undisputed star of the Elizabeth Smart police report.

Although Ricci’s name was blared prominently in both of these two incidents, Ed Smart says he had no idea Ricci had a past riddled with crime until police began looking into him in connection with Elizabeth’s disappearance—facts that Smart says cast a shadow over his trust of the police’s abilities just as he needed them most. “I was completely blown away,” Ed Smart says of his reaction to being told of Ricci’s criminal past. “It created such doubt in my mind as to what did it mean when somebody came up to your house and there had been a robbery? Did [the police] actually do a background check on them or did they just say what you wanted to hear?” A year after canning his workers, and subsequently resuming work with others—including the street preacher who ended up taking his daughter— Ed Smart discovered Elizabeth missing, and shortly after, was told that one of his former employees, the one he suspected of snatching away his wife’s bracelet, the one who knew his way around the house and who knew his children, had been checked into prison about as regularly as an airline pilot checks into hotels. Ricci’s troubled past, and his possible connections to thefts in the Federal Heights neighborhood, gave police all the ammunition they needed to place Ricci under some hot lights and begin posing tough questions. Once this was completed, and Ricci showed that he was capable of lying about the thefts to stay out of prison, Salt Lake City police officials called out Adult Probation & Parole to haul the man in. At 2:45 p.m. on June 14, a few hours before Ricci’s last family dinner, he was questioned for the second time regarding the thefts and his work at the Smart home. After initially denying he’d stolen any

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From top: Trevor Morse; Richard Ricci’s 2002 mugshot; Ricci and Angela Morse on their wedding day; the entrance to the Shadow Ridge Estates.

property, Ricci eventually admits to police that he stole from Ed Smart, and he doesn’t deny that he broke into a nearby home. But in the same interview, Ricci says he’ll take a polygraph test, and that, as he told police during a prior interview, on the night of June 4, he watched the television show Friends, then turned in at 11:30 p.m. Investigators weren’t convinced. “It is clear from the interview that [Ricci] has been breaking into homes in the area and has stolen from the Smarts and is very familiar with the Smart house layout and does know the kids,” reads page 897 of the police report. “It is was [sic] also clear that [Ricci] is a cat burglary [sic] and in the past has broken into home [sic] while people are home.” Shortly after Ricci was sent on his way, officers met with then Salt Lake City Police Chief Rick Dinse. “It was felt that [Ricci] was not forthcoming about information and that because of [Ricci] being a cat burglar and his relationship with the Smarts it was decided to have AP&P agent again get a hold of [Ricci] and put him in jail on a parole violation on a hold. [Ricci] was found and located and book [sic] in jail.” Over the next two months, Ricci acknowledged being a thief. Indeed, officers found pearls stripped from Lois Smart’s bracelet at Ricci’s trailer, making Ricci not only a thief, but a liar. But there was one big thing Ricci wasn’t lying about. He woke up next to Angela Ricci on the morning of June 5, just like he said. He either went to work that day or he mowed the lawn. He did not, after clicking off Friends at 11:30 p.m., hop into his Jeep, the lienholder of which remained Ed Smart, drive from the Shadow Ridge Estates mobile home park in Kearns, cross the Salt Lake Valley to the Federal Heights neighborhood, slash a window screen with his pocket knife, wake Elizabeth and then creep out the door without anyone noticing. “[Angela] said she thought she and [Ricci] got up around 0600 a.m. or 0630 a.m. because [Ricci] had to go to work,” an officer recounts from an interview with Angela Ricci, on page 653 of the police report. “[Angela] said that she and [Ricci] got up, smoked c iga ret tes, drank coffee and read the newspaper. [Angela] said that they also watched the TV and saw the kidnapping on the news.”

Too much Richard

Even before he died, there was a growing sense by some police officers and the Smart family that all of the authorities’ efforts on his behalf were, at worst, a total waste of time, or, at best, simply not going anywhere. “We don’t suspect somebody,” says Det. Bill Silver, who as the months flew past and there was no sign of Elizabeth, joined Det. Parks as one of only two full-time Salt Lake City investigators chasing down leads. “We rule people out and then we come to our suspect. And that was the problem we had with Richard. We couldn’t rule him out. There wasn’t enough information there, and he was shady as it was, and being an ex-con, he really didn’t like talking to us very much, either.” One matter that Ricci never did adequately explain to police involved the number of miles on his Jeep. On May 28, Ricci took the car, which was in need of a new fuel pump, to a mechanic. The mechanic replaced the pump, and noted the mileage, 134,321. On May 30, the police report states that a woman called the mechanic and asked if she could take the Jeep and pay later. The mechanic, having developed a good relationship with Ricci, released the vehicle. When Ricci returned the Jeep on June 8 for more work, the mechanic told police it was dirty. Ricci, the mechanic said, was wearing dirty clothes and the odometer now read 135,373. The fixation on the Jeep was immense, and Ed Smart remembers bursting into tears as he begged Angela Ricci to get her husband to fill in the blanks. A sufficient answer was never found, either because Richard Ricci didn’t feel like telling the police where he’d driven, or maybe it’s possible to put 1,000 miles on a car in eight or nine days. “I hate to be a stickler about the miles, but that car went somewhere; he did something, because supposedly the mechanic had logged it in and logged it out,” Smart says. “It created this issue of, where were those miles [from]? What were you doing at that time driving that car?” Smart says there were “compelling reasons” for law enforcement to be so “maniacally focused on Ricci.” “But the thing to us, we just wanted to have answers to things and to move on,” Smart says. “Finding

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Elizabeth Smart and her captor, Brian David Mitchell, at a house party in Salt Lake City.

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The name of Richard Ricci never appears in the police report. Salt Lake City cited provisions under Utah’s Government Records Access and Management Act that allow some information in public documents to remain secret. Privacy was the primary concern cited by police in regard to the Elizabeth Smart report. But investigators, and perhaps to a much greater degree a rabidly thirsty media, didn’t seem concerned with protecting Richard Ricci’s identity back in 2002. A man arrested in part for drinking a beer with his dinner (forbidding alcohol and drug use is a common condition of parole for those who have been incarcerated for drug offenses) quickly became the primary suspect in the case—a fact that, had he lived, would have no doubt cast a long shadow over his remaining days. Parks says he doesn’t know who released Ricci’s name to the press. It wasn’t him and it wasn’t Silver. All he knows is that during the high-profile investigation, the police had a difficult time containing what was being said in its interview rooms. “We couldn’t keep anything secret,” Parks says. “People leaked information from within the building. Witnesses that we would go out and talk to would immediately run to the press and tell their story to [them] right after they told us. There were very few secrets on this investigation.” Parks and Silver say that they, along with every other police officer in Salt Lake City, takes the power they wield while investigating citizens seriously. And having a spotlight shine so bright on Ricci, ultimately an innocent man, is rare. “We don’t actually have a lot of cases around here where innocent people are accused of crimes,” Parks says. “That just doesn’t happen a lot.” “We drag a hell of a lot of people into this building that we think committed crimes and we interrogate them and then we let them go because we don’t have the evidence to charge them,” he continues. Silver says there is little doubt that Ricci was an “easy solution” to the case. “Does that mean that I want to put my name on a piece of paper that says, ‘Hey, we prosecuted Richard Ricci for kidnapping,’ and come back 10 years later and find, ‘No, he didn’t [do it]’? Absolutely not.” While what befell Ricci is regrettable, and Parks says that in hindsight, there is no doubt that he was “overly focused on,” and that the department “violated a sacred trust, and that is, we named a suspect before he was charged,” the Elizabeth Smart investigation changed the Salt Lake City Police Department. The department created a Child Abduction Response Team, and has honed its skills in the event that another child abduction occurs. Parks says the Smart home,

During the nine months that Elizabeth was missing, Parks says, he felt as though he was “living in a blender.” “I think it was a multiplier effect,” he says. “Any child abduction by a stranger generates insane publicity. If it’s the son or daughter of a really wealthy family, there’s got to be a multiplier effect by 10. By noon, we had national news trucks parked on Kristianna Circle for God’s sake. It was insane. The news coverage was insane.” Following up on these leads, and countless others, required significant resources. Parks says no fewer than 60 detectives and 20 administrators were working the case in the days after Elizabeth’s disappearance. While the vigor and support was helpful, it also proved to be disorganized. When Parks asked to be dropped from the Ricci investigation unit, he realized that a fundamental tenet of police work—canvassing the neighborhoods around the Smart home in the early days of the investigation— had been botched. “The bottom line is the canvas wasn’t done very well and there were a lot of gaps in it,” says Parks, who, as the investigation falls flat between pages 800 and 1,300 of the police report, documents his determined efforts to interview every resident of every home around the Smart’s. “I went through and just kept going out in a circle,” Parks says. “I found things that should have been found and covered early on in the investigation, none of which panned out, by the way. The problem was, nobody put up a map on the wall and checked off the houses one at a time.” Both Parks and Silver recall memorable leads that left them exasperated. For Silver, it was a man from South Carolina who insisted he was holding Elizabeth captive and wanted reward money for her release. In the report, Silver leads the man along, asking questions that eventually expose the fact that he was lying. “I think he spent 18 months [in prison], courtesy of the federal government.” Parks says media attention, and the resulting fervor around the country, was so intense that it became dangerous. Police were looking for a man who was spotted sleeping in his car on a street near Kristianna Circle around the time of Elizabeth’s disappearance. There was a rumor that the man had fled to Texas, and in no time, Parks says authorities there were barricading roads. “This guy didn’t have anything to do with anything,” Parks says. “Texas wound up doing roadblocks and Texas was taking people out at gunpoint just because they thought it might be the Elizabeth Smart kidnapper. It was crazy. If you said anything at all to the news media, suddenly they’re doing roadblocks in Texas for Christ’s sake. “I mean, it was dangerous. It was a public safety hazard. We had to be careful about what we released.”

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The public response to Elizabeth Smart’s disappearance was enormous. Parks says 10,000 tips were received, more than 1,000 of which were from psychics, some of whom claimed to be prophets of God. While he says only one psychic lead was chased down by officers, an amazing number of other seemingly ludicrous leads were followed through. Because Elizabeth Smart was wearing a pair of red silk pajamas when she went missing, every piece of red fabric found in the state became a potential clue. On June 6, some “strands of maroon fabric” were found hanging from a branch in Red Butte Garden. Officers and the crime lab responded. On June 15, a girl handing out Elizabeth Smart missing fliers in Kaysville noticed a red sweatshirt caught on some rocks in an irrigation ditch. Detectives responded and booked the sweatshirt into evidence. In September, officers retrieved a pair of red pajamas found in Diamond Fork Canyon. And on June 16, officers responded to a home after a woman found a “wad of hair” on her lawn. Looking at pornography also could land you an interview with police. As tips about suspicious behavior flooded in on June 5, one came in from a person who said that a neighbor, who lived with his parents, reportedly watched pornography and frequented “stripper bars.” The house was searched, and there was no sign of Elizabeth. An LDS bishop who lived near the Smarts was asked to ponder if any of his flock had been having marital problems. One person, who had recently divorced after engaging in a string of affairs and viewing online pornography, came to mind. The man was interrogated, admitting to infidelity and viewing pornography. He was also given a lie detector test. On July 12, a man dropped his luxury car off at a dealership to be serviced. A service technician found pornography in the vehicle and called police. Police then called the man, who insisted it was “legal adult pornography,” and he agreed to be interviewed at the station. “I remember a lot of leads that were pretty silly to follow up, but we followed up anyway,” Parks says. He and Silver even ventured into the wilds of Emery County in February, a month before Elizabeth was found, to search an old mine that reportedly belonged to Ricci’s grandfather.

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a missing child is really [a] process of elimination, and as long as people were focused and stuck, it wouldn’t happen.” Once Ricci was pinned as a prime suspect, Parks says the investigation was split into two teams: the Ricci team and the everything else team. “So Richard Ricci wasn’t the sole focus of the investigation, there [were] a lot of investigations going on,” Parks says. “But he got fully half of the investigative effort by a lot of people.” After spending a couple of months on the Ricci team, Parks says he conducted an interview with one of Ricci’s nieces at the trailer court. Parks recalls that she was angry—the kind of angry that innocent people project when they’re being called a liar. That’s when Parks realized he needed to break new trail on the case. “I went to the captain and told him I wanted to get off the Richard Ricci team because I didn’t think he did it,” Parks says. He doesn’t remember if this epiphany came to him before or after Ricci died. But for Smart, Ricci’s final breath gave life to an investigation that hadn’t gotten him any closer to finding his daughter. “We kind of had this feeling that Ricci was a dead end,” Smart says. “We felt like his passing enabled the investigation to move forward rather than standing at the standstill it was at.”

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crowded on the morning of the kidnapping with relatives and ward members, would not stand today, even if the homeowners are well-off—an excuse that Parks says a police administrator uttered that morning to justify the fact that the crime scene was being trampled by a herd of humans. Parks says methodical canvassing is now performed during any serious investigation. Another important change involves the now robust public relations department at the police station, where the department hires experienced professionals to deal with the media, and also provides training to several sworn officers who act as Public Information Officers. “We’re much more committed to controlling the message that gets out there,” Silver says. “In other words, when we put stuff out, we make sure that the details are presented to the public correctly.” Several design aspects of the new public safety building were spawned by the Elizabeth Smart case. There is a press briefing room on the first floor, and a parking area toward the rear of the building where media trucks can plug into jacks that connect to the media room. Interview rooms are located throughout the building, and multiple sets of elevators were installed to prevent victims taking a ride upstairs with a suspect. But the biggest lesson learned, Parks says, was the realization that police need to go to the public quickly for help. “I think the greatest thing out of the Elizabeth Smart case, is we learned to not be so withholding of information and we’ve learned to go the public for help sooner. The public always responds and it always turns out good,” Parks says. This aspect of the learning process was cemented,

Angela Ricci was found dead on Dec. 15, 2015, in trailer No. 5. What’s left of her and her roommates’ furniture continues to languish in the driveway today.

Wanted, which pleaded with the public for help, solved the case. “Because they did what? They appealed to the public and the public responded as usual in an overwhelming way and, ta-da, she was found,” Parks says. Mitchell was convicted of kidnapping and is serving a life sentence in federal prison. Mitchell’s wife, Barzee, was given a 15-year prison sentence for her role in the kidnapping and sexual assault of Elizabeth. And if there is a legacy, Parks says it is that, when the case wrapped up and Elizabeth ended up returning home—an outcome about as unusual as a lead from a psychic prophet of God panning out—the Salt Lake City Police Department did not do a great job. “When it was all said and done, when it was all over with, there was a feeling that we really didn’t do very well,” Parks says. “We made a lot of mistakes on the case.”

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While troves of media attention was bathed over the Smart family during the nine months that Elizabeth was missing, one person impacted immensely, and tragically, by the case, was always hidden in the shadows. Trevor Morse was 11 years old when his mother, Angela, married Richard Ricci in Mesquite, Nev., on Valentine’s Day. Four months later, he remembers his step-father’s last pasta dinner and his mother asking him to hide the beer. “Funny story is my mom seen the cops knock and she said ‘Trevor, go hide the beer, go hide the beer,’ and I guess there’s one can I forgot,” Morse remembers. That was the last time Morse saw Ricci, a man who to this day he calls “Dad.” Morse’s mother asked if he wanted to visit him in jail, but Morse says he didn’t want to see Ricci, who was known for his comedic timing and jokes, depressed. As the 48-year-old Ricci lay in a hospital bed, dying, Angela Ricci gave her son another chance to see his dad. “I told my mom, ‘No, I love him, but

I remember him happy, healthy.’ He died that day,” Morse says. Like Ricci, Angela grappled with drug problems that, on Dec. 15, 2015, claimed her life. On a GoFundMe page that Morse organized to help pay for funeral expenses, he wrote: “The official cause of death was suicide, but I believe she died from a broken heart.” Morse says his mother became addicted to prescription painkillers before she met Ricci, and never kicked the habit. The addiction, Morse says, was sparked by a car accident and subsequent prescription drugs she was given to fight pain. Angela Ricci was found dead in trailer No. 5, on Chris Kay Drive, around the corner and down the street from Harmoney Bend Drive, where trailer No. 158 stands. A black, steel trailer occupies the driveway of trailer No. 5. It is filled with the broken, bedbug infested furniture that Morse says filled the trailer. Morse, 25, who has a 2-year-old son, has been bouncing from job to job, and from apartment to couch to apartment, trying to find his place in life. Like the police, Morse says he learned from the case. Lesson No. 1, he says, was to never “judge a book by its cover.” “Everybody that knew him said he would never do such a thing because he was so kind-hearted, he would never do anything like that,” Morse says of Ricci. “[He] was the closest thing I had to a father figure and that just got ripped from me.” Morse says that over the years, he listened as his mother cried herself to sleep, moaning that all she wanted from anyone involved was an apology. She did win a $150,000 settlement from the Utah Department of Corrections, in which the state denied any wrongdoing in Ricci’s death. His mother, Morse says, harbored a well of hatred toward the Smart family, he has tried to avoid the same path. But the very first thing Morse mentioned during an interview with City Weekly about the case, was that Elizabeth’s sister, Mary Katherine, the only eyewitness to her sister’s disappearance, seemed to know one thing for certain, and said so early in the case: Richard Ricci didn’t take Elizabeth. While Ed Smart says he believes law enforcement did the right thing in taking a hard look at Ricci, he, too, recalls the night when Mary Katherine told him Ricci wasn’t involved. In the days and months after Elizabeth went missing, TV time in the Smart household was kept to a minimum. But one night, the television was on and Ricci’s face is what Mary Katherine saw. “She said, ‘What’s Richard doing on there,’” Ed Smart recalls. “She said ‘It wasn’t him.’” CW

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As much as humanity has treated nature as the background for its own activities and enterprises, we have assumed the “nature of nature” as static and unchanging, even as we’ve adapted it to our own uses. We have, in a sense, remolded nature in our own image, shaping and grooming its flora and fauna to serve our needs. In the process, the fluid, dynamic and in many ways fragile qualities of the natural world have been placed in sharper relief. In nature, the smallest creatures often contain multitudes—case in point, leaves. Some of the frailest things in nature, subject to the whims of the wind, are at the same time potent powerhouses for creating energy through photosynthesis. They are also highly symbolic in the way they bear the effects of the seasons, and of the symmetry and beauty found in nature. Nancy Rivera examines leaves in her exhibit Herbarium Obscura: Shadow of Nature, opening at God Hates Robots gallery. English ivy obscures the gallery wall, and her cyanotypes—a photographic process that dates back to the late 19th century—made from a range of different leaf specimens, trace shadows of the leaves’ original forms (detail of “Cyanotype #11” is pictured). The ghostly silhouettes are like a fingerprint of nature, an echo of their imprint on the world, as well as a glimpse at our imposition of human will onto the palette of nature. It’s an example of one way that nature has increasingly become denatured, yet still has the strength to persist. (Brian Staker) Nancy Rivera: Herbarium Obscura: Shadow of Nature @ God Hates Robots, 314 W. 300 South, Ste. 250, May 20-June 10. GodHatesRobots.com

The Addicts Comedy Tour No one ever said comedy was a safe profession. John Belushi, Chris Farley, Mitch Hedberg and Greg Giraldo are just some of the famous names lost to drug overdoses that cut their lives short. What could be called an “occupational hazard” has become a sad part of the business. That makes the Addicts Comedy Tour different from most national touring shows you might see. Mark Lundholm and Kurtis Matthews have roughly six decades of professional comedy experience between them, thousands of miles logged performing across the country, television specials and appearances—and also a history with addiction. The two have been battling their own personal demons separately for years, and now help battle it together onstage by finding humor in pain. Adhering to the mantra “humor heals all wounds … eventually,” the two men share the funnier side of rehab and recovery with personal tales from their own experiences. The show doesn’t just serve to be a funny take on a painful topic; Lundholm and Matthews use their time onstage to get messages across and inform the audience of real problems, both in their own lives and in those who may be at the show. Because until someone brings an issue like this to the forefront, people are usually content to leave it in the dark and overlook it. It’s a little harder to miss with two comedians shining their spotlight on it for everyone to see. (Gavin Sheehan) The Addicts Comedy Tour @ Wiseguys Downtown, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, May 23, 7-9 p.m., $20. AddictsComedy.com

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Kicking off the season of outdoor festivals in Salt Lake City, the annual Living Traditions Festival is a three-day immersion in the diversity of Utah culture. For more than 30 years, this iconic tradition—hosted by the Salt Lake City Arts Council—has offered a one-of-a-kind experience that brings together foods, crafts, dance and music from 50 different cultures, both native and foreign, that have put down roots in the Salt Lake Valley. The festival provides a platform for cultural activities that have been handed down through the generations, some which are only performed at community celebrations like this. The traditional practices and techniques will take center stage during this multicultural celebration of ethnic heritages that call Utah home. The venue’s multiple stages will host 81 performances of dance and musical numbers, each a demonstration of their traditional movement, vocals and instruments. Come hungry, as the aromas are sure to draw you in. With 20 types of ethnic foods to try— from falafel to Navajo tacos—the dining scene alone is a cultural experience in flavors, technique and presentation. Having such an array of cuisine in one place is one of the festival’s most soughtafter pleasures. Booths featuring artistic craftsmanship—like Native American pottery, bone carving and beadwork—are another way to take in the unique cultures, and even take a piece home with you. Times are scheduled throughout the event to meet the artists, with opportunities to hear their stories. (Aimee L. Cook) Living Traditions Festival @ Washington Square and Library Square, 450 S. 200 East, May 20, 5 p.m.-10 p.m.; May 21, noon-10 p.m.; May 22, noon-7 p.m., free. LivingTraditionsFestival.com

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hen can an American city say it’s made its mark in the world? When its NBA team makes it to the finals? When it hosts the Olympic Games? When a guy who hangs out there a lot runs for president? How about the ease of your ability to get direct flights to popular international destinations? Using that metric, Salt Lake City can claim to have arrived on the world stage. Salt Lake International Airport has become increasingly more international in the last year, adding direct flights to Amsterdam last May, and London just last month. SLC now has 59 international flights per week to 10 different destinations in Europe, Canada and Mexico. The obvious advantage of direct flights is that they take much less time and eliminate the hassle of having to switch planes. This is particularly important on the way home, when a layover means having to get your bags, go through U.S. customs, take your bags back through security and then catch your flight. Everybody’s got some version of the horror story of spending five hours waiting in multiple lines at John F. Kennedy International Airport or O’Hare when they were coming back to the U.S. Here are the 10 destinations available from Salt Lake International Airport where you’ll need to bring a passport. Prices listed are for basic economy seating (at press time), round-trip, summer travel booked weeks in advance, and are not set. Prices for flights can vary widely, and the following times are approximations.

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Destination: Paris’ Charles De Gaulle Airport Flights: Seven per week through Delta Time: 10 hours Price: $1,668 Destination: Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Flights: Nine per week through Delta and KLM Time: 10 hours Price: $1,635

While the European flights are offered through Delta, the airline often partners with other carriers such as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines for trans-Atlantic flights. Travel Tip: After doing a red-eye flight to London, Paris or Amsterdam, the last thing you’ll want to do is make a transfer, catch a train or wait hours until your hotel room is ready. You’ll probably want a nap and a shower ASAP. Fortunately, all three European destinations listed above have a Yotel (Yotel.com) right in the airport. A Yotel standard “cabin” is seven square meters (yes, meters—this is Europe) with just enough space for a bed, TV, bathroom and shower. They are rented out on a four-hour basis so you can catch a nap, take a shower, check in on free Wi-Fi and grab something to drink before hitting the town.

Destination: Guadalajara International Airport Flights: Four per week through SkyWest Time: 3 and a half hours Price: $773

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Destination: Puerto Vallarta’s Lic. Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Airport Flights: Two per week through Delta and SkyWest Time: 6 hours Price: $765

Destination: Calgary International Airport Flights: Seven per week through SkyWest Time: 2 hours Price: $423 Destination: Vancouver International Airport Flights: Seven per week through Compass Airlines Time: 2 and a half hours Price: $415 Travel Tip: The two direct destinations north of the border share the distinction with Salt Lake City of hosting a Winter Olympics. In our travels to Canada, we’ve found that the stereotype about Canadians being really friendly people is very true. For some uniquely Canadian summer travel, check out the Calgary Stampede (July 8-17, 2016; CalgaryStampede.com) when the entire city turns into a gigantic 10-day celebration of rodeos, shows and activities. The Vancouver Bay is the perfect place to watch the annual Honda Celebration of Light international fireworks competition (July 23, 27 and 30; HondaCelebrationof Light.com) while dining on some of the best dim sum in North America.

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Destination: Cancún International Airport Flights: Seven per week through Delta Time: 4 and a half hours Price: $778

Destination: Los Cabos International Airport Flights: Three per week through Delta and SkyWest Time: 3 hours Price: $666 Destination: Mexico City’s Benito Juárez International Airport Flights: Six per week through Delta Time: 4 hours Price: $758

Travel Tip: Mexico continues to draw millions of American tourists per year. Salt Lake City is uniquely situated for easy visits to Mexico’s variety of beautiful destinations through quick flights. Talk of travel to Mexico for any other tropical area in the summer of 2016 must also include mention of the Zika virus, which has been a concern for many travelers in many destinations. Those with questions about travel to any place where the virus may be an issue should check for updates at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC.gov) and the U.S. Department of State (Travel.State.gov) or a special page on the Zika virus created by the White House (WhiteHouse.gov). Keep in mind that airlines only keep routes open if people are using them. Delta offered a nonstop flight to Tokyo in 2009, but later cancelled it due to the sluggish economy, H1N1 virus scare and general lack of demand. So keep the SLC-to-the-outside-world options open by booking your flight and showing up in a T-shirt proudly listing the great travel destinations of the world: London, Paris, Amsterdam, Salt Lake City. CW

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Fill In the Blank The work of University of Nevada dance faculty member/feminist choreographer Rosie Trump (absolutely no relation to you-know-who) is made all the more interesting by knowing that she received a Master of Arts degree in “experimental choreography.” She describes her own artistic style as an ever-present tension “between the ordinary and the absurd in search of movement that is mutually comedic and political.” Indeed, it appears that, while Trump’s work can be serious and often political, the humor is its real strength. The two-years-in-the-making Fill in the Blank is, Trump says, about the “domestic, professional, and political pressure surrounding the contemporary woman.” While that idea could easily be filled with angst, Trump instead fills her feminist tale with wordplay that creates a wacky, playful world of irony. It’s a real treat to have such a visionary choreographer—whose work has shown at the Toothpaste Duets in Los Angeles and at the Prague Fringe Festival—choose Salt Lake City for her world premiere. (Katherine Pioli) Rosie Trump: Fill In the Blank @ Sugar Space, 800 W. 132 South, 385-202-5504, May 20-21, 8 p.m., $10-$12. TheSugarSpace.com

PERFORMANCE THEATER

The Count of Monte Cristo Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6961, through May 21, Monday-Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Saturday matinee 2 p.m., PioneerTheatre.org Disney’s Sleeping Beauty Hale Center Theater Orem, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, through May 20, HaleTheater.org The Full Monty The Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State, 801-957-3322, through June 4, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m., The-Grand.org Ivanhoe Knight Fever The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, through June 4, Monday, Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m., TheOBT.org Noises Off Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, May 20-28, Friday-Saturday & Monday, 7:30 p.m., Saturday matinee May 27, DraperTheatre.org

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Fill in the Blank Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 132 S. 800 West, May 20-21, 8 p.m., TheSugarSpace.com (see above) Innovations 2016 Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-869-6920, May 20, 21, 26-28, 7:30 p.m.; May 25, 7 p.m.; May 28 matinee, 2 p.m., BalletWest.org (see p. 21) Silhouette Dance Studio: Grace Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-7100, May 21, 2 p.m. & 6 p.m., Tickets.Utah.edu Walking Belly Dead Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, May 20, 7 p.m., ArtSaltLake.org

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

NOVA Chamber Music Series: A Celebretory Finale Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-7100, May 22, 3 p.m., NOVASLC.org Salty Cricket: Stratospheres Urban Arts Gallery, 137 S. Rio Grande St., May 19, 7:30 p.m., SaltyCricket.org Gershwin’s Piano Concerto + Barber’s Essay No. 2 + Dvoák’s Symphony No. 6 Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-335-2787, May 20-21, 7:30 p.m., ArtTix.ArtSaltLake.org

COMEDY & IMPROV

The Addicts Comedy Tour Wiseguys Salt Lake City, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, May 23, 7 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com (see p. 21) Abi Harrison Wiseguys Salt Lake City, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, May 19, 7:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Aries Spears Wiseguys Salt Lake City, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, May 20-21, 7:30 p.m. & 9:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Christian Spicer Sandy Station, 8925 S. Harrison St., Sandy, May 21, 8:30 p.m., $10, SandyStation.com Christopher Stephenson Sandy Station, 8925 S. Harrison St., Sandy, May 20, 8:30 p.m., $10, SandyStation.com Heath Harmison Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588, May 20-21, 8 p.m., $10, WiseguysComedy.com Jessica Michelle Singleton + Zach Noe Towers Sandy Station, 8925 S. Harrison St., Sandy, May 25, 8 p.m., $10, SandyStation.com Laughing Stock Improv The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m., LaughingStock.us

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Eileen Hallet Stone: Historic Tales of Utah The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 E. 1500 South, 801-484-9100, May 19, 7 p.m., free, KingsEnglish.com Maggie Podunovich: I’ve Only Been a Shadow Weller Bookworks, 607 Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, May 21, 2 p.m., free, WellerBookworks.com Shannen Camp: Parrish The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 E. 1500 South, 801-484-9100, May 21, 3 p.m., free, KingsEnglish.com Susan Branch: Martha’s Vineyard: Isle of Dreams The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 E. 1500 South, 801-484-9100, May 24, 6:30 p.m., KingsEnglish.com Fred Montague: Gardens and the Environment The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 E. 1500 South, 801-484-9100, May 25, 7 p.m.-9 p.m., free, KingsEnglish.com

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Living Traditions Festival Washington Square and Library Square, 450 S. 200 East, May 20, 5 p.m.-10 p.m.; May 21, noon-10 p.m.; May 22, noon-7 p.m., free, LivingTraditionsFestival.com (see p. 21 and 43)

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Wasatch Back Student Art Show Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., 435-649-8882, through June 5, KimballArtCenter.org A Call to Place: The First Five Years of the Frontier Fellowship Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., 801-245-7272, through May 30, VisualArts.Utah.gov A Real Rockwell?: Cover Art from the Saturday Evening Post Main Library Special Collections, Level 4, 210 E. 400 South, 801-5248200, through May 31, SLCPL.org Abstract Expressions Evolutionary Healthcare, 461 E. 200 South, 801-519-2461, through June 11, EvolutionaryHealthcare.com African Journey: Photography by Gabby McBride Salt Lake City Main Library Level 2

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Canteena, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through May 22, SLCPL.org Brian Snapp: House of My Brother/House of My Sister Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, 801596-5000, through June 10, SaltLakeArts.org Cara Despain: Seeing the Stone CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, 385-215-6768, through June 1, CUArtCenter.org Drips, Splashes & Puddles: Paintings by James Haymond Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, 801-594-8611, through June 16, SLCPL.org Howie Garber Rio Grande Cafe, 270 S. Rio Grande St., 801-364-3302, through May 31, RioGrandeSLC.MyShopify.com Jena Schmidt: Believe & See “A” Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, 801-583-4800, through June 4, AGalleryOnline.com Jennet Thomas: The Unspeakable Freedom Device Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through July 30, UtahMOCA.org Jennifer Seely: Supporting Elements Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Sept. 24, UtahMOCA.org Jim Jacobs: Append Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, 801-596-5000, through June 10, SaltLakeArts.org

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moreESSENTIALS Joan Zone Art at the Main, 210 E. 400 South, 801353-4088, through June 12, ArtAtTheMain.com Lewis J. Crawford: Constructs Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, 801-596-5000, through June 10, SaltLakeArts.org Maryann Webster: Narrative Works Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, 801-596-5000, through June 10, SaltLakeArts.org Michael Handley: Unfurling CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, 385-215-6768, through June 1, CUArtCenter.org Michael Swearngin Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, 801-385-3383, through June 11, ModernWestFineArt.com Nancy Rivera: Herbarium Obscura: Shadow of Nature God Hates Robots, 314 W. 300 South, ste. 250, May 20-June 10, GodHatesRobots.com (see p. 26) Nic Courdy: Metaphornography Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801328-4201, through July 23, UtahMOCA.org Oonju Chun/Heidi Moller Somsen Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, 801-364-8293, May 20-June 10, Phillips-Gallery.com The Painted Veil Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande, May 20-July 8, VisualArts.Utah.gov Person, Place or Thing Utah Arts Festival Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, May 20-June 3, Monday-Friday, UAF.org Roberta Glidden Dibble Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, 801-364-8293, May 20-June 10, Phillips-Gallery.com Sarah May: Identity Retablos Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts, 631 W. North Temple, Ste. 700, through June 10, Facebook.com/MestizoArts See Me Hear Visual Art Institute, 2901 S. Highland Drive, 801-474-3796, through June 2, Monday-Saturday, VisualArtInstitute.org Art at the Main Spring Show Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 132 S. 800 West, through June 25, ArtAttheMain.com Star Wars Exhibition Urban Arts Gallery, 137 S. Rio Grande St., through June 5, UtahArts.org Through Her Eyes: Photography by Utah Female Photojournalists Salt Lake City Main Library, Lower Urban Room Gallery, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through June 24, SLCPL.org Tom Russell: An American Colorist Ken Sanders Rare Books, 268 S. 200 East, 801-5213819, through May 31, KenSandersBooks.com

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I turn to Lucky 13’s Ring of Fire ($10). This is the basic burger (which is very good in and of itself), adorned with house-smoked bacon, roasted jalapeños, habaneros, cheddar cheese and grilled onions. I think I deserve a prize for withstanding all that heat! A spin-off of Avenues Proper, Proper Burger (865 Main, 801-906-8604, ProperBurgerSLC.com) is located next door to Proper Brewing, meaning that burgers and brews are in abundance here. The basic Plain Jane burger ($4.49)—which is the starting point of all the burgers except the excellent housemade veggie burger—has terrific flavor and texture. I believe there is brisket incorporated into the quarterpound beef burger blend. But variations are plentiful, including the $8.49 Rising Sun (with kimchi, miso aioli, cilantro, a fried egg, sriracha and pickled cucumber) and the $7.99 Hipster (featuring kale pesto, red onion jam, fresh herb cheese spread, garlic aioli and spinach). The only Proper burger I can’t properly propose— and which I tasted solely for research purposes—is the $26 Truffle Shuffle, made with two patties topped with a fried egg, American sturgeon caviar and truffle aioli. The truffle aioli is overwhelming, and the caviar—which I thought would make the burger super salty—turned out to be nearly unnoticeable. The fries at Proper Burger, however, are top-notch. Don’t miss ’em. Burgers & Bourbon at The Montage Deer Valley (9100 Marsac Ave., Park City, 435-604-1300, MontageHotels.com/DeerValley) has their own budget-busting burger. It’s called the Lux ($32) and it features foie gras, truffled cheese, bourboncaramelized onions and arugula. However, a better way to experience the superb flavors of a burger here is to order the Classic ($14), which is a juicy, flavor-packed

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ay 28 is National Burger Day, and here at City Weekly, we’re celebrating the great American hamburger with our own Burger Weeks, Wednesday, May 18, through Tuesday, May 31. Now, I am quite aware that burger passion runs as high, and can be as controversial, as passion for pizza and politics. Name your favorite pizza joint, burger spot or politician and you’re bound to piss some people off. But, that’s what they pay me for. Here then, are a few of my favorite burger places. Most are newish and/or spots that might fly a little under the radar. I’ve purposely omitted many of the joints whose praises I’ve sung in the past, so as not to turn this into a “Best of” article. They know who they are. Followers of Chef Nick Watts’ Chedda Truck, which he took to the streets of Salt Lake City in 2012, will be thrilled to know that he now has a permanent brick-andmortar location: Chedda Burger (26 E. 600 South, 801-906-8779, CheddaWasted.com). Watts’ fresh-ground, 100 percent natural Angus beef burgers are mostly intended for the adventurous, with options like the Silly Round Eye (beef, pastrami, Swiss cheese, kimchi and fry sauce) or his Kill Me Softly (a beef patty with blue cheese, bacon, arugula and cranberry sauce served on a Krispy Kreme doughnut). I’ll stick with the Old Faithful ($6.79): a just-greasy-enough beef patty with classic cheddar cheese, caramelized onions, ripe tomato slices, green leaf lettuce and fry sauce. Skip the limp, skin-on French fries, however. I’m not sure which I love more: the excellent Margherita pizza at From Scratch (62 E. Gallivan Ave., 801-961-9000, FromScratchSLC.com) or their outstanding Scratch Burger ($15). It’s a toss-up. The beef burger is thick and juicy—ground in-house, of course—topped with smoked cheddar from Gold Creek Farms, iceberg lettuce, housemade mayo and ketchup and crispy shoestring onions, all housed in a house-baked brioche bun with a side of stupendous fries. I doubt there’s a City Weekly reader who hasn’t heard of (or tried) the Lucky 13 Challenge at Lucky 13 (135 W. 1300 South, 801-4874418, Lucky13SLC.com). That’s where contestants can win lunch on Lucky 13 and $200 cash if they can finish the 28-ounce, foot-tall Big Benny burger ($17) in one hour. Frankly, I have enough weight issues without trying to eat a nearly 2-pound hamburger. So,

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KUER 90.1 FM’s fifth annual Savory Salt Lake takes place at the Tower at RiceEccles Stadium on Friday, May 20, starting at 6:30 p.m. Savory Salt Lake features 18 of Salt Lake City’s most talented chefs and vendors, providing savory and sweet small bites to guests who can vote for their favorites. For this year’s event, NPR’s Kelly McEvers joins KUER’s Doug Fabrizio and foodie Vanessa Chang as celebrity judges. All proceeds from the event support the station’s programming (KUER.org).

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Sue spiced Angus ground chuck, sharp cheddar, Highwest Campfire whisky bbq sauce, hickory smoked bacon, house made red onion ring, avocado, mayo, Vosens baked sesame seed bun, all put together with love.

Pork Belly and Ground Beef Patty, Ham, Bacon, Garlic Dill Aioli, House Pickles, Lettuce, Tomato, Onion, Pepper Jack Cheese

Freshly made burger patty cooked to your liking on a toasted ciabatta roll. Smothered with made fresh daily guacamole on a bed of arugula, tomato, red onions, and covered with melted pepper jack cheese and bacon

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Athenian Burger

A unique offering marrying a quarter-pound charbroiled hamburger topped with thick Feta cheese, roasted red bell pepper, fresh lettuce, tomatoes and onions and dripping with homemade tzatziki sauce.

Bourbon House Juicy Lucy

Black Angus Burger stuffed with Irish Cheddar, Roasted Garlic Aioli, Tomato, Lettuce, Red Onion

Brewvies

Black & Blue Burger Originally was supposed to be Called Blackened Blue Burger. The burger patty is seasoned with a Cajun Blackening season and grilled. The Hot Cajun Spices are then cooled by the the Creamy, Tangy Blue cheese crumbles melted to the Burger. A true taste explosion. add Bacon to it and OH MY!

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Dirty Love Burger The Patty is coated in Black Pepper (dirt) and then topped with Ranch Dressing, Swiss, Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato, and an over easy egg (love)

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Green pig

House made Angus burger with Anaheim peppers, fried egg, pepper jack cheese, Cajun bacon, garlic aioli, with avocado, lettuce, onion, tomato, on toasted ciabatta bun.

Grinder’s 13 The Texas Deluxe

a classic killer sub or the longest cheeseburger in SLC? Not just a cheeseburger loaded with mayo, lettuce, tomatoes and onions but one with Bacon AND Pastrami since 1973.

Habit Burger Charburger

Voted Best Tasting Burger in America! 100% fresh ground beef chargrilled over an open flame with crisp lettuce, tomato, caramelized onions, mayo, and pickles on a toasted bun.

Hog Wallow Hog Burger

Hand formed beef patty topped with pepper jack, bacon, onion straws, house made BBQ sauce and chipotle aioli.

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Chedda Burger The Dealer

Fresh cut cucumbers, red peppers, green peppers & onions. chopped tomatoes drizzled with homemade tzatziki sauce topped with feta cheese on a egg washed brioche bun. Served with Cajun fries

Beef Patty + Cream Cheese + BBQ Pulled Pork + Fried Jalapenos + Cilantro Ranch

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One of four Chubby's offered at Copper Creek Pub & Grub. Two grilled cheese sandwiches hold a half pound ground chuck patty with a delicious combination of sautéed onions and mushrooms, ranch dressing and bacon.

From Scratch Scratch Burger

8 oz. of beef, house made Brioche Bun, Shoestring Onion, Gold Creek Smoked Cheddar, Iceberg, house made mayo and catsup, and yukon gold Scratch Fries

Garage on Beck Cowboy Burger

Saddle Up! Hand pressed beef patty served with Golden Crisp Onion Ring, Bacon, Cheddar Cheese, Leaf Lettuce, Tomato, BBQ Sauce, & Mayo.

Ground Angus Check topped with whipped cream cheese, roasted jalapeno, dailys bacon and signature fancy onions. As alwasy, served on a fresh buttered bun from Stoneground. The richness of the cream cheese mellows the heat of the jalapeno which has been roasted to bring out its flavor and the fancy onion adds a little sweetness and chewy crunch.

Lamb’s Grill Main Street Burger

topped with savory, Balsamic red onions, bacon, crisp lettuce, tomato and a house made bleu cheese spread served on a fresh brioche bun.

Lucky 13

The Celestial Burger 7oz fresh locally ground chuck, topped with grilled onions, BBQ sauce, house smoked bacon & cheddar cheese, all in a fresh daily made bun.

Holy Guacamole Bacon Burger

Lumpy’s on Highland Ute Burger

Grilled burger w/ bacon, cheddar cheese, 2 onion rings & Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ Sauce.

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Garlic Burger 8oz special blend grass fed beef, ciabatta bun, handmade fries, and a family garlic recipe.

Piper Down Irish Burger

"It's a virtual Planetoid!" A mess of a burger with a 1/3 Pound patty, piles of Corned Beef, Warm Sauerkraut, Melted Swiss Cheese and 1000 Island Dressing held together on a Potato Roll. Finished off with ripe Tomatoes, Romaine Lettuce, Yellow Onion and a Pickle Spear.

Poplar

Red Ancho Burger Two 7 oz. patties, bacon, stuffs, Swiss, red onions and topped with Red Ancho sauce on a toasted ciabatta bread.

Proper Burger The Flyin’ Hawaiian

quarter-pound always fresh, never frozen burger patty with pineapple, house-made ham, pickled jalapeno, Swiss, cilantro-cumin aioli, whole grain mustard. $8.99. Also available with our house veggie patty, chicken breast, or hot dog.

Rich’s Burgers Mac-N-Cheese Burger

Griddle House Mac, House Roasted Anaheim Green Chiles, Chipotle with Onion-Battered Fried Green Beans

Royal Eatery Royal Burger

A quarter-pound, fresh, charbroiled hamburger topped with a quarter pound of smoked pastrami, American cheese, fresh lettuce, tomatoes and onions and slathered with our special sauce.

Sage’s Café Cali Chevre Burger

a Cali Burger, lentil, rice vegetable burger topped with our Cashew White Tuffle Chevre. Served with choice of hand-cut fries, soup or salad.

Squatter’s Bourbon Burger

Our classic burger topped with cheddar and bourbon-garlic caramelized onions

The Point After Heat Attack Burger

1/3 pound premium patty, 1/4 pound pulled pork (smoked on-site) fresh cut bacon, fried egg and onion rings topped with homemade BBQ sauce and your choice of cheese. Served on a brioche bun with lettuce, tomato, pickles and onions on the side. Goes GREAT with TPA IPA form Wasatch!!!

The Royal Kentucky Heat

Served with cheddar cheese, topped with Kentucky Bourbon BBQ pulled pork, drizzled with house made queso sauce, topped with sauteed red onions and jalapenos, crispy onion straws, and served on a brioche bun.

Tonyburgers Southwest Tonyburger

this is our only "Pre-built" burger. It comes in 2 sizes (Small and Big T) and has pepper jack cheese, fried onion strings, home made ranch dressing, signature BBQ sauce and jalapeños.

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Twist Burger

Half-pound seasoned burger on a fresh local deli bun. Choose from a wide assortment of fresh toppings and sides.

Vertical Diner Ian MacKaye Burger

This is a Cali Burger topped with grilled Mac and cheese served with vertical sauce, tomato, lettuce, onion. Choice of hand-cut fries, chili, house salad, mashed potatoes and gravy for $13.00 or $10.00 if served with the carrot sticks or tortilla chips.

Wasatch Brew pub The Wasatch

House spiced buffalo burger, Cajun remoulade, iceberg lettuce and local spiced Beehive cheddar.

Westerner

Honky-Tonk Burger

melted Pepper jack cheese, smoked bacon, onion rings, & smokey BBQ sauce. All burgers accompanied by your choice of house fries, sweet potato fries, onion rings or side salad.

Whiskey Street Whiskey St. Burger

8oz Buffalo Beef Burger, Smoked Gouda, Caramelized Onions, Tomato, Ancho Chile Aioli, Arugula and Whiskey Street BBQ Sauce

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actually a vintage, WPA-influenced (Works Progress Administration) illustration style. Look for the updated design scheme—created in partnership with Nashville’s Anderson Design Group—to be a part of all bottling and packaging by June. Boulder, Colo.-based Upslope Brewing (UpslopeBrewing.com) is becoming wellknown for their “out-of-the-box” brews crafted using natural ingredients. One example is their recent collaboration with Fort Collins’ New Belgium Brewing Co. to create a tropical stout that incorporates plantains with a rum-sugar glaze into the brew. Now Upslope Brewing has created a uniquely delicious Belgian-style blonde ale, brewed with guava, exclusively for the Utah beer-drinking market. “Upslope’s heart is in the Rocky Mountains and Utah is smack dab in the middle of them,” says Upslope’s director of sale and marketing, Henry Wood, in a press release. “We couldn’t ignore this beautiful border state, so we brewed a delicious session beer that conforms to the Utah state laws so we can be sold in grocery and convenience stores. We’re looking forward to spreading the Upslope brand throughout the Beehive State.” The Belgian-style blonde ale brewed with guava is 4 percent ABV (3.2 percent alcohol by weight) with aromas of crisp apples and Champagne. It’s a bright, gently carbonated beer, both light-bodied and easy-drinking—a true

session beer. Park City’s Waldorf Astoria (WaldorfAstoriaParkCity.com) has partnered with Park City Brewery (ParkCityBrewery.com) to create their own exclusive beer, a rye pale ale named Pow Day. It’s a crisp pale ale with hints of rye that pairs nicely with lighter summer dishes. It recently debuted at the first of the Waldorf Astoria’s Bites N’ Brews events—a monthly series showcasing locally crafted beers along with hors d’oeuvres created by Powder restaurant’s executive chef, Ryker Brown. Upcoming dates for the series are June 9, July 14 and Aug. 11. Bites N’ Brews tickets are $50 each and include two pints of beer, passed appetizers such as organic fried chicken and lamb belly, a 64-ounce glass growler and a coupon good for a free appetizer at Powder. I strongly recommend

the crispy pork belly appetizer with onion, Swiss chard and apple cider reduction. Looking for a Father’s Day gift for a beer-loving dad? You might want to consider the all-new Riedel Veritas Beer Glass (RiedelUSA.net). The ultra-thin crystal allows brews to stay colder longer (because there’s less glass to conduct heat), and the glass itself is designed to showcase beer’s complex aromas, mouthfeel and flavors. The unique shape of the Veritas Beer Glass also doubles as a great glass for Albariño wine. Finally, for the seventh consecutive year, Squatters and Wasatch brewpubs, and the Utah Brewers Cooperative are teaming up to offer “Guilt-Free Desserts” during the month of May to benefit local charities. Hop on over to page 30 for more information. CW

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y desk has been piling up lately with news of brews, so I thought I’d sift through the clutter this week and share some of it with beer-loving City Weekly readers. Beer drinkers like me, who love our Uinta Brewing beers (UintaBrewing.com), will soon notice a significant change in the looks of Uinta’s bottles and packaging. They’ve just released a new, snazzy logo which embraces the use of a compass. According to founder Will Hamill via a company press release, “the compass symbolizes our adventurous spirit, sense of direction in brewing and serves as a reminder to get out and get lost every once in awhile.” Although to me the new logo looks quite contemporary, it’s

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With a kitchen full of Chinese chefs via Hong Kong and San Francisco, Mandarin’s woks fire up some of Utah’s best Chinese food. Start with char shu, pot stickers and Singapore Noodles before jumping into more exotic eats like Nanking Chicken, lychee scallops, Sichuan catfish and eggplant with garlic sauce. There’s a full wine, beer and spirits selection (a rarity in Bountiful), and you can even sip hot or cold sake here. They don’t take reservations, except for large groups, although you can call ahead to be put on a waiting list. 348 E. 900 North, Bountiful, 801-298-2406, MandarinUtah.com

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Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe in The Nice Guys with fear. It’s a movie full of visual and verbal punch lines too delicious to spoil, because they joy of them comes from the fact that you just never saw them coming. It’s kind of a shame that Crowe and Gosling never quite develop the same crackling chemistry that Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer found in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, turning that movie into an instant classic. Crowe’s taciturn straight-man provides a far less interesting foil for March than March’s own 13-year-old daughter Holly (Angourie Rice), who generally seems more competent at the whole detective thing than her drunken dad. Black may play around with the idea that both of his protagonists are on some sort of quest for redemption, but The Nice Guys’ true pleasures come from watching a filmmaker shred the world of hard-boiled detective fiction and turn it into big laughs. There are few things more surprising at the movies than something you don’t expect will ever be turned into a franchise, but you kind of wish it would. CW

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a little extreme arm-twisting, Healey starts to realize that some of the people looking for Amelia are more dangerous than others, and teams up with March in an attempt to find her first. From the old-school Warner Bros. logo that opens the movie, leading into a panoramic view of Los Angeles through a crumbling “Hollywood” sign, Black revels in the grunginess of his 1970s period setting. Sure, he makes maximum use of a delightful soundtrack packed with funk and disco classics, but he’s more interested in a specifically Southern Californian world of seedy porn theaters, over-the-top Hollywood parties, gas-station lines and an omnipresent blanket of brown smog. Throw in a plot based on a very particular kind of conspiracy, and you’ve got something as specific in its 1970sby-way-of-2010s California as Chinatown was in its 1930s-by-way-of-1970s California. But where Chinatown was purely dramatic pulp fiction, The Nice Guys is pure comedy— and that comedy is almost always built on something coming at you from out of left field. Black is brilliant at using the backgrounds, edges and light-revealed darkness of his frame to catch an audience off-guard with a hilarious bit of business. He undercuts the tough-guy expectations of his plot by making Gosling’s March in particular an often-bumbling scaredy-cat, whether fighting with a bathroom stall door to keep a gun trained on someone, squealing like a girl when danger erupts, or doing his best gasping imitation of Lou Costello when paralyzed

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Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change. THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE B.5 After 15 post-Shrek years—since CGI feature animation was offered a vision of the most obvious possible path toward a license to print money—we now have this dispiriting nonsense based on the popular smartphone game. Set on an island populated by flightless birds, it pits short-fused Red (Jason Sudeikis) and his pals (Josh Gad and Danny McBride) against a group of pigs (led by Bill Hader) who show up with possibly nefarious motives. A bunch of frantic action ultimately ensues, in order to provide all of the touchstones that players of the game would recognize, all built around the most overused of animated-feature plots, the “Rudolph”: Ostracized outsider goes on a quest and finds that his defining trait can help save the day. And of course it’s seasoned with pop-culture gags—the pigs have a poster from the musical Ham-ilton; pause to allow your knees to recover from the slapping—rather than humor built from character, because that would require effort. Oh, and it ends with a musical production number, just in case you were worried you might miss anything that wasn’t pre-ordained from the start of this century. Opens May 20 at theaters valleywide. (PG)—Scott Renshaw

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THE MEDDLER BBB The marketing for writer/director Lorene Scafaria’s movie—and even the title, for that matter—suggests a story focused on the contentious relationship between widowed mom Marnie (Susan Sarandon) and her adult daughter, Lori (Rose Byrne), after Marnie relocates from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be closer to her. But surprisingly little of the story actually revolves around that relationship, as Scafaria focuses instead on Marnie’s complicated road toward finally processing her grief, including a tentative relationship with a retired cop-turned-movie set security (a delightfully low-key J. K. Simmons). And while it’s always a shame when Byrne is in a movie, yet in not nearly enough of that movie, Sarandon delivers a rich, heartbreaking performance as a woman who keeps searching for a place to put her need to be needed. It’s unfortunate that Scafaria gives in to the tired trope of building a scene around someone over the age of 50 getting stoned, especially when Sarandon is so good while Marnie is repressing her feelings. The Meddler is less about the

tension between a mother and a daughter than about the tension between that mother and herself. Opens May 20 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—SR NEIGHBORS 2: SORORITY RISING BB Progess! Dumb movie depicts teen girls behaving badly, but with a positive vibe, just like boys have gotten since forever. Kelly (Rose Byrne) and Mac (Seth Rogen) are about to sell their house, but now a sorority (led by Chloë Grace Moretz) has just moved into the former frat house next door, and is determined to party. Not like a frat—their parties are “super rapey”—but still like sororities typically don’t. Zac Efron’s frat boy Teddy is back, too, helping the struggling new sorority get off the ground. There are unexpectedly progressive aspects to this sequel, including a sweet acceptance of the fluidity of sexual attraction and a distinct female gaze. Otherwise, it’s more of the same from the original movie: a fragmented mess that throws out lots of attempts at humor—way too much of it gross-out—while rarely striking a chord with any of it. Turns out that gross-out movies don’t work when they’re progressive any more than they do when they’re regressive. Shame is the basis of gross-out comedy, and you cannot shame people who are cool with all the dildos onscreen. Opens May 20 at theaters valleywide. (R)—MaryAnn Johanson THE NICE GUYS BBB.5 [see review p. 39] Opens May 20 at theaters valleywide. (R) PELÉ: BIRTH OF A LEGEND B.5 It’s hard to imagine one movie could be so hackneyed, but this one is something else. It hits every biopic cliché so squarely it almost feels cruel to call them out, but to dumb down the story of such a singularly exceptional athlete is a disservice, even if Pelé scores the occasional feel-good vibe. Cliché: Extreme poverty is merely a nuisance, and at times downright cute. Cliché: Rich soccer-playing kids taunt poor soccer-playing kids because the poors don’t have shoes. When the poors finally get shoes, they play like bums until they ditch said shoes, and then they win. Cliché: An old dude tells teenaged Pelé about ginga, an ancient martial art brought to Brazil by African slaves, which will aid him in his play. Cliché: Ginga is frowned upon by Pelé’s coaches—until it isn’t. The only thing that saves Pelé from being an unqualified failure is its beautiful cinematography—but that’s nearly undone by sledgehammer editing, ham-fisted music cues and God-awful performances. The child actors are wooden, but if you ever wondered whether Vincent D’Onofrio could give a bad performance, you have an answer (it’s yes). Opens May 20 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (PG)—David Riedel

SPECIAL SCREENINGS THE BRAINWASHING OF MY DAD At Main Library, May 24, 7 p.m. (NR) GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK At Brewvies, May 23, 10 p.m. (R) THE PILGRIM At Edison Street Events Silent Films, May 19-20, 7:30 p.m. (NR)

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CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR BBB The Marvel Cinematic Universe is now a self-perpetuating cycle; each movie exists in part to tease the next one, though they’ve done an impressive job of making that process satisfying. This is, for all practical purposes, Avengers 2.5, as a proposal to put the Avengers under United Nations control leads to a clash between Captain America (Chris Evans), who opposes it, and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), who favors it. The characters’ history allows the potential rift to seem as consequential as any grand slugfest—though of course, there are grand slugfests, with a dozen combatants including Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) and a charming new Spider-man (Tom Holland). Yet Civil War often feels like a commercial for those characters’ upcoming stand-alone features. There’s fun here, but it’s fun where the central purpose is making sure the cycle remains unbroken. (PG-13)—SR

THE DARKNESS BB It feels like an eternity that Hollywood has been using the PG-13 Horror Movie Template. This latest product even used the do-ityourself generic title generator. Kevin Bacon and Radha Mitchell play the parents of an autistic boy, who starts talking to an imaginary friend that makes strange noises, leaves ominous handprints—your basic haunting, per Section II (a) of The Template. Mitchell Googles conveniently helpful articles that perfectly summarize what’s happening; Peter insists there’s a logical explanation, and throws himself into his Template-approved occupation (architect). Eventually he takes the threat seriously and enlists a paranormal expert to recite incantations necessary to exorcise the house, etc. Even at 92 minutes, this formulaic castoff is mindnumbingly protracted, without a moment of originality (or scariness). The only way it works is if you’ve never seen a Template movie before, but that’s not likely. (PG-13)—Eric D. Snider

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DOUGH BB.5 Some stories are so formulaic, you almost feel annoyed that they work on you at all. Widowed, Orthodox Jewish baker Nat Dayan (Jonathan Pryce) struggles to keep his family’s Kosher bakery running in London; his new apprentice Ayyash (Jerome Holder), a Sudanese refugee and small-time drug courier, kicks off the pun-intended “high-concept” when he accidentally spills marijuana into a batch of challah, leading to a surge in the munchies. The premise is fueled almost entirely by the earnestness of Pryce’s performance, and the growing friendship/surrogate family relationship between Jew and Muslim. It’s rote in every beat, from the needy widow (Pauline Collins) courting Nat, to the nasty corporate big-wig trying to drive Nat out of business. Still, there are those few minutes when you can surrender to a feel-good tale with its heart—if not art—in the right place. (NR)—SR

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MONEY MONSTER BB The economics of the movie business demand it: If you attempt a story about the manipulative complexity of corporate avarice, you’d better throw in genre elements. They fumble with balancing those elements in this tale of cable-financial-network TV host Lee Gates (George Clooney), whose live program is taken hostage by a working-class investor (Jack O’Connell) who lost everything thanks to one of Gates’ “can’t-miss” tips. The narrative bounces between character drama, paper-chase suspense and siege thriller on the journey toward learning that just maybe someone was gaming the system. It just never finds anything compelling to say about that idea, or the short-attention-span media landscape that turns dangerous people into goofy memes. Clooney excels at playing a shallow huckster getting woke, but this morality play only plays to those looking for a Bernie Sanders stump speech in cinematic form. (R)—SR

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THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY BB The most textbook-like subsection of rote biopics involves scientists and mathematicians, most of whom tend to have precious little in their biographies to inspire anything more than admiration. This serviceable movie covers a mathematician who undoubtedly deserves to be honored, but writer-director Matthew Brown has fails to make his career into stimulating cinema. Set in the 1910s, the story follows Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel), a resilient, religiously devout Indian math whiz who’s invited to Cambridge, where he dazzles everyone, but faces opposition because of his ethnicity, social class and lack of formal education. Brown’s dramatization of Ramanujan’s career and personal struggles is overly respectful, ordinary and sterile. It ends, of course, with photos of the real Ramanujan and onscreen captions telling us what happened next, lest the story of a mathematician be anything other than by-the-numbers. (PG-13)—EDS

SING STREET BBB.5 Disclaimer: A musical directed by John Carney (Once), set in Ireland and built on affectionate skewering of 1980s MTV aesthetics might as well be custom-designed to my specifications. In 1985 Dublin, 15-year-old Connor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) responds to life upheavals—including a crush on mysterious older girl Raphina (Lucy Boynton)—by starting a band. Carney and co-songwriter Gary Clark provide an infectious collection of original tunes inspired by early-’80s pop, and Carney has loads of fun playing with the way Connor and his bandmates experiment with their “look.” It’s also built on charming relationships, though, particularly Connor’s connection with his older brother/musical mentor/life coach Brendan (a wonderful Jack Raynor). The story may meander whenever it’s not focused on the music, but Sing Street is simply lovely at conveying the beautiful foolishness of being young, in love and moved to create. (R)—SR

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Preacher makes a hell of a debut; Wayward Pines and Powers return. Preacher Sunday, May 22 (AMC)

Series Debut: The uninitiated have no idea what the hell Preacher is, while the fanboys are convinced that the 19952000 Vertigo comic-book series can’t be adapted for any screen, let alone basic-cable TV. And then there are the concerns about stoner-comedy duo Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg as exec-producers, as well as how an epic Heavenand-Hell struggle will be received as a weekly series (even though The CW’s Supernatural has already been mining that territory for a decade). While I can’t speak to the fanboys’ worries—I’ve only skimmed the comics—Preacher will definitely blow some newbies’ minds with its 90-minute premiere, a violent and funny explosion of sharply written characters (including Dominic Cooper in the title role, nearly obliterating his beloved Howard Stark from the Marvel Universe) and slow-burn exposition (Breaking Bad vet Sam Catlin is running the show here, not Rogen and Goldberg). Is the story of a touched-by-God boozehound Texas minister, his berserker ex-girlfriend, his sarcastic vampire pal and a kid named “Arseface” the next big thing for AMC? Let’s pray it is—we don’t need another Walking Dead spin-off.

The Bachelorette Monday, May 23 (ABC)

Season Premiere: You do realize that you’ve been watching the same show for 12 seasons now, right? “Bachelorette gets a second chance at true love after her shocking rejection by on the previous season of The Bachelor. With 20 new men [and one quickly ejected psychopath] to choose from, this [blonde/brunette/redhead/vaguely ethnic] beauty is ready find her soulmate and write her own happily-after-after!” ABC has been using this stock press release form since 2003.

Wayward Pines Wednesday, May 25 (Fox)

Season Premiere: Fox Under the Dome-d us. Wayward Pines was supposed to be a one-and-done, closed-end story told in a single season last summer—but then you all actually

Hell Yes What the Hell Hell No watched it, probably because I told you to, so this allpowerful TV column is at least partially to blame. Anyway, Season 2 picks up where the first left off, with the residents of small mountain town Wayward Pines now aware that they’re the last people on the planet (but has anyone heard from Phil, Fox’s other Last Man on Earth?), fleshhungry mutants roam the wasteland beyond the forest, and sketchy scientists run their lives—naturally, they’re pissed. Jason Patric takes over the Earnest Newcomer role from Matt Dillon, dead Piners Carla Gugino and Terrence Howard appear in flashbacks and Hope Davis continues to shape/manipulate the upcoming generation with a Master Race-ish bent. As with all things connected to Idaho, proceed with caution.

Powers Tuesday, May 31 (PSN)

Season Premiere: Yes, errybody’s in the originalprogramming game—even your PlayStation. Powers, which debuted in 2015 (Season 1 is currently available on freebiestreaming Sony cousin Crackle), was the first offering from the PlayStation Network (PSN), and it’s based on the graphic novel of the same name. The “Powers” are superheroes, though not all them are heroic, hence the need for detectives to investigate crimes and murders associated with them (this universe’s superheroes parallel professional athletes and celebrities who think they’re above— waaay above—the law). Sharlto Copley, Eddie Izzard and

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Michelle Forbes return from the first season; Tricia Helfer, Michael Madsen and Wil Wheaton join for S2—that’s some serious actor-ly weight for a series streaming through a game console. Now Powers needs to step-up its scripting and action games to match.

Maya and Marty in Manhattan Tuesday, May 31 (NBC)

Series Debut: Remember The Maya Rudolph Show from 2014? A one-off sketch/variety hour that did surprisingly well with viewers and critics alike? Naturally, the geniuses at NBC said, “People liked it, so let’s do more of that … in two years, with a couple of co-hosts, because we can’t trust a woman to carry this thing even though she’s already proven she can. How’s that Taxi Brooklyn show coming along?” Maya and Marty in Manhattan adds fellow Saturday Night Live-rs Martin Short and an unbilled Kenan Thompson to the mix, so it already instills more confidence than the network’s previous brain-dead-on-arrival variety attempt, Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris. Like SNL, Maya and Marty will air live; unlike SNL, there won’t be an extra 30 minutes of filler no one can explain or justify.

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rue to their name, the duo of Joshua Faulkner and Daniel Romero—Conquer Monster—is dominating the indie electronica scene in Utah. Through their combination of keyboards, synthesizers, audio gadgetry, oldschool video game tech and a relentlessly fun live multimedia show, the group has become a must-see local act. The project originally started in late 2010, when Faulkner teamed up with Rion Buhler to create sci-fi electronica heavily informed by the VHS era. The duo released an eponymous debut EP in October 2011, with Romero joining the group soon afterward. After some experimentation trying to work with a singer, Buhler left to pursue other interests. A duo once more, Conquer Monster got to work in earnest. In January 2013, the pair began working on what became their 2015 album, Metatransit. Faulkner says they “wanted to make a concept album about a sci-fi dystopian future.” While outlining a story that would help guide their songwriting, “we realized that making a comic book would be the perfect visual guide through the album.” The duo worked with Joshua Omen and Chris Black from Black Omen Comics to piece together a visual complement to the album—the comic book series Purge Worlds. The narrative follows the intergalactic adventures of a cybernetic assassin seeking to avenge the death of his partner. Since Metatransit’s release, the band’s been performing as much as possible, scoring gigs with acts like Young Galaxy, D9, Laura Lamn and S2 COOL, and frequently collaborating with local favorites New Shack and Seve vs. Evan. The band’s performances are hyperkinetic geek-fests. Initially, Faulkner put guitar straps on his keyboards so he could play them like keytars, and be free to move around onstage, but says it “didn’t work very well.” Now the shows are simpler, incorporating science fiction-themed video projections—and keeping their instruments on stands, so Faulkner and Romero can dance around and have fun. Conquer Monster plans to ride Metatransit’s momentum and work with Black Omen Comics on a second issue of Purge Worlds, as well as a video game based on the comic. In the long term, they plan to release an eight-bit remix of Metatransit, and a possible EP with a yet-to-be-named Utah County band. In the meantime, they’re crushing audiences, touring from the Rockies to the West Coast and playing both the Utah Arts Festival and Craft Lake City. CW

family, but Shankar, who grew up living between India and Los Angeles, also blends electronic music, hip-hop and an entrancing performance on the rare double violin—one of only two such instruments in existence. “I’ve always kind of considered myself as a hybrid,” she says. “Nari, specifically, has been East-meets-West. I was taking all of my mother’s Indian classical recordings, and added a lot of new things to that. I like both languages a lot.” Shankar expects to release Nari as an album later this year, but even as she travels around the country performing it, it continues to evolve and grow. Her discovery of her family’s hidden legacy grew deeper as she exposed it to more people. The show’s U.S. premier was at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Shankar says that, after the show, a security guard told her he had pictures of Lakshmi and Viji that he took when he saw Ravi Shankar perform years ago. “We’ve been getting so much archival [footage] that we’ve never seen before,” she says. “We had these photos from Toronto in this crazy, big stadium where my grandmother’s conducting the orchestra. We’d never seen pictures of that before.” It isn’t just the voices of her mother and grandmother that she’s discovering. In trying to give them a voice, she’s discovered one of her own. Shankar’s previous work includes classical Indian recordings, film scores and collaborations with pop stars such as Katy Perry and Smashing Pumpkins. Nari, she says, is her most personal work to date. “Which probably makes it the scariest,” she adds. Growing up in a musical family, Shankar can’t remember a time when she didn’t want to make music. But the name she carries could sometimes be a blessing and a curse, she says. “I think for a lot of years, I ran away from the weight of this family name and what this legacy is. … We’re all carving our own paths, but I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for the two women before me.” CW

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avi Shankar is often credited with ushering in a unique eastern musical movement within western pop music. From his lauded 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival to his collaborations with George Harrison and the Beatles, the sitar virtuoso became the de facto focal point of western culture’s understanding of Indian classical music. But his music was always part of a larger family tradition, including many women who were often relegated to the background despite the size of their contributions. Now his great-niece Gingger Shankar, a composer and virtuoso in her own right (she is the only woman in the world who has mastered the 10-string double violin), is helping reintroduce to the world to two previously unsung members of India’s first family of music. “Nobody knows the female side of the story,” Shankar says. Her latest project is called Nari, a multimedia performance about Lakshmi Shankar and her daughter Viji Subramaniam (Shankar’s grandmother and mother). Throughout their lives, as Ravi Shankar recorded and toured, Lakshmi (his brother’s wife) and Viji were there, helping to pioneer an entire musical movement with little to no recognition. In fact, it wasn’t until Shankar began going through old scrapbooks, belonging to her now-deceased mother and grandmother, that she herself realized the full extent of what they had accomplished as artists. “Every female voice you hear during that time is theirs,” she says. “They were part of this whole scene.” The problem, she explains, isn’t just that they aren’t widely recognized in western music circles; even Indian music fans know little about the women in India’s most famous musical family. When Lakshmi died, if her death got any recognition at all, she was identified in local media headlines as Ravi’s sister-in-law. As Shankar traveled to India to research for Nari, her encounters with local reporters produced similar results. “I’d say, ‘I’m here doing this project about my mother and grandmother’ … and literally the first 50 articles that came out in India all said, ‘Gingger is in India filming a documentary about Ravi Shankar.’ I remember the first time I saw an article with their names in it. It was like a little victory.” Lakshmi and Viji were ultimately victims of a malecentric musical culture that India is still working to overcome. “At the end of the day, you’re expected to be a wife and mother,” Shankar says. “I think strong women voices need to be heard in India … which is why this project was propelled. There’s a huge need for women’s voices there now,” she says. The show pays homage to the traditional music of her

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idn’t we all wonder? Why would Neon Trees singer Tyler Glenn, when coming out as gay a couple of years ago, still declare his faith in his religion? You know, the one that spends so much time and money trying to crush the very lifestyle he’d just confessed to the world? I knew when I was 13 years old that I wanted to quit the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—the one my mother forced me to go to, despite not going herself, because she wanted me to have a religious education. The one whose members, in spite of seeing my sister and me every Sunday without fail, thought my mother, who worked three jobs to support us, was a whore because she was divorced, smoked and had a long-term boyfriend (a better father than my biological one) who rode a Harley-Davidson and played the drums. The church whose members told a 13-year-old boy how disrespectful it was to come to church, on Christmas, in brand-new jeans, a collared shirt and a pullover sweater because the Lord deserves slacks and a tie (I’d outgrown my only ones). And, then, after deigning to let me stay, these members sang, “As I have loved you/ love one another” with no sense of irony. So when Glenn, whose very genetic makeup is offensive to the church, tried to make it work with them: Why? What value is there in a relationship where one partner finds the other repellant? To me, the answer was obvious, but it took two years before Mom finally allowed me to leave. She worried I would be ostracized, but wasn’t I already? I had no idea what was in store. Once I left, the refrain was that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. My friends’ parents didn’t want me around, lest I corrupt their righteous little cherubs. The flock can be cruel when one flies away. It’s a defense, I suppose. Each departure signals that their belief system may not be bulletproof. But I’ve never had to come out as gay. I can only guess that it’s as terrifying and heartbreaking as it is liberating, and that what you gain—freedom, joy—is nonetheless mitigated by what you lose: friends, family, closely held beliefs. So maybe Glenn was in the bargaining stage of grief, seeing if it was possible to remain faithful to himself and his religion— and to find, at the end, acceptance. That’s why some LGBTQ Mormons try to make it work: They hope to hang on to their religion if and when the organization comes to its senses. But the church, inasmuch as “the church” signifies the organized, meddling institution—and not its good, non-judgmental individual members—continues to reject them. It was the actions of the church—their continued efforts to thwart equality for

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LGBTQ people, including disfellowshipping children of LGBTQ parents—that finally led to Glenn having enough. He’s finally speaking out in “Trash,” the first single from his forthcoming solo debut. “I think I lost myself in your new religion,” Glenn sings. The rest of the lyrics address the hypocrisy of professing love and practicing hate, baptizing children before they really understand what they’re getting into, and how it feels to leave the church. You know, before ultimately declaring, in a great double-entendre, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” Interestingly, the video for the track shows Glenn singing in a hallway adorned by altered portraits of LDS prophet Joseph Smith. Painted by Glenn, Smith’s face is covered by what looks like the Misfits’ skull logo—perhaps a way of turning the tables and asking how the church feels about being the outcast, now. “It’s my first day back in Salt Lake since releasing it. I’ve heard so many positive remarks about the video and things I didn’t consider, like, that it would help people or make people feel emotional,” Glenn told City Weekly last Saturday at the unveiling of Harvey Milk Boulevard (see News, p. 12), where he performed a live set. “For me, it was literally an expression of one weekend of losing my faith completely and then feeling completely high from the idea that maybe I can do something that I want to do and live my life.” Heartbreaking and liberating, Glenn’s statement is a second coming out of sorts. One with a far-reaching appeal. “I was trying to encapsulate this really angry, confused moment in the video,” he says, “and now I’m seeing that that’s how other people felt and feel, and it’s really, really inspiring to see it resonate in that way.” CW Additional reporting by Enrique Limón.

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One of Salt Lake City’s best-kept secrets is the “assertive folk” trio Canyons. Their songs range from breezy to ruminative to sensual, with exquisite harmonies, engagingly vivid lyrics and great acoustic and (occasionally electric) guitar tones. They tend to release music in small doses—an EP at a time. This weekend, they’re dropping a limited-edition, four-song, colored vinyl EP called Sometimes Late at Night, featuring three new songs (“January,” “Ohio” and “Once”) as well as a new recording of “Pages,” from their previous Canyons EP. Drummer Hillary McDaniel tells City Weekly they’re taking the middle slot tonight, with Ogden (by way of Seattle) band Palodine opening and Ogden hip-hop act Grits Green capping things off. “We’ll play a really fun set and then we’ve asked Grits Green to close out the night with a huge dance party so we can join our fans in the audience to celebrate.” Look for a feature on Canyons soon, where we’ll divine just what, exactly, they mean by “assertive folk.” (Randy Harward) Lighthouse Lounge, 130 E. 25th St., Ogden, 9 p.m., free, CanyonsMusic.com

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Although Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer and Cream get the most credit for originating the blues-based stoner-doom sound, Virginia’s Pentagram—coming a few years after the late-’60s advent—are highly influential in the genre. They’re enjoying a resurgence thanks to the 2011 documentary Last Days Here, which chronicles singer Bobby Liebling’s struggles with addiction—and his ultimate return to rock ‘n‘ roll in 2010. The band released Curious Volume (Peaceville) last August, and its monolithic riffs and big drums—and Liebling’s wild-

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eyed, Morrison-meets-Ozzy vocals— show Pentagram still has the goods more than 40 years after their debut. Salt Lakers should count themselves lucky that Pentagram included us as one of the 11 dates on their tour. Wax Idols, King Woman and Darklord open. (RH) The State Room, 638 S. State, 7:30 p.m., $17, TheStateRoomSLC.com

SATURDAY 5.21

Dead Meadow, Max Pain and the Groovies, Spirit Tribe

For years, L.A.-by-way-of-D.C. outfit Dead Meadow (in addition to Bardo Pond) was indie standard-bearers Matador Records’ foothold in psychedelic stoner rock, a style of slowed-down heavy metal originated by Black Sabbath. Since 2010, the power trio has branched out on its own Xemu Records label, and their eighth studio release, Warble Womb (2013) also is a fair description of their sound, alternately lulling and rumbling in a slightly ominous manner— after all, you don’t want it to harsh your mellow. The band’s 2002 album Got Live If You Want It was produced by Anton Newcombe of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, and released on his label The Committee To Keep Music Evil. Locals Max Pain and the Groovies and Spirit Tribe open. (Brian Staker) Kilby Court, 741 S. 330 West, 7 p.m., $13 in advance, $15 day of show, KilbyCourt.com

SUNDAY 5.22 Paul Simon

It was in 1999, I believe, that Paul Simon and Bob Dylan brought their immensely popular tour to the

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James McCartney—the only son of Paul from his marriage to Linda—naturally had a love of music from an early age, and, while still in his 20s, started aiding the former Beatle, playing drums and guitar on some of Paul’s solo albums. Now 38, he has his own music full of the same melodicism as his father’s, but often with a little harder edge. His fifth solo album, Blackberry Train (Maybenot), was released earlier this month, and perhaps the biggest surprise is that it was produced by Steve Albini, who’s made a career out of making bands like the Pixies and Nirvana sound even better, harder and clearer than they are. On his website, McCartney says, “It’s all been an evolution.” (BS) Metro Bar, 615 W. 100 South, 8 p.m., $15 in advance, $18 day of show, JRCSLC.com

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