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Cover story Oakland-based Johnson pulls double duty as photographer and scribe of this week’s cover story. While in Mexico City, he says he developed an affinity for the local chilango culture.

“Their slang reminds me of how we talk in the Bay Area,” he says. With lots of coarse language and irreverent humor.”

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Cover story, July 28, “Motos in Moab” Love it!

RED OLIVE Via Facebook Aims to put Utah’s off-road motorcycling off the map! The whole article is discouraging and negative with its antienvironmental overtones and it is just irresponsible. Cool? I think not, from the beginning with the whining and boohooing about riding a short distance from Salt Lake to Moab! What a bunch of posers! Do you think anybody wants to see flamethrowers, whiskey bottles, guys digging ruts on their bikes and the like in places like Moab?! Sure, it was on private land, but what about the smoke and noise? I think the writer and editor of City Weekly [are] totally out of touch and doing a disservice to the motorcycle community.

The purpose what was to promote a Harley Davidson-like custom shop. [It’s] so obvious while you further divide motorcyclists and outdoors people. Nice going, City Weekly, and my friends agree that your article is

stupid! These are people that actually know how to ride and race a bike off road while at the same time respecting the outdoors!

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News, July 28, “So It Goes”

Kingsley Management Corp. is horrible. I once had a home at Mountain View in West Valley and it increased lot rent every year by at least $100; they would do monthly inspections on the house out of the blue [and] charged us $20 if we didn’t mow the lawn every week. We finally got out of there and into a real house [and] sold the house for what we owed rather than what it was worth, but it was well worth it. Never live in a KMC property.

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Five Spot, July 28, Rocky Anderson

Oh, Rocky. How can we miss you if you won’t go away?

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Staff Box, July 28, When you think about the current election cycle, what image comes to mind?”

Hillary and Chump being squashed by Dr. Jill Stein’s amazingness.

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Hits and Misses, July 28, “Boy Scouts/ No Home for Homeless Shelters”

Good news for Scouts. Being inclusive is the Boy Scout way. The LDS church should stop shoving their gay anxiety down everyone’s throat.

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We could start by not making [homeless shelters] so big that they overwhelm a neighborhood. I also don’t want a 100plus room hotel in my neighborhood.

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Opinion, July 28, “Driving With No Helmet”

The Washington Post claims that as many as 988 million birds die annually in the United States alone running into windows. Sadly your story about that majestic

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bird and its tragic end is no isolated incident. Yet not a single word from our government on this feathered carnage, no national guard deployments, not even an attempt to regulate the window glass industry. I cry fowl! It’s time to end the genocide.

Helmet laws and politics are a complicated story. In 1966, [The Highway Safety Act] mandated that 10 percent of national funds for maintaining highways was dependent on each state passing laws requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets.

Long story short, in 1976 President Ford signed the “Helms Angel Bill,” which repealed the national helmet law. Before then end of 1977, more than 20 states repealed their helmet laws. Ironically, in 1992, California implemented a mandatory universal helmet law, while Utah repealed their law in 1977. In September, I am planning to spend three weeks riding across the country on a motorcycle. As I embark on this journey, I now have a few questions to ponder.

1. Never mind my carbon footprint, what is my bird death footprint?

2. Will I possibly kill more birds as I ride?

3. If a bird hits me in the helmet and dies, would I have possibly saved that birds life by not wearing a helmet?

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Anyone who has spent more than 10 minutes living in Utah knows there are only several matters that stand out as the very most important to most Utahns: The rivalry between the University of Utah and the Team Down South, whether one consumes caffeine hot or cold, if one is willing or not to be seen doing yard work on a Sunday and, of course, where you stand on the issue of local grocers being petitioned to remove red wine vinegar from the condiments aisle.

Yes, many people are saying that banning red wine vinegar from grocery stores altogether is an even better solution. Maybe.

A reasonable solution would be to simply place it at such a height that our easily influenced youth cannot read the label, but not many people are saying that.

And that’s how rumors and nonsense get started. If just one person becomes Trumpian enough to take action against red wine vinegar because “many people are saying” it is categorically similar to, say, a wine such as Carson Ridge Cabernet Paso Robles, you can bet that Utah’s nanny moms would erupt all over social media about the harms of little children being exposed to wine via the nefarious gateway of a salad dressing ingredient.

Those nanny moms will reach out to more nanny moms—Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat, set ablaze with videos, memes and barely decipherable character counts warning of the harm wrought of a godless red wine vinegar society. Instagram will fill with photos of green salads, all adorned with, and advocating for ranch dressing.

A news channel will pick up the storyline because that’s what news channels do these days—they pay attention to Twitter trends and not much else (not counting weightloss programs and Dancing with the Stars fantasy tributes). The story will “get some legs” as it is said in the ever sexist broadcast media industry, until a local grocer gets a mic shoved in his face as he fumbles for a reasonable explanation why the red wine vinegar in his store is so near the Cocoa Puffs.

In no time, a special legislative session will be called with Governor Herbert toasting the “Red Wine Vinegar Children’s Crusade of 2016 Act” by tossing back a shooter of Heinz White Vinegar appropriately provided by the Love White Vinegar lobbyists at his side. Everyone will be happy. Except for the folks who have used red wine vinegar their whole lives and have not once been tempted to drink a whole bottle of it in one sitting. Although late to the game, they, too, will take action, most likely in the form of—because this is Utah, after all—Tweets like these: “I’ll just get my @redwinevinegar in Wyoming. Screw Utah.

Screw @balsamic too.

Utards!”

“Why do the @mormons ruin everything? Take care of your own kids, stupid people.”

“Don’t worry, there’s lots of #redwinevinegar in Utah’s crappy liquor stores. Idiots.

Privatize liquor.”

That’s the way it goes in Utah—eventually, no matter what the issue is, it will trickle down to social media or story comment sections, and become one more battle between the sinners and the saints. Either you’re a Mormon or you’re not. There are no Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Methodists or Atheists in Utah; all of those cults just fall into the heap of “Non-Mormon.” If you are a Utes fan, you are presumed to be a Non-Mormon (yes, yes, yes, there are plenty of Mormon faithful who are Utes fans—they may not know it, but they are generically regarded as “cool Mormons” or, “yeah, he’s a Mormon, but …”). Nor are all BYU fans Mormon. Those who are not Mormon are called by their proper term, “Insane.”

If you dine at Chili’s or Red Lobster, you’re presumed to be Mormon. If you enjoy fine dining and jazz music, you’re presumed to be non-Mormon.

There are also a substantial number of people in Utah who are regarded as “Anti-Mormon.” They are of the variety of

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persons who say tomatoe when Mormons say tomater. A fair number remain gainfully employed, too, at such enterprises as The Salt Lake Tribune, for instance. I have also been called “Anti-Mormon,” and was even challenged on that point by a high-school classmate a couple of years ago when he ascended to the role of an LDS Stake President. I challenged him back by asking him to find a single instance when I’d written anything against his faith. He couldn’t.

We’re still buddies, just no longer drinking buddies.

And as buddies, I wish him the best getting his favorite school, BYU, past yet another LGBTQ controversy and being accepted into the Big 12 conference. It means nothing to me, as I’ve never been affiliated with BYU or anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. As above, though, “many people are saying” that it matters to them. At center stage is the petition from over 20 national groups, including the nonprofit advocacy and education group, Athlete Ally, stating that BYU is not qualified to become a Big 12 member due to discriminatory practices. BYU students pledge to an Honor Code that includes swearing off sex outside of marriage and the wording, “homosexual behavior is inappropriate and violates the Honor Code.”

That petition questioning BYU’s qualifications for Big 12 conference membership is now distilled, as always, as an issue between Mormons and non-Mormons. To see the degree, go to CougarBoard.com, cut through the code words and read the comments, (plus those on other social media), which personify the rift between Utahns very nicely, coarsely and rudely. Utah really is the place where you can either use red wine vinegar or you cannot, and where you must never consider the white wine vinegar compromise. CW

What is Utah’s most divisive issue?

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THAT’S THE WAY IT GOES IN UTAH ...

EITHER YOU’RE A MORMON OR YOU’RE NOT.

Scott Renshaw: Can’t it really all be distilled down to “U of U” vs. “BYU”?

Ivy Watrous: Whether pineapple goes on pizza or not.

Mason Rodrickc: I think it’s probably the grid system, right? Like it’s super useful and all, and I never feel lost or anything, but it really divides things up pretty precisely. We should probably get rid of it in favor for the more avant-garde road system that is the “Great big sort of mish-mash of clustered accidents” system. Unify this city!

Tyeson Rogers: The mixture of Church and State. The LDS Church has a strangle hold on the Gov. of Utah and for those of us who don’t subscribe to the Church, they are infringing on our rights ... really annoying.

Jeremiah Smith: Utah’s most divisive issue, I believe, is who has to teach the lesson at family home evening.

Nick Sasich: LGBTQ rights!

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Sierra Sessions: That’s tough because we have a lot of issues that cause controversy, but that’s mostly because people are just looking for things to be upset about.

Lisa Dorelli: Well, on the opposing side, it seems Utah succeeds at not giving a shit about which gender shits in whose shitter. And that’s the shit.

Sarah Arnoff: Food-related

contention seems to be a big problem. Carrots or celery in the green Jell-O? Rice Krispies or store-brand rice puffs in the funeral potatoes? Family reunions are tough, man.

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The Monumental Dispute

At the stroke of 8 a.m., Cate Allen jumps out of her car and grabs two bottles of water and a Whole Foods bag holding her laptop. She locks her car, then unlocks the door to the K-TALK’s stripmall office in South Jordan. In an hour, she’ll go on the air with the latest episode of Celebrating Women: The Women’s Show. Afterward, she’ll head home to learn lines for a commercial audition happening tomorrow.

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How did you get your start in radio?

RANDY HARWARD

Parsing through the Bear Ears controversy is not unlike figuring out the Mideast crisis. This became clear in the comprehensive yet confusing coverage of the issue in the Deseret News. First, you need to know that the monument hasn’t always been Bears Ears. It used to have a Navajo name, which was something else, apparently. Anyway, the controversy isn’t just Big Government vs. The Little Guy. It’s tribe vs. tribe, Navajo vs. Navajo and, of course, conservationists vs. some other people.

Some of those others are Rep. Mike Noel (R-Utah) and members of the so-called Sagebrush Rebellion, the Sutherland Institute and Republican Congressman Rob Bishop. But they say they’re conservationists, too. Making Bears Ears a national monument will put it on the map for those pesky tourists, they say. You really need a cast of characters to understand Utah Diné Bikéyah, its board chairman Willie Grayeyes, Round River Conservation Studies, Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, Friends of Cedar Mesa and so many more.

Local school board membership is not for the faint of heart. If it’s not the issue of transgender bathrooms, then it’s how to equalize dress codes for both genders. “Salt Lake City has a new dress code intended to be genderneutral and non-shaming,” wrote Salt Lake board member Katherine Kennedy on her Facebook page. “Many thanks to Assistant Principal Pam Pederson and others for making this happen.” Most dress codes that focus on girls purport to spare the student body some distraction. High schools in Bingham, Wasatch and Stansbury have all protested the stereotype. Teens tend to balk at this overt sexism, saying they’re not objects to be ogled at. “No more girls forced into oversized T-shirts,” said board member Heather Bennett. Then again, this is Utah, where even Michelle Obama’s bare arms caused collective gasps.

In 2011, I had auditioned to host a local television show [Main Street Deals] and, after a month, they asked if I could host radio. I said, sure, but I’d never done radio. I went in as a co-host for a political program. At one point, I did five shows a week. Now I have my own weekly show, covering entertainment, business, women’s interests and social issues.

Saving Lives and Money

Why do you still help on student film projects at Salt Lake Community College?

The good news is that University Hospital is cutting out wasteful and unnecessary medical tests. This means money gets saved—maybe $10 million a year—and ostensibly the patients benefit. But how? Patient costs could go down—despite the nation’s complex capitalistic healthcare system—as the U uses a data tool to come up with cost savings. But a Salt Lake Tribune story says only 10 percent of the U’s doctors are using this tool now.

That’s because they still want discretion and worry about being compared with one another. The tool might help with choosing medications, too. And all this might become mandatory at some point. The bad news is that it won’t matter much to indigent patients still awaiting the teeny piece of Medicaid expansion that Utah’s proposing.

You’re also involved with the Utah chapter of the Sexual Abuse Response Team.

There’s a lot of sexual violence here, and I don’t like that. My show covers the legislative session, particularly bills that impact women. Two years ago, we had five bills regarding sexual abuse and assault, so I became very aware. We have higher-than-national-average statistics on everything: 1 in 3 women, 1 in 4 girls, 1 in 6 boys and 1 in 10 men will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime—and only 10 percent of them report it. I started getting disclosures and I wanted to know where to send people for help. When victims don’t get help, that’s when we see problems like addiction and suicide.

How do you find time to act?

I used to not sleep. Now there’s only two things that I do every week: the radio show, and then I teach a project management class locally. That leaves a lot of flexibility for acting gigs, whether they’re here or in Los Angeles. Often I’ll find out I’ve booked a job and then I’ll be on a flight at 6 the next morning. If I get out early enough, I’ll fly back that night.

I’ve always liked working with [program heads] Channing [Lowe] and Mark [Davis, who passed away in March]. There’s only so much free work I can do, and they’re one of my priorities, because with SLCC, it’s always a professional set, and the footage is awesome.

You’re a former competitive swing dancer, and recently used those talents in a feature film.

I was down in L.A. and a friend talked me into going on this open call. A couple of months later, I got called to come to L.A. for a fitting. I asked what it was for and they said Hail, Caesar!, a Coen Brothers film. So I rearranged my schedule and flew down the next day.

Both days were crazy. Our call time was 5 a.m. because it’s a period piece and we had to go through hair and makeup. But they had the best food. We’re talking prime rib, salmon— you don’t normally get that, even on feature films with budgets. And every two hours they had more food, like a taco cart. I heard that’s what the Coen Brothers do: They will feed you well!

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A friend says all of the drinkable water on the Earth has passed through dinosaur kidneys. What do you think?

—Jerry Lodriguss

A friend claimed that all water on Earth is “old” water, billions of years old. I countered that water is a product of combustion and therefore “new” water is continually being created. Also, water decomposes through methods such as electrolysis. How likely is it that the majority of water molecules on the planet are the same bonding of hydrogen and oxygen atoms from billions of years ago?

—Bill B. Just guessing, Jerry: Would this friend happen to be about 8 years old? I ask because it sounds like he or she may be among the nearly 140,000 viewers of a graphically eye-catching video posted last May by Curious Minds, a YouTube channel aimed at sparking children’s interest in science, titled “Have you drunk DINOSAUR PEE?” To address your more genteel rephrasing of this inquiry requires that I give Bill and his friend an answer about the age of water, but also points us toward a third, even bigger question: What is water, anyway?

To get this out of the way: Yes, dinosaurs apparently did urinate. For years, scientists figured that dinosaurs, like most of their avian descendants, evacuated liquid and solid waste in a single stream from an orifice called the cloaca. But in 2002 paleontologists in Colorado found preserved, amid a cluster of dinosaur footprints, a 10-foot-long, 5-foot-wide and 10-inch-deep “bathtub-shaped depression”—the result, they concluded, of some primeval liquidsplashing-in-sand event, and the first genuine evidence to suggest that at least some dinosaurs must have produced urine separately, as ostriches do.

Now, no one thinks actual dinosaur tinkle drips from our faucets, or even (I hope) that any trace particle of dinosaurs’ waste has lingered in our water supply for the 66 million years since their extinction.

In fact, author-reporter Charles Fishman was making a point about the resilience of the water cycle, which naturally filters out such impurities, in his 2011 book The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water, when he devised the bold claim that his press materials simplified thus: “The water coming out of your kitchen tap is four billion years old and might well have been sipped by a Tyrannosaurus rex.”

The reasoning behind Fishman’s assertion (and, later, Curious Minds’) is straightforward enough. Though nearly 1.4 billion cubic kilometers of water exists on Earth, and pretty much always has, 96.5 percent of that is seawater. Only 11 million cubic kilometers is fresh, much of which is locked away as groundwater or in glaciers.

That leaves only 93,000 cubic kilometers of water available for beverage use. The age of the dinosaurs lasted 135 million years, more than enough time for them to consume

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all the potable water that evaporated and precipitated across the globe. And what goes in, of course, must come out.

But how much of the water we drink today existed back then for dinosaurs to guzzle? Fishman says, “No water is being created or destroyed on Earth.” Well, that’s clearly untrue. Destroying water is pretty easy—high-school chem teachers do it all the time, using just an electrical current; as Bill notes, the process of electrolysis splits water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen gases. As for creating water, it’s a regular function of a society that burns as much fossil fuels as ours does.

Combustion produces about only 10 cubic kilometers of water per year, though, and humans have been burning fossil fuels at a significant rate for less than a century.

To say our energy usage has created one percent of the available drinking water on earth in that time would be an exceedingly generous estimate. So Curious Minds isn’t off-base in saying that “the total amount of water on earth has been fairly constant.”

The fact remains: There is fresh water now available for human consumption that no dinosaur could have drunk first.

OK, now let’s go big-picture: What is water? Duh—two hydrogen atoms, one oxygen, right? Basically, but it’s not that simple. Though water is a highly stable compound, water molecules are dynamic little critters, their component particles constantly splitting off and recombining: In the biochemically crucial process of autoionization, hydrogen atoms continually peel off and attach briefly to other water molecules before moving on. All told, in the liquid state, your average H2O grouping hangs around unchanged for maybe a millisecond.

So, sure, when you turn on your shower, the individual hydrogen and oxygen atoms that emerge may at some point have seen the inside of a dinosaur. But they’ve mixed and matched with each other so often since that their relationship to whatever once filled some diplodocus’ bladder is, to put it mildly, tenuous. And if that still makes you squeamish? Trust me, you don’t even want to think about what might have happened with all the dinosaur crap. CW Send questions to Cecil via StraightDope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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No Way Out

Recent death of a veteran prosecutor highlights trend of suicide by child porn suspects.

BY STEPHEN DARK @stephenpdark sdark@cityweekly.net

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hortly after 6 a.m. on Friday, May 6, 2016, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill received a call from the Utah Attorney General’s Office. Their Internet Crimes Against Children taskforce was serving a search warrant for child pornography at the home of one of his veteran prosecutors and mosttrusted subordinates, Chad Platt.

Gill put Platt on administrative leave and emailed his staff, saying that they were to have have no communication with him.

Then, he and a deputy tried to contact Platt by phone—initially without success. The following day, Gill and Platt talked. Gill says he wanted to make sure Platt was in “a safe place,” which he said he was, and to tell him, “We’ll get through this.”

Platt had a bright future at the DA’s.

The one-time head of the asset-forfeiture unit was being mentored by Gill to be the office’s legislative liaison at the end of 2016. More than most men who find themselves under investigation by ICAC, Platt knew what awaited him in terms of prosecution and incarceration if they found child porn, and also knew, if they didn’t, the grim cloud that would be cast over his life.

The Monday morning after the search warrant, at 5:30 a.m., Platt jumped off the parking tower by the DA’s offices he was now barred from entering.

City Weekly requested a copy of the search warrant, only to be informed by the Attorney General that there was an ongoing investigation and releasing it “would create a danger of depriving a person of a right to a fair trial or impartial hearing.” Despite the presumed target of the investigation being dead, Attorney General spokesman Daniel Burton declined to comment on who the investigation was now focused on.

Platt joined a long list of individuals who have killed themselves at the onset of a child sexual-abuse investigation, which can include viewing, possessing, distributing or producing child porn.

Whether Platt was falsely or mistakenly suspected or actively involved in some aspect of child porn, the probability of such suspects committing suicide is hardly news to law enforcement. In a 2013 FBI handbook titled, Operational Safety Considerations While Investigating

In a 2005 study of 95 child sex offenders, 15 percent killed themselves—an alarming 183 times higher than the general population.

Child Sex Offenders, the authors note that in a 2005 study of 95 child sex offenders, 15 percent killed themselves—a massive 183 times higher than the general population. An FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit’s examination of 106 such offenders who took their own lives found that over a quarter did so within the first 48 hours of learning they were the target of an investigation.

“I think folks who kill themselves rather than face the personal and public humiliation and putting their families through the public humiliation of investigations, media attention, trials, incarceration, etc., really do feel there is no way out and death may be better than the pain that they will experience and cause their loved ones to experience upon exposure,” longtime sex-offender therapist and licensed clinical social worker Molly Prince writes in an email.

Such suicides, however, leave relatives scrambling to pick up the pieces from both learning about their loved ones’ terrible secrets and their deaths. It also means that the veracity of the original suspicions remained unaddressed, and society, the suspect and his victims—assuming the accusations have some merit—are denied their day in court.

For many, though, such suspects are little more than “throw-away people,” who did the state, the taxpayer and society a favor by ending their lives.

Elizabeth Hunt is a veteran criminal defense attorney. “I think many people may well think it is good for child porn defendants to kill themselves,” she says.

“They and all accused child molesters are in a class of people it is generally acceptable to hate. By the mere allegation, people in such cases are trapped in amber doing the worst thing they have done in their lives, whether they did it or not.”

DEADLY SECRET

trying to get evidence, get in, control, deescalate, do what we need and get out,” The FBI handbook focuses on protectNordstrom says about serving search ing agents from the unpredictable acwarrants. “It’s highly emotional, a secret tions of suspects they might tend to view that’s been held for decades. Very often as non-threatening. But do governmental it impacts families who are completely agencies have a responsibility to protect blindsided.” These suspects are “parents those they have targeted, along with their and husbands, many of whom have been possible victims, from their actions in the leading another life—a productive life.” aftermath of an investigation being trigNordstrom says she doesn’t recall a gered? DA Gill thinks so, citing how his ofspecific protocol with regard to addressfice raised the bail on alleged rapist and ing the mental health of suspects served Utah GOP activist Greg Peterson to $2 with search warrants, but that her office million in an attempt to protect both his did treat each warrant “as a potentially victims and Peterson himself. Peterson dangerous situation. We would ask if nevertheless raised $175,000, Gill recalls, they had weapons in the home, we would got out of jail and took his own life. ask if they would give them to friends, “I think that unless someone is arrestand we would ask if they had people that ed and put on suicide watch, that there is were helpful to them.” She continues that nothing that can be done to assure they they would discuss how the suspect was don’t go down that road, especially if feeling, and “talk them through it to a dethey don’t voice those intentions to somegree, explain how this would work.” one to know they need help,” Prince says The delay bein an email. tween warrant “Because unless someone execution and has reason to arrest, if there believe the is one, can be person is suiconsiderable. cidal, there The feds “excannot be a leecute the wargal method to rant, seize the take them to a evidence, evalufacility for suiate it, put a case cide watch and together, get therapy to help —Ex-FBI agent Sonja Nordstrom an indictment them through and make an the situation.” arrest,” Nordstrom says. “It does not hapMen who find themselves the target of pen in two days.” child porn investigations are rarely afPlatt’s brother told a KTVX Channel 4 reforded the protection of suicide watch porter that no evidence of child porn was at the jail, as many are neither charged found at his house. The reporter then arnor arrested after the search warrant has gued that may have been why Platt wasn’t been concluded, says former FBI agent arrested, a leap that Nordstrom finds Sonja Nordstrom. questionable. While several defense attor“I’m not trying to destroy people, I’m neys City Weekly spoke to argue that ICAC’s

THESE SUSPECTS ARE “PARENTS AND HUSBANDS, MANY OF WHOM HAVE BEEN LEADING ANOTHER LIFE—A PRODUCTIVE LIFE.”

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While Platt’s relatives, colleagues and friends wait for the Attorney General’s Office to conclude its investigation, the dark shadow over Platt’s memory remains.

The doubts and questions that surround the execution of such a search warrant arguably never quite fade away, something that’s even truer for the family of the dead man.

Former Salt Lake City Justice Court Judge Virginia Ward learned in February 2013 from a South Salt Lake detective working with ICAC that her 43-year-old husband Jason Dryer was the subject of a child porn investigation. She followed police instructions, ordered him out of their home and refused to talk to him. Dryer was interviewed at the police station, and after he was released, drove up into the mountains, ran a pipe from the exhaust into his car, and killed himself.

Ward believes her husband was guilty, but because of her position—one she subsequently resigned from after she was arrested in April 2013 for distributing pain pills—there was a delay in charging Dryer as charges couldn’t be screened at Salt Lake County.

“I wanted to hand it off to the legal system and not be the judge, and that process failed me. How did I know he might kill himself? I wasn’t in the frame of mind to say, ‘You’ll get counseling and get through this.’”

Ward says after she was charged and did a brief stint in jail, she found the first steps toward redemption working at nonprofit Journey of Hope with women released from prison. “I got to earn trust and respect again by helping others.” Her husband’s suicide denied him the possibility of such a journey.

Several years on, she would hope that someone in her husband’s or Platt’s position, would have reached out to a group such as Stop It Now!, and been told, she says, “It’s not all over, you can get redemption, you can get to a place where you’ll be OK.” As it is, she, her two daughters and Dryer’s two sons by a prior marriage are “going to have to live with this forever.” Ward’s oldest daughter told her, Ward says, that she wanted people like her father charged immediately, rather than have to live under the terrifying cloud of suspicion. “She has always been quite clear that anyone can ask for forgiveness,” Ward says. CW

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City Weekly requested interviews with both the FBI and ICAC, but they were denied. Neither agency responded to requests for the numbers of suicides by child porn suspects in the last five years. While a FBI spokesperson emailed that the agency worked with “local partners” to help atrisk suspects get help, given the fact that anything a suspect says to law enforcement could be used against them suggests they would be unlikely to take up such offers.

Prince argues that if someone under investigation for this type of crime “knew they could talk to someone safely about their situation and fears, it would help immensely.” However, she notes, that mandatory reporting laws mean that a therapist learning of someone who has committed, or plans to commit, crimes against children must inform authorities.

If a suicidal suspect, Prince says, “were to contact a therapist trained in sex-offender work as well as knowledgeable about the law, then they could be educated on the realities of the situation they are facing.” They could also be “supported emotionally with the idea that while they have, indeed, done something very offensive to society, and against the law, in many cases [their] loved ones will choose to be a support for them.”

Prince points to Massachusetts-based nonprofit “Stop It Now!” as offering a possible model of help. Set up in 1992, it uses marketing, online resources and public policy to try to help stop child sexual abuse. Along with providing a hotline for confidential guidance and support, Stop It Now! works with a high-tech company which ensures that when some search terms are entered seeking child porn, ads for Stop It Now! pop up. Its U.K. arm has a self-help program called Croga, which provides a workbook for adults at risk of abusing minors. There’s also links to resources such as Virtuous Pedophiles, a website by and for “adults who are struggling with impulses and attractions but are committed to never acting on them,” says Stop It Now! director Jenny Coleman.

THE POSSIBILITY OF REDEMPTION

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search warrants can be flawed because they are based on IP addresses that can be inaccurate or bogus, Nordstrom says the majority of the child porn search warrants she served resulted in her leaving a suspect’s house having found evidence against him, but not yet ready to make an arrest.

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MATCHMAKING BY SMELL

Here’s a new, dirty twist to the old wet T-shirt contest. The Pheromone Party is a matchmaking event based on scent. You and others will spend three nights in the same white, clean, cotton shirt to “capture” your “odor print.” Bring the T-shirt in a zipped plastic bag to the party, where it will be labeled pink for women, blue for men. Guests will then smell the shirts and be matched with the person whose smell they find most attractive. Moose Lounge, 180 W. 400 South, Saturday, Aug. 13, 7 p.m.-Sunday, Aug. 14, 1 a.m., $10, Bit.ly/2aU96vW

WESTERN ART SHOW

Join Kevin Kehoe in his journey to capture the tranquil beauty of the Western landscape. Kehoe’s Western Therapy exhibit takes you through his quest to become a painter. He calls himself a “New American painter,” being a native New Englander who now lives in Heber Valley. Kehoe feels the West is “that spiritual, reverent place that feeds the soul and inspires the heart like no other.” Southern Utah Museum of Art, 13 S. 300 West, Cedar City, 435-586-5432, through Oct. 1, MondaySaturday, 10 a.m.-7:30 p.m., free, SUU.edu/PVA/SUMA

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DANCE SHOW & SWIM

Nine items not available at this weekend’s Craft Lake City (or will they be?):

9. Hand-knitted bike seat cozies.

8. Artisanal beard weave.

7. Templates for formally asking your parents for money.

6. Hand-lettered break-up texts.

5. Locally harvested road kill stoles.

4. Upcycled Diva Cups.

3. Painstakingly whittled

toothpicks made from the pallets behind Costco.

2. Naturally tie-dyed bralette and thong sets.

1. 3-D-printed merkins.

When you see a dance, do you wonder about the choreography? You should. It’s a huge part of the performance. LoveDANCEmore is an on-site mobile dance series which features a pool party where you can see new dances by Salt Lake and Orem-based choreographers in locations varying from a diving platform to a lap pool. Watch the show and then stay after to swim. Scera Park Pool, 701 S. State, Orem, 801-724-3751, Monday, Aug. 15, 7:30-9 p.m., free with registration, Bit.ly/2aNR6ES

ANIMAL JAM

Taking their animal-centric experience from online to real life for this year’s event, Animal Jam hosts live animal encounters to help bridge the gap between kids and science education. It’s all part of the eighth annual Craft Lake City DIY Festival, which features 250 artisans, craft foodies and DIY engineers. Animal Jam is the world’s largest social network for kids with a focus on life sciences.

Children can meet real animals, make a stop-motion video and meet the creators.

Gallivan Plaza, Google Fiber STEM Building, 239 S. Main, 801-906-8521, Friday, Aug. 12, 8 p.m.-Saturday, Aug. 13, 4 p.m., three-day pass $10, $5 daily, kids under 12 free, CraftLakeCity.com

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Frontiers of Fashion As Americans’ fascination with guns grows, so, too, does the market for protection against all those flying bullets. Texan John Adrain has introduced an upscale sofa with cushions that can stop up to a .44 Magnum fired at close range, and is now at work on bullet-resistant window blinds. Another company, BulletSafe, recently touted its $129 baseball caps (with protection against the same bullets, but only in front)— though the company admits the cap won’t prevent concussions.

The Colombian suit and vest designer Miguel Caballero offers an array of bullet- and knife-resistant selections, made with Kevlar and Dyneema, which are also used by clothiers BladeRunner and Aspetto (maker of “ballistic tuxedos”).

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Leading Economic Indicators Notorious French derivatives trader Jerome Kerviel was fired in 2010 after his employer (Societe Generale bank) discovered that he had made unauthorized trades worth about $55 billion and then, by forgery and fraud, covered them up. In June, however, Kerviel won a wrongful-discharge case when France’s Court of Cassation concluded the bank had “no real and serious” reason to fire him. Actually, the court ordered the bank to pay Kerviel about $500,000 in “performance” bonuses, based on the profit that his rogue trades eventually earned. Even though the bank had spent the equivalent of $5.5 billion unwinding Kerviel’s trades, they still made money (because, before the world economy collapsed in 2008, the derivatives business was very good). n Ronnie Music Jr., 45, won a scratch-off lottery prize last year of $3 million in Waycross, Ga., and must surely have thought he was on a roll—because he soon flipped the money into a Georgia methamphetamine gang. The “bet” went sour, and he now faces decades in prison, as he pleaded guilty in July to drug trafficking and firearms violations after his associates were found with $1 million worth of meth and a load of guns.

Government in Action Montpelier, Vt., has one solution to America’s well-known problem of ignoring infrastructure maintenance (and the high cost of asphalt). While other cities and states merely delay needed road work (though with harsh consequences to drivers), Montpelier has begun to unpave some of its roads, converting them back to cheaper, annoying gravel and dirt (and inevitably, dust). A recent report by Montana State University researchers expressed surprise that so many governments are choosing this option. n Phoenix’s KTAR-TV reported in July that the local sheriff (the notorious “tough on crime” Joe Arpaio) has already cost the government $10.4 million in attorneys’ fees for successful lawsuits filed against him by illegally profiled Hispanics. A judge found months ago (awarding $4.5 million) that Arpaio was deliberately violating the court’s orders, and lawyers have demanded another $5.9 million to bring Arpaio’s resistances up to date. (Unless the court rules otherwise, the $5.9 million will ultimately come from taxpayers.)

Latest Religious Messages Last year, 3 million Muslims made the sacred pilgrimage to Mecca for the hajj and another 5 million for the slightly less sacred umrah, but awaiting them in the Saudi holy city would hardly have been the reverence many imagined: massive modern buildings; housing construction with worksites brightly lit around the clock; glittery, multistory shopping malls featuring familiar brands peddling opulence—capped by high-rise views of the city’s entire amusement-park-like setting from four- and five-star hotel rooms, where suites during hajj can go for $10,000 a night. (The malls, like the rest of Mecca, come to a standstill—or kneel-still—for prayers.) n A Fargo, N.D., fire official said in July his crew had responded at least twice to alarmed-citizen phone calls to go help a man obviously homeless, covered in a blanket on a park bench, who seemed not to be moving. The First Lutheran Church later

BY CHUCK SHEPHERD explained that the “man” was just a statue— their idea of Jesus as a homeless man—and its Canadian designer said versions of the statue had been placed in several cities, including Toronto and Detroit.

Perspective Almost half of all produce raised by U.S. farmers is thrown out before it reaches a consumer’s plate, and though there are several contributing explanations, the most striking is American eaters’ “cult of perfection.” “It’s about blemish-free produce,” said one farmer, e.g., “sunburnt cauliflower” or table grapes not quite “wedge-shaped” enough. America’s “unyielding cosmetic standards,” according to a July report in The Guardian of London, even means that much of the annual $160 billion worth of imperfect food is simply left to rot on the vine, or sent directly to a landfill, because farmers anticipate retailers’ reluctance to stock it.

Wait, What?

In July, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced plans to keep black-footed ferrets in northeastern Montana from dying out—with drones that shoot peanut butter M&Ms (coated with a vaccine). Before the drones, there were too few ferrets to justify, economically, hand-delivering the candy. n A Japanese researcher (working out of the University of Illinois at Chicago) recently announced a health-improving computer app that would require men to ejaculate on their cellphones. (The researcher’s sophisticated microscope lens would be capable of transmitting a highly detailed photo, able to be examined in a lab, thus freeing shy men from having to visit a doctor’s office.)

Compelling Explanations Lawyer Andrew Schmuhl, 32, ordered to trial in Fairfax County, Va., in May, declared that he was not responsible in 2014 when he invaded the home of a man who had recently fired Schmuhl’s wife. Using a Taser, he had held the man and his wife hostage for three hours and ultimately slashed the man’s throat and stabbed the woman repeatedly. However, Schmuhl claimed he should be found not guilty because he was “involuntarily” intoxicated at the time—cluelessly on pain medication that made him oblivious of his actions. (He was convicted.)

Unclear on the Concept The membership of the Westerly (R.I.) Yacht Club voted in June to retain the club’s men-only admission policy, which some members told a Providence Journal reporter was necessary to preserve the club’s “family atmosphere.” Apparently, according to the report, they feared being tempted at social events by having unmarried women around (as “full” female members, instead of the currently allowed “spousal” members). n The Chessington (England) World of Adventures theme park, after upgrading its authentic jungle experience, nonetheless had to post a noise restriction in July because some patrons apparently cannot resist the urge to do loud Tarzan impressions, which officials said “confuse” the monkeys.

The Passing Parade Christopher Wade, 55, was arrested in Nashville, Tenn., in July after police tracked him to his home, where he was found already in bed with a female mannequin shortly after stealing it from the Hollywood Hustler store. The mannequin was wearing a brown wig, a pink spandex dress and rhinestone stilettos. n As part of the Taste of Buffalo (N.Y.) food festival in July, competitors from the Major League Eating organization were offered a shot at the Kale Cup, with a $2,000 prize for the most kale eaten in eight minutes. The very healthy Gideon “The Truth” Oji won, downing 25.5 bowls.

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Have you ever stopped and wondered what people in Mexico think about the Donald?

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t Mexico City’s historic central square, or Zócalo, José Adán García is busy balancing a small pipe organ on a wooden peg. As he turns its crank, the instrument lets out a shrill tune reminiscent of circus music. García’s partner strolls amid the shoppers, tourists and vendors with a hat in hand, asking for change.

The organillero, or organ-grinder, is one of many in the capital’s massive unofficial economy. He’s a man of the people, with his fingers on the pulse of the city; that’s why I ask him about one of the most pressing issues in Mexico today: Donald Trump.

What do everyday Mexicans think of “The Wall,” or Trump’s plan to send the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States back to Mexico, among so many other contentious proposals?

García’s response is swift and to the point: “They’re very radical,” he says in Spanish.

“I don’t like them.”

In the weeks leading up to the Republican National Convention, I interviewed a number of Mexico City residents—from teachers to musicians to fellow journalists—about Trump, and whether the demagogic candidate had changed their perception of the United States.

Responses varied. While the organ-grinder didn’t believe Trump would win the election, some predicted the GOP nominee could take it all. Others hinted at a conspiracy between him and Mexico’s president. A few bluntly compared Trump to Hitler. Some likened his campaign to a stunt, instead of a serious attempt to win the White House.

Lots of people described his campaign as a joke—but not a funny one.

One common theme emerged from all of these interviews: Trump has to go.

Or, in Spanish, ¡Fuera Trump!

HE�S LIKE A CLOWN Fabiola Valdéz Gutierrez, Interpreter

�We are not going to have ambassador[s] in D.C. and in Mexico City.�

�WE ARE POLAND AND TRUMP IS GERMANY� Federico Campbell Peña, Journalist

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consumer base. And the situation would be equally as dire south of the border. “Mexico cannot receive a lot of migrants,” he says. With the loss of remittances from Mexican nationals working in the States (to the sum of $24.8 billion in 2015, according to a recent U.S. Government Accountability Office report), the Mexican economy would fold, too.

In an interesting twist, Campbell Peña says conspiracy theories about Trump abound. “A taxi [driver] told me that Peña Nieto has just been with Donald Trump,” he says, implying that the two are somehow in cahoots.

He also says many Mexicans share an inherent distrust of mainstream news outlets because of their close ties to the government.

But it’s also possible that conspiracy theories are simply a means for those who feel disempowered to make sense of Trump’s madness. Speaking of which: How does it feel to be Mexican and hear Trump’s vitriolic message?

Campbell Peña’s answer is blunt: “We feel as [though we are] Polish in 1938, when Adolf Hitler reached power in Germany. … We are Poland and Trump is Germany.”

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Campbell Peña, a TV journalist who works for Canal Once, regarded as “the Mexican PBS,” has followed Trump’s campaign from Day 1. He is certain that Trump, who he calls a “unique species,” will win.

That’s a disconcerting move coming from a man who recently wrote a self-published book titled, Stop Trump: Una Cronología Abreviada, or an “abridged chronology.” But Campbell Peña doesn’t want Trump to start packing his bags for the White House just yet; he hopes his book will inspire Mexican leadership to develop a plan to deal with the possibility of a Trump presidency.

He partially attributes Trump’s U.S. appeal to the scandals that have beset Hillary Clinton. But he also believes that global instability is setting the table for a Trump presidency.

“ISIS is helping Mr. Trump,” he says, “and also the police attacks.”

If Trump were elected, Campbell Peña says the businessman would immediately enact a series of “publicity policies,” such as building the border wall, to prove his might.

Another display of power the broadcaster expects in Trump’s hypothetical first year, is the cessation of diplomatic relations between Mexico and the U.S.—as far-fetched as that sounds. “We are not going to have ambassador[s] in D.C. and in Mexico City,” he forecasts.

But Campbell Peña does not believe Mexico would fork over the billions of dollars needed to erect Trump’s notorious wall. He cites President Enrique Peña Nieto, who recently stated, “There is no way that Mexico can pay.”

Campbell Peña, however, does expect a massive deportation effort— although not of every undocumented immigrant, as Trump has promised.

According to him, that would be physically impossible. “But he is going to deport more people than Obama,” he says.

If that happens, Campbell Peña says the U.S. economy could collapse due to the sudden loss of a large percentage of its labor force and

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Valdéz Gutierrez is a SpanishEnglish interpreter—but her message for Trump needs no translation: He will never build “The Wall.”

She actually believes that if he were elected and did try to push a wall, a litigious private sector on both sides of the border would stop his plans in the courts. “Mexican companies have American partners that would likely lose money, as well, and I cannot see the federal government trying to solve all the possible lawsuits that will be surfacing,” she says.

Valdéz Gutierrez understands issues north and south of the border. She works remotely for LanguageLine Solutions, a company based in Monterey, Calif., with clients in the U.S. and other English-speaking countries. She also has family stateside and, in 2003, spent a summer in Texas and Arizona. For her, the border is personal.

Like many people I spoke to, Valdéz Gutierrez was cynical when it came to Trump and his bombastic style. “He presents himself as a great business success, but a lot of reporters have caught him lying,” she says. She thinks his No. 1 motivation is to further his personal brand with scandals and constant media attention. But “his message is so full of ignorance, that it is a joke to think that his proposals are serious,” she says.

So, is there anything new about Trump’s brand of bigotry? Valdéz Gutierrez doesn’t think so, calling it a byproduct of “a racist America that is still palpable and very alive, present in a lot of cities.”

The only surprise, she says, is that he’s a legitimate major-party candidate—one supported by extremists who “won’t recognize the multiculturalism in their own country,” and who want to “go back to an America that never existed.”

For her, that’s why Trump’s popularity is alarming: It validates the idea that “racists think they have the right to impose their worldview on the rest of the population, and ultimately the world.”

Despite Valdéz Gutierrez’ concern about Trump and his supporters, she says that his vision is basically a punch line in Mexico. “He is like a clown,” she says. “Nobody has real concerns or fears about him becoming president. At least not in my social circle.”

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As was the case with many Mexicans, Trump wasn’t on Ali Gua Gua’s radar. “We only know he had, like, some hotels and had a lot of money,” she says while seated in the middle of a protest encampment full of striking teachers in the heart of the Mexican capital, where she lives. Gua Gua—a globetrotting musician prominent in the Latin American punk scene—is perhaps best known as part of the Kumbia Queers, an all-female outfit whose members hail from Mexico and Argentina. She views Trump’s popularity in the U.S. as a byproduct of a strong strain of cultural intolerance in the country. “I think in the United States, [people are] more aggressive when you’re different,” she says. “And I think Trump is representing these people who think all the problems are because of immigration.”

Although she thinks Trump will ultimately lose the election, Gua Gua admits that it’s still frightening that his ideas carried him to the nomination. “The easiest way is hate,” she says. She also shares a warning for

Trump supporters in America: White people will soon be outnumbered.

She dismisses Trump’s claim that the Mexican government uses the U.S. as a “release valve” for its own domestic poverty. Instead, she says, common people are often faced with an impossible situation. “If you’re a young guy, in a small town in the middle of Mexico, you have, like, two choices, or three: You’re a peasant and you starve [to] death, or you become a policeman, te vuelves narco [you traffic drugs], or you go to the States.” The majority decline crossing the border because it is expensive and fraught with danger.

Amazingly, the punk rocker keeps a sense of humor about it all. During our chat, she jokes about his “piggy face,” and how metal bands might find him the perfect target for their derision were he elected. In the end, she likens his candidacy to dystopian farce with a musical twist: “For me, it’s like a comic, no? It’s like Jello Biafra’s worst nightmare.”

LITTLE TRUMPS Maritza Waldo Molina, English teacher When Waldo Molina crossed the border aided by a coyote, or trafficker, she didn’t even realize it was illegal. She lived for more than five years in North Carolina, beginning in 2005, and only returned to Mexico for her parents’ sake. But she still has family in the States, some of whom are legal residents; some still undocumented.

Waldo Molina, now an English teacher, says that her view of Trump is akin to that of the majority of Mexicans: “Everybody thinks he’s a jerk.”

Her theory as to the candidate’s popularity, however, is unique: People get defensive when they feel threatened—“The problem is, like, we blame everybody”— and he’s the ultimate defense mechanism.

As a Mexican, she isn’t offended

by Americans who love Trump— because she isn’t surprised. “I’m not 100 percent neutral, but I know you can expect anything” from

politics on both sides of the border.

Her big-picture attitude is that the president doesn’t matter: The rich will get richer, and they’ll continue to ignore the working class.

To that skeptical end, she describes Trump as a “Muppet,” who’s “part of a malicious plan.”

She also views his role as the distraction; a guy who says hateful and outrageous things to keep people distracted, while the powerful elite do the real damage.

That’s one reason why she thinks Trump will win.

Waldo Molina is equally jaded when it comes to Mexican politics. She mentions the most recent presidential race, in which Peña Nieto won with less than half of the popular vote, an election reminiscent of the Bush-Gore standoff of 2000.

She also thinks we all have some of Trump’s flaws in us, to varying degrees. She calls these our “little Trumps.”

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the entire campaign is about creating a high profile to earn more cash.

“His finances aren’t so good right now, and he needs more publicity,” he says.

As a gay man, he thinks Trump’s response to incidents such as the Orlando shooting was irresponsible and disrespectful. “I think that was, like, very misguided,” he says. “Who’s he helping, really?”

Sánchez believes Clinton would be a better leader for the LGBTQ community and the country in general.

He also dismisses Trump’s statements referring to immigrants as criminals or drug-smugglers. “It’s like saying all Colombians are narcotraficantes. Of course not. It’s absurd.”

Sánchez sits in a Quaker-run hostel and community center in central Mexico City, where he sometimes practices English with expats and hostel guests. Sánchez, who is gay, admits that the current groundswell of global reactionary conservatism—including Trump’s overwhelming popularity— feels not only regressive, but also dangerous. “I hope that he doesn’t win,” he says with utmost sincerity.

“It’s the first time that I’ve heard a candidate who talks like this, so openly, about problems … without making a sound judgment about the

causes,” he says.

He brings up the “taco bowl” episode: On Cinco de Mayo this year, Trump tweeted a picture of himself at his Fifth Avenue desk with a sadlooking tortilla shell—a classic example of Americanized “Mexican” food—and the caption “I love Hispanics!”

“It’s very weird,” Sánchez says. “It’s a comedy.”

He thinks the motive for the slapdash campaign is obvious: “I think that Donald Trump only wants to draw attention.” He sees Trump’s extremism as a sideshow. “Se sabe que no va a ganar,” or in English: It’s known that he is not going to win.

Sánchez speculates that instead,

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On most days, you’ll find Contreras at his news kiosk in Mexico City’s Zócalo, where he sells papers and magazines, bottled drinks and loose cigarettes. He’s a man of the news—so you might be surprised, then, that he sympathizes with Trump.

“He’s defending his country. No one sees it that way, but it’s true,” Contreras argues.

Nonetheless, he believes Trump will lose, because his vitriol repulses so many voters. “If you’re not blonde and tall, you’re opposed to Trump,” he says in Spanish.

For Contreras, Trump isn’t directly threatening Mexico, as his message is not about Mexicans.

“His whole campaign of hate is against Mexicans in the United States,” he says.

Contreras’ views also stand out because, if Trump were to win, he thinks the Mexican government would in fact go along with the mogul’s plans. “Mexico belongs to the United States,” he says.

He points out that it has been this way since the Mexican-American War, when the U.S. Army occupied Mexico City and flew the Stars and Stripes over the very square where he runs his kiosk.

That’s why Contreras believes that Mexico might bend to pressure and pay for a border wall— even though his country would have to borrow money from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund or possibly the U.S. itself to build it. If that occurred, Mexico would carry the debt for generations.

“It’s like I told you,” he says, “Mexico is not in a position to refuse the United States.”

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The ongoing teacher strike in Mexico City is a mass protest against national education reforms. Critics say Peña Nieto’s proposals have more to do with privatization than actually improving schools. And his government has tried to enforce its will against protesters with violent police crackdowns.

To that end, Cruz sees similarities between Trump’s rhetoric and the reality in Mexico. “Here, too, our government has already become very right-wing,” he says. “It has become more discriminatory, and it’s affecting its own population.”

A native of the southern state of Oaxaca, Cruz says that what makes Trump worse than most is that “he is a person who discriminates too much, and that, in fact, he is racist toward certain groups.”

Cruz predicts that the U.S. economy would collapse if undocumented immigrants were prevented from

entering the country or sent back to Latin America. “They have jobs that Americans cannot or will not do,” he says. He adds that U.S. business owners ultimately benefit from undocumented immigration, since those without legal status often work for less money.

Cruz, who has been part of the teacher occupation in Mexico City since 2013, wonders what supporters think they’ll gain from Trump’s belligerent policy. “We’ve already seen this gentleman’s intentions to begin cutting ties with all of the developing nations,” he says. “What would the [United States] gain from being constantly at war?”

Hopefully, he says, Americans will come to their senses by November. He quotes Benito Juárez, the first indigenous president of Mexico (and fellow Oaxaqueño): “Respect for the rights of others means peace.”

�GOD HELP US!� José Luis Díaz Calderón, University professor Díaz Calderón describes Trump frankly: “Nosotros la vemos como si fuera algo muy parecido a Hitler.” To translate: “We see it as something very much like Hitler.”

But the professor at Instituto Politécnico Nacional, one of the country’s largest public universities, also thinks that Trump’s bark will be louder than his bite if he’s actually elected.

“It’s understood that, in a campaign, [Trump] can say a thousand things [in order] to win votes,” he says. But if Trump wanted to pursue a hard line with Mexico, his influence would be limited by pre-existing agreements between the two governments, the counterweight of the U.S. Congress and state laws along the border.

�We see it as something very much like Hitler."

Díaz Calderón also believes that Mexico’s significance as a leading country in Latin America would temper some of Trump’s more extreme proposals. “We say that, in terms of Latin America, Mexico represents the big brother for the majority of countries, with the exception more recently of Brazil, Chile or Argentina,” he explains.

He says that Mexico has been the United States’ partner for 150 years. This means, according to the professor, the country is an essential intermediary between the U.S. and other Latin American nations. In other words, Trump would need Mexico.

Economic ties also run deep. Not only do U.S.-based firms use cheap Mexican labor, but Mexico, with roughly 122 million residents, represents an important consumer market (think “Mexican Coke”).

Díaz Calderón also mentions that most voters in Latin America regard U.S. elections as clean and free from repression or corruption. At the same time, he thinks that Latino voters are undervalued as a complementary bloc to white ones, and that their interests are too often overlooked.

Trump’s pandering to the concerns of an ever-insecure, mostly conservative base support Díaz Calderón’s view.

And that’s the rub in Mexico: “For us, the worst thing is that there’s a mass [of people] that support the proposals of Donald Trump,” he says. “Today, if you ask any Mexican, they’ll say, ‘God willing, Hillary Clinton will win.’”

Interestingly, this anti-Trump sentiment is shared across the political aisle in Mexico, from supporters of the conservative Peña Nieto to those who sympathize with the striking teachers. They’re all saying it: “God help us if Donald Trump wins!” CW

From academics to activists, we asked the question, What would a potential Trump presidency mean to Latinos? While many chose to ignore the call, these outspoken community leaders offered a response.

George Mesa Editor, El Periódico de Utah “For Latinos just like any other intelligent and conscious citizen of the United States, Trump’s presidency would be not only the biggest mistake in the history of this country, but the scariest for the Latino, Muslim and all other minority communities. His lack of knowledge, racism, bigotry, just to mention a few of his innumerable faults, has divided the country, bringing out the worst in people ...”

Lucy Cardenas Co-owner, Red Iguana “Wow, what a question. It makes me a little nervous. I cannot speak for all Latinos, only for myself, and I can only say that I would be heartbroken and embarrassed for my country the USA.” Theresa A. Martinez Associate professor, Department of Sociology, University of Utah

“A Trump presidency would be a devastating, tragic blow for all Latin@s. This man has disparaged Latin@s on both sides of the border with hateful, racist, xenophobic stereotypes that speak to his utter ignorance of who we are as a people, and what we have contributed and continue to contribute to this country.”

Robert “Archie” Archuleta Educator and community activist “Well, I think that what would happen if he were elected, and if the Republican majority remained, [is] that we would have all kinds of laws restricting not only immigration, particularly Latinos, but also he would then build that fool wall, and racism would then double its ugly head; it’s already there, but it would get even worse.

So our people would be constantly in danger—not only of being arrested—but of being harassed, and like with blacks, being shot. Now, I don’t think that any president ever has that actual power to do all the things that he wants to do that are fascistic, but he’d be bad news for Latinos and for other immigrants.”

Rebecca Chavez-Houck Utah House of Representatives Minority Whip “Beginning with his formal announcement to run for President, Mr. Trump has normalized bigoted rhetoric and discriminatory behavior in the public sphere. He sees the Latino community solely as a commodity to be exploited.

He has unleashed the suppressed, ugly underside of our country. We have seen it manifested by students who spew racist vitriol toward Latino players at local high school athletic events, as well as direct physical attacks against people of color at Trump political events. We will all suffer from this.”

—Enrique Limón

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From humble beginnings as a one-day event presented by SLUG Magazine in 2009, the local do-it-yourself craft festival Craft Lake City, now in its eighth year, is adding a third day with special events and presentations. In the age of mass-production, it’s a celebration of the idea that anybody can make something.

The number of exhibitors has increased to more than 300 artisans of every stripe from screen-printed ties to skin care products, handmade stationery to hubcap paintings plus vintage vendors and craft foodies showing off their culinary inventiveness. Additional new features for 2016 include the mini-workshops “Ask a Mixologist” and Maker’s Mark Red Wax Dipping. Check out other special events including live screen-printing with Copper Palate Press, Pictureline’s pop-up photo booth with aerial drones, and Animal Jam’s presentation of exotic animals in the Google Fiber STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Building. In the summer heat, the STEM building has become a festival favorite to cool off, as well as enjoy an educational experience.

One event not to miss is Sunday’s exhibit of hand-built motorcycles, in case you thought DIY was all needlework and tie-dye. The event started at a time when crafts of all kinds and “maker” events were starting to enjoy a resurgence, and that trend has grown. It’s an opportunity to support craftspeople, shop local and also engage in hands-on crafts you can make yourself. (Brian Staker) Craft Lake City DIY Festival @ Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main, Aug. 12, 5-10 p.m.; Aug. 13, 12-10 p.m.; Aug. 14 12-7 p.m., $5.

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This weekend, Sandy’s sky will be alive with the up, up and away of beautiful hot air balloons. A city tradition, the Sandy Hot Air Balloon Festival offers a chance for families to float in a hot air balloon and celebrate with music, food and face paint, all for free.

The event generally attracts a few thousand people, and offers two days of fun. Starting at 7 a.m., balloons will float into the sunrise at the Storm Mountain Park. Arrive early, and you’ll have the opportunity to help the pilots get ready before they launch. Then, throughout both days, Re/Max will provide a tethered balloon that lets families float about 20 feet into the air. To avoid lines, arrive early. In addition, a variety of food trucks will keep your family fueled throughout the day.

The party continues into the night at the South Towne Promenade, when the balloons will settle back down to the ground for the Balloon Glow. Chat with the pilots while lights keep the balloons in view, and the rest of the event will stay bright with black lights. Wear white, and you’ll light up just like balloons.

Mimi Knowles, a pop/funk/soul musician from Provo, and winner of the 2013 Velour Battle of the Bands (previously won by Imagine Dragons and Neon Trees), is scheduled to perform. If you forget to wear white, fear not—face painters will have white paint to keep you just as illuminated as everyone else. (Kathleen Stone) Sandy Hot Air Balloon Festival @ Storm Mountain Park, 11400 S. 1000 East; South Towne Promenade, 10000 S. 173 West, 801-568-6097, Aug. 12-13, 7 a.m.-10 p.m., free. Sandy.Utah.gov

Once upon a time, movie stars had only one job: to look pretty. And then along came sound, the capability to capture voices at the same time as pictures. Suddenly, the game changed, but it didn’t do so overnight. In the transition from silent films to talkies, there was an awkward in-between stage in which the seasoned performers weren’t quite yet obsolete, but their skill sets were suddenly lacking in significant ways. And there wasn’t time to wait for the next generation before films-inprogress were produced. Something had to be done quickly—but what?

It is this strange limbo time that Pirated! capitalizes on. Created, directed and choreographed by Utahn Jim Christian, the show is a funny play on an already-funny play, The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan.

Pirated! involves a director with a tendency to micromanage, who finds himself forced to confront the issue of sound movies. His answer?

Create two casts—one of silent stars with visual aesthetic but no vocal talent whatsoever, the other of skilled vocalists with no idea what to do with a camera in their faces— and hope that the abilities of one will cover for the other.

Of course, nothing is ever so simple. It isn’t long before both groups have made it clear they have no interest in collaborating. The director’s overbearing efforts to pull his shoot together, despite the antagonism dripping from his performers, makes for an entertaining show. How could it not, with its easy access to celebrity mockery, a guilty pleasure of practically everyone? (Casey Koldewyn) Pirated! @ Ogden Amphitheater, 343 E. 25th St., Ogden, 801-564-0288, Aug. 13-22, Monday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m., $15-$20. OgdenAmphitheater.com

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John Mulaney’s career has taken a few turns since he broke into the business as an office assistant at Comedy Central. The Chicago comedian worked with Nick Kroll as part of the comedy duo Oh, Hello Show and eventually earnined a spot on the Saturday Night Live writing staff, which lasted six years. Working with Bill Hader, he helped create Stefon, one of the show’s most popular characters of the past decade.

During that time, Mulaney also started breaking out on the New York City standup scene, landing several late-night talk show appearances, a spot on Live at Gotham and even his own episode for Comedy Central Presents. After leaving SNL in 2014, he was able to star and produce in his own sitcom, Mulaney, which fell into the 13-episodes trap that most sitcoms on Fox do—meaning the show was probably really funny, but the network got involved and screwed it up.

Recently, Mulaney has been keeping busy with frequent touring and producing one-hour specials—his most recent being The Comeback Kid, released on Netflix in late 2015. It received massive praise from critics and even had Entertainment Weekly calling him “one of the best stand-up comics alive.” His brand of observational comedy tears apart everything from pop culture to real estate to home life.

The unapologetic way he presents everyday life forces you to re-examine it and see the humor in everything from the mundane to the popular.

(Gavin Sheehan) John Mulaney @ Wiseguys Salt Lake City, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Aug. 11, 7 p.m.; Aug. 12-13, 7 & 9:30 p.m., 21+, $25.

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omedian Hari Kondabolu has been making comedy out of hot-button issues like race and women’s rights for more than 10 years. In addition to appearances on the late-night talk-show circuit, Kondabolu spent two years as a writer and correspondent for FX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. His new comedy album, Mainstream American Comic, was released July 22.

City Weekly : I like to start by asking, what question have you been asked so often that as soon as you hear it, you tune out the interviewer as an idiot?

HK: [laughs] Oh my God, there’s so many.

Just one?

Let’s start there and see what I can cross off my list.

“How do you write your material?” To me, it’s like asking, “How do you think the things you think?” The only difference between me and somebody who doesn’t write, is that I write the stuff down, and other people can move on with their lives.

In your online bio, there’s a New York Times quote describing you as “one of the most exciting political comics in stand-up.” How do you feel about that label of “political comic”?

I don’t like it, but if The New York Times gives you a quote, you’re going to use it. And for the purpose of branding, I understand. …

But for me, it’s hard to call what I do “political” because to me, it’s all observational. Let’s say you’re watching a football game. You’ll have one comic talk about how ridiculous the helmets look; I might be like, “I wonder how many concussions these guys are getting.” … And it’s not like I’m putting my “political” cap on. That’s just the first thing I think of.

Did you watch conventions?

Unfortunately, yes.

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about ways to use this, and the part of me that’s a human being is going, “What is going to happen?” I mean, with the Republican one, it’s such a freak show. Even Republicans are like, “What are we doing right now?” … And then on the Democratic side, it’s the tension of, Bernie [Sanders] is there, not smiling at all. … Like he’s at his ex-girlfriend’s wedding: “Ah, that was supposed to be me.”

You’ve said that you were a Sanders supporter. Where are you on the “making peace with Hillary as the Democratic candidate” spectrum?

I mean, I’m a Sanders supporter insomuch as I believe in those values. At the end of the day, I’m a person who believes in those values more than I support a candidate. So now that Hillary is the candidate, I’m going to vote for her. I didn’t even hesitate with that decision. … There’s something about being, like, a straight white dude saying, “I’m not going to vote for Hillary, I’m going to stand by this.” If Trump gets elected, women, people of color, immigrants, religious minorities, they take the hit. That’s where it’s scary.

You’re working on a documentary for TruTV about Apu from The Simpsons.

When do you first remember becoming aware of the character, and how did it affect you?

I was a Simpsons fan from the beginning. … So as soon as Apu was introduced, I was familiar with him, but I didn’t see him as upsetting. If anything, I was just happy that we [South Asians] got to exist. Like, we weren’t given a chance to exist in popular culture until Apu showed up. It wasn’t until much later, when I realized that this was how we were going to be seen in a broad, mainstream way, that I thought it was upsetting. … And to be honest, it was tricky

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to be frustrated by him as a character, and still find him funny and thoughtful—to love that show and still feel like it was the result of some negativity.

On Mainstream American Comic, you refer to the demographics of Portland [where it was recorded], which might be comparable with Salt Lake City. Do you find there’s a different vibe in crowds where it’s mostly white liberals?

I don’t know Salt Lake City very well. I mean, I know there’s an incredible counterculture which I’ve heard about for years now. But it’s not like every audience is the same. There’s a difference between an NPR white liberal and an organizer/activist. And I get both of those groups, in addition to your standard comedy-club crowd. … I will say that I have found, the more diverse the crowd is, the better it’s going to be, because it allows everyone to share a space and laugh together, as opposed to, “Am I allowed to laugh at this?” … But if a crowd’s excited, it’s not going to matter, to some degree.

If they’re willing to listen, willing to be challenged, I’ll be fine. CW For an extended version of this interview, visit CityWeekly.net.

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Touring/Non-Local Exhibition  The British Passion for Landscape: Masterpieces from National Museum Wales (Utah Museum of Fine Art)  Treasures of British Art 1400-2000:  The Berger Collection (BYU Museum of Art)  Jennet Thomas: The Unspeakable Freedom Device (Utah Museum of Contemporary Art)

Mixed Media/Sculpture/Interactive Exhibition  David Brothers: Rolithica (Utah Museum of Contemporary Art)  Scott Filipiak (Mod a Go Go, January 2016)  Jim Jacobs, Josh Winegar & Paul Crow: Raw and Cooked (Rio Gallery)

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Stand-up Comedian  Abi Harrison  Christian Pieper  Alex Velluto

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PERFORMANCE THEATER

Arsenic & Old Lace Beverly’s Terrace Plaza Playhouse, 99 E. 4700 South, Ogden, 801393-0070, Aug. 12-Sept. 17, Monday, Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m., TerracePlayhouse.com Bye Bye Birdie American Fork Amphitheatre, 851 E. 700 North, American Fork, 801-319-0928, through Aug. 13, Monday & Wednesday-Saturday, TimpanogosArts.org Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Hale Center Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 801-984-9000, through Oct. 1, MondayFriday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 12:30 p.m., 4 p.m. & 7:30 p.m., HCT.org Disney’s The Little Mermaid Sandy Amphitheater, 9400 S. 1300 East, Sandy, 801568-2787, through Aug. 13, Monday-Saturday, 8 p.m., SandyArts.com EYT: Li’l Abner Empress Theatre, 9104 W. 2700 South, Magna, 801-347-7373, through Aug. 20, varying days and times, EmpressTheatre.com Hunchback of Notre Dame Tuacahn Amphitheater, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins, 800-746-9882, through Oct. 15, varying days and times, Tuacahn.org Joseph Smith: Praise to the Man Brigham’s Playhouse, 25 N. 300 West, Washington, through Aug. 13, Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday, 7 p.m., BrighamsPlayhouse.com Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Old Barn Community Theater, 3605 Bigler Road, Fielding, 435-458-2276, through Aug. 13, Monday, Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m., OldBarn.org The Music Man Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 S. Washington Blvd., Ogden, 855-944-2787, through Aug. 13, Mondays & Fridays, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 2 & 7:30 p.m., TheZiegfeldTheater.com

Neil Simon Festival Heritage Center Theatre, 105 N. 100 East, Cedar City, 435-267-0194, through Aug. 13, various days and times, SimonFest.org Perfect Pitch Desert Star Theatre, 4861 S. State, Murray, 801-266-2600, through Aug. 20, varying days and times, Monday-Friday, DesertStar.biz Pirated! Good Company Theatre, Ogden Amphitheatre, 343 25th St., Aug. 13-22, ThursdaySaturday & Monday, GoodCoTheatre.com (see p. 23) Ramona Quimby Brigham’s Playhouse, 25 N. 300 West, Washington, through Aug. 13, Wednesdays & Fridays, 7 p.m.; Saturdays, 2 p.m., BrighamsPlayhouse.com Rodger & Hammerstein’s South Pacific SCERA Shell Outdoor Theatre, 745 S. State St., Orem, 801-255-2787, through Aug. 13, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m., SCERA.org Saturday’s Voyeur Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, 801-363-7522, through Aug. 28, Wednesday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 1 & 6 p.m., SaltLakeActingCompany.org See How They Run Hale Center Theater, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, 801-226-8600, Aug. 10-Sept.

24, Monday-Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 3 p.m. & 7:30 p.m., HaleTheater.org Shrek: The Musical Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Draper, Aug. 12-Sept. 3, Friday, Saturday & Monday, 7 p.m., DraperTheatre.org Tarzan Tuacahn Amphitheatre, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins, 800-746-9882, through Oct. 12, Monday-Saturday, 8:45 p.m., Tuacahn.org Transmorfers: Mormon Meets the Eye The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, through Sept. 10, Monday, Friday & Saturday; no performance Aug. 8; 7:30 p.m., TheOBT.org Utah Shakespeare Festival Randall L. Jones Theatre, 351 W. Center St., Cedar City, 435-5867878, through Sept. 11, varying days and times, Bard.org

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The Witness People Productions, Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 132 S. 800 West, through Aug. 14, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Sunday, 2 p.m., PeopleProductions.org

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Beethoven Festival Concert Park City Community Church, 4501 N. Highway 224, Park City, Aug. 11, 7:30 p.m.; Aug. 14, 3 p.m., PCMusicFestival.com Chamber Music in the Park Park City City Park Bandstand, 13th St. & Sullivan Road, Park City, Aug. 15, 6 p.m., PCMusicFestival.com Pablo Villegas Performs Aranjuez with the Utah Symphony Red Butte Garden Amphitheater, 300 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, 801-533-6683, Aug. 11, 8 p.m., UtahSymphony.org

COMEDY & IMPROV

Dean Delray Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-532-5233, Aug. 14, 7:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Faux Pas Sandy Station, 8925 S. Harrison St., Sandy, Aug. 12, 8:30 p.m., SandyStation.com Hari Kondabolu Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-532-5233, Aug. 16, 7:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com (see p. 24) Improv Comedy Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 435-327-8273, every Saturday, 9:30 p.m., OgdenComedyLoft.com John Mulaney Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-532-5233, Aug. 11, 7 p.m.; Aug. 12-13, 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com (see p. 23) Laughing Stock Improv The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m., LaughingStock.us Marcus Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801622-5588, Aug. 12-13, 8 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Off the Wall Comedy Improv Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Draper, 801-572-4144, every Saturday, 10:30 p.m., DraperTheatre.org Open Mic Night Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-532-5233, every Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Pyramid Scheme Comedy Loft, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 435-327-8273, every second Saturday, 9:30 p.m., OgdenComedyLoft.com

Quick Wits Improv Midvale Performing Arts Center, 695 W. Center St., Midvale, 801-824-0523, through July 30, every Saturday, 10 p.m., QWComedy.com Quick Wits Improv Summer League Playoffs Midvale Performing Arts Center, 695 W. Center St., Midvale, 801-824-0523, Aug. 6 & 13, 10 p.m., QWComedy.com Sasquatch Cowboy The Comedy Loft, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, Saturdays, 9:30 p.m., OgdenComedyLoft.com Stand-Up Comedy Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St., Park City, 435-649-9371, Aug. 12-13, 8 p.m., EgyptianTheatreCompany.org

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Caroline Wright: Cake Magic! Mix & Match Your Way to 100 Amazing Combinations The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801484-9100, Aug. 11, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com Peter McCoy: Radical Mycology: A Treatise on Seeing and Working with Fungi AndersonFoothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, 801-594-8611, Aug. 11, 6-8 p.m., SLCPL.lib.ut.us K.D. Lee: Olympic Bound Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, Aug. 17, 6:30 p.m., WellerBookWorks.com

SPECIAL EVENTS FARMERS MARKETS

9th West Farmers Market International Peace Gardens, 1000 S. 900 West, Salt Lake City, Sundays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., through October, 9thWestFarmersMarket.org Harvest Market Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main, Tuesdays, 4-8:30 p.m., through Oct. 18, SLCFarmersMarket.org Park City Farmers Market The Canyons Resort, 1951 Canyons Resort Drive, Park City, Wednesdays, noon-6 p.m., through Oct. 26, ParkCityFarmersMarket.com Sugar House Farmers Market Fairmont Park, 1040 E. Sugarmont Ave., Salt Lake City, through Oct. 26, Wednesdays, 5-8 p.m.,

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Craft Lake City DIY Festival Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main, Aug, 12, 5-10 p.m.; Aug. 13, 12-10 p.m.; Aug. 14, 12-7 p.m., $5, CraftLakeCity.org (see p. 23) International Folk Festival Sandy Amphitheater, 9400 S. 1300 East, Sandy, Aug. 17, 8 p.m., SandyArts.com Park City Kimball Arts Festival Main St., Park City, 435-649-8882, Aug. 12, 5-9 p.m.; Aug. 13, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.; Aug 14, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., ParkCityKimballArtsFestival.org Salt Lake County Fair Salt Lake County Equestrian Park & Event Center, 2100 W. 11400 South, Aug. 17-20, SLCFair.com Sandy Hot Air Balloon Festival Storm Mountain Park, 11400 S. 1000 East; South Towne Promenade, 10000 S. 173 West, 801-568-6097, Aug. 12-13, 7 a.m.-10 p.m., free, Sandy.Utah.gov (see p. 23)

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

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Chris Hayman Julie Nester Gallery, 1280 Iron Horse Drive, Park City, 435-649-7855, through Aug. 30, JulieNesterGallery.com David Sharp: Primitive Spirit Salt Lake City Chapman Library, 577 S. 900 West, 801-5948623, through Aug. 25, SLCPL.org DemoGraphics Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., 801-245-7272, through Sept. 2, Heritage.Utah.gov Jim Williams: 265 I...Home As Self-Portrait Utah Musuem of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Sept. 24, UtahMOCA.org Jennifer Seely: Supporting Elements Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Sept. 24, UtahMOCA.org Love Letters: A Gallery of Type Marriott Library, 295 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-585-6168, through Sept. 30, Lib.Utah.edu Magical Thinking CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, 385-215-6768, through Sept. 9, CUArtCenter.org Nancy Swanson Art at the Main, 210 E. 400 South, 801-363-4088, Aug. 14-Sept. 11, ArtAtTheMain.com Sibylle Szaggars Redford: Summer Rainfall Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-649-8882, through Sept. 25, KimballArtCenter.org Steve Dayton: The Cayucos Project Corinne and Jack Sweet Branch, 455 F St. (9th Ave.), 801-594-8651, through Aug. 20, SLCPL.org Susan Makov A Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, 801583-4800, through Sept. 3, AGalleryOnline.com Summertime Utah Artist Hands Gallery, 163 E. 300 South, 801-355-0206, through Sept. 10, UtaHands.com Tom Horton: 214222367: A Photographer’s Passport Sprague Branch, 2131 S. 1100 East, 801594-8640, through Sept. 10, SLCPL.lib.ut.us Tom Judd Pop-Up Show Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, 801-355-3383, Friday, Aug. 12, 6-9 p.m., ModernWestFineArt.com (see p. 26)

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depending on add-ons. I ordered one such stir-fry recently, and although the dish was $7.95, by the time I’d customized it, the meal totaled $14.26, including a $2.25 fountain drink.

The permutations of stir-fry, scramble and salad possibilities are nearly endless, since customers are provided with such a dizzying array of options. For example, guests ordering a stir-fry first select a “base” from among fresh egg noodles made in-house, rice noodles, white rice, brown rice or quinoa (an extra $1.25). Then, optional proteins can be added: citruspoached shrimp ($3.25), free range honeybrined chicken ($2.25), roasted organic tofu ($1.25) or natural slow-roasted turkey ($2.95). Three free toppings can be chosen from organic baby spinach, yellow and orange sweet potatoes, kale, jalapeños, green onion, corn, grape tomatoes, cauliflower, green beans, julienned carrots, Brussels sprouts, bell pepper medley, broccoli, summer squash duo, red onion, napa cabbage, cremini mushrooms and red beans. Whew!

Finally, customers choose a sauce (included in the base price), ranging from chimichurri pesto to Thai coconut curry.

How much sauce do you want? You can have yours on the side, “regular,” “light” or “heavy.”

Now, select a garnish from among avocado, cilantro, tortilla ribbons, toasted coconut, parsley, peanuts, crispy chick peas (the best!), aged cheddar, feta crumbles, shaved Parmesan or crispy shallots. Done.

You’ve created a one-of-a-kind, deliciously wholesome meal. CW

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salads, since they offer “create your own” options in addition to the restaurant’s standard combos. Although this might be a “fast food” restaurant, the owners pride themselves on offering food that is fast, yes, but also fresh, nutritious and wholesome.

So, in addition to staples provided by Sysco, you’ll also find veggies and organic granola from Idaho’s Purcell Mountain Farms.

Gluten-free chicken sausage and naturally smoked, dry-aged turkey bacon come from Wisconsin’s Jones Dairy Farm. Some of the butter, cheeses, cream, yogurt, milk and such are from Organic Valley in Wisconsin, and local Miller’s Honey Company provides raw, natural honey. The M&O website succinctly summarizes their operating philosophy: “Be nice. That’s our philosophy. We make good food for good people.”

I’m all for being nice. But, it’s the “good food” part of the restaurant’s philosophy that most interests me. Is it good food? I’d say in the main, yes, and a very welcome change from most of the “fast-fresh” establishments I’ve encountered.

For starters, it’s very easy to eat healthy there, since many of the dishes are so customizable for individual tastes and preferences; you really can “have it your way.” Take, for example, the stir-fry offerings. There are seven menu-ready options, ranging from the “Keep it Simple” ($7.25) with housemade egg noodles in Thai coconut curry sauce, topped with scallions, to the Santa Fe ($9.95) with brown rice, honey-brined chicken, red beans, fresh avocado and grape tomatoes in an enchilada sauce, topped with feta cheese and crispy tortilla strips. Other “standard” stirfries—although there is nothing standard about them—include “Ollie’s Awesome Quinoa” ($10.75), “Citrus-Lime Roasted Garlic Goodness” ($10.25) and “Good to be Khing Curry” ($10.95). To any of these, guests can also add additional items such as veggies, proteins, nuts and sauces on an à la carte basis.

Be careful how you customize, however, because the price of one of these buildyour-own items can escalate quickly,

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he first time I sauntered in to Mollie & Ollie—a new downtown Salt Lake City eatery whimsically named after the owners’ pet goldfish—I couldn’t quite get my bearings. After all, the last time I’d been in the lower Main Street space, it was home to Bayleaf Bar and Grub, the funky, 24-hour eatery that careened deliciously from Southern-style shrimp and grits and blackened catfish, to Korean bulgogi and Filipino chicken adobo. Somehow, it all worked.

In many ways, the Mollie & Ollie menu is every bit as eclectic and varied as was its predecessor. But the ambiance and décor couldn’t be more different. Bayleaf was as dark—since it was in part a late-night spot—as this new occupant is bright. The décor is mostly blindingly white-on-white, with splashes of lime green tile and other vibrant color highlights, such as the admonition in green lettering on one wall to “Romaine calm.” The place looks as though you could eat off the floor.

The M&O concept is a brilliant one, from the menu itself to the ordering system.

The restaurant’s menu—which features breakfast items, scrambles, stir-fries, salads, wraps, side dishes, desserts and beverages—is accessed via an area of kiosks equipped with touch-screen tablets.

There’s usually an employee hovering nearby to help first-timers (or fifth-timers) work their way through the self-order process, but it’s pretty easy and intuitive for all but the most technology-challenged.

A guest decides to order, for example, a wrap. There are four “classic” wraps available at a single click (or tap): curried chicken salad; chicken Caesar salad; turkey, bacon, avocado and jalapeño; or a vegan option with brown rice, shredded napa cabbage, toasted almonds, edamame and julienned carrots in a ginger-lime dressing, topped with avocado cream ($7.95). If you’ve chosen, for instance, the vegan wrap, a screen will ask you for your preference of flour or spinach tortilla. From there, add any sides, beverages (including beer and wine!), desserts, etc. You simply pay your bill at the kiosk and pick up your meal at the nearby counter when your number is called, usually within minutes.

Things get a little more complicated— or perhaps I should say “customizable”— when you order scrambles, stir-fries or

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Texas de Brazil Benefits St. Jude

Through Wednesday, Aug. 31, Texas de Brazil (50 S. Main, Ste. 158, City Creek Center, 385-232-8070, TexasDeBrazil. com) is teaming with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (StJude.org) to benefit children battling cancer and life-threatening diseases. The bottom of each guest check will allow customers to make a donation. For every $5 donated, customers will receive a $5 gift certificate to use at the restaurant on another visit. In addition, the restaurant will match donations up to $25,000. And, on Mondays, guests will receive $10 in certificates for every $5 donated. One hundred percent of donations go to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Labor Day at Stein’s

Got plans yet for Labor Day weekend?

If not, Stein Eriksen Lodge and Deer Valley Resort are teaming up for three delicious days of fun, food and frolic from Saturday, Sept. 3 through Monday, Sept. 5. The events are available to guests enjoying a luxury stay at Stein Eriksen Lodge and taking advantage of their Labor Day “Buy two nights, get the third night free” accommodations package.

“Labor Day typically serves as the capstone to summer and is a beautiful holiday weekend to gather with friends and family in an idyllic mountain setting,” Russ Olsen, CEO of Stein Eriksen Lodge, says.

“Our Labor Day weekend festivities promise to send summer off in style.”

In addition to lodging, the package activities include a morning group hike at Deer Valley Resort, a margarita bar and taco pool-party, plus an evening barbecue buffet and live music on Saturday. Sunday’s lineup also includes a Deer Valley Resort morning group hike, as well as a holiday Sunday brunch at the Glitretind, hot-dog-grill pool party, afternoon beer tasting with a concert on the lodge’s lawn, and an evening family-friendly outdoor movie with popcorn on the lawn. Monday wraps up the holiday with a special breakfast buffet at the Glitretind from 7-10 a.m. For information and pricing, visit SteinLodge.com/LaborDay or call 800453-1302.

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Italy’s Signature Sparkler

Prosecco is an affordable luxury.

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n last week’s issue, I extolled the virtues of the venerable French Champagne house Moët & Chandon. They make high-quality bubbly, and have done so for more than 270 years. However, the cost of Champagne makes it a luxury on a writer’s budget. So, when I want to sip sparkling wine, I often turn to Italy.

Aside perhaps from Spanish cava, Italian prosecco is the world’s most wellknown sparkling wine after Champagne.

It’s a white wine (rosé is also produced) made primarily from glera grapes, and is classified as either spumante (sparkling

wine), frizzante (fizzy, semi-sparkling wine) or tranquillo (tranquil or still wine).

The latter only accounts for 5 percent of the prosecco that is produced, and is rarely found outside Italy. In addition to glera, up to 15 percent of the following grapes can be used in producing it: verdiso, bianchetta trevigiana, perera, glera lunga, chardonnay, pinot bianco, pinot grigio and pinot nero/pinot noir.

There are two sub-classifications in Italy: prosecco DOC (most of what is in the U.S. market) and prosecco superiore DOCG. It’s a perfect way to get a dinner, party or picnic started, thanks in part to its low alcohol content—typically about 10 percent, compared to Champagne and most other sparkling wines, which run at least 2 percent higher. That might not seem like much, but the slightly lower alcohol content makes prosecco easier-drinking, less filling and surprisingly food-friendly. It’s also a pleasing, light, simple wine to drink on the patio in warm weather.

Unlike what you might expect from other sparkling wines, prosecco is typically more fizzy than bubbly. Indeed, the sparse bubbles tend to die out somewhat quickly, so the mouthfeel can be a bit underwhelming; it feels a little like last week’s Champagne on the tongue. But stick with it, because the subtle effervescence—as opposed to the inyour-face fireworks of Champagne—will

DRINK grow on you, as will the price. Most nonvintage Champagne sells for $50 or higher.

Prosecco, on the other hand, tends to top out at around $20, and you can find quality stuff for about $12. Also, vintage doesn’t matter; most is non-vintage and made to be drank immediately. It’s not something to get dusty in the wine cellar.

During a recent tasting of various proseccos, I found the usual suspects to be very satisfying: bubbly from Adami, Bisol, Larmarca, Mionetto, Nino Franco and Zardetto, for example.

But I was also impressed by some newcomers that I hadn’t tried before.

Chloe Prosecco DOC ($16.99) is made from 100 percent glera grapes sourced from a handful of small growers. Its fine bubbles burst with fruity peach, white flower and

citrus flavors and aromas, with food-friendly crispness and minerality.

Italian winemakers since 1821, Zonin recently unveiled its “Dress Code” collection, sold in bottles ($16.99 each) the color of the three Dress Code wines: grey, white and black. Blending glera with 13 percent pinot grigio, Zonin Prosecco Grey Edition is smooth, soft and harmonic—a good partner for light seafood dishes.

Zonin Prosecco White Edition is 91 percent glera with 9 percent pinot bianco, a blend that produces a crisp, floral and fruity wine, and pairs nicely with shellfish.

Zonin Prosecco Black Edition contains 10 percent pinot noir in tandem with glera, resulting in a silky, creamy, elegant sparkling wine that goes great with sushi. I also really like the intensely fruity Tommasi Prosecco Tenuta Filodora DOC ($18)—100 percent glera with beautiful pear and peach flavors. CW

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This locally owned coffee shop is a must-try for anyone seeking delicious and fresh coffee. Because everything at here is made from scratch, you have know going in that you will get a cup of fresh coffee. However, they don’t stop at just the brew.

Ditta also offers a deli and bakery section. 1560 E. 3300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-410-4696, DittaCaffe.com There’s a nod to France on the restaurant’s menu with three-cheese fondue, as well as New World specialties such as organic Southern-fried chicken, pan-seared sea bass and smoked duck breast and confit leg. Franck’s take on meatloaf is slowly braised pulled pork, beef and chicken in a berry-lavender sauce. Don’t miss out on the not-so-traditional take on steak: Wagyu sirloin steak served with porcini purée, crimini mushrooms and blackberries. 6264 S. Holladay Blvd., Holladay, 801-274-6264, FrancksFood.com

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Oakes Fegley and “Elliot” in Pete’s Dragon better spent on Grace’s father, Meacham (Robert Redford), who has his own mythologized history with the “Millhaven Dragon.”

Not even those plot contrivances, however, can spoil the charm and emotion that Lowery builds into the relationships of Pete’s Dragon. He doesn’t overplay the idea that childless Grace somehow needs to be a surrogate mom to Pete to complete her life, leaning instead on the sympathy resulting from her own motherlessness. And the friendship between Jack’s daughter Natalie (Oona Laurence) and Pete remains simple and uncomplicated by some Mowgli-esque effort to turn it into proto-puppy-love.

Mostly, there’s the lovely boy-and-hisdog dynamic between Pete (given a natural, never-precocious appeal by Fegley) and the expressive Elliot. This version of Pete’s Dragon reaches for something far more potent than its predecessor in this tale of family and friendship. Just this once, Disney, we’ll let this whole remake thing slide. CW

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need to find Pete may threaten to expose his existence to the residents of the nearby logging town.

Lowery might not have seemed like an obvious candidate for this job—his highestprofile previous feature was the R-rated Sundance outlaws-in-love drama Ain’t Them Bodies Saints—but the smartest thing the Disney brain-trust did was allow Lowery to work to his strengths. Pete’s Dragon doesn’t play coy with showing us Elliot, allowing the relationship between Pete and Elliot to develop early and effectively.

Lowery crafts that relationship through playful, largely wordless sequences of the boy and his friend, resulting in something that recalls the gentle magic of Carroll Ballard’s 1979 The Black Stallion rather than the frantic desperation of so many family adventures.

There’s also more than a whisper of E.T. in the story’s structure—and if there’s anywhere Pete’s Dragon stumbles, it’s here.

The primary antagonist becomes lumber mill boss Gavin (Karl Urban)—the brother of Grace’s fiancé, Jack (Wes Bentley)—who becomes determined to trap Elliot. But Gavin’s character never makes very much sense, as though somewhere in another draft of the script, he was either a broader villain or a more complicated character driven to his actions by financial worries.

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omething interesting has happened with regard to Disney’s remake of Pete’s Dragon, or more precisely, something interesting hasn’t happened: Nobody is crying bloody murder about it.

While Disney has turned self-cannibalizing its library of family classics into its current identity, there’s always room for an exception. The 1977 version of Pete’s Dragon emerged from an era where it’s amazing that the Disney brand didn’t disintegrate completely, as the company alternated between goofy live-action fare and occasional animated features—or, in the case of the original Pete’s Dragon, combined the two.

When people scoffed at Disney stamping “classic” on everything released during the area of clamshell-covered VHS tapes, this was exactly what they were scoffing at.

If there’s a case where the 21st-century epidemic of cinematic regurgitation is most justified, it’s when a fundamentally sound original concept was turned into something with a recognizable name, but negligible quality. Co-writer/director David Lowery takes the raw material of the original Pete’s Dragon and shapes it into something utterly distinctive—and not just because the dragon is now CGI instead of a hand-drawn cartoon.

Indeed, the premise here bears virtually no resemblance to that of the original, opening with a car accident that orphans a pre-school-age boy named Pete and leaves him alone in the woods. He’s found there by an intelligent, furry green dragon that Pete names Elliot—after the puppy in his favorite picture book—and which becomes Pete’s caretaker. Six years later, the now mostlyferal Pete (Oakes Fegley) is found by forest ranger Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard), and brought back to civilization. And Elliot’s

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ANTHROPOID BBB Wartime suspense thrillers can be plenty effective even when just focusing on nuts and bolts; it’s a pleasant surprise when they offer at least a little more to chew on. And co-writer/director Sean Ellis finds an effective angle on the fact-based story of a 1942 plot by Czech nationalists—including Josef (Cillian Murphy) and Jan (Jamie Dornan)—to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich in occupied Prague. Ellis nails the centerpiece sequence as the plan is put into action, as the tension of waiting for the target turns a motorcycle backfire into a potential threat.

But it’s also a story about the brutal realities of what freedom fighters sacrifice (including, fair warning, some cringe-inducing sequences of torture), as the tentative romances begun by Josef and Jan collide with their mission. The climatic sequence involving a siege on the conspirators’ hiding place by the German army loses a bit of the character momentum as it lingers, but Anthropoid offers more than a historical footnote in its respect for the high price of being a patriot. Opens Aug. 12 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)—Scott Renshaw

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FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS BB.5 Jenkins was a real person, a New York socialite who sang amateur operatics, at which she was terrible. She died in 1944, but recordings of her “singing” live on (unfortunately). Alas, it’s tough to find any modern resonance here, as there was in Marguerite, the recent marvelous French film loosely inspired by Jenkins. Still, it’s amusing to watch a dowdied-up Meryl Streep as FFJ dodder around in apparently deliberate cluelessness about her lack of talent. And when FFJ sticks to the farce it starts out as, it works wonderfully, embracing a charming silliness that’s like something P.G. Wodehouse might have loved. But the longer it goes on, the more maudlin it gets, which is increasingly jarring given the glorious goofiness at the outset. Hugh Grant finds a sort of sneaky chill as Jenkins’ husband; he could be a comic villain, or a comic knight in shining armor, and either one would be great, but his delicious ambiguity is eventually dismissed in the least plausible way possible. It all makes for an enjoyable trifle, but it doesn’t linger any longer than Jenkins’ high notes. Opens Aug. 12 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)—MaryAnn Johanson GLEASON BBBB It’s hard to overstate the ambition on display in Clay Tweel’s documentary—and the degree to which the emotion matches

INDIGNATION BBB.5 Veteran producer/Ang Lee collaborator James Schamus makes his feature directing debut with a pitch-perfect adaptation of Philip Roth’s fascinating 2008 novel. Set in Korean War-era 1951, it follows a Jewish New Jersey boy named Marcus Messner (Logan Lerman), who leaves home to attend a liberal-arts college in Ohio, where he becomes obsessed with beautiful, troubled Olivia (Sarah Gadon). The notion of fate and unforeseen consequences hangs heavy over the story, which gets a jolt from a revelation that is—as in Roth’s book—dropped almost casually into narration only halfway through. But Messner’s background is just as crucial to the framework of this period piece about a Jew just trying to keep his head down; it almost invokes the Coen brothers as a kind of A Serious Man: The College Years. And while the relationship between Marcus and Olivia provides solid material, the most electrifying sequence involves an extended meeting between Marcus and the college “Dean of Men” (playwright Tracy Letts). Their battle of wills—alternately passive and aggressive—tells the tale of what faces anyone who risks bucking a system that only grudgingly includes them. Opens Aug. 12 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—SR MICROBE AND GASOLINE BB.5 Turns out that typical teen-boy obsessions—boobs and bullies— are pretty much the same even when they’re subtitled. So the latest from writer-director Michel Gondry feels very familiar and very slight, lacking the fantastical whimsy of some of his earlier films and coasting on the barely-there charms of its young misfits. Fourteen-year-old Daniel (Ange Dargent)—a sensitive artist called Microbe by classmates because he’s so small for his

age—finds a pal in new boy Théo (Théophile Baquet), who is instantly nicknamed Gasoline by the cool kids, because that’s what he always smells like. The movie is half over before it finally embarks on its grand adventure, as the boys build their own car— Gasoline smells that way for a reason; he’s good with engines— and take off for a summer of driving around rural France. The few truly clever and amusing moments revolve around the disguise they invent for their completely un-road-worthy vehicle—that it really does fool the cops is a joke in itself—but with their adolescent angst as passengers, the boys’ homemade car is covering already well-trod ground. Opens Aug. 12 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—MAJ PETE’S DRAGON BBB See review p. 37. Opens Aug. 12 at theaters valleywide. (PG) SAUSAGE PARTY [not yet reviewed] Adult-themed animated feature about a world of sentient food.

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SPECIAL SCREENINGS THE GREATEST FILMS BY BLACK DIRECTORS At Broadway Centre Cinemas, Aug. 12-Sept. 1 (NR) INSIDE OUT At Main Library Plaza, Aug. 12, dusk. (PG) NEVER BEEN KISSED At Brewvies, Aug. 15, 10 p.m. (PG-13) TRAINSPOTTING At Tower Theater, Aug. 12-13, 11 p.m. & Aug. 7, noon (R) UNDER THE GUN At Main Library, Aug. 16, 7 p.m. (NR)

CURRENT RELEASES THE INNOCENTS BBB.5 Anne Fontaine’s knotty tale of faith and morality is set at a convent in 1945 Poland, where French Red Cross doctor Mathilde (Lou de Laâge) discovers that several nuns and novitiates have become pregnant after they were invaded by Russian soldiers.

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that ambition. For nearly four years, Tweel follows ex-NFL player Steve Gleason from his diagnosis with ALS—coinciding within a matter of weeks with the discovery that his wife, Michel, is pregnant—through the gradual deterioration of his physical abilities, but time is only one part of that scope. Tweel turns his primary subjects into rich, complex characters: Steve a former athlete trying to make peace with his new body, and Michel a free spirit grappling with her new role as “saintly” caretaker for both husband and child (in one scene, we actually see her feeding them both simultaneously). And he digs into gut-wrenching issues of fathers and sons across three generations, as Steve tries to make peace with his relationship with his own father even as he stockpiles video diaries for the child he might never see grow up. It’s hard to imagine a more unfiltered, beautifully devastating portrait of a family confronting tragedy, in scenes bursting with love and frustration and hope and pain. Opens Aug. 12 at Megaplex Theatres Gateway (R)—SR

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atheist Mathilde and Sister Maria (Agata Buzek), a nun with a more worldly past than her peers, as they attempt to address their unique dilemma. In fact, the main hitch may be that Sister Maria could have made a better central protagonist in her crisis of faith, with less of a stacked deck in favor of Mathilde’s secular perspective. But the simple, taut direction finds both tension and serenity in the story’s setting, and in the narrative’s commitment to finding sense in horrific events, from a female point of view.

(R)—SR

JASON BOURNE BB.5 It’s been nine years since we last saw Matt Damon racing around the world and beating people up as brainwashed assassin Jason Bourne—and while the world has moved on from the initial confusion and upheaval of the years just after 9/11, this installment can’t keep up with how much darker and grimmer things have gotten. Pitting an off-the-grid Bourne against the CIA to find out more about how he became a killer, it waves vaguely at hot-button issues like government cyber-surveillance and Assange-esque whistle-blowers, but without any bite. Everything looks great on paper—Damon’s brawny presence; smartly staged action; a cool supporting cast including Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander and Vincent Cassel—and it’s not un-fun. But it feels less black-ops than old hat. We’ve been here before, and this visit ultimately disappears in a wisp of inconsequence. (PG-13)—MAJ

NINE LIVES BB.5 This benign, cheap-looking family comedy about a workaholic dad who learns what’s really important when he’s trapped in the body of a house cat, was clearly supposed to be a Disney Channel movie. It avoids profanity, it’s the perfect length for a two-hour time slot with commercials, and the visual effects were designed assuming that no discerning eye would ever see them. There’s no way this was intended to play in theaters—yet here it is!

Somehow it accidentally stars Kevin Spacey, too, as the tycoon who must reconnect with his wife (Jennifer Garner) and daughter, show his adult son he’s proud of him, and save his company, all while being a cat. Inexplicably directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and credited to five screenwriters, it’s not without its simple charms (Christopher Walken as magical pet-shop owner)—but it’s also not something you’d pay for. (PG)—Eric D. Snider

SUICIDE SQUAD BB Warner Bros. and DC Comics continue to try to play catchup with the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the result is a sloppy patchwork quilt of now-familiar elements.

The premise involves a team of incarcerated “meta-humans”— assassin Deadshot (Will Smith), Joker’s unhinged girlfriend Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) and others—forced a shadowy government operative into accepting particularly dangerous missions. Every character then requires some kind of “origin” information, resulting in a cumbersome, stuffed-to-the-gills narrative. But Suicide Squad seems particularly determined to follow the Marvel template: setting up links to subsequent movies, tossing in a Guardians of the Galaxy-esque classic rock playlist, wrapping up with a mission to destroy a Giant World-Ending Machine. There’s some unique street-level action in writer/director David Ayer’s approach, but the biggest conflict affecting this movie is the one that’s taking place in studio boardrooms.

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The Get Down Friday, Aug. 12 (Netflix)

Series Debut: It’s the last Prestige TV Debut of the summer, and viewers and critics alike are probably going to go easier on Baz Luhrmann’s The Get Down than they did on that other high-profile ’70s NYC musical history tour, HBO’s Vinyl. It’s nearly as messy as that Martin Scorsese/ Mick Jagger rock ’n’ roll blowout, but The Get Down, which chronicles the origins of hip-hop in the Bronx, uses that chaos to better effect—it just takes a few episodes to, well, get down to it. Like Vinyl, The Get Down kicks off with an overstuffed 90-minute episode that tries to introduce everything but accomplishes little. Unlike Vinyl, it gets better and, occasionally even stunning, from there. Unfortunately, Part 1 is only six episodes; the final seven of Part 2 won’t drop until 2017. Did no one explain to Luhrmann how Netflix works?

Odd Mom Out Mondays (Bravo)

New Season: I know nothing of the book Momzillas, nor author Jill Kargman, who stars as a wackier version of herself in the Momzillas-for-TV adaptation Odd Mom Out, which has all-too-quietly entered its second season (where’s the promotion, Bravo?). Kargman is charmingly manic; she and her costars (including a consistently scene-stealing

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Movie: Who to trust with bringing the conspiracy theory that Elvis Presley didn’t actually die on Aug. 16, 1977, to the screen? Mark Cuban’s deep-cable music channel and the producers of Sharknado, duh. Set two months before his “death,” Elvis Lives! finds The King (played by B-movie vet Jonathan Nation) fat, druggy and paranoid for his life— but not for the obvious health reasons: He believes a crime syndicate is out to get him because of his FBI testimony against them, contrasting with the historical 1970s reality that the feds just thought Elvis was a caped loon requesting a badge. Here, he got that FBI badge and faked his own death to become an undercover agent … yeeeaaah. Cool concept, but zero threat to the ultimate Elvis-never-died movie, Bruce Campbell’s 2002 cult classic Bubba Ho-Tep.

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Sports: Has anyone noticed that, due to NBC’s coverage of the Republican National Convention, the Democratic National Convention and now the 2016 Summer Olympics, Aquarius hasn’t aired a new episode in almost a month?

And the remaining six episodes of Season 2—which has been an improvement on Season 1 so far, despite lousy ratings—haven’t even been scheduled. Is NBC planning on burning them off on Saturday nights before the fall TV season arrives? Or shipping Aquarius off to a cable cousin like Syfy or USA? Or, worse, NBC.com? When are we going to learn how the ’60s ended? Or if David Duchovny finally caught Charles Manson? With or without an assist from Special Agent Elvis Presley? So many questions; so little interest in the Summer Olympics.

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Movie: Billed as a new “Lifetime Original Telefilm” even though it was actually a 2014 theatrical release—but that was in Canada, so who cares? Perfect Sisters stars Abigail Breslin and Georgie Henley as the daughters of a violent, alcoholic mother (Mira Sorvino). Fed up with her abuse, asshole boyfriends and drunken insistence that she used be an award-winning actress in Woody Allen films, the sisters plot to knock out Mom with sleeping pills and drown her in the bathtub; spoiler (since it’s based on a true story): they succeed. Enough with the downer dramas, Mira—let’s make Romy and Michele 2 happen, already.

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alking to The Aces, who’ve been so elusive over the past eight months, feels like a dream. During that time, City Weekly tried to contact them about various things—including their nomination, and subsequent win, for Best Pop Act in our Best of Utah Music 2016. Even when they played the BoUM show, we couldn’t connect.

Via speakerphone from their home in Utah County, sisters Alisa (drums) and Cristal Ramirez (vocals, guitar) explain. Early 2016 was a transitional period, Alisa says. “We were kind of laying low. The band was “rebranding” after observing, through “a lot” of writing, that their sound had evolved. The band—started when the girls were around 12 years old, and originally called The Blue Aces—had reached maturity. It was time to up their game, to do things on “a more professional level,” Alisa says. Part of that was jettisoning “Blue” from their name.

The band already had a reputation as being quite good—for a buncha young, ostensibly Mormon girls from Utah County. Alisa and Cristal are initially gracious about their public perception.

When pressed, though, they confess that it does feel “shitty” when people focus on non-musical aspects of the band. Especially since these ladies have the talent.

Not that they don’t get credit where it’s due. At the BoUM ballot committee meeting, the band’s initial nomination was readily ratified by the likes of Mike Sasich (The Weekenders, The Moths, ex-Thunderfist, producer extraordinaire), Jeremy Cardenas (Thunderfist), Diabolical Records’ Adam Tye and Alana Boscan, Crucialfest founder/Exigent Records owner Jarom Bischoff and Ransom Wydner of King Niko/Bass Mint Pros. These are folks who know what’s good even if, in the case of some of them, pop-rock music isn’t their thing. If they noticed The Aces, then they’re worth noticing.

Admittedly, I was one of the folks that wondered about The Aces because of their gender, point of origin/presumed faith and relative youth (they’re now between 18-20). Wondered—not dismissed.

There is something to the criticism of the “Provo bands,” as they’re called. (The Aces hail from Orem—same diff, right?) Much (certainly not all) of the music coming out of Utah County is generally poppier, and samey in an almost Stepfordly way. While not begrudging anyone their faith, it can also be cloyingly wholesome—which is simply incongruent with rock ’n’ roll, which is about rebellion.

But I never dismiss a band based on assumptions.

At the time, I could only find one song, “I Don’t Wanna Know,” online at TheBlueAces.Bandcamp.com, one of the few sites that survived the re-branding cull—“We tried to erase all traces of The Blue Aces from the internet,” Cristal says. The breakup tune, in anyone else’s hands, would be average. In fact, a line like, “Hey, Mr. Heartless, can you hear me?” befits garbage-pop artists like Carly Rae Jepsen or Rihanna. But Katie Henderson’s lightly distorted Les Paul chords are meaty and tasteful, locking in with the slow, solid beat laid down by Alisa and bassist McKenna Petty.

Over this, Cristal’s raspy moan quakes with an ache more suited to someone with more life experience, like Adele.

But The Aces make you believe, and even feel, the pain. And that mid-March BoUM showcase at Sky made me a believer. Although I spotted members of Candy’s River House helping out, The Aces

Left to right: McKenna Petty, Katie Henderson, Cristal Ramirez and Alisa Ramirez of The Aces carried and set up their own gear. At showtime, they took their places like pros—and proceeded to play a tight set of songs that, while pop, felt authentic and unmanufactured. Ramirez sang like she was talking to the crowd, but also performed like a pro.

Henderson, though tiny and cherubic, wielded her Les Paul like a champ. Petty provided the low end while bumping her hip with cool confidence. Behind them, Alisa provided metronomic thunder. The set had peaks and valleys that, when it ended, felt like a satisfying narrative populated with characters you hope to see again.

Just recently, I exchanged texts about the band with Karl Strange of The Lovestrange. Strange talked about befriending Henderson when they both played a New York Dolls tribute show/ New York Doll documentary screening last year. “Absolutely one of my favorite bands,” he wrote. “They totally have the ‘it’ factor.” I agree emphatically.

So now, the band emerges from its conclave, which Cristal says was all about forward motion. “We were shaping this new sound and brand that would set up our whole career and image, going forward.” Now, The Aces drop their payload, armed with a new name, new manager and a new EP (their fourth) of songs co-written in Brooklyn with New Zealanders Simon Oscroft and Dan Gibson (famous at home for their bands Midnight Youth and Kingston).

The first single, “Stuck,” is a gauzy, bouncy dream that belies the chorus line, “Stuck with nowhere to go.” It premiered big-time on Nylon.com in May, the band debuted its video in June, and officially dropped the EP at Velour last month. Tonight, The Aces enjoy the spoils of their Best of Utah Music victory when they open for Jenny Lewis at the Twilight Concert Series—doing very much the opposite of “Stuck’s” protagonist. CW

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’m only five songs into Rumble Gums’ debut album Pool Party Palace (RumbleGums.Bandcamp.com), and my mind is rapidly trying to make sense of their vast repertoire of musical influences. Songs like “Green Machine” sound like they would be at home on one of Mike Patton’s side projects, while vocalists Kleber Alor and Nollo on “We Shall See” shift the trajectory into the realm of hip-hop and funk. It’s not until I hit the final, synthed-out cataclysm of “Code/ Invalid” that I realize the common thread throughout these 15 songs is the simple fact that the band is having a really great time.

A day later, I’m sitting at a cluster of repurposed elementary school desks at Publik Coffee, chatting with frontman Chase Cee. Tall, bearded and sporting an epic man-bun, Cee is excited to talk about Rumble Gums, the band he founded six years ago with guitarist Davey Nelson while cutting high school classes and listening to electronic music. Cee’s enthusiasm for the band—all things creative, really—is palpable as he tells how his and Nelson’s contrasting musical backgrounds battled it out until the core of the band’s unique sound emerged.

“It’s kind of like me versus Davey—in a good way,” Cee says. “If Davey had his way all the time, it would be purely rock ’n’ roll.

If I had my way all the time, it would be mostly electronic beats.” It’s a process that appears to be working—Cee’s heavy, basscentric beats create a broad canvas that displays the nuances of Nelson’s ambling guitar chords. The adaptive and fluid musical ecosystem that Cee and Nelson have created in Cee’s studio lends itself to collaborations that feel natural, despite their different points of origin. And, since they write in the studio, a song’s sound is often determined by who’s present, and what they can add to it. “That’s where all the weird influences come from,” Cee says.

It was only two years ago, however, that

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they realized they’d written enough songs for an album. Cee and Nelson produced the band’s foundational arsenal of songs together within the confines of Cee’s home studio. Cee says they “just went at it for a while” until the project got too big for two guys. They decided to mobilize. Taking the auditory onslaught of Rumble Gums on tour required more hands on deck. They looked to recruit artists who had the creative chops to interpret the style that Cee and Nelson had created and translate it into live music.

They enlisted drummer Jimmy Buonforte, who Cee says “heard the music and was the catalyst” to taking Rumble Gums from the studio to the stage. They also recruited keyboardist Spenny Relyea (formerly of The North Valley) and bassist Johnny De La Torre and local comedian Jackson Banks on vocals and “antics.”

Their first tour was amazing, according to Cee, and took the band through San Francisco, Seattle and Portland. Rumble Gums is keen to rekindle that road magic and take PPP to the people. They’re justifiably proud of the album, a testament to the power of selfpublishing and producing. The pair wrote, recorded and performed all 15 songs (with contributions from Banks, Alor, Nollo and Madelyne Boyer), and photographed the circular panoply of food for the album cover.

“It’s interesting to do all of the ... work ourselves,” Cee says. “It’s liberating.”

That freedom suffuses every moment of Pool Party Palace. Yes, that does lead the album into some weird territory (check out “All Aboard” and “Grave Robber”), but that goes with being an independent, do-it-yourself band. Rumble Gums can do whatever they want, and the upshot is real uniqueness. Cee brightens again, noting how his pre-Rumble songs were “serious and dark, which was what I felt people expected.” Through working with these musicians, he’s landed feet-first in good times.

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Yet hundreds of festivalgoers—mostly women—make the annual trek from all over the state and beyond for a whimsical weekend of intimate performances by independent female musicians in the charming, picture-perfect setting, and the local restaurants and bars warmly welcome them like family. The nonprofit, volunteer-run effort commemorates its 10th anniversary with a stirring 2016 lineup: kickass Alabama singer-songwriter Kristy Lee, who has earned a place on stage next to artists like Michael Franti and the Indigo Girls; beloved folksinger/ songwriter/comedian and intoxicating storyteller Cheryl Wheeler; rock foursome Hunter Valentine (with standout lead vocalist Kiyomi McClosky, who appeared on the third season of The Real L Word); and ‘80s-influenced pop-rock quintet Sick of Sarah (whose catchy tunes are reminiscent of Tegan and Sara). That’s not to mention some of the excellent local acts they’ve booked, like Sister Wives, Canyons and The Debi Graham Band. The two-day festival also offers hiking in the nearby Capitol Reef National Park, morning yoga and a songwriting workshop. (Deann Armes) Robbers Roost, 185 W. Main St., Torrey, $50-$100, WomensRedrockMusicFest.com

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Red Bennies—need I even offer words in explanation of Salt Lake’s most legendary, and one of the longest-lived, art-punk bands? Singer/guitarist David Payne is nerdy to the extent that he could unabashedly sing “Could I Have Your Heart to Break, Please?” and not sound any less punk. Not to be mistaken for the English band of the same name, Temples brings instrumental washes of sound that defy whatever post/math/psych appellative you might attempt to append. Mañanero is Douglas “Chopper” Styer, guitarist in many local bands over the years, now exploring his folky side with this solo project. He’s also received his due for his role in the local scene, with Squatters’ new Squasatch beer featuring him on the label. This evening is a four-pack of local bands with bite. (Brian Staker) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 8 p.m., $5, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

Hunter Valentine then might not sell a lot of cars these days, but Carlile’s hypnotic voice—a sweetened snarl with a slight weathered smokiness— always sounded jarring coming from such a young performer, not to mention the song’s mention of “lines across my face.” Carlile is a bit older now, but she’s aging well. Her sixth album, 2015’s The Firewatcher’s Daughter, is markedly different from the slightly slicker production of her previous albums. This time around, Carlile recorded on the spot, with hardly any demos beforehand, and it turns out “messy” works much better for her. Carlile continues her embrace of Americana balladry, but each scream and »

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Remember that phase in college when you dressed like a lumberjack and one-upped your buddies with insights about craft brews while hanging out at Trampled By Turtles shows? Well, your friends have all moved on to swilling rosé and calling a time they ate at an OK restaurant an “experience.” But the Trampled By Turtles part doesn’t have to change. It’s time to dig out that flannel shirt of yours (don’t worry, it still fits) and let the Turtles’ dulcet mandolin melodies take you back home.

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This year’s Reggae Rise-Up Festival is jampacked with reggae-playing colossuses Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and Tribal Seeds. Sublime with Rome, formed out of the remnants of Sublime after the death of lead singer Bradley Nowell, is a collaborative effort between Sublime bassist Eric Wilson, and guitar-smith Rome Ramirez. Sublime with Rome plays Sublime’s hits along with songs from their own releases, 2014’s Yours Truly, and 2015’s Sirens. Dirty Heads’ founding members “Dirty J” and “Duddy B” met at a party, so it’s fitting that the Dirty Heads’ signature brand of Orange County, Calif., hip-hop and ska-punk embodies such an ecstatic joy, no more so than on 2016’s Dirty Heads. With cool Californian spirituality, Tribal Seeds will keep the show grounded and lifted. Great sounds, positive vibes and a thick cloud of lingering smoke—what could be better? (Zac Smith) Utah State Fairpark, 155 N. 1000 West, 1 p.m., $40-$70, UtahStateFairpark.com

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Let’s assume, for the sake of fun argument, that you do indeed have a guardian angel. Even if you have steadfastly ignored this divine helper in the past, I’m asking you to strike up a close alliance in the coming weeks. If you need to engage in an elaborate game of imaginative pretending to make it happen, so be it. Now let me offer a few tips about your guardian angel’s potential purposes in your life: providing sly guidance about how to take good care of yourself, quietly reminding you where your next liberation might lie, keeping you on track to consistently shed the past and head toward the future, and kicking your ass so as to steer you away from questionable influences. OK? Now go claim your sublime assistance!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) What you are most afraid of right now could become what fuels you this fall. Please note that I used the word “could.” In the style of astrology I employ, there is no such thing as predestination. So if you prefer, you may refuse to access the rich fuel that’s available. You can keep your scary feelings tucked inside your secret hiding place, where they will continue to fester. You are not obligated to deal with them squarely, let alone find a way to use them as motivation. But if you are intrigued by the possibility that those murky worries might become a source of inspiration, dive in and investigate.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) Be vulnerable and sensitive as well as insatiable and irreverent.

Cultivate your rigorous skepticism, but expect the arrival of at least two miracles. Be extra nurturing to allies who help you and sustain you, but also be alert for those moments when they might benefit from your rebellious provocations. Don’t take anything too personally or literally or seriously, even as you treat the world as a bountiful source of gifts and blessings. Be sure to regard love as your highest law, and laugh at fear at least three times every day.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) I placed a wager down at the astrology pool. I bet that sometime in the next three weeks, you Capricorns will shed at least some of the heavy emotional baggage that you’ve been lugging around; you will transition from ponderous plodding to curious-hearted sauntering.

Why am I so sure this will occur? Because I have detected a shift in attitude by one of the most talkative little voices in your head. It seems ready to stop tormenting you with cranky reminders of all the chores you should be doing but aren’t—and start motivating you with sunny prompts about all the fun adventures you could be pursuing.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Are you ready for your mid-term exam? Luckily I’m here to help VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) get you into the proper frame of mind to do well. Now study the Although you might not yet be fully aware of your good fortune, following incitements with an air of amused rebelliousness. 1. your “rescue” is already underway. Furthermore, the so-called You might have to act a bit wild or unruly in order to do the right hardship you’ve been lamenting will soon lead you to a trick you thing. 2. Loving your enemies could motivate your allies to give can use to overcome one of your limitations. Maybe best of all, you more of what you need. 3. Are you sufficiently audacious Virgo, a painful memory you have coddled for a long time has so to explore the quirky happiness that can come from cultivating thoroughly decayed that there’s almost nothing left to cling to. intriguing problems? 4. If you want people to change, try this: Time to release it! So what comes next? Here’s what I recom- Change yourself in the precise way you want them to change. mend: Throw a going-away party for everything you no longer need. Give thanks to the secret intelligence within you that has ARIES (March 21-April 19) guided you to this turning point.

Using scissors, snip off a strand of your hair. As you do, sing a beloved song with uplifting lyrics. Seal the hair in an envelope LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) on which you have written the following: “I am attracting divine Here comes a special occasion—a radical exemption that is prods and unpredictable nudges that will enlighten me about a so rare as to be almost impossible. Are you ready to explore a personal puzzle that I am ready to solve.” On each of the next blessing you have perhaps never experienced? For a brief grace five nights, kiss this package five times and place it beneath period, you can be free from your pressing obsessions. Your your pillow as you sing a beloved song with uplifting lyrics. Then habitual attachments and unquenchable desires will leave you in observe your dreams closely. Keep a pen and notebook or audio peace. You will be relieved of the drive to acquire more posses- recorder near your bed to capture any clues that might arrive. sions or gather further proof of your attractiveness. You might On the morning after the fifth night, go to your kitchen sink even arrive at the relaxing realization that you don’t require as and burn the envelope and hair in the flame of a white candle. many props and accessories as you imagined you needed to be Chant the words of power: “Catalytic revelations and insights happy and whole. Is enlightenment nigh? At the very least, you are arriving.” The magic you need will appear within 15 days. will learn how to derive more joy out of what you already have.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) This would be a good time to have a master craftsperson decoIn the coming weeks, I suspect that life will attempt to move you rate your headquarters with stained glass windows that depict away from any influences that interfere with your ability to discern the creation stories of your favorite indigenous culture. You and express your soul’s code. You know what I’m talking about might also benefit from hiring a feng shui consultant to help when I use that term “soul’s code,” right? It’s your sacred call- you design a more harmonious home environment. Here are ing, the blueprint of your destiny, the mission you came to earth some cheaper but equally effective ways to promote domestic to fulfill. So what does it mean if higher powers and mysterious bliss: Put images of your heroes on your walls. Throw out stuff forces are clearing away obstacles that have been preventing you that makes you feel cramped. Add new potted plants to calm from a more complete embodiment of your soul’s code? Expect a your eyes and nurture your lungs. If you’re feeling especially breakthrough that initially resembles a breakdown. experimental, build a shrine devoted to the Goddess of Ecstatic Nesting.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Maybe you know people who flee from the kind of Big Bold GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Blankness that’s visiting you, but I hope you won’t be tempted to You Geminis are as full of longings as any other sign, but you do that. Here’s my counsel: Welcome your temporary engage- have a tendency to downplay their intensity. How often do you ment with emptiness. Celebrate this opening into the unknown. use your charm and wit to cloak your burning, churning yearnEase into the absence. Commune with the vacuum. Ask the ings? Please don’t misunderstand me: I appreciate your refined nothingness to be your teacher. What’s the payoff? This is an expressions of deep feelings—as long as that’s not a way to hide opportunity to access valuable secrets about the meaning of your deep feelings from yourself. This will be an especially fun your life that aren’t available when you’re feeling full. Be grate- and useful issue for you to meditate on in the coming weeks. I fully receptive to what you don’t understand and can’t control. advise you to be in very close touch with your primal urges.

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Veterans will remember a part of boot camp when they learned how to do a spitshine and a “high shine” in order to pass inspection. That tradition has pretty much fallen by the wayside (except in military schools) since the invention of pre-shined patent leather. Back then, you had to show that your polishing job was so good that your commanding officer could see the ref lection of a dime if he held it up to the toe or heel of your boot.

When I was really young, my dad allowed me to shine his golf shoes and brogues on Saturdays as a reward for being well-behaved during the week. I grew to have a thing for a good polish.

Who polishes their shoes these days?

So many people buy cheap footwear that they toss as soon as scuffs appear. Or, if you can’t throw them in the washing machine to rinse out the dirt, you probably choose to chuck them in the donation box. Folks who have made an investment in fine leather shoes or boots are more likely to take care of them because they know that a pampered pair will last a long time.

It’s hard to find an old-school shoeshining stand or repair store these days.

Airports often have shine stands, but they can be intimidating to folks who’ve never stepped up to get a polish.

In Salt Lake City, you can get a shine at Ray’s Barber Shop (154 S. Main). Adrian Zamora, one of the shoeshiners that works there, started polishing shoes as a teenager just for tips. His mostly male clientele knew they had a good thing when they saw how hard he worked to get old dogs looking like new again, and he enjoyed it. There are shoe repair shops statewide, from Adams Boot Repair in St. George to White Pine Boot & Shoe Service in Richmond, which can replace the soles of your favorite pair of shoes, or patch up any scuffs or holes.

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