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Wrestling with Demons Modern clergy and social scholars explore the boundaries between possession, trauma and the possibility of evil. By Zach Abend

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As I write these words, the national conversation over AI safety is still going on. Some of the people building these models, such as the AI researcher Jacob Coxon and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, are warning that AI poses serious risks to humanity’s future. Despite these expert warnings, Washington’s leadership has rejected calls for a slowdown and instead emphasized that companies are responsible for AI safety. Against this backdrop, the Utah Legislature deserves recognition for its ef-

forts to regulate AI in mental health. The 2025 bill HB452 established privacy and disclosure protections for mental health chatbots. Yet research suggests that the safety and effectiveness of AI-based mental health support will largely depend on how well these tools are integrated with human-provided care. If AI regulations focus only on technology and do not address the human infrastructure—including professionally trained staff, follow-up by clinicians, and access to treatment—AI-based support can generate a false sense of security. Without that infrastructure, digital support risks becoming a few branches laid across a deep pit that give the appearance of a path to safety without the strength to carry someone across. Utah legislators have also looked at the possibility of going further. HB438 (2026) and SB322 (2026) would have required specialized mental health chatbots to operate under greater human oversight. Neither of these proposals was enacted into law, but they do show that Utah lawmakers are be-

coming more aware that AI safety needs to include clear routes to human assistance. Research suggests that around one in five Americans between the ages of 12 and 21 used a general AI chatbot for mental health advice in 2025, with a satisfaction rate of 91%. But this perceived helpfulness does not establish clinical effectiveness. A 540-person randomized trial found that even a specialized AI tool used without direct human clinical involvement increased engagement, but it did not result in greater overall reductions in anxiety or depression than traditional methods. The good news for proponents of using AI in mental health is that the research also shows specialized AI tools can produce clinical benefits when integrated in a human-centered system of care. In a randomized trial of TheraBot, researchers found that when developed, monitored and tested within a clinician-led framework, clients received greater improvement in symptoms compared to those who did not receive the intervention. I believe the danger lies in unbalanced

development. Should AI-based mental health assistance grow without a similar increase in human infrastructure, users could get encouragement and temporary help without actually receiving the kind of treatment they need. That creates a false sense of safety while allowing serious symptoms to persist or worsen. Utah’s therapist guidance also identifies overreliance on AI and inappropriate responses as risks associated with these tools. Utah’s AI safeguards should therefore be paired with investments in the human infrastructure to make these tools safe and effective, including the hiring and training of mental health professionals who can incorporate AI into human-centered clinical care. EHSAN ESTIRI Salt Lake City Care to sound off on a feature in our pages or about a local concern? Write to comments@ cityweekly.net or post your thoughts on our social media. We want to hear from you!

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COOLER What movie or book can you quote close to word-for-word and why does it stick with you?

Paula Saltas

The Princess Bride and Les Miserables. Both are simply the best and I have watched them each at least 100 times.

Wes Long

It’s got to be What’s Up, Doc? (1972). A lifetime of watching and consistently laughing to it will do that. “Who is that dangerously unbalanced woman?”

Scott Renshaw

Probably more than is reasonable for any human, but This Is Spinal Tap stands out. It feels like a magic trick that so many of the most memorable bits of that movie were improvised, and that the whole thing still holds up 40 years later.

Zach Abend

I can quote large chunks of The Big Lebowski. The movie shaped my sense of humor and the dialogue is impeccable.

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Christmas Vacation! I’ve seen it hundreds of times. It’s always funny and a must for the holiday season.

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Surf’s Up played on an infinite loop on the back-seat movie screen of my mom’s car. Big Z taught me some big lessons growing up. Chicken Joe did too.

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OPINION BY DEBORAH EHRMAN AND CINDY KINDRED

Setting the Record Straight

s two community members who are deeply intertwined with the Salt Lake City Public Library, we’d like to correct some misinformation currently circulating in the public conversation regarding the City Library. As a library professional and a community member with decades of service to the City Library between us, who have spent our careers helping people find reliable information and distinguish fact from speculation, we believe the record matters. First the facts: City Weekly’s September 23 cover story, “Reading Between the Lines,” incorrectly stated that Deborah Ehrman was replaced as Interim Director by Noah Baskett. This is incorrect. After Noah began as Library Director/ CEO in January 2024, Deborah returned to her former role as Director of Operations, serving until her retirement in September 2025—not last winter, as reported. The anonymous accusations against Library leadership are similarly inaccurate. The Library is not cutting employee benefits. Insurance costs dropped because the provider reduced premium rates. Staff and the Library simply paid less for the same coverage. No staff have been written up simply for asking questions, and HR reports receiving no official complaints of retaliation in the past two years. The Library also has a formal grievance process, established through collective bargaining, for employees who believe they have been treated improperly. The Marketing and Communications team was not dismantled, moved under the Friends of the Library Foundation or asked to fundraise. It reports to the Chief Development Officer while the Director of Marketing and Communications role is rehired. Fundraising is not and will not be part of the team’s job duties. The Library has no intention of regularly closing buildings for private events. Space rentals follow established policies, including policies governing full or partial closures, and all rental income supports Library op-

erations, programs and services. This year’s additional flex funds were budgeted to compensate librarians and staff for implementing the Strategic Plan, not to cover shifts. There has also been considerable concern about what changes to the Library’s staffing model will mean. Here, too, it is important to distinguish what is actually happening from what some have suggested is happening. There are no layoffs planned, and no plans to reduce services. In fact, all Library employees received a 5.5% raise this year. Changes to roles and responsibilities will be implemented gradually over the next year and a half, with opportunities for employees to provide input as that work evolves. The City Library is not being privatized or shrunk. The intent is not to do more with fewer people. It is to make better use of a well-staffed organization by putting more librarians on the front lines of public service: working directly with patrons at service desks; providing references and readers’ advisories; reaching people outside Library walls; and developing specialized expertise in areas like literacy, youth programming, civic engagement, immigrant and refugee services, and community outreach. Its new Strategic Plan, unanimously adopted by the Board after extensive community and staff input, commits the Library to creating belonging through access, advancing reading and literacy for all, strengthening civic life and stewarding public resources with care. That’s the kind of ambitious plan that our city deserves from an institution that has earned its trust for 128 years. And the need for that work extends far beyond the walls of the Library. Our communities are increasingly disconnected. People are more isolated, trust is harder to build and there are fewer places where people from different backgrounds can simply come together, learn from one another and feel that they belong. Public libraries are uniquely positioned to help strengthen that social fabric because they remain among the few civic institutions truly open to everyone. That requires the Library to be increasingly present in the life of our community. And already, the Strategic Plan is translating into more access, more programming and more direct service to Salt Lake City residents. The AndersonFoothill Branch is adding Sunday hours for the first time. Hours and services are expanding at the Ballpark Library Lab as it evolves into a more established branch, while the

Creative Lab is expanding its hours and programming with new community partners. And a new partnership with the University of Utah Reading Clinic is providing free tutoring at the Glendale Branch for first- and second-graders who are not reading at grade level. Librarianship has always been defined by adaptation: those who work in libraries continually reshape services, spaces, technology and programming to meet their communities where they are. We have watched that evolution throughout our own careers. The tools change. The programs change. The ways people use libraries change. But the fundamental purpose remains the same: connecting people with the information, resources, opportunities and one another. That does not mean change is always easy. The City Library has tried for more than a decade to make meaningful changes to expand service, only to see some efforts stall amid administrative and executive turnover. We understand why that history may contribute to anxiety among employees today. But staff also have opportunities to participate in what comes next. Library leadership has held 11 staff conversations about the Strategic Plan, averaging roughly two hours each. Employees have monthly labor-management meetings, opportunities to meet with the CEO individually or in groups, an employee engagement survey this fall and a collectively bargained grievance process. And where specific allegations have been raised, they should be taken seriously and examined based on the facts. The Library Board has announced an independent review of personnel practices, which Library leadership has welcomed. We believe that is exactly how concerns should be handled—bring them forward, examine the evidence, and let the facts establish the record. We are so excited to invite the SLC public to be part of the Library’s next chapter. Come get a library card, borrow a book, visit your neighborhood branch or volunteer with the Library as it expands programming and services across the city. It is the deep and abiding care of our residents for this institution that has always and will continue to make it a place where everyone is welcome and everyone belongs. CW Deborah Ehrman retired in 2025 after 40 years with SLCPL and currently serves on the Library Foundation Board. Cindy Kindred is a former president of the Library Board of Directors and currently chairs the Library Foundation Board.

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HITS & MISSES BY CW STAFF

HIT: All In

LDS leaders have come out against sports betting and its deformed cousin, proposition betting. For those unaware, prop betting is the recent phenomenon in which trigger-happy online teens place high-stakes wagers on everything from the weather in Fresno to deaths via free solo climbing or the war in Iran. Local media has covered the new gambling gold rush, but Latter-day Saint Elder D. Todd Christofferson came out hard against it during the faith’s recent General Conference. Utah has long banned traditional casinos and scratch-off lotteries—forcing the sinful to cross state lines for such indulgences—and lawmakers have doubled-down, further banning prop-betting apps last winter and fending off a recent lawsuit from “prediction market” app Kalshi. While it’s easy to chafe at this perceived instance of religious-social control, it’s also worth remembering the financial and mental impact of gambling addiction, particularly among the heavy-user demographic of young men. In a Wild West of uncharted federal regulation, it may actually be best to preach temperance when a palm-sized device allows every game, election or war to be financially ruinous.

HIT: Flash in the Pan

Here today, gone tomorrow. Former state representative Trevor Lee’s short-lived political career lacked any legislative accomplishments, leading to a failed primary earlier this year. The lame duck received a death-blow this past week when an investigation into his personal finances led to four felony charges and his immediate resignation from the Utah House. The Tribune did an excellent job balancing his political legacy (unfulfilled attempts to ban Pride flags and rename Harvey Milk Blvd. to Charlie Kirk Street) to what will become his actual legacy (inflating his income to receive a home loan and facing a decade in prison).

MISS: Cheap Seats

Smith Entertainment Group’s media blitz for the newly-remodeled Delta Center has been a wonderful litmus test for local news outlets. Most have put their best faces forward, fawning over the new seats, big signs and massive events planned for this fall. Perhaps it’s best to maintain friendly relations with a mega-conglomerate capable of granting a reporter’s UFC, Mammoth or Jazz-based dreams, but for tax-paying residents, the Center remains a touchy subject. With the flashy remodel subsidized by taxpayer dollars at SEG’s benefit, the stated goal of revitalizing downtown remains a tough pill to swallow. Unobstructed views and increased seating capacity may make games more accessible, but the influx of out-oftowners stokes fear of scalping, overcrowding and, a common refrain, worse traffic on the streets. CW

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Old Haunt

n September 26, 1921, a 24-yearold cook named Harry Asugi Makoma finished his shift at the Reed Hotel in Ogden. The man approached the third-floor elevator and waited for the lift to arrive. As the familiar bell jangled and the door opened, Makoma stepped through without looking down. Unfortunately for Makoma, the elevator door had opened prematurely, and the poor man fell to his death. This was just the first of many unfortunate events recorded at 2510 Washington Boulevard. Over the next century, the property would be the ill-fated site of numerous untimely deaths. One of the most famous occurred roughly a decade after Makoma’s fall. By then, the Reed Hotel had been replaced by the Bigelow Hotel, later renamed the Ben Lomond Hotel. According to lore, a newlywed couple checked into room 1102. Later that night, tragedy struck, as the bride was found drowned in the bathtub. The woman’s son came to the hotel to collect her personal belongings and stayed in the adjacent room. It’s believed he became so distraught that he took his own life right there in the hotel. Another story tells of a mother staying on the 11th floor as she waited for her son to return home from WWI. Heartbreakingly, after surviving the battlefields of Europe, the young soldier was killed in a train collision on his way to Utah. When the news reached the mother, she was consumed by grief. It’s reported that she confined herself to the hotel room, refused to eat or drink and eventually passed away from malnutrition and a broken heart. More occurred over the years, including an elevator attendant who was stabbed and at least three individuals jumping to their deaths. As the casualty toll rose, rumors of strange happenings began circulating. Visitors and staff reported experiencing sudden chills and a sense of dread. Many complained that the elevators would operate on their own, moving between floors with nobody inside. A male figure on the 11th floor would reportedly appear and disappear without moving. Guests who stayed in room 1102 reported sounds of running water and a woman crying, and swore that the bathtub would fill up on its own. Not surprisingly, word got out. Soon, paranormal investigators and amateur ghost hunters were flocking to the hotel to experience the otherworldly activity. The 11th floor was of particular interest, with guests documenting the most activity around room 1102. It’s said that it takes two elements to create a poltergeist—an unexpected demise and a tie to a location. Ogden’s haunted hotel definitely meets these requirements. Today, the building has transitioned into the Bigelow Apartments, a residential community. Still, if you want to experience your own supernatural encounter, there are some individual units available as shortterm rentals. The most popular of these bookings is for room 1102, where a bride’s cry can still be heard, alongside the sound

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Burn It Down Two new theater productions ask how you respond to a chance to change the world. BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net

hat would you do with a chance to change the world? It feels like a purely theoretical question, given the way that events can seem too overwhelming to process, but it’s one that we’re faced with on a micro level every day—how we spend our money, when we choose to speak out, or even whether we accept that we have any responsibility at all to work toward such change. It’s interesting to see how artists respond to that issue, and two new local theater productions address it in intriguingly different ways. Pygmalion’s production of Jen Silverman’s 2018 play Witch comments on how we should think about effecting change in our world through the lens of a very different one: a non-specific pre-industrial European setting, in a town called Edmonton. It’s there that someone who identifies themselves as The Devil (McKell Rae) has come as a kind of traveling salesman, offering to make wishes come true in exchange for the wishers’ souls. Plenty of folks respond in the expected ways— but one, a townswoman named Elizabeth (Stephanie Howell) who is shunned as the local witch—appears reluctant to take the Devil up on their offer, which the theoretically-malevolent entity finds fascinating. Morag Shepherd’s direction gets wonderfully playful with the staging, often pausing in the middle of the action for freeze-frames that resemble the kind of tableaux you’d find on a vintage tapestry. It’s a wonderful way of both representing the subtext beneath the surface of a scene, and suggesting the way these events can represent a kind of archetypal battle not just between good and evil, but between what we desire most and what we’re expected to desire most.

That’s because Silverman’s text alternates between Elizabeth’s interactions with the Devil and Old Scratch’s other primary soul-sellers, a landowner’s son named Cuddy (Amona Faatau) and his rival for his father’s attention, penniless Frank (Pedro Flores), and that juxtaposition provides the primary counterpoint for Elizabeth’s unexpected perspective on what is worth the cost of her soul. Cuddy and Frank both operate as though the only thing of value they could wish for is the material wealth represented by Cuddy’s father (Barrett Ogden), when in fact both harbor secret desires that they can’t even imagine being fulfilled. The interaction between Elizabeth and The Devil—terrifically acted by both Howell and Rae— is initially one between a potential client and a salesperson who has encountered an objection that’s never been in their script before. It evolves into a kind of romance, where even the heart of the Prince of Lies can be softened by the idea of someone whose greatest wish might not be for personal elevation, but for a radical change that could elevate everyone. The world of Troy Deutsch’s Very Like a Whale—a co-world premiere for Salt Lake Acting Company with Virginia-based Cadence Theatre Company, in collaboration with SLC’s own Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory—is much more recognizably contemporary, and much more recognizably local. Family members have gathered to deal with the property of their recentlydeceased patriarch of the Sharp clan on the edge of the Great Salt Lake: the man’s two children, Megan (Olivia Custodio) and Greg (Robert Scott Smith); Megan’s husband, Chester (M. Scott McLean); Megan’s child, Max (Devoree Ellis); and Max’s partner (Mack Barr). But the occasion is complicated by the arrival of Penelope (Sarah Shippobotham), who informs the family members that Mr. Sharp was part of a very surprising legacy. Director Alexandra Harbold plays the events in a generally farcical register, including crowd-pleasing moments like aspiring dancer Greg doing an elaborate routine set to Kate Bush’s “Hounds of Love.” The broader performance moments don’t always land, but they’re balanced by

The cast of Salt Lake Acting Company’s Very Like a Whale

terrific technical credits, most notably a magnificent set by Erik Reichert that finds the entire stage seeming to be listing to the left, as though the house were on the verge of being swallowed by the lake. That’s perfect for the narrative as it unfolds, exploring the idea of stewardship for the natural world, and whose responsibility it is. Megan emerges as the central character, and Custodio nails playing the roiling anger within a woman of faith struggling to deal with having queer family members, as well as with an unspecified sense that her parents had priorities other than her. The climax finds many of the Sharp family members willing to make a choice that prioritizes something besides themselves, but those are choices Megan is unable to fold into her worldview. Asked to consider a possibility that she’s wrong about so much, she instead basically loses

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her mind—and Very Like a Whale becomes an unsettling portrait of those who, when given an opportunity to change the world beyond the narrow limits they expect, can only think of burning it down. CW

WITCH Pygmalion Productions Rose Wagner Center Black Box 138 W. 300 South Oct. 2 – 17 pygmalionproductions.org VERY LIKE A WHALE Salt Lake Acting Company 168 W. 500 North Sept. 30 – Oct. 25 saltlakeactingcompany.org

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The word “melodrama” generally isn’t applied in complimentary terms, but sometimes it can hit just right. For playwright Connor Johnson, taking on the subject of the public pushback against the Stratos Project data center in Box Elder County called for just such an approach. “I think melodrama can offer the ultimate form of catharsis,” Johnson said. “The fact that it can be a pejorative descriptor (because it is so reliant on structure, archetype and telling the audience how to feel) is also its strength. What’s more satisfying than getting to boo the people who are trying to sell your state to the highest bidder? What other genre allows us to throw tomatoes (or water-balloon shaped tomatoes, at least) at our governor?” The result is How Letty Lawless and the Brine Shrimp Band Beat Big Daddy Cox and His 9 Gigawatt AI Data Center in the Small Western Town of Salt Lake City, Utah, a rollicking tale drawing inspiration from the environmental activism of the Monkey Wrench Gang for a show that includes plenty of opportunity for active audience participation. “When [producer Emily Nash] asked me if I’d write a piece about the data center back in May, I think we were both feeling a bit raw about the entire event,” Johnson added. “For me, it was a way to take back some power in a situation where we were feeling utterly powerless watching our elected officials bamboozle their own constituency.” Emily’s House presents a one-night-only performance of Letty Lawless at the back alley of Copper Palate Press (160 E. 200 South) on Saturday, Oct. 10 at 8 p.m. Admission is free to the public. (Scott Renshaw)

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Utopia Early Music has tended to focus its “early music” lens on Europe, with occasional visits to the “New World.” But for the launch of the company’s 20262027 season, co-founder Emily Nelson said a suggestion from a board member and a desire for a unique “America 250” crossover led to the inclusion of American Indigenous music. “We’ve never done anything with Native music,” Nelson notes, “and this might be a really good thing to bring into that space.” The result is Revolution to Reconciliation, a musical “conversation” between Colonial American songs and the music of the Indigenous peoples of that same era. For assistance with the latter, Nelson reached out to Carl Moore, a friend with contacts in the local Native community, who brought in artists including flute player Nino Reyos (pictured) and the Cliff Eagle Drum Group to present counterpoints with the Colonial songs on subjects like grief, war and faith. “Part of why I’m interested in doing these branching-out concerts is, I do get to learn a lot,” Nelson notes. “That’s part of the joy of it. As an artist, you always want to be having some kind of excuse to get the thread of something new.” Utopia Early Music’s presentation of Revolution to Reconciliation includes two performances: Saturday, Oct. 10 at Murray Park Pavilion 5 (292 E. Murray Park Ave., Murray) at 3 p.m.; and Sunday, Oct. 11 at The Cathedral Church of St. Mark (231 E. 100 South) at 5 p.m. Admission is pay-as-able, suggested $20 general admission, with first-come/first-served seating. Visit utopiaearlymusic.org for additional event information. (SR)

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Popular culture is filled with masked fighters for justice, but before there was Batman, Spider-man or any of their comicbook ilk, there was Zorro. Created in 1919 by writer Johnston McCulley, the dashing caped figure who makes his signature sign of the “Z” is the alter-ego of 19th-century California landowner Don Diego de la Vega, and has captured imaginations in print, film and television for more than a century. And such a grand heroic figure is the perfect protagonist for an opera. Utah Opera kicks off its 2026-2027 season with composer/librettist Héctor Armienta’s Zorro, first staged in 2022. The composer says of his interest in the character, “My intention was to go beyond the swashbuckling adventure for which Zorro is known. This opera is, at its heart, a story about the resilience of the human spirit, the courage of the oppressed to rise and seek a better life, and the power we all possess to unite against tyranny.” Utah Opera takes on that story with an all-Latino principal cast, and Armienta adds, “While I believe all artists should be able to sing repertoire that may not be from their specific culture, there are roles that carry particular meaning and weight when performed by artists who have a deep connection to that culture.” Utah Opera’s production of Armienta’s Zorro comes to the Capitol Theatre (50 W. 200 South) with performances Oct. 10 (7:30 p.m.), Oct. 12 (7 p.m.), Oct. 14 (7 p.m.), Oct. 16 (7:30 p.m.) and Oct. 18 (2 p.m.). Tickets start at $19; visit my.usuo.org to purchase tickets and for additional event information. (SR)

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I’m writing this in a house approximately 20 miles from the (current) shores of Great Salt Lake, where I’ve lived for 30 years, so one could say I have some skin in the game when it comes to the subject of Abby Ellis’s documentary, following the efforts by scientists and political appointees to deal with the looming catastrophe of the lake’s diminishment, which could unleash regular dust

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I’ve beaten up on Zachary Levi more than a bit in these pages, but in my own defense, he keeps making such weird choices in material for himself. Here he takes on a remake of a 1947 John Wayne Western, playing an outlaw named Quirt in 1860s Texas who finds himself wounded and in the care of kindly Penny Worth (Meg Fraser) while trying to evade both the boss he double-crossed (Neal McDonough) and the local marshal (Tommy Lee Jones). Director Julio Quintana and his writing team want to tell a story about a leopard being able to change his spots thanks to the influence of a good Christian woman, none-too-subtly represented in metaphor by Penny’s efforts to break a rambunctious horse. It’s just a real slog of a story on the path towards Quirt’s redemption, despite Jones doing his best at re-creating his world-weary lawman from No Country for Old Men. And while few people ever accused The Duke of being a restrained actor, he at least had the presence to hold a narrative’s center, while Levi is left with squirming in his seat when a preacher talks about criminals, and being fairly unconvincing as a hardened desperado from the outset. It all builds to a drawn-out resolution that lacks any real tension as it shifts between arenas of action, and assumes we’ve become invested in its hero’s happily-ever-after. Available Oct. 9 in theaters. (PG)

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“If you don’t mind me saying, sir,” Secret Service Agent Taft (Joel Kinnaman) says to the President of the United States, “‘motherfucker’ … sounds so good when you say it”—and the fact that POTUS is played by Samuel L. Jackson might suggest a jokey recognition of the actor’s stereotypical on-screen persona. But this guns-blazing action yarn might also give Jackson one of his meatiest roles in quite some time. Director Renny Harlin and screenwriter Umair Aleem dive right into the premise, beginning with a coordinated terrorist attack that leaves the President driving the armored, tricked-out car dubbed “The Beast,” with a critically-injured Taft as his only passenger. The plot seems to be setting up a lot more fun with the car’s gizmos than it ultimately delivers, spending more time with the interaction between the two principal characters. That choice, though, does allow Jackson a great vehicle (no pun intended) for playing a PTSD-affected Vietnam veteran working through his personal issues while he tries to stay alive. And that material is pretty solid, up to and including the President’s efforts at field surgery on the wounded Taft. We’re reminded repeatedly that the reasons behind the unfolding catastrophe really don’t matter, while hammering a bit too hard at the President’s trauma and survivor guilt. It is, however, nice to see something with this much pure forward momentum also offering a reminder that Jackson is more than a guy who sounds good saying “motherfucker.” Available Oct. 9 in theaters. (R)

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storms filled with carcinogenic materials. There are some weaknesses, particularly from a local’s perspective, in what Ellis does and doesn’t choose to explain; for just one example, there’s no reference to the impact of the “lake effect” on storms in the region that could contribute to a drought feedback loop. Instead, the filmmaker focuses on the work of three individuals—microbiologist Bonnie Baxter, ecologist Ben Abbott and Great Salt Lake commissioner Brian Steed—trying to get their message out, glad-handing stakeholders and doing the eternal dance between “what’s necessary” and “what’s politically feasible.” In that respect, Ellis gets a wonderfully restrained portrait of those who also have skin in the game frustrated at repeatedly running into the same roadblocks, knowing the fate of the place they hold dear is at stake. There’s also an effective recurring idea of our protagonists watching TV news coverage of the issue, and understanding what is and isn’t conveyed in 90-second snippets. This advocacy documentary understands how the issue will be presented to the many, many more people who will never see it. Available Oct. 9 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)

att Lozano remembers counseling a man who had witnessed a murder as a child. As Lozano and another intercessor led him through an exercise in forgiveness, Lozano sensed a presence move up the man’s hand through his arm and into his face. Then, Lozano said, the man’s demeanor changed. “There was somebody else looking at me and speaking another language and growling,” he recalled. The man tried to lunge at Lozano, but couldn’t get out of his chair. Lozano said the spiritual atmosphere in the room transformed. “It was like a morgue,” Lozano recounted, “cold and silent.” Lozano, who has spent years in Catholic deliverance ministry, believed the trigger for the manifestation was the man reliving his trauma. Concerned that continuing might further hurt him, Lozano spoke words of blessing and ended the session. “This was an evil presence, in person,” Lozano said, “and the way in which it came about, I couldn’t explain it by natural means.” True-life stories like these, along with the fictional inventions of popular culture, have profoundly shaped how people understand possession. However, in interviews with priests, bishops and lay ministers in the United States and Europe, they said such encounters are exceedingly rare. Instead, they focused on trauma and “discernment”—which is the practice of distinguishing between mental health issues and what practitioners believe may be spiritual interference. Irish Catholic priest and exorcist Father Pat Collins said he screens people who come to him for help by conducting an interview, including questions about any prescribed medication or mental health diagnoses. “My presumption, always, is it’s psychological,” Collins explained. In the Catholic Church, solemn exorcism is a formal rite that requires authorization from a bishop. Anglican churches also practice forms of exorcism, while deliverance consists of less formal prayer and healing and can be performed by clergy and lay practitioners.

“AS WE WALKED AROUND, MY MOOD CHANGED FROM ONE OF DETACHED CURIOSITY TO AN INCREASING SENSE OF SHOCK AND UNEASE,” —FATHER PAT COLLINS Dominic Walker, a retired Anglican bishop and trained exorcist, emphasized a multidisciplinary approach. “I think we need to understand that people are complex, and the traditional division of body, mind and spirit with medics, psychologists and pastors ministering separately is flawed,” he said.

Between Belief and Doubt Anthropologists have described possession across cultures as an “idiom of distress.” According to Dr. Joseph Laycock, associate professor of religious studies at Texas State University, it’s believed to be a way for a person to communicate that something is wrong and that they need more attention or resources from their community. “And for people who are inclined to think about the world in terms of spirits, that is manifesting as possession and exorcism,” Laycock said. He said that while he has encountered no evidence that convinced him demonic possession is real, he is not willing to dismiss the possibility outright. “I try to teach my students to be modest when we’re looking at descriptions of impossible events,” he said. Father Chad Ripperger, a prominent Catholic priest, exorcist and theologian, said that there has recently been an increase in requests for exorcisms and deliverance ministry, in part because of an increase in “evil being committed by people and against people, opening them up to demonic influence.” Human suffering, according to Ripperger, may be a result of the demonic, natural causes, or some mixture of the two.

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Father Pat Collins said he presumes psychological causes when he screens possession cases. “Wounded people are attacked often by the demonic,” Ripperger explained, “and the demons use the person’s woundedness against him or her.” But despite the skepticism that is built into Catholic and Anglican discernment, there are instances that defy easy explanation. When he was younger, Collins was asked to evaluate a woman suspected of experiencing a manifestation. At first, she was lucid and spoke in her normal voice. At the end of the interview, he asked her if he could put a finger on her forehead as they prayed, and she agreed. As Collins began praying, a rough, guttural voice came out of the woman that said “you have no power over me.” Some kind of opening is needed to make a person susceptible to demonic exploitation, according to Collins. “The door has to be opened one way or another to the influence of the dark side,” he said.

Beyond Metaphor Even after hearing stories like Collins’, I wondered why these otherwise cautious people had become convinced evil existed as something more than metaphor. A year after his ordination, Collins went on a hitchhiking holiday to Germany with a friend. As they explored the country, they were dropped off near the Dachau concentration camp, outside Munich. Though it was an unplanned stop, they went inside. Like many young priests of that time, Collins believed angels and demons were merely symbolic and a way of speaking about the

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Jungian shadow self, rather than actual spiritual beings. As they toured the grounds and saw the buildings where the inmates had lived, Collins remembered his attitude changing. “As we walked around, my mood changed from one of detached curiosity to an increasing sense of shock and unease,” he said. On the far end of the camp, Collins and his traveling companion had to cross a stream to see where the gas chambers were located. Once across, the visitors fell silent and Collins felt what he would later describe as “a direct encounter with evil.” By the time he left Dachau, he said his sense of evil had been irrevocably changed, and that one thought stayed with him. “I was also deeply disturbed by the thought that the evil I had encountered seemed greater than the God I knew,” he said. More than 50 years later, the visit to Dachau still influences how Collins thinks about the nature of evil. “Life is a spiritual battle between two kingdoms,” he said, “those of God and the devil.” For Walker, sin isn’t just crime or sexual misbehavior. It’s also a failure to love. Evil and suffering are part of the world we live in, he said, and in large part caused by human greed, poverty, exploitation, power and cruelty. “The word [for ‘sin’] in Greek is from archery, meaning to miss the mark,” he noted. Walker said that healing isn’t just about curing symptoms, but also about bringing people into the proper relationship with God, one another and, hopefully, themselves. “It is a life-long journey,” he said, “but one that brings real joy and peace.” CW

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Investigating the Hotel Plandome, City Weekly’s (allegedly) haunted house. BY THOMAS CRONE comments@cityweekly.net

f you’re looking for it, you can spot the location of Salt Lake City’s old Hotel Plandome without a map or your phone. There’s a painted sign visible from some angles along State Street, the old lodging house’s name painted high up, above the single word “European”—an indication that breakfast was served with your stay. The signage is relatively subtle and out of sightlines, though; it’s even surrounded by some splashes of graffiti. So folks passing by at street level would be forgiven for noticing a more-prominent sign on the big building at the northwest corner of State Street and 400 South—that of Santo Taco. You can walk into Santo Taco on a sunny afternoon and say you’re there because you like to eat at restaurants associated with the paranormal. And if you do, you won’t be laughed at. Instead, you’ll be told that the place is, in fact, riddled with random noises, classic ghostly sounds like knocks and disembodied footsteps. “That happens a lot,” said a member of the staff, who seemed a bit non-committal about the restaurant’s fortunes being tied to the spiritual, but who confirmed they’re used to people coming by with questions about the building’s reputation and apocryphal stories of noises from the kitchen and storage areas, “where people died.” Readers will recognize another of the building’s tenants, albeit one with zero visible signage—Salt Lake City Weekly. Located upstairs in the old Plandome,

this newspaper is one of several entities now residing in the corner structure, which began in 1902 and opened in 1903. As with many buildings that have enjoyed a century (and a quarter) of life, the Plandome space has seen its share of highs and lows. The namesake hotel launched in 1913, during World War I. Before and since then, the building has been home to every manner of business—from its original function as a union hall to multiple art galleries, then a flophouse and now, contemporary mixed-use with ground-floor tacos and Perry’s Barber Shop. In its earliest days, it was owned by Albert Fisher, namesake of the (original) Fisher Brewing concern. It was under his ownership that the building became a hotel. Fisher died in Oregon in 1917, aged 64, while suffering from rheumatism. Though Fisher was not in the hotel at the time, paranormal groups often suggest that the dead come back to spiritually roost in spots that were important to them. And as the structure would operate as a hotel until the mid-1980s, other deaths occurred on-site … though those are often cited by anecdote and oral tradition, rather than hard documentation. By the end of the ‘80s, the building— and surrounding neighborhood, really— had seen a drop in viability, exacerbated by what The Salt Lake Tribune reported as a “spree” of fires, which struck the building in 1987. In 1988, tax credits were secured for renovation and, another year later, the Plandome building would see a dramatic turnaround, one that essentially established its current look and feel and achieved at the then-mighty cost of $1 million. In the December 17 edition of The Deseret News, Joseph Linton described a feeling of civic pride witnessing the transformation. “This is a bright spot on a street that has struggled desperately over the years to maintain its integrity,” Linton wrote. “Those involved are to be congratulated— this small gift is one that brings visual and functional vitality back to our cityscape.” Of course, this is October’s Halloween edition of City Weekly, rather than a De-

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cember anniversary, and we’d hoped to speak to some folks about the haunted, spirited, supernatural aspect of the newspaper’s current home. In fact, we first learned of the building’s reputed history from the website of USGhostAdventures.com, a national paranormal touring concern with an outpost in Salt Lake City. The Hotel Plandome is pictured right on the front page of the company’s website, which advertises a one-mile, one-hour tour of downtown Salt Lake for $26. The page doesn’t highlight Fisher. Instead, they cite a late staffer. “This former hotel carries stories of Susan Riddle, a devoted caretaker remembered long after her passing,” the site reads. “Visitors have reported seeing a woman’s silhouette near the windows and hearing sounds that suggest someone is still making nightly rounds.”

In effect, it’s not a dissimilar narrative to the one told by the current staffers at Santo Taco. City Weekly attempted to reach US Ghost Adventures (which is not affiliated with the long-running cable show of similar naming), trying to reach them a halfdozen times via phone and email. In this case we were very much … ghosted. We did enjoy a meal at Santo Taco, though, with its large plates, reasonable prices and friendly service. We sat and attempted to intuit anything out of the ordinary, but only found a lively Mexican restaurant and goofy poster of Guy Fieri. Maybe this article will bring Susan Riddle (1836-1922), or some of her spiritual kin, back into our very midst—the sounds of walking, rattling, or human voices hinting at the thin veil between our two worlds. Or it maybe it won’t. CW

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Every dish I tried was exceptional. The potato pavé is 1000 layers of finely sliced potatoes topped with a crème fraîche sauce—yes, 1000 layers. The filet, sourced from local ranch UT47, was perfectly cooked and accompanied by a single pour of celeriac purée. But the showstoppers of the evening were the French onion soup, assembled tableside (the onion is roasted for 12 hours); and the dessert, Candy Land (aka The Show), also prepared, or painted, tableside. It is interactive, as guests are handed a small torch to toast the fresh meringue swirls. “Candy Land is my table-side artistic expression on indulgence or overindulgence of dessert,” Moser explained. “This represents me well as a chef, and I love coming out to the guests and meeting different people.” Flexible fudge, Basque-style cheesecake and apple-pear pavé, all prepared by Moser, are the centerpieces but definitely not the focal point. “When I first started at Alinea, on my first day, I was asked, ‘Where do I feel my weakness is?’ I said pastry,” Moser noted. “I was told, ‘Tomorrow, you start pastry.’ I spent the next four months there.” With Utah now in the Michelin Guide, Moser said he is laser-focused. He heard the scouts didn’t dine at Hide and Seek, and he strives not to be overlooked again. “It looks very pretty from the outside in, but I promise you, we want to make Michelin-style dining very approachable,” Moser said. Now the only question is whether you can find the door.

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onnie and Clyde’s has a bookcase that isn’t about books, and if you know the right spot, one panel swings open. Beyond it waits Hide and Seek, a speakeasy that feels less like a restaurant and more like a well-kept secret finally shared with you. The entry gives nothing away. That’s the point: no flashing sign, no crowd spilling onto the sidewalk, just a quiet threshold that opens into something extraordinary. You get soft light, low murmurs, a moody interior and the sense that you’ve stumbled onto a place that isn’t for everyone, only for those lucky enough to find it. At the center of it all is Chef Justen Moser—a technically-skilled chef with a sharp eye for crafting visually stunning plates. Moser’s journey to Salt Lake City led him through one of the world’s most demanding kitchens. He was offered a position to cook at Alinea in Chicago, the three-Michelin-star restaurant that has set a new standard for fine dining. Alinea changed him. In a kitchen operating at that reputational altitude, there’s no room for hesitation and no excuse for a shortcut. Moser learned to work fast and methodically, holding standards impossibly high while the pace never slowed.

There, he mastered the craft that now defines his cooking: molecular gastronomy, the manipulation of flavor, texture and appearance and an attention to detail bordering on obsession. Every plate became a small act of engineering and art. His standards never softened, and he passed them on to other chefs. “If you’re doing it right, every day you will be the best you’ve ever been,” he tells his chefs, a thought he still lives by. Behind the polish sat years of sacrifice: 15-hour days; low pay; an emotional toll that most people never see from the dining room side of the pass. Moser gave nearly everything to his craft, letting his life tilt into a deliberate imbalance in service of one goal: to someday open a restaurant of his own. Moser and his partner, Paula Moroni, who works front of house at Hide and Seek, began to miss the Salt Lake Valley, the friends they’d left behind, the idea of putting down roots and buying a place of their own. Then two years ago, the planets aligned. Moser met Greg Castro, his friend and eventual business partner. What began as conversations about buying a home reshaped into something bigger: The dream of a restaurant. “Hide and Seek is an experimental restaurant centered on providing a taste of big city fine dining and avant-garde nature,” said Moser. “In the valley I care so deeply for.” Today, that hard-won vision lives behind the bookcase. Hide and Seek delivers Michelin-caliber technique in an intimate setting, the kind of place you’ll want to tell everyone about and keep entirely to yourself at the same time. This is a dream years in the making, plated with precision and served with heart—and as a diner, you can feel it.

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Hopkins Brewing Co. 1048 E. 2100 South, SLC hopkinsbrewingcompany.com On Tap: Basic Witch Pumpkin Pie Stout

Avenues Proper 376 8th Ave, SLC avenuesproper.com On Tap: Drop Top - English Summer Ale (collab with Salt Flats)

Kiitos Brewing Sugar House 1533 S. 1100 East, SLC KiitosBrewing.com On Draft: Strawberry Blonde (limited release)

Bewilder Brewing 445 S. 400 West, SLC BewilderBrewing.com On Tap: Pink Boots - Pink Pony Pilz

Level Crossing Brewing Co. 2496 S. West Temple, SLC LevelCrossingBrewing.com On Tap: Nitro Sinday Pale Ale

Bohemian Brewery 94 E. Fort Union Blvd, Midvale BohemianBrewery.com NEW Releases: Kölsch, Dusseldorfer “Alt” Bier

Level Crossing Brewing Co., POST 550 South 300 West, Suite 100, SLC LevelCrossingBrewing.com On Tap: Helles Munich Pale Lager

Bonneville Brewery 1641 N. Main, Tooele BonnevilleBrewery.com On Tap: Peaches and Cream Ale

Moab Brewing 686 S. Main, Moab TheMoabBrewery.com On Tap: “Big Drop” West Coast Pilsner

Chappell Brewing 2285 S Main Street, SLC chappell.beer On Tap: Pie Hole - Strawberry Rhubarb Tart Ale

Mountain West Cider 425 N. 400 West, SLC MountainWestCider.com On Tap: Island Orchard Punch (Strawberry and peach infused cider)

Desert Edge Brewery 273 Trolley Square, SLC DesertEdgeBrewery.com On Tap: Edge’s Special Bitter ESB Epic Brewing Co. 825 S. State, SLC EpicBrewing.com On Tap: Munich Mayhem Märzen Lager Etta Place Cidery 700 W Main St, Torrey EttaPlaceCider.com On Tap: Cherry Saison Cider; Peach Tea Session Mead Fisher Brewing Co. 320 W. 800 South, SLC FisherBeer.com On Tap: A rotation of up to 17 Fresh Beers! Grid City Beer Works 333 W. 2100 South, SLC GridCityBeerWorks.com In a Can: Extra Pale Ale Heber Valley Brewing 501 N. Main Street, Heber City hebervalleybrewing.com Freshly Canned: MãrzenOktoberfest Lager 5% ABV Helper Beer 159 N Main Street, Helper helperbeer.com

Red Rock Brewing 254 So. 200 West RedRockBrewing.com On Tap: Gypsy Scratch Red Rock Fashion Place 6227 So. State Redrockbrewing.com On Tap: Grand Bavaria Red Rock Kimball Junction 1640 Redstone Center Redrockbrewing.com On Tap: Bamberg Rauch Bier RoHa Brewing Project 30 Kensington Ave, SLC RoHaBrewing.com On Tap: Bramble Brown Roosters Brewing Multiple Locations RoostersBrewingCo.com On Tap: Polygamy Pale Ale SaltFire Brewing 2199 S. West Temple, SLC SaltFireBrewing.com On Tap: Oktoberfest Bier Salt Flats Brewing 2020 Industrial Circle, SLC SaltFlatsBeer.com On Tap: OPEN ROAD SERIES #3 - Barrel Aged Grand Cru

Squatters Brew Pub West Valley 3555 Constitution Blvd, West Valley City squatterspubs.com On Tap: Salt Lake Brewing Co. Acapulco Gold Mexican Lager Squatters Pub Brewery / Salt Lake Brewing Co. 147 W. Broadway, SLC squatterspubs.com On Tap: A Necessary Evil - Black IPA w/ Centennial Hops Strap Tank Brewery, Lehi 3661 Outlet Pkwy, Lehi StrapTankBrewery.com On Tap: “Virgil the Guide” (Italian Pilsner); “Smiles und Sunshine” (German Leichtes Weizen) Strap Tank Brewery, Springville 596 S 1750 W, Springville StrapTankBrewery.com On Tap: “Orange Hopsicle” Hazy Pale; “Trouble” American Sour with Mango and Passionfruit TF Brewing 936 S. 300 West, SLC TFBrewing.com On Tap: Twelve taps and high point cans available.

Offset Bier Co 1755 Bonanza Dr Unit C, Park City offsetbier.com/ On Tap: DOPO IPA

Scion Cider Bar 916 Jefferson St W, SLC Scionciderbar.com On Tap: Koala Shorts 6.3% ABV

Ogden Beer Company 358 Park Blvd, Ogden OgdenBeerCompany.com On Tap: 11 rotating taps as well as high point cans and guest beers

Second Summit Cider 4010 So. Main, Millcreek secondsummitcider.com On Tap: Oktoberfest Brown sugar and Sinimar semi-dry cider

Park City Brewing 1764 Uinta Way C1 ParkCityBrewing.com On tap: Oktoberfest

Shades Brewing 1388 S. 300 West, SLC ShadesBrewing.beer New Batch: Raspberry Pistachio Sour Ale

Thieves Guild Cidery 117 W. 900 South, SLC thievesguildcidery.com On Tap: Scorching Ray Sweet pepper cider with a beam of habanero spice | 6.5%

Shades On State 366 S. State Street, SLC Shadesonstate.com On Tap: Six Wheat Under Hefeweizen

Uinta Brewing 1722 S. Fremont Drive, SLC UintaBrewing.com On Tap: Was Angeles Craft Beer

Silver Reef 4391 S. Enterprise Drive, St. George SGBev.com

UTOG 2331 Grant Ave, Ogden UTOGBrewing.com On Tap: Bar Down IPA

Squatters Brew Pub Sugar House 2110 S. Highland Drive, SLC squatterspubs.com On Tap: Salt Lake Brewing Co. Big U Pilsner

Vernal Brewing 55 S. 500 East, Vernal VernalBrewing.com

Prodigy Brewing 25 W Center St., Logan Prodigy-brewing.com On Tap: 302 Czech Pilsner Proper Brewing/ Proper Burger 857 & 865 So. Main properbrewingco.com On Tap: Concerning Hops West Coast IPA Proper Brewing Moab 1393 US-191, Moab properbrewingco.com On Tap: Concerning Hops West Coast IPA

Talisman Brewing Co. 1258 Gibson Ave, Ogden TalismanBrewingCo.com On Tap: OMG Becky! Oh my gourd.. - Blonde Pumpkin Ale 5% New Can Drop: 16 oz. The Sour Rabbit - Fruited Sour 7%

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The Fright Club: Moody, Mysterious and Utterly Enchanting

Step into The Fright Club at Varley and feel the temperature drop! This is Halloween in its most timeless form. Graveyard murals line the walls, while soft lighting and hanging candles cast flickering shadows that dance as you sip. It’s atmospheric, a little eerie and completely gorgeous. The drinks match the mood. Order the O.F. Drip for something dark and mysterious, or go bold with the Wicked Witch. Each cocktail arrives in the spookiest drink vessels you’ll find in town—the kind that practically beg to be photographed before you take that first sip. Trust me, your social-media feed will thank you. The Fright Club is perfect for anyone who loves their Halloween with a side of elegance. Think candlelit corners, moody ambiance and just the right amount of spine-tingle. The Fright Club at Varley (55 W. 100 South) is open through Nov. 1. Hours are Mon. – Fri., 4 p.m. to “late,” and Sat. - Sun., noon to “late.” Admission is 21+ and reservations are required. Call 801-895-2846 or email info@ivyandvarley.com.

Something Wicked at Studio Salt Lake: Where Horror Meets Fun

Craving something louder and bolder? Head to Something Wicked at Studio. This pop-up leans full-on Halloween movie night, and the vibe is electric. Bright red ceiling lights bathe the whole space in a wicked glow, while a show-stopping Scream mural sets the scene for your next great photo. The cocktail list here is pure playful energy. Sip on the Drop Dead Gorgeous for a bit of glam, or raise a glass to The Last Laugh. Both come served in fun Halloween vessels that bring instant party spirit to the table. It’s cheeky, colorful and made for laughing with your crew until the lights flicker. Something Wicked at Studio is the go-to for group nights out, costume parties and anyone who wants their Halloween served with a wink. Something Wicked, located at the Studio at Soundwell (149 W. 200 South) is open through Nov. 1. Hours are Mon. – Fri., 4 p.m. to “late,” Sat. - Sun. from noon to “late.” Admission is 21+ and reservations are required; call 801-290-1001 to make yours.

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ed new beginnings. This one is worth slowing down for. Salt Lake Brewing Company – Melon Collie: Sometimes the best recipes aren’t really recipes at all. They’re a little bit of this, a dose of that—and if you’re lucky, the instincts of someone who has spent decades learning how those ingredients work together. That seems to be the spirit behind Melon Collie, an unassuming little session IPA from Jason Stock, longtime head brewer at Salt Lake Brewing Company and Squatters. There’s no precise hop ratio to obsess over here. Instead, Stock appears to have relied on years of brewing experience and a well-trained palate to freestyle his way into something pretty damn tasty. The hop lineup is impressive: Centennial, Cascade, Chinook, Amarillo and Mosaic. On paper, that’s a pretty broad mix of American hop personalities. In the glass, though, they come together surprisingly well. Melon Collie opens with a wonderfully peachy nose. That same peach character carries into the first sip, delivering a soft, fruity sweetness that makes this beer immediately approachable. Citrus soon makes an appearance, adding a little brightness and keeping the fruit character from becoming too soft or sweet. Then comes the finish. There’s a nice dose of bitterness waiting toward the end, but it’s handled with restraint. It doesn’t hang around forever or overwhelm the palate. It’s simply there, just enough bitterness to remind you that you’re drinking an IPA. And that balance is what makes Melon Collie work so well. At just 5.0% ABV, this is an IPA that doesn’t demand a commitment. It’s flavorful enough to make one stop and pay attention, yet light enough to make another pint seem like an excellent idea. Verdict: Will Stock make this again? Very likely. Meticulous notes were taken on this “freestyle” IPA, but if I were you, I wouldn’t wait. I’ll happily pound pints of this while it’s fresh. Draft only for Melon Collie. It’s best at the source, of course: Salt Lake Brewing Company/Squatters. As mentioned above, Trauma Bay IPA comes in two different colored 16-oz. cans, and can be found at the RoHa Brewing Project. As always, cheers! CW

Grab your friends and your best costume, because Varley and Studio Salt Lake by the Realine Group are going all-in on Halloween. Two brand-new pop-ups have crept into town, each bringing its own kind of thrill. Whether you love classic graveyard chills or the giddy fun of a horror movie marathon, there’s a spot with your name on it. The site team, led by Courtney Mortensen, built the interiors; owner Bryan Borreson sourced the fabulous drinkware from many locations; and the bartending team, led by Cam Quantrell, created the cocktails. No spooky night is complete without something delicious, and both pop-ups deliver. Start with The Boneyard, a plate of roasted chicken wings that’s every bit as satisfying as it sounds. Then reach for Yolk Fiction, pesto deviled eggs with a fresh, herby twist that keeps things interesting. These small plates pair perfectly with your cocktail of choice, so order a few and share the fun. Here’s the best part: you don’t have to choose just one! Make a night of it and visit both. These pop-ups are here for a limited time only, so gather your ghouls and plan your visit soon. See you there—if you dare!

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oHa – Trauma Bay IPA: There’s a story behind Trauma Bay that makes cracking the can feel like a little more than just opening another IPA. The beer, and in many ways, RoHa Brewing Project itself, was reborn from a life-changing accident. New RoHa co-owner Ryan Smith was speed-flying, a sport that combines skiing or hiking with a small paraglider canopy, when he crashed into a fence. The accident left him with multiple broken bones and a long road of surgeries and recovery. Confined to a wheelchair, Smith began home-brewing with help from his wife, Jenny. Somewhere in the middle of that recovery, he had an epiphany: “I realized I was lucky to still be here. We should just do it. We should start a brewery.” They did. And now we have Trauma Bay IPA, named for that event. The beer arrives in two different can designs, each with its own color scheme, but don’t worry about hunting down both—the beer inside is the same. What matters is what’s in the glass, and Trauma Bay makes a pretty compelling case for itself. Hopped with Nelson, Riwaka and Waimea, this 7.2% IPA leads with a wonderfully expressive melon aroma. That melon character carries directly into the flavor, delivering a big, juicy opening that grabs one’s attention. Then strawberry joins the party, adding a soft berry sweetness before orange emerges toward the back end. Just when the fruitforward character has you thinking this might be all about juicy tropical flavors, the finish takes a turn. Herbal hop notes step forward, providing a crisp, distinctly hoppy conclusion that keeps the beer from becoming overly sweet or one-dimensional. Verdict: Trauma Bay IPA is a damn tasty reminder that sometimes the hardest crashes can lead to unexpect-

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tors—Marley Boonkham, Emily the Person, ninelivesslc, Riyah and members of local bands Lady and the Swordsmen, Teddy Picker, Lepidoptra and Splinter—with helping in the scale-up and maintenance of the venue. All “helped very much with the first couple of shows we did, painting the kissing booth, promoting and helping with general show stuff,” he said. “A lot of people have come out and made these shows happen. It’s not just me pulling the way. It’s a community.”

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(Alyssa Nunke vocal/guitar; Jade Kovats, bass/guitar/vocals; Katie Welch, drums). “We like to say we are a mossy rock band,” Nunke said by phone. “We blend vintage psych folk and garage rock. We’re an allwoman band based out of Olympia, Washington … I’d like to say we’re kind of like in the realm of Florence & The Machine meets Janis Joplin vibes.” And it will happen at Kissing Booth proper. Debenham said his backyard will stay a “charity-forward, nonprofit-forward” space. “It’s just a better space for acoustic sets, quieter sets,” he remarked. “And then for the stage at the UAA, I would love for that to be a testing ground for experimental sounds and heavier hard rock sounds.” He’s quick to add that Kissing Booth is not just one guy holding shows in his backyard. He credits a group of collabora-

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issing Booth began with an informal house show in the early summer of 2025. “I had some friends in bands looking for shows, and I had the space, and the privilege of having the space,” Sam Debenham said, referring to his backyard. “We borrowed some gear … we had a good turnout. So, we did another a few months later. I was thinking, ‘how can we make it something more?’ And then came the issue of needing someone to run the door if we scale it up.” Debenham soon realized that running the door could shift from being a problem to an opportunity, with the kissing booth as the perfect metaphor—like a traditional carnival kissing booth, the venue could take up minimal space, charge few dollars, then give the money to charity. (The venue is named after a literal structure: a tool shed in Debenham’s yard.) “It looked so out of place there,” he said, so “we drew red hearts on it, and called it ‘The Kissing Booth.’” In August of 2025, Kissing Booth hosted “Rock for the Great Salt Lake” in conjunction with Grow the Flow Utah. Entry was $5, which included a complimentary ‘zine, “Healing the Great Salt Lake” by Emily the Person and ninelivesslc. There was an “artists’ alley”—Splinter, Maya Ikegami, Lady and the Swordsmen, Los Vampiros De La Playa, Jack Bronco and Lepidoptra played. The money went to Grow the Flow. “This summer, we did another rally for the Great Salt Lake with the Utah Rivers Council,” Debenham noted. Staff member Alta Fairbourne was there. “She gave the

best speech of all time,” he added. “I loved working with them. We made $3,270 for them in one night. Which was absolutely unexpected. But we often raise $700 for an org. All we ask in return is for someone to run the door and take the money.” So far, Kissing Booth has raised funds for The INN Between (a hospice for unhoused Utahns), Punk Rock Saves Lives and Comunidades Unidas. That event was a Halloween show; tickets were $5 if you wore a costume and $10 if you showed up in your street clothes. “We got a projector for that show, and all the bands chose their own visual scheme,” Debenham reported. “Like Splinter chose stock footage of wolves in nature.” This past August, Kissing Booth threw a “Rock ‘n’ Roll Carnival” with Gonk, Gene Freak, The Saltones and The Melophobiacs, plus “old time rock & roll puppets in the city, poetry corner, ice cream” and face painting, with the door going to help support victims of the North Union apartment fire in Midvale. That show in particular was a clue that Kissing Booth was, in some ways, outgrowing Debenham’s backyard. Cops were called; amplifiers were turned down. This solved the problem that afternoon, but Debenham, who’s also a musician (he plays in the dreampop/shoegaze band Specter 7), understood he needed to tweak some things to keep the peace with his neighbors. He’s made the decision to move bigger, noisier shows to alternative venues, including the lot behind the Utah Arts Alliance. (Disclosure: I volunteer as a DJ at KUAA 99.9 FM, which is under the umbrella of the UAA.) It was there on Sept. 17 that Kissing Booth hosted Gonk and The XD along with two touring bands, Attack Dog and Artificial Go. The next show will raise money for Planned Parenthood, and features femalefronted bands, including locals Lunar Spirit, Fur Foxen (“a counter-country band from SL,UT”) and sica. The bill is rounded out by touring psych-folk trio Fern Spores

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Robert Plant made his name as singer and frontman of Led Zeppelin, one of the most successful rock bands of the 1970s. From the band’s 1969 self-titled debut through their final release of new material, 1979’s In Through the Out Door, the British foursome redefined hard rock, inspiring countless imitators. Once Led Zeppelin ended, Plant initiated a solo career, with occasional Zep-styled musical projects with guitarist and former Led Zeppelin bandmate Jimmy Page. In recent years, Plant’s creative energies have leaned in an Americana direction, focusing on collaborations with American fiddler Alison Krauss. But Plant has long been a student of rock history, and his latest project effectively brings together several of his musical interests: rock, blues and acoustic forms. Plant and singer Suzi Dian front a group with guitar, banjo and cello, and the band’s 2025 self-titled album covered a broad musical landscape and earned widespread critical praise. With opening act Rosie Flores, Robert Plant with Saving Grace & Suzi Dian comes to Abravanel Hall on Thursday, Oct. 8 at 7:30pm. Resale tickets for this sold-out, all-ages show are $223 and up through seatgeek.com. (Bill Kopp)

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Hailing from Nantes, France, Madeon (Hugo Pierre Leclercq) is known for his vibrant blend of French house, nu-disco and electropop inspired by diverse acts from Daft Punk to The Beatles. The electronic musician, DJ, singer and songwriter has come a long way since he first started producing music at just 11 years old. After Leclercq went viral at age 17 with his “Pop Culture” mashup, he got his big break touring with Lady Gaga on her Born This Way Ball tour and later co-produced tracks like “Venus” and “Mary Jane Holland” for her ARTPOP album. Swinging back and forth on the pendulum of purist electronic music and more mainstream pop, Leclercq collaborated with fellow producer Porter Robinson for the acclaimed 2016 collaborative single “Shelter,” and a 2024 single featuring fellow producer Louis the Child, “Believe It,” for a future house song. Leclercq’s most recent singles, including “Love You Back” and “Gonna Be Good” (from his latest album Victory), show how his sound has expanded in a more punk, sci-fi direction. Local promotion company LNE PRESENTS is bringing Madeon for his Victory Live tour this weekend for a fun, high energy night at Salt Lake City’s downtown club Sky SLC on Pierpont Avenue. This 21+ show will take place on Friday, Oct. 9 at 9:15 p.m. Tickets cost $41.67, or $176.93 for a VIP experience. Go to tixr.com for tickets and further event information. (Arica Roberts)

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Active since 1995, Acid Mothers Temple has been one of the world’s most prolific psych bands, offering up to half-a-dozen albums a year, with two or three annual releases the norm all the way up until Covid. Since then, the band’s recording roll has slowed, if that’s only relative to its prior, “wow”-inducing pace. The band’s catalog is a massive one, with a Bandcamp page full of swirling, sprawling, wild-colored covers. These assorted releases have seen the Japan-based collective collaborate with a host of artists over time, with albums released by labels across the globe, including tracks that have been recorded multiple times over decades. Live, the band brings a psych sound in a style that’s both extremely heavy/loud and based in repetition. Notes from tour dates in earlier 2026 show the group clocking hour-long sets with only four tracks, with a lineup that includes bassist Sawano Shozo, drummer Satoshima Nani, guitarist/vocalist Jyonson Tsu, Higashi Hiroshi on synths and founder Kawabata Makoto on guitar. Acid Mothers Temple will appear at Quarters DLC on Friday, Oct. 9 at 8 p.m., alongside Magick Potion and The Lingo. Tickets for this 21+ show are $22.13 on the night of the show at 24tix.com. Prior to the concert, the group will appear for a DJ set at FOUNTAIN Records, which will offer promotional items and ticket giveaways in the week prior to the event. (Thomas Crone)

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For anyone with even a passing interest in punk rock, few bands need less of an introduction than Sex Pistols, the infamous British four-piece who in under three years changed the face of popular music forever, thumbing their nose at Queen Elizabeth and ushering in an era of torn jeans, clothespin jewelry and blaring, distorted power chords that continues to this day. The band’s image will forever be defined by the larger-than-life fashion and personalities of nihilistic, unpredictable bassist John “Sid Vicious” Ritchie and sneering, sardonic frontman John “Johnny Rotten” Lydon, but the former died in a whirlwind of controversy and drug abuse in 1979, and although the latter joined the band for reunion tours in 1996, 2002 and 2007, ongoing personality conflicts and a 2021 lawsuit over licensing rights led to Lydon swearing to never return to the band onstage again. Guitarist Steve Jones, drummer Paul Cook and original bassist Glen Matlock—the men responsible for Sex Pistols’ lean, mean musical muscle—have since soldiered on without their former fearless leader, joined by guest vocalist Frank Carter, a punk legend in his own right for his stint in the 2000s as the frontman of English hardcore heavyweights Gallows. With the 50th anniversary of their genre-defining debut single “Anarchy in the U.K.” fast approaching, the Pistols’ Oct. 10 date at Salt Lake’s Union Event Center promises to be one for the history books. L.A. glam-rockers Starcrawler open. Doors open at 7 p.m. This is an all-ages show; tickets are $43 and $74, available at ticketmaster.com. (Kerry Renshaw)

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Gary Clark Jr. is a genuine musician—not manufactured. He has the nth degree of raw talent, great taste and pure class. When it comes to guitars, the self-taught Austin, Tex. native knows that a tone is a tone is a tone, and it has a certain frequency. What gives it that feeling is his ability to perceive it. Clark can convey more raw emotion in a handful of notes than many can express in a whole album, including on his fourth studio LP, JPEG RAW. Released in 2024, it features guest appearances by Stevie Wonder, George Clinton and Valerie June. “We just kind of took it upon ourselves to find our own way and inspire ourselves,” Clark told Grammy.com, “and that was just putting our heads together and making music that we collectively felt was good and we liked, music we wanted to listen to again.” Skip the idea that the blues was on the verge of dying out but resuscitated by marketing guff, designed to validate rock music by connecting to an “authentic” Rolling Stone-esque root. No blues, no rock and roll—period. Inspiration comes from everywhere, and a big part of the genre has always been different artists doing their own versions of what came before. Gary Clark Jr.’s take is the perfect fusion of rhythm and phrasing, and it’s uniquely liberating. Catch this artist on the JPEG RAW Global Tour on Wednesday, Oct. 14. Doors at 6:30 p.m., show at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the all-ages show range from $50–$131 and can be found at saltlakecountyarts.org. (Mark Dago)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19)

“Dear Oracle: My secret terror is being ordinary. I need to be special, and lately I’m worried I’m just average and unremarkable. That thought is repugnant to me! Can you offer any advice?—Afraid of Average.” Dear Afraid: The pressure to be extraordinary is exhausting because it’s the wrong goal. Your birthright and your life assignment aren’t about being special in the sense of better-than. You’re simply meant to be vividly, generously, amazingly yourself. In the coming weeks, I invite you to trade the anxious hunt for superiority for the warm, throbbing joy of full self-expression. Shine because it feels fantastic, not to outrank anyone.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Ravens sometimes hide food while pretending to conceal it elsewhere, especially if another raven is observing. They’re strategic and imaginative and aware of how they’re perceived. With their social intelligence as inspiration, I will encourage you to think more consciously about the stories you’re broadcasting. Which precious projects will flourish better if protected from premature scrutiny? Do you have any in-progress blooms that really should continue to incubate before being revealed? Discernment isn’t deception. PS: Conversely, there may be a part of you that deserves greater visibility.

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Every Thursday night, I haul my trash bin out to the street so the collectors can empty it the following morning. Most weeks it’s three-quarters full. But now and then I produce an unusually large haul of debris. On those occasions, I have to turn into a one-person compaction crew: I grab a low-hanging branch of the persimmon tree, hoist myself up, drop down feet-first into the can, and bounce around to squash everything enough to squeeze in the overflow. Consider this my audition to be your role model, Scorpio. According to my reading of the celestial weather, it’s time for you to consolidate and discard at least half a year’s accumulation of obsolete clutter—both the invisible emotional kind and the tangible stuff filling your space.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Ancient navigators sometimes crossed vast stretches of sea by studying the swells beneath their boats. Their bodies were instruments of perception that enabled them to feel the subtle wave patterns generated by winds and distant islands. Your intuition has a similar sensitivity these days, Sagittarius. I hope you will trust it: what your whole being senses before your rational mind assembles the evidence. I call this fully embodied intelligence. It deserves a key role in your decision-making.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

I’ve never been a fan of Capricorn poet Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931). The ideas he expressed seem commonplace and sentimental to me. But his book The Prophet is an alltime bestseller translated into over 100 languages. Millions of readers have adored and benefited from his words, and he’s acclaimed as a literary hero in his native Lebanon. So who cares what I think! I’ll just shut up and appreciate the fact that he worked hard and published a lot. His disciplined, painstaking efforts have been widely inspirational. Let’s make him your role model for the coming months. I think you’re primed to create enduring offerings that nourish people’s souls.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Think of an aspect of your life that you have always wished you could change but have assumed or feared you could never change. What if, sometime soon, you try to change it, but this time you do it with playful lightheartedness? You resolve to feel zero stress and have as much fun as possible as you try to shift how this problem works. You decide you will use your imagination to dream up unprecedented and even outrageous ways to break your trance and invite sweet liberation to swoop in.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

Geologists tell us that over time, rocks really do get transformed under sustained pressure. Their material gets reorganized into denser, more stable stuff. This is an apt metaphor for you, dear Pisces. You’re under pressure right now, and it may feel intense. But what if it’s actually reconfiguring you? Maybe the constraints are what you need to make you more focused, more essential and more real. Not all pressure is bad, and this is proof. Ask yourself: What is this pressure making possible that freedom couldn’t create? Let yourself be reorganized.

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One of my favorite Virgos works in a museum cleaning centuries-old paintings with exquisite patience. She uses tiny swabs and gentle solvents to lift away layers of darkened varnish and grime. She’s an expert at making the original colors emerge so vividly that the painting looks newly made. But her work demands artful restraint. If she presses too hard or applies the wrong solvent, she could destroy the very thing she means to reveal. This approach can be your specialty in the coming weeks, Virgo. I hope you will attend to valuables that have been obscured by

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Botanists know that climbing vines have a simple approach. They keep extending their sensitive tendrils until they discover something sturdy enough to support upward growth. Their progress depends on continual experimentation. I love it when you imitate this style of intelligence, Leo, which I think will be especially useful and successful during the coming weeks. So instead of demanding guarantees before beginning a new endeavor, offer exploratory feelers. Ask friendly questions. Test prototypes. The right support system probably already exists, but may not reveal itself until you reach toward it.

Periodically, you have the cosmic right to receive precisely what you need. Life is duty-bound to deliver a close approximation of full satisfaction. I believe now is one of those times. So please be bold and articulate about naming the specific blessings you require. Write them down, speak them aloud and pray for them—not as a demand, but as a hearty invitation. Then, for a while, live as if all of creation is indeed honor-bound to respond accordingly, adjusting its behavior so it’s in harmony with the gifts you’ve asked for.

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The Germans have a word, Sehnsucht, for a feeling that my English language can’t quite convey: a deep, sweet, aching longing for something you can’t name. It may be a faraway home you’ve never visited or a wholeness you seem to remember without ever having had it. Most people treat this yearning as a problem to be fixed or numbed. But I think it’s sacred information, Cancerian, and you’re especially fluent in it right now. Don’t rush to resolve the ache or explain it away. Instead, follow it like a scent. What is your Sehnsucht pointing toward? Let it lead you toward the beauty and meaning your soul is homesick for.

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Taurus philosopher Søren Kierkegaard wrote that life must be lived forward but can only be understood backward. You Geminis are naturally inclined to resist that advice. Many of you analyze experiences while they’re still unfolding. Can I coax you to try a different approach in the coming weeks? As usual, you may be tempted to figure everything out immediately. But the most useful clarity won’t arrive until later, as you survey what has occurred and recognize patterns you couldn’t see in real time. So try to stay curious rather than overly diagnostic. Keep gathering impressions, stories and clues. Allow events to transpire like chapters in a book whose ending you haven’t reached yet.

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• Schedule a checkup on your HVAC system and make sure to change out your furnace filters. • Insulate any exposed pipes in areas under sinks in the home and garage. • If you use your fireplace, have the chimney cleaned. Trash pandas often find housing there! • You’ve heard of Spring cleaning? Do Fall cleaning by weeding out your refrigerator, freezer and pantry areas. Throw out expired items. Clean the coils/air filters on your refrigerators and dryer vents. Purchase new sponges and clean out the filter in your dishwasher. • Deep-dust light fixtures and under beds. • Every new season, check your smoke and carbon monoxide detector batteries. • Make sure your “Go” bag is ready for emergencies that force you to vacate your home. Make a “Stay” box full of flashlights, batteries and things you might need at home if you lose power for several days. Buy a crank radio and solar phone/laptop charger (there are many low-cost options). • Check your fire extinguisher to see if it’s in the green zone. • Clean your range hood. • Transition your closet from summer to winter and donate clothes to local charities For the outdoor areas of your home: • Disinfect and clean out your garbage cans for the season. • Rake leaves and trim the landscape. • Secure any steps or handrails. • Fix any walkways and seal any cracks. • Wash all the windows inside and out. • Clean and then cover your patio furniture. If you have room, store them out of the elements. • Winterize your swamp cooler and your sprinkler system. Shut off water to outside spigots and cover them with insulation. Disconnect hoses and bring in yard tools. • Put up storm windows and doors if you have them. Winterize windows by putting up heat activated Visqueen plastic. Insulate around windows and doors, seal any cracks you may find. • Trim trees, especially any that hang close to or over the home in case of high snows and winds. Apply fertilizer to grass and trees. Rake leaves and aerate your lawn. • Get your roof inspected and clean out gutters and downspouts. You don’t want full gutters in extreme cold as ice dams can form and water can then leak into the home. • Save energy by insulating your garage door against winter cold. • Clean up your BBQ grill. If it’s powered by propane, get an extra propane tank. If the power or gas goes out in the winter, you can always use your BBQ to warm or cook food. • Replace front and side doormats. • Find your plow or shovels and fill up on sidewalk salt and snow melt to get ready for storms. ■ Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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1. Surrender, so to speak 5. Diner breakfast option 9. “Frozen II” snowman 13. 2023-2024 tour that set multiple Guinness World Records 14. Those not in favor 16. Jail unit 17. Quick burst of house cleaning? 19. Three in a gig? 20. Actor Vigoda 21. Chefs signing a contract before the wedding? 23. Scalawag 25. “Harper Valley ___” (#1 hit of 1968) 26. “Correct!” 27. Studio behind October 2026’s “Wildwood” 30. “___ Amatoria” (Ovid work) 32. State home to Celeryville and Mount Healthy 35. Bottle feature 37. Post-workout soreness 41. Huge statue that can’t lie? 44. Like the former financial backers of LIV Golf 45. Mapo ___ 46. Website with a “Collectibles” section 47. Pepper’s rank 49. Nabisco’s ___ Wafers 51. Relaxing getaway 54. Owns 56. Bind securely 60. Fertilizer for only growing plants in the dark? 64. “Wayward” creator/star Martin 65. “Garfield” canine 66. Green fuzzy stuff on some legumes? 68. Maze divider 69. Per ___ (yearly) 70. Roster-shortening abbr. 71. Took a gander at 72. ___ Club (retail chain) 73. “Breakadawn” hip-hop group ___ Soul

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8. Ask for money 9. Prefix meaning eight 10. Sports artist Neiman 11. Similar 12. Freebie from a dentist visit 15. 58-Down partitions 18. Former name of the film ratings org. 22. Jeweler’s weight unit 24. Overcast sky feature 28. Where Canterbury is 29. Be motivated by 31. 1996 horror film with sequels 32. Chant sounds 33. Condo gp. 34. Shiba ___ (Japanese dog breed) 36. Former U.N. secretarygeneral Annan 38. Airline’s home city 39. Rideshare app stat 40. Reserved 42. Could possibly 43. Seesaw pivots 48. Lightning’s home 50. Spelling style used by hackers 51. Longtime Maine senator Olympia

52. Math-themed March 14th observance 53. Nimble-footed 55. “Carnival of the Animals” composer Camille Saint-___ 57. Act dramatically 58. Like some vowels in French 59. Unit of magnetic flux 61. Retained 62. “Peter Pan” dog 63. Word on a coin 67. Club ___ (resort chain)

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Complete the grid so that each row, column, diagonal and 3x3 square contain all of the numbers 1 to 9. No math is involved. The grid has numbers, but nothing has to add up to anything else. Solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. Solving time is typically 10 to 30 minutes, depending on your skill and experience.

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Perhaps the city of Norwich in England should change its name to Gotham City. The Guardian reported on Sept. 25 that Sonni Mason, 25, was celebrating a friend’s birthday when he witnessed someone stealing a handbag from a woman who was in line to enter a nightclub. Dressed as Batman for the party he was attending, Sonni and two of his friends—dressed as Poison Ivy, also from the Batman franchise, and Mister Fantastic from the Fantastic Four—ran after the thief, recruiting police officers for help as they gave chase. The heroes stopped the thief, who by then had conveniently ditched the bag, but it was found nearby, atop a high wall surrounding Norwich Cathedral. After multiple failed attempts to retrieve it, the Caped Crusader himself climbed the wall, grabbed the bag and returned it to its owner, with all her belongings still inside.

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■ A New York resident, known only as Donny, was appalled after his Ring camera footage showed an Amazon delivery driver relieving himself in the hall outside Donny’s apartment, peeing all over the floor and furniture, the New York Post reported on Sept. 27. “He walked straight back there as if he’d done it a hundred times, like second nature,” Donny said. “I had shoes in the hallway, a chair in the hallway, a table in the hallway and he was peeing and splashing everywhere.” Donny complained to Amazon, who offered him a whopping $50 coupon as consolation, which Donny declined. The driver, who remains unidentified, was not employed directly by Amazon, but with what Amazon calls one of its “Delivery Service Partners,” and the company says the driver is no longer delivering Amazon packages. A local attorney is considering taking legal action against Amazon on Donny’s behalf.

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Police in Seattle are looking for two suspects who could have singed hair or eyebrows or other heat-related injuries, KIRO 7 reported. Seattle police and firefighters responded to calls of box trucks on fire on Sept. 25. When Arson and Bomb Squad detectives looked at footage of the crime, they saw two suspects arrive in a vehicle and appear to attempt to steal fuel from the box trucks. A fire ignited, engulfing the vehicle and the suspects. The suspects then got into their vehicle and drove out of the fire. Now Seattle law enforcement is in search of the two people in the video who were on fire. Total damage to the rental trucks was nearly $150,000.

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Across the pond, 36-year-old homeowner Michelle Harwood stumbled upon a 44-year-old note under the stairs in her Hockley, England, house, People reported on Sept. 29. The note was written by a previous occupant, Rachel, who would have been about age 10 when she put pen to paper. Harwood took to social media to track down Rachel, and within an hour, Rachel Miles, 54, of Milton Keynes, about 85 miles away, had been found. “I just thought it would be quite nice to basically post a letter for the future,” Miles said, “and I’m obviously quite delighted to see that someone had found it.” Harwood says she got goosebumps realizing that the letter had “been there longer than I’ve been alive,” and credits social media for helping making a connection. Send news items to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com

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A shark swam the flooded streets of Surf City, New Jersey, a suburb on Long Island Beach, after a recent nor’easter pummeled the coast, Smithsonian Magazine reported. In a video captured by homeowner Drew Procaccino on Saturday, Sept. 26, the shark’s fin can be seen poking above the water as it cruises up the driveway before swimming away. The shark was identified as a smooth dogfish, a harmless shark that grows three to five feet long.

■ Anxious to heed nature’s call, a man in Rosenberg, Texas, crashed his car into a Kroger on purpose, KVUE reported. In the wee morning hours of Sunday, Sept. 27, the unidentified man, who police later learned was upset that the store was locked, drove his car through the pharmacy doors in order to use the restroom. No injuries were reported, and police have not released the man’s identity.

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Christina Weaver of Kodiak, Alaska, turned herself in to officials after learning that a Google AI summary gave her the wrong information and led her to hunt snipe outside the legal hunting season, the Alaska Beacon reported on Sept. 28. “Christina stated that she Googled ‘Snipe season’ on her phone and that, according to Google, snipe season began on September 1st,” said Alaska Wildlife Trooper Alex Wick. Wick was also given incorrect information from Google’s AI summary when he replicated Weaver’s search himself. In reality, snipe season doesn’t begin until Oct. 8, a fact Weaver only realized after she learned that duck season opens the same day and started asking questions. Despite her honesty, Weaver was cited for her error, though her fine was reduced because she self-reported. She pleaded no contest and paid the $150.

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After a collision in India, a man held on to the hood of a car as it drove away from the accident, Gulf News reported on Sept. 29. As one of the cars tried to leave the scene, someone in the other car jumped onto the fleeing car’s hood in an attempt to stop the driver from getting away. Instead, the driver kept going, leaving the man hanging on for just over a mile and yelling for the driver to stop. Police intervened after witnesses called the emergency line, and took the driver into custody.

An emu attempted to evade capture by butting a captor in Salcombe, England, The Telegraph reported on Sept. 25. The emu, called Side Neck due to the wobbly nature of its head when it runs, slipped through an open gate at a farm where it keeps foxes away from ducks and chickens. A man tackled the emu in the middle of the road, whereupon a passerby began filming. For nearly 20 seconds, the bird and man tussled. The man, whose pants had begun to fall down during the struggle, is heard shouting, “Emu down, emu down!” at one point. Side Neck proceeded to finally knock the man over and run back to the farm it had escaped from, leaving a trail of feathers—and its would-be captor—behind. The gate was then closed with Side Neck safely inside.

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In a case of “right place, right time,” a group of experienced skydivers were in their plane, preparing to jump, when they witnessed a small plane crash in a cornfield in East Troy, Michigan, on Sunday, Sept. 27, WISN reported. “[The pilot of the other plane] kind of banked up and then he disappeared behind the trees, and we were all waiting for him to show back up. We all looked at each other and said, ‘Did we just see a plane crash?’” said skydiver John Bechtel. The group had their pilot fly them to a safe place, then literally jumped from their plane to the accident site. One of the skydivers happened to be a former paramedic, and administered aid to someone with a serious head injury while they waited for EMS personnel to arrive. All four people aboard the crashed plane survived; the crash is under investigation with the NTSB.

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