City Weekly July 30, 2020

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Your Guide to Get Outside Now

If Utah’s mountains and deserts are calling, a new book from a Utah author tells you how to answer.

BY JASON STEVENSON

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YOUR GUIDE TO GET OUTSIDE NOW If Utah’s mountains and deserts are calling, a new book from 5 PRIVATE EYE a Utah author tells 8 A&E you how to answer.

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Cover photo of Christmas Meadows campground in the Uintas by Jason Stevenson

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If you had to pick an age to be permanently, which one would you choose?

Mary Nickles of KUTV

I think 43 is the perfect age. I was an active mom, wise, tough, no wrinkles, still nimble and strong! That was last year, right?!

Mike Ptaschinski

55. I just retired, hadn’t gained weight yet, Linda & I still had our dog, and our four kids were out of the house and making their marks on the world.

Tom Metos

17, but only if I knew then what I know now. I would be a raging horn-dog.

Sofia Cifuentes

The age I am right now! No younger because I was dumb, no older because I need energy! I’m 37!

Kathy Mueller 35 forever!

Kelly Boyce

28. Right before all my major back issues.

Arland Anderson of Ozora Izakiya

I would be 29. Because at 29, you are old enough to know your limits and young enough to exceed them.

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40—when I was healthiest and happiest as a mom/ wife. Plus, you sweat less when you get older.

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85, by then COVID will be over and I’ll be able to have a drink at a bar and smoke a spliff legally. The future is much brighter than you can imagine.

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COVID-19 loss is another person’s gain. Some industries are getting crushed. Others are thriving. I doubt many predicted a comeback for cigarettes any time in our lifetimes, let along in just a short, few months into 2020.

Our collective health is important to some, less so to others, like Gov. Herbert and Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, who is also the 2020 gubernatorial candidate for the Republican Party. They’ve consistently failed to lead Utah against COVID-19. Their messaging has been miserable—like when the governor wears a mask for the press, then tosses a party at the Governor’s Mansion where attendees are photographed sans mask. They pass the buck up at national leadership when it suits them, and they pass the buck down to local cities and counties when it suits them otherwise. They fail on a uniform mask policy, and they fail to sensibly provide Utahns with a cohesive sense of shutdown rules that may help quell the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

In the scrum they’ve created are the many small businesses that are at risk of failure. The choices those businesses make every day are not unlike those of persons choosing between a cigarette vaping pipe: They wonder, should I let the non-masked person into my place of business and accept that I put the health of myself and employees at risk or should I not allow them in and accept that I put our careers at risk? What is the lesser evil for them?

What is their way forward?

Truth is, our state leaders have no way forward. They’ve left the building. Even today, candidate Cox told reporters that he is not willing to commit to a mask mandate. Forget health—he can pray about that. He’s clueless and blind to the needs of small business; he views a mask as that cute thing he puts on when a camera is in the room and that he takes off when his buddy Donald Trump Jr. wants to go off

and pop a few macho rounds. Utah’s small businesses have begged for state leadership since early March and have gotten none. The result is that more and more small businesses will not be open much longer.

I’ve written here ample times since March that City Weekly may be one of those. That bothers all of those who appreciate the value of a free, independent press. But it equally hurts—maybe it hurts more—when we see other small, independent businesses suffer. Post COVID-19, you won’t be eating Italian food at Cannella’s on 200 East, tossing beers at Murphy’s on Main Street or nibbling Lebanese small plates at Mazza on 900 South. Others teeter while still others haven’t even re-opened.

Now comes another, a Utah institution we cannot lose— Ken Sanders Rare Books. Nor can we lose other institutional treasures like Weller Bookworks or King’s English, let’s be sure about that. But Sanders is in the pickle of not only being nicked by declining revenues during COVID-19 (during which he’s been vigilant about the mask enforcement Cox and Herbert leave him with—costing more dollars), but also doing business in a location coveted by real estate developers. Rico Brands in the Granary faces a similar quandary. Sanders may be forced to leave his location due to it becoming too costly. Like Rico Brands, he may find no affordable options in the entire Salt Lake Valley. Both face a double whammy—cigarette or COVID-19?

Guys like Sanders, who can’t bear to ask for favors, overcame his pride long enough to set up a GoFundMe account (donate at https://bit.ly/305ZbvJ) that may prove to be the difference between his store surviving or not. What slow death do we choose? The killer calm we know or the killer fear we don’t? I’m feeling like a cigarette about now. Oh, look. Cox and Herbert are already holding my match. CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net

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’m feeling like a cigarette. I quit smoking years ago, but I could sure use a conversation with my old friend Marlboro Light about now. He was particularly useful when I was stressed or in need of a non-judgmental friend. I’d just sit down at a bar (in all the years I smoked, I was never a person who smoked in the home. Not much, at least), order a whiskey and loosen a cigarette from the pack I’d bought for the occasion or one bummed from a bartender.

I’d strike a match to it and for the next little while, I’d waft along with the smoke to wherever I wanted my occupied mind to go. It was a crappy habit, but it had its uses.

Now, it’s reported that cigarette smoking is making a comeback during COVID-19. I can understand why.

For starters, no matter the acceptance, vaping (what appears to be the replacement for cigarette smoking among the younger generation and former smokers) just isn’t as cool as what smoking was perceived to be. There is no vaping equivalent of Frank Sinatra, for example. During COVID-19, lots of people are losing their cool. A cigarette makes a decent friend when one loses their cool. As well, vapers are now the target of all kinds of anti-vaping regulations, so they’re starting to figure that if that’s going to be the case, they might as well go back to Camel stocks.

It’s all kinds of ironic that this health crisis might partially revive a dying industry that reaped billions of dollars of benefit thanks to decades of cigarette addiction and health issues among millions of smokers. It’s odd that some persons today are making that strange choice, being driven to smoke due to whatever it is about COVID-19 that’s driving them crazy. But, that’s how it is. One person’s

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Well, how cute is it to see Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, stand up for women’s rights? But that is not exactly what it was. Lee was in a rant over transgender women athletes and how very unfair it is to let them play along “real” women, according to the Deseret News. “It’s offensive to me and to millions of Americans that the great strides our society has taken to protect women’s rights and women’s sports are now at risk of being undone,” he said. As you pick yourself up from the floor, focus on the phrase “great strides our society has taken to protect women’s rights.” Those strides have women paid 70 cents on the dollar for men’s work, but that’s a story for another time. The issue of transgender athletes is a complicated one that has hit the courts, too, even though athletes complaining of an uneven playing field still win against their transgender opponents, an NPR story noted. But Lee is valiantly standing up for women’s rights—until he’s not.

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While COVID-19 spreads across this DIY state, Pacific Islanders are one of the hardest hit communities. In fact, they have the second highest infection rate in the state— and the highest in the nation. The reasons are complicated: reduced access to healthcare, higher levels of poverty, crowded housing, multigenerational households and underlying health conditions. An upcoming town hall will cover what to do if you or someone you know becomes positive for COVID-19, how to navigate COVID-19 in culturally relevant ways and tips for essential workers as well as safety practices.

Featuring Matt Ellsworth, Oreta Mapu Tupola, Rev. Tevita Uesi, and Verona Sagato Mauga, this virutal Pacific Islander Community Town Hall will be held Friday, July 31, 7-8 p.m., free. Zoom: https:// bit.ly/PITownHall-7-31, Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/utahmca

Will the Silent Majority Get Woke?

In a nation so divided and facing violence in reaction, the Civilized Awakening Rally offers a message of hope and unity.

The rally will address awakening the silent majority, stirring minds to a new narrative, nationwide violence and civil unrest as well as cancel culture and its effects.

“Let’s stand together and unify all citizens.

We each have a voice but, more importantly, the ability to create a brighter future here and now for all individuals!” organizers say. James Sullivan, brother of John who leads Insurgence, will also be joining.

Utah Capitol south steps, 350 N. State, Saturday, Aug. 1, 5:30– 7:30 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/2WOK5sA

March for the Voiceless

The issue of child sex abuse and human trafficking remains with us even during a pandemic. This “Be a Voice for the Voiceless” march will shine a light on the problem and collect donations for trauma victims and the fight against human trafficking. Wear blue and bring posters, but T-shirts, masks and other merchandise will be for sale. Since stay-at-home orders were issued, the National Sexual Assault Hotline has seen more than half its calls from children under the age of 18. Both in-person and online offenses have increased dramatically. Corner of 500 North and Columbus Street, Thursday, July 30, meet at 5:30 p.m.; march at 6 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/2ZWJlUf

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Hear what the lawyers think about facial recognition and the future of privacy at SLCUU Summer Forum: “Facial Recognition and Privacy.” This new technology can be used for general surveillance without your knowledge. “The biggest danger is that this technology will be used for general, suspicion-less surveillance systems,” the ACLU warns. Join attorney Randy Dryer of the U of U Honors Program to learn what you can and can’t do in this environment. Zoom, Sunday, Aug. 2, 1011:30 a.m., free. Register at slcuu.org/ sundays/summer-forum

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In Utah, where it’s patriotic to hate the federal government, you might wonder at the rush to cash in on the Paycheck Protection Program. We’re talking $5 billion, some of which went to what The Salt Lake Tribune calls “an unknown Utah company.” And “by some” we mean between $5 million and $10 million went to Allison Baver Entertainment. Baver—who parlayed her background as an Olympic skater to create a company where she can be hired as a speaker and model—claims to have retained some 430 employees for various projects. Meanwhile, in a fight for survival, longtime bookseller Ken Sanders has taken to GoFundMe.com, hoping to raise $250,000. Just look around Salt Lake City to see the iconic restaurants falling like dominoes—Mazza on 9th & 9th, Cannella’s after 42 years and maybe even Jorge Fierro’s Rico Brand. Losing Rico will be painful because of Fierro’s community work like the Burrito Project, which feeds the homeless. How many more historic businesses will we lose while “unknown Utah companies” lap up the gravy?

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Remember what they say about women—or men or sports—that you can’t live with them, and you can’t live without them? So, it is with the police. As the country struggles with how to address police violence, the Deseret News and the Utah Investigative Journalism Project reviewed police manuals from 10 departments in the state. What they found was surprising if validating for District Attorney Sim Gill.

Gill, who has taken the heat for justifying the shooting of Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal, has called the laws “generous” to police and called for reform. Is it necessary?

Among other things, police are allowed to review videos before giving statements in a shooting. And some departments allow chokeholds like the one that killed George Floyd. So, if we’re going to live with the police, we need to be sure that life is the prime directive.

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Heath Harmison The expression “dad joke” has become shorthand for corny, vintage setup/punchline gags that are more likely to inspire a groan than a laugh. But Idaho native and current Las Vegas resident Heath Harmison takes the idea in a different direction for his standup comedy, as he focuses much of his familyfriendly humor on his role as a hudband and father, and all of the crazy-making stuff involved in it.

That sensibility is on display in his recent Dry Bar Comedy special and in his new comedy CD Raising Insanity. He talks about his young daughter’s bedtime pleading for candy turning her into Gollumm from The Lord of the Rings. He addresses the advantages of the “dad bod,” from a standpoint both of psychology (“It says ‘stability.’ ‘Commitment.’) and comfort (“Sure, rock-hard abs look nice, ladies. But at the end of the day, what do you want? A TemperPedic that forms to your head.”). And he notes the way that the youth sports his son plays have changed since he was a kid (“We did crazy things in the ’80s: We kept score.”).

Harmison brings his high-energy

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energy, artists were just looking for some sort of outlet.”

The results—available free online, with tips and other donations to artists encouraged— represent a wide range of ideas playing with both this pandemic moment, and the unique opportunities of the format. The production #txtshow (pictured), for example, invites interactivity by having audience members create the script that will be performed on the fly, while Frailty, Thy Name recasts Hamlet as a tale of quarantine isolation. “We’re in kind of uncharted waters,” Perry says, “but that can be a really exciting time for artists.” (Scott Renshaw)

In the middle of a variety of social movements currently ongoing for necessary change, it’s still worth remembering some milestones of social progress. The year 2020 marks the 150th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the state of Utah, as well as the centennial of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting suffrage to women. To commemorate those milestones, Modern West Fine Art (412 S. 700 West, modernwestfineart.com) presents Right Here Right Now, a group exhibition celebrating both the achievements of women of the past, and the artists chronicling the experience of women at this moment, showing now through Sept. 10.

The centerpiece of the exhibition is the “Work in Progress Mural” project, organized by artist Jann Haworth and collaged by Liberty Blake. The work currently includes more than 300 stencil portraits of historical and modern women—all of them chosen for their contributions to the arts, sciences and social action—by more than 250 local and national contributors, created over the past four years. The 60-foot-long mural is the product of workshops around the

country, and has traveled from coast to coast and as far as England and Australia.

Additionally, Right Here Right Now features works by more than 20 contemporary women artists of Utah, exploring the experience of what it means to be a woman at this point in history. Contributors include Trent Alvey, Sandy Brunvand, Rebecca Campbell (her “Diamond Valley” is pictured), Stefanie Dykes, Lenka Konopasek, Jiyoun Lee-Lodge and Wren Ross.

Visit the gallery website for regular summer hours, or schedule an appointment for additional socially-distanced viewing opportunities. (SR)

Harry Potter Birthday Weekend

delivery and good-natured commentary to the Jordan Landing Wiseguys location (3763 W. Center Park Dr., West Jordan, July 31-Aug. 1, 8 p.m., $15), which re-opens this weekend for the first time since the pandemic closure. Like all Wiseguys locations, seating will be limited to allow for socially-distanced patron seating, and additional heightened safety measures have been enacted. Visit wiseguyscomedy.com for complete information about policies and procedures. (SR)

Author J.K. Rowling has been in the news this summer—unfortunately, not for good reasons. But while her anti-trans statements and participation in high-profile fussing over “cancel culture” have made her a target for criticism, her most famous literary creation remains enormously popular in Utah—so it’s no surprise to find a variety of events that recognize Harry Potter’s birthday on July 31.

And, according to canon, The Boy Who Lived would be hitting the big 4-0 in 2020.

The Heber Valley Railroad (450 S. 600 West, Heber City, hebervalleyrr. org) offers up one of its traditional, trademarkcautious variations on the Hogwarts Express with the Wizard’s Train on Friday, July 31 at 7 p.m., $25 general admission Come aboard for an evening of Potter-themed adventures led by a costumed staff, beginning with a sociallydistanced Sorting Hat ceremony and chocolate frog treat (plus a sampling of Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans for the brave). Enjoy Harry Potter trivia, games and other family-friendly activities, plus photo opportunities on your two-hour round-trip journey. Upgrade

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The idea of a fringe theater festival is based on a scrappy DIY spirit—putting together short, low-tech creative works that might push the envelope a bit.

While no performer wants to be working exclusively online, maybe the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival (greatsaltlakefringe.org, July 30-Aug. 9) is the ideal kind of artistic format to adapt to the realities of virtual presentation.

According to festival co-directors Shianne Gray and Jay Perry, the decision was made early on in the pandemic to move Great Salt Lake Fringe to an exclusively virtual presentation, both for logistical planning reasons and for the safety of artists and audience members. But once they began looking at how artists were adapting to the “new normal,” and what other regional fringe festivals were doing, they realized how much was still possible. “I was surprised and thrilled, when we put out this call for ideas and submissions, how many people had something that could be adapted to this format,” Gray says.

“After the months of pent-up creative

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In Utah County, University Place Orem (575 E. University Parkway) hosts a Harry Potter Birthday Party including a jukebox concert of songs with magical themes performed by a quartet of “wizarding students.” Grab a Butter3eer themed drink from the on-site truck, and please plan to maintain social distancing between household groups; the event (facebook.com/events/976320492821761/) is subject to change based on public health conditions. (SR)

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Son Rise

The Unexpected Son paints an unconventional portrait of an unconventional Mormon family.

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1979; above: Cover of The Unexpected Son. ries and experiences anchor the story in the challenges of a woman to find her place when the image of a perfect domestic life favored by her church quickly disintegrates.

“I always appreciated my mother and knew she had done amazing things,” Painter says.

“But I didn’t know how heroic she actually was, and how deeply that impacted my life.

“The stuff I went through wasn’t nearly as rough as learning what my parents went through. I’d had years and years to think a lot about those experiences, but you never really want to know how many times your parents had sex. But when you find out it’s only once, and it wasn’t on the honeymoon?

There’s a sadness in that story, and it’s hard to be a product of that sadness. Your life takes on a different meaning.” CW

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of the hardest problems, how to fit him in.

“He was so many different things to different people, it was hard to track him down. I don’t think my father wanted his life to be a secret. He just wanted to be accepted for who he was, but that wasn’t really possible.”

Painter did have to wrestle with learning the difficult details of his father’s illness and death in 1983, when he was just 7 years old.

“My father went through a lot where they were just trying to keep him alive, and they probably just should have let him go,” he says. “I think they hid that from me, and I appreciate the fact that they hid that from me.”

Yet as sensational as it might have been to focus on his father’s life and death, Painter chooses in The Unexpected Son to focus on the everyday heroism of his mother—a medical professional and single-mom Mormon at a time when those around her, and she herself, wondered why she couldn’t just find a man and have a family. Patti’s memo-

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hen you’ve grown up with a closeted gay Mormon as your father, and that father subsequently was the first documented case of AIDS in the state of Utah, it might seem obvious what the hook would be for telling your life story. For Ryan Michael Painter, it took more than 20 years to fully appreciate that the story he wanted to tell was more complicated than that.

Painter—a Utah native, writer and currently assignment desk manager at KUTV-2 News—created a combination of family history and memoir in his new book The Unexpected Son. In it he chronicles the life stories of his parents, Patti and Michael, the odd

circumstances of their eventual marriage as devout members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the mid-1970s, the almost immediate realization by Michael that he couldn’t live within a traditional heterosexual marriage, and the decision by Michael to have a child as an almost last-ditch attempt to save his soul as he understood it. Painter’s own childhood emerges through a combination of his mother’s journal entries and his recollections, which he acknowledges are “kind of fantasy.”

The idea for turning this family story into a book has evolved greatly since Painter’s mother first suggested the possibility when he was still in high school. “She always felt there was a story there to be told,” Painter says. “I thought, ‘Maybe, but it’s not really mine; it’s yours. I don’t really think I have anything interesting to add to that.’ When you live your life, you don’t realize what’s different. It wasn’t until I was in my late 20s that I’d talk to people and realize how different their childhoods were from mine.

“With each draft, there was more and more of me in it,” he adds. “I had to discover for the first time the truth behind my life.

As a kid, you just assume your parents married because they were in love. The process of tearing all that down made it really hard for a while.”

Still, the idea for the book continued to shift through the years. At times, Painter wasn’t certain how much of his own life should be part of the story. At other times, he wondered if the national environment had changed enough that it was no longer necessary to share the challenging experience of a closeted gay Mormon, and the stigmas borne by family members.

One of the greatest challenges throughout the development of The Unexpected Son was understanding the reality of his father’s life. Between the fact that Painter himself lived mostly with his mother as a child, the secretive nature of his father’s personal life and the fact that some family members preferred not to talk about uncomfortable things, Michael Painter proved elusive. “I was afraid to talk to people about my father,” Painter says. “I was afraid to talk to his family; it was something that really got swept under the carpet. He wasn’t in it very much at all until this last draft. That was one

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Jum gained its U.S. foothold in Southern California, offshoots of the franchise have been popping up in flyover country.

Utah has seen a recent spike in Korean restaurants lately, and Hong Kong Ban Jum further refines the type of Korean food available locally; bulgogi and kimchi are nowhere to be found on their menu.

Instead of serving up the

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Hong Kong Ban Jum is part of an international franchise operated by Chef Jong Won Paik, a popular culinary personality in South Korea. Chef Paik uses his international platform to further globalize Korean food while his company, The Born Korea, helps small business owners operate their individual franchises. While Hong Kong Ban

Chinese food menus throughout the country. The gunmandu are Hong Kong Ban Jum’s take on fried dumplings, and their flavors are quite similar despite their gnocchi-like shape. I’ve had plenty of dumplings stuffed with an unseasoned mixture, but these have a nice flavor and texture to them; I’m a fan of dipping these in the sauce from the tangsuyuk for some extra sweetness.

It’s always exciting when new types of food come to the neighborhood, and I can’t help but think that Utah diners have played a part with this diversification. I’ve been seeing Korean food particularly start catching on, which means that our dining community is starting to become more accepting of food they may not be familiar with, and I love that. Again, there’s always a bit more we can do to support places that are bringing something unfamiliar to the table, but the best way to make sure we keep getting places like Hong Kong Ban Jum is to get out there and explore. CW

ou can’t beat downtown Salt Lake and Park City for ontrend culinary innovation, but if a bit of no-frills gastronomic adventure is what you’re craving, West Valley has you covered. There is a convergence of cultural and entrepreneurial punk rock happening with the W VC restaurant scene, and it’s perfect for diners on the lookout for something exciting. West Valley’s climate of culinary diversity most definitely paved the way for Utah’s first Hong Kong Ban Jum (3513 S. Constitution Boulevard, Ste. 100, 385-900-8607, facebook. com/Hong-Kong-ban-jum-Utah) location, which feels like a big victory for spreading the gospel of Korean food.

After I got everything home and assembled, I started with the jajangmyeon, which hits all the comfort food notes. The noodles are perfectly cooked, with an excellent balance between softness and chewiness.

Once you coat them with that beautiful black bean sauce, the two components combine for a salty-sweet flavor balanced with the starchy goodness of the fresh noodles. It’s the kind of meal that is perfect for combating the midday slump—homey flavors that aren’t overly flashy, but satisfying enough to brighten your spirits for the remainder of the day.

The jjamppong, on the other hand, is a fiery crimson noodle soup packed with seafood and veggies.

It’s spicy enough to give the diner a wake-up call, but those after something a bit more aggressive will want to try the gochu jjamppong ($9.99), which spikes the dish with a pile of sliced chili peppers.

Though the menu shows little similarity to the American take on Chinese food—no complaints here— the tangsuyuk ($11.95) and the gunmandu ($7.99) are slightly more familiar. Tangsuyuk consists of crispy fried pork slices and a sweet, thickened sauce full of veggies. The sweet sauce poured on top of deep-fried meat hearkens back to the sweet and sour pork that is ubiquitous on

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traditional staples of American Korean joints—delicious though they are—Hong Kong Ban Jum is all about Korean/Chinese fusion. Much like the Americanized Chinese food that immigrant restaurateurs built their foundations upon, Korean Chinese food blends traditional Chinese dishes with distinctly Korean flavors flavors to create something that borrows from both cultures. Scrolling through menu photos of jajangmyeon ($7.99), a dish of glossy black bean sauce slathered of thick ramen noodles, and jjamppong ($9.75), a spicy seafood soup with mussels and squid, made me realize there was something missing in my life. I hadn’t seen any of this stuff available locally before, so I had to have it.

As I pulled up to its nondescript location for my takeout order within the retail labyrinth adjacent to Valley Fair Mall, I started to get butterflies. It’s a feeling that I’m sure is familiar to the online dating crowd: You like what you see online, but will the goods deliver? I was greeted with friendly service, and my order was ready to roll. When you order takeout here, they don’t just glop everything into a plastic bowl where it degrades into a sorrowful morass on the drive home. Your noodles are separate from your sauces, so you can mix the two at your convenience, which is both fun and considerate.

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Cannella’s Restaurant and Lounge (204 E. 500 South) recently took to social media to announce their decision to permanently close their doors. Though it’s been a Utah institution for more than 40 years, I was a late-comer to Cannella’s, which is something I regret. My recent visits there revealed a comfortable, welcoming and low-key place to grab some old-school Italian cooking—I’ll miss Grandma’s Lasagna—with a few new tricks up their sleeve. Dining on Cannella’s patio while watching the foot traffic around Library Square was one of the finer ways to spend an evening in downtown Salt Lake, and it’s a shame to see another one of Utah’s most enduring restaurants throw in the towel.

Utah Students Receive P-EBT Benefits

In a surprise announcement last week, Utah officials have decided to participate in the Pandemic-Electronic Benefit Transfer program (P-EBT), which offers additional funds to families of schoolchildren who qualify for free and reduced lunch. Utah officials initially declined participation in this program when it was first announced, but have since reconsidered their stance, and secured more than $50 million in federal funds that will be dispersed to families who qualify. Local nonprofit Utahns Against Hunger (uah. org) will take the lead on working with local officials and school districts to see these benefits disseminated.

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in the flavor, as this is clearly designed to be a citrus-forward ale. Some dank resinous hops try to impart a light to moderate amount of aggressive bitterness, but it never really happens, as the beer opts for a more subtle hop approach. The finish is slightly lingering, leaving dank hop flavors behind.

Overall: This 5.0 percent beer isn’t super complex. Then again, if it were, it would ruin the whole quenchable/drinkable showcase that the brewers were going for here. It gives you all of the tropical and citrus flavors you crave, while (for the most part) keeping your mind in the game. I should point out that I destroyed about 85 percent of my growler over the course of an hour or so. That was a mistake—misjudging its drinkability gave me an early bedtime. Don’t make amateur mistakes like I did.

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ugust is just around the corner, and with it comes the hottest time of the year. This generally is not the time for complex, chewy beers; it is more for precisely-flavored, hydrating beers. I’m not saying a double IPA can’t be in your future, but when you’re fighting for shade under your kid’s beach umbrella, you’ll want a beer that doesn’t make you feel like a bag of cream of mushroom soup.

Templin Family Watermelon Berlinerweisse: It pours a creamy-looking pastel orange color that’s tinged with red watermelon. And there’s no doubt that the aroma is watermelon: It’s juicy sweet with the gen-

Kiitos Summer IPA: This beer had disappeared from Kiitos’ line-up over the last couple of years. I found it a nice quenching session IPA when it first hit at 4.0 percent alcohol; now that it received its 5.0 percent boost, I’m curious to see if it’s still quenching. It pours a slightly hazy golden-honeyorange color, with moderate amounts of burnt orange highlights. Slightly stronger than moderate aromas of mango, papaya, grapefruit and melon reach out and massage the nostrils, with a light to moderate amount of caramel sweetness.

Up front on the palate there are light to moderate flavors of biscuit, bread and caramel malts, with a light to moderate amount of honey sweetness. That is followed by slightly stronger than moderate flavors of mango, papaya and grapefruit peel. The melon component is much less present

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tle subtleties of a traditional Berliner-weisse underneath, just missing the coriander component. It’s not overly potent, but it gets its point across.

As it washes over the tongue the Berliner base and watermelon come through nicely to form a tangy, refreshing collective flavor. Smooth, clean wheat malts with the residual and unique gentle sweetness of watermelon pulp emerge, accented nicely with the tanginess of Jolly Rancher watermelon candies. The texture is lightly chewy and clean. The tanginess works well with the drying from the base beer’s tartness. Carbonation in this 5.0 percent ale is moderate, generating a medium frothiness and a very crisp finish, with body that is medium for the style, and light to medium overall. Balance is nearly even—sweet to acidic and tangy. Alcohol presence is very light, and there are no off characters. Nice and tangy finish, highly drinkable.

Overall: Some watermelon beers come across as cucumber to me—then I found out that they’re part of the same melon family. Whew, I thought my palette was going to shit. Anyway, I don’t find any of that cucumber character that is noticeable with many artificially-flavored watermelon beers. Without compromising the traditional and simple flavor parameters, the watermelon comes off strongly in this beer, but as an equal partner with the yogurt-y tart finish. Very enjoyable.

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How to go camping

Spending the night outside

The biggest fear most people have about camping is abandoning their familiar beds. Without a plush mattress, sheets, and blankets, they worry sleeping will be too cold, bumpy and rough. It’s true that changes to your nighttime routine can disrupt your ability to sleep. The key is to make camping as relaxing, comfortable and fun as possible. Here are some comfort-focused tips to help first-time campers enjoy a restful night: • •

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Pack a comfortable travel pillow.

Go to bed with a full stomach but not with a full bladder.

Don’t try to fall asleep immediately; drift off by reading a book or a magazine or by telling stories.

Bring warm clothes for sleeping; long underwear or sweatshirts and pants work best.

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Day hiking is loads of fun, but if the sun begins to set while you’re still on the trail, you could end up like Cinderella at the prince’s ball—racing to finish the final miles before the last light is gone. What if you didn’t need to rush? What if you could stay and enjoy the vivid sunset, the starry sky and a roaring campfire?

If any of those options sound appealing, then you’re ready for the next step in outdoor adventure—camping overnight. Just like hiking, camping enables you to dial in the right balance of comfort and adventure. For instance, car-campers drive up to a campsite, park their cars, unload their gear and set up a tent, a trailer or an RV. Backpackers, on the other hand, hike into the woods to pitch a tent at a campsite far from any roads or cars. No matter how you camp, you can enjoy spending the night outdoors.

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n these pandemic times, maybe you want to go camping in the west desert but don’t know where. Or you want to try backpacking in the Uintas but aren’t sure what to bring. Perhaps you’re just terrified of bears.

In this issue, we cherry-pick the best advice from Outdoor Adventure Guides: Backpacking & Hiking, a new book by Salt Lake City-based author Jason Stevenson.

As a former staff editor at both Backpacker and Outside magazines, Stevenson knows which skills matter. Plus, he’s willing to enhance his advice with real stories of his own mistakes and lessons from 20 years of backcountry adventure—from climbing high peaks to taking his children on their first backpacking trip.

This exclusive excerpt for City Weekly represents just a fraction of this book. If you want to learn more, pick up a copy of Outdoor Adventure Guides: Backpacking & Hiking at your local bookstore or order it online.

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Types of campgrounds

The familiar scenes of picnic tables, fire pits and pine trees make all campgrounds look the same at first glance, but there are as many types of campgrounds as there are kinds of campers. From the kid-friendly activities of private campgrounds to the seclusion of a shady glen in a national forest or to a rocky shelf perched on the edge of a canyon, you can find the ideal overnight spot to make your outdoor adventure complete. The secret is matching your desires to the right type of campground.

Private campgrounds

National chains like KOA, along with thousands of independent operators, make up the world of private campgrounds. While these campgrounds exist everywhere, they are often clustered near the entrances to national parks and other popular recreation areas. Campers seeking an outdoor experience surrounded by nature won’t find it at these densely packed and noisy establishments. They cater more to families seeking an inexpensive, actionfilled vacation. Still, private campgrounds provide a predictable, affordable and enjoyable outdoor experience to millions of campers each year, at nightly rates below what you’ll pay for a motel room.

Public campgrounds: state & local parks

The pristine forests, lakes and rivers that make state and county parks so attractive also appeal to campers looking for an escape. These publicly owned campgrounds are often smaller than private establishments like KOA campgrounds, and sites are clustered to preserve more open space for hiking, viewing wildlife and other outdoor activities.

Tents are the most common form of shelter at public campgrounds, although many places can accommodate RVs and trailers with larger parking spaces. Individual campsites often include picnic tables and fire pits, while several sites will share access to potable (i.e., drinkable) water, basic toilets, and sometimes hot-water showers. Dogs and other pets are permitted at state and local parks and nearby trails more often than at national parks and recreation areas.

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Public campgrounds: national parks & forests

Campgrounds located inside national parks and forests offer an authentic and low-frills overnight camping experience that is closer to the main attractions than private campgrounds outside the park or forest boundaries. These public campgrounds can also run the gamut from super luxurious to super primitive. At Grand Canyon National Park, for instance, car-campers and RV drivers can stay overnight at Mather Campground, a sprawling tent and camper village with a full-size grocery store and hot showers, while backpackers can pitch their tent rock slab halfway down the canyon.

Whether you camp on the canyon’s rim or at the bottom, all campgrounds inside national park boundaries require permits and have a fee. Be sure to check with individual parks prior to booking your trip. Look up campground details for each national park on its website, all of which can be accessed through the National Park Service (NPS) website, nps.gov/findapark.

National forest campgrounds are generally smaller, less developed and less crowded than those at national parks. These campgrounds are often located at lakes, reservoirs, trailheads or along hiking trails and are designed for a mix of car-campers, backpackers and RVs and trailers. [Note: All campsites in the Uinta Mountains are on national forest land.] You can find a list of national forests by state at the U.S. Forest Service website, fs.usda.gov, under the “Visit Us” menu or make reservations for specific sites at the website recreation.gov.

[The above excerpt is from Chapter 3 “Camping Overnight”]

Learn how to go backpacking

Choosing to backpack rather than day hike amps up the adventure level of any trip. After a day or two on the trail, you will forget about email, cell phones and appointments. Instead, you’ll be thinking about what you need to do during the next hour, day and night. After all, with backpacking, there is no 4WD car, convenience store or motel to fall back on.

These are just a few of the major challenges that differentiate backpacking from day hiking: • Carrying enough food and water for the duration of the hike • Finding and setting up a campsite • Navigating trail turns and junctions • Remembering to pack all the essential gear

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Once you’ve picked a trail—or at least know the general area where you want to hike—the next step is to plan your trip. You need to decide where to start, where to camp and how many miles to cover each day.

As you begin the process, keep these route-planning principles in mind: • If you’re new to backpacking, hike with an experienced friend or in a group.

• Avoid planning too many miles for the first or last days of a trip.

• Factor elevation gain and loss into your mileage.

Going up and down will slow your pace.

• If the trail goes above 6,000 feet of elevation, add more time to account for acclimatization.

• Keep mileage low on days with significant elevation gains and losses.

Judging distance and terrain

How many miles do you think you can hike in a day?

Five, 10 maybe 15? Not only does it depend on your physical fitness and how much weight you’re carrying, but it also depends on the terrain.

Most guidebooks and online trip reports assign trails a difficulty rating, either a numbered scale or descriptive words like “strenuous,” “moderate” or “easy.”

Your best strategy is to know your hiking strengths and weaknesses and be conservative in your expectations.

Most backpackers travel at an average speed between 1 and 2 mph, including rest breaks. More experienced hikers can move at 2 to 3 mph, but you’ve got to be trucking to go that fast consistently. Beginning backpackers should limit themselves to trails rated as “easy” or “moderate” and cover a maximum of 6 to 9 miles per day, or about 5 to 7 hours of hiking. As you become more experienced, you can increase both the difficulty and mileage of the trails you hike.

[The above excerpt is from Chapter 4 “Backpacking Basics]

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What to do if you get lost

Every hiker gets in trouble. No matter how skilled or careful you are, sooner or later, you’re going to make a mistake. When it happens, you’re going to pause, look at your surroundings, stare at your phone or map again and start to get worried. Then, you’re going to make one of two choices.

The first choice, and the one I wouldn’t recommend pursuing, is to make hasty poor decisions that will cause you to become frustrated, cold, wet and more distant from a potential solution. The second choice is to make smart decisions that enable you to regain your bearings; stay warm, dry and optimistic; and increase your chances of solving your problem. In this chapter, I’ll teach you how to make the right choices to turn a potentially perilous experience into a great story you can tell your friends.

Turn your phone into a GPS device

Modern smartphones contain GPS chips that can pinpoint your location even when you’re outside of cell phone coverage. This means your smartphone can mimic a GPS device—especially if you download navigation apps like Gaia GPS, AllTrails or ViewRanger that let you to track your route on detailed topo maps you download from websites before a hike.

How to get lost

The division between knowing exactly where you are and being lost isn’t a big, bold line that you cross on a trail. Instead, getting lost is a gradual process. This exact scenario recently happened to me. While descending an 8,000-foot peak in Utah, my wife and I missed a 90-degree turn in the trail (and a giant X of crossed logs designed to warn hikers about the direction change) and began scrambling down a steep gully. Even though I said, “I don’t remember hiking up this part” several times, and the terrain was much more challenging than anything we’d encountered on the ascent, we kept going. Despite all the hints we passed along the way, we didn’t recognize our predicament until the terrain became impassable and we almost started a rockslide. That brief but scary episode is a good reminder how tunnel vision can escalate one mistake into a dangerous situation.

Placing food and toiletries in a bear bag keeps them safe from wild scavengers

Common causes

The process of becoming lost also can start long before you arrive at the trailhead. A bad decision made at home—like failing to notify anyone of your route or forgetting a detailed map—can later snowball into big trouble. According to the search-and-rescue (SAR) statistics from national parks, “errors in judgment” were the primary reason (22.3 percent) people needed rescuing in national parks, followed by fatigue (16.8 percent) and insufficient gear (15.6 percent). In fact, the thousands of hikers who become lost on trails each year generally make the same half-dozen errors: • Carrying improper maps or no maps at all and forgetting a compass, GPS or cell phone with a navigation app • Starting a hike too late in the day • Being ill-equipped for bad weather like rain, ice or snow, or not being aware of obstacles like high water at river crossings • Splitting up a group on the trail • Leaving a known trail to take a shortcut • Ignoring obvious signs to turn back

Deciding when you’re in trouble

The best defense you have against getting lost is spotting the early signs of danger. This means being observant about the trail, talking about what you’re seeing and thinking and connecting the various dots of information. By the time you realize you’re lost, you’ll have already passed dozens of visual clues indicating something is wrong. Here is what to look for: • A previously clear trail dwindles to a barely traveled path.

• You are retracing your steps and the trail and scenery don’t look familiar.

• Blazes, signposts and other markings disappear or change.

• The trail climbs when it should be descending, or vice versa.

• The sun is positioned in the wrong part of the sky for the direction you should be hiking.

• The trail is blocked by two sticks or logs crossed like an X—meaning “Not the way.”

• You reach a river crossing or trail junction that shouldn’t be there.

• Footprints and other indications of other hikers disappear.

[The above excerpt is from Chapter 16 “How to Survive”]

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How to hang a bear bag

At many backcountry campsites, you’ll need to hang a bear bag—a stuff sack filled with your food, trash and smelly toiletries—at least 10 feet off the ground.

Hang a bag even when bears aren’t present because this method will also protect your food from other mammals and rodents. Before you get started, you’ll need to collect the following gear: • • • • • •

50 to 100 feet of 1/4-inch nylon rope or cord A large nylon stuff sack with a drawstring closure A metal carabiner clip A baseball-sized rock A hiking sock—a glove also works All of your food, trash and smelly toiletries

Next, you need to walk at least 200 feet from your campsite and find two tall trees at least 15 to 20 feet apart and with thick branches 20 to 25 feet off the ground. Leafy trees are better than pine trees. Once you find a good spot, follow these steps: 1. Place the rock in the sock and tie one end of the rope to the open end of the sock.

2. While holding on to the free end of the rope, throw the rock/sock over one of the branches. Watch out for ricochets and snags.

3. Tie the free end of the rope securely around the first tree trunk, and then repeat the rock/sock throw over the branch on the other tree while keeping the middle of the rope on the ground.

4. Tie the carabiner to the middle of the rope and attach it to the stuff sack.

5. Untie the sock from the rope and pull on that end until the stuff sack is raised at least 10 to 12 feet off the ground. Because the weight of the sack will cause the rope to sag, you need to pick branches much higher than 10 feet.

6. Tie the end of the rope around the second tree trunk and check to make sure all knots are secure.

(Note: the image shown does not utilize the “double suspension” hang described above.)

[The above excerpt is from Chapter 18 “Where the Wild Things Are.” Excerpts are from Backpacking & Hiking, reprinted by permission of Alpha Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © 2020

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The answer, thankfully, is yes.

Going outside is beneficial for both your mental and physical health, and it’s safe to go with those you live with. Camping, hiking and backpacking get you outside to have fun, breathe fresh air and keep your distance from others. After all, you can’t get more socially distant than pitching a tent in a forest, miles from the nearest human being.

Still, the pandemic has changed the way we plan and experience outdoor recreation.

Here are tips on how to be safe while enjoying the outdoors.

Do the ‘COVID turn’

When passing other hikers on the trail, one group should step aside and face away from the other group as they pass. It’s not rude, it’s hygienic! Trail etiquette says that hikers traveling uphill have the right of way (and descending hikers should step aside), but it all depends on which group moves first and has the widest and safest spot to move aside.

Leave the crowds behind

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The Centers for Disease Control recommends you avoid crowded recreation areas, a description that includes most national parks during a typical summer. As a

result, many national parks are limiting the number of daily visitors, restricting car access and closing sites and campgrounds to keep crowds away.

So, instead of trying to camp inside a national park, consider pitching your tent in a nearby national forest that offers plenty of less-crowded campsites. For example, the easiest summertime escape from Salt Lake City are the Uinta Mountains, best approached through Kamas. These national forest slopes feature a stunning number of trails, lakes, rivers and campsites perched at a refreshingly cool elevation above the city’s scorching concrete bubble.

Campgrounds at these alternative places might lack amenities like flush toilets or a general store, but you can handle those deprivations.

A more challenging approach is to “boondock” camp, which means finding an empty spot to pitch your tent on BLM or national forest land. You won’t find any toilets or drinkable water at these unofficial campsites, but you are guaranteed plenty of solitude and open space.

Keep family close

Only share a tent or shelter with people you live with—or tent alone. If this means you’re suddenly in the market for a one-person tent, opt for a free-standing model like the REI Half Dome (which comes in 1,2,3 and 4-person models) so you can pitch it on rock slaps—a common terrain

feature in Utah—without needing to stake it down.

Avoid sharing food

Camping encourages everyone to relax their cleanliness standards (think of the 3-second rule for dropped food). But you can’t relax kitchen hygiene during a pandemic. When hiking in groups, avoid sharing cookware by marking bowls, plates and utensils with colored tape or stickers indicating someone’s name. Instruct everyone to pack and clean their own gear. Use a designated serving spoon, and don’t let anyone lick the pot— excluding dogs. When sharing trail snacks like GORP, pour the snacks into someone hands instead of letting them dig around for a handful.

Keep your hands clean

Pack extra hand sanitizer and antiseptic wipes and store them with your food and your toilet kit. The most important times to clean your hands are before cooking meals, eating or drinking. You should also sanitize your hands and gear after using a shared bathroom, trash bin or water spigot. Because my family loves to find a remote dispersed campsite on Utah’s BLM land, I invested in a portable toilet with a built-in water tank that flushes. Set this toilet in an isolated spot, and you can boast of having a personal privy with the best view in the county.

1 Map/Compass/GPS At some point, like at a trail junction or crossing open ground, you’re going to need to know which direction to go. You can guess, or you can consult one of these. Hint: Always carry a paper map even if you navigate with a GPS device or smartphone app.

2 Headlamp Why bring a headlamp on a day hike? Because a badly twisted ankle can turn a day hike into an overnight trip. Being handsfree makes headlamps more convenient than flashlights, while LED bulbs shine bright but conserve battery power.

3 Knife or multi-tool There are so many uses for a sharp blade— from cutting kindling sticks to repairing gear—that you should carry one. A multitool adds more capability, especially one with pliers for removing splinters or picking up hot cooking pots.

4 First-aid kit Prune your first-aid kit of extraneous items (SAM splint) and make sure it contains these essentials: adhesive bandages, antibiotic ointment, waterproof medical tape, pills (ibuprofen, antihistamine, anti diarrheal), antiseptic wipes and safety pins (for making a sling).

5 Fire Starter Always bring two types of fire starters because the chance of both failing is extremely low. The most popular options are butane lighters, matches and magnesium strikers.

6 Warm/dry clothes to layer The simple act of putting on a fleece pull-

over or a rain jacket can delay the onset of hypothermia, a dangerous condition when your core temperature plummets and your body can’t warm itself anymore.

7 Gear-repair kit More important for backpacking, where a gear failure can imperil your ability to keep dry, moving or on track, a gear-repair kit can be a DIY zip-lock bag filled with a few items: plastic zip ties, extra shoelaces, parachute cord, safety pins, nylon repair tape, needle and heavy thread. Plus, remember to wrap a few strips of duct tape around a water bottle or hiking pole.

8 Signal devices Don’t bring a signal mirror (it’s too complex to use and only effective during daylight). Instead, pack a whistle, which can be heard a mile away day or night.

9 Extra food and water An extra high-energy, freeze-dried food pouch is lightweight insurance against lost or spoilt food or an unexpected night in the woods. Since water is heavy, packing a water filter gives you the ability to replenish your bottles along the trail if you run out.

10 Sunscreen and insect repellent Because sunscreen is the easiest essential to forget, keep a tube of 30 SPF in zip-lock bag in your car.

For bug spray, a high concentration of DEET means the repellent will remain effective for a longer period of time. Choose products with 40% DEET or more. But make sure you double-bag any containers, as DEET melts some synthetics, including clothing like spandex and rayon.

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Kid-friendly day hike in the mountains Fehr Lake Trail, Uintas

Escaping the summer heat Numerous established campgrounds along the Mirror Lake Highway (UT-150) in the Uintas.

—Try Shady Dell or Trial Lake campgrounds.

Yurt living in the winter Lily Lake Touring Area, Uintas

First family backpacking trip Ruth Lake or Cliff Lake, Uintas —Hike less than a mile on flat and easy trails to reach stunning lake-side campsites.

Dispersed camping close to SLC White Rock, West Desert near Dugway Proving Ground —Be sure to bring your own water. Dog-friendly, but check wind conditions.

Dispersed camping near Moab Multiple campgrounds, including Hunter Canyon and Ledges, along Kane Creek Road, a dirt track that climbs through red-rock canyons —The farther you travel along this gravel road, the wilder everything gets.

Oasis in the mountains Christmas Meadows, Uintas —Reserve six months ahead of time to snag a weekend spot.

Most unique group site Split Top, Canyonlands National Park (Needles District) Backpacking to a beautiful alpine lake Amethyst Lake Trail, Uintas Catching your dinner Chain Lakes Trail, High Uinta Wilderness Long-trail hiking The Highline Trail (83 miles), High Uinta Wilderness Getting away from it all Cathedral Valley, Capitol Reef National Park

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Peak bagging Henry’s Fork Lake, High Uinta Wilderness —The best base camp to climb Kings Peak, the highest point in Utah

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Exploring a canyon Lower Muley Twist Canyon, Capitol Reef National Park —Drive the famous Burr Trail switchbacks to the trailhead at The Post.

Red rock solitude Wedge Overlook, San Rafael Swell —Don’t miss the dinosaur footprint in Buckhorn Wash that’s waited 100 million years for you to see it.

Camping and floating San Rafael Bridge Campground, San Rafael Swell

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here are basically two things to do on these hot summer pandemic evenings of 2020: head out to a bar, or head to a protest. One of the organizers (who prefers to remain anonymous) of the community-led group Our Streets SLC, understands if both of those options are scary for some people.

They just know that if you can only choose one of those options, you should choose wisely.

“If you’re nervous to go to protests: stay at home, don’t go out of the door,” they say.

“I get it, if you can’t come out and protest, if you’re afraid or you have a family member that you’re worried about. I just better not see you at one of the bars that I go to.”

Our Streets SLC provides an option that mixes the energy of going out on the town with the good of working for a cause—an easygoing, social-minded weekly answer to the intensity of other protests. Filled out by music, dancing and food trucks, these protests are welcoming to all, especially families. Basically, if you’ve got time to party elsewhere, you’d better at least be making time to hang with Our Streets.

“We’ve been going out every single day,” the anonymous organizer says of their personal protest attendance record, but also that of their fellow organizers. “I did 38 days straight before I took a break.”

During those times, they went to gatherings both big and small, from spring into summer, singing “Happy Birthday” to Breonna Taylor at one march. Some organizers only took breaks to get back to personal work, as many are local business-owners. “We love the city and we’re trying to make a change and do it for the better,” they emphasize, also sharing that their group meets with Mayor Erin Mendenhall and Chief Mike Brown every other week. “We decided that we saw a lot of anger, a lot of antagonizing at a lot of the protests we were at all this time and things were not [changing much]. So we decided to do one that lets people be quiet for the day, have a little fun, save your voice—because I can tell you, I lost my voice a couple times.

“We’re fighting to make the changes we wanna make, but we just can’t stop. ‘Cause as long as we disturb the streets they’re gonna get tired of it, and they’re gonna say ‘What do we have to do to make this change?’”

Despite the serious nature of most marches, anyone who’s been to one knows it feels damn good to be around people again. Our Streets digs further into the communal elements of protests with the help of local visual artists and musicians, and the Salt Lake COVID-19 Mutual Aid Group. The latter hands out masks, snacks, water, sunscreen and hand sanitizer, while from the truck that always leads the way, organizers play ‘70s tunes like Earth, Wind & Fire and Marvin Gaye, or make room for performers like recent California transplant DJ Lucky I Am. “We told people, if you last with us, you will be rewarded, you’re gonna have some fun while you’re here,” says this organizer, ref-

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Groups spontaneously break out into dance, and some folks even roll along on skates. Free shirts and posters are provided via local propaganda artists who, at press time, had printed off 500,000 posters on top of working their full-time jobs. “When people come out of their homes clapping and cheering we’re like, ‘Here’s signs, put it in your window so people understand what side you’re on,’” they say, showing that Our Streets is still spreading awareness about Black Lives Matter and police brutality even with the more easygoing nature of the marches. Distributing signs, taking donations for propaganda shirts that go towards groups like the Covid-19 Mutual Aid Group, and simply making space for folks who can’t go to more traditional protests helps keep the movement accessible and visible. “We try to make it possible to bring kids out, because we wanna keep everybody on the same side. That can be you, your kids, your grandmother, whoever it is—everybody come out.”

The music stays clean for the kids, who mist adult marchers with squirt guns in the summer heat, as they were doing on a recent route past Sim Gill’s house. Despite the presence of strollers in the crowd, however, the group was met with police in riot gear. “We were gonna put a shield between his home and the protesters so that they could just keep walking by. We were never intending to do anything to his home or even put a sign up at all, nothing.”

As they backtracked, they bumped the only explicit song they’ve ever played. “We turned around and played ‘Fuck tha Police’ by N.W.A. We had to. I apologized to the kids that were in the crowd, I said ‘Parents, I apologize, you can cover their ears, but this is necessary.’”

Whether it was the kids’ first time hearing the word “fuck” or seeing cops in riot gear, Our Streets SLC at least won’t let them forget that these streets are theirs too. And as to whether Gill heard them? The anonymous organizer chuckles: “He heard us.” CW

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The Moab Music Festival is already one of the most distinct and unique music festivals anywhere in the world, with their focus on marrying the music of woodwinds, strings and brass with nature—or, as they put in, “music in concert with the landscape.” Their outdoor concerts feature many forms of classical music, along with jazz and other adjacent genres, and take place throughout the beautiful natural wonders that surround Moab. And this year, it’s all outdoors. In an attempt to keep the festival as safe for festivalgoers as possible, and viable at all, Moab Music Festival performances will all be out of doors with smaller audience-sizes—on their Musical Raft Trips down Westwater Canyon, at their Grotto Concerts in naturally carved out red rock grottos, on musical hikes to remote, acoustic-perfect spots, and at the Red Cliffs Lodge and at The Ranch. The festival is also one of the first in the country to continue as scheduled with its changes for safety, and will omit intermissions, pre-concert talks and post-concert receptions.

This approach might result in this year’s fest having a larger population of pure diehards—those there for the specialness of the music and the landscape, rather than the novelty and rustic glamor of such peripheral events.

The festival kicks off Aug. 31 and runs through Sept. 14, so there’s plenty of time to pick a block of the fest that suits you best. Visit moabmusicfest.org for ticket and accommodations info, or call the box office at (435) 259-7003.

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That show starts at 8 p.m., with a $10 admission fee payable online or at the door. On Aug. 7, SLC’s own famed violinist Jenny Oaks Baker takes the stage, though it’s much smaller than she and her band of children are used to playing on, as Oaks Baker has taken her Grammy-nominated skills to Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress and our own Utah Symphony, among others. The opportunity to see such an accomplished local artist for just $10 is not to be missed, and those interested can head to this show at 7:30 p.m. All Murray City Cultural Arts events follow Salt Lake County Health Department and Governor’s Events and Cultural Entertainment guidelines, with a reduced number of tickets, free masks at the door and hand sanitizer, as well as assigned seating. Ticket info and more events can be found at facebook.com/ MurrayCityCulturalEvents

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A new popular concert format that’s popped up in SLC by way of S&S’s Concert Cruises has made its way to Logan. WhySound venue is operating a very similar operation, but we’re not calling copycat: it’s simply a clever idea for how to start doing shows again, and it makes sense that any venue jonesing to do shows would take it up. WhySound is calling theirs a Rolling Show, kicking off July 29 for the first weekend, and following it up on Saturday, Aug. 1. Each night will feature a TBA lineup of six bands, and the audience—who can roll along on bikes, skateboards, skates, scooters or anything else that allows smooth movement upon the ground—will visit them at three different locations, all starting from the WhySound alley. Tickets are only $10, and limited spots can be reserved by paying via Venmo or PayPal with the handle @whysound and one’s name and preferred attendance date.

Masks are required, which should be a “duh” thing for everyone at this point, and those who feel ill are asked to stay home, which is another “duh.” This will mark the first IRL concert hosted and organized by WhySound since the world shut down in March, but they’ve been keeping busy with their local virtual streaming series WhySound Records Live, which has so far featured six Northern Utah favorites; recorded videos are still up on facebook.com/whysoundvenue, where you can also find out more about the Rolling Show and look for future dates.

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Unlike many other businesses doing the whole fakesmile thing around having to function during the pandemic, Diabolical Records has been disguising nothing about their feelings. At the beginning of the pandemic, we reached out to them to get their thoughts on how they were deciding to function—which was via online order, pick-up and drop-off only, and at points, by scheduled appointments for folks to actually come into the store. They expressed disappointment and incredulity at that time about the way businesses were being forced to make these decisions without much sensible guidance from the government. Now, even upon their recent re-opening, that attitude is still in place—which is reassuring for those of us who are also still shaking our heads at life seeming to start back up again even as cases rise. On their Instagram page, Diabolical wrote recently, “We would love this to be a ‘we beat it, huzzah’ type of re-opening but alas, it is not. Due to the overwhelmingly idiotic response to this pandemic we are simply forced to re-open.” While it sucks that they’ve been forced to re-open to the public despite not wanting to, they’ve got a number of rules in place for re-opening, on top of still offering curbside, drop-off, drop bag and online order options. The shop will be open Monday-Friday from noon to 4 p.m., with no more than four people allowed in the shop at a time. Masks are required, cash is banned and people can sanitize their hands and put on latex gloves at the door. For more info on their re-opening, visit them on Instagram @diabolicalslc and visit their website for online orders at diabolical-records.square.site.

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SLUG Mag has found a partner in Sparrow Electric—a local solar company—for their new attempt to join other innovative social-distance shows. After kicking off in late July with performances by Mel Soul & The Messenger, Rocky Lavoie and Jazzy Olive, they’ll go at it again on Aug. 22. The concert series features social distancing, of course, and offers many enticing options accompanying the music of the night, including a food truck and local artisan booths to browse and buy from. Picnic spots for up to six people are available for purchase, which come with a picnic basket full of goods from local sponsors. The first show is in the parking lot of the new SLUG offices—which, sadly, indicates that the days of SLUGs Pierpont residence are over. But changes are everywhere, and at least they’re using their new digs to provide fresh air and tunes to music-lovers who’ve sorely missed shows this summer. General admission tickets are available for those who want to hang out outside with a group while enjoying the music; there’s even an option for a Dog Ticket, which allows attendees to bring along a dog as long as they’re on a leash and up-to-date on shots. The ways our community is innovating ways to enjoy shows together safely outside during these hot, languid summer months of the pandemic seem to be growing daily, and you shouldn’t miss out on this new opportunity. Catch performances by Cherry Thomas, Elowyn and Fur Foxen on Aug. 22, and don’t forget the mask! Get tickets for $15 at slugmag.bigcartel.com, and get there at 5:30 to catch sets between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.

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As a case in point, witness The Fight, the new documentary from the Weiner directing team of Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg, along with Eli B. Despres. On its simplest level, it’s a profile of the avalanche of cases undertaken by the American Civil Liberties Union during the Trump presidency, focusing on five ACLU attorneys with specific areas of specialty. Dealing with reproductive rights, Brigitte Amri takes on the government’s attempt to prevent an undocumented immigrant minor in custody from getting an abortion. Immigration law expert Lee Gelernt addresses the policy of separating children from undocumented immigrant parents. Josh Block and Chase Strangio tackle the executive order banning transgender soldiers from the U.S. military. And Dale Ho brings his expertise in voting rights to bear on the question of whether the 2020 U.S. Census can include a question about citizenship status.

The Fight spends a lot of time laying out the specifics of the various cases at issue, and the challenges that might face ACLU attorneys in their attempts to get a positive outcome. In a way, that approach represents the fundamental structural problem with The Fight: It’s a movie that wants to make excruciatingly clear that these lawyers are on the “correct” side of these issues. You, Gentle Reader, might happen to agree with our protagonists on all of the four examples mentioned above, but that’s kind of beside the point. The problem is that making you feel righteous, while appealing, isn’t dramatically interesting.

What’s missing from The Fight is a recognition that what ACLU attorneys are fighting for makes for a less compelling story than why they’re fighting for it, and what they sacrifice to do so. It’s not entirely absent, as the filmmakers do provide glimpses into the way the attorneys’ personal lives are disrupted by their work, or how many threatening hate messages they receive daily. There are tugs at the heartstrings when we see people whose lives have been made better by the ACLU winning its cas-

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The film we do get is undoubtedly a feelgood story, albeit one impacted by the realization that these many cases sometimes feel like fingers in the dike trying to prevent the flood of Trump administration hate and oppression. Is that the kind of story that tells the whole story of what it means to be an ACLU attorney? Or is it the kind of story that’s just telling some of us what we want to hear? CW

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And things get even messier when The Fight has to deal with the fact that even if you’re a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, you might not think every effort the ACLU makes is heroic. To the filmmakers’ credit, they do address the fact that defending free speech rights sometimes means defending speakers of horrible things, manifested most recently—and controversially—in the ACLU’s defense of the May 2017 “Unite the Right” white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia that left counter-protester Heather Heyer dead. But the way it’s handled here feels like an obligatory “let’s get this out of the way” rather than a genuine wrestling with the ACLU’s complicated legacy. When The Fight shows an ACLU attorney expressing his opinion that it was the wrong call to defend “Unite the Right,” it becomes clear that the film is missing the tension of an

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) I live in Northern California on land that once belonged to the Indigenous Coast Miwok people. They were animists who believed that soul and sentience animate all animals and plants as well as rocks, rivers, mountains—everything, really. Their food came from hunting and gathering, and they lived in small bands without centralized political authority. According to one of their creation stories, Coyote and Silver Fox made the world by singing and dancing it into existence. Now, I invite you to do what I just illustrated: Find out about and celebrate the history of the people and the place where you live. From an astrological perspective, it’s a favorable time to get in touch with roots and foundations.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “I always wanted to be commander in chief of my one-woman army,” says singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco. I think that goal is within sight for you, Scorpio. Your power over yourself has been increasing lately. Your ability to manage your own moods and create your own sweet spots and define your own fate is as robust as I have seen it in a while. What do you plan to do with your enhanced dominion? What special feats might you attempt? Are there any previously impossible accomplishments that may now be possible?

CANCER (June 21-July 22) The Italian word nottivago refers to “night roamers”: people who wander around after dark. Why do they do it? What do they want to accomplish? Maybe their ramblings have the effect of dissolving stuck thoughts that have been plaguing them. Maybe it’s a healing relief to indulge in the luxury of having nowhere in particular to go and nothing in particular to do: to declare their independence from the obsessive drive to get things done.

Meandering after sundown may stir up a sense of wild freedom that inspires them to outflank or outgrow their problems. I bring these possibilities to your attention, Cancerian, because the coming days will be an excellent time to try them out.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Author and activist bell hooks (who doesn’t capitalize her name) has taught classes at numerous American universities. She sometimes writes about her experiences there, as in the following passage. “My students tell me, ‘we don’t want to love! We’re tired of being loving!’ And I say to them, if you’re tired of being loving, then you haven’t really been loving, because when you are loving you have more strength.” I wanted you to know her thoughts, Capricorn, because I think you’re in a favorable position to demonstrate how correct she is: to dramatically boost your own strength through the invigorating power of your love.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Your meditation for the coming weeks comes to you courtesy of author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau. “We can never have enough of nature,” he wrote. “We must be refreshed by GEMINI (May 21-June 20) “When I look down, I miss all the good stuff, and when I look up, the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the I just trip over things,” says singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco. I sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its wonder if she has tried an alternate approach: looking straight decaying trees, the thunder cloud, and the rain which lasts three ahead. That’s what I advise for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own In other words, adopt a perspective that will enable you to detect limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we regular glimpses of what’s above you and what’s below you—as never wander.” Oh, how I hope you will heed Thoreau’s counsel, well as what’s in front of you. In fact, I suggest you avoid all Sagittarius. You would really benefit from an extended healing extremes that might distract you from the big picture. The truth session amidst natural wonders. Give yourself the deep pleasure of exploring what wildness means to you. will be most available to you if you occupy the middle ground.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “Notice what no one else notices, and you’ll know what no one else knows,” says actor Tim Robbins. That’s perfect counsel for you right now, Leo. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, your perceptiveness will be at a peak in the coming weeks. You’ll have an ability to discern half-hidden truths that are invisible to everyone else. You’ll be aggressive in scoping out what most people don’t even want to become aware of.

Take advantage of your temporary superpower! Use it to get a lucid grasp of the big picture—and cultivate a more intelligent approach than those who are focused on the small picture and the comfortable delusions.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Author Faith Baldwin has renounced the “forgive and forget” policy. She writes, “I think one should forgive and remember. If you forgive and forget, you’re just driving what you remember into the subconscious; it stays there and festers. But to look upon what you remember and know you’ve forgiven is achievement.” That’s the approach I recommend for you right now, Pisces. Get the relief you need, yes: Forgive those who have trespassed against you. But also: Hold fast to the lessons you learned through those people so you won’t repeat them again later.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else,” wrote playwright Tom Stoppard. That’s ripe advice for you to meditate on during the coming weeks. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when every exit can indeed be an entrance somewhere else—but only if you believe in that possibility and are alert for it. So, please dissolve your current assumptions about the current chapter of your life story so that you can be fully open to new possibilities that could become available.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Aquarian author Langston Hughes (1902–1967) was a pioneering and prolific African American author and activist who wrote in four different genres and was influential in boosting other Black writers. One of his big breaks as a young man came when he was working as a waiter at a banquet featuring the famous poet Vachel Lindsay. Hughes managed to leave three of his poems on Lindsay’s table. The great poet loved them and later lent his clout to boosting Hughes’ career. I suspect you might have an opening like that sometime soon, Aquarius—even if it won’t be quite as literal and hands-on. Be ready to take advantage. Cultivate every connection that may become available.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “One must think with the body and the soul or not think at all,” wrote Libran author and historian Hannah Arendt. She implied that thinking only with the head may spawn monsters and demons. Mere conceptualization is arid and sterile if not interwoven with the wisdom of the soul and the body’s earthy intuitions. Ideas that are untempered by feelings and physical awareness can produce poor maps of reality. In accordance with astrological omens, I ask you to meditate on these empowering suggestions. Make sure that as you seek to understand what’s going on, you draw on all your different kinds of intelligence.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Aries poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti is renowned for his buoyancy.

In one of his famous lines, he wrote, “I am awaiting, perpetually and forever, a renaissance of wonder.” Here’s what I have to say in response to that thought: Your assignment, as an Aries, is not to sit there and wait, perpetually and forever, for a renaissance of wonder. Rather, it’s your job to embody and actualize and express, perpetually and forever, a renaissance of wonder.

The coming weeks will be an especially favorable time for you to rise to new heights in fulfilling this aspect of your life-long assignment.

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42. "Waltz Across Texas" country singer Ernest 43. Seasonal song words after "gay apparel" 44. Prego competitor 48. "Aaron Burr, ____" ("Hamilton" song) 49. Natives of Nebraska 50. "What time?"

51. Singer of "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" at Barack's inauguration 53. Immune system protectors 55. "Au revoir!"

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15. Japanese or Javanese 16. "Picnic" playwright 17. Upright, maybe 18. Flattering thing for artist Kahlo to hear when she walks in a room?

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don’t think I’ve ever quoted our 45th president before, but I had to write down one of his tweets from a couple of weeks ago: “At the request of many great Americans who live in the suburbs, and others, I am studying the AFFH housing regulation that is having a devastating impact on these once thriving suburban areas. Corrupt Joe Biden wants to make them much worse. Not fair to homeowners, I may end!”

You may not know about AFFH, but I do, as do many of my fellow Realtors. In a nutshell, Obama and his administration made fair housing laws a priority. What had passed in 1968 as the infamous Fair Housing Act was not aggressively enforced nor was it publicly followed by most citizens. The 1968 Act prohibited discrimination in renting, selling or financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin and sex (and was amended to include handicap and family status).

One of the intentions of AFFH was to encourage communities to look into how systemic racism and segregation developed in their cities and suburbs and hopefully make positive changes to have a mix of housing, such as affordable apartment units, in traditionally single-family neighborhoods. To do that, you’d have to look deeply into the zoning laws of the area that limit housing types.

Democrats are generally in favor of affordable housing whereas Republicans and Trump have encouraged the status quo to keep single-family zoning in the suburbs.

“45” actually said: “Your home will go down in value and crime rates will rapidly rise.” Is it just me, or is that ignorant statement promoting racism and bigotry?

Right up until “45” took office, 39 areas of the country took a good look at themselves and their housing patterns and made recommendations to Housing and Urban Development to stop discrimination, all of which came to a halt the moment Ben Carson was appointed HUD Secretary. It also seems ironic that the Trump family made mucho dinero in real estate and owning massive amounts of rental housing (especially low-income rentals) but doesn’t want such housing to expand outside of inner cities. Candidate Biden wants to make sure that the Obama administration’s push for fair housing in this country is brought back as a priority if Biden is elected. In 2017, the Salt Lake City Council voted unanimously to adopt Growing SLC: A Five-Year Housing Plan 2018-2022—the first such plan for the city since 2000.

The National Low-income Housing Coalition is at least following what the administration is doing by independently monitoring the federal budget process and advocating for the highest possible appropriations for HUD and USDA housing. They believe in just communities, where all community members have access to economic and education opportunities, as well as affordable housing. If you want to get woke about housing inequities around the country, follow this group at nlihc.org. n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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Preordained mask. Next time, I will wait for cops and bring a medical exempJustin Couch, 25, of Spring Hill, Florida, who sports a tattoo of tion.” In response, KGTV reported, Matt Cowan of Irvine started a machete under his left eye, was arrested June 13, according a GoFundMe page to collect tips for the barista who “faced ... a to the Hernando (Florida) County Sheriff’s Office, for allegedly Karen in the wild,” and soon raised more than $100,000, which attacking a man with a machete. The unnamed adult male victim Gilles now claims she should get half of. “I’ve been discriminated told officers Crouch forced him out of the home where he’d been against,” Gilles said, noting that hiring a lawyer to help her get living and began arguing with him “for no reason,” reported her half was too expensive, so she has started her own GoFundMe Fox13 News. As the man attempted to gather his belongings page to raise money. Gutierrez said he plans to use the money from the home, deputies said, Couch allegedly hit the victim with to further his education and follow his dream of being a dancer. the flat side of the machete’s blade, “then swung the machete at the victim’s face,” striking his arm with the blade as the man tried Latest Religious Message to ward off the blow. “The victim is currently unable to use or Maintenance workers pruning trees in Itaquirai, Brazil, on July 9 move his left hand due to the severity of the injury he sustained,” discovered a compelling image in a fresh cut from a willow tree. investigators said. Couch was arrested for aggravated battery.

Some of them were convinced that Jesus Christ was depicted in the wood grain of the branch. Oddity Central reports Odimar Sign of the Times Souza, who was overseeing the work, posted the image online A perfect storm may be brewing to strike down the long- and explained that just before the image was discovered, the maligned one-cent coin, the penny. Earlier this year, the U.S. chain on the worker’s chainsaw broke and had to be replaced.

Mint cut back on coin production to keep its workers safe amid Back at work, “we cut this same trunk in two pieces and that was the COVID-19 pandemic, reported NPR’s Planet Money. At the when this perfection appeared,” Souza wrote. same time, people stopped spending, especially with cash, and word of a coin shortage spread, prompting some stores, such Inexplicable as Kroger, to start rounding their prices to avoid making coin An unnamed 37-year-old man driving along a Lincoln, Nebraska, change. Last year, the mint made more than 7 billion pennies, street on July 14 came upon Dominic Kinser, 20, beating a car almost 60% of its total coin production, and each one-cent coin with a shovel, KOLN reported. After the man pulled over and cost two cents to produce, putting the loss at more than $72 got out of his car, Kinser turned his anger on him, according to million. Still, the mint has no plans to eliminate the coin. It’s been police, yelling at the man and then going into his garage, where up and running at full capacity since mid-June, and according he grabbed a rifle, which he pointed at the passerby. Kinser, to spokesman Michael White, about 40% of the coins it has who police determined owned the car, was charged with making terroristic threats and possession of a deadly weapon in the comproduced since then have been pennies. mission of a felony.

Angry Animals n At Lassen Volcanic National Park in Northern California, Animal Lovers in Maine five acres around Manzanita Lake were shut down after a man n At the Inn Town Motel in Norway, Maine, manager Andrew was attacked by an otter on June 25. Park Superintendent Jim Coombs was not happy when he entered the room rented by Sean Richardson told the Redding Record Searchlight the unnamed Schoomaker and his girlfriend July 11, hoping to collect payman was swimming in the river and came too close to the otter’s ment, and discovered more than 50 large spiders, most of them offspring, known as kittens. “It is significant anytime an animal tarantulas, in plastic boxes. “I booted him,” Coombs told the attacks a human,” Richardson said. He did not believe the man Sun Journal. “He must have snuck them all in at night. We never was seriously injured, and he said the otter would not be relo- would have allowed that in our motel.” Animal Control officer cated. “It’s the protective momma (doing her job), and the attack Robert Larrabee responded to the motel, and the Maine Warden Service confiscated the arachnids, taking them to a facility for came as a surprise,” he said. exotic animals in Lewiston. Schoomaker was cited for possession n Neighbors on Occidental Street in north Oakland, California, of three tarantulas that are illegal in the state. are at odds over the presence of Bruce, aka Paco, aka Peter, aka Pierre, aka Abraham ... a peacock. While some residents are n Officers from the Somerset County (Maine) Sheriff’s happy to welcome him, SFGate.com reported on July 15, others Department and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency searched want him to move on and have lodged a complaint with the city. the apartment of Jessica Hutchins, 36, looking for drugs on “For the past 15 weeks or so, he has screamed relentlessly, every July 13, which they found, according to Sheriff Dale Lancaster. day,” Jesse T. wrote on the Nextdoor app. “It literally feels like he “We also got an alligator out of her home,” he told the Morning is inside my house.” The peacock is believed by Animal Control to Sentinel. The 2-foot-long gator was being kept in Rubbermaid be feral. But Dennis Fett of the Peacock Information Center in tubs, but, Lancaster said, having an alligator in Maine is illeMinden, Iowa, thinks Bruce/Paco/Peter is providing a service. gal without proper permits. Officers seized a total of $12,000 “They’re like a watchdog,” Fett said. “They have keen hearing. worth of drugs along with the alligator, and Hutchins and several (The neighbors) should count their blessings.” accomplices were charged with a number of drug-related crimes.

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