City Weekly August 20, 2020

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Capturing

COVID Part 2

Pandemic memories gathered by Utah Portrait Arts photographers

By Steve Conlin, Nick Sokoloff and Paul Duane

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CAPTURING COVID, PART II Pandemic memories gathered by Utah Portrait Arts photographers

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An Aug. 2, a block-party-style neighborhood “March for Justice” was disrupted and dismantled when the Cottonwood Heights Police Department trapped 150 grandmothers, men, women, teens and children turning a peaceful procession into a rotten, violent, dangerous affair.

CHPD Chief Russo’s grotesque mismanagement of the entire afternoon included calling in police support from across the county, creating an utter embarrassment and, likely, a financial debacle for Cottonwood Heights City. Without a citizen review board or willingness by the city council majority to give meaningful oversight, the CHPD has documented cases of abusing its power increasingly over the years since the city’s incorporation in 2005.

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I personally witnessed the event that began in Mill Hollow Park at 4 p.m. and concluded with walking to the location where a 19-yearold local was lethally shot twice in the back while fleeing an off-duty CHPD officer two years earlier.

Supported by DanceForRevolution and Black Lives Matter Utah, the march began with speeches invoking the late John Lewis and MLK Jr. and calling citizens to get informed, be involved and vote.

Then moving slowly and gleefully onto Mill Hollow Drive, unarmed— juggling pinwheels, signs and water bottles, and dancing to music—the procession was peaceful and would have moved through its intended loop and returned without incident to the park had six CHPD vehicles not arrived blocking the group in on both its east and west side.

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degree heat for several minutes, tempers and resentment built. As instructed, group organizers willingly changed their intended route to guide participants onto sidewalks and take a smaller side street because police vehicles continued to block the group’s advancement.

CHPD again stopped the march on the side street. This is when altercations commenced. Neighbors at that point began calling the police because of the loud and angry voices of trapped people. This was incited by the CHPD. We know from videos taken that CHPD brutally subdued several participants face down on the pavement for “talking back” to police officers. Inciting emotions with brutality, mine along with numerous other participants was to go to the aid of helpless victims. This resulted in more arrests.

Additionally, why was the as-

sault by CHPD Officer K. Taylor on an elected official (Cottonwood Heights City Councilwoman Tali Bruce) disregarded? How can an officer punch an elected official in the throat and not be, in the least, reprimanded?

All charges against the nine arrested participants should be dropped immediately before CHPD costs the city yet a trundle more money in litigation fees defending a police department gone amok.

ELLEN BIRRELL Cottonwood Heights Correction: The final interviews in this week’s “Capturing COVID, Part II” on page 16 are republished from the first installment of May 14.

In that issue, photos/quotes from Steve & Sara Urquhart and Natalie and Brody were mismatched. They are corrected in this edition. We apologize for the error.

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What’s a favorite quote from a TV show/movie/book?

Paula Saltas “Inconceivable” and “No more rhyming, and I mean it, does anyone want a peanut?”from my No. 1 favorite movie, Princess Bride Scott Renshaw “No matter where you go ... there you are.” —The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Mary Caputo “I’ll have what she’s having.” —When Harry Met Sally Tony Caputo But are you still “master of your domain?”—Seinfeld Mikey Saltas “Can it be done, Father? Can a man really change his stars?” His father replies, “Yes, William. If he believes enough, a man can do anything.”—A Knight’s Tale Chelsea Neider “When in doubt, freak ‘em out.”—Sharon Needles, RuPaul’s Drag Race Eric Granato “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, ‘Wow! What a Ride!’”—Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 Pete Saltas “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” —Princess Bride Tom Metos “Yabba Dabba Do!” —Fred Flintstone Mike Ptaschinski After a wild shootout with mercenaries, Denzel Washington, a dangerous off-the-grid CIA agent with a lot of secrets, with his dying breath says to Ryan Reynolds, a young CIA agent who will now carry on in a similar role: “You know what you are. It’s OK. Just be better than me. Be better than me.”—Safe House Bryan Bale “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” —Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless Jerre Wroble “Death. You will know me by my touch. It is the last.“ —Mason Williams, Mason Williams Reading Matter

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the position back to the Democratic Party, but he, along with Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings, respectively charged former state attorneys general, John Swallow and Mark Shurtleff, with corruption and bribery claims. If you were around in that era, you remember that allegations of high-level shenanigans were rampant. Gill was seen as the person who stood up against that.

That both Swallow and Shurtleff were later found not guilty barely registered on the Sim Gill popularity scale, which was burnished by his work on mental health and drug issues plus his efforts on behalf of veteran and domestic abuse matters. Gill is regarded as being of the people and always accessible to public forums plus he is not shy about appearing on popular local radio programs, such as Radio From Hello on X96, or any of a slew of KRCL programs including the popular RadioActive program.

Thus, I’ve been wondering why in the hell his office leveled such preposterous charges against persons alleged to have defaced the District Attorney’s Office building during anti-racism protests in downtown Salt Lake City. The ebb and flow of those protests were fueled in early July when Gill ruled that the police shooting on May 23, 2020, of Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal was justified.

Much evidence came from police reports and video from police officer body cams. On May 23, police officers were called to the scene of an armed robbery in the area of 900 South and 300 West. Palacios-Carbajal fled when spotted by police. Over 30 bullets were fired at Palacios-Carbajal who was struck by nearly half of them. What happened and why in those quick seconds will be decided in the courts because the Palacios-Carbajal family and attorneys dispute certain aspects of the official version, principally whether lethal force was really the best or only option for responding officers. Justified or not, Palacios-Carbajal is dead. In

an era that’s increasingly witness to disproportionate use of police force on persons of color across the entire spectrum of the United States, it can be of little surprise that making such a ruling in the midst of protests that originally derived of marchers supporting Black Lives Matter (protesting the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis) would of course cause more unrest. The ruling was gas to a flame.

I believe four things for certain regarding these events: 1. I can’t begin to imagine the circumstances that put Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal in the position of using a handgun to commit a crime against another person. I won’t judge him, and I won’t judge that circumstance; I merely can’t imagine it. 2. I can’t begin to imagine what a police officer feels or thinks when called into that situation, when he or she has to decide if the $60,000 annual salary is worth it.

I couldn’t do it for any amount of dollars, so I can’t judge; I merely can’t imagine it.

3. I believe most cops are good cops (I also believe there’s a cop problem in Cottonwood Heights.) 4. I believe it’s obvious that Madalena McNeil is being hosed by the Salt Lake County District Attorney office. Should Palacios-Carbajal have been arrested and convicted of armed robbery, he would have faced a $10,000 fine and up to 15 years in prison. Yet McNeil, along with three others accused of vandalizing the DA office, face up to life in prison thanks to some kind of baloney charge intended to curb gang violence, not to curb the protected First Amendment right to gather. Did someone toss paint and break windows and make a royal red mess? One that was cleaned up pretty quickly, I might add? Yeah. That calls for a time out, not a life sentence.

Do the right thing, Sim. It’s not your building. It’s not personal. It’s our building. Drop the charges against Madalena McNeil. CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net

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mong the biggest blessings in my life is that I have very few friends who are politicians. I’ve known some men and women for years with whom I’m friendly who are also politicians—you know, casual friendships that revolve around the narrow conversations regarding best arthritis liniments, whispers of this or that insider rumor and zucchini bread recipes. Barely a smidgen among them know my inner workings, such as that I prefer not understanding the French language more than I do misunderstanding Greek, and I don’t always practice catch-and-release fishing as a good Democrat should. I keep deep and dark secrets like those for only my very best friends—warehousemen, mule skinners and camp chefs.

I like it that way since, over the many years of publishing this newspaper, there remains a universal law that no matter how much faith I have in a politician, said politician will eventually do something that will cause me to wonder why I ever believed in him or her in the first place—not all of them and certainly not the majority. Still, I have a healthy reticence about hanging out with politicians. For the most part, I simply believe that a good many politicians are honorable and honest people who eventually become afflicted with a notion that they know more about doing good deeds than you or I. In that way, a politician is like a preacher— they eventually come to believe not only what they preach, but they know what you should believe as well.

So it is that one of the politicians I have come to like over the years is Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill. I met him before he was elected to the position in 2010 when he unseated the Lohra Miller. I don’t know him well, nor he I, but have always liked him. Not only did he bring

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Maybe this speaks to the pervasive political power of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Joe Biden, the Democrats and even retired Sen. Orrin Hatch stumping for Trump— are all going after the LDS vote. That may make sense, considering what an impact the church had on defeating California’s gay marriage initiative in 2008 and the Equal Rights Amendment in 1975. The church claims more than 16 million members and seems to know how to mobilize them, mostly on social issues. In 2016, Donald Trump got 61 percent of the LDS votes, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. So, the question is just how much of a social issue is the presidential election? Hatch co-chairs a little group called Latter-day Saints for Trump, although 200 members protested in Arizona, and in a letter said Trump “is the antithesis of so much the Latter-day Saints community believes,” according to KJZZ.org. Still, Vice President Mike Pence was giddy about his upcoming debate in Salt Lake City, emphasizing the city twice during a rally.

You know—because Utah is largely white and conservative.

Suffrage Events

Maybe you didn’t know there was a monument commemorating the 19th Amendment and that’s probably because the fight is far from over.

Still, you can take a look and celebrate 100 years of voting rights at Utah’s 19th Amendment Centennial Celebration - Memorial Open House, during a two-day, crowd-controlled open house. Salt Lake City Council Hall, 451 S. State, Friday-Saturday, Aug. 21-22, 9 a.m8 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/34bbdGX Meanwhile, you can hear a panel talk about how women from Northern Utah have influenced policy since 1870 at Beyond Suffrage: A Century of Northern Utah Women Making History. Check out the exhibit, too. Ogden Union Station, 2501 Wall Ave., Ogden, Saturday, Aug. 22, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., free. https://bit. ly/2CuipSY

All About Human Trafficking

They call it a modern-day form of slavery, and even in Utah, it’s pervasive. “Human trafficking is a hidden crime, as victims rarely come forward to seek help because of language barriers, fear of the traffickers and/or fear of law enforcement,” the Utah Attorney General’s website says. At Human Trafficking: Trends and Best Practices, you will learn how “to identify the many indicators of human trafficking, examine risk factors, recruitment and how to apply a trauma-informed and victimcentered approach in their work with those who have been exploited.” Organizers include Anti Tremonte, who has an educational background in Psychology and Women and Gender Studies and Allison M. Smith, who has a graduate degree in Human Development and Social Policy from the University of Utah.

Webinar, Thursday, Aug. 27, 10 a.m., free. https://bit.ly/31SCJGa

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It’s pretty certain that the president isn’t interested in an accurate census count, but you, your friends and family have a chance to get counted in a safe and welcoming environment. If you’re worried about privacy or legal issues, Census staff will be on hand to answer questions and help you fill out the forms anonymously at Rose Park Connect. “[Salt Lake] County is coordinating with the County Health Department to have a community health worker present to provide COVID-19 prevention information as well as face masks for those in need,” organizers say.

Time is running out. LDS Meetinghouse on 760 N. 1200 West, through August, Mondays and Wednesdays, 8-11 a.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7-9 p.m., free. https://bit. ly/2PTwWum

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Sometimes, technology does save the day. The little town of Hideout has some rethinking to do now that a mismanaged Zoom meeting scuttled its plans to annex 655 acres for a huge mixed-use development. Park City and Summit County, on the other hand, may not have to go to court to prevent what they call a land grab by some well-connected developers. According to the Park Record, the town council had started two simultaneous Zoom meetings, and from there, things went haywire. There’s more to come after a special session of the Legislature.

There’s so much to celebrate—and so much to still be done for women’s equality. On Aug. 26, 1920, the nation finally adopted the 19th Amendment, granting the right to vote to women. But there’s still a long way to go to full equality. #FaceTheMusic4ER A is a live nationwide call to action for racial and gender justice. More importantly, it’s a stark reminder that the Equal Rights Amendment has yet to be added to the Constitution. It’s not too late, although opponents would like you to think so. Facebook Live, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 6 p.m., free. tinyurl.com/music4era

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Utah’s GOP is forever conflicted about what a Republican is. Take, for example, Utah’s two U.S. senators—both Republican, of course, and both different as night and day. Mike Lee has spent the past few weeks defending the president’s rant over shower-head pressure and then continuing to rail against the Google search engine, which seemingly didn’t bring up “Crooked Hillary” when conservatives searched for, uh, something, before the 2016 election. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney is being called a liberal because he defends vote-by-mail and criticizes the president for fawning over dictators and not taking the China threat seriously. Oh, and the Tribune kind of buried the lead on China and Romney. Its front-page headline read, “Romney says world needs to awaken to China’s threat.” In fact, it is the United States that needs to wake up. “As America retreats and China pushes forward, why the nations of the world will line up behind China,” Romney says.

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American tribe that believes this white woman has come to steal their children’s organs?

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The King’s English Bookshop sponsors a live virtual book event for Gaechter on Tuesday, Aug. 25 at 6 p.m. Register to attend and receive the event link through kingsenglish.com/event, then join the author for a discussion of her fantastic, inspirational and also terrifying geographical and personal journey.

Order autographed copies of Amazon Woman through The King’s English while supplies last.

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Ethnic cultural festivals have been among the many traditional Utah summer events cancelled in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, as gathering in large groups has been unadvisable. But that didn’t stop the local Pacific Islander community from thinking about how to craft a “social distance edition” for the 8th annual Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

Already in August, Pacific Islander Heritage Month has included a backpack giveaway, curbside plate sale and Utah Ukelele Association Zoom workshop. Still to come are product launches for local entrepreneurs, an online book club and drive-through arts festival, with schedule available at upihm.com.

“The committee looked at the goals and the outcomes from the annual event as it’s much more than a community gathering,” says Susi Feltch-Malohifo’ou, executive director of the non-profit PIK2AR that organizes the event.

“We looked at each of the areas of the ‘in person’ event that we thought were

the PTC production of The Last Ship—will be released every week. Four full-time positions are supported by this effort.

“If we’re making masks, it needs to be creative and whimsical. We thought it would be fun to give our supporters the chance to own a piece of PTC history with masks made out of costumes from some of their favorite productions,” said PTC Artistic Director Karen Azenberg via press release. “The masks are practical and usable, but are also an amusing conversation piece and another way to support getting our incredible artisans back to work.” (SR)

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key, … and how we could do this online, what translates well. Anything we could do would be better than doing nothing. … We choose the theme Revive, Strive & Thrive, as we didn’t know what this was going to look like, but we were striving for our community to thrive.”

The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted the Utah Pacific Islander community. Pacific Islander Heritage Month offers a chance to support businesses run by members of the community, and while PIK2AR and the grants it has received have already provided $15,000 in funding to support families hit with illness and health-care costs, assistance is still needed. Visit pik2ar.org/get-involved/ donate/ to learn how you can help. (SR)

Every August, arts lovers look forward to escaping from the valley heat into the (relative) cool of the Wasatch Back, to stroll down Park City’s Main Street for the Park City Kimball Arts Festival.

Well, not every August, as it turns out; COVID-19 changed those plans, as it has changed so many plans this year. Instead, Kimball Art Center has crafted a virtual experience to support local artists and provide other experiences and resources to offer the next best thing to the in-person experience.

At parkcitykimballartsfestival.org, visitors can browse through visual art by categories—painting, drawing, sculpture, digital, jewelry, wood, ceramics and more—or search by individual artist names in order to view work, or even commission new work. Recorded Art Talks provide a more up-close-and-personal introduction to some of the participating artists, like 2019 Best in Show – Painting artist Signe Grushovenko introducing digital artist Daryl Thetford.

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While some smaller outdoor productions have launched during the summer, most of Utah’s primary theater stages have been dark since the COVID-19 pandemic hit home in March. That reality has forced companies to get creative in ways to find income streams, and support artists and artisans who would typically be working on now-suspended performances. For Pioneer Theatre Company, one such notion has involved taking items from the company’s amazing storehouse of costumes, and turning them into a necessary and important commodity for our current “new normal”: protective masks.

The Costume Collection Masks project (pioneertheatre.org/masks-to-order) applies PTC’s costume shop to the task of creating masks in compliance with CDC guidelines, but which also allowed buyers to wear a little bit of the company’s rich stage history. Individual costume items have been transformed into anywhere between six and 15 masks (depending on the size of the source material), at $25 for each limited-edition design. A new design—like the one pictured, from

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On her 35th birthday, Darcy Gaechter set in motion a process that would lead her to your typical mid-life bucket list item: becoming the first woman ever to kayak the Amazon River from the source to the ocean. The ordeals she survived in order to accomplish that goal make writing a book about it seem like the easy part.

The new book Amazon Woman: Facing Fears, Chasing Dreams and a Quest to Kayak the World’s Largest River from Source to Sea chronicles Gaechter’s amazing, challenging adventure in a memoir full of almost unbelievable details. From the tumult caused to her personal and professional life at the outset of this journey to the life-threatening events of the river journey itself, the book explores 148 days that took the author on an unprecedented voyage with two traveling companions. Twenty-five straight days in Class 5 whitewater rapids? Check. Making it through a canyon while it was being dynamited for a hydroelectric project? Check? Surviving encounters with drug traffickers, Peruvian communist rebels, black-market animal poachers and an indigenous South

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face struggles in this time, you can get a visual “taste” of local establishments like Twisted Fern in a recorded talk by chef Adam Ross.

While live entertainment might not be possible, you can still get a bit of the festival music experience through performances like a 45-minute set from Provo local band The National Parks, co-sponsored by Park City Institute. The festival site also offers information on other Park City activities—many of which are idea for socially-distanced times—so visit for a chance to keep supporting local arts, and get ideas about how to get out and about, even if it can’t be to an arts festival. (SR)

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BOOKS The King of Confidence explores a historical figure and our American fascination with “the big lie.”

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the world.

“It was a time of absolutely seismic, dramatic change and upheaval—technologically, politically, socially, demographically, economically,” Harvey says. “I think there are times in our shared history when reality becomes a little porous, in good ways and bad. This was a time of really exciting new ideas, but with those enthusiasms come the possibility of people who take advantage of this lack of firmness in our ideas about what the truth is. … . I saw Strang from the start as this lightning rod for all the craziness, all the enthusiasms, all the apocalyptic nightmares of the 19th century.”

As Harvey was writing The King of Confidence, it became impossible not to see an analogy between Strang’s era of “porous reality” and our own, in which another charismatic leader has managed to appeal to followers despite a … questionable relationship with trustworthiness. “My time writing the book almost exactly parallels [Donald] Trump’s

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hen Joseph Smith was murdered in 1844, Brigham Young succeeded him as leader of the fledgling Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But according to James Strang, he had a letter directly from Smith himself naming Strang as Smith’s chosen successor. And in a time where savvy individuals could convince some people of anything, he managed to recruit plenty of followers who believed him.

The fascinating historical story of James Strang is the focal point of The King of Confidence, a new book by author and DePaul University English professor Miles Harvey. He traces Strang’s life from a very similar upstate New York upbringing as Joseph Smith, through various misadventures and shady dealings that eventually led him to declare himself not just leader of a religious movement, but the king of an island in the middle of Lake Michigan.

Harvey recalls his first encounter with Strang’s offshoot band of Mormonism as being 15 or 20 years ago, when a family member mentioned it during a trip to Wisconsin.

But the idea for the book itself actually came as a suggestion from Ben George, an editor at Little Brown Books.

“I’ve had situations like that before that weren’t going to work out,” Harvey says, “but when [George] started telling me about it, I went off and did some research. Unlike almost any other book I’d written, I knew not only that I wanted to write it, but how I wanted to write it.”

For Harvey, that meant telling a story not just of James Strang, but of the antebellum American society that made self-styled prophets, con artists and would-be utopian leaders so appealing to so many people. Not only was the tension between slave and free states creating the growing threat of civil war, but technological innovations and radical new concepts—like those of Charles Darwin and Karl Marx—were disrupting the way people understood

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candidacy, election and presidency, so it was inevitable that I would think of parallels between Strang’s time and mine,” Harvey says. “I learned about Trump and the current moment from Strang, but I also learned a lot about Strang from Trump. … I’m an English professor, and I believe strongly about the importance of the humanities. The promise, and the payoff, of the humanities is they help us understand the present and the future through the past.”

One of those key understandings that Harvey came to through his research is that our American culture may be more prone to falling under the thrall of deceivers, because we almost come to respect their manipulative skills.

Strang, for example, firmly rejected polygamy and claimed he would never support it—right up until the point where he started taking multiple wives himself, at which point it became doctrine. “I do think maybe there’s something American about figures like Strang,” Harvey says. “When Charles Dickens visited America, he said it’s not just that we have con men, but that we celebrate con men. … I think we’re more prone to the big lie; we have some admiration for the big lie. For just the audacity: You said the exactly opposite thing yesterday, and now you’re saying, with a straight face, this thing today!”

Notwithstanding the similarities his story suggests to our own time, James Strang emerges in The King of Confidence as a fascinating character—a short, balding fellow nevertheless able to draw people into his sphere—surrounded by an equally colorful supporting cast of deceivers and frauds. “What I loved about [Strang] is his contradictory nature,” Harvey says. “When you’re writing, you want three-dimensional characters. He definitely had a charisma that defies his photograph.

“This was the age of the self-made man, and this great period of self-invention. There’s so many figures in America at this time that are completely re-inventing themselves. In some ways, we don’t have to comment on whether they’re fraudulent or divine. … As a self-inventor, he’s extraordinary.”

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the rate of spread, efforts the government is taking to either keep people at home or let them go out, what’s open and closed, what’s in the latest re-opening plans, where are we on the color-coded scale and how people feel about that.

I miss sitting within 6 feet of my grandma instead of talking to her on a Zoom call. I miss my friends. I miss concerts, festivals and going to plays. I miss going out to eat at a restaurant instead of trying to figure out if they’re open and if I can get take out. I miss cozy coffee shops and grabbing a drink at my favorite bars.

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lions of people had to stay indoors for weeks.

My appreciation of others is deepening. My understanding that we must work together is heightened, and I see anew the beauty and sustaining quality of nature and the outdoors—more so than pre-COVID-19.

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It was weird. It was sad. It was tough. It was enlightening. It was fun, it was an emotional roller coaster. The COVID-19 pandemic forever changed our experiences— as customers, employees, citizens and humans; our attitudes and behaviors

changed as a result.

In the pre-pandemic globalized world, we enjoyed a certain level of trust we mostly took for granted. We could travel almost without limitations, meet people without restrictions and order products worldwide.

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I have always thought of myself as an independent person. I’m also an extrovert and now I have to entertain myself. I work in infectious disease processing, and we do COVID-19 tests from around the country. My job has helped me through all this. Being an essential worker, I am forced to have interactions every single day. I don’t think I could have gone without being around people.

It’s really nice living with my best friend because we have a relationship that I don’t have with anyone else.

We have relied upon each other, we need each other and we have helped each other through everything.

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This was a historic time for our country and our state. Locally, we experienced an earthquake, economic stress and protests for social justice at the same time. Disinformation was everywhere, and people panicked and bought toilet paper. The pandemic overshadowed and changed everything. Daily errands had to be planned out instead of done on a whim; we couldn’t hang out together. Some complied with health orders and recommendations, others didn’t as their own form of protest.

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By Steve Conlin, Nick Sokoloff and Paul Duane

nowing the year 2020 to be history in the making, a trio of local photographers— Steve Conlin, Nick Sokoloff and Paul Duane, working collectively as Utah Portrait Arts—are documenting the pandemic through portraiture and stories. City Weekly published the first group of interviews in mid-May.

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COVID-19 hit almost exactly one year into my first experience as a public servant in elected office. As a Salt Lake County Councilwoman, I can tell you your local government matters every day. Leadership and decisions made in your city and county matter immensely.

I’m so proud of many of the Salt Lake County employees. And, a special shoutout to our contact tracers who work long hours at the health department to reduce the spread of the virus in the community. [When I look back on this,] I’ll talk a lot about the bravery and care of frontline workers in grocery stores and warehouses, in hospitals and across many industries where people simply have to keep going to work. I’ll reflect on the creativity of our artists and the resilience of our small businesses and restaurants. I’ll talk about how much I miss hugs and how seriously important it is to vote.

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I was very fortunate to have the normalcy of my job [as meteorologist at for KSTU-Fox 13]. Living by myself was a blessing and a curse. It was nice because it was quiet, and I could do whatever I wanted—but it was lonely. I went months without touching another human. What I missed most was hugging my friends and family.

Moving forward, I will appreciate and not take for granted when I get to see my family, friends or go to a concert.

I’ve been surprised by how mean people are social media.

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My life has been a series of challenges and costume changes.

I’ve always been psychologically prepared for a catastrophe of some kind—an earthquake, for example. I didn’t expect this. I don’t like the nature of the pandemic, making me feel separate from the people I love and care about. I love talking to strangers.

I miss the spark of connecting with people in a friendly, serendipitous way. I also want to hug and kiss my mom and grandma. My daughter and I live so peacefully together. I realize that when she gets older and moves away, that I always want to live that amicably. My anxiety is pretty soothed just staying home in my garden. —Christy The loneliness crept up slower than I thought. For a month, I felt fine and even guilty that I didn’t miss my friends, but now I really feel it. My greatest challenge has been feeling trapped.—June

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I got sick with COVID-19 on March 14—one of the first cases in Utah. It hit me really hard. I was in the hospital for eight days and on oxygen. I had a really hard time breathing. I got better, and now, I’m trying to both share my experience and make sure we take this seriously and follow public health guidelines. As a member of Congress, I’m working to pass legislation to stop the spread of the virus, to help those who’ve been impacted by it and to help us recover economically. When we look back on the whole experience, I think it will have changed us forever in both good ways and bad. It has reminded us of our humanity and to always care about other people.

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My greatest emotional challenge has been transitioning from running a company to having it stop. Then, having to learn about who I am as an individual again. I miss my company. I held a lot of interactive social gatherings involving music, art, local vendors and helped our community. Through it all, I’ve learned what my strong and weak points are. I’ve quit drinking and have started biking a lot!

Gloria Mensah

I passionately lead the GK Folks Foundation (gkfolksfoundation.org), a nonprofit with the intent of enlightening others about Africa’s rich cultural heritage. Aside from community awareness, my nonprofit educates and empowers Africa immigrants/refugees to realize their vast potential.

Earlier this year, as a result of my desire to impact more lives, I decided to quit everything (full-time work, traveling plans, etc.) and focus on expanding my nonprofit.

However, the pandemic and mandated quarantine struck just two weeks before our Grand Finale 10-year anniversary. Everything was ready, but we had to shut down. We were devastated, scared, sad and confused. As a nonprofit leader, and as a wife, mother and friend, I have chosen to remain positive and see the silver lining from this “dark cloud” experience. And what do you know—this pandemic has been a blessing in disguise for me.

What I’ve learned about myself is that I can adapt to any situation I find myself in. I am resilient! The quarantine has made me discover some new skills and talents I never thought I had. I grew fonder of what is the single most important thing in the world to me: my family. Just having time to talk with my kids and home-school them; go on walks and bike rides; and spend an abundance of quality time with them has taught me that I love being surrounded by my loved ones more than I realized before.

Above all, this pandemic has helped to shape my perspective and realize what is most important. So, no matter what the norm is in 10 years, that norm can be changed, and that is OK. The new norm can be a blessing in disguise.

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My greatest emotional and psychological challenge during quarantine has been learning to be happy by myself. Before the pandemic, I would go out a couple of times a week as a means of decompression.

Once I didn’t have that outlet available anymore, I picked up old hobbies that I’d put on the back burner. I’ve been enjoying indoor gardening, cooking new recipes and writing.

I love cooking for my family and having more quality time with them. I’ve also managed to take a break from drinking, started exercising more and just being healthier!

I miss my friends, concerts, poker and having sex—but overall, I’ve really enjoyed this solitary time without any distractions. I feel at peace with myself.

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Since 2004, I have been an educator of primary-age children. Their intensity, curiosity, honesty and spontaneity brighten my life. Not being able to be in the same room with them has darkened my days considerably. That has been the greatest challenge —trying to cultivate my own sunshine.

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Then it hit me that instead of running around trying to meet deadlines, I had an opportunity to find myself as a person and as an artist again.

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As a trainer at Utah’s Hogle Zoo, not knowing whether I will still have a job in a few months weighs heavily on my mind. It’s been tough to take care of the zoo cats without the normal training and interactions we do, even though I know it’s to protect them from the virus.

When we look back on this pandemic, I’ll tell people that the uncertainty was very stressful. A lot of communities worked together to protect one another, even when government leaders tried to ignore the issue and make it political. I’ve been surprised how people refused to believe it was happening and got it all mixed up with politics.

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I’m surprised by the extremes of my emotional highs and lows. My highs are amplified and feel much higher, but my lows feel deeper and lower. I am working to give myself permission to not get too tied up in the lows in an attempt to just move through them.

—Sara In 10 years, I will tell people the earth stood still. Though uncertain, it was thrilling, tragic and incredible. And during that time, I learned my day-to-day patterns are unhealthy.

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Natalie and Brodie will be celebrating their first year of marriage this weekend.

Typically, they would celebrate it at the Burning Man festival surrounded by friends. The festival is where they got married in 2019. This year, the festival has been postponed.

Natalie is six months pregnant and works with lung cancer patients where she says, “we’ve seen a dramatic increase in the death rate, but because of their condition, they don’t get always get tested for COVID-19.

Empowering Leadership: Thinkingbox Promotes New Managing Director for Salt Lake City Office

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SALT LAKE CITY — Global creative collective Thinkingbox has added another force to their leadership team with the promotion of Kari Juip to Managing Director of their Salt Lake City office. In her new position, Juip will focus on growing client relationships, supporting the team in continuing to craft award-winning work, nurturing the culture and recruitment of exceptional talent, expanding her involvement with the overall company leadership team and championing the Salt Lake City’s growth strategy.

Juip joined the Salt Lake City office in 2015 as an Executive Producer. Prior to that, she was a Senior Producer in San Francisco, where she led engagements with various clients such as Autodesk, Cisco, VMware, and Bank of America. After joining Thinkingbox, her role grew organically into the position of Director of Production, and now Managing Director. Kari’s leadership skill, keen eye for talent, and exceptional organizational skills made her an obvious choice for this role.

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team of managing directors, joining Sarah Scott in Vancouver, Rania Hattar in Los Angeles, and Christine Clark in Toronto. Thinkingbox has seen significant growth in recent years and has acquired three impressive agencies, Welikesmall, Aarra, and AntiSocial, in 2020 alone. This growth along with a continued focus on both craft and solving client’s business problems, as well as the additional roster of all-star talent, has greatly expanded its service offerings, making them a strong design and production collective within the industry.

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In the era of the fried chicken sandwich, this one scores pretty damn high. It’s built upon a beautiful piece of fried chicken, and the crunchy exterior blends with the acidic slaw and tangy sauce to create a serious chicken sandwich contender.

When considering side dishes, it’s safe to pass on the Bok Stickers; they’re good, because pot stickers can’t not be good, but there’s nothing exceptional here. The Bok Tots are worth a spin because they get powdered with cheesy snow dry rub, which is a perfect combo. I was pleasantly surprised

by Bok Bok’s fries, which were unexpectedly above par—I suspect they also get the twice-fried treatment.

Though a visit to Bok Bok requires a bit of a Southward jaunt through a stretch of freeway that barely has visible lanes, their fried chicken game is definitely worth it. I can see myself making a semi-regular pilgrimage to American Fork for that chicken sandwich—it was truly mesmerizing. Regardless of your favorite type of fried bird, Bok Bok is a must-visit for crispy chicken fans. It’s a prime example of how getting the basics down pat is the best way to foster creativity. CW

garlicky goodness infused into every drop of this sauce that your tongue can’t decide whose side it’s on. It’s deliciously disorienting.

The house spicy, meanwhile, tricks you into thinking it’s just another sweet glaze, until you get that capsaicin wallop. While I wish this sauce balanced its spicy flavor profile just a bit more—it’s exclusively sweetness until your tongue starts to burn—it’s perfect for anyone in need of a more legitimate excuse to cry over dinner. If you’re feeling straight-up dangerous, then you need to check out the dry rub simply called snow. Instead of a syrupy glaze, snow is a powdered cheese mixture to end all powdered cheese mixtures. Eating crispy fried chicken doused in this debauchery is a singular experience, and only time will tell if your individual experience will bring you triumph or regret.

While the sauces at Bok Bok are what makes this place special, their fried chicken is remarkable on its own. Its double-fried preparation means you get an extra crispy yield, which holds up nicely to the deluge of sauce drenching each order. Those craving a lovely, soulful piece of fried chicken will want to order up the chicken sandwich. Bok Bok reserves the biggest, juiciest pieces of chicken breast for their sandwiches, and the pickled slaw adds a new flavor dimension to the house sweet and spicy sauce.

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espite the flood of interesting prospects that have been popping up all over Utah County, it’s been a hot minute since I checked up on their food scene. Comfort food spots, creative bakeries and scores of other eyebrow-raising eateries have started to establish themselves in American Fork, Orem and Provo, and the UC is long overdue for some serious gastronomic consideration. I decided to kick off this expedition with Bok Bok (648 E. State Street, Ste. N, American Fork, 385-498-3615), a minimalist Korean fried chicken joint that recently opened a second location in Provo (1181 N. Canyon Road, 801-691-0921).

Bok Bok captured my attention via Instagram, and I’ve suppressed the urge to devour boxes of double fried chicken doused in glistening sauces of golden and crimson for long enough. Not even the hellish stretch of freeway construction that cuts through Lehi like a botched appendectomy scar could dissuade me. I’ve been keeping a close eye on these Korean niche places because they’re almost always doing something new for Utah, and Bok Bok’s extremely modest menu hints at some underlying expertise. I’m a big believer in places that only serve one or two items, and it’s rare that I get burned by a place with a specialized arsenal.

For instance, Bok Bok does bone-in or boneless chicken wings ($9.99), a chicken sandwich ($6.49) and a combo ($10.99) that adds a quarter leg to a mix of boneless and bone-in wings. There are a few sides—like Bok Stickers ($2.99) and Bok Tots ($3.99) along with the fries and slaw that come with the wing plates—and that’s pretty much it.

These unassuming menu items are stellar on their own, but only get better when doctored up with one of Bok Bok’s signature sauces.

The Bok Bok standby is their house sweet and spicy sauce, which is a well-rounded mix. Sweet melds with spicy to form something that’s sticky, tangy and delightful. For a first-time visit, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with going this route—but I would encourage you to think a little bigger when getting your Bok Bok on. The three other sauce options veer so far into their respective territories that there’s really no turning back. The candy garlic skirts the edge between just right and cloying saccharine overload that it’s almost too much—which is when the garlic kicks in. There is so much

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In the face of possible eviction from its location of 18 years, Jorge Fierro and his company, Rico Brand Mexican Products, have found a new production facility. When the building where Fierro was leasing his original location at 545 W. 700 South was purchased by a real estate development company, he was asked to move his operation elsewhere. In a bittersweet turn of events, the owners of local catering group Western Food Service had to shutter their operation, and offered their space (945 W. Folsom Avenue) to Fierro. It’s still early in the development, but with a bit of good fortune, Fierro and Rico will continue creating their unique brand of Mexican food for the Wasatch Front.

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Ogden Contemporary Arts (ogdencontemporaryarts.org) will be hosting a virtual contemporary cooking class in lieu of their annual fundraiser—and tickets to the even have recently gone on sale.

The ticket purchase comes with an official OCA tote filled with ingredients for two, a recipe card, a list of utensils needed and an OCA apron. The virtual class will take place on Oct. 9 at 7 p.m.; ticket-holders will receive instructions regarding pickup locations two days prior. Once the class has gone live, it can be streamed until the end of the year.

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Las Vegas-based Mexican restaurant Nacho Daddy recently opened its first Utah location in downtown Salt Lake City (241 W. 200 South). As you can likely tell from the restaurant’s name, Nacho Daddy specializes in crazy nacho combinations like lobster and crab nachos and filet mignon nachos. Outside of their nacho offerings, diners can also get traditional Mexican cuisine like tacos, burritos and [checks website] scorpions swimming in tequila shots. While not all menu items may be available at all locations, Nacho Daddy is known for something called the Scorpion Shot, which looks as scary as it sounds. We’ll see if adventurous Utahns will get their chance to drink whole scorpions doused in tequila soon enough.

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Heber Valley Norsk: This is a new pilsner for the mountain community, and it pours a clear golden-amber color with a billowy two fingers of white head. There’s good level of retention, slowly fading over time to leave plenty of foamy lace on the sides of the glass. The aroma of the brew is a big grainy and herbal hop smell, mixed with some notes of caramel. Along with these smells comes a touch of a hay, plus a little bit of toasted bread that is pleasant and welcoming.

The taste begins with a grainy and lightly caramelsweetened flavor. As the taste advances, the caramel gets lighter and the grain stronger, all while some herbal hop tastes begins developing. With the herbal profile comes a little bit of an earthy weight, mixing nicely to produce a

lager craving any time of the year.

Heber Valley Holmgang: Our second new brew from Heber is a hazy pale ale. The difference between a hazy pale and a hazy IPA should generally be in the malt, with more of a caramel-driven profile. Holmgang pours opaque/cloudy—a shade darker than yellow, but not quite orange or gold—with a dense two-fingered head that is foamy and creamy. The aromas are rather down the middle for the style for the most part, although there are hints of “dank” hop that are more prominent than the norm. Orange, mango and pineapple notes take the forefront, with hints of lemon and white grapefruit—appealing aromas, but muted and a little muddled.

The flavor is initially rather sweet, with juicy orange flavors on the tip of the tongue. Sharper citrus flavors cross the mid-palate, although they lack any distinct flavor, along with some pine hoppiness. Resin and dank meet up with white pepper, white grape and grainy notes at the end, along with hardly a hint of booze, all of which help offset the initial sweetness. The brew has a nice balanced drinkable presence, with medium body and excellent carbonation. The dank hops and light 5.0 percent alcohol provide a nice drying finish for a brew that initially presents somewhat sweet.

Overall: This is a solid expression of the style. It’s hard to nail these down, because the bitterness factor that separates classic pale ale and IPA generally doesn’t exist in this iteration of the style. I like this because there is a hint of bitterness that makes my mind definitively think “pale ale.”

If you want Heber Valley’s suds, you’re going to have to make the trip or get some of your friends to mule you some. It’s a tiny brewpub on the north end of Heber, but well worth the trip for a can, draft or crowler. As always, cheers! CW

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The 21-year-old Blasé has been interested in music since third grade, growing up with it all around him from both church and his father’s rap group. But being a zoomer, he also grew up experimenting online. “As I grew older, around, like, the third grade, I would go on YouTube and download beats and make cover art for them, and post random features on random beats,” he says, detailing unique “collaborations” he’d made, such as Justin Bieber, 2 Chainz and Ariana Grande. “I didn’t know how they would sound on the beat, so I just started writing verses and that’s where I was kinda like, oh, ‘I want to make music.’”

And from that tender age on he did, saying offhandedly, “I didn’t start putting out my own music until my freshman year of high school.”

It was around then that he ended a teenage prejudice against another local music-head, his now-friend and collaborator Miah Summers, who offered the olive branch of sharing some of his own beats with Blasé. Blasé also started working regularly with other friends on production, mixing, mastering and creating album artwork for various projects and collaborations. He found a kindred soul in the beat pack maker Coop The Truth out of Toronto, who contributed beats that Blasé has worked with since. Somewhere along the way, he started doing more of all of it on his own.

In 2019, Blasé released the EP Blue Sage Blvd, which was just a detour on the way to Tanglewood Blur, released late last month.

Tanglewood was the thing Blasé leaped to after an even more tangled project—a rumination on self-love gone awry created under a different name—fell apart after he graduated high school in 2018.

“Tanglewood was all over the place,” Blasé says of the beginnings of that project. “So me and my boy Phil sat down and we were like ‘Okay, what if we just turned every different mood that we have for this one album into like, EPs.’” That approach worked for a while, including the creation of Blue Sage Blvd. But there came a point where Blasé “snapped out of it.”

That is, he shook off the urge to make his ideas cohesive and organized, like the music he was loving at the time—J. Cole’s returnhome narrative 2014 Forest Hills Drive, Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly, Neo Soul and R&B jams, groovy jungle and even Lil Yachty’s 2020 release Lil Boat 3. “I wanted to put out music that was truly me,” he says, “whether that’s soulful stuff, the poetry,

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Leaning into his wayward influences and urges instead of shutting them down turned into, ironically, a very cohesive album after all. Tanglewood is only a messy blur in that it reflects what Blasé calls the “ego death” of moving back home to Tanglewood Drive in Layton and going through the chaotic motions of “coming of age.”

But for fans of woozy experimental pop R&B and hip hop, it calls to mind favorites like Tyler. The Creator, Toro Y Moi or Frank Ocean (mostly in that Blasé is a fan of employing clunky dispatches from his voicemail box). There are some real hitters on the album like “Mansions,” “Gelato” (featuring the curiously slanted delivery of Kid Furey) and “Honest,” with every other track swinging from startling intensity to lackadaisical gravity thanks to turns of absurd spoken work clips and warbling synths, beats and guitars, respectively. It certainly is a young musician building off of what has come before him, but it’s good in its own right, and a stylish standout compared to a lot of other music coming out of Utah right now.

Blasé seems to halfway realize that, especially on confidenceoozing tracks like “Negus,” but there’s a constant humble refrain in his work, questions aimed more at himself than anyone else.

“Bloom Poems” meanders softly as he asks over and over, “What’s it gonna take for you to know that I’m serious about this rapping, these lyrics and all my passions?” Go to Apple Music to listen to his stuff and find out for yourself just how serious he is. CW

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Most of us probably haven’t spent much time in the Urban Lounge’s backlot—outside of, say, being underage and eyeing the fence, attending the rare tiki nights they used to have a few summers back or chugging a beer in your friend’s car before going inside the venue, to stave off buying your first $8 draft of the night. But now, JRC Events has teamed up with the venue to open it up for a real live show—a rare opportunity like the one a week ago at Metro Music Hall, or S&S’s Concert Cruises featuring secret show spots. There’s no secret here, though, just a firm list of rules for all who want to park their kiesters in the back of the Urban Lounge for some drinks and tunes in late summer’s warm evening air. Bands will include Let’s Get Famous, Heavy Rollers and Sorrow for Virtue, and any who want to see them can claim a socially-distanced seat when the space opens at 6 p.m. During the course of the event, show-goers can order a drink from the bar where the bartender will remain six feet from all patrons, and make use of the bathroom facilities where only one person may go in at once. Outside of one’s seat, patrons are asked to keep their masks on when moving about the space during and between sets—and if one sees friends, wait to visit until the event ends at 10 p.m., when there will be an hour-long loitering period allowed. For fans of the Concert Cruises, or just outdoor shows in general, this is one good chance to enjoy a summer night in a familiar space. Just mask up if you see any familiar faces!

Metallica at the Drive-In

A little while ago, City Weekly reported on the first of a series of drive-in concerts presented by Encore Concerts scheduled at drive-in movie theaters around the country.

Well, they haven’t stopped, and while the last one we reported on was a country/ pop fusion for the whole family, now fans of a more hardcore bent can indulge in this new format. That’s right, Metallica is coming to a silver screen near you, which is not something any of us could have conceived of before this pandemic hit. Outside of being a filmed version of a real stadium concert, the film features intimate documentation from the band’s decades-long career, making this more than just a concert. It’s sure to appeal to any longtime Metallica fan—like, say, your ex-metalhead father, or your current metalhead self. Each ticket purchase also gets you four downloads of Metallica’s yet unreleased S&M2, which features recordings of two historic, epic concert collaborations between Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony, another perq that makes this filmed concert different from the kind of in-person experience we’re all used to. The scheduled “opener” is a film of the band Three Days Grace, made in similar drive-in-friendly fashion. Each general admission ticket for the Aug. 29 screening is $115, admitting one carload of up to six people, and Utahns can catch the show at three locations—the Basin Drive-In in Mt. Pleasant, Motor Vu Theater in Tooele or the Redwood Drive-In in West Valley. Visit encorelive.com for ticket info and more on social distancing and COVID-19 safety guidelines.

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Ogden is home to its own population of young and novice music-makers, and Imagine Music is the school where they find an educational home. Taking a unique stance on teaching their many instruments, the folks at Imagine Music know that half the fun of learning an instrument is learning the songs one loves most, and that fostering space for that kind of learning alongside more traditional methods is a great way to keep up engagement in new learners. “People just want to learn their favorite songs” is a frequent refrain all over their website—a quote from the founder himself, Columbia Records alum David Owen. Owen is joined by a slew of other local talent in his teaching efforts, including Paul Zungia member of the locally successful and up-andcoming band Ugly Boys, Paul Zuniga. Whether one’s instrument of choice is guitar, ukulele, drums, bass, piano, violin, cello, mandolin, banjo or even your own voice, they’ve got a staff of talented teachers (many musicians in their own right) from Utah and beyond to share their expertise with students of all ages. With the new school year approaching, and the world still in such strange flux, it’s a better bet than ever that music is the cure for any stressful blues.

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Another local brewery is opening up its outdoor space to live music, falling in line with many others who have found late summer to be the time to do so. Level Crossing will offer up more than just their fantastic and innovative brews at their space in South Salt Lake (2496 S. West Temple), adding their menu of fresh, in-house happy-hour pizzas to keep you company out on the patio, which is filled with distanced tables and chairs. After a few shows through the month of August, they’re slated to feature the singer-songwriter stylings of Ben Brinton next on Aug. 21, after Brinton has spent much of the pandemic gracing only his Facebook page with his playing. He’ll be followed by James Kleuh on Aug. 28, and Rick Gerber to open up the month of September on the 4th. The latter seemingly hasn’t rested at all in his soulful, rollicking musical ways these past few months, playing several dates at bars around Utah and Idaho, and in Lava Hot Springs in particular. J.T. Draper will follow on Sept. 11 with his bluesy outlaw folk rock—one of his first live performances in recent months—and Michelle Moonshine does her own Americana thing on Sept. 18. With this much local talent to look forward to, and with Level Crossing adhering to social distancing and mask-on guidelines for both patrons and employees, this is one welcoming patio to spend an evening on, and kiss the summer heat goodbye. Go to facebook.com/levelcrossingbrewingco for more info on showtimes and other updates.

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It’s been a waiting game to see how long live music took to start feeling titillatingly illicit rather than impossible, but Musicians of the Utah Symphony (MOTUS) are going ahead with putting on a show that’s rather like a speakeasy event. With this first live concert since March, MOTUS presents an exciting, diverse night of listening to both virtual live-stream attendees and lucky lottery winners who get to view the performance IRL. Throughout the month of August, classical-music-lovers who’ve missed the symphony were able to enter to win one of the 15 pairs of exclusive tickets to the secret event located somewhere in the lower Aves, with winners selected on Aug. 17. Finding out about this first official event has me wondering what other secret shows have been reverberating through that neighborhood this summer—in the early evenings, sometimes there’s been an echoing clang of music in the Avenues, which ricochets off of the tall houses and trees that line the sloping streets. Perhaps they’ve been holding practice sessions these months, or perhaps someone else has been hosting secret shows all along. Either way, congratulations to those winners who get to find out the location and attend the socially-distanced event, and best of luck next time to those who will be watching from home. If you want in on the latter viewing option, tune into @musiciansutsym on Instagram to catch the live-stream at 8 p.m. on Aug. 21, and hope for another chance to get in on the secret spot in the future.

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ou’re never more alive than when you’re a teenager,” intones Henry Page (Austin Abrams) as Chemical Hearts begins—and that sentiment lies at the heart of the disconnect between those who embrace young-adult fiction, and those who scoff at it. Its appeal as a genre, often if not always, is a recognition that during the teen years, every emotion feels monumental. Whether the reader is a teen themselves connecting with the validation that, yes, the things they are going through are huge, or an older adult looking back in either wistful or relieved remembrance, the stories acknowledge the essential, necessary egoism of emerging from childhood into adulthood.

No love has ever been greater, no heartbreak has ever been more profound—and don’t be the fool to mock those feelings, because we’ve all been there.

On a certain baseline level, Chemical Hearts is about validating the tumultuous emotions of that time of life—which makes it an intriguing notion that it’s built around an actual tragedy, rather than something that just feels like a tragedy. Adapting Krystal Sutherland’s novel Our Chemical Hearts, the story follows New Jersey high-school senior Henry as he begins his stint as editor of the school newspaper. Assigned as his associate editor is Grace Town (Lili Reinhart), a transfer from a neighboring school who is a bit of a mystery. She walks with a cane, wears oversized boys’ clothes

and reads Pablo Neruda poetry. What dark secrets weigh on her heart?

It doesn’t take long—and a little cyberstalking by Henry, including that ongoing trope of movies about teens laboring under the misapprehension that 21st-century high-schoolers are on Facebook—for Grace’s back-story to emerge. The passenger in a car crash that took the life of her then-boyfriend a year earlier, Grace is left with survivor guilt and uncertainty about how to move forward in life. The complexity of her character makes it an interesting choice that Henry, not Grace, is this story’s protagonist, digging to find out the secrets of Grace’s history even as he falls in love with her. His hobby of repairing deliberately broken pottery is an obvious enough metaphor that Grace herself draws attention to it, though that doesn’t make it any less of a thematic underline.

But again, it might be missing the point to ask for a ton of subtlety from a narrative like Chemical Hearts. One of the story’s through-lines is the need for Henry and Grace’s school paper to come up with a theme for the year-end issue, which Grace suggests as “Teenage Limbo”—a recogni-

tion of the frustrating in-between-ness of young adulthood. In another subplot, Henry’s older sister (Sarah Jones), a medical resident, deals with a recent breakup while explaining to Henry the physiological basis for love and grief. The common thread that emerges is one of reassurance: The stuff you’re going through is normal, and natural, even if it means you feel like shit sometimes. It’s even normal and natural to believe the emotions your feeling are the biggest ones that have ever been felt, though the person right next to you has experienced trauma that’s by most objective measures much more profound. There’s a lot of compassion in Chemical Hearts for Henry’s adolescent self-absorption.

Chemical Hearts might have been much more effective if it could have navigated the bumpy road of its other filmmaking and storytelling choices. Screenwriter/director Richard Tanne—who oversaw a very different kind of romance in the Barack & Michelle Obama origin story Southside With You—relies a bit too heavily on montages, yet also provides a delicately handled sex scene built on the too-rarely-explored dynamic of an inexperienced guy and an ex-

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perienced girl. And while it’s interesting to build another subplot around the romantic angst of Henry’s lesbian best friend La (Kara Young)—further emphasizing the universality of this age’s operatic emotions—it also skirts the edges of tokenism.

Everything revolves around Henry and Grace, and while Abrams and Reinhart are both solidly effective individually and as a pair, their chemistry as a couple is almost beside the point. As the title suggests, this is about a bigger kind of chemistry that connects us all. There’s nothing wrong with melodrama being a feature, rather than a bug, if it’s part of reminding people who need to hear it that they’re not alone. CW

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) “We never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough,” said Aries singer Billie Holiday. I don’t think that applies to everyone, although it’s more likely to be true about the Aries tribe than maybe any other sign of the zodiac. And I’m guessing that the coming weeks could be a time when you will indeed be vivid proof of its validity. That’s why I’m issuing a “Too Much of a Good Thing” alert for you. I don’t think it’ll be harmful to go a bit too far and get a little too much of the good things; it may even be wise and healthy to do so. But please don’t go waaayyyy too far and get waaayyyy too much of the good things.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “I transformed stillnesses and darknesses into words,” wrote Libran poet Arthur Rimbaud. “What was unspeakable, I named. I made the whirling world pause.” In accordance with current astrological potentials, I have turned his thoughts into a message for you. In the coming weeks, I hope you will translate silences and mysteries into clear language. What is unfathomable and inaccessible, you will convert into understandings and revelations. Gently, without force or violence, you will help heal the inarticulate agitation around you with the power of your smooth, resonant tenderness.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Taurus author Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) took many years to write The Human Comedy, an amalgam of 91 intertwined novels, stories and essays. For this vast enterprise, he dreamed up the personalities of more than 2,000 characters, many of whom appeared in multiple volumes. I bring this to your attention, Taurus, because I believe that the next 15 months will be an excellent time for you to imagine and carry out a Balzac-like project of your own. Do you have an inkling of what that might be? Now’s a good time to start ruminating.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “Your desires, whether or not you achieve them, will determine who you become,” wrote author Octavia E. Butler. Now is a fertile time for you to meditate on that truth. So I dare you to take an inventory of all your major desires, from the noblest to the most trivial. Be honest. If one of your burning yearnings is to have 100,000 followers on Instagram or to eat chocolatecovered bacon that is served to you in bed, admit it. After you’re through tallying up the wonders you want most, the next step is to decide if they are essential to you becoming the person you truly want to be. If some aren’t, consider replacing them with desires that will be a better influence on you as you evolve.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) If you can manage it, I recommend taking a break from businessas-usual. I’d love to see you give yourself the gift of amusement and play—a luxurious sabbatical that will help you feel free of every burden, excused from every duty and exempt from every fixation.

The spirit I hope you will embody is captured well in this passage from author Okakura Kakuzo: “Let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.”

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “Everyone who has ever built a new heaven first found the power to do so in his own hell,” declared philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

That’s a rather histrionic statement! But then, Nietzsche was a maestro of melodrama. He was inclined to portray human life as a heroic struggle for boldness and liberation. He imagined us as being engaged in an epic quest to express our highest nature. In accordance with your astrological potentials, I propose that you regard Nietzsche as your power creature during the coming weeks.

You have a mandate to adopt his lionhearted perspective. And yes, you also have a poetic license to build a new heaven based on VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, the lessons you learned and the power you gained in your own hell. even under the most unpromising circumstances,” writes author Frederick Buechner. What he doesn’t say is that you PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) must be receptive and open to the possibility of joy arriving any- Here’s some knowledge from author John le Carré: “In every where and anytime. If you’re shut down to its surprising influx, operation, there is an above the line and a below the line. Above if you’re convinced that joy is out of reach, it won’t break through the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the the barriers you’ve put up; it won’t be able to land in your midst. job.” According to my analysis, you have, at least for now, done all I think this is especially important counsel for you in the coming you can in your work above the line. That’s great! It was crucial for weeks, Virgo. Please make yourself available for joy. P.S. Here’s you to follow the rules and honor tradition. But now it’s time for a another clue from Buechner: “Joy is where the whole being is shift in emphasis. In the coming weeks, I hope you will specialize in finessing the details and massaging the nuances below the line. pointed in one direction.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible,” says Leo politician Carol Moseley Braun. I agree with her but will also suggest there’s an even higher magic: when you devise a detailed plan for achieving success by challenging the impossible, and then actually carry out that plan. Judging from the current astrological omens, I suspect you’re in an unusually favorable position to do just that in the coming weeks. Be bold in rising to the challenge; be practical and strategic in winning the challenge.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Not until the 19th century did humans begin to take organized actions to protect animals from cruelty. Even those were sparse.

The latter part of the 20th century brought more concerted efforts to promote animal welfare, but the rise of factory farms, toxic slaughterhouses, zoos, circuses and cosmetic testing has shunted us into a Dark Age of animal abuse. I suspect our descendants will look back with horror at our barbarism. This problem incurs psychological wounds in us all in ways that aren’t totally conscious. And I think this is an especially key issue for you right now. I beg you, for your own sake as well as for the animals’, to upgrade your practical love and compassion for animals. I bet you’ll find it inspires you to treat your own body with more reverence.

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3. It’s often brown or amber 4. Wide-eyed in wonder 5. Foot-long item?

6. “Meet the Press” host Chuck 7. “Kinda sorta” 8. Math set with an unspecified number of elements 9. Looks down on 10. Wilber who founded a fast-food chain 11. Rifle filler

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12. Tropical vine 13. Sportswriter whose Twitter handle is @ Buster_ESPN 14. Some “Downton Abbey” figures 19. Deep cut 20. Primary 23. “Diary ____ Wimpy Kid” 24. Things often drawn at night 25. Childish comeback 26. “... so long ____ both shall live?”

29. “____ be my pleasure!”

30. Pop singer Rita 31. Neither’s partner 32. Dictator played by Forest 36. Early people of the Great Lakes 37. Languishes 39. The U.S. joined it in 1917 40. “Judge me by my size, do you?” speaker 41. Tic-tac-toe win 42. Bygone channel that aired “Veronica Mars” 43. NNW’s opposite 47. Lucy of “Elementary” 49. Pop-up or foul ball, say 50. “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” family 51. Doing the job 52. Some easy baskets 53. “You got that right!”

54. Many “Frozen”-inspired Halloween costumes 55. “You Will ____ Tall Dark Stranger” (2010 film) 56. “SNL” alum Cheri 60. Equine : horse :: cygnine : ____ 61. River near the Sphinx 62. 1998 Sarah McLachlan hit 63. Derive (from) 65. Preceder of com, org or edu 66. Swelled head 67. Free (of) 68. Fitting last word in a crossword grid

Last week’s answers

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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1. Kissing in a restaurant, for short 4. Sean of “Stranger Things” 9. Mideast peace?

15. Internet company that helped launch TMZ 16. House haunter 17. “Havana” singer Cabello 18. Spa treatment that involves getting your fingernails done by a jokester?

21. Like fine wines 22. Let off 23. Kimono sashes 26. Draw ____ in the sand 27. Sorrowful cries 28. Moniker one might give to Anna Wintour or Tim Gunn?

33. One who’s passed the bar: Abbr.

34. Movie in which Brad Pitt plays Achilles 35. Drops on the ground?

38. Sharp reprimand of a voice-activated assistant?

44. Plant, as seeds 45. [head slap] 46. Ailing 48. “Excuse me, mythical beast, still talking here ...”?

54. Gloomy rock genre 57. Ancient region ruled by Alexander the Great 58. “Mi casa ____ casa” 59. Accidentally reveals 61. Apollo 11 org.

64. Comment a punster might use after delivering a groaner ... or a hint to this puzzle’s theme 69. Way to get to Harlem, per Duke Ellington 70. “Honest!”

71. ____ rummy 72. They have a glow about them 73. Cook, as dim sum 74. Curious

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f you’re lucky (or unlucky) enough to receive unemployment benefits from the State of Utah, hopefully you know that you also can apply for rental assistance through the Utah Department of Workforce Services/ Homeless Prevention Plan. It’s hard to keep track of all the available help out there given that there are 45 signing documents that may not hold up in court and a Congress that can’t seem to figure out anything. We do know that the extra $600 in unemployment benefits ran out and people are in danger of not being able to pay their rent.

By allocating funds for rent/mortgage and/or utilities, the state’s emergency assistance program helps folks who don’t have enough money to prevent becoming homeless or have their utilities shut off. There are eight conditions that must be met to get help: 1. The family must have lost their home or be about to lose their home or their utilities because they have past-due payments that resulted from an event (a crisis) that happened beyond the control of the family.

2. The family must be able to keep their housing or utilities or find new housing with a single rent, deposit, mortgage or utility payment.

3. The family must show how it will make past due payments and pay future months’ rent, mortgage or utility payments after the crisis has been solved.

4. The family must have already tried all other means of getting the money to pay or tried to set up a repayment plan.

5. The value of all the household assets and things the family owns cannot be more than $2,000. These include assets and possessions that are immediately available to the family members.

6. The household’s total income per month cannot be more than 185% of the Standard Needs Budget (SNB), based on the household’s size. (Visit jobs.utah.gov/ customereducation/apply/incomecharts. html for income limits.)

7. The payment is available once in a 12-month period.

8. The household must have at least one dependent child who is under 18 living in their home.

You can apply at a Workforce Service location in the state or talk to nonprofit dealing with housing issues like the Y WCA, Shelter the Homeless, Community Development Corp., etc. Better yet, use the 211 hotline for Essential Community Services.

It’s a free phone number like 911 that helps you find services. It’s especially good if you are elderly, disabled, don’t speak English as a primary language and/or are new to the area. The information and referral service was set up a few years ago and is priceless and works in every state in the U.S. to help find resources for housing assistance and emergency housing as well as myriad other services. Cross your fingers that more will come from Congress soon! n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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Disney” instead of state officials. State Department of Revenue n For her birthday, 5-year-old Macey Clemens of Parker, chief of staff Jade Borgeson told WPRI that the division of taxa- Colorado, went on her first horseback ride and was hooked, so tion uses the signatures on dummy checks for internal testing, she wrote her wish for a pet horse on a balloon, signed her name and the test image files were mistakenly added to real checks. and let it soar. On Aug. 2, Jennifer Houghton, who owns seven “Corrected checks will be reissued to impacted taxpayers within horses and lives about an hour away, found the balloon stuck in a fence, and it wasn’t long before the two found each other through one week,” Borgeson said. social media. “I feel like every little girl should get to enjoy the

horse world,” Houghton told KOAA. “I couldn’t get her a pet Karen Not Karen Domino’s pizza restaurants in New Zealand were forced to end a horse, but at least try and help her ride and make somewhat of promotion to give free pizza to women named Karen “that aren’t, a dream come true.” She’s working with Macey’s family to find a well, Karens,” the promotion announcement read. United Press horse close to home that the family can lease. “Hopefully, one day International reported that customers named Karen were invit- we’ll be able to meet up and go for a ride together.” ed to fill out an application for one of 100 free pizzas, but people objected online, suggesting the chain offer food to minorities or n Father’s Day in Taiwan is celebrated on Aug. 8, and EVA Air people who have been impacted by COVID-19. “We wanted to wanted to make it special, so working around global travel restricbring a smile to customers who are doing the right thing—Karen tions, it announced a Hello Kitty flight to nowhere, Travel & Leisure the nurse, Karen the teacher,” the company posted on Facebook, reported. The anime character-decorated airplane is scheduled but “people interpreted this in a different way.” to take off from Taipei Taoyuan Airport and fly over the coasts of

Taiwan for three hours at 25,000 feet, then land again at the same Least Competent Criminals airport. Guests will receive a special goody bag, enjoy a seafood n Edward Thomas Schinzing, 32, was charged July 28 with feast created by a Michelin three-star chef and be given the opporarson for allegedly setting fires inside the Justice Center in tunity to purchase Hello Kitty duty-free products at a big discount.

Portland, Oregon, on May 29, beginning two months of protest Tickets cost $180 for economy seats and $215 for business class. in that city. The Oregonian reported the shirtless Schinzing stood out among about 30 people who broke into the building around Revenge 10:59 p.m., vandalizing offices and setting fires, because of the An unnamed man in Cairns, North Queensland, Australia, posted large tattoo of his last name clearly visible across his shoulders on notices offering a $100 prize to the person able to best impersurveillance images, according to court documents. Schinzing, sonate Chewbacca from Star Wars, but the contest turned out to who was on probation at the time for domestic violence assault, be a hoax designed to harass the woman who dumped him. The posters listed the woman’s phone number and invited contesis being held at the Justice Center. tants to call and deliver their best Chewbacca roar. The woman, n Pueblo, Colorado, police were intrigued to find a young man identified only as Jessica, told 9News: “I’m getting phone calls at sleeping in a car parked behind a motel on Aug. 2, “since motels really strange hours of the night. ... I thought it was quite funny, have rooms, with beds, that you can sleep in,” said Capt. Tom actually, a good joke.” However, she drew the line when the ex Rummel in a tweet. Upon running the car’s license plate, he abandoned his car, without tires, in the driveway of her home, continued, the officers found it had been stolen in an armed car- blocking her in. “The police ... are going to do something about jacking, and “there on the front seat was a sawed-off shotgun, it,” she said. just like the victim said was used yesterday!” KKTV reported the sleepy thief, a juvenile, was taken into custody and the car was Nature Calls An Amazon delivery driver in Nuthall, Nottingham, England, returned to its owner. is out of a job after Sharon Smith, 53, discovered him defecat ing in her back garden in late July. Smith said she saw the man Police Report A 26-year-old man in Plymouth, England, was detained on run toward her garden and went to investigate. “I asked what July 9 after officers working nearby heard a commotion and the heck he was doing,” Smith told Metro News, “and he just looked up to see the man struggling with a seagull and biting remained pooing whilst asking me what my problem was the it. “He sunk his teeth into it before throwing it to the floor,” a cheek of it.” The driver told police he wasn’t feeling well and was police spokesperson told Plymouth Live. The man told police the desperate, and he didn’t realize he was in a private garden. Smith seagull had attacked him, trying to get his McDonald’s meal, and agreed to not press charges as long as he cleaned up the mess and also “volunteered ... that he was under the influence of drugs ... his employer was informed; Amazon promised a gift voucher as a The seagull was clearly injured by the incident but flew off before goodwill gesture. we were able to check on its welfare,” police said. The man was Send your weird news items to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com. taken to a hospital for treatment.

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