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Cover Story, Sept. 1, “Into the Wilderness” Great story. Thank you.

MELISSA O’BRIEN FIELDS Via CityWeekly.net This one is definitely nice.

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Happy trails!

What a fantastic job Katherine Pioli did writing her attempt at the Highline Trail.

She did a great job explaining the fear, the apprehension and the beauty and glory of the great outdoors. Please pass on my congratulations, and I wish her the very best on her second attempt. Please tell her 65 pounds each is way too much for eight days.

JOHN BURROWS Salt Lake City

News, Sept. 1, “Bitter Victory”

Sandy city should, in good faith to its residents and business owners, pay for a portion of this man’s legal fees as well as go after Ogden for monies that do not belong to them. All around crooked deal. Tinto stadium should also pay yearly for the property with the box on it, as it seems as if they are renting it from Maupin as well as back rent.

That may be some way to help with the resolution. But … that would just be the right thing to do! Seems like our government and state try to sweep things under the rug instead of doing the right thing.

Derk, you’re a boss (literally).

Keep up the good work, every door gets you closer to your goal.

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Blog, Sept. 2, “Kent Hart’s Last Letter”

SARAH SHANNON

I wish the city of Sandy would step up to the plate and make it right with this small business owner. He shouldn’t have had to go through this legal battle with the city to prove that the property was his all along!

Shameful to do this to Mr. Maupin and his family. I hope that this man doesn’t go through much more unnecessary hardship than he already has had to go through.

AARON SAXON

JILL OLSEN CANNON

Opinion, Sept. 1, “Coyote Clash”

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Via Twitter Coyotes already in SLC neighborhoods.

Only when coyotes become habituated to humans will conflicts occur.

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Five Spot, Sept. 1, Derk Boss

As opposed to insanity waiting quietly on the settee?

PAX RASMUSSEN Via Facebook

Apparently a lot of people (including on my Facebook page) thought very highly of him. I never knew him but saw a lot of great posts on and about him. Now I’ll have to read this.

KARL WINSNESS

One of the most gifted songwriters I have encountered. Listening to Derk’s music is a transportive and captivating experience.

I’m excited to see what’s next!

This is Evan Hart, Kent Hart’s son (not the one who returned from a mission). I would like to thank you deeply for this article. It continues to astound me how many people my dad has helped and guided; I am now more proud than ever to be able to call him my father. It’s people like this who make the pain of his passing bearable.

MIKAELA HANSEN

Thank you, City Weekly, for publishing Kent’s last letter. Makes me happy to keep his legacy alive.

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A&E, Sept. 1, “Con Etiquette”

Literally saw a dude in blackface the first year I went to SLCC.

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Hits & Misses, Sept. 1, “Healthcare Malaise”

I just wanted to say that I appreciated your comments on healthcare malaise in City Weekly, and I’m glad that the issue still gets some discussion in the media.

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Insanity run amok.

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Yup, hard to fight a crocked system based upon lies.

This guy came to my house and was incredible. Profound lyrics and beautifully talented.

So sad.

Shoot them … No problem.

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Another case of governments, big, little and in between, stomping on their citizens to win at all costs. Grrrrr.

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Music, Sept. 1, “Skozey the Alien” Yummy.

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Famous People Fame is a bee.

It has a song— It has a sting— Ah, too, it has a wing.

—Emily Dickinson Let’s begin with a pop quiz. Who are the following people and for what is each famous?

Jonas Salk Jack Anderson Philo Farnsworth If you don’t know, then you might turn the tables by challenging the question’s premise. That is to say, whatever fame these people enjoyed has faded to a point that you have no reason to recognize their names or recall what they did. Do they deserve to be remembered? You might counter.

Andy Warhol asserted that everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. Singing, stinging, soaring, exploring—you get the idea—15 minutes in the limelight before the final curtain. Judging from her bee poem, Dickinson might have agreed even though she shunned fame herself. Some people’s 15 minutes come in a single, dramatic moment as it did for Khizr Khan at the Democratic National Convention. Others claim their fame allocation piecemeal—a minute here, a minute there— a byline, an Eagle Scout badge, a following on Instagram, a patent, a Silver Star medal, a gig on television. Some like Rep. Jason Chaffetz lust after fame. Achilles fought for it at Troy. Caitlyn Jenner yielded to it. Tim DeChristopher and Kate Kelly use it to advance causes they hold dear. Fame snuck up on Sixto Rodriguez. For decades after his music was forgotten in the U.S., his songs were popular in South Africa without him knowing it.

Some instances of fame have found a voice in the English language. The Marquis de Sade’s perversions have given us “sadist,” and Thomas Bowdler’s sanitized revision of Shakespeare’s plays has yielded a verb, to bowdlerize. Movies that have been

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bowdlerized are popular in Provo but unpopular in Hollywood.

To be famous is not necessarily to be ennobled. Fame can be corrosive, as Monica Lewinsky has testified. Like gold, the quality of fame can be measured with a graduated scale. On the 24-karat end, you find people like Harriet Tubman or Pope Francis. On the fool’s gold end is the likes of Bernie Madoff and the Kardashian clan. The latter is famous for being infamously banal to the degree that a newspaper account of an honor killing in Pakistan was headlined, “Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian Murdered by Brother.” Were I Kim, I’d make for the convent.

Dickinson’s bee seems a quaint metaphor in the age of the AR-15. A moment of fame might sting no more than a snarky tweet, but an assault rifle in the hands of one who seeks fame in a spasm of killing— that is an obscenity.

The French newspaper Le Monde no longer publishes photos of dead terrorists “to avoid posthumous glorification.” You might not know that Utah native Philo Farnsworth invented television, but everyone knows Lee Harvey Oswald, Charles Manson and Sandy Hook Elementary School.

You might have forgotten Jonas Salk, the doctor whose polio vaccine eradicated the paralyzing disease that infected thousands of children before the mid-1950s. I have forgotten Serge Gainsbourg but not his girlfriend, Brigitte Bardot. He was a very popular singer-songwriter in the 1970s and ’80s, “something of a French cross between Tom Jones and Johnny Rotten,” according to a story in The New York Times. He died in 1991.

His house in Paris has remained unoccupied and unchanged. The ashtrays are still full of his cigarette butts. The exterior walls of the house have become a canvas for graffitists. I have long wondered about people who take pleasure from defacing a public space with their names. A couple of empty buildings

near Westminster College attract them. Is it fame they seek with a can of spray paint?

Or does a warped ego equate vandalism with art?

I have a friend who is an unabashed “stagedoor Johnny.” He waits for actors to emerge from a back door of a London theater and imposes on them to stand alongside him for a photo. He has made 50 trips to England and has hundreds of photos of himself with the likes of Kevin Spacey and Angela Lansbury.

Although it strikes me that posing such a photo is itself a pose—a staged deception—I suppose it is not that much different from an ordinary selfie. Such a photo intimates that fame rubs off like cat hair and sticks to you.

I make a mental list of the famous people I have brushed up against. I once stood next to F. Lee Bailey at a urinal in a Boston restaurant. I recognized him as the attorney for O.J. Simpson and the Boston Strangler. We didn’t speak. I did chat with Imran Khan, the worldfamous Pakistani cricket player who was in Princess Diana’s circle of friends, and also with Gen. William Westmoreland of Vietnam fame. The author of the bestseller, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, parked his SUV in my garage for six weeks. I gave a presentation to Gov. Mike Dukakis just before he ran for president. I lobbied Mayor Ralph Becker to build pickleball courts in the Avenues. My wife’s close encounters include the Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie and Paul McCartney’s sister-in-law.

No photo record exists of those brushbys with the famous, and insofar as I can tell, no benefit has accrued because of them. My sole claim to fame is the byline on this column. If Jack Anderson—a famous newspaper columnist with deep roots in Utah and a Pulitzer Prize—has escaped your notice, there’s no hope for me. CW

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Have you ever had a brush with fame?

Scott Renshaw: I once stood at a urinal next to Ray Romano during Sundance. I have no further information regarding why everybody might love Raymond.

Enrique Limón: On that note, I once peed next to Brendan Fraser. This is George of the Jungle-era Brendan Fraser we’re talking about, not the awk wardclapping at the Golden Globes version.

Randy Harward: Yes. Lots. I’ll try to think of my best one that can be told quickly.

Lindsay Larkin: A lecture and drinks with Wes Anderson while he was filming The Royal Tenenbaums back in my Vassar days became sadly overshadowed when, a year later, I met Rem Koolhaas *swoons for life* Josh Scheuerman: After photographing one of my favorite bands, Pavement, at Bumbershoot, I helped Stephen Malkmus walk around the Space Needle grounds trying to find a drunk Bob Nastanovich who had wandered off after their set. Talking with an indie icon was far more satisfying than the time I met Puff Daddy.

Paula Saltas: Yeah, I am the Chris Isaak groupie you’ll see at every venue with his arm around me ready to take a selfie. I’m cool like that. Wicked.

Randy Harward II: Nothing will ever top when Los Lobos shared their Red Iguana feast with me backstage at Kingsbury Hall. Unless it’s roasting one* with Hank III. (*One = cornish game hen.)

Sierra Sessions: I met Vanessa Hudgens at the Gateway like eight years ago when she was filming High School Musical. My mom made me take a photo with her. She does not speak.

Tyeson Rogers: I once spent a sexually charged weekend with Alan Ginsberg.

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Yes, of course it’s about complying with the state’s open-enrollment statute.

It’s not about making sure that Timpview or Brighton high schools stay on top of the rankings, or that your kid gets to play there. And if you believe that, don’t look at the Deseret News graphic that makes it all startlingly clear: There are 8,794 high-school boys in Utah who participate in football. No girls. Are there similar issues with the 5,284 boys and 4,594 girls who participate in track and field?

We don’t know because the parents who pushed the state school board into trying to usurp control over athletics are only concerned with football. For now, the issue is on hiatus for 30 days. The Board of Education president for the Salt Lake City School District, Heather Bennett, called the proposal ego-driven and foolish. This is about pleasing the parents, not helping the students.

A “Fair” Deal

Taxpayer money goes to the damnedest things—a coal port in California, a lawsuit to force the federal government to give up public lands. But sometimes, it hits the right places. The Utah State Fair kicked off last week with a groundbreaking plan for a new $17 million arena. The “little fair that could” has been struggling for decades and the state has been loathed to keep funding it. Now they seem to have come up with a fix—make it a multipurpose arena to bring in the Days of ’47 Rodeo, concerts and other events. The fair is kind of folksy in this modern tech age, but its agrarian flavor is a big draw for urbanites. It’s good for the west side, and there still needs to be more emphasis on building up that part of town.

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Housing. It’s such a morass that you have to give a high-five to Mayor Jackie Biskupski for even trying. Salt Lake City is working on solutions amid legislative skepticism and a firm GOP belief that the poor just need to get a job. The Salt Lake Tribune wrote about the burden of rents— sometimes half of their monthly pay. And for those making $20,000 or less, there’s a shortage of 7,500 units. All this while the Housing First initiative is being touted nationwide, and has, in fact, reduced chronic homelessness by 91 percent. And a viable aid—building homeless shelters as separate, smaller units—faces opposition in the city council and your backyard. It’s not as though no one’s working on this. Councilwoman Lisa Adams even suggested a kind of KOA for the homeless.

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Sitting in a nondescript booth in a Taylorsville taquería, beneath a flat-screen TV tuned to too-loud telenovelas, mariachi singer Yunuen Carrillo is the picture of splendor. Her radiant smile and twinkling eyes are as noticeable as her ornate, natty charro suit. More captivating is her voice, which soars over a bed of trumpets, accordion and guitarrón as she performs Mexican standards like “Cielo Rojo” and “Amor Eterno.” When Carrillo sings—whether it’s at a quinceañera or a festival like Living Traditions—it’s with an ardor that transcends gender and language barriers, buoying the hearts of anyone within earshot. Check her out at Facebook.com/Yunuen.CarrilloUtah.

When did you know you wanted to play mariachi music?

I was so young. My dad was the one who introduced me to this music. I really started being exposed to more crowded stages [when I was] 9. I do remember always being by [my father’s side] and wanting to go where he went when he performed.

What instrument did you start with?

I’m more concentrated on the vocals, which is the hardest part. In mariachi, you have the different rhythms and you have the falsetto—that’s not an easy task for any singer. I do know music and I play the piano, but I’m more focused on performing. Not just singing, but knowing how to touch the hearts of people. You can sing and have a beautiful voice, but if you don’t know how to touch people, they won’t get that special feeling that mariachi music has.

Has it been difficult, being a female mariachi in a male-dominated genre?

Actually it is really nice. Most people think that the mariachis are just male, but we do have a lot of female mariachis—Lola Beltrán, Aida Cuevas. As a female, you give that touch; the voice and the tunes are different than the men’s. But it’s not something new.

This has been going on since the beginning of this music.

Why is mariachi music able to transcend cultural and lingual barriers?

This type of music is not just for a specific group of people. It touches all of the people around the world. So in Japan, and other places, they sing in Spanish, but also in their own languages. So it’s really nice, the great impact that the music has around the world.

As a performer here in Utah, when I finish my shows, they say, ‘I didn’t really understand the whole thing, but you made me feel it.’ Language is no barrier anymore, with this type of music. I like to get people involved in the music. I make them sing with me and teach them a little bit. I’m really interested in exposing my culture and letting people know how beautiful this music is.

What is your favorite song to perform?

One of my favorite songs is ‘La Cigarra.’ Linda Ronstadt used to sing this song. It talks about a little insect that makes some noise. It says, ‘I want to continue singing until I am gone.’ It hits close to me because I have grown with music and singing, and I see my life keeping going and singing and sharing. Until the end of my days, I ask for the blessing to sing.

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BY CECIL ADAMS SLUG SIGNORINO

STRAIGHT DOPE Got Guts?

Why do so many people in the U.S. only eat the muscles of food animals and not their organs?

—Dan from Tucson

It’s true: Since the dawn of the republic, Americans have been scarfing down animal flesh in quantities that have left Europeans envious and maybe a little grossed out, yet we’ve been strangely squeamish about dining on animal organs. Sure, regional cuisines do incorporate the likes of chitterlings (better known as chitlins) or mountain oysters (testicles, to non-ranchers), and even the least adventurous among us can handle turkey giblets in their Thanksgiving gravy.

But for all the recent talk of nose-to-tail dining among the foodie set, when it’s time to make dinner, organ meat remains as hard a sell in the U.S. as the metric system.

Margaret Mead herself confronted this question more than 70 years ago, at a time when the nation’s sustenance might well have depended on getting the correct answer. The U.S. was preparing for war with the Axis powers, meaning a whole bunch of hungry kids in uniform would have dibs on the steaks and chops—which were already in limited circulation from many Americans’ perspective, what with the Great Depression still peskily impoverishing millions. Heading into a potentially decade-long conflict, the government concluded that some substitute protein was needed pronto to nourish those on the home front. Mead, our preeminent cultural anthropologist, was asked to chair the newly formed Committee on Food Habits, her task no less tricky, in its way, than the Manhattan Project’s: to convince Americans to eat offal.

As detailed in a 2002 paper by Brian Wansink, now an eating-behavior expert at Cornell, Mead’s committee of top-shelf social scientists was convinced you couldn’t change longstanding dietary norms by just barking “Eat more calf’s liver or the Nazis have already won!” Instead, argued psychologist Kurt Lewin, you had to figure out why the eating public was so offal-avoidant to begin with.

Ensuing research showed that, for one, lots of people simply thought of organ meat as scraps and had no idea how to cook it—the average American didn’t eat offal, in other words, because the average American had never eaten offal. Familiarizing homemakers with offal’s nutritional value and disseminating recipes through the press, the committee believed, would quickly remedy these matters.

The socioeconomic stigma attached to offal was a whole other problem. Many Americans, it appeared, thought organ meats were what poor country folks ate, and with good reason—organ meats were what poor country folks ate. This being the U.S., said stigma likely had a racial component, too. Chitlins, for example, made from pork intestines, first became a staple of African-American diets in colonial times, when prosperous whites dined on the choice hog meat and left their slaves to make do with the guts.

Mead’s team had to finesse all this. Rather than pushing to upgrade unfamiliar meats to everyday status, they encouraged homemakers to incorporate them into meal planning as a source of variety; offal was accordingly rebranded as “variety meats,” a durable euphemism still employed by the U.S. meat industry. The big rollout came in the January 1943 issue of Life magazine, which introduced readers to these arcane sources of protein and explained how to prepare them.

When the war ended sooner than expected, though, victory extinguished the dream of an offal-rich American diet. In a wealthy nation with plenty of room to raise edible critters, if the inhabitants don’t want to eat the livers, no one’s gonna make them.

With state and federal agencies ponying up billions each year in subsidies, meat stays cheap, as does food generally: Americans spend about 5 percent of their disposable income on what they eat, while Europeans spend more like 10 to 15 percent. Unwanted animal organs are a significant U.S. export, with 150,000 metric tons of cow offal finding its way overseas in the first half of 2016 alone.

Since today’s offal partisans can no longer rally their fellows around the flag, many focus on nutritional value. Paleo-diet supporters stress offal’s high protein content, but it’s an uphill battle. An already organ-skeptical populace might be all too ready to buy into the unfounded belief that toxins accumulate in organ meat; for audiences who’ve watched Fear Factor contestants eating cow brains in a gross endurance contest, it’s not hard to imagine that soft tissue harboring mad cow disease.

It also doesn’t help that organs resemble, well, body parts: Any steak slapped on a plate looks like dinner, while a lovingly presented calf heart might suggest an autopsy. And exposure to offal on a travelogue show called (e.g.) Bizarre Foods might not expand viewers’ horizons so much as reinforce their sense of organ meat as a culinary eccentricity.

On the other hand, Americans are just fine with sausages, those seasoned grab bags of animal miscellany, and particularly fond of hot dogs—which can, if labeled per USDA regulations, contain as much as 85 percent organ meat. So maybe the trick of getting us to eat offal has already been managed: Grind those guts into a paste, squeeze it into an edible tube and serve it on a bun. n Send questions to Cecil via StraightDope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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With 14 positions open ahead of the state’s pension shift in 2011, UFA hired 10 family members.

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n the firefighting business, it is a point of pride when a son or daughter joins the ranks, cementing a proud multigenerational legacy of service to one’s community within the branches of a family tree.

Even that word, “legacy,” is one firefighters at the Unified Fire Authority use to describe the hiring of department offspring—a process so common that when the department moves to make new hires once or twice per year, it is not unusual to see one or even two family members of existing UFA employees make the cut.

But among many firefighters at UFA, the term “legacy” has, since the summer of 2011 when 10 of 14 new hires at the department were family members of either UFA brass or politically connected individuals, taken on a tainted meaning.

This hiring, which took place on June 27, 2011—four days before the state’s pension system for public safety employees was set to switch to a muchless-lucrative payout formulae—is widely referred to by UFA’s 650 firefighters, administrators and paramedics as the “legacy hire.”

That 10 of 14 new hires—71 percent— could make the highly competitive short-list of the hundreds who routinely compete for a slot at UFA, is an unprecedented statistical anomaly, UFA officials say. Five years after the hiring, the nagging suspicion that some hires might have received an unfair advantage continues to plague the embattled department, which over the past two months, has seen its fire chief and deputy chief resign amid an internal audit and a state audit focusing on the use of gas cards, department credit cards and lucrative bonuses for top UFA officials.

Interim UFA Chief Mike Watson says he does not know for certain whether, or how, the firefighters hired in 2011 received an unfair advantage. But he says safeguards have been devised to ensure that the testing and interview process cannot easily be manipulated by highranking department personnel.

“The perception out in the field—out

LABOR with our folks—is that something took place that might not have been above board because the percentages were just so high at that time when the retirement system was changing,” Watson says.

The hiring, says UFA Director of Human Resources Arriann Woolf, was purposely held ahead of the state’s switch to the “Tier II” retirement system, whereby retirement eligibility for firefighters would be stretched from 20 years to 25, and the maximum pension would be cut from roughly 50 percent of a person’s high salary to 37 percent.

But what began as an effort to ensure that the department’s newest employees would receive a pension at the same level as existing employees, concluded with an apparent giveaway to the sons, brothers-in-law and nephews of highranking UFA authorities.

Several of those hired are the sons of current or former UFA chiefs.

Michael Jensen, who was chief of UFA in 2011 and stepped down only one month ago, saw his son, who had just graduated high school, and a brotherin-law get hired.

Jensen, who is running unopposed for his fifth term as a Salt Lake County council member, says that he followed UFA protocol when making any hire, including those in 2011. The standard procedure, he says, was for assistant chiefs and human resources to thoroughly interview the candidates and deliver him a set of recommendations, on which he would sign off.

“That’s been the policy and that’s what happened with that class as well as all the other classes,” Jensen says. “I followed the recommendation list. If there were issues, I don’t know of any issues.”

When asked about the high number of relatives hired in 2011, Jensen says that he did not know how many were or were not related to existing employees.

As for his son and brother-in-law, Jensen noted the traditional importance of familial connections in the fire service.

The assistant chief over human resources and hiring is Mike Kelsey, who did not return calls seeking comment.

Though both Watson and Woolf say they do not know exactly how the hiring system might have been abused, they say that steps have been taken to fortify the process against improper influence.

For instance, Woolf, who has been a human-resources official with the department since its inception, says that during oral interviews with chiefs, HR representatives must be present.

During the time of the 2011 “legacy hire,” Woolf says that the department was experiencing rapid growth as it added new cities and towns to its service area. As a result, multiple oral interviews occurred at one time, sometimes where family members of interviewees might have been able to

“[Y]ou can put some protections in place so that if something happened before, it won’t happen again.”

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In the summer of 2011, 10 out of 14 new UFA hires were “legacies.” sway their colleagues into giving favorable scores to relatives.

Woolf emphasizes, though, that even this is speculation. All she knows is that the anomaly occurred, and that as a result, UFA employees began to question the integrity of the department’s hiring process.

“I don’t know that anything definitely happened,” Woolf says. “But there was enough that I just made changes going forward in my own procedures to remove the appearance of wrongdoing.”

The UFA is the state’s largest firefighting department, serving unincorporated areas of Salt Lake County, as well as the cities of Holladay, Cottonwood Heights, Draper, Eagle Mountain and Taylorsville, among others.

The organization is governed by a board made up of elected officials from the areas it serves. On the heels of an announcement by the state auditor that an investigation was underway, the UFA board in August voted to convene its own internal audit. Jensen resigned in step with this announcement, turning in his badge about a month after his deputy chief, Gaylord Scott, abruptly resigned as City Weekly was in the midst of publishing a series of stories about UFA bonuses and the chiefs’ use of credit cards and personal vehicles.

As the board has grappled with the alleged misdeeds of UFA leaders, more revelations of problems at UFA continue to surface, including the “legacy hire,” which Eagle Mountain Mayor Chris Pengra says the board has been briefed on.

“The board was recently made aware of potential anomalies that happened

with that testing cycle back in 2011,” Pengra says. “We were also given a history of the measures that were put in place, along with that legacy program, to prevent any mishandling of the newhire process.”

The board, Pengra says, has been hard at work revamping UFA policies with the goal of creating accountability and transparency among its top ranks. For example, key positions like legal counsel, director of human resources and chief financial officer, will all now report directly to the board, rather than to the chiefs, who would then report to the board.

“They’re accountable to the board in that way, that if they ever do have a concern, there’s no wall between the board and those key, critical functions,” Pengra says.

At this moment, Woolf says, UFA is in the process of making another round of hires. Of the 16 people who made the cut, none are related to current UFA personnel.

If the hiring process was compromised, Watson says, it is important to remember that many of the firefighters brought on in 2011 are sterling employees, working hard for their communities.

“I don’t know that you can work backwards, but you can work forwards and you can put some protections in place so that if something happened before, it won’t happen again,” Watson says. “It’s not a statement about any of the folks that got hired on that list; it’s a statement that the speculation is that there was a way that was figured to get around the system, to beat the system, and I don’t know what that is.” CW

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says she wanted to show her grandchildren “that there is always time.” Bartilotta is originally from Italy but grew up in Argentina, where she received some high school education. Now, she says, she wants to learn English. “It’s very hard for me,” she says, speaking through a translator. “I’m old; I’m 68.”

Victor Ortega, who is from Puebla, Mexico, says he wanted to be honored with a certification from his home country. His focus now, he says, is on mastering his third and fourth languages and moving forward with his career plans.

“I plan to do international business later on in my life,” he says, “hopefully like tourism or something like that, so I want to do business administration and linguistics.”

Ortega says his greater goal is to provide for his struggling parents, siblings and extended family members back in Mexico. “They are not making enough money to even eat,” he says. “If I’m not here helping them, they wouldn’t survive out there.” For Lázaro Villán and 24 others, Saturday’s ceremony was When a family member a family affair. brings home an impressive students make significant sacrifices. One report card, Ortega rewards frequent challenge, he says, is time comthem with whatever cash he has on hand. mitment. “Our students have two or three “I pay them $20 or $30, whatever amount jobs sometimes, so it’s really hard for of money I have in my pocket,” he says. “I them,” he says. “Even if they want to do it, give them the money so they can see that sometimes they just go home and they have there is more than just people being happy to prioritize, you know?” about them studying, but actually seeing For many students, graduation isn’t the that they can get ahead.” journey’s end. Gonzáles says she is happy Javier Campos, one of 80 instructors to be done but is ready to continue her at the centro, says he is honored to assist education. “This is not the end,” she says, eager pupils. “They are students and they struggling to conceal a grin. “This is the become my family,” he says as the festivibeginning. ¡Si se puede!” CW ties died down, adding he has witnessed

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t was a moment Margarita Gonzáles says she never thought would come. On the warm and breezy evening of Sept. 10, she and 24 other Hispanic women and men were awarded diplomas issued by the Mexican Public Education Department for completing their primary school education.

“It’s an experience I cannot describe,” Gonzáles says, speaking through an interpreter. “Because this is an opportunity I didn’t know about, there are people who don’t know about these programs.”

The program she is referring to is Plaza Comunitaria, a joint effort between Centro de la Familia de Utah and the Mexican Consulate in Salt Lake City. It was established to provide Spanish-speaking adults in the U.S. an opportunity to grow and further their education. Gonzalo Palza, CEO and director of Centro de la Familia, says it is one of the few programs that makes an effort to improve the lives of Hispanic adults. “Most of our money goes to serve very young children,” he says. “Of all of the programs we have, this is the one that has the most impact for me. Because it takes an adult to recognize that he needs formal education, at whatever age. And that is transformation. Transformation for them, their families and the communities they live in.”

Graduates beamed as they were greeted with hugs and handshakes by Javier Chagoya, Salt Lake City’s Mexican Consul. He congratulated the students on

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surmounting the stigmas of going back to school as adults. “These kind of opportunities are difficult,” Chagoya says. “Sometimes, you don’t want to do it because you feel ashamed, you know? It’s not easy.”

Gonzáles agrees with the consul that presuppositions surrounding going back to school added to the challenge. “Sometimes people don’t progress because there is a lot of stigma and shame and fear,” she says, “fear of never believing in yourself that you can accomplish something.”

Gonzáles says she focused on her family and kept her children close in mind. “They are very happy and proud,” she says. “Even though I work a lot, work and then study, I still made some time to get my degree.”

The excitement of the children could be seen in their smirks and smiles as they fiddled with the tassels of their parents’ rubyred graduation caps. “The impact [of this program] is not just on the new graduates, but it has a tremendous impact on their families,” Palza says. “The families, the young ones, they are being impacted, even though they do not know it yet.”

He believes that, through their parents’ example, the next generation of Spanishspeaking Americans can avoid falling into the achievement gap. According to the Pew Research Center, 41 percent of Hispanic adults over 20 do not have a high-school diploma, a significantly higher rate than other ethnic groups. “I can assure you that those children [of graduates] are not going to be a part of the achievement gap,” Palza says.

The graduates expressed relief and pride as they reflected on their journey. Betty Moñeton says she never completed her education in her native Colombia and, after 15 years in the U.S., is happy to finally receive a degree. She currently operates a day care with her husband and says the degree will help her in her aspirations to study childhood education and psychology. “For me, this is part of my American Dream,” she says. “I can progress.”

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Crossroads Urban Center does many things for many people. Generally, they fight poverty. They work against hunger, run a food pantry and a thrift store and act as a major community resource. So it might be time for you to give back to them—oh, and enjoy a little wine and cheese to celebrate their 50th anniversary. The 14th annual wine-and-cheese party, catered by Tony Caputo’s Market & Deli, promises an afternoon of music and bidding on opportunity baskets.

The Bayou, 645 S. State, 801-3647765, Sunday, Sept. 18, 1-4 p.m., $45/ advance, $50/door, table of 6/$250, CrossroadsUrbanCenter.org

ECOGARDEN STEWARDSHIP EVENT

Urban living might remind you of heat and cement, but the EcoGarden offers a restful taste of nature along the Jordan River in Rose Park. This community resource demonstrates how trees in urban landscapes can be used for gardening, food and to benefit social and natural environments. Join TreeUtah at its Ecogarden Stewardship event to clean up this beautiful garden and learn about fall fruit tree identification while giving back to the community.

Day-Riverside Library, 1575 W. 1000 North, 801-364-2122, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 5-7:30 p.m., free, registration required, Planting@treeutah.org

LOCAL FOOD AND ART SHOW

Wasatch Cooperative Market’s third annual Local Food and Art Show offers dishes prepared by local chefs who incorporate products grown by local farms that use sustainable practices.

The event is in conjunction with Utah Eat Local Week—a statewide program that celebrates the regional harvest season by promoting local agriculture and food artisans, honoring the preservation of Utah’s agricultural heritage, and empowering the community to make conscious food choices. Sugarmont Plaza, 2234 S. Highland Drive, 385355-5271, Friday, Sept. 16, 6-10 p.m., $10/members, $20 non-members, registration required, Wasatch.coop

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These Shoes Weren’t Made for Walkin’ The upscale clothier Barneys New York recently introduced $585 “Distressed Superstar Sneakers” (from the high-end brand Golden Goose) that were purposely designed to look scuffed, well-worn and cobbled-together, as if they were shoes recovered from a dumpster. The quintessential touch was the generous use of duct tape on the bottom trim.

Critics were in abundance, accusing Barneys of mocking poverty.

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offered only a maximum of $30,000 for the worst-off victims. Following the settlement, the judge, finding that Cinemark could not have anticipated Holmes’ attack, ruled for the theater—making the four holdouts liable under Colorado law for Cinemark’s expenses defending against the lawsuit ($699,000).

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News That Sounds Like a Joke The British food artists Bompas & Parr are staging (through Oct. 30) a tribute to the late writer Roald Dahl by brewing batches of beer using yeast swabbed and cultured from a chair Dahl used and which has been on display at the Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden, England. n A 16-year-old boy made headlines in August for being one of the rare survivors of an amoeba—a brain-eating amoeba— which he acquired diving into a pond on private property in Florida’s Broward County.

Government in Action The Drug Enforcement Administration has schemed for several years to pay airline and Amtrak employees for tips on passengers who might be traveling with large sums of cash, so that the DEA can interview them—with an eye toward seizing the cash under federal law if they merely “suspect” that the money is involved in illegal activity. A USA Today investigation, reported in August, revealed that the agency had seized $209 million in a decade, from 5,200 travelers who, even if no criminal charge results, almost never get all their money back (and, of 87 recent cash seizures, only two actually resulted in charges). One Amtrak employee was secretly paid $854,460 over a decade for snitching passenger information to the DEA. n Update: In August, the Defense Department’s inspector general affirmed once again (following on 2013 disclosures) that the agency has little knowledge of where its money goes— this time admitting that the Department of the Army had made $6.5 trillion in accounting “adjustments” that appeared simply to be made up out of thin air, just to get the books balanced for 2015. (In part, the problem was laid to 16,000 financial data files that simply disappeared with no trace.) “As a result,” reported Fortune magazine, “there has been no way to know how the Defense Department—far and away the biggest chunk of Congress’ annual budget—spends the public’s money.”

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In August, the banking giant Citigroup and the communications giant AT&T agreed to end their two-month-long legal hostilities over AT&T’s right to have a customer service program titled “Thanks.” Citigroup had pointed out that it holds trademarks for customer service titles “ThankYou,” “Citi ThankYou,” “ThankYou from Citi” and “ThankYou Your Way,” and had tried to block the program name “AT&T Thanks.” n In July in the African nation of Malawi (on the western border of Mozambique), Eric Aniva was finally arrested—but not before he had been employed by village families more than 100 times to have ritual sex to “cleanse” recent widows—and girls immediately after their first menstruation.

Aniva is one of several such sex workers known as “hyenas” (because they operate stealthily, at night), but Malawi president Peter Mutharika took action after reading devastating dispatches (reporting hyenas’ underage victims and Aniva’s HIV-positive status) in The New York Times and London’s The Guardian, among other news services. n The July 2012 Aurora, Colo., theater shooter, James Holmes, is hardly wealthy enough to be sued, so 41 massacre victims and families instead filed against Cinemark Theater for having an unsafe premises, and by August 2016 Cinemark had offered $150,000 as a total settlement. Thirty-seven of the 41 accepted, but four held out since the scaled payout

Weird China “Mr. L,” 31, a Chinese tourist visiting Dulmen, Germany, in July, went to a police station to report his stolen wallet, but signed the wrong form and was logged in as requesting asylum, setting off a bureaucratic nightmare that left him confined for 12 days at a migrant hostel before the error was rectified. n In August at a hospital in Shenyang, China, “Wang,” 29, awaiting his wife’s childbirth, was reported (by People’s Daily via Shanghaiist.com) to have allowed a nurse to wave him into a room for anesthesia and hemorrhoid surgery—a procedure that took 40 minutes. (The hospital quickly offered to pay a settlement—but insisted that, no matter his purpose at the hospital, he in fact had hemorrhoids, and they were removed.) n Evidently, many Chinese wives who suspect their husbands of affairs have difficulty in confronting them, for a profession has risen recently of “mistress dispellers” whose job instead is to contact the mistress and persuade her, sometimes through an elaborate ruse, to break off the relationship. For a fee (a New York Times dispatch said it could be “tens of thousands of dollars”), the dispeller will “subtly infiltrate the mistress’ life” and ultimately convince her to move on. A leading dispeller agency in Shanghai, translated as the “Weiqing International Marriage Hospital Emotion Clinic Group,” served one wife by persuading the mistress to take a higher-paying job in another city.

Ironies Flooding from rains in August tore down a basement wall of the Connellsville Church of God in Pennsylvania, wrecking and muddying parts of the building and threatening the firstfloor foundation, but under the policy written by the Church Mutual Insurance company, flooding damage is not covered, as rain is an “act of God.” (Church Mutual apparently uses a standard insurance industry definition and thus recognizes, contrary to some religious beliefs, that not everything is caused by God.) n In 2005, India enacted a landmark anti-poverty program, obligating the government to furnish 100 days’ minimumwage work to unskilled laborers (potentially, 70 percent of the country’s 1.3 billion people). Programs often fail in India because of rampant corruption, but a recent study by a Cambridge University researcher concluded that the 2005 law is failing for the opposite reason —anti-corruption measures in the program. Its requirement of extreme transparency has created an exponential increase in paperwork (to minimize opportunities for corruption), severely delaying the availability of jobs.

The Passing Parade Vegetarian Deb Dusseau of Portland, Maine, celebrating her 10-year anniversary of “all vegetables, all the time,” reported to a tattoo artist in August and now sports, on her right arm, wrist to shoulder, an eggplant, peppers, mushrooms, peas, greens, onions, a radish and multiple tomatoes—drawn in an “old seed catalog” motif. n Pro baseball player Brandon Thomas (of the independent Frontier League’s Gateway Grizzlies in St. Louis, Mo.) hit a bases-loaded home-run on Aug. 21—over the fence, into the adjacent parking lot, where the ball smashed the windshield … of his own car.

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What should you do after playing all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies in one season? For the Utah Symphony, the answer is to follow up with even more Beethoven the next one.

They spent the 2015-16 season playing every symphony he ever penned, and are opening the new one with the first of all five piano concerti by the illustrious composer.

The orchestra’s 77th season opened on Sept.

9-10, with pianist Jonathan Biss performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1. This week, pianist and seven-time Grammy Award-winner Emanuel Ax (pictured) performs piano concerto No. 5 (“Emperor”). The nickname “Emperor,” coined by Johann Baptist Cramer, probably would not have been particularly favored by Beethoven himself. The composer—who never performed the piece himself—withdrew the original dedication of his third symphony to Napoleon after Bonaparte declared himself emperor in 1804.

The orchestra is also performing his overture to Fidelio and Brahms’ Symphony No. 1—marking the first of a Brahms cycle the symphony attempts this season, continuing their recent trend of providing full overviews of specific composers’ greatest works within a fixed span.

Ax is making his first appearance with the symphony in 17 years. He first performed with the orchestra in 1978 under the direction of Maestro Maurice Abravanel, and also performed under the batons of Joseph Silverstein and Keith Lockhart over the years. The rest of the season features Jeffrey Kahane and Yefim Bronfman, to complete the cycle of every Beethoven piano masterpiece. (Geoff Griffin) Utah Symphony: Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 @ Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, Friday-Saturday, Sept. 16-17, 7:30 p.m., $15-$65. UtahSymphony.org

Urban Arts Festival The Urban Arts Festival has experienced a lot of growth since its 2011 inception. Originally founded by the Utah Arts Alliance as an alternative arts event for those who weren’t accepted into more established ones, it moved from Pierpont Avenue to the Gateway, and slowly became one of the city’s most popular art gatherings.

It’s now making the next big leap as it takes over Gallivan Plaza for a two-day celebration of local, independent art. More than 200 artists are featured, with work ranging from paintings, photography, graffiti, screen-printing, jewelry, clothing, sculpture and more. Throughout both days you’ll be able to see more than 50 musical performances from local bands, as well as dance performances from indie groups including breakdancing battles and contemporary exhibitions.

To change things up and add more flavor to the mix this year, a basketball tournament and slam-dunk contest invites guests to get a little competitive. Other new attractions include a Custom Car Culture area filled with more than 40 custom motorcycles and cars chopped up and restored by local residents, and a virtual reality art section displaying digital graffiti.

And if all that fun makes you hungry, you can grab a bite from one of the Food Truck League’s finest vendors.

Finally, be sure to catch the debut of the Voice of the City Film Festival, featuring a variety of films by local directors and out-of-state submissions, which are judged and awarded near the end of Day 2. Best of all? Admission is free. (Gavin Sheehan) Urban Arts Festival @ Gallivan Plaza, 239 S. Main., Saturday, Sept. 17, noon-8 p.m.; Sunday, Sept. 18, noon-6 p.m., free.

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The opening production for Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co.’s 2016/17 season tackles some difficult topics and emotions—but what good is art if it doesn’t occasionally step into the darker parts of the human experience in order to help us make sense of it, or simply to help us mourn?

Elegy, a world premiere from the company’s own artistic director, Daniel Charon (winner of City Weekly’s 2016 Best Choreographer award; see p. 38), is created in the memory of the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting victims, and reflects on the wider epidemic of violence in America.

While Charon’s piece expresses our collective empathy for others’ suffering, The Opposite of Killing (2010), by Bulgarian-born choreographer/ visual designer Tzveta Kassabova, is much more personal. The work developed as Kassabova faced her anger, sorrow and confusion after the sudden passing of her mentor and close friend.

This August, Kassabova spent two weeks working exclusively with the Ririe-Woodbury dancers, setting the piece for the company and reworking it to fit their strengths and style. Such extensive and hands-on attention from the choreographer is rare and assures a pure translation of Kassabova’s emotional intent and physical style that is sure to make this a stand-out piece in the performance.

Finally, Fragments (2014) by Jonah Bokaer lets us unwind a bit. Instead of another work fraught with emotion, this one allows us to enjoy dance for its elegance and its unique contemplation of space. Known for creating interesting and architecturally rich environments for his works, Bokaer makes Fragments a multi-media piece that plays, in his words, with “fragmentary reflections and refractions of light and space.” (Katherine Pioli) Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co.: Fall Season @ Jeanné Wagner Theater, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Thursday-Saturday, Sept. 15-17, 8 p.m., $15-$40. ArtTix.ArtSaltLake.org

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If a play brands itself as a “dark comedy,” there better be some truly humorous moments—not just gratuitous language for shock value. Playwright Samuel D. Hunter’s A Bright New Boise is pitch black in tone, but relies too heavily on superfluous dialogue from its characters that’s not always particularly funny. However, because it’s set in a Boise Hobby Lobby, the irony of the foul-mouthed employees won’t be lost on viewers.

Within the first couple of minutes, the manager Pauline (Sallie Cooper) proves not all employees at this particular store follow the religious views of its owners. While interviewing Will (Brian C. Pilling), who just moved to Boise from “up north near Coeur d’Alene,” she uncovers some holes from his past. They’re quickly revealed when Will drops a bomb announcing he’s the estranged father of fellow coworker Alex (CJ Strong). Also working at there is Anna (Haley McCormick) and Alex’s adopted brother Leroy (Gordon Dunn), who learns more about Will’s past as part of a fundamentalist church, which leads Will to reconnect with Alex before a supposed impending rapture.

There’s a lot of internal struggle in the story, but director Jim Martin allows the actors to flesh out their characters—even if Will never fully recovers from his past. And that’s what this play is really about: self-identity and reconnection, with a side of religion and plenty of cursing. (Missy Bird) Wasatch Theatre Co.: A Bright New Boise @ Rose Wagner Center Studio Theater, 138 W. 300 South, through Sept. 17, Thursday­Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sept. 10 & 17, 2 p.m., $20.

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lsewhere in this issue, you’ll find selections by City Weekly readers and by our own staff and contributors for the Best of Utah Arts. But what do the people in the local arts community think should get awards? We asked a few significant figures—including some who are former City Weekly award winners themselves—what they think should get an award this year, with the single condition that they needed to identify something that wasn’t in their particular field. Here’s what they had to share.

Jerry Rapier (Artistic Director, Plan-B Theatre Co.)

“Once upon a time, I cast a kid (now known as DJ/producer Party Favor, but that’s another story) in a play. I quickly became friends with his father—a world-class painter, sculptor and public artist. I now have a Greg Ragland collection in my home (two sculptures, four paintings), strategically placed to ensure I encounter each of them each day. They feed my soul. I don’t have room for them all in my house, but you can experience his public art pieces throughout the city, any time, any day: ‘3 Hummingbirds in Blue’ and ‘Feathers in the Wind’ as part of Flying Objects, ‘Serve and Protect’ [pictured] outside the Public Safety Building, ‘No Salt Just Pepper,’ ‘Three Peas in a Pod’ and ‘Starters’ at People’s Portable Garden, and ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’ at Jordan Meadows Park.” GregRagland.com

Kristian Anderson (Executive Director, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art)

“I would give an award to Salt Lake City’s entire professional contemporary dance

community. We are fortunate that we have both quantity and quality with tremendous companies like S.B. Dance, RirieWoodbury, RDT and Now ID. Whether you want to go to something disconcerting (like S.B. Dance’s All Saint’s Salon), something sublime (like Now ID’s Exodus), or something for the family (like Ririe-Woodbury’s Flabbergast), there is something new, beautiful and created locally that will fit the bill. How lucky are we to have such a rich community to experience here that is on par with what would be found in much larger cities.”

Tori Baker (Executive Director, Salt Lake Film Society)

“As a film leader, I am driven by visual storytelling. When I seek theater, dance, music or events, I find those that engage me most incorporate creatively added visual experiences. This year, I was amazed by the children’s play produced by Salt Lake Acting Co., Climbing With Tigers [pictured].

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Local arts luminaries share the Best of Utah Arts awards they would give.

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1. “Serve and Protect” by Greg Ragland 2. Salt Lake Acting Co.’s Climbing With Tigers 3. “Cloud Cauldron Over the Henrys” by Scotty Mitchell Performed in an intimate black box, the play beautifully explored themes of independence, fear, bravery and disability, all through the lens of a little black bird named Blue. Even more inspirational was how the play engaged kids of all ages in the theatrical experience and incorporated creative, intellectual respect for the audience.”

Anne Holman (The King’s English Bookshop)

“Scotty Mitchell is a pastel landscape artist based in Torrey, Utah. Since the mid-1970s, her ethereal portraits [pictured] of Capitol Reef and other southwestern Utah environs have captured the hearts and imaginations of locals and non-locals alike. No other artist evokes our unique Utah light like Mitchell, whether it’s a sunny day, a gathering storm, or a quiet sunset, her paintings

surprise and delight again and again.”

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Adam Sklute (CEO & Artistic Director, Ballet West)

“Lifetime Achievement Award for Utah Arts Festival’s 40th anniversary: This year in particular, I feel we must recognize the monumental contributions the Utah Arts Festival has made on the cultural, artistic and economic landscape of our state. At 40, it continually reinvents itself, just like the many art forms it represents, keeping it current, vibrant and engaging. The Utah Arts Festival advances the artists and exalts the artistry being produced in Utah. In doing so, it enhances the quality of life for all of us.” UAF.org CW

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Urban Arts Gallery’s annual Skate Deck Show is presented at the Urban Arts Festival, Sept. 17-18 at Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main. For more details, see Essentials, p. 17.

PERFORMANCE THEATER

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CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

American Heritage Lyceum Philharmonic Tabernacle, 50 W. North Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-240-2534, Friday & Saturday, Sept. 16 & 17, 7:30 p.m., TempleSquare.com/Events Utah Symphony: Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801355-2787, Friday-Saturday, Sept. 16-17, 7:30 p.m., UtahSymphony.org (see p. 17)

COMEDY & IMPROV

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loveDANCEmore: Mudson at the Marmalade Marmalade Library, 280 W. 500 North, Salt Lake City, Monday, Sept. 19, 7:30 p.m., free, loveDANCEmore.org Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co.: Fall Season Jeanné Wagner Theater, 138 W. 300 South, 801355-2787, Thursday-Saturday, Sept. 15-17, 8 p.m., $15-$40, ArtTix.ArtSaltLake.org (see p. 17) Tablado Dance Co.: Noche Flamenca Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State, Sept. 17, 7 p.m., Tablado Dance.com

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110 in the Shade Brigham’s Playhouse, 25 N. 300 West, Building C1, Washington, through Sept. 17, Thursday-Saturday, 7 p.m.; Saturday matinee 2 p.m., BrighamsPlayhouse.com Arsenic & Old Lace Beverly’s Terrace Plaza Playhouse, 99 E. 4700 South, Ogden, 801-3930070, through Sept. 17, Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m., TerracePlayhouse.com A Bright New Boise Wasatch Theatre Co., Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-2787, through Sept. 17, ThursdaySaturday, 8 p.m.; Sept. 10 & 17, 2 p.m. matinees, ArtTix.ArtSaltLake.org (see p. 17) Bull Shark Attack Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, 801-363-7522, through Oct. 16, Tuesday-Sunday, varying times, SaltLakeActingCompany.org Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Hale Center Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 801-984-9000, through Oct. 1, MondayFriday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 12:30 p.m., 4 p.m. & 7:30 p.m., HCT.org Ghostblasters Desert Star Theatre, 4681 S. State, Murray, 801-266-2600, through Nov. 5, varying days and times, DesertStar.biz Hunchback of Notre Dame Tuacahn Amphitheater, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins, 800746-9882, through Oct. 15, varying days and times, Tuacahn.org The Last Ship Pioneer Theatre Co., 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6961, Sept. 16-Oct. 1, MondayThursday, 7 p.m.; Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m., PioneerTheatre.org Nunsense The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 S. Washington Blvd., 855-944-2787, through Oct. 1, Monday, Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m., TheZiegfeldTheater.com

See How They Run Hale Center Theater Orem, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, 801-226-8600, through Sept. 24, Monday-Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 3 & 7:30 p.m., HaleTheater.org Tarzan Tuacahn Amphitheatre, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins, 800-746-9882, through Oct. 12, Monday-Saturday, 8:45 p.m., Tuacahn.org Utah Shakespeare Festival Randall L. Jones Theatre, 351 W. Center St., Cedar City, 435-5867878, through Oct. 22, varying days and times, Bard.org

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Laughing Stock Improv The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801355-4628, Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m., LaughingStock.us Michael Palascak Sandy Station (Vegas Room), 8925 Harrison St., Sandy, 801-255-2078, Sept.

16 & 17, 8:30 p.m., SandyStation.com Michael Yo Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 W., Salt Lake City, 801-532-5233, Sept. 16-17, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Nick Guerra Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-532-5233, Sept. 15, 7:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Open Mic Night Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-532-5233, every Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Off the Wall Comedy Improv Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Draper, 801-572-4144, every Saturday, 10:30 p.m., DraperTheatre.org Rebecca Corry Club at 50 West, 50 W. 300 South, 801-961-1033, Sept. 16-17, 8 p.m. & 10 p.m., Club.50WestSLC.com Sasquatch Cowboy The Comedy Loft, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, Saturdays, 9:30 p.m., OgdenComedyLoft.com Shawn Paulsen Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588, Sept. 16-17, 8 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Stand Up For Pits Club at 50 West, 50 W. Broadway, Salt Lake City, 801-961-1033, Sept. 18, 4 p.m., Club.50WestSLC.com

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Thomas W. Simpson: American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940 Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, Sept. 17, 2 p.m., WellerBookWorks.com Gerald Elias: Playing With Fire The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-4849100, Sept. 20, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com Terron James: Insight Sandy Library, 10100 Petunia Way, Sandy, Sept. 21, 7 p.m., SLCoLibrary.org

SPECIAL EVENTS FARMERS MARKETS

9th West Farmers Market International Peace Gardens, 1000 S. 900 West, Salt Lake City, Sundays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., through October, 9thWestFarmersMarket.org Harvest Market Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main, Tuesdays, 4-8:30 p.m., through Oct. 18, SLCFarmersMarket.org Park City Farmers Market The Canyons Resort, 1951 Canyons Resort Drive, Park City, Wednesdays, noon-6 p.m., through Oct. 26, ParkCityFarmersMarket.com Park Silly Sunday Market 600 Main St., Park City, Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., through Sept. 18, ParkSillySundayMarket.com

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Sugar House Farmers Market Fairmont Park, 1040 E. Sugarmont Ave., Salt Lake City, through Oct. 26, Wednesdays, 5-8 p.m., SugarHouseFarmersMarket.org Downtown Farmers Market Pioneer Park, 300 S. 300 West, Salt Lake City, through Oct. 22, Saturdays, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., SLCFarmersMarket.org

FESTIVALS & FAIRS

Ogden Yoga Fest The Davinci Academy of Science and Art, 2033 Grant Ave., Ogden, Sept.

16-17, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., OgdenYogaFest.org Festa Italiana The Gateway, 200 S. 400 West, 801-597-9098, Sept. 17-18, Saturday, noon-10 p.m.; Sunday, noon-7 p.m., FestaItalianaSLC.com Sandy Oktoberfest Sandy Station, 8925 Harrison St., Sandy, 801-255-2078, SaturdaySunday, Sept. 17-18 & 24-25, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., SandyStation.com Urban Arts Festival Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main, Salt Lake City, Saturday, Sept. 17, 1 p.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday, Sept. 18, noon-6 p.m., UrbanArtsFest.org (see p. 17)

TALKS & LECTURES

World Affairs Lecture Series: Brook Meakins Westminster College Jewett Center for the Performing Arts, 1840 S. 1300 East, Sept. 20, 7 p.m., UtahDiplomacy.org

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Melodies of Yesterday A unique, live music event. Vituosic piano duets & solos accompanied by The Utah Philharmonic Orchestra.

Transporting you back to timeless classics such as La Vie en Rose, Besame Mucho and My Way.

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Andrew Rice: (Re)structured Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-3284201, through Oct. 8, UtahMOCA.org Art2Go and Stephanie Hock Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, 801-328-0703, Sept.

16-Oct. 14, AccessArt.org Artists of Utah 35x35 Exhibition Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, 801-596-5000, through Sept. 23, SaltLakeArts.org Berna Reale: Singing in the Rain Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801328-4201, through Nov. 5, UtahMOCA.org Cara Krebs: Sehnsucht Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-3284201, through Oct. 14, UtahMOCA.org Desarae Lee: Expressions in Ink Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Oct. 9, SLCPL.lib.ut.us Dick Jemison: Limelight Modern West Fine Art,

Saturday, September 24 - Show at 7:30PM

Covey Center for the Arts in Provo Tickets: stargatemusicproductions.com

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177 E. 200 South, 801-355-3383, Sept. 16-Oct. 12, ModernWestFineArt.com Discover Zaqistan: The Art of Adventure CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, 385-215-6768, Sept.

16–Oct. 14, CUArtCenter.org J. Calhoun: High Places Make Me High Corinne and Jack Sweet Branch, 455 F St., 801594-8651, through Oct. 22, SLCPL.lib.ut.us Jim Williams: 265 I...Home as Self-Portrait Utah Musuem of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Sept. 24, UtahMOCA.org Jennifer Seely: Supporting Elements Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Sept. 24, UtahMOCA.org Object[ed]: Shaping Sculpture in Contemporary Art Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-3284201, through Dec. 17, UtahMOCA.org Ryoichi Suzuki “A” Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, 801-583-4800, through Sept. 30; reception Sept.

16, 6-8 p.m., AGalleryOnline.com Sibylle Szaggars Redford: Summer Rainfall Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-649-8882, through Sept. 25, KimballArtCenter.org

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clams—admittedly not a “gourmet” food item—in Deer Valley? But Cena Ristorante at The Chateaux (7815 Royal Street East, Deer Valley, 435-658-9500, The-Chateaux.com) has them. The large clams are battered and deep-fried to a gorgeous golden color, with a crisp, crunchy crust. And, like the real deal, these are served wrapped in newspaper, but with a classy added touch: a spicy yellow tomato sauce for dipping.

No one believes me when I tell them that quite possibly the best East Coast-style pizza I’ve had in Utah is to be found at the food court in the Layton Mall, but it’s true.

Charlie Wallwork and his family run the independent—Sbarro this is not—Tossed Pizzeria (1201 N. Hill Field Road, 801-5463558, TossedPizzeria.com) there. Their signature pies are cooked for 180 seconds, and none is better than the aptly named “New York-Style,” which is exactly that: handtossed dough topped with homemade tomato sauce, Grande mozzarella (the best shredding cheese) and whatever additional toppings you’d like. I’ve tasted pizza in New York City that wasn’t nearly as good as these. For a pie with a bit more meat on the bone, try “The Brooklyn.” It’s got a base of housemade plum tomato sauce and toppings of Grande mozzarella, sliced housemade sausage, pepperoni, ham, green olives and sliced fresh mushrooms.

Do I even need to mention Feldman’s Deli (2005 E. 2700 South, 801-906-0369, FeldmansDeli.com)? Only if we want to talk about a real Jewish deli in Zion. At Janet and Michael Feldman’s delicatessen, you’ll find food that can bring tears to the eyes— like housemade matzo ball soup (with just the right amount of schmaltz), gefilte fish or incredible boiled-and-baked bagels, or … Just go and eat already. CW

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in a brick oven. My favorite is what the menu unpretentiously lists as “plain.”

It’s a simple pizza with near-perfect crust (perfect if you eat in when it’s fresh; less so to-go) slathered with not-too-much and not-too-little tomato sauce with an excellent sweetness-to-acidity ratio, and topped with high-quality mozzarella. It’s an easy thing that so many people mess up.

For those with an urge for the New Havenstyle pizzas they remember, Nuch’s has one with Yukon gold mashed potatoes, roasted garlic, bacon and asparagus. Give the calzones a try, too.

I’ve been around long enough to remember when Joanna Rendi and Don MacDonald opened Moochie’s Meatballs and More (232 E. 800 South, 801-596-1350, MoochiesMeatballs.com) in the back of the little Circle Pottery Gift Shop where MacDonald made pottery. That was in 2003.

Since then, two additional locations have opened—one in Midvale, and the other in Lehi.

It’s not surprising that Moochie’s would serve up some of the tastiest cheesesteaks on this side of Philly. Rendi’s cousin is the owner of the original Tony Luke’s, which many aficionados say makes the best cheesesteaks in Philadelphia. I’ve had them myself, and I wouldn’t disagree. But, even as much as I love the cheesesteaks at Moochie’s, it’s the East Coast-type sandwiches—like the salami and provolone combination, or the grinder with homemade meatballs and marinara sauce that Gur Fieri raved about on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives—that keep me coming back.

Anyone who has spent time at the Jersey Shore, on New York’s Long Island, Cape Cod or at any other East Coast beaches has probably come to love fried clams. They are a staple of summers at the shore. But they are notoriously difficult to find here in the Beehive. And who’d think you’d find fried

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lthough it’s been 20-plus years since I lived on the East Coast, I still find myself trying to satisfy cravings for foods the Eastern Seaboard is known for: killer cheesesteaks, hoagies, pizzas and the like. Thanks in large part to Easterners who have uprooted themselves and set up shop here in Utah, it’s getting easier to try a taste of those unique flavors. Here are a handful of eateries that deliver the goods, from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania—straight to the Beehive.

For a few years now, many folks looking to satisfy their New York-style pizza urges have turned to Este Pizzerias in Salt Lake and Park City. And those are fine choices. But did you know that founder Dave Heiblim and partner Rob Reinfurt have branched out and opened an East Coaststyle deli? Appropriately enough, it’s called Este Deli (1702 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-487-3354, EstePizzaCo.com).

I knew this was the real deal when I saw the roast pork sandwich on the menu. How did I know? Because it came adorned with broccoli rabe, roasted red peppers and sharp provolone cheese—just the way it oughta. Pork shoulder is slowly braised, the way they do it at Philadelphia landmarks like Tommy DiNic’s or John’s, then served with the aforementioned accoutrements.

The sharp provolone and broccoli rabe really elevate this sandwich to the status of heavenly hoagie. And, regarding the Philly cheesesteak, my son said to me “This is one of the best cheesesteaks I’ve ever had!”

He should know; he lives in South Jersey just a stone’s throw from Philly, and considers himself a cheesesteak connoisseur.

Other specialties include the Pittsburgh hoagie (with navel pastrami, sharp provolone, house slaw and french fries), and the C.A.M.P., which is breaded, crispy fried chicken with arugula, fresh mozzarella and roasted red peppers.

The road construction in front of Nuch’s Pizzeria and Restaurant (2819 S. 2300 East, 801-484-0448, Nuchs-pizzeria-andrestaurant.com) can’t be good for business, but I’m confident Nuch’s will survive, given that it’s the go-to spot for many locals on the lookout for New York-style pizza. These pies are thin-crust and come in two sizes—12-inch and 16-inch—baked

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The 13th annual Downtown Dine O’Round—presented by Nicholas & Co.—is now in full swing, and remains so through Sunday, Sept. 25. During the event, guests can enjoy two-item lunches for $5 or $10, or three-item dinners for $15 or $35, depending on the participating restaurant. The idea behind the event is both to encourage diners to try out new restaurants and to visit old favorites, all at lower prices. Customers also have the opportunity to win dinner for a year via a photo contest on Instagram; just upload photos from your Dine O’Round experiences to enter the contest. With some 60 restaurants participating this year—from Taco Taco (pictured) and BTG to the New Yorker and J. Wong’s—there’s a dish for every palate. For more information and a complete listing of participating destinations, visit DineORound.com.

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Celebrating the Bounty

Local First Utah’s fall fundraiser— Celebrate the Bounty—takes place from 7-10 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 13, at Rico’s Warehouse (545 W. 700 South). Local First’s “buy local” mission is, according to its website, “to empower a movement to recognize the value and vitality of locally owned, independent businesses to our communities and our economy.” During this event, the public is invited to enjoy delectable dishes provided by local eateries, including Blue Poblano, Dolcetti Gelato, Even Stevens, Frida Bistro, Manoli’s, Porch, Tiburon, Red Iguana and many more, plus craft cocktails, wine from IG Winery and beers brewed by Squatters, Uinta and Wasatch breweries. The evening also features a silent auction, live band and a “Best of the Bounty” competition, in which yours truly is one of the judges. Tickets are $65 per person for food and beverage, or $55 for food only.

This is a 21-and-over event. For additional information and to purchase tickets, visit LocalFirst.org.

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A new restaurant called SoCo (Southernstyle comfort food) has opened at 319 S. Main in downtown Salt Lake City. Featuring “handcrafted Southern vittles,” the menu includes dishes like fried chicken, shrimp and cheese grits, hoppin’ John, po’boys, hush puppies and, of course, chicken and waffles. Check out SoCoSLC.com for more info.

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Oktoberfest 2016 Snowbird’s little bit of Bavaria.

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ith a slight autumn chill in the air and the leaves changing to fall colors, it’s the perfect time to experience Oktoberfest. Now, of course you could fly 5,392 miles for 11-plus hours at great expense to experience Oktoberfest in Munich. Or you could make your way in about 20 minutes from Salt Lake City up to Snowbird Resort’s Oktoberfest in Little Cottonwood Canyon.

Obviously, the scale of the two events differ greatly, but Snowbird’s isn’t anything to sneeze at. It attracts some 60,000 visitors each year, making it one of Utah’s biggest festivals. In fact, it was chosen by Men’s Journal in 2014 as one of their “10 Best Oktoberfest Celebrations in America.”

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There are a ton of activities for all ages to enjoy, from face painting and zip-line rides to an electronic bucking bull, carnival games, bouncy houses, bungee trampolines and more.

This year’s is the 44th annual event (with a birthdate in 1972).

That’s when a couple of nostalgic, lederhosen-clad Swiss gents, reminded of their homeland by the majestic mountains at Snowbird, were inspired to play their accordions and sing songs in their native language.

Granted, the history of the local celebration can’t compete with Germany’s, which dates back to 1810. But in a state that many people still think is “dry,” it’s damned appealing, and in addition to beer you’ll also find hard cider, barley wine, spirts and liqueurs. Make sure to bring your I.D. At its core, Oktoberfest is about beer. And this year’s event offers a wide range of fullstrength bottles from local brewers, as well as an excellent selection from German producers. The unadventurous could, of course, enjoy their Coors Light. But true beer lovers can savor the opportunity to sample from some 60 different full-strength varieties from locals like Uinta, Squatters, Wasatch, Moab and Bohemian, as well as domestic

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suds from Leinenkugel’s, Lagunitas, Angry Orchard, Sierra Nevada, Rogue, Smith & Forge, Oskar Blues, Upslope and Sam Adams.

Some of the specifics I’d focus on include Wasatch Devastator Double Bock, Bohemian Dortmunder Export Lager, Uinta Fest Helles, Moab Tripel and Leinenkugel’s Oktoberfest. That’s only a handful of the available brews, but keep in mind you have multiple weekends to enjoy these festivities, which run Saturdays and Sundays from noon-6 p.m. through October 9. Admission, by the way, is free.

In recent years, visitors devoured some 6,000 pounds of bratwurst and weisswurst,

4,500 pounds of chicken and 2,000 Granny Smith apples in the form of strudel. You’ll also find Bavarian flavors here in sauerkraut, spätzle, beef rouladen and German chocolate cake.

For a change of pace, enjoy Mexican cuisine at El Chanate, modern American fare in The Aerie, Prime steaks and seafood at Steak Pit, or French-American cooking at The Lodge Bistro.

As in past years, you can get your oompah on with polka bands, enjoy the alpenhorns of Salzburger Echo, rock out to groups such as Ghostowne and work on perfecting your chicken dance.

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You won’t find any drip coffee here; instead, they use the pour-over method, with a wood plank, mug and small glass carafe handcrafted by local ceramic artisans Basin Goods. If coffee isn’t your thing, they also serve the local drinking chocolate Mezzo. 327 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 385-215-8481, LaBarbaCoffee.com

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Blue Finn—situated in Salt Lake City around the corner from the Century 16 theater—offers Japanese cuisine, various sushi dishes and a Korean grill all in one. The extensive menu includes more than 50 different sushi rolls, each with a unique flavor and creative design. If you’re not into raw fish, try their beef sukiyaki (sliced beef, vegetables and tofu) or yaki udon (sanuki noodles stir fried with scallops and shrimp).

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Cucina Toscana

For more than a decade, Cucina Toscana has been serving authentically delicious Italian food to Salt Lakers. Try the delightful “Ravioli Toscana”—spinach and ravioli in light butter, sage and tomato. The best of the bunch, though, is the thick, roasted wild-halibut fillet, presented in a large shallow bowl encircled by shrimp porcini mushrooms, peas, clams and soft-shell crab. Make sure to leave room for dessert, as they have some incredible cannolis and tiramisu. 282 S. 300 West, Salt Lake City, 801-328-3463, ToscanaSLC.com

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ou know it when you see it, even if someone else might not see the same “it” you do. You know it when it makes you laugh or cry; you know it when you find yourself thinking about it for days and weeks after you first encounter it. It can be tricky and confounding, or it can be disarming in its simplicity. And those who bring it into our lives make it better on a daily basis.

Art has always been the stuff of controversy, and a crest on waves of societal change.

In a world that seems ever more uncertain and complex, it also feels more necessary than ever. That’s why City Weekly once again honors some of the finest work by local painters, actors, dancers, comedians, writers, craftspeople, filmmakers and more, in addition to the many people who support that work through their efforts. Our readers voted for their choices in a variety of categories, and City Weekly contributors added their suggestions for can’t-miss people and places that make Utah as magnificent a home for lovers of art as for those who create it.

No winner or nominee can possibly satisfy everyone; such is the elusive nature of art embodied by the jester on our cover. As we’ve said before, these awards aren’t about ending the conversation. We want to start that conversation, and keep Utah talking about—and supporting—art year-round.

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HARDEST-WORKING DANCE SHOWCASE

BEST GIRL-POWER LOCAL COMIC BOOK

Jetters

It hasn’t always been easy for women to break into the maledominated world of comic books, whether as creators or as the heroes of their stories. The local tandem of writer Marlene Schmidt and artist Susana Carasa are doing their part with the story of a teen girl named Jenna in a futuristic world where “ultimate thrill” jet-pack flying has become a popular—and illegal— extreme sport. One energetic issue is already complete, and their Patreon campaign is an effort to complete the four- or five-issue series. (SR) Facebook.com/JettersOfficial

BEST HIP-HOP HISTORY LESSON

BBoy Federation: They Reminisce

It’s easy for a younger generation to be unaware of the history of hip-hop, especially when pop culture tends to only focus on what’s happened in the past decade. In partnership with the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, the BBoy Federation has hosted their annual history showcase, They Reminisce, since 2014. Working with a collection of Utah’s most talented dancers and choreographers, the show tells the history of the genre from its roots in the ’70s and ’80s, to the impact it’s had on the culture today. The 2017 showcase returns to the Rose Wagner in mid-July. (GS) BBoyFed.com

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Myriad Dance Co.: Creator’s Grid

BEST FEST FOR THE REST

Urban Arts Festival

Every art festival in town has its niche, whether it’s major artists from around the country or craftsmen from across the state. But the Urban Arts Festival focuses on the genres and disciplines that aren’t normally given center stage. The Utah Arts Alliance has worked hard to give local street artists, jewelers, photographers, sculptors, fashion designers, dancers and the indie music community a home where they run the show. It offers a unique showcase for underground art, where alternative artists can display their work for thousands of attendees without getting lost in the shuffle. (GS) UtahArts.org

BEST OGDEN LITERARY ADDITION

BEST ALTERNATIVE-POETRY SHOWS

BEST FAN INTERACTION

Booked On 25th

Wasatch Wordsmiths

In the middle of Utah going popculture convention-crazy over the past few years, Salt Lake Gaming Con has transformed itself into being more of a fan-oriented convention that gives back to those who attend. Throughout their last convention, they provided amazing opportunities for fans to sit down and game with one another, offering live competitions on PC, console and tabletop. They have cultivated an environment where any gamer can pop in and instantly connect, bringing a greater sense of community and interaction to those who otherwise might only meet at tournaments and game shops. (GS) SaltLakeGamingCon.com

The city of Ogden has gone through many changes the past few years, with long-standing businesses being forced to close their doors and new ones opening up. One of the best additions to the Historic 25th Street is Booked On 25th—a new- and used bookstore focused on getting customers hooked on both amazing classics and newer works. Along with bringing in authors to do book signings and hosting live poetry and reading sessions, the shop is helping revitalize the area with new local blood and good books. (GS) 147 W. 25th Street, Ogden, 801-394-4891, BookedOn25th.com

In the wake of the local poetry scene seeing many of its most familiar faces go into retirement, and a corresponding influx of new talent, Wasatch Wordsmiths rose to become the prominent face of the new poetry movement in SLC. The nonprofit has organized monthly events across the valley, opening their impromptu stages to all newcomers and taking their shows into an alternative format. In the process, they’ve helped dozens of new writers and performers make names for themselves, and brought a distinctive sense of experimentation to the art form. (GS) Facebook.com/WasatchWordsmiths

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There aren’t a lot of chances for the dance community to mingle and mix disciplines.

But every few months, Myriad Dance Co. is able to bring together a couple dozen performers and choreographers to create original works for a onenight-only performance at Metro Bar. These shows are a rare opportunity to see ballet dancers mix it up with modern style, or hiphop-influenced dancers go classical. You might even see talent from various companies, both major and independent, sideby-side moving to music you’d otherwise never see them perform to. There’s far more that unites the dance community than you might suspect. (GS) Facebook.com/ MyriadDanceCompany

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BEST NEW PLACE FOR SPIRITED ART

BEST ANIMALISTIC ILLUSTRATIONS

Mountain West Hard Cider

Shirley Jackson

Nestled in the Marmalade district of SLC, Mountain West Hard Cider—founded by Jennifer and Jeff Carlson and cidermaker Joel Goodwille—has taken locally sourced ingredients to create artisanal ciders that have garnered prizes from the cognoscenti.

But they’ve also given exposure to local artists like Tess Cook (pictured), whose paintings meditate on human existence. Great art provides a great accompaniment to an earthy, sweet beverage. (BS) 425 N. 400 West, 801-935-4147, MountainWestHardCider.com

The designs of Shirley Jackson have a way of looking like they’re ready to claw their way off the canvas.

Incorporating various styles into her illustrations, Jackson can take a wolf and make it be cute and cuddly for your kid’s bedroom, or turn wolves into vicious spirits ready to tear asunder whatever might be in their path. Her work has become a hit at galleries across the Wasatch Front, as well a staple of the markets and festival circuit, offering everything from large screen-prints to cozy pillows for your couch. (GS) LionInTheTrees.com

BEST NON-CORPORATE FILM FESTIVAL

BEST PARODY PROJECT

The Block Film Festival

Jerry Seinfeld might have a hit on the Crackle streaming platform with his latest series, but even one of the greatest stand-up comedians in history isn’t above parody. Local comedian Rich Wilson took his car, several GoPro cameras and a $9 jar of Vegemite, and turned out a video series of comedic gold. Trapping several local comedians inside to drive around and eat the Australian “delight,” the show has produced some of the best comedic bits from many of Utah’s funniest minds as they try not to vomit after eating what tastes like soy sauce-flavored baby food. (GS) Facebook.com/ ComediansInCarsEatingVegemite

Nestled in the hills of Cache Valley, The Block Film Festival has given local filmmakers a new platform to get their creations out. Helping fill the void left behind by the SLC Film Fest after it retired, the event incorporates both a local filmmaker presence and a mix of national and international submissions, funded and presented on an accessible level to anyone. No long lines, no monster parties, no major sponsors on every corner—this is the definition of a local film festival. The 2016 iteration takes place October 7-8. (GS) LoganFilmFest.com

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BEST VISUAL BESTIARY

Tai Taeoli

The world is full of strange creatures, but not many as strange as those that spring from the imagination of Salt Lake City native Tai Taeoli. His recent works—most of them a mix of ballpoint pen, colored pencil, pastel and watercolor on Mylar sheets—often portray animals transformed by their environments into freakish mutations. “Air Support for Whale in Peril” depicts a whale distorted into a kind of steampunk submarine; “Department of Defense” finds the head of a bald eagle growing from the dead branches of a tree.

These surreal visions are as disturbing as they are fascinating. (SR) ArtbyTai.com

BEST COMEDY PODCAST YOU SHOULD BE LISTENING TO

The Dirtpod Podcast

Local comics Marcus and Guy Seidel are far from being strangers to SLC audiences. Their most recent onstage efforts show the two performing a live musical parody of famous artists to sellout shows. But the duo scored another massive audience by joining Allen Handy (of Mick & Allen fame) to form The Dirtpod Podcast. The show focuses on the trio talking about metal music, or whatever cool topics or life events come to mind, with a fair share of awesome guests popping in. It makes for funny moments with three guys just digging music and comedy. (GS) Facebook.com/DirtpodPodcast BEST SMALL COLLECTION OF

LOCAL LEGACY ARTISTS

David Dee Fine Arts

David Dee was formerly director of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah, and he brought his curatorial expertise to his own gallery two years ago when he established the eponymous space.

His collection showcases artists of the West—specifically early Utah artists, peripatetic painters of the Rocky Mountains and Southwest, as well as Regional Modernism. Want to see a Maynard Dixon? He’s got some. Japanese woodblock prints and local abstractionists also get their due. (BS) 1709 E. 1300 South, 801-583-8143, DavidDeeFineArts.com

BEST HILLBILLY PRINT-MAKING

Meat & 3 Printing Co.

A little piece of Nashville relocated to Salt Lake City in spring 2016, as Meat & 3 Printing Co. brought its operations west. Proudly purveying what they refer to as “delectable pockets of low-brow culture,” the company crafts hand-carved and hand-printed woodcuts, capturing everything from fanciful imaginary product posters to images of down-home Southern living. With a unique style that feels like a period piece as soon as it’s made, these works burst with a love of the place from which they emerged. (SR) CargoCollective.com/MeatAnd3PrintingCo

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BEST SUSTAINABLE NEW ART VENUE

Steve Stones

Watchtower Café

Green Loft Co-op

The pop-art movement allowed many of the key images of our culture—corporate logos, comic books, fictional characters, celebrities—to become the stuff of art, often given a twist to undercut these ubiquitous figures. Ogden resident Steve Stones makes collages out of such material, and he’s not afraid to court startled responses, whether that means putting a cigarette in Jesus’ mouth, or having Elmo sit at a table in front of fellow Muppet Ernie’s severed head on a platter. If you’ve ever felt the urge to watch a pair of cartoon Pilgrims prepare to slice into a Thanksgiving turkey in the form of Donald Trump’s smirking head, Stones is your guy. (SR) Facebook.com/SteveD.StonesArt

BEST ARCHIVAL COLLAGE PROJECT

Mapping SLC

BEST CINEMATIC TIME-TRIP

Punk’s Dead: SLC Punk 2

The original SLC: Punk arrived in 1998 with a flurry of mixed emotions

about how writer/director James Merendino portrayed the city and its punk scene circa 1985. Seventeen years later, the sequel did the exact same thing with the Internet Age. With a mix of original cast and new additions, filmed entirely along the Wasatch Front, the film pokes fun at Salt Laker stereotypes, all while still maintaining a soul, which is as hard to do as a sequel based on a punk movement. (GS) Twitter.com/SLCPunk2 BEST ALTERNATIVE COMEDIAN

Shayne Smith

It isn’t every day you walk into a Utah comedy club and see a performer sporting both a neck and face tattoo.

But Shayne Smith isn’t your everyday Utah comedian. Covered nearly headto-toe in ink and carrying around an unapologetic attitude, Smith commands the stage with a mix of offbeat humor and observational jabs about his own life. After a successful

The Green Loft Co-op makes its home inside Consumers Financial Mortgage in Sugar House, a real estate service that specializes in environmentally sustainable properties. The gallery hosts social events like art walks, literary performances and exhibits, usually with Earth-friendly themes. A recent show featured Native American depictions by Jacob Shirley, and the company also feted its 21st anniversary this year with a community celebration.

Green Loft makes sustainability fun. (BS) 2834 S. Highland Drive, 801-599-5363, GreenLoftGallery.com

run in the Salt City Superstar competition last year and making appearances on nearly every podcast in town, Smith has become a popular spin on more conventional approaches to homegrown comedy. (GS) Twitter.com/Shaydozer BEST BACKSTREET TATTOOS

Sailor Taylor Tattoo

Not every great tattoo parlor comes with a giant front window graphic and a fancy light display. Some of the best artists working in SLC come out of tiny shops that few venture to, and those words couldn’t be more true to Sailor Taylor Tattoo.

Artist and designer Taylor Millet takes special care with every client to ensure his work is precise and unique. Millet’s pieces aren’t just works of art; they’re stories waiting to be told on canvases that will literally last a lifetime. (GS) 215 Edison St., 801-808-4762, SailorTaylorTattoo.com

BEST GALLERY ON A BUDGET

God Hates Robots

Shon Taylor has been a local innovator in several areas, including as co-founder of 24Tix.com and Bottlerocket MFG. A little more than a year ago, Taylor and business partner Ray Childs started God Hates Robots gallery in the same building, across the street north of Pioneer Park. Since then, the gallery has been dedicated to showing exclusively local artists; there isn’t enough space for large works, but nothing sells for more than $400, and their commission is only 20 percent. They’ve exhibited the likes of Sri Whipple and Elmer Presslee, so it’s also a sorely needed haven for local art eccentrics. (BS) 314 W. 300 South, Ste. 250, 801-5963370, GodHatesRobots.com

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Every block of this city has a story, from the randomly named streets on the east side no one can find, to the 1930s buildings that now house multiple residents. The Mapping SLC project has taken storytelling and geography, and melded the two into a community-created document about where we’ve been. The website features stories about the old Swede Town, the history of Beck Street, collapsing hotels, and the rebranding and gentrification of certain districts.

There are even personal stories that describe why you see scrapes on a particular sidewalk. It truly shows that our stories are what make the city amazing, no matter the decade. (GS) MappingSLC.org

Beyond the conventions or random meetups, there aren’t a lot of places for the geek community to meet up daily. That all changed late last year when owners Cori Hoekstra and Mike Tuiasoa took over the old Coffee Connection on State Street and transformed it into Watchtower Café. Utah’s first comic-book coffee shop offers geek-themed drinks in an environment where people can relax with their favorite graphic novel. The space also features video games, stand-up comedy, an art gallery and weekly events for people to game or just hang and nerd out. (GS) 1588 S. State, 801-477-7671, Watchtower-Cafe.com

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BEST STREAMING GAMER DUO

BEST BADASS ARTIST

Twedesmith

Heather Mahler

Twitch streaming has turned average gamers into celebrities overnight, but the community has become so saturated that people are now looking for new things to define them.

Local gamer duo Twedesmith has found their own niche being a married gay couple who games together and comments on each other’s performance in the process. Their streams not only show their passion for video games and their willingness to kick ass or fail for laughs— but also break stereotypes about who and what a gamer is in the eyes of the common viewer. (GS) Twitch.tv/Twedesmith BEST DRAMEDY SERIES

You Again

Relationships suck sometimes, but even in despair we can find humor.

That single idea helped fuel the comedy in this Utah-produced web series. After being kicked out of her boyfriend’s house in the middle of the night, Audra (Andrea Peterson) moves in with her ex-boyfriend Zander (Zach Reynolds), complete with the usual hilarious results—but also containing a bit of heart behind the message. It isn’t necessarily where we are in life that defines us; it’s the people that help us along the way to get us someplace new. Sometimes, that’s an old voice reminding you of where you’ve been. (GS) YouAgainSeries.Tumblr.com BEST PASSIONATE COMMENTARY

Cult Classics vs. Comedians

From the minds of local comedians and film buffs Ben Fuller and Jamie Maxfield, the series hands local comics and other funny members of the entertainment community the task of dissecting classic films, and others that have reached cult status,

With a style reminiscent of Bryan Lee O’Malley, and an attitude matching that of Kelly Sue DeConnick, artist Heather Mahler has gone from being rarely seen to SLC’s center spotlight in less than a year. Her online comics evoke a rebel spirit that questions what the norm should be, while her stand-alone illustrations of heavily tattooed women being badasses have made her works a sought-after addition for art collectors. That doesn’t even count her adaptations of geek culture, which has made her a darling of the festival community. (GS) HeatherMahlerArt.Weebly.com

to figure out why they’re cool. The duo and their guests can take a puzzling film like Eraserhead and put it through the same comedic lens as they would The Rocky Horror Picture Show, giving their own thoughts and perspectives as fans who just love what they love. (GS) Facebook.com/ CultClassicsVsComedians BEST ONE-WOMAN SHOW

Alison Lente, Grounded

Performing on stage is difficult enough. Imagine doing it alone: memorizing an entire script, with no supporting cast to play off of, and an audience not knowing if they are going to be part of the production.

In the case of Alison Lente in People Productions’ Grounded—portraying a woman wanting to be a good wife, mother and soldier—was made even more complicated by a subplot of military surveillance. That’s so much characterization for one person to achieve—and Lente did so with ease. Commanding the stage, she proves sometimes it’s OK to go solo. (MB) PeopleProductions.org

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Dennis Hassan, Streetlight Woodpecker Salt Lake Acting Co.

You can tell a lot by watching an audience enter a theater space—and for Salt Lake Acting Co.’s world-premiere production of Shawn Fisher’s Streetlight Woodpecker, that meant watching how they couldn’t keep their hands off Dennis Hassan’s set. Depicting the backyard of a home in a run-down Philadelphia neighborhood, the set seemed so authentically weathered that people felt the urge to run their fingers over the brick veneer. For a play that depended on the sense of its environs as a space heavy with the weight of years, Hassan’s tremendous work did a lot of thematic heavy lifting. (SR)

BEST GOD-COMPLEX TRUMP IMPERSONATION

Justin Ivie, Saturday’s Voyeur 2016

Even terrible impersonations of the Republican presidential nominee are hilarious. It doesn’t take much to portray the look—awful blonde toupee, dead eyes, scowling mouth— and voice with weird, squawky inflections. Justin Ivie’s interpretation of Trump in Salt Lake Acting Co.’s production of Saturday’s Voyeur is among the better impersonations. His fantastic imitation was made even more preposterous by this Trump being considered a “higher power”— which, frighteningly, might not be too far from the truth for his supporters.

For the rest of us, we’ll take the good impersonations—as long as they don’t turn into real President Trump depictions. (MB) BEST ZINE NOT LIVING IN SLC

Pillars of Salt

Pillars of Salt isn’t just a random zine that happened to be made outside the friendlier artistic bubble of SLC—it’s a stance against the negative attitudes, lack of culture and failure in Utah

County to have strong voices for women and the LGBTQ community.

Founded by Sara Faulkner and motivated by the suicide rate among members of those communities, it serves as an outlet for unity through art and action. The second issue will be released late 2016. (GS) PillarsOfSaltZine.Tumblr.com BEST VOLUNTEER ORCHESTRA

Salt Lake Symphony

Classical music can often seem inaccessible, part of a rarified realm where ordinary folk can have trouble finding an entry point. But there are plenty of ordinary folk in this community who make it part of their lives just because they love it. Celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2016, the nonprofit Salt Lake Symphony is made up entirely of volunteer musicians—more than 70 of them—who dedicate around 10,000 hours annually to rehearsing and performing around 15 concerts.

For the love of music, they provide an inexpensive way to make it feel as though anyone with that same love can be part of this world. (SR) SaltLakeSymphony.org

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Dixie State University “Trailblazer Art in the City” Project

There are many ways that public and private entities can make it clear that they support the work of artists. In St. George, Dixie State University is attempting to partner with local businesses to put that support right in front of the public. Ten white bison statues will be available to purchase or rent for placement in front of businesses, with the statues later able to become “canvases” for selected artists, including a stipend and information about the artist near the completed work. When art becomes a destination for shoppers and visitors, everybody wins. (SR) UMAC.Dixie.edu/Art-In-The-City

BEST RETURN FROM THE ASHES

Utah Film Center

Being a nonprofit organization is challenging enough; now imagine that a disaster takes away all of your physical infrastructure.

That was the situation the Utah Film Center faced in March when a fire in the basement of the organization’s Main Street office building resulted in the complete loss of the building, along with computers, films and other materials (fortunately, no injuries). After taking just one month off, however, programming resumed, and with the help of a fund-raising campaign and assistance from the likes of the Sundance Film Festival, the Utah Film Center is once again rolling. (SR) UtahFilmCenter.org BEST REALISTIC DEPICTION OF BICKERING SIBLINGS

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Raise your hand if you’ve ever bickered with your sibling(s). If you’re not raising your hand, it’s because you’re an only child. Even

siblings who are the best of friends probably fought at some point in their lives.

Those in Wasatch Theatre Co.’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike are the epitome of squabbling brothers and sisters.

Jeffrey Owen, Karrie Ann Ogilvie and Cathy Ostler—as the first three title characters—really feel like a family who wants to get along, but are having a really hard time growing up. And who hasn’t felt that way?

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BEST ORIGINAL PLAY

A theatrical production of this kind—a sweeping romantic drama with a historical component and big musical numbers—faces mountains of challenges.

Can you create a staging that provides the necessary sense of epic consequence, while not overwhelming the performances and the emotion at the heart of the story? Director/choreographer Marcia Milgrom Dodge beautifully navigated those challenges in this U.S. premiere of the new Dumas adaptation, incorporating Michael Schweikardt’s versatile scenic design into a tale of love, loss and vengeance. And it doesn’t hurt when the performances of the songs can be alternately heartbreaking, subtly funny and genuinely stirring.

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Genre fiction has long been one of the best ways to construct allegories about the human condition, and Elaine Jarvik took a wild leap into time travel for her funky comedy-drama. Following the plight of a “time taxi” driver whose malfunctioning vehicle has left her stranded 30 years in the future from her own life, Based on a True Story explores coping mechanisms we all tend to use when confronted with loss, including telling ourselves (and others) stories that help ease the pain. Throw in a deft sense of humor that finds room for jokes with a local twist, and you’ve got a play that reaches across the fabric of space and time to help us understand ourselves.

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BEST DANCE PRODUCTION

The Nijinsky Revolution Ballet West

BEST INDIVIDUAL DANCER

Lorin Hansen, Samba Fogo

Lorin Hansen discovered Brazilian samba in perhaps the most unlikely of places: her hometown of Salt Lake City. It was samba drumming that first piqued her interest, but being a born dancer, Hansen—who was at the time studying modern dance at the University of Utah— quickly gravitated toward the energetic dance form. Even after forming Samba Fogo, becoming the company’s artistic director, and leading regular community dance classes and workshops, Hansen continues to perform. Whether in the classroom or on stage, Hansen’s dancing is powerful. Each samba step, no matter how big or small, is an expression of her passion.

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BEST DANCE CHOREOGRAPHY

Daniel Charon, Together Alone Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co.

Daniel Charon—artistic director for Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co. and sometime choreographer—has a lot to say about the current state of humanity, and he’s able to say it with very few words. None, actually. Together Alone, Charon’s two-part work which might someday become a trilogy, contemplates our modern inability to connect emotionally with those around us, and the ironic experience of feeling isolated while being surrounded by people. Dark, even a little frightening, his work clearly points to our technology addiction as one source of this problem, and challenges us to contemplate how we might be complicit in this modern dilemma.

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Each season, Ballet West takes a break from its regular lineup of fairytale ballets with a full two-week run of modern works. This past season, The Nijinsky Revolution focused on the early 20th-century dancer/ choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky (18901950), whose work, though not contemporary, has retained a sense of modernity that continues to inspire choreographers today. The evening of works presented three interpretations of Nijinsky ballets: Helen Pickett’s Games, Jerome Robbins’ Afternoon of a Faun and Nicolo Fonte’s The Rite of Spring. The production reminded us that the best works of art remain potent, relevant and inspiring, despite the passing of time.

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April Fossen is one of those names to get excited about when you see her listed in a local play’s program. She nails every character she portrays— like another masterful turn this season in Blackberry Winter—but truly took command in Stage Kiss.

As a mother and married actress, she tries to make her way back to the spotlight, only to get caught up in life imitating art when she plays opposite an old lover. While the character might not be as wholesome as she appears, Fossen makes her endearing, likeable and entertaining.

It’s something most actors strive for, and Fossen pulls it off with ease.

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BEST NON-FICTION BOOK

The Three-Year Swim Club, by Julie Checkoway

Underdog sports stories become some of our most beloved cultural tales, so it’s somewhat amazing that a story this remarkable remained hidden for so long. But Checkoway—recently relocated from SLC to Sacramento—gave it a terrific showcase as she unfolded the tale of Soichi Sakamoto, who somehow took a group of impoverished JapaneseAmerican kids in 1930s Hawaii and prepared them to be world-class swimmers with a shot at the Olympics—this despite the fact that they had to practice in irrigation ditches, and that Sakamoto had no training as a swimmer himself. Through anti-Japanese xenophobia and canceled Olympic Games of the World War II years, the story becomes an exhilarating study of determination.

BEST TOURING THEATER PRODUCTION

Newsies, Broadway Across America-Utah

Newsies features some of the catchiest songs in a modern musical. So it’s no surprise that the 1992 Disney movie was such a hit and is still pleasing audiences nearly 25 years later on stage. The Broadway Across America touring production performed all the songs you know and love—“Seize the Day” and “King of New York”— just without Christian Bale or Bill Pullman. It’s light-hearted fun with an underlying message of fighting for what you believe is right, even if it’s selling newspapers under the guise of child labor laws.

BEST CLASSICAL/OPERA PERFORMANCE OR PRODUCTION

Aida, Utah Opera

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BEST STAND-UP COMEDIAN

Alex Velluto

A staple of the Utah comedy scene for years, Velluto has been delighting audiences both on the local independent circuit and on the main stage of Wiseguys. The man takes self-deprecation to new levels by poking fun at everything from his own relationships (or lack thereof) to history (the Declaration of Independence as a “breakup text”). Once a week you can hear Velluto on the Happy Valley Podcast, where he talks film, comedy, TV and other pop-culture items with his friends, further pushing out comedy everywhere he can to the lonely souls who can laugh along with him about being alone.

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a lackluster production. But Utah Opera put together a murderer’s row of talent—including this year’s Best of Utah Arts award-winner Daniel Charon for the choreography, and set designer Michael Yeargan— to capture Verdi’s beloved romantic triangle involving an enslaved Ethiopian princess in Egypt. Jennifer Check, Katherine Goeldner and Marc Heller brought genuine power to the three central roles, providing the emotional core to match the beauty of the physical production.

UtahOpera.org BEST IMPROV COMEDY TROUPE

Quick Wits Comedy

Cranking out improv comedy on a weekly basis for 22 years is no easy task—to which the performers behind Quick Wits can attest, as their ever-changing roster has been killing it since 1994. In that time, they’ve been continually producing PG-13-appropriate shows revolving completely around what

BEST FICTION BOOK

Hour of the Bees, by Lindsay Eagar

In the desert of New Mexico, 12-year-old Carol travels with her family to help transition the grandfather she has never known from the family ranch into a care facility as he slips deeper into dementia. What could have been a simple story of family ties becomes something much deeper in Lindsay Eagar’s richly emotional novel, incorporating elements of magical realism into Carol’s journey toward a better understanding of her roots. The stark, isolated setting becomes a perfect backdrop for the family connections that can be re-established when separated from contemporary distractions, as Eagar combines the lyrical mystery of her flashbacks with a simple but utterly unique coming-of-age tale.

the audience chooses, even if those suggestions seem crazy at the time. The troupe currently calls the Midvale Performing Arts Center their home, where they’re still working hard to give fans of the genre a show that leaves audiences wondering how you can generate so much laughter without a script.

QWComedy.com BEST POETRY BOOK

Flight, by Katharine Coles

The University of Utah faculty member and one-time Utah state poet laureate has had such a remarkable career that it’s easy to overlook the vital work she continues to create. Flight collects poems spanning a wide variety of subjects, from travels around the world to the poet’s own pet dogs, finding essential observations in tight, punchy stanzas full of enjambment.

Whether celebrating the natural beauty of a butterfly or a flower, or offering insight into the concept of

pockets, Coles offers an intensity of focus that makes every word count.

BEST ILLUSTRATED BOOK/ GRAPHIC NOVEL

The Princess in Black series, by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale, illustrated by LeUyen Pham

In 2015, the husband-and-wife team of Shannon and Dean Hale introduced readers to Princess Magnolia, who abandons her “ladylike” dresses when danger arises, and puts on a mask that allows her to be the one who saves the day, not just the one who gets saved. The series continued to charming effect in 2016 with The Princess in Black and the Perfect Princess Party and The Princess in Black and the Hungry Bunny Horde, and the ongoing adventures are perfect tales to let little girls know that when a monster alarm rings, they’re just as capable of being the ones to fight for the happily-ever-after ending.

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On the Border: Thailand and Myanmar Art Access Gallery

The perspectives on a place can vary greatly, depending on whether the observer is intimately familiar with the location, or an outsider. From March-April 2016, Art Access Gallery offered a fascinating mix of those perspectives in a group show featuring works depicting a troubled region of Southeast Asia by local artist Hadley Rampton and Myanmar-born refugee artists Maung Maung Tinn and Nyan Soe. Rampton’s watercolors convey his impressions of visiting and working at a refugee camp for Karenni ethnic minorities on the Thai/Myanmar border, while the paintings by Tinn and Soe brought their own personal experience to show Utah audiences a struggle they likely never knew existed.

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David Brothers: Rolithica, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art

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A street artist who made a name creating graffiti art in Utah before a recent move to Las Vegas, SRIL has left behind a body of intricate works that rivals some of the best artists currently sitting in galleries.

His moniker—pronounced “surreal”—is a fitting tribute to the artist who inspired his works, Salvador Dalí, and it shines in the murals you can find all across Salt Lake City. He might not be tagging up every abandoned building or shipping container; instead, his amazing designs can be found in the most pristine of business locations, giving life to concrete walls that would have been ignored otherwise.

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BEST PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

Laurel Caryn: History of Photography, Alice Gallery

Photography—though initially thought to be a novel technology that would displace painting’s role in depicting the world—in the grand design always seems to be looking back, perhaps because it appears to freeze time. Laurel Caryn, assistant professor at the University of Utah art department, has used archaic photographic techniques like cyanotype, and references to images by great photographers throughout history, along with silhouettes of viewers, to remind us that the history of photography is only rendered complete by us looking at photographs, which echoes the photographer looking at us.

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BEST TATTOO ARTIST

Sarah de Azevedo, Oni Tattoo

de Azevedo is no stranger to this category, having won it six times over the past decade for being one of SLC’s most respected tattoo artists. Aside from being a badass in her field who can make any design pop on human skin, the fact that she’s made herself a private artist by appointment only to an exclusive list of clients has made her one of the most sought-after tattoo artists in the state. If you happen to snag an appointment with her as she opens her new studio, Locust Tattoo, consider yourself one of the lucky few to be inked by a star.

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BEST TOURING/NON-LOCAL ART EXHIBITION

The British Passion for Landscape, Utah Museum of Fine Arts

There’s no one like the British for taking on the grand sweep of history in their art, and the National Museum Wales’ traveling exhibit The British Passion for Landscape was one of the most awe-inspiring and breathtaking shows the Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah has ever mounted. As if it wasn’t enough to be able to view works by Constable, Gainsborough and J.M.W. Turner—and even Monet capturing his travels to Britain— to have them placed in historical context from the 17th century to the postmodern, and be able to see how landscape beckons to us today, was nothing less than sublime.

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BEST FASHION DESIGN

McQuiston Marié

With a pedigree of training from the Fashion Institute of Technology, and an eye for what women would like to wear that won’t cost a pretty penny, Marié has managed to make a good career out of creating flashy designs that are simplistic at their core. Her work had graced dozens of runways, but she still calls Utah home, working to expand and support our local fashion scene into one that could compete with any major city. Keep an eye out for her new collections, which will debut at Utah Fashion Week 2017.

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In the digital world, stagecraft— actually building the backdrop against which cinematic action is set—seems like a dying art. David Brothers, an artistic polymath who plys multiple media, has worked as an artist and set designer for numerous local productions including Trent Harris’ Plan Ten From Outer Space, and also creates his own artistic environments.

The result at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art earlier this year was Rolithica, an art installation made up on tunnels and caverns built into the wall of the museum, as though inhabited by some kind of itinerant scavengers; a veritable imaginative excavation that was alternately disturbing and wondrous.

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Park City’s Scott Filipiak is a photographer you might not know by name, but after working as a freelance photog for years and winning multiple awards, he has done more than enough to earn a reputation of being one of the finest photographers in the state. Recently, his work on Instagram has taken his skills to a new audience, as he shows off beautiful landscapes found all across Utah. The shots this man is able to get display stunning views of the best of what our state has to offer, while also showing how gifted he is behind the camera.

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The formulas of romantic comedy are so deeply ingrained in our culture that it’s always bracing when a work of art skewers them. Local playwright Matthew Ivan Bennett provided the delightfully caustic script for director Connor Rickman’s tale of a married couple (Daniel Beecher and Melanie Nelson) who can’t stop treating one another like garbage, but who might still be perfect for one another after eight years (or is it nine?). It might not be a pretty picture of what it takes for people to finally admit that they love one another, but it’s certainly a funny one.

It’s a rarity these days for any jewelry designer to maintain popularity without the trends passing them by, but Tif Blue has made sure that PeachTreats stays ahead of the curve both in design and in materials.

Developing extravagant designs that are works of art on their own, Blue is able to create fantastic pieces that don’t require large gauges, while also working with a variety of materials that might work better for people who are allergic to metals. A constantly evolving product line continues to make people wonder if there’s anything she can’t create.

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Scratch That Bridget Jones’s Baby feels almost proudly stuck in another era.

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Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) Renée Zellweger Hugh Grant Rated R

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occasion in which Bridget’s rear end is embarrassingly the center of everyone’s attention, and that she will babble her way ineptly through some public speaking occasion.

Even more reliably, this latest installment continues the series’ impressive tradition of using the single most obvious pop-song music cue for literally every occasion. If you expected Bridget to jump around to anything besides “Jump Around,” or to interact with an Italian restaurateur to anything besides “Mambo Italiano,” or to have her oddball double-dads situation scored to anything besides “We Are Family,” then you just don’t know these movies very well.

Of course, those who do know these movies very well are mostly interested in re-visiting Bridget’s life, and Zellweger— even without the trademark added weight she carried in the earlier movies, explained away early in the narration—still knows how to give the character an earthy appeal. But her life and her problems belong in another era—one where movie heroines have sassy gay BFFs to offer advice, and one that demands a traditional resolution to Bridget’s eternal quest for a “happily ever after.” We need more stories about the interior lives of women past the age of 40, but it helps if those stories don’t already feel obsolete, where you’re more ready to chuckle at what comes after the record scratch than at the record scratch itself. CW

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goofy meme has taken hold among a certain segment of the “Film Twitter” community—one that pokes fun at an archaic convention in broad comedies: the “record scratch/freeze frame.”

The joke is on movies employing obvious indicators that wacky things are afoot, but it’s an idea that seems more like urban legend than reality. Surely movies—even those of a bygone era where people actually knew what a “record scratch” was—didn’t really use the record scratch as storytelling shorthand for “wait, whaaaaat?”

It was with a mix of incredulity and grudging admiration that I watched Bridget Jones’s Baby director Sharon Maguire— returning to the series’ director’s chair after overseeing the original 2001 Bridget Jones’s Diary—deploy not one, but two such record scratches, which the franchise has certainly done previously. Bridget Jones herself might have aged a decade as this story unfolds, but the movie feels almost proudly stuck in the vibe of a late 1990s/ early 2000s romantic comedy, with all the accompanying formulaic (and only sporadically satisfying) shenanigans.

The setup alone feels like the kind of high concept that went out with flip phones.

Bridget (Renée Zellweger) is still a singleton in London as the story opens, as regu-

larly frustrated with her personal life as she is successful at her job as a TV newsmagazine producer. But at the age of 40-something, an unexpected complication enters her life. Bridget is pregnant. And since nothing about her personal life could possibly involve simple solutions, the father could actually be one of two people. Was it Jack (Patrick Dempsey), a millionaire online-dating mogul with whom she had a one-night stand at a music festival? Or was it Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), the on-again/off-again flame who re-entered her life after he separated from his wife?

If you noticed the absence of Hugh Grant from this incarnation of a Bridget-based romantic triangle, that’s because his Daniel Cleaver has been written out of this installment, and the loss is a significant one. Even in the often-excruciating Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Grant’s Cleaver gave a naughty spark to a story that was often based in how many humiliations Bridget could bounce back from. Dempsey’s Jack brings none of the same insouciance, resulting in a situation where he and Firth’s Darcy are two basically decent guys bumping awkwardly against one another, rather than providing genuine friction. Only a small role for Emma Thompson (also cocredited with the screenplay, along with Jones author Helen Fielding) as Bridget’s obstetrician provides anything close to the same edgy energy. There’s more humor in one of her withering glances than in most of the rest of the movie.

That’s because Bridget Jones’s Baby is far less interested in offering new jokes than in breaking out a greatest hits collection of everything audiences might have once adored about the bumbling, unlucky-in-love-andeverything-else Bridget and her movies.

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BLAIR WITCH B Director Adam Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett made their names snarking on ‘80s action movies with The Guest and ‘70s slasher flicks with You’re Next. They don’t make their own movies so much as remake everyone else’s. So who better to give us Blair Witch, which isn’t merely an entirely superfluous attempt to recapture the magic of the groundbreaking 1999 film—not possible now that found-footage is played out—but is also a remake masquerading as a sequel. James (James Allen McCune) heads into the Maryland woods with some pals to find out what happened to his sister, Heather, the documentary director from the original movie. Expanding the found-footage conceit with aerial drones and ear-fitted cameras that offer POV shots only breaks the tone; this looks a lot like a traditionally edited narrative. Much worse: After some tromping around in the woods, familiar horror-flick scares, and fresher but ultimately dead-end hints that the fabric of the physical world is broken, Blair Witch ends up in the same place where the first film ended. It goes nowhere, and says nothing we hadn’t already heard 17 years ago.

Opens Sept. 16 at theaters valleywide. (R)—MaryAnn Johanson

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COMPLETE UNKNOWN BBB The film begins with fractured clips of the same woman (Rachel Weisz) in multiple professions, going by multiple names. That’s a discombobulated start for a straightforward, bluesy drama about the identities and life-paths we choose for ourselves. The always-interesting Michael Shannon stars as Tom, a New York academic celebrating his birthday at a time of uncertainty, as his wife (Azita Ghanizada) is contemplating a career-related move to California. One of their friends brings a date to the party, Alice (Weisz), a self-assured woman whom Tom recognizes from his past—except her name wasn’t Alice then. Through much engrossing walk-and-talk action (shades of the Before Sunrise trilogy), director Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace) has Tom—and us—come to see the appeal in Alice’s untethered way of life, her liberating gift for becoming whomever she pleases. Weisz plays Alice as a determinedly free-spirited polymath, not a careless flake, while Shannon’s Tom is bemused, annoyed and fascinated by her. It might be better as a conversation-starter than as cinema, but the film’s astute central performances elevate it. Opens Sept. 16 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—Eric D. Snider

HILLSONG: LET HOPE RISE [not reviewed] Concert documentary about the Christian pop band. Opens Sept. 16 at theaters valleywide. (PG)

THE LAST DESCENT BBB The story was known to anyone living in Utah at the time, and the title is a bit of a spoiler, but writer/director Isaac Halasima’s fact-based drama still finds powerful moments to make up for the absence of tension. In November 2009, medical student John Jones (Chadwick Hopson) goes exploring with his brother (Jacob Omer) in Utah’s Nutty Putty Cave, only to set off a massive rescue operation when John becomes trapped in a tunnel. Halasima tries to build a tribute to John’s memory through flashbacks to his childhood and his courtship with his wife (Alexis Johnson), but events above ground often feel thin and unsatisfying. There’s terrific material, though, in the interaction between John and Aaron (Landon Henneman), a rescue worker who stays with John through the ordeal. The performances in these scenes hit home in their mix of calming small-talk and genuine openness, conveying the kind of relationship that evolves in a crisis. While it’s a worthy goal to make a tragic story focus on the victim’s life, The Last Descent hits emotional high notes by capturing people making peace with the possibility of death. Opens Sept. 16 at theaters valleywide. (PG)—Scott Renshaw

MR. CHURCH BB After more than 25 years, director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) returns to a story of the relationship between a black man and his white employers, in a way that can’t help feeling slightly archaic.

Susan McMartin’s screenplay—”inspired by a true friendship,” so the opening title card says—tells the story of single mom Marie (Natascha McElhone), her daughter Charlie (Britt Robertson) and their cook, Mr. Church (Eddie Murphy), who comes to work for them after a bequest in the will of Marie’s late boyfriend. Murphy’s restrained performance works for a character trying to avoid showing too much of himself, occasionally blowing up in a way that helps dodge some of the most egregious “magical Negro” tropes. But the tone of Beresford’s direction turns the episodic narrative into something more akin to melodrama than character piece, resulting in a central relationship between Charlie and Mr. Church that feels like a writerly contrivance toward Important Life Lessons. While Beresford knows how to push basic emotional buttons, he can’t make this movie play like something that actually belongs in the 21st century. Opens Sept. 16 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)—SR

SNOWDEN [not yet reviewed] Oliver Stone explores the life of controversial leaker of NSA secrets Edward Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). Opens Sept. 16 at theaters valleywide. (R)

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A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS [not yet reviewed] Natalie Portman directs and stars in this adaptation of Amos Oz’ memoir about the transitional years between British Palestine and the state of Israel. Opens Sept. 16 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (PG-13)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS AN ACT OF LOVE At Marmalade Library, Sept. 15, 7 p.m. (NR) EX MACHINA At Brewvies, Sept. 19, 10 p.m. (R) HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE At Park City Film Series, Sept. 16-17, 8 p.m.; Sept. 18, 6 p.m.

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SULLY BBB Director Clint Eastwood explores the story of Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (Tom Hanks)—the airline pilot who executed a miraculously successful emergency landing on the Hudson River in January 2009. Screenwriter Todd Komarnicki gets risky with his structure weaving back and forth in time, only getting to the events of the fateful day itself after around the 30-minute mark. It’s a narrative that occasionally spends time with peripheral characters in a way that often comes off as padding. But Hanks navigates Sully’s struggles with post-traumatic stress, media celebrity and trying to defend himself against suggestions that his decisions were risky, all in a way that retains humanity rather than turning him into a statue.

The taut procedural approach to the crash itself and Hanks’ gift for making earnestness compelling provide the foundation for a solid profile in just-doing-my-job heroism. (PG-13)—SR

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OUR LITTLE SISTER BBB There’s plentiful heartache and yearning under the surface—a strange thing to say about a movie so outwardly congenial and nearly conflict-free. But that’s the pleasure of this understated Japanese family drama from director Hirokazu Koreeda. Three sisters learn upon the death of their estranged father that they have a 14-year-old half-sister, who comes to live with them in the house they’ve shared since their mother abandoned them years ago. All four sisters get along swimmingly—the new one isn’t evil or anything—as they go to their jobs or school, find or lose boyfriends, and live their tranquil lives. Without much overt drama, Koreeda and his cast establish richly drawn characters whose lives feel lived-in. Koreeda’s restrained style and gentle pace might try some viewers’ patience, but if you can roll with it, it’s a lovely, poignant slice of life. (PG)—EDS

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I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER BBB The genius in the John Wayne Cleaver books by Dan Wells was his protagonist: a sociopathic teen who commits himself to studying mass-murderers because he fears the capacity in himself to become one. Co-writer/director Billy O’Brien nails his adaptation of the series’ first book, which finds John (Max Records) investigating grisly killings in his small town that might be connected to his elderly neighbor (Christopher Lloyd). There’s a gritty, understated quality to the way O’Brien navigates the narrative’s shift toward supernatural thriller, but Records’ strong performance anchors everything, complicating his role as the story’s “hero” when you can see the hint of a smile on his face in his response to a murder. While O’Brien might get clumsy in his exposition, it’s a unique achievement for a genre film to make it tricky to decide who’s the real monster. (R)—SR

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High Maintenance Friday, Sept. 16 (HBO)

Series Debut: Unapologetically bipolar comedies (or, halfhours that lean a bit too heavy to be “dramedies”) are apparently the thing this season and, along with Donald Glover’s Atlanta, High Maintenance essentially defines it.

The former web series, created, written and directed by wife-and-husband team Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair, about New York City weed dealer The Guy (played by Sinclair), looks like just another stoner-com from the outside, but it’s deeper than that. The Guy, who’s the only constant of the series, is the thread between a roster of clients who are both comically bizarre (like the deceptively dim bros we meet first) and tragically human (seemingly stereotypical gay-guy/straight-girl BFFs Max and Lainey, the meat of the pilot episode’s story). The pair’s bitchy repartee soon takes a dark turn into co-dependency hell that’s as bitter as it is funny; maybe it’s time to re-evaluate the veiled pathos of Will & Grace. High Maintenance is too layered to watch, well, high—maybe hold off for 30 minutes.

The Good Place Monday, Sept. 19 (NBC)

Series Debut: Now-dead Eleanor (Kristen Bell) tries to be a better-ish person with the help of an “afterlife mentor” (Ted Danson). NBC has been promoting the … hell? … out of The Good Place, and Bell and Danson are an unbeatable comic combo, but this might be too wonderfully weird for network TV. Watch hard, watch fast.

Kevin Can Wait Monday, Sept. 19 (CBS)

Series Debut: Former awful sitcom star Kevin James returns from awful movies with an awful new family sitcom—it’ll probably run for 10 seasons on CBS. In Kevin Can Wait … gawd, even the title sucks … James plays a recently retired beat cop who finds that life at home with the family is exactly like a sitcom from the ’80s. Again, 10 seasons.

This Is Us Tuesday, Sept. 20 (NBC)

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Series Debut: The closest thing to a straight-up family drama on broadcast anymore is CBS’ Life in Pieces—and that’s a half-hour comedy. This Is Us is a gorgeously written, filmed and acted capital-letters Family Drama with a mildly quirky plot hook, and a smart and grown-up alternative to everything else on Tuesdays. Thanks for trying, NBC.

Bull Tuesday, Sept. 20 (CBS)

Series Debut: Michael Weatherly jumped off the NCIS money train for this? Bull, based on “Dr.” Phil’s early days as a trial consultant, is the latest case of When Legal Dramas Happen to Good Actors (an epidemic this season), as the likeable Weatherly is wasted in a rote procedural among pretty, interchangeable lawyer-models. And, no mustache?

Lethal Weapon Wednesday, Sept. 21 (Fox)

Series Debut: Riggs (Clayne Crawford, Rectify) and Murtaugh (Damon Wayans Sr.) are back! Uh, why? To

paraphrase Murtaugh, Crawford is too good for this shit, and it would have been great to see him in something original, something better, just something … else. Imagine if TV turned Speed into a series—that would be more sustainable.

Designated Survivor Wednesday, Sept. 21 (ABC)

Series Debut: When you ask, “What could be worse than choosing between Clinton and Trump?” you get Designated Survivor: After a deadly attack on Washington D.C., a low-level cabinet member (Kiefer Sutherland) becomes president of the United States. DS has action and drama to burn, but why didn’t Jack Bauer save the real president?

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Shawn Murphy, aka DJ Shanty, first heard “Wheels of Steel” in the late ’80s. “I’m sure it was a Friday and it was probably Sam Smith or DJ Buzz on KRCL that played the mix,” he says. Soon afterward, Murphy saw Wild Style. “He was so precise—and amazing—at what he was doin’.” Inspired, Murphy and his future Numbs bandmate Gunnar McKell got to work. “We had this Fisher-Price turntable. We’d use a piece of paper as a slip mat and try to emulate the scratching.”

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Grandmaster Flash cousin’s worn copy of the 1985 compilation Grandmasters of Rap (Dominion). But it led, inevitably, to “Wheels of Steel.” Martinez recognized the Good Times stuff and “that old disco shit” his mother listened to. He stops short of calling Flash a personal influence, but he says he has respect for the DJ. “He held down a whole city with a style, you know?”

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Rapper/producer Tavie Mason says “Wheels of Steel” was his first Flash memory. “He was doin’ some incredible stuff on the turntables,” he says. “He actually made a song usin’ other records—but it was just him.

Melle Mel wasn’t on it. It was just him showcasin’ what you can do on a turntable … It blew me away.”

Being an open-format DJ, Sneeky Long— aka James Ramirez—doesn’t do exactly the same thing as hip-hop DJs do, but that’s the kind of reach Flash has. Like many people, Ramirez heard of Flash through “The Message.” It was Wild Style, however, that introduced him to the fine art of “rocking doubles”—using two turntables at once.

“What DJs do today is largely [due] to what Grandmaster Flash did.”

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Ryan “Dusk” Worwood heard “The Message” in elementary school and saw Wild Style soon after. “It was the first song of its kind,” he says. “There weren’t any songs out there with any kind of message. That stuck out to me and got me more interested in hip-hop, for sure.” Nowadays, thanks to Flash, Worwood holds DJs in high esteem: “The DJ sets the tone for the party and makes the show happen.” CW

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“I was really young when I first heard ‘The Message,’” Dago says. At the time, he’d heard of Flash, but didn’t actually know him. That all changed as Dago got more and more into hip-hop. “It struck me, how he would just take the best parts of records and use two turntables to cut back and forth to make a song,” he says. “I still can’t wrap my head around how you would be able to even come up with that idea in the late ’70s/early ’80s.”

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Asked about his earliest encounter with Flash’s work, Juggy (Ryan Alfaro) blurts out, “Flash is on the beatbox!”—a line from the 1979 single “Superappin’,” one of his deepest cuts. “When I first got on hip-hop in the late ’80s and early ’90s,” he says, “I didn’t realize there was a history before it.” He became a student. “I learned my history and figured out that Grandmaster Flash was one of the innovators of hip-hop and the DJ culture. I made sure I knew what was happenin’.”

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hen Grandmaster Flash covered Duran Duran’s anti-drug tune “White Lines (Don’t Do It)”—HaHA!—somewhere, heads were exploding like in that scene from Scanners. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are hiphop gods—pioneers of the biggest musical movement since rock ’n’ roll. So to suggest a Caucasian Anglo new-wave semi-boy band performed the original version of one of rap music’s seminal tracks (instead of vice versa) would certainly cause hateful outbursts.

The reality is that Flash doesn’t even appear on the track. Nor does he perform on any of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s studio recordings—even their biggest hit, “The Message.” His actual cultural flashpoint (forgive the pun) is “The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel” (Sugar Hill, 1981). While not his debut, the seven-minute track, where Flash mixes songs by the Furious Five, Sugarhill Gang, Blondie, Chic and Queen (among others) and audio clips from the sitcom Good Times is where he changed hip-hop— nay, music—forever. It’s also the first appearance of scratching and turntablism, the techniques he demonstrated in the famous kitchen scene from Charlie Ahearn’s 1982 hip-hop/graffiti film Wild Style.

Thirty-five years later, hip-hop saturates international pop culture, and DJs are defied. It’s so pervasive that even an apparently vanilla town like Salt Lake City reverberates with vibrant, passionate, real rap music and a fervent local fan base. Artists and fans alike, upon hearing that Grandmaster Flash is bringing the party to the Urban Arts Fest this Saturday—and that it’s free—are pumped.

Maybe Flash had nothing to do with it, but it just seems right to quote “White Lines” here: “Rang-dang-diggity-dang-de-dang!”

Here’s what some of SLC’s top DJs and rappers are thinking leading up to the show.

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lthough they didn’t share much sonically with the original generation of punk rockers when they started out in 1980, Anglo-Dutch experimental psychedelic band The Legendary Pink Dots embraced the same do-it-yourself aesthetic, issuing their first release, Only Dreaming (Mirrordot, 1981) on cassette in an edition of 10 with handmade covers. “We’ve come full-circle,” founder and singer/keyboardist Edward Ka-Spel tells City Weekly in a telephone interview. “We’ve basically gone back to doing everything ourselves. You can record everything at home now and get high-quality results.”

The band’s history predates the nearobsolete CD format, and now record labels are fading as well. It’s easier than ever to go DIY, and the era of home recording and digital distribution is good for someone of Ka-Spel’s musical impulses. Between The Legendary Pink Dots, solo projects and his Tear Garden project with cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy, plus a few others, Ka-Spel has amassed close to 200 releases. They cover a wide sonic territory, from ambient to industrial to noise, but the description that most seems to stick is psychedelic.

“Psychedelic is closest to my heart; the first music I really liked when I was young,” he says. “Basically, the music is always about color—always about going a little bit further, taking dangerous steps into a strange, twisted universe.”

There’s a sense of hubris that’s perhaps necessary to be this prolific, he says:

“You intend it to be the greatest statement you’ve ever made, on every single album.”

Fittingly, he says the best place to start a journey into the band’s music is their latest, Pages of Aquarius (Metropolis, 2016).

The set veers from the near-punk snarl of “Mirror, Mirror” to the jaggedly rhythmic “The Greatest Story Ever Told” to tunes that epitomize their more familiar meditative, sometimes somniloquent, splendor. Another point of entry into their formidable discography is probably their best-known release, Crushed Velvet Apocalypse (Wax Trax!, 1990).

The double-meaning of Crushed is telling; the title is a good description of the LPDs’ music—lush, luxurious and sensual, yet also dark and sinister, with a sense of mysticism that is foreboding more than comforting. In addition to this duality, part of the fun of The Legendary Pink Dots is looking closer. Listeners sometimes miss the subtle, dark humor on first listens—and it’s certainly there on Pages: “Mirror, mirror on the wall/ I really wish I had the balls/ to look you in the eye.” By way of explanation, Ka-Spel says, “If you’re British, you need to have a sense of humor—especially in these times.”

Pages was recorded over the course of two years, and you can appreciate the painstaking attention to detail. “There was a real drive to make something very vibrant, very colorful and explosive. It’s also very melodic, and sad in parts,” Ka-Spel says. “Explosive” isn’t a descriptor commonly applied to the band, but their new phase, in their fourth decade, is a dynamic, energetic one.

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“Our performance at the moment is a little bit on the extreme side,” he explains, saying the band threw out their old setlist of familiar greatest hits in order to embrace the newer material in live performance.

“It’s not the easiest ride, but it certainly is an interesting one. It’s quite challenging, but it’s good to be tested.”

Speaking of putting things to the test, the group achieved some notoriety on Bandcamp.com, the site that enables artists to distribute their own music. Ka-Spel bundled his entire 199-title discography for $933.38—a 25 percent discount, averaging $4.69 per release. He says it was Bandcamp’s idea, and they thought, “Why not?

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Genre names are increasingly meaningless, so when a band cheekily tries to give itself a new one, it can be pretty entertaining.

Take, for example, these tags that Los Angeles-based Burger Records recording artists Death Valley Girls threw up on their Facebook page: “Rock ‘n’ roll, dystopian punk, doom boogie, occult glam.”

That first one’s pretty out-there, eh? The other three are like well-written restaurant menu copy: If a record store clerk read that to you like they were the daily specials, you’d be salivating like Pavlov’s dog hearing the dinner bell. Now go to DeathValleyGirls.Bandcamp.com and listen to the two tracks posted there. But first, put on a bib, before you drown in your own slobber and the band’s copious reverb.

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City Weekly is privileged to have early mixes of most of Signal Path, the debut album by local rock/funk/soul band, Badfeather. It’s not like we don’t have a digital listening stack that’s gigs deep, but it’s hard not to let it play all day long.

Hell, I defy anyone who loves a fat, funky groove not to repeat the live favorite “Sweat.” In fact, it’s hard to stay focused on the rest of these blurbs. I’ve already written the treatment for an “erotic short film” for the track (open casting call next Tuesday at the LDS Temple Visitors Center). But when I force myself to get past it, it’s total goodness, including more favorites, like “Babbling Riverside Blues”

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Already full of quite pleasant surprises, Signal Path—engineered and produced by Dave Aron (Sublime, Snoop Dogg, locals Grits Green)—is shaping up to be one of my favorite local releases this year. You’ve got two shots to catch Badfeather’s release party—with none other than DJ Logic sitting in and compounding the grooves before and between Badfeather’s sets. Take ‘em both. (RH) The Cabin, 825 Main, Park City, Friday, 9 p.m., $5, 21+, TheCabinParkCity.com; The State Room, 638 S. State, Saturday, 9 p.m., $12, 21+, TheStateRoomSLC.com

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Cyndi Lauper, Charlie Musselwhite

You know, Cyndi Lauper’s pretty much a punk-ish Dolly Parton, sans them epic … attributes. She’s petite, adorable and takes no shit. She’s also full of surprises. For one,

Death Valley Girls she played the dulcimer in the singer-songwriter supergroup Largo in the late ‘90s, she put out a blues album (Memphis Blues, 2010), and her new album Detour (Sire) is— gasp!—country. Lauper’s signature squeak and retro-glam vibe make twangy chestnuts like “Heartaches by the Number” and “Walkin’ After Midnight” her own, but still surprisingly faithful to the original versions.

Not even when she busts out the fiddles and the cameos from Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill, Alison Krauss and, uh, Jewel—and even dials back the squeal—the album is undeniably Cyndi Lauper. That goes to show what many have known for decades: She’s much more than a silly girl who just wants to have fun. With a blues harp legend Musselwhite opening, expect to hear a few numbers from Memphis Blues sprinkled into the set. (RH) The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 8 p.m., $51 in advance, $56 day of show, DepotSLC.com »

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Wanna learn some Cockney rhyming slang? I’ll share a term I just learned, myself. According to Wikipedia—the most inaccessible and accurate research tool (trust no other!) available to esteemed rock-write guys such as myself—when Echo & the Bunnymen decided to continue with Noel Burke replacing singer Ian McCulloch, well, that didn’t go over well with fans and, of course, McCulloch.

The original Bunnymen vocalist, reflecting on this, says Burke’s name said it all. He refers to the similarity between the scab singer’s surname and “berk”—short for “Berkshire hunt,” which rhymes with a very naughty word. Anyway, vocab lesson over. Now let’s get all fangirly about one of the best new wave/post-punk bands of the ‘80s coming to our neck o’ the woods. In a year that has seen similar acts like The Church, Psychedelic Furs and Peter Murphy come to town, it’s really the icing on the cake. They’d better play “People Are Strange,” though—otherwise I’m gonna demonstrate my newly acquired vocabulary for McCulloch and mates.

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So remember all the hubbub about Portland stoner rockers Black Pussy’s name, and how feminists were boycotting it because it would somehow encourage rape?

Something similar happened to Mexican rap-rockers Molotov. Shockingly, despite the song not being about gay people at all—not to mention the long-running band’s well-deserved status as Mexico’s musical and political equivalent of Rage Against the Machine—their track “Puto” drew the ire of GLAAD. Obviously, it was for its use of the word “puto,” which most of us know as a derogatory term for homosexual. ¡Qué mierda! However, Molotov departs from Rage in that, while they use their music as a platform for serious ideas, they also bring the party with a wicked sense of humor. Imagine if Cyco Miko from Suicidal Tendencies, but wearing his goofier Infectious Grooves bandana, joined Rage and you have an idea of the sort of unbridled rap-rock Molotov plays—and how much fun this stop on Molotov’s Chinga Tour Madre 2016 will be. Local rock en español masters La Calavera open.

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Not only have ‘90s alt-rock darlings Garbage returned; City Weekly hears that drummer/ producer/co-founder Butch Vig has been cleared to rejoin the band after staying off the road due to doctor’s orders. Now, one might argue that all you need from Garbage is hot Scot Shirley Manson and her sultry vox.

Granted, she’s the show—but she was also the last to join the band. Vig—who produced Nirvana’s Nevermind, along with Steve Marker and Duke Erikson—started the group, and while a drummer can be replaced, a founder/producer cannot. The band’s sixth album, Strange Little Things (Stunvolume), shows the quartet as a whole still has the heady, atmospheric goods they showed off on their eponymous 1995 debut. (Randy Harward) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 7:30 p.m. (doors), $35 in advance (plus fees), TheComplexSLC.com

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Empanadas—stuffed bread pockets filled with meat, veggies or fruit—are popular throughout South America. Founder and owner Ana Valdemoros, who grew up in Argentina, first began selling her treats at the Downtown Farmers Market because she wanted to bring a bit of home to Salt Lake City. And recently, she opened a brick-andmortar store downtown—a modern-meetsrustic space, decorated with photos and other memorabilia collected from her visits back home.

“It’s refreshing to see the excitement in their faces when they see the products we offer,” Valdemoros says of her customers, especially ones who have visited Argentina. “I love all the stories we share back and forth.”

The shop offers traditional Argentine empanadas, which are handcrafted using top-of-the-line ingredients for the best flavor. “We work with Utah farmers and ranchers to get the freshest produce and meat possible,” she says. “We try to stay true to the Argentine traditions, in size, in artisanship, in craftsmanship and our excellent ingredients.”

She says the shop wouldn’t be faithful to its name if they used average beef, which is why she buys it grass-fed from Jones Creek or Canyon Meadows Ranch—both located in Utah. “A client told us this summer that he was happy to see we stayed true and were purists of Argentine empanadas,” she recalls. “I thought it was such a great description of what we offer.”

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) For the foreseeable future, your main duty is to be in love.

Rowdily and innocently in love. Meticulously and shrewdly in love. In love with whom or what? Everyone and everything—or at least with as much of everyone and everything as you can manage. I realize this is a breathtaking assignment that will require you to push beyond some of your limitations and conjure up almost superhuman levels of generosity. But that’s exactly what the cosmic omens suggest is necessary if you want to break through to the next major chapter of your life story.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) What do you hope to be when you are all grown up, Gemini?

An irresistible charmer who is beloved by many and owned by none? A master multi-tasker who’s paid well for the art of never being bored? A versatile virtuoso who is skilled at brokering truces and making matches and tinkering with unique blends?

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) “Dear Soul Doctor, I have been trying my best to body-surf the flood of feelings that swept me away a few weeks ago. So far I haven’t drowned! That’s good news, right? But I don’t know how much longer I can stay afloat. It’s hard to maintain so much CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) By normal standards, your progress should be vigorous in the concentration. The power and volume of the surge doesn’t seem coming weeks. You might score a new privilege, increase your to be abating. Are there any signs that I won’t have to do this forinfluence or forge a connection that boosts your ability to attract ever? Will I eventually reach dry land?” —Careening Crab. Dear desirable resources. But accomplishments like those will be sec- Careening: Five or six more days, at the most: You won’t have to ondary to an even more crucial benchmark: Will you understand hold out longer than that. During this last stretch, see if you can yourself better? Will you cultivate a more robust awareness of enjoy the ride more. Re-imagine your journey as a rambunctious your strengths and weaknesses, your needs and your duties? adventure rather than a harrowing ordeal. And remember to feel Will you get clear about what you have to learn and what you grateful: Not many people have your capacity to feel so deeply. have to jettison?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) If there can be such a thing as a triumphant loss, you will achieve AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) I’m confident that you would never try to sneak through customs it sometime soon. If anyone can slink in through the back door with cocaine-laced goat meat or a hundred live tarantulas or but make it look like a grand entrance, it’s you. I am in awe of your some equally prohibited contraband. Please use similar caution potential to achieve auspicious reversals and medicinal redefinias you gear up for your rite of passage or metaphorical border tions. Plain old simple justice might not be available, but I bet crossing. Your intentions should be pure and your conscience you’ll be able to conjure up some unruly justice that’s just as valuclear. Any baggage you take with you should be free of nonsense able. To assist you in your cagey maneuvers, I offer this advice: and delusions. To ensure the best possible outcome, arm your- Don’t let your prowess make you overconfident, and always look self with the highest version of brave love that you can imagine. for ways to use your so-called liabilities to your advantage.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Novelist Tom Robbins said this about my work: “I’ve seen the future of American literature and its name is Rob Brezsny.”

Oscar-winning actress Marisa Tomei testified, “Rob Brezsny gets my nomination for best prophet in a starring role. He’s a script doctor for the soul.” Grammy Award-winning singersongwriter Jason Mraz declared, “Rob Brezsny writes everybody’s favorite astrology column. I dig him for his powerful yet playful insights, his poetry and his humor.” Are you fed up with my boasts yet, Sagittarius? I will spare you from further displays of egomania under one condition: You have to brag about yourself a lot in the coming days—and not just with understated little chirps and peeps. Your expressions of self-appreciation must be lush, flamboyant, exultant, witty and sincere.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) My astrological divinations suggest that a lightning storm is headed your way, metaphorically speaking. But it shouldn’t inconvenience you much—unless you do the equivalent of getting drunk, stumbling out into the wasteland and screaming curses toward heaven. (I don’t recommend that.) For best results, consider this advice: Take shelter from the storm, preferably in your favorite sanctuary. Treat yourself to more silence and serenity than you usually do. Meditate with the relaxed ferocity of a Zen monk high on Sublime Emptiness. Got all that?

Now here’s the best part: Compose a playfully edgy message to God, telling her about all the situations you want her to help you transform during the next 12 months.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Should you be worried if you have fantasies of seducing a deity, angel, or superhero? Will it be weird if some night soon you dream of an erotic rendezvous with a mermaid, satyr or centaur? I say no. In fact, I’d regard events like these as healthy signs. They would suggest that you’re ready to tap into mythic and majestic yearnings that have been buried deep in your psyche. They might mean your imagination wants to steer you toward experiences that will energize the smart animal within you. And this would be in accordance with the most exalted cosmic tendencies. Try saying this affirmation: “I am brilliantly primal. I am wildly wise. I am divinely surprising.”

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The Peery was the brainchild of David and Joseph Peery who wanted a grand hotel for the booming new business community downtown. The patriarch of the Peery family came from Virginia and was a Confederate soldier who converted to Mormonism.

He was successful in the dry goods business, but the Union Army burned down his store, so he moved to Millcreek, Utah, and then to Ogden, where he became a successful businessman again. His son David trained under him, and moved to SLC, where he opened a mining brokerage office.

Seeing a need and wanting to expand their business dealings in the capital city, the family recruited prominent architect Charles Onderdonk to design a new building that could accommodate business people and their families. The Peery Hotel opened in 1910 as a “three-story showcase of prairie-style architecture combined with motifs of classical revival influence,” according to its website. This building went up during a period of hotel expansion because the state’s mines were rich, minerelated businesses were busy and the two main railroad depots downtown were a year from being finished.

In 1947, a Western hotelman named Henry Miles bought the building and changed its name to Miles Hotel. He later leased it out, and it slowly became a flea-bag of a place, avoided by all but the downtrodden in the 1980s. It was again purchased and remodeled in 1999 as a luxury boutique hotel catering to the 20th century business traveler, and is now renovated once again, with its doors open to welcome guests. It’s nice to see activity again at the old Peery. Be sure to visit this beautiful slice of history and architecture. n

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