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Yes, it’s important to listen to those who are traumatized by school violence. While it’s true that I was never the victim of an active shooter at school, as someone with a disability who was “mainstreamed” in school from day one, I was regularly the target of teasing, taunting and, in some cases, physical intimidation during my early school years. No school official responded effectively to the problem until junior high.

While the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is tragic—and while it indicates we still have a long way to go— we’ve come a long way since my elementary school experience many years ago. No matter where one stands on the issues of gun control or of how to prevent and to respond to school violence, one should neither vilify those who favor solutions which are different than the ones s/he favors, nor should one dismiss the legitimate fears and concerns of victims. Such actions are not conducive to effective public dialogue, nor do they contribute to the search for solutions.

Any school which—or any official who—instills unnecessary fear in students while attempting to prepare them for an activeshooter situation is doing it wrong. It’s important to discuss probability when preparing for such events: While preparation is important, the likelihood of a huge number of (still unlikely) untoward random events occurring in students’ lives still is greater than the chance that any of them will face an active-shooter situation at school.

Broward County, Fla., Sheriff’s Cpt. Jan Jordan, who instructed deputies to not enter the school, did exactly the wrong thing in responding to [the shooter’s] rampage. Apparently, she forgot that—while it’s true that, as the title of an old Adam-12 episode pointed out, “A dead cop can’t help anyone”—her first priority, rather than keeping her deputies safe, is to keep the public safe.

That’s why the old advice of responding to active-shooter situations: “Set up a perimeter and wait for SWAT,” was abandoned nearly 20 years ago after the Columbine High School shooting.

The contrast between law enforcement’s response to [the shooter’s] rampage and its response to Sulejman Talovic, who began indiscriminately shooting patrons at Salt Lake City’s Trolley Square on Feb. 12, 2007, is instructive. While it is tragic that lives were lost on both occasions, in the latter case, officers didn’t simply “set up a perimeter and wait for SWAT.” Rather, the first officers to arrive on the scene immediately sought out and confronted the shooter, saving numerous lives in the process.

The post-9/11 advice of, “If you see something, say something” was followed by a tipster who reported to the FBI that [the Parkland shooter] said on social media that he wanted to be “a professional school shooter.” One of the challenges of “the wild, wild web” is that such information can come from anyone and from any place, which makes it difficult to follow up on. However, the FBI admitted that the tip was mishandled, while, by contrast, stories of law enforcement and school officials taking similar information seriously and of responding effectively make the news regularly.

Perhaps officials in Florida and elsewhere can learn from them.

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Blog post, April 20, “Utah Students Gather at Capitol to Demand Gun-Reform Legislation”

What a bunch of brainless sheep. You have to ask what is being taught in schools? Certainly not history, the Constitution, critical thinking or logic.

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Maybe they should take some time to fix bullying, antisocial behaviors and elitism to help other students feel not so bad about themselves and others [so] they’ll not make the choice to lash out through choosing a gun to make themselves seen.

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Mormons and Pot

Despite Mormonism’s claims that its prophets talk with God, its recent history portrays a rather bleak record for getting on the right side of political issues.

It makes one wonder where former President Gordon B. Hinckley was when he made an official declaration in the early days of the Iraq War. He described it as a “just war.” Unfortunately, he never seemed to comprehend the facts. The 9/11 attack did not originate in Iraq; there were no “weapons of mass destruction;” advisors had told President George W. Bush, essentially, “Don’t go into Iraq. It will destabilize the entire region, and there is no way, particularly in light of the tribal nature of Iraq’s many populations, to ever win.”

As we have come to understand, the predicted consequences held true. The war was anything but “just,” and it did, in fact, destabilize the region, kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people and waste hundreds-of-billions in military expenditures.

There are only two possible explanations for Hinckley’s remarkable gaffe: Either he didn’t hear God correctly or God was simply wrong. Sadly, his statement created a mindset among Mormons, who assumed that they needed to support the war and refrain from speaking out against it. That’s the consequence of poorly-informed religious leaders crossing over into politics and passing-off personal opinions as God’s word.

So, here we are in 2018, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is at it again, taking an official stand on the medical marijuana issue. “Lawmakers across the country have wrestled with whether to legalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes,” LDS Church spokesman Eric Hawkins stated last summer. “This discussion raises legitimate questions regarding the benefits and risks of legalizing a drug that has not gone through the well-established and rigorous process to prove its effectiveness and safety.” (Now, keep in mind, that no public statements

BY MICHAEL S. ROBINSON SR. are made without the approval of church leadership, so this probably came from the “top.”) Why does the Mormon church issue such statements? Because it’s a method of control. Sadly, with its membership of 16 million, Mormonism has a real impact on regional policy and politics, and it imposes its ideas on those who don’t share the faith.

In fact, there is a wealth of credible scientific study on medical marijuana; it has proven to be the lowest risk drug in controlling chronic pain, seizures and other symptoms in a variety of diseases. The 29 states that have approved medical marijuana have done so with the understanding that the drug’s use is effective, non-habit-forming and safe. Unlike opioids— which are the only other choice—patients who need its efficacy in pain and inflammatory processes aren’t going to end up addicted. Furthermore, medical marijuana is incapable of killing, even in high doses. There is no LD-50—the lethal dose standard of the pharmaceutical industry—but, since He created it, God must know all that, so why didn’t he tell his prophet?

The large pharmaceutical companies don’t want easily available medical marijuana. That is no surprise and it’s easy to see their motivation. If approved through the “appropriate channels” and legalized as a prescription drug, it would probably be the most profitable drug ever to hit the market. What costs around $150 per ounce in those states where it’s legal, the pharmaceutical behemoths would likely turn into a $10,000 per month prescription for those who desperately need it.

Unfortunately, those pharmaceutical companies are some of the biggest contributors to campaign funding, so it’s easy to see why most lawmakers have a mantra similar to that of the Mormon church. It also suggests another possible motive for the church’s opposition to the upcoming ballot initiative. Let’s just consider, that among the Mormon church’s stock investments are very large holdings of pharmaceutical stocks.

So, if our governor and legislators have been put into office with pharmaceutical dollars, is it any surprise that they don’t want Utahns to have the majority vote on medical marijuana? Gov. Gary Herbert and Utah’s legislative pack appreciate the dollars that got them elected, and they seem determined to oppose the principle that the people’s voices will

be heard. Moreover, these people repeatedly lie to the population, claiming that legalization will lead to recreational use—something for which there is no credible evidence.

Roughly 75 percent of all Utahns, including those of diverse religious denominations, support the use of medical marijuana, according to a January poll by The Salt Lake Tribune and the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics. One of the most ridiculous concepts is to allow the drug only to those in their last six months of life. Unfortunately, there are many chronic maladies that cause victims years of endless suffering, and, while the dying need our compassion, the chronically ill need it even more. There are thousands of Utahns for which medical marijuana is the difference between years of endless suffering or functional, happy lives.

As a former surgeon, current church prophet Russell M. Nelson should remember his Hippocratic Oath. Consigning the chronically ill to interminable pain is not in keeping with that Oath. It’s time for Nelson to work toward the greater good rather than getting stuck in the politics.

Frankly, there is nothing good, compassionate, or Christian in the church’s position.

Regardless of the Mormon church’s statements, Utahns need to stand up for what is good and what is right. Let’s make sure that the medical marijuana initiative is not blocked by those who would take away our right to the principal of majority rule. We care about those who endure chronic suffering, so let’s do all we can for them.

It’s time for Utahns to engage their God-given ability to think, venture out of the sheep pen and question why the chronically ill should be required to suffer horribly when there really is “salvation” just beyond the vote. The church’s stance is unconscionable. If I’ve raised the hackles of Mormons, I’ll put this in their language: What would Jesus do? Kindness and love dictate the answer. CW

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Pollution in Utah is a story about opportunities lost. It’s not just that the state refuses to address the wood-burning issue, though that would do a lot—estimates of at least 16 percent reduction, and of course, untold reduction in lung diseases. Now, The Salt Lake Tribune reports that ozone pollution is worse than ever, that Utah ranks among the highest in lung cancer deaths due to pollution and that those fun ATVs kick up enough toxic metals in American Fork Canyon to pose a significant health risk.

What does the state do? They “encourage” people to behave. You’re not supposed to idle your car, but everybody does. You’re not supposed to drive on “red” burn days.

You’re not supposed to burn wood then, either. But many do. The state continues to say that industry accounts for “only” 11 percent of our pollution, but that, too, is a lot. It is well past time for politicians to mandate some good behavior.

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Now, according to The Salt Lake Tribune, President and CEO Jerry Benson has been “terminated” because, gee, that’s what they had to do. You know, the Legislature reworked the board and changed everything, so it’s their fault. Benson will get nine months of top-flight severance pay because of their dirty deed. UTA has been beset with problems—unflattering audits, high pay and junkets for board members and sweet deals for real estate, among other things. You might ask why the Legislature decided to tweak instead of revamp the agency, and that would be a good question. In the meantime, Benson will be taking off with his pockets full and the former board thumbing their noses at our hapless lawmakers.

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Years ago, I was deer hunting on my friend’s farm in Ohio. As the sun rose, I noticed I was in the middle of a large cow pasture. Some cows walked toward me slowly. When they were about 100 feet away, I decided I had better leave. As I was walking, I could see the cows picking up their pace. I got pretty nervous and decided to run toward a fence. I looked behind me and saw the two cows were now running toward me. I got over the fence in the nick of time. Since that incident I’ve wondered: What would have happened if I hadn’t made it to the fence?

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When it comes to menacing humans, certain cows hog all the attention. One in Rajasthan, India, made tabloid headlines in February for attacking a British tourist who had begun singing the Black-Eyed Peas song “My Humps” at it; the cow understandably took this as a provocation and charged. A few years earlier, the U.K. press had gotten on a story about an English farmer who’d tried to raise cattle from a stock originally bred in the 1920s and ’30s by Germans hoping to recreate the aurochs, an extinct bovine master race once prevalent in the Fatherland. The presentday herd proved to be so aggressive that the farmer had to send at least half of them off to slaughter: “They would try to kill anyone,” he told The Guardian.

With such splashy examples in the mix, you’d be forgiven for overlooking the routine menace of the workaday cow, at least until one chases you off an Ohio farm. In the United States, though, you’re more likely to be killed by cows than you are by alligators, spiders, sharks, and venomous snakes combined, according to a 2015 analysis of Centers for Disease Control data by the Washington Post. Granted, these are still exceedingly small numbers we’re talking about. When I say it’s 20 times more likely you’ll be killed by a cow than by a gator, that’s only because the country averages roughly one death by gator per annum, and 20 DBCs. As you’d guess, farms, ranches and feedlots are the main venues for cow-onhuman violence. In 2016, the Bureau of Labor Statistics tallied 19 workplace deaths primarily caused by bovines, half the total attributed to nonhuman mammals in all.

These numbers are fairly typical, meaning it’s a notably unlucky civilian who goes out this way.

How, specifically, does one come to grief via cow? Blunt injury, mainly, reports a 2013 article from the journal Trauma. “Cattle can weigh more than a car,” the authors remind us, and so when a cow gets a good piece of you, the results tend to be “highenergy injuries with severe crushing tissue damage.” Overall, they found, kicking is the most common form of impact, though

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in a cited 2001 study of U.S. cow-related occupational deaths, the leading mechanisms of fatal injury were, in order, 1. charging, 2. trampling or stomping, and 3. pinning victim against (e.g.) a gate or wall, with kicking in fourth place.

If the cow has horns, that’s a whole other story: penetrating injuries “most commonly affect the abdomen followed by the perineum,” another way of saying that if they miss you in the stomach they’ll get you in the crotch. The complex mechanics of goring—wherein the victim often gets hoisted up on the horn, then wrenched around—means doctors see a lot of internal damage “even with seemingly small wounds.”

To paw this ground a little further, I’ll refer you to the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which in 2009 included a study called “Fatalities Caused by Cattle—Four States, 2003-2008.” This one isn’t straight statistics but presents some grim case summaries as well. We read about a 65-year-old woman who “was removing a dead, newborn calf from a pasture when a cow knocked her down, stomped her, and butted her while she was lying on the ground”; a 65-year-old man loading beef cattle onto a truck who was subsequently crushed against the barn door; and a 63-year-old man who was butted, pinned against a fence, and stomped in his dairy barn by a bull with a rep for being threatening.

The CDC editors note a few themes here.

One is that cows can be prone to aggression when their young are present. Another is that cattle victims tend to be getting on in years: of the 21 cases examined, 14 involved people above the age of 60, and the report pointed to other data on higher injury rates for livestock farmers who used hearing aids or experienced arthritis or rheumatism. A presumably still-spry hunter out on the open field, not trying to get too near a calf? You might’ve been fine anyway, Crafter. Still, it’s always best to take precautions: head for the fence pronto, and for god’s sake don’t start singing till you’re on the other side. n

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Tatia Nelson asked that the cost of health food products not be drastically increased, so the “common Utahn” can continue to use hemp products, which come in a variety of forms, like body moisturizers and hair and scalp treatments. A number of people also asked for standards so that consumers could be sure that the products they’re using actually contain CBD; the Utah Poison Control Center issued a news release in December warning the public about people becoming ill after ingesting products labeled as CBD oil, noting that their “symptoms are not consistent with” such products.

Wilbur said he doesn’t believe any businesses are currently licensed to sell CBD products, “because there hasn’t been a mechanism for them to be licensed.” No decision has been made regarding CBD and whether the UDAF will license products, facilities or sales outlets, he added.

A number of speakers told panelists about “medical miracles” wrought by CBD.

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Attendees gave public comments at three meetings: “Cultivation of Industrial Hemp,” where farmers, business owners and concerned citizens spoke about hemp’s value; “Cannabidiol Products,” in which business representatives and CBD product users spoke of the need for clear labeling and the value those products have had on their lives; and “Cannabis Cultivation Amendments,” which centered on the administration of medical cannabis to terminally ill patients with just a few months left to live. Citizens’ viewpoints were heard by a panel of four UDAF officials, plus an assistant attorney general from the state’s agency counsel division. Scott Ericson, the UDAF’s deputy commissioner, said at the end of the first meeting that UDAF is merely at the stage of gathering information from stakeholders before drafting rules on hemp cultivation. “There is very little, if any, chance the rules will be in place for this growing season,” he said.

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earded and tattooed, clad in a red undershirt and suspenders, Mike Carlson approached the mic last Thursday and thanked the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food representatives for hearing out the “thugs, punks and druggies” in the crowd.

Speaking as a “person that sees miracles on a daily basis,” the CEO of Kaysville’s Green HoriZen—a natural health shop that sells products containing cannabidiol— told the representatives that the “worst thing that can happen to you with any kind of cannabis, is you get caught with it.”

“This is a great opportunity for Utah to be in a leadership position,” Carlson said.

The entrepreneur and the 30 people who spoke at UDAF’s three public-input meetings last week talked passionately about CBD, cannabis-based treatment and industrial hemp—“They’re having profound results,” Daniella Lucero, local business owner, said of her customers who have purchased products infused with CBD isolates and hemp extract—as the department held listening sessions to get citizens’ thoughts on House Bills 195, 197 and 302, as well as Senate Bill 130, cannabis and hemp bills passed during the last legislative session and slated to go into effect in May. The bills bring Utah a step closer to legal cannabis by giving terminally ill patients with six months to live the option of cannabis-based treatment; providing for the sale and use of CBD products under certain circumstances, and allowing individuals and universities to cultivate, process and market industrial hemp products—provided they’re licensed with UDAF. Jack Wilbur, the department’s information and social marketing specialist, said the meetings were called to get the agency’s “ducks in a row.” Last week’s meetings weren’t a required step for the UDAF, since the bills haven’t yet gone into effect.

“We just think it’s important enough to hear what people have to say,” Wilbur said.

He added the sessions will help the state agency to set rules and guidelines. After those are written, he says another meeting seeking public comment will be scheduled. Members of the public who didn’t make it last week are encouraged to email agriculture@utah.gov while the rules are still being drafted.

Chiropractor Rick Madsen, 60, spoke of his stiff joints, sore muscles and nerve pain, a period he called “a horrendous time” in his life. Placed on several prescription medications and worried about kidney damage, Madsen said a friend told him about CBD. “The first night I took it, my symptoms disappeared,” he declared.

“You really have no business telling me what I can and can’t put in my body,” Madsen told the experts. “I’d like to see you guys step away from this and leave us alone.”

The chiropractor wasn’t the only person who spoke highly of CBD treatment: “I take a lot of CBD with a lot of THC,” a man who identified himself as “Doc” told the panel.

“With the CBD, I’m able to function,” he continued. “I’m able to be there for my kids.”

Multiple people cited the benefits of CBD on their high blood pressure, anxiety, anger issues and pain. Supporters spoke of children with autism spectrum disorder and epilepsy who benefitted from such products; even pets, some speakers said, can benefit from CBD. (“Dogs that couldn’t walk are walking again,” one man told the panel.)

Wilbur says the personal testimonials on the alleged benefits of CBD, are “compelling,” but don’t necessarily factor into the state agency establishing rules and guidelines, “but we realize this is a very important issue to a lot of people.”

“We don’t want to discount that,” Wilbur said about CBD’s purported medical benefits.

A number of local business owners voiced concern about regulations and standards raising costs so high that consumers couldn’t afford CBD products. “As retailers, we want to know what we have to do to keep the products in stores,” one local employee in the “pet CBD market” told the panel.

“People are afraid they’re going to lose this,” Char Owen, employee at Green HoriZen, said of consumers’ worry over a possible price hike. “They trust us,” she said.

“We’re providing a life-changing product for them.” Fans of the free market also cautioned against too much regulation, asking the panel not to “stop the innovators.”

Lucero, who co-owns M Soaps by Marguerite with her mother Marguerite Blakey, in Gardner Village, says she’s anxiously waiting for the state’s rules and regulations. “If Utah’s going to make it too hard, the licensing and stuff, we’re out,” she later told City Weekly, referring to the potential price hike on the CBD products her West Jordan shop sells.

“It’s 50 percent of our sales right now, easy,” she says, noting that the “huge market” for CBD products is “too lucrative” for her business not to continue pursuing.

If the cost to sell such goods gets too high in Utah, Lucero says, they could relocate out of the state, “which is sad, because we pay money into our community here.” CW

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signed an August 2017 order “streamlining” Environmental Impact Statements, documents required under the National Environmental Policy Act that frequently take years to complete and can easily surpass thousands of pages. Bernhardt directed Interior agencies to limit impact statements to not be more than “150 pages or 300 pages for unusually complex projects.”

The order also required Interior agencies to complete the statements “within 1 year from the issuance” of a “Notice of Intent” to prepare the statement. Prior to his appointment, Bernhardt was a lobbyist for the Rosemont Copper Co., which is seeking permits to build the nation’s third-largest open-pit copper mine in southern Arizona. The Environmental Impact Statement for the project took the U.S. Forest Service more than eight years to complete and is many thousands of pages.

Accompanying Bernhardt is Greg Sheehan, whom Zinke appointed in June 2017 to the newly created position of principle deputy director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. There, he is responsible for protecting endangered species and enforcing hunting and fishing regulations, despite the fact that in July 2017 testimony before Congress, Sheehan expressed support for proposals in Congress to weaken the Endangered Species Act. Sheehan’s opposition to endangered species has a long history. Prior to his appointment he served as the director of Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources,

where he opposed allowing the endangered Mexican gray wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) into the state and eased restrictions on killing and relocating the endangered Utah prairie dog (Cynomys parvidens). More recently Sheehan, an avid hunter, attracted headlines last November when he lifted a ban on the importation of elephant trophies from two African countries while attending a hunting conference in Tanzania.

Earlier this month, the Fish and Wildlife Service, under Sheehan’s direction, proposed a rule that would remove key protections in the future for species classified as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act, which is one classification below “endangered.”

Currently, threatened species receive the same protections as endangered species to prevent their harm, death or harassment from human activities.

Completing the trifecta, former Texas Comptroller Susan Combs was appointed by Zinke last month to serve as acting assistant secretary for fish, wildlife and parks. A fierce opponent of the Endangered Species Act, Combs’ position at Interior oversees the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service. A previous attempt by Trump to appoint Combs as Interior’s assistant secretary for policy, management and budget was blocked in the Senate after Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., put a hold on her nomination until he received assurances that the administration would not pursue offshore drilling off the Florida coast.

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relationship with the oil and gas industry and numerous potential conflicts of interest — he has focused on implementing a series of executive orders issued by Trump and Zinke regarding regulations that “burden” the energy industry.

The primary goal is to increase energy production from more than 245 million surface acres controlled by the department’s Bureau of Land Management and 700 million acres of subsurface mineral rights.

To facilitate this effort, Bernhardt

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Overseeing the department’s daily operations is Deputy Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, a former oil, gas and mining lobbyist who also served as a high-ranking official in President George W. Bush’s Interior Department, where he strongly supported fossil-fuel extraction from public lands and used reports funded by oil companies in congressional testimony.

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p erating in the shadows of the Trump administration’s chaos and the financial scandals dogging Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, a powerful trio of Interior Department political appointees is now in place to accelerate an already aggressive effort to quickly offer leases for millions of acres of public land—much of which is in sensitive environmental areas—to the oil and gas industry.

A combination of appointments by President Donald J. Trump and Secretary Zinke have installed senior leadership at the Department of the Interior who have extensive experience in running government bureaucracies while embracing an anti-environmentalist agenda that furthers development of fossil fuels.

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Combs is adept at working the legislation and bureaucratic labyrinth to weaken protections for endangered species. In 2011, she helped maneuver an 11th-hour bill, backed by the oil and gas industry, through the Texas Legislature to shift oversight of endangered species from the state’s Parks and Wildlife Department to the Comptroller’s Office, which she headed.

As comptroller, she fought efforts to put Texas plants and animals on the federal endangered species list. An Austin American Statesman investigation revealed she “found fault with nearly every listing proposal from Washington, citing inadequate sciences, low-ball economic impact projects or insufficient notification of local residents.” During a 2013 legislative briefing, the paper reported, she referred to proposed species listings as “incoming Scud missiles.”

Combs, a rancher and former Texas agriculture commissioner, is now in a powerful position to weaken protections for threatened and endangered species to facilitate expansion of oil and gas development into areas that are critical to their survival.

The Bernhardt-Combs-Sheehan troika is poised to implement internal department policies through instruction memorandums to streamline oil and gas leasing and staff reassignments to undermine environmental protections on public lands and for endangered species that will help accelerate oil and gas leasing.

“These are the people behind the curtain who are really, really changing our public lands and setting a future direction that may or may not be consistent with what the law requires,” says Jim Lyons, a research scholar at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

“I think they’re smart,” he says, referring to Zinke’s leadership team. “They’re thinking of this in a comprehensive way and they are using diversions and deceptions to get them what they really need to get done under the radar. They come in with Bernhardt, who has done this before and they know how to use [bureaucratic] power and they’re using it effectively.”

Bernhardt, as solicitor during the Bush administration, wrote a legal opinion that Interior could not use the Endangered Species Act to address the threats of climate change on polar bears, even if the species was listed under the act, according to a letter opposing his Senate confirmation signed by 150 environmental organizations.

According to the Western Values Project, Bernhardt’s “time at Interior was marred by scandal, including when he replaced independent government analysis in congressional testimony with reports funded by oil companies, oversaw the forced resignation of a whistleblower, and served as counselor to the secretary when J. Steven Griles, the ‘second-ranking official of the Interior Department,’ was involved in the Jack Abramoff corruption scandal.”

Not surprisingly, a primary goal of Trump’s Interior Department is to fundamentally undermine protection of endangered species.

“I anticipate these officials will support legislative efforts to weaken the Endangered Species Act, as well as pursue regulatory and policy-based efforts internally to also decrease both procedural and substantive protections for threatened and endangered species,” says Daniel Rohlf, a law professor at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Ore., specializing in the protection of endangered species and their habitat.

Dave Owen, a law professor at the University of California Hastings who specializes in environmental and natural resource law, says the appointments of Bernhardt, Combs and Sheehan continue a Trump administration pattern of naming people to lead agencies who are “deeply skeptical of the laws they are supposed to be implementing and the goals of the programs that they are implementing.”

“They fundamentally do not believe in the Endangered Species Act or in other statutes that protect the environment,” Owen says.

Sidestepping Senate Confirmation

Zinke’s appointments of Sheehan and Combs to high-ranking Interior Department positions have not been sent to the Senate for confirmation, as required by the Constitution and subsequent legislation. This continues a pattern by the Trump administration of avoiding Congressional oversite. Acting directors, rather than presidentially appointed directors requiring Senate confirmation, also oversee the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management.

Avoiding Congressional oversight through the Senate confirmation process is unprecedented, critics say, and raises serious questions of whether decisions made by “acting” officials such as Sheehan and Combs will withstand legal challenges.

“The Trump administration has dropped the ball and has failed to promptly nominate qualified personnel to lead these important agencies,” says Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists. “The law limits the ability of so-called acting officials to do the job. This is not the way that government is supposed to be run.”

Terry Sullivan, a political scientist at the University of North Carolina’s White House Transition Project, says, “If you allow acting [directors] just to stay on and make decisions forever, then what’s the point of the Constitution? That delegitimizes the role of the Senate in confirming people. That’s about the balance of power and checks and balances.”

The U.S. Government Accountability Office is reviewing a complaint filed in February by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility alleging that the acting Interior appointments violate the Federal Vacancies Reform Act. The complicated law outlines how long temporary, or acting, officials can remain in office. For vacancies that occur on the day of, or within 60 days of, a new president’s inauguration, an acting officer may

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serve for 300 days from the date of the vacancy, according to Lawfare, a legal blog.

Creating a Shadow Agency

“Why don’t the missions and responsibilities of the Park Service, [Bureau of Land Management] and Fish & Wildlife Service merit permanent, Senate-confirmed directors?” asked Jeff Ruch, executive director of the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, in a recent news release.

The answer appears to be that the Trump administration wants to avoid public scrutiny of Interior’s decisions and sidestep Congressional oversight. This is occurring while the department systematically dismantles policies designed to protect the multiple use of public lands, including conservation and recreation, and tilt public lands use solidly in favor of the oil and gas industry.

“What they are trying to do is create a shadow Department of the Interior,” says Bobby McEnaney, senior lands and wildlife analyst for the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Western Renewable Energy Project. “It’s designed by the secretary and David Bernhardt to create a functioning department that does not have to go through the normal checks and balances.”

By creating a “shadow” agency, McEnaney says, the Trump administration reduces transparency of critical actions taken

by Interior leadership, which is now dominated by oil and gas industry supporters and hostile to protecting biodiversity and combating climate change.

“What we have seen with this administration and Secretary Zinke is that they have embraced a race to the bottom,” he says.

“They have embraced the most extreme policy that one could imagine for every type of resource law.”

For example, last week the Interior Department issued new legal guidelines that undermine the enforcement provisions of the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which was one of the first major conservation laws adopted in the United States. The department, according to a December 2017 solicitor’s opinion that was forwarded to Bernhardt, will no longer pursue penalties against individuals or companies whose actions resulted in killing or injuring migratory birds if the intent of the action was not to harm or kill birds.

Oil companies will be the greatest beneficiary of the law, according to an Audubon Society study. Under Interior’s new enforcement guidelines, oil companies responsible for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska would not have been fined for injuring or killing migratory birds.

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The Interior Department’s unorthodox operation of relying on acting officials such as Sheehan and Combs under the direction Bernhardt is on a collision course with Congress over several provisions included in the omnibus spending bill enacted last month.

“One big concern is we will be seeing if Secretary Zinke and the Interior Department follow the budget that congressional appropriators just passed,” says Aaron Weiss, media director for the Center for Western Priorities.

Congress explicitly opposed three Interior initiatives.

First, Section 120 of the omnibus bill, signed into law last month by President Trump, expressly prohibits the department from spending funds on its proposal to revise an agreement between federal agencies, states, private landowners, industry and conservation groups to conserve 35 million acres of federal lands across 10 states to protect the imperiled greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus). The unprecedented agreement was reached to keep the bird off the endangered species list to avoid major economic losses across its habitat.

Last September, the Interior Department announced its

Under Bernhardt’s direction, the Interior Department’s quarterly sale of 10-year oil and gas leases across the West eliminates environmental conservation not only for the leased acreage, but also a wide portion of the surrounding public lands. Combs and Sheehan, through their direct oversight of implementing the Endangered Species Act, are expected to play a key role in reducing protections for species that could slow oil and gas development.

Last month, the Interior Department sold 43 oil and gas leases in Southern Utah covering 51,000 acres for about $1.5 million, which averages only $29 per acre. Many of the plots are believed to have scant oil resources, but the lease sales effectively sterilize the land for conservation purposes for the next decade, if not much longer.

“Once you start leasing areas that have never been leased before, you foreclose opportunities for conservation in those areas,” McEnaney says.

Most of the time, the leased federal land never is developed

Possible Showdown With Congress

intent to amend the greater sage grouse land-use plans to loosen protections for the bird to encourage energy and mineral production from lands within its habitat. Congress has now ordered the department to leave the 2015 plan alone.

“Congress sent down very explicit instructions on sage grouse, where they said stay the course, honor the deal,” Weiss says.

Bernhardt, Combs and Sheehan will play a central role in whether and how the administration plans to advance its sage grouse reforms because of Endangered Species Act implications.

Congress also rejected Interior’s request to eliminate funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund. The fund is financed by oil and gas leases on the Outer Continental Shelf. Instead, Congress appropriated $425 million for the fund, up $25 million from 2017.

The fund supports the protection of federal public lands and waters and provides matching grants to the states and tribal governments for the purchase and development of public parks and outdoor recreation sites. Since it was created in 1965, the fund has provided $3.9 billion in grants to states for more than 40,000 projects.

Finally, Congress turned down Interior’s request for $18 million to begin a department-wide reorganization, which would have transferred personnel from Washington, D.C., to locations primarily in the West. Bernhardt has been working with Zinke to advance the reorganization plan.

The bill “included language that explicitly reminded the administration they need to seek approval from Congress and they don’t have approval yet,” says Kate Kelly of the Center for American Progress.

The spending act has set clear limitations on what Interior’s leadership can pursue while providing the agency more money than it requested for conservation efforts.

“You now have a case where Congress is directly contradicting the secretary’s own priorities and what the secretary has proposed,” Weiss says. “So, the question is, if Secretary Zinke blows off Congress, blows off congressional appropriators and just does his own thing, will Congress hold him accountable?”

So far the Republican-controlled Congress has not held the Trump administration accountable for its refusal to fill agency director positions at the Interior Department with officials that require Senate confirmation such as Susan Combs and Greg Sheehan.

Asked if there is anything that can be done to force the Trump administration to make appointments that require Senate confirmation, Aftergood could only guess.

“Midterm elections? I mean that’s a good question,” he says.

“And I don’t know the answer.” CW

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Ramping up Oil and Gas Leasing, Removing Land From Protection

for oil and gas production. There are about 27 million acres of public land leased to oil and gas companies. But only 46 percent of that is in production, according to a report by WildEarth Guardians.

The discrepancy between leases and production is particularly wide in Nevada where 1.1 million acres have been leased to oil and gas companies but only 27,000 acres, or 2 percent of all leased acreage, is in production There is a reason for this discrepancy, McEnaney says. “They are leasing thousands and thousands of acres in Nevada which have little or no potential for oil and gas opportunity. But [sell] one lease, say a 40-acre plot in the middle of a 400,000-acre piece of landscape, and the Bureau of Land Management can consider that [entire] landscape leasable.”

Despite the huge surplus of oil and gas leases that are not producing, the Interior Department is continuing to offer massive amounts of public land for lease. The oil and gas industry, so far, has given the department the cold shoulder. Last year, McEnaney says, the department offered 11.85 million acres for 10-year leases, but only 782,000 acres were purchased.

Despite the low conversion rate of leases offered to leases sold of about 6 percent, the leased land will likely remain in control of the oil and gas industry well past the 10-year lease term.

“Often, companies are able to get extensions and hold on to these leases indefinitely, which means the surrounding lands cannot be managed for other purposes like conservation and recreation,” Kelly says. “It really tilts the balance of public lands toward extractive uses for a long horizon.”

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the legal opinion underpinning these new guidelines was first announced. Unlike many environmental laws, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act does not have a provision allowing citizens to file a lawsuit seeking to overturn the department’s new interpretation.

Kate Kelly, a former senior advisor to President Obama’s Interior Secretary Sally Jewel and now director of public lands for the Center for American Progress, also says Interior is shutting out Congress.

“They are giving Congress the middle finger in many ways,” Kelly says. “Both in how they are not actively working to put nominees up for very critical agencies, but also how they don’t seem to give a lot of weight to what Congress suggests [or] how they should be prioritizing their funding.”

The public is being ignored as well, she says.

“They are very willing and able to meet with oil and gas industry, the coal industry and the mining industry as evidenced by their calendars and what public records we are able to get our hands on,” she says. “Yet organizations that represent the public or members of the public themselves are shut out of the planning processes and unable to really be heard.”

Kelly points to Zinke’s decision to reduce the size of several national monuments last year, including Bear Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Southern Utah, despite receiving more than 3 million comments from the American public in support of maintaining the monuments as they are.

“Despite that overwhelming response, [Zinke] decided to take the unprecedented actions to rollback protections for national monuments,” she says.

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Wasatch Theatre Co.: What We’re Up Against It would be great if the adage “what’s old is new again” only applied to fun things—like choker necklaces coming back in style—instead of sexism being reinvented for every new generation.

What We’re Up Against explores sexism’s pernicious nature through the story of Eliza, a new architect trying to make a name for herself in a male-dominated workplace. While the play was written by Theresa Rebeck in 1992, this production marks the premiere of a 2017 update.

According to Amanda Caraway, a member of Wasatch Theatre Co.’s board of directors, the company chose to produce the play because of the starkly different reactions male and female board members had toward it. “This is a conversation we need to have, because men and women are seeing the exact same thing and coming away with different ideas,” Caraway says. “It’s a great vehicle for men seeing what women go through, and women seeing that they’re not alone.”

Director Natalia Noble says she hopes audiences resist categorizing women as heroes and men as villains, and instead push for a broader critique of toxic masculinity. “We need to look at our values system of what is masculine and what is feminine, and why we prize certain traits one over the other,” she says. “It’s not that easy a fix.”

Before each performance, actors will read monologues about local women’s experiences with workplace harassment. Women can submit their stories, anonymously or not, to wasatchtheatercompany@gmail.com. The company plans to craft the submissions into a new play to be performed in 2020, the centenary of the 19th Amendment. (Kylee Ehmann) What We’re Up Against @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-3552787, April 26-May 12, Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday 2 p.m., $20-30, wasatchtheatre.org

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Salt Lake Men’s Choir: 35 Years and Counting Things have changed quite a bit for the Salt Lake Men’s Choir since the group was formed by 13 people in 1982, according to choir vicepresident Justin Hudspeth. “There were a lot of years where there were more members on the stage than audience members,” Hudspeth says. “They started out rehearsing in members’ homes. It was not always easy.”

Such humble beginnings offer even more reason to celebrate more than three decades of entertaining Utah audiences, as the Salt Lake Men’s Choir now stands 85 members strong and wraps up its 35th anniversary season with a two-night performance. These concerts celebrate the entire history of the group and the different musical emphasis of different directors, with songs ranging from a brand-new arrangement of John Lennon’s “Imagine” to long-time audience favorites like “The Rainbow Connection” and “Over the Rainbow.” The latter song has been part of the repertoire for so long, Hudspeth says, that the arrangements used by the group are now out of print.

While the choir has long been associated with the local LGBTQ community, Hudspeth is careful to note that the group is open to all men who love to sing, and currently features several straight members among its ranks; “We always kind of left that door open a little bit,” Hudspeth says. Yet it’s the commitment of long-time members—including Dale Sheld, who was one of those original 13 in 1982, and 25-year president Leslie Brady—that has made it possible for another generation to be part of the group. Here’s to another 35 years of finding their rainbow connections. (Scott Renshaw) Salt Lake Men’s Choir: 35 Years and Counting @ First Baptist Church, 777 S. 1300 East, April 27-28, 7:30 p.m., $15, saltlakemenschoir.org

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The most brilliant dance performances can create quite a spectacle, one where music and movement intertwine, find a common bond and hold audiences in their sway. Compagnia T.P.O. takes that concept several steps further by offering an opportunity to indulge in sights, sounds and sensory embellishment as a total immersive experience.

That’s the core of one of the company’s signature offerings, Farfalle, which features a pair of expressive dancers moving through a specially designed stage. Colorfully enhanced and expressively illuminated, the unique scenic design provides an imaginative landscape and a cinematic screen that fully integrates video and audio elements into its all-inclusive environment.

The idea, of course, is to stimulate the senses and free the crowd from complacency.

The audience is encouraged to be more than onlookers, and to freely explore the stage, interacting with the digital setting and allowing themselves to be stimulated by its sensations.

The stimuli are borne from the space itself, and the spontaneity comes about when the third wall between artist and observer is shattered.

Each performance is entirely different, wholly original and completely unpredictable. It’s an ever-changing dynamic, one that allows all involved to release their inhibitions and move about as they wish, part of a process of interacting with the dancers and the designs at the same time.

Granted, not all of us are as agile as others, but we’ve been given assurance that Farfalle garners response from even the most timid wallflowers. That suggests to us that T.P.O. is definitely A-OK. (Lee Zimmerman) Compagnia T.P.O. @ Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-7100, April 27, 7 p.m.; April 28, 11 a.m., 3 & 7 p.m., $5-$12, tickets.utah.edu

The Nihon Matsuri—or, in English, “Japan Festival”—provides an annual chance to learn about and appreciate Japanese culture and tradition. Performances, ceremonies, food and vendors make for a well-rounded event with no shortage of things to do.

The fest hosts two stages alive with everything from Taiko drumming to a Kimono Fashion show featuring the work of designer Sueko Oshimoto (pictured above, center). “She is an award-winning kimono master costume designer from New York, and will be a special addition to our extensive list of Japanese events at this year’s Nihon Matsuri,” festival committee chairman Irene Linnett says. This year also features historical tea ceremonies and authentic calligraphy to keep you busy.

All this excitement is sure to work up an appetite, and luckily there’s an abundance of food. From new and exciting takes on Japanese flavors to traditional home cooking, there’s something for everyone (see p. 22 for more on that). When you’re done eating, check out the vendors and take home a little piece of Japan just for you.

For years, this festival has been educating the Utah community by sharing Japanese culture and teaching people about local JapaneseAmerican history. The Nihon Matsuri venue is “Japantown” street in the heart of Salt Lake, but the Japanese Church of Christ and Salt Lake Buddhist Temple are all that remain of a once-prominent community in the downtown area. This festival creates an opportunity to bring Utah Japanese-American culture back to the forefront through food, traditional crafts, arts and ceremonies that provide education and entertainment for all ages. (David Miller) Nihon Matsuri @ Japantown Street (100 South between 200 West and 300 West), April 28, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., free, nihonmatsuri.com

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Proudly Peculiar

A Utah County literary journal creates a unique platform for LGBTQ writers.

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hile the designation of “a peculiar people” has often been applied to Mormons in the sense of being strange or unusual, the faithful have also reclaimed that designation by using the scriptural definition of “peculiar” as “select” or “chosen.” So maybe there’s an appropriateness to naming a queer literary journal based in Utah County peculiar, in multiple senses of the word.

On April 17, peculiar marked the publication of its fifth issue with a now-customary launch event and reading at Provo’s Pioneer Books. This success story, however, began as a recognition by co-founders and co-editors Jack Garcia and Aaron Gates in 2015 that there was a kind of literary magazine that wasn’t represented in their corner of Utah.

“I was an English major with a creative writing emphasis at Utah Valley University,” Garcia says. “I’d get published in student journals. [Aaron and I] were both queer, and happened to be roommates at one point. I think we were complaining about submitting somewhere and not getting in, and thought ‘We should start one. What is there not around here?’”

The answer was obvious: an LGBTQ-themed literary journal in the heart of Mormon-dom. The process then began simply enough, the way many creative ideas now begin—with a Facebook page and a Kickstarter campaign to cover the printing costs. “We made a Facebook page and just started to say, ‘Hey, we want to start this,’” Garcia says. “To our surprise, we started getting some actual submissions.”

The review process is designed so Garcia and Gates don’t know the identity of the authors. A third party prints every email without a name attached, allowing the editors to review them blind, to avoid any perception of favoritism or unfair exclusion. Some authors choose to publish under pseudonyms—perhaps because they are not out to friends

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and family—but many do not. For that first issue, there was enough material to generate a 75-page issue. “We got enough quality work,” Garcia says, “that it excited us enough that we could do it again.”

There was still the matter of launching that first issue, and figuring out what the reception would be. And while it was certainly important to find an audience interested in paying for peculiar, it became almost as important to realize what the project meant to those who were published.

“When we first started sending acceptance emails, people would be really thrilled,” Garcia says. “A lot of people submitting to us, it was their first publication. Seeing the responses from people we published was enough to go, ‘Hey, maybe this is a good thing.’” When the launch event took place, and they sold many copies that night, “it solidified that it would be something important,” Garcia adds.

While it would be reasonable to wonder if the magazine has been met with resistance locally, Garcia says that he’s unaware of any opposition to peculiar. “We are a literary journal, and a lot of people don’t read literary journals to begin with,” Garcia says with a laugh. “It’s not like we’re shoving it in people’s faces. Pioneer Book itself is somewhat conservative, but we’ve been embraced with open arms.”

While the process of determining the content for peculiar has remained largely the same since that first issue, the operation has evolved. A graphic designer, copy editor

Left: Writer Jayce Grimshaw at April 17 release event for peculiar

and social media manager also provide support for Garcia and Gates, and each issue now showcases a “featured writer,” who might have contributed multiple pieces and will get a photo and short bio in addition to the published work. There’s also the realization that with fewer queer writers than there might be in other markets, there is the possibility of tapping into the same pool repeatedly, and indeed several authors have had poems or other writings published in more than one issue. “We have noticed that, now that we’re on our fifth issue, we’ll reach the point of, ‘Oh, this reminds me of something I’ve read before,’” Garcia says. “The more we see, it starts to affect what we’re looking for.”

That phenomenon has led Garcia and Gates to consider the possibility of opening up submissions to writers outside of Utah, but they also want to maintain what Garcia describes as “that specific voice that comes from Utah.”

“It’s a hard thing to think about,” he says of that possible broadened scope. “A lot of people write from a place of hurt from the Mormon church, or their families, or conflicts within themselves, wishing to be that good Mormon kid. … Other journals exist in the world, but none of them will sound like this one.” CW

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Operatizers Sorensen Center, 800 W. University Parkway, Orem, April 28, 7:30 p.m., uvu.edu/thearts Salt Lake Men’s Choir: 35 Years and Counting First Baptist Church, 777 S. 1300 East, April 27-28, 7:30 p.m., saltlakemenschoir.org (see p. 16) Salt Lake Symphony: Andrew Staupe & Russell Guyver Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, 801-533-6683, April 28, 7:30 p.m., utahsymphony.org Utah Symphony: Fischer Conducts Shostakovich Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, April 27-28, 7:30 p.m., utahsymphony.org UVU Symphony: Slavic Passion Ragan Theatre, 800 W. University Parkway, Orem, April 26, 7:30 p.m., uvu.edu/thearts

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Amy Trueblood: Nothing But Sky The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, April 28, 5 p.m., kingsenglish.com Raymond D. Christensen: A Few More Words Barnes & Noble Jordan Landing, 7157 Plaza Center Drive, West Jordan, April 28, noon, barnesandnoble.com

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Alyce Carrier: Celebration of the Hand Temporary Museum of Permanent Change, 300 South between 200 West and West Temple, through June 17, museumofchange.org April Showers, May Flowers Horne Fine Art, 142 E. 800 South, through May 31, hornefineart.com Blue Nude Migration Anderson Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, through May 12, slcpl.org Carol Bold Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, 801-585-0556, April 27-May 20, redbuttegarden.org Connie Borup Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, through May 11, phillips-gallery.com Desire Lines UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through May 26, utahmoca.org

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Ditchbank: Paintings and Ceramics Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through June 15, times vary, slcpl.org Earl Gravy: Home Bodies, Away Teams UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through May 13, utahmoca.org Epicenter: Our Futures Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, through July 1, umfa.utah.edu Familiar Flora: Four Visual Responses to Living With Plants Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., through May 11, visualarts.utah.gov Fionna Phillips: Stigma Defaced Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 50 0West, Ste. 125, through May 9, accessart.org (see left) Florescentia: Works by Emily Fox King Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, through May 4, visualarts.utah.gov Gavan Nelson: River Inside Day-Riverside Library, 1575 W. 1000 North, through May 9, slcpl.org Howie Garber: Fine Art Photography from the American West and Beyond Evolutionary Health Care Gallery, 461 E. 200 South, evolutionaryhealthcare.com In/Out: Artwork by Clayton Middle School Students Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through May 18, slcpl.org Intermountain Society of Artists Spring Show Visual Art Institute, 2901 S. Highland Drive, through April 29, visualartinstitute.org James W. Stewart: NIGHT and DAY Art at the Main, 210 E. 400 South, through May 12, slcpl.org Katie Paterson: salt 13 Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, through May 20, umfa.utah.edu Lenka Konopasek and Sarah Bown Roberts Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, through June 8, saltlakearts.org Mandelman & Ribak Exhibition Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, through June 10, modernwestfineart.com Mara Elana Macaroni Gallery, 244 S. 500 West Ste. 107, through May 31, macaronigallery.com Merritt Johnson: Exorcising America UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through May 12, utahmoca.org Morgaine Fehlauer: Rituals God Hates Robots, 314 W. 300 South, Ste. 250, through May 11, , godhatesrobots.com Play On! Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts, 1150 S. Constitution Drive, Liberty Park, April 20-June 29, heritage.utah.gov River Inside: Photographs by Gavan Nelson Day-Riverside Library, 1575 W. 1000 North, through May 9, slcpl.org Star Wars / Heroes and Villains Urban Arts Gallery, 137 S. Rio Grande St., May 1-June 3, urbanartsgallery.org Thomas B. Szalay: Images from Timeless Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through March 31, slcpl.org Upcycle Urban Arts Gallery, 137 S. Rio Grande St., through April 29, urbanartsgallery.org Urban Visions Urban Arts Gallery, 137 S. Rio Grande St., through April 29, urbanartsgallery.org

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For starters, Woody’s creates a one-stop, quasi-nostalgic place to indulge your greasier cravings.

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Indeed, that’s the question on my mind when I pull in with my wife and daughter. As per its slogan—“Come back to the ’50s”—the place is set up like the drive-in establishments of a bygone age where diners could park their car and order food through a scratchy intercom system, presumably before they popped the collars of their leather jackets

hen Woody’s Drive-In (6172 S. 1300 East, 801-2666934, woodysdrivein.com) opened in 1989, it entered a market that didn’t seem to have room for another throwback carhop burger joint. The burger drive-in restaurant scene had been around long enough for corporations to assert their dominance—Utah even saw the rise of quite a few of its own franchise-ready burger concepts. Even though fast-food seemed like it would squash a place like Woody’s, it has stood in its humble Murray location for nearly 30 years. So how do they do it?

Wrapping things up, a dip into Woody’s vast pool of milkshakes and ice cream cones is hard to pass up. I throw a mental dart at its huge selection and a caramel cashew milkshake ($3.49-$3.69) ends up being our dessert destiny. The large is served like a Russian nesting doll— the smaller cup served inside a giant cup that acts as a protective boundary and a way to contain the overflowing ice cream. Again, not the finest bit of shakecraft that I’ve come across, but still a nice way to round out a meal.

As a place where you can get curly fries and a pastrami burger or gyros with a side of zucchini fries, Woody’s variety is what’s kept it afloat for the past three decades. The nostalgia factor and occasional classic car shows undoubtedly capture a wide audience of Murray residents, but from a purely culinary perspective, Woody’s sheer quantity of fast-food staples is what keeps Pink Ladies and daddy-o’s lining up for more. CW

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With a huge menu and a ’50s vibe, Woody’s Drive-In stands strong.

While venturing into Woody’s non-burger territory, I sail into some rough waters. I accept full responsibility for the weird compulsion that makes me think ordering a halibut sandwich ($4.59) at a burger place is a good idea—this one is skip-worthy.

On occasion, I’ve had really good fish sandwiches in similar places, but here we have a flash-fried frozen fish patty with tartar sauce that seems to have forgotten its pickles.

Woody’s side-dish game is perhaps where it outshines some of its competitors. At the top of the list, the zucchini fries ($2.79) reign supreme.

Fried zucchini often gets so decimated by the deep frying process that you end up getting little more than a few flaccid straws of overcooked Cucurbita. These, however, maintain just the right amount of toothsome body beneath their crisp outer layer.

Slather ’em up with some fry sauce, and you’ve got something really special. The house onion rings ($2.59 small; $3.99 large) also are ahead of the curve. They’re thick-cut, and their outer texture is light and crumbly. The fries ($1.79-$2.79) are also solid, and they come in traditional or curly. All of these sides can be added to a combo meal, which is a nice way to mix it up on repeat visits.

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Woody Burger ($4.49) adds a bit of versatility to traditional pastrami burgers because you can order one with sliced ham. Pastrami burgers are just about as Utah as fry sauce— which is Woody’s burger condiment of choice—and it’s hard not to compare Woody’s with other local establishments. Its flour-topped, sourdough buns are sturdy enough to keep the quarter-pound patty, melted cheese, pastrami, lettuce, pickles and tomatoes all in line. For those who are on the lookout for something downright gigantic, the Woody Burger has a big brother called the Super Woody Burger ($12.99), which packs nearly three pounds of ground beef into a salted mélange of bacon, ham or pastrami. Regardless of the size, this pastrami burger lands dead center between delicious and disgusting. I’ve definitely had better, but I’ve also had a lot worse.

An unexpectedly tasty dark horse is the gyro ($3.99), which can always be hit or miss wherever you dine.

Woody’s is a little smaller than other gyros around town, but the seasoning on the meat imparts the spicy, peppery flavor I was hoping for. Other than the sauce being a little on the bland side, this is a tasty alternative to the menu’s burger section.

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Overall: Wow, never underestimate 2 Row’s ability to match the best of what the national beer scene has to offer. The bravado of their IPA attitude is something that’s rarely seen in this market, and I’m kicking myself for not buying another six pack.

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Kiitos Northeast IPA: This beer pours a very murky, textbook turbid, golden straw color with three fingers of puffy, somewhat bubbly white head. There’s some nice lacing as the foam lazily recedes. As this creamy meringue spills onto your senses with wafting perfume, you’re greeted with notes of tropical fruits, citrus, orchard and vinous fruits, all wrapped up in a grassy

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Overall: This 7.3 percent ABV beer is a pleasantly concocted iteration of the Northeast way of making a differentiated IPA. Lots of big fruit, edgy pine and, yes, it has that haziness factor reminiscent of orange juice. It’s not as much of an eyeopener as when I first tried Tree House’s Julius, but as they say, imitation is indeed the sincerest form of flattery.

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When you can’t count on anyone else, you can count on Man’s Best Friend, whatever species form it might take.

In Andrew Haigh’s adaptation of the Willy Vlautin novel Lean on Pete, it takes the form of a horse. Sixteen-year-old Charley Thompson (Charlie Plummer) is recently relocated with his single father Ray (Travis Fimmel) to Portland from Spokane, and at loose ends during the summer as Ray either works or finds a woman to hook up with. At a nearby racetrack, Charley meets Del (Steve Buscemi), a small-time horse trainer who offers

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him work. That job includes caring for Lean on Pete, a 5-year-old quarterhorse who might be reaching the end of his useful racing life.

Haigh dives right into the world of pennyante horse racing, providing a compelling foundation for Charley’s story. Chloë Sevigny eventually turns up as a hard-luck jockey, and Lean on Pete explores a far-fromglamorous world of middle-of-nowhere sprint races and people making a living one race at a time. Where many films would build drama into the results of individual races— especially ones where the horses involved might actually be racing for their lives— Haigh is content to observe a milieu that feels fully lived-in.

That milieu changes, however, when Ray is incapacitated by a jealous husband, and Charley takes to the road for Wyoming with Lean on Pete, attempting to track down the only other family he knows of, Ray’s estranged sister Margie. That odyssey finds Charley sharing his thoughts with the horse he refers to simply as Pete, opening up a heartbreaking story of being abandoned by an emotionally unstable mother, and envying the happy family of a friend back in Spokane. Nearly the entire final hour of Lean on Pete depends on Plummer’s performance as Charley grows increasingly desperate, so it’s fortunate that the young actor—whose previous highest-profile role was the kidnapped Getty heir in All the Money in the World—conveys both the toughness that comes from not being able to rely on anyone else, and the fact that he’s still a kid longing for some kind of stability.

What emerges through Charley’s episodic wanderings is a tale of what happens when those who are responsible for taking care of someone—or something—just aren’t up to the task. Charley connects with Pete not just because he thinks of him as a pet, but

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because of the cavalier way Del treats him as an income source, pumping the horse with drugs or prodding him with electric shocks if that’s what it takes to get a win. Later, Charley stops for the night at a house where a girl is verbally abused about her weight by her grandfather, and reveals that she tolerates it because she has nobody else. Haigh repeatedly finds ways to capture that sense of alone-ness visually, whether it’s watching Charley and Pete trudge through scrub brush, or identifying Charley’s location by a single small lantern under a vast starry sky, and recognizing the darkness that surrounds him as soon as he turns that lantern off.

Lean on Pete’s narrative takes several unexpected turns, and anyone familiar with Vlautin’s work—or the previous film adaptation of one of his novel’s The Motel Life—won’t be surprised that his study of people living on the fringes of society gets uncomfortable at times. But throughout the frequent silences of Haigh’s film, there’s a simple quest for connection, for feeling needed and feeling like someone has your best interests at heart. The boy in this “boy and his dog” story doesn’t technically have a dog, but by the end, it’s also clear he has to grow up too fast to still be a boy. CW

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MARROWBONE Orphaned siblings are haunted by a mysterious presence. Opens April 27 at Tower Theatre. (R)

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR [not yet reviewed] That Thanos, he’s got some stones thinking he can take over the universe. Opens April 27 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) DISOBEDIENCE BBBB Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio Best Foreign Language Film Oscar-winner A Fantastic Woman centers around a transgender woman dealing with her boyfriend’s death, and his family’s transphobia; Lelio’s English-language debut also puts its characters through difficult (to say the least) paces. It focuses on lapsed orthodox Jew and New Yorker-by-choice Ronit (a sublime Rachel Weisz), who returns to London for her father’s funeral. Ronit and her father hadn’t spoken in years, and when she arrives at the home of her old friend (and her father’s disciple), Dovid Kuperman (Alessandro Nivola), and his wife Esti (Rachel McAdams, superb), it’s clear Ronit is at best unexpected. As Ronit, Dovid, and Esti spend more time together, it becomes clear why. The narrative resembles a love triangle, but it’s considerably more complicated. Lelio and co-screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz make the characters zig just when you think they’re going to zag, which saves Disobedience from lapsing into treacle or bathos, and Lelio’s direction makes you feel the weight of the world each of these characters—especially Esti—carries.

The result is heart-wrenching, but rewarding. Opens April 27 at theaters valleywide. (R)—David Riedel

HALF THE PICTURE At Main Library, May 1, 7 p.m. (NR) THE MADS FROM MST3K At Tower Theatre, May 1-2, 7 p.m. (NR) TABU At Edison Street Events Silent Films, April 26-27, 7:30 p.m. (NR)

CURRENT RELEASES I FEEL PRETTY BBB High-concept comedy almost always lives or dies based on the central performance. Amy Schumer plays Renee Bennett, a woman whose discontent with her physical appearance vanishes after she awakens from a knock on the head convinced that the woman in the mirror is now drop-dead gorgeous. There’s an inevitability to the narrative arc—real beauty was inside you the whole time, etc.—and the script at times feels thin on actual jokes. But Schumer nails both sides of her work as Renee, including early glances at herself conveying an almost heartbreaking self-loathing, and she’s aided by a terrific supporting cast including Michelle Williams and Aidy Bryant. While there might be nothing earth-shaking in the empowerment message, Schumer gives her all to conveying that nothing is more attractive than confidence, whether it’s rational or irrational. (PG-13)—S R SUPER TROOPERS 2 B.5 After a cartographic snafu reveals that a small section of Canada actually belongs to Vermont, a team of disgraced state troopers is reunited to aid in the transition; syrup and hockey jokes fall like rain.

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Dwayne Johnson plays Davis Okoye, a former Special Forces operative who has made a career change to studying primates—as one does. Three critters, including Okoye’s albino gorilla pal George, are exposed to an experimental toxin, and suddenly monstrous beasts are attacking Chicago. Rampaging, if you will. Dean Morgan gets an enjoyable scenery-chewing role as a drawling government agent, and it’s finally exciting once the creatures start fighting each other rather than simply swatting down helicopters. It’s just sluggish enough of the time that you might start to focus on how Johnson’s character spends the final half hour running around with a gunshot wound to the abdomen, clutching it occasionally as if to say, “Oh yeah, I should be almost dead.” (PG-13)—SR YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE BBBB It takes a full 20 minutes of writer/director Lynne Ramsay’s film for it to be clear whether Joe (Joaquin Phoenix) is a hero or a villain, and there’s a thin line between them in his work as a brutal freelance investigator tracking down missing and exploited children, including applying his trusty ball peen hammer to those prostituting the runaway daughter (Ekaterina Samsonov) of a New York state senator. Phoenix delivers a stellar internalized performance, but the real star here is Ramsay’s direction, bringing intensity and efficiency to a story where an assault on a brothel for underage girls plays out through grainy security camera footage, and Joe’s lifetime of trauma emerges in brief, jarring flashbacks. It’s a tale of monsters created by their past, trying to focus their monstrous wrath on those who have it coming. (R)—SR

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shambling Super Troopers debuted, yet the results feel strangely like a contractually obligated rush job, with copious amounts of dead air, and the jokes that do work mainly just reframed bits from the original. While the lived-in chemistry between the performers still produces some random guffaws—Brian Cox doing a split-second Anthony Hopkins-as-Hannibal impression might in itself be worth a rental—this bummer of a follow-up rarely rises above the lower levels of munchie-assisted nostalgia. When an amped-up preview audience makes more noise at the set-up of gags instead of the punchlines, something’s definitely screwy. (R)—Andrew Wright

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In the meantime, The Nods can be found playing shows as part of Nods Presents, a passion project helping up-and-coming local artists get some much needed exposure. “I scour Bandcamp all the time looking for local bands. I’m on the hunt,” Mayes says.

The lineup of their upcoming show includes female punk rockers Nasty Nasty—who popped up on The Nods’ radar because of their involvement with Utah’s Rock Camp for Womyn—and Miami Face Eaters.

“We’ve been given a platform where we can continue to shake it up and mix things around,” Mayes says. “Salt Lake is going to be so much fun this summer. We’re going to bust it out!”

Although The Nods continue to be both stalwart members of Utah’s musical ecosystem and new talent headhunters, they are quick to dole out credit to those who have come before them.

“There have been a lot of people putting a lot of time and hard work into introducing new acts and new ideas to the kids around here,” Mayes says. “We’re seeing the fruit of all that labor. Salt Lake is exploding with new music, and we’re having a blast.” CW

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uch like the barren valley early pioneers encountered when they trundled down the west side of the Wasatch Mountains, Utah’s local music scene wasn’t much to look at around the turn of the millenium. Fast-forward nearly two decades, and you’ll find a fertile and verdant scene has taken root and continues to spread across the Wasatch Front. Although The Nods see themselves as a small group of local music enthusiasts within a larger collective of bands, promoters and venues, their contribution to Utah’s sonic reforestation shouldn’t be overlooked.

The Nods officially came to be in 2013, but its members were deeply involved in Utah’s music scene long before then. In 2001, guitarist Joey Mayes moved to Utah from Memphis, and he recalls the shift in musical culture as a bit of a shock. “Memphis is hopping with music all the time, so when I moved here, it was completely the opposite,” he says. “But things have changed quite a bit. There is so much happening all over the valley right now, and it’s very exciting.”

While Mayes was attending Utah Valley University, he became involved in Provo’s developing music culture, playing in a number of Utah County bands before his stint in Broken Spells. After he moved to Salt Lake City in 2011, it wasn’t long before he started to get involved with local performances downtown. As he drifted from show to show, Mayes eventually discovered a kindred spirit in Nods vocalist Zach “Rocky” Maldonado, who happened to be attending a lot of the same shows. “It was me and Rocky and a different drummer, and we would just come to my house and mess around in my basement,” he says. “I’m more into garage punk music and ’60s soul and pop; Rocky was more into early psychedelic music and the whole Manchester scene. We didn’t have a lot of overlap, but we started making our music from there.”

As The Nods gained traction, they met bassist Travis Michael and drummer Jeremy Devine, completing their current lineup.

“We’ve all hung out at the same shows for a long time,” Mayes says.

“Eventually we just came together at the right time to play music together.” The addition of Michael and Devine helped The Nods’ signature take on garage rock coalesce into what it is now. “I knew Jeremy’s style and I thought it was really cool,” Michael says. “I came over and just messed around one day, and they [Mayes and Maldonado] said I was in instantly.”

“With the addition of Travis, our sound got a little harder and rougher,” Mayes adds.

The Nods released their first album, Ariadne’s Thread, via Bandcamp in March 2015. It’s a barreling force to be reckoned with, channeling shards of early Joy Division into an unrelenting crescendo of pent-up aggression. “We do all the recording ourselves,” Mayes says, “We recorded Ariadne’s Thread at my house,”—which the band lovingly refers to as The Nodhole. “Rocky also has a studio. We did our 7-inch and are working on an LP with Hot Wax Records in the U.K.” The band is planning a wide release

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It’s easy to mock the “Disney Channel to pop stardom” pipeline, but it’s hard to deny the results from Miley Cyrus to Zendaya to Sabrina Carpenter. Technically speaking, of course, Hayley Kiyoko was on her way to fame in the music industry before she hit the small screen for the Mouse House, when she was a teenager as part of the girl group The Stunners and opening for Justin Bieber’s 2010 world tour. Then came a recurring role in Wizards of Waverly Place and a part in the cast of the hit Disney Channel original movie Lemonade Mouth, and suddenly Disney had spawned yet another multimedia sensation. Yawn. But slow your roll: Kiyoko has also carved out her own path as an artist, particularly since coming out as gay in 2014.

The slinky rhythms of her songs have been attached to titles like “Girls Like Girls” and “Sleepover,” with videos (which she directs or co-directs herself) that don’t shy away from the same-sex romance.

The latest single from her 2018 debut full-length album Expectations, “Curious,” even puts a spin on jealous-ex-partner lyrics by having her wonder about a former girlfriend who is now hooking up with a guy. The journey from Disney Channel to an icon that fans have referred to as “Lesbian Jesus” isn’t exactly a conventional one.

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Although it isn’t always apparent in today’s politically divisive environment, immigrants and indigenous peoples sometimes share similar obstacles. Immigrants face challenges related to assimilating into a new country and culture, while Native Americans—who have lived here for centuries—have been the victims of discrimination, the loss of their lands and the inability to earn their livelihoods. Mato Nanji, leader of the band that aptly calls itself Indigenous, was raised on an Indian reservation in South Dakota, and experienced firsthand the difficulties his people faced while trying to succeed in mainstream American society. Nanji chose to make music his mission like his father—a tribe spokesman and spiritual advisor—did before him. Over the past 20 years, he’s recorded a series of well-received albums, played with any number of notable musicians, and earned accolades and a devout following in the process. He’s performed as part of the Experience Hendrix tribute tours, and subsequently established his own stellar foundation based in the blues. For their part, Tony Holiday & The Velvetones have etched an impressive reputation of their own, both here and abroad, and recently ascended to the semifinals at this year’s International Blues Challenge in Memphis. The combination of these two bands ought to ensure an ideal evening of inclusion. (Lee Zimmerman) The State Room, 638 S. State, 9 p.m., $20 (21 and over), thestateroomslc.com

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The world was introduced to the singer, rapper, songwriter and producer known as Post Malone through his 2015 single, “White Iverson.” The song drew about a million streams in the month after he independently posted it to SoundCloud, almost immediately drawing attention from major record labels. Post Malone (real name Austin Richard Post) then signed with New York’s Republic Records, and promptly released his first album, the appropriately-titled Stoney.

But “White Iverson” wasn’t just Post’s debut single; it went on to become an unlikely worldwide hit. Barely two-and-half-years after its release, the song has been streamed some 550 million times on YouTube alone. And that wasn’t all: He promptly released smash-hit followup singles “Congratulations” and “Rockstar, the latter of which spent eight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart last year.

Now, with Post’s sophomore album Beerbongs & Bentleys due this month, the lead single “Psycho” is the No. 3 song in the country. Post is also fresh off a victorious debut set at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, where it was clear that, despite his scruffy appearance and so-so singing chops, the 22-year-old has become a legitimate pop superstar. So, why did an innocuous-sounding slow jam like “White Iverson” capture so many listeners in the first place? The song has universal appeal because it speaks universal truth. At its core—beneath the atmospheric synthesizers, drum- machine claps and auto-tuned vocals—“Iverson” is a brilliant commentary on human decay. By focusing on retired NBA star Allen Iverson, Post reminds us that we all fade, even the superstars. Maybe especially the superstars, for whom fame and wealth can appear overnight—as it has for Post—and then dissolve just as quickly. It’s a reminder that even the most fundamental aspects of our self-identity will, inevitably, crumble. Also, that beat is dope.

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Florida isn’t just a state where old folks go to die, or where people get hopped up on bath salts. There’s something dark about the Sunshine State—darker than Gov. Rick Scott’s hairline. Around the late ’80s, Florida became a hub for death/thrash metal. There might’ve been something in the water at the time that contributed to Morbid Angel’s first album, 1989’s Altars of Madness, which also drove guitarist Trey Azagthoth to cut himself on stage. Morbid Angel enlisted producer Digby “Dig” Pearson—the “Paul Revere” of extreme music and founder of Earache Records—for their first album, which set a standard in extreme music. While ’80s glam rockers donned aqua net hairspray and makeup, Morbid Angel put on razor blades and wrote about Satan rising to power (“Chapel of Ghouls”). The band has stayed resilient through the pop culture storms and the ever changing statusquo for 29 years, now spreading the gospel of their 2017 album “Kingdoms Disdained.”

It’s only proper that Morbid Angel teams up with tech death metal brothers Origin to defiantly grace the Promised Land, (or as they call it in Covenant, the “World of Shit”) with their presence. Who knows, maybe Scott is a metalhead. Maybe he and Azagthoth shred arpeggios and dive bombs together in Scott’s basement. Who’s to say they don’t?

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Simpsons is the longest-running American TV sitcom and animated series. But it had a rough start. In the fall of 1989, when producers staged a private pre-release screening of the first episode, they realized the animation was mediocre. They worked hard to redo it, replacing 70 percent of the original content. After that slow start, the process got easier and the results got better. When the program completes its 30th season in 2019, it will have aired 669 episodes. I don’t know if your own burgeoning project will ultimately have as enduring a presence, Taurus, but I’m pretty sure that, like The Simpsons, it will eventually become better than it is in the early going. Stick with it.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I hope the next seven weeks will be a time of renaissance for your most engaging alliances. The astrological omens suggest it can be. Would you like to take advantage of this cosmic invitation?

If so, try the following strategies. 1. Arrange for you and each of your close companions to relive the time when you first met.

Recall and revitalize the dispensation that originally brought you together. 2. Talk about the influences you’ve had on each other and the ways your relationship has evolved. 3. Fantasize about the inspirations and help you’d like to offer each other in the future. 4. Brainstorm about the benefits your connection has provided and will provide for the rest of the world.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming weeks might be an interesting time to resurrect a frustrated dream you abandoned in a wasteland; or rescue and restore a moldering treasure you stopped taking care of a while back; or revive a faltering commitment you’ve been ignoring for reasons that aren’t very high-minded. Is there a secret joy you’ve been denying yourself without good cause? Renew your relationship with it. Is there a rough prize you received before you were ready to make smart use of it? Maybe you’re finally ready.

Are you brave enough to dismantle a bad habit that hampers your self-mastery? I suspect you are.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Now is one of the rare times when you should be alert for the potential downsides of blessings that usually sustain you. Even the best things in life could require adjustments. Even your most enlightened attitudes and mature beliefs might have pockets of ignorance. So don’t be a prisoner of your own success or a slave of good habits. Your ability to adjust and make corrections will be key to the most interesting kind of progress you can achieve in the coming weeks.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Hollywood film industry relies heavily on recycled ideas.

In 2014, for example, only one of the 10 top-grossing movies—Interstellar—was not a sequel, remake, reboot, or episode in a franchise. In the coming weeks and months, Cancerian, you’ll generate maximum health and wisdom for yourself by being more like Interstellar than like The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Transformers: Age of Extinction, X-Men: Days of Future Past, and the six other top-10 rehashes of 2014. Be original!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Imagine you’re one of four porcupines caught in frigid weather.

To keep warm, you all have the urge to huddle together and pool your body heat. But whenever you try to get close, you prick each other with your quills. The only solution to that problem is to move away from each other, even though it means you can’t quell your chill as well. This scenario was used by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud as a parable for the human dilemma. We want to be intimate with each other, Freud said, but we hurt each other when we try. The oft-chosen solution is to be partially intimate: not as close as we would like to be, but only as much as we can bear. Now everything I just said, Aries, is a preface for better news: In the coming weeks, neither your own quills nor those of the people you care about will be as sharp or as long as usual.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The bad news is that 60 percent of Nevada’s Lake Mead has dried up. The good news—at least for historians, tourists, and hikers—is that the Old West town of St. Thomas has reemerged. It had sunk beneath the water in 1936, when the government built the dam that created the lake. But as the lake has shrunk in recent years, old buildings and roads have reappeared.

I foresee a comparable resurfacing in your life, Libra: the return of a lost resource or vanished possibility or departed influence.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I believe it’s a favorable time for you to add a new mentor to your entourage. If you don’t have a mentor, go exploring until you find one. In the next five weeks, you might even consider mustering a host of fresh teachers, guides, trainers, coaches, and initiators. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that you’re primed to learn twice as much and twice as fast about every subject that will be important for you during the next two years. Your future educational needs require your full attention.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You sometimes get superstitious when life is going well. You worry about growing overconfident. You’re afraid that if you enjoy yourself too much, you will anger the gods and jinx your good fortune. Is any of that noise clouding your mood these days? I hope not; it shouldn’t be. The truth, as I see it, is that your intuition is extra-strong and your decision-making is especially adroit. More luck than usual is flowing in your vicinity, and you have an enhanced knack for capitalizing on it. In my estimation, therefore, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to build up your hunger for vivid adventures and bring your fantasies at least one step closer to becoming concrete realities. Whisper the following to yourself as you drop off to sleep each night: “I will allow myself to think bigger and bolder than usual.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Can you afford to hire someone to do your busy work for a while? If so, do it. If not, see if you can avoid the busy work for a while. In my astrological opinion, you need to deepen and refine your skills at lounging around and doing nothing. The cosmic omens strongly and loudly and energetically suggest that you should be soft and quiet and placid. It’s time for you to recharge your psychospiritual batteries as you dream up new approaches to making love, making money, and making sweet nonsense.

Please say a demure “no, thanks” to the strident demands of the status quo, my dear. Trust the stars in your own eyes.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Long ago, in the land we now call Italy, humans regarded Mars as the divine protector of fields. He was the fertility god who ripened the food crops. Farmers said prayers to him before planting seeds, asking for his blessings. But as the Roman Empire arose, and warriors began to outnumber farmers, the deity who once served as a kind benefactor evolved into a militant champion, even a fierce and belligerent conqueror. In accordance with current astrological omens, Leo, I encourage you to evolve in the opposite direction.

Now is an excellent time to transmute aggressiveness and combativeness into fecundity and tenderness.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn author Simone de Beauvoir was a French feminist and activist. In her book A Transatlantic Love Affair, she made a surprising confession: Thanks to the assistance of a new lover, Nelson Algren, she finally had her first orgasm at age 39. Better late than never, right? I suspect that you, too, are currently a good candidate to be transported to a higher octave of pleasure.

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SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SALT LAKE CITY DEPT. OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH. CASE NO. 179915027, JUDGE ANN BOYDEN. CASCADE COLLECTIONS LLC, PLAINTIFF V. PEGGY NOELANI TAHU, DEFENDANT. THE STATE OF UTAH TO PEGGY NOELANI TAHU: You are summoned and required to answer the complaint that is on file with the court. Within 21 days after the last date of publication of this summons, you must file your written answer with the clerk of the court at the following address: 450 S State St., Salt Lake City, UT 84111, and you must mail or deliver a copy to plaintiff’s attorney Chad C. Rasmussen at 2230 N University Pkwy., Ste. 7E, Provo, UT 84604. If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint. This lawsuit is an attempt to collect a debt of $9,554.01. /s/ Chad C. Rasmussen

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SALT LAKE CITY DEPT. OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH. CASE NO. 179915249, JUDGE ROYAL I HANSEN. CASCADE COLLECTIONS LLC, PLAINTIFF V. ANDREW FARLEY, DEFENDANT. THE STATE OF UTAH TO ANDREW FARLEY: You are summoned and required to answer the complaint that is on file with the court. Within 21 days after the last date of publication of this summons, you must file your written answer with the clerk of the court at the following address: 450 S State St., Salt Lake City, UT 84111, and you must mail or deliver a copy to plaintiff’s attorney Chad C. Rasmussen at 2230 N University Pkwy., Ste. 7E, Provo, UT 84604. If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint. This lawsuit is an attempt to collect a debt of $8,959.77. /s/ Chad C. Rasmussen

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SALT LAKE CITY DEPT. OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH. CASE NO. 179915028, JUDGE ADAM T LOW. CASCADE COLLECTIONS LLC, PLAINTIFF V. FAIMALOMAALATAUA MULIAGA, DEFENDANT. THE STATE OF UTAH TO FAIMALOMAALATAUA MULIAGA: You are summoned and required to answer the complaint that is on file with the court.

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Trivia-night question: How old is Trax?

Almost 20. I remember when our former mayor, the late Deedee Corradini, battled Union Pacific Railroad to move its tracks so that we could get more use out of the land downtown. If you’re a newbie to our capital city, you might not know that where The Gateway now stands once were brown fields of contaminated dirt. Salt Lake City didn’t have more than 180,000 residents at the time, and all bore the burden of outsiders coming in to work, use our parking spaces and emergency services.

Moving the freeway ramps to 500 South, 600 South, 600 North and the “spaghetti bowl” at 2100 South gave the city more land that could be developed and taxed to help fund services. To do that, the mayor had to wrangle quite a deal with not just the railroad but with the federal government to get highway and light rail funding. It worked! The first day Trax operated, a high number of people jumped on board.

Some thought it was just a fluke, but Trax was really needed. And well, the rest is history—not quite.

Let me disclose I’ve been a board member of UTA for the past two years. I’m in meetings all the time about where services are going to expand and how people want mass transit nearby. Provo and Lehi are experiencing increases in new businesses and residents and are in desperate need of mass transit. They are getting it, as is Weber State University (better bus routes).

And there’s so much more planned for the immediate and near future.

I guess I’m a socialist. I believe that all public transportation should be free. I’ve owned a place at the Dakota Lofts, 380 S. 300 West, since 1998, just as Trax was coming in. The building is near a curve and the trains are wearing out the tracks. As owners, we’ve bitched and moaned a lot over the years about the screeching rails, and UTA has slowly come around to admitting the tracks need replacing. They just dug up the “Angelina’s Corner” rails at 700 South last summer, and there are more replacement projects to come: Main Street and 400 South and the curve up the hill to the University of Utah. Crews also have been trying for the past few years to use different greasing compounds to reduce the noise— but with mixed success. They have to follow environmental laws as to what compounds can be used—and some greases work while others don’t. As of late, it’s been pretty quiet around the test area near my building, so I guess this goop is working—but rails still need replacing at most major curves in the city. n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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“POLICE AHEAD—STAY OFF YOUR PHONE.” Despite that, within just two hours, officers ticketed 89 drivers, 74 of them for distracted driving, which results in a $368 fine, plus a $175 penalty payment on a first offense. “It is evident there is still more education and enforcement needed to make our roads safer,” remarked Cpl. Richard De Jong to CTV News.

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Compelling Explanation Fort Pierce, Fla., police pulled over a car on March 21 after observing it swerving down the roadway. As they approached, they smelled marijuana, and during the ensuing search, passenger Kennecia Posey, 26, was shocked—shocked!—when police found two bags in her purse: one containing marijuana, the other cocaine. WPLG TV reported that Posey admitted the marijuana was hers, but told officers: “I don’t know anything about any cocaine. It’s a windy day. It must have flown through the window and into my purse.” Posey was charged with felony possession of cocaine and misdemeanor possession of marijuana.

Our Weird Addiction On March 6, Royal Canadian Mounted Police participating in an awareness campaign set up several large electronic signs in North Vancouver, British Columbia, that warned drivers:

Redneck Chronicles Last September, a celebration at a recreational lake in Wichita, Kan., caught the eye of someone who reported seeing people “dressed in Muslim garb” with an American flag “desecrated with ISIS symbols,” reported The Kansas City Star. Shortly thereafter, Munir Zanial, an engineer for Spirit Aerosystems, was notified by Facebook that authorities were seeking information about his account, and soon a call came from the FBI, saying it had determined that the flag reported to them was a Malaysian flag and its investigation would be closed. Zanial, a Muslim from Malaysia, had rented the lake to celebrate a Muslim holiday with friends and commemorate the 60th anniversary of Malaysia’s independence. In March, Zanial filed a discrimination lawsuit in U.S. District Court after he was barred from renting the lake again.

Crime Report A 23-year-old Salina, Kan., woman arrived at her home around 9:30 p.m. on March 29 to find that the door had been locked and chained from the inside. She called police, who searched the home and found no one inside, but about two hours later, her ex-boyfriend’s legs punched through the ceiling in her living room, the Salina Journal reported. Tyler J. Bergkamp, 25, of Salina had been hiding in the attic. Police arrested him and took him to Salina Regional Health Center to recover from his fall. Five days later, he left the hospital and broke into another woman’s house, where he left his hospital gown, exchanging it for one of her T-shirts and a pair of sneakers. Bergkamp was rearrested a short time later and faces a number of charges.

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n Phoenix mom Sharron Dobbins, 40, was determined to get her two teenage sons out of bed for Easter services on April 1.

When one of them sassed her back, she grabbed a Taser and “I said, ‘Get up! It’s Jesus’ Day!’” she told KNXV TV. Dobbins said she “sparked” the weapon just to make noise, but the 16-yearold called police, who found two small bumps on the boy’s leg and arrested Dobbins for child abuse. Dobbins told KNXV, “I did not tase my son ... all I was trying to do is tell my kids to put God first.”

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Dangerous Food Some people don’t like ham. When Beverly Burrough Harrison, 62, received a gift of ham from her family on Feb. 12, she waited until they left, then set it on fire and threw it in a trash can at the Bomar Inn in Athens, Ala., where she was living. As smoke filled the room, AL.com reported, Harrison took her dog and left without alerting anyone to the fire. As a result, she was spared from being a victim of the ham bomb that blew out the front wall of the room when a can of butane fuel ignited. Harrison was held at the Limestone County Jail on a felony arson charge and could face life in prison if convicted.

Unclear on the Concept n Jonathan Rivera, 25, of Hartford, Conn., dutifully appeared in Hartford Superior Court March 7 to answer charges of stealing a car on Feb. 17. While he waited his turn, the Hartford Courant reported, parking authority agents outside the courthouse spotted a 2014 Subaru Legacy with license plates that had been reported as stolen. The car itself had also been stolen from Newington, Conn. Police waited for the driver to return and arrested Rivera as he started to drive away in the Subaru. He was charged with second-degree larceny and taking a car without the owner’s permission.

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Disappointing Organizers of the Big Cheese Festival in Brighton, England, on March 3 were forced to offer refunds to patrons after the event failed on several levels: 1. The festival ran out of cheese. 2. The promised “craft” beer was Bud Light and Stella Artois. 3. The wet weather prompted some to call the event #BigMudFestival and prevented some cheese-mongers and entertainment acts from making it to the site. “Sadly, due to this, a few compromises had to be made,” festival organizers said. The BBC reported the festival has offered half-price tickets to next year’s event for anyone who bought a ticket this year.

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