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Rather than titling it “Get Off the Road!” a better heading might have been: “Get Off the Sidewalk!” I do a lot of my in-town travel by bicycle and I am an avid supporter of alternative and innovative transportation—anything that reduces the consumption of fossil fuels and reduces traffic congestion. As such, I love the idea of electric bicycles and scooters, docked and undocked.

As a cyclist and one-time motorcyclist, I am also keenly aware of the dangers of two-wheeled vehicles for both their riders and for pedestrians. I’m, therefore, a bit incredulous that this fleet of electric scooters has been allowed to be unleashed in SLC with little regulation or means of enforcement directed at their operators.

Buried (unfortunately) in your article, are a few of the safety practices that the companies suggest and that appear to have been agreed to by the city. They include an age requirement (16 or 18, depending upon the company), not exceeding a speed of 15 mph, having a driver’s’ license or permit, not travelling on streets with speed limits exceeding 25 mph, travelling in as far to the right on a street as is safe, not riding on sidewalks, not operating a scooter while impaired by alcohol or drugs and wearing a helmet. I may be the only one, but in the brief time that scooters have been on our roads, I have witnessed multiple violations of all of these practices, including children 12-14 years old riding on downtown sidewalks.

I wonder if the police have cited any violations or even given warnings ,or if they even have the authority to do so under existing laws. While neither the city nor the state have developed codes that regulate electric scooters, other jurisdictions have, including the State of California (California Vehicle Code Division 11 Chapter 1 Article 5). I urge SLC to immediately adopt and enforce the California code until it or the State of Utah can develop one based upon existing laws, public input and local experience. It will be too bad if we wait until serious injuries begin to occur before electric scooters are properly regulated as are other forms of transportation.

GENE AMMARELL, Salt Lake City I was on 4th S. and State the other day—a big wide sidewalk. Had one of these zoom by so closely, I had to open the door to the building I was going to and duck behind it to avoid the idiot.

MIKE ZAUNER Via Facebook I rode them first in San Diego last March and nearly fainted when I saw them in SLC. As long as the driver isn’t a nuisance they are crazy fun. Stop complaining.

@MAILEONTHEMOON Via Instagram I’ve had to dodge that crazy fun four times to not get smooshed.

They need their own traffic lane off the sidewalk. @KANELLSFURNITURESOURCE Via Instagram 1. Salt Lake City will never be cool, no matter how hard it tries. And it will never be well-planned for any type of vehicle, no matter how much it thinks of itself as Boulder West. In fact, I would call the scooters an ASMI—Another Stupid Moronic Idea—and I’m being politically correct in the expansion.

2. The scooters are a perfect example of lack of planning and regulatory foresight or, for that matter, acumen of the mayor’s office and the administrative departments for which it is responsible and of the obsequious city council. Such incompetence unfortunately almost invites vigilantism, which [in] the case of the scooters is all too easy.

3. Note the Dos and Don’ts photo. Two people who should be walking.

4. Why is [scooter charger] Jeff Zivkovic allowed to teach?

From his need to find problems for his unfortunate students to solve, he sounds just about as creative as a mushroom. I’m all for increasing teachers’ salaries so Mr. Zivkovic can make charging scooters his full-time job and not burden the school district with his dead weight.

5. One day there is going to be a terrible accident that involves a helmetless scooter rider and a car or a pedestrian. And what is the City going to say then? Boo hoo, we are so sorry we are incompetent. Let’s set up a GoFundMe account and a stuffed animal/artificial flower depository.

6. One more note about world famous Utah hypocrisy and alternative transportation. I always found it interesting that [SelectHealth] constantly warns riders to use helmets in their puff pieces and then sets up bicycles for riders—without, of course, helmets.

STEVE IFSHIN, Salt Lake City As someone who hit the slightest bump and took a header into the ground, hard, I cannot recommend helmets more strongly.

Mine saved my skull.

TIFFANY YOUNG Via Facebook It’s an interesting phase or transition we’re going through. I’m curious how things will look in one year and also how things will be in winter.

ANDY CONLIN Via Twitter I love them. They get lots of use and I really am not seeing them causing problems (cluttering sidewalks, recklessness, traffic impeding, etc.). Winter could be interesting.

JARED STEERE Via Facebook

Great idea. Total eyesore. @MRMIKETHEJANITOR Via Instagram It’s interesting to me that most of the negatives cited have to do with the riders, not the providers. That seems to point to education about the who, what, where, when and why of riding.

As far as extra driving, the GREENbike van drives all over to drop of and maintain its bikes.

Seems hypocritical to say call out scooter companies for the same thing.

Helmets … not required on motorcycles or bicycles, so?

Also, are not the GREENbikes subsidized by the taxpayers or did that end? Birds want to contribute dollars to infrastructure and God knows our roads suck and our bike lanes are often no more than a stenciled silhouette on a pothole-ridden chunk of asphalt.

Change is evil and to be feared, true enough, but I honestly believe we just need to work out some kinks in a new system.

MICHAEL DODD Via Facebook Out with the old, in with the new.

These scooters are awesome. @SPARKCASTER Via Instagram These scooters are annoying. Us skateboarders can’t ride anywhere downtown, but people on scooters are every where. It’s prejudice! @JEAN_NANDEZ Via Instagram They’re annoying and stupid [but] they create less pollution than cars. Our air is killing us.

We need to embrace alternatives to cars, or accept more people being dead needlessly. If you hate them, ride a bike.

RAS BERET Via Twitter

Can’t wait for all the reports of fist fights between people trying to retrieve the scooters for overnight recharging. Or better yet the reports of road rage/car accidents.

BRIAN ALBERS Via Facebook People have to learn and obey traffic laws. Otherwise, people will get hurt/killed anyway.

KATRINA KATRINKA Via Twitter Burn ’em. @WOODRUFFALEX Via Instagram Let evolution weed the people out. Keep the scooters rollin’ … right into oncoming traffic. @4THSEALCOFFEE Via Instagram Hate those GD scooters everywhere! Wish I got points for every person I could knock one off of. @FREDDIE1966 Via Instagram Some people also have something wedged up their ass. I agree they need to be parked more mindfully, but otherwise get over yourselves.

JENNIFER GUEST BILLINGSLEY Via Facebook Another way to make Americans even lazier. Why walk two blocks when you can scoot there? I live downtown and they’re everywhere now. They’re the herpes of the transportation world—but they sure look like fun! @BADDONKEYROCKS Via Instagram

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OPINION Pot for a Prophet

God created it perfectly; it works exceedingly well. Numerous studies by some of America’s best researchers say it is both safe and effective and it can end the suffering of thousands of otherwise opiate-dependent Utahns who cannot find non-addictive relief any other way.

And yet, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continues its official, open opposition to Proposition 2, the initiative that would legalize medical cannabis. Thirtyone other states have made the compassionate choice to end the suffering of their citizens, and while nine of those have chosen to allow recreational use of the plant, that is not the issue at hand.

During the past month, the church—through its permanently retained legal counsel—has entered into yet another round of the fray, swinging with gloves off for all it’s worth. With a stridently vocal anti-Prop 2 campaign aimed at muting the voices and consciences of a largely committed voting majority, it apparently seeks to short circuit the will of the people through mischaracterizations, lies and half-truths, leaving thousands in agony.

My best guess is that even the most devout voters will ignore the church’s rants, choosing mute opposition instead of a visible and vocal revolt. Good people will make the right decision—giving reverence to the overwhelming scientific evidence and voting for legalization as the only moral choice.

It’s sad that the church has, in effect, created an irresolvable dissonance within the body of its members—one that

BY MICHAEL S. ROBINSON SR. forces Utah’s Mormon majority to make a choice contrary to the wishes of Mormon leadership. Probably the harbinger of things to come, the church is making a bold attempt to sanctify political and practical choices of its members.

Along with this measure of unhealthy control, it’s helping to ensure that its younger, more progressive members will find growing disagreement with church leadership and policies.

Citing a trumped-up list of legal and health consequences, the church has ignored the most essential of Christian precepts and it has failed to weigh the most important objective of legalization: An ounce of empathy would be appropriate here; this is merely the choice of doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Now, I realize that legalization would be a problem for the church. Here are a few of my educated suspicions: 1.

The church’s beneficial but well-hidden interest in Intermountain Healthcare and SelectHealth would be impacted by tens of millions of dollars if patients with inflammatory/neuropathic diseases, epilepsy, Parkinson’s, etc. were allowed to handle their symptoms with home-grown remedies. 2. As one of the nation’s largest stock market investors, the church would lose the opportunity to invest in marijuana-based pharma. (The church’s stock portfolio of approximately $32 billion, according to information published by MormonLeaks, is loaded with profitable pharmaceuticals.) So the church’s opposition to legalization might have nothing to do with dangers—unless you think that missing out on profit can be considered a risk to an organization that is supposed to be about humanity and love.

Although only my theory, the LDS church’s push to have the drug dispensed by pharmacies, put into accurate individual doses and put through the lengthy process of

getting it FDA approved is a strictly selfish agenda. Personally, I think that if God had wanted it that way, He would have done the growing, labeling and dispensing Himself, instead of just making the plant available as one of His finest natural creations.

But there might be another reason for the church’s opposition to medical cannabis: Mormonism, like most religions, preaches that pain and suffering are God’s way of assisting people in expanding their understanding, empathy and personal growth. So, friends, those of you out there who are enduring excruciating, chronic intractable pain, please believe Mormon leaders: Forget about your addictive opiates and go without! It’ll make you better people in the end.

Actual statistics—not Mormonism’s fake news—show that states legalizing medical cannabis have experienced a marked drop in opioid use and deaths attributed to overdose.

Frankly, the Mormon church’s position is unconscionable and needs to be rethought. No Utahn should have to make a choice between compassionate Christian behavior and the ramblings of a bunch of impotent old codgers who are stuck in the dark ages and unable to see God’s will.

I say it’s time to do “pot for a prophet”—pun intended.

And I’ll just bet that, if President Russell M. Nelson took medical cannabis for his old-age pains, it would facilitate the flow of new revelations and break the silence of the long-muted voice of God. CW

Michael S. Robinson Sr. is a former Vietnam-era Army assistant public information officer. He lives with his wife, Carol, and one mongrel dog. Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net

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Want to hear about what Salt Lake City and you can do about climate change?

Utah’s Sustainable Communities in Action will cut through the crap and shine a light on action. A panel including representatives from Salt Lake City’s Sustainability Office, Rocky Mountain Power, Utah Clean Energy and Logan High School’s Environmental Action Force will talk about how Utah can achieve the goals set out in the 2016 Paris Agreement on Climate Change—even if the president of the United States won’t. You’ll see a short video introducing the Sept. 12-14 Global Climate Action Summit and learn about Salt Lake’s commitment as one of Utah’s four local governments pledged to achieve 100 percent renewable energy and to make substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Nancy Tessman Auditorium, 210 E. 400 South, 801467-9294 ext. 101, Thursday, Sept. 13, 7-8:30 p.m., free, bit.ly/2NY0aG6.

PROP 2 KICKOFF

It’s hard to ignore how The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has come out fighting against medical cannabis. Still, there is widespread support for this citizen initiative aimed at decriminalizing this palliative remedy. The Prop 2 Campaign Kickoff Party will head into its final run before the election with yard signs, T-shirts and information to help you spread the word about the Utah Medical Cannabis Act. The event is hosted by Overstock.com, not only one of Utah’s largest companies, but also one of the most politically conservative.

Tickets are not required, but registration helps organizers know how many will attend. Overstock Peace Coliseum, 7295 S. Bingham Junction Blvd, Midvale, Saturday, Sept. 15, 5-10 p.m., free, bit. ly/2NWE9r6.

TEMPORARY HOMELESS AID

Homelessness is the problem of the year, but there are ways to help—at least temporarily. If you or someone you know is having housing issues, you need to get familiar with The TANF Housing Program—Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Find out what they can do for you, including short-term rental assistance, deposit assistance, utility assistance, application fees, back rental payment, case management and outreach services for eligible families. It could be enough to get you back on the road to stability. The Housing Authority of Salt Lake City also has a Landlord Outreach program to address concerns and risks. The Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake, 120 W. 1300 South, 801-428-0601, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., free, bit.ly/2M82KaM.

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Of course, we realize that the Deseret News is all about faith-based journalism. But aren’t some things maybe a little too insider for pubic consumption? A frontpage story about getting your mission call via email? Really? Yeah, a lot of nonMormons are interested in what goes on with “The Church,” but not so much its internal communications strategy. We get the D-News doing movie reviews on God Bless the Broken Road, and running a President Russell M. Nelson by-thenumbers piece in the LDS Church News, but those are stories that reach a larger audience. Then again, it’s not all about the D-News. The Salt Lake Tribune has become of shadow of its former self while maintaining robust coverage of the church. Letters to the editor complain about the coverage, and last Sunday, an entire opinion page was devoted to three writers upset and trying to communicate with their church. A certain religion has become more newsworthy than government in Utah.

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Surely everyone in Utah knows the problems in San Juan County. It started with political boundaries drawn to disenfranchise Native Americans. It narrowed into an attempt to remove candidate Willie Grayeyes from the ballot. And now, the Navajo Nation claims that one-fourth of its voters have been placed in the wrong districts. On a broader scale, Utahns want a fairer way to redistrict and will vote on an initiative in November. Still, it’s clear that the San Juan elite are doing everything possible to retain their Caucasian power base. Sure, the judge acknowledged that they’re giving it the old college try, but Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox needs to step in now.

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“I personally think it’s stupid,” Rachel Nanda, an employee at Twisted Roots, says of potential registration fees for CBD products.

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rules are written, Lucero would need to pay $3,200 in annual fees.

However, there’s still hope. “If anybody has concerns like that, they should address them in writing to us, and that gives us the opportunity to look at and understand whether this is an issue to one individual or if this is companywide,” Jack Wilbur, UDAF’s information and social marketing specialist, says after being told about potential registration gripes. “All that factors into the rulemaking process.”

All this is a shame, Lucero says, because her customers benefit from her creations. The low THC concentration means users don’t experience a high, but still reap the benefits from her bath bombs and essential oils. “Basically, you can eat 5,000 tons of it and you would never get stoned,” Lucero says.

Jokes aside, provisions would bar legally eating any CBD products. Referencing the state’s statute, Ericson says goods must be sold in one of six medicinal dosage forms—tablet, capsule, concentrated oil, liquid suspension, transdermal or sublingual—to be eligible for registration. In other words, soaps and balms are OK, edibles are not. “If it cannot be registered, it cannot be sold in the state,” Ericson says.

That means Twisted Roots won’t be legally able to sell its CBD gummies.

Nanda says the shop does not make its own hemp or CBD stock, so they might not be the ones to pay the registration fees. But if their distributor decides to push the cost to them, it’ll most likely end up being tacked onto the consumer’s bill.

“CBD products are already expensive,” Nanda says. “It seems like the whole agenda is to make it less accessible.” CW

hemp plant. Before reaching shelves, items containing hemp and CBD must be tested by a third-party lab for a number of substances, including pesticides, microbials and heavy metals. The component’s cannabinoid profile must also be analyzed. Retailers who sell CBD merchandise need to make sure those goods are appropriately labeled and outfitted with a QR code or web address that links to an array of information, including batch size and expiration date, giving CBD enthusiasts crucial information not currently listed on the products they’re buying.

Ericson says there’s currently no verification process that ensures what a consumer purchases as CBD oil is, in fact, CBD oil. “It could be coconut oil, who knows what it is? Because nobody’s verifying what’s in there.”

Each product containing hemp or CBD has to be registered with the state, the bulletin continues, including those purchased online and shipped to Utah, and each requires an annual $200 registration fee. “If you have 25 different flavors of something, that’s 25 different products,” Ericson says, specifying that retailers do not necessarily have to foot that bill. “They’re not required to do it themselves unless it hasn’t been done at other points in the supply chain,” he says. “If I were a retailer, I would be trying to push that to the other folks in the supply chain.”

Daniella Lucero, owner of Gardner Village’s M Soaps by Marguerite, doesn’t have anywhere to push it.

Lucero makes her own CBD and hempinfused lotions and soaps that she sells to customers looking to alleviate ailments such as headaches, anxiety and muscle pain. “I’m going to have, like, 16 products to register,” she says. As the

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the recently released recommendations do not cover. UDAF Deputy Commissioner Scott Ericson says his office is working with the Utah Attorney General’s office to identify legal issues that are likely to arise as the state writes that law’s provisions. Ericson expects a draft of proposals will be released in the next couple of months. In the meantime, terminally ill patients will not be given state-approved cannabis for treatment, since the state does not yet have a program in place to contract with a thirdparty cannabis grower.

The “right to try” bill is narrower than Proposition 2, the November ballot initiative that would legalize medical cannabis for card-holding patients suffering from a variety of serious or chronic medical conditions. If Prop 2 passes, UDAF would have to write its accompanying requirements, too.

“Having two different statutes to follow, to administer for one product, is difficult to do for a state agency,” Ericson says, suggesting lawmakers would need to come up with a fix. Gov. Gary Herbert pledged during a late August news conference that, depending on whether the referendum passes, elected officials will tweak the initiative’s flaws or pass their own medical cannabis bill in a future legislative session. “Either way, we’re going to get to the right spot, I believe, with the help of the legislature,” Herbert said.

Per the Utah State Bulletin, the state’s official noticing publication, the Industrial Hemp Program will cost $154,000 its first year; $257,500 during the second. Hemp processors and growers will need to adhere to federal guidelines that limit THC to less than 0.3 percent.

The bulletin goes on to propose rules for products containing CBD, since the substance comes from the industrial

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achel Nanda stands behind the counter at the downtown Salt Lake City Reggae shop Twisted Roots and points inside the glass case that holds CBD (cannabidiol) balms, oils and gummies. A broad range of clientele browses the display, Nanda says, from cancer patients to seemingly healthy mothers who peruse while keeping one eye on their children. Regardless of what ails them, the patrons are all seeking the same thing: cannabis-based relief that doesn’t get them high.

“Most people come for anxiety,” Nanda says. The CBD pens are the most popular item she sells, meaning most customers would rather smoke than put a few drops under their tongues. That might be because of the difference in cost—the pens go for $20, the 300-milligram tinctures for $70. “They’re skeptical because of the price,” Nanda points out.

In the coming months, that price could climb even higher.

Utah lawmakers passed several bills in their last legislative session that would allow state-approved licensees to cultivate and process industrial hemp, set the requirements for retailers to legally sell commodities containing CBD and grant terminally ill patients with less than six months to live a “right to try” cannabis-based treatment.

The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food is in charge of creating the rules that’ll guide the state’s industrial hemp program before the new laws can be implemented. After holding a series of public input meetings earlier in the year, UDAF released a set of proposals on Sept. 1 geared toward the licensing and registration requirements to grow, process and distribute hemp and CBD products. UDAF will host two more public hearings—one in Cedar City on Sept.

17, and one in Salt Lake City on Sept.

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In addition to providing rules on goods containing low concentrations of tetrahydrocannabinol—THC, the compound in cannabis that gives users a high—UDAF must also come up with guidelines for medical cannabis, which

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agna resident Braxton Dutson is planted at his kitchen table, setting the timer on his phone for 30 seconds. The ballcap on his head gets turned backwards—shit just got real. He’s all pumped up and ready to … 1, 2, 3, go.

Dutson punches the phone. The clock is ticking. He grabs a 16-ounce plastic bottle of yellow WinCo mustard, throws his head back, opens his mouth wide and makes like a human shot glass, chugging the thick condiment down as fast as he can, his Adam’s apple rolling with each gulp.

Trouble. He can only squeeze the bottle so tight and has to jiggle it to shoot more mustard. Time is wasted.

Time is up.

But it’s just a training session for the big show. At noon on Saturday, Sept. 22, in Liberty Park, Dutson will attempt to break the current Guinness World Record for mustard drinking—yep, a real thing that exists—currently held by André Ortolf of Germany, who set it last November.

Ortolf’s record is a bit more than 18 ounces in 30 seconds. If he doesn’t puke all over himself in the attempt, Dutson thinks he can shatter it.

“The first time I did 16 ounces, my stomach was a little upset. But I had also eaten,” he says.

From this practice round, he now knows to try out different bottle caps so he can push mustard out faster. Cold mustard won’t do, either—room temperature works best. And no brown mustard or Grey Poupon, just plain yellow.

But why … at all?

It turns out Dutson has a more altruistic motive. The potential mustard-chugging champ is also a certified family therapist who’s using his record attempt to get parents to start talking to their kids openly and honestly about sex—to “mustard” up the courage, as he puts it.

“I was looking to do an awareness event about sexual health,” Dutson says. “And I really like mustard. Growing up, it was kind of a joke where I would pull out mustard from the back of the fridge and go ‘I’m so hungry,’ and drink it and gross people out for fun. So one day, I decided to look up what the record was. Then, I wondered if I could actually drink a lot.”

Stunts aside, the lack of sex education in a state dominated by a strong religious culture has always been a touchy topic, and Dutson sees the fallout first hand.

“It’s really causing a lot of problems with teenagers passing around STDs and getting pregnant. They don’t know about positive sexual health for when they get married,” he says. “Newlyweds in my office tell me their parents never talked to them about sex.

“So I want that to end. I want parents to feel comfortable when they talk about sex with their kids, just a little bit at a time, and that will make a world of difference for their children.”

It’s become a frequent topic on Dutson’s podcast, “Birds and Bees,” where he specializes in discussions not usually heard in many Utah homes.

“There are so many parents, especially new parents, who tell me they don’t know how to talk to their kids about sexual health,” he continues, “so they just put it off until they’re teens, or sometimes don’t talk at all. I really want to end this taboo.”

And what better way to get his message out than in a busy public park with lots of strangers shooting destined-for-viral video?

“If I can dominate a bottle of mustard, then parents can ‘mustard’ up the courage to talk to their kids about sexual health,” Dutson says, unable to resist dropping his favorite pun again.

There’s an obvious question here if Dutson manages to pull off the record mustard drink—will he go Full Utah and try to set a fry sauce-chugging record next?

“I don’t think so,” he says, “but I could probably do pickle juice.” CW

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Author Scott Westerfeld can affirm that children’s books aren’t just kid’s stuff anymore.

He’s written 22 novels, mostly for younger readers, earning both popular success and a wide range of awards, including the Philip K. Dick Special Citation, the Aurealis Award, the Victorian Premier’s Award and placement on The New York Times list of Notable Books.

With his new novel, Impostors, Westerfeld returns to his best-selling Uglies series.

Inseparable twins Frey and Rafi, for all their similarities, are poles apart: Rafi is an ideal daughter, but Frey has been trained to kill.

Determined to protect her sister at all costs, Frey impersonates Rafi as part of a ploy initiated by their father. However, when the charade unravels, she must decide whom to trust with the truth while grappling with the possibility of assuming her own identity.

“Since the Uglies books came out, countless fans have told me how reading the series changed them,” Westerfeld says via email.

“These conversations have, in turn, changed me. All that fan fiction, art and critique has enlarged the Uglies world in my head, making it messier, more real.”

Westerfeld, who discusses the book in a conversation with best-selling Utah author Shannon Hale, says Impostors draws parallels with today’s world: “The original Uglies books were about revolution. But overthrowing an oppressive regime is just the start. The question of ‘what next’ kept hitting me—especially given everything happening in our own reality.

So I decided to return to the world of the Uglies and find new heroes.” (LZ) Scott Westerfeld: Impostors @ The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801484-9100, Sept. 17, 7 p.m., free, kingsenglish.com

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The National Public Radio program Science Friday is best known for taking scientific discoveries, research, theories and news and making them explicable and relatable to students, concerned citizens and, well, those of us who were humanities majors.

The program goes beyond the airwaves on Saturday night when New Frontiers: Science Friday Live in Salt Lake City arrives at the Eccles Theater for a 90-minute program.

In addition to a behind-the-curtain look at how the radio show gets made, the program includes demonstrations, video screenings and even a live band. The event will be recorded and played later on KUER 90.1 FM, which airs Science Friday on a weekly basis.

Host Ira Flatow acts as emcee for the night, and will be talking with Utah scientists about the new frontiers they are exploring. On the bill are Jaimi Butler of the Great Salt Lake Institute, talking about rare white pelicans nesting on Gunnison Island that herd fish with their feet and bills, and forest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni, speaking about what she is discovering in forest canopies. Utah has long been a paleontologist’s dream, and Randall Irmis of the Natural History Museum of Utah (pictured) discusses the remains of protodinosaurs, also known as “dinosaur aunts and uncles,” found in Bears Ears National Monument. Finally, photographer Mark Bailey and Dark Sky SLC president Jessica Dwyer raise the claim that dark skies are important to human health.

(Geoff Griffin) New Frontiers: Science Friday Live @ Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, 801-3552787, Sept. 15, 7:30 p.m., $27.50-$65, artsaltlake.org

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José Torres-Tama is a man of conviction, and an artist who feels the responsibility to address the struggles Latinos face in today’s climate of intolerance and denial. As the title of his one-man show Aliens, Immigrants and Other Evildoers implies, it repudiates those who would deny anyone seeking a better life and an escape from the poverty, crime and injustice they faced in their countries of origin.

“I aspire to forge performances that exemplify a divine marriage between experimental form and socially conscious content,” TorresTama says via email. “I cannot bask in a privilege I’m not afforded to make—experimental theater about nothing—because the urgency confronting my brown body and my immigrant community is far from abstract.”

Employing heart-wrenching stories, satire, makeup, evocative lighting, visuals and film, Torres-Tama (pictured) portrays people who suffer indignity in their quest for freedom. He finds a connection between use of the word “alien” to describe both those from other countries and sci-fi extra-terrestrials to illustrate how our nation has drifted to “The Dark Side,” forgetting the essential covenants it was founded on.

Developed through a National Performance Network Creation Fund, and commissioned by the GALA Hispanic Theater, the Ashé Cultural Arts Center, and Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts, Aliens provides a personal perspective on the horrors and hardships suffered by so-called “illegals.” Or, as Torres-Tama says, “No guacamole for immigrant-haters!” (Lee Zimmerman) José Torres-Tama: Aliens Immigrants and Other Evildoers @ Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 132 S. 800 West, Sept. 14-15, 7:30 p.m., $12, web.ovationtix.com

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The woman at the center of Bizet’s ever-popular opera Carmen is complicated. And like a lot of complex female characters, she tends to get reduced to her worst characteristics, leading to many performances where she becomes the stereotype of an evil seductress. Carmen Inside Out, a one-woman show starring worldrenowned mezzo-soprano Kirstin Chavez (pictured), looks to change this perception. With the help of monologues, an original flamenco dance and a unique musical arrangement of the opera’s iconic score, Chavez channels Carmen for about an hour, bringing often overlooked depths to this character.

Currently an artist in residence at the University of Utah, Chavez has performed Carmen in more than 35 productions since 2000. “I never get tired of her because she feels like a living being to me,” Chavez says. “And the joy and passion she feels are infectious.”

Chavez says she wants to share with audiences the character’s strength, charisma, loyalty and independence—all of the things she loves about her. “I hope that audience members—both those who know the story of Carmen already, and those who don’t—will come away with a genuine love and appreciation for this ‘person’ that has taught me so much over the last two decades,” she says.

Chavez sings some of Carmen’s best known songs in their original French, with monologues and supertitles presented in English. For those looking to dive even further into this character, Chavez and members of the music community host a discussion on the importance of nurturing “strong female spirts in today’s modern society” after the show. (Kylee Ehmann) Carmen Inside Out @ Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-7100, Sept. 13, 7 p.m.; Sept. 14, 7:30 p.m., $5-$20, tickets.utah.edu

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Rio Gallery (300 S. Rio Grande St., visualarts.utah.gov) showcases winners of the DesignArts Utah ‘18 competition—including Ben Evjen’s “Allay Series,” pictured, winner of the $3,000 juror’s award in the professional category—in an exhibition running through Oct. 21.

PERFORMANCE THEATER

Chess Marriott Center for Dance, 330 S. 1500 East, Ste. 106, Sept. 14-23, dates and times vary, tickets.utah.edu Classical Greek Theatre Festival: Women of Trachis Westminster College Jewett Center for the Arts, 1840 S. 1300 East, through Sept. 15, 7:30 p.m., westminstercollege.edu The Curious Case of the Dog in the NightTime An Other Theater Co., 1200 Town Center Blvd., second floor, Provo, through Sept. 29, 7:30 p.m., anothertheatercompany.com Daddy Long Legs Hale Center Theater Orem, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, through Sept. 22, dates and times vary, haletheater.org A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, through Oct. 21, dates and times vary, saltlakeactingcompany.org José Torres-Tama: Aliens Immigrants and Other Evildoers Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 132 S. 800 West, Sept. 14-15, 7:30 p.m., web.ovationtix.com (see p. 13) Kirstin Chavez: Carmen Inside Out Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, Sept. 13, 7 p.m.; Sept. 14, 7:30 p.m., tickets.utah.edu (see p. 13) Matilda: The Musical Tuacahn Amphitheatre, Oliver! Egyptian Theatre Co., 325 Main, Park City, through Sept. 16, dates and times vary, parkcityshows.com Oslo Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, Sept. 14-29, Monday-Thursday, 7 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., pioneertheatre.org Othello Anes Studio Theatre, 195 W. Center St., Cedar City, through Oct. 13, dates and times vary, bard.org Wait Until Dark Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m., hct.org You Got Older Wasatch Theatre Co., 124 S. 400 West, Sept. 14-29, Friday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m., wasatchtheatre.org

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Bernstein on Broadway Abravanel Hall, 123 W.

South Temple, Sept. 14-15, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org Chamber Music Society of SLC: Lark String Quartet Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Sept. 17, 7:30 p.m., tickets.utah.edu

COMEDY & IMPROV

Comedy Open Mic Big Willie’s, 1717 Main St., Sept. 10-Oct. 8, , Mondays, 8 p.m., bigwillieslounge.com Jay Whittaker Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, Sept. 14-15, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com JP Sears Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Sept. 13, 7 p.m.; Sept. 14-15, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Lamont Ferguson Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, West Jordan, Sept. 14-15, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Charlotte Bell: Hip-Healthy Asana Cameron Wellness Center, 1945 S. 1100 East, Ste. 100, Sept. 14, 6 p.m., cameronwellnesscenter.net Christian McKay Heidicker: Attack of the 50 Foot Wallflower The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Sept. 14, 6 p.m., kingsenglish.com Frederick Block: Race to Judgment Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Sept. 14, 7 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Sen. Jeff Flake: Conscience of a Conservative Sundance Tree Room, 8841 N. Alpine Loop Road, Sundance, Sept. 15, 11:30 a.m., sundanceresort.com Lynell Garfield: The Secret Life of Streams Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Sept. 19, 6:30 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Michèle Mendelssohn: Making Oscar Wilde The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Sept. 13, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Scott Westerfeld: Impostors The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Sept. 17, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com (see p. 13) Jim Williams: Path of the Puma Patagonia Outlet, 2292 S. Highland, Sept. 19, 7 p.m.

GIVE A HAND TO WETLANDS AND WILDLIFE Join The Nature Conservancy and partners for a special event at the Legacy Nature Preserve along the Jordan River. Snacks and water will be provided, and there will be prizes!

Wednesday, Sept. 19 8 am: Bird Walk led by Great Salt Lake Audubon 9 am: Volunteer tree planting activity

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SPECIAL EVENTS FARMERS MARKETS

9th West Farmers Market International Peace Gardens, 1060 S. 900 West, Saturdays and Sundays through mid-October, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., 9thwestfarmersmarket.org Cache Valley Gardeners’ Market Historic Cache County Courthouse, 199 N. Main, Logan, Saturdays through Oct. 20, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., gardenersmarket.org Downtown Farmers Market Pioneer Park, 350 W. 300 South, Saturdays through Oct. 20, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., slcfarmersmarket.org New Roots of Utah Neighborhood Farm Stand Valley Regional Park, 4013 S. 700 West, Saturdays through mid-October, 1-3 p.m., slco.org Park City Farmers Market Silver King Resort, 1845 Empire Ave., Park City, Wednesdays through Oct. 25, parkcityfarmersmarket.com Park Silly Sunday Market Main Street, Park City, Sundays through Sept. 23, parksillysundaymarket.com Sugar House Farmers Market Fairmont Park, 1040 E. Sugarmont Drive, Wednesdays through September, 5-8 p.m., sugarhousefarmersmarket.org Wheeler Sunday Market Wheeler Farm, 6351 S. 900 East, Murray, Sundays through Oct. 28, slco.org/wheeler-farm

FESTIVALS & FAIRS

9th and 9th Street Festival 900 South 900 East, Sept. 15, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., 9thand9thstreetfestival.com 2018 Ogden Yoga Fest DaVinci Academy of Science & the Arts, 2033 Grant Ave., Ogden, Sept. 14-15, ogdenyogafest.org Festa Italiana The Gateway, 100 S. Rio Grande St., Sept. 15, noon-10 p.m.; Sept. 16, noon-7 p.m., festaitalianaslc.com Get Into the River Festival Jordan River Parkway, through Sept. 30, dates and locations vary, getintotheriver.org Hollowfest Wasatch Hollow Park, 1700 South 1700 East, Sept. 15, 3-7 p.m., wasatchhollowcc.org India Fest Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple 311 W. 8500 South, Spanish Fork, Sept. 15, 5 p.m., utahkrishnas.org LUPEC Hispanic Festival Union Station, 2501 Wall Ave., Ogden, Sept. 15, 2-8 p.m., lupec-us.org Mini Maker Faire Electric Park, 3003 Thanksgiving Way, Lehi, Sept. 15, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., thanksgivingpoint.makerfaire.com Oktoberfest Snowbird Resort, Highway 210 Little Cottonwood Canyon, Snowbird, through Oct. 21, Saturdays & Sundays, noon-6:30 p.m., snowbird.com

Urban Arts Festival Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main, Sept. 15, noon-10 p.m.; Sept. 16, noon-8 p.m., utaharts.org/urban-arts-fest (see p. 35) Yappy Hour Fairmont Park, 1040 E. Sugarmont Drive, Sept. 13, 5-8 p.m., slc.gov

TALKS & LECTURES

Coco with co-director Lee Unkrich Pardoe Theatre, Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, Sept. 14, 7:30 p.m.

Science Friday Live Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, Sept. 15, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.com (see p. 13)

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

Cara Jean Means: Grip: Conversational Portraits on Mental Health Salt Lake Community College Eccles Gallery, 1575 S. State, through Sept. 21, slcc.edu Deborah Durban: Bits and Pieces Art Access Gallery II, 230 S. 500 West, Ste. 125, through Sept. 14, accessart.org Design Arts Utah 2018 Showcase Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., through Oct. 21, visualarts.utah.gov (see p. 14) Justin Chouinard: Appendages of Sense Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, through Sept. 21, saltlakearts.org Marisa Morán Jahn: Mirror / Mask Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, through Dec. 9, umfa.utah.edu Mary Pusey and Shayne Shaw: World Expressions Local Colors of Utah Gallery, 1054 E. 2100 South, through Sept. 17, localcolorsart.com Miguel Galaz: Roots, Culture, Education Mestizo Institute of Culture and Arts, Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 132 S. 800 West, through Oct. 5, facebook.com/sugarspaceslc Moments in Time: Paintings by Lynn Nichols Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through Oct. 19, slcpl.org Plein Air Exhibition Brigham City Museum Gallery, 24 N. 300 West, Brigham City, through Nov. 3, Tuesday-Saturday, brighamcitymuseum.org Ryan Ruehlen: Georhythmic Drift Music UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Nov. 3, utahmoca.org Sculpture: New Works + Group Exhibition A Gallery / Allen + Alan Fine Art, 1321 S. 2100 East, through Sept. 29, agalleryonline.com Summer Group Show Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, through Sept. 14, phillips-gallery.com Trent Alvey: I’m Floating in a Most Peculiar Way Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, through Sept. 21, saltlakearts.org Working Hard to Be Useless Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, through Dec. 29, utahmoca.org

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nearly every year since 2008?

And why do cops and firefighters religiously flock to the place?

Answering the first question is easier than the second.

Part of the restaurant’s success comes from the Macks’ outlook on entrepreneurship.

The siblings grew up in Oahu, Hawaii, and have let their laidback, free spirit guide their

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It’s no surprise that a place like Mo’ Bettahs caught on in Utah. The portions are huge and meaty, and its famous macaroni salad takes a page right out of the mayo-centric Mormon cookbook. All the same, two questions about Mo’ Bettahs rack my brain: How exactly did brothers Kimo and Kalani Mack manage to open a new restaurant

rice and macaroni salad helps even things out. Among the three meat options, I tend to favor the teriyaki steak—a flavorful pile of sliced beef that pairs well with the rice and macaroni.

While Mo’ Bettahs has nailed a menu that is simple and franchisefriendly, it’s a strategy that also has a downside. If a ton of sliced, grilled, fried and pulled meat is right up your alley, then this place will be one of your favorite fast-casual joints around town. That’s really Mo’ Bettahs’ only play—diners in search of more variety will want to scope out other pastures.

That being said, there’s nothing wrong with carving out a niche and sticking to your guns—it’s catering to its audience remarkably well. I’m still trying to figure out why local law enforcement loves the place so much, though. Next time I get busted, I’ll have to ask. CW

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first got wind of Mo’ Bettahs (multiple locations, mobettahs.com) when my wife talked about how trendy their Bountiful location is among her high school students.

It wasn’t long after that conversation that I started seeing the Hawaiian grill pop up every where—in the 10 years since the first location opened its doors, there are now seven restaurants spanning from Lehi to Logan.

ter gigantic, carnivorous portions and is known for its distinct lack of anything resembling a vegetable.

Teriyaki steak, katsu fried chicken and kalua pork represent the foundational trinity of meats that defines Mo’ Bettahs cuisine. A tip for firsttime diners: Underestimate how hungry you are before ordering. The mini katsu chicken ($6.99) for example, consists of two large chicken breasts, battered and fried in crispy katsu fashion, served with softballsized scoops of rice and macaroni salad—it’s anything but mini. I’m a fan of katsu chicken, and Mo’ Bettahs’ interpretation is tender, juicy and nicely crunchy—most of the time. On occasion, the dish can be inconsistent—meat on the dry side is my most common gripe.

For diners seeking the full effect, the mixed plate is a good option. The mini ekolu ($11.55) comes with three choices of meat, but the mini mixed plate ($6.85) or the regular mixed plate ($10.50) are typically enough for one hungry diner. Both the kalua pork and the teriyaki steak can be hit or miss. The pork is often oversalted despite its tenderness, but mixing it with the large portions of

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path. Focusing on the food that made them happiest in their youth (hint: it ain’t salad), the brothers launched a steak shop that soon embodied the coastal vibe in their DNA. With the help of Four Foods Group, a local company that helps develop up-andcoming restaurants into franchises, Mo’ Bettahs has experienced nothing but growth since 2008.

Although the partnership with Four Foods has helped spread the word, I can’t help but think there’s something Faustian about such a sweet deal. Mo’ Bettahs in Bountiful started from humble origins and had a bit of an edge, truth be told. Now, its crisp branding and streamlined fastcasual service make it feel like it’s lost a bit of that indie flair. Then again, perhaps I’m overthinking it—who am I to complain about more access to grilled meats in my hometown?

Regardless of street cred or mainstream popularity, a restaurant still lives and dies by its food.

Mo’ Bettahs has figured out what it does well, and sticks faithfully to that playlist. Leave your hoitytoity, white linen expectations at the door; you’re here to feast. The menu is tailor-made for diners af-

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The cuisine of Italy brings people together—perhaps this is why last year’s Festa Italiana drew more than 20,000 attendees. That’s a high bar to set, but the organizers of this year’s event are expecting yet another huge turnout. In preparation for the fourth annual Festa Italiana, the Italian-American Civic League and Alfa Romeo of Salt Lake have planned a two-day festival that includes an all-inclusive celebration of Italian music, art, culture and food. Fifteen food vendors serve up regional cuisine from all over Italy. Admission to the event is free, and proceeds benefit Catholic Community Services. Festa Italiana kicks off on Saturday, Sept. 15 from noon-10 p.m. and wraps up on Sunday, Sept. 16 from noon-7 p.m. at The Gateway (18 N. Rio Grande Street). For more info and a full schedule, check out festaitalianaslc.com

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Harmon’s Grocery near City Creek (135 E. 100 South)is hosting a Summer in a Jar workshop from 6-9 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 13—attendees can experiment with making and canning their own salsas for a mere $15. Purchase tickets at eventbrite.comThe Downtown Farmers Market (350 W. 300 South, slcfarmersmarket.org) helps conclude this year’s programming with the second annual Fermentation Festival from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. The event celebrates cheese, yogurt, kombucha—and I’m sure kimchi and sauerkraut make an appearance at some point.

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Adding to Lehi’s culinary diversity, an African fusion restaurant backing a good cause has opened its doors.

Zulu Piri Piri Chicken Grille (2951 Club House Drive, Lehi, facebook.com/zulugrille) has already generated quite a buzz. Its menu revolves around grilled chicken marinated in piri piri, a sweet and spicy blend of peppers indigenous to the African continent. The menu reads like a mixtape of traditional African cuisine by way of New Orleans, and Zulu Piri Piri donates a meal to underprivileged and abused children in Africa for ever meal purchased. Working directly with the South African nonprofit Home of Hope, Zulu Piri Piri hopes to bring a bit of African culture to the Silicon Slopes while helping children in need.

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Uinta Nobel Nectar: Go back more than a half century, and you’ll find beer was much different; it basically tasted like whatever was picked from a vine or had fallen from a tree. This new beer from Uinta attempts to provide a cursory glimpse into what beer was like way back when. The Ancient Ale pours a slightly hazy, but mostly clear, light- to medium-bright golden color. It pours a nice white head that’s about an inch thick when first poured, before settling to a solid two fingers thick with very good retention. Aromas of spicy and

peppery yeast, along with some apricot, clove, nutmeg, pear and a hint of pineapple, hit you on a deep whiff. The taste is very similar, with a fairly sweet, malty and somewhat grainy flavor up front giving way to the aforementioned spicy yeast flavors.

This is followed by a hint of banana, clove, nutmeg and a touch of peppercorn. Notes of pear and pineapple arise next, shifting to a slight hint of tartness. This is rounded out with a bit more sweetness akin to Belgian candy sugars. There’s a slight bitterness in the end that’s mostly dulled by the sweetness. The body is smooth and frothy, medium to full-bodied with moderate carbonation and a bit of alcohol heat.

Overall: To me, this is more of a Belgianstyle golden strong ale. The addition of spelt and honey adds dimension, but the base sweetness takes it to a familiar place. This is a flawless example of golden strong ale.

Be warned: The 8.5 percent ABV will knock you on your butt if you’re not careful.

Kiitos Brut IPA: From sweet to bitter, from heavy to light, we’ve covered the whole IPA spectrum in this column. The newest divergent take on this classic beer is the Brut IPA. Think of an IPA with most of the sugars removed, leaving a very clean, hoppy and semi-bitter ale. This is the new newness, and Kiitos’ Brut is the first one from a local brewery. Near crystal-clear and brassy in colorm, the nose is simple and fresh, with citrus peel and waves of

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Overall: This style (and beer) will have your tongue thinking it’s Pilsner or kölsch, except with more pizzazz. The Bruts are crisp and lively on the tongue, and in some respects ghostly absent due to the dryness, so they might require a little on-the-spot

brain rewiring to help you get into the groove. The 6.1 percent alcohol is, for the most part, not noticeable, and simply adds to the lingering dryness of the beer.

These beers couldn’t be more different, both in genealogy and in taste. They each have their place to fill in your beer rotation, but be aware that they are both in limited production, and won’t be around more than a few weeks. Your best bets for finding them are at their respective breweries. As always, cheers! CW

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Reading? Pssshhh. It’s 2018.

Who reads anymore?

he world might be changing faster than we can keep up with it, and sometimes it feeks like the written word could be on the verge of becoming an endangered species. But if you look a bit deeper, you’ll see that we need and cherish writers, storytellers and books more than ever.

They’re a way of helping us understand this changing world, making us laugh, cry and think whether we’re in front of a computer screen, watching writers read their own work or curled up with actual old-school pages.

For our annual Fall Arts Issue, we’ve chosen to focus on those who live by the book. Join us for a visit with the award-winning Salt City United slam poetry team. Learn about how a local organization creates places for aspiring writers to make their literary dreams come true. Take a tour of independent booksellers who still thrive along the Wasatch Front. Catch a glimpse of Salt Lake’s craft printers. Then, make plans for your artistic year with our 2018-19 performing arts calendar, and prepare for this week’s Urban Arts Festival.

What’s the good word? Let us point you toward a whole lot of them. •

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Tour of Utah: Bookstore Edition

Above: The Printed Garden Below: King’s English Bookshop Above right: Marissa’s Books

A journey through the state’s great independent booksellers.

By Michael D. Ferry

ach year, cyclists from around the world assemble for the now-famous Tour of Utah cycling competition.

Steep climbs and fast descents push racers to their limit. Each year there are several competitors who do not finish the race, opting instead to detour to the closest bookstore and enjoy a relaxed afternoon browsing the shelves for their next great read. While these competitors might not finish on the podium, they are rewarded with stacks of great reading material, which many would argue is even better than receiving a medal.

Our state features some of the most brilliant bookstores in the country. There are several larger retailers located around Utah, but here’s a quick tour of the best independent booksellers from Sandy to Ogden: Aaron Cance with The Printed Garden in Sandy (9445 S. Union Square, theprintedgarden.com) encourages everyone to visit an indie bookstore to see why they are great.

“Locally owned businesses are what make neighborhoods interesting,” Cance says. “You can expect a personal experience with staff that really care about what they’re doing.

Our store, for example is not a large store, but neither is there any filler on our shelves. If a guest were to walk into our store with a blindfold on, he or she could pull a book off the shelf, and it would be a really good book.”

After finding a book at Printed Garden, take off the blindfold and continue to the next stop on the tour. “Many people might not have a specific book in mind when they come in, but they look through our shelves and when they

find ‘it’, they just know,” says Cindy Dumas, owner of Marissa’s Books in Murray (5692 S. 900 East, Ste. 10, facebook.com/marissasbooks), describing one type of experience customers might expect when they visit. For Dumas, searching for great collections of books and new, unique gift items that customers will love is her favorite part of being a bookseller. “Each time someone comes to our store,” she says, “they can expect to find something original, distinct and a little different from the previous time they visited.” If you visit Marissa’s, you can also find used books in great condition, and most of their new children’s books are just $2.

Sugar House’s Central Book Exchange (2017 S. 1100 East, central-bookexchange.com) is the place to go if you like to be surrounded by floor to ceiling stacks of every literary genre imaginable; you see—and smell—nothing but books. It is a small store, but they take advantage of every inch of shelf space. Their inventory is primarily used titles,

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Bookstores of Utah

City Weekly staffers muse on the literary works that shaped their view.

I’m going to go the lame route, and say a reference book. A decade ago, during my freelance days in San Diego, I found Martin H. Manser’s The Facts on File: Guide to Good Writing inside a dumpster, dusted it off and gave it a read. It opened my eyes to the wonders of style and narrative, and have considered it my bible ever since.

Spreading the gospel, I’ve lent it out to a good number of interns, budding writers and seasoned vets.

Enrique Limón, editor Harlan Ellison’s essay collection An Edge in My Voice was my first glimpse at how someone could engage with and write about popular culture with intelligence, humor and a refusal to accept that “turning off your brain” was an acceptable way to read, or watch movies or television. Ellison was a feisty, sometimes infuriating writer, but I’m probably the kind of critical thinker I am because of his uncompromising mind.

Scott Renshaw, A&E editor All the Light We Cannot See finally brought writing as an art form to my mind’s eye. Every page was so carefully crafted with color, vision, and composition that I could spend my time—as if standing in front of a Bosch—contemplating every aspect of circumstance.

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Yann Martel’s Life of Pi challenged my understanding of the connection between religion and humanity’s unending search for meaning.

Once I finished the book’s open-ended climax, I turned back to the first page and started all over again. By the end of my second read, Martel had changed my takes on spirituality, love, and, oddly enough, zoos.

Kelan Lyons, staff writer

I’m going to cheat a little bit and claim not just one book, but a 12-volume set: the Woman’s Day Encyclopedia of Cookery (1966). My mom’s original edition of this ivory-spined compendium opened up a world of international food traditions for this culinary curious kiddo in rural mid-America in the 1970s and ’80s. Long before Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s brought far-flung ingredients to the suburbs of flyover states, I poured through the sauce-splattered pages chronicling foods from all over the world. From learning how to make a classic French allemande sauce (Vol. 1, p. 10), to Lebanese kibbeh (Vol. 8, p. 1214) or zabaglione (Vol. 12, p. 1960), I tested out new flavors, subbing in whatever ingredients I could find on the shelves of the local Winn Dixie market. And it gave me a culinary kick in the ass to go into The Big City and prowl the aisles of Latin, Italian, Middle Eastern and Asian markets, where I’m sure I annoyed the living hell out of people by asking a million questions, all, of course, in English. It jump-started a lifetime of adventurous eating and imbibing at the tables of talented cooks from all over the world, and for that, I’m ever thankful.

Darby Doyle, drinks writer We all know George Orwell for 1984 and Animal Farm, but his bone-deep reportage in Down and Out in Paris and London shocked and awed me as a college student struggling to find my non-fiction voice. Published in 1933, Orwell’s memoir captured the sordid realities of poverty in Europe’s two biggest cities, giving context and perspective (and an actual voice!) to individuals generally lumped together as the “unwashed masses.” Was it a rebellion against his upper-crust childhood? A first reckoning with the colonial oppression he perpetuated as a policeman in Burma? A rejection of the middle-class mores he found ludicrous in the wake of World War I’s brutality? Indeed, but the man born Eric Blair’s experiences among the “down and out” also instilled in him a true sense of empathy while bending his eye, ear and pen toward his future dystopian arc.

And if Orwell didn’t write about doublespeak and doublethink in 1984, would we understand its nefarious influence on the world in which we currently live?

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Traveling north to Bountiful finds The Book Garden (2 N. Main, bookgarden2.com) and bookseller LeAnn Jorgensen. One of Jorgensen’s favorite events of the year is Independent Bookstore Day in April, when book lovers are encouraged to visit as many bookstores as they can. “Independent Bookstore Day is a fun day for everyone. We love to see the shop-hoppers that are determined to visit each and every bookstore within driving distance during that day,” she says.

You don’t have to wait for Independent Bookstore Day to visit a great shop like Booked on 25th in Ogden (147 25th St., bookedon25th.com). In addition to new releases and best-selling books, you can also find bookish gifts and merchandise that you won’t find anywhere online: shirts, mugs and other items featuring their signature black crow (or is it … a raven?).

These bookstores play an important role in making great books available and helping us discover them. In addition to great books, patrons can expect to find activities like author appearances and book signings; check online calendars for each store to see what they have coming up. •

We can talk all we want about great literature, but as a kid, sometimes all you need is a story full of imagination. Where the Wild Things Are has not only stood the test of time, but was my favorite children’s book. Max escaping to his room and heading to the fantasy island full of wild beasts he befriends was the perfect tale for an 8-year-old boy. Even today, every time the story is brought up, a rush of nostalgia takes over and instantly takes me back to those imaginative childhood memories.

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which you can pick up for just a few bucks each.

Rob Eckman, from the King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City (1511 S. 1500 East, kingsenglish. com), explains how independent bookstores serve as creative centers for our community and support the literary arts: “Bookshops are unique and special places. We are not only a place to find and read books but we are also gathering places and safe places where ideas can be discussed and shared.” Eckman soon excuses himself for another engagement, because “it’s Children’s Story Time, and the kids don’t like to be kept waiting.” His official title is Marketing Manager, but Eckman is also known as “Genius Storyteller” and “Emperor of the Kids Room”.

Salt Lake City also plays host to Trolley Square’s Weller Book Works (607 Trolley Square, wellerbookworks.com), with its two levels filled with thousands of books to browse. You’ll never get through them all, so ask the friendly staff for recommendations. Be sure to drop in at Ken Sanders Rare Books (268 S. 200 East, kensandersbooks.com) to see one of the most valuable rare book collections in Utah.

If you are looking for a book much older than you, or anyone you know, this is the bookstore for you.

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Salt Lake United slam poets connect with audiences on a national level.

Left to right: Jesse Parent, Jose Soto, Tanesha Nicole, Dorothy McGinnis and RJ Walker celebrate their fourth place finish at the National Poetry Slam.

By Scott Renshaw

or a lot of artists, the idea of viewing their creative work in the context of a competition is a complicated one, tying personal, subjective work into a framework of winners and losers. But when you’re an artist on a national stage, with peers telling you that you’re among the best, it’s hard not to think you’re taking that creative work to the next level.

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Walker transitioned to writing pieces that were humorous monologues, which he then brought to poetry open mics. And while he recalls that some of his early pieces exceeded time limits and got him penalized, it didn’t take long for him to make an impression. “I got second to Jesse at my first slam,” Walker says.

“Then I started winning slams and getting feedback. This community is very accepting.

It is a competition, but the community is not super competitive. Everybody is out to help everyone else. That means our scene is stronger.”

The Salt Lake City United team draws its members from poets who qualify at bouts held throughout the year. Two local slams— Salt City Slam and Sugar Slam—each held finals, and the first and second place finishers from each, along with the third place finisher from Salt City Slam, became the members of this year’s national team.

Walker first made Salt Lake City’s national team in 2013, but by that time the local poets had already pioneered an idea that would lead toward their national spotlight. In 2012, the Salt Lake City team took its first stab at what they would come to call a “concept bout”—a performance where every member of the team would do a poem somehow connected to the same unifying theme. Poets from the same team

out of this as a better writer, and a concept bout is one of the ways we do that.”

The decision paid off this year, and not just in terms of the team’s final ranking. The Salt Lake United team sold more books of their poetry than any other team at the event. The competition itself has value, but there are a variety of ways for the value of the work to be measured.

“Poetry slams are just a micro-model of the judgment that happens in the real world,” Walker says. “You put your art out there, and see if somebody’s going to appreciate it. You’re just trading points for dollars. It’s still a competition, because we live in capitalism, but it’s just a measuring stick. I can track my improvement and how I’m connecting with audiences.

You go through that crucible of getting judgment points, then you go into the world and say, ‘Do you think this is worth buying?’”

There was a special moment for the team, Walker says, when McGinnis and Nicole’s poem inadvertently hit on a hot-button issue for the National Poetry Slam, which was experiencing criticism for making use of unpaid labor. And it became an example for how work that an artist creates from a deeply personal place can resonate with others. “We could not have predicted that this was the inner workings of the tournament at the time,” he says. “This issue that [McGinnis and Nicole] felt personally turned out to be very personal for this tournament.

They received a standing ovation. And while we did take fourth place, we were the team that people remembered.” •

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The Salt Lake United poetry slam team hit that next level at August’s National Poetry Slam in Chicago, where the five-member team—Dorothy McGinnis, Tanesha Nicole, Jesse Parent, Jose Soto and RJ Walker— accomplished their highest-ever result, placing fourth nationally. It had been six years since a Salt Lake City-based team had made it even as far as the semifinals.

For Walker, the achievement is the latest marker on a personal artistic journey that began from a traumatizing event. “My parents disowned me for coming home from my [Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] mission early,” Walker recalls. “I was homeless for a while, living in a car. I lost all my friends and family.”

It was during a job he took as a night security guard that he began writing, using the free time to begin what he initially saw as an interest in stand-up comedy. He performed at comedy open mics occasionally in 2012, including Sunday nights at Greenhouse Effect, where he saw Jesse Parent perform a poem. “What Jesse had constructed was a character, a persona and a solid narrative,” Walker says. “He explored a lot more emotional range, not just trying to make people laugh. Talking about difficult things. I thought, ‘Wow, I want to do that.’”

generally write independently and present work that isn’t connected to that of their teammates, but Salt Lake City’s poets decided collectively on their general topic. The initial 2012 theme was the Old Testament, with individual poems addressing Lucifer, Lilith and Eve, and even the point of view of God. In subsequent years, the team used themes like superheroes, Jesus and even as abstract a notion as the “remote control” (with individual poems representing pause, fast-forward, slow-motion and replay).

The 2018 team continued that tradition with a concept bout focused on The Wizard of Oz. Parent’s Scarecrow-centric piece addressed working-class struggles; Walker’s Tin Man touched on anxiety and depression; Soto turned the Cowardly Lion into a meditation on colonialism; McGinnis and Nicole collaborated on a piece about Dorothy and Oz and the work of women being devalued and uncompensated.

Attempting a concept bout is a risky choice, one that other teams don’t opt for. “This year,” Walker says, “we sat down and looked at the people on the team and thought, ‘We could win this whole competition. Do we still want to do a concept bout? This is really risky.’ Sometimes it’s rewarded, sometimes not so much.

“Salt Lake has a little different interpretation of poetry slam than a lot of other places,” he continues. “It’s a gym for being a spokenword poet. Winning just means you’re exercising right. It’s not productive practice unless you push yourself as writers. But our guarantee is that, if you make the team, you’ll come

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Strength in Numbers

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Johnny Worthen (center right) participates in a live critique for attendees at League of Utah Writers’ 2018 Quills Conference

The League of Utah Writers offers support for the often-lonely work of writing.

By Scott Renshaw he creative life of a writer is generally a solitary affair. In the words of author Gene Fowler, “All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.” And while the technology of the 21st century generally means staring at a computer cursor rather than paper, it can feel pretty lonely waiting for those drops of blood to turn into sentences.

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writing and to address the practical business considerations of getting work out into the world. After attending out-of-state conferences, he eventually became aware of the League of Utah Writers, an organization that was founded in 1935. He dove right into getting involved, winning the group’s Writer of the Year award, giving a keynote speech at its annual conference and ultimately becoming part of the executive committee.

Worthen describes the LUW as “a loose federal structure, with strong states.” The organization’s website currently lists 29 individual chapters, sometimes organized by geographical location, sometimes by focus on a specific writing area, like poetry or non-fiction. Worthen is a member of a South Jordan-based chapter called The Infinite Monkeys, which focuses on speculative and genre fiction. “I wanted everyone to know, let’s not take ourselves too seriously,” Worthen says about the choice of the chapter’s name. “How can you take yourself too seriously when you call yourself monkeys?”

Every chapter is unique, Worthen emphasizes, not just in its area of focus, but in the way its participants choose to run gatherings. Infinite Monkeys meetings, for example, might include somewhere around 40 attendees, and include a guest speaker to address writing and business tips. Then there’s time for people to

creative and commercial—and included among its presenters writers like Tim Dorsey and Maria V. Snyder, as well as editors, publishing house representatives and literary agents. The organization also gives out awards—including a “New Voices” award available exclusively to someone who has never made money previously as a writer—as a way to provide would-be authors with something to put on their résumés.

Collaborative efforts like this are more important now than they’ve ever been, Worthen suggests, because the business of publishing has changed so radically over the past decade.

“There’s not a larger industry in the world made up of amateurs, making it up as they go along,” he says. “The biggest agent, the smallest editor, they don’t know. The big publishers don’t know what to do about Amazon. Amazon doesn’t know how to do self-publishing. … If you’re trying to make money at this, it’s a whole new ballgame.”

But while the business is hard, it’s the act of creating itself for which groups like the League of Utah Writers offer the most support. It becomes a place where that lonely work of creating becomes a little less lonely, and where creation is viewed as its own achievement, no matter how—or if—it’s ever published. “The League is just a place for you to bring your art, because the chance that you have other people looking at your art is slim,” Worthen says. “Hopefully, we provide the support and the understanding of what [writers are] going through. Some people think competitively: write, get published. I don’t think that way. I want a community. That’s my mantra.” •

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Writers groups have long been a way to combat that isolation, offering places for people to share and improve their work, or simply find sympathetic ears for the struggles of creating stories. Author Johnny Worthen— currently the president of the League of Utah Writers—has committed himself to creating a place where writers of all skill levels can work together at creating the art that calls to them.

“We try to be supportive because one in a thousand of us will ever make money at this,” Worthen says. “One in 10,000 will make a living. But the rest of us can still be a community.”

Worthen, a graduate of the University of Utah who now teaches continuing education classes there, took a long journey of his own toward writing full time and finding that supportive community. At one time an entrepreneur who owned his own company processing drug tests, he found his business on thin ice after losing a contract with the state of Utah.

“I looked at my wish list and said, ‘The only thing I’ve ever wanted to be that I haven’t been yet is a writer,’” he says. “I had a war chest built up, so I started writing.” Seven published novels later, he describes himself as “six years into my 10-year plan to be an overnight success.”

Even after getting published, however, Worthen found himself searching for networking opportunities, both to improve his

share pieces that their working on with a small group, and receive feedback. “We’re mostly creative,” Worthen says. “We will do some marketing stuff, a little symposium on the side. For the most part, though, it’s about how to write the best stuff you can. Then, when you’re ready to query, we’ll talk about that.”

While each chapter approaches that process of critiquing each other’s works in a different way, Worthen believes that mutual encouragement is the most important element when dealing with a field that’s full of rejection. “We begin every meeting with how to critique work: Positive suggestions,” he says. “If you don’t have anything nice to say, then shut up. Reality will hit them soon enough.”

The Infinite Monkeys engage in other group efforts beyond the regular meetings. Once a year, several members participate in a weekend retreat in Coalville; Worthen describes it as a “30-person writer sleepover.” The group even provided a unique publishing opportunity for its members when they spent a year creating a short story anthology titled The Year of the Monkeys, released in August. The process allowed writers to go through the entire process of editing, proofreading, deciding on a cover, pricing and marketing, providing skills that are needed in an era when many writers self-publish.

In addition to his work with his own chapter, Worthen’s role as president means helping organize the LUW’s Quills Conference, held each year in August. The recently completed 2018 Quills Conference included panels and programming on every aspect of the writing life—

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Deck the Halls A small idea turns into a big Urban Arts Festival.

By Scott Renshaw

in and experiencing the arts. It would be easy to charge $5—and it would make our lives a lot easier, not having to chase down sponsorships—but at the end of the day, we’re really trying to affect the community, and we feel strongly that the arts are the best way to have positive change.”

Inclusiveness can sometimes mean expanding the definition of “art” in ways that aren’t always obvious. Two years ago, the Urban Arts Festival added basketball to its roster of events, including a three-on-three tournament and slam-dunk competition. While Dyer says that he believes there is an actual art to basketball, the reasons for adding it include the pragmatic reality of bringing people to the event who might not generally gravitate toward an arts festival, but would be interested in seeing the sport.

Such creative thinking permeates every new idea that comes to the Urban Arts Festival each year. For 2018, Dyer notes that someone reached out to them about including an “urban fashion show” as part of the festival, and it was subsequently added. There’s also an “augmented reality” component, which will invite attendees to download the festival app and seek out eight pieces of “digital graffiti” created by the festival’s participating artists, creating a kind of virtual scavenger hunt for to-be-determined prizes. “Every year, we try to do something so every year you don’t go, that was just like last year,” Dyer says. “I want something new to experience.”

That’s where one small idea to expand the boundaries of art can lead. •

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he annual Urban Arts Festival is a big enough event—drawing approximately 25,000 attendees over two days—that you’d understand if its organizer said it’s what he envisioned from the outset. But a much more modest initial concept got this party started.

Derek Dyer—executive director of Utah Arts Alliance, which puts on the Urban Arts Festival—recalls that eight years ago, there was an idea to hold a skate-deck art event, showcasing creative designs on skateboards. “Then it grew into having some food vendors,” Dyer says, “then, ‘Let’s have a stage and a couple of bands can play,’ then the name kind of stuck.

But it all came from that idea of having that skate-deck show.”

Even that original concept, however—which still continues in the annual Skate Deck Art Show—made it clear that Dyer’s goal was to find a way to treat the “art” as the kinds of creative endeavors that aren’t always respected by the artistic establishment. More than 200 visual artists and craftspeople display their work; funk, rap and urban dance live performances occupy festival stages, including this year’s headliner Chali 2Na (see p. 46); and live painting demonstrations celebrate the work of muralists and street artists. “I feel like basically everything about the festival represents art forms that aren’t represented in the community in a large way,” Dyer says. “A lot of similar events don’t represent the type of art we try to represent. We definitely reach out to emerging artists, and people who are producing edgier works.”

That notion of inclusiveness extends to the attendees, which is one of the reasons the Urban Arts Festival charges no admission. “For some people, even $5 or $10 is too much for them to be able to attend,” he says. “It’s definitely a big, important part of what we’re trying to do, to eliminate any barriers to people participating

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Craft Printing Old-fashioned printing presses create niche products with a personal touch.

Story + photos by Sarah Arnoff

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idden away in the back of a nondescript brick building sandwiched between two used-car dealerships on Main Street, old-fashioned printing presses are whirring away.

Pressman Gabriel Danilchik is a blur of activity as he maintains two 1950sera Heidelberg presses churning out cards for a local business. Next to him, designer Brady Burrows mixes ink and operates a hand-cranked Vandercook press to create a wedding invitation. Two bulldogs meander through the maze of presses and worktables, sneaking scraps of paper to chew on from the discard bins.

These are the daily operations of The Mandate Press (1077 S. Main, 801359-4868, themandatepress.com), a 10-year-old printing shop practicing modern letterpress techniques to create quality, niche products.

“Everything is done by hand,” Studio Manager Alexa Hall says. If a design has multiple colors, “it goes into the machine again,” sometimes requiring three or four passes before it’s finished. Mandate isn’t as old-fashioned as one might assume—they don’t use the handset lead type that many think of when imagining letterpress printing. Instead, they create custom polymer plates with their customers’ designs raised on the surface, which are pressed into the paper when set in the machine. Most of their presses are German behemoths from the ’50s and run smoothly once they get going, according to Danilchik, who says he can simultaneously operate three machines at once. “It’s a lot of multitasking,” he says, with re-inking the rollers and constantly checking the product for accuracy.

“These machines are spot on,” he says, explaining that sometimes a card will need to be run through the press twice in order to make the ink darker, and that there is rarely any overlap or inking outside the design borders the second time around.

Mandate mostly prints business cards but also does invitations, artwork, pamphlets—really anything as long as the goal is a custom, unique product. Customers can submit their own designs, or the folks at Mandate can create something from scratch.

“Craft and quality is definitely the emphasis,” Hall says. “We’re the antithesis of larger online chains, and focus on attention to detail and quality.” •

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A&E Calendar 2018

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Saturday’s Voyeur

Performing Arts Calendar 2018 THEATER

Broadway at the Eccles (broadwayattheeccles.com) Sept. 25-30 Waitress Nov. 6-11 Come from Away Nov. 21-Dec. 1 Bat Out of Hell Dec. 4-9 Finding Neverland Jan. 30-March 3 Wicked April 25-May 12 Disney’s Aladdin May 28-June 2 The School of Rock June 25-30 Rent Aug. 13-25 The Book of Mormon

Good Company Theatre (goodcotheatre.org) Oct. 12-Nov. 4 Eurydice Dec. 7-30 Caroline, or Change Grand Theatre Co. (grandtheatrecompany.com)

Hale Centre Theatre (hct.org) Sept. 12-Nov. 17 Wait Until Dark Sept. 17-Nov. 24 The Scarlet Pimpernel Dec. 10-Feb. 2 The Wizard of Oz Dec. 1-24 A Christmas Carol Jan. 11-March 16 A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder Feb. 18-April 6 An American in Paris March 27-June 1 Steel Magnolias April 22-June 15 Matilda June 17-Aug. 24 Freaky Friday Pioneer Theatre Co. (pioneertheatre.org) Sept. 14-29 Oslo Oct. 26-Nov. 10 Sweeney Todd Nov. 30-Dec. 15 Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley

Jan. 4-19 The Lion in Winter Feb. 15-March 2 Once March 29-April 13 Sweat May 10-25 Grease Plan-B Theatre Company (planbtheatre.org) Oct. 18-28 Good Standing Dec. 13 Radio Hour: Troll Feb. 21-March 3 An Evening With Two Awful Men March 28-April 7 … Of Color Pygmalion Theatre Co. (pygmalionproductions.org) Oct. 18-Nov. 3 Tigers Be Still Feb. 21-March 9 Wait!

May 2-19 Sweetheart Come Salt Lake Acting Co. (saltlakeactingcompany.org) Sept. 12-Oct. 21 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit …

Oct. 10-Nov. 11 The Wolves Nov. 30-Dec. 30 Pinkalicious Feb. 6-March 10 The Cake April 10-May 12 Silent Dancer June 2019 Saturday’s Voyeur 2019 University of Utah (tickets.utah.edu) Sept. 14-23 Chess Sept. 27-28 Monica Bill Barnes’ Happy Hour Utah Opera (utahopera.org) Oct. 13-21 Romeo & Juliet Nov. 9-10 Candide Jan. 19-27 The Little Prince March 7-19 The Magic Flute May 4-6 Norma Wasatch Theatre Co. (wasatchtheatre.org) Sept. 14-29 You Got Older Feb. 8-23 Hands on a Hardbody April 26-May 11 Ideation

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Egyptian Theatre Co. (parkcityshows.com) Sept. 7-16 Oliver!

Nov. 16-24 The Addams Family

Oct. 4-27 The Rocky Horror Show Nov. 29-Dec. 1 Amahl and the Night Visitors/A Christmas Carol Feb. 7-March 2 First Date March 21-April 6 To Kill a Mockingbird May 16-June 8 West Side Story

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Ballet West (balletwest.org) Oct. 26-27 Beauty and the Beast Nov. 2-10 Jewels Dec. 1-29 The Nutcracker Feb. 8-23 Swan Lake April 5-13 Onegin May 9-11 Choreographic Festival Odyssey Dance Theatre (odysseydance.com) Sept. 21-30 Thriller Dec. 12-22 ReduxNut-Cracker Feb. 27-March 9 Shut Up and Dance Repertory Dance Theater (rdtutah.org) Oct. 4-6 Spirit Nov. 15-17 Mosaic Jan. 4-5 Emerge Feb. 9 Regalia April 11-13 Voices Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co. (ririewoodbury.com) Sept. 27-29 Splice Feb. 2 The Live Creature and Ethereal Works April 18-20 Bloom Salt Contemporary Dance (saltdance.com) Nov. 8-10 The Bridge

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Kingsbury Hall (tickets.utah.edu) Sept. 22 Ryan Hamilton Nov. 27 Bassem Youssef Vivint Smart Home Arena (vivintarena.com) Dec. 1 & 7 Jim Gaffigan Wiseguys SLC (wiseguyscomedy.com) Sept. 13-15 JP Sears

Sept. 20-22 Jon Lovitz Sept. 27-29 Erik Griffin Oct. 4 Pump and Dump Oct. 5 Dave Rubin Oct. 6 Shayne Smith Oct. 11-13 T.J. Miller Oct. 18-20 Brendan Schaub Oct. 26-27 Jeremy Piven Nov. 9-10 Theo Von Nov. 13 Celeste Barber Nov. 16-17 Nikki Glaser Nov. 23-24 Bryan Callen Nov. 30-Dec. 1 Tom Clark Dec. 6-7 Taylor Tomlinson

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Utah Symphony (utahsymphony.org) Sept. 14-15 Bernstein on Broadway Sept. 21-22 Beethoven’s 9th Symphony “Ode to Joy” Sept. 28-29 Gershwin’s An American in Paris Oct. 26-27 Tchaikovsky’s 4th/The Red Violin Nov. 2-3 Ghostbusters in Concert Nov. 9-10 Bernstein’s Candide Nov. 16-17 Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos 1&2 Nov. 24-25 Messiah Sing-In Nov. 29-Dec. 1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in Concert Dec. 7-8 Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos 3 & 4 Dec. 14-15 An Evening in Spain with Bolero and Carmen Dec. 18 Celtic Woman

Dec. 21-22 Pink Martini’s Joy to the World Dec. 22 Here Comes Santa Claus Jan. 4-5 A New Year’s Celebration Jan. 11-12 Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 Jan. 26 The 5 Browns Feb. 8-9 Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique Feb. 15-16 My Fair Lady Feb. 22-23 Brahms’ Violin Concerto March 1-2 Casablanca in Concert March 16 Peter and the Wolf March 22-23 Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 March 29-30 New World Symphony April 12-13 Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich April 19-20 Troupe Vertigo April 26-27 Pablo Sáinz Villegas: Concerto de Aranjuez May 9, 11, 13 Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert May 17-18 Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Billy the Kid May 24-25 Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 June 20-22 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in Concert •

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A Simple Favor offers the simple pleasures of a cozy mystery.

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Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively in A Simple Favor matters—Emily’s admonition to Stephanie to stop reflexively apologizing for everything is pointedly handled—but A Simple Favor is more interested in distracting us from reality than criticizing it.

As Emily’s absence stretches out, and widowed Stephanie gets closer to Emily’s grieving husband, Sean (Crazy Rich Asians hottie Henry Golding), some dark turns and increasing twistedness never impinge on the movie’s bounce (aided by Feig’s unexpected but inspired choice of sprightly French pop music for the soundtrack). And Kendrick effortlessly retains our sympathy even as Stephanie slowly is revealed not to be the inoffensively pleasant paragon she appears at first; if there is any cinematic justice, this movie will catapult her to a new level of stardom. The ridiculousness of it all couldn’t be more purely entertaining, and that is absolutely wonderful. A Simple Favor made me forget everything outside it for two hours. I have to adore any movie that can manage that. CW

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PAIRS WITH Up in the Air (2009) George Clooney Anna Kendrick R

Gone Girl (2014) Ben Affleck Rosamund Pike R

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Or at least we could be her bestie.

That makes Kendrick’s Stephanie a consummate cozy heroine, as she becomes when her friend, Emily (Blake Lively), disappears mysteriously. Emily had asked Stephanie to do her a simple favor: to collect her son from school—their kids are classmates and pals—as Stephanie had done before, because Emily was stuck at work. But then Emily doesn’t come home that evening. Or the next day. Or the next.

She’s not answering her phone, or returning calls or texts.

What happened to Emily? Did Stephanie fall so quickly into her best-friend crush with brash Emily that she overlooked warning signs of trouble in the other woman’s life? Did they hit it off too quickly and too intensely, especially for two women who couldn’t be more different—intimidating Emily with her glamorous fashion PR job in The City, and down-to-earth suburban Stephanie who volunteers for every chore at her son’s school and sunnily shares her whole life on her mommy vlog? Could there perhaps have been something nefarious in Emily’s befriending of Stephanie?

Or is Emily just the self-absorbed flake and desultory mom she appears to be?

A Simple Favor is based on the 2017 novel by Darcey Bell that has been likened to Gone Girl, but that’s too small a comparison, at least for how screenwriter Jessica Sharzer had adapted it for the screen. (I haven’t read the book.) Serious matters are broached here, and feminist

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ancy Drew” is how someone sneeringly describes stay-athome mom turned accidental detective Stephanie Smothers late in the delightful mystery game that is A Simple Favor.

It’s meant as an insult, of course, but for everyone who knows it’s not—that Nancy Drew was a badass girl hero—this movie has your back. More than has your back, even.

Witty, tense and thrilling, Favor is without a doubt the most perfect cinematic version of a “cozy” mystery—the subgenre in which Nancy Drew is an icon—in a long while, maybe ever. I can’t even recall the last time a movie that qualified as a cozy ended up on the big screen.

What’s a cozy, you ask? Cozies are the “nice” crime stories—the ones that don’t focus on blood and gore, the ones that don’t feature hard-bitten cops or alcoholic P.I.s, the ones that don’t wallow in angst and misery. Their detectives are amateurs, often ones who never even imagined themselves solving mysteries, yet discover an unexpected knack for it. Cozies are cheerful, escapist and fun, even when they revolve around dead bodies.

Enter director Paul Feig. With his last movie, Spy, he found a winning mix of comedy, suspense and feminism. He gets it absolutely right again here, with a completely different kind of story. His first great decision: casting Anna Kendrick as Stephanie.

So much of how Favor keeps an even keel—as it traverses such wildly emotional and contentious subjects as female friendships, domestic discord, marital secrets and maternal competition—is down to Kendrick’s irresistible onscreen persona. She’s kind but never cloying, smart but a little unsure of herself, stylish but not showy. She is at once Everywoman but also aspirational: We all want to be her, and it doesn’t seem outside the realm of possibility that we actually could be her.

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NEW THIS WEEK Film release schedules are subject to change. Reviews online at cit yweekly.net AMERICAN CHAOS B.5 Director James D. Stern begins with a premise that, nearly two years into the Trump era, seems to be of questionable value— then makes something even more irritating than that. The veteran producer and documentarian (who chronicled the role of Ohio in the 2004 election in ... So Goes the Nation) spends the weeks leading up to the 2016 presidential election talking with Trump supporters, trying to understand the appeal of this candidate the unapologetically liberal Stern fears deeply. His claim at the outset that his goal is to “just listen” disappears pretty quickly, as he includes experts debunking Trumpists’ claims about climate change, voter fraud and the like. While there are a few moments of insight showing what a few non-crazy voters hope Trump can accomplish, mostly it’s a rehash of “disaffected white voter” profiles that have become ubiquitous. Worse still, Stern’s own presence, and the time he spends on his own anxieties leading up to election day, makes the movie way too much about the filmmaker himself. It’s off-brand Michael Moore, but at least Moore occasionally provides something to chuckle at. Opens Sept. 14 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—Scott Renshaw MANDY BB.5 Red (Nicolas Cage) and his wife Mandy (Andrea Riseborough) are living a lumberjack’s life in the Pacific Northwest in 1983.

Intercut with scenes of their idyllic existence are scenes of a cult leader (Linus Roache) and his dimwit followers occupying the same woods. The inciting incident occurs at the halfway point, making it a spoiler to tell you what the movie is about, but suffice it to say that Cage becomes hell-bent on revenge. The filmmaker is Panos Cosmatos, whose Beyond the Black Rainbow

is a good litmus test for Mandy and its trippy LSD heavy-metal aesthetic, ponderous synthesizers and unnatural colors. When it does eventually kick into high gear, Cage delivers the loudness and craziness his fans have come to expect. Indeed, you don’t even have to sign him to star in a movie like this; just start filming and he’ll show up, summoned by the vibrations in the air. It’s about a man and woman who run afoul of cultists, it ends with a chainsaw fight and also there is a tiger for no reason. Nicolas Cage couldn’t not star in this if he wanted to. Opens Sept. 14 at Tower Theatre.

(NR)—Eric D. Snider THE PREDATOR [not yet reviewed] If you thought a Predator was scary, get a load of the Predator.

Opens Sept. 14 at theaters valleywide. (R) A SIMPLE FAVOR BBBB See review on p. 43. Opens Sept. 14 at theaters valleywide. (R) UNBROKEN: PATH TO REDEMPTION BB Angelina Jolie’s 2014 adaptation of Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken felt incomplete in cutting off Louis Zamperini’s true story before the years after his experience as a World War II POW. This faith-based follow-up—from God’s Not Dead director Harold Cronk—simply feels incomplete in a different way. As Louis (Samuel Hunt) returns stateside, and eventually marries his wife Cynthia (Merritt Patterson), he wrestles with alcoholism as a coping mechanism for the post-traumatic stress of his harrowing wartime suffering. Cronk captures those stresses in effectively surreal nightmares and hallucinations—like Louis’s living-room couch abruptly turning into a raft on the ocean—and there’s a solid anchor in the relationship between Louis and Cynthia. There’s also an overriding melodrama to the proceedings—including Hunt’s performance of frustration and drunken rages—as the attempts to fill in the blanks on the awfulness depicted in Unbroken feel like filler on the way to the inevitable born-again moment. Maybe there’s a way to do justice to the entirety of Louis Zamperini’s fascinating life, but nobody has found it yet. Opens Sept. 14 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)—SR

WHITE BOY RICK BBB.5 There’s plenty of judgment to be passed on the Wershe family of Detroit, and director Yann Demange (’71) doesn’t sugarcoat their questionable choices, but more than anything, this is the fact-based story of a desperately poor family striving to stay together despite the circumstances. Rick Sr. (Matthew McConaughey) is a licensed gun dealer who operates mostly outside the law, selling weapons to drug dealers; his 14-year-old son Ricky (Richie Merritt) assists, then eventually becomes an FBI undercover informant on local drug operations. The film becomes a rumbling crime biopic with touches of dark humor, also addressing the disparity between how Ricky is likely to be treated by the law if he’s caught and how his African-American colleagues tend to be treated. McConaughey gives one of his best performances, imbuing the rough-hewn patriarch with vulnerability and regret, while Merritt, a Baltimore teen with no prior professional acting experience, is quite good in a role with its own unusual complexities. There turns out to be a “message,” but it’s not heavy-handed. While many of this family’s problems are of their own making, the system sure doesn’t help. Opens Sept. 14 at theaters valleywide. (R)—EDS THE WIFE BB Ah, the anguish of rich white people. In The Wife, the jerk is Joe Castleman (an excellent but contemptible Jonathan Pryce) and his wife Joan (Glenn Close in an Oscar-worthy performance) is the sufferer. It’s a good thing Close is so good, because her work might keep you from realizing until the closing credits that The Wife is kind of dumb, with plot twists as subtle as a kick in the crotch and the sort of woe-is-me baloney that plagues movies about people who take themselves too seriously. But Joan has a legitimate reason to resent Joe, as they journey to Stockholm so he can accept the Nobel Prize in literature. Along for the ride is officious reporter Nathaniel Bone (Christian Slater, who can still do smarm with the best of them), a writer hoping to be Joe’s biographer. It all ends inevitably but predictably, as Joe once again takes something from his wife that she truly deserves (and I’m not talking about fame). Joe is truly an awful person, and he’s supposed to be, but be prepared: If Close weren’t so brilliant, The Wife would be insufferable. Opens Sept. 14 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—David Riedel

SPECIAL SCREENINGS THE INSUFFERABLE GROO At Rose Wagner Center, Sept. 19, 7 p.m. (NR) KING IN THE WILDERNESS At Main Library, Sept. 18, 7 p.m. (NR)

CURRENT RELEASES

THE NUN B.5 The title character pops up in The Conjuring 2 for no other reason than to tease this spinoff, and the nun’s presence doesn’t make any more sense now than it did then. As far as I can tell, the story is about a Romanian castle that was a gateway for evil, turned into an abbey by crafty Knights Templar—but the evil bubbling behind a locked basement door is just waiting for a human vessel. Will it be Father Burke (Demián Bichir), “Frenchie” (Jonas Bloquet) or Sister Irene (Taissa Farmiga)? You’ll guess before the credits roll, but you’ll spend most of the running time wondering why Farmiga, who looks almost exactly like older sister Vera (Lorraine Warren in The Conjuring universe) isn’t playing the same character. That’s the biggest takeaway from this piece of crap. (R)—DR

PEPPERMINT BB A screenplay that completely lacks a second act might be considered bold avant-garde multiplex filmmaking, if the result didn’t eliminate everything that might be remotely interesting. Jennifer Garner plays Riley North, a wife and whose husband and daughter are murdered by a Mexican gang; five years later, she appears as a badass bent on justice. How did mild-mannered Riley become a killing machine? Your guess is as good as mine, as director Pierre Morel jumps directly into the killings without providing any framework for Riley’s psychological and physical transformation. All that’s left is pure exploitation thriller, as a steely Garner racks up her body count. Movies like this are supposed to be cathartic, as audience surrogates do the things a broken system can’t do, but Peppermint erases the reality that the decision to turn into Batman comes at a cost. (R)—SR

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finding some sort of growth,” Sartain says. “Life is hard. Sometimes life is heavy, and writing a song takes all the weight away.”

Performing them has the same effect on Sartain. “When I was younger, I was constantly writing, recording and playing shows,” he says. “I also toured a lot in the mid-2000s. My life has changed and I’m much busier these days, so I only get a chance to be on stage a couple of times a year. But I still love it. I’m really excited to perform again.”

This weekend, Sleepy Passenger gets its chance to shine with two album release shows: one at The Urban Lounge on Friday, and another at Kilby Court on Saturday. The seven-piece live band features Sartain, Trever Hadley on bass, Fedor on guitar, Charlie Lewis on drums, Andrew Shaw on keyboard, Joey Pedersen on keyboard and Sasich on keys and guitar. Fans can also pick up a vinyl copy of Sleepy Passenger at both shows.

Although Sleepy Passenger’s plainspoken indie rock falls in line with Sartain’s previous material, there’s no denying a newfound sense of authenticity and personal importance. The opening song “I Hope to See You Soon” starts with the lyrics “I’ve got a feeling/ How much I love you/ How much I need you.” When asked about the meaning behind the name Sleepy Passenger, Sartain perks up: “When my wife Shannon and I travel, she constantly falls asleep in transit. I have hundreds of photos of her sleeping on trains, planes and automobiles. To my surprise, she actually has an equal number of photos where I’m sleeping.”

It’s no surprise, then, that Sartain considers Sleepy Passenger his favorite album in a long and variegated discography. “I was pleasantly surprised at how balanced everything turned out,” he says. Capturing the sheer enjoyment of the album, he adds, “And it was so much fun to make.” CW

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ive years is a long time to devote to any single piece of art. For local business owner and promotions guru Will Sartain, a half-decade served as the perfect incubation period for his new project, Sleepy Passenger. Sartain co-owns and operates The Urban Lounge, Rye Diner & Drinks and Kilby Court, and books shows with his business partner, Lance Saunders, at venues all over the Salt Lake Valley. But Sartain is also an accomplished singer, songwriter and instrumentalist with plenty of band credits (Redd Tape, The Future of the Ghost, Hang Time) and 10 full-length albums to his name.

Still, when Sartain began writing songs for his next record, he found his gaze settling on the simple moments. On the full-length album Sleepy Passenger, he watches “The Stars Come Out” alone; realizes that “It’s So Easy” to find “my friends at the bar;” understands that “If you need some space to breathe/ You have to go out on a limb;” and thinks, “in my most quiet moments,” only of that certain someone. “These are definitely songs about myself and my friends,” Sartain says. “I hadn’t made an album in five years, and with such a long layoff, it was cathartic to sit down and [write] this collection of thoughts and feelings I wanted to document.”

Sleepy Passenger hews closely to what, in 2009, City Weekly called “Sartain’s signature straightforward way with words.”

While the lyrics go down easy, the songs’ sonic underpinnings scatter in more diverse directions, tinkering with 10 differently keyed instruments. “This is the most I’ve experimented with pianos and keyboards, so I wanted to distance this album and make it feel more anonymous,” Sartain says. “Instead of just releasing it as a solo album under Will Sartain, I wanted it to stand on its own.”

Acknowledging the buoyant spirit of Sleepy Passenger, Sartain gives credit to his co-collaborators Andrew Sato, Ryan Fedor, Felicia Anderton, Kelli Moyle and Mike Sasich. “The evolution of this album came when the songs were recorded with the guest musicians, most of whom I’ve known for a really long time,” Sartain says. “The songs started to blend together, and everything started to feel more cohesive. I’m really lucky to have such talented people in my life.”

Sartain pays particular tribute to Sasich, who in addition to playing on Sleepy Passenger also recorded, mixed, mastered and produced the album at Man vs. Music Studios. “Mike and I work really well together,” Sartain says. “I’m not sure what his other relationships with people are like, but ours is definitely a friendship. We love taking a song and talking back and forth about it. For me, it’s like going on a journey.”

That meandering entrance into Sleepy Passenger’s snappy, jangly songs began several years ago, when Sartain started taking more time to appreciate the classics: Abba, David Bowie, The Beatles and their various solo records, The Kinks, Electric Light Orchestra. “I’ve really dived into pop music more as I’ve gotten older,” Sartain says. “I love a good song.” A happy song, too: Of Sleepy Passenger’s 10 tracks, nine of which are autobiographical, Sartain ends nearly all of them on “some sort of positive tone”—even “The Bad News,” unlikely as it might seem. “A lot of these songs explore

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When you’re creeping up on 50 years of recording and performing, you’d like to think that your legacy is more than a catchphrase from a comedy sketch. But Blue Öyster Cult became synonymous with one of Saturday Night Live’s most iconic moments, when a segment from an April 2000 episode— focused on the recording of the band’s signature song, “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper,” from 1976’s Agents of Fortune album—turned into a rallying cry for “more cowbell” from a forgotten member played by Will Ferrell.

To BÖC’s credit, however, they appear to have embraced that recognition, as guitarist Eric Bloom—one of the two remaining original members, along with guitarist/vocalist Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser—regularly pantomimes banging a cowbell during the song’s opening riffs. Although the band hasn’t released a new record since 2001’s Curse of the Hidden Mirror, they remain stalwarts of the road, satisfying generations of fans who grew up with BÖC’s unique blend of crunchy hard rock and lyrics invoking fantasy and horror elements, ranging from rampaging monsters (“Godzilla”) to vampires (“Nosferatu”) to a zombie version of

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Although they’ve been typecast for their indie and alternative leanings, in truth, Indiana band Houndmouth is difficult to categorize. Hailed by the press early in their career as a group to watch, Houndmouth’s three albums—2013‘s From the Hills Below the City, 2015’s Little Neon Limelight and the newly released Golden Age—have helped the band build a reliable reputation through word of mouth, frequent festival appearances and regular spots on the late-night talkshow circuit. While they’ve dabbled in blues, roots and Americana, Houndmouth’s recent efforts find members Matt Myers, Zak Appleby and Shane Cody shedding their darker melodies in favor of a more accessible sound. Emphasizing solid rhythms, a

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To truly know a Chicagoan, you have to know the colloquialisms they use. Everyone gets called one of two names—Joe or Charlie (pronounced Chali). Acting as a sort of “dude” or “guy,” they’re catchall phrases for people you aren’t too familiar with. Like many native Chicagoans, Charles “Chali 2na” Stewart left the Windy City to forge a path of his own while still holding on to some of the conventions he grew up with. Only his story is way more exciting than that of your friend who moved to Utah from Chicago for Job Corps.

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famous open mic nights. Chali’s deep, bass-heavy pipes immediately drew attention, earning comparisons to Tone Lõc, Guru, Ladybug Mecca and Scarface. Always the guy on the posse cut that no one had to wonder about because his voice stood out so much, Chali 2na’s content also ran deep, with compelling wordplay and a deep catalogue sure to resonate with everyone from underground hip-hop heads to casual rap fans. Chali co-founded activist salsa group Ozomatli and continues to perform with his band, House of Vibe. But he also describes himself as “a painter who can rap,” making him a perfect fit for this year’s Urban Arts Festival—Chali is even holding a live painting demonstration to go along with his performance. (Keith L. McDonald) Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main, Saturday noon–10 p.m.; Sunday noon–8 p.m.; free, all ages, utaharts.org/urban-arts-fest

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Veganism and hardcore music go hand in hand. Although AFI lead singer Davey Havok wasn’t the first to go public with his dietary discipline, he still made veganism “cool” in the eyes of America’s youth (including me). Before the internet, this concept of a fleshfree, no-animal-by-product lifestyle was perplexing. But don’t worry—this isn’t a guilt piece. Instead, it’s more of an examination of how musicians find their voice. After forming in Ukiah, Calif., in high school, AFI became a huge influence on the late ’90s post-hardcore scene. However, it’s fascinating to see how the band evolved from their very first 1993 EP, Dork, with then-guitarist Jade Puget, to their latest studio album AFI, also known as The Blood Album. As a wannabe musician, I have learned to love that “find yourself” phase bands go through. AFI found themselves after Puget replaced Mark Stopholese on keyboard and shit got dark (in a good way). Even though Puget wasn’t a founding member of AFI, he still represents a huge pillar in the band’s evolution. As I learned from City Weekly’s awesome readers, saying Puget isn’t a founding member is like saying “#CharlieDontTweet isn’t an original member of the Rolling Stones.” Puget and Havok wrote Black Sails in the Sunset, the album that defines AFI’s essence, together. Now, they’re still gracing us with their versatility in the studio and their ferocity on stage, where they’ve joined the second leg of Rise Against and Anti-Flag’s Mourning In Amerika tour. (Rachelle Fernandez) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 6 p.m., $41.25 presale; $46.75 day of show, all ages, thecomplexslc.com

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Rodrigo y Gabriela burst onto the international scene in 2006, becoming an in-demand festival act seemingly overnight—though they had busked on the streets of their native Mexico and played covers in bars for years prior to their breakout. As a duo, Rodrigo Sánchez and Gabriela Quintero make instrumental music that sounds like it’s rooted in traditional flamenco—they play duets on acoustic guitars, after all—but really draws more from classic hard rock and 1980s thrash metal. (It’s no coincidence that Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” and Metallica’s “Orion” are setlist mainstays.)

Quintero is the master of a percussive right-hand technique that holds down the full rhythm section, pounding on the body of her guitar to mimic a kick drum while her elastic-looking wrist moves in a blur. On the other hand, Sánchez plays more or less traditional lead guitar, impressively shredding his acoustic like a speed-metal demon (we’re talking Kirk Hammett on nylon strings). Again, the band’s hardcore influences are out on the table, but the music takes on a different character when it’s played acoustically. Minus the buzzsaw distortion of electric guitar and aggressive metal vocals, the music is far more palatable for the masses—pretty, even. Most of all, Rodrigo y Gabriela perform with a fun, open-hearted energy that encourages audience engagement. Wear yourself out by stomping or clapping in time with the heavy breakdowns, or just sit back and marvel at the duo’s technical wizardry. (Howard Hardee) Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre, 2155 Red Butte Canyon Road, 7 p.m., $46-$51, all ages, redbuttegarden.org

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When the ominously named Murder by Death and special guest William Elliott Whitmore share a stage, they bring a common sensibility, one taut with gothic imagery and a dark Southern sound.

Spawned from archival origins and reshaped by modern mores, Murder by Death recently released their eighth album in a career spanning nearly 20 years. Originally based in Indiana before moving to Louisville, Ky., and borrowing their morbid name from a Robert Moore film, Murder by Death retool their template on The Other Shore, a concept album about the end days and a population in peril. Despite such apocalyptic fare, Murder by Death clearly has a long life ahead of them. Whitmore’s latest, Kilonova, is equally auspicious as a set of songs written by others—Bad Religion, Captain Beefheart and Bill Withers, among them—but conveyed with a somber austerity that recalls the moss-draped surroundings of William Faulkner, Harper Lee and Flannery O’Connor. Whitmore’s combination of folk, blues and Americana reflects the rural environs where he resides, on the same working Iowa farm where he was raised. Consequently, these two acts complement each other, even with their frayed edges and taut sonic trappings. Murder by Death and William Elliott Whitmore traffic in the sound of intrigue, circumspection and dark insight—perhaps a reflection of the unsettled circumstances that loom large over all of us. (Lee Zimmerman) Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, 8 p.m., $20 presale; $25 day of show, 21+, metromusichall.com

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Riksha (Liquid Joe’s) Houndmouth + Family of the Year (The Commonwealth Room) see p. 46 Israel Vibration + Roots Ridic + Smiling Souls (Metro Music Hall) John Flanders (The Bayou) The Kap Bros Band (Brewskis) L.O.L. (Club 90) The Marcus King Band + Bishop Gunn (The Commonwealth Room) Mountain Boogaloo (Gracie’s) Nathan Spenser (HandleBar) Ol’ Fashion Depot (Garage on Beck) Rail Town (Outlaw Saloon) RVVRS + Paul McDonald (Kilby Court) Sanon Runyon (The Aerie Lounge at Snowbird) Scott Foster (Lake Effect) Sean Jones Quartet (Val. A Browning Center) Shua Mikesell (Harp and Hound) Sleepy Passenger + Uncle Reno + David Moon (Urban Lounge) see p. 45

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On a recent Tuesday afternoon, RoHa Brewing Project provided that rarest of atmospheres for a modern drinking establishment: near silence. In need of a hoppy happy hour, however, along with relief from an auto repair bill that just destroyed my finances for the rest of 2018, I was thrilled to find bartender and manager Kaelin Pearce playing chess with a couple of off-duty RoHa brewery employees. Discussing the week’s canning schedule, Kaelin shifted the conversation to his upcoming trip to Hawaii, debating wave heights and rip current threats along with the forecast for fishing, tanning and drinking piña coladas. Such no-nonsense talk fits RoHa’s aesthetic personality: gray stools, stainless-steel bar and a few black-and-white brewing diagrams on the walls. Across the small tasting room hangs several competition medals, evidence of RoHa’s fast rise to the top of the crowded local brewery scene; the one big pop of color in the room is a “Buy a Friend a Beer” bulletin board overflowing with bright Post-It notes, bestowing one pint on a lucky recipient. As a newbie, I paid full price, but the Freshies Wet Hopped Extra Pale Ale was well worth it—I wanted to branch out and try RoHa’s Three Deep American Ale, their Thursday IPA and the guest brew, a Denali Kölsch from Fisher, but the Freshies kept me hooked. As did the conversation, once a businessman whose office is next door rocked up to RoHa’s bar and started detailing the ins and outs of the local chop shop and the beauty of September weather in Utah. The visitor raved about his early morning hot tub dip (“I saw three shooting stars before I came to work!”) while Kaelin daydreamed about Kauai, but we all departed at the same time with an afternoon buzz and a little wanderlust in our hearts. Not bad for a quiet happy hour. (Nick McGregor) RoHa Brewing Project, 30 E. Kensington Ave., 385-2278982, rohabrewing.com

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No math is involved. The grid has numbers, but nothing has to add up to anything else. Solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. Solving time is typically 10 to 30 minutes, depending on your skill and experience.

Complete the grid so that each row, column, diagonal and 3x3 square contain all of the numbers 1 to 9.

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1. What old couches tend to do 2. Egg: Prefix 3. Mom, dad and the kids: Abbr.

4. Country singer McGraw 5. Juice ____ 6. Most common U.S. surname 7. Big name in skin care 8. Not be straight 9. Have more stripes than 10. Before 11. “____ a stinker?” (Bugs Bunny catchphrase) 12. Was fierce, as a storm 13. ____ park

47. Like a rat’s eyes 48. Listless feeling 52. Playboy founder, informally 53. “The plot thickens!”

54. Cracklin’ ____ Bran 55. Fashion designer Anna 56. 2010 hit Broadway musical with the song “Sparklejollytwinklejingley”

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18. Move like a hummingbird 21. Joe of “GoodFellas” 22. Farewells in Florence 23. Eyebrow’s shape, roughly 24. Instrument in Vermeer’s “The Music Lesson” 25. Pulls a yard prank on, briefly 26. “I’m with ____” 29. B&O and others: Abbr.

30. Time being 32. Experts 33. Agenda particular 35. 1988 Dennis Quaid/Meg Ryan film 36. Mess up 38. Register at the hotel 39. Exchange between pen pals?

40. Gangster 41. Embrace fully 43. Pre-calc course 44. Yells “Heads up!” at 45. Poet who wrote “This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper” 46. Prefix with linear

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6. TV show with the most Primetime Emmy noms 9. Pictures that can make you dizzy 14. Be of use 15. Roman 1,002 16. ____ Heep (Dickens character) 17. “Thumb! Index! Middle! Ring! Pinkie!”

19. Trace of color 20. Berlin’s ____ Nationalgalerie 21. President ____ (acting head) 22. “Thumb!”

25. Craving 27. Fails to be 28. “Index! Middle!”

29. “Index! Pinkie!”

31. “No seats left” letters at a theater 32. “The Little ____ Once Knew” (1965 Beach Boys hit) 34. Pablo Neruda composition 37. With 40-Across, “Index! Middle!

Ring!”

40. See 37-Across 42. Fill a position 43. Vehicle clearing a no-parking zone 44. “Index!”

49. Smart ____ (wise guys) 50. It’s an OK city 51. Lake of “Hairspray” 52. “Thumb! Pinkie!”

57. Away from the office 58. U.R.I. URL ending 59. Ryder rival 60. Possible cause of a swelling 61. “By the way ...”

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SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SALT LAKE DEPT. OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH. CASE NO. 189910644, JUDGE ROBERT FAUST. TITANIUM FUNDS LLC, PLAINTIFF V. MATHEW CASTRO, DEFENDANT. THE STATE OF UTAH TO MATHEW CASTRO: 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, UT 84114, and you must mail or deliver a copy to plaintiff’s attorney J. Benson Miller at 3081 South State Street – 2nd Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84115. 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 $7,101.64.

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SALT LAKE DEPT. OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH. CASE NO. 189908238, JUDGE ROBERT FAUST. TITANIUM FUNDS LLC, PLAINTIFF V. BRITTNIE K COLEMAN, DEFENDANT. THE STATE OF UTAH TO BRITTNIE K COLEMAN: 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, UT 84114, and you must mail or deliver a copy to plaintiff’s attorney J. Benson Miller at 3081 South State Street – 2nd Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84115. 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 $9,500.00.

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SALT LAKE DEPT. OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH. CASE NO. 189912048, JUDGE ROBERT FAUST. TITANIUM FUNDS LLC, PLAINTIFF V. CASEY RON CHRISTENSEN, DEFENDANT. THE STATE OF UTAH TO CASEY RON CHRISTENSEN: 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, UT 84114, and you must mail or deliver a copy to plaintiff’s attorney J. Benson Miller at 3081 South State Street – 2nd Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84115. 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 $8,268.32.

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SALT LAKE DEPT. OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH. CASE NO. 189911028, JUDGE ROBERT FAUST. TITANIUM FUNDS LLC, PLAINTIFF V. AMBER MARIE JORGENSEN and JON JORGENSEN, DEFENDANTS. THE STATE OF UTAH TO AMBER MARIE JORGENSEN and JON JORGENSEN: 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, UT 84114, and you must mail or deliver a copy to plaintiff’s attorney J. Benson Miller at 3081 South State Street – 2nd Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84115. 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 $9,500.00.

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SALT LAKE DEPT. OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH. CASE NO. 189908228, JUDGE ROBERT FAUST. TITANIUM FUNDS LLC, PLAINTIFF V. GREGORY S LARSEN, DEFENDANT. THE STATE OF UTAH TO GREGORY S LARSEN: 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, UT 84114,and you must mail or deliver a copy to plaintiff’s attorney J. Benson Miller at 3081 South State Street – 2nd Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84115. 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 $9,500.00.

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SALT LAKE DEPT. OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH. CASE NO. 189908217, JUDGE ROBERT FAUST. TITANIUM FUNDS LLC, PLAINTIFF V. TROY MCTEER, DEFENDANT. THE STATE OF UTAH TO TROY MCTEER: 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, UT 84114, and you must mail or deliver a copy to plaintiff’s attorney J. Benson Miller at 3081 South State Street – 2nd Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84115. 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 $3,485.64.

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SALT LAKE DEPT. OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH. CASE NO. 189904743, JUDGE ROBERT FAUST. TITANIUM FUNDS LLC, PLAINTIFF V. JOSH MILLER, DEFENDANT. THE STATE OF UTAH TO JOSH MILLER: 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, UT 84114, and you must mail or deliver a copy to plaintiff’s attorney J. Benson Miller at 3081 South State Street – 2nd Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84115. 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 $3,184.57.

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SALT LAKE DEPT. OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH. CASE NO. 189909035, JUDGE ROBERT FAUST. TITANIUM FUNDS LLC, PLAINTIFF V. WYATT NICHOLS CHRISTENSEN, DEFENDANT. THE STATE OF UTAH TO WYATT NICHOLS CHRISTENSEN: 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, UT 84114, and you must mail or deliver a copy to plaintiff’s attorney J. Benson Miller at 3081 South State Street – 2nd Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84115. 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 $9,500.00.

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SALT LAKE DEPT. OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH. CASE NO. 189910912, JUDGE ROBERT FAUST. TITANIUM FUNDS LLC, PLAINTIFF V. JENNIFER WEBB, DEFENDANT. THE STATE OF UTAH TO JENNIFER WEBB: 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, UT 84114, and you must mail or deliver a copy to plaintiff’s attorney J. Benson Miller at 3081 South State Street – 2nd Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84115. 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 $2,761.32.

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SALT LAKE DEPT. OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH. CASE NO. 189911153, JUDGE ROBERT FAUST. TITANIUM FUNDS LLC, PLAINTIFF V. ERIN ROWLEY TURNER, DEFENDANT. THE STATE OF UTAH TO ERIN ROWLEY TURNER: 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, UT 84114, and you must mail or deliver a copy to plaintiff’s attorney J. Benson Miller at 3081 South State Street – 2nd Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84115. 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 $7,583.90.

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SALT LAKE DEPT. OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH. CASE NO. 189911152, JUDGE ROBERT FAUST. TITANIUM FUNDS LLC, PLAINTIFF V. FREDRICK MCWILLIAMS, DEFENDANT. THE STATE OF UTAH TO FREDRICK MCWILLIAMS: 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, UT 84114, and you must mail or deliver a copy to plaintiff’s attorney J. Benson Miller at 3081 South State Street – 2nd Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84115. 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 $8,562.49.

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SALT LAKE DEPT. OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH. CASE NO. 189908903, JUDGE ROBERT FAUST. TITANIUM FUNDS LLC, PLAINTIFF V. IVONNE WORKMAN, DEFENDANT. THE STATE OF UTAH TO IVONNE WORKMAN: 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, UT 84114, and you must mail or deliver a copy to plaintiff’s attorney J. Benson Miller at 3081 South State Street – 2nd Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84115. 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 $9,679.66.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your keynote is the Japanese word shizuka. According to photographer Masao Yamamoto, it means “cleansed, pure, clear and untainted.” One of his artistic practices is to wander around forests looking in the soil for “treasures” that emanate shizuka. So in his definition, the term isn’t about being scrubbed or sanitized. Rather, he’s interested in pristine natural phenomena that are unspoiled by civilization. He regards them as food for his soul. I mention this, Virgo, because now is an excellent time for you to get big doses of people and places and things that are cleansed, pure, clear and untainted.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran blogger Ana-Sofia Cardelle writes candidly about her relationship with herself. She keeps us up to date with the evershifting self-images that float through her awareness. Here’s one of her bulletins: “Stage 1. Me: I’m the cutest thing in the world. Stage 2. Me, two seconds later: no, I’m a freaking goblin.

Stage 3. Me, two seconds after that: I’m the cutest goblin in the world.” I’m guessing that many of you Libras have reached the end of your own personal version of Stage 2. You’ve either already slipped into Stage 3, or soon will. No later than Oct. 1, you’ll be preparing to glide back into Stage 1 again.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “There’s no such thing as love,” said Scorpio painter Pablo Picasso, “there are only proofs of love.” I’m tempted to believe that’s true, especially as I contemplate the current chapter of your life story. The evidence seems clear: you will thrive by engaging in practical demonstrations of how much you care. You’ll be wise to tangibly help and support and encourage and inspire everyone and everything you love. To do so will make you eligible for blessings that are, as of this moment, still hidden or unavailable.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Author Anne Carson describes part of her creative process in this way: “Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down.

It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.” I suspect you might be able to benefit from using a comparable trick in the coming days. That’s why you should monitor any odd dreams, seemingly irrational impulses or weird fantasies that arise in you. Although they might not be of any practical value in themselves, they could spur a train of thought that leads you to interesting breakthroughs.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The idea of liberation through the suppression of desire is the greatest foolishness ever conceived by the human mind,” wrote philosopher E. M. Cioran. I agree that trying to deny or stifle or ignore our desires can’t emancipate us. In fact, I’m inclined to believe that freedom is only possible if we celebrate and honor our desires, marvel at their enigmas, and respect their power.

Only then can we hope to refine them. Only then can we craft them into beautiful, useful forces that serve us rather than confuse and undermine us. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to engage in this spiritual practice, Taurus.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck,” the Dalai Lama says. Ain’t that the truth! When I was 22 years old, there were two different women I desperately yearned for as if they were the Muse Queens of Heaven who would transform me into a great artist and quench my infinite passion. Fortunately, they both rejected me. They decisively set me free of my bondage to them. Later, when I was older and wiser, I realized that blending my fortunes with either of them would have led me away from my true destiny. I got lucky! In a similar but less melodramatic way, Gemini, I suspect CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): One day in October 1926, author Virginia Woolf inscribed in her you will also get lucky sometime soon. diary, “I am the usual battlefield of emotions.” It was a complaint, but also a brag. In fact, she drew on this constant turmoil to fuel CANCER (June 21-July 22): her substantial output of creative writing. But the fact is that not Don’ts for Boys or Errors of Conduct Corrected was an advice book all of us thrive on such ongoing uproar. As perversely glamorous for boys published in 1902. Among many other strictures and and appealing as it might seem to certain people, many of us can warnings, it offered this advice: “Don’t giggle. For the love of do fine without it. According to my analysis, that will be true for decency, never giggle.” There was additional counsel in the you in the coming weeks. If you have a diary, you might justifiably same vein: “Don’t be noisy. The guffaw evinces less enjoyment write, “Hallelujah! I am not a battlefield of emotions right now!” than the quiet smile.” Another exhortation: “Don’t tease. Be witty, but impersonal.” In accordance with astrological omens, I hereby proclaim that all those instructions are utterly wrong for AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Anthropologist Margaret Mead had definite ideas about “the you right now. To sweetly align yourself with cosmic rhythms, ways to get insight.” She named them as follows: “to study you should giggle and guffaw and tease freely. If you’re witty— infants; to study animals; to study indigenous people; to be and I hope you will be—it’ll serve you well to be affectionate psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; and personable. to have a psychotic episode and get over it.” I have my own list of ways to spur insight and inspiration, which includes: to do walk- LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): ing meditations in the woods on a regular basis, no matter what “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the the weather; to engage in long, slow sex with a person you love; meaningful,” writes designer John Maeda. “The ability to simto spend a few hours reviewing in detail your entire life history; plify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary to dance to music you adore for as long as you can before you col- may speak up,” artist Hans Hofmann says. “Simplicity strips lapse from delighted exhaustion. What about you, Aquarius? away the superfluous to reveal the essence,” declares a blogger What are your reliable ways to get insight? I suggest you engage named Cheo. I hope these quotes provide you with helpful pointin some of them, and also discover a new one. You’re in the Flood ers, Leo. You now have the opportunity to cultivate a masterful version of simplicity. of Radical Fresh Insights Phase of your astrological cycle.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): According to a Pew Research Study, nearly 75 percent of Americans say they talk to God, but only 30 percent get a reply. I’m guessing the latter figure will rise dramatically for Sagittarian Americans in the next three weeks, however. Why? Because the astrological indicators suggest that authorities of all kinds will be more responsive than usual to Sagittarians of all nationalities. Help from higher powers is likely to be both more palpable and more forthcoming. Any communications you initiate with honchos, directors and leaders have a better-thannormal chance of being well-received.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Stanley Kubrick made masterful films, but most of them bore me. I regard John Ashbery as a clever and innovative poet, but I’ve never been excited by his work. As for painter Mark Rothko, I recognize his talent and intelligence, but his art leaves me empty. The music of Nora Jones is pretty and technically impeccable, but it doesn’t move me. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I invite you to make the kinds of fine distinctions I’m describing here. It will be important for you to be faithful to your subjective responses to things, even as you maintain an objective perspective about them and treat them with respect.

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The only posts I make on Instagram are of odd things I find when listing or showing properties. Most of the shots are of retro Barbie dream kitchens from the 1960s, plaid shag carpet or wall paper archeology. We live in a world of trends, where fast fashion and fast designs come and go in a heartbeat.

I have no clue how anyone can keep up with all the social media, blogs, photos, videos and television dedicated completely to home décor trends. What I do know is that I see a lot of interiors in my line of work. To steal from the “Things That Must Go” segment on Radio From Hell on X96, here’s my list: n Bare bulbs and harsh light fixtures.

If you see it hanging at Home Depot in the lighting aisle, it’s already passé. Instead, invest in a classic chandelier. n Dark wood and Italian-style décor.

Tuscan tiles are meant for Italy—just ask my friend Michelle, who owns Tile for Less.

She might start gagging at the thought of anyone replacing classic marble or hardwood for a dusty stone castle look. n Wallpaper borders at the tops of walls or at chair level. No and no. n Mad Men brought back the “Mid-Mod” phenom. The show went off the air three years ago, and as far as trends go, the avocado greens and harvest golds are again outdated. n Antlers and mason jars. I’m not sure either item will go away as Utahns are avid hunters and home canners. Personally, I would gasp if someone threw a good Mason jar in the glass recycling, because I could store a batch of jam in it. n Sponge-painted or stenciled walls.

Sponge walls usually look like your friend’s kids had a party in your home without your permission. Most people can’t stencil straight or well enough to make repetitive designs look good. DIY don’t. n Dried flower arrangements and wreaths. It is bad feng shui to have dead plants in your living space. They get dusty and break apart as they age. Silk plants can look good in the right spot, but they also get dusty and faded. n Cottage-cheese/popcorn ceilings. This spray on crap originally was made from asbestos. But in 1978 when asbestos was banned from inside homes, the manufacturers went to a paper or Styrofoam material. Oh, and sparkles cost more to add after the spraying was complete! If your ceiling is not asbestos, you can remove that crap by wetting it and scraping it clean. If it is asbestos (you can have it tested locally for cheap), you can legally remove it yourself.

We are the only state left in the nation where a homeowner can do the job themselves (albeit if they abide by the disposal rules). n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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Unusual Hobby Social media have given us the dubious opportunity to document all manner of celebratory, mournful, hilarious and contemplative events. And so they have opened the door to fame for “Paul Flart” (real name: Doug), a 31-year-old hospital security guard who took to Instagram in March to share with the world his “sphincter sirens.” Flart spent a lot of time sitting around at the front desk with nothing to do, but, he noticed, “The lobby has really great acoustics, and naturally, we all fart. One day I ripped a rather nice one and got really good sound from it, so the next time it happened I recorded it and sent it to my group chat.” Those lucky friends encouraged him to go viral and helped him choose his Insta handle, Paul Flart. Today, he’s racked up more than 20,000 followers, according to Vice. Unfortunately, hospital management isn’t among them, and on Aug. 23, Flart was fired from his job. But he’s not deflated; he plans to expand his reach: “We can do Paul Flart on vacation, you know, throw in like a Hawaiian shirt and a hat ... and then just fart around Florida.”

n Jeffrey Tomerlin, 45, was charged with assault on Aug. 19 after he hurled a soft, fluffy, edible weapon at his ex-girlfriend.

When Tomerlin saw his ex in a car with her new boyfriend, he walked up to her window and threw a biscuit at her face. He also charged the car, banging on it and saying he would kill them, reported WKRN, earning additional charges of public intoxication and vandalism. It was not clear whether the biscuit damaged the ex-girlfriend’s face.

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Mohamad Zayid Abdihdy, 24, declared that he’s “going back to hookah” after a fiery incident on Aug. 25 involving his e-cigarette. The cellphone store worker was in an HDTV Outlet store in Anaheim, Calif., buying a new television when the smoking device exploded in his pants pocket. “The gentleman, he is running ... and he is screaming and yelling,” store manager Antelmolare Guzman told NBC4. “Apparently, all of his right leg was completely burnt all the way down. Part of his private parts were also kind of affected.” While Abdihdy ran to the restroom to see to his burns, Guzman put out the still-flaming e-cig on the store’s floor. Abdihdy, who did not go to the hospital, said he still can’t walk on his leg.

The Meth Made Me Do It Mason Tackett of Floyd County, Ky., told WYMT that neighbors called him on Aug. 26 to say his cousin, Phillip Hagans, was carrying items out of Tackett’s house. When Tackett returned home, he said, “It looked like he was packing up for a yard sale when he come out.” Hagans was “lying, throwing his hands, saying stuff like, ‘I didn’t do it. I didn’t do it.’ ... He did pull a gun on me,” Tackett said. But what he really couldn’t understand was Hagans’ choice of items to steal: a cheese grater, an empty Lysol bottle and soap.

“Who steals a cheese grater?” Tackett asked. “He stole my soap.

Who steals soap? ... Must have been a bad batch (of methamphetamine) around here ’cause Floyd County has gone crazy in the last four days.” Hagans was charged with receiving stolen property and being a convicted felon with a firearm.

Sorry You Missed It At least one competitor dressed up as Donald Trump at the World Gravy Wrestling Championships in Lancashire, England, on Aug. 27. As grapplers slipped and slid in the slimy mess, even the referee got toppled a few times. United Press International reported that both men and women participated to support the East Lancashire Hospice.

Extreme Measures A man named Tang from Sichuan Province, China, promised his girlfriend, Yang, that he would buy an expensive luxury car for her. The only problem was that he didn’t have the money. So he cooked up a scheme, inviting Yang and her brothers to the Chengdu car dealership on Aug. 16, where he had allegedly put down a 10,000 yuan payment. Tang asked the group to wait there while he went to get the cash, but instead, according to Shanghaiist, he went to a supermarket and bought a fruit knife.

Outside, he found a secluded spot and cut up his own arms, then called Yang and said he had been robbed at knifepoint of the 750,000 yuan he had supposedly withdrawn for the car. While her brothers took Tang to the hospital, Yang waited for police, who eventually excised the story from Tang. He was sentenced to 10 days in jail and a 500 yuan fine.

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Florida. Says It All On Aug. 20, the Miami Herald endorsed Republican Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, who was running to replace Rep. Ileana RosLehtinen to represent a district that includes parts of Miami and Miami Beach. (She lost her primary bid on Aug. 28.) Rodriguez Aguilera has been a city official and a business executive, the Herald noted, but conceded, “We realize that Rodriguez Aguilera is an unusual candidate.” Before she was a candidate, Rodriguez

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Bright Idea As his trial got underway on Aug. 22, Chinese University of Hong Kong associate professor Khaw Kim-sun pleaded not guilty to a breathtaking murder plot. Prosecutors say that in 2015, Khaw filled a yoga ball with carbon monoxide, then left it in the trunk of his wife’s car, where it slowly leaked the noxious gas and killed his wife and their 16-year-old daughter. The BBC reported that Khaw was angry because his wife wouldn’t divorce him so that he could be with a student with whom he was having an affair.

When colleagues caught Khaw filling the ball, he said he was going to use it to kill rabbits, but in his statement to police, he said the gas was to kill rats in his home. He is charged with two counts of murder.

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Government in Action The public works department in San Francisco gets, on average, 65 calls every day with complaints about feces on the sidewalk.

Public works director Mohammed Nuru and the city’s mayor, London Breed, put their heads together and came up with a solution: the Poop Patrol. In mid-September, five public works employees with a steam cleaner will begin scouring fecal “hot spots,” such as the Civic Center, Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods, during the afternoons to clean up what nature has left behind. (Another team also cleans overnight.) Officials told the San Francisco Chronicle that the waste comes from dogs and people, and the mayor recently allotted about $1 million for new public restrooms. “I just want the city to be clean,” Breed said, “and I want to make sure we’re providing the resources so that it can be.”

Aguilera appeared on Spanish-language television programs to talk about her experience of being abducted by aliens when she was 7 years old. She said three beings—two women and a man who reminded her of Jesus Christ—spoke to her “telepathically” and took her aboard their spaceship. Inside, she saw “round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship,” and she said she has communicated with them several times since then. However, editorial page editor Nancy Ancrum didn’t think Rodriguez Aguilera’s beliefs or past experiences compromised her as an effective public servant. “Here’s why we chose her: She’s not crazy,” Ancrum told The Washington Post. “I don’t think we went off the rails here.”

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