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CONSERVATION S I S I R C Is the country about to lose its best preservation program?

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CWCONTENTS COVER STORY CONSERVATION DECIMATED

For more than 50 years, the Land and Water Conservation Fund has been a beacon of public lands. That could soon change.

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TARA LOHAN

Cover story, p. 15 Lohan’s investigative writing focuses on the intersections of energy, water and climate.

She’s also the editor of two books on the global water crisis whose work has been published by The Nation, The American Prospect, High Country News, Grist, Pacific Standard and others.

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I keep looking for monarch caterpillars every time I see milkweed. No luck yet.

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Very informative! I’ve added tons of milkweed to my garden thanks to the help from [conservationist] Rachel Taylor.

JENNIFER CAREY Via cityweekly.net

Great article. Hoping it inspires more people to plant milkweed.

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Everyone should plant milkweed. Unless you’re renting.

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Awesome work, Shae! Quite an achievement—the painting and how you live your life.

Keep on inspiring.

BILLY HENSLER

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I spare a big patch of milkweed in my Cottonwood Heights neighborhood just for monarchs. We see very few. Sad.

The city needs more good art, more murals!

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Opinion, Sept. 6, “Two Funerals”

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memorial for our Blue Water Naval personnel from [the] Vietnam-era who still are not covered for Agent Orange and other chemicals our dear Uncle used.

P.S.: Re memorials to [John] McCain, I feel the Richard Russell name should be removed from the Senate office building and it can be called what it used to be called: “the OLD S.O.B.” That is a fitting name for McCain and others, don’t you think?

Dear Mr. Robinson, Hmm, it’s odd to write, “Mr. Robinson” with the Paul Simon song about the Mrs. cursing through my noggin.

OK, I will comment later this coming week about your Opinion piece. I liked it, but I think the part about DT’s (President Goebbel’s) funeral needs work.

I mean, where are the golf carts with the Secret Service he charges us, the taxpayer, to use, etc.

I am also writing because you are a “Vietnam-era” assistant PIO. What unit? Where? I ask because a group of men I call my “Heart Brothers,” were in the PIO shop at Cu Chi, Vietnam, when I was there. They were with the 25ID; we are still in touch.

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Online news post, Sept.

6, Medical cannabis proponents allege Drug Safe Utah is misleading voters

Does anyone know who funds Drug Safe Utah?

MEL P. STONE Via Facebook

The Church of Half-truths of Latter-day Saints.

JAMES FERRIN Via Facebook

When you don’t have anything valid, just make shit up. If they don’t like it, call them a snowflake.

CLINTON REID Via Facebook

Stoners will be stoners.

MICHAEL JAMES STONE Via Facebook

Ignorant people will be ignorant people.

DYLAN DEAN TAFT Via Facebook

Online news post, Sept. 7, Religious leaders gather at the Capitol to pray for Utahns contemplating suicide

“Thoughts and prayers” are just the act of pretending to care without actually doing anything.

LYNN BAKER Via Facebook

Yeah, fuck opening churches to the homeless and supporting drug addicts and the mentally ill. Let’s pray; that will help.

DEREK PETERSON Via Facebook

Actions speak louder than glorified nothing.

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human-tampered meat, then OK. To all the hunters that do not fall in this category—and you hunt for fun—may you someday be hunted yourself for the kill.

ENEIX TAYLOR Via Facebook

Agreed. This might be a population-control method.

PEARY ANDY Via Facebook

That’s not good. Is it that tough to watch your kids and dogs?

The idea is to preserve wildlife not shoot it for fun! Leave wildlife alone. Who’s the intruder in their habitat?

CHERYL LANGSTON Via Facebook Vile!

SHELLEY NYMAN

Via Twitter Such BS.

I seriously thought this was an Onion headline.

STEVEN J. AULT

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Heck, just send ’em on down to Club 90, amirite?

JESSICA SHEEHAN

News, Aug. 30, “On the Prowl” and Aug. 31, “Far from Purrfect” follow-up

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GUEST

OPINION On Puppies and Sneakers

So much for gridlock. On Sept. 12, the U.S. House of Representatives proved that its members can, in fact, reach across the aisle to find common ground. On taxes?

Spending? Foreign policy? Well, no. They agreed, on a voice vote, that Fido shouldn’t be on your dinner menu.

“The Dog and Cat Meat Trade Prohibition Act of 2018” is exactly what it sounds like: A bill “to prohibit the slaughter of dogs and cats for human consumption.”

What’s up? Is there some pressing public health concern at stake? Is America in the throes of an epidemic of stolen pets ending up in stew pots?

Well, no. According to the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., it’s all about “how beloved these animals are for most Americans.” They “provide love and companionship to millions of people,” he says.

In other words, it’s all about making Buchanan and the bill’s co-sponsor, Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., plus a bunch of other politicians, look warm, fuzzy and caring to the vast majority of Americans whose dinner plans don’t include Manx Cordon Bleu and pulled Shih Tzu sandwiches.

I’m one of those people. I like dogs (I have two) and tolerate cats (my wife and kids have four). That makes it pretty simple for me. I don’t want to eat dog or cat … so I don’t.

As for those who do want to eat cat and dog, well, in what universe is that any of my business—or, more to the point, Congress’?

BY THOMAS L. KNAPP There are countries on earth where the slaughter and consumption of certain animals is officially discouraged or even illegal. Two that come to mind are beef (India) and pork (Muslim-majority countries and Israel). My guess is that most Americans think that’s pretty crazy. And yet Congress is trying to make Americans follow suit.

Under House rules, any member can force a counted vote, and one-fifth of the members can compel a recorded vote. That this bill passed on a voice vote means that not one, let alone 87, out of 435 representatives objected to passing the equivalent of Sharia or Kosher law right here in America. And it wasn’t even based on any kind of coherent religious/philosophical argument, just “oooh … they’re so cuuuuuuuute.”

And that’s it for this installment of “why we’re better off when Congress doesn’t get anything done than when it does.”

Speaking of outrage, the latest round of American boycott/buycott enthusiasm centers on Nike’s new marketing campaign, which features former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick—the central figure of the “take a knee” protest movement in the National Football League and elsewhere.

Angry (and not very smart) anti-Kaepernick Nike customers are publicly burning their expensive Nike shoes and sharing the videos on social media as they vow to never buy the brand again. But pro-Kaepernick customers (and the apathetic) have boosted the brand’s sales and driven its stock to an all-time high.

All well and good. One nice thing about markets is that they’re hyper-democracies in which we all get to vote with our patronage, every day and with every purchase.

Unfortunately, some people think they’re entitled to vote with other people’s dollars. Marshall Fisher, head of

Mississippi’s Department of Public Safety, is one.

Fisher recently announced that the state police he supervises no longer will buy Nike products, telling the Associated Press that, “I will not support vendors who do not support law enforcement and our military.”

The state’s governor, Phil Bryant, defends Fisher, slamming Nike as “a company that pays an individual who has slandered our fine men and women in law enforcement.”

OK, so this might be something of an empty gesture.

Does the Mississippi Highway Patrol even buy athletic shoes and apparel? If so, such purchases hopefully constitute a drop in the bucket of the department’s annual budget.

On the other hand, if Commissioner Fisher and Gov. Bryant want to make political statements with their purchases, they should cover the costs out of their own pockets instead of sticking Mississippi’s taxpayers with the check.

Fisher and Bryant are virtue signaling. They’re chasing political support from “law and order” voters and the law-enforcement lobby. Maybe that’s good politics. I have a couple of questions, though: If the quality of a shoe makes a life-or-death difference in a dicey situation a Mississippi Highway Patrol officer encounters, and if Nike’s offering was the best for that incident, what words of comfort will Fisher and Bryant offer the loved ones of a dead trooper who was wearing the inferior footwear?

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HITS&MISSES

BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

Chasing Tail

It’s one thing to realize that Utahns would rather kiss the butt of their gun than their spouse. It’s another to imagine wildlife trophy heads replacing white Jesus paintings above the mantle. Yes, Utah is all about guns. While we’re not yet yearning for The Purge, there’s just something delightsome about decapitating wild animals. The Hill recently noted escalating frustration among big-game trophy hunters that their guy in the White House has informally put a hold on elephant hunting. Back in Utah, the argument from trophy hunters is about “managing” the wildlife population, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. Sound familiar? You might remember the president blaming the nation’s wildfire epidemic on a lack of tree management. In fact, “management” might be the new euphemism for “harvesting” or “thinning the herd.” But it’s really about trophies.

Nothing to See Here

Tired of hearing about the Inland Port? Just don’t worry your little head about the wetlands, the pollution and the traffic.

This will be the economic deliverance Utah has been waiting for—at least since we sent the outdoor retailers packing. But let’s talk ethics—that moral principle that no longer applies to public officials. Consider Michael Jensen, the Salt Lake County councilman who faced allegations of nepotism and misuse of public funds when he was county fire chief. The Salt Lake Tribune said Jensen worked in a culture of “loyalty over ethics.” Now there are calls for him to resign from the Utah Inland Port Authority. Jensen knows best, however. There’s no need for the public to know what the Agency’s doing, he ’splained to the Deseret News. It’s just a bunch of guys getting together over a glass of milk. They just don’t want you to know when they spill it.

Partisan Education

Aren’t we divided enough?

Politicians have long sought to turn the Utah Board of Education into a partisan body. Frankly, no one is sure why. Already the state board has a number of kooky members, foremost among them is Lisa Cummins. But we’ll venture to say most voters wouldn’t be able to name even one of the 15 members.

What do they do? They argue about the Common Core, musicals, God in schools and other weighty subjects. The Utah Supreme Court is now figuring out if partisan school-board elections are constitutional.

The Sutherland Institute seems to think we should have a dual election path—just to further confuse things. The state board is already highly conservative and so you have to wonder why all the controversy. Or perhaps, as some lawmakers suggest, why don’t we just get rid of it?

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On the Mend Give your busted possessions new life— and add wisdom to your own—at a Fix-It Clinic.

BY KELAN LYONS klyons@cityweekly.net @kelan_lyons

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t was a crowded Saturday at the Patagonia outlet in Sugar House, and two children no older than 10 were ogling Megan Bracken as she fixed an aging Santa Claus doll that was supposed to say a phrase whenever its hand was squeezed.

“They were standing there tapping their toes, like I’m not doing it fast enough,” Bracken recalls of the first repair she did on her own as a volunteer at a Fix-It Clinic. “I think it was sentimental.”

As the kids’ father watched and absorbed her technique, Bracken unscrewed the battery pack on Santa’s back and turned the toy inside out so she could see the button on its palm.

It was clear it had been pressed too hard. She repositioned the plastic rings around the old knob, then re-stuffed the doll and attached the battery box.

She pressed Santa’s hand and got a splash of holiday cheer.

“The spirit of Christmas is in your heart!”

It was January.

Since that successful operation, Bracken has helped repair vacuums, blenders and electronic items at four Fix-It Clinics. The free sessions encourage people to do more than just drop off their faulty appliances or busted bicycle chains and pick them up once they’re mended. Instead, the fixers—called “coaches”—take apart damaged goods on the spot and teach the owners how to put them back together, imparting skills they can later employ should the items break again.

“The idea is to help you get to know your stuff better,” Utah Recycling Alliance Vice President Sarah Bateman says.

“These are pioneer skills we’re talking about. It’s a very Utah thing to fix our things and put new life back into them.”

The clinics service a variety of needs.

Fidgety kitchen mixers, powereddown sewing machines, wobbly legged chairs, offtrack zippers, ripped seams, glitchy phones and buggy laptops can all be overhauled by expert coaches.

“They’re like fix-it nerds, but they like to do what they do,” Bateman says. “We don’t guarantee everything’s going to be fixed, but we’ll give it a try.”

There have been a dozen Fix-It Clinics since the URA brought the program to

“I’m just happily following along as his apprentice,” Megan Bracken says of fellow Fix-It Clinic coach Dustin Caldwell.

Utah last year. In the next several weeks, there will be two more—one on Thursday, Sept. 27, at Weber State University from noon to 3 p.m., and one on Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Salt Lake County Library from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Next month’s clinic is the first at the county library. “Libraries have always been about knowledge, so we see this as a very practical way to impart that knowledge,” Tavin Stucki, spokesperson for the Salt Lake County Library, says. “This FixIt Clinic is an opportunity for us to take a repair manual we have in the branch or in our resources, and really personalize it to the community member who has a specific repair they need to work on.”

There will be repair stations for bicycles, fabrics, wood, small appliances and electronics at the library’s event, giving owners and hoarders alike a chance to save old items they don’t want to throw out and replace. Stucki suggests those who bring their own damaged objects should observe other fixes, too, and make themselves a handier homebody.

Bateman says the clinics are popular for children interested in engineering, science, technology and mathematics careers, and for older folks who miss the “good old days where we used to fix things up.”

Beyond education and nostalgia, FixIt Clinics have a higher purpose. “We are interested in any kind of programs that help work toward a zero-waste lifestyle,” Bateman says. Since 2017, more than 400 pounds of items have been repaired, put back to use and diverted from a landfill.

Bateman says this repurposing protects natural resources, saves people money and safeguards the environment, helping Utahns lead healthier lives.

The local efforts might help lower staggering worldwide statistics. According to a study published last year by the United Nations University, global e-waste equaled in weight to almost nine Great Pyramids of Giza, 4,500 Eiffel Towers, or 1.23 million fully loaded 18-wheel 40ton trucks—enough to form a line 17,500 miles long (the distance from New York to Bangkok and back).

Dustin Caldwell, another coach and Bracken’s partner at the clinic’s electronic stations, helps people embrace a greener lifestyle by teaching them the tools to perform their own repairs. “I love for people to feel empowered,” he says.

Growing up, Caldwell’s dad was a home-repair type. “Saturday was just a day for fixing things, and also installing new stuff,” Caldwell says, remembering remodeling a bathroom, restoring a car and using tools to build things on the weekends. “I didn’t know there was such a thing as a plumber or electrician or any of that stuff, because Dad fixed everything.”

His father died three years ago. Caldwell inherited his leather toolbox—an old kit at least 50 years old that Caldwell brings with him to every Fix-It Clinic. Pulling it out to mend people’s electronics brings back old memories. “It seemed like it had anything you could possibly need to fix anything in the world,” Caldwell says.

“It’s kind of like a magic box.”

Bracken has fond memories of her own father showing her how to put stereos back together after taking them apart, and of her grandmother sewing the dresses she wore to school dances and on Easter Sundays. “It’s kind of a do-it-yourself-er mentality that’s been instilled in me,” she says.

Bracken and Caldwell’s family roots make throwing things away anathema to the repair gurus. “Multiple times I’ve pulled things out of the trash and given it new life,” Bracken says.

Caldwell and Bracken met the day Bracken fixed the silent Santa. She hadn’t even gone to that clinic with the intention of fixing anyone else’s dilapidated mementos; she just wanted someone to re-strip her electroluminescent wire, re-solder a power cord and make her Vitamix blender work again. It was so crowded that day at Patagonia that people were cutting in front of her in line, so she struck up a conversation with someone from the URA. “They were like, ‘You seem to know what you’re talking about. Would you be interested in coaching?’” Bracken recalls.

She resigned herself to the long wait and took a seat next to Caldwell, helping restore someone else’s blender and a vacuum that a lucky cleaner had found in the trash. Eventually, after she saved St. Nick, Bracken asked Caldwell to take a look at her blender. He got it up and running, but to this day, it still isn’t performing at 100 percent.

Eight months later, Bracken and Caldwell are still working on the blender but have added other projects as well.

The coaches’ current task is figuring out what’s wrong with Bracken’s espresso machine. “Dustin and I have pulled it apart three times,” she says. “I refuse to let it go.”

Caldwell, whom Bracken calls a “master tinkerer,” is studying the machine’s circuit boards. “I hate seeing perfectly good stuff thrown away,” he says. “Just seems like a waste of resources.” CW

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ime is running out for one of the country’s most successful— and least known—conservation programs.

Signed into law in 1964 with the goal of protecting natural areas and cultural resources and increasing recreational opportunities, virtually every county in the United States has benefited from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. In its more than 50-year history, the fund has helped 42,000 projects across the country, ranging from wilderness areas and historic battlefields to local tennis courts and trails.

Fund proponents emphasize that it does not rely on taxpayer dollars. Nearly all monies come from revenue generated by offshore oil and gas leases on the Outer Continental Shelf. A small fraction comes from a tax on motorboat fuel and sales of surplus federal property.

“It’s a balance, if you will,” DeCoster says. “An asset-for-asset arrangement when you deplete one natural resource, then take some of those revenues and make sure the American people get something permanent back from that.”

But if the fund isn’t reauthorized, it could have both ecological and economic impacts affecting local, state and national parks, as well the outdoor industry—an economic driver in many communities, including Utah’s.

“It would be a threat to some of the major ways that people engage everyday with the outdoors and wildlife,” Mike Saccone, associate vice president for communications at the nonprofit National Wildlife Federation, says.

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Susan Zarekarizi tells City Weekly. Funds have ranged from zero dollars to as high as $3 million a year, most of which goes toward urban or state parks.

“It’s all based on where recreation is happening,” Zarekarizi says of where the funds are used. “It’s always what people want to do—usually hiking, camping and fishing are the Top 3.”

The Land and Water Conservation Fund originally was authorized for 25 years and then extended another 25.

When expiration loomed again in September 2015, Congress gave it a short three-year extension, which now is about to come to an end. If lawmakers

fail to reauthorize it before Sept. 30, the fund will immediately run dry and no longer dole out money, which in recent years has averaged about $450 million annually.

During his most recent budget request, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, a selfproclaimed “Teddy Roosevelt Republican,” proposed slashing that number to $8.1 million for the upcoming fiscal year, around one-fiftieth of the previous year’s allocation and less than 1 percent of its maximum $900 million allotment.

“I’ve long been a supporter of the [LWCF] program,” Zinke said. “It’s hard to justify taking in more land, when we haven’t addressed the maintenance problem of our current holdings.”

Pressed by Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., who called the proposed number “a pittance,” Zinke failed to clearly explain the dramatic reduction. “Public lands is a Western thing, truly is,” Sen. Tester said. “For people to really understand here how important this is, we’ve got to have an advocate in the administration—that’s you.”

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“It’s an amazingly unknown program for all that it has accomplished,” says Kathy DeCoster, director of federal affairs at the Trust for Public Land, a nonprofit that helps acquire and protect natural spaces.

While federal oversight of the program is provided by the National Park Service, in Utah, the program is administered through the State Parks and Recreation office. Although many might not be aware of it, the fund has paid for 450 projects in the state, totaling more than $48 million in assistance.

The state gets about $1.2 million a year from the grant, Program Coordinator

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A Legacy Worth Saving Even the program’s most ardent supporters have a hard time pointing out their favorite projects, because there are so many and they’re so varied.

The fund serves two main purposes. The first is to enable federal agencies such as the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service and Forest Service to acquire more public lands for recreation.

One of the big things these acquisitions accomplish is to secure “inholdings,” areas of privately held lands that are within or adjacent to federal public lands and have high conservation or recreation value. The fund is used to protect these areas from development when there’s a willing seller.

It’s helped to bolster projects across the country, including in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway in Maine, Everglades National Park and Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge in Florida, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Colorado and Northeast Utah’s Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area to name a few.

The second aspect is a matching-grant program that helps states enhance their recreation facilities and planning. Local recreational opportunities have gotten a big boost

from the fund, which helps support new hiking and biking trails, baseball and soccer fields, tennis courts and parks in urban communities and underserved neighborhoods.

“People think getting outdoors and engaging kids with nature always involves wilderness, when in fact, for the vast majority of families, it’s urban parks, trails, etc.—and those are the things that the Land and Water Conservation Fund supports,” Saccone says.

Since 1998, some funds also have gone to related federal programs, including the Forest Service’s Forest Legacy program, which helps to preserve lands through conservation easements and the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund of the Fish and Wildlife Service, which helps to protect vital habitat for critical wildlife.

It’s also helped acquire and protect areas of historical importance like the Women’s Rights National Historical Park in New York, the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Kansas and the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site in Georgia, as well as battlefields in Gettysburg and Vicksburg.

“The Flight 93 Memorial also was funded through the Land and Water Conservation Fund,” DeCoster says. “History doesn’t stop being made, and the fund is the premier source of funding for that kind of work.”

Although $435,000 in LWCF money has been put toward the Coldwater Forest Legacy Project in Northern Utah, conservation advocates say there is still a need for funds to complete the project.

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government.” Instead, it advised directing federal dollars to maintain existing federal public lands.

Surprisingly, the fund collects more money than it spends on conserva“Congress should allow the LWCF to expire and enable more state and local governtion. The Congressional Research Service reported last month that the ment and private control of America’s land and water,” advocated the foundation fund has accrued $40 billion in revenue since its inception, but only report. “Sunsetting the fund will result in more efficient and accountable $18.4 billion has been distributed. While the fund can accrue close land management, creating and preserving opportunities for economic to $1 billion annually, none of the money is disbursed until it’s apdevelopment, outdoor-recreation and environmental protection.” propriated by Congress, and lawmakers don’t have to appropriate Despite this opposition, environmental groups seem cautiously the entire amount. In recent years, about half has been approprioptimistic. While Saccone says he’s “reasonably confident” Conated and the rest reverts to the general Treasury. gress will act before the fund expires at the end of the month, it’s “Despite this history of underfunding, LWCF remains the prenot clear exactly how. mier federal program to conserve our nation’s land, water, hisIt’s possible Congress will punt again and only reauthorize toric and recreation heritage,” said a March 2018 letter from more the fund for a short period. than 200 members of Congress, which was sent to the chairman However, just last week, a House committee chaired by Bishand ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Interior, Enop approved a measure that would reauthorize the fund permavironment and Related Agencies. nently. It’s the first step of many in securing its future.

Since its creation, the fund always has had bipartisan support.

Conservation groups are pushing for as much certainty as When the act authorizing it was passed in 1964, only one member possible, with a goal of funding and permanent reauthorizaof each house voted against it, according to a report issued tion. Second best, would be a long-term extension—like anlast month by the Center on Western Priorities, a nonother 25 years—and a high level of dedicated revenue. partisan conservation organization.

“We’ve had pretty good appropriation numbers in In the five decades following, Americans have recent years, but they can come and go and are always embraced outdoor-recreation activities with gusto, based on the whims of members of Congress,” Asher which has meant big business. Boulder, Colo.-based says. trade group Outdoor Industry Association reports It’s unlikely that a stand-alone piece of legislathe outdoor-recreation economy rakes $887 billion tion would be passed at this point, but it could be in annual consumer spending, creates $124.5 billion slipped into another big legislative item that also in federal, state and local tax revenue and supports needs to be passed. And there’s one more avenue, 7.6 million jobs. which would be a potential “grand bargain,” SacThe Trust for Public Lands has shown the fund cone explains. The biggest win for conservation also is a good investment. The organization’s regroups would be a package that addresses three search found that every $1 invested in acquiring fedrelated issues—the Land and Water Conservaeral public lands generates $4 in economic value over tion Fund extension, funding for other wildlife the next decade. conservation issues and addressing funds needAnd the fund still has strong bipartisan support, ed to remedy the backlog of maintenance on pubwith more than 230 cosponsors to re-authorize legislalic lands and parks. tion in the House and substantial support in the Senate.

While that best-case scenario might not come “It boils down to a bit of a bottleneck in the House true, proponents still are pushing hard.

Natural Resources Committee, where the chairman “It is my sincere hope that we can reauthorize and some of the members don’t see the Land and Wathe Land and Conservation Fund before the end ter Conservation Fund as being as much of a positive of the month to give vital conservation projects as pretty much everyone else does,” DeCoster says. currently underway—and those in the planning “They control that agenda.” process—the certainty they need to carry out The committee’s chair is Republican Utah Congresstheir essential work,” Sen. Burr says. man Rob Bishop, who has a notorious record of voting Last year in Utah, only one city received funds against environmental issues. In 2015, he called the profrom the grant (the number of applicants usugram a “slush fund” for the Department of the Interior. ally ranges from three to five cities per year).

Conversely, one of its biggest champions has been Sen. With the help of Recreation/Zoo Arts and Parks Richard Burr, R-N.C., who has been placing holds on othtaxes collected from cities, Zarekarizi says funds er pieces of legislation, trying to rally his colleagues or from the grant are not as desperately needed stall other legislation until the committee takes action. statewide. There are also a number of “strings at“I’ve proposed numerous times this year that the tached” to the grant, she says, since the funds are Senate take up this issue to give it the fair considerfor projects in perpetuity. “We always caution ation that it deserves,” Burr says. “However, we’ve cities to be careful and to put [the money] on a been denied a vote, even while bending over backward park you would never convert, like your Central to accommodate my colleagues’ objections.”

Park, you would never convert that into a Burger Susan Zarekarizi, Jonathan Asher, senior representative of governKing or something.”

Utah’s LWCF program ment relations at the environmental nonprofit The However, Zarekarizi says she isn’t too worried coordinator Wilderness Society, says some lawmakers are opabout the grant’s future because of where the posed to the idea of the federal government increasing money originates—offshore oil and gas reserves— its landholdings. “Those voices, especially in the curgiven “those funds are always coming in.” rent administration where there is a big of a vacuum of leadership on land-conser“If we didn’t get funding renewed this year, we wouldn’t have a grant season for vation issues, have gained prominence,” he notes. cities to apply,” Zarekarizi concludes. “People worry, but it’s usually funded; it’s one In 2016, conservative think-tank the Heritage Foundation, published a report ar- of the feel-good projects for the feds.” CW guing that the Land and Water Conservation Fund should be retired, alleging that over the years it has been used to “grow the massive landholdings of the federal With information from Ray Howze. A version of this article originally appeared in The Revelator.

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THURSDAY 9/20 Jon Lovitz

It’s inevitable that comedian Jon Lovitz will be remembered for the four words that created a pop culture catch phrase: “Yeah! That’s the ticket!” It was a silly and superfluous saying, but it made Tommy Flanagan, the Pathological Liar, one of many characters Lovitz portrayed during his five-year stint on Saturday Night Live, so immediately memorable.

Not that Lovitz invented that line. Truth be told, he copped it from Humphrey Bogart. Still, Lovitz’s sarcastic sneer and his other unforgettable SNL characters earned him two Emmy nominations and make his portrayals of Master Thespian, Tonto, Mephistopheles, Michael Dukakis, Hanukkah Harry and Harvey Fierstein some of the show’s most enduring moments from 1985 until 1990.

During SNL’s 40th anniversary special, Steve Martin asserted that Lovitz had joined the ranks of deceased cast members—he was kidding, of course. In fact, Lovitz remains an active presence on both the big and little screens with more than five dozen films to his credit and several significant television roles.

His distinctive nasal voice—a combination of a brassy New Yorker’s attitude and a con man’s lascivious leer—remains an integral element in his persona, kind of like that kid every neighborhood has who was always intent on shamelessly sharing some sort of scam or scheme.

“You want everyone to be great and funny,” Lovitz is credited with saying on the website Brainy Quote. “I’m not saying I’m great, but I’m funny.”

Yeah, that’s the ticket! And you should buy one. (Lee Zimmerman) Jon Lovitz @ Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Sept. 20, 7 p.m.; Sept. 21-22, 7 & 9:30 p.m., $25, wiseguyscomedy.com

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Daniel Everett: Security Questions In the 21st century, we’re faced repeatedly with requests to prove our identity: passwords, phone-unlocking thumbprints, logic puzzles to show that we’re not robots. But what does a computer truly understand about who we are?

Daniel Everett’s Security Questions at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art wrestles with that question through several unique components, including a 16-foot-wide piece of fabric covered with online security questions he’s encountered. It’s a way to explore the methods, from sublime to ridiculous, by which we’re “tested” by computers. “Something as mundane as, ‘what’s your first pet?’” UMOCA’s director of exhibitions Jared Steffensen says, “while this feels like a personal question, the conversation doesn’t go beyond that.”

Everett also explores the way we’re perpetually under surveillance by cameras. One collage (pictured) captures multiple angles from the same camera, rendering a kind of distorted reality. “I think of the idea of having this phone in your hand that’s also a camera,” Steffensen says, “and you have the opportunity to snap every angle possible, and pick out the perfect one. I look at that suite of images, and think about that: the anxiety of trying to present yourself a certain way.”

“These things that are supposed to make us feel secure and safe,” Steffensen adds, “really aren’t. For Daniel, he’s trying to find the human within this inhuman system. When he’s talking about security, there’s a double-meaning.”

(Scott Renshaw) Daniel Everett: Security Questions @ Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, Sept. 21-Jan. 19, Tuesday-Saturday, free, $5 suggested donation, utahmoca.org

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If you’re a sci-fi fan, you need not consider yourself a nerd anymore. Some of the coolest rock ’n’ rollers on the planet are just as enthralled as you. When was the last time anyone labeled David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Jimi Hendrix or Sun Ra as rejects simply because they were stoked by sci-fi?

The thing all these artists have in common is the fact that at one time or another in their careers, they seized on sci-fi as their muse.

Whether it was Bowie assuming the guise of Ziggy Stardust or the Floyd attaining interstellar overdrive, these icons looked to the furthest stars for inspiration.

“I was 5 years old when Star Wars came out in 1977,” Jason Heller, author of the book Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded, says via email. “Not only was my mind blown by the movie, I owned Meco’s disco version of John Williams’ Star Wars theme. Even at that young age, I was enchanted by the idea that science fiction and music could have this kind of conversation with each other.”

Indeed, Heller can champion any nerd who needs redemption. Strange Stars finds common ground and a parallel trajectory between rock and the cosmos. It illustrates how science fiction helped kick-start the careers of some of rock’s most revered superstars in the late ’60s and early ’70s—Bowie, for one. “As I got older, Bowie became my musical hero,” Heller continues. “That’s when I became obsessed with the depth and breadth of sci-fi’s influence on popular music.” Suddenly the term “starstruck” takes on an entirely new meaning. (LZ) David Heller: Strange Stars @ Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Sept. 25, 6:30 p.m., free, wellerbookworks.com

Combine hand-crafted pie with soulful music, and you have a perfect recipe for comfort.

Waitress: The Musical draws from this recipe, turning what was initially a cute movie into a Broadway hit.

Like every recipe, Waitress required some key ingredients for its success. One such ingredient is talented director/writer, the late Adrienne Shelly, who first brought the piece to life in a 2007 movie. The musical took on its own shape from the film through elements added by Jessie Nelson (who adapted the screenplay for the stage), director Diane Paulus and composer Sara Bareilles, the successful singer/songwriter.

The story orchestrated by these four women focuses on Jenna, who makes delicious pies for the diner where she works as a waitress. She names her pastry creations after her emotions at the moment—including those inspired by her marriage to an abusive husband. She is preparing for an upcoming pie-making contest that could change her life, and she’s also starting to wonder about a new doctor in town.

What truly sets the musical apart from the movie is, of course, Bareilles’ music—she’s also the artist behind “Brave,” “Love Song” and “Gravity.” Her honest, steeped-in-reality songs contribute to a soundtrack that is funny and touching. Attend the show ready to be lulled into its emotionally rich story, and you can likely expect to leave craving some of your own home-baked American dessert. (Casey Koldewyn) Waitress @ Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, 801-355-2787, Sept. 25-30, times vary, $35-$150, broadway-at-the-eccles.com

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t’s the time of year where you might ask yourself how to avoid another Halloween bash while still being social—or at least that’s what I’m asking myself. My answer to the countless parties during any season has always been to host smaller and more intimate game nights. But what do you do for Halloween? If you still want a spooky vibe and a fun time with friends, board games are the answer.

But which board games? Well, we’ve got you covered.

Mansions of Madness (2nd Edition): From Fantasy Flight Games, this is almost more of a creepy storytelling experience than a game. Players (up to five) adopt a character and explore a Lovecraftian mystery. Since the game is app-driven, you don’t have to get bogged down by too many rules or complex setup, and it maintains atmosphere with music, sound effects and story. It’s the next level of gaming, and offers the best experience for players who aren’t brave enough for a full-on roleplaying game, but still want all the storytelling elements.

The game begins with narration offering hints about your final objective. Players take turns investigating clues and working hard to keep from going insane.

This might be one of the best games of the past 10 years, and isn’t just for a spooky Halloween party. Games can last up to four or five hours, though the app gives you an approximate play time per adventure, so you don’t accidentally start a five-hour

game when you only have two hours to play.

I hope more games become app-driven, because the experience of this one is probably unlike anything you’ve ever played.

Letters From Whitechapel: In this game, one player dons the role of Jack the Ripper, while other participants play cops on the hunt for the killer. Jack makes his kills and moves in secret, while the police have to chase him around the board, looking for clues and hoping they can stop him before he kills again. It’s a tense game that makes you feel like real lives are at stake.

It’s best played with five investigators and one Whitechapel murderer, but it can be played with fewer participants if the need arises. This mostly cooperative game will have everyone tensed up, wondering when the killer will strike next and hoping they’ll be smart enough to catch him sooner rather than later.

Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu: If you’ve ever played Pandemic, you know how frustrating it can be to rid the world of disease. But the game play is so improved and streamlined in this Lovecraftian re-skin that it feels like a brand-new experience.

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working to eliminate Cthulhu and all of the associated cultists and monsters that have spilled out into the real world. Be warned: This game is hard, sometimes verging on impossible. But it’s got so much re-playability that you won’t mind the world being devoured by an Ancient One round after round, because you’ll be having too much fun. With only four players, though, your party will have to be rather intimate.

Mysterium: Up to seven players can join in on this delightful party game. One player is the ghost of a murder victim hoping their killer will be brought to justice.

That’s why the other players have been brought to the mansion where the game play happens. The players are all mediums, and have the right sympathetic vibrations allowing the mute ghost to communicate with them. In a series of rounds, the ghost flashes visions (using gorgeous fine-art cards) to each medium in hopes that they will guess a corresponding victim, murder weapon and scene of the crime. As rounds progress, the killers and their means of murder are narrowed down until the whole group has to decide the identity of the real killer. It’s a fun evening for a player in

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either role, and the game has a lot of replayability.

Gloom: This storytelling game pits players against one another. Each starts with a hand full of cards representing a family of misfits. Players then tell stories using those cards to add to the misery of each of your characters while adding happiness to everyone else. The goal is to have each of their characters suffer as much tragedy as possible before meeting an untimely demise. With a talented group of players, the storytelling required to play the cards can make for a night that’s much more entertaining than the mindless non-sequitur card matching of games like Cards Against Humanity. It’s dark and brooding, but also fun and humorous, balancing light and dark very well.

One of these games will be right for any group of people. And once word gets around, everyone will be avoiding standard Halloween parties and looking for invites to your exclusive spooky board game get-together. CW

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Ogden First launches its O1|WALLS program—adding street murals and wall art to privately owned buildings—with Jane Kim’s piece on the Monarch Building at 455 25th St. on Saturday, Sept. 22, from 11 a.m.-7 p.m., in conjunction with Ogden’s Harvest Moon Festival.

PERFORMANCE THEATER

Chess Marriott Center for Dance, 330 S. 1500 East, Ste. 106, through Sept. 23, dates and times vary, tickets.utah.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 Elvis Rocks Ogden 2018 Peery’s Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Blvd., Ogden, Sept. 22, 6 p.m., egyptiantheaterogden.com 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 Oslo Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, through Sept. 29, Monday-Thursday, 7 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., pioneertheatre.org The Scarlet Pimpernel Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through Nov. 24, dates and times vary, hct.org Waitress Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, Sept. 25-30, dates and times vary, artsaltlake.org (see p. 18) Wait Until Dark Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m., hct.org Women of Trachis Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, Sept. 21, 7:30 p.m., culturalcelebration.org You Got Older Wasatch Theatre Co., 124 S. 400 West, through Sept. 29, Friday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m., wasatchtheatre.org

DANCE

Brine Dance: NaCl Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, through Sept. 22, 7:30 p.m., artstaltlake.org It’s Been a While Dance Company: Duality Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, Sept. 22, 7 p.m. artsaltlake.org

Lovedancemore: Mudson Marmalade Library, 280 W. 500 North, Sept. 24, 7 p.m., lovedancemore.org Odyssey Dance: Thriller Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, Park City, Sept. 21-Oct. 7, dates and times vary, parkcityshows.com

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Utah Symphony: Beethoven’s Ode to Joy Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Sept. 21-22, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org Utopia Early Music: World Turned Upside Down: Early Music of the U.S. & Canada Cathedral Church of St. Mark, 231 E. 100 South, Sept. 22, 8 p.m.; Sept. 23, 5 p.m., utopiaearlymusic.org Wind Ensemble Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Sept. 20, 7:30 p.m., tickets.utah.edu

COMEDY & IMPROV

Brad Upton Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, West Jordan, Sept. 21-22, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Gallagher: The Jokes On You Comedy Tour Covey Center for the Arts, 425 W. Center St., Provo, Sept. 22, 7:30 p.m., provo.org Jon Lovitz Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Sept. 20-21, 7 p.m.; Sept. 22, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com (see p. 18) Mary Mack Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Sept. 25, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com One Night Stand: Comedy Benefit for Planned Parenthood Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 132 S. 800 West, Sept. 20, 7 p.m., bit.ly/2MvleSG Ryan Hamilton Kingsbury Hall, 1575 E. Presidents Circle, University of Utah, Sept. 22, 7 p.m., tickets.utah.edu Shawn Paulsen Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, Sept. 21-22, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Klancy Clark de Nevers: Lessons in Printing The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Sept. 20, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com

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moreESSENTIALS Beau Peterson: Slayer of the Sea Barnes & Noble, 7157 Plaza Center Drive, West Jordan, Sept. 22, 1 p.m., barnesandnoble.com Kathy Kirkpatrick: American Prisoner of War Camps in Arizona and Nevada Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Sept. 22, 7 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Camille T. Dungy and Jason Olsen Westminster College Adamson Alumni House, 1840 S. 1300 East, Sept. 24, 7 p.m., westminstercollege.edu Rosina Lozano: An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States Main Library Auditorium, 210 E. 400 South, Sept. 24, 7 p.m., slcpl.org Jason Heller: Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Sept. 25, 6:30 p.m., wellerbookworks.com (see p. 18) Laurie Forest: The Iron Flower The King’s English Bookshop 1511 S. 1500 East, Sept. 25, 7 p.m. kingsenglish.com Radha Agrawal: Belong: Find Your People, Create Community and Live a More Connected Life Marmalade Library, 280 W. 500 North, Sept. 26, 7 p.m., slcpl.org

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 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 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

Disaster Shelter & Preparedness Fair 2018 UCCU Center, 800 W. University Parkway, Orem, Sept. 24, 4-9 p.m. ¡Fiesta for Nature! The Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve, Layton, 1002 S. 3200 West, Layton, Sept. 22, 6-10 p.m.

Salt Lake City Gem Faire Mountain America Expo Center, 9575 S. State, Sandy, Sept. 21-23, times vary, gemfaire.com Get Into the River Festival Jordan River Parkway, through Sept. 30, dates and locations vary, getintotheriver.org Oktoberfest Snowbird Resort, Highway 210 Little Cottonwood Canyon, Snowbird, through Oct. 21, Saturdays & Sundays, noon-6:30 p.m., snowbird.com Outdoor FitFest Thanksgiving Point’s Electric Park, 3003 Thanksgiving Way, Lehi, Sept. 22, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., fitcon.com/fitfest Simple Treasures Fall Boutique Davis Legacy Events Center, 151 S. 1100 West, Farmington, Sept. 26-29, times vary, simpletreasuresboutique.biz

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TALKS & LECTURES

Nathan Devir: Strained Boundaries: Exclusivism vs. Pluralism in the Literature of Chaim Potok Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Sept. 20, 6:30 p.m., wellerbookworks.com The Spleen: A Lean, Mean, Diving Machine! with Dr. Melissa Ilardo Green Pig Pub, 31 E. 400 South, Sept. 20, 7 p.m., tapdatsci.org Why Sanctuary?: How Faith Communities Can Support Immigrants Cathedral Church of St. Mark Dean’s Hall, 231 E. 100 South, Sept. 22, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., slcsanctuary.org Anita Hill: From Social Movement to Social Impact: Ending Sexual Harassment University of Utah Alumni House, 155 S. Central Campus Drive, Sept. 26, 7 p.m., thc.utah.edu The Future of Conservation in America: A Chart for Rough Water S.J. Quinney College of Law, 383 S. University St., Sept. 26, 12:15 p.m., law.utah.edu

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

Back to School Special Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, Sept. 21-Oct. 12, accessart.org Daniel Everett: Security Questions Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, Sept. 21-Jan. 12, utahmoca.org (see p. 18) Design Arts Utah 2018 Showcase Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., through Oct. 21, visualarts.utah.gov John Berry Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, Sept. 21-Oct. 13, modernwestfineart.com 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 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 Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through Oct. 19, slcpl.org O1|WALLS 455 25th St., Odgen, Sept. 22, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., ogdenfirst.org (see p. 22) Pat Bagley Draws a Crowd Pioneer Memorial Theatre Loge Gallery, 300 S. 1400 East, through Sept. 29, pioneertheatre.org Plein Air Exhibition Brigham City Museum Gallery, 24 N. 300 West, Brigham City, through Nov. 3, 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 Trent Alvey and Jan Andrews: On the Border of Realism Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, through Nov. 2, visualarts.utah.gov Trent Alvey: I’m Floating in a Most Peculiar Way Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, through Sept. 21, saltlakearts.org Utah Travels Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, through Oct. 17, culturalcelebration.org Working Hard to Be Useless Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, through Dec. 29, utahmoca.org

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operated by Kamal and Geeta Niroula (pictured), two Bhutanese immigrants who started their family while living in a Nepalese refugee camp.

The Niroula family eventually chose to immigrate to Salt Lake City in 2010, and came across Spice Kitchen Incubator four years later. Taking advantage of resources the entrepreneurial program provides, the Niroulas opened Bhutan House in 2017. Since then, they have been serving up loving

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This is why Bhutan House (1241 E. 8600 South, 801-6790945) needs to pop up on your radar. It serves all the expected Indian staples, but the menu also includes cuisine from Nepal and Bhutan, supplying a lot more to explore at this Sandy restaurant.

While Bhutan House is fairly new—it’s been open for just more than a year—its epic origin story spans thousands of miles and several decades.

The restaurant is owned and

lthough I didn’t try Indian food until I was in college, my first taste of tikka masala was enough to fast-track the smoky, curry-based dish to my gastronomic all-star team. Luckily, Salt Lake isn’t in short supply when it comes to Indian restaurants, which is a blessing and a curse. Sure, it’s easy to get saag paneer or veggie samosas along the Wasatch Front, but it’s also hard to really dig into the nuances of Southern Asian cuisine with so many places serving a similar menu.

I’ve shared my fondness for dumplings of all shapes and sizes in the past, so ordering the vegetable momos ($10.45) was non-negotiable. The momos here are different from those of the Tibetan variety— these are closer in size and shape to gyoza—and they’re served with a tasty condiment made from sesame seeds and lots of cilantro. These dumplings didn’t rate extremely high on my list—though the interior combination of cabbage, onion, cilantro and peas offered up a nice overall experience.

From the inviting, serenityinducing interiors to the flavors culled from an Eastern cultural identity, Bhutan House is a great spot for fans of Indian food who are looking to expand their culinary horizons. And any place with a lunch buffet as sumptuous and varied as this is worth a visit for a midday carbo-load. CW

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is something diners will want to take advantage of. My wife isn’t the biggest fan of spicy food, but I did ask for some of their hottest sauce on the side—for research, of course. I mixed a bit of it with my food and let me tell you, this place doesn’t mess around with its fiery concoctions—the stuff just about singed my eyebrows. With or without the extra dose of heat, the tikka masala here is a rich, smoky blend of spices and flavor, and the lamb complemented these flavors nicely.

Bhutan House doesn’t skimp on the naan—they even offer a Bread Basket ($8.95), which is like a naan variety pack. It’s stocked with freshly baked slabs of garlic naan, whole wheat roti and aloo paratha, which is a delicious mix between naan and samosas. It’s perfect for those who, like me, prefer to eat their food couched within a triangular slice of chewy flatbread.

Venturing into the Bhutanese side of the menu, I ordered a bowl of ema datshi ($15.95), which is considered to be Bhutan’s national dish. It’s a veggie stew made with Bhutanese cottage cheese, peppers, potatoes and onions. While there were some aspects of the dish I liked—the cheese and stewed veggies are tasty—I also found the broth to be a bit one-note.

Next time, I’ll order it on the spicier side.

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representations of their native cuisine for Utah residents to enjoy.

The interior space is a great example of the Bhutanese perspective on peace and serenity. The color palette consists of burgundies and dark browns, and the wall art depicting South Asian architecture creates just enough visual interest to establish the right ambiance. It’s not a large dining room, but the smart use of space makes it feel that way. As my wife and I are frequently trying to fit dinner dates into our daughter’s daycare schedule, we visited Bhutan House for an early dinner on a weekday, so the place wasn’t exactly packed. Visiting during the restaurant’s weekday lunch buffet ($9.99), however, is a different story.

The rotating lineup of menu staples like tandoori chicken, korma and various curries definitely can bring all the boys to the yard—and it’s also the best way to get a crash course in Bhutanese cuisine.

With a wide variety of menu items, it’s no surprise Bhutan House can maintain a rotating daily buffet.

Again, fans of Indian food will recognize a large chunk of the menu, and I was keen to see how their take on lamb tikka masala ($15.45) compared to other iterations I’ve had. The waitress was considerate enough to ask how spicy we wanted our food, which

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Hispanic Heritage Month is underway, which means it’s time for Take Care Utah’s annual Hispanic Heritage Parade and Street Festival. In its third year, the event once again brings Salt Lakers together to celebrate the diverse heritage of Latin Americans. A festival like this always means lots of tasty food, and vendors are serving some of my favorites. Expect to see empanadas, tortas, arepas, street tacos and Cuban sandwiches aplenty while enjoying vibrant music, DIY craftspeople and dance performances. The event is scheduled at The Gateway (18 N. Rio Grande St.) from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 22.

Admission is free, and all ages are welcome. Visit bit.ly/2xfLWJx for more information.

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Amateur candy makers are in luck this weekend, as Bakers C&C (44 W. Vine St., 801-487-3300, bakerscandc.com), Murray’s finest supplier of bulk chocolate, cake decorations and candy making supplies, hosts Ruth Kendrick of Chocolot Artisan Confections (chocolot.com) for a demonstration of her skills. Those familiar with Kendrick’s flair for creating gem-like truffles that look too expensive to eat will be eager to get an inside look at her process. She’ll focus on truffles, meltaways and gianduja, a chocolate hazelnut spread that could kick the cocoa out of Nutella. The event takes place at Bakers C&C at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 22, and tickets can be purchased for $35 on the shop’s website or by phone.

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e’re halfway through September, and I’m already feeling the pull toward autumn beers. The trouble is, I’m not ready to give up on summer just yet. Yeah, those Oktoberfest and select pumpkin beers might be whispering in my ear, but for one more week, I’m still holding on to dry, thirst-quenching ales and lagers—and these two fit the bill.

Uinta 801 Pilsner: This beer pours a clear, golden straw color that’s light in terms of carbonation and features a thin, white, frothy head that dissipates slowly to a thin lacing. The aroma is typical of the style, with grassy hops and a grainy

malt coming through. It’s pretty wellbalanced—not incredibly fragrant, but still pleasing to the nose.

The flavor features a good dose of Pilsner malt right up front with caramel, cracker and bread dough backing it up. The maltiness transitions into bitter, grassy hops slowly, with the strength of the hops becoming greater the longer the beer stays in your mouth. Bitterness here is relatively strong.

Overall: As far as 4-percent session beers go, this is one of the better ones. Instead of just tasting like watered-down macro lager, it actually tastes like something I’d like to drink. To me, it gets most of the major characteristics of classic German Pilsners right without really mimicking any specific classic example of the style. I’m not saying you’d entirely confuse this with an authentic German Pilsner if tasting it blind, but I am saying it’s a reasonable and admirable approximation of the style. In the end, I rather like it, and would not have a problem recommending it to fans of Pilsners or those new to the world of European-style lagers.

Kiitos Cherry Berliner Weisse: Pouring a crystal clear red color with pink highlights, this brew has a single finger of fizzy soda-like head with less-than-great retention. Once you get your nose on top of it, juicy, tart cherries with lemon, green apple and almond tingle your nostrils with a

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pleasant and drying acidic bouquet. Right off the bat, you get a fruity/lactic tartness on the tongue along with light cherry twang. Lingering notes of almond, lemon and pear begin to emerge with green apple, wheat, cracker and light lacto funk rounding out the back end. A bit of earthiness lingers on your palate on the finish. There’s great complexity and balance in the combination of fruity/acidic yeast, cherries and light pale malt flavors, with a great malt/tartness balance and zero puckering flavors after the finish. As you might expect from a 4-percent brew, there’s little alcohol heat.

Overall: This is a very nice fruited Berliner weisse style. It’s got all-around nice

complexity, robustness and balance—very smooth, crisp and refreshing to drink, with modest acidity and tartness. I appreciate the really nice level of cherry presence, with great balance of the base style, making it a very traditional tasting example that’s not overly lactic on acidity.

I guess after tasting these, I’ve decided not to be a prisoner of the seasons. Yeah, I’m looking forward to robust brews, but when clean and dry calls, I’m answering that damned call. Uinta’s 801 can be found in almost every corner of the planet, but the Kiitos cherry is only at very select spots in town, one of which is its downtown brewery. Next week, we dive into autumn. As always, cheers! CW

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wish I’d known ahead of time what Dan Fogelman’s Life Itself had in store for me.

While I’d seen Fogelman’s 2015 feature Danny Collins, with Al Pacino as an aging pop star trying to make amends for his misspent life, I was unfamiliar with his TV series This Is Us, which has been described to me in ways that make it sound like somebody attempting to cram 10 pounds of “all the feels” into a 5-pound bag. If I had seen the show, maybe my psyche might have been prepared for Life Itself ’s full frontal assault on my ability to process theoretically tear-jerking moments. Many have been the days since the last time a motion picture so shamelessly insisted “You will know the majesty of the entire human experience, so help me God, or else.”

And it’s no simple thing to convey what is so enthusiastically batshit about Life Itself. It is seasoned so liberally with things that might be considered spoilers that those things are less seasoning than they are the meal itself. On a simple narrative level, it weaves back and forth between multiple time periods, exploring the lives

and loves of multiple characters. Will (Oscar Isaac) talks to his therapist (Annette Bening) after an emotional breakdown when his wife, Abby (Olivia Wilde), leaves him.

Years later, a young woman named Dylan (Olivia Cooke) wrestles with the tragic arc of her life. Across the world in Spain’s Andalusia region, a wealthy olive farmer (Antonio Banderas) becomes entangled in the lives of one of his workers (Sergio Peris-Mencheta) and his wife (Laia Costa). Then that couple’s son, Rodrigo (Àlex Monner), faces his own trials with love and death.

In Life Itself, Fogelman tips his hat early and often to Pulp Fiction in everything from a snippet of the film to Will and Abby dressing as Vincent and Mia for a costume party to an actual Samuel L. Jackson cameo. That movie’s intersecting achronological chapters might provide a basic foundation for what Fogelman is trying to do, but all similarity ends there. Life Itself rapidly morphs into the kind of movie that will stop at nothing to tug at your heartstrings, including an incalculable number of character deaths and an improbably-even-moreincalculable number of meet-cutes where people profess their love in florid prose.

From scenes in which characters physically observe events from their memories, to loooooong monologues, to enough reminders about unreliable narrators that you might just want to burn every university English department to the ground, Fogelman concocts a would-be opera that can’t carry a tune.

Indeed, perhaps the most baffling thing about Life Itself is that the concept almost pleads to be a musical. It’s one of those stories where you can be excruciatingly

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certain that all roads will lead back to the same place, and where all tragedy is part of the grand symphony of life, so it feels weirdly overwrought when people are talking those feelings rather than singing them. This is already a story that is so earnest about insisting on the unpredictability of “real life,” yet goes to such lengths to remind viewers that it’s a movie—what with its narrating voices and passage-of-time montages and complete obliviousness for ensuring that the story’s timeline makes sense when you do the math. Fogelman somehow is convinced that the way to drive home the emotional authenticity of his story is to drown it in artifice, but not people breaking into song.

To Fogelman’s savvy credit, he seems to anticipate critical reaction to Life Itself with a late stretch of dialogue about the critical response to Bob Dylan’s Time Out of Mind, suggesting we’re only able to praise brooding darkness, but not naked optimism about the healing power of love.

Yet the problem with Life Itself isn’t that it’s optimistic; it’s that Fogelman just doesn’t know when to stop shoveling feels into that 5-pound bag. CW

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NEW THIS WEEK Film release schedules are subject to change. Reviews online at cityweekly.net ASSASSINATION NATION BB.5 Based on the hashtags #woke and #metoo, this in-your-face, self-consciously edgy satire deals with a town called Salem that goes witch-hunting after everyone’s online accounts are hacked and their secrets (and nude pics) are exposed. The primary target of everyone’s ire is Lily (Odessa Young), an above-it-all highschooler who’s blamed for the hack, but she and her friends are merely scapegoats. Some of what happens is harrowingly plausible—especially when it comes to police behavior and mob rule—and writer-director Sam Levinson (Another Happy Day) adeptly captures the dark side of a weaponized internet on his way to delivering a Tarantino-style bloodbath. But Levinson also loves to point the camera at girls’ butts while having those girls decry the male gaze, and he’s eye-rollingly gleeful about alerting us to the movie’s “trigger warnings,” which appear on the screen in red, white and blue lettering. (You can tell he really wanted to squeeze the word “American” into the title but couldn’t find a way.) The movie is raucous fun and occasionally suspenseful or horrific, but not nearly as insightful as it thinks it is. Opens Sept.

21 at theaters valleywide. (R)—Eric D. Snider

I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW [not yet reviewed] Two people (Peter Dinklage and Elle Fanning) suspect they might be the sole survivors of an apocalyptic event. Opens Sept.

21 at theaters valleywide. (R) LET THE CORPSES TAN BBB There’s a limit on how far pure style can take a movie when the plot is a tangle of “who-cares,” but it takes an engagingly long time for writer/directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani to reach that limit. On one level, it’s a fairly straightforward

heist thriller, as thieves toting a fortune in stolen gold bars on a Mediterranean island look to hide out with performance artist Luce (Elina Löwensohn) and her entourage, only to be found by police and double-crossed by one of their own team. Cattet and Forzani zip and backtrack through an eventful 24 hours of who’sgonna-kill-whom, but the “what” of this story is infinitely less interesting than the how. And what you get is a parade of visual imagination that combines aestheticized violence with bursts of color, nipples issuing forth fountains of champagne, a hypertuned sound design that turns squeal of leather into a character, and shots that turn our ill-fated characters into scrambling ants.

While at times it feels like a feature-length Maurice Binder 007 opening-credits sequence, that’s one hard-to-ignore bucket of crazy. Opens Sept. 21 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—Scott Renshaw LIFE ITSELF B.5 See review on p. 32. Opens Sept. 21 at theaters valleywide.

(PG-13) LIZZIE BB Lizzie Borden took an axe/ But there are things this movie lacks.

Director Craig William Macneill and screenwriter Bryce Kass take on the story of the infamous accused parent-murderer (Chloë Sevigny) in 1892 Massachusetts, exploring her life under the thumb of her domineering father (Jamey Sheridan) and her relationship with the wealthy Borden family’s new Irish maid, Bridget (Kristen Stewart). Macneill goes heavy on the gothic horror vibe from the outset, with ominous music and plenty of people creeping through the dark while holding candles, while Sevigny digs into the role of a woman who’s a unique combination of strong and fragile at a time when both extremes could be used against women. Monstrous masculinity becomes the over-the-top villain here, however, in a way that makes the nods to female empowerment—including the sexual connection

between Lizzie and Bridget—feel more like opportunistic posturing than genuine insight. By the time we get to the staging of the actual murders, Lizzie feels like the material of a grim little genre picture covered in so many layers of commentary on class and gender that the whole enterprise feels more oppressive than liberating. Opens Sept. 21 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—SR

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CURRENT RELEASES THE PREDATOR BB.5 Co-writer/director Shane Black brings his tart-tongued dialogue, but wildly over-complicates the “try not to get killed by the alien” premise. U.S. Army sniper Quinn McKenna (Boyd Holbrook) salvages some gear from a crash-landed Predator ship, which puts him in the alien race’s crosshairs. He’s backed up by a squad of self-described military “looneys” as he tries to protect his son (Jacob Tremblay), while a government honcho (Sterling K. Brown) threatens everybody. Black reliably delivers off-beat laughs in the middle of all the carnage, though that also includes nonsense like turning Tourette’s syndrome into a punchline.

Mostly, though, it’s a frustrating jumble of half-realized ideas and a plot that makes less sense the longer you think about it. Big bug hunts shouldn’t be so much work, or—thanks to Black’s behindthe-scenes decisions—so hard to enjoy as escapism. (R)—SR

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THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS BBB.5 Horror schlockmeister Eli Roth turns his hand to kiddie scares, and the result is surprisingly charming, offering genuinely appropriate entry-level spookiness for budding fright fans. When a newly orphaned grade schooler (Owen Vaccaro) is sent to live with his weird uncle (Jack Black), he discovers a haunted house, a witchy neighbor (Cate Blanchett) and magic and mysteries galore in his strange new life. A few unexpectedly clever grossouts—jack-o’-lantern vomit!—and some deeply unsettlingbut-still-PG creepy imagery meets sweetly old-fashioned foggy cemeteries and esoteric books set in a fantasy-retro 1950s with a vibe that’s just a little bit steampunk. There’s a lot of stuff crammed into this little movie, but somehow it all works together, particularly thanks to the terrific cast. While Blanchett vamps it up deliciously, Black tones down his mania, and they meet in a comic middle that is perfectly pitched. (Vaccaro is much better than many child actors, too.) Toss in an “embrace your weirdness” theme, and this is a total delight. Someone in Hollywood demanded, “Get me the next Harry Potter!” Dang if they didn’t get pretty close. Opens Sept. 21 at theaters valleywide.

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f you need any more affirmation of Raunch Records’ revered place in Salt Lake City, look no further than the underground community’s response to the news that founder Brad Collins has bladder cancer.

Last month, Liquid Joe’s hosted a golf and rock benefit that raised thousands, and on Friday, Sept. 21, a wide array of artists, skaters, punk rockers and business owners will come together for another benefit at Edison St. advertising agency Super Top Secret.

Fiz Bradshaw and Brian Taylor of Copper Palate Press teamed up with local icon Davey Parrish to spearhead the event. First, Bradshaw procured 50 blank skateboards through Raunch before distributing them to some of Salt Lake City’s best artists, including Sri Whipple, Trent Call, Cameron Bentley and Dave Boogert.

Those one-of-a-kind pieces are up for silent auction while bands like Darklord, Neutralboy, Sad State of Society, Lube and Ulteriors rock the brick-walled, warehouse-like space and DJ Nix Beat spins his mid-century modern classics. At the center of it all is Super Top Secret’s in-house mini-ramp, which is usually reserved for the firm’s employees but will be open to all on Friday night.

Bradshaw says the initial response has been astonishing. “I created the event, invited nobody and now there’s 300 people on the email list who either want to come to the show or contribute a skateboard,” she says. “As soon as people realized there was an opportunity to make art and support Brad, they were stoked.”

Collins first made a name for himself with the influential KRCL 90.9 FM radio show Behind the Zion Curtain. He founded Raunch Records in 1983 and operated it full time through 1997 before taking a hiatus that ended in 2009, when he reopened at his current Sugar House location. Throughout that time, he’s influenced Salt Lake City’s underground culture immeasurably, slinging skateboards, records, zines, posters, T-shirts and stickers while transforming Raunch into a safe space for those otherwise pushed to the margins.

Collins says he’s overwhelmed by the ongoing support. “When Liquid Joe’s did their event and then Fiz and Davey started making this thing happen, I was kind of overwhelmed,” he says. “It’s a huge honor and a tribute to the people of Salt Lake City. I mean, Fiz wasn’t even alive when I started doing Raunch in the old days.

Plenty of my friends have been through troubles without getting this kind of response, so sometimes I feel a little guilty. It’s weird for so many people to be on your side in these situations.”

It makes perfect sense to those who treasure Collins and what he represents, however. Jared Strain, partner and co-founder of Super Top Secret, says he jumped at the chance to host the event. “This aligns perfectly with who we are and what we believe in,” Strain says.

“When we got the phone call to get involved, it was a no-brainer. I said, ‘Absolutely, open the doors, let’s party.’ The 16-year-old version of myself is ecstatic since it pulls on every one of my heartstrings: skateboarding, art, punk rock, Brad.” Referring to Collins as a staple in Salt Lake’s community whose influence speaks volumes, Strain adds, “When I go to Raunch and see kids traipsing around in the same

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Misfits and Nirvana T-shirts I wore as a kid, it blows my mind.” Next door to Super Top Secret, Adam Tye of Diabolical Records is even more blunt: “Every part of the underground culture in Salt Lake City can be traced through Brad Collins and Raunch.”

For Collins, the benefit’s baked-in camaraderie is its strongest calling card. “That may not have existed in the old days,” he says.

“There are so many good people involved in so many businesses right now.” Reminiscing about his own golden days wandering the aisles of ’70s record stores like Tape Head Co., Wally’s Records and Odyssey, he chuckles: “I’d like to think we’ve had something to do with all these guys’ musical tastes.”

That’s certainly evident in the live music lineup for the event.

Sad State of Society is anchored by Aldine Strychnine, also known as KRCL’s Punk Rock Farmer, with Collins’ longtime compatriot Davey Parrish on vocals. Neutralboy and Ulteriors both hearken back to punk rock’s earlier, rowdier SLC heyday, while doom metal purveyors Darklord and Lube, Fiz Bradshaw’s band, represent the new generation. “We wanted to make a point of getting all kinds of bands on this bill,” Bradshaw says. “Brad’s an icon, and everyone loves him, but what’s really kept Raunch relevant is its involvement in youth culture. That sets Brad apart from some of the other older guys in town.”

Collins laughs when he hears all this praise, deferring the credit back on the old-timers and young guns whose only loyalty is to Salt Lake City’s small, independent businesses. Asked about his health status, he says he’s still not sure whether he’s fully out of the woods. His doctor, an old junior high friend, assured Collins that his cancer was non-invasive. But since he’s still uninsured—the raison d’être for the benefit—the punk lifer knows better than to assume victory just yet. “I don’t have the best luck,” he admits. “I feel pretty good about where I’m at, but I’m not quite ready to just kick back and not worry about it anymore.” CW

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SATURDAY 9/22

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Beck Hansen—known simply as Beck— is one of the most stunningly versatile popular musicians of his generation.

The genre chameleon first crashed the mainstream with his 1994 hit “Loser,” which, like Radiohead’s “Creep,” owed far more to the slacker aesthetic of grunge than anything Beck produced afterward. Any notion of him being a one-hit wonder was demolished by 1996’s superbly weird folk/hip-hop opus Odelay, which went double-platinum on the strength of singles “Where It’s At,” “Devils Haircut” and “The New Pollution.”

He became famous for an avant-garde production style and absurdist lyrical nonsequiturs like this gem from “Hot Wax,” a ramshackle Odelay jam: “Silver foxes looking for romance/ In the chain smoke Kansas flash dance ass pants.” Sure, dude.

What followed was really whatever Beck was feeling that very second—Brazilian tropicália (Mutations), achingly beautiful

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by Oakland artist Anthony Ferraro— recently released the sumptuous, sensual Living in Symbol, which combines electrosoul, R&B, chillwave and soft rock into a cohesive conceptual whole. Warped analog synthesizers and infectious bass lines abound, with touches of classic funk and romantic psych-pop punctuating songs like “The Room” and “Visitor.” Meanwhile, cinematic jazz influences run throughout Living in Symbol, tying in with Astronauts, etc.’s tour mates, The Mattson 2. These identical California-born twins came up soundtracking surf films and touring the world, giving voice to the sun and the sea, but their latest project has wowed critics of all stripes: a full album cover of John Coltrane’s 1964 masterpiece A Love Supreme. For some, the price of such reverence is steep, but Jonathan and Jared’s approach started from a place of musicological theory, before elevating the iconic album to newly ecstatic heights. “What we brought to it was our backgrounds and our compositional style,” Jonathan Mattson told Aquarium Drunkard last month. “Also our telepathy as twin brothers, our ability to jam and improvise together. It felt like we were channeling the piece.” (Nick McGregor) The State Room, 638 S. State, 8 p.m., $15, 21+, thestateroom.com

chamber-folk (Sea Change), spastic discofunk (Midnite Vultures), guitars battling turntables (Guero) and dystopian electropsych (The Information). Some hardcore Beck fans lament the fact that he’s gone down a more commercially polished and conventional route over the past decade.

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Beck this show, you’re best advised to keep them at bay. After all, Beam’s melodies are prone to intimacy, introspection and a sound so supple and sublime that full attention is definitely needed. Quiet and calm—not flash and frenzy—dominate Beam’s performances. So for anyone prone to rock, maybe suggest they just roll with it instead. (Lee Zimmerman) Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 7:30 p.m. $25-$50, all ages, artsaltlake.org

Iron & Wine

SUNDAY 9/23

Iron & Wine, Erin Rae

Over the years, former academic Sam Beam has expanded his musical trajectory from humble origins as a one-man initiative to that of a world-renowned indie-folk operative. The hushed, contemplative sound that’s always been key to Iron & Wine’s approach remains constant, but with fame and awareness, Beam now has the benefit of both a full band and a respected label to help inform his intents. His meditative musings—a blend of assurance and uncertainty—create a potent dynamic, even while requiring his audiences to lean in and listen. Iron & Wine’s recent EP Weed Garden (Sub Pop) is as subdued as ever, but again, the music is mesmerizing throughout. That said, if your rowdier friends want to join you at

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Slothrust’s angular sound is stirred by a punk-like, screw-it-all attitude that defies description as it veers from manic to mellow. Steered by singer/songwriter, guitarist and principal vocalist Leah Wellbaum, along with drummer Will Gorin and bassist Kyle Bann, the Boston-based band has recorded four albums—including their latest, The Pact—while earning ample praise along the way. Wellbaum and Gorin met as students at Sarah Lawrence College, and found common musical ground by melding blues, jazz and indie rock with something more unsettling. After recruiting Bann, they chose the handle Slothrust by pairing the name of Wellbaum’s previous outfit, Slothbox, with their fascination with the decaying passage of time. So while Slothrust’s moniker suggests an early ’70s British heavy metal band, their sound has evolved from early insurgence to a more nuanced approach flush with emotion and intrigue. They achieved some measure of awareness early on when their song “7:30 AM,” the lead single from debut album Feels Your Pain, was adopted as the theme song for FX TV series You’re the Worst. But old-timers also have given Slothrust credit for covering the Turtles’ serendipitous single “Happy Together.” After all, it’s rare to find a decidedly post-modern ensemble happy to reinterpret past precedent. (LZ) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 8 p.m., $13 presale; $15 day of show; 21+, theurbanlougeslc.com

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Extreme music has matured from its early days in the ’80s to the diverse subculture that it is today. But in 1991, John Gallagher and Jason Netherton birthed the most brutal, most technical death metal band around with an equally offensive name: Dying Fetus. Selfreleasing and promoting their 1995 debut, Infatuation With Malevolence, Dying Fetus then became famous with 2003’s “One Shot One Kill,” which, during my time in the service, was the Marine Corps’ unofficial anthem. Today, these Maryland death-metal veterans stick to the basics, keeping up their confrontational chops on their latest record, The Wrong One to Fuck With. It hasn’t been all peaches for Dying Fetus, who have caught flak from “outsiders” that don’t care for the band’s name or its supposedly non-kidfriendly music. To that I say, check out a DF show (or any metal show, for that matter) and you might find a loving parent next to their little one keeping the legacy of family headbanging alive. Arguably one of the best interviews ever conducted with Dying Fetus came last year from “Little Punk People’s” Elliott Fullam, a kid who loves metal and punk rock. DF vocalist and ax man Gallagher has also made time to shred in the past with students of THOR (Tomato’s House of Rock), a music program for teenage musicians started by Chris “Tomato” Harfenist of Sound of Urchin. So the age-old expression applies in this case: Don’t judge a book by its cover—or a band by its album cover. (Rachelle Fernandez) Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, 6 p.m., $20 presale; $22 day of show, 21+, metromusichall.com

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While he specializes in a mainstream version of reggaeton pop, Colombian artist J Balvin transcends easy categorization. Last summer, his smash hit “Mi Gente” entered the Top Ten of Billboard’s Hot 100, joining Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito” to make history as the first two non-Englishlanguage tracks to concurrently chart so high. Balvin even won a Guinness World Record for the longest No. 1 run by a solo Latin single. But this is a man driven by more than superstardom. He’s devoted himself to charitable causes, convincing Beyoncé to donate the proceeds of her “Mi Gente” remix to disaster relief in Mexico and Puerto Rico. He’s gotten political, delivering a choice expletive to Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on Instagram in March. And he’s devoted himself to high fashion, serving as an international ambassador at February’s New York Fashion Week but waiting until July to debut his own vibrant line at home in Medellín. Even more important, Balvin has leveraged his success to widen the scope of global pop, adding Nigerian Afrobeat star Mr. Eazi and Haitian producer Michael Brun to his current tour in support of this year’s album Vibras.

As Balvin told Billboard in May, “I like to make super music instead of working with superstars.” (Nick McGregor) Vivint Smart Home Arena, 301 W. South Temple, 8 p.m., $36-$347, all ages, vivintarena.com

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Finally inside Wasatch Brew Pub, I sat next to Travis, a former wildland firefighter and mandolin player. “I just moved here in January from California,” Travis says. “Transitioning from the field to the office just felt like a good step up.” I try my best to hold off on questions involving his job—Sunday is Travis’ Friday, and mundane talk about work should be illegal on a day off. So I let him know that we share a bond, because I was once a fellow Californian. Throughout the night, the patrons at the pub start to disappear like my Wasatch Apricot Hefeweizen and Travis’ GhostRider IPA as we continue to compare the polarizing differences between the waves of Carlsbad and the clean air of Twin Peaks.

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Ben Brinton (Hog Wallow Pub) Caleb Gray (The Spur) Carbon Leaf (The State Room) Dying Fetus + Incantation + Gatecreeper + Genocide Pact + Dezecration (Metro Music Hall) see p. 38 The Goddamn Gallows + Gutter Demons + Grave Robbing Bastards (Urban Lounge) Hot House West (Gallivan Center) Iress + Cupidcome + Westward + Savage Daughter (Gold Blood Collective) J Balvin + Mr. Eazi + Michael Brun (Vivint Arena) see p. 40 Michelle Moonshine (The Yes Hell) Ryan Innes (Lake Effect) The Spill Canvas + Punchline + Selfish Things (The Loading Dock) Sunday At Noon + Hard Times + Slick Velveteens (Kilby Court)

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ACROSS

1. "That feels so-o-o-o good!"

2. ____ Maria (coffee liqueur) 3. Newman's ____ 4. "Shouldn't have done that!"

5. When Caesar remarks "Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look" 6. BMW competitor 7. Erich who wrote "The Art of Loving" 8. "Cross my heart and hope to die!"

9. Three-time All-Star pitcher Robb 10. Danger sign 11. ____ Gay, 1945 bomber 12. Remove ID from, as a Facebook picture

50. Its symbol is ORD 51. Bother persistently 52. "____ Stop the Rain" (1970 hit) 56. Jennifer of "The King's Speech" 58. Howard Hughes acquisition of 1939 59. It may pop on a plane 60. Org. concerned with cracking and leaking 61. Use a Singer machine

Last week’s answers

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

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13. Gnocchi topper 18. Light-headed person?

21. ____ ghanouj 22. Katarina ____, two-time Olympic goldmedalist skater 23. Singer with an eponymous 1956 #1 album 24. Opera set in 1800 Rome 26. Public image, briefly 28. Vietnamese festival 31. Mediterranean isl.

33. James and Jones of jazz 34. Perch in a chicken house 36. Disney collectible 37. "____ Tu" (1974 hit) 39. Hand-held game device 40. "Let me think ... yeah, that's stupid" 41. Bud 43. Agrees 44. Freeze 45. Socked away 47. Certain paint protector 49. Speedy

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

1. Get from ____ (progress slightly) 5. 2000 U.S. Open winner Marat ____ 10. Go for additional service 14. Onetime electronics giant 15. "#@&%!," e.g.

16. Feminine suffix 17. Piece of clothing that includes 58-Across 19. They're found in central Beijing 20. Dr. Evil's sidekick in Austin Powers movies 21. Highest and lowest black key on a piano 22. Sloppy kiss 25. Presidential retreat that includes 58-Across 27. "Fantastic!"

29. Singer McEntire 30. "Atlanta" or "Dallas" 32. Cellphone's predecessor 35. Kids' game (Look! It's literally using 58-Across!)

38. Escorted to the penthouse, say 42. Electric-circuit device 46. Apple introduction of 1998 48. Dairy consumer's enzyme 49. Family member that includes 58-Across 53. Bakery supplies 54. Toy company that gave us Frisbee and Slip 'N Slide 55. ____ monkey 57. "Othello" evildoer 58. Feature of trick-or-treaters or jack-olanterns 62. It seeks pledges annually 63. Pixar film set in 2805 64. What a relaxed soldier is at 65. Part lopped off by la guillotine 66. Toll units for semis 67. Attract, as an audience

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo businessman Warren Buffet is among the top five wealthiest people on the planet. In an average year, his company Berkshire Hathaway adds $36 billion to its already swollen coffers. But in 2017, thanks to the revision of the U.S. tax code by President Trump and his buddies, Buffet earned $65 billion—an increase of 83 percent over his usual haul. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re entering a year-long phase when your financial chances could have a mild resemblance to Buffet’s 2017.

I’m not predicting your earnings will increase by 83 percent. But 15 percent isn’t unreasonable. So start planning how you’ll do it!

an explorer, maverick, outlaw, or pioneer. I bet you’ll feel freer and more experimental than usual during the next four weeks.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): As he stepped up to use an ATM in a supermarket, a Scottish man named Colin Banks found £30 (about $40 U.S.) that the person who used the machine before him had inadvertently neglected to take. But rather than pocketing it, Banks turned it in to a staff member, and eventually the cash was reunited with its proper owner. Shortly after performing his good deed, Banks won £50,000 (about $64,500 U.S.) in a game of chance. It was instant karma in dramatic action—the positive kind! My analysis of the astrological omens reveals that you’re more likely than usual to benefit from expeditious cosmic justice like that. That’s why I suggest you intensify your commitment to doing good deeds.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.” So says poet and philosopher Mark Nepo in The Book of Awakening. Now I’m transmitting his observation to you. I hope it will motivate you to expend less energy fantasizing about what you want and devote more energy to becoming the beautiful, useful, irresistible presence that will attract what you want. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to make plans to produce very specific blossoms.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “When the winds of change blow,” says a Chinese proverb, “some people build walls while others build windmills.” Since the light breezes of change might soon evolve into brisk gusts of change in your vicinity, I wanted to bring this thought to your attention. Will you be more inclined to respond by constructing walls or windmills? I don’t think it would be foolish for you to favor the walls, but in the long run I suspect that windmills would serve you better.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Budi Waseso, the former head of the Indonesian government’s anti-narcotics division, had a radical plan to prevent escapes by people convicted of drug-related crimes. He sought to build detention centers that would be surrounded by moats filled with SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): As you dive down into your soul’s depths in quest for renewal, crocodiles and piranhas. But his replacement, Heru Winarko, remember this testimony from poet Scherezade Siobhan: “I has a different approach. He wants addicts and dealers to receive want to dig out what is ancient in me, the mistaken-for-monster counseling in comfortable rehabilitation centers. I hope that in . . . and let it teach me how to be unafraid again.” Are you brave the coming weeks, as you deal with weaknesses, flaws and sins— and brazen enough to do that yourself? It’s an excellent time to both your own and others’—you’ll opt for an approach more like douse your fear by drawing wild power from the primal sources Winarko’s than Waseso’s. of your life. To earn the right to soar through the heights in November and December, delve as deeply as you can in the GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In one sense, a “patron saint” is a Catholic saint who is a heavenly coming weeks. advocate for a person, group, activity, thing, or place. St. Jude is the patron saint of lost causes, for instance. St. Francis of Assisi is SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): According to author Elizabeth Gilbert, here’s “the central ques- the guardian of animals and St. Kentigern protects against verbal tion upon which all creative living hinges: do you have the cour- abusers. “Patron saint” might also be invoked poetically to refer age to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?” to a person who serves as a special guide or influence. For example, When I read that thought, my first response was, why are the in one of his short stories, Nathaniel Hawthorne refers to a veteran treasures hidden? Shouldn’t they be completely obvious? My nurse as “the patron saint of young physicians.” In accordance with second response was, why do you need courage to bring forth the current astrological omens, I invite you to fantasize about persons, treasures? Shouldn’t that be the easiest and most enjoyable task groups, activities, things, or places for whom you might be the imaginable? Everything you just read is a perfect riddle for you to patron saint. To spur your imagination, here are some appropriate possibilities. You could be the patron saint of the breeze at dawn; of contemplate during the next 14 months, Sagittarius. freshly picked figs; of singing humorous love songs in the sunlight; of unpredictable romantic adventures; of life-changing epiphanies CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A blogger named Sage Grace offers her readers a list of “cool while hiking in nature; of soul-stirring music. things to call me besides cute.” They include dazzling, alluring, sublime, magnificent and exquisite. Is it OK if I apply those same CANCER (June 21-July 22): adjectives to you, Capricorn? I’d like to add a few more, as well: In August 1933, author Virginia Woolf wrote a critical note to her resplendent, delightful, intriguing, magnetic and incandescent. friend, the composer Ethel Smyth, lamenting her lack of emotionI hope that in response you don’t flinch with humility or protest al subtlety. “For you,” Woolf told Smyth, “either things are black, that you’re not worthy of such glorification. According to my or they’re white; either they’re sobs or shouts—whereas, I always astrological analysis, now is one of those times when you deserve glide from semi-tone to semi-tone.” In the coming weeks, fellow extra appreciation for your idiosyncratic appeal and intelligence. Cancerian, you might encounter people who act like Smyth. But it Tell your allies and loved ones that I said so. Inform them, too, will be your sacred duty, both to yourself and to life, to remain loyal that giving you this treatment could help mobilize one of your and faithful to the rich complexity of your feelings. half-asleep potentials.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “People think of education as something they can finish,” said AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Many educated Americans and Europeans think of reincarnation writer and scientist Isaac Asimov, who wrote or edited more than as a loony delusion, even though it’s a cornerstone of spiritual 500 books. His point was that we’re wise to be excited about belief for more than 1.5 billion earthlings. I myself regard it as a learning new lessons as long as we’re on this earth. To cultivate hypothesis worthy of intelligent consideration, though I’d need maximum vitality, we should always be engaged in the processes of hundreds of pages to explain my version of it. However you imag- absorbing new knowledge and mastering new skills and deepening ine it, Aquarius, you now have extra access to knowledge and our understanding. Does that sound appealing to you, Leo? I hope skills and proclivities you possessed in what we might refer to as so, especially in the coming weeks, when you will have an enhanced your “past lives”—especially in those past lives in which you were ability to see the big picture of your future needs for education.

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I hope yot don’t get too bored reading this column. It’s about how great we are as a state, and how awesome Salt Lake City is when compared statistically to other cities.

Yeah, we’re a pretty great state. But like so many states, we have a huge housing crisis where there’s little, if any, affordable housing in or close to metro areas.

Growing Salt Lake was published recently by city staff and the City Council to look at housing data projected over the next five years. It includes grim facts and figures. Here are some highlights that might make you cry: n “While ‘market rate’ apartment inventory continues to grow, affordable multifamily is at a net loss. Many existing affordable units throughout the city are being leased at higher rental rates due to market demand. In the fastest growing areas of the city, such as downtown and Sugar House, they are being sold and converted to housing for those with higher incomes.” n “Among renters, single-parent families and minority households may have some of the greatest housing needs as they are more likely than other households to live in poverty. Both have low rates of home ownership.” n “A quarter of renters are severely cost burdened, spending more than 50 percent of their income on housing costs. This situation prevents those with low incomes from being able to afford the basic necessities of life and further exacerbates the issues surrounding poverty.” n “7,500 affordable rental units are needed to meet the needs of the city’s lowest income renters (those earning $20,000 and less per year).”

The city and the state own massive amounts of property. If you were to go to a private owner of a half-acre lot in the city and ask them to sell, they most likely wouldn’t give you a screaming deal—it’s a seller’s market. We can’t build more land.

Here’s a suggestion: The city could give up some of its property if and only if they got a reasonable price and the developer agreed to only build affordable housing on the lot.

Maybe the city could offer a discount on surplus property if the developer agreed to build housing for the lowest-income renters. No, I don’t want to see Salt Lake full of just landlords and tenants. I’d like to see the city liquidate some of its properties in favor of low-income developments. Data we can get anywhere. But housing? Well, these days it seems like the only affordable options are the back of a dumpster or in the bushes along the Jordan River. n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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Harsh Lifelong New York Knicks fan Evan Perlmutter, 33, finally hit the wall with his team. Fed up that the Knicks had been promising a better future for a decade, he told Bleacher Report, Perlmutter posted a listing on eBay to sell his fandom. In the description, he promised to root for the team of the auction winner’s choosing and “burn no less than three articles of Knicks memorabilia.” Sure enough, he got a bite: James Riedel, 23, of Orange County, Calif., paid $3,500 for Perlmutter’s fandom on Aug. 24, converting Perlmutter into a Los Angeles Lakers fan.

Perlmutter plans to attend a few Lakers games with Riedel and record his destruction of his Knicks gear for Riedel’s YouTube channel.

Compelling Explanation Colorado Springs resident Klete Keller engaged the services of a female dog-sitter through an app called Wag! for his pet, Jimbo.

But Keller’s tail was not wagging when he returned home early the morning of Aug. 27 to find two shirtless men sitting on his couch and “an open bottle of personal lubricant and a camcorder on the end table,” Keller told Fox 21 News, “so it’s pretty selfexplanatory what was going on.” When reached for comment, the unnamed dog-sitter said her keys were stuck in her car and she “didn’t have WD-40 ... so I ended up grabbing what I had in my car, for things, that you know, I do on my personal time.” But Keller also noticed what he suspected was “bodily fluids” on the couch and said Jimbo was locked in a bedroom, sitting in his own urine and acting terrified. “It was just, just a total mess and I can only imagine what poor Jimbo saw in there,” Keller said. The sitter did admit that she shouldn’t have invited guests over, but it’s a good bet her former 4.96 out of 5 rating on Wag! is going to take a hit.

Government in Action This summer, a few of Ryk Edelstein’s friends in Montreal, Canada, had their requests for vanity license plates turned down for being “offensive.” “I found it mind-boggling that innocentsounding family names or place names were being rejected,” Edelstein told the Montreal Gazette. So he decided to order his own vanity plate, requesting the word SMEGMA, which he was certain the Societe de l’assurance automobile du Quebec (SAAQ), which issues the plates, would check, “and in a million years it would never be approved.” But it took SAAQ less than 24 hours to approve the request and issue its congratulations to Edelstein, who now sports the plate on his car. He reports that his wife thought it was funny at first, but now she is “none too pleased about this plate.”

The Entrepreneurial Spirit William Parrish Jr., 32, and McKenzee Dobbs, 20, of Ocala, Fla., were just trying to better accommodate their customers when they turned the kitchen window of their mobile home into a drive-thru for heroin addicts. They also installed helpful directional signs and even had a “Closed, Please Call Again” sign alerting buyers when they’d next be open. Ocala police officers who raided the trailer on Aug. 23 were tipped off by a number of overdoses happening nearby: “We were able to determine that the product was laced with fentanyl,” police Capt. Steven Cuppy told WFTV. Parrish and Dobbs told Ocala police they thought a drive-thru would be less noticeable than people regularly going in and out of the home.

Questionable Judgment Toms River, N.J., police are hoping the public can lend them a hand in finding a lost item. Ronald Vanarsdale, 36, of Toms River was drag racing on his motorcycle just after midnight on Aug. 30 when he crashed, sending the bike more than 760 feet from the crash site and hurling Vanarsdale 300 feet through the air, severing his right arm just below the bicep. NJ.com reported police Sgt. Ed Mooney applied a tourniquet to Vanarsdale’s arm at the scene, and he later underwent surgery at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune. Toms River police, though, could not locate the severed limb and asked the public’s help in locating it.

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A first date spent surfing in Santa Cruz, Calif., last October ended in an unconventional first kiss when 56-year-old Max Montgomery collapsed from a heart attack on the beach. His date, Andi Traynor, a 45-year-old anesthesiologist, leaped into action, performing CPR until paramedics arrived. Montgomery underwent bypass surgery the next day, and he assured Traynor that she was under no obligation to keep seeing him. “Who wants to date someone who just had a heart attack? But she told me she

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n Along with a nail salon, a massage parlor and a dry cleaner, a mall in Toronto, Canada, is now the site of North America’s first sex-doll brothel. Aura Dolls offers “an exciting new way” for patrons to achieve their desires “without the many restrictions and limitations that a real partner may come with,” says the company’s website. Marketing director Claire Lee told City News on Aug. 27 that customers “come in, they have their own room ... a TV monitor that plays adult entertainment and a doll ... will be ready and waiting for you.” Lee also assures potential customers that the dolls will be cleaned after each customer using a threestep process. The company says it has had requests from women for male dolls and is considering adding them.

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The monument, a 5-foot-tall granite tombstone, would “remind everyone that the best way to prevent such tragedies is to go vegan,” said Danielle Katz, director of PETA. The proposed wording for the stone is: “In memory of the lobsters who suffered and died at this spot August 2018, Try Vegan, PETA” and would include a graphic of a lobster. Of course, Maine residents are possibly the least sympathetic about their crustacean counterparts: The Portland Press Herald reports that in 2017, 110 million pounds of lobster were harvested in the state.

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