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Until you’ve lived somewhere where your only hope for a job is three months working minimum wage for an ecotourism outfit based out of state, you really shouldn’t have a say in how that area chooses to develop its resources. Seriously. What you are so glibly talking about is economic tyranny of areas that you don’t live in. One might even call you a colonialist.

And, yeah, I’m from Alaska, America’s frozen resource republic, where all our economic opportunities—if we’re allowed them at all—have the profits shipped out of state while our children contemplate moving as well because the only economy we have is oil revenue filtered through state government.

Meanwhile, we’re surrounded by natural resources tyrants like you won’t let us access.

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Wild lands? Gosh, Utah don’t need no stinking wild lands.

Jeepers, how will the gas, mining, and timber concerns turn a buck if’n Utah holds fast to wild lands? Gov. Gary knows full well

where his bread gets its butter, and Gov. Gary is not about to spit in that churn.

Think about it, ski resorts need more and more forest to deforest for ski runs and keep the skibreds happy. Drivers all up and down the overwhelmingly polluted Wasatch Front need wild Utah developed for oil. All hail ExxonMobil! There’s copper to be had and silver to be had and gold, oh yes, that fabulously fabulous gold to be had, and Utah needs more tax dollars for its “rainy day fund.”

There are palatial recreational homes to be built, so screw the national forests. Well, except when the damn forests burn and those palatial cabins get cremated.

Wild lands and Utah? Wild lands are a mere stumbling block on the still-to-be-built Utah road to a devastated future. Deforested and raped, and God bless Gov. Gary and Utah’s head-inthe-sand Legislature for stealing the future of Utah’s children and grandchildren.

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GERDA ORROCK Via Facebook He’s “self-employed,” the guy has no job, nothing better for him to do.

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JAY MICHAEL GORDON Via Facebook Revelation 1:7 “Behold, He cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him. Even so, Amen.” It’s going to be a treat to watch the

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PRIVATE EY Blame Me

In November, Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer J. Cox was named Best Utahn in our annual Best of Utah issue. As far as I can recall, that was the first time that a Republican office-holder had ever been bestowed the title by our readers, more than 10,000 of whom voted online and via paper ballot. Utah Republicans are nearly always the recipient of our Worst Utahn accolade, as has that weird alien, Jason Chaffetz, for the past two years.

It’s says something about the hip and personable Cox that he’s able to win over so many democrats and independents, who, at minimum, acknowledge he’s not a giant jerk.

Cox was born in Mount Pleasant, down in Sanpete County. Mount Pleasant does not produce jerks—giant or otherwise. Even if it did, I wouldn’t say so, because admitting such would throw shade at my own very distant relatives living throughout the Central Utah region. I’ve written numerous times about Matthew Caldwell, my great-great grandfather, a man fairly well-known in early Utah history who was a reluctant polygamist and veteran of the Mormon Battalion. He lived a time in what became Cox’s backyard, so for all I know, the second-in-command and I are cousins somehow. I can’t imagine that discovering so would cause Cox to celebrate.

He should though, because I think he’s a pretty darned OK guy on Twitter. He appears to believe a bridge is better than a barrier. If the election were tomorrow, I’d be hard pressed not to vote for him. I’m certain there are Democrats out there—and others balancing their tightly calibrated politician fitness scales—who would slay me for not supporting their ideal candidate, whoever it might be.

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In my formative years as a legal voter, Utah had a Democratic governor. First, the popular Calvin L. Rampton who passed the seat to equally popular Scott M. Matheson. Utah even had a Democratic U.S. senator in Frank E. Moss. It was a rosy period for the state. Then Matheson stepped aside in 1985, deciding not to run again. Thus, for a Christ lifetime of 33 years, the statehouse has been ruled from the top by a string of Republicans. Since Moss lost his senate seat to Orrin Hatch in 1976, no Democrat has won a Senate election. In the same period, state Republicans elected to the House of Representatives have served a total of 118 years in Washington, D.C., while Utah Democrats have served 12.

The only time I met Matheson, I thanked him for the nice pay raise he gave me. He goes, “Huh?” I told him that when he became governor, my unemployment check went up by $5 a week, providing me with an extra carton of cigarettes and two beers. His look back to me was, “That’s so dumb.

I’m outta here.” Less than a decade later, he was.

I’m a firm believer in the Butterfly Effect, so I also remember thinking when Matheson retired, that it was somehow my fault. See, I thought if only I’d skipped school that day and not gone with my class to the Utah State Capitol, Matheson wouldn’t have resigned. We crazy people believe things like that. Therefore, I curse myself twice because on that same day, I also met Orrin Hatch, a crappy attorney from Pittsburg running for U.S. Senate. Looking back, Hatch won by being Trump before Trump: Don’t stand for anything, make your opponent look weak and shamelessly say anything any time, because voters don’t pay attention to course-correcting truths.

Hatch had two claims to fame back then. First, he had been an attorney for George Norman, a businessman charged with absconding $50,000 from a Colorado bank.

It’s muddy, but basically the judge allowed Norman to make last-minute phone calls prior to going to jail, with Hatch at his side. Mysteriously, Norman just drove off by himself—leaving Hatch standing goofy eyed on the sidewalk. He was captured 23 years later, somehow having amassed an estimated $50 million fortune.

Second, Hatch claimed to have met so many people while running for Senate that he had to protect his right elbow and therefore, thrust his left hand forward when meeting people. I remember thinking that if my coal mining Cretan grandfather saw me shaking Hatch’s hand, he’d probably roast me on a spit. I told Hatch we might be kin because I’m related to lots of Hatches thanks to my polygamist greatgreat grandfather. His astonished look said it all: “I hope not!” That’s how we met though, me using my right hand to shake his left. Try that. It’s awkward. He’s been backhanding Utah ever since. Have any of you ever seen him about town? Nope. He’s never been one of us. He’s the butterfly who didn’t belong but which changed everything else for the worse wherever he landed.

Since Hatch first took office, Utah changed politically.

We became as insane as he is; as double faced; as mean and narrow minded. Democrats became hated. I hold Hatch in no high favor whatsoever, I cannot wait for him to leave office, and wish that for even small pieces of his conspicuously vacant Senate career, he would have risen to more than an escort for financial absconders, bookended by George Norman and Donald Trump.

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No doubt about it—choke, choke—air quality was, is and will be the biggest story of the year in Utah. This is mainly because the state is schizophrenic when it comes to the health and well-being of its citizens.

Good for you, Gov. Gary Herbert, for asking the Legislature to cough up (no pun intended) $100 million for clean air. Too bad you still think coal is the future of Utah industry and businesses shouldn’t be burdened with unnecessary regulations—you know, to tamp down on those particulates. Here’s the sad state of affairs: Rep. Stewart Barlow, R-Fruit Heights, who heads the Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environmental Quality Appropriations Subcommittee, tells The Salt Lake Tribune the state’s economy might be slowing down. And while Herbert suggests incentivizing wood-burning stove replacements, you might remember that didn’t go very far.

Misguided Taxes

Just to belabor the point—you remember, air quality is the story of the year—Rep. Joel Briscoe, D-Salt Lake, is valiantly trying to pass a carbontax bill this year. Ha! That’s great—except for the tax part and, well, save the coal industry! But he’s on the right track trying to change behavior. So, you might wonder why the Legislature is so ready to start taxing those electric and hybrid cars—those expensive cars that people hope will save the planet. The Deseret News’ Jay Evensen thinks that’s not too bad because it’s just so unfair to other vehicle owners. If you want to be fair, he says tax miles driven.

The D-News, meanwhile, is running a thoughtfully researched series on air pollution. One story prominently mentions Utah’s anti-health politics. Another—pay attention, governor—offers a graphic that shows the top reason tech employees might leave the state is air quality.

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Finally, we start the year with a great disdain for the citizenry and more especially legislative constituents. Marijuana. Enough said about the most misunderstood word in the English language. And did you know it wasn’t even on the ballot? Utahns voted overwhelmingly—despite the “Mormon” influence—to approve medical cannabis, a derivative with usually less THC than its recreational counterpart. Still, the Legislature has deemed it crucial to interfere in the legislation because opioids are apparently the drug of choice. Watch now for it to mess with the redistricting initiative because incumbents might lose to more popular alternatives. Medicaid expansion is probably also on the chopping block because it will cost something and Utah would rather spend money on roads than on sick people.

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don’t need to belabor that point. But they used to be much more stringent— despite whatever .05 news you’re reading these days. For example, to drink at a bar, customers once had to buy “memberships”—kind of like a cover charge.

Now, that’s a relic of a darker past.

Sarah Hughes Figure skater Sarah Hughes was another bright spot for U.S. Olympians in 2002. The New York native won gold in the singles competition in Salt Lake.

She also still makes appearances at the games. During the 2018 events in Pyeongchang, she traveled there as part of the U.S. presidential delegation.

Apolo Anton Ohno Still getting those checks from big-time Olympic advertisers, Apolo Anton Ohno reemerges about every two years when there’s more Olympic programming to be had. The athlete sped onto the global speed-skating scene in 2002 at the Olympic Oval in Kearns and won the first of his two gold medals in Olympic competition in Salt Lake.

Mitt Romney Ho hum, we’ve heard his name hundreds of times the past year. The former CEO of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee is now one of our two U.S. senators and will surely remind people of how he rescued the scandal-ridden 2002 games should Salt Lake be chosen as the next host city.

George W. Bush Bush became the first sitting president to open the Olympic games on U.S. soil.

Today, many would probably welcome him back with open arms because who knows what the current commanderin-chief might do instead. CW

it didn’t result in gold for the U.S. The men’s and women’s teams lost to Canada in each gold-medal game.

Countdown Clock You can still see the Olympic Countdown clock in downtown Salt Lake. The clock, shaped like an arrowhead, is located at the Arena Trax station south of the Triad Center. It’s not counting down the days until the Olympics anymore, or will it once again?

Olympic Village The Olympic Village was located at the U next to Fort Douglas and it’s still there today, though the buildings are used for other purposes. Now, sometimes described as a promiscuous village at each Olympic Games (these people are really in shape!), one can only imagine what some of Utah’s conservative brethren would make of these worldclass sex-havers invading the city. Then again, look at all the kids at a nearby ward and what group really is the most promiscuous?

UTA Trax Ahhh, Trax—the city’s light rail system.

Some might say it brought Salt Lake City into a new and much-needed public transportation era. It was, of course, built with the Olympics in mind and since then, has expanded across the valley. Who knows what UTA might have in store should the city host the games again.

U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association moved its headquarters to Park City following the 2002 games. The HQ location is one reason many prominent athletes such as Ted Ligety live in Park City to train.

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is still displayed at Rice-Eccles Stadium. Following the games, it was lit once again in 2006 for the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. However, because of old parts and lack of maintenance, the torch no longer works. Sigh.

Olympic Oval The Olympic Oval in Kearns is fast.

Well, the people who skate on it are.

The facility was built specifically for the games and is the highest in the world at 4,675 feet above sea level. As a result, a number of records have been set at the oval thanks to less air resistance and oxygen frozen in the ice.

Olympic Park Located in Park City, the Olympic Park was the site of 2002’s ski jumping and sliding events and still operates today unlike similar now-abandoned venues across the world. One gold star for us.

Soldier Hollow Soldier Hollow, built specifically for the 2002 games, served as the site for crosscountry skiing and biathlon events and is still in use today. Located about 50 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, people can visit the resort for cross-country lessons or partake in the biathlon themselves.

Ice Sheet at Ogden The ice sheet hosted the games’ curling competition and has since held World Curling Federation-sanctioned events, because curling is awesome, duh. Today, it offers skating, hockey, curling and figure-skating options for the public as well as hosting the Ogden Mustangs, a junior ice hockey team.

E-Center Don’t you dare call it the E-Center. It’s the Maverik Center these days. Corporate advertising rashes aside, the West Valley City arena was home to the hockey events during the 2002 games. Unfortunately,

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t’s the doldrums of winter here in Salt Lake City. We all know it stinks—the inversion, dirty snow, the questionable driving and the impending doom this year’s legislative session might usher in. Will lawmakers figure out medical cannabis or be too busy acting like they’re the ones who are high?

Is the air actually cleaner today than 17 years ago, as one state GOP rep says? We digress. There was one winter, however, when February was the most exciting time in the city. The year was 2002, and all eyes were on SLC. If you’ve had your head buried in snow, you might not have heard Salt Lake City will be the U.S. Olympic Committee’s bid site for a future Winter Games—again. The city beat out its mile-high neighbors to the east and Reno-Tahoe Californians and Nevadans to the west.

Utah’s Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox even got in on the fun. “Suck it, Denver,” he tweeted after repeating the “Don’t say it” phrase multiple times to mimic the viral tweet. “Really just kidding, Denver … you guys are great!” he later clarified. But we know how he feels.

So let’s bask in those bragging rights, take a victory lap, do a little jig in hopes the city is the chosen one once more and take a trip down memory lane. Here are a few things, people and places that turned the town into a winter sports mecca nearly two decades ago.

The Hoberman Arch Bring back the arch! The iconic metal structure that was used as the backdrop for 2002’s medal ceremonies is wasting away in a storage facility somewhere in the city. Following the games, the arch was moved from downtown to Rice-Eccles Stadium near the Olympic Cauldron. It was unceremoniously disassembled in 2014 in favor of stadium expansions and now collects dust.

At least there are plenty other arches around the state to check out. Right?

Olympic Cauldron Unlike the arch, the Olympic cauldron

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Will Winter Games redux be a boon for SLC, or is the state headed toward a total Olympocalypse?

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Olympic Pioneers Last month, Gov. Gary Herbert and Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski gathered at the City and County building to share some news—the capital city had once again been

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bar-goers continued to flock to the members-only Dead Goat Saloon, headbanged at the lively Zephyr Club or got wild at Club Blue; and in the wake of Britney Spears’ vehicle Crossroads—released in movie theaters a week before the games—Jordan School District officials issued a ruling banning its female students from baring their midriffs or cleavage, displaying piercings and sporting “disruptive” hair color.

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chosen by the U.S. Olympic Committee to bid for an upcoming Winter Olympics. Utah could host the games in 2030, less than three decades after its first big bash.

“We won!” Herbert cheered, jubilant that SLC had beaten Denver as a future U.S. bid city. It appeared Salt Lake was back in the International Olympic Committee’s good graces, despite the 1988 bid scandal when locals gave $1 million in cash, medical care, scholarships and NBA tickets to IOC members and their families.

“It ripped this community apart,” Natalie Gochnour, who worked in Gov. Mike Leavitt’s office in 2002, says of the controversy and resulting soul-searching. “There were some bad things that happened. And when I say bad things, think of paying for votes.”

Transgressions be damned! The Mormon mecca, not the Mile-High City, will get another shot at hosting the Winter Olympics and Paralympics. As Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox so eloquently put it, “Suck it, Denver!”

Utah politicians had been jostling for an Olympics reboot for years, an enthusiasm that’s apparently matched among their

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Colin Hilton and his colleagues at the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics and Paralympics watched the towers fall. The attacks made him unsure whether Utah would host the international competitions, as planned.

“Were they gonna get canceled?” Hilton had asked.

Still, life went on. Locals had mostly brushed the Olympic bribery scandal from a couple of years prior under the carpet;

national frown upside down, by gosh, that was Utah. Undeterred, and with many still in mourning, the Beehive State welcomed visitors from around the world for a combined 25-day party that, to this day, is remembered fondly inside and outside its borders. “If anything, [9/11] galvanized the organizing committee and the community to host the world when the world needed unity,” Hilton, now the president and CEO of the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation, says.

“It was a sense of pride and world unity that I’ve never seen since,” he says wistfully before reflecting on the political polarization that’s come to define our fractious times. “And that’s too bad,” he adds. “We need more of that today. And that is an opportunity why I think we’re excited about looking at hosting again.”

ome 52,000 people stood in silence on a frigid February evening as U.S. Olympic athletes, Port Authority police and New York City cops and firefighters carried a tattered American flag into Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium. As the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Utah Symphony intoned the national anthem, a soldier watched the Salt Lake City scene from a television in Kandahar, Afghanistan, mouthing the words, “and the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave” as his countrymen hoisted a fresh flag up a pole.

“The temperature here is in the 20s, but that’s not the cause of the goosebumps now,” NBC broadcaster Bob Costas said once the banner had been raised. The 2002 Winter Olympics opening ceremony was in full swing.

Five months earlier, on Sept. 11, 2001, that flag had been waving outside the World Trade Center when members of al-Qaida flew two airplanes into the skyscrapers, the Pentagon and into the ground in Shanksville, Pa. Almost 3,000 people were killed that day across three targeted sites, making it the single-deadliest terrorist attack in human history.

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The infrastructure from the ’02 games is well maintained and still standing. Colin Hilton, the head of the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation, says facilities like the ski jump are invaluable community resources for local youth. “Sport allows kids to develop life skills, and that’s a hallmark of our programs,” he says. constituents. According to an exploratory committee report that analyzed whether the state should try to host another Olympics, 89 percent of Utahns support bidding for another Winter Games.

That eagerness has not been matched by other nations in recent years. “It’s gotten to the point where a lot of cities and countries are going, ‘Why would we want to do this?’”

Hilton says, admitting that many outside the state don’t see the point in pumping so much money into hosting the international event. “Calgary was the seventh city in a row to have a public referendum to vote ‘No’ against hosting the Olympics,” he points out.

There were rumblings in Colorado’s capital that its residents could follow suit. Brad Evans is a member of Let Denver Vote, a group of activists still fighting to get a referendum on the municipal election ballot next May, despite the fact their city has been overlooked for a 2030 bid. “We just wanted to make sure if it does come here or doesn’t come here, the public participates in a transparent and meaningful way,” Evans says.

Each modern Olympic Games has had a public-finance component, Evans says. “The hard cost ends up being footed by the taxpayer,” he explains, meaning roads, facilities and infrastructure. “I love the Olympics, personally … but we don’t love the debt that comes with hosting the parties.”

Salt Lake City is already in the midst of upgrading its infrastructure, independent of a looming possibility of hosting Winter Games. Mayor Biskupski said during the bid announcement that the city’s airport upgrades will be finished by 2024, doubling its international-flight area. “We will be ready to host the world with a brand new airport,” Biskupski later told City Weekly, “and welcome them in a way that we couldn’t before.”

Local public transportation also is being expanded, Biskupski says. “The beauty of choosing Salt Lake City for this opportunity is we are already in motion, and so is the county, in adding additional transit opportunities in the county and in the city,” she says, mentioning the Transit Master Plan that aims to expand local residents’ and visitors’ options for getting around.

“Transit opportunities will be coming online for these games that did not exist before.”

The city has built miles of commuter rail lines since 2002, Salt Lake City Transportation Division Director Jon Larsen says. And prior to hosting the games, local leaders shortened the timetables on existing ventures. “I think a lot of cities and regions like to use the Olympics as an excuse to accelerate projects,” Larsen says, like stretching the TRAX red line to the University of Utah. “It was insane how fast the UTA expanded their rail system.”

Between the voter-approved $87-million bond and the half-penny sales tax increase OK’d by the City Council, Larsen points out, the city has the funds to maximize locals’ opportunities for walking and biking. (And scooting, for you adventurous types.) “We continue to really emphasize making it as easy as possible to get around without having a car,” he says. “That’s the best way to accommodate a lot of people.”

In other words, Larsen says the city isn’t putting tax dollars toward Olympic-specific infrastructure. “These are just things we’re doing anyway,” he says. “Having the Olympics just makes it more exciting, and just adds to that sense of urgency.”

Becoming, and Maintaining, a Winter Wonderland

To understand why Utah wants to play party-thrower when so many other cities are saying, “Hell NOlympics,” you have to look back to the mid-1980s. Gochnour, now the director of the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, says the state made a decision when it diverted $59 million of public money to build Olympic facilities before a bid had even been secured.

“We took a pretty big risk. We took your sales taxes and diverted them to build ovals and ski jumps and bobsled runs, and did that without knowing we would have the games, all under the promise that it was about something bigger than the games,” she says. “It was about becoming a winter-sports capital.”

In Hilton’s telling, the investment paid off. The state made its $59 million back and issued $76 million as a legacy endowment, which generates $4 million in interest every year. That’s money that Hilton’s staff draws on to cover some of the $17 million it costs annually to operate the facilities. According to the state’s Olympic and Paralympic exploratory committee report, the overall economic impact the ’02 Winter Games had on Utah was more than $6 billion, an eye-popping amount the committee expects to meet, if not surpass, should Utah host the games again.

The existing Olympic infrastructure in nearby places like Kearns and Park City, Hilton says, gives the area an advantage over other cities interesting in bidding. It’s also why the exploratory committee expects a 2030 Olympics to cost about $1.3 billion in today’s dollars, a pithy sum compared to the $52 billion it cost for Russia to put on the Sochi Olympics in 2014. “The concept of creating a sustainable operation of these legacy venues was something new in the Olympic movement,” Hilton says of the state’s decision to look decades into the future when constructing its wintry athletic paradise. “It really established a culture that continues today.”

Hilton pulls out a wrinkled spreadsheet from behind his desk at Park City’s Olympic Park. The report details all the improvements each facility will need over the next decade, including a roof replacement at the Olympic Oval in the spring, that should ring in at around $1 million. Altogether, Hilton says renovations over the following 10 years will cost around $40 million.

That’s an assessment the state agrees with. Legislators released an audit in October 2017 that found they’d need to fork out $39 million in upgrades in order to make sure the region would be able to host international competitions like the World Cup and Winter Olympics.

Those in favor of hosting another Olympics have repeatedly said the state could put on the grand affair without touching taxpayer money, but Hilton concedes the funding for these renovations will come from Utahns’ pockets. “That is the one area where we asked for and received commitment from the state of Utah to help us with these capitalimprovements costs,” Hilton says, explaining that each year he can apply for grant funds to cover some of the backlogged repairs. “Ahead of the games, is the state putting in some funding, tax funding, for upkeep, over the next 10 years? Yes.” All that refurbishing isn’t for the Olympics, per se. According to the exploratory committee

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Gov. Gary Herbert, SLC Mayor Jackie Biskupski and other local Olympics cheerleaders gathered at the City and County Building last month to celebrate a potential 2030 Winter Olympics in SLC. “The 2002 games turned out so extremely well that the people in this state are extremely proud and still have that fire within them about the Games,” Biskupski told City Weekly.

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It’s a cold December day in Park City, but most of the para athletes seem numb to all but the pressure of competing in the Para World Cup series that morning. Most competitors’ tensions are high and their tempers short, but Dave Nicholls is calm and collected as he prepares for his second slide down Utah Olympic Park’s bobsled track.

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One potential roadblock to Utah officially landing the 2030 Winter Olympics is climate change. The exploratory report lists three major risks to local climate: fewer days where the temperature is below freezing, unseasonably warm weather and stronger high-pressure ridges that cause drier, warmer conditions.

“There’s always concern about climate change and global warming, and whether that’s man-caused or just happening in the Earth’s cycles,” Gov. Herbert tells City Weekly at the City and County building after bragging about SLC beating out Denver for the Olympic bid. “Doesn’t matter. But certainly there’s concern about that.”

Basking in the Olympic glow and wielding a “Utah can do anything” mentality, Herbert says he’s encouraged by this winter’s snowfall so far, and he says lawmakers will do what they can to encourage snow-friendly conditions, which could include passing climatefriendly legislation. “We have the greatest snow on Earth,” he boasts. “We’re going to do

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everything we can to make sure we’re good stewards of the Earth.”

If not, Herbert adds, man-made snow could make up for a dry winter. “We can host the Winter Olympics, and I’m sure the climate will in fact be in condition to have that happen,” he says.

The realities of climate change have forced Hilton’s staff to adapt to shortened seasons.

“We’re trying to keep up with advanced snowmaking systems, and stockpiling snow when we can,” he says, “or knowing when the temps are cold enough that we’re blowing snow and getting the hills open.”

Should Utah land the 2030 games, Hilton suggests pushing the Paralympics up by a week, so there’s not much of a gap between the two events. “When we get into March, we know the sun gets really warm and the conditions of the outdoor events is compromised,” he says.

Another issue is the budgeting. According to a 2016 University of Oxford study, Salt Lake City’s Olympics cost $2.5 billion. That’s 24 percent over its budget—more than expected, but just the second-lowest overrun among all Winter Olympics held between 1960 and 2016.

Andrew Zimbalist, the Robert A. Woods professor of economics at Smith College in Massachusetts and author of Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup, tells City Weekly that it’s plausible Salt Lake City could again host the games without running up a huge deficit, given that much of the infrastructure already exists. But, he adds, that doesn’t mean it’s going to be the “cat’s meow” and represent an automatic economic windfall.

Locals could get frustrated with traffic jams or the increased security presence, Zimbalist suggests, and skiers and snowboarders who might otherwise flock to Snowbird and Alta might sit that season out, to avoid maddening crowds. Plus, there’s the matter of where the athletes will be housed. In 2002, they were holed up in dorms at the U. “I don’t know how that’s going to be handled this time around,” Zimbalist says.

The exploratory committee report estimates the university has 3,100 total beds on its campus, “with more anticipated after 2020 to meet rising student enrollment.” Zimbalist suggests the university could structure its 2030 academic calendar so that students would be on leave or at off-site internships when the athletes come into town, but “it’s still going to be disruptive.”

Zimbalist says proper planning and awareness of potential pitfalls is paramount to hosting a fiscally responsible Winter Games. But, he says, not all the concerns can be quantified. “I do think that even if you can’t measure it in dollar terms, there’s some costs there.”

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report, Utah has hosted some 150 international winter sports events, from ski races to luge competitions, and 550 elite-level events, since 2002. “We would be doing the upgrades necessary as we go along because we need these same improvements done to host an annual World Cup just as much to host an Olympics,” Hilton says.

The worldly events are only a slice of what the facilities are for, Hilton adds. “These aren’t just for elite-athlete training,” he says of existing infrastructure. “These are community recreation centers.”

Choosing a facility at random, Hilton breaks down a regular day at Kearns’ Olympic Oval.

For most of the year, speed skaters typically train until about 3 p.m. Monday through Saturday, after which youth hockey and figure skating take over the rinks. “As the evening goes on, figure skating transitions to curling league, youth hockey turns into men’s league hockey all the way till midnight, and then we get up at 6 a.m. and do it all over again,” Hilton says. Kids and adults alike also take advantage of public skating as walkers and joggers do laps around the running track. “We call it high performance by day, recreation by night.”

Community athletic facilities like the Oval encourage a healthy lifestyle and help young people develop life skills, Hilton says. Five years ago, his own son did his first backflip into the Olympic Park pool, launching into the water from the nearby ski jump. Once winter came around, he was able to backflip in midair and land on the snow, mimicking the motions he’d practiced over the summer.

Those safe-learning environments get children and teens off the couch and into the wild, positive habits that follow them into adulthood. “They’re seeing nature, they’re learning how to cross-country ski, they’re doing things that are unique, that you can’t do in other communities, by sliding down a bobsled track, or learning how to play hockey, or figure skate,” Hilton says. “We are not just training Olympians. We don’t even have a purpose to create Olympians. We have a series of programs that get people outdoors, introduced to winter sport, and if people have a good time doing it, we feel successful.”

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Going for Gold Gold, silver and bronze requests if SLC were to host a Winter Games again.

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osting the Olympics can be a convenient excuse for development projects, economic booms (albeit, usually temporarily) and even changes to long-standing laws—remember those pesky private-club membership requirements? While Salt Lake City managed to shake the post-Olympic doldrums from 2002 and avoid ending up with ghost-town venues that only take up space, what could be in store for another potential games?

Here are a few wishes we, and likely you, would want to see happen in the runup to potential Winter Olympics. Some are more of a pipe dream, while others are totally doable. The time for bicycle bars is now!

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Widen bike lanes and devote more resources to further developing bike infrastructure If the Olympics can inspire political willpower to expand train lines, why not bike lanes, too? Jon Larsen, Salt Lake City’s transportation director, previously told City Weekly that, love ’em or hate ’em, electric scooters could lead to more investment in bike lanes throughout the city. Perhaps an influx of visitors from more bikefriendly continents like Europe will inspire officials to double-down.

If not the scooters, maybe e-Pogo Balls or fry sauce-fueled Jetsonsstyle spaceships could usher in change (hey, it’s the future).

During inversion season, establish days where vehicles with odd numbers at end of license plates drive on odd days and vice versa OK, this might sound a bit radical. After all, this is telling people they can’t drive at all on certain days or they’ll face penalties. Ever heard of Beijing? That city has had some of the world’s worst air. The government ordered certain cars could only drive on certain days and roads, and guess what? It didn’t eliminate the pollution, but it helped. Worst case scenario for the Olympics: We have red (or action) days the entire time.

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Restore the Hoberman Arch There are few 2002 Games supporting characters as iconic as the Hoberman Arch (sorry, Coal the bear). So why not dust it off and restore it to its original glory? Once the daddy of the Olympic Medal Plaza’s stage, the high-tech arch has since been dismantled and placed in a storage facility to gather dust. If the games return, bring back the damn arch.

Allow pedal taverns around downtown This is a longshot, we know. But pedaling around downtown on a mobile pub? Mobile bars are a big hit in places like Nashville, Tenn.

You BYOB, exercise and get a little crunk. Yes, the state has enough problems trying to regulate all its brick-and-mortar watering holes, but oh, what a joyous thing would it be.

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Draft beer higher than 4.0 ABV (Bronze) It’s time for Utah to stop being a pain in the ass of beer drinkers and breweries everywhere. Lifelong Utahns are used to this, but speaking as a Beehive State transplant, the diluted drafts have got to go.

Of all the nutty Mormonisms codified as state law, few are as harebrained as cutting beer ABV. Nothing says “shame” like hundreds of thousands of national and international visitors wondering why the hell they have to drink seven beers to work up a buzz. Cheers to that.

Expand public transportation Salt Lake City’s public transportation infrastructure got a big boost from the last Olympics (think Trax). So why not use that as motivation for public transit’s next big development? Maybe more train routes? Cleaner buses? A possible hyperloop? A public-input survey on teletransportation? The possibilities are endless.

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Para bobsled pilot Dave Nicholls prepares to start his second run down the track in Park City.

“I’ve seen different facilities around the world,” he says, “and I think this is pretty top-notch.”

Nicholls’ tranquility is a part of his pregame ritual, which starts the night before he races. He does “mind runs” when he’s in bed, visualizing the track. “You have to know every curve. You have to know that Curve 13 is a left on this track, whereas Curve 4 in Calgary is a left,” he says. “You have to know what to do because the stuff comes at you super, super fast. And one mistake, you can run out of real estate and flip.”

He’d gotten to the course early that morning, to make sure that his equipment was ready and his helmet wouldn’t fog up, and to brace for his body and steel sled reaching speeds of up to 75 miles per hour as he careens down the icy path. His next heat should start soon, so he’s trying to relax and remove himself from the strain of the elite competition.

Nicholls has trained in Park City for the past dozen winters. In the summer, he conditions in Israel, where he has dual citizenship. He’s the country’s only bobsled pilot.

A bearded, burly man sitting in a wheelchair and wearing a blue pullover with an Israeli flag stitched into it, Nicholls says he was the first “wheelie guy in a chair” to compete for the North American Cup, a competition that doesn’t typically feature paraplegic athletes.

“I started sliding in a two-man sled like 14 years ago, so I have a two-man license,” he says.

“The rules allow you to start seated in able-bodied [competitions], so it works well.”

Nicholls was a competitive NCAA skier before a skiing accident damaged his spine 15 years ago. The year after his injury, he started bobsledding. “It’s a great sport. It does a lot for people’s mentality and stuff, and keeps you in shape,” he says. He’s also a goalie for a Las Vegas sled hockey team, a sport he says is similar to bobsledding. “You have to be quick and you have to be on it. It’s all moment-to-moment. You have to react. What’s in the past is in the past.”

Like the community members who frequent the Kearns Oval, the young athletes like Hilton’s son who ski-jump into the park’s pool or the forlorn and anxious souls comforted by a display of world unity in the aftermath of incomprehensible violence, Nicholls is a beneficiary of Utah’s Olympic legacy. Economic impacts can be quantified, but at least part of the 2002 Winter Games impact is intangible.

“It was a long road coming, to get to the point where we could ever even be on the ice,” Nicholls says after sliding down the track in 50.19 seconds. For 14 years, he and a few others have fought to elevate para bobsledding. “There were times when we were not allowed on the track. There were times we were told this sport wasn’t for us,” Nicholls says. “That it was too dangerous and too risky, and it just wasn’t going to happen.”

Participating in such a highly competitive contest, Nicholls says, means a lot to para athletes like himself. “Just a feeling of equity and equality that, ‘Hey we’re just like everybody else, and should have the same opportunity to participate,’” he says, intimating Olympic and Paralympic values like determination, respect and equality. “Just because we’re on wheels or missing a leg doesn’t mean we can’t do this, or shouldn’t have the ability to do it.”

Losing a leg or breaking your back is a traumatic, life-altering experience. “A lot of things change, mentally and physically,” Nicholls says. To some, becoming a para athlete means an opportunity to regain some control of their life, to move forward and grow after a seemingly incomprehensible tragedy like the U.S. did with 9/11. “I tell people that the story isn’t really all about bobsled. It’s about changing people’s lives and getting them to where they want to be,” Nicholls says. “We just happen to do it through sport.” CW

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For those who can’t wait for the Game of Thrones’ premiere this April, Pioneer Theatre Co. is offering a healthy dose of royal backstabbing and scheming in their upcoming production of The Lion in Winter. Best-known for the Academy-award winning 1968 film adaptation starring Katharine Hepburn and Peter O’Toole, the play depicts the tempestuous relationship between Henry II and his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, as they fight over which of their sons will inherit the English throne.

Esau Pritchett (pictured, right), who plays Henry II, says you don’t need to have seen the famous movie or have an in-depth knowledge of the historical context in order to enjoy the show.

“I love for audiences to come in with an empty cup and fill it while they’re here,” he says. “I’m always interested in what audiences get from a show; there’s always a diverse reaction.”

The production isn’t a museum piece—the set design, costuming and even the racial makeup of the cast differ from historical reality. Pritchett says that while the show will still be visually stunning, the production’s main focus is on the drama between the members of this extremely dysfunctional family.

Vreni Romang, publicity manager for PTC, says that while the play is a high-stakes drama, it also has a dark humor that the actors play up well. “Our actors are amazing. There’s an amazing intensity about them,” she says. “It’s a drama, but they’re so snippy and witty with each other.” (Kylee Ehmann) The Lion in Winter @ Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6961, Jan. 4-19, dates and times vary, $30-$50, pioneertheatre.org

As part of its marketing for their 2018-19 season, the Utah Symphony playfully positioned their musicians as rock stars, dressing up some of those musicians in riffs on familiar faces from the world of popular music. Among them—including variations on Kiss and Bob Dylan—was violinist and Utah Symphony concertmaster Madeline Adkins (pictured), who put on the iconic makeup from David Bowie’s 1973 Aladdin Sane album cover.

It’s an effective way of conveying that talent doesn’t have to be accompanied by stuffiness, as evidenced by the works in the program for Utah Symphony’s first performance of 2019. Adkins will serve as the featured soloist for composer Karol Szymanowski’s 1922 Violin Concerto No. 1, a distinctly unromantic piece inspired by the work of Polish poet Tadeusz Micinski. The violinist brings talents informed by her diverse interests— including baroque performances on period-accurate instruments—and her history growing up as the child of musicologists.

Conducted by Xian Zhang, the program also features Joan Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 1; a suite of familiar melodies from Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty; Strauss the younger’s overture to The Gypsy Baron and polka française Bitte schön!; and Richard Strauss’ suite from Der Rosenkavalier. As a special treat for attendees, enjoy sparkling drinks and desserts before the performance and during the intermission, just in case you didn’t get your fill of bubbly saying farewell to 2018. Like any rock stars, these folks know how to party. (Scott Renshaw) Utah Symphony: A New Year’s Celebration @ Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, Jan. 4-5, 7:30 p.m., $15$84, utahsymphony.org

At its founding in 1966, Repertory Dance Theatre was less a simple dance company than a dance cooperative—a setup steeped in the ideals of the time, where dancers shared the power of director and choreographer. As the company performed old works, holding onto the history that was just beginning to accumulate in the canon of modern dance, it also created new works that would advance that art.

Today, RDT’s mission is little-changed.

Emerge—a special season addition now in its third year—holds on to the part of that mission that allows each company member to be more than just a piece of someone else’s work. This year’s Emerge will feature works created by seven RDT company members and three staffers.

RDT’s two newest members—Daniel Do and Elle Johansen, both native Salt Lakers—will try their hand at choreography; Do has previously shown work at the Fertile Ground Festival in Portland, Ore. Executive/Artistic Director Linda C. Smith, a founding member of the company 52 years ago, will also have a piece in the performance. Smith’s new choreography has the potential to be a standout event for the company’s entire season—even moreso since the solo piece will be performed by company dancer Efren Corado Garcia. Over the last six years, Garcia’s performances—from Limón’s Missa Brevis to Zvi Gotheiner’s Dabke—have filled the stage with the kind of power, grace and emotion that comes from a truly gifted artist. This season will be Garcia’s last with RDT. (Katherine Pioli) Repertory Dance Theatre: Emerge @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-3552787, Jan 4, 7:30 p.m.; Jan. 5, 2 & 7:30 p.m., $12-$15, artsaltlake.org

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Big Jay Oakerson’s featured billing at New York comedy clubs, frequent festival appearances, Comedy Central specials, popular podcasts, regular television, radio and cable appearances, and two best-selling comedy albums (An American Storyteller and What’s Your F@#king Deal?!) have made him one of the most recognizable comedians in the country. Nevertheless, his self-effacing style and early struggles suggest that he, like other unassuming individuals, has never had an easy time of it. Raised by a single mother who worked full time, he quit college after a month to pursue a career in comedy, but took jobs as a bouncer at a strip club and a performer at children’s parties just to pay the rent. Don’t ask us how those two scenarios have anything in common. A man’s gotta do what he’s gotta do.

That includes avoiding political correctness and talking dirty and directly, with full foul-mouthed frenzy, much like many average guys would do while hanging at a bar or talking trash with friends. He can sound ornery and innocent all at the same time, like the time he told Conan O’Brien that he was very nearly sued as a kid when the family of a girl he had been hanging with accused him of ruining her reputation. And the two weren’t even dating.

Yes, he can seem intimidating with is imposing physical presence—he’s not called “Big” Jay for nothing—but there’s something sympathetic about a hapless guy trying to deal with the obstacles and absurdities that confront and confound us all. Who wouldn’t, at least occasionally, want to vent Jay’s way? (Lee Zimmerman) Big Jay Oakerson @ Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Jan. 4-5, 7 & 9:30 p.m., $20, wiseguyscomedy.com

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iles Romney knows from personal experience what it’s like to be a creative artist, wondering whether it was possible to make art in Utah. The Long Island native attended college in Utah, but moved to Los Angeles because he believed that was the only way to make it in the media business. “I love Los Angeles, but Utah really spoke to me, and I wanted to get back to Utah,” Romney says. “While I was in Los Angeles, I had friends who were animating for Pixar, and they were happy to be there, but didn’t love [California]. They’d prefer to be back … expressing their art in Utah than doing grunt work in Los Angeles. But at that time, they saw no real path for getting there.”

Addressing the gap between local creative artists and the need for an infrastructure that allows them to create without moving out of state was part of the motivation behind the creation of Media Accelerator Studio (MAST), a new program of the Salt Lake Film Society co-founded by Romney and SLFS CEO Tori Baker. Announced at a media event on Dec. 17, MAST is intended to be an educational opportunity for post-graduate storytellers in a wide range of media— filmmakers, animators, game-designers and more—and is a development program

Romney describes as “taking artists … and making them artist-entrepreneurs.”

“So often, I’ve heard people say, ‘I’ve got my film degree, I made a short film, even did pretty well in festivals, but then I didn’t know what to do. Do I have to move to L.A. or Vancouver or New York?’” Romney says. “In that way, it’s similar to law school, where you have students coming out with their J.D., and they know the law, but they know nothing about the business of the law. This particular industry has few places where graduates can go to learn the business of the business.”

The project has been long gestating, born out of both Romney’s observations and Baker’s desire to grow the mission of SLFS beyond theatrical exhibition. “Any good nonprofit will evolve with its community’s needs,” Baker says. “If storytelling is changing—I don’t, for instance, see my 12-year-old daughter differentiating between a movie, a television show, a web series and a 30-second YouTube clip. … The world is evolving; how are we evolving as well, so that we’re not relegated to being a museum?”

It might seem unnecessary to teach 21stcentury artists about these evolutions in storytelling platforms, but Romney notes there’s still work to be done educating creators about the different options available to them for making money as an artist.

“We still run into a lot of young filmmakers who expect to do it the way it’s been done for 40 years in terms of ‘I’m going to write my script, take some workshops on how to pitch … maybe take it to a film market and find a sales agent, [and] they’ll sell it into the system,’” Romney says. “But as soon as you say to them, ‘Wait, where are you watching your media? On your average day, how much time do you spend in a movie theater as opposed to looking at your phone?’ As soon as you make that connection for them, the light bulb goes on, and it really does become clear to them what that alternative trajectory is today.”

The MAST labs themselves—in both traditional physical spaces and online—will,

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in part, help artists learn how to harness the power of alternate distribution forms for brand-building, so they can tap into a ready-built audience for their work. Other programs might address using open-source software to reduce production costs or provide opportunities to connect artists with other physical resources needed for their work. Invited fellows for the MAST program will be able to participate in labs with all expenses paid. Fellows will be drawn in part from scheduled annual competitions, including People of Earth (for writing and photography), MicroDocs (non-fiction filmmaking) and Voices Seen (animation), with submissions open Jan. 1 to Feb. 15 (maststudio.org). Non-fellows will be able to participate in labs on a space-available basis for a yet-to-be-determined fee.

“The metric for the program is not ‘Is their project, at the end of the day, going to be super-successful,’” Baker says. “The metric is, ‘Can we evolve the human beings behind the projects so that we’re building them a network that allows them to learn something that maybe they didn’t know?

MAST co-founder/director Miles Romney at Dec. 17 launch event

And if this project isn’t successful, what do they learn from it that gives them more tools to become successful with the next, or the one after that?’”

That big-picture goal remains connected to the idea of allowing artists to control their own work and the places where they are able to create it. As Romney sees it, that’s a benefit not just for the artists, but for the people who get a chance to experience their work. “Stories ignite our imaginations and our empathies for other human beings, and the more people who have the tools of storytelling at their disposal, and the greater diversity of stories we can be exposed to, that will result in a rising of the human condition,” Romney says. “That’s a grand vision: Good, true, diverse storytelling will evolve humanity as a whole. And that means people need to be able to tell their stories based on their own viewpoints, where they are, and don’t have to go to just a few places. Regional storytelling is integral to a wider diversity.” CW

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Ran Duan Alpine Church, 254 W. 2675 North, Layton, Jan. 4, 7 p.m., davisarts.org Utah Symphony: A New Year’s Celebration Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Jan. 4-5, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org (see p. 17)

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Gypsy Wisdom New Year’s Psychic Fair Crone’s Hollow, 3834 S. Main, Jan. 5, noon-6 p.m., croneshollow.com Luminaria Ashton Gardens, 3900 N. Garden Drive, Lehi, through Jan. 5, 5-8 p.m., thanksgivingpoint.org Park City Snow Fest Park City Mountain Resort, 1310 Lowell Ave., Park City, through Jan. 6, parkcitymountain.com

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Miss Great Beehive State Pageant Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, Jan. 6, 7 p.m., metromusichall.com

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Jaron Lanier Eccles Center, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, Jan. 5, 7:30 p.m., ecclescenter.org

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Bryton Sampson: Plastic Portraits Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through Feb. 14, slcpl.org Daniel Everett: Security Questions UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Jan. 12, utahmoca.org DeConstructed Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through Jan. 11, slcpl.org Dreamscapes Kimball Art Center, 638 Park Ave., Park City, through Jan. 6, kimballartcenter.org Emma Goldgar: Chromatic Dreamscapes Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through Feb. 6, slcpl.org

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Baby Boomer Comedy Show The Grande Theatre, 1575 S. State, Jan. 4-5, 7:30 p.m., babyboomercomedyshow.com Big Jay Oakerson Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Jan. 4-5, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com (see p. 17) Chad Prather: Star-Spangled Banter Tour Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Jan. 4, 8 p.m., artsaltlake.org Free Kittens: A Stand-Up Comedy Show The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, Jan. 4, 6 p.m., theurbanloungeslc.com Jacob Leigh Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, West Jordan, Jan. 4-5, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Keith Stubbs Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, Jan. 4, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Laughing Stock Improv Comedy The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, every Friday and Saturday, 10 p.m., theobt.org Sal Vulcano Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Jan. 3, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Seth Tippetts Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, Jan. 5, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com

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Eat Alone

This is something that I didn’t typically do before I started writing

I once listened to Pamela Atkinson, one of Utah’s most recognized authorities in the fight against poverty, discuss the concept of panhandling.

In addition to outlining why it’s not the best way for people to help our homeless community, she offered a solution: Instead of giving money to panhandlers, we should offer to buy them food. It seemed like such a simple idea, so I tried it. When a man approached me asking for some spare change, I instead offered to buy him a sandwich at a nearby Subway. He

Don’t fall into that early-year trap of looking at all the food you like as if it were a coiled rattlesnake waiting to strike. Diet, exercise, cut back—do everything that will start getting you into better habits, but don’t look at the food you love as an enemy. That kind of negative reinforcement only makes dieting harder, and you’re not going to stop seeing doughnut shops and pizza joints during your morning run. Instead, treat the food you’re trying to avoid like a friend you’re starting to get sick of—you still want them to be your friend, but you just need a little space. Tell your favorite cheesecake that you need some alone time.

You’ll check back in once you get your head together, and it’ll still be there when you want to hang out again. CW

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If you have even a modicum of sympathy toward the plight of what’s happening to immigrants at our country’s borders, then you might be looking for ways to help. One thing you can do right now is to visit

one of Salt Lake’s many immigrant-owned eateries. We have a huge population of immigrants, and thanks to organizations like Spice Kitchen (spicekitchenincubator.org ) we can support members of this population as they share their diverse culinary per-

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There’s something terrifying about facing down a pile of offal or a plate of century eggs and willing yourself to take a bite. In some perhaps less extreme cases, a bowl of pho or goat tacos (Try the ones at Rose Park’s El Cabrito, pictured) might trigger the same reaction. Regardless of what your food fear happens to be, let 2019 be the year you confront and defeat it. You’d be surprised at the level of catharsis that comes from trying something that scares you. This realization that you can do scary things often gives you the strength to confront other scary things in your life and take a bite out of them. If you undertake this resolution, make sure you do it with some friends—mainly for entertainment purposes. Pics or it didn’t happen!

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After all, it’s only there to sabotage your diet and lull you back into the comfortable patterns you were enjoying a week ago. The problem with this perspective is that it makes food the bad guy, and let’s be honest with ourselves—food is never the bad guy. I’m not trying to undermine the goals that you’re setting for the new year, but I do have some ideas for incorporating food into some kick-ass resolutions that will make you feel better about yourself and the food you end up eating in 2019.

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was grateful for the food, and I didn’t worry that he’d spend money on something that would make his situation worse. While this isn’t always possible, I’d suggest this to anyone who feels a pang of guilt when they feel like they can’t help out someone less fortunate because they don’t carry cash around. Next time someone asks you for some spare change, offer to buy them a sandwich or whatever is close by instead and see what happens.

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about food, but the restaurant experience is a different beast when you fly solo. For best results, I’d suggest leaving your cell phone in your pocket as well—focusing your attention on the restaurant’s décor and your fellow customers offers a meditative process that engages all of your senses. When your food comes, use this heightened attention to think about how it was prepared. With each bite, think about the flavors and textures of the dish you ordered and what the chef was trying to accomplish by combining them. While it’s definitely more fun to eat out with a group, eating alone offers up a tasty way to unplug and reconnect with your senses.

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A new Thai place called O Eatery (1530 S. 500 West, 801-952-5818) recently opened its doors, offering dishes like short rib massaman curry, drunken noodles, pad thai and a wide variety of Thai-inspired sandwiches.

It’s also got a nice selection of hot noodle soups, which are great antidotes for the cold weather. It also shares space inside a Chevrolet dealership, which is something that I’d honestly like to see more of. I can’t get in and out of an auto shop in under an hour, and having a little place like this in close proximity would help me get through the traumatic experience.

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Marcus Jones of catering service Miss Essie’s BBQ (missessiesbbq.com) is in the midst of a local tour to show off the sauce that started it all. Made from a 100-year-old recipe developed by Jones’ grandmother, Miss Essie Jones, it’s the foundation of Jones’ entire menu. The barbecue guru will set up shop at the Midvale Harmons (7755 S. 700 East) from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 5, to share Miss Essie’s sauce with shoppers. Jones will have bottles of the sauce on sale if you’d like to use it to jazz up any upcoming barbecues that might be on your radar. If you miss him on Saturday, you can catch him at other neighborhood Harmons stores in the weeks to come.

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alifornia’s infamous Camp Fire burned more than 153,000 acres, killed at least 85 people and destroyed more than 13,000 homes. It stands as the most destructive wildfire in the state’s history. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is part of that community; although the brewery was not affected, many of its employees and neighbors were impacted by this tragic event.

In the days following the fire, Sierra Nevada announced plans to brew Resilience Butte County Proud IPA, a fundraiser beer for Camp Fire relief. The brewery committed to brewing the beer and donating 100 percent of its sales to the Sierra Nevada Camp Fire Relief Fund. The brewery also sent out the “bat signal,” calling on their friends in the industry to donate their time and labor.

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More than 1,400 breweries signed up to brew Resilience in their own cities, including two of our own local breweries, who stepped up and answered the call. Uinta Brewing Co. and Salt Flats Brewing recently released their versions of Resilience, adding to the 17,000 barrels—or 4.2 million pints—whose profits will go to those impacted.

Uinta Brewing’s Resilience: The color is a brownish amber that is actually pretty clear. The aroma has fragrant orange blossom and peel, along with pear and pine. The taste is where the hops shine, with that familiar iconic West Coast IPA pine and citrus. I also get orange peel and a lot of bright but not sour fruit flavors, which I interpret as berries. There’s a bit of roasted maltiness to it, but the hops take center stage. The finish is semi-dry—just what you’d expect from a Sierra Nevada-inspired IPA. Overall: This is not a gimmicky beer. It is straightforward, and the 6.5 percent alcohol is designed for drinkability. The outstanding simplicity in its aroma, taste and texture are designed for all beer lovers, even those noobs who aren’t used to the more traditional standards.

Salt Flats’ Resilience: Poured into a clear glass, it shows a cherry-amber color and a thick golden-white head that gradually dissipates, along with good carbonation.

It smells citrusy, with orange and grapefruit peel masking the nose and notes of pineapple. It takes a little digging, but eventu-

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ally I uncover sweet malt and piney scents that might remind the drinker of more oldschool style IPAs—floral with faint biscuit aromas. This all balances the hoppy smell, which strikes the nose very well. The taste starts off piney and very fruity, the flavors of cherry and pineapple being the most prominent. A light caramel flavor is present as well. The taste was more assertive than the smell, for sure. It was also bitter in the aftertaste with remnants of grapefruit peel—altogether crisp and refreshing in the finish.

Overall: This was quite exceptional for a 4 percent ABV interpretation on the Resilience recipe and ingredients. A refined combination of citrus, pine and floral flavors

makes the drinker think back to the days when IPAs were much simpler.

Both breweries will be donating all of the money raised from the sales of these two beers to the Sierra Nevada Camp Fire Relief Fund. And because so many breweries nationwide have responded to the call in brewing Resilience, Sierra Nevada is projecting more than $10 million in proceeds to support Butte County recovery programs. Sierra Nevada alone is putting out about 4,000 barrels of draft and canned Resilience IPA. Some of that might hit the Utah market as well in the coming weeks, giving you multiple opportunities to help out this worthy cause. As always, cheers! CW

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Salt Lake City’s HSL is the latest offering from partners Melissa Gray and Meagan Nash, the same proprietors behind Handle in Park City. The concept behind HSL—which has since burst onto the robust downtown dining scene—is to incorporate locally grown and produced food into a dining experience second to none. Choose from savory options like steelhead trout, a beef cheek burger and grilled flap steak. 418 E. 200 South, 801-539-9999, hslrestaurant.com

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J. Dawgs

As it proclaims on its website, this eatery “takes their dawgs seriously.” With top-quality meat in their Polish and beef hot dogs, daily baked buns and a housemade sauce from a generations-old family recipe, Oscar Mayer these wieners are not. The owner pawned his Fender Telecaster to fund the opening of the original Provo location, and J. Dawgs has since spread to several spots along the Wasatch Front. Their simple menu and tasty food make it easy to see why they’re so popular: dawg, drink and chips—what more do you need? Multiple locations, jdawgs.com

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music is also a celebration of the divine.”

As a longstanding member of academia, Asplund said he’s received some pushback from higher-ups when it comes to framing his work with Avant Vespers as part of his required research or creative work. Referencing the holiness bestowed upon peer review by the ivory tower, he says traditional academic questions like “Did someone invite you to perform at a prestigious venue?” don’t apply to Avant Vespers. Instead, he cites his own personal passion as motivation for the series.

“What I’m doing is the opposite of that,” he says. “It’s a DIY series; I produce it myself and I program my own music. Sometimes it’s tricky to make a case for that to my bosses. But what I’ve always said is that musical events are compositions in and of themselves.

Creating an environment where creativity can flourish is a type of artwork. Some people perceive music making to be bureaucratic or difficult, especially for those who are not already established.

I wanted to create a place and space to be heard for people who aren’t extroverted or savvy but have interesting voices. With Avant Vespers, hopefully they can break through.”

So far, each edition of Avant Vespers has attracted a crowd of about 25 people—some longtime devotees of Asplund’s homespun approach to concerts and some new attendees attracted to a particular performer on the bill. No matter what, he says it’s always a diverse audience: fringe types from the neighborhood, colleagues from BYU, curious fans driving down from Salt Lake City. The Jan. 4 edition should be equally eclectic, with work by Asplund, his daughter Lula, clarinetist Katie Porter, folk singer Stuart Wheeler and poet Fish Burton.

Such a wide-ranging bill might seem radical in the classical music world, which adheres more strictly to hidebound tradition than nearly any other art form. But Asplund says it’s par for the course with Avant Vespers. “I like music that’s outside the capitalist sphere,” he laughs. “But jazz and classical performances can often be uptight. People are seated really close to each other, and you’re not supposed to get up to go to the bathroom. Even if you like what you hear, you’re discouraged from clapping—until you’re supposed to clap. I don’t like those situations. I want different kinds of people to come to Avant Vespers and feel comfortable.” CW

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hristian Asplund’s résumé contains countless accolades: Professor in BYU’s School of Music. Co-founder of the Seattle Experimental Opera. Acclaimed composer of sacred music. Associate editor of esteemed academic journal Perspectives of New Music.

Co-author of a forthcoming book on Christian Wolff, a member of the legendary 20th-century New York School of experimental composers.

What you might not expect to find on the résumé of someone of Asplund’s stature is basement concert curator and DIY promoter of avant-garde, even outré, modern music. Yet that’s the spirit that embodies Asplund’s monthly Avant Vespers series, which began in June 2018 at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Provo. From outsider jazz and experimental classical music to spoken-word poetry, Avant Vespers is all about pushing boundaries and shaking up the sometimes-staid atmosphere of classical music in a more inclusive, populist space.

Asplund developed his innovative attitude over several years spent hosting Avant GaRawge and Avant GaRasement shows in his North Provo home. When he moved downtown and composed a piece called “The Passion and Resurrection of St. Mark,” St. Mary’s music pastor Serena Kanig Benish recruited him to perform it at the church, which boasts more than just a piano and a pipe organ. According to Asplund, who’s performed all over the world, the church features some of the finest acoustics he’s ever encountered.

“It’s resonant without too much echo,” Asplund says. “We’ve had loud amplified music that sounded great, along with quiet classical music and unamplified spoken word. I really like the space, its vibe, its acoustics, its location and, most importantly, its people.”

Originally held on Sundays, Avant Vespers recently moved to Fridays, coinciding with downtown Provo’s First Friday Gallery Stroll. But the unifying theme of the monthly series remains innovation and outside-the-box exploration. “To a certain extent, it’s about organizing performances by people that I’m interested in,” Asplund says. “I come from academia, but I’m somewhat of an outsider, and I like to encourage and promote people making experimental music that isn’t connected to an institutional setting.”

As an example, he points to trombonist Adam Bean, who comes from an experimental punk scene, along with Utah Valley University Senior Artist-in-Residence Alex Caldiero, well known for his genre-defying, transcontinental work as The Sonosopher.

“The outliers and the mavericks are the ones I’m interested in,” Asplund says. “I want to foster anybody doing creative work in the fringe areas of these art forms.”

Past editions of Avant Vespers have featured sacred music, and its performance inside a church obviously introduces religious undertones. Referencing the term “vespers” and its common definition as late afternoon or evening prayer, Asplund says the series remains firmly non-denominational but committed to exploring the spiritual connections of music and art. “St. Mary’s defines its mission or stewardship as being over the community, not just its members,” Asplund says. “They want to serve people who don’t necessarily belong to the church or don’t have the same beliefs.

For them, sponsoring artistic events is serving as a force for good.

They have a program called Community Music Outreach, so Serena was very open to this kind of performance.”

On a personal level, Asplund says music forms a crucial part of his own religious practice. So he remains open to curating artists who work out of many different spiritual traditions. “I think that any kind of creativity or art is a celebration of existence, of creation, of the universe and of human connection,” he says. “For me,

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Credit the nonprofit volunteers of the Intermountain Acoustic Music Association— otherwise known as IAMA—with tirelessly promoting local music of a freewheeling folk variety. Their first Friday evening program of 2019 features four artists and ensembles that represent the remarkable talent and diversity Utah has to share. The bill includes Mindy Dillard, a self-described “musical alchemist” and storyteller from the Wasatch Mountains whose performances on clawhammer banjo and rhythm guitar have garnered comparisons to Tori Amos and Joni Mitchell. Up next is Bob Bland, a master of fingerstyle guitar, who offers original instrumentals, satiric songs and music with a message, all ably represented on his debut CD, Storm on the Mountain. Naturally, Utah Slim makes a fine fit, given that his musical muse was spawned from local environs along the Colorado Plateau. An award-winning songwriter, he’ll likely perform songs from his new album Water Wheel, a mostly live recording featuring nothing but vocals and guitar. Finally, Buzzard Whiskey, a sextet founded five years ago by members of the hosting South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, will offer their own array of intoxicating original songs. Be assured, these fine folkies know how to have fun. (Lee Zimmerman) South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 6876 S. Highland Drive, Cottonwood Heights, 7:30 pm, $7 for IAMA members; $12 for non-members, all ages, iamaweb.org

these messages with emotional power. His struggle shows in his powerful yet playful song lyrics, which plenty of locals clearly relate to—this show was sold out several weeks in advance. Wayde began his musical career by winning a singing competition in his youth, then moved on to work with prominent producers Jonas Jeberg and Marlin “Hookman” Bonds. He took a step back from the music world after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, working on self-growth while finding his identity. During this time, Wayde wrote So Young & So Damaged, putting surprising heart into his art and opening up a fresh new chapter as a person and a musician.

Anxxiety, one of the three openers for Wayde, describes itself as “happy-sad music,” but that mix of emotions fits seamlessly here. Adalaide, another opener, has been compared to Halsey and Lorde and will haunt you with her vocals. &rew will also make an appearance with his unique vocals. These four artists kick off 2019 with a heavy-hearted, honest and open bang.

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In the minds of many metal fans, it’s a minor miracle that Dokken even still exists. Staples of the glam-influenced late-’70s rock scene on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip, lead vocalist Don Dokken and drummer Mick Brown cycled through so many guitarists and bassists in the

Mindy Dillard first years of the band it requires a diagram to keep track of them. Early success didn’t come easy, either; various versions of Dokken traveled back and forth from Germany between 1979 and 1982 looking for a record label, a manager and studio space. But once Tooth and Nail was released in 1984, the band hit it big with fans hungry for outlandish heavy metal.

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All along (and with several other replacement players), Dokken maintained its status as veterans of the arena rock community, regularly opening for Scorpions, Whitesnake, Poison, Metallica and other ’80s stalwarts. In 2016, Don Dokken, Mick Brown, George Lynch and longtime bassist Jeff Pilson reunited for several shows in Japan, a new live album and a one-off single, “It’s Just Another Day,” which seemed to finally put water under the bridge. We’ll see what Dokken has up its sleeve in 2019; opening is fellow ’80s rock legend Lita Ford, who played guitar in revolutionary female rock group The Runaways before taking most of the ’90s and 2000s off. (Nick McGregor) The Depot, 13 N. 400 West, 7 p.m., $35 presale; $40 day of show, depotslc.com

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Tattooed, talented and tortured is the aesthetic 21-year-old Dallas Wayde portrays in his pop music. His album So Young & So Damaged debuted in early 2018, attracting a formidable fan base in his hometown of Salt Lake City.

While all artists struggle, Wayde uses his platform to advocate for issues such as depression and equality in today’s youth, transmitting

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days gone by, local Guns ’n’ Roses tribute band Machine Guns ’n’ Roses will help you put your New Year illusion to good use with an appearance at Metro Music Hall. Aaron Jorgensen, Rees Moore, Lorin Hanks, Brian Paulsen, Ryan Matthew Wallace and Glenn Thomas bill themselves as an authentic tribute to GnR’s defining mid’80s lineup of Axl Rose, Slash, Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagan, Steven Adler and Dizzy Reed. That means diehard fans can indulge in their fantasies of Appetite for Destruction, which came out 31 years ago but remains an epic example of rock-and-roll mastery. With spot-on costumes and timeline-specific set lists that pay tribute to Guns ’n’ Roses, our Salt Lake City version treats their craft with the throat-screeching, guitar-shredding care necessary for such a monumental band. Don’t miss opening support Dirt Cheap, which (you guessed it) does right by AC/DC’s formidable catalog as well. (NM) Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, 8 p.m., $10, 21+, metromusichall.com

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They call it “crunchy, savory new music to assimilate your auditory palate.” That’s a clever way to describe the mission of the Salty Cricket Composers Collective, an organization dedicated to bringing classical music to young audiences—specifically by sharing works that originate within a contemporary context. Twin initiatives target school children of all ages, beginning in kindergarten and continuing through the senior year of high school. The program utilizes what’s known as the El Sistema platform, a teaching method that eschews private classes in favor of ensemble instruction. The collective also fosters groups of young musicians that perform the works of current classical composers who call Utah home and draw on our Western environs for inspiration. The company presents three to four concerts annually, each with a different musician.

In celebration of its 10th anniversary, the Salty Cricket Composers Collective presents four original works in one evening on Jan. 7, all under the direction of conductor Conner Covington: Postcards from Wyoming by Stacy Garrop, Topaz for Koto and Chamber Orchestra by Mary Lou Prince, Cloudseeding 6 for Bass and Chamber Orchestra by Devin Maxwell, and Gone Playin’ from Henry Wolking. The lesson is simple: Classical music needn’t be serious or stodgy.

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DAve Crespo is a regular indie music Renaissance man. (Yes, it’s DAve with a capital A. No, we don’t know why.) The frontman of Salt Lake City band Spo (as in Crespo—get it?) got his start in the Boston music scene a decade ago, booking small indie bands in “bars that had no business having live music,” as he puts it. Then he started a record label and a radio show to promote those bands. The final step? Creating his own band. DAve Crespo’s After Party was a 35-member supergroup, but in 2015, Crespo dissolved that band to create Spo, the group’s current incarnation. If there’s one word to describe what Spo does, it’s “autobiographical,” but “self-promotional” is probably not far behind. The band’s first album, Pulp Punk, draws from Crespo and company’s artistic forays, literally taking the form of a 45-minute radio show, DJ banter and all. “We will shred your head but we will not talk to you,” a band member promises in a spoken-word interlude—but there’s a hell of a lot of talking. It’s weird, sometimes grating, always self-concerned, occasionally spoken-word punk rock that gives off a Red Hot Chili Peppers vibe—and it’s local, since Crespo and girlfriend Ashley Perry moved to Salt Lake City early in 2018, joined by Marco Lee and Zach Novak. “There should be more people out there that put their dick on the line for something they love!” Crespo proclaims midway through Pulp Punk. Head out to The Urban Lounge to experience the band doing just that, with support from local indie artists The Terry Burden Project, Sarah Little Drum and Rose Colored Roots. It’ll be an eclectic evening, we promise. (Naomi Clegg) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 8 p.m., $5, 21+, theurbanloungeslc.com

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I am no stranger to Bout Time. The corner pub planted in the middle of West Valley City’s business district is the place where the world witnessed the biggest upset in UFC history. Bout Time was, and still is, the only sure place to get a seat during pay-per-view events, and the one I recall is when the queen of UFC, “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey, fell from grace by taking a kick to her head (that would eventually end her career) by Holly “The Preacher’s Daughter” Holm. So I had my reservations revisiting my old stomping ground on a Monday night—until bartenders Adam and Meg (pictured) immediately greeted me. Both are new to Bout Time, and Meg is just starting in the bartending business. But you wouldn’t be able to tell. Meg worked the bar, simultaneously filling steins, serving food and checking on patrons, as Adam showed me his photography. The Long Island native’s accent started coming out when we talked about the East Coast. Bout Time reminded me of the TV show Cheers; after just a few minutes on a barstool, it seemed like everyone knew everyone. Between the billiards and the Philly cheesesteak egg rolls, friendly trash-talking about who was up next in a round of darts erupted. Despite the chatter, it was slow on a Monday, so Meg took advantage of the downtime by proudly showing me pictures of her kids—and enlightened me about the selfless Bout Time patrons who bought her and her daughter early Christmas presents. “Betty and Ken did that,” she explained. “We just have the most awesome regulars.” The vibe at Bout Time reminded me there’s no place like home. (Rachelle Fernandez) Bout Time, 3318 S. Decker Lake Drive, multiple additional locations, bouttimepub.com

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KiKi Layne and Stephan James in If Beale Street Could Talk And you see them once it becomes clear why the white police officer (Ed Skrein) who identified Fonny as the rapist has a grudge against a black man who had the audacity to stand up to him.

While the fight to prove Fonny’s innocence is the story’s central conflict, Jenkins never builds it as a procedural, ticking-clock thriller. Even when the focus is on a trip by Tish’s mother (the terrific Regina King) to Puerto Rico to find the assault victim (Emily Rios) and plead with her to recant her testimony, it’s about compassion, and recognizing the times when people are so pounded down by oppression that they can break. The isolated moments when Jenkins stumbles in controlling his tone—notably the awkward family gathering in which Tish reveals her pregnancy to Fonny’s disapproving, Bible-thumping mother (Aunjanue Ellis)—invariably give way to something powerful and resonant.

A story about inhumanity only works if we grasp the humanity being stripped away; a love story only works when we’re as invested in the hearts that pull them together as we are in the forces that pull them apart. CW

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romance and their happy times together, then forward again to the time of Fonny’s incarceration as Tish and her family work to clear his name.

Jenkins moves back and forth between those two timelines with grace and purpose, never allowing us to forget the cruel reality of the lovers’ separation or the power of the feelings that hold them together.

The latter is revealed most effectively in the scene where Tish and Fonny first consummate their relationship—and it’s quite simply one of the most achingly lovely sex scenes ever shot. From the tentative undressing, to Fonny’s gentlemanly offering of a blanket to Tish so she can cover herself while he puts on some music, to Fonny’s nottoo-subtle wondering about whether it was good for her, it’s a magnificent melding of emotional performance, deft choreography and the kind of sexiness that comes from understanding the intensity of the connection between the people involved.

Moments like that one make it all the more potent when Beale Street scratches uncomfortably at the forces that will ultimately tear Tish and Fonny apart. You see them as we watch Fonny try to find a loft to rent, only to discover how much landlords don’t want to rent to a black man. You see them in the conversation between Fonny and his ex-con friend Daniel (Brian Tyree Henry)—recently released after two years in prison on his own manufactured charges—as Daniel speaks with a haunted voice about how the experience has changed him.

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here is never any specific reference in Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk as to when the movie’s story takes place. Although the novel was first published in 1974, and the trappings of the film’s Harlem setting—record players, no cell phones—indicate the past, the entire tale oozes with timelessness.

That’s an essential component to the way If Beale Street Could Talk combines two ideas that simply shouldn’t work together.

On the one hand, it’s a swooning romance, capturing a notion of True Love that transcends time. And on the other hand, it’s a story of how institutional racism tries to destroy that love and works to divide families of color in America. If, as the film’s prologue quote by Baldwin suggests, the story is about the way the black American experience has an essence not specific to geography, it’s also about the way that experience has an essence not specific to time.

It opens with the simplest of moments, as our two lovers—19-year-old Tish (KiKi Layne) and 22-year-old would-be artist Fonny (Stephan James)—walk together hand in hand, with Nicholas Britell’s lush and gorgeous score playing, and Jenkins peering down at them from a God’s eye view through James Laxton’s beautiful cinematography. They’re making a commitment to one another after a lifetime growing up together as friends, but that commitment is about to collide with two huge changes: Fonny’s arrest on trumpedup rape charges, and Tish’s announcement that she’s expecting their baby. From that moment, the narrative effectively splits, at times tracking back to the origins of their

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NEW THIS WEEK Film release schedules are subject to change. Reviews online at cityweekly.net ESCAPE ROOM [not yet reviewed] A group of strangers is subjected to a game with life-or-death stakes. Opens Jan. 4 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK BBB.5 See review on p. 35. Opens Jan. 4 at theaters valleywide. (R) SHOPLIFTERS BBB.5 Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda has found his creative sweet spot in stories that balance heartstring-tugging sentimentality with a bracingly acidic social conscience. Shoplifters follows an impoverished extended family of petty thieves—including patriarch Osamu (Lily Franky), his wife Nobuyo (Sakura Andô) and young Shota (Jyo Kairi)—sharing a tiny Tokyo apartment, who see a young girl named Yuri (Miyu Sasaki) neglected on a neighbor’s porch and decide to take her in. Kore-eda slowly reveals details about each of the family members, complicating the connections between these people while exploring the kind of harsh economic world that forces Nobuyo and a co-worker at a hotel laundry to decide which one of them will get laid off. Yes, he’s a director more than willing to take advantage of the emotional pull provided by sad children, but he’s also wrestling with matters of conscience and questions about where we find the most genuine relationships in our lives. The twists of plot are all earned, built on understanding how desperately we all need someone who will actually care for us

THE OSLO DIARIES At Main Library, Jan. 7, 7 p.m. (NR) A PRIVATE WAR At Park City Film Series, Jan. 4-5, 8 p.m.; Jan. 6, 6 p.m. (R) THIS IS HOME: A REFUGEE STORY At Main Library, Jan. 8, 7 p.m. (NR) THUNDER ROAD At Rose Wagner Center, Jan. 9, 7 p.m. (NR)

CURRENT RELEASES AQUAMAN BB Director James Wan serves up a flashy showcase for the seafaring superhero (Jason Momoa), a half-human/half-Atlantean who reluctantly seeks his place as heir to the undersea kingdom after his half-brother (Patrick Wilson) pursues war with the surface world. Another villain, Black Manta, exists mostly to set up a sequel; a few images are actually striking rather than simply gaudy. Mostly, there’s a huge problem with the main character, who makes no consistent sense—he feels like pasted together snippets of Spider-Man, Thor and Harry Potter—despite Momoa’s game, charismatic attempt to provide earthy humor.

The narrative’s too busy and overstuffed—more concerned with making sure we believe Aquaman is part of their world than with making him human enough to feel like part of ours. (PG-13)—SR BUMBLEBEE BBB Here’s what we get when Michael Bay is kept away from Transformers: A funny, throwback buddy dramedy with sweet reminders of E.T. and

other ’80s kiddie sci-fi. In 1987, scout Autobot B-127 is sent to Earth to prepare a new base for resistance against evil Decepticons.

B-127 ends up in hiding, disguised as a yellow VW bug until 18-yearold Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld) uncovers his secret,and befriends the damaged, voiceless Autobot she calls Bumblebee. Of course a government agent (John Cena) wants to get his hands on Bee; of course there are robot battles with the fate of the planet in the balance. But mostly, it’s a gentle girl-and-her-alien-robot-car lark that hits all the right notes—including a ton of great ’80s pop and rock dropped in, just because it can. (PG-13)—MaryAnn Johanson MARY POPPINS RETURNS BB.5 Twenty-five years after the events of Mary Poppins, widowed Michael Banks (Ben Whishaw) struggles to pay his bills and care for his three children—until magical Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) returns to help the residents of 17 Cherry Tree Lane once again.

When your primary goal is fanciful musical entertainment, it’s wise not to get bogged down in the problems of a bummed-out, near-destitute widower, and the new songs are fine, if predictably inferior to the Sherman brothers’ iconic tunes from the original. The problem is how hard those songs, and the segments in which they appear, try to duplicate specific sequences from Poppins ’64. At every turn, you get filmmakers telling you, “Mary Poppins was awesome; here’s everything that made it awesome, only not as good, and a lot faster since we’re worried kids don’t have the attention span.” (PG)—SR SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDERVERSE BBB.5 Everyone who makes animated features should watch this and realize how much more creativity is possible, and everyone who makes superhero movies should do the same thing. Middle-schooler Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) gains his own unique spin on the Spider-Man powers, then battles Kingpin (Liev Schreiber) as the criminal boss tries to open a doorway into alternate universes. That doorway introduces Miles to several other Spider-heroes, and the

makeshift team offers plenty of knowing humor and riffs on the history of Spidey movies. But the filmmakers also go wonderfully nuts with their visual interpretation of this world in a love letter to the unique form of comic-book storytelling. It’s frisky and dazzling, built on the foundation of solid character work—enough to make you forgive another Spider-Man origin story. (PG)—SR

VICE B.5 Dick Cheney was a terrible person; you now know everything Adam McKay’s movie has to say. The story tracks Cheney (Christian Bale) from hard-drinking college days, through his precocious early political career, up to his crafting of an imperial vice-presidency. Along the way, McKay employs similar follow-the-bouncing-ball tricks to those he used in The Big Short, but here they mostly feel unnecessary and self-satisfied. Bale’s performance offers little besides impressive mimicry of Cheney’s half-muttered monotone, and there’s not much more nuance in any of the other roles. What remains is determined to congratulate you for not rolling your eyes when Don Rumsfeld (Steve Carell) responds to Cheney’s “What do we believe?” with uproarious laughter, and for agreeing that everything wrong with the 21st century can be traced to one heartless guy. (R)—SR

WELCOME TO MARWEN BB Robert Zemeckis was always going to tell the true story of Mark Hogancamp in one way, which probably means he shouldn’t have been the one to tell it. Steve Carell plays Hogancamp, who barely survives a hate-crime assault, is left with severe memory loss and copes with recovery by creating a 1/6th scale world set in World War II-era Belgium. Zemeckis brings that world to life with CGI action-figure versions of Carell and his co-stars, and does so in a way that grossly misunderstands Hogancamp’s story, trotting out comic-relief gags and action beats based on the dolls’ inhuman physicality and suggesting Hogancamp conflates fantasy and reality. While the story is technically impressive, Marwen sacrifices psychological complexity so Zemeckis can again experiment in his virtual-cinema playground. (PG-13)—SR

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50. Tattoo artist 53. "High Voltage" band 57. ____ hunch 58. PreCheck org.

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Special Delivery Staff at the Martin County (Fla.) Correctional Institute spied some suspicious activity on the morning of Dec. 16. Around 1:30 a.m., a drone was spotted hovering over an inmate housing center, while at the same time, a black pickup truck rolled slowly in front of the center. The Tampa Bay Times reported officers stopped the truck and questioned Concetta Didiano, 22, and her mother, Cassanra Kerr, 40, who said they had driven the 200 miles from their home in Tampa so Didiano could learn how to drive the truck. But Kerr’s husband is an inmate at the facility, and after a drone and a package of contraband—tobacco and mobile phones—turned up near the front gate of the prison, Kerr came clean: “I did it. The remote and iPad are in the backseat.”

Both Didiano and Kerr have been charged with introducing contraband into a correctional center.

Anger Mismanagement H.W. Taylor III, 51, of Chatfield, Texas, was charged Dec. 12 with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after a parking dispute escalated outside a Domino’s pizza shop in Jerrell. Determined to park his tractor-trailer in a restricted area, reported the Austin American-Statesman, Taylor removed a chain blocking the area and parked his truck there, even as store employees told him not to. Williamson County sheriff’s deputies were called after Taylor pointed a gun at the chest of one the employees and then shot a 9mm round into the ground nearby, causing a small piece of the bullet to strike the employee in the ear. Having lost his appetite for pizza, Taylor returned to his truck and drove away, but officers soon caught up to him in another county. The Domino’s worker had a small cut to his ear and is expected to survive.

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Redneck Chronicles Call it a dangerous case of mistaken identity: The Helena (Mont.)

Independent Record reported that a 27-year-old man was shot at multiple times on Dec. 16 after being mistaken for Big Foot.

The unidentified man told police he was setting up targets for shooting on federal land when bullets struck the ground nearby.

He ran for cover, then confronted the shooter, who said the first man “was not wearing orange and thought he was Big Foot,” said Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton. The cryptid impersonator described the shooter’s vehicle to police but didn’t want to press charges, asking only that the shooter be lectured about safe shooting.

Wait, What?

Jim Alexander, 41, and Betina Bradshaw, 54, of Torquay, Devon, England, are planning a Christmas feast for family and friends.

On the menu: deer, pheasant, rabbits, badgers ... all roadkill.

Alexander, a trained butcher, has collected nearly 50 fresh animal corpses over the past year. “I know people will think it’s unusual, but really it just makes sense,” Alexander told Metro News. Bradshaw says her family refers to him as a serial killer, but he has gradually won her over to the idea of eating roadkill.

“The first few times he brought a deer home he told me it was for the dog. ... Obviously, you turn your nose up a bit at the start, but now it doesn’t bother me at all,” she said. Alexander said his odd collecting habits have drawn the attention of police, but “once they realize I’m doing nothing wrong, they are fine, and one even helped me lift an animal into the van,” he said.

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Foul Fetish The Daily Mail reported on Dec. 14 that a Chinese man identified only as Peng, 37, was hospitalized in Zhangzhou, Fujian province, after he complained of a cough and chest pains. As doctors examined him, Peng admitted that he is “addicted to smelling his socks that he had been wearing.” The pain in his chest, it turns out, was a fungal infection he had inhaled from his socks. While Peng is expected to make a full recovery, other people ‘fessed up on Chinese social media that they have the same habit: “The reason I smell my socks is to know if I can continue wearing them the next day!” one commenter said. Another pledged to “wash my socks every day now.”

Unusual Tastes Karen Kaheni, 42, of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, is a heavy smoker, puffing on 60 to 80 cigarettes a day. But as she watches TV in the evening, Kaheni also eats eight cigarette butts. And, as a side dish, she eats about 9 ounces of chalk every week. Her odd addictions are related to Pica, she told the Mirror, a condition that involves eating things that aren’t really food. “I have no idea what triggered it,” she said. “It isn’t so much the taste of the cigarette butts or the chalk that I like—it’s more the texture and the crunch.” When she runs out of either item, “I get quite agitated and my mouth begins to water.” Kaheni hasn’t consulted a doctor about her addiction, claiming she is too embarrassed, but she has discovered a Facebook page for others who suffer from Pica: “It makes me feel like less of a weirdo— less like I’m going mad,” Kaheni said.

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Alternative Medicine Havana, Cuba, resident Pepe Casanas, 78, has discovered a tried-and-true way to treat his rheumatism pain: Once a month for the last 10 years, Casanas seeks out a blue scorpion, which is endemic to Cuba, and lets it sting him. “I put the scorpion where I feel pain,” Casanas told Reuters. After the sting, “It hurts for a while, but then it calms and goes and I don’t have any more pain.” In fact, researchers have confirmed that the scorpion’s venom has anti-inflammatory and pain relief effects. It may even delay cancer growth in some patients. A Cuban pharmaceutical company has been selling a homeopathic pain remedy called Vidatox, made from the scorpion venom, but Casanas, a former tobacco farmer, takes the simpler route. He sometimes keeps a scorpion under his straw hat for luck, where he says it likes the shade and humidity.

Awesome!

Retired hospitality executive Rick Antosh, 66, of Edgewater, N.J., was enjoying a plate of oysters at Grand Central’s Oyster Bar in New York City when he felt something hard in his mouth.

“I just all of a sudden felt something like a tooth or a filling, and it’s terrifying,” Antosh told PIX11 News. But when he looked at it, he realized it was a pearl. Antosh called over the floor manager to ask how often such a discovery happens and was told he’d never heard of it before. Antosh has not had the pearl appraised, but early estimates say it could be worth $2,000 to $4,000.

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n In Mesa, Ariz., diverging tastes in music led to a fatality on Dec. 14, reported the Arizona Republic. Officers responded to a call of shots fired at an apartment complex, where Sheldon Sturgill, 41, told them he shot his roommate after an argument and fistfight over the type of music they were listening to. Sturgill and his roommate had been drinking shots and beer before the altercation. He was held on suspicion of second-degree murder.

It is unclear what the offensive music choice was.

Creative Currency Maybe it was the Triple Breakfast Stacks McGriddles that lured Anthony Andrew Gallagher, 23, to the drive-thru lane at a Port St. Lucie, Fla., McDonald’s to satisfy his hungries on the morning of Dec. 16. But when it came time to pay, the Associated Press reported, Gallagher offered the dude in the window a bag of weed instead of cold, hard cash. The worker declined the payment, and Gallagher drove away, returning a while later. McDonald’s staff called police after the first attempt, and Gallagher was apprehended for marijuana possession and driving under the influence.

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26. ____ Islam, singer formerly known as Cat Stevens 28. "Gotta run," in a text 29. Nurse 32. Former TV partner of Barbara, Joy and Elisabeth 33. Word with coffee or gift 35. About 2.2 pounds 36. Cellist Pablo 37. Judy Garland, e.g.

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19. ____ mater 20. Roman 1,002 21. Get wind of 22. Sweet 'un 24. They go from town to town: Abbr.

25. Magic, on a sports ticker 26. "Hey, spin for me!"?

27. "____ Rides Again" (1939 western) 29. Takes evening courses?

30. Shape of a plunging neckline 31. Singles network logo with a partly outlined Star of David 32. Ascend 33. What "Talk to the hand!" is an example of 34. Something thrown by Sean Lennon's mom?

37. "____ on Fire" (2012 Alicia Keys hit) 40. "Time ____ the essence" 41. Copacetic 45. "Right you ___!"

46. Actress Lena of "Chocolat" 47. "Hmm, guess so" 48. Coffee brand named after a 40's-50's New York Yankee?

50. "Rhythm ____ Dancer" (1992 hit by Snap!)

51. Word with black or photo 52. Befuddled 53. Seriously uptight 54. Luau accessory 55. Sacagawea dollar, e.g.

56. Bad beginning ... or this puzzle's theme 59. Of little ____ use 60. Aconcagua's range 61. "Absolutely, amigo!"

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What themes and instruments do people least want to hear in a piece of music? Composer Dave Solder determined that the worst song ever made would contain bagpipes, cowboy music, tubas, advertising jingles, operatic rapping and children crooning about holidays. Then he collaborated with other musicians to record such a song. I suspect that as you head into 2019, it’ll be helpful to imagine a metaphorically comparable monstrosity: a fantastic mess that sums up all the influences you’d like to avoid.

With that as a vivid symbol, you’ll hopefully be inspired to avoid allowing any of it to sneak into your life in the coming months.

in your own life. What disparate parts of your world had the same origin? What elements that are now divided used to be together? Re-establish their connection. Get them back in touch with each other. Be a specialist in cultivating unity.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): No one has resisted the force of gravity with more focus than businessman Roger Babson (1875–1967). He wrote an essay entitled “Gravity—Our Enemy Number One,” and sought to develop anti-gravity technology. His Gravity Research Foundation gave awards to authentic scientists who advanced the understanding of gravity. If that organization still existed and offered prizes, I’m sure that researchers of the Aries persuasion would win them all in 2019. For your tribe, the coming months should feature lots of escapes from heaviness, including soaring flights and playful levity and lofty epiphanies.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Many plants that modern Americans regard as weeds were regarded as tasty food by Native Americans. A prime example is the cattail, which grows wild in wetlands. Indigenous people ate the rootstock, stem, leaves, and flower spike. I propose that we use this scenario to serve as a metaphor for some of your potential opportunities in 2019. Things you’ve regarded as useless or irrelevant or inconvenient could be revealed as assets. Be alert for the possibility of such shifts. Here’s advice from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): 2019 will be an excellent time to swim in unpolluted rivers, utter sacred oaths near beautiful fountains, and enjoy leisurely saunas that help purify your mind and body. You are also likely to attract cosmic favor if you cry more than usual, seek experiences that enhance your emotional intelligence, and ensure that your head respectfully consults with your heart before making decisions. Here’s another way to get on life’s good side: cultivate AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In Canada, it’s illegal to pretend to practice witchcraft. It’s fine to duties that consistently encourage you to act out of love and joy actually do witchcraft, however. With that as our inspiration, I rather than out of guilt and obligation. advise you to be rigorous about embodying your authentic self in 2019. Make sure you never lapse into merely imitating who you are LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): or who you used to be. Don’t fall into the trap of caring more about Here are four key questions I hope you’ll meditate on throughyour image than about your actual output. Focus on standing up for out 2019: 1. What is love? 2. What kind of love do you want to what you really mean rather than what you imagine people expect receive? 3. What kind of love do you want to give? 4. How could from you. The coming months will be a time when you can summon you transform yourself in order to give and receive more of the love you value most? To spur your efforts, I offer you these pure and authoritative expressions of your kaleidoscopic soul. thoughts from teacher David R. Hawkins: “Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin was a Founding Father way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others.” who played a key role in getting the United States up and running. He wasn’t happy that the fledgling nation chose the bald VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): eagle as its animal symbol. The supposedly majestic raptor is “Most living things begin in the absence of light,” writes Virgo lazy, he wrote. It doesn’t hunt for its own food, but steals grub author Nancy Holder. “The vine is rooted in the earth; the fawn obtained by smaller birds of prey. Furthermore, bald eagles are takes form in the womb of the doe.” I’ll remind you that your cowardly, Franklin believed. Even sparrows might intimidate original gestation also took place in the dark. And I foresee a them. With that as our theme, Pisces, I invite you to select a metaphorically comparable process unfolding for you in 2019. proper creature to be your symbolic ally in 2019. Since you will You’ll undergo an incubation period that might feel cloaked and be building a new system and establishing a fresh power base, mysterious. That’s just as it should be: the best possible circumyou shouldn’t pick a critter that’s merely glamorous. Choose one stances for the vital new part of your life that will be growing. So be patient. You’ll see the tangible results in 2020. that excites your ambition and animates your willpower.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The night parrots of Australia are so elusive that there was a nearly six-decade stretch when no human saw a single member of the species. But in 2013, after searching for 15 years, photographer John Young spotted one and recorded a 17-second video. Since then, more sightings have occurred. According to my astrological vision, your life in 2019 will feature experiences akin to the story of the night parrot’s reappearance. A major riddle will be at least partially solved. Hidden beauty will materialize. Long-secret phenomena will no longer be secret. A missing link will re-emerge.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The slow, gradual, incremental approach will be your magic strategy in 2019. Being persistent and thorough as you take one step at a time will provide you with the power to accomplish wonders. Now and then, you might be tempted to seek dramatic breakthroughs or flashy leaps of faith; and there might indeed be one or two such events mixed in with your steady rhythms.

But for the most part, your glory will come through tenacity.

Now study this advice from mystic Meister Eckhart: “Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Millions of years ago, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, and North and South America were smooshed together. Earth had a single land mass, the supercontinent Pangea. Stretching across its breadth was a colossal feature, the Central Pangean Mountains. Eventually, though, Europe and America split apart, making room for the Atlantic Ocean and dividing the Central Pangean range. Today the Scottish Highlands and the Appalachian Mountains are thousands of miles apart, but once upon a time they were joined. In 2019, Gemini, I propose that you look for metaphorical equivalents

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian polymath Piet Hein wrote a poem in which he named the central riddle of his existence. “A bit beyond perception’s reach,/ I sometimes believe I see/ That life is two locked boxes/ Each containing the other’s key.” I propose that we adopt this scenario to symbolize one of the central riddles of your existence.

I’ll go further and speculate that in 2019 one of those boxes will open as if through a magical fluke, without a need for the key. This mysterious blessing won’t really be a magical fluke, but rather a stroke of well-deserved and hard-earned luck that is the result of the work you’ve been doing to transform and improve yourself.

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No More Miracles

Don’t waste the now,

Don’t waste the now, with the fears of the ‘morrow.

Keep it lite.

Seek the light.

But not like the moth to the flame Alan E. Wright

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When I was 15 years old, I was sent by my family to a small private school called Wasatch Academy in little Mt. Pleasant, Utah, just north of Manti on scenic Highway 89. Manti is the site of the fifth temple built

by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and you can’t miss that white stone edifice when you cruise through town because it sits high atop a hill overlooking the Sanpete Valley.

Most people know Manti because of the Mormon Miracle Pageant, which has been held on the temple grounds every summer since 1967. But, alas, the church has announced that 2019 will be the last time visitors can see the outdoor theatrical performance which depicts Christ’s visit to America. You might say, “This ain’t my circus and not my monkey,” but the fine folks of this tiny central Utah town are mighty sad, and pageant-goers will miss Manti’s famous barbecue turkey sandwiches. The two-week extravaganza draws more than 15,000 people to a town of just more than 3,000 residents, and it’s a massive moneymaker for gas stations, hotels, restaurants and the businesses that line Main Street.

The pageant details the early days of the church (think handcarts) and LDS stories of ancient American inhabitants, as recounted in The Book of Mormon. The pageant is based on a story written by Grace Johnson in the 1940s. It was adapted into the pageant form in 1970 by Macksene Rux, who directed the shows in Manti from 1970 to 1989. During the early years, it was funded by local donations. Because vehicles were banned on temple grounds, props, scenery, chairs and equipment had to be hauled up the hill or lifted over a fence. The show was an instant hit with locals and tourists, and more than 4.5 million visitors have watched it since its inception. There are more than 1,000 cast members, each in costume, and all are unpaid volunteers.

What’s odd is that in 1991, the church announced that the production would cease after 25 successful years. But the vice-chair of the pageant, Gordon B. Hinckley, then first counselor in the First Presidency, refused to cancel it. Will someone from the LDS hierarchy step up and save the event like Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney saved vaudeville in the 1939 movie Babes in Arms? Only the church will tell. My guess is the final production in June 2019 will sell out almost as fast as the Tabernacle Choir’s Christmas Concert with Kristin Chenoweth. Want to witness it firsthand?

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