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Cover story, Feb. 7, “Full Tilt”

I think that’s wonderful.

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I wish more pinball machines were put in more restaurants and shopping malls.

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Dine, Feb. 7, “Chillin’ With Millie’s”

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Online News Post, Feb. 8, “Thoughts and Prayers: Church takes on State Capitol as House passes Prop 3 overwrite bill” Why expand medicaid when you can dupe 10 million suckers into giving you 10 percent of their income and choose who lives or dies on Kickstarter? It’s truly the Lord’s way.

PETER MUSCARELLO Via Facebook

Their prayers weren’t from the right brand of ecclesiastical leader for most of

our legislators to care.

CASEY NELSON Via Facebook They are concerned only with growing their own bank accounts with the help of lobbyists and special-interest money. They have the mindsets they are working for themselves and not us, the voters.

DEBRA VASQUEZ Via Facebook Assholes.

DEANNA BISHOFF GARCIA Via Facebook Serious question here.

Where would the money have come from to fund Prop 3? Nothing in life comes free.

JERRY JENSEN Via Facebook Sales tax was going to go up.

ELIZABETH HENLINE Via Facebook And it wasn’t enough to cover the costs. The state would have been in a huge deficit inside of three years because of the bill as written.

JERRY JENSEN Via Facebook Serious question here: Where does the money to pay for all the emergency bills from people who don’t have insurance come from?

Either we’re going

to spend money so sick people can receive care or we’re going to sentence those people to death for being poor. We might as well plan to spend the money rather than feigning surprise when it happens.

DUSTIN CLARK Via Facebook Just like Prop 2, Utah wants you to know your vote does not matter.

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Accessible Housing

The 600 Lofts apartments in downtown SLC are advertised as vacant and affordable. They’re approximately $750 per month, utilities included, for a one-bed unit.

Herein lies the rub, however: To qualify, your income must be twice the amount of your rent, meaning you must earn $1,500 monthly to be considered. By definition alone then, fixed incomes need not apply.

Green Grove in Pleasant Grove offers one-bed, $1,000/month units and requires three times gross monthly income. Making less than $15 per hour? Don’t bother. This is now the new rule, not the exception, of property developers and management teams in Utah.

Once the role of incomerestricted apartments was used to ensure units would

be available for low-income tenants, income requirements have now become a new way to game the system as affordable housing is becoming a bipartisan issue even in a pro-landlord conservative state.

Even if a $12/hour worker qualified for these type of units (which is nearly all), they would still be spending more than 50 percent of their wages on housing alone, leaving little in the way of child care, food, transportation, healthcare, savings and that tiny thing called fun.

It’s imperative that state, county, and city governments recognize that housing is a nuanced concept.

Affordability is obviously crucial. However, if these units are built (especially using subsidized taxpayer dollars) and not

accessible to low-income or working-class tenants, then who are we really building them for, and what was the point?

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OPINION Echoes of History

“Tricky Dick”: That’s what they called the once-respected president who went down in disgrace because he had a greater loyalty to his own ego than to the interests of the American people. We all know the story—of how Richard Nixon sent in a team of “plumbers” to wire the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the D.C. Watergate complex in an attempt to gather dirt on his opponents.

A similar inevitably fatal flaw haunts the White House today. President Donald Trump is totally absorbed by getting his own way and hurting those who oppose him.

His failures as a president and as a man have reached the point of critical mass. It’s hard to say whether he’s even aware how close he is to going down in a fireball, but my guess is that he’ll just continue to ignore the symptoms of his self-made disaster, gloating naively at his publicists’ clever spins until the collapse occurs. Undoubtedly, his fall from grace and dethroning will be similarly characterized: “My presidency,” he’ll beam, “was the very, very greatest of all.”

In 1974, winning at any cost had become Nixon’s crazed obsession, and he was hell-bent on doing whatever it took to shore himself up as the undisputed King of the Mountain. Forgive my sounding trite, but it’s a well-demonstrated fact that history repeats itself, or at least we will always hear echoes of the past. When one looks at the calamity the White House is today, it is clear that Trump shares many of the same traits with the only U.S. president

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to ever resign his office.

When Nixon’s walls began to crumble, Congress authorized the creation of a special prosecutor. Tricky knew that Archibald Cox’s investigation would be his ruin, so he ordered his attorney general to fire him. Elliot Richardson refused and resigned instead. He saw the moral issues involved and he wasn’t about to trample on them. (Sound familiar?)

Well, if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Nixon was no quitter, so he ordered the assistant attorney general to fire Cox. He, too, refused and resigned on principle.

On Nixon’s third try, he successfully had Cox removed, but it didn’t solve his problem. Teetering at the brink, he weighed his options. In the face of criminal charges, the initiation of impeachment proceedings and growing public contempt, Nixon saw no other way out than stepping down. New President Gerald Ford, out of some misplaced sense of loyalty, pardoned his predecessor a month later.

Disregard for the rule of law was what Watergate was all about, and Nixon was clearly behind it. It’s the same thing that’s about to inflict a mortal wound on the Trump White House. Nixon’s botched DNC break-in was the tip of an iceberg. It started a cascade of discovery. His lies, his flagrant abuse of privacy laws and his maniacal pursuit of bombing Cambodia without Congressional approval made it impossible for Americans to do their usual forgive-andforget routine. The legendary tolerance of the majority had reached its limits, and the impeachment ball was set into motion. There were plenty of Republicans who were so angered by Nixon’s behavior that they’d have willingly participated in a lynching. Instead, the impeachment guillotine

was erected in the village square.

Like Nixon, Trump has transitioned from the improper to the outrageous. His attempts to frustrate the special prosecutor’s efforts and to obstruct justice—and, of course, the government shutdown and declaration of a national emergency—are causing anger even within the Republican ranks. His hybrid elephant-lemmings are reaching a crossroad—whether to continue abetting the president’s crimes and go down with the ship, or to resurrect the extinct Republican vertebrate. At some point, even the president’s most diehard constituents will be forced to face the facts.

Nixon kept adding last-straws to the growing pile of no-no’s, including overt attempts to frustrate the investigation of his crimes and directing the “plumbers” to lie to Congress. What happened in 1974 was pretty bad, but the reality is that Trump is an even bigger Dick than Nixon. Nixon was blessed with a fine brain, though he ended up using it for devious ends. Trump isn’t troubled by the presence of an IQ, so I suppose we should hold him less culpable for the constant stream of lies—some so obvious and outrageous that even loyalists find them laughable.

There are dozens of metaphors that apply to Nixon and Trump. It is Trump’s own actions that are chipping away at the foundation of his reign, and collapse is the only logical outcome. CW

The author is a former Vietnam-era Army assistant public information officer. He resides in Riverton with his wife, Carol, and one mongrel dog. Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net

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George Zimmerman, a Neighborhood Watch coordinator, was ultimately acquitted after claiming self-defense in one of the most publicized and tragic incidents involving guns and the culture of fear. While America grapples with an epidemic of shootings involving young black males, the Trayvon Martin case stands as an open wound that resists healing. The Salt Lake Trayvon Martin Vigil and Remembrance is dedicated to a respectful and celebratory remembrance on the anniversary of Martin’s death in 2012. Salt Lake Community College, South City Campus, 1575 S. State, 801-706-1348, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 6-6:30 p.m., free, bit.ly/2GLnSEL.

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While Utah officials hail the concept of an inland port, the citizens who live and breathe around it have grave concerns.

Do you think the economic benefits outweigh your health and well-being? The growing resistance gathers for Resist The Inland Port: General Assembly— an evening of camaraderie and strategizing in the fight to stop the giant truck terminal, preserve our wetlands and save our lungs. “The Inland Port will pollute our air in ways that are unimaginable while we are already struggling with dangerous levels of PM 2.5 pollution devastating the health of our people and planet,” the event’s Facebook page says. Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Thursday, Feb. 28, 6-9 p.m., free, bit.ly/2SAu21s.

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HITS&MISSES

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Radioactive Lawmakers

Depleted uranium. Haven’t we been through this before?

The argument this time is different—if comical. The idea before the Legislature is to allow EnergySolutions to truck in DU, which it’ll mix with other things.

And, voila, it’s not really DU anymore.

Utah, the nation’s dumping ground for nuclear waste, banned Class B and C radioactive wastes in 2005. You remember radioactivity—it lasts forever. DU is a little different, because while it’s not Class B or C initially, it gets hotter as it gets older. “It’d be one thing if nuclear waste decayed as quickly as legislators’ memories and intelligence, but this toxic waste will be dangerous for thousands of years,” Jason Groenewold, formerly of HEAL Utah, tells City Weekly. Alan Matheson of the Department of Environmental Quality acknowledged that Utah loves business. But he worries about the long term. After millions of years, he told lawmakers, there’s a slight chance that EnergySolutions might not be around. You won’t be, either. DU will.

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There are so many things that “President” Donald Trump loves, but coal might be the best. It was arguably the biggest boost to his campaign, giving him a hand up, and a hand out, to the White House. Trump railed against the Tennessee Valley Authority for shuttering two of its coal-fired plants, one supplied by a big donor. And now, the Department of Interior has announced an end to the “war on coal” with the approval of more coal-mining leases for companies operating in Utah, one just west of Bryce Canyon National Park, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.

The Daily Caller noted the approvals came within hours of the TVA announcement. So Utah’s public lands will pay for Trump’s loss back east.

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Some say we should all be celebrating because, gee, we have Medicaid expansion, even if it isn’t what we wanted. And even if it will do virtually nothing. Meanwhile, the governor and his all-male band of sycophants got together for a fun signing of the law-formerlyknown-as-Medicaid-expansion. “This bill balances Utah’s sense of compassion and frugality,” he tweeted. Minus the compassion part. Senate Bill 96 includes draconian work requirements and enrollment caps, and needs a federal waiver because otherwise it would be way too expensive.

Legislators are so much smarter than the average citizen because they know that health care is an expensive proposition.

They don’t like the ACA, either. Just keep an eye out as former Sen. Orrin Hatch seeks $2 million in state funds for a center in his honor. It’s not health care.

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Retailer Rebirth Sears is gone, but its land could help transform a neighborhood just a few blocks from downtown.

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or decades, the Sears department store and its accompanying auto center were Salt Lake City’s paragon of capitalism, a concrete-and-marble monolith that stood the test of time. That is, until online competitors came along and took the lion’s share of the retail pie. Nestled on an expansive State Street lot between 700 and 800 South—where the only remaining sign of life is the flock of birds perched on the building’s corpse—the former behemoth’s halcyon days become a faint memory.

“Sears was sad, man,” Brighton Page, a tattooer and apprentice at nearby Big Deluxe Tattoo & Piercing, says. “Everything was overpriced, and there was nobody in there.”

The Salt Lake City location was among the 18 Sears and 45 Kmarts that closed nationwide in January 2018, following the market trend that flushed the brick-andmortar shops of yesteryear down the toilet.

In keeping with the theme, Page and his fellow artists would occasionally make the short walk from their parlor to the emporium’s bathroom “if we had something really gnarly cooking,” he says. “That’s basically what Sears was good for. That, and like, if you didn’t make it to the bathroom, they sold underwear for pretty cheap.”

The old Sears occupies nearly 10 acres in an up-and-coming, downtown-adjacent neighborhood. The city confirmed that late last year a local real estate company signed an agreement to lease the land. Hoang Nguyen, who owns the neighboring Asian fusion restaurant, Sapa, says she’s been in regular contact with the group and their financial backers, and that they plan on adding business offices, commercial properties and “hundreds” of new residential units.

While the city declined to name the new lessees, Nguyen identified them as Kimball Investment Co., a group whose portfolio includes downtown’s historic Peery Hotel and Judge Building. The company did not respond to City Weekly’s multiple requests for comment.

There’s a lot of potential, Nguyen says, to create a development that lets people “live where they work,” so they can eat, go out and shop, all within a stone’s throw from their jobs.

“With Sears going away, it gives prime opportunity to bring in the type of business and residential that this area really needs, and is really starving for,” she adds. “We’re trying to build our own community right here.”

State Sen. Derek Kitchen, D-Salt Lake City, has long had his eye on the area, a block that had been in his district when

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The city block could be a model for urban growth with dense housing and office space. he served as a city councilman. He sees an opportunity to inject different types of housing and businesses—offices, a grocery store, maybe a health clinic—into a part of the city that could become a popular place to live, given its proximity to the central business district. “Mix up the use,” he says, “that’s the key to a good urban environment.”

Kitchen says it’d be smart to make the surrounding blocks on State Street more transit-friendly. “There’s a lot of opportunity to recreate what once was a true urban block before Sears came in,” he says. “How do we go back to these walkable blocks that people can go down?”

The mysterious new occupants seem willing to align their development ideas with the city’s State Street community reinvestment plan according to Lara Fritts, Salt Lake City’s director of the Department of Economic Development. The plan’s four key strategies include creating employment opportunities for locals, adding single- and multi-family housing, building off the existing ethnic restaurant scene, and supporting community arts and culture fixtures. “You would never go on a trip without a road map,” Fritts says.

“And so you never really want to enter commercial revitalization without a plan on how you are going to get there.”

Hidden beneath Kitchen’s wish list for expanded walkability, more housing and a range of businesses, the councilmanturned-senator hopes the city and developers take a long-term approach. “If we develop just based on what’s quick, easy and cheap today, it’s going to be another 50 years before we have the opportunity to develop it again, so we have to do it right, right now.”

In the meantime, changes to the community are already afoot. Sapa Investments, the financial muscle behind Nguyen’s restaurant, will play a key role in helping rebrand what she calls the “Midtown District.” The first phase of “Food Alley,” a diverse collection of 17 locally owned restaurants, artists’ lofts and a year-round farmers market that’ll be located just south of the old Sears building, is slated to be finished later this year. The second phase, which includes building new additions on the property’s east side that will house the 20-foot “micro restaurants,” should

be completed before spring 2020, Nguyen says. “The whole idea of the Food Alley is to be able to get as many different cuisines and cultures represented from all around the world as possible.”

The culinary expansion will give shoppers an array of options and hopefully won’t negatively impact the trio of taco carts that have called the neighboring sidewalk home for years. Each morning around 9 o’clock, Crescencio Amaral cuts up meat at his stand, Tacos Mi Favorito, ahead of the lunch rush. Anticipating a long workday one February morning, Amaral wore a heavy jacket, two fuzzy hats and a plaid scarf to protect himself from the cold. “All the people coming say, ‘Hey what happened to the Sears?’” he says, smiling as flecks of moisture fly from the cutting board and land on his graying mustache.

Amaral is a community mainstay. He’s been slinging Mexican grub on the same corner for 20 years. Five days a week, he wakes up early and hitches his food cart to Main Street’s 800 block. His wife joins him around lunchtime to serve hungry masses hankering for some carnitas and street tacos. “They come for years,” Amaral says of his loyal clientele. “Some people come for 9, 10 years.”

Amaral has heard rumors about what’ll eventually replace Sears—an apartment complex or maybe another big store. He says he doesn’t care what takes over the lot, so long as the city lets him keep setting up shop there. “Whatever they want to do is fine,” he says.

Since opening its doors in 1998, Big Deluxe, where Page works, has also become a neighborhood staple. Collier Baird, another tattooing apprentice there, says new housing isn’t necessarily good for business, but more local bars and restaurants could do the trick. “People come from all around to go to Sapa,” he says, “and then they happen to walk by a tattoo shop, and then they’re like, ‘Fuck it, I’ll get that tattoo.’”

Whatever ends up getting built on the lot, Page says it’s likely he and his colleagues will wind up spending money there between shifts. “If they could put in a convenience store, that would be bitchin’,” he says. “Any place that’s got something to offer us, that’s right there, we’re going to be going there a lot.” CW

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more this season, which was going well even before that storm hit. But I get those days one and sometimes two at a time. A straight week of snow like that, though? Sure, it happens sometimes, but it’s been two years since I could take advantage of something like that.

That last happened in 2017, when this same group of travelers—myself, Jared “JJ” Jones and Erik “Swede” Price—set off to ski all of Utah’s resorts in seven days. The whole state got puked on that week, and long before we’d bagged our 14th hill, the question had already been asked many times over: “Where in the hell are we going to go to top this?”

The answer: Not in Utah. There’s simply no guarantee that our biannual snowbro excursion would just happen to fall on another perfect powder week.

We’ve all seen this happen to Beehive vacationers. They drop a bundle on airfare, rental cars, hotels, food, drinks and lift tix, and are met with a dry Christmas, an unseasonably warm January, or that slushy early spring week that always comes and goes in February. That’s the way it goes. Ski vacations are a roll of the dice.

I thought that was a universal rule. It’s true everywhere I’ve ever taken my snowboard. You go. You pray for snow. The gods take things from there.

But that’s not how it works in Japan.

Freezing winds that gather in Siberia pick up moisture as they cross the Sea of Japan, then promptly dump it on Hokkaido’s west ranges.

This happens again and again. Relentlessly. Predictably. The cycle of snowy winter days in Japan is as certain as rainless summer days in Death Valley.

Want to ski powder every day? Hokkaido is as close to a sure thing as you’ll ever get.

It was snowing in Salt Lake as we left for Japan. A week after a storm that dropped a foot and a half of powder on the Cottonwood Canyons, the new cycle was a few inches into what some forecasters predicted could be a few more feet. It turned out to be six feet in seven days.

Chikushou!

The irony wasn’t lost on us. And it wasn’t lost on many of the people we met along the way, either. Skiing in Japan means skiing with a lot of Australians—for whom Hokkaido is hardly a hot, new ski locale—and plenty of powderhounds from the rest of the world, who have caught on in recent years to the glory of this place. Everybody we ran into seemed to have heard about Utah’s epic storm—the one we were missing.

Some felt compelled to rub it in.

“I imagine you must feel a bit foolish leaving in the middle of a storm like that,” said Paul Young, a wisecracking Aussie we met in the first day of our arrival in Hokkaido.

It was a fair dig. But here’s the thing: Even in a bad snow year (the infamously disappointing 2014-15 for example), I’ll still get a good week of blower days. I’ll get that and

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of the parking lot, where I popped out of my bindings and looked longingly at the ticket window.

At just under 200 yen, it’s not like we couldn’t afford another run on this hill, which reminded me of Richmond’s Cherry Peak. But this was an unplanned stop between two resorts in a single day, and with another one left to hit before we rested for the night, we needed to move on.

We had other hills to ski. Lots of them.

Why stop for a ride on a tiny ski hill in Japan? Why, for that matter, were we in Japan at all? Utahns, after all, are spoiled with snow and slopes. There are 10 resorts within an hour’s drive of Salt Lake City, and most are genuinely world-class. An extra few hours, north or south, adds four more resorts to that list. True, we’ve got our problems with crowding, but it’s never much of a challenge to find a virgin line, if you know where to look. Our backcountry is breathtaking. Salt Lake City’s access to the outdoors is second to none in the United States.

And the snow is … well … you’ve seen what our license plates say.

Lately, though, a whole lot of Utah eyes have been fixed upon the Land of the Rising Sun, and not just because Hokkaido is likely

to be a key competitor to Salt Lake City for the right to host the 2030 Winter Games.

The Ikon Pass, issued this year to Solitude season-pass skiers—and offering additional days at Brighton, Snowbird, Alta and Deer Valley—also provides free passage to Hokkaido’s largest, most-famous and busiest resort, Niseko United. The rival Epic Pass, good for unlimited skiing at Park City, will get you into the legendary Rusutsu resort starting next season.

But. Still.

Why travel across the world for that which you can find in your own backyard?

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SHIBETSU, Japan—The goddess appeared on the horizon, stark white against the pallid sky.

At 88 meters, toes to halo, the Hokkaido Kannon was the largest statue in the world when it was completed in 1989. The giant Buddhist effigy is nearly twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty.

And yet we damn near missed it. We were staring at the ski hill next to it.

I know I’m supposed to want cultural experiences when I travel overseas. Monuments, music, museums. All that stuff.

But my traveling companions and I had come to Japan’s northernmost prefecture—where dozens of ski areas are packed onto an island about a third the size of our home state of Utah—with two very specific objectives: seek snow and ski it.

Some of Hokkaido’s ski parks are well-marked and world famous. Others are hidden gems.

Kokusetsu Ashibetsu Ski Area better fits that latter description.

“Ichi,” I told the old man behind the ticket window, holding up one finger while pointing up and down with the other hand. “Just one ride.”

He smiled and mimicked my gesture, then punched a number into an old calculator and held it up to the window: 190.

One hundred and ninety yen. In U.S. currency, that’s about a buck seventy-five.

I laughed. The man behind the window laughed. Laughter is the world’s most universal language.

There was no line for the lift, a fixed double that looked like it might have been recycled from the Winter Olympics, which were held in Hokkaido in 1972. I counted seven people on the hill as we took the one-kilometer ride past the enormous statue. It had been snowing for most of the morning, and I whooped at the skiers below me. They whooped back.

Whooping is the world’s second-most universal language.

It was midday, but the snow on either side of the main groomed run was untouched, soft, and a good foot deep. I dipped my snowboard into the evergreens that lined the little hill’s south border, popping back out of the woods in time to catch the last 30 meters of groomers before sliding to the edge

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Sure enough, it had snowed overnight, a good 10 centimeters, and it was still coming the next morning as we drove to our first resort, Rusutsu, about 50 kilometers southwest of Sapporo.

That sort of storm would pull tens of thousands of people into Utah’s resorts. And, yes, there were plenty of people at Rusutsu on that day, but it wasn’t anything close to as busy as Snowbasin—perhaps the best Utah analog for Rusutsu— would have been on a day like that.

Michelle Leonard, a Massachusetts native who moved west to Wyoming to ski and is now in her first season as a guide in Hokkaido, told me the crowd at Rusutsu on that day was “pretty average.”

And the snow was, too.

Rusutsu gets upwards of 14 meters of snow each season.

But it doesn’t come feast-or-famine. It just drops steadily.

All. Winter. Long.

It’s truly amazing.

“I still wake up every morning, look out the window, and feel surprised to see that it really is still snowing,” Leonard said. “I never want that feeling to go away.”

“How many days have you had when it didn’t snow?” I asked Will Borg, an Idaho native who has spent parts of the past few winters as a guide in Hokkaido, as we hopped on a quad to the peak of Mt. Isola.

“So far?” he said. “Three.”

“This month?” I asked.

“This season,” he replied. “Or, let me put it another way: I’ve had three bad turns this year. Not three bad runs. Three bad turns. It’s unbelievable, this place. There’s good skiing every day.”

Later, we traversed a ridgeline flanked on either side by short poplars lined with snow crystals. “We’re going to drop down here,” Borg said. “It’s a little tight, at first, and then it opens up and, well, just wait for it.”

Rusutsu’s Sugarbowl was breathtaking. The fairytale trees did indeed thin out, and when they did, the snow was thigh-deep and silky soft, and I only stopped whooping when I took a couple of facefulls of it.

I spotted Leonard, who was waiting at a spot high enough to allow an easy path out of the gully for me and JJ, the two snowboarders in our group.

“Pretty good stuff, huh?” she asked.

“Meh,” I teased.

“Skiing here is like that every day,” she said. “Every day. I honestly can’t believe my luck.”

IN-BOUNDS/OFF-PISTE

Japanese ski patrollers generally won’t come get you if you

hurt yourself off-piste. Not off-resort, mind you—just off the groomed runs. Areas we’d assume are inbounds in the United States aren’t treated that way everywhere.

It might sound cold, but the logic seems sensical to me.

Theoretically, at least, people who shouldn’t be off-piste will think twice before dropping into something they’re not ready for.

But in practice, it would appear, skiers and boarders who have little business even going off-piste in-bounds skip that step entirely. If ski patrol isn’t going to come help you a few meters from the groomers, I suppose they must be thinking, what’s the difference if you stray even further? A lot of them carry backcountry gear—I’ve never seen so many people wearing beacons in a resort lodge—but not all of them seem adequately prepped for side-country skiing.

At Moiwa, quickly gaining a reputation as one of Japan’s top resorts for side-country skiing, we watched with equal parts humor and horror as skiers and boarders with the grace and balance of a baby giraffe—the sort you might see struggling to make turns in a sea of moguls—dropped out of sight out of Gate 6, at the top of Mt. Moiwa.

I’m still trying to understand why. Moiwa is a small resort, about the size of our Nordic Valley, but it stood up favorably to the bigger and better-known Rusutsu for in-bounds-butoff-piste skiing. Wary not of the conditions and terrain, but rather of the dangers of inadequately prepared fellow vacationers, we declined to follow the crowd of skiers and boarders out of that gate. Instead, we looped the perfectly spaced trees and small bowls between the resort’s quad and Shirakaba Slope—for hours—with little competition for good lines.

“I understand the appeal,” local skier Takahiro Takagi said. “Everyone comes to Japan and they want to have an adventure. But nobody needs to go looking for snow. There is new snow here almost every day. Today, there are nice conditions. And tomorrow, there will be nice conditions. Almost every day in January and February, there’s going to be snow.

And the conditions don’t get bad until April.”

The situation in and around Niseko United—the Park City Mountain Resort of Hokkaido’s ski scene—on the following day was even more disconcerting.

Once again, there was plenty of powder to be had in areas of the mountain that, by way of tree-covering and slope pitch, are less likely to be the site of a large slide. There was plenty of the deep stuff. A few steep drops. Glorious trees and—an otherworldly treat—bamboo-lined glades.

Yet from just outside of Gate 1 at Niseko Annupuri, high on west-facing ridge, I looked across the cleuch to see skiers and boarders, spaced just feet apart, traversing under a bellowing cornice the size of several city busses, parked

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end-to-end, as other skiers zig-zagged across the cornice’s top, apparently unaware of what was below them, both in terms of the precariously overhanging ice shelf and foolishly close-together human beings.

“Oh man,” JJ said as he watched from over my shoulder.

“That just looks like bad news waiting to happen.”

I’ll grant that many of these skiers and boarders have spent far more time in the Niseko sidecountry than we had.

But I’d wager my board and bindings that very few of them had as much time in this area as Sam Kerr, who was in his 10th year as a snowboarding guide in Hokkaido when he was caught in a 90,000-square-meter slide in February 2017.

He won’t be the last to die near Niseko.

NOT QUITE ENDLESS POWDER

There were only a few cars in the parking lot at Kamui when we pulled up. But for Jim and Jane Browning, who have been visiting this resort for more than a decade, that was a few too many.

“It used to be that the only foreigners here were Australians, like us,” Jane said. “Now it’s Brits and Canadians, and a lot more of you Americans. No offense, but it’s changed things a lot, and maybe not for the better.”

The crowds were a surprise to Midori Okamura, who grew up near Kamui “when it was just a little ski hill that only locals used.”

Okamura left Japan for 15 years. When she returned, a few years ago, she was shocked by the changes to that little hill.

“I said, ‘What the hell happened?’” she recalled. “It was so surprising. It has gotten so international.”

Okamura is not complaining. She now works in customer service at the resort, and she loves the way people have fallen in love with her home. “The word is out,” she said. “People are tired of Niseko, and the snow conditions here are really good.”

In size, variability of terrain, and off-piste magic, Kamui reminded me very much of Big Cottonwood Canyon’s Solitude resort. On the day we visited, the snow wasn’t as almost-Utah-dry as we’d experienced at some of the other resorts, but it was plentiful, with eight centimeters on top of the groomers and 20 or more on the sidelines. We took a few laps under the lift on the far northern edge of the resort until the top-side lift attendant slowed down the chairs as we approached, ran over to drop a gate, and ran back in time to offer us a bow as we passed.

There were no bad lines in an area we were told was called Endless Powder, which was also the location of the most magical moment of the trip, as Swede, a Telemark skier, dipped a knee past a large tree, startling two green pheas-

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Swede and I called it. JJ headed back out for a few more runs.

In the lodge, there was off-the-hook-good ramen and taiyaki fish waffles stuffed with red bean paste, matcha crème and custard. It was damn near perfect.

If we’d only spent our time in Hokkaido on the island’s resorts and the immediate side-country, though, I’m quite certain it would have been hard to stomach the storm we were missing back home.

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Two days of snowcat skiing began at a family-run lodge in the village of Shimamaki, in Hokkaido’s southwest Shiribeshi Subprefecture. We arrived after hours of driving in blizzard conditions, on the evening before we’d embark on the cats.

“Utah, huh? We’ve had plenty of you guys here,’” Hokkaido Backcountry Club guide Peter Leigh said on the night we arrived.

Like me, Leigh is a San Francisco Bay Area native who started chasing snow and never looked at California the same way again. I landed hard in Utah. He never really landed— that’s the life of a guide—but he said he feels at home in Hokkaido, “because that’s where the best snow in the world is.”

“No matter where people come from, they all say the same thing,” Leigh said. “This is the best skiing they’ve ever experienced. Welcome to the right side of the ocean.”

I must have shot him a bit of a dubious glance.

“Oh, it’s OK,” he said with the confidence of a circus ringmaster. “You can let me know if it meets your expectations tomorrow.”

The lodge, the last building on a road that disappears into a national forest, is built on a hot spring. The men’s onsen isn’t big—it’s about the size of a standard outdoor hot tub—and packed with six or seven naked dudes things can get rather cozy, but it’s restorative after a long day on the mountain.

And that’s good, because those were indeed long days. The powder pilgrims we rode with at Shimamaki were all eager to get as many runs in as the club’s guides would allow. And the guides were only too happy to oblige.

The cats pick up their human cargo just across the road from the lodge. It’s 45 minutes up to base camp from there. A perfunctory lesson in using avalanche beacons follows. And, with that, it’s off to Mt. Kariba.

There’s a good mix of terrain off Kariba. The steepest parts of the mountain don’t go on that way for long. These were five- and six-turn drops on my snowboard—enough to get plenty of speed, but not enough to fall into the warm hypnosis that comes when you’re stringing together endless turns like a knitter’s strokes.

That’s fine. I love steep and deep, but I love cruising even more. And Shimamaki’s tree skiing was a meditation on the connection of nature and community.

Our community, on that day, included skiers and snowboarders from Australia, Scotland, France, Poland, Canada and the United States. There were bankers, engineers, scientists, soldiers, entrepreneurs and a rock musician. Oh, and a journalist.

Skiing in general is a sport of exceptional privilege, and it’s important to acknowledge that this sort of adventure is privilege stacked upon privilege. There’s a high probability, in groups built like this one, that someone is going to be a dick.

That’s not what happened. There were absolutely no egos.

There was nothing but laughter and whooping through the birch and aspen forests.

We got nine runs in on day one. We did 10 on day two. The snow fell off and on across both days, and the wind sent the powder back into our tracks almost as soon as they were laid.

There were no bad runs.

Midway through the second day, over a quick lunch of miso soup and onigiri, a 30-ish Aussie named Ben Johnson, who comes to Hokkaido to ski each year with his father, consecrated the experience with a superlative blessing.

“I’ve probably skied 80 days in Japan,” he said. “These are the best two days I’ve ever had here.”

Hearing that filled me with a sense of tremendous fortune for what we’d found in Hokkaido, and also an overpowering surge of appreciation for what I had waiting for me on the other side of the globe.

Because—yes—Shimamaki’s backcountry exceeded every expectation I had for Hokkaido. I was sincerely sad when Leigh announced we were taking our last run. This was one of the best weeks of skiing of my life, and the two days at Shimamaki were the best days of that week.

But I don’t think either day in Shimamaki would have cracked my Top 10. All of those days have come in the Mountain West. Once in a while, in weeks like this, but mostly in one- and two-day increments, when the skies open, and work can wait, and the Greatest Snow on Earth earns its fame.

Dear God, I’m spoiled. I know this. I really do.

But it’s true what they say.

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ants, which took to the sky with a flurry through the lucent sheen of snowfall in a sunbeam.

We took two more laps through that area before it started to look a bit tracked out. The powder, it turned out, wasn’t so endless after all.

But even for three people making their first trip to this resort, it wasn’t hard to find other lines.

That, again and again, was what we were finding about Hokkaido.

“There’s no stress with this,” Swede said. “Every time you go up one of the canyons in Utah on a powder day, by the time you get up there, by the time you arrive, you’re just feeling so aggro, racing for first dibs. Here you traverse out a bit, drop it, and then do it again.”

It’s good that there was such joy in Kamui on that morning, because by the time we reached Furano, early that afternoon (after our quick diversion skiing under the watchful gaze of a Buddhist icon taller than the Salt Lake Temple) the conditions had taken a bad turn. Wind had shut down several lifts, and the ones that were still open serviced icy groomers lined with trees far too thick to play within. We took a run and shrugged.

“I’d love to see this place at its best,” JJ said. “It feels like it could be amazing.”

We’d later hear—from some fellow Salt Lakers—that the following day at Furano was damn near perfect. The resort, they said, compared favorably to Brighton on a good snow day.

But, alas, even in places where a few inches of new snow is practically guaranteed each day, the weather doesn’t cooperate every hour of every day.

We finished our week of resort skiing at Sapporo Teine, one of the island’s steepest resorts, which offered the widest diversity of terrain we’d seen. Once again, the parking lot was nearly empty when we arrived, and we laid down first tracks with little competition on the same mountain where American Barbara Cochran took gold in slalom in 1972.

We spent most of our morning in the trees below the quad in the resort’s Highland Zone—very cautiously, at first, since we didn’t know where the gulley released, and then with far less wariness on our second swing once we knew that it would drop us right onto an easy green run that would take us back to the Highland Ski Center.

By that time, we’d been joined on the mountain—Hokkaido’s version of Snowbird, I decided—by a few hundred ski schoolers. Everything is adorable in Japan, and that rule applied doubly for the little grommets, always in matching ski school uniforms, who we saw in droves at every resort we visited. By midday, Teine was crawling with them—I counted 25 school busses in the parking lot—and my legs were ready for a break.

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A creative work can be inspired in any number of ways. For playwright Elaine Jarvik, An Evening With Two Awful Men was born thanks to an intriguing prompt from Plan-B Theatre Co. artistic director Jerry Rapier: “Do you want to write a play about our only gay president?”

“I had no idea who he meant, and when he said it was James Buchanan, I realized I couldn’t quite place him among the fairly non-descript 19th-century men who had led our country,” Jarvik says. “As I began researching Buchanan, I wasn’t so sure about his alleged gayness, but I became more and more intrigued by the fact that several biographies and internet lists call him ‘the worst president ever.’”

Buchanan is only one of the titular two awful men in a production that posits a popular show called Dead People Live, where historical villains are able to defend their legacies. On the particular evening when President Buchanan is auditioning for Dead People Live, John Wilkes Booth also shares his story. “Alas, [Buchanan] was … kind of boring,” Jarvik says. “So I felt that the play needed a foil who was his exact opposite: rash, a ladies’ man, dramatic. And that was Booth.”

According to Jarvik, the stories of these two main characters “intersect in their approach to race, in explorations of what it means to be both a man and a hero, and in both men’s response to humiliation and shame.” (Scott Renshaw) Plan-B Theatre Co.: An Evening With Two Awful Men @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, through March 3, dates and times vary, $10-$22, sold out at press time but wait list available, planbtheatre.org

Award-winning playwright Julie Jensen’s Wait! premiered at Salt Lake Acting Co. in 2003.

Since then, other local and nationwide theaters have picked it up. This month’s production by Pygmalion Theatre Co., however, differs from others because Jensen collaborated directly with the actors and director.

The humorous yet heartwarming play “focuses on the absurdity of ourselves—how funny we can be when we’re vulnerable,” Jensen says. Growing up gay and entering the theater inspired Jensen to craft a nuanced love story that makes fun of self-involved directors and producers. Wait! also demonstrates Jensen’s capacity to explore the “diverse, artistic and creative experiences between intersectional voices of immigrants and those of the LGBTQ community,” Mark Brocksmith, who plays the characters Dad, Lu and Hazar, says.

Protagonist Wendy Burger’s mythical hometown of Walrus, Utah, seems no more than an aspiring tourist attraction. However, the tight-knit community speaks in rural accents and frowns upon those who do not fit into the straight, white, conservative demographic. Wendy’s youthful, liberal lesbian character starkly contrasts with her father’s bigotry and her community’s intolerance.

Follow Wendy, played by Sydney Shoell (pictured), as she leaves Walrus and her alcoholic father to explore the desert in a retrofitted UPS truck. Experience Wendy’s development as an actress and stage manager. And, as Brocksmith describes it, watch “the larger-than-life characters embodied by quintessential theater personalities” give Wait!’s bildungsroman structure the element of “character-driven comedy.” (Colby Russo) Pygmalion Theater Co.: Wait! @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-3552787, Feb. 22-March 9, dates and times vary, $15-$20, artsaltlake.org

It’s a time-worn adage—coined by historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich—that “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” The Other Mozart tries to right this wrong by telling the imagined inner life of Maria Anna Mozart—also known as Nannerl—the musically talented and older sister of the more famous (and male) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Sylvia Milo, playwright, actor and producer of the one-woman show, says although she studied to be a violinist, she never heard of this other genius Mozart until she stumbled on a portrait of her by chance while visiting Wolfgang’s home in Vienna.

“To bring this other Mozart to people’s minds is to open their awareness to the stories that have been overlooked for too long,” Milo says. “It brings women into the history of the great. And it brings awareness to the inequalities that still persist today.”

Nannerl performed with her younger brother and was well-reviewed. However, any promise she had as a musician was cut short when she was forced to retire at 18. Even so, we know she continued to create music, though none of it survives.

Contained within an opulent dress that covers the entire stage and balancing a towering hairstyle, Milo recreates Nannerl’s isolating world, in which her genius was devalued because of her gender. “Most female composers from the past have been forgotten, their music lost or gathering dust in libraries,” Milo says. “We will never know what could have been, and this is our loss.” But with a little help, we can imagine. (Kylee Ehmann) The Other Mozart @ Dumke Recital Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-7100, Feb. 22, 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 23, 2 & 7:30 p.m., $5-$25, utahpresents.org

Odyssey Dance Theatre has demonstrated a unique grace and finesse throughout its 25-year history, and as it celebrates the quarter-century anniversary of its founding this spring, the company revisits many of its monumental works as part of the popular Shut Up & Dance repertory series. Each offering reflects the company’s remarkable versatility and variety, from ballet, ballroom and tap to hip-hop and modern dance— all intrinsic elements that contribute to Odyssey’s daring and diversity.

The three spotlight productions include last year’s world premiere Chicago Nights (pictured), a rousing return to the era of swing, speakeasies, gangsters and Prohibition; Romeo+Juliet, a salute to Shakespeare’s classic tale of star-crossed lovers choreographed to the accompaniment of a Latin, hip-hop and contemporary score; and Reflections, a superb sampling of highlights from Odyssey’s storied repertoire.

With so much to choose from, Odyssey founder, artistic director and choreographer Derryl Yeager admitted in an email he faced tough choices. “I chose Chicago Nights because it was a huge hit last year,” Yeager explained. “I chose Romeo+Juliet because it is one of Odyssey’s alltime favorite full-length productions. Reflections will have the best of the best in the program, significant pieces from our years of innovative contemporary works—all the shows that celebrate that which is Odyssey Dance Theatre!”

Enough said. Now let’s just allow the performers to shut up and dance. (Lee Zimmerman) Odyssey Dance: Shut Up & Dance @ Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, 801-518-7100, Feb. 27-March 9, dates and times vary, $20-$40, odysseydance.com

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Tear Down This Wall

Utah County, get ready for the gray areas of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

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n the lyrics to “Tear Me Down”—the opening number of Hedwig and the Angry Inch—there’s a break in which a character describes the liminal space occupied by the show’s transgender protagonist: “standing before you in the divide/ between East and West/ slavery and freedom/ man and woman/ top and bottom.” As Hedwig prepares to make its Utah County premiere in a production by An Other Theater Co., the company’s artistic director sees the musical itself as dwelling in that same gray area in a variety of ways.

In the most obvious sense, it’s a story about a transgender character: Hedwig, frontwoman of a rock band called the Angry Inch, on a tour that’s more akin to stalking—following Hedwig’s rockstar ex, Tommy Gnosis, in tiny venues adjacent to Gnosis’ arena tour. Yet AOTC artistic director Taylor Jack Nelson believes that, more than 20 years after the show’s off-Broadway premiere, the main character’s identity is even more complicated.

“A lot of the language around trans identity is more widely known and understood [in 2019],” Nelson says, “but even people who are more familiar with trans people in general might find Hedwig’s story strange and unconventional … Hedwig uses feminine pronouns. The way she talks about her story feels more genderqueer, but there are also drag elements involved. Her identity

is layered in some ways, unconventional compared to what one might expect in a trans story.”

That complexity feeds into the question of casting the central role itself. Traditionally, the part of Hedwig has been played by cisgender male actors, including the play’s author, John Cameron Mitchell, and Neil Patrick Harris, who starred in the popular Broadway revival. That tradition continues with AOTC’s production, which has doublecast the role with two cisgender male actors, Cleveland McKay Nicoll and Jordan Kramer.

Yet the landscape has changed in recent years, with calls by the trans community and its allies to cast trans actors in trans roles.

“We did have casting open to people of every gender,” Nelson says. “As a cisgender person, I don’t know that I’m necessarily qualified to be the spokesperson on this, but I do think there are some trans roles that should never be played by a cisgender person, while others are grayer. And I think Hedwig is one of those roles.”

There’s an additional gray-area complexity built into the narrative of the show itself. Hedwig’s story is very specific to the context of the time immediately before and after the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989—now 30 years distant. Yet there are also elements in the way the show is typically produced that places the action very much in the present. “It’s strange because it has both become a period piece, and also a piece that basically takes place in the theater that it’s being performed in,” Nelson says. “The script encourages ad-libbing, and much of it is about the time and place where it’s being produced. So it’s a confusing line to walk. In some ways it’s a period piece, and in some ways it takes place right now. I wouldn’t normally say that would work, but in this show, it sort of does.”

The history of the show has also walked a strange line between being a big spectacle that has occupied Broadway theaters and big venues while touring the country and an intimate experience ideal for small spaces like AOTC’s 25-feet-by-40-feet converted Radio Shack location. “Because of

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the [Neil Patrick Harris] revival, [Hedwig] gets thought of as this big Broadway production,” Nelson says.

“We thought it was interesting the people were confused about us doing it on that stage, because it’s actually more of a stretch for the show to be in a big Broadway theater. It’s really about Hedwig coattailing off of Tommy … We’ve arranged the seating in two rows around the space.

If you’re in the front row, there’s a good chance Hedwig will talk to you at some point. So we’ve definitely leaned into that intimacy.”

Even the collection of the show’s songs by Stephen Trask feels like a strange mix of components, from the driving punk energy of “Tear Me Down” and “Angry Inch” to the power ballad “The Origin of Love” to the bouncy twang of “Sugar Daddy.”

“It’s a rock musical about a rock concert, but it feels like 12 songs written by 12 different composers,” Nelson says.

“It’s like with the temporal setting: I don’t know why it works, but it does.”

So An Other Theater Co. takes a leap of faith with Hedwig and the Angry Inch, making this curiosity of a play its first-ever musical production and continuing the company’s mandate to bring shows to Utah County—specifically, shows with queer themes, like last year’s production of Angels in America—that might never have played there before. “If there’s enough people driving from Utah County to Salt Lake City for shows like this, obviously there is an audience for it,” Nelson says.

That’s a unique collision of worlds that Hedwig herself would appreciate. CW

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PERFORMANCE THEATER

J Go Gallery (268 Main, Park City, jgogallery.com) presents a joint show of original abstract work featuring acrylics by Heather Patterson (“Alpine” is pictured) and mixed media panels

by Curtis Olson, with a gallery stroll and artist reception Friday, Feb. 22, from 6-9 p.m.

An American in Paris Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through Apr. 6, hct.org The Cake Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, through March 10, saltlakeactingcompany.org Company Babcock Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, through March 3, tickets.utah.edu An Evening With Two Awful Men Plan-B Theatre, 138 W. 300 South, through April 7, planbtheatre.org (see p. 16) First Date The Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State, through March 2, Thursday & Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 2 & 7:30 p.m., grandtheatrecompany.com A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through March 16, hct.org Hands on a Hard Body The Gateway, 400 W. 100 South, through Feb. 23, wasatchtheatre.org Hedwig and the Angry Inch An Other Theater Co., 1200 Towne Centre Blvd., Provo, through March 23, anothertheatercompany.com (see p. 18) Once Pioneer Theatre Co., 300 S. 1400 East, through March 2, dates and times vary, pioneertheatre.org The Other Mozart Dumke Recital Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Feb. 22, 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 23, 2 & 7:30 p.m., arts.utah.edu (see p. 16) Wait! Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, through March 9, artsaltlake.org (see p. 16) Wicked Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, through March 3, artsaltlake.org

DANCE

Ballet West: Swan Lake Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, through Feb. 23, balletwest.org Shut Up And Dance Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, Feb. 27-March 9, odysseydance.com (see p. 16)

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Chamber Music Society of SLC: Cuarteto Casals Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Feb. 27, 7:30 p.m., arts.utah.edu Tengyue Zhang Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, Feb. 22, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org Utah Symphony: Brahms’ Violin Concerto Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Feb. 22-23, 7:30 p.m., utahsymphony.org

COMEDY & IMPROV

Aaron and Jessa Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Feb. 24, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Dan Cummins Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Feb. 22-23, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Kristin Key Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, Feb. 22, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Shawn Paulsen Wiseguys Ogden, 269 E. 25th St., Feb. 22-23, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Ty Barnett Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, Feb. 23, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Ann Weisgarber: The Glovemaker The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Feb. 21, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Chelsea Tolman: Speaking of the Dead Weller Bookworks, 607 Trolley Square, Feb. 23, 7 p.m., wellerbookworks.com

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Tricia Levenseller: Warrior of the Wild Provo City Library, 550 N. University Ave., Feb. 26, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com

SPECIAL EVENTS FARMERS MARKET

Winter Market Rio Grande Depot, 270 S. Rio Grande St., through April 20, Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., slcfarmersmarket.org

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Elevation: Utah Gay Ski Week Park City Mountain Resort, Feb. 21-24, utahgayskiweek.com Oscars Night Club Try-Angles, 251 W. 900 South, Feb. 24, 6 p.m., clubtry-angles.com TransAction Utah Pride Center, 138 S. Main St., Feb. 24, 2-3:30 p.m., utahpridecenter.org Utah Pride Night with the Utah Jazz Vivint Smart Home Arena, 301 W. South Temple, Feb. 23, 8-11 p.m., vivintarena.com

FESTIVALS & FAIRS

Wizarding Dayz Mountain America Expo Center, 9400 S. State, Sandy, Feb. 22, 1-10 p.m.; Feb. 23, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., wizardingdayz.com

TALKS & LECTURES

Andrew McLean: Dancing with Polar Bears Iron Blosam Lodge, Snowbird Resort, 9121 Snowbird Center Drive, Sandy, Feb. 21, 6 p.m., utahadvjournal.com Joseph Stuart: What Made Martin Luther King Jr. So Successful? Weller Bookworks, 607 Trolley Square, Feb. 21, 6:30 p.m., wellerbookworks.com

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

Abstractions J Go Gallery, 268 Main, Park City, through March 15, jgogallery.com (see above left) Ben Steele: Now Showing Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, through March 1, modernwestfineart.com The International Tolerance Project Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, through June 23, umfa.utah.edu Lenka Clayton: Under These Conditions UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through May 11, utahmoca.org Love in the Abstract A Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, through March 2, agalleryonline.com Mike Simi: Gettin’ By UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through May 11, utahmoca.org The Race to Promontory: The Transcontinental Railroad and the American West Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, through May 26, umfa.utah.edu Revolution Curated: Original Art of Yan’an’s New Society, 1955-1984 Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, through Feb. 27, culturalcelebration.org salt 14: Yang Yongliang Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, through June 2, umfa.utah.edu Shady Acres UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through May 25, utahmoca.org Storied Earth Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, through March 1, artsandmuseums.utah.gov Utah’s 15 Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., through March 8, artistsofutah.org

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’m a fervent worshiper at the altar of American breakfast cuisine. Whatever the time of day, whatever mood I’m in, cheesy omelets, fluffy pancakes and the porcine trinity of bacon, sausage and ham are endlessly enjoyable. That being said, I’ve become a bit enamored with the breakfast traditions commonplace across Asia—warm rice soup with chicken is strangely satisfying first thing in the morning. Lucky for us, Fav Bistro (1984 E. Murray Holladay Road, 801-676-9300, asooksri.com) has assembled a few classic dishes to serve during their brunch hours, and their fusion-centric lunch and dinner menus offer a plethora of great flavors to be explored.

things up and sets it apart from other curries around town. I also thought the cooked tomato was a nice touch— it complemented a dish that tends to favor starchy veggies like potatoes and carrots.

The dish that originally put Fav Bistro on my radar was their steak massaman poutine ($21). When I originally heard about it, I thought it must be some kind of joke—no one could have reached inside my head and combined two of my most beloved dishes so deliberately. Sure enough, it’s right there on their dinner menu—and it’s fantastic. Since poutine is essentially a pile of meat, fries and gravy, it definitely lends itself to a curry-based approach. The superb, creamy massaman at Fav gets layered on top of sliced flat iron steak and thick-cut French fries, imparting its smoky, peanut-flavored sauce to the whole plate.

After trying a few of the several creative experiments on the dinner menu, I’m looking forward to seeing what else Fav has up its sleeve. CW

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There’s also a super thin, sugary crust on the outer layer, which is a subtle but effective textural nod to the Belgian waffle. Instead of maple syrup, it comes with a cup of coconut cream for your drizzling pleasure. It’s a pancake that hits all the right notes, and the coconut flavor adds something slightly exotic to the mix.

Just because the place offers up some of the finest nontraditional and traditional breakfast options in town doesn’t mean they’ve let the rest of their menu stagnate. Whether you’re there for lunch or dinner, starting things off with a crispy noodle wrap ($12) is a fine way to prime the senses. It’s a riff on lettuce wraps that doubles down on the crunch factor. Instead of a ground meat or tofu mixture, the filling consists of crispy noodles, bean sprouts and crushed peanuts, the sum of which is an extremely fun to eat flavorpacked appetizer.

All the famous Thai curries are present, but I decided to try their yellow curry with chicken ($13). You can tell a lot about a Thai place from the way they treat the mildest member of its arsenal. Yellow curry is always good, but its mild flavor tends to run on the bland side. Here, it’s prepared with all the familiar flavors, but there’s a smoky overlay that punches

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or brunch is best. In addition to Thai-influenced options like khao tom ($7), a rich rice soup served with chicken, egg and ginger, and the Singaporean khao mun gai ($10), which is a steamed chicken and rice dish served with a killer ginger sauce, you can get American classics—a monumental dish called The Stack ($13), for example, is a triple decker monolith to the breakfast gods. The dual menu makes Fav Bistro ideal for a wide variety of eaters—those who might not be interested in exploring the headclearing magic of a ginger-infused chicken-and-rice soup can still get their morning jolt from a cocktail of bacon and eggs.

It’s hard to put my finger on the magic of slurping up a big bowl of chicken, rice and broth as the first meal of the day. The process baptizes the senses in a heady mix of savory flavors and has a way of scrubbing away the remnants of the night before—which is also a handy trick if you’re in need of something to chase away a nasty hangover.

As any good breakfast menu is incomplete without something for the sweet tooth, Fav’s Thai coconut pancake ($7) is a worthy entrant into the pancake hall of fame. It’s pleasantly huge and is cooked with coconut flakes inside the batter.

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Lunch Hours and Private Events at Rico Cocina Y Tequila Bar

When Frida owner and restaurateur Jorge Fierro rebranded his flagship restaurant as Rico Cocina y Tequila Bar (545 W. 700 South, 801-983-6692, ricococinaytequilabar.com), we knew some big changes were in store. Recently, a post on Rico’s Instagram account announced that Rico Cocina is now only open for lunch (11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.), reserving its evenings for private events. It’s a move that definitely makes sense—if you’ve ever been to an event at the Rico Warehouse, you know it’s one of the most unique venues in town. A cool space plus a fully functional kitchen staffed by some of the finest creators of Latin American cuisine is sure to attract some traffic. Check out Rico’s website or give them a call for booking information.

Los Hermanos Burns Down

In an unfortunate turn of events, Los Hermanos Restaurant (71 E. Center St.) in downtown Provo caught fire and burned to the ground last week. As of press time, local authorities were unsure of how the fire began, but it was severe enough to destroy the restaurant as well as the office space above it. The owners, Craig and Lisa Witham, are currently looking for another location. The restaurant has been a part of downtown Provo’s landscape for more than 30 years, and the Witham family has organized a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to support the owners and their staff as they struggle to relocate.

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t seems I just can’t help myself when it comes to new breweries. I’m absolutely giddy about them; they’re like these little communal dens of happiness that nourish the spirit and body. I’m happy to report there are now 35 breweries and brewpubs across the state, with another four or five scheduled to open this year. One of those up-and-comers, and likely the next place to open, is South Salt Lake’s Level Crossing Brewing Co. (2496 S. West Temple).

This new concept of hyper-localized brewing is most heavily concentrated in a milelong section of West Temple in South Salt Lake that currently touts breweries Shades of Pale and SaltFire, along with Sugar House and Dented Brick distilleries. With easy accessibility and good neighbors like these, success is almost assured.

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fledgling High West Distillery in 2009. “I think I was employee No. 4 when I signed on back then,” Medura reminisces. “It was great to be a part of such a transformative operation—a place that changed the world’s perception of blended American whiskeys, and American rye in particular.”

Medura decided to leave High West in December 2015 when it was acquired by Constellation Brands. He partnered with several former HW colleagues to build upon their years of alcohol industry knowledge and apply it to craft beer.

“We all loved craft beer and wanted to try and make our vision a success,” Medura says, “but we were distillers and needed someone in place with more beer savvy.” As it turns out, the “savvy” he was looking for didn’t come from inside the brewing industry. “I kind of wanted a semi-professional home brewer,” Medura says. “I didn’t want a 20-year veteran that was too set in their ways; I wanted fresh eyes, and I found that in my first [and] only candidate.”

Through a serendipitous conversation with a colleague, Medura was introduced to Chris Detrick, a photojournalist with The Salt Lake Tribune and a talented 17-year veteran home brewer. “Chris is the only one I ever talked to,” Madura says. “After checking out his home brew rig and trying the quality of his beers, my impressions were off the charts.”

Detrick’s résumé isn’t confined to his ga-

rage and homebrew competitions. He has collaborated with many of Utah’s big beer players, including Uinta and Epic breweries. But when Medura came calling with his life-altering plan, the photojournalist had some big decisions to make. “The newspaper industry is all I’ve ever known,” Detrick says. “I’ve been all over the world covering news for the Trib, but this has been a dream of mine for decades.”

After soul-searching with his wife Ashley, the Detricks decided Level Crossing would become their new adventure. “It was a leap of faith,” Detrick adds, “but a solid concept and innovative plan made that jump pretty easy.”

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up the 15-barrel brew system and, as of press time, has an amber ale and a Kentucky common beer fermenting away in the tanks. Their high-point cans will debut with a rye IPA, a double IPA, blonde ale and an undecided lager beer. Once completed, look for a brewery with a large pub area, up to eight taps and high-point beers that will be packaged in 16-ounce cans.

Medura and Detrick intend to have beer ready to go by the end of March. Hopefully for us, the beer gods will be kind in their efforts. As always, cheers! CW

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o attend a Soundhouse performance is, for the uninitiated, to be astonished. Guests “imagine what the best high school band would sound like,” Soundhouse founder Caleb Chapman says, “and they’re never even close to what the musicians pull off.” At a December performance, I was bowled over by the young musicians, ages 8 to 18, who were undeniably talented but also brimming with confidence. Had anyone ever had more fun than these kids? Their joy was infectious. The audience was laughing, crying, clapping and standing up to sing along. And Chapman was right there with the kids—jumping up and down as he conducted, leaping across the stage, egging them on, sweat dripping down his face, a synergy of conductor and performers, sound and motion.

Chapman says the whole music thing has been, in large part, an accident. As a child, he was sent to music camp instead of soccer camp; after being put into jazz and rock bands, “I caught the bug,” he says. A Boston native, he started what would later become the Soundhouse in 1998 while attending BYU for saxophone performance. A small group of junior-high musicians needed help with an after-school band; they came to Chapman, who recognized their enthusiasm and helped lead the group. The Soundhouse grew from there.

But the evolution of the Soundhouse has been far from accidental. Led by Chapman, the music school has carefully honed its model, resulting in numerous awards, including 65 DownBeat Student Music Awards, which recognize the most talented young performers in the U.S., and 25 Best of State medals. Chapman himself has been nominated for the Grammy Music Educator Award and recognized in Utah with the John LaPorta Jazz Educator of the Year Award and the Utah Performing Artist Award. Soundhouse students have gone on to be successful musicians and professionals—a drummer for one of the first iterations of the Soundhouse’s Crescent Super Band, Andrew Tolman, went on to be a founding member of Imagine Dragons and current member of The Moth & The Flame, another indie rock favorite with local roots.

The school’s success is a result of its innovative instruction model. “For centuries, it’s been believed that you can’t teach music through popular or contemporary styles, and we are positive that’s not the case,” Chapman says. “When we use contemporary music that’s relevant culturally to young musicians, they’re more motivated and more committed, their process is faster, and they actually do become the best classical and jazz musicians.” The Soundhouse currently runs 21 ensemble groups ranging from jazz and big band to contemporary pop and rock; nine of these ensembles perform in this weekend’s jazz showcase, which features legendary guests like Will Calhoun of Living Colour.

Groups rehearse once a week for two hours, which seems like an impossibly short amount of time, given the professional-level quality of the music. But most of the learning happens outside of the Soundhouse classroom—all musicians are required to work one-on-one with private instructors and participate in their public-school music programs.

Chapman toured with the Neon Trees in 2018 and founded the Osmond Chapman Orchestra with David Osmond. All the producers are active musicians; even those on the business side—the

Caleb Chapman CEO, COO and marketing director—are involved in personal music projects. “But for these kids, if they want to have success with their bands, they need to take ownership,” Chapman says.

That empowerment enables the kids to perform confidently, even when they’re working with world-renowned celebrities. The Soundhouse musicians have collaborated with Grammy-winning jazz musicians and contemporary pop and rock stars like Dave Matthews, The Rolling Stones, Journey and Maroon 5. Individual ensembles have also toured the world, from China to New York to Las Vegas. “These experiences force the kids to raise their game to a fully professional level,” Chapman says.

Confidence is Soundhouse’s intended end result. “To me, music is not the most important thing we’re teaching,” Chapman says.

“The most important thing we’re doing is instilling these critical life skills in these musicians, so that whether they decide to pursue music or business or law, they’re going to have success. That confidence—that’s what you want to feel when you walk into the doctor’s office.” A mom I spoke to at the concert I attended said that, for her eighth-grade daughter, the program forces her to work hard so she can earn the respect of her peers and producers.

“The world doesn’t need thousands and thousands more professional musicians,” Chapman acknowledges. “But the world does need as many more successful individuals as we can create.”

The Soundhouse has been a Utah institution from its start. Being located in an out-of-the-mainstream corner of the U.S. has opened up more performing opportunities and celebrity relationships than Chapman believes would otherwise have been possible. But after 21 years, the Soundhouse is expanding in two big ways: first, with a new program for adults, and second, with new locations in New York City, Nashville and Los Angeles, set to open this year.

Chapman says the plan is for 140 additional locations in the next 10 years, with 40 outside of the U.S. “For a long time, we were really limited in how much impact we could have,” he says. Now he’s looking forward to expanding his reach. “I feel like we’ve cracked the code, and I am confident we can really teach the Soundhouse method and make it work other places.”

As for the adult program, Chapman says he’s finally relenting.

“I’ve been in bands with adults, and working with young musicians is way more fun. They are hard workers, and they’re fun to be around,” he says. “I’m 45 now, and it keeps me young, being around all these kids. I love their energy, I love their enthusiasm, I love their hunger for learning, I love being connected to what’s current … it just keeps you alive.” CW

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Most American ska bands got their start in the early ’90s, when the music enjoyed a surging third-wave revival—but not The Toasters.

Founded back in 1981 by Englishman Robert “Bucket” Hingley, long before ska attained mainstream popularity stateside, label reps and critics alike laughed at the band’s so-called “circus music.” So Hingley did what any smart musician would do: He created his own outlet for the band’s prodigious discography. By the 1990s, when MTV was elevating The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and No Doubt to rock stardom, The Toasters’ Moon Ska Records had become the most respected commercial outlet in the world. The label eventually sold 1.5 million copies of ska records before folding in 2000.

Coming up on their 40th anniversary, The Toasters are still soldiering on, touring internationally with the energy of bands half their age and serving as ska’s elder statesmen, even as regular lineup changes have become a hallmark of the band. For Hingley, that’s fine and dandy; as he told this writer back in 2012, “That’s made the band much less reliant on individuals. The hardest thing to organize in this business is people, so having a big international roster of players has not only allowed us to play far more gigs, but also infused a greater amount of creativity into the interpretation and performance of the tunes.” As for the bandwagon-jumpers of the ’90s? “They’ve moved on in search of the next big thing,” Hingley said, “so us ska janitors can now get the house cleaned up nice and tidy again.” Don’t miss The Toasters in the intimate environs of Liquid Joe’s this weekend. Liquid Joe’s, 1249 E. 3300 South, 7 p.m., $12, 21+, liquidjoes.net

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Florida-born and Los Angeles-based quartet Set It Off builds brash, anthemic pop rock out of crunchy guitar riffs and quirky electronic elements. Cody Carson (vocals), Dan Clermont (guitar), Zach DeWall (guitar) and Maxx Danziger (drums) surely make their fans dance, but it’s their attention to shake-the-rafters songcraft that sets them apart from the crowded alt-rock crowd. Their last full-length release, Upside Down, was considered by critics a 2016 best-of, following up the chartsmashing sophomore set Duality and debut record Cinematics. But in 2019, Set It Off has a new partner, Fearless Records, pumping up its latest single, “Lonely Dance.” The new track serves as a preview of the band’s forthcoming album, which promises edgier and even more

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pop-driven anthems to The Toasters come. Lead support band With Confidence add depth to the heart-on-sleeve emotion of the night; their new single “Pâquerette (Without Me)” should go down as a classic of the emo-folk genre, but we can’t wait to see how the band elevates the song’s acoustic guitars to the stage. In the Venue, 219 S. 600 West, 6 p.m., $18 presale; $20 day of show, all ages, facebook.com/inthevenue

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Taylor Lines, Gui Peláez and Benjamin Thornton don’t give away much. As First Daze, their Spotify discography extends through all of two songs, “Fat Cats” and “Help! I’m in Love.” Still, those two jangly gems contain multitudes: country rock strumming that’s reminiscent of the best Laurel Canyon AM gold of the ’70s, hazy nostalgia invoked by Lines’ and Peláez’s otherworldly harmonies and incisive lyrics about late-stage capitalism. A deeper First Daze dive is available on Soundcloud, where a treasure trove of covers and demos stretch back several years. But with the promise of a new EP release at this week’s show—and very little fanfare celebrating it in advance—this Salt Lake City trio should surprise. The writer in me wants to know more, but after an hour of digging, I realized that perhaps it’s best to let the mystery be and see what First Daze delivers. Marny Lion Proudfit’s acoustic allure serves as the perfect opener, while the glam-drenched “self-help existential rock” of deelanZ propels this all-local bill forward. The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 8 p.m., $5, 21+, theurbanloungeslc.com

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Reggae is a musical style rooted firmly in the past that still reflects the contemporary developments around it. From the dancehall movement to the internationally successful metamorphosis into reggaeton, forward creative movement is baked into the genre’s history. Kingston, Jamaica’s Kabaka Pyramid embodies that notion, blending the revolutionary bounce of the roots rock movement with the energy and power of hip-hop’s lyricism.

Relying on a liquid voice and a hypnotizing delivery, Kabaka (Bantu for “king”) Pyramid is intent on disseminating positive messages of spiritual evolution that can also make you dance. Referencing the millennium-old pyramids of ancient Africa as his own blueprint for longevity, Kabaka Pyramid has cultivated a whip-smart “Bebble Rockers” backing band and a global fan-base eager to lap up his teachings. Following the global success of his 2015 smash single “Well Done,” Kabaka worked with in-demand producers Major Lazer and Walshy Fire on the Accurate mixtape. In 2017, he topped reggae charts with the anthem “Can’t Breathe,” the first single off his forthcoming debut full-length, Kontraband, which is being executive produced by reggae icon Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley. Of course, the international field is late to the party; in 2013, Kabaka Pyramid was named breakthrough artist of the year by the Jamaica Reggae Industry Association, and he’s been nominated three times for Song of the Year for “No Capitalist” (2013), “Mi Alright” (2014) and “Well Done” (2015). With his eye on the prize of steering future generations of reggae lovers toward the harmony and

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Tucson-by-way-of-Los Angeles quartet Foxx Bodies mix the personal and political to nearperfect effect. “S.A.D. Christmas” riffs on the existential holiday wish list of lead singer Bella Vanek before lamenting that, “All I came out with was seasonal affective disorder!”

It’s infectious and ramshackle-y irresistible, recalling fellow Arizona natives AJJ (formerly Andrew Jackson Jihad). Still, there’s something equally ferocious and tender about Foxx Bodies and the music they make; Adam Bucholz, Bailey Moses and Matt Vanek provide the spacious swing necessary to let Bella’s incisive declamations ring wild and true. Defining their sound as “urgent, clever, energetic, and above all, important,” Foxx Bodies don’t fuck around; “The Walk” might ride a crushing wave of salty surf rock, but a knife-edged undertow pulls it into darker territory. Forthcoming full-length Vixen dives deeper into traumatic waters, working through critical issues like self-abuse, religious stigma and eating disorders with an unforgiving attitude. Will the new record continue to skew more melodic than the snarl of Foxx Bodies’ self-titled and self-recorded 2016 debut, or will the flashes of hardcore anger evident on that release bubble up in Foxx Bodies’ more mature work? You’ll have to get in the sweaty mix at Kilby Court next week to find out. Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court, 7 p.m., $8, all ages, kilbycourt.com

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With a bag of tricks that includes psychedelic sonics, blissful grooves, jazz rhythms and hip-hop beats, Lettuce have become some of the most technically sharp jam-band gurus of the 21st century. Of course, when you release full-length album tributes to Miles Davis and his contemporary jazz-fusion brilliance, you’re going to draw attention. Witches Stew channels the modern interpretative spirit of Thundercat, Flying Lotus and Kamasi Washington, taking what many jazz-heads consider an untouchable golden oldie and turning it into a modern statement on the diversity of our own era. Known equally well for their incendiary live shows and die-hard fans, Boston-born Lettuce lends new power to classic funk templates. It doesn’t hurt that each of Lettuce’s members is a sought-after musician in the hip-hop and pop worlds; Adam Deitch is a member of Break Science and has played with everyone from John Scofield and 50 Cent to Talib Kweli and Wyclef Jean, while Erick “Jesus” Coomes has produced with Kanye West and Dr. Dre and served as a touring bassist for Britney Spears and The Game. But when the full Lettuce collective gets together, all structured bets are off and the high-flying fusion world is their oyster. As saxophonist Ryan Zoidis told High Lark last year, “[Witches Stew] pushed us in a different direction and challenged us to think about improvising differently. It was completely unrehearsed and fresh, which gave it the energy that it needed. That is what we have been developing over the years, and now we can do it comfortably, which is so fun.” (Nick McGregor) The Commonwealth Room, 195 W. Commonwealth Ave., 8 p.m., $40, 21+, thecommonwealthroom.com

Dead + Be Joint + Winsor + Clementine + State + Biims (The Beehive) Dean Lewis + Syml (Metro Music Hall) Eric Anthony + Tony Oros Trio (Lake Effect) J Boog (The Depot) Korene Greenwood (HandleBar) L.O.L. (Club 90) Lake Effect (The Spur) Luca Lush + Montell2099 + Bishu (The Complex) Mike Rogers (Silver Lake) Mushroomhead + Hellzapoppin Circus + Sideshow Revue + Ventanta + Worldwide Panic (The Royal) Nightcaps (ABG’s) Oliver Tree (The Complex) Peaks Jazz Festival (Utah Cultural Celebration Center) see p. 26 The Pour (Hog Wallow Pub) Riding Gravity + Ginger and The Gents (Ice Haüs) Sav’ Joe + PrettyxBoyxFloyd (Gold Blood Collective) Shannon Runyon (Legends) Shawn Colvin (Egyptian Theatre) Talia Keys (Harp and Hound) The Toasters (Liquid Joes) see p. 28 Ugly Boys + Uncle Reno + Brother + Ya Anml (Urban Lounge) Werewolf-Afro + Jeremy Harper (Pale Horse Sound)

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Forget Hump Day—Tuesday night is the real leverage point of the week. You have two options: Let the clusterfuck of Monday drag you into its downward spiral so that on Tuesday night, the weekend can feel months away. Or, treat the evening as a sort of inflection point or reset button, and it can almost feel like a mini-Friday night. In need of the latter, I rocked up to my favorite bar in Salt Lake City, Water Witch. A few years into its existence as the coziest combination of upscale cocktail lounge and friendly neighborhood dive, it’s beginning to feel like an institution. Last month, I spotted co-owners Matt Pfohl and Scott Gardener manning the bar at an ultra-exclusive Sundance party; last week, bartender Kenzie Anderson was killing it at the Speed Rack Charity Female Bartending Competition in Denver. Hell, the famously freewheeling experimental lab even produces real menus, with a robust spirits list and a Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control-approved bar snacks menu. Yet a slight tinge of anarchy persists at Water Witch; you can still order a Bartender’s Handshake or Dealer’s Call and let your own personal cocktail Jesus take the wheel. And in the back of the menu, a notes section leaves room for random birthday shout-outs, inside jokes and motivational quotes.

The statement on the bar’s no-nonsense letter board spoke directly to me, too: “When life gives you writers block, ...” But instead of wallowing in my strep throat-plagued late-winter funk, I downed a smooth rum concoction and a Proper Patersbier and, groundhog-style, popped out of my hole to cast a fierce gaze toward the future. Was I tired on Wednesday morning? Yes. I was also extra motivated to knock out a particularly grueling round of work, which in its frenzy, got me one step closer to the weekend. With Water Witch by your side and a new attitude about Tuesdays in your back pocket, anything is possible. (Nick McGregor) 163 W. 900 South, waterwitchbar.com, 801-462-0967 Sky Saturdays w/ DJ Ikon (Sky) Syndicate feat. An-Ten-Nae (Soundwell) Top 40+ EDM + Alternative w/ DJ Twitch (Area 51)

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Sweet Dreams (1985)

The Subject: Country-western singer Patsy Cline The Star: Jessica Lange Hard Stuff from Subject’s Life: Physical and emotional domestic abuse, and death in a plane crash at the age of 30.

Did She Do Her Own Singing/Playing?: No. Lange lipsynced to Cline’s original recordings.

Oscar Nomination/Win: Lange was nominated, but lost to Geraldine Page in The Trip to Bountiful.

What’s Love Got to Do With It (1993)

The Subject: Soul and rock ’n’ roll diva Tina Turner The Star: Angela Bassett Hard Stuff from Subject’s Life: Domestic violence and career control at the hands of her husband, Ike. Did She Do Her Own Singing/Playing?: No. Cast with only a month until production began, Bassett did not have time to train for singing and lip-synced to Turner’s voice.

Oscar Nomination/Win: Bassett was nominated, but lost to Holly Hunter in The Piano.

Shine (1997)

The Pianist (2002)

The Subject: Concert pianist/composer Wladyslaw Szpilman The Star: Adrien Brody

Ray (2004)

The Subject: Blues pianist/singer Ray Charles The Star: Jamie Foxx Hard Stuff from Subject’s Life: Losing his sight at the age of 7, subsequently attempting to build a career playing the “Chitlin Circuit” in the South.

Did He Do His Own Singing/Playing?: Yes and no. Already an accomplished pianist since the age of 5, Foxx did all of his own piano playing but lip-synced to Charles’ vocals.

Oscar Nomination/Win: Foxx was nominated and won Best Actor.

Walk the Line (2005)

The Subject: Country/rock pioneer Johnny Cash The Star: Joaquin Phoenix Hard Stuff from Subject’s Life: Extensive drug and alcohol abuse, requiring time in a rehab facility.

Did He Do His Own Singing/Playing?: Yes. Phoenix learned to play guitar for the role and lowered his vocal register to do all of his own singing of Cash’s songs.

Oscar Nomination/Win: Phoenix was nominated, but lost to the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote; Phoenix’s costar Reese Witherspoon won Best Actress as Cash’s wife June.

La Vie en Rose (2007)

The Subject: French chanteuse Édith Piaf The Star: Marion Cotillard Hard Stuff from Subject’s Life: Growing up in a brothel, coping with the death of a true love and dealing with a morphine addiction that hinders her career.

Did She Do Her Own Singing/Playing?: No. Cotillard lipsyncs both to original Piaf recordings and to re-creations by singer Jil Aigrot.

Oscar Nomination/Win: Cotillard was nominated and won, a rare case of a non-English language performance taking a top acting Oscar. CW

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The Subject: Classical pianist David Helfgott The Star: Geoffrey Rush Hard Stuff from Subject’s Life: Control and abuse by his domineering father; mental illness and time spent institutionalized, including receiving electroconvulsive therapy.

Did He Do His Own Singing/Playing?: No. Rush fakes along to recordings of Helfgott’s playing.

Oscar Nomination/Win: Rush was nominated and won Best Actor.

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The Subject: Country-western singer Loretta Lynn The Star: Sissy Spacek Hard Stuff from Subject’s Life: Poverty, teenage marriage and a nervous breakdown that forces her to quit touring for a year.

Did She Do Her Own Singing/Playing?: Yes. Spacek studied with and observed Lynn for a year before filming, learning to mimic Lynn’s singing style.

Oscar Nomination/Win: Spacek was nominated and won Best Actress.

Hard Stuff from Subject’s Life: The Polish-Jewish Szpilman has to survive life in the Warsaw ghetto and in Treblinka extermination camp, then scavenges to survive in wartime Poland.

Did He Do His Own Singing/Playing?: Yes and no. Brody practiced four hours daily to be able to play Chopin, but a professional pianist’s playing was used on the actual soundtrack.

Oscar Nomination/Win: 29-year-old Brody was nominated and won Best Actor, the youngest-ever winner in that category at the time.

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The Subject: Early rock ’n’ roll musician Buddy Holly The Star: Gary Busey Hard Stuff from Subject’s Life: The teenage Holly has to convince music-industry folks to let him pursue his own songwriting and musical vision. And there’s that whole “Day the Music Died” thing.

Did He Do His Own Singing/Playing?: Busey sang all of the performances himself, even recording them live during shooting.

Oscar Nomination/Win: Busey was nominated, but lost to Jon Voight in Coming Home.

Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980)

The Buddy Holly Story (1978)

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s the Academy Awards presentation approaches on Sunday, Feb. 24, oddsmakers favor a Best Actor win for Rami Malek, who plays Freddie Mercury in the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. For anyone who follows the Oscars, this shouldn’t come as a surprise. Over the course of the awards’ history—and particularly over the past 40 years—one of the easiest ways to win a gold statuette as an actor is to star in a musical biopic.

Several factors appear to give performances in musical biopics a head start toward nominations and awards.

The roles themselves are often juicy, full of rags-to-riches (and perhaps back-to-rags-again) drama, struggles with substance abuse and volatile personal relationships. Then there’s the predictable predilection of awards voters toward performers doing credible impressions (“They look like the person they’re supposed to look like!”) or learning how to sing or play like the person they’re portraying. The formula is easy to spot.

Here are just some of the performers who have been in the audience waiting to hear if their name is inside an Oscars envelope for playing a musical artist, along with some of the boxes they successfully checked off on the way to recognition:

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NEW THIS WEEK Film release schedules are subject to change. Reviews online at cityweekly.net ARCTIC BBBB Small-plane crash survivor Overgård (Mads Mikkelsen) is stuck in the Arctic. Each day he checks his fishing lines, sends out a hand-cranked distress signal, then zips himself into a sleeping bag inside the ruins of his plane. His luck finally seems to change when a helicopter finds his camp, but horrific weather downs it and kills the pilot, leaving an injured young woman (Maria Thelma Smáradóttir) in Overgård’s care, giving him something to live for instead of marking the hours until his death. Mikkelsen is almost entirely the show here, and he makes the most of it, using what little the audience can see of his face and eyes—usually half-covered by a knit hat and a parka hood—and giving perhaps the best performance in his storied career. Director/ co-writer Joe Penna wrings maximum suspense from the simple situation, and at a brisk 97 minutes, Arctic never outstays its welcome. Good thing, too—Arctic is so intense that when the end credits rolled, I let out gasps of relief. Opens Feb. 22 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—David Riedel FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY BB.5 This would be nothing more than a routine underdog sports story if it hadn’t been written and directed by Stephen Merchant, the Englishman responsible for most of the funny things Ricky Gervais has ever said on TV. Merchant’s fact-based account of a working-class Norwich family obsessed with American pro wrestling is sharp and funny, with amiable performances and an interesting look behind the scenes at WWE. Teens Zak (Jack

Lowden) and Raya (Florence Pugh), raised by one-time amateur wrestlers (Nick Frost and Lena Headey), both jump at the chance to audition for WWE, but only Raya is selected by coach Hutch (Vince Vaughn) to train with other hopefuls in Florida. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who encouraged Raya in real life, appears as himself. Raya, whose goth persona is at odds with the bubbly blondes she’s teamed with, flirts with changing to be more “normal”—familiar believe-in-yourself sports stuff. But if the dramatic elements are generic, the humor—especially early on—is buoyant enough to make it worthwhile even for non-fans. Opens Feb. 22 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)—Eric D. Snider HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD BB.5 An animated franchise that so far had been a glorious exploration of reason over violence, human partnership with the natural world and dragons comes to a flat, disappointing conclusion.

Hiccup (voice of Jay Baruchel), now leader of his Viking village, embarks on a quest to save dragonkind from cruel hunter Grimmel (F. Murray Abraham) by finding a legendary sanctuary where the beasts can conceal themselves. Yet not only is The Hidden World not about this hidden world—it barely appears—it’s not about much of anything else, either. Everything Hiccup has been working toward over the previous movies is threatened, yet the stakes feel low. Sure, the world of Hiccup and Toothless still looks touchably gorgeous—see this in IMAX if you see it at all—and there’s certainly nothing offensive here. Indeed, Hiccup remains a great example of heroic yet non-toxic masculinity. But his final adventure is, sadly, instantly forgettable. Opens Feb. 22 at theaters valleywide. (PG)—MaryAnn Johanson NEVER LOOK AWAY BB.5 Only after the movie was over did I realize that this Foreign Language Oscar nominee from Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (2007 Oscar-winner The Lives of Others) was an in-all-but-name “great artist biopic”—based on the life of Gerhard Richter—but in hindsight,

that explains a lot. The narrative follows the life of aspiring artist Kurt Barnert (Tom Schilling) over the course of 26 years, from his childhood in Nazi Germany dealing with the tragic loss of his beloved aunt (Saskia Rosendahl), to his courtship with his eventual wife Ellie (Paula Beer) and his unknown connection to Ellie’s father, Professor Seeband (Sebastian Koch). An epic 188-minute running time encompasses that journey, as von Donnersmarck touches on Nazi-era eugenics and the way political pedagogies restrict the creation of art. But ultimately the narrative becomes all about Kurt seeking his creative voice, and while von Donnersmarck stages many artist-at-work moments effectively, there’s still something vaguely off-putting about employing melodramatic narrative developments—and genuine historical cruelty—to serve a tale about a guy feeling good because he’s painting the Truth.

Opens Feb. 22 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—Scott Renshaw

SPECIAL SCREENINGS CLASH OF THE WOLVES At Edison Street Events Silent Films, Feb. 21-22, 7:30 p.m. (NR) MEOW WOLF: ORIGIN STORY At Main Library, Feb. 26, 7 p.m. (NR) OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS At Park City Film Series, Feb. 22-23, 8 p.m.; Feb. 24, 6 p.m. (NR)

CURRENT RELEASES ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL BBB Director Robert Rodriguez’s adaptation of a 1990s manga story offers sci-fi fantasy in a familiar post-apocalyptic landscape, but with a surprising emotional connection. In the year 2563, cybernetics doctor Dyson Ido (Christoph Waltz) recovers the abandoned core of a young woman he calls Alita (Rosa Salazar)—a cyborg with astonishing fighting skills but no memory of her past. Rodriguez and the writers do a reasonably effective job of establishing this setting’s economy of gleaners, criminals and

government-sponsored mercenaries, with the wow factor of its various electronically-enhanced denizens. Best of all, Salazar invests Alita herself with an infectious humanity that transcends predictable scenarios and a bland romance. That’s what a wouldbe blockbuster needs in order to stand out from the pack in 2019: Like Alita herself, it’s less about all the cutting-edge technology than about the heart that drives it. (PG-13)—SR

CAPERNAUM BB Director Nadine Labaki’s poverty porn rests on a morally indefensible premise: 12-year-old Syrian boy Zain (Zain Al Rafeea), convicted of an adult crime, files a lawsuit against his parents for having him. The bulk of the story flashes back to Zain’s rough childhood, running away from home and eventually serving as live-in babysitter for an Ethiopian immigrant. While the nonprofessional Al Rafeea provides a prickly energy to the unpleasant developments in Zain’s life, it’s really gilding the lily to mix up the impoverished native underclass with the plight of migrants and the evils of those who prey on their vulnerability. The heartstringtugging works at times, but when it feels like we’re ultimately coming down on the side of “the best way to prevent a lot of suffering is to sterilize the poor,” that’s, like, a problem. (R)—SR

ISN’T IT ROMANTIC BBB Is it a cheat or a neat trick to spoof rom-com tropes while also fully embracing them? Rebel Wilson stars as Natalie, a plus-sized, romantically-cynical New Yorker who wakes up from a knock on the head to find herself living inside a romantic comedy. Erin Cardillo’s screenplay generally only takes love taps at the genre, rather the body blows landed by They Came Together, so the jokes rarely feel truly inspired. But Wilson delightfully underplays being in the unfamiliar role of desirable to a hunky, rich guy (Liam Hemsworth) and her nice-guy coworker (Adam Devine). You might see the moral coming from a mile away, but you can chuckle both at the idea of people spontaneously breaking into a production number and at the production number itself. (PG-13)—SR

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23. Some dinero 24. Three-ingredient sandwich 25. Rewards card accumulation: Abbr.

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42. Fairy tale "lump" 43. Fine and dandy, in old slang 46. Hip-hop record exec Gotti 47. 501s 51. Chips and popcorn, in adspeak 52. Spotted à la Tweety Bird 53. Kristoff's reindeer in "Frozen" 54. '80s-'90s rock band with a repetitive name 56. 1986 Jeffrey Archer novel (remember ... he's British) 59. Some hotel Bibles 60. Unknown quantity 61. "1984" superstate that includes America 62. Nissan models discontinued in 2015

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Based in Switzerland, Nestle is the largest food company in the world. Yet it pays just $200 per year to the state of Michigan for the right to suck up 400 million gallons of groundwater, which it bottles and sells at a profit. I nominate this vignette to be your cautionary tale in the coming weeks. How? 1. Make damn sure you are being fairly compensated for your offerings. 2. Don’t allow huge, impersonal forces to exploit your resources. 3. Be ARIES (March 21-April 19): In December 1915, the California city of San Diego was suffer- tough and discerning, not lax and naïve, as you negotiate deals. ing from a drought. City officials hired a professional “moisture accelerator” named Charles Hatfield, who promised to make it LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): rain. Soon Hatfield was shooting explosions of a secret blend of Sixteenth-century Italian artist Daniele da Volterra wasn’t chemicals into the sky from the top of a tower. The results were very famous for his own painting and sculpture. The work for quick. A deluge began in early January of 1916 and persisted for which we remember him today is the alterations he made to weeks. Thirty inches of rain fell, causing floods that damaged the Michelangelo’s giant fresco The Last Judgment, which spreads local infrastructure. The moral of the story, as far as you’re con- across an entire wall in the Sistine Chapel. After Michelangelo cerned, Aries: when you ask for what you want and need, specify died, the Catholic Church hired da Volterra to “fix” the scanexactly how much you want and need. Don’t make an open-ended dalous aspects of the people depicted in the master’s work.

He painted clothes and leaves over the originals’ genitalia and request that could bring you too much of a good thing. derrieres. In accordance with astrological omens, I propose that we make da Volterra your anti-role model for the coming TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges are brothers born to parents weeks. Don’t be like him. Don’t engage in cover-ups, censorship who were also actors. When they were growing up, they already or camouflage. Instead, specialize in the opposite: revelations, had aspirations to follow in their mom’s and dad’s footsteps. From unmaskings and expositions. an early age, they summoned a resourceful approach to attracting an audience. Now and then they would start a pretend fight in a SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): store’s parking lot. When a big enough crowd had gathered to What is the quality of your access to life’s basic necessities? How observe their shenanigans, they would suddenly break off from well do you fulfill your need for good food and drink, effective exertheir faux struggle, grab their guitars from their truck and begin cise, deep sleep, thorough relaxation, mental stimulation, soulplaying music. In the coming weeks, I hope you’ll be equally inge- ful intimacy, a sense of meaningfulness, nourishing beauty and rich feelings? I bring these questions to your attention, Scorpio, nious as you brainstorm about ways to expand your outreach. because the rest of 2019 will be an excellent time for you to fine-tune and expand your relationships with these fundamental GEMINI (May 21-June 20): According to Edward Barnard’s book New York City Trees, a quar- blessings. And now is an excellent time to intensify your efforts. ter of the city is shaded by its 5.2 million trees. In other words, one of the most densely populated, frantically active places on SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): the planet has a rich collection of oxygen-generating greenery. Michael Jackson’s 1982 song “Beat It” climbed to No. 3 on the There’s even a virgin forest at the upper tip of Manhattan, as well record-sales charts in Australia. On the other hand, “Weird Al” as five botanical gardens and the 843-acre Central Park. Let’s use Yankovic’s 1984 parody of Jackson’s tune, “Eat It,” reached all this bounty-amid-the-bustle as a symbol of what you should No. 1 on the same charts. Let’s use this twist as a metaphor strive to foster in the coming weeks: refreshing lushness and grace that’s a good fit for your life in the coming weeks. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you might find that a interspersed throughout your busy, hustling rhythm. stand-in or substitute or imitation will be more successful than the original. And that will be auspicious!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): As a poet myself, I regard good poetry as highly useful. It can nudge us free of our habitual thoughts and provoke us to see the world in CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): ways we’ve never imagined. On the other hand, it’s not useful The Space Needle in Seattle, Wash., is 605 feet high and in the same way that food and water and sleep are. Most people 138 feet wide: a tall and narrow tower. Near the top is a round don’t get sick if they are deprived of poetry. But I want to bring restaurant that makes one complete rotation every 47 minyour attention to a poem that is serving a very practical purpose utes. Although this part of the structure weighs 125 tons, for in addition to its inspirational function. Simon Armitage’s poem many years its motion was propelled by a mere 1.5-horsepower “In Praise of Air” is on display in an outdoor plaza at Sheffield motor. I think you will have a comparable power at your disposal University. The material it’s printed on is designed to literally in the coming weeks: an ability to cause major movement with a remove a potent pollutant from the atmosphere. And what does compact output of energy. this have to do with you? I suspect that in the coming weeks you will have an extra capacity to generate blessings that are like AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Armitage’s poem: useful in both practical and inspirational ways. In 1941, the Ford automobile company created a “biological car.” Among its components were “bioplastics” composed of soybeans, hemp, flax, wood pulp and cotton. It weighed 1,000 LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1979, psychologist Dorothy Tennov published her book Love pounds less than a comparable car made of metal. This breakand Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love. She defined through possibility never fully matured, however. It was overher newly coined word “limerence” as a state of adoration shadowed by newly abundant plastics made from petrochemicals. that might generate intense, euphoric and obsessive feelings I suspect that you Aquarians are at a phase with a resemblance for another person. Of all the signs in the zodiac, you Leos are to the biological car. Your good idea is promising but unripe. I most likely to be visited by this disposition throughout 2019. hope you’ll spend the coming weeks devoting practical energy to And you’ll be especially prone to it in the coming weeks. Will developing it. (P.S. There’s a difference for you and your personal that be a good thing or a disruptive thing? It all depends on how equivalent of the biological car: little competition.)

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n Sharisha Morrison of Albuquerque, N.M., and her neighbors have been the recipients since Jan. 1 of an odd gift: plastic grocery bags with slices of bread and bologna inside, delivered by an unknown man. At first, Morrison told KOB TV, she thought the food deliveries were acts of kindness, until she opened the bag and smelled the contents. “It smelled like urine,” she said.

Morrison said she can watch the man on her surveillance camera.

“He’ll just walk up and drop it on the little doorknob and walk away,” she said. “I just want it to stop.” Police have told her they can’t do anything unless they catch him in the act.

The Way the World Works Residents of the small town of Hilgermissen in northwestern Germany voted decisively on Feb. 3 against naming the community’s streets. Currently, addresses are a house number and the name of one of the former villages that combined to create Hilgermissen in the 1970s, reported the Associated Press. Officials had hoped that street names would ease the jobs of emergency services and delivery drivers, but 60 percent of the 2,200 citizens rejected the council’s plan. The recent result will be binding for two years.

Thieving With Style A BP gas station in Swansea, S.C., was the setting for a reprise of at least one iconic moment from 1984’s The Karate Kid, according to Fox News. On Jan. 26, as surveillance cameras looked on, an unidentified man struck Mr. Miyagi’s signature Crane Technique pose—twice—before stealing a purse from a parked car nearby. The Swansea Police Department posted the video to its Facebook page, and with the public’s help, officers were able to identify the man and issue warrants for his arrest.

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The Entrepreneurial Spirit A 19-year-old man from Nice, France, has received a four-month (suspended) sentence for a clever plot he hatched in September.

The man, known only as Adel, removed a PlayStation 4 from a supermarket shelf on Sept. 17 and took it to the produce aisle, where he weighed it and printed out a price sticker for fruit.

Then he used the self-checkout line to pay and left the store with a $389 piece of electronics for about $10. Adel sold the PlayStation for $114 to buy a train ticket. The next day, he tried the same scheme, but police caught him in the act. He will only have to serve his sentence if he re-offends, reported kotaku.com.

Inexplicable For UNC-Greensboro student Maddie (no last name provided), there really was a monster in the closet. Or at least a guy named Drew. After returning to her apartment on Feb. 2, Maddie heard strange noises coming from her closet. She put her hand on the door and said, “Who’s in there?” “My name’s Drew,” answered the intruder, according to WFMY TV. Maddie continued talking with him, and when she opened the door, Drew was sitting on the floor of the closet, dressed in her clothing. He also had a bag full of her clothes, shoes and socks. Andrew Clyde Swofford, 30, begged her not to call police, and she chatted with him for another 10 minutes, “everything about his life and basically how he got in my closet,” she said. Swofford left when Maddie’s boyfriend arrived, and police caught up with him at a nearby gas station, where he was arrested for misdemeanor breaking and entering. Maddie told reporters she thinks Swofford has been in her apartment before: “We always joke that there’s a ghost in here because I’ve been missing clothes since I’ve been living here.” She signed a lease for a new apartment a few days later.

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Rodriguez donned a gray hoodie and a wig before approaching the counter at the store, showing a gun and demanding cash, reported the Miami Herald. When officers arrived, they got a detailed description, including the wig, and “additional witness information” led them to a nearby apartment. Inside they found Rodriguez, and “in plain view, a gray hooded sweater, several wigs and a large amount of wadded up cash.” Bingo! Rodriguez was charged with robbery with a firearm.

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