City Weekly June 6, 2019

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Current and former LGBTQ Mormons reflect on the LDS church’s exclusion policy—and its sudden reversal.

BY CAROLYN CAMPBELL

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Current and former LGBTQ Mormons reflect on the LDS church’s exclusion policy—and its swift reversal.

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CAROLYN CAMPBELL

Campbell has written for City Weekly since our early days in the ’80s, penning stories on everything from alien abductions to an anthropological take on green Jell-O. This week, in honor of Pride Month, she shines a spotlight on the problematic relationship between the LDS church and some of its most vulnerable flock members.

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OPINION The New “S” Word

With six children and 16 grandkids, our governor is a consummate Utah Mormon. Gov. Gary Herbert’s regular pep talks on the American flag, motherhood, education and apple pie have made him a popular leader, particularly among those of the same faith. He is currently our country’s longest sitting governor, and while his recent complicity in subverting the will of Utahns on the medical cannabis initiative and Medicaid expansion bill has alienated some, it certainly appears that his mantra largely resonates with the people he serves.

Herbert seems happy where he is, and his glaring absence of personal vices forecloses any possibility that he can ever run for a higher office. Without a plethora of allegations of sexual misconduct, corrupt business practices and a trash-mouth from which a steady stream of lies emanates, he won’t—for damned sure—ever qualify to be president. (He has never grasped how scandals could really improve his public support.)

As one of the keynote speakers at the recent 13th annual Utah Economic Summit, held at The Grand America hotel, Herbert took aim at what he sees as a growing problem of the younger generation.

Noting that Bernie Sanders, whose social vision successfully drew more primary votes (2 million) from the 19-29 age group than Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump combined (1.6 million), Herbert launched into a crusade pointing out what he sees as a naive ignorance on the part of the young. “Part of this fascination could be, I think, a misunderstanding of

BY MICHAEL S. ROBINSON SR. what capitalism truly is. When I think of capitalism, I think of the opportunity to dream big … then having the opportunity to go out and work and realize that dream.” But Herbert is the one who misunderstands.

While Herbert’s words brought the usual cheerleaderstyle pep-rally response from participants, some saw his patriotic support of capitalism in a different light. Indeed, the rah-rah-rah of our (horse-with-the-bit-in-its-mouth) government fails to address our system’s failings—especially the growing gulf between the richest and everybody else.

There’s a reason why the young are considering alternative political philosophies. They are afraid, and they should be.

Herbert, perennially wearing rose-colored glasses, doesn’t get that there’s a problem.

The past few years have posed a daunting reality on the horizon: In a nation where 2% of the citizens have the net worth of all the rest combined, the economic forecast isn’t that good. While the town criers shout out the illusion of a booming national economy and a stunningly low jobless rate, Herbert makes the mistake of only seeing the little picture— lives filled with what appears to be fortuitous bounties.

“We need to have a better and more accurate understanding of free market capitalism, I believe, because we seem to have a growing fascination—especially among the younger generation—of a more command-and-control form of government, particularly socialism,” Herbert said.

Herbert went on to tout the success of the free market as measured by the gains of Americans in the last century or so in metrics like health, longevity, infant mortality, earnings, homeownership and recreational time. He also noted the failed attempts at socialist experiments, highlighting food production systems as an example of why

that approach doesn’t work. Actual statistics fail to support his claims: Our infant mortality is up; health care is an ongoing nightmare; Americans don’t live longer than everybody else; the net worth of workers has declined; and affordable home ownership is a continual, growing problem. Well, Gov. Herbert, do you still want to claim that capitalism is a whopping success?

There’s a reason why Brigham Young instituted the United Order in a number of Utah communities. It addressed both the poverty of the many and the wealth of the few.

Not surprisingly, that socialist-communist experiment was a dismal failure, and its death knell was simply the natural greed of people—interestingly, the same flaw that is endangering the continuing existence of our capitalist system today. From a historical perspective, virtually all capitalist societies eventually fail because of the selfishness of the individual.

Herbert is not so different from the rest of us; the word “socialist” is uncomfortable to most Americans. But there needs to be change—not necessarily to socialism, but to a government that actually operates for the good of all Americans. Someone made the observation that any political system which helps everyone is labeled “socialism.” As Sanders’ ideas continue to gain traction among the young, we must keep in mind the reality of capitalism’s long-term failure—its impoverishment of the majority, its enrichment of the rich, and its cultivation of government-sanctioned mega-corporations that now control our lives. CW

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HITS&MISSES

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Well, It’s a Start

You have to give credit where credit is due—even if it involves I-don’t-want-to-beenergy-secretary Rick Perry. We’re talking about the Governor’s Energy Summit.

The very words strike fear in the hearts of climate activists, likely because of the focus on coal, “beautiful, clean coal.”

We know the appetite for coal is waning, but it’s going to take years, and Utah is a problem. “Although coal continues to play a major role, it’s popular mostly in states like Utah that have smaller populations,” a CNN Business report says. Still, maybe half of the summit attendees were renewable proponents, and Fox News noted that the governor rolled out two new renewable energy initiatives. That’s a start, even though it’s not enough. Now all we have to do is get both sides talking.

The Cost of Life

Oh yeah, we are a pro-life state. That is, unless your life costs too much or if you’re a kid. The 2019 Utah State of Children’s Coverage report shows that 71,000 children are uninsured. You might remember that voters approved a plan to expand Medicaid, only to have it watered down by legislators who firmly believe “these people” are just too lazy to work. Sadly, “these people” are more and more kids—and not white kids.

“While the Latino population accounts for only 14% of Utah’s population, 43% of uninsured children in the state are of Latino ethnicity,” the Deseret News reports. Navigating Medicaid is a nightmare anyway, and legal kids of undocumented parents are living that nightmare. Voices for Utah Children is campaigning to change that, but these days, you’re better off to remain a fetus.

More Lanes, More Traffic

It looks like the brass at the Utah Department of Transportation needs to go to class. It’s all about widening the interstates and building more highways, according to buildingsaltlake.com. And, yeah, we do love our highways. Deputy Director Jason Davis is sending up red flags and crying Californication if we don’t move now to bring ’em on. Traffic jams, urban gridlock.

Oh, horrors! The problem is that more capacity only incentivizes more traffic.

It’s called “induced demand.” Give them more and they’ll take it. Instead, Utah has some unique opportunities. Rep. Ben McAdams is lobbying for more federal money for electric buses, and, best yet, the Utah Transit Authority is going to try out a microtransit system where you can opt into shuttles off the fixed-route grid, according to the Deseret News. Yes, we said something positive about UTA. The idea here is to encourage better and easier mass transit, not more drivers in their rolling tin cans.

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As this summer’s campaign season heats up, mayoral candidates vie to stand out.

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Conversion Therapy Ban

Ahead of the city’s recent Pride celebration, Q Salt Lake magazine asked the candidates about their thoughts on the LGBTQ community and Pride. One candidate’s response—David Ibarra’s— seemed to gain a little more traction than he initially anticipated. The local businessman said if elected, he’d pursue a ban on conversion therapy centers in Salt Lake.

“I didn’t think it was really going to get all this attention because I just believed,” Ibarra tells City Weekly. “I happened to make a reference to it in response to what Pride is and the next thing I know is I have Fox 13 coming to interview me … to me, it was just the right thing to do so you just do it.”

Ibarra’s comments certainly drew attention after the Legislature failed to pass a bill that would have banned the practice statewide. Following the Legislature dropping the ball on conversion therapy, activists and allies spoke up, but a substantial bill banning the practice is still missing. What could a mayor do? The proposal seemed to be more of a statement than an actual policy proposal.

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alt Lake City’s next mayor will be … well, it’s much too early to say who will fill outgoing Mayor Jackie Biskupski’s shoes, but the smorgasbord of primary candidates has been doing their damndest to get noticed right out of the gate. From a proposed ban on conversion therapy to grandstanding ambitious renewable energy goals, it’s fair to say the campaign has kicked into high gear. Between June 13’s Westside Issues Forum and the primary debate on June 26, residents should have ample opportunity to hear from the candidates and ask them questions regarding the capital city’s future.

Aside from ideas to solve homelessness and affordable housing in the city—buzzwords we’ll hear aplenty leading up to the August primary—candidates have gone through the playbook and spoken out on a few other topics near and dear to Salt Lakers.

“[Rocky Mountain Power will] be coming to us and there will be an opportunity to say, ‘In exchange for doing this for you, we want something from you,’” mayoral hopeful David Garbett says. “Obviously, what we want is 100% clean energy.”

Mayoral candidate and current city councilwoman Erin Mendenhall told Fox 13 that, while she opposes the practice, the city wouldn’t have the power to ban it because “no mayor has the legal authority to prohibit any business licensed by the state, such as therapists licensed” through the state’s Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing.

Such a ban would have to originate from the state level. While a mayor could propose a resolution opposing it, it would lack enforcement through law.

Former candidate Christian Harrison, who is openly gay and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said in the same report he sees it as more of a symbolic effort.

Other candidates including Jim Dabakis, Luz Escamilla, David Garbett and Stan Penfold also included comments in support of a ban. Harrison dropped out of the race this week.

Ibarra, though, says he still wouldn’t be deterred from pushing for it in office.

“I said as mayor, I absolutely will find a way to discontinue the practice of that absolute harmful therapy as quickly as I can,” he insists. “Then all of a sudden, I get the ‘Yeah, but you don’t understand.’ I hate sentences that start with ‘but.’ Sometimes it’s just the right thing to do and you find a way.”

Renewable Energy Goals

When it comes to Salt Lake City’s air quality, candidates haven’t let the smog bog them down either. In May, Biskupski said she was moving up the city’s goal to operate on 100% renewable energy from 2032 to 2030. Garbett, a former attorney

with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, has campaigned on a 2023 goal since his announced candidacy. Days after the mayor’s recent policy goal, Garbett was joined by fellow candidate Penfold in saying it wasn’t enough.

“The science is clear: we must act sooner,” the joint statement says. “The window of meaningful action is closing, and 2030 is too far into the future.

Is the idea just another bold campaign promise? Aside from waiting until 2023 for the public to find out, Garbett backs up his claim, citing 2021 as a crucial year. That year, Rocky Mountain Power will be renegotiating its agreement with the city to allow it to run its power lines throughout the city.

“They’ll be coming to us and there will be an opportunity to say, ‘In exchange for doing this for you, we want something from you,’” Garbett tells City Weekly. “Obviously, what we want is 100% clean energy, I’m talking about the goal the city has now, which is 100% offset.”

In other words, a net 100% goal where the aim is to create enough “new renewable energy resources to meet all net annual” community needs, according to the city’s website. Garbett adds that he believes it’s the quickest and least-expensive option.

Penfold, who has previously served on the city council, says he liked the idea because “we have to start behaving in a really aggressive fashion” when it comes to clean air. “Frankly, my big concern is all the new science about how bad our carbon emissions truly are,” Penfold says. “I’m starting to feel

more and more desperate about the need to do more aggressive things.”

He also suggests that the city can do more to help its residents reduce their carbon footprint, such as more incentives for solar energy and electric vehicles. “I think it’s our role to help provide options,” he says.

The move, whether it happens in 2023 or 2030, will clearly cut down on the city’s carbon footprint, but other factors such as an inland port and its pollution will likely be brought up as well.

“In addressing climate change and the way we power our city, because most of our power is produced outside of the Wasatch Front, it’s separate from air-quality issues ...” Garbett says.

“Since we’re talking about electricity, the initial steps will be to reduce those carbon footprints, but moving in this direction, it will allow us to do things with the air quality problems we see in the valley.”

There is hope for the Wasatch Front’s air quality. For example, Kennecott Utah Copper announced just last month that it would permanently shut down its coal-fired power plant in Magna. The plant is the last one of its kind along the Wasatch Front and would cut down the company’s carbon footprint by as much as 65%, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.

Hungry for more? Friday, June 8, is the filing deadline for the city’s mayoral candidates, meaning more could join the fray or call it quits. In the interim, though, one thing is clear: Salt Lake City’s next mayor better be ready to shift into overdrive starting Day 1. CW

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aking a headline-grabbing splash in 2015, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ November policy—which deemed same-sex married couples “apostates” and formally excluded their children from blessings and baptisms—represented a clear divide between the institution and its LGBTQ members.

Now reversed following “continuing revelation,” this is the story of a group of people still affected by it.

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out to this sister and be a good friend.” As weeks passed, she was there for Kelli, who continued to confide in her. “We grew very close,” Kimberly remembers. “Because she was so open and honest, I let my guard down. That allowed me to be completely open and honest, too.” The two shared experiences relating to their children and families. Kimberly confided that although she loved her husband, their relationship seemed kind of like he was a brother or a friend. “I had felt like, ‘Is this all there is?’”

The two women began working out together. They took long bike rides. Kimberly began to notice there was “a flirtatious quality to our friendship. We were very drawn to each other and wanted to be together all of the time.” She adds that while Hollywood movies often make romance appear to be more than it actually is—with

The couple continued to live in the ward area for several years. Kimberly describes her new lifestyle as “social suicide.” “Suddenly, it was awkward to go out in the neighborhood.” She was shunned there, she says. Her family of origin disowned her. “They didn’t speak and I wasn’t included in family events.”

She missed her grandmother’s funeral and her sister’s wedding. She didn’t see her new nieces and nephews after their births. Kelli’s family invited the couple over, “but we were like an elephant in the room. They asked us not to hold hands in front of the children.” Following the interactions, Kimberly and Kelli quietly went back into the closet for years. “We had been through so much rejection,” Kimberly says.

“We made a life together and all we had was each other. She was my rock, my home and my world.

We were close in ways that a lot of families are not.

We totally clung together and supported each other through the devastation of losing my family.”

In December 2004, they shared a small, intimate commitment ceremony. “It wasn’t legal, but it was real in our hearts,” Kimberly says. They used the same vows in their legal wedding in June 2016—on the 12th anniversary of their first kiss. “When we first dated and fell in love, we went up into the mountains. I have memories of me with my arms wrapped around her on a four-wheeler,” Kimberly continues. Their legal wedding was also held in a mountain setting.

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Before they were wife and wife, Kimberly and Kelli Hansen-Ennis belonged to the same LDS ward in Eagle Mountain, some 40 miles outside Salt Lake City. “I was the Relief Society president and she was the rebel in the back row,” Kimberly says. Back then, both were married to men. During a Relief Society meeting, Kimberly noticed that Kelli looked a little bit down, and asked her if she was OK. “Do you like to hot tub?” Kelli asked. “If you do, come over and I’ll tell you what’s going on.” While hot-tubbing, Kelli explained that she was in the final stages of a divorce mediation, but that wasn’t all. She confided in Kimberly she was lesbian and planned to “seek love.”

Kimberly never knew a lesbian before.

“I was kind of shocked by it,” she says. Inwardly, she thought, “I need to really reach

bright colors and birds singing—her life began to more closely approach such a reality when she was with Kelli. “I fell in love with Kelli and I knew what love was for the first time,” she says.

At first, it was hard to face her feelings. When she was growing up in Utah County, calling someone gay was an insult. “I didn’t want to be gay, but I knew I loved Kelli. I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. I didn’t know how I could do that.

I would tell her ‘I’m not gay. I just really love you.’”

In June 2004, Kimberly kissed Kelli. When she told her husband that she was a lesbian, he responded, “I can’t say that I am all that surprised,” as if there had been signs along the way. He moved out that September. Kelli moved in the next day.

Kelli and her husband divorced amicably. He stayed in the ward with their children. Because their home was only a block away from Kimberly’s, the children could visit whenever they wanted. Both women were excommunicated after Kelli moved in.

They were invited to attend their individual church courts, which were held the same night (both declined). “I just knew there was no way I could stand in front of the stake presidency and high council and explain this amazing thing that had happened to me,” Kimberly notes. “There was no way I could make them understand. Even though they thought it was bad and wrong, it was perfect for me.”

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Kimberly Hansen-Ennis, center-right, and her wife, Kelli, with their family

When the 2015 November policy changes were leaked to the media, “It was devastating to me, my wife and my children,” Kimberly recalls. “There was a huge public outcry. I was very concerned about the children of LGBTQ parents becoming marginalized.” Today, she feels that she and Kelli were evicted from their home because she shared information regarding this issue on social media. “We got our eviction notice five days after the policy was exposed. I had been posting a lot of things and sharing what people were saying.’”

Kimberly knew of people who became closeted just so their own children could be baptized.

She’s aware of multiple suicides that took place after the policy was released. “Kids were listening and if they couldn’t share this part of their lives with their parents, in some cases they would rather kill themselves than face their parents or excommunication,” Kimberly says. “This policy drew a line in the sand, and obviously, I was on the other side of it.” The policy was reversed in April of this year, and children of LGBTQ parents can now be blessed as infants and baptized.

The change, however, does “not represent a shift in Church doctrine related to marriage or the commandments of God in regard to chastity or morality,” the First Presidency said in an official statement.

Reflecting on the change, Kimberly says she’s glad the policy is gone, but she’s angry they were evicted and angry for her kids. Because of the way she and Kelli were treated, all of their children have resigned from the church.

A Familiar Story

“Rachel” (real name witheld by request) identifies as bisexual. The 23-year-old recently celebrated her first anniversary with her female partner. The couple lives in their first home alongside their two dogs. While still a member of the LDS church, she dated people of “many different genders.”

Her process of leaving the church was slow, and the separation remains painful. “It began with the exclusion policy. Before that, I was trying to stay in the church and make it work for me,” she says. Back then, she still considered herself Mormon. “It was a lot more complicated than that,” she admits. “For me—and for all of the other people I loved who were both queer and Mormon— there was a hope that if you stayed in the church and suffered through long enough, things would get better and you could be both. I knew a lot of people who felt like if we stayed, we could make it better from the inside out. Small progress was being made.”

Yet when the exclusion policy was issued, “it felt like you had to choose one or the other. I felt like I wasn’t recognized as a whole person. It felt like if you were queer, you could acknowledge that as part of who you are or you can be Mormon,” she says. “I was torn in two directions, and it felt like I could have this queer part of me and this Mormon part of me and never the twain shall meet.” She adds that it felt as if all of the small steps forward were now “10 steps back, at least.”

She requested anonymity because she isn’t out to her entire family. She says that the time after the policy was issued was an emotionally dangerous and volatile time. “We lost a lot of lives in our community and I myself felt suicidal after that,” she says. “[I felt] intense pressure being put on me and it was too much for one person to handle. The pressure ended up being what shattered the relationship between the church and me, and it wasn’t a clean break.”

The story resonates with Joseph Adamson. From the time he understood that he was gay, he

became aware of an increasing conflict between his own identity and the faith he and his family had viewed as a safe place for generations. “Growing up in California, when the church was involved in Prop 2 and Prop 8, it became very clear what my faith thought about people who were gay,” he says.

Today, he feels that the conflict over the policy reversal is heightened by the reality that the two sides aren’t always opposing forces, but, rather, they are often different entities within the same church.

“When people who are speaking of the LGBTQ community refer to the activities and people as being ‘over there’—they don’t realize that we are also still part of the LDS community. Our families are still LDS and our lives have been embedded in the LDS community.”

As he repressed his own feelings around people he looked up to, that repression turned to selfhatred. His response to that was “to become a perfectionist. I tried to be a good student and the kind of kid in church that other people wished their kids could be.” The freelance piano player finds that after his subsequent faith crisis, “There is still a lot of good in life. I find my spirituality through music, prayer, love and kindness,” he says. “The church’s fingerprints are all over my life and there are a lot of standards I still hold through.”

Forbidden Love

Natalie Phillips (not her real name) grew up in a very sheltered home. Beginning at about age 9, she began having innocent crushes on female friends or teachers. She looked up the word homosexuality in the dictionary and the LDS “For The Strength of Youth” pamphlet and in the classic Mormon book, The Miracle of Forgiveness. “I tried to figure out if that was what was happening to me,” she says. “I was too scared to admit that I might be gay. It was the ’90s, and the church was ramping up on making sure that same-sex marriage wasn’t legal.” From what she was hearing, she thought maybe she could be excommunicated for being gay. “I wanted really badly to make my parents proud, to be approved by them and be a good member of the church. Fear paralyzed me, and I shoved it down. I prayed that I would have these impure thoughts taken away and be righteous and obedient.” In hopes of being a good Mormon girl who married a man, she went on lots of dates.

She feels she survived by pursuing a strong interest in art and painting. She became an art major at BYU. “I never really felt like I could be myself and I couldn’t tell anyone,” she points out.

Suffering from anxiety and depression, she entered therapy. “I had a good therapist, but I still felt it wasn’t safe to tell him I was gay or having these feelings.” She feared that if she confessed to being gay, the therapist might prescribe conversion therapy. While at that point, church leaders did not state that getting married was a cure for homosexuality, Natalie still felt that her issues would resolve once she tied the knot. By her own admission, she and her future husband “were friends and it never should have gone past that.” Because they were “really good Mormons and very conservative,” they shelved the idea of sex before the wedding. “We didn’t even come close to having a sexual relationship,” she says. “I didn’t receive the full brunt of what it would be like to be a lesbian married to a man.”

With what she refers to as her husband’s porn addicition thrown into the mix, she didn’t view sex in a healthy way. “It got to the point where I dreaded having sex with him,” she says. So, she’d either “numb myself out or imagine having sex with a woman.”

“I wondered if it was better that I commit suicide to take care of my being gay, or come out as gay and let my kids still have a mom.”

—Natalie Phillips wife.” Natalie and Amy married last January. Her oldest child, a daughter, was baptized before the nuptials. Last January, when Natalie’s twin sons turned 8, she sat down with them and broke the news that they would not be getting baptized. “I didn’t vilify or excuse the church,” she says. “I said that some things are out of our control, and we have to do the best with what we are given.”

One of the twins, who attends church every week with his father, was disheartened and upset. Her ex-husband sought special permission for the two boys to be baptized. “I told the boys’ bishop that if they wanted to be baptized, I would support them in it,” she says, adding her stress was relieved when the church reversed course. She doesn’t believe she’ll ever have an answer from the church whether it realizes the policy was hurting families.

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“On the outside, I apparently was a girl. But I didn’t feel like a girl,” 32-year-old Kris Irvin says. He knew he was transgender from an early age, an issue he felt he couldn’t discuss with his parents.

“I think my spirit is a boy that got put into a girl’s body,” 9-year-old Irvin told his primary teacher when the LDS Proclamation on the Family was issued. The teacher quickly shrugged it off. “I tried really hard to be a girl,” Kris says. His patriarchal blessing mentioned being a woman and doing womanly things. He asked his bishop if a new blessing could be issued and his response was no.

In his early teens, the Irvins uprooted to Florida. There, Kris met and made friends with the first openly gay people he ever crossed paths with. “It was a fun experience for a sheltered Mormon kid,” he says. For almost 13 years, he has been married to a straight cis male. “We met at BYU in the science fiction nerd club,” he says. “We were friends for eight months and then he asked me out. I thought, ‘If I don’t break up with this guy, I am going to marry him.” He says he tried to explain the experience of being trans without knowing the word. “I thought it was something I was over,” he says. “For the first several years of our marriage, I read lots of feminine blogs and books. I tried to be feminine, but never felt comfortable.” He came out as transgender a month before the exclusion policy was released. “I felt that Jesus didn’t say, ‘Suffer the children to come unto me unless their parents are queer.’” Kris didn’t tell his son about the policy until after it was reversed. Attending his son’s baptism was the last time he wore a skirt. “I will never wear one again.”

He fears the further he travels on the path to be his true self, the more removed he’ll become from his faith. “The church will never see me as male,” he says. “My bishop says that if I have top surgery, it is a reason for church discipline. For me, that is non-negotiable.” His surgical procedure is scheduled this month. When his son asked if he was gay, Kris explained that he is trans.

He told his son, “This is why I don’t like to wear dresses and don’t like to wear makeup.” In the Pride parade, Kris’ son carried a sign that said, “I love my transgender mom.” Even while feeling perpetually ostracized, Kris has stayed in the church as long as possible because, “There are other kids out there who will need a mentor like me.”

Marshall Shearer knew he was supposed to be male as long as he can remember. Like many, he initially didn’t plan to transition because he didn’t want to jeopardize his standing in the church.

Shearer first thought he was gay. “When I met women, I would say, ‘I’m gay, but I’m not attracted

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Natalie became pregnant just two weeks after they married. “I felt really trapped,” she says.

“I hadn’t finished my degree and I had a newborn baby on the way.” A year into their marriage, she told her husband she was attracted to women. “I was scared he would end the marriage. I didn’t know what I would do financially,” she recalls. “He acted as if it was a little odd. I think he figured it was just a temptation I had, rather than a full-blown orientation. He didn’t want to talk about problems with our sex life.” They were married for 10 years. Today, she feels that mixedorientation marriages are harmful to both parties. “It reached the point where I was depressed enough that I began having suicidal ideations,” she says. “What pulled me out of that was the fact that I had three kids that I loved. I wondered if it was better that I commit suicide to take care of my being gay, or come out as gay and let my kids still have a mom.”

She went with the latter. Her prayers shifted from asking for the gay to be taken away to stating that she had tried everything she could and asking if it was OK that she was gay. She felt an overwhelming comforting feeling she attributed to a higher power. “I felt a huge relief that He loved me for who I am and that being gay was not a temptation; it was who I was,” she reminisces. Still married to a man, she was trying to make her mixed-orientation marriage work while simultaneously affirming herself as a gay woman.

A therapist who had worked with previous LGBTQ clients helped her embrace her true self.

“It was a healing time for me,” she says. Not long after, she filed for divorce. At the time, she was teaching at a Montessori school and returned to school herself, pursuing a technology degree with plans to graduate in May 2020.

While at school, she befriended “Amy,” who would eventually become her wife. At the time, both needed support because they each had family members who struggled with the fact they were gay. Amy had returned from a mission where she “had several spiritual experiences,” but also, “figured out that she was gay and that this was a part of her … the church and gospel were important to both of us. At the same time, we found that we were falling in love with each other.”

She continued to consult with her bishop about her belief that God had confirmed to her that being gay “was part of how he made” her, along with discussing her growing feelings toward Amy, as the pair’s relationship had progressed from friendship to dating. She describes her bishop as being very compassionate. “He felt like he was at a crossroads, and was just supposed to help me along in my path, which wasn’t what I expected. I ended up continuing to see him and it got to the point where we needed to hold a disciplinary council.”

Through prayer, she felt a confirmation that a disciplinary council would take place; that she would be excommunicated; and that it would all be OK in the end. “There were hurtful aspects about the church and I needed to make a clean break, something that would help distance me, then I would rebuild my relationship with God in a healthy way and live the gospel as a healthy person,” she confesses. “I could see myself rejoining the church if the policies changed.” While she felt that being excommunicated was the right answer for her at the time, she also felt the loss of the church community in which she was deeply involved. “When you are excommunicated, you are not allowed to hold a calling, take the sacrament or go to the temple,” she sighs.

Today, Natalie feels that divorcing her wife would be detrimental to both of their well-being.

“I can say that being married to a man and being married to a woman are night-and-day different,” she says. “So many things have made me a better person since I have been married to my

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to you, so don’t freak out,’” he admits. In his first year of teaching, those words rang false when he told his classroom aide that he wasn’t attracted to her. “That was the first time I knew I was attracted to her.” Today, Marshall and his wife, Adrienne, are the adoptive parents of five children ranging in ages 9 to 19.

“We tried for a long time to keep everyone in the church,” until the exclusion policy was originally announced, that is. All of the children had been baptized by this time except for his 9-yearold daughter. “We were heavily involved in callings, service and Scouts,” he says. His ward allowed his three eldest sons to keep the priesthood, “because they had kind of been grandfathered in.” But when his 8-year-old daughter wasn’t allowed to be baptized, the little girl got upset. And when his trans daughter wasn’t welcome unless she was wearing a suit, he thought, “that child does not exist. That was the last straw for me.” He said the hardest part of leaving the church was “losing that sense of community, that built-in purpose that comes along with being a member of the church. It’s your whole life. Most of your time is filled with church callings, church activities, looking out for other church members.” He pauses. “I still feel sad that my son won’t be going on a mission.”

Finding Their Tribe

John Dehlin, host of Mormon Stories podcast, who has a Ph.D. in clinical and counseling psychology and is himself an excommunicated Mormon, says that humans are tribal creatures and that there are emotional consequences from being separated from one core group. “We have evolved over millennia to find comfort, safety and personal development in social groups,” he says. “Being cut off from our ‘tribe’ can lead to significant feelings of fear, loneliness, isolation, depression and even suicidality.” He adds, “No one should be forced to choose between their community and intimate companionship. It is inhumane for the Mormon church to force this choice upon its LGBTQ members.”

(The LDS church did not respond to two requests for comment regarding this story.)

Dehlin describes the original exclusion policy as “perhaps the most significant public relations fiasco in the history of the Mormon church. Instead of releasing the policy with an explicit public announcement, combined with thorough leadership training, it was ‘sneaked’ into the Handbook of Instructions—as if no one would notice—with no leadership training and without any communication plan.” He adds that once the policy change was discovered and leaked online, LDS leadership and the PR department were completely unequipped to respond in a timely manner. “Many members believed that the policy change was a prank or a mistake until they learned it was legitimate,” he says.

Dehlin adds that it’s astounding that church brass would reverse a policy only 3.5 years after declaring it to be a revelation.

“The reason Heavenly Father sent so many gay and trans children to Mormons, was to teach them to love more than they ever knew they could.”

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“It took the church over 50 years to abolish polygamy and more than 100 years to reverse the ban on people of color receiving the priesthood and attending the temple.” he says. Dehlin considers the swift reversal resulted not from concern over LGBTQ church members, but rather because the church’s heterosexual membership—particularly millennials—is sinking. According to the church’s 2018 statistical report, its overall yearly growth has shrunk from 2.03% in 2013 to 1.21% in 2018. As for millenials, its retention rate was just 46% compared to 72% for babyboomers, according to a report from Religion News Service.

“The church felt desperate to stop the hemorrhaging,” Dehlin says.

A New Hope

Susie Augenstein isn’t LGBTQ. She doesn’t have a gay or transgender child. But this self-described LGBTQ ally and her husband are dedicated to providing the connection to others that they sense queer Mormons feel when they step away or are excommunicated from the church. Bubbly, outgoing Susie was raised in an LDS family “where it was OK to question.” Feeling inclined to learn more about the LGBTQ community, she began to volunteer at Encircle, a resource center for LGBTQ youth, their families and their community that provides friendship circles, individual validating therapy, and programming designed to equip them with all the tools they need to thrive, according to Griffin Hendrickson, the organization’s content strategist. Inspired by the words of LDS Apostle M. Russell Ballard, who in 2017 said, “We need to listen to and understand what our LGBTQ brothers and sisters are feeling and experiencing,” Susie invited Encircle attendees to a game night at her home. Twelve people attended the first game night (the next two iterations generated 15 and then 20 attendees). Knowing that many who attended game night no longer went to church, she also sensed some might appreciate an opportunity to attend an “affirming religious meeting.”

In that spirit, Susie and her husband, Paul, then an LDS bishop, began holding Sunday School at their home. Today, their Sunday School program is held weekly in four different homes.

In January of last year, the Augensteins got permission from their stake president to host a two-hour gathering in their Riverton ward building. She asked five people to speak—two gay men who are still active in the church, a couple who had lost a child to suicide and a married lesbian couple. While that gathering was originally intended just for her ward, she also invited a few kids from game night—attendance swelled to about 140 extra people. “Our ward sat in the front with all the others behind them, and on the sides it was standing-room only,” she says.

Today, the Augenstein’s list of participants has grown to 300 people. “That number tells me this is needed,” she says. The

momentum helped her create a Facebook page called “Let’s Love Better,” which lines up perfectly with a goal of hers. “If it can spark someone in another area, say, California, to provide a similar program, until we can figure out in the church how to make it better, it will save lives and keeps people close to God,” she says. “Leaving the church and leaving God are two different things. If we can keep them close to spiritual power, we can keep them close to our families.”

In the end, many see mediation as key. Droves of LGBTQ Utahns grew up in LDS homes, “so there is no us-versus-them; there is only us,” Troy Williams, executive director of Equality Utah, says. A former Mormon and returned missionary, he adds, “LDS communities are some of the most loving cohesive communities there are. When we are exiled from our faith community and our family members, there is great risk to our mental health. We need to look at the spheres of interest in our families, churches and schools that interface with the LGBTQ community, and ask ourselves if their policies embrace or exclude. If it’s the latter, we need to create change.” On March 12, 2015, Gov. Gary Herbert signed Senate Bill 296 into law. This milestone legislation added the words “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to Utah’s Anti-Discrimination and Fair Housing Acts, which has helped protect LGBTQ Utahns against discrimination at work and in the housing market.

“Equality Utah worked closely with the church in helping to promote that bill. It was the first time LGBTQ people were included,” Williams explains. This year, the group also collaborated with the church to help draft legislation in hopes of ending the practice of conversion therapy. However, he says, the exclusion policy’s emergence in November 2015, “was a source of great turmoil in LDS homes. It pit family members against each other. The fact that it has been reversed is a positive step.

For true healing to happen, we have to acknowledge the pain that was caused.” Williams says he has been overwhelmed by the number of rank-and-file Mormons who have reached out with love and compassion toward the LGBTQ community. He adds that when LDS organizations such as the Mama Dragons and Mormons Building Bridges “embrace equality, they are the fiercest allies we have.”

In the end, he says, the opportunity for compassion and empathy are eternally present. “The reason Heavenly Father sent so many gay and trans children to Mormons, was to teach them to love more than they ever knew they could.”

Dehlin agrees. “LGBTQ make up over 10% of the population,” he concludes. “These beautiful, delightful, talented people are your grandparents, parents, siblings, children, neighbors, friends, church leaders, teachers and bosses. If you have not become personally acquainted with an LGBTQ person, you will be soon.” He pauses. “Fortunately, the answer for how to treat them is super simple: Love them equally.” CW

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Scots are a hearty breed, and their traditions reflect their reverence for home, hearth and hard work. It’s little wonder then that more people in the world claim Scottish origins than the current population of Scotland.

The 45th annual Utah Scottish Festival and Highland Games offers opportunity to reconvene the clans and experience their history, culture and goodwill. “This festival is all about sharing our Scottish heritage with each other and the community at large,” Jordan Hinckley, public relations liaison for the Utah Scottish Association, says via email. “During the 2000 census, it was reported that more than a quarter of the population of the state of Utah came from the Celtic nations of Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England, so it is very likely that whether you know it or not, you may be a wee bit Scottish.”

This year’s festivities include more than 50 clans, dressed in their tartans and displaying colors and crests. An array of athletic games beckon amateurs and professionals, and an array of dancers, sheepdog herders, drum majors, pipers, fiddlers and bagpipe bands provide entertainment. For those that want to kick up their kilts and reveal all, the Wicked Tinkers and Molly’s Revenge rock the crowd as well.

“What e’re thou art, act well thy part,” the Scots say. Aye, you lads and lassies, that’s a mighty motto for all. (Lee Zimmerman) Utah Scottish Festival and Highland Games @ Utah State Fairpark, 155 N. 1000 West, June 7, 5-10 p.m.; June 8, 9 a.m.-10 p.m.; June 9, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., $15-$20, free for active military, children 11 and under, and members of the Utah Scottish Association, utahscots.org

Holi Festival of Colors Warmer temperatures typically mark the beginning of festival season, and though Utah’s recent weather would suggest otherwise, those planning on hitting up the summer circuit needn’t go farther than their own backyard for the eighth annual Holi Festival of Colors in downtown Salt Lake City. Instead of searching out nearby wacky festivals such as Frozen Dead Guy Days and the Headless Chicken Festival, get doused in a rainbow of colors by taking part in what is billed as the “World’s Happiest Transformational Event.”

Traditionally celebrated across India, the festival has been adapted over the years to merge with more modern traditions, and is widely regarded as celebrating the arrival of spring and goodness triumphing over evil. “Everyone is celebrating all we have in life and a higher consciousness together,” festival organizer Charu Das says.

“It is a dance party from beginning to end.”

Young and old can come together in a joyfilled atmosphere to sing, dance and revel in the non-stop entertainment that includes live music.

In addition, local favorite BollyPop Utah engages the audience with dancing that fuses Bollywood melodies with pop, Latin and Arabic music.

Others looking for a quieter activity can join a yoga session or make a craft, while vendors sell vegan dishes. Highlighting the event are hourly “color throws” of eco-friendly powder beginning at noon—and, as always, hugs are free.

“The festival is so much fun,” past attendee Analiza Holfeltz says. “It is an amazing way to bring people together, make new friends, and just enjoy the company of others.” (Colette A. Finney) Holi Festival of Colors @ Krishna Temple, 965 E. 3370 South, June 8, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., $6.50, festivalofcolorsusa.com.

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It was a terrible confluence of events that marked the first public performance of Max Vernon’s musical The View UpStairs in 2016.

The production—based on the real-life arson attack on the New Orleans gay bar The UpStairs Lounge in 1973 that killed 32 people—was already in the workshop stage when a gunman killed 49 people at Orlando’s gay nightclub Pulse in June 2016. The cast of The View UpStairs debuted the songs at a benefit performance in July 2016—a reminder of the long history of violence against places that have been havens for LGBTQ people.

The plot of The View UpStairs has one man confronting that history in a surprisingly literal way. New Yorker Wes has relocated to his New Orleans hometown, and has purchased a burnedout building with no knowledge of its history.

It’s only after he walks through it that it actually comes to life, with Wes pulled back in time to 1973. Through the stories of those who lived it—bar employees, hustlers, closeted men—Wes begins to understand what it was like to be gay in the early years of the post-Stonewall attempt to live openly and authentically, finding somewhere to gather in peace and companionship.

Good Company Theatre’s Pride Month production marks the Utah premiere of The View UpStairs. Says Good Company co-director Camille Washington, “It’s easy for these tragedies to pass out of knowledge over time. The View UpStairs is a great reminder that strides toward equality are never free.” (Scott Renshaw) The View UpStairs @ Good Company Theatre, 2404 Wall Ave., Ogden, June 7-23, Friday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Second Saturday & Sundauy, 4 p.m. matinee, $20, goodcotheatre.com

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Vega brings that focus to Salt Lake City on June 6 when she does a live broadcast in conjunction with KUER 90.1 FM at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah.

Vega leads a discussion about the abduction and murder of indigenous women, girls and twospirit people—a Native American categorization that goes back generations, predating and going beyond any of the current LGTBQ identities.

Focus of the conversation will be on the Mountain West, and also on the thousands of Native American women who have gone missing or been murdered across the U.S. and in Canada.

Vega’s guests include Jennifer Boyce, a board member of PANDOS—Peaceful Advocates for Native Dialogue and Organizing Support—which was formed in 2016 in response to the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests at Standing Rock. She leads the PANDOS committee on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) epidemic, and has experienced it first hand, with five family members who have been killed. Vega will also speak with Graham Lee Brewer, a member of the Cherokee Nation who also covers criminal justice for The Oklahoman.

The event is scheduled in the Moot Courtroom, beginning promptly at 7 p.m. Since this is a live radio show, late arrivals will not be admitted.

(Geoff Griffin) An Evening with Tanzina Vega and The Takeaway @ S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, 383 S. University St., June 6, 7 p.m., $20, kuer.org

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Davey’s Spirit The memory of a local artist supports makers of short films.

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or six years, a foundation dedicated to the memory of local actor and filmmaker David Ross Fetzer has supported the dreams of other aspiring artists.

This year, for the first time, that dedication has turned into a full-fledged film festival.

The 2019 Davey Fest is home for what had already been an annual showcase of short films supported by $5,000 grants from the David Ross Fetzer Foundation, a nonprofit created in the wake of Fetzer’s death in 2012 at the age of 30 from an accidental opioid overdose. Those grantee films are now complemented by submitted shorts, as well as shorts by local Utah filmmakers and “alumni” who had received grants in previous years.

Betsy Ross—Fetzer’s mother and foundation executive director—notes that seeing the finished products provides an ongoing focus to a project that was only vaguely defined at its outset. “I’m not sure that originally I had any concept of what it might be,” Ross says. “It was really an off-the-cuff reaction to all of the energy that was created at the time David died, and a need to harness that energy and do something with it that would not only remember him, but carry his vision forward.

All of that has occurred beyond anything I could have imagined.”

The four 2019 grantee films emerged from a process that began a year ago, with applicants submitting scripts in the spring and the members of the foundation board reviewing applicants in early summer. According to Kenny Riches—a filmmaker, friend of Fetzer and current president of the foundation’s board of trustees—those applicants are narrowed down to 10 finalists, which are then also reviewed by a guest juror. In past years, those guests have

included respected independent filmmakers like Sean Baker (The Florida Project), Amy Seimetz (TV’s Atlanta) and the Zellner Brothers (Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter).

Riches believes the review process ultimately rewards projects that would have been in Fetzer’s own creative wheelhouse.

“Because we knew David so well, we’re ultimately looking for material he would be interested in. He was always an artist where story came first, so for us the writing is really the most important part. If we have a choice between a script that’s a really safe but solid script, but then there’s this other one that’s a little weirder [and] might have a harder time getting traction, we might go for that one.”

Among the 2019 participating grantees is writer-director Nora Kirkpatrick, who brings her short film Long Time Listener, First Time Caller, about an unhappily married woman in a California desert town who seeks advice from a mysterious radio show. It’s exactly the kind of quirky story that needs support, and Kirkpatrick expresses appreciation for it. “While short films are so important because they can act as a proof of concept, a directing example, or tone experiment, … they are inherently hard to make because there isn’t much of a financial market for them on the back end,” Kirkpatrick says. “Grants like The Davey Foundation help solve that problem. They

Breeda Wool in Nora Kirkpatrick’s Long Time Listener, First Time Caller

believe in the importance of short stories, and believe in directors building their career. Having a great short film under your belt can be an incredibly potent tool for getting larger jobs.”

The visiting filmmakers also stay together during the festival, at a location Ross jokingly says “we probably very inappropriately call the Film Frat House.” That interaction is also a crucial part of the project’s mission, she believes, as it results in relationships and interaction that’s hard to duplicate in other ways. “What has been most rewarding for me has been to watch the connections that have been created,” she says. “I just become so enthralled with who these people are, when I interact with them, my goal is to get to know them. It’s a selfish goal in many ways, because as much as we may be able to do something for them, I truly believe I gain a lot from knowing them, too.

“I think that ultimately, stories are about being able to expand our own versions of reality, … to be able to connect with a wider variety of individuals. Especially in times like these, connecting is so important. I can’t imagine there being a greater reward than watching our filmmakers connect with each other and with the city of Salt Lake.” CW

The 2019 Davey Fest features 23 short films representing local and national filmmakers. Here are a few highlights, and where to see them.

Lucy in the Morning

(Utah Shorts Program @ Craft By Proper, June 6, 7 p.m.)

Writer-director Isaac Cole’s comedy about an online date gone slightly weird provides a great acting showcase for its two lead actors (Raye Levine and Chris Haag), as well as a surprisingly sweet and thoughtful look at the intimacy that’s possible when people decide to get genuine with one another.

Undesirables

(Utah Shorts Program @ Craft By Proper, June 6, 7 p.m.)

University of Utah MFA alum Angela Rosales Challis uses stop-motion animation for the story of homeless siblings trying to survive; the choice to render her characters as scraps of paper emphasizes the way in which these tragic figures are treated as disposable.

Made Public

(National Shorts Program No. 1 @ Brewvies, June 7, 8 p.m.)

A great high concept—a groom (Josh Zuckerman) faces getting left at the altar when his would-be bride (Jeanine Mason) goes ballistic over his weddingeve social media poll over whether he should go through with it—boasts a few killer jokes in its look at the perils of a too-much-information online era.

A Mormon Pageant

(National Shorts Program No. 2 @ Fisher Brewing, June 8, 8 p.m.)

Curtis Whitear’s short documentary looks at the unique phenomenon of the LDS church’s soon-to-be-defunct annual Hill Cumorah Pageants in upstate New York, looking at the unique logistics of the massive spectacle and the people whose faith is deepened by participating.

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PERFORMANCE THEATER

Angels in America: Millenium Approaches Rose Wagner Center Studio Theatre, 138 W. 300 South, through June 9, Thursday-Saturday, 7 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m., utahrep.org Freezin’: Let It Go Already! Desert Star Theatre, 4861 S. State, through June 8, dates and times vary, desertstar.biz Frozen Jr. Midvale Main Street Theatre, 7711 S. Main, Midvale, through June 15, dates and times vary, midvaletheatre.com Hero’s Wake: An Aerial Journey of Odyssean Encounters Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 132 W. 800 South, through June 7, 8 p.m., aerialartsofutah.com Les Miserables Regent Street Black Box at Eccles Theater, 144 S. Regent St., through June 8, showtimes vary, artsaltlake.org Matilda Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe Street, through June 15, dates and times vary, hct.org Newsies the Musical Draper Amphitheater, 944 E. Vestry Road, Draper, through June 15, dates and times vary, draperartscouncil.org The View UpStairs Good Company Theatre, 2404 Wall Ave., Ogden, June 7-23, FridaySaturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 4 p.m., goodcotheatre.com (see p. 19) West Side Story The Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State, through June 8, Wednesday-Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 2 & 7:30 p.m., grandtheatrecompany.com

DANCE

Performing Dance Center: Beauty and the Beast Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, June 8, noon & 5 p.m., tickets.utah.edu

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Ogden UnCon Pops! Ogden City Amphitheater, 343 25th St., Ogden, June 7, 7 p.m., ogdenuncon.com

COMEDY & IMPROV

Andy Gold Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., June 7 & 8, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Chris Hardwick Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400

West, June 7 & 8, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Curtis Waltermire Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, June 6, 7:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com John Crist Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, June 7 & 8, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com

SPECIAL EVENTS FARMERS MARKETS

9th West Farmers Market Jordan Park, 1000 S. 900 West, Sundays through Oct. 13, 10 a.m.2 p.m., 9thwestfarmersmarket.org Downtown Farmers Market Pioneer Park, 350 W. 300 South, Saturdays through Oct. 19, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., slcfarmersmarket.org Park City Farmers Market Silver King Resort, 1845 Empire Ave., Park City, Wednesdays through mid-October, noon-5 p.m., parkcityfarmersmarket.com Park Silly Sunday Market Main Street, Park City, Sundays through Sept. 22, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., parksillysundaymarket.com

FESTIVALS & FAIRS

Brigham City Arts Festival 20 N. Main, Brigham City, June 9, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., bcutah.org Carnival! Springville Civic Center, 110 S. Main, Springville, through June 8, springville.org Gem Faire Mountain America Exposition Center, 9575 S. State, June 7, 8 & 9, 10 a.m., gemfaire.com Holi Festival of Colors Krishna Temple, 965 E. 3370 South, June 8, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., festivalofcolorsusa.com (see p. 19) Orem Summerfest City Center Park, 200 E. 100 North, Orem, June 10-14, summerfest.orem.org Skypark Aviation Festival and Expo Skypark Airport, 1887 S. 1800 West, Woods Cross, June 7-8, skyparkutah.com Utah Juneteenth Heritage Festival Union Station, 2501 Wall Ave., Ogden, through June 22, times vary, theunionstation.org Utah Scottish Festival & Highland Games, Utah State Fair Park, 155 North 1000 West, June 7-9, festivalnet.com (see p. 19)

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1 to 5 Club: Game Night Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, first Mondays, 7:30-9:30 p.m., utahpridecenter.org Men’s Sack Lunch Group Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, Wednesdays, noon-1:30 p.m., utahpridecenter.org TransAction Weekly Meeting Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, Sundays, 2-3:30 p.m., utahpridecenter.org

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Tan France: Naturally Tan The Grand Theater, 1575 S. State, June 12, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Heather Hansman: Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 E, June 7, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com David Holper & Jeffrey Purso: The Bridge & Water Bodies The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, June 8, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Yamile Saied Méndez: Where are You From?

The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 E, June 8, 11 a.m., kingsenglish.com Scott Jeffrey Miller: Management Mess to Leadership Sucess The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, June 6, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Jana Riess: The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, June 11, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com

TALKS & LECTURES

Collector’s Book Salon Weller Bookworks, 607 S. Trolley Square, every last Friday, 6:30 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Diversity in Design Speaker Series + Dinner Church & State, 370 S. 300 East, June 9, 6:30 p.m.

An Evening with Tanzina Vega & The Takeaway S.J. Quinney College of Law, Moot Courtroom, 383 S. University St., June 6, 7 p.m., kuer.org/events (see p. 19) Peace Corps: Making a Difference Through People to People Diplomacy Westminster College Gore Auditorium, 1840 S. 1300 East, June 12, 7 p.m., westminster.edu Rwanda Remembrance—Kwibuka 25 Hilton Salt Lake City Center, 255 S. West Temple, June 8, 2 p.m., kwibuka.rw

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

Alfred Hart: Tracing the Path State Capitol, 350 N. State, through June 26, goldenspike150.org All Set for the West: Railroads and the National Parks Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, through June 26, culturalcelebration.org Along the Line: Contemporary Explorations of the Transcontinental Railroad Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, through June 26, culturalcelebration.org Andrew Dadson: Roof Gap UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Sept. 7, utahmoca.org Andy Taylor: New Paintings A Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, through June 15, 6-8 p.m., closed Sundays, agalleryonline.com

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Beauty, Brawn, Commerce & Travel: Photography of U.S. Railroads Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, through June 26, culturalcelebration.org Blaine Clayton: Plein Air Peace & Calm Local Colors of Utah, 1054 E. 2100 South, through June 18, localcolorsart.com Cary Griffiths: Doré Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through June 8, artatthemain.com Celebrate Utah! Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, through June 26, culturalcelebration.org David LeCheminant: Icons Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, through June 7, saltlakearts.org De | Marcation Granary Arts, 86 N. Main, Ephraim, through Sept. 27, granaryarts.org Deanna & Ed Templeton: Contemporary Suburbium UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Sept. 7, utahmoca.org Following in the Footprints of Chinese Railroad Workers Marriott Library, 295 S. 1500 East, through Sept. 27, goldenspike150.org Form, Line and Color: Modernism and Abstraction David Dee Fine Arts, 1709 E. 1300 South, Ste. 201, through Aug. 30, daviddeefinearts.com (see p. 22) Horacio Rodriguez: (Un)Invited Collaborations with my Ancestor Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, through June 7, saltlakearts.org The International Tolerance Project Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, through June 23, umfa.utah.edu Jiyoun Lee-Lodge: Waterman the Stranger Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, through July 5, artsandmuseums.utah.gov Katie Benson & Betsy Auwerda: Invisible Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, through June 8, accessart.org Krome Downtown Artist Collective, 100 S. 258 East, through June 14, downtownartistcollective.org Lenka Clayton: Under These Conditions UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through June 22, utahmoca.org Michael Cooper & Terry Southern: Chicago 1968:The Whole World is Watching Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through June 14, slcpl.org Move Over, Sir! Women Working on the Railroad Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, through June 26, culturalcelebration.org New West Modern West Fine Art, 412 S. 700 West, through June 8, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., modernwestfineart.com Peter Hines: The Extraordinary & Sublime Beauty of Glaciers Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, through June 13, slcpl.org Roberto Zavala: Between the City and the Desert: Masterpieces and the Time Machine Marmalade Library, 280 W. 500 North, through June 20, slcpl.org Spencer Finch: Great Salt Lake and Vicinity Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, through Nov. 28, umfa.utah.edu Transcontinental: People, Place, Impact Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., through June 16, artsandmuseums.utah.gov Treasures of the Transcontinental Railroad State Capitol, 350 N. State, through June 26, goldenspike150.org

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nce the temperature rises and the city streets start feeling more desert-like, our local late-night restaurants and watering holes become literal nightlife oases.

We’ve spent a long summer day getting our asses kicked by the blazing disk in the sky, so when that vengeful presence finally calls it quits, we need just the right place to celebrate. Dinner and drinks tend to get pushed to well after 9 p.m., and IHOP just isn’t going to cut it. Fortunately, downtown’s after-hours gastropub scene remains hopping throughout the summer months, and places like Gracie’s (326 S. West Temple, 801-8197565, graciesslc.com) start offering up much more than tasty late-night eats and carefully crafted cocktails.

sics. Their crème brûlée French toast ($9) and Monte Cristo ($12) take you straight to the French Quarter, while their chilaquiles ($11) and machaca tacos ($8) burst with Latin flair.

Creating a restaurant from the gastropub playbook takes a lot of guts and preternaturally good instincts about food-adjacent activities and events. I’ve seen many places like this rise and fall over the years, but it feels like the team at Gracie’s has achieved a harmonious balance.

Much of its staying power is due to a kickass location and a well-maintained space, but this is a place that shows due reverence to the special kind of magic that floats through the downtown cityscape after the sun gets tired of scorching the streets.

When the thermometer is hanging out around 78 degrees long after the night has descended, there are far worse places you could be enjoying our brand of nightlife than on the roof of Gracie’s, listening to a local band’s music bleed into the live music of West Temple below. CW

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a kick of cayenne pepper, that makes this variant on a nostalgic favorite something to savor.

As smaller plates go, the buttermilk chicken strips ($8), the Gracie’s signature nachos ($12) and their regular fries ($4) represent pub food at its finest. The chicken strips are sliced from a whole chicken breast and fried in a buttermilk- flour coating that creates a satisfying outer crunch to the white meat chicken. I found that the bigger strips tend to get a little dry in the cooking process—nothing that the included side of red eye gravy can’t fix. I know us Utahns love ranch dressing on our chicken strips, but a bit of homemade gravy as a dipping sauce is something that I’ll always endorse. The fries make the list because they’re of the thick-cut steak fry variety, and that parsley and Parmesan coating makes for a truly transcendent spud. Heartier items, like the signature BBQ bison burger ($14, pictured), are the stuff of legend.

While I contend that Gracie’s is at its best when it’s keeping its doors open for the late-night crowd, their brunch menu presents a pitchperfect lineup for those in the mood for some early(ish) weekend dining.

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low-key party games during patio chill from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.—there’s nothing like cool breezes and even cooler drinks to prime you for the weekend.

In addition to hosting weekly events, Gracie’s has started doubling as a concert venue—Pixie & The Partygrass Boys host their bluegrass night there, and the gastropub recently featured eclectic acts like Swantourage and Johnny Utah. While expanding its amenities, Gracie’s hasn’t lost focus on their pub fare and creative mixology. Even at lunchtime in the middle of the week, it’s hard to catch them having a bad day.

Following true gastropub fashion, Gracie’s has a menu that can easily cater to those just in for a quick snack with friends or patrons who are in the mood for something that sticks to the bones. The latter won’t want to miss the chance to dig into the golden mound of decadence that is the Gracie’s mac and cheese ($18). It arrives in a sailboat of a ramekin with a thin crust of toasted breadcrumbs and lump crab meat sealing in a layer of melted cheese—four types, to be exact—and sliced bay shrimp. The crab and shrimp do a lot to send this dish over the top. But it’s the mixture of sharp cheddar, mozzarella, gruyère and Parmesan cheese, coupled with

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Discover Food Festival

Whether you’ve been a longtime fan of Spice Kitchen Incubator (spicekitchenincubator.org), or are just now getting familiar with all the good this organization does for our refugee communities, the Discover Food Festival is your chance to participate. Co-hosted by Creminelli Fine Meats, Traeger Grills and Harmons Grocery, the event raises money to help fund the nonprofit’s new communal kitchen while offering an evening filled with wonderful food cooked up by some of the incubator’s top chefs. Local businesses like Cotopaxi have donated prizes for drawings, and the evening promises to show attendees just how much value and talent the chefs and entrepreneurs who work with Spice Kitchen bring to our city. The event is Friday, June 7, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Traeger Grills Headquarters (1215 E. Wilmington Ave.), and tickets can be purchased via Eventbrite.

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Those who continue to be thrilled by competitive cooking shows like Chopped get a chance to see local chefs go head to head in our backyard on Tuesday, June 11, from 6 to 9 p.m. Social Power Hour (socialpowerhour.com), a national event production company, brings their Chef Battle to Utah for the first time. Local chefs take the stage to create a spectacular dish with limited ingredients, and winners compete at the West Coast Regional Battle later this year. Attendees receive samples from the chefs’ meals. The competition takes place at Primo (4699 S. Highland Drive) and tickets are available via Eventbrite.

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t’s nice to finally see the fairer summertime beers of Europe emerge from the calendar’s squares. Their bigger and heavier kin are just a bit overbearing for the warmer months. Thankfully, I’ve found a couple of ales to hold their spots for summer. These two—brand new additions to our local beer scene—take the best of Belgium and sprinkle in just enough of Utah to make them perfect for our summer climate and palates.

Strap Tank Brewing Co. Saison: This new bottled offering has a semi-clear look with a faint haze. The color is a pale, faded yellow, with a craggy tuft of off-white foam.

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girth. The aroma provides rich dimensions with grapefruit and sweet orange fruitiness and the fruit profile is all juice and zest mist.

It’s not candy-like at all. It offers wonderful highlights of lightly-spicy floral phenols with a touch of toasted malt, and likely some coriander. While it’s not super-aromatic, it get its point across, and seems familiar.

Upon first swig, you’re met with white vinous undertones right off the bat. Herbal spices are readily apparent hovering about in the middle of the palate. A soft blast of mildly peppery, numbing spicy bitterness fans out from mid-palate, leaving a crater on the tongue. The citrus is all but absent, except in pungent pith and inner rind. The malt profile is polished down to a dull nub; just the essence of grainy husk lingers.

There’s a somewhat glassy underbelly that stretches across the palate. The foam cap adds to the body, providing a subtle foamy wash on the finish. The 7% alcohol gives off a consistent mild warm glow—not sharp at all, though a crisper, less boozy edge might be a better way to end what had been a mostly tranquil drinking experience.

Overall: You probably wouldn’t mistake this for a Belgian import, but its American influences are for the most part subtle and restrained. I like that it seems to meld the two cultures into one cohesive brew. This isn’t a beer that’s meant to be aged, though I’d like to see what a few months does to it. If you’re a saison fan, pull the ripcord on this one.

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Epic Brewing Co. White Ale: This semimurky beer gives off an auric eggshell hue in the early evening light. An ample amount of pillowy soft porcelain foam clings to the sides of the glass. Musty dough and citrus peel rocket through the nostrils, while secondary aromas of fruity yeast esters and herbally sweet coriander round out the clean and welcoming aroma.

The flavor profile exhibits a fine balance of citric acidity and grainy, bready wheat sweetness. The spicing is agreeable and understated; coriander melding seamlessly with static clove notes and phenol undertone. Orange peel provides more pithy bitterness rather than flavor, and serves to offset residual sweetness, lending a quenching

near-dryness. It’s lightly bodied, but with a slightly viscous mouthfeel, probably from the wheat or perhaps from an oat addition. As it warms, you might be able to coax just the slightest hint of banana. The finish shows off hints of spiced lemon and honey-like malt.

Overall: This is a spot-on witbier, with very few rough edges or flaws—superbly drinkable, and it pleases the palate as it glides down. Its 4.5% alcohol is perfectly crushable for summertime imbibing.

You’re going to have to drive or pedal a little harder to obtain Strap Tank’s Saison, as it’s only found at the Springville brewery. Epic’s White Ale, meanwhile, is at most grocery stores along the Wasatch Front. As always, cheers! CW

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While Moments in Between continues the trend of the band expanding their range of influences and styles, it also looks to be a more stripped-down, no-frills affair than Mansion of Heartbreak, featuring a scant two guest musicians compared to its predecessor’s five. “The sound we were going for was coming together really well with the people that we had,” Bradshaw remarks. “Mark and Dylan were playing so well off of each other, I just felt that it didn’t really need a ton else. We were also able to get Greg Leisz and Gary Moore to do some cool pedal steel stuff, which really filled everything out.”

The Hollering Pines have managed a polished, professional sound on all their albums (thanks in part to producer Scott Wiley), but to this point, they’ve remained strictly independent. When asked about the possibility of signing with a label in the future, Bradshaw expresses ambivalence, stating “I think … record labels are getting less and less crucial, so to me it feels less makeor-break. It used to seem like you’ve gotta do that, and then everything else will fall into place … now, it’s easier to get in touch with people who are at the top of their field, like [sound] engineers and artists. You can really do a lot yourself.”

While Bradshaw and her bandmates have certainly managed quite well on their own, that doesn’t mean they don’t have their own obstacles to overcome. The band’s mature sound comes from a real place—all five members are adults with full-time jobs outside the music scene, and several of them, including Bradshaw, have spouses and children. “It can be hard to find time in your life to just be creative,” Bradshaw admits, “and it can be hard to switch gears from being a professional person or a parent or whatever, and practice, clip your strings, think about what you’re going to write down. But y’know, we all make it work.”

The Hollering Pines celebrate the release of Moments in Between with a concert at Commonwealth Studios. The band debuts material off the new record for the first time live, as well as older songs like “Old Time Feeling,” which Bradshaw cites as a personal favorite. “It’s always fun to perform that one live, and Mark and Dylan always kill their solos,” she enthuses, “and it gets everyone dancing, so we usually try to play it after everyone’s had a drink or two.” Although they continue to explore their potential—taking from country, Americana, folk and simple rock ’n’ roll—the fact their music can be enjoyed with a drink in hand is surely one mark among many that they’re the real deal, a true-blue country rock band. CW

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he music of The Hollering Pines is at once nostalgic and restless—firmly rooted in the traditions of decades past, but always with an eye and an ear toward the contemporary. The Salt Lake City-based group initially formed in 2012 as a side project around two sisters—vocalist-guitarist Marie Bradshaw and vocalist-bassist Kiki Jane Sieger—who were performing together in an acoustic group called The Folka Dots. Originally, it was meant to be an outlet for Bradshaw’s dissatisfaction with the Folka Dots’ musical direction. “I think I mostly just wanted to do something with drums in it,” Bradshaw says of the group’s formation. “I was really wanting to rock out a bit, and I was getting kind of tired of just playing acoustic music.”

That desire to combine acoustic folk and country with a heavier rock edge is apparent when listening to the band’s 2013 debut Long Nights, Short Lives and Spilled Chances. The album’s foundation was still unabashedly country, with Bradshaw and Sieger’s interweaving vocals carrying a smoky twang, and pedal steel, fiddle and mandolin coloring the instrumental background in warm, rural shades. But Dylan Schorer’s work on lead guitar, as well as Daniel Young’s drumming, injected a fair bit of bluesy intensity into songs like “Carla Cain,” “Wished I Was Gone” and “Not The Only Ones,” and propelled the album well past its perhaps modest ambitions.

For a first album, Long Nights presented an incredibly fullyformed sound—certainly reliant on established styles, but effective nonetheless. The Hollering Pines’ 2017 sophomore album Mansion of Heartbreak brought a moodier, grittier energy to the table and saw the addition of mandolinist-guitarist Mark Horton Smith to the band’s official lineup. Still recognizably country, it unveiled a broader instrumental palette—treading the seam between country and the broader world of Americana.

Bradshaw and the rest of The Hollering Pines seemed to be eager to evolve their sound even further for their third release, Moments in Between, out Friday, June 7. “I think with this one, we really stretched out a lot in terms of the songwriting and the sonics of the album,” Bradshaw says. Alongside more traditional country acts such as John Hiatt, Bradshaw describes their newest batch of songs as being inspired by “people who you can tell have listened to country music, but who also like to rock ’n’ roll a bit,” citing Americana-adjacent artists like Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty as large influences on their new direction.

Those influences are clearly heard in advance singles “He Don’t Understand” and “She Don’t Want to be Found,” which craft sweeping, austere soundscapes that The Boss or The Heartbreakers would be proud to call their own. Indeed, Moments in Between wasn’t just inspired by people who dabble in non-country music; it was made by them, too. “All of us in the band are like, the ultimate music

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It was once thought that 1999 would be the last year of civilization. It was rumored that computers were going to take over the world. So, in anticipation of the end, many songs and albums were inspired by the human race’s inevitable demise. If I could sum up 1999 in one song, it would be “When Worlds Collide” by Powerman 5000. The industrial metal scene was still going strong, and nü metal was on its way in, a perfect time for frontman Spider One (Michael Cummings) and his up-and-coming group Powerman 5000 to feed a hungry pre-Y2K audience with intergalactic spaceage imagery and catchy, supersonic tunes.

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the attention of the mainstream (and an 11-year-old me just discovering alt music for the first time). Was the fame due to timing or luck? It might’ve been both. Or it might be that hard music just runs in the Cummings family—Spider One is the brother of Rob Zombie, and was hard-set on not getting any handouts or special treatment. “At the end of the day, we were the ones who had to write a good song and put on a good live show,” he told theprp.com last year. Now, Powerman 5000 is celebrating and reclaiming new wave all their own. And they want to remind fans that they haven’t forgotten where they come from by paying tribute to Tonight the Stars Revolt! by way of their current tour. (Rachelle Fernandez) The Royal, 4760 S. 900 East, 7:30 p.m., $15, 21+, theroyalslc.com

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Those who are old enough might recall the old K-Tel television commercials hawking compilations of big radio hits culled from bygone eras. It went something like this: “Hey kids, remember this one? Blah blah blah ...” In a very real sense, the upcoming Mixtape tour brings that K-Tel concept to life with a virtual who’s who of hitmakers of a decidedly ’80s vintage. The songs that we’ll hear constitute the essence of an eternal oldies playlist, courtesy of each participant. Indeed, headliners New Kids On The Block—featuring its original essential lineup consisting of brothers Jordan and Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg and Danny Wood—boast a wealth of those chart toppers all on their own (“Boys in the Band,” “Hangin’ Tough,” “Please Don’t Go Girl,” “Step By Step,” etc.).

The recent 30th anniversary re-release of NKOTB’s classic album Hangin’ Tough proves again that as a seminal boy band, they had all the right moves needed to dance their way to pop prominence. The group broke up in 1994 after scooping up practically every music award of note (Rolling Stone placed them at No. 16 in its list of “Top 25 Teen Idol Breakout Moments”), but after reuniting in 2007, they’ve continued to tour ever since. No longer “new kids” per se, these accomplished showbiz veterans still rule their block with no competition from any Back Street at all. (Lee Zimmerman) Vivint Smart Home Arena, 301 W. South Temple, 7:30 p.m., $56.95-$86.95, vivintarena.com

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It’s silent when I hop off Provo’s busy center street, and into ABG’s, where the girl behind the bar checks my ID against my face three times; your writer might be 24, but looks 20 on a good day. When I settle on the sole low table in the room, some grungy, wily alt rock comes on momentarily, but when the song ends, it falls silent again. Perhaps I or another midday patron needs to cough up some quarters for the LED-lit jukebox in the corner. I’m a few sips into my EPIC Sour IPA—a beer that seems to be every bar’s stand-in sour these days—when I overhear another patron asking for “just a small Session.” The bartender offers up their seasonal Sesión Cerveza, which is a Mexican-style Lager, and their Sesión Negra, a darker, toastier version of the former that almost calls to mind the smoothness and nuttiness of a stout. I haven’t seen the Negra at the stores lately, and since it’s usually my go-to at-home beer, that means I’m staying for another beverage. Besides having my favorite easy brew, ABG’s offers pool, live music on Friday nights and a few vending machines—one that peddles cigarettes, and two others for snacks and sodas, perhaps the only part of the bar fellow Provo-ites, with their soda fanaticism, would approve of. But this bar is not for them; it’s for the drinking half of Provo (and any passersby in need of a cold beer). At the end of the day, Provo is like any other small city, and every small city needs its dark, warm and inviting dive bar. (Erin Moore) 190 W. Center St., Provo, 801-373-1200, abgsbar.com

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All Is True sacrifices narrative for Shakespearean trivia.

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Judi Dench and Kenneth Branagh in All Is True and not just because it’s a lovely showcase for two gifted Shakespearean actors.

It’s also a scene that’s allowed to breathe, permitting the development of character more than the conveying of Wikipedia details about the movie’s characters. There’s a similar richness to the tense exchanges involving Shakespeare, Anne and Judith, which Branagh generally opts to frame as single master shots of the three actors, almost the way you’d experience such a scene on the stage. By the time All Is True makes it evident that the upshot of the story is “Shakespeare may have understood the human soul, but he didn’t understand his own family,” it’s hard not to wish the writer and director had more often leaned into depth, rather than breadth.

As actor and director, Branagh clearly understands the power of performers and words. For too much of All Is True, he loses focus on the importance of letting his audience know Shakespeare, and not just knowing things about Shakespeare. CW

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who bitterly resents her father’s obsession with his lost male heir.

It’s hard to get a handle on what All Is True is really meant to be about for most of its first half, largely the result of frustratingly choppy editing. Branagh bounces between his characters as though desperately worried that we’ll forget who everyone is if they’re off-screen for more than a few minutes at a time. An extended sub-plot involving an accusation of marital infidelity against Susanna—and the creative way with which Shakespeare dispatches her accuser—ultimately plays into a notion about Shakespeare’s obsession with his family’s reputation, but for a long stretch it pulls the story away from its central character.

Yet it also becomes clear that introducing dumps of information about the Shakespeare family is a feature, not a bug. Elton’s script nods at plenty of ephemera from the Bard’s biography, including his will’s cryptic bequest of “my second-best bed” to Anne.

The connection of Shakespeare’s common upbringing to theories questioning his authorship of his plays becomes the obvious quote, “I have what I have on my own merit, and for that I am suspect; perhaps I’ll always be suspect.” And there is an extended oneon-one meeting between Shakespeare and his one-time patron and muse the Earl of Southampton (Ian McKellen) making plain Elton’s perspective on historical speculation about Shakespeare’s sexual orientation.

That scene between Branagh and McKellen is also one of All Is True’s finest moments,

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n case you haven’t been paying attention for the past 30 years, Kenneth Branagh likes William Shakespeare. He likes William Shakespeare a lot. Ever since he burst onto the scene as a 29-year-old with Oscar nominations for directing and starring in 1989’s Henry V, Branagh has overseen film adaptations of Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Love’s Labour’s Lost and As You Like It, and made a comedy about actors performing Hamlet in A Midwinter’s Tale. Even his highest-profile director-for-hire gig—the original Thor feature—seems to have been built around his fondness for Shakespearean costumes and palace intrigue. If it’s got even a whiff of the Bard to it, you’re likely to find Branagh lurking in the wings.

All Is True seems right up his alley then— a biographical drama from screenwriter Ben Elton (Blackadder) focusing on the final months of Shakespeare’s life. Yet Branagh’s fascination with Shakespeare feels so allencompassing that his attention goes darting in a dozen different directions at once.

This is a movie that’s so determined to include everything the creative team knows about their subject’s life that it sometimes plays out more like a trivia contest than a narrative.

Branagh himself plays Shakespeare— sporting makeup that turns him into a startling dead ringer for Ben Kingsley—in the wake of the 1613 fire that burned down London’s celebrated Globe Theatre. Retired from writing to his home and wife Anne (Judi Dench) back in Stratford, Shakespeare has taken on a melancholy air, contemplating his legacy and re-mourning the death of his only son, who died as a child many years earlier. Meanwhile, unhappiness defines the life of his two surviving daughters: Susanna (Lydia Wilson), in a lifeless marriage to a Puritan; and Judith (Kathryn Wilder), the spinster twin of Shakespeare’s dead son

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NEW THIS WEEK Film release schedules are subject to change. Reviews online at cityweekly.net ALL IS TRUE BB See review on p. 43. Opens June 7 at Broadway Centre Cinemas.

(R) DARK PHOENIX [not yet reviewed] Simon Kinberg attempts a non-sucky version of the classic X-Men story previously offered in X-Men: The Last Stand, written by … Simon Kinberg. Opens June 7 at theaters valleywide.

(PG-13) FAST COLOR BBB “We’re not superheroes, Lila,” says Ruth (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) to her young daughter (Saniyya Sidney); “we’re just trying to get by.” That makes for the great hook in this stylish adventure from director and co-writer Julia Hart, about a family of African-American women—including Ruth’s mother (Lorraine Toussaint)—all with superhuman powers, trying to stay under the radar of government operatives during a time of apocalyptic drought. Ruth’s own abilities involve uncontrollable seizures that cause earthquakes, and Hart (writing with her husband Jordan Horowitz) crafts a solid narrative out of prodigal daughter Ruth’s return to her family after numbing her uniqueness with substance abuse. There’s more than enough metaphorical significance going on in this fantastical story—particularly with “othered” Americans treated as particularly threatening during a time of

fear, but also about the tensions dividing families—and a keen sense by Hart both for arresting images and solid characterization. If the low-budget visual approach to superhumans at times feels limiting, this story makes up for it by recognizing that myths are most powerful when they tell us something about the real world. Opens June 7 at Tower Theatre. (PG-13)—Scott Renshaw THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 2 BB Way less charming and inventive than its progenitor, this feels like a lazy straight-to-DVD sequel rather than a theatrical film. Mutt Max (now voiced by Patton Oswalt, replacing Louis CK, because fuck that guy, and also Oswalt is just better in the role) and his doggie brother Duke (Eric Stonestreet) deal with accepting a new human baby into the household. Meanwhile, purse pooch Gidget (Jenny Slate) infiltrates the feline-full flat of a crazy cat lady—a rather ungenerous depiction, considering the first movie’s sweetness about the relationship between humans and companion animals—and “Captain” Snowball (Kevin Hart), a bunny with delusions of caped-crusader-dom, attempts to rescue a tiger cub from a terrible circus (a really dated concept; this would not be tolerated in the New York City setting). Best bit: Harrison Ford as the voice of a gruff, no-nonsense farm dog that Max encounters on a family trip. The rest of it is inoffensive fluff, fine for the kids, but sorely lacking that certain oomph adult animation fans look for.

Opens June 7 at theaters valleywide. (PG)—MaryAnn Johanson THE SOUVENIR BBB.5 It’s testament to Joanna Hogg’s skills as a director that she takes a mundane set-up—inexperienced young artist gets first lessons in life and love—and makes it top-to-bottom fascinating. The 1980s-set story follows 20-something British film school student Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne, daughter of Tilda) as she begins an affair with Anthony (Tom Burke), who turns out to have some secrets. We see Julie struggling to find her creative voice distinct from her upper-class upbringing, which would have made it easy for the narrative to fall back on “now I’ve had the experiences that

make for a real artist” clichés. But Byrne brings an open, vulnerable screen presence utterly distinct from that of her mother, which combines with Burke’s portrayal of practiced deception to complicate the intimacy in scenes like two almost-lovers playfully arguing over who’s taking up more of the bed. Mostly, there’s Hogg’s sense for using everything from period songs to slow-motion at just the right time, leading to a pair of breathtakingly confident final shots.

If there’s an autobiographical component to Hogg’s story, it’s clear that whatever Julie needed to learn to give her artistry depth, she found it. Opens June 7 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—SR

SPECIAL SCREENINGS DAVEYFEST See feature on p. 20. At various venues, June 6-8. (NR) HAVE YOU SEEN MY MOVIE? At Main Library, June 11, 7 p.m. (NR) HOOK At The Gateway Olympic Legacy Plaza, June 12, dusk. (PG) MANDY At Tower Theater, June 7-8, 11 p.m. (R)

CURRENT RELEASES ALADDIN B.5 Disney’s live-action remakes of its animated films continue to prove mostly an exercise in pointlessness. This new Aladdin lacks the charm of the animated version, and cannot even decide if it’s a musical or not, with characters awkwardly breaking into stilted snippets of song at random intervals. The shoehorned-in new song is an embarrassing sub-par go-girl ballad for Princess Jasmine.

The story is lifted intact from the 1992 movie, with street urchin Aladdin (Mena Massoud) wooing Jasmine (Naomi Scott), daughter of the sultan of the city-state of Agrabah, with the help of a

Genie (CGI’d Will Smith). The leads have no chemistry, and the villain—Marwan Kenzari’s Jafar, vizier to the sultan—lacks all bite.

It’s just watered-down pastiche, on ice, set at Epcot. (PG)—MAJ

BOOKSMART BBB.5 Female-centric crude comedies aren’t so rare now that we can talk about what makes the good ones good. This teen coming-of-age story follows Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever), high-school high-achievers who decide on the day before graduation that they want one real party night. Echoes of Superbad‘s R-rated episodic misadventures are unmistakeable, but the leads carve out distinctive characters as they throw their nerdy selves into an unfamiliar world. What really kicks it into another gear is that first-time feature director Olivia Wilde actually directs it with inventive visual style, rather than just serving up f-bombs and masturbation gags. It’s wonderful to reach a point where we expect more than the shock value of women saying “fuck,” and can celebrate women making a comedy that’s fucking terrific. (R)—SR

GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS B.5 This follow-up to Gareth Edwards’ stylish 2014 Godzilla finds once-married, emotionally-scarred scientists (Kyle Chandler and Vera Farmiga) on opposite sides of a kaiju-riffic war for the future of the planet, with their daughter (Millie Bobby Brown) caught in the middle. Disaster movie tropes of the separated family abound, as does the now-omnipresent “villain who believes our only salvation is killing a whole bunch of people.”

But aside from the script full of boring people saying boring things, the real miscalculation here is believing that Godzilla, Rodan et. al. make for a better movie when we understand that they’re inflicting real-world trauma on people. Guys in rubber suits crashing into one another is silly, but it’s fun. The megablockbuster approach to the Toho titans results in something dour, dark and tediously concerned with nothing more than building a franchise universe. (PG-13)—SR

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Some birds can fly for days without coming down to earth.

Alpine swifts are the current record-holders, staying aloft for 200 consecutive days as they chase and feed on insects over West Africa. I propose we make the swift your soul ally for the next three weeks. May it help inspire you to take maximum advantage of the opportunities life will be offering you. You will have extraordinary power to soar over the maddening crowd, gaze at the big picture of your life and enjoy exceptional amounts of freedom.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I think gentleness is one of the most disarmingly and captivatingly attractive qualities there are,” writes poet Nayyirah Waheed. That will be emphatically true about you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Your poised, deeply felt gentleness will accord you as much power as other people might draw from ferocity and grandeur. Your gentleness will enable you to crumble obstacles and slip past barriers. It will energize you to capitalize on and dissipate chaos. It will win you leverage that you’ll be able to use for months.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): How many languages are you fluent in? One? Two? More? I’m sure you already know that gaining the ability to speak more than one tongue makes you smarter and more empathetic. It expands your capacity to express yourself vividly and gives you access to many interesting people who think differently from you. I mention this, Libra, because you’re in a phase of your cycle when learning a new language might be easier than usual, as is improving your mastery of a second or third language. If none of that’s feasible for you, I urge you to at least formulate an intention to speak your main language with greater candor and precision—and find other ways to expand your ability to express yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Today, Mumbai is a megacity with 12.5 million people on 233 square miles. But as late as the 18th century, it consisted of seven sparsely populated islands. Over many decades, reclamation projects turned them into a single land mass. I foresee you undertaking a metaphorically comparable project during the coming months. You could knit fragments together into a whole. You have the power to transform separate and dispersed influences into a single, coordinated influence. You could inspire unconnected things to unite in common cause.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I don’t think we were ever meant to hear the same song sung exactly the same way more than once in a lifetime,” says poet Linh Dinh.

That’s an extreme statement that I can’t agree with. But I understand what he’s driving at. Repeating yourself can be debilitating, even deadening. That includes trying to draw inspiration from the same old sources that have worked for you in the past. In accordance with current astrological omens, I suggest you try to minimize exact repetition in the next two weeks: both in what you express and what you absorb. For further motivation, here’s William S. Burroughs: “Truth may appear only once; it may not be repeatable.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Peter Benchley wrote the bestselling book Jaws, which was later turned into a popular movie. It’s the story of a great white shark that stalks and kills people in a small beach town. Later in his life, the Taurus author was sorry for its influence, which helped legitimize human predation on sharks and led to steep drops in shark populations. To atone, Benchley became an aggressive advocate for shark conservation. If there’s any behavior in your own past that you regret, Taurus, the coming weeks will be a good time to follow Benchley’s lead: correct for your mistakes; make up for your ignorance; do good deeds to balance a time when you acted unconsciously.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Here’s Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano from The Book of Embraces: “In the River Plate basin we call the heart a ‘bobo,’ a fool. And not because it falls in love. We call it a fool because it works so hard.” I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because I hope that in the coming weeks, your heart will indeed be a hardworking, wisely foolish bobo. The astrological omens suggest that you will learn what you need to learn and attract the experiences you need to attract if you do just that. Life is giving you a mandate to express daring and diligent actions in behalf of love.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian biochemist Gertrude Belle Elion shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988. She was instrumental in devising new drugs to treat AIDS and herpes, as well as a medication to facilitate organ transplants. And yet she accomplished all this without ever earning a Ph.D. or M.D., a highly unusual feat. I suspect you might pull off a similar, if slightly less spectacular, feat in the coming weeks: getting a reward or blessing despite a lack of formal credentials or official credibility.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Earlier in your life, you sometimes wrestled with dilemmas that didn’t deserve so much of your time and energy. They weren’t sufficiently essential to invoke the best use of your intelligence.

But over the years, you have ripened in your ability to attract more useful and interesting problems. Almost imperceptibly, you have been growing smarter about recognizing which riddles are worth exploring and which are better left alone. Here’s the really good news: The questions and challenges you face now are among the finest you’ve ever had. You are being afforded prime opportunities to grow in wisdom and effectiveness.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Not all, but many horoscope columns address your ego rather than your soul. They provide useful information for your surface self, but little help for your deep self. If you’ve read my oracles for a while, you know that I aspire to be in the latter category. In that light, you won’t be surprised when I say that the most important thing you can do in the coming weeks is to seek closer communion with your soul. To explore your core truths; to focus on delight, fulfillment, and spiritual meaning far more than on status, power and wealth. As you attend to your playful work, meditate on this counsel from Capricorn author John O’Donohue: “The geography of your destiny is always clearer to the eye of your soul than to the intentions and needs of your surface mind.”

1. Dog command 5. Despot overthrown in 2003 11. Coffee alternative 14. Chip's cartoon partner 15. Advertised bank percentage 16. Taking a sick day, presumably 17. The hots 18. "Do the Right Thing" Oscar nominee Danny 19. "Waterfalls" group 20. Big-league promotional event 22. "Honest!"

24. Thanksgiving entree in some homes 27. Eliot who chased Capone 28. 60 minuti 29. DDE's two-time presidential rival 30. Reach first, say 33. Isn't a bystander 35. Like a catch-22 situation 36. "Someone's gonna pay" ... or a statement about this puzzle's groups of circled letters 40. Car wash : English :: autocinetorum lavatrix : ____ 41. Greeting Down Under 43. Eastern Catholics who recognize the pope's authority 44. "Sick, dude!"

47. Put the kibosh on 48. River feature 49. Stick-to-it-ive types 51. "No more for me, thanks" 53. Lies in the hot sun 54. Feel under par 55. Running by itself 57. "____ and Circumstance" 61. Hillary Clinton ____ Rodham 62. Taking the place (of) 63. "21 Grams" actress DuVall 64. Concorde, e.g., for short 65. Give some time before putting on a new coat, say 66. What Adderall treats, for short

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is the Loch Ness monster real? Is there a giant sea serpent that inhabits the waters of Loch Ness in Scotland? Tantalizing hints arise now and then, but no definitive evidence has ever emerged. In 1975, enterprising investigators got the idea to build a realistic-looking papier-mâché companion for Nessie and place it in Loch Ness. They hoped that this “honey trap” would draw the reclusive monster into more public view. Alas, the scheme went awry. (Lady Nessie got damaged when she ran into a jetty.) But it did have some merit. Is there an equivalent approach you might employ to generate more evidence and insight about one of your big mysteries, Leo? What strategies might you experiment with? The time is right to hatch a plan.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When he was 20 years old, a German student named Max Planck decided he wanted to study physics. His professor at the University of Munich dissuaded him, telling Planck, “In this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes.” Planck ignored the bad advice and ultimately went on to win a Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in formulating quantum theory. Most of us have had a similar experience: people who’ve tried to convince us to reject our highest calling and strongest dreams. In my view, the coming weeks will be a potent time for you to recover and heal from those deterrents and discouragements in your own past.

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Unclear on the Concept Jesse Barner-Walton, 39, of Webster, Mass., got a free ride from police after refusing to leave the Cadillac Ranch bar in Southington, Conn., on May 5. But as he sat in the back seat, he repeatedly called 911, according to WTIC. Finally the officers pulled over to make him stop, but he became uncooperative when officers tried to put handcuffs on. Barner-Walton was charged with misuse of the 911 system and interfering with an officer. n Leonard Olsen, 70, was arrested in Lakeland, Fla., on May 10 for reckless driving after an off-duty sheriff’s deputy filmed him sitting on his sunroof while his Cadillac motored down the road at about 40 mph. When Florida Highway Patrol troopers asked him about riding on his sunroof, Olsen said he “didn’t know about that” but later admitted that the car was on cruise control.

“The car drives itself and has a gigantic computer in it,” he said, according to WTSP. “I thought it would be a nice way to praise God for a minute ... and that’s what I did.” After his arrest, Olsen told officers he would rather be taken to jail than back to his wife, who “treats (him) like a servant.”

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Dog owners in China are advised to take great care when naming their pets, as was demonstrated by the case of a man from Anhui Province. The man, a dog breeder named Ban, was summoned by police on May 13 after posting on social media that he had two new dogs named Chengguan and Xieguan—titles given to law enforcement personnel dealing with petty crimes and traffic issues, the BBC reports. He was sentenced to 10 days in a detention center in Xiangyang. One police officer said Ban had “caused great harm to the nation and the city’s urban management, in terms of their feelings.” For his part, Ban said he “didn’t know this was illegal.”

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The Continuing Crisis An employee of Candyland Park in Longwood, Fla., was surprised on the evening of May 12 when he spotted a man shooting hoops without a stitch of clothing on. Police responded to the 911 call and found Jordon Anderson, 29, who said he was working on his game and “feels playing naked enhances his skill level,” according to The Smoking Gun. Officers asked Anderson to put his clothes back on, which he did, but he was still charged with indecent exposure.

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