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News, May 30, “Not Enough,” Suicide among queer Mormons has deep roots and many demand more change than the church’s exclusion policy reversal.

Kristen [Nicole Cardon, author], I knew Berta, too.

Because of her great loss, I

wrote a letter and it was published in the Standard-Examiner last year. Because of it, many feel Berta had much to do with softening the hearts of Mormon leaders.

The last conversation I had with a dear friend before I learned of her suicide was about how she missed going to her Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ward and how she longed to return. But was afraid, too, because she knew her bishop would be required to excommunicate her and her wife. She expressed to me how horrible she would feel to bring that shame upon her large active Latter-day Saint family. A person should not be placed in the awkward position of being forced to choose between their spouse and their church and family tradition.

I want my friend back!

I wish all our LDS LGBTQ youth and young adults that died of suicides in Utah back also.

My friend was the most Christ-like person I ever knew. She took homeless people home until she had no more rooms for them. She lived Christ’s teachings literally.

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OPINION When Will They Ever Learn?

Damn it! I like being snarky and funny. But this subject makes me stone-cold serious.

While the world recently celebrated the 75th anniversary of D-Day and President Donald Trump found a few hypocritical words to say about the U.S.’ everlasting bond with its allies, I had a difficult time not puking up my lunch. Captain Bone Spurs—a man who avoided service by providing a fraudulent doctor’s diagnosis—lauded the sacrifices of the war’s dead, searching for the heart-felt trace of sentiment that had gone down the toilet with his morning dump.

Although his words were less than moving, I felt nothing but sorrow for the men at Omaha Beach, and for all the young men over the course of history who have suffered the horror of war. Let’s face it; all but a few of them were no more than boys, subjected to a level of fear and trauma that no human being should have to endure. I felt compelled to ask the nagging, enduring question: “When will they ever learn?”

But, wait just a minute; I must be confused; I thought that the First and Second world wars were to be the ones that would put an end to war altogether. Instead, we’re finding our entire planet mired, ever since, in a seamless history of war on almost every continent, and there is certainly no end in sight. It’s safe to say that there are more

BY MICHAEL S. ROBINSON SR. armed conflicts in the world right now than in all previous eras of its history.

The U.S. has certainly done its share of meddling in global affairs, stirring up strife whenever profitable. And the Trump administration, irrespective of its two-faced show of human sympathy—and though it tries to duck responsibility for John Bolton’s saber-rattling—is actively drumming up support to involve our country in even more wars. Why? At least, in part, because war and rumors of war can serve as an effective distraction from the revelations of the Mueller Report and White House corruption, and because the Industrial-Military Complex is demanding more mayhem and death in order to feed its insatiable appetite for the filthy lucre that funds almost all political campaigns.

Sadly, religion and ethnicity are used as catalysts in fomenting most of the world’s armed conflicts. But, somewhere in the equation, there’s always the factor of pure and simple greed.

Although Dwight D. Eisenhower, POTUS No. 34, had been a stunningly capable military leader, he was not a particularly memorable president. Perhaps his greatest legacy is in his farewell address, wherein he prophetically warned of the threat of the military-industrial complex and how it is largely money—“… gravely to be regarded”— that dictates whom we will fight and whom we will destroy.

It seems that there are no enduring solutions to the problem. Behind every war is the greed of powerful men, and the sad reality is that the liars, plotters and spinners in Washington will always continue to serve their real master—the mega-rich and the industries they control.

And so, since no one else in the U.S. seems to have an

answer, I have a proposal I’d like to present. Everyone is going to choke when I say it; but it really could be a longterm solution to end the history of U.S. involvement in armed conflicts.

Here’s the plan: Make military service compulsory for all Americans, men and women alike. (Israel has done it and it works.) Along with that, there must be no deferments, except for the most extreme physical and mental handicaps— Stage 3 bone spurs don’t count. Stiff criminal penalties, including prison time—should be imposed for any person (or their physician) who falsifies a handicap report for the purpose of allowing a person to duck military service.

No free passes. That’s the program. (Yes, little Barron and Tiffany will have to shower with all the Hispanics and blacks their father considers society’s dregs.) So will Arabella Rose Kushner, Donald Trump III, and all of Mitch McConnell’s grandkids.)

When the country’s privileged finally have “skin in the game,” voilà, the problem is solved. No one wants to contemplate their children and grandchildren being marched off to war, and especially taking their last shallow breaths on some remote battlefields.

The problem of greed will never be solved. But, when it comes to the rich, entitled and powerful, the only way to stop them from involving our country in armed conflicts is to hit them where it hurts. If Americans don’t want more wars, the enactment of a compulsory military service law would be a good start. CW

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

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Dark Times, High Hopes

We feel Don Gale’s pain. The pain of those who fight the good fight becoming the enemy of the people. He lamented the state of journalism in a bucket-list column for The Salt Lake Tribune. “Journalism is in trouble,” he writes. So, he wants to establish an Institute of Journalism at the University of Utah to “promote traditional journalism values,” bring in speakers, create internships—all that fun stuff. Sadly, we can’t Make Journalism Great Again. We have to recreate it. Gale is putting the cart before the horse. There are plenty of hungry and talented journalists ready to do battle.

There are fewer people and institutions to sustain and promote them. “Media companies that want to get bigger tend to swallow up other media companies, suppressing competition and taking on debt, which makes publishers cowards,” writes Jill Lepore for The New Yorker. This is who journalists work for: cowards. Institutes like the one Gale proposes are great, but they can’t take the place of a courageous and well-funded employer.

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Katie McKellar of the Deseret News gets a high-five from the public. McKellar got hold of a flyer that was no doubt a pay-to-play invitation. Salt Lake Chamber members were asked for $2,500 for an “off-the-record conversation on tax reform with some of the most powerful members of the Utah Legislature tasked with proposing new tax policy that would affect all Utahns,” the story says. Well, that got everyone’s attention, and before you knew it, the event was canceled. What it says about politicians is obvious. They are sneaky and self-absorbed and hardly good public servants. What it says about journalism is more subtle. McKellar was keeping an eye out for the public. Will her good reporting be rewarded, simply dismissed as uncivil, or seen as an unlucky revelation?

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“It’s been 98% support,” Utah County Commissioner Nathan Ivie says about coming out in Republican-centric Utah. “In no way has it been as bad as I feared it would be.”

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And, if that was the entirety of the shift, perhaps the GOP could begin to work its way out of the political hole it has dug for itself as an anti-gay party.

Simas believes, however, that the GOP is likely to increase its focus on defending religious freedom. But when it comes to young voters, she adds, “as long as that means supporting policies that allow people and businesses to deny services to others simply on the basis of sexual orientation, that may be a hard sell.”

And fellow political scientist Susan Burgess, who teaches classes on gay politics at Ohio University, says it’s easy to misinterpret the polls. Yes, she notes, a majority of Americans support gay rights, and “... the younger people in the party are moving away from the traditional rejection of homosexuality,” but that doesn’t mean it’s the most important issue to them.

Utah State University political scientist Michael Lyons agrees. “Public sentiment has shifted enormously,” he says. “But when you ask people what the most important problem is, gay rights comes in about 40th.”

In other words, even if the Republican rank-and-file are ready, willing and eager to embrace Ivie, the pressure might not be there to make the GOP leadership care—especially while evangelical Christians make up such a significant part of the party’s base.

All of which means Ivie—who attempted suicide when he was 22 and has said he came out to show people in a similar situation “that they’re loved and that they’re valued”—might continue to be part of a party whose official policies far more resemble Ruzicka’s words and Lee’s actions.

Does that mean the party Ivie serves is dangerous for LGBTQ Utahns?

“It is,” he sighs. CW

that when Thomas Jefferson said all men were created equal, he was talking about everybody. We’ve lost track of that, because we’ve been so fearful of something we don’t understand.”

Young voters, Ivie explains, are increasingly making it clear that they won’t support politicians who support discriminatory policies, such as those in the GOP’s platform. He thinks Republican leaders are going to have to decide what they value most.

“If we want to stop the systematic tide of socialism, the over-taxation of people, and the redistribution of wealth in this country, we need to set aside our prejudices against the LGBT community,” he declares.

The GOP isn’t just missing out on young voters. In a 2014 Gallup survey, 20% of LGBTQ Americans of any age identified as conservative. “That’s a minority, but it’s a sizeable minority of LGBT voters,” says Ohio State University historian Howard Clayton, who has researched the history of the Log Cabin Republicans, the nation’s largest group of gay conservatives. “Some of these are people who are voting for Democrats, in part, because of Republican homophobia.”

As president of the Utah chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans, Melvin Nimer agrees that a change is overdue.

But he’s not optimistic.

“I think we’re talking about a full generation before it’s going to happen,” Nimer says. “Most people over 50, they’re stuck. They won’t change and they don’t care how critical it is.”

While even ardent members don’t usually read their parties’ platforms, “extremely divisive language on an issue like LGBTQ rights” doesn’t often fly under the radar, says University of Houston political science professor Elizabeth Simas, who has researched how platforms impact public perception about parties. She thinks the GOP platform will shift in coming years, to become “less focused on what homosexual individuals can or cannot do.”

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And that has got Ivie thinking. Maybe people like Lee and Ruzicka don’t actually represent the Republican Party all that well anymore. Maybe, when it comes to the way the party treats LGBTQ Americans, rank-and-file Republicans are ready for a change. And maybe, if that change doesn’t happen soon, the party Ivie has supported since his teenage years is doomed.

After all, a majority of Republicans now say they support laws protecting LGBTQ individuals from discrimination, according to a Public Religion Research Institute survey published in March. Not surprisingly, the numbers are even higher among young Republicans—a group that, for obvious reasons, the GOP has to attract more of to stay relevant. (Democrats have a 27-percentage-point advantage over Republicans among Millennial voters, according to the Pew Research Center.

And there is no single issue that appears to better predict membership in Gen Z than support for LGBTQ rights.)

Back in 2017, Pew found for the first time that a majority of Americans identifying as Republican or Republican-leaning independents favored same-sex marriage. Again, young Republicans were even more supportive.

But those views starkly contrast with the national party’s platform, which still calls for the federal government to recognize marriage as “the union of one man and one woman,” rejects the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling striking down state bans on same-sex marriage, and urges the ruling’s reversal.

The Utah County Republican Party’s platform is even more staunchly antigay. It explicitly opposes efforts to include LGBTQ Utahns as a protected minority.

“It strikes me as anti-freedom,” Ivie says, “which is in direct contradiction to what the Republican Party is supposed to be. We’re the party that freed the slaves. We pride ourselves on being the party of Lincoln. We believe

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tah County Commissioner Bill Lee has never had a particularly chummy relationship with fellow Republican commissioner Nathan Ivie.

So when things grew even colder last month after Ivie came out as gay, nobody was particularly surprised.

“Bill is being Bill,” one of the office staff members explains, noting that Lee now seems determined to ignore Ivie’s existence, even going so far as to avert his eyes when the two pass in the commission’s office. “He’s clearly having a hard time with it.”

Lee isn’t the only one.

Conservative activist Gayle Ruzicka— a sure bet for reporters in need of a selfrighteous response to pretty much anything—told The Salt Lake Tribune that it was “astounding” and “very upsetting” to see so many people respond with love and support after Ivie’s announcement that he and his wife, who remain close friends and co-parents, were getting a divorce.

“Just because he left them for other men does not make it a brave thing,” Ruzicka told the Trib.

In his office on the second floor of the Utah County Government Building in Provo, where American flag paintings, bald eagle statues, and acrylic awards for good governance are the decor de rigueur, Ivie says he expected this sort of reaction. And more.

Except, in the weeks that have passed since Ivie came out in a Facebook video, there hasn’t been much more. Not as news about the cowboy-hat-wearin’, horse-wranglin’, AR-15 shootin’ local politician’s newly public sexual orientation made its way around the country.

Not as constituents in Utah County— one of the most conservative bastions in the nation—came to terms with the news.

“It’s been 98% support,” Ivie tells City Weekly. “In no way has it been as bad as I feared it would be.”

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Freshly out Utah County Commissioner Nathan Ivie reflects on the evolution of the Republican Party.

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Christopher Titus has never shied away from comedy that explores the darker corners—and usually, that has meant the darker corners of his own life. In a career that has already spanned more than 30 years, Titus has never been reluctant to expose the most painful parts of his own life, from his dysfunctional family history (which helped inspire his short-lived Fox sitcom Titus) to his divorce from his first wife (in his 2009 comedy special Love Is Evol). He even turned the cancellation of that sitcom into more humor about the way he has had to deal with success and failure.

Yet, as many people have in this polarized era, Titus has focused on the state of our national political divide. In his latest show Amerigeddon, the comedian turns his attention not just to the issues that turn Americans into factions, but perhaps even how we might bridge some of those differences—though he’s also wise enough to realize he’s fighting an uphill battle. “I wanted to write a show that would bring us all together, give us something to laugh,” he says at the opening, “so it’s about politics, guns and abortion.

Talking about politics in America right now is like trying to organize an interracial hoedown in 1840.”

And while he spends plenty of time speculating on who’s going to survive the apocalypse, he’s more concerned with how all of us—“red baseball caps and pink pussy hats”—can “come together and fix this bitch.” There’s bound to be plenty of uncomfortable laughter along the way.

(Scott Renshaw) Christopher Titus @ Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, June 13, 7 p.m., $28, 21+, wiseguyscomedy.com

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Chalk and sidewalks just go together, a fact that’s obvious again this year at the 17th annual Utah Foster Care Chalk Art Festival. More than 100 budding artists take chalk in hand and turn the streets of The Gateway into a one-of-a-kind art gallery and multi-hued panorama.

Those colors also contribute to a cause—part of the proceeds benefit Utah Foster Care, a nonprofit organization that finds, educates and nurtures families to help meet the needs of children in foster care. Several participanting artists either belong to a foster family or know someone in foster care. “Utah Foster Care’s festival is a unique event,” UFC CEO Mike Hamblin says in a news release. “You will be able to experience art being created right in front of you, while also learning about an important need in our community.”

It’s something special to watch artists transform a downtown destination into a dazzling display of artistic expression. It’s also wonderful to watch as the Foster Dads of the Year are honored at noon on Saturday. Other attractions include a charity spin class hosted by Rush Cycle and a special appearance by world-renowned street artist Julie Kirk Purcell, who was recently cited by the Guinness Book of World Records for creating the world’s largest display of 3-D pavement art.

While amateur artists compete for prizes, everyone can agree the foster kids are the real winners. That makes for a masterpiece all its own. (Lee Zimmerman) Utah Foster Care Chalk Art Festival @ The Gateway, 200 S. 400 West, Friday, noon-9 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; all day Sunday, free, utahfostercare.org

Every June since 1996, SB Dance has launched an original, avant-garde production known as the June Creation. This year’s production of Sleeping Beauty remains true to the troupe’s unconventional style, which crosses genres and refuses to be categorized. “It occurs to me that it’s so odd and terrific to see how a more mature group of artists approach a fairy tale that’s all about virginity and young love,” Stephen Brown, director of SB Dance, says. “No giggling on a bench in a rose garden, I can tell you that.”

A story retold many times over, SB Dance’s Sleeping Beauty is far from any Disney version, with an unpredictable narrative and a clever assemblage of innovative artists. Conveying the freaky fairytale through an adventurous entanglement of dance, theater and little dialogue, this warped tale also features live music by pop duo MiNX, along with a score including Sinatra and Scarlatti.

In Brown’s creation, the familiar plot is meshed into a narrative that’s offbeat and humorous, but just as enchanting as the original. With similarities few and the twists many, those looking for a princess reeking of purity, pining away for a chaste prince, will be disappointed. Instead, a lecherous love triangle of danger and deceit (best suited for adults) rules the stage.

“It’s humorous, twisted and the characters— especially Aurora— are rich,” Brown adds. “It’s dance theater, which in this case means lots of dance but also a thru-line plot, occasionally moved forward with words.” (Colette A. Finney) SB Dance: Sleeping Beauty @ Rose Wagner Black Box Theatre, 138 W. 300 South, June 14-15, 8 p.m., $16.50, recommended for ages 8 and up, sbdance.com

In her 2016 debut novel 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl—winner of the Amazon Canada First Novel award—Mona Awad dug deep into issues of self-image, and the unhealthy choices young women can make out of a desire to fit in. She takes a similar notion in a creepy, hilariously distinctive direction in her follow-up novel Bunny, a tale that throws a little grand guignol at the Ivory Tower.

It’s the story of Samantha Mackey, an MFA creative writing graduate student at a prestigious university who is entering her second year, feeling isolated from a group of female classmates who Samantha gives nicknames like “Cupcake” and “Creepy Doll,” but who all refer to one another as “Bunny.” Then, one day, she finds herself unexpectedly invited to join in a social gathering with the Bunnies, even if it means ditching her one friend. And as she finds herself drawn deeper and deeper into the Bunnies’ world, she finds that they have some unique ways of finding inspiration for their work.

Awad applies her tart writing to a variety of topics, including the economic disparity between the privileged world of the university and the city right outside its boundaries. But mostly she offers a savage spin on classic bad-girl-clique tales ranging from Heathers to The Craft to Mean Girls, built on the artist’s all-consuming need to be seen and acknowledged—even if the rough drafts you have to go through, in this case, are really rough. Join the author this week for an exploration of this satirically sinister story. (SR) Mona Awad: Bunny @ The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, June 18, 7 p.m., free, kingsenglish.com

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For Star Wars fans, there’s no doubt this new park is a home run. It combines all that they love from every era of Star Wars, and offers a completely immersive experience, plunging you into a galaxy far, far away in ways that you’ve only ever dreamed of. I mean, I flew the Millennium Falcon. I ran from First Order soldiers. I took refuge in a rebel camp. I ate and shopped in an ancient, alien marketplace.

But what would the theme park fan who doesn’t care much for Star Wars think about the place? They wouldn’t care about the Easter eggs hidden everywhere, would they? There’s definitely atmosphere for these sorts of fans to drink in. Theme parks, in my view, are judged on the quality of their designed experience, and from that perspective, I think Galaxy’s Edge works very well. In fact, the experience of Galaxy’s Edge felt as close as I’ll ever get to the fabled Adventurer’s Club from Walt Disney World’s Pleasure Island. Inside, you’d be transported to a private club on New Year’s Eve, 1937. The cast members were fully incharacter and storylines could be teased

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out of every interaction with them. There were shows and secret salutes and drinks.

The attraction was popular, but Disney closed it in 2008 in an effort to revamp Pleasure Island into a more family-friendly experience. This is essentially what Galaxy’s Edge is: A more family-friendly version of that concept, with every cast member committed to their part.

The main characters represent new and old. The familiar-to-all Wookiee first mate, Chewbacca, heads the Resistance alongside newcomer Vi Moradi, who wanders the park trying to avoid capture by the evil First Order. Since Batuu—the world on which Galaxy’s Edge is set—is a new planet that was bespoke for this land, there is no difference between a hardcore Star Wars fan discovering the world for the first time and a theme park enthusiast stepping into

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Star Wars for the first time—and it turns out to be quite a brilliant story design decision.

For those who want a surface experience—get a feel for the place, do some shopping, ride the rides and leave—Galaxy’s Edge is a perfectly fine addition to the Disney theme park canon. I doubt anyone will leave feeling disappointed because the spectacle is so high. But for those who want to dive deeper, you could spend weeks there, exploring the story and interacting with the environment.

It’s something I want to go back and do.

I spent my time in the park split between a private media event and the more public dedication gala. During the media portion, we were whisked from one spot in the park to another to do interviews; for the dedication gala, we were given free rein in the area until the actual ceremony itself. Cast members roamed the land, interacting with us and I found myself falling into a character and responding in kind.

At one point, while aboard the Millennium Falcon, I asked one of the crew if they’d ever actually seen a porg aboard the ship.

He leaned in and whispered as though he hadn’t slept in a week, “You can hear them in the pipes, man …” I didn’t need to actually hear the porgs to believe him, but then, there they were, skittering around in the pipes and squawking.

It’s impressive flourishes like this that are going to keep fans, old and new alike, coming back to Galaxy’s Edge. They’ll come for the Star Wars and the spectacle, but they’ll return for the interactivity and storytelling. I know I will. CW

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Utah textile artist John Hess displays double-woven dimensional reliefs alongside more traditional flat woven pieces, exploring color, shape and design in Permutations at Kimball Art Center (1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, kimballartcenter.org), June 15-Aug. 16.

PERFORMANCE THEATER

A Chorus Line The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, June 14-29, FridaySaturday, 7:30 p.m., theziegfeldtheater.com A Night of Classic Theatre Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, June 14-15, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org The Beauty Queen of Leenane Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East, through June 29, dates and times vary, pinnacleactingcompany.org Freaky Friday Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., through Aug. 24, dates and times vary, hct.org Forever Plaid Harman Theatre, 3333 Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, June 19-26, 7 p.m., harmantheatre.org Frozen Jr. Midvale Main Street Theatre, 7711 S. Main, Midvale, through June 15, dates and times vary, midvaletheatre.com Matilda Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., through June 15, dates and times vary, hct.org My Fair Lady CenterPoint Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, through July 13, dates and times vary, centerpointtheatre.org Newsies the Musical Draper Amphitheater, 944 E. Vestry Road, Draper, through June 15, dates and times vary, draperartscouncil.org Nunsense CenterPoint Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, through July 6, dates vary, 7 p.m., centerpointtheatre.org The View UpStairs Good Company Theatre, 2404 Wall Ave., Ogden, through June 23, FridaySaturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 4 p.m., goodcotheatre.com Tuck Everlasting Hale Center Theater, Orem, 225 W. 400 North, through June 15, MondayFriday, 7:30 p.m., Saturdays, 3 & 7:30 p.m., haletheater.org

DANCE

Junction Dance Co: Zero Flux Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, June 14-16, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org SB Dance: Sleeping Beauty Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, June 14 & 15, 8-9 p.m., sbdance.com (see p. 12)

Utah Dance Center: Wizard of Oz Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, June 18-20, 7 p.m., tickets.utah.edu

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Imagine: Remembering the Fab 4 Ed Kenley Amphitheater, 403 N. Wasatch Drive, Layton, June 19, 8 p.m., davisarts.org

COMEDY & IMPROV

Christopher Titus Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, June 13, 7 p.m., 21+, wiseguyscomedy.com (see p. 12) Deon Cole Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, June 14 & 15, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com ISMO Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, June 14 & 15, 8 p.m., 21+, wiseguyscomedy.com Open Mic Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Wednesdays, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Sam Morril Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, June 14 & 15, 7 & 9:30 p.m., 21+, wiseguyscomedy.com Spence Roper Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., June 14 & 15, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Stand Up Comedy with Camille Theobald and Friends The Beehive, 666 S. State, June 13, 7:30 p.m.

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 Bee Fest SLC 2019 Wasatch Community Gardens, 622 W. 100 South, June 15, 9 a.m.2 p.m., catalystmagazine.net 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

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TransAction Weekly Meeting Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, Sundays, 2-3:30 p.m., utahpridecenter.org

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Chalk Art Festival The Gateway, 400 W. 100 South, June 14-15, utahfostercare.org (see p. 12) Family Arts Festival: From Sea to Shining Sea Museum of Art, North Campus Drive, Provo, June 14, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., moa.byu.edu Fleet Nights Little City 855 S. 400 West, every Saturday, 4-10 p.m., littlecityinc.com Latino Arts Festival Park City Library Field, 1255 Park Ave., Park City, June 14-15, pcsarts.org Orem Summerfest City Center Park, 200 E. 100 North, Orem, through June 14, summerfest.orem.org Princess Festival 2019 University Place, 575 E. University Parkway, Orem, through June 15, princessfestival.com Strawberry Days Rose Garden Park, 100 E. 100 South, Pleasant Grove, June 15-22, times vary, strawberrydays.org Summer Music Festival Feat. Little River Band Watkins Park 705 W. Forest St., Brigham City, June 15, 6 p.m., smithstix.com Summerfest Entertainment on the Stage City Center Park, 300 E. Center St., Orem, June 14-15, summerfest.orem.org Utah Asian Festival Mountain America Expo Center, 9575 S. State, Sandy, June 14-15, times vary Utah Juneteenth Heritage Festival Union Station, 2501 Wall Ave., Ogden, through June 22, times vary, theunionstation.org WeeBeer Festival Golden Spike Event Center, 1000 N. 1200 West, Ogden, June 15, 3-9 p.m., smithstix.com

LGBTQ

1 to 5 Club: Game Night Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, first Mondays, 7:30-9:30 p.m., utahpridecenter.org 1 to 5 Club: Radical Reading Group Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, third Mondays, 7:309 p.m., utahpridecenter.org Men’s Sack Lunch Group Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, Wednesdays, noon-1:30 p.m., utahpridecenter.org

AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Gerald Elias: Maestro the Potbellied Pig The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, June 15, 11 a.m., kingsenglish.com Mason Allan: Rebellion: The Departure Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, June 15, 7 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Maximillian Werner The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, June 14, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Mona Awad: Bunny The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, June 18, 7 p.m, kingsenglish.com (see p. 12)

TALKS & LECTURES

Collector’s Book Salon Weller Bookworks, 607 S. Trolley Square, every last Friday, 6:30 p.m., wellerbookworks.com

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

Alfred Hart: Tracing the Path Utah 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 American and Regional Art: Mythmaking and Truth-Telling Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, ongoing, umfa.utah.edu Ancient Mediterranean Art: Res Mortis Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, ongoing, umfa.utah.edu Ancient Mesoamerica Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, ongoing, umfa.utah.edu

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., agalleryonline.com Arts of Africa Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, ongoing, mfa.utah.edu Arts of the Pacific Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, ongoing, umfa.utah.edu 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 Celebrate Utah! Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, through June 26, culturalcelebration.org Chinese Art: Emulation and Innovation Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, ongoing, umfa.utah.edu Contrast: The State of Being Strikingly Different Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through July 1, times vary, events.slcpl.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 Art, 1709 E. 1300 South, Ste. 201, through Aug. 30 Greater Merit: The Temple and Image in South Asia Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, ongoing, umfa.utah.edu The International Tolerance Project Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, through June 23, umfa.utah.edu Hannah Emerson and Jesse Campbell: What Do You See? Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, through July 12, accessart.org Jiyoun Lee-Lodge: Waterman the Stranger Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, through July 5, artsandmuseums.utah.gov 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 Memories of the Lake George S. & Dolores Doré Eccles Gallery, Center for Arts & Media, 1575 S. State, through June 20, slcc.edu Michael Cooper & Terry Southern: Chicago 1968:The Whole World is Watching Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through June 14, slcpl.org Modern and Contemporary Art: A Fuller Picture Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, ongoing, umfa.utah.edu 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 Arts, 412 S. 700 West, through June 15, modernwestfineart.com Out Loud: Ostracized and Masked Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S West Temple, through July 6, utahmoca.org Permutations Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, June 15-Aug. 16, kimballartcenter.org (see p. 16) 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 Stars of the Stage and Silver Screen Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, ongoing, 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 Utah Capitol, 350 N. State, through June 26, goldenspike150.org Urban and Rural David Ericson Fine Art, 418 S. 200 West, through June 21, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., davidericson-fineart.com Wasatch Back Student Art Show Kimball Art Center, 638 Park Avenue, Park City, through July 7, kimballartcenter.org The Wonder of Watercolor Utah Cultural Celebration Center Gallery, 3155 W. 3100 South, through July 9, culturalcelebration.org

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Bill Murray, Chloë Sevigny and Adam Driver in The Dead Don’t Die on a plane of extra-textual knowledge, which becomes overt when he and Murray engage in a dialogue about which pages of the script each one got a chance to read.

There’s a recurring gag about the movie’s twangy theme song, and a pointed acknowledgement that Star Wars movie alum Driver has a Star Wars-themed keyring. It’s not that there was any reason to believe that Jim Jarmusch would attempt to make a genuinely scary or unsettling zombie movie, but he seems to be spending all his time chuckling at the idea that a zombie movie could be anything but a joke.

The result is a weird mix of superficial silliness and occasional attempts—particularly the terrified response by Sevigny’s Mindy to all the horror around her—to have people react to zombies in something resembling a real-world way.

The walking dead don’t have to be terrifying, but it’s a lot to expect a movie to be carried by what amounts to a sustained 105-minute smirk. CW

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The Dead Don’t Die is loaded with off-beat performances. Or, to put it another way, when Caleb Landry Jones as a horror-movieobsessed convenience store owner isn’t the strangest thing in a movie, there’s gonna be a lot to unpack. Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive co-star Tilda Swinton doesn’t just play a mortician, and she doesn’t just play a mortician with a Scottish accent; she plays a mortician with a Scottish accent who is deadly with a katana, and might not be entirely of this world. Throw in Steve Buscemi as a curmudgeonly farmer in a “Make America White Again” red baseball cap and Tom Waits as a hermit living in the nearby woods, and you’re going to have plenty of stuff that makes this movie worth watching.

The harder part is figuring out what Jarmusch wants us to do with all that stuff aside from enjoy bits and pieces. The Dead Don’t Die repeatedly suggests that its zombie uprising is the result of the moon being pulled from its orbit by “polar fracking”— a notion that might have had some kind of environmental subtext, if it weren’t repeated so often that it ultimately felt like Jarmusch was mocking the whole idea of caring about what caused this event. He’ll throw in a bunch of teenagers—most notably Selena Gomez—who just happen to be traveling through town, but their existence seems to serve no actual story function.

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Over the course of his 35-year career, the resolutely indie filmmaker has filled his oeuvre with lower-than-low-key character studies—filled with droll humor, but never exactly full of whiz-bang pacing. Yet he’s also someone who has managed to apply his distinctive sensibility to weirdly effective stories about samurai assassins (Ghost Dog) and centuries-old vampires (Only Lovers Left Alive). So, considering the way zombie tales and comedy have been combined in everything from Shaun of the Dead to Zombieland, why couldn’t Jarmusch give us a story that put the “dead” in both “undead” and “deadpan?”

The Dead Don’t Die, however, feels like a weird miscalculation. While you were never going to get something bursting with visceral intensity out of Jarmusch, he could have found a way to make his philosophical leanings part of a world seemingly on the brink of apocalypse. Instead, he opts to treat everything that’s going on as a great big selfaware goof, one that’s full of bizarre touches while never finding anything resembling a center.

He does set his tale in the kind of place that feels built to be the backdrop for horror: Centerville, a sleepy little town with one diner, one motel and a police force of three— Chief Robertson (Bill Murray), Ronnie (Adam Driver) and Mindy (Chloë Sevigny)—accustomed to small-time concerns. So they’re understandably thrown when a savage attack leaves two people dead at that lone diner, and when it soon becomes evident that the violence is being caused by dead bodies rising to make meals out of the living.

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NEW THIS WEEK Film release schedules are subject to change. Reviews online at cityweekly.net AMERICAN WOMAN BBB If you can get through the first 30 minutes, you’ll find the last 80 rewarding. At the outset, Deb (Sienna Miller) is such an asshole— fighting loudly with her sister (Christina Hendricks), mother (Amy Madigan) and brother-in-law (Will Sasso)—that you hope the movie will end when she gets into a horrific-seeming car crash (she walks away from it). Deb has reasons to be terrible; she picks bad relationship after bad relationship, has a 17-year-old daughter with a 1-year-old son living in her home and a series of dead-end jobs. It’s only when her daughter goes missing, ironically, that Deb begins getting her life together. As American Woman progresses, Deb raises her grandson, gets a degree and becomes a leader at a good company. But there’s a melancholic undercurrent running through it—this story hinges on a disappeared child, after all— that roots it in something larger than a jerk-gets-her-life-together story. Jake Scott’s direction is steady, which helps when the screenplay veers into melodrama and the score is appropriately elegiac. At the center, Miller holds the sloppier moments together in a way that makes it better than it should be. Opens June 14 at Cinemark West Jordan. (R)—David Riedel

Mindy Kaling’s crowd-pleaser of a script goes too easy on the stacked deck favoring white dude writers, but, well … yeah.

She plays Molly Patel, a would-be comedy writer who lands her first gig as an openly-stated “diversity hire” for a longlived late-night talk show hosted by Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson). But she arrives in that previously all-white-dude writer’s room as the network considers replacing Katherine because her show has grown stale and predictable. The story rides or dies on the Devil Wears Prada-esque relationship between Molly and Katherine, more specifically on Thompson’s delightful, all-in performance as a taskmaster boss watching herself become irrelevant. Kaling lands a few body blows when taking on racism, sexism and ageism in the entertainment industry, and doesn’t let Katherine off the hook in her disdain for what a 21st-century audience demands. It also feels like she’s playing it safe to make sure it remains comfortable for a mainstream audience ready to whoop in agreement in all the right places, provided they’re not asked to think too hard about privilege. Opens June 14 at theaters valleywide. (R)—Scott Renshaw MEN IN BLACK: INTERNATIONAL [not yet reviewed] A new pair of partners (Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson) continue to protect earth from alien threats. Opens June 14 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) SHAFT [not yet reviewed] John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson) joins with his father and son to make being a bad mutha a family affair. Opens June 14 at theaters valleywide. (R)

THE DEAD DON’T DIE BB.5 See review on p. 19. Opens June 14 at theaters valleywide. (R)

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LATE NIGHT BB.5 It’s a bit on-the-nose for a white dude writer to suggest that

THE BIRDCAGE At The Sun Trapp, June 16, 8 p.m. (R)

THE CROW At Tower Theater, June 14-16, 11 p.m. (R)

as the conflicted performer, while also meeting the demands of the music. The major points of John’s career are addressed, but they aren’t the focus. The way director Dexter Fletcher incorporates music and emotion into the story should be instructive to anyone making a rock biopic hereafter. (R)—Eric D. Snider

I WANT MY MTV At Rose Wagner Center, June 19, 7 p.m. (NR) THE QUIET FORCE At Park City Library, June 14, 8 p.m. (NR)

CURRENT RELEASES DARK PHOENIX BB.5 Simon Kinberg—who co-wrote the previous failed attempt at telling this same story, 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand—tells the tale of telepath/telekinetic Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) absorbing a powerful energy force that begins to overwhelm her. Kinberg dabbles in oppressed-minority subtext that has always driven this franchise, but focuses more on Jean’s power as a manifestation of repressed trauma. Turner isn’t quite deft enough to give Jean’s story actual emotional punch, and only Michael Fassbender’s Magneto feel fully realized enough as a character to give the movie depth to match its grim tone. That leaves little more than some solid comic-book spectacle, even as it’s clear that Kinberg strives for something more profound than a fun summer blockbuster—and once again, can’t pull it off. (PG-13)—SR ROCKETMAN BBB.5 The story of Elton John (Taron Egerton) doesn’t subvert all music biopic tropes, but shows enough creativity to distinguish itself from its shopworn brethren. Unlike Bohemian Rhapsody, for example, this is a full-on musical; people burst into song, specifically Elton John songs, which convey the feeling the film needs in that moment—like the sweet scene where John composes “Your Song” and sings the words, penned by lyricist Bernie Taupin (Jamie Bell), to Taupin, the heterosexual man with whom John is hopelessly in love. Egerton shows range and vulnerability

THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 2 BB Way less charming and inventive than its progenitor, this feels like a lazy straight-to-DVD sequel. Mutt Max (Patton Oswalt) 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 humans/companion animal relationships—and “Captain” Snowball (Kevin Hart), a bunny with delusions of capedcrusader-dom, attempts to rescue a tiger cub from a terrible circus.

Best bit: Harrison Ford as the voice of 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. (PG)—MaryAnn Johanson

THE SOUVENIR BBB.5 Joanna Hogg takes a mundane setup—inexperienced artist gets first lessons in life and love—and make it top-to-bottom fascinating, as 20-something British film school student Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) begins an affair with Anthony (Tom Burke), who turns out to have some secrets. Julie struggles to find her creative voice distinct from her upper-class upbringing, which easily could have resulted in “now I’ve had experiences that make for a real artist” clichés. But Byrne brings an open, vulnerable screen presence, which combines with Burke’s portrayal of practiced deception to complicate the intimate scenes. Mostly, there’s Hogg’s sense for using everything from period songs to slow-motion at just the right time. 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. (R)—SR

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Our yearly guide to the rockingest concerts under the sun.

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THE ULTIMATE SUMMER FEST

Survival Guide Some tips and tricks for a happy summer concert season.

By Alex Springer

Stay Hydrated

On paper, this is a no-brainer. We know that if we’re going to be spending an extended period of time outside in the heat physically exerting ourselves, we gotta hydrate. However, not a year goes by—not a year— where I don’t read about some poor soul passing out in the middle of the crowd because they haven’t kept on top of their water consumption. Also, try to bypass the rationale that liquor has water in it, therefore drinking a lot of booze equals staying hydrated.

Drink your booze (venue permitting), but make sure you’ve got some high quality H2O handy as well.

Sunblock

Bring hair ties

There you are, enjoying your favorite band under the sweltering July sun.

The chorus of their best song is com-

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evitably be me, so just finish your beer before you go moshing.

Leave your open-toed shoes at home

I get it—sandals, flip-flops and other open-toed footwear are more comfortable as the weather heats up. But concerts are just not the place to expose the toes. In addition to the danger of getting all kinds of junk stuck to your feet (see above), it’s an inalienable truth that someone who decided to wear their steel-toed monster boots is going to stomp the hell out of your foot at some point during the show.

Find another way to get your body to ditch its excess heat so your toes can live long, unsullied lives.

Drink your beer before you head to Use smartphones sparingly the stage The temptation to record the entire

I’ve never quite understood the logic of dropping six bucks on a beer and trying to navigate to the front of the stage with said beer intact. An open container of liquid will never win a battle against an undulating throng of people, but damn if people don’t try.

Even if your stealth skills are above average, your best case scenario involves a quarter of a full-price beer that has been blessed with the armpit sweat, frothy saliva and rogue boogers from dozens of audience members before it gets to your lips. At worst, you spill your drink all over someone else, who then has to spend the rest of the night smelling like someone dumped a beer on their head. Also, this person will in-

concert—drunkenly spliced with extreme closeups of you and your squad living your #bestlife for all your followers—has reached critical mass. While this isn’t really a rule as it is more of a suggestion, I’ve found that keeping those concert vibes that wash over me for myself instead of sharing them online is a nice change of pace. It lets me focus on the here and now instead of how much social media traffic it will generate, and it’s really quite refreshing. Plus, it minimizes the risk that someone knocks your phone out of your hand and into the half-full beer that some dickhead didn’t finish before trudging through the crowd.

Save room for food trucks

Food trucks are the rock stars of the culinary world, and outdoor concerts are when these mobile eateries shine their brightest. Most outdoor concerts will attract enough food trucks to keep things interesting, which helps whatever show you’re seeing last a bit longer. Enjoying some finger food before the action kicks off not only ensures you’ll have the sustenance to party, but it builds a nice anticipatory buzz that enhances the show itself.

Clean up after yourself

Outdoor concert venues are special, and they should be treated as such.

Those garbage cans and recycling bins are there for a reason, so whenever possible, clean your shit up.

That’s pretty much the only thing to remember about this guideline.

Finally, don’t be a dick

If you remember this cardinal rule of elite concert-goers, everything else tends to fall in line. Outdoor concerts are shared experiences, and you get the best results when you tap into that. Freak out with a group of strangers, absorb the crowd’s energy and have a good, hair-tied time—just make sure it’s not at the expense of others who are also trying to enjoy themselves.

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The sun doesn’t officially set until well after 9 p.m., and it can still burn the shit out of you even if you’re not soaking up rays in the middle of the day. In addition to the previous rule, this is just basic common sense if you’re planning on spending more than 5 minutes out in the sunshine this summer. While we’re on the subject, however, make sure you do your research on what sunblock you’re using. There is all kinds of garbage in mainstream sunblock. California Baby or bust, man.

ing up, and you prepare yourself to belt out the words along with everyone else.

As soon as you open your mouth, however, someone nearby whips their head around and you get a mouthful of their patchouli-smelling mop because they didn’t tie that shit down. After multiple incidents of chowing down on some stranger’s dreadies in the middle of a show, I see errant hair as a menace to concert society. If you’ve got long hair, bring a few hair ties along so it doesn’t end up in someone’s mouth.

If you don’t have long hair, bring a few hair ties just in case you need to wrap someone’s do into a French bun so you can enjoy the show with a clean(ish) mouth.

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uch like the way local commuters forget how to drive during the first snowstorm of the year, the first few summer concerts need a bit of getting used to. Once the weather warms up, concert-goers are so excited to be out past sundown without their boots and gloves, that they tend to forget about the community of music lovers around them.

Before you hit the festival circuit for some hot evenings of swapping sweat with your fellow humans, here are a few things to keep in mind.

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Blues, Brews & BBQ Sundays through Sept. 8 Snowbasin Mountain Resort snowbasin.com

Ogden Twilight Through Sept. 27 Ogden Amphitheater ogdentwilight.com

How to pregame: Treat yourself to an extended rest just as the black bears of Mount Ogden do during the wintertime so that you can come prepared for a gut-busting bounty of smoked meats and local beers, all provided on site along with soulful party bands like Dirty Revival (playing July 28).

How to pregame: Fire up Spotify and catch up on your indie music knowledge because the lineup is packed with amazing touring acts like The Flaming Lips (July 18), Iron & Wine (Aug. 21) and Iceland’s Of Monsters and Men (Sept. 17). The last thing you want is to look uncool in front of hipster college kids.

What to wear: It can get chilly up there, so don’t forget a humongous bear-skin pelt like the one Leonardo DiCaprio wears in The Revenant.

Essential souvenir: An official Blues, Brews & BBQ festival mug, which will get you discounts on refills all day.

Burning question: How many pounds of brisket can a man devour in one sitting?

What to wear: Black leggings.

RVCA bucket hats. Tattoos. Just please, white people, save the culturally insensitive Native American headdresses for Coachella.

Choice pickup line: “I was the sixth backup guitarist for Arcade Fire once.”

Burning question: Can Wayne Coyne tell us how he got the name for his new baby boy, Bloom?

Salt City Sounds June 13-July 27 Gallivan Center saltcitysounds.com

How to pregame: Hit the treadmill at full sprint then douse yourself with a bucket of cold water—this might be an all-ages downtown fest, but be prepared for things to get steamy during performances by dance music heartbreakers Empire of the Sun (June 22), Chromeo and AlunaGeorge (both playing the Complex June 23) and Kaskade (July 27).

What to wear: Comfy T-shirt, stylish dancin’ shoes.

Who to bring: The guy or gal you’ve been dying to make out with as the beat drops during Kaskade’s “Us.” Burning question: Wait, I can’t bring a selfie stick inside??

Usana Concert Series June 14-Sept. 25 Usana Amphitheatre livenation.com

How to pregame: Depends. If you’re here for Train and Goo Goo Dolls (June 18), then go ahead and make other plans because those bands suuuuuck.

What to wear: For Jason Aldean (July 27), your favorite cowboy hat.

For Shinedown, a bespoke suit vest and tie. For Kiss (Sept. 14), quality face paint that won’t melt in the heat.

What to post: A selfie of you and your LGBTQ boo embracing in front of a pride flag at LoveLoud Fest (June 29).

Burning question: Is Lynyrd Skynyrd (Sept. 20) as tired of “Free Bird” jokes as the rest of us are?

Utah Blues Festival

Twilight Concert Series

Red Butte Garden Concert Series

Deer Valley Music Festival

How to pregame: Lose the love of your life to your best friend, gamble away your savings at a Vegas casino, and spend a few days sleeping in the gutter. That way you’ll have a solid understanding of “the blues” just in time to see Tab Benoit let it all out on the six-string.

How to pregame: Think deep on Long Beach hip-hop history for Vince Staples (Aug. 8). Practice your Australian accent for Courtney Barnett (Aug. 15). Channel your spirit animal to appreciate the luminescent pop of Santigold (Aug. 30).

What to wear: Supreme hats, indigo shawls, booty shorts.

Don’t worry about it.

Just do you!

What to eat: Something either really healthy or really fatty but delicious from the food trucks.

Burning question: Wait, this fest isn’t named after those vampire books, is it?

How to pregame: Weave your own wicker chair out of wild reeds harvested from the banks of the Bear River so you’ll have some place comfortable to sit on the lawn as acts like Greensky Bluegrass (June 27), Seal (July 18) and The B-52’s (Aug. 16) take the night away.

What to wear: Casual attire sourced from environmentally friendly cotton buds and made on a 19th-century loom.

What to drink: Home-brewed honey wine and Blue Sky Organic Soda from Trader Joe’s.

Burning question: Can we visit the rose collection to see what it’s really like to be “kissed by a rose on the gray,” as Seal puts it?

How to pregame: With Ogden native and LDS member Marie Osmond set to perform with the Utah Symphony on June 29, this is the perfect time to gather your younger siblings and cousins for a crash course on ’70s classics like “One Bad Apple” and Donny & Marie.

What to wear: Pressed slacks and fresh undergarments.

What to bring: Musical instruments for a family jam session in the parking lot afterwards.

Burning question: Will any other Osmonds be making a surprise appearance for a rousing rendition of “Utah, This is the Place”?

June 14 & 15 Gallivan Center utahbluesfest.org

Through Sept. 23 Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre redbuttegarden.org

June 28-Aug. 10 Deer Valley Resort deervalleymusicfestival.org

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What to wear: Ray-Bans, a black fedora and John Belushi’s sideburns.

What to throw onstage: The last remaining dignity of a downtrodden soul.

Burning question: Can a broken heart ever mend?

Weekly, July 20-Aug. 30 Gallivan Center twilightconcerts.com

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Stadium of Fire

Country Fan Fest

Thursday, July 4 LaVell Edwards Stadium freedomfestival.org

July 25-28 Deseret Peak Complex countryfanfest.com

How to pregame: A summer’s worth of all-American events culminates on the Fourth of July with a performance by none other than Keith Urban—the greatest New Zealand-Australian-born country crooner to ever grace U.S. soil.

Get up to date by rewatching seasons 12-15 of American Idol when he was a judge on the show.

What to wear: Tri-cornered hats, powdered wigs, and anything else patriotic. Australian flag capes also acceptable.

How to pregame: As the name of the event suggests, this one’s for country fans. So if you want to come, then make sure you’re either really into Luke Combs and Cody Johnson, or you can at least fool people into thinking you are, ya big poser.

What to wear: A 10-gallon hat— or a baseball cap if you’re going for that soughtafter Rodney Atkins look.

Necessary supplies: Concertgoers can camp out over the weekend, so make sure to come prepared. Several cases of Natty Light’s Naturdays should do the trick (“hey maw, it tastes like flamingo!”)

Burning question: Is Randy Houser’s newborn son Huckleberry named after anyone specific?

Pre-show download: Make sure to get the official Stadium of Fire ringtone.

Burning question: Seeing as Urban is married to Nicole Kidman, corner him and ask: Who’s gonna take the fall for Perry’s death on Big Little Lies?

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Aug. 16 & 17 The Great Saltair dasenergifestival.com How to pregame: Drink lots of water, align your chakras, brush up on your vape tricks and “glow-gloving” skills. You’ll need all the endurance and kandi energy you can get to last you through the weekend at this oomph-oopmhcentric EDM shindig.

What to wear: As many colors, patterns and fabrics as can possibly fit on a raver bikini.

Mukluks highly encouraged.

What not to bring: Totems— they’re banned, sorry.

Burning question: When’s the drop?!

Reggae Rise Up Aug. 23-25 Heber City reggaeriseuputah.com

How to pregame: Clean your dreadlocks while listening to Bob Marley’s Legend. Rewatch The Harder They Come. See if you can get your hands on some of those weed gummies that Jim Dabakis ate on camera last year.

What to wear: Two words: Hemp tuxedo.

What to do: Lay in festival hammocks, gaze up at clouds.

Burning question: Was Sublime really that good, though?

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Small But Mighty

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Want to escape mega-arena hell?

Give this trio of compact venues a go.

By Scott Renshaw

At a capacity of 1,800, this venue celebrates its 25th season with a mix of still-rising stars and veterans of the music wars, plus performers delivering stage and screen classics. A decade ago Colbie Caillat was all over the charts with effervescent hits like “Bubbly” and “Fallin’ for You”; now she’s touring with her newly-formed band Gone West (July 22). Grammy nominee Oleta Adams (July 11) offers up soulful gospel stylings, along with the signature song “Get Here” which became a de facto anthem during the first Gulf War. Tennessee-based bluegrass band—and 2019 Grammy winners—the Travelin’ McCourys (July 27) continue the legacy of the founders’ father, bluegrass legend Del McCoury. Lovers of The Great American Songbook can experience interpretations by Michael Feinstein (July 2) that he’s mastered over a career spanning more than 30 years.

If you’re looking to revisit your favorite songs of yesteryear, opportunities abound. Country stalwarts Lonestar (Aug. 6) delivers classics like

“Amazed” and “I’m Already There,” while smooth sounds of the ’70s come courtesy of Pablo Cruise (July 20).

You can “Hold On” for more than one more day for a chance to hear Wilson Phillips (July 30), or get back to the Hi Infidelity hits of REO Speedwagon (June 25). And if you want to get into somethin’ good, experience Herman’s Hermits starring Peter Noone (Aug. 29), still going strong some 50 years later.

Even if you can’t see legendary acts in the flesh, talented performers still bring their work to life. AJ Croce performs the beloved songbook of his father Jim Croce in Croce Plays Croce (June 22). Songs by The Four Tops, Steve Wonder and many more grace the musical revue Forever Motown (June 29). If the recent Rocketman has you yearning for Elton John classics, get an earful at the Remember When Rock Was Young Elton John tribute (Aug. 10).

Or take in a dose of Beatles hits during Imagine: Remembering the Fab Four (June 19). 403 N. Wasatch Drive, Layton, davisarts.org/events

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he summer concert season is, understandably, often synonymous with the biggest acts in the biggest venues. The hottest music acts in the world hit stadiums and huge arenas to capitalize on good weather and youngsters with summer job money burning holes in their pockets. Those shows can be some of the most memorable concert experiences the audience members will ever have—yet there are other places to see summer shows beyond those biggest venues.

If you’ve reached a point where you prefer your performances on a slightly more intimate, less logistically-intimidating scale—or even if you just like revisiting acts that take you back to a more innocent time of your life—consider taking in a show at some of Utah’s smaller venues. These spots offer a unique combination of big names, nostalgia appeal and up-close-and-personal seating, at a value that doesn’t require taking out a second mortgage.

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Escape the heat into the mountains of Park City, and take that opportunity to catch a show at the historic Egyptian Theatre, with fewer than 300 seats per show (hence the multi-night stands for those who stop in). Grammy Award-winning folk and gospel artist Patty Griffin (June 19-21) draws from her more than 20-year career, including her new selftitled/self-released album. Jefferson Airplane founders Jorma

Kaukonen and Jack Casady bring their long-standing free-form jazz project Hot Tuna (June 27-29) for a night of acoustic jams. Janis Ian (Aug. 9-11) told us about learning the truth at 17 more than 40 years ago, but she keeps audiences learning her stories while touring with Livingston Taylor. Other headliners include singer-songwriter Martin Sexton (July 26-28) and legendary vocal trio The Lettermen (Aug. 30-Sept. 1). 328 Main, Park City, parkcityshows.com

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With 2,000 reserved fixed seats and lawn space for another 750, Sandy Amphitheater provides a variety of ways to enjoy an outdoor show. Headliners include chart-topping, multi-award-nominated country sensation Lee Brice (June 25), performing hits like “A Woman Like You” and “I Don’t Dance.” A cappella country quintet Home Free (July 6) brings humor and heart to original compositions and interpretations of country and countrypop standards. Local favorite and Governor’s Lifetime Achievement award recipient Peter Breinholt (Sept. 7) makes his annual visit to delight Utah crowds.

Families with little ones shouldn’t miss the Kidz Bop Tour (Aug. 30), an interactive concert showcasing young vocalists performing the latest pop hits.

The flashback hits run the gamut from the ’60s through the ’90s. Tommy James & the Shondells (June 22) take you back to the days of “Mony Mony” and “Crimson and Clover.” It’ll feel like the summer of ‘69 all over again when Brian Wilson and The Zombies (Sept. 19) coheadline a show full of vintage classics.

The Bellamy Brothers (Aug. 16) give you a chance to “Let Your Love Flow” back to 1976. Gen X-ers get a couple of prime opportunities to relive the glory days of MTV: Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo (July 16) bringing hits like “You Better Run” and “Love is a Battlefield,” and the annual Lost ’80s Live Tour, this year featuring A Flock of Seagulls, Wang Chung, Escape Club and more. Finally, co-headliners Collective Soul and Gin Blossoms (Aug. 27) offer a return to the heyday of alt-rock radio staples like “The World I Know” and “Hey Jealousy.”

More tribute-band magic is on tap with another chance to catch the Beatles experience Imagine (June 21) if you miss them in Layton. Make it a doublefeature with Satisfaction: The Internatioanl Rolling Stones Tribute (July 12) to answer that burning eternal question, “Beatles or Stones?” The glorious pop confections of ABBA take center stage for Arrival: The Music of ABBA (June 29), and Zeppelin USA (Sept. 13) look to provide a dead-ringer reminder of Plant, Page and co. 1245 E. 9400 South, Sandy, sandyamp.com

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Concert for One?

Hit up these indie vinyl venues ’round town for the most intimate of experiences.

By Naomi Clegg Albatross Recordings & Ephemera

Albatross recently moved a few blocks and is now housed inside Oliver & Princess Natasha’s Unique Home Décor, which offers a collection of the distinctive and obscure. It’s a treasure trove for vintage clothes and décor, books, posters, antiques, local art and pins, tchotchkes galore, and, of course, records. Come here for rarities you didn’t know you wanted (think: obscure horrorfilm soundtracks) stocked by proprietor Timo Hatziathanasiou.

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Diabolical Records is, well, diabolical, in the very best sense of the word. Owners Adam Tye and Alana Boscan met at a party and bonded over music; now, they channel their music nerdiness into one of the coolest shops in town, with an extensive selection of local and indie music (think: what the kids are into) and regular, intimate shows by local and national acts, always at 8 p.m. and always affordable.

238 S. Edison St., 801-792-9204, diabolicalrecords.com

Maccarone opened his old-school record shop in 2015 and stocks rock ’n’ roll classics from The Beatles to Bowie. Stop by to say hi and chat up the latest … and or greatest in vinyl.

Proprietor Kevin Kirk has been “peddlin’ evil since 1987.” THMS 3444 S. Main, 385-229-4165, soundandvisionvinyl.com is the place for metalheads, and not just the local variety—Kirk has earned well-deserved respect from the metal elite, includBUT, WAIT. THERE’S MORE! ing thrash metal OGs Slayer. Along with metal records and their Graywhale Entertainment ilk, the shop stocks a vast selection of THMS merchandise— The University location of this used-and-new record and CD establishment recently shut down to baby-sized tees. down, to the horror of local fans. But don’t fear—you can buy, sell, and trade vinyl and CDs 63 Exchange Place, 801-467-7071, heavymetalshop.com at three other locations, in Sandy, Ogden and Taylorsville. Visit for an FYE-style one-stopmedia shop, with DVDs, books, video games, collectibles, and a vast selection of music new Randy’s Record Shop Randy’s is the daddy of SLC record stores. Founded in 1978 and old. Or, check out the Graywhale’s massive inventory on their website.

by Randy Stinson, this 900 South standard is known for hav- Multiple locations, graywhaleslc.com

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ing—or finding—the elusive. The well-stocked shop is manned by a knowledgeable, helpful staff. Look here for what you can’t Lavender Vinyl find elsewhere—and watch out for quarterly $2 vinyl sales held Blake Lundell and Kylee Hallows have worked in indie record stores up and down the Wasatch Front for more than a decade. In 2016, they made their dreams come true when they across the street. opened up a record shop of their own in lovely downtown Ogden. The duo carry everything 157 E. 900 South, 801-532-4413, randysrecords.com from indie rock and metal to world music and hip-hop; Hallows specializes in “lady-driven” music. Buy and sell here!

Raunch Records This punk-rock skate shop, opened by Brad Collins and compa- 123 25th St., Ogden, 385-240-0336, lavendervinyl.com

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Brooklyn-born Mike Maccarone earned his music chops hanging out in NYC during the early days of punk and fronting classic punk-rock band Dead Virgins. Having made his way to Utah,

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Hit Us with Your Best Shot Six local photographers share some of their killer concert pics.

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“Band interaction with the audience has always existed with crowd surfing to Flaming Lips Zorb rolling, but STRFKR took it to another level on this particular tour stop at The Depot with their usual dancing troupe of friends in animal/astronaut costumes, but then ‘surfed’ the audience in a confetti shower. They always bring great energy to every show and for this I salute you Space Cowboy. Ride on.”

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“I first saw Modest Mouse, I believe, in 1994 open for Built to Spill at The Bar & Grille playing an all-ages show. I’ve tried to see them every time they come on tour, and they have never disappointed. From early DV8 days to The Saltair and most recently at The Complex, each tour has a full catalog stacked setlist and always seems to carry the energy with you for days afterwards.

This Issaquah, Wash., singer can put a spell on you.”

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“Then there’s this one … and all I can say about this one is it captures a moment when I felt the collective esteem of Ogden jumped up several levels. It was a moment were everyone said, ‘Yeah, Ogden is fucking awesome.’ It was the summer that Jared Allen outclassed Salt Lake City with a great music lineup. That summer night, the crowd showed the Flaming Lips just how fun Ogden could be—and it was awesome. So awesome, they are coming back this summer.”

—Steve Conlin, steveconlinphotography.com

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“This is Luke Moellman of Great Good Fine OK at Kilby Court on Jan. 24, 2017.

They’re a great, energetic band with a tight-knit fan base. It meant a lot that they recognized me by name and let me get some shots of their show. Plus, what’s not to like about a keytar?”

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“Here is a photo that is of significant importance to me. Metallica has been the No. 2 band on my bucket list of top bands to shoot.

I have seen them in concert 10-plus times. This was my first chance to shoot them, and they did not disappoint. This photo is of James Hetfield playing live at Vivint Smart Home Arena.”

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“I’m going to go with this pic of Thievery Corporation at last year’s Ogden Twilight. To me, shooting a music event, the challenge in my head is, ‘Can you capture the essence of the whole concert in one picture?’

I think this photo does that.

Everyone who walked away from that show was dripping with sweat, had bought into the energy of the band and been treated to a great night of music.

To me, this image captures what we all felt.”

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“These are pictures of Full Of Hell playing at Kilby Court on 5/29/19. These pictures are really significant to me, because it really shows the progress I’ve made so far as a photographer.

The first time I ever brought a camera to a show was when I first saw Full Of Hell three years ago at Diabolical Records when I was 16 years old. And just a few weeks ago their manager, Justin Louden, brought me out to officially take photos for them. It was such an honor to take photos for one of my all-time favorite bands! It was a ridiculously fun show and I’m glad they brought me out to document it.”

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“One of the cool things about shooting artists and musicians is that sometimes, just sometimes, you get to be up close to your heroes—even if they’re from before your generation. I first saw Patti Smith at a summer festival when she was 66 years old, and she gave me chills as she snarled, spat and sang through her ageless repertoire like she was 20. I kept having to remind myself to shoot ... and I’ll never forget this one.”

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Break on Through

Rock biopics to headbang to in a darkened, air-conditioned room.

By David Riedel

The Runaways

Dakota Fanning isn’t quite right as Cherie Currie, but Kristen Stewart was born to play Joan Jett, and her performance as the future superstar leaps off the screen while Fanning kinda stands there looking uncomfortable. Also weird: Alia Shawkat plays the bassist, but not the real Runaways bassist, who wouldn’t allow her name to be used in the movie. There are worse things than hearing “Cherry Bomb” approximately 40 times in one sitting, though.

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The Doors

As a big fan of The Doors’ music, I saw this Oliver Stone flick about six times during its initial release. I saw it a year ago (for the first time in 20 years) and realized Jim Morrison (Val Kilmer) was a serious asshole: drunk, violent, with a huge ego and low self-esteem.

Just the kind of person you want to spend 140 minutes watching. Kilmer is perfect, and Kyle MacLachlan is a solid Ray Manzarek, but viewing The Doors made me feel like I did when I watched Reality Bites as an adult: Every character in this movie is a dick.

ROCKETMAN Get on Up

You’ve never heard of this 2014 James Brown biopic because Universal let it come out and take a shit (release date: August 1, a movie dead zone). But Get on Up is worth a watch for Chadwick Boseman’s super-committed portrayal of Brown. I’d say he chews the scenery, but that’s not really fair; I’m pretty sure James Brown did chew scenery (I made that up). Get on Up gives you a chance to compare Boseman’s performance here to other famous men he’s played (Thurgood Marshall and Jackie Robinson), and there are more time jumps than in a Tarantino film.

Get on Up is a hoot, Boseman an excellent godfather of soul.

Amadeus

Ah, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The first rock star. I know it’s cliché, but think about it: He had weird hair,

was possibly mentally ill, drank too much, wrote music that made people scratch their heads and died young.

Tom Hulce is an appropriately impudent Mozart, F. Murray Abraham a comically fiendish Antonio Salieri, and Jeffrey Jones is a riot as Emperor Joseph II (but the less said about Jones the better). If you drink each time Mozart’s wife Constanze (Elizabeth Berridge) yells “Wolfie” you’ll be dead in an hour.

Straight Outta Compton

Any movie that prompts a tweet from MC Ren that goes like this: “Man fuck these bitches at universal pictures leaving me out the movie trailers tryin to rewrite history,” deserves a look. Also worth noting in this bigscreen version of the N.W.A. story: How Ice Cube’s son O’Shea Jackson Jr. looks exactly like his father (whom he plays) but also doesn’t. It’s trippy!

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Everyone has forgotten about this Beatles-before-they-were-famous story, and for good reason: It’s crap.

Nah, I’m kidding. It’s highly watchable, and it’s the one time you’ll look at Stephen Dorff without wishing you could punch him in the face. He plays Stu Sutcliffe, Beatles bassist and real-life

BFF to John Lennon (Ian Hart, quite good) and the film focuses on their relationship with photographer Astrid Kirchherr (Sheryl Lee). Greg Dulli, the tone-deaf Afghan Whigs singer, does Hart’s singing, and that’s the only demerit Backbeat earns.

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ecause the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody made a bajillion dollars and inexplicably won some awards, every other movie story I’m reading lately is about some hotter, sexier, music biopic in the works.

Rocketman, the Elton John flick—directed by Dexter Fletcher, who has a long and tortured history with Bohemian Rhapsody—recently hit screens, but if there’s anything I like less than Elton John’s melodies it’s Bernie Taupin’s lyrics. (“If I was a sculptor, but then again, no.” GTFOHWTS.) So consider that one skipped until awards season, when I’ll be forced to watch it.

And for that matter, skip Bohemian Rhapsody. Rami Malek’s it-almost-works performance as Freddie Mercury aside, the movie is standard music biopic cookie-cutter crud: humble beginnings, bright lights/big city, fall from grace, eventual gaining of wisdom and self-respect, complete with a lot of diversions from the real band’s story. (Normally I don’t harp on alternative film facts, but making believe Queen broke up for a few years before Live Aid is some bullshit.) Plus, Gwilym Lee, as Queen guitarist Brian May, didn’t get the props he deserved for nailing May from top to bottom.

In the near future, assuming Satan still holds the strings, we’ll be set upon by movies about John Lennon and Yoko Ono (no one liked John and Yoko together in real life, but sure, the punters’ll queue up for the big screen version); Lynyrd Skynyrd (spoiler: a bunch of them die in a plane crash); Journey (working title: Milking It); and if Roger Daltrey’s memoir is to be believed, he’s gonna make a movie about The Who’s drummer Keith Moon. (Maybe the screenwriter will reveal Pete Townshend used all those synthesizer loops as click tracks for Moon because the guy couldn’t keep time.)

So while you’re waiting with bated breath for California Über Alles: The Jello Biafra Story (I wish), here are 11 music biopics that have at least one good thing in them (though I can’t call these recommendations; I’m just not that cruel).

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I find this movie less enchanting than most critics—another flick that leaves out or changes verifiable (major) facts—but it still has its moments.

Plus, N.W.A. was great; they deserve a spin a month.

Sid and Nancy

Now here’s a story that should be hard to watch: Talentless Sex Pistol Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman) and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb) do a lot of smack, he stabs her (maybe on purpose; no one knows for sure in real life and the movie leaves it vague), she dies and then he finds her alive in a taxi that takes them to heaven, or at least off the studio backlot. Oldman and Webb burn up the screen, and director Alex Cox makes heroin look really appealing … until the violent death, anyway. If you can handle squalid, Sid and Nancy is for you.

All Eyez on Me

For a guy who never acted before, Demetrius Shipp Jr. plays the hell out of Tupac Shakur. If only the movie were up to his level. The dialogue is flat, the drama is predictable, even for a story we (mostly) know and everything takes f-o-r-e-v-e-r to happen.

By the hour mark, I was praying for Tupac’s demise, which I’m certain is not the reaction the filmmakers want from the audience. But Shipp makes it almost worthwhile. Almost.

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Paul Dano, as young Beach Boy Brian Wilson, can’t save this picture from John Cusack, as old(er) Brian Wilson. Cusack’s inherent Cusackiness makes for a mannered Wilson, though he should be given points for trying. There are some artsy touches here—the opening sound montage, for example, and some nifty camera work, especially during the 1960s stuff—but otherwise this is standard biopic fare. Too bad. It’s nice to see Dano successfully step outside his inherent Paul Danoness. He really nails Brian the younger.

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“Dave,” you say, “This isn’t a real biopic.” No, it isn’t. But it’s better than many, many biopics out there (let’s start with Bohemian Rhapsody), and mostly because it sends everything up that came before it. Unfortunately, just because it’s a send-up doesn’t mean it’s good. It means most other biopics are bad. But John C. Reilly is fun, and because he’s Cox, it’s maybe worth ponying up the $2.99 it costs to rent on Amazon Prime.

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The service at Carmine’s wasn’t what I would call bad, but it wasn’t particularly attentive, considering there were only two other full tables during our visit. It’s something that I don’t think twice about

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All the same, it’s interesting to see how having a toddler at the table impacts the kind of service you get at some places. There’s a quote from Joss Whedon’s show Firefly about how you truly meet someone when you hold them over the edge of a volcano. In the dining world, you truly meet a

try to avoid bringing my gastronaut-in-training when I visit restaurants like Carmine’s (2477 Fort Union Blvd., 801-9484468, carmines.restaurant) because it’s clearly designed for an older, dare I say, more sophisticated clientele. That being said, sometimes a guy just wants to take his family out for an Italian meal that didn’t come from Olive Garden. When visiting an establishment that runs a bit closer to the fancy end of the spectrum, my family and I stick to our established dining protocols. We show up before the dinner rush and help our little buckaroo stay on her best behavior, which typically makes our attempt to respect everyone else’s dining experience successful.

dessert. You can never go wrong with tiramisu ($9), so that’s where we headed. It had come widely hyped online, and we were looking forward to a sharp and sweet end to our meal.

But then the dessert arrived in a plastic cup, I shit you not. My guess is that they were currently out of the dessert glassware that I had seen pictured online, but the fast food presentation of this most classic of Italian desserts was laughably out of place— we had just eaten smoked salmon stuffed ravioli topped with caviar, after all. Flavor-wise, this cup-otiramisu was a little dry, but nothing overly egregious. It was just strangely incongruous with the vibe of the restaurant, making me once again think that the back of house consiglieri were sending us a not-so-subtle message about our own weirdly incongruous presence in their domain.

Despite a few odd service issues that I’d chalk up to an off day while the owner was off site, the food at Carmine’s is magnificent—even when it inexplicably arrives in a plastic cup. CW

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Carmine’s offers up some truly excellent Italian dishes—but leave the kids at home.

You can tell it’s going to be good because it looks the way lasagna ought to look—thick and slightly slouched as it buckles from a ponderous bulk of meat, cheese and red sauce. A few bites into this Italian staple, and it’s clear that this is a dish with a heritage—it’s obviously the heir to a forgotten royal bloodline, fractured and scattered by conflict, betrayal and time itself.

The fettuccine allo scoglio, so named for the seafood mixture that is typically found among the rocks of coastal bluffs—think mussels, clams and shrimp—comes complete with half a lobster tail and is quite literally swimming in a garlicky butter sauce that really makes you understand why seafood and clarified butter are such good friends. This is a dish that is both fun to eat and every bit as decadent as it sounds.

I was a little nervous about the ravioli beforehand, but much of this apprehension comes from the fact that ravioli dishes at most higher end Italian places come with stingy portions. I didn’t find that at Carmine’s. This creamy beast of a dish comes served with a dollop of caviar and thin slices of smoked salmon— it’s a mainline of pure, uncut luxury.

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when the restaurant is slammed, but when it’s evident that the staff has things well in hand, I start to wonder why the server sounds so put out when I ask for menu recommendations. It’s clearly not an issue of not having any exciting food to recommend—Carmine’s is packing some serious firepower on the menu—which led me to believe that the bored delivery was a byproduct of my decision to bring a kid to the table.

Hiccups like that aside, the food here is fantastic. Their pizza oven wasn’t operational during our visit—Chef Carmine was out of town, and pizza production comes to a standstill when he’s not on the premises. It was unfortunate, but it also gives me an excuse to come back and sample the pizza menu.

Carmine’s menu is arranged in courses—appetizers, primi piatti and secondi piatti—which can make for a fun way to create your own traditional Italian meal. The pasta menu ended up trumping the appetizers and meat courses for us, so we decided to split a three-course meal that included lasagna classica ($22), fettucine allo scoglio ($32) and salmon-stuffed ravioli ($28). No one at the table regretted this decision.

The lasagna, pictured above, arrives on a plate emblazoned with the red, green and white of the Italian flag, proudly flaunting its rich pedigree.

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The best thing about all this lovely weather we’ve been having is that it typically signifies the beginning of our local food event season. Kicking things off this year is Tastemakers (tastemakersutah.com), an annual celebration of local eateries and distilleries that takes place at The Gateway (400 W. 100 South). The Tastemakers’ pavilion features food and drink from Rye, Fav Bistro, Campos Coffee and Eva’s Bakery among several others.

Those up for a bit of a jaunt around town can also visit Bar George, Salt & Honey, Spencer’s and Squatters on the Tastemakers tasting tour. The event also features live music, and a portion of the ticket proceeds helps support Utah Foster Care. It’s one of the culinary highlights of the year, and it’s a great way to get out and see what our local restaurants have cooking. The event takes place on Thursday, June 13, and Friday, June 14, from 5 to 10 p.m.

Summer menu at Oasis Café

Oasis Café (151 S. 500 East, 801-322-0404, oasiscafeslc.com) was doing plant-based and locallysourced food way before it was cool, and it has remained one of Salt Lake City’s hidden gems. The staff recently revealed plans for their summer menu changes, and they haven’t lost their ability to keep things interesting. The Oasis steak sandwich made with shaved tenderloin, horseradish aioli and two slices of melted provolone cheese is a lunch option that will keep you satisfied through any mid-afternoon munchies you might have. On the lighter side, the blackened ahi with sticky rice and Asian slaw is cool, refreshing and packs a spice rub that offers enough heat to keep you awake. Check out Oasis for some primo patio seating, delectable summer menu items and snag your next beachside read at Golden Braid Books next door.

Jade Market at Central Ninth closes

While looking for a snack in the Central Ninth neighborhood, I happened upon a closure notice from the owners of Jade Market. After taking to social media, I found their official closure announcement via Facebook, which states that the owners are recommitting their efforts to their downtown location (353 W. 200 South) and their newly christened delivery service. Jade Market operated its Central Ninth location for nearly three years, and their presence as a local market heralded the development boom taking place throughout the downtown Salt Lake neighborhood. Those who have grown accustomed to having Mamachari kombucha on tap are still in luck—the closure notice claimed that their ’booch tap would be operational at the 200 South store soon.

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ull-flavored IPAs aren’t falling out of vogue just because the temperature is rising. It doesn’t matter if it’s thick and chewy, bold or robust; if you find that brilliant malt and hop combo, you’ll do anything to keep chasing that beer dragon.

These might not be summer sippers, but they’ll satisfy your cravings like only a pub version of a black-diamond run could.

Templin Family (TF) Brewing Northern Red Pale Ale: This beer begins with a nose so hoppy that it explodes into the room. Full of caramelized sugars, grapefruit and pine, the scent is one of enticement and intoxication as thick streams of pastrylike malt aromas engulf the senses. On the tongue, the beer opens with a hoppy blast that is surprising, even given the hoppy

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The finish is mainly hops, which lingers after the sugars die off in the aftertaste, creating a pungent bitterness that reminds me of biting into orange zest and bitter greens.

Overall: This amazing 7.5% beer takes you into barleywine territory, and manages to transcend what could be viewed as a simple malt bomb. Even though it contains healthy amounts of sugars and even more massive hops, none of the ingredients overpowers the others, and they instead work together in lovely syncopation.

2 Row Brewing Bullet 4 My Haze Bros: Utah’s favorite IPA-making machine is at it again with yet another brilliantly concocted New England style IPA. This latest edition to their portfolio pours a cloudy dark yellow color that leans toward orange in hue, with a thick and foamy two-finger stark white head that has a solid amount of staying power. Wow, the citrus hops are strong and fruity—like sticking your nose into a sliced

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orange—yet the caramel and malty graham cracker come through to add fantastic balance accompanying the mix of pineapple, mango, grapefruit, dried apricots and pineapple chunks. The herbal and citrusy hops provide a mild spice trail, keeping this bad boy sweet and fruity-smelling.

Taste-wise, the beer picks up right where the aroma leaves off with fresh juicy hops, tangerine, orange peel and grapefruit. The hops selection also adds a slight pine and herbal flavor profile. All of these build on a nice bedrock of caramel, honey, pineapple and mango. Then, botanical hops wrap up the hops assault; earthy herbs like spruce and spices and pepper keep the 7.6% ABV hidden, and work well with the malt back-

bone to allow the hops to dance on the tongue in a prickly manner.

Overall: This is an outstanding beer. It’s nice that 2 Row has the ability to obtain hop varieties that don’t necessarily play to the usual flavors. While this beer does offer popular and familiar essences, it provides the drinker with challenges to their preconceived notions of what a hazy IPA can be.

Both of these beers are highly desirable by beer nerds from all over the state. I’d start a hunt for them as soon as yesterday.

Their respective breweries are your best bet, but I’ve also seen them at places like Beerhive Pub, The Bayou, Beer Bar, Dick N’ Dixie’s and Slackwater if that’s more helpful. As always, cheers! CW

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Here, the motto is “Fresh. Fast. Friendly.” That’s exactly what you’ll get at this SLC sandwich stop, which serves up hot and steamy creations, including their signature “A Wreck” sandwich, with salami, roast beef, turkey, ham and Swiss cheese. Aside from delicious sandwiches, they also dish up fresh Mediterranean salad (grilled chicken, chickpeas, red peppers and feta) as well as savory soups and hearty chili. Multiple locations, potbelly.com

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Here, farm-fresh and in-season cuisine using locally sourced and produced ingredients fills the menu. It’s best to go as a group, as the dishes are served family-style— hence the restaurant’s name. Entrées like roasted chicken, Utah trout and grilled hangar steak are prepared in a no-nonsense, simple but sensational style. We’re darn jealous of you, Provo. 102 N. University Ave., Provo, 801-373-8000, communalrestaurant.com

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Café Rio

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150 South 400 East, SLC | 801-322-3733 www.freewheelerpizza.com

“Freeee meal!” Ah, those two glorious words are like music to the ears of all those who turn in a complete punch card at Café Rio. The Mexican grill started from humble beginnings in 1997 with a small shop in St. George. Since then, the concept spread like wildfire with more than 100 locations across the United States. The salads are heavenly—or, as they call it, “unfreshingbelievable.”

Create your own from options like shredded chicken, sweet pork, chile-roasted beef, grilled steak, black or pinto beans, cilantro-lime rice, cheese, guacamole, pico, jalapeño slices and much more—all piled high on a bed of lettuce and tortilla base. Oh, and don’t forget the creamy tomatillo dressing. Multiple locations, caferio.com

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album goes all over, from songs about “rocky, passionate, sometimes violent relationships” that question pain, joy and love (“If I Didn’t Have You”), to a man imagining his final will as a way to give parts of his body away, to be used by others for good and for justice (“When I Die”), and a country song of sorts about someone realizing he’s been putting his hope in so many things when all along what fulfilled him was his simple, easy love of playing guitar.

Beyond their consistent penchant for crafting wild, heart-aching tales, their love of entertaining on the stage is as steady as it always has been, too. Even with their newfound minimalist aesthetic, Cone asserts, “We definitely haven’t lost the ambition of energetically entertaining an audience. We’ve just become much more pointed, efficient.”

And that efficiency comes from all that time spent together. “After playing for a long time with the same people, you really learn each other’s strengths and weaknesses, and using that knowledge, [you’re] able to write better songs, as well as have tighter live performances,” Cone says.

Cone fondly remembers a time spent in a Park City greenroom with a touring bluegrass band, where the band asked Hectic Hobo, “How is it that after being together so long, you guys still seem like you like hanging out with each other?” An equally valid question could have been, “How do they keep finding inspiration together after all this time?” But it seems that the question is answered by simply inverting it: They’ve kept creating together because of all the inspiration they each bring to the table. As Cone puts it, “The songs keep pouring out, and unless we learn them, record them and perform them, they’ll disappear into the ether, and we can’t have that.” CW

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t’s not surprising that a band like Hectic Hobo—whose songs are less something played than they are stories spun into the air—would have a strong, real-life narrative arc of their own. The Salt Lake Citybased folk-rocking, storytelling masters have moved and morphed to great degrees in their 10 years together. Starting out with just two members (vocalist and guitarist Hasen Cone and drummer Todd Johnson) in 2009, the group has gone from a septet identifying as “Wild West gypsy-rock” to a quartet whose experience has allowed them to refocus on a pointed, Americana sound.

Obviously, they’ve experienced a lot together over the release of four full-length albums, with their fifth due June 14. According to the band’s frontman and main lyricist Cone, although their sound, focus and skill has grown, the reasons they write and play music, and the subjects that inspire them, haven’t changed a bit.

“Pretty much all of our songs have been stories about people,” Cone explains. “Some happy, some sad, often characters who are kind of out there mentally, living in their own crazy minds. I relate to that and believe that we often think everyone else is normal, but we have all these problems.” Their music calls to mind true folk music. They almost engage in balladry, tunes that reflect the minstrel style that has long been entertainment for and by simple, everyday folk. Each song is an entertaining and engaging tale, with themes of tragedy, comedy, joi de vivre, love and loves lost, making everything swirl into a spirited, engrossing listening experience.

It makes sense that in the beginning, with these big stories on their minds, that they went for equally riotous, complex sounds— most riotous on 2017’s Died on the Fourth of July, and most complex and subtly layered on 2014’s Our Medicine Will Do You In. When they were at seven members, Cone says, “We were going for a gypsy-folk-rock-party-orchestra thing. A lot of our songs had that minor key, somewhat Eastern European gypsy feel, but also mixed with old-fashioned folk and murder ballad elements.” But as time went on, they streamlined things. Cone notes that though their lyrics were always interesting and good, they were getting buried under the “melee and mayhem” of their instruments. Leaving behind the accordion, fiddle and trumpet they’d utilized for years to fill out their sound, they’ve stripped things down to a four-piece setup with guitar, bass, keys and drums. This change has not only allowed each member to shine more fully, but for the band to find a place for themselves in a less hyphenated identity: plain and simple folk Americana. “We’ve kept the storytelling element,” Cone says, “which to me is the definition of folk, even if it doesn’t necessarily sound like campfire music.”

This is definitely apparent on their upcoming full-length, Master & Slave. The title track was inspired by a drawing Cone bought from a street artist in the Mexican town of Hautulco, of a personified Death and the devil sitting under a tree, having a conversation.

“Death is trying to convince Satan that he deserves more respect, that he also has powers,” Cone explains. “In our version [of the conversation], the devil listens patiently, wisely, then puts cocky Death back in his place.” Besides this striking image of a song, the

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Tacocat, The Paranoyds

With a band name engineered for internet meme dominance, Seattle quartet Tacocat could be forgiven for sticking to their snarkpunk roots. But Emily Nokes, Lelah Maupin,

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Bree McKenna and Eric Randall have matured all the same, blending their trademark lyrical subversion with sunny pop blitzkriegs on their new album This Mess Is a Place.

Tacocat’s first release on Sub Pop Records skews tighter and brighter than rowdy recent releases NVM (2014) and Lost Time (2016), even as new singles “Hologram” and “The Joke Is Life” wallow in the digital exhaustion of 21st-century life. But negativity is but a bump in the road for Tacocat, as they spin political fears and social anxieties into selfhelp anthems for the coming 2020 election.

On “Crystall Ball,” Nokes sighs, “What a time to barely be alive.” On “Little Friend,” she spouts, “The constant is change, endless and free.” And on the otherwise-playful “Grains of Salt,” she enlists her bandmates in a shouted group chorus that brings vague social media uplift to sweaty, punk-show life: “Don’t forget to remember who the fuck you are!” Don’t sleep on opener The Paranoyds, another gritty, garage-birthed four-piece running punk rock through a doo-wop, surf rock, and horror flick filter. (Nick McGregor) Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court, 7 p.m., $13 presale; $15 day of show, all ages, kilbycourt.com

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Sue Foley himself a capable and lasting artist in his own right, with more than 25 years in the business, he is definitely key to hip-hop folklore for the simple fact that he is able to carry on the legacy of deceased legend Mac Dre, whose stories continue to enthrall fans 15 years after his tragic passing. Nickatina’s latest release Pisces is more of the same Bay Area mood music, powered by the cuts “The Mecca Dawn” and “4 Y’all Junkies,” in which he doesn’t stray too far from the formula that put him and Dre into the consciousness of rap fans decades ago. If you’re a rap fan who enjoys classic American cars and can’t stand auto-tuned crooning and form-fitting clothes, you’ll probably fit right in with this crowd. Will someone pick out their ’fro and sport an oversized airbrushed T-shirt for nostalgia’s sake? Who knows? It’s a possibility. Also performing is fellow San Francisco rapper J. Lately, along with Utah’s own acts Chino Foreal, Cig Burna and Zazilla. (Keith L. McDonald) Soundwell, 149 W. 200 South, 8 p.m., $25, 21+, soundwellslc.com

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Previously known as Dre Dog, San Francisco’s Andre L. Adams (aka Andre Nickatina) has made quite the name for himself over the years—without the same major label backing of his peers. His music has always been well-received in the Bay Area and the West Coast in general, where he gained a strong following through unfiltered raps, slapping beats and a unique brand of bravado to call his own. Although Nickatina has proven

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The blues come in many hues, as affirmed by the opening day lineup for the fifth annual Utah Blues Festival—a diverse and dynamic celebration of a genre that reaches back to American music’s roots, even while retaining its contemporary credence. Headliner Tab Benoit offers ample evidence; with 20 albums released over a 25-year career, he’s mastered the sound of the Mississippi Delta and established an impressive niche as a gifted guitarist in the process. His multiple honors—two B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Awards, four Blues Music Awards and induction into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame—testify to his credibility and conviction. Another notable performer, singer and guitarist Sue Foley, is no slacker herself.

Her string of 15 albums, frequent guest appearances and tireless touring regimen has reaped some 17 Maple Blues Awards in her native Canada, and three Trophees de Blues de France, as well as several Blues Music Award nominations. Likewise, Jason Ricci and the Bad Kind add their own bona fides. Cited as one of the best harp players of his generation, Ricci has graced albums by such notables as Johnny Winter, Walter Trout, Joe Louis Walker, Mark Hummel and Cedric Burnside (among others), and was named Best Harmonica Player at the 2010 Blues Music Awards, and performed at the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. A lineup like this gracing Salt Lake City provides ample reason to rejoice in the blues.

(Lee Zimmerman) The Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main, 5–10 p.m., $35, all ages, utahbluesfest.org

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“Stoner rock” is quite the loaded name for a genre, especially for a band that’s worked endlessly over the past 20 years, releasing seven albums since their inception in 1998 and working with multiple member changes. Dead Meadow, instead, feel more like a heavy psych band, with steely, whiney guitars at the forefront that provide a marked pulse unique to the genre, and bass so low in the background it’s hard to tell it’s there. Although effects pedals create a rich swirl of sound, Dead Meadow is caught up in their own rhythm more than anything else. Early releases like their 2002 selftitled album certainly turn to the wooziness of psychedelia, and songs are altogether more lightweight than the heavier, steelier sound that shows up on their later albums. The changes in sound, as with many bands that have been around for more than two decades, are probably the result of lineup changes.

For their 2018 and most recent release, The Nothing They Need, the group reunited with all the original founding members—Jason Simon on vocals and guitars, Steve Kille on bass and sitar and Mark Laughlin on drums. Their upcoming show at Metro will give folks a chance to hear their melodic, nostalgic and more stripped-down album surely among some of their weedier, steelier older material.

Locals Lord Vox open with their own brand of melancholic psychedelia. (Erin Moore) Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, 8 p.m., $15, 21+, metromusichall.com

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TUESDAY 6/18

Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Brain Bagz

Brian Tristan—aka Kid Congo Powers—might not be much of a household name, but he’s been remarkably successful at finding odd jobs and thriving in the weirder, cobwebbed corners of the rock world. Over the course of the past 40 years, the California guitarist has racked up a startlingly impressive résumé. He presided over the Ramones fan club during the band’s ’70s heyday, co-founded influential post-punk act The Gun Club along with frontman Jeffrey Lee Pierce, contributed to some of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ most beloved albums in the late ’80s and early ’90s, and briefly appeared on the acclaimed Angels of Light album How I Loved You in 2001. Since 2006, Kid Congo has struck out on his own, fronting his band The Pink Monkey Birds to concoct a scuzzy, looselimbed take on garage punk that’s reminiscent of his short-lived stint with The Cramps in the early ’80s. Joining Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds at The Urban Lounge is Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, a supergroup that brings together power players of the Denver gothic country scene to construct hellish visions of all-American mayhem. Local psychpunk act Brain Bagz opens. (Nic Renshaw) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 8 p.m., $18 presale, $20 day of show, 21+, theurbanloungeslc.com

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Ashley Hess + Logan Johson (Velour) Brother Chunky (Hog Wallow Pub) Jake & THe Heist (Rye) Leo Kottke (Egyptian Theatre) Matthew Bashaw (Lake Effect) Nashville Unplugged (O.P. Rockwell) The Ataris + Wicked Bears (Urban Lounge) The Bee + Surprise, Surprise (Metro Music Hall)

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FRIDAY 6/14 LIVE MUSIC

Aquaria (Metro Music Hall) Carl Carbonell + The Psychsomatics + Lyrical Assailant + Capital Jackies (Urban Lounge) Hearts of Steele (Outlaw Saloon) Hectic Hobo (The State Room) see p. 59 Indigo Waves (Velour) Jeanne Rettos Logan (Woodenshoe Park)

Jordan Matthew Young (Gracie’s) Kenz & the Golden Age (Harp and Hound) Korene Greenwood (HandleBar) Leo Kottke (Egyptian Theatre) Live Local Music (A Bar Named Sue) Live Music on the Plaza Deck (Snowbird) Los Hellcaminos (The Spur) Matt Calder + Bobby Joe Holeman Blues (Lake Effect) Parrot Nation - A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett (Royal) Part 14 + DJ Solo + VV$ Vanta + Keshi + Rain (The Complex) Sophia Dion (Legends) Stonefed (Hog Wallow Pub) Tacocat + The Paranoyds (Kilby Court) see p. 60 Thunderfist + Wey! (Garage on Beck) Utah Blues Festival w/ Tab Benoit + Sue Foley + Jason Ricci and The Bad Kind (The Gallivan Center) see p. 60

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All-Request Gothic + Industrial + EBM + and Dark Wave w/ DJ Vision (Area 51) Ariana Grande vs. Taylor Swift (The Depot) Dance Music (Chakra Lounge) DJ Juggy (Bourbon House) DJ Sneeky Long (Twist) Dueling Pianos (Tavernacle) Funkin’ Friday w/ DJ Rude Boy & Bad Boy Brian (Johnny’s on Second) Funky Friday w/ DJ Godina (Gracie’s) Hot Noise (The Red Door) New Wave ’80s w/ DJ Courtney (Area 51) Reggaet vs. Hip Hop (Sky)

Although they weren’t always appreciated for being innovative or inventive, Alabama’s massive accumulation of country chart-toppers gained them a mainstream respect they decidedly deserve—and they’re celebrating this history now, 50 years later. Not that they’ve been ignored; since rechristening themselves as Alabama in 1977— shedding their original handle “Wildcountry”—they’ve chalked up a remarkable 30 No. 1 singles, including such fan favorites as “Love in the First Degree,” “Dixieland Delight” and “Mountain Music.” Seven platinum albums and sales of some 75 million records further confirm their popularity. Although they went on hiatus in 2003, their subsequent reunion tours beginning in 2010 helped reaffirm their standing as one of the most popular country bands in history. Indeed, Alabama is often credited with establishing the idea that an entire country group can have one fundamental focus, emulating the model set by rock and pop. With three of its original members still at the fore—Jeff Cook (lead guitar, keyboards, fiddle, backing vocals), Randy Owen (lead vocals, rhythm guitar) and Teddy Gentry (bass, backing vocals)—they branded themselves as an essential self-contained ensemble, setting the precedent for many of the popular country bands that followed, including Rascal Flatts, Florida Georgia Line, Lady Antebellum, Little Big Town and Old Dominion. That’s no small achievement, especially considering the fact that country music once only allowed solitary singers to dominate the spotlight. Credit Alabama for broadening those borders. (Lee Zimmerman) The Maverick Center, 3200 Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 7 p.m., $59.50-$129.50, maverikcenter.com

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SATURDAY 6/15 LIVE MUSIC

Alabama + Exile (Maverik Center) see above Aly & AJ + Armors (The Complex) Andre Nickatina + Chino Foreal + Cigburna + Zazilla (Soundwell) see p. 60 An Evening With Stonefed (Urban Lounge) BD Howes (Park City Mountain) Boom Chick (Club 90) Boys Ranch + Static Republic (Garage on Beck) DJ Butch Wolfhorn + DJ Coop (Royal) Funk & Gonzo (Johnny’s on Second) Futurebirds + Salem Witch Doctors (State Room) Groovement (Hog Wallow Pub) Hearts of Steele (Outlaw Saloon) Joy Spring Band (Sugar House Coffee) Junction City Chopper Show (The Yes Hell) Justin Howl (HandleBar) Leo Kottke (Egyptian Theatre) Live Local Music (A Bar Named Sue) Live Music (Lake Effect) Live Music on the Plaza Deck (Snowbird) Live Trio (The Red Door) Melody Pulsipher (Harp and Hound) Nadia Gold + Marmalade Chill (Lake Effect)

Pinguin Mofex + Strange Familia + Mojave Nomads + oh!no?ok. (Velour) Shuffle (The Spur) Spazmatics (Liquid Joe’s) Terence Hansen Trio (Gracie’s) The Mindless + Version Two + The 1-2 Manys + Suburban hell Kill (Ice Haüs) The Sardines + Say Hey + Valentine & The Regard (Kilby Court) Billy The Kid (Downstairs) Dance Music (Chakra Lounge)

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DJ Handsome Hands (Bourbon House) DJ Latu (The Green Pig) DJ Soul Pause (Twist) Gothic + Industrial + Dark ’80s w/ DJ Courtney (Area 51) Dueling Pianos (Tavernacle) Scandalous Saturdays w/ DJ Logik (Lumpy’s Highland) Sky Saturdays w/ Kid Conrad (Sky) Top 40 + EDM + Alternative w/ DJ Twitch (Area 51)

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Bone Pile (Park Silly Sunday Market) Boom Chick (Club 90) Dead Meadow + Lord Vox (Metro Music Hall) see p. 62 Kate Vogel (Legends) Live Music on the Plaza Deck (Snowbird) Patrick Ryan (The Spur)

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MONDAY 6/17 LIVE MUSIC

Amanda Johnson (The Spur) Brett Benton (Lake Effect) Death Bells + Division of Doubt + Bad Charm (Urban Lounge) Operators + Doomsquad (Kilby Court)

DJ, OPEN MIC, SESSION, PIANO LOUNGE Industry Night Mondays w/ DJ Juggy (Trails)

Monday Night Blues & More Jam hosted by Robby’s Blues Explosion (Hog Wallow Pub) Monday Night Open Jazz Session w/ David Halliday & the JVQ (Gracie’s) Open Blues Jam w/ West Temple Taildraggers (The Green Pig) Open Mic (The Cabin) Ruma Libre (Noches de Verano en Parque de la Ciudad)

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Located around 900 South and Main Street, Duffy’s Tavern is, for me, a dive bar for when you’re tired of going to the other dive bars and seeing everyone you know. It’s a regulars bar, for sure—but not being a regular, I feel the ease of being a stranger there. The patrons and bartenders chat among themselves, one of them speaking animatedly about the upcoming Sleep show at Metro with a patron. I remember that the last time I was here, my older friend, a metalhead who grew up in Dallas in the ’90s, said he’d had some good conversations about metal with the guy. Another bartender slides up to me and asks what I’ll take, and upon letting me know there’s no Pabst, she offers up Bud, Bud Light, Miller, Miller Light, Coors Light and finally, upon seeing my furrowed brow, a Coors in the stubby bottle. I don’t love Coors, but I do love those little bottles. Despite the presence of the metalhead bartender, the music varies: First what sounds like, maybe, potentially Metallica (I’m unfamiliar with the genre!), then some country, and then, as I settle into a booth where neon shines dully on the surface of its Formica tabletop, Barbra Streisand’s “Funny Face.” The walls and ceiling are plastered in signs of all kinds: neon, vinyl decals, aluminum traffic signs. Above me, a stubby bottle like the one in my hand spins and glows. Here and there are shamrocks, to remind us that Duffy is a Scottish name for an Americanized Scottish tavern. (Erin Moore) 932 S. Main, 801-355-6401, facebook.com/duffystavernslc

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the 1960s, Gemini musician Brian Wilson began writing and recording bestselling songs with his band the Beach Boys.

A seminal moment in his development happened while he was listening to his car radio in August 1963. A tune he had never heard before came on: “Be My Baby” by the Ronettes. Wilson was so excited he pulled over onto the shoulder of the road and stopped driving so he could devote his full attention to what he considered a shockingly beautiful work of art. “I started analyzing all the guitars, pianos, bass, drums and percussion,” he told The New York Times. “Once I got all those learned, I knew how to produce records.” I suspect a pivotal moment like this could unfold for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. Be alert!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): My dear Cancerian, your soul is so rich and complicated, so many-splendored and mysterious, so fertile and generous. I’m amazed you can hold all the poignant marvels you contain. Isn’t it sometimes a struggle for you to avoid spilling over? Like a river during heavy rains? And yet every so often there come moments when you go blank; when your dense, luxuriant wonders go missing. That’s OK! It’s all part of the Great Mystery. You need these fallow phases. And I suspect that the present time might be such a time. If so, here’s a fragment of a poem by Cecilia Woloch to temporarily use as your motto: “I have nothing to offer you now save my own wild emptiness.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As much as I love logic and champion rational thinking, I’m granting you a temporary exemption from their supremacy.

To understand what’s transpiring in the coming weeks, and to respond with intelligence, you will have to transcend logic and reason. They will simply not be sufficient guides as you wrestle and dance with the Great Riddle that will be visiting. You will need to unleash the full power of your intuition. You must harness the wisdom of your body, and the information it reveals to you via physical sensations. You will benefit from remembering at least some of your nightly dreams, and inviting them to play on your consciousness throughout the day.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): For the sake of your emotional and spiritual health, you might need to temporarily withdraw or retreat from one or more of your alliances. But I recommend that you don’t do anything drastic or dramatic. Refrain from harsh words and sudden breaks. For now, seal yourself away from influences that are stirring up confusion so you can concentrate on reconnecting with your own deepest truths. Once you’ve done that for a while, you’ll be primed to find helpful clues about where to go next in managing your alliances.

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19. Time for una siesta 20. Miner's haul 21. Anita nicknamed "The Jezebel of Jazz" 22. "____ Go Again" (1987 #1 song) 23. Opposite of 'neath 24. Note after fa 25. According to 26. Roman 151 28. "S-t-e-e-r-i-k-e t-h-r-e-e-e!!"

31. Hanker (for) 34. Hairy Halloween rentals 35. Indian flatbreads 37. "____ Just Not That Into You" 38. Patron saint of chastity 39. Bar called O'Donnell's, most likely 41. "If you prick ____ we not bleed?": Shakespeare 42. "D-i-i-s-h t-h-e d-i-i-r-t!!"

46. Serpentine swimmer 47. Exec in charge of $$$ 48. Start of many a "Jeopardy!" response 49. Chesapeake ____ 52. Light tennis shots that fall just over the net 54. What parallel lines never do 55. Suffix with Japan or Sudan 56. Record shop stock 57. "I-I'm u-u-u-u-p!!"

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’ve got a list of do’s and don’t’s for you. Do play and have fun more than usual. But don’t indulge in naïve assumptions and infantile emotions that interfere with your ability to see the world as it LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): America’s premier eventologist is Leo-born Adrienne Sioux really is. Do take aggressive action to heal any sense of abandonKoopersmith. When she was going through a hard time in 1991, ment you’re still carrying from the old days. But don’t poison she resolved to buoy her spirits by creating cheerful, splashy new yourself with feelings of blame toward the people who abandoned holidays. Since then she has filled the calendar with over 1,900 you. Do unleash wild flights of fantasy and marvelous speculations new occasions to celebrate. What a perfect way to express her about seemingly impossible futures that maybe aren’t so imposradiant Leo energy! National Splurge Day on June 18 is one of sible. But don’t get so fixated on wild fantasies and marvelous Adrienne’s favorites: a time for revelers to be extra kind and speculations that you neglect to embrace the subtle joys that are generous to themselves. That’s a happy coincidence, because actually available to you right now. my analysis of the astrological omens suggests that this is a perfect activity for you to emphasize during the coming weeks. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “At times, so many memories trample my heart that it becomes impossible to know just what I’m feeling and why,” writes Piscean VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, poet Mark Nepo. While that experience is familiar to everyone, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.” it’s especially common for you Pisceans. That’s the bad news. But Virgo poet Mary Oliver made that statement. It was perfectly here’s the good news: in the coming weeks, your heart is unlikely reasonable for her, given her occupation, though a similar to be trampled by your memories. Hence, you will have an excellent declaration might sound outlandish coming from a non-poet. chance to know exactly what you’re feeling and why. The weight of Nonetheless, I’ll counsel you to inhabit that frame of mind at the past will at least partially dissolve and you’ll be freer than usual least part-time for the next two weeks. I think you’ll benefit in to understand what’s true for you right now, without having to numerous ways from ingesting more than your minimum daily sort through confusing signals about who you used to be. dose of beauty, wonder, enchantment and astonishment.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): We might not have to travel to other planets to find alien life.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran philosopher Michel Foucault articulated a unique defini- Instead of launching expensive missions to other planets, we tion of “criticism.” He said that it doesn’t dish out judgments or could look for exotic creatures here on earth. Astrobiologist hand down sentences. Rather, it invigorates things by encour- Mary Beth Wilhelm is doing just that. Her search has taken her aging them, by identifying dormant potentials and hidden to Chile’s Atacama Desert, whose terrain has resemblances to beauty. Paraphrasing and quoting Foucault, I’ll tell you that this Mars. She’s looking for organisms like those that might have alternate type of criticism ignites useful fires and sings to the once thrived on the Red Planet. In accordance with astrological grass as it grows. It looks for the lightning of possible storms, omens, I invite you to use this idea as a metaphor for your own and coaxes codes from the sea foam. I hope you’ll practice this life. Consider the possibility that you’ve been looking far and kind of “criticism” in the coming weeks, Libra—a criticism that wide for an answer or resource that is actually close at hand. doesn’t squelch enthusiasm and punish mistakes, but instead TAURUS (April 20-May 20): champions the life spirit and helps it ripen.

Philosopher Martin Buber believed that some stories have the power to heal. That’s why he said we should actively seek them SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Help might be hovering nearby, but in an unrecognizable guise. out. Buber’s disabled grandfather once told Buber a story about Rumpled but rich opportunities will appear at the peripheries, though an adored teacher who loved to dance. As the grandfather told the you might not immediately recognize their value. A mess that you story, he got so excited that he rose from his chair to imitate the might prefer to avoid looking at could be harboring a very healthy kind teacher, and suddenly began to hop and dance around in the way of trouble. My advice to you, therefore, is to drop your expectations. his teacher did. From that time on, the grandfather was cured of Be receptive to possibilities that have not been on your radar. Be his disability. What I wish for you in the coming weeks is that you will find stories like that. willing to learn lessons you have neglected or disdained in the past.

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What’s the world’s largest living organism?

A whale? An elephant? Nope, it’s an aspen clone in central Utah that covers just more than 100 acres. The thing has a name, too: Pando, which is Latin for “I spread.” Do you have an aspen in your yard? They are pretty trees but can be annoying when they send out shoots from their roots and make your yard look like you don’t keep up with the weeds. According to the U.S. Forest Service, an aspen reproduces through its roots that grow into many genetically identical trees, resulting in a clone.

Sadly, Pando is dying as the older trees are reaching the end of their 150-year life, and it might be losing its first place ribbon as largest living organism to a fungus in Oregon. This decline in size is natural but scientists and ecologists warn there are very few younger trees emerging in Pando to replace the older ones. Some say it’s the mule deer eating the young, nutritious aspen sprouts. When the old trees die, they lose leaves needed for photosynthesis. Without it, there’s no energy to produce new sprouts. We actually are helping ol’ Pando die, too, because the Forest Service doesn’t allow roads or hunting in the area. Thus, the hungry deer have found a sweet refuge full of yummy sprouts. They have been trying to put up fences to keep the deer out, but the animals jump high and figure out how to get around them. If we killed off these deer, Pando might have a chance.

Near Pando, in the Manti-La Sal National Forest, there has been a massive death of trees. In the last two decades, bark beetles have killed off almost all of the spruce trees in a huge area above Mt. Pleasant to south of Ephraim. The Forest Service is about to embark on one of the largest logging projects in modern history to get that dead wood out and plant conifer seedlings.

The wood will be used to build log homes, chopped for firewood or chipped for bedding used by local turkey growers.

It’s warm outside now and we all love to head to the mountains to hike, bike or simply enjoy the views. When you’re in forested areas, you can see the dead trees almost everywhere. Scientists tell us that bark beetles are on the rise due to climate change. What’s super scary about their never-ending destruction is that forests of dead trees are fodder for wildfires. Remember last fall’s fires in the West? Given the massive rains we’ve had this year, the underbrush is nearly triple the normal size we usually get. Those grasses and brush will dry out, meaning we could be headed for another bad fire season fueled by acres of dead trees. As Smokey Bear says, “Only you can prevent forest fires.” Don’t help start one. n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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Nice Try ... No Cigar Manuel Muniz, 35, of Amsterdam, N.Y., didn’t fool officers of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department with his attempt to avoid the lines at the DMV. Muniz was charged on May 20 with driving an unregistered vehicle after officers quickly identified Muniz’s handwritten inspection sticker as a fake, made out of red construction paper and including a handmade bar code and January 2020 expiration date, WRGB reported. “We appreciate people who take some initiative,” the department posted on its Facebook page, “however this will not work as your vehicle inspection sticker, NICE TRY!”

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Students in a “Global Gourmet” class at Hyatts Middle School in Powell, Ohio, might have taken things a bit too far on May 16 when they allegedly served crepes laced with urine and semen to teachers who were judging a cooking competition. WBNS reported that the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office learned of a video circulating among students purported to show the prank being cooked up and opened an investigation, including lab testing of the food. Charges could include felony assault. Brad Koffel, an attorney representing one of the suspects, cautioned that “we don’t know if urine or semen was ever placed in anyone’s food. ...

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Michael and Kyle Sherwood, father-and-son funeral directors in Cleveland, Ohio, have opened a niche business: Save My Ink Forever, which preserves the tattoos of people who have died as a memorial for their loved ones. The idea for the 2-year-old company came about after a “semi-serious” discussion with a friend about preserving tattoos, according to BBC News. “So we started doing some research and blended a few techniques together,” Kyle Sherwood said, to develop a technique for long-term preservation of excised skin art. The company works with funeral homes in the United States, U.K. and Canada, where the tattoos are surgically removed, then sent to a lab for preservation before being mounted and framed behind UV-protected glass. “People put urns on their mantel and to me, my tattoos are more meaningful than an urn on the mantel,” Sherwood said.

Crime Report A 40th birthday outing ended on a sour note for Neil EdwardsCecil, the birthday boy, and Lee Gaudoin, 31. According to Metro News, after a few drinks, the two stopped for a cheeseburger on April 27 at McDonald’s in Chester, England, where they found a duck walking around the restaurant. Kindly, the men helped the bird find its way out of the building, but they somehow ended up arguing over it, which escalated into a brawl. When officers arrived, Gaudoin lunged at one of them, shouting about how he had saved a duck. Edwards-Cecil tried to jump in and help Gaudoin, only to be pepper-sprayed. Both men were arrested and later admitted to being intoxicated and resisting a constable.

“I am ashamed for the way I have acted,” Edwards-Cecil told the court.

Florida Natasha Ethel Bagley, 42, was arrested on May 28 in connection with an April 2 incident at a Miami Burger King, according to WTVJ. The arrest report stated that Bagley and 27-year-old Genesis Peguero demanded free french fries in the restaurant’s drive-thru. When a restaurant employee refused their request, they parked the car and entered the store, where Peguero hopped over the counter and, with her hands in her pockets suggesting she had a gun, demanded all the contents of the cash register. After the manager tried to call police, Peguero punched her in the face, the report said, and Bagley piled on to further assault the woman. The two then drove away after destroying two registers on their way out. Bagley was held without bond; Peguero remains at large.

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Developed as part of a collaboration with Japanese streetwear company Beams, the new Crocs sport tiny fanny packs attached to the ankle straps, reported CBS News. The $53 shoes come in teal and purple, and the miniature backpacks are big enough for keys, a credit card and a few dollars—along with what’s left of your dignity.

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Bright Idea Indianapolis Metropolitan Police officers were led on a chase late on May 26 after a reckless driver nearly hit a patrol car. Ignoring signs and warnings about a bridge out ahead, the driver tried to jump the bridge “Dukes of Hazzard” style, reported WXIN, but when he came to the end of the pavement, his car hit the exposed beams of the bridge and skidded to a stop. The driver got away, but police apprehended a passenger, who informed them the driver had one leg and had left his prosthetic leg behind in the car. Police said they were confident they’ll track him down soon.

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She is everything and more, but it still doesn’t mitigate the fact that there are pragmatic costs to raising a child,” Jen said. The hospital investigated and uncovered a chain of miscommunication regarding the tubal ligation—compounded by not letting Jen know the procedure had not been done. “If a man got a woman pregnant, he would have to pay child support, right?”

Jim said. Lawyers for the doctors deny that Jen and Jim have suffered any damages.

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