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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown In the award-winning 2008 HBO miniseries, John Adams, there’s a scene that’s startlingly apropos today. The year is 1785. Adams has just been appointed America’s first ambassador to England. The fledgling diplomat, superbly played Paul Giamatti, is ushered into the presence of an imperious George III, portrayed by a pitch-perfect Tom Hollander.

After the royal audience, as Adams is exiting the cavernous chamber, the king volunteers: “I pray, Mr. Adams, that the United States does not suffer unduly for its want of a monarchy.” Replies the American: “We will strive to answer your prayers, Your Majesty.”

Now, imagine if Donald Trump, fresh off the campaign trail, were in Adams’ buckled shoes—and introduced to the king.

“Did you say ‘monarchy?’“ Trump inquires. “You know, that has a nice ring to it. That’s a lifetime gig, right?”

George III says nothing, He’s assessing this strange American standing before him.

“By the way,” Trump says, “where did you get that blue sash? It looks so ‘king-like,’” he adds, glancing down at his own red power tie.

The audience ends.

BY LANCE S. GUDMUNDSEN Later, back at the embassy, Trump looks in a gilded mirror in the hallway. “Yes,” he smiles, “the sash will work.”

Clearly, the president has all the attributes of a monarch … except dignity. All of his billions—if they indeed exist—can’t buy class. Just an abundance of arrogance and braggadocio.

When Trump was a candidate in 2016, Garrison Keillor of “Prairie Home Companion” renown, described him to a T, calling him “the most famous ducktail in America … the hairdo of wayward youth of a bygone era.”

Trump, he wrote, is “the class hood, the bully and braggart, the guy revving his pink Chevy to make the pipes rumble … This is the C-minus guy who sat behind you in history and poked you with his pencil and smirked when you asked him to stop.”

His followers, now his base, “love what the kids loved about Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious, the fact that he horrifies the powers-that-be, and when you are pro-duck you are giving the finger to the Congress, the press, clergy, lawyers, teachers, cake-eaters and big muckety-mucks, VIPs, all those people who think they’re better than you.”

“The bully and braggart [Americans] see today is the same man New Yorkers have been observing for 40 years.

A man who is obsessed with marble walls and gold-plated door knobs, who has all the sensibility of a giant sea tortoise.”

Concludes Keillor: “The nation that elects this man president is not a civilized society. The gentleman is not airing out his fingernail polish, he is not showing off his wedding ring; he is making an obscene gesture.”

That’s what the ducktail in the White House is doing now: giving the finger to a Congress, a co-equal branch of government as Trump would have known had he not sneaked out to smoke during civics class. He’s saying, “The

People’s House” is his, not yours and mine … so go fuck yourself.

In the unlikely event of impeachment, the president threatens to “go to the Supreme Court.” Lots of luck, ducktail. It’s the consensus of most legal experts—bolstered by SCOTUS rulings themselves—that impeachment is none of the court’s business. In Impeachment: A Handbook, the late constitutional scholar Charles L. Black Jr. ridicules the idea that the court could intervene. On the likelihood of justices overturning an impeachment and conviction, Black wrote: “I don’t think I possess the resources of rhetoric adequate to characterize the absurdity of that position.”

Besides, monarchs don’t always win: Take Charles I of England. He, too, gave the finger to “The People’s House” (Parliament) and after a nasty civil war, lost his head. And who could possibly forget Louis XVI of France, and his deadly date with the guillotine.

Not that I wish ducktail any harm—lest the Secret Service come a knocking on my door. I’m saying Trump is playing a risky game of chicken with the House—my house.

And we have a few more horsepower under the hood than his pink Chevy with pipes.

Despite ducktail’s daydreams to the contrary, we’ll have no coronation any time soon. The crown, orb and scepter— and blue sash—will gather dust in a storage closet.

And upstairs, in the White House residence, Trump will have a Big Mac and lay his ducktail on a down pillow tonight. Although he’s obviously not a Shakespeare fan, he might consider this line from Henry IV, Part II: “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” CW

Lance S. Gudmundsen, a long-time Utah journalist, currently is a proofreader at City Weekly. He lives in Murray with his rescue cat, “Nefertiti.”

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Do you think you know what the candidates for mayor think? There are eight of them, and they cut a wide swath.

Maybe you think you’ve made up your mind, you know, on name recognition.

We’re here to encourage you to stretch your mind and go hear how they handle themselves at the SLC Mayor Primary Debate. There might be some subtle but important differences in their thinking on the inland port, on affordable housing or development. These are critical issues for the residents of Salt Lake City and a mayor can steer the policies in any direction. Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Wednesday, June 26, 6:30-8 p.m., free, bit.ly/31oAjhD.

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Let Them In

Protests. They’re all around us, here and abroad. And oh, the civility! Ever since the peaceful yet raucous protest over the inland port, the Deseret News has been just righteously indignant. In an editorial, they want to remind us that, hey, the air is getting better and they really, really like the idea of the port. Doug Wilks thinks it’s time to “protest the protesters.” He doesn’t like eggs and milkshakes, and yeah, he has a point that too much protest drives dialogue behind closed doors.

But protest is a right, if not a duty, to make yourself heard when no one’s listening. Critics say it doesn’t work, but the evidence belies that #fakenews. China suspended its extradition bill after mass protests in Hong Kong. Russia released a detained journalist, and here at home, the Utah Department of Public Safety will investigate a Woods Cross police officer who pulled a gun on a 10-year-old boy. When the public is shut out, protests say let them in. Americans still remember the 1969 Stonewall protests and they will continue to fight for a voice.

Front-Runners

This is not to say who’s the best candidate for SLC mayor. But you have to wonder how much more press Jim Dabakis can get before we just anoint him? Of the eight candidates, Dabakis’ mug has been seen on front pages and Take2, and his voice heard on KCPW’s Both Sides of the Aisle. Frankly, he’s better than Donald Trump at stirring up the press. While both daily papers ignored the Westside Issues Forum with all candidates, The Salt Lake Tribune put Dabakis’ mug on the front page as he railed against the Alliance for a Better Utah’s ill-fated decision to exclude some lesser candidates from their debate. And then there’s the “presumed front-runner” status as the Trib continues to stir the pot. Of course he’s the front-runner. Quick, name the other candidates. You can’t buy this kind of coverage.

Critical Mass

It was another ho-hum breaking news story on KUTV Channel 2. A gunman killed one and injured two at a California Costco. It apparently wasn’t mass enough to make either The Salt Lake Tribune or the Deseret News the next day. Still, the D-News saw fit to run a front-page story on why teachers in Utah are considering having guns in their classrooms. Why? Because there are so damned many school shootings and so damned many guns in the hands of just about everyone, including kids. Nothing is being done, and the questions surrounding gun control are all wrong. “The objective of gun control is to reduce capacity to kill people who should not be killed,” not that would it have stopped a single incident, said New York Times columnist Charles Blow. The Daily Herald, meanwhile, notes that Utah ranks highest in the nation for people with mental illness. And they’ve got guns.

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Taking the Plunge

Inside the legal and moral struggle to legalize sex work.

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t’s not every day that a sex worker finds common ground with a conservative lawmaker. But that’s what happened with the drafting of HB40, an update to the Utah criminal code signed into law by Gov. Gary Herbert in March that provides added protections to Utahns working in the sex trade.

The bill, which went into effect last month, was sponsored by Utah Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clearfield. Passed in the Legislature with bipartisan support, the bill brings an official end to Utah’s ban on adultery and sodomy by consenting adults. Notably, it also shields sex workers from prosecution on prostitution charges when they report crimes that they witnessed or that were committed against them.

That section of the bill was drafted with the help of the Magdalene Collective, a support group for Utahns working in both legal and illegal sectors of the sex trade. Kyli Rodriguez-Cayro and Nicole Emma, the group’s founders, say the criminalized nature of the industry increases the risk for sex workers, who are vulnerable to dangerous clients and traffickers, but also often fear arrest and abuse at the hands of cops.

“We have a lot more people who are in dangerous situations because of laws that have been passed under the guise of stopping trafficking,” says Rodriguez-Cayro, a Salt Lake writer, activist and mental health educator who has experience working in phone sex and virtual sex work. “Sex workers face increased rates of homicide, of rape, of assault. A majority of sex workers who are victims of homicide are trans women. Being a queer sex worker is more dangerous. Being a sex worker of color is more dangerous.”

Speaking with City Weekly, Rep. Ray says he first got in touch with Emma and Rodriguez-Cayro last year after hearing them at a community meeting with Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown. Ray invited the pair to join a task force revising the criminal code. Later, he secured bipartisan support to make sure the revisions ended up in the bill’s final draft. To him, it was a “no-brainer” to

L E G I S L AT U R E protect this vulnerable population.

“Everybody agreed that this is the right thing to do,” Ray says of discussions with fellow legislators. “We weren’t debating whether [prostitution is] right or wrong. But we all agreed that those acts that are being committed against them are wrong. This goes a long way to help protect people in that industry from being attacked …

Nobody deserves to be victimized, period.”

Police Det. Michael Ruff says it’s long been department policy not to go after sex workers when they report crimes.

Erin Mendenhall, a city councilwoman and candidate in the city’s mayoral election—whose district includes parts of State Street where people struggling with poverty and drugs have resorted to selling sex to get by—welcomes the new law.

“Too often human trafficking survivors will be victims of crimes at the hands of their customers, and then stay silent. I applaud any effort that empowers human trafficking survivors to report crime to authorities,” Mendenhall said in a statement provided to City Weekly. “We don’t need to re-victimize human trafficking survivors by arresting them when they are willing to alert authorities to a crime.”

The Utah law is one of several pieces of legislation that have been passed or been considered recently in several states—part of a nationwide effort among activists to reframe the conversation around sex work and push for decriminialization. By all accounts, it’s too early to tell what kind of changes the Utah law will have on sex workers who willingly engage in the trade, and in more high-risk or coercive situations — working on the street or as victims of trafficking.

But Emma, who delivered a heartfelt TEDx Talk last year on the “human connection” behind her sex work, feels it’s a move in the right direction.

“Knowing that this is here and we can report [crimes] gives us a lot more power,” she says. “It helps us feel safer, for sure.”

The new law, she adds, softens the “stigma” attached to sex workers. It tells the public “Hey, we’re people. We deserve basic protections and safety and legal protections just as much as anyone else, regardless of what you think about what we do,” she adds.

The legislation points to the deeper question of whether or not prostitution should be legal in the first place—a complex debate that cuts across political and ideological lines. While groups like the Magdalene Collective frame sex work as an expression of feminist autonomy, others like Gloria Steinem have spoken out against the sex trade, arguing that decriminalization only em-

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“Sex workers face increased rates of homicide, of rape, of assault,” Magdalene Collective co-founder Kyli Rodriguez-Cayro says. “Being a queer sex worker is more dangerous. “ powers pimps and sex traffickers and encourages the exploitation of women.

Rep. Ray says he hasn’t formed a position on whether he supports decriminalization or not—he would need to take a “deep dive” into the issue first.

“I’ve never really looked at the issue, so I don’t like to say that I don’t support or do support when I’ve never really dealt with the exact issue,” he says. “I think it’s worth having a discussion on.

But to say which way I would go, I’d have to really dig into it and look. There’s merits on both sides of the argument.”

Opponents of decriminalization promote what’s called the “Nordic model,” in which law enforcement focuses on prosecuting clients who pay for sex, rather than sex workers who sell it. That’s an approach police have taken in Salt Lake, according to Det. Ruff. Between Sept. 1, 2018, and May 1 of this year, police arrested 32 women and 54 men on prostitution-related charges.

Activists say sex workers are targeted regardless. As HB40 was making its way through the Legislature, another bill—sponsored by Rep. Jeff Stenquist, R-Draper—also was passed, ramping up

the penalty for escorts and others who work in “adult service” without a license (Ray voted against the bill). Last year, Congress passed two sweeping bills, the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) and the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), designed to crack down on the sex trade. Advertising websites and internet forums ended up going offline, erasing “blacklists” of unsavory or dangerous clients that workers would refer to.

“It’s very difficult in different communities with different sex trafficking laws being pushed that really criminalize the way we warn each other about bad customers or share information about good customers,” says Terra Burns, a sex work activist and lobbyist in Alaska.

Rodriguez-Cayro sees HB40 as a way to help keep sex workers safe—but also to give them greater visibility in a complex landscape of dialogue and backlash.

“We just want people to see us as human. I think HB40 was a step toward that,” Rodriguez-Cayro says. “It’s still going to be always an uphill battle, but it makes a statement.” CW

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’ve only been in town for a couple weeks when my editor, Enrique Limón, sends me off into the unknown.

“There’s a UFO festival happening in Cedar City,” Enrique says after calling me into his office on a recent Monday. It’s deadline day at City Weekly. Everybody’s hunkered down at their computers, putting together the upcoming issue. In his office, Enrique chats with me in between scanning messages and jotting down notes—juggling many tasks. “I want you to cover it, so let’s figure out how we can get you there.”

First contact

The taxi driver is taking me down a long road from Cedar City to the campground.

We’re flanked on both sides by green fields of alfalfa and grazing sheep and cattle.

Then the road juts upward into the high desert, giving way to stretches of sagebrush and juniper trees (the latter originally called cedars by the first Mormon settlers, giving Cedar City its name). As we get clos-

er to Three Peaks, we pass by a camp for troubled teenage girls. Volcanic rocks show marks from tire tracks of Mars Rover-like “rock crawling” vehicles, which hold regular competitions here.

It’s just weird enough of a place to make it perfect for a UFO gathering.

We turn at a road marked with a tiny green sign that says “UTAH UFO FEST.” There’s a hill, and then a stunning vista overlooking mountains off in the distance. I arrive a little after 6 p.m., and some campers have already set up folding chairs near a wooden pavilion.

As people lounge around, a disembodied voice beams out over a PA system—someone is delivering a lecture on cattle mutilations at Skinwalker Ranch, a site in northeast Utah famous among UFO enthusiasts for alleged paranormal activities.

“They did get some evidence from a couple of the mutilations. There was a blue substance in one and some other kind chemical on another,” says the voice, cranked so loud that it carries over the campground like an omnipotent force.

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by May, the bottoms were bald. I still have an ache shooting through my left heel from all that damn walking.

My new job at the Weekly marks the end of an exciting, but also Peter Pan-ish, six years spent roving from city to city and traveling the globe as a freelance journalist. I came to Salt Lake thinking it was high time for me to finally settle down. Now look at me: Booking bus tickets for Cedar City to hang out with UFO enthusiasts.

I was never drawn to unidentified flying objects—floating orbs, mysterious shapes and other phenomena that famed UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek

once defined as “the reported perception of an object or light seen in the sky or upon the land … which is not only mystifying to the original percipients but remains unidentified after close scrutiny of all available evidence by persons who are technically capable of making a common sense identification.” By training, it’s my instinct not to buy into conspiracy theories or outrageous claims. But I grew up on the paradigm-shifting sci-fi novels of Philip K. Dick, and I’ll never pass up a good adventure when given a chance.

So here I go on Friday, June 14, to the fourth annual Utah UFO Festival.

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At my new desk, I look up Cedar City on Google Maps. Utahns probably know this college town off Interstate 15 best as home to the Utah Shakespeare Festival. By car, it’s 252 miles from Salt Lake. The UFO festival is taking place on a campground called Three Peaks Recreation Area, about 10 miles outside of town.

All of this sounds good, except for one thing: I don’t have a car. In San Diego, where I was living before moving to SLC, I was mostly getting around on foot, since I was temporarily unemployed and sick of riding the bus. In February, I bought a new pair of shoes;

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Nathan Arizona

The late-afternoon sun beats down as I lug my supplies in search of a suitable campsite. I borrowed a tent and sleeping bag from a coworker, and I bought a gallon jug of water and a handful of pre-packaged sandwiches at a gas station before heading for Three Peaks. The website for the festival was vague about whether there’d be food vendors, so I mentally prepare for the possibility that these will be my only rations for the weekend.

“There was no blood on the ground,” the voice continues. “There was no blood on the animal.”

I find a nice, flat spot next to a trail, and I heave and sweat as I struggle to assemble the tent. My heel starts to ache and my temples tighten from a headache.

“It cuts with a laser … Nobody’s ever been caught.”

When I’m done, I collapse inside my tent and wonder if maybe this wasn’t such a good idea after all.

Then my phone dings with a few text messages from my dad, and I lay back in relief. Even if I end up abducted and anal probed, at least I’ll be able to call the taxi driver to get a ride back to the bus stop and home to Salt Lake. Mindful of the battery power I’ll need to call in a rescue operation, I switch off my phone and rally my energy to go outside.

At the pavilion, the first people I meet are two Mormon missionaries—young, fresh-faced lads decked out in crisp dress shirts and ties. They decline an official interview, but say they were invited by the organizers and showed up to answer any questions people may have about the LDS church.

Nearby, two toddlers are playing on a swing-set with their dad. A couple young guys roll by on touring bicycles—they decided to come through while on a crosscountry trip from Reno, eager to check out the quirky event and take advantage of the free camping.

I breathe a sigh of relief when I see that the organizers are selling cold sodas and bottles of water at a merchandise table in the pavilion. They greet me warmly and direct me to the festival’s co-founder, Nathan Cowlishaw, aka Nathan Arizona, who has been holding forth on a range of UFO-related topics in an amplified storytelling/open mic session. He’s keeping festival-goers entertained as organizers scramble to put up a giant, black, inflatable screen—a bit like the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey—in the center of the festival grounds.

Cowlishaw founded the Utah UFO Festival with his brother, Joseph. They rely

on the good will of the UFO expert community and local government agencies to throw this DIY shindig together year after year. Iron County and the Cedar City-Brian Head Tourism Bureau waived rental fees to let them host this year’s festival for free on the Three Peaks campsite, and they’re selling glow-in-thedark festival T-shirts and hoodies in hopes of offsetting operation costs.

A landscape photographer and tour guide by trade, Cowlishaw, 37, is stocky and intense, wearing a thick headband and a pair of sunglasses with polarized blue lenses.

“Have you ever seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind?” he asks me by way of an introduction. “Richard, the character, gets really obsessed when he sees an object, and it leads him on a path that’s irreversible. He ends up leaving with the aliens, going to another star system.

“I saw the lights. I’ve seen objects. I’ve had three close encounters,” Cowlishaw continues. The rawness of his encounters and his experiences with Native American communities helped inspire him to take a populist approach for the festival. “If I was in this to profit, I would be taxing people and doing this at a hotel somewhere, trying to really make money. I’m getting a completely volunteer event off the ground.”

The great beyond

I’m watching Cowlishaw talk on the mic when Tanner Camarena sidles up to me.

“Getting serious, huh?” he says, gesturing at my notebook as I scribble down observations. He’s 25, friendly, with messy brown hair and a white tank top bearing the NASA logo. Like me, he recently moved to Utah from San Diego, and now he runs a welding shop in Cedar City with his dad. I ask why he came to the fest, and his eyes widen with urgency.

“Man, I have an experience of my own,” he says, taking a swig from a can of Miller High Life.

Camarena invites me to stop by his campfire later to do an interview, and I promise I’ll drop by.

Outer space has long captured the American imagination. Flying saucers appear in B-movies, critically-acclaimed TV series and the “Mothership Connection” of Parliament-Funkadelic. But the idea of extraterrestrial life forms visiting our planet is too much of a leap for many earthlings. J. Allen Hynek writes

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“How do we progress if we can’t think in ways that haven’t been thought of before?” he says.

Erica Lukes, who heads the organization Unexplained Utah, then steps up and delivers a revealing talk about the triumphs and disappointments of her career as a veteran UFO field researcher.

“I will say that this is the most important thing that I will ever do in my life,” she says. “I have come up against a hell of a lot in this, and sometimes I wonder why I’m here doing this, because I’ve sacrificed my friends and my family and money. I’ve watched myself get slandered all over the internet. I’ve had stalkers and death threats as of a month ago. It has been a really, really, really, really hard journey for me.

“But I know in my heart when I come to these events and I talk to people that have had sightings as profound as mine that this is important—and that we have a history, and that we need to make sure that we keep our personal power, and that we’re doing the right thing,” she continues. “This is about all of us.”

Seeing the light

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“Have you seen Travis anywhere?” Nathan Cowlishaw asks me as I’m walking back to my tent on Saturday afternoon.

Travis Walton—the leading speaker of the festival, whose story of alien abduction inspired the 1993 film Fire in the Sky—has temporarily disappeared.

I ask Cowlishaw how the festival is going. He looks a little stressed. “We’re short on staff,” he admits.

Suddenly, Walton strolls out from behind some juniper trees. In a grey suit jacket and slacks, the poker-faced gentleman looks dressed for a day at the office on this sweaty plateau of earth tones and volcanic rocks. Cowlishaw spots him and they both take off toward the pavilion, conferring like respected colleagues.

The 80-degree heat has turned my tent into an oven. I lay back and take a swig of water, my temples pounding. I examine my aching heel for outward signs of damage and stretch my other foot, which has also gotten tender after I went on a brief hike to study the alien-looking “rock crawler” marks.

Back at the pavilion, I wait patiently to get a word with Walton. The 66-yearold is a bona fide celebrity here, signing autographs, posing for selfies and passing the mic during an impromptu bull session with fellow UFO experts.

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in his 1972 book The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry that when he was investigating flying saucer reports for the U.S. Air Force from 1948 to 1969, the Pentagon at times treated the subject with “subtle ridicule.” The scientific establishment rejected the concept of UFOs outright, while movies and tabloids fed into the narrative that this stuff was for kooks and cultists only.

Leading UFO researcher Stanton Friedman, who died at the age of 84 in May, was outspoken about his conviction that evidence shows signs of alien visitations to Earth and government attempts to cover it up. He offered insights on the ways “debunkers” unfairly attack UFO believers: “If one can’t attack the data, attack the people. It is easier,” he writes in his 1997 manifesto The UFO Challenge.

Not everybody is sure about what exactly they saw or researched, and many fear ridicule or rejection if they speak about it openly. Festivals like this offer a space for people to debate and discuss with their peers.

“Is it alien technology? Are there little green men aboard these spaceships, and they’re coming to visit us and trying to communicate, or send us some kind of message? I don’t know,” Heinee Hinrichsen, the festival’s director, tells me.

“Is it military? More than likely. We just don’t know. But everybody that comes to this festival, they want to find out. They want to know what these objects are. It’s a mystery, and everybody loves a mystery.”

The Utah UFO Festival has gotten off to a shaky start. Nathan’s brother Joseph spends Friday in Cedar City, helping his wife recover from a disastrous car collision she was involved in earlier in the day. When the organizers put up the monolith screen, they discover that the white sheet they need to project images is missing. Then the wind picks up and they scramble to take the screen back down.

Everyone prepares for rain. Instead, we’re treated to a miraculous sunset. A band of orange glows across the mountains. A rainbow emerges from a hole in the grey skies above. On a spread of rock formations, two guys send a drone flying into the wind while a family decked out in matching Baja hoodies blow melodies on tiny, ocarina flutes they bought at the merch table.

It’s after 9 p.m. and I’m starving for one of my gas-station sandwiches when the organizers finally fashion a jerry-rigged screen inside the pavilion. The crowd has dwindled to about 20 diehards and they sit quietly for a presentation by author Greg Bishop, who clicks through slides on a projector while discussing influential Russian scientists and mainstream media perceptions of UFO research.

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“I was warned early on to never let that stuff go to your head. You just have to stay grounded and realistic. I’m still me,” Walton says of all the attention he gets in the UFO community. “People think it’s lucrative. It’s not. If I didn’t have my pension and my retirement, I couldn’t do it. It’s just something I do to educate people.”

On Saturday, the festival grows into full bloom. Joseph Cowlishaw posts up at the merchandise table, playing the theme from The X-Files on the tiny flutes, officially dubbed WOW Flutes, which he made himself using europium compounds bought from a company owned by Area 51 whistleblower Bob Lazar. Festival-goers in the growing crowd show off aluminum foil hats and UFO tattoos. A local catering company shows up and starts grilling burgers, and later I snack on a spaceship-shaped cookie with the words “BEAM ME UP” written on it in sugar frosting.

While the sun goes down, Walton recounts his alien encounter for a rapt audience of a couple hundred people. The monolith screen flickers with eerie illustrations of flying saucers and humanoid creatures. Walton says he was working with a forestry crew in Arizona’s Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests on Nov. 5, 1975, when he was hit by a blast of energy, taken onto a spacecraft and examined by a team of grey aliens and “human-looking entities.”

“The stare that they were giving me gave me this really horrible feeling. It was a squirmy kind of a feeling inside my head. But they were unable to control me,” he says of the grey beings. “I felt injured. I felt wounded. I felt mortally wounded. And all of that added to the terror that I felt.”

Other people he’s told his story to over the years claim they would’ve reacted differently, he says. “They’d just stay cool, ask good questions, grab a souvenir,” he continues.

“All I can say is, you have to have been there.”

Homeward bound

Tanner Camarena’s campsite is the last one at the end of a long dirt road. The moon, Jupiter and Saturn shine like beacons in the cloudy night sky. Tanner, his camp-mate Dusty and I stand around a fire pit, tossing shreds of a paper bag into the fire to get the logs going as we sip Dusty’s last three cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon.

My feet are worn out from standing. My sun-burnt calves feel like two roasted chicken wings. But there’s a cool breeze and a calming quiet, punctuated by crickets and the crackling firewood.

“Start from the beginning,” I tell Camarena.

One evening in 2009, he was riding down the freeway through the Cuyamaca Mountains of San Diego with his aunt and his two cousins.

“Off to our left-hand side, we noticed something above the mountain that was darker than the sky,” Camarena says over the glowing fire. “It had three lights on the front of it. We were staring up at it from out of our window, and as we were coming up to it, we noticed it was moving kind of to the side.”

As they drove, he says, the object lined up with their car in the road. They pulled over, and Camarena, bold teenager that he was, rolled down the window to get a better look.

“My aunt was yelling at me, ‘Tanner, get in the fucking car!’” One of his cousins started bawling, trying to crawl between the seats to escape.

“I was looking out like this, up into the sky, directly up at it. And it was not even 100 yards into the sky. Not even a football field above us. It was gigantic,” he says. “It looked like an airliner stopped above our car.”

He couldn’t hear anything from the mysterious object—there was only a sensation.

“It felt like a hum. To this day, if I had my jacket off, I’d have goosebumps. It was insane to think that something that big was right above us, hovering that close, with no sound.

Only a feeling of vibration.”

I’m highly skeptical, of course. It’s my job to be, and I ask lots of questions like any journalist would. During my time at the Utah UFO Festival, I get the impression that nobody here would mind if I launched my own investigation into claims like these, working against all odds to corroborate accounts and verify details, studying scientific concepts and weighing theories. It’d be worse if I just rejected it all outright, as most people do.

Tonight it feels more fun and thought-provoking to accept that there could be some validity to all these impossible accounts and mysteries. There are so many questions floating out there in the milky black, so what’s wrong with a few dedicated souls trying to find answers?

On Sunday morning, I pack up my tent and call a cab to make my way home. For some of the folks behind the Utah UFO Festival, the adventure continues. At the pavilion, people are getting ready to drive in a convoy to the gates of Area 51 in Nevada. After that, co-founder Nathan Cowlishaw tells me he’s hoping to join an eight-day road trip with a fellow UFO expert, culminating this week in a visit to AlienCon in Los Angeles.

At some point along the way, though, he’ll need to get some rest. He’s had a busy week, after all. “I’ve had seven-and-a-half hours of sleep over the past three nights,” he says.

Meanwhile, somewhere out in the farthest reaches of space, a life form different from our own prepares for its own odyssey, dreaming of new planets and species yet to be discovered. CW

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David Sedaris has been part of public radio’s glitterati since the 1990s, acquiring a committed fan base through his humorous observations about the bizarre oddities of everyday interactions and people. What has been thus far absent from Sedaris’ work, however, is acknowledging the comfort of conceding to being middle-aged. In his latest book, Calypso, it’s cool to lean toward the realities of jowls and generational misunderstandings.

Calypso embarks on a brief journey that confronts his mortality, but still manages to maintain Sedaris’ comedic force. Etching out stories of his siblings, including Amy Sedaris, processing the loss of their youngest sister to suicide in 2013, walking more than 30,000 steps every day to impress his Fitbit and figuring out the 2016 presidential election are all up for discussion through smart irreverence.

The book doesn’t explicitly warn against or illuminate the subject of aging, but rather rouses fantastical ideas on becoming gray and alive.

For the faithful, there’s room to allow Sedaris to further sink into his gifted rawness; to the newcomers, you’ve arrived at a moment of enthralling candor.

Sedaris visits The King’s English Bookshop, Salt Lake’s literary beacon. Although the reading portion is sold out, there’s an opportunity to have your book signed or briefly chat with Sedaris.

The King’s English vows to keep the lights on until every attendee gets their shoulders brushed.

It’s known his sense of smell will pick up any fragrances in the line. Devotees of chain-store shelves, beware. (Miacel Spotted Elk) David Sedaris: Calypso @ The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, June 20, 7 p.m., free, kingsenglish.com

It’s apt that NOW-ID—which describes itself in its mission statement as a “fiercely contemporary dance company, producing design-driven work for the stage and beyond”—should redefine one of the most revolutionary works of the 20th century, Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.

This one-time site-specific event is performed in an open industrial urban arena, just beneath the 600 North ramp downtown—an ideal setting for a work that intertwines the preservation of nature, renewal and sustainability in a creative, contemporary context.

It’s a heady concept, to be sure, and an optional pre-show dinner and workshop emphasizes the work’s conceptual nature. “I don’t see this performance as a simple standalone event,” NOW-ID Artistic Director Charlotte Boye-Christensen says via email. “The score has always felt relevant and current to me ... placed in society, as opposed to separate from society.” The result is a spectacle encompassing 13 segments featuring NOW-ID dancers Joseph Blake, Tara McArthur, Sydney Sorenson and Liz Ivkovich, along with opera singer Joshua Lindsay.

Although Boye-Christensen originally choreographed the piece in 2004, she never felt she did Stravinsky’s brilliant ballet justice. “The Rite of Spring feels enormously relevant these days with themes of tribalism, patriarchy, dissonance, environment, violence, isolation, longing and journey,” she notes. “We wanted to set the piece in a manmade/industrial environment to highlight the fraught relationship between urban development and displacement.” (Lee Zimmerman) NOW-ID: The Rite of Spring @ Below 600 North ramp, 498 W. 600 North, June 22, 9 p.m., $35 (plus service fee), $20 (plus service fee for students, seniors 65 +), $113 for dinner, cocktails and VIP seating, now-id.com

Since fall of 2016, Rent—one of the longest running Broadway shows in history—has been captivating theatergoers across the United States with a 20th-anniversary tour and stops in Salt Lake City for six days of spirited theater. Adapted over the years for countless productions including film and live television, the story packs an emotional punch as it follows an unforgettable year in the lives of seven New York artists struggling to follow their dreams without selling out. The themes of love, loss, friendship and family are timeless and relatable.

Loosely based on the opera La bohème, and with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson— including the already-classic anthem “Seasons of Love”—this timeless celebration of friendship and creativity has not only earned countless Tony awards, but a Pulitzer in 1996 for drama.

According to the touring company, the storyline has remained unchanged with original creative team members—director, choreographer, costume designer and music supervisor—brought back on board for the anniversary production.

While 20-plus years have passed since opening day in 1996, Rent’s inspiring message of joy and hope in the face of fear is a reminder to measure life with the only thing that truly matters—love. If the reviews on their Facebook page are any indication, this message has resounded loud and clear. “I can’t say enough how much I enjoyed this 20th anniversary production,” audience member Patricia Stanczykiewicz says. “The young people on stage told this story with a pathos and believability that was heart wrenching.” (Colette A. Finney) Rent @ Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, June 25-30, times vary, $35-$140, broadway-at-the-eccles.com

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Eddie Izzard’s last comedy tour, Force Majeure, made comedy history, by playing in 45 countries, plus all 50 U.S. states, and in four languages.

This year, Izzard is on tour again, and stops in Salt Lake to bring down the house at the Eccles Theater as part of his Wunderbar comedy tour.

In Wunderbar, Izzard relates the last 100,000 years of human history, expanding on his own view of life and love. Amid all the Brexit and Trump hate, Izzard offers a comical twist on social, political and personal themes with his monologue style and gift for pantomime. His modus operandi has a Monty Python-ish twist.

His comedy career started in the early 1980s, when he took to the streets of London, performing improvisation and refining his free-associative style. He has performed openly about the fluidity of his gender identity—describing himself as a “transvestite” in some of his 1990s performances, though his terminology has shifted since then—and delighted audiences with recorded shows including Dress to Kill, Sexie and Stripped.

His outspoken involvement in the social and political scene has earned Issard multiple honors, including two honorary doctorates.

This tour might be your last chance to see Izzard perform live, given that he has expressed an interest in finding a future in politics soon. In an interview with Broadway World earlier this year, Izzard said, “It is getting close to the time when I have to go off for a while to have a political life.

But before I do that, I want to keep giving audiences around the world the best stand-up comedy shows that I can.” (Erik Hight) Eddie Izzard: Wunderbar @ Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, June 20, 8 p.m., $49-$57, artsaltlake.org

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Coordinated Effort

TREVOR HOOPER

Three new area coordinators bring new ideas to the 2019 Utah Arts Festival.

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or more than 40 years, the Utah Arts Festival has hosted thousands of local residents, and long-tenured leaders like executive director Lisa Sewell, volunteer coordinator Kaye Wankier and artist marketplace co-coordinator Matt Jacobson provide tremendous stability. But every once in a while, staffing turnover allows for an injection of fresh perspective into the festival.

Here’s a look at three new area coordinators for the 2019 Utah Arts Festival, including the road that brought them to the festival and their ideas for shaking things up a bit.

Dayna McKee, performing arts

It’s something of a misnomer to suggest that Dayna McKee is new to the Utah Arts Festival, since she has spent most of the last 15 years running the sponsor and hospitality area on the festival grounds. But for 2019, McKee made the transition to overseeing the performing arts program, including the live music performances.

“I’m sort of obsessed with live music,” says McKee, who also serves as a member of the Sugar House community council.

“Every year, I’d take an hour off the patio [at the festival] to see someone. They just knew I’ve always been enthusiastic about live music. I got real lucky that they’d take me on to kind of my dream job.”

McKee stepped into a role where there’s already a foundation of other people involved, including community members who serve as jury members in a variety of specific musical genres to help decide the lineup.

While she did look to bring in some new jurors to provide a fresh perspective, she says, “with limited time, and never having done the process before, I didn’t want to start from scratch. I did what I could in terms of including those who wanted to be included.”

She was able, however, to launch one new initiative that became a huge part of the festival’s Friday programming. McKee suggested a theme of “Women Who Rock”— inspired by the KRCL 90.9 FM radio program—for all the music performing artists on Friday. She was then thrilled to find that many of the other area coordinators were interested in taking that concept and applying it to their own programming, including literary arts and the Fear No Film Festival.

McKee acknowledges that there has been a learning curve in moving from an

area where the primary focus was on-site logistics to one that required months of preparation. But for her, the focus is on the experience of the artists and the attendees.

“I hope people come and have fun,” she says. “That’s my No. 1 goal.”

Trish Hopkinson, literary program

Trish Hopkinson is no rookie in the Utah literary scene, having co-founded Rock Canyon Poets in 2015 and performed her work at the Utah Arts Festival multiple times. But she wasn’t necessarily looking for a role in the festival when Sewell reached out to her to take over the literary program. “I was really excited,” Hopkinson says, “not just to be asked, but to take it on, because I’m fairly involved and connected in the literary arts community, but I know there are some corners I haven’t touched or been connected to.

So I was excited to extend my own literary community beyond poetry. It was a good reason to push me to make other connections.”

Considering how much of the festival’s literary program has focused on poetry in the past, Hopkinson seems like a natural fit, yet she was also determined to take that goal of expanding her own area of expertise and applying it to the festival programming. “In the past, there’s been a larger focus on performance poetry,” she says. “It was important to me to expand that further, not just to different genres of literary arts, but to all the different communities of writers we have in Utah: cowboy poetry, more fiction and non-fiction writers, reaching out to the Latinx community, disabled community, storytelling.”

For Hopkinson, new programming ideas—including adding a high-school poetry slam and a poetry component to the Kids’ Art Yard—has a pragmatic side beyond the philosophical goal of greater representation. “The more of the diverse communities we have in Utah that are represented,” she says, “the more interest we’re likely to have from different groups of attendees.”

“It’s been a lot of work,” she adds, “but it’s good work. Makes-me-happy kind of work.”

Derek Mellus, Fear No Film program

As part of the Utah Film Commission, and a film technician himself, Derek Mellus brings plenty of background knowledge to overseeing the Utah Arts Festival’s resident short film festival. Still, he had plenty on his plate when previous Fear No Film

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coordinator Topher Horman approached him about the possibility of taking over.

“I looked at it as an opportunity to have a creative outlet,” Mellus says. “As an artist, I always work best with a deadline.”

It was a surprise to Mellus, then, when the opening of the submission process for Fear No Film didn’t result in the deluge of films he was expecting. “At first, I didn’t feel like I was going to have the numbers to have 60 films in the program,” he says. “But one of the things I did was proactively reach out to some filmmakers I knew, and whose work I’d seen, and asked them to submit.

And some of the best of the Sundance Film Festival, I couldn’t not have some of them.”

In terms of programming the accepted films, Mellus did choose to take a different approach from Horman’s. He introduced a “midnight movies” program of genre films.

Also, where in previous years a shorts program might include a variety of narrative, documentary, animation or even music videos, Mellus says, “I went more traditionalist in that respect and grouped them by type. As an audience member, if I want to go watch documentaries, I want to go watch documentaries.”

The resulting program includes 28 firsttime filmmakers and 42% of the films are directed by women—all important numbers Mellus says, for someone in the role of gatekeeper helping showcase these works. The effort, for him, has been worth it—even if, like some of his newcomer colleagues, there have been time challenges along the way. “Once you set up your acceptance emails to the filmmakers, I thought I’d have this thing all tied up with a bow months ago,” he says. “I probably underestimated the amount of time it would take up. It’s definitely a labor of love.”

It’s also labor that art-lovers throughout the state enjoy the benefits of. CW

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Local artist Havoc Hendricks—whose works evoke the line patterns in nature—offers a new large-scale mural in the lower end of The Gateway (400 W. 100 South, shopthegateway.com), adding to the many art pieces adorning the walls, bridges and streets of the outdoor mall.

PERFORMANCE THEATER

9th West Farmers Market Jordan Park, 1000 S. 900 West, Sundays through Oct. 13, 10 a.m.2 p.m., 9thwestfarmersmarket.org Downtown Farmers Market Pioneer Park, 350 W. 300 South, Saturdays through Oct. 19, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., slcfarmersmarket.org Park City Farmers Market Silver King Resort, 1845 Empire Ave., Park City, Wednesdays through mid-October, noon-5 p.m., parkcityfarmersmarket.com Park Silly Sunday Market Main Street, Park City, Sundays through Sept. 22, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., parksillysundaymarket.com Wheeler Sunday Market Wheeler Farm, 6351 S. 900 East, Murray, Sundays through Oct. 27, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., slco.org/wheeler-farm

FESTIVALS & FAIRS

Fairy Tale Festival Thanksgiving Point, 3003 N. Thanksgiving Way, Lehi, June 22, 10 a.m., thanksgivingpoint.org Fire & Ice Festival Spanish Fork Library, 49 S. Main, Spanish Fork, June 21-22, 5 p.m., utahvalley.com

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Concert I: Mozart and Brahms Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East, June 24, 7:30 p.m., intermezzoconcerts.org Utah Symphony at the Waterfall Thanksgiving

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Body Logic Dance Festival Adjudication Concert Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, June 22, 7 p.m., artsaltlake.org NOW-ID: The Rite of Spring Below 600 North ramp, 498 W. 600 North, June 22, 9 p.m., nowid.com (see p. 19) Utah Dance Center: Wizard of Oz, Kingsbury Hall, 1395 Presidents Circle, June 20, 7 p.m., tickets.utah.edu

Adam Ray Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, June 21 & 22, 7 & 9:30 p.m., 21+, wiseguyscomedy.com Eddie Izzard Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, June 20, 8 p.m., artsaltlake.org (see p. 19) Jenna Kim Jones Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., June 21 & 22, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Phil Hanley Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, June 21 & 22, 7 & 9:30 p.m., 21+, wiseguyscomedy.com Rhett & Link: Live in Concert Maverik Center, 3200 Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, June 22, 7:30 p.m., smithstix.com

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Point, 3003 N. Thanksgiving Way, Lehi, June 26, 8:30 p.m., utahsymphony.org Utah Symphony: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, June 20-22, 7 p.m., utahsymphony.org

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moreESSENTIALS Utah Arts Festival Library Square, 200 E. 400 South, June 20-23, uaf.org (see p. 20) Utah Juneteenth Heritage Festival Union Station, 2501 Wall Ave., Ogden, through June 22, times vary, theunionstation.org Utah Uke Fest Highland Community Center, 5378 W. 10400 North, Highland, June 22, 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m., utahukefest.org

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Men’s Sack Lunch Group Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, Wednesdays, noon-1:30 p.m., utahpridecenter.org TransAction Weekly Meeting Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, Sundays, 2-3:30 p.m., utahpridecenter.org Utah LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce Breakfast Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, third Thursdays, 7:30-9 a.m., utahgaychamber.com The Viva la Diva Show Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, June 22, 6:30 p.m.; June 23, noon; thevivaladivashow.com

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Craig L. Foster and Marianne T. Watson: American Polygamy Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, June 25, 6:30 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Dan Schilling: Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World’s Deadliest Special Operations Force The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, June 24, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com David Sedaris: Calypso The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, June 20, 6 p.m, kingsenglish.com (see p. 19) Jennifer Pharr Davis: The Pursuit of Endurance Provo Library, 550 N. University Ave., June 25, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com John Bennion: An Unarmed Woman & Ezekiel’s Third Wife The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, June 22, 2 p.m., kingsenglish.com Megan Wagner Lloyd: Paper Mice The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, June 22, 11 a.m., kingsenglish.com

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

Andrew Dadson: Roof Gap UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Sept. 7, utahmoca.org

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Contrast: The State of Being Strikingly Different Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through July 1, times vary, events.slcpl.org Deanna & Ed Templeton: Contemporary Suburbium UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Sept. 7, utahmoca.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 In Her Own Image Gallery Stroll Reception Urban Arts Gallery, 116 S. Rio Grande St., June 21, 6-9 p.m., urbanartsgallery.org 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 Lenka Clayton: Under These Conditions UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through June 22, utahmoca.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 Neo Archaic Magic and Happiness is Humanness Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, through July 12, accessart.org Out Loud: Ostracized and Masked Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S West Temple, through July 6, utahmoca.org Paper and Thread Modern West Fine Art, 412 S. 700 West, June 21-Aug. 31, modernwestfineart.com Spencer Finch: Great Salt Lake and Vicinity Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, through Nov. 28, umfa.utah.edu Time + Materials Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., June 24-Aug. 30, artsandmuseums.utah.gov Urban and Rural David Ericson Fine Art, 418 S. 200 West, through June 21, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., davidericson-fineart.com The Wonder of Watercolor Utah Cultural Celebration Center Gallery, 3155 W. 3100 South, through July 9, culturalcelebration.org

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t this point in my dining career, it’s gotten pretty difficult to mess up a curry of any description. There’s something magical in that blend of spices and coconut milk that gets me regardless of the talent that went into its creation.

I love how the subtle, smoky heat tends to perfume my olfactory region long after I’ve finished, and I love how a scoop of steamed rice soaks up all the sauce that I can’t get with my fork or chopsticks. That said, I was expecting to enjoy Mali Thai (238 S. Main, 801-364-0164) simply on principle. As it turns out, they’ve got plenty of other interesting features to offer those in the central downtown area—and they’re not afraid to singe your mouth with a liberal use of Thai chiles.

varieties are both solid. Once I’ve got the curry portion of my meal figured out, I like to see what kind of fire they’re playing with. You can tell if a Thai place is doing things right by how much their spicy dishes punish you, and Mali packs some serious heat. The Thai basil chicken and red curry with bamboo shoots are fireballs that expertly capture the heat and flavor of their spicy Thai chiles.

The fire of the spicy dishes complements any of the more tame options, jacking up the flavors of even the mild-mannered yellow curry.

As Mali Thai is new, it’s still in the midst of figuring out its identity and ironing out its overall presentation. Management has plans to open a bit earlier for coffee or Thai tea to accommodate the breakfast crowd, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the team has more tricks up their sleeve.

If they can stick to their guns, keep making really good food really fast and work on their community outreach, I’d love to see this little place succeed. CW

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Treat your tastebuds to a rollercoaster ride at downtown’s newest Thai eatery.

The team loves to talk about their food, and they’re always quick to provide caution if you’re sniffing around a dish that might bite back.

It’s the ready-made menu that makes Mali Thai’s fast-casual approach work. Whether you’re after a long lunch away from the rat race or popping in for a quick takeout order to eat in the office, your food is ready before you cash out. I have caught wind of diners being critical of the restaurant’s fondness for Styrofoam and plastic—whether you dine in or leave, your meal comes served in a hinged foam container—and that criticism is definitely valid. I just happen to be of the opinion that if the foam containers are rubbing you the wrong way, you should start lobbying to make compostable serving accoutrements cheaper for new, locally based restaurants and cut these guys some slack.

In order to get the most out of your visit, the two item combo ($9.95) is the way to go. This lets you pick any two menu items and combine them with a huge helping of rice—steamed or fried—and an eggroll. It’s hard to narrow down their selection to just two, but there are a few tricks to it. One of my selections has to be curry—their yellow and massaman

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group of business lunch regulars, it can go pretty far.

After a few trips, it’s clear Mali Thai has the same idea in mind. It opens right before lunch and closes at 6 p.m., and dedicates all of their resources to the working stiffs hankering for a hearty bowl of massaman curry. The restaurant has been open for just more than two months, and their strategy seems to be working. I’ve visited a few times during the lunch rush and it received a fair share of traffic. We’re not talking lines out the door or anything, but famished office workers and curious passersby have definitely taken an interest (or, at the very least, been smacked in the face by the in-house inflatable man that guards the eatery’s entrance).

The other draw the establishment has going for it is its rotating menu.

Mainstays like yellow curry or Thai basil chicken are typically available all week, but they also cycle in a few other dishes that are only available certain days. The digital menu screen on the exterior window isn’t always up to date, so I’d suggest heading inside and seeing what they actually have at the counter. I wouldn’t shy away from asking the front of house for their input on the menu, either.

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In keeping with City Weekly’s affection for comfort foods of all stripes, it’s hosting a tribute to beer and chicken at The Gateway (18 N. Rio Grande St.) on Saturday, June 22, from 4 to 9 p.m. The Mutha Clucker brings the finest chicken joints in town together with standout breweries and distilleries for a night of tasty food and drink. Several different varieties of chicken are provided by local restaurants such as Jamaica’s Kitchen, Penguin Brothers, Taste of Louisiana and T’s Bar and Grill. Epic Brewing Co., Red Rock, Dented Brick Distillery, Sugar House Distillery and Five Wives Vodka among others, provide drinks.

Westside Festival

Organized as part of the Restore North Temple (restorenorthtemple.com) community initiative, the Westside Festival celebrates the talents and diversity of the North Temple neighborhood. The event includes art, performers, a beer garden and local food from Maile’s Mixx, DaKine Grindz and Udder Rivals. Those interested in turning North Temple into one of downtown Salt Lake’s grand avenues can also learn more about the Restore North Temple initiative. The festival takes place Saturday, June 22, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Sugar Space Arts Warehouse (132 S. 800 West).

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When it comes to the scientific and academic perspective on food, Utah State University can always be trusted to provide some serious insight. This week, the Salt Lake extension of the USU campus hosts a three-day educational series focusing on the artistic and scientific principles behind food preservation. If it involves freezing, fermenting, canning or preserving, you can bet there’ll be some expert-level teaching and learning going on. Tickets can be purchased for the entire threeday series from June 25-27 or for individual days via Eventbrite. Sessions are held in the Zion Building at the Utah State Fairpark (155 N. 1000 West).

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ale ales are one of my most prized beer styles. They can come in many forms, and are influenced from all over the world. This week, I found a couple of ales that take their cues from two very different beer cultures: Belgium and Australia.

Silver Reef Brewing Co. Color Country Red: This is the first beer that I’ve had the chance to sample from Utah’s southernmost brewery. Silver Reef Brewing Co. debuted in December, and is still relatively unknown to many beer drinkers along the Wasatch Front. This red beer pours a slightly hazy, deep amber color, with a twofinger dense off-white head. The foam creates some nice soapy lacing clinging down the glass. Give it a good sniff, and you’ll find

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Upon first sip, I was met with tastes of honey, toasted biscuit and nuttiness. For the most part, it’s dry and cracker-like. Herbal notes, grass, light pear and apple try to add balance, creating an herbal and toasted earthiness that’s pleasing and complementary. There’s light-to-moderate herbal and spicy bitterness on the finish, with lingering notes of caramel and light peppery yeast. For the style and ABV, there’s a good amount of robust complexity, and a balance of dark, bready malt, earthy hops and light fruity yeast notes, with zero cloying flavors after the finish. It excels in its dryness, which adds to the light carbonation and body. It’s very smooth, lightly creamy, bready and slightly crackery, with an overall body that is nice. The 4% alcohol is very well hidden, with zero warming after the finish.

Overall: This is a quenchable red that doesn’t let its spicier Belgian side get too out of control. This was a lot cleaner than I expected from the yeast character; but was still an enjoyable offering, and fit the style well.

Proper Brewing Co. Haka: This Australian-influenced pale ale sits in the glass with a very deep golden and somewhat hazy

rusty color. A huge head forms and hangs around forever in a frothy cap. Light orange zest greets the nose first as you take a whiff.

Next comes just a bit of hops bite, with a light touch of bright and citric bitterness.

The hops play nicely with the initial orange scent. The beer greets the tongue with the biscuit malt from the scent up front. Next comes the light to moderate hops punch.

The bitterness is mostly citrus-forward, with some bright notes of lemon and just a touch of grassiness before the orange blends itself into the flavor. The orange is much more subdued on the tongue than in the scent, plus it is less fruit-forward and a little more bitter. Like the scent, the orange

flavor is more rind than fruit. The flavor that lingers on the tongue is the bitterness of the hops, with just a touch of the blood orange behind them.

Overall: This is a solid pale ale at 4% ABV. A substantial dose of hops is accompanied by just a touch of fruit that keeps the drink interesting.

Silver Reef’s brewery is located at 4391 S. Enterprise Drive in St. George, and the beer is for sale at the brewery’s retail store now. Kegs are only just creeping into area bars, so keep an eye out. The Haka has only been on tap for about a week at Proper Brewing Co. and at Craft by Proper. As always, cheers! CW

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Yoko Ramen

Yoko Ramen keeps its kitchen open until midnight most nights. And unlike the generic college dorm staple, Yoko’s ramen is delicious. The veggie option loads cabbage, green onions and mushrooms into a bowl with noodles—add a poached egg if you’re not vegan—that swim in a miso-based broth. Chicken and pork ramen dishes are also popular, as is the Japanese Cubano sandwich. 473 E. 300 South, 801-876-5267, yokoramenslc.com

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Created by the same people behind the LaSalle and Trio restaurant groups, Stanza Italian Bistro & Wine Bar is an upscale and stunning re-envisionment of Faustina in the same location. The contemporary menu is rooted in Italian classics and is complemented by the ultra-modern interior. The octopus and lamb carpaccio on the small-plates menu is superb, as well as the traditional gnocchi (with green garlic pesto, peas and asparagus) from the pasta section. For dessert, the port ice cream is sensational.

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It turned out to be a good question. While first and foremost they’re a Salt Lake City band that has played shows for the past seven years, frontman and guitarist Rocky Maldonado doesn’t waste time getting at what The Nods aren’t. “To be honest, The Nods is … kind of going against psych and garage rock, that pool that unfortunately a lot of shit gets classified as,” he says. The group cracks like an egg from that point, and with a case of Pabst nearby, a soupy, invigorating conversation begins about not only what The Nods are, but what punk is, and what good music (including their own) should do.

“We’ll freak you out in two minutes,” bassist Josh Brown says about their fast-paced, noisy music. They nudge against terms like “psych,” “garage” and “punk,” and reject the aestheticization of those terms—the distance, for example, between punk ethos and what has become culturally understood as a punk sound. Although Maldonado offers up “busy psych rock” as a descriptor, and Brown describes it as more “to the point” than spacey psych rock, it seems they really can’t pin themselves down. This hesitation, or inability, to identify fully with a genre might be a result of their myriad influences—and of the music it compels them to make.

Collectively, they like everything from ’50s and ’60s pop, according to guitarist Joey Mayes, to “weird stuff” from the ’60s and ’70s, and punk stuff from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. Brown notes how ’60s psychedelic bands have always felt punk to him, simply because they weren’t playing pop music. Maldonado brings up ’60s psych rock pioneers The 13th Floor Elevators as an example. “Punk … means just being yourself, not caring what people think about it,” he says, expanding on Brown’s feeling. “It’s completely ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder.’”

Caught up in this interchange between musical moments and genres, The Nods’ own sound seems to be a product of its members’ restless struggle to get at what’s between the labels that seemingly separate different types of music. This interest and determination translates to the harried, wily final product that is their every song.

And on their way to these, they walk a careful line between knowledge and ignorance. With their respective music tastes, multi-instrumental knowledge and experiences in other local bands, they’re still able to embrace not knowing everything, or doing anything “right.” Maldonado plays a $90 tear-drop shaped Vox-lookalike that he got for free, while Mayes’ long-owned amp and guitar are a result of personal cultivation.

Despite these personal differences, Maldonado remarks, “We still have something that ties it all together … I don’t really know what that is.” Drummer Jeremy Devine offers up “Ariadne’s Thread,” which happens to be the name of their 2015 cassette release, as well as an ancient Greek method for solving puzzles by ex-

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Left to right: Josh Brown, Jeremy Devine, Joey Mayes, and Rocky Maldonado of The Nods hausting every logical approach—an apt metaphor for the band’s tendency to explore every creative avenue.

The result is a complex, fiery sound that Maldonado explains well: “I think [we] have a great dynamic with a call and response.

We have an intro and a guitar riff, a lead line and then vocals, but then after almost every phrase of vocal patterns, there’s a little bass hop or a drum fill or bend on the guitar that just stretches it out. You can do so much with so little. I think in a weird way limiting yourself is one of the most powerful things you can do.” The band’s upcoming album Overripe—released by the U.K.’s Hot Wax Records—will feature clean production to highlight all the little changes that make their songs pop the way they do, and will leave listeners with something that lasts.

In addition to working on the album, this last year found the band busy with frequent shows, too. They struggled against burnout, which was thankfully countered by the gratification of getting to play with local up-and-coming acts. Mayes and Maldonado make sure their regard for live music isn’t understated. Not only do bands serve the purpose of “getting people moving and dancing and drinking,” as Mayes puts it, but of leaving people with a feeling they didn’t have before.

Maldonado says, “To me, it’s way more than having a good time. It’s giving someone something to relate to, and that is so important.” Mayes agrees, recalling certain shows and bands that changed the way he thought about music. “If I can do that for somebody else at a show or on a record, then let’s do it,” Mayes says, “I wanna shake folks up.”

Anybody who has ever been to a Nods show certainly knows what it feels like to be shook up by them. If that isn’t the case for you, then treat yourself to their album release show in the novel but svelte venue that is E3 Modern—a fitting choice for a band that pushes any and all expectations far, far from its wild pursuits. CW

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Much like a young actor named Michael Douglas had to take on a stage name because of an already-existing actor with the same name—the actor in question became Michael Keaton—a young Australian musician named Nick Murphy decided to take on a nom du art because of confusion between him and an already-existing musician of the same name. He opted for Chet Faker—an homage to jazz legend Chet Baker— and performed and recorded under that moniker for several years. But in 2016, Murphy decided to reclaim his birth name, and comes to the Ogden Twilight series with songs from his first full-length release recorded under that name, Run Fast Sleep Naked. That record, inspired by an unlikely-seeming collaboration with legendary Def Jam producer Rick Rubin, showcases the diversity of his songwriting, with distortion fuzz complicating the funky groove of lead single “Sanity,” an ethereal falsetto rising over “Dangerous,” and a swirl of harp twinkling through the plaintive “Hear It Now.” “In a way, the name change was me saying that if I lose everything, that’s OK with me because I’m still being honest,” Murphy said in an April 2019 interview with Billboard. “All people are averse to change.

The deepest irony is that what they love about your work is that it was new, but at the same time they want you to keep giving them something that isn’t new. It’s like hanging onto a breakup.” Brooklyn-based electronica act Beacon opens. (Scott Renshaw) Ogden Amphitheater, 343 E. 25th St., Ogden, 5 p.m., $10-$50, ogdentwilight.com

FRIDAY 6/21 American Football

Teenage angst is a popular topic in most rock-based genres, and in the fields of indie rock and Midwest emo, it’s rare to find a band penning lyrics on just about anything else. So it’s no small achievement that American Football’s 1999 self-titled debut has become one of the most understated yet resonant statements of youthful malaise ever to come from either of those genres. Although the band itself dissolved shortly after its release, American Football went on to be hugely influential, with hundreds of bands mimicking the gentle, layered guitar sounds and frontman Mike Kinsella’s plain-spoken, confessional lyricism to varying degrees of success. After spending the 2000s pursuing their own musical interests (Kinsella formed indie-folk project Owen, and drummer Steve Lamos played in a multitude of bands around Chicago), American Football reconvened in 2014 and finally released their second self-titled album, known as LP2, in October 2016. The album was generally regarded as inferior to their now-seminal debut, but still had its fair share of critical praise and commercial success. American Football’s third LP, released in March, has been hailed by many as

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Strong Words Album Release and Final Show

Strong Words are one of those rare bands that spends a lot of time on what they have. The past six years have found them honing a melodic, tonally rich sound, with singer/guitarist Cathy Foy—a local multi-instrumentalist and mentor at youth music program Spy Hop—at the center of it all, along with guitarist Brian Lord. Those long years together have culminated in three full-length albums, with a fourth to be released on June 22—which also, sadly, marks their very last show. But it’s OK: With Foy’s skilled songwriting and a slew of other local musicians involved over the years and albums—Landon Young, Dyana Durfee, Jaime Richards, Jacob Hall and Ryan Ross— the project has grown and changed in satisfying ways that have, and will, stand the test of time. Foy started the band with experience as a drummer, but became a frontwoman in her own right, picking up guitar along the way. From their charming, smooth-around-theedges debut, 2014’s Come Clean, to 2017’s The Heaviness Needs a Lift, one hears Strong Words hitting their stride, as their melancholic sound warps into something that is, while still plain-spoken, also open and tender, sometimes pulsing with a certain moodiness; tracks like “I Am Immune” quaked with it. It’s not often one gets to hear songs like these paired with a whole new album on the night of a band’s last show, but that’s what’s going down. Be sure not to miss this special band’s farewell, where they’ll be joined by equally talented acts Durian Durian and Bly Wallentine. (Erin Moore) Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 8 p.m., $6, theurbanloungeslc.com

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Those who are familiar with The Felice Brothers’ music know them to be a band that hews closely to the fiber of authentic Americana. Theirs is a sound that traces its roots back to The Band, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Flying Burrito Brothers and other originators of the sound born from the country-rock crossover of the late ’60s and early ’70s. Like many of their predecessors, they hailed from humble beginnings. Originally from the Catskill Mountains, they started making music by busking in the New York City subway system. Eventually, they climbed out and toured the country in a minibus, both in the company of others and on their own. More than a dozen recordings followed, including their latest and best album, Undress.

Each of their efforts provides an example of a strong rootsy foundation and a decided backwoods ethic, the kind of sound that reverberates like an Appalachian hoedown or a smalltown celebration on Saturday night. That said, Undress takes a decidedly darker stance than usual, given that it makes pointed references to the miasma that’s infected the nation of late, and the divisions that threaten to tear it apart at the seams. “We live in a world we can’t understand,” one song finds them singing. Fortunately, that confusion doesn’t dispel their energy or exuberance. Chalk it up to that brotherly bond and a distinct feeling of sibling synergy. Get to their show early and catch singer-songwriter Jonathan Rice’s own verve and vitality. (Lee Zimmerman) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 8 p.m., $18 presale, $20 day of show, 21+, theurbanloungeslc.com

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For the last 40 years, Lucinda Williams has written like a poet, sung like a sailor and lived like a musical nomad, defying convention and expectation at every turn. Growing up as the daughter of an itinerant literature professor, she lived in Louisiana, Mississippi, Mexico, Arkansas and even Utah; in her 20s and 30s, she bounced between Austin, Houston, Los Angeles and Nashville while trying to find the right home for her brooding blend of blues, country, folk and heartland rock.

In fact, it wasn’t until 1998’s Car Wheels on a Gravel Road—her fifth full-length album in 20 years—that Williams’ commercial success caught up with the critical adoration bestowed on her by fellow riders like Tom Petty, Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris. Two decades on, Car Wheels still sounds revelatory: the throaty lurch of Lucinda’s vocals; the hard-driving crunch of guitars from Gurf Morlix and Charlie Sexton; the dustings of dobro and mandolin; the bitter, blurry-eyed take on the rootlessness of relationships. The Grammy-winning album eventually cemented the definition of “altcountry” and “Americana” in the minds of the mainstream music press, re-contextualizing the place that Southern music held in the pop pantheon. Although she’s released eight more studio albums since 1998, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road still serves as the main mile marker of Lucinda Williams’ career, bisecting its contradictory success into neat before-andafter segments she still skewers to this day: “I remember people asking, ‘Where have you been all this time?’” she mused to Billboard last year. “Well, I’ve been right here under your nose. You didn’t know where to put me, so ...” (Nick McGregor) Red Butte Garden Amphitheater, 2280 E. Red Butte Canyon Road, 7:30 p.m., $35-$42, all ages, redbuttegarden.org/concerts

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Third Eye Blind is a band for everyone. They blend the bounce and zip of pop rock with the earnest angst of postgrunge and emo, and their lyrics explore love and relationships in ways that feel intimate and universal. They sound a bit like a lot of other bands, but not a lot like any one of them. While this musical recipe could easily yield generic, featureless glop, that everyman-ish universality is actually Third Eye Blind’s single greatest strength, and the secret to how their early albums have endured in a way most of their late ’90s peers could have only dreamed of. While the band’s critical and commercial success has somewhat waned since the departure of guitarist & songwriter Kevin Cadogan in 2000, more recent efforts like 2015’s Dopamine show that frontman Stephan Jenkins is still a dab hand at crafting poignant sets of lyrics and monstrous singalong hooks.

Said hooks will be filling the air of the Usana Amphitheatre June 21 when Third Eye Blind stops by as part of their 2019 Summer Gods Tour. Also playing are Jimmy Eat World, a similarly-minded alt-rock act who racked up critical acclaim in the late-’90s before hitting it big during the emo boom of the early aughts. New York indie outfit Ra Ra Riot opens.

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Summer is here, and one of the best ways to kick off the season is by celebrating Pride Month. Although the origins of this month of festivities stem from the fateful 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City—and the years of stormy activism that followed— thousands of miles away and decades later, we acknowledge that legacy right here in Utah. And whether it’s Pride Month or not, LGBTQ folks always have a place to go in The Sun Trapp, one of the few bars left in the city that caters specifically to the LGBTQ community. “The more acceptance the community gets, the more people show up,” says Matt of The Sun Trapp when I mention how this year’s Pride events seemed to have more attendance than last year’s. I chat with Matt and Randy, a couple of Trapp’s long time employees. “You wouldn’t know by his muscles, but Randy is shy,” Matt tells me—and I tell them that I share the same problem. One could say a duality similar to that of shyness and muscle can also be found at the Trapp itself, where some nights are for chatting around a patio fire pit, and others are all about the DJ and the dance floor. For me, it was the former, where I met a group of friends hanging on the patio. They extended a warm welcome and invited me to their table. (Rachelle Fernandez) 102 S. 600 West, 385-2356786, thesuntrapp.com

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The same is true for the characters— which is impressive, considering that Woody is the primary returning protagonist who’s still at center stage. We do get the re-discovery of Bo Peep (Annie Potts)— whose absence was briefly mentioned in Toy Story 3—but the focus is largely on the new additions, specifically Forky. And what a wonderfully weird creation he is in his existential horror at his own sentience, and his conviction that he belongs in the trash. The new stuff almost all works, including a primary antagonist in pull-string doll Gabby Gabby (Christina Hendricks) who might not be quite the clone of Stinky Pete/Lotso that she initially appears to be, and Gabby Gabby’s ventriloquist dummy henchmen, who are exactly as disturbing as they initially appear to be.

Yet there’s also something that’s just a touch off about Toy Story 4 as it tries to land its tear-jerking body blows. The metaphors from the earlier films for specific childhood experiences, like dealing with sibling rivalry or leaving the nest, aren’t quite so tidy here, which does in some ways make for a more complex experience as these inanimate objects try to figure out where they belong, and where they should put their love. The real paradigm shift, though, comes from figuring out that where Woody had often previously played stand-in for Andy’s emotional life, here he takes on more of a parental role—frantically concerned with keeping

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hold this truth to be self-evident: The first three Toy Story features are, in fact, one movie. Don’t get hung up on semantics like the fact that they were released in different years, and tell different stories; on a fundamental level, they are a whole.

It’s a narrative about childhood, played out in more-or-less real time, recognizing the way that children use toys and play to process big feelings about jealousy, fear of abandonment or major life transitions. The way those three movies grew over 15 years just like Andy did was essential to their emotional resonance, to an extent that asking “which Toy Story movie was best” feels like missing the point.

So it’s disorienting to realize fairly early in Toy Story 4 that, despite the nine realworld years that have passed since the release of Toy Story 3, Bonnie—the new owner of our plaything heroes—is still only just beginning kindergarten. Woody (Tom Hanks) stows away with an anxious Bonnie on her first day of school, and secretly helps her put together a craft—a google-eyed spork she calls Forky (Tony Hale)—that becomes a comforting friend. So when Forky flies out the window of the family RV while they’re on a road trip, Woody is determined to retrieve the object that means so much to Bonnie.

Centering the story on a search-and-rescue operation places Toy Story 4 squarely within the series’ comfort zone, and first-time feature director Josh Cooley (the Inside Out short Riley’s First Date?) oversees the action with a keen sense for choreography that’s exciting and delightfully silly. From the methods for obtaining a key proposed by a pair of carnival-prize stuffed animals (Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele), to the self-doubt of Canadian stunt motorcycle toy Duke Caboom (Keanu Reeves), to the toys attempting to redirect Bonnie’s parents by impersonating the RV’s GPS system, the adventure holds up to the high bar set by its predecessors.

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NEW THIS WEEK Film release schedules are subject to change. Reviews online at cityweekly.net ANNA [not yet reviewed] Luc Besson once again gives us a badass female assassin, because of course. Opens June 21 at theaters valleywide. (R) CHILD’S PLAY [not yet reviewed] Chucky returns, again. Any questions? Opens June 21 at theaters valleywide. (R) HAMPSTEAD BB For a movie that’s dedicated to the unconventional lifestyle of the man who inspired its male lead, this whimsical romantic comedy sure takes the point of view of its female lead. That would be Emily (Diane Keaton), a widowed American living in London, still struggling with the financial mess left by her husband’s death a year earlier. She meets Donald (Brendan Gleeson), who has been squatting on unused land in Hampstead Heath, which becomes a problem when that land is targeted by real-estate developers. It’s delightful seeing Gleeson get a rare chance to be a romantic lead, and he plays Donald’s dedication to his off-the-grid principles with simple, quiet integrity. Yet behind the farcical elements and the courtroom drama over whether Donald can keep his self-made home, Keaton never quite sells Emily’s economic anxiety as more than a minor frustration. The script doesn’t know what to do with the conflict between Emily’s desire for security and Donald’s perspective that

such security is a trap. When it comes time to deliver a happy ending, there’s no room for any real revolutionary thinking. Opens June 21 at Megaplex Gateway. (PG-13)—Scott Renshaw THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO BBBB Director Joe Talbot’s first feature focuses on the relationship between Jimmie (Jimmie Fails, with whom Talbot wrote the story) and the house his grandfather built—and which his father lost in the 1990s. Jimmie and his friend Montgomery (Jonathan Majors) diligently show up at the house each weekend to do repairs, to the dismay of the current (white) tenants. When the tenants lose the house because of a family squabble, Jimmie and Montgomery move in as squatters, enjoying the beautiful woodwork, high ceilings and pipe organ in the front hall. The movie’s other big relationship, between Jimmie and Montgomery, eventually frays because of the house— but The Last Black Man in San Francisco has bigger ideas than the friends we make and lose, including ruminating on the things that make us us, and what we choose to define us. It’s also a love letter to the city of the title, but it’s a bittersweet letter, acknowledging San Francisco’s history of racism and its current war on the anythingless-than-affluent. Lyrically written, beautifully acted, directed within an inch of its life (in this case, that’s a compliment) and with a wonderful woodwind-heavy score by Emile Mosseri, it’s a must-see.

Opens June 21 at theaters valleywide. (R)—David Riedel PAPI CHULO BB Los Angeles TV meteorologist Sean (Matt Bomer) has a breakdown on air, and is ordered to take some time off. But apparently work has been the only thing keeping him together in the wake of a nasty romantic breakup—or so we gather from accumulating clues—because he falls further down a depressive rabbit hole when he hires day laborer Ernesto (Alejandro Patiño) to do handyman work around his house, then ends up appropriating the poor man’s time and attention in a sort of pseudo-therapeutic faux friendship. Bomer is effective as a man truly, deeply heartbroken

and lost, but there’s something disconcerting in writer-director John Butler’s seeming obliviousness to the inequities of the relationship he hopes to craft as earnest and honest—it’s only an uncomfortably clueless portrait of societal privilege taking advantage of financial desperation. If the film evinced any awareness of the emotional and economic disparities in security between Sean and Ernesto, maybe even tried to compare and contrast them, that might be something. But it wants to see charm in them, rather than discomfort. It fails at this. Opens June 21 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—MaryAnn Johanson PAVAROTTI [not yet reviewed] Ron Howard directs the documentary portrait of the legendary opera singer. Opens June 21 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) TOY STORY 4 BBB.5 See review on p. 43. Opens June 21 at theaters valleywide. (G)

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

is an embarrassing sub-par go-girl ballad for Princess Jasmine. The story is lifted intact from the 1992 movie, with street urchin Aladdin (Mena Massoud) wooing Jasmine (Naomi Scott), daughter of the sultan of the city-state of Agrabah, with the help of a Genie (CGI’d Will Smith). The leads have no chemistry, and the villain—Marwan Kenzari’s Jafar, vizier to the sultan—lacks bite. It’s just watereddown pastiche, on ice, set at Epcot. (PG)—MAJ

THE DEAD DON’T DIE BB.5 Jim Jarmusch has already applied his droll sensibility to samurai assassins and centuries-old vampires, so there was no reason to assume he couldn’t make a zombie movie. But The Dead Don’t Die feels like a weird miscalculation, as he pits a sleepy small town’s police force—consisting of Bill Murray, Adam Driver and Chloë Sevigny— against dead bodies rising to make meals out of the living. The offbeat cast (including Tilda Swinton as a katana-wielding Scottish mortician)carries the movie a long way, yet it’s hard to figure out what Jarmusch wants to do with his quirky bits and pieces. This is a movie determined through its meta-references to remind us that we’re watching a movie, as the filmmaker spends all his time chuckling at the idea that a zombie movie could be anything but a joke. (R)—SR

LATE NIGHT BB.5 Mindy Kaling’s crowd-pleaser of a script goes too easy on the stacked deck favoring white dude writers in this story. Kaling plays Molly Patel, a would-be comedy writer who lands a gig at a late-night talk show hosted by Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson), whose tenure might be nearing a weakened-ratings end. 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. 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 appealing to 21st-century audience demands. It also feels like she’s playing it safe so a mainstream audience can whoop in agreement in all the right places, provided they’re not asked to think too hard about privilege. (R)—SR

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Some traditional astrologers believe solar eclipses are sour omens. They theorize that when the Moon perfectly covers the Sun, as it will on July 2, a metaphorical shadow will pass across some part of our lives, perhaps triggering crises. I don’t agree with that gloomy assessment. I consider a solar eclipse to be a harbinger of grace and slack and freedom. In my view, the time before and after this cosmic event might resemble what the workplace is like when the boss is out of town. Or it might be a sign that your inner critic is going to shut up and leave you alone for a while. Or you could suddenly find that you can access the willpower and ingenuity you need so as to change something about your life that you’ve been wanting to change. So I advise you to start planning now to take advantage of the upcoming blessings of the eclipse.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What are you doing with the fertility and creativity that have been sweeping through your life during the first six months of 2019? Are you witheringly idealistic, caught up in perfectionistic detail as you cautiously follow outmoded rules about how to make best use of that fertility and creativity? Or are you being expansively pragmatic, wielding your lively imagination to harness that fertility and creativity to generate transformations that will improve your life forever?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the year 37 AD, Saul of Tarsus was traveling by foot from Jerusalem to Damascus, Syria. He was on a mission to find and arrest devotees of Jesus, then bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished. Saul’s plans got waylaid, however—or so the story goes. A “light from heaven” knocked him down, turned him blind and spoke to him in the voice of Jesus. Three days later, Saul’s blindness was healed and he pledged himself to forevermore be one of those devotees of Jesus he had previously persecuted. I don’t expect a transformation quite so spectacular for you in the coming weeks, Scorpio.

But I do suspect you will change your mind about an important issue, and consider making a fundamental edit to your belief system.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Spank yourself for me, please. Ten sound swats ought to do it.

According to my astrological assessments, that will be sufficient to rein yourself in from the possibility of committing excesses and extravagance. By enacting this humorous yet serious ritual, you will set in motion corrective forces that tweak your unconscious mind in just the right way so as to prevent you from getting too much of a good thing; you will avoid asking for too much or venturing too far. Instead, you will be content with and grateful for the exact bounty you have gathered in recent weeks.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your inspiration for the coming weeks is a poem by Piscean poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It begins like this: “The holiest of all holidays are those/ Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;/ The secret anniversaries of the heart,/ When the full river of feeling overflows.” In accordance with astrological omens, Pisces, I invite you to create your own secret holiday of the heart, which you will celebrate at this time of year for the rest of your long life. Be imaginative and full of deep feelings as you dream up the marvelous reasons why you will observe this sacred anniversary. Design special rituals you will perform to rouse your gratitude for the miracle of your destiny.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Orfield Laboratories is an architectural company that designs rooms for ultimate comfort. They sculpt the acoustic environment so that sounds are soft, clear and pleasant to the human ear. They ensure that the temperature is just right and the air quality is always fresh. At night, the artificial light is gentle on the eyes, and by day the sunlight is rejuvenating. In the coming weeks, I’d love for you to be in places like this on a regular basis. According to my analysis of the astrological rhythms, it’s recharging time for you.

You need and deserve an abundance of cozy relaxation.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I hope that during the next four weeks, you will make plans to expedite and deepen your education. You’ll be able to make dramatic progress in figuring out what will be most important for you to learn in the next three years. We all have pockets of ignorance about how we understand reality, and now is an excellent time for you to identify what your pockets are and to begin illuminating them. Every one of us lacks some key training or knowledge that could help us fulfill our noblest dreams, and now is a favorable time for you to address that issue.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the next four weeks, you’re not likely to win the biggest prize or tame the fiercest monster or wield the greatest power.

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The first motorcycle was another quantum leap in humans’ ability to travel. Two German inventors created the first one in 1885. But it took 120 years before any person did a back-flip while riding a motorcycle. If I had to compare your next potential breakthrough to one or the other marvelous invention, I’d say it’ll be more metaphorically similar to a motorcycle flip than the moon-landing. It might not be crucial to the evolution of the human race, but it’ll be impressive—and a testament to your hard work.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Some children are repelled by the taste of broccoli. Food researchers at the McDonald’s restaurant chain decided to address the problem. In an effort to render this ultra-healthy vegetable more palatable, they concocted a version that tasted like bubble gum. Kids didn’t like it, though. It confused them.

But you have to give credit to the food researchers for thinking inventively. I encourage you to get equally creative, even a bit wacky or odd, in your efforts to solve a knotty dilemma. Allow your brainstorms to be playful and experimental.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Mythologist Joseph Campbell said that heroes are those who give their lives to something bigger than themselves. That’s never an easy assignment for anyone, but right now it’s less difficult for you than ever before. As you prepare for the joyous ordeal, I urge you to shed the expectation that it will require you to make a burdensome sacrifice. Instead, picture the process as involving the loss of a small pleasure that paves the way for a greater pleasure. Imagine you will finally be able to give a giant gift you’ve been bursting to express.

their theories. But also tell them that if they remain open to your rowdy grace and boisterous poise, you might provide them with curative stimulation they didn’t even know they needed.

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It’s Come to This The Pokemon Co. has made Japanese brides’ dreams come true with its announcement that it is collaborating with a wedding planner to offer sanctioned ceremonies with its characters in attendance, dressed as a bride and groom. Yes, Pikachu will stand up with you and your betrothed (as long as you go to Japan to tie the knot), and the icing on the cake is Pokemon-themed food items and a Pikachu cake topper. Finally, United Press International reports, for your scrapbook, you’ll have a marriage certificate decorated with Pokemon imagery — ­ surely an item you’ll want to preserve in a licensed Pokemon photo frame.

Stay With Me Here Around 1:40 a.m. on May 9, as an unnamed Cocoa, Fla., homeowner slept in her garage, a black Cadillac crashed into the structure, missing her by only inches, according to the 911 call.

The Cadillac was stolen, it turns out, and was fleeing an Orange County Sheriff’s Office patrol vehicle—which was also stolen and being driven by someone impersonating a police officer.

After the crash, WFTV reported, the imposter patrolman continued trying to pull over vehicles before speeding away. The patrol SUV was later abandoned behind a shopping plaza in Cocoa.

Star Treatment Gwen Lynch, the lone 2019 graduate of the eighth grade at Cuttyhunk Elementary School on Cuttyhunk Island, Mass., received the accolades and advice of a celebrity graduation speaker, actress and comedian Jenny Slate, on June 17. The island, which has a year-round population of only about a dozen people, is familiar to Slate, whose parents live nearby, reported the Cape Cod Times. Gwen has also been working on her own speech. Graduation festivities included a potluck dinner, and organizers expected a “packed house”: “Most of the town will be there,” predicted Michael Astrue, who secured Slate for the address.

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Fashion Statement Beachgoers looking to make a statement this summer will want to check out the Jeado, a Speedo-style swimsuit brief for men that looks like it’s cut from a pair of jeans, but is really made of polyester and Spandex, for comfort and quick drying. The retailer describes the faux-denim look: “It is like eating a bag of chips in church. Everyone looks over at you with disgust, but deep down they want some too.” United Press International reports that Jeados sell for $39.99 through shinesty.com.

Questionable Judgment While students at Holy Family Catholic School in Port Allen, La., took a field trip to Washington, D.C., to learn about our nation’s founding and visit historic sites, their principal, Michael Comeau, had another kind of sightseeing in mind. In the pre-dawn hours of May 31, police were called to Archibald’s Gentleman’s Club in D.C. after “an intoxicated man refused to pay his bill,” according to the arrest report. The Advocate reports that officers found Comeau, 47, standing in a roadway, “refusing to move.” He was arrested for public intoxication and possession of an open container of alcohol. Comeau immediately resigned his position as principal, along with his role as a reserve police officer at the Brusly Police Department.

Unclear on the Concept For reasons that remain unclear, a local police officer drove a beach patrol ATV into a marsh on Tybee Island, Ga., on May 31, where it became stuck in the mud. Officials with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources say the officer then used a City of Tybee pickup truck to try to free the ATV, but the truck also became stuck. City workers next attempted to pull both vehicles out using two backhoes, which also succumbed to the marsh. An excavator was finally able to free one of the backhoes from the muck, but the Coastal Resources Division of the DNR reported to WSAV that it will likely take a barge and crane to extricate the other three vehicles. Tybee city officials are conducting an investigation.

Anger Management Don’t mess with Texas ... or with 41-year-old Doris VallejoGodoy of Austin, Texas, who pulled a gun on a man at La Catedral del Marisco, a Mexican restaurant, according to an arrest affidavit. The June 2 scuffle began as a disagreement about who would be up next for karaoke, the Austin-American Statesman reported. The man told police that as they argued, Vallejo-Godoy struck him, then pulled out her gun and pointed it at him. She also threatened a waitress who tried to intervene, the affidavit said.

Police arrived as Vallejo-Godoy was arguing in the parking lot with her girlfriend; she was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and unlawful carrying of a concealed weapon.

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Oops An unidentified man in Tuscumbia, Ala., did what so many of us do every day: He went online to Amazon to order some household items. But when his package arrived on May 23, he was alarmed to discover a urine sample from a private citizen, not the shower curtain and rings he’d ordered. “When I reached in and pulled it out (it was) some kind of urine specimen or something like that,” he told WHNT. An Amazon representative said the company was “very sorry” about the mistake and would send his bathroom accessories right away, but declined to have him return the sample.

Bright Ideas May 17 wasn’t the first time Dan Smith of Seattle found a Car2Go vehicle left in the driveway of his rental property, so he erected a fence around it and posted “No Tresspassing” signs and other warnings. He then informed Car2Go’s parent company, Share Now, that he wanted $65 per day for storage, $300 for the fence and $500 for harassment. Share Now responded to inquiries from KIRO saying seven different customers tried to rent the car a day after it was left in Smith’s driveway but couldn’t because of the barricade. Asad Rasheed, who lives in Smith’s building, said the errantly parked vehicles are a common problem: “People are not made aware of where to park, where not to park and how to use them,” Rasheed said. Share Now has agreed to work with Smith but told the TV station they wouldn’t be paying him.

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