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Music, p. 32 When the hip-hop aficionado isn’t writing about SLC’s ever-growing rap scene or coaching students in SLCC’s writing lab, you can hear him on KRCL 90.9 FM’s Friday Night Fallout show each week. “I want to expose our readers to new music—good local music,” he says.

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Foreign Meddling

Dear City Weekly readers, Does our freshman senator, Mitt Romney, ever do any research before broadcasting his bonehead opinions? Now, he is quoted saying that for President Donald Trump to hear foreigners’ political dirt on opponents is “simply unthinkable.”

How could he be unaware the Democratic elite paid for a British (i.e. foreign) dossier fantasizing the Trump campaign “colluded with Russians in the 2016 election.” This twoyear distraction found no collusion and cost the U.S. $35 million—charges still escalating in Democratic controlled congressional committee “investigations.”

President Barack Obama’s lobbying interference in their Brexit referendum cost U.K. taxpayers 1,668,650 Pounds and a deployment of 4,268 metropolitan police officers. This waste backfired and Brits still chose to leave the EU. Costs to U.S. taxpayers seem unavailable The 20th century had a gradual trend of combatants outside war parameters: Nazis bombed citizens of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War creating the London Blitz and

retaliation bombing of German cities; Viet Cong looked like civilians.

Is globalist Obama the instigator of a 21st century trend of interfering in elections in foreign countries?

Romney would do well to remember Mark Twain’s dictum: “I prefer to keep my mouth closed and allow others to think I’m a fool rather than open it and remove all doubt.”

VICKI MARTIN, Clearfield

Propaganda Factories Would someone of national stature (preferably one of the Democratic Party candidates for president in 2020) please tell the people of our country how full of baloney the conservative, right-wing news media is?

The part that I find to be the most pathetic and laughable is how they play all of us and try to pretend that their “think-tanks” produce “objective,” “unbiased” and “scientific” research when most of them really are phony and fake propaganda factories/ mills funded by corporate billionaires and deca-millionaires who want to abolish all of the

social safety-net programs like Social Security and Medicare.

Sincerely, STEWART B. EPSTEIN Rochester, N.Y.

P.S. By way of background, I am a retired college professor of sociology, social work, and psychology. I taught at West Virginia University and Slippery Rock University.

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Utah’s Bad Report Card: No ‘A’ for the Aging Population

Of course, you’ve seen them—there’s no way to miss Utah’s proliferation of assisted living centers, along with their associated memory care and hospice facilities. It’s the epidemic result of the state’s rapidly growing over-65 sector. For a mere $4,000 to $10,000 per month, there are myriad choices for the younger generations to incarcerate their parents and grandparents for those final, maybe-not-so-golden years.

Now, I realize that “incarceration” has an unfavorable connotation, so I’ll backtrack: With a remarkable array of amenities and an elegance—which often far exceed residents’ previous living arrangements—many of these facilities provide the finest level of house arrest. “There’s no place like home,” and the majority of Utahns hope to stay in their own personal homes for the remainder of their lives.

But that’s not always possible. The ravages of age often require a level of care that would be a difficult—or even impossible—burden for the family.

But the sad reality is that the young mostly shun the responsibility to give something back to those who sacrificed in order to provide them with a strong start in life. In many parts of the world, families live alongside their elders, sharing the fears and pains of aging, and being there, in those final hours, to provide the loving send-off to the great beyond.

BY MICHAEL S. ROBINSON SR. Consistent with the narcissistic hedonism so prevalent in the U.S., most Americans loathe the idea of caring for the aged. It’s not just Utahns. Somehow, the edict of “Honor thy father and thy mother” has failed to pass the test of time.

We have a problem, and it’s getting bigger by the day. As the percentage of aging population rises, so does its marginalization of Utah’s senior sector. State programs committed to serving and protecting the aging are woefully underfunded, and struggle to fulfill their responsibilities, simply because our Legislature won’t step up to the plate.

In a state where great reverence is given to the monotone old men of Mormonism, it is hard to understand why Utah’s other seniors are essentially being punished for surviving so long. Age should have its special benefits. Instead, our state bends over backward to accommodate the younger generations while neglecting the old.

One black mark for Utah is its burdensome taxation. All Social Security and retirement incomes are taxed at the same rates as wages. It’s deplorable, and, frankly, other states put ours to shame.

Utah is one of only 13 states that tax retirees’ Social Security income. Many others exempt pensions and 401K income as well. One, Georgia, exempts both SS and pensions right up to $65,000 per person. That’s right; no state taxes on all but the richest old geezers. Instead, Utah’s aging are forced to pay the burdens of the young—providing, through their silver-haired indenturement, the education, infrastructure and programs which primarily benefit the state’s excessively large families.

Then there’s the matter of recreation. Utahns, like other retirees, look forward to a nice RV and travel. But it’s more expensive here. Uncle Sam outshines Utah, providing a lifetime senior pass that gives free access to all national parks, monuments and facilities, and provides half-price

camping. But Utah’s state parks make the aging population pay full-tilt for camping—zero discounts for seniors.

While there’s a $35 per year annual pass for park entry— which includes day use facilities and boat launching—all camping, even if your name is Methuselah, is at full price.

What do other states provide? Numerous concessions for seniors, with free entry to all state parks and discounted camping.

Here, the cliché signs—“gone fishin’”—on retirees’ front doors, aren’t such a joyous announcement. Utah is pricey on its fishing and hunting fees, and seniors are required, like everyone else, to buy a new license every year. (Almost every other state offers an inexpensive (or free) over-65 fishing and hunting license that’s good for life.)

Utah’s property taxes are another curse on the old. Indexed to the soaring values of our real estate, they threaten retirees’ home ownership. People on fixed incomes often can’t absorb the ever-increasing costs. In a sense, it’s the right of the taxing authority to take that “paid-off” home away by making it too expensive to keep. Many states have addressed that risk and have laws which limit increases and exempt a large portion of a home’s valuation. Utah?

Not a chance. We have “property tax relief” for seniors, but it’s only for those with poverty level incomes.

If report cards were provided to our governor and legislators on issues of the aging, it certainly wouldn’t be a grade they’d want their mothers to see. Somehow, the mandate to love thy father and thy mother is struggling for survival in our state—lodged in that bottom drawer where good intentions are forgotten. CW

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Never mind that the inland port board canceled its June and July meetings. Apparently, they had to take time off from the hard work of building an economy on the ashes of the environment while the new director gets comfortable. Envision Utah has reconvened several working groups, and it appears that officials are looking at ways to use tax increments to incentivize sustainable development.

Shouldn’t sustainability be integral to the plan? With the port sited in the vulnerable Northwest Quadrant, it’s important that the public check out the plans as they go forward. Here are two Upcoming Envision Utah Meetings: Roads, Rail & Air, 4501 S. 2700 West, Redwood Conference Room B, 1st Floor, Thursday, July 11, 2-3:30 p.m., free; Workforce, Education, & Corporate Recruitment, Utah Tax Commission, 210 N. 1950 West, Room 1026-1027, Friday, July 12, 10-11:30 a.m., free, bit.ly/30dAyL4.

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Be part of a national vigil, a coalition dedicated to human rights and the fundamental principle behind democracy that all human beings have a right to life, liberty and dignity, say the organizers of Lights for Liberty: A Vigil to End Human Concentration Camps. Thousands of Americans will go to the streets or community gatherings in solidarity against the inhumane treatment of migrants. At many of these events in places like El Paso, Washington, D.C., and Salt Lake City, legislators, activists, organizers and members of impacted communities speak at the candlelight vigil.

“Congress is refusing to stop the president and his policies. We cannot allow these atrocities to be perpetrated in our name,” lawyer and organizer Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin says. Constitution Park, 300 N. 1300 West, Friday, July 12, 9-10 p.m., free, bit.ly/2XJVfk5.

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HITS&MISSES

BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

Red, White and Boo

Are we being too P.C. or just now paying attention to how we’re being co-opted? Let’s talk flags— and maybe statues. Well, for sure Colin Kaepernick started a dust-up over some Nike shoes with an imprint of a Colonial flag. You know, it has racial implications.

Meanwhile in Utah, Colonial Flag owner Paul Swenson is eating it up, and maybe profiting from it. Stick it to the “losers” is the message from the right. We’ve had the same reaction to pushback on Confederate statues and flags because symbolism is what it’s all about. “A symbol derives meaning from its uses and the perceptions of those uses,” writes American Civil War Museum historian John Coski.

And we know who’s using those symbols now. Sadly, our most visible symbol, the American flag, is being co-opted by rightwing extremists, too. Americans need to take it back before someone changes the image to a golf club and a tank.

Concerned For a Change

It’s nice to see U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop concerned about torture, killings and rape. Oh, if you’re thinking this has something to do with the way we treat immigrants, no. This is about federal efforts to stop overseas poaching.

Bishop is now demanding accountability from the World Wildlife Fund about how federal grant monies are being used, according to a Deseret News article. The sudden concern is due to a BuzzFeed News investigation that turned up civil rights abuses in Asia and Africa. The investigation claimed WWF inadvertently funded spy networks and bought assault rifles for guards in national parks. We all know assault rifles mean nothing good, except maybe not Bishop, who is a vocal supporter of the NRA. To WWF’s credit, they hired an international law firm to investigate.

Shock Me

Rocky Mountain Power gets what it wants because, you know, energy. We use a lot of it and we’re going to need a lot more. So RMP has to push its way into unwitting neighborhoods to build bigger and stronger power lines and poles. West-siders, according to a Salt Lake Tribune report, aren’t happy about the Beck Street Transmission Project. It means poles some 30 feet taller than those existing and a new 138-kilovolt line in the public right of way. Marathon Petroleum needs more oomph from its electrical service, so basically, it’s saying, “Bite me.” Resident pushback has helped some in the past. A substation on the eastside was rebuilt more efficiently in 2010, but South Jordan has had to file a complaint over potential new power lines there.

Meanwhile, this might be a reason to vote for David Garbett for mayor. He’s promising to push for the Marathon refinery to move out of the valley.

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Vaughn Hadenfeldt, center, addresses a crowd at the Bears Ears Education Center’s opening. guide publisher, ranked Bears Ears at the top of its list of recommended places to visit in 2019. (Visitor resources currently available include the Kane Gulch Ranger Station and the Natural Bridges National Monument visitor center, each about 40 miles from the town of Blanding, Utah.)

“There’s all this publicity happening, and yet there’s no official visitor center,” Ewing says. “That’s the sort of challenge we’re trying to meet.”

Ewing’s staff will interact with at least a portion of that influx; he hopes that 10,000 people will pass through the doors this year. Inside the center, exhibits illustrate the region’s history and cultural significance and describe the continuing efforts to protect it. A virtual reality exhibit, expected to open this summer, will immerse travelers in sites too sensitive for largescale visitation.

Already, many sensitive sites are getting hammered—resulting in unauthorized new trails, vandalized rock art, pottery shards picked up by looters. Lyle Balenquah, a Hopi citizen, river guide and former National Park Service archaeologist, assists Friends of Cedar Mesa with archaeological recording and restoration projects for the center. As a freelance contractor, he surveys monument sites and collects data for the BLM, Forest Service and tribes to use to monitor impacts. He’s seen firsthand the

damage inflicted by uninformed visitors.

“That’s where this need for places like the education center comes in,” Balenquah says, “to try and help fill that void of what it means to visit with respect.”

To educate the public about how best to interact with a complicated landscape like Bears Ears, the new education center’s creators want tribal citizens guiding its vision.

The Inter-Tribal Coalition, an alliance between the Hopi, Navajo, Ute Mountain Ute, Zuni and Ute tribes, wants a presence on the landscape, too—possibly a facility of its own that might operate as some combination indigenous knowledge institute, visitor center and coalition headquarters.

It is also collaborating on a key exhibit for the education center. But right now, it’s focusing on the monument lawsuit and a land-management plan it is drafting in conjunction with the BLM and Forest Service, so progress is slow. For now, the Bears Ears Education Center has to stand in for its needs.

Ewing hopes the federal government will partner with tribal nations to build a more “official” facility at the monument.

“We hope [this center] is an interim measure,” he says, “and we’ll be happy to put it out of business.” CW A version of this article originally appeared in High Country News.

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Far Out Expeditions, cut a handmade yucca rope with a stone knife, saying, “Let’s make Bears Ears National Monument great again!”

The center’s refurbished wood-slat façade evokes the Old West. The building once housed a saloon frequented by uranium miners in the 1950s. Now, it greets travelers headed to a culturally bountiful landscape, where indigenous communities have lived for thousands of years.

The grassroots visitor center exists largely because Bears Ears National Monument is in legal limbo with still-uncertain boundaries. After President Donald Trump’s executive order eliminated 85% of the monument’s original acreage in 2017, tribal nations—the Hopi, Navajo, Ute, Ute Mountain Ute and Zuni tribes—along with numerous environmental groups, including Friends of Cedar Mesa, filed lawsuits that will likely take years to unravel.

But the political controversy has only increased the monument’s visibility, and since 2017, visitation has overwhelmed resources on the ground.

Federal agencies estimate that more than 130,000 persons descended on the newly shrunken monument in 2017, a 72% surge from the year before. BLM estimates put the monument-wide number in 2018 as high as 750,000. But even greater numbers are expected: Fodor’s, the popular travel

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he terracotta mesas and umber buttes proclaim this is an exceptional place. Yet not one sign from the Bureau of Land Management or U.S. Forest Service, the two federal agencies that jointly manage Bears Ears National Monument, indicates where it’s actually located. There are no federal facilities to serve the rising tide of visitors.

“It’s managed by Google,” says Josh Ewing, executive director of the landconservation nonprofit Friends of Cedar Mesa, based in nearby Bluff. “Because that’s the only place people are getting their information.” Ewing, a Nebraskan with a stubbly beard and a quick smile, is a climber whose 20-year love affair with the landscape turned him into an activist for Southeastern Utah’s public lands.

In the absence of a federal presence, Ewing and Friends of Cedar Mesa raised $700,000 from crowd-funding site Kickstarter and built the Bears Ears Education Center last year. The local climbers, guides, conservationists and educators saw the growing hordes descending on the fragile, embattled monument and feared visitors could permanently damage the landscape.

Last September, locals, donors and supporters from nearby pueblos gathered to inaugurate the nation’s first-ever privately run national monument visitor center. Board President Vaughn Hadenfeldt, a sandy-gray-haired guide and owner of

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ELIZABETH LATENSER

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Damn These Heels LGBTQ Film Festival tries to capture the past, present and future of queer representation on screen.

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ilm festivals have long been a way to showcase ideas and stories outside the mainstream. But as the world in general shifts in its notion of what “mainstream” means, so are film festivals themselves shifting. Which raises one provocative question: In 2019, what does an LGBTQ-themed film festival look like, and what should it look like?

fight tooth and nail to have really great representation of genderqueer people and intersex people and people who are outside of traditional representation portrayed on screen,” Davis says, “and those kinds of films are really hard to find. You might get a 40-minute-long French documentary where you say, ‘Ah, this is the one this year,’ where you might get 35 traditional gay love stories every year.

“We have programmers who say [of a given submitted film], ‘You know, this is a perfectly good story, but I feel like I’ve seen it 80 times before.’ Then they encounter something that they get excited about.”

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As part of that ongoing effort to expand representation, Davis reached out to local artist and genderqueer activist Jordan Blok as a guest programmer. Blok was given freedom to make special selections outside of the options from the past 12-18 months that typically make up a small film festival’s program—as Blok describes it, “an ancillary slate of films that might have been missed at film festivals in the past.”

They chose three films: Park Chan-wook’s

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ognizing that certain kinds of queer stories that might have been relegated to the artistic margins in the past are now moving to the center of the cultural conversation. From a gay teen romantic comedy like Love, Simon getting a multiplex theatrical release in 2018 to increased representation of trans and non-binary characters on cable and streaming TV series, many queer stories have a home now they wouldn’t have had in previous years.

For Davis and the rest of the Damn These Heels programmers, it’s important to consider the place of both “safer” stories and potentially edgier ones.

“There’s a canon of gay representation which is sort of cute, cisgendered, approachable, palatable mainstream characters who have mainstream stories,” Davis says. “And that’s great,

because that provides a level of visibility to a community that’s always been on the margins. So we’ll play those films as long as they haven’t played elsewhere in Utah, because we want to bring people that story, and people can see things on the screen that maybe they didn’t see when they were younger. On the other hand, queerness in a lot of ways is still at the fringes, especially if you’re looking at genderqueer stories, or people of color being represented. Or there are certain political elements that mean you’re not sure if you’re fully accepted by society, because the goalposts keep moving.”

Programming any kind of film festival is a challenge, but for Davis, it’s particularly important to consider that “rainbow” of representation on a footing equal with that of the films’ other artistic merits. Some kinds of stories are simply far less often told than others, making the rare cases where they are told more attractive for programming purposes. As an example, Davis cites the French documentary No Box for Me, about intersex individuals dealing with the stigmas and unique physical and psychological challenges they face. “We

That question is a central one for Davey Davis, film program director for the Utah Film Center and its annual Damn These Heels LGBTQ Film Festival. Now in its 16th year, Damn These Heels showcases more than 30 features and shorts representing a wide range of perspectives, drawing an audience that in 2018 reached more than 3,600 admissions. But Davis acknowledges that every year, that range shifts, and requires programming to shift along with it.

“Every year,” Davis says, “we go into the festival thinking, ‘OK, do we still need a queer film festival. And if we do still need a queer film festival, what does that look like?’ The answer is, invariably, yes, because it’s an evolving story of visibility and representation.”

That evolution involves, in part, rec-

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2016 lesbian-themed thriller The Handmaiden; 1997’s Ma Vie en Rose, an early representation of a transgender child in film; and the 1951 French melodrama Olivia, set at a French all-girls boarding school.

“People have access to those films, so we’re not programming them necessarily so that people have a chance to see them for the first time—although maybe for some people, they discover them,” Davis says. “It’s more to see these films on the big screen, and then have a conversation before or after to talk about, what does this say about queerness as it evolves? What do we learn as a culture from looking at this film from 1997? Does it age well or does it not?”

Blok also considers the question of how films age a relevant one, but feels it’s possible to recognize problematic elements within older stories without needing to “cancel” them. Ma Vie en Rose, Blok says, was a pivotal experience for them seeing gender non-conforming characters on-screen, even though some of the language used in the film to describe a trans character would be considered unacceptable now. “It’s a gorgeous film, but there are ways of referring to these characters that is accurate to the time,” Blok says. “Despite how that character isn’t talked about [in a way] I’d talk about a trans child now, at the time it was a very real depiction of how I was feeling and what I was dealing with. What makes it stand out for me is that, despite the language that we would not or should not use now to describe trans individuals, the depiction itself felt loving and respectful to that character. …

When we talk about historical examples of those portrayals, specifically for trans viewers of films like these, it’s never going to be perfect.”

Davis, meanwhile, notes the historical significance of Olivia, which appeared at a time when gay stories simply weren’t being told openly. “I love Olivia for that,” he says, “because it’s basically a form of cinematic crate-digging: How did you tell a lesbian story in 1951, when everyone was in the closet? What can you do with subtext?”

Fluidity and Representation

While the older films provide one window on the evolution of queer representation in film, the festival program as a whole touches on another emerging concept: the way more people are embracing a lack of concrete specificity, either in their gender identity or in their sexual orientation. Multiple films in the Damn These Heels 2019 lineup introduce characters—some real, some fictional—crossing back and forth over lines that in previous years might

have been considered hard boundaries, allowing them to do so with respect and dignity.

“I wish we could take credit for having that as a theme this year, but I think the conversation is led by the filmmakers,” Davis says. “You can see these people pushing sexuality as a concept, pushing gender as a concept, and wanting to be free from these constraints.”

“That represents inclusivity in the selection process,” Blok adds. “This reckoning with fluidity is an artistic exploration of how a lot of queer people are reckoning with how we get to be more than one thing, things that maybe we don’t know how to talk about yet. Queerness can exist in spaces where we don’t have finite names for them.

The exploration of that through film is kind of how many queer people think of themselves.”

These can be unfamiliar and even uncomfortable ideas for straight cisgender audience members to deal with, but for Davis, facilitating the exploration of difficult concepts is part of what a film festival is for—whether that means wrestling with fluidity, or even providing a sympathetic portrait of conservative perspectives on gender and sexuality, as is seen in the documentary Gay Chorus Deep South. “A good film doesn’t let you off the hook,” Davis says, “because it takes into account that there are many different conversations going on.”

And conversation, ultimately, is one thing a film festival has going for it that can’t be duplicated by watching films on an electronic device. Damn These Heels encourages these conversations in the onsite lounge (rather than as part of post-film Q&As), and has created a spot for more general “community reflection” about queer representation in film as part of a partnership with The Bee on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. “Seeing [a movie] alone in your home is not going to change you as much as going out to see it and having a conversation, or bonding over seeing it as a community experience,” Davis says. With the world and the movies about that world changing as much as they have, there’s a lot to talk about.

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ADAM B B½

Gender farce boasts a rich comedic legacy running from Shakespeare to Some Like It Hot to Tootsie; it’s hard to know what to do with a take on that genre that isn’t particularly interested in the comedy. Director Rhys Ernst and screenwriter Ariel Schrag adapt Schrag’s novel set in pre-marriage-equality 2006, when baby-faced sexually-frustrated high-schooler Adam (Nicholas Alexander) heads to New York to spend the summer with his gay older sister, Casey (Margaret Qualley), among her LGBTQ cohorts. There he falls for Gillian (Bobbi Salvör Menuez), and tells a little white lie: that he’s a transgender man. Complications, as they are wont to do, ensue, and Alexander makes for a likable, young-Michael-Cera-esque protagonist as he grows up in his understanding. This is a story deeply committed to exploring the fluidity of sexuality and gender identity, and does so with compassion and a deft touch. But Ernst seems unsure what to do with set-ups that should burst with comedic possibilities, like Adam finding himself at a fetish club where Casey also shows up, or how a straight guy handles buckling himself into a strapon. The pace and timing are that of a drama, but it should be possible to laugh at an idea while still taking it seriously. July 14, 11:15 a.m., Jeanné Wagner Theater (Scott Renshaw)

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It feels like something unearthed from a time capsule, a buried relic of the era when the Weinsteins would find frothy crowdpleasers from around the globe. This one tells the story of two families brought together when the two (previously straight) patriarchs—Toni (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) and Carlo (Alessandro Gassman)—announce, much to everyone’s surprise, that they plan to get married. The theoretically farcical plot revolves around the efforts of Toni’s cynical daughter Penny (Jasmine Trinca) and Carlo’s homophobic son Sandro (Filippo Scicchitano) to break up their fathers’ relationship. Trinca’s performance is the anchor, attempting to capture a woman so messed up by her childhood that she doesn’t understand the possibility of a happy romance, but there are too many characters and arcs here wrestling for time, resulting in character interactions that feel thin. More than the characters’ big speeches, it feels built around Toni’s lavish seaside home, in the kind of tame, “why can’t we all just get along” story where you get a bunch of people finding common ground by dancing to a pop song. Maybe it makes you feel good, or maybe it makes you feel like it would have had more to say in 1999. July 14, 3:45 p.m., Jeanné Wagner Theater (SR)

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Park Chan-wook is always a safe bet to deliver movies that are visually striking and more than a little unsettling; he hasn’t typically been given enough credit for his sociopolitical edge. Adapting Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith from Victorian England to 1930s Japan-occupied Korea, Park tells the story of pickpocket Sook-hee (Kim Tae-ri), who becomes the servant of the wealthy Lady Hideko (Kim Min-hee) with the purpose of facilitating a fraud by would-be suitor Count Fujiwara (Ha Jung-woo)—except that Lady Hideko’s passions may lie elsewhere. The twisty narrative—which circles back multiple times to observe the same events from different points of view—makes for a compelling mystery, seasoned with some explicit sex, queasy-making violence and Park’s distinctive art direction of locations like a sinister “reading room” and a mosscovered set of stone steps. But the real punch comes in the way Park explores the manipulation of power dynamics and the different forms abusive relationships take, with more than a token swipe at the role of pornography in perpetuating patriarchy. It may emerge from a dark place, but it’s also the director’s purest love story yet. July 14, 3:45 p.m., Black Box Theater (SR)

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Four trans teenagers who are also elite athletes—a cross-country skier, a wrestler and two track stars—find themselves becoming activists by circumstance more than desire, as they’re attacked by politicians and everyday adults around them who think, at best, they’re competing in the wrong sex class, and at worst,

FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO B B B B

A rumination on the effects—positive and negative—far-right Christianity has on LGBTQ youth, this is Daniel Karslake’s spiritual (ha) follow-up to For the Bible Tells Me So. This time around, we meet four families of faith who raised four LGBTQ kids very differently.

There are the McBrides, whose daughter Sarah was the first openly transgender person to speak at the Democratic National Convention; the Porchers, whose child self-harmed until their parents accepted them; the Robertsons, who made their son undergo conversion therapy; and the Faez/Bebo family, whose son was present at the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando. Of note: All the parents are portrayed in as neutral a fashion as a documentary can, regardless of their child’s story. Even the Robertsons, who seem to carry enough guilt for seven sets of families, don’t come off as monsters, even if what they put their child through was monstrous. There’s also a fascinating panel of expert clergy showing what progressive faith can (or should) look like. This masterful work is simultaneously filled with optimism and heartbreak; if you haven’t cried at least a dozen times when the credits roll, you’re probably not human. July 13, 12:45 p.m., Jeanné Wagner Theater (DR)

THE HANDMAIDEN B B B B

The narration at the beginning and end (and it’s never a good sign when a movie only has narration at the beginning and end) suggests something more satiric and self-aware than what we actually get, which is more like a distaff version of The Lost Boys. But as fun as a lesbian parody of Twilight might have been, the vivacious, slightly cheesy, feels-like-the-pilot-for-a-show-on-The-CW feminist vampire morsel delivered by writer-director Brad Michael Elmore isn’t bad either. It concerns disaffected 18-year-old Laurel (Nicole Maines) visiting her brother (James Paxton) in L.A. for the summer, where she falls in with a group of punk vampire girls who have a very strict “no boys allowed” policy—OK as food, not as converts—because men, it seems, tend not to wield vampiric powers responsibly. Laurel’s transition to bloodsucker is the focus of the story, with vampire-hunters and resurrected ancient evils in the periphery. It’s all about as good as lowbudget vampire flicks tend to be, with an added flicker of righteous anger. July 12, 10 p.m., Jeanné Wagner Theater (Eric D. Snider)

FABULOUS B B½

It’s unreasonable to expect that a 45-minute documentary would be able to cover a topic in both depth and breadth; it’s reasonable to expect that it shouldn’t try. Director Audrey Jean-Baptiste follows drag queen Lasseindra Ninja as they return to their native French Guiana to teach a master class in vogue dancing to the locals. Footage of the classes themselves is engaging, as Lasseindra attempts to whip the rookies into shape. But the story also takes mini-stops as Lasseindra interacts with other local residents—including the ballet teacher from whom they took lessons as a boy—and provides mini-profiles of Guianese gay youth describing their experience in a very gay-unfriendly culture. Few of the anecdotes get much chance to stick, however, as we barely get a sense for the individuals involved beyond Lasseindra’s description finding a family of choice in the New York-based house culture. As a chance to watch dancing, it’s a blast; as a piece of sociology, it’s only half the movie it needs to be. July 14, 11:45 a.m., Black Box Theater (SR)

Why did the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus cross the ideological road for a tour performing in five blood-red Southern states? That’s not the setup for a joke, but it’s also only the beginning of a richly emotional documentary that follows the celebrated vocal group through Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina in fall 2017. Artistic director Tim Seelig positions it as an attempt to begin conversations in the wake of the divisive 2016 election, and indeed director David Charles Rodrigues captures interactions between strangers that offer a sense of hope that personal contact changes hearts. But it’s also a deeply emotional look at how several choir members with Southern, conservative Christian roots—including Seelig himself—attempt to find healing while returning to churches, communities and even family members that previously have rejected them. Not every interaction is sweetness and light—Seelig boldly tells one minister he’s no longer willing to settle for “tolerance”— and we do hear the voices of those convinced their Bible tells them these men are damned. The music itself is beautiful; more beautiful still is the chance to see people willing to put down their rhetoric and be human together. July 14, 6:30 p.m., Jeanné Wagner Theater (SR)

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GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH B B B½

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There’s a conventional feel-good energy to Samantha Lee’s Filipino teen lesbian romance, even as she complicates it in a variety of interesting ways. When the parents of high school senior Isabelle “Billie” Santos (Zar Donato) find out she’s gay, they send her from Manila to the smaller town where Billie’s aunt teaches at a Catholic girls’ school. There, Billie meets Emma Cagandahan (Gabby Padilla), an ambitious high achiever whose own life is thrown into turmoil when she finds out she’s pregnant. Lee deftly teases out the budding friendship/relationship, as Emma and her clique of friends initially reject the weird, clearly not-like-them big-city girl, and gives the two strong central performances room to flourish.

But in some ways, there’s actually more compelling material as word of Emma’s maternal condition gets out, and she faces judgment just as morally righteous as anything Billie has to confront.

With the constant undercurrent of their school’s (and broader culture’s) religious expectations, and a deep respect for all manner of hard choices, Billie & Emma finds a rich intersection of issues surrounding the expectations for how a young woman is expected to live her life. July 13, 9:15 a.m., Black Box Theater (SR)

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BILLIE & EMMA B B B

think they’re less than human. (How many times can you witness adults scream at children before you pray all those adults end up face down in a ditch?) Watching these kids overcome the odds is refreshing, especially when at times it seems as if the odds will pound them into oblivion (see also: the Trump administration). But the kids reach considerable heights, do it with aplomb and often while a tidal wave of fear and loathing awaits to drown them. (My favorite, admittedly petty part of this documentary is knowing the hateful assholes who appear on camera signed release forms to do so, and will forever be on the wrong side of history.) The transgender teens featured here shouldn’t be feared or reviled. They represent the best of humanity, and we should all hope to be as strong, determined and graceful as they are. July 12, 7:30 p.m., Jeanné Wagner Theater (David Riedel)

Twice a month, a Brooklyn bar hosts “Switch n’ Play”—a showcase of drag queens, drag kings and burlesque performers, most of them with different gender identities from what you see in a “traditional” drag show. A Night at Switch n’ Play captures one of these magical evenings, much of it shot awkwardly from the second row so the angle is looking up, the view sometimes partially blocked by the bald guy in front. The parent-at-a-school-talent-show aesthetic notwithstanding, some of the performances are amusing, including a grinning woman dressed in a Twinkie the Kid costume doing a striptease to Fats Domino’s “Whole Lotta Lovin’.” The behind-thescenes interviews with the performers are more interesting and professionally done, with insightful discussion of gender fluidity, body positivity, inclusivity and pronouns. But the film, directed by Cody Stickels, provides no context. Switch n’ Play seems fine, as drag shows go, but there are a lot of them in New York. What’s noteworthy about this one? You get the sense it was chosen because it’s the one Stickels happened to be acquainted with. July 13, 10:15 p.m., Black Box Theater (EDS)

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A less commonly-explored side of the LGBTQIA story—the “I” part, in particular—gets a short but sweet telling in Floriane Devigne’s documentary. It begins with the email correspon-

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SOCRATES B B½

OLIVIA B B B

While more interesting as a fascinating historical artifact, Jacqueline Audry’s 1951 adaptation of Dorothy Bussy’s pseudonymous 1949 novel brings peak melodrama to an era when “the love that dare not speak its name” was exactly that. At a French boarding school, newly arrived English girl Olivia (Claire Olivia) finds that there is a kind of schism between students devoted to one of the school’s two co-founders, charismatic headmistress Mlle. Julie (Edwige Feuillère) and oft-bedridden Mlle. Cara (Simone Simon). The narrative soon comes to focus on Olivia’s growing infatuation with Mlle. Julie, even as it makes clear that the relationship between Julie and Cara is not strictly professional. What’s startling is that there’s very little attempt to euphemize these relationships; the girls and women speak plainly of being in love with one another, with more than just furtive glances conveying their emotions. The conventions of the time ensure plenty of swooning, tearful over-reactions to heartbreak, which makes the bits of comic relief—mostly focused on the interaction between the tart-tongued school cook and the perpetually ravenous math teacher—a welcome part of the package. And it’s worthwhile to learn that honest gay stories were being told honestly much longer ago than you might think. July 14, 9 a.m., Jeanné Wagner Theater (SR)

SISTER AIMEE B B B

NO BOX FOR ME: AN INTERSEX STORY B B B

much but is good at disarming threats. So it’s a picaresque Western with some Chicago-style razzle-dazzle (including a song!) about a confident, successful woman finding out what her limits are. Does it have a point to make? Not really. But it’s amusing and lively, and that’s enough. July 13, 7:30 p.m., Jeanné Wagner Theater (EDS)

Onscreen titles tell us up front that Sister Aimee is “5½ percent truth,” the rest educated guesses and pure fantasy. What’s definitely true is that in 1926, charismatic evangelist, faith-healer, and show-woman Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared in Los Angeles and reappeared several weeks later at the Mexican border, claiming to have been kidnapped but telling a story whose details didn’t check out. The movie, written and directed

by Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann, speculates on what really happened. Anna Margaret Hollyman is great as the brash, dynamic Sister Aimee, who’s charming and spiritual onstage, cynical and crass offstage. She and her radio engineer (Michael Mosley) fake her death, leave their spouses, and drive to Mexico, led by a Mexican guide (Andrea Suarez Paz) who doesn’t say

This low-key Brazilian vérité drama, directed by Alexandre Moratto, was made by a crew of low-income São Paulo teens as part of a UNICEF program to foster social inclusion through filmmaking. It was a fitting project for Moratto to engage them in, requiring only entry-level filmmaking skills in the service of the story of a marginalized kid like themselves: 15-year-old Socrates (Christian Malheiros), whose mother has died, leaving him with no support system whatsoever. While struggling to stay off the streets doing manual labor at a junkyard, Socrates encounters another boy, Maicon (Tales Ordakji), whom he can’t keep his eyes off of. It isn’t clear whether Socrates already knew he was gay, but if he didn’t, meeting Maicon leaves no question. The usual moments of self-doubt, contemplations on masculinity and shirtless making-out ensue, acted well enough by the two newcomers in the main roles, though without much impact. The story is too slight, and the themes too overly familiar, to leave a lasting impression, but the film’s deep compassion for its subjects redeems it. July 13, 10:45 a.m., Jeanné Wagner Theater (EDS)

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By the time Tomer Heymann’s documentary profile of Israeli gay porn star Jonathan Agassi—née Yonatan Langer—ends, it’s clear that if the title isn’t flat-out ironic, it’s at least complicated. Heymann follows Agassi through his various professional activities, ranging from films to live sex shows to paid escort gigs, and finds someone who’s clearly much more damaged than he initially seems to be. The movie pushes a bit too hard at tying a tidy emotional bow around the origins of Agassi’s self-harming behavior, most specifically in its focus on his complicated relationship with his estranged father. But it’s flat-out fascinating when we’re instead embedded in Agassi’s close relationship with his mother, who knows every detail of her son’s life and whose facial expressions are a veritable Kuleshov experiment in whether she’s unimaginably accepting or silently tolerant. As uncomfortable as it is to watch Agassi fall into a drug-induced stupor that a member of the film crew feels obliged to help save him from, it’s more compelling to see Agassi show off his leather gear/lace panties/high heels ensemble to Mom, and have her both compliment him and ask with motherly concern, “Are you going to wear something warm?”

July 13, 8 p.m., Black Box Theater (SR)

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JONATHAN AGASSI SAVED MY LIFE B B B

dence between French sociology doctoral student Déborah Abate and an individual who identifies as “M.”, both of whom were assigned as female by their parents after surgical “correction” when they were born with indeterminate sexual characteristics. It’s mostly an opportunity for intersex individuals to talk about their experience, and their complicated feelings about undergoing painful surgeries that are generally based around not just gender conformity but heteronormative sexuality. But Devigne adds spark to the film with inventive animations, as well as digitally hiding M.’s face and body behind a digital blur that renders her anonymously asexual. While it’s often more informative than emotional in revealing the feelings of people who want to “reappropriate my body,” there’s still a power to seeing Déborah finally reveal her full self to her sister, releasing exactly the kind of stigma that leads parents like hers to feel compelled to make choices that aren’t theirs to make. July 13, 3:30 p.m., Black Box Theater (SR)

UNSETTLED: SEEKING REFUGE IN AMERICA B B B

It’s disheartening to watch a lesbian refugee couple escape anti-LGBTQ persecution in Angola only to be persecuted by their neighbors in the San Francisco Bay-area.

But the United States can be an ugly place—and Unsettled was largely filmed before Trump became president, so things have only gotten worse. The stories of four refugees will tug at your heartstrings, even as two of the four of them remain enigmatic. Syrian refugee Subhi, who reveals his horrifying story in dribs and drabs, is quiet and reserved, and he’s pretty guarded about his past (on camera, anyway), even as he becomes a sort-of gay rights celebrity, eventually speaking at the United Nations. Even sadder is Junior, a refugee from Congo whose pastor mother advocates killing gays. Junior survives a series of low-paying jobs and bad relationships only to become homeless, but he’s even more reticent than Subhi; it’s hard to know just what’s going on in his mind. Of course, given his circumstances, it’s understandable why he’s tight-lipped. But given that director Tom Shepard is a veteran documentarian, it’s surprising he couldn’t coax more from his subjects. Those narrative shortcomings aside, Unsettled is a powerful portrait of people struggling with powerlessness. July 13, 9:45 p.m., Jeanné Wagner Theater (DR)

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Utah residents are used to seeing power couples during the Sundance Film Festival, but their attention will be equally engaged with the couplings in the new exhibit at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. In a variety of media, Power Couples: The Pendant Format, offers an exploration of art produced in pairs, from 16th-century Europe to contemporary Utah.

Recognizing years ago the artistic strategies at play in such works, Leslie Anderson, UMFA curator of European, American and regional art, took notice of the museum’s broad collection of “pendants,” (interdependent works of similar dimensions, subject matter and composition) and proposed an exhibition. “Many of these works were created by artists historically underrepresented in museums,” Anderson says. “The acquisitions will allow us to tell new stories in the collections of paintings, sculpture and works on paper from the 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.”

The first exhibition of its kind devoted to a comprehensive look at the pendant format, the subject matter ranges from simple kittens to intricate gothic churches, and draws mainly from the museum’s collection. Illuminating how artists have used this form across media and cultures, the exhibit explores issues spanning centuries.

“My goal is for visitors to consider how artists impart meaning through pairs,” Anderson says.

“By juxtaposing art from different periods, I communicate the ideological underpinnings of pendants throughout time. … What emerged are playful, participatory interventions within the presentation of art.” (Colette A. Finney) Power Couples: The Pendant Format in Art: UMFA, 410 Campus Center Drive, July 11-Dec. 8, $9.95-$12.95, Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Wednesday open until 9 p.m., umfa.utah.edu.

“Cinderella, Cinderella/ All I hear is Cinderella/ from the moment I get up/ ’til shades of night are falling/ There isn’t any letup, I hear them calling, calling ...”

Those are the lyrics sung by Cinderella in the classic animated Disney version of the classic fairy tale. However, for many people, the repetition emphasized in the song might also reflect the fact the story is so well-known that all of us know it verbatim. While familiarity doesn’t breed contempt, at least in this case, it’s a credit to Salt Lake City’s respected Sting & Honey Theater Co. that their interpretation on this timeless tale takes it in a slightly different direction.

“Our version of Cinderella stays true to the story people have come to know and love, but it is also quite unique,” Sting & Honey artistic director Javen Tennen, the play’s writer and director, says via email. “About a year ago, I began to see some similarities between Cinderella and Hamlet, and I thought it would be interesting if Cinderella had to decide between a fairy tale and a revenge tragedy. Her stepmother gives her ample reason to want revenge. But will the girl known for her kindness give into that desire? The ideas of revenge and fate loom large.”

Suffice it to say that any wicked stepmother ought to think twice about how she treats a sweet Cinderella. If Cindy employs the heel of her glass slipper in defense, it might become a formidable weapon. (Lee Zimmerman) Sting & Honey Theater Co.: Cinderella: Regent Street Black Box, 131 S. Main, July 12-27, Thursday-Saturday, 7 p.m.; 2 p.m.

Saturday matinees, $20 (discounts for children under 12, seniors, students and veterans), artsaltlake.org

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SATURDAY 7/13

Nicole Walker: The After Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet Writers on climate change seem to either eulogize or exhort; the issue compels readers to focus on our growing ecological decay as a form of moral instruction. In The After Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet, Nicole Walker addresses this personal and global problem quite differently.

Co-authored with Australian writer, David Carlin, the volume investigates our unsure future through essays sent as letters to each other.

The choice to make this conversation epistolary encourages readers to figure out their relationship with climate change.

Throughout the collection, Walker isn’t afraid of using research combined with personal accounts. Citing research and numbers isn’t innovative when it comes to tackling climate change, but Walker asks how using these “material facts” deepens memories and stories.

As a resident of Flagstaff, Ariz., Walker lives near sites like the Grand Canyon and Monument Valley. The spirit of these natural formations left Walker to ponder “perspective and scales.” These include tiny creatures like plasmodia and colossal ideas like death. Writing about our environment isn’t a solitary act, but rather a shared one, the book demonstrates.

Join the author to learn more about her approach to writing. “We use the author Donna Haraway’s advice to ‘stay with the trouble,’” Walker says. “It’s so much less lonely to stay with the trouble if you don’t have to stay with it alone.” (Miacel Spotted Elk) Nicole Walker: The After Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet: The King’s English Bookshop, 1515 S. 1500 East, July 13, 2 p.m., free, places in booksigning line reserved for those who purchase a copy, kingsenglish.com

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The Viva La Diva Show In the wild jungle of local drag, one queen reigns as apex predator.

As head and star of The Viva La Diva Show, Jason CoZmo plays producer, star and mastermind. Most importantly, Magna’s favorite son also serves as drag mother to a gaggle of Utah-born-and-raised talent that shines in every uproarious show.

CoZmo & Co.’s Disney, Halloween and Holidaythemed shows have become the stuff of legend, but for this upcoming run at Metro Music Hall, he’s taking it back to basics with a glamtastic, celebrity impersonation-riddled lineup.

“After two months, all the Divas are back,” the Dolly Parton doppelganger boasts, adding that Saturday’s evening performance and Sunday’s matinee includes a “wide range of genres and music.” Expect appearances by the aforementioned Queen of Nashville, plus Cher in the spectacular hands of David Lorence, Taylor Swift as interpreted by Cody Rose and Miley Cyrus coming in like a wrecking ball thanks to Jeremiah Knight.

But wait, there’s more! CoZmo also plans to deliver a taste of the Big Apple as Liza Minnelli, featuring choreography he picked up from the Broadway diva herself during a chance meeting in Las Vegas.

The showman advances the weekend’s opening number will be an homage to the 1974 adaptation of Mame, which starred Lucille Ball.

“It’s a wild, 1920s flapper party; most people don’t know this show,” he says. “But it’s a number they won’t soon forget!”

Hear him roar. (Enrique Limón) The Viva La Diva Show: Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, July 13, 8 p.m.; July 14, 2 p.m., $30, 21+, thevivaladivashow.com

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Geekonomics It’s getting more expensive all the time to be a popculture fan.

BY BRYAN YOUNG comments@cityweekly.net @swankmotron

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t the risk of sounding older than I am, I’d like to say that things were much different when I was a kid.

Being a geek in the ’90s was an exercise in both patience and disappointment.

You’d get one or two f lagship geek movies a year back then, if you were luck y.

Superheroes weren’t making their way to the big screen with regularity, and comics were only mildly difficult to keep up with. Star Trek was a constant on television, but Star Wars had been relegated to the world of books. It was easy to keep up with everything, because there just wasn’t a lot of it.

Today, it’s a different story.

We’ve seen our peers take over the entertainment landscape. Geekdom has

gone mainstream because the mainstream entertainers are geeks. That means there’s so much to keep up with that it’s now almost impossible. It gets harder and harder to be a well-rounded fan, because there are so many options. Fandoms are splitting away from each other, and then are sub-splintering within themselves.

I think part of this fragmentation has everything to do with the economics of being a geek, and the overwhelming number of choices we have. For example, if you want to keep up with Star Wars alone, you’ll soon need to subscribe to at least two different services (Disney+ and Marvel Unlimited), plus pay for movie tickets, comic books and make regular trips to the bookstore to get the prose novels. This year will see new seasons of three different Star Wars television shows, a feature film and countless books and comics. That’s not even mentioning the storytelling being done at Disneyland’s Galaxy’s Edge.

It’s a lot. And Star Wars is hardly the only example.

CBS has been using Star Trek Discovery as a flagship title to hook people into their streaming service, yet they found people were cancelling as soon as each season of Discovery was over—which is why there are now at least four different Star Trek shows in development. And they’re pull-

ing out all the stops: Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Chabon has been brought in to run the new Picard show reprising Patrick Stewart’s Star Trek: The Next Generation character, automatically making it appointment television—so long as you subscribe.

DC Comics, meanwhile, has poured their comics into a new app called DC Universe, but that app is also the gateway to all the new TV shows they’ve been producing, including Titans, Doom Patrol and the short-lived Swamp Thing. That doesn’t even get you access to The CW’s broadcast TV world of DC shows that include everything from Arrow and The Flash to the upcoming Batwoman series. All of this is on top of their steady stream of animated films and live-action features. Marvel Comics has an app, too, plus their three or four blockbuster films a year, and they’re also creating a whole host of new shows for Disney+.

HBO has made a mint on subscriptions thanks to Game of Thrones, but they, too, found that membership took a nosedive as soon as the show ended. Guess what we have in development now? A new Game of Thrones prequel.

I mean, say I want to subscribe to Netflix to make sure I don’t miss Stranger Things, the DC Universe app so I won’t miss Swamp

Thing, I snag CBS for Star Trek and The Twilight Zone, and then I want to read Marvel comics on an app, I’m looking at spending about $40 a month. That doesn’t count the comics I’m getting every month ($50 or so), the novels I need (another $50 a month) or the movie tickets ($50 a month if it’s just me; forget the rest of my family.)

Then, when Disney launches its app, that’ll probably add another $7-10 to this price.

That’s $200 a month, just to be a geek. And let’s not even talk about my action figure habit ...

As geeks, we’re hard wired to have what’s called FOMO—Fear of Missing Out. We want to be in the room at a convention when our favorite property has an announcement. We want to participate in the process of the property and know everything there is to know about it. We need to see every new bit of content right when it comes out, because if we don’t, social media spoils it for us. There’s no time to rest, take a breather and just enjoy the things we love.

Like I said, things were different when I was a kid. Today, we’re spoiled. Our geek landscape of entertainment is an embarrassment of riches that we could have never imagined having 20 years ago. So yes, we’re spoiled. But we’re also paying the price. CW

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PERFORMANCE THEATER

A Chorus Line Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, Park City, through July 21, dates and times vary, parkcityshows.com Bravo, Caruso! Utah Theatre, 18 W. Center St., Logan, through July 30, dates and times vary, ufomt.org Cinderella Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., through Sept. 7, dates and times vary, hct.org Freaky Friday Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., through Aug. 24, dates and times vary, hct.org My Fair Lady CenterPoint Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, through July 13, dates and times vary, centerpointtheatre.org Mary Poppins Ellen Eccles Theater, 43 S. Main, Logan, through Aug. 3, dates and times vary, ufomt.org The Marriage of Figaro Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main, Logan, through Aug. 2, dates and times vary, artsaltlake.org Mr. Burns An Other Theater Co., 1200 Town Centre Blvd., Provo, July 12-Aug. 3, FridaySaturday, 7:30 p.m., anothertheatercompany.com Newsies Ellen Eccles Theater, 43 S. Main, Logan, through Aug. 2, dates and times vary, ufomt.org Saturday’s Voyeur Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, through Sept. 1, dates and times vary, saltlakeactingcompany.org Shrek The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 S. Washington Blvd., Ogden, through July 20, showtimes vary, theziegfeldtheater.com Sting & Honey: Cinderella Regent Street Black Box, 131 S. Main, July 12-27, Thu.-Sat., 7 p.m. artsaltlake.org (see p. 18) The Sound of Music South Jordan Community Center, 10778 S. Redwood Road, South Jordan, through July 20, sjc.utah.gov Sunday School Musical Desert Star Playhouse, 4861 S. State, Murray, through Aug. 25, desertstar.biz Utah Shakespeare Festival Southern Utah University, 195 W. Center St., Cedar City, through Oct. 12, times and prices vary, bard.org West Side Story Ellen Eccles Theater, 43 S. Main, Logan, through Aug. 3, date and times vary, ufomt.org

DANCE

Municipal Ballet Co.: The River Speaks Plainly Fisher Brewing, 320 W. 800 South, July 15, 8:30 p.m.; The State Room, 638 S. State, July 16, 8:30 p.m., municipalballet.com

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Intermezzo Chamber Music Series: The Cellists of the Utah Symphony Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East, July 15, 7:30 p.m., intermezzochamberseries.com E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: Film in Concert with the Utah Symphony Snow Park Amphitheater, 2250 Deer Valley Drive South, Park City, July 13, 7:30 p.m., usuo.org

COMEDY & IMPROV

Corey Rodrigues Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, July 11, 7:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Colin Mochrie presents Hyprov: Improv Under Hypnosis Sandy Amphitheater, 9400 S. 1300 East, Sandy, July 13, 8 p.m., sandyamp.com Daniel Sloss The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, July 14, 8 p.m., depotslc.com Laughing Stock Improv Comedy The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m., theobt.org Open Mic Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Wednesdays, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Random Tangent Improv Comedy Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Saturdays, 10 p.m., randomtangentimprov.org Russ Nagel Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, West Jordan, July 12-13, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Ryan Niemiller Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, July 15, 7:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Todd Johnson Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, July 12-13, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com

SPECIAL EVENTS FARMERS MARKETS

9th West Farmers Market Jordan Park, 1000 S. 900 West, Sundays through Oct. 13, 10 a.m.2 p.m., 9thwestfarmersmarket.org Downtown Farmers Market Pioneer Park, 350 W. 300 South, Saturdays through Oct. 19, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., slcfarmersmarket.org

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FESTIVALS & FAIRS

Arts in the Park West Ogden Park, 751 W. 24th St., Ogden, July 11-12, noon-1 p.m., weber.edu

LGBTQ

1 to 5 Club: Fluidly Speaking Discussion Group Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, fourth Mondays, 7:30-9 p.m., utahpridecenter.org 1 to 5 Club: Game Night Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, first Mondays, 7:30-9:30 p.m., utahpridecenter.org 1 to 5 Club: Radical Reading Group Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, third Mondays, 7:30-9 p.m., utahpridecenter.org The Viva La Diva Show Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, July 13, 8 p.m.; July 14, 2 p.m., thevivaladivashow.com (see p. 18) 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

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Becky Wallace: Stealing Home The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, July 16, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Elizabeth Eulberg & Brigid Kemmerer: Past Perfect Life & Call It What You Want The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, July 11, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Kathy Kirkpatrick: The Transcontinental Railroad in Utah Weller Bookworks, 607 Trolley Square, July 12, 6:30 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Krista Van Dolzer: The Multiplying Mysteries of Mount Ten Layton Market Center, 1780 N. Woodland Park Drive, Layton, July 13, noon, barnesandnoble.com Nicole Walker: The After Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, July 13, 2 p.m., kingsenglish.com (see p. 18)

TALKS & LECTURES

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

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

3SMITHS Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, through Sept. 6, 10 a.m., artandmuseums.utah.gov Ancient Mesoamerica Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, ongoing, umfa.utah.edu Andrew Dadson: Roof Gap UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Sept. 7, utahmoca.org De | Marcation Granary Arts, 86 N. Main, Ephraim, through Sept. 27, granaryarts.org Deanna & Ed Templeton: Contemporary Suburbium UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Sept. 7, utahmoca.org Destroy What Kills You, Grow What Heals You Urban Arts Gallery, 116 S. Rio Grande St., through Aug. 4, urbanartsgallery.org Distorted Reflections J GO Gallery, 268 Main, Park City, through July 24, jgogallery.com Donald Yatomi: True Beauty A Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, through Aug. 17, agalleryonline.com (see p. 22) Following in the Footprints of Chinese Railroad Workers Marriott Library, 295 S. 1500 East, through Sept. 27, goldenspike150.org Form, Line and Color: Modernism and Abstraction David Dee Fine Art, 1709 E. 1300 South, Ste. 201, through Aug. 30, daviddeefinearts.com Greater Merit: The Temple and Image in South Asia Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, ongoing, umfa.utah.edu Hannah Emerson and Jesse Campbell: What Do You See? Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, through July 12, accessart.org Love Letters The Gateway, 24 S. Rio Grande St., through Sept. 1, lovelettersmuseum.com Neo Archaic Magic and Happiness Is Humanness Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, through July 12, accessart.org Paper and Thread Modern West Fine Art, 412 S. 700 West, through Aug. 31, modernwestfineart.com Power Couples Utah Museum of Fine Art, 410 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City, through Dec. 8, umfa.utah.edu (see p. 18) Reimagined Travels J GO Gallery, 268 Main, Park City, through July 24, jgogallery.com Spencer Finch: Great Salt Lake and Vicinity Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, through Nov. 28, umfa.utah.edu Taralee Guild: Distorted Reflections J Go Gallery, 268 Main, Park City, through July 24, jgogallery.com Time + Materials Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., through Aug. 30, artsandmuseums.utah.gov Under the Bad Air of Heaven Marmalade Library, 280 W. 500 North, through Aug. 15, slcpl.org Yellowstone: Invisible Boundries Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way, through Sept. 15, nhmu.utah.edu

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flavors and more modern interpretations that make them yet another jewel in the crown of Latin American sandwiches.

I had been enjoying tortas from the taco stands near 9oo South and State for a while before taking my first steps into Big Tortas. I had started to see their cartoony mascot—an anthropomorphic torta with its arms outstretched as if it was ready to pull you in for a

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Tortas are designed to be gigantic. They’re Mexican sandwich staples thought to be born of an appropriation of the French baguette. Mexican bakers developed smaller loaves called bolillo and decided they had the structural integrity to house whatever meats, cheeses, veggies and sauces that they could fit between the slices.

Since then, the torta has maintained a rich legacy of regional

’ve bellied up to my fair share of gonzo food. I’ve faced down pizza-sized omelets, quadruple-decker deli sandwiches and legions of unholy food piles of my own making at all-youcan-eat buffets. That being said, it’s been a long time since I’ve felt truly humbled by a dish. The tortas at Big Tortas (multiple locations, bigtortas.com) have managed to evoke a sense of meekness that I haven’t experienced since I was 6 years old, right after ordering an unexpectedly monstrous plate of chow mein and bursting into tears when I realized that this thing was more likely to eat me than the other way around.

nate like a stick of dynamite once you take a bite not only means that all those layers are tender enough for your teeth to cut through, but they’ve been assembled with maximum efficiency in mind.

I could continue to gush about how the Sur 39 is essentially the Golden Gate Bridge of the sandwich medium, but all that flair is nothing if it doesn’t taste good. While the ranchero filling suffered from a lack of seasoning, the Sur 39 is seasoned with bacon and chorizo, so no issues at all there. Jalapeños cut through all that delicious meat flavor with some heat, and that Oaxaca cheese is fantastic.

While I enjoyed the Sur 39, trying to eat the whole thing by myself left me awestruck. I’m struggling to remember an entrée that so beautifully combined form and function while being too much meal for me to finish off. I walked in thinking my moderate torta experience had prepared me only to find out that I was woefully outmatched—but what a delicious defeat it was. CW

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binds this universe of a torta together. The cutlets were well-cooked, if a little bland on their own, but that queso Oaxaca and avocado mixture had me hungry to try more.

On my second visit, I decided to go all in, and going all in at Big Tortas means ordering the colossal Sur 39 ($11.75). Where many of the tortas on the menu offer a few complementary ingredients—such as the torta Hawaiana ($11.75) with its ham and pineapple—the Sur 39 is armed to the teeth. The warm blanket of cheese sits atop a carnivorous orgy of ham, chorizo, bacon, steak and a pork chop—the holy porcine trinity and then some. The torta engineers also manage to fit grilled peppers and onions along with their usual veggies inside, and you can still add jalapeños to the mix which I highly recommend.

This monster arrived at my table with an audible thud, and I pulled the two halves apart to observe the layers within. Tortas have a reputation of being messy, and I had already assembled a thick stack of napkins to prepare for my journey.

To my surprise, this torta did not jettison its filling once during the meal. While that might not sound impressive, keep in mind that this marvel has a grand total of 10 layers.

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big, sloppy hug—in my periphery as I drove around town. They have four locations along the Wasatch Front, which means that they’ve done well enough to establish footholds in South Salt Lake, West Jordan and West Valley. Once you take a look at their vast menu of tortas, tacos and meat-centric alambres, it’s not hard to see why Big Tortas is growing.

Since this wasn’t my first rodeo, I figured I knew what I was getting into once I placed my order. The torta ranchera ($11.75) immediately sparked my curiosity because it had breaded steak and breaded chicken, and I was in the mood for a little turf and turf. Everything here is made to order, so it does take a bit of time for the back-of-house grillmasters to do their thing. Once your behemoth masterpiece arrives, however, you’re immediately grateful for the fresh preparation. In addition to the meats that are pounded into thin cutlets before being breaded and cooked, you also get some tomato, avocado and onions, along with a slowly melting slice of Oaxaca cheese. That last bit hangs out at the top of the torta, strands of its buttery goodness drifting lazily down the sides, and the creamy avocado parties at the bottom. These two ingredients are the yin and the yang, the solar and the lunar, the force that

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When the snow melts and the temperature rises, Solitude Mountain Resort (12000 Big Cottonwood Canyon Road, solitudemountain.com) keeps entertaining Utah diners with its rustic mountain scenery and crisp, inversion-free atmosphere. Throughout the summer, Solitude’s Honeycomb Grill hosts its Summer Wine-Down every Thursday from 3:30-9 p.m. Summer Wine-Down is a three-course, prix-fixe menu created to highlight different wines from Meiomi Winery and Hill Ranch Vineyards. For an idea of what we’re looking at, Thursdays in July feature an heirloom tomato and stone fruit gazpacho, grilled shrimp skewers topped with cilantro salsa concluding with duck confit. Summer WineDown meals last until early October, and diners can check out a host of other activities via the resort’s website.

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The workshop teaches attendees everything they need to know about caring for a thrumming hive and how to safely remove the good stuff like honey and beeswax without committing bee genocide—or turning the hive against you. In addition to getting the inside scoop on beekeeping, attendees are also privy to a honey tasting to help distinguish between different flavors of honey.

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Whether you’re a lover or a hater of the fast-casual Mexican food scene that is thriving in Utah, reaching that centennial store milestone is a big deal for any locally-based restaurant chain. Recently, Costa Vida (costavida.com) announced the grand opening of its 100th store in South Jordan’s Daybreak neighborhood (5440 W. Daybreak Parkway). Costa Vida’s first location opened in Layton back in 2003 and though the bulk of Costa Vida’s locations are here in Utah, the restaurant chain has expanded throughout the country and even into the great white north of Canada. If you want to eat 100 burritos to celebrate, HMU. Quote of the Week: “The only reason for making honey is so I can eat it.”

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Hell, it’s a good time to be an IPA hater as well. No matter if you love them or hate them, I found two new IPAs that are just different enough to make both factions grin.

Level Crossing Brewing Co. Suss It Out: This unfiltered IPA has a copper-hued amber color with a firm and luscious creamy head. There’s some great retention of the foam despite the addition of oily rye malts, probably from the active carbonation. This creates a nice pattern of webbing as foam sticks to the sides of the glass. Floral and earthy hop aromatics comprised of rustic dry citrus peel and flowery pedals still allow the spicy rye to shine through, as both blanket the malty, bread-like base. Once in the mouth, rye adds a sharp and upfront

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spiciness that lingers throughout the entirety of the beer, while toasted biscuit and wheat bread crust backs up the still-present herbal and citrus hop blast. Although fairly absent in aroma, grapefruit rind emerges in flavor with lingering earthy undertones and floral notes. The smooth malt base provides nice structure and body, offsetting the sharp rye, which adds a gritty texture and spice that lingers on the tongue with the beer’s impressive bitterness.

Overall: This rye IPA is a hop-and-rye forward beer that doesn’t focus directly on one ingredient or the other, but melds the two in harmony as grapefruit, earthy and floral attributes blend with the spicy rye over biscuity, bready malt for a superb balance, considering it’s technically an IPA. At a fair 6.9% ABV, this full-flavored beer packs a wallop without walloping the customer—a brilliant combination.

T.F. Brewing Squirrel: For much of America’s brief IPA history, the East Coast vs. West Coast battle over style dominance has always skewed west. The East’s IPAs never had a flavor profile that could compete with complex citrus bombs that were coming out of California and the Northwest.

The New England style is the first thing that the East got right. Hazy, juicy and smooth, these beers look and taste like nothing that has been made before. And people can’t seem to get enough of them. Squirrel has a heavy goldenrod haze and a ton of anticipa-

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tion. As a creamy off-white meringue pulls from the beer’s depths, the perfume of stone fruit, orchard fruit, tropical and citrus peel delights the senses ahead of a pastry-sweet taste of light caramel, honey and flaky crust.

As the ale rolls onto the middle palate, its sweetness begins to drift and a tangy sensation of sherbet and creamsicle take hold.

Creamy throughout, the hops peak through the lingering malt starches and bring a strong taste of mango, peach and apricot.

A quick follow-up of pineapple and guava march through the tropical fruits before landing at the smooth and bitter bite of pink grapefruit peel near the beer’s end. Mildly herbaceous and chive-like, the lingering impressions are of tropical fruit skins and

botanical grasses. This 6.5% beer has a solid medium body, smooth from first swig to the finish.

Overall: This juicy ale (with no fruit or fruit flavorings) is fruit and hop forward with a doughy center that is as persistent as it is balancing. This New England IPA will find favor for those looking to hop onto the IPA train, but can’t get over the gripping bitter bite from the West Coast style.

Both of these offerings come in 16-ounce cans, and can typically be enjoyed at their respective breweries. Demand for these IPA variants is high, so do your homework when seeking specialties like these out, because they might not always be at your favorite watering hole. As always, cheers! CW

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The nucleus of development in the Central Ninth area is on the corner of 200 West and 900 South, and Meditrina is one of the hub’s major players. “Food is something I’ve always loved wholeheartedly,” chef and owner Jen Gilroy (pictured) says, which is clear when you try the green papaya salad ($4), featuring shreds of young, unripe papaya in thai chile sauce, creating a cool and refreshing dish that still packs some heat. The London broil bruschetta ($14) is essentially a gigantic, open-faced roast beef sandwich; thin slices of roast beef are piled high on a slice of house-baked bread generously doused with herbed cream cheese and a mustard seed marinade that puts the whole thing over the top. The drunken Oreos ($6) is the kind of dish that the kid in you will enjoy for its Oreo stack topped with locally-made vanilla bean ice cream, alongside your adult appreciation for a good wine and port reduction. But perhaps it’s the restaurant’s flair for subverting our culinary expectations with dishes like the citrusy pan-seared basil gnocchi ($12) that has made Meditrina such an important dinner destination. Reviewed May 30. 165 W. 900 South, 801-485-2055, meditrinaslc.com

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The menu here contains hundreds of dishes. Lunch combos come in two variations: On the cheaper menu you can get basics like chicken chow mein or beef with broccoli, plus one appetizer; the pricier menu offers a bit more variety, including Peking spare ribs or shrimp with garlic sauce.The potstickers are addictive and roughly the size of a fist.The cross hatching on the cuts of squid in black bean sauce makes the meat look like exotic flowers. Little World can provide a gateway between familiar dishes and ones that entice diners to venture off the conventional path for something unexpectedly delicious. 1356 S. State, 801-467-5213, littleworldslc.com

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A hearty breakfast is key to this eclectic restaurant’s menu, and if you love chicken and waffles, this is the place to be. A double-battered fried chicken breast rests upon a golden Belgian waffle and is adorned with a cage-free egg. Add optional bacon or sausage and don’t forget the hot sauce. For a smaller fried chicken dish, try the chicken biscuits, which come with whole-grain mustard sauce and the Pig’s housemade chow-chow. Venture into lunch with the signature Pig Burger or the pork belly “BLT” with housemade pimento cheese and a tomato creole sauce for dipping.

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The concept here is all about fresh, regional, casual cuisine. Former NYC chef Ryan Lowder has impressive credentials as chef de partie at Jean-Georges in NYC, a line cook at Casa Mono and Mario Batali’s Manhattan Spanish tapas lounge. At the sexy Mercat he was executive chef, and turned out Catalan-inspired tapas on Bond Street. Specialties include a small plate of sautéed chanterelles topped with crisp shoestring potatoes and a farm-fresh lightly fried egg—yolk properly quivering and ready to coat the savory flavors underneath. Other highlights are a perfectly balanced arugula salad with sherry vinegar, olives and Parmesan. The sautéed cod with a pale (but intensely flavored) lemon jam on kale and a side of sautéed pea shoots with golden raisins and pine nuts hits all the right notes—balance, texture and color. 111 E. 300 South, 801-355-3282, thecopperonion.com

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When it comes to wood-fired pizza, Centro is surely in the top three in the state. As great as its pizzas are—try the roasted red pepper with rosemary or the fennel sausage—its simple, summer-flavored salads are their equal. The dressing is creamy without being heavy; tangy without being sour. It’s a perfect complement to crisp lettuce and veg and whether it’s the house salad or the gorgonzola, you can’t help but ask the wait staff what the dressing is made of. The answer is always the same: “We’re not allowed to tell.” Some secrets are worth keeping. 50 W. Center St., Cedar City, 435-867-8123, centropizzeria.com

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emure, spectacled, short of stature and slightly reserved, this warehouse worker, husband and father isn’t someone you’d peg as an entertainer. But on KRCL 90.9 FM’s Friday Night Fallout in June, spitting freestyles from his forthcoming album, he exhibited the skills of a lyrical giant with barbaric rhymes and the confidence of a veteran vocalist.

Umang Khosla, aka uMaNg (pronounced YOU-MAHN-GUH), is not only the stage name, but the birth name of one of Utah’s best rappers. “In Hindi and Urdu it means ‘happiness or enthusiasm,’ which is how I approach my passions,” he explains. He started rapping at 16, when life started “getting real,” and he relied on myriad influences to inspire him and craft his own sound. Among his favorites are Nas, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Lupe Fiasco, Mos Def, Eminem, Jay-Z, Elzhi and Phonte, among many others.

Another part of uMaNg’s young life that made him constantly turn to rap was the fact that he never settled in one place. Growing up, his family moved around with such frequency that it was hard to connect with his ever-changing group of peers. Luckily, with the internet at his disposal, he was able to connect with people like him from around the world, including eventual collaborators B.B.Z Darney, a rapper from Sweden who he met through YouTube, and the Florida-based artists Hex One, who he met through B.B.Z Darney.

“Hex One and B.B.Z released an album in 2014 called String Theory, which I feature on,” he says. “Through that connection is how we started working together. B.B.Z Darney is my partner in crime, the mastermind behind our duo. He’s been my producer and brother for eight years now. Not many can say one of our names without mentioning the other’s.”

And with good reason. Darney’s instrumentals are intricate,

uMaNg soulful and rip through your speakers with that boom bap sound, without coming off as formulaic or monotonous. They blend with uMaNg’s killer vocals on their upcoming album, Monu-mEnTaL, to be released later this year. “[The] reason for the name is that it basically stands for overcoming the limits that our minds can often put on us,” uMaNg says. “We chain and shackle ourselves, fall victim to our own state of mind. This album is me overcoming anxiety and depression that prevents me from doing me, being in my element of creativity.” The album joins four other full-lengths that were all released in rapid succession by the dedicated artist: 2011’s The First Impression LP, the 2012 follow-up Lasting Impressions, 2013’s The Revisited and 2014’s The Black Rose Certificate. (All can be found at umang.bandcamp.com.)

The ability to put out albums so consistently is impressive, and so is uMaNg’s skill as a rapper while doing so. But without meaningful content beneath that skill, records tend to have a short shelf-life in a music library. uMaNg can rap slow, chop up syllables rapidly, hit you in the feels with punchlines and grip your attention with heartfelt stories about his personal life. The new album features a song called “Papa Bear,” a description of a haunting domestic experience that would make Slim Shady’s upbringing seem like the Hardy Boys’. “I tried not to judge [my father] in the track. I didn’t see the flaw in telling the story, you know? I hadn’t told that side of the story [before]. I’ve touched on it, bits and pieces in past music, but nothing like that—just boiling it down and painting the whole picture,” uMaNg says. uMaNg’s familial instability forced him grow up all over the country—in Washington, Rhode Island, Maryland, New Jersey, even across the pond in England—before he settled in Utah. Now, he intends to make use of the connections he made during this peripatetic upbringing to spread his message abroad, a task that includes an upcoming tour overseas. “Germany, France and Spain are amongst my core audience,” he says. “I have to get out there.”

It’s not often that you find a local artist who checks off the boxes of diversity, consciousness and—most important—skills. Spreading culture and diversity through the valley is cool, but by the universally accepted bylaws of the hip-hop culture, if the artist doesn’t have skills, they get no props. What we have here is a local artist in whom we can take pride, and one who’s well equipped to meet criticism from folks outside of the ’Hive. uMaNg’s music serves not only himself and his own need for creative expression, but helps to broaden the reach of our local scene, which is something everyone should be happy and enthusiastic about. CW

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Daniel Corchado has certainly made a number of marks upon the extreme metal community, from his founding roles in melodeath act Cenotaph and indie label Lux Inframundis, to his brief stint with the legendary Incantation on their 1998 classic Diabolical Conquest. Still, the Mexican musician built the lion’s share of his reputation with his own passion project, The Chasm, one of the most consistently impressive forces in death metal over the past quarter-century. Recently, The Chasm has adopted a more progressive (and largely instrumental) angle to their established style, leading to ambitious and criticallyadored releases such as 2009’s Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm and their latest album, A Conscious Creation from the Isolated Domain- Phase I. This week, The Chasm takes the stage of The Urban Lounge along with Tijuana death metallers Infernal Conjuration—another group of Latino metalheads seemingly looking to follow in The Chasm’s footsteps of brutality, building buzz on a string of EPs that weeks ago culminated in their debut full-length, Infernale Metallum Mortis. Also playing is U.K. blackened death outfit Cruciamentum, along with Salt Lake’s own Yaotl Mictlan, a self-described “pre-hispanic black-death metal” band that fuses extreme metal with the sounds of indigenous Central American folk music. (Nic Renshaw) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 6 p.m., $15, 21+, theurbanloungeslc.com

FRIDAY 7/12 Courtney Act

If you’ve ever binged on some RuPaul’s Drag Race, you’ll know what to expect from Courtney Act, and you might have even seen their appearance in Season 6 back in 2014. The queen’s stage name might also take a minute to click, but try saying it in your worst Australian accent and you’ll hear it. Dramatic, dance-ready pop is on the menu, and Act is serving ball-busting BPMs. Although they’ve only released a handful of singles and remixes over the course of their singing career, their talent shines in these offerings. It’s easy to see why the performer has found consistent success since their public debut on Australian Idol in 2003 (16 years ago, people!). Act’s cover of the Bee Gees’ “Stayin’ Alive,” a tired song with hundreds of covers, is surprisingly textured, with a haunting and soulful restraint.

Contrast that with a fairly straightforward, high-BPM bop like “Mean Gays” or “Boys Like Me,” and you start to get a sense that Act does, in fact, have the range. There’s a reason they placed in RuPaul’s top three (anyone remember those heavenly, 10-foot angel wings?), and their most recent single “Fight for Love” is almost certainly someone’s Tinder anthem. Drag and drag queens are no strangers to Salt Lake, but whether you’re hardcore into the scene or just want to dip a toe in, Act is not one to miss. (Parker S. Mortensen) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 7:30 p.m., $30, all ages, thecomplexslc.com

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Depending on your age, you can view Lonnie Rashid Lynn, aka Common, through several lenses. Old-school hip-hop heads still rave about the way the Chicago-born MC called out violent gangsta rappers like Ice Cube on ferocious 1994 tracks “I Used to Love H.E.R.” and “The Bitch in Yoo.” In 1997, Common injected spoken-word poetry and laid-back R&B into mainstream hip-hop on One Day It’ll All Make Sense, ruminating profoundly on parenthood, religion and nostalgia across what could justifiably be called the first emo-rap album in history. Collaborating with everyone from Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu to Q-Tip and Questlove, Common cemented his role as a leading light in the conscious hip-hop scene, a move which culminated in the Grammy-nominated 2000 record Like Water for Chocolate, which tackled civil rights, Afrocentrism and the cross-cultural battle for political freedom. In the new millennium, however, as he kindled a working relationship with fellow Chicagoan Kanye West, Common spent an intensifying chunk of his time acting, in anything from Scrubs to Justice League: Mortal. It’s this aspirational push and pull that continues to define Common. The albums he has released since 2000 veer between the tediously ambitious (Electric Circus and Universal Mind Control) and the devastatingly prescient (2014’s Nobody’s Smiling, which examines the ongoing plague of gun violence in Common’s hometown).

Still, there’s no denying Common’s ability to deliver emotionally impactful statements and spur his fans to action. “I’m talking about love for God, love for community, love for self and love in action,” he told Robin Roberts on Good Morning America in May. “If we look at things and put love in our core, if we work from that place, things will shift and change.” (Nick McGregor) Salt City Sounds Concert Series, Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main, 5:30 p.m. $15-$125, all ages, saltcitysounds.com

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Nashville singer-songwriter Matt Woods exemplifies all that it means to be a travelling troubadour. A dedicated road warrior, he’s performed his music for audiences in nearly every part of the nation, sometimes on his own, and other times in the company of a backing band. By his own estimate, he’s chalked up somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000 miles thus far, while at times averaging approximately 200 gigs a year. He credits a hatchback with 350,000 miles for getting him to his gigs, and fortunately it hasn’t given out yet. In a career that spans 20 years, he’s also opened for the likes of such luminaries as Chris Knight, Black Oak Arkansas, Bobby Bare, Frank Turner, Zac Brown, Drivin’ n’ Cryin’, Will Hoge, Robbie Fulks, The White Buffalo and The Black Lillies, among many others. After three superb solo albums, Woods has a new record to tout, Natural Disasters, which might be his best yet. Singing from an Everyman perspective, he conveys his usual perseverance and persistence, and in the process takes a look at today’s tough times with a tenacious attitude that pulls no punches. His songs are evocative, emotive, eloquent and expressive, sung with an assertive attitude that leaves no doubt as to his determination. That comes through in his delivery, especially his vocals, which are etched with a stoicism. Granted, there are a lot of worthy minstrels out there, but those in search of music that’s both moving and memorable need look no further than Woods and his repertoire. (Lee Zimmerman) The Heavy Metal Shop, 63 Exchange Place, 6 p.m., free, heavymetalshop.com

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Pop indie band The Mailboxes have staked a claim in the color lavender. Jillian and Logan Ivey are the couple behind the project, “creative partners who happened to be married,” and since the release of singles “Mortgages” and “All I Know,” the two have bathed themselves, their social media and their albums in a soothing purple palette. For the release of their latest album, Inside Outside, the pair and their band members even traveled the Appalachian Trail decked out in lavender gear, playing and filming along the way. The tour has continued since they reached Maine, and though the hike is certainly an attempt to be noticed, it’s hard to deny the loveliness of the simple aesthetic. The Mailboxes’ sound is sweet and sincere, an indie pop flavor that can lullaby you to sleep; “All I Know” has a womblike warmth, as if you were watching a mobile from a crib. Openers Ivouries and Brooklyn Kohl compliment this sound with some pop energy and soul, respectively. Inside Outside has plenty of energy, too, though in its own subdued way. “MySpace” is a lively and anxious expression of spaces and the sense of safety they confer. “In these four walls I felt safe/ Out these windows I would dream/ Why am I crying?” The new album follows 2013’s Red Flags, which garnered them attention from—of all bands—Reliant K, who helped them record the follow-up EP Post Script.

Since that EP, the band’s sound has only become more saccharine. Lavender somehow signals their sound before you even hear it.

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Jenny Lewis is no stranger to Utah, given that the former front-person for indie outfit Rilo Kiley made stope here for events as big as the Twilight Concert Series in 2016. Four albums and nearly a decade on, this once-child actressturned-pivotal early-aughts musician has established herself as a modern rock chanteuse. The same confidence can be found in the work of singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield, who, for the past 10 years or so, has operated under the aegis of Waxahatchee, essentially a solo project named for the creek located near the Alabama home where she grew up. Brimming with a sense of exultation, the music she makes is of a modern rock variety, but generally far more revealing than the giddy and gregarious sounds often associated with that genre. Over the course of her career, Crutchfield has boldly revealed her inner emotions, first through feelings of regret and remorse over a lost youth, and later, through the clear confidence that came after finding her way forward. Waxahatchee’s most recent releases—Ivy Tripp, Out in the Storm and Great Thunder—all attest to that determination. One need look no further for a show where two artists exhibit such absolute self-assurance and ability, and where one can see that women like this are truly the game-changers in music today. (Lee Zimmerman) Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater at Deer Valley Resort, 2250 Deer Valley Drive South, Park City, 7 p.m., $42-$68, all ages, deervalleymusicfestival.org

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Alicia Stockman (Harp and Hound) Ariana Grande (Vivint Smart Home Arena) BBX (Lighthouse Lounge)

Black Market III (Garage on Beck) Charley Jenkins Band (Holladay City Hall Park) Courtney Spaulding (Miner’s Plaza) Dan Fletcher (Miner’s Plaza) Dan Weldon (Snowbird) Intocable (The Complex) Mathew & The Hope (Johnny’s on Second) Matthew Bashaw (Lake Effect) Michelle Moonshine (The Yes Hell) The Moves Collective (Hog Wallow Pub) Natural Causes (Club 90) The Pranksters - Grateful Dead Tribute (Urban Lounge) RCS + Shitty Shitty Band Band + Adult Prom (Kilby Court) The Reverend and the Revelry (Handle Bar) Saving Sydney + My New Mistress + LSDO (Ice Haüs) Shuffle (The Spur) Spazmatics (Liquid Joe’s) TimeCop1983 (The Nile Theater) Tommy Lee & DJ Aero (The Cabin) Victor Menegaux (Downstairs)

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The minds behind classic bars like Piper Down, Murray’s Ice Haüs, and Ogden’s Harp and Hound and Funk ’n’ Dive have up and made a new bar in a rapidly changing neighborhood. HandleBar, located at the bottom of the Marmalade District on a quiet stretch of 300 West. The bar’s name is a triple pun: for the first and most obvious reason of it being a bar called HandleBar; for the second reason of having a bicycle theme (there are entire bicycles hanging from the ceiling and acting as a fence around the patio); and for the third reason of their logo containing a handlebar-mustachioed figure, with a pair of bicycle bifocals, topped with a jaunty bike-polo-er cap. Funny enough, the only bike-polo dudes I ever knew happened to be straightedge. Well, whatever works for them, because this bar rules for drinkers. Not only do they have a kickass selection of local beers, they’ve got a great menu of bar snacks. If you’ve been reading these columns in recent weeks, you won’t be surprised when I express my gratitude that they’ve got a whole vegan menu, too. Or that I got vegan wings—mango habanero—with a complimenting Blackberry Sour Ale by Kiitos Brewing. I just can’t resist wings when they’re there for the taking. I enjoyed them out on the patio, where a stage often hosts musical offerings, and where I could hear sounds from the trivia night filtering out from the inside the bar. Trivia is fun, but I like to observe. I ate my wings and chilled out by myself; you should, too. (Erin Moore) 750 N. 300 West, 801-953-0588, handlebarslc.com

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Stuber finds most of the genre pleasures of buddy action comedies.

BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

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s the buddy action comedy Hollywood’s most consistently satisfying—and consistently underappreciated—genre? Simply posing the rhetorical question betrays that I’ve got a specific answer in mind, so bear with me as I sing the praises of a mismatched pair thrown into a dangerous but amusing scenario. It’s a formula that requires quite a few specific components to work—leads that have just the right chemistry, a scenario that doesn’t get in the way of the comedic set pieces, directing that’s at least moderately competent at handling the action—but if you don’t blow it, you’ve got a crowd-pleaser on your hands. Silver Streak, Midnight Run, 48 HRS., Lethal Weapon, 21 (and 22) Jump Street, The Nice Guys: How rich is the history of fast-paced, funny showcases for an odd couple.

At the risk of overselling the modest charms of Stuber, it lives squarely in that comfort zone. As often is the case in these stories, at least one cop is involved; here, it’s an L.A.P.D. detective named Vic (Dave Bautista) who has a score to settle with the drug dealer (The Raid’s Iko Uwais) who killed his partner. On the day that Vic has lasic surgery,

he learns that the dealer is planning a big score, and Vic is determined to take care of business on his own—despite the fact that he can barely see. So he conscripts an unwilling partner in Stu (Kumail Nanjiani), a sportinggoods store employee who’s moonlighting as an Uber driver. And constitutionally, Stu’s not really built for a day that involves gunfire and car chases.

The script by Tripper Clancy is effectively two high-concept ideas sewn together: “What if a tough-guy cop had to solve a crime while basically blind,” and “What if a mild-mannered guy was forced to chauffeur in a situation that put him in harm’s way” (basically Collateral, but with jokes).

Both sides of that story are meant to maximize the strengths of the two stars, and they both do a fairly good job of it. Bautista’s imposing physical presence gets sent banging and crashing into every available piece of scenery, while we also get to see the kind of quirky sensitivity he brought to Guardians of the Galaxy’s Drax. And Nanjiani soars as the milquetoast who absorbs the mocking “Stuber” nickname given to him by his boss (Jimmy Tatro), and who needs the extra cash from his side hustle so he can become a business partner with the friend (Betty Gilpin) he has long adored.

Indeed, one of the problems with Stuber is that the best bits all swing so heavily toward Nanjiani’s. He’s a master of delivering a deadpan line, like referring to his brutish, demanding passenger Vic as “Douche Lundgren,” or lamenting how exhausting it is to get into a fight. It’s perhaps an unfair comparison, as Bautista is playing more of the 48 HRS. Nick Nolte part to Nanjiani’s clear comic relief, but when one sequence set in a male strip club winds up shifting back and forth between the two main characters— Vic questioning the club’s owner, and Stu getting relationship advice from a stripper

Dave Bautista and Kumail Nanjiani in Stuber

who’s donning a frilled collar and powdered wig for his costume—it becomes clear that the more time Stuber spends focusing on Stu, the more entertaining it’s going to be.

There’s also a fairly perfunctory quality to much of the action as directed by Michael Dowse (Goon), which is never able to maximize assets like Uwais’ lithe kineticism. It’s much stronger when the action leans into silliness, like an extended brawl between Vic and Stu at the sporting-goods store where Stu works, and a shootout in a veterinarian’s office that culminates in a John Woo-like release of doves. “Buddy comedy” is fine, but you can reach another level when the “action” part of “buddy action comedy” is also thriving.

Stuber hits enough comedic high notes that it’s not a particular problem that the earnest character beats fall flat—“You’re always close to something, except the people who actually need you,” complains Vic’s daughter (Natalie Morales)—or that some of the reveals surrounding the drug-dealing plot feel like part of a different movie. Nanjiani is terrific, and the partnership with Bautista is an inspired one even when the fun stuff is slanted to one side. The test of this genre is, “Would I be happy to see these two guys get into another crazy situation?”

Or maybe I’m just easy to please when two guys get into crazy situations. CW

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PAIRS WITH 48 HRS. (1982) Eddie Murphy Nick Nolte (R)

Midnight Run (1988) Robert DeNiro Charles Grodin R

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The Big Sick (2017) Kumail Nanjiani Zoe Kazan R

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NEW THIS WEEK Film release schedules are subject to change. Reviews online at cityweekly.net

STUBER BBB See review on p. 42. Opens July 12 at theaters valleywide. (R)

CRAWL [not yet reviewed] A hurricane traps a woman (Kaya Scodelario) in a house facing rising waters and hungry alligators. Opens July 12 at theaters valleywide. (R)

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THE FALL OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE BB.5 This isn’t the first time a filmmaker has used a heist thriller as a vehicle for commentary on economic disparity, but Denys Arcand pokes at societal ills in a weird mix of genres overflowing with fingerwagging. The setting here is actually Montreal, where over-educated and under-employed courier Pierre-Paul (Alexandre Landry) winds up in possession of millions in cash after a botched robbery at an organized crime safehouse. A police investigation and a ruthless effort by the crime boss to find his money land this in genre territory, but there’s also an almost farcical component as Pierre-Paul turns to a recently-paroled gangster (Rémy Girard) to help him manage his money, plus a romance between Pierre-Paul and a high-priced, heart-of-gold escort (Maripier Morin). Arcand finds some solid material in Pierre-Paul’s conflicting desires to help himself and help others, while Girard makes for an appealing tough-guy foil. It just keeps feeling like Arcand is pausing to lecture us about homelessness, about the thin line between “legitimate business” and crime, about the wealthy getting away with anything. It’s a morality tale that’s pretty darned pleased with its own morality. Opens July 12 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—Scott Renshaw

BOTTLE ROCKET At Tower Theater, July 12-13, 11 p.m. & July 14, noon. (R) DAMN THESE HEELS LGBTQ FILM FESTIVAL See p. 13. At Rose Wagner Center, July 12-14, times vary (NR) FIRST MAN At Gateway Legacy Plaza, July 17, dusk. (PG-13) WRESTLING GHOSTS At Main Library, July 16, 7 p.m. (NR)

CURRENT RELEASES ANNABELLE COMES HOME BB.5 If you didn’t already know the Conjuring series and its Annabelle spin-offs, there’s an effective pre-credits sequence in which Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) give an expository recap of scary doll Annabelle’s purpose: To steal a human soul for a demon to eat, or something. Ed and Lorraine leave their daughter (Mckenna Grace) in the care of Mary Ellen (Madison Iseman), whose friend crashes the goings-on to use an evil artifact from the Warrens’ trophy room to contact her dead father. Naturally Annabelle escapes, and a demon hell-raisin’ follows. It’s intensely creepy for about 45 minutes, until jump scares

and blown lights kick in, and it downshifts to mediocre horror.

The filmmakers are good at making shadows, smoke and mirrors freaky, but this time they phoned it in (literally, in some places).

Annabelle deserves better. (R)—David Riedel MIDSOMMAR BBB In the wake of a family tragedy, Dani (Florence Pugh) accompanies her boyfriend (Jack Reynor) and his friends on a research trip to a Swedish pagan commune, which is preparing to conduct midsummer rituals. Some of those rituals turn deeply disturbing, though writer-director Ari Aster leavens some of them with mordant humor. But while the burn is a bit too slow over nearly 150 minutes, Aster delivers more than a re-hash of The Wicker Man. In part it’s a way-too-obvious story of a disintegrating romantic relationship, though Pugh captures something awkwardly honest in Dani’s apologetic emotional fragility. It’s much better at juxtaposing a belief system based on natural life cycles with anxieties of modernity and the attraction of finding real connection. These characters find themselves in a scary world, but maybe not as scary as the one they call home. (R)—SR SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME BBB Peter Parker (Tom Holland) is just a 16-year-old kid, so how do you balance Spider-Man’s fate-of-the-world duties with having fun? Director Jon Watts wrestles with that question, as Peter’s school trip to Europe turns into a meeting with Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and other-dimensional warrior Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) to stop powerful elementals. Holland remains a winningly awkward presence as a nice guy trying to figure out if his moral code allows him to put getting the girl (Zendaya’s MJ) ahead of saving the world. The action sequences ultimately lean into generic spectacle, and it gets even clunkier with topical notions about how to respond to demagoguery. This is, however, pretty satisfying when it leans into human comedy. Peter Parker understands his great power and great responsibility, but we just want to see him have fun. (PG-13)—SR TOY STORY 4 BBB.5 This is my truth: The first three Toy Story features are one story told in more-or-less real time. Here, despite nine real-world years since Toy Story 3, the toys’ new owner Bonnie is still only beginning kindergarten, with Woody (Tom Hanks) leading an

attempt to recover her new favorite, googly-eyed spork Forky (Tony Hale). Centering the story on a rescue places this film squarely in the series’ comfort zone, and the action is both exciting and silly while effectively integrating new characters. Yet there’s also something that’s just a touch off as Woody—previously a stand-in for Andy’s emotional life—here takes on more of a parental role. While there’s nothing inherently wrong with that shift, TS4 is simultaneously delightful, and feels like it’s not part of the earlier installments’ cohesive perspective. (G)—SR

YESTERDAY BB One night, during a worldwide electrical blackout, struggling singer-songwriter Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) awakens from unconsciousness to realize that he’s the only person who knows about the Beatles—then proceeds to pass their compositions off as his own and become famous. Would “I Want to Hold Your Hand” really have the same impact, brand-new, in 2019 as it did in 1964? The Beatles’ songs exist in a bizarre vacuum here, excised from the environment in which they were born.

Perhaps the weirdest thing is that it isn’t even an excuse for a revue of Beatles music. It’s all mostly a one-note running joke about how no one except Jack knows all those famous tunes, combined with a blah romance. It defangs the music we know and love so well, diminishing the meaning it has for so many of us.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Hi, my name is Rob Brezsny, and I confess that I am addicted to breathing air, eating food, drinking water, indulging in sleep and getting high on organic, free-trade, slavery-free dark chocolate.

I also confess that I am powerless over these addictions. Now I invite you to be inspired by my silly example and undertake a playful but serious effort to face up to your own fixations. The astrological omens suggest it’s a perfect moment to do so.

What are you addicted to? What habits are you entranced by?

What conditioned responses are you enslaved to? What traps have you agreed to be snared by? The time is right to identify these compulsions, then make an audacious break for freedom.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): My astrological colleague Guru Gwen believes that right now Aquarians should get scolded and penalized unless they agree to add more rigor and discipline to their rhythms. On the other hand, my astrological colleague Maestro Madelyn feels that Aquarians need to have their backs massaged, their hands held, and their problems listened to with grace and empathy. I suppose that both Gwen and Madelyn want to accomplish the same thing, which is to get you back on track. But personally, I’m more in favor of Madelyn’s approach than Gwen’s.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): As a self-taught rebel poet with few formal credentials, I might not have much credibility when I urge you to get yourself better licensed and certified and sanctioned. But according to my analysis of the astrological omens, the coming months will be a favorable time for you to make plans to get the education or training you’re lacking; to find out what it would mean to become more professional, and then become more professional; to begin pursuing the credentials that will earn you more power to fulfill your dreams.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’re in the Land of Green Magic. That’s potentially very good news, but you must also be cautious. Why? Because in the Land of Green Magic, the seeds of extraneous follies and the seeds of important necessities grow extra fast. Unless you are a careful weeder, useless stuff will spring up and occupy too much space. So be firm in rooting out the blooms that won’t do you any good. Be aggressive in nurturing only the very best and brightest.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Eight years ago, researchers in Kerala, India, went to the Padmanabhaswamy Temple and climbed down into centuries-old vaults deep beneath the main floor. They found a disorganized mess of treasure in the form of gold and precious gems. There were hundreds of chairs made from gold, baskets full of gold coins from the ancient Roman Empire, and a four-foot-high solid statue of a god, among multitudinous other valuables. I like bringing these images to your attention, Taurus, because I have a theory that if you keep them in your awareness, you’ll be more alert than usual to undiscovered riches in your own life and in your own psyche. I suspect you are closer than ever before to unearthing those riches.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I can’t decide whether to compare your imminent future to a platypus, kaleidoscope, patchwork quilt, or Swiss army knife.

From what I can tell, your adventures could bring you random jumbles or melodic mélanges—or a blend of both. So I’m expecting provocative teases, pure flukes, and multiple options.

There’ll be crazy wisdom, alluring messes, and unclassifiable opportunities. To ensure that your life is more of an intriguing riddle than a confusing maze, I suggest that you stay closely attuned to what you’re really feeling and thinking, and comGEMINI (May 21-June 20): municate that information with tactful precision.

Children need to learn certain aptitudes at certain times. If they don’t, they might not be able to master those aptitudes later in SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Every year, thousands of people all over the world go to hospital life. For example, if infants don’t get the experience of being emergency rooms seeking relief from kidney stones. Many of protected and cared for by adults, it will be hard for them to the treatments are invasive and painful. But in recent years, a develop that capacity as toddlers. This is a good metaphor for a benign alternative has emerged. A peer-reviewed article in a sci- developmental phase that you Geminis are going through. In my entific journal presented evidence that many patients spontane- astrological opinion, 2019 and 2020 are critical years for you ously pass their kidney stones simply by riding on roller coasters. to become more skilled at the arts of togetherness and collaboI doubt that you’ll have a literal problem like kidney stones in the ration; to upgrade your abilities so as to get the most out of your coming weeks, Sagittarius. But I do suspect that any psycho- intimate relationships. How are you doing with this work so far?

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Please don’t try to relax. Don’t shy away from challenges. Don’t apologize for your holy quest or tone down your ambition or stop pushing to get better. Not now, anyway, Libra. Just the opposite, in fact. I urge you to pump up the volume on your desires. Be even bigger and bolder and braver. Take maximum advantage of the opportunities that are arising, and cash in on the benevolent conspiracies that are swirling in your vicinity. Now is one of those exceptional moments when tough competition is actually healthy for you, when the pressure to outdo your previous efforts can be tonic and inspiring.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In his book The Histories, ancient Greek historian Herodotus told the story of a six-year war between the armies of the Medes and the Lydians in an area that today corresponds to Turkey.

The conflict ended suddenly on a day when a solar eclipse occurred. Everyone on the battlefield got spooked as the light unexpectedly dimmed, and commanders sought an immediate cease to the hostilities. In the spirit of cosmic portents precipitating practical truces, I suggest you respond to the upcoming lunar eclipse on July 16-17 with overtures of peace and healing and amnesty. It’ll be a good time to reach out to any worthwhile person or group from whom you have been alienated.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When cherries are nearing the end of their ripening process, they are especially vulnerable. If rain falls on them during those last few weeks, they can rot or split, rendering them unmarketable. So cherry-growers hire helicopter pilots to hover over their trees right after it rains, using the downdraft from the blades to dry the valuable little fruits. It might seem like overkill, but it’s the method that works best. I advise you to be on the lookout for similar protective measures during the climactic phase of your personal ripening process. Your motto should be to take care of your valuables by any means necessary.

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SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SALT LAKE DEPT. OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH. CASE NO. 199910296, JUDGE ROBERT FAUST. TITANIUM FUNDS LLC, PLAINTIFF V. SARAH LIECHTY, DEFENDANT. THE STATE OF UTAH TO SARAH LIECHTY: You are summoned and required to answer the complaint that is on file with the court. Within 21 days after the last date of publication of this summons, you must file your written answer with the clerk of the court at the following address: 450 S STATE ST., SALT LAKE, UT 84114, and you must mail or deliver a copy to plaintiff’s attorney J. Benson Miller at 3081 South State Street – 2nd Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84115.

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SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SALT LAKE DEPT. OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH. CASE NO. 199902434, JUDGE ROBERT FAUST. TITANIUM FUNDS LLC, PLAINTIFF V. MICHAEL SHUMAKER, DEFENDANT. THE STATE OF UTAH TO MICHAEL SHUMAKER: You are summoned and required to answer the complaint that is on file with the court. Within 21 days after the last date of publication of this summons, you must file your written answer with the clerk of the court at the following address: 450 S STATE ST., SALT LAKE, UT 84114, and you must mail or deliver a copy to plaintiff’s attorney J. Benson Miller at 3081 South State Street – 2nd Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84115. If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint. This lawsuit is an attempt to collect a debt of $9,873.92.

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MediaBids_190103_24.indd 1 12/28/2018 5:15:20 The social stigma surrounding mental hospitals has been widely exaggerated by the media, from Victorian newspapers telling tales of the infamous Bedlam—the first asylum for the mentally ill in England—to Hollywood movies like the 1973 classic Don’t Look in the Basement or 1988’s Hellraiser II. Pejorative titles like “loony bin,” “nut house” and “insane asylum” have crept into our vocabulary. But the reality is that these places were the primary caregivers for millions of people for hundreds of years … people who may or may not THIS WEEK’S FEATURED have been criminally insane or mentally PARTLOW RENTALS: ill.

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Officers released the squirrel into the wild, but Paulk (still on the run) later told news outlets he went back to the apartment and whistled, and DeezNutz returned to him. A GoFundMe page established to help Paulk pay his legal fees includes a post saying the squirrel has been “safely gotten ... out of Alabama and it is being boarded until his owner’s legal issues can be settled.”

The Limestone sheriff’s office took to Twitter to warn locals to be wary of Paulk: “Mickey Paulk is a fleeing felon with felony warrants unrelated to his squirrel.” (Update: Before press time, the Limestone County Sheriff’s Office announced on Twitter that Paulk had been arrested.)

News You Can Use Equality got a boost in Argentina in June when that country’s National Appeal Court ordered a man to pay his ex-wife 8 million pesos (about $178,000) for 27 years of housework. Newsweek reported Judge Victoria Fama reasoned that the wife, who holds a degree in economics, put her career aside for the entirety of their marriage to keep house and raise children, and by the time her husband left her in 2009, she was too old to compete in the job market. “The economic dependence of wives on their husbands is one of the central mechanisms through which women are subordinated in society,” the judge stated. Meanwhile, the husband was living “a good life.”

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Least Competent Criminal An unnamed woman arrested earlier was released from the St. Louis Justice Center on the morning of June 5—sort of. Jail staff gave her clear instructions about how to get out of the building, according to corrections commissioner Dale Glass, but instead she got on the elevator, pushed all the buttons, and got off at the fifth floor, where she exited through a fire door into a stairwell, locking herself in, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

Two and a half days later, staff finally saw her peering through a window in one of the doors. The woman had made noise during her confinement, but Glass explained that the jail is a noisy place, and the staff couldn’t figure out where the noise was coming from as she moved from floor to floor. Paramedics were called and the woman was offered hospital care, but she declined, saying, “No, I just want to go home.”

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Holmes Beach (Florida) police posted a query on their Facebook page on June 15 regarding an unusual item that had washed up on the shore and was turned in by a local resident: a prosthetic ear. Social media did its magic, and the ear and its owner were reunited five days later. The Associated Press reported that a Beaufort, S.C., couple had been vacationing in the Tampa Bay area, and the man was putting the rubber ear in his pocket for safekeeping when a wave knocked it out of his hand. Police Sgt. Brian Hall said he would mail the ear back to its owner, as prosthetic ears can be very pricey.

Inexplicable Do you ever wish you hadn’t invested in a Ring doorbell? On June 22, while Wilton Thomas of North Lauderdale, Fla., was at work, his doorbell camera captured a man in a green car pull into his driveway, exit the car, remove his shirt and crouch down to relieve himself. He used the shirt to clean himself up, then left the mess behind and drove away. Thomas told WPLG he would have understood if the man had knocked and said, “Man, you know what, I had an emergency. I had nowhere to go, and this is where I had to do what I had to do.” The Broward County Sheriff’s Office is investigating.

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Hitchcockian Roy and Brenda Pickard of Knotts End, Lancashire, England, lived in a 1960s horror film for a week in June as a pair of nesting herring gulls terrorized them each time they emerged from their home. “If I try to go out of the door, the two adult birds are right there, and I’ve got no chance,” Roy told the Mirror. At one point, Roy was attacked so viciously on the back of the head that he had to go to the hospital for treatment. Roy contacted animal organizations, but they offered no remedies for the violent birds: It’s breeding season, and herring gulls are protected when nesting.

“The whole thing has been terrible,” Roy lamented.

Compelling Explanation The Behney House Hotel in Myerstown, Pa., was evacuated after police responded to a reported bomb threat there on June 23, reported WPMT. When officers arrived, they found David Oxenreider, 28, who lives at the hotel, and the homemade bomb he claimed to have made next to a dumpster outside the building. Oxenreider told police he made the bomb to get their attention because he was frustrated that his attempts to warn officials about aliens hadn’t been taken seriously. According to the criminal complaint, Oxenreider said he encountered a UFO and aliens in 2014, who told him “humans need to start being good people, or else they were going to destroy the Earth with a nuclear laser beam.” Police disarmed the device and arrested Oxenreider.

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The Continuing Crisis Early-bird travelers at Detroit Metropolitan Airport got a rude awakening on June 21 when an unnamed man tried to pass through a TSA checkpoint entirely naked. According to WXYZ, the man approached the checkpoint and removed all his clothing, then removed a barrier and approached a metal detector. Officers didn’t allow him through the metal detector, so he ran around it, where he was caught and covered with plastic trash bags. A bystander said he was calm and compliant while being detained.

Law enforcement determined he was not a threat and took him to a local hospital.

The next morning, the Chinese news site Sohu reported, Chang awoke with a sharp pain in his chest and went to Dongguan Hospital, where an X-ray revealed the missing house keys lodged deep in his esophagus. Doctors first thought emergency surgery would be necessary to retrieve the keys, but with the help of a muscle-relaxing drug, a gastroenterologist was able to pull them out through his mouth.

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