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The Kids Are Not Alright

Why Utah’s fight for clean air matters.

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Cover story, Nov. 7, “Summer of Discontent: Activists are facing criminal charges for a massive protest against the inland port. Will the opposition back down?”

Doubtful.

VIRGIL GLASS Via Twitter

The port would cause a decrease in pollution. A unit train takes 80-100 trucks off the road ... so when they have several units, it takes off even more.

It’s in a wasteland that is currently only occupied by industry and the adjacent prison. Do you want to protest consumption?

Stop consuming. Stop ordering. Protest with your dollars and mind. Your “occupying” movements do nothing when you keep buying goods.

SPENCER GORDON Via Facebook Increased truck traffic bringing goods to port.

Transporting coal out of central Utah. No environmental study completed.

IRIS NIELSEN Via Facebook They most definitely earned those charges.

ROB STONE Via Facebook All well and good until those in power refuse to listen. Paraphrasing: Those who make peaceful evolution (change) impossible, make violent revolution inevitable. Our votes don’t matter (Gerrymandering, ignored initiatives, constrained Constitution—UC 34-40-106).

Abort the port.

DENNIS READ HANKS Via Twitter

The best way to protest is to boycott every product sold that is housed/distributed from that port.

FRED A. SCHMAUCH Via Twitter

Opinion, Nov. 7, “Utahns’ Avoidance Coming to an End”

Could you be more wrong?

The fact that you, like Dick Blumenthal, somehow count as a veteran makes me sick.

GIESUA GIORNO Via cityweekly.net That is a perfect opinion piece! The Republicans in Utah hide their head in the sand when it comes to Trump. They are all about party vs. country.

His moral intelligence, his spread of lies and hate and divisiveness to and of this country is repulsive. With comments such as Giorno’s, it proves the common thread of Utah’s Republicans are one off from normalcy.

S. BEATTY Via cityweekly.net

A&E, Nov. 7, “I Statement: Annual genderevolution conference brings the ‘I’ in

‘LGBTQIA’ front and center”

At this rate, it will only be a matter of time before every letter in the alphabet is used here.

DUSTIN NEWMAN Via Facebook

Online news post, Nov. 6, Erin Mendenhall elected next SLC mayor

They were/are outstanding candidates. SLC wins.

RICKY JOY MONTOYA Via Facebook Boo. She’s going to destroy our city. Hope you all enjoy your inland port. She’s raking in the money and making backdoor deals for herself. How you all ignored those facts …

ERIN BAIN Via Facebook Jackie already did that!

JEFFREY HALES Via Facebook Hopefully the two work together.

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It Turns Out the Witch is Real

It was bad from the start, but the latest President Donald Trump bombshells are jarring Americans’ waking hours.

Gone are the cheery songbirds that welcomed each day.

They’ve been replaced by an almost deafening, repetitive din of Trump news—his hatchet jobs on the courageous; and his use of the Attorney General William Barr and DOJ minions to punish his detractors.

You can watch any of the morning news shows, and it’s pretty much the same. The GOP’s hope of dismantling the impeachment process is gone. And, consistent with Trump’s desperate-but-predictable blame-game, it’s no surprise to see him gushing a steady stream of projectile vomiting, complete with its chunks of the same-ol’-sameol’ conspiracy theories.

This non-stop spewing S.O.S. message from the embattled superlative—also known as the “World’s Greatest Prick”—is a disturbingly effective tool. With a generous supply of Republican supporters—far too dedicated and patriotic to engage their minds in simple moral questions or constitutional mandates—it’s no surprise that the lowlifes, haters, homophobes, skinheads and devout Christian wife-beaters rally faithfully around their chief.

D.C. is awash with noise—noise “in excess of allowable E.P.A. limits.” This continuous launching of swamp-goo at Trump enemies works; a little bit of it will always stick, much akin to our judicial system, wherein the innocent are convicted of crimes for which they are later exonerated.

The public never forgets, both in criminal charges and in

BY MICHAEL S. ROBINSON SR. the crap-slinging of dirty D.C. politics. There’s a presumption of guilt, even when total exoneration follows.

All the while, the brat in the White House keeps screaming “Wolf!”—attracting the attention of compassionate wouldbe saviors, no matter how many times the portly toddler is caught in a lie. Here’s how I imagine one of his most recent “distress calls”: Dispatcher: What is your 911 emergency, sir?

POTUS: I seem to have misplaced my silver spoon, and it’s almost time to eat.

Dispatcher: Sir, I’m sorry to hear about it, but this service only deals with emergencies.

POTUS: It’s not just any silver spoon, ma’am. It’s the one I was born with, and since I’m the President of the United States of America, everything I want is an official emergency. You can’t, by any chance, send a wall, can you?

Dispatcher: Sir, I don’t care if you’re the Queen of Sheba; You need to hang up now. You should also ask your cellular carrier why your phone IDs as “The Orange Lard-Ass Mutha.”

POTUS: (flushed and hyperventilating) Damn those Democrats; they never stop; my phone’s been hacked! (then, in full meltdown mode) Melania! Melania! Get me my smelling salts; I think I’m about to faint.

Melania: Get them yourself, asshole! You’re not the Queen of Sheba.

POTUS: (Trump gets a Rodney Dangerfield look of dismay on his face, secretly wishing he was the Sheban monarch) No respect! (He laments, then falls to the floor in his best beached-dead-whale imitation.

Suddenly Trump’s face contorts and jerks as the smelling salts are waved beneath his nose. Then, looking up at his attending angel: “Thank you, Lindsey. What would I do without you?”

Graham: I guess not much, but you know the system; ... doesn’t mean that things can’t change tomorrow. How

about a little quid pro quo. Sign over another one of your Trump Tower condos, and I’ll try to cover your back for another two weeks.

POTUS: That seems fair enough. By the way, I felt bad you wouldn’t go trick-or-treating with me this year—just wasn’t the same without you, ol’ pal. It would have been great to have some company, but Eric was too busy playing video games, and even Mitch McConnell told me no. It was a sad, lonely Halloween, even though it’s always been my favorite holiday. I love dressing up in my scariest face and making the little kids cry. Best of all, I’ve found that I can accumulate a sizeable stash of candy when those little chickenshits drop their bags and run. You know, I actually used my Halloween plunder-strategy in my book, “The Art of the Deal.” Frankly, it’s the method I’ve used to get virtually everything Dad didn’t give me.

Graham: As much as I love you, Donald, and appreciate your great and unmatched wisdom, trick-or-treating was asking a bit too much. Besides that, I was really down on Halloween this year, mostly because I’m finding myself haunted by the word “witch hunt.”

POTUS: Don’t get me going on that one. That’s what it is—a witch hunt, plain and simple. Why is everyone out to get me?

I’m such a good, caring human being, and it’s all so unfair.

Despite Trump’s lonely and sugar-free Halloween, there actually had been some great pumpkin-day news. The 2019 witch hunt, it turns out, was a rousing success. Trump, himself, was the victorious hunter. Just after midnight a gleeful scream reverberated across America. “Melania,” an elated POTUS screamed, “I found the witch; it was in my shaving mirror.” CW

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POLARIZATION IN POLITICS

When children die in school shootouts, lawmakers offer thoughts and prayers. When women die from botched abortions, lawmakers shift the blame to the women. When a Utah woman died after weight-loss surgery in Mexico, lawmakers didn’t rush to deal with the high cost of health care in this country. But when a family of U.S. polygamists was murdered in Mexico, the calls came immediately to decriminalize multiple marriages. In the aftermath, The Salt Lake Tribune ran a story of the pros and cons with perhaps the strangest pro being easier access to alimony for plural wives who want to divorce. There are two ideological camps on polygamy: that it is a religious freedom issue and that it is fraught with fraud and abuse. Wherever you stand, think about Texas, California, Las Vegas or the vast numbers of shooting deaths that draw a sigh of apathy.

Greg Hughes seems to want to run for governor. You know Hughes—maybe the most powerful man in Utah, according to the Deseret News.

He’s the former Utah House speaker who boxes, has a biting sense of humor and somehow manages to emerge whole from the many controversies that dog him. The Utah Investigative Journalism Project recently reminded everyone about that after the FBI wrapped up a lengthy probe into the Utah Transit Authority’s questionable development decisions. It took an open records request to unseal the report. Hughes wouldn’t comment on the report, but it’s good reading for anyone who wants to know more about how Utah power brokers use smoke and mirrors to disguise conflicts of interest, and how one man can maintain his public stature through deniability.

Are you worried about raising the tax on groceries? How about throwing education funding to the wind? These and other important tax questions will be answered—theoretically—at the Republicans’ special public hearing with the Tax Restructuring Tax Force. Don’t be afraid if you’re not a Republican. They insist they are here for the entire state and that all this shuffling around of what to tax and why is for your own good. Join Democrats from throughout the state at the Utah Deserves Better Public Hearing to learn more. And don’t forget to email/text/or call your legislators (find them at le.utah.gov by clicking on “My Legislators”) to find out where they stand. Utah State Capitol, 350 N. State, West House Building, Room 30, Thursday, Nov. 21, 5-8 p.m., free, bit.ly/2NPQWOt

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So Much for Science

It has probably become clear that experts, science and facts are no longer what we base our decisions on. So you might ask why we should pay attention to former state archaeologists and geomorphologists. It’s because of the stunningly wrongheaded plans to create an inland port on this unstable “surface of the earth.” In a Trib op-ed, the two archaeologists note that the airport, rail lines, the new prison and the inland port continue to be threatened by the rising and falling levels of the Great Salt Lake. They also encourage exploration before defiling ancient burial grounds and destroying artifacts. But the state moves forward, despite 58% of the population who oppose the port, according to a Utah Policy poll. That’s because, according to a dialogue on KTVX Channel 4, people think they’re supposed to oppose it. It’s private land, the guests said, and too complicated to understand, so basically “get over it.”

Just in time, you can learn how to preserve Thanksgiving dinner harmony— even if you’ve invited relatives of opposing political persuasions. Polarization and Incivility in American Politics: Is Congressional Gridlock Affecting U.S. State Legislatures? seeks to explain the connection between the gridlock in Congress and what’s happening in your state Legislature. Every time Congress passes on an issue, it ends up as a state problem—not always resolved in the people’s favor. You will hear from Nicholas Lovrich and Francis Benjamin, both professors at Washington State University; Christopher Simon, a political science professor at the University of Utah; lobbyist and former legislator Frank Pignanelli; and Jennifer Seelig of the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Office. Hinckley Institute of Politics, 260 S. Central Campus Drive, Monday Nov. 25, noon-1 p.m., free, bit.ly/33OWzBW

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Support the Inland Port Defendants! against what organizers call a blatant act of political repression. “This port threatens our environment, our communities and marginalized people in Salt Lake and beyond,” the event’s Facebook page says. Scott Matheson Courthouse, 450 S. State, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 8-10 a.m., free, bit.ly/2XrS1iN

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Bad Banners A year after the city launched a poll to reboot its flag, Salt Lakers are still waiting for a tattooworthy design.

BY PETER HOLSLIN pholslin@cityweekly.net @peterholslin

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ir quality. Homelessness. The inland port. These are all pressing issues Salt Lake City Mayorelect Erin Mendenhall will be tackling as she takes over Jackie Biskupski’s seat in January.

But in the transition between administrations, there is another question that lingers: What about the flag?

The Salt Lake City flag has been the subject of public scrutiny ever since it was first unfurled in 2006 under the administration of then-Mayor Rocky Anderson. Anderson launched the redesign in an effort to change the previous flag, a childlike rendering of the first pioneers of 1847. The one that flies high now represents an improvement, but still doesn’t quite meet the design standards of modern-day flag experts.

According to the North American Vexillological Association, an organization devoted to the study of flags, a winning banner should follow five criteria: Be a simple design, have meaningful symbolism, use just two or three colors from the standard color set (i.e. red, yellow, green, blue, etc.), have no lettering or seals on it (which are impossible to make out from a distance) and stand out as a fresh take on flag conventions.

The SLC flag clearly violates at least two of the aforementioned rules. It’s splattered with no less than six different colors, including multiple shades of pastel green and sky blue. The center features an illustration of the cityscape, with the words “Salt Lake City” blaring in all caps. The design isn’t as bad as the former flag of the Idaho city of Pocatello, deemed the worst city flag in America by NAVA in 2004. But Salt Lakers do think there’s room for improvement: In a public survey of 2,000 residents conducted last year by Biskupski’s office, more than 75% of the respondents were in support of a redesign.

“Obviously, people want a new flag,” Matthew Rojas, Biskupski’s spokesperson, tells City Weekly.

So, who will be the local hero to take up this cause?

Biskupski has had a busy year—too

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Whether it’s infused with razzle-dazzle or not, 75% of SLC residents agree the time for a new city flag is now. busy, in fact, to follow up on the 2018 survey. Rojas says she won’t be tackling the issue in the month-and-a-half she has left before leaving office.

As for Mendenhall, it’s hard to say whether she’ll take action. Last month, when she sat down with us for a Q&A during the general election race, she didn’t have much to say on the topic.

“I’m not a flag designer, I’m a politician. But Salt Lake City needs a rebranding—it needs more than a new flag,” she said. Asked this week to elaborate, Mendenhall spokesman Ian Koski said she declined to comment.

The lack of interest in a new Salt Lake flag stems from the fact that there’s simply more important things to worry about, observes Tim Chambless, an associate professor in political science at the University of Utah. Yet Chambless doesn’t discount the power of civic symbolism, noting that the Utah Jazz made a splash in the NBA this season when they brought back their classic purple jerseys from the team’s late’90s heyday, emblazoned with craggy peaks suggestive of the iconic Wasatch Range.

“When the Jazz play, they have their uniforms that show snow-capped, jagged mountains. They’re sending a symbol of Utah that’s seen all over the world,” Chambless says.

What concerns Ted Kaye—secretary of NAVA and author of the flag design booklet Good Flag, Bad Flag—is that Salt Lake City will do what so many cities have done in the past, deferring to the branding of their sports teams to do the heavy lifting of representing the

city. The problem is that sports teams can move out of town, or change logos in a flash.

“Ceding that territory gives up an opportunity for the city to really represent itself,” Kaye says.

He thinks Salt Lakers can do better.

“I’ve got a rule of thumb that shows me when a city’s symbol has become truly a part of its civic consciousness, when it’s truly been embraced by the citizenry—and that’s when the flag starts showing up as a tattoo,” he explains. “I would guess that nobody’s got a flag tattoo of the current Salt Lake City flag. But there are lots of tattoos of the Washington, D.C., flag, the Chicago city flag. There are other cities that have great flags that people use as tattoos, because it’s the symbol of the city.”

Although not yet immortalized on skin, other Utah cities and towns have done flag relaunches to much fanfare in recent years. Provo unveiled a new design in 2015, and the humble Utah County city of Elk Ridge adopted a flag in 2017—the first since the city’s founding in 1971, depicting a giant elk superimposed over horizontal bands of blue, white and green.

In Biskupski’s public survey, according to Rojas, most of the respondents called for a new flag that would incorporate a design reflecting the Wasatch Mountains, one of Salt Lake City’s most iconic natural landmarks. Many wanted to include symbolism like a star or a beehive, indicating the city’s Beehive State capital status. Respondents also recommended the city reach out to members of Shoshone, Paiute, Goshute

and Ute tribes to incorporate elements of indigenous culture native to the Salt Lake Valley.

Bart Powaukee, a Utah environmentalist and member of the Ute and Nez Perce tribes, says it would be tough work to come up with one symbol that could represent the many diverse voices and cultures of Native Americans who have roots in what’s now the state of Utah.

If he had to pick one thing, though, he recommends an image of the eagle staff—a sacred wooden staff that has traditionally been used to represent a range of meanings, clans, languages and nations. Powaukee says it’s also emblematic of Native American unity.

“Before any outside contact with, say, the Caucasian people, white people, we carried these staff wherever we went, and that signified who we were,” Powaukee says. “You could say that staff represents all Indian people.”

According to Rojas, the current flag has a relatively low profile. Only a couple dozen of them are flown in public, mostly at parks, government buildings and fire stations. There’s also a rogue flag flying in Exchange Plaza, an off-thebeaten-path public square sandwiched between some downtown businesses.

The city never put this flag up, and nobody in City Hall knows its provenance, Rojas says.

An employee at Twist, a bar located in the plaza, also didn’t have any info on the flag when City Weekly called to inquire about it.

“I didn’t even know Salt Lake City had a flag,” he said. CW

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The Kids Are Not Alright

Why Utah’s fight for clean air matters.

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t’s 2:30 a.m., and I’m still awake. I am teetering on the edge of sleep, listening for the telltale cough from the room next door. And there it is. A couple of wheezy breaths followed by a rough rattle. It’s the same cough that’s plagued my son since last spring. I pad softly into his bedroom in my bare feet, picking out the shadow of my son’s shape beneath the blankets, reclined at an oddly upright angle on a wedge pillow to improve his breathing. I urge him to take a drink, my quiet words barely registering over the hum of the air purifier.

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how they’ll lower pollution levels in the coming years. It might have also been part of the motivation behind Utah’s unprecedented $29 million appropriations for air quality initiatives during the 2019 legislative session.

Rep. Patrice Arent, D-Millcreek, founder and co-chair of the bipartisan Clean Air Caucus, says even though the Utah Legislature did not allocate the $100 million Gov. Gary Herbert initially asked for, advocates were pleased with the progress made in the past Legislative session.

“That money went toward important efforts,” Arent tells City Weekly. In fact, she shared that the Legislature got busy in 2019 funding an array of solutions aimed at improving air quality, including the following: n Funding teleworking expenses for state employees. n Installing electric vehicle charging stations at state facilities. n Incentivizing businesses to install electric vehicle charging equipment. n Assisting homeowners with weatherization that reduces energy consumption, including updating home appliances like water heaters. n Funding air quality public messaging campaigns. n Replacing more than 238 pre-2007 era state vehicles. n Providing air quality monitors on Trax lines.

When the rest of the nation thinks pollution, they don’t envision the quaint, orderly streets of Salt Lake City. They’re imagining Los Angeles, freeways clogged with cars and smog casting a gritty and dense haze across the urban sprawl. But we locals know the dirty little secret hidden behind SLC’s squeakyclean reputation.

It’s called inversion. And chances are if you look across the Salt Lake Valley on a winter day, you’ll see it clinging to the feet of the mountains and choking the suburbs below.

Unlike good old-fashioned air pollution, which worsens with the higher temperatures of summer, Utah’s inver-

Salt Lake City also earned a big fat “F” on the latest air quality report card from the American Lung Association. The reason?

Last year, 63 days registered air quality considered unhealthy for sensitive populations.

That means that, on average, in Salt Lake City, it’s unsafe to go outside for children, the elderly and anyone with respiratory problems at least once every six days.

The Clean Air Act of 1970 has improved pollution in many major metropolitan areas across the United States by regulating automobiles and improving standards for energy efficiency and emissions across industries.

Overall, Americans enjoy air that is 30% cleaner than a few decades ago, despite an increasing population and expanding urban sprawl.

But our city’s rate of improvement has been slower than others, largely because Utah hasn’t been held accountable for failing to meet air quality standards. In early 2019, The Center for Biological Diversity, Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment (UPHE), Westside Coalition and SLC Air Protectors filed a lawsuit against the state for negligence in addressing pollution. The suit contended failure to comply with EPA air quality standards since 2006, meaning the state had exposed millions of Utahns to polluted air and the health risks associated with it. That lawsuit prompted Utah’s Department of Air Quality to submit a comprehensive plan to federal officials outlining

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sion happens in the winter. And it’s a tricky, complicated stew of weather patterns, atmospheric conditions and geography that creates a perfect storm.

Our episodes of seasonal inversion force particulate pollution (referred to as PM 2.5 or PM for short) to concentrations that exceed national health standards for days and sometimes weeks at a time.

In normal weather patterns, cool air circulates above, trapping warmer air near the surface. In Utah, however, that pattern can become inverted. Cold air—fed by snowpack and the large, frozen Great Salt Lake—traps warmer air.

That pressure system becomes a lid that keeps particulates close to the surface.

The bowl-shaped Salt Lake Valley worsens this effect, making inversion linger until a storm blows in and lifts the lid on our pollution pressure cooker.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, in 2018, Salt Lake County had a whopping 39 days where particulate matter exceeded 51 PM. For reference, red alert days—where all populations are advised to stay inside because the air is too dangerous to breathe—are triggered by a rating of 55.5 PM. Air is considered unhealthy for sensitive groups like children and the elderly at a much lower threshold of 35.5 PM. Poor air quality along the Wasatch Front earned Utah’s capital city a spot on the not-so-coveted American Lung Association’s 2019 list of the most polluted cities in America. Salt Lake City, Provo and Orem ranked No. 8 nationally for high levels of short-term particle pollution. In fact, Salt Lake City is one of several cities highlighted as having an “ozone problem” in Climate Central’s 2019 research on air quality. Last year, research showed Salt Lake City tipped the scales with 31 unhealthy ozone days, compared to an average of 22 per year from 2000-14. Utah is now also one of eight states where the EPA monitors ozone year-round.

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We’ve been fighting lung inflammation for months, like a shadowy opponent that hovers, attacks and then recedes. My son’s allergist patiently explains, as she charts the neat rows of 30 angry raised bumps on his back, that the source of the lung inflammation isn’t clear. She prescribes another round of steroids and sends us home with a blue plastic contraption called a nebulizer. When I ask her if my son has asthma, she shrugs and says, “Maybe. But you’re going to need that at some point this winter.”

This revolving door health care is what it’s like to raise children in the second most toxic county in the United States. One bout of bronchitis can turn into an entire year spent coughing, repeated chest X-rays and doctor’s office visits that produce little relief. And as a parent, I’m hounded by the unrelenting sense of guilt that I might be condemning my child to a shorter life simply by living here.

Welcome to Utah, where the weather forecast could be hazardous not just to our health, but to what many consider our most precious resource: our children.

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“Air quality has a tremendous impact on all children in our state both long and short term. The scientific research on the relationship between poor air quality and negative health outcomes is indisputable.”

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Perhaps most importantly, the Legislature earmarked funding for a research study that will produce an air quality and climate change roadmap for lawmakers to consider during the 2020 legislative session. Arent also points toward vital legislation passed in the 2019 session that’ll enable Utah to better address pollution, including bills that removed restrictions on municipal ordinances to curb idling and resolutions that encourage refineries to step up the manufacturing of low-sulfur, Tier 3 gasoline. Bills passed during the past session also enforce stricter penalties for visible emissions, otherwise known as “rolling coal” that you sometimes see rising in big black puffs from large trucks with aftermarket mufflers.

As a result of all this legislative progress, the lawsuit filed against the state for failing to meet EPA standards was dropped in the spring. However, air quality advocates say they expect to revive it in the coming years as Utah faces new challenges. They claim the Department of Environmental Quality’s plan to clean up the air hasn’t adequately accounted for future population growth and complications from projects like the inland port.

In fact, UPHE, a group of health professionals established in 2007, is deeply concerned about the potential for rising levels of pollution from the proposed inland port.

The group’s board president, Brian Moench, speculates traffic and toxins from the port could mean a 5% rise in levels of pollution, contributing to the premature deaths of thousands of Utahns every year.

And as environmental activists struggle for every air quality dollar squeezed from the tight fist of the Legislature, Utahns and their children will continue the fight to breathe through another winter.

The Kids Are Not Alright

Nearly 80% of Utah’s population crowds along the Wasatch Front, where the valley floor, once an ancient lakebed, rises to meet the mountains. Pollution pools across the valley and reaches levels that doctors have long believed contribute to community mortality. A recent Harvard study confirms this, indicating a 16% rise in heart attack or chest pain corresponds to even short-term exposure to unhealthy levels of particulate matter.

Other studies of health care providers and hospitals in the Salt Lake region show that emergency room visits increase 40% on days when the pollution ranks as unhealthy.

For those with chronic pulmonary disease, visits to the emergency room rise 90% during an inversion.

UPHE estimates that between 1,000 to 2,000 people die in Utah yearly as a result of complications stemming from poor air quality. These premature deaths include not only

those with respiratory illnesses like asthma but also those with coronary heart disease for which poor air quality is a contributing factor.

An alarming 2017 study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health points at pollution effects far more insidious than respiratory illness. Their research indicates a strong link between exposure to pollution and infant mortality. Ozone exposure in the week before delivery was associated with a 13%–22% increased stillbirth risk, while chronic exposure throughout pregnancy increased infant mortality by nearly 40%.

Even if recent initiatives improve air quality slowly in the coming years, Moench remains gravely concerned about the health risks inversions along the Wasatch Front pose for pregnant mothers.

“Even short-term exposure to pollution during pregnancy can have significant impacts,” he says. “There is evidence that during vital windows of fetal and infant development, pollution can affect not only fetal viability, but alter chromosomes and brain development, leading to a greater likelihood of developing heart disease, cancer, brain disorders and even autism.”

For a state that prides itself on a family-oriented culture, it’s startling to witness the extent to which air quality is allowed to undermine the health of its born and unborn children. In addition to higher rates of asthma and respiratory illness, research shows children suffer long-term effects in physical and mental health as a result of exposure to pollution.

For Utah’s children, those red air days mean long stretches of school time without outdoor recess, less opportunity for exercise, and, ultimately, more time in front of the TV. Past studies have even suggested red air days trap students at home, forcing absences and impacting academic performance.

These disruptions affect not just learning and child development but produce a myriad of undesirable outcomes that can cascade into serious health problems. Elisabeth Luntz, an administrator for the Facebook community of Utah Moms for Clean Air, says the health impact of air quality on children cannot be overstated.

“Air quality has a tremendous impact on all children in our state both long and short term. The scientific research on the relationship between poor air quality and negative health outcomes is indisputable,” Luntz says. “Adverse effects of dangerous air quality on our children are both physical and mental, from respiratory disease to increased psychiatric symptoms. Poor air quality is associated with low birth weight, increased post-neonatal death rate and miscarriage.” She stresses these negative impacts are disproportionately prevalent in communities of color and the poor, “the people who are the most unlikely to be represented in our Legislature.”

When it comes to Utah’s dirty air, one thing is clear—it’s

hazardous for your health and your kids. And even when folks on both sides of the aisle share the same priorities, getting to the bottom of all this smog is easier said than done.

No Silver Bullets

Improving air quality in Utah isn’t just about reducing emissions from the usual suspects. It’s a much more complicated equation that needs to factor in the science behind what’s driving pollution along the Wasatch Front.

Arent cautions against looking for a one-size-fits-all solution.

“There isn’t a silver bullet. I know we’re all looking for one, but it simply isn’t there,” Arent explains. “Certainly, we need to look at reducing emissions from our No. 1 supplier of pollution, which is mobile sources. But our No. 2 supplier of pollution is stationary sources like buildings and homes and industry sources of pollution.”

An overwhelming 48% of Salt Lake City’s pollution comes from mobile sources such as cars, trucks and buses.

Various studies over the years all point toward motor vehicles as the largest single source of particulates. Earlier this month, Hebert signed the 11th Annual Alternative Fuels Declaration, aimed at tackling mobile sources of pollution by renewing Utah’s commitment to alternative fuels and funding low and zero-emissions transportation options across the state.

While motor vehicles are the major contributor to pollution along the Wasatch Front, investing in public transit and alternative fuels only scratch the surface. Sulfur in gasoline turns out to be a sneaky culprit because it impedes the ability of a car’s emission system to work properly. EPA regulations passed in 2014 require refineries to reduce sulfur in gasoline, but small refineries were allowed a more generous time frame to bring their equipment up to snuff.

Much of Utah’s gasoline is supplied by five local, small refineries that are not yet required to meet the new EPA standards on reduced sulfur emissions. The governor’s office received commitments from the majority of these refineries that they would voluntarily lower sulfur and produce cleaner fuel by January 2020. This commitment could all come to naught, however, if the Trump administration has its way. Their plans to roll back penalties for automakers who fail to meet emission standards could be a significant setback in the quest for cleaner emissions.

Echoing Arent’s words, Ashley Miller, the vice chair of Breathe Utah, says many Utahns have a fundamental misconception of the sources of pollution in the Salt Lake Valley.

“Many people think it’s the refineries here. And that makes sense to the average person because you have these

KETAMINE FOR DEPRESSION & PTSD A HEROS JOURNEY

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As the US, western culture in general, and other elite areas of smartphone intrusion around the world enter into this growing but undefined epidemic of depression, anxiety and PTSD, ketamine is seeing a rebirth from its origin as a general anesthetic agent that takes out your appendix, to the only agent that has a chance of putting a dent in this epidemic. Every segment of our population from children to seniors is suffering worsening numbers for depression and anxiety, but smart-phoned teens have been pounded the hardest. This digital Pied Piper, spawned from the incestuous union of Zuckerberg-think and hunks of silicon as numerous as grits of beach, has already enchanted to depression from half to three quarters of that population.

Depression is forever, people. If these numbers are true – and most professionals I’m in contact with think they are – we may have a WWII level of concern here.

We are reacting to this epidemic very slowly and the tools at hand simply don’t work. Except for ketamine. (Now, electroshock can benefit your depression also, we must admit, but electroshock steals at least a few memories when it electrocutes our dendrites.)

Ketamine is a major answer – maybe even THE answer – but ketamine is generic, meaning that Big Pharma and most doctors can’t make much money from it. And, until a few months ago, it was also “off label,” meaning that the FDA hadn’t formally recognized through medical studies that it was statistically effective at treating the diseases of depression, anxiety or PTSD. But now, thanks to Janssen Pharmaceutical’s esketamine, ketamine is effectively “on label” for depression to any reasonable scientific mind, even though other formulations have not been formally approved.

Being generic – meaning that its patent has run out - Big Pharma does not want this drug around threatening most of the other antidepressants that continue to bring in their billions of dollars through insurance pathways, while providing little if any valid relief from these maladies.

But being psychedelic – meaning that huge mind-warping effects emerge from the colorful depths of your brain, mind and personality – has other implications. That which is psychedelic can be as scary as scary can be, just as it can be as beautiful as beautiful can be, and as spiritual as spiritual can be. It lights up your 100 billion neurons and excites 5 million years of fantasies, fears and dreams that evolution has seared into the submerged museum-storehouse of your deeper consciousness.

This can be a problem, but it doesn’t have to be.

Right now, the Utah Department of Professional Licensing, DOPL, has four complaints from people that I have treated. They are all complaints that evolved from normal, previously described side effects of ketamine. I’m sure that the investigator on my case, based on these cases, wishes to take my medical license away. (To be sure, there are a few other motivations possible that direct this intention.)

So, let’s be especially clear and present this note as a medical consent, a consent that will be clear enough to allow every potential patient to know what they are getting into. As such, it will feel extreme. But know also that these negative extremes occur on average less than one of every hundred treatments; the other 99 of that 100 rate their experiences between neutral and substantial bliss.

ANYONE presenting to this clinic MUST be prepared to accept potential negative experiences relating to the psychedelic that is ketamine.

Frightening memories, created terrors, or conjured social disgraces are all possible creations of any human mind, and their potential to present themselves into your consciousness is always a possibility while under the influence of any psychedelic. “Bad trips” are integral and necessary possibilities of any psychedelic experience, and that psychedelic experience is being seen more and more as a necessary part of ketamine’s healing potential.

For instance, consider that your mind could very likely choose to bring you the closest you will ever come to participating in a Navy SEALs hell week, where every whizzing bullet, every vomiting from exhaustion, every contemptuous DI slur is its own little piece of Hell that must be tolerated.

This extreme reaction seldom occurs and, when it does, ketamine’s half-life of 20 minutes limits the nightmare to less than 10 minutes. If you are considering coming to this clinic for ketamine, reality demands that you accept this possibility actively in your mind.

Remember, you could freak out. You could have a bad trip. But, you are a Navy Seal with a bunker to take, or maybe you are a mother with six hungry kids and a daddy to take down if the kids are to eat; you have a duty. Your happiness, and the happiness of your kids, depends upon this focused toughness. You will take that bunker, soldier. You will feed those kids, Mom. We all know the glory of ketamine – happiness from the depths of despair – but to qualify for those glories, every questing personality must at least face the potential of a great trial. Many of Ketamine’s alternate possibilities can be stressful and full of trial.

If you are willing to reach for the Holy Grail of Happiness, you should be ready to endure the struggle.

Though this last part seems to have an edge of silliness to it, I don’t think it really does. The seeming silliness emerges from a bizarre confluence of the deep and serious darkness of a depressed reality and the preposterous, irrepressable whimsy of psychedelia. When Jimmy Hendricks asked fifty years ago, “Are you experienced?” this is the whimsy and reality he was talking about.

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“The public needs to contact their representatives and tell them air quality is important. It makes a difference. There are a lot of competing needs in government and your representative needs to hear about what matters most to you.”

factory looking things that people think are smokestacks, but they’re actually steam,” Miller points out. “And when you look at the breakdown, all five refineries combined only equal about 3%-4% of the whole problem. So you have to look at what are the actual sources. And start looking at all the people living here. Our cars make up about half of the pollution and our homes can be also big sources.”

And finally, we come to the inconvenient truth about pollution. We not only love but rely upon the independence of driving. Our addiction to fossil fuels isn’t just killing us, it’s killing our children. While Salt Lake City is very much an urban area, it still functions as part of a rural state where distances are vast and public transit can be non-existent.

We do have a mass transit system that includes alternative fuel buses and, more recently, Trax, which runs trains along a few key commuter routes and to downtown hubs. But service is sporadic, and depending on where you live, not feasible as a primary means of transportation.

As an example, let’s say I wanted to take my daughter to her brilliant progressive charter school using mass transit. When I drive our car from where I live to her school in the Avenues, it’s an 18-mile drive from our home in the suburbs. It takes me 30 minutes and costs $2.57 in gas.

In contrast, opting to use the maze of public transportation for the same commute is confusing, time-consuming and costly. The closest Trax station to us is five miles away and not served by a direct bus route. Ride UTA suggests that I walk 1.2 miles, ride a bus for 50 minutes, walk another half a mile, transfer to a different bus for 10 minutes and then finish off another half mile on foot to get to my daughter’s school. Using public transit exclusively would require my 6-year-old daughter to walk 1.5 miles, spend 64 minutes commuting and cost $2.50 each way.

You’re probably beginning to see why only 25% of commuters to Salt Lake City use mass transit. Large suburban sprawls are the norm in Utah, and all that space increases commute time. Even carpooling can be problematic. Studies show that in the Beehive State, at least 1 in 5 people in carpool lanes are single-occupancy vehicles in violation of the law.

Luntz sums it up nicely: “We need to stop investing tax dollars propping up the fossil fuel industries,” she says. “We need our educational institutions to divest from fossil fuels. We need to prioritize clean energy in our state energy portfolio. … We need a comprehensive transportation infrastructure that works for everyone.”

We also need a state Legislature that can prioritize those things before the air gets so chewy you need a knife and fork to cut through it.

A Better Way to A Brighter Forecast

While the sources of Utah’s pollution are hotly debated, there are a few solutions we can all agree on. The problem thus far has been getting officials at any level to take decisive action. The recent steps toward providing funding for air quality initiatives are a positive sign, but it’ll take decades of work to clean up the mess we’ve made.

Most experts agree a universal first step to reducing air pollution is to focus on public policy that decreases fossil fuel dependency. That means not only discouraging the consumption of traditional fuels but investing in mass transit and alternatives like solar and electric. Recent efforts to subsidize more charging stations for electric cars and offer fare-free days are a step in the right direction, but we should also be aggressively pursuing idle-free public education programs and going all-in replacing “dirty” school buses with fleets of CNG vehicles.

Another step in reducing air pollution is better small-industry standards, stricter zoning laws and improving urban planning. Since wood smoke is believed to contribute to as much as 15% of pollution along the Wasatch Front, state-subsidized programs to assist

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those who use wood-burning devices as a primary heating method could help. We also need to continue to fund efforts to replace gas-powered snowblowers and lawnmowers that contribute to small-scale pollution.

Finally, Salt Lake City would do well to borrow a chapter from Park City’s manual on addressing climate change. The resort town now faces a forbidding forecast of zero snowpack and a temperature rise of 9 degrees by 2075. This warming would transform Park City into a climate that mirrors SLC, nearly 3,000 feet lower in elevation. It’s estimated that from 2000–10, lower levels of snowpack cost the ski industry more than $1 billion, so imagine the kind of economic impact climate change could have on Utah’s ski and snowboarding industry.

In response to the dismal forecast, Park City has committed to a zero-carbon footprint by 2032. It’s an investment that will not only improve quality of life, but ultimately save the city money. They’ve developed a plan to rely on solar and wind farms, renewable energy grids, electric city buses and large swathes of undeveloped land. Let’s hope that by 2032, Smog Lake City’s pollution hasn’t crept into the canyons and stolen Park City’s forecast for a brighter future.

If the coughing of our children doesn’t kick Utah’s legislative leadership in the feels, perhaps a jolt to their wallets will do the trick. In addition to human costs, there are certainly economic consequences of ignoring air quality. An Envision Utah survey cites air quality as one of the top reasons employees at Utah tech companies say they would consider leaving the state. And it was certainly the straw that broke the camel’s back when the Outdoor Retailers Association picked up and left our smoggy convention center last year after nearly 20 years of pumping millions into the local economy.

Arent says getting the Legislature to do more on air quality comes down to communicating priorities. “The public needs to contact their representatives and tell them air quality is important,” she says. “It makes a difference. There are a lot of competing needs in government and your representative needs to hear about what matters most to you.”

Breathe Utah’s Miller says their organization takes a two-prong approach to educating Utahns about air quality. First, they fund and develop curriculum kits and conduct professional development workshops for teachers so they can educate students all along the Wasatch Front about the science behind pollution. Secondly, she and her team work directly with legislators to help educate them on the sources and science behind pollution and help write bills aimed at improving Utah’s air quality.

“It’s a big misconception that the state doesn’t do anything,” Miller says. “That really couldn’t be further from the truth. We have a really great division of air quality and bipartisan support with legislators on both sides of the aisle.”

Miller stresses that while there are some things the state could do to enforce the Clean Air Act, there are also simple steps every Utahn can take to breathe a little easier through winter and beyond. It begins with becoming better informed about pollution and signing up to receive air quality alerts from Utah’s Department of Environmental Quality.

“It’s really easy to point the finger at someone or something else when it comes to air quality,” Miller says. “But we all need to look at ourselves and how we can improve on an individual level.”

On red or orange action days, for example, have a plan in place to minimize your emissions either through public transit, carpooling or telecommuting. And if you do drive, drive smarter. Don’t idle your vehicle. Reduce cold starts by trip chaining errands to be more efficient. And try to avoid drive-thru windows. Most of all, don’t burn wood. Ever.

Even small actions, when executed on a large scale can have a big impact.

And, of course, vote your priorities.

As Luntz points out, “If we refuse to participate in even the basic levels of politics, like voting, we can expect greedy self-interests to determine our fate. We need to vote for our children, because they can’t.” CW

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There’s something to be said about stories, songs and dances that have stood the test of time. It’s all the more impressive when a revered piece can be adapted and reimagined for succeeding generations.

Tchaikovsky might never have imagined that his score for the holiday classic The Nutcracker would provide such enduring appeal. Then again, Tchaikovsky didn’t have a clue about hip-hop, especially since it wouldn’t come along for another century or so. Likewise, his original work was a bit of a bust until 1892, when parts of it were extracted and used as the score for a ballet adaption of E.T.A. Hoffman’s children’s story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.”

The Hip-Hop Nutcracker takes a few liberties with the original libretto, but the plot is essentially the same. Only now, the story takes place in the graffiti-strewn urban environs of New York City. “Audiences will see all the famous characters—the toys that come to life, the mice that battle the toy soldiers and the snowflakes,” director and choreographer Jennifer Weber says via email. “But in our version, the snowflakes do windmills instead of fouettés.”

Happily, this unique approach proves ideal for the material. “When I started working on this project, I quickly realized The Nutcracker was perfect for a modern translation,” Weber says. “So many of the characters work well when translated into a hip-hop vocabulary.”

With its dancers, deejay and special guest emcee Kurtis Blow—a founding father of hip-hop no less—this nouveau Nutcracker provides audiences with a new dream, one that involves getting in a groove together. (Lee Zimmerman) The Hip-Hop Nutcracker @ Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, 801-355-2787, Nov. 21, 7:30 p.m., $35-$75, arttix.artsaltlake.org

“You know Dasher, and Dancer …” OK, OK, you know the whole reindeer roster—and thanks to the 1964 stop-motion animated TV classic, you know the complete back-story of the “most famous reindeer of all,” and how he pretty much single-handedly (spoiler alert!) saved Christmas just when Santa was about to give up.

The characters introduced in that show— Rudolph, Hermey the Elf, Yukon Cornelius, the Abominable Snow Monster and an entire Island of Misfit Toys—are so beloved that, 55 years later, a live musical stage adaptation is now in its fifth season of touring the country, having logged more than 500 performances. Now, Christmastown comes downtown when Rudolph visits the Eccles Theater.

The stage version takes from the television production in terms of costumes, nostalgic backdrops and dialogue, while also throwing in live theatrics with stage projections, special effects and a 12-foot-tall Abominable Snow Monster that has to be seen to be believed.

Musically, it boasts all of the classic Johnny Marks tunes from the special, such as “We Are Santa’s Elves,” “There’s Always Tomorrow,” “We’re a Couple of Misfits,” “Jingle, Jingle, Jingle” and “Silver and Gold.” On top of those, you’ll get additional holiday tunes like “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.” And once you’ve enjoyed the live performance, you can look forward to the original holiday special when it airs on CBS on Monday, Dec. 2, and Saturday, Dec. 14. (Geoff Griffin) Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical @ Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, 385-468-1010, Nov. 22, 7 p.m.; Nov. 23, 2 & 7 p.m., $25-$75, artsaltlake.org

Chelsea Handler is no stranger to making waves in Utah. On Jan. 21, 2017, during the Sundance Film Festival, Handler led the “women’s march” on Park City’s Main Street, and served as emcee for the ensuing rally coinciding with the inauguration of Donald Trump. If you expect someone who’s going to be quietly un-controversial, you’ve come to the wrong place.

She digs into the Trump presidency and more in her new memoir Life Will Be the Death of Me. It’s the story of how Handler dealt with the startling reality that not only would we not have a woman in the Oval Office for the first time, but that the presidency she told Daily Beast in 2016 would be the “end of civilization” was in fact coming to pass. She emerges from her initial despair, however, with a sense of purpose, and a realization that she’s been existing in a bubble of privilege that she can no longer afford to stay inside. A period of intense reflection leads her on a journey of self-sufficiency, inspires her to an active role in politics, and guides her into therapy in an attempt to understand herself better.

Those who know Handler best from her E! series Chelsea Lately or Netflix’s Chelsea Does … and Chelsea already know the tart tongue that she can bring to her humor. This week, her return to Utah is a reminder that as funny as she can be, there are some things she’s serious about.

(Scott Renshaw) Chelsea Handler: Life Will Be the Death of Me @ Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-7100, Nov. 22, 8 p.m., $45-$110, tickets.utah.edu

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SATURDAY 11/23

Pompeii: The Exhibition Aug. 1, 79 A.D. marked the date for one of the most legendary natural disasters in history: the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius, which resulted in the complete destruction of the city of Pompeii. At the same time, it created a kind of archaeological time capsule, preserving works of art and everyday relics from the era, encased in the ash and debris from that catastrophic event until they were found centuries later.

This month, The Leonardo begins a six-month stop for a traveling exhibition on loan from the Naples National Archaeological Museum.

According to a news release from The Leonardo executive director Alex Hesse, “Having Pompeii’s archeological treasures visit Salt Lake City is truly an honor, as these pieces rarely leave Italy.

Combining the exhibition with a robust calendar of programming with local experts will give our community a unique cross-disciplinary look at one of the most fascinating ancient civilizations.”

Included in the immersive, multimedia exhibition is an experience that allows visitors to get a sense of what took place on that tragic day— including full body casts of human remains—as well as a re-created walking tour through the city as it existed before the eruption with its marketplace, theater, public baths and more. The exhibition also showcases more than 150 authentic artifacts from the Pompeii archaeological site, ranging from household items like jugs and cups, to gladiator helmets, to amazing sculptures and frescoes. No other experience could bring you closer to living—and dying—in the lost city of Pompeii. (SR) Pompeii: The Exhibition @ The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, 801-531-9800, Nov. 23-May 3, dates and times vary, $9.99$24.99, theleonardo.org

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Sounds Familiar challenges choreographers to turn vintage symphonic music into new movement.

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few years ago, when thinking how to incorporate classical music to appeal to the masses, Repertory Dance Theatre’s artistic director Linda Smith and composer Scott Killian developed a concept to spark the imaginations of local choreographers. The resulting celebration of vintage music combined with innovative dance interpretations has now become RDT’s latest production, Sounds Familiar.

“For more than 50 years, RDT has pushed the boundaries of modern dance, while preserving and celebrating its legacy,” Smith says. “We present you with a diverse range of modern dance styles and choreographers paired together in dynamic and unexpected performances.”

Twelve local choreographers—with backgrounds ranging from university professors, dance teachers, RDT staffers and even an aerialist—were invited to choose from a list of 36 recognizable compositions and create a dance performance of two to eight minutes in length, utilizing a cast of their choosing. The choreographers include Marilyn Berrett, Nancy Simpson Carter, Nicholas Cendese, Molly Heller, Dan Higgins, Stephen Koester, Sharee Lane, John Mead, Sara Pickett, Nathan Shaw, Luc Vanier and Natosha Washington.

However, choosing choreographers was only the start. Transforming the mood of the music into a series of movements was left entirely up to their discretion. With unique skill sets and methods of sculpting dances, they were asked to create pieces inspired by their song choice.

“As a company member, we work with so many movement aesthetics, and many of them trickle into this work for Sounds Familiar,” says Higgins, an RDT performer as well as local teacher and choreographer.

“The overarching theme for us was to make something simple and silly for the two dancers to have an enjoyable and goofy opportunity.”

Creating customized choreography is much like an architect designing a structure, and involves more components than a layperson might envision. Enlisting dancers, formulating steps and mapping out moves are just a few elements a choreographer uses to illustrate music and how they wish it to be expressed.

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Heller, assistant professor at University of Utah’s School of Dance and 2018 Regalia finalist, likes to explore the relationship between physical expression and emotion by creating special spatial structures for her dancers. “I work heavily from designed improvisational practices that allow the performers to access paradoxes in their bodies and within space—precariousness and stability, buoyancy and density, ease and resistance, containment and expansion, etc.,” Heller says. “Making dances from these practices requires patience and listening to what emerges from the performers.”

In contrast, aerialist, dancer and teacher Simpson Carter takes her style to a completely different level. Choreographing a bungee dance to Bach’s “Little Fugue in G minor,” she felt inspired by seeing how different collections of instruments changed the feel of the composition, and began the process of shaping it into a narrative relating to a larger cultural or social perspective.

“Bungee has a particular rhythm and feel to it, and I would like for audiences to see beyond the basic excitement of having dancers in the air, to actually feel how their bodies respond to what is happening on stage,” Carter says. “I always want to encourage viewers to let go of literal interpretations when watching dance and to just let themselves be taken on the journey.”

With an eclectic and overflowing résumé, Berrett, Department of Dance chair at Brigham Young University, mingles more than 40 years of teaching experience into her choreography. Featured in awardwinning films and stage productions across the U.S., as well as internationally, Berrett chose a lively concerto by Bach to complement her choreography and evoke

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a “family reunion romp at the park” feeling. Leaning toward techniques of modern dance masters Martha Graham and Jose Limon, Berrett has performers reveal emotions through contractions, dramatic movements and fluid transitions within her number.

“I would describe my approach as more collaborative and choreographing from the inside out,” Berrett says. “And with some playful contrasts to those techniques, I have juxtaposed the vocabularies and styles of classical modern dance with some lively and quirky moments in this piece.”

Fusing movement and music into a story, a dancer’s physical interpretations allow people to see the music more clearly. With RDT’s reputation of creating alternative art forms, Sounds Familiar offers the chance to experience music visually and not just process sounds—perhaps creating a newfound love of an overlooked art form in the process. “RDT Dance is all about art,” Smith says. “Art in motion, expressed through our bodies as modern dance with immediacy and intimacy that can be both thrilling and profound. Art that challenges you, and art that you won’t see coming.” CW

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9 Rails Film Festival: Plan 10 From Outer Space with Trent Harris The Monarch, 455 25th St., Ogden, Nov. 24, 5:30 p.m., eventbrite.com Dickens Christmas Festival Salt Lake Equestrian Park, 2100 W. 11400 South, South Jordan, Nov. 22-24, times vary, dickenschristmasfestival.com

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12 Days of Christmas Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, Nov. 25, 6:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org Energy Dance Co. Christmas Recital Peery’s Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Blvd., Ogden, Nov. 22, 5 & 7:30 p.m., egyptiantheaterogden.com The Hip Hop Nutcracker Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, Nov. 21, 7:30 p.m., live-at-the-eccles.com (see p. 18) Repertory Dance Theatre: Sounds Familiar Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, Nov. 21-23, 7:30 p.m., rdtutah.org (see p. 20) Thank You Theobromine The Chocolate Conspiracy, 774 S. 300 West, through Jan. 5, 6-11 p.m., thankyoutheo.com

1/3 Half Full Sketch Comedy Show Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 132 S. 800 West, Nov. 21, 8 p.m., thesugarspace.com Brendan Schaub Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Nov. 21-23, 7, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Chelsea Handler: Life Will Be The Death of Me Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, Nov. 22, 8 p.m., tickets.utah.edu (see p. 18) Open Mic Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Wednesdays, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Pablo Francisco Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, West Jordan, Nov. 22-23, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Shawn Paulsen Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Nov. 22-23, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Random Tangent Improv Comedy Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Saturdays, 10 p.m., randomtangentimprov.org

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UVU Reed & Christine Halladay Executive Lecture Series Utah Valley University, 800 W. University Parkway, Orem, Nov. 21, uvu.edu

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Amos Guiora: Populist and Islamist Challenges for International Law The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Nov. 25, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Carol Tuttle: Modern Day Chakras Barnes & Noble University Crossings Plaza, 330 E. 1300 South, Orem, Nov. 22, 6 p.m., barnesandnoble.com Eleni Saltas: All You Can Greek The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Nov. 23, 4 p.m., kingsenglish.com (see p. 21) Jeff Metcalf: Wacko’s City of Fun Carnival The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Nov. 22, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Rachel Anne Cox: A Light from the Ashes Central Book Exchange, 2017 S. 1100 East, Nov. 21, 5 p.m., rachelannecoxwriter.com

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Abstraction Is Just a Word, But I Use It UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Jan. 4, utahmoca.org Ancient Mesoamerica Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, ongoing, umfa.utah.edu

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Despite the morbid name, funeral potatoes are all about joy.

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ne of the best things about exploring the restaurants in your own back yard is getting the chance to experience cultural diversity through the universal act of chowing down. That said, growing up in homogenous white Utah means I don’t have a cultural claim to a lot of the food that I enjoy. As a result, it’s rare that I get to pontificate about a dish that was created by the same culture that, in many ways, created me. I’m of course talking about funeral potatoes, a Utah staple made popular by the hospitality of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Relief Society women.

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ist because they’re exactly what you’d get if you showed up for any Mormon potluck— no more, no less. The heavy-handed onion flavor will hit funeral potato aficionados right in the heart.

For a traditional preparation that has been elevated with some culinary chops, the funeral potatoes at Wasatch Brewery Pub (2110 S. Highland Drive, 801-783-1127, wasatchbeers.com) are tough to beat. You can only get these as side dishes during the brewery’s weekend brunch service from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., which adds to their cheesy mystique. These tone down the onion flavor in favor of creamy cheddar cheese, and they’ve cooked their potatoes until they’re only slightly tender. If you grew up with funeral potatoes but maintain a refined palate, these go great with the steak and eggs ($12).

Traditional preparation is all good and well, but you gotta love a place that takes a classic and twists it into something unique.

The burger meisters at Fat Jack’s Burger Emporium (206 S. West Temple, 801-8905155, fatjacksut.com) have appropriated the dish for their Mormon Burger ($9.29), which is a slice of pub food gold. They prep a traditional bacon cheeseburger with some grilled onions and pepper jack, but then they add an extra patty of housemade funeral potatoes to the mix. All of the burgers at Fat Jack’s arrive photo ready with their copper-top buns and near-perfect architecture, but adding a gooey slab of funeral potatoes to a burger is a special kind of beauty.

The true loose cannon of the funeral potato zeitgeist, however, is Garage on Beck (1199 Beck St., 801-521-3904, garageonbeck.com).

This purveyor of gleefully unapologetic comfort food has taken the classic funeral potato recipe and created something transcendent.

Theirs (pictured) are mixed with bacon and jalapeños and battered in a cornflake crumble before being deep fried—or baptized, according to their menu. When they’re done, you get a bowl full of golden gastropub glory that even comes with a side of ranch dressing for dipping.

Regardless of whether you’re a funeral potato purist or not, it’s nice to know there are a few local joints that have embraced this truly Utah staple—especially since no one has to die for you to get ’em. CW

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Funeral potatoes got their slightly macabre name from their ubiquitous presence at LDS funerals—the last time I had them homemade was on such an occasion—though they are equally present at other gatherings that commemorate different life-changing events. I’ve seen funeral potatoes show up at wedding receptions, baby blessings and the welcoming or bon voyage-ing of young LDS missionaries. If you grow up in this community, you come to see tinfoil-topped casserole dishes of piping hot funeral potatoes as a symbol of comfort, outreach and well-wishing.

There’s just something about the composition of shredded potatoes baked with a mixture of cheddar cheese and creambased soup finished off with a crispy cornflake crust that has the power to offer reprieve from staring a life-changing event in the face for too long.

If you were to ask me what gives it this power, it’s definitely the shit-ton of dairy involved. In addition to heaps of shredded cheddar cheese, you’re typically looking at a can of cream of chicken soup, a few cups of sour cream and lots of butter. There are some recipes that skimp on these crucial components because it’s healthy, but you just don’t get a product that makes you pause to reflect on the moment in the midst of some kind of personal upheaval if you cut corners like that. Some people swear by adding a crust of potato chips instead of cornflakes, but this is also a great sin of omission—it’s cornflakes or bust.

Over the past week, I’ve visited some of Salt Lake’s most notable purveyors of this Utah staple, a few of which were new to me—thanks, Reddit! It’s not too difficult to whip up a batch of this local comfort food on your own, but I’ve found that getting the most out of funeral potatoes requires someone else to make them for you.

I kicked off this trek with Meier’s Country Fried Chicken (4708 S. Holladay Blvd., 801-272-2491). It’s a local haunt that serves as a storefront for a catering service, but they’ve been a Holladay fixture for years.

Their funeral potatoes come as a side dish to plates of crispy fried chicken, and you can get a good-sized portion for $3.99. I’d recommend these for the homemade pur-

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Localup-and-comingbakeryStreuselSLC(streuselslc.com) is hosting a pre-Thanksgiving bake sale for anyone seeking some tasty rolls, cookies or other pastries for the holidays.

While Streusel’s products are usually sold in local stores and cafés like Caputo’s and Maud’s, owners Andrew Corrao and Marissa Bean will be selling baked goods from their kitchen in South Salt Lake (2163 S. Richards St.) on Wednesday, Nov. 27, from noon to 7 p.m. Streusel is known for its pies, brownies and blondies, though they’re also planning on serving up some specialty items for this event. They expect a good-sized crowd, but preorders can be arranged via Streusel’s website.

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The taste starts off with a rich roasted coffee flavor and a bit of chocolate, until mid-sip when the depth of the barrels starts to come through. Pleasant whiskey flavors emerge, adding some spicy rye notes with added hints of tart vinous-like qualities. I get a little plain cake doughnut on the back end, too, which is something that is rare in this style. The alcohol is exceptionally well-hidden, no doubt helped by the subtle alcohol from the original base beer. Although I don’t taste much alcohol, I sure do feel it. The mouthfeel isn’t as round as the Grand Sláinte,

but the whiskey flavors more than make up for it.

Overall: Having an imperial stout with a lower-than-typical (but still within style) alcohol benefits this barrel strength version immensely. It keeps the overall booziness down to an enjoyable 10.2%, maintaining high drinkability that you don’t often find in big-ass beers like these.

If you can, try these back-to-back and compare them like I did; beer-drinking in the name of science is super fun! Grand Sláinte comes in 16 ounce cans, while Monolith is in an appropriately tall 22 ounce bottle, and both are available at Proper Brewing now. As always, cheers! CW

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t’s not often that I get a chance to try two fresh batches of the same beer made two different ways. This week, I got the opportunity to try Proper Brewing Co.’s Grand Sláinte imperial stout and its brother, Monolith, which is the same beer in grenache and rye whiskey barrels.

Grand Sláinte: This oatmeal imperial stout is an almost impenetrably black beer that shows slight mahogany highlights at its base; trying to coax a head from the heavily viscous brew required a long, tall pour. Once in the glass, the head shone brilliant bright brass beads. The aroma is medium in intensity; it leads with a whiff of chocolate-chip cookie dough that is quickly displaced by moderately smoky cocoa and hints of chocolate and molasses, with slight alcohol overtones as well.

The flavor is a seamless blend of tart baker’s chocolate and subdued black coffee. As those flavors mellow, subtle molasses and

milk chocolate emerge, with a bit of smoke toward the end; modest alcohol overtones ride aloft. The result is a well-balanced blend of sweet and bitter. The finish reveals a modest hit of smoke and cocoa; lingering hints of char and modestly bitter chocolate flavors seem to stretch on for a good while.

The mouthfeel is on point, and the beer’s texture is full bodied and creamy, though somewhat slick, with lightly gassed and textured carbonation.

Overall: What an incredibly enjoyable beer. It’s got depth, complexity, body and character; it’s plenty bold, and doesn’t sacrifice any of these things in the name of anything gimmicky. It doesn’t redefine the style, but man oh man, I’m pretty sure this 8.5% stout nails whatever it set out to do.

Monolith: For this beer, the minds at Proper took the aforementioned Grand Sláinte and aged it six months in Grenache, followed by rye whiskey barrels. An aggressive-ish pour didn’t do a whole lot at all for a head; the copper beadlets took on a more coffee-tinged foam hue that left a tiny tan ring on top.

This beer was made at barrel strength, meaning that it is as it was in the barrel. No blending of fresh imperial stout was added to stretch and mellow the beer. There’s nice bourbon, vanilla and oak in the nose, with some coffee as well. There’s a faint amount of booze, and quite a bit of sweetness. This beer had only been in the bottle a few days

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The bibimbap ($9.99) is a solid interpretation of this miracle bowl, as the fried egg on top coats rice, meat and veggies with velvety yolk. For something slightly less conventional, the tteokbokki ($9.99)—pronounced toke-bokey—takes an angry red brew of gochujang broth and tosses it with chewy rice cakes, thinly-sliced fish cakes and a hard-boiled egg, for an experience similar to chicken and dumpling soup. Stun Cube’s menu sticks to the Korean food playbook, with enough small variations—both gastronomically and aesthetically—to make themselves interesting. The great spicy food sticks to your bones while going easy on your waistline. Reviewed Oct. 10. 2732 S. State, 801-419-0082, facebook.com/stuncube

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Got a merger or acquisition to propose? A life insurance policy to hawk? Want to discuss a promotion with your boss? The whole conversation will flow much more smoothly after first filling a plate at Himalayan Kitchen’s sumptuous Nepalese buffet. From vindaloos, saag paneer and butter chicken to aloo tama bodi, chicken tandoori and lip-smacking charred naan, the buffet appeals to most every taste—no fretting or mulling over a menu necessary. The inviting downtown location is a magnet for government workers, Matheson Courthouse folks and, of course, City Weekly employees. Not only is the buffet a great place to hobnob, it’s gentle on your expense account. 360 S. State, 801328-2077; 11521 S. 4000 West, South Jordan, 801-254-0800, himalayankitchen.com

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Another venture from Ryan Lowder (owner/chef of downtown’s Copper Onion and Copper Common) is in the Holladay Village Plaza alongside new iterations of other locally owned restaurants and retail shops.

Copper Kitchen has a boisterous brasserie feel to it—a big, bustling eatery featuring the type of cuisine that has garnered so many fans of Lowder’s other restaurants: steak frites, braised lamb shank, duck confit croquettes, beef bourguignon and noodles and lots more. 4640 S. 2300 East, Ste. 102, 385-2373159, copperkitchenslc.com

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Located in the heart of historic Murray, this eatery is vibrant and bustling. Start with the seaweed salad: a scrumptious plate of julienned seaweed, cucumber, squid and sliced strawberry and avocado, seasoned with a light gingery sauce and sprinkled with white sesame seeds. In the 10-piece “small” sashimi platter, you’re treated to an artistic arrangement of fresh, raw salmon, escolar, tuna and yellowtail, adorned with microgreens, fresh ginger, avocado slices and flying-fish eggs.The Snowbird roll—yellowtail and jalapeño, topped with escolar and served with jalapeño vinaigrette—is also exceptional. 4923 S. State, Murray, 801-278-8682, soysushiutah.com

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This is not your daddy’s bar food—unless your pop was used to eating things like pork belly nigiri or a protein salad of tomato, carrots, chickpeas, quinoa, cucumber, dill, beet hummus, herbs and yuzu vinaigrette. Other standouts include the nearly incendiary heat of the spicy chicken ssam, a DIY lettuce wrap with a red chilepowered mix of chicken, leek, jicama and carrot morsels.

There’s a large French fry selection, and the accoutrements are unique, ranging from versions like nacho and Buffalo to K-Pop fries, curry, enchilada and rosemary.

For those looking for something a bit more mainstream, try the mozzarella/Parmesan/crema cheese sandwich; it’s one of the best grilled cheeses in town. 62 E. 700 South, 801-596-2294, purgatorybar.com

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“H

ail, Hail rock ‘n’ roll/ deliver me from the days of old,” Chuck Berry once implored. The lyric belongs to a song about a kid longing to escape the drudgery of school life, for the release of “something hot” in the form of a song on the jukebox. Most folks don’t rely on jukeboxes for their music-listening anymore, but from music-makers themselves to their audiences, we all still crave the release of a certain kind of noisy, rollicking music.

Enter local rockers the Sarah DeGraw Band, Green River Blues and Lovely Noughts and their upcoming showcase at The State Room, appropriately titled Hail Hail Rock n’ Roll. Inspiration for the show came from both a pure desire for a night of music, but also as support for the International Society of Rock N’ Roll, a local (despite the international moniker) start-up support group made up of rock lovers from all over the city, and which City Weekly profiled in March. Hail Hail will, suitably, benefit the ISRNR and its independent label by donating a portion of ticket sales to the group.

DeGraw says she’s enthusiastic about what the ISRNR is hoping to achieve here. “The Utah music scene is full of great musicians but no one to see it. No record labels or, you know … booking agencies or marketing teams. There’s nothing here,” she explains wearily, also expressing her frustration with the divisiveness of genres and subgenres in the local scene—a sentiment she’s definitely not alone in having. “It’s difficult to stay motivated when there’s not really something to reach you. Time is money, and you end up spending so much time on music—you know, writing it, performing it, perfecting it, recording it. And then you don’t really get much of a return.” With some ties to California, the ISRNR might be able to create some reach to one of the closest hip regions to Utah, and help relieve some of the stress that comes from trying to survive as a musician in the state.

DeGraw, alongside many fellow local musician friends, can get caught up in the “gigging” lifestyle to support herself and her band’s music. And that can make it hard to organize a showcase night like Hail Hail. “We’ve played the money-maker gigs, the private parties, those kinds of things, but I’ve always wanted to just put on shows,” says DeGraw, whose own money-makers have included a well-paired supporting spot for ’80s rockabillies Stray Cats at Red Butte this summer. “There’s a lot of bands—my God there’s so many bands—that gig five days a week, and that’s like their job and stuff. I did that for a little bit, but I guess I just don’t have it in me.”

Among those bands and artists are friends of hers, like local solo folk artist Michelle Moonshine, who gets through sometimes three-hour-long performances all on her own. Busy musicians especially need something to participate in that’s just about the pleasure of music, and not bound up in the stress of making money to survive. “As far as gigs in town, it’s kind of important just to have an event, make it something that’s out of the ordinary,” DeGraw says.

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Left to right: Sarah DeGraw, Alex Leota, Cael Sorenson and Aidan Triantafillou of the Sarah DeGraw Band It’s also high time for a showcase event like this for the Sarah DeGraw Band, which is made up of a newly solid lineup. After starting solo as a teenager, frequenting the stage at Velour and just toying with the idea of being a “musician in the way that musicians are musicians,” it wasn’t until three years ago that DeGraw really decided to give it a go, and began working a band into the mix; “It was called the Odd Jobs, and we hit the ground running with that,” she says.

A debut album came out of that group before lineup changes interfered, but that hiccup didn’t stop progress. “I’ve kind of had my head to the ground as far as coming up with more material for the next album and singles,” DeGraw says. “That’s kind of the Hail Hail Rock n’ Roll idea—just introducing the new band.”

Alongside the Sarah DeGraw Band, Hail Hail hosts Green River Blues, who this summer released their debut album Locomotive, recorded at the legendary Prairie Sun Recordings. Another hardworking act, Lovely Noughts, will wring out their psychedelialeaning rock.

Not only will this night be one of pure, unadulterated rock ’n’ roll for those playing and listening, but, hopefully the first of many. DeGraw wants it to pave the way for events of this kind to happen a few times a year, a frequency that would definitely serve the rock-loving community here. Amid all the business of being in a rock band these days—playing shows, writing songs and recording in a studio—DeGraw says simply, “Hail Hail is gonna be the banger.” CW

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Rhymesayers’ main man Brother Ali is coming through Salt Lake City with Evidence, and while this is not a concert that will get many hypebeasts excited enough to lace up their Yeezy boosts, underground heads around the valley are getting ready—because among underground rap circles, this is the equivalent of a Travis Scott-Kanye collaboration. Yes, they are that big of a deal to some. Evidence— the California-based graffiti artist turned producer and rapper—made a name with Dilated Peoples, who burst into the consciousness of fans with their 1997 single “Third Degree.”

Since then, he’s been featured on countless records, and even won a Grammy with Kanye West for his work on The College Dropout. His third solo project, Weather or Not, dropped in 2018. Brother Ali is rolling in off his new album, Secrets and Escapes, which features Talib Kweli, Pharoahe Monch and, of course, Evidence. On this offering, Ali doesn’t stray from his triedand-true formula: carefully-crafted conscious commentary on a variety of tracks, from the slow and somber to the uplifting and upbeat.

While I expect each and every patron to have fun, this is not necessarily a concert for people who want to vibe out and drip sauce with the fashionistas. It’s a show more for the people who get irked when people rap over vocals and have no respect for rappers with ghostwriters.

You know, the kind of people who rarely like anything that charts these days. You’ll see me there. (Keith L. McDonald) Metro Music Hall.

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FRIDAY 11/22 Triggers & Slips

Sometimes, you kind of wish that certain bands with inexplicable names would offer a little insight into how they came up with their handle. Ordinarily, we’d put Triggers & Slips into that category, but these local stalwarts— who continually demonstrate their dexterity through an astute blend of rowdy rock, outlaw country, honky tonk, Americana and close-knit

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high harmonies—are good enough that they don’t really need to explain anything. If you’ve caught them in concert before, you know that they aren’t afraid to bend a few boundaries; last May at The State Room found them offering homage to Alice in Chains, and indeed their music also offers no small hint of reverence for bands of ’90s outfits like Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, Sound Garden, Blind Melon and the like. Their upcoming appearance at the State Room serves as a release celebration for their newest offering, The Stranger, as well as a reminder that hometown talent is worth paying attention to. In fact, the new album is already considered a potential break-out that will bring them to a national audience, even while it reaffirms the fact that they give us locals plenty to be proud of. A riveting blend of gritty, assertive, down-home defiance and dusty, well-weathered balladry, it’s a fine representation of the best this band has to offer.

Flush with class and conviction, it’s the sort of thing that makes Triggers & Slips a genuinely potent combination. (Lee Zimmerman) The State Room, 638 S. State, 9 p.m., $20, 21+, thestateroompresents.com

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Exhumed, Gatecreeper, Necrot, Judiciary

When a gnarly death metal tour package comes to town, I know it’s going to be a great week.

Brother Ali San Francisco’s blood-soaked death metal number Exhumed brings a macabre, fastpaced sound loaded with personality to the table that’s just as chaotic as it is grim. They’ve been honing their brand since the 1990s, and while they’ve been through a few lineup changes over the years, they’ve never lost their gore-laced charm. Their latest release, Horror, dropped on Oct. 4, and is a complete soulshredder. While they lost the grime that caked their early releases, trace amounts still seep through the polished exterior. Arizona-based co-headliner Gatecreeper, a personal favorite of mine, fuse doom and death-metal to create a cocktail of wicked energy. While they just released their sophomore album, Deserted, their first full-length release will always stand out in terms of it being so catchy and fresh.

Necrot and Judiciary open the show, and while Necrot stay true to the death metal nature of this tour, Judiciary offer up something a little different, a thrash and hardcore crossover band that’s punchier than the rest. However, they still exude a gruesomeness that matches up well with everyone else on this fantastic roster. (Zaina Abujebarah) Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $18 presale; $20 day of show, 21+, theurbanloungeslc.com

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King Diamond is a towering figure in the metal community. In addition to his pioneering use of corpse paint (which is now ubiquitous in black metal), the artist also has a bevy of classic music to his name, both with his first band Mercyful Fate and throughout his solo career. His penchant for creepy, high-concept album-length statements is backed up by the tasteful incorporation of prog-metal influences, as well as a powerful, operatic singing voice spanning four octaves. But even if King Diamond’s brand of all-out campy horror isn’t your cup of tea, his Nov. 23 date at the Complex isn’t one you’ll want to miss. Joining him is U.K. heavy-rock outfit Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats. They’re on the opposite end of the metal spectrum from King Diamond, all fuzzed-out, down-tuned riffs and pummeling down-tempo grooves, but they still share with him the same love for all things spooky and/ or heavy—and, perhaps more importantly, both acts know how to put the energy of their music into an engaging, fun live show.

No matter which way you like your metal, this is one to mark on your calendars. Portland quintet Idle Hands opens the night with their signature blend of traditional heavy metal and goth-rock. (Nic Renshaw) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 7 p.m., $34.50+, all ages, thecomplexslc.com

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consistent in quality. Acts like Tacocat, Colleen Green and Peach Kelli Pop have stood at the front of a sound that has earned quirky labels like cuddle-core, stoner-pop and babysitter punk—most of it chock full of sugary earworms and stylish minimalism. That isn’t to say that it’s a style of music that sounds good no matter who plays it. In fact, it’s a style that, when done poorly, is incredibly forgettable.

It’s why it’s so impressive that artists like Lisa Prank, who operate within the limited sonic spectrum of low-crunch power chords, starterset drum kits and Casio keyboards, make such a memorable dent. Despite operating in the music world-equivalent of painting with grocery-store acrylics on cardboard canvasses, Lisa Prank puts forth a visceral, Technicolor vision of shitty breakups, skinned knees and pillow talk. Opening the show are local acts Bobo and The Coolaid. Recording for Utah experimental label Hel Audio, Bobo is the work of artist Kari Jørgensen whose dreamy, exotica-flavored electro-pop approximates a world where Grimes got really into Japanese funk and The Commodores. The thread between an artist like Lisa Prank and Bobo, while not immediately obvious, is notable. Both represent diverging points in modern DIY. Once populated mostly with broken Fender Squiers and cheap fuzz pedals, more and more lowbudget artists are experimenting with sound collage and house-influenced pop by way of GarageBand and Ableton. It’s a split that allows both types of artists—guitar crew and Ableton crew—to be more intentional with their vision and aesthetic than ever, an important ability as the music industry becomes increasingly difficult to infiltrate. (Alex Murphy) Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court, 8 p.m., $10, all ages, kilbycourt.com

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If you hate country music, Rodney Atkins will not shatter any illusions about the type of music that gets played on country radio. These are songs about chasin’ girls, shootin’ whiskey and—sometimes, in a devastating turn—chasin’ girls who shoot whiskey. But if you can suspend your very serious, very important sense of artsy cred for a couple hours, this music is a seriously good time, and Atkins is the real deal. Raised in the Tennessee foster care system before ending up in rural Claiborne County, Atkins graduated from community college before making a decision to dive headfirst into the Nashville country music machine—which is so frighteningly competitive that connections, chops and killer songs are not enough on their own to land a deal. What elevated Atkins was his unrelentingly feel-good country-boy attitude, which manages to feel entirely unmechanical. For his fans, he effectively keeps the I-did-it-my-way vaquero attitude alive. Let’s be clear, though: This is still modern country, and it’s not hard to find his songs on ham-fisted musical lists like “Top 10 Country Songs About Tractors,” while cool-kid country artists like Margo Price, Paul Cauthen and Sturgill Simpson are measurably more complex, musically and ideologically. But the uncomfortable truth about music like Atkins’ is that it’s as poignant and thoughtful as that of many of the artists we city kids grew up on, which is to say: not very. And that’s OK. This is music to enjoy despite its limits. Big boots, big hats, big hooks and big guitars—let’s get it. Local country boys The Wayne Hoskins Band will open. (Alex Murphy) The Royal, 4760 S. 900 East, 9 p.m., $25, 21+, theroyalslc.com Mark Battles + 12Fifteen + Aske + Billy Winfield + Oddfella (The Complex) Natural Causes (Club 90) Quadraphonic (Gracie’s) Rodney Atkins + The Wayne Hoskins Band (The Royal) see above Scarlet Rain + Free Resonance (Ice Haüs) Shoreline Mafia + 1TakeJay + AzChike (The Complex) Stonefed (Hog Wallow Pub) Sydnie Keddington + Matthew & the Hope (Lake Effect) Triggers & Slips (The State Room) see p. 30 Vérité + Belle Jewel (Kilby Court) Vincent Draper (Garage on Beck)

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Unlike many bars in the Sugar House area, there’s a surprising hole-in-the-wall quality to The Ruin. Because it’s on the southern end of Wilmington Plaza, itself south of Hidden Hollow Park, Ruin feels tucked far toward the busier side of 1300 East—in other words, if you’re there, you probably sought it out. And you should! Ruin is the kind of bar you ask a friend to meet you at before going out.

It’s dim and feels a bit fancy without costing it. I’d bring friends here. The seating is varied and welcoming to groups of different sizes: couches are plopped across from other couches and sit close but span wide enough for mediumsized groups. There are intimate high tables with stools for one-on-ones and elevated couches and tables with board games for bigger groups. I came on a Monday night, had a sugary Moscow Mule and ended up staying longer than I had intended—not to keep drinking but because I was into it. The music was just the right volume to muffle the small Monday crowd, but thankfully it was never so high that I couldn’t hear the person next to me inform a bartender that 1. He paid too much for a piece of art that was hanging on the wall, and that 2.

Said art was off kilter, hung incorrectly, “about 4 inches” away from being symmetrical with the couch. Someone once told me once that when men run out of things to talk about, they’ll just start guessing the measurements of things aloud. I felt convinced. (Parker S. Mortensen) The Ruin, 1215 Wilmington Ave., Ste. 120, 801-869-3730, ruinslc.com

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a wonderful weariness in his matter-offact pronouncements, using “it’s what it is” to convey impending murder as more akin to an emotionless law of nature than an act of aggression. Pacino, meanwhile, offers another reminder of how electrifying he can be when he’s in top form, capturing Hoffa as a larger-than-life, referring-to-himself-in-the-third-person character who can’t fathom the idea that his threats to expose mob activity—tossed around when he wants support for taking back the Teamsters’ leadership after a prison stint—won’t have consequences.

They’re two of the best screen performances of the year, allowing the stars to show shades that emphasize the depth of their range.

That DeNiro fellow is no slouch, either, and his performance provides the quietly devastating center for how Scorsese blows up any lingering notions that he glamorizes the mob life. It’s the story of a man facing the fallout of becoming a monster, with such sad resignation that it’s almost possible to find the monster deserving of sympathy. The pivot point

Joe Pesci and Robert DeNiro in The Irishman for this understanding involves Sheeran’s relationship with his daughter Peggy (played as a child by Lucy Gallina; as an adult by Anna Paquin), who silently observes the reality of who her father is and what he does. Peggy gets almost no dialogue, but her judgment—and her choice to distance herself from her father—cuts to the heart of what Sheeran loses by virtue of the choices he has made. Goodfellas might have been a cautionary tale written in lightning; this one is written in the silence of a dying man sitting alone. CW

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The Irishman spans 60 years over the course of 209 minutes, and Scorsese earns every bit of his epic scope. He provides a rich context for how national events from the 1950s to 1970s impact mob activity, like the feelings of betrayal when attorney general Robert Kennedy became an anti-organized crime crusader. Mostly, he’s able to explore the depth of the relationships between his characters, from the friendship between Sheeran and Hoffa to the antagonism between Hoffa and mob boss Anthony Provenzano (Stephen Graham). Every action in The Irishman has a sense of consequence built on a specific history, and we watch that history build to the point where the inevitability of certain consequences becomes clear.

We also get to watch three of the greatest actors alive do their thing, and it’s impossible to overstate how remarkable that experience is. Joe Pesci, mostly retired for the past decade, crafts Russell Buffalino into a character radically different from the live-wire persona most closely connected to the actor. There’s

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artin Scorsese opens his new movie The Irishman with a long tracking shot, the sound of vintage doo-wop music on the soundtrack and a man reflecting on his life with the mob—and it’s almost like he’s daring you to start comparing it to Goodfellas. Returning to the world of gangsters is a risky proposition for a filmmaker who has done epic work in that milieu more than once already, so there had to be a compelling reason for Scorsese to want to return to it, and for the famously big-screen-loving Scorsese to agree to a deal with Netflix, the only entity that would finance it. What is there that’s new to say about the glamour and chaos of organized crime?

It shouldn’t be surprising that Scorsese finds plenty new to say, and in a way that’s actually in fascinating conversation with his earlier mob-themed films.

Where Goodfellas might have focused on physical, existential threats of that world, The Irishman is about something potentially even more brutal: what it feels like to lose your soul.

Adapting Charles Brandt’s nonfiction book I Heard You Paint Houses—the expression is a euphemism for someone who kills people—The Irishman tells the story of Frank Sheeran (Robert DeNiro), a World War II veteran from Philadelphia who works his way from small-time scams as a truck driver delivering meat, to connecting with a local organized crime boss named Russell Buffalino (Joe Pesci). Despite not being Italian, Sheeran earns his way into the Mafia inner circle, proving himself reliable and trustworthy. Ultimately, that includes meeting and befriending Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino), the flamboyant Teamster’s Union president who allowed the mob to use the

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I can’t wait to see what marvels you spawn.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Upcoming events might bedevil your mind. They might mess with your certainties and agitate your self-doubts. But if you want my view about those possibilities, they’re cause for celebration. According to my analysis of the astrological indicators, you will benefit from having your mind bedeviled and your certainties messed with and your self-doubts agitated. You might ultimately even thrive and exult and glow like a miniature sun. Why? Because you need life to gently but firmly kick your ass in just the right way so you’ll become alert to opportunities you have been ignoring or blind to.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Every writer I’ve ever known says that a key practice to becoming a good writer is to read a lot of books. So what are we to make of the fact that one of the 20th century’s most celebrated novelists didn’t hew to that principle? In 1936, three years before the publication of his last book, Aquarian-born James Joyce confessed that he had “not read a novel in any language for many years.” Here’s my take on the subject: More than any other sign of the zodiac, you Aquarians have the potential to succeed despite not playing by conventional rules. And I suspect your power to do that is even greater than usual these days.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it,” wrote Piscean novelist John Irving. In the coming weeks, Pisces, you will have the power to get clearer than ever before about knowing the way of life you love. As a bonus, I predict you will also have an expanded access to the courage necessary to actually live that way of life. Take full advantage!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Beware of what disturbs the heart,” said Ibn Mas’ud, a companion of the prophet Mohammed. “If something unsettles your heart, then abandon it.” My wise Aries friend Artemisia has a different perspective. She advises, “Pay close attention to what disturbs the heart. Whatever has the power to unsettle your heart will show you a key lesson you must learn, a crucial task you’d be smart to undertake.” Here’s my synthesis of Ibn Mas’ud and Artemisia: Do your very best to fix the problem revealed by your unsettled heart. Learn all you can in the process. Then, even if the fix isn’t totally perfect, move on.

Graduate from the problem for good.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In her poem “What the Light Teaches,” Anne Michaels describes herself arriving at a lover’s house soaked with rain, “dripping with new memory.” She’s ready for “one past to grow out of another.”

In other words, she’s eager to leave behind the story that she and her lover have lived together up until now—and begin a new story.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Housing prices in Salt Lake County are still Some scientists deride astrology despite being ignorant about climbing despite the R-word (recession) beit. For example, they complain, “The miniscule gravitational ing bantered around. The median price for forces beaming from the planets can’t possibly have any effect a single-family home price in July through on our personal lives.” But the truth is that most astrologers September of this year has climbed to an don’t believe the planets exert influence on us with gravity or any all-time high of $381,500, which is up 7.5% other invisible force. Instead, we analyze planetary movements over last year’s third quarter. The top 10 as evidence of a hidden order in the universe. It’s comparable highest prices came in at: to the way weather forecasters use a barometer to read atmo1. Avenues: $663,500 spheric pressure but know that barometers don’t cause changes 2. Alpine: $650,000 in atmospheric pressure. I hope this inspires you, Cancerian, as you 3. Emigration: $630,000 MediaBids_190103_24.indd 1 12/28/2018 5:15:20 PM develop constructive critiques of situations in your own sphere.

4. Huntsville: $581,220 Don’t rely on naive assumption and unwarranted biases. Make 5. Draper: $564,337 sure you have the correct facts before you proceed. If you do, you 6. Sandy: $554,000 could generate remarkable transformations in the coming weeks.

7. Eden: $541,000 8. Holladay: $537,000 LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): 9. Holladay: $521,450 As you glide into the Season of Love, I’d love you to soak up 10. South Jordan: $510,000 wise counsel from the author bell hooks. (She doesn’t capitalWhat’s really interesting, is that the acize her name.) “Many people want love to function like a drug, tual number of homes sold didn’t change giving them an immediate and sustained high,” she cautions. much in Salt Lake County (only up 0.7% “They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feelsince last year), whereas they were up by ing.” I trust you won’t do that, Leo. Here’s more from hooks: almost 10% in Davis County, up almost 5% “Dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or proin Tooele, and up nearly 12% in Utah and vide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishWeber counties. ful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love—which is to In a normal market, home sales slow this transform us.” Are you ready to be transformed by love, Leo? time of year. Folks are starting to nest in, drag out the holiday decorations, and take VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): their homes off the market until the bulbs Burrow down as deep as you dare, Virgo. Give yourself pep in their yards bloom into spring pastels. But talks as you descend toward the gritty core of every matter.

Utah is not experiencing a normal market.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus social critic Bertrand Russell won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950. He’s regarded as the founder of analytic philosophy and one of the 20th century’s premier intellectuals.

But he went through a rough patch in 1940. He was adjudged “morally unfit” to accept his appointment as a professor at the City College of New York. The lawsuit that banned him from the job described him as being “libidinous, lustful, aphrodisiac, and irreverent.” Why? Simply because of his liberated opinions about sexuality, which he had conscientiously articulated in his book Marriage and Morals. In our modern era, we’re more likely to welcome libidinous, lustful, aphrodisiac and irreverent ideas if they’re expressed respectfully, as Russell did. With that as a urge you to be on the lookout for bargains like that in the coming subtext, I invite you to update and deepen your relationship with weeks. Something that could be valuable in the future might be undervalued now. your own sexuality in the coming weeks.

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His Patriotic Duty Astronaut and Neshannock Township, Pa., resident Andrew Morgan, who is currently aboard the International Space Station, cast his absentee ballot this Election Day from his perch 250 miles above the planet, the New Castle News reported. Ed Allison, Lawrence County’s director of voter services, received Morgan’s application for an absentee ballot and went the extra mile for the spaceman, coordinating with IT for a fillable, secure PDF file that Morgan could use to register his selections.

“Astronaut Morgan got the ballot, voted it and sent it back,” Allison said. “No problem at all. In the 11 years I have been here, it is certainly unique.”

Entrepreneurial Spirit Belinda Gail Fondren, 52, of Evans, La., was charged with filing or maintaining false public records on Oct. 23 after it was discovered that she was writing fake doctor’s notes for high school students so they could get out of class. Fondren, who worked at a medical clinic, charged $20 for each excuse, Vernon Parish Sheriff Sam Craft told WTAP. He also said it was common knowledge among students that the excuses were for sale. Two students obtained excuses on 14 occasions, he said. Fondren’s fraud came to light when someone from the Vernon Parish School Board called a doctor about the notes, which he denied having authorized. Her bond was set at $15,000.

Bright Idea Brice Kendell Williams, 32, was hoping to avoid getting a DWI early on Nov. 3, CNN reported, so rather than driving his car from one bar to another in Houma, La., Williams stole a motorized shopping cart from Walmart and toddled more than a half-mile to his destination, according to authorities. He carefully parked the scooter between two cars in the lot and went inside, where officers from the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office found him and arrested him for felony unauthorized use of a moveable.

Williams’ bond was set at $2,500.

n Workers at a branch of Pinnacle Bank in Lincoln, Neb., were stymied on Oct. 28 when a man arrived hoping to open a checking account with a $1 million bill, the Lincoln Journal Star reported.

Bank employees argued with him that it couldn’t possibly be real (the largest denomination bill ever minted was for $100,000), and eventually he left, with his bill but without an account.

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About an hour later, Rotterdam Police Lt. Jeffrey Collins told WNYT, the driver stopped again when she heard noises. This time, she saw Coco, who was lodged in the car’s bumper. “It was like the perfect fit,” said Noella LaFreniere of the Hernas Veterinary Clinic where Coco was treated. “She ... came out alive, and it’s shocking to us.” Coco suffered a broken elbow but no other serious injuries. Police have located her owners.

Weird Weather CNN reported on Nov. 6 that thousands of smooth, egg-shaped ice balls have accumulated on a long stretch of beach in Hailuoto, Finland, on the Baltic Sea. The icy balls form when turbulent water near the shore breaks up a layer of slushy ice. The ice sticks together, and as waves crash the shore, they spin the clumps of ice, smoothing them into balls. Sirpa Tero, a visitor to the beach, told CNN she’s seen the phenomenon before, but never covering so much area.

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Ironic A passenger on New York’s MTA train system noticed a couple of suspicious packages at the Metro-North New Rochelle station on the afternoon of Oct. 28 and did what any conscientious rider would do: alerted authorities, using the new Help Point intercom system in the station. It turned out the boxes contained more of the MTA’s Help Point devices—they just hadn’t been installed yet. The alert only briefly shut down the station, WNBC reported, as police quickly removed the boxes.

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Rules We Didn’t Know We Needed North Carolina’s Madison County Public Library system has had a loosely enforced rule against bringing pets into its branches.

But on Oct. 8, Interim Director Peggy Goforth appeared before the county’s board of commissioners to request a new policy that tightly restricts animals to only service dogs. Goforth felt she had to advocate for stricter rules after a man brought a bag full of snakes into the library, reported the Citizen Times. “He said, ‘My pets are harmless. Here, let me show you,’” Goforth said. “And he poured them out on the front desk. They just wriggled everywhere.” When told pets weren’t allowed in the library, “He was really nice about it. He just bagged up all the snakes and left,” she added. She said another man brought in an ant farm and took the top off to feed them, then forgot to put it back on. “The ants got everywhere.” The library’s new policy excludes all animal species except dogs that are trained to help a person with a disability.

Dang Talk about bringing down the room. Late on Nov. 2 in Hattingen, Germany, about 300 patrons of a swingers’ club were interrupted mid-party when carbon monoxide alarms sounded and several began to feel unwell. Firefighters escorted the swingers, many clad only in bathrobes, to safety, with about 10 people requiring treatment, reported the Associated Press. However, firefighters could not detect any dangerous level of carbon monoxide once they arrived on the scene.

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Crème de la Weird Doctors at Westmead Hospital in Sydney, Australia, documented a case in the British Medical Journal’s Case Reports that has at least one nose out of joint. A 48-year-old former prison inmate had been suffering from sinus infections, nasal congestion and headaches for years, United Press International reported.

Doctors treating the man performed a CT scan and discovered a rhinolith—a stone made of calcium—in his nasal cavity, which, when removed, was found to have formed around a small balloon with cannabis inside. The patient then recalled that when he was in prison about 18 years earlier, his girlfriend had smuggled in the balloon during a visit, and he had inserted it in his nose to hide it.

But he pushed it too far in and assumed he had swallowed it. The unnamed man is surely breathing easier these days.

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