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News, Nov. 14, “Iced Out? Homeless advocates and activists call for The Road Home to stay open through the winter months”

Yep, Utah government states, “We care about homeless.” Then to prove it, shuts down a shelter just before winter and leave no other place for the homeless to be. Yep, they really care.

If they cared, they would employ these people to pick up garbage, sweep city sidewalks, something. Most of them did not want to be homeless in the first place.

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Cinema, Nov. 14, “Playing Chicken: Ford v Ferrari and the balance between highbrow cinema and pure entertainment”

That was the dumbest analogy and review ever. The movie was a great story and that is what movies are. We

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Online news post, Nov. 14, “Curtains Closing: City councilmembers deliberate over the fate of the historic downtown Utah Theater”

Preserving history and historical buildings is important but there also needs to be some consideration given to the cost of conservation. I’ve toured and photographed the Utah Theater and although it still shows aspects of its original beauty and grandeur, it was also in abysmal condition. “... the Redevelopment Agency cited two analyses that estimated it would cost the city between $43 and $70 million to pay for a renovation of the theater.”

That price tag is incredible and for that cost you could pay for a new theater such as the Mountain America Performing Arts Centre in Sandy, which cost $80 million.

SAM SCHOLES Via Facebook The Mountain America Center is an ugly eyesore.

The point being is once we destroy something of historical significance, we can’t get it back ... I’d much rather see my tax dollars go to pay for something

like this vs. the fucking inland port.

And as to a residential tower ... there’s so many apartments sitting empty downtown that most can’t afford. If it’s condos, then again were peddling it to people who can drop a million, which again plays to only a specific group vs. meeting the actual needs of the community.

JENNIFER GUEST BILLINGSLEY Via Facebook It needs to go, but the proposed replacement should include more affordable housing (seniors and students). Let’s fight gentrification as much as we can.

DENNIS READ HANKS Via Twitter I (and friends) took the bus from Sandy to go to the movies downtown, long before all the ones at malls. We didn’t have cars or licenses for that matter, early ’60s and up. We went to the Utah, the Rialto, the Uptown, etc. and others and stopped at Auerbach’s and ZCMI before it was a mall. That’s how old I am.

I hate to see the Utah theater demolished but I’m afraid it will happen.

MICHAEL ADAMS Via Facebook Restore. I performed in plays at this theater. It’s an amazing building and it needs to be saved.

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OPINION

Taking Offense at Karen Pence

Hypocrisy is alive and well in Washington, D.C., (I can already visualize your expression and hear your sarcastic response, “So what’s new!”) The ongoing circus of the Trump administration’s monumental lies, corruption and adolescent pettiness has kept us steadily, though morbidly, amused for the past three years. Sadly, American’s have become junkies, addicted to the stunning revelations that punctuate almost every new day. Many of us are praying for the coup de grâce, when Trump goes down. But the thought has crossed my mind, “What the hell will we all do for entertainment when the orange jester-buffoon is finally gone?” I don’t know about you, but I’m really worried— will there be anything at all left to write about? Perhaps even scarier: Who will take Trump’s place when he’s gone.

Even without the president’s own morally vacuous behavior as “The Chosen One and banner-carrier for the Christian Right,” the White House menagerie is rife with scores of others who are equally devoid of good character. Case in point: Karen Pence, this year, returned to a part-time teaching position at the Immanuel Christian School in Springfield, Va., a school that refuses entrance to anyone who is a member of—or has family members who are—involved in any way with the LGBTQ community.

The school uses an entrance application which includes an oath, essentially committing parents and students to a literal belief in the Holy Scriptures, abstaining from any practice considered by the Bible to be an “abomination” in God’s eyes.

BY MICHAEL S. ROBINSON SR. The all-encompassing oath even addresses such matters as the premise that the world is no more than 6,000 years old, and reinforces the doctrine that a woman must obey her husband in all things. Now, that might all seem a bit extreme, but one must accept the fact that the exclusion of outsiders is very much a pillar of fundamentalist Christian beliefs. The assertion that the Bible is the literal word of God ensures that Christian religious zealotry will always be alive and well. The exclusivity is an essential part of the religion. Although there are many moderate Christians, the nation’s Bible Belt is replete with the smugly-exclusive belief that God has made them His chosen people. Actually, that belief doesn’t make them exclusive at all. They’re just like all the other religious zealots, claiming that there’s only one road to heaven, and the interstate starts at the doors of their church.

Now, if Karen Pence were simply a private citizen, there would be no clamor over her employment decision; no one would even raise an eyebrow. After all, the law allows religion-based business entities to broadly discriminate against those who don’t espouse their faith. There have been a number of court cases in which that doctrine was upheld, so it’s a done deal.

And yet, the No. 2 lady of the land (SLOTUS) is not “just anybody.” She should be a model for the core values America holds dear. Instead, her bigot-based employment is morally reprehensible. How can she even have considered working for an entity that encourages prejudice against anyone who doesn’t embrace her religion? Even worse, ICS’ vocal and unbending rules make children responsible for the supposed sins of their parents. As Utahns, we might be aghast at such unfair prejudice, but ICS’ policies are very much akin to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ recent disenfranchisement, and, then, restoration of blessings for the children of gay parents.

Sadly, the Karen Pence matter is not about God, nor is it about right and wrong. It is about the hate that predictably develops from the white-Anglo-Saxon-Christian mentality or any religion that presents itself as the only true and correct way to God. Children are taught, perhaps even inadvertently, that others are inferior and that exposure to outsiders will bring the devil into their midst. It is the same kind of moral failure that has inspired the rise of many genocidal regimes, most notably the creation of the Hitler-monster and the Third Reich. It is not surprising that Karen Pence’s attitudes are not so distant from the sexist-racist-monarchist orientation of America’s commander in chief. Trump has created an atmosphere of fear, distrust and hate.

While VPOTUS and SLOTUS might appear to be substantially more presidential than the Orange Raccoon, it appears that they might actually share some of the president’s DNA. Although St. Michael and his reportedly virgin wife Karen expound heartily on the glories of Christianity, they have consciously chosen to ignore the most essential teachings of Jesus. Karen Pence’s employment decision is a disgrace to all Americans. She has become the ultimate bad example.

As yet another reminder of a bigoted, smug administration, the Pences exude a constant flow of unhealthy pus.

They are certainly not an example of what Christians should strive to be, but an embarrassment to conscientious Americans.

I know the word “pus” is pretty disgusting, but it seems to be exactly the right term. After all, pus is the indicator of a deeper infection. Our country suffers from a potentially fatal malady, and the White House is the host organism. CW

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

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BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

Focus on the Men

Isn’t that adorable? Sen. Mike Lee is worried about marriage because some men are, well, slackers. And thank heavens that someone is finally worried about men because, you know, women have everything going for them personally and financially. This was a front-page story in the Deseret News, warning the world that as more “prime-aged men” 25-54 leave the workforce the family unit will suffer. Lee worries that this means fewer marriages or more divorces and that “men will feel less of a need to be breadwinners and involved with their children.” A senior fellow from the Manhattan Institute (a neoconservative, right-wing or centerright think tank) agrees. But the reasons are varied and complicated, according to a 2016 Atlantic article. For instance, 9 million of those men have been incarcerated, and that’s a big barrier to working.

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’Tis the season of presents, but with the world at risk, you might want to consider what you buy. The Utah Animal Rights Coalition has tried unsuccessfully to dissuade Nordstrom from carrying Canada Goose jackets, which use fur from coyotes. The animals can suffer for days after being caught in steel traps before trappers kill them. It’s not pretty.

“Mothers desperate to get back to their pups have even been known to try to chew off their legs,” the Facebook page for the Anti-Fur Protest at City Creek Nordstrom says. Signs and leaflets will be provided. Nordstrom at City Creek, 55 S. West Temple, Friday, Nov. 29, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., free, bit.ly/2QKjxq3

CHANGE A MIND

The world we live in is increasingly polarized, and it’s not likely to change soon unless you change first. At Civil Talk: How to Make an Impact, you hear how it all comes down to communication skills.

“Civil Talk teaches community members how to improve their communications to make a difference on issues they care about—including how to disagree and have civil political conversations; how words, messengers, and advocacy style matter; and how to communicate with elected officials,” the event’s website says. If you can reach policymakers and get them to listen, you can make a difference. A panel discussion will help you identify the various levels of government and how to change minds through community advocacy. Hinckley Institute of Politics, 260 S. Central Campus Drive, Monday, Dec. 2, noon-1 p.m., free, bit.ly/2OaD0yE

A Welcoming Act

You’ve got to hand it to the Park City School District.

They’ve got balls—of many colors. After demands from a shadowy group called Stop Welcoming Schools, they sent this: “We initially reject many of the factual and legal assertions set forth in your letter and believe that you are misinformed about the nature of the Welcoming Schools program,” according to the Park Record. It’s all about an anti-bullying program that some see as promoting the LGBTQ lifestyle. It doesn’t, but multi-colored posters apparently shock some parents. Schools have been in the news lately: West High School students protested after their principal was disciplined for allegedly helping home some intoxicated students. And a Fox Hollow Elementary teacher is facing kidnapping charges, seemingly for walking away with a distressed child. Whatever the outcomes, it looks like people are jumping to conclusions way too soon.

HISTORIC TEARDOWN

Yeah, this is what we need—another skyscraper downtown. Lame duck Mayor Jackie Biskupski signed off on an agreement that will bring down the historic Utah Theater and build a highrise—pinkies-crossed—with a “sizeable” amount of affordable housing. So now is the time to mourn the loss of any historic sensibilities. The Story of the Utah Theater will help you understand the history behind this Salt Lake landmark. David Amott of Preservation Utah reports on the advocacy group’s efforts in 2019, its victories and challenges.

While some people are still protesting the plan to demolish the theater, the city seems to be plowing ahead. Memorial House, Memory Grove Park, 300 N. Canyon Road, 801-533-0858, Thursday, Dec. 5, 6:30 p.m., free, bit.ly/2Oc6Anr

Great, More With Less

You probably got this in the mail—and you probably threw it away. The Utah Association of Realtors sent out an $80 million check because, oh yeah, you’ll be getting a grrreeeat tax refund. The Salt Lake Tribune gave the real estate agents space to say “We like the idea of a tax cut for Utah families.” Not everyone thinks it’s a good idea, and you can find pro and con research about the effects of any tax cuts.

Not everyone will see a cut. Not so for people in poverty who would see food prices rise. And then there’s the prospect of legislation to remove school funding from the income tax. Our motto: Utah does more with less. The Trib did note that the association illegally used the state seal and signed it from the Utah Legislature.

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NEWS Recycling Enforcers

An inside look at who’s trying to help Salt Lake City residents stay upto-date on the recycling world’s changes.

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ach morning, Salt Lake City’s recycling and education outreach team rises before dawn to beat the garbage trucks.

The vehicles start their routes at 7 a.m.—but the team stays ahead, starting at 6:30 a.m.

They search out contaminated recycling and yard waste bins. Sure, it might not sound like a glamorous job, but the goal is twofold: keep solid waste out of the landfill’s recycling and green waste facilities, and educate residents about proper recycling techniques.

The team tries to check every blue and brown bin on that day’s route. City Weekly recently tagged along with two team members to better understand efforts to educate residents on the seemingly ever-changing recycling rules.

Since mid-2018 when Salt Lake City announced it couldn’t accept plastic film at its facility anymore, residents wondered why. And as recently as Nov. 1, cities including Draper, Midvale, Murray, Riverton, Sandy, South Jordan and West Jordan announced they weren’t going to take loose paper. Salt Lake City, as well as 13 other nearby municipalities, still do, however—adding to the confusion. Some of the reasons for the ban come down to countries like China no longer accepting that kind of waste. Other reasons hinge on whether machinery at local landfills can bundle and sort items such as paper and plastic film.

On a recent Thursday, Ashley Bailey and Kellie Ulrich, drove around the Glendale neighborhood shaking and opening bins. Sometimes they’d find plastic film or pet-food bags; other times they’d find glass or household solid waste. Other extreme items have included diapers (usually soiled), dead skunks and TVs. “For some reason, some people think diapers can be recycled,” Bailey says, chuckling when asked about some of the grosser things they encounter.

If there’s not too much material, they throw on gloves and move it to the trash

Ashley Bailey, left, and Kellie Ulrich inspect recycling bins in the Glendale neighborhood for misplaced items. bin. Then they’ll staple a flyer to the top describing what they found. If it’s too contaminated, they’ll staple a longer flyer with the word, “Oops,” to the lid and the bin itself, letting the truck drivers know not to empty it. The resident will then have to clean the bin before it’s picked up at a later date.

Most of the contaminants they find, though, involve those pesky plastic wrappers—trash bags, plastic bags, storage bags, bagged food items—you name it.

Recycling markets are in flux, and programs like the city’s outreach do their damndest to keep up. It can be difficult, though, says Jenn Farrell, education and outreach manager.

“Behavior change is tough—whether you’re talking about the way you sleep or eat, even—the way people were bagging materials was tough to change,” Farrell says. “That was the first thing we were able to see, was people bagging recyclables.” Instead, the ought to be loosely placed in the bins, she explains.

The team of six has a lot of ground to cover. Salt Lake City serves about 42,000 homes, according to Farrell.

“I can see as a resident how it’s very confusing,” Bailey says as she pulls up to another bin. “There’s so many different plastic films out there.”

Even though the city saw residents cut down on bagging their recycling, the education team still finds other types of bags. Farrell says part of their education plan has been to get residents to view all types of plastic film as the same.

“It will be a really clean can, but with lots of little bags,” Farrell describes,

emphasizing frozen food wrappers as one problem item. “Or seasonal things—we’ll get all other bags like mulch bags or salt bags. We’ve also been battling things that have the recycle label on them or they say, ‘Recycle Me’ but they’re not really recyclable.”

Plastic bags, she says, ought to be placed in regular trash bins or dropped off at grocery stores that will recycle the bags.

If you follow @slcgreen on Instagram, you might notice some stories about prohibited items that show up in bins. Recently, Bailey’s noticed people trying to recycle all the items in a meal kit. “Everything will have the recycle sign on it,” she says, “but just because it might be recyclable somewhere else in the country, doesn’t mean they can recycle it here.” Seeing the meal kit problem getting worse, Bailey posted pictures of what residents should do if they want to dispose of their meal kit packaging, such as throwing away the insulation, draining the ice packs and throwing out the plastic film before placing the cardboard in the blue bin.

While driving through more of Glendale, Ulrich shakes one of the recycling bins and hears what sounds like glass.

She gets out and finds a few loose beer bottles and moves them over to the trash bin. By now, the two know the routes well and can identify problem homes. If it’s a bin they’ve previously tagged, but it’s in good shape, they’ll staple a thumbs-up flyer on it. However, if the bin isn’t good to go, they’ll tag it and return in the afternoon to hopefully talk to the resident and identify the problem.

“Since we started flyering, there’s

been a lot less things contained in a bag,” Bailey notes. “Overall, it’s definitely improved.”

Sometimes, Bailey says, it could be a neighbor putting wrong material in the bin. Or, as is the case in some neighborhoods, there can be a language barrier so they’ll leave a flyer in Spanish. The team doesn’t want to keep kicking the proverbial can down the road, so they try to come back and address the problems in person. For example, Ulrich came across a resident who spoke no English and kept putting the wrong material in the blue bin. When she met with him, she sorted through the bin and demonstrated which items go where. Since then, they haven’t had many problems at that home.

The two tag an average of 20 to 40 bins a day. This particular day, they tagged 10 by 9 a.m. They planned to tag until noon and return for face-to-face meetings later in the day.

But for all the changes in the recycling world, Farrell says things are looking up locally. Since the changes in international markets, local landfills have had to play catch-up on their infrastructure.

Come 2022, the city will install a paper mill able to sort through and bundle more kinds of paper and cardboard. It will be the first of its kind in the state.

And, she adds, people still want to reduce their waste and recycle when they can.

“There’s a lot of positive things going on in the world of recycling,” Farrell concludes. “I want for people to not lose hope or faith when they read one headline ... the reasons that we recycle—to conserve resources and cut down on pollution—those reasons persist and are more important than ever.” CW

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Even those who have been in Utah for decades might not be aware that the state’s longest-tenured LGBTQ organization is The Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire, which traces its roots back to 1976. Their annual Snowball winter event boasts almost as long a history, beginning as a fundraiser for Toys for Tots in 1978, but shifting to become a fundraiser for AIDSrelated causes when the crisis hit the gay community in the 1980s.

In 2019, according to current RCGSE board of directors president Jared Petersen-Craig, that tradition continues with another semi-formal event, with the theme “Christmas in New York.” All proceeds go to local charities supporting those with HIV/AIDS by helping to provide, food, medication, payment of medical bills and more.

Petersen-Craig—who performs under the drag persona Vega Starr—notes that in addition to the catered dinner provided by a donation from LUX Catering and Events, attendees will get a full evening of performances “by some of Salt Lake’s most talented entertainers, members of the RCGSE, and entertainers from out of state.” Those who like to spend at least some of their holiday time being charitable have a great chance to combine a fun evening with a great cause.

“The higher the attendance, the more money we are able to give back to the community,” Petersen-Craig says. (SR) Rose Wagner Center Black Box, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Dec. 1, 4 p.m., $20, artsaltlake.org

The scriptures found in the Old Testament Book of Isaiah feature some of the most beautiful poetry ever translated into the English language. More than 2,000 years later, George Fredric Handel put those words to music as he created what has come to be known as Messiah. The entire composition is 53 different pieces of music, including a number of choruses.

More than 200 years after that, when Isaiah’s words and Handel’s music are combined with more than 1,000 voices from people of all walks of life gathered together in Abravanel Hall, the result is a Salt Lake City holiday tradition that is moving and unforgettable. Anyone who shows up with a Messiah score—or purchases one in the lobby beforehand— can stand and sing with everyone else on choruses such as “For Unto Us a Child Is Born,” “Glory to God in the Highest” and, of course, “Hallelujah.”

The massive chorus is accompanied by the Utah Symphony, under the baton of associate conductor Conner Gray Covington, with the Westminster Community Choir providing support. Between choruses, Utah Opera resident artists—soprano Grace Kahl, mezzo-soprano Quinn Middleman, tenor Addison Marlor and baritone-bass Brandon Bell—sing various arias from Handel’s masterwork.

This year, Utah Symphony and The Road Home will host a fundraising and clothing drive at both Messiah Sing-in evenings. Singers can bring donations of cash or items such as toiletries, blankets and apparel. This performance is the first of several holiday-themed symphony performances, including A Broadway Christmas with Ashley Brown, and the Here Comes Santa Claus kid-friendly performance of seasonal favorites. (Geoff Griffin) Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 385-468-1010, Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m., $15-$40, utahsymphony.org

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For Mannakin Theater and Dance artistic director Nathan Cottam, the idea started simply enough: He wanted to mount a production of The Nutcracker, but he didn’t have a school at the time to find young performers for the show. So he decided on a DIY solution: inviting children attending the performance to come up on stage and become part of it.

“I designed a battle scene between mice and soldiers, where I would just give a 30-minute lesson and put them on stage,” Cottam says. “I remained on stage in kind of the conductor’s spot, directing traffic, getting them to remember their parts. … Sounds like a mess, right?”

Instead of a mess, however, he ended up with something spontaneous and interactive that appealed not just to the youngsters, but to parents and other adults who also find themselves with an opportunity to participate in the show.

Grown-ups get a chance to learn (or re-learn) a waltz for the Waltz of the Flowers. “Adult participation went so well [that], at one show in San Francisco we didn’t have any kids, so it was all adults, and it was a blast,” Cottam says.

He also shakes up the traditional staging of Nutcracker by involving local community groups to put on traditional, authentic ethnic and cultural dances, whereas the original production typically has its Chinese, Russian and other similar dances. In Salt Lake City, that means groups like Tablado Dance showcasing their work. And for many of those dancers, it’s also a dream come true. “I watched rehearsal briefly, and asked [the dancers], ages 15-25, ‘Has anybody been in The Nutcracker?,’” Cottam says. “Nobody had. When I asked, ‘Are you excited to,’ they practically erupted.” (Scott Renshaw) Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-3552787, Nov. 29, 7 p.m.; Nov. 30, 2 & 8 p.m., $12-$28, artsaltlake.org

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t’s the most wonderful time of the year—and for a lot of people, one of the most stressful. Between shopping and dealing with relatives, your kids’ school programs and bad weather, it’s easy to get into a tunnel vision that doesn’t allow you to really feel the spirit of art inspired by the holidays.

Every year, Utah stages overflow with Christmas- and holiday-themed performances, ranging from decades-old traditions to brand-new creations. The examples provided here—with more in our Essentials section, see p. 15—should not be considered a comprehensive list, or cast as secondary anything that we didn’t have time or space to mention. Instead, think of this as a way to start thinking about making art a holiday priority. Slow down for a moment to let creative people share stories and ideas that we all need to remember. Whether you want something comfortably familiar or something that will spark you to ponder the real meaning of Christmas, something for the whole family or something just for the grown-ups, you’ll find a choice that’s right for you.

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Heartwarming stories ring with special resonance around the holiday season. No wonder then that the 1983 film A Christmas Story became so synonymous with Yuletide cheer. What could be sweeter than the tale of young Ralphie Parker, a boy who will go to any length to attain the gift of his dreams, an official Red Ryder Air Rifle? Despite the warning of every adult he encounters—“You’ll shoot your eye out”—Ralphie makes it his mission to reap that reward.

Naturally, it’s ideal fodder for a touring musical stage show, especially as envisioned by the talented songwriting team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul that garnered a Tony Award for the musical Dear Evan Hansen and an Oscar for the hit film La La Land. Not surprisingly then, A Christmas Story: The Musical scored critical kudos of its own after making its Broadway bow in 2012, as well as Tony nominations for Best New Musical, Best Original Score and Best Book of a Musical.

“The musical features all of those classic moments from the movie that audiences have come to know and love—the bunny suit, the leg lamp, even the Bumpus Hounds—with the story elevated by show-stopping musical numbers,” director Michael Rader says via email.

“It’s all about the joy and giving of the holiday, being with family, friends and loved ones … a nice, warm, emotional feeling.”

We’re charmed already. Maybe we’ll use Ralphie’s strategy to get us a gift of a new Ferrari. (Lee Zimmerman) Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, 385-468-1010, Dec. 3-8, dates and times vary, $65-$120, artsaltlake.org

If you feel as though you have limited time to fit holiday theater into your schedule, here’s a way to be particularly efficient: You can enjoy two classic tales on the same stage for the price of one. For the fourth year, the musical operettas Amahl and the Night Visitors and A Christmas Carol share joint-headliner status at Salt Lake Community College’s Grand Theatre, presenting the tale of a crippled shepherd boy’s encounter with the Three Kings on the first Christmas night, and an original musical version of the classic Dickens story by locals Mike Leavitt and Anthony Buck.

According to SLCC’s Suni Gugliotti, the productions are a collaboration with the University of Utah School of Music and Salt Lake Symphony. The Amahl/Carol production is also part of a “mini-season” package that interested potential attendees can combine with the Grand Theatre’s other two holiday-season offerings: the Lark & Spur Christmas concert (Nov. 30) and Christmas with a cappella group Eclipse 6 (Dec. 12).

Gugliotti believes that the focus of both narratives on the idea of belonging to something bigger than yourself makes them ideal for the holiday season. “Both capture similar themes about community and holiday miracles,” she says. “The shows are about community, and they also implement the community. You might know the musicians that are playing on stage.” (SR) Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State, 801-957-3322, Dec. 5-6, 7:30 p.m.; Dec. 7, 2 & 7:30 p.m., $16-$26, grandtheatrecompany.com

For the most part, Christmas entertainment tends to be of the feel-good variety. Director RJ Walker wants to shake things up a bit, while offering a reminder of the way the holidays should be about inspiring us to be our best selves.

Drawn from a centuries-old Christmas tradition in which a beggar would be anointed by the masses to get the wealthy to be generous—by force, if necessary—The Lord of Misrule brings the concept into a contemporary setting with a fundraiser for The Road Home shelter.

Here, it’s shady televangelist Lucas Karol whose actions during a Christmas pageant come under the control of an unruly mob.

That control, however, largely comes from the audience members. Those in attendance will be given cards suggesting a variety of actions that might play out on stage—for example, according to Walker, “Maybe a character has to draw a penis on their face. Or every time the Pastor says a sentence, he might have to end it with the word ‘Daddy.’” Which suggestions become part of the performance will be based on the highest total amount of money donated to The Road Home, so attendees are encouraged to bring cash. The result, Walker says, is something that’s “a little bit fringe theater, a little bit charity, a little bit drunk Shakespeare.”

Walker likes the idea of creating a holiday theater option with a more direct-action component. “I decided I wanted to take a piece of Christmas that’s a little more irreverent, and put that in a play that reflects the spirit of giving,” he says. “It’s interactive, it’s rowdy, it’s irreverent.” (SR) Wasatch Theatre Co., 124 S. 400 West, 801-8694600, Dec. 6-7 & Dec. 13-14, 7 p.m., $5 plus donations welcome, wtcblackbox.com

Two years ago, when actor Jordan Kramer was first cast as the lead in An Other Theatre Co.’s holiday production of David Sedaris’ The Santaland Diaries, he had never heard of it before. But it only took listening to the writer’s 1992 NPR essay—which eventually became a stage version—to know that it was both a great text and a challenge for an actor.

“The thing about Sedaris is his humor is very dry, and that’s where it has its charm,” Kramer says. “So the challenge is transforming it into a theatrical style, and embody not just his words, but how can I entertain people who are here and now. … It feels like you’re doing an hour’s worth of stand-up, but you’re not allowed to rewrite the jokes. The only thing you can change is how you approach the jokes.”

The Santaland Diaries captures Sedaris’ experience as a struggling would-be writer who takes a seasonal job as an elf—called Crumpet—in New York’s legendary Macy’s Santaland. It addresses the unique charms and challenges of working in a retail environment during one of the most hectic times of the year.

“As much as we’d like to think that we’re better to each other during Christmas and full of spirit, the holidays can sometimes bring out the worst in people,” Kramer says. “I love Christmas, but when you stop and think about it, how did this happen? How did we as a species develop these weird traditions with men in red suits and candy canes, and repeat that tradition to our children over and over and over again. It’s absurd and ridiculous yet so near and dear to us.” (SR) An Other Theater Co. Black Box, 1200 Towne Centre Blvd., Provo, Dec. 6-21, dates and times vary, $12$17, anothertheater.org

As America entered the Christmas season in late 1944, the nation was still very much involved in World War II. D-Day had happened the previous summer, but the Battle of the Bulge was about to begin, and V-E and V-J days were still months away.

Against this backdrop, choreographer Willam Christensen had what seemed to be an impossible idea: Stage America’s first full-length production of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. Furthermore, he planned to pull it off not in New York City or another cultural metropolis, but in Salt Lake City.

The result, of course, is a 75-year history of success. Critics and the public loved it. “We can’t understand why a vehicle of such fantastic beauty and originality would not be produced in its

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Holiday traditions are not complete without attending a performance of The Nutcracker. Odyssey Dance Theatre’s (ODT) clever rejuvenation of this tale transforms it from the 1800s to the present day.

Originally finding the idea of a Nutcracker in today’s world dated, ODT’s founder and artistic director Derryl Yeager envisioned an interpretation involving elements that could reach across generations. He and his team have worked to create an engaging storyline—now in its seventh year—for all ages, as well as revamping the original Tchaikovsky score into a modern pop/hip-hop arrangement.

Instead of using an obsolete nutcracker, Yeager chose an iPhone as the “catalyst for an adventure,” and takes audience members on a magical quest with many surprises along the way.

“The iPhone becomes the center of Clara’s world with the wonders and pitfalls that entails,” Yeager says. “Each piece in the show is related to what you can discover and experience with your phone.”

Replacing the supporting cast with contemporary characters such as Mario, Luigi and Angry Birds, the re-imagined narrative incorporates a variety of dance styles, not to mention various realms. Want to see how a vintage DeLorean, robots and gangsta mice mingle with Mario, Luigi and a few Angry Birds? For only seven days in December, Redux Nut-Cracker plays to sold-out crowds, so be sure to get tickets early.

“If you’ve been to one too many Nutcrackers, this is still the one to see,” Yeager adds. (Colette A. Finney) Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, 801581-7100, Dec. 17-23, 7:30 p.m. (with an additional performance on Dec. 21 at 2 p.m.), $20-$40, odysseydance.com

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Certain traditions are so closely tied to Christmas, any seasonal celebration would be impossible to imagine without them: annual television specials, innumerable recitations of “The Night Before Christmas,” Black Friday sales (that now impede on Thanksgiving), spiked egg nog and office parties where someone invariably embarrasses him or herself by doing something stupid and spending the entire next year trying to live it down.

Mannheim Steamroller also lays claim to being an integral part of the holidays, thanks to more than two dozen chart-topping, multi-million selling Christmas albums which integrate equal parts neo-classical New Age composition, progressive rock, avant-garde imaginings, and even a bit of baroque. Conceived and created 35 years ago by music producer and entrepreneur Chip Davis, Mannheim Steamroller has evolved into one of the most successful independent record labels in the world (American Gramophone), the longest-running consecutive concert tour in history, two touring bands, and a cottage industry that includes novelty items, specialty foods, healing technology and lifestyle accessories.

“When I wanted to do a Christmas album way back when, I was told that you only do that when your career is over,” Davis says via email. “So I went ahead and did it on my own and the rest is history.”

For Utah native Peter Orullian, it’s been a journey of 30 years—since he first came up with the germ of the idea in high school—to bring to life his idea for a Christmasthemed rock opera. Along the way, he’s mastered a host of skills that allowed him to do it right. “If you’re selfreflective enough, you realize there are certain stories you’re not ready to tell as a storyteller,” Orullian says.

“You hold on to it until you are ready.”

A trained vocalist, songwriter, musician and novelist, Orullian is no stranger to combining songs with storytelling; he wrote the novelization accompanying prog-metal band Dream Theater’s concept album The Astonishing.

For The Bell Ringer, he builds a narrative around a central character who, over the course of a day, has experiences that, according to Orullian, “show him his own sense of value and self-worth, by virtue of his willingness to be a kind and willing ear when somebody needed that.”

Orullian is also aware that the phrase “rock opera” might create an impression in others that doesn’t entirely correspond to the way he thinks about this show. “There are songs rooted in rock and roll, guitars and drums, those building blocks,” he says. “Opera makes sense, because there are through lines in the music. … Song by song, I’m hoping people come on this journey with the bell ringer, learning that it’s not in spite of his past, but because of those things, that he’s qualified to help people.”

The 2019 debut marks the first full tour for The Bell Ringer, for which Orullian has also completed recording the album. Portions of the proceeds support the Toys for Tots Literacy Program. (SR) Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-3552787, Dec. 19, 7:30 p.m., $30-$40, artsaltlake.org

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Amazon is taking over, corporations rule the world and, frankly, it’s getting a bit exhausting. Rather than give money to what is rapidly moving toward technologicallypowered overlords, the Made in Utah Winter Fest at The Gateway offers a better option this winter holiday season.

Utah is full of local artisans who are not trying to establish nation-wide monopolies. Built in partnership with Made in Utah, the winter fest is the winter version of the annual Made in Utah festival that takes place in August, and showcases local vendors’ cool creations.

The festival is for “Anyone who loves art and music and wants to immerse themselves in something truly unique this holiday season” Jacklyn Briggs, marketing director at The Gateway, says. Winter Fest is also not going to be solely focused on the holidays that regularly get the most spotlight here in the Western Hemisphere, like the Winter Solstice, Kwanzaa or Diwali.

Wait a second, strike that: Christmas is the one that gets all the attention. But at Winter Fest, musical acts will represent other winter celebrations, too.

“The light display throughout the property this year will truly be something special,” Briggs adds. “It will feel dreamlike with bright colors, oversized woodland sculptures, and tons of opportunities for photo ops. It’s something non-traditional and different than what you’d find anywhere else.”

If you like lights, multicultural performances and celebrations, and seeing the work of local artisans, Winter Fest might just be a good stop for you. (Casey Koldewyn) The Gateway, 18 N. Rio Grande St., 801-456-0000, Saturdays, Dec. 7-21, 1-9 p.m.; Sundays, Dec. 8-22, 1-7 p.m., free, madeinutahfest.com

Indeed, Mannhein Steamroller ranks as the No. 1 Christmas artist of all time, with sales of more than 30 million discs. The second highest selling holiday artist, Elvis Presley, claims a little over half that amount. That’s a stat that would certainly cause the King to feel all shook up. (LZ) Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, 385-468-1010, Dec. 1718, 7:30 p.m., $40-$60, artsaltlake.org

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entirety in this country until now,” the Sacramento Union gushed during that first season. When asked how long he thought the production could run, Christensen responded, “As long as there are children.”

Kids are still around in 2019, some of them the grandkids and great-grandkids of the first children who were charmed by The Nutcracker back in 1944. One of the things that makes this a great Utah tradition is that parents and grandparents can take the latest generation to a performance knowing that there will be costumes, scenery, or dances that they once thrilled to as children.

This year’s production features Christensen’s original choreography and takes place in the newly renovated Capitol Theatre. Grab a kid and go re-enjoy some of your fondest Christmas memories. (GG) Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, Dec. 7-26, dates and times vary, $42-$109, balletwest.org

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’Tis the season for holiday markets, festivals and looking at dazzling displays of lights in the cold.

And at the upcoming Christkindlmarkt at This Is the Place Heritage Park, you can do it all in one location.

Inspired by long-running and popular Christmas street markets in Germany, Christkindlmarkt is a four-day celebration of German culture and the winter holiday spirit. More than 80 local artisans and food vendors sell everything from handmade crafts to the German pasta dish spätzle.

Allyson Chard, founding member of the festival’s committee, says organizers try to ensure Christkindlmarkt is authentic to the German market experience. “We want visitors to come hungry and enjoy the amazing cultural food, along with coming prepared to do their Christmas shopping to find unique gifts,” Chard says. “We also hope the market will help put the ‘kind’ in the greater Salt Lake community as people gather together.”

Chard says the event emphasizes giving back to the community. All groups providing the festival’s entertainment participate in charity work prior to the event. And more than 800 junior high and high school students undertake service projects when they visit the festival during field trips.

Each night boasts a unique form of entertainment. Wednesday brings the Live Nativity Experience (6 p.m.); Thursday features the light-studded St. Martin’s Lantern Parade (6 p.m.), held in honor of a Roman-era saint who cut his coat in half to share with a beggar; Friday (6 p.m.) and Saturday (1 p.m.) will host the St. Nikolaus Parade. (Kylee Ehmann) Christkindlmarkt @ This Is the Place Heritage Park, 2601 E. Sunnyside Ave., 801828-5420, Dec. 4-7, 11 a.m.-8 p.m., free, christkindlemarkt-slc.com

In the four years since the husband-and-wife Utah writing team of Shannon Hale and Dean Hale launched the Princess in Black series with illustrator LeUyen Pham, their heroine Princess Magnolia— who combines her love for royal frills with the spirit of a masked crime-fighter—has battled monsters at a playdate, at a science fair, and even at her own birthday party. For the seventh adventure, Magnolia finds herself in a very different place: a goat pasture.

The Hales seemingly have no shortage of scenarios for Princess Magnolia, including this new book’s fight to eradicate a stubborn stench. “We always intended it to be an ongoing series,” Shannon Hale says via email. “We have no trouble coming up with new ideas for this character. It’s wonderful fun. I hope we get to do it for years to come!”

Bathtime Battle marks a continuation of the collaboration between the Hales and artist Pham, who also illustrated Shannon Hale’s graphic novels Best Friends and Real Friends. Shannon credits Pham for the unique qualities she brings to Princess Magnolia’s unique brand of energy and imagination. “It’s incredibly hard to find an illustrator who can do princess dresses as easily as monsters, who can tell a story through art and also do humor,” she says. “She can do everything. She’s also become one of my best friends.

Through the process of doing the Princess in Black series together as well as my graphic novel memoirs, we’ve become incredible close, and I just admire her so much as an artist and as a human.” (Scott Renshaw) Shannon Hale and Dean Hale: The Princess in Black and the Bathtime Battle @ First Baptist Church of Salt Lake City, 733 S. 1300 East, 801-484-9100, Nov. 30, 6 p.m., free, kingsenglish.com

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Following its film treatment in 2000, composer Duncan Sheik and writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa turned Bret Easton Ellis’ controversial 1991 novel American Psycho into a mighty musical theater extravaganza, launching it on London’s West End in 2013 and giving it a Broadway bow two years later. A chilling tale of greed and obsession illuminated with irony and humor, it transports us into the darkest depths of the human psyche.

“American Psycho is a non-stop musical that feels both cinematic and theatrical,” director Josh Patterson says via email. “Duncan Sheik’s clever score is certain to transport the audience back to the late 1980s. Yet, for all the nostalgia packed within this bloody killing spree, audiences will find American Psycho to be startlingly relevant.”

Central to the story is Patrick Bateman, a narcissistic Wall Street banker wholly absorbed with compounding his wealth and some horrific hedonistic fantasies. Although it appears to his coworkers that he’s happy and stable, his insatiable desire to inflate his self-image imbues him with a startling pathologic profile.

“In Patrick Bateman’s world, Donald Trump is the ideal person to be,” Patterson continues. “The truth is murky, image is more important than anything else, the powerful take what they want, and the scariest part isn’t even Patrick Bateman.”

Notably, Utah Repertory Theatre is among the first theater companies in the U.S. to produce American Psycho after its New York run. The Dec. 7 performance includes a meet-and-greet with the cast and composer. Best to avoid the real psychos and attend this instead. (Lee Zimmerman) Utah Repertory Theatre: American Psycho @ Regent Street Black Box at the Eccles, 144 Regent St., 385-468-1010, Nov. 30–Dec. 15, dates and times vary, $20, arttix.org

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What better way to escape the hustle and bustle of the holidays than with a true Christmas classic, Elf the Musical? Once it became available for community theaters, Scera Center for the Arts in Orem jumped at the chance to produce the musical, which follows the narrative of the iconic movie. Alongside Buddy, audiences take a lively trip through “the seven levels of the candy cane forest, the sea of swirly-twirly gumdrops, and the Lincoln Tunnel” to New York City, on a quest to discover his true identity.

“It has been 16 years since the movie with Will Ferrell was released, and it will be nice to bring the joy from the film to the live stage,” says April Berlin, Scera operations manager of marketing & development. “Being lighthearted with a great Christmas message, it is perfect for families.”

Following Wednesday performances, ticketholders can enjoy a post-show talkback with cast and crew on how they create the magic behind the scenes. With the complex decorated to the nines, Scera’s multi-layered experience will leave viewers embracing their inner elf, eager to spread Christmas cheer. “When you come to a holiday show here, the experience extends beyond just the theater,” Berlin adds. “The audience will also be able to meet and take photos with Buddy and Santa after the show.”

The historic 78-year-old center embodies the true spirit of community theater, involving hundreds of volunteers and cast members to successfully pull off their stage productions. Don’t be a “cotton-headed ninny-muggins,” and head to Orem for this spirited show. (Colette A. Finney) Elf the Musical @ Scera Center for the Arts, 745 S. State, Orem, 801-225-2787, Nov. 29– Dec. 14, 7:30 p.m., $12-$14, scera.org

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PERFORMANCE THEATER

American Psycho the Musical Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, Nov. 30-Dec. 15, dates and times vary, artsaltlake.org (see p. 15) A Christmas Carol Hale Center Theater Orem, 225 W. 400 North, Nov. 30-Dec. 23, dates and times vary, haletheater.org A Christmas Story: The Musical Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, Dec. 3-8, dates and times vary, broadway-at-the-eccles.com (see p. 12) Elf The Musical Scera, 745 S. State, Orem, Nov. 29-Dec. 14, dates and times vary, scera.org (see p. 15) Seussical Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through Jan. 18, dates and times vary, hct.org

DANCE

Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker Val A. Browning Center, 1901 University Circle, Ogden, Nov. 29-30, 7 p.m., weber.edu The Nutshell! Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, Nov. 29-30, dates and times vary, artsaltlake.org (see p. 11) Thank You Theobromine The Chocolate Conspiracy, 774 S. 300 West, through Jan. 5, 6-11 p.m., thankyoutheo.com

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“5 Carols for Christmas” Peerys Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Blvd., Ogden, Nov. 29-30, 7:30 p.m., egyptiantheaterogden.com A Broadway Christmas with Ashley Brown The Noorda Center for the Performing Arts, 800 W. University Parkway, Orem, Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m., utahsymphony.org Utah Symphony: Messiah Sing-in Abravanel

Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m., utahsymphony.org (see p. 11) Utah Chamber Artists Holiday Concert Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m., utahchamberartists.org

COMEDY & IMPROV

Jacob Leigh Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Nov. 29-30, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Open Mic Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Wednesdays, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Random Tangent Improv Comedy Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Saturdays, 10 p.m., randomtangentimprov.org Ryan Erwin Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, West Jordan, Nov. 30, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Xazmin Garza Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, West Jordan, Nov. 29, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com (see p. 18)

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Civil Talk: How to Make an Impact The Hinckley Institute, 260 S. Central Campus Drive, Dec. 2, noon, hinckley.utah.edu Sustainability Speaker Series: Utah Society for Environmental Education Ogden Nature Center, 966 W. 12th St., Ogden, Dec. 2, 2 p.m., go.standard.ne

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Brian McClellan: Blood of Empire Barnes & Noble, University Crossings Plaza, 330 E. 1300 South, Orem, Dec. 4, 7 p.m., barnesandnoble.com Mark Pett: I’m Not Millie The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Nov. 30, 11 a.m., kingsenglish.com Shannon Hale & Dean Hale: The Princess in Black and the Bathtime Battle First Baptist Church, 733 S. 1300 East, Nov. 30, 6 p.m., kingsenglish.com (see p. 15)

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Utah native comedian Xazmin Garza comes home to show off the fruits of a career shift.

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azmin Garza has me at something of a disadvantage. I may know nothing about making a mid-life career change to try stand-up comedy, but she certainly knows what it’s like to be a professional journalist. In fact, she even knows what it’s like to work for Salt Lake City Weekly.

Now based in New York, the comedian was born in Nampa, Idaho, but moved with her family to Salt Lake City when she was 4.

“My parents grew up in migrant farm worker communities,” Garza says, “and when the economy got really bad, my family moved to the next biggest city, which was Salt Lake.

Which no one considers a big city, unless you’re from Nampa, Idaho.”

After graduating from Granger High and the University of Utah, Garza pursued a career in journalism. That included an internship at City Weekly circa 2000, followed by a move to Las Vegas, where she spent 11 years at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, covering fashion, features and eventually becoming a columnist.

Moving to Boston with her then-husband, Garza began pursuing an interest in comedy that she says was always there, but that she never had the confidence to acknowledge.

She talks about Chris Rock being a comedy idol growing up, but also about how thinking about following in the footsteps of someone you think is great at their craft can be intimidating. “It wasn’t until years later, I saw a Comedy Central half-hour with a woman, I won’t say her name, but it sucked. … Mediocrity motivated me. If someone’s doing something the best, who are you to go, ‘Yeah,

I can do that.’ When Sarah Palin was running for vice president, I was thinking, ‘Holy shit, I could be vice president.’

“Moving to a city known for producing comedy legends, it was an opportunity to pursue [comedy],” she adds. “I took a sketch-writing class, and pretty quickly discovered that wasn’t the thing for me.

But two girls in that class were taking a stand-up class. And I remember thinking, ‘I’m way funnier than these bitches.’”

That confident sense of humor was ultimately connected to her departure from journalism as well. She had continued writing her column for the Review-Journal remotely after the move to Boston, but “I had gotten bored with the column,” she recalls. “Then this thing happened where I wrote this column using the word ‘freakin.’

Someone wrote in to the paper and went off on me. And I replied, and I told her to freakin’ get over it. The editor-in-chief told me to apologize, and I refused, so I left.”

Garza threw herself into pursuing comedy in 2014, eventually divorcing her husband and supplementing her income as a copy editor for an advertising agency. She found that as a comedian getting started at age 37, she had a very different point of view from her early open-mic cohorts. “A lot of people start much younger,” she says.

“Here I am, 37, with these fuckin’ kids. I’m talking about my divorce, they’re talking about their dicks. I already know who I am as a person. I’ve lived a life.”

That doesn’t mean she didn’t face the same initial growing pains of figuring out her style and what kind of material was right for her. “In my first year, I thought I was good, but I wasn’t,” she says. “I was going, ‘What are other people going to think is funny?’ You have to do what you think is funny. If the audience connects, great; if they don’t, you go on to the next thing you think is funny. If you do anything else, you’re not representing yourself accurately, and audiences can smell it.”

As a Latinx woman who self-identifies as bisexual, Garza acknowledges that in an earlier era, it might have been much harder to break into the straight-white-maledominated stand-up world. “In just the five years I’ve been in, that’s changed,” she says.

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“People want diverse shows. And that’s been a real boost for me. I checked off a lot of boxes.”

Now, five years in to her major career change, she’s returning to Utah to headline a comedy club for the first time. She admits to being a bit nervous about performing in front of friends and family, but like so much else in her life, she seems more motivated by challenge than thrown by it. “I hate performing in front of people I know.

There’s my Girl Scout leader, my siblings are going to be there, friends from elementary school. I was really stressed out about

Comedian Xazmin Garza it for a while. This is a thing I’m doing to kind of get over that.” CW

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espite its versatility, chicken has always been a culinary bridesmaid. Even though its hot cousin duck confit has risen in popularity, chicken sits in the corner alone, sipping its cosmo while the Kobe beef goes home with Keanu Reeves. Maybe it’s because of the unfair stigma that chicken’s flavor is so nondescript that it can be assigned anywhere—if you’ve ever said something that isn’t chicken tastes like chicken, you are complicit in this slander. Lately, however, I’ve noticed a wave of new restaurants that have consecrated themselves to this noble prince of poultry. Among the most recent additions is a little place called Birdhouse (856 E. 900 South, 801-4412213, birdhouseslc.com), which has created a menu that features chicken recipes from around the world—from the spicy piri piri marinades of Mozambique to the classic American fried chicken sandwich.

Birdhouse is the new kid at the Pago Restaurant Group’s lunch table, which is an in-crowd that has cultivated a solid reputation within the downtown food scene. In addition to Pago, the group’s fine-dining crown jewel, this league operates the recently rebranded Bar George, Hub & Spoke Diner, Trestle Tavern and Birdhouse’s next-door neighbor, East Liberty Tap House. Like Birdhouse’s protein of choice, it’s hanging out with some well-established and well-connected pals.

When rolling with a squad like Pago’s, it can be hard to stand out and strut your stuff.

The fact that Birdhouse is so different—both conceptually and ideologically—from its siblings, is a good start. It serves as a fast-casual, family-friendly alternative to nearby gastropub East Liberty Tap House and Pago itself. Their patio seating is complete with wooden bleachers that impart a relaxed, summer-in-the-ballpark vibe. It’s a shame that we’ve got a few months of winter ahead of us before we can take full advantage of how fun it will be to munch on fried chicken while we watch 9th and 9th bustle. Inside, Birdhouse

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maintains this no-frills atmosphere, though I thought the bales of straw next to the waiting area were a bit much.

Farm to table is great, but farm on table is another story.

Once you get to the menu, it’s clear that preparing chicken in all its glory is Birdhouse’s focal point. This level of focus is also on-trend—niche restaurants that devote themselves to one concept are starting to pop up all over the place. Birdhouse manages to set itself apart from other specialty restaurants in this respect because of its variety of chicken sandwiches. For example, the classic ($9.95, pictured) is a close relative of the chicken sandwiches that recently shared fried fisticuffs over social media—crispy fried chicken with the vinegar acidity of pickles on a buttered bun. Birdhouse’s take adds their housemade aioli and tomatoes, which balance the richness of deep-fried chicken with a hint of heat and a sharp spritz of tartness from the pickles and tomato.

In stark contrast to this sandwich comes the grilled chicken sausage ($9.95), which takes the immutable canvas of a hot dog and colors it with hues of Dijon aioli, pico de gallo and queso fresco. It hearkens to the creative versions of hot dogs one can get south of the border—a flamegrilled sausage made from free-range chicken and then filled to the brim with buttery queso fresco and fresh, herbaceous pico. I may have enjoyed the classic sandwich just

a bit more, but any place that throws a nod to sausage-craft and hot doggery has its heart in the right place.

I’m an immediate fan of Birdhouse’s poultry-centric concept—they even have a plant-based chik’n burger ($8.95) which is a veganized version of their classic—but that fandom is a little jostled by the inclusion of a burger, tasty as it may be. The Double Stack Burger ($9.95) has two Niman Ranch beef patties with Birdhouse aioli, but its presence on a menu dominated by a variety of chicken offerings makes it feel out of place—like when the popular kid shows up to play Magic: The Gathering with you and your dorky friends. As hallowed as burgers are in my book, the Double Stack’s existence here upsets the balance that Birdhouse is striving to create.

It’s clear that Birdhouse is ironing out a few wrinkles, but the overall concept is solid, attractive and, most importantly, delicious. I’m looking forward to spending many summer evenings hanging out on the bleachers ruminating on the crispy transcendence that is fried chicken before catching a movie at the Tower. CW

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Beyond Glaze Closes

Where one doughnut hole opens, however, another inevitably closes. Beyond Glaze (177 W. 12300 South, Draper), a Utah institution in operation for 13 years recently announced that they will be closing shop the first week of December. Beyond Glaze was best known for sprucing up glazed doughnuts with multi-flavored frostings and decorations, and they were the darlings of gatherings corporate and familial while they were up and running. Over the years, they added chocolate croissants, brownies and other pastries to their menu. Although we’re sad to see Beyond Glaze go, we’re excited to see what founder Chef Nettie Frank will surprise us with next.

Churros 4 Change

On the churro side of this doughnut news-o-rama, the Younique Foundation (youniquefoundation.org) is be hosting its fourth annual Churros 4 Change. The Younique Foundation is a nonprofit organization that helps women who have been victims of sexual abuse on their path toward healing. This year, Younique has partnered with a nonprofit called Care Cuts, which provides haircuts and other grooming services to homeless men, women and children. Attendees can choose which charity receives their donations, which also grants access to unlimited churros from San Diablo Churros (sandiablochurros.com) and tacos from around Utah County. The event takes place at Younique’s headquarters (3400 W. Mayflower Ave., Lehi) on Tuesday, Dec. 3, from 7 to 10 p.m., and tickets can be purchased via Eventbrite.

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This is a good tasting raspberry sour, but I think it could be better if the raspberry was a bit more subdued.

Overall: What I like the most about this 8.0% beer is the drinkability—more drink-

able than most sours. What I like the least about this beer is that the raspberry overwhelms the wonderful flavors of the sour base beer. If you’re going to spend all that time to barrel-sour your beer, you want the fruits of your efforts to come through a little more.

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Red Rock Brewing Otto: Pours a clear medium golden hue, with one finger of soapy white foam resting atop. It smells of doughy, bready malts and honey sweetness, with hints of herbal hops and melon rind— not the typical hop aromas you’d expect, which is perfect for something new like this.

Fortunately, the taste keeps you on an unusual path. The Cashmere hops come through much more effectively on the palate vs. the aroma, though their fruity aspects do seem a bit out of place here. I’m

getting doughy, bready malts and light honey sweetness on the forefront, leading into notes of citrus peel, lime juice and melon rind toward the tail end of the sip. It concludes with a flash of herbal, grassy hop notes and some pale malt graininess, with hints of citrus oil lasting into the finish.

It’s light bodied, with low-ish carbonation levels that weakly tickle the surface of the palate; it feels smooth and a little slick.

It could use a bit more carbonation for a crisper texture, but it’s easy to drink as is.

Overall: This is a respectable 7.2% lager that grew on me over the course of my pint.

It hints at being a Euro lager, but the New Age hop flavors quickly pull you into the New World. This is an excellent attempt at a non-traditional lager, but if you’re not a fan of lagers in general, this likely won’t be converting you anytime soon.

SaltFire Brewing Co. Mobius Trip Raspberry: It poured a nice bubblegum color with a good amount of haze. This is a barrel-aged sour ale, so I wasn’t expecting a whole lot in the foam department. The aroma starts off with a higher amount of medium sweetness, with a nice funky yeast aroma being the first to show; there’s a little bit of barnyard-like aspect to it, along with a touch of balsamic vinegar. Finally, raspberry imparts a nice, natural jammy fruitiness.

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Singer-guitarist Kade Long and bassist Colin Sheffield have been hanging out since long before the formation of their current band. “Me and Kade have been friends since middle school,” Sheffield says. “We did the whole growing-up thing together—skateboarding, organically raging and whatnot.” The two played in several short-lived groups and jammed informally throughout their teen years, until one day in mid-2017, when Long wowed Sheffield with a song he had been writing on his own time. “I was pissed that I wasn’t there for the song’s creation,” Sheffield recalls. “I knew then that we had to make music together.”

After the two had resolved to collaborate officially, they began searching for a drummer to round out the lineup. “We had a few different people come jam with us,” Long says, “but none of the drummers felt like a good fit.” Finally, they found a kindred spirit in Christian Shupe, who had befriended Long and Sheffield at their day job at Sundance Ski Resort. “I got invited to a party at Kade’s house, and a bunch of us ended up jamming there,” Shupe recalls.

Long was impressed enough to invite Shupe back around for more jamming, and Skumbudz was finally complete.

The other part of the group’s name is equally fitting; the members of Skumbudz have adopted the terms “skum” and “skummy” as all-around descriptors of their music and image. When asked what exactly it means to be “skummy,” Shupe laughs, explaining, “[It means] ... full of nutrients, but all of the nutrients are covered in mud. People might judge us right away and think we’re scumbags, but we’re OK with that.” Long adds, “It’s always funny to me when people underestimate us. We might get judged and stereotyped a lot with our name, or how we look and sound. But that’s all right—we’re just trying to write good music.”

Both the band’s friendship and their self-prescribed skumminess is on full display throughout their debut album, Valley Vibes.

Each member brings their own musical flavors and preferences into the music to make the album a surprisingly diverse affair that feels like a true collaborative effort. “Kade brings that reggae, hiphop, bluesy feel. Colin brings that ska-punk feel. And I bring that rock and heavy metal feel,” Shupe says. “Mix all of that together, and you get Skumbudz.” Indeed, while Long’s blend of psychedelic, reggae and hip-hop is more or less the album’s default mode.

Sheffield’s influence is apparent on the up-tempo rager “Chemical Release,” as is Shupe’s on the stomping, riff-laden “Heavy Chains.”

Valley Vibes was produced by Harley Anderson, another old friend of the band. Long describes Anderson as his “musical mentor,” saying, “The first band I ever played in was with Harley ... Honestly, I probably would have given up on music a long time ago if it weren’t for him.” Sheffield shares Long’s affection for Anderson,

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Christian Shupe of Skumbudz stating, “Harley has always been an audio guru. I had a punk band in middle school, and we were the first band he ever recorded. And now, years later, he’s still recording with me.”

However, despite their trusted collaborator and Skumbudz’s shared vision for the album, Vibes wound up suffering through a gestation period of well over a year due to some unfortunate outside circumstances. Shupe’s side hustle fighting wildfires ate up most of his time over the summer months, and the band had to replace much of their equipment after it was stolen.

It finally saw an official release in August, and the band marked the occasion in grand fashion with a set at the 2019 Reggae Rise Up Festival in Heber, sharing a bill with ska and reggae lifers like Slightly Stoopid and Dispatch. “The whole thing was awesome!”

Sheffield enthuses. “Slightly Stoopid is one of our favorite bands, so to perform at the same festival was an amazing opportunity.”

Shupe also has a particular emotional connection to that performance, where he took a moment mid-set to propose to his nowfiancée. He says, “That was life changing, and something I will always remember.”

With a music video for their song “Walnut Tree” currently in the works and more live dates coming up—including a Wednesday, Dec. 4, date at Soundwell with Floridian reggae up-and-comers Kash’d Out—Skumbudz seem poised to keep rising in prominence within the Salt Lake scene, and even possibly beyond. Long says a tour is ultimately what the band is working toward, attempting to bring their eclectic brand of rock ’n’ reggae to an even wider audience—and, as he puts it, “play feel-good music, and get people to open up and express themselves.” As far as mission statements go, you could do a lot worse. CW

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Oakland’s High on Fire has been an established name in metal since 1998. By combining elements of doom, sludge and stoner metal, among other flavors, in a coherent and unique way, they’ve managed to keep their sound

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interesting throughout their releases over the last 20 years. Their latest album, Electric Messiah, is fast, energetic and mighty. In the first 10 seconds of the album, on the track “Spewn From The Earth,” you get a healthy dose of those intense elements, and the side effects are bone-chilling. They certainly aren’t your typical sludgy stoner band, as they bring copious amounts of heat and speed to the table. Accompanying them on tour is Dallas thrash outfit Power Trip. After making a name for themselves within the hardcore scene as a crossover band, Power Trip has only gained more attention since their start in 2008. Their three full-length albums reflect this evolution, and their influences—punk, metal and hardcore alike—are clearly displayed within their aggressive, earth-shattering soundscapes.

Their 2017 album Nightmare Logic is a perfect encapsulation of what they have to offer: riffs are raw and real, the tone is just as rich as it is gritty, and the attitude is unreal.

While their hardcore roots are more prominent on their prior release, Manifest Decimation, Nightmare Logic is more refined and focused.

Devil Master and Creeping Death open. (Zaina Abujebarah) Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, 6 p.m., $20 presale; $25 day of show, 21+, metromusichall.com

Cautious Clay That success has translated into Grammy nominations, gold albums and even an award for “Most Loveable Oddball,” as bestowed on him by Esquire magazine. Translated from the Hebrew, the name Matisyahu means “Gift from God,” a handle he adopted from the second century B.C. Jewish leader of the Maccabees. Yet given the fact that the artist formerly known as Matthew Paul Miller has been at this for 15 years and boasts a recording career that spans five successful albums, it’s pretty clear he’s carved his own unique niche in the modern musical landscape. Although he shaved his beard a few years ago and disavowed his image as a Hassidic superstar, he remains fervent in his faith, and his current outing—dubbed the “Festival of Light”—celebrates the holiday of Hanukkah. At the same time, he consistently collaborates with other artists, as evidenced by this tour with Canadian ska band Bedouin Soundclash. (Lee Zimmerman) Soundwell, 149 W. 200 South, Saturday, Nov. 30, 8 p.m.; Sunday, Dec. 1, 7 p.m., $25–$28, 21+, soundwellslc.com

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Matisyahu is a decidedly singular performer.

An Orthodox Jew, he shares his spirituality through a musical mantra that incorporates rap, roots, reggae, hip hop, beatboxing and R&B, while turning tradition into a unique and ultra-cool form of expression. It’s not every day that one finds a performer doing his thing in full Hasidic attire (though in recent years, with switches to different factions of Jewish faith, that’s not quite the norm anymore), and it’s even less frequent to find one who’s shared his spirituality with such success.

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If you’ve heard of Cautious Clay, it’s very likely that you either 1. Have an HBO subscription and are an Insecure fan, or 2. Are a very particular flavor of Taylor Swift stan. Season 2 of Insecure opened with Clay’s “Cold War,” and Swift sampled the song and interpolated its rhythm into what became her 2019 track “London Boy.” The song is the best encapsulation of Clay’s vocal ability, his moody affect on an already moody sound. Born Joshua Karpeh, the artist quickly became someone to pay attention to when “Cold War” dropped in September 2017, a few months before the accompanying debut EP in February 2018, Blood Type. Karpeh’s voice is soft and sexy. His murmurs cause his music to melt around him, and then around you. His cover of Toro y Moi’s “So Many Details” shows how Karpeh pierces a soundscape into hinging on his voice, and it’s that quality that makes most of his music. In 2019, the only Cautious Clay we’ve received is the single “Erase,” but it’s probably the most danceable track he’s released yet. Since his 2018 debut, Clay has mostly stayed in a pillow fort of tenderness, and “Erase” is harsher, without a point but not without edge. Kilby Court’s intimacy will make for a great space to witness this artist in a moment where he’s still finding identity. Surely, the space Karpeh has carved for himself will continue to grow, though I doubt it will ever lose that smoldering sweetness. (Parker S. Mortensen) Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court, 8 p.m. sold out at press time, all ages, kilbycourt.com

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Active in different forms since the mid-’90s, Vancouver, B.C.-based Black Mountain has maintained a steady stream of releases since their debut self-titled album back in 2005.

Starting with stripped down stoner rock and psychedelic stylings, kept light by subtle funk elements and imbued with a moodiness that’s lent them consistency over the years, Black Mountain has been consistently good.

One can easily tell certain songs off that early album were in the listening rotation of The Black Keys, who made, well, lessgood versions of what Black Mountain was doing with ease. With their second album In The Future, they introduced and began to really rely on the kind of wiry, crunchy powerful chords used by similar bands like the jammy Black Angels, but instead of making Black Mountain sound jammy, it gave them weight. This sound is very much present on their latest, Destroyer, which is overrun with a certain electricity that’s been only an undercurrent in their music before. It’s heartening to see a band that’s been around as long as they have been continue to build on a thoroughly solid style, sounding like themselves while still managing to innovate.

They’ll be joined by supporting act Ryley Walker, who couldn’t be more different than Black Mountain. His lyric-dependent music is delivered in a plain-spoken voice reminiscent of Dave Matthews, or at rare times, the late David Berman, comfortably residing in the well-worn seat of a very ’90s vintage—delivering one part indie, one part Americana and one part classic folk. With an album (or two in the case of 2018) out every year since 2014, Walker shows a shocking and rare consistency of quality—and most importantly—heart throughout them all. (Erin Moore)

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You know when you learn a new word, then suddenly you start noticing it everywhere?

After finding out that Turnover was co-headlining with my recent favs, Men I Trust, I looked them up and suddenly they were everywhere.

The 20-year-olds on my Twitter feed were cry emoji-ing over their new album. Despite the fact that Turnover’s debut Magnolia came out in 2013, when I was cry emoji-ing over similar bands like Title Fight and Pity Sex, I’d never heard of them, though I get their ongoing appeal. Magnolia is shoegazey at times, but with emo elements that keep it light and accessible, while their 2015 follow up Peripheral Vision found them shifting into fallen hooky emo territory. However, their past two albums, including the just released Altogether, skews in the surf pop direction, implying The Drums, but lacking the punch. Men I Trust also just released their excellent, funky, hodgepodgey 24-song dump that is Oncle Jazz, one of my favorite albums of the year and a more-than-suitable follow-up to their two prior full-lengths. Sonically in line with other pouty, vintage-vibey acts like Tops or Tennis, Men I Trust are fascinatingly goofier and more emotionally wrecked. Songs like “Tailwhip” are the kind of infectiously sad dance songs that one can envision Robyn dancing to, alone, separated from delicate, depressive songs like “Porcelain” by jangly, spoofy little interludes.

Like the rest of their experimental music, it not only never gets boring, but leaves behind, in equal measure, a lasting sense of mirth and melancholy. (EM) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 7 p.m., $23 presale; $25 day of show, all ages, thecomplex.com

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Longevity doesn’t necessarily breed continuity, at least as far as rock bands are concerned. Inevitably, personnel changes occur for one reason or another, and while the brand remains the same, the band tends to shift, especially over the course of several decades. Such was the case with the Lovin’ Spoonful; singer and former drummer Joe Butler and bassist Steve Boone are all that remain of the original foursome, but some of those who came on board afterward can claim tenures longer than members of the group’s initial incarnation. Original singer-songwriter John Sebastian is long gone, but those who carry on still sing the hits that made them chart staples early on—“Daydream,” “Summer in the City,” “Younger Girl,” “You Didn’t Have To Be So Nice,” “Do You Believe in Magic” and the like—while relishing the fact they’re proud inductees in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class of 2000. This writer can claim a personal connection; after the band’s break-up due to a drug bust, Boone embarked on his sailboat for the U.S. Virgin Islands, where yours truly was living at the time.

He was a long-haired, bearded hippie and older than the rest of us, but he chose to hang with our little gang. All these years later, we’re still in touch, and he’s still sharing songs that became an essential part of the soundtrack for the ’60s. That’s reason enough to believe in magic, even all these years later. (Lee Zimmerman) Egyptian Theatre, 328 S. Main, Park City, Friday, Nov. 29, 8 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 30, 8 p.m.; Sunday, Dec. 1, 6 p.m., $35–$49, tickets.egyptiantheatre.com

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Despite the fact that Murphy’s has the word “Grill” in its name, I didn’t know they had food there until I trotted down the steps that lead to the half-submerged little pub with my friend Skyler in tow the other night, and we were hit with the smell of food. In my defense, Skyler also had no idea there was food. I can’t attest to that food’s quality, because we were there purely for drinking purposes, but judging by the rest of the pub, it’s probably fairly standard bar food. Murphy’s does indeed exude “standard pub” vibes, though the long, low bar is infused with a golden glow that, on top of all the arched wood panels on the walls and the pale, tan lines of booths on the walls, recalls a hobbit hole from Lord of the Rings. Even the taps were cute and Middle Earth-y, with spouts sticking out, shiny and silver, from small wooden barrels behind the bar. A beer-and-shot special there was not, which was probably for the best, since I’d go on to completely tip over the edge of sobriety later that night; a $2, 12-ounce RoHa at Murphy’s was a quiet launch pad to start that night on. A cluster of dads chatted and laughed at the end of the bar, and Skyler and I passed my notepad back and forth, writing stupid notes and ruminating on names that rhymed with dad—Chad, Brad, etc. Vintage 1980s hair-metal and other forms of classic rock played over the speakers, and I admitted to liking some song I would have never admitted to liking while sober.

And just like that song, Murphy’s is the kind of bar I deeply enjoy, even if I don’t stop in all the time. (Erin Moore) 160 S. Main, 801-359-7271

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6. McKellen who portrayed Gandalf 7. Egyptian queen’s nickname 8. Market value of a company’s assets divided by their replacement cost 9. Galoot 10. Fly off the handle 11. Uncle who told Br’er Rabbit tales 12. 48 in a cup: Abbr.

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40. Stan’s buddy of old comedies 41. Chick-____-A 42. Said, as “adieu” 43. Leon who won a Pulitzer for his biography of Henry James

Complete the grid so that each row, column, diagonal and 3x3 square contain all of the numbers 1 to 9.

1. Barack’s opponent in 2012 5. Word in brackets after a mistake 8. Cube-hopping character in a 1980s arcade game 13. Diarist Nin 15. Penn of “Harold & Kumar” films 16. Some steak orders 17. Creature whose name comes from the Latin for “thorn pig” 19. Like ____ on a log 20. Body part found in the 39-Across of 47-Across 21. ____ crawl 22. Creature with suckers 24. Otherwise 26. “____ bien” 28. Hilarious types 29. Creature that can extend its tongue to nearly twice its body length to catch prey 32. “Are not!” retort 35. Muscle below a delt 36. Setting for part of “Forrest Gump,” for short 39. Where six of this puzzle’s answers can be found in another six of its answers 44. 2002 Winter Olympics host: Abbr.

45. Fleur-de-____ 46. It may have a pet name 47. Creature that, despite its name, usually has no more than 750 legs 51. Prickly pears, e.g.

53. Rip Van Winkle had a long one 54. One of the National Toy Hall of Fame’s original inductees 58. Creature that munches on mangrove leaves 60. “Scram, you!”

62. Beverage holder found in the 39-Across of 17-Across 63. Switchblade, e.g.

64. Creature that first appeared about 240 million years ago during the Triassic period 67. Where sailors go 68. Fish found in the 39-Across of 64-Across 69. Like many Christmas traditions 70. “Now you ____ ...” (magician’s comment about disappearing cards) 71. JFK guess 72. Txts, e.g.

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Inevitably, we find our way toward a resolution in which puzzle pieces are put together and key facts are brought to light. Dumping all that exposition isn’t easy, but Johnson serves it up about as smoothly, humorously and satisfyingly as one might reasonably hope for. There are a few things he clearly wants to stick the knife in with Knives Out. How hedunit is something you should discover on your own. CW

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That’s what makes Johnson’s gifts as a filmmaker a perfect match for his gifts as a writer. He directs with an eye to ratcheting up the tension on our prime suspect, while still offering plenty of superficial pleasures. The Thrombey estate itself— aptly described by one character as suggesting that the author “lives in a Clue board”—becomes a wonderful setting full of secret doors and significantly creaky stairs, while Johnson sets himself to lending visual panache to moments like Blanc sitting in the shadows, only a puff of his cigarette smoke emerging from the blackness. It’s rare to find movies that are as much fun to look at as they are to listen to, and Knives Out is simply the kind of movie that can leave you giggling with pleasure at everything that’s emerging.

Which isn’t to say that Johnson doesn’t also have a few serious things on his mind. Knives Out pointedly makes the Thrombey family into a bunch of people who are all convinced that they’re “self-made” business successes, despite every one of them benefitting from being part of this already-wealthy family. Knives Out makes no bones about its desire to take a blowtorch to the notion of anyone

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t’s hard to explore just how effectively Rian Johnson upends the idea of a whodunit in Knives Out without spoiling whodunit. Or maybe who didn’t do it. And there’s not a chance in hell that I’m going to ruin that delightful sense of discovery.

Because Knives Out somehow walks the tightrope between being a mystery, being about what happens when you think you know when the mystery has been solved, and being about the assumptions people make in any given situation about who is likely to have done it. It’s funny and frisky and more than a little bit pissed off, and it all makes for a bracing cocktail of genre entertainment and lacerating social commentary. If the “anti-Social Justice Warrior” crowd was pissed off at Johnson for the choices he made in The Last Jedi, this is only one more way to say “Fuck ’em,” the way he literally did in a recent interview.

Like any mystery worth its salt, this one begins with a suspicious death: Best-selling mystery writer Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer), on the morning after his 85th birthday party, is found with his throat slit. The initial investigation seems to indicate a suicide, but there are plenty of suspects among the family members who were present for the party: his daughter, Linda (Jamie Lee Curtis), and Linda’s husband, Richard (Don Johnson); his son, Walt (Michael Shannon); his daughter-in-law, Joni (Toni Collette); and Richard and Linda’s black-sheep son, Ransom (Chris Evans). Even Harlan’s nurse, Marta (Ana de Armas), might have had both motive and opportunity. And celebrated private detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), hired anonymously to look into possible foul play, is determined to get to the bottom of it all.

It should be no surprise that Johnson—the writer-director behind Brick and Looper—has some tricks up his sleeve when it comes to approaching genre conventions, and he makes his intentions clear fairly early on. Within the first hour, we see an account that might suggest exactly what the real circumstances of Harlan’s death were, shifting the dynamic away from “whodunit” to “now what.” Johnson keeps drop-

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acceptance; loss morphs into gain. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you Geminis are the sign of the zodiac that’s most likely to experience enantiodromia in the coming weeks. Will it be a good thing or a bad thing? You can have a lot of influence over how that question resolves. For best results, don’t fear or demonize contradictions and paradoxes. Love and embrace them.

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The Salt Lake City Council has been busy lately with the important and odd tasks of running a city. First, there’s the ever-important portrait that seems to be mandated for every mayor since the 1800s. These works hang in the City and County Building and can be seen during regular hours.

There’s actually a line budget item for this mayoral memorial and artists can charge $30-35,000. The mayor picks the painter.

My guess is that this year the cost will be higher due to the fact the mayor’s hair is MediaBids_190103_24.indd 1 12/28/2018 5:15:20 PM longer than any of her predecessors’. Once the portrait is completed, it will be interLEO (July 23-Aug. 22): AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): esting to see if Mayor-elect Erin MendenThe only thing we learn from history is that we never learn “Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation,” wrote hall keeps it outside her office or hangs it anything from history. Philosopher Georg Hegel said that. But I the sensually wise poet Kenneth Rexroth. That’s a provocative elsewhere. think you will have an excellent chance to disprove this theory in and profitable inspiration for you to tap into. According to my Those damned scooters—with their pros the coming months. I suspect you will be inclined and motivated analysis of the astrological omens, you’re in the Season of Lucky and cons—agar are being debated. Lime to study your own past in detail; you’ll be skilled at drawing Plucky Delight, when brave love can save you from wrong turns Scooter’s website claims that the devices useful lessons from it; and you will apply those lessons with wise and irrelevant ideas; when the grandeur of amour can be your are “zero-cost to your city, campus or busiteacher and catalyst. If you have a partner with whom you can panache as you re-route your destiny. ness.” They are located in Salt Lake City, conduct these educational experiments, wonderful. If you don’t, but Draper, Farmington, Ogden, Sandy and be extra sweet and intimate with yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): West Valley City. But wait! They also are fixIn his own time, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) tures in Austria, Brazil, Greece, Mexico and was acclaimed and beloved. At the height of his fame, he earned VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): South Korea. Germany and Massachusetts $3,000 per poem. But modern literary critics think that most of In the follow-up story to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, our have the most Lime scooters and, of course, what he created is derivative, sentimental and unworthy of serious heroine uses a magic mirror as a portal into a fantastical land. who knows how many other brands are now appreciation. In dramatic contrast is poet Emily Dickinson (1830­ There she encounters the Red Queen, and soon the two of them dotting the globe.

–1886). Her writing was virtually unknown in her lifetime, but is are holding hands as they run as fast as they can. Alice notices I have to fess up and say my wife and now regarded as among the best ever. In accordance with astro- that despite their great effort, they don’t seem to be moving I owned scooters for a few years to get logical omens, I invite you to sort through your own past so as to forward. What’s happening? The Queen clears up the mystery: around the nine miles of Burning Man, and determine which of your work, like Longfellow’s, should be archived In her realm, you must run as hard as possible just to remain in we loved driving them like bats out of hell as unimportant or irrelevant, and which, like Dickinson’s, deserves to the same spot. Sound familiar, Virgo? I’m wondering whether when we got back to the city. We drove on you’ve had a similar experience lately. If so, here’s my advice: Stop be a continuing inspiration as you glide into the future. sidewalks mostly because there were/are running. Sit back, relax and allow the world to zoom by you. Yes, THIS WEEK’S FEATURED few bike lanes downtown that feel safe. you might temporarily fall behind. But in the meantime, you’ll get ARIES (March 21-April 19): PARTLOW RENTALS: They are inexpensive and cost effective to Humans invented the plow in 4,500 BC, the wheel in 4,000 fully recharged. No more than three weeks from now, you’ll be so run and don’t take up parking. And they are BC and writing in 3,400 BC. But long before that, by 6,000 energized that you’ll make up for all the lost time—and more. a low polluting type of transportation. Oh, BC, they had learned how to brew beer and make psychoactive and they are fun as hell to ride. Now that drugs from plants. Psychopharmacologist Ronald Siegel points LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): everyone has access to them downtown, it’s to this evidence to support his hypothesis that the yearning to Most sane people wish there could be less animosity between not so much fun for folks who don’t ride betransform our normal waking consciousness is a basic drive akin groups that have different beliefs and interests. How much better LIBERTY PARK MILLCREEK cause a few jerks make it scary for people to to our need to eat and drink. Of course, there are many ways to the world would be if everyone felt a generous acceptance toward simply walk out of their office for lunch. My accomplish this shift besides alcohol and drugs. They include those who are unlike them. But the problem goes even deeper: Must Have 2 bdrm. w/ vaulted Lovely 1 bdrm. w/ dishwasher, track ceilings, private balcony, central A/C, bank manager gave up riding e-scooters dancing, singing, praying, drumming, meditating and having Most of us are at odds with ourselves. Here’s how author Rebecca lighting, wall mounted A/C, on-site washer dryer hook-ups! $995 laundry, cat friendly! $845 because he lost his balance. sex. What are your favorite modes? According to my astrologi- West described it: Even the different parts of the same person do Our city council, like so many other local cal analysis, it’ll be extra important for you to alter your habitual not often converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning government overseers, is trying to figure from each other. That’s the bad news, Libra. The good news is that perceptions and thinking patterns during the coming weeks. out how to control the e-scooter chaos and the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to promote unity are asking for your input at slc.gov on topand harmony among all the various parts of yourself. I urge you to TAURUS (April 20-May 20): ics like: Where should they be parked when What’s something you’re afraid of, but pretty confident you entice them to enter into earnest conversations with each other! they aren’t being ridden?; Should there could become unafraid of? The coming weeks will be a favorable BOUNTIFUL LIBERTY PARK be a speed limit on e-bikes?; How many time to dismantle or dissolve that fear. Your levels of courage SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Perfect 1+ bedroom duplex with scooters and scooter companies should be will be higher than usual, and your imagination will be unusu- Poet Cecilia Woloch asks, “How to un-want what the body has Beautiful 2 bdrm. with semi-formal private yard, dishwasher, hook-ups, dining, central air, covered parking, allowed in the city?; How do we enforce eally ingenious in devising methods and actions to free you of the wanted, explain how the flesh in its wisdom was wrong?” Did private basement storage, pet extra storage! $995 bike speed limits and punish lawbreakers? friendly! $1195 unnecessary burden. Step one: Formulate an image or scene the apparent error occur because of “some ghost in the mind?”

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The Entrepreneurial Spirit About a year ago, Les and Paula Ansley of Mossel Bay, South Africa, stumbled upon a novel idea for a new type of spirit, which they call Indlovu Gin, the Associated Press reports. During a safari, they learned that elephants eat a wide variety of fruits and flowers, but digest less than a third. “As a consequence, in the elephant dung, you get the most amazing variety of these botanicals,” Les Ansley said. “Why don’t we let the elephants do the hard work of collecting all these botanicals and we will make gin from it?” Why, indeed? They collect the dung themselves, by hand, and describe their gin’s flavor as “lovely, wooded, almost spicy, earthy.” (“Indlovu” means elephant in the Zulu language.) Each bottle’s label notes where the dung was gathered and when. “Most people are very keen to actually taste it,” Ansley said. A bottle sells for about $32.

Fine Points of the Law After losing in district court, convicted killer Benjamin Schreiber took an unusual claim to the Iowa Court of Appeals, but was shut down again on Nov. 6, according to The Washington Post.

Schreiber, 66, was sentenced to a life term in 1997, but in March 2015, he suffered a medical emergency in his prison cell that caused doctors to have to restart his heart five times. Schreiber thus claimed he had briefly “died,” and therefore he had served out his life sentence and should be released. The district judge didn’t buy it, though, saying the filing proved he was still alive, and the appeals court agreed, saying, “Schreiber is either alive, in which case he must remain in prison, or he is dead, in which case this appeal is moot.”

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The Northern Echo, a newspaper in northeast England, is catching it from an area family after it ran an obituary on Nov. 10 for Charlie Donaghy, a local sports enthusiast and teacher—who is not dead yet. In fact, his son, Ian, reports that Charlie is “alive and well,” according to Fox News. The Echo published an apology the next day, but Ian posted on Facebook that “you can’t UNHEAR or UNREAD that your Dad’s dead! ... Northern Echo website arseclownery!” A statement from the Donaghy family said the mistake has “caused immeasurable distress” and is “unforgivable.”

Government in Action Residents of a small Canadian island off the coast of Maine are up in arms and demanding that the province of New Brunswick either establish a year-round ferry service or build a bridge to the mainland because their mail keeps getting opened by U.S. Customs. Mail to Campobello Island has to cross the border by sealed truck into Maine before it reaches the island, which rarely caused problems, reports Fox News, until last year, when Canada legalized recreational cannabis. Since then, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been searching for marijuana ordered from Cannabis NB, the only authorized seller of cannabis in the province. Cannabis NB has now stopped shipping packages to the island, but U.S. customs officials continue to search the mail, and the island’s residents are fed up. “Expectations of privacy that the rest of Canada has just don’t exist on Campobello,” said Justin Tinker, a local engineer. Politicians are said to be open to the idea of the ferry, but there are no plans in place to fund the project.

Cold Hot Springs, Ark., paramedic Lisa Darlene Glaze, 50, was arrested on Nov. 11 after she allegedly cut a 1.7-carat diamond ring off the finger of a dead woman and sold it to a local pawn shop. The patient, Gloria Robinson, had been transported to a medical facility on Oct. 16, where she later died. When her personal items were returned to her family, they noticed three of her rings were missing, according to arrest documents. KTHV reports two of the rings were found, but investigators say Glaze sold the third ring at Hot Springs Classic Gun and Pawn for $45, and the band had been cut. Robinson’s sister retrieved the ring from the pawn shop and had it appraised, revealing it was worth almost $8,000. Glaze was charged with felony theft and misdemeanor unlawful transfer of stolen property.

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The Continuing Crisis Female employees in Japan who wear eyeglasses are seeing red after some companies there have reportedly banned eyewear for their women workers, according to the BBC. While some retailers have said women in glasses give a “cold impression,” the hashtag #glassesareforbidden has been trending, and Kumiko Nemoto, professor of sociology at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, spoke out against the “outdated” policies: “It’s all about gender.

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Higher Education A Dutch university now offers students a turn in the “purification grave,” a hole dug in the ground where students can lie down and reflect on their lives for up to three hours. The student chaplaincy at Radboud University initially offered the experience in 2009 as a temporary experiment, but due to increased demand, it’s back this year, according to Vice. Students are not allowed to bring their phones or a book with them into the grave. “You can see it as a special place of meditation: below you the earth, above you the sky,” the university website explains. “You will then automatically notice what is going through your mind.” If you’re skittish about entering the grave, you can sit on the bench nearby.

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the man was reported missing, Pasco County Sheriff’s deputies started their investigation with Psilakis, who told them the victim had dropped him off at his mother’s house after the card game, so when the man turned up dead in a burned-out Ford Taurus, police visited Psilakis’ mother. During her interview, Psilakis called his mother, according to court documents, and officers recorded the conversation. In it he told his mom he had burned his legs throwing gas on the car and they needed to coordinate their stories so he was coming right over. When he arrived, police found a stolen handgun in his car along with a cellphone containing internet searches for “can u shoot through a seat” and “how to treat burns.” Deputies arrested him on weapons charges on Nov. 2 and later added first-degree murder, grand theft of a motor vehicle and resisting arrest.

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