City Weekly February 20, 2020

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Pee-wee's Beehive Adventure

Comedian Paul Reubens talks fame, his character’s darker side and Utah’s Mighty 5 ahead of SLC appearance.

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CWCONTENTS COVER STORY HE’S A LONER, DOTTIE. A REBEL.

Thirty-five years after his silver screen debut, Paul Reubens takes his Pee-wee on a big, cross-country adventure.

Cover photo illustration by Derek Carlisle

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Cover story, Feb. 6, “Greatest Snow on Earth … But For How Long?”

Thanks for this well-done article. Climate change can seem too big to tackle, but it’s important to note that local actions add up.

In 2019, about 20 Utah communities representing nearly 900,000 Utahns committed to go 100% renewable. This will help Rocky Mountain Power to accelerate their energy transition, retiring coal and bringing more renewable resources online. If we keep pushing, change will happen quicker and hope will shine brighter.

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We live on a rotating blue ball, perfect distance from the sun such that natural cycles developed to create life. I stand in awe of this

astounding phenomenon!

But this tender world we live in is hurting. These natural cycles have been rapidly thrown out of balance by the indiscriminate burning of fossil fuels and the destruction of carbon sinks like forests and wetlands. We are damaging our climate!

Utah’s climate is warming at twice the rate of the global average. Heat waves are becoming more common. Snow is melting earlier in spring. Wildfires are more intense. Asthma is on the rise. We have already made conditions worse for the health of young people and are on our way to committing our grandchildren and the unborn to an uncertain future. Lancet Countdown director Nick Watts said, “The damage done in early childhood lasts a lifetime. Without immediate action from all countries, climate change will come to define the health of an entire generation.”

We can’t go back to former conditions. But with all the solutions available and our human ingenuity, we can live in balance with nature. Let’s start with an honest price on carbon!

KAREN JACKSON, Salt Lake City

Opinion, Feb. 6, “The Sin of Politely Deferred Indecision”

Romney had absolutely nothing to gain by speaking and voting that way.

Except to be true to his principles, and his immortal soul, and oh, a little thing called the law. Sadly, those things don’t matter anymore. Lawlessness will beget more lawlessness, and violence. The elite think they are so protected, they are not. “When in the course of human events ...”

RICHARD LAWRENCE Via Facebook

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Republicans who were scared not to vote for Trump’s acquittal. This is America now … we should just rename it new North Korea! I feel like people are going to turn up missing if they question him, he knows he’s untouchable now and I am scared shitless about what it’s going to become here.

CANDACE EWELL Via Facebook

No, it should be determined by guilt. The GOP abandoned their oath.

IRIS NIELSEN Via Facebook

It’s going to be great watching your ass melt down after a 2020 Trump landslide.

DEAN HALLADAY Via Twitter

News, Feb. 6, “Shine On”

Ecamilla’s SLC mayoral loss was a hard one, but the entire state wins keeping her as a Senator. Luz is a

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Reproductive Rights in Peril From denying access to abortion for unaccompanied immigrant minors, to gutting the Title X family planning program, to trying to roll back the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that employers and universities cover contraception in their health plans, the Trump administration has spent the last three years waging an unrelenting, targeted campaign against reproductive freedom. And the administration does not appear to be losing steam. Indeed, just last month, President Donald Trump became the first president to address the annual anti-abortion march in Washington, D.C. Well, the movement isn’t losing steam either. The American Civil Liberties Union has sued the administration time and time again over its policies, including those detailed above. Last week, we filed a lawsuit challenging the administration’s latest (and possibly most underreported) attempt to undermine reproductive rights: a new rule that would push abortion further out of reach for millions of people across the country by coercing insurance companies to drop abortion coverage from individual insurance plans.

In late December, the administration released the new rule that would force insurance companies that sell plans in the Affordable Care Act individual marketplaces to separately bill—and instruct customers to separately pay—for coverage of abortion services. This means insurance companies will have to send two separate bills to each customer—one for the coverage of abortion care and another

BY MEAGAN BURROWS for coverage of all other health care. They will also have to instruct their customers to pay the bills using two separate transactions. In other words, each consumer will have to send two checks or two money orders, or complete two separate online transactions.

This rule isn’t just about creating more bureaucratic red tape for the sake of it. Making it more complicated and costlier for insurance companies to cover abortion will have very real and devastating effects on the availability and affordability of health insurance (and, by extension, health care) for an estimated 3 million consumers across the country. This includes our four brave clients: Rebecca, a small business owner in D.C.; Kirsty, a barista in Maryland; Mariel, a waitress and grad student in New Jersey; and Tanja, an artist in Maine.

Like many other consumers across the country, Rebecca, Kirsty and Mariel all live in states that do not require insurers to cover abortion in individual plans sold on the marketplaces, which means that the rule could cause their insurers to drop abortion coverage from their plans altogether. In Utah, along with nine other states, all comprehensive plans covering abortion are prohibited. If they lose coverage and need access to abortion, they will be forced to find a way to pay out-of-pocket for that care, which can cost hundreds of dollars or more.

The fourth client, Tanja, knows this all too well. She lives in a state that requires insurers to provide abortion coverage, but when she needed an abortion a few years ago, she was forced to travel out of state and her insurance would not cover her abortion. As a result, she had to pay for the entire procedure out-of-pocket, using up nearly all of the remaining balance she had on her credit card. While she was able to scrounge up the necessary financial resources at the time, she joined our lawsuit to fight the Trump administration because she knows just how burdensome (and, for some, impossible) it can be to have to figure out how to pay for an abortion on

top of navigating the myriad other barriers to accessing care.

Even if Rebecca, Kirsty and Mariel are able to retain their abortion coverage, they, alongside Tanja, are worried about their ability to afford any rule-related increases in their premiums. For Mariel, who makes only slightly more than the maximum income eligible to qualify for Medicaid and is barely able to afford her premium payments now, even a small increase could force her to switch to a plan with a higher deductible and less coverage. This is not an unfounded concern: HHS has acknowledged that the rule will lead to increases in consumer premiums of up to 1% annually.

Our clients are also worried about the confusing new separate billing and payment requirements under the rule, which could put them at risk of losing their insurance coverage entirely as a result of accidental non-payment— yet another consequence the Trump administration acknowledged when they issued this policy. Any resulting coverage lapse would take a particularly catastrophic toll on consumers like Rebecca and Kirsty, who have pre-existing medical conditions that require consistent access to health care. And, like many of this administration’s policies, the new requirements will hit already marginalized groups the hardest, including people with disabilities and with limited English proficiency who might already struggle to navigate the health care system.

The Trump administration’s rule is just another attempt to drive up the costs and burdens associated with accessing abortion to prevent people—especially those with the fewest resources—from obtaining abortion care. We will not stand by and watch as millions of consumers across the country have their health care needs trampled by the administration’s anti-abortion agenda. ■ Meagan Burrows is a staff attorney for the ACLU. Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net

HITS&MISSES

BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

Decriminalizing Labels

It came down to labels. But let’s be clear—it was anything but. The Utah Senate merrily and unanimously approved decriminalizing polygamy because, you know, they suffer so. That’s because they have to hide from the law, and this “subculture,” according to The Salt Lake Tribune, enables the predators among them. Polygamy is a complicated and emotional issue, which in Utah has unique religious implications. Polygamy’s also prohibited in the Utah Constitution, though a federal judge in 2013 said some parts of that law were unconstitutional. The Senate apparently thinks this is a human rights issue and that polygamist communities are in pain. If the Washakie Renewable Energy case is any indication, it’s the pain of a lifestyle that includes “ritzy homes, expensive cars and Turkish industries,” the Trib writes. The real pain comes from underage marriages, a focus on procreation and disposable boys.

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Things are so bad, the government here is sending workers to Mexico to buy prescription drugs. States from Colorado to Massachusetts are trying to find ways to make these meds more affordable. Now you have a chance to hear how Congress might be addressing this life-threatening problem. U.S. Rep. Ben McAdams is holding a Town Hall Forum: Lowering the Cost of Prescription Drugs, with a panel of experts. California is contracting with pharmaceutical companies to make drugs under a state label and other states are looking at importing from Canada. With the lobbying power of pharmaceutical companies, creative solutions and a clear legislative agenda are imperative. Millcreek Community Center, 2266 E. Evergreen Ave., Thursday, Feb. 20, 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m., free, bit.ly/31PZ2fo

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In 1790 when the first Census took place, there were three racial categories: free white male/free white female, slave, or other free person. “The census was used to count African Americans as threefifths a person, send Japanese Americans to internment camps during World War II and identify Arab-American communities after 9/11,” the event website for Race and the U.S. Census: 1790 through 2020 says. This year, as we begin the decennial count, the mere talk of a citizenship question has sparked understandable fear in minority and immigrant communities and threatens an undercount particularly of the Latinx community. Hinckley Institute of Politics, 260 S. Campus Drive, Wednesday, Feb. 26, noon-1 p.m., free, bit.ly/2UWXdvs

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Whoa, here comes the nanny state. Rep. Brad Daw, R-Orem, won his second round chance to ban teens from using tanning beds. Yes, it’s a health issue. The Trib reports that Utah has the highest melanoma rates and if you tan before you’re 35, you have a 75% increased risk. But wait. This is the state that holds parental rights dear. Here, we derisively call public schools “guv schools” and resist calls to vaccinate our children—because it’s a parent’s right. We’re the third worst in the nation, according to Health Testing Centers and it’s anyone’s guess if parents would vaccinate against Coronavirus, if they could. Who decides if their teens can get contraceptives? By law, the parents. It’s not parents vs. the law; it’s about health. So get over it.

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Back to the labels. Into the Democratic Caucus room walks Angela Kelly, the director of the Sound Choices Coalition. Right? Kelly comes with a camera crew, right? She asks the audience how they label themselves and starts giving out nametags and asking people how they label themselves.

“We’re a lot of things, because we’re humans, right?” she says. No one is sure what her point is, though she keeps saying, “right?” for affirmation. Rep. Sandra Hollins, D-Salt Lake City, says she’s a wife, mom, aunt, family member, legislator and community activist, after which Kelly writes “slave” and passes it to Hollins, the lone black legislator. There was righteous shock at the comparison. Only Fox 13 News was really able to decipher what was going on. But if this was about polygamy, it devolved into racism quickly and whatever message Kelly had was lost, as she would say, right?

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Concerns about election technology are making Utah reevaluate app usage.

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otched headcounts. Incorrect calculations. Staffing problems. Reported delays. Iowa’s caucus night woes seemed to serve as a cautionary tale for the upcoming general election.

The Hawkeye State traditionally kicks off the primary season and often gives candidates momentum that propels them into the public eye. However, the caucus system can be notoriously tricky—and this isn’t the first time Iowa has botched results. Previous discrepancies also delayed the democratic winner, Hillary Clinton, from being announced in the 2016 caucuses. But the errors this month seemed systemic, profound and deeply worrying for a country that is already edgy about election security.

As this year’s Iowa caucus turned into an unmitigated disaster, many fingers pointed in one direction—toward an app designed by a company called Shadow. Area precinct chairs failed to download the app ahead of time, and even those that did found it crashed and threw out coding errors on election night. The fallout from Iowa’s chaotic caucus has spawned anxiety among voters, prompting states like Nevada to scrap plans to use the same app and seek out other developers.

As details unfold about exactly what went wrong in Iowa, election security experts are using the debacle to highlight their concerns about technology and election integrity. After the 2016 election, worries about election security ratcheted up as evidence mounted that some state voting systems had been breached. Ensuring that voters feel confident they could cast their votes in a safe, fair, democratic process was a priority in the 2020 Democratic primary process. Iowa’s failure to deliver seems to confirm the fears of many—and the conspiracy theories flew thick and fast online.

Voter worries about technology and election integrity seem to have caught the ears of Utah’s Legislature. On Tuesday, Feb. 18, the House voted to pass House Bill 292, requiring a study on the benefits and risks of online voting. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Michael McKell, R-Spanish Fork, now proceeds to the Senate. And while it only specifies that Utah should dig a little further into the security risks of technology used to cast and report votes, it might make state officials think twice about relying on internet voting.

“I’m not advocating one way or another in regards to online voting,” McKell tells City Weekly. “The bill specifies that

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ELECTIONS we should commission a study and review the results by 2021. I think we should hold off on implementing any broad initiatives with voting apps until we’ve taken a deeper look.”

Concerns about the state of election security and technology in Utah have also been raised after a recent study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Their findings indicate an app piloted in previous Utah elections, Voatz, contains serious and significant flaws that could allow votes to be changed. The study concluded that the use of the app should be sidelined until cybersecurity concerns are resolved.

“Given the severity of failings … the lack of transparency, the risks to voter privacy and the trivial nature of the attacks, we suggest that any near-future plans to use this app for high-stakes elections be abandoned,” the study says.

Voatz, a Boston startup, tried to quell criticism this month by reiterating that pilots have been conducted safely in multiple states and that their app was not the same one deployed in Iowa. J. Alex Halderman, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, took to Twitter late last week to echo the findings of the MIT research and caution states against using the app. “In my view, based on MIT’s findings, no responsible jurisdiction should use Voatz in real elections any time soon,” Halderman noted. “It will take major advances in security technology before internet voting is safe enough.”

While many cybersecurity experts blame issues with Voatz as a lack of transparency and voter privacy associated with blockchain technology, the concerns with voting apps don’t end there. Biometric identification methods used to identify voters at a distance typically involve fingerprinting and facial recognition. Facial recognition technology still struggles to identify minorities, something that should throw red flags for any technology that relies on it for voter identification.

Many voters are unaware that Voatz has actually been piloted in previous elections in Utah County. Its use has been confined to a small number of service members and their spouses stationed abroad, and, more recently, to allow disabled Utah county residents to vote from home.

When questioned about the security of Voatz, Utah County Clerk Amelia Powers Gardner told The Salt Lake Tribune they’d been briefed about the concerns but have no intention of scrapping the app and feel confident about deploying it again in the upcoming primary election. There are also plans to use Voter Clicks in the Republican primary caucus, something that was first piloted in 2018.

McKell confirmed he’s also personally used Voter Clicks and struggled with technology hiccups. “I’ve never not had a problem,” he says.

What does all this mean for Utah voters as Super Tuesday approaches on March 3? In short, not much. Salt Lake County Democratic Chair Emily Hase assures residents that voting for the county’s Democratic primary will occur via mail ballots and in-person voting just as it has in previous

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elections. While the party doesn’t have much control over how voting takes place, they work closely with county clerks to ensure they feel confident about methods being used.

“As far as I know, there are no current plans to use technology like an app for [county] voting,” Hase tells City Weekly. “The Salt Lake County Democratic Party will continue using paper methods for voting and tracking election results at our precinct caucus elections and our county convention.” She confirms that while some data solutions are being deployed for internal use, the reporting of election results remains unchanged. “We’re incorporating some technology solutions to help us better manage our data,” she says. “But the reporting of election results will remain a purely on-paper process.”

Utah election officials and the Legislature will undoubtedly continue to seek out solutions that allow them to balance more accessible voting while maintaining election integrity. But most election security experts agree the technology isn’t ready for prime time yet. So, mail in your ballot on time or drop it off at a designated polling place.

Hop on down to your local precinct and cast your vote as you normally would. Whatever method you choose, Utah officials assure voters that despite online conspiracy theories, they can feel confident their votes will be counted.

“One of the questions I’ll be interested to see answered as a result of studying online voting is whether the apps can really provide the kind of user experience needed to make online voting a reality,” McKell concludes. “Lots of apps we use on a daily basis have a lot of users providing data to refine the app. Voting apps would be something we’d use much less frequently. And there may be other methods, like mail-in ballots, that could be just as successful in helping with voter turnout and accessibility issues.” CW

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Pee-wee’s Beehive Adventure

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Ice breaker: Have you visited Utah before?

I’ve been to Salt Lake City. I’ve been all over Southern Utah—some of the most beautiful land I have ever seen is in Southern Utah. I’ve been to … now, correct me if I’m wrong, because I’m a little confused over which is Utah and which is Northern Arizona. But I’ve been to Zion, Bryce. Are those both in Utah?

Yes. Both of them.

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Yeah. We were outside of Park City in the Silverado Lodge, or something like that.

It was a big ski lodge that was closed down because we were there off-season, and it was a little bit like The Shining.

You know, I’m learning more and more about that as we go. We’ve done two shows, as you know. Two and a half shows I would say, although I don’t want to slight the incredible audience we had in Ventura by calling them a half-show. But that was our pre-tour kickoff preview show. So, it was almost like a dress rehearsal. We did that show, and then we did our first real weekend this past weekend in Seattle and Portland.

And so, I’m learning a lot from it. And I think the answer to your question, is that I think it’s a couple of reasons. I think the comedy is very classical, and—I don’t mean this in a weird way—but it’s very pure. It’s funny in a kind of a classic way. It’s sort of everyman funny, or everyman comedy, in a way.

I think a lot of people can relate to things that are funny in it. And I also think that usually Pee-wee Herman is the butt of the joke. It’s not ethnic humor, it’s not humor that’s based on making fun of somebody. It’s usually making fun of me, my character.

And so, I think that sort of helps it be a little more timeless. And I think that also the movie very much is about following your gut feelings, following your dreams, you know?

For me, the story of making the movie is different than the movie itself. I’ve always set the bar very high for myself, and I talk a little bit about that in the show, of just setting your bar very high and reaching for the stars. There’s that cliché—if you reach for the stars, you may make it to … I forget what the saying is, you make it to the moon? But you know what I mean.

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Oh, Park City?

It’s been 35 years since Big Adventure’s release. Why do you think it still resonates with audiences today?

I’ve been to somewhere else. I should’ve done a little prep here, so I could’ve been a little more knowledgeable. But, yes, I’ve been all over Southern Utah, and it’s some of the most beautiful land I’ve ever seen. I’m super into that kind of thing, and I’ve been on a couple of road trips through there. And then I filmed a limited HBO series called Mosaic with Sharon Stone directed by Steven Soderbergh.

We flew into Salt Lake City and filmed right outside of, where’s the film festival there?

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aul Reubens’ alter ego, Pee-wee Herman, is many things—a cross-generational comedic icon, the ultimate man-child, and most importantly: a loner, a rebel. Audiences the world over learned about that last part during the character’s big-screen debut in 1985’s Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. Written by Reubens, Groundlings buddy Phil Hartman and Michael Varhol, and directed by pre-fame Tim Burton, the bizarro flick struck a universal chord and propelled instant quotables like, “I know you are what am I?”; “Why don’t you take a picture, it’ll last longer”; and my personal fave, “Be sure and tell ’em Large Marge sent ya!” into the pop culture ethos.

Thirty-five years later, the film that taught a generation to remember the Alamo has no basement and that half a boxful of Mr. T cereal is part of a balanced breakfast, has amassed a cult following that Madam Ruby herself couldn’t have predicted. To celebrate, the poster boy for missing bikes everywhere is again taking the show on the road, this time for a 20-city screening of the film, followed by a “lecture” of sorts from Reubens himself. The tour makes a Salt Lake City stop at the University of Utah’s Kingsbury Hall on Saturday, Feb. 22.

In a candid chat with City Weekly, Reubens talked about the dichotomy between his persona and himself; the immortal villain-ness of onscreen archnemesis, Francis; his relative public anonymity; and what The Hollywood Reporter recently referred to as a yet-to-be-developed “dark reboot,” which would see a fame-torn Pee-wee turn to booze and pills.

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“You can just feel everybody getting excited, knowing what’s happening and what’s gonna unfold ... I’m backstage in the wings listening to people’s reaction to it, and I get completely—this is going to sound super corny—but I get completely emotional and choked up.”

—Paul Reubens on audiences reaction to Pee-wee’s Big Adventure 35 years later.

Yeah.

The good old days.

So, I think that there’s a lot of that kind of stuff, that’s a behind-the-scenes story of how the movie was made, and my story. And then I think that the movie itself has a lot of that in it, also. It’s about people having dreams and caring about things. “Universal” is the word I was looking for earlier. I think they’re very universal themes in that movie that people can relate to 35 years ago, and can relate to today.

We’re in the process of seeing that change over to some degree. I think nowadays you have that experience if you go see a Marvel movie, if you see a big tentpole-movie, a big giant thing in a theater. And otherwise, you’re watching it at home, with your family, or friends, or whatever. And it’s not 1,800 people. It’s not even 20 people.

The only thing I could really compare it to is something like The Rocky Horror Show, where people know the movie really well and they’re yelling out the lines. And I can just feel the electricity when, for example, the ghost story of Large Marge, when she picks me up hitch hiking. When that truck pulls up and that sequence is about to start, the electricity in all three shows so far has just been palpable. You can just feel everybody getting excited, knowing what’s happening and what’s gonna unfold. I have to say, I’m backstage in the wings listening to people’s reaction to it, and I get completely—this is going to sound super corny—but I get completely emotional and choked up. I just feel so amazed and touched by how much people like it and admire it.

What is it about the actual filming of the movie that you might remember the most?

Oh, gosh, there’s so many things. That’s what really the evening is about; it’s about me remembering some of the highlights of what I hope are people’s favorite moments in the movie. There’s quite a few scenes in the movie that seem to be scenes people really like and remember. And so, a lot of that stuff is covered in the seven-hour talk that I do.

Seven-hour?

I do make a little bit of fun of how long it is, because it’s longer than I think people expect. I have a hard time shutting up. So, we have a countdown clock on the stage that only I can see. And at a certain point I have to start to figure, “OK, well whatever you didn’t cover, it’s going to be on part two of your next appearance in Salt Lake City.”

Hey, for the 70th anniversary.

[Laughs] It goes a long time. I’ve done two-hour versions of it. I’ve done an hour 45. The shortest I’ve done so far is about an hour 20, or an hour 25. And that was when they were blinking a light on my monitor going, “10 more minutes,” because we had a curfew at this one theater. They had to be out by a certain time because they shared a wall with a hotel. So, we really had to be out on a certain time. And so, short of making an electric charge on my chair, they had to let me know, “Stop! Stop!”

Nice.

But yeah, I’m very talkative about this movie. It’s a movie that’s really dear to me. And I genuinely care about it and love talking about it. So far, I have loved sharing it with audiences. We’ve had audiences filled with people who really love the movie and admire the movie. And it’s just been really, really fun. It’s been a fun experience. I’m a little surprised by how much fun it’s been, and I also feel like it’s an experience that’s an amazing experience for people, because even if … I’m kind of guessing that most people have seen the movie already. But the movie was released 35 years ago, as you do know, and hasn’t played theatrically since that time, unless you go see a midnight screening somewhere in an art house or something like that.

I don’t know offhand what the Salt Lake City venue holds, how many people. But we just played an 1,800-seat theater. To be in a theater with 1,800 people all laughing at the same things, it’s an incredible shared experience. And it’s the kind of thing—particularly with a comedy—that really is an experience, that becomes something akin to what I think movies were.

During the Q&A session, given the current political climate, does Peewee get political?

No. So, I want to be very clear that people don’t think Pee-wee Herman is showing up there.

It’s me as myself. I’m not wearing my Pee-wee suit, and it’s not even a Q&A. It’s really an A. I don’t really take questions. I’m pretty much just talking [laughs]. Part of it is because I really feel like I have a lot of stuff to share, and stories that no one’s ever heard before, information that people don’t know about the movie. And I feel like a lot of times people ask me questions. I get asked the same questions. And it’s not that I think that they’re boring, or that I’m bored by it, but I think a lot of times people ask questions that the answer is already online.

So, I just feel like I have so much really, what I consider to be very interesting and great stuff, that it’s … I don’t want to say a college lecture, because that sounds like it could be very academic, and it’s not that at all. I try to be funny and have it be entertaining at the same time. But it’s really not too far off of a lecture. Like I said, I’m not taking questions. I’m really just talking about the movie, and relying on you’ve seen the movie, and I come on right after the movie’s screened.

Let’s talk Francis. How do you think history remembers him?

I was just thinking about that last night, because I’m hoping Francis is going to come to one of the shows, the actor who played Francis. I was thinking about if I introduced him and said, “Ladies and gentlemen, Mark Holton, the actor who played Francis is here in the audience,” I have a feeling people might boo him. It would be sort of a compliment, in that I think they would be booing his persona, his alter ego in the movie. And so I think people do view him as a villain.

I have a great picture from Seattle of two women who, one was dressed like Francis, and one was dressed like Pee-wee. And they’re in profile. It looks like they’re yelling at each other. The girl that has the jumpsuit that says FB—Francis Buxton’s initials on it— has a wad of cash in her hand and she’s shaking it at the other, at the Pee-wee person, and they look like they’re saying, “I know you are, but what am I? I know you are, but what am I?” back and forth. And it’s just a riot.

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Do you get annoyed? I imagine people everywhere on the street, at the grocery shop, ask you to do that dance.

You’d be surprised how little I get recognized, honestly. And it’s not usually the first thing people [ask]. People want me to do my laugh more than anything. Somebody did bring me a pair of incredible white patent leather platform shoes, though, to the show we just did in Portland. Giant, patent leather platform shoes that had clear plastic heels that had liquid in them with fake gold fish floating in them. It was just awesome.

Deep philosophical question time: Where does the character of Peewee end and Paul start?

I think I fit into the latter category. I don’t think I have changed a lot from being famous.

But I think, like, in this particular movie, Pee-wee absolutely changes. Pee-wee becomes a monster from fame, and has to be kind of calmed down three-quarters of the way through the movie.

Any final words for your Utah audience?

I’m not sure I know what you mean.

That it shows a different side of Pee-wee, not necessarily the quirky, eternal optimist. I’ve heard it’s a little bit darker. It involves addiction …

I’ve been told by many people that I work with not to call it dark. And I think that I used to disagree with that. I think that they were being dramatic. But I think the reason more has to do with that people immediately start to think of it in a different way—and it’s really

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There’s information circulating about The Pee-wee Herman Story, this darker tale. Is it one of those kill your darlings-type of things that Something tells me they will.

All right, I hope you’re right. I’m going to take you up on that. If not, you want to do with the character?

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I’d like to just add that I hope people will come out and see the show. I love Salt Lake City.

I love Utah. I’ve felt very at home there the three or four times I’ve visited there. And I’m really looking forward to the shows. As you know, it’s one of the only venues on the whole tour that hasn’t sold out. Pee-wee might try to make the citizens of Salt Lake City feel a little guilty about that and be like, “What’s going on? Do you want to look bad on the tour, on our list of cities or what?”

So, I’m hoping that people buy some tickets after they read your article and come, because I genuinely think it’s a great show.

So far we’ve had a lot of amazing feedback, positive feedback online. People have called it even “inspirational,” people say that their face hurts from laughing so much. The screening of the movie is a really wonderful shared experience, and I think that the show that I’m doing afterwards is equally as fun. So, I hope people will come.

Well, my snarky Pee-wee answer would be, “That’s for me to know and you to find out.”

But that’s what you’re trying to do, I guess. I don’t really know. I have a couple of friends who said to me, “I think that’s very interesting that in this show you have unwittingly answered that question. You know, that people can see a lot of the similarities in you being yourself and talking about the movie, you can see a lot about how much Pee-wee is in you.”

And I have to take that as the truth. I’m not trying to mask anything, or hide anything. But I think if you come see the show, you will probably know the answer to that.

Where do you think you fall in that spectrum?

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Well, yeah. There was something on the Oscars this year. I don’t know if you saw the Oscar telecast, but they had something about music and songs that were so heavily identified with films. And I was kind of waiting for “Tequila” to come on. I thought, “Wow, that was missing from that also.” But, you know, what can you do?

not. If you think back to even Big Adventure, the first Pee-wee movie, Pee-wee has always had this kind of snarkiness. I don’t know, snarky’s my word of the day lately. I don’t know exactly what’s a better word than that, but Pee-wee’s always had this edge to him. He’s not always sweet, he’s sometimes the opposite of sweet. And I think that what’s being called “the dark movie” just capitalizes on that, and it takes that maybe a little bit further.

It’s certainly a little edgier than everything else, all the other Pee-wee movies so far.

But I don’t think it’s out of the blue. I don’t think people would go, “That’s not Pee-wee.”

I think really that movie is about fame, and how much fame doesn’t agree with some people. Some people, fame really changes [them], and some people remain very similar to who they were.

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There’s a video circulating from the Bloomberg campaign comparing our current president to famous 80s movie bullies, like Biff from Back to the Future and the Cobra Kai sensei from The Karate Kid. And I was surprised that Francis didn’t make the cut. It seemed like a complete missed opportunity.

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Pioneer Theatre Co.: Once On This Island On one level, the 1990 musical Once On This Island deals with challenging issues like the legacy of colonialism. Yet cast member Cicily Daniels believes that this tale of magic and myth allows for a joyful exploration of those themes: “I pretty much dare anybody to walk into the theater, and walk away not feeling more open and alive and connected to their own humanity.”

Adapted by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime) from a 1985 novel by Rosa Guy, it tells the story of Ti Moune, a Caribbean peasant girl who falls in love with Daniel, one of the mixedrace descendants of French colonists who live on the opposite side of her island. As stories of starcrossed lovers sometimes go, Ti Moune’s love is complicated, including a promise to a god that she would trade her life for Daniel’s.

The musical’s framing device involves people relating Ti Moune’s story to a little girl, and actor Daniels believes that meta-storytelling component makes the story richer. “I have a 2-year-old, and when you’re telling a child a story, you try to make it bigger for her,” she says. “That brings it to life for the whole audience.”

That dynamic of sharing a myth with a child gives the powerful songs and narrative a real sense of purpose. “When you have to introduce the idea of death to a child, that’s incredibly difficult,” Daniels says. “But there’s also a community that comes together in a moment of mourning. … Lives are meaningful, and choices have impact beyond ourselves. That’s something everybody wants to teach our children.” (Scott Renshaw) Once On This Island @ Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6961, Feb. 21-March 7, dates and times vary, $45$73, pioneertheatre.org

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It’s said that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. If that’s the case, Jay Pharoah has handed out plenty of compliments in his career.

Known for his stellar impressions of Barack Obama, Denzel Washington, Kanye West, Will Smith, Jay Z and a host of others, he became a stand-out cast member during a six-year stint on Saturday Night Live from 2010-16.

Happily, Pharoah—born Jared Antonio Farrow—has been active ever since. He hosted the American Music Awards in 2016, appeared in a number of supporting film roles, and voiced animated characters on such series as Family Guy, Bojack Horseman and Robot Chicken, all of which allowed him to further share his varied vocal talents. And while he tried his hand at drama—successfully—in the Showtime drama White Famous and Steven Soderberg’s psychological thriller Unsane, a visit to his website proclaims his primary credo: “I make people laugh.”

That in itself is pretty profound considering that it often feels like there’s little to laugh about these days. Fortunately, Pharaoh has plenty of experience, having performed professionally since he was 15. “When I got to the stage, it was like a release,” Pharoah is quoted as saying on the website BrainyQuotes. “Because it was like, ‘Oh, people like me. People like me. They’re listening to what I have to say. They’re not judging me on how I look; they’re judging me on what I’m saying.’ So to me, that’s what’s worth it, and that’s what comedians have.” (Lee Zimmerman) Jay Pharoah @ Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Feb. 21-22, 7 & 9:30 p.m., $25, wiseguyscomedy.com

Valentine’s Day might have been last week, but that doesn’t mean romance is dead. Bachelor Nation SLC, are you ready for the most dramatic live version of The Bachelor, yet? The Bachelor has been one of the most popular romantic franchises since its launch on ABC 18 years ago.

This week, it brings series favorites Ben Higgins (Season 20) and Becca Kufrin (Season 22) to the Eccles Theatre to help one lucky local bachelor search for his chance at love.

Local ladies from the audience—who previously filled out an application online—will have the chance to be an onstage contestant, vying to win the bachelor’s heart. And for those who aren’t part of the live courtship activities, instead of merely vocalizing your opinion to the TV in your living room, you can finally have a say during the rose ceremony. Audience members who don’t end up onstage can cheer on the participants, ask questions and even make suggestions.

All the gossip, drama and romance fans love from the series will be live, up close and personal. The show includes games, challenges and get-toknow-you activities that lead up to multiple rose ceremonies.

The event’s designated Salt Lake City bachelor, Crispin Calvert, is a self-proclaimed outdoor adventurer and firefighter who’s excited about this unique experience to meet someone new.

Contestants don’t need to worry about purchasing a ticket, and VIP tickets are available for non-contestants. Come enjoy this one-night-only romantic whirlwind with your hometown. Who will get the final rose? (Kara Rhodes) The Bachelor Live @ Eccles Theatre, 131 S. Main, 801-355-2787, Feb. 21, 8 p.m., $55$200, live-at-the-eccles.com

In the lead-up to the final round of the Youth America Grand Prix, an international ballet competition that showcases some of the most promising dancers of the 2020 season, Ballet West hosts the Night of Shining Stars. Gracing the Capitol Theatre stage this weekend, the ballet luminaries of today will prepare to pass the torch to the stars of tomorrow.

This one-night-only event is headlined by dancers from American Ballet Theater, London’s Royal Ballet, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co. and Ballet West. In collaboration with Youth America Grand Prix, Night of Shining Stars is a national dance event that celebrates some of the most internationally-renowned dancers of our generation.

Celebrated performers include Robbie Fairchild, Allison Walsh and Cesar Corrales. In a recent news release, Ballet West artistic director Adam Sklute said, “It is truly exciting to bring together this incredible and unprecedented collection of acclaimed artists under one roof, on one night.”

Night of Shining Stars features dazzling performances from An American in Paris, Romeo and Juliet, The Greatest Showman, Now or Never, Ruth Ricordi Per Due and The Dream. “Events like Night of Shining Stars help expose our local audiences to some of the world’s leading dancers that they might otherwise not have an opportunity to see,” Sklute says via email. “It becomes a wonderful sharing event between companies and dancers. It’s like hosting a grand dinner party!”

(Ashley Stenger) Ballet West: Night of Shining Stars @ Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801355-2787, Feb. 22, 7:30 p.m., $24-$99, balletwest.org

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“I have a Rolodex of themes, personal issues and concepts that are intriguing to me,” he says, “then one for big conceits. I try to see which one lines up with which theme.”

The writer/artist behind Let’s Go to Utah! and one-time fixture in the local music scene finds a great pairing in his latest project, Canopus, a four-issue series that begins with scientist Dr. Helen Sterling awakening on a distant planet with no idea how she got there, or what her mission is. Chisholm visits Salt Lake City to launch Canopus at Black Cat Comics on Saturday, Feb. 22.

Canopus’ story of someone coming to terms with the most painful moments of her past—“learning to let go of this poison she’s carrying around,” as Chisholm puts it—was in part inspired by Chisholm’s recognition of that quality in himself. “I kind of hang on to grudges a little too hard,” he says. But placing it in the context of an existential science-fiction story was inspired somewhat by a frustration Chisholm had with the popular Christopher Nolan film Interstellar.

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“I liked [Interstellar], but my first thought walking out was, ‘This movie would be 10 times more compelling if they genderswapped all the characters,’” he says.

“We’ve seen the trope of the male leaving the village to save everyone so many times.

And the female scientist who kind of talks about love as defying the logic of science.

How much more interesting that would have been if it had been a woman leaving her family to go into space and save the world? And it slowly morphed into this.”

The narrative revolves largely around Dr. Sterling re-discovering her own identity while exploring this alien world—a device familiar enough that Chisholm actually has Sterling say in the first issue, “Amnesia … could this be any more cliché?” “That’s me signalling to the audience, ‘I know this is a well-worn path,’” he says. “Then to play with that … I think that plot device is justified by the ending.”

Visually, Chisholm creates a fascinating juxtaposition of the events that Dr. Sterling is experiencing in the moment and the flashback memories that overtake her at certain points, conveyed in a frequently non-linear collage of images. “I’m really always striving to have the form reflect the content in comics work that I do,” he says. “When I tell you, ‘Remember your earliest memory of your father, or your first pet, or whatever,’ you don’t get that same linearity and temporal evenness.

It hits you all at once. Certain things stick out more, certain visuals, a song maybe. But it’s not evenly presented in your head. When readers have the physical experience of turning the page into a flashback sequence, hopefully they’re hit with a little bit of that.”

Getting the reader to keep turning the page is a key component of writing comics; when you’re writing a continuing series, there’s the added challenge of getting the reader to want to pick up the next issue.

Chisholm notes that there’s a very different storytelling dynamic he considers when writing a continuing series, as opposed to a one-off graphic novel. “When I made this

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book, it was 100% from the beginning intended to be an old-school floppy, comicshop comic. I grew up reading comics, and I wanted to make a comic that would pull people along month-to-month,” he says.

“Single-volume graphic novels, you can really space out the pacing and decompress the pacing a lot; this is a pretty fast-paced story, very compressed storytelling. … It’s meant to be cliffhanger-y at the end of each chapter—trying to find ways to keep the mystery going.”

Chisholm also brings his music background—he studied jazz at the University of Utah—to bear on his comic-book work; he’s even teaching a course called “Comics and Music” at the Rochester Institute of Technology. “It all comes from the same part of my brain that’s interested in formalism and craft,” he says. “It boils down to the same concept of creating ‘normal.’ If you put on a Beethoven string quartet, it starts off beautifully, then explores areas that are more dissonant, disrupting normal. Generally, from my point of view, it’s all about creating a sense of rules and consequence, specifically so you can upend ‘normal’ at some point.”

And pulling all of his artistic interests together—in storytelling, in music, in visual art—is all part of his notion of “using all of the buffalo,” pulling a metaphor from the resourcefulness of First Nation people. “The great thing about comics authored by one person,” he says, “is this idea that you’re seeing someone use all the parts of the buffalo to tell the story. Hopefully they’re using every part of the medium.” CW

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A Doll’s House, Part 2 Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, through March 8, dates and times vary, saltlakeactingcompany.org The Bachelor Live on Stage Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main St., Feb. 21, 8 p.m., live-at-the-eccles.com (see p. 14) Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom: The Musical Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through April 11, dates and times vary, hct.org Bright Star Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through May 2, dates and times vary, hct.org Floyd Collins Babcock Theater, 300 S. 1400 East, through March 1, dates and times vary, tickets.utah.edu James Blonde: Agent 7-11 in License to Thrill Desert Star Playhouse, 4861 S. State, Murray, through March 21, dates and times vary, desertstar.biz The Musical of Musicals (The Musical) Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State, through March 7, dates and times vary, grandtheatercompany.com Newsies The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Blvd., dates and times vary, through March 14, theziegfeldtheater.com The Odd Couple (Female Version) Little Theatre, 200 S. Central Campus Drive, Feb. 20, 7 p.m., babcockperformingrreaders.org Ogden Musical Theatre: Ragtime in Concert Peery’s Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Blvd., Ogden, Feb. 21-March 28, dates and times vary Once On This Island Pioneer Theatre Co., 300 S. 1400 East, Feb. 21-March 7, dates and times vary, pioneertheatre.org (see p. 14) Pygmalion Theatre Co.: Flying Rose Wagner Center Black Box, 138 W. 300 South, through Feb. 29, dates and times vary, pygmalionproductions.org Plan-B Theatre Co.: Singing to the Brine Shrimp Rose Wagner Studio Theatre, 138 W. 300 South, through Feb. 23, dates and times vary, planbtheatre.org Ready Steady Yeti Go The Box at The Gateway,

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Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Eccles Center, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, Feb. 22, 7:30 p.m., parkcityinstitute.org Ballet West: Night of Shining Stars Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Feb. 22, 7:30 p.m., balletwest.org (see p. 14) Shen Yun 2020 World Tour Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, Feb. 25-26, 7:30 p.m., saltlakecountyarts.org

SPECIAL EVENTS FARMERS MARKETS

Winter Farmers Market Rio Grande Depot, 270 S. Rio Grande St., Saturdays through April 18, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., slcfarmersmarket.org

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Beyond a Night of Music Encircle Salt Lake, 331 S. 600 East, Thursdays, 6:30-8 p.m.,

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TALKS & LECTURES

Beyond The Gate: Zines For Change SLCC Community Writing Center, 210 E. 400 South, Feb. 26, 6 p.m., slc.edu/cwc Shankar Vedantam & Florence Williams: The Nature Fix Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, Feb. 25, 7 p.m., tickets.utah.edu

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Dave Chisholm: Canopus Black Cat Comics, 2262 S. Highland Dr., Feb. 22, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., blackcat-comics.com (see p. 16) Justin Travis Call: Masters of Sorrow Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Feb. 25, 6:30 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Katherine Arden: The Winternight Trilogy The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Feb. 20, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Kristina Kuzmic: Hold On, But Don’t Hold Still Rowland Hall’s Larmier Center for the Performing Arts, 843 E. Lincoln St., Feb. 20, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Paul Florsheim & Dave Moore: Lost and Found The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Feb. 21, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com

Tricia Levenseller: The Shadows Between Us Sandy Library, 10100 Petunia Drive, Sandy, Feb. 24, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

2020 Vision of Utah Evergreen Framing Co. & Gallery, 3295 S. 2000 East, Feb. 21, 5:30-8:30 p.m., evergreengallery.com Adrian Stimson: Buffalo Boy Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, through May 16, dates and times vary, utahmoca.org Ancient Mesoamerica Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, ongoing, umfa.utah.edu Art for Justice Modern West Fine Art, 412 S. 700 West, through Feb. 21, modernwestfineart.com Better Days 2020: Utah Women Working for the Vote and Beyond Utah Capitol, 300 N. State, fourth floor, through December, betterdays2020.com Beyond the Divide: Merchant, Artist, Samurai in Edo Japan Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, through July 5, umfa.utah.edu Comforting Discomfort: Works by Dalila Sanabria and Fiona Barney Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., through March 6, artsandmuseums.utah.gov Greater Merit: The Temple and Image in South Asia Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, ongoing, umfa.utah.edu Guerilla Girls Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, through June 6, utahmoca.org Hidden Voices: Aesthetics of Change Woodbury Art Museum, Utah Valley University, 575 E. University Parkway, Orem, through March 7, uvu.edu Love in the Abstract “A” Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, through Feb. 29, agalleryonline.com (see p. 17) Nolan Flynn: Vertical Obedience Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, through Feb. 28, saltlakearts.org Pompeii: The Exhibition The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, through May 3, dates and times vary, theleonardo.org RAW Salt Lake City Presents: Premiere The Depot, 13 N. 400 West, Feb. 20, 7 p.m., rawartists.com Salt Lake City Through Teens Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through March 6, slcpl.org Seven Masters: 20th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, through April 26, umfa.utah.edu Supermarket: Pop Art and 1960s America BYU Museum of Art, North Campus Drive, Provo, through March 28, moa.byu.edu Trishelle Jeffery: Best Breasts In The West Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, through March 21, dates and times vary, utahmoca.org Ya’el Pedroza: Humanocene Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, through March 21, dates and times vary, utahmoca.org

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come off as bashing the area— pawn shops and AutoZones are people, too. I bring it up, because it’s not the first spot you think of when looking to track down a decent bite to eat.

Despite the location, the establishment’s interior has made great use of its lim-

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hose predisposed to explore Salt Lake’s Thai restaurants know that there is some serious talent at work in our state.

That’s not to say that every Thai restaurant brings the literal and metaphorical heat to the table, but there are definitely more good options than bad ones when Thai happens to take the wheel of your craving caravan. I’m so confident in this claim, that I decided to put it to the test by visiting Thai Spoon (6657 S. State, Ste. 1, Murray, 801-590-8085, thaispoonutah.com), perhaps one of the only Thai restaurants along the Wasatch Front that I had yet to try. It didn’t disappoint.

tween acidic and creamy. Slurping up this soup after having just taken a bite of something spicy can be unexpectedly exhilarating as the capsaicin and citrus tag-team your tongue in a fight that’s fun to lose.

My carry-out order of massaman curry was also tasty—hard to go wrong with that mild blend of peanutty curry—and it kept very well as a takeout meal. Based on that experience, I can see why it’s a popular destination for phone orders and food delivery vendors. That said, their massaman isn’t doing anything that much different than other local Thai joints. It’s solid, but the same solid you can get elsewhere.

Although Thai Spoon had some menu items that were merely as good as other similar restaurants, there’s enough variation to further diversify our local roster of Thai eateries. When I’m craving Thai food sans curry with a bit of fearless kick, I’m headed to Thai Spoon. CW

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it. One spoonful of dried Thai chiles packs plenty of punch for a lunchtime getaway. It didn’t completely ruin me, but it was hot enough for me to know that a five would do the trick if I ever wanted to test it out.

The spicy cashew was exactly what you’d want from a traditional stir fry.

The veggies soak up all the umami flavor from the excellently browned and garlicked house sauce, and dumping it in heaps upon pillowy jasmine rice is Thai comfort food at its finest.

I think ramping up the heat level was what did the trick here, however. I could see this being slightly on the bland side were I to order it without a dash of smoked chile flavor.

Thai soups have been on my radar as of late—I blame the cold weather— so I also got a single serving of tom kha ($5.98 or $10.98 for a large), a broth of lemongrass, galangal and kaffir limeinfused coconut milk served with mushrooms, cabbage and a choice of protein. The lemongrass, galangal and kaffir lime leaves combine into a surprisingly potent citrus flavor blend that whacks you hard in the back of the throat if you’re not careful. Well-measured sips of this Thai staple are a lovely balancing act be-

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ited space. Even though the bustle of State Street was just beyond the window, the urbanity of its location melts away once you enter. Tables are neatly arranged and adorned with wooden spoon centerpieces that are reflected in Thai Spoon’s wall art.

It wasn’t terribly crowded during my lunchtime visit, though takeout orders and Door Dashers managed to keep the place busy. Usually when I want Thai food, I order massaman curry ($10.98) without even thinking about it, but this experience was about exploration—so I placed a togo order for when my meal was over.

Like most Thai places, the lunch special is a great way to see what the kitchen can do, and the pictured spicy cashew ($7.98 for lunch; $10.98 for dinner) sounded right up my alley. It’s a stir fry of garlic, bell peppers, mushrooms and cashews with Thai Spoon’s signature sauce and a choice of protein.

I’m a big fan of any place that has a scale of spiciness—in my experience that means they’re not afraid to hurt you. Thai Spoon’s spectrum goes from one to five, and I recommend starting with a three if you’re a fan of heat. I started there and didn’t regret

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he more a brewery grows, the easier it is to become complacent about the “craft” part of “craft beer.” Let’s take fruit and vegetable adjuncts, for example.

It’s much easier to use a third-party vendor to help take care of your extra-flavor needs than it is to juice, slice or purée the additives yourself. I managed to find two new beers that took the wholesome approach, making their beers just like mom used to.

Squatters Craft Beer Strawberry Kolsch: The Squatters brewing duo of Jason Stock and Conor Papineau choose to buy their fresh strawberries and make their own purée for this fruited beer. It pours a golden orange color with pinkish highlights. Strawberry comes through first in the nose, followed with a nice balance of

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toasted cereal. It’s very fresh-smelling, and it enhances the bouquet nicely, offering an appealing balance between the grain and strawberry. There are really only two elements to this beer: crackers and strawberry (shocker). The strawberry flavor acts as the underbody to the beer as a whole, while wheat cracker provides a secondary flavor balancing out the strawberry. The result is somewhat reminiscent of strawberry fruit leather, yet without the sugary sweetness. The carbonation is good for the style.

The strawberry and grains don’t linger too much on the palate, but do follow into the aftertaste. No real alcohol flavor from this 5.0% beer at all; it shows very light drying on the palate, with no off flavors. It’s balanced perfectly for the style.

Overall: This beer delivers exactly what it promises—strawberry forward, with a toasted cracker backing. ABV isn’t high, and you really can’t taste it at all while drinking. If you want a beer that has strawberry-forward (not heavy) flavor with high drinkability, then give this one a shot.

2 Row Brewing Smoked Jalapeño Porter: The 2 Row crew bought bushels of jalapeños and roasted them in house, á la chipotle, to add smokiness to this new chile beer.

This one pours a virtually opaque black with a creamy, lingering beige head. Aromas of wood smoke, fresh jalapeño, bitter chocolate, coffee beans and pepper fill the nose.

There is a slight herbal, almost tobacco-like

aroma that emerges as the beer warms in the glass, adding a satisfying extra dimension to the overall presentation. Mild, spicy notes of jalapeño are quick to express themselves, followed by notes of bitter chocolate, licorice, wood smoke, tobacco, coffee, leather and earthy hops. The finish is dry, elegant and poised with a balancing combination of tobacco, chocolate, coffee and jalapeño flavors. This ale is medium in body and mildly oily. The carbonation is unobtrusive, bordering on barely noticeable. Despite its stillness in the mouth, this ale remains quite drinkable, as more pronounced carbonation would render the spice from the jalapeños overpowering.

Overall: If there is one ale that just begs to be accompanied by a good cigar, this is it. The rich spice of the peppers and the earthy, leathery notes from the hops would pair perfectly with a good smoke and/or a dinner of smoked meats and vegetables. I’d love to try this with one of Beehive Cigars’ House Robustos or a Romeo y Julieta 1875 Reserve Maduro.

Both of these beers have been out for about a week, and there should be an adequate amount of each to last for a couple more.

Strawberry Kolsch is only on draft at Squatters. Bottles of 2 Row’s chile porter are, of course, available at the brewery or your better beer pubs. As always, cheers! CW

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When I rolled into the Lighthouse Lounge (130 25th St., 801-392-3901, lighthouseogden. com) at noon, I was just in time for the start of their Sunday Funday brunch show, which features an acoustic musician each Sunday from noon to 2 p.m. Local musician Brad Thomas was onstage going through his soundcheck, so I moved to the dark section of the bar, where patrons sat eating fragrant fried breakfast food (this should be a thing at more bars) and sipping bloody marys and beers. I decided to indulge in the bloody mary bar, despite hating tomato juice, because it still felt too early for beer. After stocking my mason jar of vodka and ice with V8 and various pickled items, I moved to the brighter side of the bar, which was sunny and dotted with sofas, chairs and low tables, conveying a coffee shop vibe.

Across from the windows looking out onto 25th Street sat a rather massive stage emblazoned with the words “Pabst Blue Ribbon.” I settled near some other patrons on the edge of the couch, and watched as Thomas’ set slowly gained confidence. His Roy Orbison covers were charming, and his folksy Orbison-influenced voice added personality to covers of Bruce Springsteen classics like “Dancing in the Dark.” I sent a video of Thomas’ Springsteen cover to my friend, who is very picky about Springsteen covers, but I personally loved it—it’s easy to forget that people are just as passionate about things as you are, and nothing makes me remember the passion of others like seeing musicians cover songs. Thomas mentioned loving Springsteen as a teen before starting his version, and it—along with his covers of other classics like Bobby Darin’s “Dream Lover” and Orbison’s “Crying”—was delivered with the ease of fondness and familiarity.

After an hour, Thomas said he was going to go outside and “roll around in the dirt” to forget the mistakes he’d made, but instead jumped off the stage to begin chatting with a fair number of folks.

For my part, I moved back to the dark side of the bar to snag another beer—one I literally jumped at seeing, since it was my favorite back in Minnesota. Three things sum it up: Lavender, sunflower honey, dates. What does that spell? LSD! Although it didn’t trip me out, it did give me the exact amount of chill I really needed to settle into the rest of the set, which included some originals by Thomas and a cover of “Hallelujah.” Being a little bit day-buzzed and sappy at this point, I started thinking about how glad I was to be able to roam up here and take part in

Lighthouse Lounge in Ogden this musical moment in time, sharing in what seemed to mean a lot to Thomas and his audience.

Finding Finds at Lavender Vinyl

It must have been fate that I found my favorite lavender beer at Lighthouse, because my next stop was Lavender Vinyl (123 25th St., 801-605-3425, lavendervinyl.com) right across the street. I’d never visited before, but I went inside with the intention of finding something. Upon entering, I flipped immediately through the new indie section, and weirdly stumbled across a Guided by Voices record (not new, but in fact older than myself) and grabbed it immediately. Besides that, I found staples like Bill Callahan, Sufjan Stevens and Angel Olsen, mixed in with locals like Josaleigh Pollett, Choir Boy and Nick Passey. Beyond that section was a small metal section, a small bluegrass and country section and a big row in the middle of alphabetized, mostly older and classic records (though there is a slot that just says “Billie Eilish,” so they’re keeping up with the youth).

A string of EPs is looped overhead, which seems sacrilegious for a record store to do, unless the music on them is truly bad. One wall featured records and cassettes by locals, next to a rack of classics like the aforementioned Springsteen and his born-in-the-USA butt. There are also screen-printed shirts, a rack of thrifted tees ranging from band tees and Utah Jazz tees to simple Carhartts, and shelves of local art, incense and record-cleaning kits. It truly is a one-stop-shop for record lovers just starting out to collect or looking to dig in the dollar bins below the main stuff.

On the new release rack, I found something that made me sadly ditch the GBV album: Boy Harsher’s brilliant minimal wave album Careful, which defined my year in dancing. While chatting about it at checkout, I learn that Lighthouse Lounge and Lavender partner up on the bar’s Wednesday vinyl nights, which Lavender sponsors.

On my way out, a dusty jar of lavender sprigs summoned a chuckle from me. If lavender relaxes the body and mind, it certainly did on this low-key day in Ogden. CW

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The beginning of the year has the tendency to provoke the winter blues in us all. Utah-based trio Nick Passey and The Perpetual Sadness know the feeling all too well, and have their own remedy for combating these wintertime hardships. The folk/Americana group is therapeutically uplifting, with songs touching on relatable situations through a realist and satirical perspective. Passey, the main mind behind the band’s work, has been involved in Utah’s music scene since he was a teenager. Growing up in a musically gifted family, he was taught to sing at the same time as he was learning to speak. Passey is also a member of beloved local folk-punk band Folk Hogan, but he turned his skills closer to his singer-songwriter roots in 2017 by forming The Perpetual Sadness with cellist Kaitlin Findlay and drummer Curtis Stahl. That same year they released their debut EP Just Working Through Some Shit, which ebbs and flows between a humorous and heartbroken approach to life. Passey sings in the title track “cheaper than therapy to keep writing four-chord songs,” alongside a stomping beat and acoustic guitar. But it does sway into a more serious tone with “Non Believer,” where Passey evaluates his existential beliefs. Their 2019 single “Love Like Hate” holds true to the matter-of-fact lyrical structure found in their former work.

This upbeat, fast-strumming acoustic ditty pairs smoothly with Passey’s thoughts about opposing emotions and the confusing similarities between love and hate. Live, Findlay and Stahl complement Passey’s vocals with eerie strings and light percussion, making them the ideal band to listen to in a bar setting. Either as a conversation-starter or -breaker, Passey and company will have you clinking beers with your neighbors while tapping your foot to the beat.

The group also plays at A Bar Named Sue’s Highland Drive location on Saturday, Feb. 22.

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ies, a binary star is a star system that’s comprised of two luminous balls of gas orbiting an area called a barycenter. In hip-hop, Binary Star was a group consisting of rappers Senim Silla and One Be Lo—they orbited Pontiac, Mich. The duo materialized three full-length albums (sort of): Waterworld, Masters of the Universe and, after the group had disbanded, Waterworld 3. Senim Silla retired from music and went into broadcasting on Shade 45 with Rude Jude, but Lo went on to make more music as a solo act—and he’s still roaming the galaxy with his beat machine and rhyme book to this day. You might see One Be Lo in Salt Lake City chilling even when he’s not slated to perform. I’ve seen him at a coffee shop, at Uprok making beats and, of course, at rap shows. “As far as my connection to Utah, I first came out here maybe 20 years ago. SLC has been welcoming and showing love for my art for 20 plus years,” Lo says. Not unlike other artistic nomads in the hip-hop hemisphere, the MC’s MC seems to be growing bored of the traditional rap format, and has moved on to storytelling and spoken word with no conventional constrictions—at least for now. His new series of albums is called The Looma (or Legends of One Man Army).

The five-piece set, parts of which were made in Utah, is something you’re just going to have to experience to understand. It’s a far cry from the polished bars and smooth delivery of his best-known songs like “Gray,” with its free-flowing storytelling. Will he mix it up and perform some of the classics? Will he go into The Looma? Head to the show and find out. (Keith L. McDonald) O.P. Rockwell, 268 Main, Park City, $16-$25, 9 p.m., 21+, shows.oprockwell.com

Nick Passey and The Perpetual Sadness album The Dead of the Day and new book 100 Cassettes, he intertwines plaintive songs, probing narratives and profound images. 100 Cassettes began as an installation of handpainted cassette covers for a Pomona, Calif., art museum; Callaci then expanded them into chapters that explore the meditative creativity of musicians as far-flung as Alice Cooper, Earl Sweatshirt, Lee Ranaldo and Black Sabbath.

“What a thrill to be sending love letters to artists that are still alive, to profess my love for their work,” Callaci told Vol. 1 Brooklyn earlier this month. “I humbly offer this, a time out from the in memoriams of these slumped down times; something living that can take the criticism of falling short of the line.” 100 Cassettes is the perfect companion piece to Callaci’s meandering new record. The third in a triptych that includes 2016’s Bed of Light and 2017’s The End of Night, The Dead of the Day strips down to its acoustic roots— no drums and no orchestration, just hushed abstractions like “Scoreless,” “Coffin Blues” and “Forecasters of Hurt.” Callaci will present work from both projects on his current tour with longtime collaborator Simon Joyner, who himself recently released a new album, Pocket Moon, which blends surreal strands of rural bohemia (“The Last Time I Saw You, Billy”) with incisive tales of longing and reflection (“Morning Sun, Slow Down”). (Nick McGregor) Barn Deluxxe, 417 N. 300 West, 8 p.m., $10 suggested donation, all ages

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In January, local reggae and jazz fusion band Tribe of I put out a new single from their upcoming album, Life in Dreams—their first in about five years. The single, “Dab Step,” is meandering and relaxing in the way only reggae can manage. It builds from a slow energy into jam band solos, and so you really do hear the band’s claim that they try to infuse hip-hop, jazz and Latin vibes.

“Organic sound, we like to call it,” they told City Weekly in 2016. Whatever that means, it’s working for them—there’s variety in their work. The same is also somewhat true of one of the night’s openers, Native Leaves, though they tend to lean more into a hip-hop influence than anything else. Many of the tracks in their 2018 release Season are carrying a reggae ethos on the back of trap and pop rap beats. “On the Low” is a bop even if it feels a little silly at times; “Hit of You” is the kind of song you’d catch yourself genuinely singing along to in the shower. It’s hard to not have a fun time with this music: It’s groovy and maybe a little too obsessed with weed (the album cover for Native Leaves’ single Come Over shows a woman in a bikini sitting with a dog, a tray of weed on the coffee table in front of her), but hey, it’s reggae. The connection will probably always be there. (Parker S. Mortensen) Soundwell, 149 W. 200 South, 8 p.m., free with RSVP or $5, 21+, soundwellslc.com

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It’s rare to find a band—or even a friendship for that matter—that endures for more than 50 years, given the perils that often accompany a musical career. So credit the two mainstays of Hot Tuna—guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady—with not only surviving but thriving. The fact that their music taps into a traditional template—archival blues—makes their accomplishment even more unlikely. They’ve never been especially hip or trendy, yet they’ve still managed to attract legions of devotees who relish the simplicity, skill and care imbued throughout the Tuna trajectory. Initially an offshoot of the Jefferson Airplane—Kaukonen’s song “Good Shepherd,” a traditional blues tune included on the Airplane’s Volunteers album, previewed what was to come—Hot Tuna manages to outlive that initial association and become an institution in its own right. The duo maintain a dual identity, courtesy of electric and acoustic incarnations that find them adding different players to fit each format. Still, it’s that core connection between the two principals that makes this ensemble so unique. Their brotherly bond began as teenagers in the 1950s when both were living in Washington, D.C., and it further flourished when Kaukonen joined the fledgling Jefferson Airplane and recruited Casady to help anchor the rhythm section. Openers the David Bromberg Quintet are an engaging ensemble that fosters roots relevance through music of a vintage variety. Two perfect pedigrees create a classic—and classy—combination. (Lee Zimmerman) The Commonwealth Room, 195 W. 2100 South, 8 p.m., $55, 21+, thestateroompresents.com

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Residing on a divide between pop and punk, Dashboard Confessional continues to entice the college crowd with their brooding yet blustery combination of emo, indie and alternative. Steeped in introspection and exhilaration, they’ve reaped numerous awards, scaled the top of the charts and secured their place on multiple film and television show soundtracks. The brainchild of the ultra-cool and charismatic Chris Carabba, the group is currently on tour as part of a mammoth 20th anniversary celebration. In addition, the band recently relaunched its official fan club and released a sprawling career-spanning anthology album: The Best Ones of The Best Ones. The compilation culls material from each of their seven studio albums, two EPs and the group’s celebrated MTV Unplugged performance. Although he’s known as a singer with an anthemic approach, credit Carabba for accepting Dashboard Confessional’s success with gratitude and humility. “The fact that my music has had an effect on anybody’s life besides mine is so humbling, and one of the greatest parts of that has been getting to know the people who have become fans over the years,” he says in a recent news release. “Because the thing is that people can choose your band, but it doesn’t work the other way around—you don’t get to choose your fans. I always feel so incredibly lucky these are the fans who ended up choosing us.” Those certainly are sweet sentiments, and indeed, the feeling appears to be mutual. (Lee Zimmerman) The Depot, 13 N. 400 West, 6:30 p.m., $75, 21+, depotslc.com

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As my group walked up to Bodega, I second-guessed whether we were at the right place.

“We have reservations,” my partner said. News to me. We could see into the whole of Bodega, which wasn’t large, and it looked completely full. Sure enough, the door guy stopped us, told us the place was full and we’d be welcome to come in once a group or two had left. “We have reservations,” my friend said. Door guy’s eyes widened and he gave us a “right this way” to the back wall door. We walked past tables of groups squished together, the noise overwhelming as canned beer popped open and laughter filled the room. As we left the cramped commotion, I felt very cool, like I knew something everyone else didn’t.

We descended a flight of stairs where a woman opened a door to a completely different environment: a corridor of booths and bar stools extending farther than the upstairs bar itself. The ceilings were surprisingly high. Portrait paintings and trophy mounts hung on the walls—it was like a hunting lodge had been poured into the room. We ordered a charcuterie board and talked easily at a much more normal volume than the patrons above. I had an Old Fashioned ($12), which was curiously spread across three small glasses instead of just one, each accented with my choice of a different bitter; I chose lavender, apricot and peach, and went on to order the lavender version twice. We drank for almost two hours, but as I sobered up, I came down: I am not actually that cool. But for a minute there, I was convinced. (Parker S. Mortensen) The Rest, 331 S. Main, 801-532-4042, bodega331.com

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They experience perverse glee in predicting, for example, that all the rain forests and rivers will be owned by greedy corporations by 2050, or that extraterrestrial invaders who resemble crocodiles will take control of the U.S. government “for the good of the American people,” or that climate change will eventually render chocolate and bananas obsolete. That’s not how I operate. I deplore the idea that it’s only the nasty prognostications that are interesting. In that spirit, I make the following forecasts: The number of homeless Virgos will decrease dramatically in the near future, as ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do you feel ready to change your mind about an idea or belief or will the number of dreamhome-less Virgos. In fact, I expect you theory that has been losing its usefulness? Would you consider folks will experience extra amounts of domestic bliss in the coming changing your relationship with a once-powerful influence that months. You may feel more at home in the world than ever before. is becoming less crucial to your life-long goals? Is it possible you have outgrown one of your heroes or teachers? Do you wonder LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): if maybe it’s time for you to put less faith in a certain sacred cow I don’t require everyone I learn from to be an impeccable saint. If I or overvalued idol? According to my analysis of your astrological vowed to draw inspiration only from those people who flawlessly omens, you’ll benefit from meditating on these questions dur- embody every one of my ethical principles, there’d be no one to be inspired by. Even one of my greatest heroes, Martin Luther ing the coming weeks.

King Jr., cheated on his wife and plagiarized parts of his doctoral dissertation. Where do you stand on this issue, Libra? I bet you TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When she was alive more than 2,500 years ago, the Greek will soon be tested. How much imperfection is acceptable to you? poet Sappho was so famous for her lyrical creations that people referred to her as “The Poetess” and the “Tenth Muse.” (In SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Greek mythology, there were nine muses, all goddesses.) She Scorpio comedian John Cleese co-founded the troupe Monty was a prolific writer who produced over 10,000 lines of verse, Python more than 50 years ago, and he has been generating and even today she remains one of the world’s most celebrated imaginative humor ever since. I suggest we call on his counsel as poets. I propose that we make her your inspirational role model you enter the most creative phase of your astrological cycle. “This for the coming months. In my view, you’re poised to generate a is the extraordinary thing about creativity,” he says. “If you just wealth of enduring beauty in your own chosen sphere. Proposed keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconexperiment: Regard your daily life as an art project. scious.” Here’s another one of Cleese’s insights that will serve you well: “The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Have you ever dropped out of the daily grind for a few hours or discomfort of indecision for much longer, and so, just because they even a few days so as to compose a master plan for your life? The put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.” coming weeks will be an excellent time to give yourself that necessary luxury. According to my analysis, you’re entering a phase SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): when you’ll generate good fortune for yourself if you think deep Sagittarian philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) thoughts about how to create your future. What would you like developed a vigorous and expansive vision. That’s why he the story of your life to be on March 1, 2025? How about March became a leading intellectual influence in the era known as the 1, 2030? And March 1, 2035? I encourage you to consult your Enlightenment. But because of his inventive, sometimes consoul’s code and formulate an inspired, invigorating blueprint for troversial ideas, he was shunned by his fellow Jews and had his the coming years. Write it down! books listed on the Catholic Church’s Index of Forbidden Books.

Understandably, he sometimes felt isolated. To compensate, CANCER (June 21-July 22): he spent lots of time alone taking wide-ranging journeys in his Cancerian novelist William Makepeace Thackeray (1819– imagination. Even if you have all the friends and social stimu1875) is famous for Vanity Fair, a satirical panorama of 19th- lation you need, I hope you will follow his lead in the coming century British society. The phrase “Vanity Fair” had been weeks—by taking wide-ranging journeys in your imagination. previously used, though with different meanings, in the Bible’s It’s time to roam and ramble in inner realms. book of Ecclesiastes, as well as in works by John Bunyan and St. Augustine. Thackeray was lying in bed near sleep one night CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): when the idea flew into his head to use it for his own story. He “Absolute reason expired at 11 o’clock last night,” one character was so thrilled, he leaped up and ran around his room chanting tells another in Henrik Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt. I’m happy to report “Vanity Fair! Vanity Fair!” I’m foreseeing at least one epiphany that a different development is on the verge of occurring for you, like this for you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. What area of Capricorn. In recent days, there might have been less than an ideal your life needs a burst of delicious inspiration? amount of reason and logic circulating in your world. But that situation will soon change. The imminent outbreak of good sense, LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): rigorous sanity and practical wisdom will be quite tonic. Take Who loves you best, Leo? Which of your allies and loved ones advantage of this upcoming grace period. Initiate bold actions come closest to seeing you and appreciating you for who you that are well-grounded in objective rather than subjective truth. really are? Of all the people in your life, which have done most to help you become the soulful star you want to be? Are there AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): gem-like characters on the peripheries of your world that you Renowned Aquarian composer Franz Schubert (1797–1828) would like to draw nearer? Are there energy drains that you’ve created more than 700 compositions, some of which are still allowed to play too prominent a role? I hope you’ll meditate on played by modern musicians. Many of his works were written on questions like these in the coming weeks. You’re in a phase when and for the piano—and yet he was so poor that he never owned a you can access a wealth of useful insights and revelations about piano. If there has been a similar situation in your life, Aquarius—a how to skillfully manage your relationships. It’s also a good time lack of some crucial tool or support due to financial issues—I see to reward and nurture those allies who have given you so much. the coming weeks as being an excellent time to set in motion the plans that will enable you to overcome and cure that problem.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 1908, British playwright W. Somerset Maugham reached the height of success. Four of his plays were being performed concurrently in four London theaters. If you were ever in your life going to achieve anything near this level of overflowing popularity or attention, I suspect it would be this year. And if that’s a development you would enjoy and thrive on, I think the coming weeks will be an excellent time to set your intention and take audacious measures.

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of “human” out of “human resources” to convey his utter lack of concern for what Jane is trying, uncomfortably, to convey; his willingness to interrupt their meeting for an obviously personal phone call underlines how casually he’s treating what he knows are allegations of wrongdoing, but clearly will never address. And it’s here that The Assistant punches home the foundation of every kind of abusive behavior: Once you see that the structures in place will never hold the abuser to account, the sense of powerlessness only magnifies.

Because so much of The Assistant focuses on Jane, Garner’s performance is absolutely crucial, and she nails it in a way that’s simply heartbreaking. Green crucially establishes the character not as some kind of superwoman—Jane does make mistakes— but as a smart woman with ambition under steadily mounting pressure. There’s no big showpiece scene or you-go-girl speech for Jane, so the subtlety with which Garner reveals her worries and her insecurities becomes the emotional center of The Assistant, and it takes a special talent to give all

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It’s not a spoiler, I’d argue, to note that Jane herself is never the target of her boss’s sexual advances; the idea that she’s “not his type” is dropped with a disturbing casualness. But The Assistant explores a different kind of manipulation in the way that the boss can keep Jane under control by suggesting that he appreciates her talents, and can groom her for bigger and better things.

This is a story not just of the abusers and the abused, but how power dynamics affect those who might be able to do something about it—by setting them up in a position where they know to keep their heads down, and their mouths shut. CW

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This dynamic is on display most horrifyingly in the film’s centerpiece sequence, which finds Jane visiting her company’s human resources department to share with a manager (Matthew Macfayden) her stilldeveloping concerns that the boss might be doing something inappropriate with women, including a young woman just arrived from Idaho who has been hired as yet another office assistant. Macfayden plays the scene magnificently, stripping every ounce

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he understandable marketing hook for The Assistant is that it’s a #MeToo story—and, more specifically and provocatively, that it’s a thinly-disguised swipe at Harvey Weinstein. It’s not that such a designation is inaccurate, as much as that it’s incomplete. Because the structures that make sexual abuse and harassment not only possible, but pervasive, are complex, most narratives skim the surface by focusing on the horrible situations faced by the victims. Writer/director Kitty Green has tackled something thornier, even as she pointedly omits showing us the crimes themselves—because the monster here is harder to pin down.

Structurally, it’s extraordinarily simple, showing us a working day in the life of Jane (Julia Garner), who’s just five weeks into her job as assistant to the never-seen, never-named chairman of a New York-based film production company. From the moment she arrives before everyone else in the office, we watch her deal with her everyday responsibilities—getting everyone’s lunch, coordinating the logistics of the boss’s schedule, and cleaning up his office after various meetings. In some ways, it’s a fairly typical bottom-of-the-totem-pole position in a competitive industry, but one that allows Jane glimpses at how the boss might be taking advantage of his top-of-the-totem-pole status with various women.

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Kindly get me rid of this man; he has ruined my life.” Commission member Pratima Sinha told the Times, “I was taken aback by her silly reasons,” but nonetheless, the commission will give the husband “two months’ time to mend his ways. If his behavior is not found satisfactory even after that, we will ... refer the matter to the family court for separation.” Manish reportedly promised to mend his ways.

Life Imitates a TV Drama Two chemistry professors at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Ark., were formally charged on Feb. 3 with manufacturing methamphetamines and possession, KTHV reported. Terry David Bateman, 45, and Bradley Allen Rowland, 40, both associate professors, were arrested on Nov. 15 and had been on administrative leave since Oct. 11, after the science center on campus was closed because of a chemical odor. It reopened on Oct. 29 after testing, but in the meantime, according to court documents, faculty members reported to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office the two were acting in a way that indicated “these persons were involved in some type of illegal activity.” The suspects had also lost weight and were “extremely guarded” about who was in their laboratories and when. (Should have sprung for the RV.)

Irony Sauntore Thomas, 44, of Detroit, presented three checks at his bank on Jan. 21 that he had received as settlement in a race discrimination lawsuit against his former employer, according to the Detroit Free Press. Instead of accepting the checks, TCF Bank in Livonia, where Thomas was an established customer, summoned police and initiated a fraud investigation. Thomas’ attorney, Deborah Gordon, told the Free Press, “Obviously, assumptions were made the minute he walked in based on his race.” Thomas finally closed his existing accounts, left the bank and deposited the checks at a different bank without any trouble. The next day, Thomas filed a lawsuit against TCF Bank alleging race discrimination and asking for unspecified damages and an apology from the company.

Unintended Consequences In the fall of 2018, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement launched Fortify Florida, an app intended for students to anonymously report suspicious activity. Since then, more than 6,000 tips have been received statewide, but school officials are feeling mostly frustration, reports WFTS in Tampa. Indian River County Superintendent Dr. David Moore said students will “talk about the flavor of the food in the cafeteria.” Pasco Superintendent Kurt Browning said, “The number of kids entering bogus tips is consuming a great deal of resources. ... There’s a coyote in my front yard,” was one example. Indian River Country authorities spent hours investigating a report of a student planning to shoot up a high school, only to find out it was a revenge report for a recent breakup. Florida lawmakers are considering a bill to allow authorities to track tipsters’ IP addresses and prosecute those who submit false information.

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Inexplicable David Baird of Yukon, Okla., took up arms against his neighbor, John Stafford, after Stafford went on a bizarrely violent rant on Feb. 5, KFOR reported. Stafford assaulted the neighborhood for 12 hours, throwing feces into the Bairds’ yard and trying to break down a fence using a Roomba vacuum cleaner. As he and his family took shelter in their home, Baird warned Stafford: “If you break through this fence, I will have to shoot you.” Finally the bomb squad and SWAT team were called in, and Stafford barricaded himself inside his home, making six calls to 911 during the ordeal. “I am going to run you guys into the fucking ground,” he said during one. “OK, have a nice night,” the dispatcher replied.

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