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SOAP BOX Cover Story, March 26: Governor Issues ‘Stay Safe, Stay Home’ Directive My question is, why did he change his mind? He was going to issue the shelter in place. STEFANIE RAY via facebook He’s such a GOP lap dog. No inaction masked as action is too weak. DARRELL BARANOWSKI via facebook Waiting till more people get infected... ridiculous

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that Zephyr fans could determine) in 2003. During that span, anyone who was anyone on the musical touring circuit played there. Everyone who ever saw a show there lists a favorite band or experience. Mine: Los Lobos, EmmyLou Harris, Joe Ely, Gatemouth Brown, Koko Taylor, David Lindley, locals like the Gamma Rays, the Jack Mormons, Zion Tribe, Disco Drippers, Saliva Sisters and Atomic Deluxe plus the bands that members of our staff--JR Ruppel, Bill Frost, Lia Pretorius, Steven Penrod, Mary Tebbs and others played in. For one of our employees, Doug Kruithof, who has been to at least 10,000 shows and concerts (no lie), losing the Zephyr was especially heartbreaking. He’s all music all the time. For a generation, the Zephyr remains synonymous with what many consider the halcyon days of live music in downtown Salt Lake City, an era that included music specific venues like the Dead Goat Saloon, Spanky’s, the Bar & Grill, Club DV8, the Word, Speedway Café, Holy Cow (now Urban Lounge), Burt’s Tiki Lounge, and the eponymous Kilby Court. Live music was easy to find and enjoy in those years. Most of those old clubs are not only long gone, but the buildings that housed them have bit the dust, too. Somehow the Zephyr building (that included their neighbor Seigfried’s Deli) sat forlorn and rotting on one of Salt Lake City’s most visible corners, an eyesore for all to see and for all to wonder about. Indeed, for years this newspaper took a weekly photo of the Zephyr building and posted it under the name Dead Zephyr. That was a Bill Frost project and he likely took hundreds of photos of the Zephyr over that time. It’s safe to say the Zephyr didn’t officially die until Bill quit taking and posting the photos. Then last week, out of nowhere, some machinery showed up and the Zephyr went down for good in just minutes, nearly 17 years after closing their doors.

That action sparked a flurry of commentary all over Salt Lake City and on the Memories at the Zephyr Facebook page. We all lost a good friend when we lost the Zephyr, so during Lara’s show, we tipped one to Otto, Sam, and Charlie--the forever public faces of the Zephyr club. I also sent a private toast to the late Ramon Cardenas of Red Iguana fame and a bevy of other great Zephyr buddies. That was yesterday. We all have lots of thoughts about yesterday. Today our Quarantine Cocktails toast was sent out to the brave nurses who are working unselfishly through the Covid-19 pandemic. For so many of us, it’s been a real trial to find something positive to dwell on-or to toast--since early March when this was set upon us. Nearly all of our conversations have been morose or gloomy. They’ve been scary and unpredictable. Today the toast was for the nurses. Our mixologist was Ellie Lewis, the Marking and Events Director at Proper Brewing Co. While I sat on my end of the Zoom conference drinking a Proper Hopothetical IPA, (Lara was drinking a Mexican Coke), Ellie composed a drink called the Goserita--comprised of a nice shot of tequila from New World Distillery, with a heavy fill of Proper’s Lei Effect beer. Looks great and when this ends I’m gonna go down and have a couple. With a burger or two. And that’s the point of Lara’s show. We need to look ahead to whatever it is that looks bright right now. We need to digest with experts what is happening now so we know we are not alone. Tune into KRCL tonight at 6:00 p.m. and every night. Have a toast with us. We can do two things: We can support our locals, we can chuckle, we can have a drink, we can dream, we can anticipate, we can find new friends, we can learn, we can be unafraid. We can be well. Wait. That’s more than two things. Good. There’s lots to look forward to. CW

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For the foreseeable future, I’ll be a guest of Lara Jones on her KRCL Radioactive program, nightly at 6:00 p.m. We’ve done two shows so far. The premise is for me to have a short conversation with Lara and a guest--ostensibly someone noble in our community--and then give a shout out toast. The segment is called Quarantine Cocktails and features persons who are doing good things in this crisis. Plus me and a mixologist. On Monday, our good deed doer and mixologist was Steve Conlin of Ogden’s Own Distillery, maker of the Five Wives Vodka line, Porter’s Rye, Madame Paterini Gin and of the herbal spirit, Underground. While I sipped an Underground, becoming slightly buzzed (during the noon taping!), Steve mixed up a nice cocktail using Porter’s Rye, a tablespoon of maple syrup, and some cacao bitters from Caputo’s Market and Deli. It’s called a Maple Old Fashioned. He was in Ogden. I was in SLC. I kept sipping my glass of Underground. For the unwashed, Underground is sometimes regarded as, “you know, it’s like Jaegermeister.” I disagree. I can’t sip Jaeger. Underground is smooth and, by my third sip I was thinking, ‘screw Jaegermeister--even with Red Bull, even with vodka. I’m gonna have another glass of this stuff.’ So I did. Let’s just say, that in the midst of our selfimposed distancing from each other, it hit the spot. I’m now officially a person who drinks alone and on the job. Have me arrested. We talked about the sudden demise of the building that once housed the famous Zephyr club. The Zephyr had a run of about 20 years until it shut down (for no good reason

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HITS&MISSES BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

Unregulated Pollution

While people take solitary strolls in the coincidental clean air, polluting industries and the government are quietly working on a dirty comeback. The Environmental Protection Agency has decided that protection is the last thing it wants to do during a pandemic and has suspended monitoring and reporting requirements. The president, meanwhile, is handing out gifts to his friendly polluters. He almost immediately answered a call from the American Petroleum Industry to suspend the regulations and is trying to provide a $3 billion bailout for the oil industry, according to Environmental Health News. But closer to home, the Bureau of Land Management is considering leasing up to 150,000 acres in the Moab area, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. The BLM allows these “expressions of interest” in leasing to remain anonymous, but there’s no doubt there’s an urgency to file — while no one’s looking.

Redisticting Process

It’s a great spring Dear Governor Herbert and Lt. Governor Cox, Your press conference today was more than confusing, it was troublesome. “Stay safe, stay home” But ... Try to get takeout 3x a week? Limit your gatherings to 10 ppl? “Please practice social distancing and stay 6’ apart” But ... Use your elbow vs. shaking hands in social situations? “We are open for business” — WE ARE?

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As of today, all four of my coffee houses and restaurants have been closed for days. My 64 amazing employees have been furloughed and have applied for unemployment (some are still entangled in the DWFS system). Per your "Utah Leads Together" plan, this will remain true for 8 to 12 more weeks as we all navigate the plan's designated "urgent phase". As our leaders, you had an opportunity to enforce responsible + safe practices. Why didn’t you? There are so many people (including my employees) and small business owners who are willing to sacrifice within a 30+ day "Shelter in Place" directive — a directive that would take us out of this “urgent phase” more quickly. Your lack of direction is so irresponsible on many medical levels, but the "urgent phase" is not at all sustainable small businesses. I am angry. I am disappointed. I am appalled. I will not be voting for you, Mr Cox. You clearly are very disconnected from the people, specifically the Utah workforce.

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Not to upset the uber-lords, the Utah Foundation has cautiously and ever-so conservatively ventured into the realm of gerrymandering. “Nationally, policymakers have at times tried to “game” the redistricting process to ensure a desired outcome,” they say. At times. “The finessing of borders to achieve a politically desirable outcome is often called gerrymandering.” Finessing. That’s pretty mild stuff for an egregious strategy shown to protect incumbents and dilute the opposition’s voting pool. And it’s true that the Supreme Court has declined to rule on partisan gerrymandering – because it’s too hard for them to figure out. So maybe it’s excusable that the Deseret News carried a Utah Foundation op-ed saying “it’s not as simple as it sounds.” Sure it’s challenging, but it’s really not that hard to the right thing. And that is what an independent advisory commission has been charged with doing.

Work Requirement

There may be a tiny silver lining from the pandemic. The Utah Department of Health suspended the cruel and unusual work requirement for Medicaid recipients. “Work requirements or ‘community engagement’ rules have always been illegal, illogical, and unnecessarily punitive,” Stacy Stanford, policy analyst with the nonprofit Utah Health Policy Project told the Salt Lake Tribune. Sadly, the GOP hangs onto the Horatio Alger fairy tale that people should pull themselves up by the bootstraps. Never mind that they make minimum wage or are a single mom with kids. Utah thinks they’re basically lazy bums because poverty is a sin and something only churches should be dealing with. The Trib’s letters to the editor are heartbreaking. One noted that our health care for profit is immoral, and another asks what will happen to those without insurance. If the answer is some kind of government-funded health care, then you can be sure the GOP will scream socialism. It’s going to cost the state, but better money than lives.

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“Should we and our children be vaccinated?” ask organizers of the Free Thought Forum. “Absolutely!” Of course, you can’t talk about this in person, so FTF offers a weekly online forum on subjects of moral philosophy, healthy living, and science “to improve the cohesion, health, and scientific literacy of our society.” It’s up to you to decide how much these public discussions improve your now-solitary lives. This week, Vaccines, Outbreaks, and Epidemiology will lead you in with 45 minutes about the subject, a break time and then an hour for an open forum. Warning: You have to be respectful of other people’s thoughts and not comment on the people themselves. Sunday, April 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Free, online-group text: https://discord.gg/ueN5jE4; Online Group (voice): https://discord.gg/ gRgtPY7; Group Page: https://www. freethoughtforum.org/online-group; Free, https://bit.ly/39zCyRT.

NEEDS DRIVE

We The Single Parent Project and Community Partners are looking for help to better serve people who are suffering financially, physically, mentally or emotionally during the COVID-19 crisis. Donations will be accepted under safe conditions following CDC guidelines. Here’s a list of items they need: Distilled Water, Bottled Water, Formula, Diapers, Baby Wipes, Lysol, Clorox Wipes, Bleach, Isopropyl Alcohol, Hydrogen Peroxide, Toilet Paper, Paper Towels, Hand Sanitizer, Dish Soap, Laundry Detergent, Shampoo and Conditioner, Body Wash, Deodorant, Feminine Hygiene Products, Non-Perishable Food Items, Children’s Tylenol, Motrin. This Community Needs Drive and monetary donations will be used to help single-parent families. Granger High, 3580 S. 3600 West, West Valley City, Saturday, April 11, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Free, https://bit.ly/3aFLS8k.

PANDEMIC IMPACT

The Southern Utah Wilderness Association has been examining how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting rural Utah, specifically residents and healthcare workers in the popular but now abandoned public land gateway towns like Moab and Boulder. In their current episode of Wild Utah, Stay Home, Save Lives: Coronavirus in Southern Utah, Dr. Dylan Cole, chief medical officer at Moab Regional Hospital, and Blake Spalding, chef/owner of Hell’s Backbone Grill in Boulder, discuss “why staying at home this spring—and away from our favorite redrock destinations—is crucial to keeping Utah’s rural communities safe from the spread of COVID-19.” Listen here: https://bit.ly/2UBdF4a.

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Greenthread Herbs Herbalist Josh Williams: Educator/Owner What has been the hardest obstacle to work out?

For us, connection is everything. Being able to spend time with customers to explore their wellness goals and find the right herbal allies for them is what sets us apart. Not being able to be face-to-face with people in the shop has been a real challenge; but everyone in the community has been so patient and supportive of our creative workarounds. We miss the in-person connections and can't wait to have them back!

How will this change the way you do business after it is over?

We hope that things can go back to our old normal, but we're aware that they might not. We hope to continue to be adaptable and find ways to serve the community no matter what happens in the future.

Our selection of organic bulk herbs which we source from farmers, co-ops, and brokers from around the world makes what we do special. We've had a really challenging time stocking our jars because many of our farmer friends are not mailing herbs, all of our Chinese and Indian sources are on hold, and the more popular herbs simply cannot be sourced at this time. We use our bulk herbs to custom formulate teas, tinctures, compresses, baths, and other herbal remedies for our customers so it's been challenging not to have our usual supply on hand.

What are looking forward to doing once the lockdown is lifted?

Hugs! We have such a close connection with so many of our customers, we can't wait to get back to being a little closer than six feet, and having folks in the shop with the herbs again.

Are there any specials or information you wish to share with the public?

We have been doing lots of free streaming classes via our Instagram live, and have partnered up with other herbalists including Shelley Swapp, Mobile Moon Co-op, and some special out of town teachers to present these classes. We offer them throughout the week, and Josh has them every Wednesday at 2:00p.m. on his feed @TheWortCunner We also offering as much discount as we are able to for those in the community who need it, especially folks in the service and healthcare fields. We want to make sure people are getting the herbs they need at this time, and want people to know that we will not turn anyone away for lack of money. If you're struggling financially, please reach out, we can always come up with something for you!

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ince early March we’ve all watched the coronavirus (COVID-19) spread uncontrollably across the United States as we became the new global epicenter. We’ve seen friends business’ close for an undetermined amount of time, and witnessed some “leaders” on the federal, state and local levels trip up on even the most levels, like organization and communication (nothing new for most of them). Like you, I can’t wait to put all this COVID business behind me. I need a hug! Human health is our number one priority. I obsess over numbers so thank you to the folks that follow the #staysafestayhome directive-- it appears to be working everywhere except for the Darwin Award candidates in Utah County who can’t seem to put their personal priorities above those of the full society. STFH! That said, separating human health from financial health in daily conversation is nearly impossible: No health, no finances. As we talk about what this world all looks like when this inevitably passes, we cannot forget the folks that had no option in their financial sacrifices for our physical health. That’s why in this issue and issues to follow, City Weekly will highlight our friends in the business community who are paying the freight for coronavirus spread. It’s important to understand that our neighbors’ experiences are uniquely different when working from home is simply not an option. Please get to know them on these pages, and as always―SUPPORT LOCAL!

AAA Jewelers: Michael Vardakis What has been the hardest obstacle to work out?

We’d like to start by saying thank you to all of our first responders, medical staff and everyone else on the front lines during this pandemic. Thank you for all that you do, and stay safe. As far as obstacles, the stopage of traffic in the store and the lack of action in the industry has affected us most. Even if we want to make a deal, it’s hard to do. There’s not only a lack of customers, but a lot of our vendors across the state and nation are shut down right now.

How will this change the way you do business after this is over?

From now on, we’ll control the amount of people within our store, even after some of the restrictions are lifted. We’ve implemented a higher level of sanitation around the store already, since a lot of people are touching many different products at a time.

What is the makeup of the majority of your business or best seller?

Manufacturing custom products, engagement rings, luxury watches as well as buying luxury goods from the public, including fine watches and custom jewelry. During this downturn, the amount of buyers has been a fraction of what it’s been because luxury goods are the last thing people buy. Usually when a financial crisis occurs, we have a lot of people willing to sell merchandise. But right now, people are too afraid to even leave their house, so that portion of our business has been affected as well.

What are you looking forward to once the lockdown is lifted?

We’re looking forward to seeing our loyal customers again. Whether they’re purchasing something or just stopping by to say hello, they’re a part of our family.

Is there any special or information you wish to share with the public?

Financial downturn or booming economy, we beat everyone’s prices for custom jewelry in town. Right now, we’ve moved to an appointment-only format.

Make an appointment by emailing aaajewelers1946@gmail.com 801-359-2035. | 601 S. State Street

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RubySnap Tami M. Steggell: CEO, Founder Director of Appetites

What has been the hardest obstacle to work out?

Our sales have been down 60% for the past four weeks. We are starting to see numbers slowly pick up as consumers are gaining more confidence in how companies are taking extra precautions to keep the public safe, while still offering services they have come to love. We have kept our spirits high and we are trying to spread as much local joy as possible. The curbside pickup requires much more effort and running—it’s a built in workout (whoot!) and seeing faces of old and new customers is a true pleasure!

How will this change the way you do business after it is over?

It has been terrific to launch into new avenues of customer service we had already been working towards and we’re luckily prepared for with our new delivery and pre-order pickup through the new RubySnap App. We only recently launched the app in mid-January, so we’re excited to get the word out much faster. That fact that it was already in place was an amazing gift!

Feldman’s Deli Michael Feldman: Manager / Owner

What’s been the biggest seller?

Our Sloppy Joe and Reubens. We also sell out of bagels everyday.

What has been the hardest obstacle to work out?

What are you looking forward to doing once the lockdown is lifted?

The most difficult thing was to recreate our business model—making takeout our priority and making it easy for customers. But employees rose to the occasion and customers have been amazing, showing fantastic generosity.

Kibitzing with customers, having our full menu back, music on Friday and Saturday nights, and restarting Old Jews Telling Jokes. The next show will be our 40th!

How will this change the way you do business after it is over?

Are there any specials or information you wish to share with the public?

We now have online ordering and takeout has proven to be easier than expected. Plus we had time for a real deep clean, including refinishing our tables!

Just best wishes for all of us trying to get to the other side of this. Stay safe and healthy. Thanks to our phenomenal staff for their focus and to our amazing customers for their support and generosity and can’t wait to have you back soon!

2005 E 2700 S | 801.906.0369 Feldmansdeli.com

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What’s been the biggest seller?

Curbside one dozen has been our biggest seller. Our delivery has taken a huge jump, therefore, we’ve added more drivers, and our shipping has picked up significantly as well. We now offer half dozen for curbside pickup, including frozen bake-at-home dough, and PB Wows, drinks, merchandise, you name it! We have your back! Our two monthly specials are available in the app: the BillieAnn cookie a coconut carrot curry, and the Myle cookie—black rice lemongrass, both rockstar cookies.

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Coconut Carrot Curry

What are you looking forward to doing once the lockdown is lifted?

Throwing a big outdoor party to thank everyone who has trusted us to serve them. I want to bring in a band and give a big shout out to all who have graciously supported local and kept our staff with jobs. We are so grateful!

Are there any specials or information you wish to share with the public?

Yes! This month is DO YOUR BLUE and we are offering the PatsyJane blackberry cookie in the DO YOUR BLUE box to support autism. Our profits will go to serve families with Autism. We also have a new browned butter, walnut chocolate chip cookie that we are launching May 15. We will start offering this cookie as a “thank you bonus cookie” with every order. This is the only way you will be able to get this cookie until our May launch.

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We are wearing our signature RubySnap bandana’s as face masks at curbside, along with nitrile gloves, and every package is shrink wrapped to keep germs out. We are here to cater to any wish you might want to add to your delivery or curbside orders, from drinks, merchandise, bake-at-home dough. Give us a chance to show off, we care about caring and we are here because of public support. Our app for delivery and pre-orders ➔

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Fiddler’s Elbow & Salt Lake Pizza and Pasta Al Dieffenbach: Manager / Owner

What has been the hardest obstacle to work out?

Paying the bills that have accrued during this time.

How will this change the way you do business after it is over?

Once we are able to allow the general public back into our restaurants, we will embrace and let our loyal customers know that we love and missed them because our customers are the best! It is very emotional for me to stand curbside and see them daily and not allow them to enter and enjoy all that our restaurants and bars have to offer!

What’s been the biggest seller?

Nachos, Garlic Burgers, Pizzas, Pastas,and Calamari.

What are looking forward to doing once the lockdown is lifted?

Creating a neighborhood cohesion that a public gathering place provides! Oh and Great Food and Drink!

801.463.9393 for Curbside 1063 E ast 2100 S Full menu from Noon to 8 PM Daily. Use GrubHub for delivery.

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Gardner Village / Naborhood Bakery Megan Hall: General Manager / Executive Chef

What has been the hardest obstacle to work out?

Gardner Village is a place that encourages people to come stay awhile. It's been hard to be able to create our goal of raving fan service when we need to ask customers to keep their distance and aren't able to allow them to stay and enjoy as long as we'd like them to be able to.

How will this change the way you do business after it is over?

Food has traditions and memories mixed in. Those are hard to replace and create at home. I think this is teaching us how to make ways for people to more easily take the food they love and have those traditions and memories with us home. We've introduced our Famous Chicken Pot Pies as a take and bake option so that while people can't have them with us we can help them still have that comfort food at home.

What’s been the biggest seller?

Our take and bake Chicken Pot Pies and basic staples of flour and yeast that we've been able to help those in need.

What are you looking forward to doing once the lockdown is lifted?

Celebrating Gardner Village's 40th Birthday and Naborhood Bakery's 100th Birthday. We are excited to have people back in our dining rooms and in our shops continuing to make those memories and traditions with us.

Are there any specials or information you wish to share with the public?

Thank you for the support. We have been so grateful and excited to see our regulars and even new faces helping support local businesses during this time. We can't wait to continue to serve you and meet you all in person soon!

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Schmidt Body & Paint Tracy Schmidt: Manager / Owner

What has been the most difficult challenge as the owner of a business?

For me it has & will probably continue to be is keep employees from not being scared. I have to ensure them that I will be there for them & their families. We will continue to do are best to keep shop busy positive & productive!

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What are you looking How will this change the way you do business after it forward to doing once the lockdown is lifted? is over? Hugging friends and family Spending more time in my office at work and sharing in the comradery with my fellow co-workers and not working from home as much.

What makes up the majority of your business or best seller?

Entirely referral based. Past cli-

Are there any specials or information you wish to share with the public?

I give good deals to all my borrowers. Dah. LOL

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How will this change the way you do business after it is over?

This won’t change anything for us as business goes, it will make us stronger in the end. We have always tried to put out a good product and make employee's and customers feel like family!

What’s is the main concentration of your business?

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We have a wide verity of clientele from farmers, construction, mining, as well as insurance work to just the everyday person driving down the street. We take pride in all of the things we can do for the hole community.

Glover Nursery Rod Glover: Manager /Owner

What are you looking forward to doing once the lockdown is lifted?

What has been the hardest obstacle to work out?

What we are looking for when this goes away is taking the time to enjoy friends and family again in the way we have always done.It has been weird for me not to hug and shake hands with others. Hopefully when this is over we can look back and learn from this to be stronger than we were before and also not to forget what this has done to are families and are businesses. I believe that this is a lesson for us, telling us we need to slow down and get back to the basics, to take the time for others to really enjoy life. We don’t have a whole lot of time here so just be kind to one another!

Are there any specials or information you wish to share with the public?

We want to let them know we are a local small family operated auto body repair shop that has been serving Utah for three generations and looking to forward to serving for many more!

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Customers practicing safe distancing and cell phone sharing. They want to show us pictures of their plants or problems.

How will this change the way you do business after it is over?

I think all human beings will realize just how vulnerable we can be. I think we'll all sanitize better in all aspects. We probably won't change business practices much because we are a 90% outdoor facility.

What makes up the majority of your business or

best seller?

Shrubs have always been the one item that leads the sales category. This year vegetables have increased two fold. However, vegetables are not a large percentage of our gross sales.

What are you looking forward to doing once the lockdown is lifted?

Quit worrying about whether to wear a face mask or not! Personally I am looking forward to getting out to restaurants and a few movies. I hope they have Red Butte concerts this year. Always enjoy those.

Are there any specials or information you wish to share with the public?

We always have monthly specials that can be found on our website etc. Gardening is very therapeutic and always has been.

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business or best seller?

Our best seller is our Quarantine Pack. This is a mega-sampler of all our products, 24 beers for $50.00.

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Shades Brewing Alexandra Ortiz: Co-owner

What we’re looking forward to is delighting our customers with five new fabulous beers we have planned for Craft Beer Week. Each of these beers is a collaboration with another brewery including one in Brazil. Craft Beer Week is in May. We don’t know what life will be like in May or if Craft Beer Week will happen as scheduled. Most likely we will wait to release our collaboration beers until the taproom re-opens.

Are there any specials or information you wish to share with the public?

The most difficult are fixed costs such as rent and loan payments, payroll. Also not being able to ship or deliver beer to people’s doors like other states.

We’ve started offering Take and Bake Pizza with success. Once we re-open, we’ll be able to add food and extend our hours to include lunch.

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What makes up the majority of your business or best seller?

What has been the hardest obstacle What are you looking forward to doing once the lockdown is lifted? to work out? Going on a trip.

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What has been the hardest obstacle to work out?

We just want to thank them for all the love and support. Our number one priority is taking care of our employees. We’ve had many customers drive over an hour to buy beer directly from us. Their support has made it possible to keep all of our employees working. No one has been laid off. We’ve been able to make payroll and we are not able to do this without their ongoing support. For everyone’s safety and to improve service, we set up our beer to go table outside on our dock everyday between 3:00 p.m.7:00 p.m. No one has to go into a confined space to buy from us. Customers can drive right into our dock and we’ll load them up.

Dealing with he FDA. I thought the TTB has a shitty website. The FDA is a nightmare.

Possibly, we might have found a permanent secondary product line; hand sanitizer. It would require working out additional licensing issues.

Are there any specials or information you wish to share with the public? We will keep making hand sanitizer as long as we can and are allowed to. Ingredient supplies are in short supply, but we’ve pumped out about 2,500 gallons so far!

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If you’ve been needing a dose of visual art in your stay-at-home life, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts is ready to serve you. Via the new “UMFA at Home” portal from the museum’s website (umfa. utah.edu), visitors can access a wide-range of experiences, stories and educational opportunities for the family. Some of that content revolves around the 50th anniversary of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, and while the birthday party originally scheduled for this month had to be cancelled, you can still participate in the celebration. View stunning images of the Spiral Jetty, discover the history behind its creation and who continues to maintain it, and share personal stories, video and images about your own experiences with the Great Salt Lake landmark. For even more Smithson content, visit for video made possible by the Holt/Smithson Foundation. Every Friday, a moving image work by Nancy Holt and/or Robert Smithson will be released via password-protected Vimeo link, for viewing between 3 p.m. and 11 p.m. on that day. Take advantage of a rare opportunity to view an artistic installation in your own home. As for the museum’s own installations, UMFA is attempting to provide access to some of the ongoing exhibitions. Among those exhibitions that had to be closed to the public during the current pandemic, Seven Masters: 20th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints will be offered in a limited online form, with a gallery page allowing access to approximately a third of the installed works and accompanying wall text. Visit the UMFA website, Instagram (@utahmuseumoffinearts) and other social media pages, or sign up for the now-weekly email newsletter for ongoing updates about ways to share in the artistic treasures of UMFA. (SR)

Providing educational experiences for children is nothing new for the staff of Discovery Gateway. But when the facility itself had to close its doors, the education and marketing professionals needed to find a way to adapt those experiences for online use. The result is the STEAM Learning Lab, which provides new posts every Monday, Wednesday and Friday combining basic scientific concepts, historical background information and hands-on crafts. One such lesson, for example, uses the artistic technique of pointillism—with cotton swabs and paint—to introduce the three states of matter, along with links to a YouTube video and other educational resources. Other topics include the Holi Festival of Colors, a photography scavenger hunt and the story of paleontologist Mary Anning “We really wanted to continue to be there for our members and our patrons as a resource, and in a fun way,” says Melissa Miller, Senior Marketing Manager for Discovery Gateway. “We tried to make sure the materials would be things you would already have at home, or easy to get as you go shopping every once in a while.” The lessons are adapted by the Discovery Gateway on-site education team, with the marketing department serving as the “layperson’s eyes” to ensure that they’re easy to follow. Miller says that the programming had already been planned more than a month in advance, so there’s no danger in running out of content any time soon. “We had some conceptual ideas, but they really had to go back to the drawing board to make it online and have parents be able to do it,” she says. “In some sense, this is something we already do, just trying to reformat it for online just requires a little re-thinking.” (SR)

Like all arts organizations, Provo-based An Other Theater Company had to radically re-think its plans after the COVID-19 pandemic required the shuttering of live productions. According to artistic director Kacey Spadafora, “We were actually in rehearsal for a production. We were putting the finishing touches on our set, then had to cancel.” Looking for an option that would provide revenue while staying within guidelines for safe social distancing, Spadafora remembered a play he had seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Richard D. Sheridan’s Odd Shaped Balls, a 30-minute oneactor show about a professional rugby player trying to keep secret that he’s in a romantic relationship with a man. Spadafora contacted Sheridan, who agreed to allow the production without any rights fees. Spadafora then reached out to actor Colter Lee Brown, with whom he’d worked previously, about starring in Odd Shaped Balls and playing the show’s eight different roles. “The biggest challenge is, it’s putting on a one-man show in two weeks,” Brown says. “And not only one character, but doing character work for multiple characters.” With that condensed timetable, the production team works in rehearsals that place Spadafora (who directs this production), Brown and two tech staffers at safe distances from one another—plus a dialect coach working with Brown via Skype. Even costuming required creative solutions, as Spadafora looked for a rugby-style uniform at a sporting goods store, “grabbed what I hoped would fit him, and it worked out.” Tickets for Odd Shaped Balls are available on a pay-what-you-can basis at anothertheater.org, for a recorded performance that will be available April 10-12, 6 p.m. – 11:59 p.m. Ticket-buyers will be emailed the link for the stream at 5 p.m. on their selected date. (Scott Renshaw)

Just on the eve of the opening of Utah Opera’s production of The Barber of Seville, the world changed, and with it the way people would be able to interact with some of the greatest music ever composed. Fortunately, Utah Symphony & Opera continues to offer many ways to enjoy that music, and to continue supporting the organization. While live performances are not possible at this time—and scheduled performances have been cancelled through the end of the scheduled season in May—you can still hear the musicians of the Utah Symphony every day. KBYU (89.1 FM) is offering daily broadcasts of previouslyrecorded symphony performances, with upcoming highlights including Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9 (April 10, 2 p.m.) and Prokoviev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 (April 15, 9 a.m.). Additionally, some of these broadcasts are available for streaming at utahsymphony.org/explore/playlists/ listening-room, along with curated playlists and episodes of the Symphony’s GhostLight podcast. According to USUO CEO Patricia Richards, one bright spot in this dark time has been the way other symphony organizations around the country have come together to provide ideas and a sense of shared purpose. “It gave us a great sense of solidarity,” Richards says. “Here we are, all isolated in our hopes, and to talk to peers around the country and support one another, it was really very uplifting.” For those who want to continue supporting USUO, and ensure that it emerges from this crisis strong, Richards emphasizes buying Symphony recordings, continuing to buy tickets for upcoming performances, and donating the cost of already-purchased tickets rather than seeking replacements. “Our biggest expense, and our biggest concern, is our employees, and how to support them,” Richards says. “By donating those back, we can really keep them employed.” (SR)

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hese are, to put it mildly, strange times. We’re all locked up in our homes, hoping to prevent the spread of a very serious virus that’s wreaking havoc across the world. We’re looking for things to occupy our time, relieve the boredom and help us make some sense of world events. In order to help you get through this, I’ve compiled playlists of movies or shows currently streaming (and where to find them) that might help you in various situations. Never fear; we’ll get through this together.

When You Need a Laugh

Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (The Criterion Collection): Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 dark comedy is a case where you laugh to keep yourself from crying. It’s about the utter foolishness of the U.S. government in a time of a crisis, and is also one of the funniest films ever made. And it would not surprise me to find that Donald Trump has George C. Scott’s hawkish Gen. Buck Turgidson advising him on the COVID-19 situation. His Girl Friday (The Criterion Collection): This Howard Hawks classic teams Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in a newsroom. The rapid-fire dialogue and focus on

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journalism make it a sure winner. Some Like it Hot (The Criterion Collection): Billy Wilder’s gender-bending gem never gets old. Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe are all at the top of their game. Show this one to the kids. They’ll love it. Monty Python’s Flying Circus (Netflix): This classic British series of absurdist comedy sketches is everything you need to laugh your problems away. And honestly, when was the last time you binged that much Python? It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Amazon Prime): Another classic comedy that often gets forgotten. This all-star caper about a pursuit of buried treasure casts a who’s-who of classic comedians, and never feels as long as its three-and-a-half hour runtime would suggest. Which is to say, it will keep you busy for a while.

When You Need Some Comfort

Mileage on these will vary, but my personal comfort re-watches—when I need to be reassured that there is still good left in this world—come down to the holy trinity (or actually quaternity?) of nerd properties. These are what I fall back on when I’m sick or need a pick-me-up. Maybe they’ll do the same for you. Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (Disney+): The Star Wars films are pretty much my go-to in any crisis. The ones that make me feel the most comforted are Episodes I, VI, and VIII. Taken together, all nine episodes of the Skywalker Saga are a beautiful opera of mythology, each trilogy offering us lessons to survive trying times. The Indiana Jones Films (Netflix): These four films are some of the best and most enjoyable action/adventure films ever made. Watching Indy punch Nazis (or cultists, or Russian operatives) is a balm that heals the heart. Star Trek (CBS All Access, and more): Seriously. From the various TV series to the film versions, virtually every iteration of Star Trek is streaming somewhere. Is there

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a better time to tackle Gene Roddenberry’s universe chronologically than now? No. Make it so. The Lord of the Rings Films (mostly on Netflix): Watching the downtrodden of the world resist an unspeakable evil and triumphing, despite terrible odds, is something we all sort of need in our lives right now, right?

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Because we always need some of that. Especially when we’re impacted by the mistakes of our leaders Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Disney+): When the leaders above us fail to act, it’s up to us to rebel. And, like they say: Rebellions are built on hope. That’s what we need right now more than anything. Red Tails (Disney+): Watch what the black pilots of World War II went through, as their story finally got a 2012 Hollywood war-movie treatment of their heroism. The Dirty Dozen (Netflix): Watch Lee Marvin lead a dozen criminals into pulling off one of the most daring suicide missions in the faux-history of World War II. The King’s Speech (Netflix): You want to see a leader rise to the occasion under pressure? The King’s Speech delivers the dedication of a man who didn’t realize he would become leader overcoming his stutter, then leading a nation through World War II.

There’s no shortage of things to watch while you’re trapped at home, doing your small part to help save the world. But just remember that you’re a superhero for doing your part to self-isolate. It’s going to be a while—probably longer than most of us realize at this point—but we won’t want for entertainment. Look for the inspiring, funny, beloved stories that will help carry us through. CW

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Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl with a whisk and set aside. Cream butter and sugars until pale and fluffy, about five minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating between additions to fully incorporate. Scrape bowl and mix again, adding vanilla. Add dry ingredients and chopped chocolate. Mix slowly until fully incorporated. Set dough aside in refrigerator for about 30 minutes to rest and firm up. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Scoop dough onto parchment-paper-lined sheet pans. Space a couple of inches apart—cookies spread while baking. I like to sprinkle a bit of flaky Maldon Sea Salt on top of mine before baking, so if you have it, give it a try. Bake 10-12 minutes. Check at 8 minutes because all ovens are different. I like mine deep brown around the edges and still a bit pale and soft in the middle. Let cool on the sheet pan, as the heat from the pan finishes baking the cookies. These are most soul-satisfying about an hour after baking, when the chocolate is still kind of melty, but they are delicious for a couple of days if they are covered in an airtight container. CW

hen you’re a housebound food writer and all the local restaurants close their dining areas—many of them are still open for takeout and delivery, so keep supporting our friends in the restaurant biz, dear readers—you learn to get creative. I’m still keeping tabs on what our local restaurants have been doing to up their takeout game, but I’ve also been wanting to get some professional tips on how to liven up my own at-home meals. I’m an okay cook, meaning I know how to follow a recipe without screwing it up. But I also know my limitations, which is why I’ve reached out to a few local chefs to hook me—and, by extension, all y’all—with a few easy recipes. Keep checking back for new ideas—I’ll keep them coming as fast as I can. The first in this experimental series comes from Amber Billingsley, pastry chef at Current Fish and Oyster (279 E. 300 South, 801-326-3474, currentfishandoyster.com) and Stanza (454 E. 300 South, 801-746-4441, stanzaslc.com). It’s a recipe for chocolate chunk cookies—the ones that are available on Current’s takeout menu if you want to test them out before making them at home. I’m no stranger to baking chocolate chip cookies at home—my kitchen smells like brown sugar, vanilla and semi-sweet chocolate on most days of the week. Before I tried Billingsley’s recipe, my go-to option was

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from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking: From My Home to Yours. After my test run, I think I’ll be returning to Billingsley’s more often. To this point, my cookies were often flat and slightly too crispy, but there were a few tips here that let me know what I was doing wrong. The cookies that came out of my oven after trying Billingsley’s recipe were picture perfect—slightly thicker in the middle and crowned with a few flakes of crispy salt to jumpstart the sweetness of the chocolate. The first game-changer listed here was the instruction to refrigerate the cookie dough before baking. I had never done this before, but this is the secret to getting cookies to maintain a bit of girth in their midsections instead of splaying themselves on the cookie sheet like lethargic sunbathers. The second came from the salt sprinkled on top before baking. Billingsley recommends some good Maldon sea salt for this, but kosher salt will do in a pinch. These were two relatively simple changes to make to my process, and now that I’m gushing about this, it seems like everyone knew this secret except me. Regardless, I think these techniques will become part of my arsenal from here on out. My one slightly embarrassing admission was that I used regular semi-sweet chocolate chips because I bought a gigantic bag of them pre-quarantine, but there are all kinds of places to get good baking chocolate—Billingsley likes to use dark and white Valrhona Feves chocolate but she also recommends Caputo’s Market and Deli or Harmon’s Grocery for other high-quality baking chocolate. Pedestrian chocolate morsels aside, I really loved how these cookies turned out. When one sets out to bake chocolate chip cookies, they do so with mental representation of what they want the end result to be. Most of the time, this is an unrealistic expectation because it’s usually an amalgam of childhood memories, after-dinner surprises and guilty pleasures, but these were exactly what I needed them to be. If trying this recipe out has got you curious to see what Billingsley is up to at Current and Stanza, both restaurants

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Tip Your Server

To help aid those professionals in the SLC food community, the Downtown Alliance, Mayor Erin Mendenhall and Ty Burrell (Modern Family, Bar-X) are spearheading a crowdfunding initiative called Tip Your Server (downtownslc.org/tipyourserver). Its primary function is to provide financial relief to members of the hospitality industry who have been impacted by the tag-team of COVID-19 and the recent rash of earthquakes that have been forcing restaurants and other hospitality workers to tighten their belts. We recently heard that Ogden’s Own Distillery (3075 Grant Avenue, 801-458-1995, ogdensown.com) will be contributing their profits from the March and April to this program in addition to an initial donation of $25K. Those interested in contributing can donate directly online or stock up on Five Wives Vodka from Ogden’s Own.

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The folks at Baking Hive (3362 S. 2300 East, 801419-0187, bakinghive.com) have always seen the work they do as a way to engage with the community, which has been difficult to do lately. To accommodate for the changes that have taken place throughout the restaurant community, Baking Hive has started assembling $20 bakery boxes for delivery, each of which comes with an assembly of the Hive’s current pastry all-stars. They are also busy creating take-home decorating kits for the kiddos who have been spending more time at home. Bakeries like the Baking Hive are an interesting fixtures in our communities. Many of them sell excess kitchen essentials like flour and baking powder, and others are simply giving bread away to those in need. Keep an eye out for new ways

Gnocchi at Noon

VENETO Ristoratne Italiano (370 E. 900 South, 801-359-0708, venetoslc.com) recently announced an relief program for furloughed members of the hospitality industry called Gnocchi at Noon. Starting on April 15 at noon, VENETO will be offering a free meal to the first 50 hospitality professionals at the same time every Wednesday until their colleagues are back working normal hours. Social media can be a bit of a garbage fire during times like this, but it’s also helping restaurants like VENETO spread the word about some of the great things they’re doing to help out our local community. If you’re a professional in the hospitality industry and you’re currently out of work because of the maelstrom of pandemics and earthquakes, VENETO is offering a little bit of solace until you get back on your feet. Quote of the Week: “There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can.” –Rocco DiSpirito

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keep asking myself, “Will this be the week we’ll have no new suds?” Then, out of the blue, I get a text from one of our remarkable brewers. They exclaim that they’re still alive and have new adult beverages for us to fill our pandemic bunkers with. As long as they keep making them, City Weekly and I will keep you up-to-date on these offerings. We’ve got your back in all things beer-and-brewery-related. That being said, check out these two very different new IPAs. Uinta Brewing Co. Free Form LoCal IPA: This beer is a part of Uinta’s new line of “lo-cal” Beers. The Free Form label promises ales and lagers that will be below 100 calories per serving and keep the carbs

in the basement. This IPA, for example, is listed to have 3.0 grams of carbs. It pours a hazy, pale golden-yellow color not turbid by any means because it has more of an unfiltered look to it. The nose is of grainy and crackery cereal malt, muddled domestic citrus peel, a stoney flintiness and some earthy, musty, piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt with a bit of mixed-pomme fruitiness. Orange and lemon citrus notes, then a damp minerality and more understated leafy, weedy and piney hoppiness finish the effect. Overall: This certainly comes off as an earnest attempt to be a flavorful low-calorie and low-carb beer. It emerges as a nice Brut IPA, plenty dry with minimal sweet malts to fatten you up. The 4.0% alcohol also manages to keep the calories down. This will kill as a great recreating beer, but if you’re looking for more of a flavor bomb look towards Uinta’s Hop Nosh. Level Crossing Brewing Co. Space Oddity: I love the colors of the label. It’s definitely one of the better packaging looks in our market, and pours a hazy golden body beneath a two-finger-thick head of pillowy off white foam. The aroma is mildly pungent with notes of hop resins and pine, and then juicy as well with notes of pineapple and orange. The flavor follows with all of those essences, threaded throughout a sweetish grainy malt base. It’s not really that bitter, but there’s an appealing slight

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could knock back a few of these and would buy this beer again. All in all, it makes for an enjoyable addition to Level Crossing’s lineup. Sadly, this is a seasonal that we will not likely see again in the near future. Good job guys: This is a tasty IPA. Keep it up. As we’re still a few weeks into our new bizarro world, the unexpected should be expected. Look for both of these beers at their respective operating breweries for the moment. The Free Form should be popping up in grocery stores any time, so keep your eyes opened there as well. As always, cheers! CW

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Kari Jørgensen describes one instance in particular of this sort of give-and-take inspiration between herself and fellow Hel artist Burnin’: “I became obsessed with the song ‘Rain’ by Madonna after seeing it used in Uncut Gems, posted it on the Discord, and it ended up being used as a sample in Burnin’s WAV Network track. The WAV Network Compilation, released in February 2020, was a product of the Hel Master Terminal, an ongoing side project of Karl Jørgensen. He describes as a set of generative creative tools featuring pattern generators for drum machines, synthesizers, titles and artwork—all of which artists had at their disposal when crafting the WAV tracks. Discord functions for them similarly, providing an insulated space for conversation and inspiration to occur. “I love learning about other people’s creative habits, techniques, what’s inspiring them, etc,” Kari Jørgensen says. “Also, I’m not an incredibly social person, even online, so it’s been refreshing to have a low-key, friendly space where I can interact with people without feeling hyper-exposed and aggressively advertised at.” Beyond direct cultural and media influences, artists also share their thoughts on and approaches to making their kind of experimental music. “It’s definitely added something to my work process, as far as hearing other people’s philosophies on how they work or even think about their medium,” Aguilera says. “For instance, someone had a general question on the topic of musicmaking, and Kari had a piece of advice that had really stuck with me. She said, ‘Gotta stay present in the fact that working on music is never a waste of time. The work is the only thing there is.’ Small gems like that really help me, and at that moment I knew the server was worth checking on a regular basis.” With that in mind, Aguilera also wants to contribute more of his own resources on the server. “I plan to put more things out there like sample packs, mixes and maybe small things I produce for people on the server only,” he says. Plans like these to grow the content of the server are good, since the artists−along with the rest of us—will likely be cooped up and hungry for inspiration for some time to come. Karl Jørgensen also hopes there will be more collaboration through the server, and says, “It’s definitely a good space in the current world. It’s nice to have a positive space to share thoughts.” And as Kari Jørgensen adds, “In this nearly-unprecedented situation we’re in, finding ways to connect with and support others feels pretty crucial.” CW

here’s a certain nostalgia that comes with the word “server,” evoking a tech-obsessed early millenium where hackers in movies hung out online learning dark secrets of the web. And while most people are finding fresh new ways of getting online inspired by not being able to go out, the artists of local electronic label Hel Audio are way ahead of the curve. On the Hel Discord server, they find casual conversation via the trackless, easy-going forum-like space. Though Discord was built for communication in the world of gaming, for Hel, it’s quickly become a multi-use text-only space where those on the server can share links to content. Artists behind local names like Mooninite, Siak, Passive Tourist, Bobo and others gather to swap inspirations and interests, to trade tips and tricks on staying focused on their music-making and−most importantly−simply to talk. It was around October 2019 that the project came to life, with the help of local synth-pop aficionado Kari Jørgensen, who performs under the moniker Bobo. She was spending time on another Discord server, where there was a focus on pop music and “its industries and politics,” and recognized it as “a pliable medium that takes the shape of whatever people are posting.” Jørgensen approached her brother, Karl Jørgensen, about starting such a server for Hel Audio, the latter’s rich and vibrant electronic label filled with local experimental artists and soundenthusiasts (including Bobo). Hel label artist Andrew Aguilera (Mooninite, Angel Magic) also put in his two cents, telling City Weekly, “A server seemed like a cool idea for me personally to take a look at who is interested in joining a social space with people specifically from the Hel Audio feeds.” Together, they founded the label and opened it up to their peers. “What I’m seeing so far is a lot of chatter from film enthusiasts, left-field music recommendations and general advice on music production and process discussion,” Aguilera says of how the server has been operating. Kari Jørgensen also notes topics besides music being discussed on the server, such as TV shows and movies, particularly their soundtracks. While she says the server rarely swerves into technical stuff like gear-talk, a new collaboration channel has just been added to the server, where one can start or embellish someone else’s track, “sort of an exquisite corpse of music.”

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Released: March 27, 2020 The sophomore full-length from Salt Lake City’s emo revivalist outfit Breakfast in Silence—Val Brown (drums), Russ Wood (guitar) and Ash Bassett (guitar/vox)—is a nine-song emotional purge that improves on the churning jangle-punk of 2018’s It’s Hard To Be Open-Minded When You Wanna Die. The songwriting contains a contradiction, though, which existed in singer Ash Bassett’s past lyrics, too. Superficially, the writing is vulnerable and forthcoming—scattered with personal accounts of grief, guilt, abuse and despair—but it also hides away from itself. Lyrics that begin as a plain report to the audience twist into secret imagery. Musically, CW: Loss is a clear leap forward for the band, even if it sometimes feels limited. The heavy sections could be heavier, the melodic songs more melodic, the grooves tighter. But, it’s a testament to how intentional this band is that their multifaceted arrangements are distinct, if not high-contrast enough. They have a good instinct for balancing dissonance and harmony, and their guitarwork is nimble and creative, giving these nine songs a real sense of understated accomplishment. “Call Your Grandma” is the best song the band has written yet, emotionally complex but direct; “Riff Hard x Solo More,” “The Worst” and “DLTN” stand out, too. Breakfast in Silence will only improve as their dynamics become more conspicuous, but CW: Loss is an emotional success. A live streaming album-release show is scheduled for April 10. Details can be found at facebook.com/ breakfastinsilence or on Instagram at @ breakfastinsilence. (Alex Murphy)

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Released: March 6, 2020 Crow Killer have clearly done their homework, and it shows. While my limited personal experience with metalcore led me to better-known reference points like Knocked Loose, Gaza and Converge, this SLC quintet cites as influences Belgian metalcore luminaries Congress and Liar, as well as obscure, mosh-ready punk acts like Vamachara and Detain. The band’s desire to make a mark on a genre they’re intimately familiar with comes through loud and clear on their debut full-length Enslaved to One. On the album’s Bandcamp page, genre tags like “stompcore” and “gospel rap” might set off alarm bells in some listeners’ heads, but within seconds of pressing play, opener “Castigate” will lay to rest any fears of illadvised genre-blending. Tyler Rhodes and Josh Nemcek’s rabid, chaotic riffs and frontman Blake Foard’s throat-searing screams combine to kick the album off with a bang, and the subsequent nine tracks keep up the energy with aplomb. Throughout the album, Crow Killer never forget their principal duty of providing aggressive, pummeling tunes to get a crowd going, but with aspirations go a little beyond the mosh pit as well. Tracks like “Hang Tight” and “Fight Back” carry a blunt, unambiguously progressive message in their lyrics, and “Bring Back the Blood II” enlists guest vocalist Megan Golden for a moody, off-kilter venture into post-hardcore. Enslaved to One is a bold first step from Crow Killer, positioning the band on the cutting edge of Salt Lake’s heavy music scene. (Nic Renshaw)

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Released: June 22, 2019 For a few weeks in mid-2017, The Nods’ “The City Swallows” pretty much ruled my life. I was anxiously awaiting the start of my first year in college and itching to finally move out of the Salt Lake area, and the clattering, noisey claustrophobia of the track−combined with frontman Rocky Maldonado’s apoplectic snarl of “I hate living in the city!”−captured that particular angst better than just about anything else I could find. “The City Swallows” does not appear on The Nods’ 2019 LP Overripe (though several other tracks from its excellent parent album Ariadne’s Thread do), but listening to Overripe was nonetheless a great reminder of why I fell in love with that song and why The Nods still occupy a unique niche in the Salt Lake music scene. Psychedelic and garage rock have both thrived throughout the valley for the past decade-plus, and while plenty of bands offer quality examples of one or both of those genres, the Nods have a more sour, post-punk influenced take on those sounds that stands in sharp contrast to the overall trend of good-time, classic-rock boogie in the so-called “psych lake” scene. The heavy use of reverb effects feels like a dense smog hanging over the record, and tracks like “Sufferette” and “Brittle System” make use of dissonant guitar feedback and busy, cymbal-heavy drum beats to create a feeling of pissed-off, punky dissatisfaction. As the band’s Facebook bio puts it, The Nods are The Nods, and they’re still damn good at it, too. (Nic Renshaw)

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Released: Sept. 20, 2019 Logandale, Nev. is one of those sleepy desert towns that dates back to the mid-1800s, the kind of place most folks never become aware of. Yet it provided the ideal environs for a budding singer-songwriter intent on making music that reflected those downhome origins. His initial attempt to achieve that goal began with a bus ride to Nashville where he hoped to meet Jack White, owner of Third Man Records. Unfortunately, it never happened, and he was forced to return home empty-handed. Nevertheless, he held true to his hopes, and a homegrown ethos that incorporated such early influences as Dylan, Johnny Cash and Robert Johnson. Now living in a trailer in Ogden, he makes music that holds to the essence of true Americana—unvarnished, unfettered and decidedly unassuming. It’s a sound conveyed through a relentless ramble and the intimacy of an acoustic guitar. Anderson’s latest effort is a follow up to Graydog, his 2017 debut, similarly produced by another Utah transplants-turned-native son, Joshua James. Still, Anderson deserves the credit here; his craggy vocals, folksy demeanor and earnest delivery add an unflappable sense of sobriety to each of these offerings. “Daddy’s Ramble,” “Don’t Go to the City,” Dessert” and “Dark Haired Girl” all attest to Anderson’s tempered tones. There are exceptions—the swampy stomp of “When I Go,” the unexpected shriek that accompanies “Jelly Man” and the spoken dialogue shared in “Frayed Apollo”—but mostly the music remains untarnished, a supple serenade every step of the way. (Lee Zimmerman)

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The Complex has also implemented the hefty business of postponing and rescheduling many of their shows--almost as many shows as have been outright cancelled. Their Instagram feed is a constant stream of updates on shows cancelled since this all got serious in mid-March. This leaves plenty to look forward to when this all lifts, though, and they’re making sure everyone remembers, with lots of posts about throwbacks to shows past. Take a look at the feed if you’re feeling nostalgic for simpler times.

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This mid-June night is blessed with the lateaughts wonder that is AwolNation. If you were around online during that time, you know the song “Sail,” the most intense radiofriendly song perhaps of its time. Eight years later, 2019 tracks like “The Best” highlight AwolNation’s status as just that. The sweeping pop stylings of Andrew McMahon will balance the night out. 6 p.m., $40, 21+

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There’s no way to describe the delight of a song titled “Crackin’ Cold Ones With The Boys” unless you’ve been on the internet in the past few years, but perhaps the fact that no one can crack open cold ones with their boys currently is enough to make you emotional. This song comes from the fourth full-length effort, Country Fuzz, by the approachable and easy-going country act The Cadillac Three. This group is all about the good times, and they find and deliver them easily. 7 p.m., $22, 21+

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An indie band if there ever was one, this Aussie group—who have been building up their platform since 2011—have finally won themselves a spot on the global indie stage with a soft-swaying sound that could only be crafted down under. Singles like 2019’s “Hearts in Halves” take on an altogether more sensual feel, and it suits them sportingly. 7 p.m., $15, all ages

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Another staple of the same period, Blue October and their signature gloomy, alt-rock sound will be making their way to the ears of SLC residents two nights in a row. An outright prolific act who was active with multiple albums before their breakout album Foiled in 2006, they’ve followed it up with eight albums since then, digging into their sound even more with solid post-rock tonalities and inclinations. 7 p.m., $35, 21+

Death metal bands have been in the DMs of the City Weekly music inbox more than any other genre, perhaps because they’re unfazed? Waking The Cadaver is no exception, and the slow and steady-working band—who have released three full albums since 2006—will be out on the road gladly when this is all over. Return to normalcy with this stacked night of death metal riffs and no deathly virus anywhere near your mind. 7 p.m., $15, all ages

You may have heard their 2016 pop banger “Happy Pills,” which is exactly the kind of song it sounds like and was a good herald for the Neon Trees-informed sound they’ve chased since then. They’ve maintained their chasing-the-stars attitude since then with singles like 2020’s “Feel Good,” because if it’s good and you’ve got it, then why not hold on to it? 7 p.m., $13, all ages

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One of those names you know without knowing how you know it, Hot Mulligan is from the Midwest, an area with a tendency towards churning out memorable names. The band, who have been dropping music since 2015 and who have two full albums to their credit, specialize in uplifting pop-punk that’s impossibly infectious. 6 p.m., $18, all ages

The postponement of the Dreamland Tour by upbeat and funky indie pop act Coin was probably closer to a nightmare for fans. But luckily enough, the group will still be going out in support of the Dreamland album (their first since 2017) with a rescheduled tour that will find them riding with support act Sure Sure, whose heartfelt cover of Talking Heads’ “This Must Be the Place” will really make The Complex feel like the place to be after months of isolation. 7 p.m., $25, 21+

A gentle story of uniting divided people fuels Abe. BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

t the beginning of Abe, our 12-yearold titular protagonist (Stranger Things’ Noah Schnapp) notes that while he prefers the simple “Abe,” he’s sometimes called Avram, sometimes Ibrahim. That’s because the Brooklyn youth comes from a particularly complicated mixed marriage: his father, Amir (Arian Moayed), is Palestinian, and his mother, Rebecca (Dagmara Dominczyk), is Israeli. And though Abe’s parents have chosen to live secular lives without either religion, when the family gets together for occasions like Abe’s birthday, it’s hard to avoid more than a little tension. It wouldn’t be difficult to anticipate that story, from Brazilian co-writer/director Fernando Grostein Andrade, turning into a simple “why can’t we all just get along” narrative. But Abe manages to find some richer territory to mine as it reveals Abe’s passion for cooking, and his overly optimistic sense for how food might bring his battling family members together. At an outdoor food stand, he meets Chico (Seu Jorge), a Brazilian-born chef who reluctantly agrees to take on Abe as a kind of apprentice. So while Abe’s parents believe he’s attending the introductory summer food camp where they drop him off each day, he’s actually making his way to Chico’s kitchen. There’s a simple and familiar dynamic to the scenes of Abe’s growing friendship with Chico, reminiscent of The Karate Kid in how we watch menial tasks turned into an introduction to basic discipline. It’s also likely to inspire some salivating at the screen, as Andrade showcases cooking accompanied by bouncy rhythms that turn the act of cre-

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New to VOD: SLAY THE DRAGON BBB If there’s one thing we need right now in a time when so many of us feel helpless, it’s a reminder of what it feels like to take action when everything seems hopeless. Directors Barak Goodman and Chris Durrance take on the topic of gerrymandering in American politics, providing a historical framework before taking a deep dive into how the Republican Party, in the wake of the 2008 election, developed their elaborate “Project

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Redmap” for changing the electoral landscape. Inevitably there’s a fair amount of talking-head material as the film sets up the stakes, and the almost impossibly successful GOP attempts to flip state legislatures and then Congressional districts after the 2010 census. But the heart of the story comes when the focus shifts to Katie Fahey, a political novice who decided to launch Michigan’s ballot initiative for an independent redistricting commission, as well as a challenge to Wisconsin’s gerrymandered districts that went to the U.S. Supreme Court. It’s always clear the financial and political forces arrayed against these agitators for change, and we sometimes see them at their most pessimistic. But it’s hard not to feel a surge of emotion at seeing resilient fighters refusing to believe that their voices—and the very ideas of representative democracy—don’t matter. CW

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Moses did 40 years’ worth of hard work in behalf of his people, delivering them out of slavery in Egypt. Yet God didn’t allow him to enter into the Promised Land. Why? At the end of his travails, he made a minor mistake that angered God beyond reason. Petty? Harsh? Very much so. I’m happy to say that your fate will be very different from Moses’. Some months from now, when your labors bring you to the brink of your own personal version of the Promised Land, not even a small error will prevent you from entering and enjoying it. And what you do in the coming weeks will help ensure that later success. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Built in the third century B.C., the Colossus of Rhodes was a monumental statue of the Greek sun god. It stood in the harbor of the island of Rhodes, and was called one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Alas: An earthquake struck the area 54 years after it was finished, knocking it over and smashing it into fragments. Three centuries later, many of the chunks still lay scattered around the harbor. I offer this as a teaching story, Taurus. If there are any old psychological ruins lying around in your psyche, I encourage you to conduct an imaginary ritual in which you visualize throwing those ruins into a big bonfire. Clear the slate for the new beginnings that will be available once the COVID-19 crisis has settled down.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Before the COVID-19 crisis arrived, were you ensconced in roles that were good fits for your specific temperament and set of talents? Did you occupy niches that brought out the best in you and enabled you to offer your best gifts? Were there places that you experienced as power spots—where you felt at home in the world and at peace with your destiny? Once you’ve meditated on those questions for a while, Libra, I’ll ask you to shift gears: Meditate on how you’d like to answer similar questions about your life in the future. Once this crazy time has passed, what roles will be good fits for you? What niches will bring out the best in you? What will be your power spots? SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Fen” is a word that’s not used much these days. It means a marsh or a boggy lowland. Decades ago, Scorpio poet Marianne Moore used it in a short poem. She wrote, “If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.” In my opinion, that’s an apt battle cry for you right now. You shouldn’t be upset if people tell you that certain things are impossible for you to do. You should be grateful! Their discouragement will rile up your deep intelligence and inspire you to figure out how you can indeed do those things. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Goodness alone is never enough,” wrote author Robert A. Heinlein. “A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.” I think that’s an interesting thought for you to consider during the coming weeks, Sagittarius. If you want your care and compassion to be effective, you’ll have to synergize them with tough intelligence. You may even need to be a bit ferocious as you strive to ensure that your worthy intentions succeed and the people you love get what they need.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Argue with anything else,” writes author Philip Pullman, “but don’t argue with your own nature.” Amen! That’s always good advice for you Geminis, and it will be especially crucial in the coming weeks. A certain amount of disputation and challenging dialogue with other people will be healthy for you, even an effective way to get clarity and advance your aims. (Don’t overdo it, of course.) But you must promise never to quarrel with or criticize your own nature. You should aim at being a radiant bastion of inner harmony and a powerhouse of self-love. Do whatever’s necessary to coax all CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Are there any ways in which you have been wishy-washy in your different aspects to work together in sweet unity. standing up for what you believe in? Have you shied away from declaring your true thoughts and feelings about important CANCER (June 21-July 22): Like many Cancerians, painter Marc Chagall cultivated an inti- issues that affect you and the people you care about? Have you mate relationship with his dreams and fantasies. His fellow compromised your commitment to authenticity and integrity artist Pablo Picasso remarked, “When Chagall paints, you do for the sake of your ambition or financial gain? In asking you not know if he is asleep or awake. Somewhere or other inside his these questions, I am not implying that the answers are yes. head there must be an angel.” Being a Crab myself, I know how But if in fact you have engaged in even a small amount of any of essential it is for us to be in close connection with reverie and the those behaviors, now is an excellent time to make corrections. imagination. Every now and then, though, there come occasions As much as possible, Capricorn, focus on being trustworthy when the demands of the material world need our extra, focused and transparent. attention—when our dreamy tendencies need to be rigorously harnessed in behalf of pragmatism. Now is one of those times. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Physicist Edward Teller believed there is no such thing as “exact science.” And in his view, that’s a good thing. “Science has LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is there an influence you’re ready to outgrow, Leo? Are there always been full of mistakes,” he said. But he added that they’re teachers who have given you all they have to offer, and now you mostly “good mistakes,” motivating scientists to push closer need to go in search of new founts of inspiration and education? toward the truth. Each new mistake is a better mistake than the Have you squeezed all possible value out of certain bright ideas last, and explains the available evidence with more accuracy. I and clever theories that no longer serve you? Are you finished suspect that you’ve been going through a similar process in your with old sources of excitement that have lost their excitement? personal life, Aquarius. And I predict that the good mistakes These are the kinds of questions I encourage you to ask yourself you’ve recently made will prove to be useful in the long run. in the coming weeks. It’ll be a favorable time to celebrate the joyful art of liberation—to graduate from what might have been PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): true once upon a time, and prepare for the wide-open future Few astrologers would say that you Pisceans are masters of the obvious or connoisseurs of simplicity. You’re not typiafter the COVID-19 crisis has mellowed. cally renowned for efficiency or celebrated for directness. Your strength is more likely to be rooted in your emotional riches, VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your words of power in the coming days are simple: deep, low, your ability to create and appreciate beauty, your power to down, below, dig, dive, and descend. I invite you to meditate on generate big dreams, and your lyrical perspective on life. So my all the ways you can make them work for you as metaphors and oracle for you this time may be a bit surprising. I predict that use them to activate interesting, nourishing feelings. There’ll in the coming weeks, your classic attributes will be very usebe very little worth exploring on the surface of life in the coming ful when applied to well-grounded, down-to-earth activities. weeks, Virgo. All the hottest action and most valuable lessons Your deep feelings and robust imagination can be indispensable assets in your hard work on the nuts and bolts. will be blooming in the fertile darkness.

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Neighbors Helping Neighbors In Richfield, Wis., neighbors Eric Trzcinski and Trevor Reinke have missed sharing a beer while they are socially isolating. So Trzcinski came up with a novel idea: He’s a car guy, and happened to have a spare exhaust tip that was the perfect size to hold a bottle of beer. Using zip ties, he strapped the tip to a remote control car, then dropped a bottle of Corona (yes, on purpose) into the pipe. He called Reinke, told him to start videotaping, and Reinke caught the little delivery as it zoomed across a busy street and up his driveway, delivering the cold brew into his hands. Trzcinski’s Facebook post featuring the video racked up more than 5 million views, he told FOX6 News on March 24.

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Lesson Learned Taiwan has strictly cracked down on its citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic, using GPS on phones to monitor the movement of those in quarantine. One man got a particularly costly lesson when he violated the quarantine to go clubbing. The unnamed man, who was required to self-quarantine for 14 days after returning from Southeast Asia, was charged $1 million Taiwanese (about $33,000 US) after he was found at a Taipei nightclub on March 22. Authorities deemed his night out “malicious,” and the New Taipei mayor, Hou Yu-ih, warned, “I will not be soft-handed.”

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