City Weekly March 25, 2021

CONTENTS COVER STORY

THE FOILIES 2021 A down and dirty dozen in government transparency Compiled by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock News

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“What Did We Miss?”

March 18 cover story

[The DABC retaining] enough profit? You mean the over $500 million in sales last year? That profit? The most corrupt state-run industry in the country? The establishment that pays managers $10 an hour while the state profits millions? Does that money go back into our state? Nope! It shouldn’t be legal to “sin tax” a legal product. Truly remarkable how this is still allowed. @YOUNGB171 Via Instagram

“Blue Plate Blues” March 18 opinion column

When will the development stop? @SUGARHOUSECOFFEE Via Instagram [Blue Plate Dining closing] is so sad! They have the best huevos rancheros in the state. As a Utah native, I can’t help but be extremely frustrated by the state’s gentrification and

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not being able to afford housing. @COFFEEMETSKIMBERLY Via Instagram The worst thing about this and so many other issues is that all of the challenges Utah faces have been met (some successfully, some not) in California. Water issues, development, homelessness, sprawl. If only our legislators and many of our civic leaders would look around and actually seek solutions, we’d have a bit better chance.

Nope, instead we bumble headlong into the same missteps. @SALTLAKEMUSICSEEN Via Instagram As a lifelong Utahn, I finally moved to Kansas City a few months back.

We timed it right—got a bigger and better house in a safe and quiet neighborhood with good schools for less than what we sold ours for in SLC. Salt Lake is becoming an overpriced cultural desert. @JAXMANJAX Via Instagram

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I agree. This is awful. The whole state is becoming overdeveloped, overly dense. How do we stop the madness? What will it take to keep open space and prevent others from moving here? It’s negative explosion of population. @LEESE_16 Via Instagram

“Two Tickets to Flavortown,” March 18 dining review OK, wait. Isn’t [Guy’s Flavortown Kitchen] just Brio Italian Grille with a different menu? @SELLINGSALTCITY Via Instagram

I just ate here, and it’s delish—pricey but good food.

The cheese dip is on fire! @ HONEYVALENTINO.INC Via Instagram Gross. How about local, non-chain joints? Give this shit to the ’burbs.

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HITS&MISSES

BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

MISS: Tax Cuts in a Pandemic

When Utah decided to forgo Medicaid expansion, it made the decision that ideology was more important than health. The state spurned the federal government’s promise to pay 100 percent of the additional costs for the first three years and up to 90 percent of the costs by 2020. We know how that went.

Citizens rose up and passed Medicaid expansion anyway. Now Attorney General Sean Reyes has joined 21 other anti-fed AGs in telling the president they don’t like his damned pandemic money because the plan won’t let them cut taxes. “Does it simply prohibit states from using the federal dollars to offset new tax cuts, or instead prohibit them from cutting taxes for any reason, even if those cuts were in the works before the law passed?” the AGs ask, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. Well, clarification isn’t a bad thing, but the red-state AGs ought to consider using taxes during the pandemic rather than cutting them.

MISS: Religion as a Weapon

Even the Deseret News found it necessary to write a story about “why” Utah Sen. Mike Lee and other Republicans are opposing the Equality Act, which updates federal civil rights law to include the LGBTQ community. Apparently, these Republicans live their daily lives in spiritual fear that they won’t be able to deny housing or employment to LGBTQ people. Somehow this also means that trans women would have an advantage over biological females, although there is no such evidence.

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, distilled the GOP line: “I do believe that people who want to blatantly discriminate and use religion as their weapon have gone too far. We have to have limits on what they can do. Remember: The Ku Klux Klan was not burning question marks. They were burning the cross.”

HIT: No Guns for Abusers

Now on to the Violence Against Women Act, opposed by 172 House Republicans because … violence never involves guns? The 1994 law is due to be renewed, partly because the country still does not have an Equal Rights Amendment, but that’s an argument for another day. The law, if extended, would keep guns out of the hands of abusive partners, whether they were spouses or not. The Salt Lake Tribune shed more light on the abuse issue with an investigative report on landlords who systematically evict abuse victims and their families. You know, they disturbed the peace. “Too often the loss of housing can be used as a legal weapon by abusers to cow partners into submission,” the Trib wrote. The New York Magazine Intelligencer called it a different kind of weapon—the religion of guns. The issue really is a religion of male supremacy.

CITIZEN REV LT IN A WEEK, YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD

Are You Being Counted?

It only happens once every 10 years, and this is not the time to ignore politics. There were some understandable delays due to the pandemic, but the counting “whole number of persons in each state” means everyone.

What does this mean to your representation?

Panelists at The Census and Utah: The Power of Being Counted will discuss what they anticipate the implications of the new data to mean to the state economy, political representation and our local communities.

All you and anyone had to do was answer 10 simple questions—and they had nothing to do with your citizenship. Utah now has an independent redistricting commission to parse out the numbers and which politicians represent what areas. It’s all dependent on the census. Live closed captioning will be available. Virtual, Monday, March 29, 12-1 p.m., free. http://bit.ly/3eTPgRM

Disrupting Systemic Racism

What are the next steps to grounding antiracism work across state institutions and higher education systems nationwide? The Long Game: Deepening the Work, invites you to reflect on what you’ve learned, how you’ve changed your practices, and to interrogate our own relationship and approach to anti-racism work. Panelists from the University of Utah’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion “will share how they have disrupted racism and systemic inequity, what they have built in its place, and what we must do together to inspire and sustain the necessary and lasting changes in higher education.” Virtual, Friday, March 26, 1-3 p.m., free. http://bit.ly/2Pary8Z

Questioning Gender

Trans Day of Visibility Conference: What I Wish I Had Known will explore who you are. If you are questioning, transgender, gender nonconforming or someone who interacts with those exploring their gender, you will get information to make it easier to navigate your way. “Exploring your gender can feel like you are at a crossroads. So many things overlap as you try to find your path,” organizers say. Psychologists see trans and non-conforming people at a higher risk to their mental health as well as social issues.

Many struggle with early and ongoing trauma from being mis-gendered and the stigma that accompanies this “gender-policing.”

The conference is part of Pride Week at the U, whose theme this year is “Queer at the Intersections.” Virtual, Wednesday, March 31, 9 a.m. Register at http://bit.ly/3bZb8t3

Global Protest for Myanmar Democracy

Join Revolution Day Global Protest and demonstrations around the world to protest the military takeover in Myanmar. There will be a call for official international recognition of CRPH (the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw), which was formed by elected lawmakers who were prevented from taking seats in the Union Parliament by the Feb. 1 coup. The event will also feature live remarks from Dr. Sa Sa, who was appointed Myanmar’s representative to the U.N., and who the regime has charged with high treason. Virtual, Friday, March 26, 8:30 p.m., Saturday, March 27, 1 p.m., free. http://bit.ly/3eUdF9T

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B Y J O H N S A LTA S

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Herd Mentality

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ot that long ago, half the people in Utah balked at taking any precautions against COVID-19. They didn’t like masks. They wanted their “freedoms.”

They talked up “herd immunity” as if they actually passed high school biology. Since they didn’t—and knowing that there was nearly a good chance they learned everything they know about medical science from Drs. Welby, Pierce, Howser and Ross— I accepted their social media posts with a grain of sodium chloride. What I watched, and what all of you watched, wasn’t an education about “herd immunity” but rather, a front row seat to the never-ending Utah movie called, Herd Mentality.

The fast-acting Biden administration is getting COVID-19 vaccine doses spread all across the United States, and the state of Utah (thank you, Gov. Cox!) is getting the sand out of the gears and wax out of the ears. Utahns are being vaccinated at lifesaving pace, and you no longer hear a peep about “herd immunity.” The same people who are now pushing and shoving their way into vaccination lines were the ones who expressed their “freedoms” by calling the rest of us socialist sheep and mindless followers because we trusted Dr. Fauci more than Dr. Nick Rivera.

Over a million fellow Utahns have had at least one of the two recommended doses of

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either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. This week, all adult Utahns can reserve slots for their vaccinations. Last year at this time, I mocked Gov. Herbert because Utah had a worse COVID case and death count than the country of Greece, despite the fact that Greece has 7 million more residents. Now Greece far surpasses Utah in COVID-19 deaths and is slacking in vaccinations. This year, Utah will vaccinate around 3 million residents faster than Greece can even turn on its lamb spits.

As above, that credit is primarily due to the ceaseless positive messages from Gov. Cox and his administration. They were ready and organized, and they spelled out relatable messages regarding the benefits of vaccination, which can be distilled down to a very specific meme: Living is good, and living is the right thing to do. It’s a funny thing about messaging. Sometimes you can have the perfect message, but it falls on deaf ears.

For a message to be effective, people have to be willing to hear and accept the message.

As often as not, what causes a person to open their ears is that they become affected by an external event that causes them to become just a tad more willing to understand something they formerly decried.

The classic example is how Utahns seemed to suddenly become engaged in their support or acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community. It wasn’t that long ago that Utah’s herd mentality prevented the majority of Utahns from publicly accepting some

family members or joining in events like Pride Week. Then it was like a light switch went off. We see Pride flags all over town, families hugging and lots of colorful hair styles. It’s how herd mentality works. It’s not OK until it is. And what triggered the rapid rise of acceptance of Utah’s LGBTQ+ citizens wasn’t a speech from the governor or any politician.

It was the realization among Utah families—especially hard-line Latter-day Saints—that having a gay son or daughter over for the holidays was far better than losing that loved one forever. The message was always there. It took losing a loved one or hearing of such to finally accept the message. It’s true that truth is our savior.

Over 2,000 Utah families have lost a family member to COVID. Ten times that number have had close calls. That’s 2,000 or 20,000 too many, but finally enough Utahns have been so closely stricken by COVID that they’ve opened their eyes to this basic fact: Utah’s economy doesn’t mean shit if you are too dead to enjoy it.

Utah’s herd mentality is finally moving in the right direction. But it’s not over. Utah will soon try a risky scenario in removing some of its COVID restrictions (note to Gov. Cox—see Greece example). All that remains is for the people who sacrificed this past year to figure out a way to get to Lake Powell without driving through Kanab and Kane County. Then we’d be the perfect herd. CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net.

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Steve Conlin

Five Wives Vodka and water with a squeeze of lime. Very refreshing!

Sofia Cifuentes Moscow Mule: Vodka, lime juice and ginger beer. Mix it up and enjoy!

Scott Renshaw “Open the top on a bottle of good beer” is the simplest recipe I know.

Chelsea Neider My favorite summer drink is half seltzer water (flavor of your choice), half Press alcohol seltzer (flavor of your choice), shot of silver tequila, top with a slice of lime, lemon or watermelon.

Kelly Boyce Water. I like how wet it is. Solid health benefits, too.

Christa Zaro My health coach told me if I need a drink (and, of course, I will), to drink tequila because it’s the cleanest form of alcohol and lowest in sugar. So then, Vida Smash: In a rocks glass, muddle or smash fresh raspberries with a spoon. Add ice and tequila (I prefer Vida Blanco).

I don’t measure, just add lots. Add a splash of Spindrift raspberry bubbly water and a couple mint leaves. See you at the pool.

Paula Saltas An old lady drink: Hot Peppermint Patty. My recipe: 1 ounce peppermint schnapps, ½ ounce creme de cocoa. ¼ ounce crème de menthe, 1 cup of hot chocolate. Optional: top with whipped cream. It’s like a Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookie but better, obviously.

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A down and dirty dozen in government transparency COMPILED BY THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION AND MUCKROCK NEWS ILLUSTRATIONS BY CAITLYN CRITES

gallery as a faux awards program as part of Sunshine Week, the annual celebration of open government organized by the News Leaders Association, which was just observed March 14-20, 2021.

In 2021, the Electronic Frontier Foundation published The Foilies in partnership with MuckRock News, a nonprofit dedicated to building a community of cool kids that file Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and local public records requests. But note that this “down and dirty dozen” is just the tip of the iceberg. For an unabridged version of this year’s Foilies “winners”, visit: eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/ foilies-2021 And for previous year’s dubious winners (many of whom are repeat offenders) check out the archive at eff.org/issues/foilies. And without further ado…

President Donald J. Trump

Small Business Administration

In the early weeks of the pandemic, the Small Business Administration (SBA) awarded millions of dollars to small businesses through new COVID-related relief programs—but didn’t make public the names of recipients. When major news organizations including ProPublica, the Washington Post, and The New York Times filed public records requests to learn exactly where that money had gone, the SBA dragged its feet, and then—after the news organizations sued— tried to withhold the information under FOIA exemptions 4 and 6, for confidential and private information. A court rejected both claims and also forced the government to cough up more than $120,000 in fees to the news organizations’ lawyers.

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Secrecy nerds know that classification authority—the power to essentially mark some documents as secrets exempt from disclosure—resides with and is largely at the discretion of the president, who can then designate that authority as needed to agency personnel. So, one expected upside of a loose-lipped president with an undisciplined social media habit was the ability to use the Tweeter-in-Chief’s posts to target otherwise inaccessible FOIA requests.

Case in point: Trump’s Oct. 6, 2020, tweet: “I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political

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1. The Power of the Tweet Award

CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions!”

Hard to argue there’s ambiguity there. But when BuzzFeed News’ Jason Leopold flagged that order in his ongoing lawsuit for the materials, that’s just what the Department of Justice did. DOJ lawyers told the court the posts “were not self-executing declassification orders and do not require the declassification of any particular documents.”

The court ultimately bought the argument that you can’t take what the then-president tweets too seriously, but Trump declassified other materials related to the FBI’s investigation ... on his last day in office.

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he day after the 2021 inauguration, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut, took to Twitter to declare: “Biden is making transparency cool again.”

This was a head-scratcher for many journalists and transparency advocates. Freedom of Information— the concept that government documents belong to and must be accessible to the people—has never not been cool. Using federal and local public records laws, a single individual can uncover everything from war crimes to health code violations at the local taqueria. How awesome is that?

If you need more proof: there was an Australian comic book series called Southern Squadron: Freedom of Information Act; the classic anime Evangelion has a Freedom of Information Act cameo; and the Leedsbased post-punk Mush received 7.4 stars from Pitchfork for its latest album “Lines Redacted.”

OK, now that we’ve put that down in writing we realize that the line between “cool” and “nerdy” might be a little blurry. But you know what definitely is not cool? Denying the public’s right to know. In fact, it suuucks.

Since 2015, The Foilies have served as an annual opportunity to name-and-shame the uncoolest government agencies and officials who have stood in the way of public access. We collect the most outrageous and ridiculous stories from around the country from journalists, activists, academics and everyday folk who have filed public records and experienced retaliation, over-redactions, exorbitant fees and other transparency malpractice. We publish this rogues’

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How does the government lose records?

Shred-athons, “accidental” deletions, arbitrary adjustments of retention policies— usually with promises to do better in the future.

3. The Secret COVID Statistics Award

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

Seeking a better understanding of the toll of COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic, journalists in North Carolina requested copies of death certificates from local county health departments. Within days, officials from the state Department of Health and Human Services reached out to county offices with guidance not to provide the requested records—without citing any legal justification whatsoever. DHHS did not respond to reporters’ questions about why it issued that guidance or how it was justified.

Some local agencies followed the guidance and withheld records, some responded speedily, and some turned them over begrudgingly—emphasis on the grudge.

“I will be making everyone in Iredell County aware through various means available; that you are wanting all these death records with their loved ones’ private information!” one county official wrote to The News and Observer reporters in an email. “As an elected official, it is relevant the public be aware of how you are trying to bully the county into just giving you info from private citizens because you think you deserve it.”

4. The Pharaoh Prize for Deadline Extensions Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot

With COVID-19 affecting all levels of government operations, many transparency advocates and journalists were willing to accept some delays in responding to public records requests. However, some government officials were quick to use the pandemic as an excuse to ignore transparency laws altogether. Taking the prize this year is Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago, who invoked the Old Testament in an effort to lobby the Illinois Attorney General to suspend FOIA deadlines altogether.

“I want to ask the average Chicagoan: Would you like them to do their job or would you like them to be pulled off to do FOIA requests?” Lightfoot said in April 2020, according to the Chicago Tribune, implying that epidemiologists and physicians are also the same people processing public records (they’re not).

She continued: “I think for those people who are scared to death about this virus, who are worried every single day

that it’s going to come to their doorstep, and I’m mindful of the fact that we’re in the Pesach season, the angel of death that we all talk about is the Passover story, that angel of death is right here in our midst every single day.”

We’d just note that transparency is crucial to ensuring that the government’s response to COVID is both effective and equitable. And if ancient Egyptians had the power to FOIA the Pharaoh for communications with Moses and Aaron, perhaps they probably would have avoided all 10 plagues—blood, frogs and all.

5. The Doxxer Prize

Forensic Examiner Colin Fagan

In July 2020, surveillance researcher and Princeton Ph.D. student Shreyas Gandlur sued the Chicago Police Department to get copies of an electronic guide on police technology regularly received via email by law enforcement officers around the country. The author of the guide, Colin Fagan, a retired cop from Oregon, did not agree that the public has a right to know how cops are being trained, and he decided to make it personal. In a final message to his subscribers announcing he was discontinuing the “Law Enforcement Technology Investigations Resource Guide,” Fagan ranted about Gandlur for “attacking the best efforts of federal, state and local law enforcement to use effective legal processes to save innocent victims of horrible crimes and hold their perpetrators accountable.”

Fagan included a photo of Gandlur, his email addresses and urged his readers to recruit crime victims to contact him “and let him know how he could better apply his talents”—one of the most blatant cases of retaliation we’ve seen in the history of the Foilies. Fagan has since rebounded, turning his email newsletter into a “law enforcement restricted site.”

6. The Government Retribution Award City of Portland, Oregon

People seeking public records all too often have to sue the government to get a response to their records requests. But in an unusual turnaround, when attorney and activist Alan Kessler requested records from the City of Portland related to text messages on government phones, the government retaliated by suing him and demanding that he turn over copies of his own phone messages.

The old “angel of death is upon us” excuse

Among other things, the city specifically demanded that Kessler hand over all Signal, WhatsApp, email, and text messages having to do with Portland police violence, the Portland police in general and the Portland protests.

Runner up: Reporter CJ Ciaramella requested records from the Washington State Department of Corrections about Michael Forest Reinoehl, who was killed by a joint U.S. Marshals task force. The Washington DOC apparently planned to produce the records—but before it could, the Thurston County Sheriff’s Department sued Ciaramella and the agency to stop the records from being disclosed.

7. The Cat Face Filter Award

Federal Bureau of Prisons

Kids these days—overlaying cat faces on their videos and showing the Bureau of Prisons how it should redact media sought by FOIA requesters. That was the message from an incredulous federal appeals court in March 2020 after the BOP claimed it lacked the ability to blur out or otherwise redact faces (such as those of prisoners and guards) from surveillance videos sought through FOIA by an inmate who was stabbed with a screwdriver in a prison dining hall.

The court wrote: “The same teenagers who regale each other with screenshots are commonly known to revise those missives by such techniques as inserting cat faces over the visages of humans.” The judge made clear that although “we do not necessarily advocate that specific technique,” the BOP’s learned helplessness to redact video footage is completely .

8. The Save the Children (in a Hidden Folder) Award

Louisville Metropolitan Police Department, Kentucky

The Louisville Metropolitan Police Department’s Explorer Scouts program was supposed to give teenagers a chance to learn more about careers in law enforcement. For two LMPD officers, though, it became an opportunity for sexual abuse. When reporters asked for more information on the perpetrators, the city chose to respond with further absurdity—by destroying its records. The case against the city and the Boy Scouts of America is scheduled to begin in April.

The Courier-Journal in Louisville first asked LMPD in mid-2019 for all records regarding the two officers’ sex-

Contested video: Body cam footage of police raiding Anjanette Young‘s home in error

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Need to redact?

Easy. Use a cat face.

Haskell Indian Nations University, Kansas

It’s hard to imagine a more benign request than asking for copies of other public records requests, but that’s exactly what got Hamilton County officials in Tennessee so spooked they started a mass purge of documents. The shred-a-thon started after Chattanooga Times Free Press reporter Sarah Grace Taylor requested to examine the requests to see if the county’s policies for releasing materials were arbitrary. Originally, the county asked for $717 for about 1,500 pages of records, which Taylor declined to pay in favor of inspecting the records herself.

But as negotiations to view the records commenced, records coordinator Dana Beltramo requested and received permission to update their retention policy to just 30 days for records requests. After Taylor’s continued reporting on the issue sparked an outcry, the county revised its policy once again and promised to do better. “What we did today was basically try to prevent the confusion of mistakes that have happened from happening again,” said Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger. In other words, it’s all just a big misunderstanding.

11. The Handcuffs and Prior Restraints Award Chicago Police Department and City of Chicago

Niagara County, New York

Money talks. The New York Legislature knew this when it passed the Ethics in Government Act in 1987, which required, among other public transparency measures, elected officials in 50,000 person-plus municipalities to complete financial disclosure forms each year.

Sixty-one of New York’s 62 counties generally accepted that the disclosure forms, created for public use in the first place, were meant to be disclosed, according to the New York Coalition for Open Government. Back in 1996, though, while everyone was presumably distracted watching the Yankees or Independence Day, Niagara County found a quick trick to keep from sharing its officials’ finances: They made it illegal. By local ordinance, the records were made secret, and the county proceeded to reject any requests for access by claiming that releasing the information would be a violation of the law.

This local law prohibiting access was itself, of course, a violation of the law, but Niagara County managed to keep it on the books for more than two decades, and it may have gotten away with it had it not been for the work of the New York Coalition for Open Government.

In February 2020, the NYCOG, represented by the University at Buffalo School of Law Civil Rights & Transparency Clinic, sued Niagara County, alleging its ordinance was unlawful (because it was). This past fall, a court agreed. Five months later, in January 2021, the county began releasing records, ones that should have been available for the last 30+ years. CW The Foilies were compiled by Electronic Frontier Foundation director of investigations Dave Maass, senior staff attorney Aaron Mackey, and Frank Stanton Fellow Naomi Gilens, and MuckRock News co-founder Michael Morisy and senior reporter and projects editor Beryl Lipton, with further writing and editing

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In February 2019, a swarm of Chicago police officers raided the wrong apartment with their guns drawn.

They handcuffed the resident, Anjanette Young, who was completely undressed, and they refused to let her put on clothes as she pleaded with them dozens of times that they had the wrong house. Young sued the city in federal court and filed a request for body camera footage of the officers who invaded her home. The local CBS affiliate, CBS 2, also requested the body camera footage.

The Chicago Police Department denied both requests, despite a binding ruling just months earlier that CPD was required to turn over body camera footage to people like Young who were involved in the recorded events. Young ultimately got the footage as part of her lawsuit, and her attorney provided them to the media. The city’s lawyers then took the extraordinary step of asking the court to order CBS 2 not to air the video, a demand to censor speech before it occurs called a “prior restraint.” The judge de-

12. The Self-Serving Secrecy Award

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When Jared Nally, editor-in-chief of the Indian Leader, the student newspaper at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, started putting questions to his school’s administration and sending records requests to the local police department, he got a lot more than he expected: A directive from his school’s president demanding he cease his requests in the name of the student paper and henceforth treat officials with proper respect, lest he face disciplinary action.

“Your behavior has discredited you and this university,” Haskell Indian Nations University President Ronald Graham wrote. “You have compromised your credibility within the community and, more importantly, you have brought yourself, The Indian Leader, Haskell and me unwarranted attention.”

Graham’s aggressive tactics against the college junior quickly rallied support for the student journalist, with the Native American Journalists Association, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and Student Press Law Center all calling for the formal directive to be rescinded.

The school ultimately did back down, but the efforts left Nally shocked. “As a student journalist, I’d only been doing it for a year,” he told Poynter in an interview. “When somebody in authority says things like that about you, it really does take a hit. … I’d say I’m recovering from the gaslighting effects—and feeling like what I’m doing really is every bit a part of journalism.”

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nied the city’s request.

The city also sought sanctions against Young’s attorney, but the city withdrew its motion and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called the request “ill-advised” in a letter to the court. The judge decided not to sanction Young’s attorney.

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ual abuse of minors. Louisville city claimed it didn’t have any; they had been turned over to the FBI. Then the Courier-Journal appealed, and the city eventually determined that they’d found a “hidden folder” still containing the responsive records—738,000 of them, actually. Not for long, though. Less than a month later, they’d all been deleted, despite the ongoing request, a casualty of the city’s automated backup and deletion system, according to Louisville city.

At the end of 2020, the Courier-Journal was still fighting the city’s failure to comply with the Kentucky Open Records Act. “I have practiced open records law since the law was enacted 45 years ago, and I have never seen anything so brazen,” said Courier-Journal attorney Jon Fleischaker told the paper. “I think it an outrage.”

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Stegner Center Virtual Symposium: The Plastics Paradox The modern world has brought with it innumerable innovations which, while seemingly simplifying our lives, have also led to unforeseen complications. Petrochemicals, for example, led to the creation of plastics, which serve valuable roles in everything from medicine to product packaging. Yet they’re also part of a crisis in waste products, while potentially having other environmental and health impacts.

The 26th annual Wallace Stegner Center Symposium, in conjunction with The King’s English Bookshop, goes virtual this year to address The Plastics Paradox: Societal Boon or Environmental Bane? Two days of programming, March 25-26, will cover a wide range of topics on law, health and lifestyle choices, beginning with keynote speaker Roland Geyer, professor of Environmental Science at UC-Santa Barbara, address-

ing “Plastic: Too Much of a Good Thing?”

Additional sessions include photographer Br’ette J. Vanhouten presenting a visual essay on “Plastics in the Modern World;” “Plastics and the Environment,” with a panel including assistant professor Anela Choy from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC-San Diego; Joshua Becker, founder of Becoming Minimalist, speaking on “Overcoming Consumerism for a Better You and a Better Planet;” and panel discussions about plastics usage from both a national/global and individual/community perspective, both of which will offer opportunities for audience interaction and discussion.

Become part of this crucial conversation about sustainable practices by participating in this fascinating event. Online registration is available at law.utah.edu, and events will begin at 8:30 a.m. daily via Zoom. Visit the website for additional information about speakers, prices and programming schedule. (Scott Renshaw)

Self-deprecation is a foundation of a lot of comedy—and it’s obvious that Erica Rhodes understands how to make that concept work. After all, the Massachusetts native is able to have fun with her own heliumsqueak of a voice, commenting in her Dry Bar Comedy Special, “I had an acting teacher once who said, ‘If you don’t fix your voice, you’re never going to have a career.’ And so far, he’s right.”

That’s more than a slight exaggeration, considering that Rhodes has been working in entertainment for nearly two-thirds of her life, ever since she debuted as a 10-year-old on the celebrated A Prairie Home Companion. While she’s had acting roles over the years—including indie films like Big Sky and Play Nice, and guest spots on TV series like Modern Family and Veep—she’s made her strongest mark in stand-up, like catching the eye of judge Jeff Foxworthy on the comedy competition show Bring the Funny.

Her distinctive voice—both literal, and artistic—adds a spark to observations about being in her 30s: “For some reason, the second you turn 30, you start saying,

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‘That’s it, I’m old.’ And for 10 years you just keep saying it. … Then you turn 40 and you’re like, ‘Now I’m old. I could’ve been young for an extra 10 years.’”

Rhodes brings her talents to Wiseguys Jordan Landing (3763 W. Center Park Dr., West Jordan, wiseguyscomedy.com) for performances March 26-27, 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m.

Tickets are $20; visit the website for ticket purchases, and for COVID protocol information. (SR)

You can practically feel the excitement as Salt Lake County arts venues—with recent changes in guidelines inspired by increasing vaccinations and falling COVID case counts—begin opening up to live performances again, like the Utah Symphony returning to Abravanel Hall. The Capitol Theatre also comes back to life, as Odyssey Dance brings its repertory program of two productions on the traditional umbrella designation of Shut Up & Dance.

Romeo & Juliet: One Funky Tale (which we previewed earlier this month when it played at Tuacahn) puts the kind of spin on this story that you’d expect from the company that turned cinematic serial killers and monsters into Thriller’s traditional Halloween showcase of entertaining chills. The choreography transforms the well-known tale of the Verona teenagers into a high-energy demonstration of hip-hop, Latin and contemporary dance. And as a special piece of audience participation, those in attendance even get to help decide if Romeo and Juliet live or die. Meanwhile, Chicago Nights—created by founder/artistic director Derryl Yeager— mixes up some of the most infamous

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tales of the Prohibition era, from Chicago’s Roxie Hart to Al Capone to the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. The result mixes a variety of dance styles in a celebration of the colorful Jazz Age milieu.

Romeo & Juliet: One Funky Tale plays March 26 & March 27 at 7:30 p.m., while Chicago Nights plays March 25 at 7:30 p.m. and March 27 at noon. Tickets begin at $35, and are available at saltlakcountyarts.org. Visit the website for information on health and safety protocols. (SR)

Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square virtual Messiah For many in Utah—especially thanks to the annual performance by the Utah Symphony— Handel’s Messiah oratorio is linked with the Christmas season. But a piece of music celebrating Jesus Christ as the Savior certainly has a place during the Lenten season as well.

This year, kick of Easter Week with a performance of the Messiah by the world-famous Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square.

The performance was originally presented in 2018, but re-presented last year and again this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and safety issues regarding choir performances. But that simply provides additional opportunities to experience the majestic music, accompanied by the Choir and featured soloists Amanda Woodbury (soprano), Tamara Mumford (mezzo-soprano), Tyler Nelson (tenor)

and Tyler Simpson (bass-baritone). The Choir’s history with Handel’s Messiah goes back more than a century, including some of its earliest recorded work. The very first recording of the Choir, in 1910, featured the famed “Hallelujah” chorus, while “Worthy is the Lamb” became the Choir’s first-ever recording with electrical microphones in 1927, just a week before the first-ever occasion of the Messiah being electrically recorded in its entirety in London.

The “Hallelujah” chorus has subsequently appeared on more than a dozen albums by the Choir over the years.

The free live-stream begins Friday, March 26 at 7 p.m. via thetabernaclechoir.org/messiah and various other official YouTube and Facebook channels that can be found at thetabernaclechoir.org. Subsequently, viewers will be able to view on-demand via many of those same channels, as well as BYUtv broadcasts on Easter Sunday. (SR)

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Wasatch Contemporary Dance Company explores a presentation for both in-person and virtual audiences.

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Wasatch Contemporary Dance’s Seven at Northampton House have hope for the future now, but there’s still a lot of things to go out there and problem-solve,” she says. “I believe everyone is creative in some way. [Seven] been a long time coming, but because of what we’re going through, that brings new life and new meaning to it.

“I think that in one way or another, artists have always dealt with barriers—budget, resources, there have always been barriers for artists. In that way, [the pandemic] was nothing new: ‘Okay, this is the new challenge ahead of us.’ It’s never been easy. …

I love how the arts have been resilient.” CW

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arts. We had to figure out how to make a positive experience for both in-person and virtual audiences.”

Those in-person audiences will get a chance to experience the unique environment of Northampton House, a one-time chapel which currently serves mostly as a venue for weddings. Heaton first conceived of using the location for dance after driving past it many times, noting that “I’m intrigued by unique spaces, and I’ll think ‘dance belongs there.’” She began planning for using Northampton House for a performance last year before the pandemic hit, but was initially concerned that the upscale location might be prohibitively expensive. “When we added up the hours we would need, it was going to be over $17,000 in rent—not feasible for a grass-roots dance company,” Heaton says. “But they were great at working with us.”

Heaton describes Seven’s thematic focus—the “seven creative periods of the world”—as something she’s been thinking about for more than a decade, yet which took on an added resonance as artistic organizations, and individuals, struggled with the realities of the pandemic. “We

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s performing arts companies begin exploring ways to bring live audiences back to shows, they’re not forgetting the necessary innovations that were part of the pandemic. For Utah Countybased Wasatch Contemporary Dance Company, that means creating a production that can work as both a site-specific in-person event and as a virtual presentation for those who want or need to watch from home.

Wasatch Contemporary’s Seven is offering four live performances for reducedcapacity audiences, making use of the century-old Northampton House in American Fork as a venue. At the same time, the show will be offered via livestream during those same performances. In addition to the original choreography created by company members and guest choreographer/ BYU faculty member Adam Dyer, Seven will showcase an entirely original score written by local musicians Benjamin Swisher and Bly Wallantine.

A hybrid approach is actually in keeping with the way Wasatch Contemporary first approached providing dance during the pandemic. In November, the dance film Humanimali was premiered as a drive-in presentation—allowing viewers to have a shared experience of the pieces that were recorded in a variety of locations—as well as with online accessibility. According to

company artistic director Jessica Heaton, the process of adapting the Humanimali pieces that had initially been planned for a theater stage, so that they could work for a filmed presentation, required a bit of rethinking.

“They had to undergo a major transformation to go from stage to camera,” Heaton says. “You film things in sections, so you’re not going from zero seconds to nine minutes in sequence. I have this section, now I have to shoot it from nine different angles. There were so many different things to think about that we had people coaching us through, like figuring out the lighting. You can look at those as barriers or opportunities, and we tried to look at it as an opportunity.

“I’m really grateful for dance film, and that it’s been growing as a genre for the last decade or so,” Heaton continues. “We had some experience already, and contacts within the Utah Dance Film Festival. …

Instead of starting from scratch, we were able to take these pieces, which revolved around the animal kingdom, and film them in spaces that made sense, like one that was about penguins being shot at [Loveland Living Planet] aquarium.”

While Humanimali was ultimately finished specifically as a film, Seven was initially conceived as an immersive in-person experience, but Heaton soon realized it simply wouldn’t work that way “if the audience wasn’t ready for it.” Re-imagining it for both a seated audience and remote viewers presented its own set of challenges in considering how the show could work for both kinds of viewers.

“An artist’s first tendency is to think about the person who’s there physically, because that’s always been our experience before,” Heaton says. “Being an artistic director, it’s been a baptism by fire. I didn’t realize when we started [the company] 11 years go how much it would round out my experience—I’m learning coding, watching webinars about live-streaming and the

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f you’ve read my food writing with any degree of regularity, you’ll know that pie—both sweet and savory—is near and dear to my heart. Despite my propensity to write local pie roundups around March 14’s Pi Day, this year it was time to spotlight a new bakery that has integrated pie into this dessert 2.0 model that we’re seeing with cookies, cinnamon rolls and other fine baked goods. The bakery in question is known as Flake Pie Co. (1665 Towne Center Dr., Ste. 3, 385-342-2620, flakepie.com), one of South Jordan’s newest additions.

I’ve been a regular ever since Flake opened—it’s a place that specializes in personal-sized pies, hand pies called “Flakies,” pots de crème and, more recently, savory pot pies. It’s hard not to get a bit bright-eyed when you walk into their cozy SoJo shop and see a merry legion of fluffy merengues, glossy cream pies and glazed fruit pies staring up at you.

All the pie staples are there, but Flake likes to get creative on a seasonal basis. For instance, spring is all about their Strawberry Beret ($4.75), a strawberry cream pie served in an Oreo crust and topped with whipped cream and a chocolate-covered strawberry. It’s sweet, fresh and creamy, but does have a tendency to crumble into

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merengue, which I thought was an interesting call. Typically, a banana cream pie is good because it consists of pudding-like textures layered into one another. This one maintains that formula, but the addition of a slightly marshmallowy merengue keeps this pie from drowning in one-note textures.

Flake’s recently expanded savory pie menu has been the real treat of having this place so close to my house. I’m always on the lookout for anything akin to a pot pie, meat pie, pasty or any other form of buttery crust stuffed with meat and gravy, so this addition was a big deal to me. At the moment, Flake is serving up three options: The Hey Pig Spender ($6), the Boom Chicka Licka ($6) and the Greece is the Word ($6).

Hands down, the Chicka Licka is absolutely dynamite. It’s everything you’d hope for in a chicken pot pie, from its thick, savory sage gravy to its tender chicken. The Pig Spender is filled with juicy pork slathered in barbecue sauce which will rival any pulled pork sandwich on the block—though I’d like the sauce to be a tad less sweet. The Greek pie harnesses the strong flavors of feta cheese, paprika and nutmeg for something quintessentially Mediterranean. I hope the savory pies will stick around for the duration, because they’re awesome, and it’s easy to hold one in each hand.

From sweet to savory, Flake Pie Co. has asserted itself as a specialty bakery that has the talent to serve up the goods. They understand the cultural importance that pies have for those of us with mouths and taste buds, and they use that understanding to create offerings that are quick, tasty and good to the last bite. CW

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The pies made with Flake’s signature pie crust have a little more structural integrity, as well as the buttery flavor and flaky texture responsible for the bakery’s name. You can’t go wrong with the Apple of My Pie ($4.75) or the She’s My Berry Pie ($4.75) if you’re a fan of traditional fruit pies. The apple pie is traditional in nearly every way—Granny Smith apples baked in a golden caramel sauce creates an evocative experience for anyone even remotely nostalgic about apple pie. The Berry pie is tasty to be sure, but it doesn’t quite pack the punch of the apple. Still, getting one of these warmed up with a scoop of vanilla ice cream—which Flake totally offers—will leave any pie fan satisfied.

While I’m a staunch believer that Flake’s strength comes from that delectable pie crust, I think their creative ambitions are admirable for a place that’s just starting out. Like the clever strawberry pie, Flake’s more unconventional pie offerings are what makes the place unique. The Peanut Butter Is My Jam ($4.75) currently lives at the top of my list, since it’s a mainline of pure childhood joy for me. I doubt I’m the only one who harbors a special place in their heart for the flavor combo of dark chocolate and creamy peanut butter, but there’s something about this pie that takes me right back to scarfing down peanut butter cups after a night of trick-or-treating.

The pie itself is far superior to any packaged snack, but the primal sensation of being gobsmacked by these two intense flavor soulmates makes you remember the thrill of a pre-adolescent sugar rush.

I also have some nostalgic affection set aside for the B-A-N-A-N-A-S pie ($4.75), since my dad’s love for fast food banana cream pies made them a fixture at the Springer house growing up. Flake’s rendition of this classic swaps out the mounds of whipped cream for a tuffet of toasted

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ops can make or break a beer. The wrong varietal, combined with a contrasting yeast or malt profile, could ruin a simple brew. Conversely, a complementary marriage of ingredients can put a beer nerd in eternal heaven. Hops play a huge role in this week’s selections; let’s see if they work.

Level Crossing - Pink Boots Pale Ale: The Pink Boots Society is a beer-industry group that champions women in brewing.

Every year, Pink Boots representatives create a unique hop blend that is used in thousands of women-created beers. Level Crossing’s ladies are the first locals to debut this year. This offering pours a rich honey golden color, with a fluffy, two-fingers of ever-so-slightly off-white head—an absolutely beautiful color. It has that dark fruit/berry aroma, with a big impression of passionfruit and over-ripe mango, with some Meyer lemon action in there as well, making it sweet, dank and tropical-fruity.

There is a fragile malt backbone, providing just a touch of creamy sweetness, but the hops are the star of the show here. The malt is just enough of a platform to securely showcase the huge dry-hopping headline.

That passionfruit is much more muted on the palate, with more of a berry/starfruit/ mango vibe. It is still fruity, but the scale is tipped way in favor of light resins. A very restrained bitterness comes in towards the finish, taking this fruity dankness and drying it out to chalky proportions. Mouthfeel is crisp, but medium-bodied; it has some

good heft to it for 5.0 ABV. It’s soft and super-juicy up front, and then the dryness comes in on the finish, drying it out very fast. Carbonation is medium and strong, and gives it a little bit of lift.

Overall: This is a fantastic pale ale. It has so much flavor, I don’t think you could make this any more flavorful. The dry-hopping of the special blend is great. If you love fruity hops like I do, you need to try this one.

TF Brewing - Hopf Weisse: This is not a style that is heavily hopped. The TF brew team wanted to try something out of the box, and created a beer that many consider to be the precursor of the current New England IPA craze. This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden-yellow color, with three puffy fingers of meringue; it’s so thick and sticky, it looks like there are egg whites in there. It smells of semi-sweet, cereal-forward wheat malt, plus banana pudding, a bit of white pepper and clove spiciness. There are some indistinct tropical fruit notes, along with earthy, leafy and grassy green hop bitters.

The taste is bready and doughy wheat malt, wet banana chips, a mixed melonheavy fruit bowl, musty clove and faint ground pepper spice, and more leafy, grassy and herbal verdant hoppiness. The carbonation is average in its merely supportive frothiness, the body a decent middleweight and sort of smooth, as the spice and hop herbals takes more than a minor tithe here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and melon fruity character parrying the lingering spices and hops.

Overall: This is certainly an interesting hopped-up Hefe, as the varietal employed results in more bitterness and less fruitiness. Add that to the heady (if sort of sticky) base brew, and it somehow works, especially given that the 4.8 percent alcohol is not noticeable in the least.

There’s plenty to go around as far as batch sizes are concerned. You will be required to make the trip to the individual breweries, though. And as gathering restrictions begin to slowly loosen, that becomes a much more appealing option. As always, cheers! CW

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Chef Viet Pham’s successful fried chicken joint Pretty Bird (146 Regent Street, prettybirdchicken.com) has officially opened its Sugar House location (675 E. 2100 South). Those familiar with the first location’s cozy space will find this second location a bit more spacious, and Pham has mentioned plans to use the larger kitchen for all kinds of new fried chicken innovations for Salt Lake. Among those innovations will be the restaurant’s crispy tenders which will be served a la carte or wrapped up into a roll. Fried chicken aficionados who have yet to pay this place a visit now have even less of an excuse.

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even though I don’t play, and I volunteered there awhile before working at Muse,” she says of the University Avenue venue, which she would go on to buy in 2012, and which shut down in 2017. Before all that, though, she remembers her Velour days fondly, things like “walking out in the middle of an open mic because Brandon from Moth & The Flame had just performed, so it couldn’t get any better than that,” and booking a birthday show for herself on Labor Day Weekend that packed the space despite Imagine Dragons playing the Rooftop Concert Series around the corner. “It was a better turnout than Corey and I expected on such a night,” she says. “I wandered around the venue, handing out an assortment of cupcakes I’d baked.”

Another former Velour associate, Kaneischa Johnson, also has fond memories of Velour, as recent as last year when she was visiting from her new home in Austin, Texas, and attending the annual Les Femmes de Velour series. “It felt like coming home,” she says, noting that she hasn’t encountered an arts scene so vibrant since leaving Provo. “None of us knew at the time that it would be the real last weekend of shows for the foreseeable future—and the beginning of a struggle that continues to threaten Velour’s existence.”

Velour’s main reason for shutting down and staying that way has been that Fox is immunocompromised—meaning that opening would put him at great risk. But Johnson has since helped spread the word about the threat of permanent closure, and meanwhile the venue has been getting some revenue from private rentals, what government funds there are, and donations. Fox also has fundraising pushes on the horizon, for which details are forthcoming and slated, hopefully, for April.

In the meantime, donate to keep this local treasure around to see its 16th year, by donating on Venmo at @velourlive and following on Instagram at @velourlive. CW

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“A teen at the time, I was amazed to see such care and effort put into performance by a local band,” he continues. “When I think about Velour, the thing that stands out most to me is that it’s a space where you can embrace spectacle. You can have light shows or elaborate set pieces and not feel like a try-hard.”

Even bands without those things, though, could count on the “purply lights, strobes and forever-running fog machine” to spice things up. “You could wear your heart on your sleeve. We joke about the shushing at Velour shows, but I’ll never forget the precious magic of Brinton Jones performing a delicate acoustic song to a packed room of silent people after a Palomino/Devil Whale set,” Young says.

While Young and others enjoyed quirks like “doing the official dance moves with everybody at a sold-out Seve vs Evan show,” and watching artists like John White or Mathematics et Cetera destroy their instruments on stage and going to festivals put on by the local band Sego, Velour was establishing a name for itself as a cultural hub, drawing people from across the country. One of these people was Darcie Roy. While living in Massachusetts, Roy spent her time wandering the East Coast chasing live music, and spending time with friends, some of whom were in Neon Trees. The band mentioned that the scene in Provo was very lively, and Roy—who was going through a divorce and working at Target, which would allow her to transfer anywhere—decided to journey out West to get a taste of it.

“I was in love with live music,” Roy says, “so I figured it would be a good idea to move somewhere [where] I could go to lots of concerts while I figured out my next moves.”

Once settled in Orem, she’d walk 10 miles a day to catch whatever was going on at Velour each night. “I went to every open mic

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As an all-ages, alcohol-free music venue, Velour quickly became home to all sorts of musicians in the Utah County scene when it first opened in 2006. Musician Landon Young (recently of Corner Case) was in high school in Provo when Velour opened up, and says the venue became a big part of their early years playing music. Eventually, Young would get to play at quirky events like a “slumber party show” with the band Bat Manors, who now play as a loose iteration named Choir Boy. “The first show I saw at Velour featured a band called Monkeygrinder,” Young recalls. “Each member was a costumed circus character with a murder-y backstory, including a pirate that played literal pieces of metal, a clown that shredded on accordion, and a bass-playing mime. I think he

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Local artist Marqueza has strayed from her typical solo work ethic with her newest EP, Omizu Diosa, a collaboration between herself and fellow local Adam Fuller, of the band Ivouries.

Where Marqueza usually uses her music as a vehicle for explorations of self-love and understanding, in Omizu Diosa (which translates to “water goddess” in Japanese and Spanish) the rippling rings of her pondering expand to include feelings for (and focus on) another. Her tendency to wander emotively through songs is left intact here, but with Fuller’s co-production, the three songs on Omizu Diosa feel not only refreshing, but like Marqueza’s sound reaching a new clarity. Her lenses of sight and feeling remain the same; multiculturalism is always integral to Marqueza’s musical self, as is her identity as a deep-feeling Piscean. But here she becomes a self-actualized mermaid, thanks to delicate vocal effects and crystalline synths that build up on her natural sweetness. Indeed, opener “Kurione’’ references the Japanese term for “clione,” an angelic-looking sea creature that represents the shiny surface of the sea—aesthetically, the song is exactly that, but Marqueza also lyrically touches on surface-level things like performance and new love, whether it’s outward or inner. She sings, “I know I could be your angel if you let me / I know I could be my angel if I let me.” On “Aquamarine,” she begins with bare, sweet vocals, then slow ringing piano parts, then a tender—if not sirenlike— invitation to “the deep.” “Nocturno” is the sensual conclusion, though its quick beats and energetic, bright synths contrast with Marqueza’s demands to keep the passion slow.

Meanwhile Fuller’s presence makes an indelible, transformative impression on Marqueza’s musical foundation, and it’s hard to tell who is whose muse here—which is part of the magic.

Stream it wherever you stream, and follow both on Instagram at @marina.marqueza and @ivouriesfats.

Hive Music Festival Announces Summer Lineup

You read that right: There’s a music festival coming to Utah. Slated for early August this year, the Hive Music Festival is the first festival in the state, it seems, to firmly plan for live music to happen in a festival setting—and more than that, to believe in the possibility so much that they’ve actually got firm dates.

Staged by the hip hop event production company Select Sound Entertainment, it’s a festival in the truest form, with a lineup filled to the brim with acts from all over the country— unless someone else is daring enough to beat them to the punch, this will probably be the first major, touring act-heavy event of 2021 in Utah. The two-day festival includes headliners $uicideboy$ on the opening Friday night, followed by Utah’s very own adoptee Post Malone on Saturday night. Other notable acts include Trippie Redd, Flatbush Zombies, Ski Mask the Slump God, DaBaby, JPEG Mafia, Flo Milli and more than two dozen others. At the moment, it looks like no local talent has been announced to open for these more established acts—but here’s to hoping that’s only because the announcement just came on March 15. Slated for August 6 - 7, the event is all-ages and will unfold at the Utah State Fair Park. Ticket sales opened on March 19, and though the first three tiers have sold out, fourth tier GA and VIP sales are still open, starting at $349, with payment plans available. Tickets are non-refundable, even in the event of another surge of COVID, which would trigger the festival’s postponement. The festival is also an opportunity for event production workers to find some employment, info for which can be found at hivefestival.com, along with more general info. It’s early yet, so follow the festival on Instagram at @hivefestivalslc for updates, and cross your fingers that this might be the start of festival season returning to SLC.

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While television has done a good job of concealing all the adaptations it has had to make in the face of the pandemic, American Idol’s changes ended up making the show more accessible to American singers all over the country. At the end of February, the 19th season of the singing competition launched, with a twist. Gone were the days of massive lines of wannabe contestants lining convention centers in a rotation of US cities. In its place came the Zoom call audition, which also opened the doors to contestants in all 50 states, a first for the show. It also gave access to several Utah singers, all of whom have musical hustles that precede the show. Among those Utahns moving on in the show are the couple Grayson and Lizzy O’Very, both of whom are active local musicians and owners of O’Very Studios—Grayson released his first single “Numb” last month, and Lizzy lends her soprano voice to whimsical dream pop compositions. There’s also the sibling duo of Ammon and Liahona Olayan, who released an EP together in 2019 and in 2020 were featured on a youth album for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Young business school drop-out turned Berklee Music School student Wyatt Pike also made the cut, and for Gen Z representation, there’s Abby LeBaron, a 19-year-old whose music career is thus far mostly alive on TikTok. Besides repping Utah, these American maybe-Idols also serve as a reminder that today’s generation of competitors have many avenues to “making it,” and American Idol is just one of them. Tune in on Sunday and Monday nights at 7 p.m. on ABC to follow their progress.

Urban Lounge Backyard Shows, Concert Cruises Recommence

Last spring, warmer weather became merely a vehicle to see friends in the safety of the outdoors, in a world where being indoors with lots of people was no longer safe. This spring, though, the air feels a little fresher, the sun a little more vibrant as we welcome not just a new season, but what feels like the beginning of the end of COVID. And while we wait for most people to get vaccinated, outdoor entertainment options are still a great way to be. The Urban Lounge is once again launching their outdoor concert series, which last year found them using their back lot for a safe version of concert-going through the summer. The shows seem to follow a model that’s a lot different than pre-COVID indoors shows, with bands starting and ending earlier—there’s no chance to get rowdy and forget yourself here, folks. S&S, owners of the Urban Lounge, also recently announced that they’ll be keeping mask mandates in place until a target date of July 1—with the caveat that as vaccine roll-out changes, so could this goal. The outdoor shows kick off April 2 with not music, but stand-up. The Bawdily Function will feature the talents of locals Amerah Ames, Arash Tadjiki and Sloan Valenzuela. Tickets for that show are $10, and the show starts seating at 6 p.m. On April 3, Jim Bone & The Dig, Planet No Planet and The Swinging Lights will bring the music back to the stage for a $15 set starting at 6 p.m.

The following week finds the venue hosting back-to-back preweekend gigs, with Red Bennies and Musor opening things up on Thursday, April 8 for $10 at 6 p.m. and Lord Vox, Goodbye Clocks and The Graylings playing on Friday, April 9, same time, same ticket price. Visit theurbanloungeslc.com for all upcoming dates, and book your tickets quick. All COVID protocols remain intact.

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While I don’t usually seek out ASMR, there are arguments to be made that it can be music and music can be it—examples like the viral “lo-fi hip hop beats to study and relax to” video prove it. If you don’t know what the hell either of these things are, you simply must Google it—just like I was forced to Google “Oldies playing in another room and it’s raining” when it was mentioned by someone on Twitter. The screenshot she shared of the YouTube video was a still of a snoozing Snow White, upping my immediate impression that this whole thing seemed kind of creepy. Upon my Google, I found a video titled “Oldies music playing in another room and it’s raining (no thunders, fireplace) 1 HOUR ASMR v.19”, accompanied by an image of Wendy from Peter Pan flickering with a faux-film effect, cartoon “Zzz”’s floating above her head. And as promised, fuzzy ‘30s-ish bassoons and trumpets music began playing (the author cited the song as pulled from public domain), muffled as though from another room—the snapping of a fireplace and an insistent drizzle of rain rounded out the artificial coziness. On the sidebar were more “dreamscapes,” with thumbnails of characters like Betty Boop, Jerry the mouse, Sleeping Beauty and Donald Duck, and qualifications like “(no rain),” “oldies playing in a tent,” “oldies playing in another room but you’re on the porch,” etc. It wasn’t until playing the thumbnail with two cartoon cats perched on a window overlooking the Eiffel Tower that a memory was triggered—rainy days in childhood spent watching old Disney films like The Aristocats, the clatter of my real-life surroundings combining with the oldfashioned soundtracks and the cartoon’s lo-fi, plot-related noise. It makes sense that these videos, of which there are dozens, are called dreamscapes—millennial childhoods like mine, filled with media, make it hard to differentiate between sounds that are truly familiar, and sounds one simply heard on TV. Color me tripped out.

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onsider, if you will, the curious career path of one Robert John Odenkirk— Bob, to his friends and fans. For a decade from the mid-’80s to the mid-’90s, Odenkirk was able to build a successful career as a comedy writer, winning Emmys for Saturday Night Live and The Ben Stiller Show, until he got a hankering for doing more on-screen work. For another decade, he was a reliable comedy performer, starring with David Cross in his own Mr. Show with Bob and Dave and doing guest spots on multiple sit-coms. Then he took another 45-degree turn, shifting to drama for the role of low-rent attorney Saul Goodman on Breaking Bad and continuing with Better Call Saul. So it only stands to reason that, at the age of 58, Bob Odenkirk might think, “Hey, why not become an action hero?”

In many ways, there’s a familiarity to Nobody in both concept and execution; as written by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad, it could easily be tweaked to become another entry in that franchise. Yet there’s also something distinctive that Odenkirk brings to it, simply by virtue of his versatility and the previous stops on his career journey. Here’s a movie with a protagonist who needs to be believable both as a wimp and as a badass, and Odenkirk nails them both.

The wimp part is clear from an effective early montage that distills the life of Hutch Mansell (Odenkirk) to a few repetitive moments in every single work day: leaving his wife (Connie Nielsen) and two kids to head to the bus stop; arriving at the machine shop owned by his father-in-law (Michael Ironside) where he works as an accountant; drinking some coffee; heading home. But there’s a disruption in that routine when two burglars break into the Mansell house one night, leaving the family shaken and everyone questioning Hutch’s masculinity.

What they don’t realize is that Hutch has … let’s just leave it at “a past.” Therein lies the badass part, which erupts when a bunch of drunks get on the same bus with Hutch, start to hassle other passengers,

and Hutch proceeds to dispatch them all with extreme prejudice. It’s actually a fairly nifty fight sequence constructed by director Ilya Naishuller and fight coordinators Kirk A. Jenkins and Daniel Bernhardt, one that refuses to turn Hutch into a superhero and suggests a guy shaking off quite a bit of rust. The narrative plays coy for quite a while with the exact nature of Hutch’s predomesticity life, but it doesn’t take much puzzle-solving to figure out that he’s one of those people—like John Wick himself, or Kill Bill’s Beatrix Kiddo—who abruptly found that you can leave a certain kind of life, but that doesn’t mean it will leave you.

Most of the story revolves around the fallout from that bus battle, as one of Hutch’s victims turns out to be the kid brother of Russian gangster Yulian Kuznetsov (Alexey Serebryakov). The subsequent warfare between the two provides the motivation for the action beats, and nobody’s kidding anybody that Nobody—again, like the John Wick films—exists primarily as a vehicle for those beats. Most of them are creatively staged and full of the kind of ridiculousness and improvisational weaponry that inspires a guilty giggle right before the kill shot. While Naishuller proves inordinately fond of ironically underscoring his big sequences with bombastic standards like— “The Impossible Dream” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone”—he rarely makes a choice that gets in the way of the crunching entertainment.

And he’s got Odenkirk, who unexpectedly feels like he was born for a movie like this.

Every sadsack indignity he endures at the outset seems completely in keeping with the actor playing him, but that’s just as much the case when he gets that look in his eyes that is action-hero code for “aw shit, somebody’s in trouble now.” There are comedic moments here as well, naturally—not all of which are smoothly executed—and Odenkirk hasn’t lost any of his facility for biting off a line to inspire a laugh. While some action movies work because they cast exactly the guy you’d expect, Nobody works because it casts exactly the guy you wouldn’t expect.

Maybe this is the start of a Liam Neesonesque next act for Bob Odenkirk. Or maybe he’ll try opera next. At this point, I wouldn’t put anything past him. CW

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) In the novel House of Leaves, the hero Johnny Truant describes his friend Lude as wanting “more money, better parties and prettier girls.” But Johnny wants something different. What is it? He says, “I’m not even sure what to call it except I know it feels roomy and it’s drenched in sunlight and it’s weightless and I know it’s not cheap.” In my opinion, that declaration is far too imprecise! He’ll never get what he wants until he gets clearer about it. But his fantasy is a good start. It shows that he knows what the fulfillment of his yearning feels like. I suggest you get inspired by Johnny Truant’s approximation to conjure up one of your own. Gaze ahead a few years, and see if you can imagine what your best possible future feels like. Then describe it to yourself as precisely as possible.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Is there anything more gratifying than being listened to, understood and seen for who you really are? I urge you to seek out that pleasure in abundance during the coming weeks. My reading of the astrological omens tells me you need the nurturing jolt that will come from being received and appreciated with extra potency. I hope you have allies who can provide that for you.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Piscean linguist Anna Wierzbicka says the Russian expression dusha naraspashku means “unbuttoned soul.” She continues, “The implication is that it is good, indeed wonderful, if a person’s ‘soul,’ which is the seat of emotions, is flung open in a spontaneous, generous, expansive, impetuous gesture, expressing full trust in other people and an innocent readiness for communion with them.” I wouldn’t recommend that you keep your soul unbuttoned 24/7/365, but in the coming weeks, I hope you’ll allocate more time than usual to keeping it unbuttoned.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Virgo actor and director Jean-Louis Barrault (1910–1994) aspired to “wake up a virgin each morning.” He wanted “to feel hungry for life,” as if he had been reborn once again. In order to encourage that constant renewal, he regarded going to sleep every night as “a small death.” I recommend his approach to you during the coming weeks. In my astrological opinion, the cosmic rhythms will be conspiring to regularly renew your desires: to render them pure, clean, raw and strong. Cooperate with those cosmic rhythms!

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “Blobs, spots, specks, smudges, cracks, defects, mistakes, accidents, exceptions and irregularities are the windows to other worlds,” writes author Bob Miller. I would add that all those things, along with related phenomena like fissures, blemishes, TAURUS (April 20-May 20) How distraught I was when I discovered that one of my favorite stains, scars, blotches, muck, smears, dents and imperfections, poets, Pablo Neruda, was an admirer of the murderous dictator are often windows to very interesting parts of this seemingly Joseph Stalin. It broke my heart to know I could never again regular old ordinary world—parts that might remain closed off read his tender, lyrical poetry with unconditional appreciation. from us without the help of those blobs and defects. I suggest But that’s life: Some of our heroes and teachers disappoint you take full advantage of the opportunities they bring your way us, and then it’s healthy to re-evaluate our relationships with in the coming weeks. them. Or maybe our own maturation leads us to realize that once-nurturing influences are no longer nurturing. I recom- SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) mend that sometime soon, you take a personal inventory with Innovative psychologist Carl Jung had a nuanced understanding of these thoughts in mind. I suspect there may be new sources of the energies at work in our deep psyche. He said our unconscious minds are “not only dark but also light; not only bestial, semiinspiration headed your way. Get ready for them. human and demonic, but also superhuman, spiritual and in the classical sense of the word, ‘divine.’” I bring this to your attenGEMINI (May 21-June 20) Self-help author Steve Maraboli has useful advice for you to con- tion, Sagittarius, because now is a favorable time to get better sider in the coming weeks. I hope you’ll meditate on what he says acquainted with and more appreciative of your unconscious mind. and take decisive action. He writes, “Incredible change happens For best results, you must not judge it for being so paradoxical. in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have Don’t be annoyed that it’s so unruly and non-rational. Have fun power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.” To with its fertility and playfulness and weirdness. get started, Gemini, make a list of three things you do have power over and three things you wish you did but don’t have power over. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) The fantasy drama Game of Thrones appeared on TVs all over the world. But the audience that watched it in China got cheated CANCER (June 21-July 22) While he was alive, Cancerian author Franz Kafka burned 90% out of a lot of essential action. Government censorship deleted of everything he wrote. In a note to a friend before he died, he gave many scenes that featured nudity and sex, fighting and violence, instructions to burn all the writing he would leave behind. Luckily, and appearances by dragons, which play a starring role in the his friend disobeyed, and that’s why today we can read Kafka’s last story. As you can imagine, Chinese viewers had trouble followthree novels and a lot more of his stuff. Was his attitude toward his ing some of the plot points. Telling you about this, Capricorn, creations caused by the self-doubt that so many of us Cancerians is my way of nudging you to make sure you don’t miss any of are shadowed by? Was he, like a lot of us Crabs, excessively shy the developments going on in your own personal drama. Some about sharing personal details from his life? In accordance with may be hidden, as in China’s version of Game of Thrones. Others astrological omens, I urge you to at least temporarily transcend might be subtle or disguised or underestimated. Make it your any Kafka-like tendencies you have. It’s time to shine brightly and crusade to know about everything. boldly as you summon your full powers of self-expression.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by manLEO (July 23-Aug. 22) To create your horoscope, I’ve borrowed ideas from Leo-born kind,” wrote author Rudyard Kipling. Yes, they are. I agree. author Cassiano Ricardo. He speaks of a longing “for all that They change minds, rouse passions, build identities, incite social is tall like pine trees, and all that is long like rivers, and all that change, inspire irrationality and create worlds. This is always is purple like dusk.” I think yearnings like those will be healthy true, but it will be especially important for you to keep in mind and wise for you to cultivate in the coming weeks. According to during the coming weeks. The ways you use language will be key my reading of the astrological omens, you need expansive influ- to your health and success. The language that you hear and read ences that stretch your imagination and push you beyond your will also be key to your health and success. For best results, sumlimitations. You will benefit from meditations and experiences mon extra creativity and craftsmanship as you express yourself.

Cultivate extra discernment as you choose what you absorb. that inspire you to outgrow overly small expectations.

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18. “Alley ____!”

21. Hawaiian singer with many 1960s-’70s TV guest appearances 22. Spanish Mrs. 23. Some after-dinner slices 24. They’re bogus 26. Bogey 27. Something to look up to 29. “Hamilton” Tony nominee Phillipa ____ 33. Aetna rival, informally 35. Justice Dept. branch 38. Entangled 39. Nada 40. Honorary deg. for an attorney 41. Nickname on the 1960s-’80s Red Sox 44. Rough no.

46. Code of silence 48. Cough drop brand 49. Busybodies 52. “____ to recall ...”

53. Quarterback Brady 57. Duck sauce ingredient 58. ‘60s protest grp.

59. Zig’s partner 60. Texter’s “If you ask me ...”

61. Miami-to-Orlando dir.

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19. Like some taxes and questions 20. Speck 21. Judged 22. Beach lotion abbr.

25. Book that includes “The Godfather,” “The Sicilian” and “The Last Don”?

28. Reformer Jacob who wrote “How the Other Half Lives” 30. Former Finnish coin that sounds like an American copper coin 31. Hickey spot 32. “The Fox and the Grapes” fabulist 34. Former prime minister Barak or Olmert 36. Dissenting vote 37. Brunch dish that includes Spanish pork sausage?

41. One of two answers in Twenty Questions 42. Part of NYU 43. Title role for Jude Law in a 2004 remake 45. Regarding 47. Copycats 50. El hombre upstairs 51. “Do not feed the aminals”?

54. Sister channel of HBO and Cinemax 55. California city whose name is Spanish for “ash tree” 56. Place to pick up chicks 58. Flowering shrub whose name comes from the Greek for “coil” 59. It might be sent out before a meeting ... or something seen in 17-, 25-, 37- and 51-Across 63. Certain New Year’s resolution follower 64. Yodeler’s peak 65. “That’s ... never gonna happen” 66. ____ bagel 67. Fill (up) 68. Cuts (down)

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ave you been struggling to pay your landlord the rent that’s due? Behind on utilities? The Emergency Rental Assistance program is now open for applications in Utah. This covers renters’ expenses from March 13, 2020, to December of this year if you qualify, and here are the requirements: • Combined household income at or below 80% of area median income.

• Someone in the household has qualified for unemployment or has experienced a reduction in household income, incurred significant costs or experienced financial hardship due to COVID-19.

• Household is experiencing housing instability (for example, received a past due utility or rent or eviction notice, or living in unsafe or unhealthy living conditions).

• Applicant resides in the household and is on the lease.

You can speed up the process and be prioritized if you have been unemployed for at least 90 days or are living at or below the 50% area median income. The Census Bureau reports the median household income in 2019 is $60,676 and lower in other counties of the state.

To apply for assistance, visit the website rentrelief.utah.gov. This site works for both tenants and landlords who apply on behalf of their tenants late on rent. Fill out an application and take photos of documents they require—such as your federal 1040 or W-2 forms—then load them onto the site. The process will be quicker if you can work directly with your landlord to get their W-9, a ledger showing the outstanding rent and late fees you’re being charged, your income verification such as a 2020 tax form and recent pay stubs, any unemployment insurance history, any past due utility bills and an eviction notice, if that’s relevant.

I want to mention here that if you’re experiencing housing stress, you may also need food for yourself or your family. The Utah Food Bank is helping to fight hunger statewide (in 2020, they distributed 52.9 million pounds of food, or 44.1 million meals to Utahns facing hunger).

They report that 1 in 5 kids here are unsure where their next meal will come from. They are always looking for donations of money, food and volunteer time to assist their 203 partners across the state. Last year, they got much of their food donated from programs like Grocery Rescue (16 million pounds from 270 grocery stores), national commercial donations from Feeding America, USDA commodities, local growers and food drives. The website utahfoodbank.org/get-help will assist you in finding a food pantry or mobile food pantry near you.

Finally, if you are lost in the muck of life, overwhelmed and out of answers, we have a great resource in just dialing 211 for help. They are there 24/7 for you to chat with, text, email or call for statewide resources in housing, food, mental-health assistance, medical referrals, coronavirus information, distance learning and tutoring, transportation and human services. And there’s no cost to contact them anytime, thanks to the United Way . n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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“Your grandmother will die.” She is being held without bond in the Camden County Jail.

Crime Report Detectives investigating recent thefts of catalytic converters from vehicles in Pasco, Washington, went to the mobile home of Dustin Allen Bushnell, 30, in nearby Burbank with a search warrant on Feb. 26, and not only found converters, but also discovered a 400-pound playground slide that had been removed from a city park in December, KEPR reported. The slide had been repainted and mounted to a bunk bed in the home. Bushnell was arrested for possession of stolen property for the slide; no charges were filed for the converters.

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Snake breeder Justin Kobylka of northeast Georgia has been breeding ball pythons for eight years to achieve a bright golden yellow and white color combination, but recently wound up with a snake bearing three smiley face emoji-looking markings on its body. Kobylka told United Press International one in 20 of his snakes sports a smiley face, but this was the first to have three faces. He sold it for $6,000.

What Could Go Wrong?

Alexandr Kudlay, 33, and Viktoria Pustovitova, 28, of Kharkiv, Ukraine, are experimenting with a new way to preserve their on-and-off relationship: On Valentine’s Day, they handcuffed themselves together and have vowed to stay that way for three months. “We used to break up once or twice a week,” Kudlay told Reuters, but now when they disagree, “we simply stop talking instead of packing up our things and walking away.” They take turns taking showers and give each other privacy in the bathroom by standing outside with one hand inside.

Bright Ideas n On March 9, Eric Dion Warren, 50, was sentenced to federal prison in Lubbock, Texas, after pleading guilty to robbing a bank and using a BMW he was test-driving as his getaway car. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that, according to court documents, Warren drove to the AIM Bank in Wolfforth on June 7, 2019, handed the teller a note demanding $10,000 in small bills and showed what appeared to be a handgun. The teller complied, and Warren headed back to the dealership where he pulled out $3,000 as the down payment on the car he had been driving. As Warren finalized the deal, the dealership received a call about the bank robbery and the connection was made. Warren was given the maximum sentence of 20 years. n Police in Spain announced on March 12 they had foiled the plans of drug smugglers who were building a narco-submarine capable of carrying over 2 tons of cargo, the Associated Press reported. In February, police in Malaga discovered the 30-footlong, light blue craft made of fiberglass and plywood, which they suspect was meant to “go into the high seas to meet another ship (to) take on board the drugs,” said Rafael Perez, head of the Spanish police. It was powered by two 200-horsepower engines but had never sailed. Fifty-two people were arrested in the international smuggling scheme, and hundreds of pounds of cocaine, hashish and marijuana were seized.

Sign of the Times After many months of postponement, voting in the 74th annual Tony Awards is underway, and the statues are scheduled to be presented with the reopening of Broadway this spring. In an unusual twist, reported The New York Times, actor Aaron Tveit, star of Moulin Rouge! is competing for recognition as leading actor in a musical against ... only himself. And even though there are no other nominees, Tveit could still wind up losing, as the rules require 60% of the vote to win.

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Names in the News Shoe Zone, a footwear retailer with stores throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland, announced March 8 that Terry Boot has been named its next chief financial officer effective immediately, according to the Evening Standard. Mr. Boot takes over the role after the unexpected departure in February of Peter Foot, who had been with the company for seven months.

Quick Thinking An unnamed maskless woman waiting in line at a Pick ‘n’ Pay supermarket in South Africa was caught on cellphone video being confronted by a store guard who demanded she put on a mask or be thrown out of the store. On the video, she is next seen reaching up under her dress, pulling out her underwear—a black thong—and placing it on her face, the New York Post reported.

Witnesses were mixed in their reaction. “Good lord,” one shopper was heard saying. “Brilliant,” said another.

Oops!

Federal Judge Jesse M. Furman ruled in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Feb. 16 that Citigroup could not expect to receive repayment of nearly $500 million of the $900 million it mistakenly wired to a group of lenders last year after a contractor checked the wrong box on a digital payment form. Intending to make only an interest payment to the lenders on behalf of its client Revlon, Citi instead wired payment in full for the entire loan, and after realizing its error, asked for the money back, but some of the lenders refused, according to The New York Times. Judge Furman found that the lenders were justified in assuming the payment had been intentional. “To believe that Citibank, one of the most sophisticated financial institutions in the world, had made a mistake ... to the tune of nearly $1 billion, would have been borderline irrational,” he said in his ruling. Citi vowed to appeal.

Can’t Help Himself Garrett Monds, 30, was sentenced to 3 1/2 to seven years in prison on March 10, following his sixth conviction for unlawful surveillance in women’s restrooms in central New York state.

Syracuse.com reported Monds spent two years in prison for the first five incidents, in which he set up hidden cameras in restrooms in college buildings, a warehouse, a mall and a Walmart.

He was released in March 2020, but within four months was arrested again. “That wasn’t a long turnaround,” County Court Judge Stephen Dougherty remarked, adding, “No offense, but I don’t want to see you again.” Monds agreed, telling the judge, “I really am remorseful this time around.”

Creepy!

Samantha Hartsoe noticed a draft in her New York City apartment and traced it to the mirror in her bathroom, the New York Post reported on March 4. With the help of friends, Hartsoe removed the mirror and found a hole in the wall behind it leading to ... another apartment. As she documented her adventure on TikTok, Hartsoe climbed through the hole into a hallway leading to a room at the end and “a whole other apartment” with three bedrooms, a disconnected toilet, a staircase and an unlocked door (which she promptly locked). Hartsoe returned to her own apartment, showered and vowed her landlord would get an unusual call the next day.

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