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Remembering the life and legacy of Utah’s Josephine Spencer.

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A POET ON STATE STREET Remembering the life and legacy of Utah’s Josephine Spencer.

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SOAP BOX United Utah Party Heals

Because of my recent retirement after 40 years as a family practice physician, I am no longer able to initiate or implement medical healing for those around me.

There are many causes of medical problems, such as accidents, infections, exposures, genetics, etc. There are also causes of other problems that are harmful, hurting and dangerous. Many of these are related to today’s political environment.

Politically polarized beings cause many painful conditions.

The numerous existing barriers to political consolidation make society vulnerable to suppression and cruelty. Such difficulties have heavily advanced over recent years to the point that they must be overcome and prevented.

Although no longer a practicing physician, I desire to continue to heal others.

My wish is to help people develop their

own productive capacities, without a need to only live on what is produced and donated by others. Removing obstacles to the use of talents, potentialities and achievements of people—whether defined by race, religion, sex, social group or whatever—is an ideal source of greater prosperity.

Historically, I’ve been deeply involved with both major political parties. But recently, a new party has captured my attention—a party that is considerate of all viewpoints, one that’s willing to listen, compromise in a peaceful manner and eager to enable the entire community in industrious, constructive and beneficial ways. Such improvements can advance and delight our lives.

This new party is the United Utah Party. Tired of political extremism? So is the United Utah Party. It unites all who want to end the extreme partisanship that has corrupted our political conversation. It’s a moderate, centrist political party that

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UUP candidates are running for office throughout the state to bring civility and meaningful reform. I myself am on the November ballot for the Utah House of Representatives in District 42, which is in east Sandy.

Those working with my campaign have been advised that I am not running against any other candidate, only for the principles of the United Utah Party.

Offensive or insulting remarks about other candidates are not accepted, as we all have positive abilities and should be considerate and respectful of each other.

The plan is—and should be—to obtain input and insight from each other during the legislative session, regardless of who wins or loses.

The values of the United Utah Party are in line with most of the population in Sandy. Remaining in a position where I can

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With the rapid drying up of the Great Salt Lake and with Latter-day Saint Church membership also drying up, how long before this whole metropolitan area is just a ghost town?

Has anyone pointed out this scenario to all the condo builders?

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What fun activity from your childhood has been completely ruined for kids today?

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Shopping for physical media of any kind.

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Halloween. We had such epic Halloweens when we were young, going out all night with huge groups of friends. Makes me sad that kids don’t get the experience of meeting new neighbors and having big street parties.

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Having no screens, and needing to be imaginative about our play.

When I wanted to play a superhero adventure, I’d made costumes out of clay and put them on FisherPrice “little people” figures [Prepares for “okay, Boomer” rejoinder, and reminder that I’m GenX, not a Boomer].

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Making prank calls

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Taking candy from strangers.

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Getting up on Saturday mornings, taking off on your bike and not coming home until dinner time.

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PRIVATE EY Nothing’s Changed J

ust over 38 years ago, the first issue of this newspaper saw the light of day. As has been told, we were then a newsletter for Utah’s private clubs, published under the name of the Private Eye. In 1984, club and alcohol advertising was “illegal” in a public newspaper like this one, so the newsletter was direct-mailed to members of specific private clubs. One of the first clubs to come aboard was the Sage Supper Club in Midvale—now A Bar Named Sue—purveyors of some of the best chicken wings in these parts, by the way.

What we had to put up with in 1984 is not terribly far removed from we deal with today. We have the same supermajority in the Utah House and Senate. Democrats and independents—formerly called “Non-Mormons”—essentially run around the state with the single ambition that they are not one day forced to leave. You know that day is coming, right?

In one of those very first issues of the Private Eye, the Sage Supper Club ran a center spread layout announcing their entertainment, food and party schedules. Above the photos and text ran the phrase the Sage adopted as their club motto: “The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same.”

The club owners then were veterans George Boutsis and Reed James (who, during the Korean War, gave some serious shit to the sorry fellows attacking him at the Chosin Reservoir). I was asked to add the motto to their ad by Mary Jane Boutsis, George’s wife. When I asked what it meant, she laughed at me in her funny laugh. “Well, what do you think it means, silly? It means just what it says,” she told me. “Just look around!”

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She was right. The walls, fireplace, bandstand and kitchen were all the same, despite eras changing and customers coming and going. It’s the same with our government—the same government structure in power, same results—just new faces making the unctuous, self-reverential speeches.

Not that I understand the guy, but I’ve sometimes found solace in the words of William Shakespeare to validate my own experiences in modern times. That’s reassuring in a way. The nearest I can find about things changing, yet remaining the same, is his line from The Tempest: “What’s past is prologue. Nothing before us matters.”

Golfers say that when they walk to the tee box after shanking their previous drive: “It was a bad hole, now play the next one.” I take that as a good strategy these days. We’ve been through a bad patch as a country these past several years, but it’s not over. It’s time to play another hole, looking forward, while understanding that one might only change themselves, but not change the greater schemes. We just have to deal with the mess as best we can, because in the end, things don’t change—we do.

On Monday, the Mar-a-Lago home of former President Donald Trump was legally searched by the FBI on behalf of the Department of Justice. It was Trump himself who broke the news that his “beautiful home” had been “raided” and that the searchers “broke into his safe.” Well, yeah, that happens in an FBI search.

That it was Trump himself who made the great reveal should not go unnoticed. It’s been a long strategy of his to be ahead of his opponents at getting in the early jabs and head shots. Thus, it’s no surprise that nearly all the discussion since the search has not been about what the Department of Justice could possibly be looking for and why, but instead about how aggrieved, put out and hurt our former president is.

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He’s always been a crybaby and is being one now. Do remember that when it came to bragging it up, he always said he had nothing to hide. Then, why the umbrage? Because, same as in Shakespeare’s time, persons like Trump had already left their footprints in the muddy beds of history.

Like King Lear—another character in Shakespeare’s oeuvre—Trump wallows in pity. If he makes three-dimensional moves at any level, it’s at mustering those who should loathe him to instead adore him. “I am a man more sinned against than sinning,” cries out King Lear, shucking the winds and rains, expressing that no one suffers like him and finding solace in that because, in his mind, his innocence is framed with the idea that there’s always someone who has sinned worse. Are you listening, Hillary and Hunter?

I’m not sure that jurisprudence allows for less jail time simply because someone else is more guilty, but that’s the Trump playbook. As long as he believes he is the aggrieved one, that there have been worse crimes (worse than causing rioters to attack the nation’s Capitol Building?), then he will continue his woeful plea to his devotees—those followers who like to call people like me “sheep.” I call them “the blind.”

There have always been people who seek help or guidance and unfortunately find it in those who cannot be trusted. That’s how a battery of scams get off the ground, especially here in Utah. It’s why Boy Scouts fall victim to preying scout masters.

Of course, Shakespeare had a quote for times like these, too—also from King Lear: “Tis the time’s plague when madmen lead the blind. Do as I bid thee, or rather do thy pleasure. Above the rest, be gone.” CW See, nothing’s changed.

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HITS&MISSES

BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

HIT: Rocky Issues

It’s almost as if The Salt Lake Tribune was trying to make Rocky’s case for him. Yes, former Salt Lake City mayor—and erstwhile congressional and presidential candidate—Rocky Anderson is looking at the next mayoral race because he’s unhappy with Mayor Erin Mendenhall’s administration. Trib front-page story: It’s out of control—meaning crime on Pierpont Avenue. Inside: Calls grow louder for sanctioned homeless camps, but not everyone agrees. “It’s unsafe, it’s filthy (and) we’re not dealing with the homeless in a humane way. ... All we do is move one encampment from one place to another to another and to another,” Anderson told KSL NewsRadio. Placing the blame on the person in charge is standard operating procedure, whether it’s fair or not.

Last year, Mendenhall appointed Andrew Johnston, who quit his elected City Council position, to head homeless policy.

While there has been news of homelessness—the $500,000 spent to clean up encampments, for instance—there has been little news of actual policy or outreach initiatives. If anything, Anderson is calling out the problem.

MISS: Sour Streets

We live in confusing times for transportation. Take bicycling, for instance. Are we or aren’t we a bicycling city? A study

by Anytime Estimate rated Salt Lake as the ninth most bike-friendly city in the nation. It all depends on what you call friendly. There’s a whole lot of jockeying between cars and bikes, resulting in injury and death. Zero Fatalities says nearly 100 bicyclists, motorcyclists and pedestrians are killed annually on Utah roads.

Utah Bicycle Lawyers (yes, there is such a group) says each year, 940 cyclists are injured and seven killed. It seems like the city is always promoting biking and trying to figure it out, although fewer than 1% of residents bike to work. The latest is a survey to look at 2100 South from 700 East to 1300 East. To say it’s a dangerous mess is an understatement. The city still hasn’t figured out what to do along 21st up to Foothill. If it’s bike lanes, they had better make sure they’re safe.

MISS: Read No Evil

Books, they are the devil’s playground. If you listen to the few vocal parents who are shocked—just shocked!—by their children actually reading, well, that’s the takeaway. Utah’s largest school district, Alpine, just pulled dozens of titles from the shelves, according to KUTV 2. The Utah Library Association isn’t too happy about it. Well, neither are most educated adults.

The library association noted that the school subcommittee looking at the nowremoved books didn’t really read them.

Yes, titles can be scary—especially if they have sex or race or anything but fairy tales in them. Utah has been modeling Florida for a while now as it takes on transgender kids, among other things. But reading can lead to … wait for it … critical thinking, and Utah has a long history of fighting against that. But maybe the worst thing about this book debate is that it’s brought back the porn issue. Yup, the new law tries yet again to define pornography.

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Upholding Abortion Rights

Our Supreme Court sent the nation into confusion over the issue of reproductive rights. Kansans voted to retain abortion access in their state, and Utahns need to continue the fight. Get your ticket to SLACabaret: Down the Rabbit Hole, a fundraiser for Utah Planned Parenthood.

The Utah-centric show revolves around an essential oils convention where “they find themselves seeking a cure for their woes in all the wrong places.” Want to do something with more punch? Go to ACLU Abortion Is Our Right, where you can sign up to get involved in the movement, find an abortion provider and read about the actions being taken to preserve this important access. SLAC: 168 W. 500 North, through Aug. 21, $20. https://bit.ly/3OZxomY ACLU Utah: https://bit.ly/3Qfqz1y

Art for Parks

“Did you know that our national parks are covered in human-caused haze up to 83 percent of the time? And the majority of that pollution comes from nearby coal plants that have bucked federal regulations to install common-sense controls?”

The Sierra Club wants you to see this in a paint-by-numbers Community Art Build for Parks & People to protect our public lands. Build a collective banner while you enjoy food, music and guest speakers. Rice Pavilion (NE Corner) Liberty Park, 600 E. 900 South, Sunday, Aug. 14, 10 a.m., free. https://bit.ly/3Qmc4Jo

Clean the Creek

As hikers and sightseers flood the canyons, they bring with them trash—and poop.

There are only a few public restrooms in the canyons, so hikers sometimes leave the unspeakable on the trails. At the Big Cottonwood Creek Restoration + Litter Cleanup, you’ll probably see it all, but with help, the canyon can be tidied for the next wave of visitors. “This will be along the creek banks and potentially stepping into the creek, please wear closed-toe shoes, waterproof items and/or things you don’t mind getting wet.” You will be provided with gloves and bags, but you may want to bring buckets and grabbers. Don’t forget drinking water! Social after. 175 W. Central Ave., Millcreek, Saturday, Aug. 13, 8 a.m., free. https://bit.ly/3Jv3e9Y

All Aboard

Join Mike Christensen of the Utah Rail Passengers Association on the three Utah stops on the All Aboard Northwest Train Trek 2022. He will host “a discussion with Charlie Hamilton and Dan Bilka from All Aboard Northwest on restoring and expanding passenger rail service throughout the region.” Provo, Ogden and Salt Lake City, Tuesday, Aug. 16, free with registration. For times, visit utahrpa.org/events

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called the Dwindling happening, where things are losing their color.”

Dream Spark runs at the new Dreamscapes location in The Shops at South Towne (10450 S. State, Sandy) on Aug. 11, Aug. 18 and Aug. 25.

Scheduled audience entrance times begin at 6:30, 6:45, 7:00 and 7:15, and the full interactive experience runs 60-90 minutes depending on visitor choices. General admission tickets are $25; visit utaharts.org/en/dreamscapes for tickets and additional event information. (Scott Renshaw)

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The Utah Arts Alliance’s Dreamscapes interactive space has reopened now in its third location, but a consistent thread over that time has been the work of Myriad Dance. According to the company’s artistic director, Kendall Fischer, Dreamscapes is the kind of venue that allows for a unique experience for the dance artists.

“When you’re performing in a theater, you have the curtain to hide you, and everything’s very controlled: You do your dancing, and the curtain comes down, and you’re done,” Fischer days. “This type of performing experience is a little more challenging in a lot of ways; the dancers are not only responsible for doing their moves, but also guiding the audience through the space, and manage the timing of that. It can really keep you on your toes.”

Fisher describes the new Myriad Dance/ Dreamscapes collaboration Dream Spark, once again developed from a story by RJ Walker, as one where “it starts out in Happyton, which is very cheery—almost too much so, like maybe something’s wrong and you’re trying to hide it. Guests journey through Dreamscapes and discover there’s something

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Featuring Utah’s Rising Star artists tells the story of a young witch, whose ability to time-travel might be the key to breaking a curse. Her destination, however, is a time when witches aren’t particularly in favor: 17thcentury New England.

This free event at Weller Book Works (607 Trolley Square) on Thursday, Aug. 11 at 6 p.m. includes not only a reading and signing by the authors, but an in-store, witch-themed scavenger hunt. Visit wellerbookworks.com for additional event information. (SR)

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The Utah literary landscape is full of authors specializing in pre-teen and young-adult fiction—not a shock, given the demographics of the state. This week, Weller Book Works showcases two of these authors, along with a fun, kid-friendly event with the same fantastical themes as the books.

Brandon J. Greer brings two new works: Liam Lewis and the Summer Camp Curse and The Clandestine Queen. The former tells the story of a 13-year-old troublemaker named Liam who’s sent off to a summer behavioral-correction camp by his parents. Liam is determined to resist the camp’s methods, only to discover that the camp director is a wizard, and that he may never return home unless he and the other campers find a way to retrieve a mystical gem. The latter book follows the conflict between two characters: one, the unwilling servant of a demon set on a quest that could earn him his freedom, and the other an orphan who learns that she may be heir to the title of “queen of the witches.”

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possible, and we are thrilled to share these works with our audience members.”

Fem Dance Company presents State of Flux at the Rose Wagner Center Black Box (210 E. 300 South) Aug. 12 – 13 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 general admission; visit arttix.org for tickets, information on current health & safety protocols and additional information. (SR)

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continue on Aug. 22 with Rinceoiri Don Spraoi Irish Dancers and Bomba Marilé (Puerto Rican music and dance); Aug. 29 with Halau Ku Pono I Kamalani (Polynesian dance) and Sabor Tropical; and Sept. 12 with Utah Punjabi Arts Academy (Indian dance) and Bazeen (North African Music).

Living Traditions Mondays in the Park concerts take place in Liberty Park at the Chase Home Museum in Liberty Park (600 E. 900 South), with performances beginning at 7 p.m. for the first act, and 8 p.m. for the second. Performances are free, and visitors are encouraged to bring chairs and blankets. Visit saltlakearts.org/livingtraditionspresents for additional information. (SR)

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Every May, the Living Traditions Festival brings together dozens of performance groups for a showcase of dance, music and more showcasing the rich cultural tapestry of Utah.

But the mission of Living Traditions doesn’t begin and end with that festival; as the summer winds down, you can get more opportunities to experience these amazing performers.

Beginning in August and continuing through the weekend after Labor Day, the Living Traditions Mondays in the Park Concert Series gives center stage to two local cultural performance organizations every Monday night. Next on the schedule, on Monday, Aug. 15, the double-feature starts with Ballet Las Americas de Utah (pictured), the longest running Latin American folk dancing and music group in the state. Following them on the same evening is Los Hermanos de los Andes, an Andean music group using authentic musical instruments dating back to the Incan civilization. The presentations

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It was a bold move to launch a new dance company in spring of 2021, with vaccines only beginning their roll-out and performing arts events still a challenge. But beginning with a performance at that year’s Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival, company director Alicia Ross and her team of dancers—including Nicole Smith, Becca Speechley, Christi Harris, Ruby Cabbell and Jorji Diaz-Fadel—got rolling. Their mission, according to Ross: We hope to provide space and opportunities for choreographers and performers to have full creative freedom in the collaborative process, producing innovative work that showcases the remarkable talent of women artists. We value the expression of all women’s voices, bodies, and backgrounds, and we strive to celebrate and support all women in the dance community.”

State of Flux marks Fem Dance Company’s second evening-length production, following one in December of 2021. The show is scheduled to include two dance films and two live pieces by Ross, New York choreographer Kaley Pruitt and local guest choreographer Jessica Baynes. The works’ themes include, according to Ross, “fluctuations of growth, the impermanence of life and making peace with the present, and an anti-war statement in support of Ukraine. Local Utah dancers have come together to make this show

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The 2022 DIY Festival continues a tradition of adapting and thinking creatively.

BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

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f anything has been true of the past two years of COVID-era life, it’s that people have been forced to think creatively.

Where the Craft Lake City DIY Festival is concerned, that creativity has manifested itself in many ways.

For this 14th annual showcase of local makers and artisans, the event returns to the Utah State Fairpark, where it moved in 2019 to provide growing room and continued last year after moving to a unique online format for 2020. That 2020 experience, however—according to SLUG publisher and Craft Lake City founder Angela Brown—was itself a magnificent example of DIY spirit.

When it became clear that an in-person event would not be possible in the summer of 2020, Brown turned towards virtual options, yet also knew that she wanted something different. “We didn’t know what to do, but we didn’t want to do what others were doing—just making a landing page driving folks to peoples’ accounts,” Brown says. “We wanted it to be like a video-game platform, make it really engaging.”

The result was a full-fledged virtual-reality environment created with a Mozilla platform. Each artisan got their own virtual room—which Craft Lake City staff had to teach them in just 30 days how to create— where visitors could enter with avatars and look around. And according to Brown, it was so popular on the festival’s first night

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That doesn’t mean it was a problem-free experience, of course. Brown describes the sales for the artisans as “feast or famine,” with some doing pretty well and others selling nothing at all. In part, that was the result of the virtual “rooms” taking up so much virtual space that, if the square footage had existed in the real world, it would have been three times the size of the actual festival. That meant that, due to the loading speed of the rooms, a typical visitor might only have the opportunity to visit 20 rooms, rather than perhaps seeing every stall at the in-person festival.

Still, Brown considers the experience a valuable one, bringing a different demographic to the event and allowing visitors from other states. But it was a relief to everyone to return to an in-person event in 2021, albeit one that allowed vendors to be either indoors or outdoors based on comfort level. “We bounced back really well,” Brown says, “even if the attendance was 15,000 or 16,000 compared to the pre-COVID around 20,000.”

For all the disruption caused by the pandemic, Brown believes that the “great pause” was an opportunity for more makers to be born, or for existing makers to expand the kind of work they do. “We’ve definitely seen that and heard that from participants, that they either found their craft during the pandemic, or worked better,” Brown says.

“For a lot of people, now they have a side hustle. The pandemic really did help people find that. … Regulars did expand their inventory, picking up a new skill and adding that to their booths. We have one artisan who previously did screen-printed posters, now also does screen printed pillows. [The shutdown allowed people to] get creative with their skills.”

For 2022, there’s a hope that things are a bit more “normal” for the DIY festival, though Brown says that there are always new things to add. On the guest-

facing side, for the second year the festival grounds will allow guests to bring in well-trained dogs, and is adding a Sunday “barnburner dance party” featuring DJ Jesse Walker of New City Movement. More behind-the-scenes, the DIY festival has developed a new scholarship in conjunction with Project Rainbow, subsidizing the participation fees for queer-identifying artists who make queer-themed work, as part of Craft Lake City’s inclusion efforts.

But one thing that remains constant is that idea of inspiring creativity—not just for those who are part of the staff, or the artisans at their booths, but for those who attend. Brown has seen plenty of evidence over the years that visitors to the DIY Festival often leave with an itch to become creators themselves.

“We hear that time and time again,” Brown says. “Every year there’s a new artisan that I meet, there for the first time, who

Guests visit the 2019 Craft Lake City DIY Festival says ‘I went last year, I was so surprised, I found my community.’ One story I love to tell involves someone who came to the very first [DIY festival]. He went home that night and Googled ‘how to make paper.’ He taught himself how to make handmade paper that night, and he was there [at the DIY festival] the next year selling it. So we hear that all the time: ‘I don’t know if I can do anything, but I want to try.’” CW

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A Poet on State Street Remembering the life and legacy of Utah’s Josephine Spencer.

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n the evening of July 1, the sliding glass doors of the Eccles Theater opened to Main Street, inviting passersby to stop, listen and partake of the poetic offerings emanating from within. For a second year in a row, the Eccles’ Grand Lobby hosted the Salt Lake Speaks Slam Poetry Exhibition—held in conjunction with the Open Streets summer makeover on Main—before a crowd of varying ages and backgrounds.

As the summer sun gradually set and the lights of the city began to glow, roughly a dozen local poets held court before a supportive and encouraging audience. Over the course of three block sets—to the finger-snaps and applause of their listeners—the poets spoke of the things closest to their hearts.

Some shared their journeys with body image, others of relationships both broken and discovered.

They railed against the racism, hypocrisy and violence that they saw both locally and nationally.

“Poetry has filled a part of me that was missing,” said Rachel Chidester, who performed at the Salt Lake Speaks event.

In a piece describing her own experience with abuse, Chidester conveyed the personal epiphanies that came in the midst of a dark period of her life. “Instead of gazing into oblivion,” she said, “I was staring into infinity.”

Like countless others who have hearkened to the poetic impulse, these local artists found a voice with which to articulate what they see and feel, using words to go beyond language.

And their performances amid the hustle and bustle of the city streets added to a long tradition of homegrown, unapologetic Utah artistry, pulsating with the unheard whispers of one of Salt Lake’s most notable, yet tragically forgotten, poets of its past.

The name Josephine Spencer might not sound familiar today, but she was once described by the Deseret News as “one of Utah’s most gifted writers of poetry and prose.” Unconventional, subtly humorous and willing to experiment with her craft, Spencer was a storyteller, a journalist, a political radical and an independent, single woman in turnof-the-century Utah.

Spencer, as historians Ardis Parshall and Michael Austin summarize in their edited collection of her works, wrote “about flawed human beings … trying to make their way in a world of surprising beauty, tragic inequality and just enough divine grace to make it all work out in the end.”

Living between the pioneer era and the Roaring ’20s—and no stranger to depression and loneliness—Spencer knew a thing or two about harnessing the poetic voice in the midst of uncertain times. Darkness, disease, corruption and injustice were as familiar sights to her then as they are to us now, but she also spoke of great hope and beauty, and the elements of human life that help us to not only live but to live well.

And like today’s local slam poets, Spencer, too, had much to say about her world. While nearly a century has passed since her death, she has much to teach us about living well and finding our own poetic voices.

Josephine Spencer, circa 1897

Dreams

Josephine Spencer was born in Salt Lake City on April 30, 1861, to Daniel and Emily Spencer. The youngest of six children, she grew up in a separate cottage adjoining the larger Spencer residence on the northwest corner of 300 South and State Street.

Daniel Spencer was a member of the Territorial Legislature and a polygamist. He passed away when Josephine was 7 years old.

To those who knew her well, “she always seemed a dreamer,” recalled her childhood friend Annie Wells Cannon—who referred to Spencer as “Jote”—in a 1932 article for the Relief Society Magazine. “Whether walking with little friends on the hills or doing the … household tasks at home, around her there always seemed to hover an atmosphere of imagery.”

Spencer reportedly liked to regale her friends with stories and plays full of fanciful figures, for “where others saw plain facts and barren places, she saw loveliness and beauty,” Cannon said.

Amid the lilacs and locust blossoms of her neighborhood, Spencer fostered close childhood friendships in spite of her shy nature and even found her poetic impulse emboldened by the example of her neighbors. Living in close proximity to the Spencer cottage was Sarah E. Carmichael (1838-1901), a Latter-day Saint convert who had distinguished herself in years past by her education and poetic prowess before experiencing a sharp mental decline.

Cannon reported that Spencer and her friends would occasionally observe Carmichael and her husband through their fence, hoping to be invited onto the premises.

“Jote was wont to say … ‘You know [Carmichael] writes poetry and has printed a book,’” Cannon recounted. “That in Jote’s mind was the acme of achievement—to write poetry and print a book.”

Spencer’s creative desires were encouraged among family and friends in her early life, but the literary landscape of pioneer Utah was still in a formative state. While many in the community were producing prose and spinning verse, Utah Historical

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“Josephine Spencer’s early literature is the work of a woman trying to develop her talent for writing ... occasionally her writing contains blatant humor uncommon to Mormon authors, or have overtones of unusual themes such as socialism and the underside of Mormon life.”

—BYU professor Kylie Nielson Turley

Quarterly editor Miriam B. Murphy summed the terrain of that era thusly in a 1975 article: “The times generally favored zeal over art.”

Spencer reportedly had a witty and optimistic demeanor, according to her contemporaries. Her religious approach was decidedly against the harsh Calvinistic tendencies that some of her neighbors adopted, with Spencer even going so far as to skewer, in a story from 1894, that brand of spirituality “that pricked rather than soothed; goaded rather than led, and repulsed instead of won.”

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On top of her fiction and poetry, Spencer was also a full-time journalist. Between the increased number of American women in newspaper positions during the Civil War, female admittance into local printing unions in the 1870s and the trailblazing work of such journalists as Margaret Fuller and Jane Cunningham Croly, the country experienced a boom in women journalists from the 1880s onward.

Serving for years as Society and Literary editor for the Deseret Evening News, Spencer utilized her descriptive talents and perceptive eye to report on local gatherings and even corresponded from Chicago for the Columbian Exposition (World’s Fair) of 1893.

Present at the formation of the Utah Women’s Press Club (1891) and the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers (1901), Spencer was also active with local politics. She was listed as a delegate for the Populist Party in 1898 by the Salt Lake Herald and was put forward as her party’s choice for county auditor that year, a nomination she respectfully declined.

With a party that advocated for labor unions, wealth redistribution and the public ownership of

utilities, Josephine Spencer was hardly considered an outlier during this period of Utah’s history. The state, after all, voted overwhelmingly in favor of the Democratic-Populist presidential ticket in 1896.

Never marrying and supporting her sister and niece with her writing, Spencer worked steadily on multiple fronts and continued to develop her abilities in journalism, fiction and especially in poetry.

Involved with the state peace movement, she wrote a poem that was recited at peace meetings held throughout the city at the behest of the International Council of Women on May 15, 1902.

The global plea for peace, her poem lamented, “like an echo swung / Vainly among the chambers of lone hills / Down the worn highways of the world has rung / To harass heedless ears and idle wills / That hardly now its rising clamor stills / The old discordance of the world-throned hate / Vaunting itself a dynasty of Fate.” She anticipated a future when humanity “shall tune their life-strings to the Psalms of Peace.”

Due to an undisclosed “breakdown” of health—as the Deseret News later reported in its obituary notice—Spencer ultimately relocated to California in 1922 and joined the staff of the Pasadena Star-News.

She passed away in Norwalk six years later on Oct. 28, 1928.

“She very much set out to just be a writer,” comments Mormon historian/blogger Ardis Parshall, “not a Mormon writer, not a Utah writer. And she had to draw on those things because that’s what she knew, but she was just writing for people who would read her ideas.”

What were some of those ideas? While Spencer’s stories and poetry touched on varied themes, some striking and prescient issues emerge for our day from her body of work.

Her 1891 poem “The World’s Way,” for example, contains a biting criticism of the collective hypocrisy and inaction that she believed was all too often

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romance, history, politics and even a ghost tale.

Spencer wrote of women, children and the laboring classes as well as the injustices experienced by each. She contemplated love, the seasons, mythology, grief, the West and nature.

Even with her Home Literature contributions— where plot and characterization were, by design, in service to an expected moral theme—one could still detect flashes of deeper insight and unexpected nuance embedded in the proceedings.

But she would agree that not all her literary efforts were successful. Writing to a friend in 1892, Spencer invited those curious about her output to “judge me by the best of my work rather than the poorest.”

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As Josephine Spencer passed through her teens and 20s, her literary interests developed along with her community involvement. Too young to join such popular cultural groups as the Wasatch Literary Association, she was involved in converting an old card club into the Azalea Literary Society (1875-1884).

Under the Azalea’s auspices, Spencer helped organize several formal balls for community causes, such as one in 1878 for the sufferers of the Yellow Fever epidemic in the southern United States. She delivered an essay for the occasion “which did her great credit,” reported the Woman’s Exponent.

Spencer began the 1880s by completing a certificate for English and Literature at the University of Deseret—precursor to the University of Utah—and ended the decade with prize-winning work for newspapers like Western Weekly. It was during this period that a literary movement called Home Literature was gaining traction within her Mormon community, and it proved to be consequential for her literary ambitions.

Beginning in the late 1880s, members and leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were starting to embrace the writing of fiction as a means of instructing their children and sharing their beliefs abroad. Called Home Literature, the trend encompassed works of poetry and prose that tended to be sentimental in tone and didactic in purpose.

Not unlike the moralistic fiction of mainstream America that had been in vogue since the 1820s, Home Literature began to grow in popularity in Utah just as moralistic writing was falling out of favor everywhere else in the country.

Like others, Spencer contributed stories and poetry to the Home Literature subgenre. Unlike others, however, she was not primarily concerned with teaching Mormonism, but rather developing her gifts and experimenting with literary methods.

Her first published story—an offbeat adventure tale called The Descendant of an Ancestor (1891)—was set in Turkey and owed more to the English writer H. Rider Haggard than anything found on the Wasatch Front.

“Josephine Spencer’s early literature is the work of a woman trying to develop her talent for writing,” observed Brigham Young University professor Kylie Nielson Turley in her 1995 thesis. “Often, she considers topics similar to those discussed by her friends and neighbors, but occasionally her writings contain blatant humor uncommon to Mormon authors or have overtones of unusual themes such as socialism and the underside of Mormon life.”

Establishing herself as a literary light in Utah’s firmament by the early 1890s, Spencer branched out into unknown territories of genre and style, publishing locally and in national journals like the Overland Monthly. Over the years, she would pen stories of adventure,

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FARRIS GERARD

By Josephine Spencer

”Vulnerability is a medicine we need,” says Ashley Finley (above, second from right), one of the local poets who recently performed at the Salt Lake Speaks Slam Poetry Exhibition, held at the Eccles Theater on Main.

Stars that swiftly bud and bloom In the fields of night, Burst thy sheaths of purple gloom— Spread thy petals bright!

Fill the gardens of the sky, Stretching wide and deep and high, With thy silver light.

Moon that with thy face unfurled Risest swift and still, Let the realms of night’s blue world Golden shimmers fill!

Twilight, timid, doubtful, wan, Yearns to see thy rich beams dawn O’er yon misty hill.

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No other hope our souls might move Than blessed with boon of Life and Time, To struggle with the world and prove Its foretold golden prime CW

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Like Spencer and the slam poets of Salt Lake Speaks, poetic capacity is available to all if it is exercised.

When it is exercised, a sense of the transcendent and the mysterious begins to flow, as many a mystic and creative artist can attest.

“Poets and artists,” writes author Patrice Vecchione in her book My Shouting, Shattered, Whispering Voice, “are people who maintain a relationship with mystery for their entire lives. They don’t discredit what can’t be explained.”

In his book Singing School, Robert Pinsky, American poet laureate consultant from 1997 to 2000, emphasizes the difficult work of exercising and informing the poetic capacity through the process of personal discovery, trial and error.

While it is much easier to follow a particular school or trend, writes Pinsky, “These are fatally easy ways to avoid the double labor of deciding for yourself what thrills you and studying it. And sometimes changing your mind.”

If this all sounds too abstract for the “real world,” consider the sense of nihilism that permeates so much of modern living, with its subsequent fruits of despair, cruelty, extremism and technological destruction of the planet. These are real phenomena that poets, politicians and the populace generally decry.

The philosophers Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Kelly, in their book All Things Shining, point to our alienation from a sense of craft in the world and, consequently, a sense of meaning, care or sacredness. “The task of the [craftsperson],” they write, “is not to generate the

meaning, but rather to cultivate in [themselves] the skill for discerning the meanings that are already there.”

So, poetic impulses would not appear to be merely flowery or decorative language, but rather “a way we take stock of ourselves,” Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal conveyed to The Salt Lake Tribune in April.

By itself, Rekdal said, the poetic form will not make the changes that are collectively desired of governments and societies, but it will “suggest the activation of certain values in readers that choose to live the values that they find.”

In recounting the life of Josephine Spencer, and highlighting the flow of poetry that still runs through her native city, perhaps we might each find the “heavenly halo which transfigures thought”—to borrow a phrase from an 1893 Spencer poem—by digging deeper and opening ourselves up more widely.

“Vulnerability,” observed poet Ashley Finley at the Salt Lake Speaks event, “is a medicine we need.”

Whether the medium is the printed page, the visual arts or an endless variety of crafts, the poetic impulse is available for all to joyfully discover and to cry out “against the horror of human selfishness and greed,” as Spencer’s “Spirit of Literature” (1899) put it.

Whatever form our poetic impulses take, they have the benefit of time—however much of it we can apply to the effort—in which to take shape. Consider the words of Spencer from 1890:

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adopted by American leaders and citizens with regard to the poor. “There are sparkling waves in the sea afloat,” she wrote, “But never a drop to drink / They will bear up the weight of an iron boat / But a man’s light form must sink / So billows of pity splash and swirl / While the homeless beggar starves / And the state-ship sails with flags afurl / While the builder dies at the wharves.”

In the conclusion to her 1895 story “Finley Parke’s Problem,” Spencer sounds a warning to readers past and present about how “cheap” prejudices serve to pile up the wrongs and injustices of the world.

“It seems to me,” her character muses, “that about the worst hell some of us could have, hereafter, would be to look back and see our lives as they are now, running around, and out, in their little ruts of selfishness, without any glance outside at the mountains of human misery piled up in sight.”

“Little Mother” (1928), a daring rewrite of an earlier Home Literature story, contains even further searching questions for men and women. “The characters are trapped in unyielding gender expectations,” wrote Turley, in a 2008 analysis for the literary journal Irreantum.

Perpetually self-sacrificing motherhood, the sole option available to the heroine of “Little Mother,” leaves her feeling lonely and “in everybody’s way” by the end of the tale, Spencer wrote.

For men, on the other hand, their options are more numerous, but inexorably built around pursuing the next empty rung “leading to the top of the ladder.”

This was evidently not a state of affairs that Spencer found desirable for anyone.

Originally printed in The Contributor (June 1892).

Reproduced with permission from Josephine Spencer: Her Collected Works, Volume One: 1887-1899; Ardis E. Parshall and Michael Austin, eds. (BCC Press, 2020)

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Maid who blossomed in my life Like a flower divine, On my heart’s dark doubt and strife Let thy pure love shine.

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f you have the kind of acting career where you’re typecast, you’re luckier than most; that means you’ve been working long enough, and successfully enough, that you’re associated with playing a certain kind of character. That doesn’t mean an actor who’s found that sort of career isn’t interested in stretching out, which usually means finding smaller-scale projects willing to take a chance on showcasing you outside of that box.

Aubrey Plaza decided to create those opportunities for herself, producing films that could give her roles beyond the sardonic Millennial persona she established on TV’s Parks & Recreation and in early movie parts going back to Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.

The latest is Emily the Criminal, in which Plaza plays Emily Benetto, a struggling

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would-be artist in Los Angeles barely keeping ahead of her bills with a catering job. A co-worker eventually tips her off to another opportunity: doing the leg work in a wellorganized credit-card fraud operation run

by Youcef (Theo Rossi) and his cousin. And what begins as a one-off gig starts to expand as Emily proves skilled at the job.

While it’s clear that writer/director John Patton Ford is at least somewhat interested in the generational factors—huge student-loan debts, unpaid internships, etc.—that can lead someone like Emily to decide a straight life is for suckers, he also builds a great flawed character for Plaza to inhabit. The felony on her record that affects her job prospects might be revealed ultimately as a justifiable offense, but it’s also clear that Emily isn’t always great at decision-making, as we see in a sharp cut from “just a glass of wine” to doing blow in a bathroom.

That makes for a terrific showcase for Plaza, who presents a different angle on a character that could easily have been a stock “girl who gets in over her head.” While cinematographer Jeff Bierman lays down some underworld blues to counter the sunny Southern California setting, Plaza gives Emily a ferocity and determination that are a far cry from deadpan comedy. Ford might make it a little too easy to let Emily off the

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Dale Dickey might be a less familiar face to those who don’t know where to look, but she too has a “type,” the kind of hardedged character you’d find hanging out in a bar like in Iron Man 3, or living a dangerous life like in Winter’s Bone. That makes it a particular turn for Max Walker-Silverman’s A Love Song to cast her as a romantic lead. She plays Faye, a widow who has come to a lakeside campground in Colorado hoping that a correspondence with Lito (Wes Studi), an old high-school classmate (and maybe more), will result in a reunion.

Walker-Silverman has the opportunity for a very simple and effective character study, except that he keeps getting in his own way. It’s not exactly subtle at the outset when he focuses on images of wildflowers growing out of the parched landscape; yes indeed, we can find beauty in unlikely places, we get it. There are similarly distracting quirk-flourishes at regular intervals throughout, from the visits Faye gets from a quintet of mostly-mute siblings, to Faye’s habit of waking up to name the call of the bird she’s hearing.

When A Love Song actually does get down to the business of its central relationship, however, it’s got a lot going for it. Dickey and Studi share the kind of casual chemis-

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You’ve got a solid slate of bao places here in Utah, but I like to order them up with dim sum at Hong Kong Tea House (565 W. 200 South, 801-531-7010, hongkongteahouse.yolasite.com). They have steamed and baked variations—though the baked bao are typically only there on weekends.

If I was a river deity, I’d request 50 bao over severed heads any day of the week.

The Samosa. Another ancient dish that can thank the diverse cultures born of the Persian empire. It’s been a snack in the palatial courts of the Ghaznavid empire, and it’s been a sack lunch for Uzbekistani shepherds.

Today, of course, it’s our appetizer of choice when ordering up some tasty curry at one of our local spots. It’s hard to go wrong with a deep-fried triangle stuffed with ground meat or cooked potatoes wherever you find one, though I think the offerings at Saffron Valley (multiple locations, saffronvalley.com) are my favorites. It’s the consistency, I think; the seasoning and size are always exactly what I want when craving this tasty little snack.

The list of tasty meat-stuffed bread can go on and on, of course. I know I am neglecting the empanada of Latin American cuisine, the pierogi of Eastern Europe and the pretzel dogs of the mall food court, but all of them occupy a special place in my heart. Hopefully you can say the same. CW

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as a way to enjoy the perfection of pizza on the go. By adding all the toppings, folding the dough over the top and throwing it in the oven, a pizza revolution was born.

Locally, I think you’ve got two safe bets.

The Vesuvius Calzone at The Pie (multiple locations, thepie.com) revels in its own excess by stuffing a traditional calzone with spaghetti, meatballs and mozzarella cheese. It’s an excellent example of how modern chefs continue to innovate in the field of calzone technology. I also dig the pizza benders at The Italian Village (5370 S. 900 East, 801-266-4182, italianvillageslc.com), which can be made to order just like their pizzas.

The Bao. Given its longevity and regional diversity, the Chinese dish known as bao could helm its own sub-category of meat-stuffed bread. Its mythic origin story involves a military strategist named Zhuge Liang in third-century China trying to fool a river deity into letting his army cross. The deity demanded 50 severed heads, so Liang called for 50 dumplings the size of a human head and tossed them in for passage.

It worked, and since then, Chinese chefs have been creating new variations on this delicious meal of steamed or baked bread stuffed with barbecue pork, veggies, or whatever else sounds good.

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’ve been asked what my favorite food is enough times to have an answer ready to go. Before I get into it, however, would you like to take a guess? I’ve mentioned it a few times over the course of my tenure as City Weekly’s resident food dude, but there’s a good chance it’s been more of a between-the-lines kind of thing.

Give up? Alright, I’ll tell you: My favorite food is what I lovingly refer to as meatstuffed bread. Now, before you burn every shred of credibility I’ve gained thus far in my food writing career, give me a chance to unpack that simple but perfect mouthful.

When I say “meat-stuffed bread,” I am casting a rather wide net to reel in a variety of foods that cross geographic boundaries.

These are foods that exist and are beloved by every major culinary culture on the planet, food that may very well have been early man’s first attempt at assembling a recipe. Meat-stuffed bread transcends cultures, reminds us of our similarities and makes us feel at home—and how many world leaders can you say that about?

If you’re still unconvinced, allow me to plead my case. What follows are some meat-stuffed breads that come to us from all over the world—and where you can snag a good example locally. Just read on—you can thank me for the discovery of your new favorite food later.

The Pasty. Sometimes called the Cornish Pasty, if you want to get technical, this hand-held savory pie originated in Cornwall, U.K. It was a popular meal on the go for miners who carried them along during their shifts in metal buckets, and were typically reheated by holding a candle underneath.

Incidentally, silver miners in Park City were also fans of pasties, which is where The Dough Miner (945 S. 300 West, Ste. 101, 385-334-3389, doughminer.com) comes in. This new addition to the Central Ninth area whips up homemade pasties with traditional flavors like ribeye steak, potatoes, carrots, turnips and onion. For the ultimate Utah culinary purist, they also have funeral potato pasties, stuffed full of cheesy, buttery mashed potatoes. Though doughnuts aren’t meat-stuffed bread, they are quite nice to have around after devouring one or two pasties—nothing goes better with savory dough than sweet dough, after all.

The Calzone. It’s hard to improve on pizza, but leave it to the culinary geniuses of Naples, Italy to be bold enough to try. Like the pasty, the calzone was conceptualized

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A list of what local craft breweries and cider houses have on tap this week Shades Brewing 154 W. Utopia Ave, South Salt Lake ShadesBrewing.beer On Tap: Strawberry Lemon Triple Fruited Sour Slushies Sampling event with the brewers every Wednesday 6:00pm Silver Reef 4391 S. Enterprise Drive, St. George StGeorgeBev.com Squatters 147 W. Broadway, SLC Squatters.com

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ed Rock - Fukiphīno: This beer started as an April Fool’s Day joke, but has evolved into its own bona fide 9.0 percent double IPA. Label art is an original watercolor by the multi-talented Chris Harlin, who is Red Rock’s longtime downtown brewer.

It pours a foamy, frothy head of a creamwhite color, over a medium hazy honey-amber tone with light, fine sediment and limited carbonation. Retention is very good, and lacing is light and spotty. The hop varieties generate forward notes of mild citrus and tropical fruit, moderate grass, some peppery spiciness and delicate herbal characteristics atop a lightly malted body of pale, mild biscuit malts. Potency is moderate.

The hop profile creates a big flavor and modest bitterness, with significant tropical and summer fruit character, lemongrass and herbal tea. Bitterness is light, and the malt profile is fairly transparent, with a simple pale malt base and a touch of crystal malt for body. The texture is silky, moderately slick, clean and medium dry.

Carbonation is mild, generating a light frothiness and a lightly crisp finish, while the body is shy of medium for the style, medium overall. Balance is very slightly bitter over sweet; alcohol presence is light, and there are no off characters.

Verdict: The hops generate a wide range of fruit flavor along with a grassy, herbal backbone, but not much bitterness to craft a balanced IPA. It works for this beer in particular, though, as the malt profile is simple and not too sweet, but in a more assertively-bodied IPA, it may need to be paired with a stronger bittering hop. I really enjoyed the potential that this hop blend

creates, and look forward to seeing it debut as a promising double IPA candidate.

Offset Bier - NZ Pale Ale: For this batch, the brewers diverted wort from Offset’s Riwaka Pale Ale into one of their small experimental fermenters, and dry-hopped it with a new combo of Nectaron and Nelson at a slightly higher dry hopping rate.

It’s your typical-looking hop-forward pale ale, light enough to be potentially mistaken for a saison, with a nice whitish head.

I don’t know if that is supposed to look good, or if I have been trained that when I see that characteristic, it is associated with a hazed-up hoppy beer. Either way, it looks great. The aroma is of white wine grapes, citrus peel and tropical fruits that starts off very sweet but explodes with a rye-like spiciness and doughy malt. It really offsets the sweetness, but it’s still hard to say that it’s balanced.

The flavors are good; the spice is no surprise this time as it leaps out of the glass, earthy and malty with some tropical passionfruit, citrus rind, mineral water and a doughiness that lingers with hardly any bitterness. The mouthfeel is nice, smooth, coating, with lively carbonation that is soft and gentle with, medium body and a smooth, lightly dry finish.

Verdict: A nice pale ale from Offset Bier, and a very interesting hop flavor. It reminds me a lot of Nelson, but heavier on the spice while still being tropical and fruity.

The way hop science is progressing, I don’t know if you will ever find a fresh hoppy beer that won’t taste brilliant every damn time. This is one of those pale ales I would slam every time I see it; at the very least, I’d never turn one down. Definitely a great expression of hops.

Occasionally, Offset Bier will send some beer to Salt Lake City pubs; so far, I’ve seen Offset offerings at The Bayou, Beerhive and Scion Cider Bar. This one, however, you will not find in SLC. It’s a very small batch that will only be available at Offset’s Park City brewery. In the coming weeks, you’ll see Fukiphīno at DABS (formerly DABC) stores, but for now you can find it at all Red Rock locations (to-go at the beer store, 443 N. 400 West). As always, cheers! CW

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If curry and samosas make you weak in the knees, you’ll want to check out the Third Annual Indian Food Fair (indianfoodfairs.com) at Liberty Park (600 E. 900 South). This celebration of the vibrant culture, art, music and food that come to us from India seeks to create an immersive cultural experience for locals. I, of course, typically get drawn to this festival to satiate my cravings for butter chicken, freshly made naan and plates of golden-brown samosas (see this week’s feature), but I am always delighted by the colorful scene that the Indian Food Fair creates. The event takes place on Aug. 13 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., and admission is free.

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los (of Black Uhuru fame), Yellowman, Sly Dunbar and Chali 2na (of Jurassic 5). While plenty eclectic, the album finds Slightly Stoopid leaning a bit more toward reggae than on some of the previous albums.

Most of the songs on Everyday Life qualify as fairly full-on reggae—but the album gets its variety from tunes like “Higher Now,” which blends rap, reggae and dreamy soul; “Glocks,” an instrumental offering easygoing, full-bodied rock; “One More Night,” a tuneful acoustic folk-pop ballad; and “Everybody People,” which mixes jammy acoustic folk with reggae. Doughty credited the guest artists on the album with helping set the tone for the music on the album.

“Just because of the guest stars we had on the record, it’s definitely more of a reggae-influenced record,” he said. “But you still have songs like ‘One More Night,’ which is nothing even in the reggae realm.

It’s a great ballad folk song, the story of our lives on the road, leaving our children, leaving our friends and our family, all of that is in the lyrics of the song.”

Touching on the honesty and warm vibe of the latest album, Doughty adds, “You can almost, you can feel, I don’t know if maturity is the right word, but you can feel the band is growing up and just so much around us is in our music. Like what we see, how we see the world is presented in

debut album. It gave the group a legitimacy that was valuable as Slightly Stoopid sought to establish a fan base.

“I think when we first started touring, having that Skunk name, because of Sublime’s influences, we would go places and people wouldn’t know who Slightly Stoopid was and they would be like ‘Hey, let’s go and check out that Skunk Records band,’” Doughty said. “And it was such a killer little indie label back then.”

The group built its following the oldfashioned hard way, playing 200 or more shows a year during its first decade. Over the years, Slightly Stoopid also added band members to go with its expanding instrumental mix. Today, the lineup includes Doughty, McDonald (guitar, bass, vocals), Ryan Moran (drums), Oguer Ocon (percussion, harp), Daniel “Dela” Delacruz (saxophone), Paul Wolstencroft (keyboards) and Andy Geib (trombone). And as the touring miles piled up, Slightly Stoopid released studio albums on a regular basis, developing and refining their sunny brand of reggae mixed with rock, funk, folk, pop and even punk along the way.

The group’s ninth studio album, Everyday Life, Everyday People, arrived in 2018 and features guest appearances from several major figures in the reggae world, including Ali Campbell of UB40, Don Car-

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With Slightly Stoopid joined by Pepper, Common Kings and Fortunate Youth on this summer’s tour, Doughty said there’s always a chance fans will see musical collaborations on stage between Slightly Stoopid and the other musicians. These are moments he enjoys.

“What’s cool is it’s really something just special for the fans when they can see that kind of camaraderie,” Doughty said. “It really makes a difference in the shows. It’s genuine. There’s nothing like set up about it. That’s what’s so special about the bands.

People can relate because we’re all just regular, real people.” CW

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hen guitarists and singers Miles Doughty and Kyle McDonald started Slightly Stoopid in 1994, they were out front of a second generation of bands that wanted to build on the reggae-rock sound that was starting to take hold thanks to the success of groups like Sublime, 311 and No Doubt.

Now, some 28 years later, Slightly Stoopid is one of several California reggae-rooted bands that can headline outdoor amphitheaters, veteran members of a scene packed with acts playing some variation of reggae-rooted music and espousing California culture built around skateboarding, surfing and, in many cases, the benefits of cannabis. It’s their summer ritual now to tour amphitheaters, where they deliver large-scale shows to crowds that can number upwards of 20,000.

“I never thought we’d be where we are when I was a kid,” Doughty said. “This is like living the dream times 10. It’s been an incredible journey.

“Back in the day when we first started, we were one of the only bands. Obviously, there was Sublime, 311, No Doubt. Really [compared to] a lot of bands in the culture, we were like the baby band of that [type].

Now Southern California culture has spread like wildfire everywhere, to where there are like 10,000 of those bands. The energy of the Southern California culture seems to be what a lot of people are vibing toward. [And] it’s great to see when a lot of your friends are doing well and are experiencing the same things across the board.”

The aforementioned Sublime and their late vocalist, Bradley Nowell, in fact, gave Slightly Stoopid its biggest early break.

Nowell signed Slightly Stoopid to his label, Skunk Records, paving the way for the release of Slightly Stoopid’s 1996 self-titled

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I’ll always love Utah!” His shows are remembered for spectacular energy and a friendly mutual agreement amongst the crowd, who are all there for a good time.

At The Complex in 2017, Hoodie Allen showcased his album The Hype, where fans in the crowd brought cake for Hoodie and Hoodie gave it back by throwing it into the crowd, where it landed on some delighted faces. Your chance for your own Hoodie Allen-dealt cake face comes Aug. 10 at Soundwell. Doors open at 7 p.m. and tickets for the all-ages event are $25 and VIP (including Polaroids with Hoodie, pre-show Q&A and a gameshow with prizes) are $55 at soundwellslc.com.

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Based in Portland, Ore., The Decemberists are among the most prolific and influential indie ensembles making music today. Cleverly creative, they often base their approach on historical events and fanciful folklore, as both themes for their albums and as a centerpiece for their shows. While that allows for somewhat eccentric endeavors, it doesn’t detract from their innate accessibility, which is why they were able to graduate from an earlier independent affiliation with the Kill Rock Stars label to joining the Capitol Records roster. So too, they earned a 2011 Grammy nomination for Best Rock Song courtesy of “Down by the Water” off their album The King Is Dead. Credit singer, songwriter and guitarist Colin Meloy for the vision that initiated their efforts early on, as well as the steady lineup that includes guitar/banjo/mandolin player Chris Funk, bassist Nate Query, keyboardist Jenny Conlee, and drummer John Moen, most of whom have been in the band since the beginning. Dubbed the “Arise from the Bunkers” tour, their upcoming shows require audience participation—so it’s best to be ready, as The Decemberists are as unpredictable as they are engaging. Jake Xerxes Fussell and local Marny Proudfit kick things off at the Gallivan Center at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 11. Tickets to the all-ages show range from $10 presale; $15 dayof-show; and $149 - $219 for VIP. Find tickets and more info at saltlakearts.org/twilightconcertseries. (Lee Zimmerman)

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DJ Minx @ Metro Music Hall

A living piece of Detroit’s electronic music legacy is coming through to SLC, and it comes in the form of DJ Minx. In more ways than one, DJ Minx (Jennifer Witcher) has been involved in the dynamic and iconic scene there for 30 years. While she started out a fan, Detroit’s open and collaborative nature quickly found her DJing herself. The scene that inspired her featured DJs like Derrick May and Juan Atkins and of them Witcher told MusicTech that “they were somewhat like bossmen, helmsman, gods, and we loved them in the beginning stages because of what they were able to give us. How they were able to make us feel. Music soothes the soul, but that music was a whole different level. It was bringing people together.” Witcher too would contribute to that relational scene over time, starting a mentorship group and label in the ’90s called Women on Wax that gave women the tools and support to enter the DJ fold. And, more recently, upon coming out last year as a lesbian, she’s found a whole community of marginalized new-gen DJs celebrating her music and influence. Last year also found her friend Carl Craig, of the ’90s-founded label Planet E Communications, pulling her work into his orbit, and releasing Witcher’s own production “Do It All Night”

on the label. DJ Minx will bring her decades of groove experience to Metro Music Hall’s Metropolis dance series on Friday, Aug. 12, with support from Chavez, Lampshade, Mathew Fit, Stackx and Wakku. Doors to the 21+ show are at 9 p.m. and tickets are $15 at metromusichall.com. (Erin Moore)

Whiskey Myers @ Sandy Amphitheater

Southern rock and Texas tradition hold a lot in common, given the fact that the music from those realms is generally tough, tenacious and unapologetically uncompromising.

And you can count on Texas sextet Whiskey Myers offering allegiance to all things borne from Southern circumstances. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, Waylon Jennings and Hank Williams Jr. all provide an indelible influence on their music, and with the release of their 2019 eponymous effort, they were given the honor of being declared “the new torch bearers for Southern music” by none other than Rolling Stone. Now, with their new album Tortilla—named for the border town where it was recorded—Whiskey Myers is daring to defy their narrow categorization by imbuing such diverse influences as Motown, Muscle Shoals, gospel, grit and grunge. “It’s going to have a little bit [of a] different

Whiskey Myers sound,” lead singer Cody Cannon recently stated in a promotional interview. “It’s still Whiskey Myers at its core, but it’s kind of fresh.” One can be assured that the freshness and spontaneity will translate to their live performances, given that any outfit with the drive and determination of Southern rock often excite on stage. That makes their stop at Sandy Amphitheater on Friday, Aug. 12 an essential engagement for those who appreciate outlaws and insurgents. Two equally assertive outfits—Shane Smith & The Saints and 49 Winchester—kick things off at 6 p.m.

Tickets to the all-ages show range from $40 - $95 and can be purchased at sandyamp. com. (LZ)

Switchfoot, Collective Soul @ Sandy Amphitheater

Few alternative rock groups from the ’90s are still pumping out new music today, yet bands Collective Soul and Switchfoot are touring the country with their latest albums in 2022. Unlike their previous 11 studio albums, Switchfoot’s 12th album, titled interrobang, is less heavy and adds an indie alternative sound to their lengthy discography. Though some lyrics closely maintain the Christian ide-

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als they have always expressed, the thoughtprovoking lyrics overlap complex and contradicting melodies; one might say it hits differently. This might explain the album’s title, named after the non-standard punctuation mark—‽—indicating a question expressed in an exclamatory manner. The band has repeatedly expressed that their music is not strictly religious, but meant to relate to unlimited audiences, spiritually and beyond. Touring mates Collective Soul are not recognized at all as “Christian rock” like Switchfoot, but their eleventh studio album Vibrating combines catchy riffs with hints of biblical vocabulary to create vivid imagery as interpreted by the listener. As if the alternative rock bands don’t vary enough, their sets will follow that of upcoming country artist Jade Jackson, who was deemed one of “10 New Country Artists You Need To Know” by Rolling Stone. Her spin on country music is clearly influenced by Jackson’s childhood interest in punk rock. In the name of the father, the son, and the spirit of rock and roll—this is a rain-or-shine event at the Sandy Amphitheater. The doors to good vibrations that will kickstart your week open at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 15. Tickets for the all-ages show are $45 - $244.50 and can be found at sandyamp.com. (BW)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Tips to get the most out of the coming weeks: 1. Exercise your willpower at random moments just to keep it limber; 2. Be adept at fulfilling your own hype; 3. Argue for fun. Be playful as you banter; disagree for the sport of it, without feeling attached to being right or needing the last word; 4. Be unable to understand how anyone can resist you or not find you alluring; 5. Declare yourself president, then stage a coup d’état; 6. Smile often when you have no reason to; 7. If you come upon a “square peg, round hole” situation, change the shape of the hole.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Libran author Katherine Mansfield wrote, “The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two and a pool that nobody’s fathomed the depth of.”

Be inspired by her in the coming weeks, Libra. I suspect you will flourish if you give yourself the luxury of exploring your untamed side. The time is ripe to wander in nature and commune with exciting influences outside your comfort zone. What uncharted frontier would you enjoy visiting?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) If I had to choose a mythic deity to be your symbolic helper, I’d pick Venus. The planet Venus is ruler of your sign, and the goddess Venus is the maven of beauty and love, which are key to your happiness. I would also assign Hephaestus to you Tauruses. He was the Greek god of the metalworking forge. He created Zeus’s thunderbolts, Hermes’ winged helmet, Aphrodite’s magic bra, Achilles’ armor, Eros’ bow and arrows and the thrones for the deities on Olympus. The things he made were elegant and useful. I nominate him to be your guide during the next 10 months.

May he inspire you to be a generous source of practical beauty.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) When you are functioning at your best, you Scorpios crave only the finest, top-quality highs. You embrace joys and pleasures that generate epiphanies and vitalizing transformations.

Mediocre varieties of fun don’t interest you. You avoid debilitating indulgences that provide brief excitement but spawn long-term problems. In the coming weeks, dear Scorpio, I hope you will embody these descriptions. It’s crucial that you seek gratifications and delectations that uplift you, ennoble you and bless your future.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) To be a true Gemini, you must yearn for knowledge—whether it’s about coral reefs, ancient maps of Sumer, sex among jellyfish, mini-black holes, your friends’ secrets or celebrity gossip. You need to be an eternal student who craves education.

Are some things more important to learn than others? Of course. But that gauge is not always apparent in the present.

A seemingly minor clue or trick you glean today may become unexpectedly helpful a month from now. With that perspective in mind, I encourage you to be promiscuous in your lust for new information and teachings in the coming weeks.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) My Piscean friend sent me a message that sums up how I feel about you these days. I’ll repeat it here in the hope it inspires you to be perfectly yourself. Luna said, “Every time I meet someone who was born within like two weeks of my birthday, I end up with the impression that they are the loopiest and wisest person I’ve met in a long time. They are totally ridiculous and worthy of profound respect. They are unhinged and brilliantly focused.

They are fuzzy-headed dreamers who couldn’t possibly ever get anything practical accomplished, and they are lyrical thinkers who charm me with their attunement to the world’s beauty and impress me with their understanding of how the world works.

Hahahahaha. Luckily for me, I know the fool is sacred.”

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Musician Viv Albertine has recorded four albums and played guitar for the Slits, a famous punk band. She has also written two books and worked as a TV director for 20 years. Her accomplishments are impressive. Yet she also acknowledges that she has spent a lot of time in bed for many reasons: needing to rest, seeking refuge to think and meditate, recovering from illness, feeling overwhelmed or lonely or sad. She admiringly cites other creative people who, like her, have worked in their beds: Emily Dickinson, Patti Smith, Edith Sitwell and Frida Kahlo. I mention this, Virgo, because the coming days will be an excellent time for you to seek sanctuary and healing and creativity in bed.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) In the film I Origins, a scientist says to a lover: “When the Big Bang happened, all the atoms in the universe were smashed together into one little dot that exploded outward. So my atoms and your atoms were together then … my atoms have always known your atoms.” Although this sounds poetic, it’s true in a literal sense: The atoms that compose you and me and everyone else were originally all squeezed together in a tiny space. We knew each other intimately! The coming days will be an excellent time to celebrate your fundamental link with the rest of the universe. You’ll be extra receptive to feeling connection. You’ll be especially adept at fitting your energy together with others’.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) One of the inspiring experiments I hope you will attempt in the coming months is to work on loving another person as wildly and deeply and smartly as you love yourself. In urging you to try this exercise, I don’t mean to imply that I have a problem with you loving yourself wildly and deeply and smartly. I endorse your efforts to keep increasing the intensity and ingenuity with which you adore and care for yourself. But here’s a secret: Learning to summon a monumental passion for another soul may have the magic power of enhancing your love for yourself.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Author Aldous Huxley wrote, “That people do not learn much from the lessons of history is the most important lesson that history has to teach.” While his observation is true much of the time, I don’t think it will be so for you in the coming weeks. I suspect you will triumph over past patterns that have repeated and repeated themselves. You will study your life story and figure out what you must do to graduate from lessons you have finally, completely learned.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) Cancerian drummer Ringo Starr is in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Though he has received less acclaim than his fellow Beatles, many critics recognize him as a skillful and original drummer. How did he get started? At age 13, he contracted tuberculosis and lived in a sanatorium for two years. The medical staff encouraged him to join the hospital band, hoping it would stimulate his motor skills and alleviate boredom. Ringo used a makeshift mallet to bang the cabinet near his bed. Good practice! That’s how his misfortune led to his joy and success.

Is there an equivalent story in your life, Cancerian? The coming months will be a good time to take that story to its next level.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “Wish on everything,” advises Sagittarian author Francesca Lia Block. “Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.” Your homework for the next two weeks, Sagittarius, is to build a list of marvels that you will wish on. It’s the Magic Wish season of for you: a time when you’re more likely than usual to encounter and generate miracles. Be proactive!

Oh, and very important: What are your three top wishes?

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t’s monsoon season and much of the state has been experiencing rain lately—some areas more than others. There have even been flash floods in much of southern Utah, with more expected.

Once it began to rain after 18 consecutive days of over 100-degree temperatures in the capital city, I walked outside and let the drops fall on my face and inhaled the perfume of water mixed with dust and dry grass.

This never-ending drought sucks, but global warming sucks worse. It’s obvious that the drought is the result of global warming. Daily, I wonder what I can do—nay, what we can do—to help save this planet.

Utah is one of the driest states in the nation. We also have the cheapest water prices. sofi.com reports that the average water bill for a homeowner in Utah in 2021 was $38 per month. It’s only logical that if water rates were doubled, people might be inclined to use water more wisely.

Already, we’ve been encouraged to “slow the flow” and water lawns less frequently. slowtheflow.org says that watering your lawn only once a week can save 3,000 gallons of water per year, per household.

I’m a golfer. As a handicapped person, golfing is one of few activities I can enjoy apart from swimming. We have gorgeous courses in this state and, according to Golf Digest, our top-ranked courses are: Glenwild; Victory Ranch Red Ledges; Talisker Club; Promontory; Park Meadows in and around Park City; the Salt Lake Country Club; Sand Hollow in Hurricane and Entrada at Snow Canyon in St. George.

Golf courses are thirsty. According to the U.S. Geological Survey’s report of wateruse data in Utah for the past year, Utah golf courses use 38 million gallons of water per day. These green spaces provide not just recreation but food and homes for birds and other wildlife.

Despite their benefits, several Utah cities and counties are limiting the construction of new golf courses. In fact, Ivins in Washington County passed laws earlier this year banning new courses and even car washes.

Kamas and Oakley also have limited new construction in certain areas due to lack of water.

Utahrivers.org report that farming and ranching account for about 85% of Utah’s water use, while indoor use by residents consumes a mere 3% to 4%. Farmers are being encouraged to choose more drought tolerant crops, to try rainwater harvesting (when there is rain), to change to drip irrigation if possible and to rotate crops to save water.

And Utah Sen. Mitt Romney recently got a bill through Congress to pay for a $10 million study of the Great Salt Lake to look for ideas to tackle the drought conditions contributing to the shrinkage of that salty puddle.

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Ewwwww A steward on a SunExpress flight from Ankara, Turkey, to Dusseldorf, Germany, discovered a disturbing addition to an in-flight meal on July 21: a severed snake’s head nestled among the spinach. The steward took a video, Metro News reported, but SunExpress took offense: “The allegations and shares in the press regarding in-flight food service are absolutely unacceptable and a detailed investigation has been initiated on the subject,” a statement read. The airline’s meals are provided by Sancak Inflight Services, which alleged the snake head was added to the meal after they prepared it. Ssssssssssssssssuspicious.

Inexplicable On July 21, the Fort Gerhard military museum in Swinoujscie, Poland, took to Facebook to beg its patrons to refrain from having sex in the “dark corners” of the museum, the Daily Mail reported. New security cameras had revealed numerous visitors engaging in “the art of love,” the museum posted. Director Piotr Piwowarczyk admitted that “in less than a month, we have already had three recordings of lovers engaged in trysts.” He noted that museum-goers may have different “temperaments, some of them very conservative. We don’t want them to be shocked during their visit by stumbling across a couple engaged in lustful antics.”

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That’s One Way to Do It n On July 25, the Curry County (Oregon) Sheriff’s Office received a call from the U.S. Forest Service about fires burning in the county, CNN reported. An employee of the Bureau of Land Management had reportedly seen a man walking along a gravel road, starting fires. As crews on the ground got the blazes under control, three area residents spotted 30-year-old Trennon Smith walking near the fires, Sheriff John Ward said. “It was reported that the suspect became very combative with the three residents and had to be tied to a tree to subdue him,” Ward added. Ward said Smith had allegedly set the fires in a manner that would block residents from escaping. He was charged with first-degree arson, second-degree arson and reckless burning.

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Citing confusingly contradictory reasons, Klondike announced on July 26 that it is discontinuing its beloved Choco Taco ice cream treat, the Associated Press reported. The confection, invented in 1983 by a former ice cream truck driver, has rabid fans; Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian offered to buy the rights to keep it on the market, but Klondike’s parent, Unilever, didn’t respond.

Later the same day, Klondike tweeted that it was “working hard” to bring the Choco Taco back “in the coming years.”

Creme de la Weird Catarina Orduna Perez, of Misantla, Mexico, had “a particular affinity for penises,” Vice reported, so when she passed at age 99, her family fulfilled her dying wish: a giant phallic statue atop her grave. Her family unveiled the monument—all 5 1/2 feet tall and 600 pounds of it—on July 23, honoring her approach to life and her belief that her family are “vergas”—a Mexican slang word that means “penis” but can also connote “integrity, courage, passion,” said her grandson, Alvaro Mota Limon. The monument took 12 people a month to construct, and reaction from locals has been mixed. “Of every 10 people, I think that around seven see (it) positively,” Mota Limon said.

Recent Alarming Headline A 73-year-old woman fishing with friends off a boat along the Florida coast on July 19 caught the wrong end of a 100-pound sailfish when it leapt out of the water, The Washington Post reported. Katherine Perkins, from Arnold, Maryland, was stabbed in her groin area by the fish’s pointed bill as her companions tried to reel it in. The boat returned to shore and Perkins was airlifted to a hospital.

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Mistaken Identity Christie Louise Jones, 49, of Richfield, North Carolina, was likely looking for revenge on a former boyfriend on July 22. Instead, she got charged with arson and other crimes, the Salisbury Post reported. On that day, at a house in Gold Hill, a woman called the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office to say a woman unknown to her was outside her home, trying to set it on fire. The arson attempt started with a pile of burning wood on the front porch; while trying to reach the hose, the homeowner realized his propane tank was also on fire, and his hose had been blocked with sealant to make it inoperable. That’s when he noticed a car parked across his driveway and a woman standing beside it. When he approached her, he said, “She looked at me like she didn’t know who I was”—and she didn’t. She drove away but was later apprehended; deputies said her ex-boyfriend owns property in the area. Just not that property.

Wait, What?

Something went terribly wrong on July 15 at a 7-Eleven store in Waikiki, Hawaii, the Associated Press reported. Emergency responders were called to the store just after midnight, where they found a 40-year-old man suffering “multiple lacerations, puncture wounds and a severed hand,” Shayne Enright of EMS services said. When police tried to question the employees, they said no one was there who had been working at the time of the incident. But tourist Michael Suissa from Switzerland said he witnessed the assault. Suissa said the assailant had a sword and identified him as a worker he had interacted with over the previous several days. A 46-year-old man was arrested, but it was not clear whether he was employed at the 7-Eleven.

Bad Sport At the Moscow Open chess tournament on July 19, a chessplaying robot apparently became unsettled by a 7-year-old player’s quick move in the game, so it grabbed the child’s hand and snapped one of his fingers, the Guardian reported. “The robot broke the child’s finger,” said Sergey Lazarev, president of the Moscow Chess Federation. “This is of course bad.” Ya think?

Another official explained: “There are certain safety rules and the child, apparently, violated them. When he made his move, he did not realize he first had to wait.” The player, Christopher, returned to the tournament the next day. His parents have contacted the public prosecutor’s office.

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UTAH’S L ARGEST SA MPLING E VENT

COTTONWOOD PAINTING Home/office/ business.

Clean/fast/efficient.

Free estimates.

Call 801-574-4161

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CASH FOR JUNK CARS! • NO TITLE NEEDED!

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Over 50 Breweries and 200 Beers!

A City Weekly Event Benefiting The American Cancer Society

Tickets now available at utahbeer festival.com

SLC 652 S. REDWOOD 801-886-2345

WE PAY CASH

WE’LL EVEN PICK IT UP TEARAPART.COM

OGDEN 763 W. 12TH ST 801-564-6960

Marketing Specialist sought

by Adib’s Rug Gallery Inc., Salt Lake City, UT to prfm consumer rsrch on mrkt & cstmr & dsign trends, etc.

Deg’d applcnts exp’d wrkg w/ CRM geared toward retail sales spprt, etc. send resume to hamed@adibs.com.

Multiple positions in Draper, UT; all positions may telecommute from any location in the US. Senior Software Engineer, job#ME141: Design, build & maintain software for features & products; design APIs, libraries & tools.

Staff Software Engineer, job#145: Design, build & maintain software; design APIs, systems & backend services. Senior Software Engineer, job#ME143: Design, build & maintain software for features & products; design APIs, libraries & tools. Software Engineer II, job#ME148: Design, build & maintain software for features & products; design APIs, libraries & tools.

Ref job# & mail resume: Brex Inc; Attn HR; 12832 Frontrunner Blvd, Ste 500, Draper UT 84020