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Letters We Can’t Shelter the World

I support Chaffetz and Goodlatte’s immigration reform.

Allowing illegal children is a precedent for many more to come and add to our national debt.

I served in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) as a captain in an elite unit, and I am traveling now to assist my fellows in fighting the war and show my support. Now, imagine that all these children on both sides (Palestinians and Israelis) were coming to the United States because it is not safe there. The United States cannot be a refugee camp and a shelter for the entire world. We have to resolve first our troubling economy and unemployment—find jobs and train and qualify our own people to perform them.

Nevertheless, my heart goes to the mourning families.

I would like to see peace in the Middle East. I have witnessed too much death and killing.

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Traditions Are Meant to Change

Douglas Cotant states marriage has been a tradition since the colonies started [“It’s a Tradition,” Letters, July 10, City Weekly]. And that matters why?

I assume Cotant chose our country’s founding as the starting point, because any other starting point could easily lead to different answers if tradition is time-based. For

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So what really is tradition? Tradition is what people do until people change and do something else. Our country was founded on principles of liberty and equality, but even our Constitution, as great a document as it is, failed to live up to its own highest principles and sanctioned slavery. Slave owners probably used the “tradition” argument to justify their point of view. Slavery, child labor, 80-hour workweeks—all were traditions, yet we changed them, for good reason.

Traditions instruct and guide, but they should not be an impediment to doing what is right. The Constitution was a document overthrowing the tradition of the divine right of kings, which had existed for hundreds of years— much longer than Cotant’s tradition of marriage in the United States. Should we anoint a king of the United States because it is tradition?

Ken Thomas then added to the conversation by trying to bring some twisted constitutional logic into it [“Marriage Doesn’t Have to be Equal,” Letters, July 10, City Weekly]. If someone argues that freedom of religion can be warped to include gay marriage as a right in the Constitution, as Thomas seems to say, then that argument is wrong. Free exercise of religion has nothing to do with the gay-marriage issue, except that it limits the government and keeps the government from forcing religions to perform gay marriages against their will. People do not have a natural right to marriage; they do have a natural right of association.

Marriage is a set of rules that confer rights and privileges to people for the benefit of the society, so the rules can be changed to meet the current needs of the society.

I don’t believe any religion should be forced to recognize gay marriage. That’s guaranteed in the Constitution—but in the Constitution there’s also an equal protection clause.

If anyone has known a gay person who’s been kept from the bedside of a dying partner because of the antiquated cruel rules currently in our laws, you know the depth of pain that these stupid rules cause people. These people are hurt by an unfeeling majority that finds ways, like Cotant did, to make themselves feel OK while real people are hurt.

I am not gay. I served in the military and take the Constitution seriously. Very few issues in human life are black & white. However, if we look at problems through hope and love, and walk in the other person’s shoes for a while, we will come to better conclusions. So much of the turmoil in the gay-marriage debate comes down to “I don’t like it.” Think instead: “If I had a dying partner, would I want someone to tell me I cannot be at their side?”

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OPINION

Fifty Shades of Feminism

The Fifty Shades of Grey movie trailer debuted recently, and as it turns out, when it comes to opinions about BDSM erotica, no one is vanilla.

Right-wing conservatives are wailing about the degeneration of American religious and moral values while simultaneously crowing over the “failure” of feminism, since the success of Fifty Shades clearly indicates that women really don’t want equality; we want hot guys to take advantage of us in elevators.

Standard-issue left-wing feminist liberals (hello, my people) are upset because the lovers in Fifty Shades, Ana and Christian, demonstrate a slew of problematic behaviors ref lective of a deeply patriarchal society. What some see as passion and romance, many view as misogynistic abuse and degradation.

I’ve seen a lot of criticism suggesting that “good” feminists should boycott all things Fifty Shades so that our 70 cents to a man’s $1 doesn’t go toward maintaining troubling assumptions about female sexuality.

In a way, it’s beautiful that all it takes to unite the friends of Fox News with their sworn enemies (bra-burning feminists) is poorly written fanfiction. My inner goddess—ahem, I mean English teacher— is totally celebrating this as a win for humanity. Regardless of their position on the socio-political spectrum, everyone seems to agree that there’s something wrong with liking Fifty Shades of Grey.

However, the universal outrage is where things get tricky for me. Unlike Ana, my thoughts aren’t dominated by an insane inner goddess. Instead, I’m driven by an inner contrarian who comes out any time people say I shouldn’t like or support something in order to be a good Christian/ feminist/human/etc.

Fifty Shades of Grey didn’t rise to international success because women

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secretly want to be dominated by men who tell them what to do in and out of the bedroom, therefore negating feminism.

Suggesting that feminists are lying about their desire for equality because they secretly read BDSM erotica on their Kindles is like suggesting religious people are lying about their devotion to God when they visit a doctor who cures them with science. Sex, in any form, sells, and antibiotics cure infections, regardless of one’s relationship with feminism or religion.

And it’s also entirely possible that women enjoy Fifty Shades because it focuses exclusively on a woman exploring her sexuality despite the fact that everyone around her thinks she’s weird. The world simultaneously preaches that “sex is bad” while using fema le bodies as a marketable commodit y, and popular culture devotes nearly all its energy to exploring a male sexual experience. That’s why films showing female sexual experiences are labeled “explicit” while male sexuality is routinely deemed PG-13. Even movies and literature geared specifically toward women talk about sex through a male lens, hence the variations on “How to please your man in 17,348 ways” and “He’s just not that into you” that we see repeated ad nauseam. For a book to focus on female sexual identity, however problematically, represents a small but important cultural shift in how we talk about women and sex.

While it’s easy for me to dismiss the “failure of feminism” and “sex is bad” arguments, it’s hard to identify what, exactly, renders one a good or bad feminist.

I recently took Buzzfeed’s “Are You a Bad Feminist?” quiz, which deemed me “problematic.” Probably because I wear a lot of pink and like Beyoncé. And yet, aren’t we all “problematic” in our support of social causes? From pro-public-education parents

who send their kids to private schools to pro-choice evangelical Christians, it seems that the label “problematic” sometimes indicates nuanced thinking, not a failure to advocate for our cause.

So before anyone sifts through the ashes of my burned bras in order to take away my laminated Feminist Card, I recognize that, despite the sex-positive undertones, Fifty Shades of Grey is still a deeply troubling narrative for men and women.

It uses the guise of “kinky” sexuality to promote what appears to be an abusive relationship between a psychologically and physically stronger man over a younger and very impressionable woman. Christian doesn’t just want to ex per i ment with control in the bedroom; he wants to control every aspect of Ana’s life, including who she sees and talks to, and even what she thinks about. It’s concerning that societ y doesn’t v iew egalitarian relationships between consenting adults as exciting or sexy, and that we continue to equate passion with drama and violence.

I think the conversations about what bothers people regarding the Fifty Shades franchise are important and necessary.

But I don’t think those conversations can end productively if we use Fifty Shades as a measuring stick for feminism. Just like claiming a single movie represents the “failure” of feminism, labeling the people embracing the Ana and Christian narrative as “bad feminists” doesn’t do the fight for gender equality any favors.

Feminism works by making the world better for everyone, regardless of gender, and regardless of whether they think they need it or not. The success of feminism depends on a theory of inclusion, not exclusion, and by recognizing the (don’t hate me) shades of gray in individual approaches to feminism, sexuality and popular culture. CW

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Jeff Chipian: Some people say I grew up in the wrong decade. I love all the movies and music from the ’70s and ’80s. Journey; Styx; Earth, Wind & Fire; Ghostbusters; Princess Bride; etc. It’s always funny when fellow concert-goers say, “You’re too young to know these songs!” Oh, and I love the Backstreet Boys. That’s definitely not a secret.

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Paula Saltas: Street racing—I keep saying I’m out, but they always pull me back in for one last score. It’s like The Fast & the Furious, but with hybrids.

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Given that ever yone uses W i k ipedia—even when warned of its limitations— it’s good to see that the Wiki wonks are hard at work on integrity. First, according to tech-news website Ars Technica, Wikipedia has temporarily blocked most members and staff of the U.S. House of Representatives from editing anonymously because those bad boys have been saying things about Donald Rumsfeld being an alien reptile, and that Choco Tacos are a favorite in House vending machines.

Now we have Anthony Willey, a BY U grad and Wikipedia administrator, taking on religious editing. He got star ted because the post about Mormons focused on polygamy.

Duh. A ll religions are fair game, and account for the top 100 “altered topics,” according to Religious News Ser vice. One Newsweek commenter suggested that Wikipedia is leftist drivel and people should turn to Conser vapedia.

Think Again Seems the governor can’t please either of Utah’s leading dailies when it comes to education. Columnists in both The Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News took on Gov. Gar y Herbert for his lack of testosterone on the issue of the Common Core. Paul Rolly “expressed concern” that Herbert is becoming a tool of Gayle Ruzicka and the like, while John Florez pointed out, again, that Common Core is not a socialist program “foisted upon us by the federal government.” Florez also noted that Herbert has backed Common Core before. But now, as elections loom, things are different.

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After a difficult childhood with parents involved in sexual cults, alcoholism and abuse, Angie Fenimore attempted to take her own life. But her near-death experience helped Fenimore find new meaning. In her novel Beyond the Darkness, Fenimore describes her experience and how it changed her views. She is currently working on a book based on the Lafferty case, and will be holding a writing conference at the Salt Lake City Main Library (210 E. 400 South, Aug. 1-3, The-Writing-Whisperer. com) focusing on how to get published.

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My mother met a psychologist who was running this retreat deep in Bryce Canyon. She went for the summer. There was no power, everyone was in teepees. You could just kind of feel that things were not right. We came to visit her often, my sister and me. I met a girl there, Dana, and they had thrown a party for her because she had started her period, including all the adults, and it just made me uncomfortable. The next day, we were out playing with the kids and I saw her little brother Petey. He was not allowed to associate with the adults. He wore only his underwear and was given food and water once day. He was 9. He begged us kids to feed him, and I filled a plate of food and met him under the cook shack that night. The next day in group therapy, I was called to the “hot seat,” surrounded by all the adults—and a lot of them had been naked around us. The psychologist sits me down and he says, “Angie broke one of our rules. She fed Petey, and we’re not going to feed her.” He looked at my mother and I look at my mother. I see all the shame and anguish on her face.

She agreed. That changed everything for me.

How did that change your family?

I pretty much divorced my mother. My father went off the deep end. He was having an affair with a 19-year-old girl and her husband. Then my father started sexually abusing us; he’d be drunk at the time and he’d be saying my mother’s name. I tried to make sure I took the brunt of it instead of my sister. One year during Christmas break, Mormon missionaries knocked on our door. That year, my sister and I were baptized. The church really saved my life.

What led you to consider suicide?

I thought the hard part of my life would be over as soon as I turned 18. I married a man, Richard, in the temple. Within a week he had me off the ground by my hair, broke my teeth, broken bones, that kind of thing.

I left Richard and moved to Southern California. I started seeing a guy, Newt, who was cooking meth. So I started doing meth. I was either methed out or drunk most of the time, unfortunately for my son Rikki. Richard was calling me every day and begging me to come home. I went back, and it was hell. I was thinking my happiness is not important to anybody, including God. That was when the ruminations of suicide began. It was January 1991 when I swallowed everything in the medicine cabinet and slit my wrists.

Why did you decide to turn this experience into a novel?

I had a very profound near-death experience. I was trying to figure out, “How do I stay dead and how do I watch?” I experienced my birth; I saw my mother and my father and I just felt this excitement to be alive. I was experiencing this like a dead human being. I experience my entire life that way. I came out of different stages of suicidal afterlife with this message, “You can’t experience real happiness until you can slip into someone else’s skin and see the world from their point of view.” I was given the choice to live.

What makes you a “writing whisperer”?

I’ve combined all my training and development as a leadership guru, as a writing expert, as a conference junkie. It is three days that you will not walk away the same from. We become family. It’s complete magic. People are rejected by publishers because they have conversations about themselves as failures. The minute you hear a no, you don’t want to ask again. Eighty percent of my attendees are having their manuscripts requested.

Everybody has a story. It’s just a matter of putting it in a story structure that is interesting to other people. I feel so blessed for everything in my life. If I could go back and change something, I wouldn’t. Except maybe that hair from 1979.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Brute Force A friend of mine supposedly saw an instance of a dolphin attempting to rape a human on National Geographic. While I’m not accusing NG of faulty research, they aren’t nearly the fount of knowledge you are. Are there are confirmed occurrences of dolphin-human rape?

—Nate Well ... “rape” would be an exaggeration, not to mention a questionable choice of words. However, there definitely have been cases of dolphins behaving badly. n The National Geographic channel Nat Geo Wild aired a video segment showing a dolphin at an aquatic park jumping on a woman in a pretty suggestive manner: The dolphin pops up out of the pool between the woman’s legs, flops on top of her and starts humping away, although there’s no clear indication he’s sexually aroused. n But dolphins do get sexually aroused, and their sexual apparatus is such that rape can’t be ruled out solely on grounds of mechanical impossibility.

Evidence: a much-viewed YouTube video showing a dolphin with an unmistakably erect penis trying persistently and aggressively to nose into the crotch of a female snorkeler while another diver tries to fend the critter off. n In 2002, authorities warned swimmers in Wey mouth Harbor, England, about the predations of Georges the dolphin. “This dolphin does get very sexually aggressive,” a dolphin trainer was quoted as saying. “He has already attempted to mate with some divers. When dolphins get sexually excited, they try to isolate a swimmer, normally female. They do this by circling around the individual and gradually move them away from the beach, boat or crowd of people.” n A lab assistant named Margaret Howe claims to have repeatedly allowed a dolphin named Peter to rub himself on her legs and hands while doing research on dolphin communication in 1963. She describes the relationship as “sexual on his part ... not sexual on mine. Sensuous, perhaps.” n Finally, we have writer Malcolm Brenner, who claims to have had, back in the ’70s, a six-month affair with a dolphin named Dolly. Brenner, who’s also admitted to sexual relations with a dog, says it was Dolly’s idea. One press account says the two had “interspecies intercourse,” which I gather means he rubbed himself on her.

Brenner believes Dolly was so distraught after she was moved to another water park she committed suicide.

The last two examples of course involve allegedly consensual sex, and the sex in question was of the high school variety. Fullon intercourse isn’t out of the question, but the

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challenges of human-dolphin docking aren’t trivial, so something like rape in the strictest sense sounds unlikely. The fact remains that dolphins can be sexually aggressive and have been known to go after humans, creating a risk of injury or drowning.

Many would contend dolphins are incapable of rape because, like all nonhuman creatures, they can’t grasp the idea of consent and are simply doing what comes naturally.

The term “forced copulation,” seen regularly in scholarly contexts, might better be used instead. Whatever you call it, this kind of thing isn’t rare in the animal kingdom: n Gangs of male dolphins may isolate a female, slap her around with their tails, and forcibly copulate with her for weeks. n Ducks are notorious for forcing themselves on apparently unwilling females, often due to a dearth of females to pair up with. At least 38 different species of ducks have been witnessed attempting forced copulation. Possibly as an evolutionary response, female ducks are able to manipulate the shape of their vaginas to encourage fertilization only with drakes they fancy. n Spider monkeys occasionally engage in forced copulation, but it’s more common among orangutans, primarily among young adult males, leading the females to pair up with adult orangutans to reduce sexual harassment. n During sex, the male garter snake lies on top of the female and presses down rhythmically on her lungs, preventing her from breathing. The stress evidently forces the female’s cloaca to open, allowing the male to deposit his sperm.

Finally, the gruesome question: If dolphins haven’t been forcibly penetrating humans, are there animals that have? Zoophilic porn aside, the only reliable reports we have involve orangutans under study at the research camp run in Borneo by the primatologist Biruté Galdikas. One scientist who spent time there has described an attempted sexual attack on a female colleague by a male orangutan named Apollo Bob. The woman was saved only when another human chased off the attacker with a stick.

But a worse case was recounted by Galdikas herself. While she was out in the jungle one day with her female cook, a crazed male orangutan named Gundul attacked the cook and mounted her. The women were unable to fight the beast off, and the orangutan proceeded to mate with the cook as she lay in the arms of the helpless Galdikas. Rape? No, and the distinction isn’t hairsplitting. Galdikas thinks the cook, though shaken, may have viewed the incident as an animal attack, not a sexual assault, and of course pregnancy wasn’t a possibility. But forced copulation, beyond a doubt.

In 2002, authorities warned swimmers in Weymouth Harbor, England, about the predations of Georges the dolphin. “This dolphin does get very sexually aggressive,” a dolphin trainer was quoted as saying.

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“It’s not supposed to be about politics. It’s about the students.”

—Salt Lake City School Board candidate Melissa Ford

POLITICS

Stitch by Stitch

SLC school-board candidate Melissa Ford emphasizes that simple acts can lead to big changes.

By Eric S. Peterson epeterson@cityweekly.net @ericspeterson A stack of ratty street-urchin pants stands as a testament to Melissa Ford’s school involvement.

Ford learned how to sew the pants when she helped design costumes for a Clayton Middle School production of Oliver!

“I probably made a hundred pairs of orphan pants,” Ford says.

Ford, a mother of four who’s campaigning to represent the east bench in District 6 of the Salt Lake City School Board, also has more experience in parent-teacher associations than you can shake a ruler at. And she says her involvement in the school system has helped her learn that small changes can make a big impact, including fostering a culture of involvement and success between students and parents.

Those orphan pants and other behindthe-scenes volunteer efforts, Ford says, helped the annual Clayton play become more than an average school production featuring a handful of students. In recent years, productions have included as much as half of the student body, which averages about 750 students annually, performing in The Little Mermaid, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and others.

It’s a simple way that students, parents and the community can get more involved and strengthen ties with one another, Ford says, and it’s those kinds of efforts that she would prioritize if she were on the school board.

Ford is keeping her focus hyper-local, she says, unlike her opponent Weston Clark, a former chair of the Salt Lake County Democratic Party, who’d like to use the position to lobby the Legislature or other levels of government.

“It’s not supposed to be about politics,” Ford says “It’s about the students.”

Ford has been active in her four children’s schools since she moved to Salt Lake City in 1999, when her husband’s work brought him from Washington, D.C., to the Beehive State.

She says she first realized the value of school boards in the early 2000s, when the district sought to change the boundaries for the local elementary school but not

Melissa Ford with her husband and their four children the middle or high schools. It was a small move on the boundary map and would only have affected about 10 kids in Ford’s neighborhood, but she thought it would be a negative for those kids—including her own—to have to say goodbye to their elementary school friends and make all new friends at the next grade.

So, Ford says, she gathered some signatures, told the district that the boundary shift wasn’t fair, and the board agreed.

“Every thing I’ve done involved with the schools since then has been to give me the experience to serve on the school board effectively,” Ford says.

And she’s done plenty with schools in her district since then. She’s served on the Bonneville Elementary Parent Teacher Association since 2000, including as vice president, and has been co-president of the Clayton Middle School Association since 2012. Since 2011, she’s been active with the Salt Lake City School District Community Council for East High, which decides how to spend state trust-lands money, and has been the council’s chairwoman since 2012.

She also coordinates ski and snowboard trips every season for students from Bonneville Elementary School, is active in the East High Football Boosters Club and has also been involved in the Joint Educator Evaluation Committee.

Having kids in the school system has helped her stay passionate about education, and so have the perks of being active in the community, she says—like the salary paid out in smiles and highfives from elementary school kids.

Ford has strong opinions about the Common Core, citing a fondness

for benchmark standards while also not being crazy about penning in how teachers instruct their classrooms, but says she’s realistic about what she and the board could do about it.

“Like it or not, I don’t feel like as a board member, I would be able to change the fact that Utah has adopted the Common Core,” Ford says in a statement on her website. “But the school board should and will influence the actual curriculum that is being taught to ensure that all students reach the benchmarks of the Common Core.”

But Ford says that being realistic about impact doesn’t mean that anyone’s throwing up their hands—her recent experience with Clayton Middle School, she says, is an example of how simple programs can have ripple effects in the community.

When Ford came on as co-president of the Clayton Middle School PTA, she says, the association’s budget was about $11.

There wasn’t even money enough for a fundraiser, so she helped roll out a Cash for Clayton campaign that told parents that if every one of them donated $20, the association would have more than enough to provide services.

The simple campaign garnered roughly $12,000 that was then able to help fund service efforts, like a Christmas store for students with disabilities and a Community Caring program to stop bullying and promote inclusiveness in the school. Money also went to support the annual school play that includes more than 300 students acting, singing in the choir and helping in other roles.

The annual production, Ford says, is a perfect example of a program that’s

helped promote a culture of involvement.

The play helps students who might not otherwise be performers get out of their shells and gain confidence, Ford says, and also involves the community. The play often has more than 100 volunteers—and not just parents, Ford says, but also those who are simply active in local theater and arts.

Ford says that parents can also get involved in small ways that can have a ripple effect. She’s an advocate of registration forms that offer a variety of volunteer options for parents, whether larger responsibilities like supporting the play or simply committing to one hour a year. Starting somewhere with volunteering is the perfect way to help parents get more involved with their students’ academic life, she says.

Ford’s seen this all firsthand, and says that one of her favorite memories from her children’s education is when her son played King Trident in the Clayton Middle School production of The Little Mermaid.

It brought her otherwise reserved and somewhat shy son out of his shell, she says, showed how much a community can do for their children, and also reminded her of where home is.

“I’ve been here in Salt Lake City only 14 years,” Ford says. “I didn’t grow up here, I didn’t go to high school here.

I wasn’t connected before, but this is my home now … because of that involvement.” CW

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L AW & O R D E R

Salt Lake County’s sped-up justice system is fueling recidivism, early reports show.

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Based on pure speed, nothing f lushes a defendant through Salt Lake County’s justice system with less friction than the Early Case Resolution program, which some justice officials say is beloved by criminals for its leniency.

In the ECR program, most defendants are arrested, booked into jail, released, processed through court and punished within 30 days.

But lighter court calendars and thin caseloads for prosecutors have come at a cost. Recidivism rates in ECR are 29 percent—8 percentage points higher than the recidivism rate in other court programs, a study conducted by the Utah Criminal Justice Center at the University of Utah shows.

The ECR program, instituted in 2011, has been propped up by some justice officials as a silver bullet for unclogging a court system that is routinely bogged down. And while it has done its job in that arena, some wonder if the relaxed jail sentences, soft probation terms and sweet deals offered by prosecutors have created a costly revolving door.

“Trading recidivism for speed is unacceptable in my mind,” says Steve Nelson, a deputy county prosecutor who is challenging his boss, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill, for his job. “If we are enabling recidivism through a program we have formally set up, that the District Attorney’s Office works with, why are we in this business? It’s not something I can accept as a prosecutor.”

Gill, too, says he doesn’t enjoy seeing a higher recidivism rate in ECR, but he says the program is far from broken.

“We are creating a new model, executing on it and continuing to add on it as we review what’s working and not working and that’s the challenge,” Gill says. “The exciting thing about the early case resolution is it is a vehicle for systemic change.”

Rob Butters, director of the Utah Criminal Justice Center, says that how ECR’s recidivism rate stacks up when compared with other wings of the court system should be viewed with caution. Because cases in ECR are less serious than violent felonies that wind up in the more drawn-out court system, he says, measuring one system against another is difficult.

One problematic variable, he says, is the time that defendants are free to

re-offend. Because ECR defendants receive an average nine-day prison sentence, while non-ECR defendants receive, on average, 106-day sentences, there’s more opportunity for ECR defendants to get into trouble.

“Although it does appear that there’s a slight increase in the recidivism rate, we just couldn’t f lesh out really if there is a significant difference” between ECR and non-ECR courts, Butters says.

Butters says the next report, due in December, will have more thorough data on the program’s recidivism rate.

What justice officials do know is that the ECR program has radically sped up a historically slow process. Cases resolved in ECR shoot through in 28 days, compared with 94 days for non-ECR cases. Additionally, among defendants with cases pending who were booked into jail on outstanding warrants, those in the ECR program spent an average of six days in jail, compared with 22 days for nonECR defendants, according to the report compiled on the program’s first year.

Gill says the sheer speed with which cases are being resolved is a success.

But, he says, more needs to be done to address recidivism. Some possibilities for improvement, he says, involve creating a more stable role for judges (several judges currently rotate through the ECR court), and improving the risk assessments that defendants receive while in the justice system.

A key component of the program’s swift nature is the willingness of prosecutors to hammer out agreeable plea deals that defendants are inclined to accept.

Steven Shapiro, a defense attorney who has represented clients in ECR, says the deals offered by prosecutors have a tendency to be so good that he’s seen defendants plead guilty to charges they could fight and likely win.

“The deals are oftentimes very good,” Shapiro says, noting that sometimes, even if the government’s case is compromised, it’s hard to say no to reduced charges that keep people out of jail and erase black marks from their criminal records.

Fewer ECR defendants than non-ECR defendants are sentenced to any level of probation—70 percent compared with 82 percent, the study showed. And regardless of the charge, most ECR defendants received less probation time than other defendants.

Gill calls the speed of ECR “phenomenal.” The program has grown to encompass a significant portion—30 percent, according to Gill—of the county’s criminal cases.

And with that level of investment in the ECR program, Nelson says it’s important that it works.

“If they’re right back out the door without the underlying problem being addressed, it’s an invitation for return as far as I’m concerned,” he says. “In the end, low recidivism is more efficient than higher speed.” CW

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CITIZEN REVOLT

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Grand Jury Resistance Friday, Aug. 1

Two presenters will talk about understanding the law so that you can avoid being unfairly clobbered by its long arm. Jordan Halliday will talk about creating a community of resistance and discuss his time spent behind bars for not divulging information to a grand jury about animal-rights activists.

Later, Josh Dunlap will give instruction on knowing your rights when interacting with police.

Boing! Anarchist Collective, 608 S. 500 East, Aug. 1, 7 p.m., http:// citywk.ly/1tTPW9v

Fall Planting Workshop Saturday, Aug. 2

If you want to rebel against agribusiness, the best way is growing your own greens. To keep the grass roots of activism growing into the fall, stop by this Wasatch Gardens workshop on fall planting tips and tricks.

Sorenson Unity Center, 1383 S. 900 West, 801-359-2658, Aug. 2, 10 a.m., $10, register at WasatchGardens.org

Criminal Justice Executive Appropriations Committee Tuesday, Aug. 5

The Legislature will be hearing presentations from numerous criminal-justice programs that are funded by your tax dollars. The committee will talk about correctional work programs, probation and parole operations and other issues.

Salt Lake County Youth Services will also present on the services they provide county youth, from crisis counseling to substance-abuse treatment.

Salt Lake County Youth Services, 177 W. Price Ave., 801-538-1034, Aug. 5, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Le.Utah.gov

Curses, Foiled Again After a camera was found secretly recording in the women’s locker room at a fitness gym in Seekonk, Mass., police examined the video and named a club member as their suspect because it shows the man setting up the hidden camera. (Associated Press)

NEWS

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n A burglar who stole two cash registers and three plasma TVs from a pub in Accrington, England, stashed the items in his car.

When he returned to the pub for more, two thieves snatched his loot. Authorities said surveillance video of the parking lot showed the burglar, identified as David Douglas Greaves, 43, with a “look of confusion” when he found the items missing. Police arrested Greaves and the two thieves, whom they also identified from surveillance video. (Britain’s Accrington Observer)

Speed Kills Meaning Speed-reading apps thwart comprehension, according to researchers at the University of California at San Diego. Their study found that by converting text to a fast-moving sequence of individual words and phrases, the apps deny readers the opportunity to “regress,” or go back and reread a word or sentence.

“Our ability to control the timing and sequence of how we intake information about the text is important for comprehension,” the researchers concluded. (The Washington Post)

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Sex Is Its Own Punishment

No-Sex Is Its Own Punishment The four World Cup teams that banned their players from having sex during the tournament—Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina,

Second-Amendment Follies Geoffrey Hawk, 44, a vendor at a gun show in Bloomsburg, Pa., accidentally shot a 25-year-old woman in the leg while demonstrating a gun and a concealed-carry wallet holster. Hawk told police he thought the gun was unloaded. (Associated Press) n Gene Kelley reported that a 105mm howitzer shell blew through the wall of his home in Wyandotte, Okla., hit the ceiling and damaged another wall. Ottawa County sheriff’s investigators said the 14.5-by-3.5-inch shell came from a historic artillery canon fired at a gun show three miles away. (Pittsburg, Kan.’s KOAM-TV) n A woman unloading groceries with her mother in Dolan Springs, Ariz., was shot in the stomach by a .22-caliber rifle hidden in the back seat of her station wagon that accidentally fired.

Police said the victim’s husband had stolen the rifle during a home burglary earlier that day. (Phoenix’s AZfamily.com)

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British authorities said an 18-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman died after falling from a sixth-floor balcony where they were observed “frolicking.” Police Inspector Shaun CarreBrown said the students were attending a party in London, and residents of a neighboring apartment building witnessed them “trying to have sex.” (BBC News)

Chile and Mexico—all made early exits from the competition, according to the news outlet Quartz. Players on champion Germany’s team were allowed to have sex. Restrictions varied from team to team. Brazil allowed players to have sex but no “acrobatics,” for example, while Costa Rica said players could have sex but “not all night.” (The Moscow Times)

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It wasn’t enough that Martin Eldridge, 35, stole dozens of air conditioners in Columbus, Ohio. Prosecutors charged that he also violated the federal Clean Air Act by knowingly venting the refrigerant HCFC-22 into the environment when he cut the tubing that connected the units to houses and buildings.

(Associated Press)

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Before Ron and Dan Lafferty killed in the name of religious extremism, they were political rebels.

Did anti-government views light the flames of their

Part 1 of this story, “Blood Brothers,” published in City Weekly’s July 24 issue, explored the relationship and upbringing of Ron and Dan Lafferty, whose religion-driven July 24, 1984, Utah County killings put the culture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Utah under a microscope.

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he 1984 murder of his sister-in-law Brenda and her baby, Erica, was a crime that brought Dan Lafferty a life sentence at the Utah State Prison and plenty of infamy—but, he says, it’s the story of his inevitable escape from prison that will be etched into the gospel of a new epoch.

Lafferty, fulfilling the role of the biblical prophet Elijah, is waiting on a signal from God to know when the coast is clear for his jailbreak. One day at noon, he says, a full moon will overtake the sky and shine until 9 p.m. Lafferty and a select few cohorts from the prison will be transported to the small farm community of Salem in Utah County, where he’ll begin gathering a following of the righteous.

Prison officials will undoubtedly panic over his disappearance, and when word spreads that he’s living out in the open, they’ll send in the cavalry: SWAT teams, choppers, snipers, the FBI and anyone else with guns and badges who can be spared.

Lafferty sees it as playing out similarly to the 1993 Waco standoff in Texas between federal officers and members of the Branch Davidians religious sect, which ended in a bloody siege of the compound.

But in this case, Lafferty says, Johnny Law will be no match for his heavenly firepower.

“After a day or two, all those gathered near Salem with bad intentions will be consumed by fire that I will call down from heaven like Elijah in the Old Testament did,” Lafferty writes in a 2013 letter. “After that, no one will fuck with us.”

While this belief has all the hallmark characteristics of fringe theology, it also dovetails with Lafferty’s political beliefs. After the fire is called down, Lafferty says, he will work to prepare for the Second Coming—not as king, but as sheriff, giving him the opportunity to enact the rule of law that he campaigned on when he ran for Utah County Sheriff in 1982.

Lafferty and his brother Ron, have made it into the history books as religious zealots. But their intensity and rigid worldview didn’t first manifest in their exploration of fundamentalist teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, like polygamy.

Before that, the brothers took a path of political extremism that set them on a collision course with their own faith.

Ron says it was his support of his brothers in their political fundamentalism, not polygamy, that led to his 1983 excommunication from the LDS Church. Ron was accused of rejecting the “laws of the land,” as LDS doctrine requires, and felt betrayed by his faith in much the same way he would later feel betrayed by the justice

By Eric S. Peterson system.

Ron recalls an argument with a defense attorney epeterson@cityweekly.net of his who told him he couldn’t take the law into his own hands. “Well, whose law is it anyway?” Ron fired back in reply.

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It’s a point Ron has staked his life on, continuing to maintain his innocence and refusing plea bargains—offered, he says, by corrupt prosecutors—that would spare him the death sentence. If anything, he says, his incompetent attorneys are in violation of the Constitution and guilty of capital treason for working against him.

While time has frozen for Ron inside the Utah State Prison’s maximum-security wing, the political landscape has caught up to his defiant anti-government stance—boycotting taxes, business licenses, even speeding tickets—in the decades since the 1984 killings.

The take-no prisoners, make-no-compromises marching orders of Tea Partiers in Congress has divided not just Congress but the Republican Party itself. In just the past few months, militia members used guns to keep federal officers off the Nevada ranch of folk hero Cliven Bundy in defense of his right to break the law and not pay grazing fees, and in Las Vegas, a couple went on a shooting spree in order to kick-start a revolution, with cops—puppets of the federal government—as their target.

Ron’s crimes may have landed him on the violent end of this extremist spectrum, but his viewpoints are right in line with many hard-right politicos and conservative pundits, and he trots out his own talking points as if he’s a veteran politician.

“What happens when the servant becomes the master, and the master becomes the servant, is that we’re right back where we were before the [American] revolution,” Ron says of patriots like himself.

“They used to call them sons of liberty, then they called them sons-ofbitches … now it’s worse. They call them terrorists.”

The 1984 killings, Ron says, served a truer justice than the U.S Government is capable of. By Ron’s account, he’s a political prisoner who’s spent 30 years behind bars for standing up for his rights as the head of a household and for defending the strident political activism of his brothers, especially Dan.

Secret Combinations

Much ink has been spilled on the Laffertys’ crimes, but not so much on the times they lived in, or the political and cultural currents of the day that collided with Ron and Dan’s intense personal lives to create a perfect storm of violent fundamentalism.

One pivotal moment that informed Dan’s politics came when he was busted by school officials for making and selling sandwiches without a license at the California chiropractic college he attended.

But before that, when he was a boy, Dan says, he attended a John Birch Society meeting with his father. When he was older, he attended a course taught by Cleon Skousen, an anti-communist who is often credited with helping to found New World Order conspiracies as a genre of modern paranoid politics.

The John Birch Society and Skousen all fed into a profound anticommunist culture of the Cold War era that centered on another influential figure—Ezra Taft Benson.

Benson, a firebrand apostle of the LDS Church throughout the 1960s, was known to preach from the pulpit against the evils of “creeping socialism” and “godless communism” and urge the support of patriot groups like the John Birch Society.

In a 1993 article called “Ezra Taft Benson and Mormon Political Conflicts,” renowned Mormon historian D. Michael Quinn documented how Benson lashed out at liberal policies he saw as communism in disguise. He blasted the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations for sending federal troops to help desegregate schools in the South, and took a position that even J. Edgar Hoover wouldn’t, saying that the Civil Rights movement was purely a communist front.

In a 1963 talk at the Logan tabernacle, Benson warned that the communist infestation of America meant that citizens must “resist Communist tyranny only by themselves becoming conspirators against established government.”

Benson saw much potential evil in “secret combinations” mixing evil with good to surreptitiously destroy things pure and righteous. It’s a concept repeated often in LDS scriptures, like 2 Nephi 9:9, which says,

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The first time I met Ron Lafferty, I found the then71-year-old inmate in his pumpkin-orange jumpsuit perched on the table directly in front of the visitingwindow glass, the way a young boy might climb onto a windowsill to have a better look outside. He wore a wry smile over his silver mustache and asked who I was. I told him I was the reporter who had written him, the nephew of one of his dearest adolescent friends. I wanted to hear his story.

The stories I heard from Ron were some of those that he’s told psychiatrists who have argued in court for decades whether Ron is a psychopath or simply a severe narcissist. The shortest visit I’ve had with Ron lasted two hours; the longest ran six, though, as in previous visits, I’d asked him perhaps a half-dozen simple questions.

On one visit, I entered determined to get a clearcut answer on the causes of Ron’s excommunication, which he’d previously seemed evasive about. For more than 30 minutes, Ron explained in his circuitous way that his beautiful home, his beautiful wife and his beautiful children caused jealousy to fester among his neighbors, who then used his politics as an excuse to excommunicate him.

“The charge was apostasy, but that’s a catch-all,” Ron says.

Ron sees conspiracy at every turn, even believing that, in a past life, he was a fetus aborted at the behest of his domineering father. Another of his lives, he says, was spent in Victorian London with a female attorney who represented him in this life. Once while his attorneys conferred with him, he says, LDS Church President Thomas Monson was lurking around the corner, eavesdropping on the conversation.

His defense attorneys have argued that a suicide attempt Ron made in prison in 1984 cut off oxygen and damaged his brain. The prosecution argues that Ron has always been a narcissist.

Ron was found guilty of capital murder in 1985, but an appellate court later determined that the wrong competency standard had been applied, and Ron was tried again in 1996 and found guilty once more.

His competency has been a major point for his attorneys who, in January 2014, failed to convince Judge Dee Benson that Ron wasn’t competent enough to assist in his death-penalty appeals.

When Ron says crazy things, he doesn’t foam at the mouth or have his eyes rolled back in his head.

He speaks in the same way people speak of a belief in angels or everyday miracles. But whatever his condition, a conversation with Ron can be an exhausting process.

He’ll answer a question by way of deep-tangent detours covering minutia of the legal code, LDS scriptures, the etymology of words, and snapshots from Ron’s childhood—and always references to his home in Highland.

In the 1970s, Ron made his home on the Highland bench, a farm community that, at the time, had no connection to Interstate 15—just the way townsfolk liked it. Ron was asked by community members to be on the city council, a responsibility he would have to juggle with being a counselor in the bishopric, running a youth basketball program, and working full time as a crane operator while devoting as much time as he could to building his home and raising his children.

Ron nevertheless agreed to run for the council. “I was never one to turn down a responsibility,” he says.

His campaign speech made it clear he was a candidate for anything but change.

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“No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished ... But I say to you, once freedom is lost, only blood— human blood—will bring it back.”

“The father of lies stirreth up the children of men unto secret combinations.”

A few years before the Lafferty’s slide toward extremism, Benson warned in a 1979 LDS General Conference talk that if Americans didn’t “return to the fundamental principles of Christianity and Constitutional government,” they would lose their freedom.

“No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished,” Benson said, adding, “But I say to you, once freedom is lost, only blood—human blood— will bring it back.”

Both Ron and Dan cite Benson as a figure influential to their politics; Dan actually requested that Benson intervene in his excommunication proceedings, and later subpoenaed Benson to testify in his defense at his murder trial (the motion was quashed).

Quinn says Benson supporters clashed with liberal and moderate church authorities, who publicly rebuked Benson’s fear mongering. And Benson himself backed down from many of his political views in the mid-’80s, when he became church president. In a 1992 document, stake presidents of the church compiled a list of 20 warning signs of apostasy. Coming in at No. 3 was membership in the John Birch Society.

While Ron and Dan weren’t official Birchers, their politics were closely aligned with the far-right society.

Ron openly accepts the label of being a literalist and can split hairs down to the molecular level on an issue or the etymology of a word. Democracy, Ron says, is a combination of “Demon” and “Crazy.”

“I pledge nothing to the ‘Democracy,’ so stick it back up Stalin’s ass or FDR’s—that Fucking Dumb Retard,” Ron says. “That’s the era when they made the term popular.”

Ron sees much evil in FDR’s big-government regime, faulting the president for “encouraging the lower classes to overbreed” and his policies authorizing parasitic moochers to claim benefits they haven’t earned.

“I’ve been giving my taxes to porch monkeys, for you to lie on your ass and have kids, and because you have more kids you have more welfare,” Ron says.

“I’d be glad to help you get on your feet, but if you’re going to use the energy from a bag of groceries to just impregnate your wife, when you already have 10 kids, well ... that’s just the most suicidal, vicious cycle.”

If one were to scrub a bit of the prison-house salt from Ron’s quotes, they wouldn’t be too far off from statements uttered by standing politicos, like South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, who argued against government assistance because it’s like feeding a stray animal.

“You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that,” Bauer said.

And in 2010, Texas Tea Partier for Congress Stephen Broden got all misty-eyed for armed insurrection, saying, “Our nation was founded on violence. The option is on the table. I don’t think that we should ever remove anything from the table as it relates to our liberties and our freedoms.”

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Constitution instigated a riot in the courtroom; one of his brothers even jumped the barrier and attempted to make a citizen’s arrest of the judge.

Ron backed his brothers, as he had done all his life, and this landed him in the hot seat in front of a church discipline council filled with men he knew and respected as fellow ward members and friends.

The council read from LDS scripture about how members should “uphold the respective governments in which they reside, while protected in their inherent and inalienable rights by the laws of such governments.”

But, Ron says, the men didn’t finish the sentence and stopped reading before “while protected.”

“What if my government isn’t protecting me? Then am I bound? I would be a fool!” Ron says now.

Ron was summarily excommunicated, which, he says, gave him a feeling of deep relief—as if a 40-pound yoke had been lifted from his shoulders.

He soon developed a saying for the transformation that occurred as a result of being excommunicated for his anti-government rebellion: “I was drawn from the breast and weaned from the mesmerizing milk of ‘Moronism,’” Ron says. “Once I spit the tit, I was free from the stinking B.O.—Blind Obedience—to the church.”

Ron felt he had a new insight into his faith—and all he wanted to do, he says, was share this outlook with his family and friends.

But Ron’s excommunication and his new outlook frightened some of those closest to him, especially his wife, who shortly thereafter divorced him.

Ron, like his brother Dan, met and visited with polygamists after they were excommunicated and devoted themselves to a fundamentalist lifestyle. Ron says he believes plural marriage once did serve a purpose, but polygamists have since corrupted it.

Dan took on plural wives, but Ron says he never did so himself. He scoffs at the claim leveled against him by family members that he used to go to a bar in Southern Utah that had polygamist dances.

“What’s a polygamist dance?” Ron snarls. “The bunnyhop?”

While the Laffertys grappled with their new politics, the nation was discussing the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, a failed attempt to define women as equals to men in the Constitution.

Ron says there’s much wrong with what he sees as the female side of society seeking to overthrow the male—the “heart” controlling the “head,” a comparison Ron made in a poem he wrote about his ex-wife that he can still recite from memory.

“Yes, you’ve come a long way baby, but you still need to do your part/ Man should be the head but you need to be the heart … Yes, with your empty little head I offered you the best of both worlds but you chose Moronism instead.”

Ron says his sister-in-law Brenda Lafferty caused the divorce by meddling in his family, and it wouldn’t be long before the brother’s new worldview demanded more than just fighting taxes. Following their break with the church, Dan would enact Ron’s “removal revelation” and execute Brenda and her baby for meddling in Ron’s personal affairs.

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“Listen, I’m here because I like it the way it is,” Ron says now, repeating his old pitch. “I like the low density, I like the elbowroom. I like to own my own cow, and I like to churn my own butter, so if you want to turn this town into a mini-Los Angeles, then you don’t want me on the council.” He finished that sentiment, he says, by warning voters that while their opinions might change, “I’m not going to bend.”

Ron was elected and was proud to serve on the council, but the heart of his existence was still with his family, and the respect and love he had for them was manifest in his home.

The family had two prime acres. Ron had dug up 18 inches of the topsoil himself and smoothed out the rocks. He’d planted an orchard on the west side of his property, where more than 30 trees—peach, apple, pear, cherry and apricot—provided fruit and shade. He built his house with his own hands, hung his own drywall and wired it with copper wiring when other homes were using cheap aluminum. Ron says he embarrassed city building inspectors with the amount of care he’d put into his home.

Ron didn’t need city services. He hauled his own garbage to the dump and burned his own paper waste and tilled the ash into his garden. He even planned to build his own windmill so that he could generate his own power and have enough left over to sell extra power to his neighbors.

Ron’s politics of self-reliance lent themselves easily to the idea of not wanting or asking anything from government, and Dan was easily able to convert Ron to his brand of anti-government activism. Soon, the men were refusing to pay a nickel to the government in any form. In 1982, Dan’s tax revolt landed him in a Utah County Justice Court, where his preaching about the

Faces of change: Dan Lafferty, left, in the Utah State Prison and in a 1982 photo from The Daily Herald; Ron Lafferty, right, in a 1977 Daily Herald photo, and today in the Utah State Prison

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Mormon historian D. Michael Quinn points out that while the John Birch Society was once labeled as the “fanatic fringe” by conservative stalwarts like Ronald Reagan, its leaders and members have now been absorbed into the conservative party.

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While the world outside Ron’s cell has loudly decried religious fundamentalists, whether they’re polygamists or members of al-Qaida, political extremism has been embraced with open arms.

Mormon historian Quinn points out that while the John Birch Society was once labeled as the “fanatic fringe” by conservative stalwarts like Ronald Reagan, its leaders and members have now been absorbed into the conservative party and its corporate sponsors. The infamous billionaire Koch brothers, for example, are the sons of Fred Koch, one of the founders of the John Birch Society, and many conservative leaders today spent their formative years networking at John Birch Society youth camps.

And Benson’s speeches about socialism and secret combinations have been given new life by Utah Tea Partiers.

Benson’s activism—and, by extension, the Laffertys’ extreme interpretation of it—has become part of a national chorus of hard-right conservative politics.

“It’s a totally different political landscape then it was back when Ezra Taft Benson was decrying the situation in America,” Quinn says.

Benson “saw himself as a voice crying in the wilderness, whereas now the Republican Party and the conservative worldview has become the wilderness.”

Wessinger points out that radical dualism lies on a spectrum that runs from folks like the Laffertys to talking heads on Fox News and Tea Party politicians.

“We hear things like ‘political gridlock in Congress,’ ‘lack of discussion and compromise’—and all that is due to dualistic thinking in political terms,” Wessinger says.

“Extreme dualism, whether it’s violent or not, neglects to understand the complexity of situations.”

Incendiary rhetoric, whether from spiritual figures like Benson or from pundits calling for the government to be shutdown, can fire up voters and ignite a political base—or they can fall like napalm on people like the Lafferty brothers or the Nevada shooters, who shouted “revolution” as they gunned down two Las Vegas policemen in June.

And separated from all of this tumult by iron bars and razor-wire fences, Ron defiantly awaits judgment while resisting outside pressures that, he says, mean to crack his resolve and force him to kill himself or simply give up his legal fight. There’s a phrase Ron picked up from a paperback he read in prison that’s stuck with him: “Too long in the refiner’s fire makes a stone of the heart.”

I googled the term and found it might have been a play off a line in the William Butler Yeats poem “Easter 1916” that reads: “Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.” Some interpretations of Yeats poem see the stone as the unyielding soul of the Irish revolutionaries, like those executed in a 1916 revolt for independence. Following the executions, these martyrs are “Now and in time to be ... are changed, changed utterly/ A terrible beauty is born.”

On July 24, 1984, a terror in Utah was not so much born as forged in a fire of anger and hurt and tempered in blood. The saints of Utah, like any settlement of faithful, have always been in a revolution against dark forces, the satanic adversary. It’s a revolution of those who fight evil, those who succumb to it and those who do terrible wrong by so desperately trying to choose the right. CW

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Catherine Wessinger, a professor of religious studies at New Orleans’ Loyola University, describes the Lafferty worldview as radical dualism—an us-versus-them schism that a group believes has to be overcome in order to bring about a new society. What makes this outlook violent is often fragility in the group that makes members feel the need to lash out against those who oppose them—Brenda, in the case of the Lafferty brothers.

Wessinger also sees in their politics a “magical” type of thinking. “Through their interpretation of legal documents, including the Constitution, they think they’ve unlocked the secrets of how to make the legal system work for them,” Wessinger says.

In the brothers’ minds, the simple implementation of something like a common-law jury would solve all of society’s ills.

That concept—along with opening the prisons and selling all police cars—was part of Dan’s 1982 campaign for Utah County Sheriff, a race from which he was disqualified when officials wouldn’t accept his payment of gold for the filing fee.

In Dan’s proposed common-law-jury system—which he’ll instate during the forthcoming apocalypse while he prepares the earth for the Second Coming—any victim could appeal to a jury that Dan, as sheriff, would assemble. Verdicts and sentences would have to be unanimous and, most importantly, could not be appealed—creating total local control. “In the meantime, you can drink your beer on your front porch, you can smoke your weed, you can shoot your guns—just make sure you don’t hurt anybody,” he says.

Dan has since undergone a change in his political views. He looks favorably on leaders like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and decries the excess of corporate control of society.

But that kind of free-for-all philosophy is still appealing to Ron, who sees his lawyers as using their legal “jabberwocky” to conspire against him, in coordination with the LDS Church. Ron says he’s had bad luck with counsel—his first attorney allegedly had a drug problem and was suspended by the Utah Bar for misconduct in 1990. One of the drifters who accompanied Ron and his brother during the 1984 killings folded his hands in prayer at the witness stand, which, Ron says, his attorneys never questioned, though he says it cast doubt on his testimony.

Ron’s brother Watson Jr. says Ron’s focus on his attorneys is a distraction from the killings themselves, which Ron can’t or won’t speak to.

Once, Ron showed me exhibits from his case, including a photo from the crime scene of a bloody pattern of a knife on a drape. Ron says it doesn’t make sense that a bloody knife would leave a perfect outline, and that it’s proof of fabricated evidence. Shuffling through his papers, he then showed me a sepia photograph of Brenda lying facedown in a pool of blood. Ron casually scoffed that some of his attorneys had given him the photo to try to “elicit some emotion out of me.”

Ron kept talking after showing me the photograph, but it was difficult to comprehend the words coming out of his mouth while also trying to keep from vomiting. For the next 20 minutes, I could hear my own breath but not the words Ron was speaking.

Watson Jr. says that while, in his opinion, Dan can’t be saved, Ron could still do the right thing by ceasing his appeals and accepting the death penalty as a consequence of his actions.

But Ron’s legal appeals are likely years away from being exhausted, and in the meantime, Ron sees no other choice other than continuing to stand up for his rights.

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Frank Buffalo Hyde Art, like any discipline, has its own language, and an artist has his or her own vocabulary.

In the artistic language of American Indian artist Frank Buffalo Hyde, fuchsia and bright blue, polka dots and stripes are not simply a decorative backdrop, but rather the beginnings of a distinctively ironic artistic vernacular.

Buffalo Hyde—who’s descended from the Nez Perce and Onondaga, trained in Chicago and has shown in Santa Fe and nationally for 15 years—paints with a language that speaks (in the old movie Indian cliché) with forked tongue, showcased in an exhibit beautifully curated by Audrey Zelia Smith.

Buffalo Hyde paints Western and American Indian cultural references, and uses pops of color, polka dots and stripes to make bold statements about difference or otherness, the displacement of his people and the heritage of his nearly lost culture. He contextualizes with imagery like American Indian women in cheerleading costume doing highflying acrobatics, a buffalo placed on a hamburger— the iconic American fast food—or a portrait of Picasso in tribal headdress.

“I-Witness Culture” (pictured) and “I-Witness Nature” are both vertical paintings of an iPhone held at arm’s length—the former with a traditional Native warrior, the latter with a view of a landscape. In the background of each are colorful diagonal stripes. In both cases, Western modernity is juxtaposed with Native American heritage, emphasizing how their traditional culture and their land have been dismantled. (Ehren Clark) Frank Buffalo Hyde @ Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, 801-355-3383, ongoing. ModernWestFineArt.com

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The annual Park City Kimball Arts Festival that takes place on Park City’s historic Main Street is much more than three days of hundreds of exhibiting artists. Its organizers have gone out of their way to make it a more inclusive celebration of all the artistic things that make Park City such a unique mountain enclave.

Perhaps one of the best parts of the festival is the Taste of Art program, where many of the area’s celebrated cafes and award-winning restaurants will offer deals and specials to hungry visitors. The weekend’s Festival After Dark includes events like Friday night’s City Park screening of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival favorite Twenty Feet from Stardom—and if seeing the documentary isn’t enough, Muscle Shoals with Lisa Fischer (featured in the film) will play at Deer Valley on Sunday night.

Also at Deer Valley, the Utah Symphony continues its summer music festival with two concerts featuring the music of Disney (see More Essentials, p. 28) and Neil Diamond. Or you can wander over to Canyons Resort for a free show featuring Honey Island Swamp Band. And The Egyptian Theatre on Main Street will feature two national comics, Maria Shehata and Dave Goldstein.

Regardless of your artistic preference, the Kimball Arts Festival offers something enticing— whether that’s some new ceramic wares, a shiny piece of handcrafted jewelry, a large painting or photograph, or simply the opportunity to get out of the valley heat and into the cool, fresh mountain air. (Jacob Stringer) Park City Kimball Arts Festival @ Main Street, Park City, 435-649-8882, Aug. 1-3, Friday 5-9 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m.-7 p.m., Sunday 9 a.m.-6 p.m., $5-$10, free for Summit County residents.

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Paula Kelly Harline’s The Polygamous Wives’ Writing Club is a slim, elegantly composed volume that condenses several decades of history in a remarkably concise fashion. It’s drawn from the diaries of 19th-century Mormon pioneer women in polygamous marriages who were outside the main church and political power structure of the time, whose stories have thus yet to be examined closely in studies of the period.

But rather than risk the sprawl of structuring the book around long, unedited passages taken verbatim from these women’s diaries, Harline makes the aesthetically welcome decision of summarizing and quoting selectively, providing periodic interludes for historical and cultural background purposes. The result is a book that, even to an outsider, proceeds at a pleasant, informative clip and provides illuminative insight into under-examined lives.

Many of the accounts in the book reveal a sisterhood among the wives that endured desipte social and political pressures and personal hardships. The book’s press release notes that polygamy and the role of women have both been hot topics for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints going back to the 19th century, and that “many would argue that the polygamous wives of the 21st century are nothing like those of the 19th century.” For the most part, Harline leaves that issue alone, and instead presents history with little overt editorial comment, much to the book’s benefit. (Danny Bowes) Paula Kelly Harline: The Polygamous Wives’ Writing Club @ Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, Aug. 2, 2 p.m., free. WellerBookWorks.com

Utah, is back this month for its 10th anniversary.

Considering that the 2013 edition drew more than a quarter-million spectators and made $17.5 million for the state, the race—once again to be nationally televised—should be another windfall for the local economy.

The race has been growing to the degree that this year, it’s expanding to seven days and, for the first time, will have one of its stages hosted by a city outside of Utah, with Day 5 taking the race just over the border to Evanston, Wyo. Of the 16 competing teams, five are just coming off the famed Tour de France. Most are based in the United States, with the exception of two Italian teams, one Dutch, one Australian and one Brazilian, the last of which is also currently ranked No. 1 in the world.

Fox Sports will be televising 14 hours of the competition live, for those unable to make it in person.For those who can, the race at large is free to all spectators, but deluxe ticket packages are available to optimize the sporting experience, up to and including a stay in the team hotel with the competing cyclists.

Competing for the first time this year are women cyclists, in a special event immediately prior to the third stage of the men’s event earlier in the afternoon, with three-time national champion Alison Powers a particularly notable name in the women’s race. (Danny Bowes) Tour of Utah @ various Utah and Wyoming locations, 801-325-7000, Aug. 4-10, free, VIP tickets $75-$2,000.

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A Town Called Alice Centennial exhibit celebrates legacy of Utah art advocate Alice Merrill Horne.

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George Wesley Browning’s watercolor “Fall Mountain Scene” (1941) captures a sense of placidity in the natural world. Several works devote themselves to local figures, like Myra Sawyer’s “Helen Kimball” (early 1900s).

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Her own aesthetic was idealized, State legislator Alice Merrill Horne (bust by Avard and she begins the volume with Fairbanks below) helped shape the artistic paths of illustrations and discussions of the Utah artists such as James Taylor Harwood, whose Venus de Milo, Leonardo’s “Last “Vintage of Northern Italy” is pictured above.

Supper” and the Mona Lisa, as well as a few observations on looking at Sawyer, one of the first local female artists art for enjoyment first, then criticism.

She then begins the book in earnest, to gain recognition, studied in France and charting the beginnings of the artistic Spain, copying works of Velasquez.

Mahonri Macintosh Young’s “The impulse in crafts such as those practiced

by Native Americans, then finding ideals Blacksmith” (1906) utilizes some Rembrantlocally in the design of buildings made esque chiaroscuro. This descendent of for Brigham Young. She notes that Brigham Young shows in his figures the the Deseret Academy of Arts, weight and physicality of sculpture, his founded in 1863, was the first main art form; he’s better known for the art school in the West, and “This Is The Place” and Seagull monuments then discusses a number of in Salt Lake City.

The artworks on display are also an Utah artists.

The stories of these odyssey through the various styles of Utah artists paint a picture artists. Horne’s book cites the early work of early Utah history. of James Taylor Harwood, whom she notes George Martin Ottinger, was one of the first students from Utah to later an art instructor be accepted into the Beaux Arts in Paris. at the University of Utah, Harwood’s “Vintage of Northern Italy” arrived by ox cart, ran away (1938) showcases the impressionistic to sea as a boy, and painted brushstrokes of Van Gogh, a style he began the first scenic backdrop for working in well after the publication of the Salt Lake Theatre. His the book.

The keen eyes of Horne herself will be oil painting “The Children of the Sun, Manco Capa and on display as well, in the form of a 1941 Maina Ocllo” (1890) bronze bust by Avard Fairbanks, created depicts figures from Inca as a tribute to her devotion to local art and mythology. The sun god promoting it. An art gallery itself is a kind Capa and his bride are of shrine, and Horne was well aware of radiant, illuminated by that. The exhibit marks the devotion of the state of Utah to its artistic heritage, and Ottinger’s use of light.

Many of these artists also provides inspiration to artists working used nature as their in the present.

A copy of the book Devotees and Their subject, as Utah artists often have done, depicting Shrines is at Alice Gallery for browsing, and another kind of “shrine.” can also be read online at Archive.org. CW

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his year marks a number of historical milestones: the 45th anniversary of the first moon landing, and a century since a events leading up to World War I. In 1914, Utah had been a state for less than 20 years, and we were still figuring out our place in the nation.

We were also still figuring out our artistic identity. Alice Merrill Horne was only the second female legislator in the state, but she would prove to have an influence that is still felt today. Horne wrote and sponsored legislation to create the Utah Art Institute— later becoming the Utah Arts Council and now known as the Utah Division of Arts & Museums, the oldest state-sponsored arts agency in the country.

Horne acknowledged “the challenge of artists making a living in Utah, and worked to help artists in that challenge much like the institution she started continues to do today,” says Jim Glenn, who manages the state’s fine-art collection.

She also wrote a book titled Devotees and Their Shrines: A Handbook of Utah Art— published in 1914 by the Deseret News—to serve as a guide to local art and artists in the early 20th century. The Division of Arts & Museums is commemorating the book’s centennial with an exhibit of artists mentioned in the book at Alice Gallery in the Glendinning Mansion on South Temple. The 19 works in the exhibition serve as a visual essay on the foundations of Utah art.

Horne described the act of making and looking at art as being akin to a spiritual endeavor, but she also thought that art is an activity in which anyone can partake. She believed in a democratic approach to aesthetic pleasure, and began the introductory chapter of her book by saying, “Poverty is a poor excuse for ugliness, and wealth can never get rich enough to purchase good taste.”

She even went so far as to say, “We are all artists to a degree.”

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By Bryan Young comments@cityweekly.net @swankmotron

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hosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.”

According to Marvel Comics, these are the words car ved onto Mjolnir, the hammer of Thor, the Norse god of thunder. There have been times when someone other than Thor has picked up the hammer, found himself imbued with his power and proceeded to kick ass and take names.

The alien warrior Beta Ray Bill and human architect Eric Masterson both took on the power.

A f ter they proved themselves supremely worthy, Odin eventually gave each of them their ow n weapon imbued w ith Thor’s power— ca l led Stor mbrea ker a nd T hu nder st r i ke, respectively.

These were popular characters in the Marvel Universe—Beta Ray Bill is easily one of my favorite Marvel characters—and no one seemed to bat an eyelash when these masculine figures wielded Thor’s power. But Marvel recently announced that Thor will be finding himself unworthy of his power, and a woman will be picking up the hammer.

Thor will still be kicking around the Marvel Universe, hopefully paying his penance and presumably wielding Jarnbjorn, his unpowered axe.

This woman—about whom, at this point, we know nothing—will wield Thor’s power and take her place among the Avengers.

Sounds like a lot of great storytelling potential there, right? And it’s being written by fan-favorite Jason Aaron. What problem could anyone possibly have?

Facebook, Twitter and comment sections the world over have been filled with snarling fanboys dropping misogynist pearls like, “What are they gonna call her now? Whore?” and “I hate all this manipulation of characters just to

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‘appeal to everyone.’ They suddenly want to change already-written character’s races and sex, and that’s just not cool.”

I know. I’m facepalming harder than Picard too. I wish I could show all of those Internet commenters the face of my daughter—who loves dressing up as Thor— when she found out that a woman was going to wield his power.

But the outrage doesn’t end with Thor.

Marvel Comics also announced that the mantle of Captain America would be passed on to Sam “The Falcon” Wilson, a character audiences loved in this year’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Over the past couple of weeks, people have been decrying Marvel’s attempt to be more “politically correct,” which has somehow turned into a codeword for “liberal claptrap.”

The story is the same for any comic-book publisher that changes the race, gender or other key traits of an established character.

Remember when they made the Green Lantern from Earth 2 gay? Or even when they had a British guy play Superman in a movie? Same outrage.

But here’s the thing: Broader representation in comics is a good thing. Of the trinity of main characters in the Avengers, 33 percent of them are still white males. After 75-plus years of white-male dominance, that number seems more than appropriate. I want to read about how people other than those who look like me handle super powers, so that I might empathize with them and get to know them better.

After you get to know them, they’re not quite as different. A nd the more we all read stories like this, the less outraged and frightened we’ll be the next time a change like this—no matter how temporary—happens.

So let’s all welcome this new woman proudly wielding the power of Thor. Let us all see together what the power of Thor is like through the eyes of a woman.

Remember that in the eyes of the AllFather’s enchantment, she is worthy—and that’s good enough for me. CW Bryan Young is the editor-in-chief of BigShinyRobot.com

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Sundance Summer Theatre: Fiddler on the Roof Throughout the summer months in Utah, outdoor venues make use of the sunny weather and spectacular scenery to provide unique seasonal theater experiences. While some of those venues require a long drive and time commitment, the beautiful outdoor amphitheater at Provo Canyon’s Sundance Resort offers a closer alternative for a classic Broadway musical.

For 2014, Sundance Summer Theatre—in conjunction with Utah Valley University—presents Fiddler on the Roof, the beloved 1964 tale of a turn-of-the-century Jewish community in Russia, and a patriarch trying to keep his family living a traditional life. Enjoy the familiar songs like “If I Were a Rich Man,” “Sunrise, Sunset” and “Tradition” with Mount Timpanogos providing an impressive backdrop. If you want to expand your evening in the canyon, enjoy the special pre-show barbecue dinner adjacent to the amphitheater for an added charge. (Scott Renshaw) Sundance Summer Theatre: Fiddler on the Roof @ Sundance Resort Amphitheater, 8841 N. Alpine Loop Road, Sundance, 866-734-4428, through Aug. 16, 8 p.m., $21-$30, preshow barbecue dinner 6:30 p.m., $16. SundanceResort.com

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Self-deprecation is damned funny when done right, and Brandie Posey has got the act locked down tight for venting about the obnoxious crap in her life.

The Los Angeles-based comedian/writer/producer has been steadily rising in the national eye over the past year through live performances on the coast and in online media. Aside from being a performer for both The Upright Citizens Brigade and The Hollywood Improv theaters, she’s the host of Lady-To-Lady, a popular podcast on Maximum Fun and occasional stage show.

In 2013, she dropped by Salt Lake City to perform for the Comedy Carnivale, and now, she’s finishing her Three Weddings & a Comedy Tour at 5 Monkeys. She’ll be backed up by local talent including Aaron Orlovitz, Natashia Mower and Christopher Stephenson, with Jason Harvey hosting the show. (Gavin Sheehan) Brandie Posey @ 5 Monkeys, 7 E. 4800 South, Murray, 801-266-1885, July 31, 8 p.m., $5. BrandiePosey.com

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Deer Valley Music Festival: Disney in Concert Take the opportunity and experience the magic that is Disney through Disney in Concert: Tale as Old as Time, performed by the Utah Symphony and sung by talented Broadway vocalists.

Get inspired by The Hunchback of Notre Dame’s “Out There” and The Lion King’s “The Circle of Life,” or have some carefree fun during a sing-along to “Hakuna Matata.” All the many varied moods from Disney’s expansive catalog will be explored, from Aladdin’s jazzy “Friend like Me” to modern ballads such as “I See the Light” from Tangled. And well-loved Disney villains also have their place in the performance, during the Villains’ Medley.

The night will feature a little something for everyone, be you young or old, prince or pauper, mermaid or beast. (Camri Mecham) Disney in Concert: Tale as Old as Time @ Deer Valley Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater, 2250 S. Deer Valley Drive, Park City, 435- 649-1000, Aug. 1, 7 p.m., $32-$69. DeerValleyMusicFestival.org, ArtTix.org

WEDNESDAY 8.6

Forward 13: Waking Up the American Dream In the wake of the 2008 financial collapse, many documentary filmmakers set out to explore how it happened, who was to blame, and what the fallout was. But there’s a difference when a

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filmmaker approaches the topic not as a frustrating abstraction, but as something that touched his life personally.

Patrick Lovell—a veteran TV producer and former Park City resident—places his own experience front and center in Forward 13, describing how financial setbacks led to his own house going into foreclosure in 2011 after a protracted process attempting to renegotiate the terms of his loan. From there he begins a cross-country journey talking to people on various sides of the contentious subject of income inequality, from Occupy Wall Street protesters to representatives from conservative advocacy groups.

Catch this distinctly human face of a national crisis, then stick around for a Q&A with Lovell after the screening. (Scott Renshaw) Forward 13: Waking Up the American Dream @ Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111 E. 300 South, 801-321-0310, Aug. 6, 7 p.m., free. SaltLakeFilmSociety.org

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In the past, whenever Caputoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Market & Deli would win awards in the sandwich categories of City Weeklyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Best of Utah, Tony Caputo would confide to me, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know who should have won? Grove Market.â&#x20AC;? It was kind and humble of Tony, Salt Lakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Deli Lama,â&#x20AC;? to defer to Grove Market & Deliâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m glad he did, or I may have never discovered the over-thetop joys of the Big John sandwich. Grove Market (1906 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801467-8860, GroveMarketDeli.com), originally opened by Greek immigrant Pete Savas in 1947, will undoubtedly be around in 2047 because of the fair and friendly service, and the incredible bang-for-the-buck sandwiches itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s famous for.

Grove Market sandwiches are made-toorder and come in full or half sizes. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t kid yourself: the â&#x20AC;&#x153;half-sizeâ&#x20AC;? sandwiches are about the size of my thigh. To wit, I recently ordered a half Big John sandwich ($6.99 half/$11.49 full) and was able to finish just one-third of it for lunch. I enjoyed the remainder over the next couple of days.

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to sandwich at Tony Caputoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Two hands are required to take on The Big John Market & Deli (multiple locations, at Grove Deliâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still not a fair fight.

CaputosDeli.com) is just that: ripe Roma tomatoes, fresh fiore di latte mozzarella, lettuce, fresh basil, olive great cheesesteak and killer Italian sub, oil and balsamic vinegar on a ciabatta roll my favorite Grinders sandwich is the hot ($8.25 whole/$4.85 half). I dare say this sen- meatball sandwich ($6.55 6-inch/$8.04 sational sandwich is even healthy.

10-inch) with meatballs made from scratch Healthy might not be the word Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d use (you can actually distinguish the various to describe Feldmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (2005 E. 2700 meats in each ball) and housemade mariSouth, Salt Lake City, 801-906-0369, nara sauce, to boot.

FeldmansDeli.com) overstuffed corned For the flavors of Southeast Asia in a beef on rye ($12.50); heaven would be. sandwich, the Vietnamese banh mi options Warm, succulent, thin-sliced corned beef at Oh Mai (3425 S. State, Salt Lake City, dripping with flavor is stacked high on 801-467-6882; 6093 S. Highland Drive, Salt excellent Jewish rye (sourced from a secret Lake City, 801-277-9888, OhMaiSandwich. bakery) with a choice of cheeses (Swiss com) are essential. The incredible baguettebeing the default, of course). A side of based sandwiches run a mere $3 to $5 and housemade potato salad seals the deal. include stuffings ranging from lemongrass In South Ogden, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the porchetta sand- bean curd and honey-glazed pork to sarwich ($7.50) at Zucca Market & Deli (1479 dines, cold cuts (the original banh mi), E. 5600 South, South Ogden, 801-475-7077, spicy beef short ribs and yellow curried MyZucca.com) that you want. Slow-roasted chicken. JalapeĂąos are also an option. pork loin is stacked between toasted slices The newly opened Even Stevens of ciabatta bread with Black Forest ham, Sandwiches (414 E. 200 South, Salt Lake King of the Dolomites Italian cheese and a City, 801-727-7234, EvenStevens.com) spread of tangy mustard. deserves a shout-out, not just because it For a classic New Orleans-style muf- gives a free sandwich to a local nonprofit faletta sandwich, visit The Bayou (645 for each one they sell, but also because S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-961-8400, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re great sandwiches. Try the incendiUtahBayou.com) and tuck into the focaccia ary JP (for jalapeĂąo popper) grilled cheese bun smeared with a tapenade-type olive ($7.95) with white cheddar, jalapeĂąosalad and stuffed with Mortadella and spiked cream cheese and garlic-roasted Genoa sausages, plus provolone cheese. jalapeĂąos on French bread.

Speaking of New Orleans, for Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best And finally, here is my current favorpoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;boy sandwich, head down to Payson ite sandwich in all of Utah: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Philly and Boudreauxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bistro (47 S. Main, 801- cheesesteak at Vitoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Bountiful (100 465-1222, BoudreauxsBistro.biz). Poâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;boy S. Main, 801-953-8486). Vito Leone is a options include hot roast beef, french fries one-man construction crew whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always with grav y, smoked sausage, andouille found behind the counter of his small sausage, alligator sausage, grilled or fried eatery. Because he constantly cooks, he chicken, catfish and veggie. But my favor- canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be bothered with handling money, ite is the classic shrimp poâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;boy: crispy so thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an unusual payment system fried shrimp piled onto a toasted French wherein customers stash their cash into a roll and dressed with mayo, lettuce, toma- hole in the counter and make change from to and pickles. You can help yourself to the coin jars. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve eaten in all the high-profile Louisiana hot sauce.

Philadelphia cheesesteak emporiums like For more than 40 years, Grinders 13 Patâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Genoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Jimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Tony Lukeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, etc. and (1618 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-467- I can honestly say that Vitoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cheesesteak 3676, Grinders13.com) has been supply- ranks up there with any of them. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take ing Utahns with East Coast-style grinders, my word; go get your lips around one! CW heros and hoagies. Rightly known for its

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The menu for the evening will take a south-of-the-border turn with dishes such as nopales salad, traditional flan, stuffed poblano chile relleno and more.

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I’m a strong proponent of leftover pizza for breakfast, so imagine my delight when I discovered a pizza made with breakfast foods. Sufire’s breakfast pizza is one of the most unique finds at the market.

They apply egg to the pizza with a condiment bottle; the finished product is a layer of light scrambled egg mingled with cheese and a mild Alfredo sauce atop a delicate crust. The crust is to die for—thin and crisp, but substantial. Fresh mozzarella and imported Parmigiano-Reggiano top the pizza. Neither gloppy nor overly cheesy, it is breakfast-pizza perfection.

And each personal-size pizza takes about 90 seconds to cook in the oven.

There are plenty of vendors at the market selling coffee and other drinks to pair with your pie. Then, find a nice spot to enjoy breakfast, and relish a leisurely weekend morning at the market.

Surefire Pizza also serves traditional pizzas like the delicious Margherita, topped with crushed San Marzano tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, basil and ParmigianoReggiano. For an extra $2, upgrade your experience by adding Mozzarella di Bufalo.

There’s also a dessert pizza topped with Nutella and powdered sugar; it’s sure to satisfy a sweet tooth.

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Nose: You and I have one. We use it sometimes to smell wine. When we do, those smells, aromas and fragrances are ca lled the w ine’s “nose.”

Oaky: Basically, when wine (especially white) is fermented and/or aged in barrels made of oak, some of the woody flavors and aromas find their way into the wine. This can be a very good thing, but can also be very bad when the oak is out of balance. It’s always safe to say to your sommelier: “I don’t care for over-oaked wines.”

Plush: See: lush.

Quaff: What wine writers say to avoid the word “guzzle.”

Racy: Wine hipster lingo for wines high in acidity.

Silky: The (literal) feel of wine in the mouth is often overlooked. Some actually coat the tongue like a velvet shroud. Those are the silky ones.

Tight: Typically used to describe red wines too young to drink or those needing a little air in the glass or decanter to “open up” the fruit flavors.

Unctuous: See: lush, plush and silk.

Velvety: See: lush, plush, silky and unctuous.

Woody: Describes oakiness in wine.

Xarello: A Spanish wine grape only found in wine glossaries because no other X wine words exist.

Young: Duh. Wine that needs more aging in the bottle so not to taste like flop sweat.

Zinfandel: America’s contribution to the wine world. CW

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Aggressive: Wines that are too high in tannins or too low in acidity. Essentially a way of avoiding the word “yucky.”

Barnyard: Usually used in describing French wines, and almost always accompanied by “terroir.” If your wine smells

like a steaming pile of horse dung, that’s barnyard. And it’s a good thing.

Complex: This is what you call the wine you bought for $6.99 and don’t want to be embarrassed about.

Decadent: Confession: This is what wine writers say about wines that they like but are at a loss to describe.

Earthy: See: barnyard.

Flabby: Describes out-of-balance white wines that are too oaky and without much acidity. Not to be confused with “fat” or “fleshy.”

Green: When your wine tastes more like a salad than something to sip, it’s green.

See also: cat’s piss.

Hot: When a wine’s alcohol level obliterates all of its nuances, making it taste like you’ve just done a shot of grain alcohol.

Describes most American red wine made from 1999 to 2011.

Icky: See: White Zinfandel.

Jammy: Describes red wines with lots of ripe fruit flavors. It’s usually positive, but then Welch’s grape jellies and Boone’s Farm wines are jammy, too.

K-Y: OK, this one’s not really a commonly used wine term. In fact, I think I’m the only one who’s ever employed it, describing the petroleum odors I detect in certain white wines, usually from South Africa.

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Honeycomb Grill

Honeycomb is a nice anchor eatery for Solitude’s village, and sits as close to the Solitude slopes as physically possible, so you can ski right in during winter and fawn over the deer during summer. One of Honeycomb’s best features is its grand patio, but there’s plenty of room inside as well. Make use of your space by loading up on pub fare, most hearty of which is the bison sloppy joe. 12000 E. Big Cottonwood Canyon Road, Solitude, 801536-5787, SkiSolitude.com If you visit Golden Pearl in Salt Lake City’s Rose Park neighborhood, plan to leave with leftovers. The portions are very generous, and so are the friendly smiles. Lovers of lo mein swear that Golden Pearl’s is some of the best in town. Other popular menu items include snow-pea beef, Peking spare ribs and kung pao shrimp. The dining room is small and frequently crowded, but takeout is available—or, for a small fee, Golden Pearl will deliver. 1625 W. 700 North, Salt Lake City, 801-363-5223

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Diners select from thinly sliced beef, pork, crab, chicken or turkey and proceed down the line to add vegetables, noodles, sauces of your choice. The chef then cooks up your own, customized stir-fry right before your eyes. Watching the chef slice and dice and toss food in the fiery hot wok is half the fun.

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always great to discover a brewery that can make a great house Black & Tan. Hoppers has you covered with its Madame X Stout layered over the Pale Morning Ale. Or perhaps try one of the regular rotations of seasonal brews. You can also feel really good about Hoppersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Orange Honey Wheat beerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it makes ordering a pitcher at brunch, served every Saturday and Sunday, seem classy. The other days of the week, check out Hoppersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; huge selection of burgers and sandwiches, including the garlic burger and steak wrap. 890 E. Fort Union Blvd., Midvale 801-566-0424, HoppersBrewpub.com

Loco Lizard Cantina

Loco Lizard, located in Park Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kimball Junction, is a lively, vibrant spot to indulge in classic Mexican fare and terrific beverages. All of the food at Loco Lizard is made fresh daily, including Mexican-style tacos, enchiladas, burritos, chimichangas, soups and more. Definitely order the fish tacos, carnitas, pozole, ceviche or the popular fajitas. On weekends, brunch is served from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 1612 Ute Blvd., Park City, 435-645-7000, LocoLizardCantina.com

Star of India

Sharon Prescott cooks, serves customers and even fills coffee cups, so you know this is truly an owneroperated, hands-on establishment. Hotcakes, scones, French toast, and fresh-baked biscuits & gravy are

Windyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sukiyaki

At Windyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sukiyaki, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find a vast array of authentic Japanese cuisine, including sushi, sashimi, inari, nigiri, donburi, teriyaki, sukiyaki and much more.

Featured dinner delights include grilled salmon, ginger pork tenderloin, hibachi chicken, teriyaki salmon and, of course, vegetarian sukiyaki served in an iron pot. There is even a kids menu at Windyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;truly something for everyone. 3809 Riverdale Road, Ogden, 801-621-4505, WindysSukiyaki.com

Jang Soo Jang

At Jang Soo Jang, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll encounter authentic Korean cuisine served in a friendly atmosphere. The menu ranges from Korean barbecue and stews/hotpot dishes to seafood, sweetened potatoes and popular choices like bi bim bop. Drop in during lunch for the inexpensive lunchtime specials. Or come by later; Jang Soo Jang is open until 10 p.m. almost every night. 2701 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-4677778

Sillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cafe

This joint is old school. You can order chipped beef on toast with that spackle-like white gravy either solo or on the side. Or clog up your arteries with The Bossâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Breakfast: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an egg your way with bacon, cheese, hash browns, S.O.S. (creamed beef on toast) and a Utah-style scone (soft, doughy and served with honey butter) the size of your head. Sillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is located right across the parking lot from Laytonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Burger Stop so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the perfect place to score a hefty breakfast before chowing down on burgers for lunch. 335 E. Gentile St., Layton, 801-544-7438, TheSillsCafe.com

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But the real deal is the marinated pork tenderloin & eggs with feta and fresh tomato. Breakfast is served all day, but lunch is good too: Try Sharonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1-pound burger or the chicken-fried steak. 2263 E. MurrayHolladay Road, Salt Lake City, 801-278-9552

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The proximity means you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need a ticket to enjoy concerts; they come blasting right through the walls. Rye, open until midnight Sunday through Thursday and until 2 a.m. on weekends, currently offers breakfast and dinner menus only, but a lunch menu is in the works. As appealing as the breakfast menu is, the small dinner menu is what really rocked me. A plate of five â&#x20AC;&#x153;street dumplingsâ&#x20AC;? is an absolute must. And though steak frites has been done to death, Rye breathes new life into the dish: The steak is oh-so tender, cut into juicy medallions, and seasoned with thyme and garlic butter. I was also bowled over by the mountain of perfect french fries that accompanied it, kissed by spicy togarashi seasoning and served with roasted-garlic aioli.

With Rye, Salt Lake Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s casual dining scene has taken a leap into hyperspace. Reviewed July 24.

239 S. 500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-3644655, RyeSLC.com

Valterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Osteria meditri nas lc.com

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Valterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Osteria reflects chef Valter Nassiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personality: vibrant and buzzing. The menu has a nearly overwhelming array of canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t-miss dishes like housemade four-cheese ravioli with cream sauce and asparagus, potato gnocchi in a mushroomcream sauce ($24), escolar with brandy, capers and a trio of mustards, and Nassiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s signature piccatastyle chicken: organic chicken breast from Tecumseh Farms sauteed with lemon juice, caper berries and oyster mushrooms, accompanied by risotto in lemon-butter sauce. As food fads come and go, Nassi sticks to the classics, never apologizing for his scaloppini di vitello or the pasta e fagioli. Nassi bounces from table to table at his restaurant, always looking the bon vivant in a well-tailored suitâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; greeting and wooing customers, kissing womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hands and hugging the men. He can make brandnew diners feel like family, which is one reason his restaurant is busy even on a weeknight. Dining at Valterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Osteria is like attending a symphony with a world-class maestro at the helm. Reviewed July 10. 173 W. 300 South, 801-521-4563, ValtersOsteria.com

Bistro 222

No culinary walls are being torn down at Bistro 222â&#x20AC;&#x201D;not that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anything wrong with that.

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to duck breast in chocolate-lavender sauce. The dinner menu is manageable: a trio of pastas, a salad quartet, a quintet of appetizers and a sextet of entrees, plus a few pizzas and sides. The fettuccine with a generous portion of fresh clams is one of my favorite Bistro 222 dishes, although not for the timid, as itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spiked with fiery chili flakes. Kids will veer toward the Napoli-style wood-oven pizzas, which are outstanding. Like its sister restaurants Boulevard Bistro and Toscano Italian Bistro in Sandy, Bistro 222 is warm and inviting, but with a modern, urban vibe thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perfect for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;newâ&#x20AC;? downtown Salt Lake City. Reviewed June 19. 222 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-456-0347, Bistro-222.com

Skewered Thai

This charming restaurant looks tiny, but inside, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surprisingly roomy, and old wood floors, exposed brick walls and dark tables and chairs lend a warm ambiance. There are a couple of must-try sharable appetizers on the menu, like the remarkable fresh spring rollsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a taste of spring itself. And although I normally wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go anywhere near coconut fried shrimp, Skewered Thaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version, with coconut batter, is another matter entirely. The pad thai is scrumptious, but even better than thatâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;if thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possibleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is a wicked-good noodle dish called pad kee mao (drunken noodle): a platter of wide, panfried rice noodles and a distinctively spicy mĂŠlange of tender shrimp, red bell pepper, mushrooms, broccoli, carrot, tomato, fresh chili, egg, onion and fragrant Thai basil. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need to make room on my list of favorite Thai restaurantsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;right at the top or very close to itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for Skewered Thai. Reviewed June 6. 575 S. 700 East, Salt Lake City, 801-3641144, SkeweredThai.com

Shawarma King

Owner Ehsan Suhail makes his shawarmaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; rotisserie-grilled meat, often a combination of beef and lamb, cooked on a rotating vertical spitâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from scratch, and the chicken shawarma in particular is tender and rich-tasting, juicy and served with housemade garlic-lemon sauce (toum), tomato, lettuce and pickle slices. But my favorite entree-type dish is the lamb koozi, a house specialty. Chunks of lamb are braised until almost falling-off-the-bone tender and served on nicely flavored basmati rice seasoned with raisins, toasted almonds and onions. Reviewed May 29. 725 E. 3300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-803-9434, SLCShawarmaKing.com

Guardians OF the galaxy

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Zoe Saldana, Chris Pratt and Dave Bautista (with Rocket and Groot) in Guardians of the Galaxy minded Drax. And there’s a laughter-blowsthe-roof-off-the-theater moment in the mold of Hulk’s rag-doll maneuver on Loki in The Avengers, this one courtesy of Groot.

Guardians is so wonderfully idiosyncratic for so long that it’s kind of a bummer to watch it wrap up with an obligatory feeling worldin-peril finale, as Ronan’s massive warship attacks the capital of the empire with which he has a racial-separatist beef. The sprawling dogfight hits all the “look at this, ain’t it spectacular” buttons, yet that’s exactly when it feels as though Gunn was obliged to take script notes from the Marvel formula, lest fans somehow wind up disappointed that it’s more hilarious than awesome.

Guardians of the Galaxy is, however, most delightful exactly when it’s its own goofy, punky self. Sure, Gunn’s gonna give you the sequence where the team finally pulls together and does its slow-motion “hero walk.” But he’s gonna work from Quill’s beloved Walkman mix tape and have them do that walk to the Runaways’ “Cherry Bomb.”

We could use more heroes like that. CW

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Quill has recovered. And the hulking Drax (pro wrestler Dave Bautista) wants to murder Gamora, or at least use her to get to Ronan, who was responsible for the death of Drax’s wife and child.

The dysfunctional family dynamic has played a role in other comic-book teams— including Joss Whedon’s mega-successful take on The Avengers—but there’s a different vibe to Gunn’s approach here. These five characters are all isolated in some fashion—whether by loss of their family, or never actually having one—and, in their way, kind of desperate for genuine connection. Even when the movie is getting silly, Guardians manages to lock in on that sense of how their emotional need for one another overrides their instinct for distrust.

It gets quite silly, indeed, but that turns out to be its secret weapon. For anyone who saw Gunn’s 2010 feature Super—with Rainn Wilson as a costumed vigilante wreaking disproportionate vengeance on criminals— it’s no surprise that he has a particularly demented take on comic-book tropes.

What’s surprising is that Marvel allows him to cut loose with his B-movie sense of whatthe-hell abandon, even as he’s cranking out energetic set pieces, like a chase that finds Rocket, Groot and Gamora all pursuing Quill through an alien-world metropolis. He gets to throw in oddball touches, like Quill regaling Gamora with a tale from his planet about the importance of dancing, “The Legend of Footloose.” The characters are prickly and charming, led by Pratt’s wonderfully charismatic take on anti-heroic heroism, and a surprisingly funny Bautista as the literal-

he audacious experiment Richard Link later under took w ith Boyhood—shooting the film in small increments over the course of 12 years, following Mason (Ellar Coltrane), the child of a struggling single mother (Patricia Arquette) and a sometimes f lak y, occasionally absentee father (Ethan Hawke), from first grade through his high school graduation—has dominated coverage of the movie. And perhaps it’s fair to ask, “How much does this remarkable achievement erase whatever flaws were carried on that journey?”

On first viewing, it was a bit harder to look past those flaws; the melodramatic material involving Mason’s alcoholic stepfather felt too overwrought in its hurled dishes and screamed threats. Yet a second look allowed those moments to dissolve into the background of something sweeping and affecting, and not at all the universal child-is-father-to-theman experience suggested by the title.

Instead, Boyhood explores a very specific kind of unmoored youth—one where the time-specific touchstones of popculture, politics and technology become the organizing principle for memories of a life full of upheaval.

And yes, it’s remarkable watching Coltrane—as well as Linklater’s own daughter, Lorelei, as Mason’s older sister Samantha—grow up over the course of a single 164-minute film, particularly because there was no way of knowing Coltrane would grow into a teenager with this much on-screen confidence and charisma. It’s also hard to imagine a better way to track, for example, a boy’s steps in sexual awareness from lingerie catalogues to Internet porn to his own first relationships.

Like so many of Linklater’s looselimbed comedies over the years, when it’s on, Boyhood is really on—smart, clear-eyed and laugh-out-loud funny in a way that never feels like someone’s stopping to deliver a zinger. Sure, there are a few clumsy plot threads, but Linklater moves past them to deliver an often breathtaking chronicle of the mere messy business of becoming a man. CW

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e’ve seen heroes introduced in many different ways since the Marvel Cinematic Universe started to take over the multiplex universe in the past several years. They’ve been gods fallen to Earth, and scrawny men turned into something like gods. They’ve been badasses and screw-ups and tormented scientists, but they’ve all more or less felt the way super-heroes are supposed to feel.

And then there’s the way co-writer/ director James Gunn introduces Peter Quill (Chris Pratt)—aka Star-Lord—in Guardians of the Galaxy: as a thief on an alien planet, wearing an old-school Walkman and headphones, dancing along to Redbone’s 1974 song “Come and Get Your Love” while turning a lizard-like specimen of the local fauna into an impromptu Mr. Microphone.

Even if you’re the biggest geeky fan of Marvel’s attempt to create an integrated series of movies, it’s hard to deny that all that planning and strategizing has resulted in a certain sameness of fan-pleasing structure and tone. But there’s something uniquely weird about Guardians of the Galaxy for most of its running time. Where other comic-book fare has felt like action blockbusters with sprinkles of comic relief, Gunn has been allowed to make a comedy that happens to feature comic-book characters.

The titular quintet is nothing like a team as the story opens; indeed, they mostly seem interested in killing one another in various permutations. Quill, an Earth man kidnapped by intergalactic pirates as a child and raised in their ways, has alienated his gang while trying to obtain a mysterious orb.

A pair of mercenary partners—the genetically modified raccoon creature Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper) and the sentient tree-thing Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel)— have been hired to retrieve Quill for the disgruntled pirates. The assassin Gamora (Zoe Saldana)—working for the villainous Ronan (Lee Pace)—is out to get the same orb that

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Boyhood HHH.5 See review p. 37. Opens Aug. 1 at Broadway Centre Cinemas.

(R) Get On Up [not yet reviewed] Biography of legendary soul singer James Brown (Chadwick Boseman). Opens Aug. 1 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) Guardians of the Galaxy HHH.5 See review p. 37. Opens Aug. 1 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) Happy Christmas HHH.5 Writer-director Joe Swanberg follows up 2013’s marvelous slice-of-life romantic dramedy Drinking Buddies with another compulsively watchable film where not all that much really happens, yet you still can’t look away. Jenny (Anna Kendrick) just broke up with her boyfriend, so she decides to start over in Chicago, and stay with her brother, Jeff (Swanberg); his wife, Kelly (Melanie Lynskey); and their toddler (Jude Swanberg, the filmmaker’s own son). Jenny is kind of a mess—a normal human condition few films grant to women—and upsets the household in all sorts of ways. But not all of those ways are bad, as when she inspires Kelly to stop putting off her writing dreams of getting back to her own work, which has been put on hold by motherhood. A master of subtle dramatic observation, Swanberg gently teases wistfully recognizable frustration, tolerance and warmth out of familial love and annoyance in a story that, while short—only 78 minutes—affords a remarkable amount of breathing space to its characters.

Swanberg’s unforced humanity and realism are unlike anything other filmmakers are giving us right now. Opens Aug. 1 at Tower Theatre. (R)—MaryAnn Johanson I Origins HH Brit Marling and her occasional collaborator Mike Cahill (Another Earth) are fascinated with the places where logical thinking collides with spiritual yearning, yet there’s something clumsy and overeager about the way they tell their stories, like grade-schoolers so excited to relate an anecdote to their parents that it makes no sense. With Marling co-starring, Cahill writes and directs the story of Ian Gray (Michael Pitt), a biochemist obsessed with how human eyes might provide the scientific kiss-off to creationist arguments—but a personal

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tragedy leads him down another road, which might force him to acknowledge Things Beyond. There’s an intriguing idea here: What if you could use the scientific method to provide evidence of things assumed to be outside the realm of science? But Cahill doesn’t actually play remotely fair in that territory; mysterious and unexplainable things happen, and those things merely become the kind of anecdotes that lead people to believe in ghosts because of that thing that totally happened to my cousin. Cahill seems to want to believe, and wants us to believe, too, but that’s not the same as submitting it to peer review. Opens Aug. 1 at Broadway Centre Cinemas.

(R)—Scott Renshaw

SPECIAL SCREENINGS Forward 13: Waking Up the American Dream See More Essentials, p. 28. At Broadway Centre Cinemas, Aug. 6, 7 p.m. (NR) The Lego movie At Brewvies, Aug. 4, 10 p.m. (PG) The Muppet Movie At Main Library, Aug. 2, 11 a.m. (G) The Newburgh Sting At Main Library, Aug. 5, 7 p.m. (NR) This Is Spinal Tap At Tower Theatre, Aug. 1-2 @ 11 p.m. & Aug. 3 @ noon (R)

CURRENT RELEASES And So It Goes H.5 After the opening moments in which casually (but adorably) racist and self-absorbed Oren Little (Michael Douglas) visits the grave of his beloved wife, we get to spend 95 minutes on the tedious business of figuring out what the movie can’t wait 30 seconds to tell us: that deep down, Oren’s a sad guy, not a bad guy. Of course, other characters in the movie aren’t privy to our filmmaker-endorsed insight—especially Leah (Diane Keaton), the widow next door who helps Oren take care of his granddaughter. But from such awkward initial connections are nascent romances born, and Oren and Leah become chummy despite Leah being awkwardly charming in a way that’s stereotypically Diane Keaton-esque yet still appealing, while Oren is a total dick. Though, lest we forget, a dick who watched his beloved wife slowly die of cancer.

(PG-13)—SR

Begin Again HH.5 Writer/director John Carney tries to duplicate the magic of his 2007 musical romance Once, only it plays like a misguided Hollywood remake. In contemporary New York, singer/ songwriter Gretta (Keira Knightley) and struggling musicindustry exec Dan (Mark Ruffalo) connect when he hears her play her music in a bar, leading to a possibility of both healing their emotional wounds. Carney’s on somewhat solid ground with the movie’s music (though your mileage may vary as to its quality), effectively showing how music becomes an inspiration and a connection. But it’s baffling how little Carney appears to appreciate the narrative efficiency he captured in Once, or why its simple love story worked. Begin Again leaves you with a sad sense of a guy who once made something people fell in love with, but he has no idea why. (PG-13)—SR

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes HHHH The Planet of the Apes movies have always been about how our planet has always been a planet of the apes, doomed by primitive tribalism. Matt Reeves takes this idea in a fascinating direction with a 10-year time jump since the events in Rise of the Planet of the Apes to a clash between some of the last surviving humans and the intelligent apes led by Caesar (the remarkable Andy Serkis). Reeves and his screenwriters keep shifting the sense of where the audience’s identification should be, and while it’s clear early on that this is a War on Terror allegory, the unfolding of that idea is more complicated. Reeves conjures a spectacle that has you questioning every moment where movies have conditioned you to cheer instinctively, because the heroism of a moment is so often defined by your allegiances. (PG-13)—SR

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The Fluffy Movie HHH I’m not sure how long it’s been since I watched Gabriel Iglesias— the plus-sized comedian whose nickname gives this concert film its title—but I certainly don’t recall that his vibe is more Spalding Gray than George Lopez. Documenting a 2013 San Jose, Calif., performance, the movie does find Iglesias occasionally building bits around silly voices, or a swishy version of a gay man hitting on him, or gags about “Latinos move their heads like this when they’re angry, but black people move their heads like this.” But the bulk of the time covers personal monologues on topics like his struggles with obesity, his relationship with his stepson, and reconnecting with his absentee father after 30 years.

While those stories might be light on actual punch lines, they’re surprisingly genuine in their emotional depth. As a storyteller, he’s more weighty than fluffy. (R)—SR

A Most Wanted Man HHH.5 Anton Corbijn adapts John le Carré’s novel about a German intelligence operative (Philip Seymour Hoffman, in one of his last performances) trying to turn a Chechen Muslim refugee (Grigoriy Dobrygin) into an asset to infiltrate terrorist organizations.

The superb cast also features Robin Wright as an American intelligence officer, Rachel McAdams as a public-advocate attorney, and Willem Dafoe as a banker who may be a pivot point for a crucial sting operation. But the anchor is Hoffman, capturing the world-weariness of a man who believes in his mission but sees short-sighted decision-making everywhere he turns. While Andrew Bovell’s screenplay hits a few sluggish patches, he still effectively strips down le Carré’s narrative to a tense exploration of espionage in a world of constant fear, where the appearance of keeping people safer may be more important than actually keeping people safer. (R)—SR

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Hercules HH In Brett Ratner’s brightly photographed, comic-book-based version, the legendary Greek strongman (Dwayne Johnson) isn’t actually the son of Zeus, but a mortal mercenary who perpetuates the legends about himself because they’re good publicity. His superhuman strength is therefore not explained; airtight, the movie is not. Hercules and his band of merry men (including Ian McShane and Rufus Sewell) go around Greece saving villages from pirates and that sort of thing, speaking in glib, modern phrase. The screenplay is frivolous and clichéridden, but Ratner does his best to treat it like a serious action movie. It’s derivative and ordinary, but I wouldn’t say it’s bad, exactly. Mostly it feels like a big waste of time, and not in the good way that summer hours are meant to be wasted.

(PG-13)—Eric D. Snider

Lucy HHH Featuring some of the most fictional science to ever be found in science-fiction, Lucy is the kind of sui generis, superficially exotic thing that could only have been made by Luc Besson. It resembles both his breakthrough La Femme Nikita and the glorious drug trip The Fifth Element, but with a premise that leaves both those predecessors coughing dust in an implausibility race. The risible use of the “humans only use 10 percent of their brain” myth ends up transcending its absurd origins and becoming a breathtakingly crazy thriller, with every aspect of the movie ascending into a state of epinephric grace by the end of its startlingly concise 85 minutes. Nothing makes the slightest sense, and some of Scarlett Johansson’s acting choices are a little odd, but Lucy is good fun, if one is able to engage with it. (R)—Danny Bowes

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Theater Directory SALT LAKE CITY Brewvies Cinema Pub 677 S. 200 West 801-355-5500 Brewvies.com

Megaplex 20 at The District 11400 S. Bangerter Highway 801-304-INFO MegaplexTheatres.com

Broadway Centre Cinemas 111 E. 300 South 801-321-0310 SaltLakeFilmSociety.org

PARK CITY Cinemark Holiday Village 1776 Park Ave. 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com

Century 16 South Salt Lake 125 E. 3300 South 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com

Redstone 8 Cinemas 6030 N. Market 435-575-0220 Redstone8Cinemas.com

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The Purge: Anarchy HH.5 James DeMonaco has created a fascinating, complex alternate America with its annual night of “all crime is legal” mayhem— but it feels like he’s trying to pack it all into one sequel. Instead of focusing on one family in one house, this follow-up involves five people—a mother and daughter, a married couple nearing a breakup, and one badass on a mission (Frank Grillo)—trying to survive when they find themselves on the streets during Purge Night. There’s still rich allegorical class-warfare material in the premise, and the sense of entitlement that fuels so much violence; Grillo also makes for a great haunted anti-hero. DeMonaco simply casts too broad a net, moving through episodic situations that don’t always pack a unique thematic punch. Next time, he should trust that he can show us just one compelling corner of this world. (R)—SR Sex Tape HHH Following Neighbors, it’s another tale where a Freaks & Geeks alum and his improbably hot spouse try to get their marital groove back through raunchy misadventures, as married-with-kids Jay (Jason Segel) and Annie (Cameron Diaz) find that the epic night of sex they recorded for themselves just might have been uploaded to iPads all over Los Angeles. There’s a moderately successful attempt to look at longtime partners hoping to rekindle initial sparks, but mostly there’s a series of bizarre situations as Jay and Annie chase down all extant copies of the sensitive file. And when some of those situations involve Rob Lowe as a coked-up corporate exec with a creepy affinity for Disney movies, or a family trip to a porn website’s headquarters, it adds up to something you may laugh at a lot, even if you’re not proud of it. (R)—SR

Snowpiercer HHH.5 Bong Joon-ho takes a hoary sci-fi scenario—a postapocalyptic throwdown between haves and have-nots—and transforms it into something both fresh and gloriously off.

Based on a French graphic novel, it finds the world a frozen wasteland, with the few humans left un-Popsicled surviving in a gigantic socially stratified train; the starving lower caste (led by Chris Evans) hatch a scheme to escape their lockdown.

The performances—including Tilda Swinton as an underling of the train’s governing elite who’s part Margaret Thatcher and part upper-management drone in every job you’ve ever hated—are all effective, but what makes Snowpiercer work so well is the guy in charge. At a time when most escapist films feel like the result of a committee linked via creaky speakerphone, this hugely entertaining movie demonstrates the benefits of having a singular, loopy vision calling the shots.

(R)—Andrew Wright

Wish I Was Here H.5 Zach Braff’s sloppy follow-up to Garden State is phony, shallow and completely disconnected from reality, yet thinks it’s sincere, deep and realistic. Braff plays self-centered Aidan Bloom, a caustic failure of an actor who lives off his wife (Kate Hudson) and father (Mandy Patinkin). When Grandpa’s money runs out, Aidan “home-schools” the children, except he doesn’t actually home-school them, either, because it’s hard and he doesn’t take anything seriously. It’s the set-up for a story where a jerk realizes he’s immature and takes steps to redeem himself, except 1. The movie assumes Aidan is a lovable rascal when he’s actually a negligent, all-around bastard, and 2. When the movie is over, Aidan hasn’t learned anything. The already-thin story is watered down further by extraneous characters and subplots, sitcom-dumb jokes and a clueless attitude toward real human issues. (R)—EDS

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Back to medieval times with The Quest; back to ancient TV times with Partners.

Childrens Hospital: Season 5 The hot medical action moves to an Army base in Japan and the CH team faces the challenges of “old-fashioned day,” the loss of an Imaginary Friends ward, the return of Blake from the dead and more. Important, important television. (Warner Bros.)

The Quest Thursday, July 30 (ABC)

Season Premiere: Apparently, The Killing can’t be killed—sure, they say this is the absolute last season, but what else is new?

The series’ first two much-hailed-thenwhined-about seasons on AMC chronicled a single murder case of a teen girl; Season 3, back from cancellation, found detectives Linden (Mireille Enos) and Holder (Joel Kinnaman) searching for another girl; this six-episode “final” season on Netflix follows a multiple-homicide case at an allboys military academy—no girls allowed.

The Killing has since been surpassed by True Detective and The Bridge in atmo-

spherics and dark edge, but Enos’ Linden is still one of the most unique characters on TV, or whatever we’re calling Netflix now.

Sharktopus vs. Ptercuda Saturday, Aug. 2 (Syfy) Movie: As we all know by now, the Sharktopus is a hybrid of shark and octopus, as originated in director Roger Corman’s 2010 Syfy film of the same name. In this longlong-long-overdue sequel, the Sharktopus meets its match in the Ptercuda, a half pterodactyl/half barracuda mis-created in a lab inconveniently located adjacent to a beach full of bikini babes and hard-body bros (and, in a brief, violent and Emmylock guest performance, cable TV’s Conan O’Brien). Who will emerge victorious, besides lovers of exemplary cinema? The title of Corman’s next sequel may contain the answer/spoiler: Sharktopus vs. Mermantula.

You’re on deck, Jimmy Fallon.

Bachelor in Paradise Monday, Aug. 4 (ABC) Series Debut: How is Bachelor in Paradise different from Bachelor Pad? On Bachelor Pad, pathetic, desperate excuses for human beings who were rejected by Bachelors and Bachelorettes in prior seasons were herded together to exchange

Partners (FX) STDs and further annoy America. Bachelor in Paradise is set in Mexico.

Partners Monday, Aug. 2 (FX) Series Debut: This could have been something great, an oddball pairing of oncemighty sitcom actors in a single-camera, no-laugh-track, zero-frills setting à la Louie or Maron, wherein they could show off their veteran comic chops in a whole new setting.

But no—we get Partners, a lazy, cannedlaughs throwback in the creaky vein of TV Land and FX’s still-marching-towarddeath Anger Management (Charlie Sheen’s retirement package will now be airing after Partners, BTW). Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence play mismatched Chicago law yers forced to team up because … does it really matter? What in the name of Franklin & Bash was FX thinking? The Only TV Column That Matters™ has a theory that FX schedules a dog once in a while so other networks won’t feel so overwhelmed and jealous of their otherwise perfect record of quality programming and critical acclaim.

Or Grammer and Lawrence (and, previously, Sheen and George Lopez) possess some incriminating photos. CW

Showrunner Dan Harmon returns and Community gets back to the business of being weird—which, naturally, led to NBC finally canceling it. So enjoy MeowMeowBeenz, G.I. Jeff, Pile of Bullets and the rest until Season 6 premieres on Yahoo! (Sony)

Need for Speed Mechanic/street racer Tobey (Aaron Paul) is out of jail and out for revenge against the bastard who framed him for street-race manslaughter (Dominic Cooper), and this score can only be settled with … a street race! Lesson … learned? (DreamWorks)

Ping Pong Summer In 1985, outcast teen Rad Miracle’s (Marcello Conte) obsession with pingpong and hip-hop lands him in trouble with local bullies, but also an unlikely mentor (Susan Sarandon). The best ’80s homage since the last ’80s homage. (Millennium)

More New DVD Releases (Aug. 5) Anna, Around the Block, The Birthday Boys: Season 1, Copper: The Complete Series, Divergent, Getting Go, God’s Not Dead, Haunting Sarah, I’ll Follow You Down, Ironclad: Battle for Blood, Ja’mie: Private School Girl, The Nanny: Seasons 1&2, Ninja Apocalypse, Oculus, Return to Zero Listen to Bill on Mondays at 8 a.m. on X96 Radio From Hell; weekly on the TV Tan podcast via iTunes and Stitcher.

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RUN The Jewels

Still Runnin’ Run the Jewels are rap’s toughest alliance.

Long Road to Perfection

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t seems the best one-t wo punches always come from rap duos who are willing to forego gimmicks, arrogance and braggadocio for greater art. When ever ything aligns just right, a good rap duo is capable of transforming the archaic into something simple, fresh and clean, like a crisp pair of laceless, shell-toed Adidas.

Though albums like Timbaland & Magoo’s Indecent Proposal argue that this method often falls f lat, countless gems from Eric B. & Rakim, Madvillain and Gang Starr suggest that the correct blend of compromise, collaboration and egochecks often yield historic payoffs. No duo currently gripping mics understand this delicate relationship better than Michael Render and Jaime Meline, aka Killer Mike and El-P, who perform as Run the Jewels.

Their 2013 self-titled album is a 10-track blitz of high-energ y, stick-up-kid anthems. There are no R&B hooks, no love letters, just raw rap music—the type of shit you bench-press 200 pounds of steak to. On the opening track, El-P sets up fans for exactly what they have in store: “Oh dear, what the fuck have we here?/ These motherfuckers all thorn no rose/ Egads what a bad dream better not sleep/ Take a NoDoz, do some blow.”

In other words, Killer Mike and El-P made an album so goddamned good, so goddamned scar y, that you should pop some pills, blow some lines, do whatever it takes to not sleep on the two killers, who are about to jump into your dreams like Freddy Krueger.

Released as a free download by Fool’s Gold Records, Run the Jewels was a massive critical success and was heralded as one of the best hip-hop albums of 2013, scoring a higher Metacritic rating than even Yeezus.

But what was probably its biggest accomplishment came in the form of head nods from Killer Mike’s mentors, Outkast. The legendar y East Point, Ga., duo gave Killer Mike his first shot in 2000, placing him on the Stankonia track “Snappin & Trappin.” And in 2013, Big Boi phoned Killer Mike to congratulate the fellow Dungeon Family rapper on the success of Run the Jewels.

“Big Boi and I talk a lot,” Killer Mike said in a recent phone inter view. “And I remember him calling me one day, and he was like, ‘Man, that was all I was tr ying to tell ’em.’ ” But even with endorsements from one of hip-hop’s greatest groups, rap critics love to postulate that Killer Mike and El-P make for a strange, unlikely pairing. On the surface, this argument holds some weight—barely.

Sure, El-P is a Brooklyn-based emcee/producer known for post-future tangents full of tinfoil-hat conspiracies, and yeah, Killer Mike bleeds Southern hip-hop harder than strip clubs and revival preachers. But this debate is lazy. If anything, it’s this ver y yin & yang relationship that allows Killer Mike and El-P to complement each other so well.

El-P and Killer Mike are here to snatch your chain.

“The whole thing happened with Mike and I ver y serendipitously,” El-P says. “We both happened to be at the right time in our lives to be open to that sort of thing for it to make sense, and that’s how it had to happen. We had to have our histor y in order to have our futures.”

The two first got together after a chance meeting at Adult Swim’s Williams Street studio in Atlanta while working on Killer Mike’s 2012 album, R.A.P. Music. After Mike spent the afternoon with El-P, the two realized they had something special. El-P went on to produce the entirety of R.A.P. Music, and Killer Mike later jumped on a verse for El-P’s “Tougher Colder Killer” off the album Cancer 4 Cure. Both albums were considered “bests” of 2012.

“I told El, back when we did R.A.P. Music, ‘This is the album I’ve been always tr ying to make,’ ” Killer Mike says. “I love [my first album] Monster; audience members of mine say it’s a classic record. I don’t want to disrespect my fans like I don’t like it or nothing. Nah, I love the record. But there are times in the last three years, where I have sat and imagined to myself, ‘What if El-P would have produced my first baby?’ So, I’m never gonna take working with El for granted.”

Thankfully, these two will be making records for some time, and Run the Jewels’ appropriately named sequel, Run the Jewels 2, is slated for a late-summer release.

“This whole shit is just finding out what we’re going to be in the next 10 years,” El-P says. “ You know, we’ll work together forever.”

Mike laughs over the phone and agrees. “Oh, you know it, man. El make them beats, man. Y’all know that boy has some beats.” CW

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musician can be their own worst enemy when trying to perfect their sound and record a monumental album. The versatile Lindsay Heath learned that lesson firsthand during the past four years while composing her orchestralrock album Holy Medicine.

The Salt Lake City-based musician has had a lengthy career, having been part of dozens of acts since 2002 including Natural Graffiti, The Middle Digits and Redd Tape. Her solo work began in 2007 under the moniker Kid Madusa, and she recorded her 2008 EP, We Are Drodna, with a series of talented local musicians. That project evolved into the Lindsay Heath Orchestra in 2009, when she incorporated classically trained musicians to bring out the best in her lengthy compositions.

Heath released a self-titled album in late 2010 before starting work on what would become Holy Medicine, but the road to recording it would take many turns before the album was completed.

“After recording the first song on the record, I lacked the funds to get back into the studio for about a year,” Heath says. “Once I had the money, I fell into a long and deep depression. I lost motivation and allowed far too much time to pass.”

But fueled by the personal and monetary support from her partner, D’ana Baptiste, Heath “began to come out of the dark,” she says. She composed and re-recorded Holy Medicine over the next three years.

“I worked and reworked every song on the album,” she says.

She eventually engineered the tracks with producer/guitarist Mike Sasich at his Man Vs. Music studio in small sessions, working with a who’s-who of local musicians including Kim Pack (SubRosa), Cache Tolman (Rival Schools) and Brian Kubarycz (Totem & Taboo).

The finished Holy Medicine sounds like what a classically trained musician with a love for Nirvana would create: a collection of emotional rock-infused ballads enhanced with orchestral compositions.

Listeners are lucky to hear the 12-track album at all. “I could have held onto these songs forever, editing and altering till the end of time,” Heath says. “My goal was to eventually listen to the record without feeling anxiety. I’m just a perfectionist, and I don’t know that I’ll ever feel that any of my compositions are complete, but I feel that the songs on this album are the closest I’ve come thus far.” CW

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Simple Things When starting a band and making music, Ark Life keep the process uncomplicated.

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hen forming a band, planning is usually a good idea, especially when deciding on a lineup and what the sound will be like. After all, if one band member wants the project to focus on metal, and another wants to see what music they can make out of old beer cans and sticks, well … let’s just say it’s smart to get everyone’s expectations out on the table. But in the case of Denver folk-rock five-piece Ark Life— whose debut album, The Dream of You & Me, is set for release Aug. 19—happy accidents are to thank for their formation and sound, lucky occurrences that were “very happy, and very accidental indeed,” says songwriter, guitarist and lead vocalist Jesse Elliott.

For the Midwest-born Elliott, stopping in Denver for a short spell was only a side note to a bigger move to New York City in 2013 with bandmate Lindsay Giles. Elliott helped Giles with her art gallery, and the two of them played music with various local musicians, and then, “We just stayed,” Elliott says. “First, we stayed an extra month, and then we stayed another extra month, and then after a while, we were like, ‘Oh, we’re not really leaving for New York, are we?’ ” The creation of Ark Life’s sound and lineup was similarly organic. Elliott and Giles were joined by bassist Anna Morsett (whom Elliott had played with in on-hiatus Brooklyn rock outfit These United States), guitarist Natalie Tate and drummer Ben Desoto, all folks they knew through “brief encounters in our past lives,” Elliott says.

Once the lineup was finalized, Ark Life settled on a sound that was simply built around “what was fun,” Elliott says.

“Everybody just played what came naturally to them. [Ark Life] was the only group I’ve ever been in where there actually wasn’t much discussion about what we wanted it to sound like.” That sound turned out to be a warm, soulful and slightly twangy style of

Ark Life just happened to be standing here.

folk rock that’s joyous and communal, with Elliott’s leading vocals gorgeously backed by the three-part harmonies of Giles, Morsett and Tate, as well as piano and guitar.

But in the 16 or so months that Ark Life have been touring and making music, the only ways that listeners could hear any tunes was by getting a Daytrotter account and listening to the band’s excellent April 2013 session, or by catching isolated singles here and there online. Ark Life took their time in putting together The Dream of You & Me because they didn’t want to “rush any particular part of the process,” Elliott says. “And that’s also something that I’ve never done before; I’ve always been pretty impatient with getting albums done and getting them out into the world, and I think we wanted to relax a little more and enjoy the process a little more.”

Elliott’s approach to songwriting in Ark Life is different, too. With new single “Proud of Me Out There, Mama” as one example, his lyrics explore “timeless topics of love and life and death and confusion and wandering and enjoying, and I guess everything in between,” he says. While his past work was “more like having fun with the wordplay and riddles and references within songs to other songs of my own and other songs of other people,” he says, with Ark Life and on The Dream of You & Me, he “tried to simplify my rambling instincts just a little bit” and create songs that were more “straightforward.”

The Dream of You & Me will come after a bit of a wait for fans, but the album benefited from Ark Life wanting to find their chemistry on the road and “play a bunch live first” before making it, Elliott says. The new album is an intimate snapshot of what it’s like to experience the energetic band live.

“There’s a lot of different ways to make albums, but the one that we were all most excited about at the moment was to do it as live as possible,” Elliott says. “So I think we really focused on making that experience as fun as possible for ourselves.” CW

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Grizfolk The five members of Grizfolk succeeded in joining their various musical influences to create a style all their own after migrating west from locales as disparate as Stockholm and New Orleans, only to end up together in Los Angeles. A blend of folk/Americana, electro and bright-eyed pop, Grizfolk’s sound is fun and lighthearted, as heard on the band’s wanderlust-fueled debut EP, From the Spark, released in March. In fact, Grizfolk love being on the road so much that they made an ongoing film series called The Vagabond Diaries, in which they document their various on-tour adventures as “postcards for our fans,” says vocalist Adam Roth in an interview with Paste Magazine. While you’re watching Grizfolk videos, check out the awesomely goofy lyric video for “The Struggle,” in which a lone Boy Scout dances awkwardly and shoots slingshots at enemies disguised as cans while camping in the desert. Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), 7:30 p.m., $10, KilbyCourt. com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com

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Rooftop Concert Series: Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, House of Lewis, Mimi Knowles As the first-ever hip-hop-themed Rooftop Concert Series show, tonight is going to be killer. Energetic rap group Can’t Stop Won’t Stop started in Provo but relocated to Los Angeles, and their old-school influences (such as Wu-Tang Clan and Beastie Boys) are apparent in their entertaining new album, Wildebeest. Also performing is rap crew

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Provo Town Square Parking Terrace, 100 North & 100 West, 7:30 p.m., free, RooftopConcertSeries.com

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Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band There are two types of bands: those that take themselves way too seriously, and those that make a giant ass-shaped blimp.

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The Asheville, N.C., five-piece’s music gets the floating wonder’s real-life counterparts shaking, a sexy blend of funk, rap, rock

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Red Butte Concert Series: Taj Mahal Trio, John Hiatt & the Combo Born in Harlem in the ’40s, blues legend Henry St. Claire Fredericks, aka Taj Mahal, knew music was his path from a very

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LIVE young age. With musician parents, Taj Mahal grew up surrounded by music, taking to piano, clarinet, trombone, harmonica, guitar and, of course, singing. His music career has involved touring with his multiple bands over the years, recording numerous albums— including his latest, Hidden Treasures of Taj Mahal 1969-1973, a two-disc collection of unreleased material—and having his music featured in several movies, and his work isn’t limited to the realm of blues. Fascinated with the roots of music, Taj Mahal is constantly learning about musical styles as diverse as Hawaiian, Caribbean and African, and he has no plans of slowing down. “Even at the end of 40 years, in many ways my music is just getting started,” he says in his online bio.

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Iji To get the full effect of the music created by prolific Seattle-dweller Zach Burba, the mastermind behind Iji, make sure to listen while looking at his Seashoes comics, found under the “Dribbles” section of his website, DogVibrations.com. Burba’s tunes—heard most recently on 2013’s Unltd.

Cool Drinks—are easy-on-the-ears, lo-fi pop ditties made with his conversational singing voice, synths, drums, saxophone and other interesting sound snippets (he plays many of the instruments himself), and they pair perfectly with his quirky drawings of dogs, dinosaurs and musicians. His lyrics are sometimes imagery-rich vignettes, sometimes nonsensical, but they’re always poetic, as he sings about his observations of the world, snacks and playing music. Check out the piano-rich “Hush Puppy” and the spacey “Magic Lanes.” Also on the bill are excellent local singer-songwriters Nick Neihart (of Pentagraham Crackers) and Drew Danburry, as well as Marvelous Good Fortune. Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), 7:30 p.m., $7, KilbyCourt.com

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Color Animal’s second full-length album, Bubble Gum, finds the quartet veering away from the crunchy rock of their debut release, 2013’s Vision Lines, and turning the dial up on a smoother, more relaxed style befitting the new record’s title. On Bubble Gum, Color Animal have proven they’re masters of polished, understated indie-pop/garage-rock who are confident in their craft, giving themselves license to play with a more dreamy sound. And that’s not all they’re playing with; the definition of what constitutes a typical “pop” song appears to be questioned, as more somber lyrics—most significantly on the titular track—are often juxtaposed with upbeat arrangements of guitar, mellow vocals and synths. Additional highlights include the relaxed surf groove of “Rubber,” the noisy, scuzzy “Skuffer” and the gorgeous “Sleep to Dream.” Do yourself a favor and pick up a physical copy of Bubble Gum, with fun and inventive details including eye-catching album art, “pin the bubble on the band member” packaging and a cleverly designed disc, which looks like a pink gum bubble. Self-released, July 11, ColorAnimalRocks.bandcamp.com

Tupelo Moan, Cocaine and Chicken Grease HH.5

With a title like Cocaine and Chicken Grease, the second full-length album from Tupelo Moan couldn’t be anything but dirty, drugged-out and lurid rock & roll, and it certainly lives up to that—even if a couple trouble spots mar an otherwise well-made record. The 10 tracks start strong with the thumping, punk-fueled “Salton Sea,” which displays the horn section’s (made up of members of horn-based outfits such as The Chickens and 2 1/2 White Guys) ability to skillfully blend into the song, and the Southern-gothic psych-rock explosion of “Marie Laveaux,” which has one of the sickest guitar lines of the entire album. Things get dicey on “I’m Gonna Go Now,” with its multiple sour notes—the guitar and vocals repelling each other like oil and water—but it’s back to the rock with the primal “Well Well Well.” Lead vocalist, guitarist and bassist Brad McCarley seems to be channeling his inner Scott H. Biram on “Lay Down in Your House” and “We Ain’t Done,” which could be the prelude to a murder ballad. Final track “Can’t Get Out of My Own Way” encapsulates the whiskey-soaked, down-and-out vibe of the album.

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George Charles Nelson III, Little Engine H.5

The debut album from folk singer-songwriter George Nelson shows that he’s got some potential if he can tighten up the consistency of his vocals and improve his lyric-writing. Luckily, Little Engine gets better after the corny opening track, “Bury Me in Leaves,” in which Nelson—with the overly breathy voice of so many coffee-house crooners—sings about paying his library fines, shopping at thrift stores, and girls wearing skirts and short-sleeved shirts. Nelson’s delivery style is usually borderline monotonous, but he breaks out of that on “Let’s Make It Right” to wail with plenty of emotion and passion. “Sun Again” has a upbeat pop-rock feel that reflects Nelson’s lyrics about moving forward after difficult times, and “Little Engine” gets a bit of a haunting mood with its minimal percussion and touches of acoustic guitar. The highlight of the album is probably “Waiting,” with the addition of some female harmonizing vocals filling out the melody nicely. But overall, Little Engine shows that Nelson has plenty of room for improvement. Sweet Salt Records, July 25

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TIN ANGEL CAFE 365 W. 400 South, SLC, 801-328-4155, Live music THE URBAN LOUNGE 241 S. 500 East, SLC, 801-746-0557, Live music VELOUR 135 N. University Ave., Provo, 801818-2263, Live music, All ages WASTED SPACE 342 S. State, SLC, 801531-2107, DJs Thur.-Sat. THE WESTERNER 3360 S. Redwood Road, West Valley City, 801-972-5447, Live music WILLIE’S LOUNGE 1716 S. Main, SLC, 760-828-7351, Trivia Wed., Karaoke Fri.-Sun., Live music THE WINE CELLAR 2550 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 801-399-3600, Live jazz & blues Thur.-Sat. THE WOODSHED 60 E. 800 South, SLC, 801-364-0805, Karaoke Sun. & Tues., Open jam Wed., Reggae Thur., Live music Fri. & Sat. ZEST KITCHEN & BAR 275 S. 200 West, SLC, 801-433-0589, DJs

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And just like that, Buxom Modern Plus Boutique was born and is currently the only place for modern and curvy women to shop in the Salt Lake City area. Hayes goes above and beyond in bringing her customers stylish and quality clothing that fits properly in sizes large through 4X. “Typically, the department store brands take straight sizes and size them up without being sensitive to a curv y women’s body,” says Hayes. “What you get is just a bigger [and] ill-fitting garment that costs 30 percent more.” All brands in the boutique are made especially for the voluptuous, curvy figure and fit and flatter in all of the right places.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) If a farmer plants the same crop in the same field year after year, the earth’s nutrients get exhausted. For instance, lettuce sucks up a lot of nitrogen. It’s better to plant beans or peas in that location the next season, since they add nitrogen back into the soil. Meanwhile, lettuce will do well in the field where the beans or peas grew last time. This strategy is called crop rotation. I nominate it as your operative metaphor for the next 10 months, Aries. Your creative output will be abundant if you keep sowing each new “crop” in a fertile situation where it is most likely to thrive.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Maybe your grandparents are dead, or maybe they’re still alive.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) The prolific American author James Fenimore Cooper (17891851) wrote 32 novels. In those pages, he crammed in almost 1,100 quotations from Shakespeare. What motivated such extreme homage? I suspect he regarded Shakespeare as a mentor, and wanted to blend the Bard’s intelligence with his own. I invite you to do something similar, Gemini. What heroes have moved you the most? What teachers have stirred you the deepest? It’s a perfect time to pay tribute in a way that feels selfempowering. I suspect you will benefit from revivifying their influence on you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You are hereby excused from doing household chores and busywork, Scorpio. Feel free to cancel boring appointments.

Avoid tasks that are not sufficiently epic, majestic and fantastic to engage your heroic imagination. As I see it, this is your time to think really big. You have cosmic authorization to give your full intensity to exploring the amazing maze where the treasure is hidden. I urge you to pay attention to your dreams for clues. I encourage you to ignore all fears except the one that evokes your most brilliant courage. Abandon all trivial worries, you curious warrior, as you go in quest of your equivalent of the Holy Grail.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Broadway is one of New York City’s main streets. It runs the length of the island of Manhattan. But hundreds of years ago it was known by the indigenous Lenape people as the Wickquasgeck Trail. It was a passageway that cut through stands of chestnut, poplar and pine trees. Strawberries grew wild in fields along the route. Is there a metaphorical equivalent in your own life, Sagittarius? I think there is: a modest, natural path that you will ultimately build into a major thoroughfare buzzing with activity.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “I just sort of drifted into it.” According to author Gore Vidal, “That’s almost always the explanation for everything.” But I LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) The Earth has been around for almost 4.6 billion years. But hope this won’t be true for you anytime soon, Aquarius. You according to scientists who study the fossil records, fire didn’t can’t afford to be unconscious or lazy or careless about what make its first appearance on our planet until 470 million years you’re getting yourself into. You must formulate a clear, strong ago. Only then were there enough land-based plants and oxygen intention, and stick to it. I don’t mean that you should be overly to allow the possibility of fires arising naturally. Do the math and cautious or ultra-skeptical. To make the correct decisions, all you will see that for 90 percent of the Earth’s history, fire was you have to do is be wide awake and stay in intimate touch with absent. In evolutionary terms, it’s a newcomer. As I study your what’s best for you. astrological omens for the next 10 months, I foresee the arrival of an almost equally monumental addition to your life, Leo. You PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) can’t imagine what it is yet, but by this time next year, you won’t Members of the industrial band Skinny Puppy are upset with the U.S. military. They discovered that an interrogation team at fathom how you could have lived without it for so long.

America’s Guantanamo Bay detention camp tortured prisoners by playing their music at deafening volumes for extended periods.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) In the nights to come, I expect you will dream of creatures like fiery That’s why they sent an invoice to the Defense Department for monsters, robot warriors, extraterrestrial ghosts, and zombie $666,000, and are threatening to sue. Now would be a good vampires. But here’s the weird twist: They will be your helpers and time for you to take comparable action, Pisces. Are others friends. They will protect you and fight on your behalf as you defeat distorting your creations or misrepresenting your meaning? your real enemies, who are smiling pretenders wearing white hats. Could your reputation benefit from repair? Is there anything you Dreams like this will prepare you well for events in your waking life, can do to correct people’s misunderstandings about who you are where you will get the chance to gain an advantage over fake nice and what you stand for? guys who have hurt you or thwarted you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) The heavenly body known as 1986 DA is a near-Earth asteroid that’s 1.4 miles in diameter. It’s packed with 10,000 tons of gold and 100,000 tons of platinum, meaning it’s worth over five trillion dollars. Can we humans get to it and mine its riches? Not yet. That project is beyond our current technology. But one day, I’m sure we will find a way. I’m thinking there’s a smaller-scale version of this scenario in your life, Capricorn. You know about or will soon find out about a source of wealth that’s beyond your grasp. But I’m betting that in the next ten months you will figure out a way to tap into it, and begin the process.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) Was there an actual poet named Homer who wrote the ancient Greek epics the Iliad and the Odyssey? Or was “Homer” a fictitious name given to several authors who created those two master works? Whatever the case may be, we know that Homer plagiarized himself. The opening line of Book XI in the Iliad is identical to the opening line of Book V in the Odyssey: “Now Dawn arose from her couch beside the lordly Tithonos, to bear light to the immortals and to mortal men.” So should we be critical of Homer? Nah. Nor will I hold it against you if, in the coming days, you imitate some fine action or brilliant move you did in the past. It was great the first time. I’m sure it will be nearly as great this time, but in a different way.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) It’s fine if you want to turn the volume all the way up on your charisma and socialize like a party animal. I won’t protest if you gleefully blend business and pleasure as you nurture your web of human connections. But I hope you will also find time to commune with the earth and sky and rivers and winds. Why? You are scheduled to take a big, fun spiritual test in the not-toodistant future. An excellent way to prepare for this rite of passage will be to deepen your relationship with Mother Nature.

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n the last three months, two of my friends have been excommunicated from the LDS Church because they challenged the doctrine related to being gay or transgender. They were faithful members and lived by the traditional LDS standard. But both of them fell in love with people of the same sex and decided to act on their feelings. Neither was willing to sacrifice their relationship for their faith and both were publicly critical of the church for its position on gay relationships. They feel cheated and abandoned by their church and afraid of growing resentment toward their partners for “costing” them their faith.

This is a difficult issue because churches set standards and as members of that particular faith, we subscribe to the religion as a whole, and the parts we dislike are largely ignored or tolerated because the good outweighs the bad. But what if your choice is between living an authentic life or living a double life? In both cases, you’re giving something up—either everything you’ve ever known, or the person you love.

Both sides of these conversations have to be careful not to strengthen the schism between traditional believers and LGBT people. If we want to be treated like human beings, we can’t demonize those who disagree with us. It truly costs nothing to try and understand life through someone else’s eyes. At the very least it gives us new perspective and at the very most, we may come to better appreciate the people we often see as opponents.

When I was struggling through my own tug-of-war with faith and sexuality, my mother told me that my critics didn’t have a heaven or hell to put me in. I chose to leave my faith because of their position on LGBT people. I went willingly and without much attention. In too many cases, institutions of faith make this decision for their members.

Slowly but surely, we’ve seen a recent evolution of LGBT relationships from churches all over the world. Some allow civil ceremonies in their sacred spaces and allow clergy to perform marriages, and some ordain openly LGBT people. These actions send a clear message that all are welcome and perhaps it even signals a return to the most basic principle of faith: God’s love is enough.

I hope that people see beyond the actions of some and examine belief and faith for themselves, knowing that the journey they take in faith is theirs alone. To find an affirming church, visit gaychurch.org. n

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Wingpointe Golf Course had been open at the airport since 1990, but was of no use for competitions in the sub-zero weather inversion we had during the games. The airport had been spiffed up and TSA-secured, as the 9/11 attacks had happened in the United States only four months before the Olympic torch was lit in Utah.

Much has happened since then to our fair city, and actually to the entire tri-city area of Ogden, Salt Lake and Provo. TRAX has expanded to and from the airport and along the valley floors. Artsy little metro stations dot the tracks at major TR A X intersections, a giant 18-field soccer complex voted in by Salt Lakers in 2003 on 1900 West and 2200 North will be finished next year, and now the city and local groups are pondering what to do to finally make North Temple look and act better. This is a necessary discussion because the airport itself is now about to methodically go under the bulldozers between now and 2022. In just eight years, the two terminals will become one, the number of gates will be reduced, and massive shopping, dining and meeting spaces will be added on both sides of security.

Planners from Salt Lake City know this and have fast-tracked ideas and zoning proposals to help developers bring in more mixed land uses between the airport and downtown. Non-profit NeighborWorks is interested in getting affordable housing along the North Temple corridor and interviewing community members about their ideas for the area. The transitory daily rentals of hotels does not for a quality neighborhood make and yet many people consider the area along both sides of North Temple a swell place to call home.

The streets around the decrepit state fairgrounds in the Fairpark neighborhood are wide and the homes affordable. The Euclid neighborhood is a mix of small businesses and historic old homes. People are now working to get a better sense of place between the airport and downtown as well as from the north to the south—finally! n

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